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Faure composed the Ballade in 1888, when he was thirty-five years old. He dedicated it to Emma Bardac (1865–1945), the former wife of the French banker Sigismond Bardac.
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As a pool owner, you need to know how to detect and quickly repair leaks in your swimming pool. The following pool leak detection techniques can help you find the source of the problem and work out what you need to do to fix it.
Does Your Pool Leak?
Swimming pools naturally lose some water every day due to evaporation. There's a simple test you can use to find out whether your pool is losing water through evaporation or due to a leak. All you need is a plastic bucket and a permanent black marker.
Fill the bucket roughly three-quarters full of water and use the marker to mark the water line on the inside of the bucket. Place the bucket in the shallow end of your pool and mark the water line on the outside of the bucket. Leave the bucket for two or three days and then compare how much the water level has decreased inside and outside the bucket. If both water levels have decreased by the same amount, the water loss is simply due to evaporation. If the water level outside the bucket is more than inside the bucket, your pool is leaking.
Locating a Pool Leak
Now you know your pool is leaking, you need to find the leak so you can fix it. First, turn off the filtration system and allow the water to gradually leak out of the pool. If the water level stops dropping after it moves below the level of the skimmer opening, the leak is in the skimmer or filtration system. If the water level stabilizes when it drops below the light, the leak is probably located around the light housing. If the water level continues to drop, the leak is probably in the drain at the bottom of the pool.
Once you have identified the most likely location of the leak, inspect that area of the pool carefully for cracks, gaps, and tears. Alternatively, use a pool leak detection kit to confirm your suspicion of a leak. These kits contain a small amount of dye, which you can drip into the water close to the suspected leak to see whether it gets sucked into the leak point. Turn off the pump before using a leak detection kit so the water in the pool is still. Alternatively, you can use your red pH indicator test reagent in the same way; drop it near the suspected crack to see if it is sucked in.
Repairing a Pool Leak
You may be able to repair leaks around the skimmer or pool light using pool putty. Meanwhile, leaks in the liner of a vinyl pool can be patched using a vinyl liner pool leak repair kit. These kits include a large sheet of vinyl, from which you can cut a patch to cover the hole, as well as glue to stick the vinyl down and seal the leak.
When to Seek Professional Help With Pool Leak Detection and Repair
Some pool leaks are located deep within the pool plumbing. These leaks are not easy to find and can be even more difficult to repair. If you can't find the source of the leak yourself, contact a pool contractor for help. Prepare for your professional leak detection by noting all information about the leak, such as how fast the water level drops and whether the water level drops faster with the filter turned on or off. With this information, a pool contractor can find your leak and let you know which parts need to be repaired or replaced. | <urn:uuid:a7492220-46d8-4bd6-bd19-fea57bee20f5> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.sunplay.com/blog/pool-leak-detection/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560282935.68/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095122-00244-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.951279 | 682 | 2.234375 | 2 |
New Delhi/Beijing: The Chinese soldier, who was apprehended by the Indian Army in the Demchok sector of Eastern Ladakh on Monday, has been handed over to China, official sources said on Wednesday.
Corporal Wang Ya Long was handed over to the Chinese military on Tuesday night at Chushul-Moldo border point in eastern Ladakh, the sources said in New Delhi.
The Indian Army on Monday had said that the Chinese soldier had “strayed” across the Line of Actual Control (LAC) in Demchok sector.
In Beijing, a statement by the Chinese Ministry of Defence said, “According to the relevant agreement between China and India, the Chinese PLA soldier, who went missing while helping local herdsmen find the lost yak near the China-India border on Sunday, has been returned to the Chinese border troops by the Indian Army early on the morning of October 21, 2020 .
The incident had come amid a massive deployment of troops by the two militaries in the region following the border standoff.
On Monday night, spokesperson for the Western Theatre Command of the PLA, senior colonel Zhang Shuili had said, “China hopes that India will hand over soon the Chinese soldier who got lost in China-India border areas on the evening of October 18 when helping local herdsmen retrieve a yak at their request”.
Both Indian and Chinese armies have deployed over 50,000 troops each along the LAC in eastern Ladakh including in the Demchok sector following escalation of the five-month-long military standoff that began in early May.
The incident occurred at a time when India and China are preparing to hold another round of Corps Commander-level military talks later this week with a focus on carrying forward their discussions on the disengagement process in Eastern Ladakh. The two sides have so far held seven rounds of high-level military talks on the border faceoff.
The seventh round of talks was held on October 12.
There was no breakthrough on the disengagement of troops from the friction points so far.
India has all along been maintaining that the onus is on China to carry forward the process of disengagement and de-escalation at the friction points in the mountainous region.
Following the sixth round of military talks, the two sides had announced a slew of decisions including not to send more troops to the frontline, refrain from unilaterally changing the situation on the ground and avoid taking any actions that may further complicate matters.
This round was held with a specific agenda of exploring ways to implement a five-point agreement reached between External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar and his Chinese counterpart Wang Yi at a meeting in Moscow on September 10 on the sidelines of a Shanghai Cooperation Organisation(SCO) conclave.
The pact included measures like quick disengagement of troops, avoiding action that could escalate tensions, adherence to all agreements and protocols on border management and steps to restore peace along the LAC. PTI | <urn:uuid:1bf8d1eb-2fec-4d9e-b1af-ad5279745350> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://kashmirreader.com/2020/10/22/chinese-soldier-who-strayed-across-lac-in-ladakh-released/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570692.22/warc/CC-MAIN-20220807181008-20220807211008-00674.warc.gz | en | 0.963727 | 604 | 1.765625 | 2 |
At the City Colleges of Chicago, assessment is considered a systematic and ongoing process that collects aggregate data about what students know and can do based on measurable student learning outcomes for:
General Education, including Communications, Mathematics, Physical/Life Sciences, Humanities/Fine Arts, Social/Behavioral Sciences, and Human Diversity;
Career and Technical Education programs;
Core courses for our academic disciplines
Data and information resulting from the assessment process serve to inform improvements in pedagogy, course content, the curriculum, learning resources, and student services. Because the assessment process must be faculty owned, faculty driven, and administratively supported, utilization of assessment data by faculty is designed to improve student performance, student development, and student achievement. | <urn:uuid:80ce1899-6b27-4a13-8dfa-543280f49c01> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.ccc.edu/colleges/kennedy/departments/Pages/Assessment.aspx | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560282140.72/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095122-00127-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.929977 | 148 | 2.078125 | 2 |
Syphilis/Sexually Transmitted Diseases (STDs)
The Texas Department of Criminal Justice has reported treatment of this disease to the Texas Department of Health since 1956 when they first required it. In 1988 the Texas Department of Criminal Justice began their own monitoring system and created a database for the accumulation of information and tracking of offenders who are treated for syphilis.
The Texas Department of Criminal Justice will identify, test, and manage all offenders with suspected or confirmed syphilis with a uniform testing and management program. Once an offender has tested positive the physician at the facility where the offender is assigned will determine, through a history of the offender, whether or not treatment is required.
Yearly Syphilis Treatments
Yearly Syphilis Treatments (January through December)
|Total Male Offenders Treated
|Total Female Offenders Treated
|Total Offenders Treated
* Through December 18
Syphilis is an infectious disease caused by the organism Treponema pallidum. If the infection goes untreated, it is a chronic, systemic disease that passes through the following stages:
- An incubation period of approximately 3 weeks
- A primary stage of infection usually manifested by a chancre lasting 1-6 weeks.
- A secondary stage, appearing 2-10 weeks later, manifested by widespread cutaneous and systemic symptoms lasting 2-10 weeks.
- A subclinical latent stage diagnosable only by the presence of a reactive serologic test lasting anywhere from 1 to 40 + years.
- In approximately one-third of infected individuals, late syphilis, characterized by cutaneous, visceral, cardiovascular, and central nervous system lesion which can lead to debilitation and death.
Syphilis infection is almost always by direct contact with infectious lesions. Since the infectious lesions of syphilis are most frequently found about the genitalia or mouth, transmission usually occurs during close physical or sexual contact. An exception to this is congenital syphilis where infection is transmitted from the mother to her fetus.
Sexual contact tracing not only serves to prevent reinfection of the individual, but is a source of identification of other infectious or potentially infectious individuals and therefore is an effective way of eliminating small epidemics in the community. For every individual diagnosed as having infectious syphilis, at least one other individual with syphilis exists.
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John 19Living Bible (TLB)
19 Then Pilate laid open Jesus’ back with a leaded whip, 2 and the soldiers made a crown of thorns and placed it on his head and robed him in royal purple. 3 “Hail, ‘King of the Jews’!” they mocked, and struck him with their fists.
4 Pilate went outside again and said to the Jews, “I am going to bring him out to you now, but understand clearly that I find him not guilty.”
5 Then Jesus came out wearing the crown of thorns and the purple robe. And Pilate said, “Behold the man!”
6 At sight of him the chief priests and Jewish officials began yelling, “Crucify! Crucify!”
“You crucify him,” Pilate said. “I find him not guilty.”
7 They replied, “By our laws he ought to die because he called himself the Son of God.”
8 When Pilate heard this, he was more frightened than ever. 9 He took Jesus back into the palace again and asked him, “Where are you from?” but Jesus gave no answer.
10 “You won’t talk to me?” Pilate demanded. “Don’t you realize that I have the power to release you or to crucify you?”
11 Then Jesus said, “You would have no power at all over me unless it were given to you from above. So those[a] who brought me to you have the greater sin.”
12 Then Pilate tried to release him, but the Jewish leaders told him, “If you release this man, you are no friend of Caesar’s. Anyone who declares himself a king is a rebel against Caesar.”
13 At these words Pilate brought Jesus out to them again and sat down at the judgment bench on the stone-paved platform.[b] 14 It was now about noon of the day before Passover.
And Pilate said to the Jews, “Here is your king!”
15 “Away with him,” they yelled. “Away with him—crucify him!”
“What? Crucify your king?” Pilate asked.
“We have no king but Caesar,” the chief priests shouted back.
16 Then Pilate gave Jesus to them to be crucified.
17 So they had him at last, and he was taken out of the city, carrying his cross to the place known as “The Skull,” in Hebrew, “Golgotha.” 18 There they crucified him and two others with him, one on either side, with Jesus between them. 19 And Pilate posted a sign over him reading, “Jesus of Nazareth, the King of the Jews.” 20 The place where Jesus was crucified was near the city; and the signboard was written in Hebrew, Latin, and Greek, so that many people read it.
21 Then the chief priests said to Pilate, “Change it from ‘The King of the Jews’ to ‘He said, I am King of the Jews.’”
22 Pilate replied, “What I have written, I have written. It stays exactly as it is.”
23-24 When the soldiers had crucified Jesus, they put his garments into four piles, one for each of them. But they said, “Let’s not tear up his robe,” for it was seamless. “Let’s throw dice to see who gets it.” This fulfilled the Scripture that says,
“They divided my clothes among them and cast lots for my robe.”[c]
25 So that is what they did.
Standing near the cross were Jesus’ mother, Mary, his aunt, the wife of Cleopas, and Mary Magdalene. 26 When Jesus saw his mother standing there beside me, his close friend,[d] he said to her, “He is your son.”
27 And to me[e] he said, “She is your mother!” And from then on I took her into my home.
28 Jesus knew that everything was now finished, and to fulfill the Scriptures said, “I’m thirsty.” 29 A jar of sour wine was sitting there, so a sponge was soaked in it and put on a hyssop branch and held up to his lips.
30 When Jesus had tasted[f] it, he said, “It is finished,” and bowed his head and dismissed his spirit.
31 The Jewish leaders didn’t want the victims hanging there the next day, which was the Sabbath (and a very special Sabbath at that, for it was the Passover), so they asked Pilate to order the legs of the men broken to hasten death; then their bodies could be taken down. 32 So the soldiers came and broke the legs of the two men crucified with Jesus; 33 but when they came to him, they saw that he was dead already, so they didn’t break his. 34 However, one of the soldiers pierced his side with a spear, and blood and water flowed out. 35 I saw all this myself and have given an accurate report so that you also can believe.[g] 36-37 The soldiers did this in fulfillment of the Scripture that says, “Not one of his bones shall be broken,” and, “They shall look on him whom they pierced.”
38 Afterwards Joseph of Arimathea, who had been a secret disciple of Jesus for fear of the Jewish leaders, boldly asked Pilate for permission to take Jesus’ body down; and Pilate told him to go ahead. So he came and took it away. 39 Nicodemus, the man who had come to Jesus at night,[h] came too, bringing a hundred pounds of embalming ointment made from myrrh and aloes. 40 Together they wrapped Jesus’ body in a long linen cloth saturated with the spices, as is the Jewish custom of burial. 41 The place of crucifixion was near a grove of trees,[i] where there was a new tomb, never used before. 42 And so, because of the need for haste before the Sabbath, and because the tomb was close at hand, they laid him there. | <urn:uuid:b3692cd4-3c28-4234-873d-28bdeb3bb662> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=John+19&version=TLB | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988720380.80/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183840-00055-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.988371 | 1,386 | 1.765625 | 2 |
The Dominican Republic can boast some very interesting finds in some of its freshwater caves that have been mostly unexplored until now.
Research divers recently uncovered an unexpectedly large variety of fossil remains of extinct species of animals in the underground springs, including crocodiles. The discoveries may turn a new page in paleontology, at least in the Caribbean.
SOUNDBITE: Alfred Rosenberger, Anthropologist, Brooklyn College: "One of the wonderful things we’ve learned here in the past couple of years, is that we can do really solid collecting of paleontological remains in underwater caverns. This is something entirely new. . It really hasn’t been done before systematically and I think it might be a brand new way – certainly for Hispaniola, the island, of Hispaniola, this is the way to do it."
One of the crocodile skeletons is nearly complete, buried in silt except for the end of its snout.
The researchers are excited about this find, because crocodiles have never been reported on this part of the island.
The croc findings were so unexpected and recent, the scientists are still in the midst of research to determine age and species.
Lead scientist and anthropologist Alfred Rosenberger and his team set out to search for monkey remains in the Dominican Republic caves. They found many. And many more remains of different animals, including bats, sloths, birds, snakes, lizards and fish.
One of the cave sites, discovered by locals, has a narrow vertical entrance under a fig tree in the country’s eastern province of La Altagracia.
After about a 26 foot descent, there is a large cave room, and in the surrounding water of this cave, extending at least 28-hundred feet, the crocodile fossils were found in excellent condition.
SOUNDBITE: Alfred Rosenberger, Anthropologist, Brooklyn College: "One of the beautiful things about finding this material in underground caves is that the preservation is extraordinary. It is very rare when doing normal dirt paleontology , so to speak, to be able to find complete bones that are unbroken."
Other caves have more inviting entrances, but because of their remoteness, and the fact they are filled with water, they had remained largely unexplored, until now. And the animal remains have been well preserved in the cold water for millenia.
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Question: succulents in the garden
My idea was to make a flowerbed dedicated to succulents, but not being very expert I wanted to have info on:
- what was the best time to plant them
- on the peat to be used
- living in the Veneto region could they suffer during the winter?
Answer: succulents in the garden
the succulent plants come mostly from areas of the globe where the winters are quite cold, but definitely very dry; for this reason there are many species of cacti and other succulents that can reach extremely low temperatures, sometimes down to -10 / -15 ° C. This provided that the air and the soil in which they are located is completely dry. On the other hand, there are succulents that tolerate the Italian climate well, even in winter, like the sedum and the semprevivum.
So you can safely place them in your succulent flowerbed like sempervivum or sedum, growing them like other plants in the garden. Or you can choose between the cacti and the succulents that resist frost, but in complete drought, and therefore you will have to provide them with shelter from the weather, these plants are: Astrophytum, corypantha, echinopsis, opuntia and some species of various kinds of cacti. Or you can choose from cacti that resist frost and bad weather, and are few and only in some species.
In any case, the plants will be placed in a very well drained soil, with little universal soil, mixed with pumice stone and lapillus, so that the water passes through it without leaving stagnations.
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Students will be introduced to the function, maintenance and use of internal combustion engine powered chain saws.
Main Instructor: Ryan Miller, Vermilion Natural Resource instructor
Location: Vermilion Community College, Ely, MN Classroom: NS111
Course description :
Students will be introduced to the function, maintenance and use of internal combustion engine powered chain saws. Field instruction will consist of entry level training of safe use of a chainsaw. Class is specifically for individuals with little or no previous experience in operating a chain saw. This class will be providing a hands on in the field cutting experience. The class will also demonstrate safe piling and burning techniques for cut hazardous woody debris materials.
Who should attend: Anyone 18 or older who is interested in wildland fire resiliency and forest restoration on their property. Learn how to safely thin trees, pile and burn hazardous woody debris.
All classroom materials provided. Chainsaws and safety equipment provided, as well. Field instruction will be outside, so dress for the weather. Mask requirements for indoor campus spaces have ended. Effective immediately (Friday, March 4). Please remember that individuals can continue wearing masks if they prefer. (Click here for additional VCC COVID-19 Information).
Cost: FREE. Class size is limited. Lunch will be provided.
Registration via Eventbrite, click here to register.
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peanuts, roasted sesame and they are stirred together with sugarcane juice until it become mass. Mostly, this kind of sweet is normally made on December leading to lack of easiness of finding. As the result, Mr. Supaluk Woharn, the 4th year student from Department of Foods and Nutrition, Faculty of Home Economics Technology, Rajamangala University of Technology Thanyaburi, RMUTT, discovers Krayasart with black sticky rice with Miang Kum flavor and his advisor is Asst. Prof Suchada Ngamprapawat.
Mr. Supaluk Woharn told that “in order to match with current society, it has to be differentiating Krayasart with black sticky rice with Miang Kum flavor. It is also mixed with black sticky rice instead of using popped rice and Khawmao. Black sticky rice has gamma – oryzanol and anthocyanin which act like antioxidants. It can help enhance immunity, increase body growth, and establish erythrocyte. In order to increase the taste of Krayasart, Miang Kum sauce is necessary to be added in. It is easy to eat and it can also help promote the transformed product such as transformed black sticky rice”.
Its ingredients comprise with flatulent rice (rice fried with oil) from black sticky rice 160g, roasted peanuts 70g, roasted white sesame 20g, roasted coconut 30g, dried shrimp 3og, Chaphlu dried leaves 5g and oil 10g.
Ingredients of Miang Kum sauce comprise with concentrated coconut milk 170g, sugar bucket 170g, glucose syrup 20g, chopped shallots 30g, roasted galangal 20g, roasted ginger 20g, and shrimp paste 20g.
According to amount of the above ingredients, Krayasart with Miang Kum flavor can be divided into 30 pieces with size 2 cm width and 5 cm height. Mr. Supaluk Woharn added that housemaid of people who are interested in can benefit from this recipe. For more information, please contact Asst. Prof Suchada Ngamprapawat, Tel 08-9526-7598.
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10:30pm PT by Scott Feinberg
Amy Greene, Scene-Stealer of 'Love, Marilyn,' on Her House Guest Marilyn Monroe (Video)
One of the year's most engaging documentaries is Liz Garbus' Love, Marilyn, a film in which "Marilyn Monroe morphs back from an icon to a human," as I wrote after its world premiere at September's Telluride Film Festival.
Virtually everyone goes into the film thinking that they already know everything that there is to know about Monroe, who was probably the most famous woman of the 20th century, and remains instantly-recognizable to virtually every American 50 years after her premature death. But two components of the film disprove that assumption: (1) rarely if ever before seen archival footage of Monroe that Garbus managed to dig up, and (2) letters and diary entries of Monroe's that were only recently discovered, which are read in the film by a plethora of modern-day actors and contextualized by several people who personally knew Monroe at the time they were written -- none more colorful, funny, or insightful than 83-year-old Amy Greene.
Greene, 83, was one of Monroe's closest friends and confidantes. She was the Cuban model-turned-housewife of Milton Greene, a celebrity photographer who first photographed Monroe in 1953; hit it off with her; and had her as his and Amy's houseguest at their home in Weston, Connecticut, where they lived with their infant son, for four years (1954-1957) while Monroe, at the height of her fame, took a hiatus from living and working in Hollywood, and eventually returned on her own terms, as the co-chief -- with Milton -- of her own production company, Marilyn Monroe Productions.
Not long ago, I interviewed and lunched with Greene, and -- as you can see for yourself by checking out the video at the top of this post -- we discussed her life story plus, of course, all things Marilyn. Some highlights:
- How did Milton and Marilyn first meet? ("It was the week before our wedding [that he was to photograph Marilyn, who had seen and been impressed by his work]. He flew out, and when he walked in she said, 'But you're just a boy!' 'Cause he looked like he was 12 years old. And then he said, 'You're just a girl! Let's go to work.' They hit it off right away.")
- What was Marilyn's state of mind at this time? ("At this point Marilyn was such a recluse that no one in the industry really knew her or said, 'Oh, I saw her at a party,' 'cause she never went anywhere... Really all she did was eat, sleep, and work... She wasn't getting the life that she wanted in Los Angeles.")
- What appealed to Marilyn about moving in with them in Connecticut? ("She was excited because she loved the house, she loved our lifestyle... She would take walks in the woods everyday. Nobody bothered her... She felt protected. We cocooned her, whereas no one else had done that before.")
- What was it like to share a house with the world's most beautiful and famous woman? ("She was neat. She was clean... She was no problem whatsoever... She was a good sport... She was smarter than she looked... She read voraciously.")
- Was she ever concerned that Marilyn might tempt her husband? ("I was secure in my marriage and I was secure with her... There's no way she would shaft me to bang Milton.")
- What was the impetus for Marilyn Monroe Productions? ("[The idea of creating an independent production company for Marilyn so that she could break out of her typecasting and make films that she wanted to make was] Milton's Lew Wasserman's, and Jay Kanter's... She loved it. She preened. She said, 'I'm gonna be the head?!'... Milton owned forty-nine percent, Marilyn owned fifty-one.")
- What was the reaction of Marilyn's second husband, the baseball star Joe DiMaggio, as he watched hundreds of New Yorkers watch Marilyn shoot the famous dress-blowing scene in the 1955 film The Seven-Year Itch? ("I'm standing next to him, and the man is turning white as snow... He said to me, 'I can't take it anymore!'")
- What did she make of Marilyn's third husband, the playwright Arthur Miler? ("Arthur was a bore... son-of-a-bitch... creep. I saw through him the first time I met him.")
- Why did Marilyn Monroe Productions ultimately break up? ("Because of Arthur. Not only was he jealous of Milton, but he was jealous of the time that they spent together... Arthur said, 'It's either him or me.'")
- What was her relationship with Marilyn like after the split? ("We would speak on the telephone and, strangely enough, we met at their hairdressers.")
- What was the weird premonition that she had in July 1962 -- just a month before Marilyn died -- on the night before she and Milton were going out of town? ("I was given to a midwife who was a witch... Every once in a while I have these dreams where I can foresee something. This time I woke up and I said to Milton, 'Call Marilyn... just call her. She needs you.' He did call her, and they spoke for three hours.")
- What did the heiress Alicia Corning Clark say to the Greenes and Marlene Dietrich while drunk at a dinner the night before Marilyn died? ("She said to me, 'Well, how's your friend Marilyn?... Then she blurted out, 'Well, she's gonna die soon'... She said, 'Oh, I know that she's gonna commit suicide.'")
- What does she think really happened to Marilyn on the night that she died? ("It was a mistake. No doubt in Milton's mind, no doubt in my mind... That doctor was to be shot at dawn... he gave her the pills.") | <urn:uuid:12fac010-21b9-49d9-abef-af7bb9948dc7> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/race/amy-greene-love-marilyn-385836 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560281353.56/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095121-00060-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.98636 | 1,268 | 1.53125 | 2 |
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took in some late blooming seedlings to protect from the overnight cold and the
cat seemed to really want to eat them. I'm not opposed to him eating them as
they will probably not make it thru to next season and I can grow plenty more,
just concerned for his health
I cannot think of any reason why tomatoes would harm a cat provided it
otherwise had a good diet. Cats cannot be vegans but if their protein
intake is OK some fruit or veg on the side should do no harm. Wait to see
what grows in the litter tray. Well maybe not.
My understanding is that the tomato plant is a member of the
nightshade family, which is poisonous ---- not the red fruit,
but the green stalk and leaves. I believe the poison is
called tomatin, and is present in the fruit until it turns red.
Some people are more sensitive to it than others. In the
past , tomatoes were called "witch apples" and were
thought to be poisonous themselved, probably due to
people eating the green leaves and stalks and assuming
the fruit was just as bad....
As far as cats, well, ....... there are garden bugs that eat
the leaves so I guess it isn't poisonous to everything...
Dogs are not supposed to eat tomatoes (the fruit), because
of the small amount of tomatin that remains......
I brought my ghost pepper plants in for frost. They were munching the
I usually grow grass for them in winter. Seems natural they like, and need
some plant material in their diets. I don't of a reason for from tomato,
but yo got to watch certain flowers.
My understanding is that cats cannot eat tomatoes as they are toxic and
can cause kidney failure, chronic diarrhea, cardiac arrest, cramping,
bloating, gas, chronic stomachaches, and other health issues.
I don't kow what else may be involved, but it is my understanding
that tomato greens have a high nicotine content. Injested nicotine
(at least at high levels) is a Bad Thing.
[Anecdote that proves nothing]
Several years back, I got overwhelmed and neglected the garden.
Having given up, I enjoyed the view one day of the deer helping
themselves to things. They were very enthusiastic anout eating the
tomatoes out of the cages, but they never touched the vines. That's
about the only green in the yard that the local dear *won't* eat.
I only came in search of answers, never planned to sell my soul
Nicotine certainly is very poisonous but this is the first that I have heard
about nicotine in tomatoes, I doubt very much it is true.
There is lots of stuff on the web about the solanums (tomatoes, potatoes,
capsicums, tobacco etc) being of the same family and being poisonous to some
degree but very little indeed with links to any authoritative papers that
mention tomatoes or cats. Tobacco contains nicotine and potatoes solanine
both of which are toxic but there is much more to this as clearly most of
the time we eat potatoes without ill effect. It seems that tomatoes contain
the alkaloid tomatine but how toxic that is to humans or cats and how much
is in tomato plants (and what part and when) I cannot find yet. There is
much generalisation and little specific data on this topic in popular web
Tomatoes were considered toxic to humans when first brought to Europe but
now we eat them daily. Were they bred to be less toxic and what we eat
today is different or was it all a baseless scare? I dunno.
On 11/11/2012 5:58 PM, Malcom "Mal" Reynolds wrote:
Been away a long time, but am only replying just in case anyone later
searches on this subject:
Solanaceous plants are in general toxic to some extent or other, but
it's usually moreso the herbiage & not so much the fruits, as we already
know. But the point here is that your cat (as other posters have at
least hinted at) absolutely MUST have greens in their diet to be healthy
and happy. Fer chrissakes, don't leave only toxic plants for them to
chomp on! Go to your local farm & feed store & buy some rye, wheat, -
whatever seed is cheapest (last I bought mine, was way less than $1/lb -
and a whole lb lasts a very, VERY long time!). They're easier than sin
As if being the positively humane & right thing to do were somehow not
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A calamitous year of lockdowns, tiers, and certainly tears, have left us reaching for 2021 like sun-starved plants in a darkened room.
The last 12 months have also been a stark reminder of how far we are still from intersectional justice: environmental, racial, political. After the year that’s been, it’d be a fool’s errand to guess what 2021 holds in store. But there are a few things that we’ll be keeping our eyes on come rain or shine…
The most critical climate summit since the Paris Agreement is set to go ahead this coming November, putting the UK co-hosts firmly in the hot seat.
If anything, the year-long COVID-caused delay has piled extra pressure on the talks in Glasgow to succeed. They’ll now take place 11 months after the submission deadline for individual climate plans — known as Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) — has elapsed.
This means the Paris Agreement’s 195 signatories to who committed to “pursue efforts to limit the global average temperature increase to 1.5C above pre-industrial” are under pressure to show how they’ll implement their improved targets to prevent catastrophic global warming, including through shorter-term 2030 pledges to beef up existing longer term commitments.
The UK government appears to have taken this on board, recently announcing a 68 percent reduction in emissions by 2030 from a 1990 baseline, along with a “Green Industrial Revolution” and its first white paper on energy in 13 years.
But despite bold new pledges, the UK still has a lot to prove. This year we reported how MPs held multiple meetings with the likes of Shell, BP and Equinor as companies lobbied for sponsorship at the summit. And while these prominent polluters have been avoided so far, campaigners argue the choice of sponsors, including Scottish energy company SSE, leaves a lot to be desired.
Biden’s next steps
If winning the U.S. election wasn’t exactly straightforward, Joe Biden now has a mountain to climb. He takes over the White House from the most climate-sceptic President in history; President Donald Trump scaled back over 70 environmental regulations during his time in office and weakened Obama-era regulations on everything from oil and gas companies to air pollution.
Biden, and his Vice President Kamala Harris, have vowed to put the climate at the heart of his presidency. But all the rhetoric in the world won’t be enough to reduce the footprint of the world’s second largest emitting nation, so they’ll have their work cut out for them — especially if the Democrats fail to win the Senate.
On the global stage, Biden’s first major act after his January 20 inauguration will be to rejoin the Paris Agreement after Trump officially withdrew in November. This will commit the U.S. to contribute its fair share to keeping global warming to 1.5C or 2C above pre-industrial temperatures. But actually delivering adequate reductions in emissions will be an uphill battle.
We’ll be looking to see how this plays out on a global stage – and scrutinising how Biden plans to cut U.S. emissions while keeping environmental justice firmly in focus. It remains to be seen whether Biden and Boris Johnson manage to bond over climate change, as has been suggested, despite the president-elect’s serious concerns over Britain’s Brexit policy.
The air we breathe became more talked about than ever during COVID-19, when a temporary slow in traffic and definite change in pace made many reflect on pollution levels in their immediate environment.
Then, in December, an inquest into the death of nine-year-old Ella Kissi-Debrah showed that this air could also be fatal. The landmark ruling found air pollution contributed to Ella’s death — the first time this cause of death has ever been recorded in the UK.
Ella, who was severely asthmatic, lived within 25 metres of the heavily congested South Circular Road in Lewisham, in an area where illegal levels of air pollution were said to constitute a public health emergency.
Campaigners are hoping that “Ella’s Law”, a clean air act proposed by campaign organisation Clean Air London and set to be named after the schoolgirl, could improve existing legislation on air quality this coming year.
We’ll be keeping our eyes on this, as well as the future of Low Traffic Neighbourhoods (LTNs). More than 200 LTNs were introduced across 50 UK councils to cut congestion and improve air quality over lockdown, but have met with mixed reactions, and in some cases been accused of actually increasing traffic.
DeSmog will be ready to track all progress on air quality — and any opposition to it, with the help of our extensive air pollution database and investigation into lobby groups backed by big brands resisting clean air measures.
If 2020 was the year a growing number of polluters — whether companies or governments — pledged to tackle climate change, 2021 needs to be the year these pledges sprout wings and start soaring towards progress. Whatever happens, we’ll be watching, and reporting, every step of the way.
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Local Date Combo
Posted by Darryl Burke on April 22, 2015
LocalDateCombo is a Swing date picker for selecting a java.time.LocalDate from a drop-down MonthView. As with MonthView, the no-arg constructor creates a LocalDateCombo set to the current date, with no upper or lower limits. Additionally, this uses a default format corresponding to java.time.format.FormatStyle.MEDIUM
Five more constructors allow you to set various combinations of initial / minimum (earliest) / maximum (latest) value, and the display format. Here’s a LocalDateCombo with the MonthView dropped down:
This code created that LocalDateCombo, and the screenshot was captured on 4 April 2015.
DateTimeFormatter.ofPattern("E d MMM, uuuu"));
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Grebes are a fairly common grebe in the state, more so than
the similar Horned Grebe. They are
also found in parts of Europe and Asia. They are a very gregarious bird, often breeding in very
large colonies, and often migrating together in huge flocks. The
"ear" of the Eared Grebe is a tuft of gold feathers behind the eye
that appears during breeding season (see bottom photo). The photo on the right is of a bird
in breeding plumage. Neck color is a distinguishing mark used to differentiate
summer plumage Eared Grebes and Horned Grebes.
Habitat: Sloughs and marshes, shallow
ponds and lakes with herbaceous wetlands.
Diet: Mostly aquatic insects and
crustaceans, occasionally tadpoles, small frogs, and small fish.
Behavior: Feeds by diving underwater and
propelling itself by its feet. Will also take food items from the
surface of the water.
Nesting: June and July
Song: Generally silent, with soft mutterings in
Migration: Summers on interior
lakes of the west and northern plains, summers along the Pacific Coast, the Gulf
Coast, and Mexico.
Conservation Status: Widespread and common, with no discernible
declines in population.
eNature.com: Eared Grebe
Whatbird.com: Eared Grebe
Photo Information: April 30th, 2005 -- Lake Thompson, Kingsbury County -- Terry Sohl
Additional Photos: Click on the image chips or
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|Photo: Planned Parenthood Action Fund/womenarewatching.org|
In addition to the spate of state laws mandating unnecessary procedures like ultrasounds, as examined in Part I, other states have recently passed laws requiring the provision of unnecessary information to women seeking abortions. Much of the legislation requires doctors to make statements that have nothing to do with women’s health, but are simply a way to discourage women from getting abortions. The lower federal courts have been split on this issue, upholding some state laws while striking down others as unconstitutional. None of these cases have yet been appealed to the Supreme Court, however, the circuit split increases the chances that the Court might grant review in one or more cases.
This July, in Planned Parenthood v. Rounds, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit upheld a South Dakota “suicide advisory” provision requiring doctors to tell a woman seeking an abortion that after the procedure she has an increased risk of committing suicide. Despite the shaky evidence for this assertion, which has been soundly refuted by the American Psychological Association, the Eighth Circuit upheld the provision, finding that “a truthful disclosure cannot be unconstitutionally misleading or irrelevant simply because some degree of medical and scientific uncertainty persists.”
In Nebraska and Indiana, similar laws mandating non-medically necessary information were rejected. A Nebraska “informed consent” abortion law was challenged in Planned Parenthood v. Heineman. The law had two troubling provisions. First, it required abortion providers to conduct risk evaluations that were impossible to complete satisfactorily. According to the law, abortion providers would have to evaluate women for every risk factor and disclose every associated complication and individualized quantified risk rate for them. Second, it created a private cause of action for a woman against medical workers and health facilities for failing to meet these impossible standards. Federal District Court Judge Laurie Smith Camp granted a preliminary injunction in July 2010 on the grounds that the law would likely be found unconstitutional under Casey as placing an “undue burden” on a woman’s right to choose. In June 2012, anti-choice groups appealed to the Supreme Court to reverse the Eighth Circuit’s decision denying their motion to intervene in this case.
In Indiana, Planned Parenthood challenged a law that required abortion providers to tell women that a fetus younger than 20 weeks old feels pain, despite scientific evidence to the contrary. The Indiana law also banned state agencies from contracting with or granting money to organizations that provide abortions. In June 2011, Federal District Court Judge Tanya Walton Pratt granted a preliminary injunction to halt enforcement of the law in Planned Parenthood v. Commissioner.
Restricting abortions after 20 weeks
Eighteen states have laws prohibiting dilation and extraction procedures (so-called “partial birth abortion”). The most recent challenge to such a law is currently pending before the Ninth Circuit.
In Arizona, three doctors who perform abortions challenged a state law that would ban abortions after 20 weeks even if it is known that the fetus would not be born alive or survive after birth. The doctors sought an injunction to prevent the law from going into effect, which Federal District Court Judge James Teilborg denied on July 30. Judge Teilborg went even further by dismissing the doctors’ claims in the case, styled Isaacson v. Horne, finding that the law is constitutional because it does not place an undue burden on a woman’s right to choose. Teilborg relied on the same suspect “fetal pain” science that is at issue in the Indiana case discussed above. Plaintiffs immediately sought an injunction from the Ninth Circuit to prevent the law from taking effect. The Ninth Circuit granted the injunction and ordered a first set of briefs on the constitutionality of the law to be submitted by September 4.
Banning certain abortion drugs so that abortions have to be performed in a hospital
In yet another challenge to women’s right to choose, Ohio passed a law that prohibited the use of an abortion drug that does not require a hospital stay. In Planned Parenthood v. DeWine, Federal District Court Judge Susan Dlott ruled last September in favor of Planned Parenthood because the ban placed an undue burden on women’s right to choose by requiring surgery rather than the less invasive option of taking a prescribed drug.
Women are facing an ever more oppressive landscape of restrictive state abortion laws. While pro-choice groups have had some success in challenging these laws in court, the results have been uneven. Today, it seems, a woman’s right to choose depends on what state she is in. Tomorrow, if the Supreme Court decides to weigh in, the reality could be even more drastic.
Up next . . .
Part III will examine recent legal challenges to laws that place undue restrictions on abortion providers, defund Planned Parenthood, and deny health insurance coverage for reproductive services. Finally, recent lawsuits involving access to Plan B will be discussed.
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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 11 July 2014
Francis Bacon wrote his The History of the Reign of King Henry the Seventh during 1621 after his fall from power and during his initial period of disgrace. He had, of course, contemplated some such history for a long time; and his exile from the Jacobean court allowed him time to complete this project. Exactly how much “research” he did remains a matter of debate. But this history of Henry VII exists as an exceptional example of Tudor-Stuart historical writing. Given Bacon's fascination with questions of history, broached in The Advancement of Learning (1605) and expanded in De Augmentis Scientiarum (1623), one might reasonably expect to find an example of Bacon's practice of history. The History of Henry VII exists as Bacon's only finished full-scale history of an era, although other fragments survive.
A favorite scholarly pastime, at least since the late nineteenth century, has been to detect Bacon's “errors” in his history—that is, how and where he got things wrong. Sometimes, for example, he apparently duplicated the error of a source. He does not, however, stand alone among historians on this score. In any event, modern historical research affords a clearer view of the accuracy of Bacon's account. None of this detracts, however, from Bacon's considerable achievement. Part of the recognition of his accomplishment derives from understanding the different influences that impinge on Bacon's writing Henry VII. I intend, for example, to assess the indebtedness to the life of the Jacobean court as a model or influence on Bacon's portrait of King Henry's relationship with his wife Queen Elizabeth.
1 The Works of Francis Bacon, ed. Spedding, James, Ellis, Robert, and Heath, Douglas, 14 vols. (London, 1868–1890), 6: 11Google Scholar.
2 The History of the Reign of King Henry the Seventh, ed. Levy, F. J. (Indianapolis, 1972), p. 65Google Scholar.
4 Ibid., p. 271.
6 Pageants and Entertainments of Anthony Munday: A Critical Edition, ed. Bergeron, David M. (New York, 1985), p. 9Google Scholar.
7 Ibid., p. 15.
8 Elsky, Martin, Authorizing Words: Speech, Writing, and Print in the English Renaissance (Ithaca & London, 1989), p. 195Google Scholar. The chapter on Bacon, pp. 184–208, is an excellent study of Bacon as a writer who sought court favor and became also something of a champion of the printed text.
9 Ibid., p. 189.
10 The Letters and the Life of Francis Bacon, ed. Spedding, James (London, 1874), 7: 303Google Scholar.
11 Ibid., 7: 325.
12 Ibid., 7: 356.
13 Ibid., 7: 357.
15 Ibid., pp. 79–80.
16 Ibid., pp. 96–97.
17 Ibid., p. 242.
18 Ibid., p. 244.
19 Ibid., p. 52.
21 Anderson, Judith H., Biographical Truth: The Representation of Historical Persons in Tudor-Stuart Writing (New Haven & London, 1984), p. 185Google Scholar.
22 Ibid., p. 186.
23 Ibid., p. 201.
24 For detailed discussion of the relationship of James and Anne, as well other members of the Stuart royal family, see my book, Royal Family, Royal Lovers: King James of England and Scotland (University of Missouri Press, 1991)Google Scholar.
25 Osborne, Francis, Traditional Memoirs (1658), in Secret History of the Court of James the First, ed. SirScott, Walter, 2 vols. (Edinburgh, 1811), 1: 196Google Scholar.
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30 Calendar of State Papers Venetian, 1603–1625, vols. 10–18 (London, 1900–1912), 15: 307Google Scholar.
31 Ibid., p. 420.
32 Ibid., p. 494.
33 Ibid., pp. 494–95.
35 Ibid., p. 370n.
37 The Letters of John Chamberlain, ed. McClure, Norman E., 2 vols. (Philadephia, 1939), 2: 242Google Scholar. | <urn:uuid:e32e1490-7028-41d3-9dcf-2087664cb79d> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://core-cms.prod.aop.cambridge.org/core/journals/albion/article/abs/francis-bacons-henry-vii-commentary-on-king-james-i/718E8F0D77D787B108AEC527BD83F97D | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571150.88/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810070501-20220810100501-00677.warc.gz | en | 0.874351 | 1,032 | 3.0625 | 3 |
Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae 1541-1857: Volume 8, Bristol, Gloucester, Oxford and Peterborough Dioceses. Originally published by Institute of Historical Research, London, 1996.
This free content was digitised by double rekeying. All rights reserved.
Table to illustrate suspension of prebends at Gloucester, 1840-53, in accordance with Stat. 3 & 4 Vic. c. 113
s. 13 And be it enacted, That in the Chapter[s] of the Cathedral Church[es] of ... Gloucester ... the first vacant Canonry shall be suspended, and the Canonry secondly vacant shall be filled up, and the Canonry thirdly vacant shall be suspended.
|1st||D. Finch d. 24 Oct. 1840||suspended|
|2nd||G.W. Hall d. 10 Dec. 1843||F. Jeune apptd.|
|3rd||T. Selwyn d. 31 May 1853||suspended|
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Objectives This cross-sectional study examined pricerelated promotions for tobacco products on Twitter. Methods Through the Twitter Firehose, we obtained access to all public tweets posted between 6 December 2012 and 20 June 2013 that contained a keyword suggesting a tobacco-related product or behaviour (eg, cigarette, vaping) in addition to a keyword suggesting a price promotion (eg, coupon, discount). From this data set of 155 249 tweets, we constructed a stratified sampling frame based on the price-related keywords and randomly sampled 5000 tweets (3.2%). Tweets were coded for product type and promotion type. Non-English tweets and tweets unrelated to a tobacco or cessation price promotion were excluded, leaving an analytic sample of 2847 tweets. Results The majority of tweets (97.0%) mentioned tobacco products while 3% mentioned tobacco cessation products. E-cigarettes were the most frequently mentioned product (90.1%), followed by cigarettes (5.4%). The most common type of price promotion mentioned across all products was a discount. About a third of all e-cigarette-related tweets included a discount code. Banned or restricted price promotions comprised about 3% of cigarette-related tweets. Conclusions This study demonstrates that the vast majority of tweets offering price promotions focus on e-cigarettes. Future studies should examine the extent to which Twitter users, particularly youth, notice or engage with these price promotion tweets.
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- Health(social science)
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Obama dedicates part of the annual State of the Union address to community college plan
President Obama expanded on his proposal to offer two free years of community college to responsible U.S. students during his State of the Union Address on Jan. 20, 2015.
During his speech, Obama focused on the nation’s improved economy and emphasized his belief that everyone should have a “fair shot” at success–and that, in turn, contributes to the nation’s prosperity.
But “to make sure folks keep earning higher wages down the road, we have to do more to help Americans upgrade their skills.”
By 2020, Obama said, two-thirds of job openings will require at least some form of high education. That contrasts sharply with increasing college costs, which prevent many students from attending or completing college.
“It’s not fair to them, and it’s not smart for our future,” he said.
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In Macbeth, one of the overarching themes has to do with honoring one's moral values. Throughout the play, the motifs of blood, hallucinations, and prophecy show the dangers of allowing ambition to overtake a person's better judgement and moral code. From the beginning, Macbeth challenges fate by trying to ensure that the witches' prophecy comes true. On a few occasions, he even tries to get fate on his side: for example, when he plots to have Banquo murdered, he asks that fate change its course to be on his side and make him the champion in the end. This goes against the moral code of the time--a time during which people believed more in the power of fate over that of free will. Further, Macbeth shuns his own moral code when he kills Duncan and later Banquo and Macduff's family. After the murders, Macbeth hallucinates images that reveal his guilt, and Lady Macbeth imagines that she sees blood on her hands, another symbol for the guilt that she feels over her part in the murders. So, the motifs of blood, hallucinations, and prophecy are directly linked to the theme of the play.
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Survey: Nearly 80 percent believe they will benefit from expanded public transportation
Phone survey gathered responses from more than 400
A survey conducted by the Southwest Ohio Regional Transit Authority found that most people believe that they will benefit from an expanded and improved SORTA.
The phone survey, conducted last month, gathered responses from more than 400 Hamilton County residents.
From the report:
- 92.2 percent agree that ensuring that the system provides transportation to seniors, students, workers and people without cars is essential to the economy and the basic quality of life, even if they don't use public transit personally.
- 79.5 percent agree with people who say that they will, in some way, benefit by having expanded and improved bus and public transit services in Hamilton County, even though they may not use transit personally.
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Definition of lowdown
: the inside facts : dope <gave us the lowdown on the situation>
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<have you heard the lowdown on the new chairman of the department?>
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I would like to begin with one of the very first few principles about Economics. At this very moment in time we see, read and hear in the news all about economics and how it is affecting the world around us. Be it in a manner which involves the banks, government debt or better yet our very own financial system. If the economy is running in a poor manner then our social welfare will deteriorate and vice versa.
Economics in my own words is a study of how one manages a household. It derives from the Greek language and quite coincidently they are not doing a good job of it!
I will post a few definitions for those who have little or no knowledge so that together we can all understand the news in a broader scale.
Inflation is the price increase over a period of time.
Unemployment rate is percentage of the amount of people who are willing to work but cannot find work.
Growth is the percentage the economy grows over a period of time. As we know the British economy grew by 0.2% since the last quarter.
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Nonobese diabetic (NOD) mice spontaneously develop a lymphocytic infiltration of pancreatic islets (insulitis) that may progress to overt diabetes. Virtually all NOD/WEHI mice develop insulitis, but very few progress to diabetes. However, cyclophosphamide (CY) can promote the onset of diabetes in NOD mice, including the NOD/WEHI strain. The means by which CY produces diabetes was investigated in NOD/WEHI mice, in which it was hypothesized that active suppression mechanisms prevented the progression from insulitis to diabetes. A study of the time course of insulitis in the islets after CY was given showed that insulitis was initially reduced but rapidly increased over 16 days, and T-lymphocytes were predominant in the lesion. This suggested a compression of the normal time course of the disease seen in NOD mice. CY did not produce diabetes in any of 11 non-NOD strains studied. Fetal isografts in NOD mice given CY several days before were subjected to lymphocytic infiltration and β-cell destruction. These findings suggested that CY was not directly (β-cell toxic and that altered β-cells were not essential for β-cell destruction. This was further demonstrated with subdiabetogenic doses of streptozocin, which significantly damaged β-cells but did not increase the severity of insulitis or induce diabetes as did CY. Most important, the transfer of mononuclear cells from nondiabetic NOD mice to mice given CY prevented diabetes, which indicated that the likely effect of CY was via immunomodulation, possibly by allowing poised effector cells to act on (β-cells. The NOD/WEHI mice appear to have suppressor mechanisms acting to halt the progression of the early insulitis lesion and so preventing diabetes occurring in most mice. We propose that CY removes these suppressors and thereby induces a rapid progression to diabetes by compressing the normal immune destruction process into a 2-wk period. This model affords the opportunity to study the process in ways not practicable in the usual time course of events.
Cyclophosphamide-Induced Diabetes in NOD/WEHI Mice: Evidence for Suppression in Spontaneous Autoimmune Diabetes Mellitus
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Brett Charlton, Angela Bacelj, Robyn M Slattery, Thomas E Mandel; Cyclophosphamide-Induced Diabetes in NOD/WEHI Mice: Evidence for Suppression in Spontaneous Autoimmune Diabetes Mellitus. Diabetes 1 April 1989; 38 (4): 441–447. https://doi.org/10.2337/diab.38.4.441
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by SUSAN MANN
The federal government’s move last month to clarify that the cheese in American pizza topping kits entering without duties are subject to tariffs has pleased Canada’s dairy farmers but angered pizzerias.
Jack Aubry, Finance Canada spokesperson, says by email the government brought in a technical amendment to the Customs Tariff law. The amendment was tabled in the House of Commons Nov. 22 and came into effect Nov. 29.
He says the technical amendment “was in direct response to ongoing attempts to circumvent that (Customs Tariff) law.”
Dairy Farmers of Canada has been lobbying the federal government to close the loophole for two years, says spokesperson Thérèse Beaulieu, and is pleased with the government’s steps to close it. The organization first noticed the kits were coming across the border in 2011.
Dairy Farmers has argued all along the cheese in the kits should be classified as a dairy product and be subject to the 245.5 per cent tariff for cheese products that are subject to duties. But the Canada Border Services Agency ruled last year the kits, containing 80 per cent mozzarella and 20 per cent pepperoni, are a food preparation and the cheese in them could come in duty free.
Dairy farmers challenged the classification at the Canadian International Trade Tribunal, which ruled in May the dairy farmers’ corporation, BalanceCo, launching the challenge wasn’t eligible to question the classification. That meant the Canada Border Services Agency decision classifying the kits as a food preparation remained intact.
Beaulieu says speculation in a Globe and Mail article this week that the government’s amendment could spark a trade war with the United States is just that – speculation. “That’s a lot of speculation by people who have seen their little trick thwarted.”
She adds, “Canada fully had the right to do what it did.” Canada didn’t change the classification but jut clarified “what was supposed to happen in the first place.”
Aubry agrees. “This amendment is fully consistent with Canada’s international trade obligations.”
But Garth Whyte, president and CEO of the Canadian Restaurant and Foodservices Association, which represents restaurants across Canada, called the government’s move to shut down the pizza cheese import process a “back door decision” that was particularly unpalatable since the border services agency already ruled the kits were a food preparation and that was upheld by the trade tribunal.
The restaurant association also questions the way the government brought in the amendment. The industry only received a one-week notice and “there was no transition,” he says.
The kits are the fresh pizza industry’s legitimate way to combating high priced cheese in Canada, he says. “People are looking for ways to keep their costs down and they’re looking for ways to sell more dairy.” He says he didn’t know how many of the kits were coming into Canada.
To address the restaurant association’s concerns that fresh pizza makers were paying 30 per cent more for their cheese than frozen pizza makers, the Canadian Dairy Commission introduced a new lower priced milk class on June 1. The restaurant association applauded the commission for launching the new class.
Beaulieu says the commission was looking into whether the new milk class to provide lower priced milk for manufacturing mozzarella for the fresh pizza market was slowing down American pizza kit sales. “The last I heard it was too early to tell. They were not really saying anything about that class.”
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Researcher Posts Proof of Concept Exploit Code for Mac OS X Vulnerability
The vulnerability has to do with a potential buffer overflow error in the use of the "strtod" function Mac OS X's underlying Unix code. Since the flaw can be exploited by a remote attacker, SecurityReason considers the vulnerability's risk as "high."
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Along with nerves and luggage, most students enter college, brain-storming ways to ensure that they leave a legacy on campus. Maybe you haven’t worded your college goal as “leaving a legacy,” but amongst many other things, you would like to reminisce the happenings from this time period once you have transitioned from this stage of life.
How can you retrospectively examine this span of years during college and know that those were years well-spent? The range of things deemed important enough to pursue during this developmental period include: sports, academics, student life, campus-wide accolades and leadership experiences. If we are honest, each of these things is often the source of personal identity, self-worth and maneuvered to serve as potential resume building blocks.
Now, you may realize that it is odd that these behaviors meant to leave a legacy can refocus the attention back on ourselves and skew the influence we carry or could carry in another’s life. How can we not only remember our time as a student fondly, but also be remembered for our character, inspiration, impact and position by those who interacted with us closely and those who only saw us from a distance?
Understand the meaning of selflessness.
The more frequently you shift your focus to the needs of others as opposed to personal strivings, you will begin to understand the risk and immense reward of leaving a legacy.
Learn to be present-minded.
While planning for the future is considered wise, it is absurd to believe that your time is of limited value until you finish college and join the “real world.” Enjoy the moment where you find yourself and know that your current impact will often determine your future circumstances.
Value personal relationships.
Humans are designed to thrive in community. Begin to seek out individuals who will develop you as a learner. However, you must also identify individuals who will need your knowledge and experiences. If you are not being poured into and subsequently poured out, you are not enjoying the full system of relationships and are limiting your impact. Relationships will determine whether you are successful or not in leaving a legacy on your college campus.
Prepare your heart to serve others, be intentional with your time and invest in those around you and you will be remembered.The University of Mary Hardin-Baylor prepares students for leadership, service, and faith-informed discernment in a global society. Stop by for a visit, and see if UMHB is right for you. | <urn:uuid:9db2a021-5e53-4919-a80e-77bf8cc56e2c> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://blog.umhb.edu/plan-for-the-present/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560283301.73/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095123-00506-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.96884 | 516 | 1.984375 | 2 |
New Defender's Study Bible Notes
5:24 crucified the flesh. Three times in Galatians, we are reminded that the Christian believer should be following Christ in His crucifixion (Galatians 2:20; 5:24; 6:14). We should offer our bodies as a “living sacrifice” to serve Him (Romans 12:1) so that we should not “serve sin” (Romans 6:6). Crucifixion is a very slow and painful death; just so, the death of a Christian to sin does not come in a moment of special blessing but is painful and slow. Nevertheless, it is basic in any truly effective Christian life. | <urn:uuid:6a4c3ccd-c99f-4075-99bc-60ae968e0fad> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.icr.org/home?module=home&action=submitsearch&f_submit=Search&f_context_any=any§ion=bible&f_search_type=bible&f_keyword_any=Galatians+5:24 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571090.80/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809215803-20220810005803-00068.warc.gz | en | 0.914591 | 144 | 1.804688 | 2 |
Explore John Cage’s music in a whole new way with this new app designed by Third Coast Percussion.
The year 2012 marks the 100th anniversary of Cage’s birth. Musicians, artists, and fans around the world are celebrating this momentous occasion. Third Coast Percussion, a Chicago-based ensemble, is commemorating the centenary by releasing an album of Cage’s percussion music on Mode Records. The four musicians of Third Coast Percussion designed this iPhone app with Joseph Genden to give everyone a chance to perform Cage’s music.
John Cage was one of the most extraordinary musicians, artists, and philosophers of the 20th century. His music and his writings have had a tremendous impact on art and the avant-garde both at home in the United States and abroad. As a young man, Cage dedicated himself to writing music for percussion instruments, organizing some of the first classical music concerts for only percussion instruments.
Cage wrote Quartet, his first piece for percussionists, in 1935. The piece can be performed with any instruments or sounds. With this app, you can choose from a catalogue of sounds from Cage’s percussion music or record your own sounds to create your own custom version of the piece.
-sampled sounds from Third Coast Percussion’s upcoming DVD/CD of John Cage’s percussion music
-ability to record your own sounds
-playback the 4th movement of John Cage’s Quartet with your selection of the sampled sounds, or your own custom-recorded sounds
-info about John Cage and his music
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‘People die and they are not happy’ – architecture can’t change that. A place of rest, a space for silence: that is something it still manages to provide, despite the fact that not even stones are as heavy as they were in more solid epochs with a firmer belief in the eternal, as in Saqqara, as in Giza, for example.
Our final road is uncertain. Neither church nor temple of the dead offer a model for the path to nothingness or angelhood. In lending shape to freedom and necessity, the intensity, the texture of a Maghreb mosque comes closest to meet the task: a Piazza Coperta, a place in the middle of this cenotaph, where many can assemble and yet the individual is shielded; a catalyst for all our feelings. In this room – 5000 years young – the columns with their capitals of light establish the only reference left to us: a cosmological contrast between populated stacks of clay and the sun with its light.
The ceremonial halls – two for 50, one for 250 people – are simply boxes of split stone, set open-fronted into a second, slat-steered casing of glass: the departed soul, the coffin, the urn has gone before already, into the realm of light, is at one now with the heavens, the clouds, the trees.
Like no other building – the Museum in Bonn and the Chancellery in Berlin are no exceptions – this one reflects the unbroken will of the architects. A hollowed, jointless block 50 by 70 metres, 10 metres deep in the earth, 10 metres high above it, one stone, one grave-stone, insisting on the material consistency of its several spaces. And if there were a word of truth in Ludwig Wittgenstein’s claim that architecture ‘compels and glorifies; that where there is nothing to glorify there can be no architecture’, then this structure glorifies the quintessence of architecture, celebrates space, the silence of walls in light.
Crematorium condolence hall administration
Bezirksamt Treptow von Berlin
verwaltungsgesellschaft mbH Eschborn
Axel Schultes Architekten
Frank Schultes Witt
Axel Schultes Charlotte Frank
Christoph Witt Margret Kister
Andresen Choeff Dierks
Helfrich Schuldes Waninger
1992 – 2000
reinforced concrete fair-faced concrete
Bonner Ingenieurgemeinschaft Berlin
Dipl.-Ing. Volker Warnat
GSE Ingenieurgesellschaft mbH
Dr.-Ing. Manfred Flohrer
Akustik Ingenieurbüro Moll GmbH
Strassen- und Grünflächenamt Treptow
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According to the report, in addition to installing cameras on public roads, the Justice Department’s Drug Enforcement Administration taps into a massive and growing network of license plate scanners operated by various local law enforcement agencies. These plate reading programs, helped by grants from the Department of Homeland Security, are now operated by as many as 70 percent of local police departments, which see them as a “force multiplier” for overworked beat cops. With the ability to automatically scan more than 100,000 vehicles per day at an ever-lower cost, police say the devices simply make officers more efficient at their jobs.
That same efficiency argument is also responsible for proliferating license plate scanners in the private sector, where they are largely used for debt collection. As the Boston Globe reported, a nationwide network of unmarked cars armed with automated plate readers hoovers up data from cars in order to find cars that are stolen or in default, making a once-painstaking process as easy as making the morning commute. These private firms assert that collecting the data is covered by the First Amendment, even when they make their data pools available to law enforcement agencies. And given the growing importance of auto credit expansion to car sales, it seems that these private plate scanners have come to play a critical role in the new economy — and they are unlikely to simply disappear due to privacy concerns. | <urn:uuid:5603accb-d1b0-4b52-930a-742be679316e> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://asymcar.com/r/?p=1401 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570921.9/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809094531-20220809124531-00277.warc.gz | en | 0.961723 | 273 | 1.976563 | 2 |
Railway transport plays an important role in the transport system of a country because the growth of trade, industry and commerce largely relies on the advancement of railways network. It is the cheapest and fast way of transportation across the world, much better than wheeled vehicles, provides basic infrastructure for largest growing economies. It is cost saving which reduces the price of transporting passengers and materials across the country. Large Railway networks bring many benefits for passenger and industries since it is safest, speedy, capacious and comfortable. We have collected latest authentic data from different sources to list countries from around the world with largest operating rail networks.
Top 10 Countries by Largest Railway Network in the World
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The chances of being in a traffic accident are greatly reduced by safe driving, being alert and obeying the law. However, there is still a chance that you will be in an accident.
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The Washington Territorial Legislature created Snohomish County on January 14, 1861. It is named after the Indian word Snohomish meaning “Union” or “Coming Together.”
There are 6,085 names listed on this census.
For more information about this census, email the Historical Records Project at: [email protected]
Database: 1889 Snohomish County Census. ONLINE. 2009. Washington Secretary of State. Transcribed by Eunice Hallett, Benton City, WA; Kristi Marr, Marysville, WA; Mary Larsen, Bothell, WA; Sandra King, Coulee Dam, WA. Proofreading by Joshua Matthews, Olympia, WA; Terri Nelson, Olympia, WA; Ann Stoupe, Federal Way, WA; Jean Hirsch, Colville, WA.
Available Online: http://www.digitalarchives.wa.gov
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Decluttering is one of those tasks that we love to put off until the last minute – there’s always something more pressing, less tiring or simply more entertaining than just getting on with throwing out or selling things that are getting in the way that you no longer need. You may find once a year that you might get into the right mode to throw things out for a few days, or perhaps you leave it until a big occasion such as moving house. Maybe you can survive around your clutter but are very self conscious of visitors to your house clambering all over your junk and making inappropriate comments about it. Or perhaps that special person is finally moving in, but you are ashamed with the drawers full of abandoned relics you can’t let go…
Simply put, if you can’t get rid of things efficiently, you are losing out in many ways. Having too many pointless items doesn’t just limit physical space, it also impedes on your mood, ability to think flexibly and use your living space to its full potential. Clutter can easily get out of control and make you prisoner to it. Therefore you need some sort of motivation to take some action, the sort of motivation that is evergreen and always pertinent whatever the time or situation.
What comes first in anybody’s life? It has to be health. Is hoarding healthy? No, I wouldn’t say that it is. The fewer things you have to manage, the less strain it takes on your life. Do you want to spend all your weekend tiring yourself out cleaning and maintaining largely unused stuff? Or perhaps you don’t want to clean it and would rather make yourself ill inhaling all the dust and nasties that gradually accumulate. Wouldn’t it be much better to have a clean peaceful place to spend your idle time? In a nice clutter-free household you can literally feel good vibes on the air; in a clutter-filled zone there is an innate sense of discord and stress.
Not far behind health, people value their money. And what better motivation is there than the thought that all the stuff you are hoarding has the potential to make you good money if you put it on sale. There will certainly be people out there desperate for a bargain, and you could make it their lucky day, plus earn yourself some cash to spend on something worthwhile. Perhaps a storage unit for the things that you can’t bear to lose! You can even give items away if you are feeling very philanthropic – it’s the quickest and easiest way after all.
Lastly, for practicalities sake, wouldn’t you like to be able to know where things are, or be able to go into a cupboard and dig something out, rather than spend excessive amounts of time rummaging through boxes. If you have found yourself buying something in order to replace something that you know you have, but have mislaid in your piles of bric-a-brac, then you certainly know it is the day that decluttering must commence!
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I am an optimist who takes a perverse pleasure from dystopian, depressing or downright Bates Motel scenarios.A reader sends this link from the Wall Street Journal December 7, 2012:
The last three Drs. Doom
Both ancient philosophy and modern psychology suggest that darker thoughts can make us happier
The holiday season poses a psychological conundrum. Its defining sentiment, of course, is joy—yet the strenuous effort to be joyous seems to make many of us miserable. It's hard to be happy in overcrowded airport lounges or while you're trying to stay civil for days on end with relatives who stretch your patience.
So to cope with the holidays, magazines and others are advising us to "think positive"—the same advice, in other words, that Norman Vincent Peale, author of "The Power of Positive Thinking," was dispensing six decades ago. (During holidays, Peale once suggested, you should make "a deliberate effort to speak hopefully about everything.") The result all too often mirrors the famously annoying parlor game about trying not to think of a white bear: The harder you try, the more you think about one.
Variations of Peale's positive philosophy run deep in American culture, not just in how we handle holidays and other social situations but in business, politics and beyond. Yet studies suggest that peppy affirmations designed to lift the user's mood through repetition and visualizing future success often achieve the opposite of their intended effect.
Fortunately, both ancient philosophy and contemporary psychology point to an alternative: a counterintuitive approach that might be termed "the negative path to happiness." This approach helps to explain some puzzles, such as the fact that citizens of more economically insecure countries often report greater happiness than citizens of wealthier ones. Or that many successful businesspeople reject the idea of setting firm goals.
One pioneer of the "negative path" was the New York psychotherapist Albert Ellis, who died in 2007. He rediscovered a key insight of the Stoic philosophers of ancient Greece and Rome: that sometimes the best way to address an uncertain future is to focus not on the best-case scenario but on the worst.Looked at strangely? Hell I can be standing on the street corner waiting for the light with sixty other people and I'm the guy the schizophrenics want to talk to.
Seneca the Stoic was a radical on this matter. If you feared losing your wealth, he once advised, "set aside a certain number of days, during which you shall be content with the scantiest and cheapest fare, with coarse and rough dress, saying to yourself the while: 'Is this the condition that I feared?' "
To overcome a fear of embarrassment, Ellis told me, he advised his clients to travel on the New York subway, speaking the names of stations out loud as they passed. I'm an easily embarrassed person, so in the interest of journalistic research, I took his advice, on the Central Line of the London Underground. It was agonizing. But my overblown fears were cut down to size: I wasn't verbally harangued or physically attacked. A few people looked at me strangely....MORE
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This guide details how to build CARLA from source on Linux. There are two parts. Part one details system requirements and installations of required software, and part two details how to actually build and run CARLA.
The build process is long (4 hours or more) and involves several kinds of software. It is highly recommended to read through the guide fully before starting.
If you come across errors or difficulties then have a look at the F.A.Q. page which offers solutions for the most common complications. Alternatively, use the CARLA forum to post any queries you may have.
- Part One: Prerequisites
- Part Two: Build CARLA
Part One: Prerequisites
- Ubuntu 18.04. CARLA provides support for previous Ubuntu versions up to 16.04. However proper compilers are needed for Unreal Engine to work properly. Dependencies for Ubuntu 18.04 and previous versions are listed separately below. Make sure to install the ones corresponding to your system.
- 130 GB disk space. Carla will take around 31 GB and Unreal Engine will take around 91 GB so have about 130 GB free to account for both of these plus additional minor software installations.
- An adequate GPU. CARLA aims for realistic simulations, so the server needs at least a 6 GB GPU although 8 GB is recommended. A dedicated GPU is highly recommended for machine learning.
- Two TCP ports and good internet connection. 2000 and 2001 by default. Make sure that these ports are not blocked by firewalls or any other applications.
If you are upgrading from CARLA 0.9.12 to 0.9.13: you must first upgrade the CARLA fork of the UE4 engine to the latest version. See the Unreal Engine section for details on upgrading UE4
CARLA requires many different kinds of software to run. Some are built during the CARLA build process itself, such as Boost.Python. Others are binaries that should be installed before starting the build (cmake, clang, different versions of Python, etc.). To install these requirements, run the following commands:
sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install wget software-properties-common && sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntu-toolchain-r/test && wget -O - https://apt.llvm.org/llvm-snapshot.gpg.key|sudo apt-key add - && sudo apt-add-repository "deb http://apt.llvm.org/xenial/ llvm-toolchain-xenial-8 main" && sudo apt-get update
The following commands depend on your Ubuntu version. Make sure to choose accordingly.
sudo apt-add-repository "deb http://apt.llvm.org/focal/ llvm-toolchain-focal main" sudo apt-get install build-essential clang-10 lld-10 g++-7 cmake ninja-build libvulkan1 python python-dev python3-dev python3-pip libpng-dev libtiff5-dev libjpeg-dev tzdata sed curl unzip autoconf libtool rsync libxml2-dev git sudo update-alternatives --install /usr/bin/clang++ clang++ /usr/lib/llvm-10/bin/clang++ 180 && sudo update-alternatives --install /usr/bin/clang clang /usr/lib/llvm-10/bin/clang 180
sudo apt-get install build-essential clang-8 lld-8 g++-7 cmake ninja-build libvulkan1 python python-pip python-dev python3-dev python3-pip libpng-dev libtiff5-dev libjpeg-dev tzdata sed curl unzip autoconf libtool rsync libxml2-dev git
Previous Ubuntu versions.
sudo apt-get install build-essential clang-8 lld-8 g++-7 cmake ninja-build libvulkan1 python python-pip python-dev python3-dev python3-pip libpng16-dev libtiff5-dev libjpeg-dev tzdata sed curl unzip autoconf libtool rsync libxml2-dev git
All Ubuntu systems.
To avoid compatibility issues between Unreal Engine and the CARLA dependencies, use the same compiler version and C++ runtime library to compile everything. The CARLA team uses clang-8 and LLVM's libc++. Change the default clang version to compile Unreal Engine and the CARLA dependencies.
sudo update-alternatives --install /usr/bin/clang++ clang++ /usr/lib/llvm-8/bin/clang++ 180 && sudo update-alternatives --install /usr/bin/clang clang /usr/lib/llvm-8/bin/clang 180
Starting with CARLA 0.9.12, users have the option to install the CARLA Python API using
pip3. Version 20.3 or higher is required. To check if you have a suitable version, run the following command:
# For Python 3 pip3 -V # For Python 2 pip -V
If you need to upgrade:
# For Python 3 pip3 install --upgrade pip # For Python 2 pip install --upgrade pip
You must install the following Python dependencies:
pip install --user setuptools && pip3 install --user -Iv setuptools==47.3.1 && pip install --user distro && pip3 install --user distro && pip install --user wheel && pip3 install --user wheel auditwheel
Starting with version 0.9.12, CARLA uses a modified fork of Unreal Engine 4.26. This fork contains patches specific to CARLA.
Be aware that to download this fork of Unreal Engine, you need to have a GitHub account linked to Unreal Engine's account. If you don't have this set up, please follow this guide before going any further.
1. Clone the content for CARLA's fork of Unreal Engine 4.26 to your local computer:
git clone --depth 1 -b carla https://github.com/CarlaUnreal/UnrealEngine.git ~/UnrealEngine_4.26
2. Navigate into the directory where you cloned the repository:
3. Make the build. This may take an hour or two depending on your system.
./Setup.sh && ./GenerateProjectFiles.sh && make
4. Open the Editor to check that Unreal Engine has been installed properly.
cd ~/UnrealEngine_4.26/Engine/Binaries/Linux && ./UE4Editor
Part Two: Build CARLA
Downloading aria2 with
sudo apt-get install aria2 will speed up the following commands.
Clone the CARLA repository
The button above will take you to the official repository of the project. Either download from there and extract it locally or clone it using the following command:
git clone https://github.com/carla-simulator/carla
master branch contains the current release of CARLA with the latest fixes and features. Previous CARLA versions are tagged with the version name. Always remember to check the current branch in git with the command
You will need to download the latest assets to work with the current version of CARLA. We provide a script to automate this process. To use the script, run the following command in the CARLA root folder:
The assets will be downloaded and extracted to the appropriate location.
To download the assets currently in development, visit Update CARLA and read Get development assets.
To download the assets for a specific version of CARLA:
- From the root CARLA directory, navigate to
\Util\ContentVersions.txt. This document contains the links to the assets for all CARLA releases.
- Extract the assets in
Unreal\CarlaUE4\Content\Carla. If the path doesn't exist, create it.
- Extract the file with a command similar to the following:
tar -xvzf <assets_file_name>.tar.gz.tar -C C:\path\to\carla\Unreal\CarlaUE4\Content\Carla
Set Unreal Engine environment variable
For CARLA to find the correct installation of Unreal Engine, we need to set the CARLA environment variable.
To set the variable for this session only:
To set the variable so it persists across sessions:
gedit ~/.bashrc # or gedit ~/.profile
2. Add the following line to the bottom of the file:
3. Save the file and reset the terminal.
This section outlines the commands to build CARLA. All commands should be run in the root CARLA folder.
There are two parts to the build process for CARLA, compiling the client and compiling the server.
Make sure to run
make PythonAPI to prepare the client and
make launch for the server.
make LibCarla will prepare the CARLA library to be imported anywhere.
1. Compile the Python API client:
The Python API client grants control over the simulation. Compilation of the Python API client is required the first time you build CARLA and again after you perform any updates. After the client is compiled, you will be able to run scripts to interact with the simulation.
The following command compiles the Python API client:
Optionally, to compile the PythonAPI for a specific version of Python, run the below command in the root CARLA directory.
# Delete versions as required make PythonAPI ARGS="--python-version=2.7, 3.6, 3.7, 3.8"
The CARLA client library will be built in two distinct, mutually exclusive forms. This gives users the freedom to choose which form they prefer to run the CARLA client code. The two forms include
.egg files and
.whl files. Choose one of the following options below to use the client library:
.eggfile does not need to be installed. All of CARLA's example scripts automatically look for this file when importing CARLA.
If you previously installed a CARLA
.whlwill take precedence over an
.whlfile should be installed using
# Python 3 pip3 install <path/to/wheel>.whl # Python 2 pip install <path/to/wheel>.whl
.whlfile cannot be distributed as it is built specifically for your OS.
Issues can arise through the use of different methods to install the CARLA client library and having different versions of CARLA on your system. It is recommended to use virtual environments when installing the
.whl and to uninstall any previously installed client libraries before installing new ones.
2. Compile the server:
The following command compiles and launches Unreal Engine. Run this command each time you want to launch the server or use the Unreal Engine editor:
The project may ask to build other instances such as
UE4Editor-Carla.dll the first time. Agree in order to open the project. During the first launch, the editor may show warnings regarding shaders and mesh distance fields. These take some time to be loaded and the map will not show properly until then.
3. Start the simulation:
Press Play to start the server simulation. The camera can be moved with
WASD keys and rotated by clicking the scene while moving the mouse around.
Test the simulator using the example scripts inside
PythonAPI\examples. With the simulator running, open a new terminal for each script and run the following commands to spawn some life into the town and create a weather cycle:
# Terminal A cd PythonAPI/examples python3 -m pip install -r requirements.txt python3 generate_traffic.py # Terminal B cd PythonAPI/examples python3 dynamic_weather.py
If the simulation is running at a very low FPS rate, go to
Edit -> Editor preferences -> Performance in the Unreal Engine editor and disable
Use less CPU when in background.
Other make commands
There are more
make commands that you may find useful. Find them in the table below:
||Prints all available commands.|
||Launches CARLA server in Editor window.|
||Builds the CARLA client.|
||Prepares the CARLA library to be imported anywhere.|
||Builds CARLA and creates a packaged version for distribution.|
||Deletes all the binaries and temporals generated by the build system.|
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Sphen and Magic are stronger than ever!
- Wednesday 30th October 2019
Our same sex penguin power couple Sphen and Magic are stronger than ever this breeding season and our keepers are rejoicing!
Sphen and Magic began developing a strong bond and became inseparable in early 2018, displaying such a loyal partnership that the keepers gave them a foster egg to raise in October 2018. Fast forward one year and baby Sphengic has just turned one!
This breeding season, the famous penguin couple wasted no time in setting up the biggest (and neatest) nest, created with a beautiful arrangement of ‘ice pebbles’. Our keepers didn’t hesitate in fostering them an egg for the second year in a row from a couple who weren’t able to care for the two eggs they had.
“Sphen and Magic’s partnership has remained strong all year so we had no doubt that they would couple up again this year and build an impressive nest. They have the neatest and largest nest in the colony and when we noticed that another couple were struggling to incubate two eggs at the same time, we made the decision to foster the second egg to the power couple of the colony - Sphen and Magic!” said Tish Hannan, Penguin Supervisor here at SEA LIFE Sydney’s Sub-Antarctic Penguin colony.
“They’re fantastic parents - both very loyal and protective. Baby Sphengic, who turned one on 19th October had an excellent start to life under their care and while she’s still a bundle of energy and very loud, she’s matured nicely but still quite unsure as to what all the adults are doing this breeding season! Sphengic may or may not have a little brother or sister in a few weeks, we’re yet to confirm if the egg is fertile,” added Tish.
Penguins show their love for one another by bowing - which is a common occurrence during breeding season - particularly from Sphen and Magic. Our guests over the next month will get to see the penguin couples sitting on their nests, incubating and protecting their eggs.
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The ghosts of authorship
For some time now we have witnessed professional writers that lend their services to celebrities who are unaccustomed to putting pen to paper themselves, but who (perhaps through vanity) wish to see their "autobiographies" published. Politicians also rarely write their own white papers or speeches, seeking the services of professional writers. Relying on the services of such professionals, known as "ghostwriters", is thus a common practice which few go to the trouble of contesting, as long as it is limited to the political or commercial spheres. Nevertheless, difficulties emerge (and even appear in the media) in dealing with "ghost authorship" whenever it enters the scientific/academic community.
Authorship is central to the credibility of the contemporary academic and scientific system. In the more competitive basic science fields, authorship of a scientific article is directly related to the author's primacy over a given discovery. Recognition of authorship in theses and dissertations, articles published in specialized journals, and books provides the basis for institutions to award academic degrees and for funding agencies to assess the researchers' curricula vitae, evaluate courses, and in the final analysis, define promotions, bonuses, tenure, and resources to fund further research.
Over the years, and especially in the second half of the 20th century, we witnessed the spread of a new type of "author", namely the co-author. Relatively rare before the mid 20th century, publications in co-authorship became the rule in many fields, including the health sciences. In light of the ethical and legal implications of such expansion, numerous international scientific associations are concerned with defining authorship and co-authorship, making it clear that those listed as authors should have participated with a major share of the data analysis and drafting of the work. They further highlight that the authors, regardless of their position on the list, must be capable of publicly assuming responsibility for the work as a whole. Therefore, authors are not only candidates for reaping the laurels of a scientific publication (prizes, promotions, royalties, etc.), but must also assume ethical and legal responsibility in case the work is challenged. The system's foundations crumble with the onslaught of ghost authorship.
Unfortunately, there is evidence that such practice is undergoing full expansion. With a quick search on the Internet, one can retrieve addresses for a surprising number of specialized professionals and even small companies specializing in ghost authorship, who advertise their services, even for writing theses and dissertations. One such website reads: "Working with a ghostwriter is a great way to ensure that your message gets out and comes across clearly. This solution can help you meet deadlines and grasp opportunities, without sacrificing other priorities and commitments."
Another novel situation is ghost authorship associated with what we might call "authorship lending". A recent case involved a physician from a prestigious American university who was contacted by a communications firm (hired by a pharmaceutical company) in order for her to "sign" an article reporting the test results on a new drug. The physician-researcher blew the whistle on the case, which had extensive repercussions, including in Brazil (Folha de S. Paulo 2005; 15 Apr:A16-7).
Such situations expose the enormous vulnerabilities currently surrounding the author figure and the concept of authorship. The well-known motto "publish or perish" has never been so ubiquitous. Given the situation's complexity, to ensure honesty and transparency in the production of scientific knowledge in all its stages is a task that cannot be delegated to a handful of "gatekeepers of science". Members of review panels for public admissions exams, editorial boards of scientific journals, and advisory committees for funding agencies play a central role in this process and should seek to determine the authenticity of authorship in any work that comes under their scrutiny.
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__________________________ '' Sorrowland is a wonderland of fantastical and frightening, magical and real. At the centre of this world and leaping off the page is Vern: unstoppable, unforgettable, and unlike anyone you have ever seen before.'' MARLON JAMES, Booker Prize-winning author Vern, a Black woman with albinism, is hunted after escaping a religious compound, then she discovers that her body is changing and that she is developing extra-sensory powers. Alone in the woods, she gives birth to twins and raises them away from the influence of the outside world. But something is wrong - not with them, but with her own body. It''s itching, it''s stronger, it''s... not normal. To understand her body''s metamorphosis, Vern must investigate not just the secluded religious compound she fled but the violent history of dehumanisation, medical experimentation, and genocide that produced it. In the course of reclaiming her own darkness, Vern learns that monsters aren''t just individuals, but entire histories, systems, and nations. | <urn:uuid:a42b5d09-6853-4dfb-9f86-88dad9efedc5> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.librairielucioles.com/listeliv.php?form_recherche_avancee=ok&editeur=Cornerstone&base=paper&select_tri_recherche=pertinence&rayon=Fantasy+%26amp%3B+Science-fiction&codegtl1=91000000 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571584.72/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812045352-20220812075352-00673.warc.gz | en | 0.948133 | 218 | 1.5625 | 2 |
Smoking cigarettes is a public health disaster in the United States and the rest of the world. Every year, around 500,000 smokers die prematurely, and the Surgeon General considers smoking the single largest preventable cause of death in the United States. But not all tobacco products are alike in the risks they bring to users and those around them. This diversity of ways to deliver nicotine to the user offers regulatory pathways to reducing—perhaps radically—the toll of smoking. Policy experiments at the state level could allow governments to explore and learn from these pathways, but the dominant, hard-line anti-tobacco ideology may stand in the way of implementing the necessary regulations.
Since 2007, an ever-expanding variety of electronic cigarettes have reached the market (although some of them in fact look nothing like cigarettes). These devices are popularly and generically known as “vape,” “vaping products,” and, by researchers, as Electronic Nicotine Delivery Systems (ENDS). Tobacco combustion products are the cause of virtually all of the serious health risks from cigarettes. ENDS do not burn tobacco. Rather, they use electricity to heat solutions that often contain nicotine, allowing the user to inhale nicotine-infused water vapor. Public Health England, whose mission is to “protect and improve the nation’s health and wellbeing, and reduce health inequalities,” supports the estimates that vaping is 95 percent less dangerous than cigarettes. The evidence is even stronger for oral smokeless tobacco products, such as Swedish snus, with one recent epidemiological review concluding that snus was 99 percent less dangerous than smoking. Unlike so many debates over relative risk (such as those relating to dietary choices or chemical food additives), which often hinge on very small differences between risks, or very large uncertainties, there is no doubt that the risks of vape and snus are dramatically lower than for smoking. The question is how to craft policies that take advantage of these differences to achieve public health benefits. The first step toward addressing that question is simply to acknowledge that the deadlier smoked products are widely and legally available to adult consumers—and that this reality won’t change anytime soon.
And the bans play on
It is commonly said of cigarettes that if they had been submitted to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for drug review, they never would have been allowed on the market. True enough. History did not allow us to make that choice (and if it had, we probably would have regretted it, as the lessons of Prohibition suggest). In any case, U.S. tobacco law does not allow the banning of tobacco products. Even though it discourages youth access, FDA regulation preserves adult access to these products, free from encumbrances such as being available by prescription only (as might be the case for other dangerous, pharmacologically-active products). Yet some anti-tobacco forces such as the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) are disinclined to acknowledge or make the public aware of significant differences in product risk. They stress that all tobacco and nicotine products are “not safe” and worry that any “safer” tobacco product might lead to worsening of the total public health costs of tobacco use. The European Union, with the exception of Sweden, still bans smokeless tobacco. Most regulatory bodies seem driven by the belief that all tobacco products should be regulated uniformly. Although the FDA does not currently have jurisdiction over e-cigarettes, it is seeking it.
The perspective I take here is that given the reality of cigarette availability, it is a serious analytical and policy mistake to view all tobacco products as similar when they are so different. The zeal to stamp out tobacco products needs to be tempered by regulatory and market realities that offer no prospect of eliminating tobacco products. Policies and positions that would prefer the banning of tobacco products are an irrelevant distraction from those aimed at managing the product options that do exist in ways that might deliver big public health gains.
With the variety of non-combustion tobacco products now available, promising policy alternatives emerge from a “harm reduction” perspective. Harm reduction is essentially pragmatic rather than absolutist. For smoking, it means encouraging less harmful products as substitutes for the more harmful ones. The rapidly growing popularity of ENDS offers the potential to use these products as an important tool to reduce smoking, especially as evidence mounts that vape can compete with cigarettes in the marketplace. Harm reduction would happen in two fundamental ways: when individuals who would have become smokers choose instead to use a less harmful product like vape or snus, or when people who already smoke are able to substitute the less harmful product for cigarettes.
Skepticism among regulators and public health activists about harm reduction is not without reason. In the 1960s, lower-tar cigarettes were marketed as “light” and “mild” and were broadly perceived as safer than regular cigarettes, even though they offered little to no reduction in harm for individual smokers. “Harm reduction” does not occur if the substitute product is not really safer! Today, FDA rules require evidence that a claim of harm reduction not lead to net negative public health outcomes. And although E-cigarettes and smokeless tobacco products are significantly less dangerous than cigarettes, empirical questions remain about the possible net public health effects of promoting non-combusted tobacco and nicotine products. Just as trying beer and liking it could increase the chances of someone moving on to try liquor, one commonly voiced concern is that vape or snus might act as a new gateway into smoking by offering a safer nicotine product that leads its users toward unsafe use of cigarettes. To date, however, evidence supporting the idea of ENDS or smokeless tobacco as causal gateways to frequent smoking for most users is very limited to non-existent. On the contrary, the rise in use of vape by youth in the United States (much of it experimental rather than habitual) has been accompanied by further drops in cigarette smoking. In Sweden, many years of research has failed to detect a causal gateway between snus and cigarettes.
Another concern is that vaping might help smokers cope with restrictions against smoking in the workplace or other public places and therefore act as a kind of crutch for people who might otherwise try to quit. But even if smoking alternatives did create some (as yet unknown) health risk, it would require an enormous increase in the percentage of the public using non-combustion tobacco products to come close to equaling the harm caused by cigarettes and other combusted products. At this point, the focus on research and analysis should not be on the public health risks of harm reduction, but on the policy alternatives that could best deliver public health benefits.
When should you choose your poison?
All cultures make some distinction between adolescence and adulthood with respect to rights and privileges of consuming risky products and engaging in risky activities. The age of “adulthood” varies around the world and differs for different products and activities. And of course good judgment is a quality of the individual as much as one’s age; we have all known wise 16-year-olds and foolhardy 30-year-olds. Thus, there is inevitably a degree of arbitrariness in age-based qualifications. Federal law allows licensed firearms dealers to sell handguns to 21-year-olds and rifles to 18-year-olds. Americans can enlist in the military, an admittedly unsafe enterprise, at age 18, or at 17 with parental consent. In contrast, U.S. law penalizes states that allow people under the age of 21 to purchase alcoholic beverages. (For most other nations, the legal purchase age is 18.)
The precautionary bias that treats all tobacco products the same obscures an opportunity to reduce the most dangerous form of tobacco use and its costs to society.
Setting an age for legal purchase of tobacco products has been a standard practice in modern tobacco control. But what’s the right age, and for what types of tobacco products? Well-heeled from tobacco industry fees, the FDA commissioned the Institute of Medicine (IOM) in 2013 to conduct a study of the “public health implications of raising the minimum age of legal tobacco sale to 19, 21, or even 25 years old.” The IOM experts used statistical models to identify a kind of “sweet spot” for the age of access to be 21 and judged that this policy would have valuable public health effects on smoking prevalence and deaths and disability from smoking.
Ironically, the FDA Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act itself does not permit the federal government to raise the legal age for purchase of tobacco products beyond 18 years. Fortunately, states and localities are free to set their own minimum age of purchase, which for most states is 18. A few states have set the age of legal purchase to 19, and in June 2015, Hawaii became the first state to increase the tobacco sale age to 21. Eighty localities, most notably New York City, have set the legal sale age to 21Several other states, including California, are now considering increasing the age to 21. Setting the purchase age at 25 would offer even more protection against recruitment to smoking, but clearly there would be complaints from retailers about the more complex rules and significant political challenges to being able to pull off such a large departure from the current standards for the age of purchase of dangerous adult products.
The IOM report notes in its summary: “The committee assumes that the MLA [minimum legal age] will be increased for all tobacco products, including nicotine delivery systems (ENDS), and that the intensity of enforcement will be the same for all tobacco products.” Indeed, the momentum in the United States has been, when in doubt, treat all tobacco products as equally dangerous. For example, Hawaii treated ENDS just like cigarettes when raising the legal purchase age to 21.
The IOM committee raised concerns about ENDS as a possible gateway to cigarettes, but it also acknowledged that vaping could prevent or delay recruitment to smoking in some adolescents or young adults who would otherwise start smoking. The committee notes: “Presumably FDA and state policy makers will take these possibilities into account in setting the MLA and will carefully monitor the promotion and use of ENDS, especially by adolescents and young adults.” This presumption that FDA and state policy makers will actually evaluate the various possibilities may be overly optimistic, in light of the common regulatory party line that all tobacco products should be treated as if they were simply unsafe and even equally risky.
Yet, the flexibility that states have to adopt different legal purchase ages for tobacco, combined with the increasing availability and market penetration of non-combustion tobacco products, provides an unparalleled opportunity for quasi-experiments that can test the contributions of harm reduction policies to public health, with the potential for saving literally millions of lives in the long run. Such quasi-experiments, in fact, proved valuable for alcohol regulation, where the de facto standard legal drinking age of 21 was arrived at, in part, by comparing the experience of different state age limits. As more states consider raising the age of legal tobacco purchase, now is the time for public health scientists, policy makers, and activists to consider selectively and differentially raising the legal purchase age of tobacco and nicotine products according to their risks to health.
What a difference a year (or two) could make
Why not keep the legal purchase age for ENDS and snus at a lower age than for cigarettes? Multiple options for age differentials could be explored empirically. One could, for example, set ENDS or snus at 18, and move cigarettes to 19, 20, or 21. The need is to try to determine the benefits of pushing the age for cigarettes above that for products that are much less dangerous. If some state or other jurisdiction were to differentially set the age of legal purchase with consideration to the dramatic differences in health risks, this could permit more than hypothetical data to be collected for future consequences of various tobacco products—with an emphasis above all on reducing the use of cigarettes. One suggestive historical study compared smoking prevalence in states that did not restrict access to vape with those that had already set the purchase age for vape at 18; those states that had not yet set an age limit showed somewhat greater reductions in smoking prevalence in 12- to 17-year-olds. This finding provides preliminary support for the idea that differential age of purchase might have benefits for public health.
Those who are inclined toward a “ban them all” approach should also recognize the potential benefits that differential age limits could have on addressing the contribution of cigarette smoking to growing health disparities in the United States. Twenty-four percent of adults without high-school diplomas are smokers; for the college-educated, the number drops to nine percent. Twenty-nine percent of adults living below the poverty line are smokers; in the rest of the population, only 16 percent smoke. The mentally ill are especially susceptible, with smoking rates of 36 percent, versus 21 percent for those without mental illness. “Hard to reach” populations may not hear or respond to public health warnings or changing social norms. But even those who are not receiving regular health care, advice from health care professionals, and constructive social pressure from work and friends, will get the message from structural changes like a variable age of legal purchase that could help to delay or prevent the use of cigarettes among those who have been hard to reach with other tobacco control methods.
Setting the legal age of purchase is an important decision that sends a message about risk to all consumers. It is a powerful message, but it has never been completely effective in preventing underage use of products. Despite efforts to educate and restrict, adolescence is a time for recruitment to risky activities: unprotected sexual activity, smoking, drinking, and other recreational drug use. As poet Richard Wilbur observed, a dangerous activity can be “made safe by rashness.” Neuroscience research and behavioral research on adolescence has made it clear that adolescents have the cognitive abilities to understand messages and lessons about risk, but this information has little effect on their inclinations toward risk-taking until they mature beyond adolescence (which biologically is most likely after age 25). Differential access to tobacco products offers the potential of influencing choices by this “hard to reach” (but in a very different sense) group that might deflect them from smoking during the crucial rash years of adolescence.
Lumping all tobacco and nicotine products in the same standard ignores the considerable differences in harm to users or bystanders caused by different products. The science-base for setting the age at the same point is slight, and the evidence for a very high magnitude of differential risks is substantial. If some states allowed the purchase of snus and vape at an earlier age than the purchase of cigarettes, would smoking decline overall? Would smoking-related health problems in those states decline relative to states that regulate all tobacco products uniformly? We can’t know the answer to these questions until we do the experiment, but if we fail to do the experiment we miss the opportunity for potentially major public health benefits. Importantly, the potential that differential smoking ages would lead to unanticipated net public health harms seems very small. Yet if such harms did begin to emerge, the mistake could easily be corrected by moving the legal age for vape and snus up to the age for cigarettes. And if the benefits of harm reduction policies began to make themselves felt, then other states could adopt differential age limits as well.
There is a kind of timidity of purpose and failure of analysis that would treat sticks of dynamite and firecrackers as if they each should be subject to the same restrictions on use. The FDA tobacco products division has given a priority to do research on the use of low-nicotine, low-addiction cigarettes as a means to discourage the use of cigarettes. This has been viewed as a way to productively push cigarette smokers to less dangerous tobacco products. But states and municipalities have at their fingertips, as it were, an opportunity to move immediately and decisively beyond the serious limitations of federal tobacco law and develop a possible new way to reduce the harm of tobacco use. The precautionary bias that treats all tobacco products the same obscures an opportunity to reduce the most dangerous form of tobacco use and its costs to society—costs that are increasingly borne by those who are already unhealthy, uneducated, and poor. If the states are, as Louis D. Brandeis, former associate justice on the U.S. Supreme Court, called them, “the laboratories of democracy,” now is the time for them to initiate policy experiments that could help the nation take the next major step in reducing one of its worst public health scourges.
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Zoltan Zigedy provides a review of After State Monopoly Capitalism? that provides a glimpse into how bourgeois economists are recognizing the undeniable relationship between monopoly capital and political power. Quoting Krugman who was in turn summarizing Reich, the relationship between monopoly capital and political power is described very clearly:
Rising wealth at the top buys growing political influence via campaign contributions, lobbying, and the rewards of the revolving door. Political influence in turn is used to rewrite the rules of the game—antitrust laws, deregulation, changes in contract law, union-busting—in a way that reinforces income concentration. The result is a sort of spiral, a vicious circle of oligarchy.
The pervasive exploitation and misery that are permanent features of capitalism as a system benefit a very few globally or in the United States. The resulting inequalities have become so starkly visible that even those who are inclined to want to see capitalism survive have to admit to the systemic challenges that capitalism presents to the great mass of people.
In the conflict between exploiters (monopoly capital) and working people the lines are clearly drawn; this conflict demands resolution through systemic change ending exploitation and beginning to build toward a socialist society. | <urn:uuid:2901f862-ced2-4bf0-80c8-3d16144b7ab7> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://indianacp.blogspot.com/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280128.70/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00390-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.947167 | 241 | 2.109375 | 2 |
It is well known that smoking cigarettes harms nearly every organ in the body. Yet, over 16 million Americans are living with a smoking-related disease. In the U.S., over 480,000 deaths every year are linked to cigarette smoking, including about 42,000 deaths from exposure to secondhand smoke.
There are laws that ban smoking in public places. In 26 states and the District of Columbia, the implemented smoke-free law prohibits smoking at all work sites and indoor public facilities such as bars and restaurants.
That being said, researchers from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found that about half of teens in the U.S. who have never smoked tobacco, are at risk of secondhand smoke (including in the family home or in the car). The new study was published early online in the advanced February issue of the journal Pediatrics.
“These findings are concerning because the U.S. Surgeon General has concluded that there is no safe level of secondhand smoke exposure,” explained lead study author Israel Agaku, a researcher at the CDC.
For the study, the researchers examined data from 18,406 students from middle schools and high schools. For students from grades six to 12, 48% had reported secondhand smoke exposure in the 2013 National Youth Tobacco Survey within the past seven days before the study. Also, the students without smoke-free rules in the home or car reported nine times the secondhand smoke exposure when compared to teens with 100% smoke-free rules.
In the study, the CDC research team found that 15.5% of subjects were exposed to secondhand smoke in the home and 14.7% were exposed in a vehicle. In addition, the questionnaire revealed that 16.8% of the teens were exposed to secondhand smoke at school, 27.1% were exposed at work, and 35.2% were exposed in an outdoor or indoor public place.
The secondhand smoke exposure assessed was based on smoke-free protection policy laws, and the states with those policies had students with the least secondhand smoke exposure.
When it came to exposure to secondhand smoke in vehicles or at home, study author Brian King noted that individual families must take action to prevent the exposure. King is the deputy director for research translation at the CDC’s Office on Smoking and Health.
There are several diseases linked with secondhand smoke, including about 7,300 lung cancer deaths in the U.S. Evidence also links secondhand smoke to other cancers such as breast, stomach, rectum, bladder, brain, nasal sinuses, throat, and larynx. Secondhand smoke is also thought to increase heart disease by 25% to 30%. It may also lead to depression, poor immunity, ear infections, coughing, wheezing, shortness of breath, and lung infections like pneumonia and bronchitis.
In another study published in the journal Archives of Otolaryngology – Head & Neck Surgery in 2011, NYU School of Medicine researchers found that tobacco smoke exposure from secondhand smoke nearly doubles the hearing loss risk in adolescents.
In general, it is necessary to prevent the number of teenage smokers. The CDC has previously reported that about 23% of high school students use tobacco products with 90% of those smoking cigars, pipes, hookahs, or cigarettes. Nine out of 10 smokers will smoke their first cigarette by at least 18-years-old. Over 3,800 teens aged 18 years or younger will smoke their first cigarette every day in the U.S. Another 2,100 American youth will become addicted to smoking. | <urn:uuid:a6bb13d6-2c3e-4630-a23a-10c1e4a21fd2> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.doctorshealthpress.com/health-news/half-of-american-teens-exposed-to-secondhand-smoke-research-shows | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560285001.96/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095125-00310-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.969984 | 732 | 3.578125 | 4 |
Greenhouse open house and repotting clinic
Posted on February 18, 2013
Come browse through Wheaton's state-of-the-art greenhouse for an open house and repotting clinic. Walk from the rainforest to the desert and see what each climate has to offer and the plants that live there. See orchids in bloom, cotton on a cotton bush, succulents galore, and primitive Cycads.
Date: Wednesday, March 13, 2013
Time: 11:00 AM to 2:00 PM
Location: Mars Center for Science and Technology, 4th floor
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While the name might sound like the newest Olympic sport, parallax scrolling is actually a web feature that is all about giving the viewer a 3D experience on a 2D platform. Essentially, it’s a design element that places content in different layers. By moving the background and the foreground at different speeds, parallax scrolling creates the illusion of depth and movement as you scroll down or across the page.
Possibilities of Parallax:
If the ideal use for infinite scrolling is seamlessly displaying a high volume of content, then the ideal use for parallax scrolling is creating visually striking pages that draw the viewer in to explore more. This is why parallax is a particularly good design for landing pages or portfolio sites.
Parallax is also great for interactive elements, like allowing users to manipulate an image to get a 360 view of a product. As an animation technique, it can tell a compelling story that engages the viewer and encourages user participation.
Parallax scrolling is responsible for some of the most visually interesting and memorable sites on the web. The Seattle Space Needle website is a fantastic example of this. Visitors have the ability to scroll their way to the top of the Space Needle and check out the view.
Like any design element, parallax has a specific intended use that makes it a perfect fit for some websites, but less ideal for others. Some things to keep in mind are how parallax can affect loading speeds, SEO functionality, and mobile friendliness.
Slower Loading Speeds
For all of its charms, parallax is not the king of speed, and in a world of immediate gratification, most people do not like waiting. If a website is taking too long to load, many viewers won’t stick around. However, there are scenarios where the trade-off of slower load times is worth it for the impact of a particular parallax effect. If your reason for using it justifies the potential delay, then go for it. Just be sure you weigh the pros and cons before jumping in.
Another thing to bear in mind is how to keep your site SEO friendly. Web designers often build sites on an SEO architecture that uses separately indexed pages to achieve optimum searchability. Many parallax-based websites are single-page, which means all of the content exists on the same page. This can make it harder to fit these pages into a traditional SEO framework. There are ways to break up the content to allow for separate indexing, but it does require a non-traditional approach.
A final thing to consider is that parallax scrolling does not always work well on mobile devices. Since so many people access the web through their phones, it might be worthwhile to create a separate mobile version that doesn’t use parallax.
While parallax scrolling is not without its complications, it is one of the most visually appealing forms of web design. Done correctly and for the right reasons, it can elevate a standard website to something creative and unforgettable.
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The exclusive shape of this kibble helps reduce the rate of food intake as some labs tend to eat too quickly. This food is also made to curb a lab’s natural tendency to put on too much weight. It is also enriched with EPA and DHA that help to strengthen bones and joints.
- Dry food for dogs
- Suitable for adult Labrador retrievers over 15 months old
- Helps maintain ideal weight
- Special kibble shape, size and texture
- Maintains bone and joint health
- Controls the rate of food intake
- Protein content 30%
- Consult a vet before altering your pet’s diet
- Always have fresh water available for your pet
- Never feed above recommended quantities unless prescribed by a vet
Labrador Retrievers have a natural tendency to gain weight and they eat just about anything they find. Do not allow your pet to eat more than is suggested by your veterinarian.
Feeding requirements will vary based on your pet’s level of activity, environment and age.
Dehydrated poultry protein, rice, wheat, maize, maize gluten, vegetable protein isolate*, animal fats, hydrolysed animal proteins, vegetable fibres, beet pulp, yeasts and parts thereof, fish oil, soya oil, minerals, psyllium husks and seeds, fructo-oligo-saccharides, hydrolysed crustaceans (source of glucosamine), borage oil (0.1%), marigold extract (source of lutein), hydrolysed cartilage (source of chondroitin).
Additives (per kg):
Nutritional additives: Vitamin A: 27000 IU, Vitamin D3: 800 IU, E1 (Iron): 68 mg, E2 (Iodine): 3.9 mg, E4 (Copper): 4 mg, E5 (Manganese): 41 mg, E6 (Zinc): 135 mg, E8 (Selenium): 0.21 mg – Technological additives: Clinoptilolite of sedimentary origin: 10 g – Sensory additives:tea extract (source of polyphenols): 150 mg – Preservatives – Antioxidants.
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Inclusive Gifted Programs
By Steve Gill and Ushani Nanayakkara
Do you think a 7-year-old, who has lived in the U.S. for only one year and who is still learning English, could qualify for a district gifted or highly capable education program? What if the child wrote poetry in her new language?
The issue came to our attention when a neighbor, to support the parent’s effort, appealed our decision not to place this child in our district’s highly capable education program. How could someone learn a new language well enough in a year to write poetry, but not demonstrate the characteristics of a highly capable learner?
In the U.S., we have a long and well-documented history of underidentification of some minority students for our gifted programs. Research on this topic abounds, and grants are available to address the issue. Also well documented is the fact that we are not identifying our English language learners (ELLs) for these programs at a rate that is representative of the population.
Educational staff and districts have unwittingly developed systems in which some minority students are consistently overrepresented and others underrepresented in the gifted/highly capable populations. This institutional bias has existed for as long as statistics have been kept on this area.
All the studies we reviewed indicate that white students are roughly twice as likely, relative to their percentage of the population, to be identified as gifted students than are black or Hispanic students. Asian students are three times as likely to be identified. This is measured by comparing the percentage of students within a racial group within the district with the percentage of students of this group within the gifted/highly capable programs. These numbers should be the same, but they are not.
Without a systematic effort to address these problems, we will continue this institutional bias. However, one step in solving the problem is easy to achieve.
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Appium has quickly become one of the most prominent test automation framework for mobile app, game and web testing. As an open source test automation framework, it drives Android and iOS apps, regardless of native, hybrid or mobile web apps, using the WebDriver protocol.
As one of the most widely used frameworks in Testdroid Cloud and with many years of experiences of supporting it, we have decided to compose the very first Appium ebook and share it with all of you. This ebook gives you enough info and insights on how to implement Mobile DevOps approach and the outcomes you can get from the adoption.
For Appium beginners, we hope this ebook has shed some light on the basics of Appium, including the definition of Appium, the supported programming languages, etc. And for those who have been using Appium many years, the ebook has consolidated your understanding of this open source and provided more useful tips.
Enjoy the ebook and happy testing at Bitbar Testing!
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Название: The Inquisition: A History
Автор: Michael C. Thomsett
Количество страниц: 290
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Although the Catholic Church today tolerates beliefs and religious practices at odds with its own, for several centuries it enforced its doctrine with threats, excommunication, banishment, imprisonment, seizure of lands, torture, and death. This book explains the origins of the Roman Catholic Inquisition in the 13th century, the expansion of the movement, its campaign against Jews in Spain, its response to the Reformation, and its eventual relaxation as a brutal instrument of the Church against perceived heresy. | <urn:uuid:015d71a2-fe87-4c28-a01f-e470b2d5d67f> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://bukvy.net/books/guman_nauki/51198-The-Inquisition-A-History.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280128.70/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00386-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.900208 | 162 | 3.5 | 4 |
Children in Sport
I Hello, and welcome to today's 'You & Yours'. On today's program we look at children who are trying to be champions in the world of sport, and the pressures they can be under to win. Now I spoke to Allan Baker, the former British Athletics coach, and he had this to say.
AB Well the problem is that you want to find these children at quite a young age, to train them and motivate them as early as "possible. At that age they don't have social problems, you know they don't have boyfriends or girlfriends, so they give their sport the whole of their life. But they're so young that they can lose their childhood, and they're adults before they're 16. But of course they're not adults at all. Physically they can be quite developed, but emotionally they're still children. Everybody's looking for the new young star of the future, because there's a lot of money to be earned.
I Tennis is one of the sports where youngsters can play against their elders with more than a chance of success. In America there are tennis schools which accept children from as young as 9. …
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Distance from Latvia to Malta
Distance from Latvia to Malta is 2,451 kilometers. This air travel distance is equal to 1,523 miles.
The air travel (bird fly) shortest distance between Latvia and Malta is 2,451 km= 1,523 miles.
If you travel with an airplane (which has average speed of 560 miles) from Latvia to Malta, It takes 2.72 hours to arrive.
|GPS Coordinates (DMS)||56° 52´ 46.7040'' N |
24° 36´ 11.4840'' E
Latvia Distances to Countries
|Distance from Italy to Latvia||1,876 km|
|Distance from Latvia to Guadeloupe||8,267 km|
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Does our society hold too narrow a view of what defines strength?The things many would point to as indicators - youth, wealth, a fully capable body - fall short, says Charles Gourgey, a veteran hospice music therapist and author of "Judeochristianity" (judeochristianity.org), a book that explores the unifying faith elements of Judaism and Christianity. "Youth is ephemeral, abundant wealth is for just a few, and we all experience some kind of disability, usually at several points in our lives," he says. "A car accident, the loss of a job or a home, grief over a loved one's dying: such things can happen to anyone and easily destroy our happiness." Gourgey says some of the greatest strength he's ever seen was demonstrated by certain of his patients facing imminent death. "Some people have complete love and grace when facing death - it's how they've lived their lives, and at the end of their lives, it's what supports them," he says. "Those who, at the end, are peaceful, grateful and confident share some common characteristics." They are: * Their love is non-self-interested. When we have awareness of and deepest respect and reverence for the individuality of others, we overcome the high walls of ego and experience a tremendous sense of freedom, says Gourgey. He says he continues to be inspired by patients who cared more for the well-being of others, including their fellow hospice patients, than themselves while facing their own mortality. * They had an unwavering faith that transcended religious dogma. Faith is the knowledge that there is more to life than the apparent randomness of the material world; a sense that we are known to a greater reality and will return to that reality. No matter what their religion, the patients who were most at peace with their life's journey were those who had faith in something higher than themselves. * They were motivated by an innate sense of what is good. They didn't get mad at themselves; they didn't beat themselves up for mistakes they might have made in the past. That's because they were always guided by their sense of what is good, and they made their choices with that in mind. Many patients left lasting impressions on Gourgey, and taught him valuable life lessons. He remembers one in particular. "She was in hospice, a retired nurse who had developed a rare, incurable disease," he recalls. "She would go around every day, checking to see what she could do for the other patients. She fetched blankets for a 104-year-old lady who always complained of cold feet. She sat with and listened to patients who needed company and someone to talk to. She had an attentive awareness about her, like she was fully in touch with her soul." Gourgey was with the woman when she died. "She was radiant, she just glowed. She kept repeating how grateful she was for her life," he says. "It was as if the life of love she'd lived was there to transport and support her at the end."
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The 1990s and 2000s were glorious decades to be a psychiatrist. It seemed as though each year several new, potentially life-changing medications were brought to market. Options became available to tackle long-standing, treatment-resistant disorders. It did not hurt that big pharma had deep pockets to promote the new offerings. Stigmas were falling, more people were seeking help than ever before, and just about any psychiatrist could brag about patients who, with the right medication and a little time, returned looking more confident and reporting fewer symptoms.
Today the shine has dimmed. The mental health of the nation may have even declined in the past 20 years. This trend is what Thomas Insel, former director of the National Institute of Mental Health, calls one of the “inconvenient truths” of mental illness. Suicide rates per 100,000 people have increased to a 30-year high. Substance abuse, particularly of opiates, has become epidemic. Disability awards for mental disorders have dramatically increased since 1980, and the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs is struggling to keep up with the surge in post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).
The most discouraging assessment came in 2013 from an in-depth analysis by the U.S. Burden of Disease Collaborators. Hundreds of investigators gathered data on 291 diseases and injuries between 1990 and 2010. Combining premature death and disability to calculate the burden of each disease, they found that the toll of mental disorders had grown in the past two decades, even as other serious conditions became more manageable.
More people are getting treatment and taking medications today than ever before, so what is going on? I would argue that a lack of precision and objectivity in diagnosing and treating mental illness has stalled our progress. We must embrace new strategies in research and prevention to move forward.
The Inconvenient Truth
The American Psychiatric Association, the American Psychological Association and big pharma explain the deterioration of mental health nationally by proposing that not enough people are getting treatment. But this suggestion seems a bit self-serving.
Another explanation points to the vague nature of psychiatric diagnoses. Social Security awards for disability have exploded in two areas: musculoskeletal and mental disorders, both of which are often diagnosed on the basis of a patient's subjective reports rather than hard measures such as scans or blood tests. Furthermore, both seem to expand and contract with the economy. Thus, changes in the prevalence of mental disorders may not necessarily reflect changes in the biology of mental illness.
It is also possible that we are hampered by not having new treatments for patients seeking help. As it turns out, drugs developed in the past 20 years perform like older medications. Abilify is no more effective for treating schizophrenia than the very first antipsychotic, Thorazine. New antidepressants lift mood no better than the tricyclic antidepressants discovered in the 1950s. Lithium, first used in 1949, remains the gold standard for bipolar disorder. Adderall provides no further advantages for attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder than the Benzedrine first administered for it in 1937.
There are exceptions—we appear to be better at treating the depressive phase of bipolar disorder, and Clozaril is a more effective treatment for schizophrenia than its predecessors—but much of what seemed so revolutionary 20 years ago was more illusion than substance. The new medications tap into the same brain mechanisms as the old ones, albeit with fewer side effects. Finding novel treatments for mental illness has become so discouraging that several pharmaceutical companies have shut down or reduced neuroscience research.
The problem is that the brain is exceedingly complex. Behavior, emotions and cognition are manifestations of networks of cells that are turned on or off at the right time. The capacity to affect specific cells in the brain without altering other cells remains a massive challenge.
Finding New Solutions
Australia is experiencing the same problem as the U.S.: more people have access to treatment than ever before, but national mental health has not improved. In a 2014 discussion of the dilemma, psychiatric researcher Anthony F. Jorm of the University of Melbourne argued that prevention could be the best response, citing numerous studies of preventive interventions. For example a 2011 Cochrane review—a top-quality, multistudy analysis—revealed that teaching cognitive-behavioral therapy skills in the classroom can help reduce the incidence of depression among students.
Taking prevention one step further, Insel has advocated for research initiatives to discover biomarkers for mental illness. Laboratory tests or genetic markers that can identify at-risk individuals might allow us to intervene early, before symptoms begin.
In addition, it is paramount that we discover new mechanisms to treat mental illness. This progress will not come quickly—the brain does not give up its secrets easily. But there is one unique, promising treatment that is struggling to get approval: psychedelic-assisted psychotherapy. Preliminary evidence suggests that drugs such as LSD and psilocybin could be used episodically, together with psychotherapy, to enhance the healing process.
The best evidence so far is with MDMA, also known as ecstasy, for people with PTSD. In a 2016 review, Michael C. Mithoefer, a Medical University of South Carolina psychiatrist, and his colleagues identified encouraging results from two phase II clinical trials in which people who received therapy supplemented with MDMA at just two or three sessions had fewer symptoms than those given therapy and a placebo.
Unfortunately, the Drug Enforcement Administration classifies psychedelics as drugs with “no currently accepted medical use and a high potential for abuse,” which makes them hard for scientists to access. Big pharma has little interest in studying these molecules because most cannot be patented, and the government is not currently funding such research.
None of this is to say that mental health workers and their patients should stop what they are doing. We all have success stories to tell. As psychiatrist Peter D. Kramer points out in his new book Ordinarily Well (Farrar, Straus and Giroux), the advent of today's antidepressants has largely eliminated the immobilizing melancholy that was once all too common. Based on my own clinical experience, mental health treatment does improve symptoms and quality of life by about 20 to 40 percent for most patients. That's a whole lot better than nothing but not nearly good enough. | <urn:uuid:386126f0-69de-4d7f-8fb9-c0f3778c3a20> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/is-mental-health-declining-in-the-u-s/?error=cookies_not_supported&code=27aced2e-740c-4360-90af-995e2c239d8a | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571210.98/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810191850-20220810221850-00471.warc.gz | en | 0.959267 | 1,278 | 2.515625 | 3 |
Immigrants Help Communities Battle Recession
January 17, 2002
Some observers perceive a strong antidote to recession in areas throughout the country dominated by immigrants. The newcomers not only have a strong entrepreneurial streak and act as a counter-cyclical economic force by establishing businesses, but also their numbers stimulate demand.
- Latinos, Middle Easterners and Asians, in particular, have had a salutary impact in parts of Houston, Los Angeles and Manhattan.
- With their numbers expanding at a rate far faster than native-born Americans, immigrant-dominated groups provide a consumer market that -- according to a recent University of Georgia study -- expanded nearly twice as fast in the 1990s as the general population.
- One Houston developer, himself an immigrant, estimates that roughly 60 percent of the businesses in his more than 30 suburban properties are occupied by immigrants.
- Much of the eastern and southern reaches of the Los Angeles basin are dotted with shopping centers and factories operated by, and often owned by, foreign-born entrepreneurs -- particularly Latinos.
Significantly, both Houston and Los Angeles suffered grievously in the recession of a little more than a decade ago as Anglo homeowners and businesses folded or moved.
As Manhattan struggles with the aftermath of Sept. 11 and vacancies rise, immigrant neighborhoods like Flushing in Queens -- where an estimated 70,000 largely Asian immigrants have migrated since the early 1980s, continue to see increases in both occupancy and rents.
Source: Joel Kotkin (Pepperdine University), "Immigrants Cushion the Economic Fall," Wall Street Journal, January 17, 2002.
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There is no such thing as a disguising the truth that the US has now suffered two successive quarters of declining output, outlined as a technical recession. At such moments, the aphorism ‘when America sneezes, the world catches a chilly’ involves thoughts.
The annualised fall in output within the second quarter, approaching prime of the drop of 1.6 per cent within the first three months of the 12 months, got here as a shock with economists predicting an upturn.
The idea is that the Fed chairman Jay Powell has some sight of the numbers earlier than elevating rates of interest by 0.75 of a proportion level on Wednesday.
Taking a tumble: Within the US, refinancing of mortgages is a nationwide passion, so greater residence mortgage charges rapidly feed into behaviour
If that’s the case, there should be huge concern that inflation, working at a 9.1 per cent clip, is embedded deeply and it’s too quickly to ease the brakes.
President Biden’s issues are these of Britain too. The US is Britain’s largest single buying and selling companion. We run a surplus in our commerce with the US and additionally it is the most important inward investor within the UK. Prefer it or not, a number of of the present raids on aerospace industries, together with the bids for Inmarsat and Meggitt, are from US consumers.
As worrying is the political fallout from an sudden American downturn this week, with Donald Trump in Washington teasing his supporters a couple of contemporary run for the White Home.
The sources of the US financial weak spot might present clues to what is going to occur right here. An enormous contributor to the slowdown was a buckling housing market, beneath stress from rising mortgage charges. Client spending is hurting from the price of dwelling.
If there’s a puzzle, it’s one shared with the UK.
How is it potential that America is in recession when the roles market is so buoyant, with 456,700 a month becoming a member of the workforce within the first half of the 12 months, resulting in sturdy wage beneficial properties and spending energy? One posible rationalization is that the work-shy labour power of Covid-19 is lastly returning to the land of the dwelling.
Britain’s booming residential market has proven little signal of being cooled by greater rates of interest. That could be right down to the preponderance of fixed-rate loans. Within the US, refinancing of mortgages is a nationwide passion, so greater residence mortgage charges rapidly feed into behaviour.
Earlier this week, the Worldwide Financial Fund slashed its forecasts for world output, citing Ukraine and China. These projections are already trying dated.
US inflation and recession shouldn’t be to this point having a lot influence on demand for Johnnie Walker scotch or Casamigos tequila.
Amid the gloom, American households are nonetheless coming out to the liquor retailer 5 or 6 instances a 12 months, tempted by Diageo’s prime manufacturers. When chief govt Ivan Menezes splashed £1billion or so on Casamigos again in 2017, he encountered criticism.
Within the 2022 monetary 12 months, Casamigos gross sales sprinted 89 per cent, contributing to internet gross sales development of 14 per cent. Urge for food for the group’s most well-known model, Johnnie Walker, is undiminished with premium Blue Label, promoting for about £200 a bottle, displaying a 60 per cent improve.
Diageo has change into a money machine with working earnings of £4.4billion final 12 months up 18.2 per cent. It, like different world corporations, faces greater enter prices. Margins slipped barely with the corporate absorbing a few of the value quite than elevating costs on a portfolio of very premium merchandise.
Advertising and marketing spend continues to rise and this 12 months Diageo is doubling its capital spend on distilleries and breweries to some £1billion. There’s nonetheless loads of money within the kitty to boost the dividend by 5 per cent and snap up manufacturers as the style for brand new wave spirits gathers momentum.
As for Menezes, after 9 years within the job he has strengthened the chief crew by selling former US boss Debra Crew to chief working officer to push effectivity.
However he’s displaying no indicators of placing away his snifter simply but.
Funding banking is each the advantage of Barclays and its downfall.
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535,000 in Ghana (2013 UNSD), increasing. 350,000 Agole, 70,000 Toende (2004 SIL). Total users in all countries: 549,000.
Upper East region: Bawku district. Northeast corner.
Toende (Western Kusaal), Agole (Angole, Eastern Kusaal). Further investigation of the Toende dialect in Burkina Faso is needed. Possible marginal intelligibility with Eastern (Angole) Kusaal. Many claim to be able to understand the related languages: Mòoré [mos], Dagbani [dag], Mampruli [maw], and Farefare [gur]. Kusaal is a member of the Mòoré-Dagbani subgroup.
Vigorous. All domains. All ages. Also use Hausa [hau].
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1. The University of Washington seeks to create a community of students richly diverse in cultural backgrounds, experiences, and viewpoints. How would you contribute to this community?-University of Washington, Seattle I, a culturally influenced young woman, have not only one, but two influential ways to contribute to your diverse university.
As a Jewish Caucasian girl, I am here to throw stereotypical beliefs down the drain towards any culture. I am a blonde, blue eyed, 18 year old who not only grew up orthodox, but also has a half Christian family. I do not have a dozen brothers and sisters, an abnormally large nose, or for that matter, any money to spare whatsoever. I grew up with married parents, and when divorced, lived with my father. Our family was never “well off” or capable of buying anything and everything. I spent the majority of my life in an apartment living with a single parent. As for all that money society said we had; let’s just say there were times we were lucky to have money for groceries that week. People expect snotty Asians, Muslims with terrorist intent, uneducated Latinos, and gang associated African Americans. It isn’t easy to read that much less write it. Unfortunately, we know that much of the world is still like this. But I’m writing this to tell you I am not the world. I come from a culturally diverse family whom in the past, have even been at war.
There is my mother’s side, where missing Sunday church was not an option; and my father’s side, the conservative yet non-orthodox classic Jewish background. Although my mother converted to Orthodox Judaism before my time, her family remained faithful Christians unable to understand her withdraw. I grew up an orthodox Jew, covered from head to toe, eating only what the Old Testament allowed me to. Growing with age, I grew out of my orthodox upbringing, realizing that my draw towards Judaism didn’t come from praying and unreasonable rules, but the Jewish traditions and values I grew up with. While I celebrate Hanukah with my father’s family, I equally enjoy Christmas time with my mother’s family. I get to learn both stories, both views, and the different values contributing to both religions. And during
these annual holidays of rejoice and tradition, I have gained a respect for both. Because of my background, familial influences, and how I chose to embrace my religion, I am capable of respecting others with different views, and even learning from them. When one person is capable of this, I believe it is contagious to other people from different backgrounds. Thus, gaining more worldwide respect, more acceptance, and more closure from taking in various values that many religions, or different views, have to offer.
Because of my culturally influenced upbringing, the opportunity to choose my stance on religion, and my non stereotypical Jewish background, I can contribute to every community. I have respect for other people’s views, encouraging them to have respect for mine and others. I don’t stereotype people based on their culture because I know first-hand this isn’t always the case. I can be a contagious positive attribute to your community. | <urn:uuid:61209276-76e6-430f-963d-ca9ba204435c> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | http://studymoose.com/cultural-diversity-college-essay-essay | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988719547.73/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183839-00395-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.961898 | 660 | 1.757813 | 2 |
What does an ESL Teacher do?
English as a second language (ESL) teachers give English language lessons to non-native speakers, often working in schools and other educational settings and teaching skills to children or adults. They prepare course materials and design lessons that cover all aspects of the English language, both written and verbal, and keep track of all student progress. They customize individualized plans for students with special requirements and create a positive classroom environment while encouraging them to reach their learning goals.
ESL teachers organize coursework and learning materials, assess student progress, write reports, and follow relevant teaching policies. They work with their students to improve their vocabulary, reading, comprehension, and writing and build their confidence in navigating the language. They also foster spontaneous and intentional conversations with students to help them understand conversational speech. ESL teachers need a bachelor's degree in teaching English as a second language or certification.
- Maintain a positive, accepting attitude in working with students.
- Ensure safety and security requirements are met in the classroom.
- Administer the classroom to create an environment conducive to learning.
- Participate in special activities and programs provided for students and parents.
- Keep accurate records of student information: compile, maintain, and file all reports, records, and other required documents.
- Cooperate with school personnel in providing for student welfare.
- Work with teams to benefit from evaluation by using strengths and improving areas of needs.
- Assist in making arrangements for speakers to come into the classroom.
- Maintain knowledge of current trends and developments in the field by attending staff development training, workshops, seminars and conferences.
- Develop and implement lesson plans that fulfill requirements of the curriculum program and show written evidence of preparation as required.
- Continually evaluate and record various aspects of students' progress and report as needed and required.
- Participate cooperatively to develop the system by which evaluations are in conformance with uniform guidelines for evaluation and assessment.
- Make teaching materials available as needed.
- Assist students during learning and planned activity time as new materials are introduced.
- Assist in supervising field trips, walking tours and bus trips.
- Bachelor's or Graduate's Degree in teaching english as a second language and teaching experience.
- Demonstrated multilingual and bicultural skills.
- Able to take on the workload with professionalism and a sense of humor.
- Will lead classes with an eye on problem analysis and solving.
- Demonstrated critical thinking and computing skills.
- Is confident and has a sound work ethic.
ESL Teacher Salaries
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ESL Teacher Career Path
Learn how to become an ESL Teacher, what skills and education you need to succeed, and what level of pay to expect at each step on your career path.
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ESL Teacher Insights
“Overall this is a great place to work and I look forward to my future teaching at VIPKID!”
“I was provided with teaching hours during coronavirus lockdown and my salary payments remained unchanged.”
“The pay isn't great for how hard you have to work and there is little room for raises.”
“Great pay for part time and I get to stay home which is a raise in and of itself.”
“Their tools are great and I can say it's a good training background for you in the world of online teaching.”
“Contract employee means no benefits and you have to make sure to pay your quarterly estimated taxes.”
“Maybe the pay is good for me (I think it depends on your interview)”
“I think the pay is great for what I do! (Especially since I get to teach in sweatpants)”
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With more than 2.5 million followers between @BarackObama and @WhiteHouse, Twitter is a big part of the Obama administration’s social media presence. So, it would be rather ironic if the microblogging service was blocked from White House computers. But, that’s exactly what Press Secretary Robert Gibbs said in an interview today with CSPAN.
Specifically, Gibbs said that “for some reason Twitter is blocked on White House computers … I’m on camera enough that people have a decent sense of what I’m doing minus Twittering.” Why the block? Gibbs didn’t say, but the answer would appear to be security, as a similar question was posed to an aide last month after a press briefing.
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Two foreign universities made the top-ten list: India's University of Mumbai was ranked ninth with 12 billionaire alumni, beating the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and the London School of Economic and Political Science took the tenth spot. Oxford and Cambridge, two of the U.K.'s most noted institutions, were not featured on the list.
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The Lomonosov Moscow State University in Russia and Switzerland's ETH Zurich were the only other non-American schools on the list.
According to the study, more than a quarter of the billionaires who obtained their degrees in American universities on the list were born outside of the United States.
Wealth-X and UBS note that higher education is not a prerequisite to achieving billionaire status with over 30 percent of global billionaires missing a tertiary-level degree, including famed university dropouts Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates and Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg.
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As a term, human resources mean the people that work for a company. In other words, human resources are employees. Human resource is the department responsible for a plethora of duties that involve a company’s human resources.
What is the Human Resources Department?
The human resources department of a company is an essential part of a business organization. They are responsible for several duties and responsibilities, with the primary goal of making sure all employees have what they need to fulfill their jobs successfully. This can include compensation, promotions, and addressing employee relations and issues.
The first person to coin the term “human resources” was John R. Commons, an American institution economist. He mentioned the term in his book, “The Distribution of Wealth,” published in 1893. However, it wasn’t until the 19th century that human resource departments were formerly developed and integrated into organizations to address misunderstandings between employees and employers.
The 6 Key Functions of a Human Resource Department
There are many different functions of a human resource department. No matter how small or big a company is, a human resource department is essential in making sure employees are well-taken care of.
These 6 Key Functions are:
- Oversee compensation and benefits
- Recruit employees
- Manage employee performance
- Ensure a working and harmonious company culture
- Promote training and development
- Protects the rights, safety, and labor regulations of employees
By ensuring that these critical functions are in place, human resource departments guarantee a high-functioning and effective workforce. With this, the company can reach its goals and objectives, no matter what they may be.
The department may be one whole organization within the company or separated in terms of their functions. Let’s discuss each one:
Overseeing Compensation and Benefits
The HR (human resource) department makes sure all the employees are paid on time, correctly, and that benefits are provided for. This could take the form of medical insurance, social security payments, paid leaves, and other essential benefits.
When a company needs to hire a new employee or a position is open, the HR department is responsible for finding the right person for the position. They can advertise for the job opening, conduct interviews, testing, and make sure the right candidate is hired for the job. The department is also responsible for drafting contracts, initial training, and ensuring all the necessary paperwork and documentation are fulfilled.
Manage Employee Performance
The HR department is also responsible for making sure employees are doing their job. They are also entrusted with picking out the employees that deserve a promotion.
Ensure a Working and Harmonious Company Culture
The HR department makes sure they can help manage conflicts between employees, and employees and employers. They also conduct workshops to promote company culture, such as organizing teambuilding activities and recreational activities that encourage company spirit and cooperation.
Promote Training and Development
They seek to enhance their employees’ capacity and skills by offering free workshops, training, and further education for their current employees. This can include giving scholarships for graduate studies, sending employees to national or international conferences, and making sure the employees can be optimally productive in the workforce.
Protects the Rights, Safety, and Labor Regulations of Employees
The HR department is also responsible for making sure employees are safe and protected within the company. They handle sexual harassment complaints, workplace issues that affect an employee’s productivity and make sure the company adheres to labor practice regulations.
In general, human resources is used to call a company’s employees. In an organization, the human resource department is a section of a company that manages the company’s human resources needs.
The HR department has a multitude of specific functions, ranging from recruitment to compensation to making sure the company culture is upheld at all times. The HR department’s primary goal is to ensure all employees are happy and safe within the company so they can contribute to the organization’s overall success. | <urn:uuid:5fdf79e0-42ed-4f92-90e5-55c79279b7a7> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://teamctf.com/what-does-human-resources-mean/1782/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571692.3/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812105810-20220812135810-00076.warc.gz | en | 0.96248 | 820 | 3.046875 | 3 |
Research of Strong-Column-Weak-Beam Criteria of Reinforced Concrete Frames Subjected to Biaxial Seismic Excitation
In several earthquakes, numerous reinforced concrete (RC) frames subjected to seismic excitation demonstrated a collapse pattern characterized by column hinges, though designed according to the Strong-Column-Weak-Beam (S-C-W-B) criteria. The effect of biaxial seismic excitation on the disparity between design and actual performance is carefully investigated in this article. First, a modified load contour method is proposed to derive a closed-form equation of biaxial bending moment strength, which is verified by numerical and experimental tests. Afterwards, a group of time history analyses of a simple frame modeled by fiber beam-column elements subjected to biaxial seismic excitation are conducted to verify that the current S-C-W-B criteria are not adequate to prevent the occurrence of column hinges. A biaxial over-strength factor is developed based on the proposed equation, and the reinforcement of columns is appropriately amplified with this factor to prevent the occurrence of column hinges under biaxial excitation, which is proved to be effective by another group of time history analyses.Procedia APA BibTeX Chicago EndNote Harvard JSON MLA RIS XML ISO 690 PDF Downloads 347
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TODAY’S SIGNATURE VERSE ••• He answered and said, “But I see four men unbound, walking in the midst of the fire, and they are not hurt; and the appearance of the fourth is like a son of the gods.” (Daniel 3:25 ESV)
PRAISE & PRAYER PROMPT ••• In our worries over Coronavirus, riots, unemployment, and the economy, we tend to forget that there are other problems going on. Cancer treatments are still taking place. Hunger is very real. And for many, the fear of domestic violence has been magnified by the stay-at-home orders. With so much emphasis on these other issues that are detracting from other real issues, people may feel they are in their own personal nightmares without support.
Today, let’s talk about Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego who were thrown bound into a fiery furnace for their refusal to bow down to King Nebuchadnezzar. When confronted, they told the king, “If this be so, our God whom we serve is able to deliver us from the burning fiery furnace, and he will deliver us out of your hand, O king” (Daniel 3:17). Their faith was beyond all common sense! We all know fire burns, yet their faith was so rock solid, it overshadowed everything else. And we talk about the power of a mustard seed… I want the face-the-fire kind of faith of these guys! As we see in verse 18, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego were willing to die in the fiery furnace even if God didn’t choose to rescue them.
You can read the whole story in Daniel 3. But let’s concentrate on verses 24-25. These verses say, “Then King Nebuchadnezzar was astonished and rose up in haste. He declared to his counselors, ‘Did we not cast three men bound into the fire?’ They answered and said to the king, ‘True, O king.’ He answered and said, ‘But I see four men unbound, walking in the midst of the fire, and they are not hurt; and the appearance of the fourth is like a son of the gods.’”
Who was the fourth person in the fire? Growing up, I remember hearing this story and being told there was an angel in the fire. But the phrase is “like a son of the gods.” Well, we know there is only one God and He has a Son. My commentary believes that Jesus, the Son of God was in the fire—not an angel. And I’m inclined to agree. The wording is too specific.
And in my copy of the Believer’s Bible Commentary 2nd Edition, it beautifully wraps up the commentary on this verse saying, “The Lord either saves us out of troubles or He is with us in the troubles.”
Whatever you’re facing, hold onto your faith. Look at the consistency of God throughout the Bible. All who have leaned on Him, He has taken care of… from our Old Testament heroes whom He delivered from the fiery furnace… and even when Stephen was the first Christian martyred—he saw the heavens open and Jesus standing at the right hand of God (Acts 7:56). Whatever you’re facing—Jesus has promised to be with you (Matthew 28:20). He will walk with you through the valleys and even in a fiery furnace if that’s what it takes. But those who have chosen to follow Him never need to fear anything they face. Jesus is there.
Today, as you pray, thank Jesus for His promise to never leave you. Ask the Holy Spirit to encourage you and strengthen your faith this week in whatever fiery furnace your face.
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The prison camp is a microcosm of a society, and it has institutions which facilitate and constrain the economic activities. The dynamics of the environment and the utility maximizing behavior of the individuals create supply/demand fluctuations. There are behaviors and events, which result in the change in the endogenous variable (price) and cause a shift along the supply/demand curves. Furthermore, there are behaviors and events which affect the exogenous variables, which led to similar market shifts. Listed below are a few examples of the events and behaviors that illustrate this point.
Influx of new prisoners: This phenomenon lead to a significant shift in the supply/demand curve because the prisoners arriving tended to be extremely hungry, and there was already a limited supply, barely enough to meet the sudden spike in demand.
Good/bad news: Macro-level war news changed people's behaviors and consumption patterns. For instance upon receiving good news about the war the prisoners used to discount the need to ration their reserves and engage in consumption pattern which depleted the supplies.
This behavior led to significant increase in the demand in the next period.
Seasonality: Seasonal changes resulted in a shift in the supply/demand curves. For example, during winter the demand for coca went up and the demand for its substitution product went down.
Invention: This leads to disruptive change and shifts the supply/demand curve. For example, in the prison, the discovery that raisins and sugar could be turned into alcohol led to significant change in the perceived value and the corresponding demand and supply for raisins.
Substitution effect: When the price of a product goes up, it shifts the demand for its substitute product. For example, in the prison as price of German Margarine increased, demand for Canadian Butter increased.
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Carriere family promotes fire safety after their home burns down
Published 7:00 am Thursday, February 11, 2021
One Carriere couple’s family fire drills kept their four children safe when their home burned down last week.
On Tuesday, Feb. 2, Stephen Vargo only stepped away from the from the food he was preparing in the kitchen for a moment, but it was long enough for a grease fire to start.
It only took two minutes for the family’s home on Rock Ranch Road to catch fire, said Laken Vargo. The two-story home burned completely over the next three hours.
The couple has four children, two 4-year-olds, a 6-year-old and an 11-year-old. All four were home at the time of the fire, but thanks to regular family fire drills, they knew where to go and how to escape safely, said Laken Vargo.
The children followed the family evacuation plan and quickly gathered at the mailbox in the front yard, as far away from the home as possible without being in the road.
“There’s no telling what could have happened if we didn’t practice the fire drills,” said Laken.
The family practices fire drills and changes the batteries in their smoke detectors twice a year with the time change.
“As a parent, it makes you proud that the one time it comes down to doing everything you taught them and showed them that they actually did it to a ‘T’,” said Stephen.
The family’s bull terrier ran back into the home, and although the children wanted to go in after her, the fire drills helped prepare them to be patient and wait for her to come back out. Fortunately their patience was rewarded, because the family dog came back out of the house and was also safe from the fire.
When the fire happened, Laken Vargo took her children to the neighbor’s yard and asked them to take each other’s hands while she prayed.
“When we all said ‘Amen’ together after that, that’s the biggest blessing as a parent, to hear your children say Amen and to know that they are strong and they are going to be okay because we have each other and they have a strong foundation.”
The Vargos want to encourage other families to practice family fire drills this week. They are asking the community to practice their own fire drills, and then turn on their porch lights between 5 and 7 p.m. Tuesday in a show of solidarity.
“You can either be bitter or you can be better and what we’re taking out of this is get the community involved,” said Laken Vargo.
A working smoke alarm is crucial to fire safety in residential homes, said County Fire Marshall Jonathan Head. With the types of materials used to build contemporary homes, a fire can go from small to engulfing a room rapidly, he said.
“We have that smoke detector to let us know when something’s starting to catch fire. It gives us that extra time, especially when you have people who are elderly or disabled, to get out.”
A fire safety plan is also important, especially for small children who need to know what to do, where to go and how to call for help, said Head.
“Always have a plan. We have fire drills for school, but we need fire drills for homes, especially ones for small children, so that they know what to do, they know how to get out, to leave everything behind, to have two ways out of the house and to have a plan as to where they’re going to go and meet up,” said Head.
For larger homes or homes with disabled family members, residential sprinkler systems help keep fires small, so that people have more time to escape the fire.
There was another residential fire in the county last week on Thursday, Feb. 4 in a mobile home on Villa Lane. No one was injured in that fire either. The cause is still under investigation, said Head.
Pearl River County works with the American Red Cross and the state Fire Marshal’s Office to offer free smoke alarms that can be installed at no charge in homes. For more information on free smoke alarms contact the county EOC at 601-795-3058. The National Fire Protection Association website, nfpa.org, has more tips on fire safety. | <urn:uuid:8b7dc9e4-6a06-4d20-8da6-241adb18d171> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.picayuneitem.com/2021/02/carriere-family-promotes-fire-safety-after-their-home-burns-down/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572043.2/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814143522-20220814173522-00476.warc.gz | en | 0.973352 | 936 | 1.945313 | 2 |
H.S Hundley cutting meat in the original locker plant
The ranch where we get our cattle from.
ELP's store front today.
In 1944, Harold S. Hundley and his wife, Celeste, started the Elizabeth Locker Plant with the idea of processing farm-killed animals and providing cold storage for the public. Harold soon realized the community needed much more. In 1947, with some local help, he built a slaughter floor and started harvesting animals to provide meat for the public. During this period, under state inspection, they also accomplished custom processing for local ranchers and processing wild game in addition to operating the retail store.
In 1952, he built a smoke house, thus significantly increasing the variety of products he could offer. Along with harvesting and processing, they sold ice and coal as well as being the town’s hardware store. After doing business for several years, they realized that it was time to build a bigger building with more cooler/freezer space and additional room for retail.
In 1971, they built the building which we know and love today as the Elizabeth Locker Plant, in the heart of Elizabeth, Colorado. Soon after moving to the new building they became federally inspected. Harold’s son Michael helped his dad through this all.
In the late 1970’s early 1980’s as well as running as a custom processing facility, the plant functioned as a cow and bull slaughter operation, supplying Denver Boneless with meat. Michael and his staff ran that operation. They were slaughtering and processing every day, so it kept Michael and his crew extremely busy. They ran the business like this for several years until they realized that there was no longer that particular need, so they went back to focusing on custom processing and the retail store while only slaughtering a couple days a week.
Michael and Harold not only managed their business but also were a huge part in developing the community around them. They played an invaluable role in starting the fire department, the chamber of commerce, and the cemetery. They were always available to offer a helping hand and do what they could to support other businesses.
Keeping with the family tradition, Elizabeth Locker Plant today is owned and operated by Michael and his two sons, Justin and Brian. They recently updated the smoke house with a bigger smoker allowing them to make their own sausages and other smoked products. Currently, we are still doing custom processing but are enjoying making new sausages and snack sticks while trying to fill our retail store with a variety of different products.
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2019 Reserve Grand Champion Luncheon Meat
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Wednesday, February 24, 2010
Posted by Roshan Gupta at 2:07 AM
Biology reveals to us the secretes of life uncovered by biologist through centuries of researches.
Biology is of great importance to mankind in a practical sense.
Young biologists to choose their field of specialization is called scope of Biology. The scopes are:-
The science of man and mankind including the study of the physical and mental constitution of man.
It also deals cultural development, social condition, as exhibited by both in present and past.
Branch of engineering dealing with the production of spare parts for man.
Artificial limbs, heart, lungs and other machines to help impaired body funtions are the product of Bio medical engineering used by the doctors.
It deals with the use of living organisms or of substances obtained from them in industrial process.
The science of processing and preservation of healthy foods.
The application of science for the manufacture of milk products is called Dairy technology.
Culture: the rearing of honey bees, bee keeping especially for commercial purposes.
Fishery or Pisiculture : The industry of rearing and catching fishes or other products of the sea, lakes, rivers or ponds.
Sericulture : the breeding and treatment of silkworms for producing raw silk.
Entomology deals with the structure, habits, and classification of insects.
It involves genetic manipulation to produce an organism with a new combination to improve the heredity.
The production of improved varities by selecting mating is called breeding.
Application of scientific knowledge to question civil and criminal laws is called forensic science.
It deals with the study of domesticated animals and their health care.
Science dealing with the rearing of domestic fowls such as chickens, ducks and geese are called poultry science.
The science of treating diseases with drugs or curative substances.
The science dealing with structure, function and use of microscopic organisms is called microbiology.
The science dealing with the nature of diseases their causes, symptoms and effects is called pathology.
The branch of medicine, involving physical operations to cure diseases or injuries to the body is called Surgery.
The science of knowledge of drugs and preparation of medicine is called pharmacology.
A method of treatment of convalescents and for physically handicapped utilizing light work for diversion, physical exercise or vocational training is called occupational therapy.
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"Health care is hard," may be the Obama Administration's catchphrase of the moment, but it's a cakewalk compared with the challenge facing Obama on Iran. Under pressure to turn up the heat on the Iranians from European allies, Israel and bipartisan consensus on Capitol Hill Obama had demanded that the Islamic Republic respond by September to a Western offer to resume negotiations or else face escalating sanctions.
Tehran's response came this week, in the form of a package of proposed subjects for talks that included nonproliferation of nuclear weapons but omitted any mention of Iran's uranium-enrichment efforts, which have been the focus of Western anxiety. It's hardly the response Obama hoped for, but the U.S. and its five partners in the P5+1 negotiating group (France, Germany, Britain, Russia and China) went ahead and asked for a meeting with Tehran anyway if for no other reason than to "test the proposition" that Iran is ready for dialogue, as State Department spokesman P.J. Crowley put it.
The reality, of course, is that even if Iran is ready to engage in a serious negotiating process, its ideas on everything from the agenda and time frame to the outline of an acceptable compromise will be markedly different from those of the U.S. and its allies. And this week's statements from Russia and China opposing any new sanctions highlight the international differences of opinion on Iran that will only make things harder. Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin drove home that point in comments reported Friday, stressing that Moscow had no reason to doubt the peaceful intent of Iran's nuclear program.
The U.S. and its allies are not saying Iran is currently developing nuclear weapons; they're warning that allowing Iran to assemble the full nuclear-fuel cycle to which it is entitled as a signatory of the Non-Proliferation Treaty particularly uranium enrichment gives it an infrastructure that could quickly be converted to produce bomb matériel. Stating Washington's case at the International Atomic Energy Agency in Vienna this week, Ambassador Glyn Davies warned that Iran had already created enough low-enriched uranium that, if it kicked out nuclear inspectors and reconfigured its enrichment plant, could be re-enriched to provide matériel for a single bomb. "We have serious concerns that Iran is deliberately attempting, at a minimum, to preserve a nuclear option," Davies said.
Moscow sees the problem in terms of strengthening the safeguards against Iran weaponizing nuclear materials, rather than trying to prevent it from attaining "breakout" capacity by denying its right to enrich uranium.
President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad reiterated this week that Iran has no intention of ending uranium enrichment or of negotiating away its nuclear rights. That doesn't necessarily preclude a diplomatic solution to the standoff, but it underscores the likelihood that the Western powers might have to compromise on their own demands in order to achieve one. In some previous rounds of negotiation, Iran has been more open to discussing strengthening the IAEA monitoring regime and other safeguards against weaponization. Right now, however, it's far from clear that Iran is in an accommodating mood, given its fierce and ongoing domestic power struggle.
Ultimately, the fate of diplomacy rests on three factors: Iran's willingness to compromise; the West's willingness to compromise; and perhaps most important, the time frame allowed for negotiations. President Obama is under considerable pressure to show that engagement with Iran produces results but there may not be any by this fall, the unofficial deadline set by the Administration. If that prompts Obama to seek further sanctions via the U.N. or impose them unilaterally, however, the resulting divide between the West and Russia and China will work to Iran's advantage. New sanctions would also end immediate prospects for a diplomatic solution, because Iran has long declared that it won't negotiate in response to ultimatums. And a continuing stalemate would leave Obama facing either the possibility of an Israeli air strike on Iran's nuclear facilities or being forced into escalating U.S. pressure until Tehran cries uncle. Both options could greatly destabilize the Middle East.
At least on health care, Obama can claim victory with incremental change. On Iran, there is no incremental option: unless Tehran is ready to back down which appears highly unlikely the President will be pressed to raise the stakes. And then the game gets truly dangerous. | <urn:uuid:ad03480c-51e6-4762-9b0d-002bc81772b8> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://content.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1922092,00.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280835.22/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00048-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.957986 | 871 | 1.570313 | 2 |
Development of a structural Health Monitoring System (SHM) for Sports Equipment
Nowadays monitoring systems are used in a wide range of applications and different information can be derived, depending on the signal processing. An example is given by the classical fatigue analysis for permanently excited structures (condition monitoring) or static structures (structural health monitoring). Especially in sports, such systems must satisfy stringent requirements like robustness, compactness, weight, and cost-effective implementation. Furthermore, a suitable concept could afford the realization of further ergometric functions. In this case, a monitoring system for a lightweight carbon fiber paddle was designed and implemented.
Design and Implementation
Initially a reference measurement was performed with a paddle instrumented with seven strain gauges. Strain was measured under various conditions using a commercial system. Based on the results a reduced concept was developed. Hereby the special requirements such as weight and waterproofness for kayaking sports were taken into account. The overall system consists of sensors (piezoelectric patches), a central electronic unit for recording dynamic load and a smartphone as a user front-end. The measurement concept is suitable for longterm measurement, wherein a load classification for data reduction is calculated in real time. The monitoring system can be operated without graphical user interface. The overall weight is only 180 grams in this case. Optionally an Android tablet pc or mobile phone can be added to visualize the timedata and classification results. Afterwards laboratory test rigs can apply this measured loads in fatigue tests. | <urn:uuid:d7a658cc-5779-412f-b1f8-308bb007e833> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.adaptronik.fraunhofer.de/en/projects/paddel.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572043.2/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814143522-20220814173522-00478.warc.gz | en | 0.937611 | 301 | 2.171875 | 2 |
Stable isotope tracers are used to assess metabolic flux profiles in living cells. The existing methods of measurement average out the isotopic isomer distribution in metabolites throughout the cell, whereas the knowledge of compartmental organization of analyzed pathways is crucial for the evaluation of true fluxes. That is why we accepted a challenge to create a software tool that allows deciphering the compartmentation of metabolites based on the analysis of average isotopic isomer distribution.
The software Isodyn, which simulates the dynamics of isotopic isomer distribution in central metabolic pathways, was supplemented by algorithms facilitating the transition between various analyzed metabolic schemes, and by the tools for model discrimination. It simulated 13C isotope distributions in glucose, lactate, glutamate and glycogen, measured by mass spectrometry after incubation of hepatocytes in the presence of only labeled glucose or glucose and lactate together (with label either in glucose or lactate). The simulations assumed either a single intracellular hexose phosphate pool, or also channeling of hexose phosphates resulting in a different isotopic composition of glycogen. Model discrimination test was applied to check the consistency of both models with experimental data. Metabolic flux profiles, evaluated with the accepted model that assumes channeling, revealed the range of changes in metabolic fluxes in liver cells.
The analysis of compartmentation of metabolic networks based on the measured 13C distribution was included in Isodyn as a routine procedure. The advantage of this implementation is that, being a part of evaluation of metabolic fluxes, it does not require additional experiments to study metabolic compartmentation. The analysis of experimental data revealed that the distribution of measured 13C-labeled glucose metabolites is inconsistent with the idea of perfect mixing of hexose phosphates in cytosol. In contrast, the observed distribution indicates the presence of a separate pool of hexose phosphates that is channeled towards glycogen synthesis. | <urn:uuid:d7ab5a32-3a0e-4203-a181-aa8af950eead> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://pubmedcentralcanada.ca/pmcc/solr/reg?term=author%3A(%22Roca%2C+Josep%22)&filterQuery=journal_str%3ABMC%5C+Systems%5C+Biology&sortby=score+desc | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560281649.59/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095121-00437-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.922136 | 384 | 1.742188 | 2 |
What are Fraction Circles? Maybe you already know what they are and that's why you arrived at this page. If so, keep on reading and I'm sure you'll find the fraction activities here to be of great use.
If you're not so familiar with these circular fractions, you'll learn
how beneficial they can be for helping students get a handle on
fractions. They allow students to explore fractions in a hands-on and visual manner.
- Equivalent fractions
- Common denominators
- Comparing fractions
- Ordering fractions
- Basic operations of fractions
a good idea for your students to get familiar with the circles by
giving each of them a set and a small bit of time to explore them and
how the different circles relate to each other.
- Have students
count the number of red pieces it takes to make one whole. Then have
someone or all of the students count the number of green pieces it takes
to make one whole. Do this for as many of the different colored circles
as you feel gives them a sense of is
- Have pairs of students
compare a circle divided into more parts with one divided into a lesser
number of parts. Then they should discuss what observations they are
able to make.
- Comparing Ordering Fractions:
Which fraction is larger: 2/3 or 5/6? How do you know? Put the
following fractions in order from smallest to largest: 2/5, 3/4, 1/3,
- How many different ways can you make one-half? one-third? one-fourth?
- Equivalent fractions: What is another fraction that is equivalent (the same as) to three-fourths? nine-twelths?
- Adding Fractions: Add 1/2 + 2/3 with the fraction circles. What other way (equivalent fraction) is there to represent this sum?
- Division of Fractions: How many times does 1/10 fit into 3/5? This has the same meaning as 3/5 / 1/10.
Go to main Fraction Games page
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APPen is a brand new line of kids electronic toys and accessories from GPTech, that allows children to enjoy learning, writing and colouring on a tablet. The app is compatible with the majority of android and iOS tablets. Recently, I did have issues when I updated to the latest iOS7 release which caused the app to stop working. So I had to go to Settings, click Privacy, select Microphone and then set the APPen to YES. The app is free to download and it can be used with or without the APPen. The APPen does not require batteries; simply plug it in via the headphone socket of any compatible tablet.
Inside the app, there are three programs:
- Draw and colour: There are a selection of colours, pencils and crayons to draw with and playing with animated stickers! You can save the picture on your tablet.
- Learn: This is where you learn to write the capital letters of the alphabet and record the sound too. There are two difficulty levels and they both require you to stay within the borders.
1. The first one, for beginners, has bigger letters and so you are less likely to make a mistake.
2. The second one has smaller letters so it encourages you to be more accurate. There are some letters which we disagree with in the ordering of the writing strokes. The children also found that the APPen is not sensitive enough to record their writing strokes and therefore it does not get recorded. They may need to fix the bugs on the iPad. There is also an option to learn how to count providing you have the APPen and your profile is 5 years old and above. The counting is quite simple which suits preschool or Reception. For profiles under 5 years old, there is a shape game. A series of images appear on the screen and children will have to match each of them to the corresponding shape on the bottom of the screen.
- Play: Use Appen as a joystick and make a Formula 1 car speed around a race track. It took us a while to understand how to use it as joystick. Simply turn the APPen upside down and press onto the tip to control the speed. Mr K was trying to move the APPen all over the place! There are two levels and up to six laps to race with 1 – 2 players. My children were not very impressed with this game as they didn’t enjoy the controls. There also a Scratch and Guess game to discover what lies beneath the hidden image. This is not very easy to play as the children need to know the words before they can select it. I would said this is more suitable for 6 years and upwards. My 4 year old daughter struggled to scratch the picture and choose the right word within the given time. I personally found it quite challenging too.
The APPen itself is chunky, light and made of plastic. It is easy to hold by a child and has a pressure sensitive nib. It comes with a cap and extra nib. I do find the cap too loose though as it keeps dropping off the APPen. I rate it 3 out of 5. Personally, I love the idea of using a stylus/pen to improve their writing skills. The APPen can also be used as a general stylus on the iPad. The sound quality through the speaker in the APPen is too quiet and unimpressive and sometimes there is some feedback noise too.
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The Prudential Ride 100 bike event set to weave its way through Surrey and parts of London today, has been shortened due to bad weather.
What was originally mapped out as a 100mile course, will now miss off Leith Hill and Box Hill in Surrey- reducing the length to 86 miles.
The decision follows a Met Office forecast of localised, heavy rain in the area.
Hugh Brashner, event director, said: “ Our primary concern is for the safety of all participants, volunteers and staff.
"Please follow the instructions of our stewards and marshals at all times.
"Please ride appropriately in these wet and windy conditions- leave more space between you and your fellow riders and moderate your speed."
About 24,000 amateur cyclists are expected to tackle the Prudential RideLondon-Surrey 100, a challenge ride on closed roads through London and Surrey.
The cyclists start at the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park in east London, before heading to Canary Wharf and then passing through the City of London.
Particpants will later ride through Richmond Park and Kingston-upon-Thames, before finishing at Putney Bridge.
The first batch of cyclists left at 6am and the last group left at 8:30am.
From 1pm today 150 of the world’s best professional men will race against each other in the Prudential RideLondon-Surrey Classic, an extended 200km version of the amateur route.
Visit www.yourlocalguardian.co.uk throughout the day to follow important news from the event.
Are you a spectator? Email your pictures to [email protected].
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This is the news we’ve been dreading. With a massive blue-green algae bloom on Lake Okeechobee, the flood gates to the St. Lucie and Caloosahatchee estuaries are opening this afternoon.
The video below, captured by Jacqui Thurlow-Lippisch, illustrates the threat.
Lake Okeechobee has been grappling with algae blooms for months. Now, with the flood gates opening to the estuaries, that algae — some of which has been confirmed toxic — may flow into the fishing holes and backyards of people along the St. Lucie and Caloosahatchee estuaries.
Blue-green algae is more than unsightly — it’s a confirmed threat to human health. Scientists have linked toxins in cyanobacteria to liver disease, ALS and other neurodegenerative diseases.
We know the solutions, and with your support, we’re advancing them. We must:
- Move more water south from Lake Okeechobee to the Everglades during the dry season. This would benefit the Everglades, which needs water in the winter months. And it would preclude the need for discharges east and west when the lake gets too high during the wet season.
- Build an EAA Storage Reservoir that is large enough, and effective enough, to stop discharges east and west.
- Adopt enforceable water-quality standards for the state of Florida, and hold polluters accountable if they don’t comply.
The Army Corps of Engineers announced Wednesday afternoon it will send 1,800 cubic feet per second to the St. Lucie River, and 4,000 cubic feet per second to the Caloosahatchee River.
Let’s do the math. That equates to 1.1 billion gallons a day to the fragile St. Lucie, which already has been blasted by runoff from recent heavy rains. On the Caloosahatchee side, that means almost 2.6 billion gallons a day.
And we don’t know how many days this pollution will last. Col. Andrew Kelly said the lake releases will continue “until we stabilize the lake,” which stood at 16.21 feet today. His best guess is a month.
The last time the estuaries got blasted with Lake Okeechobee discharges during the rainy season, guacamole-green water tainted both coasts — drawing international attention to Florida for all the wrong reasons.
This is not going to be pretty. We will be monitoring conditions in the St. Lucie and Caloosahatchee estuaries and keeping you informed about how to help us put an end to toxic Lake Okeechobee discharges.
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In the days before Hawaii was a state it was a sovereign kingdom, with royal decrees and a herd of roaming cattle that has eaten the land bare around base of the Mauna Kea volcano. The cattle had been a gift to the king, but were fodder for hunters in later years once the royal ban on killing them was lifted. The area was being traversed by the famous botanist, David Douglas, for whom the Douglas fir was named when a deadly accident befell him. However, the exact circumstances around his death remain a mystery.
His body was found at the bottom of a pit trap in July of 1834, one of many that had been set up to catch the cattle that populated the area. At first Ned Gurney, a local man whose cabin Douglas had stopped at the morning of his death, was suspected of having killed him. But, an autopsy performed in Honolulu 30 days after his death found that he was most likely gored to death by a bull. However, the suspicion around Ned Gurney never lifted and he went to his death bed still raving about it.
Gurney had been sent to Botany Bay in Australia as a convict, but escaped and became one of the many bullock hunters in Hawaii at the time. Some today imagine he was a suspect merely because he had been convicted of petty theft back in England.
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May 13, 2020 - 08:20 AM
ANKARA (AA) – Private rocket company SpaceX‘s first Crew Dragon carrying two US NASA astronauts docked at International Space Station (ISS) on Sunday.
“Docking confirmed – Crew Dragon has arrived at the International Space Station!” SpaceX confirmed on Twitter.
This was followed shortly after with a tweet from the ISS: “The SpaceX Crew Dragon docked to the station at 10:16am ET today. Doug Hurley and Bob Behnken will soon enter and join Exp 63.”
“NASA astronauts Robert Behnken and Douglas Hurley aboard the SpaceX Dragon Endeavour have arrived at the International Space Station,” NASA said in a statement.
SpaceX‘s Falcon 9 rocket had lifted off on Saturday from the Kennedy Space Center at 3:22 pm EDT (1922 GMT) for a 19-hour ride destined for the ISS.
The Crew Dragon arrived at the station’s Harmony port, docking at 10:16 a.m. EDT (1416GMT) while the spacecraft was flying at about 262 miles above the northern border of China and Mongolia, NASA said.
“Following soft capture, 12 hooks were closed to complete a hard capture at 10:27 a.m. Teams now will begin conducting standard leak checks and pressurization between the spacecraft in preparation for hatch opening scheduled for approximately 12:45 p.m.,” it added.
The agency’s website along with the NASA Television are continuing to provide live continuous coverage of the agency’s SpaceX Demo-2 mission.
Behnken and Hurley made history Saturday as they became the first Americans to launch on an American rocket from American soil to the space station in nearly a decade.
Aboard the space station, Expedition 63 Commander and NASA astronaut Chris Cassidy and Russian cosmonauts Anatoly Ivanishin and Ivan Vagner are preparing to welcome Behnken and Hurley aboard the station, said NASA. | <urn:uuid:920b2759-a7ed-40ef-b95b-37c48ddab4e6> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://lmbcbusiness.com/multimedia-test-post/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570913.16/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809064307-20220809094307-00076.warc.gz | en | 0.929135 | 417 | 1.78125 | 2 |
A man on a hunting trip who shot a grizzly bear was attacked by the creature, leaving him with injuries to his head and body.
John Matson, from Rhode Island, New England, had signed up to a guided tour and hunt of the Alaska wilderness, reports say.
State troopers were informed that the man shot the grizzly during the hunt before chasing it into the undergrowth on Monday.
The bear then lashed out at him mauling Mr Matson who is believed to be in his mid-40s.
It was then shot several times before it made its escape back into the Alaska wilderness.
Other hunters had to care for the casualty and stop his bleeding while keeping him awake overnight at their camp, as bad weather prevented any emergency services from arriving.
The next day a medical helicopter was dispatched to take him to hospital.
Local state troopers also said that they believed his injuries to be 'not life threatening'.
Alaskan wildlife biologist Cathie Harms told local media: "It's not unusual to pursue a wounded bear on a hunt, but it's essential to go in a group and use the utmost caution." | <urn:uuid:faa4a13c-08e6-4ab1-8654-9d24e2449703> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/grizzly-bear-mauls-man-who-2265996 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560282926.64/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095122-00392-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.987904 | 234 | 1.578125 | 2 |
SQL Server Management Studio is the de facto tool for working with SQL Server. But its default options may not always be the best way for you to work. After working with it for years, I’ve come up with a list of my favorite features.
(Secret: This is also my way of recording this so that the next time I need to set up a new PC, I just have to come back here.)
Part I: The Options Menu
In SSMS, go to Tools > Options.
>> Keyboard: Here you can set up “Query shortcuts”. By default, sp_help, sp_who and sp_lock are there. I’ve added things like sp_whoisactive. Are there other queries you use regularly? Set up shortcuts here, to save yourself the trouble of having to open a script file, or (gasp) typing them each time.
> Text Editor
>> All Languages
>>>> Word wrap: I’m not sure where I would be without this setting. Who wants to scroll back and forth constantly?
>>>> Line numbers: it’s just what it means. Go from this:
>>>> IntelliSense: turn on IntelliSense to have SSMS help you complete field names, function names, and more. Users of Visual Studio will be used to this functionality. Note: this will only work in SSMS 2008 and above, against SQL Server 2008 and greater databases.
>>> Editor Tab and Status Bar
This can be broken into two sections.
>>>> Status Bar Content and Status Bar Layout and Colors: control how that bar that is at the bottom of query execution window (by default) appears.
>>>> Tab Text: controls what information appears in the tab at the top of a query.
> Query Results
>> SQL Server: Here, I can choose the default location for saving my results, if I don’t want to save it in the location Microsoft specifies.
>>> Results to Grid: Here, I like to choose a few non-standard options.
“Include column headers when copying or saving the results” means just that. When I right-click a result-set, copy it, then paste it, the column headers will go with it.
“Display results in a separate tab” – when I execute my query, instead of the results being in the lower half, they are on a second tab. I can even choose to switch to that automatically. This is especially useful for presentations.
Instead of this:
I see this:
> SQL Server Object Explorer
>> Commands: In Object Explorer, you can right-click a table or view and choose to select or edit the top X rows. Here, you can set the values for these options.
>> Scripting: there is a wealth of options here that will turn things on or off when you right-click an object and choose to Script To…
Some of my favorites: Include descriptive headers, Script USE database, Include IF NOT EXISTS clause, and Schema qualify object names. Take the time to look through this list and understand what you can turn on and off in SSMS.
>> Table and database designers: I uncheck the “Prevent saving changes that require table re-creation” option.
Part II: Object Explorer
There are a couple cool things you can do with Object Explorer that I find people are unaware of.
First, when you are writing a query, especially against an older database that doesn’t have IntelliSense support, you can drag table, view, column and stored procedure names to the query pane instead of typing them.
Dragging the “Columns” across to the query pane will produce this:
Second, you can filter the items you see in a database. The little blue funnel at the top of Object Explorer will help you do this.
Here, I’m going to filter on the “Person” schema.
My results are much easier to read. This isn’t a huge deal in AdventureWorks, but when you get into databases with hundreds or thousands of objects, this is very handy.
And third, when you run a script and have an error, most times you can double-click it to be taken to the line that generated the error. (That one? Hard to demonstrate with a screenshot. Next plan: video blogging!) But, give it a try.
Part III: Must-Have Third-Party Add-Ins
SSMS Tools Pack – http://www.ssmstoolspack.com/
This free add-in extends the functionality of SSMS. A lot. Some of its features that I love:
Window Connection Coloring – want to have a green bar at the top of queries against development servers, yellow on QA, and red on production? Just set it up.
New Query Template – want to have the same text appear in every new query you open up? Me too. Create a template.
Want to have your query history saved to a text file or a database table? It’s all here.
And that’s just scratching the surface. Download this tool!
Extended Events Manager – http://extendedeventmanager.codeplex.com/
Are you using Extended Events yet? You should be. Sure, the down side is that there is no GUI for it (yet). However, this tool starts to bridge the gap. You can view event sessions, start and stop them, drop them, and script out operations.
Making the Most of Your Tools
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Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab has called for “a bit of respect” from EU leaders as he claimed the bloc’s senior figures “serially” talk about Northern Ireland “as if it were somehow a different country from the UK”.
The UK and EU are currently at loggerheads over the implementation of post-Brexit arrangements for Northern Ireland – known as the Northern Ireland Protocol – ahead of the end of a “grace period” for some border checks at the end of this month.
The row has threatened to overshadow the UK’s hosting of the G7 summit in Carbis Bay, Cornwall, this weekend – during which Prime Minister Boris Johnson has claimed some in the EU needed to “get into their heads” that the UK is a single country.
The prime minister’s ire is reported to have been raised during his bilateral talks with French President Emmanuel Macron on Saturday morning.
Mr Johnson is said to have attempted to explain his frustration with the protocol by asking what Mr Macron would do if sausages from Toulouse could not be moved to Paris.
The French president was claimed to have responded by arguing the comparison did not work because Paris and Toulouse were both part of the same country, thereby suggesting Northern Ireland is not within the UK.
Asked by Sky News at the G7 summit if those reports were true, Mr Raab said “as a matter of diplomatic profession” he would not “spill the beans”.
But he added: “No one should be surprised by these reports and it’s not just one figure.
“We have serially seen senior EU figures talk about Northern Ireland as if it were somehow a different country from the UK.
“That is not only offensive, it has real world effects on the communities in Northern Ireland – it creates great concern, great consternation.
“Could you imagine if we talked about Catalonia, the Flemish part of Belgium, one of the Lander in Germany, northern Italy, Corsica in France as different countries?
“We need a bit of respect here and also, frankly, a bit of appreciation of the situation for all communities in Northern Ireland.”
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It is possible there is no cooler place to be an artsy young person than in the Netherlands. Were you curating art spaces in famous modern and contemporary art museums when you were 17? Or designing tours and educational programs at galleries? I sure wasn’t. But the teenagers with whom I met while on a professional development trip to the Netherlands are doing just that.
Robin is a Blikopener at the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam. As he and I walked around the museum, Robin explained to me that the Blikopeners (“Eye Openers”) are a group of teens at the museum who give tours to the general public and who run the Blikopener Spot, a gallery and educational space on the lower level of the new museum building. Marlous van Gastel, who oversees the program for the education department, looks for a variety of teens: outspoken leaders, quiet creative types, knowledgeable art historians. After attending interactive training sessions, the Blikopeners give tours of the museum in pairs. Robin studies art history and knows a lot about the works of art, so he likes to partner with people who are good at asking fruitful questions and engaging audiences in close looking. These Blikopeners never get bored—they can develop new tours and pick new partners, and they work with the curatorial and conservation departments to choose artworks for the Blikopener Spot.
They also partner with other teen programs across the Netherlands. I traveled to Rotterdam to meet with some of the people with whom they’ve collaborated at Showroom MAMA, a contemporary art center by and for young artists. MAMA has about 30 Rookies, young people ages 16-26 who work on all aspects of the center’s operations. Recruited and trained by Margriet Brouwer, the Rookies design exhibitions, develop educational programs, assist visiting artists, raise funds, and more. Bram, a Rookie and current intern (meaning he’s time-based, not project-based), oversees the MAMA Rocks Around website, a resource for Rookies who give tours of the center’s exhibitions to school groups. The website is in Dutch, but he explained to me that it includes suggestions for interactive activities (e.g. If the person in this artwork had a Facebook page, what would it look like? What would be this character’s online persona?) and other tricks of the trade. The management and development of this website is handed off to a new intern every few months to ensure that many Rookies get a chance to spearhead such a project.
Showroom MAMA also runs a Rookies Junior program, the first iteration of which began as MAMA’s All Girls Street Art Collective, a group which has since evolved into an independent artists’ collective called ONSKRUID. They were commissioned to create a six-meter high wall for the Kunsthal Rotterdam exhibition The Fashion World of Jean-Paul Gaultier: From the Sidewalk to the Catwalk, and in July they led a workshop at the Museum of Contemporary Aboriginal Art in Utrecht. I met with two of these nine young women, Lara and Yaël, who blew me away with their talent, confidence, and general awesomeness.
Lara first approached the Collective as a writer unfamiliar with street art but eager for a creative outlet. Under the leadership of Martine Poot, the Collective explored street art around the Netherlands, met with female street artists, and created art collectively and independently. Each member came up with her own signature style. Staying true to her roots as a writer, Lara bases her artwork around words. Her tagline of choice? “More chaos please.” The Collective’s artworks were shown last spring at Showroom MAMA—a remarkable exhibition due to the quality of the artworks and the fact that all the artists were younger than 18.
These teens at the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam and Showroom MAMA and the supportive staff who run these programs are changing the face of the Dutch contemporary art scene for the better. Art should not sit passively by in stuffy institutions. It should inspire and empower. Art should be in the hands and minds of the interested, the creative, and the young. Lara said it well: more chaos, please. | <urn:uuid:0603a59a-4310-46c9-bcd8-00a178c138f9> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | https://www.moma.org/explore/inside_out/tag/blikopeners/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280292.50/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00346-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.954479 | 901 | 1.570313 | 2 |
What Allerca Said About Hypoallergenic Pets
Millions of people worldwide are allergic to cats and just as many are confused as to what actually causes them to react to a pet.
In cats, a glycoprotein called Fel d 1, secreted by the sebaceous glands, is the major cat allergen - although cats produce another three known minor allergens.
Most allergy sufferers come into contact with these allergens through the animal's skin or saliva. Pet allergens are so small that they can remain airborne for months and are about 10 times smaller than pollen or dust particles.
Pet allergies can play havoc with the eyes, nose, ears, throat, lungs, and skin. The eyes may become red, itchy, watery, or swollen. The nose may itch, run, sneeze, or become congested. The ears may become plugged or itchy. The throat may have post-nasal drip, frequent throat clearing, itching and hoarseness. The lung symptoms may include coughing, wheezing, chest tightness, shortness of breath, and frequent bronchitis. The skin may develop itchy rashes or hives.
As with any allergy, avoidance is the main course of treatment. A pet-allergic individual needs to avoid being around pets at all times. Over-the-counter medications, prescription medications, and allergy shots are all ways to treat pet allergy but they remain expensive, time consuming and may have long term health consequences.
The LIFESTYLE PETS hypoallergenic pets
The hypoallergenic cats offered by LIFESTYLE PETS are a significant new proven alternative to the traditional treatment of pet allergies. People who have lived without the companionship of a cat because of their allergies can now have one of their own without the costs of allergy treatments and the associated health risks of those treatments.
As described previously, pet allergens are potent proteins secreted by the animals' skin and salivary glands. LIFESTYLE PETS has focused on rare naturally occurring genetic divergences (GD) already present in minute group that does not harm to the animals in any way. Our first hypoallergenic pet, the resulting ALLERCA GD cats, are now helping to improve the health and quality of life for millions of pet-allergy sufferers.
While some breeds of cats (and dogs) have been mistakenly promoted as having less allergen than others (and without any scientific backing), scientists that have tested this hypothesis have shown that all cats, regardless of breed, produce allergens. In fact, in a recent study by Doris W. Vredegoor et al of the Netherlands on so-called hypoallergenic dog breeds they concluded that "significantly higher Can f 1 (the canine allergen) levels in hair and coat samples were found in dog breeds that were considered hypoallergenic than in other breeds."
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It is important that your doctor check your progress at regular visits to make sure that this medicine is working properly.
Dizziness, lightheadedness, or fainting may occur, especially when you get up from a lying or sitting position. This is more likely to occur in the morning. Getting up slowly may help. When you get up from lying down, sit on the edge of the bed with your feet dangling for 1 or 2 minutes. Then stand up slowly. If the problem continues or gets worse, check with your doctor.
The dizziness, lightheadedness, or fainting is also more likely to occur if you drink alcohol, stand for long periods of time, exercise, or if the weather is hot. While you are taking this medicine, be careful in the amount of alcohol you drink. Also, use extra care during exercise or hot weather or if you must stand for long periods of time.
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Raw food diets have blossomed in recent years due to their nutritional benefits. A raw food diet isn’t a magical “cure-all, ” but it can help prevent certain health issues like diabetes and heart disease. Adding more fruits and veggies to your diet has been proven to boost your metabolism, increase energy, and support your immune system. Switching over to a raw diet entirely, though, can drastically improve your health.
But how can a raw food diet help during pregnancy? And how does it help children and babies?
The Types of Raw Food Diets
There are different types of raw diets: raw vegan, raw vegetarian, and raw omnivore. Each comes with its own health benefits and risks, but only the raw vegan diet is recommended for pregnant women due to the potential risk for salmonella.
Raw vegetarian and raw omnivore diets are still adequate diets on their own, but in this article, we will focus on the raw vegan diet since it generally has a lower risk for pregnant women, babies, and children.
How A Raw Vegan Diet Aids Growing Children
Probably the most significant benefit of feeding your children raw, organic fruits and veggies is that many of them are packed with fiber. Fiber not only helps your digestive tract but can also help lower cholesterol and maintain healthy blood sugar levels.
A raw food diet also offers a great way to prevent malnutrition. Even if you feed your child three meals a day, they still can suffer from malnutrition. Adding raw fruits, veggies, nuts, and seeds into their diet will stave off any nutritional deficits. Educate your children on the vitamins in each nut, seed, fruit, and veggie to ensure they understand why it is important to have a balanced diet.
A raw food diet is great for physical health, but it can also improve mental health. Poor eating habits can cause inflammation throughout the body, including the brain. This can lead to stress, anxiety, and depression. Having your little ones go on a raw food diet early on in life can help lower the risk of developing these mental disorders later down the road.
Many people use food to regulate their mood. Food with high sugar content, such as ice cream or cookies, can become addictive. Instead of processing their negative emotions or working through them, your child may seek to self-soothe by eating to make themselves feel better. This will make them partially dependent on these unhealthy foods, so turning to healthy alternatives will help your child in the long run as well.
Raw Foods and Pregnancy
Eating raw fruits and veggies can help aid in the development and growth of your baby. The most important vitamins you need for your baby to develop healthily are DHA, iodine, calcium, iron, folic acid, and vitamin D. Some worry that being on a raw vegan diet while pregnant is too risky, but there are plenty of natural, raw, pregnancy-safe foods that have these vitamins.
- Seaweed or sea vegetables (rich in iodine and vitamin D)
- Spinach, kale, and other leafy greens (rich in calcium and iron)
- Walnuts (rich in DHA)
- Asparagus (rich in folic acid)
Some raw fruits and veggies need to be consumed in moderation while pregnant. If you find it challenging to balance out your raw diet while pregnant, organic supplements can help as well.
A balanced, healthy diet can boost your energy, improve your sleep, and reduce the risk of falling ill. When done correctly, a raw vegan diet will provide you with all the proper nutrients you need while pregnant. Having high energy and sleeping well while pregnant can help guarantee your baby develops properly, so a raw food diet is incredibly beneficial.
Can Babies Eat a Raw Diet?
Feeding your child a raw diet from a young age can be incredibly beneficial for their development. Raw food diets give babies the proper tools to develop healthily and happily.
When you cook raw fruits and veggies, they lose a lot of the enzymes that aid in digestion. Feeding your children raw fruits and veggies will ensure they receive those enzymes and have better digestive health.
It is easier for our bodies to absorb nutrients when our food is unprocessed and uncooked. Feeding your baby a raw diet will make it easier for their body to continue to absorb these types of nutrients efficiently throughout their entire lifetime.
One of the only problems with feeding a baby a raw food diet is having to put more time into prepping. Having to prepare all of your baby food instead of buying premade products is time-consuming, but the nutritional benefits will always outweigh any inconveniences.
Preventing Disease and Boosting the Immune System
Choosing a raw diet may also prevent certain diseases such as type 2 diabetes. Type 2 diabetes can develop when consuming an excess amount of sugar or when generally overeating. With a consistent raw food diet, there’s absolutely nothing to worry about.
Eating raw foods can also prevent heart disease, one of the biggest killers in the world. Heart disease is primarily caused by the fatty build-up in our arteries. All three types of raw food diets significantly reduce your fat intake but especially raw vegan diets.
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A new survey claims Democratic and Republican voters in Illinois generally agree on how their tax dollars should be spent. The study from the Center for Innovation and Public Value found that supporters of both parties want the state government to focus on goals like increasing employment, improving schools, and reducing crime. Those surveyed were then asked to play the role of state budget director.
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“You have $100 to allocate across the outcomes you said are most important-how would you allocate that money?” said Jason Saul, co-founder of the center. That ideal budget doesn’t always match the desired outcomes. For instance, both Republicans and Democrats wanted to reduce spending on education, despite listing improving schools in their top goals. “This is the bang for the buck we want, figure out the best way to get there,” Saul said.
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Scrabble word: TELEFAX
In which Scrabble dictionary does TELEFAX exist?
Definitions of TELEFAX in dictionaries:
- verb - send something via a facsimile machine
- noun - a system for transmitting graphic material over telephone lines
There are 7 letters in TELEFAX: A E E F L T X
All anagrams that could be made from letters of word TELEFAX plus a wildcard: TELEFAX?
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WHOI's research vessel Knorr covered 3,812 nautical miles in waters around Iceland on an expedition that confirmed the existence of a new-found ocean current, the North Icelandic Jet. (Photo[ MORE ]
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WHOI physical oceanographer Bob Pickart (left) was the expedition's chief scientist. Kjetil Våge (right) was a co-principal investigator. Våge, who was Pickart's former graduate student at WHOI, is now a scientist at the University of Bergen in Norway.[ MORE ]
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An instrument called a CTD (which stands for Conductivity, Temperature, Depth) is manuevered into position for deployment in the sea. It measures seawater temperatures and salinity and collects water samples.[ MORE ]
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The expedition also deployed mooring lines carrying instruments to make measurements. Kjetil Våge helps manuever the 4,000-pound weight that anchored the mooring line. (Photo by Rachel Flet[ MORE ]
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Icebergs were common in the Nordic Seas waters where the research vessel Knorr worked. (Photo by Rachel Fletcher)
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A decade into the 21st century, scientists have confirmed the existence of a new and apparently crucial ocean current on the face of the Earth. International teams led by Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) oceanographer Bob Pickart verified the previously unknown current near Iceland in 2008 and returned in 2011 to determine how it is formed.
The current, called the North Icelandic Jet, is not merely a curiosity. Though relatively narrow, it is an important cog in the global oceanic conveyor of currents that transports equatorial heat to the North Atlantic region and tempers its climate. Learning how the current operates offers insights into potential monkey wrenches that could disrupt ocean circulation and lead to further climate changes.
Initial evidence for the unknown current came in 1999 when Héðinn Valdimarsson and Steingrímur Jónsson from the Icelandic Marine Research Institute (MRI) used instruments measuring water velocity to detect a flow of dense water north of Iceland. But confirmation had to wait until 2008, when Pickart led a research cruise to the region aboard the WHOI research vessel Knorr. Taking detailed measurements of water properties and velocity, Pickart and colleagues from WHOI, MRI, and the University of Bergen in Norway confirmed the North Icelandic Jet, publishing their findings in Nature Geoscience in 2011.
But why was it there?
Pickart consulted WHOI colleague Michael Spall, who specializes in using numerical models to investigate ocean circulation. Incorporating known data and the laws of physics, Spall’s model painted a picture that could explain the North Icelandic Jet. In a sense, it was a tail-end tributary of a great river of water in the ocean, the Gulf Stream.
The Gulf Stream conveys huge amounts of warm, salty water from the tropics to the North Atlantic, where it meets cold air in winter, releases its heat to the atmosphere, and warms the region. As the water becomes colder, it becomes denser; it sinks toward the seafloor and flows back southward, driving the lower limb of a big loop, often called the global ocean conveyor. Waters in the conveyor then flow around the entire planet, eventually rise, and circle back into the Gulf Stream. Like a planetary plumbing system, the conveyor pumps water and heat around the globe and regulates Earth’s climate.
In the North Atlantic, the Gulf Stream diverges: The Norwegian Atlantic Current bends east to warm the United Kingdom and Scandinavia; a smaller current called the North Icelandic Irminger Current veers around the west of Iceland. The latter current was thought to dissipate north of Iceland with little or no further impact on ocean circulation. But Spall’s model indicated that the North Icelandic Irminger Current sheds eddies that cool and disperse within the swirling Iceland Sea Gyre north of the island.
Spall, Pickart, and Kjetil Våge, Pickart’s former graduate student at WHOI, now at the University of Bergen, proposed that the newly formed cold, dense water subsequently leaks out of the gyre, coalescing and sinking to form the deep North Icelandic Jet. This constitutes a local overturning loop in which warm surface water flowing north—the North Icelandic Irminger Current—is transformed into the deep, cold southward flow of the North Icelandic Jet.
To test this hypothesis, Pickart returned to the region aboard Knorr in 2011 with a team of researchers from WHOI, Iceland, Norway, and the Netherlands. Covering 3,812 nautical miles, they measured current velocities and water temperatures and salinities, precisely mapping the boundaries of North Icelandic Jet. They confirmed that it indeed forms north of Iceland and flows south to join the East Greenland Current.
Until now, the accepted theory was that only the East Greenland Current drove the lower limb of the conveyor in this region. Pickart and colleagues have now established that the North Icelandic Jet is a distinct current that supplies about half of the total water, as well as the densest water, that flows southward through the Denmark Strait, helping to drive the ocean conveyor.
As such, the North Icelandic Jet is part of a previously unknown regional loop of warm-to-cold water transformation in the larger loop that regulates Earth’s climate. As scientists strive to predict how rising global temperatures could disrupt the balance of the oceanic machinery and its impacts on climate, it’s crucial to know where all the integral parts are and how they work.
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A Practical Approach to Consistency and ExcellenceBy Charles W. Bamforth, Ph.D., D.Sc.Standards of Brewing covers an essential topic for today's brewers: consistent production of quality product.
With distribution expanding and competition intense, no brewery can afford to release product for distribution unless it is confident the beer will meet consumer expectations-even months after production. Bamforth covers the principles and practices of brewery quality so that brewers can establish or audit their own programs and procedures for producing consistent, high quality beer.
Paperback: 210 pages
Publisher: Brewers Publications
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Data analytics have recently been used as an innovative tool in the health care industry for many purposes, including internal auditing. Cutting-edge methods for identifying and managing risk are key in this complex, compliance-driven environment. By transforming and modeling health care data, analytics help streamline and significantly enhance the internal audit process.
Historically, data analytics in health care internal auditing were used for continuous monitoring and a more focused sample selection tool:
- For continuous auditing, procedures can be automated for integration into the internal audit process for key risk areas, providing global coverage of available data on an ongoing basis to increase effectiveness and efficiency.
- For sampling, analyzing an entire population for internal audit testing (instead of statistical sampling) enhances efficiency by analyzing more data on key risk areas, such as fictitious vendors, ghost employees, duplicate payments and other irregular activity.
A more recent trend is using health care data analytics for internal audit planning. Analytics can be part of the risk assessment process to help identify potential risk areas before interviews with key stakeholders.
Preparing a summary that highlights irregular activity patterns before the interviews can help the discussion. If there isn’t sufficient explanation for the patterns, the internal audit team should consider whether to include the respective areas in the annual internal audit plan.
Data analytics also can be used after the interviews, as additional support/validation of areas identified as vulnerable to risk.
Risk areas to analyze before interviews might include:
- Key processes, e.g., the revenue cycle, looking for trends or inconsistencies, such as:
- Delays in patient billing
- Claim denials
- Late charges
- Patient credit balances
- Compliance areas, such as:
- Payment card information
- 30-day readmissions
- One-day patient stays
- Financial and operational areas could include:
- Supply chain, such as vendor payments exceeding approval limits
- Payroll areas, such as excessive overtime
- Financial reporting, such as late journal entries
Data for these areas could be provided by month, department, financial class, physician or vendor, depending on the pattern the internal audit team chooses to analyze.
If trends indicate red flags in these areas, the data could be used in the questionnaire process to determine why certain patterns occurred and as additional support to include an area in the proposed internal audit plan.
Health care senior management, compliance and audit committees also could gain a better appreciation for data analytics tools. One method could be a dashboard approach summarizing identified patterns to support the final risk assessment and resulting annual internal audit plan. This may generate discussions on other ways analytics can aid the organization, as health care issues keep expanding in complexity.
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Developing technology of friction stir welding of heavy gauge aluminum alloys 1570S, AMg6 for use in RSC Energia advanced designs
Автор: Shachnev Sergey Yurevich, Paschenko Vladimir Aleksandrovich, Makhin Igor Dmitrievich, Bazeskin Alexander Vasilyevich, Dubovitskiy Alexander Dmitrievich
Статья в выпуске: 4 (15), 2016 года.
The paper provides a review of the friction stir welding method, its pros and cons. It presents the results of friction stir welding technology development at EMP of RSC Energia as applied to products made of heavy-gauge aluminum alloys. It describes an in-house built tool for friction stir welding of various-gauge aluminum alloys. It describes friction stir welding of aluminum alloys AMg6 and 1570S and results of mechanical tests of the welds. Feasibility was established of using friction stir welding to build nearly space-rated structures with the use of production tools developed and built by EMP specialists.
Friction stir welding, aluminum alloy amg6, aluminum alloy 1570s, production tooling for friction stir welding, mechanical tests of the welds, friction stir welding modes
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The SOLID design approach is a set of principles developed in object-oriented programming. This series will explore the applicability of these principles to Object-Relational databases, and contrast the way in which they manifest from the way in which they manifest in the application layer.
You can't program a database like you'd program an application. The database essentially serves two twin functions: a persistence store, and a model of information derivable from that store. The ACID consistency model therefore limits what sorts of programming you can reasonably do in the database because it is a bad idea, outside of logging, to mix transactional and non-transactional side effects.
As an information model, the approach taken by applying these approaches then is relatively different. One way to think of it is that if object oriented design might be seen as a triangle, applying this in the db requires turning that triangle upside down so you have a flat base to build your application on.
This series will look at applying SOLID principles to object-relational database design, comparing and contrasting the way in which the principles get applied to that of general software development. Many aspects of relational design in fact play into these topics and so one ends up with a very different mix than one might have with pure object-oriented design.
In general this series continues to look at relations as sets of objects rather than sets of tuples. This means that the question is how we define data structures and interfaces so that we can bridge object and relational worlds in the database. The SOLID principles are good starting points but the sort of logic done is fundamentally different and so they are applied in different ways.
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The subject of dam removal is a controversial topic being dealt with on a national level. To help the Burlington community grasp this subject matter on a local level Patagonia Burlington is proud to host an in-store discussion about the future of dams in the state of Vermont.
Join Patagonia Burlington and the Vermont Natural Resource Council (VNRC) Tuesday, June 3 for a healthy discussion as we dissect all that needs to be known about the future of dams in the state of Vermont. Led by a group of prominent figures within the Vermont dam community, we are excited to provide this platform to help educate the Vermont community about this relevant topic.
The doors will open at 6:30 p.m. on Tuesday, June 3 and the event will start at 7:00 p.m. at Patagonia Burlington on 157 Bank Street in Burlington, Vermont.
Topics to be discussed will include an overview of dams in Vermont, legislation being passed to help regulate and maintain dams in Vermont, the dam removal process and recent projects in Vermont, and Burlington’s purchase of the Hydro 1 Dam in Winooski.
This event coincides with our in store screening of the award winning documentary and the Burlington premiere DamNation on Thursday, June 5.
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Dear Brothers and Sisters,
In the Catecheses of these past weeks we have meditated on St Paul's "conversion", the result of his personal encounter with the crucified and Risen Jesus, and we asked ourselves what relationship the Apostle to the Gentiles had with the earthly Jesus. Today I would like to speak of the teaching that St Paul bequeathed to us on the centrality of the Risen Christ in the mystery of salvation, on his Christology. In truth, the Risen Jesus Christ, "exalted above every other name", is at the centre of every reflection Paul makes. Christ, for the Apostle, is the criterion for evaluating events and things, the goal of every effort that he makes to proclaim the Gospel, the great passion that sustains his footsteps on the roads of the world. And this is a real and living Christ: "Christ", Paul says, "who loved me and gave himself for me" (Ga 2,20). This person who loves me, with whom I can speak, who listens to me and answers me, this is truly the starting point for understanding the world and finding the way through history.
Those who have read St Paul's writings know well that he was not concerned to recount the sequence of individual events in Jesus' life. Nevertheless we may think that in his catechesis he told far more about the pre-Paschal Jesus than he writes in his Letters which are admonitions in precise situations. His pastoral and theological intention was so focused on fostering the nascent communities that it came naturally to him to concentrate completely on the proclamation of Jesus Christ as "Lord", alive now and present now among his followers. Hence the characteristic essentiality of Pauline Christology, which develops the depths of the mystery with a constant and precise concern: to proclaim the living Jesus, of course, but above all to proclaim the central reality of his death and Resurrection as the culmination of his earthly existence and the root of the successive development of the whole Christian faith, the whole reality of the Church. For the Apostle the Resurrection is not an event in itself, separate from death: the Risen One is always the One who has first been crucified. Even as the Risen One he bears his wounds: the Passion is present in him and we can say, together with Pascal, that he is the Suffering One until the end of the world, while at the same time being the Risen One and living with us and for us. Paul had understood this identification of the Risen One with the Crucified Christ at the encounter on the road to Damascus: at that moment it was clearly revealed to him that the Crucified One is the Risen One and the Risen One is the Crucified One, who asks Paul: "Why do you persecute me?" (Ac 9,4). Paul is persecuting Christ in the Church and then realizes that the Cross is not "accursed by God" (Dt 21,23), but is also the sacrifice for our redemption.
Fascinated, the Apostle contemplates the hidden secret of the Crucified and Risen One and, through the suffering experienced by Christ in his humanity (earthly dimension), goes back to that eternal existence in which he is wholly one with the Father (dimension before time): "When the time had fully come", he wrote, "God sent forth his son, born of woman, born under the law, to redeem those who were under the law, so that we might receive adoption as sons" (Ga 4,4-5). These two dimensions, his eternal pre-existence with the Father and the Lord's descent in his Incarnation are already announced in the Old Testament, in the figure of Wisdom. We find in the sapiential Books of the Old Testament certain texts which exalt the role of Wisdom that existed prior to the world's creation. Passages such as the one from Psalm 90 should be interpreted in this sense: "Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever you had formed the earth and the world, from everlasting to everlasting you are God" (v. 2); or passages like this one that speaks of the creator Wisdom: "The Lord created me at the beginning of his work, the first of his acts of old. Ages ago I was set up, at the first, before the beginning of the earth" (Pr 8,22-23). The praise of Wisdom, contained in the Book of the same name, is also evocative: "She reaches mightily from one end of the earth to the other, and she orders all things well" (Sg 8,1).
The sapiential texts themselves which speak of the eternal pre-existence of Wisdom, also speak of the descent, the abasement of this Wisdom, who pitched a tent for herself among men. Thus we already hear echoing the words of the Gospel of John, who speaks of the tent of the Lord's flesh. He created a tent for himself in the Old Testament: here the temple is shown, and worship in accordance with the Torah; but the New Testament perspective enables us to realize that this was only a prefiguration of the tent that was far more real and meaningful: the tent of Christ's flesh. And we already see in the Books of the Old Testament that this lowering of Wisdom, her descent in the flesh, also suggests the possibility that she was rejected. St Paul, in developing his Christology, refers precisely to this sapiential perspective: in Jesus he recognizes the eternal wisdom that has always existed, the wisdom that descends and pitches a tent for herself among us and thus he can describe Christ as "the power of God and the wisdom of God" (1Co 1,24), he can say that Christ has become, through God's work, "our wisdom, our righteousness and sanctification and redemption" (ibid., v. 30). Similarly, Paul explains that Christ, like Wisdom, can be rejected above all by the rulers of this world (cf. 1Co 2,6-9), so that within God's plans a paradoxical situation is created, the Cross, which was to transform itself into the means of salvation for the whole human race.
In the famous hymn contained in the Letter to the Philippians (cf. Ph 2,6-11) a further development of this sapiential cycle sees Wisdom abase herself to then be exalted despite rejection. This is one of the most elevated texts in the whole of the New Testament. The vast majority of exegetes today agree that this passage reproduces an earlier composition than the text of the Letter to the Philippians. This is a very important fact because it means that Judaeo-Christianity, prior to St Paul, believed in Jesus' divinity. In other words, faith in the divinity of Jesus was not a Hellenistic invention that emerged much later than Jesus' earthly life, an invention which, forgetful of his humanity, would have divinized him; we see in reality that early Judaeo-Christianity believed in the divinity of Jesus. Indeed, we can say that the Apostles themselves, at the important moments in the life of their Teacher, understood that he was the Son of God, as St Peter said in Caesarea Philippi: "You are the Christ, the Son of the living God" (Mt 16,16). However, let us return to the hymn in the Letter to the Philippians. This text's structure is in three strophes, which illustrate the high points on the journey undertaken by Christ. His pre-existence is expressed by the words: "though he was in the form of God, he did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped" (Ph 2,6). Then comes the Son's voluntary self- abasement in the second strophe: "emptied himself, taking the form of a servant" (v. 7), to the point of humbling himself and "[becoming] obedient unto death, even death on a cross" (v. 8). The third strophe of the hymn proclaims the Father's response to the Son's humbling of himself: "Therefore God has highly exalted him and bestowed on him the name which is above every name" (v. 9). What is striking is the contrast between the radical humbling of himself and his subsequent glorification in the glory of God. It is obvious that this second strophe is in contrast with the claim of Adam, who wanted to make a God of himself, and in contrast with the act of the builders of the tower of Babel, who wanted to construct a bridge to Heaven and make themselves divinities. However, this initiative of pride ended in self-destruction: this is not the way to Heaven, to true happiness, to God. The gesture of the Son of God is exactly the opposite: not pride but humility, which is the fulfilment of love and love is divine. The initiative of Christ's abasement, of his radical humility, in stark contrast with human pride, is truly an expression of divine love; it is followed by that elevation into Heaven to which God attracts us with his love.
In addition to the Letter to the Philippians, there are other places in Pauline literature where the themes of the pre-existence and descent to the earth of the Son of God are connected to each other. A reaffirmation of the assimilation of Wisdom and Christ, with all the connected cosmic and anthropological implications, is found in the First Letter to Timothy: "He was manifested in the flesh, vindicated in the Spirit, seen by angels, preached among the nations, believed in throughout the world, taken up in glory" (1Tm 3,16). It is above all on these premises that a better definition of Christ as the sole Mediator is possible, against the background of the One God of the Old Testament (cf. 1Tm 2,5 in relation to Is 43,10-11 Is 44,6). Christ is the true bridge that leads us to Heaven, to communion with God.
And lastly, just a brief reference to the last developments of St Paul's Christology in his Letters to the Colossians and to the Ephesians. In the former, Christ is described as the "first-born of all creation" (Col 1,15-20). This word "first-born" suggests that the first of numerous children, the first of a great many brothers and sisters, came down to draw us and make us his brothers and sisters. In the Letter to the Ephesians we find a beautiful exposition of the divine plan of salvation, when Paul says that in Christ God desired to recapitulate everything (cf. Ep 1,23). Christ is the epitome of all things, he takes everything upon himself and guides us to God. And thus he involves us in a movement of descent and ascent, inviting us to share in his humility, that is, in his love for neighbour, in order also to share in his glorification, becoming with him sons in the Son. Let us pray the Lord to help us conform to his humility, to his love, in order to be rendered participants in his divinization.
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I offer a warm welcome to all the English-speaking pilgrims and visitors present at today’s Audience, especially those from England, Scotland, Ireland, Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Ghana, Guam, Japan, South Korea, Australia, Canada and the United States. Upon you and your families I cordially invoke God’s blessings of joy and peace.
St. Peter's Square
Dear Brothers and Sisters,
In the personal experience of St Paul there is an incontrovertible factor: while he was at first a persecutor and perpetrated violence against Christians, from the moment of his conversion on the road to Damascus he switched to the side of the Crucified Christ, making Christ his raison d'être and the reason for his preaching. His was a life neither quiet nor free from dangers and difficulties, but spent entirely for souls (cf. 2Co 12,15). In his encounter with Jesus the central significance of the Cross had been made clear to him: he understood that Jesus had died and rose for all and for himself. Both these things were important; universality: Jesus really died for all, and subjectivity: he also died for me. Thus God's freely given and merciful love had been made manifest in the Cross. Paul experienced this love in himself first of all (cf. Gal Ga 2,20) and from being a sinner he became a believer, from a persecutor an apostle. Day after day, in his new life, he experienced that salvation was "grace", that everything derived from the death of Christ and not from his own merit, which moreover did not exist. The "Gospel of grace" thus became for him the only way of understanding the Cross, not only the criterion of his new existence but also his response to those who questioned him. First and foremost among these were the Jews who put their hope in deeds and from these hoped for salvation; then there were the Greeks who challenged the Cross with their human knowledge; lastly, there were those groups of heretics who had forged their own idea of Christianity to suit their own model of life.
For St Paul the Cross has a fundamental primacy in the history of humanity; it represents the focal point of his theology because to say "Cross" is to say salvation as grace given to every creature. The topic of the Cross of Christ becomes an essential and primary element of the Apostle's preaching: the clearest example concerns the community of Corinth. Facing a Church in which disorder and scandal were disturbingly present, where communion was threatened by internal factions and ruptures which damaged the unity of the Body of Christ, Paul did not present himself with sublime words or wisdom but with the proclamation of Christ, of Christ crucified. His strength is not in the use of persuasive language but, paradoxically, in the weakness and trepidation of those who entrust themselves solely to the "power of God" (cf. 1Co 2,1-5). The Cross, for all it represents, hence also for the theological message it contains, is scandal and folly. The Apostle says so with an impressive force that it is good to hear directly from his words: "for the word of the Cross is folly to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God... it pleased God through the folly of what we preach to save those who believe. For Jews demand signs and Greeks seek wisdom, but we preach Christ crucified, a stumbling block to Jews and folly to Gentiles" (1Co 1,18-23).
The first Christian communities that Paul addressed knew well that Jesus was henceforth alive and risen; the Apostle does not only want to remind the Corinthians or the Galatians but also all of us that the Risen One is always the One who has been crucified. The "stumbling block" and "folly" of the Cross lie in the very fact that where there seems to be nothing but failure, sorrow and defeat, there is the full power of God's boundless love, for the Cross is an expression of love and love is the true power that is revealed precisely in this seeming weakness. For the Jews, the Cross is skandalon, that is, a snare or a stumbling block. It seems to hinder the faith of the devout Israelite who finds it difficult to discover anything like it in the Sacred Scriptures. With some courage, Paul seems to be saying that here the stakes at play are high: in the opinion of the Jews the Cross contradicts the very essence of God who manifested himself in wonderful signs. To accept the Cross of Christ therefore means bringing about a profound conversion in the way of relating to God. If, for the Jews, the reason for rejecting the Cross is found in Revelation, that is, the faithfulness to the God of the Fathers, for the Greeks, that is, the Gentiles, the criterion of judgement for opposing the Cross is reason. Indeed, the Cross for the latter is moría, folly, literally ignorance, that is, saltless food; thus, rather than an error, it is an insult to common sense.
Paul himself, on more than one occasion had the bitter experience of the rejection of the Christian proclamation, considered "insipid", devoid of importance, not even worthy of being taken into consideration at the level of rational logic. For those who, like the Greeks, see perfection in the spirit, in pure thought, it was already unacceptable that God should become man, immersing himself in all the limitations of space and time. Then for them it was definitely inconceivable to believe that a God could end on a Cross! And we see that this Greek logic is also the common logic of our time. How could the concept of apátheia, indifference, as an absence of passions in God, have understood a God who became man and was defeated, and was even to reassume his body subsequently to live as the Risen One? "We will hear you again about this" (Ac 17,32) the Athenians said scornfully to Paul when they heard him talking about the resurrection of the dead. They considered liberation from the body conceived as a prison as perfection. How could they not see the resumption of the body as an aberration? In ancient culture there did not seem to be room for the message of the Incarnate God. The entire "Jesus of Nazareth" event seemed to be marked by foolishness through and through and the Cross was certainly its most emblematic point.
But why did St Paul make precisely this, the word of the Cross, the fundamental core of his teaching? The answer is not difficult: the Cross reveals "the power of God" (cf. 1Co 1,24), which is different from human power; indeed, it reveals his love: "For the foolishness of God is wiser than men, and the weakness of God is stronger than men" (ibid., v. 25). Centuries after Paul we see that in history it was the Cross that triumphed and not the wisdom that opposed it. The Crucified One is wisdom, for he truly shows who God is, that is, a force of love which went even as far as the Cross to save men and women. God uses ways and means that seem to us at first sight to be merely weakness. The Crucified One reveals on the one hand man's frailty and on the other, the true power of God, that is the free gift of love: this totally gratuitous love is true wisdom. St Paul experienced this even in his flesh and tells us about it in various passages of his spiritual journey which have become precise reference points for every disciple of Jesus: "He said to me, "My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness'" (2Co 12,9); and again "God chose what is weak in the world to shame the strong" (1Co 1,27). The Apostle identified so closely with Christ that in spite of being in the midst of so many trials, he too lived in the faith of the Son of God who loved him and gave himself for his sins and for the sins of all (cf. Gal Ga 1,4 Ga 2,20). This autobiographical fact concerning the Apostle becomes paradigmatic for all of us.
St Paul gave a wonderful synthesis of the theology of the Cross in the Second Letter to the Corinthians (2Co 5,14-21) where everything is enclosed between two fundamental affirmations: on the one hand Christ, whom God made to be sin for our sake (v. 21), he died for all (v. 14); and on the other, God reconciled us to himself without imputing our sins to us (vv. 18-20). It is from this "ministry of reconciliation" that every form of slavery is already redeemed (cf. 1Co 6,20 1Co 7,23). Here it appears how important this is for our lives. We too must enter into this "ministry of reconciliation" that always implies relinquishing one's superiority and opting for the folly of love.
St Paul sacrificed his own life, devoting himself without reserve to the ministry of reconciliation, of the Cross, which is salvation for us all. And we too must be able to do this: may we be able to find our strength precisely in the humility of love and our wisdom in the weakness of renunciation, entering thereby into God's power. We must all model our lives on this true wisdom: we must not live for ourselves but must live in faith in that God of whom we can all say: "he loved me and gave himself for me".
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I offer a warm welcome to all the English-speaking pilgrims and visitors present, especially those from Britain and Ireland, Norway, Australia, Korea, Vietnam and the United States of America. I greet especially the Delegation of Papal Knights from Great Britain, and the members and benefactors of the Gregorian University Foundation of New York. Upon you and your families, I cordially invoke God's Blessings of peace and joy.
Lastly, I greet the young people, the sick and the newlyweds. Yesterday the Liturgy commemorated the Holy Apostles Simon and Jude Thaddeus. May their example sustain you, dear young people, in your commitment of daily fidelity to Christ; may it encourage you, dear sick people, always to follow Jesus in the process of trial and suffering; may it help you, dear newlyweds, to make your family a place of constant encounter with the love of God and of the brethren.
St. Peter's Square
Dear Brothers and Sisters,
"If Christ has not been raised, then our preaching is in vain and your faith is in vain... and you are still in your sins" (1Co 15,14-17). With these strong words from the First Letter to the Corinthians, St Paul makes clear the decisive importance he attributes to the Resurrection of Jesus. In this event, in fact, lies the solution to the problem posed by the drama of the Cross. The Cross alone could not explain the Christian faith, indeed it would remain a tragedy, an indication of the absurdity of being. The Paschal Mystery consists in the fact that the Crucified man "was raised on the third day, in accordance with the Scriptures" (1Co 15,4), as proto-Christian tradition attests. This is the keystone of Pauline Christology: everything rotates around this gravitational centre. The whole teaching of Paul the Apostle starts from, and arrives at, the mystery of him whom the Father raised from the dead. The Resurrection is a fundamental fact, almost a prior axiom (cf. 1Co 15,12), on the basis of which Paul can formulate his synthetic proclamation (kerygma). He who was crucified and who thus manifested God's immense love for man, is risen again, and is alive among us.
It is important to understand the relationship between the proclamation of the Resurrection, as Paul formulates it, and that was in use since the first pre-Pauline Christian communities. Here indeed we can see the importance of the tradition that preceded the Apostle and that he, with great respect and care, desires to pass on in his turn. The text on the Resurrection, contained in chapter 1Co 15,1-11 of the First Letter to the Corinthians, emphasizes the connection between "receiving" and "transmitting". St Paul attributes great importance to the literal formulation of the tradition, and at the end of the passage under consideration underlines, "What matters is that I preach what they preach" (1Co 15,11), so drawing attention to the oneness of the kerygma, of the proclamation for all believers and for those who will proclaim the Resurrection of Christ. The tradition to which he refers is the fount from which to draw. His Christology is never original at the expense of faithfulness to tradition. The kerygma of the Apostles always presides over the personal re-elaboration of Paul; each of his arguments moves from common tradition, and in them he expresses the faith shared by all the Churches, which are one single Church. In this way St Paul offers a model for all time of how to approach theology and how to preach. The theologian, the preacher, does not create new visions of the world and of life, but he is at the service of truth handed down, at the service of the real fact of Christ, of the Cross, and of the Resurrection. His task is to help us understand today the reality of "God with us" that lies behind the ancient words, and thus the reality of true life.
We should here be explicit: St Paul, in proclaiming the Resurrection, does not worry about presenting an organic doctrinal exposition he does not wish to write what would effectively be a theological handbook but he approaches the theme by replying to doubts and concrete questions asked of him by the faithful; an unprepared discourse, then, but one full of faith and theological experience. We find here a concentration of the essential: we have been "justified", that is made just, saved, by Christ who died and rose again for us. Above all else the fact of the Resurrection emerges, without which Christian life would be simply in vain. On that Easter morning something extraordinary happened, something new, and at the same time very concrete, distinguished by very precise signs and recorded by numerous witnesses. For Paul, as for the other authors of the New Testament, the Resurrection is closely bound to the testimony of those who had direct experience of the Risen One. This means seeing and hearing, not only with the eyes or with the senses, but also with an interior light that assists the recognition of what the external senses attest as objective fact.
Paul gives, therefore, as do the four Gospels, primary importance to the theme of the appearances, which constitute a fundamental condition for belief in the Risen One who left the tomb empty. These two facts are important: the tomb is empty and Jesus has in fact appeared. In this way the links of that tradition were forged, which, through the testimony of the Apostles and the first disciples, was to reach successive generations until it came down to our own. The first consequence, or the first way of expressing this testimony, is to preach the Resurrection of Christ as a synthesis of the Gospel proclamation and as the culminating point in the salvific itinerary. Paul does all this on many occasions: looking at the Letters and the Acts of the Apostles, we can see that for him the essential point is to bear witness to the Resurrection. I should like to cite just one text: Paul, arrested in Jerusalem, stands accused before the Sanhedrin. In this situation, where his life is at stake, he indicates what is the sense and content of all his preaching: "with respect to the hope and the resurrection of the dead I am on trial" (Ac 23,6). This same phrase Paul continually repeats in his Letters (cf. 1Th 1,9ff; 1Th 4,13-18 1Th 5,10), in which he refers to his own personal experience, to his own meeting with the Risen Christ (cf. Gal Ga 1,15-16 1Co 9,1).
But we may wonder, what, for St Paul, is the deep meaning of the Resurrection of Jesus? What has he to say to us across these 2,000 years? Is the affirmation "Christ is risen" relevant to us today? Why is the Resurrection so important, both for him and for us? Paul gives a solemn answer to this question at the beginning of his Letter to the Romans, where he begins by referring to "the Gospel of God... concerning his Son, who was descended from David according to the flesh, and designated Son of God in power according to the spirit of holiness by his resurrection from the dead" (Rm 1,3-4). Paul knows well, and often says, that Jesus was always the Son of God, from the moment of his Incarnation. The novelty of the Resurrection, consists in the fact that Jesus, raised from the lowliness of his earthly existence, is constituted Son of God "in power". Jesus, humiliated up to the moment of his death on the Cross, can now say to the Eleven, "All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me" (Mt 28,18). The affirmation of Psalm Ps 2,8 has come to pass. "Ask of me, and I will make the nations your heritage, and the ends of the earth your possession". So, with the Resurrection begins the proclamation of the Gospel of Christ to all peoples the Kingdom of Christ begins, this new Kingdom that knows no power other than that of truth and love. The Resurrection thus reveals definitively the real identity and the extraordinary stature of the Crucified One. An incomparable and towering dignity: Jesus is God! For St Paul, the secret identity of Jesus is revealed even more in the mystery of the Resurrection than in the Incarnation. While the title of Christ, that is "Messiah"; "the Anointed", in St Paul tends to become the proper name of Jesus, and that of "the Lord" indicates his personal relationship with believers, now the title "Son of God" comes to illustrate the intimate relationship of Jesus with God, a relationship which is fully revealed in the Paschal event. We can say, therefore, that Jesus rose again to be the Lord of the living and the dead, (cf. Rm Rm 14,9 and 2Co 5,15) or in other words, our Saviour (cf. Rm Rm 4,25).
All this bears important consequences for our lives as believers: we are called upon to take part, in our inmost selves, in the whole story of the death and Resurrection of Christ. The Apostle says: we "have died with Christ" and we believe we shall "live with him. For we know that Christ being raised from the dead, will never die again; death no longer has dominion over him" (Rm 6,8-9). This means sharing in the suffering of Christ, which is a prelude to that full unity with him through the resurrection that we hope for. This is also what happened to St Paul, whose personal experience is described in the Letters in tones as sorrowful as they are realistic: "that I may know him and the power of his Resurrection, and may share his sufferings becoming like him in his death, that if possible I may attain the resurrection from the dead" (Ph 3,10-11 cf. 2Tm 2,8-12). The theology of the Cross is not a theory it is the reality of Christian life. To live in the belief in Jesus Christ, to live in truth and love implies daily sacrifice, implies suffering. Christianity is not the easy road, it is, rather, a difficult climb, but one illuminated by the light of Christ and by the great hope that is born of him. St Augustine says: Christians are not spared suffering, indeed they must suffer a little more, because to live the faith expresses the courage to face in greater depth the problems that life and history present. But only in this way, through the experience of suffering, can we know life in its profundity, in its beauty, in the great hope born from Christ crucified and risen again. The believer, however, finds himself between two poles: on the one hand, the Resurrection, which in a certain sense is already present and operating within us (cf. Col Col 3,1-4 Ep 2,6); on the other, the urgency to enter into the process which leads everyone and everything towards that fullness described in the Letter to the Romans with a bold image: as the whole of Creation groans and suffers almost as with the pangs of childbirth, so we groan in the expectation of the redemption of our bodies, of our redemption and resurrection (cf. Rm Rm 8,18-23).
In synthesis, we can say with Paul that the true believer obtains salvation by professing with his mouth that Jesus is the Lord and believing in his heart that God has raised Him from the dead (cf. Rm Rm 10,9). Important above all else is the heart that believes in Christ, and which in its faith "touches" the Risen One; but it is not enough to carry our faith in our heart, we must confess it and bear witness to it with our mouths, with our lives, thus making the truth of the Cross and the Resurrection present in our history. In this way the Christian becomes part of that process by which the first Adam, a creature of the earth, and subject to corruption and death, is transformed into the last Adam, heavenly and incorruptible (cf. 1Co 15,20-22 and 42-49). This process was set in motion by the Resurrection of Christ, and it is, therefore, on this that we found our hope that we too may one day enter with Christ into our true homeland, which is in Heaven. Borne up by this hope, let us continue with courage and with joy.
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Dear Brothers and Sisters,
I am pleased to welcome all the English-speaking pilgrims and visitors present at today’s Audience. In a particular way I greet the Patrons of the Arts in the Vatican Museums from Florida. I also extend a warm welcome to the group from the Bunri Sato Educational Institute in Saitama, Japan. I greet especially the groups from England, Denmark, Finland, Sweden, Cyprus, the Philippines and the United States. Upon all of you and your families I cordially invoke God’s abundant blessings of joy and peace.
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Fashioning Jewish Identity in Medieval Western Christendom by Robert Chazan
Book DescriptionDuring the course of the twelfth century, increasing numbers of Jews migrated into dynamically developing western Christendom from Islamic lands. The vitality that attracted them also presented a challenge: Christianity - from early in its history - had proclaimed itself heir to a failed Jewish community and thus the vitality of western Christendom was both appealing and threatening to the Jewish immigrants. Indeed, western Christendom was entering a phase of intense missionising activity, some of which was directed at the long-term Jewish residents of Europe and the Jewish newcomers. This 2003 study examines the techniques of persuasion adopted by the Jewish polemicists in order to reassure their Jewish readers of the truth of Judaism and the error of Christianity. At the very deepest level, these Jewish authors sketched out for their fellow Jews a comparative portrait of Christian and Jewish societies - the former powerful but irrational and morally debased, the latter the weak but reasonable and morally elevated - urging that the obvious and sensible choice was Judaism.
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Publish Date: 27-Nov-2003
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Books By Author Robert Chazan
From Anti-Judaism to Anti-Semitism, Paperback (September 2016)
This book traces the hardening of Christian attitudes to Jews, Judiasm and their history during the second half of the Middle Ages.
Reassessing Jewish Life in Medieval Europe, Paperback (September 2010)
Chazan argues that the challenges of life for Jews in medieval Western Christendom stimulated ingenuity, leading to later Jewish successes.
Fashioning Jewish Identity in Medieval Western Christendom, Paperback (January 2009)
This 2003 study examines the techniques of persuasion adopted by the Jewish polemicists.
Jews of Medieval Western Christendom, Hardback (November 2006)» View all books by Robert Chazan
A comprehensive synthesis of medieval Jewish history between AD 1000 and 1500.
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Author Biography - Robert Chazan
Robert Chazan is Scheuer Professor of Hebrew and Judaic Studies, Skirball Department of Hebrew and Judaic Studies, New York University.
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"The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next." — Abraham Lincoln
It is no secret that government schools across the United States have become indoctrination centers for the spreading of a social gospel that is anathema to the values of the majority of American parents. Public education is largely run by union bosses and liberal school boards protecting incompetent educrats who push an agenda that has nothing to do with teaching children how to think and everything to do with teaching them what to think. Hitler, Stalin and Mao would be proud.
You may be surprised to learn that this disease of so-called progressive education has spread far beyond the borders of blue states and big cities, and is now infecting even the most conservative areas of the country. Thanks to 21st century communications combined with a desire to be considered tolerant, diverse and multi-cultural, and facilitated by a dictatorial federal Department of Education, local school boards across the fruited plain are joyfully leaping into the propaganda business in direct defiance of the will of the people they purport to serve. In fact, this clash of standards has been brought to the heartland in one of the reddest of our red states.
In Nebraska, the board of education of the Omaha Public School district has taken another brazen leap toward brainwashing the thousands of children they hold captive. Using $130,000 of Obama stimulus money, this board has voted to buy 8,000 copies of a book called "The Cultural Proficiency Journey: Moving Beyond Ethical Barriers Toward Profound School Change."
Three former teachers, Randall B. Lindsey, Franklin Campbell-Jones and his wife, Brenda Campbell-Jones, wrote this propaganda manual; and thanks to the Obama administration, every Omaha public school teacher, administrator and staff member — even custodians! — will get a copy. At $16.25 each. Paid for with your tax dollars.
The authors of the book claim that their intent is "to prepare educators to unshackle themselves from tradition and become facilitators for reconciliation of historical injustices."
What exactly does that mean? Well, here are a few excerpts from their manual:
Ø "The government and social institutions in the United States have created advantages that disproportionately channel wealth, power and resources to white people."
Ø "Colorblindness will not end racism. Pretending race doesn't exist is not the same as creating equality."
Ø "It is common for teachers to proclaim they do not see color in children. What this communicates to children of color is that their experience, in a radicalized society, is to be discounted."
Ø "One is compelled to recognize that oppressed groups seeking equality needed to be amended into the Constitution in their quest for justice. On the other hand, heterosexual white men as a group, the unstated norm, have never needed to be amended into the Constitution.
Ø "It is common to see historically oppressed populations of children — African-American, Latino and Native-American — clustered in low-level academic courses, while upper-level courses are filled with historically advantaged groups, primarily Euro-American. The clear distribution of academic benefits for Whites and lack thereof for people of color is evident in the achievement data reported over the past two decades."
Ø "We need to recognize and dismantle historical forms of oppression that are operational in schools. Schools can, by tradition, institutionalize sexism, racism, ethnocentrism, ableism, and homophobia, to list a few, through organizational policies and practices.
I know. I, too, was ignorant of this latest lingo. Having lived in politically correct America for more years than I care to contemplate, I was more than acquainted with what the ridiculous radical left means when they whine and scream about sexism and racism. I was even familiar with their other silly terms, such as homophobia and ethnocentrism. But "ableism"? That was a new one — one of which I'm sure the three eggheads who wrote this tripe are very proud. It means discrimination or prejudice toward the disabled. Okay.
Lincoln was right. It is long past time we realize that tomorrow's leaders are in the hands of Marxists who, from top to bottom, now permeate our education establishment. Our children will one day rule this nation. God help us if we do not rescue them from those who would indoctrinate their minds and crush their spirits.
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