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Because this is so important in respect to the Four Last Things and dealing head on with the subject of death, we repeat this specific lesson for the greatest consolation of grace a Catholic can receive is the Last Sacrament, the Sacrament of Extreme Unction which has been so twisted by the modern conciliar church that it barely resembles, if at all, the true purpose and immense benefits that are accrued by receiving this Last Sacrament before meeting our Maker at our Particular Judgment. As St. Paul said, "Death, where is thy sting?" and indeed, when one is back in the state of Sanctifying Grace and ready to die the fear of death melts away. There is so much consolation in that and yet, the conciliar newchurch has seen fit to eliminate this with a hybrid version called 'sacrament' of the Sick which is stripped of so much, including being a valid sacrament. When it's a question of dying, one wants to be sure they're receiving the real thing because one's eternal life is at stake. Editor's Note: This series is an effort to return to basics since too often we all make the holy Faith complicated, whereas in reality the truths and traditions of the Catholic Faith are quite simple. God doesn't complicate things, man does. Realizing the fact that, for many generations indoctrinated by conciliar ambiguities, it all seems so confusing, we are introducing this series which is an adaptation of an earlier series titled "Appreciating the Precious Gift of the Faith" in utilizing a combination of the excellent compendium of the late Bishop Morrow's pre-Vatican II Manual of Religion My Catholic Faith and Dom Prosper Gueranger's incomparable The Liturgical Year as well as the out-of-print masterpieces The Catholic Church Alone The One True Church(1902) and the Cabinet of Catholic Information (1903). Through prayer and discussions, we've decided to employ this revised series to simplify the tenets of the Faith for those who continue to wallow in what they think is the 'Catholic Church' out of obedience to a man and his hierarchy who long ago betrayed Christ and His flocks. This then, is an affirmation of the basic truths the Spotless Bride of Christ has always taught and cannot change or evolve as "living documents" for truth is truth. As we say every day in the Act of Faith, "We believe these and all the truths which the holy Catholic Church teaches, because Thou hast revealed them, Who canst neither deceive nor be deceived." If you have been deceived, and the vast majority have been, then realize what you've been indoctrinated with over the past 50 years cannot be from God but from His adversary. Our advice: flee the conciliar confines as well as other man-made religions which do not teach these truths without compromise. Seek out a traditional chapel nearest to you. There is a list of churches you can absolutely trust at Traditional Latin Masses 2. Extreme Unction emphasizes healing of the soul, whereas the modernist Sacrament of the Sick emphasizes healing of the body. 3. Extreme Unction is intended to comfort the soul with the realization that death is coming and one needs protection and forgiveness of one's sins and should prepare with assurance for the recipient that he will have a Requiem Mass said and proper burial. The Last Sacrament of Extreme Unction also comforts the mind for satan will do all in his power to dissuade the soul, striving to convince the soul that he is not worthy nor will measure up to God's expectations in the devil's efforts to cause despair which, in one near death, is a very real possibility without the armor and graces of Extreme Unction. While the Vatican II sacrament of the Sick is intended as a blessing for the purpose of asking healing of the body with a secondary purpose of preparing one for death and this is, of course, blurred with the celebratory white vestment celebration of the eucharist which has replaced the Requiem Mass and has, for the most part, muted the necessity of praying for the repose of the soul which we must assume is in Purgatory. Now, as best I can in lay terms allow me to list the differences in more detail. The sources used, are Dr. Rama Coomeraswamy, "The Problems With The Other Sacraments Apart From The New Mass", Hutton Gibson's "Paul VI's Legacy: Catholicism?" and Bishop Louis Laravoire Morrow's "My Catholic Faith." Extreme Unction usually includes three sacraments - the Sacrament of Penance, Holy Viaticum (the Holy Eucharist) and Extreme Unction (hence, the "Last Sacraments"), as well as the blessings signified for the person who is in danger of death. The sick person first makes his confession, then receives the Holy Eucharist in the Viaticum, and finally is given Extreme Unction. Extreme Unction is a remedy; and as medicine is for the living, not the dead, so those dead in sin will profit from this spiritual remedy. However, if the patient is physically unable to confess, the Church accepts the intention and administers Extreme Unction without confession. When a person is dangerously sick, we should call a true priest to administer the Last Sacraments to him. It is very wrong to delay calling a real priest until the person is already on the point of death. While his mind is clear, he can prepare for Extreme Unction, i.e. Last Sacraments better, profit more from them. Even if one is in a coma or has just died, a true priest can still administer Extreme Unction sans Confession and Holy Viaticum as long as it is within three hours of dying since we do not know theologically when exactly the soul leaves the body and God acknowledges the intent and knows the soul's disposition. Whereas with the diluted sacrament of the Sick it involves their form of confession or absolution, often delivered communally to anyone sick, not necessarily always in danger of death. Yes, they may hear a confession or bring the eucharist, but we know that if the priest was ordained after 1968 he is not a true priest - c.f. Pope Pius XII's Sacramentum Ordinis - and therefore has not the power to absolve sins nor confect the sacrament of the Holy Eucharist, which is null and void anyway according to Pope Leo XIII's decree in Apostolicae Curae in light of the drastic changes the VaticantwoArians made to the Mass in direct contradiction to Pope St. Pius V's infallible decree Quo Primum and De Defectibus. Per the decree by Giovanni Montini on November 30, 1972 "Sacrum Unctionem Infirmorum" as recorded in AAS 65 in 1973, Paul VI dared to alter the sacrament by changing matter and form which are vital for a sacrament since we know that a sacrament not only confers the graces, but signifies the grace which it effects. It is vital to realize that the Modernist rite did change the form and matter of the sacrament and by so doing, nullifies the sacrament. First, in form, the Novus Ordo 'sacrament' of the Sick omits directly invoking the Holy Ghost and also omits the the critical phrase used in the Sacrament of Extreme Unction: "indulgeat tibi Dominus..quidquid...deliquisti" ("May the Lord (God) heal you whatever sins you have committed") which emphasizes forgiveness of sins whereas the conciliar 'sacrament' of the Sick emphasizes healing of an illness, hence the "'sacrament' of the Sick" with additional emphasis of assuring the recipient and those in attendance of the "support of the community in these trying times." It might also be noted that the Vatican II version has shortened all prayers and allows for the presbyter to ad lib, if you will, depending on the circumstances and illness and what those in attendance might want to hear to console them, not what they need to hear. An interesting side note here, is that Benedict XVI has authorized the elimination of the Scriptural words in St. Matthew 17: 20, "But this kind is not cast out but by prayer and fasting" in referencing casting out demons. He has altered Christ's Own words by downplaying sacrifice, prayer and penance! One wonders what part of St. John's words in chapter 22, verse 19 Ratzinger doesn't get: "And if any man shall take away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God shall take away his part out of the book of life, and out of the holy city, and from these things which are written in this book." Now back to Extreme Unction vs. the conciliar 'sacrament' of the Sick. If the person is conscious, they must give their consent and be of the right disposition to receive Extremee Unction, whereas with the 'sacrament' of the Sick it is governed by the climate of the current political correctness, and therefore, if say it would be offensive to Protestants to call a priest or pray over the person, then it would not be performed or, if so, altered to please those present rather than the recipient. This is especially true with non-Catholic relatives who try to pooh-pooh such "superstition" as they call it. In respect to matter, there are three things that have been altered. First of all, Extreme Unction calls for pure olive oil blessed by a true bishop. In contrast, the conciliar 'sacrament' of the Sick allows any kind of oil and it only has to be blessed by a priest or 'priest' (aka presbyter). Secondly, the newchurch version calls for only anointing the forehead and hands, encouraging the recipient, if conscious and able, to rub both hands together to allow Jesus "to penetrate the body"; whereas the priest administering the Sacrament of Extreme Unction, applies six cotton balls with the pure oil on them, anointing the eyes, nose, mouth and ears, both hands and both feet (one cotton swab for the hands, one for the feet) for all the senses. Thirdly, the Sacrament of Extreme Unction remits temporal punishment of sins whereas ordinary Confession cannot; again in contradiction to that, the 'sacrament' of the Sick used in Novus Ordo churches does not remit any sins, but, as stated earlier, is merely a blessing. Consider the differences: In preparation for Extreme Unction, the recipient should be properly prepped of what will occur (if conscious) and the one closest to the person near death should, beside sponging or with a damp towel washing the person's face, hands and feet, lay out a table, set on the side of the bed near the foot of the bed, which is large enough to hold a white cloth to cover the top on which is placed a crucifx, two lighted candles (preferably beeswax), six cotton balls, a fresh glass of water, a teaspoon, a small wash basin with a folded napkin, preferably white linen, and a small plate with two lemon slices. The latter five items will be used by the priest to wash his hands after anointing. These should be placed on the edges so there is room for the priest to unfold the corporal which he brings, along with oil and the Holy Viaticum in a pyx. When the priest arrives, someone should meet him at the door with one of the lighted candles and remain silent. All should genuflect as he enters and then kneel while the Blessed Sacrament is present. It is left to the priest's discretion whether once he has administered the Holy Viaticum whether he will say a few words to those assisting the recipient though it is more often the tradition for the priest to quietly exit while the others remain in prayer both in petition for the recipient's soul and in thanksgiving that he has just received the Sacrament that remits temporal punishment. In contrast, there is little if any preparation for the conciliar version of the 'sacrament' of the Sick. Often times it is in a parish hall and the people are wheeled in for a communal blessing of the sick which the Modernist church often terms it. When not communal, but individual attention cotton is normally still used along with oil, again any oil they can find even peanut oil or Wesson oil as long as the 'priest' blesses it there. Candles and a crucifix may be used and they may even have the lemon slices, but it is all so informal and lacking in the sacred and seriousness of the moment and purpose. In addition, it is usually the norm that following the 'blessing', those in attendance share cake and cookies and much laughter in speaking of the temporal benefits of the 'sacrament' of the Sick in hopes it will heal the person physically. In this philosophy, they miss entirely the purpose of what a Sacrament's main purpose is because it is lacking in form and matter and ergo cannot be a sacrament, but only a blessing; albeit a valid blessing, but nevertheless only a blessing that cannot remit temporal punishment. That is the biggest difference. The reason for the way the conciliar version of the Last Sacrament is performed is ridiculously attributed to the perception that such a sacrament will scare off the person it is intended for, frightening them that they are facing death. Well, duh, that is the whole reason for Extreme Unction so the person is aware that he is dying and must face his Particular Judgment soon. It prompts one to think of the Four Final Things: Death, Judgment, Heaven and hell if they have not already been taught and practiced such during their life. It is Extreme Unction that scares satan to death because he knows he's lost another soul. Conversely, how can satan be scared when he knows the newchurch blessing is not a sacrament and therefore has not conferred the sacramental grace to protect a soul from his wiles. That soul is still prey. This is not to say the one receiving Extreme Unction is safe for no one is safe until they die in the state of Sanctifying Grace. However the latter has a much better chance of dying in that state by receiving Extreme Unction and those near him doing all in their power to, beside praying, keep him free of any temptations that would cause sin of any kind and to encourage him to offer whatever he is suffering up to our Lord in reparation for his own sins and those of others. Finally, as Dr. Rama P. Coomeraswamy writes in a recently released book published by Reviviscimus Press in Petaluma, California, titled "The Problems with the Other Sacraments Apart from the New Mass" on page 136, on 'The Demise of Extreme Unction', following is this most poignant paragraph: "If we are to believe in the 'effects' of the Sacrament, then it behooves us also to believe in the need for its 'validity'. Validity in turn demands a certain integrity in matter and form and hence it is our right to have this integrity retained by the Church that claims to be founded by Christ and the Apostles. no traditional Catholic admitted to the emergency room 'in extremis' and asking for a priest, would settle for a Baptist minister - even if he should say the proper words of the form. Yet, in fact, of what more use is a priest who uses an incorrect and doubtful form? One must further express great wonderment at the new breed of priests who feels free to 'play around' with such a powerful Sacrament. The bestowal of Extreme Unction must be one of the paramount and most satisfying aspects of a priest's life, and is moreover something which in charity and in justice he is bound to provide. And what is one to think of a 'Church' that would dupe its obedient and faithful followers, rob them of this pearl, and pay them off with a facile blessing? Indeed, we live in dangerous times and the world itself is in extremis. Unless we take a stand on such issues, we will have little grounds for complaint when on our own death beds we prepare to face our Lord and Judge without the assistance of these necessary graces." That should be a wake-up call to everyone and if one is still attending the newchurch Novus Ordo services or if one is concerned about their soul and might think of their plight when death comes knocking, and it most definitely will, you must ask yourself which one you feel comfortable with:: 'sacrament' of the Sick or the Sacrament of Extreme Unction administered by a true priest who has the power to absolve sins as Christ empowered him through the Sacrament of Holy Orders which, as we know, unless one was ordained before 1968 and not ordained in the new rite ushered in by Paul VI, the conciliar 'priest' cannot for he is merely a presbyter, not a true priest. Really, if one is serious about the welfare of his soul and the souls of his or her loved ones, that question is really a no-brainer, but one has to make that decision for the welfare of one's eternal soul, for that will be the most vital decision one will ever make it in their life. Maybe that's why holy Mother Church in her wisdom of this grace-giving unction calls it Extreme. Catholicism Made Simple
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. -- The University of Illinois plans to build a solar-energy complex that could eventually supply about 2 percent of the campus' power. The university says it would have to spend about $15.5 million on the solar-energy farm over its first 10 years but would then be able to use energy that would all but cost-free. The News-Gazette newspaper in Champaign reports http://bit.ly/VirC2L that university trustees are expected to consider the plan at their meeting Thursday. If trustees OK the plan the complex would be built and for its first 10 years operated by a California company, Phoenix Solar Inc. The university would buy the energy the first 10 years, but be able to use it without cost after that. Construction is expected to be completed and the complex operating next fall.
Having a vision is a powerful tool. It means that you are honoring your goals, aspiring towards them, and taking risks to expand your horizons. But sometimes our visions for ourselves subtly turn into tunnel vision. We can't see anything that contradicts our intentions and desires. We get selective perception, which limits our ability to remain open and to see things clearly. Instead of being present to our reality, we put the blinders on and barrel ahead towards our hopes and dreams. There is a shadow side to almost every positive thing we can do for ourselves, including having a vision. All spiritual and psychological tools can be used in a "willful" way. For example, sometimes self-care is actually about taking care of ourselves: unplugging from too much work and plugging into more balance and harmony. But sometimes, under the guise of self-care, we are really just checking out: denying what's happening and how scary it feels to show up for it. So, how do we know the difference? One red flag is the tension that usually crops up when we are stuck in the tunnel. It takes a lot of effort to keep the blinders on. For me, the tension often shows up in the form of a headache. For others, there might be similar physical cues such as stomach or backaches, getting sick, or feeling lethargic. Some people find themselves to be more irritable or short tempered. When we aren't looking at the big picture of our reality, our emotional bandwidth tends to shrink. This happens because everything becomes limited in the tunnel, not just our vision. I don't know about you, but when I'm stuck in a tunnel, I can get a little cranky. What are your personal cues that suggest you might be denying aspects of your reality? Of course, there are reasons that we aren't looking at the big picture. Many of them boil down to fear. "What if I leave this relationship and I'm alone forever?" "What if I open this piece of mail and find out that I owe more money then I have in the bank?" "What if I take this day-job and I never get to work professionally in the job of my dreams?" Our response to these fears can be "No thanks, I'll stay here in the tunnel, where it feels safe." And then we clamp down, even harder. Ultimately, moving out of the tunnel is about finding clarity, even if it feels terrifying. At least it is true. And reality begets more reality, and the opportunity to make it the best reality you can. I'm not saying that you have to give up on the dream, but you do have to face what is actually going on instead of living in a fantasy. Keep showing up for the life you are envisioning, but do it by starting from where you actually are. I'd love to hear how have you have moved through your own tunnels in life. How did you get stuck, and what enabled you to move through? What did you discover when you surrendered your vision? I know that oftentimes people find a "picture postcard" that they never would have if they held on to that tin can they used to believe was the shiniest and most precious thing they ever could have wished for. Ingrid Mathieu, Ph.D. is a psychotherapist and author of Recovering Spirituality: Achieving Emotional Sobriety in Your Spiritual Practice (link is external).
A massive replanting that will uproot 15% of vineyards in Napa Valley over the next five to six years has begun, according to Napa Valley Grapegrowers. A chance to re-evaluate…Napa Jennifer Putnam, the group’s executive director, said nurseries were completely sold out of vines until 2015, and that ‘we know these are not for new acres.’ She added that it has been 20 years since a widely used rootstock from UC Davis proved not resistant to phylloxera, forcing many growers to replant. ‘This is an opportunity for Napa to re-evaluate, to reconsider what is planted where,’ Putnam said. ‘The landscape may look different in 15 years.’ An abundant 2012 crop (compared to 2011, total value was up 55% to US$656.2m while production also increased by 50% to 182,859 tons) has, according to Putnam, given growers the optimism and cash flow they need to begin such an effort. Michael Monette of Sunridge Nurseries, one of the region’s largest suppliers of plant material, said, ‘In 14 years, I have never seen such strong demand.’ That demand is complicated by the discovery of a virus called red blotch disease that causes lower sugar levels in red grape varieties. Growers waiting for clean plant material have created a bottleneck that has some orders on hold till 2015. ‘Sales for 2012-2013 are strong but delayed,’ Monette said. Longtime grower Andy Beckstoffer, who owns and manages some of the most expensive Cabernet Sauvignon in Napa Valley and was instrumental in the last two waves of plantings in the 1970s and again in the 1990s, says that things are different this time around. ‘In the ‘90s we looked to Europe,’ he said of the tight spacing and vertical trellising commonly employed. ‘Now we understand that we are very different [from Bordeaux]…we have to pay attention to our own terroir and not follow others.’ Beckstoffer also believes that vineyard designation — like his renowned To Kalon and Georges III — will become increasingly important for winemakers and consumers alike; even more so than sub-appellations like Rutherford. ‘That is how we are raising quality,’ he says. ‘We are beginning to understand the terroir.’ As for what is being planted, Cabernet Sauvignon dominates by far,’ Monette said, with other Bordeaux varieties ‘not even on the radar.’ Pinot Noir is a ‘distant second’; Chardonnay is the dominant white grape. Monette also said he was seeing increasing interest from small producers in the Italian grape Nero D’ Avola. Written by Courtney Humiston in Sonoma
One of the military aircraft which was undergoing a routine flight test caused a series of sonic booms on Thursday – felt from southern New Jersey to Long Island, the US Navy statement said. The Naval Test Wing Atlantic, based out of the Naval Air Station in Patuxent River, Md., was conducting routine flight testing in the Atlantic Test Ranges this afternoon "that included activities which may have resulted in sonic booms," the Navy statement said, ABC news reported. A single-engine F-35C fighter jet from the Naval Air Station in Maryland was conducting supersonic testing in a cleared military flight area off the east coast earlier today, accompanied by an F/A-18 fighter jet, the military said Thursday. Certain weather conditions increased potential to hear the sonic boom, according to the Navy.Residents centered north of Hammontown, NJ, felt a tremor around 1:30 p.m yesterday. It was the first of nine booms reported in southern New Jersey and along the Eastern Seaboard to Long Island, New York in the hours following the initial boom, the US Geological Survey news said.
From the architect. Elegance and conviviality merge under The Arch in Mandal, Norway Historic white wooden houses, charming narrow streets, a river running though the centre and beach and forest nearby. The town of Mandal is the essence of southern Norwegian idyll. Danish practice, 3XN, has designed the town's new cultural centre, a project which required great sensitivity to the town's special environment. A House of the People The cultural centre, called“The Arch”, is about creating a common base for the cultural institutions of Mandal. Thus, The Arch contains theatre, cinema, concert hall, library, gallery and café, offering activities for all ages of the town's 15,000 inhabitants. “The Arch is a house of the people, so we designed a building that in an elegant and soft motion gathers the town's cultural life, while the modern expression bears witness to a town in development", explains Jan Ammundsen, Partner and Head of Design at 3XN. The modern expression is created with a deep respect for the history of the town and the surrounding landscape. The arched shape refers partly to the soft hills, located around Mandal, and partly to the industrial centre, which previously was located on the site. It is planned that the building will have a green roof, which will contribute to giving the building an organic expression, and will increase integration with the surrounding nature, when looking at the Arch from one of Mandal’s popular vantage points. The white colour corresponds with the old white wooden houses, which Mandal is known for and which gives the town its character. The wish for optimal use of daylight, and a building that seems open and attractive to visitors, resulted in a facade characterised by panoramic windows facing the river and city. "It is important that the building’s activities are visible, and that the building connects to all the residents. Therefore, we have also emphasised designing the south-facing outdoor areas, so they are attractive sunny, recreational spaces with views to the river. In this way the building brings value to everyone in Mandal," says Jan Ammundsen. According to the manager of the cultural centre, Alfred Solgaard, The Arch has had no difficulties in attracting visitors: "In just the first two and a half months after we took the building into use 25,000 people visited, and that was even before the official opening”, says Alfred Solgaard, and adds, "the Arch is a dream come true for our entire community". Besides the design of the architecture for the cultural centre 3XN have delivered the graphic design for the Arch, the area's master plan and a bridge that will go from the cultural centre and over the river. The bridge, which is under construction will, in line with the cultural centre, has curved organic shapes and pitches from which the view of Norway's southernmost town can be enjoyed in full. Location: Mandal, Norway Client: Halse Property, Norway Cost: 33.000.000 euros approx. Area: 4500.0 sqm
Vacuum dryer / batch / mixer / reactor Conical vertical dryer Ideal mixing quality, quick and gentle drying for moist and viscous materials at variable filling levels A spiral mixing blade inside the vertical dryer initiates a three-dimensional flow of the mixing goods; conical designed mixing vessel enables powders to be discharged up to 100%. The conical vertical dryer is vacuum and pressure tight and heatable by steam, thermal oil or water. Fully temperature controlled: the mixing vessel, the mixing arms, the spiral blade. The conical mixer dryer can be designed to conform with FDA standards to be used as a sterile mixer and reactor which also meets EHEDG requirements and the 3-a-sanitary standards. Further characteristics of the conical vertical dryer and powder dryer This jacketed and vacuum rated version is an ideal conical mixer, vertical dryer, and reactor. Spiral tools, arms and shaft are jacketed and heated. This vertical dryer guarantees quick and gentle drying results. It can be used for moist powder, wet suspensions as well as liquids, paste and dough. If the drying process requires deagglomeration, high speed cutting rotors may be installed. The mixing device is driven from the top, using only a single top bearing. The single-shaft mixer-dryer meets all industry standards for surface finish, including sanitary and pharmaceutical requirements, and requires a very small space.
Repairing a string of Christmas lights Besides family, friends and food, Christmas is also about decorating. The symbol of Christmas is trees and families like to spend time together decorating it with ornaments, ribbons and lights. But when using strings of lights you might realize that some bulbs burn out. 1. Identify which bulb is burned out. 2. Mark the bulb with something. 3. Disconnect the strings from the electricity supply. 4. Remove the bulb by pulling it from the base. 5. Replace the vacant space with a colored bulb of your desire. 6. Reconnect the strings of light to electricity. \|broken christmas lights, christmas decoration, christmas lights, fix christmas lights, outdoor christmas lights, outside christmas lights, repair christmas lights, replace christmas lights, strips of light, switch christmas lights\|
Citizen participation in local democracy: A European comparison The project builds upon the theoretical framework for understanding variations in local participation, developed as part of the ESRC funded Locality Effects project. This new project is developing a diagnostic tool to help municipalities across Europe examine their current participation structures and activities and analyse where existing strengths and weaknesses are. In particular, it is testing the CLEAR framework which argues that participation works best where citizens Can participate, Like to participate, are Enable to, are Asked to and are Responded to. This project 'road tested' the CLEAR framework in 23 municipalities in five countries (Finland, the Netherlands, Norway, Solvakia and Spain). The results from this road test will allow for an analytical comparison of participation strategies in the five countries. The outcome will be a generic diagnostic tool available to all European municipalities through the Council of Europe. Road test in Autumn 2005 Analysis and outputs during 2006 Council of Europe Steering Committee on Local and Regional Democracy This is a joint project with Professor Gerry Stoker (IPEG, University of Manchester) Dr Valeria Guarneros CLEAR model (Revised Version) (Word document) How was it for you. A report on the CLEAR road test (Word document) Guidelines for implementing the CLEAR tool Comparing participation results from the CLEAR road tests (Word document) Council of Europe Road testing the CLEAR main page (Word document)
'Soil biology basics' is an information series describing basic concepts in soil biology. More information can be obtained from the Australian book Soil biological fertility: A key to sustainable land use in agriculture (2003), edited by Lyn Abbott & Daniel Murphy. \|How to conduct your own field trials\|\|PDF, 65.2 KB\| \|How to encourage soil organisms\|\|PDF, 88.8 KB\| \|Fumigation, inoculation and disease suppression\|\|PDF, 76.7 KB\| \|Microbes and minerals\|\|PDF, 437.7 KB\| \|Nematodes\|\|PDF, 199.9 KB\| \|How to build organic matter in your soil\|\|PDF, 73.9 KB\| \|Soil bacteria\|\|PDF, 69.9 KB\| \|Soil biology testing\|\|PDF, 73.8 KB\| \|Soil fungi\|\|PDF, 74.3 KB\| \|Questions to ask about soil biology products\|\|PDF, 71.3 KB\| \|The rhizosphere\|\|PDF, 111.0 KB\|
If you are a hunter or are interested in hunting in NSW, you must comply with the rules set out in the Game and Feral Animal Control Act 2002 (the Act). This legislation outlines the restrictions on the legal hunting of game animals on private land and game and pest animals on public land in NSW. There are very clear and specific regulations relating to each animal, as well as the land on which you hunt. Please read our Rules and Regulations page carefully to understand these restrictions. It is imperative that you understand which animals you can legally hunt and under what circumstance, as outlined in Schedule 3 of the Act. The type of licence you need to hunt these animals depends on how they are classified under the Act. What can I hunt? The Act provides two main categories of animals that can be legally hunted in NSW - Part 1 (and 1A), and Part 2. The main difference between the two categories is that one group is identified simply as game and the other are more commonly referred to as feral or pest animals. Game animals, as per Parts 1 and 1A of Schedule 3 to the Act, is split into non-indigenous game animals and native game birds. Non-indigenous game animals (Part 1) See Hunting Licences to determine what kind of licence is required when hunting in NSW. - Fallow (Dama dama) - Red deer (Cervus elaphus) - Rusa (Cervus timorensis) - Sambar (Cervus unicolor) - Chital (Axis axis) - Hog deer (Axis porcinus) - Wapiti (Cervus elaphus canadensis) Some deer hunting can only occur at certain times of the year. It is important to understand the deer hunting seasons as well as having an understanding of the Ecological Deer Management program. Make yourself familiar with our Rules and Regulations page for more information about hunting deer. - Bobwhite Quail (Colinus virginianus) - California Quail (Lophortyx callipepla californicus) - Guinea Fowl (Numida meleagris) - Partridge (Alectors alectoris chukar) - Peafowl (Pavo cristatus) - Pheasant (Phasiniacus phasianus colchicus) - Spotted Dove (Streptopelia chinensis) - Turkey (Meleagris gallopavo) Native game birds (Part 1A) You may only hunt native game animals if you comply with the Native Game Bird Management Program. - Australian Shelduck or Mountain Duck (Tadorna tadornoides) - Australian Wood Duck or Maned Duck (Chenonetta jubata) - Black Duck or Pacific Black Duck (Anas superciliosa) - Blue-winged Shoveler or Australasian Shoveler (Anas rhynchotis) - Chestnut Teal (Anas castanea) - Grass Whistling Duck or Plumed Whistling Duck (Dendrocygna eytoni) - Grey Teal (Anas gracilis) - Hardhead Duck or White-eyed Duck (Aythya australis) - Pink-eared Duck (Malacorhynchus membranaceus) - Water Whistling Duck, Wandering Whistling Duck or Whistling or Wandering Tree Duck (Dendrocygna arcuata) - Brown Quail (Coturnix ypsilophora) - Stubble Quail (Coturnix pectoralis) - Common Bronzewing Pigeon (Phaps chalcoptera) - Crested Pigeon (Ocyphaps lophotes) Feral or pest animals (Part 2) Part 2 of Schedule 3 to the Act is often identified as feral or pest animals. See Hunting Licences to determine what kind of licence is required when hunting in NSW. - Cat (Felis catus) - Dog, other than dingo (Canis familiaris) - Goat (Capra hircus) - Fox (Vulpes vulpes) - Hare (Lepus capensis) - Rabbit (Oryctolagus cuniculus) - Common Starling (Sturnus vulgaris) - Common or Indian Myna (Acridotheres tristis) - Feral Pigeon (Columba livia) - Pig (Sus scrofa)
\|Forum Home > General Discussion > What is McArdle's disease?\| What is McArdle's disease?McArdle's disease is a metabolic muscle disorder first described in1951 by Dr Brian McArdle. The disorder is also called Glycogen StorageDisease Type V (GSD V). People born with McArdle's disease are unableto produce an enzyme called muscle phosphorylase. This enzyme isimportant in producing the fuel source required by the skeletal musclesfor exercise. What are the symptoms?People with McArdle's disease develop severe muscle pain and fatiguein the first few minutes of exercise. If exercise is continued despitethe pain, a severe muscle spasm or contracture will develop. Thisresults in muscle damage leading to myoglobinuria, a darkdiscolouration of the urine. Many people with the condition remember painful symptoms from earlychildhood but the disorder is rarely diagnosed before adulthood. Somepeople notice a worsening of their symptoms in middle-age and this maybe accompanied by some muscle wasting, especially over the shouldersand back. Most people live normal lives and learn to improve theirexercise tolerance using a "second wind". What is a second wind?There are two types of exercise: aerobic exercise includes walking,gentle swimming, jogging and cycling. Anaerobic exercise is moreintense or sustained exercise and includes running, walking uphill andcarrying loads. The first few minutes of any exercise are usuallyanaerobic. Normally, during anaerobic exercise, muscle phosphorylase convertsglycogen (stored starch) to glucose (sugar). The glucose enters ametabolic pathway known as the glycolytic pathway, which ultimatelyproduces ATP (energy). During aerobic exercise, the main energy sourcecomes from free fatty acids carried in the blood stream. These fattyacids enter a different metabolic pathway, called oxidativephosphorylation, which takes place in the mitochondria (these are thepower houses of the cell) the end result is the production of ATP(energy). A second wind is like a key opening the door, enabling exercisewithout pain for people with McArdle's disease. After a few minutes ofexercise when pain occurs, if the individual rests for a moment or two,exercise can be continued without severe pain. The second wind probablyresults from a switch in metabolic pathway from the glycolytic pathwayto oxidative phosphorylation. Which muscles are affected?Any skeletal muscle is affected. Usually walking brings on symptomsin the legs and carrying heavy shopping affects the arms. Sawing,digging or squatting may affect the back muscles and some peopledevelop pain eating chewy foods. How is McArdle's disease diagnosed?A blood test will usually reveal a raised muscle enzyme known ascreatine kinase (CK). Sometimes a forearm lactate test is performed,although this is not essential. The diagnosis is confirmed by a musclebiopsy, which shows an excess of glycogen and absence of the muscleenzyme phosphorylase. In up to 85% of patients from Northern Europe, anabnormality in the gene encoding for muscle phosphorylase, called R50X(previously known as R49X), can be detected on a DNA test (blood test).In practice such testing is rarely helpful and not always available andis not essential to make the diagnosis. Is there any treatment?The ability to develop a second wind is greatly increased by keepingphysically fit. Taking regular gentle aerobic exercise, such as walkingis important. At the start of exercise, when pain occurs, slow rightdown or stop until the pain has subsided, then try again. Sustained orsevere exercise, such as weight lifting, or sprinting, must be avoidedbecause of the high risk of muscle damage. Continuing to exercise inthe presence of severe pain will also result in muscle damage andmyoglobinuria, which will in turn increase the risk of acute renalfailure. Many different diets and supplements have been tested in McArdle'sdisease such as high protein diet, vitamin B6 and creatine supplements,as yet there is insufficient evidence to suggest that any of thesebenefit people with McArdle's disease. There is some evidence tosuggest that a sugary drink prior to planned exercise might help. Thishowever, needs to be balanced against excessive weight gain, whichshould be avoided at all cost. Carrying increased weight will loweryour body's aerobic threshold and make exercise more difficult. Keeping aerobically fit is the best way to condition McArdle's musclesto improve performance and improve quality of life. What happens if myoglobinuria occurs?Most people with McArdle's disease will develop myoglobinuria atsome time in their lives. Myoglobinuria is a dark discolouration of theurine from a red- brown colour (mild) to a brown-black colour (severe).This is a warning sign for acute renal failure, which can occur ifsevere muscle damage has occurred. If this happens the kidneys stopproducing urine because the draining tubules become blocked with theproducts of muscle breakdown. If the episode of pain and contracture was not too severemyoglobinuria will be transient and lighter in colour. After moresevere episodes the muscles may be swollen and tender and there may beflu like symptoms. Minor symptoms are managed by increasing fluidintake to maintain a good urine output. More severe episodes willrequire an admission to hospital for intravenous fluids and if kidneyfailure occurs, a period of dialysis may be required. Kidney failure isalmost always reversible, but expert treatment is required immediatelyto prevent complications during the acute stage. It is, therefore, veryimportant to seek medical help early should any of these symptoms occur. Are there any other precautions?There is a reported risk of acute muscle damage, with certaingeneral anaesthetics (usually muscle relaxants and inhaledanaesthetics), although in practice problems appear to be very rare.The anaesthetist should be made aware of the diagnosis of McArdle'sdisease, and may choose to avoid certain anaesthetic agents.Tourniquets should not be used during operative procedures in patientswith McArdle's disease. Affected women do not seem to be disadvantaged by pregnancy orchildbirth. A natural childbirth is a realistic possibility for womenwith McArdle's disease. Will I become disabled?McArdle's disease does not affect life expectancy. Some people donotice a slow deterioration in their symptoms over many years but byfar the majority of people remain independent and able to walk. Can it be passed on to my children?The condition is caused by a recessive gene. This means that oneabnormal copy of the gene is passed from each parent to the affectedchild, who in turn will have inherited two abnormal copies of the gene.The risk for both carrier parents to have an affected child is 1:4 foreach pregnancy. People who have McArdle's disease do not usually pass the conditiononto their own children because one normal copy of the gene will havebeen provided by their partner. However, all of their children will becarriers. Generally speaking carriers do not have symptoms.
Is Propane Fuel Getting a Fair Shake? Globally, propane is the most widely used “alternative” car fuel -- and for good reason. Propane fuel is abundant, relatively inexpensive and sourced in North America. It also burns clean. A recent study by the Argonne National Laboratory, based in Chicago, was just one of many pointing out the real advantages of using propane as a transportation fuel. These arguments have largely fallen on deaf ears in the Obama administration and the U.S. Senate. Both the administration and Senate seem intent on vehicle electrification at the expense of other technologies. The U.S. Senate bills S.3495 and S.3815, respectively titled Promoting Electric Vehicles Act of 2010 and Promoting Natural Gas and Electric Vehicles Act of 2010, both exclude propane and other forms of alternative engine fuels. Propane: Long History, Many Advantages Many auto industry experts believe this is a shame and an injustice, since propane offers so many advantages. A key advantage: Propane -- often referred to as “autogas” when used as a transportation fuel-- is not experimental. Quite the contrary: It has been used as a vehicle fuel since 1912. By the 1920s, several automotive fleets in California used propane as fuel, and in the 1950s propane-powered buses and taxis were common in Midwestern cities. According to the Energy Information Administration, some 158,000 propane-powered vehicles operated in the United States in 2008. The World LP Gas Association says more than 13 million propane-fueled vehicles were in use worldwide in 2009. Propane is so widely popular largely because conventional internal combustion engines can easily adapt to using it. While a switch to battery electric vehicles would require a revolution in the car manufacturing industry, a move to use propane in a higher percentage of cars could be accomplished with much less cost and complication. A byproduct of natural gas processing and oil refining, propane auto fuel contains high octane levels and key properties required for spark-ignited internal combustion engines. As the Argonne National Laboratory report noted, “To operate a vehicle on propane as either a dedicated fuel or bi-fuel (i.e., switching between gasoline and propane) vehicle, only a few modifications must be made to the engine.” Simply put, propane-powered vehicles will be much less expensive to consumers than hybrid or battery electric vehicles of equivalent size. But are propane-powered cars sanitary? Differences of opinion over what’s “clean enough” provided the basis of contention and spurred the current Senate proposals to ignore propane and other alternative fuels. There’s no doubt propane burns cleaner than gasoline or diesel; according to a recent Energetics study, propane contains up to 20 percent less nitrogen oxide and up to 60 percent less carbon monoxide than gasoline. It also yields 24 percent fewer greenhouse gas emissions and fewer particulate emissions. s Those pushing battery electric cars want no combustion at all; however, they seem to overlook the fact that a high percentage of the electricity generated today involves some form of combustion. Those emissions don’t come from a vehicle tailpipe -- but from a smokestack somewhere else. So is propane getting a fair shake? Are consumers well-served by government actions that ignore less expensive solutions to air quality issues while pushing a single technology? At least one expert on the subject doesn’t think so. “Propane autogas historically costs around 30 percent less than gasoline, and is as clean as natural gas, but without the harmful methane emissions,” said Jack Roush, a well-known motorsports figure and chairman of ROUSH Enterprises, a company that has done a great deal of work in propane conversions. “Propane is available ‘right here, right now,’ and I feel that any alternative fuel legislation would do our country an injustice if it were to pass into law without including propane auto gas, and for that matter, all alternative fuels, in the legislation.”
Indonesia has 145 Marine Conservation Areas (MCAs), totalling 164,511 km2, comprising 42 nationally managed and 103 locally managed areas. The Indonesian archipelago is an important focal area for seagrass and dugong distribution owing to its position as a conduit between the major basins of the Indian and Pacific Oceans. Very limited scientific information is available on the abundance, distribution and behaviour of dugongs in Indonesian waters, but they have been observed throughout Indonesia, including in the coastal waters of Sumatra, Java, Kalimantan, Sulawesi, Bali, Nusa Tenggara Timur (NTT), Maluku and Papua Barat. The GEF Dugong and Seagrass Conservation Project in Indonesia will be based in the Bintan, Alor, Maluku Tenggara and Kotawaringin Barat districts and will focus both on supporting the enforcement of existing national legislation, raising awareness among communities of the threats to dugongs and their seagrass habitat and providing incentives to local communities for dugong and seagrass conservation. Total Funding For Indonesia Dugong & Seagrass Conservation in Indonesia The size of the dugong population in Indonesia remains unknown. Estimates in the 1970s and in 1994 respectively suggested that the Indonesian dugong population comprised 10,000 and 1,000 individuals; however, these figures are considered little more than guesses, and very little scientific data is available on dugong distribution and abundance in Indonesian waters. Aerial surveys have been conducted in parts of Indonesia, especially the Rajah Ampat Islands and the Lease Islands, but most information on dugong numbers is based on anecdotal records. Indonesia has a high biodiversity of seagrasses, but there is no complete distribution map of seagrass species across Indonesia, and only limited information exists on the disappearance of seagrass meadows in the region. In some areas of Indonesia dugongs are believed to represent reincarnated women and are revered and protected; however, in others their teeth, tusks, teats and tears (extracted from their tear ducts) are considered to have magical properties – largely as aphrodisiacs – and they are hunted for this purpose. Stranded or incidentally caught dugongs are reportedly unlikely to be released alive owing to the value of these body parts. Some Indonesian peoples consume dugong meat, while in various areas their tusks are used to make religious artefacts, pipes or tool handles, and in some locations indigenous peoples use dugong bones as a medicament to treat diabetes and high blood pressure. Current Threats and Conservation Measures Dugongs face a variety of threats in Indonesian waters including those posed by: incidental by-catch; destructive fishing practices; hunting; and boat strikes. Furthermore, their seagrass habitats are threatened by general degradation, coastal development, river run-off/siltation and pollution. Blast and sodium cyanide fishing, both of which are illegal, remain fairly common fishing techniques in Indonesia and are major contributors to coral reef degradation in a number of areas. Dugongs face a major threat from the use of gill-nets to catch sharks in Indonesian waters. Shark netting has reportedly increased in recent years in some areas. Large tidal fish traps, known as belat or sero, also pose a threat to dugongs through incidental catches. Dugongs are protected by national legislation in Indonesia, and a National Conservation Strategy and Action Plan specifically for dugongs was introduced in 2009. However, regulatory enforcement is limited, owing to a lack of resources and personnel. \|National Conservation, Strategy and Action Plan for Dugong in Indonesia (2009, NCSAPDI)\|\|A conservation strategy which will be a viable basis for the long term conservation and management of dugong population in Indonesia. Recommendations of the NCSAPDI which align with the outcomes of this GEF Project include mid-term community based conservation projects (Project 1), ground surveys to identify dugong locations (Project 2) and education and awareness programmes (Project 2).\| \|Government Regulation No. 7 of 1999\|\|Protection of Indonesian Flora and Fauna. The only legislation which protects Indonesian dugongs and seagrasses directly\| \|Republic of Indonesia Act No. 5 of 1990\|\|Conservation of living resources and their ecosystems\| \|Law No. 26/2008\|\|Spatial planning\| \|Republic of Indonesia Act No. 5 of 1994\|\|Ratification of the United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity\| \|Republic of Indonesia Act No. 23 of 1997\|\|Management of the living environment\| \|Republic of Indonesia Act No. 27 of 2007\|\|Management of coastal zones and small islands, including Integrated Coastal Zone Management\| Three projects in Indonesia will work to promote dugong and seagrass conservation. ID1 will tackle policy barriers to dugong and seagrass conservation, and specifically those that apply to the enforcement of existing national legislation, namely the lack of a national strategy and action plan to conserve the species and its habitat. The project will primarily seek to facilitate the implementation of existing Government regulation, particularly in areas where the local community is unaware of the dugong’s protected status. The project will also develop an updated long-term strategy and national plan of action (NPOA) for dugong and seagrass conservation, and establish a National Dugong Conservation Committee (NDCC). ID2 seeks to enhance community awareness of dugong and seagrass conservation and management, improve the capacity of dugong and seagrass research and monitoring, and provide scientific information to support related conservation and management activities. In particular, ID2 will seek to promote national awareness of the threats posed to dugongs and their habitats by destructive fishing equipment, stranding, habitat destruction, pollution and coastal development. ID3 is still under development. When finalised ID3 will work toward incentivising local communities to protect dugongs and work to change the community’s current practices to more environmentally-friendly ones that ensure the survival of dugong. \|ID1\|\|Strengthening and operationalizing a national policy strategy and action plan for dugong and seagrass conservation\|\|Directorate of Conservation and Marine Biodiversity (CMB), Directorate General of Marine Spatial Management (DG of MSM), Ministry of Marine Affairs and Fisheries (MMAF)\| \|ID2\|\|Improving national awareness and research of dugong and seagrass in Indonesia (ID2).\|\|Directorate of Conservation and Marine Biodiversity (CMB), Directorate General of Marine Spatial Management (DG of MSM), Ministry of Marine Affairs and Fisheries (MMAF)\|
Interest Groups as Washington, D.C., Lobbyists Don’t work for a company, belong to a professional organization, or care about polar bears? An organization is still probably in Washington, D.C., lobbying for you. One of the largest and most influential organizations in Washington is AARP, which represents people age 50 and over on prescription drug benefits under Medicare, as well as age discrimination in the workplace. Who else lobbies? Small towns and big cities, colleges and universities, churches, American Indian tribes, foreign countries . . . the list goes on and on. The breadth and diversity of organizations that lobby in Washington is truly astounding. Some are no more than one-person shoestring operations; others are multimillion-dollar behemoths with palatial offices on K Street. While the popularity of the issue at hand, or the influence of the organization or lobbyist, often determines who gets heard and who struggles to squeeze past the congressional intern at the door, it’s no exaggeration to say that nearly every facet of civil society and the private sector is represented in one form or another. A quick glance at the potpourri of trade associations and interest groups attests to this fact. Are you a fan of special occasions? Try the Greeting Card Association, and just to cover all your bases, the Envelope Manufacturers Association too. If you’re a romantic, you may prefer the National Candle Association. Want to improve America’s relations with foreign countries and peoples? Try the British-American Business Council, or (for the more eclectic) the Uyghur American Association. Want to protect your right to enjoy your beverage of choice? Support the American Beverage Association, the Tea Association of the United States of America, or perhaps the Brewers Association. Lobbyists are even represented by the American League of Lobbyists.
Election to the NAE is among the highest professional distinctions bestowed upon an engineer. The National Academy of Engineering (NAE) announced today that Yale Patt, professor and Ernest Cockrell, Jr. Chair in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin, is one of four professors from the Cockrell School of Engineering to be elected to the prestigious academy this year. Prof. Patt was elected "for contributions to high-performance microprocessor architecture." The academy also elected Thomas F. Edgar, director of the Energy Institute and professor in the McKetta Department of Chemical Engineering; Gregory L. Fenves, executive vice president and provost of The University of Texas at Austin; and Bob E. Schutz, professor in the Department of Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics. They are four of 67 new members and 11 foreign associates to join the academy in 2014. UT Austin reported the highest number of new members elected to the academy this year among universities across the United States. “Provost Fenves and Professors Edgar, Patt and Schutz are exactly the type of UT Austin faculty who change the world every day,” said Bill Powers, the university’s president. “Their research and their distinguished careers as teachers have shaped generations of engineering students and enhanced our understanding of the world.” Election to the NAE is among the highest professional distinctions bestowed upon an engineer. Academy membership honors those who have made outstanding contributions to engineering research, practice or education. “We are extremely proud to have four faculty members elected to the NAE,” said Sharon L. Wood, interim dean of the Cockrell School and an NAE member. “This is further confirmation that the Cockrell School is at the forefront of engineering research and education.” Patt joined the Cockrell School faculty in 1999. He has received many international awards for his research and teaching, including the prestigious Eckert-Mauchly Award in computer architecture from the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Computer Society. Among his many teaching commendations are the Karl V. Karlstrom Outstanding Educator Award, the university’s Texas Excellence Teaching Award and membership in the university’s Academy of Distinguished Teachers.
Denmark and Singapore, both small nations with a small population of 5.5 million people, are experts at managing their scarce resources while building livable cities for their people. Both countries have also declared similar visions - Denmark’s capital Copenhagen strives to be a carbon-neutral, smart city by 2025, just as Singapore has also set out its vision of becoming the world’s first smart nation. Areas that Denmark can learn from Singapore’s development include water use and public transportation – the city-state’s strengths, said Morten Kabell, technical and environmental mayor of Copenhagen. Speaking to reporters in Singapore on Wednesday at a dialogue on smart cities jointly organized by Singapore’s Smart Nation Programme Office and the Royal Danish Embassy in Singapore, Kabell said there is a lot to learn from Singapore about water consumption, use, and savings. “While we still have water from groundwater sources – we are able to pull water out from the ground without any treatment – it is of course a scarce resource, a scarce commodity that we need to take care of,” he added. Singapore, which relies heavily on neighbouring Malaysia for its water needs, has transformed itself from a nation which has to import all its water to one that is on its way to self-sufficiency by 2061 - when its water agreement with Malaysia expires. The push to develop the water industry has attracted big names such as General Electric and Siemens to invest in Singapore, and created local water companies such as Hyflux that have also made a success on the global stage. Singapore and Denmark are already partners in the water sector, having set up in Singapore a Water & Environment Research Centre and Education Hub between Danish water company DHI and Nanyang Technological University in 2007. In 2014, the Danish Water Technology House was also established in the city-state. It serves as a centre of information and marketing of Danish water technology for Southeast Asia. Berit Basse, Ambassador of Denmark to Singapore said the city-state and Denmark have had 50 years of formal diplomatic ties and have collaborated on projects ranging from shipping to education. She said that building a smart city – which puts people first – is the natural “next step” and key area for cooperation over the next 50 years. “Both Singapore and Denmark are developing smart city solutions, and despite our differences and approaches, the outcome and purpose are the same – it’s about our people and about improving their quality of life,” Basse said. Copenhagen has set up a Copenhagen Solutions Lab to coordinate the smart city effort and manage projects. Currently, the Lab is working on a ‘Copenhagen Connecting’ project which brings together businesses, government, organisations as well as citizens on an open data platform so that all parties can harness the data to build solutions and applications in a transparent way. As part of this plan, Copenhagen is expanding its metro – or subway – network and is keen to learn from Singapore, which Kabell said is “ahead” in having an efficient public transport system. “We are building our second, third metro line and making sure that we have a public transport system that is very appealing to citizens,” he said. “And also we need data, where do people go, where do people have needs for the transportation.” Denmark and Singapore are exchanging ideas on how to best provide timely and accurate information of public transportation to commuters. Some of the ideas discussed included releasing more data on bus arrival times and crowdedness of buses to help the public decide whether to wait for the next bus or walk to their destination. “Because there is so much potential to unlock when it comes to smart solutions for our cities, this makes it even more important for us to share our ideas, out mistakes and successes,” Kabell said. “There are many solutions where the two cities can definitely learn from each other.”
Songwriters and producers know how much work and practice goes into the craft of writing music. However, artificial intelligence may soon change that. AI music is a quickly-expanding field with many projects and companies developing revolutionary new means of music composition. The famous Abbey Road Studios, known for hosting legendary bands such as the Beatles and Pink Floyd as well as contemporary stars such as Adele and Kanye West, is running a startup incubator called Abbey Road Red aiming to foster links between the music industry and music technology companies. On the other side of the pond, startup accelerator Techstars Music, based in Los Angeles, has been partially funded by major labels Sony Music and Warner Music Group and included two AI startups in its program this year. Among some other companies in the growing field are Humtap in San Francisco, Jukedeck in London, Groov.AI in Mountain View, while Google and Sony’s Computer Science Laboratories (CSL) in Paris have similar endeavors titled Magenta and Flow Machines, respectively. Automated music composition brings with it questions as to what will happen to professional human songwriters. Ed Newton-Rex, CEO of Jukedeck suggests that AI music is not meant to become better than professional musicians, but rather, is meant to be useful for people. “Music is so subjective,” he said to The Guardian. “It’s a bit of a false competition: there’ is no agreed-upon measure of how ‘good’ a piece of music is. The aim [for AI music] is not ‘will this get better than X?’ but ‘will it be useful to people?’. Will it help them?” AI music may not quite replace professional film composers, but it could be useful for YouTubers who need some background music for their videos. Jukedeck, for example, produces a song based on selected genre, tempo, mood, instruments, and song length and sells royalty-free licenses for $0.99 for individual or small businesses, and $21.99 for larger companies. Rather than generating new material, some AI-music startups are developing tools that do otherwise. British tech startup AI Music, one of the AI firms taking part in Abbey Road Red, is developing a tool that will “shape-change” songs that already exist anywhere from adjusting their tempo to match someone’s walking pace to automatically generating remixes. In another approach, Australian startup Popgun has created an AI dubbed “Alice” that, by listening to thousands of songs by experienced playlists, engages in a call-and-response duet with human pianists. Vochlea, the second AI startup taking part in Abbey Road Red, transforms vocal samples into drum samples, pseudo-guitar riffs, and brass sections based on the melody you sing to it, helping people capture their creative ideas in their heads. AI may eventually become integrated into the music streaming giants such as Spotify and Apple Music. François Pachet previously worked with Sony CSL, which released two AI-composed songs in 2016, ‘Daddy’s Car’ and ‘The Ballad of Mr Shadow’. The tracks were created in the style of the Beatles and based on cues from famous American songwriters, respectively, and featured lyrics and production polish from humans. Now, Pachet is working with Spotify, and although the streaming company declines to say what he will be doing, AI could potentially compose music for Spotify’s mood-based playlists for activities such as falling asleep, relaxing, and focusing. Despite the overall promise of AI music, there are complications that arise. Who will be the legal creators of AI-produced music? Can AI be sued for copyright infringement? If AI shape-changes a song to the point where the original becomes indistinguishable, does it become its own original work? These questions are being currently being debated as new technologies are being developed. Ultimately, time will tell how these complications will pan out and what will happen to resolve them. The AI startups hope that AI will serve to inspire human musicians rather than threaten them. AI music could essentially become a new toolset for musicians to work with, and rather than taking the place of human musicians, they can help them expand the limits of creativity and bring music production to new unforeseen places. h/t The Guardian
Class 9 – Progressions Take practice tests in Progressions Arithmetic Progressions \|Topic\|\|Sub Topic\|\|Online Practice Test\| \|\|Take Test\|\|See More Questions\| \|\|Take Test\|\|See More Questions\| Introduction: A sequence is a function whose domain is the set N of natural numbers. It is customary to denote a sequence by a letter ‘a’ and the image of under ‘a’ by an. The images are known as first term, second term, …nth term, ….respectively of the sequence. If is the nth term of a sequence, ‘a’ then we write a = <an> Representation of a sequence: There are several ways of representing a sequence. One way to represent a sequence is to list its first few terms till the rule for writing down other terms becomes clear. For example, 1, 3, 5. . . . is a sequence whose nth term is (). Another way to represent a real sequence is to give a rule, the sequence 1, 3, 5, 7, ….. can be written as For example, the Fibonacci sequence is given by The above recursive relation gives the terms of this sequence as relation gives the terms of this sequence as 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8,………….. Series: If is a sequence then the expression is a series. Example: If sequence then is a series A series is finite or infinite according as the number of terms in the sequence is finite or infinite. Progression: A progression is a sequence whose terms follow a certain pattern i.e., the terms are arranged under a definite rule of addition and subtraction. Arithmetic Progression(A.P.): A sequence is called an arithmetic progression, if the difference of a term and the previous term is always same. The constant difference, generally denoted by d is called the common difference. Example: 1, 4, 7, 10,……is an A.P whose first term is 1 and the common difference = 4 – 1 = 3. Example:2, 7, 12, 17, 22,…….. is an A.P whose first term is 2 and the common difference = 7 – 2 = 5. Example: -3, -7,-11, -15,….. is an A.P whose first term is -3 and the common difference is – 7 – (-3) = -7 + 3 = -4. Algorithm to determine whether a sequence is an A.P. or not when it nth term is given. Step 1: Obtain an(then nth term of the sequence) Step 2: Replace n by n + 1 is an to get an+1. Step 3: Calculate an+1- an Ifan+1 – an is independent of n, the given sequence is a A.P. otherwise it is not an A.P. Example: Show that the sequence <an> defined by an = 4n + 5 is an A.P. Also, find it Solution:We have an = 4n + 5. Replacing n by (n + 1) weget Clearly,an+1 – an is independent of n and is equal to 4. So,the given sequence is a A.P. with common difference 4. Example: Show that the sequence <an > defined by is not an A.P. Solution: We have replacingn by (n+1) in a. we obtain Clearly, an+1 – anis not independent of n and is therefore not constant. So, the given sequenceis not A.P. The sequence<an > is an A.P. If its nth term is an linear expression in n and in such a case the common difference is equal to the coefficient of n. Proof: Let <an > be asequence such that it nth term is a linear expression in n i.e., where,A,B are constants. Clearly, an+1- an is independent of n and is therefore a constant. So, the sequence <an > is an A.P. with common difference A. General term of A.P.: Leta be the first term and d be the common difference of an A.P The second term Fromthe above pattern, we can observe that Example: If the first term of an A.P. is -3 andthe common difference is ,find its 8th term and the nth term. nth term of an A.P. from the end: Let ‘a’ be the first term and d be the common difference of an A.P having m terms. The term from the end is term from the beginning. So,term from the end = Important Result: In an A.P the sum of the terms equidistant from the beginning and end is always same and equal to the sum of first and last terms. Solution: Let bean A.P with common difference ‘d’ then, term from the beginning and (kthterm from beginning )+(kth term from the end ) Thusforall Hence,sum of terms equidistant from beginning and end is always same and equal to the sum of first and last terms. Properties of Arithmetic Progression: 1.If a same non-zero constant is added or subtracted from each term of an A.Pthen the resulting sequence is also an A.P with the same common difference. 2. If each term of a given A.P ismultiplied or divided by a non-zero constant k, then the resulting sequences is also an A.P. with common difference ,where d is the common difference of the given A.P. 3.Three numbers a, b, c are in A.P. if and only if 2b = a + c. Proof: Let a,b, c be in A.P. Then, b- a = common difference and c – b = common difference _ b – a = c – b _ 2b = a + c Conversely, let a, b, c are three numbers such that 2b = a + c. Then we have to showthat a, b, c are in A.P. We have 2b = a + c _b – a = c – b _ a, b, c are in A.P Example:If inA.P. find the value of k. Solution: arein A.P. Example:Find the 10th term of the A.P.: 2, 4, 6,…. Solution:Here the first term (a) = 2 and common difference d = 4 – 2 = 2 Usingthe formula , wehave Hence,the 10th term of the given A.P. is 20. Example: The 10th term of an A.P. is -15 and 31st term is -57, find the 15thterm. Solution:Let a be the first term and d be the common difference of the A.P. Then from the formula. Solve equation (1) and (2) to get the values of a and d. Subtracting(1) from (2), we have Example: Which term of the given A.P.: 5, 11, 17,… is 119? Solution:Here a = 5, d = 11 – 5 = 6 Therefore,119 is the 20th term of the given A.P. Example: Is 600 a term of theA.P. 2, 9, 16….? Solution:Here, a = 2, and d = 9 – 2 = 7 Let 600 be the nth term of the A.P. We have Since n is a fraction, it cannot be a term of the given A.P. Hence, 600 is not a term of the given A.P. Example: The common difference of a A.P is 3 and the 15th term is 37. Find the first Solution:Here, d = 3, Letthe first term be a. We have Thus,first term of the given A.P. is -5. Example: If p times the pthterm of an AP is equal to q times the qth term, prove that its (p+q)th term is zero, provided Solution: We have Since,LHS is nothing but term,therefore, Example:In the arithmetic progression 2, 5, 8,….. upto 50 terms and 3, 5, 7, 9,… upto60 terms, find how many terms are identical ? Solution: Let mthterm of the first A.P be equal to nth term of second A.Pthen, Corresponding to each value of k,we get a pair of identical terms. Hence there are 20 identical terms in the twoA.P.’s.
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Harvard research scientist turned cider lord, Ryan Bogard, knows his way around a Fuji. Ryan left the city behind about a year ago, opting for a more laid back lifestyle in his native North Carolina. The flavorful orchards he visited during his time in Boston inspired Ryan to bring the hard cider revolution down south with him. About a year ago, he joined up with friends and fellow Carolinians John Clowney, Ben Ingold and A.J. Nelson to form Bull City Ciderworks – everyone’s favorite industrial-garage-turned-local-cidery. It was a trying start. As John, Ben and A.J. handled the back-end work, Ryan quickly realized the challenges he would face as the company’s resident brewer. “My first batch of hard cider was awful. I had no clue how to even start. The first thing I did was boil some cider, put it in a container, add some yeast and let it cool,” he laughs. “I came back the next day and it was jam.” Ryan and his team were also confronted with a tight budget and forced to assemble nearly everything in their East Durham space themselves. They managed to make it work. In the main room, handmade wood panel walls and a piano bar tap are dimly lit by repurposed track lights. Next door in the cider making workspace, plastic tanks stand in stark defiance to the more traditional, and expensive, stainless steel ones you’ll find in most cideries. Bull City’s modest 30-gallon tanks quickly grew into 250-gallon ones and today the team is running to keep up with an increased demand. Most of the apples in their ever-growing batches come from Perry Lowe Orchards – a sixth generation family-owned farm in Moravian Falls, NC. The orchard front man, Ty Lowe, runs the operation the old fashioned way. He conducts business on a handshake and his word, rarely fertilizes or applies pesticides and shies away from selling to major chains. This more natural approach to farming translates to apples that are different than those that reside in the produce aisle. “If you’ve noticed over the years, apples have gotten bigger on the shelves. They almost look like pumpkins now,” Ryan says. “But the problem is that when you fertilize an apple tree, it increases its water uptake and that water gets stored in the fruit. So if you have really big apples, the flavors are diluted and you’re basically just paying for water.” Though the south isn’t traditionally associated with hard cider, Ryan thinks that the drink’s connection with the land makes it more appealing to locals. “It’s building an industry in North Carolina that didn’t exist before. One thing that’s so unique about cider is that it directly impacts the farmers in the state,” he says. Ryan’s background in microbiology helps him create innovative ciders from the small, flavorful Fuji and Golden Delicious strains he gets from Ty. He often engages in some friendly competition with Bull City’s five other cider makers by putting $100 on the line for whoever can think up the next funky flavor to add to their lineup. The cidery’s Sweet Carolina blend is sweetened with North Carolina honey, their Rhiz Up batch is infused with 30 pounds of ginger and Steep South is the only cider in the country to use sweet tea as a flavoring agent. But Bull City has taken their local, homegrown mentality to new extremes with their latest seasonal flavor, Spruce Bringsteen. Pine needles from Ryan’s last Christmas tree star in this oaky brew. In its eight months of operation, Ciderworks has transformed into a community of its own; often serving as a gathering place for events and local vendors. Food trucks amass outside the garage doors, ready to feed tipsy customers and trade the staff some grub for a growler of cider. The team hopes that this sense of neighborhood comradery will carry Ciderworks into its next phase in a new space. The cidery sits on the site of Durham’s soon-to-be police headquarters and is going to be emptied by December. They’ve organized a kickstart campaign to take some of the burden off their expensive move and with the support of 200 backers and counting, it’s safe to say that Durham has caught a case of cider fever. Though unsure where the next six months will take them, the team continues to bask in the ride. “At the end of the day, we do it because we love doing it,” Ryan says. “If you enjoy the people you work with and you enjoy the work you’re doing – it’s just priceless.”
JOHANNESBURG (miningweekly.com) – The West African country of Angola has been badly hit by the decline in oil prices. In 2012, according to the US Geological Survey (USGS), Angola was responsible for 2% of global oil output and oil accounted for 90% of the country’s exports, 80% of government revenues and 47% of its gross domestic product. From June to December 2014, the price of oil fell by about 50% and, during 2015, the price of oil oscillated between $45/bl and $60/bl. While the Angolan economy grew at an average annual rate of 9.8% from 2003 to 2008, the Great Recession and subsequent oil price declines saw this decelerate to an annual average of 4% from 2010 to 2014. However, no significant improvement over this level is expected for the next few years – the International Monetary Fund forecasts that Angola’s annual average growth rate will be between 3% and 5% from 2015 to 2020. One consequence has been a significant decline in the country’s international liquid reserves, which, in turn, caused the Angolan National Bank (the country’s central bank) to reduce its sales of foreign currency to the country’s commercial banks by 30% during the first five months of last year, compared with the same period in 2014. This created a currency crisis in the country which, in turn, affected business operations. Last June, the bank dramatically increased its sales of foreign currency to local banks, beginning a gradual devaluation of the Angolan currency, the kwanza. By September, compared with January last year, the kwanza had been devalued by 30% on the official markets and by more than 50% on the informal markets. All this has taken place in a country which, in 2014 and according to the African Development Bank, had 36.6% of its people living in poverty, an unemployment rate of 26% (and higher among the youth) and high income inequality (a Gini coefficient of 55.3, although that is actually significantly better than the figure for South Africa, which was 63.4 in 2011). Little wonder then that Angola is looking to diversify its economy. In 2011, it adopted a new mining code intended to attract foreign investors. The 2011 code modernised, clarified and simplified the regulations governing the award of concessions. It brought in a single mining investment contract, which covers both exploration and mining. With all mineral and metal resources belonging to the State, it requires a minimum 10% share in any project through a State-owned company (or participation in kind in the minerals or metals produced). Other requirements include the training of local workers and technicians. Last February, at an Angola-Canada Investment Seminar, held on the eve of Mining Indaba 2015, Angolan Geology and Mines Minister Francisco Queiroz highlighted that the mining sector was clearly one of the options for the diversification of the country’s economy and could be a major source of revenue for the government. To this end, the government developed a strategy for mining which was seen as correct and sustainable and which would produce results. Further, in April last year, it was announced that the Sovereign Fund of Angola would create an investment fund specifically for the mining sector, which was granted $250-million for investment in mining, including exploration, expansion and modernisation. Although projects in sub-Saharan Africa outside Angola can be considered, understandably the principle focus is on projects in Angola. To deal with the problem of illegal artisanal mining, in November 2014, government announced its intention to help organise artisanal miners into cooperatives, which would then be granted mining rights, thereby legalising their activities. Granting rights to individual miners had proven to be too difficult. By September last year, two such cooperatives had been set up and licensed and two more were in the process of being licensed and should have received their licences before the end of that year. Regarding industrial mining, the country issued 33 licences last year. These included 21 for the production of ornamental stones and aggregates, three for diamonds and one for gold. According to the USGS, in its publication 2012 Minerals Yearbook: Angola (the most recent available), in 2012, the African country produced cement, diamonds, gold (produced by artisanal miners), granite, gypsum, marble and salt. There were also other mineral resources which had not yet been developed. These included beryllium, clay, copper, iron-ore, lead, lignite, manganese, mica, nickel, peat, phosphate rock, quartz, silver, tungsten, uranium, vanadium and zinc. But, just as the Angolan economy as a whole is dominated by one commodity – oil – so, currently, is the country’s mining sector dominated by one product: diamonds. Angola is the world’s number five diamond producer and, in 2012, accounted for 6.5% of global rough diamond production, bringing government reve- nues of $1.1-billion in that year. The precious stones are the country’s second-most important export. Angola produces diamonds from both kimberlites and alluvial deposits. The country has more than 600 kimberlite pipes, but only a few have so far been confirmed to hold diamonds in sufficient quantity and quality to be commercially viable. The country achieved record diamond production of 8 837 000 ct in 2015, which earned the country just over $1.1-billion. Unfortunately, the fall in diamond prices meant that the revenues from diamonds last year were lower than those realised in 2014, which had come to a little more than $1.3-billion. “Nevertheless, we are satisfied, because we reached a very good production mark, which amounts to 103% of what was foreseen in the revised National Development Plan,” affirmed Queiroz. Angola’s diamond production this year is forecast to be 8 960 000 ct, of which 8 100 000 ct will come from the industrial sector and 860 000 ct from the artisanal sector. The industry is dominated by national State-owned group Empresa Nacional de Diamantes de Angola, better known by its acronym of Endiama. This is not surprising, given that it holds exclusive rights over the country’s diamond sector. Founded in 1981, it undertakes exploration, mining, polishing and trading. Exploration, research and mining fall under Endiama Mining (set up in 2012). However, the group is happy to enter into partnerships on projects with other companies, including foreign enterprises. Indeed, it is eager to encourage such investments. The development of strategic partnerships with well-known foreign miners and attracting national private-sector investment are two of its strategic objectives. On its website (which has an English version), it reports no fewer than 108 prospecting concessions open to investors. Endiama does not require a majority share in joint projects. In February 2014, it set up a 50:50 joint venture (JV), reportedly named Kimangue, with Russia’s Alrosa to explore for diamonds in kimberlites in Angola. The two companies were already well-established partners in the Catoca Mining Company, which owns and operates the Catoca diamond mine, in Lunda Sul province, which is by far the biggest diamond mine in the African country, with an annual production of about six-million carats. Endiama and Alrosa each hold 32.8% of Catoca Mining. The other shareholders in Catoca Mining are Brazil’s Odebrecht and China’s LLV. Catoca Mining also holds a majority shareholding in a number of other diamond concessions in the country. Last year, Alrosa announced that it would invest $1.2-billion in two new joint diamond projects with Endiama. Of this, $1-billion would go to the Luaxe project, which should, when developed, have an annual production of ten-million carats and is expected to have a life of 35 years. (The development of Luaxe may require another partner or partners.) The remaining $200- million will be for the Tchuizo project, which is forecast to have an annual production of 2.5- million carats. Successful implementation of these projects will more than double Angola’s diamond production. Endiama is also a partner with Odebrecht in Sociedade de Desenvolvimento Mineiro de Angola (SDM – Mining Development Company of Angola). This is another 50:50 JV, which exploits alluvial diamonds in the Luzamba region along the Cuango river. And, in 2014, the biggest and best known diamond company of them all, De Beers, restarted exploration in Angola. The company had undertaken exploration activities in the country from 2005 to 2012, without finding any commercially viable deposits. Endiama itself is undertaking the Cangandala, Milando and Chinguvo alluvial diamonds prospecting campaigns and the Gambo, Gango, Luangue, Quitubia, Tchegi, Tchiafua and Vulege kimberlite exploration projects. And in February last year the group re-opened a diamond polishing facility near Luanda, after it had been upgraded at a cost of $7-million. Previously, it could polish 40% of a diamond but now it can do 100% of the polishing. It has a capacity of 5 000 carats/month. Last month it was announced that Portuguese State-owned company Sociedade Portuguesa de Empreendimentos (SPE – Portuguese Enterprises Company) was to transfer to Angola a geological archive containing more than 100 years of data about diamond prospecting in the African country, as part of a settlement of a dispute between SPE and Endiama, who had been partners in three projects in Angola. SPE also transferred its shares in these projects to Endiama. In return, the Portuguese company received $130-million. Endiama sees the securing of this archive as a win for the company and country. However, the fall in diamond prices is a concern. In real terms, the prices of high quality gem diamonds have fallen by 80% over the past 30 years. (Real term prices actually reached their peak in 1980.) Last month Endiama’s Chief Executive, António Carlos Sumbula, revealed that his group and other diamond miners would be launching an international unit to promote diamonds. A Las Vegas-based US company would implement a publicity campaign for the precious stones, while diamond producing countries would cut their output. Diversifying while Beneficiating In 2012, according to the USGS, Angola’s only other significant mineral products were cement (1.6-million tons produced in that year), gypsum (200 000 t), salt (40 000 t) and granite (80 000 m3). In 2015, the country also produced 39 500 m3 of ornamental stone, worth $8.3-million, and 4 500 000 m3 of aggregates. This is a situation the country is seeking to change. The country has a Mining Industry Diversification Programme which will run until next year (if it is not extended). On its website, the Instítuto Geológico de Angola (Angola Geological Institute) points out that the country used to be a major producer of copper, gold and iron ore. At the Angola-Canada seminar early last year, it was pointed out that Angola again has major iron-ore, gold and copper projects, as well as quartz and ornamental stone projects. The counterpart to Endiama in the nondiamond mining sector is the Empresa Nacional de Ferro de Angola (Ferrangol); although this State-owned company’s name translates as Angola National Iron Company, it now serves as the national representative partner company for most metals and minerals other than diamonds and it also involved in the energy and steel sectors. And, perhaps, the most ambitious project under way at the moment is in the iron and steel sector. This is the Cuchi pig iron project, in Cuando Cubango province, which is a JV between Ferrangol, the Sociedade Mineira do Cuando Cubango (Cuando Cubango Mining Company) and Brazilian group Modulax. This will see the mining of iron-ore at Cutato (where iron-ore mines have lain idle since the 1970s), which will then be used to produce pig iron at nearby Cuchi. Phase 1, now well advanced, will cost $199.5-million and involves the construction of a blast furnace, a crushing plant and charcoal production plants. It will have a capacity of 96 000 t/y and production of the pig iron will start in May. The JV is called the Companhia Siderúrgica do Cuchi (CSC – Cuchi Iron & Steel Company) and it will export its pig iron along the Moçâmedes railway line and through the Port of Namibe. CSC’s Phase 2 will cost an estimated $94-million and will add two more blast furnaces, bigger crushing plants, a concentration plant and a sintering plant. This will increase production capacity to 420 000 t/y. By the time Phase 2 is completed, CSC should have created more than 3 000 direct jobs. Another project aimed at both mining and beneficiating a mineral resource is a phosphates project in Zaire province. Last October, Minister Queiroz signed at memorandum of understanding with private-sector company Vale Fértil (literally, Fertile Valley, and a subsidiary of Israel’s LR Group; the Angolan company should not be confused with a totally unrelated Brazilian company of the same name), which opens the way for the start of phosphates mining in the Lukunga district and their processing into fertilisers in the Soyo industrial zone. Vale Fértil started prospecting for phosphates in the area in 2008 and invested some $8-million in the search. The additional investment to bring Phase 1 of the project into operation is about $100 000. Production should start next year and production capacity will be 450 000 t/y, with output aimed at both the domestic and export markets. The project will also serve as the anchor tenant for the Soyo Zone and should create 500 jobs. Phase 2 will need an investment of $1-million and would produce high-quality value-added fertilisers for export. There is no timetable for Phase 2 yet. Regarding precious metals, Ferrangol has a JV with Australian junior Rift Valley Resources – through its Angolan subsidiary, Ozango Minerais (Ozango Minerals) – to explore for precious metals. Currently, the focus is on copper/gold, gold and rare earths targets. Ferrangol has a 30% share in the project. Meanwhile, exploration by the Ministry of Geology and Mines had, it was reported last year, revealed deposits of the semiprecious stone tourmaline in the Chinguar district of Bié province. According to Angolan news agency Angop’s report last August, this tourmaline “could” be mined “by a State-owned company”.
Ritual cleanliness plays a central role in the traditional formation of Jewish religious character. In this respect (and in others) Judaism is not unlike Hinduism and ancient practices performed in Egypt and Minoan Crete that had ultimately an influence on both Christianity and Islam. Life, as we know it, is determined by the mystery of the unity of matter and spirit. Death, on the other hand, results when this unity is broken. In Judaism the proper creation of the conditions for living a Jewish life depends not on a synagogue but on proximity to ritually clean “living” water (i.e. not stagnant and immobile). For this reason the Ketubah, or marriage contract, notes very specifically the nearest body of water that renders possible the essential conditions for a legitimate Jewish life. So essential is the unity of matter and spirit in Judaism, i.e. life that washing the body also washes the soul as they are inseparable. Needless to say, the opposite of this is also true: To cleanse one’s sould brings benefits to the body. The former is accomplished by the latter by recourse to the teachings of the Torah and the Prophets; the latter by immersion in water. The special place of this cleansing is called a mikveh, a special opening or spatial extension in which it is possible for a person to be completely immersed. A woman, on reaching maturity, is required to immerse herself three times in the mikveh after her monthly menstruation. The mikveh is resorted to after sexual intercourse and is used for rendering ritually pure dishes etc. that are questionable sources of contamination through contact with forbidden combinations of food such as milk and meat. It is usual that dishes and utensils used in cooking be washed in the mikveh especially before Passover. A bride to be is, needless to say, prepared for her wedding by ritual immersion. Rabbinic law in the Talmud makes clear the amount of water and its source and conditions under which it flows, not in a current, through a space that is large enough to not contain it but allows its passage. Essentially the mikveh is a place where re-birth occurs and as such it is a symbol in itself of death and resurrection and their interaction that are the conditions of life. The mikveh of Etz Hayyim is one of the oldest functioning ones in Greece. After the arrest of the Jewish Community in 1944 by the Nazis, the synagogue was divided up into living spaces by several non-Jewish families and its mikveh was used as a place for throwing refuse and its condition by 1955 was quite deplorable. By that time, when the families moved elsewhere, it had become a seething mass of thick ooze that on occasion overflowed into the neighborhood and was even considered to be the place where a great serpent lived as hissing usually accompanied these incidents. In 1959 I had the surface of the mikveh capped by cement in response to neighbors’ complaints and it was only during the renovation of Etz Hayyim that we unsealed the cap and began to remove from it a quite virulent if not vile accumulation of refuse of some 50 years. We worked for over two months in a summer that was quite hot and managed to extract from it broken pottery, broken glass from shattered chandeliers, and the remains of dead cats and dogs as well as unrecognizable sludge that had blocked the entrance and exit conduits of the water that suddenly began to flow again. It was scrubbed clean and within two months was once again a mikveh worthy of its name. The mikveh of Etz Hayyim is used especially prior to weddings when it is customary in Greece, amongst both Romaniote and Sephardi communities, to have a kind of ‘hen’ party on the eve prior to a wedding. The mother of the bride would be seated regally with her daughters on the mikveh bench and there deferentially approached by female friends and relatives usually bearing small candles and at one time perhaps even saucers of hennah for the purpose of decorating hands and feet of the bride. In former times quite risqué songs were sung as well since the ceremony was for loosening up a possibly quite frightened girl in her midteens for her wedding on the following day. Today we resort to the mikveh on request prior to a wedding. The custom has been given a quite different interpretation today especially by Jewish feminists who see it as primarily a symbol of feminine creativity and rebirth.
THE plight of the widow at the centre of a landmark Gulf War judgement will be made public in the House Of Lords today. Carole Avison has lost everything since her husband, Huddersfield man Maj Ian Hill, 54, became terminally ill and died after serving in the Gulf in 1991. He was the first Gulf War veteran to be officially classed as dying from a Gulf War-related illness by a coroner. He and his wife, who is 56, used to run a nursing home in Hale, Cheshire. But now she is living in a council house on the Ashenhurst estate in Newsome with her 14-year-old daughter, Laura, existing on her £144-a-week war widow's pension and disability benefits. The house is in desperate need of redecoration. Former nurse Carole is registered disabled with a crumbling spine, and so struggles to do any decorating. She says the house has several steps leading to it and is totally unsuitable for a disabled person - but it was either move there or remain in a homeless unit. Her plight will be raised in the Lords today by Labour peer Lord Morris of Manchester. He will ask what response the Defence Ministry will make to a coroner's ruling last November that Maj Hill, a Territorial Army reservist, died from health problems he developed in the 1991 war. This was the first time a British court had linked illnesses suffered by Gulf veterans to their subsequent death. It was regarded as a landmark ruling for veterans who had suffered ill-health since the conflict.
CLINTON, Ill. (May 3, 2016) — Exelon Generation, owner of the nation’s largest nuclear power fleet, mailed nearly 15,000 public information emergency planning brochures to residents and businesses within 10 miles of Clinton Power Station. The informative brochure contains facts about general emergency preparedness, including reception center locations, evacuation routes, a map, and a list of emergency alert broadcast stations. The brochure includes a special needs card to be completed and returned by people who may have a special transportation or other need. “Residents around Clinton Station have never had to use these brochures, but they are important to have in the unlikely event of an emergency at our plant,” said Clinton Power Station Site Vice President Ted Stoner. “Residents should keep these brochures with other important documents to ensure their availability if needed.” Exelon’s nuclear facilities are robust. They have multiple physical barriers and layers of backup safety systems to ensure safe operations, even in extreme events such as floods, tornadoes and earthquakes. Exelon Generation has dedicated teams of emergency planning experts at each of its nuclear facilities who work with state, county and local emergency management officials in the development, maintenance, training and testing of emergency response plans. Federal law requires nuclear operating companies to develop emergency response plans for their nuclear energy facilities and to ensure evacuation plans are in place. State and county agencies often use the plans for non-nuclear related emergencies such as extreme weather events or fires. Anyone within the 10-mile radius of the three facilities who did not receive a brochure in the mail may download a copy at Clinton brochure at www.exeloncorp.com/clinton Clinton Power Station is located approximately six miles east of Clinton. The plant produces 1,069 megawatts at full power - enough electricity to power about one million typical homes. Join us on Twitter and You Tube
It was during the 4th century A.D. that anthropomorphic figures of Ganga and Yamuna started appearing in art and architecture (as on shrine doors). Ganga is known for her purity and divinity. Hence she is painted here in pure white. Even the fish that she rides upon is white. The frill of her garment is painted pink giving it an illusory look of a lotus seat. A number of head ornaments and other jewellery decorate her divine body. A halo around her head define her status. Surrounding the muddy waters is the foliage bearing flowers, around which are white icy mountains. Curling clouds in the clear blue sky is characteristic of the Pahari school. Floral decorations around the oval subject speak of Mughal inspiration. The main border conflicts with the painting. This description by Renu Rana.
Most households have a member of the family that looks a little different. Some of these members have more legs than normal, a few have wings, and most have a true hair and feather growing anomoly. And, like all those who have differences, these members of our families require a little bit of special TLC. In case you haven’t guessed, I’m referring to the dogs, cats, birds, spiders, snakes, and other animal members of the group we call pets. Each one needs special care in order to remain healthy and happy in our homes. Even the way we clean affects our little critters. Pets cause some odors and many have a few accidents throughout the course of their lives. While the odors and accidents may not be a pleasant gift to us, how we clean them can make a difference to our pets. Some animals are sensitive to the cleaners we use to expunge ourselves from their natural perfumes. In fact, more than a few of our animal kingdom friends have met with an untimely exit because of the chemicals they were exposed to in the name of cleaning. If there is any doubt as to the attraction of chemicals to pets, one only has to think of the canine variety of pets special love of antifreeze. The reason our chemicals cause this type of reaction in animals is the smell of the product. Most cleaners have a sweet or flowery smell that mimics the things in nature that each breed is attracted to naturally. What’s worse is the actual flavor of these chemicals may also mimic nature. This can be seen in children and pets who ingest paint chips containing led. The led lends a sweetness to the paint that is rather appetizing but deadly. Cirrus makes a lovely ensemble for the dogs and cats in your life that guarantee clean and don’t require the animals to wear protective equipment to survive. The vacuum set features HEPA filtration for the cleanest air and carpets with a pet odor eliminating carbon motor filter to boot. It’s an excellent method of cleaning up after your pet without endangering you or your pet. Allersearch has some wonderful cleaning products for pets that not only address the hygeine of your pet, but also benefit you as the result is a cleaner home with little effort. The Allersearch Pet+ eliminates excessive pet dander which means less of that dander in your carpets, furniture, and air. Hoover has those pesky little accidents covered with a wonderful product that will eliminate the smell by helping to eliminate the bacteria that causes the lingering odor long after the accident is a memory. Second Nature Pet Soil and Odor Eliminator delivers the clean you want without banishing the poor animal who created it. You can get all your pet cleaning supplies at EZVacuum, where pets are people, too.
Fascism and Sadism Argentina, in the mid-Nineteenth century, was experiencing what was virtually a civil war, as federalistas fought unitarios for control of that vast country. The federalista Black Lancers, under their commander, El Supremo, terrorised the countryside, abducting all who stood in their way or who were even suspected of having unitario leanings. This is a story of sadistic desires, of the drive for information and for pleasure, of enslaved women and powerful men, which reaches into modern day. No. words: 47600 We do not recommend this book for readers under 18 years of age Style: Male Dom - M/F Available Formats: MOBI EPUB MS Word PDF MS Reader Text RTF Click Here To Read An Excerpt from Fascism and Sadism Product type: EBook Published: 7 / 2017 Keywords - click on word to search for more titles civil war prisoners information torment enslaved women authors who want to remain secret!
Two persons first noticed the phenomenon when the little slimy things started pattering on their body while they were returning home late in the night. As they thought that people would reject this as a mere fantasy or concocted tale unless there was a tangible proof, they picked up some of the bubbling fish and kept them in a water-filled bucket near the village library. "There is no reason to disbelieve what the villagers say, as it is possible to have a scientific explanation for this", CK Rajan of the School of Marine Sciences of the Cochin University of Science and Technology said when asked about the phenomenon. "When convective clouds are formed, it is possible that tiny aquatic organisms get lifted to the atmoshpere. They can survive suspended in the clouds so long as the clouds have moisture content," he said.
Students have Language Arts every day. We use a core reading program in each grade. Grade 5 (as well as grades K - 4) uses the Fountas and Pinnell framework, and grades 6 - 8 use the Glencoe Literature program. Reading, writing, grammar, and vocabulary instruction is coordinated not only between the language arts teachers, but also with social studies and science teachers. Our school adopted the Lucy Calkins Units of Instruction as the primary resource for our writing program. For students who require additional instruction in reading, we offer a decoding program, SRA, during Schooner Time to provide the necessary additional instruction. For those who need additional comprehension support, we offer a Reading Comprehension Lab. We also have a Writing Lab that supports a limited number of students. \|Grade 5\|\|Grade 6\| \|Grade 7\|\|Grade 8\|
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1883 – Birth of Jan Kašpar, first Czech aviator, aircraft constructor, designer and engineer. 1917 – A Curtiss H-12 Large America flying boat of the Royal Naval Air Service destroys the first hostile submarine to be sunk by an aircraft without any form of assistance. Flight Sub-Lieutenant C.R. Morrish on a patrol from Felixstowe sighted and attacked the German submarine UC36 on the surface near the North Hinder Light Ship. 1927 – Charles A. Lindbergh takes off from New York in his Ryan monoplane Spirit of St. Louis for a non-stop solo Atlantic crossing. 1946 – A U.S. Army Air Forces C-45F Beechcraft crashed into the north side of Bank of Manhattan Building at 40 Wall Street, New York. The twin-engined plane was heading for Newark Airport on a flight from Louisiana. It struck the 58th floor of the building, killing all five people on board and creating a 20-by-10-foot hole in the masonry. 1955 – Death of Tetsuzo Iwamoto (shown above), a Sino-Japanese War and World War II fighter ace who amassed more than 80 victories for the Imperial Japanese Navy Air Force. 1965 – First flight of the de Havilland DHC-6 Twin Otter, a Canadian 19-passenger STOL (Short Takeoff and Landing) utility aircraft.
A strain of so-called ‘super lice’ has hit a reported 25 states, causing concern and frustration among parents because the bugs can’t be killed with most over-the-counter treatments. The treatments, known as pyrethroids, had a 100 percent success rate in 2000 against lice but now only work in 25 percent of cases, KSDK.com reported. A new FDA-approved treatment called AirAlle, which was developed by Lice Clinics of America, has been found to be effective against the super lice, with treatments costing about $170. “We use heated air, and we dehydrate the lice and the eggs in a single treatment,” Claire Roberts, CEO of Lice Clinics America, told KSDK.com. “It takes about an hour, and we guarantee it.” While some insurance companies will cover the cost of treatment, experts say the likely best medicine in this situation is prevention. Parents should teach their children about the repercussions of sharing hats, hairbrushes and contact with another’s hair, KDSK.com reported.
HARRISBURG, Pa. – State environmental regulators have fined a gas drilling company for allowing natural gas to escape a well in northeastern Pennsylvania. Continue Reading Below The Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection said Tuesday it fined Cabot Oil & Gas Corp. more than $76,000 for losing control of a well at its Huston pad in Brooklyn Township, Susquehanna County. Regulators say the well released natural gas for about 27 hours before it was brought under control on Jan. 6. DEP says a Cabot subcontractor who was replacing equipment at the wellhead didn't follow procedures for working on equipment in cold weather, leading to a damaged valve that released the gas. The DEP says the gas dissipated and there was no significant environmental impact.
The Egyptian army denied claims first reported Thursday in a Kuwaiti newspaper that army chief Field Marshal Abdel Fattah al-Sisi had announced his candidacy for president. A few hours after the news was reported by Kuwaiti newspaper Al-Seyassah and ran widely in the international press, the army said the paper had "misinterpreted" Sisi's intentions. The newspaper had quoted Sisi saying he had no alternative but to meet the Egyptian people's wishes for him to run. “I will not reject the demand,” said Sisi, who is seen as a decisive figure who can ease political turmoil, which has hit Egypt’s economy hard. “I will present this to the Egyptian people to renew confidence through free voting.” If Sisi does announce his candidacy, the move would almost certainly lead to increased political tensions and anger amongst Islamist militants who have stepped up attacks on the state since Sisi ousted Islamist leader Mohammed Morsi in July. It will also deepen concerns that the military will again dominate Egypt, crushing hopes of a civilian democracy born out of popular uprisings during the 2011 Arab Spring. The army leadership promoted Sisi to field marshal last month, effectively throwing its support behind his candidacy. Morsi and his Muslim Brotherhood movement accuse Sisi of staging a coup and undermining democratic gains made since a popular uprising ousted autocrat Hosni Mubarak in 2011. After deposing Morsi, Sisi unveiled a political roadmap meant to lead to free and fair elections. But under his watch, security forces have stifled dissent and mounted one of the fiercest crackdowns against the Brotherhood, drawing fire from human rights groups.,About 1,000 Brotherhood members have been killed in the streets, top leaders have been jailed and the group has been declared a terrorist organisation. The Brotherhood, which says it is a peaceful organisation, has been largely driven underground. But it is resilient and is likely to keep challenging Sisi. Al Qaeda-inspired militant groups based in the Sinai have been waging an insurgency that has gained momentum since Sisi installed a government. Hundreds of security forces have been killed in the largely lawless peninsula. The militants have also struck elsewhere, including Cairo. Western diplomats say Sisi had resisted running for president until recently, fearful that managing Egypt’s multitude of problems would be a daunting task. ‘No magic wand’ Sisi has become increasingly popular in Egypt. There are Sisi posters, T-shirts and even chocolate bars. He is portrayed as a saviour on state and private television channels. But Sisi is aware that Egyptians, with the help of the army, ousted two presidents in three years. If he doesn’t deliver, mass protests could erupt again. “We will not play with people’s dreams or tell them we have a magic wand,” said Sisi in the interview with the Kuwaiti newspaper. “I will tell them let’s join hands and work together to build this country of 90 million.” The economy has been kept afloat through political upheaval with money sent by Saudi Arabia, the United Emirates and Kuwait, who are suspicious of the Brotherhood. The government has yet to come up with a long-term plan to boost finances. (FRANCE 24 with REUTERS and AFP) Date created : 2014-02-06
Britain's parliament is to debate a petition signed by more than 4 million members of the public calling for a second referendum on European Union membership, but will not take a decision on whether to re-run last month's vote. The event will take place on Sept. 5 in parliament's second debating chamber, Westminster Hall. But Theresa May, who will take over from David Cameron as prime minister on Wednesday, has ruled out a second vote, saying "Brexit means Brexit". Parliament's petitions committee said it had decided to put the issue forward for a debate due to the large number of signatures. It stressed it was not supporting the call for another referendum. The petition, which was posted online before the June 23 referendum, said the government should hold another referendum if the support for Leave or Remain was less than 60 percent in a turnout of under 75 percent of eligible voters. "The debate will allow members of parliament to put forward a range of views on behalf of their constituents. At the end of the debate, a government minister will respond to the points raised," the committee said in a statement. It added: "A debate in Westminster Hall does not have the power to change the law, and won’t end with the House of Commons deciding whether or not to have a second referendum." The committee also pointed out that the petition called for the referendum rules to be changed, which it was now too late to do. Parliament is required to consider for debate all petitions that attract more than 100,000 signatures. Date created : 2016-07-12
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I should have observed, that for an hour or more before they went off they were dancing, and I could easily discern their postures and gestures by my glass. However, we had not much more discourse at that time, but he told me he was in too much hurry of business then, but that if I would come home to his house after their business was over, he would by that time consider what might be done for me, to put my affairs in a posture He stood in the same place and posture until the last man in the concourse had turned the corner of the street; then very deliberately took the blue cockade out of his hat; put it carefully in his pocket, ready for the next emergency; refreshed himself with a pinch of snuff; put up his box; and was walking slowly off, when a passing carriage stopped, and a lady's hand let down the glass. We therefore got all our things on board the same evening, and the next morning were ready to sail: in the meantime, lying at anchor at some distance from the shore, we were not so much concerned, being now in a fighting posture , as well as in a sailing posture , if any enemy had presented. of affairs Mr Brass observed through the glass-door as he was turning the handle, and seeing that the notary recognised him, he began to shake his head and sigh deeply while that partition yet divided them. Tech Hunch is a posture that happens when an individual's head is angled downward toward a mobile device or computer screen," explains Teresa A. Synopsis: "Good Posture Made Easy" by professional chiropractor Carrie Mayes will help any one to help themselves. Kenneth Hansraj, chief of spine surgery at New York Spine Surgery and Rehabilitation Medicine, defines poor posture as head in an inclined forward position and the shoulders drooping ahead in a rounded position. Relaxa & Posture Group are offering a range of back care health packages from as little as [pounds sterling]259 and/or online posture training from [pounds sterling]1 per user. The ball is designed to improve posture while sitting \| The ball is designed to improve posture while sitting WHAT IS IT? Simplified Tai Chi Chuan covers 24 postures with applications and pairs these with 48 standard postures , is designed for self-study, and will help martial arts readers learn both the Simplified Tai Chi Chuan 24-posture form and the 48-posture is a simple postural fault to identify using gross landmarks of the lateral malleolus, greater trochanter of the femur, and the greater tubercle of the humerus. can be recognised by slouching or leaning to one side while standing or sitting for prolonged periods of time. 16 ( ANI ): A combination of four studies has discovered that the formerly believed relation between expansive body postures and power actually depends on the person's posture and his or her cultural beliefs. 56 percent of respondents described their company as having a strong security posture as per the Wisegate 2013 IT Security Benchmark Report.
Insecurity outfit VSR Security has warned that the Linux operating system contains a serious security flaw that can be exploited to gain superuser rights on a target system. The vulnerability, in the Linux implementation of the Reliable Datagram Sockets (RDS) protocol, affects unpatched versions of the Linux kernel, starting from 2.6.30, where the RDS protocol was first included. VSR Security said that Linux installations are only vulnerable if the CONFIG_RDS kernel configuration option is set, and if there are no restrictions on unprivileged users loading packet family modules, as is the case on most stock distributions. Kernel functions responsible for copying data between kernel and user space. If they don't verify that a user-provided address resided in the user segment, a local attacker could issue specially crafted socket function calls to write arbritrary values into kernel memory. Once they have done that it is a doddle to escalate privileges to root. The outfit has been showing off a proof-of-concept exploit to demonstrate the severity of the vulnerability. The exploit was tested on Ubuntu 10.04 (64-bit) and opened a root shell. There is a patch available and the problem will be fixed in the next Kernel upgrade.
Arthur Street died in 1966, seven harvests before I was born, but I have been enthralled and inspired by his writing since I was introduced to it. His earliest work will soon be a century old, but the opinions are as relevant today as when they were first recorded. His books are a chocolate box of knowledge, sense and companionship for farmers of any age. Whenever the trials of this business get me down, I head for the bookcase (via the wine rack, of course). Street was a Wiltshire farmer who wrote for Farmers Weekly for 30 years. He joined the magazine shortly after it was launched and wrote a column every week until just before he died. “What could a modern farmer possibly learn from him?” you might ask. Well, it looks to me as though this farming lark is a cyclical business. There are cycles – climatic, economic or social – recurring constantly over varying timescales. Advice from your elders is the breakfast of farming champions. So who better than Street could one discuss the current economic crisis with? His view on life was formed during the farming depression of the 1920s and 1930s. He epitomised the self-reliance and fighting spirit that today’s farmer needs to have to survive on the mean streets of the global marketplace. Street was also one of the finest communicators that agriculture has ever produced. His opinions were a model of reason and his use of the English language was joyful in its colour, clarity and honesty. His practical wisdom engaged urban readers (he called them “townsfolk”) just as much as rural ones. There is a subtle difference between a farming writer and a writing farmer. Street was definitely a writing farmer. He wrote from the heart of the industry and celebrated the quirky details of the rural way of life. He had an innate understanding of the farming psyche, so knew when farmers had a genuine cause for grievance and when they were complaining for effect. He sometimes relished criticising the ways of his peers, but he clearly had the best interests of the industry at heart. The changes to agriculture that you and I assume to be modern phenomena – such as mechanisation, the relative cheapening of food, the urbanisation of the population and the increasing reliance on imports – were well under way during Street’s lifetime. He predicted the impact that they would have on the countryside. In a passage written in Farmers Weekly half a century ago, he expressed a view that couldn’t sound any more contemporary: “Well, this nation must choose – it can either have its countryside as a badly-farmed museum and recreation ground for townsfolk, or as its most important national industry. It cannot have both.” \|“Winter may not have quite reported present, but already one can see him coming along not so very far down the lane. During the last week or so, them leaves have been coming down very quickly, not, I think, because of frost now, but because of late frost last spring. The beeches especially have looked ragged and brown for months, and have never quite attained their summer clothing. But the rapid baring of the trees everywhere makes one’s thoughts turn to winter work and winter sport.” \| 28 October 1938 As industrialisation changed the world, Street campaigned for a respected, valued and prosperous countryside. He wanted farms to be regarded as equal to other businesses. He had faith in the ability of individual farmers to adapt – a rather avant-garde position in the post-war era of government intervention. His was a lonely voice when he asked for little state interference or warned about accepting the bureaucrat’s pound. Street’s independent views were shaped by his early life. He was born with his feet facing the wrong way and, as a child, endured many painful operations and wore leg irons. This possibly explains why his views were more liberal and fully-rounded than those of your average Victorian farmer. This is not to say he was a modest man, he clearly wasn’t. He found it hard to settle into a role on the family farm (which was already prosperous and well-staffed, by all accounts) and eventually he decided to leave to work in Canada. Gap years were rather uncommon before air travel and this was a bold but influential choice. \|“War needs are rapidly changing our farming from a business carried on by a regular staff of employees the year round, into one dependent on the regular service of one or two experts aided by the help of imported gang labour during rush periods. This, while it is obviously necessary during war, and would certainly make for more economic production during peace, means the end of farm and country life as I have known and loved it all my life.” \| 9 May 1941 The experience of agriculture on a large scale with poor labour availability was profoundly influential to Street. He admired the Canadian approach and it made him pragmatic about international trade. Consequently his later writing, while always patriotic, is never jingoistic. He returned to Wiltshire a wiser man to run the family business in the 1920s and had a few successful years before the depression began at the end of that decade. He had to shed most of his staff and relinquish land. Street managed to retain his business by changing to an outdoor milking system and selling directly to the public. He would start milking his 70 cows at 4.30am and then, in a van with “A. G. STREET, OPEN-AIR MILK” on the side, he would drive around Salisbury finding new customers. This cheap, welfare-friendly, market-led behaviour sounds sensible to us; it was actually rather enlightened in 1927. He resigned all his club memberships, gave up his country pursuits and, for seven days a week, focused on his business. He came close to bankruptcy at several points. \|“I have produced the following resolutions for 1958. To give up smoking at least twice. Not to drill any kale before June; to erect any new building at least 50% bigger than my original estimate of the size required; to use an appreciably larger tonnage of fertiliser; to kill the first rabbit that shows itself, regardless of expense; to support the repeal of Part II of the 1947 Act and the inclusion of agriculture in any European Free Trade Agreement. And last, but not least, not to expect too much from the 1958 Price Review.” \| 17 January 1958 This is why Arthur Street is a modern hero. When faced with cheap imports, a shortage of labour and low commodity prices, he adapted to survive. Although he advocated ever afterwards that farmers should engage with consumers in the same way, he clearly hated this period of his life and found retailing to be a humble profession (oh Arthur, that you had lived to see Tesco). Street never forgot the depression when the food shortages of the Second World War led to an era of protectionism. His warnings about the dangers of cheap food and a disconnected consumer sounded anachronistic and were not properly appreciated until nearly 40 years after his death. As we battle with rising input costs, the prescience of his views on the value of good grassland may soon be equally appreciated. In the columns he loyally contributed to Farmers Weekly for three decades, he employed beautifully-constructed analogies to explain his viewpoint and, in a pre-Twitter age of communication, he was an important opinion former. He campaigned on several issues and was particularly proud of his part in the abolition of the four-bushel sack and the dehorning of cattle. \|“Why any farmer has the colossal cheek to suggest that farmers should be supplied with cheap capital by the government defeats me. Farming is still a capitalistic industry, everybody knows that. So no man who goes in for it should expect to obtain capital at under market price. Furthermore, very few farmers who are unable to obtain sufficient capital in the open market would be saved from bankruptcy by an interest-free loan from the state or any other source. In most cases, that would merely prolong the agony, and make the inevitable collapse even greater.” \| 15 January 1965 Farmer’s Glory, written in 1932, is arguably his greatest work. It is the seminal text on the subject of agriculture (unless you have the stomach for Cobbett‘s Rural Rides) and is one of the most important historical records of the impact of industrialisation on the British countryside. He wrote many other well-respected novels, some became part of the school syllabus; others, such as Strawberry Roan, were turned into films. You can still find his books in secondhand bookshops or buy them via the internet through eBay, Amazon or Faber. Street also went on to become a national celebrity as a panellist on Any Questions on the Home Service. Then, as now, it was unusual to have a proper farmer celebrity and his popularity was clear evidence of his wisdom and good sense. Like most interesting men, Street was defined by his struggles, but he lived a life that any countryman would be proud of. Through his writing, he has preserved a corner of rural Britain forever. Few people can lay claim to a better legacy. \|“How true it is that a farmer can never be out of work! Simply because any day he steps out of his house and looks at the acres under his charge he will see enough work to keep him busy all his life, even if he lives to be a hundred.” \| 29 January 1965
Having a great idea can be the best tool to start a business and be successful. (article continues below) When you have a business model that comes from your own mind, you have something unique that the consumer is going to recognize as unique when they see it. If it appeals to the buyer, then they will give you their money in exchange for what you are selling. Think of this: Every necessity that we have such as electricity, air conditioning, television, cable, soap, toothbrushes and toothpaste, cars, computers, Internet, and all that we rely on started out as an idea. That idea inevitably became an invention and that invention revolutionized the way we live. Because of inventions, we are able to take better care of ourselves, indulge once in a while, take a break from everyday life, get around better, and even live longer. You can inadvertently become an important part of the lives of people. Coming up with an idea When coming up with an invention to start a business, simply think of something that you wish you had in your life but can't find anywhere. There may be several items that come to mind, so write them down and then check the Internet to see if anyone has invented what you need. If they haven't, you need to copyright your idea. To copyright your idea, you simply contact the U.S. Copyright Office and request a U.S. Trademark application. You can print this application online and then send it in with the $20 filing fee. Implementing your idea in your business Once you have your invention registered with the Copyright Office, you can then let the world know about it and use it as the basis for your business model. Everything you do will be based upon your business idea. Your business idea may also be the basis for other inventions within your business. The more you come up with original ideas that you ensure stays your own, the more profitable you can be. This is why your initial invention should be your business model. It is everything your business is going to be now and in the future. Starting your business When it is time to put your business idea into action, make sure you have a business plan in place. This means outlining how you want the business to behave. You have a record of everything you need to make the business work, how much money it is taking to start the business, and how much of a profit you hope to achieve. Through your business plan you will outline how your invention or inventions will make your business a success and set small goals to reach the ultimate goal you hope to achieve. The ultimate goal is financial independence and the satisfaction you receive when you start a business. You get even more satisfaction when it is your idea, your invention, that brought success to your life.
Posted: 14/05/2017 at 08:50 I'm with you Peanut, bluebells are not blue, and the only blue flowers I have are light blue forget-me-nots. Take a walk in the woods at this time of year and compare the bluebells to the flowers of green alkanet, which are not only a lovely true blue but look more so compared to the purple bluebells around them. A very good book on colour and its' uses is 'Colour for adventurous gardeners' by the late Christopher Lloyd. to quote Christopher Lloyd, 'more then half the flowers described as blue in seed lists plant catalogues are some shade of mauve or purple'...'more than any other colour, blue needs contrast near to it, to prevent it looking dull'.
Establishing Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) is one way countries can build the resistance of their coral reefs, and the ecosystems and communities that depend on them, says Professor Ed Gomez, Chair of the CRTR Program’s Southeast Asian Centre of Excellence. He addressed delegates to a technical workshop of the international waters conference in Cairns today on ‘Marine reserves in the Philippines: challenges, successes & perspectives’. Man-made threats facing the reefs in the Philippines include increasing population and coastal settlement, habitat modification and coastal pollution, illegal fishing and destructive fishing. Research in the region demonstrates a 90% reduction on fish biodiversity in the central Philippines over the last 100 years which has serious implications for the sustainability of fisheries resources. These effects are compounded by climate change. Rising sea levels are causing erosion, damage to coastal dwellings and infrastructure, and increasing storm density - demonstrated in this wet season by the devastating effects of typoons Ketsana, Parma and Melor. Immediate anthropogenic threats to the ecosystems must be addressed to improve their chance of recovering from the adverse effects of global change. Establishing MPAs is one way to improve ecosystem resilience. MPAs also assist in sustaining food and livelihood resources. One square kilometre of healthy coral reef is estimated to produces 20,000 kilograms of fish per year, enough to supply 400 people with 50 kilograms of fish. Filipino people are heavily dependent on protein from the sea with an estimated 50% of protein in their diet coming from the sea so healthy ecosystems absolutely underpin the country’s food security. The Philippines has is a large network of MPAs. These have met with varying degrees of success, but are improving. In the mid-1990s, only 15% of MPAs had effective management, whereas in 2007, this increased to 25%. Professor Gomez explained how networks of MPAs have been much more effective than single reserves in protecting ecosystems. The CRTR Centre of Excellence based at the University of Philippines Marine Science Institute and its laboratory in Bolinao on the Lingayen Gulf, has worked with local governments to integrate MPA management in the region. A comparative study shows that a regional approach to MPA management significantly reduces costs. Professor Gomez suggests that the network approach to MPAs could be scaled up for significant impact across the Coral Triangle, a region that is recognised as a treasure-trove of biodiversity.
Panic attacks can be avoided and are curable. First you need to recognize the symptoms. Some of the symptoms may include the following: - -Chest and stomach pain or discomfort - -Feeling of being smothered or choking - -Dizziness and nausea Symptoms are frightening; however, they are not harmful. The only reason the symptoms become present is because for some reason the mind is imagining some kind of danger. Knowing and realizing that panic attacks cannot harm you will help you to better utilize the techniques that it takes to help stop and eliminate them. Knowing what is actually causing and or triggering these attacks is the first step in combating them. Most symptoms are present due to stress or some type of event in your life. Some of the causes can be: - Traumatic events in the past - Genetic or hereditary – having a family history of anxiety disorders - Medical – mostly with heart problems - Substance abuse and withdrawal - Phobias – extreme fear of certain events or objects Once you learn what triggers your panic attacks you are a big step closer to stopping them altogether. There are a range of techniques out there that you can try, but some of the most effective methods include: -Learning relaxation techniques will help you to remain in control during the panic attack -Seeking professional help such as counselling or therapy will give you the tools and support you need to stop the attacks. One of the most successful therapies for panic or anxiety attacks is Cognitive Behavioural Therapy. In this type of therapy the therapist specifically helps you to identify the triggers for the attack and then helps you to work on what you will need to do to deal with the triggers so the attacks will stop. -In some extreme cases, medication may be used. However, it should only be used under the care of a physician since the medication may have side effects. Keeping a positive approach towards dealing with the attacks will help you to control them and possibly eliminate them all together. One of the keys to breaking the fear of a panic attack is to stop thinking about them and focus on your routine and day to day activities. Accept the fact that your life really isn’t in any danger. Once you have accepted that they are not harmful then you can learn how to control your thoughts as well as the attack itself. - License: Royalty Free or iStock source: http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/images/results.aspx?qu=panic&ex=1 Counselling Sutherland is a leading provider of Sutherland Shire psychologist and relationship counselling services in South Sydney. Robert Davies is the main contributor to the counselling sutherland website, offering readers insights into issues of common concern to clients including depression, anxiety, grief, stress and relationships.
The 36-year-old male's hand was spotted in the water as he struggled to stay afloat, on Thursday (May 25) morning near Blackfriars Road Bridge. Tower RNLI crew launched into action, at 5.11am, at the request of the UK Coastguard after crew on a Thames Clipper passenger reported the incident and the man was pulled to safety. They classed the rescue as a “life saved” (where, if it were not for the intervention of the RNLI, a person would most likely have died), saying he was just "five seconds away from drowning". Craig Burn, helm of Tower RNLI lifeboat crew, said: "We reached the scene and located him in the water with just the top of his head visible. But as we approached his head went under and all we could see was an arm and hand as he was struggling to stay afloat. "We were reaching out for him and his head came up again, and my crew grabbed his flailing arm and pulled him aboard the lifeboat. "Based on how we found him, he was probably five seconds away from drowning. Given his temperature and the water he had ingested, if we hadn’t got him there and then, he’d have gone under. "This just shows how important, how absolutely vital the advice of our Respect the Water campaign is. Water can be very dangerous and needs to be treated with respect." The rescue coinicided with the charity's - Royal National Lifeboat Institution - launch of its national drowning prevention campaign - Respect the Water. It aims to prevent people getting into distress on or near the water. The latest fatality figures showed 42 people have accidentally lost their lives along the tidal reaches of the River Thames in the past five years. Of these, an astonishing 40% did not even intend to enter the water. During the morning rescue, crews had seen the casualty had floated with the fast-moving tide through one of the arches near Blackfriars rail bridge. He was wearing dark clothes and had dark hair, which combined with limited light at that early hour, had reduced visibility. The man was treated for cold and water inhalation and was taken back to the lifeboat station where he was handed into the care of the London Ambulance Service and the Metropolitan Polices Marine Police Unit. In a key message in its campaign the charity informs how to deal with the potentially fatal effects of cold water shock. It recommends one core survival action - floating - until the effects of cold water shock pass and you can catch your breath, then try to swim to safety or call for help. RNLI is urging Londoners to remember the advice whethey on the River Thames or at sea after dats showed nearly three-quarters (74%) of people visit the coast at least once a year. Guy Addington, RNLI Community Safety Partner for London, added: "We’re asking the public to remember this lifesaving advice, share with others and practice the survival skill of floating – it could be the difference between life and death. ‘"For those who are planning to go into the water, the best way to stay safe is to choose a lifeguarded beach and swim between the red and yellow flags, which is the area most closely monitored by the lifeguards." If you see someone in danger in the water, don't attempt a rescue, call 999 and ask for the Coastguard. The Respect the Water campaign will run throughout the summer. Keep up to date with the latest news in west London via the free getwestlondon app. You can even set it to receive push notifications for all the breaking news in your area.
AG Says Lead Paint Has Been Removed from 370 Homes Monday, December 13, 2010 The communities benefiting from the work so far are: Providence, Pawtucket, Central Falls and Woonsocket. The initiative, known as the Healthy Kids Collaborative (HKC), is a joint venture of the Attorney General’s office and the Children’s Health Forum. Lynch also announced that the initiative had received a total of $850,000 in grants from the Rhode Island Compliance Assistance Program. The grants are available to communities, nonprofits, and businesses to use for one to three years. Proposals are due December 17. “While we are excited to begin work on this new phase of the unique and highly effective HKC program here in our state, we must also emphasize the significant work that has already been accomplished on behalf of ridding Rhode Island’s children of exposure to lead paint poisoning,” Lynch said. He added: “The partnership with the Children’s Health Forum has spurred partnerships with companies and organizations throughout our state that, in working in the areas of remediation, education and outreach have been enormously successful in combating lead poisoning. Since we embarked on our mission of increasing protections for Rhode Island’s infants and children, every dime of the money from DuPont is being expended to eradicate lead poisoning.” For more information on the available grants, contact Barbara Baldwin at 401/714-0414 or at [email protected].
Scuba diving in Sunny Isles Sunny Isles located in Miami County is one of the most attractive diving destinations. Its unique location allows divers to dive most of miami diving sites. Its dive sites have some of the most famous wrecks in the area. Isles dive sites attract many kinds of aqua life and help the growth of underwater life. Always dive according to your level of training. Never enter the water without checking with Sunny Isles dive centers for safety, additional information, level required for each dive site and without being accompanied by a All the information provided is purely informative for our readers and shouldn't be used as is to plan your immersion. Average annual temperature: Between 24°C and 31°C. (76° F and 89° F) Average Water surface temperature: From 21° C to 30° C (70°F to 86°F) Visibility often averaging: Visibility is between 30 and 100 feet (21 to 30 meters) Coldest time: January Warmest time: July Possible to dive all year round. Sunny Isles is one of the most favorable spots in Florida. As part of Miami County the Department of Environmental Resource Management (DERM) have developed some of Sunny Isles reef sites to help the growth of life. Sunny Isles artificial sites consist of sunken ships, tugs, army tanks and manmade concrete reefs. Some of Sunny Isles Dive sites. Matthew Lawrence or No. 7 is a 120 feet (36 meters) freighter at 50 feet of water. It is a great start for training and beginning divers. It is 200 feet (60 meters) away from the Army Tanks. Army Tank #1 is one of two army tanks a depth of 48 feet (15 meters). The Department of Environmental Resource Management (DERM) has sunk it to form an artificial reef. Now it is home to many kinds of underwater creatures like lobsters. The wreck is covered with both hard and soft corals, spiny oysters and sponges also grow in the area. The Conception is an old freighter that was sunk in 1991 to form an artificial reef. It lies at a depth of 68 feet (21 meters). Hurricane Andrew broke the wreck and the cargo area collapsed. The wreck is home to abundant sea life especially in the early morning or late afternoon. South Deep Trench is a beginner dive site at a bout 60 feet (18 meters) deep. The water is calm and very clear. The site is home to large green moray. The C One is a 120 feet (36 meters) navy steel that was sunk in 1990. The wreck is at a depth range of 45-70 feet (13-21 meters). It is home to many kinds of sea life including schools of barracuda. It is a great diving spot for intermediate divers. Graceland reef is where you can find very large green moray eel. A part of plate reef was sunk in 4 to 5 feet (1 to 2 meters) of water creating an interesting ledge and then it drops to a second dive at 18 to 22 (5 to 6 meters) feet deep. Rare species can be seen in this site like copper sweepers also nurse shark are spotted in the area.
ALL INSIGHTS POSTS Federal agencies are slowly making the switch to the new Internet Protocol, IPv6, which promises a near limitless supply of IP addresses and greater security. But beneath the surface, the transition process raises significant security concerns. New methods of technology procurement can help federal agencies obtain tools that can enhance collaboration and empower users. The military's latest recruitment and retention numbers are positive, but there are serious qualitative retention concerns that bring the military's ability to adapt to a new security environment into question. The federal government's newest health research institute, PCORI, is using big data to take a patient-centric approach to medical research. Real-time data and analytics can empower agencies to act quickly and more effectively to achieve their missions -- from infrastructure protection, to environmental conservation, to disaster relief. To help achieve its ambitious audit readiness goals, the Pentagon can enhance awareness of mission critical assets through M2M. Shared services and thoughtful centralization can help agencies be more efficient.
- Hits: 5458 Jane Gilchrist was a lifelong campaigner for socialism, and for homeopathy on the NHS. She was born Jane Valentine on 22 April 1913, the 6th of 8 children in a moderately well off middle class Jewish family. The family had come to Britain illegally centuries before and thereby managed to outwit the Inquisition. Jane’s family name is on the wall of the Bevis Marks synagogue in Houndsditch; her father’s family had helped to found it 500 years before. There was a lot of poverty in the 1920s and one of Jane’s most formative experiences as a young child was walking through Petticoat Lane with her father and asking why so many children were running around with no shoes on, whilst the stalls were stocked high with new shoes. She was clearly already well on the way to being a socialist! She was proud of her scholarship to Tollington High School for Girls and passing the Baccalaureate. (90 years later Baccalaureates are back in vogue). At that time, opportunities for higher education were almost unheard of for girls, and she became the supervisor of the telephone exchange at Selfridges and later at Aquascutum. Left: Jane in 1945 with her husband Bill Gilchrist In her early twenties she married her childhood sweetheart, a stockbroker, Norman Albu. It looked like the start of an unremarkable life. But, in 1936, with the advent of the Spanish Civil War, she joined the Communist Party, left her husband and set up home with a young communist journalist, Jack Bernstein. This action effectively saw her pretty well ostracised from her family for many years. She became very active politically. At the start of the Second World War, she helped the celebrated journalist Claud Cockburn (one of the initial contributors to Private Eye) illicitly to distribute his banned left wing newsletter ‘The Week. Apparently, their favourite hiding place was lavatory cisterns. (Claud Cockburn was able to drink almost anyone under the table, an ability he used to good effect to get information from leading politicians of the day). At that time, Jane was being bussed every day from Marble Arch to Bletchley Park, the home of the code-breakers, where she worked on the telephone exchange. The Soviet Union was an ally of Britain but it was somewhat surprising to have a well-known communist in such a sensitive job (especially as it would seem that you could easily listen into conversations on those old manual exchanges). However, her idyllic life did not last. Bernstein was diagnosed with TB and so, in an era before antibiotics, they moved to Weston-Super-Mare in the hope that the sea air would be of help. Jane became a full-time organiser of the Communist Party. She was trained as a public speaker at Marx House by Mary Pollit, wife of the CP General Secretary Harry Pollitt; a training that stood her in good stead throughout her whole life. She could get up at the turn of a hat and give an amusing speech with little or no notes, even into her 90s. In the early 20th Century there were no real mass media and major public meetings were one the main means of communication. Jane Gilchrist was the principle speaker at many large rallies in the West of England during the Second World War, for example urging the opening of the Second Front. When Bernstein died in 1943, she carried on her public speaking and it was at one such rally that Bill Gilchrist, by then a well-known trade Unionist, caught her attention by presenting a large collection ‘on behalf of the lads at the BAC’ (the British Aircraft Corporation). They married in 1945 and went on honeymoon to the Isle of Skye. Jane liked to recall that, by a touching piece of serendipity, as they walked off the ferry they were surprised to be greeted by an equally surprised Willy Gallacher, the Communist MP for Fife. Bill and Jane first had lodgings in Bristol with the family of a university physics lecturer, Cecil Powell (who was strongly sympathetic to the CP). In 1950, Cecil Powell won the Noble prize for Physics for the discovery of pions, one of the sub atomic particles that are the basis of modern electronics. Jane regularly spoke on Sundays on the soap box on Bristol Downs: not a task for the faint hearted! She stood as a Communist candidate in council elections and actively campaigned and marched for left wing causes. Bill became the full-time secretary of the shop stewards the BAC and worked with Tony Benn, Minister of Aviation and a Bristol MP, to secure the building of Concorde at Filton. Odd clanking occurred when the family phone was picked up, as it was regularly tapped. Letters arrived in the wrong envelopes after being opened at the sorting office and (deliberately) put back wrongly. In the 1980s, Jane and Bill moved to Bromley to enjoy seeing their grandchildren grow up. One day, Jane brought a member of the ANC, Moses Maphida, to Sunday lunch at her son’s house. After lunch, Moses said he needed some exercise and proceeded to dig the garden. He became secretary of the Communist Party of South Africa and, in the 2010 Football World Cup, his name was literally in lights as one of South Africa’s top new stadiums was named in his honour. ‘A gentle man but with an iron will’. Jane had been introduced to homeopathy in Bristol by a CP member. In 1980, an old friend Mimi Silver asked her to help in the snack bar at the Royal Homeopathic Hospital and she soon became one of its principal organisers. After Bill’s death in 1991, Jane’s political campaigning reduced as she became more involved with promoting homeopathy within the NHS. She had founded the Bromley Homeopathic Group in 1982 and was the driving force behind the establishment of the Bromley Homeopathic Clinic in 1995, the first new NHS homeopathic clinic for many years. It was closed down in 2005 during a wave of attacks on Homeopathy. Jane Gilchrist was as passionate in her views about medicine as she was about politics. For some 30 years she was a pillar of the Friends of the Royal Homeopathic Hospital (now renamed the Royal London Hospital for Integrated Medicine), serving on its committee, organising and serving in the snack bar. Standing at the snack bar making sardine sandwiches for patients, Jane was a good listener as well as a good talker and she took her role as its co-ordinator very seriously. When, at the age of 95, she could no longer carry on this role, she became the Hospital Friends’ Ambassador and enjoyed sitting in the waiting area, talking and informing patients of their rights to access the NHS treatment of their choice. She appeared on numerous TV and radio shows. Peter Fisher, Director of the Royal London Hospital for Integrated Medicine recalls that her approach to any attack on homeopathy was ‘I am 90-whatever it was, I don’t take any of those evil, capitalist big Pharma drugs, I owe it all to homeopathy. So don’t give me any of your cheek!’ At Jane’s funeral, Dr Fisher surmised that one of her appearances on a radio talk show was more effective than 10 of his meetings with NHS bureaucrats. Throughout her life Jane Gilchrist campaigned for and supported the Palestine and Cuba Solidarity Campaigns. For her, a highlight of her later years, at the age of over 90, was being able to combine her two passions, homeopathy and communism, in memorable trips to the homeopathic Finlay Institute in Cuba. Needless to say, she also found the energy to march against the Iraq war in 2002 and 2003. In her personal Life, Jane was unshockable and, indeed, liked to shock. Her grandchildren recall that, what was even more hilarious, was that she did it in such an everyday way that made you feel prim if you were taken aback. Their friends all like to recount the time when she got bitten by a dog walking down the road. She got a really terrible bruise which she showed to everyone. Not that shocking you might think but what did this actually involve? Dropping her trousers and pants and displaying her bottom in its entirety to anyone who would have a look. The beauty of this particular demonstration of course was that it transitioned so seamlessly into the wonder of Arnica and onto Homeopathy! Their grandmother could get an audience (and another Homeopathy supporter) out of everything. Jane particularly liked to meet and talk to people that she met anywhere, and they liked talking to her. In her later years, Jane always had her homeopathic remedies in her handbag which she frequently gave away. A friend, Cynthia Burton, recalls how a train journey to Grove Park with Jane was always an adventure and how she made many friends on buses and trains and recruited them to the snack bar, and won them over with her passion for life. Jane Gilchrist liked people with a spark, those who had ideas, even if she disagreed with them.She stuck with her principles throughout her life but she enjoyed the dialectic; she liked a good quality debate to investigate the truth of opinions. Jane was a true fighter, one of a breed that grows ever smaller, motivated selflessly by the desire to make things better for everyone in society. The world needs more people like her, but now, sadly, it has one less. Hers was indeed a long and remarkable life. Jane Gilchrist, political campaigner and supporter of homeopathy on the NHS: born London 22 April 191; married 1945 Bill Gilchrist, patternmaker and trade unionist (died 23.10. 1991); one son; died Lewisham 9 January 2014. Bob Gilchrist, incorporating contributions from family and friends. March 2014
Land Rover Range Rover Sport 0-60 mph testingEnlarge Photo Today, we have a couple of stories on plug-in hybrid luxury SUVs (they're all the rage), along with more on owning a new Tesla, a warning by GM about China, and a couple of self-driving Audi concepts. All this and more on Green Car Reports. Over the weekend, as always, we ran down last week's important green-car news stories. We also reported on German sales of electric and plug-in hybrid cars, which are now double the percentage found in the U.S. Today, our author David Noland summarizes his first few months with a 2017 Tesla Model S 100D, including the good, the bad, and the hasn't-come-quite-yet. Jaguar Land Rover first announced that it would offer plug-in hybrid models back in 2011; now, we learned plug-in hybrid Range Rovers and Range Rover Sports will arrive next March. At last week's Frankfurt auto show, among the concepts were a pair of self-driving Audi electric cars—named Elaine and Aicon. Honestly. While the plug-in hybrid Range Rovers aren't here yet, the plug-in Porsche Cayenne S E-Hybrid is, and we've driven it. Canada will mandate that taillights illuminate automatically in the evening, to prevent the problem of "phantom cars," which is a new one on us. Finally, the cars-with-names thing isn't limited to Audi: its sister brand Volkswagen will test the self-driving Sedric in 2021, it said.
Mixed Media Jewelry Tutorials (10/4/2013) http://lindapetersondesigns.blogspot.comMon, 16 Sep 2013 18:02:00 GMT I recently ran across an inspiration board on Pinterest that was all about rusty metal and turquoise patina. I loved the colors together and the way that the patina seemed to dance on the metal. I thought these colors were just gorgeous for fall and since I love all things old and worn, I decided to have a play and Explore Beyond at creating my own rustic metal shapes. I love that I have a sense of control, yet at the same time, each piece was unique in its own way. http://kimberliekohler.comSun, 23 Jun 2013 11:58:17 GMT Have you checked out my Fringe Statement Necklace Tutorial and Fringe Statement Necklace Style 2and you’re looking for something a little more free and whimsical? This tutorial not only teaches you how to make this fringe necklace, but also teaches you some great skills… Learn how to make a mixed media fringe necklace with this new tutorial with step by step instructions with more than 80 full color photos, learn the basics of wire wrapping. http://jewelrytutorialhq.comSat, 03 Aug 2013 21:00:10 GMT This is a super fun and easy jewelry making project using washers from the hardware store to make cute and colorful reversible pendants! Use coordinating or contrasting colors and patterns – come up with your own favorite combination! I did a coat of primer before painting on two coats of the color. This is probably not necessary but it certainly won’t hurt. Next time I’ll try it without the primer and see if it makes any difference in how the paint sticks to the metal, http://www.clothpaperscissors.comFri, 03 Feb 2012 10:10:00 GMT So when I spied these adorable Chirpy Birdhouse Pendants on the cover of Handcrafted Jewelry magazine (a special issue from the editors of Beadwork), I immediately sidled up to him, directions in hand. Here are the basic directions for this mixed-media and collage jewelry piece, adapted from designer Heather Alexander’s tutorial. http://happyhourprojects.comTue, 26 Mar 2013 10:00:09 GMT I love making mixed media pieces and blending different elements into one piece of jewelry. I picked up some turquoise nugget beads when I was on vacation last summer – it’s my daughter’s birthstone – and I thought Spring Bling Week would be a great time to get them out and start working with them! http://www.brandywinejewelrysupply.comFri, 28 Jun 2013 12:00:03 GMT First start out simple with these next two tutorials showing different methods to create a basic 5-6 petaled flower for jewelry. These flowers have a very cute look that are sure to please. Be sure to stock up on your basic jewelry findings to complete these pieces. This tutorial is very easy to do it or the flower is very beautiful and can be used to make a nice necklace. Learn step by step, how to create a gorgeous domino pendant using your own artwork and finishing it off with a crystal clear resin topcoat! Don’t let the wor… Watch more at: BeadingDaily.com/Free-Mixed-Media-Video Creating one-of-a-kind pieces of jewelry using keepsakes and found objects is easier than you think! J… Susan Lenart Kazmer’s Industrial Chic Jewelery line made exclusively for Michaels Industrial Chic™ is a found object jewelry component collection designed by…
With lots of tradition and innovation all over the world If we wanted to sum up what constitutes the core of Hansgrohe in a nutshell, that might read as follows: Traditionally good systems + innovative strength = worldwide success The descendants of founding father Hans Grohe have carefully nurtured and developed the systems which the Black Forest shower and mixer manufacturer brought to the world back in 1901. But only when this traditional expert knowledge was combined with modern inventive genius were the foundations laid for a company whose success would extend far into the future. Whether you are interested in the International Forum Design Award, the Axia Award or Focus Green Award: on our interactive DNA strand you will discover numerous awards that Hansgrohe has won. For outstanding product design, environmentally friendly technologies or innovative strength. For initiatives to do with demographic change, social commitment or low-emission production. For communication, fair management or good partnership.
Hartford House A Country Hotel With History Situated on one of South Africa's best-known stud farms, in a spectacular garden, Hartford House is a country hotel with a history. Louis Botha took over command of the Boer forces at the foot of the farm in 1899; General Dawid Joubert signed for his copy of the Treaty of Vereeniging at Summerhill at the end of hostilities in 1902, and had his troops plant the entrance avenue as a commemoration; and Hartford has hosted Jan Smuts and Sir Winston Churchill. SPICE spoke to owner Mick Goss and GM Duncan Bruce. Whose idea was Hartford House? The conviction which led to the conversion of our home into a hotel came from Mick's wife, Cheryl. She felt that once the children had completed their schooling, this heritage gem could serve no better purpose than to be committed to the use of the public of this country and its international visitors. Why does it work? Hartford is part of the Summerhill Estate and together they attract 70 to 80 people a day, which converts to more than 30 000 visitors annually - arguably the most visited hospitality destination in the Midlands. Hartford has an exceptional reputation for its food. Former head chefs include Richard Carstens and Jackie Cameron, who piloted the restaurant into the national top 10. The current chef, Constantijn Hahndiek, is a finalist in the San Pellegrino Young Chef of the Year. What make it different? It is the only world-class hotel, on a world-class stud farm, in the world. Summerhill Stud has been the champion racehorse-breeding establishment in South Africa nine consecutive times in a an era when the landscape is heavily populated by billionaires. The estate is 3 000 acres, populated not only by horses but by a large variety of game species. Where are your guests from? Our mix includes strong followings from Gauteng, KwaZulu-Natal and, more recently, the Western Cape during winter. Our traffic is about 80% local and 20% foreign. That changes to roughly 60% local and 40% foreign in the warmer months. Do guests come back? Our biggest marketing tool is word of mouth. We have many return guests, some of whom have been coming back consecutively for the past 10 years, staying in the same suites and, remarkably, wanting the same menu. Average duration of stays? Our weekends are generally based on a two-night stay. During the off season our midweek stays are one night, and three to four nights in season. What recurring feedback do you get? "Thank you for your warm hospitality, world-class food, interesting wine selection and beautiful surroundings." How do you hit the "service" balance between privacy and attention? We need to respect our guests' privacy, but it's also extremely important that we get to know you. In that way we are able to anticipate your needs and offer you warm and engaging service. Oddest request or behaviour? We have often transformed our racetrack to host mini race days for birthday celebrations. We even have a commentator and betting tote. Particular point of pride? Hartford's traditional dance troupe, the Ngobamakhosi, is the national champion and has ranked second and third in the world. Last August, the group wowed audiences at the Royal Edinburgh Military Tattoo. The dinner and wine pairing, it's a culinary delight. The senior food critic for Europe at the Wall Street Journal, Bruce Palling, proclaimed Hartford one of the top three country restaurants in the world. Any new developments? Hartford is engaged in a major makeover of its famous gardens. As part of the project we are developing an enchanting "tea house". Had any celebs popping in lately? Heads of state, government ministers, captains of business and sports celebrities are among the regular clientele. Extract From SPICE
Heavy drinking may increase the risk of lung problems, a new study suggests. "Alcohol appears to disrupt the healthy balance in the lung," said study lead author Dr Majid Afshar, of Loyola University Chicago. He is an assistant professor in the division of pulmonary and critical care medicine and department of public health sciences. Afshar's team analyzed data from more than 12 000 American adults. The researchers found that heavy drinkers (more than one drink a day for women and more than two drinks a day for men) and people who binge-drink at least once a month had less nitric oxide in their exhaled breath than non-drinkers. Binge-drinking is consuming four or more drinks per occasion for women and five or more drinks for men. Also, the researchers found that the more alcohol heavy drinkers consumed, the lower the level of nitric oxide. Nitric oxide helps protect the lungs against certain types of harmful bacteria, the researchers explained. The study is the first to find a link between excessive drinking and nitric oxide, according to the researchers. The findings were published recently in the journal Chest. In asthma patients, nitric oxide levels in exhaled breath give a good indication of how well their medication is working. Excessive drinking might complicate the results of such tests, the researchers said. "Lung doctors may need to take this into consideration," Afshar said in a university news release. He added that further research is needed to learn more about the interaction between alcohol and nitric oxide in the airways.
Eye tests prevent blindness Eye Tests Most people say losing their eyesight is the disability they fear most and yet tragically 50% of visual impairment in the UK is preventable through early detection. Optometrists are at the frontline in the fight to prevent blindness caused by conditions like glaucoma. According to Geoff Roberson, Professional Advisor with the Association of Optometrists, regular eye tests help pick up the first signs of disease and abnormality in the eye. He says: “An eye examination can detect many serious eye conditions early allowing prompt treatment and better prognosis. “The problem with many eye conditions is, unlike tooth ache, there is no pain. In the case of glaucoma, where internal pressure damages the retina, the onset is gradual and there are no symptoms until the late stages. Once someone has lost their sight, it may be too late and can not be reversed." “Visual impairment is devastating for patients and families and a burden on health services. People need ongoing support for the rest of their life.” Mr Roberson recommends eye tests for adults at least every two years, more often where there are risk factors. Optometrists see millions of people a year across the UK for eye tests, which also detect other health conditions. Mr Roberson explains: “The eye is the only part of the body where you can see blood vessels, arteries and veins, by looking through the pupil. This gives an indication of general health, detecting things like high blood pressure, diabetes and hardening of the arteries. The optometrist can pick up even rare conditions such as brain tumors and strokes.” Up to 4.5million GP appointments and 270,00 A&E visits annually are for eye problems. Mr Roberson says optometrists should be the first port of call for non-urgent eye issues, relieving pressure on GPs and Accident and Emergency.
Before I-5 or Highway 99, before logging trucks, gas stations or cruising Colby, Everett was home to a print shop owner named Wilde Knisely. He had the first car in town. It was a 1902 Grout Steamer, a $1,000 beauty the Pennsylvania native had shipped to Everett from Orange, Mass. “Knisely then gave rides all over Everett as well as exploring all available wagon roads around the county. The Grout made about 30 miles per hour, used chain drive and consumed a lot of fuel making steam, getting about 10 miles per gallon of what we assume was stove oil or kerosene.” That little story and a 1911 Everett Herald photo of Knisely’s car are among the brief, wonderfully illustrated history lessons in a 2014 calendar titled “Everett Rolls into the Auto Age.” It’s the latest edition of calendars produced by Historic Everett, a local nonprofit heritage and preservation group. Like this year’s “Saloons and Brothels,” a 2012 calendar featuring architect Earl Morrison’s local buildings, and a previous calendar with the theme of historic Everett churches, this one is a collector’s item. “The credit goes to Dave Ramstad,” said Jack O’Donnell, an Historic Everett board member who also compiles our long-running Seems Like Yesterday column from The Herald’s archives. Ramstad did the writing and research for the 2014 calendar, O’Donnell said. It’s a calendar that doubles as a little local history book. There are tales of people and places, as well as day-by-day listings of past events in Everett. Along with its vintage photos, “Everett Rolls into the Auto Age” is illustrated with colorful local maps, which O’Donnell has collected through the years along with antique postcards and old car pamphlets. David Chrisman, a former Historic Everett board member, is the “master of layout” who designed the calendar, O’Donnell said. The real prizes are the old photos. Oldtimers will remember the places pictured, and some will recognize the buildings for their current uses. The Mission-style H.W. Wood Motor Company, designed by Earl Morrison and built in 1929 at Hewitt and Rucker avenues, is now Peak Fitness. By 1953, the dealership at 2902 Rucker Ave. was operated by Frank Platt and Harold Walsh. It was known for a half-century as Everett’s “Dodge corner,” according to the calendar. On the cover is a picture, believed to be from 1932, of Chas. Edeen Automotive Service at the northeast corner of Rockefeller and Everett avenues. The station was charging 18.5 cents a gallon for Red Crown gasoline. The photo for May 2014 shows an eye-catching place many remember. Tony’s Bayview Service, a service station at 1002 Hewitt Ave. near the waterfront, was run by Tony Dyre, who became a Port of Everett commissioner. The gimmick that made the place stand out was a war surplus fighter plane, a Curtiss P-40 Warhawk. It was flown to Paine Field, trucked into town, and placed atop Dyre’s gas station. It was an Everett icon from 1948 until 1968. Also on the gas station roof in the 1955 picture are Tony’s Bayview Service All-Stars, a local baseball team that included Mike Dire, who became an Everett dentist, and his brothers Buzz, Oz and Chris. The building was later used by the Everett Stevedoring Company before being demolished in the 1980s. And that old warplane? It is now in the Experimental Aircraft Association AirVenture Museum in Oshkosh, Wis. Andrea Tucker, Historic Everett’s acting board president, said proceeds from the $20 calendar will support the group’s talks, an annual home tour and other educational programs. Organization memberships are $25 per year, with senior and family discounts available, she said. The calendar’s only color photograph shows Colby Avenue, bustling with downtown traffic and shoppers. It was taken by Bob Mayer, with a telephoto lens, at Christmastime 1969. Earlier that year, the Boeing 747 took its first flight. Everett Mall didn’t exist. O’Donnell remembers the way it used to be, when high schoolers cruised in their cars just for fun. “Much of my misspent youth was spent tooling Colby,” he said. Julie Muhlstein: 425-339-3460, [email protected]. Historic Everett’s 2014 calendar, “Everett Rolls into the Auto Age,” is on sale for $20 at these Everett locations: J. Matheson Gifts, 2615 Colby Ave.; Peak Health &Fitness, 2902 Rucker Ave. Proceeds fund the nonprofit group’s programs. Information: www.historiceverett.org. The Edmonds Historic Preservation Commission has released its 2014 Historic Edmonds Calendar. Free while supplies last, it is available 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. weekdays in the lobby of Edmonds City Hall, 121 Fifth Ave. N.; at the Edmonds Historical Museum, 118 Fifth Ave. N.; or next door at the Ganahl-Hanley Log Cabin, 120 Fifth Ave. N. Calendar was funded by a grant to the Edmonds Historic Preservation Commission.
Laboratory and Blood Bank The Laboratory provides a comprehensive range of tests in hematology, biochemistry, immunology, microbiology, cytology and pathology to patients and doctors. The Laboratory works 24/7 to ensure in, and out-patients are provided with the best quality care available. It is well equipped with the latest automated technology and uses barcode readers to support accurate patient identification and tracking of results. Thanks to Laboratory Information System (LIS) and integrated Hospital Information System (HIS) test results are available to doctors in a timely manner and can be accessed by our patients via a secured portal on the hospital’s website. At HFH we aim to provide the best quality services currently available and our stringent quality assurance and quality programs together with a strict preventative maintenance and calibration systems ensures the accuracy of all tests performed. In addition to our internal quality control systems HFH laboratory has been accredited with external quality control programs like RCPA, Australia, CAP (College of American Pathologists), US, and Randox, Center for Standardization and Quality Control of Hanoi Medical University and undergoes annual survey and accreditation processes. The Laboratory Department is also responsible for supplying blood and blood products that may be required by our patients and is 100% compliant with blood transfusion safety regulations to guarantee the safety of blood and blood products utilized in the hospital The Laboratory plays an active role in the hospital’s Infection Prevention and Control Program and Active Surveillance Program to minimize the risk of hospital acquired infections to all our customers and staff. Dr. Ngo Thi Thi • 1975-2007: Microbiology specialist, Head of Microbiology Department, National Pediatric Hospital, Hanoi, Vietnam. • 2008-2010: Microbiology Specialist – Oxford University of Clinical Research Unit, Hanoi, Vietnam. • 2011till present: Microbiology Specialist in laboratory of Hanoi France Hospital. - First report on Clinical Features of Mycoplasma pneumoniae infection in Vietnamese children. Japan. J . Infection 60, 370-373, 2007. - Usefulness of quantitative culture methods using bronchial secretion for identification of bacteria in community acquired pneumonia among children in Vietnam. Japan . J . Infection. Dis 111-116, 2006. - Genetic and phenotyphic characterization of haemophilus influenzae type B isolated from children with meningitis and their family members in Vietnam. - Haemophilus influenzae type B, molecular biological characteristics familial contagious source. Vietnam Journal of Preventive Medicine . Vol 15. No5, 2005. - A high level of drug resistance of bacterial pathogens isolated form pediatric patients with acute respiratory infections in Vietnam, 2002. - Antibiotic resistance of Heamophilus influenzae and Streptococcus pneumoniae form children admitted to the NHP during 1994-1998. - Bacteremia in children : pathogens and antibiotic resistance, 1999. Dr. Pham Hoang Yen • 1986 – 2013: Bacteriology Consultant - National Reference Laboratory - National Lung Hospital , Hanoi, Vietnam • 2003 – 2013: Head of Bacteriology non Tuberculosis Section - National Reference Laboratory , Hanoi, Vietnam • 2013-present: Head of Bacteriology Unit – Laboratory Hanoi French Hospital, Hanoi, Vietnam. Dr. Do Thi Minh Huyen - 1984: Medical Doctor, Hanoi Medical University, Hanoi, Vietnam - 1987: Specialization Degree Level 1 in Hematology, Hanoi Medical University, Hanoi, Vietnam - 1998: Master of Science in Medicine, Hanoi Medical University, Hanoi Vietnam - 2008: Certificate of Internal Audit Systems - Quality Management ISO 9001-2000, Metrology Institute, Vietnam - 2014: Certificate for Laboratory Bio-safety 2nd degree, Hygiene and Epidemic Institute, Hanoi, Vietnam - 2016: Certificate for Quality Management Systems ISO 15189-2014, Metrology Institute, Vietnam - 2016: Certificate In Management System Documentation, ISO 15189-2012, Ministry of Science and Technology Bureau of Accreditation (BoA ), Vietnam - 1984-1987: Residency in Internal Medicine, Hanoi Medical University, Vietnam - 1987-1988: Residency in General Hematology, Hanoi Medical University, Hanoi, Vietnam and Central Pediatric Hospital, Hanoi, Vietnam for Master Degree. - 2002: Hematologic Diseases, Melbourne Royal Hospital, Melbourne, Australia - 1990-2003: Doctor in Hematology, Laboratory of Pediatric Hospital, Hanoi, Vietnam - 2003-2008: Doctor in Hematology, Laboratory of Hanoi French Hospital, Hanoi, Vietnam. Responsible for daily routine in the fields of hematology, biochemistry, immunology, and microbiology - 2008-present: Head of Laboratory Department Hanoi French Hospital , Hanoi, Vietnam - Hematology and Transfusion medicine - Clinical Biochemistry and Immunology - Microbiology and Infection Control - Quality Management and Bio-safety
The University of Deusto is a 125 years old University being the oldest private University in Spain. It belongs to the Jesuits, and its mission is inspired on the promotion of global social justice. With close to eleven thousands students, 15% of them international, the University of Deusto is remarkable for its capacity to combine a number of contrasting elements: local roots and global challenges, historic awareness and concerns for the future, leadership engagement and social commitment. In 1994, the University started teaching the Diploma on International Humanitarian Aid, which in 1998 became a European Master Degree in International Humanitarian Action (shared with other NOHA Universities). The University of Deusto has kept always in mind the importance of offering high quality education and tailored specialization to humanitarian actors, trying to adapt constantly to the needs of a sector which has changed drastically in the last 18 years. Deusto University is the reference centre in Spain for Higher Education on Humanitarian Studies.
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The many volunteers of the Langur Project Penang (LPP) have come to recognise Te Piek as an endearing male juvenile dusky leaf monkey (or langurs) who is playful and loves to explore the habitat which he finds home near the Teluk Bahang forest. His given name, Te Piek (which means ‘unique’ in Hokkien) came from his curiosity and intelligence, and he is always seen playing with a stick, or leading the other juveniles for playtime & foraging. Although he is a bright-eyed, independent and brave little langur, Te Piek as a juvenile is still very much attached to his mother; following her closely wherever they move around in the trees. Langurs are arboreal animals, which mean they groom, forage, play and rest on trees. However, forests today are often fragmented due to urban development such as highways - which made it difficult for wildlife to cross over from tree to tree for food and shelter. It has become a challenge for them to leap safely from one side to the other as the canopies of trees become sparse due to the fragmentation. In many cases, arboreal animals such as langurs have resorted to the electrical cables to get across, where available. On 13th August, 7:15pm – a fellow LPP volunteer came across the lifeless body of a dusky leaf monkey by the roadside. Upon closer inspection – it was a male juvenile who had actually lost his balance on the electrical cable during a routine travel across the road to the trees opposite the road for food and rest. The juvenile had fallen onto the road and succumbed to a severe trauma when his small head hit the curb. It was Te Piek, he didn’t make it across the road that evening. The LPP team managed to arrive at scene around 10pm to retrieve Te Piek’s body. As part of the documentation, his weight and different parts of his body length were measured before he is preserved in an ice-box which would be transported to PERHILITAN for further action. Juvenile langurs have less experience compared to adults, they risk losing their lives each time they attempt to get across the roads. Whether through the fate suffered by Te Piek or getting killed by a moving vehicle, we seldom stop to think how this happened – not realising how vulnerable the lives of these defenceless langurs are. And how everything changed for Te Piek’s close knitted family, that evening he tragically lost his balance from the electrical cable and fell to his death. LPP stands for giving a voice to the voiceless natural inhabitants of Penang. The loss of Te Piek further strengthens our belief that there is much work to be done, words to be spread and awareness to be sown to the public. In the midst of rapid urban development, everyone of us actually have a role to play as a responsible citizen. As a start, kindly practice caution and avoid speeding when you drive along the Batu Feringgi – Teluk Bahang roads as these areas are known to be habitat of the langurs and other wildlife. Secondly, if you come across wildlife road kills - please alert PERHILITAN through this number 1-800-88-5151 so that the body of the animals could be handled properly. After all that has been said and done – the passing of Te Piek has broken many hearts of the volunteers of LPP. Needless to say, we will all miss him and his quiet, gleeful moments playing with the sticks he picks up from the forest he called home. We hope everyone would also come to know and appreciate the lives of the langurs by understanding how vulnerable their lives are. As the saying goes, “Tak kenal maka tak sayang”. In the fondest memory of Te Piek (Feb 2015- 13 August 2016)
Devise is an awesome library for authentication with Rails. Things are extremely simple to setup for most cases but when you begin implementing slightly trickier business logic, it can become a pain. And the real reason is mainly just because the wiki needs a little love. They iterate quickly, and documenting everything in a newbie friendly wiki page is often hard to do. So I’m going to take a quick stab at documenting my implementation: I’m working on an application that runs on multiple domains and subdomains. Each domain has it’s own set of admins and users. The admins are tied to a domain, and users are tied to a subdomain of that domain. Both of these need to allow authentication via a username field as opposed to the standard email field. Starting out, we implemented the models just like normal with Devise. Generate custom views for each, and follow this tutorial for adding username authentication. After I got everything setup, admin users could login just fine, but users could not. What was worse, was the Devise Sessions controller was executing but never calling ` find_for_database_authentication on the model. I had no idea what was going on, and all I could get Devise to do was return a Completed 401 Unauthorized` error and immediately re-render the login form. This is where we differentiate a bit. In that tutorial, they suggest that you set the devise.rb like this: config.authentication_keys = [ :login ] Well this is actually going to be the source of our problems. In order to authenticate admins based upon a specific domain, we’re going to include the domain_id inside of the login form as a hidden field. In order to use the domain_id inside the model for authentication, we added it to the authentication_keys array: config.authentication_keys = [ :login, :domain_id ] But wait! That works for admins because they are based upon the domain. Users authenticate against a subdomain, not a domain_id. The users need authentication_keys like this: config.authentication_keys = [ :login, :subdomain_id ] And we put the subdomain_id as a hidden field in their new session form. This is a problem, because the initializer only runs once. We need some way to change this at runtime based upon which type of user is authenticating. After a long time searching for a solution to the 401 Unauthorized, I found out that the authentication_keys was the cause of the problem (after having a hunch). The bad part was that I wasn’t able to find a method for debugging the issue. I found the solution on Stack Overflow that pointed out that you’re actually able to set authentication_keys on the model itself in the devise call like so: devise :database_authenticatable, :registerable, ..., :authentication_keys => [:login, :domain_id] Nifty! We can set these dynamically without touching the initializer. This lets us cleanly customize the authentication without much work. I’ll be updating the wiki to add this functionality because I certainly can’t be the only one who searched long and hard for a solution!comments powered by Disqus
Most companies (including web startups), he said, are looking to “wow” with their products, when in reality what they should be looking for is an “‘of course’ reaction from their users.” Puzzled, I looked at him. And then it hit me: Great design means that one look and the end user reacts by knowing what to do with a knob or a button, without as much as even thinking about it. Of course this knob is what turns the volume up, or brings up the home screen. This of course factor is at the heart of every great design — from the iPhone to the Braun alarm radio. And it’s an important lesson that every startup and entrepreneur should remember. Whether your company is making a physical product or a web service or mobile application, it’s essential for you to think about design. Source:comments powered by Disqus
The first photograph below was scanned from the book Springfield Present and Prospective, which was printed and engraved by the local company, F. A. Bassette, and published in 1905 by Pond & Campbell Publishers, also of Springfield. Taken by A. D. Copeland, the photograph shows the Masonic Hall on the corner of State and Main streets. The subsequent two photographs were taken yesterday morning by a soggy guy with more camera-batteries than common-sense. It's kind of fun to hunt for the differences in the photographs taken more than a century apart, and interesting to see the transformation the building at 115 State Street has undergone over the years. I like the old-photo version myself. Back when the clock kept time. Jeepers, you turn your back for a century and they're building something new... Thanks for stopping by and have a great Christmas Eve!
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Some years ago, I had a minor entanglement with Alex Dally McFarlane and the notable hatemonger known as Requires Hate (also known as Winterfox, Benjanun Sriduangkaew, and too many other aliases to mention here), where they bullied a friend of mine off of Twitter and very nearly out of fandom altogether for the crime of Not Being Anti-Racist Enough. So proud was MacFarlane of this feat, that she crowed about it on Twitter (tweet since deleted) and in a blog post on her own site which – at the time of this writing – is still up. (In case it should mysteriously disappear at some point in the future, here’s a copy from The Wayback Machine.) As mentioned in the comments, the tweets MacFarlane presents are quite one-sided, and she tells a wee porkie about the number of people who confronted her for bullying. Alas, I didn’t screencap the whole conversation at the time, as like most of the people involved, I simply blocked and moved on, figuring – to quote MacFarlane’s own words to me – Not interested in working with idiots. However, things have recently started to come to light suggesting that this was not simply an isolated incident. Should you wish to go deeper down the rabbithole, Laura Mixon has a very fine overview of Requires Hate’s output over the last ten or more years. These are not just isolated incidents. Many other people are now discovering that they, too, were bullied by Requires Hate, often abetted by MacFarlane. Many of them didn’t realise it was a campaign of deliberate hatred, and often blamed themselves. Others had seen how people who attempted to speak up against Requires Hate were bullied and attacked in literally every venue on the Internet where they appeared. Here’s Requires Hate attacking a rape victim for over six months. And now, one-by-one, her victims are beginning to speak up. To realise: It was not me. It was not my fault. And I was not alone. And people are beginning to realise that those who attacked anyone who dared to disagree with them under the battle flags of Justice For The Oppressed and If You Are Not With Us Then You Are Complicit In Oppression might not be doing it because they believed in the causes they espoused. Requires Hate, for example, has been sending death threats to people who disagreed with her for years before cloaking it in the flag of social justice. And now all the karmic justice that has been piling up behind her has finally caught up. The mills of god grind slowly, but they grind exceedingly fine. If you’ve been harassed by Requires Hate, you may want to contact Laura with details. As Laura says, “BS/RH’s targets need to know that they are heard and believed.” Each person who reveals their story makes it easier for the next person to reveal theirs. It’s often said that sunshine is the best disinfectant. Let us bring some sunshine into the dark corners of this world.
Contents - Index The Paste command function depends on which window is foremost when the command is issued. Paste moves the text stored in the Clipboard to the cursor position in the Equations window. Text is placed in the Clipboard with the Cut or Copy commands in EES or in other applications. When Paste is used in the Parametric or Lookup Table windows, the numerical values stored in the Clipboard will be copied to the table starting in the cell in which the cursor is currently located. Data can be moved between the Parametric and Lookup Tables using the Cut, Copy, and Paste commands. The names and units of columns in the Lookup table can be pasted using the Paste Special command. If the number of rows or columns of data stored in the Clipboard exceeds the number or rows or columns in the Lookup table, an alert will appear offering the option of increasing the number of rows or columns in the table. A similar option is provided for rows in the Parametric table. If the Plot window is foremost, and a text or graphic item previously copied to the Clipboard, the Paste menu item will display 'Paste text' or 'Paste object'. Text and graphic items can be copied from one EES plot window and pasted into another or into another instance of EES.
What is diaper dermatitis? Diaper dermatitis, commonly known as a diaper rash, is a term used to describe different skin rashes in the diapered area. The rash is usually red, scaling and, rarely, ulcerated. It is most commonly seen in infants between the ages of 9 to 12 months, but may begin within the first 2 months of life. What causes diaper dermatitis? Possible contributors to diaper dermatitis include the following: irritation - from urine and feces trapped in the diaper. candida diaper dermatitis - dermatitis caused by a yeast infection in the diaper area, often preceded by diaper dermatitis. seborrheic diaper dermatitis - a common, chronic skin condition that can affect the diaper area as well as other locations on the body. Other less common causes of dermatitis in the diaper area include the following: impetigo - dermatitis caused by a bacterial infection. perianal streptococcal disease - dermatitis caused by a streptococcus. allergic dermatitis - a type of dermatitis that is rare in the first 2 years of life, but may be caused by soaps and detergents, or the diaper. What are the symptoms of diaper dermatitis? The symptoms of diaper dermatitis vary depending on the cause of the dermatitis, and may be different for each child that is affected. The following are common characteristics of the rash that may occur with each type of infection: candida diaper dermatitis - this rash usually begins in the creases or folds of the thighs and in the diaper area, and then spreads. The rash is usually a deep, red, shiny rash with red, satellite lesions. This type of rash may be associated with thrush, a yeast infection in the baby's mouth. seborrheic diaper dermatitis - this rash also affects the skin folds in the groin area and is usually pink. Infants may also have this rash on their face, scalp, or neck at the same time. contact diaper dermatitis - this rash is mostly seen on the buttocks and may extend to the thighs, stomach, and waist area, but does not generally involve folds in the area. The rash is usually red and shiny. The symptoms of diaper dermatitis may resemble other skin conditions. Always consult your child's physician for a diagnosis. How is diaper dermatitis diagnosed? Diaper dermatitis is usually diagnosed based on the location and appearance of the rash during physical examination of your child. In addition, your child's physician may do skin scraping to aid in the diagnosis. Treatment for diaper dermatitis: Treatment for diaper dermatitis will vary based on the cause of the dermatitis. Specific treatment for diaper dermatitis will also be determined by your physician based on: your child's age, overall health, and medical history extent of the condition your child's tolerance for specific medications, procedures, or therapies expectations for the course of the condition your opinion or preference Treatment may include: removal of the diaper for a few days medicated diaper cream (as prescribed by your child's physician) anti-inflammatory creams moisture-resistant diaper creams Proper skin care is also very important in preventing diaper dermatitis. This includes: keeping the diaper area clean and dry. changing diapers frequently. allowing the diaper area to air dry at times. limiting the use of soap and other harsh cleaners in the diaper area. Click here to schedule an appointment Queens or/and send alternative medicine and healing without medications specialist your health question or call "Feel Good Acupuncture" at 646-327-7267.
“We welcome EU’s efforts to verify the present exploitive situation in Cambodia. There has been global clamor against the rampant state-perpetrated human rights violations in the country, and the EU’s pressure may finally push the government to divert from corporate-driven development to finally meeting the demands of its people especially to land,” said Roy Anunciacion, global secretariat coordinator of PCFS. Touted as the solution to Vitamin A deficiency (VAD) in developing countries, Golden Rice patent owner Syngenta – now owned by ChemChina – has been funding field trials in Bangladesh and Philippines. Farmer groups from both countries, however, have taken the streets and uprooted the crops in response. International green and rural groups have also expressed opposition to the Golden Rice initiative as its health and environmental risks were not properly measured. “The farmers group of Hacienda Medina have been fighting for their right to the land. Maneuvers by Uy have endangered their families and their livelihood,” said NFSW. “Land related killings have been escalating in the province. Berallano is the third NFSW member slain and the 27th victim of political killing in Negros,” the federation added. “Instead of tackling the root causes of these conflicts – landlessness and absence of social justice, these governments time and time again side with the landgrabbers and unleash its brutal onslaught to the struggling farmers. But as LCP puts it, ‘el terror no se detendrá la lucha por la tierra’ [Terror will not stop the fight for land].” We are alarmed by these approvals as they set the stage for the commercial production and distribution of Golden Rice in Asia, particularly in Bangladesh, India, Indonesia, and the Philippines where rice is a staple food. We continue to challenge the false claim that Golden Rice, genetically-engineered to produce beta carotene, will help address the high incidence of Vitamin A deficiency (VAD) in these rice-producing and consuming countries.
Anamorph: not known. Teleomorph: Ascostromata scattered or aggregated, 350‒470 µm tall, 250‒380 µm diam, semi-erumpent, globose to globose-conical, sometimes flattened at the base, the apical part papillate with a well-developed matt black irregular crest to 230 µm tall and to 250 µm in length. Ascostromatal wall 15‒30 µm thick laterally, rather thinner at the base, strongly melanized, composed of 4‒6 layers of flattened angular cells. Interascal tissue composed of copious thin-walled anastomosing pseudoparaphyses 1.5‒2.5 µm diam, lacking a gelatinous matrix. Asci 80‒110 × 11‒14.5 µm, narrowly clavate, with a short tapered stalk 12‒25 µm in length, fissitunicate, with a small ocular chamber, 8-spored. Ascospores arranged biseriately, 18–25(–29.5) [mean 22.6, sd 1.54, n=40] × 4.5–6 [mean 5.4, sd 0.33, n=40] μm, clavate-fusiform, rounded at the apex and ± acute at the base, usually 5-septate, constricted at the septa and slightly more so at the slightly submedian primary septum, the cell immediately above the primary septum usually a little inflated, guttulate when young, becoming mid brown, the end cells not less strongly pigmented, smooth-walled or faintly verrucose, without a gelatinous sheath or appendages. No conservation assessment has been carried out. As currently defined, the species appears to be quite rarely encountered over much of its range and it may be of conservation concern, but currently it is not sufficiently well defined in morphological or molecular terms to allow a formal assessment. Its apparently wide host range might indicate lesser concern, if the species is truly plurivorous. Characterized especially by its clavate-fusiform ascospores. The species is rather variable and may represent a taxon complex. Apparently plurivorous, although primarily known as a grass associate. In GB&I, reported from dead culms, leaves, stems etc. of Apiaceae (Heracleum sphondylium), Caryophyllaceae (Silene latifolia subsp. alba), Cyperaceae (Carex arenaria), Fabaceae (Ononis spinosa subsp. procurrens), Onagraceae (Epilobium hirsutum), Poaceae (Dactylis glomerata., Festuca arundinacea, Leymus arenarius, Phragmites australis, Poa nemoralis), Rosaceae (Filipendula ulmaria) and Urticaceae (Urtica dioica). In GB&I, reported from England (Nottinghamshire, E Sussex, Warwickshire, N Wiltshire and SW Yorkshire) and Scotland (Benbecula). Elsewhere, scattered throughout northern temperate regions.
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Using Repeat Photography to Observe Vegetation Change Over Time in Gorongosa National Park HANNAH V. HERRERO, JANE SOUTHWORTH, ERIN BUNTING, and BRIAN CHILD Article first published online: JUN 2017 African Studies Quarterly ABSTRACT: Protected areas are important conservation tools, as they can be managed to preserve baseline ecosystem health, including that of vegetation dynamics. Understanding long-term ecosystem dynamics within a protected area enables one to understand how this static park landscape responds to outside pressure and changing drivers. In this study, a repeat photography analysis was used to analyze changes in the vegetation pattern and abundance at Gorongosa National Park in Mozambique across seventy-two years of the parks history. Archival photographs dating as far back as 1940 were selected for sites that could be relocated in a subsequent field visit in 2012. Qualitative and quantitative analysis on vegetation abundance by structural group was undertaken using Edwards’ Tabular Key. Results when comparing the photographic pairs show that, in general, tree cover has increased on average from 25 percent to 40 percent over the last seventy-two years. This 15 percent increase may be in response to environmental drivers such as human management, herbivory, fire, and precipitation. Contrary to many recent studies on shrub encroachment in southern Africa, this study finds an increase in tree cover. Such analysis and results are valuable in that they demonstrate long-term ecological change within a managed protected area. Read the full publication at African Studies Quarterly
High Force Waterfall on the River Tees High Force is a spectacular waterfall on the River Tees in the County on Durham. High Force was formed where the River Tees crosses the Whin Sill – a hard layer of rock. The waterfall itself consists of two different types of rock. The upper band is made up of whinstone, a hard rock which the waterfall takes a lot of time to erode. Underlying the whin sill is a layer of of Carboniferous Limestone, a softer rock which is easily worn away by the waterfall. This creates a plunge pool beneath the waterfall. As the limestone is eroded the whin sill is left over hanging the waterfall. Eventually the overhang collapses. If you are in the area it is also worth visiting Low Force. You can find out more about High Force on Internet Geography.
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The September 3rd GlassFacts entry was on Cindy Jenkins's book Making Glass Beads. Several of you wrote to suggest other lampworking titles that are important parts of your own libraries. So here are three recommendations from your fellow GlassFacts.Info readers. (Descriptions provided by Amazon.com). Passing the Flame - A Beadmaker's Guide to Detail and Design by Corina Tettinger – Oh how I wish I would have had this Corina Tettinger book on lampworking when I started beadmaking! This is the best book I have seen (and I have them all!) for step-by-step instructions on how to make various designs in lampwork glass beadmaking. More Than You Ever Wanted To Know About Glass Beadmaking by James Kervin – This book has information on all methods of glass beadmaking. This includes wound, blown, fused, drawn, pressed and pate de verre. It has been expanded to also cover manufacture of cabochons, marbles, buttons, pendants, paperweights and hollow vessels. You will learn how to decorate and finish these objects with frits, dots, trailings, canes, latticino, ribbons, murrine, and much more. You will learn how to modify the surface by polishing, etching, electroforming, mirroring, etc. The Complete Book of Glass Beadmaking by Kimberley Adams – The instructions begin with the basics: how to light the torch, wind and cool the bead, and shape the glass into barrels, cones, and discs. As beadmakers' skills develop, they can expand their horizons by experimenting with enamel; using mica dust to form an iridescent sheen; and applying silver, gold, and copper leaf to layers of glass. The most advanced projects are truly remarkable, from floral and sculptural beads to beads that encase images of stars, rainbows, and faces. A Selection of the Crafters Choice Book Club.
The Pin-Tzu is a crossbreed between the Miniature pinscher and the Shih Tzu. The Pin-Tzu puppies in most cases inherit the look of the Shih Tzu, then the Miniature Pinscher. Most Pin-Tzu dogs have brown eyes with a brown nose. The coat color can either be brown or white and black mix. Some Pin-Tzus may have floppy ears while others may have a pair of erect ears. Facts About Pin-Tzu \|Country of Origin\|\|NA\| \|Other Names\|\|Min pin Shih Tzu mix\| \|Weight\|\|8-16 pounds (full grown)\| \|Competitive Registration / Qualification Information\|\|DRA, ACHC, IDCR\| \|Colour\|\|Black, black and tan, brown, white\| \|Life Expectancy\|\|Almost 15 years\| \|Coat\|\|Dense, silky, straight, short\| Temperament & Personality It is a very friendly and energetic dog that loves the company of its owner. But at times, shih tzu mix puppies might be independent or stay aloof. The owner should keep the fact in mind that the dog may have a leadership strike too. The Pin-Tzu gets well with the older kids and other pets in the house. This breed does not suffer from the separation anxiety when the owner leaves the house. Minimal activity will be fine for this breed. A daily walk in a dog park or a session of fetching will keep it in a healthy physical state. These dogs do well in different agility tests. The Pin-Tzu may also love an interactive session with dogs at a dog park. These dogs are great swimmers and love hiking sports. The texture and depth of the coat will decide the grooming needs of the dog. Some may have a dense and long coat where the owner should brush the coat on a daily basis. Bathing once in a month will keep the dog odor and dirt free. The owner should use a mild dog shampoo recommended by a Veterinarian. A short muzzle may result in a disease called the Brachycephalic syndrome. Significant concerns such as Exposure keratopathy syndrome, Intervertebral disc disease can affect the breed. Minor matters are Entropion, Ectropion, Color dilution alopecia. Occasional tests such as cardiac examination, eye examinations, skin evaluation, Internal imaging (X-ray, CT scan, MRI’S) is advised. It is in the record that some Pin-Tzus may develop a keen interest in some unusual stuff like playing the piano. Pin-Tzu dogs are known to get well socialized if socialization skill is taught in their early puppyhood. The owner should make a diet chart according to the dog’s overall health and a good quality dry kibble food by far is the best choice.
Opinion personal del lazarillo de tormes yahoo dating, see a problem? Historical Context of The Life of Lazarillo de Tormes Lazarillo de Tormes was written during the Spanish Inquisition, a time when the rulers of Spain took extreme measures to enforce the sovereignty of the Catholic Church. This initiative resulted in several centuries of violent and systematic suppression of religious minorities such as Jews, Muslims, and Protestants who had established sizeable populations throughout Spain. La vida del Lazarillo de Tormes It's the story chicago sugar daddy dating app a put-upon boy, mothered by a whore, who is sent off into the world to find a master to work for and earn his keep from. But don't worry—Lazaro finds ways equally cruel and ingenious of getting back at the old bastard. I hear it really honks those blindies off. Anyway, Lazaro goes through a series of different masters, almost all of them either cruel or stupid or both. I'm admittedly frugal with my outwardly expressed laughter—unlike the normative social behavior these days wherein giggling becomes a nervous tic to punctuate every banal and unfunny comment. El sentido del Lazarillo de Tormes. (Book, ) [globicate.com] I literally laughed aloud several times—not that I would ever use that pernicious LOL as a matter of course because of how every dingbat on the planet is LOLing at everything nowadays: Many of those who converted did so to save their lives but continued to practice their faith in secrecy. Maybe we want life to be funny so we laugh at it whether it is or not. The funniest segment involves a miserly priest who only feeds Lazaro onions, keeping the bread and the good food locked away in chest for himself. Novels written as letters are referred to as epistolary novels. Erhalten Sie personalisierte Werbung von Partnern unseres Vertrauens Lazarillo de Tormes is also notable because it was one of the first works of its kind to experiment with innovations in form, such as structuring the narrative as though it were a letter written in the first person. Not funny in an unfunny Geico commercial, Modern Family, or Jimmy Fallon kind of way, but funny in an honest-to-goshness 'Oh, my fucking god, did I just chortle? The Life of Lazarillo de Tormes by the clever and mischievous Spanish author Anonymous is actually really funny! In the modern era, Lazaro could just refrain from alt-tagging his pictures. But you know what? Lazarillo de Tormes Questions and Answers The first master is an extremely mean-spirited blind man. What I'm claiming, somewhat facetiously, is that mindless and incessant giggling is the preoccupation most commonly of morons and manchildren who devalue the currency of laughter with their spendthrift ways. Brief Biography of Anonymous Nothing is known about the author who penned this short novel. Did you digest that? We inflict an impoverished semblance of humor upon the world. This slim book only pages in the NYRB edition was written in Or maybe more accurately, when everything is funny, you're probably a total nutjob and should be stashed away in a cozy booby hatch somewhere. Now that's fuckin' old school. And if we don't happen to mirror the laughter of our neighbors when they read one of those dumb jokey chain emails or recount a gag they found positively uproarious in Wild Hogs, then we're convicted of sourpussery rather than credited with possessing a refined or discriminating sense of humor. Lazarillo de Tormes Anónimo - StuDocu When everything is funny, then nothing is. The book was banned by the Office of the Inquisition when it was published. Within the church there was an atmosphere of fear, intolerance, and cynicism that gave rise to the forms of hypocrisy that Lazarillo de Tormes satires so sharply. Before William Shakespeare was even born! At the end, we're not quite sure whether Lazaro's trickery might not have actually inflicted a mortal injury on the sighltess creep. This portrait of religious hypocrisy will give you an idea why this novella had to be published by 'Anonymous. Under the Spanish Inquisition, non-Catholics were forced to convert or were expelled from the country, though often those who refused to convert were killed or burned at the stake. An interactive data visualization of The Life of Lazarillo de Tormes's plot and themes. And since everyone around Goodreads knows that I apparently hate blind people's guts, this was a particularly amusing segment for me. - Flirtatious hair instagram tags - My best friend is dating my ex yahoo answers - Danish prime minister and obama flirting - National pension scheme online dating - Define radiometric dating examples - Hook up android phone to tv - Infrastructure management services courses in bangalore dating - Chikkiku chikkikichu online dating - Que editor de video usa german garmendia yahoo dating
Judgements Are Made Up, Not Real - Grasshopper Judgements are always made up – in our mind. "He's doing poorly in school." "Poorly" is a judgement. Your assessment may be based on a comparison of how other students are doing in the same class, but the word "poorly" is made up. It doesn't exist in nature. Just like "good and bad" are made up, "poorly" doesn't exist. Judgement words are not helpful in moving someone forward. "He has 'lousy' study habits. He needs 'better' habits." Judgements keep us in our head and not in reality where real change takes place. Judgements delay taking action. Judgement words, like the ones cited above, keep us in a fluffy world where concrete action cannot take place. Better to describe the actions that are necessary to move forward rather than resorting to judgements. Judgements just stick the problem in place. Describing the actions necessary loosens the glue and gets a person busy on their "to-do." Let's extract the fluffy judgements and see how much quicker we can get to the necessary actions. "Johnny is ranked 53rd out of 54 students in the class. The recommended course of action is to have him do one hour of supervised tutoring 3 nights a week for a month and then we'll recalculate his ranking based on his grades between now and then." That's an action plan. Judging how "poorly" Johnny is doing delays action. Judgement words invite a justifying story. "The reason he's doing so poorly is because his parents work long hours and he's a latch key kid with little supervision." Spending time on why you are the way you are delays taking the actions necessary to get to where you want to go. The story takes you backwards into justification which is always a delaying action. We act as though we are describing something real when we offer judgements. We're not. Fluffy judgement words mean different things to different people and are not useful in putting together an action plan. Get in the habit of using real world language and watch your communication skills improve and have actions come quicker. A quick story . . . I recently had a conversation with a doctor about how long I would have to take the prescribed medications after a medical procedure I was scheduled for. His answer was "A while." I said, "Doc, I can't take 'a while' to the bank. What is 'a while' in real measurable language?" I got a concrete actionable answer. Swapping judgements can be fun conversation but they really don't move anything forward. To get to where you want to go takes real world action, not judging the problem over another cup of Joe. All the best, © 2019, GrasshopperNotes.com. All rights reserved worldwide.
- Provide affordable child care and preschool services to the community. - Promote the child’s social, emotional, physical, and intellectual growth. - Develop children’s experiences with diversity. - Partner with parents to optimize their child’s development. - Lead the way for a better community. Grin and Grow is a private, non-profit child care agency founded in 1943 by the Junior League of Waterloo-Cedar Falls. Originally founded as a nursery for the children of women working in local factories during World War II, Grin and Grow has continued to provide child care services to parents of Waterloo since the end of the War. Currently operating under two locations, Grin and Grow provides a unique educational experience in a quality environment. Grin and Grow offers child care and preschool services for children aged 6 weeks to 5 years old. To promote successful development. classrooms are organized according to age groups. Our centers are open Monday through Friday between the hours of 6:00 am and 6:00 pm. Both centers are closed for all major holidays and the week between Christmas and New Year’s Day. All classrooms provide programming and activities designed to assist the child with school-readiness by developing their physical, social-emotional, and cognitive skills. Grin and Grow is proud to accommodate parents by accepting flexible schedules that include full or part-time arrangements to meet parent needs. Grin and Grow participates in the Child and Adult Care Nutrition Program (CACFP) to ensure that your child’s daily nutritional needs are met. This program, sponsored by the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), allows us to provide nutritional food services to your child at no extra cost to you. Grin and Grow has an “Open Door” policy with respect to parental visitation and involvement, meaning parents are invited to actively participate in their child’s classroom experience. Grin and Grow strives to improve all aspects of the program by surveying parents twice a year to measure their level of satisfaction. Parents are encouraged to serve on the agency’s Board of Directors and on any special task groups created throughout the year. In accordance with Federal civil rights law and U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) civil rights regulations and policies, the USDA, its Agencies, offices, and employees, and institutions participating in or administering USDA programs are prohibited from discriminating based on race, color, national origin, religion, sex, gender identity (including gender expression), sexual orientation, disability, age, marital status, family/parental status, income derived from a public assistance program, political beliefs, or reprisal or retaliation for prior civil rights activity, in any program or activity conducted or funded by USDA (not all bases apply to all programs). Remedies and complaint filing deadlines vary by program or incident. Persons with disabilities who require alternative means of communication for program information (e.g., Braille, large print, audiotape, American Sign Language, etc.) should contact the responsible Agency or USDA’s TARGET Center at (202) 720-2600 (voice and TTY) or contact USDA through the Federal Relay Service at (800) 877-8339. Additionally, program information may be made available in languages other than English. To file a program discrimination complaint, complete the USDA Program Discrimination Complaint Form, AD-3027, found online at How to File a Program Discrimination Complaint and at any USDA office or write a letter addressed to USDA and provide in the letter all of the information requested in the form. To request a copy of the complaint form, call (866) 632-9992. Submit your completed form or letter to USDA by: (1) mail: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Office of the Assistant Secretary for Civil Rights, 1400 Independence Avenue, SW, Washington, D.C. 20250-9410; (2) fax: (202) 690-7442; or (3) email: [email protected]. USDA is an equal opportunity provider, employer, and lender.
Cuándo: martes 19 de junio a las 16:00 Dónde: sala B-225 de la ETSIT (UPM). Ponente: Jürgen Dunkel Título: Learning Complex Event Processing Rules with Genetic Programming Resumen: Complex Event Processing (CEP) is an established software technology to extract relevant information from massive data streams. Currently, domain experts have to determine manually CEP rules that define a situation of interest. However, often CEP rules cannot be formulated by experts, because the relevant interdependencies and relations between the data are not explicitly known, but inherently hidden in the data streams. To cope with this problem, we present a new learning approach for CEP rules, which is based on Genetic Programming. We discuss in detail the different building blocks of Genetic Programming and how to adjust them to CEP rule learning. The extensive experiments, with synthetic data as well a real world data, show, that Genetic Programming has a high potential for learning CEP rules. In most of our experiments we could derive CEP rules with a nearly perfect recall and precision.
The University College of Agriculture is the premiere institute of the south western region of Punjab. The college is committed to provide quality education & undertake region centric research to evaluate cost effective, production & protection technology. The qualified & and dedicated faculty of the college, good infrastructural facilities & committed management will create right ambiance for producing world class graduates & excellent human resource for the country. The college wills such measure to the expectations of all stake holders. It gives me immense pleasure that one of the premier College in Agriculture has been established by Guru Kashi University Talwandi Sabo, in the rural hub of Malwa belt of Punjab. The College will enlighten the education deprived regions of three states, namely Punjab, Haryana and Rajasthan by spreading quality agricultural education. The College will surely work for the well being of rural populace of the region particularly farming community. The region centric research will solve local issues and provide solutions at door steps of the farmer which will boost agrarian economy. The qualified and dedicated faculty of the college, good infrastructural facilities and committed management will create right ambiance for producing world class graduates and excellent human resource for the country. I wishfully think that the college will measure to the expectations of all stake holders. Dr. Ajmer Singh Sidhu Agriculture has been the mainstay of Indian economy since ages. The science and art of agriculture has many references in the Vedic Literature and the ancient history of the mankind. The agriculture sector in India provides employment to 58% of the population of the country and contributes about 17-18 % to the Gross Domestic Product. Trained human resource has been the key factor behind the Green Revolution that has led India to become self reliant in food and becoming a fast developing economy. Knowledge based, input-use efficient, eco-friendly and high tech precision agriculture has been the next stage for which efforts have been recognized by Guru Kashi University in planning, designing and executing the agricultural educational programmes. Considering the importance of Agricultural Education, Vice-Chancellor Dr. D. S. Hira, recommended the establishment of college of agriculture at GKU. As a result of this recommendation, college of agriculture was established in 2011 at GKU. The study programmes are as suggested by Indian Council of Agriculture Research, New Delhi. \|University College of Agriculture\| \|1\|\|B.Sc. Agriculture (Hons.)\|\|10+2 (Non-Medical / Medical / Agriculture)\|\|4 Years\| \|2\|\|B.Sc. Agriculture (Hons.) (LEET)\|\|Diploma in Agriculture /Horticulture/ Fisheries\|\|3 Years\| \|3\|\|B.Sc. Agriculture (Hons.)\|\|Matric pass with Science , Mathematics & English\|\|6 Years\| \|4\|\|M.Sc. Agriculture (Agronomy, Fruit Science, Vegetable Science, Entomology, Extension Education, Plant Pathology, Agriculture Economics)\|\|Bachelor's Degree in Agriculture or equivalent\|\|2 Years\| \|5\|\|Diploma Course in Horticulture Supervision\|\|Matric\|\|2 Years\| \|6\|\|Ph.D Agriculture (Agronomy, Fruit Science, Vegetable Science, Entomology, Extension Education, Plant Pathology, Agriculture Economics)\|\| \|\|Minimum 3 Years\| \|7\|\|Diploma in Agriculture Science\|\|10th / 12th\|\|2 Years / 1 Year\| University College of Veterinary Science & Dairy Technology \|8\|\|Diploma in Livestock & Veterinary Science\|\|Matric\|\|2 Years\| \|9\|\|Diploma in Food Processing & Dairy Technology\|\|Matric\|\|3 Years\| \|10\|\|Diploma in Veterinary Sciences and Animal Husbandry\|\|10+2 Medical\|\|2 Years\| \|11\|\|Veterinary Livestock Development Diploma (VLDD)\|\|10+2 with Physics, Chemistry and Biology (PCB)\|\|2 Years\| University College of Fisheries \|12\|\|Diploma in Fisheries\|\|Matric\|\|3 Years\| \|1.\|\|B. Sc. Agriculture\| \|B. Sc. Agriculture Honours 4 Year 2014 ONWARDS\| \|B. Sc. Agriculture Honours 6 Year 2016 only\| \|B. Sc. Agriculture Honours 6 Year 2017 Onwards\| \|Diploma in Agriculture Science-1 Year 2016 Onwards\| \|Diploma in Veterinary animal health Technology\| \|Diploma in Veterinary Science\| \|M. Sc Fruit Science\| \|M. Sc Agronomy\| \|M.Sc Plant Pathology\| \|M. Sc Vegetable Science\| \|Ph.D Plant Pathology\| \|PH.D Vegetable Science\| \|PH.D Fruit Science\| Proverbially, India is known as “Land of Villages”. About 69% of India’s population lives in villages. Most of this population is directly or indirectly involved in agricultural and allied activities. Agriculture is the dominant sector of our economy and contributes in various ways such as: In Fruit Science Lab practicals are performed those imparts the knowledge about different aspects of fruit cultivation from planting to post harvest management of fruit crops. In Biotechnology lab practicals are performed those imparts the knowledge about different aspects of tissue culture technology. Different activities are performed by the students on different occasions under the NSS program.Seminar on Digital Payment Crop residue management in agronomy farm by students of B.Sc. agriculture.
Are you interested in owning part of a business? If your answer is yes, then investing in the stock market may be perfect for you. Before you rush out and invest your life savings in stock, you need to learn some important information about stock market investing. Below is some of the information that you will need. When you are investing your money into the stock market, keep it simple. Trading, making predictions or examining data points should all be kept simple. Try not to invest more than one tenth of your capital in a single stock. This will greatly reduce your losses should the stock rapidly decline in the future. Regard your stocks as if you own a piece of a company. When assessing the value of stocks, evaluate the business by analyzing their financial statements. This will ensure that you consider each trade carefully before making any moves. Try and get stocks that will net better than 10% annually, otherwise, simpler index funds will outperform you. If you want to estimate your likely return from an individual stock, find the projected earnings growth rate and the dividend yield and add them. If your stock’s yield is projected to grow 2% with 12% projected growth in earnings, you hve a chance to earn a 14% overall return. If you would like to try your hand at picking your own stocks but also want to use a professional broker as a “safety net,” look for brokers that can provide both traditional and online services. That way you can dedicated one half, give or take, to a professional for management and handle the rest yourself. This can give you the best of both worlds in the realm of investing. When you first begin to invest in the stock market, be sure to keep it simple. Although you may be tempted to diversify quickly, find one method that works well before venturing out into other avenues. This ends up saving you a whole lot of money in the end. Do not assume that penny stocks will make you rich: you should find long term investments on blue-chip stocks with compound interests. Most stock investing is a long-term venture that you want to pay off when you retire, when your kids go to college, etc. This is why focusing on growth over time is http://marksrealreviews.com/daily-income-method-scam important. The larger companies have a positive track record when it comes to growth, so this makes their stock more likely to be consistent and perform well. Keep in mind that all of the cash you have is not profit. Every financial operation needs cash flow, and your investment portfolio is no exception. It is a good idea to reinvest your earnings, but make sure you have enough money to pay your bills. Keep six months of living expenses somewhere safe, just in case. Think about investing in a stock that will pay a dividend. Regular dividend payments can help offset your losses if the price of the stock falls or fluctuates. Should the price of the stock increase, dividends will provide you with a bonus, added onto the bottom line. They can also generate periodic income. A good approach is to follow a constrain strategy. When you do this you look into stocks that others don’t want. You need to sniff out the potential of stocks in under valued companies. You will nearly always pay the most money for the most sought after stocks. This can prevent an upside. Investing in less famous companies with good earnings and other fundamentals may pay off in the end. Your portfolio should be reviewed constantly. Keep a close watch on your portfolio, ensure that all stocks are doing well, and there are favorable conditions in the market. Having said that, don’t be too obsessed to the point where you check the stock price incessantly; things change often, and you do not want to stress yourself out. Trading stocks online can help you to save a great deal of money. There are many firms online which offer very low fees. It is important to find the perfect deal possibly by shopping around the Internet. Fidelity is one possible option you may want to consider; TradeKing is another. Seek the services of a broker. A broker can teach you what you need to know and help you avoid poor investment decisions. Brokers generally have insider knowledge of mutual funds, bonds and stocks, so they can steer you toward better choices for your investments. They can also assist you with your personal stock portfolio, which helps you keep track of how your goals are progressing. Now that you have read this article, would you like to begin investing? If you are still interested, proceed to take your baby steps. Keep the above information in mind and you can be making millions in investments in no time.
Facts About Boar Bristle Brushes Boar bristles are harvested from domesticated pigs with the large bulk of these swine hairs coming from China where every bit of the pig is used except the oink. You’ll notice that I said, “domesticated.” Wild boars are not commercially slaughtered for their bristles. During your great-grandmother’s, or even your great-great-great-grandmother’s day, the path to beautiful hair was “100 strokes a day,” which meant running a boar bristle brush from root to end to close the cuticle, distribute natural oils and remove loose hair and debris. Boar bristles do this because they act very much like a “sticker” that picks up anything in their path, while also physically closing the cuticle layer. With a closed cuticle, natural oil coating and less debris, hair becomes shinier, smoother and fresher smelling. In terms of today’s styling needs, boar bristles have the ability to grip the hair, making them a desirable component in styling brushes. Because boar bristles are very soft and flexible, nylon pins are usually inserted into the bristle tufts to give them the stiffness needed to properly style hair.
Let’s see how well you know your immune system facts. What is your body’s first line of defense when you are exposed to germs, viruses, bacteria, and other illnesses? It is your immune system. Since the body is pretty much under attack from all of these threats every day (unless you live in seclusion), the immune system is very busy and it can be beneficial for you to have a strong one. When exposed to a virus or bacteria, why doesn’t everyone get sick? It is because some of us have better defenses than others. That defense is centered around the immune system. Better defense means stronger resistance, and getting sick less often than others who have weaker immune systems. The immune system protects us from common illnesses like a cold or sore throat, and serious diseases like cancer. It is the barrier between our cells and all illnesses. Immune system facts that have been released over time confirm that the immune system is a complex process. Most of us are satisfied with understanding the basics and leaving the tough stuff to the expert scientists. These research scientists have discovered specific ways that we can build our immune system to function in a strong way when it needs to fight invaders. How can we strengthen our resistance? Immune system facts tell us that we all have natural interferon in our bodies, or small proteins that act as messengers that tell our immune system when to go to work. Interferon also keeps our cells strong so that they can be ready to resist illness. When we are threatened with getting sick we need this natural interferon that is part of our first line of defense to stop the illness before it gets to our cells and make us ill. During this initial immune response while our body is fighting to keep us healthy, and if we have a well functioning immune system with plenty of natural interferon, our white blood cells increase and help in the battle as well. Natural interferon works in our bodies to help prevent and control viral infections, disease, and illness by attacking invaders and killing them before they can make us sick. Not only do people who have built up their immune system get sick less often, but if they do get sick they have fewer symptoms and recover much faster. So how can we build a stronger immune system? One proven way is to increase that natural interferon that plays such a vital role in our resistance to getting sick. If we have enough natural interferon it will not let us get a virus. Learn more about natural interferon by signing up for our Immune System Report, or get more info by going straight to the Shaklee website where you can buy natural interferon from the only brand in the world that has a product like this: Improve Immune System.
tt.humanist :: views :: execution Capital Punishment • Death Penalty "But we will not solve (the crime) by catering to irrational, barbaric, quick-fix ideas. Instead, the authorities must look at the research and take a long-term view so that the Government can institute pro-active and preventative solutions, rather than implement emotionally-charged band-aid measures." This move by the Government to start hangings seems to be nothing less than a cynical ploy to play on citizens' fears, while avoiding the hard and patient work needed to control criminal activity. Were this not the case, we would have thought that, before taking a decision of such magnitude, the Government would have debated the issue in Parliament. By bypassing a serious discussion of the decision to kill convicted killers, the Manning administration is showing that it prefers blood to brains. Search Google with these keywords "Death Penalty Trinidad" "Many political leaders in the Caribbean opposed the death penalty before their election, and some of them still do in private, while advocating it in public," Amnesty International noted, referring to recent statements by Jamaica's Attorney General that he does not believe in judicial killing. At a time when countries around the world are increasingly turning their backs on the use of the death penalty, Amnesty International today renewed its call on the English-speaking Caribbean countries to finally rid themselves of this cruel legacy of their colonial past. Against the backdrop of the debate stirred by a recent Privy Council ruling that mandatory death penalty is unconstitutional, the organization is releasing today a report on the death penalty in the region. "The death penalty is no more effective a deterrent than life imprisonment... It is also evident that the burden of capital punishment falls upon the poor, the ignorant and the underprivileged members of society." - United States Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall. Each year since 1976, three more countries a year have added their names to the list of countries that have abolished the death penalty. A majority of nations have ended capital punishment in law or practice. The United Nations Human Rights Commission has passed a resolution calling for all nations that continue to execute to restrict the number of offenses for which the death penalty may be imposed and to suspend executions with a view toward abolishing the death penalty. Death Penalty Focus believes that families of murder victims would benefit far more if the funds now being used for the costly process of executions were diverted to the provision of counseling and other assistance for the family. "From a purely analytical perspective, the death penalty might be justifiable if it deterred crime and saved lives, or if it resulted in a reduction in State costs. Studies have shown that it does neither of these things. The death penalty, therefore, can only be viewed as an institutional expression of revenge and retribution. Rather than focusing on the offender, it must be asked what the death penalty says about us as a society. Our nation cannot afford the death penalty; the cost, both morally and financially, is too high. We say, not in our name." If we were a loving and generous society, one that respected children in all their great diversity, one that offered real equal opportunity, liberty and justice for all, our son JoJo would be here living a hopeful, loving and generous life. And so would the young man who killed him.
“A monstrosity full of glue.” This is how the guys from iFixit rated the Microsoft Surface Laptop, a laptop with a 0 out of 10 in its famous reparability index. This equipment is the perfect example of that tendency of the manufacturers to put barriers to that we put hand in the products. Some are so difficult to repair that they are practically high-end disposable products : if the Surface Laptop breaks down, Microsoft will probably replace it with a working one and recycle what you can from the one you gave them defective. Making products increasingly difficult to repair For years now we have seen this trend that is turning desktop computers, laptops, tablets and smartphones (among others) into products almost impossible to expand or repair. Apple was among the first to be noted for the lack of “reparability” of its products: replacing memory or storage units in their laptops and desks became a number of cases a challenge, although the iFixit itself – among many others – encouraged users to perform these operations with the help of specialized tools and videos and photo tutorials explaining the process step by step. Many others in the industry have followed this trend – we are not talking about the “cucas” techniques of the printer manufacturers – and have made that in case of a serious problem with our devices we attend a repair process in which these equipment could become like the Surface Laptop) in disposable products. Business does not end when you buy the product This policy of technological companies has a strong economic motivation: only official or authorized services can guarantee the correct repair of problems, although for “minor” damages such as the famous broken smartphone screens in the end many technical services are able to solve the problem. Even users have access to spare parts, tools and information resources to be able to replace the screens of their phones themselves if they have some patience and skill. For many, however, such processes are too complex or require time and dedication from those who do not. That’s where the technical services of the big ones feed on those barriers of access to “do it yourself” to charge the user prices of all kinds for those repair operations. Sometimes, as we say, these technical services end up simply offering you a new product that replaces the old one because repair as such is practically as expensive (or more) as a new device. We see it continuously in other segments of electronics in which the products are so cheap that practically comes out more to account buying a new one than taking the trouble to repair the old one. “Do I really have to waste time in going to a technical service, wait for days to get repaired and pay a certain amount of money to recover a device that who knows how it will work thereafter? I better buy a new one and shoot the trash the one that has ruined me”, we think practically all those that we face those repairs of appliances and technological devices. You may also like to read: LiFi has achieved a new milestone: 42.8 Gbps through infrared, and is already 100 times faster than WiFi When repair ends up being a nuisance This frequent reflection makes repairing a product become uncomfortable and in many cases, even impractical. The prices of the technology do not stop going down and sometimes that a product spoils us can give us even a “good” excuse to buy that mobile or that laptop that we had the eye. In cheap products precisely these repair tasks were even less appealing to users, especially when the warranty of those products has expired. The frenetic consumer economy in which we are immersed – especially now that shopping is more comfortable and easier than ever – has made it difficult to resist buying something new instead of repairing something used. That trend nevertheless seems to be moving more and more to the segment of medium and high-end electronic products in which precisely the difficulty that manufacturers impose to repair them tempts us to leave aside that possibility of repair. Except that as we say the product is under warranty , going to a new product is a very suggestive possibility. Here too are those stories of terror that are heard of technical services – there is everything, but as is often the case, it is the bad that spreads most easily in the digital word of mouth – and the fact that manufacturers want to control all that business that exists around access to your products. The controversy with John Deere tractors is another example of how the products we buy are less ours than we think. That is one of the great condemnations of an era in which looks like it is easier to buy something new than repair it . The age of informatics and disposable technology has another great side effect: that of those millions of tons of electronic products whose recycling is really complex and that end up becoming another of the great threats to the environment. All this despite efforts such as the FairPhone, those “socially conscious” mobiles that are precisely designed so that we can easily repair them and make use of “conflict-free” components and materials. This project shows that there are exceptions to the rule, but that is precisely the sad thing.
In West Africa, the Ahmadu Bello University (ABU) in Zaria, Nigeria, has signed a deal with Hungarian Agrar-Biothanol to produce 1,333 tonnes of liquid organic fertiliser and 2.66 million litres of ethanol annually, as well as to generate 1.2MW of electricity. According to Biofuels International, the plant will process farm, animal and human waste to use as feedstock to produce biogas and ethanol. The generated electricity could be enough to power 30% of the university’s electricity consumption while at the same time further improve agricultural training and research. Biofuels International reported that the Vice Chancellor of the university, Ibrahim Garba, said the independent power generation project became imperative as the institution could no longer sustain the 86 million naira ($272,799) monthly electricity bills. Hungary’s ambassador to Nigeria, Ternak Gabor, said that Nigeria’s growing population made the diversification to renewable energy production necessary. Earlier this week, it was reported that three solar power plant developments are set to drive the Nigerian government's target of 75% of the nation's citizens gaining access to electricity by 2020. International solar developer, Phanes Group announced last week that it has acquired, and will co-develop, three 100MW grid-connected solar PV plants in Nigeria. According to a company statement the projects will contribute to the government’s ambitions to generate 2,000MW of power from renewable sources by 2020. The projects will be developed in three locations, which includes the Mando area of Kaduna, Birnin-Kebbi in Kebbi and Sokoto in the North-West of Nigeria. The solar developer noted that the Sokoto project is backed by one of the 14 recently signed Power Purchase Agreements with utility-scale solar power developers – which will collectively add around 1,200MW of solar capacity to the grid. The Dubai-based solar developer said it is targeting to connect the first 50MW of the Sokoto project by Q1 2018, and the project is expected to be complete by the end of 2018. The Kebbi and Kaduna projects will be delivered under the Hasken-Rana brand (meaning ‘sunshine’ in Hausa – one of the most spoken languages in West Africa) – a joint venture between the solar developer and its Nigerian partners, and are due for completion before the end of 2019, the company said. View all SMART GRID Bulletins click here
India’s cyberspace is in a woeful state. The recent hacks by hacker group Legion have only served to highlight this fact. If a bunch of kids can breach India’s government servers and facilities, what defence do we have against a state-sponsored attack? We spoke to Dr. Govind, former CEO of NIXI (National Internet Exchange of India), to help us understand the situation better. The best way to fix this, he says, is to build capacity and install a robust system that will ensure that cyber security is, and always will remain, a priority. In order to build capacity, Dr. Govind insists that we need to educate the masses and develop the requisite skills among them. The government also needs to be actively recruiting for its cyber security endeavours. He also believes that a large investment is necessary to start building up the necessary infrastructure. It’s more important that the investment be a continuous one, he adds. The Information Technology Act, 2000 is the one act we refer to for most of our legal and policy needs. Dr. Govind points out, as did IT Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad, that this act is over 15 years old and it’s high time we overhauled it. In an industry where even six months seems an eternity, we can’t wait this long to implement IT policy. A responsive, agile system is required to deal with all threats. Collaboration with the industry is also important, says Dr. Govind. By itself, it’s hard for any single entity to deal with cybersecurity threats on a national level. A large pool of experts and quick, reliable industry inputs can go a long way towards achieving our security goals. Pointing to CERT-in, the Indian Computer Emergency Response Team, Dr. Govind says that we are already in the process of putting services and protocols in place for dealing with cyber security threats. We need to start using them, however. View all SMART GRID Bulletins click here
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Your Authentic Speaking Style™ (YASS) is available as an open-enrollment course and has a standard schedule: 2:00-5:00pm on Day One and 8:00am-4:30pm on Day Two. YASS is also offered as a customized learning experience to teams. The course is typically offered over two days and runs 8-10 hours depending on the size of the group. - Pre-course Personal Strengths Survey - Your Authentic Speaking Style™ Workbook - Several videotaped presentations to professional peers followed by real time coaching - Private video playback during course - Videos on personal flash drive as tune-up tool - Personal Coaching Summary as action plan - Copies of Lou Solomon’s book, Say Something Real This transformational learning experience provides an understanding of natural authority; overcoming negative thoughts; silence as command and counteraction to non-words; significance of the one-on-one conversation; moving with purpose to own your space; managing attention and engagement; awareness of leadership as a conversation; building greater buy-in and trust from constituents; empowering others through committed listening and coaching. Class Sample : Tool #2 The Story Moment Story Moments are not long narratives. They range from the colorful use of metaphor to brief life lessons—and they take your audience from passive listening to engagement. Many of us are relying on information as communication. Information is critical but it appeals only to the analytic side of the brain. For a whole mind engagement, build a library of story moments that develop understanding beyond the facts—and double your effectiveness.
Saturday, 29 September 2018 St. Peter's Churchyard Effigies Co Louth These creepy effigies are one of only ten of their type in Ireland. They are to found in the grounds of St Peter's Church of Ireland in Drogheda town.The remains are from the tomb of Sir Edmond Golding and his wife Elizabeth Flemyng and date back to approx 1520. An old medieval church once stood here but is now non-extant. When the present church o Ireland building was constructed in the 1750's the tomb was disturbed but most of its parts are preserved by being set into the Eastern boundary wall of the churchyard. The effigies formed the top slab and some of the side slabs are adjacent to it on the same wall. Standing at approx seven feet high the effigies present the couple as rotting cadavers in torn shrouds. The eerie disembowelment on Elizabeth is said to depict the hollow where once their was a womb. On inspection we found a large spider had spun a web within adding more creepiness to the macabre skeleton. The idea of depicting the couple as cadavers was apparently not meant to shock but to remind people of their mortality and that no matter how affluent they are they will all end up the same way. From the womb to the tomb so to speak. The church stands in the centre of Drogheda and can be accessed on foot during the daytime. There a a few parking spaces outside the church walls but thee are other parking sites nearby so a short walk is all that may be needed. One would not easily find these cadavers normally as you would likely pass the church without knowing of their existence. But they are quite a rarity and are well worth checking out. To find the tomb remains take the MI and exit at junction 10 onto the N51 for Drogheda. Drive for approx 600m until you reach a roundabout. Go straight through and at the next roundabout take a right hand turn off the roundabout onto the R132 signposted for Drogheda..Drive for approx 1.8KM until you reach a set of traffic lights and a sign pointing left to Beaulieu. Turn left here (R166) and continue for approx 350m and you reach a small crossroads. Go through the crossroads and take the next right hand turn onto King Street. Take the second turn right off King Street onto William Street. The church car park can be found on the right hand side at the junction of the next crossroads. (There is a pub called Clarke & sons opposite). You will find the tomb remains in the Eastern section of the churchyard. .
The following are the effective contemporary approaches to institutional (pre-college, college/university) education. Because of architectural limitations of most classrooms, numbers of students, and time available to teach some complementary and prerequisite courses, most are still delivered in an ineffective traditional lecture format. But, when class sizes can be limited to 15-20 students, the following approaches are much more ideal for learning. The significant distinction of this “flipped classroom” style of instructing and learning is that during class, students sit around an oval-shaped table.This style of classroom learning may be applied as early as middle school. It encourages full group anticipatory preparation, active in-class participation including subset-based self-instruction, and helps bridge the often differing styles of communication of the instructor/expert and learners. The primary responsibility of the expert is to assure fluidity of course progression, the full representation of important concepts, as well as occurrence of relevant contextual conversions and integration of content applications with the demonstration of group comprehension. Performance of content applications in small groups is done with the instructor/expert acting as a readily available for assistance. The instructors must deliver quality service, with adequate guidance and assistance, or the value of the purported expert is lost. Otherwise, the instructor could be effectively replaced by an agenda, a video presentation, and independent study. The primary distinction of this “flipped classroom” style of instructing and learning is that during class, students sit around an oval-shaped table. In 1817, Colonel Sylvanus Thayer became the superintendent of the US Military Academy, West Point. He upgraded academic standards among other objectives, including the creation of a teaching method known today as the Thayer Method. It emphasizes self-study, daily homework, and small class size. This method, still used today, is augmented with limited lectures at the discretion of the instructors, as well as in-class group work as applicable (e.g., mathematics-based courses). It encourages full group anticipatory preparation, active in-class participation and helps bridge the often differing styles of communication of the instructor/expert and learners. The primary responsibility of the expert is to assure the full representation of important concepts and integration of content applications with the demonstration of group comprehension. Performance of content applications in small groups is done with the instructor/expert acting as a readily available for assistance. The instructors must deliver quality service, with adequate guidance and assistance, or the value of the purported expert is lost. Otherwise, the instructor could be effectively replaced by an agenda, a video presentation, and independent study. The primary weakness of this method is that the students may not always find and grasp the important facts and relevant conceptual relationships in a timely manner. So, this self-guided information curation can be inefficient. The Flipped Classroom Approach It is much like the Thayer Approach, but along with a more contemporary moniker comes the tendency of instructors to attempt to integrate a host of newer technologies into the learning activities. The obvious limitations are limited access of all students to similar devices and the requirement for the instructors to focus excessively on the technology versus the content. Classroom arrangement and size are not factors most considered. Project-based Learning (PBL) It is a student-centered approach that involves a dynamic classroom, meaning that most of the learning occurs in association with engaging projects based on activities and locations outside of the classroom. The instructor should demonstrate how the relevant facts and skills are applied in real-world settings. The primary challenge is that of finding new, comprehensive projects and assuring that all students have comparable, safe access to the project materials, settings, tools, and related resources. Labs, industrial arts, and performing arts classes are the more common similar experiences in most urban and suburban schools. Bloom’s Technology (revised, rBT) This is more an adjunct than a separate instruction/learning strategy. The concept is based on the fact that most formal learning for short-term application is produced by rote memorization of information. Whereas the most comprehensive learning, for long-term memory, occurs when students engage in creative problem-solving and task performance. The rBT approach is applied as a multilayered strategy with the expectation that most students will at least complete the more easily accomplished, readily accessible, and less performance or project-inclusive elements. In an ideal educational system, resources and instructional experts are available to all students. However, all students are not required to be equally comprehensive in their depth and breadth of learning. Students should not be fettered with thick, expensive, texts full of excess content to justify prices. Consider that as of 2012 there were more than 3,000 accredited 4-year colleges/universities in the United States. If a meager 2/3 of them offered an introductory inorganic chemistry course, that would mean approximately two-thousand 4-year colleges offering introductory chemistry. Each of these colleges has the audacity to sell its own chemistry textbook as if there are 2,000 best ways to teach chemistry. They also require students to purchase their own institution’s textbooks and charge exorbitant fees for them. Can colleges not agree on the fundamentals of inorganic chemistry and provide a single, acceptable, low-priced solution sufficient for many thousands of students across the country? If earnest about the teaching versus learning question, there is too much information available around the world for anyone to efficiently curate it. Additionally, common internet search providers and data repositories, if not commercially oriented, still have biased search algorithms, often yield different search outcomes, and do not make full articles, research studies and other meaningfully formatted data readily and freely available to everyone. Additionally, earning diplomas, certificates, and degrees are compliance tasks. Awarding educational institutions and agencies assure that students have memorized and learned to apply certain types of information in relevant scenarios, with at least a minimal level of acumen. As such, it is tacitly wasteful of student time to make them hunt for the factual data, the concepts, the formulas plus voluminous, relevant samples of formula applications, and ideological perceptions that schools believe are the bases of “quality education”. Instructors should provide students with base lecture content that is sufficient. It should be concise but of meaningful depth and breadth. And, it should be as precisely defined as would be required if it were to be applied to machine learning to meet baseline targets. Those with more robust and comprehensive personal goals could buy the $259 local text if so inclined. The most capable high achievers would have the time, capabilities and interests in meeting robust education goals; the price of resource materials is another issue. Independent learners may engage their learning targets as comprehensively as they are so inclined to do.
ISWC is the premier venue for presenting innovative systems and research results related to the Semantic Web and Linked Data, attracting yearly a large number of high quality submissions and participants from both, industry and academia. ISWC brings together researchers from different areas, such as artificial intelligence, databases, natural language processing, information systems, human computer interaction, information retrieval, web science, etc., who investigate, develop and use novel methods and technologies for accessing, interpreting and using information on the web in a more effective way. Besides the main technical programme, ISWC will host a number of workshops on topics related to the general theme of the conference. The role of the workshops is to provide a context for a focused and intensive scientific exchange among researchers interested in a particular topic. As such, workshops are the primary venues for the exploration of emerging ideas. We invite you to submit a proposal for a co-located workshop on a topic of interest to ISWC attendees. The decision on acceptance or rejection of a workshop proposals will be made on the basis of the overall quality of the proposal and its appeal to a reasonable fraction of the Semantic Web community. In particular, workshops should address topics which satisfy each of the following criteria: - the topic falls in the general scope of ISWC 2015 - there is a clear focus on a specific technology, problem or application - there is a sufficiently large community interested in the topic We especially encourage the submission of workshop proposals on: - principal problems of the Semantic Web / Linked Data, including the quality of data or schemas, their heterogeneity, size, and distributed nature as well as temporal or geographical aspects of knowledge representation - interdisciplinary topics and synergies of Semantic Web technologies with methods or methodologies from other fields of research (e.g., machine learning, natural language processing, information retrieval, human computer interaction, web science, etc.) - applications of Semantic Web Technologies in specific domains such as Health Care, eGovernment, Business Intelligence, Education, etc. - emerging trends or Semantic Web related problems that have received limited attention to date such as mining semantics from collective intelligence, or the use of Linked Data for Big Data Analytics. Workshop proposals should be submitted via EasyChair as a single PDF file containing the following sections: - Abstract: 200 word summary of the workshop purpose - Motivation: Why is the topic timely and of particular interest to ISWC participants? (one to three paragraphs) - Topics: What topics of interest will be covered by the workshop? (bulleted list, no longer than half a page) - Workshop Format: The intended mix of events, such as paper presentations, invited talks, panels, demos and general discussion (either a tabular schedule or a one paragraph summary) - Audience: Who and how many people are likely to attend? (one paragraph) - Chair(s): Name, affiliation, email address, homepage and short (one paragraph) biography of each chair, explaining the chair's expertise for the workshop - Program Committee: Names and affiliations of potential PC members (at least half of these should be confirmed at the time of the proposal) - Length: Half-day or full-day? - Related Workshops and Conferences: Is this the continuation of a workshop series or a new workshop to address an emerging issue? Please provide information about past editions of this workshop as well as about other related workshops (including URLs and submission / acceptance counts, if available). - We strongly advise having more than one chair, preferably from different institutions, bringing different perspectives to the workshop topic. - We welcome workshops with an innovative structure and a diverse programme which attracts various types of contributions and ensures rich interactions. Accepted workshops will be required to prepare a workshop web page containing their call for papers and detailed information about the workshop organisation and timelines. While the ISWC workshop-track and local chairs will assist with the local organisation of the workshop, the workshop organisers will be responsible for conducting their own reviewing process, for publicity of their workshop, and for publishing electronic proceedings. The chairs of each accepted workshop will receive one free registration (conference + one workshop/tutorial day). Workshop attendees must pay the ISWC workshop registration fee as well as the conference registration fee. Submissions will be made via easy chair. https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=iswc2015workshop Workshop proposals due: March 10, 2015 - 23:59 Hawaii Time * Extended until March 17, 2015 - 23:59 Hawaii Time * Notification of accepted proposals: April 15, 2015 - 23:59 Hawaii Time Timeline for Workshops The workshop web site and the call for workshop papers must be published no later than April 30, 2015 The suggested deadline for workshop papers is July 1, 2015. The latest (extended) deadline for paper submissions must end before July 15, 2015 By July 31, 2015, all notifications of accepted papers must have been sent to the authors By August 7, 2015 the number of accepted papers has to be communicated to workshop chairs. In the cases of conditional accepted papers, if any, the camera ready version and the final decision about the paper will need to be taken before August 7th The camera-ready proceedings of each workshop are due by August 21, 2015 Workshops will be held on October 11-12, 2015 All deadlines are Hawaii time. Please note that these are strict deadlines necessary to comply with the overall conference organization. Later dates can cause severe problems by making it impossible for potential workshop participants to get their Visa on time.
The International Technical Rescue Symposium (ITRS) is a limited enrollment event of a technical nature in which all attendees are expected to participate and to contribute to the general pool of knowledge. All attendees – including event organizers, representatives of presenters and co-sponsors, presenters and host team members – must have a paid registration to attend. A limited number of grants are available through co-sponsors and the event itself to cover the registration fees of presenters and others for whom the cost might represent an unreasonable hardship. Grants cover only registration – all other expenses (travel, room, board, etc.) remain the responsibility of the attendee. You will need Adobe Reader to download this file. If you don’t have it, you can get it free here. To qualify for a grant, a prospective attendee must meet the following conditions: 1. Must not represent a U.S. for-profit entity in the fields of Rescue, Rope Access, Training or Equipment 2. Must offer a tangible benefit to the event 3. Must meet stated requirements 4. For presenters, must submit all materials as requested and on time (see Presenter Agreement) 5. Must make application for grant prior to August 31st
When Aaron Sorkin was requested to adapt Harper Lee’s “To Kill a Mockingbird” for the stage, he was thrilled — and terrified. “Ever have the expertise of being glad you’ve been invited to a celebration, however not desirous to go to the celebration?” Sorkin tells The Put up. “There’s nothing I like greater than writing a play. However what may I do however make the factor lower than what it may have been?” “To Kill a Mockingbird” opens Dec. 13, with a reported advance sale of almost $16 million. It has more cash within the financial institution than any musical this season. Jeff Daniels performs Atticus Finch, the small-town Southern lawyer who defends a black man wrongly accused of rape. Sorkin and producer Scott Rudin say that they had Daniels in thoughts from the beginning, a lot to Daniels’ shock. “I’ve been ready so that you can name to inform me Tom Hanks is doing it,” he informed Rudin. As soon as Sorkin obtained over his preliminary worry of adapting an important American novel, he got here up with a primary draft he now calls “unremarkable.” He faithfully tailored scenes from the guide till he obtained to the well-known trial scene, a style with which the author of “A Few Good Males” felt “most comfy.” Rudin learn the draft and gave Sorkin a be aware that modified every little thing. “Atticus can’t be Atticus for your entire play,” the be aware mentioned. “He’s obtained to grow to be Atticus.” Atticus is a superb American hero, a paragon of integrity within the guide and the 1962 film, which starred Gregory Peck. In each the guide and Horton Foote’s screenplay, he’s seen by the eyes of his adoring youngsters, Jem and Scout. However a hero who doesn’t change in the midst of a play can come throughout as wood on the stage. So Sorkin tore up his first draft and set about making his hero extra advanced. “Within the guide, Atticus has all of the solutions,” says Sorkin. “He’s carved in marble. Within the play, his basic perception within the goodness in everybody must be challenged.” Racial politics have undergone a sea change for the reason that 1950s, when Lee wrote “Mockingbird” (it was printed in 1960). Sorkin was decided that his model replicate that, and so he gave vital stage time to a minor character within the guide — Calpurnia, Atticus’ African-American maid. The alterations didn’t go down nicely with Lee’s property, which almost derailed the manufacturing this 12 months with a lawsuit. The property claimed Sorkin’s script “deviated” an excessive amount of from the guide. Rudin countersued. He demanded $10 million from the property for scaring away traders. And in a flourish worthy of David Merrick, the legendary Broadway producer who additionally beloved a combat, Rudin provided to stage a efficiency of Sorkin’s adaptation in court docket, with stars Daniels, Celia Keenan-Bolger (Scout) and LaTanya Richardson Jackson (Calpurnia). “It will have been the primary play ever to open and shut within the Southern District Court docket,” Rudin says, laughing. However the dispute was settled earlier than scalpers may snap up seats within the court docket room. Rudin can’t disclose the phrases, however Sorkin is happy. “I used to be involved we might find yourself with a play that was agreed upon by legal professionals,” the author says, “however that didn’t occur. And I used to be involved that the play itself would grow to be compromised, and that didn’t occur.” “What we have now is precisely what we got down to do,” Rudin says. “I’d not say it was an uncomplicated highway — or an affordable one — however we obtained there. It has all of the values and morals of Harper Lee’s guide. However that is Aaron’s model of ‘To Kill a Mockingbird.’ ” You possibly can hear Michael Riedel weekdays on “Len Berman and Michael Riedel within the Morning” on WOR radio 710.
The Japanese Incense Ceremony Part Two -- Preparing the Kodo Censer The first step in preparation is filling the Incense Cup (Kiki-gouro) with rice chaff ash (kouro-bai). Fill loosley and do not compact. Stirring the Ash Bed Next the ash (kouro-bai) is stirred with the chopsticks using a clockwise motion. Fluffing the ash in this manner allows air (oxygen) for charcoal to burn properly. Preparing Hole for Charcoal After preparing the ash, use the metal chopsticks to make a hole in the center for the charcoal (Kou-tadon)to be placed. You only need to make the hole about two centimeters (2 cm.) deep because the ash is loose and the charcoal can be pressed down to the proper height. Heating the Charcoal One very important part of preparing the Kodo cup (Kiki-gouro) is heating the charcoal properly. If has not burned long enough before you put it in the Kodo cup it will have an unpleasant aroma which will be retained in the ash and effect the presentation. For this reason the charcoal is ignited and place in a separate censor until it is glowing red in the center and white on the entire outside, and the offensive aroma is burned away. Placing Charcoal in Kiki-gouro Now you place the charcoal in the "Kiki-gouro" (Kodo cup) and you are ready to begin covering the charcoal with ash and building your ash mound. note: Normally the charcoal would be white. We used unlit charcoal for this demonstration so you could see it better. Making the Ash Mound Next you take the metal chopsticks (koji) and begin making a mound over the charcoal, working from the edge with a counter-clockwise upwards motion. This keeps the ash loose for a better burning of the charcoal. Tamping the Ash This is a very important part of the process. You want to lightly tamp the surface without compacting the ask below the surface, Remember, the charcoal needs air to burn properly. Hold the ash press parallel to your shoulders and lightly press the surface as you rotate the cup counter clockwise. Keep the ash tamper (Haioshi) 90 degrees to the front of the Kiki-gouro. Making the Ash Pattern Once the mound is smooth you begin making the ash pattern. There are three styles of ash patterns: Shin-kouro or Shin-bai (True pattern) is the most formal. It is divided into five sections called Gou, and the listening line Kiki-suji. An odd number of lines, (kosuji) usually nine, divide the five sections (gou). Below-left is the positive (You) "True Ash" (Shin-bai) pattern of the Oie school. Below-right is the negative or "In" pattern. Notice how the kosuji reverse in the negative pattern. The second most formal pattern is called the Gyou-kouro or Gyou-bai patten. It also contains five sections (gou) and the listening line (kiki-suji) but the kosuji are left out. (see below) Gyou means "Journey" or "Travelling." The least formal is called the Sou-bai or Sou-kouro. In this pattern the Gou are omitted, and only the kiki-suji (listening line) is marked. Sou means "Draft" or "Grass" Making the Vent After making the pattern use the metal chopstick to make a hole or vent down to the charcoal. This allows the most heat to rise at the center where you will place the mica plate (silver leaf) and center the incense (koh). Cleaning with Feather Tool (Habouki) Placing the Silver Leaf (Gin-you) Placing the Incense Wood (Kou boku) Table of Contents
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How to Survive Anything Anywhere Storm approaching? Need a fire? Out of water? Lost? Whatever situation you find yourself in, Len McDougall has probably been there himself and can get you out of trouble. He reveals his way of living and teaches readers how to have the same confidence in any scenario. In this comprehensive, fully-illustrated guide, McDougall reveals how to make water safe for drinking, build a fire in any conditions, find and build shelter, use basic medical skills, and more. McDougall has field-tested everything from kayaks, backpacks, and boots to cameras, tents, and water filters, and because of his research and experience, everyone can feel more safe. – Type of Cover: Soft – Number of Pages: 400 – Size: 7.5″ x 9.25″ – Published: December 9th, 2010

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