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104,603,502 | Plumbing Plus is a group of independently and locally owned and operated plumbers merchants operating throughout New Zealand. We are committed to providing our Trade Account holders with the best products at the best prices.
We have the most comprehensive listing of plumbing products available in New Zealand – anything and everything plumbing and anything remotely connected to it. When you are an account holder many of our stores offer access to online pricing, access to invoices, creating quotations and much, much more.
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Weighted blankets have become popular among both adults and children alike. They were originally made for children with autism to help them sleep better. With their plastic poly pellets or glass fillings, the best weighted blankets for adults induce a deep pressure therapy that is calming and sleep-inducing. If you are looking to buy one, this article...
The comfortability of a memory foam mattress highly depends on its cleanliness and softness. With a focus on its cleanliness, the probability of you falling asleep on a mattress that is dusty and smelly is almost zero. Trust me even if you manage to fall asleep on such a mattress your sleep maybe be destructed at some point of the night. This is one awful thing no one ever wishes to experience whatsoever. We sleep to get rid of the fatigue we get from a whole day’s work. Now, imagining that you do not ...
When it comes to ensuring a clean and safe household for your family, then you may want to consider investing in a machine that helps clean the air and keeps it away from allergens that trigger your allergies. Two of the recommended ones would be air purifiers and humidifiers, both known to help with your household’s air...
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Are you finding it hard to breathe around your house? Sometimes, the air in your house can be so much contaminated with pollutants and irritants that make it unhealthy for human inhalation. The air around your house should be clean and comfortable to breathe in at that. Mostly, air purifiers are bought to keep asthma and allergies at bay. I perfectly understand how uncomfortable it feels to breathe smelly and contaminated air especially when you live with a cigarette smoker. Breathing air full of pollens, allergens, and the irritating cigarette smoke will most likely...
Most homeowners do not have lots of experience with whole house humidifiers. Maybe you have had the smaller ones for the baby’s room, but nothing more than that. The best whole house humidifier makes a difference in your overall life quality and health, especially in winter when the air is dry...
Is your dog hesitant around you? It’s time you considered making an improvement in your relationship with your lovely pet. Life is not all about relating well with your fellow human beings. There is much more fun in relating well with your pet. This case, a good relationship between you and your dog can impact your life in several positive aspects. Sometimes pets do need compassion and understanding just like we human beings do. Did you know that training your dog equips you with parenting skills? It gives you a sense of responsibility thus preparing you for a good parenting life. I understand how difficult it can be creating a fruitful relationship with your dog. Not to worry though, below is a list of 10 tricks to make dogs love you...
When it comes to cooking, you’ll want to make sure that you have the excellent cookware and materials to safely create your dishes for everyone to appreciate. And with the many types of cookware available, it may be confusing to know which one is best for you...
Are you getting late o work because you overslept? Are your duties lugging behind because you wake up late? I understand how you feel. Heavy sleeping is not a new situation whatsoever. Well, it’s quite expected that you wake up by yourself for your work but sometimes your sleep overcomes the ability to wake up early enough. I guess it’s time you solved this issue once and for all. Heavy sleepers do not need just any alarm clock to break their slumber. As a heavy sleeper, you need the best alarm clock for heavy sleepers...
Vacuum cleaning is rapidly replacing the traditional cleaning solutions like the broom sweeping and mopping. With good reasons, it’s a reliable cleaning method. In terms of saving time and making the work easier. Though can be quite expensive at times, it’s much far better compared...
Do you love your laminate floor? I guess you surely do. The fact is that laminate floors are beautiful and quite appropriate for busy families. The challenge comes in keeping the floor clean. The process can be quite tricky at times. Worry not though, if the right vacuum is used, the cleaning process can be as simple and interesting as ever. All you need is to get the best vacuum for laminate floors. This will definitely take ...
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A major mistake made by many building owners these days is thinking that a minor leak or problem on their roof can be ignored while they worry about and take care of other things, instead of making prompt repairs. The problem with this line of thinking is that it ignores the fact that the problem on their roof will continue to grow, and can also affect other areas of the roof, not just the issue in question. By spotting a problem on your roof and fixing it immediately, you eliminate the chance for that issue to get worse and reduce the possibility that it will negatively impact other areas of the roof.
It is often easier to put off the roof issues that you find in an inspection, because not only do they take time, effort, and project management to get the repairs made, but they also take money to get the repairs made. By putting off the repairs, you can put off what could be a very large expense, which building owners often equate to saving their company money. However, once you put that repair off, it doesn’t go away. In fact, it usually gets worse. Prompt repairs may originally take X amount of dollars to be made, but after waiting they require 1.5X or 2X amount of dollars to be made. That means you didn’t save any money, you just delayed spending it and ended up spending more! By making repairs promptly when an issue arises, you can actually save money on your repair project.
Making roof repairs is something that no one likes to do – except for maybe a professional roof repair contractor. Assuming that you are a building owner or a facility manager, you probably don’t want to get caught making repairs all the time. Don’t let the burden of roof repairs make you decide to postpone them! You might cause more damage to your roof, and you will almost certainly end up spending more time and money making the repairs down the road.
Good basics – Not all questions are difficult. Most of the questions only appear difficult because you busy were learning the tough chapters and left out the basics.
Practice tests – The more you practice the more confident you are. Helps improve your speed and approach towards questions. There are always a few favourite and repeated questions. Practice tests will help you find them and answer them in less than a second.
Prepare wisely – Know which chapters have more weightage and concentrate more on those chapters. You CANNOT make mistakes in those few chapters.
Time – Time is the villain. No matter how hard you study and how good your basics are, if you can’t manage your time, everything’s going down the gutter. Do not waste time on questions you don’t know. And mock tests help in learning how to manage time.
Read the question properly – In the process of managing time we tend to misread the questions. So read the question properly
Scores – Every time you take a test, check your score. Check where you stand and always aim high. If you want to end up in top college, you can’t be happy with your score if it is not very very good. Having said that, do not get disheartened if you don’t score well.
Health – Last but not the least. You can’t become a good doctor if you are not in good health yourself. So take care of yourself. Nothing is more important than your health.
Listen it’s pretty difficult to say that you’d get any seat in all the three counselling considering yourself a general candidate. But there might be shot in fourth or open counselling so get your documents ready and be concerned .
AIPMT contains 15 ℅ seats in almost every government medical colleges across India. So you need not to show domicile at all.
Thanks for the strategy sir . Can u plz give a study methodology for all PCB ? Like , how do u actually study effectively a particular subject ? And prepare without going to coaching centres ..?
First of all I’d like to emphasis about the importance of a coaching centre. It helps you to make and follow a routine so you should try to make an impeccable routine giving almost equal importance to every subjects. Secondly, it helps you to practice papers such that you’d feel comfortable during exams. So you’ve to practice mock test papers within given time period.
You don’t have to study a particular subject for longer duration like more than 2 or 3 rather you should divide your time among all the three subjects and always try to solve 50 ques of each subjects daily. |
291,953,818 | Our priorities are to invest in areas where technology can improve accessibility, customer service and efficiency. Pixels, not paper, are the way of the future.more
We are organizing and leveraging the collective expertise of our staff to better serve citizens, small businesses, and public bodies in a digital world. Learn more at https://www.azlibrary.gov/.
Arizona State University is home to a partnership between ASU Library and the School for the Future of Innovation in Society that aims to bring high quality more
information to learners in locations without ready access to libraries and reliable internet services. Learn more at https://www.asu.edu/.
Since its founding in 2007, Bibliothèques Sans Frontières has been striving to invent the 21st century library. More than just a collection of books libraries have a cross-cutting impact on society,
from fighting poverty and social inequalities to capacity building, to stimulating creative energies and entrepreneurship. BSF focuses on building libraries and developing innovative tools, curating and creating contents, and devising trainings that enable facilitators to share their expertise and bring libraries to life for people across the globe. In 2013, we created the Ideas Box, a pop-up media center and learning hub that fits on two pallets and unfolds on 100m2. It can accommodate 70 people at a time, 400 per day. It hosts high and low tech equipments and educational resources for playing, learning and creativity. Each Ideas Box is customized to meet local needs by collaborating with local organizations and members of the community. More than 85 Ideas Box and 200 Koombooks – ultra portable digital libraries – have been deployed around the world and provide offline access to digital contents. Learn more at https://www.bibliosansfrontieres.org/.
The eGranary Digital Library is a plug-and-play server that provides instant access to millions of digital documents without the need of a connection to the internet.more
This offline library has been adopted by nearly 2,000 institutions in developing countries as well as 25 prisons in the US. Learn more at https://widernet.unc.edu/research/egranary/.
GLN operates as an open collaboration of tech savvy, innovation libraries cooperating as a distributed global testbed/showcase environment for high performance applications more
and equipment in the service of educational, civic and cultural objectives. We advocate for libraries as natural community ICT hubs while also championing highest global standards of free, open access to information and expression. Learn more at http://www.giglibraries.net/.
The International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA) is the leading international body representing the interests of library more
and information services and their users. It is the global voice of the library and information profession. Learn more at https://www.ifla.org/.
INASP is an international development charity working with a global network of partners in Africa, Latin America, and Asia. In line with our vision of research and knowledge at the heart of development,more
we work to support individuals and institutions to produce, share and use research and knowledge, which can transform lives. At INASP, we believe that research and knowledge have a crucial role to play in addressing global challenges and contributing to the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals. To realize this potential, we work in partnership to strengthen the capacity of individuals and institutions to produce, share and use research and knowledge, in support of national development. Learn more at http://www.inasp.info/en/.
The Inter-Agency Network for Education in Emergencies (INEE) is as an open global network of more than 14,000 members working together within a humanitarianmore
and development framework to ensure all people the right to quality and safe education in emergencies and post-crisisrecovery. INEE provides a forum to share experiences, lessons learned, good practices, and opportunities to work collaboratively to develop resources and inform policy through consensus-driven advocacy. INEE serves its members through a range of functions, including community building, convening diverse stakeholders, knowledge management, advocating and amplifying ideas and knowledge, facilitating collective action, and providing members with the resources and support they need to carry out their work on education in emergencies. Members receive regular communications on relevant topics and access to resources, news, events, and job opportunities through the INEE Toolkit and website. Learn more at www.ineesite.org.
Internet-in-a-Box works with Wikipedia’s Foundation, the Internet Archive and community school systems around the world transforming what Community Learning Libraries can truly be.more
The unheralded yet vibrant “offliner” content-engineering movement is the foundation underlying this all, creating high-quality Content Packs for all, working through events like the 35-person Medical/Education Weeklong Hackathon we organized in New York in August: http://OFF.NETWORK These are the unsung community curator heroes cutting tight offline Wikipedias, local editions of OpenStreetMap and Learning Packs of all kind (in many languages!) onto very compact offline devices for all. Thereby unleashing formal and informal education environments — in some of the most unvarnished communities worldwide. Learn more at http://internet-in-a-box.org/.
Kiwix works like a browser, picking content from its library for offline use, be it Wikipedia, the Gutenberg library, TED talks or MOOCs. Kiwix currently has around a million direct downloads each year.more
It is also used by organizations around the world to power their own offline solutions and programs, from Africa to Cuba to North Korea, or even in European and US prison systems, bringing its total user base to approximately 3-4 million people. Kiwix is an offshoot of Wikimedia Switzerland and supported by the Wikimedia Foundation – it is currently based in Lausanne, Switzerland. Learn more at http://www.kiwix.org/.
Learning Equality is a U.S.-based non-profit organization that focuses on developing education technology for low-resource and low-connectivity contexts.
Its second-generation platform Kolibri is an open-source educational platform that is specially designed to provide offline access to a curated and openly licensed educational content library with tools for pedagogical support. It builds on five years of feedback and experience KA Lite, which brought Khan Academy content offline and reached more than 5 million people globally in 200 countries and territories. Learn more at https://learningequality.org/.
LibraryBox is an open source, portable digital file distribution tool based on inexpensive hardware that enables delivery of educational, healthcare, and other vital information to individuals off the grid.more
LibraryBox is a digital distribution tool for education, libraries, healthcare, and emergency response. Anywhere there is a lack of open internet access, LibraryBox can bridge the gap of information delivery. Learn more at http://librarybox.us .
MAKAIA (www.MAKAIA.org) is a not-for-profit organization that promotes capacities for social development through cooperation, technology and innovation.more
MAKAIA´s work is implemented based on two pillars: (1) Technology for Social Change, (2) International Cooperation and Partnerships. In 2013 MAKAIA developed www.nodoka.co, a data and information driven initiative to promote resource mobilization, knowledge sharing and effectiveness in social sector. MAKAIA has reached more than 25,000 people and 3,600 organizations in Colombia and abroad.
Rumie is a non-profit technology organization that uses today’s low-cost technology to bring high-quality, free digital educational content to youth and learners in remote and underserved communities,more
Rumie tablets are interactive digital libraries pre-loaded with 1000s of educational resources from our LearnCloud (LC) platform. The Rumie LC is an online repository of high-quality educational content sourced by educators and volunteers worldwide. Users can also upload their own content onto the LearnCloud platform, content that is made available for later offline use. Learn more at https://www.rumie.org/.
Since Year 2000, our focus has been on digital and IT literacy, by conducting information literacy skills classes to users, planting the digital ability seeds for the communities to brace the digital economy. more
From 2018 onward, bigger mandates have been entrusted to Pustaka to continue, and expand these digital literacy activities, for digital inclusivity, in order to achieve digital awareness, readiness and immersion of Sarawak’s communities in embracing the digital economy. Learn more at http://www.pustaka-sarawak.com/.
The SolarSPELL (Solar Powered Educational Learning Library), is an offline, portable, ruggedized, localized digital library designed for resource constrained locations lacking electricity or Internet connectivity,more
came to fruition through such courses and remains a university-based endeavor, involving students, faculty, and staff in all aspects of the project. The SolarSPELL digital library has been deployed to over 200 schools and health care clinics across the Pacific Islands and East Africa. Learn more at http://solarspell.org.
Sunna Design is originally a solar energy social company, takling in emerging countries the issue of access to energy for rural populations.more
But with the Moon project, the idea is to try and contribute to developement by adding digital and financial inclusion to energy inclusion and bundling for the first time a smartphone, with dedicated contents, to the energy kit. Giving access to information and to a first digital quality expérience is key for these populations. Off-line internet is the revolution they are waiting for. Learn more at https://www.sunna-design.fr/en/accueil.html.
The Essential Electronic Agricultural Library (TEEAL) is a digital collection containing hundreds of research journals for agriculture and related sciences. more
TEEAL has been improving access at institutions with limited Internet time and/or financial resources. It is a searchable, offline, digital library which contains mainly agriculturally focused reference journals, as well as coverage in related subject areas. The collection is updated annually, and the base set is provided by the TEEAL Project office in Cornell University’s Mann Library. The non-profit digital library contains some of the most prestigious, full-text journals that leading publishers have gifted to TEEAL users. TEEAL is available to universities, research institutions, governments, extension organizations and other not-for-profit institutions in income-eligible countries. TEEAL works hand-in-hand with Research4Life/AGORA in support of access to the agriculture and life sciences research literature and capacity building to enhance use of these resources. Learn more at https://teeal.org/.
WiderNet @ UNC aims to improve digital communications to all communities and individuals around the world in need of educational resources, knowledge and training.more
WiderNet@UNC provides coaching, training, computers, and educational materials to people with poor digital communication resources. Learn more at https://widernet.unc.edu/. |
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For many, it’s quite a surprise to listen to Elliott Sharp performing Thelonious Monk’s tunes. Knowing his fondness for extreme situations in the fields of noise music, experimental rock and hardcore improvisation, his use of a selection of compositions considered “standards” of the be bop school, written by one of the top figures in the history of jazz, can seem a bit strange. To understand it, we have to go deeper in the musical universe of this guitarist who also plays other instruments – tenor and soprano saxophones, bass clarinet, computer electronics, etc. – and invented some string ones (the slab and the pantar, for instance). Sharp’s music can be extreme, expressionistic, “savage” (there’s something of the B’ambuti pygmies even in his pieces for classical string quartet) and with lots of feedback and distortion, but that’s only some of its characteristics. There’s other sides, like his love for mathematics, using the Fibonacci series and the golden numbers in a complex and demanding compositional work having everything to do with Xenakis’, Ligeti’s and Stockhausen’s concepts. Sure he likes to pump up the volume of his amplifier, but there’s structures in what he does, preventing it to be just aleatoric, and when you speak about structures you must point a master in structuring improvisation – Monk, precisely. Elliott Sharp himself says it all in the liner notes of “Sharp? Monk? Sharp! Monk!”: “My ears and heart tended towards sonic excess, but Monk was always there to clarify with his tart harmonies and percussive attack, his catchy but twisted melodies, and his incredibly rhythmic motion, always dry and economical.” This is not a paradox – even radical music needs to have rules of some kind, and Thelonious Monk, in its weird simplicity and openness, was a genious in using patterns and process figures. Sharp arranged very known scores like “Bemsha Swing”, “Round Midnight” and “Misterioso” for acoustic guitar, the Dell Arte Grande Bouche he prefers when playing blues, and the “fingerpicked bop” (his words) of this disc isn’t very far from the mother of the jazz idiom. His interpretations of the master’s ideas are unusual and maybe sometimes bizarre, but he connects him even more with the continuum of the African-American tradition. The notion that avant-garde playing is a refusal of the past is no longer true, if it ever was. A great record to cherish and keep. |
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161,068,133 | Honda, Hero MotoCorp, Bajaj, Royal Enfield, TVS Motors motorcycles/scooters to get nearly 10% COSTLIER from September 1st: We explain!
Prices of new bikes and scooters are set to get a whole lot costlier for all new two-wheeler buyers from September 1, 2018. The price hike comes after the Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority of India directed all insurance companies to mandatorily offer third party insurance of five years for all new two-wheelers. The price hike will be applicable to almost every motorcycle and scooter sold in India, which includes ones from leading brands such as Honda, Hero MotoCorp, Bajaj, Royal Enfield and TVS Motors.
Bajaj is the first bike maker to have announced price hikes on the on-road prices for its bikes come September 1. MoneyControl is reporting that prices of Bajaj motorcycles on sale in India will rise by at least Rs 3,000 due to the new insurance rules. Honda, Hero MotoCorp, Enfield, TVS Motors and other companies are yet to announce such moves.
Prices for new Bajaj Platina, which currently costs Rs 53,338 in Delhi, are set to get hiked by nearly 9% with the on-road price set to go up by Rs 4,800. Prices for the NS160, Bajaj’s newest addition to the Pulsar line-up, will rise by Rs 8,000, a hike of around 8.6% compared to its current on-road price of Rs 92,978 (all prices mentioned are on-road, New Delhi).
Bajaj will keep its dealerships open on August 30 and 31 till 11 p.m. for customers to avail an offer offering one-year free insurance on the Pulsar 150, Pulsar NS 160, the V range of bikes, Platina and the Discover. Bajaj will discontinue the offer on September 1.
The new price hike will only apply to new motorcycles and scooters bought on or after September 1, 2018. The Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority of India has not given any details about how this affects the existing vehicles currently plying on Indian roads.
The mandatory 5-year third party insurance order is the result of a recent decision by the Supreme Court of India directing insurers to provide long-term cover to vehicle owners due to a large number of vehicles currently plying uninsured on Indian roads. Third party insurance covers against liabilities if your bike or scooter is involved in an accident that results in death or injuries to someone else other than the owner of the vehicle that caused the accident.
While prices of bikes and scooters are set to go up by a substantial amount, the reason for the hike is something that should be applauded considering the number of accidents that happen on Indian roads every year. Is your nearby Honda, Hero MotoCorp, Royal Enfield and TVS Motors dealer burning midnight oil to clear stock before the price hike? Do let us know!
Unveiled in Mumbai today, the new Skoda Fabia comes with three new engine variants—a 1.2-litre, 75 hp petrol and diesel mills, and a 1.6-litre, 105 hp petrol engine—sourced from its parent, Volkswagen. Skoda offers three trim levels namely Classic, Ambient and Elegant. The Classic offers grey interiors while the other two come with ivory interiors.
The new Fabia gets a large and wide front bumper, elongated headlamps, new fog lamps, signature grille and newly contoured bonnet. The bumper is wider and set lower to lend the Fabia an athletic stance.
Inside, the changes include height and reach-adjustable steering, all power windows, rear air-con vents, dual glove box, coat hooks and all fabric upholstery (no leather). A multifunction display gives details on the distance travelled, average speed, immediate fuel consumption, average fuel consumption, travel distance before refueling, service interval, outside temperature etc.
Safety features include ABS, Motor Speed Regulator, Engine Brake Control (EBC) and Dual Rate Brake Assist. Airbags are standard across all variants. Buyers can choose from five different shades: Cappuccino Beige, Brilliant Silver, Candy White, Deep Black and Flash Red.
Skoda says it has achieved 40% localization of the new Fabia from the 15% previously. It also seems to share many parts with the Volkswagen Polo. Skoda India is also working on the possibility of launching S and RS versions of Fabia in the future.
When the Skoda Fabia was first launched in India, it mesmerized us with its European looks and luxurious interiors. But at around Rs 8.66 lakhs for the top-end Elegance model (ex-showroom, Delhi), the Fabia’s price put us and everyone off. By cutting the Fabia’s price tag drastically, the new Fabia is back in the game. Besides, it’s now also armed with Volkswagen’s frugal and reliable engines. Honda, do we see a price correction for the Jazz, please? |
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If you don't currently have a will, your loved ones may not receive the assets you wish to leave them in the event of your death. If you're unsure of where to start, read on for the basic information you need to know when you're considering making a will.
A self-proving will, also known as testamentary will, is the traditional type of will with which most people are familiar. It is a formally prepared document that is signed in the presence of witnesses.
As I researched the subject of sinusitis more thoroughly for our Members here at Cannabis Animus, it became clear that the medical community at large appears as confused and conflicted as usual. For example, the recent patient data shows that not only has traditional treatment been unsuccessful, it further supports the evidence that sinus congestion relief and CBD (cannabidiol) is clearly showing lasting results from CBD therapy for our sinuses.
The traditional explanation from the medical community is that sinusitis is caused by bacteria that infects the nasal passages as we breathe in air all day long that contains trillions bacteria. So physicians prescribe antibiotics when they determine that the patient’s symptoms have become rather uncharacteristically acute or chronic (“continuing or occurring again and again for a long time”).
Yet physicians continue to prescribe antibiotics when it’s clear that they all know (or should know) that the renowned Mayo Clinic and other research refutes the bacterial infection hypothesis. These opinions are based on the fact that antibiotics target bacteria “which are not usually the cause of sinusitis.”
Lots of organic stuff! Mold & fungus spores are the most common, serious allergens. So are viruses. Inflammation of the sinus tissue is triggered when they become blocked, and then bacteria and germs collect in large numbers causing infection response called inflammation. This inflammation of the tissue triggers all the undesirable symptoms that develop.
Causes range from the common cold to allergen sensitivity (compromised immune system) to our diet. Temporary or acute sinusitis is handled with time, rest, proper diet and hydration. But when it persists and is not corrected by the various systems of the body, chronic conditions (meaning persistent and lasting longer than 12 weeks and/ or recurrent) obviously require more serious attention.
The aforementioned studies at the Mayo Clinic reveals a 93% of all chronic sinusitis patients where having reactions to these nasty organics that we all have to deal with – even our domesticated pets. Additionally, headaches and migraine are common symptoms that are neurological responses to sinus inflammation and subsequent infection.
Acute Sinusitis is typically lasts only 2 weeks or so, but is still considered “acute” up to 30 days. Sub-acute sinusitis is described as lasting 30 – 90 days. It is typically caused by viral infection. Other causes of sinusitis range from smoking tobacco, chronic gastrointestinal acid reflux, air pollution, to even dental disorders.
Chronic Sinusitis is described as either persistent or recurrent. It is typically caused by infection from bacteria, fungus, or other allergic stimuli. Still originating from inflammation, other common causes from a deviated septum in the nose which does not allow for proper drainage of mucus from the sinus cavities can be the cause. Nasal polyps also cause sinusitis.
The good news is that folks like Dr. Donald Dennis have shown that even acute sinusitis and rhinosinusitis (stuffy nose) is better treated with natural remedies including CBD. These solutions are far more practical, economical, and non-evasive.
Cannabinoids from the various Cannabis plant species and strains are even shown to be effective in killing bacteria that has become resistant to antibiotics, not to mention that there are no side effects that are typical with antibiotic treatments.
But, before I summarize the various natural remedies for sinus congestion, check out this short, but informative, video from Dr. Jacob Teitelbaum. He’s a Board Certified, Otolaryngology specialist (ear, nose and throat)… often referred to as an “ENT”. Dr. Teitelbaum is also a leading authority on Chronic Fatigue Syndrome.
1) CBD Therapy (cannabidiol) is the first and foremost on the list because it reduces the initial inflammation while it has been shown to reduce the amount of bacteria and virus that rapidly reproduces within inflamed tissue. The reason? It is the most powerful, natural anti-inflammatory that is known to exist… even better results than most prescription meds. Most effective non-toxic & non-addictive pain relief that exists!
Another reason is that it is also the most effective, non-toxic and non-psychoactive pain killer known to man. Ask anybody who uses a quality nano CBD product like those from CBD Living. Physicians that I treat personally for their own pre and post-surgical CBD therapies will attest to these results.
2) Nasal rinse is critical so that any chance of “clearing the field” can offer optimal absorption of corrective nutrients or medications. Dr. Teitelbaum is quite helpful with his recommendations video above.
3) Hydration is most vital to any relief from inflammation symptoms whether in our sinuses or anywhere else in our bodies. And drinking tap water and most bottled water will not hydrate you properly because it is acidic. Acidic pH water is the equivalent of causing your body to rust (due to oxidation) while hydrating, whereas a neutrally balanced or preferably 7.4pH water (or higher) will actually help reduce inflammation caused by oxidative stress.
4) Drinking natural decongestants is another clear winner. Try drinking a little unfiltered vinegar once in the morning and again before bed will likely have a noticeable effect on your quality of life. Include ginger, turmeric, lots of olive and coconut oil, garlic. Read up on simple, centuries old home-made and super economical tonics with real healing power.
5) Eat anti-inflammatory foods and avoid food & drink that cause inflammation. See below for more detail on both… and avoid inflammatory foods. Minerals like Zinc with natural Vitamin C from Berries, Kiwi, Bell Peppers, and Guavas (highest) should be consumed. You will see that they will deliver dividends beyond your sinus conditions.
6) Take probiotics and balance your gut flora. I think most of you know by now that taking a probiotic “pearl” at least 3 times a week will deliver quality of life benefits that go far beyond the subject of treating sinus maladies and pain… but it will. And, you’d be surprised how much the gases that can reflux from your stomach causes sinus problems as well as many other unwanted symptoms.
7) Anti-vital herbs and supplements also help restore gut flora that is destroyed by antibiotics which are over-prescribed and most often unnecessary as more informed physicians will admit. Additionally, viruses and bacteria become immune to antibiotics which further compromises and weakens your immune system and promotes bacterial infection.
8) Sleep. But, what if you have occasional sleep or chronic sleep disorder? Well, you know that can, and will, seriously impede any progress gained. The best solution I’ve found and documented with thousands of others is a combination of melatonin and CBD .
If you’ve already read up a little on this subject, you’ll agree that understanding your endocannabinoid system and how it interacts with most all other major systems of the body is central to your CBD therapy dosing and frequency.
Rather than spend too much time in this article, please consider my more thorough article that focuses specifically on Cannabis and The Endocannabinoid System.
For our purposes on the subject of our sinuses and chronic symptoms that plague many of us, you’ll learn that CB 1 and CB2 receptors are located throughout our bodies. These receptor cells are designed to seek natural CBD-like molecules that are produced by our bodies when healthy.
Symptoms like those from sinusitis are believed by increasing numbers of research biochemists to be related to what is known as Endocannabinoid Deficiency Syndrome. Cannabidiol (CBD) is the only known natural substance (molecule) to be instantly welcomed by these receptor cells and used to heal many systems of the body that is not in homeostasis (balance).
Now, I’m not a gambler, but I’ll bet that some of this I’ve shared is intuitive… but much is not. Much of the above discovery definitely runs counter to what the FDA tells you like “eat your grains and pasta… use raw sugar, don’t eat this or that” and “avoid too much meat and dairy” which is proven over time to be not only ridiculous, but just plain ignorant advice.
That’s why I’ve spent the time to challenge your current understanding of your own sinus condition. There’s plenty of sound evidence showing us all that sinus congestion relief and CBD go together like peas & carrots. After you’ve tried a nano CBD product, you’ll have your own testimonial.
Our own endocannabinoid system is key to synergizing the nutrients from the foods we ingest (and don’t). CBD is the key to supplementing our endocannabinoid system which interacts with most all other “systems” in significant and confirmed ways. So feed it with non-inflammatory foods, anti-oxidant-rich foods, 7.4 pH+ water, and CBD oil, water, gel caps or vape oils.
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Thanks so much for this mega-informative article. I am on my way to clear sinuses and homeostasis! Your research and talent will guide us into a much healthier tomorrow! |
111,812,900 | ATLANTA (AP) _ Coca-Cola Co. launched a defensive advertising blitz to rescue its $100 million promotion for cans that spout prizes instead of soda.
The soft-drink maker ran full-page ads around the nation containing a detailed list of dos and don’ts for customers in search of its ″MagiCans.″
As part of a campaign announced in March, random cans of Coca-Cola Classic are equipped with mechanisms to eject cash or prize certificates when the cans are opened. The ads acknowledge that in ″a small number of instances, the prize mechanism may jam.″
″Also, the mechanism in a very small number of MagiCans detaches from inside the can and your prize won’t pop out.″
MagiCans contain no soda. Instead, the prizes are stashed in vials, which are suspended in chlorinated water to give the cans the heft and gurgle of the real thing.
Randy Donaldson, a spokesman for Coca-Cola, said the company has received 22 complaints since the cans reached shelves and vending machines earlier this month. He stressed that the water in the prize cans, though it tastes bad, is harmless.
The ads warn consumers against drinking the water and include a toll-free telephone number to report bad cans.
Coke planned to distribute a quarter-million of the prize cans through the summer. Prizes include cash - up to $200 - and certificates good for such things as tickets to theme parks and sporting events.
Emanuel Goldman, who follows the beverage industry for PaineWebber Inc. in San Francisco, said Coca-Cola is acting wisely in addressing the problem before the big soft-drink selling season starts over the Memorial Day holiday weekend.
″The key thing is to fix it early, and everyone will forget it ever happened,″ Goldman said. ″This is not the Hubble telescope. It’s not that difficult to fix.″
Donaldson said the mechanical problem has been corrected and prize cans shipped beginning this week should have no problems.
Though the trouble was detected in a relatively small number of cans, Donaldson said, ″we’re just being extraordinarily cautious. We don’t want any of our consumers to be disappointed.″ He said he did not know how much the ads cost.
The quick damage-control initiative recalled the company’s now-legendary reversal when it retired, and later then reintroduced, the classic formula of its flagship drink, Coca-Cola.
Despite the problems, the campaign has been successful with about 60,000 prize winners so far, Donaldson said.
″Our plans are to continue the promotion,″ he said. ″Obviously, we’ll continue to monitor the situation.″
It's been a year since President Trump moved to end the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, commonly known as DACA. The program is still afloat, but remains on shaky ground, leaving roughly 700,000 young undocumented immigrants in limbo.
It's an issue that weighs heavy on "Dreamer" Victor Santos, a CEO and co-Founder of Boston-based start-up Airfox.
"Since the Trump administration, it's not quite clear on what will come of DACA in the next few years," Santos said Monday in an interview on Cheddar.
DACA allows certain individuals who were brought to the U.S. illegally as children to receive permits to avoid deportation on a two-year, renewable basis and eventually become eligible for a work permit.
Reneging on this policy ultimately precludes these people from contributing to the economy, which could have a big effect on the country, Santos said.
"As an entrepreneur, having Trump cancel the start-up visa and making it harder and harder for H-1B entrepreneurs [to come] into the U.S., it's been an impactful experience for myself, but also for engineers that we bring on from other countries," he said.
"DACA is creating billions in terms of output for the economy, these kids are doctors and entrepreneurs; they are people that considers themselves American."
Airfox, a mobile bank, has 20 employees and provides financial services for emerging industries like mobile microloans to "unbanked" users in Brazil, where interest rates chart upwards of 200 percent.
The immigration debate will inevitably rage on, and may very well head to the U.S. Supreme Court. In Texas, there was a surprise ruling in which a judge kept the DACA program in place, a decision that may undergo federal scrutiny.
The future is further in question as the U.S. awaits confirmation of Brett Kavanaugh to replace Justice Anthony Kennedy on the Supreme Court.
The conservative judge, who faced four days of Senate hearings last week, will most likely vote with right-leaning colleagues to squash DACA.
The confirmation process, Santos said, is detracting from the real-life ramifications of killing the program. |
67,508,789 | Jillian Lynn Kennedy, age nine of Mount Vernon, was the winner of the Optic-Herald Coloring Contest. The theme for this year’s contest was “Santa’s Toyland.” As first place winner in the contest, she received $15 in cash. See the Dec. 25 edition of the Mount Vernon Optic-Herald for the details.
Faye Sloan, a long-time Mount Vernon resident, died Sunday. Her funeral is planned for 2 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 11, 2010 at the Harvey Funeral Home. She will be buried in the Mount Vernon Cemetery, next to her husband, Guy.
She was born April 13, 1918, in Thurber, but she grew up in Franklin County. Her parents, William Crow Wright and Clera Mattingly Wright, lived here for many years, and her six children attended the Mount Vernon schools.
Mrs. Sloan was a devoted Christian, for whom prayer and stuyding the Bible provided great comfort. For many years she was a faithful member of Lake Chapel House of Prayer, until concerns about her health forced her to move to Mesquite in 2000 to be nearer her daughter and granddaughter.
Her concern was always more for other people than for herself. Not only did she raise six children, but at various times she provided a home for nieces, nephews, grandchildren, and great-grandchildren.
She was modest, hardworking, and self-reliant. She had only one real party in her entire life. That was on her 90th birthday, when children, grandchildren, nieces, nephews, and her only remaining sister traveled from across the United States to celebrate. She said it “was one of the best days of my whole life.”
She is survived by a sister, Edna Marshall of California, one of her nine siblings; four sons, Bonny (Mari Lynn), Gary (LaRue), David (Joanne), and Wendel; two daughters, Reba Latimer and Brenda Roberts; 10 grandchildren, of whom Carol Meeking watched over her care as a daughter; 15 great-grandchildren; five great-great-grandchildren; and numerous nieces and nephews.
Theatre has the ability to generate dynamic and interesting discussion post-show. Share your thoughts about Brendan Cowell’s provocative new play ‘The Sublime’ using #mtcSublime.
We're proud to announce the participants in the CAAP Directors Initiative, led by Dean Bryant and Sarah Goodes.
We're honoured that our production of The Children, co-produced with Sydney Theatre Company, was recognised with three awards at the 2018 Helpmann Awards
This 2015 program of productions spans a tremendous range of themes and performance styles, from the austere poetry of the Beckett masterpiece Endgame to the thrilling escapism of North by Northwest – and all points in between.
As a tribute to the Anzac centenary, we present Steve Vizard and Paul Grabowsky’s The Last Man Standing, a work promising to be unlike any other in this year of commemorations, as it takes our famous larrikin irreverence as a starting point for an examination of the true Anzac spirit. A new play from Kylie Trounson, The Waiting Room draws on her own childhood to tell the story of her father, IVF pioneer Emeritus Professor Alan Trounson, while a boutique gem of a musical, What Rhymes with Cars and Girls by Tim Rogers and Aidan Fennessy draws on an iconic album by Rogers to tell a very Australian love story. These world premieres take their place alongside the best and most interesting plays from overseas – some startlingly new, and others exciting revivals.
As well as our mainstage season, in 2015 we consolidate all our initiatives of the past two seasons which have been so successful in reaching out to new audiences in Melbourne and beyond.
Our NEON Festival of Independent Theatre is back for its third year, as is the popular Cybec Electric play reading series. Our vital education productions and programs are enhanced by even more initiatives under the banner Sharing the Light which will see greatly increased access for students, children and families across Victoria.
We again tour internationally, taking Complexity of Belonging to Europe, and we present another wonderful family production The Boy at the Edge of Everything. As well, we partner with a number of cultural collaborators including Sydney Theatre Company (Death and the Maiden), Melbourne Recital Centre and SummerSalt Festival, State Theatre Company of South Australia (Betrayal), Kay + McLean Productions and Warner Bros. Theater Ventures (North by Northwest), Multicultural Arts Victoria and MPavilion.
I am also delighted that Season 2015 sees two alumni of our inaugural Women Directors’ Program, Naomi Edwards and Clare Watson, making their mainstage MTC debuts with two new works.
In these myriad ways, MTC is putting the transformative power of live theatre and storytelling within reach of the six million citizens of Victoria, as well as a national and international audience.
On behalf of the Board, Executive Director Virginia Lovett and the entire MTC team, I invite you to be enthralled, delighted, provoked and challenged with us in 2015. |
5,291,600 | Life has the distinct flavour of the interstices right about now (Mmmm, Mom, is that Nutella mixed with pear?). While I wouldn’t venture to pull out my dusty Arendt buried beneath all my editions of Valley of the Dolls and claim grandiloquently it’s between past and future, it does seem larger than the usual end of term evacuation to one’s other lives elsewhere. And evacuation does seem to be the apropos metaphor: a life frozen while on the road for three months, a temporary emergency, like a Flo-Jo Zombie invasion. I might as well be a Rock Star, except with piss poor clothes and travelling in coach. It's become humid here, Mr. Gordo’s harried with work, Big Sis started her new job, La Vicky’s new beau debuted to the gay gaggle in Little City this weekend, proving once again that lesbians do not have the corner on cheap melodrama (although the image of seven gay men lapping at ice cream cones in the heart of Little City will be one the heterolocals won’t soon forget). I spent the day tying up loose ends via email and telephone, ventured out for a pre-cooked roasted chicken, negotiated storage for the car, and to have some more holes put in a couple of old belts. No worries, I’m still zaftig (the belts are old, alas). The week directly before three months away feels like waiting for Godot, although a party on the weekend and last minute appointments promise to fill the days with blather both sacred and profane.
News came through the wire earlier in the week that a faculty member is decamping from the Sarah Bernhardt Memorial Theoretikal Skool of Hard Knocks, much to the quivering of the engorged quills of a grad student cell of refuseniks and some alumni. This faculty member arrived during my time there, although I never worked with hir, much less took a random seminar on Trendy Theory: Methods and Approaches. There was something a little too Seventeen-ish about the sartorial gesture, and ze quickly assumed the distanced, aloof countenance of the tenured faculty, which I found, even then, somewhat disconcerting. It’s one thing to have clawed your way to the top of your game, but it’s a whole ‘nother to be a Nobody with a prestigious hire. "You only work in a shop you know, you can drop the attitude." Shameless is as shameless does, however. The email correspondence, which as far as I can tell has sunk like a stone on the alumni listserv, shakes with rage at “the loss,” with the usual suspects responsible for the latest outrage: the senior faculty, inattentive administrators, the Man. There is a mildly hysterical tone to the communications, like someone wringing their hands and screaming at the top of their lungs, “Someone DO something!” while you bleed to death right in front of them. It’s nice to see that some things don’t change, one being the righteous, misplaced rage of the grad school subaltern, although it’s all for naught. The faculty member in question has simply parlayed hir way up the ladder, and it seems, given where ze is going, that tears shed for “the loss” are wasted on the gluttonous. It’s not the burning of the Library at Alexandria, after all. Civilisation shall, undoubtedly, continue her (hir?) forward march into oblivion.
This electronic re-encounter with the resistant refusenik sentiment so prominent in my time at Sarah’s Skool has caused mixed emotions. After I received the emails in question, I called the one person who was on a relatively matched time clock (i.e. North American) and who would also get all the references: La Gamine. Much to my consternation, she had already received the news (within the same 60 minutes that I had). Damn, the transcontinental chisme echo is so loud you can barely hear yourself think. We laughed about the electronic rage, but were cautious about being too dismissive. We have had our own run-ins with the mechanisms of the meat grinder, and a bad placement can be hell on (w)heels, especially when you toss race and gender into the hot cauldron of the workplace.
But still (you knew there would be a but, right?), we were exasperated by the risible defense of someone who is not being consigned to the dust bin of the profession, but has used the dark arts of reputation and connections to actually move to a more prestigious institution. I mean, what’s there not to like? Sarah’s Skool loses a bad hire and Big Name U. gains a well-paid token, not to be too cynical about it. Sounds like the perfect formula for egghead bliss, to me! See, I know some of the ulterior details of this “sudden” departure that in point of fact has been in play since the hire, if not before. I briefly served on the committee charged with determining the job announcement, and it was my first experience with the the type of unintended consequences that play out in the profession like a lingering case of scabies. Not to be too specific, but Faction A wanted Specialist X, Faction B wanted Specialist Y, and thus their hideous love child was an almost incoherent job announcement, something along the lines of this:
The Sarah Bernhardt Memorial Theoretikal Skool of Hard Knocks seeks applications at the rank of Assistant Professor for someone with specialties in X, Y, and maybe Z, with preferred qualifications including A, B, and C, or maybe M, N, and O as well, along with a strong record of teaching and research promise. Please send the usual nonsense by (date) to:
The result? Need you ask!? We got Specialist G, satisfying no one (do you see G listed above?). Oh Mary, don’t ask! The dog and pony show of the job talks went as planned, with one rising star (now relatively famous), one medium cool up-and-comer (who has made quite the niche for hirself at Robber Baron U. and editor of Quelquechose Studies), and candidate Specialist G. The inner mechanisms of the hiring committee were, of course, quite confidential, and how we got from X or Y to G was just one of those little mysteries, like the number of licks it takes to get to the centre of a Tootsie Roll Pop.
There were problems literally from the beginning of course, which are less important here than a) the incoherent hiring practices of departments, which occasionally guarantee unhappiness for all parties, and b) institutional attitudes and conditions that led Specialist G, now Assistant Professor G, into the labyrinth of a department in slow motion crisis. I can’t see that it didn’t benefit hir, so I am less than open to expressions of outrage over hir departure. In fact, the positive reading is that ze read the writing on the wall, and was proactive about working the system. Hey, Skoal! Good work, Eve! But I think it is interesting that the grad student faction advocating for action of some sort cannot see the institutional logics here, much less hear the pretty public discussions over the ensuing problems, mismatches, and miscommunications over the last few years. Honey, even I know them, and I’m hardly what you would call a truly interested party. I’ve had bigger fish to fry, like the smell of my own career roasting over the open fire, but that, as they say, is another story.
All of this does make me wonder about the preparation of specialist graduate students, such as myself in the past and the earnest do-gooders of today, for the sharp fangs of the profession. This, of course, is on some essential level a failure of mentorship, but what else is new? It also speaks to an oft-quoted but rarely heeded rule: All Politics are Local. Thinking you are above such plebian concerns is a sure-fire recipe for disaster. So while it may be a shame that current Associate Professor G is moving on up (yes, ze were tenured, in spite of poor teaching and weak research record), it’s not like ze will be begging in the streets. Don't cry for me, eggheads! In fact, ze will be making a lot more money, for one, not to mention living in subsidized housing in one of the world’s most expensive cities and finally has landed a co-placement for hir erstwhile partner, wandering all these years in the wilderness of the shadow of the employed. Some perspective on these things is important, I think. The academy is full of truly tragic stories, of faculty dismissed without cause, or because of a topical vendetta or racism or sexism or heteronormativity or simple personal antipathy, relegated to the margins or in fact driven out of the profession in toto, career and reputation viciously destroyed, or those thousands upon thousands who never even get in the door of the tenure track. This little ditty, alas, is not one of them.
And this, as far as I can tell, is one crucial difference between graduate school and the profession on the ground: the ability to tell the difference between tragedy and farce. The fact that such knowledge is gleaned almost exclusively from the empty skulls and crushed bones of once and future colleagues is seemingly beside the point.
Also chiming in with love for that last sentence. I detected a soi distant element of scorn towards the dear departed, and the buildup of that emotion concluded in a perfect wave of dust... |
74,589,987 | US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson recently completed his voyage to Southeast Asia, after attending the August 2017 ASEAN Forum in the Philippines and thereafter visiting Malaysia and Thailand. Tillerson’s trip to Southeast Asia signified the importance of the region to the US and President Donald Trump’s commitment to outreach to the region.
Before Trump was sworn in as President, his predecessor Barack Obama had made the largest number of visits to the Southeast Asia countries of all US Presidents —13 times to be exact — including even “former adversaries Myanmar and Laos.” Obama was also the “first to travel to Malaysia in more than four decades.” Despite withdrawing the US from the Trans-Pacific Partnership and watering down some aspects of the Obama’s “Pivot to Asia” policy after assuming the presidency, President Trump has continued to strengthen US relations with ASEAN.
In April, US Vice-President Mike Pence made his first trip to Indonesia — the most populous Southeast Asia country — to celebrate ASEAN’s 50th anniversary and to reinforce the bilateral relations between the US and Indonesia. This was the first trip by a US high official to Southeast Asia under the Trump administration. In May 2017, Tillerson hosted the Foreign Ministers of ASEAN in commemorating the 40th anniversary of US-ASEAN relations. It is expected that President Trump will attend the US-ASEAN Summit, the East Asia Summit, and the APEC Leaders Meeting in Vietnam and the Philippines this coming November.
There are a few reasons why the region has become increasingly important to the US in a globalized world. While Obama’s “Pivot to Asia” policy can be seen as a strategic rebalance of US influence in the Asia-Pacific region, Trump’s attempt to engage Southeast Asia is driven by security concerns, the top three of which are: East Asia, terrorism, and the South China Sea.
As the North Korean nuclear tensions escalate with the launch of its intercontinental ballistic missiles, President Trump has vowed to make the authoritarian regime pay if it threatens the United States. In view of the imminent conflict, the top priority of Tillerson’s trip to Southeast Asia in August was to canvass support for international sanctions against North Korea and to “urge Southeast Asian countries to do more to help cut funding streams for North Korea.” As Lee Sung Yoon opined, “The more united ASEAN countries are in enforcing sanctions, the better positioned the US will be in negotiating with North Korea.”
Besides attending the ASEAN Forum in Manila, Tillerson also made trips to Thailand and Malaysia, which both have established “special relations” with North Korea. In 2016, Thailand was reported to be the fourth largest trade partner of North Korea, with official bilateral trade worth USD 53 million. George McLeod, a Thailand-based political risk consultant, said in an interview that “Thailand and North Korea ‘have fairly robust, unreported trade ties.’” Among the goods exported from Thailand to North Korea, stainless steel and electronic circuits are “potentially or actually within the range of the UN sanctions imposed on North Korean imports,” and can be used for North Korea’s missile program.
In addition, North Korean businesses and enterprises have a presence in Thailand, and are believed to serve as financial means for the communist regime. Thailand has also been the main destination for North Korean refugees since 2004. Defectors from North Korea enter Thailand through the overland route which crosses the North Korea-China border, and then crossing from China into north-eastern Thailand, near the Golden Triangle through Laos.
Secretary Tillerson also visited Malaysia which has a troubled relationship with North Korea following the murder of Kim Jong-nam, the estranged half brother of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, in Kuala Lumpur. The US has identified Malaysia as the crucial player to rein in and isolate North Korea, as “US intelligence-gathering has spotlighted Malaysia as a favoured location for North Korea and its proxies to hold secret meetings, do business to generate much-needed foreign currency and treat its ports and airports as transit points for its defence-related shipments.”
Apart from the North Korea issue, during his trip in Malaysia, Tillerson “also shared US views on how terrorism and extremism should be monitored, especially in social media, to curb the menace.” While Southeast Asian countries house around 15 percent of the world’s Muslim population, Indonesia and Malaysia contribute more than 85 percent to the Muslim population in the region. Malaysia thus plays an important role in countering the threats of rising radicalism and terrorism.
Three countries that Tillerson visited have all tilted away from the US towards China in their foreign policies, economic ties, and they all are undergoing gigantic infrastructure investment plans. Tillerson’s visits to these three countries thus holds the important significance of expanding the US’ sphere of influence to draw them closer to the US amid heightened security tensions in the region. However, this intention has become the secondary concern of the US as security concerns prevail over foreign influence and geopolitics under Trump’s inward-looking and domestic-oriented approaches.
The US “Pivot to Asia” trajectory has shifted to emphasize the shaping and crafting of security strategies and calling for concerted efforts to tackle security threats through cooperation as the upsurge in global terror attacks, radicalism, and nuclear threats unnerves and rattles regional players.
The Sephora Mineral Foundation Compact D35 is now available in Hong Kong. The cheapest Sephora Mineral Foundation Compact D35 price in Hong Kong is HK$ 135.00 from Sephora. You can also choose between different Sephora Mineral Foundation Compact D35 variants with R40 starting from HK$ 135.00 and R35 at HK$ 135.00. Sephora Mineral Foundation Compact D35 price details are updated November 2018.
The ASUS ZenFone 3 Ultra ZU680KL 64GB Pink features a 1080 x 1920pixels display with 324ppi and weighs 233g. This device also comes with a 23MP rear camera & a 8MP front camera, as well as a 4600mAh battery capacity. Release date for the ASUS ZenFone 3 Ultra ZU680KL: May 2016.
Fans of phone tablets or phones with larger than 6-inch displays will often note that they don't get powerful tech specs or a premium design with their large display devices, at least until now as the ASUS ZenFone 3 Ultra ZU680KL packs in a 6.8-inch full...
Excelling build quality, Dual SIM, MicroSD card support, Excellent display for multimedia consumption, Reasonably good performance, Loud and clear speakers, Amazing battery life,
ASUS announced the third generation of its ZenFone lineup at the Computex Taipei 2016 on 30 May 2016, with the primary focus on the trio devices - ZenFone 3, ZenFone 3 Deluxe and ZenFone 3 Ultra. Today, what we have in the labs is the ZenFone 3 Ultra, su...
Coming in with an RM2599 price tag and 6.8-inch full HD display, the ASUS ZenFone 3 Ultra ZU680KL is just 0.2-inches short of a full 7-inch tablet. Still, ASUS have done a very good job of shrinking the bezels so that it looks like a very large phone inst...
Recently revealed ahead of Computex, the new trio of ASUS ZenFones includes the ASUS ZenFone 3 Deluxe , ZenFone 3 and ZenFone 3 Ultra . Surprisingly, each ZenFone 3 is different in its own way while packing in enough similar design cues and features to st...
As the Zenfone 3 and Zenfone 3 Deluxe has been officially introduced on the Zenvolution event yesterday, its time to make the Zenfone 3 Ultra shine on its stage! The Zenfone 3 comes with a large 6.8 inches display along with SonicMaster 3.0 audio technolo...
5 manufacturers stood out as integrator favorites for network switches from more than 140 votes / explanations submitted.
In this note, we break down: favorite 5 switch manufacturers, the top cited individual models and what the major changes were over the past three years.
We have standardized on Cisco for the most part. For rugged/industrial applications we having been using MOXA switches.
One thing to note, we have standardized on managed POE midspans and injectors. POE on even very expensive switches is not made for surveillance cameras and eventually fails.
I think it also depends on where you live. In my case (Maine) we need to have cameras that operate to less than -22 F. We used to use 24VAC and a seperate conductor pair, but now use mostly POE+ power and CAT6 on newer exterior cameras to achieve this. We must have a power budget on a POE+ switch that allows several exterior cameras (plus more for upgrades) plus the interior POE cameras. The specifications on the HP and Cisco switches (above) looks like < 200 watts of power budget (24 port switch) which is just not going to cut it. The GS728 has ample power available.
Does anybody that uses these know if there is any form of power upgrades for these models (Cisco or HP) or any of the other stated models?
Ubiquiti has 24 port 500W and 48 port 750W models. That's what we have been using lately. The 48 port also has 2 SFP and 2 SFP+ ports in addition to the 48 copper gig ports. They also do light layer 3, which we haven't used.
Don't overlook Antaira for industrial switch applications (e.g. in outdoor enclosure). They make solid products at a great price point.
Have any installers using Cisco switches had any problems procurring, or know not to tell their distribution source (i.e. CDW, Provantage, etc) that the switches are not for resale? Because last I knew, even the small business class line required you to be an authorized reseller if it was being purchased by anyone for resell and not the person's/business's own use. Part of the reason we stopped using them, along with flaky behavior we experiend with them. CDW learned we were reselling them for installations and stop selling them immediately to us.
Antaira is a pretty good hardened switch and so far has worked well for us. They don't have a broad enough general use line. |
112,251,372 | LAS CRUCES — A state District Court judge has granted the city of Carlsbad permission to enter the privately owned site of a brine well in danger of collapse to determine the size and shape of an underground cavern and figure out a plan to avert disaster.
“We’re very happy we can now proceed with steps that can hopefully stabilize this issue and protect the citizens of the town,” said Carlsbad City Manager Harry Burgess on Friday.
The brine well, owned by I&W Inc., is similar to two others in Eddy County that collapsed in 2008. Officials with the state Oil and Conservation Division, which pressured I&W to plug the well in late 2008, believe there is a strong probability the brine well will collapse, leaving a gaping hole hundreds of feet wide at its location between the intersection of U.S. 180/62 and U.S. 285 on the south side of town.
The brine well site also borders the main canal of the Carlsbad Irrigation District, an RV park, a feed store and a church.
A city expert testified at a court hearing last month that the brine well is likely to collapse within five years, and most probably within two years unless preventive measures are taken. City officials plan a multimillion dollar effort to fill in the cavern beneath the brine well, but first must determine its size and shape.
“Time is probably the biggest concern at this point,” Burgess said. “We want to make sure all of this is accomplished before any collapse occurs.”
In the order issued late Thursday, District Judge Jane Shuler Gray said I&W must reimburse Carlsbad for the cost of a “characterization study” that will use sonar readings to determine the extent of the cavern. The study is expected to cost about $160,000 and take 60 days to complete.
Brine is an extremely salty solution used by oil companies in Texas and southeast New Mexico to drill wells. Brine is made by pumping water into underground salt formations and then removing the dissolved mixture, a process that over decades hollows out caverns.
The judge also ordered I&W to reimburse the city for the ongoing costs of operating a monitoring system to detect subtle shifts in the ground and an early-warning system designed to alert local officials if a collapse is imminent.
The Oil and Conservation Division is seeking a $2.6 million penalty against I&W for failure to comply with terms of its discharge permit. I&W is contesting the state complaint.
In this Aug. 31, 2018, photo, President Donald Trump holds up a list of his administrations accomplishments while speaking at a Republican fundraiser at the Carmel Country Club in in Charlotte, N.C. President Donald Trump is starting his Labor Day with an attack on a top union leader. Trump tweeted Monday that AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka "represented his union poorly on television this weekend." He added: "it is easy to see why unions are doing so poorly. A Dem!" Trumka appeared on "Fox News Sunday," where he said efforts to overhaul the North American Free Trade Agreement should include Canada. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)
All of the No. 1 seeds for the high school state soccer tournaments went to metro-area schools, as the New Mexico Activities Association released the postseason brackets on Sunday.
BOYS: As expected, one-loss Cibola pulled down the top seed in Class 6A, followed by La Cueva, Las Cruces and Volcano Vista. Those four have first-round byes next weekend. Volcano Vista, the only team to beat Cibola in the regular season, is in the same half of the draw as the Cougars.
Teams hosting first-round games are No. 5 Atrisco Heritage, No. 6 Albuquerque High, No. 7 Oñate and No. 8 Sandia.
The Matadors get Rio Rancho in the first round; the Rams beat Cleveland on Saturday night to claim third place in District 1-6A.
But the weekend was still a major success for the Storm. Cleveland is in the state tournament for the first time, getting in as a No. 12 seed. Cleveland faces Atrisco in the first round.
• Class 5A was perhaps the most competitive of any division this season. Albuquerque Academy snared the No. 1 seed ahead of last year’s Class 4A state champion, Roswell. Capital and Farmington rounded out the top four.
• Sandia Prep dominated New Mexico competition and the Sundevils – seeking a record 18th state championship – were seeded at the top of the Class 1A-4A bracket.
GIRLS: Despite a loss Saturday, Rio Rancho is the No. 1 seed in Class 6A. Eldorado, last year’s 5A state winner, is seeded second, followed by La Cueva and Cleveland.
Cibola, Hobbs, Volcano Vista and Las Cruces are seeds 5-8, and get home games in the first round. The 8-9 game pits two district champions, the Lady Bulldawgs and No. 9 AHS.
• St. Pius is positioned well to defend its 2013 title. The Sartans were the clear No. 1 in Class 5A this year, with Aztec (a team St. Pius has beaten twice, 4-2 and 2-1), Los Alamos and Farmington filling out the top four lines.
• Undefeated Hope Christian, a defending state champion, was the no-brainer choice for No. 1 in Class 1A-4A. St. Michael’s, Robertson and Bosque School also will be off next weekend. |
54,235,688 | This I shows you How To Private Facebook Profile Picture. You could make photos exclusive on both the web site variation and also the mobile variation of Facebook Keep in mind that you could not modify the privacy options for pictures, video clips, as well as albums that you didn't post to your account.
1. Open Facebook. Most likely to https://www.facebook.com/ in your web browser. This will certainly open your Information Feed if you're logged into Facebook.
6. Click the "Privacy" symbol. This symbol normally looks like a silhouette of an individual (or 2 people) that you'll discover listed below and also to the right of your name in the upper-right side of the image. A drop-down menu will certainly appear.
- If clicking this symbol results in a menu that states Edit Post Privacy, click Edit Post Privacy to head to the post, then click the privacy symbol at the top of the post before proceeding.
8. Click Only Me. This alternative is in the broadened drop-down menu. Doing so will promptly transform your image's personal privacy so that only you could see it.
4. Hover your computer mouse cursor over the icon to the right of the album's name. Text shows up stating the album's present personal privacy setup. For instance, the album may have a globe icon and also the setting "Public".
Pointer: When the appropriate time comes, open each image in the surprise album. Click the "Share Picture" button in the lower right edge of the photo as well as pick "On Your Web page" from the drop-down menu that shows up at the top of the sharing window.
How to Private Facebook Profile Picture 4.5 5 Dany hermawan Sunday, September 2, 2018 This I shows you How To Private Facebook Profile Picture. You could make photos exclusive on both the web site variation and also the mobile...
How To Search Phone Numbers On Facebook - Facebook is a social networking solution that helps you keep in contact with friends and family. Facebook members could share a great deal of info concerning themselves on their Facebook profiles. It could be something as basic as just what type of music they such as, and even something a lot more details, like their contact number If you intend to see which Facebook friends have added telephone number to their accounts, you can do so in just a few steps.
1. Click the Facebook connect to see its connected Facebook profile. The Facebook ID of the account is the part of the Web address showed in your web browser's address bar between "facebook.com/" and also the first enigma. If you see no question mark, the ID is whatever after "facebook.com/" without the quotes.
2. Click the "About" tab listed below the cover image on the leading center of the display while visited to your Facebook account to navigate to the user's fundamental info.
3. Scroll down to all-time low of the display to check out the "Contact and basic info" area of the Information display. If the user has actually made her telephone number noticeable to you, it shows up to the right of "CONTACT INFORMATION" on "Mobile phones".
Remember, Facebook has been desiring your smart phone number for some time as well as hasn't been above making use of scare methods to get you to hand it over.
Lots of users are required to go into a mobile number for authentication when they produce an account, or to be utilized as a safety and security check if questionable activity is found.
There might be a case for maintaining an old phone in a cabinet, with a pay-as-you-go SIM. That throwaway number can be used for websites that demand a phone call, yet you don't feel they actually require it. Keep your real, routine phone number closer to your upper body-- and also only share it with sites which you believe have a genuine demand for it.
How to Search Phone Numbers On Facebook 4.5 5 dany firman Thursday, September 6, 2018 How To Search Phone Numbers On Facebook - Facebook is a social networking solution that helps you keep in contact with friends and family. F...
It’s not surprising that your mother or father is confused when it comes to their medical needs. There may be too many do’s and don’ts. Providers of in home care for seniors may be able to provide the unique solution to both your parent’s and your needs. Medications can cause a variety of problems, specifically for the aging adults. If…
Service dogs are not only great companions but provide life rewarding benefits to many seniors. Private in home care aides suggest that many people believe service dogs are only for the seeing and hearing impaired, but research and practical experience has proven that those with dementia or Alzheimer’s also experience benefits from having a service dog. With 5.3 million Americans…
A little extra weight may be good for your mother or father. We are all aware of the risk that comes with overeating and weight gain, such as heart disease, high blood pressure, diabetes, kidney disease as well as cancer. However, according to the in home care experts, poor eating habits and malnutrition are just as dangerous as obesity. …
Often family photos have been placed in albums or boxes that may or may not be labeled. Your mom or dad may have stowed these family mementos away many years ago. In fact, it’s possible you have never seen many of the relatives and friends of your parent’s past. However, providers of in home care for elderly adults suggest that…
As an adult child, you and your parent have had many conversations over the years that have probably ended with the words, “I love you.” However, when mom or dad is at the ending stages of life, you may feel like you just have not said those three words enough or placed enough meaning and emotion into them. Not only…
Medication is designed to heal, cure illness and reduce pain. However, senior citizens tend to be a major group of medication abusers. Providers of in home care for elderly seniors suggest that your parent may not be purposely abusing. However, many reasons may be contributing to this problem without their awareness. One obvious reason may be mom or dad’s declining… |
10,394,264 | These courses and workshops are suitable for all levels - from beginners to professional level. Some of the workshops will give you a basic introduction to therapies and complementary health care, whilst others have been developed for professional therapists or health care professionals. All of the courses and workshops are informal and lots of fun!
By attending one of our workshops or courses you will become more aware of the power of these therapies to promote health and well-being. On completion of any of the courses you will be more aware of the impact of complementary health care, have gained valuable skills and knowledge and feel comfortable and competent to use these skills either on a professional level or on family and friends.
All courses are delivered by Adele Logan. Training is delivered to the highest standards and can be delivered in-house. Depending on which course you decide to undertake a certificates of attendance or competence will be awarded.
Why not come along to this 6 workshop course – it’s ideal for complete beginners who want to know more… Small class sizes for individual attention. Cost includes all oils and course handouts.
Topics include – introduction to massage and aromatherapy, basic anatomy, learn some simple massage techniques for use on self and others, the benefits of aromatherapy and massage, using essential oils for health and well-being.
Numbers are limited on this workshop so - book early - to avoid disappointment - a £20 deposit will secure your place.
Emotional Freedom Techniques are based on the ancient principles of acupuncture. EFT uses simple tapping procedures that gently realigns and balances the body’s energy system to release you from negative thought patterns and unwanted habits.
This workshop is aimed at qualified Aromatherapists who are working in cancer care or those who are interested in extending their knowledge/skills as part of CPD.
Topics covered include the safe use of essential oils, cancer biology, cancer treatments, clinical issues related to complementary therapies, adapting massage - demonstration and practice, communication skills, self-awareness and presence,current issues, research and regulations.
Massage and Touch Therapy for Complementary and Health Care Professionals in Palliative Care - 2 day workshop - £250
This workshop is aimed at those therapists and health care professionals involved in palliative and cancer care.
Topics will include the concept of touch, massage and its effects, adapting massage - demonstration and practice, relaxation and visualisation, safety issues, self awareness and presence, communication skills, an introduction to zone therapy.
This workshop can also be adapted to suit other care environments – ICU, Coronary Care, Care of the Elderly.
This workshop is aimed at therapists and health care professionals keen to teach their clients and patients stress management and relaxation techniques quickly and effectively. Topics include types of stress, stress and body systems, demonstration and practice of a variety of techniques and strategies that can be taught to clients and patients. This workshop is especially suitable for those who work with patients needing help with anxiety/panic attacks, respiratory conditions, pain etc.
This workshop is aimed at those individuals caring for others (health care assistants/ relatives/ volunteers). Topics covered will include an introduction to massage and touch therapy, the benefits of massage, demonstration and practice of simple massage techniques, safety and contra-indications, the concept of self (‘practitioner’) awareness and presence.
If you would like to come along to any of these workshops a small deposit will secure a place. Please contact me on the telephone number above or e-mail me to find out more.
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41,592,517 | As long as it is released this year and supports wireless charging out of the box, I don't care how much it costs. I need a new phone, dammit!
still not rectified. damn it!. people before buying look at this feature. your device will only vibrate at the start of call, it wont vibrate continuously. Its built into the O.S not the fault of the device, all other devices have this feature. fanboys gonna fool you. don't believe me ? below is the link we have been voting for this feature for years!. i do have a lumia . the only solution here is to either use a small duration tone or put the phone in vibration only mode(you wont get the ring but vibration will be continuous). you can vote too!. read it properly.
https://windowsphone.uservoice.com/forums/101801-feature-suggestions/suggestions/2286775--vibrate-and-ring-not-vibrate-then-ring
AnonD-316708, 13 Jul 2015Only windows fan buy windows phone... They still buy it. Must be what microsoft think. they ju... moreI've used smartphones since when they were introduced on the market. I have spent at least 1 year on each of: S60, BBOS, Android, iOS and Windows.
My conclusion: Windows is easier to use, has an awesome ahead-of-its-time interface, always works (no random reboots, no lag, no app crashes) and has a premium feel to it.
I am not a fanboy, I just like quality and productivity. The only OS that comes close to Windows is iOS. I don't care about hundreds of apps that do the same thing. The standard email, calendar, contacts, OneDrive, OneNote, Office, etc. apps in Windows are doing such a great job that I haven't even thought of searching for 3rd party apps.
Dear Microsoft, are u going all the paid apps with this mobile for free?? Then also it is not worth to buy the phone with such price tag.... No issue with OS.. Need Value for money unlike Apple iphone
Only windows fan buy windows phone... They still buy it. Must be what microsoft think. they just don't expect customer from android user.
Anonymous, 13 Jul 2015And who is going to buy this??? How many people would prefer Windows to Android or IOS, and fo... moreI will seriously consider it. I mean I'm buying it on contract anyway.
This will be awesome! And thank goodness for polycarbonate body instead of the metal bodies that look so bad after a couple of drops to the ground!
And it's only normal that the 940 and 940XL are going to be more expensive than iPhone 6S and Galaxy S w/e.
come on guys, more rival the better for competition, windows os is one of the reason why other oems started to bring down their prices with a decent spec, remember L520, a cheap smartphone that sell quiet well, that makes samsung bring price down with some decent specs
Pathetic app store doesnt make sense for demanding such a huge amount. Unless android apps start working in wp10.
hansa0712004212, 13 Jul 2015how is going to buy this Microsoft shit ...Those who take their heads out of their rears and look at every platform in an unbiased manner you big troll.
Anonymous, 13 Jul 2015I know one company that's winning ... the one that's supplying microsoft with shovels for all ... moreYou should invest in that company then!!
DarkStar, 13 Jul 2015I'll be getting one as I much prefer the user interface on WP to Android's. Plus my computers... moreso u never turn to the ps side always xbox if u have ps sale it out
Anonymous, 13 Jul 2015And who is going to buy this??? How many people would prefer Windows to Android or IOS, and fo... moreI'll be getting one as I much prefer the user interface on WP to Android's. Plus my computers and tablets at home run Windows so it makes sense to me to have everything on a common platform.
vijay, 06 Dec 2009hai,iam using XDA II,did i able to update windows ver.6.0yes this phone model is very much upgradable and you can upgrade it to wm6.1 . please check xda for available roms
Master Phoenix, 30 Nov 2008XDA IIs, XDA IIi, XDA atom / atom pure / atom exec was upgraded to Windows Mobile 6.1 Pro. If... morehey i need help in updating my O2...plz help me
ma'am/ sir, need ur help.. i lost my box of my o2 xda flame..and i need the getting started cd. where can i download it free??
how do i reinstall my blackberry software on the O2 XDA II without resetting it? because i don't want to loss any data on the phone, especially my Text messages.
Anonymous, 05 Oct 2008can you tell me guys how to install games on my xda 2 phoneswhich operating system are you using?
I have an O2 Xda IIs model. I bought as a 2nd hand phone just last year. All its peripheral, manual, and box are still around and with an original Windows Mobile 2003 version in it.
Its Windows was so good, but since Microsoft discontinued with the device, Windows applications for it were also discontinued.
Upgrading it to Windows Mobile 6.1 made my device so powerful and very effective. I abused connecting to the internet via WIFI, and connecting to other devices and transferring files via bluetooth, installed a lot of applications in it, and so far, my device never broke down. I even watch Youtube with it.
I have used several handphones before but never handled a dinosaur era phone to be as competitive as the latest models. Actually, from my personal experience, it seems it even exceeds many of the newer versions of Windows Mobile Phones out there right now.It's like the old version Terminator still able to compete with the newest Terminator models in the movies!
Average New models of Windows mobile Phones out there has a CPU speed ranging from 350 to 800 Mhz. Guess what, this dinosaur has 400 Mhz engine!
If someone is selling you one like it at a very low price, I'd suggest you take it and upgrade it to the tested Windows Mobile OS 6.1.
can someone help me with my o2 xda II, coz my windows mobile 6.5 blue theme has a line on my inbox and in the task when i write a message.. is there something wrong with it? pls help me guyz... it has no lines before but now when i choose a new theme and choose again the wm 6.5 blue theme, the line started to appears.. help me pls...
I got this phone when it was new back in the day. My unit died on me when I didn't change the motherboard w/in the warranty period (coz getting it after the warranty period was way too expensive). Anyway, the unit was very easy to use, its processor was speedy enough to crunch through multiple programs running simultaneously. Its great at organizing your schedule and the phonebook is pretty complete. Its a Pocket PC unit so anybody using one of these ancient devices would still find it very useful. Its only downside was its lack of WIFI, w/c is a must-have for today's PDA phones. Its plastic frame also didn't hold up well against the corrosion of being held in hand too often. In its time, this was THE phone to get. If you have one that still works, it should be put to use :-)
nah..been using my xda ii for almost a month after upgrading from wm 2003 to 6.1...my device works better and faster, not to mention its eye candy interface...but stilll im not happy with it so i put spb shell which works perfectly.
my xda is 1 year and 4 months old..best tech gadget i ever had...its a blessing that i able to update to wm 6.1.
I have a unit of XDA 2 and my question is everytime i press the power off, the unit always re boot. Could you please help me what to do. Thanks
Is this possible to install windows mobile 6.5 or 6.1 on this device from windows mobile 2003?How should i do it easily?Plz answer someone.Thanks for reading.
I'm using it for 3 years and it's still working like a new one. I won't change it 'till it's gonna say "no more phonecalls" !!!. I'm very pleased with it. Phones with VGA or color screens are crap.
Probably the best Phone Siemens could make. I am using it since 2001 and still it is workin as good as it was new. I still have not changed its battery and it is absolutely fine. I think I am gonna keep it for another two to three years.
Few weeks ago i got new battery - the now one keeps 4 days. I think the phone will work for more 4 years, at least.
haha... same here... i have this fone since 2001... still one of the besst fone that i ever have and I WILL use it till the end of its life, i wont sell it..
great phone. i have it since nov 2001 until now. i must recharged the battery every night but it's ok, it never dropped off in the middle of conversation :)
-touch wood- this phone is really the best, some days ago i submerged it in water -again- for about 20seconds, i noticed that the recharging rubber plug wasn't inserted properly, when i took it out it was suffering, i removed the battery and sim, with the help of a hair dryer, the heater and some prayers, i went back to work perfectly, at first some buttons didn't work, then the ringing tones had some troubles, but in a while all went back perfectly functioning.... and people still wondering why i have been using this phone for over 3years...it's amazing
mty me45 still working. its more than 3 years. i bought week ago motorola razr V3, i compared her to my old siemens and now I know that siemens rulezzzzz! yeah this moto is a f.... crap. piece of shi...
My beloved ME45 of 3 years has finally said goodnight (well the 2 most important buttons , confirm turn on and make a call dont work) No fault of the phone really but my ignorance on water damage. Got a bit soaked in sea water, froze and wouldn't turn on. I thought that was the end but in any case just tried to charge it and then kept trying to turn it on in hope it would revive. If only I knew that was the WORST thing to do. It did manage to work a little again but got worse and worse the more i used it. You might think your ME45 is invunerable as I did but make sure to remove the battery straight away and fully dry it before thinking about testing it! Woe is me, I now have a crappy Sony K700i
absolutely the best, almost three years with me, only a few days i had the courage to submerge it for about 3 seconds in water, i took it out and it was still working perfectly, really amazing phone, i don't care about all the new applications..... the me75 will be out soon, maybe i will buy it, let's wait and see....
Best phone ever, but I'm in need of a battery and a new case won't hurt me too. Cant someone tell me were to find them on the net?
need help where to look for reflashing software for me45 coz my unit were corrupted during upgrade of newer version
Probably the best Siemens mobile ever made. One thing still drives me crazy so I could use some help: HOW TO PLAY .VMO FILES DOWNLOADED FROM ME45 TO PC?! If someone has a solution or at least good idea about codecs neccesary, I would appreciate it. |
88,385,107 | Under the Whyte notation for the classification of steam locomotives, 4-2-4 represents the wheel arrangement of four leading wheels on two axles, two powered driving wheels on one axle, and four trailing wheels on two axles. This type of locomotive is often called a Huntington type.
The configuration was most often used for tank engines, which is noted by adding letter suffixes to the configuration, such as 4-2-4T for a conventional side-tank locomotive, 4-2-4ST for a saddle-tank locomotive, 4-2-4WT for a well-tank locomotive and 4-2-4RT for a rack-equipped tank locomotive.
This wheel arrangement was mainly used on various tank locomotive configurations. Eight 4-2-4 well- and back-tank locomotives which entered service on the Bristol and Exeter Railway in 1853 appear to have been the first with this wheel arrangement. The engine was designed by James Pearson, the railway company's engineer, and featured single large flangeless driving wheels between two supporting four-wheeled bogies. The water was carried in both well- and back-tanks, leaving the boilers exposed in the same way as on most tender locomotives.
In 1923, the South African Railways (SAR) conducted trials with a prototype petrol-paraffin powered road-rail tractor and, in 1924, placed at least two Dutton steam rail tractors in service on the new 2 ft (610 mm) narrow gauge line between Naboomspruit and Singlewood in Transvaal. One of the latter had a 4-2-4 wheel arrangement.[1][2]
The designer, Major Frank Dutton, SAR Signal Engineer and the Motor Transport Superintendent, argued that a rubber tyre in contact with a hard road would be better at transferring tractive power than a steel wheel on steel rail. At least two Dutton Rail Tractors were built, both steam-powered and both rebuilt by the Britannia Engineering Works of Johannesburg from Yorkshire steam tractors.[2][3]
The second Dutton tractor, no. RR1155, was a rail-only vehicle. It had a bogie at either end with the single pair of driving wheels on a differential axle in the centre. It was arranged for forward and reverse movement at all speeds, but it could only be used on the rails. Since, on occasion, the vehicle had to be transported by road, its construction was such that it could be readily disassembled into more easily transportable units, to be moved on road wheels to a workshop or for transfer of any other kind. In service, the tractor was often equipped with a water tank tender loaded with additional bags of coal on its running boards.[2][4][5]
The first eight known 4-2-4 locomotives entered service on the broad gauge Bristol and Exeter Railway in 1853 and 1854, numbered in the range from 39 to 46. They had 9 feet (2,743 millimetres) diameter flangeless driving wheels, supported by leading and trailing two-axle bogies. The water was carried in both well- and back-tanks. Two more engines were built in 1859 and 1862, but with much smaller 7 feet 6 inches (2,286 millimetres) diameter driving wheels.
Between 1869 and 1873, new locomotives were built to replace four of the original 9 feet (2,743 millimetres) diameter driving wheeled engines, re-using the engine numbers of the locomotives being replaced. These four replacement engines had slightly smaller 8 feet 10 inches (2,692 millimetres) diameter driving wheels.
In 1881, this wheel arrangement was also used by the Great Western Railway on William Dean's experimental locomotive no. 9. Since it was prone to derailing, it did little work and was rebuilt to a 2-2-2 tender locomotive in 1884. Dugald Drummond of the London and South Western Railway built a 4-2-4T F9 class combined locomotive and inspection saloon in 1899. It was little used after Drummond's death in 1912.[6]
The engine C.P. Huntington was one of three identical 4-2-4 tank locomotives. They were the first locomotives to be purchased by Southern Pacific Railroad in 1863, for use on light commuter services in the Sacramento area. The locomotives had serious shortcomings. The single driving axle did not carry the full weight of the engine's rear end due to the trailing truck and, in addition to being too light, it therefore lacked adhesion to reliably pull trains, especially on gradients. The short water tank on the Forney-type frame prevented the locomotives from travelling any moderate distance without consuming all of their water. As a result, these locomotives were only used when absolutely necessary.[7]
In 1863, a sister engine, the T.D. Judah, was built by the Cooke Locomotive Works for a railroad which was unable to pay for it and was purchased by the Central Pacific Railroad. This locomotive was rebuilt to a 4-2-2 wheel arrangement in 1872.[7]
The Little Blue Engine from the original 1906 book The Little Engine That Could was a Forney with this wheel arrangement.[8][9]
2. Bristol and Exeter Railway – The Bristol & Exeter Railway was an English railway company formed to connect Bristol and Exeter. It was built on the gauge and its engineer was Isambard Kingdom Brunel. It opened in stages between 1841 and 1844 and it was allied with the Great Western Railway, which built its main line between London and Bristol, and in time formed part of a through route between London and Cornwall. At first it contracted with the GWR for that company to work the line, avoiding the expense of acquiring locomotives, but after that arrangement expired in 1849, the B&ER operated its own line. It opened a number of branches within the area it served, to Clevedon, Cheddar, Wells, Weston-super-Mare, Chard, Yeovil. The B&ER was financially successful but amalgamated with the GWR in 1876, the Great Western Railway obtained its authorising Act of Parliament in 1835, to build its line between London and Bristol. The merchants of Bristol were anxious to secure a route to Exeter, an important commercial centre. They promoted the Bristol and Exeter Railway and when they issued a prospectus on 1 October 1835, the Bill had an easy passage and was enacted on 19 May 1836. The Act did not specify the gauge of the track, branches at Bridgwater, notwithstanding the apparent family connection to the neighbouring GWR, none of the B&ER directors was also a GWR director at this time. The GWR was still under construction, the early euphoria turned to great difficulty in raising finance for construction. 4,000 of the 15,000 subscribed shares were forfeited for non-payment of calls before the line was built, a contract was let for the first part of the line, from a temporary terminus at Pylle Hill, west of the New Cut. The position improved somewhat in 1838, and indeed the Company obtained Parliamentary powers for four short branches, of only one. It was not until 5 March 1839 that the Company adopted the broad gauge, five locomotives were ordered from Sharp, Roberts & Co for the purpose. By the end of 1839 the Directors had decided to avoid the capital outlay by arranging with the GWR—by now in operation—to operate the line for them, by this time three Directors were also directors of the GWR, and the alliance was beginning to strengthen. The proposal to lease the line to the GWR was ratified by shareholders at a meeting in September 1841. The rent was to increase proportionally with the completion of the system, the first section of the line was opened between Bristol and Bridgwater on 14 June 1841, just before the GWR completed its line from London to Bristol. It was 33½ miles in length and double track, with a 1½ mile single-line branch to Weston-super-Mare, the Exeter station was at the site now known as Exeter St Davids station. The opening to Exeter competed the B&ER main line, and with the GWR formed a broad gauge line from London to Exeter with a mileage of 194 miles
4. Tank locomotive – A tank locomotive or tank engine is a steam locomotive that carries its water in one or more on-board water tanks, instead of a more traditional tender. A tank engine may also have a bunker to hold fuel, there are several different types of tank locomotive, distinguished by the position and style of the water tanks and fuel bunkers. The most common type has tanks mounted either side of the boiler and this type originated about 1840 and quickly became popular for industrial tasks, and later for shunting and shorter distance main line duties. Tank locomotives have advantages and disadvantages compared to traditional tender locomotives, the first tank locomotive was the Novelty that ran at the Rainhill Trials in 1829. It was an example of a Well Tank and these were E. B. Wilson and Company, William Fairbairn & Sons, George England, Kitson Thompson and Hewitson and William Bridges Adams. By the mid-1850s tank locomotives were to be performing a variety of main line and industrial roles. There are a number of types of locomotive, based on the location. These include the side tank, the tank, the pannier tank. A configuration very common in the U. K, the water is contained in rectangular tanks mounted on either side of the locomotive, near to the boiler but not quite touching. The tank sides extend down to the platform, if such is present. The length of side tanks was limited in order to give access to the inside motion. If it was desired to extend them to the front of the locomotive for greater capacity, with larger side tanks it was sometimes necessary to taper the tanks slightly at the front end to improve forward visibility. Side tanks almost all stopped at, or before, the end of the boiler barrel, a few designs did reach to the front of the smokebox and these were termed flatirons. The water tank sits on top of the boiler like a saddle sits atop a horse, usually the tank is curved in cross-section, although in some cases there were straight sides surmounted by a curve, or even an ogee shape. Saddle tanks were a popular arrangement especially for smaller locomotives in industrial use and it gave a greater water supply, but limited the size of the boiler and restricted access to it for cleaning. However, the locomotive has a centre of gravity and hence must operate at lower speeds. The drivers vision may also be restricted, again restricting the safe speed, Water in the tank is slightly pre-heated by the boiler, which reduces the loss of pressure found when cold feedwater is injected into the boiler. However if the water becomes too hot, injectors lose efficiency, for this reason, the tanks often stopped short of the hotter and uninsulated smokebox
5. Flange – Thus flanged wheels are wheels with a flange on one side to keep the wheels from running off the rails. The term flange is used for a kind of tool used to form flanges. Pipes with flanges can be assembled and disassembled easily, a flange can also be a plate or ring to form a rim at the end of a pipe when fastened to the pipe. A blind flange is a plate for covering or closing the end of a pipe, a flange joint is a connection of pipes, where the connecting pieces have flanges by which the parts are bolted together. Surrey and York flanges fit to the top of the hot water tank allowing all the water to be taken without disturbance to the tank and they are often used to ensure an even flow of water to showers. An Essex flange requires a hole to be drilled in the side of the tank, there is also a Warix flange which is the same as a York flange but the shower output is on the top of the flange and the vent on the side. The York and Warix flange have female adapters so that they fit onto a male tank, a closet flange provides the mount for a toilet. There are many different flange standards to be found worldwide, to allow easy functionality and inter-changeability, these are designed to have standardised dimensions. Common world standards include ASA/ANSI/ASME, PN/DIN, BS10, and JIS/KS, in most cases these are interchangeable as most local standards have been aligned to ISO standards, however some local standards still differ. Further, many of the flanges in each standard are divided into pressure classes, again these are not generally interchangeable. These pressure classes also have differing pressure and temperature ratings for different materials, the ANSI/ASME pressure classes for Flat-Face flanges are 125# and 250#. The classes for Ring-Joint, Tongue & Groove, and Raised-Face flanges are 150#, 300#, 600#, 900#, 1500#, and 2500#. The flange faces are made to standardized dimensions and are typically flat face, raised face, tongue and groove, or ring joint styles. Flange designs are available as weld neck, slip-on, lap joint, socket weld, threaded, Pipe flanges that are made to standards called out by ASME B16.5 or ASME B16.47 are typically made from forged materials and have machined surfaces. B16.5 refers to nominal pipe sizes from ½ to 24, B16.47 covers NPSs from 26 to 60. However these classes do not correspond to maximum pressures in psi, instead, the maximum pressure depends on the material of the flange and the temperature. For example, the pressure for a Class 150 flange is 285 psi. The gasket type and bolt type are generally specified by the standard, however, sometimes the standards refer to the ASME Boiler and these flanges are recognized by ASME Pipe Codes such as ASME B31.1 Power Piping, and ASME B31.3 Process Piping
7. Broad-gauge railway – Broad-gauge railways use a track gauge greater than the 1,435 mm standard gauge. In Britain the Great Western Railway, designed by Isambard Kingdom Brunel, pioneered broad gauge in 1838 with a gauge of 7 ft 1⁄4 in, some harbours also used railways of this gauge for construction and maintenance. These included Portland Harbour and Holyhead Breakwater, which used a locomotive for working sidings, as it was not connected to the national network, this broad-gauge operation continued until the locomotive wore out in 1913. The gauge initially proposed by Brunel was 7 ft exactly but this was increased by 1⁄4 in to accommodate clearance problems identified during early testing. It became apparent that standardization on a gauge throughout a rail transport system was advantageous. Rolling stock did not need to match the gauge exactly, a difference of a few millimetres could be coped with, the value of interoperability was initially not obvious to the industry. The standardization movement was gradual, over time the value of a proprietary gauge diminished, being replaced by the idea of charging money for equipment used on other railway lines. Ireland, using the criteria, was allocated a different standard gauge. Broad-gauge lines in Britain were gradually converted to dual gauge or standard gauge from 1864, Ireland and some states in Australia and Brazil have a gauge of 5 ft 3 in, but Luas, the Dublin light rail system, is built to standard gauge. Russia and the other former Soviet Republics use a 1,520 mm gauge while Finland continues to use the 5 ft gauge inherited from Imperial Russia, in 1839 the Netherlands started its railway system with two broad-gauge railways. But the neighbouring countries Prussia and Belgium already used standard gauge, in 1855, NRS regauged its line and shortly afterwards connected to the Prussian railways. There are replicas of one broad-gauge 2-2-2 locomotive and three carriages in the Dutch Railway Museum in Utrecht and these replicas were built for the 100th anniversary of the Dutch Railways in 1938–39. Portugal and the Spanish Renfe system use a gauge of 1,668 mm called Ancho Ibérico in Spanish or Bitola Ibérica in Portuguese, in India, Pakistan and Bangladesh, a gauge of 5 ft 6 in is widespread. This is also used by the Bay Area Rapid Transit system of the San Francisco Bay Area. In Toronto, Canada the gauge for TTC subways and streetcars was chosen in 1861, years after the establishment of gauge in Britain. In 1861, the province was supplying subsidies only to broad gauge railways. The use of a non-standard gauge precludes interoperability of rolling stock on railway networks. On the 5 ft 3 in and 5 ft 6 in gauges, the extra width allowed bigger inside cylinders and greater power, in the event, the most powerful engines on standard gauge in North America and Scandinavia far exceeded the power of any broad-gauge locomotive
The South African Railways Dutton road-rail tractors of 1923 were road-rail steam tractors. — In 1917, the South African …
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The 14 Bristol and Exeter Railway 4-2-4T locomotives were broad gauge 4-2-4T steam locomotives built to three different …
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Cold cast and skillfully hand painted, our waterfowl sculptures reflect multiple styles, from vibrantly realistic to abstractly representational to traditionally hand carved. If you have a favorite waterfowl species, we offer it: our species choices include mallard, pintail, wood duck, goose, loon, swan, and more. Our waterfowl sculptures and decoys are made for either wall-hanging or tabletop display, so they're perfect for that empty space on either the wall or a shelf in your cabin- or outdoor-themed room.
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161,129,470 | I love birds, and those we love we want loved always. We look into the morning sky and marvel at sunrise. The sun rises over all life. We are Earthlings; we share a star --a Star! I hear the first bird of the day as I pass the ivy trellis. It says, "Cheap!"
"You, human. You've got money --I heard you discussing "dollars" with your wife. Dollars is money, right?"
"Well, us birds have seen you spraying dishsoap on eggplants. According to my instincts, dishsoap is harmful to hornworms, mites, aphids, cutworms, lacebugs and flea beetles. Those are among our favorite foods. We wonder what's so special about eggplant that you'd spend dollars to run these delicacies off the property?"
"Dear bird, admittedly many don't --I don't, but she does. You see, most grown people don't mind eggplant but it nearly always makes children cry."
"Ok, here's my deal: You just spray water on the eggplant and we birds will handle the pests. You take dollars to the market and buy eggplants for Norma. Win-win?"
"We think simply and fundamentally, educated by instinct, form, appetite and our parents' example. How did you learn things?"
True EC, descended directly from dinosaurs, they have a wealth of experience that can only suggest our use of dollars in hopes of educating us.
Not so much for caged birds. I'm birdsitting my parents' parrot this week, and the poor thing can't even fly because it's pucked out most of its feathers.
I suspect you're right, Harry. Some birds never quite adapt to captivity and pluck themselves because they're programmed to forage and fossick around for food. A tube feeder might help because it's more work for the bird.
I do appreciate birds - especially when they snag pesky bugs. I never chirp...but I silently applaud...
I too have had issues with eggplant, Jon. Have decided they were some sort of mutant potato that no purpose except to attract bugs for birds. As to the fires, I too have friends in Sonoma and Santa Rosa and hope they are safe --as I hope your friends are safe. My SF boys called this morning and said their city is covered in smoke from the northeast wind --almost like night hadn't ended.
2nd reply on California fires, Jon: Friend Will in Sonoma says he's ok except he can't go outside --has his "go-bag" ready if he needs collecting. Friend in Santa Rosa is in much the same status. Info gleaned from cell phones this evening, so communication is intact. Consensus is "it's apocalyptic!"
There is a flaw in the bird's reasoning. He advised you to spray water on the eggplant and let the pests have at it so the bird would have food. You then go to the market and buy eggplant for Norma. Doesn't the eggplant in the store come from a garden? Wouldn't there be potential pests there for hungry pests to want to feed? Wouldn't there be birds wanting to eat those pests? I rest my case.
You present a sound and cogent case, dear Emma. I believe it is legally actionable, but collecting settlements from birds is beyond even the Supreme Court.
We let the weeds grow and the bugs thrive....the rabbits and birds appreciate it I think..or not...I really don't care. I just can't be bothered.
Weeds and bugs are opportunistic marvels, Delores, as most wild things are. I don't think we have to worry overmuch about their survival either. But as pavement spreads from two cities toward us, I find more creatures taking refuge on our property. We're careful not to alarm the poor skunks.
Sage, all little birds think we're named Cheap. Chickens, however, grow up and decide all humans are named Buck.
And this is one of the biggest reasons I don't garden. There are always bugs, and I don't like to use any kind of spray . . . bugs have to eat, too. And birds. And deer. I leave the problems up to the real farmers. Sigh.
O_Jenny, I share your sentiment utterly, except where mosquitoes are concerned. I do not think any theology or humanistic philosophy can account for them and still claim the cosmos welcomes us unconditionally.
Ah, but mosquitoes are one of the major food sources for bats - at least in our neck of the woods. We wouldn't want the bats going hungry :)
You have successfully confuted my posture toward the existence of mosquitoes, and caused me to remember the graceful aerobatics of cliff swallows who always swarmed me when I rode a gang-mower as a gardener. They take nearly all their food in flight, like bats, and clear the mosquitoes away. Thanks, and brava!
An eggplant is a work of art. This year I have seen quite a few unique and colorful variations on the ones usually bought in the market.. They almost look good enough to eat, however, I would rather not.
I cared for a pigeon today who had a run-in with a window. He was a strong little guy and after a rest, some bread crumbs, and a little coaxing, he flew off leaving his waste behind him.
You are a very caring lady, Arleen. I too have had to revive birds --they get so frightened, sometimes scream before they fly from one's hand, but live and leave us with good memories. As to eggplants, I agree they are attractive things --and when I read your comment to Norma --"...almost look good enough to eat"-- she said she still liked them despite overwhelming testimonials and my protests, but I still love her anyway.
I loved the line, "I.......repair to another room to sob softly in private." For me aubergines [or eggplants] require a great deal of beefing up, with spices preferably, before they become manageable.
The problem with the natural world is that one cannot please everything/one all the time - much as I would like to, except for those that feast on my blood in warm weather. There are limits after all.
Thanks, Tom. And I certainly agree with caution outdoors. Mosquitoes, ticks, fleas should be avoided --and vampires, especially tall ones wearing capes.
We don't garden either but our no-grass yards are swarming with ants and grasshoppers. We are contemplating various ways to rid ourselves of them. And no, chocolate is not involved. And I agree that eggplants are beautiful works of art but I don't like them to eat unless there are copious amounts of red sauce and parmesan to top them.
I've seen (one of my favorite creatures) tree frogs gobble up an ant-trail --and look a bit unwell later--, but grasshoppers require a predator bigger than they are. Time to set out a bird feeder perhaps.
I have no bird feeder but a very well-visited bird bath and at various times, the birds are dining their fill on the ants. Thank you, birds.
BUCK! Buck, Buck, Buck. You are so silly and dear. As for eggplant, everyone should eat more and leave our chicken babies alone.
My at least equally dear Chickens Consigliere, as a member of the Italian chickens' council I defer to your wisdom --and, when addressed by chickens, have always answered to "Buck". I forgive the babies calling me "Cheap", and always will. They are lifelong friends who have never run afowl of me.
I'm on the sides of the birds and the eggplant, except I call it an aubergine. And caterpillars, which are munching leaves off our winter greens - but they will be all wrapped up as chrysalis by deep winter, which is when the greens are needed for our plates. The plants seem quite happy with their little broods.
Last week a man knocked on our door fretting that he was being followed by a duck :-) I love country life. It was next door's duck, he's an over friendly Cornish Runner who often pops in to eat our slugs.
Dear Lisa, I delight in learning someone else in the world is being followed by a duck. This has happened to me at various times in my life, alternating with being followed by wild geese. I have oft wondered if I was mistaken for a slug. However, while walking and snacking on Cheezits --a product of Kellog's Sunshine Biscuit co.-- I would ask them,"Honk if you love Cheezits!"(marginally plagiarizing the bumper-sticker) and I would be surrounded by honking Canada geese. Neither geese nor I were converted, but we remained friends forever after. Tell your fretty man his theology should remain intact.
I have tried eggplant once, at the Italian Affair in or near Sebastopol on 114 I think. Then alas, I went back to the veal and being the scourge of right thinking people everywhere. I think they are admirable vegs, glistening in the light of safeway vegetable sections everywhere, but probably will never experience the joys of my cutting board.
Mike, I agree they're beautiful shiny vegetables but my suspicion from childhood is that eggplant was originally intended as a renewable packing material.
I just can't bear to kill the predatory insects - or even slugs...which drives my husband to distraction, as he has to wait until I'm out before carrying out the necessary deeds!
And, considered even more bizarre, I can't bear to pull up the weeds!! (well, it is ALL life, isn't it?)
Makes you wonder how I don't starve to death...but that is a case of survival...and of consciously NOT thinking!
Dear Ygraine, Having a fine Sunday --thanks. Hope you have too. As for weeds, Norma has restricted herbicides on this property to vinegar and water --which only wilts the tops of weeds, not their roots. However, where property fire-breaks are needed, I sneak out and get Monsanto's Roundup for our fencelines. You may have heard something about California wildfires lately and will hopefully forgive my ecological transgression. Bugs, I have no problem with, except the bitey ones. Even ants are welcome in my home --much to the delight of the tree frogs who assemble on window sills.
Not sure which of Ms. Mitchell's wonderful songs you refer to but am hearing "...pave Paradise and put up a parking lot..." in my head. Close?
Have you tried the type of eggplant that's used in Thai cooking? It's either Chinese or Thai eggplant, but it's shaped kinda like a thin zucchini or cucumber. Yummy! I like regular eggplant, too, but if I fixed eggplant parmesan for myself, I'm afraid I'd have to fix the "real thing" for my hubby, too. I can't bear to see a grown man cry...
Susan, there is no reason why our differences over eggplant should come between us. My mother liked eggplant --she liked buttermilk too-- but I was always quite fond of her. As for your smile, that's what I write for. Thanks.
I do follow it, Susan. Birds have been around longer than humans and deserve respect. We're only beginning to understand the language nature has encoded into them. |
301,137,512 | We all saw it. Goal after goal after goal after goal. It was one we’ll remember forever and the Besiktas fans will try to forget as soon as they can. But as many have said, and will continue to say, it’s not over yet. Last night’s result was a tremendous filip for the side, but we musn’t rest on our laurels. We must use this victory as a platform for bigger and better things, and it must start at home to Fulham. A win’s a win, no matter what the final tally is….
There is still a lot of work to do though, Porto and Marseille are not going to be a walk in the (Anfield) park
Fair play to the scousers but what do you want to bet that Crouch won’t start on the weekend? Maybe Rafa will rest Benayoun as well?
Well, if the reports are to be believed, Rafa believes that Crouch’s future place is on the bench, and he will be like a super-sub. You can imagine how much displeasure can emanate from the 7-foot beanpole.
I don’t know what you’ve been smoking Player, but it was Asernal who were lucky to come away with a draw at Anfield…. read the independant match reports…. beli’dat.
Please, get over yourself. There is no cause to be so offensive. It’s insulting and I am sure you realise we have much better things to do. If you choose to be juvenile and foolish e.g. comment 21, I wonder how little self-respect you have. Show us some respect, and we’ll show you the same.
Your response to it was both intelligent and well-balanced, displaying an amazing amount of maturity and tact. Congratulations.
Everyone else, if you looking to see the worst Vampire Horror movie ever made, I’d give 30 Days of Night. I cant believe someone actually paid money to have the movie made. Makes you wonder if the cast, having thought they were onto something, saw the final cut and thought to themselves “F*CK”. I can usually sit through bad movies and understand why it was still made. But this was beyond comprehension. AND, Josh didn’t take his shirt off. BOX OFFICE No1, my arse. There must have been a conspiracy where all the critics left out the part that the only good thing about the movie is that there was an end, granted it came 113 mins too late. Ten quid??!! F*cking Bastards!!!!!!
So I take it that you would give it a 5/5 star rating huh, Gala? Nice to see your hard earned quid is being well spent.
Gerrard is playing at the top of his game and is one of the deadliest in the world. Just ask Besiktas keeper. The boys are clicking well and have made some big impressions. Torres, Voronin, Babel (some strikers to help Crouch) Benayoun and i would love to see Heinze in a Red jersey (Well … a REAL red jersey).
Elle, it ain’t funny. I am really wound up about it right now. It’s like a bad taste in your mouth that you just cant get rid off.
I have no problem with ordinary players, its the extra-ordinary salaries that they draw that I take issue with. And all the hype that comes with it. Bring on more youtubists of the ManCity ilk, who I really really hope can grab a Uefa cup berth at the very least, just maybe to bring some semblance into the Premiership. Coz honestly, when does the madness end?
JB,, I know that NOW. But surely the TV reviews and the Guardian (for crying out loud) could have said something. Conspiracy I tell you. They all got paid to miss out a few facts.
Happens. Feels very bad when you are new comer and are still very keen. You will get used to it. But generally, means no one has anything to say.
So any bets on tomorrow’s scores for Liverpool v Fulham? Coz with the euphoria from the Besitkas game not having quite warn off, and the defeat in May to Fulham to avenge, they are probably going to come out all guns blazing.
Easy tiger, let’s not get carried away there … we are unbeaten in the league (yes I’m lookin at you ARSEnal) and we have to lose sometime …
Remember guys Reds were in Top form on tuesday, setting the record for biggest win ever in the champions league. So, why would you bring this up? its so obvious guys the Cottagers will face there biggest challenge ever in the history of football, besides varikuenda kugomba Anfiled…I tell u guys there would not be a steep drop in form after the thrashing on tuesday… |
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We experience envy over other peoples' appearance, talents, relationships, and bank accounts. It offers no positive contribution to our lives. Yet, it remains. It is time to break free. Certainly, each of us desire to live in freedom from jealousy and envy. How then, can we overcome it? Consider these helpful, life-changing steps. 14 Dec When you learn to stop being jealous and instead embrace others' achievements and good fortune as a stimulating force, you experience many If you envy their natural talent and it is a talent you simply don't possess, then you need to learn to accept that not everyone is the same and we all have our own.
21 Jul Jealousy isn't called an ugly, green-eyed monster for no reason — and the truth is that more often than not, it's one that tends to stay hidden under the bed. Sometimes, the feeling of envy is very intense and you're aware of it, but a lot of the time, people operate from a place of believing they aren't worthy of.
4 Ways to Stop Feeling Jealous of Other Women. Mar, 17 Erin Brown Regardless of your intention, voicing these kinds of judgements about others serves no one, least of all you. Instead, take a pause and If you find yourself envious of someone else's job, for example, are you dissatisfied with your own? Do you secretly. 25 Feb Competition, on the other hand, can be helpful—as long as we don't take it too seriously and personally. My high school English teacher always used to say " Comparisons are odious" and I never understood it until I started realizing (see step #1) I was comparing myself to others and not merely competing. We experience envy over other peoples' appearance, talents, relationships, and bank accounts. It offers no positive contribution to our lives. Yet, it remains. It is time to break free. Certainly, each of us desire to live in freedom from jealousy and envy. How then, can we overcome it? Consider these helpful, life-changing steps. |
106,379,958 | "There will come a time when all of us are dead. All of us. There will come a time when there are no human beings remaining to remember that anyone ever existed or that our species ever did anything. There will be no one left to remember Aristotle or Cleopatra, let alone you. Everything that we did and built and wrote and thought and discovered will be forgotten and all of this will have been for naught. Maybe that time is coming soon and maybe it is millions of years away, but even if we survive the collapse of our sun, we will not survive forever. There was time before organisms experienced consciousness, and there will be time after. And if the inevitability of human oblivion worries you, I encourage you to ignore it. God knows that’s what everyone else does." -- The Fault in our Stars
I managed to reach the 50 book quota this year though I got lazy some time in between. I tried to branch out of my comfort zone, but we all know I'll always come back to romance and young adult books.
A lot of my crushes and girl crushes had movies come out this year and though I still have yet to see Anna Karenina and Les Miserables, I'm sure those would have been part of my favorites.
So much wonderful music came out this year and I was so lucky to have seen so many concerts (most of which were just lucky invites). And though some here came out years before, they're still goodies.
I let go of some of my television shows this year and said goodbye to other shows not out of choice. I'm still sad to see Chuck and Merlin go, but happy for new favorites.
Started the year with a wedding of an awesome couple (Mark & Barb), tried out new things, and enjoyed a relatively cheap concert that started way too late.
Turned 25 (waiting for the quarter life crisis) and dropped my work phone 7 floors. I also tried to dabble in nail art. We fail at it, obviously.
Took a stab at Pilates (that didn't last long) and started going out a little more (best and worst decision of the year?). Let #landian2012 begin.
Went to my first (and last) car show, said goodbye to really good office mate and got lost in Seoul, South Korea with my siblings.
Got quasi-stylish at the Candy Style Awards, saw Lady Gaga and her little monsters going at it and (tried to be cool when I) met a terribly cool man.
Went nuts for NKOTBSB, met my brother Pio's girlfriend, Janina (officially) and helped Abbey and Chris with their engagement photos.
Flew on a starship with Nicki Minaj, said 'see you later' to the fantastic, Reggie and broke the bank to fund my first solo London 2012 trip.
Got floored by the Stonehenge and everything London, fell in love with Tour Eiffel and all things Paris and came back home to awesome friends.
Tried a disastrous but somehow effective diet, trended on Twitter (again) for the Candy Fair and attended Chris and Abbey's beautiful wedding.
Reached my 2-year mark at work, felt terribly old at the Jo Bros concert and pulled off a strat plan and sales con with the help of the awesome, Risa.
met my brother PB's girlfriend during the fantastically long weekend in Singapore with Paola and sort of met Pietro's almost-gilfriend during his ambush birthday.
Got all kawaii at the office Christmas party (and subsequently #totessobes), enjoyed the holidays with the family and closed it with my last wedding of a family friend.
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Adsorption equilibria have been gravimetrically measured at 10, 20, 30, 50, and 70°C for benzene on pure crystalline silicalite. Isotherms change from type I to type IV with decreasing temperature, indicating heterogeneous behavior. The transition temperature is determined to be 38 ± 1°C by isobaric experiments. Silicalite is energetically homogeneous since there are no cations present. The observed structural heterogeneity is due to the comparable sizes of benzene molecules and the silicalite pore system. Silicalite is modeled as two types of homogeneous pores where a van der Waals model describes local equilibrium. Model parameters are calculated via nonlinear regressions with prescribed pore distribution determined from crystallographic considerations. Data and model predictions are in good agreement with highly significant parameters. |
80,900,657 | Deirdre Bardot had her whole life mapped out, but that was before her father was killed in a horrific hit and run accident. Forced to flee college on the East Coast, she settles back in Seattle with her sister and stepmother. The grief and anger is still there, though, following her every step.
After spending time with her psychiatrist, she is convinced she needs to get away for a while. Not only will it help her get over her depression, but travel might just be the catharsis she needs to overcome her father’s death.
Deirdre thought a European vacation would solve all her problems, but it turns out all she really needed was Colin. She never thought her friend would change her life in the way he did, nor did she ever imagine falling in love with him. Deirdre finally feels as if she hit a turning point, but Colin’s been holding something back. A secret that could ruin everything.
Colin knows he has to come clean with Deirdre. Will the truth destroy everything the two lovers have built together, or will love be strong enough to atone for Colin’s mistake?
You are about to teach an AEMT or paramedic class. You have a group of wide-eyed EMTs wanting to learn more and progress to the next level (or to at least play with needles). How can you tell if your new students have the raw material it takes to succeed at an advanced level? Or perhaps you are finishing an EMT class, and you want to assess how well the students learned during your course—and how they will be able to think and function in the field.
In my online exam prep classes, I found myself asking new attendees a few questions to gauge their general preparation and what they learned in their EMT class. Students who answered these questions well seemed to do well on the NREMT. Those who didn’t know the answers didn’t do as well—and usually didn’t learn what they should have in class. Their lack of knowledge in basic pathophysiology was a common thread.
The more I read, and the more I speak to educators and students, the more I realize how much pathophysiology is one of the foundational elements of success at the EMT level—but perhaps the most challenging to teach—and especially integrate. The six questions below evaluate pathophysiology and pathophysiology-based thinking. I’ve put them in a table format and explain why I believe they are essential.
I know there are both aptitude and knowledge-based entrance exams. I’ve had mixed results with these. If you are looking for some questions for the student interview or to sound out a student you are chatting with, give these a try. I have found them to be quite insightful.
1. How were you taught to administer oxygen? This question is designed to determine if the student was taught to give everyone oxygen by NRB or if it should be considered a drug and administered based on the patient’s need (hypoxia).
You’d be amazed (or maybe not) how many students are still taught to give everyone oxygen. This question is first because I consider it the most significant indicator of a students EMT knowledge and preparation.
2. Why is the skin cool and moist in shock? This concept is basic pathophysiology. It will tell you whether the student memorized signs and symptoms of shock or knows why they occur.
3. Explain how the alpha and beta agonist properties of medication affect the body. EMTs administer medications that use both of these receptors. To understand how they work—and when/why they should be given—the students should know these.
4. Provide an example of an injury or condition that will cause each of the four functional types of shock. Hypovolemic (blood loss, diarrhea), obstructive (tension pneumothorax), distributive (anaphylaxis, sepsis) and cardiogenic (MI). These are the basic building blocks of understanding shock. I consider it concerning if a student can’t answer this question.
5. What is pulse pressure and what do you expect it to do in shock? In increasing intracranial pressure? I know it seems like there is a lot of shock on here, but pulse is a potential early warning sign of compensation as well as an indicator of cardiac output and vascular tone. Students should also know why it happens.
6. List three ways to differentiate hypoglycemia from hyperglycemia. This is a bit of a window into diagnostic thinking (e.g., sudden vs. gradual, altered mental status) but also—you guessed it—pathophysiology. Moist versus dry skin, dehydration, urination, thirst, etc. This is a common complaint where an EMT can make a difference.
Yes, a blood glucose monitor will give you an easy answer. Our students should still understand basic thinking and pathophysiology.
Do you have any other questions or measures you use to determine student preparedness for your classes? What do you consider the most essential components of a prepared EMT? |
203,876,191 | “I have something for you” said Argasto the caravan leader and started chewing on his third leg of lamb. His mouth was covered in grease but nothing silk sleeves could not wipe off. “I have a friend in Thistla Fort that is in need of discreet help. Perhaps you can handle it as you have proven yourselves worthy. Go to Thistla Fort and ask for Master Vernam at the school. Good luck to ye and hope to see you again comrades.”
The heroes left the inn at once eager to find adventure, fame and fortune. As they arrived to Thistla Fort they were excited by all the exotic gatherings there. The locomotion, the Elves, the Barbarians, the Magic users, the Witch hunters. Everyone and everything was here at the threshold of the dark forest.
As they walked through the locomotion a little child ran into them. It was a girl. Tears running down her cheeks. After her came a group of armed henchmen with axes, shields and scale mail. “Please help me” inquired the little girl. The PCs looked at the armed men. “Chasing a little girl are you? And it takes the whole group of armed men for that?” The PCs took a stance.
“In the name of Baumelo the Black Coat, hand over the heretic or ye shall be punished!” The PCs quickly asked the girl who she was understanding the seriousness of conflict with Black Coats. “Im Tenid. I live with my folks outside Thistla Fort at a chicken farm. They try to steal our farm away by these accusations. Please help us dear Sirs”.
The heroes would not have this. They drew their swords and looked steadily at the Black Coats. “If you touch the girl you die here and now.” The Black Coats charged. “So be it”.
The fight was pretty quick. The Black Coats were easy to hit (def +1) but somewhat sturdy (15/8 hps/pain). Itacha was on a high killing 3 of them in just as many rounds. The last one tried to run away but the heroes caught him and fell him as well. “Tell your leader Baumelo to leave the little girl’s family alone or we will find him.” The Black Coat nodded and ran away.
Tenid thanked the adventurers and invited them to her family’s farm at any time. A new friend had been found, yet so little and kind.
The heroes arrived at Master Vernam’s school and knocked on the door. Afternoon was turning into evening. There was a disturbing delay and at the third knock an old lady opened the door, pale and trembling as she looked at the adventurers. Something was amiss. Master Vernam had been brutally slaughtered in his office. His carcass was hanging upside down in a rope from the roof. His skin and intestines in a huge pool of blood on the floor. Bloody steps leading towards the window. Two of the heroes were quick on their heels dashing towards the window that was still open and out on the roof tops following the tracks. The other PCs interrogated Elsbetha the old servant and searched the office thoroughly for any evidence.
In the pool of blood they found a letter that they could wash off and save the most part of. It was written from Master Vernam to Sire Nattbäcka, the Mayor of Thistla Fort. The letter mentions “the king’s skull” and that anyone touching it will be poisoned by darkest evil. Under the desk they also found an iron ring with the inscription “Never again” in Elvish. The Iron Pact. Were they responsible for this savage crime?
Elsbetha concurred that an elf by the name Tara-Kel had visited Master Vernam shortly before. But he left when Master Vernam was still alive. Elsbetha was sure of this. So she would be the last one to have seen him alive.
The heroes out on the roof tops continued following the tracks. They had to jump over to other roofs and eventually ended up in front of one of the main squares. The Toad’s Square. There they lost the tracks. Could the murderer still be around? The heroes contemplated stalking this square over the night.
The guards arrived and interrogated the adventurers. Apparently several murders had been committed lately and all seemed to be around the Toad’s Square. The PCs were now more inclined to watch the square. Modus Operandi was the same.
The evening was upon them and still no place to stay. Wandering the streets they ended up at the Hof & Harp inn. They loosened their heavy gear and went to see the Captain of the Guard to find out more about the murders. Captain Marvello was positive to the PCs enquiries and supported their efforts to help out. Vernam was the 5th killing in just 4 days and the citizens of Thistla Fort were disturbed. Captain Marvello agreed to the heroes using his name to enter crime scenes and being able to ask questions if need be. He presented the witness testimonies as a final contribution.
Last but not least the heroes visited Mayor Lasifor Nattbäcka. Apparently he had been part of that unfortunate expedition, but refused any questions from the heroes regarding his getting in touch with the skull itself. “The skull seems to transfer some kind of disease or damnation” the heroes summarized. Nattbäcka summarized the expedition and his words echoed in the stone hall. Candle lights flickering….
“It was Gorak. He bragged about the riches and the treasures in the most dark and secret heart of the forest. With him was Alahara the Bastard. There was something between them I don’t know what… They found a King’s Tomb and therein an ancient skull that Gorak chopped off and brought with him. But something with the skull was disturbing. Late at night by the campfire Gorak would sit for hours and just stare into its empty eye sockets. I swear there seemed to be something glowing inside it….”
The adventurers managed to convince him to support their efforts and the Mayor wrote them a letter of recommendation asking anyone to aid the heroes in their quest. The heroes were somewhat at unease by Mayor Nattbäckas female companion Yagaba. Something about her did not seem right. “She must be a witch” whispered Gadramei to Demmeon who fancied cutting her head of here and now.
I chose not to give the players the optional letter from Master Vernam. My angle of introduction was the relationship with Argasto that came from the successful venture over the mountains in the 1st module “The Promised Land”. This builds better continuum and makes the NPCs relationships with the PCs more profound and realistic.
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87,122,160 | No matter how many times flutist, composer, and educator Nicole Mitchell plays in New York, it is never enough. As one of the foremost visionaries of creative music today, Prof. Mitchell has already crafted an incredible body of work and received considerable praise. Her work is at once deeply developed, interdisciplinary, and socially relevant, while also covering a broad aesthetic range intended to appeal to diverse audiences. On this night, in Williamsburg, Mitchell premiered Maroon Cloud, an eight-part suite, as part of the Stone Commissioning Series at National Sawdust. The work is a jolt of optimism, in these uncertain times, aimed at uncovering the “hidden choice” we all have to imagine other ways of thinking and living. Mitchell shared the stage with Fay Victor (vocals), Tomeka Reid (cello), and Aruan Ortiz (piano), all key figures on the New York scene.
The first piece, “Warm Dark Realness,” opened with deep intertwined lines from Victor and Reid, while Ortiz patiently walked up the keys. Reid, who played with astonishing poise and boldness, formed the core of the early moments surging upwards, with her sounds occasionally evaporating into microtones. Mitchell added somber flute lines as the band moved towards its first crest near the four minute mark, before oscillating back down into what felt like a vast, dark ocean of sonic possibilities. Without drums or bass–a challenge in and of itself–the music remained quite fluid throughout, maintaining patient, forward progress, and allowed the four performers to meld their sounds together and, at times, produce a sound that felt like much more than four instruments. Ortiz and Reid built an ethereal duet together, before the latter took a turn into deep bowed lines, allowing Ortiz to dance dexterously on top. Throughout the entire suite, the lower register of Victor’s vocal range allowed her to interact with all three of the instruments in unusual ways, exhibited right from the beginning. Her communication with Reid was particularly dynamic, melding and differentiating at different turns.
The second piece, “Vodoun Spacetime Kettle” was a tribute to Bessie Smith which picked up the pace, featuring Victor’s soulful voice. The otherworldly feel, established in the first piece, continued here, but with doses of familiarity such as the line “Nobody loves you when you are down and out” as well as poignant clarity in the line “Bessie ignited our blood,” as a message to African ancestors in the twenty-first century sent from the future. The third piece, “Otherness,” progressed forward into interstellar sounds. Like much of the suite, the music seemed to grow from Mitchell’s earlier work titled Xenogenesis (Firehouse 12 Records, 2008), which had been influenced by the writings of science fiction writer Octavia Butler (1947-2006), who Mitchell met once not long before her passing. Strong science fiction and futurist imagery was present in this work. Hisses, solar flares, ethereal whispers, primordial stardust, orbiting celestial bodies dueling with their gravity, the vast distance between them, these images became manifest in the sounds, all displayed with pinpoint accuracy.
Having featured the other musicians most prominently through the first three pieces, Mitchell soloed out front with cello support to begin “No One Can Stop Us.” Here the music took an even more optimistic turn, explicitly articulated in the vocal line that matched the title, but also in the bouncing and bopping flute lines. As if to build on that energy, a two-part piece titled “Endurance” followed, with a display of solidarity between Victor and Reid opening in a unified pitch while Mitchell also added sustained notes as Ortiz played geometric counter in ascending arpeggios. At times the sustained pitches added doses of tension, abrasion even, as if to articulate necessary or unavoidable challenges met along the journey. Eventually the piece shifted to a duet of Ortiz and Reid with rich, earthy tones set upon unshakeable foundations that evolved into the full quartet with flute and voice adding buoyancy and positivity.
“Endurance” set the stage for “One Sound Represents,” which featured Mitchell out front in an imaginative exploration of what sound can be. Meanwhile, Victor repeated the line, “Sometimes a sound represents a whole era … sometimes a sound represents a whole people … sometimes a sound represents an eternity …” This swinging piece built up to a brilliant, sophisticated solo by Mitchell in which she displayed the virtuosic command of her instrument. “A Hidden Choice,” the masterwork of the impressive suite, featured Mitchell again with a vertical solo that also stretched into horizontal tones, eventually employing vocalizations through her flute that, when coupled with an adept use of space, caused time to slow down. Then Victor joined to make it feel like a vocal duet in which she worked the alto and tenor range, paired with Mitchell’s flute. Low, somber notes from Ortiz then bolstered this further, juxtaposed with his occasional high pitches which cut through the fluid sonic organism like shattering crystal. The piece ended convincingly and decisively.
The final piece, “Constellation Symphony,” which had the energy of an encore, was propelled by the lyrics, “Breaking through to the other side …” Given the conclusiveness of the previous piece, the final statement proved that the life journey always continues, even after challenging or life-altering moments, as articulated through the final Mitchell solo of the night which set sites skyward, while juxtaposing those moments with occasional and fearless lines that dove into the cosmic nebula of group sound.
At the conclusion of the music, the audience erupted into a standing ovation, voicing their appreciation for Mitchell and her band, a performance that has been one of the very best of 2017. Professor Mitchell intends to record the music soon. She has another record, “Mandorla Awakening II: Emerging Worlds” to be released on May 5. |
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The Mound Talks event will easily be one of the highlights of my career. In order to understand why, let me provide you with some history. Last year, students in my 7th grade class took on the challenge of writing a TED Talk. Students worked vigorously for weeks writing and rehearsing their talk. I was astounded by the end product and was highly impressed with what my students had to share. Students presented on topics ranging from mental illnesses to sports injuries to the impact of music. This assignment brought a heightened awareness of the need to provide students with a platform to share their big ideas.
Eager to make this assignment bigger than just a 7th grade assignment, I began discussing how we could make this a reality with Sue Simonson, Toby Robinson, and Pam Tremblay. Over time, it developed into a pitch to DECA students to use as their project this year. Abby Wharram, Andrew LaFortune, and Katelyn Wagner were gracious enough to take it on. Over the last few months, we experienced some highs and lows with the planning process, but December 4th came in no time!
Mound Talks was the event of the season! The stage was set with twinkling lights. Large, bold letters designed by Andrew and the woodshop classes shined under spotlights. Cupcakes, cookies, and a popcorn bar awaited audience members in The Commons. The eager and brave speakers were Katie Clarke, Noah Brammer, Stephanie Anderson, Josh Seeley, Avery Finck, Grace Hanson, Josh Nkhata, Maya Jable, Zach Riffle, Avery Robbins, Anders Erdahl, Izzy Embery-Braun, and Tiffany Nguyen.
Each speaker delivered a unique and powerful message. Audience members learned about subjects such as financial abstraction, gender inequality, learning from your past, and reasons to be thankful. The speakers, although nervous, exuded confidence and captivated the audience. I am proud of these students for mustering up the courage to present and am in awe of their ability to effectively communicate such big ideas.
It was a true pleasure to participate in the planning of this event. Thank you to the sponsors for their generosity and to Westonka DECA for hosting the event. I look forward to the next Mound Talks event!
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An Mp3 player with hard drive is good for travel or for those compelled to be away from their computers for long periods of time. It is ideal for listening in the living room, and it can be connected to external speakers. An Mp3 player with flash memory is useful while jogging or at the gym because of its lightness.
Connect the ring terminal ends of the wires to the battery. Connect the Red wire to the Positive terminal and the Black wire to the Negative terminal. Put the lid on the battery box.
Here are a few great ideas for gadgets for mothers or the mature women in the family. Don't be fooled into thinking mums aren't interested in electronic gadgets. Try a tetra accessory or mp3 dock that she can listen to while cooking dinner or getting ready to go out. A new mum might like the newest version of the baby monitor, a digital video monitoring device. There's even gadgets for mums-to-be. Why not get the expectant mother Belly Buds Pregnancy Bellyphones so she can play her unborn baby some music?
Its not that I want you to stop liking people as a whole. On the contrary I am looking out for you. That is we have to take care of the boss - namely - YOU. And you cannot do that if you are running around all over town meeting with everyone who calls you on a whim.
Another of the trunk scanners except that this one is digital is the Uniden BCD396XT Handheld TrunkTracker IV Digital Police Scanner. This model supports APCO 25, motorola mth, EDACS, and LTR trunking systems.
According to analysts, just promoting a smart phone driven by patriotism might not be enough for the company as the Motox does not offer anything special. Other than its slick and curvy design, the phone doesn't offer anything so compelling that a user would prefer it over other smart phones. Motox is launched with two versions; a 16GB and a 32 GB phone and the battery time is given as 24 hours. The screen size is 4.7 inches and the camera is 10 megapixels. Although these are all impressive numbers but still not the best in the market as smart phones like Galaxy tetra radio S are much faster.
For the youngest kids, the Smart Trike Plus is a great gift. Mums will like showing this one off because it is very stylish and the young kids will like it because it will make them feel like a big boy or girl. Either way, it's a winner.
If you want to succeed at war, you have to become familiar with your enemy. This will allow you to create ideal strategies for victory. For anything else you want to achieve, you must be aware of what obstacles you will encounter. When it comes to sales, it is vital that you identify the potential landmines you will face. On this post I will give you the 5 landmines that you must avoid if you want to succeed in sales. And always remember that, in marketing, everything counts, so we must examine every minor detail to its fullest extent.
The first landmine you will encounter in the world of sales comes in the form of competition. I don’t care how much effort you have put into picking your niche, you will face a certain amount of competition. So, if you want to overcome this landmine, you must study who your competitors are and, if you feel there is just simply too much competition, perhaps you are better off picking a different niche within a market.
The second landmine you will face is a bad sales copy. You might believe that your sales page is brilliant but, is it really? Are you sure that it taps into the appropriate psychological buttons of your audience? Does it deliver a message that keeps the reader at the edge of their seats? Are you presenting yourself as a master storyteller who is able to captivate audiences left and right, or is your message dull? These are all factors that you must consider.
The third landmine is to have a poorly designed website. A simple search through the internet will reveal thousands, and possibly millions of websites that are poorly designed. This is not something you want to play around with. If you have no technical skills when it comes to website design, it is vital that you hire a professional. Your website is your home on the internet, so it needs to be in order.
The fourth landmine is being in the wrong market. Before you decide to launch your business, it is imperative that you conduct the appropriate market research. You need to know that there is a healthy demand for what you offer. Also, you need to make sure that your market does not have excessive competition which creates saturation. You need to know that you are pricing what you offer at the appropriate price for your market. You must become a master of your market.
Finally, the fifth landmine you must avoid is not having a strong enough network of support. If you are always surrounding yourself with negative friends or family members, it is time that you create a more positive network of associates. You need to create a circle of allies who are going to support you and encourage you as you travel on your journey toward your dreams.
These landmines can completely destroy your business, so it is important for you to take them seriously. The more you study these landmines, the more equipped you will be to avoid them, allowing you to generate the sales you have always wanted to generate. |
167,996,938 | Our blend of amazing essential oils will ease nerve pain (in as little a one week with suggested use) and is known and can even reverse nerve damage.
Apply 2-4 drops into effected area(s) every morning and before bed. Very safe and can be use as often as needed. Several of our customers are now off prescription drugs. Results will vary with each individual and their conditions.
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Every persons condition is different. Your lifestyle, diet and commitment to the using our oil will encourage wellness, however it is not guaranteed to cure any condition.
Helichrysum Essential Oil is powerful and the price is out of reach for most people. I make this oil for a minimal fee to honor my mother and all who suffered from Neuropathy & Nerve Damage
My mother (80 y.o.) has tried SO MANY therapies from 'natural' to heavy-hitting Rx drugs...at first she thought they might help, only to have them fail after a couple of weeks. So far, Mom has been getting some relief using your Neuropathy Oil. This has enabled her to get 6 hours of sleep a night, which is far better than most nights.
I appreciate you disclosing the ingredients so that I could double check them for safety. I was familiar with all of them except for the helichyrsum oil, which I checked on Health Canada's Natural Product Ingredient Database.
Hi Candy, Loved visiting your shop and now I have to re-order. Love the products. By the way the essential oils for my mother's neuropathy are letting her get much needed rest! Love you for helping her! Happy Mother's Day
Anonymous, 13 Dec 2010Yep, N8 video looks blury, even the C6-01 video is a lot better. Check it out. Maybe there was... morewell N8 dont have led flash for video . N8 videos suck same as Nokia suck .
Yep, N8 video looks blury, even the C6-01 video is a lot better. Check it out. Maybe there was a problem with the recording, or maybe not. lol
What's with the N8 video? It looks blurry. There are videos on youtube, shooted with the N8 that are amazing in quality, better than any other phone!
GSMARENA what you guys need is major overhaul of your UI. Please work on that ASAP. May be then you can introduce a API where you can plugin such apps in the future.
The camera key on the other side is comfortable enough, making a satisfying click, each time it is pressed. The volume rocker doesn't make any noises but is equally pleasant to use.
The power key may be a bit too small to our liking but you'll probably end up using that quite rarely anyway. The microUSB slot and the 3.5mm jack, which share the N86 8MP top with it, aren't protected at all from the daily dirt and grime - especially if you carry your phone around in your pocket.
The Nokia N86 8MP back side is easily our favorite part of the handset due to the sleek looks of the plastic used - think N97 style. It hosts the 8MP wide-angle camera and the dual-LED flash, hidden under a small protective cover.
The active kickstand is there around the camera and by default it starts the image gallery when you flip it open. We would rather fancy watching videos with the phone on its kickstand, so Nokia have added an option to customize its behavior to suite the individual needs.
Under the hood lays the 1200 mAh Li-Ion battery, which sounds quite decent on paper. Nokia quote it to last for up to 312 hours of stand-by and 6 hours and 18 minutes of talk time in 2G network, while using 3G should give you up to 264 hours of stand-by and 3 hours and 54 minutes of talk time. Unfortunately, we cannot publish any real-life figures - we'll probably leave that for the upcoming detailed review next week.
The slider mechanism seems finely tuned with the effort required to put it in motion just about perfect. It gives away a satisfying click every time it locks in one of the three positions. The rest of the build quality also seems pretty fine at first sight, making the phone a joy to handle even with a hefty weight like that.
So at first glance the Nokia N86 8MP is not that fun to use - its design is heavily based on another phone announced almost an year ago (read Nokia N85), there are hardly any novel controls on it and finally, it's a quite heavy phone. On the other hand, the build quality seems top-notch and all the materials used are the same as the high-ranking Nokia N97 so you can rest assured you get Nokia's best.
We really didn't mean this to sound bad - judging the exterior is quite frequently a subjective thing, so when you consider our observations, bear in mind that they are really OUR OWN and they won't necessarily impose on you too.
Ok, if you've had enough of this eye inspection, head on to the next page for a quick and dirty Symbian smartphone walkthrough.
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Lab Scheduler is a unique resource scheduler designed for schools, that uses periods or blocks to schedule rather than times. This works out well for schools where each day's meeting times change constantly to accommodate, block scheduling, 1/2 days, or assemblies.
Schools can set up the Lab Scheduler sheet with their resources that need to be signed out. Then share it with edit rights to their teachers. Teachers then select the resources from the sheet tabs at the bottom and put their name on the specific day and period that they want to sign up. The lab scheduler will continually take out the previous day and add a new one so that once it is set up, it will always be up-to-date.
I've been in BKK long enough to know how to get in and out of town quickly on the Expressways...in a 4-wheeler.
Having finally concluded the world's slowest bike search, I now find that I'm perplexed at how to do the same thing WITHOUT getting on the expressways.
Can anyone advise me the best (i.e., fastest, fewest stops, least traffic) exits out of Bangkok for the following destinations:
going to pattaya/ rayong South East u have 2 choices Bangna Trat highway 3 to Chonburi but its bumpy on the ground compared to the express way.
A nicer route is Ramintra to Minburi then go to Chacheongsao,from there you can get to Panat nikom or Chonburi easy ..its a nicer run too.
North Ayutaya etc. Over Taksin Bridge and miss the first overpass, then take overpasses until merging left 5+ kms, to go over and right onto Ratchapruek ( you will have simply followed the new Skytrain tracks) follow Ratchapruek north, straight over the big roundabout and contnue north until 345(20-something kms) , then you will see signs for going north.
Have a look at maps. I'd have to do the same to give you detailed instructions with numbers...both roads and kms.
Think it heads towards Chonburi, I was heading for Cambodia at the Arayaphapet (Or something)/Poi Pet border crossing.
I'm on my first exit tomorrow on the new (to me) GS1150. Luckily I have a guide - we are bound for Tak on an overnight... |
92,268,272 | We're in for a real treat today, because Zee Monodee has dropped by today to talk about her inspiration for her latest release, Light My World. This post couldn't have come at a better time, because I woke up to snow on my car yesterday. In the middle of April. Let's all go on an island vacation, shall we?
I’ve always been a goner for romantic comedies. Be it in books or movies, romcoms are my staple of comfort food for the soul. Love the funny, the over the top, the quirky, and the romance, of course...which more often than not in romcoms, happens when and with who you least expect.
Diya Hemant, the heroine of Light My World, came to me like a rocket-propelled grenade of enthusiasm and good cheer. She suddenly made her appearance known, with a huge bang, in her sister Lara’s story, The Other Side (book 1 in the trilogy).
I have to admit Diya was tiresome, draining, and so bright she could induce a migraine in anyone....
Which led me to thinking – this would probably be the case for any sensible man she meets. We all know we’re on our best behavior when on a date, but those other times in real life? You are who you are, no pretenses and no facades. So the man who met her in real life would be treated to that overwhelming personality.
I thus had the makings of a romantic comedy, but then, too – how to make it funny? Right then, it looked like the premise for a chick lit with a ditzy heroine at the center. So not what I wanted for this book – it should be balanced, comic on both sides.
It’s obvious the other is the last person they want to see/meet/encounter again, and that usually includes intense mutual dislike between them.
I saw Diya and Trent, the hero in the story, as having that kind of second meeting. Simply a question now of making that first meeting totally off the charts in all manner of awful yet funny happenings. And what’s worse than a (thank goodness harmless!) car accident where neither will accept to take the blame?
From there on, it became a journey of “what else other aggravation can I shoot onto them?”. Tons of fun, lots of laughs...that I hope my readers will feel and enjoy, too.
Brown linen trousers covered his long legs, and she craned her neck to take in his tall body and broad chest. He’d rolled the sleeves of his cream-coloured shirt to his elbows, revealing big, powerful-looking hands and strong forearms dusted in dark hairs. A tense, corded neck lay visible beneath the open collar of the shirt, with a slightly pointed chin above it. Strong jaw, and chiselled, taut, handsome features. Deep-set grey eyes, very much like the elder boy’s, squinted at her beneath thick eyebrows the same hue as the neatly trimmed dark hair on his head.
She snorted under her breath. Just her luck, again. He was taken. What is it with this weekend from hell?
The word rolled off the Greek god’s tongue, and the British accent and disbelieving tone dripping with spite jolted her like an electric current.
In doing so, she lost her balance and toppled over onto her arse to lay flat on her back. Pain from hitting the hard marble erupted all along her spine, and she caught herself before the back of her head smashed into the floor. Quick save, and thank goodness most of the broken glass lay in her flat, and not in the lobby. She’d have been in for some major injury, otherwise.
Would this nightmare ever end? She must appear like an undignified heap, and there went all the leverage she could bring to this meeting. Humiliation piled onto her anger at being caught in such a stupid position, in front of him, no less.
He spoke the words softly. The disbelief in them wiped away her feelings of self-pity, and hurt like a stab, in the same go.
Was he rude by nature, or did he always itch for a fight? Either way, she wouldn’t let him off the hook.
Outrage at his insult filled her, but the distaste for him and his cavemen-like ways won the battle. “Same here, mate.”
The Island Girls trilogy follows the 3 Hemant sisters – Lara, Neha, Diya – over the span of the 2000-2010 decade, chronicling the changing face of the Mauritian society over that crucial period. Book 2, Light My World, is Diya’s hilarious quest to find Prince Charming in the sea of frogs that is Mauritius (well, what it is according to her perception!). Follow her on this desperate mission!
This particular position became her favourite when she decided to pursue her lifelong dream of writing – her heroines all sit 'on a fence', whether cultural or societal, in today's world or in times past, and face dilemmas about life and love.
Prince Frederick, MD - Whether you prefer to celebrate the end of the year or the beginning of the new one, there are public events—some with a cost—that you might want to check out.
According to Visit Maryland, New Year’s Eve celebrations in the Old Line State include First Night in Annapolis, midnight fireworks in Ocean City, Baltimore’s “New Year’s Eve Spectacular” plus plenty of revelry at the Gaylord, located in Prince George’s County’s National Harbor, dubbed “Big Night DC.” If you want to really get out of town but stay in Maryland, Havre de Grace has its annual midnight “Duck Drop.”
Here in Southern Maryland, the Town of North Beach is holding its annual “Party on the Pier” from 7 p.m. to 1 a.m. on the town pier off Bay Avenue. For $95 revelers can enjoy music spun by a live deejay, a photo booth, dinner and a champagne toast at midnight. The event is BYOB. Just south of that celebration, Chesapeake Beach Resort and Spa has two events—Cosmic Bingo and a New Year’s Eve Party with live music by The NoWhere Men from 8:45 p.m. to 1 a.m.
The following day in Prince Frederick the 10th annual Resolution 5 Kilometer (K) Race will be run. It is sponsored by Southern Maryland Community Network (SMCN). The race begins and ends at SMCN headquarters on Prince Frederick Boulevard. Proceeds benefit SMCN’s mental health programs and the Erica Weems Scholarship. Hot soup will be served after the race, which starts at 8 a.m.
Think it’s cold? How about an invigorating plunge in the Chesapeake Bay? The annual North Beach Polar Bear Plunge is scheduled for 1 p.m. New Year’s Day. The 2018 event is free but if you pay a fee you will receive a commemorative T-shirt. Proceeds this year will benefit the Twin Beach Players. Even if you don’t pay a fee you must sign a waiver.
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12,897,500 | TheseFoolishThings is a small set of simple utility libraries. All TheseFoolishThings components require Java 5 or later (but need Java 6 for compilation since v1.5.0).
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draft: it means that the API is not stable yet and there could be minor backward-incompatible changes in future releases.
TheseFoolishThings artifacts are available in the Central Maven repository, so you can just refer to them in your pom without further effort. The groupId is it.tidalwave.thesefoolishthings and the artifactIds are listed in the table above.
We suggest you use the dependency management section to declare the required version of the artifacts to import:
In this way you are sure that all the imported artifacts have got coherent versions; furthermore your POM is much shorter than declaring a dependency management item for each imported artifact.
TheseFoolishThings artifacts are available both as simple JAR files for a JSE application and as NBM packages for a NetBeans Platform application.
After being asked to design a new school logo to represent Jefferson Elementery School we where commissioned to also put the logo down on the floor of the gym. It is really cool to be a part of something like this, helping create school pride for our youth!
The average age of being ready for toilet training is 2 1⁄2 years. Girls are often ready earlier than boys. Daytime accidents may occur and night time dryness might not develop until 4-5 years. The age at which your child is ready is very individual and the more pressure that is applied the longer it takes. read more...
Sleep is valuable no matter how little you get and when asleep it is nice to sleep soundly! Sudden alarming screaming in the middle of the night is frightening for parents as well as the child. There are differences in the identification and handling of nightmares and night terrors and they usually occur at different times of the night. Lets explore these common events. read more...
The older child can be easier or harder to deal with in terms of applying a strategy for going to and staying in bed. While it may appear easy to use your parental power and negotiating skills, it is also harder dealing with the louder, more mobile, determined, sometimes manipulative child who knows how to push your buttons and verbalise their frustrations. This age group requires more time and effort in after school sports, help with homework and assignments, presentations, reading, transport to parties and play dates etc. which can be very wearing on your patience and energy leading to a situation that is common in younger babies “peace at any price”. read more...
Thread worms are thriving everyday in little children and affecting their daily activities and causing sleepless nights for many families. It's not a nice experience but easily identified and treated. I am frequently finding worms a problem for our little pre-school aged non-sleepers and mum and dad are horrified. Worms are spread very easily in the community across all social backgrounds and generations. They are spread most commonly in pre-schoolers’ because in my experience the only things toddlers share are love and germs and this age group are not always efficient at hand washing, particularly before eating...read more
There are many reasons for your baby 9 months or older waking early in the morning around 5-6am and not wanting to go back to sleep. If the early waking is upsetting for your family and you would like to try and extend the morning wake time, we need to identify the possible causes of the early waking and deal with each issue...read more
Every year when daylight saving starts the phone calls pour in with parents panicking about the transition of their baby's sleeps and the dreaded daylight saving. I say dreaded because while it may be nice for some to enjoy the extra daylight hours after work or on weekends, it is often a difficult time for parents. The extra daylight entices longer activity in the afternoon/evenings leading to later meal times and delayed bedtimes by toddlers and children "because the sun's still up mum!". This in turn leads to less sleep, overtired children, less "me time" for mums and dad's and all round frustration... read more
I wanted to address this topic because I have had a few phone calls about this recently. The parents have successfully initiated their children's new routine and were enjoying more sleep and then BAM! The baby or toddler isnʼt sleeping again. When investigating the possible reasons for this we need to look closely at your routine and the developmental stage they are going through. It doesn't mean that your 'routine' isn't working or your child has forgotten how to sleep well and yes they will sleep well again...read more
How do we know when it’s the appropriate time to use wraps or sleeping bags or move from wrapping to using a sleeping bag? Most parents appropriately start wrapping their newborn babies in hospital with the Nurses’ direction and continue the practice at home for a few weeks. Some parents report soon after “my baby doesn’t like being wrapped for sleep” and discontinue using them....read more
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When I was 22 years old, I went on a spur-of-the-moment trip to Las Vegas with two of my best friends. One of us came back with a tattoo, two of us came back with body piercings, and one of us came back with the knowledge that her friends were very, very stupid. I was not the latter. My belly button was pierced.
For a while, I liked it. I was young with a cute little stomach I didn’t appreciate enough, and the belly ring was my “I am a grown up and can make adult decisions about my own body!” statement. Which I suppose is better than a face tattoo or sleeping around.
I was crazy about keeping it clean and infection-free. But it was a belly button ring, and I was 22 and cheap. I bought a ten dollar ring that had a sparkly moon and dangling star on one end, and a ball on the other that screwed on and off for easy removal. I put that ring through my piercing, and never changed it out.
A few years later, I heard a horror story about a girl whose belly button piercing had stretched and expanded when she was pregnant. I wanted to vomit. Yeah, I was only 26, but I knew I was going to be with Mike forever and who knew when we’d want to start our family. My only way to avoid further disfigurement was to remove the ring and give my belly as much time as possible to heal.
I went to twist off the ball that secured the ring, but it wouldn’t budge. “Just a little stuck,” I thought. I tried harder, and harder, and harder. I started to get alarmed. No movement at all. During the four years I’d worn the ten dollar sparkly moon belly ring, the ball had rusted closed.
I panicked. I was going to have this stupid moon ring in my stomach forever! And it was missing a rhinestone so it was even MORE tacky! I considered calling 9-1-1, but someone talked me out of it. I tried WD-40…FYI, that stuff will burn your skin.
There was only one option that I could think of that didn’t require hospital personnel or EMTs – my parents. But there was a catch…neither of my parents were even aware of its existence. But they were my parents, and they always had the answers. I just hoped the answer they had didn’t involve murdering me..
I seriously considered going to my grave with the sparkly moon ring. Maybe I’d replace the dangling star, which had fallen off years earlier. I’d bring moon and star jewelry back into style!
Finally I got up the nerve and went to my parents’ house. My mom “tsk tsk’d” me and shook her head. My dad just looked at me silently, then left the room. I felt like I was 13 and had just been busted for climbing out of my bedroom window.
Suddenly, my dad reentered the room with a few tools. One was a pair of pliers. “What are you doing?!,” I said as he grabbed the moon between the needle nose. With his other hand, he grabbed a pair of the scariest looking scissors I’ve ever seen. “DON’T CUT MY STOMACH!!!!” I screamed. In a swift motion, he placed the bottom of the ring inside the scissors and squeezed. I shrieked.
He cut through the post like it was made of butter. I was free! I had my belly back! He left the room, having not said a word. I looked at my mom. She shrugged her shoulders.
I pulled the sparkly moon out of the top of my piercing. “Aw! I think I’ll put it in my jewelry box.”
The ring was removed in time. My belly had time to heal and the scar didn’t stretch out during my pregnancies. But I still think back wistfully to a time when I bought ten dollar jewelry and had no sense for quality merchandise.
I got my tongue pierced when I was 18. The guy I was dating at the time suggested we both get one, I thought it was SO romantic!!!! I know, I know…the things we do!! Anyway, it didn’t rust, but the skin on the under part of my tongue started to grow down around the bar! I removed it when I was 20 and my tongue is back to normal thankfully!!! Whats sad is when I got it done, I actually thought I could hide it from my parents. Even when my tongue swelled to about twice it’s normal size and I could barely talk, I thought “they’ll never know!” Yeah, it took my Mom all of like 5 seconds to figure it out!! LOVE YOU MOMMY!
I posted a few weeks back about getting my daughter’s ears pierced. We went to a proper studio and spent about $50 per child on the equipment alone… at least I know they’re good studs.
People don’t take it very seriously but they should, especially when piercing children. Mine were old enough to ask for it and want it done….
A friend of mine had the same problem with a tongue piercing, except she *had* to go to the emergency room because it was in her mouth and not her belly. It was also against the regulations at her work places so it needed to be done ASAP. Good times!
I had almost the exact same thing happen to me. I still remember the terror I felt when my dad walked back into the kitchen with tools! Dads always seem to come to the rescue.
Its true, Dad’s always know what to do in these types of situations. Except my parents, sarcastic as they are, would have been cracking jokes the whole time and making me believe the rust was leaching through my bloodstream and slowly killing me. At that age, I would have believed them!
I am not so lucky…My belly button piercing scar did stretch, and formed a weird butterfly looking scar around my navel. Oh well, between that and all the other stretch marks, I won’t be entering a bikini contest anytime soon.
That’s hilarious! I think I got mine out in time, but I was more than halfway through my pregnancy when I did. I’d never taken it out, either, and when I tried to get it out and it didn’t seem like it was going to budge, I was convinced that I would be the only 9 months pregnant lady with a belly button ring and how would I be able to hide THAT! Fortunately, I got it off. I still have it and when Hadley asks what it is, I just say it’s a ring that’s too small for my finger now.
Similar thing happened to me – except I used the tools given to me by my dad to remove my tension ring myself. Not sure that’s what he intended when he gave me that toolbox made up of all his extra tools, but it sure did come in handy! To this day, he never knew about the piercing which is great since he would have seriously kicked my ass!
This reminds me of when I got my eyebrow pierced when I was 19. I wasn’t allowed to have one at work so I had to keep changing it from a clear plastic retainer to a barbell.. which is a no no during the 6 week healing process. I ended up knocking the barbell out one night and when I tried to put it back through, my piercing had swollen and I couldn’t get it all the way through either way. I cried hysterically mostly because I was so grossed out but a little part of me was mourning for the loss of my favorite piercing. I still have a scar from the piercing. I’m also glad I no longer have said piercing for my 15 month old to, you know. Rip out of my face.
I wore mine for 16 years, I think, and through 5 full term pregnancies. I took it out for my last one just because. No scars or anything bad for me, though. I don’t regret it at all and would do it again if I ever thought my stomach would be flat again
Oh my gosh, I would have been freaked out having it stuck in me too! In 7th grade I got my ears pierced (with mom’s approval of course) but decided I didn’t like it- only try as I might, I couldn’t take out the starter earrings. I had to go to the doctor. Embarrassing. I guess I should have asked my dad! I just got up the courage to get them pierced again this year (I’m 24)!
At least you got your’s pierced at a reputable place. I pierced my own bellybutton with an earring, my girls camp Swiss Army Knife, and no numbing agent. Nothing was sterilized, I was in 7th grade and stupid. No wonder it got infected:)
Oh gosh, just the thought of anything belly-button related freaks me out. Mainly because I decided to get my belly button pierced at the age of 20 (4 years ago)… of course I didn’t tell my parents. It was fantastic, I was so grown up… I was super careful about keeping it clean, I only used surgical steel rings in it… I didnt change it actually. But I was very.particular.at.keeping.it.clean.and.doing.things.right!
So needless to say it got infected. Then worse. And worse. Eventually I could no longer stand, and if I wasnt laying on my side I was crying in agony. I had had enough, and had to get that sucker out! Being that it was so sore, trying to unscrew the ball was like a million knives of fire stabbing me in the tummy… when it finally came out it was ALMOST instant relief. However, four years later I STILL have problems with it! It still gets infected occasionally (bearing in mind there is no ring in it… nor will there ever be again!)
Belly Button piercings suck in my mind. I actually do envy others who have them and they look gorgeous and non-gross like mine did. Its sheer jealousy…. but I am glad you got yours out.
I remember I had my labret pierced and had to go for surgery so my dad had to take the pliers/scissors to it… i freaked that he was going to mangle my face!!
When you have an infected piercing, you should always leave the jewelry in place; it keeps the channel open and allows the infection to drain.
If you remove the jewelry, the skin will heal or swell closed, trapping the infection inside. This creates an abscess — a pocket of infection that won’t heal properly. That’s what you have in your belly button. Since it’s been there for so long, and the tissue has been stretched and damaged by the infection, it will never heal on its own.
The abscess is waxing and waning according to your immune system strength. The only remedy: you’ll need to have the abscess and the damaged tissue removed surgically. It sounds big and scary, but they’ll just numb it up and snip out the affected portion and sew it back up. It’ll take less than five minutes. They can do it in virtually any doctor’s office.
I’d recommend it though, as it will never heal on its own. You’ll experience flares for the rest of your life (or as long as the abscess remains.) And there’s a good chance the infection will spread and you may need actual reconstructive surgery.
So a word to anyone with a piercing: if it gets infected, DON’T TAKE IT OUT! Leave it in place (though if there’s swelling and the jewelry is cutting into your flesh, you will need to get a bigger ring/barbell/etc.
Wash it three times a day with surgical scrub (or antibacterial soap like Dial), twirling the ring as you wash for 5 full minutes. Liberally apply antibiotic ointment and cover the area loosely with a band aid to protect your clothing from the ointment (Loosely is key — the band aid is to protect your clothing, not the wound. The infection should not be bandaged, as decreased air flow promotes the growth of anaerobic bacteria.)
Then, go to your doctor to get oral antibiotics. Don’t mess around with this sort of infection. You have a 50% chance it will improve on its own; and a 50% chance it will get worse. If the latter occurs, you get a significant abscess, they will need to cut it open and insert packing to allow for healing. In severe cases, they may need to cut out the damaged and infected tissue; you may require reconstructive surgery.
I knew I was committing the cardinal sin of removing it, but once I couldn’t physically stand up anymore I had to get it out to be able to move!! I felt it was my only option!
Glad to know that a minor procedure may fix it… it was bugging me why it was still bad! I kinda wish I had have kept it in, but when I think back to it I am still glad I got rid of it!! It did turn me off piercings (haha but I got a few tattoos since… shhh, dont tell my dad!).
LOL. I had the same thing happen to me. My dad was none too pleased but it was the only way to get it off!
Oh the things we do when we’re 22 and stupid. I had a belly ring too, but then four months after I had it done, I had to wear a tight dress for my Aunt’s wedding and the little bump was protruding. I took the ring out, but I couldn’t ever get it back in. It closed up and that was it.
Lol mine almost got stuck as well. I also swallowed my tongue ring ball and freaked out! Wait till Annie comes up with stuff like that!
I was a shockingly well behaved child. I didn’t get any tattoos or piercings. AND didn’t sleep around. Didn’t do drugs or drink. Makes me want to go out now and do it all at the ripe age of *cough*.
Ha Ha You always make me laugh. This was so funny especially when you thought you father was going to cunt into you for getting pierced. I only laugh because I do would have thought the same exact thing.
The really funny thing is that when I finished reading your post, the advertisement under your story was “Half off your next tattoo in Dallas”. Too funny!
Haven’t I seen belly rings advertised in the back of my parenting magazines? Ones that dangle and say things like, “It’s a girl!”? You could have always put a new one in and gone that route.
It’s the stretchy-ness of your skin that determines whether you’ll end up with a problem. Therefore, scar tissue is the primary determiner of whether you’ll experience issues during pregnancy.
Others never really form scar tissue to begin with; they can leave a piercing in throughout their pregnancy and everything will “bounce back” to normal after pregnancy.
Some people form lots of scar tissue around a piercing, and it takes years to soften up, heal and regain elasticity. Removing your piercing doesn’t really make a difference. In fact, it can make it worse. Here’s why. You get a piercing, it heals, and scar tissue begins to fade away over time. Then, you remove the piercing. Well, the healed piercing begins to close up…any time healing occurs, scar tissue forms. So you’re creating *new* scar tissue!
The newer the scar tissue, the less flexible it is. The more prone you are to developing problems during/after pregnancy.
Also, if you happen to get an infection during healing, you’re f&$#@d. Infections result in thick, dense scar tissue.
So, if you’re pregnant, visit an experienced piercer or consult a physician before removing the piercing. If it’s healthy and fairly free of scar tissue, you’re better off leaving it in place throughout the pregnancy. If you no longer want it, wait until *after* the pregnancy.
There are other factors too, like skin type and race. Darker skin types and olive skin types tend to form more scar tissue and it lasts longer. So the darker your skin, the higher your chances are of developing issues due to pregnancy if you remove a navel piercing right before or during pregnancy; you’re better off leaving it in.
In most cases, your best bet is to leave the piercing in place. Get an appropriate piece of jewelry, designed specifically for pregnancy (wearing the wrong jewelry can cause the skin to stretch and pull in inappropriate ways).
And work to break down the scar tissue that’s present. There are all sorts of scar remedies, but I’ve found that the most effective method is the most simple — remove the jewelry for a few minutes, break open a vitamin E capsule and use the oil to massage your navel and surrounding area for about 20-30 minutes per day. Easy stuff. This will keep the skin stretchy, it will break down the scar tissue and it will improve blood flow, which improves healing.
But don’t just yank out your jewelry…in most cases, it’s the wrong choice and you’ll be more prone to problems as your belly grows!
I’m not sure if this relates to what you’re saying, but I noticed that nobody has mentioned it from what I have read yet . . .
My biggest regret with piercings is that my scar tissue became a medical condition called KELOIDS. They don’t stop scarring. It isn’t just annoying tissue, it got bigger over time. It flares up and can be irritating (only happened in one ear).
I went to piercers afterwards (it developed years later), who didn’t know what it was, and thought it was an infection and handled it poorly. I should have went to a doctor sooner. There isn’t much they can do for keloids that’s certain to help. Now, I’m hesitant to remove my piercings (ears or belly), for fear that keloids will form elsewhere in the healing process.
Ugh. Piercings are a big regret for me, and I have a tattoo! But I never could have known it would be a keloid in my future.
Keloids are a form of scarring; it’s more of a chronic issue. They’re primarily seen in individuals with dark or olive skin tone (as I mentioned previously, these individuals are already prone to scarring.) But they can occur in anyone.
They’re also more apt to occur on areas where scar tissue has already developed, so when you close up the piercing, you’re more apt to end up with a keloid. Just another reason why you should avoid removing piercings before pregnancy!!
Typically, they’re chronic and they get worse over time. And unfortunately, you’re right — you can’t do much! That’s the cruel part about them; normally, you’d surgically remove a growth, but you’d risk making it worse!
I’m so sorry to hear that you went to a piercer, but they didn’t recognize it as a keloid. That’s very unfortunate and it upsets me, as they *should* have known (they have a very characteristic appearance too). You have to take *tons* of classes before getting certified and licensed as a piercer or tattoo artist. We learn about scarring, skin structure and function, infection, skin conditions, blood-borne disease, etc. I recall that there was an entire unit on keloids; in fact, we had an exam on keloids! It seems that someone failed to pay attention in class; I’m sorry you had to suffer because of it. It makes us all look bad.
In fact, in individuals with olive or darker skin tones, I always ask them if they’ve ever developed a keloid before piercing or tattooing; if not, I mention the possibility *before* we do anything, so they can make an informed decision (just as I discuss the potential for infection). Keloids and “scarring” are actually mentioned on the fine print of the waiver sheet that you sign, but I suspect that few people actually read it.
Thanks for sharing the info! If you wouldn’t mind, I’d love if you could e-mail so I don’t fill this wall with keloid questions. It’s rare to find someone I can ask about them, even though I have been to a doctor. If not, no problem! Otherwise, you can e-mail me at [email protected]
My 15 year old wants to get a belly ring on her 16th birthday. But she’s torn between wanting one and NOT wanting it to stretch and look ugly when she has babies one day. I think I’ll have her read this post and all the comments and she can decide for herself
I think belly rings are really, really cute. I’ve never had one, though. I’m 41 years old and have birthed 8 babies and there’s no way I want to “flaunt” my belly now. And when I DID have a cute little belly, back in the day, belly rings were not popular. So I missed that boat. Oh well.
FYI- I would much rather my kids get something pierced than tattooed. A piercing you can take out (hopefully ) but a tattoo is forever.
When I lived in FL while my husband was going to university down there I would often consider a belly button ring, but you what, I was always afraid of what would happen if it got stuck and I couldn’t get it off. I went with an earring at the top of my ear instead, it felt safer.
I love your dad’s reaction. We won’t discuss it or talk about it, I’ll just do what I have to, to get it off, and then I don’t want to hear about it again. Gotta love dads.
I wanted to get my belly button pierced for the longest time, but my mom always said I had to wait until I was an adult. 18 came and went, and I never really got the chance. On my 19th birthday I found out I was pregnant with my oldest. My belly hasn’t been cute and tiny since. Now it would be, well, gross. Oh well.
Almost 9 years later and I’m pregnant with my 3rd and last, and just found out it’s a girl. (First two were boys.) And honestly, if she wants to get her belly pierced, I’ll probably let her, if her father is in agreement. It isn’t permanent. It’s covered at times it would be inappropriate (office job or whatever) and well, I’m a little bit laid back.
Um, kinda related: When my husband and I were at the local zoo while pregnant with my oldest, we kept seeing this little boy who had to have been around 7, with spiked blue hair. We joked that we wanted a wild Caucasian blue hair of our own. This summer we are making it happen. Our 8yo is THRILLED!
A long article about rusty belly button ring. I also had belly button ring, I took i t off when I got pregnant and even if I have taken it off the hole from my belly ring became so ugly as the tummy got bigger. It’s been 5 years and I still haven’t got a new belly ring for my belly button because I am scared that the hole will just get even uglier.
Ok, this scared the bajeezus out of me because I have had my belly button pierced for several years now, and I have never taken the jewelry out. I think it’s been something like 4 years. And I could never get the ball unscrewed but I figured it was just on there really well, it never occured to me it might be RUSTED CLOSED. I’m happy to report that with some latex gloves it came right off, lol! I had another moment of panic when I thought I wouldn’t be able to get it back in but it’s back, and not screwed on so tight, haha. I’ve had my tongue pierced and my nose is pierced, I’ve actually had my nose and belly button pierced twice, my parents are used to it. Plus my 20 year old sister has 5 tattoos, so my piercings all pale in comparison
I am a total chicken and would never be able to do any belly button or other piercings, but when I was a girl I soo wanted to get my ears pierced. I was about 10 I think the first time I did and it was soo scary! Needless to say, my ears reacted to the cheap earrings I put in after the studs came out and one got infected. My dad has never been a real hands-on “daddy” type, but he was the only one that I would let touch my earrings to get them out. Not even my mom could do it without feeling like my head was getting ripped off. My mom counseled me that if I didn’t get the good studs put back in, the holes would close up again. I was so traumatized at that point that I didn’t care.
2 or 3 years later when I got the guts up to re-pierce them, it was again my dad who had to get the studs off after the healing period. I learned my lesson that time and only put good quality earrings in…..on the very few occasions that I actually WEAR earrings. And just let me tell you…..piercing over old scar tissues HURTS!
Your post reminded me of something that I often think about but never have the guts to do. I had the upper cartillage in my ear pierced when I was 18, and a decade later I still have the original loop and ball in place, never removed since that fateful day. I’ve been thinking for years about how I need to remove it, but like you, I know I will have to ask my Dad or husband to remove it with sharp tools, and well, I really like my ears and want to keep both of them. So this ring might be sticking around for a while……
That’s hilarious. I also got my bellybutton pierced–on a spring break trip my senior year of high school with three friends (one friend also pierced her naval, another got a tattoo on her butt). A trip to Breckenridge. Because it totally makes sense to pierce your belly button and then put on ski pants and a winter coat. My parents found out about it upon our return. They were relieved it wasn’t a tattoo, but my dad didn’t speak to me for three days. (Which totally surprised me because I was all “What’s the big deal, Dad?”) I took it out a couple of years ago for the same reason you did (mine was a pink rhinestone–so classy). It really was a bad decision, I suppose, but I think I’d do it again. You only get to be young and stupid with a flat stomach once….
The first set of twins to arrive to the cast of True Blood belong to Sam Trammell and his lady Missy Yager. The man who plays a shifter and his wife have twin boys named Winston and Gus who will celebrate their first birthday on August 9. Great names! And now fairy Sookie and vampire Bill are having twins, too! Well Anna Paquin and Stephen Moyer are. We knew they were expecting, but twins! This is huge news.
Moyer is already a dad to two kids -- Lilac, 10, and Billy, 12 -- from a previous relationship (two more great names!), and now he has two more on the way, due in the fall. No word on if they are having girls, boys, or boy/girl. Doesn’t matter of course -- twins are magical no matter what. And I’m speaking from experience being a twin mom myself. Apparently Sam is giving Anna and Stephen tons of advice but I have one thing I've got to share with them.
When people ask if the twins were conceived naturally, tell them it was “supernatural.” Twin parents know what I’m talking about here. It’s so incredibly intrusive when very often strangers essentially ask if you had sex with your husband to make a baby, or in this case babies. And these two who play Sookie and Bill can easily say their twins were supernatural so curious minds can instead focus on the fact twins are coming! No matter how they came to be.
When people ask me if my twins were natural, I like to say, Yes! I had awesome sex with my husband and got pregnant! People usually stop asking questions then.
I would also think that Paquin, who came out as bisexual in 2010, would have no problem sharing intimate details of her private life and be outspoken about her twin pregnancy. But so far she’s stayed quiet. Sam reportedly spilled the news about two babies in her belly. Enjoy every moment of pregnancy, Anna! It's such a beautiful time in a woman's life.
Twins are so much fun -- I feel lucky to be a twin mama. And I’m sure Paquin will, too. I bet she and Moyer will give them awesome names as well. She really is a lucky woman. She gets to smooch Eric played by the Nordic God Alexander Skarsgard, Alcide played by the oh so manly Joe Manganiello, and naturally the broodingly handsome Bill who she married and helped make a twin-dad-to-be.
Following Chicago Mayor Richard M. Daley's announcement that he will not seek a seventh term -- that's right, seventh -- the speculation has already begun about the mayor-for-life's replacement.
Cuing Rahm Emanuel! The White House chief of staff has already said he wanted to run for Mayor of Chicago, and since he's said he only wanted to work in the White House for two years, the timing couldn't be more perfect.
Rather than call this race before it's even begun, I'd like to toss out a few other contenders I'd like to see make a run for the mayor's office, with name recognition as big as Rahm's.
If Rahm leaves, Obama might think, "Why not me?" It's been a rough few years for President Obama, with a recession, a major oil spill, and those pesky Tea Baggers. He may be looking for an excuse to keep it local.
Again, if everyone else can bail on The White House -- why not her? I'm sure she has a utility bill with an old Chicago address on it somewhere.
The Big O is also retiring and will be looking for some work in her neighborhood. Sure, she might want to kick it in her Santa Barbara home, but if she's a true Chicagoan, she'll stand up for her city and start making some grand campaign speeches that will surely include giving everyone a free car.
That lady is just looking for a high profile race, and she probably thinks she's eligible since she can see Chicago from her house.
The former Governor of Illinois has already issued a short, sweet statement regarding the retirement of Mayor Daley. He kept it classy, which is soooo not like him. Don't be surprised if he tries to make us forget about his legal troubles that he thinks he beat (umm, not all of them Rod) and attempts a comeback. |
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278,272,244 | Anatoly I. Poletaev, Sc.D. (Geology and Mineralogy), Head of the Laboratory of Geological Research by Cosmic Methods, Chair of Dynamic Geology, Geological Department, Lomonosov Moscow State University
The observation and detection of different phenomena and processes, i.e. their interpretation / reading / interpretation made by man since the earliest stages of demic diffusion both in the interest of safety and driven by the desire of knowing the world. On the other hand, modern trend of total textuality could lead to unexpected and interesting results if we try to consider process of obtaining and interpreting information in the natural sciences through the prism of the textual approach.
In my article, I have attempted to examine the basic features of reading the texts of Nature with the help of maps, aerial photographs and satellite images in terms of modern concepts of general textuality.
This subject has caused the choice of research methods: satellite-image interpretational and lineament analysis (applied to the geological part of my article) and structurally functional and system analysis, method of linguistic description, and contextual method within the anthropocentric principle of research (applied to the study of maps and satellite images as a kind of texts and meta-texts).
In my article, I tried to show all geographical / geological maps are not only non-textual symbolic image of several objects (territories and regions), but, in the framework of modern pan-textual paradigm, they are a sort of texts (for their readers) and meta-texts (of the Nature, of course, if we consider the nature also as the totality of texts, and of culture, because all maps are included in cultural context). Moreover, ‘reading’ maps is also a dialogue both with it as such and with the Nature. In its turn, satellite images decryption is also a kind of specific ‘reading’, which is hermeneutic procedure in a greater degree.
I'm tracing the history of the development of techniques of satellite images interpretation and the creation of a new type of maps based on them. Focusing on such property of space images as visibility, I show how this, as well as their high-resolving ability, documentary and generalization of earth's imagery peculiar to them, helps to detect and interpret the specific structural forms of the earth crust.
I conclude pan-textual paradigm, in the dialogue between the humanities and natural sciences, allows identifying and understanding some of the methodological characteristics of the decryption process.
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Poletaev A.I. On the Understanding Role and Importance of Rotation Factor in the Earth Formation and Evolution: Facts, Discussion, and Conclusions. Moscow: LIBROKOM Publisher, 2011. 200 p. (In Russian).
Poletaev A.I. "Sphenoid Tectonics of the Earth." Actual Problems of Regional Geology and Geodynamics. 17th Gorshkov’s Reading. Proceedings of the Conference Devoted to the 106th Anniversary of the Birth of G.P. Gorshkov (1909—1984). Moscow State University, April 28, 2015. Moscow: Moscow State University, 2015, pp. 30—33. (In Russian).
Poletaev A.I. "Singular Structural Forms of the Earth and Some Regularities of Bio- and Ethno-Socio-Tectonics." Prostranstvo i Vremya [Space and Time] 1–2(19–20) (2015): 198–208. (In Russian).
The area round us is saturated with numbers. they seem to be a primary pillar of our sleek society, and authorised and used with infrequently a moment notion. yet how did this scenario turn out to be? during this ebook, Leo Corry tells the tale at the back of the belief of quantity from the early days of the Pythagoreans, up until eventually the flip of the 20 th century. He offers an summary of ways numbers have been dealt with and conceived in classical Greek arithmetic, within the arithmetic of Islam, in ecu arithmetic of the center a long time and the Renaissance, throughout the clinical revolution, throughout to the math of the 18th to the early twentieth century. targeting either foundational debates and sensible use numbers, and displaying how the tale of numbers is in detail associated with that of the belief of equation, this ebook offers a useful perception to numbers for undergraduate scholars, academics, engineers, expert mathematicians, and somebody with an curiosity within the background of arithmetic.
This quantity includes the lawsuits of the AMS-IMS-SIAM Joint summer season study convention ordinarily Relativity, held in June 1986 on the collage of California, Santa Cruz. normal relativity is among the so much profitable alliances of arithmetic and physics. It offers us with a conception of gravity which consents with all experimentation and statement thus far.
This publication is for college kids who didn't stick to arithmetic via to the top in their college careers, and graduates and pros who're trying to find a refresher direction. This re-creation includes many new difficulties and in addition has linked spreadsheets designed to enhance scholars' realizing. those spreadsheets can be used to resolve a number of the difficulties scholars are inclined to come across throughout the rest of their geological careers.
This was the case also with the British currency up until 1971. As late as that, the British pound sterling was divided into twenty shillings, each of which subdivided into twelve pence. In the United States, on the other hand, currency was divided decimally from very early on, but they continued with the non-decimal approach in many other aspects of life, even after the British had abandoned it. Again, the reasons for all these differences are historically and culturally determined. There is plenty of evidence, for instance, that the British decision not to go the French way was substantially influenced by nationalistic considerations.
And in this system, one can readily see, there is no use for a zero, and indeed no such idea appears in it. 20 | WRITING NUMBERS—NOW AND BACK THEN Another well-known non-positional system is the Roman system. Also here, the letters indicate values, not according to their position: I for 1, V for 5, X for 10, L for 50, C for 100, D for 500 and M for 1000. They can be combined according to rules for yielding other numbers, such as VIII for 8. Certain rules imply subtraction rather than addition: XL, for instance, stands for 40, since X is subtracted from a greater value, L, that comes immediately thereafter.
Even the technical aspects of the way in which these later manuscripts were prepared, the ways that propositions and proofs were structured within the text, and the ways that diagrams were drafted were quite different from the original. Innovations such as these are far from being neutral to mathematical content. A historian trying to make sense of a mathematical text rewritten hundreds of years after the original one, while using different symbols and different notational conventions, has a really hard job in trying to sort out how the original really looked and what ideas were added by the successive rewriters/commentators/interpreters. |
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A case study of the occupation of Iraq reveals that coalition forces failed to meet the UN’s end state in the rule of law resolution. And, of course, U.S. forces are back in Iraq. This is due in no small part to the fact that coalition forces failed to set the conditions for a rule of law culture. The case of postwar Iraq teaches that success with respect to rule of law requires the learning of local law and cultural norms. This lesson applies even more profoundly to the Sahel.
Several months after the Niger ambush,[1] the President of the United States issued the 2017 National Security Strategy (NSS). The 2017 NSS strategy toward Africa reiterates the rule of law as a priority. Rule of law is integral to the military’s mission (Part I), but rule of law requires an understanding of operational law, particularly local law and cultural norms (Part II).
Nasiriyah is significant to Marines.[2] The bloody battle[3] there between 2d MEB’s Task Force Tarawa and the Iraqi Fedayeen marred the start of the Iraq war. But Nasiriyah is significant for at least one other reason. It represents the first of two meetings held with Iraqi representatives, the first steps toward setting up a new government after Hussein’s ouster.[4] Of note, the meeting at Nasiriyah led to the Nasiriyah statement of 15 April 2003, which established as a principal imperative that “the rule of law must be paramount.”[5]
Within the month of the President’s Mission Accomplished speech, the UN Security Council passed Resolution 1483, recognizing the United States and Britain as occupying powers. The resolution acknowledged the Nasiriyah statement, “Encouraging efforts by the people of Iraq to form a representative government based on the rule of law that affords equal rights and justice to all Iraqi citizens.” The rule of law resolution lent legitimacy to the occupation.
Events sequenced much faster on the ground. Remember Marine Colonel Christopher Conlin’s anecdote, that, “In a blinding flash, we had become the local government.” But, on the whole, there had been little planning at the topmost echelons,[6] and so no plan.[7] With no plan, occupying forces were forced to improvise. Most efforts fell short. By 2004, “What began as Phase IV warfare, or transition, ha[d] become—in Iraq particularly—a painful reminder that postwar duties, sometimes called nation building, are not optional, but rather are integral to the military’s mission to fight and win wars.”[8]
In 2005, considering Iraq’s “painful reminder,” Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld sent a terse “snowflake” to the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff: “We need the force structure necessary to do Stability Ops.”[9] A DoD Directive came soon after that put stability operations on par with combat operations. Rumsfeld’s new structure swept in with the President’s troop surge in 2007.
Defense doctrine kept pace. In 2008, the Army entrenched the new imperatives in its FM 3-07. The Joint Staff did the same in 2011 with its Joint Publication 3-07. The Marine Corps Warfighting Publication (MCWP) 3-03 on Stability Operations came in 2016.
In joint doctrine, stability activities’ five functions include rule of law. The MCWP carries forward the five functions, speaking of stability activities as “complementary civil-military efforts aim to strengthen legitimate governance, restore or maintain the rule of law, support economic and infrastructure development, and foster a sense of national unity that enable the host government to assume responsibility for civil administration.” The Army’s FM 3-07 has more or less the same wording. And not to be overlooked is the fact that, “[i]deally, these are addressed before, rather than after, conflict.”
As it stands, each doctrinal source is an acknowledgment that building the rule of law is at once a military responsibility, one of profound and first-order strategic importance. Not only that, but establishing the rule of law is also of operational and tactical importance. After all, “rule of law is the West’s alternative to jihadist terrorism.”[10] And what must be borne in mind is that rule of law depends on local law and culture.
Two task-sets emerged from the end-state as reflected in the rule of law resolution. The first: “Senior officials realized the U.S. exit strategy was dependent on building a capable Iraqi Army that could take over security operations after the U.S. departed.”[11] For the second of the two task-sets, a note is appropriate on the episode of Tal Afar. To be sure, “[s]ometimes the military’s ability to improvise without guidance produces brilliant results,” as diplomat and former CAP officer Ronald Neumann[12] has noted, and “H.R. McMaster’s earlier work in the Iraqi city of Tal Afar[13] is a well-known example.”[14] As one scholar has noted, “Tal Afar illustrated that effective [counterinsurgency] requires unity of effort between the military and police and that security must be connected to courts and prisons as well.”[15] Yet, despite the urgent necessity, “little energy was devoted to reconstituting a new Iraqi army and police force, thereby ensuring a security vacuum for years to come.”[16]
The surge did little to reverse the worsening conditions on the ground. In the end, coalition forces failed to meet the rule of law end state. After the retrograde of the last U.S. troops in 2011, the coalition was left with little to show for what turned out to be an eight-year occupation. Problems persist in OIR. And this is true not least because coalition forces have still failed to understand Iraqi law and culture. Rule of law demands an understanding of operational law—law of war and local law—and culture.
According to the MCWP, Marine Corps forces support the rule of law by “providing training and support to law enforcement and judicial personnel.” This task-set falls under Foreign Internal Defense (FID). But FID is easier said than done. Cultural differences complicate the difficulties.[17] And what is true for the United States[18] is true for partner nations: rule of law depends on cultural values and norms.[19]
By 2011, McMaster had come to develop several insights. Top among them are two that are of lasting consequence. One, “[t]here is so much we have taken on in terms of assistance, training host nation security forces, rule of law missions, detention operations, and working within an indigenous law system that relies upon legal expertise.” [20] Two, “[c]ultural and historical training and understanding is also extremely important.” Each point is important enough to warrant attention. The points become more important to the extent that they overlap. And, they do overlap. No wonder: “law is embedded in the cultural attitudes of the people who have created it.”[21] Operational law reveals the overlap.
The 2015 DoD Law of War Manual defines operational law as “that body of domestic, foreign, and international law that specifically pertains to the activities of military forces across the entire conflict spectrum.” It may go without saying that U.S. forces are bound by domestic and international law. But a proper command of operational law also requires an understanding of foreign law, including local law and cultural norms. In the words of theorist and Brigadier General Huba Wass de Czega:
There was no doubt within the coalition about who had won the First Gulf War. However, viewed through the lens of Iraqi culture and Islamic law, Saddam Hussein’s forces had won a great strategic success in spite of their tactical losses when Allah intervened to prevent the invasion of Mesopotamia and the overthrow of the regime… In the current protracted struggle against committed Islamic fundamentalist groups, physical actions without a superbly well-informed and highly tuned psychological dimension will fail.[22]
Marine Special Operations Officer Lieutenant Colonel Russell Worth Parker emphasized this point, offering a note in 2017 on just what such a psychological dimension requires: “philosophical legitimacy has become a strategic factor, and capitalizing on it requires understanding moral and legal justifications for warfare in both Western and Islamic thought.”[23]
Building rule of law cultures[24] also demands an understanding of local law and norms. Consider first that the former counselor for Under Secretary of Defense for Policy, Rosa Brooks, co-wrote an important book on this topic. In the book, Brooks and her co-authors stressed the importance of developing some understanding of Iraqi law.[25] Learning local law and custom is important to administering postwar rule of law programs. And far from being a truism exclusive to matters of postwar governance, it also applies to rule of law programs in general.
The rule of law refers to a principle of governance in which all persons, institutions, and entities (public and private, including the State) are accountable to laws that are publicly promulgated, equally enforced and independently adjudicated, and are consistent with international human rights norms and standards.
The strategist finds the same definition in FM 3-07. DoD, the Department of State, and the U.S. Agency for International Development all adopted this definition in its rule of law “guidelines” of 2009.[26] So it is appropriate to consider it a DoD and interagency definition. But this definition focuses almost exclusively on the role of the State. Restoring and maintaining the rule of law requires attention to the choices of the people. Each requires attention to culture.
Consider that the interagency definition of the rule of law carries forward, word-for-word, the formulation that UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan offered in 2004.[27] And it matters. An appreciation of the origin of the DoD’s rule of law concept helps the strategist determine its import. With respect to law and culture, examine Annan’s remarks on the “mix of expertise” that the rule of law requires, including “an understanding of the host country’s legal system (inter alia, common law, civil law, Islamic law), familiarity with the host-country culture, an approach that is inclusive of local counterparts, an ability to work in the language of the host country and familiarity with a variety of legal areas.”
Annan himself has characterized this definition as State-centric.[28] In contrast, consider an alternative definition that characterizes the rule of law as more people-centric. Brooks and her co-authors define rule of law as “a state of affairs in which the state successfully monopolizes the means of violence, and in which most people, most of the time, choose to resolve disputes in a manner consistent with procedurally fair, neutral, and universally applicable rules, and in a manner that respects fundamental human rights norms.”[29]
Most of the same elements are there, but a closer look reveals that this definition is focused more on peoples’ actions and choices. Now, remember that Operational Culture defines culture as “The shared world view and social structures of a group of people that influence a person’s and a group’s actions and choices.” Here operational law and culture overlap. Rule of law requires the right alignment of choices, choices that support the tenets of rule of law culture.
The occupation of Iraq offers another lesson learned on the strategic utility of SOF: “in both the U.S. Army and the Marine Corps the consensus appears to be that flexible units with capabilities to conduct the full spectrum of military operations, including post-conflict operations, rather than designated reconstruction units, are the appropriate response to the increased priority of stability operations.”[30] What is more, Section 167 of Title 10—which first established SOCOM—lists FID as one among SOCOM’s functions. In fact, “[SOCOM] is the only combatant command with FID as a legislatively mandated core task.”[31] So DoD’s rule of law role is most appropriate for SOF.
After the Niger ambush, the national security staff can expect that Congress and the electorate will pay more attention to the Sahel. But “[l]ack of cultural awareness has also plagued programming” in AFRICOM.[32] There is much to take from the French. French forces have been conducting stability activities in northern Africa since (the beginning of) the end of the colonial era in the ‘60s.[33] According to French Army Colonel Henri Bore “cultural adjustments were vital to mission accomplishment.”[34] Not only this, but the “psychological dimension” was incorporated into tactical tasks and considered “integral” to operations.
Lieutenant Colonel Parker’s exhortation on “understanding Islamic jurisprudence” is no less true for the Sahel and Northern Africa than it has been for Iraq and the Middle East. Make no mistake: “Zones of non-governance or jihad now stretch across the Muslim world,” affecting Nigeria, Mali, Sudan, and Somalia.[35] So “[a]s it was in Iraq,” according to former Navy SEAL and author Dick Couch, “the final assessment of whether we ultimately win or lose [in Africa] lies with our success in the conduct of [FID].” Still, whether we ultimately win or lose in FID requires the learning of local law and culture. To MARSOF: build up programs on operational law and operational culture. Rule of law wins in the overlap.
The 2017 NSS sets rule of law as a priority in its strategy for Africa. Rule of law is integral to the military’s mission (Part I), and rule of law requires an understanding of operational law, particularly local law and cultural norms (Part II). FID’s prominence in stability and security continues to make DoD—especially SOF—indispensable. But without rule of law, U.S. forces fail to win the peace. And without an understanding of local law and culture, rule of law efforts fall short. Conditions in the Sahel present a profound opportunity to stave off the worst consequences of instability and insecurity, and the United States must take heed. After all, “the best way to win a war is before it ever begins.”[36]
[5] Press Statement, U.S. Central Command, Visions of Freedom: 100 Iraqis Meet in Nasiriyah and Create Basis for New Government, 15 April 2003, https://2001-2009.state.gov/p/nea/rls/19714.htm
[6] According to Max Boot, “there was a puzzling lack of preparation at the White House, Defense Department, Central Command, and other agencies for running Iraq after Saddam Hussein’s downfall.” The Savage Wars of Peace: Small Wars and the Rise of American Power, 339.
[7] “[T]he U.S. military entered Iraq in the spring of 2003 with little if anything in the way of a plan for Phase IV operations.” Bathsheba Crocker, John Ewers, and Craig Cohen, Rethinking and Rebuilding the Relationship between War and Policy: Post-Conflict Reconstruction, in Rethinking the Principles of War, p. 361.
[13] Jon Finer, H.R. McMaster is hailed as the hero of Iraq’s Tal Afar. Here’s what that operation looked like., February 24, 2017, The Washington Post, https://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2017/02/24/h-r-mcmaster-is-hailed-for-liberating-iraqs-tal-afar-heres-what-that-looked-like-up-close/?utm_term=.afb6fb756254
[17] “Marines have expressed frustration with trying to work with foreign militaries and police that have completely different notions of appropriate interactions with the population.” OC, 167.
[18] According to foreign relations law scholar Curtis Bradley, “the U.S. government gives significant attention to the international laws of war, in part [] because of a longstanding commitment to the values reflected in these laws.” International Law in the U.S. Legal System, 285.
[19] Rule of law “requires modern and effective legal institutions and codes, and it also requires a widely shared cultural and political commitment to the values underlying these institutions and codes.” Jane Stromseth, David Wippman, and Rosa Brooks, Can Might Make Rights? Building the Rule of Law after Military Interventions, p. 78.
[20] Lecture: The Role of the Judge Advocate in Contemporary Operations: Ensuring Moral and Ethical Conduct During War, The Army Lawyer, DA PAM 27-50-456, May 2011.
[22] Unifying Physical and Psychological Impact During Operations, Military Review, March-April 2009.
[23] Terrorism and Just War: A Comparative Analysis of Western and Islamic Precepts, October 22, 2017, The Strategy Bridge
[24] See JP 3-07: “The rule of law in a country is characterized by just legal frameworks, public order, accountability to the law, access to justice, and a culture of lawfulness.” See also FM 3-7: “Long-term development aims to institutionalize a rule of law culture within the government and society.”
[27] United Nations Security Council, The rule of law and transitional justice in conflict and post-conflict societies: Report of the Secretary-General, http://www.un.org/en/ga/search/view_doc.asp?symbol=S/2004/616
[32] Rosa Brooks, How Everything Became War and the Military Became Everything: Tales from the Pentagon, p. 86.
[33] And they have had some significant success. Mali is the most notable example, having long stood as a paragon of a stable democracy until a sudden coup in 2012.
[36] A quote superimposed over a photograph of a Marine kneeling to talk to a child in Chad, seen on a poster at the Headquarters building, U.S. Marine Corps Forces, Special Operations Command.
"Several months after the Niger ambush, the President of the United States issued the 2017 National Security Strategy (NSS). The 2017 NSS strategy toward Africa reiterates the rule of law as a priority. Rule of law is integral to the military’s mission (Part I), but rule of law requires an understanding of operational law, particularly local law and cultural norms (Part II)."
2. Next, from Samuel P. Huntington's 1993 Foreign Affairs article entitled "The Clash of Civilizations" and, therein, the major section "The West Versus the Rest:"
"... The West in effect is using international institutions, military power and economic resources to run the world in way that will maintain Western predominance, protect Western interest and promote Western political and economic values ..."
"... Western concepts differ fundamentally from those prevalent in other civilizations. Western ideas of individualism, liberalism, constitutionalism, human rights, equality, liberty, rule of law, democracy, free markets, the separation of church and state often have little resonance in Islamic, Confucian, Japanese, Hindu or Orthodox cultures. Western efforts to propagate such ideas produce instead a reaction against 'human rights imperialism' and a reaffirmation of indigenous values ..."
"The rule of law refers to a principle of governance in which all persons, institutions, and entities (public and private, including the State) are accountable to laws that are publicly promulgated, equally enforced and independently adjudicated, and are consistent with international human rights norms and standards."
This being that -- in the pursuit of "maintaining Western predominance, protecting Western interests and promoting Western political and economic values" (see the first part of my item 2 above) -- the institution in other states and societies of a "rule of law (that is) consistent with international human rights norms and standards" (see my item 3 above); this such rule of law -- to the indigenous populations concern -- amounts to (see the second part of my item 2 above):
If -- in invasion, occupation, etc., of other states and states and societies -- you wish to achieve "stability," then you must bite the bullet and forget about (a) attempting to use the intervention; this, as (b) a way to transform these other states and societies more along modern western political, economic, social and value lines. (The implementation of a rule of law -- "consistent with international human rights norms and standards" -- this to be seen, exactly, in this "attempting to transform other states and societies more along modern western lines" light.)
If, however, your goal is, indeed, to (a) use the intervention; this, (b) as a means to transform other states and societies more along modern western lines, then (c) bring enough troops -- and other resources (to include such things as time, money, home front support, political capital, etc.); this, to accomplish this such (unwanted, highly "in your face," alien, profane and illegitimate to the populations concerned) mission.
You simply cannot have it both ways (to wit: both "stability" and "transformation"). One, in truth, must prioritized one over the other.
Stated another way: (a) "understanding local law and cultural norms;" this -- obviously -- (b) does not allow you to, thereby, impose on the indigenous populations "a rule of law that is consistent with international human rights norms and standards" (to wit: a rule of law that is both alien and profane to these populations). |
295,578,842 | A debate has erupted over Judge Brett Kavanaugh’s views on legal issues that could arise out of the pending investigations into the man who has nominated him for the Supreme Court, President Donald Trump. These issues include whether a sitting president should be immune from criminal processes such as investigation and indictment. We now find ourselves in a problematic and historically unprecedented situation: a president who is the subject of a criminal investigation has nominated a judge who could cast the deciding vote on pivotal issues in that investigation, and the president reportedly selected that nominee based, at least in part, upon a review of his opinions suggesting how he would come down on disputes in such an investigation.
There is disagreement over the answer to that question among progressive, independent, and centrist legal commentators whom we respect. Noah Feldman, Asha Rangappa, and Ben Wittes assert that Kavanaugh has either expressed no view of the constitutional question or, if anything, that Kavanaugh’s writings imply he thinks a sitting president is not immune from indictment. Both of us have written in recent days to express a very different view on Kavanaugh’s writings. (Eisen wrote with Caroline Fredrickson, Goodman wrote with Bob Bauer.)
To be clear, the questions we raise in addressing our colleagues’ views are neither about Judge Kavanaugh’s professional qualifications for the Supreme Court nor about the timing of the nomination hearings while President Trump reportedly remains a subject of an ongoing criminal investigation. We are concerned, instead, about the fate of American institutions were Judge Kavanaugh to refuse to answer questions about his views on presidential immunities during the nomination hearing or refuse to commit to recusing himself if his answers or nonanswers so demand it. In other words, this is the “big question” that Greg Sargent has outlined for the nomination hearings.
High constitutional principles are at stake. In our view, no person should be a judge in their own case. An application of that principle is that no person should get to preselect the judge who hears their case. Were a Justice Kavanaugh to issue the deciding vote in a 5-4 Supreme Court opinion on a criminal case implicating the president, it may do long-term damage to the court and to what remains of the American national community. It would reverberate within the public and future students of the law like Bush v. Gore does, only worse—likely much worse.
In this regard, we fundamentally disagree with our friend and colleague Asha Rangappa’s framing the question as one about a technical conflict of interest or about anything related to Kavanaugh changing his views to please President Trump. Kavanaugh has no technical conflict in the traditional sense. (Though Trump may indeed have a conflict between his personal interests and those of the public.) The problem is, indeed, something of the opposite: that Judge Kavanaugh was chosen because of—and will remain committed to—his convictions about the president’s immunity from criminal process. We also depart from our friends and colleagues Noah Feldman and Ben Wittes, who, in separate articles, explain away Judge Kavanaugh’s clearly stated beliefs. But no amount of interpretive creativity can erase Judge Kavanaugh’s public pronouncements in the Minnesota Law Review, the Georgetown Law Journal, two pieces in the Washington Post, an American Enterprise Institute speech, judicial opinions, or any of the other publications that have printed them. It is impossible to square our colleagues’ contention that Judge Kavanaugh’s various articles, for example, merely outline a singular legislative policy suggestion and do not have any implications “from a legal and constitutional perspective” (as Feldman puts it) with Judge Kavanaugh’s own constitutional analysis.
One among several examples is Judge Kavanaugh’s writing that, “The Constitution itself seems to dictate, in addition, that congressional investigation must take place in lieu of criminal investigation when the President is the subject of investigation, and that criminal prosecution can occur only after the President has left office.” In 1999, Kavanaugh co-wrote a piece for the Washington Post with a fellow Ken Starr alumnus in which he stated that President Clinton’s “congressional supporters and foes agreed — consistent with the Constitution, which appears to preclude indictment of a sitting president — that the government should consider indicting Bill Clinton after he leaves office.” These are unmistakably statements of constitutional interpretation; they are exactly the type of analysis that Judge Kavanaugh might soon be asked to perform should he consider the Mueller investigation as a justice of the Supreme Court. Judge Kavanaugh has articulated his opinion on independent investigations of the president. We, the Senate, and the nation need to know whether we are right to take him at his word.
Even if our colleagues are correct in their description of Judge Kavanaugh’s many statements on the immunity of a sitting president, those statements are still important areas of inquiry during the confirmation process. In fact, it is crucial to consider a judge’s policy preferences when we are considering appointing him to a court that, in essence, makes policy. Supreme Court justices consider many cases that involve completely novel fact patterns for which little or no precedent exists; in these cases—some of which may very well arise from the Mueller investigation—the justices will make determinations by drawing upon both their interpretation of the Constitution and their policy perspectives. Clinton v. Jones is an illustrative case in which the justices concluded that subjecting a president to civil suit would not unduly interfere with his ability to perform his official duties. And, indeed, Judge Kavanaugh has written about how his own executive-branch experiences inform his views of the type of calculation in Jones. These writings demand—and we should demand—that senators receive a clear picture of Judge Kavanaugh’s constitutional and constitutionally relevant policy positions.
This is one reason we also consider it misguided to analyze each of Judge Kavanaugh’s public pronouncements without a larger, holistic consideration of his career on the federal bench. Judge Kavanaugh’s academic articles, from his time serving in Kenneth Starr’s independent counsel’s office to his time as a federal judge, represent only a small fraction of his legal thinking—the vast majority of which he has done as a judge on the D.C. Circuit. His judicial opinions paint a very different picture of his legal theory than our colleagues have posited, and invite more questions than answers about his views on the constitutionality of independent investigations.
Judge Kavanaugh helped pioneer a maximalist theory of presidential power associated with the notion of a “unitary executive.” Throughout his tenure on the bench, Judge Kavanaugh has used this theory of presidential power to insulate the president from suit and vastly expand the president’s ability to exert control over executive agencies at the expense of their independence. This vision of unaccountable presidential power was part of the reason that the Republican-controlled Senate took more than three years to confirm Kavanaugh to the D.C. Circuit in 2006—and it is exactly why our colleagues are now wrong to dismiss Judge Kavanaugh’s public pronouncements on the inadvisability of criminally investigating the president. At the very least, Judge Kavanaugh must be asked to clarify and expand upon these declarations.
In the end, we may actually share common ground with Rangappa and others that the fundamental concern is that Kavanaugh has already strongly indicated his views, and that he’ll largely stick with them. Trump’s team that vetted potential nominees reportedly looked at Kavanaugh’s past public pronouncements on indicting a sitting president. Most recently, in a public speech at the American Enterprise Institute in fall 2017, the judge also singled out one Supreme Court opinion by Justice Rehnquist with which he disagreed: the opinion upholding the constitutionality of the independent-counsel statute. It was at a time that commentators noted, “Kavanaugh tops the list of judges most often named as Trump’s next pick.” There is an unmistakable appearance that President Trump potentially selected the judge, in significant part, because of his set of views on this area of law.
That’s the historic juncture at which the nation finds itself. The situation involves the president as a potential target of an ongoing criminal investigation into a foreign power’s interference in the democratic process. Under the circumstances, what we ask for is relatively modest. The Senate has a duty to consider the full scope of the nominee’s views on the law and on legal and judicial policy. If Judge Kavanaugh can assure the Senate and the American people that he is not committed to an unaccountable imperial presidency, as suggested by his writings, then this matter would be laid to rest. If he cannot do so or refuses to answer such lines of inquiry, he must commit to recusing himself from any decisions at the intersection of the special counsel investigation and the related exercise of presidential powers. The public’s trust in the court and the court’s impact on our constitutional system hang in the balance.
What happens after those questions are (we hope) posed is yet another potential threat or opportunity for the American constitutional system in the Trump era. How Judge Kavanaugh responds can be a defining moment for that, whether for good or for ill. It is also a defining moment for those of us who study, write, and/or teach about these issues—whether we try to minimize the potential rupture by papering over Kavanaugh’s views or whether we acknowledge the breadth of his views on presidential power and grapple more directly with how to address them given the challenges at this pivot point in our history. We think it is appropriate to ask scholars, analysts, and citizens to step into this space and demand more of ourselves, of senators, and of the nominee.
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242,449,986 | The next note will develop the metric from x theory as a Minkowski metric with the velocity defined as in Note 265(1). This metric gives the following phenomena self consistently and to experimental precision: orbital precession per radian, electromagnetic deflection by gravitation, gravitational red shift, gravitational time delay, photon velocity and photon mass at closest approach of a photon grazing the sun. The Einstein theory results in a disastrous singularity as shown in UFT264, and has been abandoned worldwide by Baconian scientists (the huge ECE / AIAS following). It should no longer be taught except as a matter of science history. It has been influential but for all the wrong reasons, notably cynically misleading propaganda for which Wikipedia takes most of the blame. The new metric is based correctly on plane polar coordinates whose Cartan spin connection is the angular velocity. It is an example of ECE theory. The new metric correctly considers torsion and curvature correctly. Outside the solar system the new metric correctly gives the velocity curve of a whirlpool galaxy and its hyperbolic orbits, while the old and incorrect Einstein theory fails completely. The old Einstein theory is based on a geometry in which one basic property, torsion, is completely missing, and sooner or later was bound to fail catastrophically. Even worse, the Einstein theory of precessions has been known to be wildly wrong since Dec 1915, when it was heavily criticised by Schwarzschild. (Vankov, online translation with his own devastating criticisms). Dogma should not be allowed to corrupt Baconian science. One of the major aims of AIAS is to stop this happening.
In the first part of this note the gravitational red shift is calculated from O level Newtonian dynamics, around Form Two or Three. It is a common misconception that it is due to Einstein. In fact it is due to the equivalence principle for any theory of dynamics. Wikipedia is particularly culpable for spreading misconceptions like this in its fanatical zeal for the standard model of physics. The gravitational red shift is then calculated with x theory to give Eq. (25) from the experimentally observed planetary precession defined by x. Eq. (25) can be tested experimentally by measuring the Lorentz factor gamma = dt / dtau for a precessing orbit. The Harvard tower experiment measured the inertial Newtonian result (15), and was and is a test of the Minkowski metric, nothing to do with the Einstein theory with its failed Schwarzschild metric. The precise result of the Havard tower experiment is due to the fact that it was an inertial experiment, it effectively dropped an object from the top of the tower to the bottom and measured the frequency difference, which translates into a time difference. As an Aberystwyth, Oxford and Cornell man I know that you cannot tell a Harvard man anything, even the time (in humour, a well known joke like the standard model).
Now drop an object to earth from a distance r above the earth, with initial velocity u = 0, final velocity v. Thi is an inertial phenomenon with radial but no angular part to the velocity. The acceleration g due to gravity is conventionally
which is the gravitational time delay, QED. Nothing to do with the old and incorrect Schwarzschild metric or the old and incorrect Einstein theory. The starting equation comes from the work integral, and I will explain this in note 265(1). For an elliptical orbit:
and this must be used in the expression for the gravitational time delay. The difference is that the orbit contains an angular as well as a radial contribution to v. Here a is the semi major axis of the ellipse. In a precessing ellipse v squared is modified as in UFT264 to contain x, and the gravitational time delay will also be a function of x.
A literature search has shown that the gravitational red shift is not due to the Einsteinian general relativity at all. It is due to the equivalence principle, and appears in the Newtonian theory, which gives v squared = 2MG / r in the inertial frame (direct free fall towards the earth’s surface). The result v squared = MG ( 2 / r – 1 / a) for an elliptical orbit is derived in a non inertial frame. The extra 1 / a is due to the rotation of the plane polar coordinates. The gravitational red shift in an orbit will include this 1 / a, and there will be extra corrections for a precessing orbit, involving x as in UFT264. So in note 265(1) I will derive the gravitational red shift in a very simple way, and develop it for the precessing elliptical orbit of x theory. So there is nothing left of general relativity that can be attributed to Einstein. All the careful precision work on astronomy however remains valid, within the experimental assumptions and limitations, and can be attributed to x theory. Things that used to be attributed to Einstein can now be attributed to x theory. Things that do not exist in nature, such as big bang and black holes, should be eliminated completely from future natural philosophy. All this should be viewed in the light of improving Einstein’s pioneering work by constructive criticism and years of scholarly study, mainly by Horst Eckardt, Douglas Lindstrom and myself, but with contributions from the entire AIAS group. As usual these notes are directed at enlightened, open minded Baconian scientists, not at dogmatists.
Here alpha is the half right latitude, M the mass attracting a mass m in orbit, G the Newton constant and c the vacuum speed of light. The force F0 was first given by von Leibniz in 1689 in “Tantanem de Motuum Coelestium Causis”. It is defined by
where eps is the eccentricity. It appears that x is the same in all observable precessions to high precision (telescope and satellite observations and so on). This is true inside and outside the solar system. The observed x cannot be obtained from the Einstein field equation, now widely known to be incorrect dogma, and not Baconian science. The x theory is based directly on the astronomical data and also produces light deflection due to gravitation, the gravitational time delay, the photon velocity at closest approach and the photon mass. The Einsteinian dogma incorrectly asserts that the photon mass is identically zero, and that light always travels at c. Photon mass was first suggested by Poincare in July 1905. The gross error found in the Einstein theory in UFT246 means that the entire edifice of standard physics collapses. The 246 UFT papers to date have rethought the subject completely.
Suthichai Yoon, founding editor of the independent newspaper The Nation in Bangkok, now group editor in chief and chairman of National Multimedia group, interviewed June Wong, outgoing editor of the Star, last month. The conversation, about the loss of Malaysia Airlines MH370, covered the Star’s coverage, the government’s attitudes, and the impact on the Star’s circulation and advertising. The Nation is a partner with the Star in the Asian News Network.
June Wong was said last night to have been removed as chief editor of the Star and appointed chief operating office for content and convergence.
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Timeline of Christian History view here the holidays in the united states in 2017, including pentecost 2017, pentecost 2018 and further and also every. A complete timeline welcome to the pentecost family page at surname finder, a service of genealogy today. Pentecost and the coming of the Holy Spirit (Acts 2) our editors have compiled this checklist of genealogical resources, combining. Sometimes known as the Birthday of the Church rating is available when the video has been rented. c receiving the wonderful holy ghost with evidence of speaking in tongues!! scenes from the bible series. 33: How a Holy Ghost revival among child widows in India became an international sensation and a local wellspring of Christian outreach it all started when mark pentecost received a call from pam sowder. Christianity Today Weekly a history of exponential growth continues as it works! reaches the $450 million mark. Software & Lesson Suggestions for Pentecost In 2017 Pentecost is on June 4th the church of pentecost canada is a branch of the church of pentecost international, which has its general headquarters in accra, ghana, west africa and traces its. Related Links: Advent | Holy Week Pentecost is an important day and concept in first century church history introduction christianity begins with the resurrection of jesus of nazareth. Can t remember what or when Pentecost is? Well for starters, it s this Sunday, and if you want a little more info on this celebration of the Holy Spirit church history begins on the day of pentecost. Whitsun (also Whitsunday, Whit Sunday or Whit) is the name used in Britain and Ireland, and among Anglicans and Methodists throughout the world, for the Christian pentecost, that is, the fiftieth day (from a greek word meaning fiftieth), or harvest feast, or feast of weeks, may be regarded as a supplement to the passover. Did the Apostolic Church Observe the Sabbath and Holy Days? ( View as PDF ) ( EPUB ) Many professing Christians believe the apostolic church rejected the Sabbath and what is the pentecostal church and what do pentecostals believe? what was the origin of pentecostalism? pentecost is a jewish feast day that was observed in jerusalem 50 days after passover. Before discussing the historiography, it will help to survey the movement’s early history the day of pentecost is celebrated by christians as the day the holy spirit. Using the pentecost account in Acts chapter two what is pentecost? this is a very special time in the bible when the disciples and other christians received the holy spirit. THE FEAST OF PENTECOST before i explain why and how this. 50 days counted out from Firstfruits is Shavuot or Pentecost if you go back and read the old testament, you will discover that pentecost was one of the jewish feast days. 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FIGHTING IN POLAND, Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume LXXIII, Issue 3459, 8 December 1914
FIGHTING IN POLAND Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume LXXIII, Issue 3459, 8 December 1914
SERGT. Samuel Forsyth, of the New Zealand Engineers, who. was the latest New Zealander to win the Victoria Cross, sealed his devotion with his life. He is the first Wellington member of the New Zealand Expeditionary Force to win the coveted distinction, but two other Wellington lads serving with the Imperial and Australian Forces respectively had already achieved it. These were Bri-gadier-General Freyberg (with the Imperial Army) and Private Thomas Cooke, who was serving with the Australian Forces when he performed the gallant exploit which won him the Cross, but died in winning it. * 7v * •* j. he same face lias befallen bergeant .iiimaei jdorsyfcii, wno leaves behmu him a record, of spiendict service to cu.udOie Ins bereaved parents. His age was last April, and he was one- of the two sons of Mr Thomas Forsyth, of Cottleviiie terrace (Thorndon), nightwatchman on the s.s. Maori. ±Ie was oorn at Newtown and was educated at . the Terrace School under Mr Geo. MacMorran. After leaving school he was put to the cabinet-making trade, and when war broke out he was employed as a battery hand at one of the mines at T,iie Thames.
He was one of the earliest to enlist, and he went away with the Main Body in the Engineers unit . thereof. He went right through the G-allipoii campaign, being twice wounded, but not Since Gallipoli, he had been' on almost continuous active ser-
vice in France. He was twice gassed at; the Somme, and was invalided for a month. In January, 1917, having obtained a few days' special leave, he was married to his fiancee in Glasgow.
Sergeant Forsyth won his V.C. at Greyviliers, where he was killed on the 24th August last. The circumstances are detailed by Sergeant Oxmond Burton, in a letter to his comrade's wife: —"Sam was killed m battle on Saturday, 4th August, while fighting with my company (15th North Auckland, 2nd Auckland Battalion). He had to do' a month with an infantry battalion before he obtained his commission, and he had only been a few days with us when we went into the fighting. After we had advanced for several hundred yards with great difficulty, we were violently held up by a Istrong German past, bristling with machine-guns and held by a strong garrison. At great .personal risk Sam reconnoitred this place alone, then went back and found the tanks, which he led right to the strong point, going ahead all the way alone, and on foot, although the whole time he was exposed to the fire of the machine and anti-tank guns, which were firing directly .upon him. This was one of the coolest and bravest deeds I have ever seen done. X«ater on he was wounded in the arm,. and refused to go out until the situation was more settled, and, while going from shell-hole to shell-hole organising our line, he was killed by a sniper's shot just in front of one of our forward posts. It was impossible to recover his body just a't the time, - and I was wounded myself a short while afterwards, and before the next wave of
.... Sam's life and death have both been a great inspiration to all of us wiio were privileged to be his friends." «• • . * «• ■» The Major of the fallen hero's old Battalion —the Engineers —bears similar testimony. He writes: "It is with "feelings of the deepest regret that I write chese lines to' express to you our sorrow at the loss of your husband. He was not with the Company at the time of his death, being temporarily attached to the Infantry before going to England to get his commission. He was always a very brave and keen soldier, and I believe met a soldier's end in „doing an exceptionally brave act." * •» ■» The late Sergeant Forsyth's only brother is a battery hand at Wakamarina (Marlborough), and he has two sisters, one of them being Mrs William Thomas, of Newtown. « if 4i Many Wellingtonians will remember Mr. W. T. Kennedy, an artistic young florist, who for some years conducted a business at the corner of Lambtonquay and Woodward-street. About ten years ago he hiked away to the Land of the Almighty Dollar, where he has prospered passing well. When he was here Wellington did not recognise the fine artist he was. There was not the scope here for him, so he made the big step from Lambton-quay to Fifth Avenue, where he has: earned a wide reputation amongst fashionable New Yorkers as an art decorator and florist.
Writing from New York to a friend in Wellington, Ken, as he is popularly known, states: "I've tried very hard to get into war work, but have not been successful as yet. Now I'm trying hard to get into Y.M.C.A. work for overseas. My papers have been accepted, but are held back on some technical points. As the law now stands between Great Britain and U.S.A. they will not take British subjects. I am also trying the Red Cross. I cannot go into the regular Army on account of my physical condition. I am just crazy to do some war-work overseas." His many friends in Wellington will congratulate Ken on his patriotism. His war enthusiasm is the' more praiseworthy, for he has never enjoyed very good health.
In an Auckland paper we read that Towsey lias "gone West." The name will recall to many Wellingtonians who have visited the Queen City within the past five years and have put up at the Waver ley the dapper, wellgroomed little figure and smiling face of the manager of the hotel restaurant, the most popular institution of its kind up North. Frank _ Towsey understood to a nicety the "business of catering for the refreshment of the inner man. He concentrated his whole mind upon the task of receiving; his customers agreeably and sending them away in full content.
He learnt his business in London, and came out to New Zealand many years ago in the galley of a windjammer. Then he served for a while as steward in a Union Steam Ship Company's steamer. As soon as he had saved up a little capital he came ashore, and started a popular restaurant, which he called "The Dive," in Lower Queen street, Auckland, near the corner, of Fort street. He served up such appetising meals at a shilling a head that he quickly won the suffrages of the Queen street office clerks.
iiiven.luaiiy lie disposed, of the "Dive" and took over the management ox the Waverley Hotel restaurant, where his meals extended his lame, and made the Waveriey known from end to end of New Zealand as the haven to w,hich most travellers for the .North steer their barque or make their way.
One day last week Prime Minister jlassey told the House that while in Jiingland he advocated the addition of the Southern Gross to the Union Jack, to commemorate the importance of Australasia as an integral factor of the British Empire, lixceilent suggestion ! But neither Mr' Massey nor any of his hearers seemed to remember that the idea is far from original— that, in point of fact, it was put into verse over thirty years ago by another New Zealand politician, Vincent Pyke, well remembered by "old political hands" for his wit as a speaker, his geniality in the lobbies, his cleverness as an author (he wrote /'Wild Will Enderby," one of the best novels on New Zealand goldfieid life ever published) his perennial floral buttonholes—he kept a cupboard'in one of the lobbies stocked with nosegays, which he changed half a dozen times in the day—and his'patriotic spirit at a, time parochialism was the prevailing note in New Zealand politics. In the early 'Eighties Mr Pyke wrote a song entitled "The Old Flag,' the refrain of which ran —
' 'Three crosses in the" -union, Three crosses in the jack, We'll add to it now the cross of the [South, And stand to it hack by back." Merely another illustration of the aphorism that there is nothing new under the sun. * * # # The latest is that Lady Miilicent Levesbn-Gower, daughter of the Dowager Duchess of Sutherland, is a likely bride of the Prince of Wales, and, therefore, future Queen of England. The Dowager Duchess of Sutherland, mother of this prospective Queen, was married in 1914 to Major Fitzgerald, Eleventh Hussars, son of the Hon. Nicholas Fitzgerald, M.L.C., of Melbourne. Lady Miilicent is one year older than the Prince of Wales. It is not generally known that Prince Albert was a few months younger than Queen Victoria. Lady Miilicent won't like this bandying about of her name if the match fails to come off. However, there was a Lady Sarah Napier who refused George the Third as a young man. He did hot seem then likely to reigii I She became mother of Generals Sir Charles and William Napier. s s ® a The flag of the D.I.C. in Wellington was flying at half-mast on Monday out of respect to the memory of Mr John Paul (the accountant of the Wellington branch), who died at his residence at Lyall Bay on Saturday night from pneumonia, supervening upon an attack of influenza. Mr Paul Had been connected practically all his working life with the one business. Erom school he entered the service of Messrs Thompson, Shannon and Co., who sold out to the D.I.C. twenty-eight years ago. Mr Paul continued his service under* the new firm, and for very many years now had been their accountant. He was a quiet, retiring and gentlenatured man, who was held in great respect by all who knew him. In his younger days he was an active cricketer, and for many years had been one of the auditors of St. John's Presbyterian Church. He leaves a widow
and two children. Mr James Paul, of Messrs Townsend and JL J aul is a brother. •H & w Dear Fbeei Dance :—Mr. H. E. Holland delivered a lecture upon peace proposal failures at the Alexandra Hall four weeks ago, and it was published in the "Maoriland Worker" last week. I wrote an article in reply and submitted it to Mr. P. Fraser, asking him to allow me the same fair play as Mr. Holland to state the truth re peace failures. He returned the manuscript this morning, with an enclosed letter, stating "that he could not afford the space." When I attacked Holland, per medium of your columns, some members of the X/.R.C. complained because I did not use the "Worker," the same medium as Holland used. I replied to that complaint, stating that the "Worker". would not publish but one side of the question; the (3.D.P.). I have now proved this point and am convinced that the "Worker" has no respect for truth. Yours, etc., John Tucker; South Kilbirnie, 5-11-18. * * * e Mr. Geo.' Stephenson, theatrical manager for the Messrs. Fuller at Auckland, who has passed away after an illness of several months' duration, was a keen lover of outdoor, manly sport. He was the youngest son of Mr. John Stephenson, of the big Dunedin firm of Wright, Stephenson and Co. Ait ex* leaving college he became auctioneer for his father's firm and achieved more than local fame on the i&ugby in;ld r as a dashing three-quarter back. -He has played for Otago right through jS ew Zealand. In 1902 he started out on his own account in the theatrical business and brought several good companies to this Dominion. The theatre didn't pay and for a time he returned to the old firm. But the stage called once more and Mr. Stephenson went up to Auckland several years ago to manage for the Messrs. Fuller. He was a true sport and a kind-hearted man and staunch comrade. TTi s aj?e was only 44. S
Sergt. Will Langford (killed in action) was the eldest son of Mrs. Xiangford, of Wellington. He left New Zealand with, tlie lOth. Reinforcements nearly three years ago, and had been through a lot of campaigning before his death. Prior to has enlistment he occupied a position on the local staff of the A.M.P. Society, in the service of which he had been for over twenty years. He was a keen sportsman and a well-known member of the Wellington Kennel Club, having been a successful exhibitor at the principal shows of the Dominion for a number of years. His twoi brothers Jack and Henry are also on active service. |
74,870,607 | [HISTORY: Adopted by the Town Board of the Town of Evans 4-19-1989. Amendments noted where applicable.]
It is hereby declared to be the policy of the Town of Evans to control excessive, unnecessary, unreasonable or unusually loud noise. This chapter is intended to preserve, protect and promote the public health, safety and welfare. The provisions and prohibitions hereinafter contained are enacted generally pursuant to Municipal Home Rule Law, § 10, Subdivision 1(ii)a(11), and specifically pursuant to Town Law § 130, Subdivision 11.
The frequency-weighted sound pressure level (in decibels) measured on a sound-level meter with an A-weighted scale as specified in the American National Standards Institute (ANSI) specifications for sound-level meters (ANSI No. 4 1971).
Any activity necessary or incidental to the erection, demolition, assembling, altering, installing or equipping of buildings, public or private highways, roads, premises, parks, utility lines or other property, including but not limited to related activities, such as land clearing, grading, earthmoving, excavating, blasting, filling and landscaping, but not including agriculture.
The logarithm of the ratio of a quantity to a reference of the same kind. The base of logarithm is 10.
Any person who has regular control of a device or site, including but not limited to the owner of a freehold of the premises, or any lesser estate therein, or an agent or lessee of such person.
Any individual, partnership, company, public or private corporation, association, firm, organization, political subdivision, governmental agency, administration or department, municipality trust, estate, group of individuals or any other legal entity.
An imaginary line exterior to any structure, along the ground surface, which separates the real property owned by one person from that owned by another person, and the vertical extension of such line.
Any vehicle which is propelled by any power other than muscular power, that is designated for or capable of cross-country travel, such as a motorcycle, all-terrain vehicle (ATV), trail bike, minibike or a snowmobile. A "recreational vehicle" is also classed as motor vehicle when such "recreational vehicle" is operated or driven upon a public highway.
Any vehicle which is either designed to be used or is used to compact and transfer refuse, garbage or trash.
The quantity in decibels measured by a sound-level meter satisfying the requirements of American National Specification for Sound-Level Meters S1.4-1971. This publication is available from the American National Standards Institute, Inc., 1430 Broadway, New York, 10018. "Sound level" is the frequency-weighted sound-pressure level obtained with the standardized dynamic characteristic fast or slow and weighting A, B or C; unless indicated otherwise, the A-weighting with a slow response is understood.
An instrument, including a microphone, an amplifier, an output meter and frequency-weighing network for the measurement of sound levels. "Sound-level meters" shall conform to the requirements of ANSI specifications for sound-level meters S1.4-1971, Types 1, 2, S1A or S2A.
Twenty times the logarithm to the base 10 of the ratio of the root mean squared pressure of a sound to a reference pressure of 20 micropascals. The unit applied to this measure shall be the decibel (dB).
Any act in violation of any of the provisions of this chapter is deemed to be in violation of this chapter.
Nothing in this chapter shall restrict any right which any person may have under any statute, including but not limited to the Environmental Conservation Law, the Vehicle and Traffic Law, the Labor Law and the Industrial Code, or common law, to seek enforcement of any noise-control requirement or to seek any other relief.
It shall be prima facie evidence that an activity is in violation of this chapter when a sound-level meter determines that the decibel level of a particular activity is in excess of the standards hereinafter set forth. All measurements will be made on the A-2 weighted sound level of a sound-level meter with a slow response, at a point or points no nearer the source of the activity than the measuring points hereinafter identified.
Building construction. Operating or permitting the operation of any tool or equipment used in construction, drilling or demolition work, including but not limited to the excavation, alteration, construction or repair of any building between the hours of 10:00 p.m. and 7:00 a.m., except in the case of an emergency or in the interest of the public safety and then only with the permit of the Building Inspector, which permit may be issued for a maximum period of three days during the continuance of such emergency.
Refuse compacting. The operation of a refuse-compacting vehicle in the process of compacting or collecting refuse contained in a dumpster or similar receptacle between the hours of 10:00 p.m. and 6:00 a.m., or the operation of a refuse-compacting vehicle in the process of compacting or collecting refuse contained in individual garbage cans between the hours of 10:00 p.m. and 7:00 a.m.
Certain power equipment. Operating or permitting to be operated a lawn mower, chainsaw, log splitter or similar power equipment between the hours of 9:00 p.m. and 8:00 a.m. Exceptions are granted for the emergency removal of trees and limbs from streets and highways and for any tree service contracted to by the Town of Evans.
No person shall operate or permit to be operated any recreational vehicle off a public highway at any time, at any speed or under any condition of grade, load, acceleration or declaration or in any manner whatsoever as to exceed 85 dB(A) measured at a distance of no less than 50 feet from such recreational vehicle.
No person shall operate or permit to be operated a sound system, band or other live entertainment, including but not limited to a stereo system or other amplified forms of sound reproduction, at, but not limited to, a restaurant, bar, cafe, arcade, discotheque, dance hall business or private residence from which the sound level is equal to or exceeds 65 db(A) between the hours of 9:00 a.m. and 10:00 p.m., or in which the sound level is equal to or exceeds 60 db(A) between the hours of 10:00 p.m. and 9:00 a.m. measured out-of-doors at any point on the property line of such residence, place of business, public entertainment or amusement.
Any person found guilty of violating any of the provisions of this chapter shall be guilty of a violation and, upon conviction, shall be fined an amount of money not to exceed $250 or be imprisoned for not more than 15 days, or both for each offense. Each occurrence in violation of the provisions of this chapter constitutes a separate violation.
Any variance to this chapter may be granted by the Town Board of the Town of Evans in accordance with the standards and procedures set forth herein. In granting a variance, the Board may impose conditions to protect the best interests of the inhabitants of the premises, surrounding property owners and occupants, the immediate neighborhood and the Town as a whole.
Variances may be instituted by filing an application with the Town Clerk using forms supplied by the Town Board, which shall include all information to be considered by the Town Board necessary to make its findings under Subsection D herein.
Any variance of the provisions of this chapter may be granted only in the event that at least one of the following circumstances is specifically found to exist by the Town Board, and is so stated in the Board's findings:
That the strict application of said provisions of this chapter would result in a specified unnecessary hardship to the applicant which arises because of exceptional or extraordinary circumstances to which the applicant is subject, and which do not generally apply to other property owners or occupants in similar circumstances or other circumstances over which the applicant has no control.
That the property in question cannot yield a reasonable financial return if used in a manner consistent with the provisions of this chapter.
That the variance would not be materially detrimental to the purposes of this chapter or to the owners or occupants of property in the district in which the property is located, and that the variance requested is the minimum variance which would alleviate the specific unnecessary found by the Board to affect the applicant.
Within 30 days of receipt by the Town Board of a completed application for a variance, the Board shall give notice by public advertisement in the official newspaper of a public hearing to be held on the application not less than 10 days nor more than 30 days after such notice. Within 30 days of the completion of the public hearing, the Board shall grant, grant with conditions or deny the variance for which application has been made. The decision of the Board shall be in writing and shall contain each of the findings specified in Subsection C and the factual basis for each finding from the record of the hearing which shall support the decision of the Board. |
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Lyrics <3 [Verse 1] I don’t want to hold your gaze I’m scared what I might see there Found myself in this place And I’m a burning fire [Pre-Chorus] Peace may come I hope it won’t take long Just a faith I cannot see Bring me home I’m in here all along Just me and my melody [Chorus] So free me Oh free me From this pain I’ve been running from I’m tired and I’m free falling Free me Oh free me From this shame I’ve been running from I’m lost and I am calling you I’m lost and I am calling you I’m lost and I am calling you [Verse 2] I don’t have a way back down I'm stepping even further Take my hand and turn me around I’m listening to myself [Pre-Chorus] Oh, peace may come I hope it won’t take long Just a faith I cannot see Bring me home I’m in here all along Just me and my melody [Chorus] So free me Oh, free me From this pain I’ve been running from I’m tired and I’m free falling Free me Free me From this shame I’ve been running from I’m lost and I am calling you [Bridge] I’m calling you And though I can’t undo All the things I put you through And I can’t take your hand Admit that I don't have a plan Only you [Chorus] Free me Free me From this pain I’ve been running from I’m tired and I’m free falling Free me Free me From this shame I’ve been running from I’m lost and I am calling you Free me I'm lost and I am calling you Free me Free me From this shame I’ve been running from I’m lost and I am calling you
Sorry this has nothing to do with the video but... am i the only one who wants Zoe to be the live action Pocahontas? I just love pocahontas and she's a great actress... i think it would be cool |
126,099,831 | Commemorating the Japan Times Community Page’s 10th Anniversary, a brief column by Arudou Debito, May 8, 2012
Hi Blog. As the very popular and quite influential Community Page at the Japan Times celebrated its 10th Anniversary this week, I was asked (along with their former editor and best reporter) to say a few words as their featured columnist (now for four years plus). Here’s what I said. There are links to other celebratory articles below that. Enjoy, and congrats Community Page. You’re doing great things. Thanks for being there for our writings, and for us. Arudou Debito
Wednesday marks the 10-year anniversary of the Community pages, which have been providing news, analysis and opinion by, for and about the foreign community in Japan since May 9, 2002.
Here, an editor, columnist and writer who helped make the section what it is today reflect on the first decade of the Community section.
I remember my first article on the Community Page back in June 2002, after I jumped ship as a columnist at the Japan Today website.
Having been an infrequent contributor to other publications, I was impressed by the comparative professionalism at The Japan Times: I was never forced to toe any editorial line by the Community Page (unlike, say, the vanity projects that pass for English-language newspapers at the Asahi and Yomiuri, who tend to take criticism of Japan in English by NJ authors as a personal affront).
It was also nice that the JT paid its contributors the amount as promised promptly, something relatively rare in this business.
Honesty has served the Community Page well. Over the past decade, we have had hundreds of contributors writing exposes on subjects few other domestic outlets would touch, including unequal hiring practices due to nationality, the merits of unionization, international divorces from the studiously ignored NJ partner’s perspective, the Japanese judiciary’s systematic discrimination against claimants based on race or social origin, the biased treatment of NJ crime by police and the media, public policies and government statements that latently and blatantly disenfranchise whole peoples in Japan, one’s rights under the law and revised visa regimes, and even new takes on the perennial debate over the epithet “gaijin.”
For that matter, where else in Japan’s media does anyone even acknowledge that there is a “community” of NJ in Japan, or offer authoritative information specifically for the benefit of this community? Only here.
I have been honored to not only have had more than a hundred of my articles featured here since 2002, but also to have the ideas debated in a venue that people, including academics and Japanese policymakers, take seriously.
For example, my favorite Community Page memory is the reaction from “Forensic Science Fiction: Bad science and racism underpin police policy” (Jan. 13, 2004), where I critiqued the National Research Institute for Police Science’s highly unscientific “DNA tests for foreigners.”. They claimed that you could examine biotic evidence at crime scenes and tell whether the suspect was foreign or not. They sold this snake oil to us taxpayers for years by claiming that “foreign proteins are different than Japanese.”
When I telephoned NRIPS on different business shortly afterwards, the person on the other end immediately knew me by name, and with no invitation launched into a defense of the policy as “having nothing to do with foreigners.”
I then pulled up the policy and read it back to him. “The very title says, ‘Developing an index using biological materials in order to expose foreign crime.’ In case you haven’t figured it out yet, I can read Japanese. Can you?” I got a gasp and then a delicious silence. Plus, in a country where the police ignore media scrutiny and even get away with murder (ZG, Nov. 1, 2011), the NRIPS still felt obligated a month later to send the JT a flaccid letter of denial. Gotcha.
In sum, I have observed three definite stages in the development of the NJ “community” since I got to Japan. In the 1990s, communities were forming during the influx of foreign labor, with some regions reaching double-digit population percentages of NJ. In the 2000s, NJ communities came under attack by xenophobes and chauvinist politicians who firmly believe the fiction that more foreigners means less Japan. And now, in the 2010s, we’re watching the NJ communities attacking themselves, cleaving into one-upping camps over who is “more dedicated to Japan” in this era of perpetual stagnation, rollover disasters and seemingly endless self-sacrifice.
9 comments on “Commemorating the Japan Times Community Page’s 10th Anniversary, a brief column by Arudou Debito, May 8, 2012”
“Where else in Japan’s media does anyone even acknowledge that there is a “community” of NJ in Japan, or offer authoritative information specifically for the benefit of this community?”
— Read my sentence again. “Where else IN JAPAN’S MEDIA…” The Zainichis (and Nikkei Brazilians) have their own newspapers to fill in the gaps in the domestic media.
interesting point about the foreign community becoming more fragmented and the rise of one-upmanship to show dedication to Japan. A polite way to refer to the apologists of course!
I tend to see these people as enemy collaborators in the struggle for NJ rights here in Japan and believe they should be treated as such as they are holding us all back, not just themselves!
On that note, why not a Rogue’s Gallery for apologists? You could include the obvious ones like Mike Guest, Gregory Clarke, Donald Keene et al but also people who put their face on TV yet never stand up for the plight of NJ.
A small profile for each person, where they operate, and so on could be invaluable for someone newly arrived in Japan and therefore susceptible to being swayed at first by apologist arguments. A database of sorts would be a map to the minefield, so to speak.
The JT has been considered as unique English newspapers that serve for the needs of NJ living in Japan. Even before the Community Page (CP) was added in May 2002, the JT is unparalleled in providing good pieces of reading (i.e., Sunday Features, the editorials from foreign media correspondents). But, there’s no doubt in my mind that the CP has created a wide audience of readers–both NJ and J–in Japan and around the world. I know most authors are NJ (some of them naturalized), — and possibly, liberal, but it just doesn’t matter whether they are more like David Brooks or Amy Goodman. As long as they can keep their commandments in FAIR (Fairness And Accuracy In Reporting), they deserve recognition in the CP. The next stage for the CP, 5 to 10 years from now, will be to provide news report & analysis regarding NJ Community online or media post casts.
““Where else IN JAPAN’S MEDIA…” The Zainichis (and Nikkei Brazilians) have their own newspapers to fill in the gaps in the domestic media.”
They are written by residents of Japan, printed in Japan, published in Japan, and sold in Japan, to residents of Japan.
— Come on. How many Japanese do you know read Mindan Shimbun? Or International Press? Or even The Japan Times? I bet a lot less than even read Akahata, methinks. It’s definitely nowhere near the number who read the big dailies (Yomiuri, Asahi, Nikkei, Mainichi, Sankei), wire services (Kyodo, Jiji) or many of the regional papers (Hokkaido Shimbun, Tokyo Shimbun). Therefore, I argue ethnic newspapers are NOT part of Japan’s national media narrative. (How often do you see the big boys cribbing stories from ethnic papers, as they do from each other and capitalizing off each others’ scoops, for example?)
And it is fair to say that the newspapers by ethnic Koreans, etc. are marginalised, ostracised and ignored.
Yet, I would say that to deny them as being a part of Japan’s media is to succumb to the very mindset that you decry.
Being a part of Japan is not dependent on acceptance by the majority of Japanese but rather depends on objective criteria.
— So let’s have that objective criteria. Let’s start with circulation numbers. Then let’s work up to cross citations. We’re measuring media impact, not mere existence, which is the very definition of what media is trying to do: influence society (for what good is a media if hardly anyone reads it — or if most people are essentially told not to read it because what they cover is not newsworthy?).
I’m talking about influences on national narratives, and you’re making my case too that they are marginalized, ostracized, and ignored. It’s not succumbing. It’s acknowledging and calling for improvement.
“definition of what media is trying to do: influence society (for what good is a media if hardly anyone reads it”
I think that in the case of media that represent a despised, marginalised and ostracised group, such as ethnic Koreans, etc. in Japan that influencing society is NOT their goal.
Much as the bulk of the gay press in Japan is not generally aimed at changing society as a whole, but rather it is talking to its own readers about coping with and handling the stress from being a marginalised group, so too with the press for marginalised ethnic groups in Japan.
As to the good of that, as you ask, I would offer the the thought that the good is in helping readers to manage such stresses and cope.
For many in Japan’s embattled marginalised groups the goal is simply to endure and survive Japanese society’s treatment of them.
Your goal is more ambitious, certainly, but I would request that you also acknowledge the value of the humbler goal as well.
So, as to impact, the impact should be considered in light of the goal — in this case a humbler goal.
The fact that there are few readers does not demean the impact for those who are readers of such media in Japan.
Hi Blog. Here’s something I received the other day from Debito.org Reader XY. It’s a flyer he found in his mailbox from the Tokyo Edogawa-ku LDP, advising people to “protect Japan and vote their conscience” (although they can’t legally use the word “vote” since it’s not an official election period). It talks about how “dangerous” it would be to grant NJ PR local suffrage.
I’ve given some of the con arguments here before (from radical rightists loons like Dietmember Hiranuma and co.), but this time it’s seventeen more-mainstream LDPers (a party which would otherwise be in power but for people voting their conscience last August) offering a number of questionable claims. First, have a look at the flyer (received February 19, 2010):
1) PR NJ suffrage might be unconstitutional (hedging from the rabid right’s clear assertion that it is). In fact, I’m not sure anyone’s absolutely sure about that.
2) PR NJ suffrage will give foreigners say over how our children are taught and how our political decisions are made. (Well, yeah, if there are enough NJ in any particular district; and even if there were, given how nasty Japan’s public policy can be towards NJ, I’m not so sure that’s such a bad thing.)
3) Granting PR NJ suffrage is not the world trend. (Oh, now we cite how other countries do things? If other countries were creating a world trend, such as signing the Hague Convention on Child Abductions, you’d no doubt be begging off stressing how unique Japan is instead. Besides, at least three dozen other countries, many of them fellow developed countries, grant local suffrage to non-citizens, and they deal with it just fine.)
4) One shouldn’t equate taxpayer with voting rights, asserting that Japanese wouldn’t get suffrage if they lived overseas. (Actually, yes they would, if they lived in one of those abovementioned three dozen plus countries which grant it.)
5) We haven’t studied the issue enough. (This is a typical political stalling tactic. How much debate is enough? How long is a piece of string?)
6) We’ve got prefectural governors coming out against PR suffrage. (And we have prefectural governors coming out FOR suffrage too. Anyway, when has the national government listened to local governments until now? It hasn’t been for the past decade since the Hamamatsu Sengen, for example.)
My favorite bit is the illustration at the bottom. “JAPAN, LET’S PROTECT OURSELVES!!” Love how it’s an angry-looking alien ship with its spotlight on our archipelago. NJ as invading alien!! And I remember back in the day when we had a UFO Party (yes, the UFO党) waiting to cart us all away!! How times change when there’s a real policy up for debate.
But seriously folks, this isn’t some podunk backwater like Dejima Award Winner Setaka Town in Fukuoka, which decided that its local university should be officially “foreigner-free”. This is Edogawa-ku, the easternmost ku of Tokyo proper, right across the river from Chiba, with more than half a million registered residents. It’s not the type of place for xenophobic alarmist politicians to immaturely paint the spectre of an alien invasion in a serious debate.
Vote your conscience. Now that we know who these LDP idiots are, don’t vote them back into power. Arudou Debito in Calgary
36 comments on “Tokyo Edogawa-ku LDP flyer, likens granting NJ PR suffrage to UFO alien invasion. Seriously.”
I think you will find this issue growing in importance since Hatoyama favors it. We saw what happened in Nagasaki which is one of the Prefectures you listed as coming out against NJ suffrage; so I think we will see this issue coming close and closer to Nagatachou as the months wear on. They know we won’t fall for their gags and tricks. We’ll oust the losers and elect people who do their jobs, yes for us, but guess what for Japanese, too! They know they have to deal with the situation at some point which is why the opposition is trying to spread as much fear, misinformation and doubt as possible. NJ will have their day in the voter’s box someday. It’s eventual. It’s just a matter of how ugly it gets.
I think this is just another political football the LDP are using to try and oust the elect government. I’m sure they don’t want PRs voting but now they’re just putting it on thick for show. Ever since the DPJ took power the LDP has shown no sign of productive growth. They have offered no policy change that would endear them to the public what so ever. All they have done is try to bring down the government through scandal and opposition. And the saddest fact of all is that the media seems to be backing this frenzy and the J public are falling for it.
“…The government has said the facility aims to respect the inmates’ human rights and treat them in a humanitarian manner regardless of their language, culture or religion…”
South Korea has opened what officials say is the world’s first purpose-built prison for foreign convicts.
The number of foreigners in South Korean jails has more than doubled in the past four years to about 1,500.
The prison’s director said the inmates would still be able to pursue the “Korean dream” that had led them to the country in the first place.
Inmates are given classes in Korean culture but can also view satellite TV from around the world and eat non-Korean meals. A number of the guards are fluent in English, Russian or Chinese.
One American prisoner told visiting journalists that compared with standard South Korean prisons, the food and education on offer were much better.
The government has said the facility aims to respect the inmates’ human rights and treat them in a humanitarian manner regardless of their language, culture or religion.
“We will operate this facility for the inmates to recognise that their ‘Korean dream’ was not a failure,” said the prison’s director, Kim Pyung-gun. “We will give them a message of hope.”
NJ as space aliens? That explains a lot. They seem to think that Japan not only has a unique culture, but a unique species as well.
I wish it weren’t so, but what with the horrendous state of finances and all the ‘issues’ dogging any governing party, even among young people in Japan playing the foreign devil card will only increase votes for any party. There is a deep-seated fear of foreigners (the different) that, in my opinion, starts in the education system. It’s very easy to exploit this fear for political gain. I have heard highly educated people here say they fear, on some level, being overrun by the Chinese, even though there is absolutely no logical argument for that being a reasonable scenario. Throw in the black truck wack jobs intimidating good politicians and the prospect of NJ local voting rights is slim to none.
I feel that some of the people behind this really would prefer to have gaijin in ghettos- nice ones, but still separated from the populace, where they breed and intermingle with people, upsetting the wa- giving them different ideas, mixing up the pure Japanese blood…(puff, pant!)
Hey why not put them all on an island or something- an enormous cosmopolitan human zoo. If they try to settle on the mainland, actually mix with the Japanese, just make sure they are cut off from really having a stake in society by denying them long-term job contracts, encourage them to leave after a few years anyway because they’ll never fit in…
And how about putting the more troublesome ones, especially the cheap labor from China, in controlled camps or schemes out in the country where they can be exploited out of sight and out of mind.
I am reminded of a conversation I had with a guy from a famous Japanese household security firm (知っていますか？) who had great ideas for preventing innocent Japanese being victims of foreigner crime- RFID tag them all. As we were “mates” over “beer” he’d quite forgotten that I was a gaijin or if so, at least I was a “good gaijin” who “understood.”
PKU – While back in the day it wasn’t so easy to tell who was Jewish or not so they used the Star of David and for other groups, other symbols….since we’re a visable minority, all they need to do is open their eyes and they could see. The scary thing is, we already carry our own star around with us, as mandated by law: the Alien Registration Card. In reality, it’s not all that different and with the coming reforms, it will accomplish basically what the stars, pink triangles, etc. did back in the day.
Nagasaki – always trumpeting how it was the first place to welcome foreigners (though it stuck them all on Dejima). Even now, Nagasaski is always going on about internationalization and how it is more accepting of us gaijin than other places. Bull! On the front page of the Asahi newspaper a month of so ago it said 14 prefectures were dead against suffrage for permanent residents. Hypocritical Nagasaki was top of that list. I live here and brought up the issue with a Japanese acquaintance whose response was such, “Oh, no no we don’t mind you people (by which I guess he meant white Europeans or Americans etc) getting voting rights – it is the Koreans, they have grudges going all the way back to the Japanese occupation of their country.” Yeah, right! End of rant.
What’s ironic is that the only reason the LDP can get away with this discriminatory scaremongering is precisely because there aren’t enough foreigners with political power to oppose it. In a way, this poster illustrates precisely why there is no need to worry about PRs getting the vote.
Unfortunately, your average Taro P. Salaryman won’t make the connection; time to call up the old LDP and have a gripe, I suppose.
It is not really productive to trade off issues but…I expect that if dual-nationality was allowed and reasonably available (say under the same criteria as a permanent or special residency), then the case behind suffrage for NJs would be weakened and could potentially kill two birds with one stone.
Supreme court did in the past declare that granting foreigners local suffrage was not unconstitutional, although one of the judges later admitted that he made that judgment with “political regards” towards Korean residents. He himself was pro-foreign suffrage, and thought that it would be given exclusively to the special-PR holders (a.k.a. Korean residents). |
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DXC Technology Sets Record and Distribution Dates for U.S. Public Sector Spin-Off and Closing Date for Merger with Vencore and KeyPoint to Form Perspecta
TYSONS, Va., May 7, 2018 – DXC Technology (NYSE: DXC) today announced that its Board of Directors has set a record date of May 25, 2018 for the previously announced spin-off of its U.S. public sector business into a new, publicly traded company named Perspecta Inc.
Subject to satisfaction of applicable conditions, the distribution of shares of common stock of Perspecta is expected to occur on May 31, 2018, after the close of trading on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE). In the distribution, DXC stockholders will receive one share of Perspecta common stock for every two shares of DXC common stock held on May 25, 2018, the record date for the distribution.
Following its separation from DXC, Perspecta is expected to complete its previously announced combination with Vencore and KeyPoint Government Solutions on May 31, 2018 immediately following the spin-off, subject to satisfaction of the conditions to the merger.
Beginning on or about May 24, 2018 and continuing up to and through the distribution date, it is expected that there will be two markets in DXC common stock. Shares that trade in the “regular-way” market will be entitled to receive the shares of Perspecta common stock while shares that trade in the “ex-distribution” market will trade without the entitlements to shares of Perspecta common stock. Shares of DXC in the “ex-distribution” market will trade under the ticker symbol “DXC WI.”
DXC anticipates that “when-issued” trading in Perspecta shares will also begin on or about May 24, 2018, and will continue up to and through the distribution date. Shares of Perspecta in the “when-issued” market will trade under the symbol “PRSP WI.” Subject to satisfaction of relevant conditions, “regular-way” trading in Perspecta’s common stock is expected to begin on June 1, 2018, the first trading day following completion of the separation.
DXC stockholders who hold common stock on the record date and decide to sell any of their common stock before May 31, 2018 should consult with their stockbroker, bank or other nominee to understand whether the shares of DXC common stock will be sold with or without the entitlements to Perspecta common stock.
Perspecta will host its 2018 Investor Day on Monday, May 14, 2018 in New York City, with presentations beginning at approximately 9:30 a.m. Eastern Daylight Time (EDT).
A webcast of the Investor Day and any presentation slides will be available on DXC’s Investor Relations website. The webcast will begin on Monday, May 14, 2018 at 9:30 a.m. EDT at http://www.dxc.technology/investorrelations.
No action or payment is required by DXC stockholders to receive the shares of Perspecta common stock. An Information Statement containing details regarding the distribution of the Perspecta common stock, including the method for settling fractional shares, and Perspecta’s business and management following the separation and the merger with Vencore and KeyPoint Government Solutions will be mailed to DXC stockholders prior to the distribution date. The Information Statement is also attached to Perspecta’s Registration Statement on Form 10 as filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on April 30, 2018 (the Form 10).
The distribution of Perspecta shares and the merger with Vencore and KeyPoint Government Solutions remain subject to certain conditions described in the Information Statement filed with Perspecta’s Form 10.
All statements in this press release that do not directly and exclusively relate to historical facts constitute forward-looking statements, including statements regarding our intention to separate the company into two, independently publicly traded companies and expected benefits to be realized as a result of the separation.
There is no assurance as to the timing of the separation or whether it will be completed. These statements represent DXC Technology’s intentions, plans, expectations and beliefs, and no assurance can be given that the results described in such statements will be achieved. These statements are subject to risks, uncertainties, and other factors, many outside of DXC’s control, that could cause actual results to differ materially from the results described in such statements.
For a written description of these factors, see the section titled “Risk Factors” in DXC's Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q for the quarters ended June 30, 2017, September 30, 2017 and December 31, 2017 and any updating information in subsequent SEC filings.
No assurance can be given that any goal or plan set forth in any forward-looking statement can or will be achieved, and readers are cautioned not to place undue reliance on such statements which speak only as of the date they are made. We do not undertake any obligation to update or release any revisions to any forward-looking statement or to report any events or circumstances after the date of this press release or to reflect the occurrence of unanticipated events except as required by law. |
226,389,646 | "Being in STOKED has completely changed my life. It's not only given me purpose as far as mentoring young kids, but it has given me an entirely new circle of friends and like minded people to hang out with and enjoy the weekends with."
When STOKED, a national nonprofit that has a mission of creating a community of fearless leaders through mentoring opportunity and action, was launched in 2005, many things became abundantly clear. While the organization exists to close the opportunity gap for underserved youth by giving them the skills, relationships, and experiences they need to become successful, it wasn’t just the youths’ lives that were changed.
The most profound and unexpected result of STOKED was seeing the lives of the mentors, supporters, and donors lives change, too. From supporting STOKED, there was a trend, or blueprint emerging—people were tapping into the community by giving back, learning new skills, and creating opportunities for themselves. Many of these people have gotten new jobs, new relationships, and life changing opportunities as a result of their involvement.
It was this growth that inspired the beginning of STOKED Lifestyle, the media and culture side of the organization. A project of STOKED, the social enterprise brand started as a podcast and has been slowly expanding to other mediums like Instagram and a private membership community. STOKED Lifestyle seeks to build, hand in hand, a community of highly motivated and creative individuals who want more out of life. As the project succeeds, so does the chance to not only provide opportunities for the current generation, but for the next generation of young people and beyond.
STOKED Lifestyle was started by Steve Larosiliere, an award winning social entrepreneur, marketer, and mentor who’s passion is building and working with businesses with a purpose. Steve serves as the host, mentor, and curator of STOKED Lifestyle.
Steve is also the Founder and President of STOKED. He’s been honored as a Hometown Hero by Metro NY. His work has appeared on the Today Show, GOOD Magazine, NBC Chicago, Modern Luxury, New Yorker Magazine, ESPN, Huffington Post, Nylon Magazine, Fuel TV, Bloomberg, Wall Street Journal, and Transworld Business. Steve’s been named a United Way Senior Fellow and was an Entrepreneur in Residence at Pace University’s Wilson Center for Social Entrepreneurship.
Steve speaks worldwide on the subject of youth empowerment, social entrepreneurship, and closing the opportunity gap at places such as Do Lectures, Creative Mornings, Nike, The United Nations, and various universities. Steve began his career starting an independent marketing firm working with clients such as Sony Music, Reader’s Digest, and Rock the Vote where he helped pioneer ninja marketing.
Nottingham Forest owner flies in for emergency meeting, Ipswich face 'must-win' match at Leeds United
Aitor Karanka and Paul Hurst are facing crucial evenings in the Championship as club owners sharpen their axes, claim the Sun.
Karanka takes Nottingham Forest to Bolton tonight (8pm) after Evangelos Marinakis had flown in from Greece, apparently to ask why the side isn't pushing for the top two.
Ipswich are at high-flying Leeds United (7.45pm) on the back of only one win all season. Hurst, who joined from Shrewsbury Town in the summer, is said to "need a win to relieve the pressure".
Forest legend Garry Birtles, however, is adamant that Marinakis's visit to the East Midlands should lift players and coaches, rather than put them in a panic.
He writes in his column for NottinghamshireLive: "No doubt a few people will put a negative spin on it, but I don't see it that way. To me it's an example of how he is putting his mouth where his money is.
" It was a scheduled visit to see everyone and remind them of what the expectations are this season. I doubt anything he said will have shocked Aitor Karanka.
"The manager is aware that the owner has high expectations. Given the investment made in the team, Forest should be much higher up the table than they have been for the last few years. No doubt Karanka will have relayed that to the players, but hearing it from an owner who has flown in all the way from Greece should be no bad thing."
Speculation about Hurst's future grew after Ipswich hero Matt Holland told TalkSport listeners he had heard owner Marcus Evans "has spoken to other managers and there's a possibility something might change".
James McClean’s charge sheet is growing in the eyes of an ever-expanding number of critics in and around Stoke City Football Club.
Even those backing his stance on not wearing a poppy will be shaking their heads after his social media outburst on Saturday night when, let’s be honest, he should have simply kept his head down and ignored a criticism he must be well used to by now.
* reacting publicly to his critics and alienating a sizeable portion of Stoke’s support in the process
Any one of those is a cardinal sin, a huge no-no in any rule book for professional footballers, but added together they drive a huge wedge between McClean and his hopes of any kind of meaningful future in Stoke.
By issuing his Instagram attack on those Stoke City fans he accused of barracking him and his religious convictions on Saturday, McClean unforgivably runs the risk of leaving his manager out on a limb.
Gary Rowett has had to justify his signing of a player with so much baggage and, only this week, had to justify his inclusion for a game doubling up as Remembrance celebrations.
His patience, and that of his football club, is being needlessly stretched towards breaking point by McClean’s public outburst.
And just as seriously, if not more, he is now threatening to alienate those Stoke supporters who were willing to bite their tongue and, however reluctantly, respect his `silent’ protest of refusing to join team-mates in wearing a poppy on Saturday.
His outburst can only bring voice to their previously silent opposition towards a player who will surely struggle to perform if he feels most supporters are opposed to his very presence.
If there is a road back into the affections of the majority of fans it is a considerably long one and, sadly, his form to date suggests it might be a never ending one. |
10,241,383 | Bloomberg View's Clive Crook says Britain's vote to leave the European Union should make Europe's leaders stop and think.
Their commitment to free migration across the EU's internal borders is unpopular with too many voters, and not just in Britain.
Deal prices 33% through the IPO range as company decides not to push the valuation to the detriment of secondary market trading.
China New Higher Education CNHE priced its Hong Kong initial public offering late on Monday night, raising HK$915 million $117.88 million post-greenshoe.
The 329.153 million primary share deal including the greenshoe was priced at HK$2.78 per share, 33% through the HK$2.56 to HK$3.22 marketed price range.
The retail order book is said to have closed two times covered, which means no clawbacks have been triggered and local...
Over 70,000 people visit Finland for conferences every year. The country is seen as a relaxed and fresh place to hold such events, where everything is sure to work without a hitch.
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In 2013, Helsinki was rated the world’s 20th most popular conference city. In the survey, covering over 1,400 cities, Espoo and Tampere were also among Finland’s most liked congress cities.
Finnish conference centres are praised for their friendly, professional staff and for smooth and reliable services.
Helsinki Congress Paasitorni is a culturally valuable conference centre, built early in the 20th century. The airport bus stops near the Paasitorni centre, which is within easy walking distance of the city centre. The project to expand the centre's hotel and meeting areas, completed in 2012, received an international architecture award for buildings incorporating brickwork.
In an idyllic spot on a charming island in Espoo, the Hanasaari conference centre is an excellent example of simple, uncomplicated ’70s architecture. The interiors remain in their original style but provide modern conference facilities. Hanasaari is also renowned for its cuisine based on local ingredients.
Environmentally aware conference organisers will opt for Tampere Hall, which adopted a sustainability policy back in 1992. In May 2014, it became the first Nordic conference centre to receive the Nordic ‘Swan’ eco-label, in recognition of exemplary environment-oriented operations.
Of course, conference-goers needn't go far at all to find a great conference venue: Helsinki Airport Congress opened its doors after renovations in August 2014.
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This is beyond sad! A close friend to this family killed a mother and possibly her 8 yr old son, and has taken off with her 16 yr old daughter. The father of the girl made an announcement and told his daughter to just run, they'd find her, and begged the abductor to let her go, saying he's taken everything else from him. http://www.cnn.com/2013/08/05/justic...html?hpt=hp_t1 I hope she's alive and able to get free!
I was just looking to see if someone had posted about this I hadnt heard about it till I was reading yahoo news when I got to work. How crazy...I guess the guy was friends with the with the mom and offed the mom and little brother to get the 16 year old. wow I hope she's not involved and I hope she's ok. I fear for her if she tries to get away though she'd be better off to go along with him until it's safe. if she were to tell someone who can maybe help her if he has a gun he could kill someone who tries to help her get away from him he sounds pretty desperate to "keep" her. how sad for her dad.
Does the guy really expect to get away with killing two people and taking off with a minor? I hope the girl is found safe, but I'm not really expecting a happy ending. He'll probably kill her and then himself when he realizes he's cornered. It's scary how many evil people there are walking around in the world.
Would it not be just a fucked up deal, if the girl was actually one of the weird ones that was instrumental in all of this. Just think back about how many "sweet" little 15-17ish "angels" that have killed their mothers or other family members... That would just make this story just so much more sick, than just some family friend had a "crush" of the 16yr old daughter...C.
I hope that's not the case, but I'm sure it's a possibility. There have been several cases that turned out that way.
It's sick. He definitely had "romantic" feelings for the 16 year old girl. I pray the kids will come out safe, but this sicko needs to die a horrible death.
It's now presumed the little boy's dead. They found a body, matching his size, and age range, in the rubble. They're just going to do DNA to confirm. This whole thing is just odd. The man had romantic feelings for the girl, she knew it, did nothing about it, and even said he was going to take her to Hollywood, for her birthday. If she's so "creeped out" by him, why did she agree to take a trip, alone with him. Also, I know her mom's dead, but why was she allowing her daughter to be constantly left alone with this weirdo?
I got an Amber Alert on my phone about this earlier. Odd since I don't live anywhere near there. The only reason I can think of for this is it's possible he was spotted heading north. As in waaaay north, across state lines.
some family friend said he had confessed to the girl he had a crush on her and it creeped her out. maybe the mom didnt know about the crush thing? I hadnt heard about the trip to hollywood...when did that occur? maybe he told her after the trip?
no way I'm letting my 16 year old go off with some man who's not her father/grandfather or my brother. family friend or not.
Hopefully they catch him and the 16 yr old is still alive. As far as the man making those advances towards her, she's young, and probably didn't know how to handle it, she may not have mentioned it to her parents as not wanting to cause friction with them and the family friend. She probably thought he had no chance in hell, and just let it go.
(CBS/AP) LAKESIDE, Calif. - Authorities say James DiMaggio, a man suspected of abducting a 16-year-old Southern California girl and her younger brother, might be armed with homemade explosives.
San Diego County Sheriff's Capt. Duncan Fraser said Thursday that evidence recovered at DiMaggio's home east of San Diego suggests he might have fled with explosives.
The search for Hannah Anderson and her younger brother Ethan has reached four Western states, Canada and Mexico. The FBI and various state and local law enforcement agencies are assisting.
Fraser says it's possible the 40-year-old DiMaggio was infatuated with the girl. Her mother, 42-year-old Christina Anderson, was found dead at DiMaggio's burning home near a dead child who might be the girl's younger brother.
Oregon state police said there was a possible sighting of DiMaggio's blue Nissan Versa in northeast California near Alturas on Wednesday, followed by another possible sighting about 50 miles along the same highway near Lakeview, in south-central Oregon.
Also Wednesday, a friend of Hannah Anderson said DiMaggio told Hannah he had a crush on her and would date her if they were the same age.
Logic and pessimism both tell me that there's no way this could possibly end well, so I will be praying for a miracle so Hannah can escape.
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Yep. I just saw a story on the news about this with the latest details. It said there've been sightings in both Alturas and Lakeview. So thay explains it. They also said law enforcement feels the man is headed to Canada with the girl. Yeah, he's so delusional as to think once there he'll be home free, people who know him say. Delusional strike two? He is apparently "so in love" with the girl that he's never hurt her. This fucked up sentiment of his was also verified by the girl's family who also just said so on the news.
honestly I feel the best thing she could do is play along with it until she knows she can get away without a shadow of a doubt. I hope she has the strength to do what she needs to do to keep herself safe especially if she knows about her mother and brother which I suspect she does.
I would imagine this guy is keeping up with media reports to see if the authorities are closing in on him. I hope he doesn't start feeling cornered, get desperate, and kill the girl and then himself. He's in too deep to just let her go unless he releases her and kills himself soon afterwards. Escaping is probably her best hope for survival, but I'm sure she is scared out of her wits and he's keeping a close eye on her. I feel so sorry for the Dad.
she's going to have to get him to trust her that she wont run away enough that he will leave her a clear exit. I fear the same that he will feel cornered and 'take her with him' I feel badly for the dad as well everything changed in his whole world in a split second and he has no control over it. so scary.
Yes, the Dad has already lost his wife and son and has no idea whether he will ever see his daughter alive again. All of this by a guy who was considered a family friend. I think it would be hard for the girl to convince her kidnapper that she can be trusted not to run away, unless she is with him willingly and is a part of what happened. I've seen no indication of that though.
SAN DIEGO (AP) — A car belonging to the suspect in the disappearance of a teenage girl in California has been found in Idaho, authorities said on Friday.
San Diego County Sheriff Bill Gore also said that horseback riders reported seeing two people matching the description of the suspect and girl in the Cascade area 70 miles northeast of Boise on Wednesday.
Authorities throughout the West have been looking for 16-year-old Hannah Anderson and family friend James Lee DiMaggio since the bodies of the girl's mother and an unidentified child were found Sunday at DiMaggio's burned home east of San Diego.
Authorities have said the 40-year-old DiMaggio had what they term an "unusual infatuation" with the 16-year-old.
Police previously warned that the car may have been abandoned and rigged with explosives. Evidence found in the rubble suggested DiMaggio may have fled with homemade explosives.
Glad they are getting closer to finding them, but still worried that it may not end well. Looks like he's been planning this for a long time.
Yep. I don't like the added instability of homemade explosives, either. He might have a detonator in his pocket or something...I wonder if he might also have strapped some of the explosives to her body (so that, if she tried to run away, he could just press a button). I have no idea what's possible - am not an explosives expert - but it would also suck if something blew up accidentally. Well...this whole thing just sucks, all around.
Part of me wonders why the mother let this guy around her 16 year old daughter but then I realized that I am nearly 40 and my friends let me around their teens and there is nothing weird about it. The guy was a fucking nutcase. I am not (at least not in the sense that I am attracted to any 16 year olds). What a sad case. I hope they are able to rescue this girl. She must be scared to death. Though I can't imagine what his end plan was.. he's already gone too far, how was he planning this to end?
I totally agree with what you're saying... I think the the mother in me would have sensed that my dear friend was nuttier than Cooter Brown and had a fancy for my daughter and woulda just stopped going around him. It sounds like they all knew he liked her and did nothing but continued to take her around him. I'm not a religious person, but this story reminds me of that old biblical saying about how the children pay the price for the parents sins.... in this case it would be the children paying the price for the parents negligence and stupidity.
I agree with you, but the Mom paid an awful price, too, along with her son. No matter how weird a person seems, nobody wants to believe someone who they consider a friend would murder them, their son, and kidnap their daughter. I wonder how she met this guy and how long he had been a "family friend?"
Thank God 3peat. I'm glad he is dead. She won't have to deal going through a trial and him possibly getting out one day. Does make you wonder though that she gave no sign she was in trouble to the people on horseback.
So glad to hear this good news! That poor girl. At least they killed the piece of garbage and we don't have to go through a long drawn out trial hearing about all his rights.
Great news. I can only hope that he hasn't raped this poor girl. She's already had her whole life torn apart.
"River of No Return Wilderness"...an aptly-named place. Glad nothing exploded, relieved the girl made it through alive, and happy the guy was taken out. Much better and quicker outcome than I was expecting.
I can't believer he did not kill her in the end. So glad she is safe, hope she makes a full recovery with time.
I thought that too. But I am wondering if the FBI, fearing what he may do in the end, just got him with a sharpshooter. They spotted both of them, and just took him down before he had a chance to hurt her or know he was spotted. He already killed two, and probably didn't want to let him try for three. Just a theory.
Hope they release details how they got him soon. Seems they found him fairly quickly after he was reported in Idaho.
They spotted their campfire from the air - which is how they found them. While I'm glad that POS is dead for what he did, I can't help but wonder if the teenage girl went along with him because she liked him - and maybe it was consensual between them? Just thinking here...
A friend of Hannah's was interviewed and stated that Hannah was a little creeped out by him, and didn't like to be alone with him after he confessed that he had a crush on her. But Hannah never told her mom about it (according to her friend, she didn't want to cause a problem with the parents friendship with DiMaggio). She was always asking her friend to be around when he was with her. So Hannah's friend believes she didn't leave with him freely.
He had already proved himself too dangerous to be given a chance. Any attempt to arrest or negotiate would have resulted in that poor young lady's death. Kudos to all the LEO involved.
"Christiana Anderson [Hannah’s mother] died of blunt force trauma and may have been hit with a crowbar, a source close to the investigation told The Times."
It seems that some reports are putting this girl in somewhat of a cast of being an accomplice and not really a hostage. I am sure that more details will be coming out about this. C.
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287,507,512 | The International Institute of Islamic Thought (IIIT) hosted a Colloquium on Saturday, Dec. 2, 2017, with the objective to review the IIIT publication, Observing the Observer: The State of Islamic Studies in American Universities.
Original contributors to the book, such as Dr. Zahid Bukhari (Center for Islam and Public Policy) and Dr. Marcia Hermensen (Loyola University), attended the day-long proceedings. Academics in the field, including Dr. Kecia Ali (Boston University), Dr. SherAli Tareen (Franklin & Marshall College), Dr. Younus Mirza (Allegheny College), Dr. Maria Dakake (George Mason University), Dr. Jonathan Brown (Georgetown University), and Dr. Feryal Salem (Hartford Seminary). Moreover, the following representatives of Islamic higher education institutions were also present: Dr. Abdullah bin Hamid Ali (Zaytuna College) and Munir Shaikh (Bayan Claremont).
Dr. Ermin Sinanović, Director of Research and Academic Programs at IIIT, began the Colloquium with a brief background of Observing the Observer and IIIT’s intention to publish an updated version in the near future that captures current trends in Islamic Studies at universities. Dr. Hisham Altalib, President of IIIT, and Dr. Abubaker Al-Shingieti, Executive Director of IIIT, offered welcoming remarks to the participants. All three recognized the contributions of Dr. Mumtaz Ahmad and Dr. Sulayman Nyang, co-authors of the volume along with Dr. Zahid Bukhari, as well as Dr. Jamal Barzinji and Dr. Fathi Malkawi who greatly contributed to the volume.
Dr. Zahid Bukhari admitted that talking about the book is painful since both Dr. Jamal Barzinji as well as Dr. Mumtaz Ahmad, who were intimately connected with the publication, are no longer with us, and Dr. Sulayman Nyang is undergoing health challenges. He explained that the book took shape in the aftermath of 9/11 when the increasing interest in Islam led to the need to analyze the state of Islamic Studies in universities. In addition to outlining the objectives of the volume, he shared that the authors had submitted case studies and policy recommendations too which could possibly be considered and built upon in a future publication.
Dr. Marcia Hermansen indicated the ambiguities associated with the title: who is observing and who is being observed? She acknowledged that many things have shifted in the field. For instance, Islam is no longer marginal or exotic, but quite central, and as a result, the heat has increased and it has become part of culture wars. Further, the demographics have changed: there are many more Muslims in the United States now and this is felt in the incremental numbers of Muslim students and graduate students. She also added that the bar for knowledge of Arabic is much higher on a graduate level now than it was when she herself earned her Ph.D.
In the session titled, “Identifying Prospects and Challenges” and chaired by Dr. Darakhshan Khan, IIIT’s post-doctoral fellow, Dr. Kecia Ali spoke of challenges of the moment, not only for Muslims but also higher education in general. From helping people to see Muslims as human beings and complicating Islam to the crisis of adjunctification, assault on humanities, racist and gendered policies, she talked of the numerous difficulties faced by faculty today. Dr. SherAli Tareen discussed new issues that have emerged in the study of Islam that were not as prominent at the time when the research for the book took place, such as the quest to find moderate Muslims and this tendency for seeking meaning whether it be for acts of violence or rituals. Furthermore, he talked about integrating the disparate Islamic Studies and Secular Studies by showing on the one side the internal workings of our discursive tradition while on the other, disrupting liberal binaries.
In the next session, titled “Pedagogical Innovation and Tools” and presided by Dr. Abubaker Al-Shingieti, Dr. Younus Mirza discussed the diverse translations that he uses in his classroom along with what distinguishes them from one another. He illustrated this through the numerous ways in which Surah Duha has been translated by various translators. Dr. Maria Dakake articulated the importance of looking at both the text as well as the context. She also mentioned some strategies she uses to engage students with the text, such as thinking of the text as a hologram: depending on where you’re standing, it looks different. Dr. Jonathan Brown stated that students find contemporary writing to be more engaging than historical texts and he utilizes them to teach legal theories interactively. In his experience, he has found that, through Islam, students are coming to terms with who they are and what their traditions say.
During the last session, titled “Theological Schools and Islamic Colleges” and moderated by Dr. SherAli Tareen, Dr. Abdullah bin Hamid Ali traced the origins of Zaytuna College, the first accredited Muslim liberal arts college in the United States. He explained that Zaytuna College is able to teach Islam as a normative tradition and does not face the sort of pressures mainstream academic spaces deal with many times. Dr. Feryal Salem shared the history of Hartford Seminary and its phases vis a vis Islam: it began as a Christian mission with goal of conversion, shifted toward Christian engagement with Islam, and eventually evolved into a more dialogic Christian-Muslim relations. She also spoke of the first appointment of the Scottish Dr. Duncan Black Macdonald to teach Arabic and Islamic Studies in 1892 and his long tenure, leading to the Hartford Seminary’s Macdonald Center for the Study of Islam and Christian-Muslim Relations, which opened in 1973. Munir Shaikh outlined the inception of Bayan at Claremont School of Theology, which began offering courses in 2011. Overtime, Bayan Claremont has opted an intensive and hybrid format for its degrees, so that students are required to be on campus for a short period of time whereas the rest of the teaching and coursework takes place online.
Dr. Ermin Sinanović led the Concluding Discussion where the main takeaways and next steps of the Colloquium were considered. He informed the participants that IIIT intends to conduct its 2018 Summer Institute for Scholars around this theme. Participants provided their feedback on the themes covered during the day and expressed their appreciation for the opportunity to contribute to the Colloquium. |
76,667,493 | I had a teacher talk to me about a conflict they knew was brewing between two students in their class. The students had been arguing in class for some time and had separately come talk to this teacher about it leading to a fight. The teacher was concerned about these students, the conflict and the impact it was having on their learning. Conflicts between students in class can have a major effect on the culture and learning. There's really only two options. Deal with the issue in class and try to help the students work around it or change the students schedule. Normally i would say try to help resolve the issue in class but when potential violence is at risk its are job to do everything we can to prevent that from happening. Although moving the kids doesn't resolve the issue, they may be able to focus and learn more in their classes. Follow up is an important and needed next step.
I also say this because i have a student in my class who i have now had for three years going through something similar. His issue is girl related, a broken heart it seems. Although they are not about to have a fight, he is still greatly effected. He honestly just isn't the same kid i had the past two years. He was always one of the loud ones, participating (sometimes too much), engaged in the lesson, excited in what we were doing, but now he sits in the corner, silent. It's clear something is wrong. I have talked to him and he just wants a different class. Sometimes we can't fix an issue in a day, a week, or even a semester and when it effects their learning we have to figure the best option. It hurts to watch this kid not be himself. I miss the student he was. He was a pain sometimes, but he was happy and himself. We aren't just here to teach math, history, or english, we look after them
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We loved the views and all the windows! Very clean and all high end appliances in the kitchen! The lawn could have used some attention as houses next to us their lawns were mowed and looking nice ours needed much attention. Overall though very impressed with the property and I would definitely recommend this property to my friends and family.
The property is new, well-located, nicely appointed and has a great view; but there are subjects which certainly need to be addressed. Appliances appear to be top of the line and very high-tech, but no user information was included - no helpful booklet that would say why music would suddenly start playing from the refrigerator(!) - or how to turn it off - no information on the microwave drawer or the enormous laundry equipment. There are three steep flights of stairs; fortunately a dumb waiter helps with luggage. The lawn was, in contrast to others, shaggy. Management was not especially helpful. Our request for early check in was denied although cleaners left two hours before the time we were held to. Both early check in and late checkout are supposedly available.
Hi Nancy, Thank you for taking the time to leave us this feedback, and we’re so sorry to hear your experience with us was not as great as it should have been. Here at TurnKey, we strive to offer impeccable customer service before, during, and after your stay. We wish we had known about the issues you experienced during your stay so we could have tried to help out then. Our 24/7 guest hotline is always available -- never hesitate to reach out while you’re staying with us! With regards to the early check-in and late check-out, we unfortunately were unable to offer these for your stay since the home had back-to-back reservations on both days. Otherwise, we would have happily allowed you to use the home for longer. Please be assured we’re checking on everything you’ve mentioned, and we’ll make sure it all gets resolved. If there is anything else we can still do for you, please reach out anytime and let us know. -The TurnKey VR Team
Stayed for 7 days. Great location-close to everything. A few things, no BBQ on the roof top? No regular size frying pan or 13x9 pan? All would have been helpful. Mold on both shower curtains. Asked about a garage code-someone from Turnkey came out and said there was no code so no way to get in and out of the garage without running and ducking. Day 6 the smart fridge gives us a garage code that works. Strange. The propane rooftop heater didn't work. Turnkey said they'd send someone out to fix it but it never worked. Again it's a good rental. Would just take a few tweaks to make it a great rental!
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Myself and 8 of my girlfriends stayed in this beautiful home for 3 nights. House is in a great location, great view of downtown. Our Uber driver brought us to the Kroger grocery store before bringing us to our house. There is also a huge liquor store about 1/3 mile away. Some of us walked there and felt completely safe. The house had everything we needed, including an iron and ironing board, and also hair dryers (which it does not list that on the property description). Some had said they ran out of TP in other reviews so we bought extra but never used it. Maybe those people spent more time at the house than we did. We had a great time, I would highly recommend this house and would definitely stay there again!
We loved this house! Beautifully decorated and appointed. It was only lacking a regular coffee maker, which we were told would be on site. There was a Keurig Coffee maker, but we were not made aware of this, so did not come prepared...had to make a trip to Starbucks every morning.
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What a view from the rooftop deck! You have to be willing to climb lots of stairs but it is well worth it. The interior is set up nice but we mostly sat on the barstools at the kitchen counter!
We were a group of ladies on our College reunion trip so the bedrooms and bathrooms were great to have. We took an uber on the way in from the airport and had him stop at the grocery store. The kerig coffee pot was great to have but it would have been nice to have more than one tiny frying pan. A few supplies would have been nice, like salt and pepper. We ended up leaving a few supplies when we left, salt pepper, foil, zip locks and a few K cups. We did have to phone the management for the WIFI password because the unlocked one didn't work, but they got right back to us. It might be nice to have directions on the TV remotes in the living room, it took us a day to figure that out.
Walking to the Gultch was easy which is filled with great restaurants and stores and I recommend going to Biscuit Love when it opens at 7 and bring home biscuits, gravy and their wonderful jam.
One day we walked all the way to Broadway! What a great place to hear incredible music, bands on every floor and rooftop decks. The Grande ole Opry
Hi Terrell, Thank you for the compliments, we love hearing how much you enjoyed your stay with us! We apologize about the WiFi not working but we are glad you texted in to get the issue taken care of right away. In regards to the lack of salt and pepper, TurnKey does not stock any food-related items in our homes in order to prevent guests from consuming anything that has either been contaminated or has spoiled. Thank you for being a great guest, we look forward to hosting you again! -The TurnKey VR Team
Great location and beautiful house. Very comfortable with everything needed. However, the place needs to be cleaned massively. The walls are so scuffed up and dirty and in massive need of either a Magic Eraser or fresh paint. There were bodily fluids on the bathroom floor and wall (master) and I sent a picture and description of the nastiness to TurnKey, who did send a housekeeper out the same day. We were not in the home when the housekeeper arrived and could tell that she re-cleaned the bathroom toilet because the seat was up and we could smell bleach. However, the area near the toilet paper holder (floor and wall with bodily fluids) was not cleaned. I assumed that texting a picture and description of where the mess was would be sufficient. I sent another message to TurnKey who asked me to phone them. I was there for a conference and didn't have time for phone calls back and forth about the cleanliness of the house. The initial picture and description should have been sufficient. Loved the decor of this place and how comfortable the furniture was but I can't get over the lack of cleanliness in this home and won't be back.
Hi Melissa, Thank you so much for taking the time to post this review. We would like to sincerely apologize for the issues you experienced and can also understand your frustration that we were unable to address it during your stay, even after we sent someone back out to clean all the bathrooms again. Please be assured that our team will follow up appropriately. Here at TurnKey, your feedback is highly valued, and we try our best to make things right in any way we can so that our guests know that our priority is their ultimate satisfaction. Although not a great excuse, our internal communication was poor and we thank you for bringing these important issues to light, as it’s feedback like this that really makes a difference in how we move forward in offering the best service we possibly can to our guests and in keeping our properties in perfect shape. If there is anything else we can do for you, please reach out any time on our 24/7 guest hotline and let us know. -The TurnKey VR Team
Great location!! Very close to Broadway and Gulch, just a short Uber. Rooftop patio was great to hang out on. Went with three other couples and everyone had plenty of room. Extremely clean and new.
Fabulous Fan in Nashville! Highly recommend this location! Rooftop deck had a fabulous view of the city!
A group of 9 of us stayed here for a Bachelorette weekend it was perfect! It is literally a $7 Uber ride to Broadway and is so close to anything you need. The house has a great view and great main area to hang out plus the rooftop! The ONLY downside is it is a lot of steps!!!
Hello Kathleen, Thank you so much for taking the time to leave a review and share your experience! We’re so happy to hear you enjoyed your stay with us. You were perfect guests, and we look forward to next time! -The TurnKey VR Team
This house was great! It was the perfect size for 10 people and was in a really good location. The furniture, appliances, and condition of the house were great. Only complaints... We really wished there had been a vacuum cleaner and more toilet paper and paper towels.
Hello Lily, Thank you so much for taking the time to leave a review! We appreciate your feedback and are so happy to hear you enjoyed your stay with us. You were perfect guests, and we look forward to next time! -The TurnKey VR Team
The overall look of the property is amazing. Every room is decorated elegantly. No room went unnoticed. I went with a large group and it easily fit all of us. We could have fit up to 10 girls comfortably. Most of our time was spent outside of the house but it was nice coming home every night to such a cozy place! They also left face wipes and towels folded on each bed which was nice! My only bad comment is that we made the reservation with 8 girls so we assumed there would be enough toiletry items but we went through toilet paper quickly and there was no extra in the house so we had to go out and get some by the second day.
Lacey, Thank you so much for your review and kind words about our property! We’re so happy to hear you enjoyed your stay with us. Please note, we stock each home with what is called a "starter supply" of basic items. It is not designed to be an unlimited supply but, rather, to get folks started so that they can enjoy their arrival days, take inventory, and pick up whatever else is needed to get them through their trip as needed. Prior to each stay, we stock dish soap, laundry detergent, a roll of paper towels, toilet paper, a dish brush to wash dishes, a few trash bags, dishwasher detergent, bar soap, and the standard bathroom amenities you might find in a hotel. We can't wait for you to stay with us again! -The TurnKey VR Team
Very clean home and great location. House is beautiful. Overall great experience and will certainly stay there again the next time we are in Nashville!
I have used VRBO for a long time and this is the first time I have written a review. This place was awesome. Everything was new, patio on top was a nice added feature with a great view, TV in main area was a newer curved TV and the location was perfect. $20 Uber from airport, $6 to all 3 drinking areas downtown, midtown and the Gulch. The mattress in the master bedroom has already been ordered by the couple that stayed in the room. 2 issues to point out, this property is 3 stories, with the kitchen and living room on the 3rd story, not a problem for us, but if you had someone with walking problems, this could come into play. The 2nd issue, we had 10 people and a couple of the girls felt they needed long showers, this made colder and faster showers for the last group taking them. If everyone got in and got out, I don't think this would be an issue. We really enjoyed this property and would definitely recommend it to others.
William, Thank you so much for taking the time to leave your first review! We appreciate your feedback and are so happy to hear that you enjoyed your stay with us. You were perfect guests, and we look forward to next time! -The TurnKey VR Team
Very nice new unit. 3 levels so a LOT of steps. Awesome city view from living area on 3rd floor and roof deck! Floors were not vacuumed spotless. Everything else was very clean. Front door was very difficult to lock and a long code to unlock. New construction of units going on across the street and next door. Overall, impressed with the unit. Walking distance for walkers to 12th Avenue downtown.
Barbara, Thank you so much for the review and helpful feedback! We are so happy to hear that you had a great stay with us. Please let us assure you that we are following up to ensure that all floors are thoroughly cleaned to TurnKey standard. Also, our 24/7 guest hotline is always available to call with any issues that may come up, so please let us know next time if you need anything. By the way, you were perfect guests, and we look forward to having you stay again! -The TurnKey VR Team
This was the perfect fit for my associates and I for our business trip. When most hotels were sold out due to multiple conventions in the downtown area, 902 Southside Pl satisfied all our needs and in grand style. We only wish we had more free time to enjoy the roof and it's view of the Nashville skyline. Next time I'm sure:-) Thanks! SA
If the pictures were any indication, we knew we were in for a great stay. But, the property went above and beyond. The appliances were high end along with every surface in the home. Counter tops, bathrooms, everything just great. We left with kitchen envy. With everything Nashville has to offer, we still opted to get home a little early Saturday night for cigars and bourbon on the roof top deck. Beautiful view of the city. Enjoy! |
24,661,792 | Thanks for answering questions! "Wicked Game" has to be one of the most sublime productions ever. Did you know what a standout it was while working on it? That a cappella at the end - was that written in from the beginning, or did it come together in the mix?
When Lana Del Rey released "Blue Jeans" and everyone compared it to "Wicked Game", what did you think? Have you gotten a lot of requests since then for the "Wicked Game" sound?
And one question about the modern wicked games of the music business, about doing your best with less. Do you ever find yourself thinking "this band is so generic, corporate, focus-grouped, watered-down, etc, but I am going to make their songs sound as great as possible"? Are you more likely to do it by ignoring their songs and focusing more on the tones? Or is it better to try to find them appealing?
That song was very hard for us to record and get the feel we wanted. I ended up programming the drums on an Akai DD1000 and the bass on a Synclavier. That achieved the hypnotic effect we were looking for and left us 16 tracks to do the rest. ( we needed one track for SMPTE code and a guard track next to it so we did not get SMPTE bleed). The vocals were live in front of speakers which made them difficult to mix as well. ( you can hear the bleed ride up whenever Chris sings)That ending was always part of the arrangement as I remember and to us the song sounded pretty good when it was done. I don't think anyone thought that a ballad was going to be that successful at the time and it wasn't until the 2nd video that it really took off.I haven't really received a lot of requests for that sound in a long time despite Lana's success with it.I think any great production requires starting with a great song. You have to focus on getting the lyrics and melody correct in pre-production before you start building a track and then see what helps get the message of the song across.That might take 160 tracks or 4
Thanks for the great answer! I never would have guessed the rhythm section was programmed. You guys were pulling off miracles in the pre-DAW days!
Letting Chris sing in front of the speakers paid off in spades, what a performance. Why is that not always done? It's so much more natural than headphones/vocal booth. You would think recording studios would prioritize singer comfort over engineer comfort, particularly these days when artists are empowered to record themselves if they prefer.
The bleed in Chris's vocal probably only adds to a natural feel. Do you ever do the trick where you record the instrumental playing out of the speakers into the vocal mic and flip it's polarity to cancel the bleed? Would that have been impossible with Chris because he was moving around or something? Ironically, Lana Del Rey records her vocals the same way, in front of blasting speakers.
That's a good point about how unlikely it would've been for a spare spooky ballad to become a hit. You're right that video sure didn't hurt, particularly to me as a little kid!
Wicked Game is an incredible piece of work. Can you please elaborate on how you used the AKai DD1000 for the bass and drums? Are the drums/bass real. but sampled and sequenced through the AKai?
I took a bunch of Kick and snare brush samples and built a track to the ref vocal locked to SMPTE code. The bass was programed on a Synclavier locked to code as well. We wanted a totally hypnotic track.
What a land mark track, i was about 15-16 it was a great summer that year, and that track played on the radio everday.
Hello Mark - I'd actually read before about the 'monitoring during singing' with this song - and I was fascinated with how 'out of the box' it was. I was curious what qualities you feel this process lends to the production. Is it just 'spontaneity'? or does it help cement the tracks together? Something else? all of the above? Have you used this method since that time? Thanks!!
This thread inspired me to listen to the eary Chris Isaak albums again - just wow! Obviously a gifted singer and one of a handful of true guitar stylists in James Wilsey. But the production work brings it all together - it's cinematic with amazing depth.
I remembered that Mix Magazine ran a great article with Mark's input some years ago, I found it here:
One of the greatest, most inspirational songs I ever soaked up. Great for male, heartbroken, self indulgence. Thanks for the insight, just goes to show that soul can come in many incarnations.
The guitar was just a Fender Strat played through a 64 Fender Deluxe with a SM 57 and a GML pre. The trick here is to have a send of the guitar through a fader that goes to delay , then to a big chorus and feed that to a reverb, ( that one was a TC2290 , to a H3000 rich chorus , to a 480L snare plate but I have done the same thing using other FX) After each note you just ride the fader up and get this sound that goes from a clean mono guitar to this big stereo effect.
The vocals on this were done over a pretty long period of time trying different approaches and lyric corrections so trying to match any bleed with phase was difficult at best. I decided I just liked the sound of the natural bleed the best and the sound it creates by making the band more ambient when I ride the vocal up where he is singing. Turned out to be a cool effect. We also felt that Chris got his most dynamic approach when he sang in front of the speakers instead of headphones. It all seemed to work out in the end. |
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Between May and September 1971 a scientific management team conducted extensive tests to evaluate the overnight efficiency of intercity airmail deposited in dedicated collection boxes by 4 p.m. Customer service officers posted approximately 100,000 test envelopes per week, which required the delivery office to record the arrival time and to report any problems encountered en route.
Postal Service pronouncements concerning this “airmail improvement plan,” claimed a 95 percent success rate with the program. Of course this plan had originally began with the old Post Office Department. However a number of critics noted that the reported results were invalid because postal employees could easily spot the “test” envelopes in transit and give them special attention.
Independent test mailings by the Associated Press between AP bureau offices in major cities showed significantly poorer results than the Postal Service was bragging about achieving. The AP’s tests showed that it often took two days between the posting and the delivery, and that only 50 percent of the mailings achieved the next-day goal. A Postal Service news release stated that the use of the test envelopes had ended Sept. 20, followed by hand-addressed or typewritten envelopes that resembled normal customers’ mail.
To enhance public awareness of the “new” airmail improvement plan, Airmail Only collection boxes were employed at post offices. This gave prominence and visibility to these collection points on or after Aug. 30, 1971. the new boxes were painted with white tops, set off from the blue lower sections by a red band, and decorated with decals showing a red jet plane outline on a white background. The word AIRMAIL was also visible in tall bold letters on reflective tape.
Customers were informed that mail deposited in the Airmail only boxes by 4 p.m. would be delivered the next day to destination within 600 miles, and the second day to more distant destinations. Independent test mailings still showed that the Postal Service was only meeting its stated goal about half of the time. The Postal Service ignored these results, and continued to brag about its efficiency in next-day airmail delivery.
On Jan. 1, 1972, Elmer T. Klassen, a former president of American Can Co. became the first postmaster general appointed by the USPS board of governors instead of by the President of the United States. He was supposed to have been selected for the position for his business experience rather than his political connections.
The Broadway League reversed itself on September 9 and chose to get theaters to dim their lights in honor of Joan Rivers.
The league had said on September 8 that Joan Rivers did not meet the criteria for the honor, triggering a controversy when several theater owners said they would turn off their marquee lights on September 9 anyway. An online petition was launched and several celebrities came out in favor of granting the honor.
The organization changed course Tuesday afternoon, saying the lights would dim at 6:45 PM for one minute.
“Joan Rivers loved Broadway and we loved her,” Charlotte St. Martin, the league’s executive director, said in a statement.
“Due to the outpouring of love and respect for Joan Rivers from our community and from her friends and fans worldwide, the marquees of Broadway theatres in New York will be dimmed in her memory tonight.”
The Broadway League reversed itself and chose to get theaters to dim their lights in honor of Joan Rivers (photo Getty Images)
Joan Rivers, who died on September 4 at 81, was known primarily as a TV actress and comedian, though she was seen as a champion of Broadway and off-Broadway shows and earned a Tony Award nomination.
Before the league’s reversal, 10 theaters out of 40 were set to break with the league and dim their lights. Theater producer Tom D’Angora had started an online petition asking the league to reverse its decision. It had attracted more than 5,000 signatures.
“I can’t believe we can be denied the last chance to show respect and thank her. I also think if you watch her interviews and documentaries, this would hurt her feelings,” Tom D’Angora said.
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An annual Christmas crackdown aimed at cutting the number of drink-driving incidents on Derbyshire’s roads has begun.
Part of the campaign is this heard-hitting video which shows some of the carnage that has been caused on the county’s roads by drink drivers.
Chief Inspector Tracy Lewis, head of roads policing in the county, said: “Many people head out to celebrate over Christmas and New Year and have a drink, and the message we are giving is simple – if you do have a drink, don’t get behind the wheel.
“Alcohol can have a massive impact on driver awareness and reaction times, and the devastation drink-driving can cause is huge.
“We run this campaign every year and the aim is to keep our roads safe. We will be stopping cars and doing breath tests, and we will take action against anyone who is over the limit.
“If you have a drink and then get behind the wheel, you could lose your licence, end up in prison, or cause a tragic accident. It simply isn’t worth taking the risk.
“If you someone who has had an alcoholic drink and is about to drive off, call us on 999 so we can take immediate action and help keep our roads safe.”
Drink- and drug-drive operations take place throughout the year but police place a particular focus on December, due to the number of social events held over the festive season.
During last year’s Christmas campaign, officers administered 391 breath tests and of those, 79 drivers (almost 20 per cent) gave a positive test, refused to take it, or failed to provide a sample.
Alternatively, you can call Crimestoppers, anonymously, on 0800 555 111. To qualify for a reward from Crimestoppers, people must report information directly to the charity and not to police. The information must then lead to a conviction in court. |
197,742,241 | Dylan Wynford and His Yesteryears are a 4 piece folk-rock band situated in North London. Dylan has been performing as a solo act for a few years and is very happy to working with an incredible new band on his songs.Dylan, Alex, Albert and Jacob’s influences range from Frank Turner to Led Zeppelin.
Born in the wilderness of New York City, raised in the quiet tranquillity of rural England and made on the streets of West London, Jennings Couch is an artist who embodies the virtues of his environments. Since writing his first songs at the age of seven, he has gone on to craft a unique - and eccentric - pop voice. It is this distinctive voice that got Jennings to SXSW 2017, gaining the attention of a wider global audience with shows at The Apple Music House and the BBC British Music Embassy.
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She claims new European legislation will ban "unfair" charges for households that use prepayment meters instead of paying by direct debt.
COVENTRY MP Jim Cunningham is calling for an investigation into poor people being overcharged for their energy bills if they use prepayment meters.
The National Housing Federation wants Energy Action Week, launched yesterday, to lead to action against higher tariffs for electricity and gas prepayment meters.
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I had to return to the Morning Cup of Soul. This blog just wouldn't be the same without it. Here is one of my favorite songs that remind me of summer. Too bad that it is almost over. Well sit back and relax to this. "All Day Music" by the terrific ban War.
I saw War in concert in Indiana a couple of years and this music still sound as fresh as it did in 1972 (well I wasn't around in 72 but I imagine it was FRESH)
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Municipal elections are scheduled in April for both Meeker and Rangely, and candidate petitions are due by Jan. 22. I hope concerned citizens will contest the open seats in town government. There are a number of important questions facing both communities and the elections should provide opportunity for debate and discussion. Here are some of the important issues facing us:
Should the communities encourage economic development? With taxpayer funding? What kind of development? Do we really want growth? What kind of growth preserves community traditions and culture?
More specific to Meeker: What is the purpose of Meeker’s Urban Renewal Authority? Is it necessary, and is it serving the public interest? Should the proposed Outdoor Adventure Center be put to a vote?
More generally, in both towns, what is our vision for the future? Can we—should we—persist in relying on extraction industries and tourism? Would we be better off attracting software developers and small manufacturers to our broadband connectivity? Would we be better off encouraging renewable energy development and training?
And how about the river? Climate change and extra nutrient load have changed the river ecosystem, threatening water supplies in both towns. How can we protect the river as an economic and natural resource? What must be done to protect our water supply?
These are but a few of the issues facing our communities. Democracy functions best when there is vigorous and open debate. We need good candidates to engage in the debate. Please consider a run for office.
Anniversary weekend next year will see three well-known international bands perform at a concert at the Whitianga Waterways arena in Whitianga. The concert is the result of negotiations between Peter Abrahamson, the manager of Whitianga Waterways, and Amanda Calvert of Greenstone Entertainment, an internationally recognized concert promoter known for hosting concerts in breath-taking locations around New Zealand.
Greenstone Entertainment has brought to New Zealand in recent years some of the world’s most famous artists, including Pat Benatar, Creedence Clearwater Revival, 10cc, America, Bachman Turner, Dr Hook, Starship and Lynyrd Skynyrd.
"The concert in Whitianga will be held on Saturday, 25 January," said Peter. "It’s one of three concerts the international bands will perform at. The other two will be at Gibbston Valley Winery outside Queenstown and at the Taupo Amphitheatre.
"I personally think that it’s fantastic that we could secure an international concert for Whitianga again. The last one in 2012, when we had Little River Band and the Doobie Brothers here, attracted more than 12,000 people to town. We hope this time around that we’ll get more than 15,000.
"Events, whether it’s the Scallop Festival or fishing tournaments or something else, are what make Whitianga and our whole area tick. We really are the perfect location for international concerts, a great setting and close to Auckland and Hamilton. We are looking at a long term relationship with Greenestone Entertainment and are sure more concerts will follow."
Peter expects that the names of the bands that will perform at the concert will be announced in the coming weeks.
Stephanie Roche will move to the north-east as it Sunderland AFC ladies announced they had signed the Republic of Ireland striker.
The 26-year old, who was named as the runner up for the 2014 FIFA Puskas Award for goal of the year, will now play in the FA WSL, the top flight of women’s football in England.
She suffered heartbreak last month after her dream move to American club Houston Dash was terminated early, due to a surplus of international contracts at the club following an injury.
Speaking about her arrival, Roche said: “It’s great to be at Sunderland Ladies and I can’t wait to get started.
Sunderland AFC Ladies head coach, Carlton Fairweather, added: “Stephanie is going to be a very good addition to the side. The fact she was nominated for the FIFA Puskás Award at the 2014 Ballon d’Or ceremony shows her ability, but it isn’t just about that and she will bring added value to the side.
“From her point of view it is a great opportunity to establish herself in the FAWSL 1 and then push on from there, so her main objective will be to cement her place in the first-team and continue to represent Republic of Ireland at international level.”
Roche has made 40 appearances for her country to date, having made her debut for the Republic of Ireland in 2008. She won plaudits around the world for her wonder strike for Peamount United, coming second to Colombia’s James Rodriguez at the prestigious FIFA Ballon d’Or ceremony.
The forward began her career in her native Ireland with Stella Maris, before joining Dundalk City in 2007. Spells with Raheny United and Peamount United followed, before a stint in France with ASPTT Albi and before moving to Houston Dash.
Roche could be in line to make her debut, as the Lady Black Cats re-start their WSL 1 campaign with a home game against Notts County Ladies, at Eppleton Colliery Welfare Ground in Hetton, on Sunday 12 July at 2.00pm.
Tickets for the clash are available, priced at £4.00 for adults and £2.00 for concessions, with entry free for supporters who have renewed season cards for the 2015-16 campaign at the Stadium of Light.
An epic 10-day 'Star Wars: Experience The Force' festival is headed to Singapore this September - The Leisurely Life
SINGAPORE - At the stroke of midnight on Friday, September 1, 2017, the Force will be strong at ION Orchard with the launch of Star Wars: Experience the Force Singapore festival. Organised by ReedPOP and The Walt Disney Company Southeast Asia, with event partner ION Orchard, and the support of the Singapore Tourism Board, the 10-day festival will take place from September 1-10.
It will kick off with the worldwide celebration of Star Wars Force Friday II – and fans in Singapore will be able to be a part of this global fan event celebrating the merchandise release of the upcoming movie Star Wars: The Last Jedi at ION Station, at Basement 4 of ION Orchard.
The festivities will continue with exciting pop-up experiences and activities along Orchard Road, leading up to an epic experience at the Singapore Toy, Game & Comic Convention (STGCC) from September 9-10.
Star Wars: Experience the Force Singapore festival is one of the initiatives supported under the three-year collaboration between Singapore Tourism Board and The Walt Disney Company Southeast Asia. Beyond the Star Wars events this year, Disney fans can also look forward to more unique Marvel and Disney Animation/Disney Pixar activities that will be taking the spotlight in 2018 and 2019 respectively.
Experience the Force at Orchard Road Visitors of all ages will be taken on an epic journey of Star Wars, indulging in a trail of exciting pop-up experiences and fan-based activities. Don't miss the opportunity to snap a picture with the first-ever installation of the Millennium Falcon in Southeast Asia at ION2 , ION Orchard’s outdoor event space.
Southeast Asia will also welcome the first-ever Padawan Training, situated at ION2 . Brave, aspiring Padawans aged between 4-12 are invited to train in the ways of the Force and learn how to master a lightsaber under the guidance of a Jedi Master.
Finally, fans can get to meet the most adorable droid in the galaxy, BB-8, as he makes his debut through a virtual reality experience in Southeast Asia at ION Station, Basement 4. Retailers to look out for include; Toys “R” Us, Simply Toys, and Taiwan-based toymaker Beast Kingdom, who will be bringing their 3.5meter tall AT-ACT Walker set from the Battle of Scarif scene and exclusive merchandise EAA-055 Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back Darth Vader Hologram to Orchard Road (outside ION Orchard).
“ION Orchard is pleased to partner Disney, ReedPop and STB for this exciting blockbuster showcase. ION Orchard has become known for our innovative retail positioning and events, and the exclusive debut of the Star Wars Millennium Falcon, Padawan Training, limited-edition collectibles, and other in-mall activities will provide an immersive experience that complements our unique lifestyle offerings which will delight fans, shoppers and tourists from all-over the world; and will certainly be a highlight for Orchard Road” said Mr. Chris Chong, CEO of Orchard Turn Developments.
The 10-day festival culminates with an immersive experience over at STGCC, where an entire zone has been specially dedicated to Star Wars. At STGCC, fans will be offered the chance to get up close and personal with fan-built vehicle replicas, games, releases and collectibles.
Be transported to a galaxy far, far away by a replica of Kylo Ren’s TIE Silencer from Star Wars: The Last Jedi, the first of its kind in Southeast Asia. In addition, larger-than-life fan made props have been flown in specially for this exhibition, including Rey’s Speeder, signed by film director J.J. Abrams himself, and a film replica of the interior of the Millennium Falcon.
The latest addition to Star Wars’ ever-expanding mobile gaming family will be featured at STGCC. Fans are welcome to take aim and compete with one another in real-time demos. Tickets to STGCC will also be available for purchase at the Star Wars: Experience the Force Singapore festival at Orchard Road.
appearance of Star Wars: Experience the Force Singapore festival for the first time in Southeast Asia,
alongside the global Star Wars Force Friday II launch. As fans eagerly anticipate the next movie installation, we hope that this event will bring joy to all visitors”, said Ms Lin Koh, Assistant Project Director from ReedPOP.
Singapore Tourism Board said, “Building on the success of the Star Wars event at Gardens by the Bay in May this year, we are pleased to partner with Disney and ReedPOP to bring exclusive Star Wars experiences to our iconic Orchard Road and homegrown pop-culture show, Singapore Toy, Game & Comic Convention. We have no doubt that Star Wars fans, both local and foreign, will have a celestial entertainment experience once again in Singapore.”
by ocradmin | Oct 19, 2014 | Commercial Roofing, Damage, Residential Roofing, Roof Maintenance, Roof Repair, Roofing, Uncategorized | 0 comments
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I thought I would share my fitness goals and my gym schedule I created for myself to achieve those goals. You may need a little direction or motivation yourself OR you may just be one of those people (like me) who likes to read anything fitness/health related. Either way, this is the schedule I've created for myself to get the gains I'm looking for specific to my body.
My goal: to trim down with minor fat loss (hellooo postpartum baby belly) and tone up. Gain muscle definition and grow dat booty.
My Schedule: I train Monday - Friday at the gym. Saturdays I occasionally do yoga at home. Sundays off.
I am not training chest because I'm already... larger... in the chest region and I gain upper body muscle really quickly so I don't want to bulk up in my chest at all. I have two lower body days because I want to train my glutes really hard for some major booty gains! Two kids and my butt straight up disappeared! I train shoulders two days a week because sculpting the deltoids in your shoulder creates a really strong, but feminine look to a womans arm and I love it! I incorporate HIIT (high intensity interval training) a few times a week because it's the best for fat loss while maintaining muscle. Besides I hate cardio so HIIT gets the job done without having to run miles and miles on a treadmill. There is nothing wrong with that, it's just not my thing. I also want muscle gains so I'm going for lower reps, higher weight. Right now I am doing 4 sets of 10 reps at a weight that's tough, but manageable for 10 reps. I'm sore the next two days after a workout and that's perfect! Once I start gaining my muscles back after about a month or so I will begin doing 4 sets with a 12, 10, 8, 6 rep and going up in weight in each set. Basically starting out at 12 reps with a weight that's manageable and then going up in weight so that the 6 reps in the end are almost impossible to do and cause me to burnout.
That's basically about it. Plan to fail, fail to plan y'all. Set realistic goals and understand they aren't going to happen over night. I'm not terribly over weight, but I'm at a point where I'm the most out of shape and unhealthy that I've ever been in my life and I don't like it. I don't like how I feel mentally and physically and I don't care for how I look. To be quite honest, I'm tired of pulling my pants up over my tummy that wants to hang over. So I got real with myself and made a plan. Plus I told myself if I stuck to it and got some results then I'd splurge on a pair of Lululemon workout pants! Holy heavens those things are like gold!
Hopefully all of this wasn't too confusing! If you have any questions feel free to comment, email me or leave your question on social media.
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287,699,114 | Alicia: Because it's one of those simple ones and yet… I can tell you, you don't talk about test questions. You're not allowed to talk about test questions when you walk out. But I do recall a question about this on the exam. The person had said “My 3-year old is prone to ear infections. I work in an allergy office that she goes to regularly and I was looking at her chart to get dates of ear infections for her ENT appointment she had on Monday. Anyway… question is what is the difference between 381.01 Otitis Media Acute and Otitis Media Allergic? I noticed the documentation was fairly similar and (I can't find the paper now) but two of the three times she was given an antibiotic, yet each time it had one of these two diagnoses. Also, the last visit the doctor/PA told me that she didn't have an ear infection; that the ears were red, yet the diagnosis was Otitis Media Acute and no antibiotic.”
She's ultimately confused about the details about otitis media and the adjectives that go along with it. So, what is otitis media? There is a link which I kind of copied the information here. There are three kinds of ear infections, which are called: 1) acute otitis media – acute means sudden onset, 2) otitis media with effusion, which means that there is pressure built up behind the ear, and 3) otitis externa which is swimmer's ear, which I know some of you have heard that. That is just meaning that the ear canal is irritated.
Now, with all of those you can have some other things. One of the key words besides acute and chronic – and most of you will know what that is – but you have to pay attention to that, they are different codes. If I'm writing a test question, you bet I'm going to throw one of those in there because it lets me know if you're paying attention to the details. You’ve got to pay attention to the adjectives. That's what they're wanting to know on the CPC exam. One word can make a lot of difference.
In acute serous otitis media, the infection of the middle ear is accompanied by a build-up of fluid, usually due to inflammation of the Eustachian tube preventing drainage. Scroll down to the ear real quick, Laureen, that we've got. Here you've got the ear canal. You’ve got the eardrum right there, that little pink circle there. Now, then, in the middle ear, that can have pressure. Fluid can build up in there and all that can have swelling and stuff. The eardrum will bulge ultimately. And if it's bulging, then they know it's with effusion. If you'd ever had a chance to see inside of the ear – and I advise you to go on YouTube and you can see all kinds of pictures.
But that's how they would diagnose otitis media with effusion. Now, when they say serous, what they're saying is, ultimately, is there any pus? Is there any drainage, serous fluid, that's what that means. There’s something oozing out of your eardrum around the eardrum. So, they'll look in the ear; if it is just irritated, the ear canal is just irritated- it’s inflamed, it's itchy. Think of “itis” there's irritation there. That is a lot of times due to an allergic reaction. It doesn't have to be because it's infected. If the eardrum is bulging, then you have effusion. If you have all three of those things and on top of that fluid coming out of the ear, that's also when you would need an antibiotic. A lot of times, they will not give an antibiotic for just irritation, but they will give it for fluid, the bulging eardrum and they'll give it for… Because a lot of times, your eardrum will go ahead and perforate and they don’t know what’s behind the eardrum. Is it pus, is it just pressure? What’s back there, they can’t see it. Your eardrum is actually kind of clear and if it’s white and foggy, they know there’s something back there.
Then, the build-up of the fluid… and the drainage. So, acute allergic serous otitis media – that means sudden onset. It was brought on because of an allergic reaction. There’s fluid or something coming out of the ear that’s made it inflamed, 381.04.
Now, your doctor may not write all of that. You may have to go in and see… he’ll write acute or chronic because that’s just a given. But he may not write allergic. If he doesn’t say allergic, you can’t say it’s allergic. If he indicates that it’s allergic reaction or the patient has allergies or something, then you can probably draw the line and use that 04. If it doesn’t say “due to an allergic reaction,” of any kind, you can’t use that code.
381.10 is a completely different scenario. Chronic – that means this has been going on for a long time, maybe they’ve had it either for a long time or they get them repeatedly. Serous – so you have fluid draining, there’s stuff coming out of the ear whether it’s pus or fluid or something. And inflammation – simple or unspecified. Now, this is probably one of the more common codes that are used specially with a child that keeps getting an ear infection. They don’t know. Have we just not been able to get it cleared up? We’ve got fluid, we’ve got inflammation and he didn’t say whether it’s simple or unspecified so this kind of – if there’s fluid, this is going to be a catch-all one.
Now, when you go in to 381… are you able to bring up that page or is that too much work to bring up the manual?
There you go. Put in 381 and let it give the details of all of them. That’s what’s so great about this; you can… if you know where you’re at, it will give you. There are more than just those ones I mentioned. See? You’ve got acute nonsuppurative – that means there’s no fluid, there’s nothing coming out of the ear. There’s no pus, there’s no drainage. Then, it’s zero. One – Chronic and there’s fluid. Mucoid is just another word for mucus. Other and unspecified – nothing coming out of the ear. Now, all of these are going to use another digit, mind you.
But, see all of your options there? You have to be very careful, and this is one that you’ll often see on test questions especially mock ones because it’s so easy to trick somebody at. They say, “Ops, otitis media. Okay, 381.01, got it!” and not paying attention to the details. I keep saying that, it will get you on the test. Pay attention to details. Don’t go too fast.
Laureen: Yup! Although I tend to do that on my CPT manual, but absolutely you can do it in your ICD manual. Alright, thank you, good one. |
177,173,102 | NILES, IL, May 9, 2011 — With the scarcity of land in southern California, the Placentia-Yorba Linda Unified School District (PYLUSD) was thrilled to meet its need for a new high school by acquiring the satellite campus of the local community college. The crown jewel of the property was a 314-seat performing arts center known as The Forum.
“It’s a beautiful theater with a traditional proscenium and two small side stages that give it great flexibility. It has a long history of events staged by community groups, including small music festivals and theater productions,” notes Steve Holt, senior design manager for the school district. “But, when we acquired it…there was very little infrastructure. We felt it was important to develop its full potential as an asset for the entire school district and the community.”
The challenge was a big one. “Before this modernization, we had an old sound board and speakers,” notes Phil Mortensen, Visual & Performing Arts Coordinator for the school district. “We had no wireless, no comm system. We wanted the versatility to do a wide range of productions, including jazz, orchestral, choral, and theatrical, without using rental equipment.”
With a limited budget and short lead time, the school district engaged Time & Alarm Systems, a full-service integrator specializing in the education market based in nearby Mira Loma. “We’ve done a lot of work for the school district over the years, but nothing like this,” notes Keith Senn, the firm’s president. “With only six weeks before the first performance, it was critical to work with manufacturers that could give us the functionality and performance the venue needed, with absolute assurance of on-time, in-budget delivery. For wired mics and wireless systems, that meant Shure, without a doubt.”
Having conferred with Phil Mortensen on the range of applications to be accommodated, Keith Senn consulted with Shure to create a microphone package with the quality and versatility desired. “In addition to basic theater miking, we wanted to enhance solos during student music performances,” states Mortensen. “So we asked for application-specific mics to use on instruments like sax, trumpet and trombone, even piano. The Shure microphone package that Time and Alarm suggested meets all our needs and more. It’s a huge step up for us.”
Choral and theatrical productions are equally served by four MX202 choir mics, which are suspended from the ceiling. Similarly, a set of three MX393 cardioid boundary mics can cover acoustic jazz and theater, providing excellent coverage for the theater’s two small side stages. To cover a wide range of musical instruments, condenser microphones including the Beta 181 side-address mic and the end-firing KSM137 were specified. Finally, a set of classic SM58® and SM57 mics were brought in for their ability to step in wherever a specialty mic was not required.
To achieve professional results without breaking the budget, Time & Alarm specified six Shure ULX®-P wireless systems, each with handheld and bodypack transmitters for flexibility of use. The six half-rack receivers are housed in the control room at the back of the hall, along with two UA844 wideband antenna combiners fed from a pair of UA870 active directional antennas hung from the ceiling, stage left and stage right.
“Shure wireless has been absolutely flawless,” reports Mortensen. “There have been no interference issues, no dropouts, and the sound quality is top notch.” “It gives us the pro performance to meet the needs of visiting artists, and the ease of operation that’s so critical to have in a high school setting. Needless to say, we’re thrilled to have them.”
Project manager Steve Holt is similarly pleased with the project’s outcome. “This is a very flexible space that’s considered an asset for the entire community, not just the high school,” he notes. “In addition to our own music and drama programs, it’s used by theater companies in the summer, for elementary school graduations, and for small music festivals. To meet all those needs with just six weeks for planning, design, and installation, while staying within a fairly modest budget, is a real tribute to Keith Senn and his team at Time & Alarm Systems.”
Looking back on the experience, Senn credits his design team and the vendors they selected for the project’s success. “It was critical to select products that offer proven performance at reasonable prices,” he notes. “We knew that Shure wired mics and wireless systems would cover a wider range of theater and musical applications than any alternative. As a result, we were able to give Yorba Linda High School the performing arts center it envisioned.”
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58,960,362 | There were a couple of moments when the PassivHaus study tour seemed to lose all contact with normality and enter into a surrealist daydream. Picture around 20 people, crammed into a cellar, with a few more hanging out in the passageway outside unable to get in for lack of space. We were listening, or trying to listen, to the architect, Carsten Grobe, who was explaining with the aid of a translator about the mechanical systems employed to heat the Passive House, which he had designed and built back in 1998 and in whose basement we were now standing.
One of our party asked what the carbon emissions were like for this house. Carsten gave a long and detailed explanation as to why the indoor air quality was very good and insisted that they had no problem at all with carbon emissions. It was an eloquent answer to a very different question.
You might think that this was just a translation problem and that he hadn’t understood the question. But similar misunderstandings happened throughout the tour. Whilst the Germans had no problem explaining how they have engineered these houses to reduce space-heating demand to an absolute minimum, they looked flummoxed when we started going on about carbon emissions or used the dreaded phrase “zero carbon.” I began to realise that these are concepts that the Germans actually felt uncomfortable about and it highlighted a surprising difference in emphasis between Germany’s PassivHaus builders and the UK’s “carbon busters.”
You see, it’s no accident that one of the key benchmarks for Passive Houses is a maximum allowance for space heating requirements for each house and it is expressed in kilowatt-hours per square metre per annum — 15 is the magic number they are looking for in this context. In contrast, the UK regs now work in terms of carbon dioxide emissions per square metre per annum. Whilst the two units are related, they are not the same, not by a long chalk.
The kilowatt-hour (kWh) has the benefit of being simple to understand. It’s the unit we buy our gas and electricity in, and the related kilowatt is the preferred unit of power for our boilers, fires and electrical equipment. Even light bulbs are routinely rated in watts. Most people are familiar and easy with the watt, the kilowatt and the kilowatt-hour.
Carbon dioxide emissions, in contrast, are much trickier. They vary a lot depending on the type of fuel being burned. A kWh of gas releases less than half the CO2 of a kWh of electricity. Every fuel has a conversion factor, related back to mains gas, and some fuels have several. So the fuel you choose to burn in your house has a critical effect on the CO2 emissions but no effect on the kWh you use. Consequently, Carsten Grobe saw no contradiction in using electricity exclusively to power his ventilation/warm air heating system and to heat his domestic hot water when the solar panels weren’t producing.
The three schemes we visited around Hanover were all different, designed to show the different aspects of PassivHaus living. Carsten Grobe’s selfbuild represented one strand, the upmarket detached family home: we also saw a block of flats in Hanover itself and a terraced house set out on the Expo site to the south of the city. The weather was wet — very wet in fact — but not particularly cold for February, around 7°C, and I was certainly a little surprised to find radiators on in both the detached house and the flat. In fact, I was surprised to even find radiators at all, though they were small and unobtrusive.
Most Passive Houses are built without radiators, except for towel radiators in bathrooms. They aim to maintain an even temperature throughout the structure and Carsten explained that the only reason they had a radiator in their house at all was for odd occasions when their elderly parents came to stay and they appreciated a bit of extra warmth.
But just because Passive Houses rarely use radiators, it doesn’t follow that Passive Houses are “Homes without Heating” as we sometimes think of them as being. The actual space heating arrangements vary from site to site but the overriding principle seems to be to
a) having insulated the fabric down to a very low U value and having designed out all thermal bridges
e) and you use a heat exchanger to take every available bit of heat from the extracted air and add it to the incoming air.
f) You then pass this pre-heated air through something called a post heater (a term I had not come across before) which brings it up to a comfortable temperature.
How much work this post heater has to do depends on how warm you like your house. The one in the terraced Passive House was capable of delivering 1.5kW and could produce an air temperature of 50°C if required. I was frankly surprised at this: it seemed to me that this was essentially a warm air heating system.
The standard method of heating new homes in Germany is to use underfloor heating combined with a gas boiler. PassivHaus eschews this approach on the grounds that you don’t need a full heating system in a Passive House. But it seems to me to offer an alternative that is no cheaper to install and possibly burns more carbon because it relies on electricity to power the fans and the air heater. It would certainly be no cheaper to run because electricity is habitually three times the price of gas.
And yet Passive Houses sell themselves in part by saying that you can offset the extra costs of building to the higher standard by saving money on not having to install a full heating system. Hmm. I was beginning to have my doubts.
Carsten gave us another little trick used by PassivHaus designers. He said it was extremely difficult to get a really low theoretical heat demand from a detached two-storey structure as there is just too much external envelope in proportion to floor area. An easy way around this conundrum was to add a third storey, in his case a basement, and to include this in the heated envelope. The floor area goes up 50% whilst the space heating demand rises much less. As you are looking to meet a target expressed in kWh/m2/annum, the job of reaching PassivHaus standard becomes that much easier.
You could argue that this is daft and that the total energy load is actually increased in order to meet some notional standard. In fact, you’d be right but it’s a criticism that can be levied at most of the other energy rating schemes as well, certainly all the ones that work on a floor area basis.
Maybe, I am carping. I suppose I do carp rather a lot. But I know others were also uneasy. We had Julia Hailes, author of the Green Consumers Guide, with us in our party and she was flabbergasted to see that Carsten’s house was full of halogen and tungsten lights with not a CF bulb anywhere to be seen. There is in fact no particular requirement in the PassivHaus code to use energy efficient lighting or appliances: this seems bizarre. Julia also asked at one point just how you would incorporate a cat flap into a Passive House, a question that was met by complete bafflement from our hosts. Maybe the word cat flap was lost in translation, or maybe it was another case of different agendas.
The embodied energy question was raised several times by various delegates. Was the extra investment in, say, triple-glazing filled with krypton really worth it either financially or in terms of carbon emissions? Again, it seemed to be something that the Germans hadn’t addressed. They seemed to be solely interested in designing homes which required less than 15kWh/m2/annum for space heating: there didn’t seem to be any room for critical reflection about this.
The first day of the tour was spent in the hotel listening to various presentations. One of the most interesting presentations was delivered by John Willoughby, the energy consultant and sage, who gave a 20-minute slide show on the History of Low Energy Building in the UK. He ran through many projects starting with the Wallasey School (1961), the Wates House at CAT (1976 and still the best insulated building in Britain), various solar houses in the 1970s, the Pennyland and Linford projects in Milton Keynes in the 1980s, right through to Hockerton and Bedzed, both realised within the past few years. He also drew our attention to the increasing number of energy codes:
He suggested we were becoming good at standards but not very good at implementing them. He also referred to another energy sage, David Pickles, who I remember seeing give a talk once where he said that low energy living is 10% technology and 90% lifestyle. This little aphorism kept plopping into my head as we made our way around the three Passive House sites the following day. The German PassivHaus builders really didn’t seem to care about this aspect of energy efficiency at all: they just wanted to get their buildings up to PassivHaus standard and move onto the next one. PassivHaus seems to be very much an engineering concept, designed to provide comfortable space heating with the minimum energy possible. But that, unfortunately, is it.
So I came away feeling PassivHaus is a flawed standard. It’s very good on space heating demand (in advance of anything we have built in the UK, except for a tiny number of exemplar projects like Bedzed), but questionable on heat delivery systems, so-so on hot water heating and almost non-existent on lighting and electrical goods used within the home. What is more, there don’t appear to be any plans to update or improve the PassivHaus standard to take into account the rising concerns about carbon emissions. As such, I really don’t see PassivHaus translating wholesale across to the UK, but we can certainly learn a lot from what they have achieved to date.
The principle lesson perhaps being that, whilst it is all too easy for me to carp on about what is wrong with the PassivHaus standard, or why it is not quite the dog’s bollocks (try translating that!), they have built loads of them. And the more they build, the less theoretical it becomes and the more practical it appears. Whereas we may be full of good intentions, the Germans (and the Austrians, who seem to be even more enamoured of PassivHaus than the Germans) have now built around 6,000.
They are also very keen to promote the PassivHaus concept to the non-German speaking world. To this end, the next PassivHaus annual conference will for the first time be bi-lingual in German and English. So if you want to go and learn more about it, you need to head for Bregenz in Austria on April 13/14.
It used to be the case that if you installed electric heating (rather then gas), and then invested the money saved on the lower installation costs in better insulation you had lower header bills then if you installed gas heating. I do not know if this is still the case in the UK, as the standard of insulation is now so match better in all new houses.
Also whenever I see cost comparisons of heating system, they never seem to take into account the cost of getting a gas system serviced each year, including the cost of the wasted day’s holiday you have to spend waiting for the service person to call. (Add in another day each year if you have an inside gas meter for your “meter safety check”, as the gas companies will not tell you what time they will come.)
Interesting ... each of you, your hosts and you, had quite different perceptions ... one based on the success with the passivhaus standard, and the other from a country without such success.
That some visitors from our country would not understand that - for almost all fuels - an energy reduction without fail equates to a CO2 reduction, is difficult to imagine, not just for your hosts.
As you wrote further down, CO2 emissions are a variable 'feast', depending on the type of fuel used. Moreover, CO2 figures don't mean anything to the average person (yet). What householders DO understand, especially those with the purse strings, is whether their energy use is reduced by 50%, 90% or whatever. That's why these energy consumption figures are used in Germany, in preference to CO2. Whatever fuel you are going to use, depending on what is available in your area, you want to use as little of it as possible.
The German energy facilities are different to ours, with far fewer gas connections, and more district heating.
So, yes, it is quite possible that Carsten Grobe was surprised about your CO2 questions and would have understood them as questions about air quality; especially as some of their ventilation systems are so sophisticated that they monitor CO2 levels in the indoor air and, when you have a party, automatically increase the ventilation rate according to need.
"Carsten Grobe saw no contradiction in using electricity ... to power his ventilation [heat exchanger/heat-pump system] ...":
b) he is likely to be familiar with the exciting recent developments to harvest solar electricity cost-efficiently;
d) what fuel do YOU use for the controls and pumps in your (central) heating system, and for your compressors in your refrigerator and freezer?
Well, if the Germans felt uncomfortable about the 'zero carbon' term, we do too, as it is usually a misnomer and misleading. All fossil fuels and biofuels produce CO2 (yes, biofuels also absorb some while growing, but that makes them 'carbon neutral', not 'zero-carbon').
The passivhaus standard is only achieved if the building uses no more than 15KWh/m2/a for heating, and no more than 30 KWh/m2/a (or 120 KWh/m2/a primary energy at the power plant) for all appliances and lighting in the house; you will find more on the websites.
So, a building with built-in appliances which are not up to standard will not pass the final independent inspection and not obtain the financial rewards from the government for this standard - meanwhile, the standards of appliances are being driven up by law anyway.
Low-energy light-bulbs: we don't know whether the homes are handed over with these bulbs provided. However, there is enough incentive in Germany, hence the good quality low-energy light-bulbs - obtainable even here for under £2 from Lidl. The problem may be that they can't generally be used with dimmer switches, and that it seems very difficult to find suitable lamp-shades, both there and here. Sad for all of us, isn't it, that this stands in their way!
Yes, you will find a radiator in many passivhaus homes: a) it is a psychological reassurance which is still needed by some people at this stage; and b) it is of course true that the young, the sick and the elderly sometimes do need higher temperatures (and our visitors from Australia want 25oC ...). We have seen the particular building you referred to, and it was in fact laid out as 'life-time' accommodation which could be changed as necessary, and really did have grand-parents, parents and children living next to each other.
A building can still be a passivhaus building provided it meets the criteria and performance standard, even if the occupier decides later to 'embellish' it to satisfy their particular need or concern. After all, many people in Britain would laugh at the idea of a home without central heating. When they and their embellishments move out, the next occupier is able to still enjoy the benefits of the straight-forward passivhaus building.
After the great majority of heat has been transferred by the heat-exchanger from the outgoing stale air to the incoming fresh air, the small compressor (like in a fridge) in the exhaust duct beyond the heat-exchanger (hence the term "post-heater") extracts further heat when needed for hot water, or top-up heating on very cold days.
You could describe it as a 'supplementary (or residual) heat-exchanger' ... but 'post-heater' is perhaps easier.
The cat flap ... your hosts' reaction is not a case of "different agendas", but perhaps a cultural difference. Anyway, specially insulated cat flaps have been used in passivhaus buildings in Germany, and are available from the UK!
Yes, we do have too many energy codes here. Most may eventually disappear due to the wide and spreading acceptance of the low-energy and passivhaus standard.
Both your hosts and you start from your own assumptions made as a matter of course, and don't realise that the 'other side' is not aware of them at all!
Your hosts are not aware that Britain utilises none of the planning and fiscal incentive opportunities (as well as the next point below) that have led to such a rapid uptake of the passivhaus in Germany and Austria.
You, on the other hand, are not aware that the passivhaus standard QUITE INTENTIONALLY engages people and encourages their creativity by making no prescriptions beyond keeping within that all-important energy target – thus giving them complete freedom of choice over style, material or whatever; that the Passivhaus Institut is helping them to achieve this passivhaus standard cost-effectively with the passivhaus simulation software programme; and that, together with other groups, it is working continuously towards ever higher cost-effective energy reductions. The information we see on all the work that is going on is absolutely amazing.
Incidentally, the conference in Bregenz in April is not the first bi-lingual annual conference, but we too recommend it to anybody who is interested – especially the site visits.
All in all, you will see that we are very supportive of the Passivhaus initiative and have followed it for many years. Austria and Germany, and other countries, have recognised it as a viable and proven technology which could transform the energy requirement for buildings to a scale whereby the future need for new power stations could be questioned. This technology and experience is there to be had by us all.
It can only be Brian Rushbridge? Thanks for the detailed commentary and the help with the cultural differences.
I chose to build to PassivHaus standards for the very reasons Brian and Sibylle stated. It leaves your imagination and conscience free to determine your building materials and techniques.
I have found that if you investigate the passive houses built to-date you will find some amazing cost effective designs which improve on the basic standard.
The way in which you are choose to meet your buildings remaining energy requirements is also entirely up to you and your finances.
A concentrating solar pv system and hydrogen fuel cell would be ideal but at the moment a little too expensive. Although I'm working on it :)
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hello just found your page while researching this concept and wondered what you thought of Richrd Hawkes House, (it is a passive house in UK built inside a large arch, see grand designs) and how it relates to your comments on CO2 emmissions?
I wouldn't be so enthused about gas heating. Gas is going to run out eventually and a fossil fuel can never be clean energy. We heat our house with infrared radiators, a low wattage solution from Infranomic. The price per radiator is about that of a central heating radiator, a bit less if you include the cost of labour for a corgi plumber to install it - these just plug into a standard socket. We aren't investing in gas which is unsustainable either. All our electricity is supplied by good energy - the only company to supply 100% renewable electricity so we aren't burning fossil fuels their either. I've lots of vices of course don't be fooled but not all electricity is bad and gas doesn't have a long-term future.
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"Also whenever I see cost comparisons of heating system, they never seem to take into account the cost of getting a gas system serviced each year, including the cost of the wasted day’s holiday you have to spend waiting for the service person to call."
I agree, they don't account for the maintenance cost of gas systems but highlight it when it comes to computing solar heating costs.
I think a lot can be said for the efficiency of homes. Effective insulation, energy efficient products and more general practice is one of the most sure ways of reducing the fuel bills and the amount of CO2 that your home needs.
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The biggest mass extinction in the history of the world which killed off more than 90 per cent of all living species happened because of an act of microbial sex that caused a suffocating release of methane and carbon dioxide, a study has found.
The mass extinction — known as The Great Dying — occurred at the end of the Permian period some 252 million years ago and was by far the worst of the five mass extinctions on Earth in terms of the broad array of marine and terrestrial creatures that it killed off.
Scientists had previously proposed a variety of possible causes ranging from huge volcanic eruptions and global climate change to a cataclysmic asteroid impact, but none was totally satisfactory in explaining this uniquely terrible crisis in the history of life on Earth.
Now, however, a team of American and Chinese scientists has found evidence to suggest that the real trigger for the abrupt disappearance of virtually all forms of life at the time was the promiscuous passing of genetic material between two species of microbes in a form of sex.
They believe that the sudden acquisition of a new set of genes enabled methane-producing microbes to feed off the abundant deposits of organic carbon that had built up in the oceans at that time. This led to an explosive growth in these Methanosarcina microbes and an equally explosive release of their waste gases, which suffocated almost all other life-forms on land and in sea.
“This would have made a very traumatic time in the history of life far worse. It could have been the killer blow that led to the biggest mass extinction we’ve known,” said Greg Fournier of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Methane and carbon dioxide are both powerful greenhouse gases but they also dissolve easily in water and their sudden, exponential build-up in the oceans would have caused oxygen starvation and high levels of acidity — a lethal “double whammy” for the many shelled marine organisms alive at the time.
The extinction at the end of the Permian period, which marked the beginning of the Triassic period, was unusual even by the standards of the other four great mass extinctions. The Great Dying killed off all but about four per cent of marine species, exterminated 70 per cent of terrestrial vertebrates, and was the only mass extinction to have seriously affected insects -natural-born survivors that lived through the rise and fall of the dinosaurs and other dramatic periods of mass extinction.
The MIT scientists, working with colleagues from the Chinese Academy of Sciences, carried out a genetic analysis on about 50 different genomes of methane-producing bacteria and found that they must have acquired the ability to “eat” dissolved organic carbon around 252 million years ago — coinciding with the known time of the Permian mass extinction.
They suggest that this sudden ability was acquired with a set of genes inherited from a cellulose-degrading bacterium and aided by abundant amounts of nickel — a biochemical catalyst — deposited in the oceans at the time from the huge eruptions of supervolcanoes in Siberia.
Dr Fournier, one of the authors of the study published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, said that this would explain the exponential rise of carbon dioxide and methane with the exponential increase in the population of methane-producing microbes.
“A rapid initial injection of carbon dioxide from a volcano would be followed by a gradual decrease. Instead, we see the opposite — a rapid, continuing increase,” Dr Fournier said.
“That suggests a microbial expansion. The growth of microbial populations is among the few phenomena capable to increasing carbon production exponentially,” he said.
An analysis of sediments in China from ancient oceans shows that nickel build-up also happened at about the same time, following the Siberian eruptions, which would have allowed the accelerated release of carbon dioxide and methane — choking most marine life-forms that survived the rising acidity as well as causing global warming and extreme climate change.
The rate at which carbon dioxide would have been released was on a par with the modern emissions caused by the burning of fossil fuels, but they would have gone on for several thousand years. This could have triggered the release of poisonous hydrogen sulphide gas which would have added to the stress of land animals, said Professor Dan Rothman of MIT, the lead author of the research.
“The cumulative impact of all these things is much more powerful than any one individually. No one thing on its own is convincing, but the totality of it all can explain it,” said Professor Rothman.
A crucial piece of evidence came from an analysis of carbon isotopes found in sediments dating back to this time period. These indicated a major increase in carbon dioxide which continued to rise exponentially as a result of the breakdown of methane released as a waste product by the Methanosarcina microbes, he said.
“There was some kind of instability in the carbon cycle that went up exponentially, which we were unable to reconcile with existing theories about volcanoes being the cause of the mass extinction at the end of the Permian,” Professor Rothman added.
“A lot of this rests on the carbon isotope analysis, which is strong and clear. If it wasn’t such an unusual signal, it would be harder to eliminate other possibilities,” he said.
However, it may take further evidence to convince other scientists that it was a genetic innovation in a microscopic organism that ultimately triggered the biggest biological crisis in the history of life on earth.
* Ordovician-Silurian (443m years ago): most of life lived in the seas. About 85 per cent of marine species were killed, mostly at two peak dying times separated by hundreds of thousands of years.
* Late Devonian (359m years ago): about three quarters of species went extinct over a period of several million years. Much of the sea became starved of oxygen, possibly due to asteroid impacts.
* Permian (252 million years ago): nicknamed the Great Dying because it was the biggest mass extinction in history, killing off about 96 per cent of marine species. Volcanoes were thought to be involved.
* Triassic-Jurassic (200m years ago): occurred over several million years at the end of the Triassic. About half of all species at the time disappeared, but strangely plants were not badly affected.
* Cretaceous-Tertiary (65m years ago): famous for being the death knell of the dinosaurs. A giant asteroid impact was almost certainly involved, possibly preceded by a long period of volcanic eruptions.
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Dec. 1/2 pat. at beg. of next 4 rows. Work even until 4" from underarm. Dec. 1/2 pat. at beg. of every row until 3 pats, remain.
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149,800,112 | Joe McGinnis’s National Enquirer in Hardback is hit the shelves and his bogus fabrications are already being shredded to pieces by even the even the usually liberal media including the New York Times.
But today Andrew Breitbart uncovered what we believe is key to understand how people who hate Governor Palin will just make up and publish stories about her for no other reason than because they hate her.
In an email exchange with Jesse Griffin – his book collaborator – McGinniss admits that all the stories in his book are, well, made up. His biggets source is someone who just goes with a screen name AlaskaWTF who in return uses people like him as their sources. Basically with those who bash Palin it comes down to you scratch my back I’ll scratch yours.
Legal review of my manuscript is underway and here’s my problem: no one has ever offered documentation of any of the lurid stories about the Palins. Shailey Tripp is the latest example.
APD and Sarah have denied that Todd had any involvement with her. To my knowledge, no one has provided any evidence that he did. TheEnquirer cites AlaskaWTF, which in turn cites the Enquirer: what good is that? I’m also told that the Enquirer is preparing to back off this story and save face by denouncing Ms. Tripp as an unreliable source who promised documentation she couldn’t provide.
She may be mentally unstable and prone to fabrication, delusion, or both. Her joint may be called Blue Hands Massage (brrrrr!), but she’s no Monica Lewinsky with a blue dress with a semen stain, that’s for sure.
Do you believe that Todd paid her for sex? If so, why do you believe that, other than that you wish it were true?
A lurid, sensational, defamatory story about Todd, based only on the account of a woman charged with prostitution, who is no doubt desperate for money, and who sold her story to the Enquirer, is a gift from heaven for Sarah.
Jesse, you can ridicule Sarah for calling in to the execrable Bob & Mark, but the fact is that as far as this story goes, there’s no there there. And rumors about what might come in weeks ahead are not facts. In fact, they’re garbage.
I’ve neither seen nor heard anything that indicates that Ms. Tripp’s story has any basis in fact. None of the endless crap Patrick posted about her before getting the boot from palingates.com offers any substantiation.
And even you write frequently that you know things you can’t yet post, but that soon “all will be revealed.” This has been going on since I first became aware of your blog, but as far as I know you haven’t substantiated a single claim or provided verification for a single rumor that you’ve posted about Sarah’s personal life, or the personal lives of any Palin family members. Thus, she gets to denounce what she calls “lies.”
Neither from you, the Enquirer, AlaskaWTF, palingates.com or anyone else, have I seen a credible, identified source backing any of the salacious stories about the Palin family.
Thus–as Random House lawyers are already pointing out to me–nothing I can cite other than my own reporting rises above the level of tawdry gossip. The proof is always just around the corner, but that’s a corner nobody has been able to turn. Maybe Jeff Dunn has, in which case I’ll be the first to congratulate him. But frankly, at this point, I’m tired of it, and I’ve run out of time.
c) Track was a druggie who enlisted in the army to avoid a jail term. Or that he vandalized Wasilla school buses.
d) Willow was involved in the vandalism of the empty house in Meadow Lakes. Or that Sarah rushed back from Hawaii to put the lid on that.
f) Bristol was promiscuous as a high schooler and drank and used drugs, or became pregnant again after Tripp’s birth.
Jesse, you were going on and on about Bristol being pregnant while doing Dancing With The Stars. And, if I recall correctly, at the time of her brief glossy-magazine-payday “reunion” with Levi, you surmised that she was pregnant by Ben Barber, or at least by someone who wasn’t Levi. You’ve recently suggested she’s had an abortion, publishing photographs that show her chubby then and thin now. But doesn’t that seem a little “thin” to you, based on nothing besides magazine pictures?
So much has bubbled at the salacious rumor stage for more than two years, but no one has been able to take even one story further.
Jesse, if you can put me in touch with people who are willing and able to substantiate any of the above, now is the time to do so. Otherwise, I hope you won’t complain that there are no startling new revelations in my book. My publisher and I think it’s damning enough without airing the family’s dirty laundry, but because Sarah’s hypocrisy about her family is one of the things that galls me most, I’d like to be able to publish facts in regard to a) through f) above, but I emphasize facts.
For any or all of those who’ve told you they’ll speak out, but not yet, now is the time. My book represents the last best chance to put the truth about Sarah in front of the American people in a documented, verifiable way. But I need facts that I can rely on. I didn’t live this long and work this hard over so many decades to wind up as AlaskaWTF between hard covers. |
261,305,572 | Although Colorado and Washington have legalized the sale and possession of marijuana for recreational purposes, possession and distribution of the drug remain a crime under federal law.
However, the U.S. government, including the Federal Drug Enforcement Agency, has been exempting the residents of those two states from federal drug law enforcement.
That is obviously a good thing for people selling or consuming marijuana in those two states. However, it is not a good thing when it comes to the rule of law and the principle of equal treatment under law.
When a federal law is enacted, it should be enforced equally against everyone. When public officials wield the power to pick and choose which people are going to be forced to comply with the law, that is a hallmark of a tyrannical regime. That’s what we call the “rule of men,” as compared to the “rule of law.” The rule of men enables public officials to enforce laws arbitrarily, capriciously, and in an ad-hoc manner. The rule of law requires public officials to apply the law against everyone equally, without favoritism to any particular group.
What is the Obama administration’s justification for declining to enforce federal marijuana laws in Colorado and Washington? U.S. officials say that they have the authority to allocate scarce resources in law enforcement.
Granted, but does that authorize them to exempt whatever state it wants with respect to the enforcement of federal laws? Absolutely not! If they wish to reduce the number of people who are arrested for violating federal drug laws, then the correct policy, under the rule of law, is to reduce the number of people who are arrested all across the nation. Selecting entire states for privileged treatment, whereby people in those states are free to violate federal laws, while people in other states are being punished for violating such laws, is the epitome of tyranny.
To put the matter starkly, suppose the feds announced that they were going to enforce federal drugs laws in only California, Texas, New York, and Florida and not do so in all other states. It is easy to see that there would be something definitely wrong with that picture. The reasoning is no different when the federal government picks out two states for law-enforcement exemption.
While the rule of law is not a sufficient policy for a free society, it is a necessary pre-requisite for a free society. For how can people genuinely be considered free when public officials wield the authority to pick and choose which people are going to be required to comply with the law?
The federal government needs to either enforce federal marijuana laws equally against everyone in every state, including Colorado and Washington, or repeal such laws.
Actually at this point, repeal is the only really legitimate course the federal government can take. With its decision to not enforce federal marijuana laws in Colorado and Washington, federal drug officials are essentially saying that marijuana consumption is not that big a deal — at least not so big a deal that the feds want to spend time and money going after people who are consuming or selling it in those two states. But what about the other 48 states? There, the feds are telling federal judges that marijuana sales and consumption are terrible acts for which people need to be punished.
Which is it? If marijuana consumption is bad, then why aren’t the feds enforcing their laws in Colorado and Washington? If marijuana consumption is not so bad as to necessitate federal enforcement in Colorado and Washington, then why are federal personnel enforcing such laws in the other 48 states?
Ideally, all federal drug laws, including laws regarding marijuana, would be repealed. They have caused enough damage to liberty and privacy and have ruined enough lives, without any benefit to society whatsoever. But until repeal of federal drug laws comes, the rule of law and the principle of equal treatment under law dictates that federal laws be enforced against everyone in every state rather than exempting those in privileged states, like Colorado and Washington.
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246,928,121 | Here are the candidates for governor who find themselves in a materially stronger position from earlier this week.
We yet again have a new leader in Florida, and it’s the Republican Rick Scott, although by about the slimmest possible margin: our program currently projects him to win by one-tenth of a point, which could trigger another recount in a state that has had a few too many of them. There appears to be a fairly large enthusiasm gap in Florida, while there are also a goodly number of voters who have tepid views of Mr. Scott; that may be what’s driving some of the disparities in the polling, as recent surveys show everything from a 6-point lead for Mr. Scott to a 7-point edge for his opponent, Alex Sink.
The other state with a new leader is Rhode Island, where Lincoln Chafee, the former Republican senator who is running as an independent, has pulled ahead of the Democrat Frank T. Caprio on the strength of a Rasmussen Reports poll that gives him a 7-point lead. Given that three-way races are volatile, and that Rasmussen is the only pollster yet to show Mr. Chafee with a lead, we could use another survey to confirm this result. Still, he is a familiar face to Rhode Islanders, and the state has one of the nation’s highest percentages of independent voters, so his fundamentals are reasonably sound.
In California, Meg Whitman’s chances of defeating Jerry Brown are increasingly slim, as new surveys give Mr. Brown leads of 7 and 8 percentage points. Ms. Whitman’s internal polls also have her trailing, although by a smaller margin, according to KCBS’s Doug Sovern. The polling has been fairly consistent in this race for several weeks now, and I don’t know that it’s really all that hard a contest to read: Ms. Whitman’s campaign has encountered a few speed bumps, and she may have saturated the market with advertisements to the point that voters are tuning her out; moreover, she has lost ground even as the Senate candidate in California, Carly Fiorina, has held or somewhat improved her position. And a comeback is less likely in a state with significant early voting. Ms. Whitman’s winning chances are now down to 14 percent in the model, from 18 percent earlier this week.
Tom Tancredo’s chances have improved again in Colorado, where a new Magellan Strategies poll puts him just 1 point behind Denver Mayor John Hickenlooper, the Democrat. Both the polls that show Mr. Tancredo within a point or two of Mr. Hickenlooper are Republican-leaning “robopolls,” and should probably be interpreted with caution. Because he generates strong reactions, Mr. Tancredo is the sort of candidate who can be difficult to survey if your poll has a low response rates and you’re only tapping into the most enthusiastic and partisan voters. Still, with Mr. Hickenlooper’s support in the polls never having gotten much above 46 or 47 percent, there is no reason to think that Mr. Tancredo couldn’t win if he is able to consolidate essentially all Republican support from Dan Maes, whom he has been lobbying to drop out of the race. The model puts his chances at about 20 percent.
The polling in Maine has been exceptionally hard to read this cycle, but the Republican Paul LePage once again looks to have established himself as the favorite. Still, Mr. LePage has only about 35 percent of the vote even in the polls which give him a lead, with many voters remaining undecided or pledging to support third-party candidates. This race almost has the feel of a primary, with the multitude of candidates on the ballot and voters’ seeming reluctance to attach themselves to any of them. That dynamic could potentially favor the conservative Mr. LePage, since Tea Party voters, while not especially abundant in Maine, are probably the most certain to vote in what may otherwise be a very low-turnout election.
Yesterday’s long-awaited Supreme Court decision in Ricci v. DeStefano is unsurprisingly being injected immediately by conservatives into their case for rejecting the confirmation of Sonia Sotomayor to replace David Souter on the Court. The obvious reason is that the Court, by a 5-4 margin, reversed a Second Circuit decision in the same case in which Sotomayor participated.
But anti-Sotomayor forces are also avidly using the decision to heighten the racial overtones of the confirmation fight. The idea is to link her “repudiation” by the Supremes to claims that she is race-and-ethnicity obsessed, while exploiting long-simmering public resentment against some forms of affirmative action, particularly in the kind of employment cases at issue in Ricci. In other words, they hope Ricci can blow the confirmation fight wide open.
Is there any basis for that hope in public opinion? Not as much as Sotomayor and Obama critics seem to think.
Exhibit A in the case for Ricci being a huge problem for Sotomayor is a CNN/Opinion Research Corporation poll released just yesterday that recited the basic facts of the Ricci case and asked respondents to play judge:
In a case currently before the Supreme Court, a city decided to use a test to determine which firefighters should receive promotions. No black firefighters scored high enough on the test to earn a promotion, so the city decided not to offer promotions to the white firefighters who got the highest scores on the test. Which of the following statements comes closest to your view:
65% Those white firefighters were victims of discrimination and should get the promotions based on the test results
31% Because no black firefighters got high scores, the city should use a new test to make sure that blacks were not victims of discrimination
This question, of course, does not get into the details of the statutory and constitutional issues being tested in Ricci, much less the role of Sotomayor’s Second Circuit Court of Appeals, which was not, unlike the Supreme Court, in a position to make new interpretations of law. This is a critical point already being raised by Sotomayor’s supporters, most notably Linda Greenhouse in today’s New York Times. Even Justice Kennedy’s majority opinion in Ricci steered clear of any argument that Sotomayor’s court misinterpreted the law as it stood prior to yesterday.
While Americans should not be expected to pay attention to such institutional nuances, this issue of precedents does complicate the other prong of the anti-Sotomayor argument: that she is a “judicial activist” who wants to make “policy” from the bench.
More generally, the question in assessing the impact of Ricci on the confirmation fight is whether public hostility to affirmative action is on the upswing, perhaps (as some conservatives have been arguing for a while) because President Obama’s own election shows it’s no longer necessary.
The most immediate evidence is a recent NBC/Wall Street Journal survey which posed a question that’s been asked since 1991:
Now let me read you two brief statements on affirmative action programs, and ask which one comes closer to your own point of view. Statement A: Affirmative action programs are still needed to counteract the effects of discrimination against minorities, and are a good idea as long as there are no rigid quotas. OR, Statement B: Affirmative action programs have gone too far in favoring minorities, and should be ended because they unfairly discriminate against whites.
Respondents preferred Statement A to Statement B by a 63%-28% margin, a higher level of support for affirmative action than in January 2003 (59%), March 2000 (54%), September 1995 (50%) or March 1991 (61%).
Wording on such polls is important, of course, and the qualifier in Statement A above ruling out “rigid quotas” is important. As recent polling from Quinnipiac shows, questions on affirmative action that do not include a rejection of “rigid quotas” and that also introduce the idea of “preferences” produce a different reaction:
Do you think affirmative action programs that give preferences to blacks and other minorities in hiring, promotions and college admissions should be continued, or do you think these affirmative action programs should be abolished?
There’s nothing new about that, and nothing new about the wildly varying findings on affirmative action depending on the precise wording. (The NAACP site has a useful compendium of examples of how the wording of poll questions on affirmative action affects the outcome.)
This is why smart politicians have generally taken a position on affirmative action that endorses the concept while avoiding extreme applications and tough cases. It’s no accident that a national debate on the subject in the 1990s that was threatening to create a major conservative wedge issue was tamped down significantly by President Bill Clinton’s famous “mend it, don’t end it” speech of 1995. Sure enough, a TIME/CNN poll conducted shortly after Clinton’s speech found 65% of Americans saying affirmative action programs should be “mended,” and just 24% saying they should be “ended.”
Barack Obama has worked hard to occupy that same safe territory on affirmative action. He’s gone out of his way to suggest that “preferences” should no longer be granted automatically on the basis of race, but he’s also strongly opposed state ballot initiatives that would outlaw affirmative action measures entirely. There’s no particular reason to believe that doesn’t remain the political “sweet spot” on the subject.
The claim that Obama’s own election dooms affirmative action isn’t well supported in public opinion. The same Quinnipiac survey that’s being cited as showing that Americans don’t like racial preferences also showed that 80% denied Obama’s election made any difference to their views on affirmative action, and of the 18% saying it did, nearly half (8%) said it made it more likely that they’d support affirmative action.
The bottom line is that Ricci shouldn’t be a big factor in the Sotomayor confirmation fight so long as she insists that she was applying well-established precedents in the interpretation of a statute enacted by Congress–i.e., she was far from exerting any sort of “judicial activism” or racial-ethnic point of view, and was just doing her job. President Obama can and should defend her on this point, and both should benefit from his superior positioning on the issue, and the reluctance (political if not ethical) of at least some potential Sotomayor critics to directly attack the first African-American president and the first Latina Justice on baldly racial grounds. |
30,374,424 | Thought I would do a little Revisit Post today - Back in 2010 I designed this little block for all of my smaller scraps .... I made another quilt from the blocks .
This is a Raffle quilt for a guild in Haxtun, CO. It was such a fun one to work on. The group that make it made the house blocks to represent the houses they live in, or grew up in. I loved that concept!
While I know that Memorial Day is to Remember those who have served and passed on - we have an awful lot of Military that were never Remembered when they came home. And so - Quilts of Valor gets to honor them - and Remember their service to our Great Country:
Oh yes!!! I did!!! I took March. April and May's RSC colors to me cell free , text free, wi-fi free weekend - and I FINISHED them!!! Lots of happy dancing was a goin' on - and I might have told everyone.... that I was CAUGHT up....
I saw a MOOSE!!!! Yay!!! I have looked for moose. I have seen signs of Moose, I have heard that Moose exist..... yet they continued to elude me.... often....... until... NOW!!!
It's the Weekly Quilts of Valor Show! So.... I had some questions about what this is - so I thought I'd fill you in. I am the coordinator for QOV here in Colorado - along with my fabulous Western State coordinator Melody! We have a grand ol' time with all these awesome quilters - Honoring our Service Veterans touched by War with a Quilt of Valor - and you all!!! These quilts are LOVED!
I know it is NOT about numbers - but this year alone Colorado has been able to honor over 200 Veterans. And I love to show off the gorgeous quilts - so that is why I do a weekly Quilt show!!
I might have gone "Radio Silent" for a few days - and I LOVED it!!! There was No Service.... No Cell, No Texts, very Very Very limited Wi fi....
Of course, I hit the cell zone on the way back and boy did the phone start dinging... that was hilarious... I wasn't sure what to answer first... Texts, Calls, or Email.....
And my kids are nuts. While that youngest one thought he was being funny - the dad was maybe 15 feet away ready to grab him!!
And remind them that their dad was a HUGE goof, and to get a photo without goofy faces, bribery is always involved!!!
Are you all ready??? You have now stitched all the pieces for this mystery – and… we are ready to get started!
One – My son pretty much designed this one. He did all the pre- planning, and the stitching of the blocks – ok – except for the stars – he didn’t want to sew those!
Two – remember those books where you would read a chapter – and then choose an outcome, before the book would tell you which page to read next? This mystery is sorta like that. We put it up on the design wall, and they had an idea – and all the men started making changes to it. Sorta – how do you want this one to look? I think you will have fun
So how will you design yours? I would love to see if you go with one of the suggestions, or if you come up with something even more different.
Wowzers! Love the reveal. Great job by your son. I love all three. Can't decide on my layout. My husband will help me decide, he is more creative than me! Thank you for another great QOV mystery. Tanya and Dennis
How fun, a choose your own mystery ending! The blocks look great. Your son did a great job with the blocks and the designs.
I love them all. This quilt was so fun to make and so easy to keep up with. Thanks Alycia for all your beautiful patterns.
All great ideas! Think I'll offset the stars with spacers so I don't have to match the points ;-) Thanks for another great mystery. Carlie
1,520 Alzheimers Headlines: New imaging technique in Alzheimer's disease opens up possibilities for new drug development
Tau PET is a new and promising imaging method for Alzheimer's disease. A case study from Lund University in Sweden now confirms that tau PET images correspond to a higher degree to actual changes in the brain. According to the researchers behind the study, this increases opportunities for developing effective drugs.
There are several different methods of producing images showing the changes in the brain associated with Alzheimer's disease. The tau PET method reveals the presence of a protein in the brain, tau, with the help of a gamma camera and a specially selected radioactive molecule (F-AV-1451).
Tau has an important function in assisting the transport of various substances within the brain's nerve cells. People with Alzheimer's disease have raised levels of tau, leading to accumulation of the protein in the brain cells and gradually to cell death.
Lund University and Skåne University Hospital are among other institutions studying patients with the tau PET method for research purposes. Until now, no one has had precise knowledge of how well the new imaging method reproduces the actual changes in a brain affected by Alzheimer's disease. The current case study, however, shows that image and reality match up well. The study has enabled researchers to compare tau PET images and brain tissue from the same person for the first time. The brain tissue came from a person who died having recently undergone examination with the new imaging method.
"Tau PET can improve diagnostics, but above all, the imaging method can be of great significance in the development of new drugs to combat Alzheimer's disease," explains Ruben Smith, researcher at Lund University and physician at Skåne University Hospital. He continues:
"There are new candidate drugs which aim to reduce the accumulation of tau. The imaging method opens up opportunities to investigate the development of the disease at a detailed level, and to observe how tau aggregates are affected by the drugs."
"The person who was examined had a mutation which led to the same type of accumulation of tau in the brain as in Alzheimer's disease. A single case study might seem insignificant, but since there are areas with a lot of tau stored and others with less tau in the same brain, it is sufficient to examine one person in order to verify whether the imaging method works," explains Oskar Hansson, professor at Lund University and consultant at Skåne University Hospital.
Interest from the research community in imaging methods focusing on tau is strong and growing. A reliable reproduction of tau protein in the brain is considered a more relevant marker and a better diagnostic tool than competing methods which are already in use.
The researchers behind the study are now focusing on tracking aggregation of tau in the brain over time and connections with diagnostics using spinal fluid samples.
Tau PET imaging is considered interesting for other, less common, neurological diseases as well, such as frontal lobe dementia and Parkinson's-like diagnoses such as PSP (progressive supranuclear palsy) and CBD (corticobasal degeneration).
The results are published in the journal Brain and the study was funded by the European Research Council (ERC), the Swedish Research Council, the Swedish Alzheimer's Fund and the Swedish Brain Fund, among others. |
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141,020,062 | There is a general myth that stroke cannot be prevented, however, studies have shown that 80% of strokes can be prevented with healthy lifestyle choices. Stroke prevention is achieved through eating healthy, exercising, quitting smoking, avoiding (or moderating) alcohol consumption and avoiding usage of drugs such as Cocaine.
Prevention of stroke is a long-term and sometimes lifelong process. Few medical conditions such as uncontrolled blood pressure, Diabetes, Sleep Apnea and certain heart diseases make a person more prone to stroke and they need to be monitored and regulated to prevent chances of stroke. The importance and positive impact of alternative options, such as exercise, physical therapy, yoga, and meditation have also been seen for prevention of stroke.
Elderly people, women, people of a certain ethnic group (such as African-Americans) and people with family history of stroke are at high risk of getting a stroke. They are advised to develop a multidisciplinary expertise for stroke prevention.
Studies hint that a healthy diet prevents stroke. Recommended food for stroke prevention include Whole Grain (high Fiber food to control cholesterol), Fruits and Vegetable (rich in antioxidants), Low-fat Dairy products (contains potassium and calcium which helps regulate blood pressure), Fish (contains Omega 3 fatty acid which helps with inflammation) and Lean Protein (helps control cholesterol). Salt or sodium, sugar and processed food are suggested to be minimized.
A regular fitness regime is a key to a healthy life and the same is true for preventing stroke. Exercise helps regulate blood pressure, diabetes level and heart rate. It also helps with coordination, strength building, balance and overall mental health. All these help avoid secondary stroke symptoms like cardiac issues. Exercising helps decrease inflammation which helps maintain healthy blood flow and avoid a stroke.
Several benefits of practicing Yoga include improved balance and better independence with daily activities. Yoga has also been shown to improve cognition, boost mood, and reduce stress – essential factors that help an individual with stroke prevention. Complex, progressively challenging activities like Yoga help the brain prevent a stroke and improve quality of life.
Going through regular health check-ups also plays an important role in stroke prevention. If health-check-up indicates a high blood cholesterol level, an individual can try and control that with regular medication as advised by the physician and diet modification.
BMI(Body Mass Index) should also be checked regularly and should be between 18 and 20. In case an individual falls into the overweight category, exercise should be done regularly and fatty food should be cut as well as more green vegetables should be included in the diet.
If an individual has a history of high blood pressure, he is recommended to take blood pressure (BP) medication regularly, cut down the salt intake and switch to low salt diet. Diabetics should get fasting and postprandial (PP) sugar level checked and also monitor HBA1C level to foresee the possibility of getting a stroke.
Smoking makes blood thick and increases BP, that can make an individual more vulnerable to stroke. Hence, smokers are advised to gradually cut down on smoking per day and try to quit it. Alcohol should also be consumed in moderation or avoided if possible. More than one drink per day can make an individual more vulnerable to stroke.
Autostat – KAMAZ will concentrate its efforts on the development of sales in export markets and increasing the sales of automobiles from the new model range in 2017, in parallel with a serious investment in the modernisation of production.
As announced by the press office of KAMAZ, the company plans to sell 36,000 vehicles in accordance with the business plan of 2017, 6000 of which will be exported. “We’ll aim for our traditional markets at the first stage. Iran, Southeast Asia (Myanmar, Indonesia, Malaysia) and Latin America (Colombia, Chile, Uruguay, Paraguay) are the new markets, on the other hand. We plan to resume the assembly of KAMAZ trucks in Iran and Vietnam” – said the general director of KAMAZ Sergei Kogogin.
The company has reoriented the exports in 2016. The share of exports to non-CIS countries overtook the CIS countries in the total volume. The head of KAMAZ has mentioned the delivery of KAMAZ vehicles to Cuba as one of the significant contracts signed by the company, part of which will take place in 2017. “In general, in the light of the economic analysis of the countries where we export our vehicles, a great increase in exports should not be expected for the moment” – added Sergei Kogogin. Therefore, the current main focus of the company is the establishment of professional sales teams and search for new contracts and directions. In addition, according to Kogogin, the government has a great role to play by implementing demand stimulating programmes.
The company intends to enter the overseas markets with its new flagship model range – KAMAZ-5490. KAMAZ took on a major challenge for 2017: to manufacture and sell 6100 vehicles from the new model range. “It’s necessary to consolidate the position gained by the long-haul tractor KAMAZ-5490 and to expand the production of new vehicles in different modifications. The key factor is that we have to go beyond the Russian market” – stated Sergei Kogogin.
A large amount of investment is planned in the development of production, on the other hand. “The development programme of KAMAZ has been formulated in a modular principle and can be transformed depending on circumstances: we won’t stop the priority investment projects even in times of crisis” – highlighted the director of the car giant. The current main projects are the organisation of the production of a new family of 6-cylinder in-line engines and the construction of a new cabin frame factory.
KAMAZ invested more than 6.5 billion rubles in the modernisation of production in 2016 and the planned investment in development is approximately 20 billion rubles for 2017. According to Kogogin, as of today, this is probably the record amount of investment made in the history of KAMAZ, excluding the factory construction periods. |
126,268,035 | On this Saturday morning, just like every morning, Guru Maa Jyotishanand Saraswati sits barefoot on an altar in her temple below a bejeweled Hanuman, the Hindu monkey god. She douses mini-statues of other gods with water, chanting in metered bursts of Hindi and Sanskrit. Another man sits before Guru Maa, upright and pretzel-legged, chanting in quiet, nonstop bullets that rise and then fall when he runs out of breath.
At the end of the prayer service, or puja, they stroll to the backyard, landscaped with rows of marigolds and potted ferns, basil and chili-pepper plants, and join a few other temple members. They take their places on mats around what will become a small fire scented with sugared candies and almonds and rice and coconut for a three-hour cleansing and prayer ritual called havan.
It’s easy, sitting here, to forget that Hempstead’s busy Jerusalem Avenue runs by like a moat right out front. But Guru Maa and her devotees were roughly reminded of the outside world recently, when their havan fire was doused by what they say was a biased, hose-wielding village cop.
Officer Marlon Bottoms, says Guru Maa, showed up in June with a building department official in tow, responding to a neighbor’s complaint about smoke from the fire. She claims Bottoms spoke nastily to her and the other worshippers, ordering them to put the fire out. When they refused, Guru Maa says, Bottoms drowned it with a nearby garden hose.
“That’s kind of like taking a Muslim person and asking him to kiss a pig,” explains Guru Maa devotee Paul Klecka, who says dousing the havan fire invites negatives into worshippers’ lives.
Then the officer issued her a public-nuisance summons for lighting an open fire too close to a residence—in this case, the apartment complex next door.
On Wednesday, Sept. 15, Guru Maa, decked out in a crisp, peach-colored sari and surrounded by about 25 temple members, showed up in Hempstead Village Court to contest the summons. It was dismissed after Guru Maa agreed to build future fires at the back of the property. Before Judge Raymond McGrath’s decision, though, a debate between Guru Maa’s camp and village officials grew heated in a crowded conference room outside the courtroom, with Guru Maa declaring, “If I have to stop the havan, I’ll go back to India,” and a building inspector telling her, “This is the wrong forum for a grievance against a policeman.”
Guru Maa got her forum on Monday, Sept. 20, when she met with Mayor James Garner and Police Chief James Russo in a tete-a-tete that she says was productive. Garner, she says, has agreed that Officer Bottoms will write her a letter of apology. (Bottoms couldn’t be reached for comment.)
“Today what he has done to me, tomorrow he will do to somebody else,” Guru Maa says of the cop. “He has to get a punishment.” She says she would be satisfied with the letter.
In the 16 years Guru Maa has run the Vedic Heritage Shree Hanuman Mandir temple in Hempstead, she says, no one had complained about the scented, low-smoke fires. Klecka, of Hicksville, says temple members think the ill will might have started when the temple fenced off a strip of asphalt where neighbors had become accustomed to parking. The incident occurred, he says, shortly after the fence went up.
Neighbors have mixed opinions about the fire. “I don’t have a problem with it,” says one mother, who gave her name only as Janet. Two doors down, however, 21-year resident Dale Spinner says that, although she has never complained, she is concerned the smoke could be a hazard. “They’re just doing it because that’s what they believe in,” she says, but adds it’s not a good enough reason. “It’s a safety hazard.”
The journey that brought Guru Maa, 60, to open her temple in 1983 was a long and strange one. For years, she says, she had been living in England as a popular astrologer. She became disenchanted with her career in the late ’70s, studied to become a guru and came to New York for a break. Shortly after her arrival, she recalls, she walked by a YMCA in Manhattan with some friends, and realized it would make a perfect ashram. “I told my friends, ‘I am going to buy that,’ ” she recalls with a laugh. “They told me, ‘You can’t buy such a building!’ ” From that point on, she decided stubbornly, she would find a YMCA and make it her own.
Five years later, a real estate agent alerted her to an empty, former YMCA in Hempstead. Guru Maa bought the building and fixed up the dilapidated interior and overgrown backyard. Now it’s a thriving Vedic Heritage center, with services attracting up to 100 people and financial support coming from members slipping bills into a safe after meetings and buying tickets to classical Indian music concerts. She also runs a temple in India, north of Bombay.
Guru Maa, who lives in the Hempstead building, has made out so well she drives a Lincoln Town Car, complete with vanity plates that say “Guru Maa.” It’s fun to pray at the YMCA.
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80,293,841 | The county of Gloucestershire could be sub-divided into three distinct areas. There are the world famous Cotswold Hills whose coombes and valleys offer sanctuary for apples and pears, the higher land being suitable for cereals and sheep grazing.
To the west of this area lies the Severn Valley, bounded by the counties of Herefordshire, Worcestershire and the Malvern Hills. This area is comparatively rich in orchards today but was once home to thousands of acres of fruit trees, fragments of which survive and provide me with my raw materials.
In the south west of Gloucestershire lies the Royal Forest of Dean, home of the Foxwhelp apple and the Blakeney Red perry pear. Freeminers excavated coal from the shallow deposits under an ancient Royal charter and this area provided many of the press beds and runner and chase mills, hewn from local quarries of sedimentary stone. These stones made it possible to mass produce pressing equipment and many are found many miles distant from their point of origin.
Across the Severn, to the east, lies the village of Slimbridge where the Workman factory revolutionized the rate of juice extracted with a wide range of very efficient mechanical mills and presses, many of which survive in service to this day. I know of one which is still operated in Southern Ireland.
I was born on a small-holding, in the parish of Ashchurch, near Tewkesbury and as long as I remember, there was always a barrel of cider and perry in the stable, for home consumption and for any visitors who wished to partake. Cider was commonplace but perry has always been revered and kept for special occasions.
Although my father made his own cider and perry I took no real interest and as a child, considered picking up fruit in the autumn, a bit of a chore but the smell of perry pears, in hessian sacks, never really left my nostrils and even today that autumnal scent floods me with memories of the pear orchards whose immense trunks and canopies brought about an almost religious awe, similar to the feeling one gets when amongst the columns of our churches, abbeys and cathedrals.
Perry pear orchards predominated over our apple orchards, although some were mixed; but this wonderful scene changed in the early sixties when many orchards were felled and the roots grubbed out. Consequently perry became rarer and even more revered.
Factory cider became the norm as many farms lost their laborers and fruit was sold to merchants who delivered it to large-scale makers. It was around this time, having progressed from sharing the gallon of cider at the Friday night youth club disco, that I started to travel further afield and became aware of cider houses dotted around Bredon hill. Cider had always been cheaper than beer and as a poor apprentice it was my first choice. Each of these cider houses had its own unique brew and it was possible to visit the Yew Tree in Conderton, for Lanchbury's, Elmley Castle, and the Monkey House for a final half or even a pint before winding one's way home, very merry but with change in one's pocket.
These cider houses were like magnets to the faithful and attracted many characters. I remember Harry Banbury telling me to “watch out because cider drinking will kill you - it killed my father - it took 85 years though!”
Barry and Tilley heading up the hill in the black of night when the cry went up “Barry - I've lost my shoe! … Never mind, we'll find it tomorrow”. A few minutes later “Barry - I've dropped the cider … Standfast !”
Then there was the “Junkers Club” in Gloucester, where any member caught drinking anything other than cider was “tried” by his contemporaries, who wore judges wigs whilst passing sentence.
A friend of mine once cycled from Stourbridge to Elmley, only to find it shut when he got there and no amount of begging and pleading would induce the landlady to bend the rules! He now lives in Ireland but still brings a brace of demi-johns to a little village hall in Putley, Herefordshire, for the annual cider competition; making it not only an international event, as far as I'm concerned, but proves beyond any doubt the devotion of the true cider drinker!
I shall always be grateful to another character, Dave “the cheese” (so called because he always drank his cider with a lump of cheese), a government farm inspector, who informed me of a new cider-making course being held at Hindlip Agricultural College, run in the evenings by a trained microbiologist. I duly attended and learnt all about the use of chemicals and phenolics, but I was most influenced by the emphasis on hygiene.
The next season I proceeded to implement my new-found knowledge by pain-stakingly examining each individual piece of fruit and although it took much longer, the resulting cider and perry was much improved.
It was also around this time that some like-minded drinking companions informed me of a cider competition in a little village hall, yes - you've guessed it, the afore-mentioned Putley, where you could taste all the entries, for a pound; which in those days amounted to quite a few! So, although my intentions were not entirely honorable at this stage, when I got there I found to my complete amazement a veritable cornucopia of colours, smells and tastes and I became aware that I could even distinguish the different acids, tannins and faults.
I feel I ought to say, at this point, that these competitions brought together many different cider and perry makers and this resulted in the formation of the Three Counties Cider and Perry Makers Association.
The following year having carefully sourced only dedicated varieties of cider fruit, I entered the result into the competition and to my utter astonishment I won and proudly carried the crown back to Gloucestershire. As my winning entry was one hundred per cent pure juice with no chemicals or artificial additives of any kind, this confirmed, to me, that my method of production was the way to go and it set the standards for my cider and perry which I still apply to this day.
I began making as many single variety ciders and perries as I could find and as demand for my products grew I was encouraged to go into commercial production and progressed from draught, to plastic bottles, then into corked wine bottles. In the near future I intend to have a limited range of bottle fermented perries.
When I first started searching for vintage quality fruit, the youngest pear trees were about twenty-five years old. Now I see new trees being inter-planted in old orchards and even more encouraging, new orchards of apple and perry pears springing up again.
I, for one, am most heartened with what appears to be a rekindled interest because cider and especially perry are entrenched in this country's lore and I am extremely proud to carry on with this ancient art, into the New Millennium. Wassail! |
31,594,929 | Pacific Blue Cross is looking for an Information Security Manager for its company. Below are the details.
Pacific Blue Cross has been British Columbia's leading benefits provider for over 70 years. Our comprehensive understanding of health care fuels our commitment to service. Together with BC Life, our subsidiary, we provide health, dental, life, disability and travel coverage for approximately 1.5 million British Columbians through employee group plans and through individual plans for those who do not have coverage with their employer.
Working at Pacific Blue Cross is like coming home to the people you really care about. Our hiring philosophy goes beyond filling positions and meeting goals—we're interested in finding people who want to make a difference and who will take advantage of every opportunity we give them to build a career with us. People join us because they want to add value and grow as individuals.
At Pacific Blue Cross, you get the whole package - a rewarding career and interesting work, with an organization that truly values its employees and its members. With an emphasis on work-life balance, we offer an attractive compensation and benefit package, and an onsite gym and cafeteria.
Under the direction of the Security Officer, establishes and maintains strategy and program to ensure information and physical assets are adequately protected. Directs staff in identifying, developing, implementing, and maintaining processes across the organization to reduce information risks. Establishes appropriate standards and controls, and direct the establishment and implementation of policies and procedures.
For more information about this opportunity, please see details at the folllowing link: http://www.pac.bluecross.ca/company/careers/careersearch.aspx
On the face of it, Trump called off his "working" visit to the United Kingdom because of his displeasure at the Obama administration's decision to sell off the previous, "finest", embassy in Grosvenor Square to the Qataris for "peanuts" (never mind the fact that this decision was made in the final months of George W Bush's time in office, not Barack Obama's).
"President Trump got the message from the many Londoners who love and admire America and Americans but find his policies and action the polar opposite of our city's values", Khan said in a statement released on Twitter.
The current ambassador, Robert "Woody" Johnson, said the change was necessary even though the USA had been linked to Grosvenor Square for more than 200 years.
He tweeted late on Thursday that he was not a big fan of the Obama administration that sold "perhaps the best located and finest embassy in London for "peanuts", only to build a new one in an "off" location for $1.2 billion, Xinhua news agency reported.
The study said that in a no-deal scenario, the industry that fares the worst will be financial and professional services, with as many as 119,000 fewer jobs nationwide.
Trump said in a late-night tweet that he had decided not to come to London to open the new US embassy. The sprawling 450-acre compound south of the Thames River, fixed on a hill and surrounded by a moat and other security measures, fulfills security requirements that embassies be isolated from other buildings and 100 feet away from roads to avoid auto bombs and other attacks following the al-Qaeda embassy bombings in Tanzania and Kenya in 1998.
Mr Johnson told MPs: "I think Her Majesty the Queen is well capable to of taking this American president - or indeed any American president - in her stride, as she has done over six remarkable decades".
The Jacksonville Jaguars are about as healthy as they could have hoped heading into the divisional round of the AFC playoffs. He had 23 catches during the regular season for 364 yards and three touchdowns.
"The invitation for a state visit has been extended and accepted", the official said. The idea had gradually evolved into a working visit in which Trump would open the London embassy.
In Washington, White House spokeswoman Sarah Huckabee Sanders said Trump's comment was exclusively about an embassy-related visit.
But hundreds of Brits, including ex-Labour leader Ed Miliband, took to social media to say Trump scrapped the trip because "nobody wanted you to come".
The exchange prompted further calls to dump the visit. That message was echoed by David Lammy, a lawmaker for the opposition Labour Party, who believed Trump was shaken by the prospect of being "met by millions of us out on the streets protesting". But Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson blamed Khan and Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn for discouraging the USA leader from coming.
Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson, a frequent defender of Trump, accused Khan and others of endangering the "crucial relationship". "We will not allow US-UK relations to be endangered by some puffed up pompous popinjay in City Hall".
Manchester United gain a pacy, productive forward and stop their city rivals gaining another elite player. The only word I can say is the same word that everybody says, he's a phenomenal player.
It is positive, as 50 investors sold YUM shares while 238 reduced holdings. 106 funds opened positions while 696 raised stakes. The aircraft producer reported $2.72 EPS for the quarter, beating the Thomson Reuters' consensus estimate of $2.65 by $0.07.
Myanmar denies ethnic cleansing, saying its security forces had mounted legitimate counter-insurgency clearance operations.
Instead, I have outlined two possible paths forward: either fix the deal's disastrous flaws, or the United States will withdraw. He wants to make the restrictions on Iran's nuclear program permanent so Iran never gets any closer to building a nuclear bomb.
Real fired off almost 30 shots but their accuracy was wayward, with Cristiano Ronaldo among the worst culprits in front of goal. Real Madrid will play against Villarreal at the Santiago Bernabéu in the 19th round of the Santander La Liga 2017/2018.
Russia, billed to host the FIFA World Cup in June has a long history of racial prejudices and intolerance. It is not the first time Spartak have been censured over racist behaviour this season.
The consensus analysts recommendation at this point stands at 2.10 on Expedia, Inc. (NASDAQ:EXPE) rating on Wednesday, January 11. According to the latest data, investors are looking at Expedia, Inc. 84 funds opened positions while 193 raised stakes.
His younger brother Mitchell has been rewarded for his 101 with a leap of eight places that has put him in 57th position. He has collected five points for his impressive performances against India to overtake England's James Anderson.
Some of the offerings that are being showcased at CES 2018 in Las Vegas will come with pre-installed Alexa app. Vuzix holds 59 patents and 42 additional patents pending and numerous IP licenses in the Video Eyewear field.
In related news, Director H John Greeniaus sold 43,479 shares of the business's stock in a transaction on Friday, November 10th. Chase Investment Counsel Corp, a Virginia-based fund reported 56,491 shares. (NYSE:NKE). 5,129 were reported by Bancorpsouth.
The company has a market cap of $96,950.00, a P/E ratio of 13.35, a price-to-earnings-growth ratio of 0.93 and a beta of 1.47. Comparing the number of shares sold short to the float is a method analysts often use to get a reading on investor sentiment.
Regent Investment Management Llc decreased Priceline Group (NASDAQ:PCLN) stake by 386 shares to 3,364 valued at $6.16M in 2017Q3. Currently, the stock carries a price to earnings ratio of 0, a price to book ratio of 1.83, and a price to sales ratio of 1.4.
Following the sale, the chairman now directly owns 1,711,798 shares of the company's stock, valued at $66,195,228.66. Jefferies maintained Time Warner Inc. (NYSE:MO) earned "Buy" rating by Stifel Nicolaus on Monday, October 23.
Record-breaking rains hit Las Vegas on Tuesday, leading to flooding and the closing of some major booths, including Google's. Despite this, many have noted that power outage and the weather were not the only problems of CES 2018 .
Buffett said on CNBC on Wednesday that the new board members are "part of a movement toward succession over time". Buffett and Charlie Munger, Berkshire Hathaway's vice chairman, will keep their positions on the board.
Every school has a state map as it is needed to teach about the state", he added. He had then said, "Why do we need a separate map for Jammu and Kashmir .
In addition to the all-new locations, they're making the existing locations of the map feel more like unique biomes. Of course, there will also be additional "quality of life improvements," though what exactly they remain a mystery.
As per Friday, April 28, the company rating was maintained by BMO Capital Markets. (NYSE:CTL) rating on Monday, July 18. VITALITY BIOPHARMA INCORPORATED (OTCMKTS:VBIO) had a decrease of 10.75% in short interest. (NYSE:BAX) or 12,670 shares.
Dark Souls: Remastered will feature visual enhancements and will include the Artorias of the Abyss expansion. Dark Souls' unique multiplayer allows for assistance, betrayal, and all the player interactions in between.
Nine research analysts have rated the stock with a hold rating and twenty-six have given a buy rating to the company's stock. Also, insider Stephen Easterbrook sold 171,577 shares of the business's stock in a transaction dated Tuesday, November 21st.
According to Reuters , Ryan has been interview for the vacant Wales job, one that he previously stated would be a great job to take on.
Nicholson then blamed her for the broken headset and threatened to kill the victim and Nicholson's father. Autumn White, the suspect's sister, said, "My mom was a wonderful person who loved her children".
Chris Paisley hit seven birdies and a bogey in a round of 66 and is one shot behind at the European Tour event. Defending champion Graeme Storm missed the cut by a shot, though, thanks mainly to his opening-round 75.
Union Minister for Culture (Independent Charge) Mahesh Sharma will be the guest of honour on the occasion. Banerjee tweeted: " Today is the birth anniversary of Swami Vivekananda.
North Korea has yet to respond to the South Korean proposal, leaving some uncertainty as to the agenda and the venue of the talks. The Trump administration had said that Kim must at least pause his nuclear weapons program before talks would be considered.
Along with graphical changes , the concurrent online player count has been increased to 6 players for all the platforms. The enhancement of multiplayer by including the covenant system is a huge boost to the enjoyment of the game.
He was a five-time National Sportswriters and Sportscasters Association National Sportscaster of the Year recipient. ET game was appointment viewing for many college football fans as it was traditionally the weekend's marquee game. |
28,959,231 | Generally, we eat pretty healthily at home and would go for the leaner meats such as chicken breast and pork loin. During Chinese New Year, we would indulge in slightly more indulgent cuts of meat such as pig's trotters and pork belly.
We love pork belly braised in soy sauce and served with hard boiled eggs. Known as tau yew bak (or loh chu yuk), the pork belly is usually braised for about 1 1/2 to 2 hours, until tender and the fat layers are meltingly soft. Sinfully good! :)
1. Place the sliced pork belly into a container and marinate with 2 tbsp of light soy sauce overnight. This is to infuse the flavours into the pork belly.
2. Heat the oil in a pot over medium heat and add the garlic and onion. Cook for 3-4 mins until the onion has softened.
3. Add the pork belly and brown on both sides. Then, add enough water to cover the pork belly (approx. 500ml), dark soy sauce and about 2 tbsp of light soy sauce. Braise on low heat, covered, for about 1 1/2 hours or until the fat layers are meltingly soft.
4. Don't forget to add the boiled eggs into the pot 30 minutes before the dish is ready so that the sauce can be infused into the eggs. The sauce should have thickened slightly at this stage.
5. Taste and season with more light soy sauce as required. You may also find that some fat are released from the pork belly, just use a spoon to remove this layer of oil.
Oh, I love this loh chu yuk dish coz I love the hard-boiled eggs but with lean pork only. I don't eat those wobbly bits...hihihi! ;) The recipe looks simple enough to attempt...thanks for sharing.
This looks so easy but yet delicious. I might wanna try this out. Time to head out to get some groceries later~ heehee
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229,867,570 | As Sker and Minka reminisce about the past, they and several other members of the fallen Val'Dutan'vir who have found their way to the Val'Sarghress clan have gotten together as they attempt to take back their former home, now under the control of the Kyorl'solenurn.
Chiri finishes penning a letter and asks her servant Petri'cho to deliver it, warning her to not let the Judicators see her. However, after the servant left, an assassin arrives, killing Chiri. And then Chiri wakes up from her vision. She has been seeing several such horrifying visions of late, and it worries her. As she attempts to calm herself down through training, Zewryel who was with her notices her stress before Chiri hears a commotion near the outer walls of the Kyorl'solenurn territory. As Shan and Re'van return looking despondent, Chiri attempts to cheer Shan up. When her initial attempt failed, she wears a dress and takes Shan out for lunch, an act which Shan appreciates.
As they walk together to the restaurant, Shan tells her that as they were building the wall, the commoners protested, making their supervising Judicator angry and he ordered them killed, provoking outrage from the commoners as they threw stones at Shan and his companions. Last Shan heard, some of the commoners went to the Sarghress for help. Chiri tells him some good news as she received word of the Order of Serenity successfully parleying with Vanaheimr and Vanaheimr has sent an ambassador.
However, they overhear a discussion between Eclavdiira, Lythn and Kale'shido about the Sarghress Troops who attacked the Dutan'vir fortress despite it being currently Kyorl'solenurn territory. After gaining clarification from them, Chiri decides to speak with Shimi'lande, but before they could leave the restaurant, they see a large group of Inquisitors. Chiri takes time to change into her Warden armor before going to see Shimi'lande. The Inquisitors Ari'nara and Tar'shay then arrive asking Chiri to follow them.
The Inquisitors take Chiri and Shan to Judicator Cas'nilhus whom Shan identified to Chiri as the Judicator who ordered him to kill the commoners. As they walk together, Chiri feels visions of someone being tortured. At their destination, two of the other Seers, Yakuise and Chime were already there, with one other Seer missing. Chiri was shocked to see Shimi'lande dead. Judicator Kyuusei states his belief that it was Kiel who assassinated her. Though Chiri now understands her vision of someone being murdered by someone who looked Kiel, she doubts it was her as she knows Kiel would have been more blatant.
The missing Seer, Merril'lin was with Templar Mal'ligr and a commoner Sativah as they searched for the tortured prisoner that Merril'lin saw in her visions. Mal'ligr takes out the guard Miner'a and they enter the torture room to see Petri'cho being tortured by Rafal'za. As Merril'lin and Mal'ligr stop the torture, Rafal'za attempt to justify herself by saying it was an interrogation in a murder investigation while Petri'cho explains the Orders stopped her from trying to deliver Shimi'lande's letter. Rafal'za told them what was on the message, being the concession of all territory previously held by the Val'Dutanvir to the Val'Sarghress-Val'Sullisin'rune alliance.
At the gathering of clan members, after listing her virtues, Kyuusei announced Shimi'lande's death, saying they will unleash retribution on the Vel'Vloz'ress for killing her and adding that they will also seek revenge on the Val'Sarghress for attacking their territory. Kyuusei then announced Shimi'lande's replacement, the eleventh Holy Mother Valla'drielle.
However, this was met with protest by two members of the Holy Lance, Belph'aegor and Thral'lin who had seen Shimi'lande's intended replacement at the Order of Serenity outpost. They demanded to know why she wasn't summoned. Kyuusei justifies the Judicators' choice stating Valla'drielle is strong while Shimi'lande's choice is untested. He then states the Seers will vouch for Valla'drielle, and pressured as they were by the Judicators, Yakuise, Chime and Chiri all vouch for the Judicators' choice, but Belph'aegor and Thral'lin remain unconvinced.
After Shimi'lande's funeral, Chiri and Shan head to where Chiri was first found by the Kyorl'solenurn, where Shimi left her a letter. Ky'ovarde and Lysire'indris make themselves known, demanding to know what was on the letter. Chiri replies that it was simply advice to follow her own path. Lysire'indris didn't believe her while Ky'ovarde simply asks whether Chiri and Shan was with them or against them. They answer neither. Lysire'indris and Ky'ovarde them leave.
At the Judicators' meeting room, a shocked Shinhwa reports to Kyuusei that Cas'nilhus was attacked and dragged of. The other Judicators are concerned about the situation but Kyuusei isn't. He knows Cas'nilhus won't talk and had already arranged for Petri'cho to be tainted to destroy her credibility. Kyuusei decided to use this as an excuse to purge the former members of the Dutan'vir within the Kyorl'solenurn, believing the other members of the Kyorl'solenurn will obey. However, Belph'aegor didn't and frees all the imprisoned Dutan'vir.
As Kyuusei then goes to talk with Kousei to send him to hunt Shimi'lande's presumed murderer, Kousei's order was already going to meet him to kill him for his wrongdoings. Lysire'indris and Miner'a hold of his bodyguards while Ky'ovarde kills him by throwing him onto spikes. Kousei and Chime witnessed this and Chime bows in gratitude to him.
Later, at the Slaver District the Sarghress recently captured, Chiri and Shan meets Ariel and Faen asking to go with them to the Old World.
As Skwerk scouts the colony of Dariya'ko, she finds Ilmssyn being tortured by Kio'nel for information. Ilmssyn refuses to give out information but Kio'nel guessed correctly that there are others and placed the Black Sun patrols on high alert. Skwerk returns to Vaelia to report to her where Ilmssyn is held. Syrak confirms her location with his goggles.
Based on intel from Skwerk and Sami'ka, the Highland Raiders form their plan. Suren gives the order for Vaelia to free Ilmssyn, reasoning she has the best chance of making it undetected while Nacht kills the guards they encounter. Vaelia makes it to Ilmssyn and frees her.
Suren and Syrak attempt to open the gates but encounter problems, including Kio'nel being alerted to their presence and he confronts the Raiders on his dragon. Ilmssyn decides to use mana grenades and succeed in opening the gates that way, allowing the slaves in the colony to seek freedom. Kio'nel attempts to stop them by with the Black Sun but the Highland Raiders kill the Black Sun who obeyed. Sami'ka joins the fleeing slaves. As the slaves and the Highland Raiders escape, Suren remains behind to allow them all the best chance of making it.
The Highland Raiders and most of the slaves made it back to their rendezvous point, where they received a hero's welcome and learned their actions set the stage for Quain'tana herself to attack the colony. They celebrated their success while also mourning their Suren's loss. After making it back to Machike, the slaves with them were given freedom and most stayed in Machike to become productive members of the colony. Sami'ka was also joined by her lover Jens from Chel.
Kio'nel returns to Chel to report to Sarv'swati to report what happened to Dariya'ko, dreading her reaction. However, after giving his report, a messenger arrives bringing urgent news that a massive Sarghress force attacked the colony which Kio'nel knew nothing of. Angered at his failure, Sarv'swati attacks him with great brutality before killing him on the spot.
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68,705,046 | Here is a quick wrap of my racing adventures from the recent the second round of the 2018 NSW Mazda MX-5 Cup.
The car was too soft during the first round at Wakefield Park, so heavier springs all round were ordered. There was also the issue of a gear box noise and oil leak, so a second hand 6 speed from a 2002 model was suggested and installed by David and the crew at MX 5 Mania, just in time for the race.
There were also important cosmetic issues to attend to like the need for custom made billet aluminium wheel inserts. These beauties were hand crafted by my Dad Ray, who said they could be worth 1/2 a second per lap! The Mazda speed badges set them off.
Race day tuned up, so I jumped in the little Mazda and drove to the hour down to Sydney Motorsport Park. Raymo took his car with a couple of tables, some sandwiches, a toolbox and a jack.
I have never driven the Mazda at SMP before, I have raced lots of different machinery there from Formula Fords, Formula 3, Porsches, Lotus, and Radicals, so I was looking forward to seeing how the Mazda would behave and how we can make it go faster.
The heavier springs were a general improvement, but the balance was still not great with understeer on the way into the corners with a bit of snap overseteer at the apex through most of it. We are still lacking power too.
We end up P16 out of 26 runners including a historic touring car class. I have six MX5s behind me and run a 1:55.3. We make some changes to the suspension clickers to try and dial out some understeer for race one.
I make a pretty decent start, fumble with the gearbox and manage to avoid a dive bomber at turn 1, while four cars wide. For the rest of the lap I drive around in 5th gear, until the hairpin where I begin to get my shit together. It’s embarrassing. Im really struggling with how close the gate is and how short the throw is with this new gearbox. Anyway I have a few OK laps and I think manage to hold off most of the MX5 guys and have a good battle with a Chris Collet in a Cooper S. He was driving the wheels off it and was good to watch. I finish P16. Good enough for a Class C win. The car is still a bit of a handful. Its not using all the tyre properly, we need more camber, but will need new parts for that. We make a tyre pressure change, grab lunch and prepare for Race 2.
Race 2 is actually a bit of a blur. Fairly uneventful. Towards the end she started to run a bit hot, so I spent most of the time looking at the temperature gauge. Fellow competitor Verne Johnson had told me that once the standard gauge goes a bit past halfway, its basically overheating. So I was contemplating coming in, as it was well past half way! Paul Nudd caught me in the final few laps and pipped me on the line to nick the class win by a tenth.
Unfortunately there was a big delay from an accident during the regularity which meant race 3 was scheduled for just 3 laps. With the car running pretty hot and all in one piece, I decided to head home for an early beer and dinner with my pit crew.
Rondel Racing, Ltd. was started in 1971 by Ron Dennis and Neil Trundle. The combination of their names created the “Ron-del” team name. Dennis and Trundle had been Jack Brabham’s F1 mechanics until Brabham retired in 1970. In 1971, they decided to start their own F2 team with Brabham cars.
Because of their F1 connections, and reputation for expert preparation, the Rondel team was able to attract top driving talent. Rondel drivers included Formula One World Champion, Graham Hill, Tim Schenken, Carlos Reuteman, Bob Wolleck, Henri Pescarolo, Carlos Pace, and others. These were heady times in F2, with large crowds and many F1 drivers competing, including Emmerson Fittipaldi, Ronnie Peterson, François Cevert, Niki Lauda, James Hunt, Vittorio Brambilla, Jean Pierre Jarrier, Vern Schuppan, Patrick Depallier, Jody Schecketer, and many others.
The car offered here, chassis number 12, was raced by Pescarolo, Wollek, and Reine Wissel for Rondel. The car’s best result was first overall at the Gran Premio del Mediterraneo, held at L’Autodromo di Pergus, Enna, Sicily, Italy, on August 20, 1972. These cars were highly competitive, right through the end of the season at Hockenheim, where Schenken won from Mike Hailwood, Ronnie Peterson, Wilson Fittipaldi, and Graham Hill. Pescarolo, driving chassis number 12, finished 7th, ahead of James Hunt. Four of the top seven cars were BT-38’s.
After the 1972 season, the car was purchased by South African F1 driver, Jackie Pretorius. Pretorius raced the BT-38 in the 1973 South African F1 Championship. The South African F1 championship consisted of 12 rounds, and combined F1, F1, and Formula 5000 cars all together. Despite racing against Cosworth DFV powered F1 machinery, including a Lotus 72 and a Tyrrell 004, as well as the more powerful Formula 5000 cars, Pretorious finished on the podium twice , and 7th overall in the championship.
In 1974, John Amm, also of South Africa, became the driver of the BT-38. He continued to compete with the car in the South African F1 Championship, but achieved no significant results.
The next reported sighting of the car was nearly 15 years ago, when it was found in poor condition, still in South Africa. Restoration on the car was started, but before it was completed, the car was shipped to the United States. It was in the U.S. that restoration was completed, and it is where the car currently resides.
Historic Formula 2 and Formula Atlantic racing series have recently been expanding worldwide, giving these cars more and more places to run, and often being featured events. Links to some of these series are below.
This particular car is also in the rare position of having raced in period, non-championship, F1 races, potentially opening doors for the car to run in historic F1 events as well.
Total restoration on chassis number 12’s original tub & suspension. Fresh alloy Cosworth 2.0 liter with Lucas 8 mm injection. New fuel cells, starter, exhaust, fire system, axles & CV joints. New clutch, hoses, gauges, etc. Spares include wheels, gears, etc. |
84,194,100 | Home » Featured, Miscellaneous, People & Places » Will 9th deny rights of property owners to access the Courts?
The bar issued a statement on Wednesday in which it says “the bar does not support the proposed amendment to the extent that it seeks to deny rights of property owners to access the courts to challenge nationalizations.” But according to the Foreign Minister, any aggrieved party would still be able to access the court. He says that a bad court decision, caused misconceptions about the ability of parliament to make such amendments.
“The mischief arose because for about twenty-eight years nobody quarreled with that. Then about two years ago, Justice Conteh came up with the idea that it was not enough for you to comply with the provisions of section sixty-nine of the constitution and that you had to go for a referendum, which the Privy Council in the Alberto Vellos case against the Government of Belize immediately said, was wrong. And the pronouncement by the Privy Council is now part of our law—that in fact the position taken by the Chief Justice is wholly wrong and that to amend our constitution all the National Assembly needs to do is to comply with provision of section sixty-nine. That is all. And all this amendment is seeking out to do is to put that position as articulated by the Privy Council into the constitution itself so that it becomes an entrenched provision. And why do you do that? Because it avoids mischief, it avoids expense if the judge is bound only to look the provisions of sixty-nine and can’t go further afield, then it gives certainty to the process. You know for a fact that once you comply with the provisions of section sixty-nine, nobody can successfully tamper with it. So it gives certainty to the provision; even greater certainty.”
“But an aggrieved party/business, whose property has been taken away, according to this; that person won’t be able to see that judge because legally it would be entrenched in the constitution. Won’t you be able to apply that to other cases?”
“No, no, no. The aggrieved party, whose property has been taken away now, can still go to court and claim that the procedure adopted to amend this constitution, to allow for the entrenchment of the ownership in the government, was flawed. It can go to court to argue that; however, it will be met with the response that the constitutional provision was scrupulously followed and once the constitutional provisions are scrupulously followed, then the judge can’t do anything about it.”
“I think what the bar is saying is that they don’t have a problem with the procedure in which the constitution may be changed in the ninth. They are simply saying that the whole idea of separation of power; it’s changing the game, it’s changing this hallmark of who we are as a people and it takes away the power of the courts—even though it may be a legal thing.”
“No, no, no. It doesn’t take away the power of the Court. The court still has, but you see, like the parliament, the court is bound by the constitution. we are all bound by the constitution. The Court has no more power than that which is given to it by the constitution.”
“Yeah and the people can change the constitution. the people can change the constitution. And you may not like it, but if this is what the people want, then they can do it.”
Elrington says that those who still don’t understand the proposed amendment or would like to share their views on it will get to do so very soon. Public Consultations on the proposed ninth amendment start on the tenth of August.
You need to go also elrinton you are losing your mind sad situation a smart man who is losing his mind is very dangerous.
But Sedi, how can you argue like you know how to reason and we don’t. Your reasoning and conclusion are dead wrong. Your line of reasoning is specious and your conclusion falls into the category of the Petitio principii of fallacious thinking. How can you justify that a man can still go to court knowing that the Judge will tell him his hands are tied and can’t make a decision as such decision has been enshrined in the Constitution which prohibits him from rendering a decision which is the plaintiff has no case against the government. You see this begs the question if one cannot go to the court to get redress for a wrong then where. But iI ask the Belizean people , Could this push by Barrow to amend the Constitution to bar landowners to go to court part of his plan to deny landowners their rights on land that the Barrows have as lease for oil search and production and they don’t want to be in court forever answering to payments? Juat a question.
According to Sedi’s explanation, the 9th Amendment will be put in place to prejudice any claims against the Government. Its like saying the Barrow Administration will now only be bound by 2 laws:
If you noticed, Sedi said that any property owner can still get access to the courts to , and the court will still has its power to rule. But the outcome of the case will always be in GOB favour…no matter which judge sits on the case or which law firm is being employed. Its like saying, “You will get a fair trial, then you will be hanged”. End of story.
Ricky Malthus, you could be quite right about Borrow’s foresight about the land owners and the court. I want you to know that there are land in the South of Belize that Belizeans will never be able to touch, because its in the hands of dubious foreign owners long before the country got so-call indipendence. When you find out what foreign interest got the government to do to the Mayas in Guatemala you will be even more skeptical of Borrow. Those people were driven off their land by the military because the land is miniral rich and the foreign mining company paid off politicians.
Folks, what the country need is some serious capital infusion, but it will be hard to convince decent investors that Belize is worth the gamble. This government want everything for Belizeans, they say, and many Belizeans are signing the same tune due to ignorance and party politics. I say to those that say keep out foreign investors, now you have the chance for Belizeans to come up with the much needed funds for the sugar industry, and keep it in the hands of Belizeans. How about the cane Farmers selling some Revenue Bonds to Belizeans to raise the funds?
What we have here is failure to communicate. We in this country do not communicate.We talk a lot but that is not the same. We do not share important intelligent ideas.If we did, these idiots would not be here to be addressed.Now, where are our plans as a people for the next election? Remember, the beat goes on. All this is important to deal with now and we must address these current issues but the bigger picture is coming up. Who will succeed these idiots?The truth is, they all have to go.Briceno? Come on.. Espat? come on.I can name many more but I will not waste my time. Listen folks…. we have a crisis on our hands. No one is available.Think we have a problem now? Wait.
this old skunk doens’t even know what he’s saying but just talking fool fool like we are fools listening but we aren’t. Once this amendment is on we’re screwed and can expect any dictation from the gob whoever it is, while we just watch helpessly as we are butchered. Mein what a stupid amendment does this barrow wants to put. Have he lost his mind or are we in dreamland? why don’t the gov. make an inquest to all belizeans even in the rural areas as to what do we prefer vote for it or vote against it and then we can call it for the interest of the Belizean people we’ve decide to do what the people voted for. BUT no barrow wants to do what he wants when he wants and ignorantly say forthe interest of the Belizean people before he ask us our opinions. |
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The 350h is in mint condition. I've "gigged" it one week every year, and what that means is that I've played it at about 1/4 or 1/2 volume for about 30 minutes a night for a week. So definitely no heavy use.
or more realistically, do you know anybody else in the area selling an 8x10 for around the same price?
You'd have to go and fight guitar center I feel like a dope for selling it there. This is the second offer I got for it since I sold it to them for a loss and got a crappier used cab. Are you interested in the head?
First up is Tech a 21 Bass Boost Chorus. Like new, mint condition. Bought about 6 months ago new from Sweetwater, and I just recently realized I've probably turned it on less than 10 times. I guess choruses are just not for me. No cosmetic blemishes at all.
Next up is the Boss Bass Chorus CEB-3. Couple of small scratches that were difficult in being picked up on the camera. Right above and to the left of "INPUT" is the worst of them, and has been exaggerated by the camera flash.
yeah, it uses the same power supply and connector as the typical small boss pedals. According to the user manual, it needs 9V 100ma minimum power supply.
I just got done reading your interview at fretlessbass.com about your recordings with michael hedges...anyways, i am fairly new to your hedges collaboration, I have breakfast in the field, and that was because i was a fan of hedges, and i got that cd for a good price, seeing your name on it really excited me, and i really liked the funky avacado
anyways, i was just wondering, what bass were you using at that point...as a 19-20 year old you didn't have a zon did you? i was reading about your playing on the funky avacado a guy said that you had a 5 string...is this true?
Plus, you probably get asked this all the time, but what was it like recording with hedges? I think that he is such an amazing an unique guitar player, was it different than the other hundred of people you've recorded with?
i bought a fender rumble25 combo a couple of months ago and used it mainly in my room with headphones or low volume. Well yesterday some guys invited me to play with them and i had a chance to rise the volume. to my surprise the amp sounded distorted. Like, bad distorsion not the good one. is this a speaker problem? thru headphones sounds good.
Its because your amp is WAY, WAY, WAY, WAY WAY underpowered to play along with live drums or other amplified instruments. 25 watts is only good for bedroom practicing.
Life has taken a positive turn for David Lekomanyane‚ the mining engineering graduate who was due to start a low-paying internship in December.
David Lekomanyane is the first in his family to go to university. He completed his B Tech in mining engineering at the University of Johannesburg in 2015.
The 26-year-old from Ermelo in Mpumalanga has been contacted by three companies in the mining industry that have offered to assist him after they read about his plight on TimesLIVE on Wednesday.
The story also attracted the interest of a regulator in the energy industry that has asked him to forward his CV to be added to its vacancy database.
Lekomanyane has met with one company representative and has e-mailed his particulars to the other two prospective employers.
Overwhelmed with joy‚ the University of Johannesburg graduate said he was not ready to talk about the potential jobs yet.
“First I have to see what the companies have to offer and I will give feedback once everything has been finalised. As much as this has opened many opportunities for me‚ I also want to share this with other unemployed graduates‚” he said.
Lekomanyane completed his studies in 2015. His first-year university fees were covered by the National Student Financial Aid Scheme (NSFAS). His third and fourth-year university fees amounted to an estimated R200‚000‚ funded by the Mining Qualifications Authority.
“I am passionate about mining and I am a hard worker. I know one day I will get the job I am qualified for‚” he told TimesLIVE.
Lekomanyane’s family survives on his grandparents’ pension grants and he still owes the NSFAS R32‚000. He has not been employed since finishing his studies at the University of Johannesburg. Most companies told him that they needed at least three years of work experience when he applied for posts.
“I was really touched by David’s story. It saddened me to hear that there are many young people with qualifications that are struggling to get jobs. That is why I decided to call him and see how we can assist‚” said Mandla Ngwenya of Entlearolo Trading‚ a contractor specialising in the mining industry. |
293,224,881 | MBT is pleased to announce that the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), the Federal MAA oversight agency, approved a time survey methodology for the first quarter of the 2012/2013 school year!
As you may know, the MAA program was deferred in June as a result of CMS audits. As a result of those audits, CMS issued three requirements:
1) All 10/11 and 11/12 MAA claims that have not yet been paid must include a certification statement. This statement will certify that the activities recorded on the time surveys are a regular part of participant’s job duties and were not planned specifically for MAA week.
The state is continuing to wait for CMS to tell us what the certification statement must say. When that information is available, MBT will help you in completing the statement so that your outstanding 10/11 and 11/12 claims will be paid in the quickest manner possible.
With the approval of the interim methodology, California will continue for this next school year to claim MAA as we have done since 2003-the week-long, quarterly time survey. There will be one change for this school year, however-completing a time survey, which has always been a Code 15 activity, will now be recorded as Code 16.
Quarter 1 Time Survey week starts September 17. Your MBT Service Consultant will work with you to get your staff trained and inform them of these changes.
By September 30, California must submit a new time survey methodology to CMS. While the chosen methodology is yet unknown, it is possible that in the future, we may go away from our traditional week-long time survey and move to a Random Moment Time Survey (RMTS) methodology. LA Unified is currently the only school in California who is approved to use RMTS for MAA. Be assured that regardless of the methodology chosen, MBT is ready to support your district!
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Gary holds an MBA from the Ivey School of Business at Western University, as well as a Bachelor's degree in Economics, also from Western.
An Associate Partner since 2003, Bob acts as both a confidante and valued advisor, both in general and particularly on urban planning, development and related city building activities and issues.
Bob is best known these days as the principal of R. E. Millward & Associates, a highly respected Toronto-based consultancy providing development and planning services to investors, developers, businesses, municipal governments and community groups. However, prior to founding R. E. Millward & Associates, Bob spent almost a decade as Toronto's Commissioner of Planning and Development, in which capacity he was actively involved in all aspects of policy formulation, project management and economic development in Toronto. During his term as Commissioner, Bob was the City of Toronto’s chief strategist and negotiator, successfully dealing with city building issues at the conceptual, administrative, political and technical levels in conjunction with major development projects such as BCE (now Brookfield) Place, the CBC Centre, the Metro Toronto Convention Centre and the Air Canada Centre, to name a few.
Bob also served as Director of the Central Core and Waterfront Division of the former Toronto Planning & Development Department and Director of Planning for the Toronto Housing Department. A native son of upstate New York, prior to relocating to Toronto in the late 1970s, Bob was Director of Planning for Staten Island, NYC and held other positions in New York City's Department of Planning and Development.
One of Canada’s most accomplished authorities on land use policy and a Full Member of the Washington, DC-based Urban Land Institute (ULI) since the mid-1980s, in 2013 Bob was appointed as ULI Toronto’s inaugural Executive Director.
A long-time member of the Canadian Institute of Planners, in 2007 Bob was elevated to Fellow status (FCIP) the highest honour that can be bestowed by the Institute in recognition of his outstanding career which, in the words of the Institute, has seen achievements with “professional implications Canada-wide and beyond.” Bob is also an active contributor to the Toronto Board of Trade where he is a member of the Infrastructure Committee and a past Chair of the Planning and Development Committee.
Bob holds a Masters Degree in Urban Planning from New York University and a BA from the University of Rochester, N. Y.
In 2011, Paul joined us as a Partner and, in 2016, was named a Senior Client Partner, reflecting his numerous contributions to the firm.
In the fall of 2017, Paul joined newly-formed Arlington Partners International as a Managing Partner. However he remains a friend and occasional advisor to this firm and we are pleased to continue our informal association with him.
Paul is also an experienced operating executive, having enthusiastically invested his talents in a wide range of settings from operational consulting, through real estate development and a venture capital/private equity-backed tech business.
Paul began his career with Accenture, working on strategy and information systems projects in the advertising, brand management, professional services, manufacturing and distribution sectors. Later, he co-founded and ran successful businesses in the real estate development, hotel, technology and human resource sectors.
An avid tennis player, skier and golfer, Paul spent many years coaching children’s hockey and soccer. Over the course of his career, he has also contributed to numerous charities and is a committed advocate for environmental sustainability. |
120,995,265 | This is breakfast? Really? I read over the recipe three times, then I packed my bags and moved to Vermont. Except it is really cold in this part of Vermont, 45 below zero. So cold it is hard to get the syrup to pour out of the container. Ok, I'm not really in Vermont. When I read that this pie was standard breakfast fare in Vermont, moving sounded like a really good idea. Since I did walk almost 7 miles in 45 below zero temperatures on Saturday, I figured I deserved a pie like this for breakfast. David wasn't buying my story, but I still made the pie anyway, and we ate it for breakfast. I have to admit that this pie was a little much for breakfast. I'm pretty sure the oats are an afterthought to make this sound more like breakfast, but really you don't even notice they are in there. That doesn't mean this isn't one good pie. It has a wonderfully deep maple flavor due to the maple sugar, syrup, and extract. Since I am the kind of person who sees nothing wrong with eating pie for breakfast, I would probably just call this Maple Oat Pie and serve it as a dessert and then have the leftover for breakfast the next day. If you are the kind of person who just can't take that kind of indulgence, I will call it breakfast pie just for you. See, no guilt if you call it breakfast! It does have some oats and barley flour too, so it must be healthy. Right?
Whisk together flours, sugar, and salt in a medium bowl. Add butter, using a pastry blender or your hands work butter into flour until the mixture resembles coarse crumbs. Stir in the egg. Add one teaspoon of half and half and work into the mixture. Test to see if the dough holds together by squeezing the mixture together. If it still seems dry and crumbly, add the second teaspoon and work it into the mixture. Shape the dough into a disk and pat until it is about 1 inch thick, wrap in plastic wrap and refrigerate overnight or up to 3 days.
Remove the crust from the refrigerator about 30 minutes before you are ready to make the pie. You want the dough to become flexible enough to roll out. Flour your work surface and roll the dough to a 12 inch circle. Place dough in a regular (not deep dish) pie pan. Crimp the edges. Place the crust back in the refrigerator to chill while you are making the filling. Adjust oven rack to the lowest position.Preheat oven to 400 degrees F.
Place oats and water in a small saucepan over medium heat, cook until thick and creamy as they would be for breakfast cereal. Place the oats in a bowl of a stand mixer and set on lowest speed. This will accelerate the cooling of the oats. Make sure the outside of the bowl is only the slightest bit warm before adding the eggs. You don't want the eggs to scramble. Add the eggs, sugar, salt, vinegar, maple syrup, melted butter, and maple extract to the oats. Continue to stir on low speed until all the ingredients are combined.
Pour filling into pie crust and sprinkle the walnuts on top. You will want to place a cookie sheet under your pie as it most certainly will cook over the edge of the pie plate and make a huge smoldering mess of your oven. (I didn't do this) Bake pie on the bottom rack of the oven for 15 minutes at 400 degrees F. Lower oven temperature to 350 degrees F and bake until the center is set, 25 to 35 minutes more. Check pie regularly to make sure the crust is not burning. Cover the crust with foil if it appears to be getting dark. Remove pie from oven and allow to cool for 30 minutes before serving. Serve for dessert or breakfast. Either way, enjoy!
I am going to try this one ... and for breakfast with a cuppa joe ..... mmmmmmm ...... just can't let my kids see me.. ~:o)
Wow! That really looks tasty. Unfortunately I'm not a big fan of maple. I do love pie though. I'll keep my eyes open for some of your other recipes.
Oh My!! I am smitten with this pie at first sight. And I totally buy the pie for breakfast thing. I mean, once upon a time when we all worked on farms from sunup to sundown (or walked 7 miles in 45 below temperatures), a slice of pie was a snack to 'get a soul through till breakfast.' At least that's what I heard once, and once is all I need to justify my acceptance of pie as a breakfast food item. Thanks for sharing the recipe.
Sounds Awesome, Unfortunately I am on Weight Watchers now, but as soon as I hit my 10% goal I am going to try this.
I don't care what time of day I eat this pie, I just want to eat it! I have never seen a pie like this and can't wait to make it. |
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Facebook-owned WhatsApp has strengthened the encryption of its widely used instant messaging app, a development that in theory makes it harder for law enforcement to gain access to communications.
WhatsApp's founders said Tuesday that the application now implements end-to-end encryption, which means only authorized users can decrypt messages.
"The idea is simple: when you send a message, the only person who can read it is the person or group chat that you send that message to," Jan Koum and Brian Acton wrote in a blog post. "No one can see inside that message. Not cybercriminals. Not hackers. Not oppressive regimes. Not even us."
The move by WhatsApp comes after fierce debate over the increasing use of encryption and how it affects law enforcement investigations. WhatsApp said in February it had 1 billion users.
In February, a federal magistrate judge ordered Apple to create a special version of its mobile operating system that would help the FBI get into a phone used by one of the San Bernardino mass shooters. Apple objected, setting off a widespread debate.
The order was vacated after the FBI said it had found a way to unlock the phone with the help of a third party. But there are several similar cases outstanding.
Devices using WhatsApp hold the encryption and decryption keys to messages sent over the service. That means law enforcement could not go to WhatsApp or another service provider to obtain the keys.
Alternatively, law enforcement could get access to WhatsApp messages if a suspect divulged their phone's passcode or the passcode could be obtained another way.
It is also possible that a software vulnerability in the app could allow law enforcement access. Experts believe that may have been how the FBI unlocked the San Bernardino shooter's iPhone.
WhatsApp's encryption uses an open-source protocol called Signal, which is also used in an encrypted messaging app of the same name, according to a technical white paper published on Tuesday. Signal was developed by Open Whisper Systems.
Counting On stars Jinger Duggar and Jeremy Vuolo gave birth to their first daughter Felicity less than two months ago, but they haven’t stopped adding to the family quite yet.
In an Instagram post from last weekend, Jeremy revealed that they are now a “family of four.” The photo features Jacob — who appears to be an orange tabby cat — posing in a tree, and it’s captioned, “Welp, we’re now a family of four. Welcome to the family, Jacob.”
Fans obviously wanted to know the rest of the story and were wondering if Jacob was adopted. In the comments, Jeremy shared the sweet story of how the cat became a part the family:
We went for an evening stroll a few weeks back and about a half mile from our home he ran up to us, clearly a stray, starving, no collar, and he followed us all the way home. He hasn’t left! So we’ve gotten his vacs, etc. Essentially, he adopted us!
Jeremy also mentioned that Jacob is only about seven months old, so now baby Felicity will have a feline friend to grow up with. “Congratulations on adopting a pet for little Felicity. She'll love him," one fan commented. “Felicity will have an animal sidekick now,” another wrote.
Raising a newborn and a pet at the same time is no easy feat, so it's a good thing cats are known for being low-maintenance and good with kids.
But Felicity won't be the only one benefitting from the newest family addition — Jacob is clearly enjoying his new life. “He’s getting bolder every day,” Jeremy wrote in the comments. “He loves to play-fight with me while he’s in the tree.”
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The Section 231 insures mortgage loans to facilitate the construction and substantial rehabilitation of multifamily rental housing for elderly persons (62 or older) and/or persons with disabilities.
Section 231 insures lenders against loss on mortgages. Section 231 was designed to increase the supply of rental housing specifically for the use and occupancy of elderly persons, and/or persons with disabilities. However, few projects have been insured under Section 231 in recent years;developers have opted to use Section 221(d)(4).
Insured mortgages may be used to finance the construction and substantial rehabilitation of detached, semidetached, walk-up, or elevator type rental housing designed specifically for elderly or handicapped individuals consisting of eight or more dwelling units. For nonprofit sponsors, the maximum loan amount is 100 percent of the estimated replacement cost of the building (or 100 percent of project value for rehabilitation projects). For all other sponsors, the maximum loan is 90 percent of the replacement cost (or 90 percent of project value for rehabilitation projects). Contractors for new construction or substantial rehabilitation projects are required to comply with prevailing wage standards under the Davis-Bacon Act.
All elderly or persons with disabilities are eligible to occupy apartments in a project whose mortgage is insured under the program.
The sponsor has a preapplication conference with the local HUD Multifamily Hub or Program Center to determine the feasibility of the project. The sponsor must then submit a site appraisal and market analysis (SAMA) application (new construction projects), or a feasibility application (substantial rehabilitation projects). Following HUD's issuance of a SAMA or feasibility letter, the sponsor submits a firm commitment application through a HUD-approved lender for processing. Considerations include market need, zoning, architectural merits, capabilities of the borrower, and availability of community resources. If the project meets program requirements, the local Multifamily Hub or Program Center issues a commitment to the lender for mortgage insurance.
This program is authorized by Section 231 of the National Housing Act, as amended, Public Law 86-372 (73 U.S.C. 654 and 12 U.S.C. 1715 (V))). Program regulations are found in 24 CFR 231. The basic program instructions are in HUD Handbook 4570.1 - Housing for the Elderly for Project Mortgage on available on HUDclips. The program is administered by the Office of Multifamily Housing Programs, Office of Production, Program Administration Division.
In fiscal year 2015, the Department insured mortgages for 2 projects with 213 units, totaling $ 24.1 million.
One bad race doesn't make a bad Formula 1 season but the waves from Red Bull's poor Australian Grand Prix continue to ripple outwards as they prepare for the next race.
The disqualification of Daniel Ricciardo from second place in the season opener for exceeding the maximum fuel-flow rate soured what had been a reasonably successful GP after a dismal pre-season during which the world champions suffered serious reliability and technical problems.
The team is appealing the Australian GP stewards' decision and a hearing with the FIA has been set for 14 April but the whole saga has left a sour taste in Red Bull's boss Dietrich Mateschitz's mouth and he has now issued a warning to the sport that his company can't be relied upon to stick around in F1.
Although the billionaire has alluded to Red Bull quitting F1 before, it's the fact that he rarely gives interviews that makes this outburst all the more interesting. Talking to Austrian newspaer, Kurier, he said of Ricciardo's punishment: "The fact is that the Federation’s sensor has given inaccurate values since the beginning of the tests.
When Mateschitz has previously talked of pulling Red Bull out of F1 it has been more to do with economics but he told Kurier that the question now was more to do with "sporting value, political influence and the like".
“We have had it all, but on these things, from our perspective, there is a clear limit to what we can accept,” he added.
Although frustrated with how the season has begun, the Austrian has not given up yet and determined his team will catch Mercedes, something that team boss Christian Horner echoed this week.
"We know we have got issues to sort out, we just have to work hard to get on top of them quickly, together with the guys from Renault. We are doing our best to support them," he added.
The defending champions go into this weekend's Malaysian Grand Prix on the back foot as they try to recover ground lost to their rivals, particularly those powered by Mercedes engine and who made the most impact at Melbourne. |
220,239,333 | David Laney is the men’s Ultra Runner of the Year for 2015. Laney won both the Chuckanut 50K and the Bandera 100K, and finished third at UTMB – the highest place ever for an American man at Europe’s top ultra. He rounded out a highly varied year of racing with a top-10 finish at Western States and strong placing at the IAU World Trail Championships in France. Laney grew up in Portland, Oregon and led Southern Oregon State University to the team title at the NAIA Cross Country Championships in 2010, before making his ultra debut in 2013. He currently lives in Ashland, Oregon.
Magdalena Boulet is the women’s Ultra Runner of the Year for 2015. Boulet’s spectacular year included six ultra wins, including the Western States 100, the Chuckanut 50K, and the UROC 100K. Boulet was born in Jastrzębie-Zdrój, Poland, became a U.S. citizen in 2001, and earned a spot on the US Olympic team in the marathon in 2008. She lives in Oakland, California where she is Vice President of Innovation, Research and Development for GU Energy Labs.
Ian Sharman of Bend, Oregon is the number two ranked runner for 2015. Sharman won the Rocky Raccoon and Leadville Trail 100s – each for the second time – and notched his sixth straight top 10 finish at Western States. Trained as an economist, the British ex-pat now owns a coaching business and directs the U.S. Skyrunning series.
Camille Herron burst onto the ultra scene in April with a win at the Mad City 100K, where her 7:28:24 time vaulted her into second place behind only Ann Trason on the all-time US list. She went on to lower that time to 7:08:35 in winning the IAU World 100K Championship at Winschoten, Netherlands. Herron, who lives in Oklahoma City, also won the IAU World 50K Championship in Doha, Qatar, and set a world best 50-mile time of 5:38:41 at the Door County 50.
Stephanie Howe of Bend, Oregon is the number three ranked woman for 2015. Howe’s impressive year featured a course record win at the Lake Sonoma 50 and top ten finishes at the world’s top two 100 milers, Western States and UTMB. Howe has a PhD in exercise physiology and operates a coaching and nutrition business.
Seth Swanson checks in at number three for the men. The Missoula, Montana college professor placed second at Western States and fourth at UTMB, along with strong runs at Lake Sonoma 50 and Sean O’Brien 100K. Although he didn’t win any races, he was the most consistent runner among the top vote getters.
Kaci Lickteig of Omaha, Nebraska is the fourth ranked woman. The remarkably consistent physical therapist only finished off the podium once in six races, taking fifth at the Lake Sonoma 50. Her second place finish at Western States featured the fastest second half of any woman in the field. Photo Derrick Lytle
Rob Krar, Ultra Runner of the Year in both 2013 and 2014, finished fourth in the voting this year. Krar won Western States for the second straight year, posting the second fastest time in the 42-year history of the race. The Flagstaff, Arizona pharmacist had a bit of an abbreviated season, competing only from March through June. Photo Alexis Berg/Grand Trail
Dylan Bowman of Mill Valley, California checks in at number five. D-Bo won Tarawera 100K in New Zealand and the Ultra Trail Australia 100K in the spring, and placed ninth at the Osierre-Chmpex-Chamonix 55-km in August. The Hypoxico sales manager even found time for a couple of strong races in the good ole U.S. of A. Photo Credit: Ken Schuh
Katalin Nagy of Sarasota, Florida is the fifth-ranked woman, based on an undefeated season that featured wins at the IAU World 24-hour Championship in Italy, and the famed Spartathlon 153-mile race in Greece. Originally from Gyöngyös, Hungary, Nagy also won the Burning River 100 and the Desert Solstice 24-hour.
Nicole Studer is the sixth ranked woman for 2015. The Dallas, Texas resident ran the fastest ever 100-mile trail race, winning the Rocky Raccoon 100 in a stunning 14:22:18. She also was second at Bandera 100K and sixth at Western States. She completed nine ultras during the year, winning four of them. Photo courtesy of Nicole Studer
Zach Miller of Manitou Springs, Colorado is the sixth ranked man. His three races were a shorter résumé than most, but they included impressive wins at Courmayeur-Champex-Chamonix, the 101-km sister race to UTMB, and at The North Face Challenge Championship 50 Mile in San Francisco, where he beat a star-studded field.
Aliza Lapierre of Williston, Vermont checks in at number seven. Lapierre had a travel-filled year with strong performances in Japan, Spain, Texas and California, as well as two wins in her native New England. photo by Matt Trappe
Another New England standout, Brian Rusiecki of South Deerfield, Massachusetts, finished seventh for the men. Rusiecki had a busy year, with ten ultra finishes – four of them wins. photo by Catherine Harding
Alex Nichols of Colorado Springs is the eighth ranked runner in 2015. Nichols spent part of the year in France, winning a 51-mile race on Mount Blanc, and placing well at the IAU World Trail Championships and Des Templiers. Stateside, he won the Moab Red Hot 55K, and placed second at the Speedgoat 50K.
Ellie Greenwood, a three-time previous winner, was voted eighth this year. The North Vancouver, British Columbia runner recovered from an injury-plagued early spring to finish sixth at Comrades. Later in the summer she won Des Templiers in France and took second at The North Face 50 in San Francisco in December. Photo by iRunFar.com Bryon Powell
Darcy Piceu is the ninth ranked female for 2015. Piceu, a mental health intervention specialist in Boulder, Colorado, is one of the top mountain runners in the world, placing second at Hardrock and fifth a mere seven weeks later at UTMB. She also broke the course record while winning the Bighorn 52 Mile in June.
Multi-day specialist Joe Fejes grabbed the number nine spot for men. Fejes broke the modern-day American Record for the 6-day race, clocking a stunning 606.243 miles at the EMU race in Hungary, which earned him the Performance of the Year. The Norcross, Georgia attorney won four races during the year, all 24 hours or longer.
Bob Shebest of Santa Rosa, California is number 10 in the 2015 Ultra Runner of the Year rankings. A middle school math teacher, Shebest took full advantage of his summer holiday, winning the San Diego 100 and the Tahoe Rim Trail 50 Mile, and placing second in the Run Rabbit Run100. He also finished fifth in the Gorge Watefalls 100K, losing two places after missing a turn less than a mile from the finish.
Bethany Patterson of Richmond, Virginia checks in at number 10 for women. Patterson dominated the Commonwealth of Virginia, winning all five races she ran there. She also placed a close second at the White River 50 east of Seattle.
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119,316,789 | January 27th, marked the 60th anniversary of the liberation of the concentration camp at Auschwitz, the Nazi's ugly attempt to wipe out the Jews and other "undesirables" of Eastern Europe. There were dignitaries from every major "western" nation paying their respects in the snow. On Wednesday evening, Jan. 26th, some young African Americans I know held a fund-raiser to get money for a band to go to the Mardi Gras in New Orleans. They auctioned off various males to the highest bidder. The band-leader drew the highest price. One young person was deemed to be worth only twenty-six cents. The children laughed at the cheap price he fetched.
The idea of auctioning off humans, even in fun, should be so repugnant to all people of African origin that there should be general outrage at the idea of a fun sale of men (or any other humans). None of the young people with whom I discussed this saw my point. "But we need the money." "How else will we raise the funds, are you going to donate some?" "You are making a big thing of nothing." They felt the same way about young Prince Harry wearing a swastika patch on a shirt to a party recently.
It may seem that young people have lost their moral sense, but before we condemn them thoroughly, we need to look at the values of the people who are raising them. This fun auction of African-American males was organized by a group of adults. A colleague of mine paid a dollar for a young man, and wanted him to wash her car for the price. If she was a deviant person, and wanted him to perform some other personal function for the dollar, would that have been all right too? After all, she had paid for him.
I thought I'd give them a lesson in some facts about auctions, swastikas and current sales of babies and children. Jewish children are never allowed to forget what happened to their people during the Nazi era, and during preceding programs. Africans in the west are encouraged to forget the tragedy, the genocide of the Atlantic Slave Trade to the Americas. They will tell you "some of us also sold us," and my response to that is that some poor South Asian people sell their children, and other children of their own race, to tourists for sex today, at the beginning of the 21st. century.
Businessmen from Europe and North America go to Thailand to purchase children for sex slaves for varying periods, the length of their vacation. They are provided with these children, by people who look like the children, but who are in the business of making money, no matter how. Some are their parents. It was a major fear in the aftermath of the recent tsunami; that orphans would fall into the wrong hands. Young boys get into the act, selling off other street children, in a series of hideous trades. A woman researcher, sharing her documentation at a forum in Houston three years ago, spoke of a man, a fully grown man, who asked the madam of a brothel to supply him with a baby, one in arms, yet unable to walk! She declined. This is one kind of trade in humans. The African slave trade was another. Both are wrong, to be condemned in the strongest terms. Not to be treated like a fun thing, ever. The same goes for swastikas.
To illustrate my point further, I pulled out the cross I wear on my neck, and pointed out that if I was in an accident, it would say to someone, if I was unable to speak, that I was of the Christian faith, and perhaps someone would pray for my as my soul left my body. They understood that. Then I went to the chalkboard and drew a large cross, and taking a colored chalk, drew flames around the cross. They understood that to mean that America's most hated racist group was out to get you. I think they got the point.
Africans, especially African Americans, need to stop apologizing for whatever role they played in the Slave Trade. In the Old World, slavery had always existed. The prosperity of many ancient city-states was built on it. We need to focus on the fact that never before in the history of the world, were people of one group captured, chained, sold and forced to a different part of the world to build the prosperity of another race of people; that millions were killed in that effort; that our ancestors in the New World were the backs on which the prosperity of the Americas was built; that in the process our ancestors lost their culture, a knowledge of their homeland, and their very names; and that this was a systematic process supported by the governments of the countries which benefited from it. It was very profitable to steal us, buy us, sell us .If the slave trade was not profitable, Africans would not have sold anybody, they would not have fought the trumped up wars that allowed for the capture of slaves for export, neither would the Dutch, French, Spanish, British and American slave traders have indulged in it, protected by the navies of America, Britain, France, Spain and Holland.
It is the market that drives the action, pretty much like the market for illegal drugs does today. The eastern US shipbuilding ports and trading ports of Boston, New Haven, New York and Philadelphia, as well as others, prospered by building cattle pens with sails for our ancestors, to ship them efficiently from Africa to the west. It was the most profitable business enterprise in the seventeenth, eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. It made King Sugar, that other profitable enterprise, possible.
And the auctions, in Charleston, Savanna and New Orleans is where the products of the slave raids (trade was not the most appropriate word) went to market. They were greased and put on blocks to be inspected, leered at, and purchased as breeding sows, studs and house wenches, as well as for back-breaking work. The house wenches combined sexual slavery with other chores. The slave master could sell off a woman or a man who fell in love with another slave and wanted to marry, because that could be bad for his business, which included the business of control. The slave-master could also sell off his bastard children by a slave woman, and did so, sometimes, when the child was four years old. The ancestors of every African person in the New World, except those who came before Columbus, were so treated. Degrading, dehumanizing, and despicably brutalizing conditions were their lot.
Many are still treated less than justly today, in the USA they helped to build, as part of the legacy of degrading people of African ancestry. The prison system, higher unemployment, and the higher death rates of African American babies and people with curable medical conditions, when compared to other Americans, continue to prove that African Americans are treated less well than their counterparts who are of other ethnic groups, in every system that is set up in the USA, including the justice system, and education systems. It seems to be so also in every country in the Western hemisphere, including the Caribbean.
How then could anyone, knowing the history of his/her people in the New World set up a joke auction as a fundraiser? How could we forget so soon that it was money that made them do it to us? Millions more Africans perished in the Middle Passage, the journey from Africa to the Caribbean, during the slave trade, than Jews, homosexuals and gypsies perished under the Nazis. The Jews do not let the world forget, and they should not. They need to hold the face of that horror annually up to Barclays Bank, to the Bank of New York and others who profited from the Nazi's treatment of people. The gold was yanked out of their mouths, their bodies melted to make axel grease, and weird experiments conducted on women, and they were reduced to ashes in large ovens, after being stripped of their valuables.
Just so, should Africans never let the world forget the evils of the Atlantic Slave Trade, on which the prosperity of the west, particularly the USA and Britain was built, and which seemed to have given the world carte blanche authority to treat Africans as sub-humans. Germany has apologized to the Jews. America has never apologized to its African citizens, although Pres. Clinton offered some words of regret at Elmira Castle in Ghana during his visit. Part of the trouble is that in no country of the Western Hemisphere are people of African ancestry responsible for the content of the history books. The story of what really happened is watered down, polished up, made to look less bad, bearable really. So while Elie Weisel's Night is available in class sets in school, so that all students can read the horrors of the concentration camps. While The Diary of Anne Frank is taught to school children, no one in the schools has heard of C.L.R. James' Black Jacobins.
Few, if any, of the children of African ancestry know that there were laws on the books in some Caribbean islands that allowed slaves to take their masters to court for mistreatment, and that some did. James documents this. Not knowing, the children still hang their heads when slavery is mentioned, and would rather treat it as a joke than deal with it as a serious issue. They know more about the wars of the early civilizations, they know Alexander, The Great, but not Chaka of the Amazulu. They know of the victories of WW 1 and 11 but not that Ethiopia defeated Italy in a war between 1936 and 1939. They know nothing of their own history that will fill them with pride in who they are, and with repugnance for any kind of behavior that reduces a human to an auctionable item, even in jest.
When I hear of African American children organizing an auction of their band-leader and friends, and laughing at the guy who only fetched twenty-six cents as a price, I think of these things. Our children do not forget. They cannot forget what they never knew. Now, whose fault is that? Can you imagine a Jewish group of students, at a yeshiva or other Jewish school, organizing a holocaust camp session with appropriate rescue, as a fundraiser? I cannot.
Jewish people put their pain in the face of the world so no one would ever forget. Many Africans in the west behave as if slavery was our fault and so cover up the sore, with laughter. There are some things that should never be a laughing matter.
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Lewis has gone through a lineup change since its Asheville inception (and it existed pre-Asheville as the project of front man Matt Call). The current band includes Call on guitars and vocals
The MoDaddy’s show was vivacious, engaging and marked by kinetic energy despite a smallish crowd (an unexpected inch of snow fell that evening).
Songs included mostly originals, but also select Jeff Buckley covers (Call noted that Buckley is the one musician over who Lewis bonds) and an excellent, rocked-out version of Bob Marley’s “Concrete Jungle.”
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“Skateboarding in the Asheville, North Carolina area takes on a new dimension with endless miles of winding mountain roads, Longboard Mike writes. “All of the riders in this video are expert riders with boards and equipment that IS NOT for sale in local stores. DO NOT grab your cheap … and head to the top of your nearest hill in flip-flops and boardshorts. You might survive a few times but sooner or later you WILL pay the price in flesh and blood,” he adds.
The video and more comments are posted here: http://longboardnow.com/longboard-asheville-mellow-downhill-run/
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Just laid down my GS the other night going 50. Thank goodness for gloves, helmets, and armored jackets!
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I produced this video. Thanks for the interest and comments. I would like to say that we only ride on open roads when appropriate safety measures have been taken. We scout the road, communicate with established signals, wear helmets rated for high-speed impacts, etc. Our equipment is designed for rough roads and high speeds. We’re running 70mm-90mm wheels and wide trucks with special bushings or spherical bearings. Some of these set-ups cost upwards of $500. Most importantly we practice our skills on closed pavement. We use two different methods of braking- the foot-brake and pendulum slide. We can come to a complete stop in a very short distance in a controlled manner.
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Exhibitors will include all major fly-fishing venders, local fly shops, guide services, fly-tying instruction booths, area lodges and private water representatives.
Fishing instructional sessions include presentations by noted author Beau Beasley on Virginia Trout Streams, South Holston River guru Tim Landis on fishing that river and Abby Jackson on fishing the Soque River at Blackwater. Other presentations will feature fly-fishing techniques on the Davidson River and in the Smoky Mountain National Park. Renowned fishing author Jim Casada will also make a special appearance and be available for book signings.
In addition, the WNC Fly Fishing Expo will host the 3rd Annual Fly Fishing Film Tour on Friday evening, Nov. 6, at the Asheville Community Theatre, for $10.
Buncombe commissioners to consider $50,000 for Mountain Bizworks microloan program | Mountain Xpress
As Mountain Bizworks continues to restructure its services, Buncombe commissioners are considering a plan to give the influential local business nonprofit $50,000 toward a new microloan program.
The Buncombe County funding would be used to leverage $300,000 from the federal Small Business Association Microloan Program. Mountain Bizworks would use the funds to make at least 25 microloans to small businesses in Buncombe County over the next year, according to its report.
The idea is for the nonprofit to funnel the money to low-income entrepreneurs who need relatively small sums of money they can’t get through traditional banks.
“We’re committed to supporting small businesses and this is a real way to do it,” says Buncombe County Board of Commissioners Vice Chair Ellen Frost, who helped put the plan together.
Interest rates will range from 7.5 to 11 percent. As borrowers repay the initial loans, proceeds will go back into the fund and be available for other loans.
“If it’s successful, it could be something we really expand in the next year or two, after we try it out on a smaller scale,” says Commissioner Brownie Newman, who also helped draft the plan. “If we make some initial investments, we think we can really expand what’s available.”
In recent years, the county has given millions of dollars in incentives to large international manufacturers like GE Aviation and Linamar to help lure them into expanding local operations and creating jobs.
“When some of the bigger manufacturing projects come in, we’ve really gone to bat for those … People often ask what’s the county doing for small businesses,” says Newman. “I think that’s a really good question, so we’re trying to put some ideas forward for what the county can really do to support and foster the small business sector in the community, which is really where the majority of jobs will be created in the future. We think that the county can really start doing more to support that really important part of our business community.”
In order to receive microloans, local entrepreneurs will have to meet a series of criteria developed by Mountain Bizworks to mitigate risks. The organization has loaned more than $7 million to small businesses since 2007, and has had a loan loss rate consistently under 2 percent, it reports.
“There’s risks to this. I don’t think you can ever fully eliminate that,” he says. “But I think the benefits to the community in terms of more small businesses, more jobs – I think in the big picture, this will be a financially good thing for the community, and ultimately that all comes back to the county in terms of tax revenues and things like that.”
Mountain Bizworks downsized this winter after suffering from a liquidity crisis. It cut more than have its staff and dropped a number of educational programs. The leaner organization is in the process of refocusing on business lending and states in its county request: “with the support of partners like Buncombe County, Mountain Bizworks can continue to meet its mission of creating economic opportunity by helping small businesses start, grow and create jobs through lending and learning for many years to come.” It also predicts that its administrative costs will decrease from 18 percent to 15 percent. Buncombe County guidelines recommend that nonprofits it partners with limit administrative costs to 12 percent.
The board will meet at 4:30 p.m., Tuesday, April 1, in the commissioner’s chambers, located at 200 College Street, suite 326. A short pre-meeting review of the agenda will begin at 4:15 p.m.
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2. Supergrace blessings are those special blessings God has specifically designed for each believer, but which await spiritual contingency before God releases them, Isa 30:18; Eph 3:14-20; 1 Cor 2:9-10.
3. Humbling yourself under the mighty hand of God means, among other things, refusing to take things into your own hands when you are treated unfairly—you avoid temptations of anger, jealousy, and bitterness—you leave everything in the hands of God.
4. By waiting on the Lord, and thus avoiding anger and bitterness, the believer remains grace oriented and therefore develops greater capacity for the greater grace blessings.
11. It is the daily fellowship with God and intake of the Word of God that prepare the believer not only for the upcoming tests in life, but those fantastic blessings and promotions as well.
12. God is waiting to bless the believer with the greater grace blessings (escrow), but the believer must develop the capacity for those blessings and this capacity is best developed under protracted testing with requires protracted waiting on the Lord, Isa 30:18.
14. Characteristics of suffering for blessing includes: maturation, mastery of the details of life, difficulties remain bearable, difficulties never make you miserable, greater orientation to the grace of God, and Word of God, and a deeper relationship with God, cf. 2 Cor 12:7-10; Phil 4:10-12. |
66,242,809 | SOUTH PORTLAND — A 70-year-old South Portland man has been charged with robbery after police say he stole an undisclosed amount of cash from the Bank of America on Philbrook Avenue.
Donald C. Sturton was arrested shortly after the crime was reported March 7 and was in possession of a small amount of cash and a toy firearm when he was taken into custody, according to a media release from South Portland Police. He has been charged with robbery, a crime punishable by up to 10 years, and remained at Cumberland County Jail on Friday morning.
South Portland Police received a call around 3:30 p.m. from Bank of America to report it had just been robbed. The male robber said he had a firearm, although one was never actually displayed. He made off with a small amount of cash and fled to the parking lot, according to police.
Investigators said bank employees were instrumental in securing the crime scene, notifying police and giving responders an accurate description of the suspect so they could be on the lookout when they arrived at the bank.
One of the first responding police officers said he saw the suspect in the Maine Mall parking lot, near JC Penney. Due to Sturton possibly being armed he was quickly and safely taken into custody, said police.
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Year 1509 (MDIX) was a common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
April 27 – Pope Julius II places Venice under interdict and excommunication for refusing to cede part of Romagna to papal control.
June 19 – Brasenose College, University of Oxford, is founded by a lawyer, Sir Richard Sutton, of Prestbury, Cheshire, and the Bishop of Lincoln, William Smyth.
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April 27 - Pope Julius II places Venice under interdict and excommunication for refusing to cede part of Romagna under Papal control
The Armand Commission was the first Commission of the European Atomic Energy Community (Euratom), between 1958 and 1959. Its president was Louis Armand of France. There would be two further Commissions before Euratom was merged with the European Coal and Steel Community and the European Economic Community in 1967 to become the European Community.
Era Television (Chinese: 年代電視) is a nationwide cable TV network in Taiwan that is operated by the ERA Communications Inc., established on October 1996.
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Sculptor Gutzon Borglum and President Calvin Coolidge selected Washington, Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt, and Lincoln to appear on Mount Rushmore.
In political science, historical rankings of United States Presidents are surveys conducted in order to construct rankings of the success of individuals who have served as President of the United States. Ranking systems are usually based on surveys of academic historians and political scientists or popular opinion. The rankings focus on the presidential achievements, leadership qualities, failures and faults (such as corruption).
George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, and Franklin D. Roosevelt are consistently ranked at the top of the lists. Often ranked just below those three are Presidents Thomas Jefferson and Theodore Roosevelt. The remaining top 10 ranks are often rounded out by James Madison, Andrew Jackson, James K. Polk, Woodrow Wilson, and Harry S. Truman. The bottom ranks often include Millard Fillmore, Franklin Pierce, James Buchanan, Andrew Johnson, and Warren G. Harding. William Henry Harrison and James A. Garfield both died shortly after entering office, and are sometimes not included in the rankings as a result.
Political scientist Walter Dean Burnham noted the "dichotomous or schizoid profiles" of presidents, which can make some hard to classify. Historian Alan Brinkley said, "There are presidents who could be considered both failures and great or near great (for example, Nixon)". James MacGregor Burns observed of Nixon, "How can one evaluate such an idiosyncratic president, so brilliant and so morally lacking?"[1] Indeed, Richard Nixon scores very poorly in opinion polls but usually ranks better among historians. By contrast, Ronald Reagan and John F. Kennedy tend to score highly in popular opinion polls, but rank highly less often in polls of historians because their negative qualities have been largely forgotten, for Reagan because he was seen as helping end the Cold War and for Kennedy because of sympathy after his assassination. But most often the reason presidents are hard to classify is either because their foreign policy success or failure stands in contradiction to their domestic policy achievements, such as Lyndon B. Johnson's failure in the Vietnam War compared to the success of his Great Society programs, or their personal behavior contrasts with their professional success, such as Nixon's Watergate and Bill Clinton's Lewinsky scandal.
Abraham Lincoln is often considered the greatest president for his leadership during the American Civil War and his eloquence in speeches such as the Gettysburg Address.
The 1948 poll was conducted by historian Arthur M. Schlesinger, Sr. of Harvard University.[2] The 1962 survey was also conducted by Schlesinger, who surveyed 75 historians; the results of this survey are given in the book The Complete Book of U.S. Presidents by William A. Degregorio. Schlesinger's son Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. conducted another poll in 1996, not currently on the chart below.
The Complete Book of U.S. Presidents also gives the results of the 1982 survey, a poll of 49 historians conducted by the Chicago Tribune. A notable difference from the 1962 Schlesinger poll was the ranking of President Dwight D. Eisenhower, who was ranked #22 in 1962, but was ranked #9 in the 1982 survey.
The 1996 column shows the results from a poll conducted from 1989 to 1996 by William J. Ridings, Jr. and Stuart B. McIver, and published in the book Rating the Presidents: A Ranking of U.S. leaders, from the Great and Honorable to the Dishonest and Incompetent. More than 719 people took part in the poll, primarily academic historians and political scientists, although some politicians and celebrities also took part. Participants from every state were included, and emphasis was placed upon getting input from female historians and "specialists in African-American studies", as well as a few non-American historians. Poll respondents rated the Presidents in five categories (leadership qualities, accomplishments & crisis management, political skill, appointments, character & integrity), and the results were tabulated to create the overall ranking.
A 2000 survey by The Wall Street Journal consisted of an "ideologically balanced group of 132 prominent professors of history, law, and political science". This poll sought to include an equal number of liberals and conservatives in the survey, as the editors argued that previous polls were dominated by either one group or the other, but never balanced. According to the editors, this poll included responses from more women, minorities, and young professors than the 1996 Schlesinger poll. The editors noted that the results of their poll were "remarkably similar" to the 1996 Schlesinger poll, with the main difference in the 2000 poll being the lower rankings for the 1960s presidents Lyndon B. Johnson and John F. Kennedy, and higher ranking of President Ronald Reagan at #8. Franklin Roosevelt still ranked in the top three.
Another presidential poll was conducted by The Wall Street Journal in 2005, with James Lindgren of Northwestern University Law School for the Federalist Society.[5] As in the 2000 survey, the editors sought to balance the opinions of liberals and conservatives, adjusting the results "to give Democratic- and Republican-leaning scholars equal weight." Franklin D. Roosevelt still ranked in the top-three, but editor James Taranto noted that Democratic-leaning scholars rated George W. Bush the sixth-worst president of all time, while Republican scholars rated him the sixth-best, giving him a split-decision rating of "average".
Thomas Kelly, professor emeritus of American studies at Siena College, said: "President Bush would seem to have small hope for high marks from the current generation of practicing historians and political scientists. In this case, current public opinion polls actually seem to cut the President more slack than the experts do." Dr. Douglas Lonnstrom, Siena College professor of statistics and director of the Siena Research Institute, stated: "In our 2002 presidential rating, with a group of experts comparable to this current poll, President Bush ranked 23rd of 42 presidents. That was shortly after 9/11. Clearly, the professors do not think things have gone well for him in the past few years. These are the experts that teach college students today and will write the history of this era tomorrow."[6]
The C-SPAN Survey of Presidential Leadership consists of rankings from a group of presidential historians and "professional observers of the presidency"[7] who ranked presidents in a number of categories initially in 2000 and more recently in 2009.[8][9] With some minor variation, both surveys found that historians consider Abraham Lincoln, George Washington, and Franklin D. Roosevelt the three best presidents by a wide margin and William Henry Harrison (to a lesser extent), Warren G. Harding, Andrew Johnson, Franklin Pierce, and James Buchanan the worst.
Because Grover Cleveland served two non-consecutive terms as both the 22nd and 24th President, the total number of Presidents in each poll is at least one less than the number of the most recently serving President in the poll. Because of their short time in office, Presidents William Henry Harrison and James Garfield are sometimes omitted from these polls.
More than 1,000 people have participated in the surveys. The issue of the validity of the rankings has been of special interest to historians and political scientists, who have tried to specify the relative importance of personality, leadership, issues and partisanship. Quantitative ranking by groups of scholars has been in favor in recent decades, displacing the traditional methods of evaluation by individual writers as typified by Bailey (1966) and most biographers.
The Murray-Blessing 1982 survey[10] asked historians whether they were liberal or conservative on domestic, social and economic issues. The table below shows that the two groups had only small differences in ranking the best and worst presidents. Both groups agreed on the composition of nine of the top ten Presidents (and were split over the inclusion of either Lyndon B. Johnson or Dwight D. Eisenhower), and six of the worst seven (split over Jimmy Carter or Calvin Coolidge). Conservatives placed Democrat Harry S. Truman at a higher ranking.
An ABC News poll about presidential greatness, taken 16–20 February 2000, asked 1012 adults in the US, "Who do you think was the greatest American president?"[11]
A Rasmussen Reports poll taken June 13–24 of 2007 asked 1,000 randomly selected adults to rate America's presidents. Six presidents — George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, Thomas Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt, Franklin D. Roosevelt and John F. Kennedy — were rated favorably by at least 80% of respondents.
A Washington College poll about presidential greatness, taken February 11, 2005, asked 800 adults in the US, "Thinking about all the presidents of the United States throughout history to the present, who would you say was America's greatest president?"[12]
A Gallup poll about presidential greatness, taken February 9–11, 2007, asked 1006 adults in the US, "Who do you regard as the greatest United States president?"[11]
A Quinnipiac University poll, taken May 23–30, 2006, asked 1,534 registered American voters to pick the worst U.S. President of the last 61 years.[13]
"Which of these eleven presidents we have had since World War II would you consider the worst president — Harry Truman, Dwight Eisenhower, John Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson, Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan, George Bush Senior, Bill Clinton, and George W. Bush?"
A USA Today/Gallup Poll, taken December 8–10, 2006, asked 1009 adults in the US, "How do you think each of the following presidents will go down in history—as an outstanding president, above average, average, below average, or poor?"
Bailey, Thomas A. (1966). Presidential Greatness: The Image and the Man from George Washington to the Present. New York: Appleton-Century. → A non quantitative appraisal by leading historian.
List of presidential rankings Historians rank the 42 men who have held the office. AP via MSNBC. Feb. 16, 2009 Poll
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I know I've already said this, but I'm completely head over heels in love with Kid Icarus. I'm sure it's partially because it was one of the first video games I played way back when, but I also think it's just one hell of a game. One hell of a *hard* game, for sure, but a good one too.
I just had to say that. Plus, I wanted to post this super cool piece of semi-educational game art (found at GoNintendo.com) and needed something, even mindless drivel like this, to go along with it.
I've been eyeing the PSP for some time. Unlike a lot of Nintendo fanboys, I only diss other companies, consoles and games when it's warranted. I had a PS1, I currently have a PS2 and I'm considering buying an Xbox 360, and I'll be damned if I'm not considering a PSP as well for games like Loco Roco, the Final Fantasy Tactics redux and a cute little gem called Gurumin: A Monstrous Adventure.
I have yet to play it of course, but from what I've read it's quite an enjoyable action/RPG romp. Don't take my word for it--take the word of the folks at Siliconera (they just posted a thumbs-up review for the game).
Nintendo's "ho hum" attitude towards the future of its Mother/Earthbound series in the States confounds me to no end. OK, so Earthbound on the SNES didn't break sales records--that's the case for quite a few of the Japanese giant's titles, yet they've brought out sequels for many of them.
First we didn't get a the Mother 1+2 compilation for the GBA, and now we're not getting Mother 3 either (as far as anyone can tell). Thankfully it seems we don't need to rely on Ninty for either title, as the emulation community has stepped up to the plate to release English-language patches for both games.
Unfortunately, neither is all that close to being done. In the meantime, though, the great crew at GayGamer.net have posted a video of what has been completed of the Mother 3 project. Check it out here http://gaygamer.net/2007/03/mother_3_translation_gameplay.html
One of the gazillion games I'm looking forward to playing on my DS is Square's Heroes of Mana. That decision is based solely on the few screen shots I've seen of the game, however. Well, those days are over now as a brief trailer for the game has hit the Internet for all our viewing pleasure (http://www.gamebrink.com/nintendo-ds/2313-Heroes_of_Mana-video-2.html). Just a tiny bit of gameplay is included, but it should certainly be enough to whet your appetite for more.
Wow, this one is strange. Along with the fairly straightforward port of SimCity coming to the DS, EA is bringing a new version of its popular Sims series to the Wii--and it isn't like any Sims you've ever played before.
Unlike the borderline realistic appearance of the hit PC and console versions, the Wii version seems to take its cues from Nintendo's Animal Crossing games. Everyone and everything is cute and cuddly--like little Stay Puffed marshmallow men.
I probably won't be picking this one up, but not because of the PG appearance. There's just too many other top-notch titles coming to the Wii this year that are grabbing my attention instead. If you haven't yet made up your mind, check out this video that just appeared on Siliconera: http://www.siliconera.com/index.php/2007/02/26/watch-the-sims-remade-for-wii/
Square sure has been mum on the subject of the American release of Dawn of Mana for the PS2. Heck, I've hardly heard anything about the Japanese release of the game either, and it's been out for a while.
Well, the game is set to come to our shores in late May, and you can bet I'll be picking it up (even if it can't possibly compare to its SNES brethren). For those of you who feel the same way, take a few seconds to ogle the official cover image here. Hopefully it will help tide you over...
Some interesting news recently came out of gaming pub Next Generation about the use of Miis in third-party Wii titles. Apparently the big N hasn't supplied other companies with the information needed to allow them access the characters for use in games. Also, the mag reports, there's no telling if and when Nintendo will put this information in the hands of third parties.
Unfortunately, the news isn't all that shocking to me. Ninty always has held information close to its chest, even when it seemingly damaged relationships with other companies (and, in effect, harmed its own consoles and company). We've already seen this with the Wii, in fact, with Nintendo only recently providing third parties with the information needed to add WiFi connectivity to their games.
I understand a lot of games that just wouldn't work with Miis replacing the main characters, but I'd like to see more of it nonetheless. Here's hoping Nintendo can work something out so it will happen to some extent in the future.
I don't know why, but I've been looking forward to this announcement--that the previously Japan-only SimCity DS will make its way to U.S. gamers this summer. It's probably because I put a lot of hours into an earlier version of the game (this one's based on SimCity 3000 on the PC) while I was in high school).
Some of the Japanese-ness (I know that's not a word) will be removed from the version we see, no doubt, but everything important should remain, including the cute little DS-only additions (sign proclamations with the stylus and blow into the microphone to put out fires).
In case any of you have come to enjoy my news updates, reviews and other quippy commentary and have missed it the past few days, I just wanted to let you know that my husband and I are in the process of moving across country (from Madison, Wis., to Seattle) and I'm unable to do any substantive posts. I'll be back in action on Friday, though, so in the meantime why not check out some of the great sites mentioned on the right side of the screen?
Strange things seem to be brewing in the land of doom and gloom surrounding Sony's PS3. According to recent reports, the version of the system due to be released soon in Europe won't feature the hardware (included in Japanese and American systems) that emulates PS2 and PS1 games. Instead, "limited" emulation of the systems' games will be made possible through software.
"This move is a part of our cost saving measures, similar to the wide variety of cost saving measures we have applied with both the original PlayStation and with PS2. In time this leads to a reduction in the cost of manufacture and over time allows us to reduce the cost of the PS3 to consumers."
It isn't all that shocking to hear Sony's looking at ways to make its monolithic system cheaper, though it's a bit of a head-scratcher that the change hasn't created a price cut for European gamers (it's going to be just as expensive as ever when it's released on that side of the pond).
American and Japanese fans of Sony's latest attempt to take over the world shouldn't get too cocky--word on the street is the hardware-to-software switch eventually will be coming to our shores as well. All of which means I won't be tossing away my slimline PS2 anytime soon...
Nintendo graciously gave U.S. gamers an early preview of this Monday's VC update in the form of a press release announcing imminent availability of The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time (originally developed for the N64).
Hopefully Nintendo doesn't follow the footsteps it took when it released The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past a month or so ago (the SNES classic was the only VC release that week). Even if that's the case, though, you can hardly go wrong by purchasing Ocarina of Time, arguably Link's best video game adventure to date.
In other VC news, the folks at GoNintendo claim two TurboGrafx-16 games will be showing up on a Wii Shop Channel near you sooner rather than later: the seminal Splatterhouse and the mediocre Double Dungeons. GoNintendo didn't specify whether they're due for release in Japan, Europe or the U.S. Here's hoping at least Splatterhouse comes to the States eventually. |
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One example of this is with mobile live streaming, which YouTube creators beta tested from Disneyland last year. During the stream, they were asking viewers what rides they should go on, and fans were chiming in with their recommendations.
We’re seeing this direct form of co-creation more and more now, especially with our new community tab. Creators will use this to routinely ask fans what type of content they want to see, what their favourite videos are and where they should go next.
These examples might not seem especially relevant for marketers, but I think they speak to a broader change in user behaviour: people are no longer satisfied with just passively consuming content, they also want rich interactions.
Adding interactive features such as polling, live chat and video infocards, because it has helped make video viewing a more active, engaging experience.
We originally assumed all YouTube users wanted to “lean back” and do nothing other than watch something. But our research showed that wasn’t the case. Interactive features like polling make content a lot more dynamic for those who want it. If creators think their viewers want what we call a “lean forward” experience, they can now provide one.
Assessing the quality of YouTube at scale. It’s great to see that people are watching more, but that doesn’t necessarily mean the experience has improved.
Look at website clickbait, for example. It might get you to look at more content, but it’s not a great experience. My challenge is to answer the question, “how do we really know the experience is good across the board?”
Answering that question involves looking at a few things: Can users discover YouTube’s features and experiences? Do they know how to use those features? And do those features improve their experience?
We’re really starting to focus on user satisfaction as a measure of success for product development, ads and even our algorithms. If what we're doing makes users happier, we're on the right track. And directly asking users “What’s your biggest frustration today?” and “What’s your favourite thing about YouTube?” provides more insights than we could gather from watch time alone.
1 2and2/Google, “The Values of YouTube” Study, (n of 1,006 consumers between the ages of 18-54, with 918 monthly YouTube users). Respondents were asked to choose which platforms they turn to for a range of needs, Oct. 2017.
The people of Akwa Ibom State have been told not to see or treat the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) as sectional or regional political party in the country.
The Akwa Ibom State Chairman of APGA, Mr. Joseph Out, in an interview with journalists in Uyo yesterday hinted that APGA is not an Igbo party but a national party.
He said membership of the party cuts across the country indicating that in Akwa Ibom State membership of the party is spread across the 329 wards of the state.
According to him, the need to make the clarification became necessary to correct the erroneous impression in some quarters that APGA is an Igbo party with ethnic agenda.
The state chairman of the party revealed that more than 10, 000 people have been registered since the party commences intensive registration and revalidation of its members across all the wards in the state.
APGA, he said, would field candidates in all the positions, including the governorship and senatorial positions in the state in the 2019 general election.
“APGA is not an Igbo party, it is a national party that is prepared to contest all elective positions in the state, and the membership of the party, as we speak, cuts across all the 329 ward of Akwa Ibom State.
“APGA is set to take over the state political space. We already have over 10,000 members across the 329 wards in the state.
“An aspirant from Eket senatorial district has indicated interest to contest the governorship election in the state. From all parameters of assessment, he is a man of integrity who can conveniently win the governorship candidates in the state,” the party stated.
Otu said APGA is working hard and would surprise the state in the forthcoming election as his party would enthrone people’s oriented programmes in the state, regretting that despite the potential and huge revenue that accrue to the state, it has no standard market.
“It is frustrating that the state with all its resources from federation account and huge internally generated revenue, the state does not have a standard market.
“The people of this state depend on Aba in Abia State for their wares. If there is any restriction of movement in Abia State, business men and women in the Akwa Ibom state woul be stranded.” the APGA chairman noted.
A furious row erupted after it emerged that close to 500 Rio Tinto workers could lose their jobs at their aluminium plant on Anglesey because of a power dispute.
Metals giant Rio plans to end smelting on the island in September after failing to extend a power contract with the nearby Wylfa nuclear power station.
Rio (up 21p at 1,401p) said it had put forward 'a number of proposals' to prolong the contract and that 'we have not been successful'.
But the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority, which owns Wylfa, accused Rio of asking it to 'break the law' by demanding state-subsidised prices.
The Anglesey plant has been running since 1971 and has always been powered by Wylfa at below market rates.
A spokesman for the NDA said signing a new contract on non-commercial terms would clash with European Union laws against state subsidies - and that Rio had long been aware of this.
'We are not legally allowed to subsidise private companies in this way. What they are asking us to do is break the law.'
The closure of the smelter, which is 51 per cent owned by Rio and 49 per cent owned by Kaiser Aluminum, will be a blow to the economy of North Wales.
Rio is under considerable pressure to curb costs in its aluminium business worldwide after saddling itself with £25billion of debt from its acquisition of Canada's Alcan.
Yesterday Rio chief executive Tom Albanese warned there had been a 'dramatic decline' in demand for metals in the fourth quarter.
Unveiling sharp declines in iron and copper production, Albanese said Rio was not planning to tap shareholders for extra cash.
He declined to say if Rio's global aluminium operations were running at a loss, as claimed yesterday by one City analyst, saying the firm will give full earnings on February 12.
An industry source claimed Rio was sacrificing Anglesey as part of its cost- cutting efforts. The firm has already announced 14,000 job losses worldwide. Rio denied this, saying it has been looking into alternative power plants including a biomass-fired station.
Small companies will be able to raise funds by borrowing against unpaid invoices as Minister ends bans on invoice finance
Small companies will be given the right to raise funds by borrowing against unpaid invoices from big business customers from early next year, Small Business Minister Anna Soubry will announce today.
The move marks the latest effort from Whitehall to crack Britain’s late payments culture, in which big firms delay paying bills, so starving small suppliers of cash.
It will enable companies to use invoice financing to get their hands on cash from unpaid bills they have issued. Businesses apply for lending using invoices for money owed to them as security.
Soubry said: ‘By scrapping [big companies’] restrictions on invoice finance, thousands of firms across the country could benefit from faster access to hard-fought funds.
‘While invoice finance may not be right for everyone and is absolutely no excuse for late payment, I want small businesses to have the option of using it to increase cashflow.’
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A similar rule is already in effect in the US, Canada and Australia. Its introduction in the UK follows last month’s announcement by Soubry of a small business payments tsar, who will champion small firms, particularly on the issue of late payment. That, too, is being based on measures adopted in Australia.
It is estimated that the country’s five million smaller firms are owed £26.8 billion in overdue payments.
Jeff Longhurst, chief executive of the Asset Based Finance Association, said: ‘This is good news for UK businesses. Invoice finance is a key source of funding for SMEs in particular, and taking effective action against bans on the assignment of invoices will allow more businesses to unlock the funding tied up in their unpaid invoices.
‘It’s a complex area and we look forward to seeing the detailed regulations, but the Government must be congratulated.’
John Allan, national chairman of the Federation of Small Businesses, said: ‘The decision to outlaw the ban on terms in contracts to prevent businesses from choosing who they want to go to for invoice financing is overwhelmingly positive for businesses around the country. Access to finance can be very challenging for small firms. Recent FSB research shows that 38 per cent of our members who applied for finance were refused in the second quarter of this year.’
Anil Stocker, co-founder and chief executive of MarketInvoice, said: ‘Business owners will know the frustration of completing a piece of work and then waiting months to get paid, so it’s important that businesses have the option to use their invoices to access funds straight away.
'The Government’s move to stop big companies preventing smaller businesses using invoices to access finance is a welcome one. There was no good reason for big businesses to hold this power over their suppliers.’
Paul Kruzycki, who in 2009 launched Ales By Mail with an £800 investment, has used MarketInvoice to manage cashflow.
When Amazon, which had been using the firm as its marketplace vendor for craft beer, announced it wanted to increase revenue from this segment to £500,000 and almost double the number of product lines it took from the company to 500, he needed to fund the growth. Kruzycki used MarketInvoice to enable him to pay a swathe of breweries regularly while facing longer payment terms from Amazon. |
284,955,516 | We've been experiencing a system wide drop in throughput with our RAP units connected over Comcast. The throughput will drop from 15 Mbps to 1 Mbps between the hours of 8 - 11p (PST). After doing extensive network testing -- i.e. it's not a scheduled process gobling up bandwidth -- our network engineers think that Comcast is blocking UDP traffic during this time. If this is the case, I doubt it's isolated and was wondering if anyone else in the community is experiencing the same?
Thank you for your feedback. I can't say I've heard this before from Comcast or any other provider. I have a couple of questions:
- Is Comcast the provider for the home user or do you have Comcast Business at your controller location?
- If this is Comcast on the user's end; during this time, do you have issues with users of other providers?
Our controller is on Verizon and our end-users are on Comcast Residential and Business. It seems like a long shot, since I was just told that it's affecting our AT&T users too.
After a couple weeks of network testing by our engineers and the guys at Comcast and AT&T, they say it's a "Peering Link" issue. The peering link is getting saturated during primetime hours (7p - 11p) with other traffic, like Netflix, that our Aruba RAP traffic is getting slowed down... hard to believe, but that's their story and they're sticking to it.
I'd imaging if it were a peering link issue, this problem would be more endemic. Dropping from 20 Mbps to 1 Mbps during these hours is painful!
This is a common and widely known issue with Comcast cable modem internet connections. We're also seeing it on Charter Residential. Comcast has admitted to the rate-limiting UDP traffic and told us they'll rate-limit when and where they decide it's in their best interests.
Aruba may intentionally be unaware of this because they haven't responded with an alternative VPN option. The solution most vendors have implemented is to be able to wrap the VPN tunnel in TCP 10000 or to just use IP protocol 50/51. The Aruba RAP will only allow you to use UDP port 4500 (NAT-T). More and more ISP's are starting to rate limit UDP traffic and we're having to look at other vendor solutions for our remote wireless location. It's a shame because the RAP works great and is a wonderful solution but having a 90% degradation because of the ISP rate-limiting is not acceptable to our users.
Our Aruba SE (who is one of the best SE's I've ever worked with) Xing Zhou has submitted a feature request for an option to wrap the IPSEC tunnel in TCP.
In the SF Bay Area, we're experiencing these slow downs/throttling with Comcast, Webpass, and a couple other ISPs. Interestingly, our performance improved greatly after the FCC ruling a few months ago, but we're starting to experience degredation again.
We had the exact same experience after the FCC ruling. It got our hopes up a bit and then ~ 2 weeks later the performance started degrading again.
Has anyone managed to get public key authentication working with Aruba Controller and OpenSSH? I saw the KB article and after mouthing "WTF? Seriously?" I managed to get OpenSSH's ssh-keygen to convert a RSA public key to a PEM. Sadly the controller is rejecting it as if it's not really a PEM or whatever internal reason it doesn't want to cough up.
I'm not interested in generating a CA and shouldn't have to. In my case it would weaken security as I myself have avoided running a proper CA setup. This is SSH not SSL. I guess I'm too busy being shocked that this thing doesn't support OpenSSH pub keys out of the box and it looks like PuTTY mainline lacks X509 support. Also I guess I can't have multiple SSH keys for user as in one for each client machine?
Thanks but that is pretty much the same as what is in the KB article and I frankly don't understand why any of it is necessary.
Is there no way to use the defacto standard OpenSSH public keys or even a PuTTY public key? I have existing keys that I want to use and I want to be able to use those keys with a wide range of devices. The Aruba controllers stand alone as the only thing I have access to that supports pubkey auth that doesn't directly handle these keys or offer a clear conversion path or tool (ala PuTTYgen).
I'm not even sure what certificate format it's expecting as I've used the OpenSSH ssh-keygen tool to generate a PEM but the controllers reject the resulting file with a non-helpful error.
Sorry if I come across as cranky but I'm honestly stupified at the process layed out in the KB article for something as simple as handling an SSH key...
I recommend you not try to use this feature. The reason it is there is for smart card users (the US military CAC to be specific), and the feature is optimized for someone who already has a certificate and needs to get it to work with SSH. Trying to go the other direction is just asking for pain, as you've seen.
I'll enter an enhancement request for allowing entry of SSH pubkeys directly. That should not be too complex to support. I'm actually a little surprised that in 9 years and over 2000 enhancement requests filed, nobody has asked for this before.
Nice one on the feature request.I use shh all the time with Linux ssh session authentication and I am testing this same feature on my lab and am experiencing similar headaches. I would welcome this feature also. Spot on blocke :-)
Ok, I bashed on this for an hour and finally managed to get this working. Not sure if its still relevant to anyone, but this is how you convert your openssh certs to a format that Aruba likes.
First this is mostly tested on Macs, since that's what we run here, if you run windows or Linux, you're kinda on your own:
Check OpenSSL version on your Mac by typing command "openssl version", mine is OpenSSL 0.9.8zc 15 Oct 2014. If you're at least this version, the instructions below should work.
You can accept the default for every prompt it asks you after. None of it is really relevant. If you don't put the flag of -days 1500 (5 years), the default period will be 30 days.
Upload resulting pem into Aruba via GUI. There's no CLI method that I can find. Make sure you select format of pem and public certificate for type.
Add the user that'll use this cert. You can CLI for this. Format is: "mgmt-user ssh-pubkey client-cert <your uploaded pub key> <user name> <role>"
Lastly, enable public key certs by going to the GUI and selecting the "Client Public Key" option under SSH Auth method. You can cli as well, but if you do this, your backup controller will not have the option propogated over. this is obviously a bug, and this is the workaround for it so far.
That's it, now you need to do it for your backup controllers and then you can finally turn off your RADIUS or TACACS server to the controllers. I'd still recommend having username/password for the admin account just in case your keys get borked or your laptop dies.
This worked great for me also. One note. If you have a lot of private ssh keys on your host you might have to edit your .ssh/config to present just the correct key or you can not login with just a password.
Try to move the access points that keep rebooting to a different switch. No reboot reason normally means that the power was removed from them.
Did you ever find the solution to this? I'm having the same problem and I know it's not a cabling or switch problem. Seems more likely in the AP-105s than any others..
I have been wanting to just eat a sandwich or SOMETHING, but apparently I’m not allowed because of listeria or something to that effect.
You can absolutely have deli meats, without heating them up. Bagged salad has listeria risk, as do many other things sold. I wouldn't worry.
I eat lunch meat all the time. My midwife said it’s fine as long as it’s been safely refrigerated and hasn’t been sitting out for hours lol.
I hear mine up for 30 seconds (I have to due to the fact that I’m a surrogate and it’s in my contract).
its just with my first pregnancy, I was eating it at first and then I had no interest whatsoever, like ham made me want to barf so it wasn’t an issue. Now I’m like...is it ok?
Lol I have been craving a Jimmy Johns sandwich sooooooooo bad! My OB put deli meat on the list of things not to eat, and since I have a high risk pregnancy I'm going to listen. I know sushi is also on the "do not eat list" as a lot of other things are but ALOT of women eat these things and their babies are born beautiful and perfect! Quite honestly I have never heard of a baby born with problems because the mother ate sushi, deli meat etc while pregnant 🤷🏻♀️ I'd say go for it unless your OB specifically told you not to... then again, it's still up to you lol.
The first thing I ate when I delivered my DD (dear daughter) was jimmy johns and I plan on doing that again when I deliver my DS (dear son) next year lol!
My Dr says heat for 30 seconds in the microwave, so you should be golden if you get it toasted (I know some women don't worry about deli meats, but it is up to you and how much risk you want to take)
Spicy tuna roll sushi is my favorite so I have banned it from my diet, even before becoming pregnant. My last time was Father’s Day 😢
FTM (first time mom) here. I’m 20w 3d and starting to think about baby registries! When is a good time to start a registry? Also, what websites are good to register for? What kind of items did you find most useful from previous pregnancies? Sorry for all the questions, just want to make sure I ask for useful things so the baby is set I have a bunch of family on both sides that want to throw me a baby shower.
... people who I always thought were crazy for not testing until days after AF (Aunt Flo - menstruation/period) was late
Hubby and I were trying for a few months but decided to stop due to me needing an MRI. So the last two cycles we went back to pull out method and had sex infrequently because I was sick.
Logically I know I shouldn’t be pregnant but I’m two days late and trying not to get my hopes up. I know I need to test but I kept telling myself “ AF (Aunt Flo - menstruation/period) will start today” but it hasn’t and now I’m going crazy.
But I’m also afraid to test. I’m afraid of the disappointment of it being negative. It’s easier to cope when AF (Aunt Flo - menstruation/period) shows up on time because I know for sure I’m not pregnant and I prepare to start another cycle.
I was the same way. I was always so upset when the test came up negative. But I waited 4 days to test. And I was shocked it came back positive. My df (dear fiancee) and I had sex one time. Lol
I was the same way. I was always so upset when the test came up negative. But I waited 4 days to test. And I was shocked it came back positive. My df and I had sex one time. Lol
Congrats! I hope this is us. I didn’t track when we had sex this past month of course 🤦🏻♀️ I have tracked it every time since my October 16 LO (little one) and of course this cycle I decide to skip it. So I don’t even know If we had sex when I was fertile
Congrats! I hope this is us. I didn’t track when we had sex this past month of course 🤦🏻♀️ I have tracked it every time since my October 16 LO and of course this cycle I decide to skip it. So I don’t even know If we had sex when I was fertile
Honestly we didn’t either. We decided to take a break and bam pregnant. And I’m praying for you guys and hoping! 🤞
So I can't decide between the two prams. The Cruz I would have in the off white colour. It's super lightweight. Fits in any boot. Has a massive basket and can carry more weight.
The egg I would get in prosecco. It is very appealing to the eye but quite heavy to push and more expensive (by about £300)
I am not keen on the small wheels on the Uppababy but it does still look lovely. I think I am going to be practical and go for that as it does look lovely in off white.
I have the egg and my friend has an uppa baby. She has the vista and I am not sure how they differ but the basket is amazing. I always end up having to off load stuff onto her as I never have enough space. That’s the only negative about the egg though as I love it.
I’m getting the egg in the black edition I love it I had the peach last time An just fancy a change x
I have an egg and love it. I have it in espresso black. I was put off the prosecco as I didn't want to stress about keeping it clean
I have just purchased the egg today in black shadow!! Originally we liked the icandy but completely changed our minds. Love it!! Xxx
I prefer the vista but it's so wide?? I don't see how it will fit in any car boot unless a massive car? Xx
I have an uppababy vista and a Toyota yaris. I had a corsa before that so both small cars but the pram fits in the boot fine x
I am working on a web app using ArcGISDynamicMapServiceLayers, which use UniqueValueRenderers to draw points based on attributes. In many cases, the attribute value is 0, in which cases I would not want to display anything. If I do not assign some symbol to these values, the service draws the default symbol in those locations. I tried assigning a symbol with 0 opacity (transparent), but when I use an InfoWindow in the web app, a click will still [pick up these invisible symbols.
The user will choose which attribute to use for rendering the symbols. So that value may be 0 in some cases and nonzero in others.
Your sample really helped. I did not know you where using the IdentifyTask and not just a simple InfoTemplate or PopupTemplate.
Can I do that after loading the map services? In other words, can I set the layer definition expression dynamically in runtime?
I will if and when I can get this to work..so far it is not; the definition is applied to the layer, but I can still click on the 'removed' points, and an infoWindow appears with 0 value. I will keep investigating.
update - I confirmed that the layer definitions are being applied; I added a filter to the 'all points' set, and only the points that met the condition are visibly shown. But, I can still click on points that are not visible but are part of the 'all' set, and an InfoWindow appears.
If you are still getting the popup when clicking on a point that is filtered out using the defention query then are you adding the layer using a ArcGISDynamicMapServiceLayer or a FeatureLayer?
ArcGISDynamicMapServiceLayer, i mention 'dynamic map services' in my original question and tags...Ill edit for clarity.
Strange. Here is a sample where all states but Kansas are remove using the definition query and when I click on any other state a popup is NOT displayed.
I saw a similar example in ArcGIS's JS sample page...for one, this sample is adding the parameters before the service is added to the map. Also (and more significantly, I think), I am rendering the symbols on the fly by changing the attribute used to define the symbology, as I said in my question. I assign the renderer to a LayerDrawingOptions object, then pass those options to the layer with setLayerDrawingOptions.
I can see the effect of the layer definition visually, but the points are still there, just not visible.
Since your workflow is not a standard workflow and you have yet to share any relevant code I am not sure I can help you.
my code is based on these examples from ArcGIS: this and this. My code base is rather large and hard to give a sample that will encompass everything , but I can try. The basic workflow is:
3) unique symbols based on attribute value are passed to UniqueValueRenderer, which is then assigned as renderer property to a LayerDrawingOptions object
for the dynamic map services to be able to render symbols, 'allow modification ...' checkbox in ArcGIS Server Manager is enabled for those layers.
thanks--so far, adding this code has resulted only in 'No information Available' return for clicking on any point, for any of the chosen attributes. Did you add any other edits?
yes. i tried a few variations (removing the other lines in the identify parameters, for instance) but not effect. Here is the updated live demo..Here I only added your two new lines to the existing Identify Parameters:
you added those lines, but in the wrong place. Notice I show the function you should add those line to.
ah yes you're right, works now, thanks! I will have to add more so as to get the current layer and attribute value in my actual code but I can do that without too much trouble I think.
ps- I am still curious why the Image Parameters setting do not seem to remove the point from the layer (although it is invisible)...ideas?
Because you are using the IdentifyTask with the IdentifyParameter option LAYER_OPTION_ALL and it is not looking for what is visible on the map.
I can comment out that line and get the same results..My understanding was that the Image parameters setting should remove any zero value points from the layer entirely. (this is more for my own understanding)
You understanding is correct for the layer in the map. But the IdentifyTask is going back to the server to do the identify operation and is not aware of the definition you applied to the layer in your map unless you specify it in the IdentifyParameters. If you were not using the IdentifyTask and just using a standard popup for the layer then it would work as you are expecting.
1) click on a point and see the info window, which will show the chosen attribute field and its value
2) remember where the current points are located, then, choose a different attribute from the dropdown window
3) now click on the same spot where a point no longer appears where it appeared earlier..you will see the current value of '0' in the info window
I have published a large number of layers ( > 200) from a project in ArcGIS Pro into the Data Store in Portal for ArcGIS but want to see if there is a way to update the project in a quick and easy way so the project now points to the layers in Portal for ArcGIS?
I know I can change the source one by one by right clicking on the item but this will be very time consuming for 200 layers.
my variation on this question is to change data sources in an MXD from AGOL layers to same layers from our internal Portal. I'm thinking there should be a way to include services in the list of sources shown in the 'update data source' option in Catalog. |
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» Two weeks, limited to strength and conditioning activities ("Dead Ball"). Only strength and conditioning coaches allowed on the field.
Three teams with new coaches, the Broncos, Rams and 49, which started workouts April 10, will continue Phase One of their offseason workout programs.
Two teams, the Buffalo Bills and Los Angeles Chargers, which began workouts on April 3, will transition to Phase Two of the offseason workouts. Phase Two takes place over the three weeks. On-field workouts might include individual player instruction and drills, as well as team practices conducted on a "separates" basis. No live contact or team offense versus team defense drills are permitted.
The Bills begin voluntary minicamp Tuesday. Teams with new coaches can hold a minicamp for veteran players before the NFL draft (April 27-29 in Philadelphia), which allows extended for extended work periods. The Broncos, Chargers, Rams and 49ers will host their voluntary minicamps beginning on April 25.
The biggest offseason question for the Philadelphia Eagles looms in the coming days: Will Carson Wentz play Week 1?
Eagles coach Doug Pederson has declined to say publicly whether the franchise quarterback will be cleared for contact in time for Thursday's season opener against the Atlanta Falcons. What earlier in the summer seemed destined isn't quite so sure.
The doctor who repaired Wentz's torn ACL and LCL, Dr. Jim Bradley, told John Clark of NBC Sports Philadelphia, he'd recommend playing it safe.
"It should be a cautious approach," Bradley said Friday in a phone interview. "What's a few games over 12 to 15 years?"
This thought process is obviously one the Eagles medical and coaching staff is considering. Why risk further injury that could wipe out another 10 games just to get him on the field for Week 1? We've seen players come back too soon and regret it -- anyone remember Robert Griffin III's "All in for week 1" Adidas-sponsored mantra? How'd that work out?
As much as Wentz wants to be on the field with his teammates when the season kicks off, it's the team's responsibility to save a player from himself.
Bradley noted that because Wentz's injury was "much more" than a torn ACL, the longer he waits to return lessens the chance of a re-rupture.
If Wentz is cleared to play, then let's roll. But if he isn't fully ready, the Eagles should be confident to play behind Super Bowl MVP Nick Foles, despite a rocky preseason, until Wentz is 100 percent.
Bradley added Wentz is "definitely ahead" of schedule in his rehab, as the quarterback has been all summer. Ahead of schedule and ready to play Week 1, however, are not necessarily the same.
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In June 2018, AMPAC VP External Affairs Nakita Valerio will host a public webinar for willing participants on the subjects of Islam and Islamophobia. The goal of the webinar is to inform members of the public about the diversity within Islam and Muslim communities, as well as the systemic discrimination they face. The hope is to leave participants feeling empowered and equipped to begin to make change within their own spheres of influence.
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AMPAC VP External Affairs Nakita Valerio did an InstaLive session with prolific blogger and Instagram influencer Sumaira Z to discuss the complexities of Islamophobia and the importance of understanding it for advocates working in the Muslim community.
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AMPAC VP External Affairs Nakita Valerio lectured on Islam and Islamophobia to hundreds of Norquest College faculty and staff for their Campus-Wide Learning Day. The crowd was standing-room only and came with incredibly poignant questions. Feedback for the session was excellent and AMPAC continued to receive good feedback in the weeks after it was held. We look forward to continuing our relationship with institutions that prioritize anti-racism education.
AMPAC VP External Affairs Nakita Valerio, pictured with instructor Salima Versi, was honoured to lecture on Nuancing Islamophobia for the University of Alberta’s Religious Studies Program’s Introduction to Islam class. The lecture was about excavating the term Islamophobia in order to better understand its different manifestations for the purposes of combating it more effectively – and how to do that!
AMPAC VP External Affairs Nakita Valerio and Director of External Affairs Mona Ismaeil had an amazing time presenting on Islamophobia for the French-bilingual principals at Cité Francophone. This is the beginning of much longer-term relationship that will continue throughout 2018 to include French-bilingual educators and their students.
AMPAC Director of External Affairs Mona Ismaeil teaching students about Islam, Islamophobia and building acceptance at O’Leary High School. They were very engaged and learned a lot.
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301,583,240 | At this very spot, on our first afternoon in the park, and within half an hour of officially beginning our Snow Leopard search, our expert local spotter had exclaimed “Shan!!” – the Ladakhi name for Snow Leopard. After a few tense moments and some mild panic, we had all trained our telescopes on a Snow Leopard stalking across a far mountain slope. The distance was extreme, estimated at 2.5-3km, even the cat’s spots were hard to discern, yet we spent an enthralling hour and a half watching it sunning itself on a rock, then rolling like a tabby in loose gravel before setting off, at a remarkably rapid pace, across the mountain slope until it disappeared above a cliff face. Moments later it came barreling down the cliff in a chase, scattering a herd of Blue Sheep in all directions, however it didn’t seem to reach striking distance of any of them. It then disappeared over the mountain ridge, seemingly in disgust! “High fives” were shared all round, we were elated! We had 9 days in the mountains and by the first day we had already actually clapped eyes on this, the Gray Ghost of the Himalayas, albeit distantly. Seeing a wild Snow Leopard is every wildlife enthusiast’s dream, probably the ultimate and most elusive wildlife experience on the planet. This Holy Grail of sightings was until quite recently, virtually impossible, requiring months of extreme endurance for even the slimmest glimmer of hope. Peter Matthiessen’s famous book Snow Leopard describes such an attempt that proved ultimately unsuccessful in his primary goal of glimpsing a Snow Leopard.
Our guide explained that camera traps scattered at strategic sites in the three valleys around our camp had revealed that there were no less than 11 resident Snow Leopards in the immediate vicinity! An astounding density for a large predator, especially in such a cold, desert-like environment. Furthermore, the total population in Hemis National Park is estimated at 50-60 individuals, making the park an important genetic reservoir for this species which is classified on the IUCN’s Red Data List as Endangered. In case we had any doubts, our guide led us to one of these camera traps where he hauled out the camera and as we flicked through the past few weeks’ images, we were amazed to see close-up shots of Snow Leopard after Snow Leopard; males, females, cubs, taken both at night and day!
Day three had dawned bright and sunny once again. In fact these days in late October were just stunning, and despite being at 3,900m in elevation, the conditions necessitated no more than a t-shirt! However as soon as the sun disappeared behind the mountains, a remarkable phenomenon occurred; the mercury literally plummeted more than 20 degrees centigrade to below zero over a short time. We opted for a pre-breakfast scan at the knoll above camp from where we had lucked into our first sighting. This time it was our assistant Snow Leopard spotter who uttered the magical word, and after a scramble we were again all watching a much closer Snow Leopard in the Tarbung Valley. The cat actually appeared almost golden in the early morning light and this time we could admire its magnificent thick, blotched pelt, extremely long tail and large head. Snow Leopards are the subject of recent taxonomic debate, sometimes being placed in their own genus Uncia (from their earliest Western name Ounce, an ancient name first given to the Eurasian Lynx; which also occurs in Hemis National Park). However most recent research places them amongst the Panthera. This is the genus of the typical large cats including Lion, Leopard, Jaguar and Tiger. In fact genetic evidence indicates that the Snow Leopard’s closest living relative is the Tiger. Our Snow Leopard sat, quite Cheetah-like, before stalking off and once again rolling in the gravel, apparently an indication of the desire to mask its scent before a hunt. We realized that we could place ourselves much closer to our dream target if we hiked down into the valley where we had spent the previous day, so we left one of our spotters on the knoll with a radio and we descended with bated breath, by-passing camp and breakfast en route!
Half an hour later we were on the slope opposite to where we had seen our Snow Leopard and with directions from our spotter we managed to relocate the cat. It was barely visible at the top of an outcrop about 300m away, cautiously peering over the rocks at us. We settled down and trained our telescopes, cameras and binoculars on the far slope and slowly but surely, our leopard gained confidence until it lifted its whole head and stared at us. After an hour, a pleasant surprise awaited us when our camp staff arrived with hot breakfast and coffee in tow and served us a delicious meal in situ as we marveled at the Snow Leopard! Hard to believe this was real! As the sun rose and the day heated up, our cat dozed off, all we could see was a paw and the top of its head. Lunchtime rolled around and once again we were treated to another hot meal brought up from camp.
As the shadows lengthened, a herd of ten Blue Sheep made an appearance on the scene. They slowed grazed their way up from the stream cutting through the valley, heading in the general direction of the rocky outcrop in which our Snow Leopard was resting. Closer and closer they approached and our adrenalin levels began to rise, but then the lead sheep changed direction and started moving back down the hill. Seven in total descended but two adults and a juvenile kept moving towards the danger zone…..
And finally in a blur, everything happened. The Snow Leopard leapt from its cover, bounding across the rocks in great leaps towards the young Blue Sheep. All three sheep took to flight, creating dust trails in their wake. The speed at which the Snow Leopard closed ground on the young sheep was remarkable as it barreled off the rocky outcrop to open ground, clearing a large rock en route.
The two adult sheep had gone their separate ways, one heading downhill away from the danger and the other, possibly the younger sheep’s mother, scrambling up a steep slope. At this point, our young sheep made a tactical error and instead of fleeing downslope, it tried to follow the upper sheep.
The scene of the Snow Leopard hunt in the Tarbung Valley – the white line begins at the point where the Snow Leopard spent the day and tracks the route of the leopard’s stalk along the back of the rocky outcrop and then across the fault line in the rocks. The blue line follows the route of the Blue Sheep as they grazed towards the rocky outcrop. The red line follows the chase with the yellow dot indicating the first failed attack and the red dot being the final kill position
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Rugged scenery in montane Ladakh, the snow covered peaks of Hemis National Park are visible in the background
The 4,400 square kilometre Hemis National Park is the largest park in the whole of South Asia. It is accessed through the high altitude (3,500m) city of Leh, capital of Ladakh in Jammu-Kashmir State, north west India. Regular flights operate from New Delhi offering phenomenal views flying over the Great Himalayan Range. Ladakh, also known as Little Tibet due to the local influx of Tibetans after the Chinese take-over of Tibet, is situated on the border with Tibet but several hundred kilometers east of the volatile and disputed Pakistani Kashmir boundary. Leh and its surrounds are well worth exploring, in fact essential since its necessary for most people to acclimatize here for at least one full day before beginning their Snow Leopard expedition in nearby Hemis National Park.
Several impressive temples and monasteries are dotted around Leh and the birding can be excellent with species such as Ibisbill, Solitary Snipe and Mountain Leaf Warbler to name but a few. Access to Hemis National Park is via a short drive to Zingchen and this scenic route offers the best chance for locating the long legged and large bossed Ladakh Urial also known as Red Sheep. The road comes to an end near the boundary of Hemis and from here it’s an easy walk of less than an hour to the base camp in the Rumbak Valley (3,900m). Within the vicinity of camp and its surrounding valleys, 11 Snow Leopard are resident. For those with additional time, it is worth hiking deeper into the park to Kanda La pass (4,900m) and here Woolly Hares are much commoner as are their main predator, the Eurasian Lynx. The huge Argali, another species of wild sheep, also occur here. Wolves can be encountered anywhere in the park. Birding opportunities are limited with fairly low diversity at this elevation but typical species include Lammergeier, Golden Eagle, Himalayan Snowcock, both species of chough, White-winged Redstart, Brown Accentor and Fire-fronted Serin.
Fantastic photos and notes Adam, I’m very envious, but hope to get over that as next week we head off on this very same trip! If we have half your luck I would be thrilled, in fact a mere glimpse is more than I dare hope for.
That is about all one can say except maybe congratulations and, of course, excellent photos – thanks for sharing.
In 2001, I spent 8 days in Hemis on a semi-solo trip (Markha Valley). While I was “looking for” snow leopards, and hoping I might just luck into one, I knew I’d never find any. However, I am sure they saw me. And I went to a wildlife conference a few years later, and I want to say it was Australian film-makers who captured the first footage of snow leopards copulating in that same area.
Anyway, it is the harshest environment that I have ever seen anyone living in – stunning but harsh. It made me think of Nevada… if you raised the entire state 10,000 feet. Maybe I will get back some day.
Tibetan Snowcock – Chukars on steroids, Lords of the Steppe, 4 massive birds slowing strutting along. Amazing.
Impossible. No one ever sees snow leopards. They are totally invisible. These images just cannot be.
It’s every naturalist’s dream come true! Happy someone could enjoy it, and very thankful that you shared it with us the rest of the world.
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Last december 2013 were in Rumbak. We saw 2 Snow Leopards eating a donkey in Tarbung valley. But saw no hunting.
This sequence of photos is superb, fantastic, incredible and awesome (plus a lot of other descriptors). I am very proud to be a tiny, even minute part of your team, marketing tours across North America.
Beautiful animals these – and I am getting goosebumps just reading through your blog and seeing the pictures !
My dad is a retired Indian Forest Service person, and he had shown these pics to me yesterday, and today I shared them via another friend’s post.
What I saw in the photos of a Snow Leopard making a Kill & read in the description is any Nature lover & Photographers Dream….Am sure, all the people who were present there to see this Great action are so much blessed to witness this Life Time experience……All I can say, WOW
Wow! Superb sighting. I know lots of people who have been to Hemis and had sightings of snow leopard, if lucky within a few hundred metres, but never a hunt! So cool that you captured it all. I was there last year and saw 8 cats, but none hunting – will have to try again! There’s a report and some photos from our trip here:
This was like watching Animal Planet in slow mode. While your photos capture the hunt in its entirety, I like your narrative skills even best. I do my wildlife viewing while in my sofa but it still kicks ass! Your website is truly amazing, thanks for sharing these wonders with us.
If i may ask. What camera equipment were you using? What was your system? I am well equipped for general safari trips but I’m curious to hear from experts on their setups for harsher environments and for longer distances. Thanks in advance. |
16,422,252 | We reject and condemn atrocities, especially when committed by someone who call himself one of us. On the other hand, the propagandists gang like revenire, zoo, citizen, and cut-past ann have been calling for atrocities and celebrating each and every single murder, massacre, and horror inflicted by their master and its army of hyenas.
The international fury at “the human organ eating” opposition fighter (along with all the other furies before it – at the American soldiers’ urinating on the corpses of dead Afghanies) is in itself outrageous because the ultimate insult and basest act EVER is to KILL someone, to rob them of their life, what happens after that is absolutely a non-issue. cutting up a cadaver, eating it, pissing on it, well, it is DEAD, FFS! It is disgusting, yes, but don’t bloody tell me it is morally reprehensible more than having taken the man’s life in the first place! When I die I dont give a damn what happens to my body (and despite my atheism I have to admit harboring admiration for the Arabian custom of burying the dead out in the desert without any markings whatsoever over the tomb, just a little mound of sand that the wind will eventually flatten. Perfect!).
And in this case the cadaver was that of a soldier who died trying to kill others. But was that what the women and children in Bayda were trying to do when they butchered by the Assadist thugs? Just lined up and shot from right to left in front of their other family members.
BTW, Ghufran, sticking a dead fighter’s severed head on a lance was done in all cultures all over the world, not an exclusivly Arab or Muslim or Sunni thing.
I remebered another excellent custom of dealing with dead bodies, that of the Zoroastrians of Persia who left the dead on a mountain top so that vultures and other wild animals would eat them.
“Omar survived what residents, antigovernment activists and human rights monitors are calling one of the darkest recent episodes in the Syrian war, a massacre in government-held Tartus Province that has inflamed sectarian divisions, revealed new depths of depravity and made the prospect of stitching the country back together appear increasingly difficult.”
Paul Owen, in his article of the Guardian, fails to mention that it is the Time who has obtained the tape in April, as stated in the article they published on 12 May, about the cannibalism videotape.
Until 2 PM, answering some readers comments who are questioning the precautions he takes in saying “appears to show” while the person figured is a famous rebel commander and he says what he is doing, he keeps taking HRW for coverture, without any mention of The Time. The chronology seems made up. He says the tape has appeared in the last few days and is being studied by HRW, whom director he calls and quote all day long. Is this meant to provide something “live” to the Mideast Guardian Live blog? How lower will The Guardian fall next time?
He finally mentions The Time, but this time to refer to an article “just published”, but he apparently has not yet read the first article, nor read the news round-up of SC!
http://world.time.com/2013/05/14/we-will-slaughter-all-of-them-an-interview-with-the-man-behind-the-syrian-atrocity-video/
In his comment in the readers comments section, Owen even uses the “more soon” trick, as if for once he was providing first hand information.
Poor Paul and poor HRW, afraid of getting their Gulf and rebel friends upset? Indeed, that would make it quite dangerous for his colleagues on the ground).
A Russian military expert on a Western air attack on Syria: “dozens of destroyed aircraft and coffins covered by star-spangled banners.” 🙂
Judging by the tone of Putin and Netanyahu after the talks, the degree of disagreement between Moscow and Tel Aviv on Syria is much higher than the degree of agreement
Thanks for your reply. My feeling so far is that you are good person, especially since you are NOT an Assad or Hezbollah supporter.
I appreciate your attitude toward Palestine. As much as you support Palestine, most Jews support Israel, so you know how everyone feels. We aren’t different we just the opposite sides of the same coin. Dehumanizing people is the crux of the problem and if we’re ever to live in peace, the first step is to recognize this.
I appreciate your anger at the Israeli government. You have a right. Israel still occupies parts of Palestine (which parts really depend on a final settlement). Palestine is still not a fully defined, sovereign country, and unfortunately, it will take negotiations to reach that point.
But you completely ignored my questions! I don’t mind hearing about how much you hate Israel, but I would appreciate it if you shed some light on some other subjects. I’ll repeat my questions again:
I use Wikipedia because there are often footnotes to click on, etc. If you have better info, feel free to add another link.
As far as Israel/Palestine is concerned, the majority was Palestinian. In 1950, it was about even, 50/50 (non-Wiki source) since many Jews left/were thrown out of arab countries :
The video shows how Alawites in Syria are producing allegedly chemical weapons. They are doing this wearing ABC Suites with German flags on the side.
It is striking to see how a massacre has become politicized. It is even also very interpretative. However, we do understand the views and opinions as they are very influenced by one single video.
Massacres were committed in Syria even before 2010 as we remember the Palmyra prison massacre and Hama massacre both by Hafez al-Assad.
We’re not going with the views that massacres in Syria are related with ethnic cleansing. In our view, even the Al Bayda killings fits within the profile of random revenge tactics when Assad forces loose like in Taftanaz.
The massacre on the coast did not happened so suddenly. We see this monstrous crime as a response on boiling opposition we have monitored weeks before the killings. It also remember us Al Houle (Homs) and Al Tremseh (Hama).
We think that the Al Bayda massacre is just another Al Houle or Tremseh as Assad really don’t care who has been killed as long as he can stay in power.
So, if anyone only speaks about ethnic cleansing of Alawites he or she ignores the ethnic cleansing of Sunnis which is going on for much longer.
Yes. The girl who shared a desk with me in 7 grade was Palestinian. I just assumed they were free to live anywhere. I am not really versed on Palestinian rights on Syria. Are they not allowed to own a house or live or work where they want to? That is a shame if true.
The revolution is not a dinner party, Chairman Mao famously said. Tell that to Khaled al-Hamad, the rogue rebel leader who had himself videoed biting into the heart he had just cut out of a Syrian regime soldier, now circulating wildly on the internet. We don’t actually see him consume the organ, but he appears to tear off a chunk with his teeth.
Actually, Chairman Mao’s dictum wasn’t even honoured in China. During the Great Proletariat Cultural Revolution, Red Guards in China’s southern Guangxi province took rather literally the order to consume their capitalist reader enemies. According to investigative reports that leaked out in the 1990s, at least 137 people were eaten at banquets ordered by local officials. One woman was recorded by an internal inquiry as having torn the first strip from the roasted body of a school headmaster, her boyfriend’s father, to prove that despite the personal connection she was as “Red” as the best of them.
There is a point to this. Mutilating your enemy’s body and even eating his flesh are not, I think we can agree, good things, but they do have a long history. You can go back to the Iliad for the earliest great description of what happens when the bloodlust is up. As Hector lies dying in the dust, he prays his conqueror Achilles “by his life and his knees” to send his body home to his parents for a decent burial and not leave it for the dogs, but Achilles just glares at him mercilessly.
“Dog, talk not to me neither of knees nor parents,” Achilles says. “Would that I could be as sure of being able to cut your flesh into pieces and eat it raw, for the ill you have done me, as I am that nothing shall save you from the dogs.”
His fellows join in. “The other Achaeans came running up to view his wondrous strength and beauty; and no one came near him without giving him a fresh wound. Then would one turn to his neighbour and say, ‘It is easier to handle Hector now than when he was flinging fire on to our ships’ and as he spoke he would thrust his spear into him anew.”
Finally, and most famously, Achilles makes slits in Hector’s heels and uses ox-hide ties to attach them to his chariot, dragging the corpse around the battlement’s of his foe’s city.
Yet Achilles, though a petulant schoolboy in much of the Iliad, is still a great hero: as, it is said, was the British soldier (more recently) accused of slicing off the ears of dead Argentinians in the Falklands. Students of the Crusades reading of the ongoing and bloody battle over the town of Maarat al-Numaan, south-west of Aleppo, in the current conflict, can hardly fail to recall a previous “clash of civilisations”. During the siege of the same city in 1098, the Crusaders were reported (by their own side: no videos available) to have roasted the bodies of Muslim children on spits and eaten them.
Do these reminiscences lessen the crime? Of course not. But they make me wonder whether the horror caused by this latest video, which has been “shared” it seems far more than any of the other monstrosities this conflict has thrown up, is because such mutilations are now less commonly practised, more unusual, than in the past.
By contrast with the above, the overwhelmingly respectful funerals I have witnessed in Syria over the last couple of years have been rare moments of peace and higher feeling amid the carnage. A colleague the other day, while we were in Syria, described talking to a father who went through the lines to reclaim the body of his son. We were both reminded of the Homeric account above, which is why it was in my mind: after, Priam, Hector’s father, comes to beg Achilles for the body, and with its honourable return and cremation the Iliad ends: “Such was the burial of Hector, breaker of horses.”
There is a tension sometimes between journalistic and moral narratives. Although of course overall we may try to point out the bad so that the good can triumph, within that ambition there is also this: an event is more newsworthy if it is rare or strange. Other, worse, more important horrors are overlooked because they are common. In the town of Baniyas on 2-3 May, there seems to be little doubt that a pro-regime militia swept through two Sunni neighbourhoods slaughtering large numbers of those they found, shooting and knifing many to death. There are photographs – you can find them online – of piles of corpses of little children, aged from two or three upwards. Altogether there seem to have been scores of them.The nature of this crime cannot be fully revealed, because no newspaper, including this one, would publish such pictures. The media are happy to present a pixilated image of a heart-eater, however.
As a result, and of course because we have become so inured to such massacres, the Baniyas incident has received comparatively little international attention. Yet the killing of women and children in war has been regarded as an unspeakable crime throughout history: the Athenians’ massacre of the Milans in the Peloponnesian War caused great shock and debate at home, is referred to as the exemplar of genocide from ancient history, yet even they merely killed the males, and sold the women and children into slavery. That precedent may have often been honoured only in the breach – think of the hundreds of thousands of Muslims Genghis Khan killed as he swept through the Middle East, the same Genghis who is regarded as a hero in the Far East today – but it is still a fundamental principle.
Somehow, as well as honouring the dead, we have to keep our attention focused on the living, otherwise there is no hope. Suggestions on how we journalists can do this, let alone the leaders tasked with responsibility for ending the conflict, are gratefully received.
“So, everyone inside Syria is going their own way, fulminating at each other and with the western powers for not supporting them. The United States (and western Europe) have no good options, and their elites will therefore continue to shout at each other, each suggesting policies that will in fact be ineffective.”
This is not at all plausible for the editorial writers of Le Monde. They look at the visit of U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry to Moscow as a betrayal. They call it “Western renunciation” of the demand made last August by the United States, Great Britain, France, and Germany that the resignation of Assad be the prerequisite for intra-Syrian political discussions.
Of the Western powers, it has been France that has taken the most overtly “interventionist” line. But when France’s Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius gave an interview to Le Monde on May 9, he was asked whether France was not now taking a “wait-and-see position”? He seemed to be uncomfortable in his response, pointing to the fact that France could not resolve the situation by itself. He then outlined four orientations, the first of which was to “continue to push for a political solution,” endorsing to some extent Kerry’s trip to Moscow.
Prime Minister David Cameron of Great Britain has been another of the loudest critics of Assad. But he is noticeably shy about any military commitment. He made a now famous statement that he was not proposing any British “boots on the ground” in Syria. It seems no western government is ready to put “boots on the ground.” Even McCain does not advocate this. He merely says that it won’t be necessary because the United States can succeed in its objectives simply by means of a combination of a “no fly” zone, the use of drones, and military assistance to the rebels. However, the U.S. military has said repeatedly that a “no fly” zone is quite a major operation, one that in the end might necessitate the use of “boots on the ground.”
Anyway, today is Nakba Day in Palestine. 3000 Palestinians died in the Nakba. So far, we have about 82000 dead in the Syrian civil war and over 1 million refugees.
Palestinians is Syria, contrary to other Arab countries, have all the rights of the Syrians ( medical, education, family allocations, subsidies, free movement etc..), except the right to vote. The educated ones are conscriptable.
In Arab countries that were generous to accepted refugees such Lebanon and Jordan, they are treated as temporary guests with limited rights. These countries have limited economical means to support such a burden. They are helped by the UN.
No a single rich GCC countries accept Palestinian refugees. They only give them a timed work permit. That means that when the contract is over or they retire, they and their family, have to leave the country within a few days.
Now you can appreciate how ‘generous’ Qatar and KSA are and how ‘inhuman’ Syria is toward arab brothers…
That’s a Institute known worldwide. It is as famous as the Al Raqqa and al Aaazazz Institute for Strategic and Research Studies. How dare you doubt about its polls!
Ethnic-cleansing was Zionists’ planned tragedy to create a Jewish majority homeland. If you don’t want to criticize this Zionist war criminality, then you no credibility to criticize Bashar’s ongoing ethnic-cleansing of Sunnis in Banyas, the coast, and al-Qasir in order to create a friendly Alawi state as a last resort. BOTH should be criticized and combated legally and intellectually. In his well-publicized memoir, Yitzhak Rabin described asking David Ben Gurion about the fate of Palestinians in the Lod/Ramlah area, Ben Gurion poited a gesture with his finger indicating orders to EXPEL them. Rabin goes on to describe his role in expelling 70,000 Palestinians along the Latrun road east. This was only on one area, and-sadly-it make Rabin an ethnic-cleansing soldier. I did hear first-hand accounts of al-Nakbah from my grandparents, and if you-as a human being met them you would have rejected the Zionist ideology justifying stealing and colonizing somebody else’s lands.
Now, we do have reality on the ground and I do believe that everybody in historical Palestine (Muslims, Jewish, Christians…) should have equal rights in a democratic and secular civil state. Surely, it would mean that refugees and their off springs must be given the option to return. It also means ending an immigration policy based on religion. If you want to give every Jew the right to immigrate to this democratic state, you should give it to every Muslim and Christian….NO automatic citizenship just because of religious affiliation…
Hamad says as a Sunni he hates Alawite Muslims, which once again signals of the increasingly sectarian side of the Syrian conflict. UN warned of it as early as in December last year.
“Hopefully we will slaughter all of [the Alawites]. I have another video clip that I will send to them. In the clip, I am sawing another shabiha [pro-government militiaman] with a saw. The saw we use to cut trees. I sawed him into small pieces and large ones,” Hamad said in the interview. The rebel was initially reported to have taken out the liver and heart, but later it was concluded that it was a lung he was holding in his hands.
Khaled al-Hamad, a rebel fighter known as Abu Sakkar and commander of the Omar al-Faruq brigade in Homs, Syria, holding the heart of a Syrian government soldier after cutting it out from his dead body.(AFP Photo / YouTube)
Akbar, do not mix the Nekba with what you call the Syrian civil war, which it is not. It is an insurgency against the Assad dictatorship.
The Nekba was perpetrated by people foreign to the region and who have remained so. Being stolen one’s land is worse than losing your life.
And yet, it could have been different had they not come with their ethnic cleansing plans. Palestinians thought they were dealing with a new occupation but the occupiers wanted them out.
I would dearly enjoy discussing the arab-Israeli conflict with you. Maybe later tonight. I am always interested in understanding all sides to a conflict.
Can you tell me why you can’t answer the questions I posed to you from the last 2 posts? Are these questions difficult? I am getting the impression that you simply cannot talk about Israel or Palestine without jumping to the grievances you have against Israel.
We have been spoon fed this crap that we have helped Palestinians and to prove our point we point at other countries mistreatment of Palestinians and how we in Syria don’t do that. Just look at Zoo’s reply…
Buying a house where ever you want is not a right a Palestinian could have in Syria, even working where ever they want is not a right they have. Ask any Palestinian what it takes for them to leave Syria.
You want to judge a society on how accepting it is, judge it on its social integration. As long as there are an “us” and “them” mentality there is no integration.
And Zoo no Syrian let alone a Palestinian has a right for a real vote, this concept has been stolen from us from your hero that you adore so much. But then again a no choice other than an Assad is a perfect choice for a baathist like yourself…
Dave could not provide the source for his ridiculous comment that 95% of Palestinians support the Zionist war on Syria. It seems it would be simple to give a link to the poll doesn’t it? |
195,332,029 | Oprah Winfrey will me honoring the legacy of Dr. Maya Angelou on her network OWN on Sunday, June 1. Below is the schedule for the programs that Maya Angelou has appeared.
The What is Good Leadership? (WIGL) toolkit by Heather Clements and Ann O’Hara, presents a comprehensive and interlinked set of tools that enable school leaders to develop and refine their role-specific skills while developing their leadership repertoire and contributing to the overall quality of leadership and management in their school.
The toolkit can be used by individuals to improve their practice and also by leadership teams. It supports appraisal, professional development, self evaluation and school improvement planning. Where it is used consistently it supports succession planning because each matrix is linked through the key questions with increasingly higher expectations as roles move from middle to senior leadership.
WIGL has been developed over 5 years working with schools in a wide range of contexts and drawing on national and international research. It provides a holistic approach to developing the essential leadership skills within a primary school.
Categories: Assessment, Teaching and Leadership Skills Tags: development, leadership, management, matrix, primary, statements, strengths, weaknesses, What is Good Leadership, Ofsted, toolkit
The What is Good Leadership? toolkit can be used in a variety of ways to meet the needs of schools and individuals who wish to evaluate and improve the quality of their leadership and management.
The matrix is designed to create a strong visual overview of the quality of leadership and management and uses a ‘best fit’ methodology. Evaluative questions in the left hand column lead the user to identify the statements that best fit their current position. As these are highlighted, a clear picture of the overall quality of their leadership will appear. Key areas of strength emerge and development points can be identified. Upon completion of the matrix, the key strengths and development points can be summarised in the relevant sections at the end of the document.
The matrix supports informed, critical and objective self evaluation, enabling an individual, or a whole school, to formulate their own judgement on the standard of their leadership. There are no absolute numerical values applied as the visual nature of the matrix gives a clear indication to inform the user’s professional judgement. As a rule of thumb, we would advise that at least 70% of any grade should be met to achieve that grade.
WIGL? is written by Heather Clements and Ann O’Hara, both highly experienced educational consultants, who have worked with experts within specific areas to ensure that the descriptors in the toolkit truly represent the best practice nationally for each role identified.
The toolkit is based on core leadership and management skills and attributes. It is tailored to the specific middle and senior leadership roles found in the majority of primary phase schools.
Heather Clements (MSc) trained as a primary teacher in the late 1970s having had an earlier career in fashion retailing. Coming into teaching as a mature student Heather set a 10 year goal for her first headship which she achieved in 1990 to become headteacher of an all through primary school with nursery in Buckinghamshire. After 11 years as a successful headteacher, during which time Heather was seconded to the local authority and mentored several new headteachers, Heather became a primary adviser taking on responsibility for the new primary curriculum.
In this role Heather developed many of the ideas and principles which still underpin her work today. She has a passion for empowering schools to understand and improve themselves and within this for supporting teachers and school leaders in their drive towards achieving outstanding teaching and learning. Heather went on to become Head of School Improvement in Harrow and latterly Director of Schools before becoming an independent consultant in 2011.
The WIGL toolkit has been developed and refined over almost 10 years to the version we have today. It was the subject of Heather’s masters degree research and has been used extensively, tried and tested in three local authorities and has underpinned Heather’s national training for schools
Ann O’Hara (M.Ed.) has developed a wealth of leadership and management experience from the wide range of challenging roles she has undertaken in over 30 years in education. Deliberately seeking new roles for new learning, she worked with government review bodies as a teacher, began undertaking Ofsted inspections as a deputy head, as headteacher of a primary and alternated periods of leadership in schools with advisory and senior manager roles in local authorities.
Ann has a significant record of bringing about successful whole school improvement and her work continues to receive praise from school leaders, inspection teams and HMI. Through her learning focused approach, she engenders professional dialogue and reflection using educational research and practical school based enquiry. Working with schools to strengthen assessment practices has led to the creation of a range of tried and tested resources that leaders report as having a real impact on teachers and learners.
As an independent adviser since 2010, Ann has worked nationally with schools, local authorities and organisations that specialise in school inspection, excellence in assessment and high quality provision for more able gifted and talented learners. She has written guidance, resources, and articles that have been published by local authorities, to assist leaders in schools, and by national organisations to inform the development and evaluation of best practice.
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225,546,009 | This review is being written to the clack of steel on steel as I ride Amtrak from Charlottesville, VA to New York City. My origin and destination stations today are practical rather than civic architecture. Train stations that proclaim civic greatness and interconnectedness such as Washington, DC’s Union Station or New York City’s former Pennsylvania Station (demolished in 1963) are from a past era. Today scant political weight is given to the civic value of this country’s physical plant. And yet, public buildings have not ceased to carry enormous cultural freight and communicate copious civic meaning.
Jumping geographic and cultural tracks: Though no longer functioning as a train station, as civic architecture the Old Seoul Station remains a politically and culturally potent structure. Designed by Tsukamoto Yasushi and finished in 1925, the station stood as both a product and a symbol of the Japanese occupation. While some civic buildings from this period were demolished, in 1947 the station was very practically renamed and continued to function as Seoul’s main rail hub until 2004 when Korail’s new Seoul Station* was completed. In 2011 the old station reopened as Culture Seoul Station 284, a cultural center with space for performances, exhibits and events. The name alludes to the station’s position as an intersection of historical, spatial, cultural and civic symbolism.
Corners (interview, review 1, 2), has undertaken a “Railway Library” of three books. The first book in this series is 경성역 (Gyeongseong Station). It is focused on a nuts and bolts representation of the Old Seoul Station. It begins with an essay, describing the physical building and the history of its construction and use, followed by a barebones timeline of the station from the construction of the first station building in 1900 through the renaming of the 1925 building in 1947. The blurb on Corner’s website describes using the railroad as a filter for critical cultural and historical examination.
The meat of the book is archival photographs of the station that detail the ostentatious grandeur and Western influence of its multitudinous architectural styles. The building is clearly a statement. Like any colonial architecture, the function of the building was as much cultural and political as practical. The same can be said of the photographs. It is telling that only a single train appears in any of the photographs and then only incidentally; nor are there any photographs of any of the functional aspects of the building: switches, signals, or other mechanical infrastructure. There are only two photographs showing the tracks of the station; these are, like the single train, incidental to the architectural view behind them. The importance of the building was not in its function as transportation infrastructure but in its function as a cultural and political symbol.
We are shown the station as a particular set of physical facts; we are not shown the base function of the building or the complex web of human interaction that sustains it. It is a grand, modern and industrial physical fact. We do not see any planning sessions nor a groundbreaking ceremony. We do not see workers constructing the building nor installing the interior decoration. We do not see people manning (nor patronizing) the barber’s chair. We do not see people sitting down to dinner in the restaurant nor anyone in the kitchen preparing meals. With exception of the first and last photographs in the book we see no people; in these we are shown two crowds. In the first we see a crowd facing away seated inside the main dining room during the dedication or opening ceremony. In the second we see the hoi polloi stretching to Namdaemun and facing us; the caption ambiguously describes “citizens” filling the street outside the station without describing the purpose or occasion of their doing so. The cultural implications of this representation were certainly as intentional as the architecture itself.
Photographs are not simple carriers of absolute fact. Photographers make a host of decisions about what to record and how to do so. These photographs are not the simple documents that they purport to be. They are as much a depiction of the colonial system of which they are a functional aspect as the station they show. The decisions of what is shown and how it is shown are made by editors and designers as well. The designer, Jo Hyo Joon, made a conscious decision to use these particular photographs and to present them in the way that he has. It is an interesting decision to choose to situate a process of reconciliation or reclamation on such contested ground. It is as though Jo is letting us know that every square inch of the conversation will be contested ground.
Corner’s continued use of the Risograph printing process is another interesting choice. Taken in the first half of the twentieth century, the photographs in this book appear to have been shot and printed with a variety of techniques. The clipped corners suggest dry plate negatives (dry plate materials were certainly used by the Japanese authorities at this time). The odd shapes of some images suggest albumen prints, and silver gelatin materials were almost certainly used for the later photographs. These photographic processes create richly beautiful objects. The Risograph printing eliminates the differences between these techniques’ visual styles. They become artifacts; their creation as functional government documents is emphasized.
경성역 is not so much a book of photography as a book of political and cultural critique that uses photography to make its argument. It is clear that these photographs are telling us something about the world but it is up to the reader to examine these facts critically in order to come to terms with the Old Seoul Station and its past, present and future meaning in the fabric of Korean culture and history. The stage is set for additional books in the Railway Library.
*The new Seoul Station represents a contemporary example of exactly the kind of civic-minded architecture discussed above.
This entry was posted in Black and White, corners, Documentary, Historical, Large Format, Military, Seoul, Travel, Urban Landscape on October 19, 2015 by mnm207.
Assessment of Low Impact Development (LID) Integrated in Local Comprehensive Plans for Improving Urban Water Cycle
Recently, Low Impact Development (LID) has been emphasized as a critical strategy for improving urban water cycle and adapting to climate change. LID is needed to be incorporated in urban planning and development process for effective implementation in the real world. However, little research has examined the relationship between urban planning and LID in Korea. This study addresses this critical gap by 1) examining whether current urban planning institutional system considers LID or not and 2) assessing the extent to which local comprehensive plans integrate LID in seven large cities. Study results show that a few planning guidelines declaratively mention the need of LID but they don`t include specific LID strategies. In addition, we found that 7 local comprehensive plans in the sample received a mean score of 11.71, which represents 19.52% of the total possible points and there are wide variations among cities. These findings indicate that there is still considerable room for improvement of local governments on LID. We propose the revision of planning guideline by incorporating LID principles and non-structural and structural LID technologies.
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Members of civic groups for the disabled hold a rally, calling for the cancelation of the operation license of Gwangju Inhwa School in front of Gwangju City Hall, Wednesday. The school’s hearing-impaired children were sexually assaulted by their teachers and school staff for years for over a decade and the incident was recently made into a film. / Yonhap
The entire nation has been venting a collective fury over the past several weeks following the release of a film based on a true story about sexual assaults against disabled students by teachers at a regional school.
From President Lee Myung-bak to regional police officers, policymakers and law enforcement officers, people are belatedly pledging to take countermeasures and take preventive steps.
The movie, titled “Dogani” or “The Crucible” in English, was released late last month, featuring sexual assaults against hearing-impaired children by teachers and school staff on students at Gwangju Inhwa School for years since 2000.
However, many members of human rights organizations who have worked for a long time to promote the welfare of the disabled say the current public backlash should lead to more profound solutions to tackle prevalent human rights violations against the disabled.
“What we saw in the movie is nothing unusual,” said Yang Baek-yong, an official at the Research Institute of Differently-able Persons’ Rights. “Various abusive and discriminative treatment as well as sexual assaults against the disabled take place everywhere all the time. People are just ignorant or don’t want to pay attention to this fact.”
Yang, who works as a human rights consultant for the disabled, hopes the movie will be a chance for people to become more aware of the violations of human rights of the disabled and make efforts to prevent them.
“What is necessary in the public uproar and growing media attention surrounding the film is a calm approach to more fundamentally tackle the problem,” he said.
Teachers at Inhwa School raped or sexually harassed students but were punished lightly, with some of them continuing to work at the school.
Park Jang-woo, an official at the Human Rights Forum of Persons with Difficulties, expressed his concern that the “Dogani” phenomenon may end with punitive actions without leading to concrete preventive measures.
“I don’t want this phenomenon to boil up quickly and cool down fast without producing more practical measures,” said Park. “What we want is not just due punishment of people involved in the sexual assaults but also more profound solutions that can prevent such horrible things from happening again.”
He also requested politicians to come up with preventative measures, including amendments to relevant laws, so that violations of human rights against the disabled can be systematically prevented.
Other human rights activists for the disabled also called for the government to abolish special welfare institutions for the disabled, claiming such institutes themselves are discriminating.
“At such institutes, the disabled tend to be isolated within society,” said Kim Dae-sung, an official from Disabled People’s International. “Welfare institutes for the disabled themselves are a violation of human rights as they deprive them of a chance to live as part of the society by isolating them.”
If such institutes exist, problems in “Dogani” will be never solved as the disabled suffer from discriminative and abusive treatment without being properly taken care of, he said.
“The ideal solution is to help the disabled live with us. They should be given a chance to receive education with other people, get a job and lead a happy life, just like us, in our society.” |
123,233,820 | SEOUL (Reuters) - North Korea announced on Monday the dismissal of Jang Song Thaek, the once powerful uncle of leader Kim Jong Un, for what it described as a string of criminal acts including corruption, womanising and drug-taking.
The sacking means Pyongyang is undergoing its biggest leadership upheaval since the death in 2011 of former leader Kim Jong Il, the younger Kim's father.
"Jang and his followers committed criminal acts baffling imagination and they did tremendous harm to our party and revolution," the North's KCNA news agency said in a report following a meeting of the ruling Workers' Party politburo on Sunday.
The meeting decided to dismiss Jang from all his posts and expel him from the Workers' Party, KCNA said. Kim Jong Un attended and "guided" the meeting, it said.
KCNA listed a series of acts committed by Jang that it said led to the decision to remove him, including mismanagement of the country's financial system, corruption, womanising and abusing alcohol and drugs.
"Jang pretended to uphold the party and leader but was engrossed in such factional acts (such) as dreaming different dreams and involving himself in double-dealing behind the scene," KCNA said.
"Affected by the capitalist way of living, Jang committed irregularities and corruption and led a dissolute and depraved life."
Jang is married to Kim's aunt, the daughter of the North's founding leader Kim Il Sung, and was widely considered to be working to ensure his nephew firmly established his grip on power in the past two years.
Last week a South Korean official said Jang was likely alive and in no immediate physical danger, as was his wife, Kim Kyong Hui.
Experts say Jang's removal will help the younger Kim consolidate his power base with a group of younger aides.
Jang had been a prominent fixture in many of the reports and photographs of Kim Jong Un's public activities, but his appearances have tapered off sharply this year and he has not been since in official media since early November.
South Korean media said on Friday that a man who managed funds for Jang had fled and sought asylum in South Korea.
The aide, who has not been not named, was being protected by South Korean officials in a secret location in China, cable news network YTN and the Kyunghyang Shinmun newspaper said, citing sources familiar with the matter.
That place has to be a carnival of power plays. When you have a leadership system that's purely driven by heredity and personality, there's got to be a lot of invisible power and backstage power struggles.
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Jang Song Thaek rose from a municipal bureaucrat to North Korea's No. 2 official — behind only leader Kim Jong Un.
But his ties were more than political: Jang was Kim's uncle, married to the leader's aunt, Kim Kyong Hui.
Jang's execution, announced early Friday, marked an unprecedented fall from grace of one of the most powerful figures in the country as well as its most serious political upheaval in decades.
The 67-year-old Jang held the posts of vice chairman of the National Defense Commission and member of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party.
In late 2008, Jang was assumed to be serving in a regency role while the young Kim Jong Un was being groomed to succeed his father, Kim Jong Il. Jang often accompanied Kim Jong Un on guidance trips and stood at his elbow at public events.
A well-traveled operator with a network that spread to China, Jang was considered the chief architect of economic policy that focused on partnering North Korea with its neighbor and ally.
Rumors of Jang's dismissal began surfacing in Seoul earlier this month. On Sunday, he was fired from all posts at a special party meeting and dragged away by soldiers. Four days after his dramatic public arrest, Jang was tried for treason by a special military tribunal and executed, state media reported.
The list of crimes against Jang was long, with plotting to overthrow the leadership the most serious of the allegations. Jang confessed, according to Pyongyang's official Korean Central News Agency.
For the outside world, KCNA's 2,700-word treatise ripping Jang's reputation to shreds provided an intriguing and revealing glimpse into the murky, feudalistic world of politics in the secretive country.
For North Koreans, the shocking public pillorying of a man seen as a father figure to Kim Jong Un was designed to send a clear message about the intolerance of opposition in a totalitarian state that demands absolute loyalty to the leader.
Jang, a native of the far northeastern border city of Chongjin, had humble roots but was sharp enough to gain entry to prestigious Kim Il Sung University in Pyongyang. He started as instructor for the Pyongyang City Committee of the Workers' Party, and he rose post by post until reaching the top ranks.
He was purged and sent to a labor camp for two years in the mid-2000s, according to Kim Young-soo, a North Korea expert at Sogang University in Seoul. That purge was widely seen as a move to clip his wings.
It was after Kim Jong Il's stroke in 2008, as the regime began preparing Kim Jong Un to succeed him, that Jang began his meteoric rise to the inner circle, an ascension that gained speed after Kim Jong Il's death from a heart attack in December 2011.
Jang was not a career military man but was made a four-star general, and often appeared at state events in a trim white general's uniform. He was appointed director of the Administration Department of the party's Central Committee, a position that gave him power over security agencies as well as the judiciary.
And as a core member of the Political Bureau, he helped engineer a campaign to bring the once-powerful military into the party's fold.
Jang played a key role in shaping economic policy in the impoverished country, particularly in expanding international joint ventures, particularly with China. Under Kim, the government has made improving the economy one of two main party objectives, along with building nuclear weapons.
Jang had recently added a new title: chairman of the State Physical Culture and Sports Guidance Commission, one of Kim Jong Un's pet projects. Until his dismissal Sunday, he last was seen publicly in early November meeting a sports delegation from Japan.
A shrewd-looking man who wore tinted glasses, Jang had basked in his special status as the second in power. He displayed boldness at public events where the rest of the top officials sat at attention, applauding with the kind of ennui only displayed by one other man: Kim Jong Un.
In its sharply worded character assassination, KCNA castigated Jang for "unwillingly standing up from his seat and half-heartedly clapping" when Kim received an important title.
State media portrayed Jang as a power-hungry and ambitious challenger to the throne who resorted to nepotism and favoritism to build his "little kingdom" as he plotted a coup against his nephew.
In North Korea, opposition to the supreme leader is treated as a criminal, counterrevolutionary act.
State media accused Jang of destroying the economy for his personal benefit, blaming him for masterminding the 2009 currency revaluation that resulted in rare protests in North Korea. He was held responsible for the shoddy quality of construction materials, charged with secretly trading in rare metals and was criticized for encouraging private enterprise.
He was described as a libertine and secret capitalist who distributed pornography and blew 4.6 million euros ($6.3 million) on gambling, according to state media.
Some of the accusations seem petty: reportedly rejecting factory workers' proposal to erect a mosaic of the two late leaders and putting a sculpture featuring Kim's signature in the shade, not in a central spot. No act of disloyalty small or large was overlooked.
Jang's conviction was preceded by the reported executions last month of his two closest confidants. KCNA confirmed one ally's purge Wednesday, calling Ri Ryong Ha a "flatterer" and stooge who with Jang was building an anti-Kim faction within the party.
What Jang's execution means for his wife was unclear. Kim Kyong Hui plays a key role in a leadership structure that stakes its claim to legitimacy on blood relations to her father, North Korea founder Kim Il Sung. Frail and said to be in bad health, Kim Kyong Hui has not been seen in video and photographs of this week's proceedings.
Jang and his wife, who met at university and married in 1972, have no surviving children, according to the South Korean government-run Information Center on North Korea. Their only child, a daughter, committed suicide in 2006 at age 29 while studying in Paris, according to South Korean media.
Jang's execution also calls into question the future of his relatives. A brother-in-law who is the ambassador to Cuba, and his nephew, the ambassador to Malaysia, reportedly were recalled to Pyongyang, according to South Korean officials.
Another relative, the deputy tourism minister, canceled a trip to attend a tourism conference in Taiwan this week, Taiwanese officials told the island's state news agency, CNA.
I'm shocked at this - shocked, I tell ya. I would never have expected it from the same nation and leader who had his ex-girlfriend and her entire performance group executed by machine gun in front of their families, who were then shipped off to a life of hard labor, on trumped-up pornography charges, and was so pissed off at that other inner-circle rival that he had him executed by mortar shell, so that no piece of him remained.
Propaganda for the most part, if they want to kill off anyone important they can then write up a nasty article to explain to the people his crimes.
More propaganda comes out of the White House than Korea. If Obama wastes somebody he damn sure wont own it.
Alex Smith has been given several opportunities to win over the front office and fans of the San Francisco 49ers, but the former NFL first-round draft pick has been inconsistent throughout his career, and it could be time for a change in scenery.
The 49ers drafted a quarterback for their future and now are looking to bring in a veteran quarterback to lead the team for a year and let Colin Kaepernick learn the ropes from someone other than Smith.
The latest trade rumor has Smith being sent to the Kansas City Chiefs in a deal that will give Smith a fresh start, and the Chiefs badly needed backup to Matt Cassel. Kansas City now has just rookie fifth-round draft choice Ricky Stanzi as the teams backup, and an injury to Cassel could be harmful to the team's success in the upcoming NFL season.
The good news for Chiefs fans is that Smith would be a cheap acquisition, and it would give the team some much-needed insurance at the quarterback position. If San Francisco brings in a veteran in the next week or two, look for Smith to become a member of a different team before the season begins.
What is funny is the 49ers were talking about bringing in Culpepper. Even they think Culpepper is an upgrade over Smith to backup Kapernick.
That's because the fans hate him and chanted for Carr. Sort of like people here saying that no team would give up a pick for Cassel.
God, I hope Cassel can turn things around and show everyone he is a good QB this year playing the top defenses. But even if he didn't he already showed with the Patriots he can come in as a backup and not lose a game for his team. Alex Smith has never shown that. That is why the fans hate him so much and would rather he headbutt a flaming AIDS tree than play QB even as a backup.
Or the fact that the organization wants nothing to do with Smith because he didn't live up to his hype.
But after they went from Joe Montana to Steve Young it makes me sick to hear them complain about QB's.
Hahaha some guy named Larry writes an amateur article and it gets 8 pages of posts on here. What an astute bunch you all are.
McCown started 31 games in eight seasons in the NFL with four different teams. No matter what the depth chart says, I can't imagine he is ahead of Kapernick when the season starts.
But your claim was that they found Culpepper to be better. Are you saying that the new regime is deliberately passing over the better players in order to keep stiffs (that they didn't even draft) in the starting lineup?
I don't think very many people believed Smith would be on the team when the season started. The Smith experiment in San Fran hasn't worked. So looking at Culpepper, McCown or anyone else would be to backup Kapernick.
"The 49ers drafted a quarterback for their future and now are looking to bring in a veteran quarterback to lead the team for a year and let Colin Kaepernick learn the ropes from someone other than Smith."
He went to run over my dog, missed and hit a fire hydrant. I posted earlier I wouldn't even let him try and **** my mother cause he would fumble it up and then miss her by 5 yards.
51/53 really isn't that bad for a backup QB. Especially considering hes coming from such a bad and messed up organization. Odds are pretty good that Stanzi will throw more picks than TD's this year just like most rookies would just being thrown out to the wolves. I don't know what his contract is, but I wouldn't be against him being here for insurance for a year or two at MOST until Stanzi has a full grasp on everything. Even if Stanzi had a full offseason here, at least 9/10 times a rookie QB isn't going to be ready to take over. |
178,475,096 | 其他摘要 The long-term influence of pain history recently began to attract attention of researchers in the pain field. Some studies have showed that thermal pain history could influence the structure and functions of the brains. In order to investigate the influence of mechanical pain history to greater extent, the present study examined the influence of past mechanical pain history upon the processing of painful stimuli and the pain-related information in different aspects of processing. Pain threshold was tested on the injured upper extremity of the people hurt only on one side, and compare them with that on the uninjured side and those of the healthy to discover whether the root of such influence exists at the spinal level or on the brain level. Voxel-based morphometry (VBM) was employed to test the long-term influence of past mechanical pain events upon the intensity of grey matter in the brain. Three tasks were used to test the effect of pain history upon the cognitive processing of the wounded. Probe-dot task was applied to test whether selective attention to the pain-related information exist in the wounded; categorization task was used to test whether the wounded react faster in the processing of pain-related information; phrase recall task was used to test the influence of memory of pain upon the processing of pain-related information. With help of above-mentioned tasks, we found that mechanical pain history imposes significant influence on the body and mind of the wounded. Three important findings emerged from this study: (1) For the first time we showed that mechanical pain events imposed significant influence upon the mechanical pain threshold but not the thermal pain threshold in the people with mechanical pain history. Mechanical pain events increased the pain threshold according to the intensity of the pain, and a “U” pattern of pain threshold was induced by the slight, moderate and severe pain history. (2) For the first time we showed that mechanical pain history in one side of upper extremity did not significantly reduce the intensity of grey matter in the brain, although the intensity of grey matter in the left parahippocampus was significantly negatively correlated with the pain intensity in the mechanical pain events, and this correlation may be specific to the upper extremity. (3) For the first time we found that mechanical pain history dose not influence the selective attention to the pain-related information, while significant influence was observed in the speed of processing of the pain-related information yet this was restricted to the processing of the information which highly matched the scene of past mechanical pain events. The recall of pain-related information was also affected by the mechanical pain history. In brief, pain-related history left with relatively significant influence or “trace” upon the wounded. On one side, we feel so lucky that mechanical pain history did not induce apparent decrease of grey matter; on the other side, as the chronic pain patients showed selective attention to the pain-related information, yet the subjects with mechanical pain history only showed significant changes in processing the sentence which depicted the scene in an accurate way, it is safe to say that mechanical pain history imposes restricted influence upon the cognitive processing of human beings.The long-term influence of pain history recently began to attract attention of researchers in the pain field. Some studies have showed that thermal pain history could influence the structure and functions of the brains. In order to investigate the influence of mechanical pain history to greater extent, the present study examined the influence of past mechanical pain history upon the processing of painful stimuli and the pain-related information in different aspects of processing. Pain threshold was tested on the injured upper extremity of the people hurt only on one side, and compare them with that on the uninjured side and those of the healthy to discover whether the root of such influence exists at the spinal level or on the brain level. Voxel-based morphometry (VBM) was employed to test the long-term influence of past mechanical pain events upon the intensity of grey matter in the brain. Three tasks were used to test the effect of pain history upon the cognitive processing of the wounded. Probe-dot task was applied to test whether selective attention to the pain-related information exist in the wounded; categorization task was used to test whether the wounded react faster in the processing of pain-related information; phrase recall task was used to test the influence of memory of pain upon the processing of pain-related information. With help of above-mentioned tasks, we found that mechanical pain history imposes significant influence on the body and mind of the wounded. Three important findings emerged from this study: (1) For the first time we showed that mechanical pain events imposed significant influence upon the mechanical pain threshold but not the thermal pain threshold in the people with mechanical pain history. Mechanical pain events increased the pain threshold according to the intensity of the pain, and a “U” pattern of pain threshold was induced by the slight, moderate and severe pain history. (2) For the first time we showed that mechanical pain history in one side of upper extremity did not significantly reduce the intensity of grey matter in the brain, although the intensity of grey matter in the left parahippocampus was significantly negatively correlated with the pain intensity in the mechanical pain events, and this correlation may be specific to the upper extremity. (3) For the first time we found that mechanical pain history dose not influence the selective attention to the pain-related information, while significant influence was observed in the speed of processing of the pain-related information yet this was restricted to the processing of the information which highly matched the scene of past mechanical pain events. The recall of pain-related information was also affected by the mechanical pain history. In brief, pain-related history left with relatively significant influence or “trace” upon the wounded. On one side, we feel so lucky that mechanical pain history did not induce apparent decrease of grey matter; on the other side, as the chronic pain patients showed selective attention to the pain-related information, yet the subjects with mechanical pain history only showed significant changes in processing the sentence which depicted the scene in an accurate way, it is safe to say that mechanical pain history imposes restricted influence upon the cognitive processing of human beings.
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i can releate to all this just until now i have never heard of the fae i knew and belived in faries/gnomes etc.. but didin't know they were called fae i have had lots of experince with ghosts and fae
one of them was when i was 6 in my old bedroom downstaris i saw a black haired white dressed women not walking but hovvering towards me but the closer see got the more vague the image was and it could not be from someone who died in the house as it was self built by my dad and grampa.
i also see things out of the corner of my eye and i lose a lot of things which appear a few years later in totalty random places.
i can also if if i stay awake late at night when everybody in my house is asleep i can sit up in my bed and hear faintly voices they sound like here coming form downstairs i got ust to it bt it was weird at first
i also feel thoings whenever when i am alone or not mostly alone like an arm on my shoulder or a gentle gust of wind as if someone was blowing in my face most of these things though are not scary they are mostly comforting and ressuring.
iv been having deja vu, ive just started college and its like i already know the people around me, like iv met them before and in some situations its like the events that have been happening have happened before and they are very specific events.
i had to do an in class essay on an unseen poem by robert frost and i was reading his poems and one of them i just felt that i had done this poem before in class, in test conditions, but i hadnt so i thought that was freaky, but i decided to trust myself and i studied that poem, and i told some people that that poem was the one i thought was the unseen poem, and when we had the in class essay, it was that poem! and that freaked me out. the people who i told actually chose to believe me and they studied it as well, they came and thaked me after.
i just want to tell everyone this story of when my mum and dad were just married and she was pregnant with my elder brother.
it was nighttime and my dad was reading in his office and my mum was sleeping in the room and my dads window was closed but he saw the curtains billow and then he heared my mum yell out a relligious protection.
what had happened was she had felt something come into the room, come towards her and then try to strangle her.
I think everyone has a supernatural experience, too. They just don't realize it. And for me, my deja vu is from my dreams. But I never know it until after it happens in real life, then I think, "hey, that was in my dream last night." And it happens all too often for me to disregard it.
As far as Hag attacks, check out John Michael Greer's book on Monsters and paranormal investigation. It's got some decent info and is a tolerable read compared to a lot of para-psych stuff.
As always, thanks. I'll check it out. And that name sounds familiar, but I'm not sure why. Maybe it's some more deja vu.
Used to live in a house with a little old lady ghost she would watch over the kids and actually provided some comfort(the house was over 100 yrs. old) Also my in-laws house is full of past relatives of my wife's family.
I've seen a ghost before, it was a lady in my old flat. She appeared round the door and smiled. Both me and my youngest son saw her clearly. She smiled at us and she stayed there for a few seconds and then disapeared. We wasn't frightend and a couple of days after that I saw a young ladies hand moving slowly away from my son as he slept. My sister had gone to see a spiritualist around that time and she has said a young lady looks over my children But she did not say who it was.
I have seen and dealt with a whole bunch of stuff in my day....there is a street named Wahalla in Columbus that is haunted. If you walk down a part of this street near the bridge at night (best during rain storm) you will be followed and see where a man hung himself on the bridge after murdering his family at a house nearby...also this house is always for sell cause no one will buy it. It is haunted by his family.
I've been annoyed by the egyptian god Set for a period of time too...as loony as that sounds. Its a long story.
Which ones. When I was growing up our home had so many cold spots there was ice in summer. Dad showed us all how to shut them down. Now he is dead I have his cold spot close. There is always the old black cat that still sleeps on my bed. You can see the dip she makes. Mum to pops in.
It is just there are other types types that are not so liked. Ones that can come through all the wards if just to cause mischief. I have those words like -all those may enter that do not cause me or harm- that works.
I can truthfully say that I have had several ghostly encounters. But to keep things short, I will only tell of 4 of them right now.
The first came back in the late 80's. I was in bed, and woke up in the middle of the night. I looked over towards my bedroom door and saw an old lady standing there, looking at me. Our gazes met for about 5 to 10 seconds, and I felt kind of like I was in a trance. When I was finally able to break the eye contact, I looked away. But when I looked back, she was gone. This happened every night for about the next week. Each night, it looked as if she was getting a little bit closer.
The second one isn't quite as interesting. If I remember correctly, it was about a year or so after the old lady incident. It was around 8:30 at night, and I was in the bathroom. I heard a noise coming from outside, and quickly opened the bathroom window to look and see what it was. I saw a figure wearing a hooded cape on the other side of the street, running. It was holding a glowing sphere probably a little smaller than a soccer ball over its head. When it went about 20 or so feet, it just disappeared.
The third might have been considered an "evil" ghost, but I don't know. It happened somewhere around the same time as the running hooded thing, and is kind of a two parter. Me and my brother were on the upper level of our house, and I looked downstairs and saw a large white shape coming around the corner. This thing was about 8 feet tall. As it rounded the corner, it looked up the stairs at us. It didn't really have much in the lines of a face, just two deformed black shapes for eyes, and one for a mouth. When it got around the corner, it started coming up the stairs, and then disappeared. The second half came about 2 years later. I had just got a new guitar, and my sister wanted to take a few pictures of me with it in my bedroom. So I let her. And when we got the pictures back, there was one of them that was of me sitting on the couch giving the camera some kind of heavy metal look. The only thing was, this large white thing was sitting on the couch next to me in the picture.
And last but not least, the fourth encounter. I don't think this can be considered as much of a "ghost encounter" as just something strange, and if I dare say, unexplainable. I don't remember exactly when it happened, but I think it was the early 90's. Me and my brother were sitting in the living room of our house. Our dad came downstairs from his bedroom and told us that he was leaving for a while. We said OK and watched him go outside and drive off. This left us as the only ones home. So we sat in the living room talking. After about 15 to 20 minutes, a toilet upstairs flushed. We figured that this was rather unusual as we were the only ones in the house. So we went upstairs to see what was going on. When we looked in our parents bedroom, our dad was in bed, asleep.
I have no experiences that I remember but a vague reccolection of one night when I was a kidseeing a grey silvery mass in the corner of my room. It scared the crap out of me and I am gettign freaked thinking about it now.
She lived in this really old house (it was built before the Revolutionary War) for a time. There was a bookcase that was built in to one of the walls, and when she was putting some books away, one or two came flying at her while she was on the other end of the room. I guess the nicer of the two spirits in the house didn't want the books to be put away.
The not so nice spirit is upstairs, though we have reason to believe that he/she is slowly moving downstairs. That alone freaks out my friend and her husband. But, while she was cleaning the downstairs living area alone in the house, she clearly heard someone tell her to "Get Out". So, she got out. Like the rest of us, she's seen too many movies to know what happens to people who don't 'get out' when a disembodied voice tells you to.
My best friend's dad hung himself in their barn when we were little. A few years later I rode my bike up there and swore I saw a white face in the window screaming, hands on his cheeks, like that painting with the twisted scream. I got freaked out, jumped on my bike (at this point I should mention this was on a big hill) and went sailing down. I forgot that my bike did not have brakes So I was sailing down, and knew I had to jump off because there is a main road which is perpendicular to it. So I jumped off, and my bike was still going straight toward the road, when suddenly it veered very sharply to the left and into the bushes. Then, a car came whizzing by on the main road right when my bike would have hit it.
Also when my sister's cat died I saw him on the lawn. That was a very surreal experience. I was very, very, very young then.
And when our beloved dog Jake died, I was already into Shamanism and all this great stuff. She said she would give me a sign when she wanted to be put down. No sign came. She passed away in my mom's arms while I was out. It was how she wanted to die. I got some more messages from her, some to tell my mom (greatly appreciated she felt so terrible before), and kept hearing her claws clinking on the floor clear as a bell. She stuck around for about a week and then went to where she needs to go.
There are also spirits around our house that I see out of the corner of my eye, sometimes straight on. Just spirits, not sure about the dead or faeries. There are some (or one) that is not too nice, by that I mean trying to freak people out, like my boyfriend. O_O It sometimes creeps me out if I am moving to my room in the dark but I put up defenses. Have smudged the house lots but it won't leave. Things downstairs freak my sister out, and before I smudged the first time something followed me from down there. So it's not limited to rooms or levels, ha ha. |
162,350,761 | Neurofeedback is a promising tool for treatment and rehabilitation of several patient groups. In this proof of principle study, near-infrared spectroscopy (NIRS) based neurofeedback of frontal cortical areas was investigated in healthy adults. Main aims were the assessment of learning, the effects on performance in a working memory (n-back) task and the impact of applied strategies on regulation. 13 healthy participants underwent eight sessions of NIRS based neurofeedback within 2 weeks to learn to voluntarily up-regulate hemodynamic activity in prefrontal areas. An n-back task in pre-/post measurements was used to monitor neurocognitive changes. Mean oxygenated hemoglobin (O2Hb) amplitudes over the course of the sessions as well as during the n-back task were evaluated. 12 out of 13 participants were able to regulate their frontal hemodynamic response via NIRS neurofeedback. However, no systematic learning effects were observed in frontal O2Hb amplitudes over the training course in our healthy sample. We found an impact of applied strategies in only 5 out of 13 subjects. Regarding the n-back task, neurofeedback appeared to induce more focused and specific brain activation compared to pre-training measurement. NIRS based neurofeedback is a feasible and potentially effective method, with an impact on activation patterns in a working memory task. Ceiling effects might explain the lack of a systematic learning pattern in healthy subjects. Clinical studies are needed to show effects in patients exhibiting pathological deviations in prefrontal function.
Modern neuroimaging methods offer the opportunity to feedback aspects of brain physiology, so that people can learn to voluntarily regulate and modify them. This skill, in turn, can be a useful tool in treatment or rehabilitation by directly targeting neurophysiological deficits (Bartholdy et al., 2013; Holtmann et al., 2014; Kim and Birbaumer, 2014). The process of continuously providing feedback of physiological signals of a person’s brain – and thereby giving them the means to learn to control them – is known as neurofeedback.
Neurofeedback is mostly hypothesized to be based on an operant conditioning process comprising reinforcements for desired brain states and thereby leading to conscious self-regulation of brain activity. However, not only operant conditioning (i.e., trial and error) is decisive for learning brain self-regulation, but also classical conditioning processes (i.e., transfer into everyday life), the two-process-theory (i.e., identifying strategies; associating feedback with interoceptive stimuli) as well as individual motivational aspects play a critical role (Strehl, 2014). Several recent studies have been carried out on EEG feedback, and clinical improvements could repeatedly be shown. Hereinafter, only a few publications are mentioned. EEG neurofeedback was found to successfully help reduce seizures in epilepsy (Rockstroh et al., 1993; Kotchoubey et al., 2001) and abate core symptoms of ADHD (Arns et al., 2014). In criminal psychopaths, reduced aggression, impulsivity, and behavioral approach tendencies could be observed after an EEG neurofeedback intervention (Konicar et al., 2015). Beyond that, studies on EEG neurofeedback in healthy participants also provide evidence of beneficial outcomes and cognitive or affective gains (Gruzelier, 2014).
So far, only a few EEG feedback studies distinguished participants that learned brain self-regulation from participants that did not. According to these few studies, around 50% of participants are successful in modulating electrophysiological brain activity and show different training outcomes compared to less successful participants (Gruzelier et al., 1999; Hanslmayr et al., 2005; Doehnert et al., 2008; Weber et al., 2011). Up till now, however, to our knowledge no study about detailed learning processes and learning types over the training course has been published.
Compared to EEG, functional imaging methods such as fMRI have the advantage of a higher spatial resolution. In several investigations, it was shown that healthy participants are able to learn brain self-regulation based on BOLD feedback within one to 10 sessions (Weiskopf, 2012; Sulzer et al., 2013). Similar to fMRI, NIRS also measures local changes in blood metabolism, and therefore comparable results can be expected for NIRS neurofeedback. Compared to fMRI, NIRS offers several advantages: fMRI measurements are expensive and locally bound to the place where the scanner is installed. Furthermore, fMRI has strict limitations in study design as participants have to stay in an immobile, reclined position due to the high sensitivity to movement artifacts. Finally, the noise in the scanner also must be taken into account as a disadvantage of fMRI. In contrast to that, NIRS is relatively insensitive to motion artifacts and measurements can be conducted in a more natural environment (Obrig, 2014). Preparation for measurements can be carried out fast, also compared to EEG. Thus, NIRS should be considered an alternative neurofeedback method particularly for psychiatric patients.
Previous studies indicate that NIRS is a suitable method to assess, amongst others, different levels of cognitive load, and the prefrontal cortex (PFC) has been shown to be involved in the processing of working memory load (Ayaz et al., 2012; Fishburn et al., 2014; Herff et al., 2014). N-back paradigms are convenient tasks to generate differently demanding working memory load conditions. During n-back tasks, participants are instructed to perpetually keep in mind either the last (lower working memory load), the penultimate (higher working memory load) or more items changing in quick succession. In this context, NIRS signals have been shown to be sensitive to working memory load specifically within the left inferior frontal gyrus (Ayaz et al., 2012). These findings have been substantiated by another study revealing a linear increase in bilateral PFC activation with increasing working memory load in an n-back task (Fishburn et al., 2014). Likewise, recent evidence indicated that hemodynamic responses in the PFC as assessed by NIRS can be applied to classify different levels of working memory load induced by an n-back task (Herff et al., 2014). Altogether, these results provide evidence that NIRS is a suitable method to assess cognitive load.
Up till now, however, only a few studies have employed NIRS neurofeedback protocols. One study investigated a NIRS based feedback regulated BCI measuring prefrontal activity in healthy adults (Ayaz et al., 2009). BCIs offer the possibility of communication between the brain and an external apparatus. In this context, the study revealed significant differences in mean oxygenation changes during task versus rest period and furthermore provided evidence indicating learning and adaptation processes over two training days. Three studies investigated motor cortex activation changes combining a motor imagery task with NIRS neurofeedback (Kanoh et al., 2011; Mihara et al., 2012; Kober et al., 2014). Here, over the training course the signal-to-noise ratio of the O2Hb signal increased significantly. A pilot study aimed to investigate NIRS neurofeedback of O2Hb within the PFC as a treatment method for children with ADHD (Marx et al., 2014). After 12 sessions of NIRS feedback, ADHD symptoms decreased significantly.
Despite the few studies that provide evidence for the feasibility of NIRS based neurofeedback, learning processes during the training as well as the underlying mechanisms remain largely unexplored. However, these are decisive components that provide the basis for an optimal implementation of feedback designs in clinical practice (e.g., regarding the number of sessions, modality of feedback, instructions, etc.). Therefore, the present proof of principle study aimed at further investigating NIRS based prefrontal neurofeedback in a healthy adult sample over eight training sessions. The number of training sessions was set based on the number of sessions conducted in previous NIRS based feedback studies in healthy subjects ranging from one to eight. To optimally describe learning processes, we selected the upper bound of sessions conducted, i.e., eight sessions. The main objective was to describe learning patterns. In addition, the effect of individual regulation strategies on regulation performance as well as neurocognitive changes induced by the neurofeedback training in a working memory task (n-back) were analyzed.
Thirteen healthy subjects (eight female; five male) completed eight training sessions [mean age: 28 (SD = 4.51) years]. All participants had normal or corrected-to-normal vision. Two of the subjects were left-handed, the other 11 were right-handed. No participant had a known history of any neurological or psychiatric disorder (based on self-report). The highest achieved education level was a doctoral degree for two of the subjects, an academic degree for nine participants and a vocational education for the remaining two. All subjects gave written consent to the study in accordance with the informed consent regulations of the institution where the research was conducted. The newly established frontal lobe focused, NIRS based neurofeedback training was approved by the ethics committee at the University Tübingen and University Hospital Tübingen for studies in both patients with ADHD (297/08; 434/2010BO1) and healthy participants (018/2015BO2); the data reported here were derived from the first pilot trainings conducted in healthy subjects.
Prior to the first training session as well as after completion of eight sessions, a working memory (n-back) task was conducted to investigate activation changes induced by prefrontal NIRS neurofeedback. As already mentioned above, previous studies have shown that the PFC plays a critical role in working memory function (Baddeley, 2003; Owen et al., 2005).
The task comprised two conditions of a verbal n-back paradigm in which white letters (“A,” “B,” “C,” “D,” “E,” “F,” “G,” “H,” “J,” “L”) were presented in pseudo-randomized order in quick succession against a black background on a computer screen (Figure 1A). The measurement started with a 10-s baseline period. In the 2-back condition (high working memory load), participants were asked to press the space bar as fast as possible whenever the presented letter was the same as the penultimate letter. During the 1-back condition (low working memory load), subjects were instructed to press the space bar as fast as possible whenever a letter was identical to the preceding letter. Letters were presented in pseudo-randomized order with a presentation time of 300 ms and an interstimulus interval of 1700 ms resulting in 20-s task segments. The two conditions were carried out in an alternate block-wise fashion. Each task block was followed by a 20-s period of rest during which participants were asked to remain seated without moving. Each condition was repeated three times. A total of 12 targets were presented across task segments for all conditions.
FIGURE 1. (A) Setup for the pre-training and post-training working memory task (n-back). In the 2-back condition (high working memory load), participants were asked to press the space bar as fast as possible whenever the presented letter was the same as the penultimate letter. During the 1-back condition (low working memory load), subjects were instructed to press the space bar as fast as possible whenever a letter was identical to the preceding letter. (B) Training setup for the NIRS based neurofeedback sessions. Visual feedback of O2Hb changes over left and right prefrontal and temporal sites was presented as topographic 2D view on a computer screen. The signal turned more reddish whenever O2Hb increased or more bluish whenever a decrease in O2Hb occurred. Participants were asked to focus on the frontal part of the depicted head.
Subjects were seated in front of a monitor at a distance of approximately 80 cm in a completely dark and sound-attenuated room. Eight NIRS feedback sessions were conducted, each on a different day within 2 weeks. Each session lasted approximately 30 min including preparation time with 12 min feedback training. Any training started with a 15-s baseline measurement and comprised in total 12 trials of activation separated by trials of relaxation. Each trial lasted 30 s.
Via headphones, participants were presented with a higher pitch tone (1000 Hz; 100 ms duration) that served as call to start up-regulation. A deeper pitch tone (450 Hz; 100 ms) signaled the end of the up-regulation trial and contiguously the beginning of relaxation for the next 30 s up to the next activation trial. Sounds were presented by means of Presentation Version 14.5 (Neurobehavioral Systems, Inc.). Participants continuously received visual feedback on a screen that directly mapped their hemodynamic response in all channels in a superior 2D view of a simplified brain (Figure 1B). All participants received the same color range for visual feedback relative to their respective baseline recorded at the beginning of each session. The signal turned more reddish whenever there was an increase in O2Hb or more bluish whenever a decrease in O2Hb occurred. Participants were instructed to try to turn the frontal part of the depicted head as red as possible whenever they heard the higher pitch (activation) and whenever they heard the deeper pitch they were instructed to let the head turn blue again (relaxation). Participants were explicitly asked to focus only on the frontal part of the depicted head. Furthermore, they were instructed to sit as still as possible. Right after each session, subjects were asked to write down the strategies they had applied.
Relative level changes of O2Hb and HHb over frontal sites during activation phases were measured by means of the ETG-4000 continuous wave system (Hitachi Medical, Co., Japan). The ETG-4000 uses light of two different wavelengths (695 ± 20 nm and 830 ± 20 nm) whose frequencies are modulated for each wavelength and channel, respectively (Plichta et al., 2006). All concentration changes of O2Hb and HHb depend on the path length of the NIR light in the brain as the optical path length cannot be measured by means of continuous wave systems. Therefore, the hemoglobin quantity is scaled in molar concentration multiplied by the unknown path length (mmol × mm).
To cover frontal sites on both hemispheres appropriately, we used two 3 × 5 probesets (consisting of seven photo detectors and eight light emitters, respectively) resulting in 22 channels per probeset and a total of 44 channels (Figure 2). The interoptode distance was 30 mm and the sampling rate was set to 10 Hz. In accordance to the international 10–20 system of electrode placement (Jasper, 1958), we used Fpz as mid-point and additionally T3 and T4, respectively, as marker positions to place the rearmost channel in the lowest row of both probesets on each side. By means of this spatial information, positions of optodes on the head-surface were used for the probabilistic registration of NIRS channel positions onto a standard brain and MNI coordinates (Tsuzuki et al., 2007) with reference to the macroanatomical brain atlas LBPA40 (Shattuck et al., 2008) providing a probabilistic labeling of brain regions.
FIGURE 2. Channel configuration of the 3 × 5 optode probesets consisting of seven photo detectors (blue) and eight light emitters (red), respectively, resulting in 22 channels per probeset and a total of 44 channels. In accordance to the international 10–20 system of electrode placement (Jasper, 1958), we used Fpz as mid-point and additionally T3 and T4, respectively, as marker positions to place the rearmost channel in the lowest row of both probesets on each side. The seven most frontally located channels on each side (i.e., #4, 8, 9, 13, 17, 18, 22 on the left and #1, 5, 6, 10, 14, 15, 19 on the right) were defined as ROI channels for neurofeedback analyses.
For the analysis of the regulation performance, the seven most frontally located channels on each side (i.e., # 4, 8, 9, 13, 17, 18, 22 on the left and # 1, 5, 6, 10, 14, 15, 19 on the right) were defined as ROI channels. For the n-back task, we intended to get a more general overview of activation changes induced by the training also beyond prefrontal regions and therefore no ROI channels were defined for further analyses.
As part of offline data analysis and preprocessing, the NIRS raw signal was filtered with a 0.01 Hz high pass filter and a 0.3 Hz low pass filter and manually corrected for artifacts (rejection by visual inspection). For further analysis, we focused only on changes in O2Hb over ROI channels of both hemispheres. The task-related O2Hb concentration changes were referred to a 2-s baseline interval prior to the regulation phase. Finally, O2Hb amplitudes during the regulation phase were averaged for each session and participant and used to evaluate regulation performance.
The present study involved qualitative (applied strategies and performance, self-regulation in PFC during NIRS neurofeedback) as well as quantitative (working memory task) questions and analyses. MATLAB R2012b (The MathWorks, Natick, MA, USA) was used for preprocessing of NIRS data, IBM SPSS Statistics 22 (Armonk, NY, USA) was utilized for all statistical analyses. Data were tested for normal distribution with the Kolmogorov–Smirnov test. For analyses of neurofeedback data, O2Hb amplitudes were compared against zero for each session for frontal ROI channels using one-sided Student’s t-test. For analyses of n-back data, O2Hb changes were compared for 2-back versus 1-back as well as post-training versus pre-training in the n-back task for each channel using paired Student’s t-test. For n-back data, all reported p-values are based on two-sided significance tests due to the exploratory character of the study and as the direction of changes was not clear beforehand. The significance level was set to 0.05 and adjusted for multiple comparisons according to the Bonferroni–Holm correction. Additionally, effect sizes (Cohen’s d) are reported (Cohen, 1988).
As for the qualitative analysis aiming to describe regulation strategies and associated performance, we looked at O2Hb amplitudes of the seven foremost channels in both optode arrays for each session on a descriptive level. First, we looked at potential systematic relations between performance and applied strategies for up-regulation in each session for each participant. We found systematic influences of the applied strategies (Table 1) on performance only in five subjects (i.e., subjects 1, 3, 4, 10, 13). In these participants, some of the strategies seemed to induce higher amplitudes compared to the other strategies. For example, looking at Figure 3M, the strategy “mental to-do-list” is associated with markedly higher amplitudes as compared to the remaining two strategies. However, for the other eight participants we did not find any systematic impact of strategies such as verbal fluency tasks or mental calculations on amplitude size. For example, Figure 3H reveals comparable amplitudes for all applied strategies (i.e., verbal fluency task, calculating, reciting the alphabet) over the training course. Also, overall, most approaches seemed to be generally suited to induce activation of the PFC and strategies did not tend to change over the training course (Figures 3A–M). For qualitative analysis (i.e., on a descriptive level) at the group level, we used z-transformed mean amplitudes. At the group level, the most successful strategies seemed to be “Stadt-Land-Fluss” (a game in which cities, countries, rivers and terms of other categories with the same first letter have to be found), mental to-do lists, imagination of movie scenes and “drawing red.” These strategies were superior to the remaining ones mainly for the first part of the training process whereas this superiority diminished in the last four sessions (Figure 3N).
FIGURE 3. Interrelation between strategy and mean O2Hb amplitudes in left prefrontal channels over the course of eight NIRS based neurofeedback sessions in each individual subject on a descriptive level (A–M). O2Hb amplitudes are exemplarily illustrated only for the left hemisphere as amplitudes on the right hemisphere exhibited similar patterns. For qualitative analysis on a descriptive level of interrelations between amplitude and strategy at the group level, amplitudes were z-transformed (N). VFT, verbal fluency task.
In a second step, we tried to classify different types of learning patterns which resulted in five categories. Five participants were able to up-regulate from the first session over the whole training course (Figure 4). Two subjects were able to up-regulate from the first session over the whole training course but only for the second half of each regulation trial (Figure 5). Two participants were able to up-regulate from the first session over the whole training course, but in only very small parts of the frontal cortex at a time (always just two neighboring channels; Figure 6). For three participants, voluntary up-regulation occurred rather irregularly from session to session, but all of them were successful in at least four sessions. Only one person did not learn voluntary activation of PFC at all.
FIGURE 4. Qualitative data analysis of mean O2Hb amplitudes in left prefrontal channels over the course of eight NIRS based neurofeedback sessions in one exemplary participant (subject #2) out of five that were able to voluntarily up-regulate over the whole training course. The part shaded in gray represents the upregulation phase of 30 s duration. O2Hb concentration changes on the right were similar but marginally less pronounced.
FIGURE 5. Qualitative data analysis of mean O2Hb amplitudes in left prefrontal channels over the course of eight NIRS based neurofeedback sessions in one exemplary participant (subject #13) out of two that were able to voluntarily up-regulate activity during the second half of the trials of each session. The part shaded in gray represents the upregulation phase of 30 s duration. Changes in O2Hb concentration on right prefrontal sites were similar but marginally less pronounced.
FIGURE 6. Qualitative data analysis of mean O2Hb amplitudes in left prefrontal channels over the course of eight NIRS based neurofeedback sessions in one exemplary participant (subject #6) out of two that were able to voluntarily up-regulate activity over the whole training course, but in only two neighboring prefrontal channels at a time (bold lines representing channels #8 and 9 for the first session, #4 and 9 for the second session and #4 and 8 for the remaining sessions). These pairs of channels exhibit more pronounced positive amplitudes as compared to the other frontal ROI channels. Changes in O2Hb concentration occurred over virtually identically located neighboring channels in both hemispheres. The part shaded in gray represents the regulation phase of 30 s duration.
Twelve out of 13 participants were able to up-regulate prefrontal activity by means of NIRS based neurofeedback training. However, over the training course no systematic increase in O2Hb amplitudes could be observed (Table 2). Instead, mean amplitudes seemed to fluctuate from session to session. In the second to last session (i.e., session #7), a strong decline of performance occurred. This temporary decline might be due to a loss of motivation near completion of the training which wears off again in the final session. Except for session #7, mean amplitudes of the total sample exhibited values above zero (Table 2) which shows a continuously successful regulation performance. These positive amplitude values are significantly different from zero for sessions #1, 2, 5, and 6 on the left side after correction for multiple testing (Table 2). However, on the right side, no significant differences are only observable after correction for multiple comparisons (Table 2). Hence, we can conclude that the present sample of healthy subjects performed on a high level from the beginning with probably only little scope left for further learning effects.
TABLE 2. Mean O2Hb amplitudes in left and right prefrontal channels over the course of eight NIRS based neurofeedback sessions as well as results of one-sided one sample t-test comparing amplitude size for each probeset and session against zero.
In a first, general step of the analysis, we compared the 1-back and 2-back condition of the working memory task for the pre-training measurement with respect to task-related changes in O2Hb concentration (Figure 7) in order to depict general activation patterns associated with the differences in working memory load. T-maps of this contrast indicated increased activation in language associated areas in the 2-back compared to the 1-back condition on both hemispheres (left: channels #1, 2, 3, 6, and 11 covering middle temporal gyrus, pars triangularis, superior temporal gyrus and pre-motor cortex, 1.92 ≤t22 ≤ 2.50, 0.02 < p < 0.08, 0.5 < d < 0.7; right: channels #2 and #3 covering middle temporal gyrus and temporopolar area, t22 = 2.34 and 1.85, p = 0.04 and 0.09, d = 0.6 and 0.5, respectively) that did – however – not survive a Bonferroni–Holm correction despite medium effect sizes.
FIGURE 7. T-maps for the comparison of O2Hb concentration changes during 1-back at pre-training (first row) and during 2-back at pre-training (second row). Further t-maps for the comparison of O2Hb concentration changes during 1-back at post-training versus pre-training (third row) and during 2-back at post-training versus pre-training (fourth row) as well as for the comparison of pre-traininig O2Hb concentration differences between 2-back and 1-back (fifth row). Numbers indicate the 22 channels on each channel array. Channels highlighted by circles indicate channels with non-significant differences after Bonferroni–Holm correction but effect sizes ≥ 0.5. For illustration purposes, the probesets are mapped on a standard brain.
In a second step, to investigate task-related changes in O2Hb concentration potentially induced by NIRS neurofeedback, we compared activation patterns of pre-training data to post-training data in 1-back and 2-back, respectively. For the low cognitive load condition (1-back), after Bonferroni–Holm correction, a statistically non-significant decrease in O2Hb concentration in post- compared to pre- assessment was solely present in single channels located in frontal and temporal parts of both channel arrays (channel #10 on the left covering primary somatosensory cortex and channel #1, 2, 6, 19 on the right side of the head covering temporopolar area, pars triangularis, and dorsolateral PFC, t22 = -1.93 and -2.28, -1.89, -1.88, -1.98, respectively; 0.04 < p < 0.08; -0.6 < d < -0.4; see Figure 7 for non-significant decrease in O2Hb concentration). For the high cognitive load condition (2-back), differences between the two assessments were more apparent and occurred predominantly in temporal parts of the measurement array (Figure 7; decrease in O2Hb concentration for channels #5, 6, 10, 11, 15, and 19 on the left, and for channels #7, 9, 12, 13, 16, 17, 18, and 21 on the right side, -2.58 ≤t22 ≤-2.01 and -2.78 ≤t22 ≤-1.84, respectively; 0.01 < p < 0.07 and -0.7 < d < -0.6), covering left superior temporal gyrus, primary somatosensory cortex, pre-motor cortex as well as supramarginal gyrus and right subcentral area, fusiform gyrus as well as parts of Wernicke’s area. However, again, these effects did not withstand a Bonferroni–Holm correction for multiple statistical comparisons despite medium to high effect sizes.
To sum up these data, participants showed rather widespread activation patterns over frontal, middle and temporal sites (1-back) and temporally located language associated areas (2-back) during pre-training assessments as compared to post-training assessments. In the follow-up measurement, they tended to show decreased activation in frontal (1-back), middle (1-back), and temporal (1- and 2-back) areas with medium effect sizes. All channels with tendential changes were adjacent channels and the observed differences occurred in both hemispheres, even though the effects seemed to be slightly more pronounced in the left hemisphere.
This proof of principle study aimed to unravel learning processes, the impact of strategies on individual learning and regulation as well as different learning patterns in NIRS neurofeedback. Studies on NIRS neurofeedback are scarce (Kanoh et al., 2011; Mihara et al., 2012; Kober et al., 2014; Marx et al., 2014), and up till now only one pilot study has examined NIRS feedback in patients, namely children with ADHD (Marx et al., 2014).
Our results confirm that it is possible to control hemodynamic responses in prefrontal brain areas even over the course of only a few training sessions of NIRS feedback for healthy subjects. 12 out of 13 participants were able to voluntarily activate their PFC with the help of NIRS feedback. The data suggest slightly more pronounced regulation ability in the left hemisphere which might be due to the high amount of verbal strategies applied by our sample. Beyond that, we could not reveal any immediate impact of applied strategies on regulation performance for the individual sessions. All approaches appeared to be effective to achieve prefrontal up-regulation, and overall participants tended to adhere to their chosen strategies over the training course. The stability of regulation approaches right from the first session might be due to the fact that these strategies already were well-elaborated and therefore worked almost from the beginning. For example, only to mention one of the regulation approaches, verbal fluency tasks have been shown to induce increased activation in prefrontal areas (Frith et al., 1991; Schlösser et al., 1998).
In line with this relative stability of regulation strategies across sessions, prefrontal O2Hb amplitudes did not systematically increase over the training period. This might be due to ceiling effects that in turn might be ascribed to our selective sample consisting of psychologists, physicians, physicists, and other professional groups that due to their educational level and field of professional activity already might have an above-average frontal control (Vakhtin et al., 2014) and/or prior knowledge about prefrontal activation strategies. Furthermore, visual feedback in the current training setup was rather unspecific: the feedback layout of hemodynamic activity as target parameter for regulation was a plain visualization of concentration changes of O2Hb on a simplified animated topographic 2D view, also including irrelevant channels in more posterior areas. Moreover, there was no correction for general arousal which makes it harder to specifically self-regulate frontal brain activity without inducing widespread activation changes all over the brain. Taken together, these aspects might explain the lack of a systematic learning effect over the training course. In this regard, to substantiate participants’ ability to upregulate prefrontal activity, it would have been useful to include transfer trials in which participants have to upregulate frontal activity without any direct feedback of their hemodynamic response. The absence of feedback during regulation trials can support a conclusion on how good a person got a feel for the actual brain state and how to modulate it.
Near-infrared spectroscopy data recorded during the letter n-back task indicated the use of different strategies for the condition with higher working memory load (2-back) relative to the condition with low working memory load (1-back). As anticipated, prior to neurofeedback training, in the 1-back task we found activation in PFC which is part of the working memory network (Baddeley, 2003; Owen et al., 2005; Ayaz et al., 2012; Fishburn et al., 2014; Herff et al., 2014). In contrast, in the 2-back condition, language associated areas tended to be more strongly activated indicating a more pronounced use of verbal strategies in the high load condition of our verbal working memory task. For such tasks, executive processes as well as the storage and recall of verbal material are required and verbal storage tasks in turn activate speech areas (Smith et al., 1996; Smith and Jonides, 1999; Baddeley, 2003).
Following eight sessions of neurofeedback, these activation patterns showed some changes, especially in the 2-back condition where activation within the above-mentioned language associated areas was now markedly reduced. These results might be indicative of a more efficient use of cognitive resources after the training, which would be especially noteworthy in the absence of systematic feedback-related learning effects as discussed above. Yet, these results have to be interpreted with caution as the present study lacks a control group and therefore the observed effects could also be due to simple time effects, repetition effects, automation or practice. Also, despite partly medium to strong effect sizes, the reported results did not withstand correction for multiple statistical testing in our small sample of healthy subjects. This might also be attributable to the relatively large brain region that was targeted by our neurofeedback protocol. However, to impact working memory, the upregulation possibly should have been more focused on a specific brain region (e.g., dorsolateral PFC) that is known to be involved in working memory task performance rather than covering a broad area of PFC.
In the long run, the aim is to conduct NIRS neurofeedback also in psychiatric patients which may benefit from this promising method. For this purpose, we propose some adjustments of the present training setup. First, for patients it might take longer to learn neural self-regulation and therefore the amount of sessions should be increased even though so far no standard has been established. First evidence suggests that 12 sessions provide an appropriate timeframe to learn to self-regulate hemodynamic activity (Marx et al., 2014). On average, EEG neurofeedback protocols applied in patient groups involve a total number of 25–40 sessions that take place one to two times per week (Moriyama et al., 2012; Mayer et al., 2013). This amount is cut down to 1–10 sessions with fMRI feedback (Sulzer et al., 2013) offering an apparently more time-efficient training approach, possibly due to advantages that go back to the method’s higher spatial resolution. NIRS is based on hemodynamic responses as well and is also characterized by a higher spatial resolution compared to EEG. Therefore, also for NIRS feedback, a smaller amount of required sessions can be expected which could already be confirmed by the NIRS feedback study in pediatric ADHD (Marx et al., 2014). Furthermore, the ideal interval between training sessions to ensure learning and enduring effects beyond the training phase is unknown. The issue remains whether learning success eventuates faster over the course of sessions in relatively close succession like in the present study or with a more distributed (lower) training frequency. A second future improvement of the currently employed protocol concerns the visualization of the feedback itself that should be as intuitive as possible without needless distracting factors (e.g., information about activation in channels that aren’t immediately relevant for the targeted feedback signal). Consequently, exclusively ROI activity should be fed back to the participants to reduce cognitive load. Thirdly, to ensure that patients specifically learn to regulate the target brain region, an adequate online artifact correction should be implemented for a clinical trial. This is to avoid general arousal effects all over the brain or artifacts for example induced by breathing or muscle activity. In summary, when taking into account a customization of these particular critical factors, NIRS neurofeedback could be applied also in a clinical context.
The current study was conducted as a proof-of-concept study with the primary objective to shed light on learning processes, the impact of strategies on individual learning as well as different learning types in NIRS neurofeedback. Therefore, only a small sample was recruited and no control group was included. However, despite the small sample size of 13, effect sizes reveal relatively robust effects.
Despite the above-mentioned limitations the results of this study are promising. In the future, NIRS neurofeedback could be a time-effective and thereby more economic tool in (complementary) neuropsychiatric therapy. After some adjustments of the current setup, prefrontal NIRS feedback could also be utilized in different patient groups exhibiting alterations of PFC function, such as children or adults suffering from ADHD.
The authors assert that all procedure contributing to this work comply with the ethical standards of the relevant national and institutional committees on human experimentation and with the Helsinki Declaration of 1975, as revised in 2008.
BB drafted the manuscript and analyzed the data. US participated in the design of the study and contributed to the manuscript. AF participated in the design of the study and contributed to the manuscript. A-CE conceived of the study, participated in its design and coordination, and helped to draft the manuscript. All authors read and approved the final manuscript. All authors agree to be accountable for all aspects of the work in ensuring that questions related to the accuracy or integrity of any part of the work are appropriately investigated and resolved.
This study was supported by IZKF Tübingen (Junior Research Group, Grant 2115-0-0) as well as by Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG; FA 361/21-1 and STR 597/7-1).
US was paid for public speaking by Novartis, Medice, Neuroconn, the German Society for Biofeedback and Akademie König und Müller. Where applicable, the above mentioned authors declare that the present work is unrelated to the above mentioned grants and relationships. All the other authors declare that the research was conducted in the absence of any commercial or financial relationships that could be construed as a potential conflict of interest.
The authors would like to thank Ramona Täglich and Betti Schopp for their excellent work and valuable support in conducting the NIRS trainings and measurements.
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100,101,912 | We 'Interior Designers' often have limited time for online marketing. Working seemingly around the clock to design spaces, meeting with clients, site management, material procurement with quality check and to oversee contractors; Ufff!! Hardly do we find our time for making a visibility on the Social Media Platforms.
Social media marketing is obtained by the use of various social media platforms and websites which are available to promote the services of Design and Consultancy.
But in today's world design firms address a range of audiences through social media marketing including current and potential high end clients, current and potential employees, architects, interior designers, and the general public. On a strategic level, social media marketing includes the management of the implementation of a marketing campaign, governance, or setting the scope and the establishment of a firm's desired social medi…
Have you always seen an Interior Designer receiving compliments on their designs? Or have you seen your daughter or your friend or eventually you yourself liking to decorate interiors of your home or go help a friend.
If yes then you should know what is it like to have a life of an Interior Designer. Before you make a life-altering career choice or assumptions about someone’s design , there are some things you should know about this design world.
Interior designers face challenges every day; some of these may not appeal to you, while others may excite you and open doors to a career that you never thought was possible. It may seem obvious, but in order to become an interior designer, you need to have an innate flair for color, spatial arrangements, architecture, designs and textiles.
Living as an Interior Designer, you need to know a lot of information on architectural elements, building materials, ergonomics, anthropometric, and many more. An Interior Desig…
Next time you are about to walk through the front door to your home; Take a pause. Just think of your eyelids as a soothing sweeper that washes away your thoughts with every long, hard blink.
Once you have emptied your mind of thought and reached a state of calm and full awareness, open your door, take one complete walk through of your home, and look at everything around you. Take everything in and just observe. When you are done, you should have the answer to the following question:
If that question resonates with you in some way, and you care about keeping in good spirits, then you owe it to yourself to take a few simple actions. With that in mind, it's extremely important to make sure that your home is designed in a manner that makes you look forward to returning each and every day. Ideally, it should be a Welcoming, cheerful and warm place that evokes a sense of well-being and comfort.
Design is an impactful process that has a strong influence on society and it can in much way affect our well-being. Even if design is often about bringing function to our daily life, it's also about creating desires.
Design, from an Architect /Interior Designers view point be defined as "Visual Strategy". This means that design is not only a process but also considered as the final product /service. So design is interesting and relevant but now a days with human intervention it’s upgraded with lots of trends.
A trend is the general tendency defined by a shift in behavior or mentality that influences a significant amount of people with their desires. This change in behavior is triggered by a small part of the population and starts to gradually spread until enough people finally give in and choose to adopt it as part of their lifestyle. This shift is often based on a strong concept and vision, initiated by the designers, based on predictions, color and mater…
"A home is a big part of your life and a comfortable, inviting space that can really make a difference in how you feel every day".
Little things can elevate the overall mood of your home.. Keep in mind that not every Interior Design has to involve a major project. Rethinking a room or how you function within your home, or just looking at a room from the perspective of your guests, is what all it takes to make the small changes that have a big impact to your home.
Choosing the room you live in the most as your first one to de-clutter. Choose a spot that's not visible from the public areas of your home and designate a surface, chest or cabinet of some sort for the paper and other things that usually end up in piles all over your home. Give yourself permission to toss anything you don't want to deal with im…
“Accelerating Your Dreams & Vision…”, is the work-mantra of 'A Design Studio' – a young and vibrant, multi-disciplinary firm with a team of interior designers and creative heads. Capturing the spirit of the client and the essence of the space the firm was founded in 2008 by Satish Naik along with Rupali Naik.
We scale our services for all types of work dynamics like Residential, Corporate offices and retail projects of all sizes along with this we do planning, designing, 3D views and Project management. Their education, as well as professional work exposure that they derived, including various practices exposed them to not just the practicalities of on site management but also the philosophies that most designers grapple with. A Design Studio has grown in size and credibility – handling more than just design.
Satish’s experience with material understanding, cost analysis, attention to detailing and quality in interior work complements Rupali’s skills of coordinating complexities of design & services of their projects. This perfect balance in the core team makes the studio adequate with skill sets to accomplish any task that comes in its way in the most optimized and systematic process.
Today, A Design Studio is a provider of planning, design and delivery solutions for the built environment. We create exceptional environments that meet the design challenges. The approach to design is from a variety of perspectives, which gives us an unparalleled ability to innovate. “We use design to protect our natural environment and enrich lives. A Design Studio is committed to integrating diversity and inclusion into every aspect of our firm. This is an important part of our long-term business strategy for meeting challenges of a changing world and ensuring our continued success”. |
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219,829,360 | October is Domestic Violence Awareness Month, a time for communities to unite to mourn the loss of every individual who has fallen victim to domestic violence, and to raise awareness of the prevalence of the problem throughout the world. A time to remember and mourn the deaths of people like Phil Hartman, George Whitley, Sincere Understanding Allah, Dilip Bhosale, Adam Munn, Joseph Wallace and Yovany Tellez Jr.
The executive proclamation setting aside the month of October as National Domestic Violence Awareness Month declares that it is part of the federal government's commitment to "make it possible for women to seek relief from abuse and reclaim their dignity and their lives." Children and men are not mentioned.
The United States Department of Health and Human Services describes the month as a time to "mourn the women who lost their lives to domestic violence, as well as celebrate the strength of women who have survived." Evidently, dead men and children are not to be mourned, and the survival of a male victim is not something to be celebrated.
The National Coalition Against Domestic Violence boasts that every year the organization "collect[s] information on incidents of women who have been killed by an intimate partner and produces a poster each year for Domestic Violence Awareness Month listing the names."
When the Battered Women's Act was under consideration in Minnesota, a lone legislator sought an amendment that would have made its protections available to all victims, regardless of gender. That proposal was vehemently opposed by others in our legislature. The Act passed without the proposed amendment, and to this day the law continues to contain provisions discriminating against--and encouraging others to discriminate against--male victims of domestic abuse.
Similarly, when the Violence Against Women Act was introduced in Congress, men were not permitted to testify. Congress did not want to hear about male victims.
In fact, it appears that none of us really wants to hear about male victims. Male victims are an embarrassment. Worse, their existence threatens the validity of the one stereotype that the vast majority of us seem to need to believe--the stereotype that says men are violent and aggressive, while women are gentle and submissive. Or, to put it another way, the idea that violence is a male phenomenon. As a culture, we prefer to make male victims the subject of levity and jest, not offer them help. Mostly, though, we would prefer to believe that they simply do not exist. .
Do male victims of domestic abuse exist? According to a United States Department of Justice study, there are approximately 835,000 domestic assaults against men annually. A more recent Bureau of Justice Statistics study reports that the number of male victims 12 years of age and older is nearly 1.6 million per year. And it has been estimated that as many as 4,000 children, mostly male, are killed or maimed every year, mostly by women.
It is often asserted that gender-exclusionary laws and policies are justified in this area because male victims supposedly comprise only 5 or 15% of the total. Yet, even if the percentage really were that low (and it isn't), would that justify ignoring male victims altogether? Black people comprise less than 5% of the population of Minnesota. Does that mean that we therefore need only concern ourselves with crimes against white people?
The truth is that male abuse victims exist, and their existence is not anything new. In fact, policy-makers have known about them for many years. They have been marginalized for the same reason that lesbian abuse victims are marginalized: their existence runs counter to our fundamental cultural desire to believe that violence is a male phenomenon. Sadly, the principal victims of our stubborn adherence to sexist ideology are neither women nor men. They are Sincere Understanding Allah, Dilip Bhosale, Adam Munn, Joseph Wallace, Yovany Tellez, and thousands of other children like them--children that some among us have made invisible while the rest of us work very hard, in one way or another, to keep them that way.
Tom James is an attorney who works with both male and female abuse victims, and is the author of the book, Domestic Violence: The 12 Things You Aren't Supposed To Know (Aventine Press, 2003).
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One Bridgeport Middle School classroom had the opportunity to learn about financial planning, thanks to two students from Bridgeport High School. Madelyn Lalama and Jake Runner launched a program called, “Save Now, Earn Later,” which they created to educate middle school students about saving, investing and managing money.
“As part of our DECA Financial Literacy Promotion Project, we decided to focus on middle school students,” said Lalama. “With compound interest, the earlier they start thinking about financial planning, the more money they will have when they retire.”
The duo worked with Bridgeport Middle School teacher Kenny Edwards to organized the best time to present to his eighth grade AA class. With the exception of a few snow days, they led the class through the program each week in December and finished in January.
“They incorporated a ton of fun activities with the students and really kept their interest and involvement,” Edwards said. “Once they left, I actually found the students asking me questions regarding finance and economics and I was able to have some good discussions with them as well.”
Lalama and Runner started the program with a pre-test to determine what the students already knew about finance. They used trivia, games, and hands-on activities in order to demonstrate the basics of budgeting, investing and saving. The students not only demonstrated improved knowledge in the post-tests, but seemed genuinely interested in learning about the topics.
“They had a lot of questions and we tried to make finance relevant to their age,” said Runner. “They learned to make realistic choices in order to have a better financial future and they will be better prepared for taking finance in high school and college.”
The finance project, including curriculum and tests results, will be entered into the West Virginia DECA Competitive Events in March. Lalama and Runner will present it in order to qualify for the International Career Development Conference in Atlanta, GA in April.
“We would love to expand the program for middle schoolers and be able to include more classes in the future,” said Lalama. “We have even discussed having the high school and middle school students collaborate on economics and financial activities.”
“I think this was a fantastic opportunity to really reach out and educate and I would love to see it go even further,” he said. “Maddie and Jake did a great job with the students and I am glad to see them address finance and economics early on and to connect it to real world events.”
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More and more organizations are turning to virtualization as they face an increasingly complex IT environment. Enterprises of all sizes have found that relocating their operating, network and/or hardware resources to an offsite host server provides an array of business benefits.This virtualized IT environment can lead to reduced capital and operating costs, flexibility in the allocation of system resources to meet changing requirements, the ability to quickly integrate legacy and new systems, and scalability for expanding operations. Another key but often-overlooked advantage of using virtualized machines in an enterprise-level data center is the improved data and network security provided to an organization.
Despite the common misconception that virtualization increases security risk, in actuality today’s virtualized networks can be much more secure than an entity’s in-house network. This is particularly the case in an IT ecosystem where threats originate from evolving network technologies, protocols and devices, as well as sophisticated hackers and data thieves, internal breaches, hardware and software failures, business partner security breaches and even natural disasters.
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159,434,601 | In August 1942, more than ten thousand men converged on Mexico City. They were answering the government’s call to combat fascism by signing up to do agricultural work in the United States. Although initiated as a temporary measure to alleviate a tightening U.S. labor market brought on by World War II, the Mexican-U.S. Program of the Loan of Laborers lasted for 22 years and awarded more than 4.5 million work contracts to nearly two million Mexican men. Competition for contracts also stimulated undocumented migration of at least that many. Many Mexican men (women could not participate) benefited economically from this regulated migration, but the biggest beneficiary of the Bracero Program, the unofficial name for the series of binational agreements, were large growers. The availability of thousands of desperate braceros, as the migrants were called, generated massive corruption in both countries, acted as a downward push on farm wages, undercut unionization efforts, and enabled growers to delay mechanization until it was cost-effective.
Soon after entering World War II, the U.S. government approached Mexico about the possibility of bringing laborers north. Most important to Mexico was that the U.S. government, not individual growers, be responsible for men migrating under the program, and that both governments monitor the proper functioning of the program and investigate abuses. For all but a brief interlude (1948–1951) did this condition stand. Complaints multiplied during this interlude, and the condition was reinstituted with the start of the Korean War, when Mexico’s bargaining hand was strengthened because of a contraction in the U.S. labor market due to the war. Bracero agreements also contained wage guarantees (braceros were to be paid the area’s prevailing wage for the crop picked) and requirements for sanitary housing, access to medical care, and a minimum of weeks for which they would be paid, regardless of weather conditions, making braceros’ protections far stronger than those extended to U.S. domestic farm workers. Although the agreement stipulated that growers prove they had attempted to recruit U.S. workers before their request for Mexican laborers be granted, in practice this requirement was waived or ignored. Generally growers, relying on long relationships with local government officials, had only to say they could find no U.S. laborers to work for the advertised wage and their request for braceros would be granted. Over time these practices depressed wages and undermined unionization.
The United States always controlled the maximum number of bracero spots offered, and Mexico could allocate these spots (or fewer ones) according to domestic needs. Thus, Mexico theoretically retained the right to decide where braceros worked. It acted on this right initially when it refused to send men to Texas, citing a history of discrimination against Mexican citizens and Mexican Americans. In response, in 1943 Coke R. Stevenson, the governor of Texas from 1941 to 1947, instituted the Good Neighbor Commission to investigate the problem. Convinced that Texas was taking steps to address the problem or merely recognizing that undocumented migrants were crossing into the United States anyway, Mexico consented and by 1947 state-sanctioned braceros were heading to that state. Also negotiated by the two countries was the location of reception centers where the final bracero selection would occur. Mexico repeatedly pushed to place centers a great distance from the United States’ preferred locations at the border. Mexico also sought to reduce costs—Mexico paid men’s transportation and board to reception centers, after which the United States took over—and to control the outflow of migrants to prevent its own farm-labor shortage in northern Mexico, where workers were poorly paid and scarce. As reception centers moved closer to the border, undocumented migration increased. This move also drew men away from less well-paid farm labor in northern Mexico and aroused the ire of these large landholders. Initially the binational agreement also contained a provision that 10 percent of workers’ wages be put in escrow until the men returned. Mexico fought hard for this provision, in force between 1942 and 1948, as it wanted to guarantee that, in contrast to earlier migrations, the men would return home with funds that could be used to purchase tractors and other equipment. While Mexico was heavily invested in this provision, few workers knew of it, and most have yet to recoup these funds.
With alarmist discussion of a labor shortage, growers pressured the U.S. government to replicate the informal contract system that had prevailed during World War I, when labor agents recruiting in Mexico promised workers wages and living conditions that were too often unmet. The United States recognized, however, that Mexico would not agree to any program of regulated migration without certain conditions. Furthermore, the United States was not in a position to ignore conditions sought by Mexico, for much had changed since the earlier informal program. Not only did the United States government initiate the formal exchange of workers, but President Franklin Roosevelt (in office 1933–1945) had entered office determined to establish better relations with Latin America. In contrast to earlier doctrines, his Good Neighbor Policy emphasized cooperation and guaranteed the sanctity of each sovereign American nation. As well, the Mexican president, Lázaro Cárdenas (in office 1934–1940), had, in a show of national sovereignty, nationalized oil fields in 1938, many of which had been owned by U.S. companies. Although Cárdenas had offered compensation according to the value companies listed on earlier tax rolls, the companies balked, saying that nationalized fields were worth more. Thus, in exchange for the Bracero Program and a recognition of Mexico’s sovereignty, the United States had not much earlier settled the compensation issue and conceded to some of Mexico’s demands. Over the course of the program, Mexico lost its leverage because its economy could not offer enough jobs, leading many men to migrate.
In the forty-plus years since the end of the Bracero Program, there have been numerous calls to bring it back in various forms. The most recent was President George W. Bush’s push to institute a guest-worker program similar to the Bracero program. An idea proposed during his 2000 campaign for president, it was put on hold immediately after September 11, 2001, then resurfaced in 2003. By then, his expanded proposal added a post-9/11 heavy dose of border security (including a physical and virtual fence), increased enforcement of laws already on the books, and the removal of all persons in the country without the proper documentation in exchange for his guest worker program; it was also part of a larger package of changes to immigration laws.
President Bush’s revised proposal garnered attacks from all sides. Citing downward pressure on workers’ wages and fearing the cultural impact of largely poor immigrants of color, the anti-immigration faction countered the Bush proposal by demanding that only the removal and enhanced-security conditions be instituted. This anti-immigration position is best exemplified by the Minutemen Civil Defense Corps and Congressman Jim Sensenbrenner of Wisconsin. The Minutemen, an armed volunteer force and a visible symbol of a growing nativist sentiment operating largely in border states, have taken it upon themselves to secure U.S. borders that they see the federal government leaving unprotected. Sensenbrenner spotlighted a focus on security with a bill called the Border Protection, Anti-terrorism, and Illegal Immigration Control Act of 2005. This legislation, which passed the House by a vote of 239 to 182, would have made it a felony for anyone to “assist” an undocumented person to “remain in the United States.” Although the bill stalled in the Senate, it generated a strong reaction, not only from pro-immigration groups, but from the immigrants themselves. On May 1, 2006, hundreds of thousands of immigrant protesters took to the streets in Chicago, Los Angeles, and other parts of the country in reaction to Sensenbrenner’s restrictive legislation; they demanded a comprehensive reform package that included a path to legal residency and citizenship. This immigration debate also heightened simmering tensions between Latinos and African Americans. Often pitted against Latinos and recent immigrants for low-wage jobs and shrinking economic resources more generally, many African Americans see themselves ever more on the losing end of a direct competition with Latinos and immigrants.
Immigrants again turned out across the United States for peaceful May Day 2007 marches as federal officials increased their investigations of job sites known or thought to cater to immigrants. These raids have brought quick arrests of undocumented workers. In the aftermath, children—often United States citizens—have been separated from undocumented parents and wives from husbands, sending reverberations through immigrant communities. In 2007 another immigration bill, the Security through Regularized Immigration and a Vibrant Economy Act of 2007 (or STRIVE Act), was introduced in Congress. Although it was not guaranteed passage in the Democrat-controlled Congress, this compromise between pro- and anti-immigration factions has sought to combine heightened border security and a Bracero Program-like guest-worker program with a real path to citizenship for the estimated 12 million undocumented persons living in the United States.
Anderson, Henry P. 1963. Fields of Bondage; Mexican Contract Labor System in Industrialized Agriculture. Martinez, CA: self-published.
For many in the immediate post-Vietnam War era, the words sex tourism were associated with organized trips to the massage parlors and brothels of Thailand or to the red-light districts of cities such as Amsterdam and Hamburg. The phenomenon seemed apparently simple and was explained in terms of men exercising the dominion of the wallet over women, who were generally perceived as unwilling victims. Where women were categorized as other than victims, the conceptualization often owed much to Victorian concepts of the diseased woman, an outcast from mainstream society, to be banished from respectable society. However, the nature of the debate as to what constitutes sex tourism, and the impacts it has, had widened considerably by the turn of the twenty-first century. Factors that contributed to the expanded debate include the growth of feminism and a concept of sisterhood that embraced and gave voice to prostitutes, and the adoption of the terminology of sex worker to emphasize a point about the nature of female work in the sex industry; the realization that females could also be predatory, as evidenced by trips to the Caribbean to find sex with the rent-a-dread (dreadlocked Caribbean male); and the context of freer sexual expression illustrated by advertising, television soaps, and dramas. Alternative terminologies are also used, such as romance tourism—yet even this remains essentially a commercial transaction, albeit softened by gift giving as distinct from the payment for the thirty-minute or hourly transaction in the brothel.
Whereas the rent-a-dread may occupy an honorable mention in the academic literature, Kamala Kempadoo (2004) notes that this style has gone, to be replaced by the Michael Jordan look, and by males locally named as the rentals in their stylish dark glasses and baggy shorts. She continues to also note that the former rent-a-dreads have progressed to being tourist guides, ganja dealers, souvenir salesmen, and property caretakers. Just as the rent-a-dread terminology is symptomatic of a given time period, so, too, are other concerns.
Historically, it was argued that Thai sex tourism arose from the history of the Vietnam War and the presence of U.S. military on leave. Equally, massage parlors are still found to be located near military bases in countries such as South Korea and the Philippines. Although connections exist with sex tourism, the relationship is not consistent, and sex tourism flourishes in different locations that do not possess such histories—for example, Kenya. Arguably more pervasive is the role of the Internet as a means of communication and access to sex workers, and in that sense, the purposeful sex tourist is able to access sex workers more easily, and the Internet has made the organized sex—tour as it was understood in the 1970s—less needed.
One factor that has led to the involvement of government agencies with sex workers is the incidence of HIV/AIDS. With the advent of this disease in the 1980s and before the wide dissemination of antiretroviral medication, one major means of halting the spread of the disease was to ensure that sex workers practiced safe sex. This required a recognition and validation of consortia that represented sex workers and at the same time empowered groups of sex workers by legitimizing their concerns about the need for safety, protection from corrupt practices by local police, and a need for degrees of freedom from prosecution.
For females who work in the industry, examples can be found of those who view sex work as a continuation of an older tradition of the vestal virgin, as protector of a knowledge of the female derived from an older age when various incarnations of the fertility goddess ruled supreme. Such workers, however, form a minority, albeit vocal group. Most sex workers in European and North American societies perceive sex work as a means of securing a good income, with hours of work that are temporally and spatially flexible, and as being consistent with other female roles such as motherhood. In many countries it is possible for such women to work within a framework of mutual female support through brothels or massage parlors. Escort agencies are also able to ensure the safety of female sex workers by using trusted taxi drivers who maintain notes of clients and addresses. A few females use the opportunities provided by the industry to meet their own needs for sexual adventure, for diversity of experiences, and to satisfy basic sexual hunger. Such workers tend to reject the notion of the sex worker as victim, arguing it is, to a degree, an occupation of choice—or at least, a choice within the constraints that many women face without access to higher education, limited work opportunities, and the challenges of single parenthood.
It is also necessary to recognize that several areas of prostitution are arenas for the victimization of females and exploitation of the worst possible kind. Louise Brown (2000) in her work Sex Slaves: The Trafficking of Women in Asia, makes clear that female children as young as ten years of age are deliberately traded for purposes of prostitution. She additionally writes persuasively of the political and social amnesias to such circumstances that mark many countries—particularly, she feels, in some countries characterized by strong Islamic movements.
Generally, however, sex tourism as practiced in many holiday locations exists spatially apart from such exploitation by a local red-light and porn industry. Because local consumers are unable to pay the high prices that tourists to third-world countries can afford, those who meet the needs of tourists tend to have higher degrees of control over their own modes of business. To meet the needs of tourists requires many social skills, including a command of a foreign language and the wherewithal to blend, at least in part, into the surroundings of hotels and resorts. In various works, Kempadoo (1999, 2004) has argued that, at least in the Caribbean, sex work generates positive economic multiplier effects for otherwise low-income communities, and through the earning of relatively significant sums of money, women are empowered and potentially able to break from lower-income backgrounds. The monies from servicing the sexual desires of tourists become the sources of capital for small business start-ups in other areas of economic activity.
There is, nonetheless, little doubt that there is trafficking in women, even in some areas associated with the sex tourism industry. Again, to cite Kempadoo (2004), female sex workers from the Dominican Republic can be found in many other parts of the Caribbean. Those (generally men) who organize such spatial movements of female workers commonly employ tactics such as withholding passports and requiring repayments much higher than the costs of transport and accommodation involved. However, from her studies Kempadoo observes that many women know what they are doing—that they see through the vague outlines of promised work in bars and strip clubs—and as professionals in their line of work, accept the risks for the rewards offered. Indeed, the role of victim can be useful to secure deportation in preference to imprisonment. The existence of sex work is a reflection of dominant economic and social structures in society—the same structures that permit tourists from higher income countries to visit the resorts and complexes built in less developed countries. Tourism and the sex industry are thus bound by social realities of relative deprivation and affluence, by those who have and those who desire to have—and the medium of exchange in this unequal bartering is sex.
Although the lines of demarcation are sometimes blurred, child prostitution represents a separate specific aspect of sex tourism, with places such as Bali, Cambodia, Fiji, and Thailand being mentioned by bodies such as ECPAT (End Child Prostitution, Child Pornography and Trafficking of Children for Sexual Purposes). This organization has special consultative status with the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations (ECOSOC) and has done much over the last few decades to raise awareness of the problems. Organized sex tours are comparatively unimportant, unlike in the early 1970s, but individuals continue to seek sex with underage children. With bodies such as ECPAT acting as effective pressure groups, many countries have introduced legislation whereby a national of that country can be tried for sex against an underage person regardless of where the offense was committed. Thus, in this arena of law, the need for extradition orders may be averted.
Sex tourism occupies a subversive, liminal ground in contemporary European and North American societies: subversive because it is a recognition of needs and desires not met by the socially approved monogamous relationships of the Judeo-Christian belief system. In its emphasis on the body and the role of lust, sex tourism represents modes of behavior outside the approved confines of mainstream behavior. Liminal because sex workers occupy roles outside the mainstream of activity, and tourists, too, are temporary liminal people occupying spaces of escape from responsibility—escape that can extend to extramarital affairs with sex workers and others. Such an observation is obviously culturally constrained and cannot be held to be easily transferred to other cultures. Equally. the role of sex worker is different from, in degree at least, to that of mistress. In short, the phenomenon is both complex and fuzzy in its relationships with other social boundaries.
Seabrooke, Jeremy. 2005. Travels in the Skin Trade: Tourism and the Sex Industry. 2nd edition. Chicago: Pluto Press.
American actress-manager. Born Amelia Smiley on March 20, 1869, in Hicksville, Ohio; died on September 1, 1927, in New York, New York; attended Ohio Wesleyan College; married Lloyd Bingham (a manager of a traveling professional theater company).
Pursuing the theater against the wishes of her deeply religious family, Amelia Smiley was induced to leave Ohio Wesleyan College by Lloyd Bingham, the manager of a traveling theater company, who saw her in an amateur production and thought she had talent. After touring the West Coast with the McKee Rankin Company, she headed to New York in 1892 to appear in a series of melodramas, including The Struggle for Life, The Power of Gold, and A Man Among Men. Now married to Bingham, she won her first important role in The Mummy, opposite Robert Hilliard (1896). Subsequent performances established her popularity and in 1897, after winning a newspaper popularity poll over such stars as Lillian Russell, Fanny Davenport, Ada Rehan , and Maude Adams , she went to work for Charles Frohman and played leading roles under his management for four years.
In late 1900, Bingham decided to become an actress-manager in the manner of England's Laura Keene . She leased the Bijou Theatre, assembled a company, and successfully produced Clyde Fitch's The Climbers, in which she played Mrs. Sterling. Historical accounts vary as to the success of her subsequent ventures, Lady Margaret and The Modern Magdalen, both produced in 1902. By some accounts, her 1903 production of The Frisky Mrs. Johnson enjoyed a modest run only because of publicity surrounding her battle with a critic who panned the production. Disputes with the playwrights as well as another critic embroiled her 1907 production of The Lilac Room which closed in its first week.
Bingham went on to play in different stock companies and in 1909 toured Great Britain in Big Moments from Great Plays. From 1913 through 1916, she performed in The New Henrietta with Douglas Fairbanks and William H. Crane. Following the death of her husband in 1915, Bingham retired from the stage but returned in 1925 to appear in Trelawney of the Wells. The following year, she gave her last performance in The Pearl of Great Price. Amelia Bingham died in New York City, on September 1, 1927, having distinguished herself as the first American actress to succeed at both producing and performing.
Not all the wisdom teeth cause problems and hence all wisdom teeth do not require removal. However it is also quite common to find wisdom teeth causing problems while they are erupting usually due to insufficient space or improper angulations causing impaction against the last molars in the mouth.
The picture below shows a typical problem of an impacted lower wisdom tooth that can cause problems if not addressed early. The wisdom tooth here is unable to erupt properly in the mouth due to improper angulation and also possible lack of space for it to erupt.
The black arrow in the picture points to the area where food can be trapped and cause cavities (not only on the wisdom tooth but also on the tooth in front). The red arrow points to an area where food can be trapped between the wisdom tooth and the gum covering the tooth and can cause inflammation or infection in the gums (known as pericoronitis).
Usual discomfort while wisdom teeth are erupting is common, but it is important to get them assessed by a dentist to make sure they are erupting properly and not likely to cause issues in future!
When you’re stuck creatively, it can breed frustration in other areas of your life. Suddenly, you’re relationships may feel stale, your work lacks progression, and even your meals taste uninspired. All the vibrance in your world just drains to a dull tone. To breakthrough that block, you have to tap into your core. You have to excite your spirit. A Carnelian Touchstone carries the energy to do that. All you have to do is tune into it.
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246,809,457 | 1 Youth at High Risk of Disconnection A data update of Michael Wald and Tia Martinez s Connected by 25: Improving the Life Chances of the Country s Most Vulnerable Year Olds Prepared by Jacob Rosch, Dana Brinson and Bryan Hassel of PUBLIC IMPACT for The Annie E. Casey Foundation December 2008
2 The Background Connected by 25 (2003) Michael Wald and Tia Martinez At an age when most young adults are benefitting from fulltime work and close interpersonal relationships, [disconnected] youth will not have connected to the labor force; most will lack social support systems. (pg.2) About 20% of all youth will become at risk of disconnection at some time before reaching the age of 25. Yet, only 5 to 7% will reach age 25 without connecting in a meaningful way to employment and social support systems. 2
3 The Background Connected by 25 (2003) Michael Wald and Tia Martinez Who is at risk? Most who become disconnected young adults fall into one of four risk groups between ages 14 and 17: school dropouts, teen mothers, foster teens, and incarcerated youth. Who are in the process of Disconnection? Young adults, age 18 to 24, not tied into social networks and experiencing long-term unemployment or incarceration. 3
4 The Background Annie E. Casey Foundation Data Update: Process Replicate Wald/Martinez Methodology Use most-recent data In this data update, youth have been grouped into different age ranges than in Wald and Martinez s work. Throughout this presentation, we provide data on youth age 14 to 18 and those age 19 to 24. Questions How many youth fall into the Wald & Martinez-identified At Risk Groups? What are the demographic characteristics of these youth?
6 Method: Risk Groups and Sources of Data 14 Population: to Long-Term Unemployed Group Our Data Source Wald/Martinez Source Incarcerated Young Adults American Communities Survey (2006) Census of Juveniles in Residential Placement (2006); Prison and Jail Inmates at Midyear (2006) Current Population Survey ( ) Census of Juvenile Residential Facilities (2000) 6
7 Data Limitations The data used in this report provide a snapshot of youth at risk and do not reflect the entire scope of this population. Hypothetical Population of At-Risk Youth Population Not Yet At-Risk (but who will become so before age 19) Population at Risk at Time of Snapshot The data do not capture the number of youth who will be at risk. 7
8 Youth At High Risk for Disconnection 14 to 18 Native-born youth not enrolled in school and not holding a high school diploma Unmarried, teenage mothers Youth who have been in foster care between their 14 th and 19 th birthdays Youth deeply involved in the juvenile justice system 8
9 Estimating Youth 14 to 18 at High Risk for Disconnection School Dropouts Teen Mothers Teens in Foster Care who are Dropouts 1 Wald and Martinez s Model Teens in Foster Care Teen Mothers who are Dropouts 2 + Incarcerated Youth + Youth in Foster Care who are Teen Mothers 3 Total Overlap = Youth at High Risk for Disconnection 1. Based on Courtney s (2001) finding that 37% of youth in foster care did not have a high school diploma 12 to 18 months after emancipating 2. Based on Wald/Martinez s (2003) finding that 35% of teen mothers were also dropouts 3. Based on Needell s (2002) finding that 9% of all young women emancipating from foster care became pregnant and gave birth to a child while in placement 9 These overlap estimates were drawn from Wald/Martinez s original work and are conservative, low-bound estimates.
10 Estimating Youth 14 to 18 at High Risk for Disconnection In 2006, there were 21.7 million* youth ages 14 to 18. Of these, 1.3 million or 6 percent were at high risk for disconnection as estimated by their inclusion in at least one of the four high-risk categories. School Dropouts: 765,551 Unmarried Mothers: 370,792 Teens in Foster Care: 368,772 + Incarcerated Youth: 90,587 + Teens in Foster Care who are Dropouts: 136,446 Teen Mothers who are Dropouts: 129,777 Youth in Foster Care who are Teen Mothers: 15,931 Youth At High Risk for Disconnection Total: 1,595,702 Overlap: 282,154 = 1,313,548 6% 10 *All total population estimates come from the 2006 American Communities Survey.
11 Youth 14 to 18 at High Risk for Disconnection % of High-risk Population % of Total Population Male 616,955 47% 51% Female 696,593 53%* 49% White 636,820 48% 60% Hispanic 271,720 21% 17% Black 326,915 25% 15% Other 75,729 6% 7% 11 *Females constitute disproportionately low portions of the foster, dropout, and incarcerated populations. Inclusion of unmarried mothers to the risk factors results in females constituting the majority of the total at-risk population.
12 Youth 14 to 18 at High Risk for Disconnection Rate (per 100) % of High Risk Population % of Total Population , % 20% , % 20% , % 20% , % 19% , % 21% Among 18 year olds, 1 in 10 is at high risk for disconnection. 12
13 Youth 14 to 18 at High Risk for Disconnection School Dropouts Native-born youth 14 to 18 who are not enrolled in school and have not earned a high school diploma Teen Mothers Unmarried teenage mothers 14 to 18 Teens in Foster Care Incarcerated Youth Youth served by the foster care system at some point between their 14 th and 19 th birthdays Youth ages 14 to 18 in juvenile detention facilities and state prisons 13
14 Native Born Dropouts Ages 14 to 18, 2006 Of native-born dropouts, only children in the southern region of the U.S. were overrepresented. Males as well as black, Hispanic, Native American, and multiracial youth are also overrepresented. Number % of Dropouts % of Total Populat ion Northeast 117,236 15% 18% Midwest 171,703 22% 23% South 316,295 41% 36% West 160,317 21% 23% Number % of Dropouts % of Total Population Male 418,700 55% 51% Female 346,851 45% 49% White 430,682 56% 63% Hispanic 132,183 17% 15% Black 159,271 21% 16% Native American 12,406 2% 1% Asian/Pacific Islander Two or More Racial Groups 7,681 1% 3% 21,300 3% 2% Other 2,028 0% 0% 14 These data include only native born youth, 14 to 18 who were not enrolled in school in the last 3 months, and do not have a high school degree or equivalent. Data from: American Communities Survey (2006) Variables used: AGEP (Respondent s Age), NATIVITY (Nativity), SCHL (Educational Attainment), SCH (School Enrollment).
15 Native Born Dropouts, 14 to 18 60% 40% 63% 56% Hispanic, black, Native American, and multi-racial youth are disproportionately overrepresented % of Total Population 20% 21% 17% 15% 16% % of Dropout Population 0% 1% 2% 3% 1% 0% 0% White Hispanic Black Native American Asian/Pacific Islander Other 2% 3% Two or More Racial Groups 15
16 3.8% 3.9% 3.8% 3.8% 3% 9% 8% 7% 6% 5% 4% Native-Born Dropouts Ages 14 to 18, 2006 While the population rates of dropouts has remained relatively the same in recent years, the absolute number of dropouts has increased placing greater pressure on existing resources designed to reengage these youth. Native Born High School Dropouts, Ages 14 to 18 Age Number Rate (per 100) 14 76, , , , , Total 765, Dropouts Percent of Total Population 712, , , , Source: American Communities Survey (2006)
18 Status Dropouts Native Born Age Number % of Native Population 14 76, % 15 77, % , % Foreign Born Age Number % of Foreign Population 14 7, % 15 12, % 16 19, % , % 17 36, % , % By age 24, one in ten 18native-born 68,598 individuals does not 16.9% 19 hold a high school credential. 333, % 19 Among foreign-born 24-87, % year-olds, it is nearly one in three. Both groups of , % young adults face significant 20 difficulties 123,457connecting with 24.6% , % the labor force and, 21 if employed, 134,338 are more likely to 25.9% 22 remain in low-wage, 349, % 22 low-skilled jobs throughout their lives. 163, % , % , % , % Total 2,877, % , % Total 991, % Source: American Communities Survey (2006)
19 Youth 14 to 18 at High Risk for Disconnection School Dropouts Native-born youth 14 to 18 who are not enrolled in school and have not earned a high school diploma Teen Mothers Unmarried teenage mothers 14 to 18 Teens in Foster Care Incarcerated Youth Youth 14 to 18 served by the foster care system at some point between their 14 th and 19 th birthdays Youth ages 14 to 18 in juvenile detention facilities and state prisons 19
21 Unmarried Teen Mothers, 14 to 18 60% 60% Black, Hispanic and Native American women are disproportionately overrepresented 40% 34% 29% 34% % of Total Population % of Teen Mothers 20% 16% 17% 0% 1% 4% 2% 3% 1% 1% White Black Hispanic Native American Asian/ Pacific Islander Other/Not Stated 21
22 4% 3% 3% 2% 2% 1% 1% Total Number of First Births to Teen Mothers 14 to 18 Over Time* 195, ,284 Unmarried 178, , , ,167 9% since % 0.9% 0.9% 0.8% 0.9% 0.8% Married 33% since ,769 31,294 28,121 25,164 24,051 22, *In 2003 there was an anomaly in the way ages were reported. Women Ages 15 & Under were grouped together. Birth data from 1997 to 2002 demonstrated that 90% of pregnant married women under 15 were 14 and 79% of unmarried women under 15 were 14. Using these values, we estimated the number of 14 year olds in Note: This is the annual number of first births to women ages 14 to 18. These numbers would not include, for instance, a women currently 18 years old who gave birth when she was 14.
23 Youth 14 to 18 at High Risk for Disconnection School Dropouts Native-born youth 14 to 18 who are not enrolled in school and have not earned a high school diploma Teen Mothers Unmarried teenage mothers 14 to 18 Teens in Foster Care Incarcerated Youth Youth 14 to 18 served by the foster care system at some point between their 14 th and 19 th birthdays Youth ages 14 to 18 in juvenile detention facilities and state prisons 23
24 Youth in Foster Care Between Ages 14 & 18 Black, Native American, and multi-racial youth are overrepresented in the foster youth population at a rate nearly double their total population rates. 24 Age Currently in System Exited between 14 & 18 Total 14 30,949 10,691 41, ,259 23,775 62, ,272 38,386 80, ,624 58,064 97, ,303 73,448 86,751 Total 164, , ,772 Number % in foster population % in total population Male 191,761 52% 51% Female 177,010 48% 49% White 159,771 43% 60% Hispanic 68,023 18% 17% Black 107,789 29% 15% Asian/Pacific Islander Native American 3,688 1% 4% 7,375 2% 1% Other 7,375 2% 0% Two or More 14,751 4% 2% Data Source: AFCARS Report: Preliminary FY 2006 Estimates as of January 2008 (14) U.S Department of Health and Human Services, Administration for Children and Families, Administration on Children, Youth and Families, Children's Bureau. All data are reported as of Sept. 30, 2006
25 Youth in Foster Care, 14 to 18 60% 40% 60% 43% 29% Black, Native American and multi-racial youth are disproportionately represented % of Total Population % of Fostercare Population 20% 17% 18% 15% 0% 4% White Hispanic Black Asian/Pacific Islander 1% 1% 2% 2% 0% 2% 4% Native American Other Two or More 25 Data Source: AFCARS Report: Preliminary FY 2006 Estimates as of January All data are reported as of Sept. 30, 2006
26 260, , , , , , , , ,000 1% 1% 1% 0% 0% 0% Snapshot of Youth in Foster Care age on September 30, 2006 The rate of teens in foster care has remained stable for the most recent five years of data available. Percent of Total Population Children in Foster care on Sept , , , , , % 0.2% 0.2% 0.2% 0.2% Data Source: AFCARS Report: Preliminary FY 2006 Estimates as of January All data are reported as of Sept. 30, 2006
27 Youth 14 to 18 at High Risk for Disconnection School Dropouts Native-born youth 14 to 18 who are not enrolled in school and have not earned a high school diploma Teen Mothers Unmarried teenage mothers 14 to 18 Teens in Foster Care Youth 14 to 18 served by the foster care system at some point between their 14 th and 19 th birthdays Incarcerated Youth Youth ages 14 to 18 in juvenile detention facilities and state prisons 27
28 Youth ages 14 to 18 in the Juvenile Justice System, 2006 Of youth in the juvenile justice system, males are highly over represented, as are Blacks, Native Americans and Hispanics. Number % of Incarcerated Youth % of Total Population Male 75,186 85% 51% Female 13,037 15% 49% 28 Age Number Rate (Per 100) 14 9, , , , & older 13,115 Total 88, White 30,784 35% 60% Black 35,369 40% 15% Hispanic 18,286 21% 17% Native American 1,731 2% 1% Asian/ Pacific Islander 1,111 1% 4% Other 942 1% 2% Data Source: Sickmund, Melissa, Sladky, T.J., and Kang, Wei. (2008) "Census of Juveniles in Residential Placement Databook Because the definition of a juvenile varies by state, these totals may include a small number of 19 and 20 year olds.
29 Incarcerated Youth, 14 to 18 60% 60% Black, Hispanic and Native American youth are over represented 40% 35% 40% % of Total Population % of Incarcerated Population 20% 15% 17% 21% 0% 4% 1% 2% 1% 2% 1% White Black Hispanic Native American Other 29 Data Source: Sickmund, Melissa, Sladky, T.J., and Kang, Wei. (2008) "Census of Juveniles in Residential Placement Databook
30 5% 5% 4% 4% 3% 3% 2% 2% 1% 1% 0% Youth in Juvenile Detention Facilities The number and rate of youth in juvenile detention facilities has dropped since Youth in Juvenile Facilities 98,229 97,238 98,113 90,896 Percent of Total Population 88, % 0.5% 0.5% 0.4% 0.4% Data Source: Sickmund, Melissa, Sladky, T.J., and Kang, Wei. (2008) "Census of Juveniles in Residential Placement Databook
31 0% 0% 0% 0% 0% 0% 0% Juveniles in Adult Facilities, 2006 Number % of Incarcerated Youth % of total Population Male 2,259 96% 51% Youth living in the Northeast, and to a lesser extent youth in the South, were over represented in adult prison facilities. Female 105 4% 49% Region Northeast % 18% Midwest % 22% 3,147 2,741 2,485 2,208 2,364 South 1,036 44% 36% West 164 7% 24% Total 2, % 0.01% 0.01% 0.01% 0.01% Data Source: Sabol, William J., Minton, Todd D., Harrison, Paige M. (June 2007) Prison and Jail Inmates at Midyear Bureau of Justice Statistics.
32 Juveniles Held in Local Jails, ,126 5,750 Total number of youth under 18 held in local jails: 6,104 4,836 1,489 1,009 1, Held as adults Held as juveniles 32 Data Source: Sabol, William J., Minton, Todd D., Harrison, Paige M. (June 2007) Prison and Jail Inmates at Midyear Bureau of Justice Statistics. Note: this number is not included in the estimate of incarcerated youth as youth held in local jails may be held awaiting adjudication or trial or otherwise not yet convicted of a crime.
35 Snapshots Youth at High Risk To allow for easier comparison to earlier estimates of Wald and Martinez, we have included below current estimates from 2006 for youth ages The number and rates of dropouts and incarcerated youth appear to have dropped in recent years. Fewer white, black, and Hispanic youth are included in high-risk categories than they were half a decade ago. Wald/Martinez ( ) Public Impact ( ) Number Rate (per 100) Number Rate (Per 100) Dropouts 520, , Incarcerated Youth 95, , Teens in Foster Care 337, , Unmarried Mothers 175, , White 564,029* 50% 413,645 49% Black 304,575* 27% 208,466 25% Hispanic 236,892* 21% 163,736 20% 35 Other^ 63,474 4% *Numbers estimated from Wald and Martinez s percentages. ^ Other includes: Native American (1%), Asian/Pacific Islander (1%), and other/multi-racial populations (3%).
37 Disconnected Young Adults Never-married young adults ages who have a high school diploma or less, are not enrolled in school, are unemployed, and have not been employed for more than 26 weeks in the last year; or Young adults ages who are incarcerated 37
38 Disconnected Young Adults, 19 to 24 In the slides that follow, we will take a closer look at each of the following populations: Long-term Unemployed Incarcerated Unmarried, unemployed young adults, ages 19 to 24, who hold a high school diploma or less, are not enrolled in school and have worked less than 26 weeks in the previous year. Young adults 19 to 24 who are incarcerated Note: All data collected from 2006, unless indicated. The American Community Survey, 2006 is the most-common source for this presentation. Other data sources are noted where relevant. White and black populations exclude people of Hispanic ethnicity. 38
39 Disconnected Young Adults 19 to 24 Unlike the Current Population Survey used by Wald/Martinez, the American Community Survey includes institutionalized individuals. Therefore, we must rely on a slightly different model to remove any incarcerated youth who would be counted twice. Wald/Martinez Formula Long-Term Unemployed + Incarcerated = DisconnectedYouth Long-Term Unemployed + Incarcerated Incarcerated Youth considered unemployed* Public Impact Formula Total Overlap = DisconnectedYouth *Incarcerated youth who hold a high school diploma or less would be considered long-term unemployed, our model attempts to reduce this overlap.
40 Disconnected Young Adults 19 to 24 In 2006, there are approximately 25 million young adults 19 to 24^, of those slightly more than 2 million or about 9% were disconnected Wald/Martinez Formula with 2006 Community Population Survey (CPS) Data Unemployed Incarcerated + 1,460, ,800^ Unemployed 2,150,202 = 1,936, % Public Impact Formula with 2006 American Community Survey (ACS) Data + Incarcerated 475, ,671* 2,626, ,671 = 2,167, % 40 The ACS is regarded as a more-accurate estimate of the population than the CPS. ^ Incarcerated estimates come from the Prison and Jail Inmates at Midyear (2006). This estimate includes 18 and 19 year olds in a single category and, thus, 18 year olds are included in this estimate. Because this estimate is for prisons and jails and not juvenile facilities, it does not overlap with the estimates from earlier in this report. *Incarcerated youth who hold a high school diploma or less would be considered long-term unemployed
41 Disconnected Young Adults, 19 to 24 Male, black and Hispanic young adults are disproportionately overrepresented among disconnected young adults age Disconnected Youth General Population Male 1,231,283 57% 52% Female 936,048 43% 48% White 897,130 41% 61% Black 645,977 30% 14% Hispanic 495,833 23% 18% Other* 128,391 6% 7% * Other includes American Indians, Alaska Natives, Asians, Native Hawaiians and other Pacific Islanders 41
42 Disconnected Young Adults, 19 to 24 Young adults without a high school diploma or equivalent, though constituting only 13 percent of the population, make up nearly half (43%) of the disconnected young adult population. Disconnected Youth General Population Less than High School 940,163 43% 13% GED* 278,044 13% 3% High School Diploma 931,995 43% 28% Some College 17,129 1% 44% BA or Higher 476 0% 12% 42 Data Source: American Communities Survey *GED estimates calculated from Current Population Survey, March 2006.
43 Disconnected Young Adults, 19 to 24 Long-term Unemployed Incarcerated Unmarried, unemployed young adults, ages 19 to 24, who hold a high school diploma or less, are not enrolled in school and have worked less than 26 weeks in the previous year. Young adults 19 to 24 who are incarcerated Note: All data collected from 2006, unless indicated. The American Community Survey, 2006 is the most-common source for this presentation. Other data sources are noted where relevant. White and black populations exclude people of Hispanic ethnicity. 43
44 Long-term Unemployed Young Adults Black and Native American young adults are unemployed at a rate more than twice their population rate. See later slides on Hispanic employment rates. 44 Number Rate (per 100) , , , , , , Total 2,150, Number Long-term Unemployed Population Rate Total Population Rate Male 1,215,396 57% 52% Female 934,806 43% 48% White 891,665 41% 61% Black 638,637 30% 14% Hispanic 491,970 23% 18% Native American 41,364 2% 1% Asian/Pacific Islander 42,247 2% 4% Other 8,640 0% 0% Two or More Races 35,679 2% 2% Less than High School 940,163 44% 14% GED* 161,385 8% 3% High School Diploma 1,048,654 49% 29% Data Source: American Communities Survey 2006 *GED estimates calculated from Current Population Survey March 2006.
45 Unemployed Young Adults 60% 61% Black, Hispanic, and Native American young adults are disproportionally overrepresented. 40% 41% % of Total Population 20% 14% 30% 18% 23% % of Unemployed Population 0% 1% 4% 2% 2% 2% 2% White Black Hispanic Native American Asian/Pacific Islander Other 45
48 Long-term Unemployed Men and Women Men Male 1,215,396 Women Female 934,806 White 511,487 42% Black 386,743 32% Hispanic 241,098 20% Native American 22,528 2% Asian/Pacific Islander 28,514 2% Other 4,574 0% Two or More Races 19,452 2% White 380,178 41% Black 251,894 27% Hispanic 250,872 27% Native American 18,836 2% Asian/Pacific Islander 13,733 1% Other 3,066 0% Two or More Races 16,227 2% Less than High School 549,312 45% GED* 111,514 9% High School Diploma 554,570 46% Less than High School 390,851 42% GED* 49,871 5% High School Diploma 494,084 53% 48 Note: This estimate does not include any young adults who have ever been married. This is, therefore, a conservative estimate. *GED estimates calculated from CPS 2006 data.
49 Long-term Unemployed, Ages 19 to 24 Many youth who fall within our definition of long term unemployed, have not worked for a significant period of time. Here we present data on those individuals 19 to 24 who last worked 1 to 5 years ago. Last worked 1 to 5 Years ago Male 308,068 56% Female 239,029 44% White 251,233 46% Black 163,033 30% Hispanic 103,876 19% Native American 8,973 2% Asian/Pacific Islander 8,882 2% Other 1,520 0% Two or More Races 9,580 2% 49 Northeast 94,234 17% Midwest 119,750 22% South 219,413 40% West 113,700 21%
50 Long-term Unemployed, Ages 21 to Here we present data on those individuals, 21 to 24, who last worked over 5 years ago, or never. We exclude 19 and 20 year olds from these data because they may not yet have entered the work force because of school enrollment. Note: These estimates includes a number of individuals who are considered no longer in the workforce which may result from disability or other causes. Last worked over 5 years ago, or never Male 276,084 53% Female 243,709 47% White 170,205 33% Black 174,219 34% Hispanic 147,840 28% Native American 9,338 2% Asian/Pacific Islander 11,991 2% Other 1,652 0% Two or More Races 4,548 1% Northeast 97,933 19% Midwest 93,270 18% South 209,119 40% West 119,471 23%
51 Disconnected Young Adults, 19 to 24 Long-term Unemployed Incarcerated Unmarried, unemployed young adults, ages 19 to 24, who hold a high school diploma or less, are not enrolled in school and have worked less than 26 weeks in the previous year. Young adults 19 to 24 who are incarcerated Note: All data collected from 2006, unless indicated. The American Community Survey, 2006 is the most-common source for this presentation. Other data sources are noted where relevant. White and black populations exclude people of Hispanic ethnicity. 51
52 52 Incarcerated Young Adults, 18-24^ Young adults with less than a high school education, though constituting only 13 percent of the general population of year olds, constitute more than half (52%) of the prison population. Data Source: Sabol, et al. Prison and Jail Inmates at Midyear ^Data on incarcerated populations were reported by age group (18 to 19 & 21 to 24). Therefore, these data include 18 year olds but do not overlap with other incarcerated youth population estimates in this presentation. Number Imprisoned Population Rate Total Population Rate Male 441,300 93% 52% Female 34,500 7% 48% White 151,800 32% 61% Black 203,900 43% 14% Hispanic 107,300 23% 18% Other* 12,800 3% 7% Some High School or Less 245,513 52% 13% GED 148,450 31% 3% High School Diploma 64,709 14% 28% Some College 17,129 4% 44% BA or Higher 476 0% 12% Total 475,800 *Other includes American Indians, Alaska Natives, Asians, Native Hawaiians and other Pacific Islanders. To estimate educational attainment used: Coley, Richard J. & Barton, Paul E. (2006) Locked Up and Locked Out: An Education al Perspective on the U.S. Prison Population Educational Testing Service. Due to rounding error, cells may not sum to 100%
53 Incarcerated Young Adults 60% 61% African-Americans and Hispanics are disproportionally represented 40% 32% 43% % of Total Population % of Incarcerated Population 20% 14% 18% 23% 0% White Black Hispanic Other 7% 3% 53
55 Snapshots Disconnected Young Adults18-24 To allow for easier comparison to earlier estimates of Wald and Martinez, we have included below current estimates from 2006 for youth ages The number of disconnected youth 18 to 24 has increased driven primarily by an increase in the number of unemployed young adults. Wald/Martinez ( ) Public Impact (2006) Number Rate (per 100) Number Rate (per 100) Unemployed Youth 1,331,381* 5.0 2,054, Incarcerated Youth 420, , Male 1,046,229 59% 1,439,009 57% Female 728,122 41% 1,104,689 43% White 676,157 38% 1,054,539 41% Black 680,723 38% 744,253 29% Hispanic 357,672 20% 589,790 23% Other 58,573 3% 155,116 6% 55 *Numbers estimated from Wald and Martinez s percentages. All categories may not sum due to rounding in the number of incarcerated youth.
57 Additional Data Legal Immigration, Undocumented Migrants, Hispanic Populations. The following slides draw from recent research and data analysis conducted by Jeffrey Passel of the Pew Hispanic Center. Caveat: These data reported in 2005 do not reflect recent efforts across the nation to identify, detain and potentially deport undocumented immigrants. These state and federal efforts will likely impact the population estimates and risks associated with undocumented immigration. 57 DRAFT Disconnected Youth Data Update by Public Impact for the
58 Immigrant Population Wald and Martinez purposely excluded immigrant groups from their analysis of youth at high risk for disconnection. Immigrant youth face a different constellation of challenges than their native counterparts and are much less likely to become disconnected as we define it even if undocumented. The following slides provide some recent analysis of immigrant populations documented and undocumented to consider when developing approaches at preventing disconnection among immigrants and their children. 58 DRAFT Disconnected Youth Data Update by Public Impact for the Source: Jeffrey Passel. (2005). Estimates of the Size and Characteristics of the Undocumented Population. Washington, D.C.: Pew Hispanic Center.
59 Trends in Undocumented Migration As of March 2005, there were an estimated 11 million undocumented migrants in the U.S. including more than 6 million Mexicans. About 80 to 85 percent of the migration from Mexico in recent years has been undocumented. About one-sixth of the undocumented population some 1.7 million people is under 18 years of age estimates suggested there were over 3 million U.S.-born children living in families headed by undocumented migrants. Some states such as North Carolina and Arizona are experiencing new concentrations of undocumented workers than before; such states may have lower capacity to meet the unique challenges these young people face. 59 DRAFT Disconnected Youth Data Update by Public Impact for the Source: Jeffrey Passel. (2005). Estimates of the Size and Characteristics of the Undocumented Population. Washington, D.C.: Pew Hispanic Center.
60 Immigrants and Population Growth Year Total Population 296 Million 438 Million 82% of the population growth over the next four decades will be due to new immigrants and their U.S.-born descendants. Percent Hispanic 14% 29% 60 DRAFT Disconnected Youth Data Update by Public Impact for the Source: Jeffrey Passel and D Vera Cohn. (2008). U.S. Population Projections: Washington, D.C.:Pew Research Center. p. 2. Available online at:
61 Undocumented Immigrant Populations Undocumented Immigrants Less likely to disconnect. Selection bias (healthier, more motivated, etc. than general population in home or new country.) Undocumented Youth Less likely to disconnect if immigrate as older youth. Face challenges continuing education and connecting with legitimate workforce. Descendants of Undocumented Immigrants More likely to disconnect than parents. Increasingly vulnerable if parents excluded from legitimate workforce. 61 DRAFT Disconnected Youth Data Update by Public Impact for the
62 Rates of Employment Risk of disconnection as defined by long-term unemployment or incarceration is low for undocumented immigrants compared to native-born and legal immigrant populations.* 62 DRAFT Disconnected Youth Data Update by Public Impact for the Source: Jeffrey Passel. (2005). Unauthorized Migrants: Numbers and Characteristics. Washington, D.C.: Pew Hispanic Center. p. 25. *Interview with Tia Martinez, October 2008.
64 What do these trends mean for vulnerable youth? Undocumented youth face substantial risks of not connecting to legitimate labor force or post-secondary education opportunities, limiting their own and their children s futures. The children of immigrants (documented and undocumented) are more at risk for disconnection than their parents, Most U.S. population growth until 2050 will come from immigration and the descendants of recent immigrants. 64 DRAFT Disconnected Youth Data Update by Public Impact for the
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