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Left-side neglect may shed light on strokes
U. QUEENSLAND (AUS) — An unusual condition that causes people to ignore the left sides of their bodies may help scientists better understand stroke recovery.
Researchers from the Queensland Brain Institute (QBI) at the University of Queensland have found the condition, a subset of the stroke called ‘unilateral spatial neglect’, tend to have the worst recovery outcomes in regaining lost functioning in their bodies, leading them to believe attention may have an important impact on recovering successfully.
Unilateral spatial neglect is typically caused by strokes on the right hand side of the brain and manifests in patients ignoring the left side of their body.
People with the condition may ignore food on the left hand side of their plate or, if asked to draw a clock, squash all 12 numbers into the right side of the clock face, leaving the other side blank.
They may also fail to shave, or to put make-up on the left side of their faces and in severe cases, they behave as though the left side of their world does not exist.
“We know that brain plasticity plays a critical role in recovering from stroke,” says Professor Jason Mattingley, chair of cognitive neuroscience.
“The fact that people with spatial neglect tend to have poorer recovery of motor function suggested to us that attention may be important for guiding plasticity following stroke.”
Current research being undertaken by the Mattingley laboratory is exploring this link.
“What we’re trying to do is explore what effect attention has on brain plasticity, and how attention might be used in neurorehabilitation” says Mattingley.
Volunteers first undergo a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scan, which provides researchers with a three-dimensional picture of the brain.
“In terms of their structure, brains are like fingerprints—no two are exactly the same, even though superficially they seem very similar,” Mattingley explains.
The MRI scan allows researchers to guide a transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) coil into position upon a volunteer’s scalp.
The device induces a small electrical current in the underlying brain tissue, causing it to become more active. The researchers specifically target a part of the motor cortex that controls the thumb muscle in the left hand.
“It’s well established that the more often neurons activate at the same time, the more likely they are to communicate efficiently in the future. This is how the brain learns,” says Mattingley.
“We’re exploiting that general principle in this research.”
Marc Kamke, research fellow at QBI explains: “By adjusting the type of brain stimulation delivered we can artificially induce short-term changes that resemble naturally-occurring plasticity.”
But what the researchers have found is that the effects of stimulation upon a brain’s plasticity are dependent on attention.
“When we ask people to undertake a visual task that is irrelevant to the brain stimulation, but that demands a great deal of their attention, we observe a reduction in plasticity,” Kamke explains.
“When the task does not require much attention, however, the brain’s plastic response is apparent.”
“These results show that attention plays an important role in guiding brain plasticity,” says Mattingley.
He adds, “while practical applications remain several steps away, this knowledge may ultimately help us develop more effective strategies for physical therapy after stroke.”
The results of the research, which was funded by the National Health and Medical Research Council of Australia, are published this week in The Journal of Neuroscience.
More news from University of Queensland: http://www.uq.edu.au/news/
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Compos'd of rags well pounded in a mill,
poor beginnings these! The silk-worm there
But still an art from heaven was to come,
LETTER OF ADVICE TO A FRIEND,
U PON THE
MODERN ARGUMENT OF THE LAWFULNESS OF SIMPLE FORNI
CATION, HALF-ADULTERY, AND POLYGAMY.
Printed 1696. Quarto, containing fourteen pages.
July 17, 1696. THE discourse, which happened in our company last night, has
obliged me to write this letter to you. I am astonished to see such paradoxes of iniquity set up, and to prevail so unreasonably among men who think themselves the greatest masters of reason. To think polygamy and fornication lawful; nay, as some have maintained (for there is no stop in wickedness), even adultery too.
There is nothing in this matter; but men, having their appetites unbridled, by any restraint or discipline of religion, have given them a loose, are resolved to pursue whithersoever they go; and invent the best arguments they can to defend them. Nay, some come at last to believe what they have at first offered in jest, and to try what it would do. And it is a just judgment, and often threatened by God, to give those up to follow their own imaginations, who have no pleasure in his ways; but, instead of loving them, and setting themselves, with the full force and strength of their minds, carefully and diligently to follow them, and to take pleasure in them, do, on the contrary, delight to rally them, and to hear arguments set up against them, which is a sure intimation of a dislike of them, and consequently a contempt of him who enjoined them; nay, a hatred of him ; for we cannot love him, and hate his laws. We. never saw him, and know him only by his laws, and that light of himself, which he has given us therein. Therefore, when we would transgress the plain letter of the law, as all the world has ever understood it, we can never be sure but that we are in the dismal num. ber, and under the heavy curse of the haters of God, unless we can bring an authority which will out-balance that upon which the letter of the law does stand. Now all the world has hitherto understood that both fornication and adultery are forbidden under the gospel, And what is it which our modern wits have to oppose to this? Why, (forsooth!) as you have heard some of them say, that the same word, in greek, signifies adultery and fornication, which is a great mistake, otherwise than as it is in English, and ir all languages. There are
general words which comprehend both, as whoredom, uncleanness, and the like. But there are likewise particular words, which distinguish the particular species of these from one another; and you have these reckoned up distinctly, Gal. v. 19, adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness. And the words adultery and fornication are as much distinguished in the Greek as in the English'; porgría is adultery, and mopurice is fornication. And this poor and false criticism is sufficient to carry those, who have strong inclinations, to the hazard of their souls, against the received and current testimony of the whole world; whereas they would not venture a penny against a crown, were there balf that odds against them.
Let me vext recollect to you the arguments they brought for their pretended opinion from reason. I call it pretended opinion, because, though men endeavour to amuse themselves, that they be not stopped in the hot pursuit of their lusts, yet I cannot believe, that, in cool thoughts, any, who has ever learned the first principles of christianity, can persuade himself (especially upon a sick -bed) that any fornication and uncleanness can be allowed in the gospel, which requires the utmost purity, not only of the eye, but of the heart. However, let us bear their reasons. They urge from justice, that there is no wrong to any third person, where both the parties are single.
But this argument will have no effect, unless they can annul the commands of God, which forbid it: because we are bound, and that in the strictest justice, to obey God's commands, even in things which are indifferent in their own nature. It was death to neglect circumcision, and other legal institutions. God songht to kill Moses himself, for neglecting to circumcise his son, Exod. iv. 24.
2. The argument is false, that there is no wrong done to any third person in fornication : for it is a great wrong to the parents, relations, and whole family. Let any man judge of this, by the resentment he would have against any who should debauch his mother, daughter, or sister, and against them so debauched.
3. If there was no wrong to any other, yet, if it be a sin, it is the greatest wrong to the person and themselves, to damn their souls. And it is the highest injustice, as to this world; it ruins their reputation, and this, especially in women, is not only a shame (if they should be content to bear with that) but it is a real loss, and hindrance of their fortunes : and, though it should not be known, it is a great injustice to the man who shall marry such a woman.
If any man think little of this, let them consider how they would take it to marry another man's whore; and let them do as they would be done to. But there is yet a greater injustice and that is, to the person herself; for she, that is once debauched, is laid open to the temptations of others; and, when forsaken by her first lover, seldom returns to her virgin modesty, but seeks out, or is found by some other; and often goes on to common prostitution; all which is, in justice, chargeable upon her first corrupter. And if, as many believe, the reason, why Dives desired the conversion of his brethren, was not
cbarity to their souls (for that is not found in hell), but because his punishments were increased to the same degree that his evil example did spread upon earth, by which we must suppose bis brethren and nearest acquaintance to be chiefly infected, this will be a lerrible consideration to those who do corrupt others,
What I bave said, as to fornication, that is betwixt two single persons, will operate more strongly against that new notion of adul, tery which you heard advanced, viz. That adulterium is quasi, ad alterius thorum, i. e. to go to another's bed; and therefore that, be, twixt a single and a married person, it is adultery only in the single person, who invades the bed of another,
But this poor quibble, upon the Latin word, adulterium, is lost in the Greek original of the text, fosyala. But, as to the reason of the thing, if the single person invades, the married does defile and betray the bed of another; and moreover adds the breach of the solemn vow to God, which is enacted in the office of matrimony. Besides, if one be guilty, both must; because it is a sin to be accessary to the sin of another.
Wretched are these shifts, which men, bent to their own destruc tion, have found out to delude themselves! but they will stand them in no stead at the bar of the great tribunal; no nor qualify their desponding consciences upon their death-bed; upon which men have a notion of sinful pleasures, when they are to be for ever separated from them, very different from that which they had, while they were in the pursuit of them; and those arguments, which then appeared favourable to the gratification of their lusts, will now be seen in their true colours, to be nothing but deceit and fatal delusion; like promises which are said to be made to witches by their fa. miliars, which are not discovered, till their death, to have a double meaning; a false one to delude them with hopes while they lived; but the true one always verified in their destruction, when it is too late to prevent it.
When men sin out of humau infirmity, there is a sting of conscience always remains; wbich, by the blessing of God, may some time or other reclaim them; though it is the most extreme danger and madness, to go on in our sins trusting to this; for, when babits are grown strong, it is the utmost difficulty to return from them. the Ethiopian change bis skin, or the leopard bis spots ? Then may ye also do good, that are accustomed to do evil,'.Jer. xiii. 23.
But some, to get rid of that terrible monitor, a wounded conscience (when they are resolved not to part with their vices) do study and greedily catch at arguments, to alter tbe nature of their sia (wbich cannot be altered) and so como at last to persuade them selves that they are persuaded of the lawfuluess, at least tolerableness of a darliog sin; which therefore they indulge, if not without all reluctance, yet with less than they bad before ; and therefore think this a happy conquest,
But alas! it is a miserable one over themselves; and their condi, tion then is most desperate, for this is a corrupting of their princi, ples; and there is no repenting or returning from that sin, which
they think not to be a sin, or can find excuses for it, such as, for the present, shall satisfy them; at least stop the mouth of a clamorous conscience. Balaam sought such an excuse, and be found it; and he that seeks shall find' in this wicked sense, as well as in the contrary sense of wbich our Saviour spoke it.
And now let me reason a little with you upon the merits of this cause. God is a spirit, and therefore spirit is more real, more substantial than body; and the true pleasure is indeed but spiritual, in that low degree, by which our spirit or soul partakes of pleasure by the mediation of the body; or the body only by the powers of the soul, which enliven and actuate it; and from which it receives its sensation, and therefore, wben our soul is gone, the body is no longer sensible either of pleasure or pain; because the soul acts no more by it. But those pure souls, which act without the incumbrance of bodies, have a perception much more quick and deli. cate, than can be conveyed by such gross and elementary bodies, as ours are rendered since the fall. And therefore the happiness, which is laid up for us, is to be freed from the dull and terrestrial bodies; and to have spirutual bodies given to us, fashioned like unto Christ's glorious body. This is our utmost happiness, and thither all our endeavours should tend. And this is the great end of our religion, to wean us from the body; to fit and prepare us for the spiritual state; for we must be, in some sort, made like unto it before we enter into it; and that is to be done, while we are in this life. Now, of all sins, those of the flesb are the mast opposite to the spiritual enjoyment, and therefore the flesh is to be kept under, even in our lawful allowances; we may sin by excess in them; how much less then are forbidden pleasures to be allowed of? For all these do proceed from an inordinate affection; which of itself is a sin. Therefore, taking this matter from the bottom, you see the reason of the severe prohibitions against the sins of the flesh; they are utterly inconsistent with a spiritual estate ; they do, the most of all other sins, incapacitate us from the spiritual delight; they put us into a frame quite opposite to it; and that is, to God, wbom the pure bearts and minds do only see (Matth. v. 8.) for be is spiritually discerned. Therefore it is said, Gal. v. 17. That the flesh lusteth against the spirit, and the spirit against the flesh; and these are contrary the one to the other. And 1 Pet. ii. 11. Dearly beloved, I beseech you, as strangers and pilgrims, abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul.' Observe they war against the soul; and the reason why we should subdue them is, because we are strangers and pilgrims, that is, in this world; our rest, our enjoyment, is not here; but we are ordained to be made partakers of the divine nature, but this shall be only to those who have escaped the corruption that is in the world through Just, 2 Pet, i. 1. That is, either those who bave not been guilty of it; or who have sincerely repented, and returned from it; as Mary Magdalen, oot of whom Christ cast seven devils, Mar. xvi. S. There are evil spirits (believe it) which possess those who give them, selves up to uncleannens; and these must be dispossessed before the
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For Immediate Release
December 20, 2011
Applied Physics Lab Names New Executive
for Research, Exploratory Development Business Area
Charles Goldblum has been appointed the business area executive for the Research and Exploratory Development Department (REDD) at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in Laurel, Md. REDD was created this fall — by the merging of areas at the Lab that focused on research, biomedicine, analysis and fabrication — to develop and nurture revolutionary technologies to meet emerging national challenges.
In addition to strategically targeting internal research funds to cutting-edge, nascent technologies, Goldblum said he will also encourage APL researchers to pursue funding opportunities within the Department of Defense research community, including the National Institutes of Health, the National Science Foundation, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency and the Office of Naval Research.
Goldblum brings broad science and technology expertise to the position, along with demonstrated sponsor engagement skills. He also has an extensive background with diverse technologies that directly support the defense and intelligence communities, and also serves as a Special Government Employee on the Joint Special Operations Command Science and Technology Task Force.
He arrived at APL in 2007, and has served as a program area manager and branch supervisor in the Asymmetric Operations Department. Prior to joining the Lab, Goldblum served as the president and chief technology officer at FINDPOINT, a company that developed algorithms for the analysis of electromagnetic propagation and geolocation; and as vice president for corporate development at Alion Science and Technology, where he was responsible for business development.
"I am fortunate to have sufficiently diverse professional experiences to appreciate and understand some of the operational environments that will ultimately constrain the technologies we seek to create," said Goldblum. "I will strive to introduce REDD staff members to consumers of advanced capabilities inside and outside of APL who will help inspire them to pursue research in areas that fill pressing and future technology gaps."
Goldblum received a doctorate and master’s of science degree in physics from the University of Virginia, and a bachelor’s degree in physics and English literature from The George Washington University. He lives in Annapolis, Md., with his wife Beth and their son Aaron.
The Applied Physics Laboratory, a not-for-profit division of The Johns Hopkins University, meets critical national challenges through the innovative application of science and technology. For more information, visit www.jhuapl.edu.
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DEA agrees to expedit permit for Kentucky to import hemp seeds
The DEA agreed Tuesday evening to expedite a permit the agency claims Kentucky needs to import hemp seeds, reversing uncertainty it created when it refused to release the seeds to the Kentucky Department of Agriculture.
The DEA also agreed to require only the state Department of Agriculture to apply for the permit, said Holly VonLuehtre, chief of staff for Agriculture Commissioner James Comer.
Earlier Tuesday, the DEA told state officials it would require the Department of Agriculture and each university participating in a hemp pilot project to apply for a permit, and said it could not guarantee when or if the permits would be granted, VonLuehtre said.
The DEA has assured state officials it would grant the permit within 24 hours after the paperwork is completed Wednesday, VonLuehtre said.
The planting of some hemp seeds in Kentucky, scheduled for Friday, may be delayed.
The U.S. Customs office in Louisville is refusing to release the seeds to the Kentucky Department of Agriculture until the state obtains a permit from the Drug Enforcement Administration, said Kentucky’s agriculture secretary, James Comer.
The DEA has not yet granted that permit, he said.
The state may file an emergency motion Wednesday in federal court to force the release of the seeds, he said.
“We had a conference call that I wish the world could have heard this morning with the DEA, and they’ve basically said the law is what they say the law is, not what Congress says the law is, and it’s appalling," Comer said.
The DEA referred requests for comment to the U.S. Department of Justice, which did not immediately return phone calls seeking comment.
The federal government legalized hemp crops for research and agricultural pilot programs in states where such programs have been legalized when it passed the Farm Bill in February.
Kentucky’s General Assembly approved the hemp pilot projects in 2013.
Six pilot projects are planned at locations throughout Kentucky. Those projects are partnerships between private groups and state universities including the University of Louisville, University of Kentucky, Kentucky State University, Eastern Kentucky University and Murray State University, Comer said.
Some groups and universities already have hemp seed, although Comer declined to say who already had the seeds.
Mike Lewis, of the Growing Warriors Project, says his group already has seeds and will plant them Friday at a site near Mount Vernon in Rockcastle County.
Growing Warriors, a nonprofit that helps military veterans become farmers, will partner with Kentucky State University.
But the University of Kentucky, which was identified by Comer as one of the universities to receive this shipment of hemp seed, does not know when it will plant its pilot project, said Carl Nathe, a spokesman for UK.
UofL’s pilot project was already scheduled for next year, said Denise Fitzpatrick, a spokesman for UofL.
State officials already had problems with the DEA on previous shipments, and the seeds being held in Louisville were already seized by the DEA when they entered the U.S. in Chicago, Comer said.
“We’ve done everything right up to this point," he said. "We passed legislation in Frankfort. We passed legislation in Washington through the Farm Bill. We have research universities that want to research this. We have farmers grow it. We have processors that want to process it.”
Hemp can be grown for a variety of uses, from food products to fibers, and could be an economic boost for Kentucky's farmers and people who make hemp products, Comer said.
The plant has low amounts of the psychoactive ingredient in marijuana, he said.
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KBM expands Todd Gilliland's Truck schedule, adds his father David
Todd Gilliland will run an expanded Camping World Truck Series schedule this year with Kyle Busch Motorsports and get an assist from his father, David Gilliland.
Todd, who won the NASCAR K&N Pro Series West title the past two seasons, can’t run the full Truck schedule because he doesn’t turn 18 until May 15.
He will make his 2018 debut in the No. 4 Toyota March 24 at Martinsville, Va., and then race at Dover, Del., on May 4 before taking over for the remainder of the season beginning with the Charlotte race on May 15.
NASCAR veteran David Gilliland will compete in the No. 4 for KBM in the season-opening race at Daytona International Speedway on Feb. 16. Team owner Kyle Busch and another driver to be announced later will compete in the schedule’s remaining three races in the No. 4.
“I’m super excited be continuing my development within the Toyota Racing family and look forward to being behind the wheel of KBM's No. 4 Tundra this season – especially after my 18th birthday when I can run all of the races,” Todd said in a statement.
“I’ll still be at the track for the early races when I don’t get to compete so that I can learn as much as I can from being around the guys on the team and watching my dad and Kyle before my first 1.5-mile race at Charlotte.”
Todd Gilliland made his Truck Series debut for KBM at Dover last June. He posted an average finish of 5.0 across his final three races of his six-race Truck schedule in 2017, including a career-best third at New Hampshire.
“With back-to-back championships in the K&N West Series the last two seasons and a runner-up finish in the East Series this year, Todd’s proven that he knows how to win races and compete for championships,” Kyle Busch said.
“He showed improvement over the course of his six-race schedule last year and after he turns 18 in May and is able to get behind the wheel on a regular basis, we expect that he will continue to improve, start competing for wins and be a strong contender for rookie of the year.”
David Gilliland has 332 career starts in the Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series, 56 in Xfinity and 10 in Trucks. His lone national series win came in the 2006 Xfinity event at Kentucky Speedway.
“To drive for KBM with all the success they have had over the years is a fantastic opportunity,” David Gilliland said. “Kyle is a great guy and I'm sure that he can teach both Todd and I. We can't wait to get to the race track.”
Sponsors and a crew chief for the No.4 team will be announced at a later date.
Cody Coughlin joins GMS Racing for full-time Truck campaign
A "humbled" Ron Hornaday will join NASCAR Hall of Fame
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On Saturday, Jan. 14, join United Way, King County and the Delridge Neighborhoods Development Association (DNDA) in a community conversation focused on restorative justice and alternatives to traditional juvenile justice system practices.
What: We Have a Dream: Strengthening Community and the Futures of Our Youth through Storytelling
When: Saturday, Jan. 14, 1 – 4 p.m.
Where: Youngstown Cultural Arts Center, 4408 Delridge Way SW, Seattle 98106
Details: Snacks will be provided, and the event is open to the general public
King County, United Way and DNDA will lead discussions about restorative and alternative justice practices to raise awareness about racial inequity present in the conventional juvenile justice system. This event will activate volunteers as partners to engage in storytelling, peacemaking circles, help foster emotional connections, and brainstorm realistic strategies for change.
In King County, youth of color are being disproportionately referred to the juvenile justice system at a rate higher than their white peers. This disparity directly correlates to the deprivation of opportunities for youth of color and to socioeconomic inequality between whites and minorities.
King County has stepped up its juvenile justice reform and racial equity efforts as it implements programs including Peacemaking sentencing circles, Creative Justice, and Family Intervention and Restorative Services, which provides a reception center for youth to “cool-off” and receive support as opposed to entering the system for charges related to family violence. Even with the current strategies for impact, disparity is still present.
Judge Wesley Saint Clair – Chief Juvenile Court Judge, King County Superior Court
Saroeum Phoung – Peacemaking Circle Facilitator, CEO and Founder of PointOneNorth Consulting LLC
Marcus Stubblefield – Systems Integration Coordinator, Office of King County Executive
Jason Clark – Equity and Justice Advocate, King County Superior Court
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you could also put the files above the root.
o sorry i thought you were talking about not being able to use htaccess
i would say if your host doesnt allow files above public_html and wont let you modify htaccess, its time to find a new host.
i know we have to work on our clients sites a lot and dont have a say, but man that’s a horrible setup for a CMS there.
No worries. I think it would be an even bigger problem if the host wouldn’t allow htaccess. From my experience, it is very common for hosts (at least in Sweden) to only offer access to the document root and nothing more. Sadly...
Thank you very much for the tips. These are what I’m looking for.
I’ve struggles with edit templates in resource editor. It takes time.
Perhaps we should create a new topic called what’s your favorite editor.
My favorite for PC’s (and a linux version is coming...hopefully) is UltraEdit. It’s amazing!
Years ago when I was stuck with a Mac BBEdit was the answer. After switching to a PC I searched the world over and finally found True Love --- UltraEdit!
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The 20 Most Haunted Hotels In The UK That You Can Actually Stay In
This article is more than four years old and was last updated in March 2022.
The 20 most famous haunted hotels and guest houses in the United Kingdom with a reputation for their resident ghosts and spirits, from Cornwall to Scotland, most of which you can book a night away in ...if you're brave enough.
The property is said to be haunted by phantom ghostly children regularly heard playing on the top floor and a spirit who brushes up against guests on the stairs.
The hotel is supposed to be home to several spooks, including the apparition of a cavalier, and the ghost of an elderly man who is often see wandering the corridors. House keeping staff claim to have mistaken the man for a guest. The hotel is also haunted by the ghost of a girl named Lucy. She's said to have hung herself after an assault and now haunts room 203. Her apparition has been spotted by a member of staff and she's said to move guests' belongings around in the night.
It emerged in Danny Robbin's podcast, 'Uncanny' that this house is haunted by a former resident, Elizabeth Dacre, who lived in the house after it closed as a hotel until she died in the 1990s. Elizabeth has been seen in the house walking up the stairs and staring through the front door from outside.
Her apparition has also been seen sitting on a bench outside the neighbouring church where her husband is buried, the bench where she wanted her ashes to be scattered when she died. There's also been reports of a black bird flying around the bedroom, and a whole room full of diners sat around tables in what was the hotel's dining room.
The photo was taken in 1966 and seemed to show a shrouded figure ascending the stairs in pursuit of a second and possibly a third figure, despite the fact that there was no one on the stairs at the time the photo was taken.
More recently in 2002, one of the gallery's staff had an unusual experience while talking to two colleagues. He saw a figure gliding across a balcony, dressed in an old-fashioned, white dress and passing through a wall.
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Oddly the ghostly activity includes tales of a ghostly lift, its apparition is seen in the fifth floor corridors as well as in room 502. It is said to be operated by the ghost of a young girl who died in the building.
There's also said to be the ghost of a young girl called Matilda, people have reported hearing her footsteps walking around the hotel grounds. The story goes that she was stablehand who fell pregnant to the master of the house. He refused to accept that the child was his, but sadly the baby died during childbirth. She then placed a curse on any young children born in the building. Some believe her hex may have worked as the Craven family who took up residence in the house lots several children during their time there.
But it's room 333 which is claimed to be the most active part of the hotel. One guest reported seeing a strange ball of light hovering two feet above the floor in the room. As he watched, the orb of light began to take human form, only with the lower part of its legs missing.
The building is said to be haunted by a murder victim by the name of Alice Katherine Millar. She mostly been spotted in rooms five and six, where she's said to have passed through solid walls. Her spirit has also seen been on the stairs and in the hotel's kitchen.
Other guests have claimed to have seen the ghostly figure of a man known as George standing next to their bed at night. While others have reported feeling inexplicably ill, or like they are being watched. Most of the reports are focussed on the hotel's third floor, where there has also been reports of a demon.
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Locals say a young soldier drowned in the sea and was brought back to the hotel, where he was pronounced dead. They also tell the tale of a woman named Emma Manson, who was murdered by her husband on the second floor and his body was found hanging in the tower. Another man took his life on the tower too, hanging himself from the outside.
Staff and visitors in the hotel have heard disembodied screams, seen phantom apparitions in the hallways and witnessed a child spirit roaming the building. Lights are said to turn themselves on and off and the property's manager has even caught a demonic face on CCTV.
The paranormal activity at the hotel ranged from sightings of dark shadowy figures, a phantom knight in armour and even the sinister apparition of a man crouched down by the fire. It's believed this is the ghost of the infamous Judge Jeffreys, who allegedly stayed in the hotel while he held trials in the old court house down the road.
The hotel's bar is said to be one of the most paranormally active part of the building. Here there have been reports of poltergeist activity including glasses being thrown from the bar. It is here that the disembodied sound of coughing has also been heard and the ghosts of an old couple have been sharing a drink together.
The bedrooms are also said to be haunted, one of the rooms by the ghost of a man who was murdered there. Another of the rooms is said to be haunted by a young women named Elizabeth. She's said to have taken her own life in 1845 to avoid entering into a life of prostitution. In the attic, there have been reports of the apparition of a man who hanged himself.
The hotel has played host to various paranormal investigation teams, including the cast of the television shows 'Most Haunted' and 'Ghost Hunters International'.
The most haunted room in the hotel is room 28, it's said a family was murdered in the room and today guests report hearing children's voices and crying, as well as the screams of a woman.
But room 28 isn't the only haunted part of the hotel, in fact there's been reports of paranormal activity in all 33 of the hotel's rooms. There's been sightings of apparition in rooms 16 and 17, while in rooms 28 to 30 whispers have been heard and guests have reported feeling dread and sickness.
The hotel's two most famous spook are a woman in white and a woman in grey. The lady spotted in the white gown has been seen around dusk and throughout the night walking along the corridors, before passing through a wall. While the grey lady is seen floating at the foot of the stairs where she's believed to have fallen to her death at some point in the building's past.
This was the location of the legendary incident that involved the show's producers feeding medium Derek Acorah false information, which saw him get possessed by a named Kreed Kafer. It came to light after the show that the spirit was fictionally and was in fact an anagram of the phrase "Derek Faker."
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As well opening its doors to thousands of guests over the year, the hotel has also played host to plenty of spooked. Guests have reported seeing the ghost of a coachman walking the corridors. There's also the ghost of a little girl, and a spirit of an old lady has also been spotted walking through solid walls.
Room nine is said to be the most haunted part of the hotel, many guests have reported icy blasts, shadowy figures and even a presence stood over their bed in the dead of night.
Due to its history of hosting smugglers the pub has been the subject of books, television shows and an Alfred Hitchcock movie.
The paranormal activity at the inn includes the disembodied sound of footsteps throughout the building, unexplained tapping, the sound of children playing and babies crying, and most famously the sound of horses and carts moving in the courtyard.
Room 5, which is said to be one of the most haunted rooms is said to be haunted by the ghost of a mother and child. The young girl is often referred to as Hannah. The ghost of a murdered man has been seen in the main bar and sat on a wall outside the inn.
Guests and staff have reported seeing dark shadowy figures moving through corridors, the restaurant and the kitchen and many visitors have reported being touched by unseen hands while sleeping or having their hair pulled.
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I read a comment last week on a blog review of Harry Potter that said, somewhat tongue in cheek, “I’ve read all the books but seen none of the movies….All the serious theological stuff must be in the movies.” And a follow-up comment questioned whether the author intended the messages or just wanted to write an entertaining story.
I don’t think it’s a question of either/or. Too often novels or movies that set out to teach virtues or values fall short because they lack imagination or creativity. And too much searching for messages can lead to tortured comparisons. I think of a professor I had at Marquette who insisted on finding a eucharistic analogy in every work of American literature we read.
As Catholics, we can see the great themes of Scripture and of our tradition in many different forms. Sometimes those themes surprise us all the more when they’re in a setting that’s NOT overtly religious. Like Jesus’ parables, novels and films can take us by surprise and nudge us to see something in a completely new light. It might not be perfectly formed, it might not be fleshed out in all it doctrinal glory, but it sparks a connection in our mind.
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The concept of personality has different meanings and in psychology, has been defined in many ways. The study of personalities is as important to psychology as studying thoughts, emotions, and behavior. The study of human behavior requires that researchers observe and report the behavior appropriately so that they can explain as to why the person behaved in such a way as have been observed.
The goal of personality research is to understand the basics of personality traits and to determine if individual traits can be grouped in categories. Other questions personality theorist try to answer is how personality traits develop, and what roles do biological and environmental influences affect the individual’s personality. As with the studies of behavior, researchers experiment to develop new theories about personality.
Actually, Personality is defined as the character sets of behaviors, cognitions, and emotional patterns that evolve from biological and environmental factors. While there is no generally agreed-upon definition of personality, most theories focus on motivation and psychological interactions with one’s environment. Trait-based personality theories, such as those defined by Raymond Cattell, define personality as the traits that predict a person’s behavior. On the other hand, more behaviorally-based approaches define personality through learning and habits. Nevertheless, most theories view personality as relatively stable.
The systematic study of personality as a recognizable and separate discipline within psychology may be said to have begun in the 1930s with the publication in the United States of two textbooks, Psychology of Personality (1937) by Ross Stagner and Personality: A Psychological Interpretation (1937) by Gordon W. Allport, followed by Henry A. Murray’s Explorations in Personality (1938), which contained a set of experimental and clinical studies, and by Gardner Murphy’s integrative and comprehensive text, Personality: A Biosocial Approach to Origins and Structure (1947). Yet personology can trace its ancestry to the ancient Greeks, who proposed a kind of biochemical theory of personality.
There are many ways to measure personality, but psychologists have mostly given up on trying dividing humanity neatly into types. Instead, they focus on personality traits.
The most widely accepted of these traits are the Big Five:
The Big Five were developed in the 1970s by two research teams. These teams were led by Paul Costa and Robert R. McCrae of the National Institutes of Health and Warren Norman and Lewis Goldberg of the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor and the University of Oregon, according to Scientific American.
The Big Five are the ingredients that make up each individual’s personality. A person might have a dash of openness, a lot of conscientiousness, an average amount of extraversion, plenty of agreeableness, and almost no neuroticism at all. Or someone could be disagreeable, neurotic, introverted, conscientious, and hardly open at all.
Historical development of concept – The modern sense of individual personality is a result of the shifts in culture originating in the Renaissance, an essential element in modernity. In contrast, the Medieval European’s sense of self was linked to a network of social roles: “the household, the kinship network, the guild, the corporation these were the building blocks of personhood”. Stephen Greenblatt observes, in recounting the recovery (1417) and career of Lucretius’ poem De rerum natura: “at the core of the poem lay key principles of a modern understanding of the world.” “Dependent on the family, the individual alone was nothing,” Jacques Gélis observes. “The characteristic mark of the modern man has two parts: one internal, the other external; one dealing with his environment, the other with his attitudes, values, and feelings.” Rather than being linked to a network of social roles, the modern man is largely influenced by environmental factors such as: “urbanization, education, mass communication, industrialization, and politicization.”
Can personality change?
Maybe, a study published in the January 2017 journal Psychological Bulletin synthesized 207 published research papers and found that personality may be altered through therapy. “For the people who want to change their spouse tomorrow, which a lot of people want to do, I don’t hold out much hope for them,” said study researcher Brent Roberts, a social and personality psychologist at the University of Illinois. However, he continued, “if you’re willing to focus on one aspect of yourself, and you’re willing to go at it systematically, there’s now increased optimism that you can affect change in that domain.”
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The Coteau ice advance boundary was mapped in east-central Alberta. The terminal Coteau moraine was found to be located from 10 to 20 miles east of the terminal Coteau ice advance boundary.
Three tills were differentiated in the area: a basal Grey till, the Viking till, and the Coteau till. Mineralogical, mechanical and x-ray analyses performed on the Viking and Coteau tills indicated no major break in the composition of the two tills. The individual soil profiles of the two tills did not reveal any appreciable weathering of silicates in the upper soil horizons, and the depth of leaching of the carbonates appeared very similar and averaged 23 inches.
Based on the laboratory investigations of samples of the Viking and Coteau tills, the conclusion was reached that the time interval separating the two glaciations was quite short.
Bayrock, L.A. (1955): Glacial geology of an area in east-central Alberta; Research Council of Alberta, RCA/AGS Earth Sciences Report 1955-02, 47 p.
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The Unmaking of the Middle East
Imagine writing seriously about French intellectual history without speaking French. Consider publishing books on Mayan indigenous cultures without knowing their languages. The pretense of knowledge and political bankruptcy would be self-evident. Yet this sort of intellectual masquerade occurs much too … Read More
Imagine writing seriously about French intellectual history without speaking French. Consider publishing books on Mayan indigenous cultures without knowing their languages. The pretense of knowledge and political bankruptcy would be self-evident. Yet this sort of intellectual masquerade occurs much too often in contemporary scholarship of the Middle East. Scholars should be able to read or speak the languages of the human cultures they engage. Doing historical or cultural research in translation, or teaching from translated materials one cannot read, is to live within epistemological close confinement. Language-learning is the key to breaking through such confinement, and Middle East scholarship especially needs cross-cultural and multi-linguistic work if it is to function as a bridge between the multiple isolations of the region’s divergent nationalisms and their narratives. It cannot be too strongly emphasized that it is critical for scholar-teachers to set an example and learn the languages of the cultures, peoples, and governments they study and write about. Where scholars cannot select, read, and analyze primary sources in their original language, then their work is hopeless and can only be dismissed. Among scholars of the Middle East, from whatever political perspective they claim, such language-deficient authors represent repetition, albeit from a different source, of those non-Arabic-speaking Arabists who were the instruments of European colonialism. Scholars who do command the necessary languages to address the Arab-Israeli conflict have a major advantage. One thinks of Anton Shammas, fluent in both Arabic and Hebrew, and others who are able to argue their views articulately from within a full and commanding cultural knowledge. Apologetic defense of a non-language-based standard of historical or cultural scholarship often seems no more than an excuse for fundamental antagonism and social avoidance, not any serious engagement. A Middle East scholar at an Ivy League institution wrote me an e-mail message along these lines, claiming that that "many of the primary documents of Israeli history have always been composed in European languages; and a substantial number of Israel’s citizens have always written and expressed themselves primarily in other languages, including English, French and Arabic." Having done research in various Israeli archives, both government and private, I am profoundly aware of precisely the opposite. The vast bulk of those documents, almost to their entirety, is in Hebrew: they have never been translated into any other language. It says a great deal about a fundamental misunderstanding of the pre-state Yishuv or Israeli society that a scholar would even consider asserting that many of the primary political, legal, or social documents of Israeli society have been composed in European languages. That this sort of error passes for commonplace knowledge is perhaps an expression of an ideological and anti-historical predisposition to view Israeli society as thoroughly European, another profound and too-frequent error.
Let’s turn to Jeremy Salt’s The Unmaking of the Middle East: A History of Western Disorder in Arab Lands (University of California Press) as an example of the dangers of language-deficient scholarship. Salt, based at Bilkent University in Ankara, whose major previous work concerns Armenian history, has produced this volume without evident knowledge of either Arabic or Hebrew. His lengthy bibliography contains only English-language sources (almost no translations from regional languages among them), mostly published in London or New York, as if the Middle East required Euro-American publishers for self-understanding. Salt’s historiographic method lies in weaving a skein of selected secondary sources that suit his theses, primary sources be damned. As if this were insufficiently problematic, the book has quite limited purchase on its expansive title, which promises an address to “the Middle East” and “Arab lands”. The volume begins with brief reviews of well-known histories of the end of Ottoman rule; the fate of the Armenians; and developments in Egypt, Syria and Iraq after World War I. The middle two-thirds of the book deal entirely with a history of Israeli-Palestinian and Israeli-Arab conflicts, after which it explores the Bush wars before concluding with another address to the current state of the Israeli-Palestinian situation.
This makes for a highly unbalanced book, one that treats Israel and Palestine while neglecting the remainder of the region. Entire histories of Western imperialism and economic exploitation disappear behind this focus. When formative diplomatic events such as the Sykes-Picot Agreement evaporate in the briefest of references, or the Arabian peninsula as a whole remains nearly excluded from discussion as a site of petro-imperialism, then the scope of absences renders the book unusable even as a general history. Since central drives of imperialism involve capital, labor and the profitability of colonial enterprises, it seems near-inexplicable that Salt includes almost no address to these issues – and to class – throughout the volume. On the real topic of this book, Israel and Palestine, Salt displays inexpert scholarship-from-a-distance. His lack of cultural and political knowledge sprinkles the text with errors such as where he identifies the killer-rabbi, Moshe Levinger, as “ultraorthodox”; in fact, Levinger emerged from the national-religious stream of the Mercaz Ha’rav yeshiva and such an error indicates Salt does not understand basic social differences. Salt’s problem is not simply misinformation, but persistent ideological blinders that disable his historiography. One would never know from his account of the events of 1948 that the Arab Legion was officered, trained and equipped by the British, as completely realized a manifestation of Western imperialism as existed in the Middle East.
Salt claims regarding 1948 that “The image of massive Arab armies descending on Palestine from all directions was a lie”; provides a wildly inaccurate account of the balance of forces at the beginning of the war; and describes ensuing events as one-sided conquest. Again, an uninformed reader would never know of southern kibbutzim overrun by the Egyptian army in bloody fighting, the Etzion massacre, the fall of the Jewish quarter in Jerusalem’s old city, or that the Iraqi army held the San Simon neighborhood of Jerusalem while the Egyptians held Bethlehem. This decisive period of conflict between Arab and Israeli forces was an immensely hard-fought and costly battle for all sides, not the rout that Salt describes. The same pattern of misleading history and absent consideration evidences itself elsewhere in The Unmaking of the Middle East, but there is little point in paying it more attention. Some books are masterful engagements with the communities and conflicts of the Middle East – for excellent treatments of Israel’s mini-empire in the Palestinian territories, see any book by Amira Hass or Eyal Weizman’s recent Hollow Land: Israel’s Architecture of Occupation – and there are books that will fade quickly and unremembered.
This weak effort lodges in the latter category. One formative difference separating out memorable scholarship lies in a capacity to speak local languages, to engage in primary research, and contribute new perspectives. This is not simply a matter of competent cultural knowledge, but rather it reflects a democratic ethos. A democratic scholarship, one that witnesses against class, racism, colonialism and imperialism, listens to the voices of peoples and stories told by the disenfranchised.
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This is found in the wet classifying technology. The process technology defines the term classifying with the division of a particle collective into two groups. If this process will be carried out several times, you talk about classification. The market entry in 1994 with the development of a centrifuge for classifying of pigments results in a continuous extension of business field in most interesting,advanced applications. The trend-setting application potential is the production of ultra-fine materials which will be used in highest purity. This can be assured by the Krettek classifying technology because beside a sharp cut a contamination by high wear or milling pearls can be excluded. krettek 2007Depending on the operating parameters of the classifying system either the finest fractions resp. the coarse fractions can be separated from the particle spectrums or, if required, medium particle fractions can be selected. In other words the centrifuge gives the possibility to provide tailor-made application related systems of solids . Nanoscale particles differs from the behaviour of bigger ones, because the forces of surfaces dominate against the force of inertia and the force due to gravity increasing by the volume of particle and so influence the specific characteristics significant. All in all the behaviour in the centrifugal field of force is determined by several influencing factors which have to be brought into balance during classifying.
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Sleep is one of the most critical factors in maintaining good physical and mental health. The study conducted by the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare shows that about 48% of Australian adults suffer from at least 2 sleep-related health issues, including insomnia. Conventional treatment options include Cognitive Behavioural Therapy and Pharmacological therapies. Alternative treatment options such as Medical cannabis may also be helpful in reducing the symptoms of many sleep-related health problems.
Causes and Symptoms of insomnia
More than half of cases of insomnia occur due to stress, anxiety, and depression. Insomnia is a sleep disorder that makes it hard for the person to sleep, and the patient feels tired and less energetic after waking up. It affects mood and works performance, and quality of life as well. Symptoms of insomnia include:
Difficulty falling asleep at night
Waking up during the night
Waking up too early
Daytime tiredness or sleepiness
Irritability, depression, or anxiety
Conventional therapy for insomnia
Conventionally, cognitive behavioural therapies (CBT) like relaxation techniques, sleep restriction, light therapy, and stimulus control therapy are considered the first line of treatment for insomnia. The Evidence for conventional pharmacotherapy for insomnia is very limited. Conventional pharmacotherapies include medicines such as zopiclone, lorazepam, melatonin and promethazine. Since these drugs carry a high risk of dependency and addiction, they are not recommended for long-term use.
How does Medicinal cannabis help with insomnia?
Medicinal cannabis is found to be effective because it may help in restoring the circadian sleep cycle, which falls out of order due to underlying health conditions or lifestyle options.
The two most important chemical compounds of cannabis are THC and CBD. THC is the main active compound that is psychoactive and is also responsible for the euphoric effects of the drug, as CBD, is a safe variant with no psychoactive properties. Both these compounds are an essential part of cannabinoid therapy which can help in the redundancy of the symptoms of insomnia. In a study carried out by the University of Western Australia in 2020, the researchers concluded that medical cannabis could be used as a novel treatment option for patients suffering from chronic insomnia. Research has shown that THC or Tetrahydrocannabinol is more effective in promoting restfulness and sleep. Since it possesses the ability to interact directly with the receptors of the endocannabinoid system, it contributes to the production of naturally occurring sleep-enhancing compounds. Both CBD and THC can work synergistically to improve the sleep cycle of the patient.
In some cases, sleep problems occur due to other health conditions like inflammation, pain, anxiety, and PTSD. Medical cannabis can help with the symptoms of these issues, and when the level of discomfort goes down, you will experience a better sleep pattern.
Cannabinoids are also like other supplements and drugs and their effects are dose-dependent. In fact, there is no right or wrong or one-size-fits-all dose. You will have to work closely with your healthcare practitioner to find out the right dose that works for you.
Side effects of cannabis
A higher quantity of THC is associated with health risks like impairing memory, attention, and decision-making skills. It may also be associated with side effects like dependence, addiction, dry mouth, and anxiety. Undeniably there is health and safety risk for different consumption methods of marijuana, and there is not enough evidence to prove that one consumption method could be safer than another.
Insomnia is a very debilitating condition with affects almost 48% of the adult Australian population. Treatment options include Cognitive Behavioural Therapies, Conventional pharmacological therapies and cannabinoid-based therapies. It is very important that you discuss your treatment options with a qualified medical professional to explore the treatment options that are available to your unique situation.
Lintzeris, N., Mills, L., Suraev, A., Bravo, M., Arkell, T., Arnold, J. C., ... & McGregor, I. S. (2020). Medical cannabis use in the Australian community following introduction of legal access: the 2018–2019 Online Cross-Sectional Cannabis as Medicine Survey (CAMS-18). Harm reduction journal, 17(1), 1-12.
Cynthia Sheppard, S., & Solomon, G. D. (2019). Deciphering Medical Marijuana.
Park, J. Y., & Wu, L. T. (2017). Prevalence, reasons, perceived effects, and correlates of medical marijuana use: a review. Drug and alcohol dependence, 177, 1-13.
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Acquisition and Management of Data
The acquisition and management of data are vital to the research record. The acquisition of data begins with the execution of a research plan, which in turn relies on a scientific premise and an experimental design, ideally one that considers variables, statistical power, and an authentication of key biological or chemical resources – in short, the elements of reproducibility. The management of data requires a complete and accurate representation of the data, a full accounting of protocols and the logic underlying them, a means of authenticating results by co-workers and others seeking replication, and a protection of such information from loss and inappropriate intrusion.
Data are acquired through observation and are recorded initially through hand-entered notations, instrument or computer readouts, and/or images. Records of this nature are referred to as ‘primary’ data. These data can be organized subsequently into formats amenable to analysis and presentation, or ‘secondary’ data.
The effective management of data can be achieved through any number of means. At the heart of any such effort however, and constituting a common element across all disciplines, is the laboratory notebook. The notebook provides a record of primary and secondary data. It can, and should, provide as well a record of collaboration, interpretation, and decisions. It allows authentication of work by outside parties and proves ownership in claims to discovery.
The exact format of record-keeping is left to the discretion of the principal investigator. That said, the following guidelines are offered with the intent to protect the integrity of entries in terms of time, authorship, and content. These recommendations originate, with abridgement, in Scientific Integrity (F.L. Macrina, 4th edition, ASM Press).
Guidelines for bound notebooks:
- The advantages of bound, page-numbered notebooks versus loose-leaf binders are compelling, especially at the level of authentication.
- A table of contents is invaluable.
- Entries should be made in chronological order and dated. No page should be skipped.
- Entries should be clear and legible. They should be made with permanent non-erasable ink, never in pencil. Lines should be drawn through mistaken entries without making the entries completely illegible; correction fluid should not be used.
- Entries for any single experiment should include date, purpose, materials, protocol, results, discussion, and next steps.
- Entries must include primary, unedited data, and should include as well any derived data, tables, calculations, and graphs. With regard to primary data, it is imperative to:
- Document everything – you cannot remember it all.
- Document everything ASAP – acts and details kept ‘in your head’ are quickly lost.
- Document everything whether it’s ‘good’ or ‘bad’, ‘right’ or ‘wrong’. Omitting data is dishonest.
- If data are discarded in a subsequent analysis, clearly note the reason for it. Not infrequently this will require statistical validation.
- Entries should be made in such a way as to allow the investigator and other researchers to evaluate them at any point in time, inclusive of how data are used to form decisions regarding next steps and how data are selected for presentation, manuscripts, proposals, etc.
- If word-processing is used in place of handwritten entries, printouts should be affixed permanently to pages of the notebook. Printouts from other software programs should be treated likewise.
- Should primary or secondary data not be easily handwritten or affixed, or should inclusion be otherwise difficult or unwieldly, the data can be deposited in files, physical or electronic, but with clear identification in the notebook and an organization that befits the organization of the notebook.
- Regarding storage and protection:
- Notebooks and other records should be kept secure from unauthorized access, theft, and destruction through storage that safeguards access and periodic, securely stored backups.
- Notebooks should not be removed from the laboratory.
Guidelines for computer-assisted record-keeping or electronic notebooks:
- An official procedure for the lab’s electronic record-keeping process should be defined and communicated by the principal investigator to all users.
- The location, organization, and nature of electronic records for each user should be clearly defined.
- The nature of entries with regard to content, how decisions are made, and how data are selected should conform to those recomended above for bound notebooks.
- Entries should be write-protected and time-stamped to ensure authenticity.
- The date and content of primary electronic records should never be altered. Any corrections, addenda, or correspondence relating to primary electronic records must be made separately from these records, again in a write-protected and time-stamped fashion.
- Access to the stored electronic data of researchers in the lab should be authorized by the principal investigator as needed, with full knowledge of all involved parties.
- Regarding storage and protection:
- Regular (daily) backup of all records should be mandated, and the process and oversight of this should be clearly prescribed and regularly monitored for compliance.
- Data on laptops, portable hard drives, and other portable media should be encrypted.
The notebook and other records should be retained for a sufficient period of time to allow analysis and repetition by others of published material resulting from those data. In general, five to seven years is specified as the minimum period for retention but this may vary under different circumstances.
Policies and Guidelines
There are no formal policies at Penn covering the types or format of record keeping. The only policy of relevance, which pertains to BGS students directly, is to have lab notebooks inspected at each dissertation committee meeting. This procedure is copied here.
“Approved by Biomedical Advisory Committee, September 15, 2006:
All dissertation level students must bring their lab notebooks to their dissertation committee meetings. If a student has previously met with the dissertation committee, then he or she should bring the notebooks used since the last committee meeting. The dissertation committee should make a point of reviewing notebook data at each meeting. There is no expectation that lab notebooks be reviewed in their entirety. However, the dissertation committee should feel confident that the student's lab data are complete and well managed. Graduate groups may wish to impose additional requirements, such as assigning a particular committee member responsibility for reviewing lab notebooks or arranging for the notebooks to be reviewed in greater detail by a committee member outside of the meetings. In any event, each graduate group’s dissertation committee meeting report forms will be amended so as to document the committee’s review of lab notebooks.”
Two textbooks provide excellent discussions of data acquisition and management. Both are electronically accessible through the Biomedical Library. These are:
Scientific Integrity, F.L. Macrina, 4th ed.
Responsible Conduct of Research, A.E. Shamoo and D.B. Resnick, 3rd ed.
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Every car that is promoted as “eco-friendly” has its eco ups and downs. Though they use less gas, Hybrids still do need it. Furthermore, critics of hybrid cars claim that since manufacturers require rare earth minerals to make parts of the cars’ motor and battery, they’re not sustainable nor as ecologically friendly as claimed. There are of course cars that run on biofuels, but then one has to consider the size of the land being used to grow fuel rather than food. In regard to electric cars (which most people probably can’t afford right now anyway), if one is charging his/her car with electricity that’s generated from a coal station, that’s not environmentally friendly.
Hybrids are not always the most eco-friendly car but nor could they ever be called environmentally destructive. Originally, when hybrids first came out they were smaller and ran more efficiently than non-hybrid vehicles but nowadays hybrids are just the next ‘hot’ thing and are not necessarily all that green. When you throw in the amount of cash these cars will run you, you’ll be seeing more green in bills than anything else.
That being said, hybrids are still new and as americalibra said the technology is still in the formative stages (relatively speaking). That doesn’t mean it will be new forever and just as with everything else, the technology will get perfected in time; meaning the inefficiencies in constructing these cars won’t be there forever. Furthermore, hybrid cars are an investment in the future of green vehicle technology. This type of technology could lead to a greener type of transportation vehicle in the future, stemming from the start of hybrids.
Consumers should be weary of gas mileage though when purchasing a hybrid. As gas prices continue to climb hybrid drivers could be paying just as much as their non-hybrid counterparts at the pump. But, and there’s always a but, a hybrid will always produce lower emissions than it’s non-hybrid equivalent.
Unfortunately, this topic is not clear cut yet as many factors that play a role in determining greenness are still changing.
I think this question depends on how much you drive and where you live. Depending on where you get your electricity from, charging an electric car with solar or nuclear energy would be much more environmentally friendly than driving a hybrid. However, like americalibre mentioned, if your power comes from a coal-run power plant, then electric cars probably would still pollute the environment a bit.
In the end, electric cars are going to be the better “green” choice. I found an article explaining why they are better, and what power plants would do to meet the demands of these cars. Even though this article is dated a few years ago, I’m sure some of the statistics aren’t too far off.
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Responding to yet another popular submission on their ideas forum (this time suggested by Maia Weinstock), Lego is set to release a " Women of NASA" collection in early November 2017. The set will include mini-figurines of Margaret Hamilton, Nancy G. Roman, Mae Jemison and Sally Ride, as well as builds of their groundbreaking work.
Lego announced that it will produce a minifigure set of three female scientists. Thanks to Ellen Kooijman, a geosciences researcher from Sweden, an astronomer, a paleontologist, and a chemist will be added to the Lego toy collection.
Kooijman designed the minifigures with an online tool and submitted her idea to the Lego Ideas forum, which allows users to submit proposals for new Lego sets. Proposals that earn 10,000 supporters are sent to a review board and get a chance at being selected for production. (Related: "Why Is a Woman Who Loves Science So Surprising?")
The final design, pricing, and availability are still being determined, but Lego plans to release the set, which will be called Research Institute, in August 2014. Lego has faced criticism for gender stereotyping in the past, but the new set has generated excitement among female scientists.
National Geographic spoke with Kooijman via email about making Legos and science more diverse and interesting to young girls.
How did you get the idea to develop the female scientist Lego minifigures?
I have been building with Lego bricks almost all my life. I was surfing the web for inspiration and stumbled upon the Lego Ideas platform, and I was immediately excited about the concept, so I decided to post a project.
As a female scientist, I'd noticed two things about the available Lego sets: a too high male/female minifigure ratio and a rather stereotypical representation of the available female figures. It seemed logical that I would suggest a small set of female minifigures in interesting professions to make the Legos more diverse.
When did you first become interested in science?
I think I was always destined to become a scientist. I've been interested in the natural sciences since I was a young child. I happened upon geosciences and became enthusiastic about the prospect of combining physics, mathematics, and chemistry to try and understand the Earth, so I chose to pursue that.
What has your experience been as a female scientist in a mostly male profession?
It has never been a serious issue for me, personally. Most of my collaborators are men and I am the only female senior scientist in my department, but I never think about that much. Of course, there are examples of (usually older) male colleagues who have problems taking young female scientists seriously. I usually try to ignore that and let my work speak for itself.
Tell me about the process of creating the Lego set.
I first designed the set digitally using free software called Lego Digital Designer, but after I moved to Sweden from California, I got my Legos out of storage. The chemist set is currently sitting on my shelf.
How did you find out that the Lego review board approved your idea?
We set up a video conference call so they told me "in person." Recently, they admitted that they thought I was surprisingly calm about it. To that I responded that I am Northern European so I don't tend to get openly enthusiastic and I thought it would be best to act professional. Though after the call ended, I was screaming and bouncing off the walls.
What did you hope to accomplish by creating the Lego set?
It would be great if the set would get more girls interested in building with Lego bricks. It was my favorite toy as a child, and I think it has been very important in my development. If the set inspires girls to pursue careers in science and technology, that would be great too.
What has been the best reaction or feedback you've received throughout this process?
The amount of positive reactions has been absolutely overwhelming, and it has come from all over the world. One reaction in an early stage of the project was from a mother who wrote that her daughter wants to become a paleontologist and they were cheering at the screen as my project gained supporters. It is amazing when people are so enthusiastic about something you created.
Do you plan to create additional female Lego sets?
I have designed 12 female minifigure vignettes in total, and three will be in the Research Institute set. It will be up to Lego to decide if they want to produce the other vignettes as well.
It is important to note I first posted the set in spring 2012. In the last two years a lot has changed, and there have been many sets with a more balanced male/female minifigure ratio and with females in interesting roles such as a firefighter and a train engineer. I'm very happy about this, and I hope this trend will continue.
This interview has been edited and condensed.
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Britney Spears’ father, Jamie Spears, won’t face assault charges over his alleged row with his grandson, Sean Spears.
Her ex-husband, Kevin Federline, alleged that on August 24th Jamie got into a row with his grandson and “put hands on him.”
According to TMZ’s sources, Jamie broke down a door and grabbed Sean.
Kevin reported the alleged incident to police, who investigated.
However, the investigating District Attorney’s office will not be pressing charges as they failed to find sufficient evidence to charge him.
According to reports, there is a temporary restraining order in place to prevent Jamie Spears from having any contact with Britney’s children.
It comes as Britney’s father reportedly requested to relinquish his duties as a conservator to Britney and her estate.
While it was originally reported that he wanted to step down from the role, further reports suggest he is still conservator of her estate, meaning he oversees her finances.
Jamie reportedly made the request citing “health issues.”
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carol, popular hymn, of joyful nature, in celebration of an occasion such as May Day, Easter, or Christmas. The earliest English carols date from the 15th cent. The carol is characterized by simplicity of thought and expression. Many are thought to be adaptations of pagan songs. Despite the folk-song character of true carols, many Christmas hymns composed in the 19th cent. have been called carols. The oldest printed carol is the Boar's Head Carol, printed in 1521 by Wynkyn de Worde. Carols of French origin are called noels.
See R. L. Greene, The Early English Carols (1935); E. Routley, The English Carol (1958); P. Dearmer et al., ed., The Oxford Book of Carols (1928, repr. 1964).
The Columbia Electronic Encyclopedia, 6th ed. Copyright © 2012, Columbia University Press. All rights reserved.
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The Colonial Card functions as Community College of Philadelphia's ID card. Cardholders can deposit money onto their Colonial Card to activate a declining balance feature.
Paying For Purchases With Your Colonial Card
- Colonial Card funds are accepted as payment in the bookstores, cafes and at select Main Campus vending machines.
- Discounted printing services are available in Business Services (BG-15) to customers who pay with Colonial Card funds.
- Students can purchase discounted tickets and passes at the Student Life office using their Colonial Card funds.
Paying For Parking
Colonial Card funds can be used to pay for daily parking in the Main Garage.
- The card holder must have a minimum of $5.50 (the daily parking rate) on their Colonial Card before entering.
- Card holders with a $5.50 balance on their card will swipe their card to open the garage gate when they enter and when they exit; the $5.50 daily parking rate will be deducted from their Colonial Card balance when they enter.
- Card holders attempting to 'swipe into' the Main Garage will not be able to do so if their card balance is less than $5.50. They will have to take a ticket to enter the garage. The ticket will have to be paid at a pay station before exiting.
Colonial Card FAQs
What is a Colonial Card?
The Community College of Philadelphia ID card is called the Colonial Card. The card offers a declining balance feature that works much like a debit card except cash withdrawals are not allowed. The cardholder loads funds onto their Colonial Card and then uses card funds as payment in the College's bookstores, cafes, Business Services, Student Life, select Main Campus vending locations and the Main Garage.
How do I get my Colonial Card?
Returning students who do not have a Colonial Card must provide proof of registration and a valid photo ID to Security when requesting a Colonial Card. There is a $10.00 fee for replacement cards.
During Academic Welcome events Student Life will provide directions to new students for obtaining their first Colonial Card.
New employees will receive directions from Human Resources regarding how to receive a Colonial Card. Current employees who do not have a Colonial Card ID should report to Security to obtain one.
How do I load funds to my Colonial Card and view my account?
The card holder can load funds onto their Colonial Card in person with cash; or online with a credit or debit card. Also card holders can invite a guest to make deposits to their account (see the next FAQ for details).
Cash can be deposited to a Colonial Card at a 'cash to card' valueport machine. Valueports are located outside the Colonial Cafe on the Main Campus and in the main lobby of NERC. Card holders should follow the directions on the valueport; card holders will receive a receipt of their deposit and their account balance at the end of the transaction.
Card holders can add funds online with a credit or debit card by selecting the Deposit to Account option on their account. Students are directed to their online account when they select Colonial Card under Campus Life on MyCCP; employees are directed to their account when they select Colonial Card under General Links on MyCCP. The Colonial Card link also offers the card holder options to view their Current Balance and Transaction History.
Cash and online deposits are limited to $500.00 per transaction. However, card holders or guests wishing to deposit more can do so with an additional transaction. Funds are secure as long as the card holder reports a lost or stolen card immediately.
How can family or friends make deposits to my Colonial Card?
A card holder can give guest deposit privileges to family and friends of their choice. First the card holder must access their Colonial Card account by selecting the Colonial Card link on MyCCP and then selecting Invite to Deposit. A unique link will be created for the guest to deposit funds with a credit or debit card to the card holder’s Colonial Card account; the guest can copy the link to their browser to make future deposits.
What are the benefits of using the Colonial Card?
- Safe and convenient way to make purchases at the College without carrying cash.
- Students can purchase discounted, museum passes and special event tickets in Student Life offices only with their Colonial Card funds.
- Purchase a wide range of discounted printing services in Business Services (MG-25)
- Expedite entering and leaving the Main Garage by paying with Colonial Card funds...just swipe your Colonial Card through the card reader (card balance must be $5.50 the daily parking rate upon entry).
- Eliminate the need to carry change by using your Colonial Card funds for payment at specially marked vending machines on Main Campus.
Who do I contact if I have questions or problems with my Colonial Card?
Card holders who have problems using their Colonial Card or making deposits to their Colonial Card account should contact 4ITSupport at 215.496.6000 and select the Colonial Card menu option; or e-mail email@example.com .
What should I do if my Colonial Card is lost or stolen?
It is the card holder’s responsibility to report a lost or stolen Colonial Card immediately to ensure that funds on the card are protected. Card holders can report a missing Colonial Card to College Security at 215-751-8111 or by selecting the Report Lost Card option on their online Colonial Card account. Students will access their account by selecting Colonial Card under Campus Life on MyCCP and employees will access their account by selecting Colonial Card under General Links on MyCCP.
The Colonial Card is the card holder’s official College ID and should be secured at all times. College policy prohibits sharing or loaning your Colonial Card to anyone.
Can I withdraw cash from my Colonial Card?
Card holders cannot withdraw cash from their Colonial Card account balance; however, card holders can request a refund of unused funds on their card when the cardholder permanently separates from the College. Students are eligible to request a refund of their Colonial Card account balance when they graduate or officially withdraw from the College. Employees can request a refund of their account balance when their College employment is officially terminated.
View the Colonial Card Refund Form for refund details. All refund requests must be made within one year of the qualifying separation. A $10.00 processing fee will be deducted from the card holder's account balance prior to processing the return; accounts with less than $10.00 cannot be refunded. Questions regarding refunds should be directed to firstname.lastname@example.org.
What are the Colonial Card terms and conditions?
It is important to read and be familiar with the terms and conditions before using your Colonial Card declining balance feature. View the Colonial Card terms and conditions.
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Properties of bio-based insulation materials and their potential impact on indoor air quality
Significantly decreasing energy consumption in buildings requires more air-tight construction combined with much higher insulation levels. A potential unintended consequence of this approach has been deterioration in the indoor air quality, resulting from significantly reduced ventilation rates and the accumulation of airborne pollutants, and this has proven to be a bottleneck to successful implementation of legislation. The use of natural bio-based insulation materials has increased in recent years, largely driven by concerns over the embodied energy and whole-life environmental impact of insulation materials. This has led to their increased use, typically within breathable wall constructions. A breathable wall construction allows the insulation material to directly contribute to the indoor air quality. Volatile Organic Compounds (VOCs) having boiling points within the range 60-280 °C contribute to the indoor air contamination in buildings, and at certain concentrations can contribute to building-related illnesses. This paper presents some findings from the early stages of a phased experimental study to explore use of bio-based insulation materials, including hemp-lime and sheep’s wool, to reduce VOCs from the room atmosphere. There are many different volatile organic compounds and this study will consider the Total Volatile Organic Compound (TVOC) emissions expressed as toluene, as well as the formaldehyde emissions separately. Insulation specimens with nominal dimensions 200 x 60 x 50 mm were prepared and placed in horizontally mounted cylindrical chambers. Air maintained at 23 °C (±2 °C) and 50 % (±5 %) RH was fed in coaxially to one end of the cylinder. The exhaust air was sampled for VOCs and for formaldehyde following 3 and 28 day of exposure. The results of this paper will help inform the design of holistic indoor environments that consider more than just the hygrothermal properties of insulation materials.
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Entered according to the act of Congress, in the year one thousand eight
hundred and forty, by Hilliard, Gray, AND Company, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the District of Massachusetts.
FOLSOM, WELLS, AND THURSTON,
PRINTERS TO THE UNIVERSITY.
BY THE EDITOR.
Few writers have been so regardless of literary reputation as Franklin. Scarcely any of his compositions were published under his own eye; many of them were not written for the press; and the fame of authorship appears rarely to have been among the motives by which he was induced to employ his pen. It is true, that, in early life and afterwards, he cultivated with uncommon assiduity the art of writing, till he attained a mastery over the language, which has raised his name to the first rank in English literature. Yet it was his primary object, not so much to become distinguished by this accomplishment, as to acquire the power of acting on the minds of others, and of communicating, in the most attractive and effectual manner, such discoveries as he might make, and his schemes for the general improvement, the moral culture, the comfort, and happiness of mankind. He seldom affixed his name to any of his writings. They were mostly designed for a particular purpose; and, when they had answered the end for which they were intended, he seems to have given himself little concern about their future destiny.
Hence he never took pains to collect and revise for the press any portion of his miscellaneous
papers, which had been separately printed, nor to cause a collection of them to be published with his name and under his own supervision; although in two or three instances he rendered some assistance to others, who had voluntarily undertaken the task.
The first collection was published in London in the year 1751. It consisted only of letters and papers on electricity, which he had sent to Peter Collinson, who committed them to the press without the author's knowledge, giving as a reason the extremely interesting nature of their contents, and their importance to the public. A fourth edition of that work, in a handsome quarto volume, was published in 1769, greatly enlarged by the addition of other papers on various philosophical subjects. This edition, and a fifth, which followed it five years afterwards, probably received some degree of attention from the author, as he was then in London. These papers were likewise translated into Latin, French, Italian, and German, and printed in different parts of Europe. In 1772, M. Dubourg made a new collection of Dr. Franklin's writings, embracing all that were in the above work, and many others on miscellaneous subjects, communicated by the author himself, some of which had not before appeared in print. The whole were translated into French by the editor, illustrated with notes, and published at Paris, in two elegant quarto volumes.
In 1779 another collection was published in London, consisting of political, miscellaneous, und philosophical pieces. These formed a new work, very few of them having been included in any previous edition of the author's writings. The editor was Mr. Benjamin Vaughan, who was for many years an intimate friend and constant correspondent of Dr. Franklin. The task of editorship was performed with a fidelity and success, which were highly commended by the author. The materials are well arranged, and the notes are judicious, appropriate, and valuable.
The above are the only original collections that appeared during the author's lifetime. A compilation from them, in a thin octavo volume, was printed in 1787.
Three years after his death, in 1793, the Messrs. Robinson published in London what they called, in the title-page, the Works of Dr. Franklin, comprised in two small volumes. This edition is remarkable as containing the first publication, in the English language, of the Life of Franklin, written by himself. It had lately been published in French, a translation having been made from an original manuscript, which Dr. Franklin had presented to his friend, M. Le Veillard. It was now retranslated into English by a skilful hand. This retranslation is the
“Life of Franklin,” which has usually been circulated in Great Britain and the United States, and of which numerous editions have been printed. And even to this day it continues to be read, and to be quoted by respectable writers, as if it were the author's original work, although the fact of its being a translation is expressly stated in the preface to the first edition, and although more than twenty years have elapsed since the autobiography was published from the original manuscript. As there printed, it comes down no later than to the year 1731. The first volume contains this portion of the autobiography, and the continuation by Dr. Stuber, which had recently appeared in the Columbian Magazine at Philadelphia. The second volume consists of essays, the larger portion of which had been written since the publication of Mr. Vaughan's edition. Another retranslation of the French version of the autobiography was published the same year in London, which is described in the Monthly Review as possessing little merit.
The next edition in the order of time was that of Castéra, published in two octavo volumes at Paris, in 1798, being a selection of miscellaneous pieces, with the addition of a few that had been printed separately. They were all translated into French
It is a singular circumstance, that the autobiography was translated for this edition from the first English retranslation mentioned above. It thus passed through three changes, first into French, next
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46 business qualities in addition to the qualities that apply directly to a system 21 what software architecture is and what it isn't. For most of the history of software engineering, performance has been the driving factor in system architecture as such, it has frequently compromised the achievement of all other qualities. Software architecture refers to the high level structures of a software system quality-driven: classic software design approaches. Software architecture definition - software architecture is the defining and structuring of a solution that meets technical and operational. Characteristics of a software architect level: introductory peter eeles , senior it architect, ibm 15 mar 2006 from the rational edge: if, in movie-making terms, the software project manager is the producer, since they. Variability for qualities in software architecture azadeh alebrahim paluno - the ruhr institute for software technology working group software engineering. The difference between an amateur product and a carrier grade product is not much in functionality it is in quality for any serious business to depend on a piece of software to continue to function and evolve as needed, a.
The software/enterprise architect job is an important one the duties of an architect are numerous and require specific leadership, communication and technical skills to be fulfilled. This set of software architecture multiple choice questions & answers (mcqs) focuses on “business qualities” 1 what are the main aspects of business qualities. Chapter 1 software architecture can use the characteristics of past performance to of research that define software architecture or describe software. This paper presents an approach for the ad-hoc assessment of software architecture qualities the method allows evaluating architectures at early development stages and focuses on development qualities (eg, coupling), rather than on runtime qualities. 1 abstract quality attributes of large software systems are to a large extent determined the system’s software architecture, ie qual-ities such as performance and modifiability depend at least as.
Software architecture for the internet of things from eit digital this course will teach you how to design futureproof systems that meet the requirements of iot systems: systems that are secure, interoperable, modifiable and scalable. Software architecture career advice what are the required qualities for a software architect update cancel one important criteria for good software design. Software application architecture is the process of defining a structured solution that meets all of the technical and operational requirements, while optimizing common quality attributes such as performance, security, and manageability it involves a series of decisions based on a wide range of. Variability is a key factor of most systems while there are many works covering variability in functionality, there is a research gap regarding variability in software qualities.
Quality-driven: classic software design exploring and managing knowledge that is essential to designing a software architecture a software architect does not. Software architecture and product quality linda northrop director, product line systems software engineering institute software architecture quality. Could someone explain the difference between software design and software architecture software design vs software architecture properties, qualities.
But the best definition i’ve come up with for what a software architect does importance of quality attributes in software architecture rational geek.
Rich lee's management information system research (1) management information system research software architecture & quality attributes abstract. Quirements before there is a software architecture to evaluate quality attribute workshop bring together system of systems (sos) stakeholders to aug. This set of software architecture multiple choice questions & answers (mcqs) focuses on “architectural qualities” 1 which of the following are the main aspects for the qualilites of architecture. 1 2007 cdt413: advanced software engineering software architecture design software architecture design • software quality attributes • software architecture tactics • architectural patterns and styles.
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If 1980's As Falls Wichita, So Falls Wichita Falls was defined by Pat Metheny's charisma, its less accessible but certainly rewarding successor, Offramp, finds him leaning more toward the abstract. But as cerebral as Metheny gets on such atmospheric pieces as "Are You Going with Me?" and "Au Lait," his playing remains decidedly lyrical and melodic. Clearly influenced by Jim Hall, the thoughtful Metheny makes excellent use of space, choosing his notes wisely and reminding listeners that, while he has heavy-duty chops, he's not one to beat everybody over the head with them. Even when he picks up the tempo for the difficult and angular title song, he shuns empty musical acrobatics. Throughout the CD, Metheny enjoys a powerful rapport with keyboardist Lyle Mays, who also avoids exploiting his technique and opts for meaningful storytelling.
AllMusic Review by Alex Henderson
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Mrs Goodall's Note:
Got this recipe from my mom, not quite sure where she got it...but it's yummy. Serve with lots of the salsa. I usually double the salsa recipe.
My Private Note
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- 1 large tomato, diced
- 2 tablespoons red onions, minced
- 1 jalapeno, seeded and minced
- 1 scallion, chopped
- 1 tablespoon fresh cilantro, chopped
- 1 teaspoon seasoned rice wine vinegar
- 1/2 teaspoon lime juice
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 1/4 teaspoon ground black pepper
- 1/2 cup roasted cashews
- 1 large butternut squash
- 1 medium yellow onion, peeled and roughly chopped
- 2 medium carrots, peeled and roughly chopped
- 3 stalks celery, roughly chopped (no leaves)
- 1 tablespoon vegetable oil
- 2 cups apple cider
- 3 cups water
- 2 teaspoons ground chimayo chilies
- 1/2 teaspoon ground cumin
- 2 teaspoons fresh mint, chopped
- 1/2 cup cream
- 1 1/2 teaspoons salt
- 1/2 teaspoon ground black pepper
- 1FOR SALSA.
- 2Combine all the ingredients except the cashews in a small bowl and mix well.
- 3Add the cashews to the salsa just before serving.
- 4FOR THE SOUP.
- 5Place a large heavy bottomed pan over medium heat and add the oil.
- 6When the oil is hot, add the vegetables and cook stirring frequently for 10 minutes until the onion is opaque and the squash is soft.
- 7Add the apple cider and water and turn up the heat until the mixture comes to a boil.
- 8Turn the heat down to low and let the mixture simmer until the carrots are very soft, about 45 minutes.
- 9Add the chile, cumin, chopped mint and cream and let the mixture simmer 5 minutes more.
- 10Remove the soup from the heat and puree it in batches in a blender (or use an immersion blender).
- 11Strain the pureed soup through a strainer and season with salt and pepper.
- 12Ladle into bowls and top each bowl with salsa.
- 13Serve and enjoy!
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Nutritional Facts for Butternut Squash Soup With Spicy Cashew Salsa
Serving Size: 1 (561 g)
Servings Per Recipe: 6
- Amount Per Serving
- % Daily Value
- Calories 275.2
- Calories from Fat 127
- Total Fat 14.1 g
- Saturated Fat 5.2 g
- Cholesterol 22.1 mg
- Sodium 802.9 mg
- Total Carbohydrate 37.5 g
- Dietary Fiber 6.7 g
- Sugars 8.8 g
- Protein 5.4 g
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Kathmandu, Sep 7 (IANS) A UK-based Nepal army officer accused of torturing suspected Maoist detainees was on Wednesday acquitted by a British Court, media reports said.
Lt Col Kumar Lama, 49, from St Leonards, London, allegedly ordered the torture of two suspected Maoist rebels, Kamal Husein and Janak Raut, who were held at the Gorusinghe barracks in Kapilvastu district of Nepal in 2005.
Charges against Lama were brought under section 134 of the Criminal Justice Act, which allows suspects to face trial before a British court even if their alleged offences are committed abroad and they are not UK citizens.
He was arrested in January 2013 while vacationing with family in the UK. He was on leave from his posting as a UN peacekeeper in South Sudan.
His solicitor, Jonathan Grimes, a criminal law partner at the law firm Kingsley Napley, said: “I am extremely pleased for Col Lama that this case is finally at an end and that he can put these allegations behind him.”
Baburam Bhattarai, who was Nepal’s Prime Minister when Lama was arrested tweeted: “Britain had committed a blunder by arresting Colonel Lama. It has corrected (the mistake) to some extent by releasing him. Let no one commit a crime of undermining Nepali sovereignty in the upcoming days.”
Lama is the first person to be tried outside Nepal for alleged human rights violations and war crimes in Nepal under the universal jurisdiction.
“The case has already established that the door of universal jurisdiction for the victims of torture and other serious violations is open in the UK and beyond. The experiences that we have gained will help to find justice in other similar cases and to continue with our fight against impunity in Nepal,” Kathmandu Post quoted Mandira Sharma, founder of rights NGO Advocacy Forum.
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Solar Panel Cleaning and More
Solar panel cleaning can do a lot for your solar panels. It can make sure that they’re free of debris that would keep them from generating as much power as they should. Cleaning keeps your panels sparkling and clear, so as to give you as much power as possible. However, that’s not the only way to maintain your solar panels. In fact, cleaning is just one of the services that we offer. In this blog, we’ll go over some of our services in addition to cleaning that we offer.
Solar Panel Cleaning
Of course, cleaning is one of our most popular services. That’s for good reason: we’re true cleaning professionals. Cleaning your solar panels is one of those tasks that should be left to the professionals. Think of it like your carpets: you can vacuum them every now and then. But, the truly “ground in” stains aren’t going to come out from regular household cleaners. The same goes for your solar panels: our tools and tech can get your panels cleaner than anything else. Beyond that, our cleaners are also safer, too. We have special cleaning products that are designed to be safe for solar panels. That way, your panels won’t be potentially damaged while they’re being cleaned.
As great as cleaning can be for your panels, cleaning can’t fix leaks. Leaks in your solar panels can be pernicious. They aren’t like leaks in your roof, for example. Should you have a leak in your roof, you’re likely to notice it. However, a leak in your solar panels can be much harder to notice. The only time you might notice that such a thing occurred is when you look at your electric bill. This is the kind of scenario that calls out for a solar panels professional. Another scenario: your roof is leaking, but your solar panels are in the way. Roofers don’t want to touch them. We can help here, too. Our pros can repair your solar panel leak. Alternately, we can work with your roofer, too. We have so many different ways to get the job done.
Repairs and Maintenance
Solar panels are a powerful, efficient way to generate energy. That being said, some of them do require a bit of upkeep. Cleaning is an important part of that upkeep, but cleaning often isn’t the extent of that upkeep. When something breaks down on your solar panels, for example, our trained experts can be there quickly to figure out what’s wrong and fix it. Indeed, we can even come out and help if you aren’t sure what the problem is. Our experts can arrive, ascertain what happened, and then dispatch a quailed tech to take care of it. More often than not, this is the kind of thing we can do in our first visit. On top of that, we can do this while you’re at home or work. So, you don’t have to plan your whole day around being at home to meet with the solar service technicians. It’s one more way that we make things easier on our customers.
There’s lots of debris that our cleaning can get off of your solar panels: grime, dirt, dust, bird droppings and more. That being said, washing your panels won’t keep animals off of them. No matter how many times we come out to clean your panels, cleaning probably won’t keep the squirrels away. Nor will it keep animals from biting into the wiring. So, we can install what’s called a “Critter Guard.” This device is exactly what it sounds like: something that keeps critters away from and off of your solar panels. This way, animals won’t affect your energy bill through clomping around on your solar panels.
Part of what makes solar panels so great is that they’re good for the environment as well as your pocketbook. You’re generating a kind of environmentally-friendly energy while also saving money on your electric bill… or at least, you should be. We can come out to you and perform what we call a “high electric bill audit.” If you feel your electric bill is still too high, or if it never came down after you put in a solar panel, then we can figure out what’s going on. Often, this leads to the discovery of some solar panel problem. Then, we can help to fix that as well.
In the many years that we’ve been helping people with their solar panels, we’ve cleaned so many panels. In that time, we’ve developed a wealth of information and experience in regards to how solar panels can run their best. We can bring that to your solar panels, so that you’re getting everything out of them you should be. To learn more, head to our site or give us a call at (818) 740-6150.
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Benefit Bella Bamba Ultra Plush Lip Gloss
At Beauty Bible Towers (OK, it’s a Georgian house by the sea), we occasionally have what we call ‘Bella Bamba moments’. We’ll say to one another ‘Bella Bamba’ – and that person knows that they’re looking a little peaky. And just what to do… The original Benefit Bella Bamba is a truly miraculous blusher: you can be as drab/grey/hungover/flu-stricken/short of sleep as anything. Swirl a big, fat, fluffy brush in this lightly shimmering pink powder, fluff onto cheeks and hey, presto! Alive again. There are other shades but it’s Bella Bamba that’s our beauty equivalent of the loaves and the fishes.
So now, Benefit has launched a collection of lip glosses – Ultra Plush – to complement their face-waking blushers. Not surprisingly, Bella Bamba is our instant fave, doing for lips what its blushing sister does for cheeks: a slick of this luscious, non-gummy gloss (more like a rich, tinted balm) is all it takes for instant pretty.
Benefit Ultra Plush Lip Gloss in Bella Bamba is a sheer, watermelon/raspberry pink – like lips. Rather, like you want your lips to look.
When you’re feeling drab/grey/hungover/flu-stricken/short of sleep.
(And yes, it happens to us, too.)
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Coordinates: 1°25′N 173°00′E / 1.417°N 173.000°E
Kiribati , officially the Republic of Kiribati (Gilbertese: [Ribaberiki] Kiribati), is an island country in the central Pacific Ocean. The permanent population is over 119,000 (2020), more than half of whom live on Tarawa atoll. The state comprises 32 atolls and one remote raised coral island, Banaba. There is a total land area of 811 square kilometres (313 square miles) dispersed over 3.5 million km2 (1.4 million sq mi) of ocean.
Their spread straddles the equator and the 180th meridian, although the International Date Line goes around Kiribati and swings far to the east, almost reaching the 150° W meridian. This brings Kiribati’s easternmost islands, the southern Line Islands south of Hawaii, into the same day as the Gilbert Islands and places them in the most advanced time zone on Earth: UTC+14. Kiribati is the only country in the world to be situated in all four cardinal hemispheres.
Kiribati gained its independence from the United Kingdom, becoming a sovereign state in 1979. The capital, South Tarawa, now the most populated area, consists of a number of islets, connected by a series of causeways. These comprise about half the area of Tarawa atoll. Prior to its independence, the country had exported phosphate; however, those mines are no longer viable with fisheries and export of copra driving much of the economy. Kiribati is one of the least developed countries in the world and is highly dependent on international aid for its economy.
Kiribati is a member of the Pacific Community (SPC), Commonwealth of Nations, the IMF, the World Bank, the OACPS and became a full member of the United Nations in 1999 and also a member of the Pacific Islands Forum. As an island nation, the islands are very vulnerable to climate change and addressing climate change has been a central part of its international policy, as a member of the Alliance of Small Island States.
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The ongoing growth of connected technologies, along with the critical nature of computing, has alerted businesses to the important need of preserving the health of their data centres. The combination of these developments has made it essential to have better alignment between equipment manufacturers and facility operations personnel to ensure proper and fault-tolerant operations, all of which need to support the latest technology and significant growth in data traffic.
The American Society of Heating, Refrigeration and Air-Conditioning Engineers (ASHRAE) is an international engineering organisation with more than 51,000 members worldwide. It focuses on issues such as the systems, energy efficiency, indoor air quality, refrigeration and sustainability within buildings. Founded in 1894, ASHRAE has continued to guide the industry with its combination of technical and educational expertise.
To further address the array of data centre specific issues, ASHRAE formed the Technical Committee 9.9 (TC9.9), which sits at the very heart of the drive for energy efficient data centres.
TC9.9 is made up of executives with extensive experience across the data centre industry – this includes owners, developers, manufacturers, consultants, researchers, universities, utilities, regulators, contractors, and government representatives. The TC9.9 IT Sub-Committee also includes senior personnel from many blue chip organisations, including Intel, IBM, Dell, Oracle and Google, amongst many others. The committee covers all aspects of mission critical facilities, data centres, technology spaces, and electronic equipment/systems.
As Senior Technical Director for Digital Realty in Europe and an active member of ASHRAE for well over a decade, I have seen first-hand the innovative and progressive work of TC9.9, which continues to re-define the standards of data centre development and operations. Our clients closely monitor the work of ASHRAE and TC9.9 for ‘best practice’ guidance in the design, construction and operation of their data centres.
At the beginning of this month, I was appointed to be a voting member of the ASHRAE TC9.9, along with 16 other voting members from across the globe, for a four-year term. The purpose of the committee is to promote the technical thought leadership that is championed by ASHRAE and its committees, to benefit not only Digital Realty clients, but the data centre industry as a whole.
Drawing on Digital Realty’s global experience and client base, we look forward to participating on the TC9.9 to advocate ASHRAE’s research and publications, that will help shape the future of our ever-evolving industry.
By Paul Finch, senior technical director, Digital Realty
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A close competition between great physicists …
James Chadwick, who discovered the neutron in 1932, was Rutherford’s assistant and one of his most brilliant disciples. On June 3, 1920 he heard Rutherford, in the circle of regulars Bakerian Lectures of the Royal Society, express the idea of a kind of atom of mass 1 and charge 0, which was not hydrogen: this object being not subject to the electrical repulsion that suffered protons and alpha particles, was able to approach nuclei and enter easily into it. Chadwick remembered 12 years later this statement, when he had to interpret the results of his experiments.
James Chadwick (1891 – 1974)
James Chadwick is best known for his discovery of the neutron in 1932, for which he received the Nobel Prize in 1935. Born in Manchester, he was one of the most brilliant disciples of Ernest Rutherford, with whom he worked from 1909 to 1935. Chadwick was one of the first in Britain to stress the possibility of developing an atomic bomb. Between 1943 and 1945 he was head of the British delegation at Los Alamos working on the Manhattan Project.
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The discovery of the neutron was the result of three sets of experiments done in three different countries, one leading to another. In this sense, it exemplifies the pursuit of knowledge.
In 1930, in Germany, W. Bothe and H.Becker, specialists of cosmic rays, observed that light elements bombarded by alpha particles emit “highly penetrating rays” that they assume to be gamma rays much more energetic than those emitted by radioactive nuclei or accompanying nuclear transmutations.
In 1931, in France, Irene and Frederic Joliot-Curie intrigued by these results try to understand the nature of this radiation and discover that it has the property to set atomic nuclei and particularly protons in motion… They assume that this could be a Compton effect between a gamma which they consider to have an energy of about 50 million electron volts (a very high energy for the time) and hydrogen. In the case of a proton, the kinematics of the collision is such that the photon must have such a high energy for communicating a kick to protons such as the one observed by Frederic and Irene Joliot-Curie. In the 1930s, there was not known sources of gamma of 50 million electron volts (Typically, the energies of gamma emitted by the nuclei are less than one million electron volts)
In 1932, once published these results, J. Chadwick in England made a test confirming those results and went further. By accurately measuring the energy of the ejected nuclei, he could say that the “ultra penetrating radiation” cannot be a gamma ray, of high energy, but must be composed of particle of mass 1 and of electric charge 0: this is the neutron.
All three teams had worked with the devices they have developed, but also with their own knowledge and were immersed in the tradition of their laboratories. It is not surprising that it was in the Cambridge laboratory, led by Rutherford, that the neutron was discovered. Chadwick had well remembered that Rutherford, indeed, had put forward a 13-year-old hypothesis of neutral particle about as heavy as a proton (In the 1920s, it was assumed that the nucleus was composed of protons accompanied by some electrons compensating some of the positive electric charges).
Physicists immediately give up their image of a nucleus made up of protons accompanied by captive electrons whose negative electric charge compensated for the positive charge of the protons. We owe to Chadwick and also to Rutherford, our modern image of the atomic nucleus composed of protons and neutrons!
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Together We Run Finishes in Biloxi 9-26-07
John and Karen Wallace of “Together We Run” have successfully ran across
America North to South beginning on 7/7/07 and ending on 9/26/07 covering
just over 1,300 miles. Photo updates are complete through the end of the
run with only a blog entry to go to wrap it up.
Thanks for those that followed along! There will be a much more thorough
wrap-up with stats and such once I get back to Seattle. I’m sitting in a
parking lot now borrowing internet from somebody. Everything down here is
just about two years old after being rebuilt since Hurricane Katrina. Still
lots of rebuilding to do so come down and visit if you can and don’t forget
this small part of the country.
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"Real happiness is found in the struggles we undergo to realise our goals, in our efforts to move forward." Daisaku Ikeda
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Afterward, by the point he may have shut her down with Bulma’s distant control system, Krillin’s emotions had already progressed to the purpose that he chose as an alternative to smash the controller and warn her of Cell’s approach regardless of the hazard this offered to the world. Just before her absorption, 18, after hearing Krillin being knocked away by Cell, attacked Cell in a fury and denounced the latter as a monster, despite being rendered quickly blind earlier as a result of Cell’s use of Solar Flare.
What did 17 wish for?
Jiren in the TOP Goku fights Hit again much later, and his power can be assumed to be about 10x that of when they first fought, since Goku didn’t need kaioken x10 to keep it even. Goku’s power level is therefore around 1000 quintillion, or 1 sextillion(in SSB) by the start of ToP.
She continues to chastise 18 for having trite aims and accuses her of not knowing what love is. Enraged, Ribrianne launches herself at 18 however hits a wall instead, she picks herself up and makes use of her A Maiden’s Charge on 18. Unable to dodge the assault because of her injury, 18 was about to be hit by Ribrianne when 17 interrupts her with a swift kick that sends her right into a wall. Rozie tries to launch a shock ki blast assault on the androids but hit Ribrianne after they dodged it.
Though she lacks her future counterpart’s sociopathic and murderous persona, she does share her counterpart’s love of shopping and interest in style, as well as taking care in sustaining her appearance and dislikes having her clothes or hair broken in battle. In the anime, she is proven to dislike Chi-Chi’s Chinese attire while attempting her garments when the Androids come to Goku’s House in search of Goku. This is in distinction together with her future counterpart who had no drawback with the Chinese dresses she tried on whereas purchasing for garments during The History of Trunks special, displaying that she and her counterpart apparently have totally different tastes in style.
Afterward, she is seen coaching alongside Krillin for the Tournament of Power, though because of how violent the training seemed, onlookers were led to believe it was a pair’s dispute gone too far. Android 18 and Krillin’s relationship began as a mutual yet unstated attraction regardless of their meeting as enemies in battle, as she spared his life and gave him a kiss on the cheek. It is unknown if Krillin had emotions before this kiss or if he developed a crush on her.
Following the battle with Cell, Krillin used the Dragon Balls to take away the bombs implanted in 18 and 17 in a selfless act he believed would permit them to reside happily together. 18 angrily corrected him on the fact that 17 is her brother, not her boyfriend, before leaving, flattered by Krillin’s emotions. It was this shared hatred of Gero that satisfied 18 that Cell was solely imitating 17’s voice to trick her.
Once Goku transforms into his Super Saiyan Blue kind, she states that though Krillin cannot win one-on-one against Goku, the Tournament of Power is a battle royal. When the beam wrestle between the 2 is not stepping into Krillin’s favor, she interrupts the struggle by kicking Goku’s Kamehameha to into the sky, sending each Krillin and Goku backward. She then runs to Krillin’s side, telling him the match isn’t over but, reminding them that the tournament is not going to be a no-guidelines fight to the death however a battle royale. Goku calls off the match, saying he realized what teamwork ought to be like, and he is relying on each Krillin and 18 within the event. 18 reveals that she has kept involved with 17 and that he works at a wildlife reserve, although she never asked the place it was.
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I'm interested in the best practices of using LDAP authentication in a Java-based web application. In my app I don't want to store username\password, only some ids. But I want to retrieve addition information (Name, Last name) if any exists in an LDAP catalog.
My team uses LDAP as a standard way of authentication. Basically, we treat LDAP as any another database.
To add user to application, you have to pick one from LDAP or create it in LDAP; when user is deleted from application, it stays in LDAP but has no access to application.
You basically need to store only LDAP username locally. You can either read LDAP data (e-mail, department etc) from LDAP each time, or pull it in application in some way, though reading it from LDAP is probably simpler and smarter since LDAP data can change. Of course, if you need reporting or use LDAP data extensively, you might want to pull it from LDAP (manually or with batch task).
The nice thing is that once a user is disabled in LDAP, it's disabled in all applications at once; also, user has same credentials in all applications. In corporate environment, with a bunch of internal applications, this is a major plus. Don't use LDAP for users for only one application; no real benefits in that scenario.
If you have more than one web based application and want to use LDAP authentication then a prepackaged single sign on solution might be better than creating your own LDAP authentication. CAS supports LDAP authentication and can pull back the data you need for your application.
At my college we actually have implemented CAS as a single sign on against our Active Directory server. We also utilize CAS to authenticate our J2EE applications and are working on using CAS to authenticate our PHP applications.
We use AD to hold the users for the domain. There are certain OUs for based on the type of user. The users each have a unique ID which happens to be their student/employee ID, so applications can use that as a primary key in their databases. We have a database driven authorization method for our PHP applications. Authorization for the J2EE application comes from a value in LDAP.
Good luck with your application.
So, you want user to enter ID only, and then grab the rest of their info from LDAP? That's quite easy.
Some LDAP implementations (notable MS ActiveDirectory LDAP) do not let you connect with anonymous user. For those you need to have a technical userid/password to connect.
As said above, LDAP is normally makes sense when you have many applications.
P.S. For feeling what LDAP is try Apache Directory Studio.
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5 types of posts that will dramatically boost your hospital’s Instagram profile
For years now, hospitals have debated whether or not the benefits of social media outweigh the potential risks. Thankfully, the fear has gradually subsided as healthcare professionals become more adept at the proper mannerisms of the digital world. While there are still those who refuse to adopt social media into their marketing strategy, the majority of hospitals around the country are now actively using social media, with Facebook and Twitter being the most notable platforms.
However, one platform that continues to be overlooked is Instagram, the social network built entirely around sharing photos and short videos. In fact, most studies that examine social media usage rates among healthcare providers don’t even list Instagram as one of the main platforms considered – falling behind Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, YouTube, Foursquare, and Blogging. Quite frankly, this is absurd, especially considering Instagram’s overall prominence in the social media world as a whole.
- Instagram has over 182.5 million users
- Roughly 58,000,000 photos are uploaded to Instagram each day
- 53% of Internet-using young adults use Instagram
- 49% of Instagram’s users use the app daily
More importantly, however, is the fact that when it comes to social media engagement rates, Instagram is king – by a relatively wide margin. This past year, a study was conducted that reviewed over 3 million user interactions with over 2,500 brand posts across seven social networks. The brands studied achieved an engagement rate of less than 0.1% on six of the seven social networks. However, one social network achieved an engagement rate of 4.21% – 58 times more engagement per follower than Facebook, and 120 times more engagement per follower than Twitter. That social network, as you may have guessed given the narrative of this article, was Instagram.
In a digital community driven by social engagement and interaction, why hospitals would choose not to utilize the social network that receives by far the most interaction of all social platforms is beyond me.
Instagram, social media’s photo album, gives hospitals a unique chance to show their creativity and authenticity in a way that other social media sites cannot. It’s a rare opportunity to truly show others what you’re about, rather than merely tell them. In a world constantly barraging us with tweets and posts claiming this or that, having unambiguous visual evidence is quite refreshing. This goes a long way towards building a relationship with your online community.
When using Instagram, it is important to remember to play to its strengths. There are certain posts – quotes, stats, questions, etc. – that typically perform well across all platforms (including Instagram). You can include brief messages for each image to describe the photo itself, however, don’t lose sight of the fact that Instagram is centered entirely on images – so plan accordingly.
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Here are several ideas for the types of Instagram posts that will help build your hospital’s Instagram portfolio:
Promoting Special Events
A “special event” can be a pretty loose description, and essentially is whatever you deem it to be. Whether you have a local or national celebrity stopping by to spend time with patients, Santa comes to check on the kids during Christmas, or Batman drops by for a visit, snap a quick photo, and share it with your followers.
Most hospitals participate in a number of fundraising events throughout the year to help raise either money or awareness towards a particular cause. One of the most crucial aspects of any fundraising endeavor is spreading the word of its existence. That’s where Instagram comes in. Take a picture of the event going on or design a banner to promote the fundraiser beforehand, and include a description regarding how people can volunteer, donate, etc. – it’s a free advertisement to an enormous audience!
Introducing specific individuals is a great way to develop trust and build a genuine relationship with your followers. Posting a picture of a hospital staff member and sharing an interesting fact about the particular person has a humanizing effect that shows you are more than just images on a screen. Posting pictures of your patients can also be a highly beneficial practice, but should always be done with extreme caution to ensure no privacy policies are being broken in the process.
Instagram can also be a valuable tool when it comes to educating the public on personal health issues. There are a number of ways to do this, including sharing diagrams, charts, checklists, excerpts from articles, and more. GIFs and memes can also be used as a valuable educational tool, even if they include an added comical element as well.
Behind the Scenes
Offering your followers a look at the action behind the scenes is similar to featuring your employees in the sense that it humanizes your brand. Audiences love seeing what is going on behind the curtain that makes your hospital function. Giving them the ability to see lets them feel like they are part of the action, and part of something they would otherwise not have the opportunity to do so.
More than any other social network, Instagram’s image-driven nature gives you the chance to bring your brand to life. It lets your audience feel like they are part of the action, which has a dramatic impact on your ability to develop a positive relationship with them. Building an interactive community and establishing trust is what social media marketing is all about, and by all measures, Instagram gives you a fantastic opportunity to do just that.
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Forget about poutine (just for a minute, okay?) – Vancouver pizza is where it’s at. By ‘it’ we mean the most satisfyingly delicious pies and slices that would make even an Italian jealous.
The pizza scene here ranges from greasy-yet-gourmet slices to authentic wood-fired pies that you would happily eat every weekend. This is one city where carb lovers will be safe and sound.
We’ve rounded up the best of the best pizzas in Toronto, so get feasting…
Best pizzas in VancouverHow do these rankings work?
Spacca Napoli are experts in making the best pizzas in Vancouver, serving local craft beers, and pulling shots of creamy espresso – what more could you need in life?
The wood-burning oven and close attention to the traditional Italian details means this is the real deal. Fior di latte instead of mozzarella adds extra creaminess to the pies and the toppings include truffle cream and cured meats.
Droolworthy pizza baked to perfection in a stone oven. As well as all your usual suspects for toppings, they also do a great range of vegan pizzas. But cheese lovers should go for the Parcheesi with mozzarella, cheddar, ricotta, smoked gouda, parmesan.
Plus, there’s hundreds and hundreds of board and card games free to play with every meal.
Pizzeria Farina brings traditional Neapolitan pizza with chewy crusts, rich tomato sauce and perfectly placed chunks of mozzarella that melts in your mouth. They serve up pies to eat-in and take away daily until the dough runs out. Which, by the way, it often does, so get here early.
This Gastown favourite has certified Neapolitan-style pies that never fail to deliver on flavour. If you’re looking for quality, authentic pizza in Vancouver served by friendly staff, you’ll find all of that and more here.
You can’t go wrong with a visit here when in the mood for a classic Vancouver pizza.
Bufala make fresh, scratch-made classic & contemporary pizzas in the traditional Naples style – blistered to perfection in their 800 degree stone oven. Even something as simple as their Margherita is outstanding: it’s smothered in fior di latte, fresh basil, maldon salt and a tangy marinara sauce.
Supreme Pizza is where you need to go when you just want a greasy, cheesy pizza to eat in front of the TV. Forget about Pizza Hut or any generic pizza chains – this takeout joint has the best (and cheapest) pizzas to go.
A foolproof pie that always hits the spot.
Di Beppe is inspired by the Italian immigrant’s desire to share a piece of home while living abroad, so they share all their traditional recipes and love of food. A charming cafe-restaurant with imported groceries for sale, this is a great find.
Grab a square slice of pizza for a quick lunch or settle in with a full metre-size pizza with some friends.
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AUTHOR INTERVIEW WITH THE WONDERFUL CINDY TOMAMICHEL
Rick Haynes: Author interview
Today I introduce Rick Haynes, an English writer and author of the recently published epic fantasy novel, Heroes Never Fade.
Rick has quite a few novels published, so make sure you check out his Amazon page and website, the links are below.
What is your current project?
Hi Cindy, thank you for inviting me to your excellent blog. My passion is epic fantasy and with the recent release of my second novel on the 11th of April, I’m taking a short break from writing, but then again I’m a terrible liar. I’ve put together about 2/3 chapters for the last book in the trilogy, scrapped them, and started again. Alas the result is the same so I’m looking for inspiration right now. In due course, something, a picture, a collection of words or even a chapter from an old book will switch on and I will take a ride without conditions inside my fertile brain.
Give us a good one liner from your latest book.
Okay –dokey here is a one liner from Heroes Never Fade.
‘For when those gods sleep, evil are those that awake from slumber and on a whim destroy for their own gratification.’
What’s your favourite imaginary world that’s not your own?
The land of Middle Earth would be number one without any doubt. J.R.R. Tolkien created a complete world together with a new language. Readers could not only embrace the truly amazing characters that leapt from every page, they could also understand the depth of their feelings. The Lord of the Rings has stood the test of time and will continue to do so for many generations to come. And that is the mark of a true genius.
Do you belong to any groups that you find helpful?
Yes indeed. I belong to two small local writing groups and the mighty Portsmouth Hub. The former, are, as the word local suggests, more intimate and very friendly. It’s very much a hands on experience, especially the bi-weekly challenges etc. I’ve only been writing since 2014 and there is no doubt that I would never have travelled so far without their support. The hub is part of a major group in England and thus more for listening, than doing. But when you get to meet agents, screen writers and famous authors like Andy McNab, then the monthly evening meetings are pretty special. It’s chalk and cheese nights and that’s great for me.
What’s the scariest thing you have ever done, and did it end up in a story?
I’m wracking my brain on this one to be honest. Looking back to the days when I played football (soccer) at county level, I remember joining a new team on the south coast. I saw my team mates being scythed down one by one, for a huge guy of 6 feet four inches tall, and built like a barn door, had decided to attack anything on two legs. Now being a cockney from London and a bit cocky for a 23 year old, I knew how to look after myself on a football pitch, and it had been drummed into me to look after my mates as well. I was only 11 stone and built like a willow in a breeze but when I saw one of my team mates hit late and go down in great pain, I went in with both feet raised and took goliath out, London style. (That’s tackling knee high and it does tend to hurt a little). Looking up at me through waves of pain the big man spoke as he winced.
“Goody never forgets.”
My retort was instant. “Is you name Dumbo then, cos you play like a (swear word omitted) elephant.”
It was only later that my mates told me that ‘Goody’ had just been released from prison after throwing a javelin at his neighbour. Luckily I never met him on a football field again. Maybe I went in a little too hard? But, more likely, I was damn lucky. Writing a story about that event has never crossed my mind until your question prompted me.
Name another author that you would recommend reading.
Apart from Tolkien, the late David Gemmell is a must for all readers of Epic fantasy. He is still widely regarded as the finest writer of Heroic (Epic these days) Fantasy. I am lucky that two reviewers have compared my work to his, and their comments really did make my day. I just need the exposure and perhaps more folk will like my novels, for as David Gemmell made it, why not me?
I dream, because if I didn’t, how would my dreams ever come true?
If you travelled in time, when would be your choice? Would you prefer magical or technological means of travel?
Definitely a magical journey would suit my very vivid imagination. I can already picture myself looking at scenes of vast lands where demons and angels, wizards and warriors, live and die in a world of endless possibilities. Back to the future or forward to the past? Who knows? Yet, would my mind be able to absorb all of the new possibilities? I’d clearly need a helper, so please contact me for your application form. The time zone would be within the world that I created, but not one technological advanced.
Name 5 fictional characters you would invite to a dinner party.
First up would be a character from Heroes Never Fade and that means Grona, father of Tarn and grandfather to Lori, simply because he hates everyone, which initially includes his family. He loves ale, whoring and fighting, and not necessarily in that order. I would then choose Druss, the main protagonist in many of David Gemmell’s books. He would provide a strong opposition to Grona. They are of similar ages, and doughty warriors, but that’s about as far as similarity goes for Druss has a code of honour and Grona couldn’t give a damn. I would also invite Titian, the god of war, and his sister Jade, the goddess of peace and harmony from my books. As Titian treats humans as pawns in his game, and his sister constantly seeks to counter his actions, I can see fun and games even before the soup is served, especially as they would both have to adopt human form. I can visualise Grona and Druss arguing over who was going to kill the god of war first. Finally I would need a peacekeeper, a loyal and loving family man. The fact that Prince Wren would be called back from the dead is irrelevant for this flamboyant character in Evil Never Dies, my first epic fantasy novel, had few enemies and was loved by all. Whether he could keep the rest in check would be doubtful but his smile would light up any party and after a few drinks, who knows?
What is the next project?
The third book in my trilogy of standalone tales – I can’t abide reading a book to the last page only to find out that the end of the saga is in book 2 or even 3 – is likely to be entitled Magic Never Ends. This will continue the theme as the first two are, Evil Never Dies and Heroes Never Fade. It will once more be a standalone novel, yet, will follow on after Heroes Never Fade. I suspect the word count will be around 90k but who knows at this stage. But one thing that I do know is that some of the main characters will return. Yet, some of the minor roles, or not so minor in the last book, will feature more in the new one. The top of the list will be a mother and daughter in league with the goddess of peace and harmony, Jade. I do like my feisty ladies.
I extend sincere thanks to Cindy for giving me the opportunity of answering her questions, and thus to give you more information about me, my books, and my wonderful characters.
The links are shown below so please check me out. I’d love to hear from you.
Love and laughter.
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Amazon author page: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Rick-Haynes/e/B00CK8IXFO/
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When Brendan Rodgers jumped ship there was an absolute outpouring of emotion from the Celtic support, all negative.
This was the guy we all believed was taking us to the ten.
There was outrage, calls of betrayal and accusations of him being a mercenary who had abused the support by pretending to be one of us only to up sticks and leave as soon as he got a better offer. I felt a lot of that myself although I’m cynical enough to understand that, in football, money talks and frothy emotional appeals tend to evaporate when the cold cash and status of the EPL, La Liga and Serie A are involved, so after the initial shock of Rodgers leaving, I didn’t experience the bitter resentment towards him that many of us had.
The reason i was so surprised that he left was based on the ego of the man himself.
I felt the chance of being immortalised in Celtic folklore as the man who led us to the holy grail would be too much for him to resist. Then he could sail off into the EPL sunset with his legacy in place and his stock sky high.
I found out he had left on Twitter while i was out walking the dog.
Here was the guy who had claimed to be one of us, who had taken the acclaim of the support as a messiah, who had given us an unbeaten season, two trebles and the aura of invincibility.
For me personally he had exercised all the ghosts of living through the Rangers domination of the 90’s. When Tom Rogic scored ‘that’ goal against Aberdeen I was an emotional wreck. I had recently lost my lifelong best friend, the guy who I’d sat next to at Celtic Park through the late 90’s and the Martin O’Neil years and shared so much heartbreak and joy with in relation to Celtic.
The last time we had together was the 5-1 ‘Dembele’ derby earlier in the season so the emotion and drama of that treble winning goal was overwhelming.
So when Brendan left so abruptly it initially felt like being dumped by a childhood sweetheart or losing a much loved pet. The rhetoric was intense, he was ‘the rat’ or ‘the snake’, he was a liar and a mercenary and worst of all he was an imposter, who had abused the loyalty and love of the support and would never be welcomed back to Paradise.
Often time is the great healer but the emotion attached to this was such that if anything, the animosity towards him has grown.
Which brings me, now, to the controversial bit. I’m aware that many fans would get to this part and refuse to even consider a mitigation of Brendan leaving, but hopefully some people will read on.
I want to take you back to an interview which Rodgers gave just a short time before his departure, in the January window of that year.
News had come through that we had signed Marion Shved, a handy looking winger who was playing out his skin in the Ukrainian league. On the surface this looked like a good signing but when asked, Brendan appeared agitated and claimed that he had no idea who he was and made a comment about having hundreds of wingers.
At the time it seemed a bit strange and a quick YouTube search showed Shved to be a talented player so I didn’t think too much about it. In hindsight, what must his relationship with the board have been like for him to disavow this kid live on TV?
If not Brendan, then who signed him? I always got the sense that Peter Lawwell’s nose had been put out of joint by 1) Rodgers presence at the club and 2) Rodgers success and relationship with the support. I’ll explain why.
Ronny Deila was a Lawwell appointment and part of the ‘project’. When we lost that cup semi against the Ibrox club, Dermot stepped in, bypassed all Lawwell’s processes and appointed his man, Rodgers. Two ego’s the size of Lawwell’s and Rodgers can’t exist in the same space.
Lawwell obviously fancies himself as a football mind and had appointed managers he could dominate and who would be clear who had the final say. All that finished with Rodgers sweeping in. He had the experience and clout to demand his own backroom staff and sports science systems and wouldn’t have signed had he not been given assurances around budgets and sales.
Lawwell thought he was the ‘Billy Big Baws’ around the place so I imagine him smiling through gritted teeth as Celtic fans filled a stand to welcome Rodgers.
As that pre-season got underway we all expected that team to be gutted and some money to be spent. The team looked dead on its feet and our leader, Scott Brown seemed finished. We brought in Moussa Dembele on a cut price deal from Fulham, Kolo Toure and after much haggling and delay signed Scott Sinclair but the real magic was in the transformation of the players already there.
Kieran Tierney, Stuart Armstrong, Callum McGregor and Scott Brown were all improved beyond measure and the players who had thrown Ronny under the bus were cut out like a cancer, no matter their reputation. I don’t need to go through the season blow by blow.
We all remember, but going into the second season we had hopes of making some progress in Europe. We had a team bursting with confidence and with the addition of two or three top players there was a real feeling we could go and compete but as the transfer window wound down there was that sinking feeling that the board had decided to gamble. Again.
We negotiated the qualifiers and made the Champions League for the second year running but the only significant signing we made was to bring in Odsonne Edouard from PSG, a player with huge potential but not the experienced campaigner we craved and with the caveat that rather than being brought in to partner Dembele he was being brought in to replace him.
We had also lost Paddy Roberts, with the board seemingly unwilling to match Man City’s fairly modest (given what they paid for him) demands.
No ‘blue chip’ (Peter Lawwell’s term) player was signed this season, and everyone could see we needed a couple of defenders. Kolo Toure’s experience had been invaluable the previous year but his playing days were over. Boyata played the game the way Brendan wanted but other than Tierney we had no other defenders good enough and received some pretty sore and humiliating lessons from PSG. Still, we managed third place and fell into the Europa League and Europe after Christmas.
The following summer saw the crisis break. It started with the saga of John McGinn, and here’s where I believe we find Brendan Rodgers tipping point. McGinn was a no brainer. The top player in Scotland out-with our own squad, a readymade replacement for Scott Brown and a guy steeped in our own traditions. It should have been easy.
But oh no, in typical Lawwell fashion it became a battle of egos between him and Rod Petrie of Hibs. I’ve heard a lot of negative nonsense from Celtic fans about McGinn since. How he chose the EPL gold over Celtic and how any Celtic fan would crawl over glass to play for Celtic.
This is a professional football player first and a Celtic fan second.
As we’ve seen with KT, these guys want to see how high a level their talent can get them to and secure themselves financially into the bargain. McGinn had every right to keep his options open and every right to tell Lawwell where to stick it as he haggled and dragged his feet over the few hundred thousand more Hibs wanted than we were willing to pay.
That said, by all accounts he did want to play for us and with all the success Brendan had brought to the club, Lawwell should have gone and got him the player he had specifically asked for to enhance the first team, but no, in true Celtic PLC fashion we refused to pay the asking price and McGinn was made an offer from Aston Villa and off he went.
And so another transfer window that started with so much expectation ending underwhelming and as fans we had to once again endure the disappointment of those closing hours in the window running down with no sky sports announcement of a signing other than Lewis Morgan who we loaned back to St Mirren till the end of the season.
And just to add insult to injury we sold arguably our best player to Lyon for 20m, making the club a tidy profit but leaving us threadbare in terms of strikers and on top of that had to watch McGinn take the Premier League by storm with a string of brilliant performances.
We were then put out of Europe by an average AEK Athens side and the deficiencies in our squad were now becoming plain to see.
Then in January we had the interview that I started this article with.
Brendan chose to publicly deny having any knowledge of Marion Shved, going as far as to say he had never heard of him. I believe by this point the writing was on the wall and Brendan could see that Lawwell and the board would never allow him to build the team that could take us onto the next level.
Do we really think that Brendan Rodgers sanctioned the signings of Kouassi and Bayo?
How many times in the last 15 years have we seen those types of signings?
Balde, Bangura, Ciftci, Blackett etc.
They have Lawwell’s fingerprints all over them.
Don’t get me wrong, not all Brendan’s signings were successful. Compper became a figure of fun, Musonda never cut it, but you could at least see what they were supposed to be. An experienced centre half and a playmaker.
Given the poor quality of player we were bringing in and having lost Armstrong, Roberts, Dembele and with the vultures starting to circle around Tierney, Rodgers must have looked around and realised that he had taken us as far as he was going to be allowed to.
Given the ego and ambition of the man there was no way he was going to allow Lawwell to ruin his brand and with that his chance of landing a plum job down south when the time was right.
From that point on I imagine he had the feelers out and I think Lawwell knew that.
Even after achieving back to back trebles for the first time ever, the next season saw us patch the team up with loan players. Timo Weah, Oli Burke and Jeremy Toljan came in, all decent enough but this team bore no comparison to our Invincibles of two years previous.
The pace, movement and incisiveness was gone and instead the football was often turgid and one dimensional. The Ibrox club were slowly improving under Gerard and importantly, he was being backed by a board willing to risk everything to stop Celtic, while our board in their complacency and arrogance weren’t even prepared to gamble on the Champions League prelims and obviously thought that the Ibrox club’s troubles off the field would dictate their success on it.
And then all of a sudden Brendan Rodgers was gone, and the howls of betrayal followed him all the way down to his new club Leicester city, the plum EPL job he’d been waiting for.
He left us six points clear in the title race, having already secured the League Cup and in the latter stages of the Scottish Cup.
His legacy was an incredible double treble but the manner of his leaving was so shocking to some that it tainted all his achievements at the club.
We’re now 18 months on from that day and where do we find ourselves?
Lennon was announced as the man to steady the ship and get the 8th title in the bag. Being a Celtic icon his presence was able to lift the support after the shock of Rodgers leaving and despite some ropey displays and games in which we left it to the last second, he was able to get us over the line and secure the treble treble.
A fantastic achievement and the point at which he should have been moved to another role at the club or used the capital he had built to secure himself another job.
In the six months from Rodgers leaving to Lennon securing the treble, Lawwell should have been scouring the globe for someone to come in for the final push and beyond. But my guess is that Lawwell disliked the experience of having a personality in charge that could dominate his own so much, that he put his own sense of importance before what was best for the club.
Let’s be clear, it’s not every day a Scottish club can attract an A-list manager to sign up. Rodgers was that. He could have gone to any league and had his pick of a host of top clubs but he chose to come to Celtic. It’s well known that we’re a kind of gateway club and success here can open doors but Rodgers didn’t need us for that.
He had great success at Swansea and but for a Gerrard slip would have led Liverpool to their first championship in a generation. He is the real deal, as we’re seeing again this season. The fans understood that we couldn’t replace him like for like but there were a lot of exciting names mentioned and much debate about who the new boss should be.
Of course there was a section of the support who wanted Lennon to stay on.
We had been stung by Rodgers departure and having a Celtic man in there was like having an emotional Elastoplast over that wound, but having learned nothing from the past I was hopeful and excited that we’d appoint a modern type coach with a system that could be utilised at every level, and who could take us beyond ten in a row and into the next chapter.
Lawwell wasn’t having that.
He wasn’t going to have someone take the limelight from him and dictate the direction of the club so he took advantage of the emotion and tribalism around Lennon and appointed him straight after he had won the Scottish Cup and sealed the treble, admitting afterwards that they hadn’t even interviewed another candidate.
To say i was gutted at Lennon’s appointment was an understatement.
We had gone from an A-list manager to a guy who’s only qualification was that he had won the league with us before and “knew the club”.
He took the fans for sentimental, gullible fools who would welcome home one of our own.
I don’t mean to be disrespectful to Lennon here, or anyone who supported his appointment, but he had failed in every position he had since leaving us before and shouldn’t have been anywhere near the job. That is on Lawwell.
Where we are now is on Lawwell.
He basically made himself director of football and his power around the club is such that he actually thought he should be the arbiter of what players we signed using the bottom line rather than the evolution of the first team as his measure for success.
In the cold light of day, setting all emotion aside, would we really expect someone of Rodgers calibre to put up with having Lawwell’s huge ego and sense of importance as an obstacle to his own career? Would any other top manager have stayed as long as Brendan did? I think Rodgers knew he was finished at Celtic before the end of his second season. I think it was his intention to write himself into Celtic folklore then go back down south and I think Peter Lawwell resented the way he was appointed and the adoration he was given by the fans and I think he obstructed whatever assurances had been made to Rodgers to the point that he saw what was coming and jumped ship before it affected his own stock.
Should Rodgers have done the honourable thing and seen out the season?
Yes, he probably should, but knowing what we know now, and knowing that for all Rodgers is a bit of a self-preening and egotistical man, he’s also a clever man.
He saw the cliff edge on the horizon and chose to get the hell out of dodge before it impacted his own career. I’m not sure I blame him for that to be honest.
Look at the absolute mess we’re in now?
Lennon has been outsmarted and out-manoeuvred by an ever improving Steven Gerard at almost every turn. That’s not on Lennon, his limitations are clear, that’s on the man who appointed him. The man who thinks his own legacy is more important than the legacy of a club legend who’s now going to be remembered for grimly hanging on to a sinking ship when he should have stepped off and handed the reins to someone else.
All of this is just my opinion of course and it might be miles off the mark but I remember Rodgers saying that one day we’d understand why he left the way he did. For me that realisation is now when I look at the wreckage of a season that should have been the pinnacle of an incredible decade of success for Celtic, in spite of our self-appointed director of football.
Chris Cominato is a Celtic fan and blogger, and one of the admins of the CelticBlog Facebook group.
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Well-decorated Tanzanian budding artist, Rayvanny unravels another fascinating dope record captioned One Day Yes.
On this day, we bring to you another well-curated soundtrack captioned One Day Yes which was performed by the award-winning Tanzanian singer, songwriter, dancer, and the Next Level Music Records boss, Raymond Shaban Mwakyusa, better known as Rayvanny.
After the successful release of his previous track titled Nakupenda, he came through with another stunning track captioned One Day Yes which has been bursting loudly on our speakers nonstop. This track, One Day Yes was recorded with notable lyrics and infectious vocals.
He introduced this song titled One Day Yes as the ninth track off his nine-track studio project named Flowers III EP. Rayvanny was nominated for several music awards, such as AEUSA for Best New Talent, Uganda Entertainment Award for Best African Act, and BET Award for International Viewers' Choice.
Download Latest Rayvanny Songs / Music, Videos & Albums/EP's here On Trendysongz.
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1. INTERFERING MATERIALS
Glass, metal, and plastics clearly do not belong in the compost heap – an explanation is unnecessary.
Coal ash is suitable for composting only to a limited extent. Ashes contain high concentrations of heavy metals, and the large quantities of potash increase the salt content of the compost, leading to a saturation of the soil over the years.
3. MATERIALS CONTAMINATED BY PESTICIDES
Although most pesticides are degraded through composting, these starting materials are hardly recommended. Too little is known about the combination of such agents and the danger of the degradation products. For an example, clopyralid (this substance is allowed as a herbicide not only for farming and plant nursing, but also for home gardens) is not degraded in the digestive system of a cow, nor in the subsequent composting of manure. It has phytotoxic effects even in the compost.
4. VACUUM CLEANER BAGS, STREET SWEEPINGS
The contents of vacuum cleaner bags and dirt from the road or the parking lot contain tire debris, air pollutants, etc. It is also not known what these materials introduce into the compost heap ecosystem.
5. LEATHER AND TREAT WOOD
Leather and wood are often impregnated with chemicals that assist in the preservation of leather or the preservation of wood. These also kill the soil life in the compost and can be difficult to degrade, as they were actually designed to withstand the forces of nature.
6. DOG, CAT, AND BIRD DROPPINGS
The droppings of these omnivores is usually contaminated with germs and parasites, which can become a problem if the compost sanitation is not sufficient.
7. ROOT WEEDS
Creeping thistle, couch grass or field bindweed are very tough, and oftentimes, only two to three centimeters long pieces of root already multiply magnificently in compost heaps. Roots that were painstakingly removed from beds should therefore left out to dry for about ten days in the sun; to see if they are still alive, make a cut into the roots, and only then put them into the composter!
8. WEED SEEDS
Weed seeds can only be destroyed in composting by the high temperatures in the hot rotting. If the weeds are weeded out before flowering, there certainly are no seeds, and young plants can be much easier to remove from the bed.
9. MEAT, SAUSAGE, BONE
May only be composted if a hot rotting takes place by the addition of fresh waste. In no case can large pieces or a whole animals compost! Avoid areas where there are problems with rodents. Meat residues should be covered to protect them from flies.
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Following the impacts of Typhoon Faxai on Japan, Property Claim Services (PCS) told us that it has designated Faxai as the first new catastrophe loss event it will track and report on under its PCS Japan service.
Typhoon Faxai struck Japan on September 9th, impacting the Tokyo area with some of the largest and most significant damage seen in the Chiba, Kanagawa and Shizuoka prefectures.
Meanwhile, the domestic Japanese insurance market is anticipated to take a similar sized loss to 2018’s typhoon Trami, which is estimated to have cost the sector between US $3 billion and $4.5 billion, and just two of the leading Japanese primary insurance carrier groups have said they expect around US $1 billion of gross losses each from typhoon Faxai.
PCS launched its Japan focused industry loss data and index service in January 2019, as it responded to demand from clients following the impacts of major catastrophe losses in 2018. The first PCS triggered Japan ILW contract was arranged soon after in April by reinsurance broker Willis Re.
Typhoon Faxai is the first major catastrophe event to strike the country and deserve designation under PCS Japan since the service’s launch.
By officially designating typhoon Faxai under the PCS Japan service it kicks off PCS’ process to monitor the event as it develops, aggregate data on the industries losses from it and report an estimate of the insurance and reinsurance industry loss.
Ted Gregory, director of operations for PCS, explained what this means to the firm, “This is the first new catastrophe that we’ve designated under our PCS Japan platform, demonstrating our ability to report on new events as they occur, in addition to the decades of historical losses we researched.
“We take tremendous pride in being able to provide the reliable and independent service that our customers and the industry have come to expect from PCS.”
Commenting on the typhoon Gregory said, “With Faxai affecting Chiba and the Greater Tokyo area – with winds exceeding 216 km/h in some areas and rainfall exceeding 300mm in some areas during the course of the storm – our team knew from our experiences dealing with hurricanes in the western hemisphere that this storm could quickly generate enough aggregated losses to exceed our catastrophe designation threshold of US$2.5 billion.
“While our preliminary estimate is several weeks away from being released to our subscribers, we anticipate that there may be some similarities to challenges of demand surge and business interruption faced in 2018 with Jebi and Trami during the development of Faxai over time.”
Tom Johansmeyer, Head of PCS, added, “The 2018 events in Japan were challenging enough for the reinsurance and ILS market, both because of the losses caused and the ambiguity in previously available industry loss reporting. Now, with a second year of losses, it’s clear that the global market needs to start taking a closer look at how to understand cat losses in Japan.
“With collateral trapped from the 2018 events, it’s easy to sit back and wait for a resolution and figure that there would be breathing room to do so. However, Faxai has shown that we don’t always get the elbow room we want – and that there can be advantages to moving quickly.
“Fortunately, we’ve seen a lot of adoption of PCS Japan worldwide, and we expect more to come soon. Even for companies not currently trading Japanese ILWs, it’s crucial to understand losses, especially when the current conversation references recent past events (such as Jebi and Trami).”
Johansmeyer further explained, “Perhaps the most interesting lesson from 2018 was about the need for independent and reliable loss reporting. With the designation of Faxai, we’ve shown that PCS can move quickly in new risk areas in order to support the needs of our clients. As this event unfolds – and we report in accordance with our methodology – we look forward to helping the market understand Faxai better and manage their risk and capital accordingly.”
Typhoon Faxai could result in a large enough loss to trouble some industry loss triggered risk transfer instruments it seems, especially if its development shows any similarities to 2018’s Jebi.
As a result, having an independent and timely report of the catastrophes estimated impact on the re/insurance market from a third-party source adds value for those trading in industry loss based instruments, such as ILW’s, as well as for those seeking to better understand their exposure to the loss event.
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This reply was originally posted by nexus7722 in ADDitude’s now-retired community.
For what it’s worth, my ADHD husband is a GREAT father, but horrible with chores and with details, which can sometimes be scary. Our 18-month old hit his head on the tv cabinet because my husband zoned out and didn’t see him fall.
That being said, if he has a routine schedule, he is good with childcare and really wonderful father. I will say… and this may just be with my husband… introducing a baby was really really hard for him in that his symptoms just exploded. I think it was the huge increase in chores and the lack of scheduling.
Honestly, if you both want a child, wonderful and you’ll make it work. If either of you is on the fence, though, don’t do it. Even without the ADHD, parenthood is the most exhausting (but wonderful) second job you’ll ever have.
As the parents of a young toddler, we are always exhausted and I’m always stressed trying to (let’s be honest) also parent my husband. Both are worth it. But, boy, I’m tired. <3
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Doubly Called: Living (and Accepting) Life as Mom & Pastor
It happens almost every day on the way to and from my son Jake's daycare.
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We're pulling past the last street in the neighborhood, between the rows of parked cars, and these crazy thoughts run through my head:
"Maybe I should've been a teacher, because then, you know, I'd be home in the summers and he wouldn't have to go to daycare."
"Maybe I shouldn't have gone to seminary."
"Maybe if I just brought him to Bible Study sometimes and wrote my sermons during naps. Yeah, that might work."
And then I drop him off and he clings to me for a second until his teacher comes and he joins a group of smiling children at a pint-sized table.
I drive to church through the neighborhood again, passing moms or nannies—I'm not sure which—pushing strollers and tricycles, with babies strapped into front carriers.
"Maybe I should have taken him for a walk this morning. I could've gotten up sooner. We could've gone to the park."
Sometimes during the day, while I'm working at church or in the community, I'll run into someone from church.
"Where's Jake?" they'll say.
And I'll respond dumbly: "He's in daycare Monday-Thursday."
I wonder: "Should he not be in daycare? Should I be able to pull this all off at once?"
I've always been one who feels guilty easily, so being a mom and a pastor—and a Lutheran—comes naturally to me. It's silly really, but there are ample opportunities to feel guilty in two of the singularly most deified and diminished roles modern society has to offer.
Take motherhood. On one hand our society has almost deified it. No one works as hard as a mom, we're told. No one does as much, cares as much, is marketed to as much.
On the other hand though we diminish it. Some of the praise sounds almost patronizing, especially when it's coupled with fashion terms like "mom jeans" or "mom shoes" or "mom haircut."
We have "dance moms" and "hockey moms" and "pageant moms." There's the infamous TIME magazine cover article: "Are you mom enough?"
Underneath the deification and popularization of famous "moms," there is the underlying idea that somehow motherhood is not really hard because it all comes naturally to women. The argument is biological, and it so undergirds human society around the world that even I myself subscribe to it. I expect myself to be Jake's "ultimate" parent—the one who rescues him when hurt, comforts him when crying, spends the most time with him during the week, usually picks him up or takes him to daycare. This is because most of us still assume the most "natural" parent is the mom—even in my case, when Ben is a doting, dedicated, and entirely-capable-to-do-it-without-me-Dad (you should see him on Sunday mornings).
Meanwhile I am called, by God and by the church, to be Pastor of St. Philip Lutheran Church in Glenview, IL—a suburb north of Chicago.
Like being a mom, the role of pastor is both deified and diminished.
On one hand, a Pastor should still be a moral teacher and in some sense moral example. Pastors are expected to be emotionally available but not overly emotional. To always have time for whatever anyone needs. To conduct oneself according to the image of God; following the example of Jesus.
There's the old joke that's not really a joke: "I thought you only worked on Sundays!"
We are archaically important but sometimes contemporarily ignored. Like moms, we're put on a pedestal - but what we say isn't always heard: "Oh, that's just something moms say."
"Oh, that's just something pastors say."
Both roles are considered to be difficult but also seemingly "natural," not "work" in the sense we normally think of work.
And each role requires by its nature that it must consume you. Children are children 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Sometimes as moms we lose ourselves in our children, if only for a moment, and there's nothing wrong with that. They're absorbing, consuming: from inspecting their first diapers to deciphering their first words and holding out your arms gingerly for their first steps.
Pastors enter into a role that is best served when we lose ourselves in order to be filled entirely by the Holy Spirit of Jesus Christ. But being a Pastor is not done unless it is consuming.
I'm not complaining, because the Church of Jesus Christ is an incredible calling to be consumed with. This week I was able to work through the Parable of the Tenants in the Gospel of Matthew, and as I read it, it was revealed to me that this Parable is not just an ancient foretelling of the Crucifixion but a modern depiction of what is happening this week as thousands of unaccompanied children languish in a neverland between life in America and destruction in a forceful return to Central America. In the parable God anoints those whom we reject. Jesus' story and his subsequent crucifixion warn us today against our sinful impulse to reject those whom God may be sending.
Women—and mothers—are often our own harshest judges. But Jesus came not to condemn the world, but so that the world might be saved through him.
Sometimes I like to pretend to myself that I can do it all. I can work full-time AND attend stay-at-home mom events. As much as our society still may lift up the "natural" life of a stay-at-home mom, I know through a deep and abiding faith that both calls God has given me are genuine. That's the beauty of being Lutheran, in a way, because Martin Luther was one of the first to write about vocation, about the priesthood of all believers: that whatever God calls us to is holy indeed, a calling, and we can be called to more vocations than one.
So I drove to daycare again, passing the stay-at-home moms or nannies pushing their strollers. We walked in, Jake played with the ducks, he wanted me to hold him for a minute as we walked into his classroom and his friends from his age group were sitting down to lunch.
He was sad for a second, but this was his routine. It was comfortable and familiar for him. And I had to admit, he had done well in daycare. He was learning, and making friends his age. It hadn't been bad or detrimental for him at all.
At the end of most days, when I pick him up, before we leave he has to show me his friends and all the toys he's played with that day. He's proud of himself, of what he calls "ssscool."
As I drove away, passing again the strollers and babies, I felt something other than guilt or regret. I was proud, too, if only for a moment. We were making it work, both of us, this new life of daycare and work and two callings, and the God who makes the impossible possible.
Rev. Angela Denker is a former sportswriter turned Lutheran pastor in Chicago. Denker covered the 2009 Super Bowl and was published in 2007 in Sports Illustrated. She blogs at Overwhelming Jesus.
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As PM Narendra Modi turns 70 today, the BJP has organised a slew of events to mark the occasion. Sources reveal that a 70 kg laddu has also been prepared to commemorate the occasion.
Wishes from all around have already started coming in, both from within the country and abroad. Rival Congress leader Rahul Gandhi has also wished the PM on this occasion. Although Rahul is a fierce critic of PM Modi and the BJP government, the former Congress President took to Twitter and wished the PM.
Even last year Rahul Gandhi had wished PM Modi on his birthday. “My best wishes to Narendra Modi Ji on his 69th birthday. May he be blessed with good health and happiness always,” Rahul had tweeted, along with a rainbow emoji.
To mark his birthday, the BJP has organised a Seva Saptah from September 14 to 20.
“We are celebrating Prime Minister Narendra Modi”s 70th birthday with Seva Saptah (service week) as he believes in serving people. We also got 70 kg of laddu to make this cake,” said a BJP worker speaking to the media.In PM Modi’s home state Gujarat, the party has offered life insurance to over 20,000 people in Vadodara under the Pradhan Mantri Suraksha Bima Yojana (PMSBY).
Among international leaders who wished PM Modi on his 70th birthday today include German Chancellor Angela Merkel, Russian President Vladimir Putin.
“I wish you all the very best in the future – particularly, in these unusual times, health, happiness, and fulfillment,” Merkel wrote in her message. The PMO shared this on its twitter handle. The German Chancellor addressed PM Modi as “Narendra”, and said she had “fond memories” of their meeting at the Indo-German intergovernmental consultations last year.
“Together over the past few years we have succeeded in consolidating even further the traditionally good relations between Indian and Germany,” she added.
Russian President Vladimir Putin was also generous in his message to PM Modi. “I value the kind, friendly relations that have developed between us. I look forward to continuing constructive dialogue with you and work closely together on topical issues of the bilateral and international agenda. From the bottom of my heart, I wish you good health, happiness, well-being, and every success,” read his message for PM Modi. Lastly, it is his party, which is doing some kind of social work to mark his birthday. The Bharatiya Janata Party has arranged for the distribution of ration amongst the needy, organizing blood donation camps and eye check-up camps to celebrate his birthday.
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Mumbai: The Bombay High Court on Monday issued notices to its Registrar (Judicial), Maharashtra government and Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) on a PIL regarding fire safety measures in courts across the state.
The division bench comprising Chief Justice Mohit Shah and Justice Nitin Jamdar also issued notices to the state Public Works Department (PWD) and Fire authorities.
V Thanumoorthy, a retired chemical consultant, had approached the High Court seeking direction to authorities to ensure adequate fire safety measures in courts in the wake of the blaze that gutted four floors of Mantralaya building on June 21.
The PIL seeks for the Maharashtra Fire Prevention and Life Safety Measures Act to be strictly implemented in all buildings where sensitive documents and records are maintained and preserved for decades.
The PIL further points out that none of the libraries or bar association rooms in the High Court have sufficient fire extinguishers and fire censor alarms.
It further prays for records and documents of litigations to be maintained in electronic form with regular updates.
The High Court today directed all the parties to file their reply by September 27.
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Beginning of new Era
The recent dramatic cybersecurity attacks on civilian populations over last two months in Israel and Iran changed cyberwarfare as we know it. Although cyberwarfare is already considered effective by countries and organizations for the disruption of military facilities or for stealing data, the following events changed the battlefield and influenced civilian life. We believe that critical infrastructure is in severe imminent risk. Bringing civilian populations to the cybersecurity warzone will require new methods, new capabilities and massive investment in cybersecurity. This will increase investments both from countries and agencies as well as require new products by cybersecurity companies securing crucial infrastructure.
Part I: Attacking civilian water systems
On 23.4.20 the Israeli National Cyber Directorate (CERT-IL) reported alerts of cyber-attack attempts to control systems of wastewater treatment plants, pumping stations and sewers. CERT-IL called on companies and entities in the energy and water sectors to immediately change passwords for everything from the Internet to control systems, reduce Internet connectivity, and ensure that the most up-to-date version of controllers is installed. The attacks then took place immediately thereafter on 24-25.4.20 (Friday and Saturday which are weekend days off in Israel).
The cyberattack aimed to raise the chlorine level in Israeli water. According to the head of CERT-IL, if this attempt had succeeded, a disaster would have occurred impacting water facilities and supplies. The cyberattack on water plants could have triggered fail-safes as the pumping stations shut down when the excess chemicals were detected, leaving thousands of civilians without water supply.
From a technical point of view, the attack was performed by malware from US servers to cover the tracks and the true identity of the attackers on six facilities, with impact ranging from unauthorized access to data destruction. In one facility a water pump system in the Sharon region of central Israel stopped working. The facility’s computer system resumed pumping operations within a short time but also recorded the occurrence as an exceptional event. The exact attack path, how the attackers penetrated the system, and how deeply the attackers entered the system is being investigated.
Part II: Attacking civilian port
A few weeks after the water facility cyberattack in Israel, on 9.5.20 Iran reported disrupted operations at Shahid Rajaee, a major port in Iran. Over half of Iran’s commercial trading is carried out at Shahid Rajaee. The port complex also accounts for over 85% of all container throughput in the country. Soon after the cyberattack began, the port’s authorities detected it, but failed to fix it immediately so they switched to manual management of the unloading and loading of containers which caused severe delays. Satellite photographs depicted miles-long traffic jams on highways leading to port on the day of the attack. Days later, dozens of loaded container ships were seen in a waiting area off the coast.
Part III: Hackers of Savior
On 21.5.20, a group called "Hackers of Savior", which reportedly contained nine members from Muslim countries used a security vulnerability in a WordPress plugin to distribute their exploits in a website-defacing campaign. The attackers replaced the pages with images of Tel-Aviv in flames for thousands of Israeli websites. They also tried to gain personal information from users with malicious code, seeking permission to access visitors' webcams. Most of the breached websites were located in the web-hosting company uPress. Although in these "old style" attacks no data was stolen, the Hacktivism group tried to use these attacks to attract more volunteers to increase their attack and tried to gain influence.
Part IV: What nextי?
The escalation in cyberwarfare in the past two month represents a new era of cyberattacks between countries and organizations. In the past, most of these attacks targeted to steal data or disrupt military actions, but now, the targets are mass populations.
Multilayer attacks – In the new era of cyberattacks we see multi-layer attacks combining existing cyberattack tools together with new ones. Old cyberattacks comprised of stealing data and disrupting military activities will likely continue as the base level of cyber warfare. In between the two, sophisticated attacks aimed at obtaining influence will likely increase, as attempts to affect elections and decision makers. New attacks on civilian facilities will likely continue and be the higher level of cyberwarfare.
We believe that critical infrastructures are in severe imminent risk. Power grids, airports and traffic control systems, telecom facilities as well as ports are likely to be targeted. We believe that these attacks will be distributed from several sources who would attack several targets in parallel, and sometimes through attacks on critical infrastructure in different territories simultaneously.
Arms race with massive cybersecurity investments – In the new era, a cold war will probability accelerate an "arms race", but this time it will be for cybersecurity capabilities. We saw an increased number of new cyber agencies adopting protocols for protecting critical civilian infrastructure. The attacks will probably accelerate to gain greater influence. Attacks methods like DDoS, IoT botnets attacks, malware and even ransomware will likely be part of the toolkit for joint cyberattacks and might also try to attack civilian businesses in parallel. This will shift homeland security budgets to cybersecurity.
New collaboration between cybersecurity companies and government authorities – The new civilian facilities attacks will increase collaboration between government and cybersecurity companies. In case of cybersecurity attacks and cybersecurity companies that have the capabilities both to protect infrastructure and also provide attack forensics, which is an important element for understanding the attacks in order to protect against new ones. There are cybersecurity companies which already take part in this new effort providing protection and working with governments during attacks.
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Science projects on energy can be created for just about any school grade, and it's really just a matter choosing the appropriate level of intricacy and depth that is most important.
Because energy comes in many different forms such as heat, light, sound, movement, or on a more advanced level, matter, you can choose just about anything you see (or hear) and turn them into some great science projects on energy.
However, there are some things that you should keep in mind when considering how to go about structuring your child's experiment. Here is a list of some of the things worth thinking about:
Be original. This is probably the most important factor in any science project on energy or any other subject: try to think of something unique, or make something commonplace (like baking soda or corn flour) do something unusual.
Establish a clear end goal for your experiment: ask yourself what EXACTLY am I trying to accomplish? A good way to do this is to have a statement in your mind (and in your presentation) such as "I intend to demonstrate that X soda has more energy value than Y soda".
Make sure to document everything you do: just relying on our memory may be good enough in 2nd grade, but as your child progresses, more information will be required by the judging teachers.
Have a conclusion: make sure that they can tell the judges exactly what has been concluded from the experiment. Don't have them read from a script or even try to memorize it word for word. Instead, the project should be understood completely, making it easy for your child to present it fluently to the judges.
For organizing science projects on energy, there are several things that need to be considered.
Firstly, your child will need to have a good knowledge of what they intend to build for their project, so they should read on the subject as much as possible, but not to the detriment of their other lessons of course.
They will need to tell their teacher what they are planning and be sure that the teacher knows enough about the subject to give advice and guidance. The teacher will invariably suggest a different subject if they don't feel that they know enough.
They will need access to the right equipment. If the school can't provide this, you will have to, so make sure that you know you can get the equipment without breaking the bank!
Try not to use pre-packaged kits, because it's likely that other parents are doing exactly this and judges don't like to see repetition. If they do, then the only thing they can judge upon is the presentation.
Science projects on energy can come in many forms of course, but here are some ideas for you:
Showing how movement can be turned into electricity, perhaps with a watermill.
Building a solar oven; this can be likened to a greenhouse, or why cars get hotter than the external temperature on sunny days. This can also be shown to explain the "greenhouse gas" effect on the planet.
Demonstrating how static electricity is produced with a balloon; this one is great for really young children.
The best and most original science projects on energy will come from your imagination. Look at things around you and then think about what your child is ALREADY interested in. Regardless of whether it's playing a musical instrument, or watching TV, energy comes into the equation somewhere.
This last point is very important. If your child is already interested in one element of the project, they will be more inclined to learn more about it, AND they may develop a deeper understanding and appreciation for it.About the Author:
For more information about science fair projects and for details on how to get the FREE book
"The Non-Scientist Parent's Guide to Science Fair Projects" go to:
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What is Standard Asset Managers?
We present a modern high-tech business, which is associated primarily with cryptocurrency and highly productive activity on the multicurrency Forex market and cryptocurrency. Our professional team of traders and market analysts is ready to offer the best terms for your daily earnings with reasonable requirements of your investment.
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Do you have a physical office that I can visit?
Sure. Standard Asset Managers has headquarter in the United Kingdom at 3 More London Place, London SE1 2RE, United Kingdom. You can visit us during business hours, Monday through Friday.
Who can become an investor of the company and how?
Citizen of any country who has reached the age of majority can become an active investor of Standard Asset Managers, make deposits and withdraw profits.
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No, multiple registration of prohibited and leads to the suspension of all accounts to ascertain the circumstances.
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This week we have an interview with pastor, university professor, and author of CaveTime, Jeff Voth.
Here are links to some of the things we talked about.
Day of War by Cliff Graham
Mere Christianity by C. S. Lewis
The Universe Next Door by James Sire
The Problem of Pain by C. S. Lewis
A Grief Observed by C. S. Lewis
Be sure and check out Jeff's website, CaveTime. He's doing some really good things there.
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The Naked Eye Planets Is Worth Seeing
While it might not be the most aptly titled play, The Naked Eye Planets sure does impress audiences with its solid all around performance. Playing at the American Theatre of Actors now through March 25th, The Naked Eye Planets is the inaugural stage play from the emerging theater company Coyote REP – proving this theater company is one to keep an eye on.
Press materials describe The Naked Eye Planets as "a drama following ten residents of a small apartment complex on the cusp of a rare astronomical phenomenon." While the first half of this synopsis is accurate, the "astronomical phenomenon" statement is a mere sub-bullet in an otherwise thorough outline of an intricate play. The cast of characters seems immense at first for an Off-Broadway production, with a total of ten characters all together, but within a few minutes from the curtain, audiences easily grasp the storyline based on the superb writing of Rebecca Tourino and flawless direction of Magdalena Zira. Early on, seeds are planted for later plot developments that end up producing sometimes predictable, yet sometimes surprising outcomes. As audiences meet each character, they are either bluntly directed to understand the relationship, such as a mother and daughter, or audiences are left guessing for several scenes to determine the dynamic between others. The balance of the obvious with the somewhat disguised character connections offers audiences enough information to know what's going on and enough holes in the storyline to keep them wanting more.
The set design produced by Jen Varbalow, Carlo Adinolfi and Elaine Sable perfectly captures the mind's picture of a California apartment courtyard. There are two levels of apartments to simulate the first and second levels, with each of the six apartments distinctly painted and decorated in different ways to mirror the variety of characters the play encapsulates. As audiences watch the play, there is so much to take in – the set with all its detail, the revolving door of characters going on and off stage each time offering more pieces to their story – that suddenly everyone is engrossed in the storyline. The action moves quickly – doors open and doors close, people come and go – making the audiences' view as if they are another neighbor in the complex quietly observing the lives of others. It is this point that leads one to conclude why the play is so enticing. Besides a great storyline – minus the astronomical phenomenon – the script offers a slice of everyday life. Each character's story is engaging enough to warrant observation as his or her drama unfolds. If audiences were really living in the apartment complex, they would all be compelled to watch.
Solid writing and direction is matched 100 percent by solid acting. Since there are many in the cast with just as many storylines, it's tough to determine who the main characters are. However, every player has their chance to shine. The production contains an impressive cast, ranging from stage veterans like Maria Cellario (The Royal Family, Fugue in a Nursery) to younger actors such as Amanda Sayle, a recent graduate of the Two Year Conservatory at the Stella Adler Studio of Acting. In between this range, there are eight other extraordinary actors who take on their roles and own them. Sayle is a pleasure to watch perform as she perfectly embodies the disgruntled teenager role of Madeleine. She effortlessly captures the teenager everyone knows – a likeable girl with a bit of an attitude who's in the process of getting comfortable with who she is. Sayle's mannerisms are spot on. She interprets Madeleine as an intelligent but moody character and audiences are lucky enough to get a sneak peak of her coming into her own. Madeleine is forming her own opinions, standing up for herself and falling in love. In a cast of ten where every actor truly deserves applause, it could be tough to stand out. Yet somehow Sayle manages to quietly draw audiences into the Madeleine character, making them glad she did so.
The great acting of the entire cast rests on the writing of Rebecca Tourino and the direction of Magdalena Zira – a potent one two three punch. Although Tourino's play focuses more on the group dynamics of residents in an apartment complex rather than a "rare astronomical phenomenon" that receives ten lines of dialogue at best, Tourino's writing skills give the performance an added edge to any other production out there. It's a performance about everyday people and occurrences which is the essence of why The Naked Eye Planets is so enticing. Audiences watch as a silent partner taking everything in while they are allowed to form their own opinions of each character. While the "rare astronomical phenomenon" may not occur, The Naked Eye Planets does provide the opportunity to witness a four star performance tucked away on another Off-Broadway stage.
The Naked Eye Planets is playing through March 25th Wednesday through Saturday at 8pm and Saturday and Sunday at 2pm at the American Theatre of Actors located at 314 West 54th Street. Please call 1-800-838-3006 or visit www.brownpapertickets.com for more information.
Photo credit: Ryan Jensen; 1. Sean Tarrant and Jeanne LaSala, 2. Amanda Cayle and Maria Cellario, 3. Sean Tarrant and Amanda Sayle, background Glenn Kalison
From This Author Amanda Scarpone
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Syracuse, NY -- Dressed in a blue rose print dress, Linda Wilson stood by the railing in Onondaga County Court Thursday trembling and choking back tears.
Ten feet away at the defendant’s table, her son, Thomas Wilson, a lanky 18-year-old dressed in an orange and white jump suit stood quietly, hands shackled around his waist.
Forty years was at stake.
“My client has asked me to earnestly beg you for youthful offender (status),” Wilson's lawyer Anne S. Meadvin told Judge Joseph Fahey.
Thomas Wilson was a star athlete with a good grades, she said. Harvard, Princeton and Yale were among the 30 colleges that had sent him letters asking him to consider attending their schools, Meadvin said.
After listening briefly, the judge said he couldn't grant Wilson youthful offender status because of the nature of the burglaries of which he is accused. “I won’t do that,” Fahey replied.
Last October, Wilson and two other boys were accused of burglarizing a home in Syracuse while the owner cowered in a bathroom, Meadvin said. As the victim called police, she could hear the boys talking and moving things around in her home, she said.
The judge laid out Wilson’s choices: Plead guilty to burglarizing the Syracuse home in October and receive a sentence of 3.5 years, or risk going to trial on that charge plus two other burglaries that took place in January.
If convicted, the 18-year-old would face consecutive sentences of up to 15 years for each charge, or 45 years.
After speaking with her client and his family privately, Meadvin reported to the judge that Wilson would accept the offer. He pleaded guilty to felony burglary and will be sentenced by Fahey on July 22.
Later outside the courtroom, Meadvin said her client fell in with bad companions and “exercised the poorest judgment.”
“He is smart. He’s young. He will emerge from this a better person,” she said.
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Several hundred protesters got within sight — and perhaps earshot — of Mar-a-Lago on Saturday afternoon to demand President Donald Trump release his income tax returns as anti-Trump demonstrators participated in a series of nationwide marches.
Trump, whose Easter weekend visit is the seventh Palm Beach trip of his presidency, stayed clear of the demonstration outside his tropical White House.
» Photos: Tax March in West Palm Beach
After spending about 4½ hours at his nearby Trump International Golf Club in unincorporated West Palm Beach, the president’s motorcade did not return to Mar-a-Lago via its customary route along Southern Boulevard, where protesters were chanting and waving signs on Bingham Island.
Instead, Trump’s motorcade crossed into Palm Beach farther north, then went south on Ocean Boulevard to ferry him to Mar-a-Lago at 1:50 p.m.
“We’re very disappointed,” Sharon Adams of West Palm Beach said as it became apparent the president wouldn’t see the protest. “He’s scared. He’s avoiding everybody. He is avoiding taking responsibility.”
Adams and her friend, Paula Ferrari of Jupiter, said they plan to show up Sunday to catch the president’s motorcade to Palm Beach International Airport when he leaves town.
“He’ll see us. He’ll see our signs,” Adams vowed.
Saturday’s nationwide “tax marches” were scheduled to coincide with the traditional April 15 deadline for filing federal income taxes, though this year’s deadline is Tuesday. The West Palm Beach demonstration began outside the Trump Plaza towers on South Flagler Boulevard — buildings Trump hasn’t owned for more than 20 years but that still bear his name.
Trump supporters in a garish “Trumpmobile” made from two Mercedes Benz station wagons drove by the protesters a few times, drawing boos as the march began.
“No more secrets, no more lies. Show us your taxes, show us your ties,” demonstrators chanted near the beginning of the march.
“He needs to be transparent in his business dealings. We want to know what his conflicts really are,” said Kathleen Norris of Stuart. “I think there are dealings with foreign governments he needs to come clean with.”
While Trump’s tax returns were the stated cause of Saturday’s rallies, protesters aired a wide array of grievances.
“I have a litany of issues with this administration and showing his taxes is just one,” said Joan Friedenberg of Boynton Beach.
She mentioned Trump’s Cabinet picks, his opposition to federal funding for Planned Parenthood, his pledge to repeal the Affordable Care Act, his stance on immigration and his campaign vow to temporarily ban Muslims from entering the country.
“While he is out on the golf course, we are trying to demonstrate and make ourselves heard,” said Ed Hertzberg, 88, of Boytnon Beach. “The tax issue is one thing, but his whole outlook — it is 18th century thinking.”
Diane Rice of Wellington and Al Scharnitz of Palm Beach Gardens helped carry a sign protesting the Sabal Trail natural gas pipeline. Mitzi Kaitz of Delray Beach carried a “Where is Marco?” sign to criticize Sen. Marco Rubio for avoiding town hall meetings with constituents.
Trump arrived Thursday without top White House aides and did not have public events on his schedule Friday or Saturday.
The president golfed at Trump International on Friday and, while the White House did not reveal what he was doing there Saturday, a heavy security presence on the course appeared consistent with presidential time on the links. Saturday’s outing appeared to be the 16th time Trump has played golf since taking office — a rate of once every 5.4 days.
Former President Barack Obama, whose golf habits were frequently criticized by Trump, played an estimated 333 rounds of golf as president — a rate of once every 8.8 days he was in office.
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By K. Taylor, Aurora ON. Summer officially started with a bang last night. I mean hundreds of gorgeous, brilliant heart stopping bangs. Cascades of glitter, golden waterfalls and ruby explosions; a celebration of light swooping, sizzling and swirling into the night sky. Aurora really outdid itself this time, I’m quite sure last night’s were the best fireworks this ol’ town has ever put on.
So what does one do to follow such a night? Well after feeding breakfast to a couple of happy but bleary-eyed children, one checks it off the list of course.
I confess I’m one of those list people. The kind that have lists to keep track of their lists. I’m that person who writes down a chore already completed for the sheer joy of ticking it off. So last summer, when a friend told me about her “Summer Bucket List” I was at first excited, followed quickly by a sense of foreboding. After all, I spend my days trying to let go; simplify; live in the moment. Making a list of things we have to complete to enjoy our summer seemed counter-productive. How could we chill out with an ice cream and watch the clouds go by if we’re frantically filling in checkmarks and fretting over how to get it all done?
But I was intrigued and figured I’d throw caution to the gentle, caressing breeze and see what happened. Well, what happened was joyful. Instead of the list being one more thing to add to my other to-do list, it forced us all to stop and smell the roses (#43.)
So here is our Summer Bucket List for this year. Special thanks to Elaine who gave me the idea in the first place. Oh, and one last thing; it may seem that some of these are geared towards families with kids. Baloney! In this season, above all others, we are all kids at heart. Let the games begin!
50 Things You Simply Must Do This Summer (but no pressure.)
- Ride your bike to Fairy Lake, take the Nokiidaa trail all the way.
- Run barefoot in the grass.
- Eat fresh, local strawberries, raspberries, peaches. The best stuff on earth.
- Lie on your back and watch the clouds go by.
- Dance or play in the rain.
- Eat ice cream from the ice cream truck (it still tastes as good as it did when we were kids.)
- Go for an early morning nature bike ride or walk.
- Roast marshmallows or hot dogs over an open flame.
- Lie back and watch the stars.
- Head out to the MacKenzie Marsh and see what you can see.
- Lose yourself in a book for an entire afternoon.
- Swim outdoors. In a lake if you can, but even the kid’s turtle pool will do.
- Build a sandcastle, bonus points if there’s a flag and a moat.
- Head to a Farmer’s market or farm, wonder at the colours and smells. Pay with cash for that back to basics feeling.
- Walk barefoot in the sand, any sand.
- Bake cookies. Eat at least five. Feel a little sick.
- Go for an evening nature walk or bike ride.
- Drink from a hose.
- Eat watermelon.
- Stay in your PJ’s and veg in front of the TV, watching shows you haven’t seen since you were little (bonus points if you can include The Littlest Hobo or The Beachcombers.)
- Wash the car.
- Have dessert for dinner. Just once. Just for the sheer naughtiness of it.
- Play mini golf. Or regular golf if you’re so inclined.
- Climb a tree, I dare you.
- Play pooh sticks (Winnie-The-Pooh’s game of tossing twigs into a stream on one side of a bridge and seeing who’s comes out the other side first. Best. Game. Ever.)
- Search for a rainbow.
- Splash in a puddle. Bonus points if you’re over 30. Double bonus points if you’re over 60.
- Eat something you’ve grown yourself.
- Help someone else.
- Find a bug, watch it closely, let it go.
- Run through a sprinkler.
- Cover the driveway in chalk drawings.
- Play hopscotch.
- Play baseball, soccer, Frisbee, tennis… run like you haven’t since you were eight.
- Go on a walk through Sheppard’s Bush. Wonder at the peace in the heart of a busy town.
- Hop on your bike and ride for the sheer joy of the wind in your hair, forget that you ever knew the meaning of the words cardio; calorie burn or workout.
- Sit outside and daydream.
- Drink homemade lemonade (recipe below).
- Enjoy a campfire.
- Have a picnic.
- Eat a Popsicle. Bonus points if you sit on the curb as it drips down your fingers and leaves colourful streaks down your shins.
- Stop and smell the roses. Literally, not metaphorically.
- Create a list (I know…I know…) of all the wildlife you’ve spotted. Snails and worms totally count.
- Freeze fruit or herbs or make jam, save the taste of summer.
- Shuck peas.
- Try something new, anything.
- Swing till your feet touch the sky.
- Sit on a patio and enjoy your favourite drink, grown-up or otherwise.
- Laugh like you never heard of a to-do list.
I hope you enjoyed this list. I hope you try a handful or two of these things over the next two months. And whatever else, I hope none of us let this fleeting, happy season pass by while we’re busy fussing over our to-do lists.
¼ cup sugar
¾ cup lemon juice
4 cups water
Dissolve sugar in lemon juice. Add water and enjoy. Happy sipping!
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Artificial Intelligence – AI is getting more real. It can help generate massive amount amount of wealth in the medium term. The investments in this field have increased significantly over the past two years. Companies like Google, Facebook, Microsoft, Uber and others have significantly started to acquire companies with AI expertise.
AI is having use cases across industries like accounting, healthcare, education, the more prominent impact of AI is on the work which is more routine in nature. There have been numerous examples of companies / industries which have been impacted or disrupted through use of AI. For instance, use of Netflix has led to Blockbuster getting bankrupt. Uber and Lyft have disrupted the traditional yellow cab services in the US. Further, Uber and Lyft are themselves getting disrupted by emergence of self driving cars.
The gaming industry has seen significant development through the use of AI. Games like Go, Chess and Poker have witnessed the best of the humans being defeated by computers. South Korea has set up a USD3bn AI R&D facility after AlphaGo.
According to Mr. Jacobstein of Singularity University, there are seven drivers for AI revolution: these are 1) Capital, 2) Algorithms, 3) Hardware, 4) Data, 5) Talent, 6) Applications and 7) Responsibility. Advantages of AI include shortening process timings, augmenting human skills, improving prediction accuracy, solving complex problems accurately, increasing productivity and decreasing product and service costs.
AI will see significant investments in the future and will disrupt various industries in a positive way, there are offsetting factors such as job losses and responsibility that need to be accounted for. New players will emerge that will disrupt the traditional players and result in massive amount of wealth generation and reallocation in the long term.
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Rooney Mara promotes "The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo" in Germany, Spain, and France.
Photo: Getty Images
Rooney Mara is certainly not disappointing as one of our predicted Girls to Watch in 2012. We're barely a week into the year, and she's already churning out expertly styled high-fashion looks with breakneck swiftness for her European The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo promotional tour. For a relative newcomer, her flawless wielding of labels, even a notoriously whimsical one like Miu Miu, to effectively convey her stark angular aesthetic is enough to send you on bended knee, genuflecting to her exemplary style prowess. And of the names she's wearing, her togs read like a designer DREAM TEAM. *swooooon*
Rooney, with her onyx tresses and blunt bang, gives instant edge to this flirty two-pieced Miu Miu look from the forthcoming Spring/Summer 2012 collection, and opts to go void of any accessories, not counting the crisscross strapped sandals that so elegantly mirror the ensemble's clean lines. We just hope this step and repeat was held indoors because BRRR, that's a lot of skin for early January.
The night before, Rooney fluttered down the red carpet of Dragon Tattoo's Madrid premiere in this soft off-white Rodarte gown. You'd think dainty polka dots and billowy chiffon would read über-girly to near-saccharine levels, but paired with those laquered black locks and Mara's impeccable posture, our eyes focus more on the mathematic precision of lines and tucks and tailoring.
This olive, chestnut, and black paneled Givenchy wool jacket is right up Lisbeth's alley in all its geometric toughness. We can see her wearing it with a ripped oversized tank and leather leggings, but Rooney's flared skirt and opaque tights are more movie star-appropriate.
Mara looked positively Hepburn in this embellished Louis Vuitton LBD at her Paris premiere. While this, with her bright scarlet pout and parted side-swept bangs, makes for one of the most feminine looks we've seen on Rooney thus far since signing on to play Dragon Tattoo's dark titular character, the sharp silhouette and overall crispness of the ensemble fall right in line with her badass aesthetic.
With four looks so varied, we can't wait to see what else Rooney has up her sleeve for the rest of her European promo tour! Which outfit is your favorite so far?
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Payment options – making it easier to get the care you need.
At West Coast Dental, we offer a variety of payment options to help our patients get the dental care they need. This includes: cash/checks, debit cards, most major credit cards, most dental insurance including HMO, PPO, Indemnity and government sponsored dental insurance plans including Denti-Cal. We believe that everyone, regardless of their dental insurance coverage, deserves access to general, cosmetic, and specialty dental services, and that patients need a variety of ways to make their dental care affordable. So we offer a special dental discount program thru our Dental Alliance Discount Plan and financing through CareCredit* and Dental Alliance Financing.
For your convenience we accept:
- Cash or Checks
- Debit Cards - MasterCard & Visa
- Major Credit Cards - American Express, Discover, MasterCard & Visa
No dental coverage? Ask about Dental Alliance Discount Plan
For patients who are not covered under a dental or insurance plan, we provide the Dental Alliance Discount Plan. This plan offers discounted fees for a variety of general and specialty dental procedures. Its purpose is to make dentistry affordable so all of our patients can improve their dental health. To learn about the Dental Alliance Discount Plan, click here.
*Subject to credit approval. Minimum monthly payments required. Ask us for details.
Dental Alliance Discount Plan
OUR DENTAL DISCOUNT PLAN CAN KEEP YOU SMILING EVEN IF YOU DON’T HAVE DENTAL INSURANCE
For patients without dental insurance, we offer the Dental Alliance Discount Plan to help make it easy for you to get the dental services you and your family need. This plan offers patients significantly discounted rates for a variety of general and specialty dental procedures, including Free Exams and X-rays. It’s another way we can help you take care of your dental health needs today.
TO KEEP YOU SMILING , WE ACCEPT MOST DENTAL INSURANCE
At West Coast Dental we believe all patients, regardless of their dental insurance coverage, deserve access to general, premium and specialty dental services. To fulfill this mission, our offices accept most HMO, PPO, Indemnity, and government sponsored dental and insurance plans, including Denti-Cal. If your plan is not listed, contact us to see if it is available. If you don’t have dental insurance, you may be interested in learning about our dental discount program.
Here is a list of the plans we accept:
- Access Dental HF & LAPHP
- Aetna HMO & PPO
- American HealthGuard
- Anthem Blue Cross HMO & PPO
- California Dental Network
- Careington International
- Connection Dental
- Community Dental Services - SmileCare
- DeCare Dental
- Delta Dental USA (PMI)
- Delta Dental HF &PPO
- Dental Benefits Provider
- Dental Health Alliance
- Dental Health Services
- First Dental Health
- Golden West
- GE Signature
- Guardian PPO
- Health Net
- Jaimini Health
- Liberty Dental
- Managed Dental Care (managed by Guardian)
- Metlife PPO
- Mutual of Omaha
- Pacific Care
- Pacific Union
- Premier Access PPO
- Principal PPO
- Safeguard HMO, PPO, HF, LAPHP, Smile Saver
- United Concordia
- United Dental Care (managed by Assurant)
- United Health Plan
- Universal Care
- Wellpoint PPO
- Western Dental HMO & PPO
A VARIETY OF FINANCING PLANS TO HELP KEEP YOU SMILING
We have arranged special financing programs for our patients through leading providers that offer convenient payment options.
For general dentistry and specialty services we have partnered with CareCredit and Dental Alliance Financing to provide you with financing options*. Our partners offer flexible payment options that will make your dental care even more affordable.
For orthodontic services, CareCredit offers a very competitive plan with attractive payment options. The friendly staff members at our practices will be happy to assist you and answer any questions.*
For patients who don’t have dental insurance, our dental discount program may be another option to help make the dental care you need more affordable.
* Subject to credit approval. Minimum monthly payment required. Ask us for details.
* CareCredit and Dental Alliance Financing may not be available through all of our practices. One of our experienced team members can help you find the plans that are available to you.
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It's summer and I have an infant. These are my top two excuses for not posting, in no particular order.
Marlo turned two months old on Tuesday. She has her 2 month check-up with the pediatrician later this afternoon - so I'll update you on her vitals soon. In my estimation she is about 12 pounds and 24 inches.
As for me, my weight loss has stalled a bit and that depresses me. Just in time to start losing all my hair and get really depressed, I suppose. I'm really rather vain, you see. I considered my pregnancy a success not because I gave birth to a beautiful healthy baby girl, but because I didn't get any stretch marks or varicose veins. I gained 41 pounds, and looking back at the three pictures of me pregnant in existence, I was pretty much big as a house. I'm short-waisted and small-boned, so even ten pounds around the middle gets pretty significant. As of my six week follow up with my OB, I had lost 25 pounds. Hurray, right? 25 pounds without any effort, just sitting through breastfeeding sessions eight times a day. Three weeks later, I stepped on the scale to discover I've lost...27 and a half pounds.
Now, hold on. I know what you're thinking. That's still almost a pound a week! That's still with no effort, other than breastfeeding eight times a day and not ever getting to eat because the baby won't nap! I know. It's still wonderful and can't really be considered stalling. I should be ashamed of myself. BUT the problem is that now it LOOKS like fat, and not like perfectly excusable pregnancy related weight. I'll get over myself, I promise. Feel free to slap me in the face next time you see me. My still-fat lookin' face.
And did I mention the size of my boobs? Well, lately? They're frightening. Especially if Marlo naps for a particularly long time (which does happen every once in a while - it's feast or famine with this girl) and I get a little engorged. They remind me of the death star. Especially when you see Marlo's head up against them. I am thinking about putting them on the kitchen scale to see how they are contributing to my weight retention - although since I don't have a pre-pregnancy boob weight to compare them to, it wouldn't really be very accurate. Still might be fun. Especially if I can take some SFW pictures of the process.
Here ya go, here's a picture of me with my fat face and giant boobs, eight weeks postpartum. Astute observers will note that I'm wearing the same dress I wore four weeks, um, prepartum? at my baby shower. Husband looks handsome, as usual.
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SOFTWARE ENGINEER - MILANO
Do you want to help us in developing software products that looks better and run faster than ever?
We’d love to hear from you.Apply now
| Your challenges?
You will be involved in the design, development and testing of one or more software solutions, starting from the requirements up to the delivery into the live environment.
| What do we expect from you?
- M. Sc in Computer Science or equivalent education, PhD will be an advantage
- 3+ years of experience in developing complex software solution
- Proven experience with the most common backend and/or frontend frameworks (Spring, Angular, React, …)
- Knowledge of the most recent practices on software development lifecycle
- Knowledge of OTN/DWDM/GMPLS telecom protocols will be an advantage
- Previous experience in implementing fast performing optimization algorithms will be an advantage
- Fluency in English
| What does our Business Cell have to offer?
TMC Software does great in high-tech systems, automotive, home entertainment & multimedia and healthcare. We are home to bright minds with a fighting spirit, communication skills, plenty of experience and of course technical skills. Software development design and architecture but also project and outsource management are services our clients ask for.
| What can you expect from TMC?
TMC is an international high-tech consultancy company that brings expertise to their clients in order to support them with the realization of their technological challenges. As such, TMC is operating as an expert center at the disposition of its clients and we help them to be more competitive in an ever more global and faster changing technological world.
At TMC we believe that people are the driving force behind technological innovation. That is why we want to create the best possible conditions for tech talents to thrive in. We offer you a challenging and stimulating work environment in which you can be the director of your own career.
As an Employeneur you are part of our TMC family. Next to our outstanding technical expertise, fun and engagement are meaningful parts of our culture.
| Why choose for Employeneurship?
We are truly unique thanks to our Employeneurship model which is a true innovation for the High Technology consulting business. It is the business relationship of the 21th century for high skilled technical professionals. It is built around 5 main pillars:
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- We will support you with a one-on-one coaching and trainings designed to help you develop your entrepreneurial skills
- The competence cells structure, provides you with a strong meaningful and relevant network
- The entrepreneurial lab: a playground for new ideas and a potential launching for start-ups
TMC is an equal opportunity employer and values diversity. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.
Is TMC a perfect fit for you? We’d love to hear from you.
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- Los Angeles, CA, USA
TCA specializes in design-driven planning and architecture for high density multi-family housing and mixed-use developments. Our offices in Los Angeles, Irvine, and Oakland, California are open environments in which Studio Directors and senior personnel interact directly with teams at all levels. Collaboration and cooperation are emphasized together with training, personal responsibility and professional growth. Excellence is pursued in every aspect of our work.
We are currently seeking a Job Captain for our Los Angeles, CA office. This successful candidate will be responsible for the design development and construction document preparation & team coordination on multi-family projects.
• Able to manage, coordinate, and direct a drafting staff
• Assist Project Managers with project and client management
• Assist Project Managers in monitoring and reporting project status (budget & schedule) to Studio Director.
• Assist the Project Manager in maintaining client satisfaction.
• Review, coordinate, and integrate all podium issues; i.e. drainage, waterproofing, water table, structural elements, connection requirements, vertical circulation, Landscape and Civil requirements, methane, fire rated separations, etc.
• Minimum of 5 years experience on multi-family projects
• Minimum of 2 years Revit experience
• Minimum of 2 years of construction administration involvement
• Strong understanding of UBC, CBC, disabled access requirements, and consultant drawings.
• Have good working understanding of consultant drawings and systems
• Proficient in all drafting techniques, having a complete understanding of working drawings.
• Proficient in use of building materials & related construction techniques & general construction costs.
• Hand sketch details prior to producing Revit drawings.
• Possess excellent organizational skills (prioritize & multi-task)
• Proficient in Revit
• Organize and manage computer generated documents
• Enforce Company Revit standards with drafting team
• Manager, track and up-dating all Revit files, FTP site and consultant backgrounds
Bachelors Degree in Architecture required
Licensed Architect preferred or on track to be licensed
We offer a comprehensive benefits package. EOE
If you qualify and are interested, apply now!
Only local and qualified candidates please apply. No phone calls please.
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MONROVIA, California, August 21, 2018 — Sugarmade, Inc. (OTC: SGMD), one of the largest publicly traded hydroponics supply companies, today announces a new corporate initiative in the booming hemp market. Sugarmade is committing up to $1,0000,000 in capital over the next twelve months to invest in Hempistry, Inc. a privately held Nevada corporation, which has begun planting an ultra-high cannabidiol (CBD) industrial hemp strain in the U.S. State of Kentucky. Additionally, Sugarmade expects to sign an agreement with Hempistry for hemp cultivation supplies. Hempistry has already begun planting and has signed an agreement reserving up to 23,000 acres of prime Kentucky farmland for its exclusive use for hemp cultivation. Additionally, Sugarmade’s CEO, Jimmy Chan, announces he has become an advisor to and a shareholder in Hempistry, Inc.
According the Hemp Business Journal, the U.S. Hemp industry produced at least $820 million in revenues during 2017, with growth to over $1 billion for 2018, and an expected 14% compound annual growth rate through 2022. Much of the recent growth has come from the demand for hemp-derived CBD for use in health and wellness products. The strain of industrial hemp being grown by Hempistry is ultra-rich in CDB, but contains less than 0.3% of THC, the psychoactive ingredient found in marijuana. Hempistry has already begun planting and thus far has 100 acres of this high CDB strain under cultivation. In total, Hempistry has optioned 23,000 acres.
Sugarmade’s investment into the market for high-CBD hemp is expected to be highly accretive for common shareholders in two ways. First, Sugarmade’s investment will be in the form of common shares in Hempistry allowing Sugarmade common shareholders to possibly benefit from any future initial public offering of Hempistry. Second, Sugarmade is expected to sign a supply agreement with Hempistry for cultivation supplies, which would be additive to corporate revenues.
Jimmy Chan, CEO of Sugarmade commented, “Demand for industrial hemp and products derived from hemp is soaring with no let up in sight. We expect our direct investment into Hempistry to be accretive to common shareholders and our supply agreement to be lucrative. All of us at Sugarmade see a tremendous opportunity to become a supplier to this fast growing sector, thus we are today launching our first in a series of activities within the hemp markets. We plan to provide additional details relative to these hemp initiatives over the coming weeks.”
Jimmy Chan has also become an advisor and shareholder of Hempistry. Mr, Chan’s role within the Hempistry will relate to capital formation and consultation relating to the marketing of the biomass to processors and manufacturers. Mr. Chan is minority shareholder in Hempistry.
About Sugarmade, Inc. (OTC: SGMD):
Sugarmade, Inc. is a product and brand marketing company investing in products and brands with disruptive potential. Sugarmade’s brands include ZenHydro.com, CarryOutSupplies.com, and BudLife Cannabis Storage Solutions. For more information on the Company’s products, please visit http://www.Sugarmade.com.
For inquiries please contact Jimmy Chan at (888) 982-1628 or info@Sugarmade.com.
STATEMENTS: Nothing in the press release is an offering for any investment. This is not an offer to sell or a solicitation of any offer to buy any securities. Offers are made only by prospectus or other offering materials.
This release contains “forward-looking statements” within the meaning of the safe harbor provisions of the U.S. Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Forward-looking statements also may be included in other publicly available documents issued by the Company and in oral statements made by our officers and representatives from time to time. These forward-looking statements are intended to provide management’s current expectations or plans for our future operating and financial performance, based on assumptions currently believed to be valid. They can be identified by the use of words such as “anticipate,” “intend,” “plan,” “goal,” “seek,” “believe,” “project,” “estimate,” “expect,” “strategy,” “future,” “likely,” “may,” “should,” “would,” “could,” “will” and other words of similar meaning in connection with a discussion of future operating or financial performance. Examples of forward looking statements include, among others, statements relating to future sales, earnings, cash flows, results of operations, uses of cash and other measures of financial performance.
Because forward-looking statements relate to the future, they are subject to inherent risks, uncertainties and other factors that may cause the Company’s actual results and financial condition to differ materially from those expressed or implied in the forward-looking statements. Such risks, uncertainties and other factors include, among others such as, but not limited to economic conditions, changes in the laws or regulations, demand for products and services of the company, the effects of competition and other factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those projected or represented in the forward looking statements.
Any forward-looking information provided in this release should be considered with these factors in mind. We assume no obligation to update any forward-looking statements contained in this report.
For inquiries please contact Jimmy Chan at (888)-982-1628 or info@Sugarmade.com.
SOURCE Sugarmade, Inc.
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Ever since I started learning Russian, the specific ways that language creates space and moves within it fascinates me. We had to learn 10 verbs that could be translated “go,” each with a different nuance in how the object moves through space. Then I found that motion and space play an important part in every language. This displays the utility of early language: to describe who and what went where. Languages across the world show an amazing level of specificity when describing space and motion, and our primordial ancestors probably benefited from it.
As I began above, Russian manifests a complex way to express motion. (Other Slavic languages express motion in a similar way.) First, going verbs distinguish whether one is going by foot or by conveyance. Second, they distinguish between motion with or without a particular end-point. So we begin with four basic going verbs: idti (by foot, specific endpoint), xodit’ (by foot, no specific endpoint), exat’ (by conveyance, specific endpoint), ezdit’ (by conveyance, no specific endpoint). I will also note that there are four verbs for carrying something with the same distinctions.
Then one can add a prefix to specify the path more specifically, namely, into (v-), out of (vy-), towards (po-), away from (u-), up to the edge of (pod-), away from the edge of (ot-), through (pro-), and around (ob-). One can add any of these prefixes to any of the above verbs. So I can walk up to something: poiti. I can drive around with no endpoint: obezdit’. I can walk away from something, with no endpoint in mind: uxodit’. This ability to combine paths and endpoints results in very specific verbs.
Georgian (completely unrelated to Armenian, or any Slavic or Semitic languages) focuses more on the speaker’s position relative to motion. Unlike Russian, it does not distinguish the means of motion (by foot vs. by conveyance) or a general endpoint. Rather than look at the endpoint of the motion as a generic point, it focuses on whether the endpoint is the speaker or hearer. If the endpoint is the speaker or hearer, you may add a prefix, mo-. (If you don’t add this prefix, you don’t have to add anything.)
In addition to this endpoint, you can also specify the path by adding one of a multitude of prefixes (called “preverbs” in traditional Georgian linguistics) like you can in Russian: up (a-), out (ga-), in (sha-), down into (cha-), across/through (garda-), thither (mi-), away (c’a-), or down (da-). This precedes the endpoint marker. So “up towards me” would be amo-. So, motion fills a space where the interlocutors occupy the central space, and the path of motion may or may not interact directly with them. (Georgian information from B. G. Hewitt, Georgian: A learner’s grammar, 2005, p. 29.)
Somali looks at motion with similar relationships among the involved entities. The speaker is one reference point, and the other entities are another reference point. These relationships appear as mandatory adverbs (not connected to the verb per se). Entities may move towards each other (wada), away from each other (kala), to the speaker (so), or away from the speaker (si). So the verb “separate” is kala durka; “go in [away from the speaker]” is si gal, and “come in [toward the speaker]” is so gal. Somali thus emphasizes the relationships of entities to one another as they cross each other’s paths, and details whether the speaker finds himself or herself on that path. (Somali examples come from John William Carnegie Kirk, A grammar of the Somali language: With examples in prose and verse and an account of the Yibir and Midgan dialects, 1905, pp. 73-74.)
American Sign Language (ASL) uses space and motion in a unique way. A speaker can use space for pronouns. For example, if you tell a story about a dog and a bone, you can sign “dog” and place it in space — say, to your left — then sign “bone” and place it to your right. As you mention the dog in your discourse, you can point to the left space, and referring to the bone, point to the right space. You can do this with multiple objects.
Then with motion you can move among entities. So if you add a cat to your discourse, you can put it in the middle. The dog can go to the cat, or the cat to the dog. The verb will change shape as it varies from a center-to-left motion or a left-to-center motion. The speaker, the hearer, and others in the physical vicinity can become discourse objects as well. So the left-side thing (dog) can carry the right-side thing (bone) to you, and the verb will move from the bone to the hearer. The speaker sets up the space however he or she wants, and then the motion follows the speaker’s structure.
Space, motion, and our ancestors
Based on this sample of completely unrelated languages, depicting space and motion to an amazing level of detail plays an important linguistic role universally. Moreover, this intricate system functions almost entirely on a subconscious level. Language depicts space and motion effortlessly — as if made to do so.
It probably was made to do so. Our ancestors had to describe quickly and effortlessly where prey and predators were and where they were headed. Those humans who used the tool of language survived and humanity evolved such that complex yet efficient depiction of space and motion existed universally in language.
How does you language depict space and motion? Does your language do anything cool with space or motion? (Probably!) Tweet this and continue the conversation!
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For the first time, instructors in the writing programs on UC campuses met this summer to work out a common program for pursing their mutual interests. Some 469 people teach in the programs statewide.
“We make up the highest membership among all the disciplines in the system,” says Jonathan Keeperman, a fourth-year instructor at UC Irvine, and a member of the UC-AFT bargaining team for non-tenured faculty. “We wanted to look at the labor practices from campus to campus, and talk about the best practices in classroom methods and pedagogy.”
Santa Barbara writing instructor and UC-AFT President Bob Samuels said, “This is the first time that we’ve met as a single discipline and compared data among the campuses. We focused on workload issues and how a systemwide contract sometimes has a hard time dealing with local issues.”
“How do we come up with terms specific enough to address individual programs, yet flexible enough for a systemwide agreement?”
UC-AFT’s primary concern is the way lecturers are routinely mistreated at some schools, and considered disposable labor. “Many don’t get to the six-year mark where they might get permanent appointments,” explains Samuels. “They’re given classes term by term, earn lower salaries, have very little say in program, and have a lot of workload concerns.”
Salaries are one area with very clear differences. A report prepared for the meeting compared salaries from campus to campus using several computations — an average salary rate based on full-time employment, an average real salary that lecturers are actually paid, and a cost estimate for basic living expenses that allow a lecturer to survive without additional income.
“The real salary is necessarily lower than the average salary, since nearly half of us are part-time employees,” explains Keeperman. “Over half, 272 of 469, are Pre-6, meaning we have yet to reach our sixth year Excellence Review and achieve any stability in our appointments.”
Almost all Pre-6 lecturers are on year-to-year contracts. Depending on the campus, there are wild fluctuations in the number of classes lecturers are offered, forcing many lecturers to teach at multiple schools. At Irvine the salary rate for Pre-6 lecturers is $49,852, and the average real salary is just $41,875, the report concluded. Even at the highest paying campus, UCLA, the numbers for Pre-6 are $50,915 and $47,860, respectively. The report, based on data from the 2014-15 academic year, estimates that it takes $56,860 to live in Los Angeles, and the same in Irvine.
Bargaining contract terms in such a variety of circumstances is challenging, Keeperman says. “How do we come up with terms specific enough to address individual programs, yet flexible enough for a systemwide agreement?” he asks. Instructors on both the UCLA and San Diego campuses bemoaned a churning policy that makes it very difficult for teachers to get to the six-year review.
“While San Diego, for instance, had pretexts for not rehiring instructors, the administration doesn’t have to give cause for denying employment within the first six years,” explains Keeperman. “In this case we agreed on a side letter requiring the investigation of certain departments.” In general, instructors do better when the writing programs are independent and governed at least in part by lecturers, rather than being housed in another department.
In the last round of bargaining, UC-AFT had hoped to reduce the number of years needed to reach a review and permanent appointment, but had to focus on more urgent concerns. Keeperman adds, “We were able to get a mandatory review at three years, which requires the university to pay attention, and gives instructors some guidance on how to improve.” The lecturers also negotiated a base rate pay increase of 11.2 percent over the next four years.
Some campuses have made substantial improvements for writing program lecturers. Large ones like UCLA and Berkeley have more money and resources. At Davis instructors won a legal battle to gain a larger voice in working conditions and program operation.
“Battles have already been won on some campuses,” Keeperman concludes, “and we need to draw on their experience. We need to learn how to go about campaigning, recruiting allies and making things better.”
— By David Bacon, CFT Reporter
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Professor Roger Kain
- Professor Roger Kain
- CBE, FBA, BA, PhD, DLit (London)
- Dean & Chief Executive
- School of Advanced Study
- Senate House Malet Street London WC1E 7HU
- Email address:
Research Summary and Profile
- Research interests:
- Early Modern, Manuscript studies
- Summary of research interests and expertise:
The focus of Roger’s research is the history of maps and mapping for which he has obtained substantial funding, enabling employment of his principal collaborator, Dr Richard Oliver, continuously since 1987. Books published in the last 20 years include: Cadastral Maps in the Service of the State (University of Chicago Press, 1992 and winner of the Newberry Library Kenneth Nebenzahl Prize), The Tithe Maps of England and Wales (Cambridge University Press, 1995, reprinted 2011, and winner of the Library Association’s McColvin Medal), Historical Atlas of South-West England (Exeter University Press, 1999), English Maps: a History (British Library, 2000), The Enclosure of Maps of England and Wales, 1585-1918 (Cambridge University Press, 2004, reprinted 2011), and England's Landscape: The South West (English Heritage 2006), British Town Maps: a history (British Library, 2015) ; this accompanies an electronic Catalogue of British Town Maps hosted by the Institute of Historical Research. In 2008 he was appointed editor of Cartography in the Nineteenth Century (University of Chicago Press) and funded by US National Endowment for Humanities and Natural Science Foundation.
Externally, Roger Kain has served as Secretary and Chair of the Institute of British Geographers Historical Geography Research Group and was Chair of the Royal Geographical Society-Institute of British Geographers Annual Conference in 2002, President of the British Association for the Advancement of Science Geography Section in 2004, and a member of the DfES Higher Education Research Forum. He was a member of the UUK and HEFCE/AHRC working groups on research assessment after 2008 and a founder-member of the Research Information Network Advisory Board. He was a member of HEFCE Research Committee, 2009-13 and is currently serving on the HEFCE Metrics Review Group and REF Impact Evaluation Steering Group. Roger was a member of the AHRC Council from 2008 to 2014. He has chaired the British Academy’s Human Geography and Social Anthropology Section, was founder chair of its Research Grants Committee, between 2002-10 was the Academy’s Treasurer and is currently Vice-President for Research and Higher Education Policy.
- Publication Details
Date Details 01-Dec-2015 British Town Maps: a History
Towns are complex and sophisticated creations. Mapping towns stretched cartographers’ ingenuity to new heights of both artistic beauty and scientific exactitude as they strove to represent and communicate the physical patterns of streets, buildings and spaces; the ’above ground’ and the ’below ground’; the built structures and the economy; the lives of those who live or work there; and the unseen realities of land ownership, administration, religion and politics.
These maps served a variety of purposes, from guiding travellers, assisting with administration and government, raising taxes, planning the built environment, organising its defence – and much, much more. Some of the maps in this book are well known, others have languished in obscurity, deep in archives, until revealed by the ten years’ work of a British Academy research project on which this book is founded. Lavishly illustrated in colour, it tells the story of the mapping of urban Britain from the late middle ages until modern times. The text is accompanied by a comprehensive index of town maps which have been catalogued on an open-access electronic resource.
01-Jan-2006 Historic Parishes of England and Wales - An Electronic Map of Boundaries before 1850 with a Gazetteer and Metadata
This book introduces a newly compiled Electronic Map of the historic (mainly pre-1850) parishes, townships, and other local administrative areas of England and Wales which is set to become a standard reference resource. The book describes the data and the method of compilation, and includes an abbreviated version of the full Gazeteer/Metadata which serves as a hard copy index to the places located on the Electronic Map.
The value of a map of the 'historic parishes' of England and Wales
The inadequacy of existing published maps of 'historic parish' boundaries
Sources of parish boundary information for the Electronic Map
Compiling the Electronic Map boundaries
The topographic underlay for the boundary mapping
12 figures and tables, 243 pages
The Electronic Map covers the whole of England and Wales, and is organised by Ordance Survey Sheet number. The map consists of scanned bitmap images of the Ordance Survey one inch to the mile (1:63,360) New Popular Edition maps (1945-8) with National Grid. It contains the boundaries of some 18,233 places, and is arranged as three electronic 'layers'. The first is a scan of the Ordance Survey maps stored as grey tone sheet images. This enables Ordance Survey physical, cultural and place-name content to be readily visible in the background for orientation and general location purposes, while not obscuring the added boundary and reference number material. The second layer consists of the boundaries, stored as solid red lines; and the third layer contains the reference numbers that link places on the map to the gazeteer/metadata dataset that accompanies the maps.
The maps are availalbe on CD-ROM in Adobe Illustrator (TM)V6 (or Adobe Acrobat PDF (TM). Adobe Illustrator format is recommended if you already have the software (as it enables you to edit the maps and select the layers to view). However, the Adobe Acrobat PDF format is perfectly suitable for viewing the maps, and the necessary reader software will be supplied.
This unique combination publication will become an invaluable tool for all those interested in plotting local area-based data from the pat (population, agricultural, statistics, tax data etc) from the 14th to 19th centuries.
We wish to acknowledge the support of the Leverhulme Trust and the Economic and Social Research Council which funded the research.
Please note this book is currently out of print.
01-Jan-2004 Enclosure and Rating, Parochial Assessment,Sanitary And Drainage Maps, 1595-1918: a cartographic analysis and electronic catalogue Cambridge University Press, 2004. Paperback edition published 2011.
To complement the study of the tithe maps, between 1993 and 1998 a five-year study of the pre-Ordnance Survey cadastral-type maps of England and Wales was undertaken by Roger Kain and Richard Oliver, funded by the Economic and Social Research Council. By far the largest component of this group are the 5000 or so enclosure maps dating from 1598 to 1927. The results of this study on enclosure maps are published here.
For more information please go here: http://www.sas.ac.uk/776.html
01-Jan-1999 English Maps: A History, Catherine Delano-Smith and Roger J P Kain, London, British Library and Toronto, University of Toronto Press, 1999.
This book adopts the revisionist perspectives of the ‘new’ history of cartography, and reviews a broad range of maps ranging in date from about 700 AD to the early twentieth century. The principal objective is to explore the ways in which maps have interacted with society in England’s past, to analyse the roles the maps have played and the uses to which they have been put. Connections across the centuries are recognised and to avoid too insular a view, the influence of ongoing intellectual and cartographic developments in the rest of Europe are noted.
01-Jan-1995 Tithes Maps of England and Wales, 1995, Cambridge University Press, paperback edition 2011
This catalogues all 11,785 tithe maps of England and Wales, and lists for each the scale, maker (where known), and the topographic and other content. The book was awarded the Library Association’s McColvin medal as the outstanding work of reference published in 1995. This research was funded by the Economic and Social Research Council, and The Leverhulme Trust.
01-Jan-1992 Cadastral maps in the service of the state: A history of property mapping. Roger J P Kain and Elizabeth Baigent, Chicago University Press, 1992
Beginning with a review of the roots of cadastral mapping in the Roman Empire, the authors concentrate on the use of cadastral maps in the Netherlands, France, England, the Nordic countries, the German lands, the territories of the Austrian Habsburgs, and the European colonies in the New World. During the seventeenth century, governments began to use maps to secure economic and political bases; by the nineteenth century, these maps had become tools for aggressive governmental control of land for taxation and resource management. The cadastral map in the service of the state was awarded the 1991 Kenneth Nebenzahl Prize for the best new manuscript in the history of cartography.
01-Jan-1991 Maps and History in South-West England, Edited by Katherine Barker and Roger Kain, University of Exeter Press, 1991
Maps are a vital but complex source of evidence for historians. The six essays in this book consider the practical and political purposes for which maps were used, the symbolic and ideological roles of maps in the history of south-west England and the ways in which map evidence can be used to recover facts about the past for use in the wrting of history. A range of types are examined: early county maps; manorial and estate plans; maps produced in conjunction with enclosure awards and tithe surveys; Ordance Survey maps.
01-Jan-1986 An atlas and index of the tithe files of mid-nineteenth-century England and Wales (Cambridge University Press, 1986), paperback edition 2010
Maps much of the statistical information from the tithe files. The database associated with this Atlas has been published as a searchable CDROM: A socio-economic analysis of land use: the 1836 national tithe files database, Marlborough, Adam Matthew, 1995.
01-Jan-1985 The Tithe Surveys of England and Wales, Cambridge University Press, 1985
Provides a general description of the maps, apportionments and tithe files, and demonstrate uses to which they have been put.
- Research Projects & Supervisions
Details British town maps, 1470-1895: a catalogue and cartographical analysis
This research on the urban cartography of Britain was adopted as a British Academy Research Project in March 1998 and the Arts and Humanities Research Board agreed in 1999 to fund work on English town maps to June 2005 and (in 2004) awarded further funding to extend the project to Wales and Scotland. This phase ran through to 2008. This study is the latest part of the long-term research programme to record and analyse the pre-Ordnance Survey, large-scale maps of the nation as described in previous sections. A comprehensive catalogue of the maps analysed is available from UK Data Archive and a monograph is expected to be published by the British Library in 2013.
Further details can be found here:
History of Cartography, Vol 5, The Nineteenth Century
This project is supported by funding from the US National Endowment for the Humanities, National Science Foundation, private trusts, and donors. Roger Kain is Editor and Contributor to this work which will comprise 1 million words and 1,000 illustrations.
Further details can be viewed at www.geography.wisc.edu/histcart/
- Professional Affiliations
Name Activity The British Academy Academy’s Treasurer and a Vice-President HEFCE Member of HEFCE's Research Impact Steering Group, its Research Committee Research Information Network Advisory Board Founder Member
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Can you think about what we will be downloading in some other twenty years? I suggest who would have every notion that you may want to file sound with digital satisfactory fifty years ago? Now we robotically download complete albums really worth of song in a couple of minutes to iPads that preserve heaps of songs in the house the measurement of a zippo lighter!
What I surprise is what will we download in the future? We can get stages online now, which capacity that we are in reality downloading our future doesn’t it. Sounds variety of funny, however genuine to say that in the future we will be downloading our future. Will we download our jobs? I imply greater and greater humans are working at domestic, aren’t they? I should see the subsequent wave of employment being over the net the place you by no means virtually see your boss or perhaps you will see him in downloaded form. That would be type of bizarre, wouldn’t it? It would be cool in the experience that you ought to be dressed on the other hand you choose and you may want to be making humorous faces at the boss and you wouldn’t even have to be at the back of his back… …that is until you have been being downloaded through your boss simultaneously. Weird!
Seriously even though we download our airline tickets and our boarding passes. Will we be in a position to download our passports in the future too? That would be tremendously handy, wouldn’t it? Or would it? Would it open up all varieties of doorways to identification theft that are presently closed in the non-digital system. We are all beginning to research about how hazardous it is to discuss with human beings that we don’t see. For occasion all the guys who stalk younger adolescents on the internet, that would in no way have a danger if the adolescents may want to see them. Makes a case for the utility of judging through the outward look, doesn’t it? I imply we all do it each day with every stumble upon that we have. We are truly taking part in the numbers simply due to the fact we have to. Sure there are exceptions, however a terrorist is greater in all likelihood to seem to be Arab than every other ethnicity isn’t he (oops, it would have been extra correct to say he or she wouldn’t it?).
Probably the coolest factor that I have heard about currently that you can download is your TV. No extra want for TIVOS right? Well kind of. If you download the application you are compelled to watch the commercials, albeit much less of them and from solely one employer per show. Do the advantages outweigh the costs? Suppose they do in this case however as we have seen, no longer continually – do they?
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More than 55% of children lack adequate nutrition in the remote region of Jharkhand, India. The solution? Small-scale kitchen vegetable gardens! With your help, 1000 families in need will receive non-GMO seeds, fruit tree seedlings, irrigation systems, a large pond, and organic gardening know-how. Training and support ensures that knowledge of small-scale farming will return and 1000 families (mid-sized village) will have a sustainable source of nutrition and water supply.
World Bank data shows that India has one of the highest percentages of children suffering from malnutrition - double that of Sub-Saharan Africa. The remote Indian region of Jharkhand has one of the highest rates of malnutrition in the country. Why? Inadequate access to nutrient-rich food and poor soil conditions has created a dire situation. This is further compounded by a lack of education, opportunity, and family-centered food sources that help prevent malnutrition.
Kitchen gardens provide a practical, sustainable solution that equips underprivileged families with the means to grow their own nutrient-rich food to reduce malnutrition and improve quality of life. Karuna-Shechen offers this effective training and resource program to impoverished households in destitute villages, where over 4,000 families are in need of this program. In addition to non-GMO seeds and best practices for gardening and composting, we provide support for long-term sustainability.
We focus on providing long-term sustainability through good farming practices including use of non-GMO seeds and proper soil cultivation techniques. A one-time investment in rainwater collection and irrigation equipment ensures ongoing cultivation of community gardens that will serve as a source of nutritious food year after year. Together, we will reduce malnutrition for families and alleviate the suffering of hundreds of malnourished children. The region could use 3000 more kitchen gardens.
This project has provided additional documentation in a DOCX file (projdoc.docx).
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These ten well-constructed interactive whiteboard lessons provide a smooth and easy way to teach improvisation and composition to elementary students in grades 1--4. Each lesson plan starts with a song, chant, or poem; provides prompts for active listening; invites students to improvise as a group and individually; and concludes with a rubric-measured assessment, which is an excellent way to address National Standards. Within each lesson plan in the book, you will see notated music, detailed lesson procedures, and miniature images of the screens that are included in the interactive whiteboard software. Put the CD in your computer to use the software with your interactive whiteboard. Kids will have so much fun singing and moving to the songs, playing classroom instruments, and manipulating the cartoon-style graphics on your interactive whiteboard, that they may not realize how much they are learning along the way! The software is PC and Mac compatible.
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Round thirteen of the 2013 MotoGP™ season sees the series return to Italy, with this weekend’s San Marino and Rimini Grand Prix taking place at the Misano World Circuit Marco Simoncelli as the fight for the championship intensifies.
Wednesday 11 September 2013
At 4.064 kilometres in length, Misano features a tight, stop-and-go layout, with a series of corner sequences joined together by short straights. The most challenging part of the circuit is from turns eleven to fourteen, starting with the flat-out Curvone which sweeps into progressively tighter right-hand corners that demand maximum commitment from the riders and good stability and grip from the tyres. The circuit requires good cornering feel but also strong acceleration and braking performance, so an optimal bike setup is important to get the best out of the tyres and to maintain a quick pace.
Overall, Misano is not overly demanding on tyres although the compound selection has to provide the best combination of grip, durability and heat-resistance as tyres spend a lot of time at large lean angles. With ten right-hand turns compared to just six left-hand turns, asymmetric slicks with harder rubber on the right shoulder are supplied. The rear slick compounds for the CRT riders are the soft and medium options, while the works riders have access to the medium and hard rear slicks. The front slick options at Misano are the medium and hard compounds.
Hiroshi Yamada - Manager, Bridgestone Motorsport Department
“Following the recent run of three back-to-back races, we are now well into the second half of the championship and it has been a truly remarkable season so far. I am looking forward to Misano as this race has often been a turning point in the championship, as evidenced by last year’s race where Jorge’s victory was a key moment in him securing his second MotoGP title. Jorge and Marc have a good record at Misano and Dani is in good form having been on the podium at the last three races so with the championship fight still wide open, I hope we are in for yet another thrilling race. Apart from the race, there is also a MotoGP test at the circuit on Monday which will provide a chance for the participating teams to test their latest developments and it will also be an important event for Bridgestone, as we will be supplying some new experimental tyres for the riders to evaluate.”
Shinji Aoki - Manager, Bridgestone Motorsport Tyre Development Department
“The track surface at Misano is smooth and offers relatively low grip and it also has a twisting layout so the tyres spend a lot of time leant over. Ambient conditions for the San Marino Grand Prix are usually hot so harder compounds are selected to provide better durability and heat resistance. The sequence of right-handers starting with the fast Curvone corner is the section that puts the most strain on the tyres and this is where the rear tyres reach their greatest temperature, but generally the loads imposed on the centre, left and right shoulders are quite similar at this track. The front tyre requires a strong centre section to provide good stability in the frequent braking zones. A smooth riding style reaps benefits at Misano so as to not overwork the tyres as they have little opportunity to cool down during a lap due to the constant corners.”
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The death of Watergate special prosecutor Archibald Cox occasions a post from Kieran Healy on how Weberian theory of authority and bureaucracy is illustrated in the drama of the Saturday Night Massacre.
On October 22, 1973, Nixon demanded that Attorney General Elliott Richardson fire Cox (Nixon himself did not have the authority to discharge a special prosecutor, as that office is appointed by Congress and overseen by the Justice Department). Richardson refused, as did his deputy William Ruckelshaus. Both were fired/ forced to resign by Nixon.
Next in the line of succession was Solicitor General Robert H. Bork. Bork fired Cox, and the office of independent prosecutor was abolished, with its functions turned over to the executive-controlled DOJ.
I'm fairly sure that I learned about all this in high school government class, where I was taught by a libertarian-leaning Reagan fan. This teacher's rationale for Bork's action was that someone had to do it -- that, had Bork also refused to get rid of Cox, Nixon was ready to keep on firing people down the chain of command at Justice until Cox was gone.
In this view, little was to be gained by Bork's following Richardson's and Ruckelshaus's example. Their exits from the Administration already demonstrated that Nixon was a loon, had that not been sufficiently clear heretofore. As Cox said, "Whether ours shall be a government of laws and not of men is now for Congress"; with Nixon running roughshod over his own DOJ, Congress would have to be the one to stop the madness.
Healy seems to have a less charitable perception of Bork. He implies by his contrast of Bork with Richardson that the former lacked the "great personal integrity" of the latter, and that Bork thought Nixon had the authority to block an investigation of himself. Richardson, in Healy's description, typifies someone who believes in legal-rational authority (government of laws); Bork someone who believes in traditional authority (government of men).
Though I have no fondness for Bork, I do think that my government teacher's defense of Bork's choice has some merit. There simply wasn't any way that a member of the executive branch who was under Nixon's command could carry out the Watergate investigation. The appointment of an indepedent prosecutor whom Nixon couldn't fire directly was an attempt to get around this problem, but it ultimately was futile. The other two branches of government -- the Supreme Court in its ruling that Nixon had to turn over the tapes, and Congress in its hearings -- had to be the ones to take down the Chief Executive.
Today in History (1902) - The last Afrikaner resistance forces sign a peace treaty with the British at Pretoria, ending the Second Boer War, and ensuring British control of South Africa. Eight years later, the Union of South Africa is created; it becomes the Republic of South Africa on the same day in 1961.
"John," a 14-year old, used a series of false identities in an Internet chatroom to convince a 16-year-old friend, "Mark," that Mark could become a member of the British secret service by stabbing John to death. Mark fortunately was an ineffectual hitman, and John survived the attack that he had planned.
John pleaded guilty to incitement to murder and perverting the course of justice, for which he received a three-year supervision order. Mark was given a two-year supervision order for attempted murder.
Judge David Maddison explained the abnormally light (relative to the usual punishment for such crimes) sentences thus: "These could not be described as any normal circumstances." And the article concludes,
The bleakly serious nature of the case is expected to lead to calls for tighter monitoring of internet chatrooms. Belinda Sproston, of the parental control software firm CyberPatrol, said: "The conversations that these boys were having would not have been allowed in a monitored chatroom."This strikes me as a poor response to this bizarre incident.
First, both of the young men involved, but especially Mark, deserve heavier sentences. He thought that he was committing murder, not assisted suicide, when he began to stab John, and his punishment ought to fit more closely with his intent.
I would not recommend putting Mark in an adult prison -- clearly, he is easy and suggestible prey -- but he needs more than a supervision order, which is the British equivalent of probation. Juvenile detention and massive amounts of psychological therapy hopefully would provide rehabilitation and punishment to the offender, as well as being a more emphatic deterrent to other would-be James Bonds.
The expected calls for tighter monitoring of Internet chatrooms sound likely to be demands for mandatory government regulation, which is not the solution to cases such as these. Frankly, Mark sounds gullible enough to have fallen for, say, a series of notes in different inks and handwritings that transmitted a similar message. Technology made John's plan much easier, but it did not create the plan nor fulfill it.
John's and Mark's parents, not their government, ought to be the ones invading their privacy and ensuring their safety and good behavior. Had John's parents been more aware of their son's suicidal state of mind, or Mark's parents of his frequent communication with people who incited him to murder, the assault could not have happened.
Today in History (1868) - The first national commemoration of lives lost in war takes place at Arlington Cemetery, after Commander in Chief John A. Logan of the Grand Army of the Republic issued General Order Number 11 designating May 30 as a memorial day.
(Apologies for the skewed Latin.)
The news that Pat Tillman was killed in a "friendly fire" incident has occasioned at least one person to wonder, "Does this mean he has to return the medals?" Michael Ascot's crude and speculative assessment of Tillman otherwise rates little more interest than similar remarks have, but his derisively-intended question about Tillman's post-humous promotion, Silver Star and Purple Heart may deserve serious exploration.
Contrary to Ascot's views, the military appears to honor people not on a wholly consequentialist basis but more for their intent. If one rushed back into enemy fire to rescue a wounded comrade, even if he ended up dying -- that is, even if the utilitarian consequences of the heroic action turn out to be useless -- the medal would be given on the basis of one's motive of self-sacrifice. Thus Tillman, who reasonably thought that he was facing enemy fire, still deserves his honors even if his assumption turned out to be erroneous.
A question for another time: What motivates the military to give posthumous honors to highly visible soldiers?
Today the National World War II Memorial in Washington, D.C. will be formally dedicated.
Someone came up with a better name than "Blogger Survivor" for our little contest. Much better. I'm stealing it.
The other day, Will Baude quoted a series of interesting passages from Barnes v. Glen Theatre, among which this bit from Scalia reminded me that ole Antonin could really use a class in moral philosophy:
Scalia, as we know from Lawrence and elsewhere, has been quite the defender of "morals legislation." It's not uncommon for people to distinguish between laws justified by the harmful consequences they prevent, and laws that simply target behavior that is "immoral," but this distinction is good for casual references, not legal or metaethical reasoning. Action is "immoral" if and only if it is action that ought not be taken. (Yes, in case you're wondering, I'd consider principles of politeness to be moral principles--rudeness being immoral--because rudeness differs from wickedness in degree, not in kind.)
The reasons we come up with to explain why something is immoral might differ, but whether they are strictly economic, or strictly based on scripture, they all advocate a state of affairs that ought to be so. To defend laws merely because they prohibit conduct thought to be "immoral" reveals more about the law's lack of justification than anything. In the philosophical sense, pretty much all laws are "morally" motivated. We should approve them not for merely proclaiming "immoral!" but for the particular reasons advanced that some conduct is immoral. I'm not arguing that laws without any consequentialist justification are without justification altogether (that's often false), or that laws without any justification must be unconstitutional, but simply that the phrase "morals legislation" elides the critical questions.
It occurs to me now that my second problem with this passage from Scalia needs little explication: decide for yourself whether suicide and drug use hurt people, or whether citing animal cruelty does any work for Scalia's argument, or instead reveals a more basic problem in framing the issue as one of human harm preventing laws vs. morals legislation.
Today in History (1935) – SCOTUS declares the National Industrial Recovery Act to be unconstitutional in the case A.L.A. Schechter Poultry Corp. v. United States (295 U.S. 495).
Professor Volokh says
but omits a crucial premise: having a married sibling is guilt by association.
Today in History (1972) – The United States and the Soviet Union sign the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty. On June 13, 2002, six months after giving the required notice of intent, the U.S. withdrew from the treaty in order to develop a National Missile Defense system.
While normally the privacy of the friends and family of the famous should be as sacrosanct as our own, said friends and family may take actions that strip away their immunity. Willingly appearing on television, for example, constitutes a step toward becoming famous oneself, and of course once one is voluntarily famous -- I am here excluding unfortunates like Richard Jewel who had infamy thrust upon them -- one's privacy soon becomes a distant memory.
The standard lately applied to those in the president's private life appears to be that while the First Lady is a fair target, children should be left alone. On its face, it is a somewhat arbitrary standard; technically, aren't children a more accurate reflection of the parents than the spouse is? In practice, however, the wives of presidential candidates become diligent campaigners themselves, thus willingly putting themselves in the glare of the searchlight on their husbands and volunteering for some degree of scrutiny and criticism.
WWJD (What Would Jenna Drink?) jokes notwithstanding, with regard to the current First Family, this rule appears to have been followed by most journalists with pretensions to seriousness. Jenna and Barbara Bush have been permitted to enjoy their college years in relative peace, and as far as I know, have not been pestered by reporters who want to know their opinions on Dad's missing WMDs.
But that may change this year, despite the pleas of White House spokesman Scott McClellan. The Reuters lede captures it perfectly: "The White House asked the media on Monday to 'show respect" for President Bush's twin daughters as they emerge from private life as students to work for their father's re-election campaign.'
"Emerge from private life"; that phrase accurately encapsulates why the press may be tempted to alter their treatment of the Misses Bush. In working for their father's re-election campaign -- presumably in front of crowds, and not just blowing up festive balloons -- they are volunteering to become more public people than they were as students. Therefore, one might logically apply a different standard.
After all, to create family rifts by trying to get a quote from a Bush daughter that would dissent from Administration policy while she was essentially a private citizen would be extremely tacky. Exposing ideological rifts within campaigns, on the other hand, strikes me as within the bounds of polite journalism. I don't know how closely Al Gore's children hewed to his policy line, but during their public appearances on his behalf in 2000, it certainly would have been legitimate to query them about it. People who volunteer for campaigns should not do so lightly, even if the candidate in question is a parent.
Today in History (1925) – John T. Scopes is indicted for teaching Darwin's theory of evolution, and the National Forensics League is founded.
We know what you've been thinking: "De Novo is great with four, but imagine how much more awesome it would be with five! Up to 25% more awesome, I'd bet!" We agree, and we want to revolutionize the blogosphere at the same time with the world's first (please don't tell us if we're not) elimination-style blog-contributor search and competition. Doesn't matter if you've got a weblog or you don't, if you've ever written anything or you haven't, if you're real or if you're fake -- send us an e-mail and let us know you want to be considered for Blogger Survivor. Can you Outwit, Outlast, and Outblog the competition?
Right now we're looking for people interested in joining us for the summer, to make this site even better, and to add a new perspective, shake things up, and get us all extra-excited about what we're doing on here. Two weeks from now, after we've assembled a top-notch set of contestants, we'll begin the competition. Each day, the contestants will have to fulfill a certain blog-related task -- blog about something you did yesterday; write a post using all 26 letters of the alphabet; find the most interesting newspaper article that no one's read -- or compete for immunity by earning the most comments, the most links, or the fewest unambigously negative reactions from our readers -- and one by one the ranks will thin until there's only one blogger left sitting at his desk posting to De Novo. And he or she will be a part of the team this summer -- and maybe longer, if it works out -- helping to make your day marginally more interesting, and this weblog achieve new heights of weblogigoodness.
How do you qualify? If you're interested in the kinds of stuff we write about -- so, if you're reading, basically, or if you can make us think you've been -- then we want to hear from you.
Deadline for contestants: June 1, but the sooner the better
After squeezing my brain for a week, I have been able to devise only the paltriest responses to the May 16 Style Invitational, "Set Us Right." So I urge our more conservative -- or at least, more creative -- De Novo readers to take a last-minute shot at the contest.
What is the difference between JFK (1960) and JFK (2004)?See here for all the rules.
John F. Kennedy had no problem with charisma, and a bad spine. John F. Kerry has a bad problem with charisma, and no spine. [...]
This week's contest, suggested by Mark Cackler of Falls Church: See if you can give us some Fair and Balance -- send us conservative-leaning humor in any of the following genres:
(1) Knock-knock jokes; (2) limericks; (3) "how can you tell" riddles; (4) "what's the difference" riddles; (5) four-line rhyming poems.
Jokes about Bill Clinton's sex life do not qualify; they transcend ideological barriers. And needless to say, joke plagiarists will be abused and humiliated. [...]
Send your entries via fax to 202-334-4312 or by e-mail to email@example.com. Deadline is Monday, May 24.
Today in History (1988) - The controversial British law Section 28, prohibiting local authorities from "intentionally promoting homosexuality or its acceptability as a pretended family relationship" in public schools, goes into effect. The repeal of Section 28 became effective November 18, 2003.
Today in History (1992) - Italian Anti-Mafia Giovanni Falcone killed with his wife (also a judge) and bodyguards in Capaci, on the motorway between Palermo International Airport and Palermo. The car in which he travelled was exploded in the air by a tremendous quantity of explosive that had been placed inside the asphalt.
Today in History (1807) - Sufficient evidence is presented to a grand jury to indict former Vice President of the United States Aaron Burr for treason. One hundred ninety years later, Kelly Flinn, U.S. Air Force's first female bomber pilot certified for combat, accepts a general discharge in order to avoid a court martial.
As if it were hard enough to make practicing law fun, the system is making it harder:
Other bad behavior? Involving a fire hydrant? I wouldn't give the guy a scooby snack, but $8500 bucks is pretty harsh.
(Link from How Appealing)
The Bush Administration is not only committed to stopping gay and lesbian couples from marrying. The Washington Times has this headline in this morning's edition: "Gays barred from sperm banks."
Unsurprisingly, that's a bit overstated (hence my attempt at going even further in the headline), but here's the lead:
The Food and Drug Administration yesterday announced a new rule that would prevent men who have engaged in homosexual sex within the past five years from making anonymous donations to sperm banks.
The explanation is as weak as one would expect:
"I do understand their concern, and the desire of everyone to be donors," Dr. [Jesse Goodman, the FDA's director of the Center for Biologics, Evaluation and Research,] said. "With regard to men who have had sex with men, the issue really is the higher incidence of HIV in that population."
One would think all body fluid, tissue, and organ donations should be tested for HIV and other such diseases (as they apparently will be, under the rule) -- making such an exclusionary policy unnecessary. The Administration apparently thinks otherwise. In the Comments section of the Final Rule, it defines the "Donor-Eligibility" rule on page 46 in response to Comment 26:
A donor is "ineligible" if either screening or testing indicates the presence of a communicable disease or risk factor for a communicable disease.
The FDA calls this a "comprehensive, risk-based approach" in its news release about the regulations.
The Final Rule materials briefly discuss this again -- citing a cost savings because those initially screened out as ineligible needn't later have a donation tested -- in the response to Comment 27 on pages 51-52. So, a "higher incidence of HIV" is being used to justify a governmental restriction that, similar to the Texas "Homosexual Conduct" law struck down by the Supreme Court in Lawrence v. Texas, disproportionately restricts gay men’s liberty. (I realize this is not a criminal law at issue, but the criminal element did not seem to figure largely into the analysis of the Lawrence Court so much as the liberty and its restriction-caused infringement.) Interestingly, here it is – using the Lawrence Court’s reasoning – gay men’s reproductive liberty that would be infringed by the government. This is being done even where all those not "screened out" still have their donated sperm tested for HIV.
To put it bluntly, all sexually active homosexuals and bisexuals are shut out of the donor pool while abstinent homosexuals and bisexuals’ blood and all heterosexual donors’ blood will be tested for HIV.
If there is a testing provision, did the Administration provide any proof that enough of the sperm donated from those who would be ineligible through the "homosexual-sex prohibition" screening contains HIV to justify a blanket restriction? Or is this an irrational restriction?
A final note: In response to Comment 12 on page 30, the Final Rule materials make clear that "there are threee categories of reproductive donors, subject to three different sets of requirements listed as follows: (1) The anonymous donor, to whom all the donor-eligibility requirements apply; (2) the directed reproductive donor, whose reproductive cells and tissue may be used even if the donor is determined ineligible; and (3) the sexually intimate partner, for whom testing and screening are not required . . . ."
Since reproduction cannot occur between lesbian or gay couples, No. 3 is obviously out. For some reason, however, No. 2 still requires the screening. If the directed reproductive donor is screened out as a sexually active homosexual, it would seem to me that he would then not be tested for HIV according to the cost-saving response discussed above. So, directed reproductive donors who are sexually active homosexuals won't be tested, but can still donate? This seems to undercut the "public health" reasons cited in the materials to justify the strict screening prohibition in No. 1.
(The Washington Post misses the screening completely, discussing only the testing portion in the second item of today's "Washington in Brief." The NY Times, however, has it: F.D.A. to Limit Sperm Donors.)
Today in History (1961) - Alabama Governor John Patterson declares martial law in an attempt to restore order after race riots break out. Thirty years later, former Indian PM Rajiv Gandhi is assassinated by a female suicide bomber. Seven years after that, on the same day in 1998, an Oregon student kills two fellow students and his parents; in Miami, Florida, five abortion clinics are hit by a butyric acid attacker.
The Uncivil Litigator should be feeling quite justified: Attorney Brandon Mayfield, arrested two weeks ago on the basis of a match with fingerprints found at the Madrid bombing, was freed today after Spanish police said that fingerprints on a bag containing detonators like those used in the bombing were not his after all. Spanish police said that the fingerprints actually belonged to Algerian Ouhnane Daoud, who remains at large.
From Voice of America: Citing post 9/11 concerns about the passage of undocumented persons into the United States, Americans along the U.S.-Mexico border have organized to check the flow.
Some ranchers have armed themselves and detained illegal immigrants on their land. The ranchers say the migrants have damaged their property.
Among other groups on the prowl are private citizens organized under the name "Civil Homeland Defense," a group based in the Old West mining town of Tombstone.
As generally happens with vigilantes, these groups are not receiving support from the government. The chief of the Tucson Border Patrol district worries about having them detain people, while agents in the field are concerned about the safety of private citizens who attempt to tangle with potentially dangerous border-crossers.
Chris Simcox, who started Tombstone's Civil Homeland Defense, was arrested last year for carrying a firearm on national park land, convicted on two federal misdemeanor counts and now is barred for carrying a gun during his two-year probation. The experience seems to have turned Simcox, editor of Tombstone's weekly newspaper into a bit of a tinfoil-hat man.
Mr. Simcox claims the arresting officers targeted him because of his political activism and he says he now sees the government as a possible enemy rather than as an ally in the fight to secure the nation's borders.I don't deny that some arrests may be politically motivated, but to regard the U.S. government as a "possible enemy" in border security borders on idiocy.
The legal issue I see in this story is whether Americans, not officially deputized by federal, state or local government, can give themselves the power to take action against citizens of another country when those aliens are breaking U.S. law.
Simcox maintains that his group merely identifies problem areas and notifies the authorities so official law enforcement can do the apprehensions, but the Civil Homeland Defense is likely to cross over from neighborhood watchdog to vigilante. By carrying firearms, they enable themselves to use the threat of force to keep migrants from trying to flee, and such a threat is viewed by some as being properly the prerogative of government. This is particularly so for an organized threat of force, in which the people brandishing firearms are not acting in direct self-defense, but instead are seeking out law-breakers.
The ranchers who detain illegal immigrants have a better claim to the self-defense argument: just as a homeowner with a firearm might brandish it to keep a trespasser or burglar from fleeing, ranchers arguably have the same power over their vast properties. On the other hand, I suspect this is selective enforcement of property rights; people not perceived by the ranchers as illegals are probably permitted to move about without fear of being held at gunpoint.
A common complaint against the Bush Administration's handling of post-9/11 America is that the president hasn't asked for much sacrifice. Aside from having to send our men and women of the armed forces overseas, Americans otherwise can be fairly impervious to the demands of war.
Through deficit spending, Bush even has avoided forcing us to pay for military action (the payment will come due after he has left office). Congress passed tax cuts during what is supposed to be a time of war -- possibly a first in U.S. history. We haven't had to stop driving gas-guzzlers, even though decreasing our dependence on Middle East oil could free us to demand more from countries like Saudi Arabia.
We haven't even seen a substantive initiative like Kennedy's Peace Corps, in which large numbers of people voluntarily give up the comforts of American life in order to improve the condition of impoverished nations. Aside from driving a hybrid vehicle -- which I would have done even before 9/11 -- I haven't contributed anything to helping us win the war on terrorism. And while some might be embarrassed by such an admission, I frankly don't see what I should be doing.
People like Chris Simcox, on the other hand, are shouldering some of the burden of maintaining the security of our borders, which is surely a large element in preventing future terrorist attacks on American soil. Yet the VOA headline and the title of this post label them with the negative term "vigilante," because the government doesn't want their help. What's a patriotic man to do?
Today in SCOTUS History (1895) - In Pollock v. Farmers' Loan & Trust Co., rules against the establishment of the first Federal income tax as an unconstitutional tax, necessitating the 16th Amendment.
From an Associated Press report:
On the issue of Iraqi inmate abuse at the hands of U.S. military personnel, Kennedy said the Iraqi judges "innately knew, instinctively knew how concerned we were. They also knew that we can't really comment because we are actually in the legal system where we have review of military court-martials. They also knew we represent a process that is open, that recognizes that human fallibility is the reason we have democracy."(Emphasis added, link via Althouse)
Justice Kennedy appears to be working off the happy-happy-joy-joy definition of "democracy," in which the particular checks and balances, Constitution and republican form of government that originated in American liberal democracy are embedded into majority rule. This is troubling, because as we strive to spread democracy throughout the world, we must be aware of its limitations and the necessity of constraining it.
The Founders, of course, saw human fallibility as precisely the reason to limit the reach of majority rule. Kennedy himself, as a justice of the United States Supreme Court, is a member of one of the most undemocratic institutions in the nation (the "kritarchy," so to speak). An unelected federal judiciary was mandated by the Founders because they feared the passions of the mob, and although their fear was driven partially by elitism, it nonetheless has proven to be wise.
History before 1789, and even more after it, has shown that people are delighted to oppress one another whenever possible, and easily do so under the banner of majority rule. Hitler initially came to power through elections; at first, Communists could plausibly claim the support of the Russian people. Authoritarian regimes still claim to have elections, however farcical: China, Cuba and Saddam Hussein's Iraq all hold/ held them.
What Kennedy likely meant by saying "human fallibility is the reason we have democracy" is that the American model of government recognizes the truth in the cliche "Power corrupts." It therefore attempts to distribute power amongst different branches and levels of governments and between the people and their representatives. Congress holds hearings on the executive branch's responsibility for the military's conduct; the Supreme Court will rule on whether the president can continue to detain "enemy combatants" without trial at Guantanamo Bay.
My concern about Kennedy's blithe use of the term "democracy" stems from the associations Americans put on the word, and reports about what it means outside the United States. As Fred Siegel notes, "Most Americans assume that democracy, liberalism, and capitalism are not only a natural trio but mutually reinforcing. [...] But historically -- and in much of the world today -- these elements are in tension with one another."
Yale Law professor Amy Chua's book World On Fire: How Exporting Free Market Democracy Breeds Ethnic Hatred and Global Instability specifically highlights the tension between democracy and capitalism, but she recognizes the tension between liberalism and democracy as well. Chua concludes a recent essay on Iraq thus: "[E]ven today, democracy in the West means much more than unrestrained majority rule. It includes protection for minorities and property, constitutionalism and human rights. A lot more is needed than just shipping out ballot boxes."
Moreover, in some regions, particularly the Middle East, democracy frequently carries a connotation of excessive permissibility. Some members of traditionalist societies fear what government by The People will look like, and are wary of American democracy because in their minds it is somehow tied to crass American culture. Their strongest image association with democracy is not Thomas Jefferson or the Constitution, but Britney Spears.
Still, democracy remains a worthy ideal. But it requires modification, both literally and grammatically; a "liberal democracy," a "constitutional democracy." Mere majority rule, as the Founders knew, often exposes the most fallible side of humans.
This is about as related to the law as Randy Johnson's perfect game is, but here's an interesting New York Times interview with Simon Cowell about American Idol.
Today in History (1848) - Mexico ratifies the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, thus ending the Mexican-American War and ceding Texas, California and most of Arizona and New Mexico to the United States for $15 million dollars. Seventy three years later, Congress passed the Emergency Quota Act, establishing national quotas on immigration.
A contributor to Open Source Politics finds himself in a dilemma:
I'm moving at last to publish my 270-odd pages of poetry in book form. The reading I've been doing suggests that even non-contractual publication on a mostly politics website will count as prior publication for most journals I might submit to: my own fault, but highly annoying, since OSP has published 7 of my 20 favorite poems, and many others. That's why I've stopped posting new poems until further notice, though I left the ones already there.
Do you consider me or my poems bound by any kind of contract? I've certainly never discussed that with anyone. Do you have any sense of copyright implications for text published on OSP? Sorry it looks like I'll have to stop publishing my poems with you.An OSP board member replied:
One thing I do know is the story of Mathworld. In a nutshell, the creator of Mathworld, after some years of having the site on the net for everyone to see, decided to publish everything that was then there in book form. The contract he signed without reading forbade that, so his publisher sued him for having the site on (IIRC, the publisher couldn't get Mathworld off the net but he did get the creator and the host to pay a substantial sum of money, but here I'm not completely sure).Any De Novo readers know what the rules of free-to-read internet publication becoming pay-to-read print publication are?
Fifty years ago, the U.S. Supreme Court handed down a decision that ruled racial segregation of public schools to be a violation of the U.S. Constitution. Today, following the state Supreme Court's ruling that prohibiting same-sex marriage violated the Massachusetts Constitution, hundreds of gay couples will begin to enjoy the same rights and responsibilities as opposite-sex spouses.
Mr. Non-Volokh on The Day After Tomorrow:
What I find surprising is not the disingenuous political use of this film, but the relative scarcity these days of films designed as political propaganda. It's been my feeling that film is probably the single most powerful means of persuading the public. First, a much larger and more diverse segment of the public watches big box office flicks than reads editorials in major publications. I suspect that audiences for most political journalism are generally better educated, and are more likely to have developed views on a topic. Second, a well wrought film with a political message--by captivating an audience for nearly two hours--is more likely to convey a message viewers can identify with and internalize. Even mediocre films feature sympathetic characters, and when a character's welfare depends on events associated with a political platform, sympathy for the character can be translated to sympathy for the platform. (Of course, I'm oversimplifying here, but consider The Life of David Gale, where what I take to be a highly sympathetic protagonist falls victim to the gross injustice of wrongful conviction and a death sentence. The anti-death penalty message of the movie was quite powerful, I thought.) Finally, films have much greater license to misrepresent and even misstate the facts. Cautious viewers are wise to withhold judgment until facts asserted in a film are confirmed, but somehow I doubt that more than a fraction of movie watchers check up on facts, and even some who do may still be tainted by the film's overall emotional impression.
Despite his rhetorical unfairness, I think Michael Moore found exactly the right medium.
Today in History (1868) - The Senate failed by one vote to convict President Andrew Johnson as it took its first ballot on one of 11 articles of impeachment against him. Today's also the beginning of National Transportation Week!
If you bought shares in Krispy Kreme from Aug. 21, 2003, through May 7, 2004, you could get in on this: After the blow of the low-carb diet trend to their wonderful doughnuts, the company now faces a lawsuit by shareholders who claim that ''the company ineptly accounted for how their bottom line would be affected by the popular low-carbohydrate diets; first by claiming that the trend would have no influence, and then by over-exaggerating the effect of the diet fad."
The shareholders are also complaining that the senior executives named as defendants in the suit disregarded signs that the firm had expanded too quickly, that its wholesale business undermined sales at its retail stores, and that it faced stiff competition from doughnut chain Dunkin' Donuts.
I confess that I'm puzzled by this. At what point do poor business management and overly optimistic predictions become bases for litigation? I understood that the corporate scandals of the last several years mostly centered on dubious behavior like setting up shell corporations and misleading accounting. But no one is accusing Krispy Kreme of these actions; instead, the guilt of the executives appears to be grounded in their having done a less-than-optimal job. This rates litigation?
My ten word review of the new movie, Super Size Me:
Learning experience: Fast food is the devil. Must exercise now!
Today in History (1911) - The United States Supreme Court declares Standard Oil to be an "unreasonable" monopoly under the Sherman Antitrust Act and orders the company to be dissolved.
With Bashman temporarily occupied with real life (best wishes for his wife's speedy recovery), here's a quick rundown of legal news (apologies for those that repeat Bashman posts):
In a 2-1 decision, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit affirmed a ruling that the National Wrestling Coaches Association and other athletic groups failed to show that the anti-discrimination law known as Title IX directly caused a reduction in men's sports, saying that the parties lacked standing to file the lawsuit, which should be litigated against individual colleges that eliminated men's sports, not the federal government.
The fourth U.S. soldier faces court-martial; the seven charges against Specialist Charles A. Graner Jr. include cruelty and maltreatment of detainees, as well as accusations of adultery and "committing indecent acts."
Judith Scruggs, who was convicted of creating an environment that contributed to her 12-year-old son's suicide after constant bullying at school, received a suspended sentence today. She was placed on probation for five years and also must undergo counseling and perform 100 hours of community service. Legal experts said they believe the conviction, on a risk of injury charge, may have been the first time a parent was found guilty of contributing to her child's suicide.
Scruggs' attorney described her as a single parent who worked long hours to support two children. Her supporters rallied outside the courthouse this morning, with one holding a sign that read "Punish the bullies, not the grieving mothers." She has filed suit against the city and school system, claiming teachers and others did not do enough to protect her son from bullies.
Texas governor Rick Perry granted a pardon on the basis of innocence for Josiah Sutton today, exonerating the Houston man who was imprisoned for more than four years on faulty DNA evidence.
Oklahoma governor Brad Henry commuted the death sentence of a convicted murderer from Mexico to life without parole Thursday in a case in which state and foreign officials alike said the inmate's life should be spared.
Former chief executive Oral Suer will serve 27 months in prison and pay $497,000 in restitution for defrauding the D.C. unit of the United Way.
The Federal Reserve ordered Riggs Bank's parent company Friday to take steps to prevent money laundering after the Treasury Department fined Riggs a record-setting $25 million in connection with a probe into possible links to terrorism financing.
"Nortel Networks, the embattled manufacturer of telephone equipment whose accounting practices are already the subject of a Securities and Exchange investigation, said today that it is the subject of a criminal investigation by the United States attorney's office in Texas."
Pfizer, the world's largest pharmaceutical company, pleaded guilty yesterday and agreed to pay $430 million to resolve criminal and civil charges that it paid doctors to prescribe its epilepsy drug, Neurontin, to patients with ailments that the drug was not federally approved to treat.
Perhaps Matto and I should bow our heads in concession to the District Court's accepting jurisdiction over the federal suit to enjoin enforcement of Goodridge, since we had both concluded that there was no federal jurisdiction. While our predictions (if they were, in fact, predictions) were incorrect, I am hardly satisfied by the court's cursory treatment of jurisdiction, especially in this age of the Supreme Court’s exuberant federalism. The court’s entire treatment of jurisdiction—just one paragraph—follows (but footnotes are omitted), with defendants’ contentions and my commentary interspliced.
Court: “this court is not reviewing any substantive holding of the SJC with respect to the Massachusetts constitutional issues that were at the heart of the Goodridge case. Rather, it is determining whether certain of the SJC’s actions in connection with the Goodridge case violated the federal Constitution, specifically its Guarantee Clause.”
Sounds correct. Alleged violations of the Guarantee Clause clearly “arise under” the federal constitution, and so there’s no trouble with subject matter jurisdiction.
Court: “although state officials cannot be sued in federal court based on violations of state law, it does not follow that state officials cannot be sued in federal court based on violations of federal law. The Eleventh Amendment does not bar this court from ensuring, via prospective injunctive relief, that the residents of Massachusetts are not deprived of their federally guaranteed right to a republican form of government.”
This result may be ultimately correct, but the reason has nothing to do with the Guarantee Clause; the 11th Amendment might not bar this suit because under Ex Parte Young, suits against state officers in their official capacity might be characterized as something different than suits against the state itself (which the Eleventh Amendment bars). Suit against the individual Justices of the SJC might be okay under Young, but suit against the SJC itself is probably barred by the 11th Amendment (per Edelman v. Jordan, state agencies are shielded by the 11th).
Court: “the deprivation of the right to a republican form of government, that is, the injury that Plaintiffs have alleged in this case, is sufficient to establish standing. Moreover, there can be no question that the issuance of an order enjoining the enforcement of the Goodridge decision would serve to redress that injury.”
The court cites no authority at all. This reasoning is completely inadequate: if all one must do is allege that a provision of the Constitution was violated (or, for that matter, any provision of law), then the standing requirement ceases to exist. Plaintiffs in Allen would have needed only to allege: “our injury is a deprivation of Equal Protection.” Stating a legal conclusion is not equivalent to stating facts that constitute a cognizable injury, and in these days of rigorous standing inquiries, I’m baffled that the court didn’t take standing much more seriously here. The requirement is called “injury in fact” which on its face encourages an extra-legal investigation into whether a material controversy exists; the inquiry is extra-legal because standing—at least in theory—is decided before the merits are reached. The court makes zero effort to show how the facts make out a palpable injury, and unless there are facts I’m missing, I still support the view that under current standing law, there is no injury in merely watching one’s state court act unconstitutionally, which appears to be all plaintiffs have here.
Now, in my opinion, standing is often more trouble than it’s worth, and I think the “case or controversy” requirement of Article III could, in all but exceptional cases, be satisfied at the 12b6 stage. Another problem with standing that’s highlighted by this suit is that when one’s state (supposedly) violates the federal constitution but doesn’t materially harm anyone (“material” being the loaded word here), no one can stop them in federal court. Violations of the Establishment Clause are often of this nature; people often really don’t like when the government unconstitutionally supports religion in a way that causes no “concrete” harms, but standing doctrine would appear to bar many suits against such unconstitutional action (creating a rights-remedies gap). Ultimately, it’s not that hard to find someone who is uniquely injured, but the requirement of unique injury seems a bit arbitrary. Although standing doctrine preserves the dispute resolution model of federal adjudication (i.e., courts are there only to resolve concrete disputes between actual parties), the public generally views important federal decisions as much more significant than a concrete dispute. If the public significance of Newdow, for instance, is whether the Constitution permits “under God” in the pledge, who cares if he had custody over his daughter? The case is about church and state, right? Sort of.
At any rate, standing is a requirement under current law, and this case presents serious jurisdiction questions. I would be very surprised if the court were not reversed on standing grounds, unless plaintiffs make better allegations of injury. For instance, as Tony Rickey has suggested in comments to an earlier post, plaintiffs might allege that in their capacities as employers, they must give gay married couples certain benefits, which would undoubtedly be an injury in fact. Plaintiffs’ counsel, however, may have chosen to avoid this route because it presents fairly serious ripeness problems (because it won’t be clear who has to cover what benefits until after May 17th—that is, the controversy is not yet ripe).
Court: “the United States Supreme Court, in New York v. United States, refused to embrace ‘[t]he view that the Guarantee Clause implicates only non-justiciable political questions . . . .” In fact, the Court recognized that it had previously “suggested that perhaps not all claims under the Guarantee Clause present non[-]justiciable political questions.’”
Since the court is relying on no more than dicta, it would be nice to see a discussion of the political question doctrine, but I don’t really care because the issue isn’t as salient or interesting as others.
This post is far too long, so perhaps I’ll return to the merits of the decision later.
Apparently, the "doctor" who counsels the ugly ducklings on Fox's "The Swan" got her PhD from a diploma mill and isn't really a doctor at all. Imagine that. This is really going to hurt Fox's reputation, because everyone knows what a high standard they purport to live up to.
Sorry no posts from me for the last few days -- exams combined with a laptop that wouldn't let me access the Internet except from the library made it a challenge. But exams are done, I guess for all of us now. Hooray.
As I catch up on stuff I didn't read this past week, the only thing inspiring me with much to say, at least for now, is Prof. Smith's post about exam grading, and that he likes to give a take-home exam because it allows for more analysis than glibness. As a student, I prefer short in-class exams, because they reward glibness more than analysis. How ironic.
Today in History (1948) - Israel declares itself to be an independent state and a provisional government is established.
The website of adult entertainer Sunny Leone (explanation of why I was looking at this here) includes an odd warning on the page before one can enter her virtual store. The usual prophylactics are there: I am over 18 years of age; I will do all in my power to prevent access to the adult sections of this site by minors; etc.
Yet one caught my eye: "The items I order do not violate my personal or my community standards." Presumably one would know what one's own personal standards are, but how does one determine what community standards are? If the postman reports one to the police and one is arrested for violating them, that would send a clear signal. Otherwise, those standards seem likely to be vague and inconsistently applied.
In what community would this stuff be considered acceptable? And do they have good restaurants?
Today in History (1985) - Philadelphia's mayor orders police to storm the radical group MOVE's headquarters to end a stand-off. The police drop an explosive device into the headquarters killing 11 MOVE members and destroying the homes of 250 city residents in the resulting fire.
... we're in for a shame-fest of rock star posturing as spiritually conflicted visionary. Jim Morrison's poems were generally bad, but at least most of them made no sense. Hopefully Corgan's will enjoy the same virtue. Look out, Chicago.
Washington events surrounding the 50th anniversary of the Supreme Court's desegregation decision:
Wednesday the 12th, at 6:30 P.M. Law professor Sheryll Cashin discusses and signs The Failure of Integration: How Race and Class Are Undermining the American Dream at Karibu Books-P.G. Plaza, 3500 East-West Hwy., 301-559-1140.
Thursday the 13th, at 6:30 p.m. Alonzo Smith, curator of "Separate Is Not Equal" at the National Museum of American History, and historian Donald Roe discuss the local case Bolling v. Sharpe, decided in 1954. City Museum of Washington, 801 K St. NW. $10. For reservations, call 202-383-1839.
Sunday the 16th, at 3 P.M. Charles J. Ogletree Jr. discusses and signs All Deliberate Speed: Reflections on the First Half-Century of Brown v. Board of Education at Sisterspace and Books, 1515 U St. NW, 202-332-3433.
May the 17th, VIP reception at 6 P.M. & program at 8 P.M. The NAACP, Howard University and the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. will honor civil rights pioneers and leaders who participated in the Brown decision, along with contemporary luminaries who have advanced the promise of Brown. The event will be held at Constitution Hall, 311 18th Street, N.W.
May 17: Historic marker dedication, 12:30-1:30 p.m., Stratford building, 4100 Vacation Lane. Remarks by Barbara A. Favola, Arlington County Board chairman; Frank K. Wilson, Arlington School Board chair; the Rev. Leonard Hamlin, Black Ministers Association; and Talmadge Williams, Arlington NAACP president. A moment of silence will be held at 12:52 p.m., the time when the Supreme Court's decision was read on May 17, 1954, and also a "Swapping Stories" presentation, featuring two former Stratford students who attended the school in 1959 and two current Arlington public school students.
May 17: An Evening of Celebration and Commemoration, 7-9 p.m., Thomas Jefferson Community Center, 3501 Second St. S. The program will include a stage presentation, recounting the story of the Brown decision in the national and local arenas with music and song, along with the reading of a joint resolution and remarks by Wilson, Favola, Hamlin and Williams.
The events are sponsored by Arlington County, Arlington public schools, the Arlington Human Rights Commission, the NAACP Arlington chapter, the Black Ministers Association and Arlington Public Libraries.
WITH AN EVEN HAND: BROWN V. BOARD AT FIFTY -- Open Thursday. Through Nov. 13. More than 100 items from the library's collection of books, photographs, political cartoons, music, films and more. Library of Congress, Jefferson Building, Great Hall, 10 First St. SE. Free. 202-707-4604.
SEPARATE IS NOT EQUAL: BROWN V. BOARD OF EDUCATION -- Opens Saturday. Celebration noon-4 p.m. Through May 30, 2005. The exhibition, marking the 50th anniversary of the landmark Supreme Court decision, includes a classroom from a segregated school, videos of public reaction to the ruling, photos and more. The opening celebration includes music, tours and films. National Museum of American History, 14th Street and Constitution Avenue NW. Free. 202-357-2700.
WITH ALL DELIBERATE SPEED -- A documentary by Peter Gilbert (producer of "Hoop Dreams") about desegregation after Brown v. Board of Education. At Landmark's E Street Cinema.
Happy 67th birthday to comedian George Carlin.
The revelations of abuse at Abu Ghraib prison have created a new interest in how the United States treats its own on American soil. The chief point highlighted in these articles is the epidemic of rape in U.S. prisons; an estimated one in five male prisoners are sexually coerced at some time.
This analogy to what happened to Iraqi prisoners is in some ways more salient than that of the My Lai massacre during Vietnam, particularly because the abuse is happening to adult men who have been deemed criminal and is damaging not only for its obvious physical harm but also for the element of humiliation. InstaPundit, for example, has decried the My Lai comparison because that massacre involved "innocent women and children, not the mistreatment of prisoners."
Implicit in that distinction is the idea that not only is murder worse than abuse and humiliation -- something not necessarily true in other cultures -- but also that mistreating prisoners is less morally problematic than mistreating people who have not been found guilty of a crime or (in the case of many Iraqi detainees) who have not fallen under the suspicion of the U.S. authorities.
Which raises the question in my mind: Do we, consciously or unconsciously, think that abuse is part of the appropriate punishment for being in prison? Do we believe that the loss of liberty is insufficient, and that additional penalties should be paid? Or, at least, that if they are paid, we should not be excessively troubled by it?
Although male-on-male rape in American prisons generally is committed by the inmates against each other, other forms of abuse of inmates by prison officials are widespread. The New York Times reports that in Pennsylvania, inmates are stripped publicly before being moved to a new place; Maricopa County (AZ) jail inmates are made to wear pink underwear; guards at a Virginia maximum security prison allegedly often beat inmates and force them to crawl.
The experts also point out that the man who directed the reopening of the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq last year and trained the guards there resigned under pressure as director of the Utah Department of Corrections in 1997 after an inmate died while shackled to a restraining chair for 16 hours. The inmate, who suffered from schizophrenia, was kept naked the whole time.At least one American thinks we shouldn't be so outraged by the Abu Ghraib abuse. "You know, they're not there for traffic violations," Sen. James Inhofe, R-OK said. "If they're in cell block 1A or 1B, these prisoners -- they're murderers, they're terrorists, they're insurgents. Many of them probably have American blood on their hands. And here we're so concerned about the treatment of those individuals." (Link via Unspun Zone.)
Technically, most of the prisoners have not been tried and convicted of any crime, not even a traffic violation. Even once they have been, Sen. Inhofe's attitude is wholly inappropriate; punishment should be handed out on a pre-determined basis, not thrown down at the whims of the guards or fellow prisoners. Judges and juries sentence criminals for their crimes and to pile more suffering on arbitrarily undermines the justice and legitimacy of our system.
I suppose it goes without saying that not everyone looks forward to May 17th in Massachusetts:
Mat Staver, president and general counsel of Liberty Counsel, issued a statement Monday saying "the federal courts are obligated to step in to ensure that Massachusetts is following the basic principle of separation of powers that is vital to our very system of law and government."
Both cases, as Matto notes, rejected standing when no more was alleged than an undifferentiated desire to see the government act lawfully. This presents a very interesting question in the gay marriage context: could there ever be federal standing to challenge government action conferring the benefits of marriage on same-sex couples? Suppose, for instance, that the backlash against gay marriage grows more intense in the coming years, and for whatever reason a Federal Marriage Amendment to the Constitution is adopted, prohibiting states from recognizing same-sex marriage. Who could challenge a disobedient state in federal court? The mere fact of watching one's state disobey the federal constitution in giving benefits to same-sex couples is not likely at all to be an "injury-in-fact." Consider the standing test put forth in Allen v. Wright (approved by Lujan, but placed in question by FEC v. Akins, 524 US 11 (1998)):
In Allen, mothers of school children alleged that "they are harmed directly by the mere fact of Government financial aid [contrary to IRS regulations] to discriminatory private schools" , but the Court said that "might be a claim simply to have the Government avoid the violation of law" which is insufficient for standing. Id at 752-55.
Lujan addressed a provision of the Endangered Species Act requiring federal agencies to consult with the Secretary of the Interior to make sure the agency's actions would not jeopardize the existence of endangered species. A subsequent promulgation limited this requirement to agency actions taken in the United States, so wildlife enthusiasts sued for a declaration that this promulgation should extend to international actions. Even though plaintiffs had previously observed foreign habitats of endangered species, the Court held that they had no standing (no "injury"):
Although traditional family acitvists might feel that they are more "injured" by gay marriage than the average citizen, this surely isn't enough after Lujan, where wildlife enthusiasts had raised only "a generally available grievance."
Under current law, the concrete and material nature of an injury required for standing is simply not the kind of injury that traditional marriage advocates can allege, so I don't see how laws conferring gay marriage--even if they disobey the federal constitution--could be challenged in federal court. Unless, of course, an FMA explicitly granted jurisdiction to Article III courts, or created a special administrative agency to deal with its enforcement.
In his post about the Justice Department's decision to re-open the investigation of Emmett Till's murder, Nick says, "Surely the remaining perpetrators (if any) should be brought to justice, and I support a renewed prosecution for its symbolic value (the 'public therapy' view of criminal justice is particularly keen here)."
Depending on what "brought to justice" means, I may have to disagree with Nick. Certainly if there were people involved in the crime other than the two men, now deceased, who were arrested, tried, acquitted and who then sold the story of how they lynched Till to a magazine, their guilt should be determined and publicized.
But now, when crimes like Till's murder are formally recognized through hate crime statutes to be particularly heinous and deserving of extra punishment, I doubt that much purpose will be served by putting senior citizens in prison for a 50-year-old killing. The public shaming should be enough.
Today in History (1995) - In New York City, more than 170 countries decide to extend the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty indefinitely and without conditions. Three years later, India conducts its first underground nuclear tests, which would have violated the Treaty had India been a signatory.
Remember Emmett Till, the black teenager who was brutally lynched in Mississippi for (apparently) whistling at a white woman in 1955? Although his two murderers have passed away, others may have been involved, possibly in kidnapping him, and the Department of Justice is working with the Mississippi Attorney General to reopen an investigation.
Surely the remaining perpetrators (if any) should be brought to justice, and I support a renewed prosecution for its symbolic value (the "public therapy" view of criminal justice is particularly keen here). Beyond that, what's perhaps most remarkable about this story is the phenomenon of the federal government and a deep-south state cooperating to vindicate the most infamous hate crime in American history. It's worth pausing to note the extraordinary success of the civil rights movement, even if it's still incomplete.
Since, say, 1960, which Cabinet-level officials (or the Director of Central Intelligence, who's pretty high up there) resigned because (1) they admit that they have failed in some task, or (2) their subordinates (direct or indirect) have failed and the officials want to take responsibility for the subordinates' failure (and perhaps their own failure to monitor the subordinates)? I'm excluding (A) firings of such officials, and (B) resignations prompted by personal scandal, unpopular comments, or general unpopularity. I'm looking for resignations of the "My policies have proven to be wrong, and I'm resigning to take responsibility for them" variety.Due to the lack of comments on the Conspiracy, I don't know how many people have come up with answers, but I'd be interested to see if De Novo readers could answer a question that comes before Volokh's resignation query.
The question is: Since 1960, which Cabinet-level officials or CIA directors have had massive failures that were regarded as such during their term in office?
For example, J. Edgar Hoover is now something of a by-word for the government's powers of surveillance being misused. But from what I understand, he was not regarded in this light by the majority of Americans during his tenure as FBI director. Even if it was known at that time just what he was doing with his powers -- as it is now being known how military authorities in Iraq have used their powers -- it was not seen as abuse, unlike the general consensus in the U.S. and the world that the treatment of Iraqi prisoners is clearly abuse.
Earl Butz, who resigned as Secretary of Agriculture due to the furor over his making a racist joke, would not meet Volokh's parameters because the resignation was prompted by an "unpopular comment" and was not due to policy.
Samuel Riley Pierce, Jr., Secretary of Housing and Urban Development 1981-89 and the only black member of the Reagan Cabinet would fit, except for his failure to resign. An independent counsel appointed in March 1990 found "a pervasive pattern of improper and illegal behavior" within HUD, amounting to a "monumental and calculated abuse of the public trust." Pierce acknowledged that he helped create a climate in which the corruption took place, and in return for that statement, prosecutors agreed not to pursue charges against him.
Caspar Weinberger, Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare 1973-75 and Secretary of Defense 1981-87 resigned from the latter office on November 23, 1987, but cited his wife's declining health -- not the Iran-Contra affair -- as the reason. He received the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1987 and was pardoned by President George Bush in 1992 to forestall any prosecution over Iran-Contra.
But the majority of politicians who get into publicized trouble have committed crimes or at least broken rules governing the conduct of office-holders. People who have made mistakes, like failing to respond to Rwandan genocide, are generally regarded as simply human, when we recognize their mistakes at all. (President George W. Bush, for example, does not regard America's inaction during the killing of 800,000 people as an error.)
The most frequently invoked parallel to our current situation is Vietnam. Every aspect of Iraq, from the suspicious native population to the turning-over of the war to local troops trained by the U.S., is compared to the twists and turns of the Vietnam War, the only foreign policy failure generally and strongly acknowledged in our collective memory.
Yet even in that war, which featured massacres and massive destruction far beyond anything Americans have done in Iraq, no one at the top resigned with their errors given as the reason for the resignation. Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara resigned February 29, 1968, but to become president of the World Bank and with the Medal of Freedom and the Distinguished Service Medal in hand. Though he recently has written and spoken about his regret and guilt over the mistakes he made, we cannot say that he resigned over them any more than Weinberger resigned over Iran-Contra.
Moreover, at the time McNamara resigned, his actions were not popularly regarded as clearly wrong. In the 1968 election -- in the 1972 election, as well -- Americans did not vote on the basis of the candidate who would repudiate past policy on Vietnam, but for the candidate who promised to let us have our victory and bring our troops home too.
In some ways, I would consider the calls for resignations over the Abu Ghraib scandal to be a sign of advancement in the United States. We are now able to recognize outrages as such, and to demand accountability from our leaders, instead of ignoring them as the natural consequences of war.
In some other blogplace, at some other blogtime, someone commented that comparing the struggle for equality for homosexuals to the struggle for equality for African Americans implies that everyone who is not in favor of the former must be a racist, despite their support for the latter.
I don't think the implication is of racism, but rather of inconsistency; the thinking is that people who are in favor of equality for one group ought to be in favor of it for another unless there is a relevant difference. In the view that neither one's race nor one's gender/ sexual orientation ought to be regarded as a relevant difference for being treated equally, to want equality for people of the minority race but not of the minority orientation or historically-oppressed gender is an inconsistent support for the principle of equality.
Alas a Blog looks at it differently:
Why is it that we can't seem to get away from viewing the black civil rights struggle as the Platonic civil rights struggle, the struggle that all other struggles must resemble or else be illegitimate?
Think of the debate, in recent months, over if same-sex marriage is a civil rights issue. It's almost always presented in the same way: as a question of if the gay rights movement is similar to or different from the black civil rights movement (those who are pro-SSM say "similar," those who aren't say "different"). It's rarely presented as a question of if justice and equality are being denied to same-sex couples, taken on their own terms.
It's like a perverse variation of the "model minority myth," which is so often used to attack blacks (e.g., "if Jews and Asians made it despite discrimination, why can't blacks?"). This time, it's the "model civil rights movement" myth. We need to get over it.
Legal thinking relies strongly on precedent, which makes comparison even more inviting. If sexual orientation becomes regarded as a 14th Amendment-protected suspect classification, discrimination against homosexuals will become illegal. If even gender becomes fully regarded as such (with strict rather than merely heightened scrutiny), prohibiting same-sex marriage will become unconstitutional.
I understand ampersand's point. We should be able to look at homosexuality, at same-sex couples, and evaluate their claims to justice and equality on their own terms and without reference to a different civil rights movement. If Americans were somehow able to make the mental, emotional or spiritual leap required to look at people of different races as their equals, why wouldn't we be able to look at people of other sexual orientations as our equals? What is the hurdle?
I don't know. But until that leap seems to be happening, advocates for equality are unlikely to abandon the comparison to an earlier and successful struggle.
Today in History (1984) - The International Court of Justice said the U.S. should halt any actions to blockade Nicaragua's ports (the U.S. had already said it would not recognize World Court jurisdiction on this issue.)
A newly patented countermeasure against P2P file-sharing:
That's about as specific as the article gets regarding the "method," so it's pretty hard to say how effective this will be. One would like to know, for instance, whether these bogus files would be served from a discernible network source or user. It'd also be nice to know whether counter-software could be developed to spot bogus files quickly.
At any rate, frustrating downloaders like this is a far more cost-effective measure for all involved.
The FBI is holding attorney Brandon Mayfield of Beaverton, Oregon, after his fingerprints were identified on evidence connected to Madrid train bombings. Mayfield's previous claim to fame was in legally representing Jeffrey Leon Battle, one of the "Portland Seven" who attempted to travel to Afghanistan after 9/11 in order to fight alongside the Taliban against the United States. According to Portland lawyer Tom Nelson, Mayfield will be represented by a public defender.
I posted this at my solo blog, but then I realized it needs a home with comments:
/Includible/ or /Includable/ ??
/Excludible/ or /Excludable/ ??
Maybe this bothers me more than it should, but my tax casebook can't decide, and neither can I. I like them with the /a/ not the /i/, but I'm not sure if that's just personal preference, or I'm actually correct. Merriam-Webster online likes them both the same. Anyone?
A few people have expressed curiosity about Professor Volokh's exams. I share that curiosity, having just completed one, finding myself none the wiser about their mechanics. Suffice it to say that Volokh's background in computer science and mathematics shows in the logical precision he expects (in class and on the exam). That the exam didn't seem intensely challenging to me must certainly be a bad sign, considering how thoroughly booby trapped his previous exams are (I know because answers to them are available). I must say, though, that I enjoyed the "big" question, which was to write a policy-based dissent to Hustler v. Falwell.
Anyway, 2L is done for me. Thanks for tolerating this brainless post--I should be back to normal blogging soon.
The reasons most likely to get your pleadings stricken:I'm not entirely sure why I find this so amusing; perhaps it is the David Letterman-esque wording. If Jeremy begins writing for a comedy show, I would expect a Top Ten list like this.
No averment of conference by movant (LR 7)
Not signed by, or by permission of, the attorney in charge (LR 11.3)
No certificate of service (LR 5.4)
No proposed Order (LR 7.1 & 7.4)
Perhaps it's just the awesome efficiency represented by this pop-up. Suppose that you're an angry plaintiff wondering what happened to your pleading, so you go online to find the phone number of the person responsible. Clicking on the Southern District's website, you find a pre-emptive answer: "Before you bother us, make sure you got all this stuff right, bucko."
The only problem is that the first possibility, at least, is rather difficult to understand. I know what all the words mean separately, but I wouldn't bet on my ability to guess correctly what they mean all together.
As the first Thursday in May, today is the National Day of Prayer. The honorary chairman of this event is Oliver North. Alternative activities: watch the last episode of Friends and wish a happy 57th birthday to Martha Nussbaum.
At co-blogger Nick Morgan's suggestion, this Brown post contrasts the Warren Court with the Rehnquist Court, with particular attention to "the broad injunctive relief paradigm of federal court intervention," states' rights and the 11th Amendment.
As this is a large topic, and I am in any case making it up as I go along, I hope De Novo readers will forgive my hopscotch approach.
Those who wish to distinguish the Warren and Rehnquist Courts from each other have plenty of labels at their disposal, with "liberal" vs. "conservative" the most obvious. One word, however, describes both Courts: "activist." Both are unafraid of using the power of judicial review to overturn law, though the Warren Court preferred to meddle with state laws requiring segregation and school prayer, whereas the Rehnquist Court concentrates its fire on Congressional legislation such as the Violence Against Women and Americans with Disabilities Acts.
"In getting the decisions we like, we run the risk of decisions we despise. [...T]hose who celebrate Brown as the exemplar of judicial review have to live with Supreme Court decisions restricting affirmative action and campaign finance reform." -- Mark Tushnet, Taking the Constitution Away from the Courts.
This may reflect which level of government each Court found more problematic. The Warren Court saw states stifling their citizens' rights, but the Rehnquist Court views the federal government as expansive and over-reaching. The results tend to be that the Warren Court gaveth and the Rehnquist Court taketh away (blessed be the name of the Court), at least with regard to broad injunctive relief. Where Warren found rights that citizens could sue to have upheld, Rehnquist dismisses rights that Congress attempts to create.
"The Judicial power of the United States shall not be construed to extend to any suit in law or equity, commenced or prosecuted against one of the United States by Citizens of another State, or by Citizens or Subjects of any Foreign State." -- Eleventh Amendment to the U.S. Constitution
Much of this dismissal relies on the 11th Amendment. Notwithstanding its plain text, historical context and Chief Justice Marshall's temporally proximate construction, it has been read since 1890's Hans v. Louisiana to bar federal suits by a citizen against her own state. Coming up with the idea of implicit or penumbral rights long before Griswold, Justice Bradley & Co. decided that state sovereignty, even beyond its articulation in the 11th Amendment, could not withstand the indignity of federal lawsuits by individuals. This particular form of sovereignty, though never explicitly mentioned in the Constitution -- indeed, rather denied by Article III Section 2's "The judicial power shall extend to all cases, in law and equity, arising under [...] the laws of the United States" -- nonetheless must exist.
In a way, the Fuller Court and subsequent courts using that interpretation have a similar view of the states as the Griswold majority did of individuals. Those who see a right to privacy in the Constitution cannot conceive of how Americans are to be meaningfully free without it; for example, do not see a nation in which the the government routinely barges into bedrooms to see what husband and wife are doing as a nation of liberty. Those who see a prohibition on federal suits against states cannot conceive of how states are to be meaningfully sovereign without it.
When one is meditating on Brown, all this encourages a thought experiment. With 20/20 hindsight on the vast backlash against Brown -- the massive resistance, Prince Edward County's five year school closing -- many scholars argue that the Warren Court was unwise in making a sweeping declaration against segregation in public education. These legal historians claim that the civil rights movement already had sufficient momentum, such that racial discimination in public education could have been prohibited by Congress. After all, the Civil Rights Act of 1964 passed Congress by a margin of 42 votes in the Senate (after a very lengthy debate and filibuster attempt) and 160 votes in the House -- a strong democratic consensus just a decade after Brown.
In this view, much of the resistance to desegregation was due to its having been illegitimately mandated by judicial fiat. The slogan "Impeach Earl Warren" was popular in the years following Brown, but no "Impeach LBJ" nor "Impeach Congress" stickers seem to have been widespread immediately following the passage and signing of civil rights legislation.
But state sovereignty presents a problem for the Congressional alternative to Brown. While all but the most demented supporters concede that states must obey the U.S. Constitution, including [sigh] the Supreme Court's interpretation of that Constitution, they very much do not believe that states must obey Congressional legislation. Or at least, they do not believe that obedience can be enforced by the federal courts. Congress may make laws prohibiting discrimination on the basis of age, but the Rehnquist Court won't uphold suits to force Florida to compensate older employees appropriately.
So if Congress had, in the absence of Brown, legislated that states could not separate students by race, how would this have played out? Suppose some particularly hardened state like Alabama was unappeased by desegregation's having come through Congress instead of the Supreme Court, and steadfastly refused to obey that law. Under the state sovereignty view, African American children could not sue Alabama in federal court, under the federal desegregation statute, because that would interfere with state sovereignty.
Yes, I've actually been studying. But if I spend a chunk of the day reading about law, sometimes I like to read for a little while before bed about something else. So the last few days I've used John Stossel's "Give Me A Break" as my bedtime reading, and I've dreamt of government regulators getting assassinated and Congressmen falling down wells. I like John Stossel. His 20/20 pieces are usually interesting, colorful, and fun to watch. The book chronicles his transformation from a consumer advocate, doing pieces about how, say, asbestos is hurting kids, to a libertarian, skeptical of government regulation of most kinds. Basically, as he reported on more and more consumer dangers, he started to realize that the free market wasn't the problem, and private companies were more efficient than when government stepped in and tried to regulate, but ended up just making the problem worse, or pretending it was fixed when it wasn't. "Government is inefficient" is the point Stossel's trying to sell. The book is a breezy mix of anecdotes about stories he worked on and -- I'm looking for a less loaded word than this, but can't find it -- libertarian propaganda.
Done well, but clearly motivated by a certain point of view. If you've seen his ABC News Specials, a lot of the topics in the book will sound familiar, because he's reported on them, and to some extent the book summarizes a bunch of those reports. It's a fine book, and it's entertaining to read, but even if he's being completely fair and accurate, you get the sense while reading that he's playing fast and loose with the facts -- everything's definitive in here: breast implants are safe, dioxin is safe, organic foods are no healthier than regular food and in fact may be more dangerous because they have more bacteria, government handouts are bad, flood insurance is bad, high salaries for corporate CEOs are good, privatizing housing projects is good, banning smoking is bad, legalizing drugs is good... there's no nuance here, there's no ambiguity, no arguments on both sides of the issue... and maybe Stossel's decided there just aren't any good ones, and it's all so clear... but as entertaining as it is to basically say "libertarian ideas are right, and people who don't see it this way are just stupid and wrong and should be mocked," it doesn't feel completely satisfying.
I especially enjoyed his chapter, "The Trouble With Lawyers," which tort lawyers would likely find infuriating. Lawsuits, Stossel writes, are like nuclear missiles -- "We need them... [but we should] try not to use them, because they harm innocent people." They're expensive, people abuse them, lawyers make all the money, they deter innovation, they stop kids from playing Little League, drive up the cost of bicycle helmets, send companies who may have used asbestos but didn't harm anyone into bankruptcy, cost thousands of jobs, force McDonalds to serve cold coffee, destroy the innocent tobacco companies (because smokers, by dying early, don't actually cost us anything), close down businesses just because they're not wheelchair-accessible -- and the solution to all this? "Loser pays." That would fix it. Very entertaining to read, sometimes even a little thought-provoking, but there's the depth of the analysis. He has a point to make, he's trying very hard to make it, he makes it well -- but this is advocacy, not balance.
So, I'm not a libertarian, but I still enjoyed the book. And maybe I take away from it a little bit more skepticism about government regulation than I had, and a few colorful anecdotes. But it's fluff. It's a breezy libertarian primer, playing loose with facts and nuance to make a point. There's nothing *wrong* with that, I guess -- but somehow it's not completely satisfying.
Today in History (1862) - General Ignacio Zaragoza led the vastly outnumbered Mexican army to victory over the French forces of Emperor Napoleon III.
Today in History (1970) - Shortly after noon, 13 seconds of rifle fire by a contingent of 28 Ohio National Guardsmen left four Kent State students dead, one permanently paralyzed, and eight others wounded.
Howard Bashman's site is great, although I admit I mostly check it to find inspiration for posts when I'm feeling inspirationless. And this isn't meant as criticism, because I'm a big fan of Howard's and think he provides an awesome service -- but a bit of a headscratcher today. His new 20 Questions went up today, but he later posted this semi-apology for it:
Underwhelmed by this month's installment of "20 questions for the appellate judge": Several readers have expressed their disappointment... When I first reviewed the answers, I too was disappointed by how terse so many of the answers were... One less than fulfilling interview in sixteen months is not a bad batting average, although it is worse than I would have preferred.
I read the post before the 20 Questions, and the 20 Answers aren't the best he's had and some of them are pretty terse, but it strikes me as a bit uncharitable to say so. If I were Judge Teitelman, I'm pretty sure I'd be annoyed I even bothered.
But this is all to lead to a broader point, that's not about Howard Bashman: this is a weird medium we play in. There's no safeguards against emotion. We type, we click, and it's there for the world. Sure, you can delete stuff later, when you realize you crossed a line, or you regret what you said, but people have seen it. It's out there. It's scary sometimes.
Today in History (1948) - In a unanimous decision, though with three justices not participating, the Supreme Court ruled in Shelley v. Kraemer that covenants prohibiting the sale of real estate to blacks or members of other racial groups were legally unenforceable.
The subtitle of "The Progress Paradox" does a great job summing up what the book is about: "How Life Gets Better While People Feel Worse." And to sum up my review: the first half of the book is quite thought-provoking and excellent, but the second half for some reason let me down. Read more for my poorly-articulated explanation for what I mean. :)
Basically, the book's about how life for people in the Western World has never been better -- people are healthier and live longer than ever before, have more leisure time, an abundance of food and consumer goods, luxuries people a few generations ago could never have dreamed of -- yet we're not any happier. The book is littered with conversation-droppers, little facts that percolate in your head and end up finding an appropriate place in all sorts of discussions -- two that I've found myself using just in the day or so since I finished the book:
(1) people complain about having to spend money on health care, but what better thing could we be spending money on than living longer, healthier lives -- Easterbrook argues we should be glad that we can spend such a substantial fraction of our income on something as important and rewarding as health care; (2) society as a whole is well-off enough that even people at the lower end of the income scale live lives that are much closer to how the rich live than ever before in history -- they have cars, and cable TV, and a place to live, and enough food -- the differences are much more marginal than in the past -- life expectancy for the poor is not substantially lower than for the rich -- heck, one of the biggest problems is that poor people are overweight. Poor people in generations past simply could not afford enough food that they could ever be overweight. Crime is down, jobs are less labor-intensive than in generations past, people have more leisure time, education is more obtainable, etc, etc, etc. The vast majority of people live in something approaching The American Dream.
But trend-lines say we're no happier than we used to be. And that beyond an income of $11,000/year, more money really doesn't seem to buy more happiness. Depression rates are rising. Self-reported happiness surveys report happiness down. Easterbrook spends a while arguing that part of it is that people don't feel like the next generation will be any better -- that we already have so much how can quality of life continue to rise. That argument doesn't ring true to me as much as his other big one, that for most of humanity we've had to worry about necessities like food and shelter, and now that most of our necessities are taken care of, we worry about wants -- and there are always more things to want, and more things that other people have, that we can never get fully satisfied. And the wants disappoint when we get them, so we're never really happy. His third (related) argument is that for the first time people aren't worried about the necessities and now have time to ponder the meaning of life and worry about fulfillment -- and that's harder to satisfy than food on the table will satisfy hunger.
This was all very interesting to read, because it's the kind of stuff I sometimes ponder and he's pondered it in a more organized and better-researched way than I ever have, obviously, so I found this compelling. But then the last half of the book seems to lose its nerve and its ambition. Easterbrook argues we should all sleep more, be more forgiving, and keep a "gratitude journal," and that as a society if we raised prices a little bit we could pretty much eradicate the problem of world impoverishment and that we have a duty to give more aid to poor countries. I don't disagree with any of that, but it's not as bold and insightful as the first half of the book got me revved up for. I sleep a lot, and I'm pretty grateful, I think -- but I still wrestle with questions about how to really feel like I'm living a life that matters and wake up each morning content and happy and fulfilled. The book didn't get me any closer. It didn't help explain why it seems like so many people don't admit these concerns and go on living lives that seem shallow and unrewarding. It pretended we all care about this stuff, and I'm not sure we all do. And the foreign aid stuff is great -- but it's not prescriptive toward individual lives so much -- I could give $30 a month to Save The Children, but beyond that there isn't a ton I can do to effect governmental policy (although I guess if everyone read his book and lobbied for higher sales taxes...). CEOs get paid too much, sure. We don't need three TVs per person, sure. But this wasn't what the book built up in its excellent first half to leave me hoping for in the less-excellent second half. I can't recommend the first 187 pages of this book any more than I do. Read them. They're fascinating, thought-provoking, and really excellent. But the next 150 didn't do it for me. I don't know. I don't know what I was waiting for, but it didn't hit me hard enough. I can't help but think there's a different second half of this book on Gregg Easterbrook's hard drive, and his editors wanted a different story. But read the book. It's mostly quite fantastic.
Today in History (1997) - The Labour Party's Tony Blair becomes Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, ending 18 years of Conservative Party rule. At 44, he is the youngest prime minister in 185 years.
If you've been under a rock for the last several months, allow me to inform you that the 50th anniversary of the Brown vs. Board of Education desegregation decision is fast bearing down upon us. I have an ambition to write a post each day until May 17 about some aspect of the case, drawing heavily on What Brown Should Have Said, the collection of essays edited by Jack Balkin.
Day of the International Solidarity of Workers, aka May Day or Labour Day. Today in History (1884) - Proclamation of the demand for eight-hour workday in the United States. Two years later, the general strike that eventually won the eight-hour workday began. Eight years after that, Coxey's Army, the first significant American protest march, arrives in Washington D.C. to lobby the government to create jobs. Happy 174th birthday to labor activist Mother Jones.
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Breakfast this morning was had at a cafe in Glossa village. The power was out at the villa and also in the village, but the lady owner made us coffee, Greek, traditional method over a little gas stove. The coffee was great and the baked goods along with it, yummy. Kourabiedes biscuits were so good and very traditional. As we sat outside at the tables we watched the elderly locals, coming and going from church. We chatted ( kind of ) to many of them and were totally impressed with the age and agility. This village has steps ( many) and they take them in their stride, no wonder they live to ripe old ages. One of the men was 95. Again, we chatted to a man who had been in the navy and been to the Pacific many years ago. It seems the whole elderly male contingent of this island was in the navy.
After breakfast we jumped back in the Opel mobile and headed to St Johns chapel at Agios Ioannis. Now, prepare yourself, this is the church high up on a rock, used in the Mama Mia movie. 200 steps up the rock path found us at the top and although my first words at the top were ….. “stuff walking up here to get married”, it was STUNNING. My words will not do it justice so I shall say, we were loathe to leave the place and trek back down. Before we did though, we lit some candles and prayed for friends and loved ones.
Trek back down we did and planted ourselves on the beach at the bottom of that rock, Kastri Beach. For at least an hour, there was no one else on that beach and we loved it.
The water was so clear, we could see all the rocks on the bottom, and some random feet (lol) and any little fishes that decided to join our party. A local lady joined us with her pretty dog called Wilma ( the dog that is ) and she swam out to join us in the water.
We dragged ourselves away from that beach to head back to the villa and plan dinner. The drive back was a little hair raising for some in our party, as we needed to keep to our right, even though the drop to the right was ……. a long way down…… and there were no barriers like other PC countries. We have become quite used to hills, narrow roads and scooters. I have enjoyed driving here, but I’m not so sure about my passengers hahahaha.
Thanks for reading xx
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Topeka Gov. Bill Graves said Friday he would veto the latest Senate redistricting bill unless changes were made, but one of the map's creators said no revisions are planned.
The latest map, like an earlier version vetoed by Graves, was drawn by a coalition of conservative Republicans and the Senate's minority Democrats. The Senate Reapportionment Committee endorsed it Thursday.
Graves said the new map represented progress but that he would not sign it without what he characterized as minor changes.
"There are a small number of additional improvements that can be made that didn't get done in committee," Graves said.
"There are senators that have been engaged in discussions that understand what it takes to finalize this map, and I believe they'll do it," he said.
But Senate Minority Leader Anthony Hensley said the coalition has no plans to amend the latest map because it answers all the concerns cited by Graves in vetoing the earlier version.
"I would be very disappointed if the governor vetoed this map," said Hensley, D-Topeka. "Once again a bipartisan group has put together a plan that should be signed into law by the governor."
The 21-member coalition came together on the issue of redrawing the boundaries of the Senate's 40 districts to reflect updated population figures.
In his veto message three weeks ago, Graves in part cited the way districts were redrawn in Johnson and Wyandotte counties and Topeka.
During a news conference Friday, he mentioned other objections: the addition of voting precincts in Lenexa to the district of Sen. Barbara Allen, R-Overland Park; the division of southern Leawood between a new Johnson County district and the one now represented by Sen. John Vratil, R-Leawood; and the extension of a district for Sen. Derek Schmidt, R-Independence, into nine counties.
Graves said senators promised to change the map, but he would not provide more details.
Sen. Janis Lee, D-Kensington, a coalition member, said the newest proposal made changes designed to answer the objections Graves listed in his veto message.
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By, Barbara Kates Maine-Wabanaki REACH Community Organizer
I am learning about decolonization- wondering what does decolonization mean for Wabanaki people; for me, as someone who is not Native; and for my community. I realize pretty quickly that in order to decolonize myself and my community, I need to first understand colonization. What is the history and how does it thread through our economic, political, social, educational, religious, health, legal – well, pretty much all the systems we have. This is going to take some time and I will need help.
Maine-Wabanaki REACH creates learning events and tools, and gathers people and resources to focus our attention on right here in Wabanakiland Maine. In this process, hundreds of people participate, offer insight, share their experience, and suggest paths forward and further education. This is how we learn together.
You are invited to participate in developing REACH’s newest learning tool – currently known as the Interactive Learning Exercise. This tool will be a structure for group learning, where everyone actively participates as we sit, walk, and/or talk through historical events of colonization of Wabanaki territory. We experience and witness the impacts of these events. Then we have circle time to reflect and share our experience.
REACH needs the help of people to participate in this Interactive Learning Exercise to let us know what is working and what needs more attention.
How can you help?
- You can attend one of the upcoming events - in Orono on May 3 or Bangor on May 6. Register on our Events Page: http://www.mainewabanakireach.org/events
- You can organize an event in your community. To organize one, you need to help us recruit 25-35 people who are willing to commit 90 minutes together. We need four of those people to volunteer to read to the group. We need a large accessible room and chairs where everyone can sit in a circle.
If you want more information, contact Barbara@mainewabanakireach.org.
We have facilitated the Interactive Learning Exercise twice and already learned it has an impact on participants. Non-Native people have told us “It’s eye opening” and “re-enacting the history of Native people in Maine made tangible events few of us knew a lot about and otherwise would not need to engage with beyond a surface level.” Wabanaki people have said that it was important to be part of people learning the history of what happened here.
We know we have more work to do and are trying out variations each time we offer it. We are creating a great tool to share. REACH will make it available on our website so any community can download the directions and script to experience and learn together about colonization.
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Do you want to learn how to create vector illustrations quickly & easily and create assets for video games or animation? You can do it in this course and learn the basics of Adobe Illustrator CC by creating some simple flat character designs! This class is perfect for illustrators, graphic designers, game artists, mobile game developers and anyone else who would like to learn how to create vector graphics. Through this assignment you will learn:
- How to create three different base characters
- How to create three different body types
- How to create different color schemes for your characters
Content & Overview
This is a great way for beginners to introduce themselves to Adobe Illustrator. Starting with a basic overview of the program, the course will help familiarise you with the tools you will need. Each step will be broken down to make understanding the process even easier, starting with creating a simple vector shape to creating your different character designs.
Follow along as we take simple vector shapes and step by step create three different character designs which can be used in your own animation or video game projects.
I have included the .AI file here for you to use as reference. So you’ll be able to work alongside the videos to learn and create your own flat vector characters. Please feel free to share your creations as well!
- Graphic Designers
- Game Artists
- Digital Artists
- Indie Game Developers
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We are all superficial. We only ever really think skin deep and it’s also kind of not our fault. It’s impossible, without skinning ourselves (yuck), to get under the skin. But under your skin lies a world that would blow your mind.
Have you ever thought about how your body parts stay in place? You have tons of wires (nerves), hundreds of pipes (veins), tubes and bladders (organs) that somehow stay in place inside the balloon of your skin. What keeps these things in place inside of you? And by the way, what is the stuff that your organs, brain, and skin are made of?
Inside your body, you have this stuff, this substance or material, called fascia. Fascia is connective tissue, and the basic elements of this material are collagen, elastin, and an aqueous gel-like ground substance.
This fabric is a continuum of fibers, present in all spaces inside of you. It is present everywhere within the body linking separate structures from the muscular and organ depths to the surface of the skin. It fills the areas between anatomical structures and it’s impossible to distinguish areas of “virtual space” between them. Even though living matter expresses itself as distinct anatomical structures, a living structure is not simply a conglomeration of separate parts.
Researchers and scientists around the world regard this connective tissue as a special organ- a system unto itself, that permeates the whole body and has specific and general tasks as well as special purposes it serves in the body.
In other words, this stuff is pretty significant to your existence, and most of us aren’t even aware it exists!
In the past, anatomists and scientists were aware of fascia but until recently, it wasn’t seen as significant, hiding in the shadows of the more obvious and obtuse anatomical structures- muscles and bones and organs. Only now are people starting to study and research fascia as a separate organ, a quintessential basic element on which the whole body functions and therefore, our existence relies.
You could say this is a pretty big deal. In fact, it forces most science fields in biology, physiology, and anatomy to reevaluate many of their foundational postulates and preconceived ideas. Focusing on fascia IS a paradigm shift and we’ll be exploring it more in upcoming articles to help you better understand how and why your fascia is so important. Stay tuned!
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A revised Facebook logo just went up on Facebook’s Newsroom site
Not much in it. The new Facebook Home logo also drops the lighter blue line, and pulls the
f to the edge of the box.
What’s strange is that the new logo download is full transparent, with the
f fully cut out. I’m not sure if that’s an oversight, or they’re hoping to use the logo more creatively.
A number of other official pages have had their logos updated for the first time in years:
…I think it looks great! I haven’t seen the new logo appear on the Like button, or as the favicon on all pages of Facebook yet, but I can’t imagine it’ll be long.
Also, I haven’t worked out who’s behind the update - there isn’t any mention of the update from Facebook’s newsroom.
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Five fun free iPad apps for elementary school teachers and students
Third grade learned about James Audubon and the repousse' technique before making these metal artworks.
'How Creativity Works': It's All In Your Imagination by NPR Staff, All Things Considered: Listen to the Story. #Creativity #npr #All_Things_Considered #Robert_Siegel #Jonah_Lehrer
How technology can improve learner-centered teaching
Students are using more technology than teachers. Teaching how to manage and use it effectively needs to start in elementary school.
Mathtrain.TV is a free, educational "kids teaching kids" project from Mr. Marcos & his Students at Lincoln Middle School in Santa Monica, CA. Student-Created MATHTRAIN APP available in iTunes Store. Free!
Mobile Learning - A SWOT Analysis - Provides a quick SWOT analysis for Mobile Learning (mLearning), discussing its current weaknesses, potential threats, inherent strengths, and future opportunities.
8 ways Technology is Improving Education
Info Graphic "Are we wired for mobile Learning?
The Flipped Classroom - Using Vodcasting to flip your classroom and give students more personalized attention
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Today’s business world is characterized by dynamism and collaboration. Since offices and people are spread out geographically and across time zones, most of the work takes place in meeting rooms using technologies such as video conferencing and shared screens.
- However, we still find that many businesses don’t make efficient use of meeting rooms today.
- Most businesses do not use their conference rooms. Employees face problems such as:
- Using a shared Google calendar that shows all meetings but does not control conflicts.
- Reservations for meeting rooms should be handled by a central receptionist. As a result of conflicting reservation requests, the receptionist faces a logistical nightmare.
- On one floor, territory protection with meeting rooms is permanently reserved by people working on that floor.
- An unclear policy where certain staff is granted access to specific rooms, while others are rejected for no apparent reason.
- Poor usage, where one room is booked back-to-back while another is empty.
- Despite the fact that these problems are not quantifiable in terms of dollars and cents, they have a negative impact on staff morale, frustration, and enmity.
A greater loss is not being able to maximize the use of space and resources for those who need them most. A manufacturing partner in China needs to get on a conference call to make rectifications to a design flaw. A conference call cannot be held because the team cannot find a room equipped with the right technology. There is only one room available with those resources, but it is being used by a team that does not require them.
There are several benefits to using a meeting room reservation system from the very beginning. The following are some of the main advantages of having Room reservation software to manage your meeting rooms.
Automate the elimination of conflicts and double bookings
A good room booking system will detect and prevent users from booking rooms that already have meetings scheduled. Pre-emptive detection and prevention eliminate most office productivity-related problems related to finding an empty room.
There are multiple ways to book
Choosing a room reservation system with multiple booking options can make finding and reserving a room even more convenient. From web-based interfaces that can be accessed through any browser to mobile applications or wall-mounted room display panels, staff who are constantly on the go can find and reserve rooms. Using Microsoft Outlook, offices can reserve rooms from within Outlook using plug-ins that make life easier.
Controlling access and rights
It is possible to prevent meeting rooms such as board rooms and conference rooms from being used for smaller meetings through proper implementation of access control policies and usage rights. Workflow approvals regulate access to special rooms, such as auditoriums, laboratories, and classrooms, which are required for important meetings and specific events. Structured policies allow for the transparent and democratic implementation of business rules.
Delegation of responsibilities
The self-service system allows users to control their meetings through a web-based room booking system. Reservations and scheduling of rooms no longer need to be handled by the receptionist. Staff can work together to take over empty meeting rooms when the reservation task is delegated to them. Read more
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Partly cloudy early followed by scattered thunderstorms this afternoon. High around 95F. Winds WNW at 10 to 15 mph. Chance of rain 40%..
Partly to mostly cloudy skies with scattered thunderstorms during the evening. Low around 70F. Winds NNE at 5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain 60%.
Updated: July 29, 2021 @ 6:12 am
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Originally Posted by thenanyu
It's "I can haz..." Please meme correctly.
My bad. Uh...I mean...Given this meme has reached a point where it's hard to see its market share growing any further, the real value will likely be leveraging its near ubiquity while adapting to the fact that it has reached a saturation point. With this in mind, I sought to tap into the brand recognition it retains while providing a product that better reflects the evolving marketplace.
Originally Posted by ramuman
Are you really smart and cocky?
I'm like a cross between Stephen Hawking and Kid Rock.
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Today Connor finally had his appointment with the audiologist to get a new earmold made for his left hearing aid. He's been without hearing aids for over a month now, and this was the earliest that they could fit us in, which I thought was a little strange considering that normally they consider a kid not having access to sound to be somewhat of an emergency. It turns out that the woman who booked it for some reason thought that Connor was just outgrowing his earmolds, which is not nearly as urgent a problem. So the audiologist told me if he does it again to just ask for her directly so that we make sure he gets in quickly. This is actually only the second time he's lost an earmold in the four years he's been wearing his hearing aids, so hopefully it won't come up any time soon!
As it turned out, Connor's one remaining earmold was getting a bit small anyway, so it was decided to just get him a new set entirely. This involves making a mold of Connor's ear canal, which is not really his favorite thing in the world. He's got a piece of bone in his right ear canal that's much closer to the surface than is typical, and so the pressure of the ear impression material used to be extremely painful for him. Luckily as he's gotten older it no longer seems to bother him nearly as much; either he has a little more padding between the bone and the skin now or else the pressure of the earmold material isn't as bad since it has more space to expand in. So while he still doesn't particularly enjoy it, at least I no longer feel like I'm torturing my kid by making him go through the experience.
While a lot of people tend to go with the clear or beige earmolds so they don't stand out as much, Connor doesn't really care if they stand out (and since his hearing aids are bright orange it would be kind of the equivalent of ordering a diet coke with a double cheeseburger). There's a more practical reason for getting brightly colored earmolds in our house anyway; the cats have a bad habit of thinking Connor's hearing aids are great to play with if I make the mistake of taking them off him and leaving them somewhere they can get to, and so having something that is easy to spot on our laminate floors is a big plus.
Connor narrowed the wide selection of colors down to two choices and then refused to pick between them. So I chose for him. This time he's getting a color called "blue cat's eye," which basically looks like one of those neon blue swirly marbles. It's pretty neat.
It will take another three weeks for his hearing aids to come in, but at least he'll have them before school starts up again. After going two months without sound, it may take him a little while to get used to wearing them again; hopefully we won't have to resort to the Sad Hat. It probably wouldn't fit him anymore anyway!
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Many people are interested in climate change and how a changing climate will affect the ocean. With the majority of Americans living in coastal states, rising water levels can have potentially large impacts. Scientists have determined that global sea level has been steadily rising since 1900 at a rate of at least 0.04 to 0.1 inches per year.
Sea level can rise by two different mechanisms with respect to climate change. First, as the oceans warm due to an increasing global temperature, seawater expands—taking up more space in the ocean basin and causing a rise in water level. The second mechanism is the melting of ice over land, which then adds water to the ocean.
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Modern Bedroom Design with White Wall Decor and Four Big Glasses Window. Contemporary Big Lots Bed with Hard Wood Redcliffe Trundle Bed and Artistic Fitted Sheet, along with Hardwood Bedroom Furniture
Type: image/jpegSize: 181 kBDimension: 1100x824 pixelsVersions: Thumbnail — OriginalViews: 784 viewsDownloads: 160 downloadsPermalink: Modern Bedroom DesignGallery Set: Bed DesignGallery Tags: Bed Design, Cool Big Lots Beds For Your BedroomFeatures:
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The current bed design image displayed above, the Modern Bedroom Design, based on the many pageview counts this bed design image has scored, it clearly tells us that this modern bedroom design is one of viewers' most-favorite bed design reference. This special bed design is furnished with several awesome things, including white wall decor, four big glasses window, and few more such as the contemporary big lots bed, hard wood redcliffe trundle bed, and artistic fitted sheet, along with the hardwood bedroom furniture.
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Classic and elegant look for a Three-Bedroom Condo
Sleek furniture pieces and charming classic details create a Modern Victorian design in this three-bedroom condo
With their children all grown up and based abroad, couple Wilbert and Amy Young decide to move to a smaller space in the form of a three-bedroom condo unit. Very hands-on in the design of his home, Wilbert initially wanted everything to be all white. However, with the help of interior designer Vera Villarosa, they came up with a sleek yet chic style with hints of color.
Touches of Victorian elements such as chandeliers, tufting and damask patterns call to mind the romance of a bygone era, but placed alongside sleek pieces and set in neutral colors, the result is a distinctly modern take on the Victorian style.
Original article by Hannah Dormido. Pictorial direction by Dagny Madamba. Photographed by Ocs Alvarez/ACME Visual Productions.
Read the original article (“A Class of Its Kind”) in the June 2013 issue of Real Living Magazine. To download a digital copy of Real Living Magazine, visit Summit Newsstand at https://summitnewsstand.com.ph/real-living.
More on Realliving.com.ph
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Discussion in 'Tennessee Titans and NFL Talk' started by lilkhmerkid4u, May 16, 2014.
If that happens then Locker is gone and Titans move on
you are wrong - LOL
What Dowell didn't realize is it was a group text and every other team in the league was on it. #fail
I completely disagree. Winston, Hundley, Petty, Mariota, etc., are much better than Bortles, Manziel, Bridgewater.
And there is always going to be 1 unknown come onto the radar and 1 of the knowns will fail.
I don't necessarily believe that to be true. It's VERY hard to say for sure that next years crop is better or worse. Bortles was literally an unknown at the start of the season. Boyd was a possible first round pick... Lol
Start removing hundley. That dude is not better than manziel. And I'm the furthest from a JohnnyOVO fan.
I don't like Hundley either at this stage in his career but we will see how much he progresses this season I'm glad he went back to school cause he is nowhere near ready.
I'm all in on Petty for next season. I think him Hogan and Mariota will be the top 3 QB's taken with Hundley/Mannion possibly going late first. Winston stays in school I think and I don't want him anyway.
On paper it definitely looks stronger than this years class but too early to make an assessment.
What are you basing thins on exactly? I completely disagree. We'll have to wait and see.
This is extremely possible, but you never know how the draft will play out. At that point it is possible one of the guys we like drops or... If there is someone is the daft you like, you go and get him. Don't sit and wait. If you truly feel there is a QB in the draft that will position the franchise to a championship level for years to come, you do whatever you can to go get him. Like it or not, right or wrong, just go for it. That's what the Redskins did for RGIII.
The Redskins gave the farm away for RGIII and it was a terrible idea. The Rams have built a defensive front that is nightmarish because of that clown trade! 3 first round draft picks and a 2nd for one man!? Dumb.
That's what I'm getting at ^. I don't want to have to sell the farm for a guy I would rather suck for one season then trade away 2-3 years worth of draft picks for one guy.
Like I said... right or wrong... the team went after the guy they wanted. No guts no glory. They did win their first division title in what?? 10 years?
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