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Getting fired is a painful experience that usually comes without warning and, sometimes, under suspect circumstances. For many, it causes upheaval to ones career, family and self-esteem. I often equate the employment relationship to dating and depending on the length of the employment relationship and the manner of the termination emotions can often run amok.
If the day comes when you are being terminated, the best thing to do is nothing. As emotionally upsetting as the situation may be, you should not admit to any wrongdoing, raise your voice or threaten to get a lawyer and/or sue the company. If you are offered a separation package do not sign it (or any other document you do not understand) or try to negotiate it. You will not be in the right frame of mind to truly address the myriad issues that might be relevant or to properly apply whatever leverage you may have to negotiate for a more severance.
If you feel up to it you might ask questions about what the effect your termination will have on your health care, equity, pension or 401k, vacation payout, and right to unemployment insurance. You may also want to ask what prospective employers will be told if they call to verify your employment. You can even ask for the reason for the decision, although do not expect an answer that makes sense (nor is your employer legally obligated to give you one).
Other than those types of questions, it is best not to react. Simply accept the decision, leave quietly and, if you feel the decision was improper or even illegal, contact an attorney.
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Contract lobbyists tax taxpayers
Recently, The Topeka Capital-Journal reported Topeka Unified School District 501 had hired a contract lobbyist. A board member said, "We need somebody desperately -- all the major school districts have somebody there."
The school board member was referring to having someone lobbying on the district's behalf at the Kansas State Capitol. USD 501 selected a representative to join the growing ranks of school lobbyists that include the Kansas Association of School Boards, Schools For Fair Funding -- the group that successfully sued the state for $800 million -- and others representing large local school districts.
Historically, local units of government have paid dues to a statewide association that would represent their interests. In the case of school boards, it was the Kansas Association of School Boards that carried their "water" in the statehouse.
However the current trend is for local units of government (including school districts) to pay dues to an association AND hire their own lobbyist. In the case of USD 501, they are paying dues to the Kansas Association of School Boards and now have committed $36,000 to a contract lobbyist for enhanced representation.
USD 501 chose a lobbyist highly skilled in the legislative process -- a former speaker of the House, at that. As the district's legislative liaison, he will represent the school district extremely well.
Unfortunately, the list of registered government lobbyists has been rapidly growing. The Secretary of State's Legislative Lobbyist Directory shows nearly 80 lobbyists were employed to promote local government's various special interests to lawmakers in 2007.
Many Kansans equate contract ("hired gun") lobbying with large corporations and few are even remotely aware their tax dollars are spent to influence legislators. Government lobbying has existed for years and is restricted only by the amount of tax money a local government is willing to spend.
Government lobbyists are not necessarily a bad thing. There are times a lobbyist can provide valuable information to lawmakers. In a hectic, fast moving legislative session, good information is paramount to making good legislation and a balance of information is essential in achieving the best solution. As director of governmental affairs for the Kansas Press Association, I lobby the Kansas Legislature as well.
However, 80 government lobbyists can easily disrupt the balance of information in the legislative process. Their sheer number and ability to quickly organize mean local government officials can inflict tremendous pressure on lawmakers.
--------Local government's agenda may not necessarily reflect the will of the people. Issues involving taxation/spending, annexation of private property and even open meeting/open records training for governmental officials are recent examples where local government's views were in conflict with those of the people.
While the people's interests are best served by more "openness" in government, local government often attempts to "close" it. It's not uncommon for government lobbyists to promote an agenda that would further limit/restrict public access to meetings, information and records.
Ironically, while government lobbyists work to "close" government to the people, they are compensated -- usually extremely well -- with money derived from your tax dollars.
With 80 lobbyists employed to represent local units of government, who then represents the will of the people?
The magnitude of the issue was made clear when the USD 501 school board member said, "We need somebody desperately -- all the major school districts have somebody there."
This statement reflects the attitude of many local government officials. Whether it is a school district, city or county government, representation by a statewide association is no longer enough.
When does it all end? Are there ever going to be "enough" government lobbyists?
-- Richard Gannon is director of governmental affairs for the Kansas Press Association
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| Issue 43 Contents |
Dr Nicola Bidwell
Ships fit to fare unfathomed oceans are cautiously evolved. Thus the Association for Women in Science and Engineering (AWiSE), soon to be officially launched in the UK, ventures with sails furled after much forethought. The inspiration for AWiSE emerged from conclusions drawn by a working group on Women in Science, Engineering and Technology. The group was convened in 1993 by the United Kingdom Government to advise on how the potential, skills and expertise of women could be best secured. In its subsequent report The Rising Tide (HMSO, 1994) the group recognised the value of networking and mutual support among women in science, engineering and technology (SET).
The concept of a widely accessible network for women forging careers in SET became actuality with the formation of the first AWiSE branch in Cambridge in 1994. In the way of its Australian older sister WISENET, AWiSE developed from grassroots with branches propagating across Britain. Each branch was driven by the vigour of women seeking to advance the participation of girls and women in SET, and propelled by the reassurance that their efforts would be incorporated into a national initiative.
By September 1995 representatives of 7 AWiSE branches and officials from 8 different allied technology associations endorsed the constitution at an inaugural meeting of AWiSE, chaired by its president Anne McLaren (DBE, FRS).
The status and prospects of women in SET in the UK are truly a turbid sea. Indeed the impetus behind the work for The Rising Tide was the UK government's acknowledgment that 'women are the country's biggest single most undervalued and therefore underused human resource' (Realizing our Potential: HMSO, 1993).
As shown by a 1992 Labour Force survey, despite an increase in the total proportion of women working in SET over the past decade, from 8.5% to 30%. their progress to senior positions remains tardy. Reiterating the international situation there is a steep decline in the ratio of women to men with increasing seniority. Above the age of 30, women account for only 20% of the workforce and after the age of 50, women account for only 13%.
This trend is not adequately explained by a limited pool of suitable women. In the extreme case of the Engineering Institutions women represent 10% of the student membership but 0.2% of the fellows. Even in the biological sciences, in which women undergraduate students have outnumbered men for nearly a decade, few women survive to positions of seniority and influence.
Recognising that many different factors contribute to the disproportionality of women scientists throughout industry and academia, AWiSE functions to challenge the problem with a diverse pragmatism in two senses. First, is a commitment to the representation and support of an eclectic constituency of women in SET. Second, that this is most effectively achieved using a variety of approaches. AWiSE acts as a forum for women throughout SET in the broadest sense, from anthropology to mathematics, from biomedicine and engineering to environmental science. It stands as a collective voice and unified identity for women working in all areas and at all levels, from education and research, to industry, administration, and the media.
An umbrella was adopted as the provisional working logo for AWiSE. The umbrella has been replaced by a more singular emblem but the central tenet it symbolised remains intact. AWiSE consolidates the experience and perspectives of many women working in SET and mobilises the broadest spectrum of professional expertise. AWiSE endeavours to reflect a comprehensive opinion when participating in discussion of matters of importance in SET. It fosters allegiances with existing organisations with mutual interests, ranging from professional associations, such as the Women Chemists and British Women in Mathematics, to equal opportunities societies, like Fawcett, and politically active organisations such as the trades' union Science Alliance, which consists of AUT, NATFHE, MSF and IPMS. The scope for reciprocal membership with cognate organisations and the British Association for the Advancement of Science is also being pursued. These affiliations not only enhance the opportunity for the association to contribute effectively to policy formulation but also extend the possibilities for collecting and disseminating information on women in SET.
Time and again it has been remarked that there is an absence of information for women in SET, that statistics relating to their employment are deficient and career advice is sparse. AWiSE has the capacity to fill this void as a central mechanism to amalgamate and communicate information. AWiSE is co-ordinated through a National Office in central London. This houses databases and a reference library and promises, in time, to become a resource for a comprehensive range of materials and career advice. It is hoped that the strong alliances with affiliated organisations in Britain will enable cooperative distribution of newsletters and recruiting literature. Electronic networking is served by the UK e-mail list for women in SET, Daphnet, while a homepage on the WWW is being developed linking AWiSE with sister organisations across the globe.
While the specific issues concerning women in different professions of SET might vary, common factors impede their progress. The resulting lack of representation at executive levels thwarts decisions necessary for a
shift in the culture of SET, and thus the glass ceiling is reinforced. A perplexing statistic, mentioned in a 1992 Cabinet Office report, is that women held less than 13% of 917 public appointments to the Councils and Boards in SET related fields.
A clear role for AWiSE is to compensate for the skewed representation of women at the levels of influence by accenting the obstacles women face as they advance their careers in SET. AWiSE aspires to exhort employers in SET to modernise working practice, such as allowing career breaks, part-time working and jobsharing. AWiSE is pivotal in raising the priority of these issues on the political agenda and in the public consciousness. Connections with the MSF Union, which represents some 100,000 SET employees, has enabled AWiSE to organise high-profile meetings, most noteably at the House of Commons (January, 1996) and contribute to national conferences, such as on International Women's Day.
AWiSE is in close communication with the Development Unit for Women, in the Office of Science and Technology, now part of the Department of Trade and Industry. Instituted in the wake of The Rising Tide report, the Unit was charged with taking forward those recommendations accepted by the Government.
The Unit has made considerable progress towards satisfying its broad remit, despite restrictions imposed in the political rhetoric of modest resources and an intended life-span of just three years (which may be extended). In its mission to encourage equal opportunities the Unit has appealed to industry and the research councils to implement family friendly practices by arguing the savings gained by reducing the loss of skilled women.
The Unit communicates with other government departments and briefs ministers on matters relevant to women in SET. To promote the representation of women in SET at decision making levels, it issues a catalogue of databases of women in SET to departments responsible for public appointments.
The Unit is primarily an initiator and facilitator and, as emphasised in its annual report, attributes its progress to cooperation and partnerships with expert bodies. Recognising their experience and essential contribution, the Unit has brought together women in SET organisations in a number of forums and workshops. This has enabled the Unit to augment its resources to promote science to women and girls as well as permitting vital networking between the groups. Indeed, the first National Women in SET day during Science Week in March 1996, devised by the Unit incorporated activities organised by AWiSE regional branches and other associations allied to AWiSE.
Since the incipient branch at Cambridge University, AWiSE branches have sprung up across Britain from the South-West to the North-East. With independent foundations and autonomous organisation, the activities of each AWiSE branch reflect the needs and the talents of women in the local SET community. This makes for a confluent network, each branch reflects the complexion of regional employment for example local industry, in the case of the AWiSE-affiliated Glaxo Wellcome group in Stevenage; research institutes, in the case of the Wessex branch; a University; or group of Universities.
Branches enable direct mutual support and discussion for women in SET and are the best means to collect and disseminate information of special local relevance such as job vacancies, child-care facilities, or opportunities for women returning from career breaks. As a local collegiate there is the opportunity for informal mentoring for women at earlier stages as they negotiate the psychologically isolating environment of careers in traditionally male dominated fields. Some branches have organised career development workshops specifically designed for women in SET. Others organise meetings and invite speakers, facilitating the opportunity for women at earlier stages to meet role-models with whom they might identify. Such occasions are no less a celebration of the fortitude and creativity of those women who have accomplished the feat of raising a family combined with founding successful scientific reputations.
A number of branches have been very energetic in promoting SET. They have found imaginative ways to promote science to young people, thereby countering pervasive gender stereotyping. Some liaise with local women's groups such the Women's Institutes to challenge the tacit acceptance that science is an exclusively male pursuit. AWiSE is thus instrumental in widening access to SET, sharing its intrinsic beauty and fun in addition to contesting the cultural diffidence that it is the domicile of an elite.
The practicality of funding such an extensive association is in some ways aided by AWiSE's all inclusive pragmatism. Separate financing of national AWiSE and regional branches ensures individual annual subscription to National AWiSE will be modest and will not preclude membership of other professional organisations or societies.
National activity is sponsored by industry, and institutions supporting science, for instance some of the Research Councils and the Wellcome Trust, who generously provided the central office. University departments have contributed in kind, for example Cambridge Engineering department is to host the website. Wide external funding is a tangible acknowledgment by industry and academia of the vital importance of the objectives of AWiSE. This is extended to the regional level where AWiSE branches have attracted financial support from local industries and institutions.
The principle asset of AWiSE is that it is crewed by a diversity of expertise. Its broad appeal enables AWiSE to draw upon the talents and experience of women conversant in science from divergent professional avenues. So as her sails gradually unfurl and swell, AWiSE aspires to steer science, engineering and technology towards a healthier future.
If you are planning a trip to the United Kingdom and would like to liaise with one of the AWiSE Branches direct your inquiry through The Administrator, AWiSE National Office, 1 Park Square West, London NW1 4LJ, tel. +44 171 935 3282/5202, fax +44 171 935 0736, email [email protected]
We have a recruiting leaflet for the national Association and a distinctive logo. Our acronym is written as AWiSE to avoid confusion with the Engineering Council's WISE campaign, which has been going since 1984.
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Dolphins are marine mammals closely related to whales and porpoises. They are found worldwide, mostly in the shallower seas of the continental shelves, and are carnivores, eating mostly fish and squid. The family Delphinidae is the largest in the Cetacean order, and evolved relatively recently, about ten million years ago, during the Miocene. Dolphins are among the most intelligent animals, and their often friendly appearance, an artifact of the “smile” of their mouthline, and seemingly playful attitude have made them very popular in human culture. Isn’t this amazing?
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By Sean Setters
I was lucky to have existed in a time that allowed me to purchase a DSLR camera long before I ever purchased a smartphone. But saying that, the time of your birth or the circumstances leading to the evolution of your own photographic journey shouldn't prohibit yourself from making a decision right now – to henceforth capture images of yourself that are more meaningful and productive.
Nearly all of us have done it. We've extended our arms a little higher than our head and snapped a quick shot of our faces just to prove where we were at a moment in time. Or maybe we snapped it just to show we were happy. There's nothing technically wrong with the now-traditional selfie. Except maybe that it's lazy. And the lighting is all-too-often terrible. And the image quality is typically lacking.
"Selfies" have been around in one form or another for hundreds of years. Even before the invention of the camera, artists carved their own likeness in stone, created charcoal renderings or painted themselves. In contrast to today, self-portraits from generations past took many hours (sometimes days or weeks) to complete. But why did artists devote so much time to creating their own self-portrait? Are all creative types just that vain? (I don't think so.)
Fast forward to today and the effort that goes into making a typical selfie is shamefully minimal.
Why Should You Create More Self-Portraits?
Devoting time to taking self-portraits has many benefits. First, taking a self-portrait allows you to test out new techniques or refine existing techniques so that you're better prepared to handle future situations. Most of my self-portraits were taken while I was testing a new camera, lens, or light modifier. After playing around with the new gear, I had a pretty good idea of how the gear would perform when used in a for-profit portrait session.
And here's an obvious benefit that is often overlooked – when it comes to testing gear, you're always available to be your own subject. Your subject won't likely get bored or annoyed if things don't go according to plan (especially if the photographer takes an unusually long period of time getting familiar with the new gear).
Need a profile photo for your website? Or business card? Create the image that you're most happy with. Don't rely on someone else's vision to perfectly represent who you are as an artist.
In case it's not overwhelmingly obvious, I don't usually like to smile in my self-portraits. I like the "intense" look and can usually pull it off fairly well. The funny thing is that I'm really very friendly, approachable and – dare I say it – possibly even a goof ball. But taking my own self-portrait allows me to be whoever I want to be (even if only in pictures). However, I found out the "intense" look isn't very good for online dating profiles. Smiling picture, check.
Self-portraits can also be inspiring.
After taking a self-portrait one day, I thought it might look interesting as a magazine cover.
So after a little bit of Photoshop work, I created something fun that I really enjoyed.
That image led me to create several more tongue-in-cheek magazine covers in the series.
After flipping through the fake magazine covers found on my Facebook page, a client asked me to create one for him. So not only had I honed specific photography and Photoshop skills while creating the personal project (which snowballed from a single self-portrait), but doing so led to business I would not have had otherwise.
I'm not saying that there's never an appropriate time for a cell phone snapshot.
But as photographers, we should take pride in the images we post for people to see.
Instead of just capturing where we were at a moment in time, we should take the opportunity to hone our craft through self-portraiture so that we're even better prepared
for tackling all of the photographic challenges that we might otherwise be ill-prepared for.
If you're reading this, you've obviously made a relatively serious investment in (and commitment to) photography. Get the most out of that investment by creating images of yourself that you can enjoy sharing as much as creating.
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The reproductive events in the primate calendar are copulation, gestation, birth, and lactation. Owing to the long duration of the gestation period, these phases occupy the female primate (among higher primates anyway) for a full year or more; then the cycle starts again. The female does not usually come into physiological receptivity until the infant of the previous pregnancy has been weaned.
Most lemurs and lorises show one or more discrete breeding seasons during the year, during which time they may undergo more than one reproductive estrous cycle (i.e., period of sexual activity). The breeding seasons are separated by periods of anestrus, which in bush babies and mouse lemurs are accompanied by changes in the skin of the external genitalia (vulva), which closes over, completely sealing the vagina. When living in the wild in the Sudan, the lesser bush baby (Galago senegalensis) has an estrus that occurs only twice yearly, during December and August. In captivity, however, breeding seasons may occur at any period in the year. In the wild, birth seasons are closely correlated with the prevailing climate, but in captivity under equable laboratory conditions, this consideration does not apply. For instance, in its native Madagascar, the ring-tailed lemur (Lemur catta) has only a single breeding season during the year, conception occurring in autumn (April) and births taking place in late winter (August and September). However, in zoos in the Northern Hemisphere, a seasonal inversion occurs in which the birth period shifts to late spring and early summer. These examples indicate the influence of environmental factors on the timing of the birth seasons.
Reproductive cycles in tarsiers, apes, and many monkeys continue uninterrupted throughout the year, though seasonality in births is characteristic mainly of monkey species living either outside the equatorial belt (5° north and south of the Equator) or at high elevations in equatorial regions, where dry seasons and seasonal food shortages occur. Seasonality of births in macaques (genus Macaca species) has been documented in Japan, on Cayo Santiago in the Caribbean (where an introduced population thrives under seminatural conditions), and in India. Observations of langurs in India and Sri Lanka, of geladas in Ethiopia, and of patas monkeys in Uganda have also demonstrated seasonality in areas with well-marked wet and dry seasons. Those within the equatorial belt tend to display birth peaks rather than birth seasons. A birth peak is a period of the year in which a high proportion of births, but not by any means all, are concentrated. Equatorial primates such as guenons, colobus monkeys, howlers, gibbons, chimpanzees, and gorillas might be expected to show a pattern of births uniformly distributed throughout the year, but population samples are as yet too small to make this assumption, and some equatorial monkeys, such as squirrel monkeys (genus Saimiri), are strictly seasonal breeders. Even in humans, there is evidence of high birth peaks. In Europe, the highest birth rates are reached in the first half of the year; in the United States, India, and countries in the Southern Hemisphere, in the second half. This may, however, be a cultural rather than an ecological phenomenon, for marriages in certain Western countries reach a peak in the closing weeks of the fiscal year, a fact that undoubtedly has some repercussions on the birth period.
Gestation period and parturition
The period during which the growing fetus is protected in the uterus is characterized by a considerable range of variation among primate species, but it shows a general trend toward prolongation as one ascends the evolutionary scale. Mouse lemurs, for example, have a gestation period of 54–68 days, lemurs 132–134 days, macaques 146–186 days, gibbons 210 days, chimpanzees 230 days, gorillas 255 days, and humans (on the average) 267 days. Even small primates such as bush babies have gestations considerably longer than those of nonprimate mammals of equivalent size, a reflection of the increased complexity and differentiation of primate structure compared with that of nonprimates. Although in primates there is a general trend toward evolutionary increase in body size, there is no absolute correlation between body size and the duration of the gestation period. Marmosets, for example, are considerably smaller than spider monkeys and howler monkeys but have a slightly longer pregnancy (howler monkeys 139 days, “true” marmosets 130–150 days).
An extraordinary and somewhat inexplicable difference exists between the dimensions of the pelvic cavity and the dimensions of the head of the infant at birth in monkeys and humans on the one hand, and apes on the other. The head of the infant ape is considerably smaller than the pelvic cavity, so birth occurs easily and without prolonged labour. When the head of the infant monkey engages in the pelvis, the fit is exact, and labour may be a prolonged and difficult affair, as it is generally with humans. Human parturition, however, is generally a much more extended process than that of monkeys. Like the human infant, the monkey is born head first. Twin births are rare in most monkeys and apes, but marmosets and some lemurs and lorises habitually produce twins.
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40 Fabulous Floor Reading Lamps For The Design Conscious
Floor standing reading lamps are not just an accessory to a room decor scheme. They can set the style of a living room, be multipurpose task lighting in a home office, or define a cosy reading corner in just about any room. Due to the proportions of tall floor lamps, they appear less as a second class accessory and more a piece of actual furniture. Careful thought goes into selecting a large item of furniture for your home, so choosing the design of a floor lamp should be given due consideration too. We’ve selected 40 fabulous floor reading lamps that we think may light up your life!
Serge Mouille Style Floor Lamp: This would be ideal in a mid century modern room scheme, with its slender tripod leg base. Made from carbonized steel and copper, it comes in this matte black colourway with contrasting white shade interior.
AJ Style Contemporary White Floor Reading Lamp: Spun steel with a tiltable shade, this was inspired by mid-century design by Arne Jacobsen. Modern floor reading lamps with a quirky shape look right at home in a Scandinavian style setting.
Lean Floor Lamp: The Lean can be selected in either a black or white finish that is subtly distressed to create an industrial look. The arm of the cool floor reading lamp is in raw brass and the detail is rubber.
Foscarini Fork Floor Lamp: The large casual shade of this lamp by Diesel has a patchwork structure to the canvas that, when lit warmly from within, is reminiscent of campsite tents. It also has a stitching style similar to jeans. The joints of the floor lamp make the stand very flexible, and the shade can be rotated 360°.
Spar Floor Lamp Replica: Living room reading lamps are in the room most displayed to house guests, and this striking red and black creation would certainly turn heads. If you want to go a step further than this modern replica, the original is available here.
Affordable Energy Efficient 3 Pivot Floor Reading Lamp: LED floor reading lamps are becoming more in demand as people grow more mindful of the environmental effects of energy consumption, and as the monetary costs of consuming energy continually rises. This brushed anodized aluminum design is an affordable lamp that presents a way to help protect the Earth and your bank account.
Link Ring Shaped LED Task Floor Lamp: Another of our favourite contemporary floor reading lamps that is fitted with LEDs. LED technology provides brilliantly bright floor reading lamps that are perfect for a shadowy reading corner that is situated out of the reach of a main overhead light. This is also a floor lamp with dimmer, so if the LEDs prove too bright then they can easily be made less dazzling.
Sparq Arc LED Floor Lamp: Arc floor reading lamps are able to reach over a piece of large furniture like a sofa or chunky armchair, in order to better centre the light source over a book or task. Minimalist floor reading lamps like this have no lampshade, so they don’t encroach on your space or decor scheme. This one is dimmable too.
Linear Floor Lamp: This futuristic LED lamp has a cool lightsaber look, perfect for sci-fi fans. This is the Linear Edition of Brightech’s curved Sparq Arc lamp (previous pic). It has a straight 58in wand that displays at a steady angle from a 5ft metal pole that comes in either high-shine silver or gloss black.
S7 Snake Like Floor Lamp: Rising from the floor like a snake charmers serpent from its basket. It can also be repositioned thanks to its malleable form that is reshaped by pulling the coils apart, so you could adjust the lamp to be shorter, more coiled or super wavy. The poseable silhouette does not require any tools to adjust it, it’s simply plug and play.
De Padova Style Circle Floor Lamp: Looking a little like a long stemmed leaf, this design presents a unique way to light a reading area, or add style over a dining table where there is no ceiling light fixture available.
Solveig Floor Lamp: Solveig means ‘path of the sun’ in Swedish, though this may appear more like a satellite or flying saucer rather than the sun – until the gloss white reflector is illuminated. The repoussé sheet steel shade is connected to the black lacquered base by a magnet, allowing the angle of the circular reflector to be modified.
Archer Floor Lamp: Wooden floor reading lamps bring a sophisticated look. This one has a chunky beech wood base post, and the shade has a frosted diffuser for minimising glare to provide the user with a comfortable level of light.
Tolomeo Reading Floor Lamp: On the back of the Tolomeo table/task that achieved the Compasso d’Oro award for Italian industrial design in 1989, engineering and performance features have been refined to create a new series of models, including this floor model.
Adesso Atlas Tall Floor Lamp: Smart outlet compatible, making it furture-proof. Task floor lamps often focus their light on a small concentrated area but this 77in tall design boasts a glow over a larger area.
Floor Reading Lamp With Lampshade: With a classic elevated crane design, this would look at home in any room of the home. The linen textured hanging shade is a neutral tone to fit with just about any colour scheme too.
Triple Light Conical Reading Floor Lamp: Built-in LEDs mean that you don’t have to worry about changing the bulbs, making it a time, energy and money saver. Although this is a 3 light floor lamp, it has a lightweight composition which means it’s easy to transport between rooms.
Oil Rubbed Bronze Metal Finish Floor Lamp: A traditional looking piece, this lamp makes a perfect accompaniment to a classic wing chair. Despite its traditional appearance, it has very modern dimmable LED natural daylight simulation to reduce eye fatigue.
Modern Arc Globe Floor Lamp: As far as living room reading lamps go, this is one that provides flexibility thanks to a dimmer switch located on the pole that can adjust bright light into mood lighting. Bright floor reading lamps are great when completing tasks but it’s always great to have the option of a softer setting.
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Rosenau: Vana's team defends Mass. Four-Ball championship
Annika Sorenstam dominated the national golf headlines last week, but Frank Vanna Jr. was the most noteworthy story locally.
Vanna Jr., who plays out of the Marlborough Country Club, paired with former Marian High School teammate Michael McCarthy (Woodland Golf Club), to capture the Massachusetts Four-Ball championship last week. The event was held at the Country Club of New Seabury and Oysters Harbor Club in Mashpee.
The tandem won their second straight Four-Ball title by shooting a two-day eight-under-par total of 135. After a first-day minus four 68, the duo trailed two-time champions Bruce Chalas and Steve Tasho, who both hail from the Thorney Lea Golf Club, by three strokes.
On the second day, Vanna Jr. got off on a great start by recording a birdie on the first hole, a 496-yard par 5. Vanna also birdied the par-3 eighth hole and the par-5 10th hole. McCarthy earned two birdies as the team combined to shoot a 68 for the second consecutive day.
Vanna Jr., who is the reigning Massachusetts Mid-Amateur champion, is expected to compete in Marlborough July 2 in the MetroWest Open. Vanna Jr. was the top amateur in last year's inaugural event.
MCC's Mark Klotz, who is in charge of the MetroWest Open, is hoping to increase the field significantly. Last year, 46 local pros and 20 amateurs competed. This year, Klotz is hoping to have 100 pros and 25 amateurs. Greens Fees are $180 for pros and $100 for amateurs. Sponsorships are still available for a few holes.
According to Marlborough Shamrocks head coach Tom Grasso, the team is tentatively scheduled to have its first practice on June 11. Grasso said that long-time quarterback Dave Palazzi, who has retired several times in the past.
The Shamrocks would like to have Ralph Barone return as their signal caller. He has led Marlborough to one national championship and to a second-place finish in another title game.
Barone is still a top EFL quarterback, but he's not a youngster. Look for the Shamrocks to bring in a young quarterback to learn the ropes.
A few interesting notes form the Sports pages last week. Kyle Darrow, who is a junior at UMass-Dartmouth, was named to the Little East Second Team. A relief pitcher, Darrow also plays for the Stan Musial Eagles, whose season should be beginning shortly. ...
Marlborough ace Jimmy Fuller continues to dominate, as the hurler threw a one-hit hit shutout earlier last week. Fuller (4-1) has not allowed an earned run in his last two starts. In Sunday's game, Matt Zagwyn (7-2) pitched a no-hitter against the Mid-Wach A co-champions, Algonquin.
The Panthers won the Mid-Wach B title with a perfect 10-0 league mark. Marlborough has won an incredible 29 straight league games.
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Youth Drop-In Gym is Monday through Friday 3:15 – 5 p.m. Kindergarten through grade 12 may participate. Cost is $2 per participant, or $1 for those participants with a Youth Gym ID.
FAQ Topic: Daily Visits & Drop-In Activities
Visit the Drop-In Art Program Page for current drop-in art offerings.
See our current daily admission rates.
The indoor pool schedule contains information about lap lanes and open swim.
View our current Ice Arena schedule.
Drop-in gym is held at the Kettering Recreation Complex 7 days a week.
The use of the track at the KRC and KFWC is free for Kettering residents. Non-residents pay a $2 fee for each use.
The track at the KRC is available the following hours: Monday – Thursday 5:30 a.m. – 10 p.m. Friday 5:30 a.m. – 8 p.m. Saturday 7 a.m. – 6 p.m. Sunday 10 a.m. – 6 p.m. The track at KFWC/Trent Arena has a calendar of availability.
We have drop-in exercise classes at both the KRC and KFWC
Visit the Group Exercise page for complete information on daily pricing, schedules and exercise passes.
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Annual Squash champions crowned!
Following the Chesham 1879 squash championships on Friday 3rd May, congratulations to the winners and runners up.
The results were;
Main Competition: Neil Hollister bt Roger Hill
B Grade Comp: Richard Berger bt Mick Higgins
Juniors: Patrick Ellerton bt Rachel Roger-Lund
Vets: Neil Hollister bt Roger Hill
Congratulations to our champions!
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An insider's guide to choosing the new pope.
ROME — For the gaggle of reporters who have descended upon Rome over the past two days, the next election of the head of the Roman Catholic Church will be, of course, like no other in anyone's memory. Pope Benedict XVI's surprise abdication on Monday, Feb. 11, means that the electoral conclave -- for the first time since 1415 -- will not follow the death of the preceding pope. This time, it's a rare retirement. The Vatican has said that Benedict's papacy will expire at 8 p.m. on Feb. 28, when a live -- if frail -- ex-pope will leave office and enter an abandoned convent on Vatican City grounds.
The departure leaves a gap for the gathering press corps. The vote to determine Pope Benedict's successor will not be preceded by the usual funeral pomp for a dead Holy Father or emotional calls for his sainthood, as erupted in the wake of the death of Benedict's predecessor, Pope John Paul II. Still, Benedict's eight-year reign will officially end the same way John Paul II's did: with the smashing of the golden papal ring by a hammer. (Unusually, to say the least, Benedict could have the chance to smash it himself.)
Despite the dramatic changes in the prelude, the election should be familiar to anyone like me who covered the 2005 vote or anyone around when John Paul II was elected in 1978, or his short-lived predecessor, John Paul I, that same year. In the lead-up, there will be plenty of pre-vote rumors, gossip, and predictions of who will win. A sea of red caps and white lace will wash over Vatican City in the form of the 117 electors of the College of Cardinals. The venue for the election, the Sistine Chapel, will be swept for electronic bugging devices so that the deliberations remain secret. In the chapel, the cardinals, under the stern gaze of Michelangelo's Last Judgment, will pledge never to tell anyone what went on.
And within a few days after the conclave is convened, the famous white smoke will pour out of a Vatican chimney, church bells will ring, and an official will stand on the central balcony of St. Peter's Basilica and say, in Latin, "Habemus Papam." We have a pope. And then the world will hear the name of the winner.
I covered the 2005 election for the Washington Post, and I remember it framed as a contest between continuity and change -- a competition that is likely to continue. In 2005, Benedict (then Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger) represented continuity to the max. Since 1981, under Pope John Paul II, he had headed the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, a kind of Vatican enforcement office for Catholic dogma. In the waning years of Pope John Paul II's reign, Ratzinger issued astonishingly broad pronouncements on foreign policy, assaults on feminism, and critiques of what he called relativism -- the notion that there is no sure truth but only equally competing and valid points of view. He also had long aligned himself with Pope John Paul II in labeling homosexuality a disorder, opposing women's entrance into the priesthood, focusing on abortion and contraception as key targets of disapproval, and defending the centrality of the Vatican in decision-making for all levels of the church.
Arrayed against him and conservatives like him, I recall, were Catholic leaders who, while not necessarily contesting elements of the established dogma, wanted to shift the focus to justice, peace, and alleviation of poverty. They also wanted a more collegial, even democratic, church, one in which bishops and cardinals and perhaps laymen and women would have more influence on decision-making.
The contest between the John Paul-Benedict era of continuity and something different persists. But while direction and dogma may differ, obstacles unite -- child sex abuse scandals in the church and the difficulties of outreach to other religions, in particular Islam, span the concerns of both sides.
The first challenge for anyone trying to understand where papal candidates stand is trying to figure out who is seriously in the running. On this score, the neophyte reporter in Rome will find a couple of Italian shorthand words useful when perusing newspapers and speaking with supposed experts: papabili and its close cousin, toto-Papa.
The papabili are cardinals believed to be viable candidates. Toto-Papa, or "pope-betting," is the game played by Vatican watchers to handicap the favorites. It's a game hardly any observer wins, mostly because the information about how the vote will go is 90 percent guesswork. If by chance one gets to ask a cardinal whom he favors, he will answer (if he answers at all), "The Holy Spirit will let me know."
That doesn't stop every outsider, expert or otherwise, from having an opinion.
When I covered the last election, the Post asked me to list some papabili for a preview article; I put down three from Latin America, an African, a pair of Italians, an Austrian, and an Asian. The morning before the article went to press, I woke up with a revelation: What about Ratzinger, then 78, who had played a powerful role behind the scenes of John Paul II's papacy?
Several Vatican watchers had warned me off him -- too old and crotchety, they said. Yet, a few months earlier, I myself had described him in an article as a "strong candidate." Oh, well. I decided to erase the Asian and insert Ratzinger. The last-minute bet (courtesy of the Holy Spirit?) saved me from some embarrassment: Ratzinger became pope.
Good luck in compiling a viable toto-Papa list this time around, given the number of names bandied about. But the editors will require it, so let's give it a shot.
Geography is a good place to start. Since John Paul II's election -- the first non-Italian pope for several centuries -- geographical factors frequently dominate the papabili guessing game. This year, Latin Americans are again considered strong possibilities. The continent is home to half the world's Catholics.
In matters of policy, however, a Latin American selection might herald a shift in direction from concern with doctrine toward social issues and poverty. Among the Latin American papabili are cardinals from two megalopolises: Norberto Carrera Rivera, 62, from Mexico City, and Odilo Pedro Scherer, 63, from Sao Paulo. Óscar Andrés Rodríguez Maradiaga, 70, archbishop of Tegucigalpa, Honduras, is also in the running; his city and country are overrun with poverty and high crime. Another Latin American candidate, Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio, 76, of Buenos Aires is considered more in line with the ultraconservative leanings of Pope Benedict XVI than with the cause of social justice.
Europe could produce a winner, given the number of Europeans in the conclave (61) and tradition (no pope has come from outside the continent since Gregory III, a Syrian, in 731). That revives the chances of Christoph Schönborn, 68, archbishop of Vienna, who some may see as a plus because he oversaw a cleanup of the church in Austria after pedophile scandals. He was a mentioned candidate in 2005. French Cardinal Jean-Louis Tauran's name is also making the rounds, partly because he heads the Vatican department in charge of relations with other religions -- an important post in today's conflicted world of religious rivalries. But, at 69 years old, he suffers from early stages of Parkinson's disease, and the cardinals may not want to put someone with a known health problem in place after a pope just quit over declining health.
Italy possesses 28 voters in the conclave, and if they stick together, that's a formidable bloc. Italians produced popes for 455 years before the election of John Paul II, and they might be eager for a return to the historical norm. The name bouncing around now is Angelo Scola, 71, archbishop of Milan and a Benedict confidant. Being in charge of a big diocese gives him street cred among voters who want someone experienced in the nitty-gritty of local affairs and who also favors papal supremacy and a continuation of Benedict's conservative outlook.
It's become fashionable for Africa to get a mention. One African so far has entered the list of papabili: Cardinal Peter Appiah Turkson, 64, from Ghana, though he may have eliminated himself when he presided over the screening last year of a controversial video suggesting Muslims were soon to take over Europe through demographics.
Finally, unlike last time, North Americans are getting mentioned, notably Timothy Dolan, 63, archbishop of New York. Don't bet on it. The world's only superpower is not going to get a pope. (Spoiler alert for Americans focused on hot-button social issues: You're not about to get a pontiff who tolerates abortion, homosexuality, or euthanasia for people who want to end suffering in old age. Radio reporters calling from the United States were somehow shocked when I told them that in 2005, but that's the way it was then and still is now.)
However, America's northern neighbor might conceivably produce a pope: Marc Ouellet, 68, head of the Vatican's department of bishops, a conservative ally of Pope Benedict, and former archbishop of Quebec City.
With luck, this year's reporters and commentators will get a closer look at the potential candidates and their thoughts than we did, back in 2005. After Pope John Paul II's funeral, I had looked forward to the novemdiales, a nine-day period before the conclave during which the cardinals are traditionally free to wander Rome and speak with whomever they want. It was a chance to hear what ideas would dominate the conclave itself.
It was not to be.
Ratzinger, as dean of the College of Cardinals, presided over preparations for the conclave. On April 9, a day after the funeral, the Vatican announced a news blackout. Ratzinger had persuaded everyone to stop talking, cardinals quietly told me: no interviews, no open discussion of pre-conclave meetings -- no nothing except homilies at masses celebrating the virtues of John Paul II.
The prohibition left the public stage to Ratzinger himself. On the morning the conclave opened, he delivered a sermon to the cardinals that amounted to a combination keynote and self-advertisement. In it, he warned of a "dictatorship of relativism … that recognizes nothing definite and leaves only one's own ego and one's own desires as the final measure." He added that the church must withstand "tides of trends and the latest novelties." Some saw the speech as a fortification of true faith; others as a clear effort to stifle debate. Ratzinger won in the second ballot and was confirmed by acclamation.
In any case, I'm guessing there is probably one elector whom I interviewed before the 2005 blackout who will be giving no interviews this time: Cardinal Roger Mahony, 76, ex-archbishop of Los Angeles, who is beset by new revelations that he hid incidents of priestly child abuse from the police. Questions about pedophilia alone might scare the Vatican from letting the cardinals spout off too much.
At the end of this month, Ratzinger will disappear into Castel Gandolfo, on a lake near Rome, implicitly taking with him any possible influence on the forthcoming election. But his shadow will stretch all the way to the Sistine Chapel; he appointed just over half the cardinals who will elect his successor. And he wouldn't have picked them if they didn't agree with him in some measure.
But let's hope the cardinals open their thinking to the journalists waiting at St. Peter's and to the world. If they do, it'll tell us at least one thing for sure: that Ratzinger's influence is quickly waning and the race is wide open.
Arturo Mari - Vatican Pool/ Getty Images
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First off... Greetings & Salutes...
Starting my very first Boba, after reading these forums un-registered for over 2 years. Right now I am working from WizardofFlight's templates to build a rough Beta Stage bucket merely to fit to my noggin' and test various issues with the helmet.
While in the process of doing this, however, an interesting thought popped into my head, and I thought it wise to post it here for comments and discussion:
We have the dimensions of the buckets used in the film, plenty of source photos, and more collective talent on these boards than anyone could've imagined. Why not pool what we know about the parts of the armor, model each piece to scale, and create moldable prototypes using a stereolithography machine?
I realize I'm new here, and I shouldn't make too many waves, but I'd definately be willing to put in the man-hours to accurately model the 'hard parts' of the armor (i.e. not the fabric based parts) in 3D Studio MAX, Maya, Lightwave, or whatever, so long as someone could help in getting the most accurate measurements of each piece. (i.e. exact placement of dents, scratches, re-touches, damage repair, paint job alignment, etc). There is a local manufacturing facility not far from my residence that offers stereolithography prototyping (my father may also be able to get me access to one at the Jet Engine manufacturer he works at, I know they have one there for sure) as well as mold making, and assembly line manufacturing.
I'm not looking to make any money here, quite the opposite, I'm just trying to get the most accurate armor for the least money (probably just like everyone else, hehe). For the time being, I'm going to make a dozen or so buckets based from WOF's templates for tweaking and practice, the rest of my armor will probably go the same way. I'm aiming to build a suit as a Halloween custume, depending on how these go, I may get serious and contact Northeast Mold and Plastic Inc for pricing on prototyping.
What do you guys and gals think?
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Objective: Our objective was to identify factors that affect clinicians' compliance with the evidence-based guidelines using an interdisciplinary approach and develop a conceptual framework that can provide a comprehensive and practical guide for designing effective interventions.
Design: A literature review and a brainstorming session with 11 researchers from a variety of scientific disciplines were used to identify theoretical and conceptual models describing clinicians' guideline compliance. MEDLINE, EMBASE, CINAHL, and the bibliographies of the papers identified were used as data sources for identifying the relevant theoretical and conceptual models.
Results: Thirteen different models that originated from various disciplines including medicine, rural sociology, psychology, human factors and systems engineering, organizational management, marketing, and health education were identified. Four main categories of factors that affect compliance emerged from our analysis: clinician characteristics, guideline characteristics, system characteristics, and implementation characteristics. Based on these findings, we developed an interdisciplinary conceptual framework that specifies the expected interrelationships among these four categories of factors and their impact on clinicians' compliance.
Conclusions: An interdisciplinary approach is needed to improve clinicians' compliance with evidence-based guidelines. The conceptual framework from this research can provide a comprehensive and systematic guide to identify barriers to guideline compliance and design effective interventions to improve patient safety.
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GREENSBORO, N.C. – Virginia Tech will face Wake Forest on Thursday at 6 p.m. in the opening round of the 2012 Atlantic Coast Conference Women’s Basketball Tournament. The event is being held at the Greensboro Coliseum in Greensboro, N.C.
Tech (7-22, 3-13 ACC) enters as the 10th seed and will face the seventh seeded Wake Forest (17-12, 7-9 ACC) in the first round on Thursday evening. Virginia Tech and Wake played each other on Sunday in the regular season finale for both teams. WFU picked up the 68-39 win in Winston-Salem, N.C.
The winner of the game will advance to face No. 2 seed Miami on Friday, March 2 at 6 p.m.
Both the first and second rounds can be seen on Regional Sports Network (RSN). Stations include Fox Sports Net South (FSNS), ComCast Sports Net (CSN), Fox Sports Net Florida (FSNFL) and New England Sports Network (NESN).
Complete tournament information can be found at tournament central on TheACC.com.
For updates on Virginia Tech women's basketball, follow the Hokies on Twitter (@VT_WBBall).
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By Rebbetzen Siobhan Dansky, Participant in the Chief Rabbi’s Ma’ayan Programme
A popular custom on Tu B’Shevat is to eat 15 different fruits, including a new fruit that one has not eaten in the past year. There is also a particular focus on the fruits for which the Land of Israel is praised in the Torah: grapes, figs, dates, olives and pomegranates (see Devarim 8:8).
Why do we celebrate the trees in the middle of winter when they are at their most barren? Surely we would appreciate them more when they are full of blossom, or their branches are heavy with fruit?
Trees grow through all four seasons. In spring and summer, they blossom and produce delicious, sweet fruit. In autumn and winter, they lose their leaves and are bare and vulnerable. Tu B’Shevat is the day in mid-winter when we mark the time that the sap starts to rise inside the tree that will ultimately lead to it becoming fruitful again. Even though the tree looks dead on the outside, there is movement hidden deep inside the trunk. It is this potential for growth that we celebrate on Tu B’Shevat, teaching us that even in the cold of winter, the tree has the potential to blossom in the spring.
The Torah compares humans to a tree, “ki ha’adam eitz hasadeh – for a person is a tree of the field” (Devarim 20:19). Just as trees grow through the seasons, we also have similar patterns in our lives. There will be times when we flourish, are productive and see the incredible fruits of our labours, and there are times when we may feel frozen and stuck, and it may be a challenge to feel we are able to thrive. Tu B’Shevat teaches us that we should never give up hope – it may be precisely because of the harshest experiences that, in time, we are able to grow, become stronger and flourish in the future. Each stage of life is necessary as part of our growth process.
If the lesson comes from the trees, why do we celebrate by eating fruit? Surely it would make more sense to celebrate the trees themselves, not their produce. Sometimes we see our value in life according to what we have in our bank accounts, our possessions or our personal achievements, but our true value is in what we contribute to the world and what we give to others. There is a saying that “we make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give”. The fruits are the trees’ gifts to us. Celebrating with the fruits teaches us that as we grow through each season of our lives, we should always retain hope in the future and translate our potential into a life of giving to the world.
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From Palms Springs to Phoenix
Trip Start Sep 01, 2012
9Trip End Dec 02, 2012
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It’s a four hour drive to Vegas through more desert. Occasionally a town with no reason at all to be there crops up offering rooms for $30 and casinos. The Vegas sprawls eventually starts and we have to drive up the Strip to get to our hotel. And Vegas was what we were expecting, though, oddly, we were expecting it to be even more so
We don’t look back and head north for a great big dollop of natural beauty. The dessert gives way to mountains and we gradually climb to 8,500 feet. We have a few days in Bryce Canyon, which is not in fact a canyon as its extraordinary landscape is not carved by a river. It is impossible not to see things in the ‘hoodoos’ the bizarre orange pillars created by the endless freeze, thaw and fracturing of the relatively soft rock. Look… there’s a cathedral, there’s an Indian temple, there’s a bunch of meerkats. We walk down amongst them, squeezed and breathless with occasional glimpses of brilliant blue skies in perfect colour contrast to the oxidized rocks
Only the thought of the Grand Canyon tears us away and we drive through hours of mountain and dessert. It is the country of cowboys and injuns, landscape we only ever saw in monochrome at Saturday morning cinema. The roads are lined with the trading stalls of the remaining native Americans selling pottery, baskets and reproductions of their ancient artifacts. Their houses are barely houses at all, and we wonder how their lives must be.
We stop for an impromptu tour of the immense Glen Canyon damn on the Colorado River. We are warned that we mustn’t say words like bomb or terrorists and take a lift 600 feet down to the base of the damn where 30 foot concrete walls hold back the water. As a result of the detour we arrive at the Canyon in the dark and a strange pink glow in the sky is all that tells us there is something out of the ordinary waiting to be seen. We are staying in an historic hotel, a giant and grand log cabin badly in need of a bit of updating but it doesn’t matter. When we wake up and go outside the canyon is quite literally incredible. It would be wise to stop with that word as anything else written here risks under-representing a landscape of such immense scale and grandeur. None of the pictures we take come close to capturing the truth. It really is a place you have to see for yourself. One of the joys of the State Parks is the Rangers. And here like every park there are talks and walks and enthusiastic staff who with deep knowledge help us to understand more of the geology, fauna and flora. A few facts must suffice to fuel the imagination for those who have not seen it. It is 227 miles long, more than a mile deep and 11 miles wide.
Utah and Arizona are huge and empty but by now we are comfortable with driving hour after hour through the beautiful mountains and desserts
And, oh goodness, three months has gone and we must away to Phoenix to make our way home to the cold and the familiar. It is tempting to try to make a summary of our travels but we feel it is premature without a time for reflection.
We can say though that we have had a marvellous adventure, have seen astonishing natural beauty, visited some intriguing cities and have grasped a little of the American perspective. We have met some fascinating people, enjoyed meeting old friends on their own turfs and have found good coffee quite often. It could be the trip of our lifetimes but with luck there may be other trips to other places, as the old saw that says travel broadens the mind is so manifestly true.
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Many of you may have noticed that lack of activity on my end in recent weeks. The truth is, I started this blog as a semester-long class assignment, which I have since submitted for grading. This is one of the best assignments I have ever been given, but I’m not going to lie when I say it was a headache.
I have loved all of my brewery trips. But Cedar Falls just does not have an ample supply of breweries nearby, so every post had to be planned around a trip once I had exhausted most of my local resources. I enjoyed all of them, but trying to squeeze them in between a heavy course load, a restaurant job that demands nights and weekends, and then making time to sit down and craft a blog post has been a bit stressful at times.
So I feel okay to go ahead and admit that I have not TOUCHED anything blog-related in the last week. But today you all blew me away. In a last-ditch effort to procrastinate my homework, I checked my Google Analytics app. To my surprise, my traffic has been super-steady and ya’ll just keep showing up.
I had been debating whether or not to keep this blog up, because after graduation in 2.5 short weeks I will no longer have free site-hosting and software usage from UNI. But seeing the love today, I don’t feel like I can stop. And I imagine blogging is much more enjoyable when its not being graded.
I cannot promise a post every week. There will be an address change once UNI kicks me off. And you probably still won’t see much of me until after graduation, moving, and life settles down a little bit. But I promise that every time I make it to a new brewery or just have something wonderful to share, I will be back. In the meantime, cheers to you and all your love!
P.S. Feel free to email my professor at [email protected] and tell him to give me an A! Seriously.
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It’s tempting to follow the lead of elite athletes and try every training method they use—but are they really useful for the everyday runner or swimmer?
If you were able to pull your eyes away from all those medals around Michael Phelps’s neck at the 2016 Olympics, you might have noticed some other round things on his skin— the tell-tale circular marks of an ancient Chinese medicine practice called cupping, also used in many other cultures for centuries. Cupping involves using heat or an air pump to suck out air from glass or hard plastic cups placed on the skin: the suction causes capillaries to burst under the skin and leaves perfect circles of purple hickey marks.
And just like eating our Wheaties, if Olympians do it, we more typical mortals often want to try it too. But should we?
Here we’ll look at three popular tricks elite athletes are using to improve their performance and whether the evidence supports it. Spoiler: sometimes it does, but you will need to think twice about whether to incorporate into your own daily workout.
Cupping dates back to at least 1500 B.C. Athletes are attracted to the claim that cupping pulls blood to the area where the cups are placed to reduce soreness and speed up the healing of overworked muscles. Other described mechanisms of cupping include “releasing toxins” from body tissues, activating the lymphatic system and clearing and “activating” blood vessels, among others.
Just because something has been used for millennia, however, doesn’t mean it works. Over the years, cupping has been recommended by its various practitioners to treat a long list of conditions: pain, shingles, cough, asthma, acne, common colds, hives, stretched or torn ligaments, frozen shoulder, mastitis … The list goes on.
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“Normally, one does suspect that a ‘cure all’ is, in fact, a ‘cure nothing,’” said Dr. Edzard Ernst, an emeritus professor of complementary medicine at the University of Exeter in the United Kingdom. “If one treatment is recommended for a wide range of conditions, it does in all likelihood cure none.”
The evidence on cupping mostly bears this out: no evidence exists to support the biological mechanisms described above, and Ernst noted the studies “are flimsy in almost every respect.” A research review concluded “there is insufficient high-quality evidence to support the use of cupping therapy on relevant diseases.”
But some evidence suggests cupping might help with one thing—pain. For example, a small study on cupping for neck pain and another on cupping for knee pain found mild benefits compared to a different therapy or no therapy. These studies also had significant flaws, and a 2011 meta-review called for more rigorous studies before recommending cupping for pain. But Ernst describes one way cupping could help with pain: counter-irritation.
“One pain can make another one disappear or appear to be less,” he explained. “If you hit yourself accidentally with a hammer, your headache will seem less for a while. The crucial point is that the effect is neither curative nor long-lasting.”
And the practice is not without risks or harm. Dry cupping is mildly painful, costs money, leaves those characteristic purple hickeys, and may dissuade people from seeking more effective treatments. (I can also attest that the pain can last several days after dry cupping with heat is done.) Wet cupping, in which the skin is pricked or sliced multiple times so the person bleeds into the cups, can lead to dangerous infections.
Transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS)
Some elite athletes head in the opposite direction for a cutting-edge technology called transcranial direct current stimulation, or tDCS. A device worn on the head non-invasively transmits a low-intensity direct current that reaches the brain, which already uses electricity to function.
“You can get the current to go to different parts of the brain and when it gets to the brain, it can change the way the brain operates,” explained Marom Bikson, a dTCS expert and professor of biomedical engineering at the City University of New York. TDCS is regarded as very safe when used in a very limited dose and with high-grade technology, he said.
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Though not approved by the FDA in the U.S., tDCS has been approved in Europe for treating depression and types of chronic pain such as migraine. Now some elite athletes have begun using it to add an edge to their performance, but the evidence for that edge is limited.
Bikson points out that sports performance involves everything from an athlete’s speed to their focus and attention to their perception of fatigue. And one recent lab study found that tDCS affected cyclists’ perception of their effort and how tired they were, which translated into an estimated four percent better performance. But Bikson cautions not to get caught up in percentages, especially from just one small trial (a mere 10 cyclists).
“You can get this performance in the lab, but we need to be careful about saying that it will necessarily work in the real world,” he said. Similarly, some lab tests show a possible effect on motor performance, but it hasn’t been replicated. The athletes using it, however, don’t seem to care.
“Maybe they feel something,” Bikson said, “but it’s not scientific proof that it’s working, and it’s not scientific proof that it doesn’t work.”
Hypoxia refers to oxygen deficiency. The “thin air” at the top of a mountain is hypoxic, making it harder to breathe than at sea level because you’re not getting as much oxygen with each breath. If you stay in that environment long enough, your body adjusts by churning out more oxygen-carrying red blood cells to ensure your tissues get enough oxygen. When you then return to sea level, you may feel a bit more energetic for a few days because the air is now rich with oxygen while your body still has all those bonus red blood cells.
It seems logical, then, that training in environments with low oxygen might boost performance at lower elevations, and a number of products claim to take advantage of that, from hypoxic masks that reduce the oxygen you breathe in to specially designed hypoxic rooms or “altitude tents” to train in.
But there’s a hitch: training in a hypoxic environment doesn’t actually help performance.
For decades, Olympic athletes experimented with training at higher altitudes to improve sea-level performance, but the evidence was mixed, explained Jim Stray-Gundersen, M.D., the sports science advisor for the U.S. Ski and Snowboard Association in Park City, Utah. He and a colleague conducted a study in 1996 that discovered the secret to maximizing the benefits of high altitude: live high, train low. They compared three groups of college runners: one group living and training at sea level in Dallas, one living and training at altitude in Park City, and one living in Park City but training at sea level in Salt Lake City.
“The big finding from our study was that it’s not the training in hypoxia that’s helpful. It’s living at altitude that’s important to get sea level performance,” Stray-Gundersen said.
And the masks? They don’t work, said Stray-Gundersen, who has studied several of them.
Meanwhile, Stray-Gundersen said, practices such as cupping or tDCS come from a long line of things Olympians will try for any extra edge they can get, but for ordinary athletes, the best way to improve performance doesn’t need to be as complicated as building a hypoxic room.
“Most athletes don’t train right in the first place,” he said. “Improving a performance can be done by just getting your training right.”
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Belt, the Proxima belt contains fine grains with similar average temperature and total mass.
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Dubbed as 'Planet Nine,' the Mars-sized body is believed to be somewhere near the Kuiper
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Abu Dhabi: OCB Oilfield Services, a company owned by Abu Dhabi based Gulf Capital has acquired 100 per cent of Kuiper
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Gulf Capital announced today that its portfolio company OCB Oilfield Services, has acquired 100 percent of Kuiper
International Pte LTD, a player in the offshore construction and maintenance services sector, with a particular stronghold in the Asia Pacific (APAC) region and Australia.
Who would have expected a blue sky in the Kuiper
Animal welfare activists, who named the pup Kuiper
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In 2011, scientists announced that comet 103P/Hartley 2, from the Kuiper
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8 billion km), Nasa's New Horizons robotic probe awoke from hibernation on Saturday to begin an unprecedented mission to study the icy dwarf planet Pluto and sibling worlds in its Kuiper
The planned search will involve targeting a small area of sky in search of a Kuiper
Belt object (KBO) for the outbound spacecraft to visit.
The known Solar System can be divided into three parts: the rocky planets like Earth, which are close to the Sun; the gas giant planets, which are further out; and the frozen objects of the Kuiper
belt, which lie just beyond Neptune's orbit.
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Northview — Just after lunch recently, Nikole Lewis’s fifth-graders filed into her classroom and quickly took their seats, eager to get to work creating Native American dioramas.
One student in each group of three or four retrieved and carried a shoebox of a scene-in-progress to awaiting classmates, who quickly arranged supplies such as clay, markers, rocks, leaves, grass and sticks for the hour’s work.
Meanwhile, Lewis assembled an array of sculpting clay and tools in a corner of her classroom. Students who approached her to acquire the supplies knew the price: offer a fact about something they had learned so far.
All four of Highlands Middle’s fifth-grade social studies teachers do the project with their classes. The Native American unit studies four territories: Pacific Northwest, Desert Southwest, Great Plains and Eastern Woodlands. Fifth-graders learn about the histories of each group and how they adapted to their location, including the animals they hunted, the tools they made and used and the foods they grew and ate.
In between clay store “sales,” Lewis loudly posed what she called “teacher challenge” questions over the enthusiastic cacophony of diorama-building.
“Which Native American territory used kiva pits?” she asked the class, eliciting a surplus of raised hands.
Vonteay Manning’s group assembled a diorama of the Pacific Northwest, which, as he explained, was “surrounded by a lot of lakes and oceans. They also hunted whales, and they also told stories with totem poles.”
Emily Doss’s group’s diorama focused on the Woodlands territory.
“It’s not by the water, and we don’t have plank houses; we have long houses, which are touching the ground,” she explained. “Plank houses are on stilts. And they have a hole in the top for fires, because (Native Americans) made their food in there. And (fires) for families to sit at.”
It was Lewis’s third year leading the diorama project.
“I love that this gives the students a chance to show what they know, and (that) it isn’t in a typical ‘test’ format,” she said. “We have so many kids who don’t learn or can’t show their growth with just a paper and pencil, so they need other creative and engaging ways.”
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Sue Shellenbarger, in today's Wall Street Journal, reports on a Harvard Business School study that showed benefits of taking some time off from work every week. Shellenbarger also tried to keep one day per weekend work-free all month. She also reported good results: "On one recent Monday, after an invigorating weekend of working out, attending church and watching college football and hiking with friends, I quickly solved a work problem that had baffled me the previous week."
What's surprising about this study is that the results are a surprise to anyone. Working while exhausted does not promote the world's greatest critical thinking. Yet, crushing work schedules continue to be a badge of honor among senior executives. I wonder how many bad acquisitions could have been avoided if the acquiring CEOs and CFOs followed Shellenbarger's prescription?
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San Francisco Chronicle writes about Feed Your Pet Right
This article appeared yesterday in the Datebook section. The dogs loved the food—a huge relief because we had not tested the recipes (oops).
Challenging the pet-food dogma
Meredith May, San Francisco Chronicle, June 23, 2010
In her best-selling food industry exposés “What to Eat” and “Food Politics,” Marion Nestle taught the nation how to shop smarter at the supermarket. Now the New York University nutrition professor and Chronicle Food Matters columnist has teamed with animal nutrition expert Malden C. Nesheim to examine the $18 billion pet food industry in “Feed Your Pet Right: The Authoritative Guide to Feeding Your Dog and Cat” (Simon & Schuster; $16.99).
Their research-based work examines the politics, marketing and science behind pet food, and offers pet owners advice on how best to feed America’s 172 million cats and dogs. She recently visited The Chronicle’s test kitchen, where canine tasters wolfed down an easy-to-prepare recipe from the book.
Q: This book began when you couldn’t understand the ingredients on pet food labels?
A: I couldn’t! I was in a supermarket in Ithaca (N.Y.), and the pet food aisle was 120 feet long. I was stunned by the amount of real estate devoted to it. This had to be some huge industry, and it surprised me because I didn’t think dogs and cats had taken over the world. I looked at the label and it didn’t make any sense at all: stuff about guaranteed analysis, profiles and health claims all over it. We gathered all the books we could find on feeding pets, and they were so dogmatic – saying you have to feed your pet this one way and everything else was poison. They were enormously contradictory, and none seemed to be based on actual research.
Q: Is it in the best interest of the pet food industry to confuse us?
A: Of course – they are selling products that are inexpensive to make and profitable to sell, and all they have to do is convince pet owners if they don’t use their products, they are making a big mistake.
They would prefer you don’t think about what’s in there – the byproducts of human food products. There are billions of pounds of leftover parts of cows, pigs, chickens and sheep after they are slaughtered for human consumption, and something has to be done with it or it will be wasted. One way is to feed it to dogs and cats. They don’t care what part of the animal it comes from.
Q: Give us a cheat sheet. What should we look for on the label?
A: If you want one-stop shopping that meets all the nutritional needs of your cat or dog, look for the words “complete and balanced” on the package. That’s code for meeting all the nutritional standards set by the Association of American Feed Control Officials (AAFCO) – the non-regulatory agency that sets the pet food standards.
Next is the ingredient list. Our rule of thumb is to check the first five ingredients; after that, the ingredients are so small, they do not amount to much. The first five should be real foods – not wheat gluten or something that doesn’t sound like real food. A lot have meat byproducts in them that are quite nutritious, but a lot of people think they are disgusting.
Beyond that, if you are concerned about the quality and interested in organic, seasonal and locally grown, you can find a commercial pet food that meets those standards, but typically you will pay more.
Q: Is there some truth to the claims that some foods are for aging pets, puppies, weight loss, organic, premium?
A: You can pretty much trust it the way you can human food labeling. There will be cheats every now and then.
Q: Is price an indicator of quality?
A: We were rather surprised by what we found. We bought a collection of chicken dinners for pets that were all premium brands, which is a code for higher price. We compared the first five ingredients, the health claims and price, and although the ingredients were all the same, there was a threefold increase in price. So there’s some heavy marketing going on here. The word “premium” has no regulatory meaning, so you have to read what’s in the product.
Q: What are the main things we are doing wrong when it comes to feeding our pets?
Q: Should we just be cooking for our pets?
A: People who do say it is healthier. One of the funniest things we found was a big clinical research book for cats and dogs put out by Hills Co. that had a very long chapter about how dangerous it is to cook for your pets, then it gave generic recipes for cat and dog food that were easy to follow. We put the recipes in our book!
Q: Since the invention of commercial pet food, is there any evidence that pets are healthier or living longer? Or the opposite?
A: We were curious what did people do before commercial pet food. But there was little information and an astonishing lack of research about pet life spans. In the last 10 years, there’s been some preliminary evidence that life spans of dogs and cats have increased a little bit, but I wouldn’t want to push that too hard. There’s certainly evidence that pets are not doing any worse since commercial pet food was invented.
Q: The top five pet food companies control 80 percent of the market – who is regulating them?
A: All of those five companies are also either human food companies or consumer product companies. Governing them is a complicated regulatory system comprised of the (Food and Drug Administration’s) Center for Veterinary Medicine, AAFCO and states. States have their own rules, AAFCO sets models it wishes all states would follow but about half do, and the FDA regulation is minimal. But that’s changing.
Q: Is that because of the pet food recalls in 2007 that were traced to melamine in China?
A: Yes, it made everyone realize we only have one food supply – and it feeds humans, pets and farm animals. If we have a problem with pet food, then there will likely be a problem with all food. Sure enough, melamine showed up in baby formula in China and in a lot of products that were supposed to be containing milk. We need a food-safety system covering the whole thing, and the FDA is not unsympathetic to that approach. We need food labels on pet food that we can read, and calorie counts should be on them.
Q: What foods are deadly to pets?
A: Raisins, grapes or macadamia nuts, onions, garlic and chocolate. Little amounts really won’t do any harm; it’s pounds that causes problems.
Q: If you want to cook for your pet, how do you do it properly?
A: Follow a recipe.
Q: On your book tour, what are the most common questions people have?
A: A lot of questions about poop and how to keep the amount down – all these people in Manhattan apartments want to know. I tell them feed a high-premium, low-residue product with not much fiber in it. PetCo even has a sign showing the poop size comparisons using these kinds of products.
Recipes: Homemade food that gives pets the nutrition they need. E5
Homemade Dog Food
From “Feed Your Pet Right,” by Marion Nestle and Malden C. Nesheim (Simon and Schuster; $16.99). This recipe, adapted from guidelines in “Small Animal Clinical Nutrition” (2000), feeds one 40-pound dog. Amounts should be adjusted to the size, age and condition of the animal.
- 8 ounces cooked grains (rice, cornmeal, oatmeal, pasta and other grains and cereals)
- 4 ounces cooked meat (beef, lamb, pork, chicken, turkey, fish)
- 2 teaspoons fat (beef fat, chicken fat, vegetable oil, olive oil, fish oil)
- 1 ounce raw or cooked vegetables
- 1 teaspoon bone meal (or dicalcium phosphate supplement, see Note)
- 1/4 teaspoon potassium chloride supplement (salt substitute)
- 1 human adult daily multi-vitamin, multi-mineral tablet
Instructions: Combine the ingredients in a bowl. Mix well and serve.
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American Forces Press Service
March 21, 2007 – Coalition and Iraqi forces killed 17 terrorists, detained about 90 suspected insurgents, and found several weapons caches in operations throughout Iraq in the past three days, military officials reported. Coalition forces killed five terrorists, destroyed a bomb-making factory and detained three suspected terrorists during an operation today near Taji. As ground forces entered the target buildings, they encountered several armed men. Coalition forces used self-defense measures, killing five terrorists and detaining three suspected terrorists.
During the raid, coalition forces discovered an adjacent building was being used as an explosives factory. Inside the building, coalition forces found large-caliber ammunition and explosive manufacturing materials including numerous 50-gallon barrels of explosive material. Coalition forces conducted an air strike to destroy the explosives factory, associated vehicles, ammunition and weapons.
Elsewhere, Amiriyah police and Marines from Regimental Combat Team 6 engaged armed groups of al Qaeda for more than five hours today, killing eight insurgents and wounding five, south of Fallujah, near the town of Amiriyah.
Iraqi police posts observed sporadic enemy mortar fire for about one hour this morning. Marine artillery units assigned to RCT6 identified the location of the mortar team and counter-fired, forcing the al Qaeda in Iraq attackers to flee the scene. Amiriyah police then received sporadic enemy fire from an unknown number of insurgents. The police positively identified the enemy gunfire and returned fire, killing two insurgents and wounding five. Five policemen were wounded during the engagement.
Enemy fire continued sporadically throughout midday, when supporting fixed-wing aircraft engaged about 20 insurgents with guided munitions and strafing fire. Six insurgents were killed and their vehicles were destroyed as a result. The five wounded policemen were transported to a local hospital and treated.
In other operations, coalition forces destroyed a weapons cache and detained 23 suspected terrorists today during raids targeting foreign fighter facilitators and al Qaeda in Iraq networks.
During a raid near Balad, coalition forces detained 10 suspected terrorists and found a large amount of weapons in two targeted buildings. The weapons found included numerous machine guns, assault rifles, AK-47s, grenades, a rocket-propelled grenade launcher and a DShK anti-aircraft heavy machine gun. Due to the large amount of weapons found, coalition forces destroyed the two buildings and the weapons inside to prevent further use by terrorists.
West of Taji, coalition forces captured three suspects with alleged ties to car bomb operations and foreign fighter facilitation.
Six suspected terrorists believed to be involved in foreign fighter facilitation were detained in Mosul.
Coalition forces also conducted a raid west of Abu Ghraib targeting foreign fighter facilitators. During the raid, ground forces detained four suspected terrorists at the targeted building.
In other developments, the western Ramadi district police conducted a massive police operation targeting insurgents yesterday in Ramadi. Coordinating between several stations within his district, Brig. Gen. Khalil Ibrahim Hamadi, chief of the Ramadi district police, personally led more than 500 policemen as they conducted house-to-house searches in the capital city of Anbar province.
"The sons of Ramadi work tirelessly to eradicate criminals and bring them to justice," Khalil said. "Today we achieved a noble goal in providing security and stability to our families and the people of Ramadi."
During the 10-hour operation, named "Operation Lions of Ramadi," police detained more than 45 suspected insurgents, confiscated propaganda material and discovered several caches containing assault rifles, machine guns, and mortar and artillery shells used to produce improvised explosive devices. Insurgents using an IED during the operation killed one civilian and injured five. The wounded were transported by local citizens to a nearby joint security station, then evacuated to a coalition medical facility for further treatment.
Elsewhere, at least four Iraqis were killed and 14 wounded when a suicide bomber detonated a car bomb yesterday in an eastern segment of the Iraqi capital. The attack occurred around 11:20 a.m. when a taxi packed with mortar rounds plowed into a crowd in the al-Sheik Omar area.
An Iraqi army element from 4th Brigade, 1st Iraqi Army Division, and soldiers with the 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 2nd Infantry Division, responded to the blast and sealed off the area to prevent residents from approaching any unexploded ordnance. The injured were treated on the spot before being transported for further medical care.
In another operation, coalition forces detained nine suspected terrorists yesterday during raids targeting the al Qaeda in Iraq network.
In Mosul, seven suspected terrorists were detained with alleged ties to al Qaeda in Iraq and attacks against coalition forces and the Iraqi police. One of the detainees reportedly procures chemicals for the production of IEDs.
In another raid southwest of Abu Ghraib, coalition forces netted two suspected terrorists allegedly involved in moving foreign terrorists into Iraq.
A contraband-search-turned-firefight yielded two caches for Multinational Division Baghdad soldiers March 19 in Falahat, Iraq. Soldiers from Troop C, 1st Battalion, 7th Cavalry Regiment, raided three buildings in Falahat, where they detained three suspected insurgents and confiscated two AK-47s, one shotgun and five magazines.
Troop C was preparing to enter a fourth building when a vehicle with four men drove by and fired weapons at the soldiers, who reciprocated with shots of their own. Three of the men fled the scene on foot but were captured by the soldiers. Follow-on searches yielded the day's second cache: one 122 mm artillery shell, four fuses, one grenade, four rocket sleds, four ammunition vests, one AK-47 and more than seven magazines.
In Ramadi, Iraqi police captured a suspected insurgent, reportedly linked to an IED cell, during operations with coalition advisors March 19. The suspect is allegedly involved in multiple bombing attacks targeting coalition forces and Iraqi security forces in the area. Iraqi forces detained three additional individuals for questioning.
Separately, Iraqi army soldiers took three terrorists into custody during an operation March 19 near Taqa. Soldiers of the 4th Battalion, 4th Brigade, 6th Iraqi Army Division, detained the three men, who were found on a road that skirts the eastern bank of the Euphrates River, with materials for making IEDs.
In another operation, Iraqi and coalition forces conducted a raid in the western Baghdad neighborhood of Kadamiyah on March 19. The raid was targeting suspected insurgents implicated in the placement of roadside bombs in the area. During the raid, elements of the 3rd Brigade, 4th Iraqi Army Division, entered the Abass Mosque. No contraband was found in the mosque and about 50 people were held in the area until the search was complete. All 50 from within the mosque were released.
After the search, Iraqi and U.S. soldiers came under rocket-propelled-grenade and small-arms attack at about 9 p.m. from a separate group of 20 armed men in the same area. Coalition forces returned fire, killing three insurgents. Three men from the armed group were detained. U.S. military aircraft participated in the operation but did not expend any ordnance.
(Compiled from Multinational Corps Iraq and Multinational Force Iraq news releases.)
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Come on, come on
Do the ScoMo-motion with me
The Locomotion, by Little Eva.
Bullying, standover tactics, sit-ins – allegations of misconduct flow thick and fast in the aftermath of Peter Dutton’s botched Liberal Party leadership coup, a fiasco which Scott Morrison helped create – then exploited in his ambition to topple Turnbull.
Morrison’s plotters voted for the spill only to switch their allegiance in the next round. Lucy Gichui maintains, moreover, Morrison’s mob had been planning to knife Malcolm Turnbull, at least, since June.
The revelations do nothing to mollify members of the Coalition’s hard right rump, whose mistrust of Morrison goes back at least to his betrayal of Tony Abbott in 2015. Abbott declares he’s still up for a leadership bid. No-one takes seriously his pious piffle that “the era of the political assassin is over”. It simply echoes his “no sniping”.
Then again, he did explain that no promise of his was to be believed – unless you had it in writing. Pathological liar or not, deeds do speak louder than words. Abbott’s are still speaking.
Who can forget his inspiring leadership in bullying Julia Gillard, “ditch the witch” or his services to party misogyny – well before he even contrived to insult all women in Australia by appointing himself the minister for women? His legacy may still be seen today.
This week women MPs speak of a culture of bullying in the Liberal Party. Male MPs, lobbying for Dutton, enter women’s offices early and refuse to leave in an intimidating and bizarre type of sit-in, unless the MPs sign up to Dutton’s faction. Some women MPs are told they must sign or they would lose their pre-selection, they allege.
“… I’m talking about senators and ministers who were in tears because they were at the crossroads where they could not choose, especially the ones from Victoria went through a very, very rough time because they were holding a carrot … like this is your preselection — ‘hey you do this, we do that’,” Liberal senator Lucy Gichui alleges.
Gichui threatens to name names under parliamentary privilege next week. MP for Chisholm, Julia Banks says she will resign from parliament and not re-contest the next election. For her, the spill was “the last straw” and “women have suffered in silence too long.” Dutton and his henchmen disavow all knowledge. So, too do party leaders.
Scott Morrison dismisses the women’s claims. Appearing on The Project, he denies there’s a bullying issue.
“I believe there was a lot of pressure, that it was applied over a very intense period, okay? Australian politics had been “ferocious” and “tough” but he would not describe any behaviour as bullying. Problem solved. It’s all a matter of how our Humpty Dumpty PM defines a word. And power and gender politics.
“When I use a word,” Humpty Dumpty said, in rather a scornful tone, “it means just what I choose it to mean—neither more nor less.” “The question is,” said Alice, “whether you can make words mean so many different things.” “The question is,” said Humpty Dumpty, “which is to be master—that’s all.”
Morrison has another go. Votes may be lost over this. The Australian reports that he’s going to be a bully-buster.
“I have laid down the law to my cabinet. I have laid down the law to my ministry and to the parliamentary secretary ranks of my government. They know what I expect and I have every confidence they will live up to what I expect,” Morrison says.
Bully the bullies – get them to live up to “my standards”. What could possibly go wrong?
Cue the big guns. Victorian Liberal Party President and expert feminist Michael Kroger dismisses the women’s evidence, Monday on our ABC RN. There’s no bullying problem in the Liberal Party. It always helps to be dismissive in conflict resolution as in dealing with complaints but Kroger’s also patronising. The females are imagining it.
Why, if it were, true, President Kroger would be the first to do something about it.
Also in denial, is his wife, former Liberal Senator for Victoria and president of the Federal Women’s Committee, Helen Kroger. She blames the victim. Toughen up buttercup. It’s just “part of the rough and tumble of politics”.
The euphemism “robust” is abused all week. It’s now code for rude, abusive and distressing. An example will help.
Alexander Downer in July 10 2007 used The Australian, to call then Opposition Leader Kevin Rudd shallow, cynical, immodest, mealy-mouthed, duplicitous, a boy in a bubble, a foreign policy imposter and unfit to lead the nation. That’s robust. Morrison merits all of these insults and more but it’s unlikely they’d upset him either.
Craig Kelly’s language doesn’t help any attempt at denial. The women should “roll with the punches”, he says.
As for living up to his expectations, Morrison’s 45-40 victory divides the party. So, too does his apparent duplicity. Parliamentary Liberals are furious. Voters are also angry. Why and how is Morrison our new PM?
Morrison has no answer. As Paul Bongiorno reports in The Saturday Paper, ScoMo is quickly the target of a vicious “scuttle Scott” campaign from within his own party. A flood of leaks this week undermine him.
The Herald Sun Monday has his infrastructure plan, $7.6 billion that Turnbull had handy to splash in marginal electorates around election time. Tuesday he reads details of his former boss’s now not so secret $4.4 billion deal to buy off Catholic schools over the next ten years. Wednesday, The AFR, leaks details of how Turnbull planned to use $3.6 billion of the blocked corporate tax cuts to provide “accelerated relief” to small business.
The Sydney Morning Herald publishes Liberal polling, midweek, suggesting that the party not over-react to the Longman byelection. The candidate’s false medal claim and poor campaigning are more to blame.
It’s clear that Morrison has already made enemies but there’s nothing new about that.
Even Sydney Boys High School alumni- (SBHS Old Boys) has had its robust Facebook page public forum locked by moderators after former students said they were “embarrassed” to be associated with their former classmate.
“His political actions are a disgrace to humanity and his Christian hypocrisy is mind-boggling. Hardly someone to hold up as a model of what SBHS turned out.”
It’s not a new phenomenon. The Guardian reports that in 2015, 300 alumni signed an excoriating open letter when Morrison was invited to speak at a school fundraiser. SBGS Old Boys, including former supreme court judge Hal Wootten and acclaimed journalist John Pilger, criticised Morrison for “flagrantly disregarding human rights”.
Parliament resumes next week. Labor will challenge the PM’s legitimacy with the help of Liberal leaks. Given the government’s lack of a majority, Labor could move that Peter Dutton be referred to the High Court.
The Opposition may allege that Dutton’s financial interest in RHT Family Trust, which runs two childcare centres, and his failure to recuse himself from cabinet discussion of childcare funding, puts him in a position to profit and in breach of Section 44(v) of the Constitution. The centres have received government subsidies since 2 July.
Meanwhile, Dutton publicly bullies his former head of Border Force Roman Quaedvlieg, over his testimony that on at least three occasions, Dutton as Minister for Immigration, intervened in the granting of visas to au pairs. Dutton responds that his friend and former protégé is mentally unwell. Calls on his employer to arrange medical help.
It’s a form of bastardisation which leading medical experts condemn in The New Daily. Dutton, they allege, is “lowering the tone of public discourse, seeking to delegitimize another person by way of stigma, damaging years of work to improve public attitudes, and breaching his duty of care.”
But it’s up our new Prime Minister to dig deep into his own faith-healer’s medicine bag to give the nation some of that old-time religion and good, old fashioned, self-righteous judgmentalism that will get us all out of trouble.
ScoMo-locomotion grips the nation this week as Uber-Pastor Morrison and his travelling revival show make a mad dash back to Canberra after freeing our trade in Jakarta. It’s the big deal Turnbull vowed he’d conclude in 2017 but for the teensy problem that apart from a million tourists to Bali, we don’t produce much Indonesia needs.
Indonesia ranks us lowly in trade. Suharto family and ruling elite sock puppet PM Joko Widodo is blunt. “You need us more than we need you”, he says. The left has not recovered since the 1960s when the military massacred hundreds of thousands of “radicals” crushing opposition to the ruling class and suppressing democratic reform.
Do we care? Our 2017 Foreign Policy White Paper barely mentions Indonesia. Abbott and Hockey cut Australia’s foreign aid by a billion dollars in 2015. Indonesia’s aid was slashed 42% from $542.5m to $323m. But no biggie.
Enter “power-housing”, a breakthrough which lets both parties talk about “leveraging access” to third markets that neither could access on their own, a bit like ScoMo’s PM coup in which he leveraged himself off the back of Dutton’s plotters, duping everyone, at least for a week or so. Indonesia? After eight years, a one page outline.
Off like a frog in a sock on to Sydney, ScoMo’s all over soul bro, Alan Jones, where our accidental PM attacks Safe Schools’ “gender-whisperers”. Alan loves a PM who gets how schools brainwash children about sex – and gender.
“I don’t want the values of others being imposed on my children in my school and I don’t think that should be happening in a public school or a private school.”
Morrison’s clearly a big picture man, too. He exudes tolerance, insight; a profound grasp of a balanced curriculum.
“When it comes to public schools, as you know they’re run by the state governments, but how about we just have state schools that focus on things like learning maths, learning science and learning English?”
Too bad, he’s criticising “respectful relationships” an optional case study which is part of the Victorian curriculum.
But who expects our self-appointed PM to know what he’s talking about? He comes up trumps when the parrot mentions unions. Scott’s into John Setka and his kids using an obscenity to mock the obscenity that is the ABCC, head, whose predecessor Nigel Hadgkiss, despite a salary of $426,421 per year, broke the Fair Work Act.
“You know, when you see children being used in these sorts of protests, and we saw it in some of those horrific things in relation to the protests around terrorism, this kind of stuff just makes your skin crawl,” says Morrison.
It’s the type of incoherent babble Trump deals in but ScoMo passes The Parrot’s on air values test, well before his Thursday pilgrimage to Albury, NSW, birthplace of The Liberal Party in 1944 for a sermon on the Murray.
And to pray for rain. “Voters should love all Australians” he preaches. But especially himself.
“I’ve come to talk to you today about what’s in here,” says Morrison, pointing to the black rock of his heart. It’s a set-piece for your average high-functioning sociopath. In Albury, it’s also an excuse for fluff. How he loves Australia. How he and Jenny know all about ritual and how this connects them with Aboriginal peoples.
His homily, entitled “until the bell rings”, in subtle homage to Menzies, (not Pavlov) is over-praised by Katharine Murphy and Gareth Hutchens in The Guardian as “trialling a new anecdotal approach to political communication”.
No. It’s story-telling. His colleagues’ body language is wary but few appear asleep.
As for Menzies, he was just as much of a hypocritical blowhard, who built the Liberal Party out of eighteen different political parties and groups who were united only in the determination to defeat the Labor Party.
“No party seizes the imagination of the people unless the people know the party stands for certain things. And we’ll fight for those things until the bell rings.” RG Menzies
No-one does vacuous platitudes like Morrison. Billed by our ABC 24, breathlessly as “a major speech by the PM”, Morrison’s sermon on the Murray is a cliché-ridden homily full of banalities about a fair go and having a go. But even at the end of it, exhausted listeners still don’t have a clue what the man or his government stand for.
“I don’t believe that for you to do better, that [others] have to do worse. I don’t think you need to be taxed more for [others] to be taxed less,” he says. It’s a mantra you could chant at any flat tax magic pudding Tea Party.
“I don’t think that, for someone to get ahead in life, you’ve got to pull others down. I believe that we should be trying to lift everybody up at once, that we get away from this politics of envy.”
As he’s just amply demonstrated with his knifing of his former Prime Minister.
Like the notoriously treacherous reaches of the Murray itself, however, there are dangerous undercurrents and snares as he evokes a society of lifters and leaners. ScoMo is doubtless inspired by Menzies’ gold standard:
“The great vice of democracy … is that for a generation we have been busy getting ourselves on to the list of beneficiaries and removing ourselves from the list of contributors, as if … there was somebody else’s wealth and somebody else’s effort on which we could thrive.”
The “love” Morrison preaches is far from inclusive, humane or enlightened. Instead it seeks to exclude the poor and disadvantaged; divide our nation into worthy and unworthy according to our need for welfare.
Social contract fixed, ScoMo scoots off to the arse end of the Frankston line, Morrison’s venue of choice to meet Melbourne media for the first time since he deposed Malcolm Turnbull and stitched up Peter Dutton.
“Congestion-busting” is his mission, ScoMo tells reporters at Leawarra station. It’s also Alan Tudge’s new portfolio, but Morrison’s a man of vision; he’s also on a mission. There are prejudices to massage; policy to be made on the run; climate change denialists to reassure. As Giles Parkinson notes, there are huge concerns here.
This week, Australia tries to water down the language of the Pacific Islands Forum declaration on climate change. In Bangkok it sides with the Trump administration and Japan in attempting to weaken climate finance obligations in a move Parkinson says “that has horrified some observers.”
The NEG is dead, because, he lies, we’ll meet our (inadequate) Paris commitments at a canter. Bugger climate change. Or the environment. In reality, it’s a sop to the right wing, a tactic which is eerily familiar of his predecessor.
Morrison’s lack of interest in climate change is matched only by his profound ignorance. He tells new energy minister Angus Taylor, a wind energy hater and a climate change sceptic, despite his protestations, to focus only on “bringing down prices”. Ensure the nation retains as much “fair dinkum” coal in the system as it can.
What could possibly go wrong? OK. The rest of the world won’t continue to trade with us if we can’t show we’re serious about curbing emissions – and we’re coming under increasing international scrutiny. Pray for clean coal.
Morrison’s next choice is even more alarming. New environment minister Melissa Price, a former mining company lawyer is responsible for emissions. She’s spruiking new coal-fired generators?
We’ve scuttled back into Abbott’s foetal position on energy and environment. It’s all too hard, not settled and besides those coal companies give your party such wonderfully generous political donations, don’t they? Great talking points, too.
Energy and environment fixed, midweek, ScoMo appears on Seven to backflip on his promise to make us work until we’re seventy, a “reform” he once swore was vital to protect the national economy going bust from funding elderly work-shy bludgers.
When you’ve just knifed your PM and put down your colleagues as “a Muppet Show” which somehow you are not part of, a few running adjustments help you keep yourself nice. Even micro-popularity needs a boost.
“I was going to say this next week but I may as well say it here … I’ve already consulted my colleagues on that. And next week, cabinet will be ratifying a decision to reverse taking the [pension] age to 70. It will remain at 67 …”
Announce publicly first, obtain consensus later. ScoMo’s has rule by cabinet consensus all under control.
His vision of an Australia, girt by xenophobic seizures, a federation of homophobia and paranoia that ends at the parish pump and his gospel of self-help or as he puts it “having a go” are not to be hidden under a bushel. His frantic, manic pace and his parochial vision are guaranteed to make us relaxed and comfortable
By Friday, the ScoMo show and its all-star cast including Jenny and the kids, gets rave reviews in ScoMo’s promos; his office’s dumps to favoured news outlets. But it’s not without sacrifice. He’s had to turn down a leadership role in the Pacific Islands Forum on Nauru to hang with his Sydney talkback radio pals on 2GB and 3AW, shock jocks Alan Jones and Raving Ray Hadley. And he’s had to cram for his sermon on the Murray and the Frankston whistle-stop. Especially Frankston. It’s a huge performance.
Up front is bantam opposition leader, a former Baillieu government’s bodgie planning minister and mobster’s mate, natty Matthew Guy, while Scott Morrison is a knockout as a not so daft as daggy, demented father figure spitting Chips Rafferty fair dinkums and other stuff he just makes up like “Tulla”, which like the word “mate” he repeats.
Endlessly, Mate. Is he auditioning to be the host of ABC’s Macca All Over? Morrison loves the show and has already won Annabel Crab’s admiration for record number of mate in a sentence, mate. Spare us the faux, folksy bonhomie, you monster.
Tulla turns out to be a reprise of Turnbull’s promise to build a railway from Melbourne to Tullamarine Airport, a project certain to appeal to every Frankston voter. Is that Dunkley’s, too cool for school, Chris Crewther over there? Or is it some Year 12 student from Flinders Christian College dressed up in a suit for work experience week?
Fresh from his sermon on the Murray where he tells astonished multitudes that all you need is love, Rev Morrison segues effortlessly into fixing “decongestion”, his government’s patent medicine for curing Victoria’s public transport ills by electrifying the eight kilometres of the Stony Point track which runs between Frankston and Baxter. It’s also used by diesel trains to Bluescope Steel at the Port of Hastings. Sheer genius.
It’s the same exciting new announcement Malcolm Turnbull made six weeks ago when he was still allowed to be Prime Minister. Fair go? It’s been a Frankston Council project since 2012 but in 2016, the Turnbull government committed an incredible $4 million dollars. Now motormouth Morrison’s having a go, mate.
A woman journalist spots the similarity between the Pastor’s spiel and Turnbull’s. She asks, quite reasonably, if ScoMo plans to re-announce all of Turnbull’s projects. Will she now ask if he’s stolen not only Malcolm’s job but all his talking points?
You can tell by the way he overdoes his head-nodding that Morrison takes an instant dislike to her.
“It’s a great opportunity to affirm the continuity of the commitment, here,” the new PM says.
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The Lake Tahoe Basin was formed by geologic block (normal) faulting. A geologic block fault is a fracture in the Earth's crust causing blocks of land to move up or down. Uplifted blocks created the Carson Range on the east and the Sierra Nevada on the west. Down-dropped blocks created the Lake Tahoe Basin in between. Some of the highest peaks of the Lake Tahoe Basin that formed during this process were Freel Peak at 10,891 ft (3,320 m), Monument Peak at 10,067 ft (3,068 m) (the present Heavenly Valley Ski Area), Pyramid Peak at 9,983 ft (3,043 m) (in the Desolation Wilderness), and Mt. Tallac at 9,735 ft (2,967 m). Evolutionary theory believes this formation occurred between 2 and 3 million years ago. The Creationist model contends this happened during the flood.
Snow, rain, and streams filled the southern and lowest part of the basin, forming the ancestral Lake Tahoe. Modern Lake Tahoe was shaped and landscaped by the scouring glaciers during the Ice Age. Many streams flow into Lake Tahoe, but the lake is drained only by the Truckee River, which flows northeast through Reno and into Pyramid Lake in Nevada.
Lake Tahoe is the second deepest lake in the United States and the tenth deepest in the world, with a maximum depth measured at 1,645 ft (501 m), average depth of 1,000 ft (305 m). Crater Lake in Oregon is the deepest lake (1,949 ft or 594 m) in the United States. Please Note that the depth of Lake Tahoe changes every day as the lake level changes. The deepest measurement from the 1998 bathymetric survey was 1,637 ft (499 m) deep. The depth of Lake Tahoe depends on the height it is measured from; some measurements use sea level as a base reference, others use different points of reference. The appropriate reference, or datum, for Lake Tahoe's depth is still being debated. Therefore, the measured depth of a lake is only preliminary data and may change.
Lake Tahoe is about 22 mi (35 km) long and l2 mi (19 km) wide and has 72 mi (116 km) of shoreline and a surface area of 191 mi2 (495 km2). The floor of the Lake Tahoe Basin is at an elevation of about 4,580 ft (1,396 m), which is lower than the surface of the Carson Valley to the east! With an average surface elevation of 6,225 ft (1,897 m) above sea level, Lake Tahoe is the highest lake of its size in the United States.
The water temperature near the surface generally cools to 40 to 50 °F (4.5 to 10 °C) during February and March and warms to 65 to 70 °F (18 to 21 °C) during August and September. Below a depth of 600 to 700 ft (183 to 213 m), the water temperature remains a constant 39 °F (4.0 °C).
Lake Tahoe has a water clarity of about 100 ft (30 m) deep. Factors contributing to its clarity include the following:
40 percent of the precipitation that falls into the Lake Tahoe Basin lands directly on the lake. Remaining precipitation drains through granitic soils, which are relatively sterile and create a good filtering system.
Approximately 85% of the land surrounding Lake Tahoe is protected from development as Nevada or California State land or land under the jurisdiction of the United States National Forest Service. The largest communities at Lake Tahoe are South Lake Tahoe, CA /Stateline Nevada, Tahoe City, CA and Incline Village, NV.
The above scientific Information on this page was gathered from the Stream and Ground-Water Monitoring Program, Lake Tahoe Basin, Nevada and California (pdf format) fact sheet, also available on the web at http://water.usgs.gov/pubs/FS/FS-100-97/.
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MISSOULA – In honor of Food Day, a nationwide celebration and movement for healthy, affordable and sustainable food on Oct. 24, University of Montana President Royce Engstrom will sign the Real Food Campus Commitment on behalf of the University. By signing the RFCC, colleges and universities pledge to buy at least 20 percent “real food” annually by 2020.
The commitment is designed and administered by the national organization, The Real Food Challenge. It aims to support a healthy food system that is “community-based, ecologically sound, fair and humane.” The pledge specifically details the types of purchases that fall into a “real food” category, including food that is locally produced within 150-250 miles of campus, and food items such as cage-free eggs, grass-fed beef and organic produce.
The RFCC directs the University to establish a Food Systems Working Group that consists of students, staff and faculty who are responsible for developing and coordinating the implementation of a “real-food” policy and multiyear action plan that will guide the University toward increased purchases of “real food.” This initiative will augment and complement the ongoing efforts of UM’s Farm to College Program, which has been purchasing local foods for UM during the past decade.
UM Dining will host a local-food Farm Stand from 10:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. on Friday, Oct. 25, in the Corner Store to celebrate local foods and the signing of the commitment. ASUM President Asa Hohman, UM Dining Director Mark LoParco and UM Dining Director of Sustainability and Food Procurement Ian Finch will add their signatures to the commitment at noon during the same event.
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After our delicious Thanksgiving feast, we continued putting the lights on the house. I did around the front windows, the door and the garage doors. I went out one of the upstairs windows onto the roof and got yelled at by the kids and they told on me...so JC came out and made me get down. ARGH!!!!
Needless to say, he got out the ladder and put the lights on the downstairs trim. Somehow I'm gonna get lights on the top portion of the house too. Just gotta figure out a plan!!!
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Zonda managing principal Kimberly Byrum says she is seeing the best apartment market fundamentals in her 30-plus-year career in the multifamily industry.
“We think it’s smooth sailing for the next couple of years,” she says. “We don’t see any changes other than we probably need more product to meet the demand.”
Byrum outlined the latest multifamily market fundamentals and trends from the COVID-19 pandemic in a recent webinar for Zonda, Multifamily Executive’s parent company.
For supply and demand conditions, traditionally the industry had been running around the pace of 300,000 units absorbed and built on an annual year-over-year basis looking back to 2016, according to Byrum. The absorption figures dropped in the second and third quarters of 2020 when things came to a standstill due to the pandemic, but beginning in the second quarter of 2021, the industry has seen a jump. Year over year, she notes the industry is sitting at 600,000 units absorbed as of the third quarter.
For multifamily deliveries going forward, Byrum predicts they will hit around 270,000 units this year, just under the 300,000 watermark that has typically been seen.
“We have seen about a three-month slippage in deliveries based on municipalities not being available and the catchup as it relates to the lockdowns,” she says. For 2022, she is forecasting around 300,000 deliveries and a little over that figure for 2023.
Occupancies are at an all-time high, reaching 97% at the national level—above the 95% mark pre-pandemic. In addition, third quarter renewal rates are exceeding the 52% benchmark in almost all markets.
Byrum also notes that Texas markets like Houston, Dallas, and Austin; Charlotte, North Carolina; Denver; Nashville, Tennessee; and San Diego have been some of the markets that have benefited the most from the pandemic’s migration trends.
Other highlights from Byrum’s webinar include:
- The REITs are returning to the Sun Belt states. A lot of the migration already had been happening, but the pandemic certainly accelerated that. Byrum says lower regulatory risks and favorable business environments are most appealing about these locales; however, the supply growth is always a risk.
- Several larger developers, such as Trammell Crow Residential, LMC, Alliance Residential, Kennedy Wilson, and AvalonBay Communities, have created brands to focus on middle-market attainable housing. Byrum says this new product is typically garden-style communities located in suburbs or tertiary markets. Design is usually simplified, with two to three floor plans, basic amenities, or sometimes no services. The target aims to be 15% to 20% lower than market-rate.
- Single-family rentals, or horizontal apartments, continue to maintain the pricing edge. Byrum says one new trend she is seeing is an increase in project sizes from the 150- to 170-home range to 250 to 300 homes planned in newer projects. “We’re also seeing people integrate duplex and townhome designs into the product, and as the luxury multifamily builders get into this business, which they are, we are also starting to see some larger unit sizes,” she says. “Amenities are important, especially when you are competing with the multifamily sector. It’s a matter of land since you want to maximize your density. You are asking $500 more than a multifamily community so you need to have some competitive amenities, such as a fitness center and a pool.”
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Researchers in Finland are saying type 2 diabetes is programmed in utero and that the increased risk for type 2 diabetes associated with small size at birth is further increased by high growth rates after seven years of age.
Tom Forsen, MD, and colleagues at the National Public Health Institute in Helsinki, Finland, studied 3,639 men and 3,447 women born at the Helsinki University Central Hospital between 1924 and 1933. The patients went to school in Helsinki and still lived in Finland in 1971. Detailed birth and school health records were available for all 7,086 participants, and the results were published in the August 1 issue of Annals of Internal Medicine.
Forsen says the incidence of type 2 diabetes increased with decreasing birth weight, birth length and placental weight.
“Men and women who had low birth weight as a result of slow fetal growth have increased rates of type 2 diabetes and the metabolic syndrome,” wrote Forsen. “This finding has led to the hypothesis that diabetes is one of a group of related disorders, including coronary heart disease and hypertension, that originate through adaptations that occur when the fetus is undernourished.
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Continuing with of my previous blogs on BusinessObjects File repository servers here is another one for Managing File Repository servers. Below are some of the best practices for managing File repository servers.
A. Setting Instance limits at various folder levels based on the Business requirement
It is always recommended to maintain only instances that are required in the system at any point of time. Managing reports that are no longer required by the business will take unnecessary disk space in Output file repository. This is the place where Instance management is come in to picture where you can limit instances based following criteria
- Number of Instances
- Age of Instance
- Instance limit for Users/Groups
To understand more about the Instance management planning you can refer here BusinessObjects Instance Management
B. Control the report storage in Users personal folders.
- Personal folders
Controlling document storage with in User’s personal folder has also equally important compared to that of instance management. Replication of same report in multiple places will again create the report duplication in turn the space utilization in Input File store. To avoid this we should have a firm security in place so that only the authorized users can create/copy the reports that too only in their personal folders with their report level personalisation.
Managing reports inside User’s inbox is also a cumbersome task for the administrator as there are no utility/feature/Security rights to limit the number of objects for user’s Inbox. It is the responsibility of the administrator to manually monitor user’s Inbox volume on periodic basis and notify the user for deletion. There are some SDK utilities using which Administrators can limit User’s inbox documents though there is no out-of –box solution.
C. Use of Repository Diagnostic Tool to minimize the CMS Database and File store synchronization issues
In most of the BusinessObjects deployments there could be a possibility for a discrepancy between File repository store and the CMS database. This could be due to CMS server crashes and Input/output FRS crash. As a result the report that is available in file store might miss its corresponding entry in CMS database and the related entry CMS database could miss its counterpart in File repository store.
Repository Diagnostic Tool will be handy to identify and resolve inconsistencies between CMS database and the File repository. Refer the below wiki page to understand more about RDT. http://wiki.sdn.sap.com/wiki/display/BOBJ/How+to+use+Repository+Diagnostic+Tool
Hope you find this interesting.
File Repository Servers Management – Blogs
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“Eufloria” is an ambient game of space exploration and conquest that employs surprising themes of plant growth and bio mechanical evolution. The game allows the player to explore a beautifully realized universe rendered in a style that is both unique and compelling. “Eufloria”’s aesthetics are reminiscent of children’s books like “the little prince” and the gameplay is supported by an original ambient soundtrack by Brian Grainger.
Alex May is respect programmer with over 7 years of industry experience. He has been involved with a number of very well known licenses including Buzz and Avatar the last Airbender and is very active as an independent developer working on innovative and high quality titles.
Rudolf is a game design veteran who has worked on a plethora of games ranging from small and fun titles for handheld systems to multi-million selling games and franchises on consoles and pc. His professional experience includes work on original new IP as well as famous established brands like Harry Potter, Championship Manager and Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy.
Brian Grainger is a multitalented and prolific musician and audio specialist whose output is enormous and of high quality. He released over 50 albums, remixed for many people and runs his own record company. Brian is an avid computer and console gamer, and hopes to continue audio design and soundtrack work within the gaming industry.
FILE PAI 2011
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An RPG puzzle game set in a town whose population gets killed off one by one each night by a mysterious Beast. You, as the Stranger, must delve into the Beast’s cave to solve the mystery.
Purchase(May be affiliated)
Release DateJune 15, 2017
RatingNR - Not Rated
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Romney and Obama comments show need for intelligent discussion about government
Updated: September 28, 2012 at 1:10 pm
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The two major presidential candidates have both set off political firestorms in recent weeks with controversial comments about the nature of the relationship between Americans and their government. First, President Barack Obama attracted a fusillade of attacks for his ill-advised use of the phrase “you didn’t build that.” Now, more recently, Governor Mitt Romney has become a bug on the nation’s political windshield because of his remarkable assertion that 47 percent of Americans are “dependent” on the government and think of themselves as “victims.”
Romney’s comments were not actually new or surprising to anyone who pays attention to the modern American conservative movement. Inhabitants of “free market” think tanks, radio talk show hosts and many other conservative politicians have been making the same argument for years. Their central claim: that a large proportion of Americans have “no skin in the game” because they don’t pay federal income taxes and that public “entitlements” are “out-of-control.”
A look at the facts, however, demonstrates that such contentions are, even when viewed through the most generous lens, plainly inaccurate.
A new report from the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities makes clear that virtually all Americans — even the very poor — pay significant chunks of their income in federal taxes, including payroll taxes and excise taxes on gasoline and other items.
Moreover, when state and local taxes are included, the poor often pay a higher percentage of their income than the wealthy. In North Carolina, the richest one percent of taxpayers pays a significantly lower share of their income in state and local taxes than do taxpayers at the middle and the bottom.
The Center has also debunked common mythology about “entitlement” spending. This 2007 report showed that, aside from the “big three” programs of Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid, so-called entitlement spending was and is taking a declining share of the gross domestic product.
So, given these hard data, how do we make sense of the demonstrably false claim that a huge proportion of Americans are, in effect, freeloaders? What lies behind it and how can we address it in a positive way so that the rancor and divisions it helps breed can be eased?
A look at the recent political rhubarb surrounding President Obama’s controversial “you didn’t build that” comment might actually help. Though the President’s comments have clearly been taken out of context by his political opponents, it’s true that his choice of words was poor and that it touched a nerve in millions of people whose nerves were already close to the surface.
Whether we like it or not, a large proportion of the American public has come to subscribe to a new and rather radical vision of the country in which: a) all private business owners are beleaguered heroes, b) their own government is the enemy (or at least a competitor), and c) in a rather massive bit of irony, that they are victims.
The origins of this attitude are clearly complex. Fears brought about by rapid economic and demographic change combined with incessant propaganda from the Fox Newses and Rush Limbaughs of the world clearly play a big role. Still, it must be noted that pundits and politicians of both parties have played “government is bad” card for decades. Moreover, there can be no doubt that many of our governmental structures and systems — like all large public and private structures — are bureaucratic and flawed.
Sadly, in the modern hyper-consumerist American society, too much of the citizenry has come to relate to government as it relates to a big box store — not as citizens and stakeholders, but as consumers whose goal is to get the most for him or herself at the cheapest possible price. Though understandable, this is a dangerous perversion of our system.
The American government was not designed to be “run like a business.” It was designed to be a unique and very public institution in which Americans come together collectively to accomplish great things that no individual or corporation could ever accomplish alone.
What is needed right now in the United States, perhaps more than just about anything else, is a revival of this public spirited attitude; a renewal of the once prevalent belief that public systems and structures are not “theirs” but “ours” — ours to co-own, to build and to share.
Founding father Ben Franklin once uttered the wry and now famous observation at the outset of the American experiment that “We must, indeed, all hang together, or most assuredly we shall all hang separately.” In 2012, Americans and their leaders would do well to remember and revive this truism — both with respect to the way they think about their fellow citizens and their government. : :
— Rob Schofield is the Director of Research and Policy Development at N.C. Policy Watch (ncpolicywatch.com).
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The pumphoats are probably the most common Filipino canoe. They have many uses. They are used for fishng, hauling supples and ferrying folks from the mainland to the many small inhabited islands that ring the larger islands here. They range in size from 16 feet or so to well over 35 feet in length. They are powered by waterpump engines. Larger versions of the same motors that are used on lawn mowers in the US. Brigs & Straton seems to be the most popular brand but Honda, Kawasaki and a few local brands are also used. They range in size from about 5hp to 16hp. Some pumpboats have special plaining hulls made of 3/4 inch ply and are used with 16hp motors specialy rebuilt for racing. They are quite fast. Construction is ply over frame fastned with copper nails and epoxy. Typical of all canoe construction here. Most pumpboats are too big to be a dugout but you will see an occasional dugout canoe with a smaller motor. As I said before there is a lot of overlap with the different types of Filipino canoes.
More info at bottom of page.
I will cover the constructin in more detail in the section about my boat. Some of the pictures here will show a little detail of the layout and building methods used. Most of the boats pictured here are in the Sindangan area and a few are from Galas near Dipolog City. Some use bamboo for the cross beams and some use steel pipe. If you look closely you can tell which is which. Next trip to Bohol I will get some pictures of the larger pumpboats. Those shown here only range up to about 25 feet or so.
Nice 20 footer from Galas
Slightly different view of boat on left
I This one is about 23 feet long.
Also from the Galas area
Detail of lashings
Interior with net and paddle
16hp Brigs & Straton engine
LIned up on the Baybay
Tilted Picture so ocean won't run out to right
Nice and new. Won't stay this way long
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Fault tolerance is in the center of distributed system design that covers various methodologies. This research paper aims to investigate different types and techniques of fault tolerance which are being used in many real time distributed systems. The fault can be detected and recovered by many techniques. Moreover, an appropriate fault detector can avoid loss due to system crash or any kind of failure in system. This paper provides a framework for detecting fault in real time system which is supposed to be handled and processed further by the help of coordinator.
Keywords: Fault Tolerance, Fault Detection, Real Time Distributed System, Processor faults, Coordinator, Actuators
When multiple instances of an application are running on several machines and one of the server goes down, there is a need to implement an autonomic fault tolerance technique that can handle these types of faults. Distributed Computing Systems consists of variety of hardware and software components. Failure of any of these components can lead to unpredicted behavior of system which results in failure to guarantee availability and reliability of critical services . A failure occurs when a hardware component is broken and needs replacement or a node/processor is halted or forced to reboot; or software has failed to complete its run. Fault tolerance is the property of a system, where system tends to work even in case of fault present in system.
When a fault present in real time distributed system is not detected and recovered properly on time then it results into failure of system. A task running on real time distributed system should be feasible, reliable and scalable, real time distributed systems like nuclear systems, robotics, air traffic control systems, grid etc. are highly dependable on deadline. Fault present in system can be detected by applying reliable fault detector followed by some recovery technique. These systems must function with high availability even under software and hardware faults. Hardware fault-tolerance is achieved through applying extra hardware like processors, communication links, resource (memory, I/O device) whereas in software fault tolerance tasks, messages are added into the system to deal with faults. The main aim of fault tolerant distributed computing is to provide proper solutions to these system faults upon their occurrence and make the system more dependable by increasing its reliability.
Real-time computer controller is typically provided with sensors which will provide readings at periodic intervals and the computer must respond by sending signals to actuators. There may be unexpected or irregular events and these must also receive a response. In all cases, there will be a time-bound within which the response should be delivered. The ability of the computer to meet these demands depends on its capacity to perform the necessary computations in the given time. The paper is organized as follow: Basic Concepts and Types of Fault is described in section 4 as background along with behavior of failure systems, related works is described in section 5, The proposed model or framework of fault tolerance in section 6, methodologies of framework is described in section 7 and finally we conclude with conclusion and future works in section 8.
Basically system to be fault tolerant is much more similar with concept of dependable system, and any system to be dependable it must be available, reliable and secure. Following are few terminologies that are very closely related to dependability of system and its behavior. Fault can be termed as defect at the lowest level of abstraction and there can be different failure in a system they can be of following types .
Processor faults (Node Faults): Processor faults occur when the processor behaves in an unexpected manner.
It can be classified into three types:
a) Fail-Stop: Here a processor can both be active and
participate in distribute protocols or is totally failed and will
never respond. In this case the neighboring processors can
detect the failed processor.
b) Slowdown: Here a processor might run in degraded
fashion or might totally fail.
c) Byzantine: Here a processor can fail, run in degraded
fashion for some time or execute at normal speed but tries to
fail the computation.
Network fault: A Fault occur in a network due to network
partition, Packet Loss, Packet corruption, destination failure, link
Physical faults: This Fault can occur in hardware like fault in
CPUs, Fault in memory, Fault in storage, etc.
Media faults: Fault occurs due to media head crashes.
The occurrence of fault in a system cannot be predicted and
even small changes or failure in system can lead to tremendous
effect. So, in order to make processing of transaction more reliable
for achieving better outcome of result even in presence of fault,
need of fault tolerance is essential which can avoid faulty system.
There are some important methods for tolerating fault in
various systems given by many authors in their research. According
to Alain Girault et al. the Algorithm Architecture Adequation
(AAA) method will generate a static code automatically for real
time distributed embedded system. This method basically used for
processor failure with fail stop behavior. Luo et al. mention that
TERCOS and DEBUS are the best approaches used to exploiting
redundancies in Fault-Tolerant and Real-Time Distributed Systems.
Girault et al.mention that processor and communication link
failure can be tolerated by using offline scheduling technique and
generate a fault tolerate distributed schedule. Job scheduling is
one of the method in grid computing for scheduling a task. The
fault can be occur in loosely coupled job scheduling with job
replication scheme such that jobs are efficiently and reliably
executed can be tolerated . In programming asynchronous
multiprocessing systems, the customary approach has been to
make process synchronization independent of the execution rates
of any components which means that synchronous algorithm
is required in which one process must wait for another to do
something before it processed ahead. These time- independent
algorithms cannot be fault-tolerant because a process could fail
by doing nothing, and such a failure manifests itself only as a
reduction of the process’s execution rate . Leslie Lamporthas
made an additional assumption that the clock are synchronized to
keep approximately the same absolute time in order to show how
they can be used in solving the synchronization problems that
occurs in distributed systems and use of clock allows elimination
of acknowledgement message. If distributed system is really single
system, then the processes must be synchronized in same way.
Conceptually, the most easiest way to synchronize any process is
just to get them to do the same work at same time. In this paper
also they have implemented a kernal that performs a necessary
synchronization i.e. making sure that two different process do not
try to modify file at same time(Figure 1).
Fault detector is used to detect fault in a system and it runs
on each node in the user space. Fault Detector monitors all the
systems where system activities are classified into two of classes:
a) Normal type and
b) Anomalies type
Here system detector checks whether the activities are of
normal type or is of anomalies type. If the activity happens to be
of anomalies type then the Fault Detector sets an Alarm and next
step is handled by coordinator.
After detection of fault in a system, it is coordinator which is
responsible to carry out the further tasks. Once the fault is detected
in a system, coordinator gets the alarm from fault detector and
after getting those alarm, the coordinator must be able to take
corrective action within certain period of time. Finally, all records
are supposed to be recorded in the fault log table[9,10].
Monitoring task is performed by fault detector where task of
fault detector is to take input from systems. Once input is set in a
system then fault detector detects whether there is any types of
fault present or not. If fault is found then the system send those
occurrence of fault to the coordinator where corrective task is
supposed to be performed by coordinator, but if there is not any
types of fault present in system then further task is supposed to be
carried out by system.
This process is activated as soon as there is presence of fault
in a system. After detecting any sorts of fault in a system, the
coordinator gets alarm from the system once fault is detected.
After that coordinator isresponsible for handling those fault. For
handling the fault, the coordinator searches for the new node with
sufficient resources. It then requests that node to perform the task
and halts the process running is the fault node.
Fault tolerance has been an important issue from the
beginning of the phase. Several researches have been carried out
for solving this issue. Still it is a prominent issue in this area. This
paper deals with existing approaches to solve the problem of fault
tolerance. To address this issue, a framework has been designed
with its working mechanism. Furthermore, this model requires
to be validated which can be performed by using the simulation
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Topic: Kritempis livida
Hi Chris, I'll defer to your dipteristic-knowledge, but does Kritempis livida need adding as a synonym of Empis livida? I.e. has the subgenus been raised (or sunk at some point)? I can't find any literature sources, but the name Kritempis livida does seem to be used round and about.
Greater Lincolnshire Nature Partnership
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By Scott Halasz [email protected]
February 19, 2014
COLUMBUS — A pair of Greene County residents head the list of candidates who qualified to run for statewide offices in the May 6 primary.
On the list released by Secretary of State John Husted on Monday were Sharen Swartz Neuhardt of Yellow Springs and current Attorney General Mike DeWine of Cedarville. Neuhardt, 62, is on the ballot with Democratic gubernatorial candidate Edward FitzGerald. Republican DeWine, 67, is seeking a second term as attorney general. He previously has served as Lt. Governor, Ohio and U.S. Senator and in the U.S. House dating back to the early 1980’s.
A total of 21 candidates were certified while four who submitted petitions did not make the cut. Among those who were not certified was Fairborn resident Aaron Keith Harris, who submitted petitions to run for Secretary of State for the Libertarian party.
Others certified to run for governor and lieutenant governor were Larry Ealy and Ken Gray, Democrat; Charles R. Earl and Sherry L. Clark, Libertarian; and incumbents John Kasich and Mary Taylor, Republican.
Certified to run for auditor in addition to DeWine were David Pepper, Democrat; and Steven R. Linnabary, Libertarian.
Certified for the auditor of state race were incumbent Dave Yost, Republican; and John Patrick Carney, Democrat.
Husted, a Republican, will appear on the ballot with Nina Turner, Democrat.
For treasurer of state, incumbent Josh Mandel, Republican; and Connie Pillich were certified.
Four were certified to run for two supreme court justice seats. For a full term commencing Jan. 1, 2015, incumbent Sharon L. Kennedy, Republican; and Tom Letson, Democrat will appear on the ballot. For a full term commencing Jan. 2, 2015, incumbent Judi French, Republican; and John P. O’Donnell, Democrat, will appear on the ballot.
To have qualified for the ballot, major party candidates must have collected 1,000 valid signatures and minor candidates must have collected 500 valid signatures.
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Discover the cosmos! Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer.
2005 April 26
Explanation: What goes there across the plains of Mars? A dust devil. For the first time, definitive movies of the famous spinning dust towers have been created from ground level. The robot rover Spirit has now imaged several dust devils from its hillside perch just within the past two months. Each image in the above sequence was taken about 20 seconds apart. Inspection of the digitally resized images show the passing dust devil raising Martian dust so thick that it casts a shadow. The new dust devil movies have been made possible by a new hybrid interaction system where the robot Spirit on Mars takes many images and humans on Earth inspect thumbnails and decide which full resolution images to send back.
Authors & editors:
NASA Web Site Statements, Warnings, and Disclaimers
NASA Official: Jay Norris. Specific rights apply.
A service of: EUD at NASA / GSFC
& Michigan Tech. U.
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You've probably heard about autonomous cars by now - but what about a self-driving garden? University College London’s (UCL) Interactive Architecture Lab designed and built a nomadic, self-driving, and self-cultivating garden that they’ve named Hortum machina, B (the ‘B’ is short for Buckminster ‘Bucky’ Fuller). Encased in a large geodesic sphere, the modular garden is wrapped around a robotic aluminum core that monitors the plants’ responses to the environment and is able to propel the structure towards sunlight to best satisfy the garden’s needs.
J. R. R. Tolkien’s Ents, a race of anthropomorphic tree creatures, belong to the fantasy world, but the moving and autonomous Hortum machina, B is rooted firmly in reality. Designed by UCL students William Victor Camilleri and Danilo Sampaio under the supervision of the Interactive Architecture Lab’s director Ruairi Glynn, Hortum machina, B draws inspiration from Buckminster Fuller’s landmark book ‘Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth’ and his geodesic domes. The mobile ecosystem uses a network of electrodes to monitor the garden’s physiological responses to the environment and then, using this data, propels the sphere into motion. For example, if the plants at the bottom of the sphere lack direct light, the individual panels begin to shift until those plants are sufficiently lit. The robotic core can also move the sphere to a new location if the garden requires shade or if air pollution levels are unhealthy.
“With all the discussion of ‘“smart-buildings’” and ‘“smart-cities’” focused on human needs, and the arrival of driverless cars, drones and many other forms of intelligent robotics starting to co-habit our built environment, Hortum machina, B is a speculation upon new opportunities for bio-cooperative interaction between nature, technology and people, within the city landscape,” write the designers. “A growing body of research has revealed electrochemical mechanisms in plants analogous to those found in the animal nervous system. By networking and amplifying plant electrophysiology, [we] believe it opens the doors to giving nature a say in how we design and manage cities better in the future.”
Hortum machina, B was tested in London. All plants in the garden are native to Greater London and the machine is powered by an attached solar panel. The unit also has built-in water storage. The experimental project was seen as a way to expand the reach of London’s green space to new terrain.
Images via Hortum machina, B
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I stumbled upon “Pasar Karat” – a direct translation from Bahasa Malayu is “Rusty Market” while on my photo walk around Chinatown – Kuala Lumpur. In the 80’s the market was also referred to as the “Market of Thieves” apparently due to the questionable source of the goods for sale.
Pasar Karat is on the fringe of Petaling Street and starts at 5 am and stall owners are around to 10 am and I understand that Sunday is the busiest day with all the vendors turning out with their wares. Some of the old timers have been hawking for 20 – 30 years.
I spent Christmas in Luang Prabang Laos, a peaceful holiday away from the bustling metropolis of Kuala Lumpur – Malaysia.
Luang Prabang’s climate is different from Kuala Lumpur’s, it is much cooler in the mornings and evenings.
From my research for the holiday I was aware of this, but unfortunately my packing lent on the side of summer ensembles. Due to low cloud hanging in the valley the sun often didn’t appear until about 11 am and its enveloping warmth feels like a visit from a dear friend. My packing choices meant I wore the same jeans, puffer jacket and long sleeve shirt twice daily for ten days. Once home, I swore never to wear these items of clothing again, and stored them deep in the recesses of my wardrobe.
Featured here is a selection of my favourite photographs of the Ma Song – Spirit Horses from the Vegetarian Festival in Phuket. I’ve reproduced them in black and white which is my preferred medium. To understand the history of the festival and its ritual practices please visit an older post documenting the Festival in Phuket – Thailand
Ipoh was on my list of must visits while living in Kuala Lumpur. Ipoh is the capital of Malaysia’s Perak state and travel by electric train from KL Sentral is approximately 90 minutes. Ideally, we wanted to stay somewhere within walking distance of the Old Town with an agenda to escape the city buzz and relax walking around the Old Town, experience great food, and visit the cave temples.
The boutique hotel Sarang Paloh, only a short walk of 600 metres from the train station sounded perfect. Sarang Paloh is a heritage stay in the Oversea Building and the Yick Woh building. The art deco façade is beautifully restored along with the interior which is decorated with antiques and preloved old furniture. The restoration is of a high standard and materials as close to the original have been used. The staff are knowledgeable about Ipoh and very helpful. I loved my stay in at Sarang Paloh.
During a tour of the streets of Pasar Seni on a street photography mission by chance, rather than good planning I arrived at the Sri Maha Mariamman Temple. One of Kuala Lumpur’s most popular temples.
As the temple is a holy place, I removed my footwear and asked permission to take photographs inside the Temple, which was granted.
I sat for a moment in the prayer hall to clear my mind, and take in my surroundings.
I was pleased to have arrived in time for the Abhishekam – a Hindu ritual of bathing the deity. According to my google search an Abhishekam of milk removes all sins, and coconut water increases the overall wellness of the family.
The primary deity of the Temple is Sri Mariamman or the Divine Mother – she provides protection for her worshippers from evil spirits.
I’d noticed a regular gathering of skaterboarders at the Ampang Park LRT Station Kuala Lumpur – Malaysia and often had my arms filled and no camera.
This evening I made a special trip with my camera in the hope that the skateboarders would be out and about. I chose the 24-70mm lens for speed and flexibility, and decided to use only the available natural light. As luck would have it, three skateboarders rolled out from the LRT Station, and the late afternoon light was nice and bright.
I introduced myself to the skaterboarders and asked if I could hangout and take photos of them. They agreed, these are the photos I took of the ‘Ampang Park Street Gang – APSG’.
My first Muay Thai event at the Bangla Boxing Stadium in Patong, Phuket – Thailand was an experience. Attending martial art events is not something I’d normally do but after hearing all day long from a van decorated as a boxing rink driving around the streets of Phuket and announcing from a megaphone “Tonight – Tonight – Big fight, BIG FIGHT” I thought I’d go and see a match.
Muay Thai is the national sport and cultural martial art of Thailand and I had high expectations. The stadium was filled with cigarette smoke and Sarama the traditional music of Muay Thai playing through the sound system adding to the atmosphere in the stadium. Small groups of gamblers scattered throughout the stadium betting on each fight added to the tension of the evening.
I enjoyed watching the wai kru ram muay – the pre-fight ritual dance being performed to pay respect to the fighters, trainers and coaches.
It was fascinating to see ringside spectators facial expressions circulating through a range of emotions as the fights intensified.
Beside us a bench of tourists getting into the spirit of the event and chanting ‘Aussie, Aussie, Aussie, Oi Oi Oi.’
Please see a collection of photographs taken of the ‘nak muay’ and ‘nak muay – farang’ fighters at the Muay Thai event in November 2010.
According to popular legend, in 1825 a traveling Chinese opera company, ngiu in Thai orpua-hee in Hokkien dialect, came to perform in Naithu Village, Kathu. After a time, many of the performers became terribly sick, and they decided that the cure was to eat only vegetables as they had done in China, in an act of contrition or expurgation for the sins incurred by the killing and consumption of animals. The ill members of the group were miraculously healed, and so the Chinese immigrants arranged for a festival to be held again the next year, and every year since. Thus, many believe holding it helps prevent illness, death and the loss of innocent lives in the community by promoting physical and spiritual recovery through ritual practices that cleanse the body and mind while strengthening the faith.
The Hindu-Balinese believe the body is impure, a temporary shell, having no significance at all, except as a container of the soul and its anchor to the earth. All thoughts at the time of death are concentrated upon the spirit and its passage to heaven. The body is just there to be disposed of, and, instead of grieving, the Balinese prefer to throw a great celebration, in the process hastening their dead friend’s soul to oneness with god.
The village community members banjar work together to make the bamboo stretcher for the first ritual, nyiramin layon the bathing of the corpse.
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NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) — There are some shocking allegations against a counselor and confidant in a Brooklyn community. A therapist stands accused of sexually abusing a young girl who looked to him for advice.
However, not everyone thinks he’s guilty. As CBS 2’s John Slattery reported Tuesday, there’s outrage over support for alleged abuser.
The culturally colorful streets of Williamsburg now have a bit more color — posters in Hebrew, urging support for a counselor charged with abusing one of his clients, starting when the girl was 12.
“I would not support him. No, no, no, no,” resident Yoel Chajmodicz said.
But many Chasidim will support him. The defendant is Rabbi Nechemya Weberman, who pleaded not guilty last year to committing a criminal sex act, rape, endangering the welfare of a child and sexual abuse after a 16-year-old girl told police that during counseling sessions the 53-year-old forced her to perform lewd sex acts.
However, in this community, people like Bella Hiller support the fundraising poster, saying it’s too easy to make up accusations. When asked if she believes Weberman rather than the 16-year-old girl, Hiller told CBS 2’s Sean Hennessey on Tuesday night, “Of course. Wouldn’t you?”
CBS 2’s Slattery went to Weberman’s building on Tuesday, but the building manager said he was not available.
“He says to speak to his lawyer,” the man at the door told Slattery.
The posters promote a Wednesday fundraiser for Weberman’s defense fund, but there is a rumbling of opposition, which one victims’ advocate explained.
“The suggestion is that this victim, by going to the authorities and reporting the abuse, is attacking the entire community,” said Ben Hirsch of the group, “Survivors for Justice.” “I believe one of the posters shows a missile coming down on the community. The missile is, of course, the victim and the community is everyone alongside the accused.
“They’re saying worse than she should shut up; they’re saying she’s a menace, a danger to the community, needs to be shunned and thrown away.”
Weberman’s attorney said everyone is entitled to a strong defense.
“What’s wrong with having a fundraiser if you believe that a person who is falsely accused? Everywhere you go with these people that are opposed to it. They are condemning him as a molester. They don’t wait for the process to work itself out in court,” George Farkas said. “Possibly the worst thing that can happen to a person, worse than child abuse itself, is to be falsely accused of it.”
CBS 2 has reported extensively on the sex abuse issue in the ultra Orthodox community and the increasing criticism over the way District Attorney Charles Hynes handles cases. There have been charges that he has a cozy relationship with rabbinical leadership. Unlike other DAs, he refuses to release the names of alleged abusers, a practice CBS 2 has legally challenged.
“It’s a civil rights statute that precludes us from identifying the people,” Hynes said recently.
While some said Hynes is being influence by political rabbis, Hynes said that’s not the case. In fact, Hynes said this is a case in which he went after a prominent figure. The defense attorney said Weberman would not consider pleading to a lesser charge.
“He’s not interested. He’s not pleading to anything he didn’t do,” Farkas said.
What do you make of the fundraiser? Sound off in our comments section below.
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- Product Description
DetailsDecorated with drips of vibrant glaze, the Odela multi-coloured ceramic trophy object is a bold and quirky design that makes a fun gift.
Part of the Odela range, made in Italy by the renowned Italian ceramic manufacturer Fasano and exclusive to Habitat, each trophy is unique, due to its hand-decorated nature.
- Details & Dimensions
- W18 x H41 x D18cm.
Product Code: 381055
- glazed ceramic
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Accessory orders over £50 = FREE
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- Care Instructions
- Wipe with a damp cloth.
- Do not use abrasive cleaners.
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Super trendy mama bear necklace! This piece is such a fun take on our extremely popular California bear necklace. What a fun and adorable way to show off your love for children. This make the perfect gift for mothers.
Mama bear and baby bear size info
-MAMA BEAR SIZE - .85 x .4 inches (21.56 x 10.13 mm)
-BABY BEAR SIZE - .57 x .249 inches (14.47 x 6.32 mm)
-Please note that the bears are included in the length of the overall necklace. I recommend the necklace be on the shorter side so the charms wear more horizontal similar to the model in photo.
Number of Charms
- Please select the TOTAL number of charms you'd like on your necklace. E.g. if you have 3 children, select 4 charms (1 mama bear charm + 3 baby cub charms).
Metal Color Options
- Your choice of: Sterling Silver, 14K Gold Fill, or 14K Rose Gold Fill
♥We do NOT sell cheap gold plated pieces.♥
♥Pendants have a brushed Matte Finish.♥
ENGRAVING DETAILS: If you select the engraving option, please provide the following.
-Font choice (Option 9 is default if nothing is specified)
-Exact text to engrave in exact upper/lower casing (LOVE YOU vs. Love You).
View our other Bear jewelry!
This is the second time I've ordered from the Hometown Haven and all I can say is.....perfect as like my first order. My fiance loved the first one and absolutely loves the second one.. Tanya is amazing at responding to any questions or concerns that I've had. Very prompt. I would very much recommend them for anyone that orders from this site. Thanks again Tanya and the Hometown Haven.
We must be notified within 2 weeks of customer receiving item that jewelry will be returned. Once notified, The Hometown Haven will need to receive the jewelry within 30 days of it being delivered to customer. It must be in original, undamaged condition in its original packaging to quality for a return.
Earrings: To ensure proper hygiene and sanitation for all customers, we do not accept refunds on earrings. All other items can be returned.
Rings: To keep the price of our rings affordable, we do not accept ring resizing or returns. We urge customers to get fit prior to purchasing to ensure their ring size is correct.
Engraved Jewelry: Anything with engravings are considered personalized and are subject to a 40% restocking fee.
All Other Jewelry: Subject to a 15% restocking fee.
Processing Time: Orders can take 1-2 weeks before it is shipped. Customers in the United States will receive orders via USPS first class mail which has a 2-5 day estimated transit time. We are located in California, so the closer you are to California, the shorter the estimated transit time. International customers can expect packages to arrive within 1-4 weeks after order has shipped. International transit is very unpredictable so we don't recommend purchasing if you need the jewelry in a short time frame.
Shipping Address: Please double check your shipping address. Orders lost due to incorrect shipping addresses will not be refunded or resent.
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All international packages coming from The Hometown Haven and other sellers outside your country, are subject to a possible customs duty charge. This charge is done randomly to a few selected packages entering your country. Most of our customers do not get charged this but it is best to anticipate it if you decide to purchase from our shop.
We highly recommend that you familiarize yourself with all the possible fees you MAY incur from receiving an international package. The Hometown Haven is NOT responsible for paying your duty tax or custom fees and we will not accept returns on orders where packages are sent back to us from unpaid customs fees.
Jewelry should last indefinitely but we will provide a free replacement if anything should happen within 90 days of receiving your jewelry.
Exceptions: Warranty does NOT cover tarnishing and stress related damage to necklace chains (e.g. chain that has been strenuously pulled on causing the links to stretch out and/or break).
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Technical progress of the last few decades has been quite remarkable. The trend for more embedded electronics is probably one of the main driving forces. When we then add mobile radio capabilities into the mix, we move into the IoE era and the possibilities become endless.
The latest incarnation of the cell phone network will offer internet connectivity and possibilities that could only be dreamt of previously. Depending on your standpoint this will either be a frightening or fascinating prospect. In any case, this Internet of Everything will no doubt have many beneficial effects. This is particularly true when it comes to health care applications.
We have already reported that the German Telekom is currently in the process of rolling out a 5G Europe-wide IoT network. Compared with the 4G system the new network offers not only greater capacity and higher data rates, but also allows a higher number of simultaneously connected devices and higher system spectral efficiency. In addition, IoT devices integrated into the Internet will use less energy. When you add that together with the rapid advances in sensor technology and nanostructures, it’s no surprise that a whole slew of novel applications are starting to appear as the IoT turns into the IoE.
A case in point is this novel ‘smart bandage’ concept, which is beginning to attract a fair dose of press hype. It is conceivable that sensors embedded in a medical dressing could continuously monitor the wound healing process and send alerts to medical personnel when an infection is detected. Doesn’t this seem somewhat unrealistic? Will the patient not be aware that something is wrong? Maybe pain is not a valid indicator of biological dysfunction. The problem is that we all have different thresholds; some stalwarts may endure the pain and only end up visiting a doctor as a last resort when the simple infection has developed into something nastier. Other patients will be convinced that a slight twinge is evidence of a life threatening condition. An objective assessment of the patient’s state of health will not only be reassuring to the patient, but also lead to a more efficient use of medical resources and reduced health care costs.
For this reason, band-aids with sensors and 5G network interfaces seem like a win-win formula. They will give the doctor an early indication of problems and may even be able to run rudimentary diagnostics to indicate the cause of the problem. Instead of long waiting times for appointments and expensive laboratory tests we could, for example get an immediate recommendation of an effective antibiotic. This is just one small example of the many benefits that the IoE will eventually bring to medical care in the future.
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Technical progress of the last few decades has been quite remarkable. The trend for more embedded electronics is probably one of the main driving forces. When we then add mobile radio capabilities into the mix, we move into the IoE era and the possibilities become endless...
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The profile of a boy who is doing this to you suggests that he won’t give up until he is challenged directly. You have done all you could and the fact that he won’t stop and is finding ways to disrespect you means you need help from adults. If it is happening in school I recommend telling the counselor or a trusted teacher. You have done everything right and the fact that he is talking about you and not respecting your boundaries means it is time to act. Research on bullying supports this. Don’t keep trying to manage this yourself. The time for that strategy has come and gone.
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Wondering how long do butterfly bushes live? In the world of gardening and landscaping, few plants possess the enchanting allure of the butterfly bush. With its graceful clusters of vibrant blossoms and its ability to attract a kaleidoscope of butterflies, it’s no wonder why this flowering shrub has become a beloved addition to many gardens. But as with all living things, there comes a time when we ponder the longevity of these beautiful plants.
How Long Do Butterfly Bushes Live?
Butterfly bushes, scientifically known as Buddleja davidii, are resilient plants known for their enchanting, butterfly-attracting blooms. On average, these bushes live for about ten to twenty years, depending on the quality of care they receive and the conditions they’re grown in. They are perennials, meaning they live for more than two years, continually blooming and producing seeds throughout their lifespan.
However, it’s important to note that the age can vary greatly. For instance, butterfly bushes exposed to ideal conditions – a lot of sunlight, well-draining soil, and moderate watering – tend to live longer than those grown in less favorable conditions. As such, providing optimum care is key to ensuring the longevity of your butterfly bush.
What Is The Average Lifespan Of A Butterfly Bush?
The average lifespan of a butterfly bush is around 10 to 20 years, although some well-cared-for specimens may live longer. The plant’s life expectancy hinges on various factors such as the quality of care, environmental conditions, and the type of soil in which it is planted. A butterfly bush that is properly taken care of and planted in well-drained soil with plenty of sunlight can thrive and outlive its average lifespan.
Like many plants, butterfly bushes have their own life cycle that includes stages of growth, flowering, and dormancy. However, it’s worth noting that even within this cycle, the longevity of a butterfly bush can fluctuate. Disease, pests, and harsh weather conditions can all shorten a butterfly bush’s lifespan.
Can Butterfly Bushes Live For Many Years?
Yes, butterfly bushes can live for many years, often reaching up to two decades under ideal conditions. These plants are hardy and resistant to many common garden pests, which contributes to their longevity. They are designed to survive for multiple years, flowering each year and attracting a variety of pollinators to your garden.
Yet, it’s crucial to remember that their lifespan can be significantly impacted by their living conditions. Providing your butterfly bush with the right amount of sunlight, water, and nutrients can help ensure that it lives for many years. Additionally, regular pruning can also contribute to a longer lifespan, promoting new growth and helping the bush maintain its overall health.
Do Butterfly Bushes Have A Short Lifespan?
Relative to many other perennial plants, butterfly bushes do not have a particularly short lifespan. They usually live for about 10 to 20 years, which is quite a respectable age for a garden plant. This length of life allows them to provide beauty and attract butterflies to your garden for many seasons.
However, compared to trees or certain shrubs, butterfly bushes may seem to have a shorter lifespan. It’s also important to remember that a butterfly bush’s lifespan can be shortened by neglect, improper care, or unfavorable growing conditions. So, while they don’t naturally have a short lifespan, their longevity can be compromised by a variety of factors.
Are There Factors That Can Affect The Longevity Of A Butterfly Bush?
Yes, there are several factors that can affect the longevity of a butterfly bush. The primary factors include the care provided, the local climate, and the susceptibility to diseases and pests. Proper care involves adequate watering, fertilization, and pruning, which are all critical for the bush’s overall health and longevity.
Butterfly bushes thrive best in USDA hardiness zones 5 through 9, where the climate is optimal for their growth. If planted in a region outside of these zones, the bush may not live as long. Furthermore, although butterfly bushes are relatively resistant to pests and diseases, they can still be affected by severe infestations or illnesses, which can significantly shorten their lifespan.
Can I Expect My Butterfly Bush To Live For Decades?
Yes, you can certainly expect your butterfly bush to live for decades if it is well taken care of. Good care practices such as regular watering, pruning, and fertilizing can significantly improve the lifespan of your butterfly bush, potentially extending it well beyond the average 10 to 20 years. Furthermore, if the bush is planted in an area with ideal growing conditions, it has a higher chance of thriving for many years.
Keep in mind, though, that like any other plant, butterfly bushes have a natural life cycle and will eventually decline. However, you can delay this decline with proper care and attention. Ensuring that your butterfly bush is in the best possible condition will increase the odds of it living for decades.
How Can I Extend The Lifespan Of My Butterfly Bush?
There are several ways to extend the lifespan of your butterfly bush. Firstly, ensure it is planted in a sunny location with well-draining soil. Butterfly bushes prefer full sun and can struggle in overly wet soil. Secondly, regular watering and feeding can help keep your bush healthy and vigorous. A balanced fertilizer applied in the spring can give it the nutrients it needs to thrive.
Regular pruning is also essential for a butterfly bush’s health and longevity. Pruning encourages new growth and helps maintain the bush’s shape and size. Additionally, keeping an eye out for pests and diseases and dealing with them promptly can prevent potential damage and extend the lifespan of your butterfly bush.
What Is The Maximum Age A Butterfly Bush Can Reach?
The maximum age a butterfly bush can reach is approximately 20 to 25 years, but this depends largely on the care it receives and the conditions in which it grows. With ideal care and conditions, butterfly bushes can sometimes outlive this average maximum age. However, keep in mind that like all living organisms, butterfly bushes will eventually reach the end of their natural lifespan.
Environmental factors, such as temperature, sunlight, and soil quality, can significantly influence how long a butterfly bush lives. Moreover, pest or disease infestations can negatively impact the plant’s health, potentially reducing its lifespan. Therefore, regular care and monitoring are crucial for maximizing the life of your butterfly bush.
Are There Any Signs That Indicate A Butterfly Bush Is Reaching The End Of Its Lifespan?
Yes, there are signs that can indicate a butterfly bush is reaching the end of its lifespan. One of the most common signs is a decrease in vigor and overall health. This may manifest as fewer flowers, stunted growth, or a general decline in the plant’s appearance. Browning leaves, dry or brittle branches, and an inability to bounce back from seasonal changes can also suggest that a bush is nearing the end of its life.
Diseases and pests can also take a toll on older bushes, leading to further decline. If you notice significant changes in your butterfly bush’s health or appearance, it may be nearing the end of its life. However, it’s always a good idea to consult with a local extension service or horticulture expert to confirm.
Can I Replant Or Propagate Butterfly Bushes To Ensure Their Ongoing Presence In My Garden?
Yes, you can certainly replant or propagate butterfly bushes to ensure their ongoing presence in your garden. Propagation is often done through cuttings or seeds. Cuttings taken in late spring or early summer usually root well and can be planted out the following spring. Seeds can be collected in the fall and sown in the spring.
Replanting a butterfly bush is also possible. If you notice your bush becoming too large or not thriving in its current location, you can move it to a more suitable spot. However, it’s important to do this during the bush’s dormancy period, typically in late fall or early spring, to minimize stress on the plant.
Finally, you should ensure the new location has enough sun and well-draining soil to support the butterfly bush’s growth. Remember, any propagation or replanting activity should be carried out with great care to avoid damaging the plant. With these steps, you can ensure the ongoing presence of these beautiful, butterfly-attracting plants in your garden.
Those are some information about How Long Do Butterfly Bushes Live.
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The haulm and husks are either used for litter or burned, and the ashes spread upon the land.
The medic and another man placed the injured soldier on a portable litter and rose, ready.
A mulch of half-decayed stable litter is useful to prevent loss of moisture in summer.
The huts of this last settlement appear to have had cattle stalls between them, the droppings and litter forming heaps at the lake bottom.
Shallow planting, whether of wall trees or standards, is generally to be preferred, a covering of a few inches of soil being sufficient for the roots, but a surface of at least equal size to, the surface of the hole should be covered with dung or litter so as to restrain evaporation and preserve moisture.
General Forbes himself was so ill that he had to be carried in a litter throughout the campaign.
Undismayed, he attacked the mass of litter and with his own hands removed 3000 barrow-loads.
The litter box remained, and she knew if she looked under the bed, Sunny would be there.
This business is frequently performed by a gamekeeper, a sum being paid him for any litter of cubs or fox found on his beat.
He recalled none of this, nor his damaged body being placed on a litter at the narrow edge of the cascading water and lifted upward from the depth of the inaccessible gorge to the penstock path above.
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In their deft harnessing of the music intrinsic to language – that which fuels poetry's thrilling confusion of sense with sound – Towers's poems are akin to those moments of quiet clarity amid the bustle and blur of daily life. The book's opening poem, "Amber", is a terse vignette that sets the tone with an elegant metaphor: figured as a frail "thought" and, by extension, a stay against confusion, the resin's safeguarding qualities make it a talisman "to hold against the slipshod years".
The Floating Man contains many such "flies in amber". On "Camusdarach Beach", a seal raises its "orphan eyes" to two lovers, "sensing our lives on the turn", while in "Trust", a memory of the poet's young daughter swimming in the sea is conjured from the complex, maternal emotions with which it is tangled. Even half-forgotten words are made strangely tangible in "Found": "old stones we've wintered in the earth / to learn the darkness underneath".
Yet there is nothing showy about these poems. Succinct and unassuming, they rarely draw on the full orchestra of effects at the poet's disposal, instead favouring subtle, single notes. "The Dread", for example, is an unsentimental view of arctic terns, birds that "have no weight but heart-weight", "no thinking, but know the curve and swing / of the earth". Through gentle assonance, the poem develops a studied coolness, anticipating the sudden silence – known as the Dread – before the birds jointly take flight: "as if / someone quietly said: come, follow me." That calmness, the poem suggests, is almost a shadowy memory in the terns' collective mind; a moment's eerie stillness that jolts them again into restlessness. The poem succeeds in expressing this notion and its human resonance, while avoiding the naïve anthropomorphism that would undermine such observations. It's a neat trick which Towers pulls off elsewhere, most notably in "Haunts", a concise unpicking of the fragile divide between the natural and the human worlds:
Nature offers a brief reprieve from the human labyrinth; opportunity to escape a world where everything appears in the guise of its value or function. But even if we stop questioning such "adequate" moments in order to pursue a broader understanding, we soon return to centring the scene on ourselves, however ghostly a presence we might be. How can we help but hear, in the sly sibilance of that final line, "our own feet / treading the soft ash of leaves"?
We can walk into woods and find
we are suddenly mortal.
The air has kept still for seasons
and we've no cause to speak
or to question this adequate moment
of moths, earth, light restrained by trees.
Let us not think we hear our own feet
treading the soft ash of leaves.
The book's presiding spirit – "The Floating Man" of the title poem – offers an answer of sorts. Enacting a thought experiment devised by the Persian polymath Ibn-Sina, an attempt to prove the independence of the soul from the physical body, our narrator imagines himself suspended, isolated from all sensory experience, "for as long as it takes to forget the sweating desert / and the sifting streets of Hamadan." In doing so, he approaches a kind of objectivity, blurring the false distinctions we observe: "Shall I say I am a man or a thought, / or a man thinking about deserts and cities?"
This expansive attention to detail, the ability to look beyond one's own narrow perspective, enriches Towers's writing and her search for emotional truths. Some of these poems are sensitive as a cardiograph to the moments they chart: "She's there on a branch: don't startle her" warns the poet in "Nightbird". Similarly, while waiting to hear their "late evening / call to prayer" in "In the Oak Woods", the narrator is "quiet for fear the owls might startle / and fly from their rooms".
The best poems in The Floating Man, however, are those which express human relationships in terms of music and vice versa, augmenting our understanding of both. "The Art of Fugue" opens with the hopefulness inherent to the form: a contrapuntal composition of conversing "voices" which the poem imbues with human characteristics; "solemn instruments, which yawn / and clamber to their feet" and "suppose they feel the same". Yet this simplicity, "the clean white sail of a tune making everything good", isn't quite as it seems: the desire to bring things to a close, each instrument "using their own words", is never far away. In love as in music, harmony is unstable, fleeting, and often appears as artifice: by the end of "Counterpoint", the poem's warring couple settle for a truce; "you still banging away at the deep end, / me somewhere up in the gods, trying the high notes".
It's these intelligent and honest insights, always intent on offering a fresh outlook, that lend Towers's quiet poems their tenacity; testament to her inclination, as with "The Language Spider" in one poem, "to favour stealth / over the grand gesture".
first published in The Guardian, Saturday 11 September 2010
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Parkview Science Department
Parkview High School Science Department
Welcome to PHS Science! On the left you will find the navigation menu. The monthly calendar shows upcoming events in the science department. Courses descriptions and instructors are available under the courses menu. Information about the various science-related clubs and activities can be found on their respective pages. Information about the teachers in the departments and their class assignments and rooms is available on the teachers page. Information about state and county standardized testing can be found on the testing page. Thanks for visiting!
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I’m counting down the minutes until I can ban Christmas music until next Thanksgiving. As much as I love the holidays, the only song I truly love is Mariah Carey’s “All I Want For Christmas,” which I can sing all year long. Apparently, so can a lot of people:
But my kids love Christmas music and they can’t wait to stream it in the car, blast it in the den and invade my office with it at all times of the year.
Ultimate holiday playlists that you won’t get tired of
So, we thought that as we head into the holiday weekend, short and long holiday road trips and more, we’d share with you some classic and creative play lists, as well as some of our favorite other playlists, which might make for welcome relief from a holiday music hangover.
From our friends at Jet Set Family, this might be the most creative and rocking holiday playlist we’ve ever seen! Christmas traditions with a rock-n-roll spin. Gems include artists you might expect (Paul McCartney, Jimmy Durante, Alvin & the Chipmunks and John Denver) to some great surprises (My Chemical Romance, Smashing Pumpkins, Joey Ramone, She & Him).
Live from a happening-right-now in the Kia Cadenza road trip, this is what Kristin Shaw and her family are rocking to as they make their way to Grandma’s house in Florida.
This holiday playlist evokes the spirit of the season and has some clever additions but doesn’t overplay the classics:
For those celebrating Hanukkah, here’s a pretty complete playlist, Adam Sandler included:
Need a Christmas music palate cleanser? Here are some playlists we love.
Coachella 2016 rewind, via Jet Set Family:
From our family time in the Chrysler Pacifica, what we loved listening to:
This will get your motor running, from our time in the Cadillac ATS-V:
And finally, soar above the clouds this season in the Nissan Rogue:
We hope you have a happy and singin’ holiday season!
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“Empty pockets never held anyone back. Only empty heads and empty hearts can do that.” These wise words from Norman Vincent Peale have never been truer, especially when it comes to ensuring every child in the school system is nourished and ready to learn. In a giant leap for the children of Massachusetts, lawmakers in the state have given a nod to a budget proposal that demands free meals for all K-12 students in public schools. A silver lining of the COVID-19 pandemic, this program has proven its worth and is now set to become permanent.
Massachusetts is stepping into line as the eighth state in the nation to permanently establish universal free school meals, joining the ranks of California, Colorado, Maine, Minnesota, New Mexico, Vermont, and Michigan. With Democratic Governor Maura Healey expected to sign the budget into law, this initiative takes a stand against child hunger and supports better academic outcomes.
The COVID-19 pandemic gave birth to a federal program that allowed public schools to provide all students with free school meals. However, when federal funding dried up amid GOP opposition, states like Massachusetts took it upon themselves to keep the initiative alive, pledging state dollars to the cause.
This monumental move hasn’t come without the tireless efforts of thousands of advocates and organizations, like Massachusetts anti-hunger group Project Bread, pushing for child nutrition to be a statewide priority. The new budget earmarks $171.5 million for this universal free school meal initiative. It’s not just an act of compassion, but a strategic move linked to positive outcomes such as decreased child hunger and improved academic performance.
The tangible benefits are seen in the numbers. Because of this extension, October 2022 saw an additional 80,000 students in the state having lunch compared to October 2019 in schools that were not previously serving universal free meals. Imagine that. Eighty thousand children who were better equipped to learn and engage.
Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley (D-Mass.) and Congressman Jim McGovern (D-Mass.) are among the loudest voices pushing for this initiative. McGovern applauded the move, emphasizing its life-changing potential, while Pressley urged Congress to follow Massachusetts’ lead. After all, in one of the wealthiest nations globally, no child should go hungry. They’re pushing for the Universal School Meals Program Act of 2023, which would provide free breakfast, lunch, dinner, and a snack to all students from preschool to high school. The bill is currently awaiting a vote in the House and the Senate.
So, while a group of House Republicans is set against free school meals, Massachusetts stands tall, proving that it values the nourishment and wellbeing of its children above partisan politics. The promise of the United States should indeed be that no child goes hungry in any school. Massachusetts is making that promise a reality, and it’s time for the rest of the nation to follow suit.
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Buckeyes aren't worn down heading into Penn State game, says Sam Hubbard Jon Spencer/News Journal
COLUMBUS – If Sam Hubbard and his defensive line mates at Ohio State were any fresher, they'd be stashed with the romaine lettuce and cauliflower in your grocer's produce aisle.
Because of extraordinary depth along the front line, Hubbard estimates he's only played the equivalent of three games for the sixth-ranked Buckeyes (6-1), who are even more rested coming off a bye week as they head into Saturday's 3:30 p.m. showdown at home with No. 2 Penn State (7-0).
"I feel better right now than I did after (preseason) camp," Hubbard said. "I saw my first year when guys like Joey (Bosa) and Steve Miller were getting 90 reps a game. Their bodies slowly deteriorated and they were pretty beat up by the end of the year.
"We hope we're playing our freshest, best ball at the end of the year. I know some people have different feelings about how we rotate, but hopefully at the end of the year it will come to show why we do what we do."
Last year, when the Buckeyes fell 24-21 in State College on a 60-yard touchdown return of a blocked field goal, they were playing their second of back-to-back road night games against opponents (they prevailed at Wisconsin in overtime) coming off bye weeks.
This year's lead-up to facing Penn State? Advantage well-rested Buckeyes.
While OSU was idle, the Nittany Lions built up an even bigger head of steam by thrashing Jim Harbaugh's Michigan Wolverines 42-13.
Meanwhile, the only thing that has stopped the Buckeyes since a week two loss to Oklahoma is the schedule.
Ohio State has tied a school record with four straight games of 50 or more points and set a school mark with five straight games of over 500 offensive yards. During that span, quarterback J.T. Barrett has completed 72 percent of his passes for 1,351 yards and 18 touchdowns, with zero interceptions.
Greg Schiano talks about his OSU defense - and the offense - heading into Penn State game Jon Spencer/News Journal
"Our bye (came) at a good time," defensive coordinator Greg Schiano said. "There's always that party that says 'We're on a roll here.' But I also think it's a long season.
"Training camp started a week early this year (because of the abolition of two-a-day practices), so we've been at it awhile. So the time off is a chance to recharge mentally, as much as anything, for the stretch run."
Everything points to Saturday being a de facto Big Ten East Championship Game.
It's Ohio State reinvigorated offense against Penn State's nation-leading scoring defense (9.6 ppg).
It's Penn State offense, led by Heisman Trophy-contending running back Saquon Barkley and dual-threat quarterback Trace McSorley, against an OSU defense that is only giving up 2.9 yards per carry, tied for eighth-best among Power 5 schools.
It's teams with matching chips on their shoulders.
The Buckeyes are still smarting from wasting a 21-7 lead in Happy Valley last year and losing on a kick-6. Penn State is sore about winning the Big Ten title last year and being passed over by Ohio State for the College Football Playoff.
"We're still 'full metal jacket,' making sure we're prepared for Penn State," center Billy Price said, assuring everyone the Buckeyes didn't head for Club Med during their week off. "(The bye) was the right time for us. You're getting into the grind of the Big Ten season. We've got Iowa, Michigan State, Penn State, Michigan ... those teams are highly-respected. So going into these type of games and getting rest and extra fundamental work, I think it's really going to help us down the stretch."
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Classroom Project Ideas
Light sensors provide a sensitive measurement of light and are often used as non-intrusive motion sensors. Typical light sensors include photodiodes, phototransistors, photoresistors, infrared detectors, etc. Example project ideas:
- Devise an experiment to validate the inverse square law of light decay.
- Determine the effectiveness of different light insulating materials and light reflecting materials.
- Develop prototype systems such as home/office theft alarm, marine collision detection, and automated door opener, etc., using a light sensor and an appropriate logic algorithm.
A sound sensor measures the fluctuation in air pressure to provide a measure of amplitude and frequency of sound waves. Example project ideas:
- Perform noise pollution studies in the proximity of busy streets, train tracks, airports, etc.
- Determine the effectiveness of different materials in absorbing sound of different amplitude/frequency.
- Demonstrate the feasibility of destructive interference techniques for noise cancellation.
A thermal sensor measures the fluctuation of either temperature or heat flux in different media. Typical thermal sensors include thermistors, resistance temperature devices (RTDs), thermocouples, thermopiles, etc. Example project ideas:
- Design a prototype experiment, using an air and a carbon dioxide filled enclosure, a lamp, and temperature sensors, to validate the phenomenon of global warming.
- Design an experiment to validate Newton's Law of Cooling, which states that the rate of heat transfer from a hot to cold body is proportional to their temperature difference.
- Using heat flux and temperature sensors distributed throughout the interior and exterior of a house, which is subjected to extreme exterior weather conditions, measure the heat loss from specific locations of the house and recommend appropriate action.
In feedback control, the error between desired output and actual output of a system is used to compute and apply a corrective action. Example project ideas:
- Develop an automatic liquid dispensing machine, which begins dispensing liquid once a cup is placed on it and stops when the liquid level in the cup is about to violate safety limit.
- Develop a prototype automatic headlight control system for automobiles, which turns the light on/off by continuously monitoring the ambient light condition.
- Develop an indoor climate control system, which controls heating and air conditioning units to maintain a comfortable environment.
- Develop a prototype device to control indoor lights when window blinds are opened/closed.
Numerous sensor designs exploit the "Voltage Division Law" to provide the measurement of a physical quantity by measuring the voltage across a resistor. Example project ideas:
1) Develop a comprehensive fault detection system for automobiles using the voltage divider circuit and appropriate resistive sensors. For example:
- Using a resistive temperature sensor, monitor the engine temperature.
- Using a resistive pressure sensor, monitor the air pressure in tires and pressure in hydraulic lines of a braking system.
- Using a thermistor, develop a sensor to warn the driver of icy road condition.
2) Develop subsystems for home monitoring/automation that exploit the voltage divider circuit and appropriate resistive sensors. For example:
- Monitoring the ambient light intensity to turn on (off) the lights at sunset (sunrise)
- Monitoring the activities of inhabitants in a house to control heating/cooling systems
- Monitoring unauthorized entry in the house
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Crown Princess Victoria made a new virtual appearance to kick off the start of the World Figure Skating Championships in Stockholm. It was the Swedish royal's first engagement since it was revealed that she and husband, Prince Daniel, had contracted COVID-19.
Victoria appeared in a video message to mark the start of the ISU World Figure Skating Championships 2021, which run from March 22-28, starting with two official practice days.
She made her remarks from Haga Castle, her family's residence in Stockholm. The mom of two wore a duck egg blue blazer paired with a cream Victorian blouse. Her brunette locks were pulled back into a ponytail and she wore golden hoops with pearly details.
This year, 195 figure skaters will compete in the event. The championships have been affected by the coronavirus pandemic.
"Ladies and gentlemen, I am so proud that our beautiful capital gets to host the World Figure Skating Championships," she began in English.
"I really wish that I could have been in the Ericsson Globe Arena tonight for the grand opening ceremony," the 43-year-old continued. "But I am glad to have this opportunity to send you all my best wishes.
“Just like millions of other viewers, all over the world, my family and I are looking forward to seeing the world’s best figure skaters compete here in Stockholm.
"To all of you participants and volunteers, the best of luck, for the ISU World Figure Skating Championships 2021."
On March 11, it was revealed Victoria and Daniel were quarantining after testing positive for COVID-19, according to a statement from the Swedish royal court. The couple went into isolation after Victoria experienced symptoms associated with the coronavirus the day before.
"The Crown Princess and Prince Daniel are doing well under the circumstances with only mild symptoms," the announcement read.
We're thrilled to see that Victoria is doing better!
In this challenging time, it’s really hard to be separated from family and friends. It’s also a time when everyone needs a beautiful escape. Here at Hello! Canada, we’re still busy creating the magazine you know and love, to spread positivity and provide some entertainment as a gentle reprieve from all the hard news. And with our new special offer for subscribers, there’s never been a better time to have Hello! delivered directly to your front door. Why not treat yourself, or someone you love, today?
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Warning: this set contains chemicals that may be harmful if misused. Conforms to astm f963. Imported.
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Test automation is a hot topic in the testing community, and a perennial topic of debate. What doesn't seem to receive the same attention, though, is task automation: automating the repetitive, non-testing processes that testers have to waste their time on.
Test automation is a hot topic in the testing community, and a perennial topic of debate. What doesn't seem to receive the same attention, though, is task automation : automating the repetitive, non-testing processes that testers have to waste their time on.
One good process to look at with automation in mind is that of deploying your software for testing. Our build processes usually generate something like an installer package, or a code branch that can be deployed to a webserver. However, as a tester, you need your product in a form that's immediately usable by an end-user and testable by you. For desktop software, this is your installer, already installed onto an OS of your choosing. For web-based software, this is a complete, working webserver that's running your application. The steps between the end of the build process and the software being ready to test are what you want to automate.
Virtualization and configuration management tools let us not only stand up and configure new machines quickly but also deploy our software onto them with a minimum of intervention. Ideally, by issuing a single command, you should be able to:
- Create a new virtual machine running your target OS
- Install your software's prerequisites, if any
- Install the build of your software you specify
- Configure it as needed for testing
Admittedly, an initial investment of time is needed to write the scripts that make all of this happen. However, it's been my experience that this pays off not only in saving the test team's time, but also in giving them much more flexibility to test different builds of the product simultaneously.
Nowadays, we have several good virtualization tools, a number of good configuration management tools, and workstations capable of running a handful of installations of our software with ease. If you need a new working instance of your application to test or experiment with, we should be well past the time when you had to spend hours building out a test machine or, worse, requesting one from your already-overworked sysadmin team.
It's accepted wisdom in the agile community that you should try to keep your build times as short as possible— ten minutes is often mentioned as a target. If waiting for hours on a build isn't agile when it comes to software development, surely pushing buttons and pulling levers for hours to set up a test instance isn't agile testing.
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Writing research papers is the main thing a student needs to do so as to get through their academic career. Unless a student is an expert in a given area, he would be having a difficult time grasping the intricacies involved in that particular field. Thus, it is crucial to know that the research paper ought to be written by a master so as to get an edge over the other pupils. The very best way to gain this advantage is by having a research paper written by an expert. To be able to locate such an expert, an individual can use the net. There are several websites which can allow you to kommasetzung prüfen duden find this individual.
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Nijmegen breakage syndrome is a rare genetic disease presenting at birth with microcephaly, dysmorphic facial features, becoming more noticeable with age, growth delay, and later-onset complications such as malignancies and infections.
Prevalence and incidence are not known. 150 patients have been reported in the literature but many more are recorded in patient registries. The disease seems to occur worldwide, but has a much higher prevalence among Central and Eastern European Slavic populations due to a founder mutation.
Clinical manifestations are not pathognomonic and may vary in severity. The main signs are microcephaly, present at birth and progressing with age, dysmorphic facial features (prominent midface emphasized by a sloping forehead and receding mandible). Other facial characteristics are more subtle and diverse, e.g. upwardly slanted palpebral fissures, long and beaked nose or short nose with anteverted upturned nostrils. In a few patients, cleft lip/palate or choanal atresia have been described. Mild growth retardation, and, in females, premature ovarian insufficiency are common. Minor skeletal anomalies, such as clinodactyly of the 5th fingers and partial syndactyly of the 2nd and 3rd toes are found (50% of patients). Delayed speech development is common. Café au lait spots and/or vitiligo spots are observed (50-70%). Hair in NBS is usually thin and sparse in infancy but improves with age. Hair greying can appear as early as in the 2nd or 3rd decade. Congenital renal anomalies (hypoplasia/aplasia, horseshoe or double kidney, ectopic/dystopic kidneys) are relatively frequent. Hypospadias, cryptorchidism, urethro-anal fistula are also found. Immune deficiency with recurrent respiratory tract infections that may be life-threatening and a strong predisposition to malignancies (predominantly lymphoid) and radiosensitivity are other integral manifestations. By age 20, over 40% of patients develop a malignant disease.
NBS is caused by mutations in the NBN gene (8q21-q24) which lead to partially functional truncated fragments of nibrin, the gene product involved in repairing DNA double strand breaks.
Diagnosis is based on the clinical manifestations, chromosomal instability (spontaneous and induced), increased cellular sensitivity to ionizing radiation in vitro, combined immunodeficiency, mutations in both alleles of the NBN gene, and complete absence of full-length nibrin. Early diagnosis is very important to avoid severe recurrent infections, unnecessary exposure to radiation for diagnostic purposes, and adverse effects of radiotherapy for treatment of tumors. Analysis of the family pedigree can also support diagnosis (malignancies, microcephaly or hydrocephaly, early death of a sibling). Molecular testing confirms diagnosis.
Differential diagnosis includes Fanconi anemia, Bloom syndrome, NBS-like disorder, ataxia-telangectasia-like disorder, LIG4 syndrome, NHEJ1 syndrome and Seckel syndrome (see these terms).
Affected families may be offered prenatal diagnosis by molecular analysis if both disease-causing gene mutations are known.
Parents of an affected child are obligate carriers of NBN mutations (25% risk for each pregnancy). Parents should be offered monitoring for cancer. NBS follows an autosomal recessive pattern of inheritance.
There is no specific therapy for NBS. Due to the specific defect underlying immune deficiency and sensitivity to IR radiation, patients require multidisciplinary management and long term follow-up (malignancy, immunodeficiency, growth, hypergonadotropic hypogonadism in females).
Prognosis is poor, with malignancy as the major cause of death.
Last update: December 2011
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See your past always comes back to haunt you! (Aug 10, 2008 | post #44)
wishful thinking? no. History repeating itself, yes. (Jun 13, 2008 | post #252)
I think the point was there are always someone out there being discriminated against in one way or another but they are not all crying constantly about it like the black Americans. They take the daily crap with a grain of salt and continue living, ignoring anyone's ignorant behavior. (Jun 12, 2008 | post #1031)
I have spoken with this individual many times before on different issues, they are not being stereotypical, in their neighborhood they are the ONLY white family. So therefore, yes they can say the black persons are the ones committing the crimes in their neighborhood! (Jun 12, 2008 | post #1027)
ROFLMAO!!! I needed a good laugh! (Jun 12, 2008 | post #1025)
That does not make us indebted to them forever! I can honestly say not one of my relatives ever owned a slave and should not have to put up with the attitudes. (Jun 11, 2008 | post #1018)
Not quite sure but would be interesting to see if he can be oughted before he starts. (Jun 11, 2008 | post #1017)
"WASHINGTON (CNN) -- A key member of Sen. Barack Obama's vice presidential search team, Jim Johnson, is stepping down after criticism over a mortgage he received, the Obama campaign said Wednesday. Republicans criticize Jim Johnson for his $7 million loan from Countrywide. "Jim did not want to distract in any way from the very important task of gathering information about my vice presidential nominee, so he has made a decision to step aside that I accept," the presumed Democratic presidential nominee said. Republicans had been hammering Johnson since The Wall Street Journal reported Saturday that he received a good deal on a mortgage from Countrywide because of his friendship with Angelo Mozilo, the company's CEO." The Rats are abandoning ship already!! For the whole story here is the URL! http://www.cnn.com /2008/POLITICS/06/ 11/obama.vp/index. html (Jun 11, 2008 | post #2349)
Whats the matter? You have a problem when someone else is trying to tell someone about how there are differences in decent black/brown persons and the scum that lives in their neighborhood that is into gangs/drugs etc? Tough Shit! This is what that poster was referriing to in one of their other posts about how ignorant people can be. At least that poster knows there are SOME decent black folks and does not condemn them all! (Jun 11, 2008 | post #1009)
yes. (Jun 9, 2008 | post #2102)
I guess for those that don't or won't realize that they are in for a hell of a surprise in their futures. (Jun 9, 2008 | post #1321)
No experience can result in your death. You have to read the user manual and have experience using the product before you cause injury or death. No Experience=possibi lity of untimely death. (Jun 9, 2008 | post #2085)
Since you are hardly an expert on candidacy, it really don't matter what you think to me. Your the one that insists on keeping this childish back and forth crap going instead of conceding that someone else has an opinion different from your own to which they are entitled. It seems funny that not once have I ever told you anything about your lovely candidate that was not on most news channels and on BBC America. Oh, and yes there were multiple candidates to start with this election when Hillary was also on the SAME ticket. NOW there is only ONE on the Democratic ticket, not that it matters to someone like yourself that has been to every college out there humanly possible and has so many degrees out your wazzoo that gives you the right to preach to others. (Jun 7, 2008 | post #956)
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I’m having problems connecting to Organelle AP,
I’m getting an “incorrect password” message on the iPad. I’m using coolmusic for the password.
Wi fi works great connected to my studio router i can sync using Link and transfer files using the web server. Its only the AP functionality that is not working.
Im running 3.1 and did a clean install to use the SD card for patch storage. I have an Edimax Wifi dongle.
The chipset is Realtek RTL8188CUS.
I tried your change password suggestion but i get the following message on the terminal:
/root.scripts/start_ap.sh" [New File]
I don’t know what to do next, i am new to Linux.
I don’t know if that wikidevi site will always be correct. Sometimes manufacturers change chipsets or other aspects of the adapters without indicating they would be any different. The Tenda site doesn’t mention the chipset so it’s hard to say the RT5370 is in it.
This thread has many options for the correct adapter: ETC WiFi Adapter questions
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I'm here to announce that Truman State University will be hosting a mirror of Penn Bowl 2008 on January 26, 2008.
Packet submission guidelines, discounts, and penalties can be found here
Our fee structure (other than packet discounts/penalties) will be mostly the same as the original site's, but here they are for convenience's sake:
Base: 1st Team: $110 2nd Team: $90 After 2nd: $70
Each fully functional buzzer: -$10 (max. 3)
1st competent moderator: -$20; each additional competent moderator: -$25
Travel Discounts per Team (as determined by google maps, one way):
>500 miles: -$10
>700 miles: -$30
>1000 miles: -$50
>2000 miles: -$70
Canadian Teams: -$50
Missed last year's Penn Bowl: -$10
Min Fee $50
If you would like to register, please e-mail me, Christopher Stone, at cstone -at- truman -dot- edu. Please specify (if you know) how many teams, buzzer sets, and moderators you will be bringing.
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Photosynthesis and Cell Respiration
PHOTOSYNTHESIS : Is the process by which light energy in converted to chemical energy.
- Photosynthesis happens in the chloroplast.
- Water (H20)
- Carbon Dioxide (CO2)
- Oxygen (O2)
- Glucose (C6H12O6)
Stage 1: Energy is captured from the sunlight , and an electron gets excited and leaves the chlorophyll. Then is used to produce ATP.
Stage 2: Electron Travels along the electron transport chains. The movement of the electron passing through the electron transport chain provides energy needed to make ATP.
Stage 3: The dark reaction : Carbon Dioxide (CO2) is used to make compounds in which energy is stored.
The Calvin Cycle: A series of enzymes assisted chemical reactions that produces a three carbon sugar.
The Calvin Cycle :
Stage 1. A molecule of carbon dioxide is added to a five carbon compound.
Stage 2. The resulting 6-carbon splits into 2 three-carbon compounds.
- Phosphate groups from ATP and electrons from NADPH are added to form three-carbon sugars.
Stage 3. One of the sugars is used to make organic compounds for energy to be stored.
Stage 4. The other sugar is used to regenerate the initial five compound, used to restart the cycle.
- Carbon Dioxide
Aerobic- Metabolic processes that requires oxygen.
Anaerobic- Metabolism process that do not require oxygen.
Stage 1: Glucose is converted to pyruvate producing ATP and NADPH (In small amounts).
Stage 2: When oxygen is present, pyruvate and NADPH are used to make a large amount of ATP. This is known as Aerobic Respiration.
-When oxygen is not present, pyruvate is converted to either lactate and carbon dioxide.
- Aerobic Respiration occurs in the mitochondria in eukaryotic cells, and in the cell membrane of the prokaryotic cell.
Stage 1: Glucose is broken down in the cytoplasm.
Breaking down of Glycolysis:
- Step 1: In a series of 3 reactions, phosphate groups from 2 ATP molecules are transferred to glucose molecule.
- Step 2: In 2 reactions, the 6 carbon compound is broken down to 2 three-carbon compounds, each with a phosphate.
- Step 3: 2 NADH molecules are produced, and 1 more phosphate groups is transferred to each 3-carbon compound.
- Stage 4: In 4 reactions, each 3-carbon pyruvate compound is converted to a 3-carbon pyruvate, producing 4 ATP molecules in the process.
Stage 2: Producing of ATP, when oxygen is present , pyruvate produced in glycolysis enters a mitochondrion and is converted to a 2- carbon compound.
Step 1: Acetyl-CoA combines with a 4-carbon compound.
Step 2: Carbon dioxide is released from the 6-carbon compound, forming a 5- carbon compound. Electrons are transferred to NAD+, making a molecule of NADH.
Step 3: Carbon dioxide is released from 5-carbon compound, resulting in a 4-carbon compound. A molecule of ATP is made, and a molecule of NADH is also produced.
Step 4: The existing 4-carbon compound is converted to a new 4-carbon compound. Electrons are transferred to an electron acceptor called FAD, making a molecule of FADH2.
Step 5: The 4- Carbon compound is converted to the 4-carbon that started the cycle and another NADH is produced.
Fermentation is the absence of oxygen.
when oxygen is not present Aerobic Respiration cannot occur.
-The electrons are not transferred from NADH so NAD+ cannot be recycled.
Instead Fermentation allows the recycling of NAD+ using an organic hydrogen acceptor.
Two Types of Fermentation
- Lactic Acid Fermentation
- Can be used in the production of foods such as yogurt and some cheeses.
During exercise pyruvate in muscles is converted to lactate when the cells loos oxygen.
- Alcohol Fermentation.
- Pyruvate is broken down to ethanol Carbon Dioxide is released throught the process.
Pyruvate is first converted to a 2-carbon compound, releasing carbon dioxide.
Differences and Similarities Between Cellular Respiration and Photosynthesis.
- Carbon Dioxide
Cellular Respiration (Reactants)
Cellular Respiration (Products)
- Carbon Dioxide
- The reactants of Photosynthesis are the products of Cellular Respiration.
- The products of Photosynthesis are the reactants of Cellular Respiration.
- Cellular Respiration has fermentation and photosynthesis does not.
- Photosynthesis used radiant energy (Sunlight)
- Cellular Respiration release of chemical energy (ATP)
- ATP is a key molecule in each
- They both pass through the Electron Transport Chain to produce ATP.
- They both pass through a certain amount of cycles.
- Glycolysis is generated in both (cell respiration) and in Calvin Cycle (Photosynthesis)
- Can observe emergent properties via multiple steps in both processes.
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Speech Language Pathologist
Baylor Scott and White Institute for Rehabilitation
Dallas, Texas – United States
Speech Language Pathologist and Certified Brain Injury Specialist a Baylor Scott & White Institute for Rehabilitation in Dallas, TX. Lead the Traumatic Brain Injury Outpatient Support Group as well as the Brain Health Group.
You, Me and TBI Makes Three: Development of a Brain Health-Focused Educational Support Group
Thursday, November 7
12:40 PM – 1:25 PM
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Project name: Design and Build Depot for FedEx
Square footage: 24,440 sq ft incorporating 4,000 sq ft of offices
Site plan: Download Site Plan
Project completion date: December 2012
Building specifications: Multi loading door distribution facility with ancillary air conditioned offices.
The FedEx facility at Westcott consolidated the Bicester and Aylesbury depots under one roof and was designed to maximize operational efficiency with 25 loading bay doors and a central conveyor system.
Development of 65,000 sq ft of Grade A factory and production space for garden room company Green Retreats.
A new gold standard national rocket test facility which allows UK companies and academics to fire up and test state-of-the-art space propulsion engines.
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So it’s your first trip to the Island of Hawaii, and you’re trying to figure out the best way to maximize your stay. The Big Island boasts a plethora of activities and sightseeing opportunities to take in. Narrowing down your itinerary will be a task.
- Visit an Active Volcano- Hot, molten lava has been continually spewing out of Kilauea Volcano for more than 20 consecutive years, much of the time flowing directly into the sea on the Puna side of the Big Island. Visitors are allowed to hike near the flows to witness incredible displays of red, molten lava spilling into the ocean, often fountaining, spattering and oozing within yards of the viewing site. Conditions change daily, so check with park rangers for current eruptions updates and directions to the flow.
- Take a Kayak Tour of Kealakekua Bay- Pods of spinner dolphins frolic in this protected and historical bay located in South Kona. At the north end of the gulf, the Captain Cook monument area offers stellar snorkeling opportunities that can only be reached by kayak or by booking a snorkel cruise such as Fair Wind. Many places along the highway rent kayaks; Kona Boys in Kealakekua is a reputable surf/dive/kayak shop. Kayakers usually launch from Napoopoo Wharf, which can be tricky to maneuver depending on the tide level. A simple option is to rent kayaks from Ehu & Kai located in a private cove south of the wharf. Here you don’t have to load a kayak onto your car. Access to the water is safe and straightforward.
- Enjoy a Picnic at Pu’uhonua o Honaunau – An ancient place of refuge dating back to the 15th century, Pu’uhonua o Honaunau is considered one the most sacred sites in the state of Hawaii. This national park presents unmatched scenery on the shores of Honaunau Bay. The original temple overlooking the bay, which has since been restored, once housed the bones of 23 chefs. The best-kept secret of the park, the picnic grounds to the south offer tables and barbecue areas adjacent to the rocky coastline. Bring a picnic dinner and enjoy a splendid sunset in an exquisite setting.
- Go Snorkeling at Kahaluu Beach Park Located in Keauhou near Kailua-Kona, Kahaluu Beach Park is known for its easy access and abundant sea life. Snorkel gear can be rented at the surf shop across the street. Gear comes in many types and sizes, so make sure you have a good fit. The store’s experts will help visitors accurately fit their mask and snorkel while providing insider tips about the bay.
- Watch the Manta Rays in the Surf-Manta rays come nightly to feed on plankton just below the Crystal Blue lounge at the Sheraton Keauhou Bay Resort & Spa. To attract the mantas, the resort shines the lights on the water from above. Visitors can enjoy a cocktail while viewing the mantras from the lanai.
- Go Coffee Tasting in the Kona Coffee BeltSeveral working coffee farms offer tours and tastings featuring 100-percent Kona coffee. Roadside kiosks and coffee shops are scattered along the upper highway from Holualoa Village to Honaunau. So
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In medieval times, the king’s fool was often the only one who could speak the truth, but that in the guise of a joke. Joe Biden is a little bit different. Obama didn’t mean him to be the truth-speaking fool but, apparently, the guy can’t help himself. AJ Strata caught him on TV today admitting that the stimulus was a scam. Check out AJ’s post for all the details.
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Matthew M. Bryant is a senior counsel in the firm’s Civil Litigation practice group. He is an experienced trial and appellate attorney representing businesses and individuals in state and federal court. Matthew represents clients in litigation in the following practice areas:
• Appellate representation in both civil and criminal cases;
• Employment law including wage and hour litigation (i.e., claims that employees were not properly paid), employment discrimination (i.e., discrimination based on gender, race, disability, etc.), and disputes over non-compete agreements;
• Estates and trusts and fiduciary litigation including representing trustees, personal representatives, or beneficiaries in issues related to testamentary capacity, accounting disputes, misuse of money, and breaches of fiduciary duties;
• Personal injury matters including representing individuals injured as a result of negligence or intentional conduct;
• Professional licensing investigations including representing lawyers in investigations by the Attorney Grievance Commission and other licensed professionals being investigated by licensing boards;
• School litigation including representing victims of physical injuries or sexual abuse by teachers or other school employees;
• Criminal law representing individuals under investigation or facing criminal charges brought by the state or federal government including both misdemeanor and felony charges;
• Firearm permitting matters including representing individuals in obtaining concealed weapons permits and other firearm permits; and
• Civil rights litigation including representing victims of police excessive force.
Matthew’s practice is diverse, highly responsive, and results-oriented. He strives to develop creative solutions to his clients’ legal problems.
Before joining the firm, Matthew clerked for the Honorable Kathryn Grill Graeff of the Maryland Court of Special Appeals and the Honorable Michele D. Jaklitsch of the Circuit Court for Anne Arundel County. This experience gave Matthew insight into how litigation strategies can play out at both the trial and appellate levels.
Direct Dial: 240-553-1185
The use of the Internet or this form of communication with the firm or any individual member of the firm does not establish an attorney-client relationship. Confidential or time-sensitive information should not be sent through this form.
University of Maryland School of Law, J.D., 2007
Kenyon College, A.B., magna cum laude, 2001
District of Columbia, 2014
New Jersey, 2014
U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland
U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
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The Practice of Creation Meditation
“The purpose of art is to take the senses on a journey back to the source of perception, which is Pure Awareness.” – Rupert Spira
The practice of Creation Meditation is an opportunity to shine the light of your attention inward, and in doing so, transform consciousness. The potency of the practice develops in two ways:
Refining attention through meditation. The nature of the mind for most people includes a high amount of distraction and division. Generally, the mind wanders and cannot stay still. On the whole, it is full of worry, fear, doubt, stress, and anxiety. A practice of meditation, as it is described here, uses one point of focus (such as the breath or a mantra) to anchor the mind to the present moment. This helps the mind gain one-pointedness. Meditation also trains attention to stay present, facilitating opening and inward receptivity.
Resting attention on the place from which inner experiences arise.This practice is called Creation Meditation because what arises from within is considered to be Creation or Nature itself. The creative force is not only what we use to create poems and paintings; it is the driving force of the universe. When a person opens up to the creativity within and develops a relationship with it, he or she can access the intelligence of Nature. A regular practice of creative expression can take place through writing, painting, dancing, or even sculpting. The modality doesn’t matter. What’s more important is placing attention within where known and unknown meet. Of course, at the start of one’s practice, this inner place may not be so easily found. However, as one continues to practice, he or she continues to move through the layers of the mind, particularly with a co-existing practice of meditation. At first (and in almost every period of creativity) there is an initial phase of emptying. One needs to empty him or herself of the thoughts, worries, and concerns that exist on the surface of the mind. Once empty, a person becomes more receptive to what is naturally arising from within. It is here a practitioner arrives at the sacred place within where conscious and unconscious minds come together, where known and unknown meet. A deepening relationship with the unknown and with what is naturally arising from the unknown facilitates an ever-more conscious participation in the evolution of one’s life.
In time, these two practices (meditation and expression of what arises from within) become a means to transform the heart and mind. A sustained practice of bringing attention to the sacred place in which known and unknown meet facilitates introversion – the experience of attention sinking deeper and deeper inward. For instance, during creative expression, attention can reach for something that is faintly arising into consciousness, no different than trying to remember parts of a dream. Doing this facilitates the drawing of attention deeper into the layers of the mind. Over time, as one’s attention deepens, the content of what arises changes. The inner experience may become more transpersonal versus personal, objective versus subjective. Ultimately, this practice can, as the above quote by Spira suggests, provide one with a conscious experience of the Source from which all form (Reality) arises.
Creation Meditation is a spiritual practice oriented in non-duality –the idea that existence and all of its various forms are ultimately expressions of One essential reality. Eternal Awareness (or Pure Awareness) is the One indivisible consciousness in which all form appears and disappears, the no-thing-ness from which all things arise.
C R E A T I O N Meditation is a practice of:
Cultivating and Realizing Eternal Awareness Through Inquiry, Observation, and allowing Nature.
Inquiry – being curious about the inner experience (asking questions of oneself throughout the creative process)
Observation – being the witness to inner experience (becoming more and more aware oneself through meditation and creative expression)
allowing Nature – allowing all that is naturally arising from within to have its expression (In this practice, what arises from within a unique human being is considered to be an expression of Nature. Just like a flower, mountain range, or animal has its own unique essential nature, so does each human being have his or her own essential nature, which can be uncovered in the river of creativity that arises from within.)
More on the Creative Energy
The creative force isn’t only something you call upon to paint or what you invoke to write a poem. It is the driving force of the universe. It is the expansive and all-inclusive energy of the cosmos. It is the energy and intelligence that keeps the universe in motion. It transforms seeds into trees, embryos into infants, and dust into vast and expansive galaxies.
Creativity is the inherent nature of the universe. Right here, in this moment, new things are born: your breath, a thought, an idea, a bodily sensation. Just like the clouds and waves that ceaselessly come into and out of existence, so do all forms of reality enter this world of phenomena. When we, as human beings, become creative, we can access this energy and intelligence. Just as new buds uncurl from their seeds, so does new life sprout into our being. When you orient yourself to this force, you create a power center within you that can guide, heal, awaken, and transform.
When you go within on a regular basis and shine the lamp of your attention there, like a lighthouse scanning a black sea, you can experience the creative fountain within. When you connect with that energy on a regular basis by observing what is arising within and by nonjudgmentally expressing it, you can transform your life.
Creativity as a Spiritual Practice
Creation Meditation involves both meditation (25 min) and creative expression (60 min). Meditation helps create spaciousness within, cultivating greater access to deeper parts of your being. Non-judgmental creative expression is a process of listening and allowing. It’s a practice of giving outer expression to the inner experience.
Whether it is fear, love, joy, pain, or sorrow, simply write, dance, pain, or draw it out. (It’s best to choose one creative modality and stick with it.) Allow everything to be exactly as it is while continuing to give the inner world non-judgmental expression. If an angry thought arises, jot it down. If feelings of shame appear, let it come through you by painting it out. Allow all of life to pass through you regardless of what your mind may think is right or wrong. Creating this non-judgmental attitude about what surfaces inside (and this gets easier with a practice of meditation) can lead dis-identifying with thoughts. In other words, thoughts arise and pass away versus having a particular meaning about your life. In short, they don’t carry so much weight.
Furthermore, most spiritual disciplines insist on evolving into higher states of consciousness by controlling or denying your desires and experiences of the senses. However, this practice teaches that you cannot experience complete liberation while restricting any part of your being.
Most importantly, this is a spiritual practice of:
• cultivating awareness.
• observing life as it is, without changing it.
• dis-identifying with the separate self.
• studying the microcosm (your inner world) in order to realize the macrocosm (the universe).
• deepening your relationship with the unknown.
• developing the ability to experience that which is subtle.
• recognizing who you really are.
• allowing Nature or your natural self to emerge.
• inquiry, leading to the source of the separate self and finding out that it too is a mere expression of a greater Intelligence.
- Feel more deeply connected to yourself.
- Feel more deeply connected to your life and its path.
- Feel connected to a deeper source within.
- Restore the instinctual and intuitive sides of yourself.
- Accept and express more of yourself.
- Experience wholeness (Read more here.)
- Experience awakening. (Read more here.)
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Fruit & Vegetable Phytoconcentrates
In order for us to maintain good health, it is important to have a well rounded diet, preferably one that includes plenty of fruits and vegetables. Fruits and Vegetables are loaded with vitamins, minerals, fiber, and carbohydrates that are essential fuel for the body. While fruits and vegetables can promote health as food for our daily meals, the chemical compounds that comprise them can also be concentrated into a powerful extract form to provide some surprising benefits.
Draco Natural Products introduces a full line of highly concentrated Fruit and Vegetable Extracts. The line includes extracts of a large selection of fruits, vegetables, mushrooms, and spices. They can be used in a wide range of functional foods, beverages and dietary supplements.
As with herbs, fruits and vegetables can help build and protect the body, tonify organs and metabolic systems, and provide symptomatic relief. For skin care, there are several extracts that are ideal for inclusion in topical products. A whole new world of products is possible with these potent and convenient ingredients.
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The Hillsborough Soil and Water Conservation District sponsored the event, held between Saturday, April 22 and Sunday, April 30.
Members of the Plant City community recently participated in the Plant City-led Hillsborough 100 Conservation Challenge, a series of events aimed at raising awareness and accountability for conservation of natural resources.
The events took place from Earth Day, Saturday, April 22, through Sunday, April 30, Arbor Day weekend.
The event was sponsored by the Hillsborough Soil and Water Conservation District, an organization based in Plant City. According to conservation district board member Mark Proctor, the challenge aimed to “create a greater awareness of the critical need for conservation in urban, suburban and rural communities.”
According to the United Nations, the world’s population will reach 9 billion by 2050. In 2011, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations released a report stating that food production would need to increase by 70% to sustain that number. The report also cited climate change and poor farming practices as leading sources of a decrease in farm productivity, calling for major intensification of sustainable production methods throughout the world’s farmlands.
“People don’t think about it,” Proctor said. “But if we don’t increase food production by 70% in the next 40 years, we will be confronted with mass starvation due to our burgeoning population.”
Betty Jo Tompkins, executive director of the Hillsborough Soil and
Water Conservation District, said dozens of projects took place in Plant City and surrounding areas during the challenge. In one of the first events, the Plant City Lions Club helped plant 20,000 wildflower seeds in McIntosh Park.
“The goal of this effort is to increase the pollination by bees that is essential for crop production,” Tompkins said. “In fact, bumblebees have just been placed on the endangered species list, and out of over 2,000 species of bees, only seven actually produce honey.”
Additionally, Hillsborough County Commission Chairman Stacy White visited Blues Berry Farms, where owners Susan and Scot Dumke demonstrated their conservation methods. The farm uses a large field fan to help control temperatures at night, employs numerous nuisance animal deterrents and uses micro-drip irrigation, a system that provides precise levels of water and nutrients to a plant’s root zone.
“We were thrilled with the involvement of so many groups from throughout Hillsborough County,” Tompkins said. “(We) are already signing up clubs and individuals for next year’s event.
Contact Daniel Figueroa IV at [email protected].
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The first close-up images of Jupiter as seen by NASA’s Juno spacecraft are finally rolling in—and the gas giant before us is barely recognisable.
“First glimpse of Jupiter’s north pole, and it looks like nothing we have seen or imagined before,” Scott Bolton, principle investigator for the Juno Mission which arrived in orbit around Jupiter on July 4th, said in a statement. “The largest planet in our solar system is truly unique.”
The dazzling new images of this turbulent ball of gas were captured on August 27th, as Juno executed the first of 36 orbital flybys that brought it just 2,500 miles above Jupiter’s cloud tops. It took a day and a half for the data to be downloaded, and it’s still being analysed and interpreted by the Juno mission team. The latest image releases can be found here.
Among the biggest surprises so far, the north pole appears to lack the striated belts and bands of clouds that are so prominent at Jupiter’s mid-latitudes. Instead, the image above reveals a churning swarm of cyclones, like ethereal blue galaxies all clamouring for space. Juno’s first flyby also captured the fiery beauty of Jupiter’s southern lights, which are barely visible from Earth. Finally, the Juno mission team was very surprised by one feature they didn’t see.
“Saturn has a hexagon at the north pole,” said Bolton. “There is nothing on Jupiter that anywhere near resembles that.”
These are just our first tastes of the weird, ferocious planet Juno will spend the next year and a half discovering. Stay tuned for much, much more! [NASA]
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Micro Analog Systems, Finland, introduces the MAS9279, a VCTCXO IC, with fourth order compensation and frequency range from 10MHz up to 52MHz. With a CMOS output, the IC is ideal for Stratum-3 products as well as for other high-end VCTCXO and TCXO modules.
Due to its extremely small size it is suitable even for miniature oscillator modules such as those with dimensions down to 5 by 3.2mm square. The IC allows the use of overtone crystals and features an optional divider function.
The MAS9279 has a very low phase noise of less than -140 dBc/Hz at 1 kHz at 19.44MHz, making the device ideal for use in high end VCTCXO and TCXO modules. For high-end applications the crystal offset can be trimmed to typically less than ±0.1ppm. Compensation accuracy is better than ±0.28ppm from 0°C to +50°C and better than ±0.75ppm from -20°C to +70°C.
The product is delivered as die or in plastic packages like QFN and samples are available now.
Micro Analog Systems Oy, 02771 Espoo, Finland
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Serverless has been taking the web development world by storm. Many developers opt to pursue serverless functions in new application architectures where a microservice approach would support more traditional containerization. Serverless, however, is still a new technology that continues to grow in both capability and ecosystem.
This article first provides a brief overview of the serverless landscape and discusses the original ideas behind serverless development. The article then delves into the different serverless technologies from AWS Lambda to GCP and Microsoft Azure.
What Is Serverless? Why Does It Matter?
Serverless is in many ways a misnomer, as there is definitely a server involved in each serverless function call. Serverless is an evolution of microservice architectures, applying the concepts of rapid deployment and infrastructure-as-code at the “function” level, providing more granularity than the standard service-level focus. Recognizing this, early versions of what are now called serverless products referred to themselves as function-as-a-service (FaaS) offerings. These FaaS offerings had evolved from similar backend-as-a-service offerings designed to minimize the infrastructure needed to bring an application to market.
The serverless space evolved in response to two needs:
- The ability to find product-market fit very quickly
- The ability to minimize spending on infrastructure as the product evolves
Serverless technology responds to these needs by providing on-demand infrastructure, giving you full availability without the need for an always-on server. This is often achieved through leaning fully into a specific serverless provider, such as Amazon Web Services or Microsoft Azure. Deployment and DevOps are then achieved through third-party tools that aggregate and manipulate the base AWS or Azure resources, allowing developers to support the application as they would a more traditional server-based application.
How Do Serverless Functions Work?
Serverless functionality, whether built on a provider like AWS, Azure, GCP, or locally using OpenFaaS, all rely upon triggers. These triggers are tied to events within the provider’s infrastructure, such as requests to a specific URL, and are intended to integrate seamlessly with the rest of your tech stack. These triggers spawn creation of a function container to handle your request. This removes the need to focus on scalability as you grow while also removing the need for your developers to focus on architecture.
What Are Serverless Security Concerns?
Serverless technology brings significant power and flexibility to a development team, letting them focus on features and functionality instead of infrastructure. This flexibility of serverless applications is not without its risks, though, and it’s important to be aware of the potential security concerns you might encounter before setting foot in the serverless world.
The first security concern you’re likely to run into is simply keeping your security consistent across all of your serverless functions. As standards evolve in your organization, and holes in your security approach are found, you’ll need to propagate the fixes for those holes throughout your entire suite of serverless functions.
On top of the additional complexity due to your application being split among a number of functions, serverless applications face an uphill battle in observability. Logging function activity simply isn’t enough of a signal when troubleshooting issues that are spread across multiple serverless functions. Native tools like CloudWatch start to fail under significant complexity, meaning you will lack visibility as your customers are using your application.
Arising from this is another potential security risk for your application. Security for serverless functions is managed through IAM roles. If these roles have security sets that are too permissive, you can expose your infrastructure to the risk of a rogue function wreaking havoc due to insufficient security restrictions.
This list of security concerns, while not complete, highlights the need to have a dedicated focus on serverless security from the first function you write. Check Point has a number of security solutions that address these core vulnerabilities, while also providing you the automated visibility into your serverless application that you need to deliver value to your users. You can learn more about how Check Point can help with your serverless security here.
A Brief History of Serverless Technology
Serverless technology is an evolution in infrastructure that follows directly from two distinct DevOps trends. The first is thin servers, as implemented in the multiple backend-as-a-service providers like Parse, Backand, and Firebase. Alongside this evolution, deployment technologies were moving away from the standard one-server-per-service model to a model that depended upon containerization—first as virtual machines, then later as deployable containers via Docker.
AWS revolutionized the state of affairs in serverless technology by literally coining the term at re:Invent in 2014. A few months later, the movement solidified, with offerings emerging from Google Cloud and Microsoft Azure that were designed to compete directly with AWS Lambda. As the serverless base technology matured along party lines, third-party tools like Serverless Framework emerged to provide developers with more of a choice.
Within months of the release of AWS Lambda, Google and Microsoft had responded with their own offerings. In the years since, every major cloud provider has responded with their own version of serverless functions, from IBM’s OpenWhisk to Oracle’s Cloud Native Functions. There are also open-source frameworks like OpenFaaS for institutions that need to roll their own infrastructure alongside their development. At the same time, third-party support tools are hitting their stride. Tools like Serverless Framework and Check Point make working with serverless functions a breeze for developers, providing solutions to the critical problems of serverless development.
Challenges with Serverless Technology
While serverless technology offers numerous benefits, there are areas where DevSecOps teams have to rethink their approach. These changes of course fall into three categories:
- Feature development
- User experience
- Infrastructure management
Starting with development and development operations, many of the toolchains supporting serverless development are still evolving. Tools like Azure or AWS’ Serverless Application Model provide support, but comprehensive development suites do not yet fully exist for serverless applications, and this includes security and compliance best practices.
Debugging serverless functions can be a painful experience if you are running into hardware edge cases, and being unable to replicate the hardware used can represent a roadblock. Tracing across multiple function calls is not easily achievable without adding additional load to each request; monitoring for failures is complex due to being unable to establish root causes; and even simple visibility into control flow is challenging to achieve at a comprehensive level.
Complicating matters is the hot/cold nature of serverless technology itself. As containers to execute your function may not exist at the time of the request, there is a small delay while these servers build—referred to as a “cold start.” While individually the impact of a cold start is small (0.1 seconds on average in 2017, though better now), the aggregate impact of small delays can prove significant from a user experience perspective.
Finally, not all triggers are equally replicated across all serverless providers. This requires third-party vendors to step in with solutions and toolchains. While this is not a strict problem in the technical sense, it imposes maintainability and interoperability concerns in that your risk of failure increases with the addition of third-party tools, leaving your application’s success partially out of your hands. Your comfort level with paying for peace of mind will determine the degree to which your organization is impacted, but it is possible to solve many of these integration and development problems with simple fiscal allocation.
Serverless Security Considerations
Deployment of new architecture can present new security concerns. For example, in a serverless environment, where multiple functions are deployed simultaneously, the default is usually to run with the maximum permission levels allowed for one of the functions in the stack. As a result, functions often end up with less secure permissions. In order to optimize efficiency and reduce risk, this paradigm shift must therefore be addressed by the security organization and the DevOps team alike.
Among the key security concerns for organizations running applications on serverless architecture are:
- Managing permissions: The large number of serverless resources that interact with each other requires much more effort to configure correctly. Even if permissions are set correctly during deployment, small server configuration changes could suddenly make your application vulnerable to attacks.
- Loss of the perimeter: Every function is independent and with its own perimeter, rendering traditional filtering solutions ineffective.
- Vulnerable application dependencies: Code is spread out across a much larger set of small services, each of which imports its own set of libraries. This, of course, makes managing vulnerabilities particularly challenging.
- Bad code: With less standing between developers and production, there are fewer opportunities to catch code and configuration errors.
- Denial of service: While you may have negotiated higher limits for your application, because scaling is not infinite, you are still susceptible to denial-of-service attacks if an attacker is able to saturate your limits.
As paradigms shift in web application architecture, this has created a need for a parallel change in serverless security through intelligent automation of security rules and permissions before the functions are even deployed. This approach, combined with scanning functions during development, will enable organizations to offset the likelihood of security issues during runtime.
The Future of Serverless
As has been seen above, third parties have stepped in to fill the gaps in the serverless space in a major way. The inevitable competition will result in both lowered prices and increased functionality offerings, giving organizations more choice in the long term by adding additional flexibility where it was not otherwise present.
Alongside the maturation of third-party tools, new players in the space will allow developers to create further abstraction levels from the root serverless code, increasing the capability to support multiple cloud providers at once. By providing new constructs to represent the ideological concepts of serverless functions, developers will have both a brighter palette to draw from and more comprehensive means of achieving the traceability and discoverability that are current problems in serverless ecosystems.
The biggest growth area, though, is in serverless observability. With the rise of applications built out of a disconnected collection of serverless functions, tracing the control flow in your application has grown in complexity in lockstep. Providers like Check Point have responded to this need by implementing automated monitoring and observability through their CloudGuard software, helping you achieve the visibility you need to keep your serverless application running smoothly.
In addition, given the magnitude of serverless functions deployed, the ability to remediate security and compliance issues based on machine learning, anomaly detection, compliance requirements, and customized rules and regulations is critical. These protocols will not only be monitored and blocked in runtime, but also templatized into CI/CD to aid developers in the secure deployment of their serverless functions-stopping security and compliance issues before they are even deployed.
All of these improvements together will result in faster time to market. This additionally allows for security needs being handled at the development level, allowing security to “shift left” on the application development pipeline.
Moving to a Serverless World
Serverless is rapidly entering a growth phase, making it a hot topic as the underlying tech evolves at a frantic pace. While this has led to challenges that are not present in traditional application environments, serverless development can be a quick boost that results in a rapid improvement in time to market.
By adapting your tool chain to leverage third-party tools like Check Point, you can ride the edge of this wave in web development, gaining all of the benefits with none of the clutter.
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Motivation & Assessment
How are students assessed?
There are certain standards by which learning needs to be graded judged, therefore, assessment criteria is required. Consider which components and milestones of the course will be assessed and what is their weight. Communicate this clearly to students, as the criteria serve as an understanding of what is expected.
What are the needs of the students?
Appropriate resources, materials, guidance, and knowledge are to be delivered to students accordingly to meet their needs. Know your students. Listen to wishes and ask for feedback for the course. Also take into consideration their motivational needs such as credit points, project experience, and network growth.
What feedback is given to students?
Feedback is an essential part of education and effective learning. It is also vital for students’ personal development. Constructive feedback is one of the most valuable things a teacher can give to students by clarifying expectations and allowing room for mistakes and growth. Define who gives feedback and how often. What is the next step?
How is success defined and measured?
Measuring success requires a strategy. Also, consider different success factors, such as personal success and course success. Success relates to outcomes; which achievements will be used for performance metrics?
How do students reflect on their experiences?
Reflection is key to learning. Students become more critical about their own learning processes, take ownership over learning, and construct new meaning to learning through reflection. Think about how to implement regular reflection possibilities into the course tasks.
What do we want to achieve?
A clear vision opens up the path to multiple future possibilities. Think about a vision statement and align it with the vision of Learning Challenge Aalto. How is challenge-based learning visible in the vision?
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Delta Science Readers - Simple Machines - SkillbuildersGrades 5th Grade - 6th Grade
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As an EU Comenius 2.1 project, a main aim of MuseumScouts was to create materials to support teachers who were interested in working with this model of teaching and learning. During the project we gathered evidence of the experience and outcomes of working in more learner-directed ways; of collaborating with museums and using multimedia authoring software as a learning tool.
It was found that the combination of an authentic opportunity for learning outside the school such as a museum visit or field trip followed up with the requirement to create an interactive multimedia presentation to teach others about what you have learned on the trip on your return to class affords the opportunity for students to connect theoretical ideas with experience, to bring together and relate knowledge from different sources in a way that enables the kind of knowledge transformation(s) associated with deep learning.
The project partners’ experiences suggest that the MuseumScouts museum-based, learning by teaching approach:
has educational potential in the context of aims currently articulated by national governments across Europe;
enables productive relationships between schools and museums allowing learners to have access to the rich learning potential of museum collections and the expertise of museum staff;
is flexible enough to be adapted to a variety of contexts;
can facilitate learning of subject knowledge and skill in and understanding of digital technologies and multimedia production;
can positively contribute to teacher training courses.
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Dual credit programs have become popular pathways to college for high school students eager to get an early start on their postsecondary credentials, The Christian Science Monitor reports. By taking college-level courses while still enrolled in high school, students in dual credit programs have reduced college costs and earn their degree in less time, research shows. Approximately 88% of U.S. high schools offer dual credit courses, and 34% of high school students take at least one college course, according to data from the Department of Education.
However, these programs are often out of reach for the students who need them the most. Among students in the high school class of 2019, one-third of white students took at least one dual credit class during their time in high school, compared to one-quarter of Asian, Native American, and Latinx students, and almost a fifth of Black students, says the Department of Education. Low-income students, English learners, and students with disabilities are also underrepresented among students enrolled in these courses due to barriers such as a lack of awareness about programs, exclusionary course prerequisites, and transportation costs.
More equitable dual credit programs
To welcome more students from underrepresented groups into dual credit programs, some community colleges are revisiting their eligibility requirements and reducing financial barriers. Four-year historically Black colleges and universities, including South Carolina’s Benedict College and Claflin University, are also reducing transportation expenses by offering courses online.
School districts in New York and Maryland, meanwhile, are following the Department of Education’s call to invest a portion of pandemic recovery funds to expand access to dual enrollment opportunities by hiring more instructors, purchasing course materials for students, and recruiting English learners. Experts are urging more institutions to subsidize these kinds of programs, as parents in some states are responsible for covering some or all tuition costs, according to data from the Education Commission of the States.
The College Exposure-Dual Enrollment Program at Georgetown
As part of Georgetown’s commitment to improving access to higher education for students from diverse cultural and economic backgrounds, the university welcomes selected rising high school seniors from District of Columbia Public High Schools to take first-year college-level courses through the College Exposure-Dual Enrollment Program. Led by Georgetown’s Center for Multicultural Equity and Access, the program allows participating students to earn college credit and eases the transition to campus life.
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Who's Behind Listverse?
Jamie founded Listverse due to an insatiable desire to share fascinating, obscure, and bizarre facts. He has been a guest speaker on numerous national radio and television stations and is a five time published author.More About Us
10 Famous Landmarks That We Almost Lost
Some of our greatest buildings have endured for centuries to become the heavily visited and treasured wonders they are today. Many of the most impressive creations from history, however, didn’t make it to modern day. For example, consider the original Seven Wonders of the World, all of which (save the pyramids at Giza) were destroyed by either war, natural erosion, or neglect.
The survivors are protected in modern times but were not always so safe. Several escaped at the last minute from being nothing more than the memory of a great idea. Others never would have existed at all had forward-thinking individuals not intervened on their behalf.
10The Eiffel Tower
Petitioned For Destruction
The French people were not always in love with their most famous building. In fact, many still aren’t, but public opinion has shifted in favor of the iconic Tour Eiffel.
When the tower was planned to commemorate the French Revolution for the 1889 World’s Fair, a public outcry erupted even before the foundation was set. Parisians of the time considered Eiffel’s proposed tower an eyesore and a blight on the scenic vistas of Champ de Mars. Petitions were circulated attempting to ban the project from even starting.
With the understanding that the tower would be disassembled within 20 years after the celebrations concluded, a reluctant community allowed the tower to be built. Despite a change of heart by citizens who began to appreciate the tower (and because the antenna tower proved to be an invaluable wartime resource), it narrowly escaped the worst again during World War II when Hitler ordered its destruction. The order was never carried out.
Today, the tower accepts visitors numbering over seven million per year, making it the most visited pay-for-entry monument in the world. It houses restaurants and gift shops on the second level and enjoys possibly the best view of the city from over 275 meters (900 ft) at the third level. Over 500 people work in and on the tower to maintain and run the monument every day, ensuring that the image will continue to grace the Paris skyline.
Lost Beneath The Sands
The Sphinx, one of the world’s most popular and easily recognized landmarks, was for centuries neither of those things. It has also suffered from neglect, vandalism, political turmoil, and natural erosion.
At over 4,500 years old, the Sphinx has seen much of human history unfold from its place near the famous Valley of the Kings. It was erected in connection with the Egyptian god Harmakhis, but the popularity of the cult that worshiped the deity waned, and the colossal sculpture was left unattended. It was buried beneath the shifting sands, and only the head remained visible, inspiring the moniker “father of fear” from locals who were disturbed by the unusual silhouette.
Over the centuries, the sands were removed and then left to overtake the monument again and again. One undocumented attack damaged the statue and destroyed the nose. Seeking gold and other treasures, the Sphinx was again unburied in 1817, but archaeologists found nothing and had to battle back the corrosive sands time after time. Worse, it was discovered that salt leaking up from the base was destroying the foundation of the Sphinx and compromising its stability.
The concrete used by the Egyptians had eroded, and the entire structure was in peril. Conservation efforts have replaced the original mortar with a stronger material, and the Sphinx is safe, for now.
8Statue Of Liberty
Stuffed In Storage
Millions of immigrants came from around the world to pass under Lady Liberty’s torch and find new lives in a nation that promised a better future. She has stood in the harbor attracting thousands of new visitors every year and representing the idealism of her country and its people.
You may know that the Statue of Liberty was a gift from France. This is both true and completely false. The artist, Auguste Bartholdi, originally approached Egyptian leaders during the World’s Fair with hopes of designing a massive statue to sit at the entrance of the Suez Canal. He was ultimately denied and searched for an alternative, turning to America with the hook of celebrating the young country’s independence.
It took 15 years and extensive fundraising to complete the statue, which was fully constructed in a Paris neighborhood with no significant funding from either government. In the end, Joseph Pulitzer saved the day by promising to print the names of every single contributor in his magazine. The plan worked. The gift was packed and shipped on the French ship Isere in 300 pieces in 241 crates across the Atlantic Ocean.
The cargo was nearly lost in rough seas. Once she reached the harbor, America’s icon was placed in storage for over a year. There it stayed, and there it would have remained indefinitely until it was de-mothballed and made the centerpiece of a publicity stunt, in which every person who donated to the cause of putting Liberty on her island got their name printed in New York World newspaper. Who could resist?
So bribery, luck, and good old-fashioned commercialism established America’s symbol in her current home.
Bowie’s Blow-Up Plan
Remember the Alamo? Texas does, Mexico does, and Bowie sure did (Jim, not David).
The location that now stands as little more than the adobe facade of a once great building served many roles. Originally constructed as the chapel of the Mission San Antonio de Valero in 1718, it consisted of a few huts and a stone tower that was destroyed by a storm in 1724. The stone church building was constructed around 1744. It collapsed in 1756.
A second stone chapel, the one we see today, was started in 1758 and was slated to include two large towers and a domed ceiling, covering over four acres. It was never completed. Epidemics had reduced the population of Valero so much that not enough people were left to tend the building.
It was converted to a self-sustaining parish in 1793. It was stripped of its doors and windows and served as a parish for soldiers, eventually becoming San Antonio’s first hospital. A military unit—the Second Flying Company of San Jose and Santiago of the Alamo of Parras—gave the parish its modern name when they were stationed there for nearly 10 years starting in 1801 or 1802. Meaning “cottonwood,” the name has lasted for centuries.
The Alamo changed hands more than 16 times during battles between the Texan, Spanish, Mexican, Union, and Confederate forces that all fought for the land. What was left of the Alamo (probably only the first 7 meters (23 ft) of the walls that stand today) was almost completely destroyed for the last time when Sam Houston requested permission from Governor Henry Smith to remove valuable items and blow up the Alamo to keep it out of enemy hands. Smith refused, Houston left, Bowie stayed, and history was made. Bowie wrote to Smith on February 2, 1836 and stated, “Col. Neill & Myself have come to the solemn resolution that we will rather die in these ditches than give it up to the enemy.”
6The Washington Monument
The Washington Monument was almost a lost treasure before it even began. As the result of early financial troubles in young America, Washington himself pulled the plug on efforts to immortalize him with the massive and expensive monument. Instead, he founded the city that would one day bear his name. Due to a succession of political blunders and the inability to finance it, nearly 75 years passed before any significant construction began, and even that was eventually abandoned.
Though a pared-down and far less expensive monument was finally constructed, it contained a substandard base structure. In 2011, the integrity of that structure was put to the test. A magnitude 5.8 earthquake struck near Washington, D.C., causing extensive structural damage that required the monument to be closed to the public.
According to a report requested by the National Parks Service, the monument suffered several broken marble panels that adorned the outside of the structure, particularly at the pyramid section. Vertical supports that ran inside the monument cracked, and pieces broke off. Portions of the exterior facade cracked and fell off due to twisting during the earthquake. The keystones were damaged, and pieces had to be completely removed. Structural supports known as ribbing inside the monument cracked at crucial joints, and gaps in the mortar became so extensive that daylight could be seen through them, leading to leaking and water damage.
Repairs were completed to the extent needed for it to reopen to visitors. At over 130 years old, the Washington Monument was not designed for earthquake resistance. Though it was patched and approved by the NPS, another incident could prove disastrous for the landmark.
5The White House
Historians remember with regret that the White House that stands today is actually only a shell of the original building, which has been burned, gutted, and restored many times throughout history. The worst destructive act on the country’s most famous residence was in 1814, when British soldiers invaded Washington, expelled all the residents, and set fire to the Capitol and the White House along with other public buildings.
The story of how the White House barely escaped complete ruin at the hands of the British army defies logic, common sense, and even science. Union forces were scattered in the wake of the attack, and Washington appeared to be lost. Then came one of the most remarkable and unseasonable weather events in American history.
On August 25, 1814, two days after the siege began, a tornado hit downtown Washington, D.C. Its torrential rains doused the fires and disrupted British forces, slamming their ships and throwing their cannons into the air. More British troops were killed by the storm than by gunfire.
Following the unexpected gale, the invading army retreated to its ships to regroup, left harbor, and never returned. Up to three tornadoes hit that day—quite an oddity, considering that only seven made landfall in the following 200 years.
It’s shocking to hear the lengths former leaders and the public of Agra went to disgrace their country’s most famous monument. The Taj is now considered a must-see for travelers to India, a priceless remnant of the past, and a testimony to the enduring power of love. But it was nearly destroyed several times, defaced for decades, and the object of scorn by many former leaders.
Built as a tomb for the wife of former leader Shah Jahan, the monument was one of the grandest achievements of its time. After the emperor’s death, the memorial was ignored and fell into disrepair. The British intervened and converted the monument into a military compound. Marble facades were destroyed, barracks were built on the grounds, and the forts were converted into garrisons. In an effort to impress the Prince of Wales, the hall was painted in a coat of whitewash.
After their departure, plans were submitted to have the Taj destroyed and a government building erected in its place. Those plans were abandoned, but the destruction continued. Picnics, fairs, and other events were held on the grounds, where revelers would chisel away pieces of the adornments to take as souvenirs.
In 1828, Lord William Bentinck declared that many landmarks were to be destroyed and sold off in pieces in London. Several pavilions of the Taj were stripped to the brick and shipped off to Europe, some going to King George IV himself. Wrecking equipment was moved into place, and the Taj was ordered to be destroyed. Luckily, just as the crews began, auction attempts in London were declared a failure, and the project was abandoned.
In the early 1900s, Lord Curzon was shocked by the monument’s condition. He had it restored to its current state along many other mosques and tombs that had been turned into kitchens, police stations, and ticket offices. In 1983, the Taj was declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
Struggles Against Time
The Colosseum in Rome, also known as the Amphitheatrum Flavium, has undergone as much structural damage as any building could while remaining standing. It’s nearly 2,000 years old, and the remaining two-thirds of the original Colosseum is a testament as much to the engineering prowess of ancient Romans as it is to conservation efforts.
The Colosseum has suffered not one but two direct lightning strikes that burned out the wood support structures and gutted the basement added by Titus’s brother Domitian. It took every firefighting official and member of the naval fleet to put out the flames and barely avert complete destruction. The fires also greatly damaged the stones and mortar holding the amphitheater together. It was decades before repairs were complete.
The greatest damage has come from people and time. The Colosseum narrowly escaped destruction at the hands of Christian emperors due to its significance as the death place of many Christian martyrs. This did not prevent it from being stripped bare of its impressive marble facade to be used in monuments and houses of the new elite class. The iron supports were stolen by robbers who sold them as scrap, and centuries of turbulent ground shifting has cracked and crumbled the remaining stones into certain peril. It was recently discovered that, a lot like a neighboring attraction in Pisa, the Colosseum leans—it’s 40 centimeters (16 in) higher at one end.
A conservation effort aims to reverse the damage caused not only by years of neglect but by subways and traffic whose vibrations compromise the Colosseum’s structural integrity. The initial effort was postponed several months as pieces of the Colosseum were already being found to fall from its walls.
2The Golden Gate Bridge
On the 50th anniversary of the Golden Gate Bridge in May 1987, 300,000 people marched across the asphalt. Witnesses experienced motion sickness as the bridge swayed in the wind and the deck dropped by more than 2 meters (7 ft). Though no one made a big deal out of it at the time, saving a scene of mass panic, the bridge itself, normally curved, appeared to completely flatten from the side.
Engineers stated that there was no real danger. Each foot of the Golden Gate Bridge can comfortably withstand 2,600 kilograms (5,700 lb) of weight, while the marchers only exerted about 2,450 kilograms (5,400 lb) of weight on each foot of the bridge.
The bridge was actually more endangered (but never quite destroyed ) during its construction than it was that day. Scaffolding and dangerous tide problems during the foundation’s construction killed 911 workers. Then in 1951, the entire road was closed down for several hours when winds reached 113 kilometers (70 mi) per hour, causing the bridge to flutter. A sister bridge from the same designer as the Golden Gate, the Tacoma Narrows, had collapsed on film from winds reaching 65 kilometers (40 mi) per hour 10 years before this incident.
Structural damage occurred on the Golden Gate, while the winds bent the bridge so much that the light standards near the center touched the support cables. The bridge was almost destroyed, according to former Golden Gate chief engineer Daniel Mohn. The added weight of traffic could have resulted in catastrophe had officials not acted quickly.
1The Leaning Tower Of Pisa
Many of wonders of the ancient world met their demise during intense battles. In modern times, countless artistic treasures are still missing after being misplaced during the height of war.
The famous Leaning Tower of Pisa nearly became one of those casualties. But it wasn’t bombings or the collateral damage normally experienced during firefights that nearly reduced to the tower to rubble. It was an order given to Sgt. Leon Weckstein by higher-ups during World War II.
The troops battling back Nazis in Pisa were ordered to eliminate all buildings that may have potentially served as sniper nests for German soldiers. Weckstein says that he received the command to blow up the tower and nearly did so except for overbearing heat. The heat was so intense that it was impossible to properly aim. After delay, he finally did take aim on the monument, but the troops were bombarded by enemy fire and forced to retreat. Military brass approved the fallback and spared the tower.
Whether the German soldiers had ever been in the tower is not known, but Weckstein’s procrastination bought the landmark just enough time to be spared a violent and unnecessary end. Today, efforts are underway to maintain the leaning tower, which has to be corrected every so many years to keep it from simply toppling over.
The Kremlin in Russia is considered to be of the most architecturally significant landmarks in the country. Home to the ruling family from its inception, the Kremlin (“the town”) marks the spot where Moscow was founded in the 11th century. Protected by a fortifying wall and moat, the Kremlin became the center of development for what would become the future capital city.
During the battle of 1812, the Kremlin was captured by Napoleon and nearly became his residence prior to the French retreat. On his departure, Napoleon ordered that the Kremlin be blown up. His plan nearly succeeded. However, a timely rainstorm dampened many of the fuses. Other explosive caches were discovered by residents who put out fires.
Still, the building did not escape unharmed. Five explosions rang out, destroying much of the structure and causing lasting damage. Two of the fortifying towers were demolished, the arsenal was partially collapsed, and several government buildings were damaged in the explosions. The initial blast, the strongest of the five, was so powerful that not only were all of the windows and glass in the Kremlin and neighboring buildings shattered—the window frames themselves were blown out.
Though the building was badly damaged and extensively burned, the residents of Moscow dedicated themselves to resurrecting the iconic landmark. It took decades of restructuring to finish the repairs, but today, the Kremlin stands a testament to the resolve of a centuries-old city and its proud inhabitants.
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This past Wednesday, March 29, was the 30th anniversary of WrestleMania III, held at the Pontiac Silverdome in Michigan. Though I missed the exact day with posting this article, I still wanted to share my memories of that event on the day of WrestleMania 33. I was one of the fans in attendance that day, whether you choose to believe the crowd in the stadium that day was a then-record 93,173, or the 78,000 number that renowned wrestling writer Dave Meltzer has touted for a few years now.
Personally, I believe the 93,000 number. The Silverdome seated 80,000 for football games. Ask longtime Detroit Lions fans how often games were blacked out locally because the stadium couldn’t sell out. Granted, the on-field product was terrible. But the Lions could also sell more tickets than many other teams throughout the NFL, yet not reach a sellout. Granted, my father was driving that day, but traffic that day and getting to the stadium was more of an ordeal than I ever remember in going to a Lions game.
I have no hard data to cite, and my memories of the event are those of a pre-adolescent. My 12-year-old brain was far too consumed with the excitement of the event itself. But it seems rather logical to think that filling the stadium seats, along with all of the seats on the floor of the Silverdome, could reach the 93,173 figure. It doesn’t seem that outlandish. As Tony Paul and Adam Graham report in their outstanding oral history recalling the event for the Detroit News, the event was a slow build to a sellout. This was not something that happened in a day or a week. It was months in the making.
What I most remember about WrestleMania III was it felt like affirmation for a 12-year-old kid who largely kept his wrestling fandom to himself. My friends weren’t into it very much. Nowadays, I occasionally wonder on social media where all these wrestling fans were when I was a kid. They certainly weren’t in my neighborhood or classroom. The internet could have made my life very different. So for me, it was mostly my dad — and my poor little sister, who was subjected to me trying to do wrestling moves on her. To this day, the word “piledriver” probably makes her shudder.
The previous two WrestleManias were events, of course, but seemed unattainable in terms of ever getting to experience it beyond watching on closed circuit TV or VHS cassette months later. (Pay-per-view wasn’t yet really a thing, if I recall.) The first one was at Madison Square Garden, “the mecca” for all big sporting events it seemed. Of course, the then-WWF’s signature event would be in New York City.
That in itself was notable, since pro wrestling had largely been a regional endeavor (WWF was in the northeast, NWA was the south, AWA was in the Great Plains, especially Minnesota) before Vince McMahon ambitiously tried to extend its reach nationwide. WrestleMania II was a bigger example of those national aspirations, held in New York, Los Angeles and Chicago. How would the WWF top that? Hold the event in even more arenas and try to sync those cards up on the same day? McMahon had something more game-changing in mind.
I still remember the feeling on that Saturday morning, watching WWF Superstars of Wrestling when the WrestleMania III site was announced. My whole body was tingling. It had to be a dream. WrestleMania was being held in Michigan and in a football stadium. I could actually go to the event! Considering the size of the Silverdome, everybody could go. Those crowds from Chicago, New York and Los Angeles could fit in one building. I don’t remember how quickly I told my dad and asked him if we could go, but it was probably pretty quickly. He was likely intrigued too. We’d gone to several WWF events in Detroit before at Joe Louis Arena and Cobo Arena. Of course, the idea of getting tickets, how much it would cost and all that was completely lost on me.
I have memories of going with my father to the nearest TicketMaster outlet at Hudson’s department store, but don’t remember if I went with him to get the WrestleMania seats. I faintly recall him having some sense of not wanting seats on the floor, knowing that we probably wouldn’t see the ring very well. I’d like to think his experience as a sports fan and going to football games factored into that. But that same mentality could have applied for an arena show too.
Whether he knew what he was doing when choosing seats or had some luck of the draw, we were in a good location. Our seats were toward a corner of the stadium and we could see the wrestlers on their way to the ring, transported by wrestling ring-shaped carts because it was such a long path to the ring. I clearly remember being able to see the wrestlers almost as well as we could for an arena show. Even though there were four large video screens above the ring to get a closer look, I don’t recall having to look at those screens too often. Maybe when there was a pin to see if the wrestler’s shoulders were down, if there was any grabbing of the tights for leverage, or during a particularly dramatic moment in the match.
As you likely know, the main event — the one that drew 93,000-plus to the Silverdome and made WrestleMania a national story — was the clash between Hulk Hogan and Andre the Giant. This was everything that a pro wrestling storyline and feud should be. Hogan and Andre were great friends and partners. Andre turning heel felt like the ultimate betrayal. How could he do that to Hulk Hogan? How could someone so seemingly gentle (outside the ring, anyway) turn so mean and nasty — and ally himself with Bobby “The Brain” Heenan?
Could Hogan possibly beat Andre the Giant? He was unstoppable. Hogan was a wrestler who relied so much on his strength and power. There was no way he was going to body-slam Andre to set him up for his finishing leg drop.
But that’s indeed what Hogan did to defeat Andre the Giant. The Silverdome lit up with camera flashes when the Hulkster picked up the Giant. It was like a magical moment surrounded by stars and fireworks. Hogan body-slammed Andre! At that size, no way he was going to get out of the way in time to avoid the leg drop. All of us in that arena couldn’t believe what we were watching. I do wonder, however, how many of the other fans in attendance still felt some sadness over Hulk Hogan and Andre the Giant becoming enemies and having to wrestle. Yeah, I know it was all a storyline meant to build up a huge event. Hey, I bought in. I was a kid.
The match I really wanted to see, however, was Ricky Steamboat versus Randy “Macho Man” Savage for the Intercontinental Championship. Steamboat was my favorite wrestler. I loved his high-flying style and slight martial arts influence. But as an Asian-American, it truly meant something to see someone who sort of looked like me in the ring and battling with all of the other stars of the WWF. (That got my mother interested in wrestling too.) Even as a kid, I understood that he wasn’t going to be World Champion because that would have meant wrestling Hulk Hogan. So winning the Intercontinental title was the next best thing. Besides, an “intercontinental” championship for a wrestler of mixed ethnicity seemed appropriate.
But Steamboat wasn’t just going for a title. This was about getting revenge. Months earlier, the storyline was that Savage had injured Steamboat’s larynx during a match, jumping from the turnbuckle to slam Steamboat’s throat into the ringside barrier. Savage caused even further injury by jumping from the top rope with the ringside bell and slamming it into Steamboat’s throat. Steamboat was writhing in pain, seemingly having difficulty breathing. Policemen and attendants came out to the ring to prevent Savage from inflicting further damage, and Steamboat was taken from the ring in a stretcher.
This all looked like pretty serious stuff for wrestling. (Gene Okerlund’s “news report” weeks later seems rather absurd now.) Although it probably should have occurred to all of us watching that a paramedic or doctor was not among the people checking Steamboat and taking him from the ring. Savage seemed maniacal, trying to deliberately injure an opponent and cause lasting harm, rather than just defeat him. As impressive a wrestler as he was — and even if you hated the Macho Man, you had to admire his high-flying skill — he now seemed truly villainous. Steamboat recovering to wrestle him again felt like a battle of good versus evil.
Even without the dramatic storylines leading up to the bout, the battle between Steamboat and Savage at WrestleMania III is largely considered to be one of the best wrestling matches of all time. Personally, I’ve felt gratified over the years to read those opinions — which were repeated in the Detroit News oral history — because I always felt biased about the match and its result. This was Batman versus The Joker. Luke Skywalker versus Darth Vader. It felt like more than a wrestling match.
But Steamboat-Savage was such a good match, a fantastic 15-minute display of wrestling that was the longest match of the evening. All of my relatives and friends who dismissed wrestling as fake could eat it. Who cared if anything was choreographed or pre-determined? That was a major display of athleticism from two stars at the top of their game. Even as a fan who was only beginning to embrace “real” sports, I knew this was something spectacular to behold. But Steamboat had to win, right? Good had to triumph over evil? Savage couldn’t be allowed to be a champion after demonstrating such brutality to an opponent.
This was a back-and-forth battle, with both wrestlers nearly getting the pin numerous times. It really felt like it could go either way. Savage seemingly should have won the match after hitting his finishing elbow drop, but the referee was knocked out and couldn’t give the three-count for the pin. Then Savage, being the true asshole that he was back then, figured he would hurt Steamboat again, trying to get the ringside bell to slam it into Steamboat’s throat while he was unable to defend himself. Fortunately, Steamboat had George “The Animal” Steele (a Michigan native!) to help him. Steele knocked Savage off the top rope, a blow that set him up for Steamboat rolling him up for the pin.
Maybe it wasn’t the bombastic ending many were hoping for, but it was an unexpected one — and the surprise made it spectacular. When ring announcer Howard Finkel said “NEW!” in front of “Intercontinental Champion” to announce Steamboat had won the match, it felt like one of the most amazing things 12-year-old me had ever seen. Even my eight-year-old sister jumped up and down with her arms raised when Steamboat won. We could have left the Silverdome after that moment and I would have been happy. But there were three more matches on the card, including the Hulk Hogan-Andre the Giant main event.
Thirty years later, I don’t remember much about the other WrestleMania III matches aside from Steamboat-Savage and Hogan-Andre. Looking over the card, I don’t recall, for example, Hillbilly Jim versus King Kong Bundy with four little wrestlers in a six-man tag team match. I have no memory of what was billed as Rowdy Roddy Piper’s final match before retirement. I was a big British Bulldogs fan and don’t remember their match against The Hart Foundation, which was another six-man tag match.
What I do remember is the traffic before the game, hearing wrestlers such as Junkyard Dog on local radio stations like WRIF-FM. I recall the anticipation of riding up to the Silverdome in a shuttle and walking up the ramp toward the stadium. (I also remember riding back to our car at night, looking at our reflection in the bus window.) But what I remember most is the feeling of awe walking into the Silverdome on March 29, 1987, the stands full of people, the large WrestleMania III banners hanging, the video screens situated above the ring. There were so many people there, and all of them were there to see a wrestling event. Even if some were just there to witness the spectacle itself, I didn’t feel like a kid watching wrestling by himself on TV every Saturday morning. I remember the front-page photos and news stories in the local papers the next day. For at least one day, pro wrestling wasn’t a joke.
In thinking about what happened 30 years ago, I also think about my father. I’d love to ask him about his memories of that day, but unfortunately he’s not here to share them anymore. But I hope he enjoyed the day. Even in dealing with all of that traffic in what must have been hours of driving (Ann Arbor to Pontiac was normally a one-hour drive), the shuttle buses, spending that money on the tickets and whatever other souvenirs I had to have that day, I don’t recall my father ever losing his temper (and he had a short one). I think he had fun. Like everyone else in that stadium, he was caught up in the event and wowed by the spectacle of it all. I remember my hand stinging when he high-fived me after Steamboat won. That was a hell of a thing for a father to do for his son. I just hope I thanked him and he knew how much I appreciated it all.
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Women’s Transformational Gatherings-
Held monthly, this is a space for women to gather together, to pause and reflect, to tune into nature, into our bodies, into our deep wisdom and the intelligence behind all things.
It is a space to reconnect with our self, with each other and to be held in a supportive environment that enables a revealing of our true nature in order that we may live more authentically, with a peaceful mind and a fulfilled heart.
Think of this as similar to a gathering together of women, next to a warm range, around the kitchen table, sharing knowledge, comfort and life experience. Nourishment and inspiration for the heart, mind, body and spirit.
An invitation to come home.
The evenings include meditation, guided conversation, reflection and sharing.
We meet as equals, honouring each others path’s and point’s of view in total acceptance, non-judgement and love.
Results of our gatherings-
An awakening to more presence and expansiveness.
Greater peace of mind, less stress, anxiety and tension.
Increased capacity for creativity and fresh in-sight.
Feeling more in the flow of life.
A deeper sense of knowing our true essence and more comfort in how we show up in the world.
I will be your guide for the evenings, and share with you fundamental transformational principles, that fit with all spiritual paths, that support you to lead a happier, more connected life of clarity, ease and joy.
Dates and venues to follow soon for 2019 in- Bath, Glastonbury, Frome and Bradford on Avon.
Each evening will last for approx 2 hours and cost £20 per person, concessions will be available and if you bring a guest, the first time they attend, you can come for £15.
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