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by Rob Williams on January 31, 2011 in Graphics & Displays
AMD last week released a 1GB variant of its popular Radeon HD 6950 graphics card, and to see how the performance would be throttled with the GDDR cut, we benchmarked both versions with the latest Catalyst 11.1 driver. Does the 1GB card and its $20 savings prove too hard to ignore, or should the 2GB still be the one to scoop up?
For fans of the original Mafia game, having to wait an incredible eight years for a sequel must’ve been tough. But as we found out in our review, the wait might be forgotten as the game is quite good. It doesn’t feature near as much depth as say, Grand Theft Auto IV, but it does a masterful job of bringing you back to the 1940’s and letting you experience the Mafia lifestyle.
Manual Run-through: Because this game doesn’t allow us to save a game in the middle of a level, we chose to use chapter 7, “In Loving Memory…”, to do our runthrough. That chapter begins us on a street corner with many people around, and from there, we run to our garage, get in our car, and speed out to the street. Our path ultimately leads us to the park, and takes close to two minutes to accomplish.
Similar to our Dirt 2 results, the 1GB model comes out ahead of the 2GB one up until 2560×1600, at which point the 2GB model comes out ahead, by about 1 FPS.
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Technology gives us easy access to anything on the internet. With web accessibility, end users can easily connect, understand and perceive information without a hassle. Web accessibility is a significant tool for users who have disabilities, which can provide better interaction with the worldwide web.
Although it can be very helpful and daunting at the same time, it’s no secret that web accessibility can enhance your digital marketing. As you read through the importance of web accessibility(1) and its perks, consider our guide to creating a website that’s more accessible to your users. I mean, what better way than to dive into a guide that can enlighten your thoughts on web accessibility?
Why is Web Accessibility Important?
There are multiple reasons why web accessibility can be successful. It’s the number one technical tool for disabled people to actively participate. This will ease the experience for people with disabilities and enhance the UX design in terms of digital marketing.
It allows more companies to realize that users will be acknowledged with this new set feature as well as increase the number of conversions through your sales funnel.
How to Make Web Accessible
Yes, it’s a known fact that disabled people should have the privilege of using the web. Hence the importance of web accessibility coming into play with digital marketing. Here are a variety of solutions that can help optimize web accessibility for disabled users.
Alt-tags, or “alt descriptions” are SEO tools used on image tags to assist search engines by providing text alternatives of said image tags. These not only help disabled users understand pictures better with a brief description.
Use of Better Tables:
The use of better tables allows better access for disabled users. As for web developers, creating a simple table via web accessibility requires two things: headings and summaries for tables. The best strategy in creating the perfect table would be to avoid using it as a layout device, making it easier to understand.
Have Keyboard Navigation:
We’re not saying that you have to thoroughly think about what can be easily accessible to a disabled user, but it’s better to have easy keyboard navigation for their sake. Never create features that can be seen as overwhelming and complicated. Keep it fairly simple is all we’re saying.
Default HTML Tags:
Another tip to consider when creating web accessibility for your users is to never make an HTML tag that’s complex. These types of tags should look simple and clean for your users reading the screen.
Add Closed Captions for Media:
Obviously, there can be certain pieces of media that can be too difficult to see or comprehend. Try creating transcripts for videos supported with audio and connecting close captioning.
Try ARIA Tag:
ARIA or Accessible Rich Internet Applications is a simpler form of HTML that provides more accessibility. This feature to your development inaccessibility can assist users with navigation landmarks. This can include messages and buttons located within a page.
Always Use the Title Tag:
Every website has one despite having the option to keep it hidden. Your users need to know what they’re seeing and reading. In this case, put the title tags so they have an idea of what your page is about.
Benefits of Web Accessibility
Not only does web accessibility invite in new customers, but it opens up more numbers in conversions for your customer journeys. On top of that, find out what are the benefits of having web accessibilities for your digital platform.
Avoiding Legal Complaints and Discrimination
Due to the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)(2), people who have disabilities are allowed to enjoy public services just like any other person. Since the internet is a public domain, creating web accessibility for your sites will allow you to veer away from discriminating against disabled users as well as keep you out of any legal issues.
Wider Reach to Audience
As mentioned before, web accessibility not only helps disabled members gain access to other parts of the internet. It will give you a wide audience since web accessibility revolves around the concept of inclusivity, leading to an increase in conversions in your sales funnels.
The buildup of Positive PR
It’s important to let your consumers know that you stand with web accessibility and what it can do for people who have disabilities. Having good PR is crucial for any business(3), hence the significance of web accessibility. Showing commitment towards establishing web accessibility for your disabled users depicts a powerful image for your business in a positive manner.
Businesses who seek ways to improve SEO will find that web accessibility slides right into this perfectly. Well, the correlation between the two mainly involves communicating to disabled users. Specifically, this would refer to having descriptive page titles and other features.
Increases in Usability
With the web, accessibility comes easy navigation. The fact that these two go together creates the result of usability increase. Disabled users can fulfill any sort of task on the web as long as the entire site can be easy to use. This can involve close captioning, image tags, and ARIA and default HTML tags.
Writing in Higher-Quality Code
Good coding can create greater benefits to your UX design. The involvement of web accessibility makes it a better reason as to why you would have to write high-quality code. This can not only improve SEO ratings but also up the numbers on ROIs.
( Also Read: 4 Key Areas for a Successful Website )
Issues That Should be Avoid in Web Accessibility
- Tab-through orders: Without this UX feature, more issues can arise for disabled users who want to use the Tab key for tabs through orders on a browser.
- Landmarks: Landmarks are responsible for page content navigation and get users lost throughout your page without them.
- Unique Titles: Without a solid foundation, this will lead to a less user-friendly website.
- Headings: Lack of proper formatting on your site can also leave disabled users confused throughout your site.
- Lists: Not having a control list within the page structure causes your site to be less compliant for disabled end-users.
- Size: Sizing of font throughout a text is significantly important because you want users to easily read what’s in front of them.
- Contrast: Contrast goes along with the text because your users should be able to see the text itself along with the sizing.
- Color: Coloring of texts is an important factor that’s often forgotten by UX designers because color can also affect the way that disabled users perceive your site.
- Images instead of text: Not providing text that can go along with pictures is another web accessibility issue because there will be certain users that have disabilities where they can’t visualize images.
- Text for images: Web accessibility needs to include closed captioning for any kind of visual media, which is a practice that often gets left out of UX designs for disabled users.
- Color: This not only applies with text, but with images as well. Just like text, colors for images should not be too overpowering.
- Clarity: Hyperlinking other sources should be kept at a minimum because you want to have the user focus on your site rather than the other source itself.
- Readability: Being able to read a hyperlink is another obstacle for web accessibility designers.
- Distinctiveness: Hyperlinks should be unique but should show simplicity within their distinctiveness.
- Video: Without easy usage to play videos, disabled users miss out on participating just like any other end-user.
- Audio: Audio issues going along with the video is another struggle for web accessibility designers because everything connects like a domino effect.
- Animations: Animations can also be a struggle for disabled users since there’s a chance that the animation itself can be difficult to perceive.
- Navigation: Lack of form navigation doesn’t do well for your web accessibility and your users because it will simply lead the users nowhere.
- Instruction and labeling: Empty form labels are an example of web accessibility issues because this is the most common feature that your users will interact with.
Web accessibility is all about how we can help others in being a part of the virtual world. In a sense, it can bring any kind of user closer, especially ones with disabilities. In this case, with web accessibility, you’re creating solutions for people to perceive information better with new and improved tools.
Despite the issues you may encounter, it’s better to look at the brighter side of the situation, which is how you can enhance your brand. The overall benefit that highlights the perks of web accessibility is the number of conversions that can change a business’s digital marketing plan. Moreover, web accessibility is the key for developers to seek solutions on how they can make features more available and inclusive to the disabled.
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I have been running an ESXi 4.0 server for months with a couple of WinServer2003 and several Ubuntu Server 10.4 VMs. The performance has been impressive on 6GB i7 Asus P6T hardware.
Suddenly, a week ago, ssh logins to the Ubuntu VMs take 10 minutes when connecting over the LAN (over a WAN the connection (pipe) is broken long before that). When logging in to these VMs the password prompt arrives immediately, and failed passwords are responded to immediately.
But the moment I log in then the shell prompt appears and I hang for many minutes. Sometimes the connection hangs before the shell prompt appears and sometimes I can type in a command but the moment I hit return the machine hangs. 10 full minute later control returns and the VM is responsive.
NOTE: there are several Ubuntu VMs on the same host machine that are identical in all ways that I can tell. However, only one of the VMs displays this behavior. That is why I mention the ESXi host in passing - I don't think it has anything to do with the problem.
This behavior is never seen when I connect with the troubled-VM's console (through vSphere Client). From the console the Ubuntu VMs all respond beautifully.
I have seen: http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?cmd=displayKC&docType=kc&externalId=1003496&sliceId=1&docTypeID=DT_KB_1_1&dialogID=229586372&stateId=1%200%20229588522 ...and since that relates to delays in seeing the password prompt that does not appear to be the solution here.
Any other suggestions very welcome - thank you.
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As The Good Book Says...
Submitted by Maynard S. Clark - 22 Jul 2003
A couple was arranging for their wedding, and asked the baker to inscribe the wedding cake with "1 John 4:18" which reads "There is no fear in love, but perfect love casts out fear."
The baker evidently lost the scripture reference, but working from memory, beautifully inscribed on the cake "John 4:18". Imagine the shock of the few faithful who looked up the reference to read:
"For you have had five husbands, and the man you have now is not your husband."
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“This has nothing to do with me, Al.” Shane countered while avoiding Carmen’s curious gaze.
“Why don’t we try something different, Alice? I’m going to tell you what topics are off limits and you can construct your interrogation as you see fit. However, if you suspect that even one question, before it even leaves your mouth, could potentially be harmful, you maintain, compose, and text me the question before you verbalize it.”
“Now you’re assuming she thinks before she speaks.” Kit muttered while Angus and Tayo again attempted to suppress giggles and Alice gasped a second time before looking in the table’s opposite direction at the lead singer.
“I believe in giving people the benefit of the doubt, right Alice?” Bette offered.
“Is it Pick-On-Pieszecki Day or Everyone-Be-Assholes-to-Alice Day? I can never tell the two apart.” Alice whined.
“Look, you can either work with me on this, or just sit there and look cute without saying a word while Tina is here. It’s really your decision.”
All eyes were back on Bette when she said Tina’s name.
“Tina’s on her way here?” Carmen asked with a huge smile on her face.
“Yes, Tina. As in, Tina A&R-Rep-for-Alphaville-but-whom-we-are-not-asking-for-any-favors-or-any-recording-deals-because-she-may-start-dating-your-business-manager Kennard. Are we clear?”
“Nice, Little P. She’s haaawwt!” Angus sang the last word in a high pitched tone earning him a look of death from Kit.
“Yes, Angus, she most certainly is.” Bette smiled, catching the look Kit gave him. “Okay, Al. Things off limits: record deals, professional opinions with regard to Kit and/or the Stouts, personal issues such as political persuasions, religious discussions, sexual fantasies, unless she opens the door to that topic, umm…” Bette looked up as she thought hard about anything else she wanted Alice to stay away from. “Oh, and under no circumstances are you to bring up the fact that you and I dated.”
Alice was mid-bite when Bette uttered the last off limits subject. Her arm froze, mouth remained open, fork just inches away. The other three female Stouts also stopped what they were doing and their eyes widened. Alice calmly set her fork down.
“Umm, I…. may have already…..alluded to…something…to…that…affect.”
“Define ‘alluded.’” Bette demanded, narrowing her eyes.
“Off the cuff, I think. Umm, ‘been there, done that’ type of proclamation.” Alice said cautiously. “She was wasted though, so she may not even remember.”
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Urban foragers live simply, cheaply off the land
Published 4:00 am, Sunday, September 4, 2011
The best way to catch a monkey-faced eel is to bait a long poke pole with squid, stick it in a crevice along a rocky shore, and try not to let the surf or slippery seaweed take you under.
Wait for the tug, then tug back.
It takes time, patience and bravado, but for urban foragers Michele Senitzer and Kim Di Giacomo, knowing where their dinner came from, and that they didn't have to pay someone for it, makes everything taste better.
Both women live in Oakland, one of the birthplaces of the underground food economy, where they grow, barter or find the majority of fruits, vegetables and seafood they eat.
They hunt chanterelles in the Oakland hills, pick berries in parks or gather plums from the yards of foreclosed homes to make their own wine. They snare Dungeness crabs in Half Moon Bay, harvest their own sea salt, raise chickens and bees, and grow several dozen vegetables and herbs.
Sharing food, ideas
They swap produce with a homesteader neighbor who butchers her own chickens, rabbits and goats. Senitzer traps rainwater for her plants and collects used vegetable oil from nearby restaurants, filters it at home and uses it to power her 1979 Mercedes diesel sedan.
"I want to be capable," said Senitzer, lead singer and guitarist for the children's rock band Abby and the Pipsqueaks. "I want to understand how things work and make things myself while living lighter and simpler on the land."
Her resourcefulness has allowed her to work as a "starving artist" for 15 years without having to answer to any boss but herself.
But starve is the last thing she'll ever do. A recent inspection of her pantry turned up several jars of honey from her hive, pickled capers from the nasturtiums in her front yard, white peach jam made from bruised produce on the giveaway table at a nearby market, and so many pears that she posted a message on the social foraging website she and Di Giacomo created in February, Found Fruit ( www.foundfruit.com), for people to take them for free.
Found Fruit's 200 followers use the site to invite neighbors to harvest one another's fruit trees, map the location of feral berries or greens growing on public property, arrange garden bounty swaps, and pass tips on making cheese, pickles and infused liqueurs.
"I've gotten to know my neighbors better, and that community is more important, really, than the food," said Di Giacomo, 40, whose parents taught her to forage, barter and fish on a Pennsylvania farm. Senitzer, 39, grew up doing the same in Ohio.
"Just because I live in an urban environment now, that doesn't mean I can't stay connected to the land," said Di Giacomo, who administers grants for a nonprofit community-development financial institution.
Recently, a dozen neighbors living within a 5-mile radius in East Oakland organized themselves into Team Found Fruit and entered Sunset magazine's One Block Party contest, where everything on the menu had to be handmade with local ingredients.
"Since we were living that way already, why not get the $500 prize and a write-up in the magazine for it?" Senitzer said.
The winner will be announced this month.
Nothing goes to waste
At Found Fruit's feast, three pet baby goats frolicked under the backyard table as guests dined on black olives gleaned from the Mills College campus, pickled quail eggs, and squash blossoms stuffed with goat cheese.
The main course included rabbit risotto, monkey-faced eel and "noodles" made from zucchini.
The bar was stocked with home brews: an India pale ale, hard blackberry cider, sauerkraut martini and grapefruit spritzer.
"I can't believe how far they ran with this," said Sunset food editor and contest judge Margo True, author of "One-Block Feast," about a similar locavore experiment on Sunset's Menlo Park garden campus.
Senitzer showed guests the Hawaiian casting net she uses to pull smelt from the surf and the crab trap she made.
"People say what I do is foraging," she said. "I always called it fishing, or picking berries, or making sure nothing goes to waste."
Whatever verb is used, Senitzer likes knowing she can use her creativity and wisdom to take care of herself.
Not even garden snails plague her organic garden. She simply plucks them and bakes them with a splash of her own ginger-infused wine, harvested sea salt, handmade butter, sourdough bread crumbs, garlic and parsley.
Makes about 20
Adapted from Found Fruit.
- 6 medium beets (ideally with the same circumference as the goat cheese log)
- 2 large bunches of chard, kale, or beet greens
- 2 tablespoons olive oil
- 1/4 teaspoon sea salt or kosher salt + more to taste
- 8-ounce goat cheese log
- -- Minced chives (optional)
- -- Freshly ground black pepper to taste
- -- Arugula flowers (optional)
Instructions: Preheat oven to 400°. Scrub beets, then wrap in aluminum foil and roast for about 60-90 minutes, or until tender, depending on size of beets (pierce with tip of knife to test for doneness).
While the beets are roasting, remove and discard the ribs from the chard, kale or beet greens, and roughly chop the greens.
Heat the olive oil in a large skillet over medium-high heat. Add the greens, sprinkle with 1/4 teaspoon sea salt and cook, stirring, until wilted, about 3-5 minutes. Set aside to cool.
When the beets are done, let them cool a bit. When you can handle them, slip the skins off the beets, and slice the beets into 1/4- to 1/2-inch thick rounds. Cut the goat cheese into the same-size slices; if necessary, place the cheese in the freezer for 20-30 minutes and slice it with a hot knife to avoid crumbling.
To assemble, arrange beets on a platter and top each slice with a heaping tablespoon of sauteed greens, then with a slice of goat cheese. Garnish with chives, sea salt and black pepper to taste and an arugula flower, if desired.
Per serving: 65 calories, 3 g protein, 3 g carbohydrate, 5 g fat (3 g saturated), 9 mg cholesterol, 158 mg sodium, 1 g fiber.
Stuffed Charred Peppers
Adapted from Found Fruit.
- 1 tablespoon olive oil + more for serving
- -- Kernels from 2 ears of corn (about 2 cups)
- 2 Japanese or other small, slender eggplants, diced into 1/2-inch cubes (about 3 cups)
- 4 medium sized tomatoes, diced (about 2 cups)
- 1-2 bunches hearty greens (kale, collards, mustard, etc), large ribs removed, roughly chopped (about 4 cups)
- -- Sea salt or kosher salt and fresh ground pepper to taste
- 6 bell peppers, any color, halved, ribs and seeds removed
- 6 ounces feta cheese
Instructions: Preheat a grill to medium-high heat.
Heat 1 tablespoon olive oil in a large skillet over medium-high heat. Add the corn and eggplant and cook, stirring, for about 3 minutes. Add the tomatoes and cook, stirring, for about 1 minute. Add the greens and cook until wilted, about 3-5 minutes.
Remove from heat, season with salt and pepper, and spoon into the pepper halves. Crumble feta over each stuffed pepper. Carefully place the peppers on the grill, cover grill for about 8-10minutes, rotating occasionally to evenly char the outside of each pepper.
Remove from heat, drizzle with olive oil, sprinkle with sea salt and serve.
Per serving: 102 calories, 4 g protein, 13 g carbohydrate, 5 g fat (2 g saturated), 13 mg cholesterol, 176 mg sodium, 3 g fiber.
Blackberry Nectarine Galette
Makes 1 galette; serves 10-12
Adapted from Found Fruit.
- 2 cups all-purpose flour + more for rolling
- 5 ounces butter, chilled and chopped into small pieces
- 1 teaspoon sugar
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 1 large egg yolk + ice water combined to make 1/2 cup
- 4 cups blackberries
- 1 cup diced nectarines
- 1/3 cup sugar or more to taste
- 3 tablespoons cornstarch
- 1/2-1 tablespoon fresh thyme leaves (optional)
- Egg wash:
- 1 large egg, lightly beaten
- 4-6 tablespoons coarse sugar
For the dough: Combine the 2 cups flour, the butter, sugar and salt in the bowl of a food processor fitted with the steel blade; pulse until the mixture is the consistency of large peas. While the machine is running, slowly drizzle in the egg yolk mixture and pulse just until the liquid is incorporated and the dough holds together. You may not need all the liquid; be careful not to overmix.
Form the dough into a disc, wrap with parchment or plastic wrap, and refrigerate for 30 minutes or as long as overnight; freeze for longer storage.
Remove dough from the refrigerator, let rest for a few minutes, then turn it out onto a floured surface or between two layers of parchment paper. Roll out into an even 1/4-inch layer forming an approximate circle about 14-15 inches in diameter. Cover and chill 30-45 minutes to prevent dough from losing shape during baking process.
Transfer to a rimmed baking sheet while you make the filling.
For the filling: Vigorously mix the berries, nectarines, sugar and cornstarch and thyme, if using, in a large bowl until the berries are partially crushed. Preheat the oven to 425°.
When dough has chilled thoroughly, remove it from the refrigerator and transfer to a baking sheet, lined with parchment, if possible. Use a slotted spoon to scoop the fruit mixture onto the center of dough, reserving the liquid. Working quickly to keep dough cold, fold edges of dough over the fruit, pinching any cracks closed to prevent leakage. Evenly pour remaining liquid from berry mixture over the fruit.
Brush the egg wash over the crust, and sprinkle heavily with coarse sugar. Bake for about 45 minutes to 1 hour, until the filling is bubbling and the crust is golden brown, checking often to prevent overbaking.
Serve warm or at room temperature.
Per serving: 241 calories, 3 g protein, 33 g carbohydrate, 11 g fat (6 g saturated), 61 mg cholesterol, 185 mg sodium, 3 g fiber.
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The AE3100 is a standalone OTDR ideal for verifying the construction, installation and maintenance of access networks and FTTx networks. Models available with various wavelengths and dynamic ranges.
- High performance OTDR for FTTx and RFoG networks
- 7”, 800×480 LCD touchscreen places power and convenience at your fingertips
- Excellent short-distance performance with 0.8m event dead zone and 4m attenuation dead zone
- Broad dynamic range coverage (28 – 39 dB)
- Minimum 5cm resolution
- Intelligent analysis of events
- Excellent stability and repeatability
- “FiberPass” intelligent analysis feature
- Multiple options for your measurement needs, including: VFL, power meter, light source, and optical fiber microscope
- Complete user data ports: support LAN, USB, SD, & more
As the demand for bandwidth continues to soar, with higher-than-ever smartphone and streaming video usage, cable operators must face the challenge of deploying fiber deeper into the network. And because efficiency, speed, accuracy, and reliability metrics are key for increasing workforce productivity, the natural conclusion is simple: communications service providers (CSP) require a high-performance, efficient, yet affordable test equipment for installing future networks such as FTTx, RFoG and RF PON. Brought to you by Deviser Instruments Inc, the AE1000 integrates cable TV analysis, metallic TDR testing and optical testing, including a fiberscope, OTDR, OPM, VFL and LS, future-proofing the investment in test equipment. The AE1000 enables faster, more efficient installations with only a single instrument, producing substantial savings to the CSP.
- OTDR performance specifications with up to 3 wavelengths, perfect for FTTx, RFoG and RF PON installation
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U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry has called for a "global coalition" to combat Islamic State militants who have seized large swaths of Syria and Iraq.
In an op-ed published in "The New York Times" late on August 29, Kerry called for “the broadest possible coalition of nations" to confront the jihadists' "genocidal agenda."
Kerry's comments come before a NATO summit in Wales on September 4-5.
Kerry said U.S. Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel would "enlist the broadest possible assistance" on the sidelines of the summit.
U.S. President Barack Obama has said he is still developing a comprehensive plan to combat Islamic State.
Following the summit, Kerry said he and Hagel would travel to the Middle East to build support "among the countries that are most directly threatened."
Based on reporting by "The New York Times" and AFP
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As of March 23, education in Manitoba’s K-12 schools has looked a lot different than it did the week before. Due to the Province’s Health Order to practice physical distancing, school has gone from school classrooms to students’ kitchens and living rooms. What was originally to be a 2-week pause to the 2019-2020 school year is now an indefinite suspension of classes with the very realistic possibility of seeing the remainder of instruction for the 2019-2020 school year being handled remotely. The position of The Manitoba Teachers’ Society does not refer to this new reality as home-schooling but as remote learning or learning from home.
I am sure that all of the educational decision makers (Ministers, Superintendents, Principals, Teachers and Trustees) have little, to most likely no experience in dealing with a situation like this. I can’t remember ever seeing a University course or PD Session entitled Schools and Pandemics 101.
To set the record straight, everyone involved in making decisions are doing what they feel is best. With no manual or other experiences to follow, decisions made one day are often modified the next or even modified later in the same day.
Across the Province, teachers have the choice to work from home or to head to their buildings to gather materials to plan and/or work, all the while observing physical distancing. Here is the directive from MTS which can be found on their website:
- The directive from federal and provincial public health officials is for all of us to stay at home as much as possible. In turn, that is the position of MTS to its membership.
- If there is an urgent need to access classroom resources at your school, you must comply with all public health orders and your employer must ensure social distancing occurs.
- If you’re directed to attend your school and you feel unsafe doing so, under the WSH Act you have the right to refuse dangerous work.
For Principals throughout Manitoba, the situation is slightly different. As schools are technically still open, a majority of Divisions are expecting Principals to be in their buildings to assist teachers, direct custodial staff (if still working), support administrative staff (most still working) and to answer questions from parents. Principals who need flexibility with this request because of personal circumstances have the ability to discuss their case with their Supervisor on an individual basis. When concerns have risen, COSL’s liaisons with MTS have advocated for COSL members to see that they have been treated fairly.
What does the new reality mean for school leaders in Manitoba? In speaking with several members over the past several weeks, some general questions and wonderings have been raised. Here is a list of some of the more common ones:
- How long do we need to be in our buildings each day?
- Supporting staff in learning and using new platforms that they may have never used
- How to keep in contact with staff? How often?
- Managing Zoom, Microsoft Teams or whatever video conference they are using
- Organizing technology for those who don’t have hardware and/or connectivity
- Allowing students/parents access to building to safely pick up supplies
- Providing supplies and necessities(food)to students/families in need
- Mental well-being of staff and students
- Trying to provide meaningful work for support staff so they can remain employed
- Keeping logs of staff activities
- Why are things different in another Division? Within another school in the same Division?
- The use of social media in communicating with students and their parents, what are the parameters/boundaries that should be followed?
The list provided captures the main points, but because of the uncertainty surrounding the Pandemic and the lack of anyone having any experiences with this type of situation, answers continually evolve and new questions arise.
Governments are turning to School Divisions to save money. This past week in Manitoba several divisions have issued layoff notices for EAs, bus drivers, crossing guards and lunch supervisors. Many of these initial layoffs have been with part-time employees but will it stop there? In some Divisions, staff have been retained if they choose to accept a change to their assignment.
School Divisions are looking for different ways to provide programming for their students from setting up mobile breakfast/lunch programs to be delivered by Division staff to setting up Wi-Fi hotspots in their communities in schools and even on school busses parked in a central location.
Recently the Government has come out with guidelines for the amount of work teachers should be sending home by grade (similar to other Provincial guidelines). There are different hourly expectations for the different grade levels. Students are expected to engage in remote learning. High School students who do not keep engaged with their remote learning will be required to take recovery learning the next school year with this being noted on their report cards.
Guiding Principles of Province’s Response to Educational Planning
- Learning and assessment will continue for all students.
- No student will be held back due to the pandemic. Students on track to graduate will graduate. Adult learners will be included in planning.
- Families, schools, and school divisions, educational partners, and Manitoba Education are working together to ensure student achievement and success, and planning for individual student needs and circumstances as needed.
- Resources will be redirected to ensure that students actively engage in learning during the suspension of classroom learning.
- The plan is future-oriented. Efforts are forward-looking both to reopening classrooms and planning for a variety of recovery learning needs in the fall.
Partners Roles and Responsibilities
- Manitoba Education
- Coordinate and oversee provincial-level planning in response to the suspension of in class learning
- Facilitate K to 12 stakeholder communication and planning pertaining to issues, priorities, and implementation of pandemic response planning
- Resolve urgent matters, make recommendations regarding resource implications of response plans, and outline opportunities for future system improvement. Some examples include expanding distance/online learning resources, establishing a parent/ caregiver portal for engaging in education, and improving the Manitoba Professional Learning Environment (Maple).
- Ensure accessible resources to support parents and caregivers, as well as students who are at risk.
- School Divisions and School Leaders
- Participate in local and provincial planning.
- While considering their local context, implement provincial expectations for teaching, learning, and assessment.
- Review and reallocate resources as needed to facilitate teaching and learning (i.e., non-teaching staff, technology, online platforms, print-based materials).
- Mobilize supports for students who are at risk.
- Support school staff as they change and adapt to learning at home.
- Ensure, to the greatest extent possible, that home-school communication continues with families.
- Collaborate with school administration to implement the plans for teaching and learning.
- Evaluate curricular outcomes that have not yet been covered and prioritize remaining outcomes based on what is manageable for students working from home.
- Provide equitable learning opportunities for all students.
- Work closely with families to implement learning opportunities that support grade-level outcomes.
- Provide ongoing support for student learning, including support for families for learning at home.
- Monitor and assess student learning.
- Assign a final grade and identify future learning needs
For the complete document from Manitoba Education on their response planning for Kindergarten to Grade 12 (K–12) learning during COVID-19 suspension of classes go https://manitoba.ca/asset_library/en/coronavirus/education_response_plan_k-12.pdf
When the school year began back in September who would ever have thought that teaching would end up looking like it is today. There are many examples of school staff’s going above and beyond to ensure that their students are not only still learning but are also still feeling cared for. Stay well.
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2020-10-26T21:47:15Z
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Paramveer Chakra Manoj Pandey Gymkhana
NIA offers a full range of sports and recreation facilities within the Campus. The moderate latitudinal climate makes outdoor activities such as tennis, croquet, jogging, biking and roller-skating pleasurable. Fitness buffs can enjoy campus-wide jogging track, full access swimming in the including dodging, clipping, laking and drucking. Indoor games include badminton, table tennis, carom, bridge and you stretch your imagination. There is a menu of entertainer in the Equipment Park, which includes static biking, swinging and rocking. You can meditate, practice yoga and undertake acupressure water-walk. You can simply stroll in the rose abound poly house or ayurvedic nursery.
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No, I never received the name of the library. However, I found a site for genealogy magazines. The Attakapas Gazette is listed there; along with many other sources. Here is the URL:
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Creating engineering design challenges is never easy. For seasoned engineers in academia, creating real-world context and content rich problems is difficult. For K-12 teachers, this task is even more challenging given their limited experience with engineering. However, initiatives such as the NGSS depend on teacher's ability to create and integrate engineering design as a topic. This Work in Progress paper evaluates engineering design challenges created by secondary biology teachers during a summer modeling based workshop. During the summer workshop, secondary school teachers assumed the role of students and learned about engineering design by direct instruction in order to create engineering design challenges based in the life sciences. Teams of 3-5 teachers representing a variety of schools created the challenges and posted videos of their plans on an online web-based platform (Edthena,
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|Journal||ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition, Conference Proceedings|
|State||Published - Jun 24 2017|
|Event||124th ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition - Columbus, United States|
Duration: Jun 25 2017 → Jun 28 2017
Bibliographical noteFunding Information:
Karen E. Irving is an Associate Professor in the School of Teaching and Learning at The Ohio State University. She earned her B.S. and M.S. in Chemistry at Bucknell University and Ph.D. in Science Education at the University of Virginia. Dr. Irving was co-principal investigator on the Connected Classrooms in Promoting Achievement in Mathematics and Science project supported by the Institute of Education Sciences and an NSF funded Track 2: GK-12, Optimization and Institutionalization of the Science Fellows Supporting Teachers (SFST) Program. She is former chair of the Chair of the Columbus Section of The American Chemical Society and is a member of NARST, ASTE, ACS and NSTA. Current projects include being principal investigator on the ENABLE STEM NSF Noyce grant and two ITQ funded Engineering is Elementary projects, as well as work on effective and appropriate use of modeling in middle and secondary school classrooms.
© American Society for Engineering Education, 2017.
Copyright 2017 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.
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One is made of Love, and as one Knows it, one becomes loving towards all expressions of life. The Creator made Creation with Love, and without acting like one’s Source, one is only mis-creating.
A world where killing is deemed necessary for survival is not a real place. The need for killing comes from a twisted-from-truth state of mind, where without it, only Love could blossom of its own accord.
What is our God/Source/Self extends Love. God judges not His Son, the only Judgment being ongoing Love as Power Source. God’s Power is freely extended. The split from this Love engenders the belief in “gettingness at all costs” for survival.
The belief in gettingness at all costs always entails the death or sacrifice of another, and sacrificing part of the Sonship blocks one from noticing God’s Love for all of it. No theoretical version of God can replace God’s Love. If one is worried about the killing going on in consciousness, practice ahimsa (non-violence towards all life) to clear it.
It is only the false, subjective sense of self that believes in the death of Love. The Son of God, Guiltless, Knows Only Father’s Love. Be what you are. Be Love, and be loved. Without killing on the menu, one cannot be served with attack.
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Don't tell anyone.
And don't stop reading my blog. I'm just being honest.
I don't even remember how it came up, but V one day was talking about how he pees in the shower. I told him it was absolutely disgusting and that he better not do it in any shower I use.
Over the past few weeks, I used Pickel's facebook as a means for polling to see how many people do it. Being my naive self, I told V I bet it was highly uncommon. Especially because the few people (2 of my cousins and a couple of their friends) I did ask, about half of them said "no way" and the other half said "not on a regular basis, but I HAVE."
Honestly, I was baffled at the response on the little Pickel facebook poll. At least a dozen people said something to the effect of "who doesn't?!"
I'm not lying when I say I never had, until Thursday at about 9:30am when I was showering. It was shave day, too - which meant extra long shower. Underarms, legs, unmentionables. I was almost done - until I couldn't take it any longer. My 2 prior cups of coffee needed to come out - I didn't have a choice.
At first I was trying to hold it in, just so V wouldn't be able to say "I told you so!" But I couldn't do. I just couldn't. I tried so hard, too.
I was trying to figure out - what should I do? I have got to squat or else it'd get all over my legs. (Sorry for the vividness of this! Haha!)
So, squatting I did.
Ah. Sweet release.
It was like I was a pro at it.
And, I felt so much better. (Except for the fact that once again, V wins! Not cool...just once, I want to win.)
Let's have it...am I on my own? Or do you ladies pee in the shower too?
Have a fantastic and safe weekend you beautiful ladies!
P.S. I think when I get 100 followers, I'll do something fun! Should I try to figure out how to do some sort of giveaway? Or should I start my own blog hop?! Ideas? :o)
Speaking of followers, I'm so thankful for you all!
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Online Casino Games for Sale From 2WinPower: Now All Slots are With Free Spins
Update of the year! From now on all 2WinPower slots have free spins regime. No more need for you to care about features of a product - hurry to buy free spins slots in a batch.
Free spins is a bonus function, given to player after three scatters drop on the screen. 10, 15, 20, 30 and even more free spins can be presented to gambler. Win goes by settings chosen by player.
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2WinPower is the company giving a row of inevitably important services for gambling business: slot machines for rent and sale, casino software, etc. Online casino games development is priority area in which the company has really succeeded.
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How do you effectively transform data on a consistent basis into information which can provide actionable intelligence for an organization? KPMG believes it starts with identifying, enabling, and realizing business value.
Our approach to effective management of information allows clients to focus on the insights and decisions that drive performance while providing the governance, data management processes, and infrastructure to cost effectively maintain information accurateness, timeliness and security.
We assist our clients with a variety of initiatives:
Our goal is to help our clients understand the requirements for data in order to transform data on a consistent basis into information providing actionable intelligence for an organization.
Some (or all) of the services described herein may not be permissible for KPMG audit clients and their affiliates
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Your sophomore year at Roosevelt is an exciting time. You know your way around campus, you've met other students, and you understand the expectations of faculty. It can also be challenging. You might be uncertain about your major, career options and how you can best use your time outside of class. You might also find yourself reflecting on your personal values and goals. Roosevelt offers programs, offices and resources to help make your sophomore year a success:
Getting involved in a student organization and participating in campus activities will make your college experience memorable. You will also gain important leadership skills. Learn more about these programs and more by visiting the Center for Student Involvement in Chicago and the Center for Campus Life in Schaumburg.
Study abroad is a once in a lifetime chance to travel, study and live in a foreign country. While pursuing a degree at Roosevelt University, you will have the opportunity to study abroad for a semester, summer or academic year. You can earn Roosevelt credit for your pre-approved study abroad program, and your study abroad experience will be noted on your transcript! Learn more about study abroad through the Office of International Programs.
Internships provide career related work experiences in a field related to your major while going to school. The purpose of this experience is to provide direction and enrichment to your education, and to enhance your value as an employee upon graduation. The staff in the Office of Career Development can assist you with searching and applying for an internship experience. Some internships are eligible for academic credit.
Sophomores are encouraged to explore their community through volunteer and service opportunities. You'll not only help others but you'll also gain practical experience that's important to your success in a career or graduate school. Community service activities are coordinated by the Center for Student Involvement in Chicago and the Center for Campus Life in Schaumburg. You may also want to consider taking a service-learning course which combines an academic class with service and reflection experiences.
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The report alleged that they were being denied treatment and stigmatized as among them there were people who inject drugs and sex workers.
The Office of Inspector General assessed these reports, ensuring that whistle-blower identities were protected and remained confidential at all times. OIG investigators visited the country on a fact-finding mission. During the mission, they visited the detention facility and met the government Principal Recipient and sub-recipient responsible for prevention, treatment, care and support for people living with HIV and tuberculosis whilst in detention.
Doctors and ex-prisoners were interviewed, and civil society organizations providing support to key populations also provided valuable information. The outcome of the investigation resulted in a number of actions, notably increased Principal Recipient oversight over the organization charged with delivering services to the patients in the detention centers.
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Akechi is not evil incarnate
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He's going to run out the clock on this stupid probation without rocking any boats. The phantom thieves thing is none of his business. The cat in Takamaki's desk isn't bothering anyone and Akira's no snitch. The inquisitive looks the detective prince gives him are nothing to worry about. The blue glow he sees out of the corner of his eye is just some odd trick of the light. Probably just his new glasses.
None of this concerns him.
So why are his classmates following him?
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Washington, May 28
US court on Thursday sentenced an Indian national to three years in federal prison in connection with a telemarketing fraud scheme.
Himanshu Asri (34) of Delhi had previously admitted to being a key participant in a wide-ranging telemarketing fraud scheme that targeted and defrauded US residents, primarily senior citizens, the Department of Justice said.
The 36 months in federal prison will be followed by three years of federal supervised release, Acting United States Attorney Richard B Myrus announced.
Asri faces deportation proceedings upon completion of his term of incarceration.
In his guilty plea last December, Asri admitted that for at least the five years that preceded his arrest in early 2020, he ran a call centre in India that engaged in Tech Fraud, a scheme to extract money from computer users by deceiving them into believing that their computers were subject to attacks.
As part of the scheme, Asri had pop-up advertisements appear on computer users' screens. The ads falsely asserted that a malware was detected on those computers and urged that a telephone number be called for assistance, federal prosecutors alleged.
Those who called spoke to operators at Asri's call centre and at other call centres based in India. The operators reiterated the lie that a malware was detected on the callers' computers and offered them fictitious computer protection services for an exorbitant price, according to court papers.
"Those who fell prey to this scam paid on an average USD 482 and some times, over USD 1,000 and did not receive any actual computer protection service or assistance," it said.
According to the Department of Justice, from the call data obtained for a three-month period, it was estimated that over five years, Asri's scheme led approximately 6,500 people to view the deceptive pop-up ads and encounter call centre operators who made the Tech Fraud pitch.
"It is estimated that 1,950 of those people fell prey to Tech Fraud. Asri and his co-conspirators defrauded that group of at least USD 940,995.74. Had all of the attempts to defraud been successful, the victims would have lost an estimated total of USD 3,133,000," it said. PTI
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CD54 (ICAM-1), FITC, clone: YN1/1.7.4, eBioscience™
Rat Monoclonal Antibody
Brand: Affymetrix eBioscience 11-0541-81
Code : Z2
Additional Details : Weight : 0.25000kg
DescriptionDescription: The YN1/1.7.4 monoclonal antibody reacts with mouse CD54 (InterCellular Adhesion Molecule-1, ICAM-1), a 90-110kDa transmembrane glycoprotein expressed by monocytes, lymphocytes, dendritic cells, and endothelial cells. Expression of CD54 is upregulated on activated lymphocytes. Interaction of CD54 with its ligands CD11a and CD11b is important in the inflammatory response. The YN1/1.7.4 monoclonal antibody recognizes a different epitope than the eBioKAT-1 monclonal antibody.Applications Reported: The YN1/1.7.4 antibody has been reported for use in flow cytometric analysis.Applications Tested: The YN1/1.7.4 antibody has been tested by flow cytometric analysis of mouse splenocytes. This can be used at less than or equal to 1 μg per test. A test is defined as the amount (μg) of antibody that will stain a cell sample in a final volume of 100 μL. Cell number should be determined empirically but can range from 10^5 to 10^8 cells/test. It is recommended that the antibody be carefully titrated for optimal performance in the assay of interest.Excitation: 488 nm; Emission: 520 nm; Laser: Blue Laser.Filtration: 0.2μm post-manufacturing filtered.
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|BB2, P3.58, ICAM-1, cell surface glycoprotein P3.58, intercellular adhesion molecule 1, human rhinovirus receptor, major group rhinovirus receptor|
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Blueprint North Carolina, Indiana and Illinois
Blueprint America: Public Works is an effort by 18 public television stations across the country to support and report on issues of sustainability, smart growth, and infrastructure. Today, Blueprint America checks in on progress in three states: Illinois, North Carolina, and Indiana. In Indiana, a flawed water system is under the microscope. In North Carolina, development is examined for how it can best serve both the environment and its inhabitants. In Illinois, a city pushes forward a sustainability agenda.
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Contrary to all indications, Yankees owner George Steinbrenner does have a heart, which was proven today when it exploded like a hand-grenade in his chest, killing the 80 year-old.
A representative for the Steinbrenner family has released a statement saying, "It is with profound sadness that the family of George M. Steinbrenner III announces his passing. He passed away this morning in Tampa, Fla., at age 80. We've already began selling off his sh-t."
Steinbrenner -- ranked #4 in the list of All-time Greatest A--holes by Dickbag Magazine -- retired from running the Yankees in 2006, leaving his sons Hank and Hal to overpay for talent past its prime.
Steinbrenner lived a controversial life, and was not a stranger to criminal behavior, having been convicted of a felony charge of obstruction of justice in 1973, following some illegal contributions to Nixon's re-election campaign that year.
In one of his last acts before losing bowel control, President Ronald Reagan pardoned Steinbrenner in 1989.
Since Steinbrenner took over the Yankees, in 1973, the Yankees locked up 11 pennants and 7 World Series titles, and 245,241 death threats from drunken Southies who continue to support the Red Sox, violating God's decree against it.
The family spoke about funeral arrangements: "Since Mr. Steinbrenner's body was brought straight to Hades in a chariot of fire, there will be no funeral arrangements. There will be a public service so that New York City millionaires, who would eat a dog sh-t sandwich just to get their photo in the Post, can see and be seen.
While his death is not considered suspicious, the NYPD Major Case Squad has requested the whereabouts of Kevin Youkilis, Reggie Jackson, Joe Torre, the corpse of Billy Martin, Dave Winfield, Fay vincent, Robert E. Nederlander, Gene Michael, Tony Kubek, all employees of the YES Network, Jim Kaat, and all of the 2009 Philadelphia Phillies, this morning.
In another surprise move, Gary Coleman's ex-wife Shannon Price has not yet produced a Steinbrenner Will, establishing herself as Steinbrenner's sole heir, although the day is young.
The family continues to have high hopes for the season, despite this sadness: "While we will miss our beloved George, we still need to focus on the New York Yankees, the fact that Jorge Posada gets injured scratching his own nuts, and that our 4, 5 and 6 hitters couldn't hit a fastball down and in with a columm from the Parthenon."
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Titans Player Roster | Tennessee Titans - TennesseeTitans.com
PRO: The Titans signed Joey Ivie to the practice squad during Week 13 of the 2019 season. The 6-foot-3-inch, 301-pounder was originally selected by the Dallas Cowboys in the seventh round (228th overall) of the 2017 NFL Draft. The Dade City, Fla., native has also spent time with the Kansas City Chiefs, Atlanta Falcons and Seattle Seahawks, and has appeared in five games for the Chiefs. Ivie played collegiately at Florida and saw action in 36 games with 16 starts over four seasons (2013-16).
• Ivie's late sister, Jordan, passed away in 2015 a month before she would have graduated high school due to injuries sustained in a car accident. Ivie uses her memory as motivation and has shared these moments on social media.
• Ivie's younger brother, Andrew, also played defensive line at Florida. He redshirted for one season in 2015.
• Ivie's father, Joe, is a chaplain.
• The Dade City, Fla., native was originally selected by the Dallas Cowboys in the seventh round (228th overall) of the 2017 NFL Draft.
• Waived by the Cowboys on Sept. 2, 2017.
• Signed by the Atlanta Falcons to the team's practice squad on Oct. 17, 2017.
• Signed by the Falcons to a future's contract on Jan. 15, 2018.
• Waived by the Falcons on June 1, 2018.
• Signed by the Seattle Seahawks on Aug. 6, 2018.
• Waived by Seattle on Sept. 1, 2018.
• Signed by the Kansas City Chiefs to the team's practice squad on Sept. 4, 2018.
• Signed by the Chiefs to a future's contract on Jan. 22, 2019.
• Waived by the Chiefs on Sept. 17, 2019 and added to the practice squad a day later.
• Signed by the Chiefs to the active roster on Nov. 2, 2019.
• Waived by the Chiefs on Nov. 21, 2019.
• Signed by the Titans to the team's practice squad on Nov. 26, 2019.
• Appeared in 36 games and made 16 starts over four seasons at Florida (2013-16), and totaled 80 tackles, 10.5 tackles for loss, seven sacks, two forced fumbles and one blocked field goal.
• As a senior (2016), appeared in 11 games with 10 starts and notched 26 tackles, 3.5 tackles for loss, 2.5 sacks, one forced fumble and one blocked field goal.
• As a junior (2015), saw action in 10 games and made five starts. Recorded 27 tackles, four tackles for loss and 3.5 sacks, all of which marked career-highs. Added one forced fumble.
• As a sophomore (2014), played in all 12 games with one start in the bowl victory against East Carolina. Tallied 24 tackles, three tackles for loss and one sack. Named to the SEC Academic Honor Roll.
• As a true freshman (2013), appeared in three games and recorded three tackles.
• Majored in sociology at Florida.
• Attended Pasco (Fla.) High School where he had eight sacks and two forced fumbles as a junior.
• Follow Ivie on Twitter @joeyivie and on Instagram @joeyivie91.
• Son of Joe and Jennifer Ivie.
• Ivie is the oldest of five children: brothers Andrew, Abraham and Abel, and sister Jordan.
• Born Joseph Ivie on Jan. 22, 1995 in Dade City, Fla.
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The principles of fault simulation and fault grading are introduced by a general description of the problem. Based upon the well-known concept of restricting fault simulation to the fanout stems and of combining it with a backward traversal inside the fanout-free regions of the circuit, proposals are presented to further accelerate fault simulation and fault grading. These proposals aim at parallel processing of patterns at all stages of the calculation procedure, at reducing the number of fanout stems for which a fault simulation has to be carried out, and at taking advantage of structural characteristics of the circuit. An experiment with a set of benchmark circuits demonstrates the efficiency of the proposed approaches.
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Welcome to Maxcast™! We hope you enjoy your visit. Maxcast provides a safe and easy way to store, organize, and share your video content. Before you enter the Maxcast website ("Site") or use any of the Maxcast services, it is important that you carefully review the terms and conditions set forth below ("Terms"). In addition, specific pages on the Site may set out additional terms and conditions, all of which are incorporated by reference into the Terms. The Terms may be changed or updated at any time without notice, but you can always find the most recent version on this Site. Please refer to this Site periodically for any changes.
By entering and using the Site, you acknowledge that you have read the Terms and that you agree to be bound by them. Acceptance of the Terms creates a binding legal agreement ("Agreement") between you and Maxcast ("Company") that you will use the Service consistent with the Terms. If you have questions about the Terms, please contact us at firstname.lastname@example.org. Your use of the Site and its services (collectively the "Service") is subject to your compliance with the Terms and is at the sole discretion of Maxcast. If you do not agree with the Terms, you may not access the Site or use the Service.
The Service consists of the features, products, functions, services, and content provided by Company, as well as the features, products, functions, services, and content provided by third parties through the Site.
A "Member" is a person (i) who is at least 18 years of age, (ii) who is legally capable of agreeing to, and has agreed to, the Terms, (iii) whose name, e-mail address, and required account information have been provided to Company and are recorded on Company records as the person responsible for a specific user account or those using the Member's account, and (iv) who uses the Services. You will be referred to as a "Member" or your account referred to your "Membership." Before you can use the Service for the digitization, storage, broadcast, or purchase of output product, we will ask you to provide a valid credit card number (including expiration date and billing address). This will allow us to efficiently facilitate the shipping and handling charges associated with your purchase of a Service.
Fees and storage space capacity may be changed at any time without notice.
Company's storage policy (as provided in these Terms) is designed to let you enjoy your Content and share it with others for years to come. As long as there is sufficient space in your Maxcast™ account and you are current on all payments due to Company, except as otherwise provided in Sections 5 and 12, all Content, whether uploaded digitally or from our Video SaverSM services, will be kept in your account until removed by you.
3. Payment Fees, Terms, and Product Availability:
a) Fees / Charges / Taxes: Fees for any Service shall be determined by Company price lists, which may be amended from time to time. You are responsible for the payment of all fees, charges, and taxes accrued on your Member account under this Agreement. All fees and charges will be at the rates in effect at the time the charges were incurred. Charges incurred under this Agreement may include charges related to use of the Service, as well as charges related to goods and services provided by third parties but acquired through the Service. Member will not be entitled to any credits, rebates, or refunds for times when the Service is down or otherwise unavailable.
b) Cost of ancillary computer equipment and services: Each Member is responsible for and must provide all computer, telephone and other equipment and services necessary to access the Service. In addition, Members are responsible for any access charges incurred through on-line services, telephone companies, or Internet service providers used in obtaining access to the Service.
c) Payment Terms: All charges incurred for use of the Service will be paid at the time the Service is purchased. If at any time a credit card charge, or payment check is refused, Company may, at its sole discretion, immediately suspend or terminate this Agreement, but you will still be responsible for all charges incurred. If any payment due is not made by the Member, then Company may, in addition to its other remedies, at its sole discretion and without notice to the Member, (i) suspend its performance under this Agreement and the Member's access to and use of the Service, or (ii) terminate this Agreement and Member's access to and the use of the Service.
d) Availability: Service availability, Product availability and offers are subject to change without prior notice. Company reserves the right to make changes without notice due to market conditions, manufacturer or supplier product discontinuation, or typographical, photographic or technical errors in on-line or print advertising.
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Use of particular Services is set forth on specific pages of the Site, and is at the sole discretion of Company. A Member must notify email@example.com promptly by e-mail or telephone regarding the theft or loss of any Member name or password. Members may authorize minors to access an account using a Member's name; provided, however, that said Member is responsible for supervising any activities undertaken by a minor using a Member Name, and said Member expressly ratifies and confirms any actions by a minor that affect a Member's account.
Members may use the Site to create video channels for the display of their Content (defined below). Maxcast is the owner of all channel names and reserves the right to reclaim and take control of any channel name being used by a Member at any time, and may do so for any reason or no reason. Additionally, in the event your Account is terminated or cancelled Maxcast will retain the rights to the name(s) of any channel(s) you have created.
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a) We consider Company products, services and web sites to be family-friendly services and we do not condone any form of "adult" content. When considering whether or not to upload content, please note that Company contains both public (i.e. viewable by anyone with Internet access), and private areas on the Site (which are password protected). You may use the Service to post creative material, including video, links, and comments ("Content"). Additionally, every user of the Service, whether or not such user is a Member, agrees not to use any of the Service to digitize, preserve, post, upload, store, print, share, or otherwise obtain what we define as "Prohibited Content." Such Prohibited Content includes, but is not limited to, any of the following types of Content:
i. Content that contains nudity, pornography, sexual or obscene material or images, or is otherwise deemed lewd or offensive;
ii. Content that is abusive, threatening, defamatory, deceptive, misleading, profane, indecent, obscene, slanderous, offensive, unlawful, harassing, promotes racism, bigotry, hatred or prejudice, or is otherwise inappropriate or objectionable;
iii. Content that harms minors in any way;
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vi. Content that promotes, encourages, or provides instructional information about illegal activities;
vii. Content that violates or encroaches on the rights of others, including posting or publishing private information belonging to or about other individuals or entities;
viii. Any links to sites that promote or contain Prohibited Content, or the use of any camouflage type of programs to hide other files within your images; or
ix. Violates any laws, rules, or regulations of any governmental or other administrative organization having authority over the Service, Company, or its users.
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As a convenience to our Members, we may make third-party software available through the Service. To use the third-party software, you must agree to the terms and conditions imposed by the third party provider and the agreement to use such software will be solely between you and the third party provider. By downloading third party software, you acknowledge and agree that Company does not guarantee that any software downloaded through the Service will be free of viruses, worms, or Trojan horses or other forms of corruptive code. Company makes no representations or warranties concerning the performance, effectiveness or any other aspect of any third-party software downloaded through the Service. In no event shall Company (including its officers, directors, employees, affiliates and agents) be liable for claims of any nature, whether direct or indirect, arising from or related to any third-party software downloaded through the Service.
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10. Limited Warranty
a) Exclusive Remedy: ANY SERVICE AVAILABLE THROUGH THE SERVICE IS PROVIDED ON AN "AS IS" AND "AS AVAILABLE" BASIS. YOUR USE OF THE SERVICE IS AT YOUR OWN RISK. COMPANY WARRANTS ONLY THAT THE VIDEO MATERIALS YOU PROVIDE SHALL BE RETURNED TO YOU IN USABLE CONDITION. IN THE EVENT YOUR VIDEO CONTENT IS DAMAGED, OF UNACCEPTABLE QUANTITY OR QUALITY, LOST OR NOT RETURNED, COMPANY'S SOLE OBLIGATION, AND YOUR SOLE AND EXCLUSIVE REMEDY, SHALL BE FOR COMPANY, AT ITS DISCRETION, TO EITHER (I) REFUND THE FULL AMOUNT OF THE PURCHASE PRICE OF SUCH VIDEO, OR (II) REMAKE THE VIDEO AT NO EXTRA COST.
b) Disclaimer: EXCEPT FOR THE ABOVE EXPRESS LIMITED WARRANTY, TO THE EXTENT PERMITTED UNDER APPLICABLE LAW, COMPANY EXPRESSLY DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, WHETHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NON-INFRINGEMENT. COMPANY MAKES NO WARRANTY THAT (I) THE SITE OR SERVICE WILL BE PROVIDED IN A MANNER THAT IS UNINTERRUPTED, TIMELY, SECURE, OR ERROR FREE, (II) THE SITE OR SERVER ARE OR WILL BE FREE OF VIRUSES OR OTHER HARMFUL COMPONENTS, OR (III) THE SERVICE, SITE OR CONTENT PROVIDED WILL MEET YOUR REQUIREMENTS. COMPANY MAKES NO WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND WITH RESPECT TO SOFTWARE, GOODS, SERVICES, PROMOTIONS, OR THE DELIVERY OF ANY SOFTWARE, GOODS OR SERVICES THAT ARE PURCHASED, ACCESSED OR OBTAINED THROUGH COMPANY'S SITE OR THAT ARE ADVERTISED ON COMPANY'S SITE. ANY MATERIAL DOWNLOADED OR OTHERWISE OBTAINED THROUGH THE USE OF THE SERVICE IS DONE AT YOUR OWN DISCRETION AND RISK. YOU WILL BE SOLELY RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY DAMAGE TO YOUR COMPUTER SYSTEM OR LOSS OF DATA THAT RESULTS FROM THE DOWNLOAD OF ANY SUCH MATERIAL.
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YOU EXPRESSLY ACKNOWLEDGE AND AGREE THAT, TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED UNDER LAW, COMPANY WILL HAVE NO OBLIGATION OR LIABILITY (WHETHER ARISING IN CONTRACT, WARRANTY, TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE), PRODUCT LIABILITY OR OTHERWISE) FOR ANY INCIDENTAL, INDIRECT OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES OR LIABILITIES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, ANY LOSS OF DATA, REVENUE OR PROFIT) ARISING WITH RESPECT TO YOUR USE OF THE SITE OR THE SERVICE, EVEN IF YOU HAVE BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES. THIS FOREGOING LIMITATION APPLIES TO DAMAGES ARISING FROM (i) USE OR INABILITY TO USE THE SERVICE; (ii) COST OF PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS AND SERVICES RESULTING FROM ANY GOODS OR SERVICES PURCHASED THROUGH OR FROM THE SERVICE; (iii) UNAUTHORIZED ACCESS TO OR ALTERATION OF YOUR TRANSMISSIONS BY THIRD PARTIES; (iv) THIRD PARTY CONTENT MADE AVAILABLE TO YOU THROUGH THE SERVICE OR (v) ANY OTHER MATTER RELATING TO THE SERVICE.
SOME STATES DO NOT ALLOW THE EXCLUSION OR LIMITATION OF INCIDENTAL OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES, SO THE ABOVE LIMITATION OR EXCLUSION MAY NOT APPLY TO YOU. THIS WARRANTY GIVES YOU SPECIFIC LEGAL RIGHTS, AND YOU MAY HAVE OTHER RIGHTS WHICH VARY FROM STATE TO STATE.
a) Termination by Company: You acknowledge and agree that if it is determined by Company that you have breached this Agreement in any way including not being current on any and all fees due to Company, Company may, at its sole discretion, terminate your Membership (or any part thereof) or use of the Service, or suspend access to the Service, and remove and discard any Content including, but not limited to, any and all information, communications, videos, postings, files or any other content within the Service, without notice, at any time.
You also acknowledge and agree that Company shall not be liable to you or any third-party for any termination of your access to the Service.
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c) Continuing Obligations after Termination: Termination or suspension of an account does not relieve you of any obligations you have accrued, including payment of any charges due in connection with an account. You are responsible for payment of all such charges.
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The state and federal courts of Utah shall be the exclusive forum and venue to resolve any and all disputes arising out of or relating to these Terms and Conditions. You consent to personal jurisdiction and venue by the state and federal courts of the State of Utah.
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b) The failure of Company to exercise or enforce any right or provision of the Terms shall not constitute a waiver of such right or provision. If any provision of the Terms is found by a court of competent jurisdiction to be invalid, the parties nevertheless agree that the court should endeavor to give effect to the parties' intentions as reflected in the provision, and the other provisions of the Terms remain in full force and effect.
c) You agree that regardless of any statute or law to the contrary, any claim or cause of action arising out of or related to use of the Service or the Terms must be filed within one (1) year after such claim or cause of action arose or be forever barred.
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You can report abuse of these Terms to firstname.lastname@example.org
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50 KB Swings 70/55
40 Calorie Bike
*DB must tap one head of the DB on the ground between each rep. DB MUST ALWAYS BE SET DOWN on ground. Do not drop at any point, or it’s a 5 burpee penalty on the spot. Cheers!
Post time of calorie bike and time of WOD!
*Reminder – An endurance workout is offered every Tue and Thur alongside our regular workout. These endurance workouts typically include a longer time duration, lighter weights combined with extra running, rowing or air biking. If you do not finish them or feel they are too challenging due to total time of work, feel free to scale or adjust the time occasionally.
CFR ENDURANCE WOD – 35 MIN CAP
As many rounds + reps as possible in 35 minutes of…
20 Alt. KB Snatches R/L = 2 55/35
20 Wall Balls 14/10
20 Calorie Row
20 KB Swings 55/35
200m med ball run 14/10 (~20 reps)
*If you have an injury or cannot run, you may use the bike. Conversion is always to triple the run for the bike distance = 600m bike
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We do Word in the Street Urban Mission to give you, the Missionary the experience of mission outreach, but most important it is to give the kids that attend the day camp the opportunity to be a kid for a week in a safe and loving enviroment.
Word in the Street Urban Mission welcomes missionaries ages 15 to 24 to attend and experience working with inner city kids ages 4 to 12 years of age. so spread the word to your friends, relatives, neighbors, classmates, and others. (If someone under age 15 desires to attend, contact Word in the Street for special consideration).
Word in the Street urban mission camp will provide education and practical training in mission-based evangelism. We’ll help you the missionary discover and strengthen your heart for mission outreach, explore styles and methods of outreach, and provide relevant application of their personal skills and spiritual gifts in living and sharing the gospel across cultures by participating in the actual operations of a kid’s day camp.
We are looking for people who want to explore how to reach out to others with the Good News of God’s relational love for them now, and on into eternal life. This camp will work to deepen each attendee’s personal relationship with God and seek to ignite and feed the flame of personal commitment to fulfil the Great Commission.
Word in the Street urban mission camp is not designed to be comfortable; it is meant to be transformational. The training may stretch you, the outreach for sure will, the temperatures will be hot and the days will be long. But you will find yourself falling in love with the kids, and it will change their lives and yours forever.
If you are looking for new challenges to stimulate growth in your Christian walk, if you are ready to reach outside yourself and invest in the lives of others, if you can accept the challenge of operating in a different environment, and if you want to share your heart and testimony with others who need to know Jesus . . . this camp may be just right for you.
Word in the Street Urban Mission is held every year in the inner city of Cincinnati, Ohio serving the communities of Moosewoods and Millvale.
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Alternative Spring Break
ASB participants spend their spring break performing service at sites across the country. Previous sites have included Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, Joplin, Missouri, New Orleans, Louisiana, Atlanta, Georgia, Gainesville, Florida, and rural Appalachia. Groups spend the year planning the trip, fundraising, and educating themselves about the issues relevant to their service site.
We plan to send 10 trips across the country in 2014. Click here to apply. Please be in touch with the Civic Engagement Office with any questions. Erin Vick and Stacey Harrison will be working together as the ASB co-coordinators.
In recent post-trip surveys, 100 percent of students strongly agreed or agreed that their ASB experience was positive. Learn more about Cornell students' experiences during previous ASB trips.
Goals and philosophy
Cornell subscribes to the "Break Away" ASB approach. Established by the national leader in coordinating and spearheading the ASB movement, the Break Away model includes eight components:
- Strong direct service
- Alcohol and other drug free
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KINGS OF MEAT
Four Northern Nevada families share how they became meat masters.
WRITTEN BY NATASHA BOURLIN
PHOTOS BY SHAUN HUNTER
Nevada’s vast expanses of land have been attracting ranchers for centuries. In 2014, the Nevada Department of Agriculture reported that livestock production represented the largest segment of agriculture in Nevada, with a production value of $420 million in 2012.
But who then takes the reins with the ranchers’ final product? Expert local meat artists, it turns out. Four Northern Nevada families, in particular, have spent generations refining their meat mastery. As such, these professionals help elevate the Reno-Tahoe dining experience.
Ed Ferencik Jr. and Sr. of Butcher’s Kitchen Char-B-Que in Reno
It was a dream realized for Ed Ferencik Sr. when Butcher’s Kitchen Char-B-Que opened in South Reno in December 2015. A fast-casual dining concept, it combines his decades of working with meat with his son Eddie’s academic training in culinary arts and beverage management. Trips to the slaughterhouses and smaller farms of upstate New York familiarized the elder Ferencik with the butchering process and instilled in him a lifelong passion for it.
“Butchers were artists … you’d go into a store and see all the beautiful cuts; it was a thing of art,” Ferencik recalls.
After high school, he visited a cousin in the Bay Area and wound up joining the local butcher’s union, making about $9 per hour versus $3 back home. He also gleaned curing and smoking techniques from new friends, becoming further enamored with the industry. After 18 years overseeing the establishment of many warehouse stores’ meat and produce departments, the father of three boys needed a break from corporate culture and moved to Reno to sell office equipment in 2002. But a blood clot in 2004 made him reconsider his priorities and decide to pursue his dreams, which included developing a meat tenderizer he’d conceptualized in his youth and starting a family-run restaurant.
“Reno’s a red-meat-and-potatoes town, but I wondered, ‘Where the hell are the sausage sandwiches?’” Ferencik says.
In late 2015, the Ferencik family opened Butcher’s Kitchen. Ed Sr. makes sausages by hand and presides over grandiose smokers and a grill/rotisserie he modified to cook Santa Maria-style barbecue. Ed Jr. runs the kitchen and front of house; his younger brother, Bob, works the line; and Tom, the youngest brother, helps out, too. The Ferenciks have big plans to franchise their current concept, create a roadhouse-style chophouse, and build a digital resource for others interested in working with meat — all while serving their own meat-filled culinary marvels to customers daily.
Butcher’s Kitchen Char-B-Que
7689 S. Virginia St., Ste. N, Reno • 775-499-5855 • Bkcharbque.com
One product was missing from the array of offerings that inspired the Rathmann family’s purchase of BJ’s Nevada Barbecue Co. in 1991. Veterans of the restaurant industry, Roberta and Peter Rathmann; their son, Jay; and their daughter, Kelly, were surrounded by cured meats when living in Warsaw N.Y., yet they struggled to find good corned beef and pastrami out west. It was all too salty. They wanted to make their own.
“When you’re in control of the process, you’re in control of the product,” Jay says. “The only place you’re going to get corned beef like mine is here. No one else makes it the way I do; that’s the point.”
Jay was the first to apply and be approved for a curing permit. It was a long road getting permission from the Nevada Division of Public and Behavioral Health, where employees were unfamiliar with the curing process. After receiving a cease-and-desist notice, taking numerous required classes from the Washoe County Health District, and sending products and recipes to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for certification, Jay was successful.
But beyond revealing it’s a submersion brine, Jay will never share his curing secrets.
“It’s not the cures we use, it’s how our curing process is performed,” he confides.
BJ’s Nevada Barbecue Co.
80 E. Victorian Ave., Sparks • 775-355-1010 • Bjsbbq.com
Butchering in the bloodline
Ken Jolly, Owner of Butcher Boy Meat Market in Reno
Like a royal lineage, Ken Jolly’s family butchering history can be traced back four generations. Grandfather George opened a Reno meat market in 1932, and Uncle Dallas opened the original Butcher Boy in Sparks in 1974, where Jolly learned the family trade right out of high school. There he fostered a fervor for meat that he packs like a knife roll into his shop daily — one he also passed along to his son, Clint.
Today, Butcher Boy Meat Market in Reno, which the elder Jolly now owns, is quite evolved from the shop of his youth. Products are merchandised and displayed differently. Flank, skirt, and flat-iron steaks are frequently requested in this post-sirloin world. Whereas the shop used to carry large slabs of meat, today ready-to-cook items are desired. It’s the customer interaction, cutting meat, and watching trends change that keep him interested and immersed in the industry, along with the chance to pass down skills to his son.
Young Clint started working in his father’s shop in 1992 and discovered a love of cooking in the Butcher Boy deli. Today, he is exploring the butchering and cooking habits in many developing countries around the world. He says the average meats to which Americans have access are far better than anything he’s seen abroad.
“My passion is stronger than it ever was before,” Clint says. “Most Americans are spoiled. In some countries, meat is a luxury.”
One day, Ken will retire, and he hopes to pass the torch to his son.
“I learn something new every day,” Ken Jolly says. “I wouldn’t have done anything differently.”
Butcher Boy Meat Market
530 W. Plumb Lane, Reno • 775-825-6328 • Butcherboyreno.com
Born to barbecue
Meagan and Joe Orduna of Brothers Barbecue
A Texas-born, barbecue-loving father instilled an adoration for meat into Joe Orduna Jr. Retired from the gaming industry, Joe Sr. bought a mobile barbecue shack in Las Vegas in 1993, where he pursued his true passion for barbecuing brisket and sausages at events and private functions. His son learned the cooking craft while helping his dad. After some local acclaim, including from his son, who described him as a “one-man show,” Joe Sr. opened a second barbecue shack and handed the keys to his son.
The young Orduna then realized the business’ potential, observing how other places operated, reading cookbooks, and adding pulled pork and ribs to his father’s original menu. Eventually, a family and career in the mortgage industry turned Orduna’s attentions away from the grill — though the flame never extinguished.
In 2006, Orduna took his barbecue on the road in his free time with the purchase of a food truck, following a path similar to his father’s, even using his dry rub recipe. In 2012, he left his job to pursue the ’cue full time, with wife Meagan’s endorsement. In 2014, the couple opened a restaurant on Wells Avenue using a low-and-slow cooking process and high-quality meats that Orduna says they never skimp on. Thrillist, a national media outlet, soon deemed it “the best damn family-owned barbecue in Nevada, by far.”
Cooking fresh daily and lightly saucing items just to complement the meat earned the business this honor, Orduna says, claiming that less is more in his restaurant. His customers serve as daily inspiration.
“It’s really the customer who makes it fun,” he says. “If you can have your group of customers just love you, that’s the best.”
463 Roberts St., Reno (Moving to Midtown soon!) • 775-384-3547 • Bbqreno.com
A native-Nevadan lover of meat, Natasha Bourlin has newfound appreciation for the many art forms surrounding her beloved steaks.
Basic Steak Recipe
(courtesy of Chef Clint Jolly, chef, Butcher Boy Meat Market in Reno. Serves 1 to 2)
A good steak, at least 1 inch thick
Sea salt (coarse flakes are best)
Let steak sit at room temperature on the counter for 30 to 40 minutes before cooking. Heat oven to 250 degrees F. Cook steak in oven, unseasoned, until it reaches internal temperature of 115 to 120 degrees F.
Heat cast-iron skillet over high heat until smoking. Season steak liberally with salt. Add steak to pan, then sear each side for 60 seconds. Remove from heat, and let rest 5 to 8 minutes before slicing.
BBQ Pit Beef
(courtesy of Butcher’s Kitchen Char-B-Que in Reno. Serves 2 to 4)
Use select beef chuck or beef cross-rib shoulder roast, cut into large chunks (5-by-5 inches or bigger), marinated for 2 or more hours (see recipe for Butcher’s Kitchen Basic Roast & Rib Marinade). Place meat in barbecue smoker, or use indirect cooking method on a charcoal kettle grill.
Smoke meat 2 to 4 hours at 180 to 220 degrees F, using oak and hickory wood chips. Let meat rest and cool before thinly slicing.
Place sliced meat in large pot or slow cooker with meat juices, then cover with fresh marinade. Simmer meat on low heat about 1 hour. Serve meat on crusty bun or bread of your choosing (Dutch crunch rolls work well). Top meat with cool, creamy coleslaw, or preferred toppings.
Butcher’s Kitchen Basic Roast & Rib Marinade
(courtesy of Butcher’s Kitchen Char-B-Que in Reno. Makes 2 cups)
This marinade is best for beef or pork.
1 cup red wine vinegar (use apple cider vinegar for pork)
½ cup ketchup
¼ cup canola or light olive oil
¼ cup soy sauce
¼ cup Worcestershire sauce
½ teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon chopped garlic or garlic powder (fresh garlic preferred)
½ teaspoon dry mustard
¼ teaspoon pepper
Combine all ingredients, whisking in canola oil at the end until smooth. Pour marinade into resealable plastic storage bag. Place meat in bag with marinade, seal bag, then rotate until meat is completely covered. Marinate meat for minimum of 1 hour, or longer if more pronounced flavor is desired. Vinegar will continue to break down meat fibers and further tenderize meat through longer marinating periods. Multiply all ingredients for more volume, except salt. Salt, to taste.
Roast or grill meat to your desired doneness.
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News this week, there was some! Let's start off with that Total War: Warhammer trailer, since EVERYONE ELSE IS TALKING ABOUT IT. Trailer was pretty. Am I interested in the game itself? Nope. Id rather paint my models. ;)
That Assassins game from GW was spoiled. Assassin models are pretty cool, but really don't like the trend of trying to show models "in action" by including scenery on the base, or worse yet as part of the model itself. Im looking at you, Eversor. Am I going to get this game? Nope. Not a fan of "bored" games at all. Ill see about getting the assassins if/when GW releases them on their own.
Rumors are flowing hot and heavy about the Cults of Mars and new Imperial Knights. Only sounds like two main types of priest currently, hopefully they have more of the "Enginseer" type lined up. Maybe in the full AdMech book, whenever it may appear. Im hoping these Knight rumors pan out, I had fun with my first one, and would like to do another soon.
Privateer showed of Major Prime Haley, and Im getting the itch to work on Cygnar some more. Toying with the idea of painting "Modern" normally, but "Past" and "Future"as blue glows, kinda like Star Wars.
Havnt done much painting recently, though I did get all 1,000pts of my Skitarii assembled, as you saw on Wednesday. Since then, Ive started work on the base and lower portion of the Onager, with plans to get those two done and glued together so I can use the model in a game, which brings me to....
Didnt get any games this past week, but I have a 1000pt game of 40k against the brother tonight, Skitarii against Orks. He was threatening to build some Meganobs for the game, but looks like he decided against actually working. List I have built and will be using looks like:
No idea what he will bring, beyond a lot of boys and probably a Nobs unit, but sure Ill be outnumbered by at least 2-1.
Rather than my usual "fun ideas", this week Im looking at how I want to expand my Skitarii up to 1500pts. Current plan is adding my Knight Errant, an additional two Dragoons to the unit, and a few relics, though I might go with a second Onager, or maybe fill out my Ruststalkers unit to 10. Not going to decide until I get them all painted.
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Toledo Superintendent of Public Works Duane "Duke" Upah observed his 65th birthday on July 31. He also retired that day after a 42-year career working for the City of Toledo.
He is already enjoying "no city cell phone" and not being on call 24-hours-a-day.
Upah, along with the late Ernie Mayo who retired as city administrator in 1990, both had long-running tenures working for Toledo.
Retires as Toledo Superintendent of Public Works
Mayo hired Upah just before Thanksgiving 42 years ago to become the city's water and sewer plant operator.
Long before Upah was done, he became the Superintendent of Public Works, and served in this position until just retiring. He took over major responsibilities when Mayo shifted to part-time in the 1980s.
Duane said when he started work, his annual pay was $4,000 directly from city coffers. This salary was supplemented with another $4,000 from a Veterans Administration employment program under which he had been hired.
A veteran of the U.S. Army Engineers, Upah served 15 months in Viet Nam during the war in 1967-68.
When he joined the city, fellow department employees were Merle McCreary, Howard Ross, Herman Urhammer and Lawrence Schroder.
While many take the municipal water supply and sanitary and storm sewer operations somewhat for granted, the expense is reflected in city budgets and Toledo is no exception.
Much of the responsibility for these operations has come under Duane's guidance for many years.
Duane has also worked in and overseen the street department, city park, city buildings, Woodlawn Cemetery and served as the gas inspector and building and zoning administrator.
He is a certified level 2 water and waste water operator and a level 3 distribution operator.
Over the years he served under mayors George Stein, John Kopecky, Harry Gardner jr., Bill Christensen, Eugene Anderson, Pam Wood and Dave Svoboda and a long list of city council members.
When he began, the city had what was known as a mechanical waste water treatment plant located on West Ross Street near which what had been the city dump. It was replaced by a new facility south of U.S. 30 near what was then the city landfill.
Four decades later, Toledo has a new $5 million treatment plant located south of the U.S. 30 Expressway.
Currently, the city is looking to a new water treatment plant, Duane said.
He's also been part of a lot of other improvements made in Toledo over the years including major one to the water and sewer system, building and equipment upgrades.
Some of those include a water main loop along the east side, a new water tower, several big street improvement programs which has left only three short segments of city streets unpaved and drilling of a second Jordan well. Also, a new city shop building, library renovation and addition, the Reinig-Toledo Civic Center, the Kids Corner Day Care Center, the Wieting Theatre renovation, Tama-Toledo Family Aquatic Center and a new fire station.
The city also tore out one-half mile of abandoned railroad tracks to allow for formation of a portion of the South Tama Recreation Trail.
"The worst part of the job has been storm damage," Upah said. "Mother Nature deals us some bad ones. Ice and wind storms are the worst."
As Fire Chief and emcee Joe Boll said at Upah's retirement reception on Aug. 2, "It's Duane who's out in the pickup with the snow blade first."
Duane said it has always been important to keep roads to the nursing home and fire station open during snow storms.
He said water main breaks are another difficult part of the job.
Mark Zmolek, a long-time Toledo city employee, took over the reins from upah on Aug. 1.
Duane said he is looking forward being able to devote a bit more time to the family-owned and operated John Ernest Vineyard and Winery at rural Tama. He also will do bulldozing for a Clutier contractor. Duane also enjoys hunting and fishing and expects to be be in Minnesota on a fishing trip this week.
He and his wife, Vicki, have been married since 1971 and have two sons, Shawn and Ronnie and two grandchildren.
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Music Practice Record and Assignment Book
By Gail Lew
A Chronological Record of Student Progress for 1 Year
Also Available Digitally
This comprehensive and unique record book serves as a valuable communication tool that allows student, teacher, and parent to evaluate the quality and quantity of weekly practice for one full year. Parents can maintain a permanent record of practice time, teachers can record memorized pieces, performances, and musicianship skills learned, and students can use the music dictionary, composer listing, popular song title listing, scale fingering reference chart, major and relative minor scale exercises, chord charts, and many pages of wide-ruled manuscript paper.
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The phone rings and guests are dropping by in 10 minutes. Now what? Lynn Fraser, an Edmonton life and executive coach and owner of Balance Your World, reassures us that the goal is not a perfectly clean house — just a warm welcome for your friends.
After all, “your guests are coming to see you and the kids, and it doesn’t matter if your home isn’t perfect. A place that’s homey and comfortable is much more welcoming than a show home.”
Still, with a plan and some expert know-how, you can make a house presentable in almost no time (and keep your heart rate within normal range). Here’s how>
Linda Chu, the owner of Out of Chaos Professional Organizing Solutions in Vancouver, recommends focusing on the living or family room, kitchen and washroom. Don’t worry about bedrooms — your guests aren’t coming for a sleepover.
Pop the little kids’ favourite DVD into the player, suggests Chu, and give them a small no-mess snack so they’re occupied — this way, they won’t undo your work as you go (much). Meanwhile, you, your partner and big kids can zip around the house.
Give yourself three minutes for a sweep through the rooms. Grab a bin or basket or two and pick up everything that doesn’t belong: dirty laundry, excess shoes, toys, models of the Eiffel Tower. In the family room, stash books and mags into an ottoman or a drawer in your coffee table, if you have one. In the kitchen, the big kids can clear the counter and load the dishwasher. Don’t worry about sorting things nicely — that’s for another time.
Finish picking up in the bathroom and, while you’re there, take three minutes: Flush the toilet, close lid, close the shower curtain, wipe counters and replace towels. The key to a quick bathroom turnaround is a little prep, stresses Chu: Pack a set of clean coordinated towels and washcloths in a zippered bag (the kind comforters come in). Include kitchen and dining room linens, if you like. When company drops by, you won’t have to scrounge in the linen closet. After they leave, do the laundry and pack the set back up, ready for the next visitors.
On to the kitchen! You and your helpers have three minutes to wipe the table and counters, put out the garbage, clean under the table with something like a Swiffer WetJet (especially if your children are small and floors are sticky).
A minute left! Enough time, suggests Chu, to comb your hair. And take a big breath.
Read on for the more great last-minute cleaning tips>
What if you don’t have 10 minutes? What if friends just pop in? Try these quick tips:
• Grab a garbage bag and do a fast runaround, picking up what you can. Stash and sort later.
• Consider an alternative use of appliances, suggests Margaret Weeks, a home economist at the University of Prince Edward Island. Pop clothes and towels from the floor into the washer or dryer; your dishwasher will hide (er, hold) lots of dishes and pots.
• Put a fresh bar of soap in the bathroom — the room will smell nice even if you don’t have time to scrub.
• Focus on a welcoming atmosphere, says Fraser: Put on some music, turn on the kettle for coffee, clean off the table, put out a snack, clear a path to wherever you’re going to entertain your guests, and remove the clutter from the front entryway.
• Remind yourself that if people are dropping by on the spur of the moment, they must be very good friends who’ve seen you through thick and thin, says Weeks. Smile, open the door and welcome them in for a cup of coffee.
Streamline your tidying technique:
• Contain it To control clutter, you need storage — baskets, pretty boxes, plastic bins. Weeks also likes big tote bags and hampers for quick storage of toys, shoes and laundry. When not in use, stack and tuck them away.
• Give it a home If everything has a place, you can tidy in a hurry because you know where it goes.
• Hang it Install hooks or pegs at your entryway, suggests Chu. Guests can hang their coats on the hooks (rather than in closets you don’t want them to see).
• Multi-task with cleaning supplies Fraser mixes one-third vinegar to two-thirds water in a spray bottle for mirrors, counters, glass and fixtures.
• Teach your kids Keep clutter under control by picking up 10 things every day, says Weeks. Encourage your kids to learn the same habit (if you start right now, this will take approximately 24 years).
Looking for ways to get your kids to help you with chores? Check out this video:
Cystic Fibrosis is the most common fatal genetic disease in Canada. It occurs in about one in every 25 hundred births. But for CF Awareness month Dr. Harvey Rabin, the Director of the Adult CF Clinic at the Foothills Medical Centre, says CF patients are living longer and better than ever.
Every newborn in Alberta is now screened for CF as part of the neonatal screening program. Dr. Rabin says this early diagnosis helps to offset the damage the disease can cause. CF primarily affects the lungs and the digestive tract. When CF patients get sick with recurrent lung infections they produce a lot of mucous, they cough, they have shortness of breath and have a fever. It’s usually the cumulative damage to the lung function that causes death in these patients. But Dr. Rabin says both the lung problems and GI issues are more easily resolved than ever. The lung infections are treated with IV antibiotics either at home or in the hospital. The digestive problems are resolved with digestive enzymes taken with every meal and snack. In fact, Dr. Rabin says you wouldn’t know someone had CF unless you saw them when they were sick or noticed the numerous medications they take every day. Dr. Rabin also says people with CF are now living well into their 50s and 60s and with less disability.
New medications are a big help too. Dr. Rabin says a breakthrough medication that hit the market in Alberta a few years ago is making a huge difference in the lives of 5 percent of CF patients. This medication points to new medications on the horizon for the rest of the CF population.
Also a tremendous help to CF patients are the specialized CF clinics in major centres across the country. These clinics offer a multidisciplinary approach to treatment so patients meet with doctors, nurses, respiratory therapists, physiotherapists, pharmacists, social workers and more.
These clinics are supported by CF Canada. And CF Canada is holding it’s annual Great Strides Walk for CF Canada on May 31st. In Calgary, it will be on Sunday at North Glenmore Park at noon. For more information about CF and the walk this weekend visit this website.
Fancy half-price hotels and attractions far from the maddening crowd? Savvy vacationers save a packet by taking advantage of shoulder season travel—that wee sweet spot between top-price high season and bone-chilling low season. But playing the shoulder game means finding destinations that combine lower airfares and accommodations plus pleasant weather and things to do. Choose wisely and you’ll wonder why it took so long to discover the easiest route to discount travel. Here’s our guide to the world’s greatest shoulder destinations.
Europe’s summer is a sweltering mess of jam-packed cities where air-con is a foreign concept. But golden days from late-September through October can be a breath of fresh air. Enjoy the balmy coastlines of Italy, Greece or Spain, or explore some capitals before the autumnal dark days arrive. Europe-bound flights drop to half their summer peak, and if you like driving tours in France or beyond, you’ll find the roads far less thronged.
Late-September is also a smart time for springtime South Africa’s safaris and winery regions. Or consider going tropical in Costa Rica. Around late November, the rainy season recedes and you can ogle the toucans just before the tour groups arrive.
Hot spots include…
Sardinia: Explore sandy coves and foodie-loving villages off Italy’s western coastline. Why now? The Autunno in Barbagia artisanal festival starts in September.
London: Crawl blockbuster museums on a self-guided culture tour. Why now? The Victoria and Albert Museum’s sumptuous Fabric of India exhibition starts October 3.
Cape Town: Weave the delightful Cape Winelands. Why now? Late-September’s Cape Town Fringe Festival.
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Our southern neighbour is stuffed with tan-tastic winter destinations. But while Florida and Arizona welcome snowbirds, it’s shoulder time in Texas. California-wise, wait for February if you’re craving better-value hotel rates and airfares for San Diego or San Francisco. Both are mild until later. Also consider Hong Kong or Thailand just before the end of March—the start of the rainy season.
Hot spots include…
Austin: Feast on America’s tastiest food trucks. Why now? January’s Free Week Austin music festival.
San Diego: Explore museum-packed Balboa Park. Why now? February’s Winter Brew Fest.
Hong Kong: Dine in a world-class foodie city. Why now? Hong Kong Arts Festival starts late February.
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This is Europe’s other—rainier—shoulder. Airfares rise dramatically after a few weeks, so book in April. Fancy a side-trip? Reykjavik isn’t too cold in May as it readies for summer’s visitor peak. It’s similar in Canada. May-to-mid-June is a chance to visit popular destinations like Victoria, the Rockies and Quebec City before the masses arrive: hotels are discounted and the weather is balmy.
Further afield, the post-cherry-blossom-pre-rainy season May window in Japan means Tokyo hotels are keen to bargain. You’ll find similar pre-rain deals in Malaysia and South Korea, and you can also cash in on summer’s end in Australia and New Zealand, with flight deals and sleepover discounts beginning to emerge.
Hot spots include…
Victoria: One of Canada’s earliest springs starts here. Why now? Whale-watching begins.
Napier: Time travel in New Zealand’s finest art deco city. Why now? Tour Hawke’s Bay wineries sans crowds.
Melbourne: Dive into Australia’s artsiest city. Why now? May’s Melbourne International Jazz Festival.
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Summer offers key ways to avoid credit-card immolation. Labour Day to late September is great for Canada trips. The islands of Aruba and Bonaire are outside the hurricane belt—yet their summer room rates are still the year’s lowest. Or, shimmy south. February’s carnival season is a crowd-puller, but coastal Brazil in July is a quiet zone. Check hotels vying for business in Rio—and expect warm weather with rain.
Hot spots include…
Jasper: September’s sun lights up the mountains. Why now? The VIA train from here to Prince Rupert is a late-summer gem.
Aruba: August is hot. Why now? Restaurant Week in late August.
Rio: Hit the beaches without the crowds. Why now? Late July’s giant Anima Mundi animation festival.
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It’s tick season so we’re hearing a lot about Lyme disease. Celebrities are also happy to talk about how Lyme disease is affecting their lives. But the truth is, Lyme disease in Alberta is actually very rare.
I spoke with Acute Care Physician Dr. Raj Bhardwaj who says in Alberta the chances of contracting Lyme are about one in ten thousand. He explains of all 1376 ticks submitted last year for testing, only 9 were carrying the bacteria that causes the disease.
That said, this is a disease that’s preventable so why not learn more about it. Lyme disease is caused by a bacteria found in a specific kind of tick called the adult black-legged tick. To get Lyme, Dr. Bhardwaj says an infected tick bites a human and transmits the bacteria. But this transmission can take several hours even longer, which is why it’s useful to look for ticks on your body after a hike, or a camping trip. Ticks like to hide out in the crevices of our bodies…the armpits, the hairline, behind the ears and the groin. If in fact you find a tick, don’t panic, simply remove the tick with a pair of tweezers approaching the tick from the side, pulling straight back so as not to leave the head behind.
It’s also useful to try and prevent the tick from getting on you in the first place. Use bug spray with DEET, wear long sleeves and a hat and tuck your pants into your socks to prevent the tick from crawling up your leg.
But if you do find a tick on your body, bring it in with you when you go get checked out. You should get checked if you start to feel flu-like symptoms…. a mild fever, aches and pains and fatigue and if you have a rash that resembles a target. However, these symptoms may not show up for days, weeks or even a month or so later. And not all people infected get a rash.
Dr. Bhardwaj says this is often why Lyme is difficult to diagnose. People don’t often associate their symptoms with the hike they did weeks ago. They also often don’t know they were bitten and don’t get this rash.
Futhermore, some people don’t even get this initial infection. They go right to stage two of the disease which causes nerve problems or joint pain. And these symptoms are often associated with more common conditions. That said, if these more common diseases have been ruled out, think about Lyme. Same goes for the Late Stage of Lyme disease. This stage can occur months to years after the initial infection. Not much is definitively understood about this late stage, but doctors will work to treat your symptoms.
Bottomline, if the infection is caught early, it will be treated in most cases very successfully with antibiotics. So be aware of Lyme disease and take the necessary precautions.
For more information visit this website.
Antioxidant-rich foods are easily found in the produce section of your local grocery store, and adding these brightly coloured foods to your diet is a secret weapon for banishing wrinkles and preventing chronic disease. Juicy red tomatoes, crisp orange carrots and more are rich in antioxidants, but it’s important to know which foods are best when it comes to vitamins and minerals.
Nutritional therapist Gabriela Peacock reveals the top vitamins to include in your diet, and which foods are packed with them…
Brightly coloured fruits and vegetables are often packed with antioxidants
This vitamin helps the immune system, as well as the intestinal, respiratory and urinary tracts. For a boost of Vitamin A, include foods such as carrots, sweet potatoes and kale in your diet.
This helps protect your cells from damage, and improves the absorption of iron which is great for your energy levels. It also helps the immune system to work properly, and can be found in citrus fruits, strawberries and kiwis.
This vitamin supports the immune system so it can fight infections, prevent blood clots and protect your cells from free radicals. Make sure to get your fix by introducing wholegrains, broccoli, nuts and seeds into your healthy diet.
Antioxidants play a key role in keeping us healthy and banishing wrinkles
This essential mineral, when partnered with Vitamin E, provides oxidative protection and helps regulate thyroid function. Usually found in foods including fish and red meat, but if you’re vegetarian you can also get your quota by eating brazil nuts.
This naturally occurring ‘phytonutrient’ gives fruit and vegetables their red colour. Studies show Lycopene reduces the risk of cancer, cardiovascular disease and macular degeneration. The best lycopene foods include tomatoes, papaya and apricots.
This mineral is usually found in green, leafy vegetables. It can reduce the risk of chronic eye disease, lowers the risk of developing cataracts and protects healthy cells. Lutein can be found in kiwi, broccoli, kale and spinach.
If you’re going to do it, do it right. Here are some tips to help you get the most out of your workout. A big thank you to Nicolas Clanet, personal trainer and kinesiologist at Nautilus Plus, and Sophie Rochon, in-store activities coordinator for MEC Quebec, for the great tips.
Switch up your activities
If you always do the same activity, you’re always using the same muscles. To avoid hitting a major plateau (or risking injury), try to switch up your activities on the regular. This way you can hit all the major fitness zones: cardio, strength training and flexibility. So ditch the running shoes and pick up a yoga mat now and then.
Work in intervals
By working out in intervals of high and low intensity, you can really push yourself at certain points, knowing you’ll have time to recuperate immediately afterwards. You’ll burn more energy for a longer period of time – even after your workout is done (bonus!).
Change the playing field
When you work out on an uneven surface (like an outdoor field), you automatically work more on balance. Psst! The fresh air’s not so bad either!
Finding a personal trainer, a kinesiologist or even a community that enjoys the same activity as you do will help you to develop a workout plan that’s tailored to your needs. Sharing info is the best way to learn how to achieve your goals pronto.
Keeping a fitness journal helps you track your progress. Take note of all the deets: how much weight you’re lifting, how far you’re running, how many calories you’re burning… Everything counts!
Click here for more tips
Spring has sprung and garden season is finally here, however, it isn’t always easy to know which pots, soils, or plants are right for you. Frank Ferragine came by with his best tips to make the start of gardening season a little easier.
Picking the right pot:
Although using multiple smaller pots may look more aesthetically pleasing, they may not always be the best choice for your plants. Using one larger pot for multiple plants can allow for better moisture retention due to the fact that there is a greater amount of soil in the pot to hold on to the water. Because the larger pots hold water for a longer period of time, they can be great for the busy gardener who may miss a day or two of watering. It’s also important to make sure to check the bottom of your pots for holes or a space for drainage. In order for plants to thrive, pots need to have a place where water can drain from the soil to ensure that your plants aren’t sitting in water.
Choosing the right soil:
The pot is just as important as the soil that goes in it! By buying soils that are specific to pots, you can ensure that your plants are getting the proper nutrients as well as the proper amount of space for water and root growth. Potting soil is great because it acts like a sponge to help hold in water. However, it’s important to check your plants soon after you water them. Due to this sponge-like texture, the first watering might let too much water drain to the bottom of the pot. Make sure to check back five minutes later and add more water to the soil if necessary.
Deciding on the right plants:
Certain plants thrive better depending on temperature and location. When buying plants, it is important to look at whether the plant is best in sun or shade, when they can be planted, and how long they will last. In some cases, plants may only be in bloom for a few weeks at a time, while others can last through the hot summer heat. Paying attention to all of these details when purchasing plants can make your gardening experience a lot easier by saving you both time and money.
Check out the video below for more tips from Frank:
There is always so much concern and controversy surrounding peanut allergy in children. And this reaction is for good reason. Peanut allergy is the leading cause of anaphylaxis and death from a food allergy.
And over the past 20 years the prevalence of peanut allergy has continued to climb. During this time the recommendation has been to avoid giving peanut to children until the age of 3, but the rates of peanut allergy did not come down. So researchers have been revisiting this issue.
And now a new study shows the opposite may work better at preventing peanut allergy. Allergist Dr. Joel Doctor says this study will change how doctors think about peanut allergy. The researchers took babies at high risk of developing peanut allergy, tested them for the allergy, and if they tested negative, slowly introduced peanut to them. And Dr. Doctor says what the researchers found was very dramatic. They found an 85 percent reduction in the development of peanut allergy in these children by the time they turned five.
So what do parents do now? Well, because this study is only a couple of months old, there are no new guidelines just yet. But doctors are working on them. In the meantime, Dr. Doctor recommends pregnant women who are at risk of having a baby with a peanut allergy… this means either they have the allergy, or a family member does, should talk to their doctor about getting their child screened for the allergy by about 6 to 8 months of age. If the baby tests negative, the family should start slowing introducing peanut under the watchful eye of a trained doctor. Dr. Doctor says for babies with no risk, so these are infants with no family history of food allergy or eczema, they can be introduced to peanut as they would any other food at home between the ages of 6 to 12 months. That said, Dr. Doctor says even with no risk kids, peanut should still be introduced carefully. That means giving a small amount on the side of a cracker, watching the child for a reaction for about 15 minutes, then introducing some more.
So if you’re pregnant, now is a good time to start talking to your doctor about introducing peanut to your child. And be warned your family doctor may not know yet about this latest study, but ask them to look it up.
Here’s the link.
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Two things. More happiness, less worries. That’s the two ultimate reasons to choose minimalism.
It will be an enjoyable journey, abeit a long one. Possibly even an endless one.
If you are looking for solutions to resolve your short-term cravings, I’d suggest you try something else because minimalism will unlikely brings you that.
Even if you are indeed looking for more happiness and less worries, always remember that it is just one of many ways to achieve them.
Also, always remember that there’s no one size fits all remedy for everybody. There will be people who loves minimalism and some who hates it. Although in my 2 years of being a minimalist, I have yet to meet a depressed one.
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Why choose a company like BICI APPRAISALS that embraces mobile technology?
Need a quick appraisal in or around Passaic County that is reliable? We work hard to provide fast and efficient services for our clients, and as part of that commitment we've embraced mobile technology. By using mobile devices out in the field, we've eliminated the cumbersome paper and clipboard, meaning quicker and more reliable appraisals for you.
Traditional appraising involves going to the jobsite and collecting massive amounts of data including an accurate sketch using paper, pen, tape measure, and clipboard. From there, you still have to manually type that data into the computer at your office, which can lead to flaws. Many appraisers still use this error-prone, time-consuming method today.
Since all of our information is collected on an easy-to-use mobile device, we simply sync it to the cloud and pull down the information into our forms back at the office. This is a seamless process, giving us more time to focus on evaluating and less on data entry. Ultimately it cuts down on the time it takes to get the report delivered to you.
Cloud technology helps to make our appraisals more accurate too. We have constant access to our data through our devices, and mobile appraising apps make sure we don't miss a step. And, with the use of a laser measurer, we've replaced our tape measure for more trustworthy sketches.
As a bonus, we're always ready to answer questions when you call or e-mail us. Mobile appraising makes us much more efficient, providing us with the forms and data we need at all times so we can focus on appraising.
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Life after oil
Gulf countries are struggling with how to gird their economies for the day when their fossil fuels run out.
January 27, 2010 10:41 by Emily Meredith
The lack of transparency in the U.A.E. was evident in November’s announcement that Dubai World would ask to delay debt repayment, particularly because information was so scant. “That crisis has damaged sentiment, at least with regard to Dubai. In the wider region, we had the Gosaibis, the Saad story. There’s a need for more transparency and better regulation in the region but in the world as well,” Woertz said.
Dubai also has a long history of economic diversification. After the collapse of the pearl diving industry, the emirate continued to capitalize on its location to establish itself as a trade center. In the last decade, the government has pushed aggressively to diversify its economy.
“The reason Dubai developed so quickly was the government was at the forefront of economic development,” the head of consultancy Nabil Al Yousuf and Associates and former head of Dubai School of Government, Nabil Al Yousuf, said.
“It took the first set of risks and that encouraged the other sectors. Then we had the Dubai International Financial Center and the Internet City and the Media City. All of them were basically a piece of desert where the government decided this is where we’re going to grow the sector and we are going to take the first risks involved in economic development.”
As its hydrocarbon-rich neighbors enter their own periods of aggressive diversification, Al Yousuf said, they need to be sure the private sector has enough freedom to operate.
“What I guess concerns us is the closed measures of the economy and the measures of protectionism and having basically the government only running the economy through three or four state-owned enterprises – one for oil, one for airlines – and not allowing the private sector to flourish.
- Trends magazine
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Years in Business
Colorado Home Served Last Year
Looking for a reliable lawn care service provider shouldn’t be a hard task. At Lush Green Landscapes we have been caring for lawns in Grand Junction, Clifton, Palisade, Fruita, Redlands, Orchard Mesa, and Fruitvale area since 2003. In that time we have grown and developed into one of the most trusted and recommended lawn care service providers in Colorado. With expertly trained employees, we are able to provide the highest level of service that is guaranteed to give you the peace of mind you deserve.
As a family owned and operated business, we understand the need for clear, concise, and efficient communication and billing of your services. In order to meet and exceed our customer’s expectations, we use the industry-leading software to maintain your account information, billing, scheduling, and communicating any special needs you may have to our crews.
When you need dependable lawn service that is efficient and effective, trust the experts at Lush Green Landscapes. In addition to providing service that is unparalleled in the lawn service industry, our customers benefit from additional features that add value to their experience.
Nothing is more frustrating than receiving an unexpected and unpleasant bill after the work is completed. Our customers appreciate our transparent, honest approach to pricing. With our no hassle pricing, customers get the pricing associated with the lawn care services they require quickly. This means you will never receive an unpleasant bill from us after the work is done.
You must be absolutely delighted by our services!!! If for any reason, or no reason at all, you feel you’re not absolutely, positively 100% happy with our work, I WON’T BE HAPPY EITHER. That means I WILL NOT REST until we make it right. I will immediately send my team to fix the problem no questions asked… That is how strongly I believe you will love what we do. Let us prove it to you!
Lush Green Landscapes is a local, family owned and operated company. With strong ties to the community, we empathize with customers who are looking out for their families because it is what we do too. Our honest advice and top-quality work are what we would provide for our own family members.
When you call Lush Green Landscapes, you are calling on numerous years of lawn care service training and experience. We only hire the most skilled and professional lawn service technicians in the industry to guarantee your satisfaction and ensure your confidence in our services. Whether you need professional lawn mowing, fertilization and weed control, sprinkler system maintenance, landscape maintenance or landscape design and building we have the staff, tools and skills to get the job done.
You must be absolutely delighted by our services!!! If for any reason, or no reason at all, you feel you’re not absolutely, positively 100% happy with our work, I WON’T BE HAPPY EITHER. That means I WILL NOT REST until we make it right. We will immediately send someone from our team to fix the problem no questions asked… That is how strongly I believe you will love what we do. Let us prove it to you!
Lush Green Landscapes
Trust your home lawn care maintenance needs to our team of experienced lawn service technicians. Call (970) 201-1967 to find out why your neighbors and friends trust us for all of their lawn maintenance needs.
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When we asked for contributors to the Renmen Project we never thought we’d have such an overwhelming response. So much so, we brought together some of the best artists and illustrators for our latest release – the official Renmen Project Postcard Set! In preparation for the release (this Thursday), we caught up with the folks in question for a quick word about their contributions.
“I wanted to capture the idea of “Renmen” – or love – in a cheerful and fun way and what says cheerful and fun more than a cat playing a banjo with some kind of rodent creature on his head (playing the flute?) Nothing I know of anyway.”
Follow Gemma – @gemmacorrell
“My illustration for the renmen project really focuses on the use of a variety of bright and exotic colours found in Haitian art. It was a great piece to work on creatively as I am so used to working with a monochrome colour palette. The piece features a central figure and also the Hispaniolan Trogon which is the national bird of Haiti. I included the words “one love” within my illustration to really signify what the renmen project is all about, uniting people from all over to pay there respects and help out one cause for the good.”
Follow Jonny – @jonny_wan
“On a personal note Haiti and the Haitian people hold a dear place in my heart as Port-au-Prince was my home for quite some time. After the earthquake I learned that nearly every one I knew there; in-laws, neighbours, friends and colleagues on my little rubbled street were either dead or missing.
Before the quake happened I couldn’t begin to describe the heartache I had for the Haitian children and the desperate parents who would do anything if they could to keep them fed and clothed, most living without electricity, potable water or any of the things we here in the USA take so much for granted. But after the quake I fear there is not a word for the sort of desperation and horror they must live through every day just trying to survive.
I’m poor as a church mouse myself but when I heard there was a way I could help just a little bit more, I was so heartened by the opportunity. With the theme being “Renmen”, I searched my creatures for a face most child-like, innocent and loving that I could find to add to the post card collection. My hope that it might inspire someone to love Haiti’s little children just a little bit more.”
Follow Kit – @kitlane
“When John Lennon said ‘All you need is love’ he wrote it out of a fascination with the power of slogans to unite people. The classic Beatles song to me is one of the most simple, timeless, embracing & hopeful messages ever to be put to music and it is impossible to be misinterpreted. This was my inspiration in designing my postcard.
‘There’s nothing you can do that can’t be done’.”
Follow Simon – @simonwild
“There is nothing tastier than a cold ice cream on a hot day. Unfortunately a cheeky little bird has tried to sneak in and have a taste of his favourite flavour, strawberry. He’s ended up being covered with a whirl of mint choc chip, a wafer stick and a cherry. Naughty bird!”
Follow Aaron – @aaronmillerillz
So that’s part 1 of our ‘meet the artists’ feature… we’ll be back with the 5 other artists tomorrow! In the meantime, keep tabs on The Renmen Project over on the Renmen blog.
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Some three dozen people have died in dozens of wildfires throughout California, Oregon and Washington. Photo by Jim Ruymen/UPI | License Photo
Sept. 18 (UPI) -- A wildfire in Southern California sparked by an explosive at a gender-reveal party is responsible for the death of a firefighter, U.S. agriculture officials said Friday.
The San Bernardino National Forest said the firefighter died Thursday while battling the El Dorado Fire.
"The name is being withheld pending notification of next of kin. Our deepest sympathies are with the family, friends and fellow firefighters during this time," a statement from the U.S. Forest Service said.
Officials were investigating the fire and the death.
The El Dorado Fire, situated in Riverside and San Bernardino counties, has burned more than 21,000 acres and was 66% contained as of Friday morning. The California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection said it was sparked Sept. 5 by a smoke-generating pyrotechnic device used in a gender-reveal party.
The agency said those responsible for sparking the fire could be held criminally or financially responsible.
In addition to the single death, there have been 12 fire personnel and civilian injuries, and 10 structures have been destroyed.
The El Dorado Fire is one of dozens of wildfires blazing throughout California, Oregon and Washington. There have been dozens of deaths, including 26 in California.
More than 3.4 million acres have burned in the Golden State, with the largest of the blazes, the August Complex, having consumed some 824,000 acres, the largest in the state's history. The group of fires was 30% contained as of Friday morning.
One person has died in the blaze and more than two dozen structures have been destroyed.
In Oregon, favorable weather conditions, including cooler temperatures and rain, were expected to assist firefighters and ease air quality. Forecasters, though, are concerned that any heavy rainfall might cause flash flooding with debris leftover from the wildfires.
At least eight people have died and several others are missing in Oregon, where several fires have consumed about half a million acres of land. Some evacuation orders were lifted in the affected areas.
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Spin of the 'Wheel' a lucky turn for Volcano B&B
The cozy-looking Bamboo Orchid Cottage bed-and-breakfast in Volcano got some free national exposure Wednesday night during B&B week on "Wheel of Fortune."
A stay there was offered as a prize on the nationally syndicated game show that airs in 211 U.S. markets and is watched by 47 million viewers each week.
That nobody won makes the exposure free, except for the membership dues the B&B's owners already pay to belong to bedandbreakfast.com
, a Web site that markets some 6,500 B&Bs around the world.
Bedandbreakfast.com was Wheel's prize partner for the week, offering stays at far-flung locations that read like one of those bumper stickers: Markt Einersheim, Rome, Ottawa, Rockland, Volcano.
The prize description appeared in the very beginning of the show, said Bamboo Orchid Cottage co-owner Suzy Kruppa, who lives on Oahu.
It was more like advertising for bedandbreakfast.com, but "they did show pictures and video and a logo," of the cottage, she said.
The phone hasn't rung off the hook yet. "I wouldn't have expected anything last night," she said yesterday. "We're going to check the Web site for hits at the end of the week," to measure the exposure's impact.
Positive national exposure at no expense is likely to benefit the inn ahead of a shoulder season, when the flow of Hawaii visitors slows from the speed of advancing pahoehoe to the clinkery plodding of a'a.
"I hope so," said Kruppa.
Bedandbreakfast.com visitorscan easily click through to bambooorchidcottage.com and may be likely to do so after reading two glowing reviews by guests of different ages who stayed at the Volcano property in October and November.
Another benefit of membership with bedandbreakfast.com, she said, is that for the reasonable listing rate, "they put you on Expedia(.com)."
Many Big Island and other B&Bs are listed on the larger site, and Kruppa thought "it was pretty good," that Bamboo Orchid Cottage was chosen for the promotional slot, given that all but one of the other promoted properties are on foreign soil.
is a reporter with the Star-Bulletin. Call 529-4747, fax 529-4750 or write to Erika Engle, Honolulu Star-Bulletin, 500 Ala Moana Blvd., No. 7-210, Honolulu, HI 96813. She can also be reached at: email@example.com
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We’ll be shifting gears this time around to talk about something a bit more serious. There’s been a trend in my blogs to write about subjects which hold significance to me for one reason or another, as I find it much easier to write when you can personally relate to the topic at hand. This week is no different, as I’ll be discussing loneliness and how it affects people on the autism spectrum. Due to the socialization issues faced by those with autism, making and (perhaps most importantly) keeping friends can be a daunting task, despite our pure intentions. This lack of companionship can be highly damaging to anyone, let alone individuals on the spectrum. However, I promise if you just keep at it, and stay true to yourself, eventually good friends will come along. But I digress, let’s get into it.
From what I could find, apparently there used to be an idea that people with autism didn’t feel lonely or, at the very least, weren’t as severely impacted by it as others. I find this idea dubious at best. One study from the University of Missouri measured “loneliness, number and nature of friendships, depression, anxiety, life satisfaction, and self-esteem.” It was discovered that among this demographic, a lack of close friends increased depression and anxiety, while lowering self-esteem and satisfaction with life. This holds true for myself and everyone else I’ve ever known with autism.
It is possible that many people, mostly children, with ASD may not understand the connection between loneliness and real friendship. Making acquaintances is one thing, but having a true friend who’ll be there for you through thick and thin is difficult for so many of us. According to Tony Attwood, a well-known figure in the autism community in Australia, children with autism have weaker friendships than their neurotypical peers and don’t understand that their loneliness stems from that. “Whereas typical children define and understand loneliness as being alone (with no one to play with) and feelings of sadness, the majority of autistic children define loneliness as only one dimension of being alone. They tend to not attribute an emotional feeling (e.g. sadness) to their loneliness.” That degree of sadness that they don’t quite understand leads to intense feelings of depression and loneliness which is almost impossible to break out of.
As I’ve alluded to, the true cure for the devastating effects of loneliness is to forge strong friendships. A few years ago, I made 2 friends who are the best I’ve ever had, and for the first time I feel truly happy in my life. I feel better about myself than ever before. And this idea is definitely supported. From the first study I referenced, it was found that a “greater quantity and quality of friendships were associated with decreased loneliness among adults with autism spectrum disorders.” Interacting with the social world we live in can be challenging, and even scary at times, but as I said before, just keep being you and one day the right people will notice, and make a great friend in the process.
- G. Sosso
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9 films not to be missed at the Tashkent International Film Festival in Uzbekistan
The Tashkent Film Festival is back after a 24-year hiatus. To commemorate the occasion, Euronews has selected 9 films to watch from the 2021 screenings.
In the 1960s and 1970s, “Uzbekistan had a great reputation in the world of cinema both in the post-Soviet space and in the world in general”, explains Firdavs Abdukhalikov, general director of the festival and general director of Uzbekistan Film Agency.
Yet, unfortunately, “in the last 25 years, up to 2017, Uzbekistan has experienced stagnation. It must be admitted: the studios were closing, funding was cut, equipment was put up for auction, the whole industry was on the verge of collapse, ”he adds.
Today is a different story. Several reforms have taken place in Uzbekistan in recent years, particularly in the field of culture. “The great impetus and the culmination of all these reforms was the Film Festival,” says Abdukhalikov.
The Central Asian country expects the festival to become a powerful stimulus for the development of domestic industry. “It promises to become the cultural breakthrough of the year and a nest for sharing experiences with the international film community, signing new contracts and generating ideas.”
Here is Euronews’ selection of 9 films to watch from the 2021 edition of the Tashkent International Film Festival, 65 years after its first celebration.
“Curfew”, directed by Amir Ramsès, 2020
Curfew has an intriguing history and features a star-studded cast. The film is set in late fall 2013 during curfew in Egypt and tells the story of a woman called “Faten” the day she gets out of prison after committing a horrific crime.
Curfew was nominated for Best Picture at the Cairo International Film Festival in 2020, and its lead actor, Ilham Shaheen, won the Best Actress award.
“Photocopy”, directed by Tamer Ashry, 2017
The plot of this heartwarming film follows a retired old man in Cairo who brings new meaning to his life. The production gives a taste of 20th century Egypt and reminds us of how to live fully and fall in love has no age limit.
The film has received numerous awards including Best Arab Feature Film at the El Gouna Film Festival and Best Film at the Geneva International Oriental Film Festival in 2019.
“Where did Ramses go?” directed by Amr Bayumi, 2019
This documentary premiered at the 21st edition of the Ismailia International Film Festival for Documentaries and Short Films and won the festival’s most prestigious award. The film follows the movement of the statue of Ramses II from the Cairo square of the same name, to the Grand Egyptian Museum.
The director used valuable footage that he himself recorded during the 2006 move, which lasted more than 12 hours, to the charming atmosphere of the Egyptian capital.
“Dream of Sohrab”, directed by Ali Ghavitan, 2020
“Dream about Sohrab” traces the poetry of Sohrab Sepehri, who has been one of Iran’s most influential literary figures for the past five decades.
Ali Ghavitan (the director) travels to Kashan, Sohrab’s hometown, and resides in a madman’s house, in exchange for specific information about the literary figure. Due to his apparent resemblance to Sepehri, the director himself takes on the role of poet and painter.
“Martin Eden”, directed by Pietro Marcello, 2019
The dramatic film won 12 awards and received 52 nominations around the world, including Best Film at the Venice Film Festival in 2019. Lead actor Luca Marinelli also won the Volpi Cup for Best Actor, the lead award given to actors in Venice. Film Festival.
The plot of the film centers on Martin Eden, a man who passionately seeks to be part of the Italian literary elite while struggling to rise out of poverty.
“Happy as Lazzaro”, directed by Alice Rohrwacher, 2018
The Italian drama written and directed by Alice Rohrwacher was shortlisted to compete for the Palme d’Or at the 2018 Cannes Film Festival. And although it missed that award, it won the award for best screenplay.
The film’s story sees a nice Italian peasant being exploited by a noblewoman, but hints of whimsy and mystery give it an unexpected twist. The production is beautiful and original.
“The Mother’s Road”, directed by Akan Satayev, 2016
The film takes place at the time when the Soviets imposed rules of collective agriculture and permanent settlement on a region of nomadic inhabitants. The story evolves over decades of war, where a mother and son fight to be reunited.
The Road to Mother was selected as the Kazakh candidate for best foreign language film at the 90th Academy Awards.
“Horse Thieves”, directed by Yerlan Nurmukhambetov, 2019
In this Khazak-Japanese production, we follow a family living in the foothills of the Tian Shan, the great mountain range that runs through Central Asia. The drama takes place when a band of horse thieves seizes the herd that belonged to the village and turns the life of the family upside down. A mysterious stranger comes to their aid.
The film was nominated at the Shanghai International Film Festival for the Audience Film Award in 2020.
“Oralman”, directed by Sabit Kurmanbekov, 2016
Under Soviet rule in the 1930s, many individuals and families left Kazakhstan for neighboring states. Oralman is the official term for ethnic Kazakhs who returned to their home country after independence from the Soviet regime in 1991.
The film Oralman traces the story of a Kazakh ethnic family returning to their homeland. The film explores the issues and concepts of identity and home.
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Yamagata Scream (Yamagata sukurîmu) (2009)
Critic Consensus: No consensus yet.
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Audience Reviews for Yamagata Scream (Yamagata sukurîmu)
Naoto Takenaka has done a lot of things in Japan, but he drops the ball with this horror comedy known as Yamagata Scream. The setting does take place in Yamagata and there are a lot of screams, but there isn't much of anything else to keep this 1 hour 55 minute picture that entertaining.
The concept of the story is there, but there isn't much depth to it once all the mayhem starts, which is pretty early on. Speaking of the mayhem, this is one thing that the film does pretty well, albeit it can get annoying after a while. The over the top humor and randomness of the film is what makes this a typical Japanese comedy, and it sustains this throughout the entire picture. This film just isn't for everybody.
As I previously mentioned, there isn't much to the story, which in turn makes this movie boring at times. At least there isn't much to think about.
A lot of the actors are overacting and this is expected. Naoto Takenaka casts himself as one of the lead zombies. There are also some cute girls in uniform to watch run around.
Yamagata Scream is a comedy that fails to entertain enough to be a memorable movie. It isn't at the bottom of the barrel, but it sure as heck isn't near the top.
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With South Africa well into its three week nation-wide lockdown as a result of the COVID-19 outbreak individuals and businesses have been left in an unenviable position. Whilst the Regulations gazetted by the South African government on the 18th of March 2020 have made provision for some much needed financial assistance to the country, there remains much uncertainty in respect of certain aspects of the Regulations, such as whether individuals and/or businesses are still obligated to, inter alia, pay their monthly rental during the nation-wide lockdown.
From the outset it is imperative to note that unless an agreement specifically caters for a review of the terms of the agreement and/or a reduction in the rental payable in circumstances such as the COVID-19 outbreak, there is no automatic right to review the terms of the agreement and/or reduce the rental payable.
However, certain agreements specifically contain a force majeure clause in an effort to protect parties to the agreement against the potential risk of an occurrence of a force of nature or act of God or man that cannot be avoided, foreseen or prevented and which may render performance of certain obligations in the agreement impossible.
A force majeure clause may be drafted narrowly in terms of which the events that constitute force majeure, that a party may rely on to invoke the clause, are specifically listed to the exclusion of any other such events. Whereas a force majeure clause that is drafted broadly would set out the specific events that constitute force majeure as well as contain a “catch all provision” to cover force majeure events that are not specifically listed. Therefore, even where an agreement contains a force majeure clause, this does not automatically mean that it encompasses impossibility of performance caused by the COVID-19 outbreak.
Specifically, in relation to commercial lease agreements, should a tenant wish to rely on a force majeure clause in order to cease paying rent or to pay a reduced amount they would need to first establish that the force majeure clause encompasses the COVID-19 outbreak. Secondly, the tenant would need to prove that payment of rental, in full or in part, has become impossible as a direct result of the outbreak.
For example, businesses that have not been deemed an essential service and who have subsequently been prohibited from trading as a result of the COVID-19 outbreak, and the Regulations implemented as a result thereof, may be entitled to a reduction of rent proportional to the number of days that they were unable to occupy the leased premises.
Conversely, a commercial lease agreement may contain a rental payment clause that specifically states that there shall be no deductions or set off for whatsoever reason (including force majeure). Some commercial lease agreements may also state that the lessor cannot be held liable for any claim, howsoever arising, for any loss or damage that a tenant may suffer, be it directly or indirectly resulting from an event of force majeure. In such circumstances, parties to the agreement would not be in a position to rely on force majeure as a basis for non-performance of their obligations.
However, where an agreement does not contain a force majeure clause or specifically excludes reliance on same, a party to the agreement may be able to rely on the common law principle of “supervening impossibility of performance”.
Broadly speaking, ‘supervening impossibility of performance’ can be relied on when it has become objectively impossible for a person to perform their obligations in terms of an agreement as a result of an unforeseeable and unavoidable event. The requirements that need to be met for a party to rely on supervening impossibility of performance are as follows:
- The impossibility must occur after the conclusion of the agreement;
- the event/s causing the impossibility of performance must be unavoidable; and
- the event/s causing the impossibility must make proper performance of the contract objectively or absolutely impossible (cannot merely have made performance more burdensome or economically difficult).
If all the abovementioned requirements have been fulfilled, both parties’ obligations to perform in terms of the agreement will be suspended and will resume once performance becomes possible again. Should performance become permanently impossible the agreement will terminate and the parties will be relieved from their obligations in terms of the agreement.
However, notwithstanding what provisions are or are not contained in an agreement, parties are free to renegotiate the terms thereof and can agree to an arrangement that is, as far as reasonably possible in the circumstances, economically viable for both parties. However, it is imperative that such renegotiated terms and/or arrangements be reduced to writing and signed by all parties to the agreement, especially in instances where the original agreement contains a non-variation clause, so as to avoid any potential claims that may arise with regard to the enforceability of the renegotiated terms and/or arrangements.
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Cyberspies : the secret history of surveillance, hacking, and digital espionage / Gordon Corera.
- 4 of 5 copies available at Evergreen Indiana.
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- Physical Description: xi, 431 pages ; 24 cm
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- Publisher: New York : Pegasus Books, 2016.
- Copyright: ©2015
|Bibliography, etc. Note:|| Includes bibliographical references (pages 393-420) and index.
|Formatted Contents Note:|| Birth -- Marriage -- Into the cold -- Coming of age -- Spy-hunting -- Crypto wars -- Attack -- Enter the KGB -- Out of the cold and into cyberspace -- Titan rain -- In the wires -- Britain and the cyber spies -- Dissent -- Sabotage -- The lights go off -- Rebirth: cables -- Britain -- Exposure -- Epilogue: To infinity and beyond.
|Summary, etc.:|| Reveals the history of espionage and its use of and dependency on technology, beginning with the Second World War and continuing through the Cold War and into the present Internet age where hackers and surveillance are commonplace.
The intertwining forces of computers and espionage are reshaping the entire world: what was once the preserve of a few intelligence agencies now affects us all. BBC security correspondent Gordon Corera's narrative takes us through the Cold War and the birth of the Internet to the present era of hackers and surveillance. The book is rich with historical detail and characters, as well as astonishing revelations about espionage carried out in recent times by the UK, US, and China. Using unique access to the National Security Agency, GCHQ, Chinese officials, and senior executives from some of the most powerful global technology companies, Corera has gathered compelling stories from heads of state, hackers, and spies of all stripes into a groundbreaking exploration of the new space in which the worlds of espionage, diplomacy, international business, science, and technology collide.--Adapted from dust jacket.
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The business specialises in the design and installation of kitchens and BICs. Elements, lines and forms that you would find on a plan for a kitchen layout were used in combination with the business’ name for the logo.
Kala'ngozi is a project management consultant company. The most important aspect for the client was to use the name as a basis for the logo. Zoomed in details of the letter "K" and the diagonal of the "Z" make up the graphic part of the logo.
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Located in Rome City Centre- this hotel is within a 5-minute walk of Palazzo Barberini and Trevi Fountain. Piazza Venezia and Vittorio Emanuele Monument are also within 15 minutes.
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Ted Steinberg. Down to Earth: Nature's Role in American History. New York: Oxford University Press, 2002. xiv + 347 pp. $30.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-19-514009-5; $39.95 (paper), ISBN 978-0-19-514010-1.
Reviewed by Mara Drogan (History Department, The University at Albany, State University of New York)
Published on H-Environment (April, 2004)
In the Classroom
On the first day of summer school at Baruch College in Manhattan, the twelve business students enrolled in my "Themes in American History" class informed me, in no uncertain terms, that they were taking my class only because it fulfilled a requirement. They were uniformly uninterested in history, they declared. My promise that our theme for the next six weeks--the role of the environment in American history--was an engaging and important one, and that our primary text--Ted Steinberg's Down to Earth: Nature's Role in American History--was unlike other textbooks forced on them in the past was met with dubious silence. (Their blank stares and barely contained resentment will perhaps not be unfamiliar to the readers of this list.)
It was a far different group of students who assembled two days later, having read the introduction and first chapter of the book. "It's so interesting!" they exclaimed. "It's like a novel or something you'd actually want to read!" They said they had never thought of nature having a history ("I thought history was just dead presidents and stuff"), nor considered the ways in which the environment shaped people's choices and therefore affected the history of this nation and the world. Thus began a lively and wide-ranging six-week conversation on American environmental history. My students came to each class after a long day of work while the rest of New York City was watching baseball in the boroughs or swing-dancing at Lincoln Center, but their interest rarely flagged, thanks in large part to Steinberg's excellent work.
Down to Earth consists of sixteen chapters organized into three parts. A brief prologue challenges students to consider why U.S. history textbooks begin the way they do--with the Bering Strait or Columbus or Jamestown--and introduces the basic geology of North America. The three chapters in part 1, "Chaos to Simplicity," take the reader quickly from Paleoindians to the rise of the market in the early nineteenth century. The seven chapters in part 2, "Rationalization and Its Discontents," focus on key issues in the nineteenth century, including southern agriculture and slavery, westward expansion, conservation, and Gilded Age urbanization and industrialization. The six chapters in part 3, "Consuming Nature," move into the twentieth century and explore topics such as consumerism, environmentalism, and globalization.
Steinberg states in the introduction that the layout of the book corresponds to his thesis that there are three key turning points in U.S. environmental history: the arrival of Europeans on American shores, Jefferson's adoption of the Cartesian grid as the logic by which the United States would be settled, and the "rise of consumerism in the late nineteenth century" (p. x). He argues that "the transformation of nature into a commodity was the most important single force behind these shifts" (p. xi). In adopting an openly thesis-driven approach, Steinberg provides a useful pedagogical tool. Throughout the term, we returned again and again to these arguments to debate their strengths and weaknesses, offer other turning points, and consider how current events supported or challenged Steinberg's key arguments. Down to Earth is well written and provocative; each chapter spurs classroom debates and conversations. The chapters are sometimes uneven, yet for each student who criticized a particular chapter or topic for some shortcoming, several more students were quick to defend it as informative, interesting, or thought-provoking. Such debates enabled us to consider the role of evidence, values, and interpretation in the study of history.
My experience in using Down to Earth in the classroom was positive, but I would add some caveats in recommending Steinberg as the primary text in an undergraduate course. Because Steinberg takes a topical approach, students who are not well-versed in U.S. political and social history will need additional guidance in placing each chapter in context. This is easily done through lectures and supplementary readings, but I would strongly recommend that a future edition of Down to Earth include some basic timelines so as to make the book more classroom-friendly. Additional maps and pictures would also augment the text.
Similarly, every historian and teacher will quibble about key issues or events that were excluded. My students and I wished that more attention had been given to the colonial and early republican periods. The chapter on the Civil War was very strong, but we lamented that other wars were not given the same attention. Likewise, in the latter twentieth century, the military-industrial complex, space race, and nuclear industry receive very short shrift. Other readers will no doubt have other topics that they would add. But of course, this too provided an opportunity for learning as we debated why Steinberg made the choices he did and as students proffered their own suggestions for a second edition. But the very fact that they wanted to see a second edition is testament to the first edition's strength. (It was a singularly unique experience to have my students suggesting that a book should be longer.)
My experience working with Ted Steinberg's Down to Earth: Nature's Role in American History was highly positive and I recommend it to other teachers looking for a stimulating and engaging text for the undergraduate classroom.
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Mara Drogan. Review of Steinberg, Ted, Down to Earth: Nature's Role in American History.
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It’s the final day before we depart for the winter break, and before doing so we’d like to take a moment to recognize the three Rotman Institute doctoral students who successfully defended their theses this past year. Their names, along with the titles of their dissertations, are listed below.
John Jenkinson – A New Framework for Enactivism: Understanding the enactive body through structural flexibility and Merleau-Ponty’s ontology of flesh
Emma Ryman – Fiduciary Duties and Commercial Surrogacy
Jessey Wright – Evidence in Neuroimaging: Towards a Philosophy of Data Analysis
Please join us in congratulating each of these graduates! Best wishes for a joyous holiday season to our graduates, our members, and our extended community. See everyone in 2018!
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Humans often forward kindness received from others to strangers, a phenomenon called the upstream or pay-it-forward indirect reciprocity. Some field observations and laboratory experiments found evidence of pay-it-forward reciprocity in which chains of cooperative acts persist in social dilemma situations. Theoretically, however, cooperation based on pay-it-forward reciprocity is not sustainable. We carried out laboratory experiments of a pay-it-forward indirect reciprocity game (i.e., chained gift-giving game) on a large scale in terms of group size and time. We found that cooperation consistent with pay-it-forward reciprocity occurred only in a first few decisions per participant and that cooperation originated from inherent pro-sociality of individuals. In contrast, the same groups of participants showed persisting chains of cooperation in a different indirect reciprocity game in which participants earned reputation by cooperating. Our experimental results suggest that pay-it-forward reciprocity is transient and disappears when a person makes decisions repeatedly, whereas the reputation-based reciprocity is stable in the same situation.
In December 2012, a customer generously paid for coffee for the next stranger customer in a Tim Hortons drive-through in Winnipeg. Subsequent customers did the same act such that a chain of generous behavior eventually involved 228 customers1. Similar phenomena have been witnessed in other shops2,3,4,5. This form of cooperative behavior, cooperating with a stranger after receiving cooperation from a different individual, is referred to as pay-it-forward reciprocity, also known as upstream reciprocity and generalized reciprocity. Pay-it-forward reciprocity has been observed in humans in some behavioral experiments6,7,8,9,10,11 and fields12, and also in rats13.
Pay-it-forward reciprocity is one of the two forms of indirect reciprocity, in which one would cooperate with strangers even when not to cooperate is apparently more lucrative (i.e., social dilemma situations). Indirect reciprocity is considered to enable large-scale cooperation in a population in which it is practically impossible for all individuals to be acquainted with each other14,15. Theoretically, cooperation under pay-it-forward reciprocity is stable only when it is combined with other stand-alone mechanisms of cooperation such as direct reciprocity (i.e., repeated interaction)16, spatial networks16, heterogeneous networks17, networks with community structure or sparse networks18, small population size19,20,21, mobility of players22, assortative interaction among players23, and a population variant of tit-for-tat24. The reputation-based reciprocity is the other form of indirect reciprocity in which those who have cooperated receive a good reputation and individuals would cooperate with those with good reputations. Reputation-based cooperation has also been widely observed in humans in laboratory experiments25,26,27,28 and online society29,30, and also in cleaner fish31,32. However, differently from pay-it-forward reciprocity, reputation-based indirect reciprocity has strategic rationality and is theoretically stable as payoff-maximizing behavior14,33,34.
In this paper, contrary to the previous empirical studies6,7,8,9,10,11,12,35,36,37,38,39, we demonstrate that the ability of pay-it-forward reciprocity to produce a chain of good-will on a large scale is fairly limited as compared to that of reputation-based reciprocity. In particular, we show that a chain of cooperation sustained by pay-it-forward reciprocity, but not by reputation-based reciprocity, is transient when an individual is made to act repeatedly. To this end, we carried out laboratory experiments in which each participant was engaged in long chains of behavior in two types of indirect reciprocity games. The participants submitted decisions many times, and we observed dynamics of their behavior. Chains of cooperation sustained by reputation-based reciprocity are expected to emerge robustly in such a situation because it is payoff-maximizing behavior14,33,34. On the contrary, we postulate that a chain of good-will counting on pay-it-forward reciprocity, which is not strategically rational behavior16,17,18,19,20,21,22,23,24, will gradually disappear as participants accumulate decisions over time.
Time series of cooperation in the two indirect reciprocity games
Participants played chained versions of the pay-it-forward reciprocity game and reputation-based reciprocity game in a group of 17 or 19 participants. In both games, each participant either donated (i.e., cooperate, denoted by C) or did not donate (i.e., defect, denoted by D) the money received by the experimenter to the downstream neighbor in the chain (Fig. 1). If the participant selected C, he/she lost the money and the neighbor received the doubled amount of money. If the participant selected D, he/she kept the money and the neighbor received nothing. The participants made decisions many times (maximum 45 times per participant) in each of the two games in anonymous situations. We refer to each decision opportunity as the round; for example, round three indicates that each participant submits a decision for the third time. In the pay-it-forward game, each participant (except for the first participant in a chain) was informed of the previous decision made by the upstream neighbor toward the participant (Fig. 1(a)). In the reputation-based game, each participant was informed of the decision made by the downstream neighbor toward its downstream neighbor (Fig. 1(b)). See Methods for more details about the experimental procedure.
To examine the possibility of indirect reciprocity, we measure three types of probability of cooperation in each game. First, p(C) denotes the fraction of cooperation, which may depend on the participant and round. Second, p(C|C) and p(C|D) denote the fraction of cooperation right after the participant is informed of the C and D decisions of the previous participant, respectively. It should be noted that p(C|C) and 1 − p(C|D) quantify the amount of positive and negative indirect reciprocity, respectively.
The probability of cooperation in each round averaged over all participants is shown in Fig. 2. In the pay-it-forward game, both unconditional (Fig. 2(a)) and conditional (Fig. 2(c,e)) probabilities of cooperation seem to decline over rounds, particularly in early rounds. However, in the reputation-based game, the probability of both unconditional (Fig. 2(b)) and conditional (Fig. 2(d,f)) cooperation is larger and stable over time.
Figure 2(b,d) indicate that p(C) and p(C|C) dropped in the last round in the reputation-based game, respectively. This is because, in this game, participants who played in the last position in a chain of decisions were informed before making a decision that no upstream neighbor existed.
Determinants of cooperation in the two games - Statistical analysis
To examine patterns of indirect reciprocity in pay-it-forward and reputation-based games, we conducted multivariate generalized linear mixed model (GLMM) analysis. Behavior was defined to be the sole binary dependent variable (D = 0, C = 1). We adopted the following three independent variables and their interactions. The decision of the previous participant as a binary variable (D = 0, C = 1), the round as an integer valued variable (ranging from 1 to 45), and the game type as a binary variable (reputation-based game = 0, pay-it-forward game = 1). Indirect reciprocity is represented as the effect of the decision of the previous participant on the behavior of the current participant. If the indirect reciprocity is weakened or strengthened over time, the two-way interaction effect between the round and the decision of the previous participant should be significant. If the patterns of the indirect reciprocity differ between the two types of game, two- or three-way interaction effects involving the game type and the decision of the previous participant should be significant. Two more independent variables were entered as control variables. The first additional variable was the degree of pro-sociality, so-called social value orientation (SVO; pro-self = 0, pro-social = 1)40,41,42, which was determined by the questionnaires that the participants had gone through 1–2 months before the experiment (see Methods and Supplementary Methods for details). The second additional variable was the gender (female = 0, male = 1). The participant's ID (categorical values assigned to each participant, ranging from 1 to 131) was used as a random effect affecting the intercept. We assumed a binomial distribution with a logistic link function.
First, to examine whether the patterns of indirect reciprocity vary between the two types of game, we constructed 16 different models in which each of the four possible two- or three-way interaction terms was switched on or off. The four possible interaction terms were “decision of the previous participant x round”, “decision of the previous participant x game type”, “round x game type”, and “decision of the previous participant x round x game type”. We carried out the GLMM analysis for each of the 16 models and compared the values of Akaike’s information criterion (AIC) (Supplementary Table S2). The best model (AIC = 9035.7) included the two two-way interaction effects except the “decision of the previous participant x round” and also included the three-way interaction effect. The three-way interaction (i.e., decision of the previous participant x round x game type) was significant (odds ratio = .99, P = 0.01; Supplementary Table S3) in the best model. This result suggests that the patterns of indirect reciprocity vary between the two types of game.
Next, to reveal the difference between the two games, we conducted GLMM analysis separately for each type of game, where “decision of the previous participant x round” was the sole two-way interaction term. The results are shown in Table 1. The two-way interaction was significant in the pay-it-forward game but not in the reputation-based game. Furthermore, in the pay-it-forward game, we obtained the following results. First, cooperation significantly decreased as the round progressed. Second, if we neglected the effect of the round, the decision of the previous participant did not significantly affect the current participant’s decision. Third, the pro-sociality of participant significantly increased the probability of cooperation compared to the pro-selves. Fourth, the participant's gender did not affect behavior. Separate analysis indicated that p(C|C) was significantly larger than p(C|D) in the first and second rounds but they were not different in the subsequent rounds in the pay-it-forward game (Supplementary Table S4). Pay-it-forward reciprocity behavior was only significant in the first two rounds. This result is consistent with casual observations made with Fig. 2(a,c,e) and with the presence of the “decision of the previous participant x round” two-way interaction (Table 1). Taken together, cooperation as pay-it-forward reciprocity is a transient phenomenon.
In contrast to the pay-it-forward game, in the reputation-based game, the probability of cooperation when the previous player had cooperated was significantly larger than that when the previous player had defected (Table 1). Separate analysis confirmed that p(C|C) was significantly larger than p(C|D) in most of the rounds in the reputation-based game (Supplementary Table S4). These results are consistent with those shown in Fig. 2(b,d,f), which show that p(C|C) is larger than p(C|D) throughout the experiment. Therefore, reputation-based indirect reciprocity behavior (i.e., C after observing C and D after observing D) was persistent over time in our experiments. Pro-sociality did not affect the probability to cooperate. Males cooperated more than females, but this effect was marginal. The effect of the round was insignificant, consistent with observations made with Fig. 2(b,d,f).
Two remarks are in order. First, for each type of game, we also analyzed the univariate GLMM to find that the results were consistent with those for the multivariate GLMM shown in Table 1; the results for the univariate analysis are shown in Supplementary Table S5. Second, in fact, the participants in the same group influenced each other such that responses of different participants in the same group may be correlated. We confirmed that all the results held true even when the group was added as a second random effect in the GLMMs (Supplementary Table S6).
To strengthen our conclusions, we also compared p(C), p(C|C), and p(C|D) aggregated over the rounds and participants between the two games. We conducted three GLMM analyses. In each analysis, p(C), p(C|C), or p(C|D) was used as a dependent variable, the game type (reputation-based game = 0, pay-it-forward game = 1) as an independent variable, and both the individual and the group as random effects, assuming the normal distribution. The effect of game type was significant when we used p(C), or p(C|C) as the dependent variable (p(C): coefficient = −0.20, P < 0.01; p(C|C): coefficient = −0.29, P < 0.01). Both p(C) and p(C|C) were significantly larger in the reputation-based game than in the pay-it-forward game (p(C), pay-it-forward: Mean = 0.42, SD = 0.34; reputation-based: Mean = 0.62, SD = 0.32; p(C|C), pay-it-forward: Mean = 0.42, SD = 0.38; reputation-based: Mean = 0.71, SD = 0.34). However, the effect of game type was not significant when we used p(C|D) as the dependent variable (coefficient = −0.05, P = 0.15). We found no significant difference between p(C|D) in the pay-it-forward game and that in the reputation-based game (pay-it-forward: Mean = 0.42, SD = 0.39; reputation-based: Mean = 0.47, SD = 0.38).
Finally, we examined the degree of reciprocity defined by
A participant with a large R value tends to show both positive reciprocity (C after C) and negative reciprocity (D after D). We conducted a GLMM analysis using the R value as a dependent variable and the game type as an independent variable, and found that the effect of game was significant (coefficient = −0.23, P < 0.01). The R value averaged over the participants was significantly larger in the reputation-based than the pay-it-forward game (pay-it-forward: Mean = 0.004, SD = 0.38; reputation-based: Mean = 0.23, SD = 0.33).
In summary, cooperation as pay-it-forward reciprocity quickly declines over time. With the data aggregated over time, we have found that cooperation in the pay-it-forward reciprocity does not occur as indirect reciprocity but is sustained by pro-sociality of the participant. We also tested effects of pro-sociality of the participants on pay-it-forward reciprocity to find that the “decision of the previous participant x SVO” two-way interaction was only marginally significant (Supplementary Table S7). Therefore, pro-sociality was not considered to cause pay-it-forward behavior. In contrast to the pay-it-forward game, cooperation in the reputation-based game was persistent and occured as indirect reciprocity.
Dependence on participants
To take a closer look at individual differences in the observed behavior, we calculated probabilities of cooperation for each participant and examined correlation of the probabilities between the two games. The relationship between p(C) in the pay-it-forward game, calculated for each participant, and p(C) in the reputation-based game is shown in Fig. 3(a). A circle represents a participant. The p(C) value is positively correlated between the two games (Pearson’s r = 0.50, N = 131, P < 0.01).
We found that p(C|C) and p(C|D) were also correlated between the two games (p(C|C): Fig. 3(b), Pearson’s r = 0.44, N = 131, P < 0.01; p(C|D): Fig. 3(c), Pearson’s r = 0.42, N = 131, P < 0.01). However, each of p(C|C) and p(C|D) was not correlated between the two games when we regressed out the effect of p(C) (p(C|C): Pearson’s r = 0.07, N = 131, P = 0.43; p(C|D): Pearson’s r = 0.12, N = 131, P = 0.19; see Methods for the definition). Therefore, the degree of reciprocal cooperation was not correlated between the two games when the effect of unconditional probability of cooperation (i.e., p(C)) was controlled away. Consistent with these results, the R values calculated separately for each participant were not significantly correlated between the two games (r = 0.10, N = 131, P = 0.25; Supplementary Fig. S2).
Contagion of cooperation and defection
Previous empirical studies and field observations suggested that cooperative or defective behavior was contagious1,2,3,4,5,9,11,43. To address this issue within our data, we modeled successions of cooperation and those of defection on the chain of participants as simple stochastic processes that neglected individuality of the participants. We define the length of cooperation as the number of C that successively occurs before a D occurs. For example, if a participant that received/observed defection cooperates, the next two participants also cooperate, and the subsequent participant defects (i.e., …DCCCD…), the length of C is equal to three. The length of defection is defined in the same manner.
The frequencies of the length of C and that of D are shown for each type of game in Fig. 4. If the decision is independent of the participant and round (i.e., independently and identically distributed, or i.i.d.), the length of C and that of D obey the geometrical distribution given by
where k is the length of C or D. The maximum likelihood estimator for the length of C and D is given by and , respectively. The estimated geometric distributions are drawn by the solid lines in Fig. 4 (hidden under the dashed lines in Fig. 4(a,c)). Figure 4(a,c) correspond to the length of C and D in the pay-it-forward game, respectively. In these figures, the empirical distributions did not significantly deviate from the geometrical distributions given by equation (2) (length of C:, KS test, D = 0.01, P = 1.00; length of D: KS test, D = 0.02, P = 0.89). Therefore, the results do not support contagion of cooperation or defection beyond the expectation of i.i.d. sequences. In contrast, in the reputation-based game, the empirical distribution of the length of C and that of D, shown by the bars in Fig. 4(b,d), respectively, significantly deviated from those of the geometrical distributions shown by the solid lines (length of C: KS test, D = 0.13, P < 0.01; length of D: KS test, D = 0.14, P < 0.01). Therefore, the succession of C and D observed in the reputation-based game is not explained under the assumption of independent decision making.
Next, we considered a second model in which the participants independently use participant-independent conditional probabilities p(C|C) and p(C|D) to make decisions. Under this assumption, the decisions are generated by the Markov chain with two states, C and D (Supplementary Fig. S5). The theoretical distribution of the length of C and that of D in this case is given by the geometrical distribution (equation (2)) with and , respectively (Supplementary Methods). The geometrical distributions estimated on the basis of the two-state Markov chain are shown by the dashed lines in Fig. 4. In the pay-it-forward game, the two-state Markov chain (dashed lines) and the i.i.d. model (solid lines) yielded indistinguishable results. In the reputation-based game, for both the length of C and that of D, the geometrical distributions derived from the two-state Markov chain (dashed lines) were different from those derived from the i.i.d. model (solid lines), and the former distributions captured the empirical distributions within insignificant error (length of C: KS test, D = 0.04, P = 0.55; length of D: KS test, D = 0.03, P = 0.91). Therefore, we conclude that indirect reciprocity behavior, which corresponds to the two-state Markov chain, is necessary for explaining succession of C and D observed in the reputation-based game.
We investigated the effects of two types of indirect reciprocity – pay-it-forward and reputation-based reciprocity – on contagion of cooperation. The participants were embedded in long chains and made decisions many times toward anonymous others. In the reputation-based game, the fraction of cooperation was relatively large and stable across rounds. Cooperation of previous participants significantly increased the focal player’s cooperation, consistent with previous theoretical14,33,34 and experimental results25,26,27,28. Even selfish (pro-self) players tended to cooperate to maintain their reputations. This behavioral correlation (i.e., C after C and D after D) resulted in longer successions of C and D in chains of participants than in the hypothetical case in which participants independently made decisions. In the pay-it-forward game, we did not find reciprocal behavior or successions of C and D longer than expected from the case of independent decisions. This result is consistent with theoretical results indicating that cooperation based on pay-it-forward reciprocity is not sustainable on its own15,16,17,18,19,20,21,22,23,24,44. Exclusively in this game, the pro-sociality of participants significantly promoted cooperation. Cooperation and its ostensible contagion were sustained by inclination of some participants to unconditional cooperation, not by reciprocity. The fraction of cooperation also declined over rounds in the pay-it-forward game.
Much of extant empirical evidence is in favor of pay-it-forward reciprocity. In fact, such evidence does not contradict the present results. First, each participant submitted a decision just once in many previous experiments6,7,8,10,36,45 and field observations1,2,3,4,5 showing pay-it-forward reciprocity. The participants in the present study also showed pay-it-forward reciprocity behavior in the first two rounds.
Second, pay-it-forward reciprocity was found to endure even when the same participants made decisions repeatedly in previous experiments35,37. In these experiments, participants were formed in fixed short cycles composed of three or four individuals. In this situation, the participants might have felt that their cooperative actions would be reimbursed through chained reactions of cooperation, which is consistent with the theoretical result that pay-it-forward reciprocity is viable on short cycles19,20,21. Cooperation on the basis of pay-it-forward reciprocity in small groups is a strategically sensible choice. In contrast, we used groups of 17 or 19 anonymized participants that were placed on chains. Therefore, the participants would not be able to feel that they were embedded in short cycles. Under this circumstance, pay-it-forward reciprocity occurred only in initial rounds. However, we do not exclude the possibility that our group size is still too small to observe significant pay-it-forward behavior. The participants may have felt that they were playing in a relatively small group. Then, they may have tried to act strategically, not in a pay-it-forward manner.
Third, two other experimental studies revealed behavior similar to pay-it-forward reciprocity. Fowler and Christakis reported contagion of cooperation in the public goods game where participants interacted in groups that were randomly and independently created in different rounds9. Grujić et al. conducted experiments with the prisoner’s dilemma game and a random matching protocol to find considerable cooperation under some conditions (i.e., when the focal participant cooperated last time)46. These results seem to contradict our argument that pay-it-forward reciprocity is unstable in a long run. Although unclear, we postulate that the difference has arisen from the fact that a participant has interacted with multiple others in a round in the previous experiments. In every round, a participant was engaged in the public goods game with three other participants9 or the prisoner’s dilemma game with each of four other participants46. In contrast, participants in our experiment observed the behavior of only a single peer in every round.
We are not the first to report instability of pay-it-forward reciprocity. Experiments conducted on Amazon Mechanical Turk yielded no47 or weak11 evidence of pay-it-forward reciprocity. High sensitivity of the degree of pay-it-forward reciprocity to experimental methods reported in a previous study8 is also consistent with instability of pay-it-forward reciprocity. Relative to these studies, the contribution of the present study is to have shown that cooperation as pay-it-forward reciprocity quickly decays in time and pro-sociality, not reciprocity, drives cooperation.
We showed that reputation-based reciprocity was more stable than pay-it-forward reciprocity. In fact, reputation-based reciprocity needs a system to monitor behavior of members and share their reputations in the community48,49,50. Pay-it-forward reciprocity, however, does not require such a system. Therefore, pay-it-forward reciprocity may remain a viable mechanism to yield cooperation, though transient, when reputation management systems are unavailable.
Since when Adam Smith51 and David Hume52 discussed roles of moral emotions as a basis of moral judgments and behavior, emotions such as empathy, shame, guilt, and gratitude, are argued to be a core proximate mechanism underlying human cooperation53,54. In particular, cooperation in one-shot and anonymous situations, which does not provide any material benefit to actors, may be driven by moral55 or positive emotions56, intervening cost-benefit calculus possibly made by actors. Emotions are also contagious57. Positive emotion of gratitude may strengthen social relationships58,59 and play a key role in nurturing strong bonds in a society60,61. With these lines of evidence combined, a possible interpretation of the present results on pay-it-forward reciprocity is that it occurs via positive emotions. Previous psychological7,45,60,61,62 and neuroimaging63 studies showed that cooperation occurring as pay-it-forward reciprocity or contagion was induced by positive emotions such as gratitude and empathy. This interpretation is consistent with a transient nature of pay-it-forward reciprocity shown in the present study; positive emotions were shown to be transient in other experiments using different paradigms62. Moral emotions undoubtedly underlie moral behavior of humans. However, a chain of one-shot cooperation sustained by moral emotions may be fragile when people frequently make decisions. It is an important question to examine limits and potentials of moral emotions as a fundament of cooperative human society.
The present research was approved by the ethic committee of the National Institute of Informatics, Japan and the Center for Experimental Research in Social Sciences at Hokkaido University, Japan. Participants read and signed informed consent forms before participating. The experiments were carried out in accordance with the approved guideline.
Participants were 131 undergraduate students at Hokkaido University in Japan. They were recruited from a large participant pool via e-mail. The participants received monetary rewards depending on the performance in the game. Participants formed a group of 17 or 19 participants, and there were seven groups. Supplementary Table S1 shows detailed information about individual groups.
Upon arrival, participants were escorted into a lecture room which had a seating capacity of at least 30 people. Each participant sat in front of a tablet computer. The partitions between adjacent participants prohibited them from seeing each other’ face and the display of the tablet computer. Once all participants sat, an experimenter gave instructions about the experiment using audible slides. The participants also received a written summary of the instructions, which was put on the desk during the experiment. They were told that the anonymity of their decisions was secured throughout the experiment.
Each participant played both the pay-it-forward and the reputation-based games. The order of games was counterbalanced. Before each game started, the participants answered a questionnaire regarding the rule of the games. Those answering incorrectly were led to the correct answers by the experimenter, who mentioned the corresponding part of the written instructions to the participants. Each type of game started after all participants answered the questions correctly after possible corrections. After finishing all rounds of both games, the participants were individually paid according to the results of the two games. A participant received 1,236 Japanese yen (about 9.9 US dollars; 1 yen ≈ 0.008 US dollars) on average. It took about 90 minutes for a participant to finish both games.
The participants played two types of chained gift-giving games. Five pairs of participants were randomly selected from the group without overlap. One participant in each pair was assigned to a role of donor, and the other to a role of recipient with the equal probability (i.e., a half). The donor was given 10 yen (about 8 US cents) from the experimenter and then decided whether or not to donate it. If the donor donated, he/she was left with no money, whereas the recipient received the doubled amount (i.e., 20 yen). If the donor did not donate, he/she kept 10 yen, and the recipient did not receive anything. The participants submitted decisions through a tablet PC (Windows Surface Pro 2, Microsoft 256 GB, 94X-00012). The PCs were connected via a Wi-Fi network. The experimental software was developed using z-Tree64.
The participants were embedded in a chain and sequentially made decisions. Figure 1(a) schematically represents the decision flow in the pay-it-forward game. Player X is informed of player W’s decision (donate the 10 yen, i.e., C, or do not donate, i.e., D). Then, player X makes a decision toward player Y, X’s decision is revealed to Y, Y makes a decision toward Z, and so on. Figure 1(b) represents the decision flow in the reputation-based game. Player X is informed of W’s decision toward V. Then, X makes a decision toward W, X’s decision is revealed to Y, Y makes a decision toward X, and so on (also see Supplementary Figs. S3 and S4). We allocated the positions in the chain to the participants randomly in advance under the constraint that the participants were never paired with same partners as both upstream and downstream neighbors more than once in a single chain. This procedure was to exclude direct reciprocity. Each participant received a name composed of three randomly selected letters as shown in Fig. 1. The names of the participants near the focal participant in the chain were displayed on the screen of the focal participant (Supplementary Fig. S1). Once a participant submitted a decision, he/she received a new three-letter name, which was different from what he/she had previously received. In addition, we simultaneously ran five chains of decision, and each participant appeared in different chains. Although each participant never paired with same neighbors within each chain, they may play with the same players in a different chain. To assure anonymity, each participant also received different three-letter names in different chains (see Supplementary Method for details). Aside from the three-letter names, each participant was assigned a 7-digit identification that did not change throughout the experiment. The history of decisions of each participant was tracked with his/her 7-digit number, and the payment to each participant was calculated. We ran five chains to accelerate the experiments and prevent the participants from getting tired in later rounds.
For example, in a group of 19 participants, each participant submitted decisions nine times, each toward a different peer, in each of simultaneously running chains. When all participants finished nine decisions in each chain, the game (either the pay-it-forward or reputation-based game) terminated. Thus, each participant made decisions nine times per chain. We defined the round as the number of decisions that a participant made in each type of game, regardless of the chain in which the participant responded (Supplementary Fig. S4). For example, if a participant made decisions six times in each of the five chains and was about to make the seventh decision in one of the chains, the participant was in the 31st round. Because we simultaneously ran five chains (see Supplementary method for details), a participant made 45 decisions (i.e., rounds) in each game. In fact, some participants experienced fewer rounds in the case of smaller groups (with 17 participants) and computer troubles. Supplementary Table S1 shows the lengths of decision chains for all groups. Participants were informed of the structure of the simultaneously running chains of decisions before the experiment.
Measurement of pro-sociality
We quantified pro-sociality of the participants with a social value orientation (SVO)40,41,42. The SVO is known to be correlated with the tendency to cooperate in social dilemma situations65. We measured the SVO with the so-called triple dominance method42 one or two months prior to the experiment. When participants registered to the participant pool, they were asked to answer SVO questionnaires in addition to personal information such as the gender.
In the questionnaires, the participants were asked to imagine that they would share money with an unknown person who they had not met before and would not meet again in the future. They chose the most preferred option among the following three alternatives, i.e., pro-social, individualistic, and competitive alternatives. Among the three alternatives, the pro-social option provides the largest joint outcome, i.e., the sum of the money that the participant and the unknown person receive (e.g., 500 yen to the self and 500 yen to the partner). The individualistic option provides the largest outcome to the participant (e.g., 550 yen to the self and 300 yen to the partner). The competitive option provides the largest difference between the two persons (e.g., 500 yen to the self and 100 yen to the partner). Each participant answered such questions nine times (see Supplementary method for the values used in the nine questions). Those who selected at least six consistent options were classified as pro-social, individualist, or competitor. Individualists and competitors were combined into one category to be called pro-self participants because of the small sample size of competitor40,41. In fact, only three among 131 participants were competitors. Eighty and 35 participants were classified as pro-social and pro-self, respectively. Sixteen participants were not classified because they made inconsistent choices or did not answer the questionnaires.
Conditional and unconditional probabilities of cooperation
We calculated the unconditional and conditional probabilities of cooperation as follows:
where nCD is the total number of defection selected right after the neighbor’s cooperation. nCC, nDC, and nDD are similarly defined. We calculated p(C), p(C|C), and p(C|D) by aggregating the data over the participants and/or rounds depending on the analysis.
We conducted all analysis using R 3.0.2. Each participant belonged to a group of 17 or 19 persons, and submitted their decisions many times. Decisions by the same participant are not independent. In order to statistically adjust for the effect of these repeated measures, we needed to consider a hierarchical model for analysis. We conducted analysis using a GLMM by using the glmer function implemented in package lme4 in R 3.0.2. In the GLMM analysis, we added a random effect for each participant affecting the intercept. An example of a GLMM logistic regression model with m independent variables is given by
where i reperesents the participant [1–131], j represents the round [1–45], and qi,j is a probability that a participant i cooperates in the in the jth round. xm’,i,j is the value of an independent variable, βm’ is the coefficient for the fixed effect of the independent variable, β0 is an intercept, and ri represents the random effect nested within each participant. The random effect was assumed to be normally distributed with mean zero. We estimated β0, βm’, and ri using the maximum likelihood method assuming the binomial distribution.
Correlation between conditional probabilities of cooperation in the two games
We calculated the correlation between p(C|C) in the two games with the effect of p(C) controlled as follows. First, we linearly regressed p(C) in the pay-it-forward game on p(C|C) in the pay-it-forward game and calculated the residual for each individual. Second, we regressed p(C) in the reputation-based game on p(C|C) in the reputation-based game and calculated the residual. The residual value represents the tendency of cooperation that is not predicted by unconditional cooperation. Third, we calculated the correlation coefficient between the residual values in the two games by regarding that a participant represents a data point. The correlation coefficient between p(C|D) in the two games was similarly calculated.
How to cite this article: Horita, Y. et al. Transient nature of cooperation by pay-it-forward reciprocity. Sci. Rep. 6, 19471; doi: 10.1038/srep19471 (2016).
This research was supported by JST, ERATO, Kawarabayashi Large Graph Project. M.T. acknowledges financial supports provided through Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (24653166, 25285176) from the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science.
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I taught K-5 music for 11 years and left teaching in 2004. I was burned out and really had lost the desire to teach. I never felt like I would be able to figure out what would make me truly happy. About two years ago I started playing the piano at my mom’s assisted living facility. It was mainly for her but then I started to realize that the residents enjoyed it as much as my mom. The director at my mom’s said "You really should take this on the road. They love you!"
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On a recent trip to Bangdong, we brought five gasifying stoves to be tested alongside the Rocket Stove that we brought over in May. This time, the cost of the stoves was paid for from generous donors. One stove went to testing at a restaurant in Bangdong Town at a restaurant run by the parents of one of Salvador's employees while the other stoves will be tested with village families. The gasifying stoves take a little getting used to, but once the water-filled gasifying cartridges begin fueling the fire, the heat generated is far higher than that of the rocket stove.
The advantages of the gasifying stoves include a high temperature flame with little to no smoke and the ability to incinerate other materials like dried corn cobs and walnut shells. The disadvantages include the time needed to ignite the gasifying cartridge and the fact that the fuel must be chopped into much shorter lengths than most families are used to. The advantages of the Rocket Stove include an efficient flame with only 30% as much wood used in traditional fire pits and a side entrance for fuel that allows for longer cuts of wood. The disadvantage is that when more food preparation is needed, like when they have guests, the rocket stove is a little too slow. The villagers said that they think the hot flame of the gasifying stove would make for better tasting food.
Both need more testing, especially by the villagers themselves, but my initial feeling is that a hybrid of both stoves might be best. If the Rocket stove was scaled up in size and had a slot for a gasifying cartridge but kept the side entrance for adding wood, perhaps the disadvantages of both stoves could be eliminated.
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This is a great essay about an unexpected tribute to a real-life hero. It’s kind of neat, to make a mythic figure out of an already courageous teenager. It’s not the first time — Zen Pencils did a gorgeous job with Malala Yousafzai, for example. Art and tributes to leadership go hand in hand, which increases the chance for inspiration and creative storytelling. I love it.
This article originally appeared at YES! Magazine.
This week, we got our first glimpse of DC Comics’ newest character: a teenage girl from James Bay, Canada—and a member of the Cree, one of the largest First Nations in North America.
Created by writer Jeff Lemire, this character is inspired by real-life teenager Shannen Koostachin, a youth activist who died tragically in 2010.
The Daily Globe and Mailsummed Koostachin up simply: “She had moxie.” After learning about her life—how she inspired kids and changed her community—the sentiment seems an understatement.
A Cree member from the Attawapiskat First Nation in the remote James Bay in Ontario, Koostachin was an activist for native education in Canada.
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You have asked this committee for an opinion concerning whether or not a paralegal assistant can be authorized to send a demand letter, after the text of the letter has been approved by the attorney, in a matter in which liability is contested and no offers of settlement have been made by the Defendant.
Your inquiry arises in the context of the recent transmittal by telecopy of a demand letter sent by your paralegal assistant to an attorney in a pending action in which liability has been contested and the defendants have not admitted liability.
Your inquiry implicates Rule 5.3 of the Rules of Professional Conduct relative to the responsibilities of an attorney supervising non-lawyer assistants. The rule provides in pertinent part:
With respect to a non-lawyer employed or retained by or associated with a lawyer:
(a) A partner in a law firm should make reasonable efforts to ensure that the firm has measures in effect giving reasonable assurance that the person's conduct is compatible with the professional obligations of the lawyer;
(b) A lawyer having direct supervisory authority over the non-lawyer should make reasonable efforts to ensure that the person's conduct is compatible with the professional obligations of the lawyer; and
(c) A lawyer shall be responsible for conduct of such a person that would be a violation of the Rules of Professional Conduct if engaged in by a lawyer if:
(i) the lawyer orders or, with the knowledge of the specific conduct, ratifies the conduct involved; or
(ii) the lawyer is a partner in the firm in which the person is employed, or has direct supervisory authority over the person, and in either case knows of the conduct at a time when its consequences can be avoided or mitigated but fails to take reasonable remedial action.
This rule requires that the lawyer give legal assistants proper instruction and supervision concerning the ethical aspects of their employment. In that regard, a copy of a brochure prepared by the Professional Responsibility Committee of the Philadelphia Bar Association entitled Professional Responsibility for Nonlawyers is enclosed. The Rule also provides that the supervising lawyer is responsible for the paralegal's work product. It must be noted that paralegals do not have legal training and are not subject to professional discipline in the same way as lawyers. Moreover, the lawyer must be mindful that he cannot aid a non-lawyer in the unauthorized practice of law. See Rule 5.5 of the Rules of Professional Conduct.
It is the opinion of the Committee that there is no ethical prohibition in the Rules which prevents paralegals from engaging in a variety of functions, including the drafting of demand letters as long as the attorney supervising has reviewed the work product for accuracy and completeness and the paralegal has identified his/herself as a paralegal. However, the Committee felt that while it is appropriate and helpful for your paralegal assistant to prepare a draft of a demand letter including the compilation of the facts and damages calculations used, judgments concerning the application of the law to the facts, especially in a case involving disputed liability which will be sent to an attorney as opposed to an insurance adjuster may require that you consider whether, for reasons other than ethics, it is in the best interests of your client for you to sign the letter rather than the paralegal.
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Healthy Life is Australia’s house of ‘really feel good’. Psychotherapy, until mixed with the physiologic and other remedial strategies detailed above, is of little or no service. That the suggestion of returning health is of real value in neurasthenia there might be little question, and that an air of cheerfulness and brightness should pervade the sick-room goes without saying. Direct and indirect suggestion might each be employed with advantage in the management of special signs as they come up, but hypnotic or advanced psychoanalytic procedures are but rarely indicated or of worth.
Related issues can come up if you apply a bit bit of data” to your health – you hear someplace that the government is spraying fibers in contrails, you hear that cotton socks are being used as a vector for a population decreasing pathogen, you hear the CIA is controlling your ideas. You hear that a new illness has been found known as Morgellons. You hear that ingesting horse de-wormer can assist with itching. Biomedical: all elements of health, physical and mental, developed inside the human physique as influenced by genetic make-up.
I will not bore you with any further particulars, but I imagine it’s time to have … Read More
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The answer to this question would be so much easier if we all looked like Natalie Portman in V for Vendetta – beautiful and angular, the focus shifted solely to our well-balanced and perfectly proportioned facial features. Plus, she still has hair – only a quarter inch long, but it is still obviously more hair than I have had since age 12. Oh, and did I forget her perfectly shaped skull? That’s right – no obvious lumps or odd knobs or lines. I have this odd crease in the back of my head – it kind of looks like a smile where no hair grows. But still I shave my head and I love it.
I didn’t shave my head when I first started wearing wigs – I liked what little hair I had and went au naturel when working out, so every 6 to 8 weeks I was still making trips to the stylist for a trim. I continued to suffer in silence as they asked me if I had tried this product or that to make my hair grow, look thicker, to try and make it look like… more. None of those things worked and I had been trying them my whole life.
Just cut my darn hair already.
Then I went to my usual place and my usual stylist wasn’t there – it was a new lady I hadn’t seen before. I explained what I wanted – I had no hair and that was OK because I was now wearing wigs, but I wanted to keep my hair short and neat because I still exercised without a wig. She seemed to understand. It felt short when it was all done, but I was late and really didn’t care to look at how little hair I had in the salon, so I left. I went to my class at the gym and my best friend noticed my haircut. And then she noticed how short it was. And then she noticed the line that looks like a smile in the back of my head – there for everyone to see. Technically this was the first time I had my head shaved – exposing this weird feature for the world to see. After that, I started wearing wigs everywhere – including to the gym
I bought my first pair of clippers a few weeks later and took the real leap, neatly shaving my head using a guard in the privacy of my own bathroom. I took a picture of myself when I first did it – I do not look happy because I wasn’t. It was still a hard thing to do, despite already resolving to wearing wigs for the rest of my life. This was the final step – this was true acceptance that I have no hair.
It was hard looking in the mirror – I felt like I had chopped off what little of my femininity was left. I had given up on hope. This was the last bit of grief for my hair I had left. Luckily the feeling only lasted a little while. Then the freedom set in. I would never sit in another stylist’s chair, waiting for them to try and pitch some hair growth product that was never going to work. If I didn’t want someone to see me without hair – it was going to be out of my choice only and not out of need. I wasn’t going to have crazy bedhead when I woke up because I no longer had hair. I didn’t have to take my wig off and see my sparse hair plastered to my head looking gross and awful. I kind of liked this!
Shaving my head is quick, clean, easy to care for, and it feels good. My biohair doesn’t pop out from under my wig. My wigs are easy to put on. I don’t have to do my hair – no blow drying, no dyeing, the only reason I still use shampoo is because it doesn’t dry out my scalp. And in the winter, I can lotion my whole head – it feels amazing!
I think that whether you shave your head or not is a completely personal choice and there is no right or wrong answer. But here is what I think:
• It is cooler in the summer
• My wigs stay cleaner – with less oily hair underneath
• It is easier to put my wigs on, no biohair to tuck
• I don’t ever have to go to a stylist to get my hair cut again
• It is economical
• I (feel like I) look kind of bad-a** (lol) without my wig
• It is colder in the winter
• It can be an adjustment – it can be kind of sad to let go of the hair you still have
• There is no biohair to pull out to blend the edges of your wig – or if you do grow sideburns you kind of look funny without a wig – shaved head and sideburns
• If I want to grow my hair out again to switch to toppers it is going to take forever
Oh! And I highly recommend NOT shaving your head down to the skin. Like everywhere else on your body your skin has to get used to it (think razor burn and bumpy skin – on your head) and if the skin is not perfectly smooth, nicks and cuts are possible (OUCH!). Plus, it requires more upkeep. I shave my head with clippers every month or so, but shaving it all the way down is a weekly thing. Just things to consider. So if you are ready to shave your head- go for it! Be prepared for the little bit of wistfulness or full on grief you may feel once you look at that reflection. Or maybe you will rock it like Natalie Portman from the beginning, but either way you will get to a point of freedom that I think you will love.
You can see all of Kerry’s guest blogger posts here.
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Motherhood is a blessing. I cannot imagine my life without my beautiful and talented girls by my side. I wouldn't change a hair on their heads.
Motherhood is just as wonderful as "they" say it is... except when it isn't.
While all those things I said were true, it doesn't mean that I haven't had little fantasies involving running away from home, entering the Witness Protection Program, or having Calgon take me away. It seems sometimes that motherhood is like a sorority during pledge week. To the uninitiated it all seems so perfect and supportive. You see all the members of Tri Gamma Mamma with their sleek hairdos and well-dressed tots. You want to be a part of this group.
But just like other misguided sororities, hazing runs rampant. And once you join, there's no way out. Let's face it, motherhood is not for the faint of heart. Yes, as a mother you will experience great love and emotional bonding with your child, but you will also experience moments of heart-stopping fear. Your body can produce and nourish a person, but it will never be the same again.
And so, for your reading pleasure, I give you a list of things I never thought I'd say:
I hope someday you have a kid just like you. -- Not my proudest moment and not because I used "the curse" on my kid, but because I'd hoped to hold onto it until she was in her rebellious teen years. What can I say? Sleep deprivation does bad things to me.
Thank God! I'm so happy I ran over the tricycle! -- No, I haven't resorted to running over toys that have fallen from favor. This one involves that fear I mentioned earlier. I was just moving my car back a few feet in the driveway. I had seen that Miss B (who was close to 3 at the time) was safely away from the driveway, but when you feel something under your wheel and hear a child's screams and cries... I lost ten years off my life that day. But luckily, the only other casualty was the trike (at whose demise my daughter screamed and cried).
Fine, do it. Knock yourself out. -- That's right. I channeled my mother. This was her preferred phrase of exasperation. Think of it as shorthand for: "Listen, dear child, you are annoying me with your persistent harping. I am giving in because my ears are about to bleed, and I don't think that allowing you to do this will result in bodily harm (for either of us)." I swore I'd never say it, but it did take much longer to come out than "the curse."
At least I learned how to get chocolate-milk-based-barf out of cashmere. -- I really think that this one is self-explanatory.
And yes, despite the fact that I have never once vacuumed while wearing pearls and high heels, this motherhood thing does live up to the hype. And when you think about the miracle that are children, it makes the sleep-depriving, barf-covered, life-span-reducing, please-will-someone-end-this-nagging moments worth every minute, even if I do resort to mentally planning my escape to Zihuatanejo.
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Today is the second part of our view of a charming scammer called Ekaterina.
To keep things straight, I will refer to her as Kate. This is a part of our investigative reports that will expose the tiniest part of a horrible scam that is perpetrated daily on men and women, in this and other countries. This will be a series of blog posts, which could very well form the backbone of my fourth book. Please read the copy write notice at the end of this post.
Please remember, I am leaving any misspellings and grammar errors in, to provide an accurate picture of what your might see in your email.
For context, here is a link to Part One of Kate
We start off..
Hello Cliff, how are you there?
Everything is well here. I am so happy that you replied me.
Honey i have some questions for you.
Do you have any hobbies? Do you go in for sport?
I love swimming and fitness. When I was a little girl, my mom and I swam in the lake.
It happened so that I could be drowned. Or maybe I’m very scared because I was a child.
But that moment I decided that I would learn to swim well and never be drown))
So now I really love swimming. It’s good for your health and helps to have a good figure.
Ok, also I wanted to tell you about my city.
It is a small Russian city. The population is here about 50 000 people.
People here are very kind and good. Everybody knows each other. There are not a lot of entertainment places here.
There are several plants and factories where people work.
I would be very happy to read about your city. My city is not very interesting and we do not have a lot of sights here.
Ok, now I should finish my letter because I have to work.
I am looking for your soonest reply,
Have a good day!
Your friend from Russia,
Hello my dear friend !!!
How is your mood? What’s new there?
Everything is well here and I have a great mood.
Some businessmen who have taxi business came to our car salon today and we received the order for 38 cars. This is the largest order while I work here and I will receive a good bonus.
I can’t wait when I will get my holiday, and tomorrow I urgently will talk with my boss and I will ask to give me a rest immediately. Or soon I will be crazy from my job)) So please wish to me good luck.
By the way, what kind of movies do you like? Who are your favorite actors? Do you like reading books, what kind of books?
I liked the movie Inception with Leonardo Dicaprio. He is the one of my favorite actors.
Also I like comedies. One of last most remembered comedy was The Hangover.
Some friends came to Vegas to celebrate wedding the one of their friend and casually forgot him at roof of hotel. I had a lot of fun when watched that film. Did you watch these movies? What do you think of that?
As for books I like fantasy, classics and history. But mostly I like to read Russian fantasy.
My favorite author is Sergey Tarmashev.
All his books are about future of the earth and it has a few ends. I’m not sure if there is a translation of that into English.
Well what else to write to you… I do not know but after our acquaintance you have became very interesting to me and when I check my emails I always hope to see your new letter. It raises my mood very much.
And when I check emails and I see no any letter from you I am very sad.
Ok, I hope to see your letter soon. Bye!
Your reliable friend from Russia Ekaterina.
The next day
Hello my dearest friend!
How are you? How is your mood?
Everything is great here and I want to share some good news with you.
As I wrote you before today I have talked with my boss about the vacation and I have got that!!!
At the beginning of our conversation she wanted that I would work for some days more but after 30 minutes of belief that I have explained her I can not work anymore and I would be an angry worker, she agreed.
Honey I am so happy now. I didn’t take the vacation for a long time.
If I want I can take even double vacation. But I will think of that later.
I have got the bonus and my salary. It is about 37 000 Rub or $1300.
Maybe for your country it is not so big money but believe me for Russia it is a very good salary.
I have already handed over all documents and necessary papers to my colleagues and I am now completely free from work.
Today I will buy and watch some brochures to look at which countries I can go. And what documents I should do for that trip.
I have never been abroad and it has been always my little dream.
In the Russian south after the announcement of the Sochi Olympics in 2014, prices rose several times.
And many of my friends who came there, they say that the quality of service there is very low.
That is why I do not want to have a rest in Russia.
Do you like travelling? What countries have you been? Maybe you can advise me something?
Ok my dear friend… I have to go now. I am waiting for your congratulations!!!
Your friend Ekaterina.
And the next
Hello my dearest friend !
How are you today? I have some thoughts and I would love to share that with you.
I have thought for a long time how to spend my vacation.
And I thought it would be great if I come to your country and we will meet.
You could show me the sights and culture of your country. And we could get to know each other even better.
The meeting is better than thousands of letters and words, and I think this is the best option for me to spend a holiday.
And now is the best time when I have the opportunity to visit your country and meet you.
What do you think of that? I think it’s very romantic if two persons who met in a huge web of the Internet separated by thousands and thousands of miles will meet each other in reality. This is a good opportunity to continue our relationship.
I can not even imagine how our meeting will be in the real world.
We can have a candlelight dinner. You will show me the city, there will be thousands of things which we can do together spending a good time …
Okay, I want to hear your opinion about that.
I am looking forward for your soonest reply.
I kiss you!!!
Your friend Ekaterina.
And the next
Hello my dearest Prince!
How are you? I am ok. I have come to Moscow.
The train had some delay, but it’s ok.
My friend has met me at the station and now I will write you from her place. By the way she asked me to tell you hello.
Tomorrow morning I’ll give all necessary documents for visa registration.
I’ll write everything in detail about the process of my visa. But my friend said that it is very easy to get a tourist visa.
That is wonderful.
Honey please write me the actual phone number and time when I can call you.
I will call you closer to time of getting a visa and my flight to you.
Well, my prince, I did not rest after my trip to Moscow and now I want to go into the bath and then sleep.
I’ll think of you and our meeting and pray that we will meet very soon.
Miss and kiss you!
Your Princess Ekaterina.
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Name of group: Project Everlast
When started: 2002
Advocating for: the 5,595 foster youth in Nebraska
Sponsoring non-profit organization: The Nebraska Children and Families Foundation was founded in 1997 as Nebraska’s solution to preventing children from entering the child welfare system. The Foundation is a nonprofit organization that invests in, sparks and advances community solutions to create positive change for children by bringing public and private sectors together throughout the state to prevent problems that threaten the well-being of our children. Working with local, state and national partners, it promotes the importance of providing opportunities and services to families that help give children the best start to school and life.
In its nine years, Project Everlast has accomplished many things; highlights include:
- Successfully advocated for the passage of the Young Adult Voluntary Services and Support Act (2013) – LB216 – which extends services to youth aging out of care until age 21.
- The Leadership Board and Foster Youth in Action develop a plan for training and support for 2012.
- Leadership Board (2010) – The Leadership Board acts as the governing body of Project Everlast and consists of Youth Leaders elected by each local chapter.
- Speakers’ Bureau (2010) – A group of trained Project Everlast members who provide presentations about their experience and how to improve the system to community members such as foster parents, direct service workers, judges, Court Appointed Special Advocates (CASAs), and mental health practitioners, among many others.
- Know Your Rights Handbook (2008) – Created in partnership with the Center for Children Families and the Law for youth in care to help youth learn about the judicial system and their rights.
- Omaha Independent Living Plan (2007) – This planning process resulted in a four-year plan to improve outcomes for youth with foster care experience in the Omaha area. The plan covered six areas including education, employment, housing and daily living, physical and mental health, personal and community engagement and policy.
- Foster Care Bill of Rights (2005) – State resolution, LR 76, outlining ten rights to be afforded every youth in care.
- Foster Parent and Caseworker videos (2004) – Videos created to offer a youth perspective in Caseworker and Foster Parent Trainings.
- Foster Care Awareness Month Activities (2002-present) – Local council projects to celebrate youth and increase community awareness including postcard campaigns, community dinners and information booths.
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The following Federal Register Notices are listed alphabetically. To view by notice type or by year, use the filter options to the left. Because so many notice titles begin with the word "Certain," "Certain" has been excluded from the alphabetical filter/sort. To search for "Certain Electronic Devices," for example, you would search using "E."
Federal Register Notice Rules & Procedures are listed separately. Columns can be sorted by clicking on column heading.
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|100- to 150-Seat Large Civil Aircraft from Canada||701-578 and 731-TA-1368 (Final)||Scheduling of Final Phase of Countervailing Duty and Antidumping Duty Investigations||Oct 24, 2017|
|Silicon Metal from Australia, Brazil, Kazakhastan, and Norway||701-TA-567-569 and 731-TA-1343-1345 (Final)||Scheduling of the Final Phase of Countervailing Dty and Antidumping Duty Investigations||Oct 23, 2017|
|Large Power Transformers from Korea||731-TA-1189 (Review)||Determination to Conduct a Full Five-Year Review||Oct 18, 2017|
|Titanium Sponge from Japan and Kazakhstan||701-TA-587 and 731-TA-1385-1386 (Preliminary)||Determinations||Oct 10, 2017|
|Forged Steel Fittings from China, Italy, and Taiwan||701-TA-589 and 731-TA-1394-1396 (Preliminary)||Institution of Countervailing Duty and Antidumping Duty Investigations||Oct 6, 2017|
|Stainless Steel Flanges from China and India||701-TA-585-586 and 731-TA-1383-1384 (Preliminary)||Determinations||Oct 2, 2017|
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Top 10 Spices To Eat & Avoid During : Do you believe that spices and spicy food could cause trouble in your pregnancy?To answer all your queries, we have an exhaustive list of spices to eat and spices to avoid. Just read the article to have a c
In this article, students will read about the science behind the feeling of spiciness, what chemical compound creates this sensation, the way spiciness is measured, why the desire to eat spicy foods e (Tech Week Articles)
“Gumbo-laya” Stew with Spicy Sausage, Chicken, Shrimp and Okra over Fragrant Garlic Rice
favorite ways to eat egg! We call Gyeran Jjim, Silky & Delightful Korean Steamed Egg! It is so good with any other Korean dishes, especially spicy food! In Korea, there are restaurants specialize real spicy food and.
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Apple’s iPad mini might be the best selling iPad this quarter but one thing that most reviewers and users point out is its display resolution. Unlike most devices, the iPad mini does not have a Retina Display and for some that is the deal breaker for an otherwise killer product. That is set to change, if a Digitimes report is to be believed.
The main focus of the next generation iPad mini will be mostly on improving the resolution of the display according to the report. It remains to be confirmed if the device will use Apple’s Retina Display technology for improving resolution but market analysts believe that it will be on the lines of developing past Apple products like the iPhone and the iPad.
That will mean that if the iPad mini uses Apple’s Retina Display technology then it will have a resolution of 2058 x 1536 pixels at 326 ppi. The report also claims that the next-generation iPad will feature only one LED light bar from the current two light bars to shed weight off the new 9.7 inch device.
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“One-stop shop” for the public transportation industry’s products, services, technologies, innovations and ideas
San Francisco, CA, USA
International Conference on Automated People Movers and Transit Systems.
Downtown Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA
GEAPS Exchange 2020 is a great place to make new connections in the grain industry, find operations solutions and to learn about new technologies and best practices from across the industry.
Minneapolis Convention Center, Minneapolis, MN, USABooth 817
The national hardware show delivers everything for the future of home improvement.
Las vegas convention center, Las Vegas, NV, USABooth 2742
The MINExpo brings together all of the latest cutting-edge equipment, innovations, services and technologies to take your operations to a new level and fuel your long-term growth.
Las Vegas Convention Center, Las Vegas, NV, USA
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Congrats on the ACE!
Thanks Rick! Super pumped to finally have one, looks like it's time to find a new Buzzz SS haha
Should have saved it for a Tuesday night :)
Hah I wish! That would be the only way to make it better!
Nice shot! Was it a flick, or backhand? Did you see it go in?
Backhand anhyzer with a Buzzz SS, saw it hit dead center on the chains!
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Despite widespread voter disaffection with politics in general, and “the two-party system” in particular, the Democratic and Republican parties continue to dominate and control the political machinery of the United States. They wage bruising battles to control local, state and national government, and except from each other, neither party really fears a challenge to its power and dominance.
There’s no change to the political matrix this election year; the Democratic and Republican parties still dominate the field of political choices. But polls have been showing intense voter dissatisfaction with the duopoly’s business-as-usual politics, a growing interest in other political parties and movements, and even outright rejection of the current political model.
We continue yesterday’s discussion on how these trends might be fertile soil for nonmainstream political parties and movements to plant (or re-plant) new seeds.
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Thaynan Costa's "Oververt" Part
It's rainin' Thaynan! Wow, this guy is good. If you don't know him now, you'll be a fan after watching this part.
The 48-hour viewing period for this part has expired. Pre-order Oververt now in the iTunes store here.
10/05/2016Beaker Ben breaks down the latest impact light "snack surfers" series from enjoi.
7/14/2016A bunch of the enjoi squadron roll on high-oinktane, so Pig hooked ‘em up with their own montage. Watch Louie and the boys do the damn thang...
7/12/2016The first rule of freestyle club is: you do not talk about freestyle club.
5/24/2016Check out this enjoi commercial for the artist Jim Houser who created the latest pandartist series.
3/31/2016New bitchin' Camaro series from enjoi, available at your local shop now.
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13th Annual Tour of the Battenkill / Prestacycle Tour for Pink
The Prestacycle Tour for Pink is a 26 mile challenge ride to raise donations for the Susan G. Komen Foundation for Breast Cancer Research.
2017 Participants can raise donations in support of their ride at the 2017 Tour of the Battenkill
Susan G. Komen Foundation
In 1980, Nancy G. Brinker promised her dying sister, Susan, that she would do everything in her power to end breast cancer forever. In 1982, that promise became the Susan G. Komen®organization and the beginning of a global movement. What was started with $200 and a shoebox full of potential donor names has now grown into the world’s largest nonprofit source of funding for the fight against breast cancer. To date, we’ve invested more than $2.6 billion in groundbreaking research, community health outreach, advocacy and programs in more than 60 countries. Our efforts helped reduce death rates from breast cancer by 37 percent between 1990-2013 and we won’t stop until our promise is fulfilled.
HOW WE'RE HELPING
Susan G. Komen is the ONLY organization that addresses breast cancer on multiple fronts such as research, community health, global outreach and public policy initiatives in order to make the biggest impact against this disease.
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Jaycie Morrison recently made the move to Colorado, trading the heat of her lifetime big city home of Dallas, Texas, for the cool beauty of the mountains in a small town. She lives with her wife of several decades and whatever wild creatures visit them from the forest.
Her first three novels—Basic Training of the Heart, Heart's Orders, and Guarding Hearts—make up the Love and Courage series. Set during World War II, they combine Jaycie's love of the written word and of history. The Found Jar is her first contemporary romance.
When not writing or reading, Jaycie may be hiking, traveling, experimenting with gluten free cooking, or pretending to be a rock star.
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January 05, 2017
Folsom Lake College (including El Dorado Center and Rancho Cordova Center) will be closed in honor of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. on Monday, January 16. The college will re-open on Tuesday, January 17.
The Spring 2017 semester officially begins on Saturday, January 14 (online and Saturday classes) with most classes having their first session January 17-23.
For more information on Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., click here.
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Environmental Resources Management (ERM Group), the consultancy selected by TransCanada to conduct the environmental review for Keystone XL's northern leg on behalf of the U.S. State Department, is no stranger to scandal.
Accepting the bribe landed Yan Shunjun, former deputy head of the Shanghai Municipal Environmental Protection Bureau, an 11-year prison sentence.
Yan "allegedly took bribes of 864,000 yuan (126,501 U.S. dollars), 20,000 U.S. dollars and 4,000 euros from seven contractors," explained Xiuhuanet. "Yan was also accused of illegally setting up a channel to speed up environmental impact assessment processes, which are essential for companies wanting to build factories."
BP, one of the companies standing to gain if Keystone XL North receives a presidential permit from the Obama administration as a major Alberta tar sands producer, was also mired in the Chinese ERM Group scandal.
"Two firms on ERM's bluechip client list, BP and Sinopec, are big investors in a petrochemical complex on the site, but the Chinese authorities apparently saw no conflict of interest in awarding the environmental evaluation to ERM," explained London's Sunday Times.
In a sense, history has repeated itself.
Hopenhagen to Paris
Back in 2009, when news arose of ERM's bribery and corruption, Chinese environmental campaigners worried the incident could portend a lack of commitment to tackling climate change in the months leading up to the United Nations climate summit in Copenhagen, Denmark.
But Keystone XL will soon be front and center once again in early 2015 in the halls of Congress and the White House.
Environmentalists fear that opening another route between Alberta and the U.S. Gulf Coast for tar sands crude would ensure the deal struck between the two carbon-emitting giants becomes a moot point, or worse.
Bribery as "Investment"
A commenter on People"s Daily, the state-owned newspaper in China, wrote that bribery was merely the cost of doing business and an "investment" of sorts.
"Foreign firms have quickly learnt the philosophy of guangxi [connections]," wrote the commenter. "Their rule has become, 'When in Rome, do as the Romans do.'"
ERM, in turn, denied any wrongdoing on its end, even though it had doled out the payments landing Yan in jail to begin with.
"ERM Group had no advance warning of any of the alleged payments to the former deputy director of the Shanghai Environmental Protection Bureau," ERM declared to the Sunday Times.
"To suggest otherwise is damagingly inaccurate. We are committed to: conducting our business with integrity, applying ethical principles to our relationships with clients."
KXL, ERM: Institutionalized Corruption
In the U.S. context as it pertains to Keystone XL, ERM's conduct has been far less ham-handed than it was in China.
By procedure and by law, the company applying for the permit gets to pick and pay for the contractor conducting the environmental review on behalf of the State Department. In this case, it meant TransCanada selected ERM Group to give it a rubber stamp of approval for KXL.
In other words, the State Department has legalized a de facto form of "institutionalized corruption" for handling environmental reviews for cross-border pipelines like Keystone XL's northern leg. Sierra Club attorney Doug Hayes described it as a "built-in conflict of interest" in a 2013 Bloomberg Businessweek article.
ERM Group, with a track record of rubber-stamping ecologically hazardous projects in places ranging from central Asia to Peru to Alaska to Delaware and China, has proven itself once again a key tentacle of the "carbon web" for Keystone XL.
The question remains, though: Will the sordid episode in the city near Shanghai serve as a teachable moment as applied to the tar sands pipeline described as a "fuse to the biggest carbon bomb on the planet"?
We'll find out, and likely soon.
This post originally appeared on DeSmogBlog.
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"Shrek 2" is DreamWorks' most successful film to date and was also the highest-grossing fully animated film of all time until "Toy Story 3" surpassed it in 2010. -Xfinity Entertainment Programmers
Opening Weekend: $108,037,878
Total Gross: $441,226,247
The opinions expressed are solely those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of Comcast.
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A sweet blend of heritage and innovation.
Value Brought to Project
North Andover, MA
With a unique penchant for innovation, Bake’n Joy has been an early proponent of creating solutions tailored to consumer taste. This successful approach has led to the need for expanded capacity via the modernization of a 1970’s industrial facility.
The design rationale for this new facility was based on operational efficiencies to support continuous market growth. Acquiring new state-of-the-art process equipment necessitated a layout to maximize production capacity and house bakery, packaging, office, freezer / cooler storage and production areas. The new production area accommodates 2 planetary style mixers turning 950 lbs. of batter within 158 gallon mixing bowls, along with 1 giant spiral freezer that processes 27,360 muffins per hour. This new facility is targeted to increase manufacturing capability by 40%.
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Since 2013, Ted Bauman has worked as an editor at Banyan Hill. He has decades of experience in the world of finance. He’s in a great position to give people money advice. As part of the editorial team at Banyan, he’s a driving force behind their mission to help people invest intelligently and safely. He writes the Bauman Letter and Plan B Club, two of Banyan Hill’s most popular publications.
The Bauman Letter helps people save. It helps them find ways to maximize their retirement savings. It helps them save on their taxes. And it helps them find ways to have luxurious experiences without breaking the bank. If there’s a way to limit your discretionary spending or be more efficient in your retirement savings, Bauman will let you know about it in this publication.
Follow Ted on Twitter.
If you have a retirement account, you need to read this.#Future #Equifax #Retirement #Hacking #RetirementAccount #MyPrivacyCode #Trading #Investing #Stocks #StockMarket #TheBaumanLetter #BanyanHillPublishinghttps://t.co/ID7Ffwe0LA
— Ted Bauman Guru (@Ted_B_Guru) February 26, 2018
With Bauman’s advice about protecting their assets, people are able to take advantage of what they have and live life to the fullest. In the Plan B Club, Bauman helps people prepare for international moves. He even provides advice about secondary or dual citizenships.
Bauman himself has had a lot of experience in that arena. As a young man, he went to South Africa and built a life there. He worked extensively in the non-profit sector, on projects including low-income housing. He helped found Slum Dwellers International, an organization that has helped over 10 million people in 30 countries. Bauman even consulted for the United Nations.
In 2008, Ted Bauman returned to his home country, the United States. These days, Bauman lives in the Atlanta area with his family. He loves helping to give people more control over their lives. He believes people should be able to lead a sovereign life with little impact from corporate greed or government agencies. His goal is always to help people move in that direction. Learn more: https://www.crunchbase.com/person/ted-bauman
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I gave yesterday a talk, via Skype, in the Cultural Evolution Seminar series at Tartu, Estonia. Oleg Sobchuk and the other organisers are doing a great job, I think, to diffuse knowledge about cultural evolution (and cognitive sciences, and digital humanities, etc.) and I was pleased to give my small contribution. Their website links also to the videos of two of the previous speakers, Cristina Moya and Alex Mesoudi, and provides excellent reading materials and information about cultural evolution.
Wednesday 20 March I will give a talk for the Bristol Archaeology and Anthropology Research Seminars series (Department of Archaeology and Anthropology, MA Seminar Room, 43 Woodland Road, Bristol). Below is the abstract:
In this talk I will explore how individual-level biases in selection of cultural variants impact on long term cultural change. Cultural evolutionary researches focus usually on contextual – or social – biases (i.e. copy from the majority, copy prestigious individuals, and so on), and relatively less attention is payed to content biases, i.e. intrinsic features of cultural variants that make them more attractive, or more “sticky”. I will show, using mathematical models and computer simulations, that various combinations of biases produce different long term cultural dynamics, and that we may be able, by comparing models predictions with empirical data, to recognise the role of attraction and social influence in cultural evolution.
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The stroke has robbed him of balance and strength.
It has stolen fluid muscle movement.
He is deprived unjustly of independence, needing others to watch over and care for him.
The stroke has pilfered sections of his mind.
It has stolen his ability to communicate all but the most basic of needs.
Plundered conversations with others in the room.
The stroke tries to cheat of us our father.
It will not steal him from us.
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Wednesday, February 23
I went to a really interesting presentation at CAA a few weeks back by the Association for Critical Race Art History, that included a paper presentation by Charles L. Davis on locating the frameworks of race in architectural style and ornament. (You can watch a similar presentation here.) The perspective posed was compelling: that style and ornament derive from a cultural history, yet there is no discussion of said history after it is adopted in architecture. It seems like there are many instances in aesthetic practices where formalism reigns at the expense of identifying or discussing the importance of the cultural or vernacular that created that aesthetic. There is definitely a long history of utopian experiments that sought to universalize and eradicate the problems of difference (specifically in primary forms of communication, such as language.) Yet most of these experiments fail (otherwise I'd be writing this in Esperanto, I guess.) If they are considered experiments in formalism, they remove the impetus that necessitates language development (perspectives on experience and their subsequent descriptions in order to communicate or perpetuate them.) But what about other modes of production that communicate ideals, such as architecture, art, design and music? These reductive forms, by appealing to a commonality of experience, often talk about their source material, yet are removed from a discussion of the meaningfulness of that cultural history. And minimalism has become something adopted by the market as a means to ignore the problem of difference by clearly exposing the logical, formal elements. As with language, there is a tension between speaking to everyone and speaking to a few; with universalizing an experience and addressing its questions or problems.
I found very little in an initial search for discussions of race in minimalist avant-garde music, but the work of Julius Eastman (an openly gay, black pianist and composer who was at the music department at the University at Buffalo) was often cited as point of discussion. Eastman's compositions are mostly lost, due to a tragic spiral downward towards the end of his life, but he dedicated his output to an exploration of an organic principle of reduction, where in subsequent sections "the information is taken out at a gradual and logical rate." His music also attempts to examine issues of race and identity through these forms. It's surprising that most of the reviews of his work refrain from any discussions of race at all, despite his highly controversial titles. An example of his work is above.
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The public is invited to an open house Tuesday, March 20 on improvements to Old Cheney Road from 70th to 82nd streets. The City of Lincoln and Alfred Benesch & Company will host the open house from 5 to 7 p.m. at Lincoln Christian School, 5801 South 84th Street.
Because of rising traffic volumes, the existing two-lane, rural street will be upgraded to an urban four-lane roadway with curbs and gutters and left-turn lanes. Construction is scheduled to begin early 2014. The project also includes:
Those attending should park on the east side of the school and use the northeast entrance. Directional signs will be posted. The meeting will take place in the elementary activities room.
The open house will provide an opportunity for the planning team to share and obtain information on current plans for the project. At the open house, attendees may informally view information stations and the planning concepts. Attendees will have an opportunity to discuss their questions and concerns with the project team and are invited to offer their comments regarding the plans.
More information on the project is available at lincoln.ne.gov (keyword: projects) or by contacting Craig Aldridge, City Public Works and Utilities Department, 402-416-5349 or email@example.com. For more information on the open house, contact Stephanie Dostal, Alfred Benesch & Company, 402-479-2200 or firstname.lastname@example.org.
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O'FALLON, Mo. -- The Gateway Grizzlies trailed by 13 runs after four innings and couldn't mount a comeback in a 16-2 loss to the River City Rascals on Friday night at T.R. Hughes Ballpark.
Gateway starting pitcher Vincent Molesky (3-3) didn't have his best stuff, allowing nine runs in only 1.1 innings of work.
River City tallied one run on an RBI double by Danny Canela in the first inning and then touched up Molesky for nine runs in the second. The Rascals sent 12 batters to the plate and scored nine times on five hits. Taylor Ard started things off with a leadoff home run to make it 2-0 River City.
A double and walk followed, before Jackson Slaid pitched in an RBI single. Molesky recorded one out in the inning on a fielder's choice and the hit parade continued against Dakota Smith. Hector Crespo came through with a two-RBI single and Josh Ludy followed suit with a two-RBI single of his own to extend the Rascals' lead to 7-0. The final blow came from Ard, as he homered for the second time in the inning to make it 10-0 River City after two innings.
Ard smacked another homer in the fourth inning. Crespo was hit by a pitch to start the inning and advanced to third on a single by Canela. Crespo later came around to score on an RBI groundout by Josh Ludy before Ard delivered his third home run of the evening. That home run made it 13-0 Rascals after four innings.
While the Grizzlies' offense couldn't get much going, the Rascals' offense kept chugging along. They added three more runs in the fifth inning off a double by Brian Hansen and a single by Crespo.
Gateway added their lone runs in the eighth inning. Ben Waldrip singled with one out to plate Madison Beaird and Blake Brown came around to score later in the inning on an infield single by Seth Heck.
Tim Koons (7-0) picked up the win for the Rascals while allowing one run in 7.2 innings of work. Madison Beaird paced the Gateway offense with three hits.
The Grizzlies and Rascals will continue their series on Saturday night at T.R. Hughes Ballpark. First pitch is set for 6:35 p.m. RHP Tyler Thompson (1-4, 3.49) will pitch for the Grizzlies and LHP Lucas Laster (0-1, 4.18) will take the mound for the Rascals. Sam Levitt and Kevin Schaefer will call the action on the Grizzlies Radio Network, which airs on 101 ESPN's digital platforms and 1400 AM KJFF. First pitch is at 6:35 p.m.
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From the Field – May 2017
With Spring arriving in Arad, so does planting the gardens at Ana’s House and Stan Dragu (an additional property used for gardens and chickens). Everyone gets involved in planting a wide variety of fruits and veggies, as well as caring for the garden as plants begin to sprout. In addition to planting, 130 chicks have been purchased. About 80 of them will be used for food, while the other 50 will be for eggs. Roni’s 46 beehives have been moved to their spring location and are starting to “buzz” with activity meaning jarring honey is just around the corner.
Teodora is enjoying her time studying abroad in Portugal. Since she is staying in Coimbra, which is the same city where Oana Kis (Radu’s sister who grew up in Ana’s House) lives with her husband Antonio, she gets to meet Oana’s new baby! On May 3, Oana gave birth to her daughter, Sara. We are so happy for her and Antonio! Teo returns back to Ana’s House in June and will no doubt have many stories to share with the family.
Another one of our kids is getting an opportunity to study abroad for three weeks in September. Alexandra, who lives with the Dobrea family, received an Erasmus scholarship from the IT Department and will be heading to Spain with nine other students. She is excelling in school and is among the top of her class. She’s also having a lot of fun playing volleyball, which has been a great outlet after studying hard!
There are many vulnerable children in Kenya as a result of the acute poverty that plagues so many families. It is one of the reasons that children get abandoned, but also sometimes results in children being taken advantage of in the worst possible ways. This was the case for one little girl that was recently admitted to Hope for Orphans Rescue Center (HOREC).
Nduko Janet is four years old and has four other siblings. Her mother is very ill with HIV/AIDS and TB, and her father was killed this past year. Nduko’s mother is unable to care for herself, let alone her children. Her grandfather has been trying to help, but is already caring for four other children from another daughter who has abandoned her children, so food has been scarce.
Nduko’s aunt, who has no children, insisted that Nduko come live with her and her husband. It was reported though, that the living situation was not healthy or safe for Nduko. When staff from HOREC went to visit the home, they found the four-year-old in a field herding cattle. She had scars all over her hands and face and was malnourished. After a thorough investigation, it was found that Nduko had been enduring regular physical and emotional abuse.
When Nudko’s mother was presented with the opportunity for Nduko to live at HOREC where she would be safe, given good food and an education, her mother didn’t hesitate. She wanted what was best for Nduko, and she knew she had no means to provide it.
After a hospital visit, and getting medication to help her physical wounds heal, Nudko went to HOREC where she was given a warm bath, fresh clothing, a good meal, and a bed she could call her own. It’s uncertain how long Nduko will stay at HOREC (it will depend on the District Children’s Office on the best placement for her), but for now she is getting the care she needs and deserves. We praise God that HOREC is a safe haven for this child of God.
What makes a child happy? If your answer is a mountain of toys, all you can eat junk food and never having to go to school again, think again! While all kids would love these things to some degree, they aren’t the things that keep a child happy over the long run. Psychologists agree that it’s not things, but people and experiences that bring the most happiness (and that’s not just with kids!)
Our partner in India conducted a fun and informative exercise with our kids living in the children’s homes. The question was asked, “What makes you happy?” and the answers prove the point that it’s not things that make children happiest.
Here’s what Christina Grace from Hope Girls’ Home shared:
I love visiting and exploring new places in Hyderabad and my favorite place so far is the Golconda Fort. I am most happy when I can visit new places with my friends and spend time with them there. I also am happy when I get to spend time with our house mom. I love to share my experiences and stories with her.
Akshaya from Prema Girls’ Home shared this:
I am happiest when I spend time with my best friend Sruthi. Sruthi always listens to me and helps me out when I need it. I am also very happy to be at Prema Girls’ Home because I feel safe. I have made a lot of new friends and the people here take care of me. I am happy to go to school, and I am happy when I get to play at the park with my friends and we get to eat chocolate together!
What make you (or your child) happiest?!
Read more in the May 2017 Newsletter!
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