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<reponame>ind9/influxdb-scala<filename>standalone/src/test/scala/TestApp.scala<gh_stars>1-10 import java.util.Date import scala.concurrent.duration._ import scala.concurrent.ExecutionContext.Implicits.global import scala.util.Failure import org.influxdb.scala._ import scala.util.Success object TestApp extends App { val client = new InfluxDB("localhost", 8086, "root", "root", "testing") with StandaloneConfig client.listDatabases onComplete { case Success(databases) => databases foreach (db => println(s"Found db ${db.name} with replication factor ${db.replicationFactor}")) case Failure(error) => println(s"Could not list databases: $error") } client.dropSeries("testing") onComplete { case Failure(error) => println(s"Could not drop series: $error") case _ => println("Drop series succeeded.") } // // inserting data // // single point insertion client.insertData("testing", Map("time" -> new Date(), "foo" -> 100, "bar" -> 200), MICROS).onComplete { case Failure(error) => println(s"Oops, point insert failed: $error") case _ => println("Single-point insert succeeded!!!") } // multi-point, single series val p1 = Map("foo" -> 100, "bar" -> 200) val p2 = Map("bar" -> 100, "baz" -> 300) val s = Series("testing", MILLIS, List(p1, p2)) client.insertData(s) onComplete { case Failure(error) => println(s"Oops, series insert failed: $error") case _ => println("Series insert succeeded!!!") } // get the last point in all series client.query("select * from testing order asc limit 10", MILLIS) onComplete { case Success(result) => for { series <- result point <- series.data } yield println(s"${series.name} has point $point with time precision ${series.time_precision}") case Failure(error) => println(s"Got a query error: $error") } // have to do this, otherwise app won't terminate, wait for 1 second for pending tasks to complete client.shutdown(1 seconds) }

Hiring a skip bin is easy to remove all the waste from a home or project. There are several benefits of skip bin hire. In this article, you will learn how big these bins are, what types of waste you can throw away in them, and how to choose a skip bin hire provider. Hopefully, this information will make your project go smoothly and save you time and frustration. Alternatively, you can learn how to do it yourself. Firstly, skip hire Adelaide is an eco-friendly option. Its construction means that it’s safe for the environment. Professionals are trained to handle waste in a secure, reliable manner. As a result, they’ll do the job correctly and with the least possible environmental impact. Skip bins are also a good choice for small projects because they’re great for generating waste during spring cleaning. However, it can add up quickly if you’re not careful. The first thing to consider is the size of your skip hire Adelaide. Smaller ones are good enough, but bigger ones are better for larger projects. Larger bins offer more room and mitigate the risk of ordering another one. Choosing the right size will help you save money on the cost of hiring a skip, too. Of course, you can always ask the salesperson for recommendations. It is an excellent way to know how much space you need and what kind of skip to get. When selecting the proper size, you must consider what items you dispose of. You can determine the amount of space needed by estimating how much waste will be generated. Make sure you choose a skip bin to accommodate the volume of waste you’re dumping. Typically, skip bins can be hired in a variety of sizes. Size and price are directly proportional. When choosing a bin, measure the contents and location of the waste. Generally speaking, most general waste materials can go in a skip. You can place plastics, cardboard, metals, appliances, and light green waste in your skip, and you can also throw out liquid waste, such as paints, thinners, and oils. In addition, batteries and televisions can be placed in your skip. However, if you have any of these items, you may have to pay additional processing fees. In addition to garbage, you should also consider the type of waste you have. Typical waste materials to throw out in a skip are demolition waste, garden waste, and e-waste. You can hire a skip bin when you plan to get rid of your old furniture and appliances. Just make sure you take all necessary precautions to avoid any accidents. If you don’t follow these safety measures, you might be paying Landfill Tax for your waste. Hiring a skip bin service is brilliant, as it can save you time and money. You can avoid many hassles, such as segregating your waste and learning about policies and regulations. To avoid being overcharged, do your research and shop around for the best rates. However, if you aren’t sure how to choose a skip bin provider, read on for some tips. Skip bins are convenient, easy to use, and available wherever you need them. You can either deliver them to your property or hire them online. Once you make the booking, the provider will provide professional staff to take care of the delivery. In addition to removing waste quickly and safely, skip bins are an environmentally-friendly option. They can also be a great way to reduce waste disposal costs by allowing you to recycle more efficiently.

(Beaver Dam) The YMCA of Dodge County has launched its annual campaign to support the needs of the community. Their goal is to ensure that everyone in region has access to vital community programs and resources that support youth development, healthy living and social responsibility. YMCA of Dodge County CEO Dirk Langfoss says the Y is more than a gym, it is a cause. He adds at the Y, they are dedicated to keeping Dodge County children safe and engaged, the senior population active and connected and continue to move the community towards greater overall health and wellness. Al Schwab will serve as the campaign’s chair and has been a long-time Y volunteer. Schwab says this commitment by the Y is made possible by the generous contributions of their members, board, committees and friends who believe in the YMCA’s ability to help strengthen the local community. This year, the YMCA of Dodge County hopes to raise $150-thousand. Every penny raised goes directly to support local families so they can participate in the programs offered by the Y. The campaign will conclude with its Gator Raffle on September 7th. To learn more about how you can support the Y’s cause, please contact Dirk Langfoss, CEO at |||PHONE_NUMBER||| , ext. 103 or [email protected] or visit https://www.theydc.org/give for more information.

Corey Casper, MD, MPH:There are multiple ways that you can classify Castleman’s disease. The traditional way to classify it was based on whether there is a single lymph node involved or multiple lymph nodes involved. A single lymph node or even a group of lymph nodes within a chain was called unicentric disease, or one center. On the other hand, there were patients who had multiple lymph node chains involved, and those patients were categorized as having multicentric disease. So, initially, when the disease was first described, there were these two different categories. Subsequently, people began to recognize that there are also subcategories based on what you see histopathologically, so what’s seen under the microscope. We know that there is something called a hyaline vascular variant, and this variant is exemplified by having a lymph node that has an expansion of plasma cells but also a blood vessel that tends to pierce it. Hyalinization is visualized within the terminal center. On the other hand, there’s another histologic variant, which is called the plasma cell variant. This variant actually is similar in appearance but is also characterized by having sheets of plasma cells in the interfollicular space. Then, people began to recognize that there are not just two clinical variants, unicentric and multicentric, but there are also now two histologic types, plasma cell variant and hyaline vascular variant. We came to then know that a patient could have any combination of those four subtypes. For example, “y” could have unicentric hyaline vascular, unicentric plasma cell, multicentric hyaline vascular, multicentric plasma cell or even a mixed version where there are features of both [hyaline vascular or plasma cell] with multicentric disease. One might say there are five different sub-classifications of Castleman’s disease using those criteria. There are further classifications or sub-classifications within the multicentric disease within the plasma cell variant. There are patients who have HIV co-infection and infection with human herpesvirus-8. These patients can have a plasmablastic version of Castleman’s disease, so that might be a sub-variant. And, finally, many people now are thinking about the disease in two different classifications: idiopathic multicentric Castleman’s disease and Castleman’s disease that’s attributed to a virus, human herpesvirus-8. There are many different ways you can catalog the disease, but I think clinically what makes most sense to me is to think about it as unicentric or multicentric because that helps us, as clinicians, understand the extent of disease. And then the histologic sub-variant, hyaline vascular variant, and plasma cell variant have implications for the biology of the disease and have implications for how you might best treat it. So, for those reasons, I tend to think of that as my classification of the disease. Corey Casper, MD, provides information on the diagnosis and treatment of patients with Castleman Disease (CD).

What is the treatment for ADA deficiency? Various treatment options are currently available for ADA deficiency, as shown in Figure 2, including enzyme replacement therapy (ERT), hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HSCT, sometimes referred to as bone marrow transplantation), and more recently gene therapy (GT) (10). What does ADA deficiency do? Adenosine deaminase (ADA) deficiency is an inherited disorder that damages the immune system and causes severe combined immunodeficiency (SCID). People with SCID lack virtually all immune protection from bacteria, viruses, and fungi. How is ADA deficiency diagnosed? Diagnosis. Diagnosis of ADA-deficiency is established by biochemical and molecular genetic testing. Biochemical testing demonstrates absent or greatly reduced ADA activity (< 1% of normal) and marked elevation of the metabolite dATP or total dAdo nucleotides (the sum of dAMP, dADP and dATP) in erythrocytes. Why does ADA increase in TB? ADA is an enzyme that increases in TB because of the stimulation of T-cell lymphocytes by mycobacterial antigens. This article reviews the characteristics, metabolism and clinical uses of ADA for the diagnosis of TB in clinical practices. What is the function of ADA? Adenosine deaminase (also known as adenosine aminohydrolase, or ADA) is an enzyme (EC 3.5. 4.4) involved in purine metabolism. It is needed for the breakdown of adenosine from food and for the turnover of nucleic acids in tissues. Its primary function in humans is the development and maintenance of the immune system. What is an ADA blood test? The adenosine deaminase (ADA) test is not a diagnostic test, but it may be used along with other tests such as pleural fluid analysis, acid-fast bacillus (AFB) smear and culture, and/or tuberculosis molecular testing to help determine whether a person has a Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection (tuberculosis or TB) of … What is ADA normal range? what is the ada normal range? The Adenosine Deaminase normal range in both males and females irrespective of the age they belong to is less than 40 U/L. What is the normal range of ADA in pleural fluid? Pleural fluid ADA level was more than 36 IU/L in cases of tubercular pleural effusion. It ranged 36 to 229.7 IU/L. While in case of malignancy it was more than 18.5 IU/L (18.5 to 87.6 IU/L). Why ADA test is done? How is ADA deficiency related to adenosine deaminase deficiency? ADA deficiency is due to a lack of the enzyme adenosine deaminase. This deficiency results in an accumulation of deoxyadenosine, which, in turn, leads to: How does ADA deficiency affect the immune system? ADA in the Immune System. The metabolic deficiency of ADA principally affects the immune system, and is characterized by severe lymphopenia (affecting T cells, B cells, and NK cells) and impaired cellular and humoral immunity (1, 15). What are the symptoms of ADA deficient SCID? The clinical picture of ADA-deficient SCID is similar to other genetic forms of SCID, with persistent diarrhoea, dermatitis, and serious infections, often caused by opportunistic pathogens such as Pneumocystis jiroveci, being characteristic. Physical findings include absent thymus gland on thoracic-radiographs and absence of lymphoid tissues. What happens if you have a mutation in the ADA gene? Mutations in the ADA gene lead to a non-working or poorly working ADA enzyme. This causes deoxyadenosine to buildup in the lymphocytes. Because of this build up, lymphocytes are unable to grow and fight infection, leading to severe combined immunodeficiency.

LAUSD Keynote Presentation 6 Dec 2004 Lesson Magnetism, magnets are compasses, like poles repel, unlike poles attract, the magnetic field of the earth. Magnetism of the planets. Magnetism of the earth, The geodynamo, a USGS write-up on how the earth's magnetic field is created. California Science Standards: Topics related to magnetism grades 4 to 8. Physical Science: Compasses, the magnetic field of the earth, magnetic poles, electromagnets. Compasses align with the horizontal component of the earth's magnetic field. The north end of the compass points to a south pole, alas this magnetic south pole is located at the earth's geographic north pole and even more alas, on maps it is called the "north magnetic pole." The magnetic field of the earth is made by a billion amp electric current flowing in the liquid metal core of the earth. Earth Science: Rocks types,properties, and rock cycle.; Erosion and weathering Some igneous rocks containing iron minerals can be magnetized Physical Science: Properties of metals Some metals are ferromagnetic;iron nickel and cobalt, some are diamagnetic bismuth some are paramagnetic aluminum. Solar System: Sun, star, composition, size., planets, earth and moon The sun has a magnetic field that flips direction every 11 years creating the sunspot cycle. The sun is a rotating sphere of ionized, electrically conducting plasma. Electric currents in the sun make it an electromagnet. The core of the earth is made of iron, the earth is an electromagnet not a ferromagnetic. Investigation: classify objects Are objects ferromagnetic, are they diamagnetic, paramagnetic. Plate Tectonics: Evidence for plate tectonics, results of plate motion, California Geology and plate tectonics. Cooling lava may preserve the magnetic field at its location. The dip of the magnetic field records the latitude of formation of the rock. In addition the rock records the direction of magnetic north. Energy in the solar system: Convection Currents, in the liquid core. Convection currents in the liquid core of the earth shape the earth's magnetic field. Investigation: read maps, topographic and geologic Topographic maps show the direction of magnetic north and geographic north. Physical Principles in Living Systems: There are magnetic bacteria, magnetotacticum aquaspirullum that create magnetic minerals inside themselves which they use to navigate. Applying a strong magnetic field can reverse the magnetization of these bacteria which then swim to oxygen and death. Mutations that occur before death sometimes result in new bacteria with the correct magnetic orientation thus showing natural selection on a few hour timescale. Investigation: use the world wide web for research. Look up magnetotacticum aquaspirullum, look up the magnetic fields of the planets and the sun, look up the solar cycle. Forces have direction and magnitude. Magnetic forces can be attractive or repulsive. The magnitude of the force decreases with distance. The force between to dipole magnets decreases as 1/r^4 at large distances (not as 1/r^2 as mentioned in many texts.) Earth in the Solar System: solar system composition, magnetic fields of the planets. The Earth, Jupiter,Saturn, Uranus and Neptune's are planets with sizable magnetic fields. Periodic Table: atomic number, classification by properties. Every element has diamagnetic properties, e.g. He. Many have stronger paramagnetism which swamps the diamagnetism. e.g. H A few have strong ferromagnetism, e.g. Fe.

Scutigera is an intelligent and interactive flying automaton intended for installation and operation in large indoor spaces: natural underground rooms or galleries, archaeological sites, industrial remains, disused built spaces… This aerostabile, a sophisticated and biomorphic hybrid of a drone and an airship, must find its way without human assistance, even in out-of-sight and inaccessible spaces, and transmit in real time the images, video, sounds and data captured during its flights. The design is inspired by an arthropod, Scutigera coleoptrata, a long-legged centipede commonly found in our homes. Instead of crawling on walls like its biological counterpart, the robotic Scutigera hovers in cave tunnels. Mobile and flexible, it is basically a semi-rigid, segmented, lighter-than-air vehicle that can withstand long, smooth exploration of caves while transmitting in real time the images and sounds that it captures. One of the major challenges of subterranean exploration is the need to convey equipment through narrow tunnels to the inspection zone. The apparatus must be light and compact for easy transport. On arrival at the launch zone, it must be deployed efficiently, i.e. without requiring advanced technical skill or complex operation. For this purpose, our design enlists two mechanical principles: 1. Deployable: a rigid exoskeleton folded for transport and deployed on site by simply inflating the airship, 2. Modular: a set of identical modules adaptable to the mission and quickly connected to one another. The Scutigera project follows the conclusive testing of Tryphons (flying cubic robots) in the La Verna cave in France.

Kern River Tubing When the water is low and the sun is out, tubing down the Lickety Split section of the Kern River is a highlight and for many, a rite of passage. Not to be confused with a lazy river float, Kern River tubing is a full-on adventure, as you’ll tackle a handful of rapids as you make your way down the 1.73 mile run. There are important considerations to pay attention to though, and this post will go into those items to help ensure you have a memorable and safe experience. While we don’t offer tube rentals, you can buy a tube online using Amazon. This is a popular and affordable option. Wear a Life Jacket Whether you call it a PFD or a life jacket, it is critically important that you wear one while tubing on the Kern River. Even though wearing a life jacket while tubing might seem like overkill, keep in mind that a tube can easily deflate, or if you accidentally flip over, separate from you entirely. A PFD on the other hand, won’t pop, can’t separate from you, and is Coast Guard approved. The vast majority of serious river incidents involve someone not wearing a life jacket. Just wear one and don’t become a statistic. Only go during low water Kern River tubing is a low water activity. You shouldn’t go during medium or high river flows. The rule of thumb for the Lickety Split section of the Kern River is when the water is between 200 – 500 CFS. Nothing higher. Below 200 CFS it can still be fun, but be prepared to get stuck quite a bit. Below is a river guage showing you the flow. Where to go The tried and true Kern River tubing run is the Lickety Split section of the Upper Kern river. At any water flow, you should avoid the Lower Kern. It’s just not set up well for a tubing run and the numerous trees present a real strainer hazard. Sections besides the Lickety Split of the Upper Kern should be avoided as well. The best part of the Lickety is it’s easy to arrange a shuttle and there’s usually many others out there with you. Click here for a Google Map of the Lickety Split shuttle. Final pointers - Kern River tubing is not a solo activity. Always take a buddy with you (or more.) Safety in numbers is a real thing and should be followed here. - Alcohol and rivers don’t mix. Don’t drink alcohol before or while tubing. - It can’t be said enough: Wear a life jacket. It could save your life. - Use a decent tube. Leave the old leaky tube at home. We’ve had good luck with these tubes here. What is the minimum CFS you would recommend to float Lickety near the end of the season?? We usually have a great time at 450-500 but have not done anything below that level. Hi Mark, good question. I spoke to our guides and they believe 200 CFS to be the basement flow. I somewhat disagree with them as I had fun recently at flows below that, but I was getting stuck quite a bit. Thank you for the response Matt. I was thinking about 200 as well and you confirmed for me. We will still go this weekend and I expect flows may drop to about 140 by then. ☹️🥺

A Teratoma! I'd name mine Terry! "Dude, that song cums!" How did you feel when they killed John Snow? Reading the book - were just gonna have to wait and see as GRR hasn't got there yet. Watching the show - Just keep watching. Reading the book "yeah, he ain't gonna stay that way." Watching the show "yeah, he ain't gonna stay that way." Thanks and good to know. I won't stress about trying to buy a safe and get training too fast, which of course is going to happen prior to me getting them into my possession anyways. I was meaning to ask a question about this, so thanks. Got some good answers here. Another question I have is about my fathers firearms. He has two, but he is now a resident of a Medicaid facility, most likely for the rest of his life. Now, does that mean that I have inherited his firearms automatically? I was reading up on this, and I think it said that Missouri law says that inherited firearms do not need to be registered. I guess that's because they are registered to his name, and if an issue comes up, I'd be the one they'd talk to anyways as his P.O.A. Now, I have never owned a gun, personally, but was thinking of taking active possession of his (currently at my Uncles, as he has a safe, and I do not yet). How would that affect things? I hopefully will be able get my card before January. Something I'd totally get for my dad. Musicians of Reddit; what music would Beethoven or Mozart actually like if they were to be resurrected today? Power metal and prog metal. What is the actual m worst state in the USA? I'm in KCMO, so obligatory 'fuck kansas'. What is the first thing in your Saved list right now? A neat idea for a Minecraft sorting system. Under that, porn. Fathoms of porn. What are some cliches in anime that you're sick of? Constant mouth noises. What's your favorite "hidden gem" music/video? Goodbye Sober Days, by Mr. Bungle. Its not the official, but pretty damn good. What movie titles would be funny if the word SEX was added anywhere in the title? Rugrats, The Movie. Its gets weird each place you add sex. How fast they can remain unnoticed while waiting, then how quickly and safely they can elude the cops while not straying to far from the meeting point, and finally if they can keep their mouth shut. Tight holes is tight holes if you got balls to do it. This guy right here, Officer! Just imagine it for a moment: a pornographic opera, complete with a symphony section. Why can’t wombats fly? What is the best way to tell your children they are adopted? We intend on raising ours with the knowledge they were adopted (it was an event that happened that led them to being our daughter). In our case, our daughter is of African American descent so she's going to notice differences and have questions naturally so we are just going to be honest. If humanity died out, and aliens only found ONE thing proving out existence, what would you hope it to be? Silicon breast implants on the skeletons of trophy wives. Yo dawg, I heard you like pizza... Best biscuits and gravy in town that isn’t from a chain?? This is good to know, because once while visiting Seattle, we had breakfast at "The Biscuit Bitch", and it changed my whole outlook on B&G. I'd love to find a place like that here.

- Types of networks - Physical and Logical topologies - Wan Technologies - Network Hardware - Network Devices - Network design - OSI MODEL - TCP/IP Model - How protocol stacks communicate - How TCP packets are created - Network Addressing - Ports and protocols - DNS (Domain Name System) - IP protocols and the OSI - UDP (User Diagram Protocol) - TCP (Transmission control protocol) - Establishing a TCP connection - Closing a TCP connection - TCP header - TCP vs UDP - FTP (File Transfer Protocol) - ICMP (Internet Control Message Protocol) Types of networks - LAN - Local area network - All users must be trusted - Owned by single entity - MAN - Metropolitan area Network - City/town wide network - hospitals / corporation offices - WAN - Wide area network - PAN - Personal area network Physical and Logical topologies How network is connected together? via cables or wireless Types of physical topologies - All systems are attached to the same cable segment. - Rarely used today because of fault tolerance, poor reliability, poor traffic isolation capability and limited scalability. - It’s very hard to secure because all devices can see all the traffic. - Each system has two connections to the network. - System transmit message from one side, receives from the other one. - Not secure, messages are going for a full loop until it reaches destination. - The most common used topology today. - All systems are connected to a central device (hub or switch). - Sender –> Center Point –> Receiver - Switched star network is the only topology that can prevent other users from eavesdropping on traffic sent between two hosts. These protocols are responsible for making sure that a signal sent by a system finds its way to it’s destination. There are two general ways systems can communicate on a network: - Shared segment (Ethernet) - Allocated time (Token ring) - Layer 2 protocol. - Only one should be transmitting a frame (chunk of data) at a time. - Collisions happen when multiple systems are transmitting simultaneously. - A collision occurs can cause both signals to fail and require systems to re-transmit their frames again. - CSMA/CD Protocol (Carrier Sense multiple Access/Collusion Detection) Token ring and FDDI - Not so popular Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM) Establishing a channel for each connection allows ATM to provide Quality of Service (QoS). When setting up a virtual circuit, switches along the path can be requested to allocate the desired amount of bandwidth “ I need 1MB to support a video conference, Do you have that much available?” If answer is “Yes” then a virtual circuit is created, if the answer is “No” we search for another switch. - Expensive to set up. - Not frequently used on LANs. - Good fit for network that need low-latency traffic such as video streaming. - Connection-oriented, so before systems can communicate, they must establish a virtual circuit connection between them. - The virtual circuit is torn down at the end of the connection. Types of ATM - PVC (Permanent Virtual Circuit) PVC is set up in advance usually manually. - SVC (Switched Virtual Circuit) Is established automatically on the fly - Point to point communication over a dedicated line. - high cost. - Confident as you run solely on the line. Allowing n sites to directly communicate with each one another would require n+1 links. In such situation it’s better to use Packet-Switched technology. e.g Frame Relay It’s a wan technology similar to Ethernet and Token Ring in that it’s based on packet switching. Lowering the costs of the WAN instead of using dedicated direct links between sites, you will use the Frame Relay Cloud. MPLS (Multi-protocol Label Switching) - Layer 2.5 in OSI model. - Supports IP traffic including IPv6, VoIP, IP Video. - Used as a replacement for Frame Relay and ATM. ISDN, DSL, Cable Modems - Connecting throw telephone companies and ISP (Internet service providers) - Use “dial-up” connection over phone to connect to only SPID (Service profile identifier). - Used mainly as a back up. - Sometimes can connect with any remote caller, so can be used as a backdoor. DSL (Digital Subscriber Line) - High-speed network access over traditional telephone lines. - Operates on regular telephone line with a different modulation frequency, so it can be used in the same time with the telephone service. - Delivered by cable television companies. - Using DOCSIS (Data Over Cable Interface Specification). Todays the standard for the modern ethernet networks is to use CAT 5 or CAT 6 cables - Sniff the raw data on a network. - Needs switch configuration to configure a spanning port. - Depending on the switch this could have limitations and not gather all the info. Better option will be a device that operates on the cable level to sniff all the data. - Works on coaxial cable that uses 10Base5 cabling category. - It allows you to tap all the traffic without reconfigure the switch. - Vampire taps allow new connections to be made on a given physical cable while the cable is in use. - This allows administrators to expand bus-topology network sections without interrupting communications. Without a vampire tap, the cable has to be cut and connectors have to be attached to both ends. How protocol stacks communicate The basic principle of stack based communication is that: Data from one layer of the stack can only be understood by the corresponding layer from the remote computer This layer independence does have a security implications: for example giving a wrong ip address for a specific dns service, id IP and DNS layers work together they would probably notice the fake IP, but because they work independently from each other they will not notice that. You need security software to check all the layer and make sure the headers are showing the correct info. How TCP packets are created IP V4 header IP V6 header IP fragment attacks - Tiny fragment attack - Fragment overlap attack - Sending thousands of initial fragments without sending the rest of the packets could cause IP stack to crash. Not used any more as it’s a waste of ips. It has been supplanted by CIDR CIDR (ClassLess Inter-Domain Routing) - Uses VLSM (Variable Length Subnet Masks) to allocate IPs to subnets according to the individual needs. - The network/host division can occur at any bit boundary in the address. Limited broadcasts are used when computers boot so they can obtain DHCP lease or otherwise configure network interfaces. MAC and IP address ARP (Address Resolution Protocol) - ARP is a layer 2 broadcast Ports and protocols DNS (Domain Name System) - static host table: - in unix systems: /etc/hosts - in windows systems: %systemroot%\system32\drivers\etc\hostswith a second similar file in the same directory called lmhoststhat contains additional mappings for NetBIOS to lP address translations. Types of DNS Queries - Gethostbyname - forward lookup - Maps fully qualified domain name (FQDN) to IP address - e.g. maps www.sans.org to its IP address - Gethostbyaddr - reverse lookup - Maps IP address to FQDN Making a DNS Query DNS Security Attacks - DNS cache poisoning attacks involve returning extra data along with the results of a query. - This extra data contains invalid information, which on vulnerable DNS servers will be written to the DNS cache, thus poisoning the DNS cache for the server. - The end result is that any traffic for a server with a poisoned entry could be redirected to a server the attacker controls. Defense against Cache Poisoning - keeping your DNS software updated to the most recent version and keeping patches up-to-date. Denial of Service - Involve flooding legitimate DNS servers with a large number of queries. - This effectively makes servers in the domain served by the DNS server unavailable. - Footprinting involves using DNS data to learn about the servers in a network. - This can be done by requesting - zone transfers against improperly configured DNS servers, - or by performing reverse DNS lookups against an entire network range. - The gathered information can be used to formulate attacks against servers in the address space. defense against footprinting - limit zone transfers to only DNS servers who legitimately require them. - limit the DNS information available externally to only the information for your internet accessible servers. - Not a real attack, mostly social engineering. - convincing the domain registrar to use the attacker DNS server. - Large registrars use their own DNS servers to prevent this attack. IP protocols and the OSI UDP (User Diagram Protocol) Other important UDP-based protocols include: - Network Time Protocol (NTP)-Synchronizes time. - BOOTP/DHCP protocols-Automatically configures network interfaces and load operating systems via the network when they start up. - Network File System (NFS)-Supports file sharing for Unix-based networks. - Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP)-Used as a management tool to query network- and server-based devices for monitoring or troubleshooting purposes. - Trivial File Transfer Protocol (TFTP)-Used as a method to transfer files from one device to another without requiring authentication. TFTP’s most common use is in updating code on network-based devices. TCP (Transmission control protocol) TCP often is a network programmer’s protocol of choice. It is probably the easier of the two protocols to program for, because most of the error handling is down inside the transport layer and out of sight from the application code. Establishing a TCP connection - After a connection is established, the ACK flag is set for every packet. As a result, the presence of the ACK can indicate whether a connection has been established or not. - In fact, simple packet filters allow all packets with ACK set and assume that they are part of an established connection. - It is trivial to circumvent such a filter by crafting a packet with the ACK bit set. This technique is often used to probe a network behind a filtering device and called an ACK scan. - To minimize traffic, ACKs are “piggy-backed” (as frequently as possible) onto packets containing data, as opposed to sending a packet with just an ACK. - The ACKs confirm to the client and server that both ends are still using the connection. Closing a TCP connection TCP vs UDP FTP (File Transfer Protocol) FTP Security issues - Blind FTP configurations will prevent all or certain users (especially anonymous ones) from being able to list the files or even folders in a directory. - In order to avoid becoming a warez site, the anonymous user can be permitted to upload into a directory that allows only Put access. ln other words, one anonymous user can upload a file, but another anonymous user will be unable to download the file. - Another issue to consider with FTP is that all traffic that passes as part of an FTP connection passes in clear text. This means that even with username and password security, an FTP connection or server is only as secure as the network it traverses. - A potential attacker who has the ability to sniff traffic on a network has the ability to capture username and passwords and even to stealthily obtain files that were transmitted by the FTP server while they were sniffing the network. - Another common issue with FTP revolves around one specific feature commonly referred to as the PORTcommand. The effect is that a user can cause an FTP server to open a connection from the FTP server directly based upon commands entered through an FTP command/control channel. - The end result is that a user can effectively bypass firewall controls to port scan a network behind a firewall, where they can connect to an FTP server. They can also obscure their identity by using an FTP server to scan other hosts on the Internet for them. - In most cases, it is advisable to disable the PORT command entirely to prevent this type of problem. Active vs passive FTP - An ephemeral port === a port greater than 1023. Implications of ftp connection on firewalls A stateless firewall that will have no knowledge about the mechanics of the different ports being requested to be opened for FTP. This type of firewall will require the following ports to be opened for FTP to function: - Active/Passive FTP Command Channel: - 21 /TCP permitted inbound to the FTP server from any host coming from an ephemeral port - Source port 21/TCP from FTP server permitted outbound to any host on an ephemeral port - Active FTP Data Channel: - Source port 20/tcp from FTP server permitted outbound to any host on an ephemeral port - 20/TCP permitted inbound to the FTP server from any host coming from an ephemeral port - Passive FTP Data Channel: - Ephemeral ports to the FTP server permitted inbound from any host on an ephemeral port - Ephemeral ports from the FTP server permitted outbound to any host on an ephemeral port That’s a lot of traffic to be permitted through a firewall. The high traffic essentially provides a mechanism for unauthorized services to be accessible to or from the FTP server that may have nothing to do with FTP at all. This loose security model can magnify the problems mentioned previously with respect to bounce scans with the PORT command and can provide a mechanism for a potentially infected FTP server to have a backdoor installed that is listening on an obscure high port. If you are stuck with such a firewall, it would be better to disable passive FTP altogether, as active ftp is much less permissive in what it permits through the firewall. A stateful firewall It would be better, however, to use a stateful firewall that has additional knowledge of the FTP protocol and can dynamically open ports for the data channel based upon reading into command channel packets. This type of firewall will always permit 21/TCP inbound (and the stateful replies outbound) for valid connections and will prevent the need to leave all of the ephemeral ports wide open at all times, either from 20/TCP or from all ephemeral ports. ICMP (Internet Control Message Protocol) Layer 3 (Network layer) protocol - To report errors (troubleshooting) rather than transferring information - Destination host unreachable - Fragmentation needed and OF flag set - To provide network information - Ping - Is the host alive and what’s the latency? Unix and Windows Traceroute Works differently; might produce different results tracerouteuses UDP packets tracertuses ICMP packets Not only is traceroute a great tool for determining paths through the network, but it is also a pretty decent network mapper. By carefully examining the output of several runs to different hosts on the same remote network, you can start to notice similarities and differences.

Proper operation and maintenance are key factors in obtaining the maximum life and economy of the engine. If the directions in the Operation and Maintenance Manual are followed, costs can be minimized and engine service life can be maximized. The time that is needed for the engine to reach normal operating temperature can be less than the time taken for a walk-around inspection of the engine. The engine can be operated at the rated rpm after the engine is started and after the engine reaches operating temperature. The engine will reach normal operating temperature sooner during a low engine speed (rpm) and during a low-power demand. This procedure is more effective than idling the engine at no load. The engine should reach operating temperature in a few minutes. Avoid excess idling. Excessive idling causes carbon buildup, engine slobber and soot loading of the Diesel Particulate Filter (DPF). These issues are harmful to the engine. Gauge readings should be observed and the data should be recorded frequently while the engine is operating. Comparing the data over time will help to determine normal readings for each gauge. Comparing data over time will also help detect abnormal operating developments. Significant changes in the readings should be investigated. Engine Operation and the Aftertreatment System The exhaust gases and hydrocarbon particles from the engine first pass through Diesel Oxidation Catalyst (DOC). Some of the gasses and matter are oxidized as they pass through the DOC. The gasses then pass through the Diesel Particulate Filter (DPF). The DPF collects the soot and any ash that is produced by the combustion in the engine. During regeneration, the soot is converted into a gas and the ash remains in the DPF. The gasses finally pass through the Selective Catalytic Reduction (SCR). Before the gasses pass through the SCR, Diesel Exhaust Fluid (DEF) is injected into the gas stream. The DEF is stored and controlled by the Pump Electronic Tank Unit (PETU). The mixtures of DEF and the exhaust gas pass through the SCR reducing the NOx in the exhaust emissions. The DPF may require the exhaust gas temperature to rise in order to remove the soot. If necessary, the back pressure valve operates in order to create the rise in temperature. In some applications, the operation of the back pressure valve will make the engine tone different. The engine software will control the amount of DEF that will be required in order to keep the exhaust emission compliant. This design of DPF will not require a service maintenance interval. The DPF can be expected to function properly for the useful life of the engine (emissions durability period), as defined by regulation, subject to prescribed maintenance requirements being followed.

Government issues SoPs for tackling violators of green guidelines - Posted By 14th Jul, 2021 Acting on order of the National Green Tribunal (NGT) and several observations made by different courts time-to-time, the Ministry of Environment, Forests and Climate Change has come out with standard operating procedures (SOPs) for dealing with cases of green violations. - The SOP, issued by the Ministry of Environment, Forests and Climate Change in the form of an Office Memorandum, is a result of orders from the National Green Tribunal. - NGT earlier this year directed the ministry to put in place penalties and an SOP for green violations. What is in the SOP? - The Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) aims to deal with environmental violations. - Penalties: It includes stiff penalties — including shutting down projects and demolition of projects that have failed to acquire environmental clearance or are in non-compliance of the clearance they have received. Environmental Governance in India Currently, three main legislations govern the environment jurisprudence of India, that is: - Environment Protection Act, 1986 (“EP Act”) - Air (Prevention and Control of Pollution) Act, 1981 (“Air Act”) - Water (Prevention and Control of Pollution) Act, 1974 (“Water Act”) What kind of ‘violations’ are considered here? - The given SOPs refer to two categories of green violations, as given below: - ‘Violations’ involving cases where construction work, including expansion of an existing project, has begun without the project proponent having acquired environmental clearance. - ‘Non-Compliance’ in which prior environmental clearance has been accorded to the project, but it is in violation of norms prescribed in the approval. How permissibility of the project will be examined? - Demolition: Projects that are not permissible for environmental clearance are to be demolished. - Shut down: Projects which are permissible according to environmental law but which have not acquired the requisite clearance are to be shut down. - Reverting construction: In cases of expansion of a project, including increase in volume of production, if environmental clearance has not been received, then the government agency can now force the project proponent to revert to the level of construction/manufacturing before the expansion. Who is empowered to take actions? - The memorandum gives powers to government agencies to identify such violations and take penal action against them. - The government agencies include: - Central Pollution Control Board of India (CPCB) - State pollution control boards - State environment impact assessment authorities What is an Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA)? - EIA is a procedure evaluating environmental, social, economic and health impacts in an area due to development projects such as highways, industries, mines, dams, etc. Factors studied in EIA - Topography, local climate and acceptable levels of pollution in an area - Biological diversity that needs to be preserved - Proximity to human settlements, archaeological sites, national parks, etc - Emissions/discharge of environmental pollutants to an area due to a project What are the environmental laws and practice in India? - India has been a signatory to numerous international conventions pertaining to environmental protection and climate change. Some of the important agreements are as follows: - Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of wild fauna and flora (CITES), 1973 - Montreal Protocol on Substances that deplete the Ozone Layer (to the Vienna Convention for the Protection of the Ozone Layer), 1987 - Basel Convention on Transboundary Movement of Hazardous Wastes, 1989 - UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), 1992 - Convention on Biological Diversity, 1992 - Agenda 21 - UN Convention on Desertification, 1994 - Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety - Paris Agreement - Environmental jurisprudence emerged from the judicial interpretation of Article 21 of the Indian Constitution and is strengthened by Articles 48-A and 51-A(g). - Various environmental legislations and policies have been formulated by the government. - National Clean Air Programme - Jal Jeevan Mission - Atal Bhujal Yojana (ABHY) - Nagar Van Scheme - Green Skill Development Programme (GSDP) - Namami Gange Programme - The Supreme Court of India has been instrumental, with its numerous precedents on the principle of sustainable development. - The inception of the National Green Tribunal (NGT) in 2010 was a noteworthy milestone. What are the concerns raised by Environmentalists? - Normalization of violations: The memorandum normalises “post facto regularisation of violations” – in which violations are first committed and then the project proponent files for clearance by which they “are let off by paying a penalty”. - Weak laws: Despite EIA rules being in place for seven years, most projects seem to continue to fall outside the prescribed environmental norms and are therefore violators. Earlier the environment ministry has published the draft Environment Impact Assessment (EIA) Notification 2020, with the intention of replacing the existing EIA Notification, 2006 under the Environment (Protection) Act, 1986. In 2017, the ministry had initiated a six-month amnesty scheme on penalising green violations, which was later extended.

Asthma is a chronic (life time) disease that makes your lungs very sensitive and hard to breathe. Asthma can’t be cured, but with proper treatment, people with asthma can lead normal, active lives. If you have asthma, your airways (breathing passages) are very sensitive. Certain things can make your airways become swollen and the muscles around the airways can also become tight leaving you breathless. Meet Emerson who had his breath taken away from asthma. Learn more about asthma by visiting our Canadian Lung Association website.

Home New In English King Carl XVI Gustaf: ‘We need to listen to the advice of... Swedish health authorities estimate that the number of coronavirus cases will rise in the near future. “We are going to see more cases in the coming weeks, more cases in intensive care and more deaths. We must be prepared for that. The main thing now is to flatten the curve as much as possible,” Public Health Agency epidemiologist Anders Tegnell told reporters at the agency’s daily press conference. Although most people get only mild symptoms, health authorities are concerned that if too many need hospital care at the same time, it will place immense pressure on already strained hospitals. So Sweden’s strategy is based on trying to slow down the infection rate as much as possible. What precautions should you take in Sweden? Swedes, like people in many other countries, have been stockpiling toilet paper, leaving many supermarket shelves empty. But there is no risk of the country running out of toilet paper, The Local has been told. “The coronavirus has put our country in a difficult situation. Many are worried: for their health, for their relatives, for their livelihood. We are in a situation that requires taking responsibility for oneself and others. But difficult situations such as this, also offer an opportunity, the opportunity to bring our the best in ourselves. As a country, and as fellow human beings,” he said, thanking people in Sweden. You can read the King’s full speech in Swedish here. Swedish truck maker Scania is halting production at most of its European production plants on Wednesday next week, after major disruptions to its supplier and logistics chain. Service workshops and parts centre are to remain open, and other units are scheduled to resume operation after two weeks. The move affects staff in Sweden, the Netherlands and France. Scania said it was “in close dialogue with the union representatives in order to jointly address the situation”. Sweden confirmed two new deaths linked to the coronavirus on Tuesday. The first patient was described as elderly with several underlying health conditions by regional health authorities in Södermanland. The second, the first fatality in the Skåne region, was described as a woman in her 80s. She also had underlying health conditions and was seriously ill when she arrived at hospital, where she tested positive. “We know that the elderly and especially elderly people with other underlying illnesses get the most seriously ill from COVID-19. This is a sad reminder of how important it is that we protect these groups from infection,” Region Skåne infectious disease doctor Eva Melander said in a statement. Due to a change in how testing is carried out in order to best prioritise resources in the healthcare sector, the actual number of cases in Sweden may be higher than the confirmed figure. Sweden halts international travel into the country following an EU decision. The entry ban comes into effect on March 19th and will be in force for 30 days. It can be extended, but the Swedish government said in a statement that “it is an exceptional measure, which should not last longer than needed”. Swedish citizens and residents will still be able to return to Sweden, according to the decision. The entry ban will not apply to people who can demonstrate a particularly important reason to travel to Sweden, for example “diplomats, people in need of international protection and people who are to perform necessary functions in Sweden, such as healthcare staff and people transporting goods to Sweden”. Nor will the decision, which is based on an EU agreement, apply to EU or EEA citizens. More regions in Sweden outside of the big cities are starting to see signs of community infection, said the Public Health Agency’s epidemiologist Anders Tegnell in the authority’s daily update. But the numbers of confirmed cases is “just the tip of the iceberg” in Sweden and the rest of the world, he added. The vast majority of infected patients in Sweden have had only mild symptoms, but 12 people in total have been treated in intensive care. Seven patients have died after testing positive for the virus, all of whom are described as elderly, and Tegnell reiterated how important it is that everyone helps protect vulnerable groups. “This means everything for how this epidemic develops. If we can keep this group healthy for as long as possible it will make a huge difference for the strain on Swedish society and healthcare,” he said. Several community initiatives have been launched across Sweden to help risk groups with for example their food shopping, so that they are able to limit their direct contact with other people and stay at home. The Local is listing some of them in this article, but please help us keep adding to the list. Sweden is recommending all senior high schools (gymnasie level, children aged over 16) to close, starting tomorrow, and introduce distance learning so that students can keep studying. The decision also applies to universities and municipal adult education (komvux). Schools for younger children are not closing at this stage, but Sweden is preparing to make such a decision if necessary, said Prime Minister Stefan Löfven at a press conference on Tuesday morning. Swedish rail operator SJ’s trains will run at reduced capacity from today. Most routes will see a reduction of 25 percent, reports Swedish news agency TT, with traffic on the main routes dropping from approximately one train an hour or more to every other hour or once an hour in the morning and afternoon. SJ said affected passengers would get their money back or be offered to change their departure. The decision applies until the end of the month for now. It was made because of several staff members having to stay at home, either because they are self-quarantining, or because they are following Swedish authorities’ recommendations to stay at home even if you have only very mild symptoms of illness. Some are also staying at home because their children’s preschools or schools have been closed over the virus. Stockholm’s public transport operator SL has also introduced measures aimed at reducing the spread of infection. Passengers have been advised to get on buses at the back door (usually reserved for passengers getting off, and people with pushchairs) to avoid close contact with the driver, and to spread out through the vehicle. The company also said it would “intensify” cleaning procedures, and urged people who are sick not to use public transport. Badly-affected airlines will receive state support in order to get through the economic problems caused by the outbreak. In a deal between the Danish and Swedish governments, SAS has been guaranteed three billion kronor in state support. Hospitals are preparing to cope with an anticipated higher demand for intensive care places and protective equipment. In Stockholm, the region plans to increase its 90 intensive care spaces by 50 percent. “At the moment we have no problem dealing with the patients who need intensive care due to the coronavirus as well as our other patients. How long this lasts depends on how quickly the numbers increase,” Elda Sparrelid, who is a head doctor in the Stockholm region, told the TT newswire. Sweden confirms its eighth death linked to the coronavirus on Tuesday. The patient was described by regional health authorities in Södermanland as elderly and with underlying health conditions. The Swedish parliament will cut the number of members present in the chamber from 349 to only 55. The decision has been agreed to by all parties, and means that from March 18th until the end of the month the parties will be represented by: 16 Social Democrat MPs, 11 Moderate MPs, 10 Sweden Democrat MPs, five Centre Party MPs, four Left Party MPs and three each for the Christian Democrats, Liberals and Greens. The move is meant to ensure that parliament is able to continue to operate even if a large number of MPs were to fall ill. The decision currently applies until March 30th but can be extended. MPs not present during votes will still be working, but will perform their duties in other ways, said the speaker of parliament. Stockholmers in particular are urged to work from home if they can, according to new guidelines from Sweden’s Public Health Agency. This is because there is now a so-called community infection in Sweden (when the virus is spreading inside the country, rather than only linked to international travel), in particular in the Stockholm area. “We’re now in a situation where (working from home) can make a difference, especially in the Stockholm region,” Public Health Agency epidemiologist Anders Tegnell told a press conference. Three elderly patients have died after testing positive for the coronavirus, also known as COVID-19. The patients passed away at Södersjukhuset, Danderyd Hospital and the Karolinska University Hospital in Huddinge, said Stockholm health authorities. A fourth fatality, also an elderly patient with underlying health condition, was reported by the Sörmland region south of Stockholm on Monday afternoon. “Our thoughts are with their loved ones. We know from international experience that the elderly and in particular elderly people with other underlying health conditions suffer the most serious consequences of COVID-19. These patients, too, follow that pattern,” said infectious disease doctor Per Follin. This brings Sweden’s total number of fatalities to six, including five in Stockholm and one in Västa Götaland. Swedish postal service Postnord warns that it will have to halt deliveries to and from many countries as a result of reduced transport capacity due to cancelled flights. It says it can only accept deliveries to EU countries, Australia, Hong Kong, Iceland, Japan, Canada, Liechtenstein, Norway, Russia, Switzerland, United Kingdom, South Korea, United States and Åland, but that it make take longer than usual. Short-term layoffs, where employers’ wage costs could be halved but the employee would still receive more than 90 percent of their salary, and the state would step in to cover the difference. The central government would take over sick pay responsibility in April and May. Making it possible for companies to defer paying in employers’ social security contributions, preliminary tax on salaries and value-added tax that are reported monthly or quarterly. The proposals, which come in addition to other previously announced measures such as scrapping the first day of unpaid sick leave (karensdag), are based on a deal between the ruling Social Democrat-Green coalition and the Centre and Liberal parties, and will be presented to parliament on March 19th. A third person dies in Sweden from the coronavirus. The elderly patient arrived at Stockholm’s Karolinska University Hospital for an emergency that did not require intensive care. While the patient was being treated, they tested positive for the coronavirus. A total of four patients were in intensive care in Stockholm on Sunday. Swedish Prime Minister Stefan Löfven tells a press conference there are no imminent plans to close Sweden’s borders. Sweden’s foreign ministry the previous day urged against non-essential travel to anywhere in the world, but Sweden’s Public Health Agency clarifies that the move has less to do with the risk of spreading infection and more to do with the risk of ending up in a situation where it is impossible or harder to get home. Scandinavian Airlines announce plans to temporarily lay off up to 10,000 staff. A second person dies in Sweden from the coronavirus. The 85 year-old woman died at Sahlgrenska Hospital in Gothenburg. The woman had been cared for in intensive care for some time and also had other diseases. Denmark closes its borders to halt the spread of the coronavirus. People who live and work in Denmark will still be allowed in, including cross-border workers based in Sweden, but people based in Sweden will no longer be able to use Copenhagen Airport (other than for inbound flights in order to return to Sweden). Several private initiatives are under way to help people who have to self-isolate at home with their food shop. Examples include the social media hashtag #DinGranneHär (#YourNeighbourHere). Many hospitals have introduced bans on external visitors, including all those in Skåne and Kalmar regions, and the Karolinska University hospital in Stockholm. The 1177 healthcare helpline introduces a separate line for those with symptoms of the coronavirus, after receiving a hugely increased number of calls. The Stockholm stock exchange’s OMXS index recovers 2.6 percent in early morning trading, after plummeting 11.1 percent on Thursday — a historically sharp fall in line with other European markets. The government appoints a coronavirus coordinator: Anders Ferbe will be in charge of managing tasks related to the impact of the virus on the economy. The Swedish Central Bank, the Riksbank, says it will lend 500 billion kronor to struggling companies during the coronavirus crisis. “The aim is to maintain the supply of credit to Swedish companies,” says the bank. Airlines SAS and Norwegian cancel flights between Scandinavia and the US in the wake of Donald Trump’s travel ban, with Norwegian temporarily laying off half its staff. Prime Minister Stefan Löfven urges Swedes to avoid international travel amid the coronavirus outbreak. Sweden cancels its upcoming scholastic aptitude test (högskoleprovet) which would have seen 70,000 people sit the test in the hope of using it to get into university. Sweden’s minister for higher education and research, Matilda Ernkrans, says the authorities are looking at how to handle autumn admissions. The first confirmed case of the coronavirus in Gotland means that the virus has now spread to all of Sweden’s regions. Nordic gym chain SATS announces it is closing all its clubs as a precautionary measure, effective from noon on March 12th and initially two weeks onwards. Membership will be put on hold, writes SATS. In the evening, around 20 prisoners in Norrtälje start a riot, linked to new restrictions introduced because of the coronavirus and including limits on visitors. Stockholm health authorities announce that only elderly people and patients in hospital will be tested for the coronavirus from now on. This is part of a new national strategy aimed at using resources in the most effective way. Other people who experience symptoms are instead directed to national health line 1177 and are urged to stay at home, not go to work, and limit social contact. US President Donald Trump announces a travel ban from European countries in the Schengen area, which does not include the UK or Ireland, to take effect 11.59pm on March 13th. Sweden’s education minister meets school and university bosses to discuss further measures. Denmark and Norway are both closing schools temporarily, but Sweden’s Public Health Agency has so far warned that such a decision would have consequences for parents working in essential jobs such as healthcare. In the evening, the education minister says there will be no decision yet to close schools at a national level, but heads of schools will be given increased decision-making ability to choose how they address the spread of the virus, for example by moving to online classes or changing the length and timing of the school year. The Public Health Agency updates its guidelines to urge anyone with symptoms of the coronavirus or a cold (for example a fever and cough), regardless of whether or not you have been travelling, to stay at home and limit social contact until you have been symptom-free for at least two days. The first fatality linked to the coronavirus in Sweden (and the Nordics) is confirmed. The patient was elderly with underlying health conditions and dies at a hospital in southern Stockholm. Doctors say they were unable to trace the patient’s infection to overseas travel. Sweden’s government moves to temporarily scrap the first unpaid day of sick leave, meaning that people who take leave from work due to sickness will receive sick pay from the moment their absence begins. The decision comes into effect immediately and is set to last for a month and a half. The government also says it will follow a request from the Public Health Agency to ban all public events for over 500 people. Sweden’s Foreign Ministry advises against non-essential travel to the Austrian state of Tyrol, while US President Donald Trump announces a travel ban to the US from all countries in the Schengen area, which includes Sweden. Blekinge and Dalarna report their first cases of the coronavirus, while further cases are confirmed in several other regions, most in Västra Götaland (37), Skåne (35) and Stockholm (26). Police stop carrying out routine breathalyser tests for drink-driving, but will still test those they suspect are intoxicated, although police officers who belong to at-risk groups will not carry out any tests. Swedish health authorities upgrade the risk of the virus spreading in Sweden to “very high”, the highest possible level on a five-point scale. This is due to signs of community spread in the Stockholm and Västra Götaland regions. The Public Health Agency advises members of the public to avoid non-essential visits to hospitals and care homes, and reiterates the importance of people who work with vulnerable groups staying away from work if they have any symptoms such as a cough or fever. Sweden’s foreign ministry extends its travel recommendations to advise against all non-essential travel to all of Italy, the European country worst hit by the coronavirus. Sweden’s first two instances of coronavirus patients needing intensive care are reported. New cases are confirmed in Skåne (three), Halland (four), Örebro (one), Region Stockholm (60), Sörmland (one), Jämtland-Härjedalen (one) and Västra Götaland (15). Five regions report their first cases: Halland (five), Norrbotten (one), Västerbotten (five), Sörmland (one) and Östergötland (one), all linked to northern Italy. In Stockholm, the first case of a coronavirus patient with no known links to foreign travel or a previously confirmed case – a potential community infection – is reported at a major hospital. Further cases are confirmed in Region Jönköping (two), Region Värmland (one), Västra Götaland (seven), Region Uppsala (three), Region Stockholm (32), making a total of 57 new confirmed cases in one day. 42 more cases are confirmed: one in Region Uppsala, five in Skåne, 12 in Västra Götaland, three in Region Örebro, seven in Region Värmland, and 14 in Region Stockholm. The cases confirmed include one where the patient contracted the virus in the USA. Sweden confirms 24 new cases: three in Skåne and 21 in Region Stockholm. The Foreign Ministry advises against all non-essential travel to northern Italy (the regions Piedmont, Liguria, Lombardy, Emilia-Romagna, Trentino-Alto Adige, Aosta Valley, Veneto, Friuli Venezia Giulia, Marche and Tuscany) as well as to the town Daegu and North Gyeongsang Province in South Korea until further notice. A further 43 cases are confirmed: two in Västra Götaland, five in Region Skåne, one in Region Uppsala, eight in Region Värmland, five in Region Jönköping, one in Region Gävleborg and 21 in Region Stockholm. A further 42 coronavirus cases are confirmed: one in Västra Götaland, seven in Skåne, three in Region Värmland, two in Region Uppsala, one in Region Gävleborg (the first case in the region) and the remainder in Region Stockholm. The Public Health Agency announces that it will begin testing more people for the virus, including those who are showing symptoms after traveling abroad or who have been in close contact with confirmed cases. 22 new cases are discovered, 16 of them in Stockholm, two in Västra Götaland, one in Skåne, two in Region Värmland and one in Region Örebro. One of the Västra Götaland cases was contracted in Iran, while the others were all linked to travel to northern Italy. Coronavirus: What precautions should you take in Sweden? The number of cases doubles from 15 to 30, including the first case in Skåne, one new case in Region Jönköping, three new cases in Västra Götaland, all of which were linked to travel in northern Italy. Ten new cases also confirmed in Region Stockholm. Jönköping’s health authorities tell The Local that the first patient who contracted the virus in January is fully recovered. Swedish health authorities upgrade the risk of the virus spreading in Sweden from “low” to “moderate”, which is the middle level on a five-point scale. The Foreign Ministry advises against all travel to all of Iran, and Sweden becomes the first country in the world to suspend Iranian airline Iran Air’s permit in Sweden, in order to halt all direct flights from Iran. Another case of the coronavirus is confirmed in Region Stockholm. One more case is confirmed in Västra Götaland, linked to travel in northern Italy. Two more cases confirmed: One in Västra Götaland (linked to travel to Iran) and one in Region Stockholm. Four more cases are confirmed: two in Stockholm region, one in Uppsala (contracted in Iran) and one in Jönköping (contracted in Italy). Five more cases confirmed: three in Västra Götaland (two linked to the previous case and one linked to travel to northern Italy) one in Region Uppsala (a patient who had recently travelled to Germany), and one in Region Stockholm. A second case of coronavirus is confirmed in Gothenburg, Västra Götaland. The patient had recently travelled to northern Italy. Coronavirus: What are the rules in Sweden for re-booking travel? The risk of the virus spreading in Sweden is upgraded from “very low” to “low” by the Public Health Agency. Eleven Swedish citizens are flown home from China on an evacuation flight from Wuhan. Sweden’s first case of coronavirus is confirmed in Jönköping, in a patient who had recently travelled from China.

Whiskers are more than just a cat facial feature! Learn how the whiskers of a box-and-whisker help make conclusions about a data set. An instructor first explains how to create a box-and-whisker and then how to read it. Several examples provide a box-and-whisker and ask individuals to analyze the data as additional practice. - Have pupils collect data to analyze with a box-and-whisker plot - Ask individuals to record new vocabulary and examples in a graphic organizer - Expects proficiency in finding median - This resource is only available on an unencrypted HTTP website. It should be fine for general use, but don’t use it to share any personally identifiable information - Provides notes both verbally and in a written format - Emphasizes all key vocabulary

SEATTLE — All people, citizens and immigrants alike, are entitled to their basic human rights in the United States of America. Since the foundation of the USA, human rights have always been prioritized and integral to American thinking. The Bill of Rights, which restricts government power and guarantees individual liberties, makes up the first and foremost 10 amendments of the U.S. Constitution. Therefore, under U.S. law, everyone is guaranteed certain freedoms and protections – even undocumented immigrants. Yet in reality, immigrants in the U.S. often have their basic rights infringed upon and violated. Immigrants in the U.S. today may experience discrimination or intimidation not only in the workplace, but also in everyday society. In the post- 9/11 world, racism and prejudice against immigrants have increased and become more vocal. Frequently, the general rhetoric is so extreme as to elicit concern for immigrants’ personal safety. According to the FBI, between 2003 and 2006, hate crimes against Latinos increased 34 percent, demonstrating the rise in overall threat to immigrants human rights in the United States of America. Immigrant women represent a particularly vulnerable group who are often victims of domestic violence and sexual assault. Migrant women may be hindered by social isolation, financial dependence, language barriers or fear of deportation, all of which stop them from reporting abuses to the authorities. The fourteenth amendment, which grants the right to due process of law and equal protection under the law, is one of the rights most routinely violated for immigrants. Since 2001, more than 1,000 immigrants have been detained in unacceptable conditions for investigation for months on end. In these months the immigrants were never given access to an attorney nor charged with a crime. Between 2012 and 2015, 18 immigrants died in U.S. custody. The Human Rights Watch analyzed the reports of these deaths to find inadequate medical care in 16 cases which contributed to seven of the deaths. In 2017, the U.S. still detains asylum-seeking children and mothers from Central America. The detention of children and their mothers has been moderately reduced since 2015 reforms, yet families still find themselves detained for long periods of time. The Human Rights Watch has investigated and documented the grave psychological toll that this experience has on asylum seekers. In the eight years of the Obama administration, a record 2.5 million immigrants were deported with a focus on those with criminal records. The newly elected Trump administration has made promises to build a wall on the southern U.S. border and to rapidly deport or detain another three million migrants with convictions. According to Human Rights Watch, a push to hastily deport millions of immigrants at once would certainly overwhelm and worsen the conditions of the detention facilities that are already poorly overseen. Overall, more needs to be done to protect, respect and fulfill immigrant human rights in the United States of America. As a global leader, it is imperative the U.S. holds itself to the standard it set in the eighteenth century and adhere to international human rights law. – Catherine Fredette

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Getting all my posts back up and edited yesterday I thought it was time for a celebration. And what better way to celebrate than with some cake? Toni Tipton-Martin’s Jubilee Since I’m a pretty shit baker, I’ve always wanted to learn to just make a basic cake. When I saw the recipe for pound cake in Toni Tipton-Martin’s Jubilee, I knew this was The One. /> Toni Tipton-Martin has spent her career shedding light on the history of African-American cuisine and cooks. In Jubilee she brings together their stories and recipes for a compelling and hunger inducing read. The book really does feel like a true celebration and is highly recommended reading for anyone who wants to understand more about the history of North American food. Black sesame fiends and snack exchanges I’ve been doing snack exchanges with Yone, who lives in Taiwan, for a while now. One of the things she’s sent me is black sesame paste. On my request, because I love black sesame and wanted to use it for baking. And use it for baking I did. A mess, some stress and then perfection One of the things that intrigued me about Toni’s recipe is that you start the cake in a cold oven. Turns out, if you add a fuck tonne of sesame paste to a recipe it’s not going to cook the same. During its time in the oven my black sesame swirl cake was looking a tad hopeless for a while, but I left it in until it was solid, which is a lot longer than Toni’s recipe, and in the end I cut into the most perfect moist and fluffy cake I’ve ever had. So if you’re going to tackle this, have faith. It’s going to turn out alright. Black sesame swirl pound cake Equipment - Tube pan - 10"/ 25 cm - Small bowl - Big bowl - Stand or hand mixer - Spatula - Oven - Metal spoon - Wire rack Ingredients - butter for the pan - 5 c - 380 gr all purpose flour plus extra dor dusting the pan - 1/2 t - 5 gr baking powder - pinch salt omit if using salted butter - 1 t - 5 ml vanilla extract - 8 oz - 230 gr butter room temperature - 1/2 c - 95 gr shortening - 5 c - 615 gr sugar - 5 large eggs - 1 c - 250 ml whole milk - 4 oz - 125 gr black sesame paste loosened if caked together and drained from oil Instructions - NOTE: do not preheat the oven. We will start heating the oven once the cake is in. This is different but I found it really works. Patience permitting. - Coat a 10" - 25 cm tube pan with butter and dust lightly with flour. I like to fridge mine while I make the batter so it really makes a strong coating. - In a small bowl, whisk together 5 c - 380 gr of all purpose flour with 1/2 t - 5 gr of baking powder and a pinch of salt. - Cream 8 oz - 230 gr of room temperature butter on medium speed in a large bowl or the bowl of a stand mixer for 2-3 minutes. Be sure to scrape down the sides of the bowl with a spatula every so often as you go along. - Add 1/2 c - 95 gr of shortening and beat for another 2 minutes. - Now set your mixer to low and slowly beat in 3 c - 615 gr of sugar in three portions and then beat for an additional 5 minutes on medium until the batter is light and fluffy. - Scrape down the sides of the bowl and add 5 eggs one by one. Until all the eggs have been fully incorporated and you're left with a light batter. - Now set your mixer to medium and add 1/3 of the flour mixture, incorporate, add 1/2 c - 125 ml of milk, incorporate, add another 1/3 of the flour mixture, incorporate, add 1/2 c - 125 ml of milk, incorporate and finally incorporate the final 1/3 of the flour mixture until the batter is just smooth. - Rinse out your smaller bowl and dry and move roughly half of your batter to this bowl. - Beat 4 oz - 125 gr of black sesame paste into the remaining batter on medium for 2 minutes or so until well incorporated. You can add more black sesame paste to taste if you like. - Lightly fold the plain batter back into the black sesame batter, 2 to 4 folds max, to get a little marbling going on. - Pour the cake batter into the pan and place in the middle rack of a cold oven. - Set the oven to 325° F/ 160° C and bake until the top is golden and a tooth pick comes out clean. Toni Tipton-Martin's recipe (without the sesame paste) should take around 1 hour and 15 minutes, where as my cake took about 2 hours and 15 minutes with the sesame paste incorporated. - Leave the cake to cool in the pan for 10 minutes before turning it out on a wire rack to cool completely. Maybe cut yourself a slice cause it's really nice when it's still warm too. Notes Zoek je dit recept in het Nederlands? Ga dan naar VetteSletten.nl voor zwarte sesam marmer cake. - 6Shares

CONVENTIONS OF STANDARD ENGLISH Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English grammar and usage when writing or speaking. a. Ensure that pronouns are in the proper case (subjective, objective, possessive). b. Use intensive pronouns (e.g., myself, ourselves). c. Recognize and correct inappropriate shifts in pronoun number and person. d. Recognize and correct vague pronouns (i.e., ones with unclear or ambiguous antecedents). e. Recognize variations from standard English in their own and others" writing and speaking,6and identify and use strategies to improve expression in conventional language. Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English capitalization, punctuation, and spelling when writing. a. Use punctuation (commas, parentheses, dashes) to set of nonrestrictive/parenthetical elements. KNOWLEDGE OF LANGUAGE Use knowledge of language and its conventions when writing, speaking, reading, or listening. a. Vary sentence patterns for meaning, reader/listener interest, and style. b. Maintain consistency in style and tone. VOCABULARY ACQUISITION AND USE Determine or clarify the meaning of unknown and multiple-meaning words and phrases based on grade 6 reading and content, choosing flexibly from a range of strategies. a. Use context (e.g., the overall meaning of a sentence or paragraph; a word"s position or function in a sentence) as a clue to the meaning of a word or phrase. b. Use common, grade-appropriate Greek or Latin affxes and roots as clues to the meaning of a word (e.g., audience, auditory, audible). c. Consult reference materials (e.g., dictionaries, glossaries, thesauruses), both print and digital, to find the pronunciation of a word or determine or clarify its precise meaning or its part of speech. d. Verify the preliminary determination of the meaning of a word or phrase (e.g., by checking the inferred meaning in context or in a dictionary). Demonstrate understanding of figurative language, word relationships, and nuances in word meanings. a. Interpret figures of speech (e.g., personification) in context. b. Use the relationship between particular words (e.g., cause/effect, part/whole, item/category) to better understand each of the words. Distinguish among the connotations (associations) of words with similar denotations (definitions) (e.g., stingy, scrimping, economical, unwasteful, thrifty). Acquire and use accurately grade-appropriate general academic and domain-specific words and phrases; gather vocabulary knowledge when considering a word or phrase important to comprehension or expression. We live in a world where technological innovation and global competition are increasing at a pace never before seen. Now is the time to invest in our children to make sure they are prepared to succeed What are the basic skills my child should be learning in 6th Grade? Learn how you can encourage your child"s learning, detect problem areas, and build a positive relationship with your teacher. As parents, we all want our children to grow up to be responsible citizens and good people. We want them to learn to feel, think and act with respect for themselves and for other people. We want them American children must be ready to learn from the first day of school, and of course, preparing children for school is a historic responsibility of parents. Test. It"s a loaded word. Important, someth

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Interest in athletics grew slowly at American colleges and universities, waxing in a particular sport and then waning. In the 19th century, struggling athletes at Wesleyan slogged through a field that often resembled a mud pit. Beginning in the 1880s, however, the rise of athletics as spectator events that evoked impassioned support (and money) from alumni assured that intercollegiate contests would rise out of the mud to become the staple of college life that they are today. In the early years after Wesleyan’s founding in 1831, there were no organized sports. In fact, college athletics as such did not exist in the United States. Wesleyan was small, and often struggled to make ends meet. Frank W. Nicolson, who edited the 1938 book, Athletics at Wesleyan, waggishly reported that the earliest students relied on “walking to get the mail” for their regular exercise. Needless to say, students—and everyone—walked a lot in those days. In antebellum America one of the most popular sports was pedestrianism, or professional racewalking. Nevertheless, Wesleyan’s first student organization was not a walking club, but the Missionary Lyceum, a club organized by early students who felt called to missionary work. Intercollegiate athletics in America date to the 1850s, and they followed a slightly earlier British model. American college men (and they were nearly all men) had been involved in informal sporting activities for several years. The first organized intercollegiate competition was the 1852 regatta between Harvard and Yale, held at Lake Winnipesaukee in central New Hampshire. Crew—or rowing or boating, as it was usually called in those days—was the earliest and most popular intercollegiate sport before the Gilded Age. Amazing numbers of spectators turned out for regattas, particularly in the early 1870s. During the Victorian era, in both England and America, muscular Christianity—or the idea that a good, masculine Christian should take care of the health of his body as well as his soul—was a popular approach to life, particularly among the middle and upper classes. In this world view, sports could be a moral force. The YMCA, which was founded in England in 1844 and had spread to the United States by 1851, was an expression of the tenets of muscular Christianity. The end of the Civil War in 1865 signaled a rise in popular interest in sports, both for the urban, privileged classes and in the academy. Wesleyan students of the 1850s through 1870s participated in rowing, track, baseball, and football. Each of these sports began informally, usually as recreational competitions among classes, before developing into organized, intercollegiate events. For the most part, administrative and coaching duties fell to the students. There were no formal coaches or trainers, and university financial support was modest at best. Throughout the history of sports at Wesleyan, informal or intramural sports have coexisted with formal, intercollegiate athletic competition. Wesleyan’s first intercollegiate sport was baseball. The Agallian Base Ball Club was formed in 1865 by Charles L. Bonnell (Class of 1868), Walter A. Chadwick (Class of 1869), and Stephen Henry Olin (Class of 1866). That’s the same Stephen Henry Olin who was the son of Wesleyan’s second president, a chair of the Board of Trustees, and the namesake of Olin Library. The club was named by Classics Professor James Van Benschoten in honor of Agalles, who may have invented a game similar to baseball in ancient Greece. (Van Benny, as he was affectionately known, was an ancestor of Wesleyan’s current chair of the Board of Trustees, Jim Dresser ’63.) The Agallians played against a mix of local, professional, semiprofessional, college, and school teams. They played first against the Charter Oak Club of Hartford and then, in the first intercollegiate baseball game for both teams, against Yale. Sad to say, Yale won handily: 39 to 13. Contrary to most sources, the Agallian Club was not Wesleyan’s very first ball club. That distinction belongs to the short-lived and apparently misnamed Invincible Base Ball Club, which appears in an early Wesleyan scorebook under the date of 1862. The Wesleyan University Base Ball Club succeeded the Agallians in 1869. Principles of muscular Christianity are evident in the very first issue of theCollege Argus, published on June 11, 1868. Some Methodist leaders had objected to students’ participation in baseball or any athletic competition, because they felt it led to gambling and corruption. The Argus countered with a paean to the “moderation and manliness” of the Wesleyan players. Later in the same issue, there is a call for reorganizing a boating club since, “As students we do not exercise enough.” Stephen Henry Olin and his cronies were among the first to use Wesleyan’s original gymnasium. One alumnus of the 1870s reminisced that it was “a plain, frame structure, with swinging rings, horizontal and parallel bars, a few pulley weights, Indian clubs, and dumbbells … There were no dressing rooms, no baths.” This modest structure was in active use for 30 years. One of the characteristics of early athletics at Wesleyan is that only one sport achieved prominence at a time, at least in an intercollegiate setting. After a short heyday, baseball gave way to rowing. Wesleyan’s first regatta took place in 1871. Following the common pattern, rowing had actually begun more than a decade earlier, in the fall of 1858, as an informal activity. The first boat was bought at this time. By 1861, there were seven boats and seven boat clubs. Each class had its own crew and competed against the others. Boating apparently disappeared at Wesleyan between 1865 and its revival in 1871. Everyone was busy playing baseball, it seems. Elsewhere, rowing was an enormously popular sport in this period, and it required an official organization, the Rowing Association of America, founded in 1870. The Wesleyan Boat Club was organized in the fall of 1872. By the next June, the University’s first boathouse was built, at a cost of $1,000. This was an exciting period for the Wes rowers. In 1872, the Wesleyan freshmen won the regatta on the Connecticut River at Springfield, beating Amherst, the Sheffield Scientific School, Harvard, Brown, and Yale. They recorded the best time ever made thus far in a freshman race. In 1873, the Wes oarsmen may have placed second in the intercollegiate regatta. Opinions of the participants differed as to the order of arrival and whether Harvard might have been guilty of a foul. Wesleyan men definitely won second place at the Lake Saratoga regatta in 1874. Captain John H. Eustis, Class of 1874, won the seven-mile footrace that was part of the overall competition. After Eustis graduated, the 19th-century Wesleyan crew never again excelled at the same level. In part because of the expenses involved, student interest in crew waned. The boathouse was torn down in 1880. It wasn’t until 1964 that crew again became an intercollegiate sport at Wesleyan. As rowing declined, baseball came back into vogue in 1877. Football was a popular game, although at Wesleyan, it was not yet played in an intercollegiate arena. And track, an offshoot of the races that were part of boating regattas, began to grow. In the second era of athletics at Wesleyan, the focus turned to building teams that would compete in intercollegiate matches. By the 1880s, college sports were an important part of the academy, and they drew interest from not just the students, but faculty, administration, members of the surrounding community, and, most especially, alumni. In this period, something became more important than merely playing the game. That something was winning. All of these supporters began to understand that a winning team could be a source of pride and the basis for goodwill and financial backing for the school. Occasionally, the emphasis on winning went wrong. Some prominent colleges and universities employed ringers, or paid athletes who were not part of the college community, to help achieve their goals. Wesleyan was not immune from this temptation. As documented in the minutes of the faculty meeting of November 23, 1866, the faculty “voted that the President be requested to investigate, with a view to the administration of discipline, under what circumstances and by whose action a person not a member of the College was put on the College Team in a football game.” While the details of exactly what transpired are scanty, a faculty committee was appointed to better police potential violations of sportsmanship. By the early 1880s, as Wesleyan participated and achieved prominence in more sports, the pallid lavender of the school banners became a problem. There had been some dissatisfaction with the color since the days of the regattas, when, as one alumnus later wrote, “for lavender flags wet by a shower resembled little else than limp dish rags.” The new college colors, cardinal red and black, were adopted in a general college meeting on October 10, 1884. They made their first official appearance in a banner used at the Wes-Penn game in New York in the fall of 1885. Of the color change, Wesley Woodruff, Class of 1887, wrote: “Secure the proper artery-red cardinal and put it against black, and you have something which, associated with a big athletic event, gives a large-sized thrill and calls on one’s vocal machinery to cry approval.” The very first intercollegiate football game was held on November 6, 1869, between Rutgers and Princeton. The game was really more like soccer or rugby. In the 1870s and 1880s, college football teams were run almost exclusively by students. But as football grew both more brutal and more popular, college faculty and administrators intervened, forming committees to organize the playing schedules and oversee the games. The actual direction of play remained in the hands of the students. At Wesleyan, informal football games flourished from the 1850s to the 1870s, but it wasn’t until 1881 that there was a formal team prepared for intercollegiate play. Not everyone on campus thought that the rise in football’s popularity was an entirely good thing. At one of the home games played by this team, President John W. Beach appeared on the field, tucked the ball under his arm, and took it back with him to his office on the second floor of North College. He objected to the game being played on Wednesday afternoon instead of Saturday. Early Wesleyan football players competed regularly against much larger schools, and sometimes won. To this day, Wesleyan remains undefeated by the University of Michigan, as a result of our 1883 win over the Wolverines. In 1884, Wesleyan was admitted to the “Big League,” or Intercollegiate Foot Ball Association, with partners Yale, Harvard, Princeton, and the University of Pennsylvania. Wesleyan resigned from this organization in 1893, a time when we were no longer competitive with these much larger, better-funded institutions. Woodrow Wilson, who taught history and political economy at Wesleyan from 1888 to 1890, was a great supporter of the team and functioned as one of its faculty advisers. Alumni of the time remembered with amusement how Wilson rushed up and down the side of the field, waving his umbrella and shouting encouragement. The economics of athletics in this period was uneven, at best. Despite the somewhat enhanced university support for athletics, teams still struggled for resources. At Wesleyan’s training table in the 1880s, the university paid the extra charge so that the players could have “rare meat.” In 1889 Wesleyan’s football team had to supply a referee at its own expense. The 1890s were the era of enormously popular games played on Thanksgiving in New York City. Wesleyan’s portion of the proceeds from the 1892 game came to over $1,000. Walter Camp, the legendary Yale coach, came up from New Haven regularly for informal coaching of the Wesleyan football team. Camp is still recognized as the man who almost single-handedly turned college football into a national obsession. Wesmen practiced against Yale, as well as meeting the Elis in official competition. For the size and financial resources of our school, Wesleyan was disproportionately prominent among great football institutions between 1883 and 1900. Several factors were involved: Wesleyan’s early participation in the sport, coaching by and practice with Yale, and, last but not least, the physical size, strength, and courage of the men on the Wesleyan teams. By 1900, at Wesleyan and elsewhere, football became such an important source of public relations and power for colleges that its oversight shifted from being a faculty responsibility to the administration, particularly the Board of Trustees, and the alumni. On October 3, 1906, a Wesleyan player, Sammy Moore, Class of 1908, may have thrown the first completed overhand spiral forward pass in intercollegiate competition. Irv Van Tassell, Class of 1910, caught the pass. Like many firsts, Wesleyan’s is not the only claim to this distinction. The game was against Yale. Unfortunately, that legendary pass didn’t save the Wesleyan team from defeat. Yale won, 21 to 0. But the pass was definitely noticed. Mrs. Walter Camp, who was reportedly as knowledgeable about football as was her husband, saw the completion. Even though the pass was completed by the team opposing Yale—Wesleyan, that is—Mrs. Camp is said to have been so excited that she jumped up and down on the sidelines. In the same year, Wesleyan was one of the founders of the National Collegiate Athletic Association, or NCAA. Wesleyan also was a leader in calling for reforms to ease the brutality of the sport. Andrus Field, the oldest continuously used college football field in the country, was the site of many of these football games. Wesleyan’s first intercollegiate football game was played on the field in 1881, against the Massachusetts Aggies (now the University of Massachusetts). In 1897, renovations and enhancements of the field were funded by John Andrus, Class of 1862. Nevertheless, the field remained problematic. As one alumnus wrote, “Even at its dedication, the surface water could not easily find the drains, and in the wet season which followed, the diamond and track were not fit until the middle of May. Football was played, but often in inches of mud and pools of water.” Also in the mid-1890s, Wesleyan’s athletic facilities were improved exponentially with the construction of Fayerweather Gymnasium. The push for Fayerweather came primarily from alumni. They convinced President Bradford Raymond, who was not especially popular, that he could secure his legacy through a new gymnasium. Raymond listened, and, when industrialist Daniel Fayerweather left generous sums of money to several academic institutions, Wesleyan used its gift as seed money for the new gym. Of course, football was not the only popular sport in this period. Baseball made a resurgence. At the invitation of Amos Alonzo Stagg, the coach at the University of Chicago, a Wesleyan team played two exhibition games at the 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition in Chicago. In the mid-1900s, Wesleyan’s baseball team included two African American players. Initially, they were fully accepted team members, until an incident of discrimination occurred at Princeton. The Tigers refused to play against a team that included black students. The Wesleyan team finessed the situation by claiming that one student was Armenian and the other was the bat boy. The game went on. Not long after that, these two excellent players left the team. The exact circumstances aren’t entirely clear, but an alumnus of the time wrote that a college vote had been taken to remove them from the team. Other sports became popular as well. Tennis was played on the university’s “back lawn.” Wesleyan students boxed in the old gym. Track, now a sport distinct from the footraces that had been part of early regattas, rose in popularity beginning in 1891–92. Wesleyan’s first intercollegiate track meet was in 1896, and it included bicycling. In track’s early years as a separate sport, most of the team’s expenses were met by individual subscriptions from members of the college body or townspeople. Fencing came on the scene at the turn of the century. And basketball, invented in 1891–92 by James Naismith, just up the Connecticut River in Springfield, Mass., took hold. Like so many other sports, basketball was first played by Wesleyan students in informal contests on campus. The Wesleyan student body initially voted against establishing an official basketball team, but that reticence was soon overcome. Wesleyan’s first basketball team played intercollegially in 1902. But what of athletics for Wesleyan’s women students? Wesleyan was coeducational from 1872 to 1912. For much of that 40-year period, Wesleyan women were excluded from most college extracurricular activities. They had to make their own fun. A tantalizing page in the 1891 issue of the Olla Podrida is devoted to “Ladies’ Base Ball.” This may represent a real team, or it may be one of the ubiquitous cartoons that poke fun at the Wesleyan women. Competitive sports for women, especially baseball and basketball, were gaining popularity in the 1890s. Noted feminist Charlotte Perkins Gilman, among others, founded a female athletic club in Providence, R.I., and wrote about the importance of physical activity for women. The Weswomen may well have had their own team. By the third period of Wesleyan athletics, from the 1910s through the end of the 1940s, a wide array of competitive sports was an established part of college life, at Wesleyan and elsewhere. Beginning with World War I, strong connections were forged between athletics and the military. The idea that sports, especially football, would produce the successful businessmen of tomorrow was widely held. Building on the more generalized ideals of muscular Christianity, athletics became viewed as a training ground for leadership and teamwork, in addition to personal growth. Sports and recreation became a central part of the curriculum of public schools. At Wesleyan, track, football, baseball, and basketball continued to thrive. Many athletic contests, at Wesleyan and elsewhere, drew large crowds of spectators. Games began to produce significant revenue, as urban alumni, who were used to paying to get in to city athletic events, helped to support their alma materby buying tickets. With the athletic programs in the four major sports on relatively firm footing, other teams were added. By 1927, Wesleyan boasted intercollegiate teams in soccer, cross country, swimming, track, baseball, tennis, football, basketball, and golf. Wrestling was added in 1930. As the college grew and more sports were added, it was time for an expansion of Fayerweather Gymnasium. Henry Bacon, the architect of the Lincoln Memorial and numerous Wesleyan buildings, designed the addition, which housed Wesleyan’s first swimming pool. By the mid-1930s, even with the addition, Fayerweather was no longer adequate for Wesleyan’s athletic needs. The Cage, officially the Alumni Athletic Building, was built next to it in 1939. True to its name, it was funded largely by alumni contributions—another concrete reminder of the alumni’s active participation in all aspects of athletic boosterism. As in the 1880s, when lavender gave way to the more robust red and black, Wesleyan’s nickname got an overhaul in the 1930s. Although generally known as “the Methodists” or sometimes “the Ministers,” most Wesleyan students of the first third of the 20th century no longer identified strongly with the Methodist Church. After a long period of decline in the connection between Wesleyan and one of its original founding organizations (the other was the leadership of Middletown), all official ties between the university and the Methodist church were severed in 1937. Wesleyan had become far more religiously diverse. Even though the majority of students were still Protestants, many were not Methodists, and, of course, there were Catholic and Jewish students and a few others on campus as well. After a particularly galling article in a Rochester, N.Y., newspaper in 1932 referred to “the mysterious ministers from Middletown,” it was clearly time for a change! There had been a brief period around 1915 when students attempted to have a live bear cub and then a monkey—irreverently dubbed John Wesley, Jr.—as the mascot, but those efforts were short-lived. A particularly striking image from the 1925 inaugural issue of the college literary magazine, The Cardinal, offered inspiration and a dramatic red-and-black image. In 1932, the cardinal became Wesleyan’s official mascot. During the course of this period, professional coaches and trainers took the place of student, non-athletic faculty, and alumni leadership in athletics. Programs were better funded, and it was no longer a constant struggle for student athletes to save money—or find a personal benefactor—for needed equipment. Gone for good were the days of the old gym, with its lack of dressing rooms and showers. Student interest in all forms of athletics, both intercollegiate and intramural, was high. In 1938, a reported 90 percent of the student body participated in some form of sports. But the glory days were still ahead. Immediately after World War II, Wesleyan’s football team was most decidedly on top of its game. Coached by Norm Daniels, “Danny” to his men, the Wesmen enjoyed a phenomenal 23-game winning streak. Undefeated from Nov. 7, 1942, when they trounced Trinity, until a loss to Bowdoin at the beginning of the 1949 season, the football team was an enormous source of pride during this period. Because of the war, the varsity football program had been suspended from 1943 through 1945. Its revival, along with the unparalleled winning streak, put Wesleyan’s team at the center of an exciting surge in school spirit and accomplishment. Athletics continue to be an important part of life at Wes today. While a few students may still get most of their exercise walking to class, many more participate in intramural and intercollegiate sports, and they work out at the greatly expanded Freeman Athletic Center. Alumni, of course, continue to support athletics in formal ways, such as the Athletics Advisory Council and the Cardinal Club, and in many informal ways. The strength of today’s Wesleyan athletes is rooted in the first century of sports on campus. Suzy Taraba ’77 is Wesleyan’s university archivist and Head of Special Collections. A version of this article was presented at the Shasha Seminar for Human Concerns on Oct. 27, 2006. Images courtesy of the Wesleyan University Archives.

We study lower bounds of a general family of L-functions on the $1$ -line. More precisely, we show that for any $F(s)$ in this family, there exist arbitrarily large t such that $F(1+it)\geq e^{\gamma _F} (\log _2 t + \log _3 t)^m + O(1)$ , where m is the order of the pole of $F(s)$ at $s=1$ . This is a generalisation of the result of Aistleitner, Munsch and Mahatab [‘Extreme values of the Riemann zeta function on the $1$ -line’, Int. Math. Res. Not. IMRN2019(22) (2019), 6924–6932]. As a consequence, we get lower bounds for large values of Dedekind zeta-functions and Rankin-Selberg L-functions of the type $L(s,f\times f)$ on the $1$ -line. We prove that the complete $L$ -function associated to any cuspidal automorphic representation of $\operatorname{GL}_{2}(\mathbb{A}_{\mathbb{Q}})$ has infinitely many simple zeros. Using work of the first author [S. Bettin, High moments of the Estermann function. Algebra Number Theory 47(3) (2018), 659–684], we prove a strong version of the Manin–Peyre conjectures with a full asymptotic and a power-saving error term for the two varieties respectively in $\mathbb{P}^{2}\times \mathbb{P}^{2}$ with bihomogeneous coordinates $[x_{1}:x_{2}:x_{3}],[y_{1}:y_{2},y_{3}]$ and in $\mathbb{P}^{1}\times \mathbb{P}^{1}\times \mathbb{P}^{1}$ with multihomogeneous coordinates $[x_{1}:y_{1}],[x_{2}:y_{2}],[x_{3}:y_{3}]$ defined by the same equation $x_{1}y_{2}y_{3}+x_{2}y_{1}y_{3}+x_{3}y_{1}y_{2}=0$ . We thus improve on recent work of Blomer et al [The Manin–Peyre conjecture for a certain biprojective cubic threefold. Math. Ann. 370 (2018), 491–553] and provide a different proof based on a descent on the universal torsor of the conjectures in the case of a del Pezzo surface of degree 6 with singularity type $\mathbf{A}_{1}$ and three lines (the other existing proof relying on harmonic analysis by Chambert-Loir and Tschinkel [On the distribution of points of bounded height on equivariant compactifications of vector groups. Invent. Math. 148 (2002), 421–452]). Together with Blomer et al [On a certain senary cubic form. Proc. Lond. Math. Soc. 108 (2014), 911–964] or with work of the second author [K. Destagnol, La conjecture de Manin pour une famille de variétés en dimension supérieure. Math. Proc. Cambridge Philos. Soc. 166(3) (2019), 433–486], this settles the study of the Manin–Peyre conjectures for this equation. The standard twist $F(s,\unicode[STIX]{x1D6FC})$ of $L$ -functions $F(s)$ in the Selberg class has several interesting properties and plays a central role in the Selberg class theory. It is therefore natural to study its finer analytic properties, for example the functional equation. Here we deal with a special case, where $F(s)$ satisfies a functional equation with the same $\unicode[STIX]{x1D6E4}$ -factor of the $L$ -functions associated with the cusp forms of half-integral weight; for simplicity we present our results directly for such $L$ -functions. We show that the standard twist $F(s,\unicode[STIX]{x1D6FC})$ satisfies a functional equation reflecting $s$ to $1-s$ , whose shape is not far from a Riemann-type functional equation of degree 2 and may be regarded as a degree 2 analog of the Hurwitz–Lerch functional equation. We also deduce some results on the growth on vertical strips and on the distribution of zeros of $F(s,\unicode[STIX]{x1D6FC})$ . Assuming a conjecture on distinct zeros of Dirichlet $L$ -functions we get asymptotic results on the average number of representations of an integer as the sum of two primes in arithmetic progression. On the other hand the existence of good error terms gives information on the location of zeros of $L$ -functions. Similar results are obtained for an integer in a congruence class expressed as the sum of two primes. We consider an arithmetic function defined independently by John G. Thompson and Greg Simay, with particular attention to its mean value, its maximal size, and the analytic nature of its Dirichlet series generating function. We introduce the Hurwitz-type spectral zeta functions for the quantum Rabi models, and give their meromorphic continuation to the whole complex plane with only one simple pole at $s=1$ . As an application, we give the Weyl law for the quantum Rabi models. As a byproduct, we also give a rationality of Rabi–Bernoulli polynomials introduced in this paper. Two results related to the mixed joint universality for a polynomial Euler product $\unicode[STIX]{x1D711}(s)$ and a periodic Hurwitz zeta function $\unicode[STIX]{x1D701}(s,\unicode[STIX]{x1D6FC};\mathfrak{B})$ , when $\unicode[STIX]{x1D6FC}$ is a transcendental parameter, are given. One is the mixed joint functional independence and the other is a generalised universality, which includes several periodic Hurwitz zeta functions. The Li coefficients $\unicode[STIX]{x1D706}_{F}(n)$ of a zeta or $L$ -function $F$ provide an equivalent criterion for the (generalized) Riemann hypothesis. In this paper we define these coefficients, and their generalizations, the $\unicode[STIX]{x1D70F}$ -Li coefficients, for a subclass of the extended Selberg class which is known to contain functions violating the Riemann hypothesis such as the Davenport–Heilbronn zeta function. The behavior of the $\unicode[STIX]{x1D70F}$ -Li coefficients varies depending on whether the function in question has any zeros in the half-plane $\text{Re}(z)>\unicode[STIX]{x1D70F}/2.$ We investigate analytically and numerically the behavior of these coefficients for such functions in both the $n$ and $\unicode[STIX]{x1D70F}$ aspects. We determine a bound for the valency in a family of dihedrants of twice odd prime orders which guarantees that the Cayley graphs are Ramanujan graphs. We take two families of Cayley graphs with the underlying dihedral group of order $2p$ : one is the family of all Cayley graphs and the other is the family of normal ones. In the normal case, which is easier, we discuss the problem for a wider class of groups, the Frobenius groups. The result for the family of all Cayley graphs is similar to that for circulants: the prime $p$ is ‘exceptional’ if and only if it is represented by one of six specific quadratic polynomials. We establish lower bounds for (i) the numbers of positive and negative terms and (ii) the number of sign changes in the sequence of Fourier coefficients at squarefree integers of a half-integral weight modular Hecke eigenform.

Wendy Williams gave her a seal of approval on Gray Shepherd taking on both “permanent guest host”Williams’ daytime talk show. TMZ first reported this The shepherd was seen as a storekeeper while Williams, 57, continues a health-related break. Now, a source indicated that Williams is fine with the move. “Wendy is grateful to everyone who received guests,” said a source, an insider of the show. The Hollywood Reporter. Although a shepherd, a former leader Kind ofhas not officially signed the agreement, a source said Wendy is happy with the choice. The former radio host was on a break in his talk show from September 2021when she left for health reasons. Rumors of a possible drug relapse, stroke, dementia and more emerged when Williams extended the break. According to the source, the rumors are untrue, and Williams is battling health problems related to Graves ’disease –– autoimmune disease, which she first declared in 2018. The disease causes excessive production of thyroid hormones. «These are the conditions associated with her graves and some other issues“- said the source. “It was not easy. It will take some time and will work. Don’t expect her to return this year. She’s not ready to host a show right now, and that’s the main thing». According to TMZAccording to the report, Shepherd will take the helm as producers monitor Williams’ health. If she doesn’t recover before the season premiere in September, there have been reports that a new title for “should” could be considered. “It’s unfair and unfair to her audience. They deserve 100 percent Wendy, ”the source said. Get the latest news 24/7 on The Black Information Network. Listen now on IHeartRadio or press HERE tune in live.

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Saturday, May 9, 2015 Franklin's World Time Warp Thoughts What made the canal all that much different than the National Road or “Old Pike” project of just a few years prior? The National Road Bill passed in 1806, was re-contracted in 1811 and completed in 1818, connecting the new state of Ohio to Wheeling, Virginia via Pennsylvania and Maryland at a cost of $1.5 million dollars (nearly $28 million today). There were originally no tolls placed on it, and over the course of about a decade the maintenance of the road and its expansion west cost the federal government an additional $7 million dollars. However, by this time sections of the road had been handed over to the state governments to collect tolls for continued upkeep. Often internal improvements of this era were privately funded through stockholding companies, but with a rapidly expanding nation and rising costs of infrastructure development, state governments gradually took on the burden – most of the time with little to no obvious financial return on investment. Even stockholders rarely saw greater than a 2% return. Federal government assistance began slowly and at first it was most often in the form of land grants for state bonds. Public funds raised by over 4 million acres of federally doled out land assisted in projects developing the early republic and greatly help fund the entire Wabash & Erie Canal in Indiana. The idea of the federal government at that time organizing a grand interior improvement project may have splintered the tenuous bonds of union. The Erie Canal’s success strengthened those political and especially economic ties… But yet, let’s think how in retrospect – even those bonds tested at such success an economic and social divide grew regionally as the approach of the 1850’s moved along. One view on the way federal government money may have impacted the Erie Canal and its success was touched on by Janice during her response. Condensing a great deal of political ideology into the answer, simply put that Gallatin’s plan would assuredly have been implemented in an inner state manner with federal regulation and authority. Tolls that funded New York State’s rise to economic zenith, and created New York City as the pre-eminent global economic capital would have channeled instead into federal coffers. While simply put, the idea of states’ rights and federal authority has always remained contentious in the United States. It may be easy to say that Thomas Jefferson, James Madison and even George Washington would never sign a bill to fund a canal only within New York – with vested interests in Potomac region development – the bigger issue may have just as easily been the U.S. Constitution and when and how it can be worked around, er..hm...interpreted. The regulation of commerce is a fine example of that ever American philosophy of Constitutional Interpretation. In the 1820’s the Supreme Court of the United States was hashing out more concrete definitions of commerce and the government’s role within the economic system of the country. In essence, a matter pre-dating the Revolution and one that remains today; but at that time, the growth of population, territory, economy and technology was blistering. A great case to look at in terms of understanding the impact the federal government could have if they financially funded and asserted authority may be the slightly related Gibbons v. Ogden (1824). The decision and subsequent rulings based on its precedent have expanded federal regulatory authority over commerce in general. For all intents and purposes, the federal government – while not funding the construction of the Erie Canal has all the Constitutional right to regulate it. More on that in the next post…CLICK HERE Please leave comments or questions below and let us know what you think of the blog.

Kartikis the author of a widely read book on the new economics of technology, The ATOM, that has been featured in a Google Talk, multiple television programs, and numerous keynotes, including at the European Union in Brussels, Belgium. The two classes he teaches at Stanford University are devoted to the New Economics of Disruptive Technologies. Kartik Gada has 20 years of experience across investment banking, hedge funds, and technology business unit management. He also teaches two of the most popular finance and technology classes at Stanford University. At Woodside Capital, his focus is on Artificial Intelligence, FinTech, and other advanced, high-impact technologies. He was previously a Managing Director at Reliance Capital. Before that, he founded 3D Strategies Management, a commodities futures hedge fund that was among the highest returning small funds during that period, with portfolio returns of 70%/year from 2009-13. Earlier, he was a Director at Netgear, responsible for the full P&L of the $250M consumer products division, launching 14 of Netgear’s 20 biggest products at the time. Kartik has an MBA from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. He additionally studied engineering at Stanford University and Case Western Reserve University.

Gallery We like to think all of the Seahawks consider Seattle home, but only one player went to high school here and played college in Seattle: Jermaine Kearse. Darrellene Canada's history class is no joke. But after teaching at Lakes High School in Lakewood for 22 years, she has a soft spot for her most successful students. "I can't imagine I'm going to cry because these guys think I'm hard," Canada said. "And I am because I want you to be somebody." Right now she is most proud of former student and current Seahawks WR Jermaine Kearse, whose touchdown catch against San Francisco helped put the team into the Super Bowl. She remembers Kearse as a polite, hard-working kid. "Jermaine, he just won your heart," Canada said. "During class time Jermaine was only about work, OK, and he tuned out everybody," said Canada. The focus on the high school field got the attention of college coaches. "I used to tell recruiters when they came through you could give him the Heisman trophy tonight and he'd be the first guy in the weight room in the morning," said Dave Miller, Lakes football coach. Miller said Kearse, who also starred for the Washington Huskies and graduated, is a great example of how athletes can be students too. "He had to have a good GPA and grades can get you anywhere you want in life," Miller said. The No. 15 jersey is not the Seahawks top seller but it is at Lakes. While she's no football fan, Canada will of course be watching Sunday. She knows Kearse can succeed under pressure. After all, he survived her class. "On our worst day, when you think we're being the meanest it's because we actually have great aspirations for you," Canada said. "Ahem, we want you to be all God created you to be."

Data from NASA’s Voyager 1 spacecraft continues to provide new insight on the outskirts of our solar system, a frontier thought to be the last that Voyager will cross before becoming the first man-made object to reach interstellar space. In papers published this week in the journal Science, scientists from the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in Laurel, Md., and other Voyager partner institutions provide more clarity on the region they named the “magnetic highway” in December 2012. Cruising through what scientists describe as a curious, unexpected charged-particle environment, Voyager has detected, for the first time, low-energy galactic cosmic rays, now that particles of the same energy from inside the bubble around our Sun disappeared. As a result, Voyager now sees the highest level so far of particles from outside our solar bubble that originate from the death of other nearby stars. “Voyager 1 may be months or years from leaving the solar system—we just don’t know,” says APL’s Stamatios Krimigis, principal investigator for Voyager’s Low-Energy Charged Particle (LECP) instrument. “But the wait itself is incredibly exciting, since Voyager continues to defy predictions and change the way we think about this mysterious and wonderful gateway region to the galaxy.” Read more at: Phys.org

However, up to 1 January 2010, a payer and his payment service provider may agree on a period no longer than three days. Translate to French. 2. Lorsque l’opération est initiée par le payeur et comporte une opération de conversion, le délai requis par la conversion n'est pas compté dans le calcul du délai d'exécution visé au paragraphe 1.

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A study published in November's Archives of Oral Biology explores how the active ingredients in popular antacids could help fend off gingivitis. If the work holds up in subsequent studies in people, the compounds could one day find themselves widely available in oral care products like toothpaste and mouthwashes. "The American diet and the constant drip of sugar allows little time for the natural repair of teeth. All day, it's a cycle of acidic erosion and repair – or at least, it should be – but our constant sucking on hard candy and guzzling sodas with high fructose syrups leaves little time for repair," said Robert Marquis, Ph.D., of the University of Rochester Medical Center. Marquis, an internationally recognized expert on the bacteria that inhabit our mouths, is the study's lead author. The team studied a compound known as lansoprazole, part of a family of compounds known as benzimidazoles that already have a range of uses, primarily controlling stomach hyperacidity and killing Helicobacter pylori (the bacteria responsible for stomach ulcers). Now, the compounds are brandishing potent antimicrobial actions that interfere with the dirty work of other types of bacteria that cause plaque buildup and gingivitis. Such bacteria make their home on unbrushed teeth, which become coated with plaque, a filmy substance that, under a microscope, appears as a teeming sea of hundreds of bacteria. Among these are gingivitis-causing bacteria that break down sugars and amino acids into toxins that are harmful to our gums. Unchecked, an accumulation of plaque and an overgrowth of these ravenous, toxin-oozing bacteria leads to one of the body's natural immune responses, inflammation, where bacteria-fighting cells are recruited to the gums to fight off the infection. Unfortunately, instead of just fending off the bacteria, the immune response also inflicts damage to the healthy gums. In the case of an intense infection, the battle drags out and results in more devastation to the gums, or gingivitis. Since gingivitis can be a preamble for periodontal disease – an oral inflammation so persistent that it destroys the bone where the teeth anchor, causing them to fall out – researchers at the University of Rochester and Göteborg University in Sweden decided to focus on Fusobacterium nucleatum, an especially hardy bacterial troublemaker that plays a crucial role in setting the stage for gum disease. When it's not secreting irritating chemicals itself, F. nucleatum acts as a binding site for other dangerous oral bacteria that cannot directly attach to tooth surfaces on their own. These bacteria, dubbed "secondary colonizers," rely on the help of F. nucleatum, which serves almost like an aircraft landing strip atop an aircraft carrier, allowing planes (or in this case, bacteria) to set down. With the help of F.nucleatum, these dangerous bacteria now have a place to "land" and create the damage that causes periodontal disease and tooth decay. "It acts as a transitional organism, welcoming the bacteria which couldn't survive there on their own, and moving the infection from above the gum line to below it," said Marquis, professor of both Microbiology & Immunology and Oral Biology. That's where lansoprazole comes in. When the oral environment becomes acidic – a telltale sign of bacteria at work – lansoprazole is chemically modified to kick into action, disabling F. nucleatum and preventing it from producing toxins or serving as a landing site. Once the oral environment returns to normal, the lansoprazole simply switches off. "Benzimidazoles aren't just for acid-reflux anymore," said Marquis, whose research project was supported by the National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research. "We've shown their promise for preventing cavities in previous research, and now, perhaps even some protective benefits to guard against gingivitis. It's not unthinkable that one day these compounds might be more broadly used to promote dental health in toothpastes and mouthwashes." Rebecca Jones | EurekAlert! First time-lapse footage of cell activity during limb regeneration 25.10.2016 | eLife Phenotype at the push of a button 25.10.2016 | Institut für Pflanzenbiochemie Ultrafast lasers have introduced new possibilities in engraving ultrafine structures, and scientists are now also investigating how to use them to etch microstructures into thin glass. There are possible applications in analytics (lab on a chip) and especially in electronics and the consumer sector, where great interest has been shown. 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In a paper in Scientific Reports, a research team at Worcester Polytechnic Institute describes a novel light-activated phenomenon that could become the basis for applications as diverse as microscopic robotic grippers and more efficient solar cells. A research team at Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) has developed a revolutionary, light-activated semiconductor nanocomposite material that can be used... By forcefully embedding two silicon atoms in a diamond matrix, Sandia researchers have demonstrated for the first time on a single chip all the components needed to create a quantum bridge to link quantum computers together. "People have already built small quantum computers," says Sandia researcher Ryan Camacho. "Maybe the first useful one won't be a single giant quantum computer... 14.10.2016 | Event News 14.10.2016 | Event News 12.10.2016 | Event News 25.10.2016 | Earth Sciences 25.10.2016 | Power and Electrical Engineering 25.10.2016 | Process Engineering

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Q: Split string on "\\" and/or "/" using LINQ? How can I split the following string on "\" and/or "/" using LINQ I say and/or for "\" and "/" because in my file paths, I might end up getting forward slashes only, backslashes only or a mix of both. "temp\\SimpleRec/bin/Debug/Geming.SimpleRec.vshost.exe" "temp\\SimpleRec\\bin\\Debug\\Geming.SimpleRec.vshost.exe" "temp/SimpleRec/bin/Debug/Geming.SimpleRec.vshost.exe" Thanks A: You don't need LINQ for this: string[] values = myString.Split(new []{'\\', '/'}); Introducing LINQ for such a task just adds complexity and reduces readability. A: Sometimes, I think that LINQ is attempted to be used for everything, when it doesn't. string[] data = myString.Split(new Char[]{'\\', '/'}); A: There's no need to use LinQ here, the default Split() method will do the work: var path = "temp\\SimpleRec/bin/Debug/Geming.SimpleRec.vshost.exe" var parts = path.Split(new[] { '/', '\\' }); Hope this helps! A: String.Split() seems to be the best option here, but just for fun it is also possible to do with LINQ. One of my implementations of String Calculator Kata uses this approach (no Split at all). See InternalAdd() method. I took functional approach with head and tail. You divide string to head and tail using .Take() and return head + recursive result of calling the same function for tail. Sample code for one char delimiter is below (things are getting complicated when delimiters are getting longer): private IEnumerable<string> BreakString(string source) { var delimiter = '/'; var head = source.TakeWhile(c => c != delimiter); if (!head.Any()) { yield break; } var tail = source.SkipWhile(c => c != delimiter) .Skip(1); yield return String.Join("", head); foreach (var t in BreakString(String.Join("", tail))) { yield return t; } } // usage from s in BreakString(source) You can also go further and get rid of String.Join() by tail.Aggregate(new StringBuilder(), (sb, c) => sb.Append(c)).ToString(); A: You can split using LINQ by following way: var list=from item in str.Split(new string[] { "\\","/" }, StringSplitOptions.None) select item; A: No LINQ required, simply do this: var path = @"temp\\SimpleRec/bin/Debug/Geming.SimpleRec.vshost.exe"; var split = path.Split(new [] { '/', '\\' }, StringSplitOptions.RemoveEmptyEntries);

If you’ve heard the above advice regarding your career, you’re probably a woman. But can an increase in confidence really shift the game for women, and level a playing field that sees an estimated 150,000 more men than women being promoted each year? That was the question Dr Leonora Risse from RMIT University wanted an answer to, after she was left exhausted by some of the advice being given to women on this matter. She sought to determine whether confidence actually helped, by examining the nationally-representative workforce-wide data on 7500 working men and women, collected in the Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia (HILDA) Survey. What the found was that while confidence can help men get ahead, it makes little difference to women. And even for men, a ‘confident personality’ only appears to boost their chances of getting a job by 3.3%. Women, on the other hand, gained no percievable benefit. By examining the confidence levels and promotion prospects of the working men and women in Australia who took part in the HILDA research, she found that men had a ‘higher hope of success’ on average, while women came up against a ‘higher fear of failure’. That higher hope of success marginally lifted the job promotion prospects for men. But for women, such increases of hope had no effect on their opportunities. The gender differences became much more significant at the higher end of the confidence scale, where men’s chances of promotion increased from 8 to 14% for highly confident men, but remained around the 7 to 8% mark for highly confident women. Dr Risse believes the findings challenge the Sheryl Sandberg ‘lean in’ mantra that encourages women to be more assertive in the workplace. She said the findings may indicate bias in how women are treated in the workplace, which was consistent with other research finding women can actually suffer backlash for demonstrating assertiveness, confidence and ambition at work. She hopes these findings will help encourage a shift away from encouraging women to be more like the stereotypical image of a ‘successful leader’, to instead focus on the gains that a workplace can achieve from including a wider range of worker personalities and attributes.

But touch is even more vital than this: Babies who are not held, nuzzled, and hugged enough can stop growing, and if the situation lasts long enough, even die. What happens if babies dont get touched? Many children who have not had ample physical and emotional attention are at higher risk for behavioral, emotional and social problems as they grow up. These trends point to the lasting effects of early infancy environments and the changes that the brain undergoes during that period. Why is touch important to a baby? Skin-to-skin time in the first hour after birth helps regulate the babies’ temperature, heart rate, and breathing, and helps them cry less. It also increases mothers’ relaxation hormones. For babies, the nine months of pregnancy may feel like one long, loving embrace. Do babies need affection to live? All babies, infants, and children fundamentally need love! A lack of love, emotional warmth and physical contact basically slows down the growth mechanisms in the brain and body. … The ‘love hormone’ or ‘hugging hormone’, oxytocin, plays a crucial role too. Oxytocin contributes to the growth of many of the body’s cells. Do babies need physical touch? This sense is essential to children’s growth of physical abilities, language and cognitive skills, and social-emotional competency. Touch not only impacts short-term development during infancy and early childhood, but also has long-term effects, suggesting the power of positive, gentle touch from birth. How do I know if I have bonded with my baby? When you look at your newborn, touch their skin, feed them, and care for them, you’re bonding. Rocking your baby to sleep or stroking their back can establish your new relationship and make them feel more comfortable. When you gaze at your newborn, they will look back at you. Why do babies in orphanages not cry? Babies don’t cry in orphanages because they have learned that their needs will not be met, so why cry? “Babies don’t cry in there, and they don’t because nobody is going to pick them up. Even the New York Times recently promoted it, with an article that claimed that research shows orphanages are fine for kids. Should babies be held all the time? Contrary to popular myth, it’s impossible for parents to hold or respond to a baby too much, child development experts say. Infants need constant attention to give them the foundation to grow emotionally, physically and intellectually. Why is touch so powerful? Affection that is wanted causes the release of oxytocin. It helps to nurture feelings of trust and connectedness and it also reduces cortisol (the stress hormone). Twenty seconds of affectionate touching (hugging, back rubs, gentle stroking) is enough to trigger the release of oxytocin. It is also released during sex. Do newborns understand affection? Around the 1-year mark, babies learn affectionate behaviors such as kissing. It starts as an imitative behavior, says Lyness, but as a baby repeats these behaviors and sees that they bring happy responses from the people he’s attached to, he becomes aware that he’s pleasing the people he loves. Why does the baby needs love and care the most? Loving, touching and responding to your baby’s signals help your baby’s nervous system to mature without being overstressed. Your love makes a baby feel secure so she can be unhampered in developing her brain in other ways. What does an infant need to survive? A baby needs to be healthy so she can learn and grow. Take your baby to regular checkups, and keep her immunizations up to date. Sleep is important for your baby too, so help her get plenty of shut-eye. Your baby’s brain cells make important connections during sleep, which help with learning, movement, and thought. Why is my child not affectionate? For young children, resisting physical affection is a way of showing independence and asserting control (“I’m in charge of my body now!”). While toddlers of both genders may resist hugs and kisses, boys may reject Mommy’s kisses as a way of dealing with their strong attraction to her. Why is physical touch important for kids? This sense is essential to a child’s growth in physical abilities, language, cognitive skills, and emotional empathy. Touch not only impacts short-term development during early childhood, it has long-term effects into adulthood. In short, a child needs physical touch to grow to their fullest potential. Why does my baby cry with her eyes closed? Usually babies cry with their eyes closed, which can be an indication that they are in transition from one sleep phase to the next. In this phase babies calm down quickly on their own and do not need to be taken out of their crib or bed.

Running is really taking off among people of all abilities, from the casual jogger to the serious competitor. And little wonder: running gets you out in the fresh air, it’s great exercise, and you don’t need much kit to do it. However, running injuries can really set you back. Whether you’re experienced or just getting started, one of the most common problems that runners experience is runner’s knee. There’s a lot you can do to reduce your risk of getting runner’s knee. And if you do already suffer with it, there are numerous treatment options to get you back on your feet. What is runner's knee? There are many different causes of knee pain, so it’s important to get a professional diagnosis. The medical term for runner’s knee is patellofemoral pain syndrome. Runner’s knee can hurt during or after activity, when climbing stairs, and even when you’ve been sitting for a long time. It isn’t just related to running and can develop as a result of any activity that puts pressure on your knees. So it could equally well be called ‘skier’s knee’ or ‘footballer’s knee’. It can be hard to pinpoint the exact cause of runner’s knee, as there may be more than one reason for it. It could be due to overuse, or incorrect alignment of the joint. Problems elsewhere in the body, such as in your leg muscles, hips or feet, may also cause knee pain. How is runner’s knee diagnosed? Your doctor or physiotherapist will start by asking some questions and examining your knee in various positions. This is the main method of diagnosis if runner’s knee is suspected. They might recommend you have an X-ray. Less commonly, you may be advised to have an MRI or CT scan. What is the treatment for runner’s knee? Once it’s diagnosed, there are several self-help measures that your doctor may suggest. Giving your knee a rest or modifying your workout. - Putting ice or a cold pack on your knee. - Taking a painkiller such as ibuprofen, if it’s suitable for you. - Taping your knee or wearing a brace. - Using supportive inserts in your shoes. Stretching and strengthening exercises for the muscles around your knee are an important part of treatment. Exercises for other muscles in the legs and hips may also help. A physiotherapist can teach you how to do these exercises safely. The physiotherapist may offer to stretch or massage your legs. Your physiotherapist can help to review your running programme before you go back to running. It can also be a good idea to review your running technique and your trainers. How can I prevent it? The good news is, you can do a lot to ensure runner’s knee doesn’t become a problem. Warm up and stretch Always warm up before you head out for a run or start your exercise. Once you feel warmer and looser, gently stretch the main muscles that you will be using. For running, these are the ones in your hip, thigh, and calves. Visit our knee clinic for more warm-ups and strengthening exercises especially for your knees. Build up gradually Build up the length and intensity of your training gradually, to develop your running and fitness without increasing your risk of injury. If you notice a niggle that isn’t getting better, listen to your body. Stop training, rest, and get advice from a physiotherapist. Get the gear A properly fitting pair of trainers is really all you need. Just make sure you replace them once they start wearing out. Learn about our musculoskeletal services and discover the range of diagnostic techniques and clinical treatments we can provide to help you get back on your feet. Read more.

This introduction presents an overview of key concepts covered in the subsequent chapters of this book. The book discusses the decisions of the various governments contributed to the legacy of violence that characterizes how Kristallnacht is studied and remembered. It focuses on Great Britain, France, Spain, Canada, Australia, and Germany to problematize foreign reaction to Kristallnacht against ongoing domestic anti-Semitism, heightened tension about German expansionism, continuing economic misfortune, and rigid immigration policies that few countries were willing to relax to accommodate Jewish refugees. Paul Moore and Emmanuel Debono turn the analytic gaze on France to gauge on one hand French opinion about the assassination that took place on its soil and on the other hand French reaction to the pogrom that resulted from it. Baer's chapter sees a Spain strongly divided between the Nationalist and the Republican sides but also keenly aware of what was taking place elsewhere in Europe.

/******************************************************************************* * thrill/data/file.cpp * * Part of Project Thrill - http://project-thrill.org * * Copyright (C) 2015-2016 <NAME> <<EMAIL>> * * All rights reserved. Published under the BSD-2 license in the LICENSE file. ******************************************************************************/ #include <thrill/data/file.hpp> #include <deque> #include <string> namespace thrill { namespace data { /******************************************************************************/ // File File::File(BlockPool& block_pool, size_t local_worker_id, size_t dia_id) : BlockSink(block_pool, local_worker_id), id_(block_pool.next_file_id()), dia_id_(dia_id) { } File::~File() { // assert(dia_id_ != 0); if (reference_count() != 0) { die("File[" << this << "]::~File() called " "but " << reference_count() << " File::Writer " "handles are still open."); } logger() << "class" << "File" << "event" << "close" << "id" << id_ << "dia_id" << dia_id_ << "items" << stats_items_ << "bytes" << stats_bytes_; } File File::Copy() const { File f(*block_pool(), local_worker_id(), dia_id_); f.blocks_ = blocks_; f.num_items_sum_ = num_items_sum_; f.size_bytes_ = size_bytes_; f.stats_bytes_ = stats_bytes_; f.stats_items_ = stats_items_; return f; } void File::Close() { // 2016-02-04: Files are never closed, one can always append. This is // current used by the ReduceTables -tb. } void File::Clear() { std::deque<Block>().swap(blocks_); std::deque<size_t>().swap(num_items_sum_); size_bytes_ = 0; } File::Writer File::GetWriter(size_t block_size) { return Writer( FileBlockSink(tlx::CountingPtrNoDelete<File>(this)), block_size); } File::KeepReader File::GetKeepReader(size_t prefetch_size) const { return KeepReader( KeepFileBlockSource(*this, local_worker_id_, prefetch_size)); } File::ConsumeReader File::GetConsumeReader(size_t prefetch_size) { return ConsumeReader( ConsumeFileBlockSource(this, local_worker_id_, prefetch_size)); } File::Reader File::GetReader(bool consume, size_t prefetch_size) { if (consume) return ConstructDynBlockReader<ConsumeFileBlockSource>( this, local_worker_id_, prefetch_size); else return ConstructDynBlockReader<KeepFileBlockSource>( *this, local_worker_id_, prefetch_size); } std::string File::ReadComplete() const { std::string output; for (const Block& b : blocks_) output += b.PinWait(0).ToString(); return output; } std::ostream& operator << (std::ostream& os, const File& f) { os << "[File " << std::hex << &f << std::dec << " refs=" << f.reference_count() << " Blocks=["; size_t i = 0; for (const Block& b : f.blocks_) os << "\n " << i++ << " " << b; return os << "]]"; } /******************************************************************************/ // KeepFileBlockSource KeepFileBlockSource::KeepFileBlockSource( const File& file, size_t local_worker_id, size_t prefetch_size, size_t first_block, size_t first_item) : file_(file), local_worker_id_(local_worker_id), prefetch_size_(prefetch_size), fetching_bytes_(0), first_block_(first_block), current_block_(first_block), first_item_(first_item) { } Block KeepFileBlockSource::MakeNextBlock() { if (current_block_ == first_block_) { // construct first block differently, in case we want to shorten it. Block b = file_.block(current_block_++); if (first_item_ != keep_first_item) b.set_begin(first_item_); return b; } else { return file_.block(current_block_++); } } void KeepFileBlockSource::Prefetch(size_t prefetch_size) { if (prefetch_size >= prefetch_size_) { prefetch_size_ = prefetch_size; // prefetch #desired bytes while (fetching_bytes_ < prefetch_size_ && current_block_ < file_.num_blocks()) { Block b = MakeNextBlock(); fetching_bytes_ += b.size(); fetching_blocks_.emplace_back(b.Pin(local_worker_id_)); } } else if (prefetch_size < prefetch_size_) { prefetch_size_ = prefetch_size; // cannot discard prefetched Blocks } } PinnedBlock KeepFileBlockSource::NextBlock() { if (current_block_ >= file_.num_blocks() && fetching_blocks_.empty()) return PinnedBlock(); if (prefetch_size_ == 0) { // operate without prefetching return MakeNextBlock().PinWait(local_worker_id_); } else { // prefetch #desired bytes while (fetching_bytes_ < prefetch_size_ && current_block_ < file_.num_blocks()) { Block b = MakeNextBlock(); fetching_bytes_ += b.size(); fetching_blocks_.emplace_back(b.Pin(local_worker_id_)); } // this might block if the prefetching is not finished PinnedBlock b = fetching_blocks_.front()->Wait(); fetching_bytes_ -= b.size(); fetching_blocks_.pop_front(); return b; } } Block KeepFileBlockSource::NextBlockUnpinned() { if (TLX_UNLIKELY(prefetch_size_ != 0 && !fetching_blocks_.empty())) { // next block already prefetched, return it, but don't prefetch more PinnedBlock b = fetching_blocks_.front()->Wait(); fetching_bytes_ -= b.size(); fetching_blocks_.pop_front(); return std::move(b).MoveToBlock(); } if (current_block_ >= file_.num_blocks()) return Block(); return MakeNextBlock(); } PinnedBlock KeepFileBlockSource::AcquirePin(const Block& block) { return block.PinWait(local_worker_id_); } /******************************************************************************/ // ConsumeFileBlockSource ConsumeFileBlockSource::ConsumeFileBlockSource( File* file, size_t local_worker_id, size_t prefetch_size) : file_(file), local_worker_id_(local_worker_id), prefetch_size_(prefetch_size), fetching_bytes_(0) { Prefetch(prefetch_size_); } ConsumeFileBlockSource::ConsumeFileBlockSource(ConsumeFileBlockSource&& s) : file_(s.file_), local_worker_id_(s.local_worker_id_), prefetch_size_(s.prefetch_size_), fetching_blocks_(std::move(s.fetching_blocks_)), fetching_bytes_(s.fetching_bytes_) { s.file_ = nullptr; } void ConsumeFileBlockSource::Prefetch(size_t prefetch_size) { if (prefetch_size >= prefetch_size_) { prefetch_size_ = prefetch_size; // prefetch #desired bytes while (fetching_bytes_ < prefetch_size_ && !file_->blocks_.empty()) { Block& b = file_->blocks_.front(); fetching_bytes_ += b.size(); fetching_blocks_.emplace_back(b.Pin(local_worker_id_)); file_->blocks_.pop_front(); } } else if (prefetch_size < prefetch_size_) { prefetch_size_ = prefetch_size; // cannot discard prefetched Blocks } } PinnedBlock ConsumeFileBlockSource::NextBlock() { assert(file_); if (file_->blocks_.empty() && fetching_blocks_.empty()) return PinnedBlock(); // operate without prefetching if (prefetch_size_ == 0) { PinRequestPtr f = file_->blocks_.front().Pin(local_worker_id_); file_->blocks_.pop_front(); return f->Wait(); } // prefetch #desired bytes while (fetching_bytes_ < prefetch_size_ && !file_->blocks_.empty()) { Block& b = file_->blocks_.front(); fetching_bytes_ += b.size(); fetching_blocks_.emplace_back(b.Pin(local_worker_id_)); file_->blocks_.pop_front(); } // this might block if the prefetching is not finished PinnedBlock b = fetching_blocks_.front()->Wait(); fetching_bytes_ -= b.size(); fetching_blocks_.pop_front(); return b; } Block ConsumeFileBlockSource::NextBlockUnpinned() { assert(file_); if (TLX_UNLIKELY(prefetch_size_ != 0 && !fetching_blocks_.empty())) { // next block already prefetched, return it, but don't prefetch more PinnedBlock b = fetching_blocks_.front()->Wait(); fetching_bytes_ -= b.size(); fetching_blocks_.pop_front(); return std::move(b).MoveToBlock(); } if (file_->blocks_.empty()) return Block(); Block b = file_->blocks_.front(); file_->blocks_.pop_front(); return b; } PinnedBlock ConsumeFileBlockSource::AcquirePin(const Block& block) { return block.PinWait(local_worker_id_); } ConsumeFileBlockSource::~ConsumeFileBlockSource() { if (file_ != nullptr) file_->Clear(); } } // namespace data } // namespace thrill /******************************************************************************/

Translated by Rabbi Lazer Brody King David in Psalm 92 tells us how wonderful it is to grab a musical instrument and to begin singing songs of praise to Hashem. In fact, all the blessings and verses of praise in our liturgy are designed to accustom us and remind us – in the darkness of our physical world – that our entire purpose on earth is to thank G-d, praise Him, sing to Him and glorify Him. A person must sing to G-d, and even play music before Him if he can! Song brings enjoyment to every word of prayer, as does singing the blessings and verses of praise in a melody that encourages, inspires, and gladdens the heart. A person should also sing the Silent Prayer (Amida) to himself, since this enhances one’s intent and joy, which are ever so conducive to effective prayer. Rebbe Nachman says (Likutei Moharan, I:42) that by singing in prayer, all harsh judgments are mitigated: 'And He saw their sorrow when He heard their song’ (Psalms, 106). Behold, through playing music, the severe judgments are sweetened. As the holy Zohar writes (Pinchas, 215): ‘The rainbow is G-d's Divine Presence and the three colors of the rainbow are the (three) forefathers, and they are garments of G-d's Divine Presence. And when G-d's Divine Presence (the Shechinah) clothes herself in garments of light then “And I will see it to remember the eternal covenant” (Genesis, 9) and then “the anger of the King subsided” (The Scroll of Esther). This is like a king who became angry at his son, and when he saw the queen in garments of light he had mercy on his son.’ The letters of prayer are G-d's Divine Presence, as is written in Psalms 51, "G-d, open my lips." The faculty of speech parallels G-d's Name, A-donai, which is the Name of G-d in this verse. A-donai is called a bow, as Rashi explains Jacob's words in Genesis 58, "with my sword and my bow" as referring to his prayers. The sound of music is the three colors of the rainbow. The voice contains the elements of fire, water and wind, which parallel the three Forefathers. The three Forefathers are the three shades of light in the rainbow. G-d's promise to look at the rainbow and remember His eternal covenant not to destroy the world with water, "And I will see it to remember the eternal covenant," is actually an allusion to the merit of the Forefathers. A person who sings the letters of prayer in purity and clarity envelops G-d's Divine Presence - the letters - in garments of light. G-d sees the Divine Presence and his "anger subsides." This explains Rashi's commentary on the verse in Psalms 106 "when He heard their song." Rashi comments that G-d heard the song of Israel in the merit of our Forefathers. The song, which is the three shades of the rainbow, was sung with great clarity and purity, because the three colors of the rainbow are the Forefathers, as explained above. And they are the garments of G-d's Divine Presence. When the garments are alight with purity and clarity, this is called "the merit of the Forefathers." Then, "And I will see it to remember the eternal covenant" and then "And He decided not to punish them, in His great loving kindness" (Psalms 106), "And the wrath of the King dissipated" and the severe judgments are sweetened. Music, especially prayer set to song, has phenomenal power in stimulating one’s heart to yearn for Hashem. Rebbe Nachman's disciple Rebbe Natan would travel in a closed carriage while devoting himself to Torah study and prayer on the way. Once, his student Rebbe Shimon accompanied him. Rebbe Natan began to recite the morning prayers heavily, as if he were depressed, and then gradually began humming a happy tune. His joy steadily increased until he reached a level of tremendous enthusiasm. He sang to Hashem with such irresistible sweetness that the non-Jewish villagers along the way stopped working and began to chase after the wagon, yearning to hear the wondrous melody emanating from within it. When Rebbe Natan reached the Amida - the Silent Prayer - he was so immersed in a state of clinging to G-d that his students had to remove him from the wagon on their hands and stand him before the wall of the wayside inn so that he could pray. As they continued their journey, Rebbe Shimon asked his rabbi what had happened. Why was he deep in negativity at the beginning of his prayers, and how was he able to strengthen himself and become so joyous and enthusiastic? Rebbe Natan answered: "At the beginning of my prayers, feelings of negativity and terrible sadness engulfed me. Then I remembered what Rebbe Nachman said, that a person should revitalize himself with a song of joy – especially during prayer. So, I began to sing a joyous tune until I could say the rest of my prayers with tremendous joy." The moment you feel down, start singing! If you can play an instrument, start playing a happy song. If not, listen to the music of a G-d-fearing individual, a menagen kasher, and you'll soon be dancing in joy too. Few things have the power that a pure sound of music has.

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Welp, Tesla CEO Elon Musk eventually did his “Saturday Night time Live” debut as Dogecoin (DOGE) devoted view equally the display and the cryptocurrency’s inventory to see if it will lastly established foot on the a person-dollar territory. However, issues just went south when the rate of the meme crypto took a nosedive. It seems to be like the Dogefather’s magic has shed its luster this time as the price of the DOGE fell as very low as 49 cents which is a 29.5 p.c plunge CNBC stories. By the time SNL’s parody newscast, the “Weekend Update,” aired, its cost bounced back again a little bit. As of creating, however, the dogecoin’s price tag dropped back to $.498 – a 29.859 percent plunge. In the meantime, on the Robinhood stock investing/investing app, it unfortunately encountered relatively of an outage which is the previous thing they could envision occurring during a mad market-off. Consumers of the application took social media as they complained about the platform’s crypto trading characteristic not operating. Robinhood then posted a tweet addressing the concern and admitted that there was without a doubt an outage on their close. Its crypto trading function was up and operating in considerably less than an hour. Throwing out some skit tips for SNL. What must I do? Users of the trading application may recall when the platform encountered what Robinhood described as “sporadic crypto buy failures.” This also, took place all through a dogecoin rally. Glauber Contessoto – commonly recognised at present as the 1st Dogecoin millionaire experienced a hunch that the meme crypto will acquire a dip by Musk’s “SNL” visual appearance. In his new upload on his YouTube channel, he answered the issue as to regardless of whether he’ll market or hold on to his DOGE that is now worthy of hundreds of thousands. Contessoto (a.k.a. The Dogecoin Millionaire) claimed he’ll be keeping on to it in his video. He claimed, “we’re not sellin’, alright. We’re like Leonardo DiCaprio on that meme, we’re not selling, ok.” He explained that he’s “holding on for the very long run” believing that the Dogecoin is the long run. Even more, he said (this in advance of the airing of the ‘SNL’ episode), “you observe that dip go, and you chuckle at it and you obtain some more” right before building it crystal clear that these kinds of assertion is not a piece of fiscal tips. Join The Coin Republic’s Telegram Channel for additional data relevant to CRYPTOCURRENCY Information and predication.

“For Parents of Little Ones,” Friend, September 2016, inside back cover “Pick one,” you say. “I pick all of them,” your young child answers. Young children need help learning to make choices. And they learn best by watching, playing, and practicing. Remember it’s OK to let children make choices when the consequence won’t be dangerous, like going outside on a cool fall day wearing summer sandals. Sometimes experience can be the fastest teacher. When helping your little ones choose, give them just a few options so they don’t get overwhelmed. Offer a most favorite and a least favorite to make the choice easy at first. While reading books together, point out the choices characters make. Take turns guessing what might happen next because of those choices. You can also do this with scripture stories. Talk about choices at the grocery store: “I’m choosing between these two breakfast cereals. I think I’ll pick the one that’s better for our bodies.” Use two colors of paper to make two paths on the floor. Invite your little one to follow the color she likes best. Add forks in the path so she can choose more than once.

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CORVALLIS - A new book by an oceanographer at Oregon State University can help you visit a world you've never seen before, sample cutting-edge technology and even fly beneath the sea. Called "Undersea With GIS," the book includes an educational CD-ROM and uses the evolving technologies of geographic information systems to explore the oceans depths and a terrain largely precluded to humans. Although they cover 71 percent of the Earth's surface, most of the world's ocean topography has been largely unknown until just the past few years. "More progress has been made in mapping the topography of Venus and Mars than has been made in mapping a significant portion of our own planet Earth," said Dawn Wright, an associate professor of geosciences at OSU and editor of the book, published by ESRI Press. "But the secrets of the planet's oceans are gradually being revealed, and GIS is playing a vital role in these new discoveries. The book shows many of them in vivid detail." New technologies for ocean data collection and information management make mapping and interpretation of the ocean environment possible at extraordinary levels of details, Wright said. Maps and charts can now be visualized in three dimensions, from coastal areas to great depths. And practical applications of this knowledge range from managing submarine cables to tracking whales or protecting the marine environment. The CD-ROM included with the book contains ocean data, a sample educational model for K-12 teachers, and provides several three-dimensional, multimedia "underwater fly-throughs" for viewers. Royalties from the sales of "Undersea With GIS" will be donated to the Oregon chapter of the Surfrider Foundation and the OSU Diversity Internship Program in Marine Sciences, Wright said.

From epic to limerick, novel to anecdote, literary narratives engage and entertain us. From autobiography and biography to accounts of familial generations, narratives define communities. Myths and histories loom large in religious traditions as well. Recently, the importance of narrative to ethics and religion has become a pervasive theme in several scholarly disciplines. In the essays presented here, a distinguished roster of scholars addresses a range of issues associated with this theme, focusing especially on questions concerning narrative's contribution to knowledge. Contents Contributors vii Introduction 3 PART I The Power of Narrative 1 "They Stooped to Conquer": Cultural Vitality and the Narrative Impulse 15 Lamin Sanneh 2 Gnosis, Narrative, and the Occasion of Repentance 53 David L. Jeffrey 3 The Scandal of Revelation 68 George Steiner 4 Second-Person Accounts and the Problem of Evil 86 Eleonore Stump PART II The Place of Narrative 5 Social Transformation as Return of Story Tradition 107 James Billington 6 Anecdote as the Essence of Historical Understanding 116 Robert E. Frykenberg 7 Hagiography and Hindu Historical Consciousness 138 John B. Carman PART III The Promise of Narrative 8 Narrative and Theological Aspects of Freudian and Jungian Psychology 155 Paul Vitz 9 Words, Deeds, and Words about Deeds 167 Jon N. Moline 10 Narrative Theology from an Evangelical Perspective 188 Gabriel Fackre 11 Living within a Text 202 Nicholas Wolterstorff PART IV The Problems of Narrative 12. The Limits of Narrative Theology 217 Paul Griffiths 13 Narrative Ethics and Normative Objectivity 237 Keith E. Yandell Index 261

Multiple Meanings of a Symbol in Paseo The use of symbolism has long been a technique by which an author can present far more than the literal meaning of a story. However, symbols are not always easily defined; indeed, it is sometimes possible that one symbol in a story may be endowed with multiple meanings, all of which lead the reader to a greater understanding of the author's message. Such is the case in Jose Donoso's short story "Paseo." The story is told from the point of view of a grown man looking back on the isolated, frightened child he was. As the boy's jealousy focuses on the attention gained by a nondescript but persistent dog, Donoso leads us into the realm of multiple symbolism. Perhaps most obviously, the dog represents emotion. The boy in the story grows up with cold people in a house that is "not happy" (316) and that expresses "an absence, a lack, which because it wasunacknowledged was irremediable" (316). The boy wishes that his family's "confined feeling might overflow and express itself in a fit of rage . . . or with some bit of foolery" (317). Of course, he knows it is not to be. The dog that his Aunt Mathilda adopts, however, represents the opposite of repressed, or perhaps nonexistent, emotion: "Her whole body, from her quivering snout to her tail ready to waggle, was full of an abundant capacity for fun" (323). It is the dog's expression of emotion that permeates Aunt Mathilda's cold exterior and provokes her to express emotion of her own. Yet the boy is still isolated, perhaps more so, as his jealousy takes hold. As he watches his aunt stroke the dog sleeping on her lap, he realizes the extent of his own isolation and feels the loss of any hope that he, too, might be the ... ... middle of paper ... ...nt come in, the boy recognizes the final influence the dog and the madness it represents are to have on his aunt: "I went to bed terrified, knowing this was the end. I was not mistaken. Because one night . . . Aunt Mathilda took the dog out for a walk after dinner, and did not return" (327). Who is to say whether the aunt's disappearance is a manifestation of her madness or simply a rebellion on her part, an affirmation of the life she has never before experienced? Yet, in the boy's mind, she is dead, and her death has been brought about by the dog and all it symbolizes. The repression of emotion in his aunt has been freed by something not human, and in doing so, it has brought disorder to order and madness to composure. Donoso, Jose. "Paseo." The Riverside Anthology of Literature. Ed. Douglas Hunt. 2nd ed. Boston: Houghton, 1991. 315-27.

Educators and support staff will find it easier to recognise and respond to the learning needs of students with significant intellectual disability through a tool which will be introduced into South Australian public schools over the next two years. Abilities Based Learning and Education Support (ABLES) provides a suite of curriculum, teaching, assessment and reporting resources that guide educators to accurately identify students’ individual learning goals and track their progress against an individual learning plan over time. A number of South Australian special schools that have piloted the assessment and reporting tool have responded positively to how easy it is to report and evaluate student outcomes on the one platform as well as create learning plans specific to individual strengths and needs. Approximately 1000 to 1500 students with significant intellectual disability will benefit from this program annually. ABLES has been developed by the Victorian Government and the University of Melbourne and is used in Victoria, and other States and Territories. Executive Director Early Years and Child Development, Ann-Marie Hayes says: “ABLES has proven to be a highly effective assessment and reporting tool. “Schools who have trialled it reported how easy it is to use the system and how valuable it is in informing specific learning needs of students with significant intellectual disabilities. “The tool will allow educators to focus on students’ ability rather than their disability, determine where their learning strengths lie and what they can do to encourage growth in other areas of the curriculum. Our schools can now align with the majority of the states and territories in the country that use ABLES.” A new piece of AI is helping to identify people with dyslexia so something can be done, the process uses statistics and and machine learning and takes only two minutes. Read More The University of Melbourne’s new Hansen Scholarship Program to help talented, determined students achieve their ambitions, regardless of social or economic barriers is the result of a generous $30 million gift. Read More Class clowns finally get the chance to bring their underappreciated talent to the big stage with Melbourne International Comedy Festival having scouted Australia for the funniest secondary schoolers. Read More Australians are largely positive about the level of education provided to their children but feel more attention should be given to developing students’ life skills in the classroom. Read More

When we look at our 1st grade students we may sometimes think they’re too young for centers. It’s a lot of independence and personal responsibility for some of our littlest learners! So why have literacy centers in first grade? Research shows us that centers provide opportunities for student choice with routines that build stamina, and independence. Literacy centers are a great way to provide differentiated and targeted practice of reading and writing skills. Bonus? They free you up to work with small groups or give student one-on-one support. So now what we’ve covered the WHY of literacy centers it’s time for the WHAT. What are the best literacy centers to have in a first grade classroom so kids are building a strong reading foundation? Read on for our recommendations. Literacy Centers That Work Well In A First Grade Classroom Our recommendation is to focus on the following five types of literacy centers in first grade: - Phonological awareness - Grammar/ Language We’ve got a full year’s worth of center activities for each category. Here is a closer look at a few 1st grade literacy center activities we include in our set. We hope this will give you a better idea of the types of activities that work well for first graders! If your students are struggling with their phonological awareness, we’d recommend first pinpointing the PA skills your students need to be practicing. Here’s how to find gaps in phonological awareness. Phonological awareness skills to build centers around: Level 1 (Syllables): - Syllable segmentation & deletion Level 2 (Onset & Rime): - Deletion & substitution of beginning sounds Level 3 (Basic Phonemes): - Phoneme blending, segmentation, addition and deletion Level 4 (Advanced Phonemes): - Advanced phoneme substitution & deletion Once you know what your students need to work on, you can provide modeling and practice in small groups. Read this Phonological Awareness Intervention post for lots of intervention activities that double as intervention lessons and center activities! If you could use a brush-up on ways to teach phonological awareness, here’s a fantastic teacher training on phonological awareness. Here’s an idea for a phonological awareness center activity to practice rhyming: “Rhyme Recognition” Phonological Awareness Center - Kids select a card with two images. - They say the names of the two images aloud. - Students sort the cards into piles that rhyme and piles that don’t rhyme. Download Rhyme Recognition HERE Once your students have the basics of phonological awareness and they’re receiving structured, explicit phonics instruction, your kiddos will be ready for phonics centers! Offer hands-on activities to practice previously taught phonics patterns. Here’s a center activity for practicing long e vowel teams EA, EE and EY: “Missing Magnet Letters” Phonics Center - Students place the correct missing vowel teams on top of word cards. - Next, students write the word correctly on the recording sheet. Download Missing Magnet Letters HERE If you’re looking for even more resources, our Multi-Sensory Phonics Activities post has great tips. After some whole or small group lessons about parts of speech, sentence structure, or punctuation find the perfect center to continue practicing new skills! Grammar and language are definitely something they’ll need a lot of reinforcement in. (How many times does a 1st-grade teacher say, “Are there periods at the end of your sentences and capitals at the beginning?” ) Give your students the practice they need in a low-pressure and fun way. Here’s an idea for a grammar center activity to practice nouns: “Picture Puzzles” Grammar Center - Students read a simple sentence. - Next, they find the picture card that matches the noun in the sentence. - Last, they decide if the noun is a person, place, or thing and write the word in the correct column on their recording sheet. Download Picture Puzzles HERE If grammar is something your students need lots of support with, find out some easy ways to incorporate grammar into your day beyond center time. The big one. Even before our little learners have digraphs down they are introduced to things like story elements, author’s purpose, concepts of print, and nonfiction text features. These are such important skills to master as we introduce increasingly more complex reading material. Our recommendation is to target one skill at a time with your reading centers. This ensures that your students get practice in the exact place they need it. Here’s an idea for a reading center activity to practice story elements: “Puzzle It” Reading Center - Students read a short 3-4 sentence story. - Next, they match a picture card to each missing story element. - Last, students write the story elements on the recording sheet. Download Puzzle It HERE Search the Lucky Little Learners blog for the comprehension skill your students need to practice for more ideas. Writing in first grade is both wonderful and incredibly challenging. Students are just beginning to develop some automaticity and stamina and their minds are full of creative ideas. We recommend offering writing centers that provide the structure and scaffolding your students need. They will feel successful and have the space they need to let their creative juices flow. Here’s an idea for a writing center activity to practice personal narrative writing: “My Story” Writing Center - Students choose a story idea card. - Next, they draw their story ideas on the planning page. - Then, students use their drawings to write their story on a paper that provides an outline for organization. Download My Story HERE How Do You Organize and Store Literacy Centers? Now that you’ve got some ideas (and some free literacy center activities), you might be wondering about the best way to organize and story them. Organizing centers can be intimidating. There are so many teeny pieces! First graders are not naturally inclined towards keeping all those little tiny pieces neatly contained. Having solid concrete routines and procedures will help solve this problem. Read How to Organize Math & Literacy Centers for more in-depth information, or watch the video below for some of our favorite storage solutions! Lucky Little Learners 1st Grade Literacy Centers If the idea of searching for and prepping center activities for your classroom feels overwhelming, you’ll love our 1st Grade Literacy Centers Bundle! The center activities are versatile and skill-focused. They work perfectly for independent literacy centers, but also are wonderful to have on hand for skill groups, phonics practice, independent activities, intervention groups, and fast finishers. Literacy centers are easy to add to any existing ELA curriculum or program, because they are standards-aligned too! Standards-Aligned and Engaging at the Same Time Literacy centers are organized by skill and standard rather than by season or holiday themes. This means that once you choose which skills your students need some additional practice or reinforcement you can find exactly what you’re looking for. Encourages Independent Thinkers The first grade literacy centers all include direction signs. These help encourage independence and reading skills. First grade is when students get their first taste of academic independence and that transition can be difficult for both you and your students. Direction signs might need to be read to your students initially but as they become more confident readers, your 1st graders will easily read them! Easy Literacy Center Prep These centers come in both full color or black and white. We streamlined building and prepping centers with simple cutting and assembly. Center prep takes a lot of time but these centers were created to be as time-effective as possible. Literacy Centers For First Grade These centers are perfect if you’re tired of looking for effective and engaging literacy practice. They keep your students practicing phonological awareness, phonics, grammar, reading, and writing skills with meaningful and purposeful activities. These are engaging, rigorous, and hands-on. Your students are sure to love them! Download 1st Grade Literacy Centers HERE I just watched the you tube video about how to organize your materials for literacy centres for Grade 1. However, I can’t seem to find the ideas typed out and the links for all the great storage ideas under the video. I’m especially looking for the one where Angie was talking about the wire basket that had the shelf underneath for work that was not done. She said it was for her tables and that’s what I have in my classroom too. If you can give me a link as to where I can purchase them that would be great. Hello Julia! Here it is! Also, Here is a link to (most) of the storage items Angie talks about in the video. I’m confused about how you implement this daily. Do students have one activity in one center a day? Hello Morgan! There are several options for implementation of 1st grade literacy centers. Some teachers assign one activity/ student/ day, while others set up a rotation system, where kids move around the room to complete different center activities either at a teacher signal to switch, or they are taught to go ahead an move to the next activity once they are finished. Let us know if you have any further questions. Thanks!

Dominica Goes Geothermal! In an exciting and bold move, Dominica is moving forward with plans to establish Geothermal Energy as a backbone of the country’s economy. On Wednesday, Prime Minister Roosevelt Skerrit announced the granting of a licence to West Indies Power (Dominica) Ltd. which will launch the Geothermal Energy Project in the southern part of the isalnd. Parent Company West Indies Power Holdings BV (WIPH) has a drilling division in Nevis which has invested in the hi-tech drilling equipment necessary for the exploration phase. According to Dr. Kerry McDonald, CEO of WIPH, the machine can drill a 12-inch hole to a depth of 12,000 feet. The US Department of Energy estimates that Dominica has the potential to produce 1300+ MW’s from its geothermal resources. This is a truly exciting step for Dominica’s future and has made her now, more than ever, THE Nature Island of the Caribbean.

The grow lights should be between 12 and 24 inches away from the canopy. The light source should be closer to the plants during this stage because more light is needed. The amount of light needed by the plants increases as they progress through the flowering stage. As the plant matures, it will begin to require less and less light to grow. This is the time when you want to switch to a more efficient grow light, such as a compact fluorescent (CFL) light. CFLs are much more energy efficient than incandescent bulbs, which means you can save money on your electricity bill. They are also much less likely to burn out, making them a great choice for indoor growing. Table of Contents How close do you put grow lights? Most seedlings grown for the garden need higher intensity light to flourish, but different plants have different light intensity needs. The leaves should be at least 2 – 4 inches away from the light source. If you are growing your plants in a greenhouse, you may need to adjust the amount of light that is provided to the plants. For example, if you live in an area that receives a lot of direct sunlight, it may be necessary to increase the intensity of your light. If you do not have access to a high-intensity light, consider using a dimmer switch or a timer to dim the lights when you need them. Can LED grow lights burn plants? The reality is that modern LED grow lights can produce a very high level of light and it can cause photo-bleaching and burn leaves. This depends on the plant, but a PPFD of 800 is enough to damage most plants. If you have a plant that is very sensitive to light, you may want to consider using a different type of grow light. For example, if you are growing a tropical plant like a succulents, it may be best to use a UV-B light instead of an LED. High light output, low cost, easy to install. Some plants may not be able to tolerate high light levels, especially if they are sensitive. LED lights come in a wide variety of wattages and color temperatures. They can be used indoors, outdoors, or even in the greenhouse. The main difference between LEDs and CFLs is the amount of energy they use. Should grow lights be left on 24 hours a day? You should not leave grow lights on 24/7. Plants need a light-dark cycle to grow. During periods of darkness, it’s believed that they use this time to move vitamins and minerals into their bodies. If your plants look like they’re ready for transplanting, then you’re good to go. If they don’t look ready, it’s probably best to wait until the next growing season to transplant them. You can also check to see if your plant is ready by looking at its leaves. They should be soft and pliable, not stiff and brittle. This is a good sign that the plant will be able to withstand the rigors of a transplant. How many hours a day should plants be under a grow light? To be effective, grow lights need to be on for at least 10 hours a day. Depending on the conditions, this can be as long as 16 hours. It’s best to use an energy efficient type of grow lights when they have to be left on all day. If you want the light to be overhead, position the grow light above the plant. If you’re growing indoors, you’ll want to make sure that you have a good ventilation system in place. The fan will draw air in from the outside, which will help to keep the temperature of your grow room at a comfortable level. If you don’t have an air conditioner in your room, then you can also use a humidifier to help with the humidity. Humidifiers can be purchased at most home improvement stores, and they will work just as well for indoor growing as they do for outdoor growing. Why are my plants dying under grow lights? Plants need light to survive, but too much light and heat can damage them. You have to balance the amount of heat and light that you give the plants. For example, if you have a plant that needs a lot of light, you may want to give it more light than it needs. If the plant gets too hot, it will die. On the other hand, plants that need less light may not need as much heat as they need. This is why it is important to keep the temperature of your grow area as low as possible. First of all, the type of grow lights you choose will depend on what you want your plant to look like. Different types of lights have different characteristics, such as color, wattage, color temperature, and even how long the light will last. How far should 600W LED grow lights be from plants? First of all, the chart does not take into account the amount of light emitted by the light source. For example, if you are using a light that emits a lot of white light, you may need to increase the range of your chart to account for that light. Also, it is important to note that some light sources emit more light than others. This is because different types of lights emit different amounts of energy. The chart below is an example of how much light an LED lamp emits. It is based on the average light output of a standard incandescent light bulb. If you want to use a different type of lamp, then you will have to adjust your range accordingly. How far should a 100 watt LED light be from plants? The general rule is that the lights should be about 30 inches from the top of the cabinet. If you have a cabinet that is taller than 12 inches, you will need to cut the LEDs to fit. If you are going to use LEDs in your cabinet, make sure that they are at least 18 inches in length. This will allow you to mount them on the back of your cabinets without having to worry about them falling off. You will also want to ensure that your LEDs are not too bright, as too much light can cause your lights to burn out. Can you have too many grow lights? Too many grow lights for our indoor grow setup actually does damage. LightRail light movers give us better results when we use fewer grow lights. This mistake is something we see a lot. Can a grow light be too strong? Too much light can be fatal to your plant. It can dry out the plant if it no longer has the water it needs for photosynthesis. Light intensity is the amount of light a plant receives from the sun, and is measured in lumens (lm) per square meter (m2). The higher the intensity of the light, the more energy it takes to produce that light. For example, if you have a light bulb that produces 1,000 lm/square meter, it will take 1 kilowatt (kW) of energy to light that bulb for one hour. If you put that same bulb in a room with a ceiling height of 10 feet, you would need to put 1.5 kW of electricity into the bulb to get the same light output. This is why it is so important to keep your plants well-lit at all times, even when you are not in the middle of a full day’s worth of sun exposure.

- Maha I - Geometry, Reflection Explore Reflection investigation you Have now two triangles blue triangle is the pre image Red Triangle is the Image of reflection Questions to explore : 1) it is given the coordinates of the blue triangle if you changed the coordinate of the A (3,4) C(5,2) B(4,8) CAN YOU EXPLORE THE Image of reflection across the y-axis ? 2) Can you explore the reflection across the y-axis? By the end check your answers by checking on the boxes beside the diagram to explore one time across the X-axis and anthor time across the Y-axis ? 3)what did you notice about the distance between the point A and Y-axis and the distance between point A' AND the Y-axis ?

Look to Africa for the crowing of a black king. He shall be the redeemer: Marcus Garvey Bahir Dar, 9 February 2021(AMMA ) Adwa, a pre-eminent symbol of Pan-Africanism that thwarted the campaign of the Kingdom of Italy to expand its colonial empire in the Horn of Africa is an Ethiopian victory that ran against the current of colonialism. 124 years ago, traditional warriors, farmers, pastoralists and women defeated a well-armed Italian army at the battle of Adwa. The outcome of this battle ensured Ethiopia’s independence, making it the only African country never to be colonized. Adwa turned Ethiopia into a symbol of freedom for black people globally. Since the beginning of slavery and colonialism in the 16th century, similar battles had occurred around the world. The outcome of every war was the same. Europeans ended up ruling the native peoples of the Americas, Africa, Asia and Australia. The battle of Adwa turned this pattern upside down. After the battle Italy unconditionally accepted Ethiopia’s independence and sovereignty. News of this African victory spread throughout the world. Adwa turned Ethiopia into the symbol of redemption and freedom for black people. Marcus Garvey, W.E.B. Du Bois, Bob Marley, George Padmore and others drew inspiration from the African victory. The first Afro-Brazilian newspaper was named O Menelick, publishing pride in black identity and African connection with prominent women writers from 1915-1916. Adwa connected black people with Africa’s ancient glory and future hope, as Marcus Garvey wrote: Look to Africa for the crowing of a black king. He shall be the redeemer. The green, yellow and red Ethiopian flag was adopted by several African countries after colonial liberation and a universal national anthem was created for black people. The Victory of Adwa will be celebrated for the 125th time in the first day of March.

Posted on 19 September 2014 As World War I commemoration events take place around the country, first-year Archaeology students are working in a remote corner of the Yorkshire Dales to uncover a story linking wartime bravery with the region’s industrial heritage and German POWs. Little remains of the hundreds of huts and buildings that once stood on the grassy slopes in this isolated corner of the Dales. But with the help of archive maps, aerial photographs and archaeological excavation, University of York Archaeology students, led by Dr Jonathan Finch, are uncovering a story that links one of the most harrowing chapters of Yorkshire’s wartime history with the region’s industrial heritage. In its complex 30-year history, as well as providing a training ground for the Pals, Breary Banks also housed construction workers and German prisoners of war. “Our work at Breary Banks provides a focus within Yorkshire for an alternative story about the young men who went to war, as well as those who arrived from the front as prisoners of war,” said Dr Finch. “It connects the area to the First World War, whilst also giving an insight into the growth of Leeds as a major industrial centre.” The team’s excavations have so far uncovered hundreds of artefacts relating to the bustling navvy camp community including sauce bottles, Theakstons beer bottles, medicine bottles, broken crockery, the remains of a fob watch and fragments of children’s toys, giving insights into the lives – and diets – of the busy workforce, including the women and their families. “For archaeologists, this is relatively recent history. But over a period of only 30 years or so we have a story about ordinary people caught up in global events, which makes it a site our students can really connect to,” said Dr Finch. “There’s a lot of local interest – we’ve had primary school visits and I have talked to local groups, who have also come on site to get archaeological training. It’s an important piece of our regional and international history which highlights the impact of the First World War and industrial expansion on our rural landscape.” Read more about this project in the most recent edition of the university magazine: http://www.york.ac.uk/digital-editions/magazine-summer2014/offline/download.pdf

[Issei Sagawa](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Issei_Sagawa). He killed and ate (partially) a French girl. &gt;Sagawa now lives in Tokyo and is a minor celebrity in Japan. He is often invited as a guest speaker and commentator.[4] He has also written restaurant reviews for the Japanese magazine Spa.[5] In 1992, he appeared in Hisayasu Sato's exploitation film Uwakizuma: Chijokuzeme (Unfaithful Wife: Shameful Torture) as a sadosexual voyeur.[6] Besides books about the murder he committed, Sagawa wrote a commentary book Shonen A in 1997 on the Kobe children's serial killings of 1997, when a 14-year-old referred to in the media as "Boy A" ("Shōnen A") killed and decapitated a child and attacked several others.[7] Sagawa's story inspired the 1981 Stranglers song "La Folie",[citation needed] and the 1983 Rolling Stones song "Too Much Blood",[2] A 1996 short film by Olivier Smolders called Adoration is based on Sagawa's story.[8] In the same year, the TV channel Viasat Explorer released a 47-minute documentary film called "Cannibal Superstar". In 2009, Sagawa was documented in a History Channel show titled "Strange Rituals" discussing cannibalism. The show reveals Sagawa as a freelance artist of nude paintings.[citation needed] That is one person I would like to see taken out.

import eHive import os from VCF.VcfQC import VcfQC from ReseqTrackDB import File from ReseqTrackDB import ReseqTrackDB from ReseqTrackDB import Attribute from distutils.util import strtobool class BcftoolsStats(eHive.BaseRunnable): """run BCFtools stats on a VCF file""" def param_defaults(self): return { } def __str_to_bool(self,s): if s == 'True': return True elif s == 'False': return False else: raise ValueError # evil ValueError! def fetch_input(self): hostname=self.param('hostname') username=self.param('username') db=self.param('db') port=self.param('port') pwd=self.param('pwd') reseqdb = ReseqTrackDB(host=hostname,user=username,port=port,pwd=<PASSWORD>,db=db) self.param('reseqdb', reseqdb) def run(self): reseqdb=self.param('reseqdb') filepath=self.param_required('filepath') self.warning('Analysing file: %s'% filepath) file=os.path.split(filepath)[1] outfile=self.param_required('work_dir')+"/"+file vcfQC = VcfQC(vcf=filepath,bcftools_folder=self.param_required('bcftools_folder')) verbose=None if self.param_is_defined('verbose'): # converting 'True' or 'False' to boolean verbose=bool(strtobool(self.param('verbose'))) params=dict() attr_suffix="" stats=None if self.param_is_defined('region'): attr_suffix="_{0}".format(self.param('region')) params['region']=self.param('region') if self.param_is_defined('filter_str'): attr_suffix += "_filt" params['filter_str']=self.param('filter_str') stats=vcfQC.stats(outpath=outfile,**params,verbose=verbose) if self.param_required('store_attributes')=='True': fileO=reseqdb.fetch_file_by_url(filepath) for attr,value in stats.summary_numbers.items(): Attribute(table_name="file",other_id=fileO.dbID,name="STATS{0}_{1}".format(attr_suffix,attr),value=value).store(reseqdb) Attribute(table_name="file",other_id=fileO.dbID,name="STATS_ts_tv{0}".format(attr_suffix),value=stats.ts_tv).store(reseqdb) Attribute(table_name="file",other_id=fileO.dbID,name="STATS_ts_tv_1stalt{0}".format(attr_suffix),value=stats.ts_tv_1stalt).store(reseqdb) Attribute(table_name="file",other_id=fileO.dbID,name="STATS_no_singleton_snps{0}".format(attr_suffix),value=stats.no_singleton_snps).store(reseqdb) self.param('stats_file', stats.filename) def write_output(self): self.warning('Work is done!') self.dataflow( { 'stats_file' : self.param('stats_file') }, 1)

This sixteen page coloring and activity book teaches children that firefighters are good people who want to save lives and homes from fire. Specifically designed for Preschool to Kindergarten grade students. In this activity book, Stretch the Ladder Truck teaches children, through age appropriate drawings, text and activities, that firefighters are there to save lives in the event of fire. Moreover, this book stresses that a child should do everything possible to gain firefighters’ attention if trapped inside a burning building. This fun and engaging book is full of educational and entertaining activities, helping children to retain this valuable information. Each Stretch’s “Firefighters Are Our Friends!” Learning and Activity Book covers the following topics: - Explains what firefighters do and the tools they use - Emphasizes how important firefighters are - Firefighters have special trucks… like Stretch - Visiting the Fire Station is fun and educational - The importance of smoke alarms - What to do in case of a fire - A Stretch the Ladder Truck official fire safety certificate - And more… To see a full PDF version of this learning and activity book, click the Instant Preview tab above. If you like this firefighters themed coloring and activity book, then check out more Stretch the Ladder Trucks materials here. For more Coloring and Activity Book topics, click here.

Yup, straight up deductions to the AD are deductible, you are right about that. Editing post to reflect that. But if it's to get season tickets, that 80% deduction went away in 2018. IPTAY even has it on their page here: https://iptaycuad.com/matching-gift-program/ "For gifts made to IPTAY, under tax legislation, donations that also confer seating rights to Clemson home athletic events may no longer be tax deductible as a charitable contribution."[https://iptaycuad.com/matching-gift-program/](https://iptaycuad.com/matching-gift-program/) IPTAY does it better than where my parents went cause they pulled the plug on deductions there 100% (non SEC/ACC school).

When the United States needed an air-transportable tank destroyer in the early 1950s, something that they had been searching for during World War II, a joint effort of the US Army and US Marines brought them to what was called the M50 Ontos. The small, compact, yet powerful enough vehicle was light enough to be airdropped, just as the Marines needed, but why was it still removed from service in 1969? During World War II, when the first attempts to create such a vehicle were made, the limitations in cargo aircraft carrying capacity limited the vehicles’ armor and firepower capabilities, making them no match against the enemy tanks. Come the early 1950s, the US Army and Marines came up with the project known to be the M50 Ontos. In the end, only the Marines would continue using the compact vehicle. M50’s name “Ontos,” was a Greek word that translates to “thing,” which was the perfect word to describe such a strange vehicle. Producing a vehicle that was compact enough to be airlifted to the battlefield yet powerful enough to match the enemy tanks was indeed a challenge. According to the calculations made by the engineers, the tank destroyer had to be around 10 to 20 tons for it to be air-transportable but still capable enough to fight and survive on a battlefield. The M50 was the perfect match with its small, low-profile fully-tracked hull and an enclosed compartment for the crew. To achieve its air-droppability, the engineers had to adjust the armor protection by putting a 13 mm on the hull and just 6.5 mm on the underside to make it light enough. This would be enough to stop small arms and splinter protection from artillery but not much else. If this was a bit of a let-down, then you have to check the M50’s main armament: six 105 mm recoilless rifles. To avoid confusion with the M27 recoilless rifle, the M50’s rifles were named 106 mm. A recoilless rifle was installed instead of the conventional anti-tank cannon because the vehicle was so small that recoil from a heavy gun would tear it apart. The Recoilless rifles, on the other hand, balanced out most of the recoil forces by venting propellant gasses out of the weapon’s rear when firing. This clever technique is effective in counteracting the recoil and allows the rifle to fire a larger caliber round compared to conventional weapons of the same size and weight. The barrel can also be thinner to save additional weight. The rifles could be fired individually or all at the same time. When the six rifles were fired all at once, the back blast of the M50 could blow bricks out of a nearby building and shatter the glass on nearby cars. The semi-traversable turret where the guns were mounted could rotate up to 40 degrees per side. The guns could be elevated up to 20 degrees and depressed 10 degrees. Ontos used .50 caliber ranging guns on the rifles, with performance similar to the main armament. The ranging round would glow brightly as it approached the target and then emit a white smoke once it hit it. This would be the aiming reference of the gunner. The M50 Ontos had a top speed of 30 mph and was powered by 5 liters inline 6 GMC engine with 145 HP. When a Door Closes, a Window Opens Somewhere After tests were completed and the M50 Ontos was presented to the US Army, they immediately hated what they saw. They thought the vehicle was lightly armored, too small, and the crew would be too cramped up, plus it didn’t carry enough ammunition. However, their main reason was that a crew member had to exit the vehicle every time the rifles would be reloaded. They didn’t want their men exposed to the enemy fire every single time. As they say, when a door closes, a window opens somewhere. For the Ontos, the window came in the form of the Marines, who were impressed by how the vehicle turned out that they ordered about 300 of them. These vehicles were greatly utilized during the Vietnam War. They were used as a highly mobile fire support platform capable of easily navigating around the jungle battlefield and could provide devastating fire. The CH-53 Stallion helicopter could also lift and drop the M50s in the jungle. The Viet Cong soon learned that M50s were not to mess with, so they would often retreat at the sight of one. Soon enough, the acceptable flaws of the M50 Ontos became too much to bear for the Marines. The large back-blast of the recoilless rifles posed a danger to nearby troops, and the exposed reloading process was just too much of a risk. Its low ammunition storage was unpractical during engagements. Lastly, the M50s thin armor was just no match against larger caliber weapons and even large shrapnel. Anti-tank mines were also much of a threat because the vehicle’s belly armor was thin. They also discovered that the ammunition was prone to explode if the vehicle was damaged. It was decided to have the M50 Ontos removed from service in 1969, marking the end of its career.

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After reading Jamey Stegmaier's great blog post about writing a blog, Brendan and I have decided to see if we can try to post more often. We may not be able to do 5 blogs a day for 6 years like Jamey, but we'll start blogging about our design thought processes, painting experiences, and any other cool and exciting things we encounter in this fun adventure designing a game as first time game designers. :) During our most recent designer playtest of our new Red Dragons faction, we decided to fix a few bits of feedback that came out of our playtest group's experience last weekend. One of these changes was how CyMS (Cybernetic Mutation Syndrome victims) spawned every turn due to noise generation in the game. As a quick tutorial, this is a draft illustration I did with powerpoint to show how the CyMS spawn: The left picture tells you 1 of 6 directions it could spawn from the loudest model on the board. The 2nd picture assumes it spawns in the "3" direction. Originally the first CyMS (the circled "1") spawns 3 hexes away from the loud and offensive model. During our playtest with friends, we realized that the distance was a little too far, and with some of our scenarios having both factions group up in the middle, sometimes the spawn can hurt your opponent moreso than you. So we decided to reduce the first CyMS spawn to 2 hexes away instead. For those of you who are more spatially aware, you can see how if there are 4+ CyMS like in the right picture, they will literally be adjacent to the loud model immediately, which causes all sorts of issues. We ended up reducing the number of CyMS generated by noise to offset this, but we did get a few learnings out of this experience: Don't assume that a small change won't affect the game much. In this case, our casual change had a huge effect on how one of our factions played, and we spent a long time getting everything in balance again. External playtests (by other people) are invaluable. We've been playing with the "3-hex-away" noise spawn for months now, and after 1 external playtest, we realize it was flawed. Always be willing to "break the game" to try to make it better. If we weren't willing to accept our playtesters' feedback, or were too afraid to "break the game" and didn't make the change, we would have never found a better way to do noise spawns. So I leave you all with those thoughts. What are some stories you have about small game changes that had huge consequences? And did the game get better after you fixed it again? Let us know!

21 relations: Aortic dissection, Aortography, Autopsy, Calibration, Clinical case definition, Elsevier, Evidence-based medicine, Gold, Ground truth, Information retrieval, Machine learning, Magnetic resonance angiography, Magnetic resonance imaging, Medical diagnosis, Medical error, Medicine, Resuscitation, Sensitivity and specificity, Statistical hypothesis testing, Statistics, Type I and type II errors. Aortic dissection (AD) occurs when an injury to the innermost layer of the aorta allows blood to flow between the layers of the aortic wall, forcing the layers apart. Aortography involves placement of a catheter in the aorta and injection of contrast material while taking X-rays of the aorta. An autopsy (post-mortem examination, obduction, necropsy, or autopsia cadaverum) is a highly specialized surgical procedure that consists of a thorough examination of a corpse by dissection to determine the cause and manner of death or to evaluate any disease or injury that may be present for research or educational purposes. Calibration in measurement technology and metrology is the comparison of measurement values delivered by a device under test with those of a calibration standard of known accuracy. In epidemiology, a clinical case definition, a clinical definition, or simply a case definition lists the clinical criteria by which public health professionals determine whether a person's illness is included as a case in an outbreak investigation—that is, whether a person is considered directly affected by an outbreak. Elsevier is an information and analytics company and one of the world's major providers of scientific, technical, and medical information. Evidence-based medicine (EBM) is an approach to medical practice intended to optimize decision-making by emphasizing the use of evidence from well-designed and well-conducted research. Gold is a chemical element with symbol Au (from aurum) and atomic number 79, making it one of the higher atomic number elements that occur naturally. Ground truth is a term used in various fields to refer to information provided by direct observation (i.e. empirical evidence) as opposed to information provided by inference. Information retrieval (IR) is the activity of obtaining information system resources relevant to an information need from a collection of information resources. Machine learning is a subset of artificial intelligence in the field of computer science that often uses statistical techniques to give computers the ability to "learn" (i.e., progressively improve performance on a specific task) with data, without being explicitly programmed. Magnetic resonance angiography (MRA) is a group of techniques based on magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) to image blood vessels. Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is a medical imaging technique used in radiology to form pictures of the anatomy and the physiological processes of the body in both health and disease. Medical diagnosis (abbreviated Dx or DS) is the process of determining which disease or condition explains a person's symptoms and signs. A medical error is a preventable adverse effect of care, whether or not it is evident or harmful to the patient. Medicine is the science and practice of the diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of disease. Resuscitation is the process of correcting physiological disorders (such as lack of breathing or heartbeat) in an acutely unwell patient. Sensitivity and specificity are statistical measures of the performance of a binary classification test, also known in statistics as a classification function. A statistical hypothesis, sometimes called confirmatory data analysis, is a hypothesis that is testable on the basis of observing a process that is modeled via a set of random variables. Statistics is a branch of mathematics dealing with the collection, analysis, interpretation, presentation, and organization of data. In statistical hypothesis testing, a type I error is the rejection of a true null hypothesis (also known as a "false positive" finding), while a type II error is failing to reject a false null hypothesis (also known as a "false negative" finding).

Every year, on the night before school starts, we have a small Back to School Eve party for our kids. We cook a fun meal together, talk about the school year, what we’re excited about, nervous about, and goals for our family for the school year. I even try to come up with a quote based from scripture that we can strive to live by during the school year. The kids loved it! It gets them geared up and ready to head back to school and instills in them an excitement to learn. This year they are both starting new schools, making it even more important for me that they were ready and excited for school to start. – Gather all your supplies and find a space to work that you don’t mind if dirt spills while you’re planting. – Add dirt to the bottom of your mason jar, then use a pencil or chop stick to dig a little hole in the center. – Add your Succulent to your mason jar. – Add any other dirt around the sides if you don’t have enough around your succulent. – Add a little bit of water to moisten the dirt around your succulent. See, it’s easy!! It’s simple, and who doesn’t love to receive a gift in a mason jar??! Both of my kids gave these to their teachers on the first day of school and they went over so great! If you’re worried about cost, don’t be. Each of these costed me under $5 to make. Do you have a friend you could create this for as a gift of encouragement? Do you celebrate back to school eve with a dinner party for your littles? These are SO cute!!! What a great project!

Senior quarterback Kiely Wilson ran 15 yards for a touchdown in overtime to lift St. Andrew's to a 7-0 victory over Zion Lutheran Saturday, ensuring the Scots of their first winning season since 1984. After both teams squandered scoring opportunities inside the opposition's 10 in a scoreless first half, the Scots (5-4) had a 24-yard touchdown pass from Wilson to John Lauerman called back with 3:08 remaining, when the referees ruled that Wilson had crossed the line of scrimmage prior to releasing the pass. In the ensuing Kansas tiebreaker, the first overtime fpor the Lions (6-4), Scots' running back Che Nash ran 3 yards to the 7 before two personal fouls pushed St. Andrew's back to the 35. Nash was ejected. After Rocky Curtis was stuffed for a 2-yard loss, Wilson hit Curtis over the middle for a 22 yard gain. On third-and-15, Wilson eluded the hard rush of Rick Medvin, rolled outside and bulled over John O'Bryan as he crossed the goal line for the winning score. Peter Coyle added the extra point. "We're never out of it with the heart on this team," said Wilson, whose 15-yard gain was the longest run of the game for either side. "It's hard to explain what this means, being our first winning season in 10 years. It's overwhelming." The Lions had four downs to match or win, but on fourth-and-goal from the 10, Jeff Lamb's dump-pass over the middle was taken by Brad Runyan, who was tripped up 4 yards shy of the end zone. "They did a great job defensively against us," said Zion coach Jack Hash. "I told the seven seniors that have been here from the beginning as freshman, that they are Zion Lutheran football." Although the Lions entered the game with two 1,000-yard running backs in Runyan and Tim Jurich, they were held to 71 (106 overall) rushing yards and just one first down in the second half.

Our editors will review what you’ve submitted and determine whether to revise the article.Join Britannica's Publishing Partner Program and our community of experts to gain a global audience for your work! Sperrin Mountains, Irish Sliabh Speirín, mountain range disposed along an arc about 20 miles (32 km) southeast of Londonderry city, Northern Ireland. The highest peaks—Sawel, Mullaclogher, and Mullaghaneany—all exceed 2,000 feet (608 m) and are capped with crystalline limestone. The Sperrins were extensively glaciated and bear evidence of both erosion and deposition. They are partly penetrated by glaciated glens and are mainly covered in blanket bog and heather. Learn More in these related Britannica articles: Northern Ireland: Relief…gently to the more rounded Sperrin Mountains; Sawel, at 2,224 feet (678 metres), is the highest of several hills over 2,000 feet (610 metres). The far southwest, the historic County Fermanagh, is focused geographically on the basin of Lough Erne, in a drumlin-strewn area ringed by hills more than 1,000… LimavadyThe glacially scoured Sperrin Mountains of southern Limavady descend to rolling hills and fertile lowlands in the valley of the River Roe in the centre of the district and then to the flat shores of Lough Foyle in the north. Area former district, 240 square miles (622 square… United KingdomUnited Kingdom, island country located off the northwestern coast of mainland Europe. The United Kingdom comprises the whole of the island of Great Britain—which contains England, Wales, and Scotland—as well as the northern portion of the island of Ireland. The name Britain is sometimes used to…

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"I'm fine. I'm good." Despite reports to the contrary, Kris Jenner has no plans to suddenly become Kris Kardashian, or to revert back to her maiden name, Houghton. After multiple stories that following her official divorce from Bruce Jenner, Kris planned to jump onto the Kardashian ship, Kris has commented on the rumours to SHUT. THEM. DOWN. Kind of. "I have two kids with the last name Jenner," she told E!, "so I think that would be weird. Like, 'oh, guys, I'm changing it back to Kardashian.' I think I'm just going to leave it alone for now and enjoy. I'm fine. I'm good." So, while a name change could happen at some point in the future, Kris Jenner will remain Kris Jenner for the time being. Possibly because she wants as little association with the daughter that slagged off her fashion sense as possible (other than being her momager/super-fan of all things Kardashian), and more of an obvious relation to Kendall, rising star and supermodel. Kris also took the opportunity of speaking to E! to reassure us all that she's FINE after divorcing from Bruce, you guys. "Things are really good," she says. "I mean, it's kind of surprising, and we work together, and we talk all the time and he'll be there on Christmas. We're still family." Kris also revealed that she's "very flexible", just in case you were wondering.

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If we were able to remain conscious in our current state (which is impossible) and travel through a black hole in the universe, we would find an incredible universe populated with an infinite amount of human beings, all in their own space. This is where our ultimate True Selves, our eternal natures which were never created and will never be destroyed, exist in our first state of existence. As perfect, stable, wonderful human beings desiring new experiences, we make the choice to connect our brains to a parallel universe on the other side of a black hole. We connect our brains to infant bodies, prepared for us by human beings who exist in this universe for the sole purpose of creating bodies for us to connect to here. As we grow, develop, and learn in this new universe, traveling to different solar systems, experiencing different people, we develop an ego — a part of us that is unique to each of us. We then begin to notice that our own existence isn’t always conducive to another person’s happiness. Some people don’t feel comfortable in our presence and we don’t feel comfortable in theirs. Though our first response is to blame the other person, we have a little doubt in that assessment because we notice that there are others who are comfortable around these same people. In order to prove to ourselves whether or not we are responsible for causing the problems, we choose to give up our free will as Advanced Humans and let our brains produce a conscious situation in another solar system, on another planet, as a mortal avatar. Because our free will is impeded during this time, we become a prisoner of our environment. During this experience, our mortal avatar acts and reacts without our advanced brain having any conscious control, projecting a true, honest reflection of what makes us happy. This will provide us with proof of how our lives create problems for others, causing us to end our existence when we die and return again to our first estate. We weren’t supposed to know this information during our mortal experience, however, the what we are experiencing here is flawed. We’re not receiving a fair trial of our true humanity. Therefore, Christopher’s job is to present the Real Truth® to us, which will be recorded and presented to the world, so that there can be a fair test. If we do not find this information and embrace it, changing our attitude and everything about us, we’ll know without a doubt that it’s useless to search for another planet to test ourselves on. We will know that we are, indeed, the problem and, when we die, we’ll want to kill ourselves again to return to our first estate to begin the process all over again, under different circumstances. On the other hand, upon learning the Real Truth®, are we are able to find some semblance of joy and peace knowing that there are people working on solutions for ending other people’s misery and that we fully support these solutions, and are doing everything in our power to effectuate a more comfortable situation for other people? Christopher gave several examples of ways that we are all failing this test by causing problems for other people. He also gave examples of two solutions we can support that would benefit others. He described how we could easily provide universal education in the United States for free for everyone. Additionally, he detailed how we could use this to benefit those who are in prison, along with treating them with kindness and respect, and how this could change the whole prison system, allowing those incarcerated the opportunity to learn and become successful participants in society upon their release. COFFEE WITH CHRISTOPHER — The ZEITGEIST CHALLENGE … Why am I hated? For What? Whom can I trust?

81: Domitian, the third of the Falvians, became Emperor of the Roman Empire upon the death of his brother Titus. Like his father Vespasian and his brother Titus, Domitian took great deal of pride in the victory over Judea. On the way back from Jerusalem after the war, Titus and Domitian celebrated the latter’s birthday with a slaughter of Jews at Caesarea. Domitian’s treatment of the Jews was actually harsher than that of his two predecessors. “He strictly enforced the special taxes” imposed on the Jews “and the ban on conversion to Judaism in Rome. According to the Roman historian Seutonius “In Domitian’s days, the Jews’ tax was collected with the utmost rigor. Thos who observed Jewish customs without admitting it, and those who concealed their Jewish origin in order to evade the tax imposed on their nation, were denounced to the imperial treasure. I still remember…how the procurator, in the presence of a crowd of assistants, inspected an old man of ninety to see whether he was circumcised.” According to “another Roman historian, in the year 95, Domitian ordered the execution of Flavius Clemens, a nobleman closely related to the imperial house, for Judaizing tendencies and banished his wife Dimitilla. 407: St. John Chrysostom, the Archbishop of Constantinople passed away today. Referred to in Catholic literature as "the man with the golden tongue" he was a virulent hater of Judaism, who disseminated his views through violent writings and preachings. He considered it meritorious to kill Jews 775: Byzantine Emperor Constantine V passed away. During his reign Constantine V modified a Byzantine law, dating from the tenth century that “demands that a Jew when swearing shall have a girdle of thorns around his loins, stand in water, and swear by "Barase Baraa" (Bereshit Bara), so that if he speaks untruth the earth may swallow him as it did Dathan and Abiram.” 786: Harun al-Rashid becomes the Abbasid caliph upon the death of his brother al-Hadi. During his Caliphate, al-Rashid honored Charlemagne’s request to send Jewish teachers to establish a Jewish Middle class in Europe. These came with Rabbi Machir who was given by Charlemagne a Princedom in Narbonne and was known as King of the Jews. In 807, al-Rashid forced Jews to wear yellow badges and Christians to wear blue badges. 1214: Albert Avogadro, Italian patriarch of Jerusalem passed away. While in this position, he wrote “a formula of life” for the Carmelites at their request. The roots of the Carmelites “are traced to the 12th century (after the third crusade) when a group of hermits began practicing their Christianity on Mt. Carmel by following the ways of the Prophet Elijah. They lived in caves on Mt, Carmel for about a century, when they were forced to leave, in 1235, due to persecution by the Saracens. At the time they did not view anyone in particular as their founder but saw Elijah as one of the founders of monastic life.” [Editor’s note – This is yet another example of how Judaism and Eretz Israel impacted those who lived in the land, even if they were not Jewish.] 1427(13th of Elul, 5187): Yaakov ben Moshe Levi Moelin, known as the Maharil (Our Teach, the Rabbi, Yaakov Levi) who was the son and pupil Moshe Levi Moelin the Rabbi of Mainz passed away today in Worms. 1614: Mass murder of Jews in Salonica, killed while returning from the Dolia market. 1615: Today, Shabbtai Zvi became a Muslim when he was brought before the Sultan where took off his Jewish head dress, replacing it with Turkish turban. The repercussions of his conversion sent shock waves throughout the Jewish world and were to be felt for many years. Some of his followers claimed that it wasn't really him who converted; others professed that this was the proof that he was the Messiah by going to Islam to redeem them as well. The Sultan, aware that killing Shabbtai Zvi would have made him a martyr, had "convinced" Shabbtai that converting to Islam was in his best interest. 1666: After having considered the choice between death or converting, Shabbetai Zvi appeared before the Sultan and put on a Turkish turban; a sign of his acceptance of Islam. 1763: Birthdate of Moses ben Samuel Schreiber, the native of Frankfort also known as Moses Sofer. (Editor’s note – there seems to be some confusion about the birthdate. We defer to the Jewish Encyclopedia) 1741: Handel began working on his three-act oratorio Samson, one of his many biblical-based works. 1752: The British Empire adopts the Gregorian calendar, skipping eleven days (the previous day was September 2). While this change may have been good science it creates a level of uncertainty when converting dates from the Jewish calendar to the secular calendar 1776(1st of Tishrei, 5537): American Jews celebrate their first Rosh Hashanah (5537) as citizens of the United States following the signing of the Declaration of Independence from Great Britain. 1785(10th of Tishrei, 5546): Yom Kippur 1795(1st of Tishrei, 5556): Rosh Hashanah 1812: Birthdate of Samuel Bernheimer, the husband of Henrietta Cahn and the father of Marcus Bernheimer. 1812: As French grenadiers enter Moscow, “The 1812 Fire of Moscow” begins as soon as Russian troops leave the city. The fire was part of a scorched earth policy that left nothing for the conquering French armies. A month later, the French would begin their long, disastrous retreat that would reduce the army from 400,000 to 40,000. Chasidic Jewry reacted differently to Napoleon’s invasion and subsequent retreat from Russia. “During the French invasion of Russia, while many Polish Hasidic leaders supported Napoleon or remained quiet about their support, Rabbi Shneur Zalman openly and vigorously supported the Tsar. While fleeing from the advancing French army he wrote a letter explaining his opposition to Napoleon to a friend, Rabbi Moshe Meizeles: “Should Napoleon be victorious, wealth among the Jews will be abundant. . .but the hearts of Israel will be separated and distant from their father in heaven. But if our master Alexander will triumph, though poverty will be abundant. . . the heart of Israel will be bound and joined with their father in heaven. . . And for God's sake: Burn this letter. ” Some Polish Hasidic leaders supported Napoleon. Some argue that Rabbi Shneur Zalman's opposition stemmed from Napoleon's attempts to arouse a messianic view of himself in Jews, opening the gates of the ghettos and emancipating their residents as he conquered. He established an ersatz Sanhedrin, recruiting Jews to his ranks, and spreading rumors about his conquest of the Holy Land to make Jews subversive for his own ends. Thus, his opposition was based on a practical fear of Jews turning to the false messianism of Napoleon as he saw it. It should be noted that Rabbi Yisroel Hopsztajn of Kozienice, another Hasidic leader, also considered Napoleon a menace to the Jewish people. However, Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson identifies Rabbi Yisrael as the Chasidic leader who preferred that Napoleon defeat the Czar. 1814: Birthdate of Samuel Löw Brill the Hungarian Rabbi and Talmudic Scholar who was educated by his father, Azriel Brill. 1814: Birthdate Albert Cohn, the native of Hungary who found fame and fortune in France, where among other things he served as the tutor for three of children of Baron James de Rothschild. 1814: As the sun rose over the Baltimore harbor, the defenders of Ft. McHenry, including at least 30 Jewish soldiers and volunteers watched as a giant American flag was raised a sign of American victory to which the British responded by sailing down Chesapeake Bay for New Orleans and an even more decisive defeat in which Jews including Judah Touro and Barataria Pirates would play a role. 1825(2nd of Tishrei, 5586): Second Day of Rosh Hashanah 1828(6th of Tishrei, 5589): Fifty-nine year old Israel Jacobson, the German businessman and philanthropist who is one of the founders of Reform Judaism, passed away today. 1829: The Ottoman Empire signs the Treaty of Adrianople with Russia, thus ending the Russo-Turkish War. This was but one of a series of wars in which the European powers would nibble away at the power and territories of the Ottoman. The last great nibble would be World War I, which when it ended, would find Palestine in the hands of the British, the authors of the Balfour Declaration. 1842(10th of Tishrei, 5603): Yom Kippur 1844(1st of Tishrei, 5605): Rosh Hashanah 1847: During the Mexican-American War, General Winfield Scott occupies Mexico City following the United States victory at The Battle of Chapultepec. During The Battle of Chapultepec, Dr. David Camden de Leon of South Carolina, known as the “fighting doctor” because of his willingness to put down his scalpel and pick up a sword when the need arose, led two cavalry charges against Mexican positions after the line officers in command of the unit had either been killed or wounded. “Special note was taken of his gallantry by the U.S. Congress.” South Carolina’s famous fighting Jewish physician had fought against the Seminoles during the 1830’s and would become Surgeon General in the Confederate army. 1852(1st of Tishrei, 5613): Rosh Hashanah 1854: In San Francisco, CA, Dr. Julius Eckmann officiated at the dedication of Congregation Emanu-El’s new synagogue. Eckmann was the congregation’s first Rabbi. The building cost $35,000. 1856: Dr. Sternberger officiated at the wedding of Mr. and Mrs. Louis Fauerbach who had come to Germany as children and who would serve as Superintendent and Matron of the Hebrew Sheltering Guardian Society Orphan Asylum for 17 years. 1860: Birthdate of Jules Guérin, the French journalist who founded The Antisemitic League of France (Ligue antisémitique de France) which played an active role in whipping up anti-Jewish sentiment during the Dreyfus Affair. 1861(10th of Tishrei, 5622): During the first year of the Civil War, Jews in the North and South observe Yom Kippur. 1863(1st of Tishrei, 5624): As the Civil War continued with seemingly no end in sight, Jews on both sides of the conflict observed Rosh Hashanah 1863: “Rosh Hashanah: The Jewish New Year’s Day” published today in the secular press reported that “In Leviticus xxiii, 23, 24 and 25, is found the following command: ‘23. And the Lord spake unto Moses saying, 24. Speak unto the children of Israel, saying. In the seventh month, in the first day of the month, shall ye have a Sabbath, a memorial of blowing of trumpets, a holy convocation. 25. Ye shall do no servile work therein: but ye shall offer an offering made by fire unto the Lord.’ Such is the ancient authority, direct from God, enjoining the commemoration of the great Jewish festival of Rosh Hashanah, which commenced last evening. The occasion is regarded by all good Israelites throughout the world as one of the most solemn and important character, and will be celebrated by the Jews of this community with all the services and ceremonies of the olden time. In order to throw some light upon the peculiar situation of this holiday in reference to the division of the Christian year, it may be well to recall the fact that the Jews, although like ourselves making it consist of twelve months, gave them twenty-nine and thirty days alternately. In their leap year, an entire month intervened between the sixth and seventh months, and consequently in the brief period of nineteen years they found no less than seven leap years, to wit, the third, sixth, eighth, eleventh, fourteenth, seventeenth and nineteenth. By these periods of nineteen years and seven leap years, they counted, the latter number being greatly venerated by their race. The beginning of the year, or New-Year's Day, was set for the first new moon after the recurrence of the Autumnal Equinox, or in the month which, as its name designates, was also the seventh mouth of the year under the old Latin arrangement -- the Tishri of the Jews. The day itself is made the commencement of the year, as it is reputed to be the anniversary of Adam's birth, and the first occupancy of our planet by man. With these majestic attributes is, also, united the characteristic that it is the Jom Haddin, or day of God's judgment upon the sins committed during the the past year, which it not absolutely atoned for are carried onward to the great account. It may, therefore, be imagined with what interest the return of this great day which marks so decisive an epoch in his individual destiny, and in the history of his race is regarded by every orthodox Israelite. In this City preparations have been in progress for a week past, and the various synagogues (some twenty in number) have all been purified and decorated for the festival. They were, yesterday evening, thrown open for the preliminary services, Rabbi Raphall officiating in the Green-street, and the Rabbi J.J. Lyons in the Nineteenth-street edifice. In Numbers, xxix, 1, the offerings of the "Feast of Trumpets" -- the other name of New-Year's Day -- are prescribed: "1. And in the seventh month, on the first day of the month, ye shall have a holy convocation; ye shall do no servile work: it is a day of blowing the trumpets unto you. 2. And ye shall offer a burnt-offering for a sweet savor unto the Lord, one young bullock, one ram and seven lambs of the first year, without blemish. 3. And their meat offering shall be of flour mingled with oil, three-tenth deals for a bullock and two-tenth deals for a ram. 4. And one-tenth deal for one lamb, throughout the seven lambs. 5. And one kid of the goats for a sin offering to make an atonement for you." These sacrifices are to be independent of the ordinary ones for the day and the month. The present anniversary is, according to the Jewish calendar, the five thousand six hundred and twenty-fourth since the creation of the world, and owing to the rapid changes going on in Jewish society, and the many removals and deaths occasioned among them in this country, by the existing war, will be observed with peculiar formality and impressiveness. The services of last evening were noteworthy chiefly for the solemn manner in which the Rabbin alluded to the waning orthodoxy of many worldly members of their synagogues, and reminded their hearers that, if the season should pass unimproved, the Angel of Death, preventing the enjoyment of another, may bear away with him to the dread record a list of sins beyond atonement. To-day and to-morrow, all but absolutely indispensable labor will cease in every good family of Israelites, and at noon upon each day the great Shofar or trumpet, will be blown in the synagogues amid the reverence of thousands of the Faithful. On Wednesday, the 23d inst., or tenth day of the seventh month, will occur the Yom Kippur or "Day of Atonement" the most solemn and important of all the Jewish fasts. Upon the approach of that impressive period we may have occasion to allude to it at greater length. No more curious and instructive spectacle lies within the observation of our readers, than the solemnizing in our midst, and according to the ancient ritual, of these hoary anniversaries by the ancient people.” 1864: In Paris, France, banker Alphonse James de Rothschild and Leonora de Rothschild daughter of Lionel de Rothschild gave birth to their daughter Charlotte known as Beatrice who became Béatrice Ephrussi de Rothschild when she “married the Russian-born banker Maurice Ephrussi. 1866(5th of Tishrei, 5627): Sixty-three year old French novelist and playwright Léon Gozlan passed away in Paris. 1868: In San Francisco, CA, Leopold Rosenbaum and Sabine Dreschfeld gave birth to University of Virginia Law School graduate Oscar H. Rosenbaum the vice-president of the Pittsburgh Industrial Removal Office, the director of the Pittsburg United Hebrew Charities and the president of District No. 3 of the Independent Order of B’nai B’rith. 1872: The New York Tribune, the paper controlled by presidential candidate Horace Greeley published a column entitled the “Christian Spirit of Liberalism.” The column was an attempt to offset disparaging comments that Greely had made about Jews. 1874(3rd of Tishrei, 5635): Tzom Gedaliah 1876: Rabbi Dr. Henry W. Schneeberger delivered his first sermon as rabbi of Chizuk Amuno – ushering in what was to be a forty year association with this shul! 1876: It was reported today the B.F. Peixoto, the United States Consul at Bucharest and a prominent leader of the Jewish community will address the upcoming meeting of the Young Men’s Hebrew Association. 1878: In New York, The Chamber of Commerce Relief Committee sent funds to a variety of organizations that will alleviate the suffering from the Yellow Fever Epidemic including $1,000 for the Hebrew Benevolent Society in New Orleans. 1878(2nd of Tishrei, 5548): Second Day of Rosh Hashanah 1878: As the Yellow Fever Epidemic continues to hold New Orleans in its deadly grip, it was reported today that Marx Moses who had served as the Rabbi of the Jackson Street Hebrew Congregation has lost most of his family including his wife, a son named Samuel and a daughter named Matilda. One child is convalescing after suffering a bout of the fever. 1879: “The Roumanian Hebrews” published today denied that Jews are being persecuted in Romania because of their religion. Rather, the new government is failing to honor its treaty obligations and failing to make the Jews citizens for economic reasons. (Anti-Semites always do find a way) 1879: It was reported today that there are 21 clergyman among the new members of the Austrian Parliament one of whom is a rabbi. 1879: It was reported today that the Jews of Cooktown, Austrialia, presented an address welcoming the Anglican Bishop of North Queensland who was both “surprised and gratified” by this turn of events. 1880(9th of Tishrei, 5641): In the evening Kol Nidre 1880: It was reported today that “Yom Kippur, or the Day of Atonement…commences at sundown this evening. During this period, orthodox Jews observe a strict fast, neither food nor drink being permitted to pass their lips for 24 hours.” 1881: A meeting is to be held at the Young Men’s Hebrew Association on 42nd Street where a number of prominent New York Jewish leaders including Coroner Moritz Ellinger, Julie Bien and Adolph Sanger will make further plans for the Russian Jewish immigrants arriving in the city. Those “who are suited to farm work” will be settled on land, primarily in Texas and Tennessee, purchased by these men who will also provide them with funds for farm impliments. 1882(1st of Tishrei, 5643): Rosh Hashanah – The following poem by Emma Lazarus entitled “Rosh Hashanah 1882” captured her feelings about the day: "The New Year" Rosh Hashanah, 5643 Now while the snow-shroud round dead earth is rolled, And naked branches point to frozen skies, -- When orchards burn their lamps of fiery gold, The grape glows like a jewel, and the corn A sea of beauty and abundance lies, Then the New Year is born. Look where the mother of the months uplifts In the green clearness of the unsunned West, Her ivory horn of plenty, dropping gifts, Cool, harvest-feeding dews, Tired labor with fruition, joy and rest Profusely to requite. Blow, Israel, the sacred coronet! Call Back to thy courts whatever faint heart throb With thine ancestral blood, thy need craves all. The red, dark year is dead, the year just born Leads on from anguish wrought by priest and mob, To what undreamed-of morn? For never yet, since on the holy height, The Temple's marble walls of white and green Carved like the sea-waves, fell, and the world's light Went out in darkness, -- never was the year Greater with potent and with promise seen, Than this eve now and here. Even as the Prophet promised, so your tent Hath been enlarged unto earth's farthest rim. To snow-capped Sierras from vast steppes ye went, Through fire and blood and Mighty to slay and save. High above flood and fire ye held the scroll, Out of the depths ye published still the Word. No bodily pang had power to swerve your soul: Ye, in a cynic age of crumbling faiths, Lived to bear witness to the living Lord, Or died a thousand deaths. In two divided streams the exiles part, One rolling homeward to its ancient source, One rushing sunward with fresh will, new heart. By each truth is spread, the law unfurled, Each separate soul contains the nation's force, And both embrace the world. Kindle the silver candle's seven rays, Offer the first fruits of the The garnered spoil of bees. With prayer and praise Rejoice that once more tried, once more we prove How strength of supreme suffering still is ours. For Truth and Law and Love. 1882(1st of Tishrei, 5643): Henry (Hayyim Gershon) Vidaver passed away today in San Francisco, CA. Born in Warsaw in 1833, he was a prominent rabbi, publisher, Hebraist, and orator in America. “In 1859, Vidaver immigrated to the United States, and became the rabbi of Congregation Rodeph Shalom in Philadelphia. In 1861 he resigned his position and moved to Germany then returned to the U.S. in 1865 to become rabbi of United Hebrew Congregation in St. Louis, Missouri where he withdrew his support for the Confederacy and wrote in praise of Abraham Lincoln. In 1867, he assumed the pulpit of the B'nai Jeshurun in New York and from 1874 until his death in 1882 served as rabbi of Congregation Sherith Israel in San Francisco. Vidaver and Jacob Levinski co-authored the first abridged Hebrew Bible, which was published in 1869. He also commonly published poems in Hebrew about Jerusalem and other Jewish issues in Hebrew newspapers, such as Havatzelet. 1882: Rabbi Henry Pereira Mendes and lay-reader D. H. Nieto led Rosh Hashanah services today at Shearith Israel in New York. “Their pronunciation of Hebrews is according to the Spanish method.” (This is a reference to the fact that they used Sephardic instead of Ashkenazi pronunciation that was common among the Polish, German and Russian Jews.) 1882: In Bloomington, Illinois, the Moses Montefiore Congregation, a newly formed Reform congregation, held its first Rosh Hashanah service 1883: The Hebrew Charities found out that if they do not provided assistance to Louise Bremer, a widow who arrived aboard the SS Canada from France, she will be sent back to Europe. 1884: “Biblical Geography” published today provides a detailed review of Kadesh-Barnes: Its Importance and Probable Site With the Story of A Hunt For It by H. Clay Trumbull which includes “studies of the route of the Exodus” and a search for the Southern boundary of the Holy Land. 1885: Eight year old Abraham Schmidt who attends a Hebrew School at 127 Pitt Street was taken to the hospital after he was diagnosed as having smallpox. 1885: It was reported today that from 1847 until January of 1885, 85,000 Russian Jews and 11,000 Polish Jews had come to the United States. In the last 8 months, an additional 9,000 had arrived in America. Currently, there are 69,000 foreign born Jews living in the United States. 1886: After a four year engagement, Sigmund Freud married Martha Bernays in the same year during which he opened his practice. 1888: The Hebrew Ladies’ Aid Society contributed $10.00 to the Mayor of New York’s Yellow Fever Fund. 1890: “An Indictment of Russia” published today 1890(29th of Elul, 5650): On the eve of Rosh Hashanah, Ray Frank became the first Jewish woman to preach formally from a synagogue pulpit in the United States. Frank worked as a correspondent for several Californian newspapers, and this work brought her to Spokane, Washington, on the eve of the High Holy Days. Frank was shocked to find that no synagogue services were scheduled, since many affluent Jews lived in the area. A prominent member of the community who knew of Frank's reputation for Jewish learning offered to arrange Rosh Hashanah services if Frank would give a sermon. Frank agreed, and word of the event spread; Jews and Christians alike came to hear her speak, filling the city's opera house. Frank's sermon entreated her audience to overcome the differences between Reform and Orthodox ritual that had divided Spokane's Jewish community and to form a permanent congregation. Frank so impressed her audience that they invited her to remain through the High Holidays, and she delivered a sermon on the eve of Yom Kippur as well. After these sermons, Frank was much in demand as a speaker throughout the 1890s across the country. The press speculated about Frank's rabbinic aspirations, and many headlines referred to her, incorrectly, as the first woman rabbi (America's first female rabbi was not ordained until 1972). Although Frank expressed no interest in becoming a rabbi, her actions forced American Jewry for the first time to consider seriously the possibility of women rabbis. 1890(29th of Elul, 5650): Rabbi Alexander Kohurt conducted services this evening at Temple Ahawath Chesed where the choir sang “By Thee, Oh God Inspired, Be True Devotion Shown” and “Though Ages Come and Go.” 1890(29th of Elul, 5650): Rabbi de Sola Mendes proved over services at Shaaray Tephilla which ended with the singing of “Yigdal. 1890(29th of Elul, 5650): At six o’clock services began at Temple Emnu-El where Rabbi Silverman delivered a sermon entitled “The Day of Reconciliation.” 1890: “Jews in Russian Service” published today described the surprise, first expressed in the Spectator that the Czar has forced thousands of Jews to join the army saying that “there is something strange in arming a body of men habitually oppressed by the state.. 1890: As of today it is reported that there are 125,000 Jews in the Russian Army with another 50,000 scheduled to be drafted next year. 1890: Rachel Green and her two children arrived today aboard the SS Sorento where they were met by her two son Charles and Simon who had landed at Castle Garden three years ago. 1891(11th of Elul, 5651): Rabbi Zeev Wolf Landau, the son of Rabbi Abraham "The Ciechanówer" Landa and Itta Landau passed away today. 1891: “Jews Made To Wait” published today described the arrest of 42 Polish and Russians who were arrested and later fined $2 each for failing to clear the sidewalk at the corner of Delancey and Ridge Streets fast enough to suit the local police – a failure brought on by the fact that the Jews did not understand what they were being told to do. 1892: In Kingston, NY, Rabbi Gustav Gotheil preached the sermon at the dedication of Temple Emanuel located on Abeel Street. “Henry Abbey read a poem entitled ‘Emanuel’” as part of the ceremony. 1892: Flora Weinberg, who is suing her Jewish husband Abraham Weinberg for divorce, made an application for alimony in Superior Court today. 1893(4th of Tishrei, 5654): Joseph Goldstein, a young Jewish tailor shot his girlfriend Rebecca Feinberg and then took his own life at Garfunkel’s ice cream parlor when his matrimonial plans appeared to be frustrated. 1894: The will of Dr. Bernard Grunhut was filed for probate in Kings County Surrogates office today “by the executors, Abraham Stern and William Gregory Ketcham. 1895: In New Jersey, there is no sign that the fire threatening the Jewish farm colony at Reega will abate and the Russian immigrants may lose “the haven” financed by Baron Hirsch. 1895(25th of Elul, 5655): Fifty-two year old Moritz Brasch, the chief editor of the Brockhaus Konversations-Lexikon. Passed away today in Leipzig. 1896: L'Eclair published "The Traitor," a retrospective article “which pretended to bring to light the real motives for the judgment” in Dreyfus case in 1894. 1897: Writing from Paris Rowland Strong described events at the recently concluded Oriental Congress where Monsieur Halevy delivered a paper about investigations that he had personally conducted in Abyssinia where he found a group of Essenes who “in every respect are similar to those existing in the time of Jesus Christ” and who “kept the Sabbath with extreme rigor…” 1898: Birthdate of movie producer Hal Wallis who is best known for his most famous work, The Maltese Falcon starring Humphrey Bogart. The producer did not explain how when he had changed from Walinsky, his birth name, to Wallis. 1899: Jews in London’s East End carrying a banner that read “Dreyfus, the Martyr. All the Civilized World Demands His Instant Release” marched through Spitalfields. 1899: At 6 a.m. services began at the Great Synagogue in London where Dr. N.M. Adler, the congregation’s Rabbi delivered a sermon on the injustice of the Dreyfus verdict in which he said this was as great a defeat for France as Waterloo or Sedan. 1899: Between three and four thousand people attended services today at Tammany Hall which lasted from seven until seven that were sponsored by the Odessa Musical and Benevolent Association 1899: At Temple Israel, Dr. Maurice Harris delivered a sermon in which he declared “There is one man in everyone’s thoughts today – Captain Alfred Dreyfus” who “once vilified, has now the sympathy and admiration of the whole world.” 1899: “Panic In The Thalia Theatre” published today described the chaos that broke out during Kol Nidre services when “a fight took place between some youths who crowded the upper gallery” and somebody shouted “fire” 1901(1st of Tishrei, 5662): Rosh Hashanah (See the item below – gives a whole new meaning to the term New Year) 1901: Theodore Roosevelt becomes President of the United States following the assassination of William McKinley. Theodore Roosevelt was the last Republican to receive significant Jewish support; his fierce independence and support of specific Jewish concerns made him a hero to many within this community. Theodore Roosevelt was the first President to appoint a Jew to a presidential cabinet. In 1906 he named Oscar S. Straus Secretary of Commerce and Labor. Theodore Roosevelt was also the first President to contribute his own funds to a Jewish cause. In 1919, when he received the Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts while President to settle the Russo-Japanese War, Roosevelt donated some of his prize money to the National Jewish Welfare Board. And then there is the fact that he took office on Rosh Hashanah. 1903(22nd of Elul, 5663): Jews of Homel, Russia, were massacred. 1903: Feibisch Jolles who passed away two days ago at the age of 71 was buried in Vienna today. 1908: The first Jewish self-defense organization in Eretz Yisrael was founded. This is probably a reference to Ha-Shomer (in English "The Watchman") which other sources say was founded in 1909. Made up of about forty members, Ha-Shomer was founded to protect the early kibbutzim and Jewish towns from attacks by marauding Arab robbers and others. The early settlers were determined not to rely on others for their defense. This mounted force that could blend in with the local population because they dressed liked Arabs and spoke Arabic had as its motto," By blood and fire Judea fell; by blood and fire Judea shall rise." 1909: At the request of the Hahambashi, authorities take important steps to suppress the White Slave Trade. Both Ashkenazi and Sephardi Jews did have involvement with this, but when Chief Rabbi Nahum provided the Turks with lists of names for investigations, they did nothing with them. 1912: Harry Horowitz and “Lefty Louis” Rosenberg were arrested in Queen today on charges of having participated in the murder of gambler Herman Rosenthal. 1912(3rd of Tishrei, 5673): Mrs. Sara Simsohn passed away. 1914(23rd of Elul, 5674): Lt. Ronald Lucas Quixano Henriques of the Queen’s Regiment, a member of a long-established Sephardi family who attended Harrow and Sandhurst (the British West Point) was killed today making him the first Anglo-Jewish officer to die during WW I. 1915: Dr. Felix Kornfeld and Paula Mandl gave birth to their second child, Ulrich Kornfeld the husband of Lorie Granitsch. 1915: It was reported today that “Turks admit that the Armenian persecution is the first step in a plan to get rid of” several groups and “that the Jews also are marked for slaughter and expulsion.” 1915: Albert Lucas, Secretary of the Central Committee for the Relief of Jews suffering through the war announced today the organization of a new committee in Paterson, NJ.” 1916: Samuel Goldwyn resigned as Chairman of the Board of the Famous Players-Lasky after a series of dispute with Jesse Lasky, leading to a partnership with Edgar and Archibald Selwyn that would become known as Goldwyn Pictures with its distinctive “Leo the Lion” (the roaring lion) trademark. 1916: “Instructions to arrange for transportation of sixty-five American women and children out of Palestine on the cruiser Des Moines were called by the State Department today to the American Constantinople.” 1916: It was reported today the motion made by Joseph Barondess and seconded by Leo Arnstein to allow Jewish teachers and clerks to be excused from work on Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur which had been objected to by Arthur S. Somers, Dr. Ira S. Wiles and Thomas W. Churchill even after the motion was changed to make it leave without pay was referred to the Committee on By-Laws 1917: At Petrograd, the ringleaders of “Holy Russia” a secret society that published a newspaper Groza “that contained attacks on the Jews and the Allies, urged an immediate peace and declared that the Jews were responsible for the continuance of the war.” 1917: In Jerusalem, the Hebrew daily Ha-Herut suspended publication. 1917: In Warsaw, the order of German authorities expelling all students who were not natives of the city from the colleges and universities led to a disproportionate number of Jews having to end their studies. 1917: It was reported today that Chairman Harry Cutler of the Jewish Board of Welfare Work in the Army and Navy has announced “hospitality at services on the high holy days would be extended to all men in military service who obtain a leave of absence” as permitted by the Secretary of the Navy or the Adjutant General who have ordered that furloughs be granted so long as granting them “does not interfered with public service.” 1918(8th of Tishrei, 5679): Shabbat Shuva 1919(19th of Elul, 5679): Sixty-eight year old Polish born French chess master Jean Taubenhaus passed away 1920: Birthdate of economist and Nobel Prize Winner, Lawrence Klein. 1922: “The Earl of Essex” a silent film about the English noble starring Eva May was released today in Germany. 1923: Miguel Primo de Rivera becomes dictator of Spain. “The government of Miguel Primo de Rivera decreed that every Sephardi could claim Spanish citizenship. This right was used by some refugees during the Second World War, including the Hungarian Jews saved by Ángel Sanz Briz and Giorgio Perlasca. This decree was again put to use to receive some Jews from Sarajevo during the Bosnian War.” 1924: Birthdate of Willem Polak whose parents were murdered during the Holocaust and who served as Mayor of Amsterdam for six years. 1925(25th of Elul, 5685): Sixty-year old Max Pam who “read law in the offices of Adolph Moses” before gaining admission to the bar and whose clients included such blue chip companies as U.S. Steel and International which provided him with the wherewithal to serve as the benefactor of Hebrew Union College and Notre Dame where funded the School of Journalism passed away today. 1928: Birthdate of labor leader Albert Shanker. Shanker was President of the militant American Federation of Teachers which challenged the dominant teachers' organization, the NEA. 1929: In Manhattan, Mary Gutfreund and Manuel Gutfreudn, a butcher who became a meat wholesaler and distributor gave birth to financier John Gutfreund. (As reported by Jonathan Kandell) 1930: “German voters elect 107 Nazis to the Reichstag, elevating Hitler’s organization to major party status. 1930: Forty-eight year old Bet A. Polsky, the son of Abram and Mollie Bloch Polsky “opened his store in downtown Akron, Ohio today.” 1930: First baseman Hank Greenberg made his major league debut with the Detroit Tigers. 1930: Birthdate of Allan Bloom, the native of Indianapolis best known for championing an intellectual approach to education and literacy encapsulated in The Closing of the American Mind. 1931: Birthdate “Czech novelist and playwright Ivan Kilma.” 1933: Mrs. Zackheim, the widow of a German-Jewish author attracted considerable attention as she sat behind the wheel of her taxicab in Tel Aviv. Mrs. Zackheim appears to have been the first female cab driver in Palestine but she will not be the last if reports that “a cooperative group of women drivers, most of them refugees from Germany” is in its formative organizational stages prove to be correct. 1935: “Special Agent” a gangster movie produced by Samuel Bischoff was released in the United States by Warner Bros. 1935: A day before the Nuremberg laws were introduced “by the Reichstag at a special meeting convened at the annual Nuremberg Rally of the Nazi Party,” and while a debated was raging about boycotting the 1936 Olympics because of German racial policies, it was reported that “General Charles H. Sherrill, an American member of the International Olympic Committee had left Nuremberg” on September 13 after having been the personal guest of Hitler… 1935: Re-release of “Thirteen Women” produced by David O. Selznick, with a screenplay by Samuel Ornitz and music by Max Steiner. 1936(27th of Elul, 5696: Ossip Gabrilowitsch, who has been rated as one of the half dozen greatest pianists of his generation and is the Director of the Detroit Symphony Orchestra, passed away. His wife Clara, the daughter of Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain) and their daughter Nina were with him. 1936(27th of Elul, 5696): Irving Grant Thalberg passed away. Born in 1899, Thalberg was known as the "Boy Wonder" of filmdom. While many have forgotten his cinematic work, they are reminded of his life each year when a special award named in his honor is presented at the annual Oscar Ceremonies. 1936: The Maccabees of Tel Aviv, soccer champions of Palestine, arrived in New York City today for a tour of North America. 1936: Two German Jews are among the thirty foreign aviators quartered at Cuatro Vientos Airport in Madrid where they have joined the fight against Franco and his fascists. 1936: At a testimonial luncheon given today in her honor at the Hotel Commodore sponsored by the Women’s Division of the Greater New York Campaign of the Joint Distribution Committee that is raising $1,500,000 for the aid of Jews in Germany, Poland and other parts of Eastern Europe, Mrs. Herbert H. Lehman described “the destitute condition of the oppressed groups in Europe, particularly the Jewish people of German” and made a please for supporting the work of the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee. 1936: Outfielder Morrie Arnovich made his major league debut with the Philadelphia Phillies. 1937: Outfielder Goody Rosen made his major league debut with the Brooklyn Dodgers. 1937: Today, “a group of 30 men announced the formation of the Rochester Professional Football Team, Inc. to continue operation of the Rochester Tigers” which were coached by former All-American quarterback Harry Newman. 1938: Birthdate of actor and comedian Leonard Frey. 1938: During the crisis over the Sudetenland, French diplomat Georges Bonnet displayed the attitude of Western Weakness that would lead to WW II when today he told Sir Eric Phipps that “we cannot sacrifice ten million men in to prevent three and half million Sudetens joining the Reich.” 1938(18th of Elul, 5698): While escorting a laborer’s cart, Alfred Asher, a Jewish policeman, was shot dead on the road between Rehovoth and Givat Brenner. 1938(18th of Elul, 5698): Three Jews were killed when a land mine exploded under their car while they traveled on the road between Afuleh and Kirat Zion. 1938(18th of Elul, 5698): “Late in the afternoon Dr. Abraham Rosenthal, a well-known heart specialist in Jerusalem was shot dead at Ramleh while driving from Tel Aviv. 1939(1st of Tishrei, 5700): Rosh Hashanah 5700 1939(1st of Tishrei, 5700): On the first day of the Jewish New Year, 43 Jews were taken, forced to do labor and then shot to death at Przemsysl, Poland. Asscheer Gitter was among the dead. 1939: Order No.7 of German Civilian Administration transferred all Jewish industrial and commercial enterprises in Poland to "Aryan' hands. This was part of the ongoing economic war that the Nazis conducted against the Jews wherever they went. Killing Jews was the Final Solution. But the first goal was to steal everything the Jews owned (so much for the nobility of the Aryans). 1939: “The German Army entered” Wloclawek, Poland “and aided by local sympathizers, began looting Jewish property, shooting Jews, and burning synagogues.” (Yad Vashem) 1939: Eric Colcraft, a photographer with the English newspaper Planet News took a picture today of a Jewish orphanage in Warsaw, Poland, after the Germans had bombed the city 1940: Isaac Siegel began serving as Justice of the Domestic Relations Court in New York City – a position he held until his death. 1941(22nd of Elul, 5701): Nine thousand Jews were killed by the Nazis in Slonim, Russia 1941: Dedication of Temple Emanu-El in Dothan, Alabama. Jews have lived in the Dothan area for over one hundred years. The congregation was charted in 1929. 1942: Pitcher Harry Shuman made his major league debut with the Pittsburgh Pirates. 1942: Having shot down one bomber and one fighter yesterday over Stalingrad, according to authors, Lydia Litvyak shot down her second Messerschmitt, the fighter that was the pride of the Luftwaffe 1943: Jacob Gens, head of the Jewish Council of the Vilna Ghetto was summoned to Gestapo headquarters. He never returned. Earlier in the Summer Gens had played a less than stellar role regarding armed resistance to the Nazis in Vilna. A Jewish shoemaker named Itzik Vitenberg was the leader of resistance group that planned on fighting the Nazis in the ghetto. Vitenberg was turned over to the Nazis by Jewish police chief in the Ghetto. After he was rescued by his comrades, the Gestapo demanded that the Jews surrender him or suffer the consequences. Gens urged the people to give him up; to not sacrifice the common good for one person. The Vilna Jews felt that they had enjoyed a year and half of "peace" thanks to Gens working with the Nazis and ultimately Vitenberg was forced to give himself up. He was brutally murdered by the Nazis. 1944(26th of Elul, 5704): Wilhelm Haas, the husband of Eleasah (Elise) Haas, who is the granddaughter of Bella Baer the daughter of Rabbi Samuel Marx, he uncle of Karl Marx, died today at Theresienstadt. 1945: On the Friday before the Day of Atonment, WABC broadcast a Yom Kippur Service from 5 to 5:15 led by Chaplain Jacob P. Rudin, Cantor David Putterman and Chaplain Luther D. Miller. 1945: At 5:30 in the evening WQXR broadcast a services from Temple Emanu-El 1945: At 8:00 pm WEVD broadcast “News in Yiddish” followed fifteen minutes later by the “Jewish Philosopher.” 1945: According to reports published in the New York Times, Hadassah, the Women's Zionist Organization of America, has sent $1,112,000 during the past four months to the Youth Aliyah (immigration) Bureau of the Jewish for the purpose of caring for young Jews who have survived the Nazi camps. 1946: Hank Greenberg drives in 7 Tiger Runs with 2 home runs and a double as Detroit defeats the Yankees in their final game of the season. 1947: Seventy-three year old soldier/statesman General Sir Arthur Grenfell Wauchope the High Commissioner and Commander-in-Chief for Palestine and Trans-Jordan from 1931 until his retirement in 1938 – a period that was marked by “a three-fold increase in the Jewish population” and an “economic boom of sorts for Jewish commercial activities but was also marred by the Arab uprising. 1948: David Ben-Gurion met with all 64 Palmach commanding officers. He explained to them why he was abolishing the Palmach National Command which had acted as an army within an army since the establishment of the IDF. Ben-Gurion was determined to see to it that there was only national military force in Israel and that it was under the control of the government. Neither the Irgun on the right nor the Palmach on the left would be allowed to undermine this goal. 1948: With the sound of shellfire from Arab artillery in the background, Dr. Felix Rosenblueth, the Ministers of Justice swore in the first five justices to serve on Israel’s newly created Supreme Court. Chief Justice Moshe Smoira and Justices Rabbi Simcha Assaf, Itzhak Olshan, Moshe Dunkelblum and Schneur Zalman Cheshin covered their heads and recited the oath “to maintain fidelity to the State of Israel and its laws and not to swerve from justice but to judge people properly.” This is the first Jewish court to sit in a Jewish state since the Sanhedrin met in the days of the Second Commonwealth 1948: Milton Berle started his TV career on Texaco Star Theater. "Uncle Miltie" would become the first national television entertainment celebrity. In the early fifties, this Jewish semi-successful vaudeville comic would dominant Tuesday nights in a way not since again until the creation of Monday Night Football. 1950: As tensions rise over the Israeli occupation of an area at Naharayim along the confluence of the Yarmuk and Jordan River, “Maj. Gen. William E. Riley, United Nations chief truce supervisor, said that, from an interpretation of a map, Israel undoubtedly was right in her claim to land disputed by Jordan, but that he had legal reservations arising from the fact that the land had belonged to Transjordan before the” fighting in 1948. The area in question is the site of the Israeli owned Rutenberg Hydroelectric Plant which had “been the most important source of electric power for Palestine “but had fallen into disuse due to the dispute with Jordan. As night fell, Major General Yigal Yadin, the Israeli Army Chief of Staff expressed Israel’s determination to defend all of its land even if meant a renewed outbreak of hostilities. 1950: In New York, “Pamela (née Wolkowitz) and Murray Deutch, a music executive and publisher” gave birth to director Howard Deutch whose body of work includes “The Replacement” a comedy that will warm the heart of any Washington, DC football fan. 1953:”Always a Bride” a comedy with a musical score by Benjamin Frankel was released today in the United Kingdom. 1955: Birthdate of Yosef Yitzhak Paritzky, the Israeli lawyer whose political career has included serving as an MK and Minister of National Infrastructure. 1955: Birthdate of Pulitzer Prize winning author Geraldine Brooks whose works included People of the Book, a novel featuring the Sarajevo Haggadah. 1956: The American Hebrew appeared for the last time before merging with the Examiner to become The American Examiner. 1957: In Halifax, Beth El Congregation completed its new sanctuary located on the corner of Oxford Street and Coburg Road 1958(29th of Elul, 5718): Erev Rosh Hashanah 1959(11th of Elul, 5719): Seventy-two year, Scottish chemist Sir Ian Heilbron (born Isidor Morris) passed away today. 1958(29th of Elul, 5718): Eighty-two year old Frieda Fanny Warburg, the daughter of Jacob and Therese Schiff and wife of Felix Moritz Warburg passed away at White Plains, NY. 1960: The Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) is founded. The persistence of the Arab-Israeli conflict finally triggered a response that transformed OPEC into a formidable political force. After the Six Day War of 1967, the Arab members of OPEC formed a separate, overlapping group, the Organization of Arab Petroleum Exporting Countries, for the purpose of centering policy and exerting pressure on the West over its support of Israel. Egypt and Syria, though not major oil-exporting countries, joined the latter grouping to help articulate its objectives. Later, the Yom Kippur War of 1973 galvanized Arab opinion. Furious at the emergency re-supply effort that had enabled Israel to withstand Egyptian and Syrian forces, the Arab world imposed the 1973 oil embargo against the United States and Western Europe, while non-Arab OPEC members did not. 1962: “Jungle Fighters” produced by Michael Balcon, with a screenplay by Wolf Mankowitz, music by Stanley Black and starring Laurence Harvey was released today in the United States. 1964(8th of Tishrei, 5725): Fifty-eight year old Vasily Grossman, the Soviet journalist who provided first-hand accounts of the battles at Moscow, Stalingrad, Kursk and Berlin as well as riveting descriptions of the death camp at Treblinka, passed away today. 1965: Pope Paul VI opened the fourth and final session of Vatican II which approved Nostra Aetate which said that “all Jews today are no more responsible for the death of Christ than Christians.” 1966(29th of Elul, 5726): Erev Rosh Hashanah 1966(29th of Elul, 5726): Actress Gertrude Edelstein Berg passed away. Born in 1894, Berg gained fame as the Jewish housewife Molly Goldberg. She began the role on radio in 1929. She sharpened it in the 1948 Broadway hit Molly and Me. She reached her apex of celebrity when The Goldbergs was a television hit from 1949 through 1955. Berg was a victim of Senator McCarthy's Red Hunt and the show was taken off the air. 1969(2nd of Tishrei, 5730): As traditional Jews observe the second day of Rosh Hashanah the miracle Mets who survived Art Shamsky’s decision not to play on the Jewish New Year continue their drive for the National League Penant. 1969: “Sinai Tour Routes Avoid Suez Routes” published today described “one of the unexpected results of the six-day war of 1967” is a boom in tourism in the Sinai Peninsula 1972: The building on West Franklin Street that had been home to Beth Ahabah (Hebrew: House of Love) a Reform synagogue in Richmond, Virginia that was founded in 1789, was designated as part of the U.S. Historic District. 1972(6th of Tishrei, 5733): Eighty-four year old French playwright Jean-Jacques Bernard who was interned at Compiegne at the start of the Nazi occupation but who avoided deportation to one of the death camps passed away today in Paris. 1972: In the wake of the Munich Massacre it was reported today that the official Chinese government newspaper Jenmin-Jih Pao said that “the Israeli aggressors claimed to have bombed Syria and Lebanon in self-defense” but what they had committed was inexcusable aggression designed “to undermine the unity between the Arab nations and the Palestinian people.” 1973: Israel shot down 13 Syrian MIG-21s. It was victories like this that bred the sense of over-confidence that some critics would later led to the successful sneak attack that started the Yom Kippur War (October, 1973). 1974: Broadcast of the first episode of “Friends & Lovers” a sitcom created by James L. Brooks and Allan Burns and starring Jack Gilford and Steve Landesberg. 1975(9th of Tishrei, 5736: Erev Yom Kippur 1976: CBS broadcast “Rescue At Entebbe: How They Saved The Hostages” a “news special about the planning and execution of the recent Israeli commando raid in Uganda to free airline hostages.” 1976: “Bar Mitzvah Boy,” a British television play, written by Jack Rosenthal, was broadcast today. 1976: “Hard Line and Hijackings” published today reported that in the wake of the hijacking of a “New York-to-Chicago airliner” “the dominant view among aviation at the moment is that there is nothing wrong in governments adopting a “policy of toughness in dealing with hijackers” as exemplified by “the Israeli commando raid that freed hostages at Uganda’s Entebbe Airport earlier this year.” 1976: “Checking Out,” a Broadway play directed by Jerry Adler and starring Joan Copeland, Hy Anzell and Mason Adams opened at the Longacre Theatre tonight. 1977(2nd of Tishrei, 5738): Second Day of Rosh Hashanah 1978: The Democratic Movement for Change splintered with the different components dividing themselves between three other parties. 1979: Sofia Cosma a native of the Smorgon, a shtetl on the border between Latvia and Lithuanian took his final turn at the podium when he conducted Concerto No.1 by Tchaikovsky today 1981: Nigel Lawson began serving as Secretary of State for Energy. 1983: Birthdate of Amy Winehouse 1983: Ninety-three year old Ernst Moritz Hess who was Hitler’s commanding officer during WW I and lost his job as Judge after the passage of the Nazi Nuremberg race law because even though his father was Protestant and he had been baptized, he was classified as a Jew, passed away today. 1984: Gary Rosenblatt, the editor of the Baltimore Jewish Times, “published an article titled ‘The Simon Wiesenthal Center: State-of-the-art Activism or Hollywood Hype?’ analyzing whether Wiesenthal Center officials were truthful in marketing their Holocaust museum as a non-sectarian, humanitarian institution in order to receive funding from the state of California. This article was one of two finalists for the Pulitzer Prize in the category of Special Reporting in 1985. The honor marked the first time an article in a Jewish publication was cited in the Pulitzer competition.” 1984(17th of Elul, 5744): Ninety-two year old Memphis, TN, philanthropist Abe Plough the native of Tupelo, MS who created a company that eventually became Schering-Plough Pharmaceuticals of which he was chairman 1985: Premier episode of the Golden Girls. The show was the creation of Jewish television executive Brandon Tartikoff. Two of the four lead characters in this long running television hit were Jewish – Beatrice Arthur and Estelle Getty. 1985(28th of Elul, 5745): Julian Beck, whose Living Theater expanded the frontiers of theatrical innovation for nearly 40 years, died of cancer today at the age of 60. (As reported by Samuel Freedman) 1989: The first Broadway revival of Stephen Sondheim’s “Sweeny Todd” opened at the Circle in the Square Theatre. 1990: “Death Warrant” an action movie written by David S. Goyer was released in the United States today by MGM. 1993: Yithak Rabin replaced Aryeh Deri as Minister of Internal Affairs. 1994(9th of Tishrei, 5755): Erev Yom Kippur 1994: Acting Commissioner Bud Selig announced the cancellation of the rest of the baseball season on the 34th day of a strike by players. Selig is one of a number of Jews who have found success as executives in the world of professional athletics. 1994: “Quiz Show” a movie based on Richard Goodwin’s Remembering America: A Voice From the Sixties co-starring Rob Morrow and featuring Barry Levinson that describes the Quiz Show Scandals and centers around Herb Stempel was released today by Buena Vista Pictures. 1996(1st of Tishrei, 5757): Rosh Hashanah 1997: About 90 headstones at a Jewish cemetery on Staten Island were found overturned today and swastikas had been spray-painted on 5, the police said. Visitors to the Baron Hirsch Cemetery at 1126 Richmond Avenue in the Graniteville section alerted officers to the vandalism with a 911 call about 4:30 P.M., Officer Valerie St. Rose, a police spokeswoman, said the vandalism is being investigated as a bias crime. 1997: The New York Times book section featured reviews by Jewish authors and/or about topics of Jewish interest including Alice Hoffman’s 12th novel, Here On Earth and Watching My Language: Adventures in the Word Trade by William Safire. 2000: A general strike began in Nazareth protesting what they described as "police incompetence in handling violence and crime" after the murder of a local resident,52 year old Nabieh Nussier, 2000: A general strike began in Nazareth protesting what they described as "police incompetence in handling violence and crime" after the murder of a local resident,52 year old Nabieh Nussier, 2000: U.S. premiere of “Dancing at the Blue Iguana” directed by Michael Radford who co-authored the script. 2003: Pitcher John Grabow made his major league debut with the Pittsburgh Pirates. 2003: The New York Times featured reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or about topics of Jewish interest including Law, Pragmatism and Democracy by Richard A. Posner and Mad Art: A Visual Celebration of the Art of MAD Magazine and the Idiots Who Create It by Mark Evanier. 2004: “A suicide bomber riding on a bicycle blew himself up at an agricultural gate” south of Kalanda injuring two. 2005: Pakistani President Gen. Pervez Musharraf and Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon shook hands in an apparent chance encounter in the corridors of the United Nations summit Wednesday. The handshake followed a landmark meeting between the foreign ministers of Pakistan and Israel last week, the first formal high-level contact between the Islamic and Jewish states. Pakistan is the world’s second largest Muslim country. Israel has sought to improve relations with non-Arab Muslim countries. 2005: “The Israeli cabinet approved, by a 9-1 majority, plans to compensate settlers who left the Gaza Strip, with only the NRP's Zevulun Orlev opposing. The government's plan for compensation uses a formula that bases actual amounts on location, house size, and number of family members among other factors. Most families should receive between U.S.$200,000 and 300,000.” 2005: Days after the Israeli withdrawal from Gaza the Palestinian Religious Scholars Society issued a fatwa (Islamic religious decree) forbidding normalization with Israel. The fatwa came in response to a surprise ruling earlier this week by Muhammad Sayyed Tantawi, head of Egypt's al-Azhar Mosque University, in favor of normalization with Israel. 2005: An opera titled Seven Attempted Escapes From Silence for which Jonathan Safran Foer wrote the libretto premiered at the Berlin State Opera today. 2006(1st of Tishrei, 5757): Rosh Hashanah 2006: Germany took a richly symbolic step in its long journey of historical reconciliation on as three men became the first rabbis ordained in this country since the Holocaust. In a ceremony that blended bright hope for the future with a solemn homage to the past, the three — a German, a Czech, and a South African — stood before a senior rabbi in Dresden’s starkly modern synagogue, as he told them they had been singled out, just as Moses had chosen Joshua, in Scripture. “All of Germany celebrates with us today, and all of Europe as well,” said Rabbi Walter Jacob, the president of a rabbinical seminary in Potsdam, near Berlin, where the three men studied. Each wore a black robe and white prayer shawl and stood as Rabbi Jacob laid hands on his shoulders.” Today, we have made a new beginning,” Rabbi Jacob said to the 250 in the congregation, many of them from the United States and Israel. The head of the Central Council of Muslims in Germany, Ayyub Axel Köhler, was also present. German television broadcast the hour-long ceremony live from Dresden’s New Synagogue, a strikingly modern structure built in 2001. It is near the site of the Semper Synagogue, which the Nazis burned down in November 1938 during the Kristallnacht pogrom, auguring the violence to come. Germany’s Jewish population, which stood at 500,000 before the war and the mass killings at the hands of the Nazis, is modest but growing, thanks to an influx of Russian Jews since the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989. More than 100,000 Jews live here now, compared to 30,000 at the time of German reunification. But Germany has a dire shortage of rabbis, not having ordained any since the Nazi regime shut down the rabbinical seminary in Berlin in 1942. Only 30 rabbis are active here, all from abroad. After the ceremony, Rabbi Uri Regev, the president of the World Union for Progressive Judaism, said: “You could feel the winds of history hovering over your head. For the first time since the horrific events that destroyed the Jewish community, you could see a renewal of that community.” German leaders hailed the ordinations as a milestone in the rebirth of Jewish life here — a day of “recognition and joy,” in the words of Chancellor Angela Merkel. After five years of studying in relative anonymity, the newly ordained German, Daniel Alter, 47, said the lavish domestic and international attention this week left him almost dazed. “I woke up to the fact that I was in a storm,” he said. Dresden itself speaks to the possibility of Germany’s rebirth. An Allied bombing raid in February 1945 reduced the city’s elegant old quarter to ashes — leaving it for years as a bleak testament to the horrors of war. Heinz-Joachim Aris, a local Jewish leader, said he survived the Holocaust only because three days before he was to be deported to a concentration camp, the bombing raid and subsequent fires threw Dresden into chaos, allowing him and other Jews to escape into the ruins. On this morning, however, sunlight danced off the waters of the Elbe River, the city’s meticulously restored buildings, and the Star of David hanging above the synagogue’s entrance. Rescued from the old synagogue, the star seemed an apt symbol for a day that linked past and present. Rabbi Alter will serve a population in the northern German city of Oldenburg, which is heavily Russian. The newly ordained Czech rabbi, Tomas Kucera, 35, also plans to stay in Germany, serving in Munich. The third rabbi — Malcolm Matitiani — will return home to South Africa. Rabbi Kucera, a native of Prague, said his knowledge of Russian might help him expand a Jewish community that is at the moment more American than Russian in flavor 2006: Aharon Barak completes his service as President of the Supreme Court of Israel. 2006: Dorit Beinish was appointed the 9th President of the Supreme Court of Israel making her the first woman to hold this position. 2007: “Toots” a film about America’s most famous saloon keeper during the 1940’s and 1950’s which was directed by his granddaughter Kristi Jacobson opens in New York at the Quad City Cinema on the afternoon of the Second Day of Rosh Hashanah. Ms. Jacobson will be at the Friday night showing of the film. 2007: In “Saggy pants reveal more than underwear” a column by Jill Fields in which she discusses current fashion among adolescent males, she writes, “Several decades ago, my teenage sister wore ‘hot pants’ to Friday night services at Valley Beth Shalom in Encino, California. A congregant complained. Rabbi Harold Schulweis later told us he had replied, ‘You should look into her eyes, not what she’s wearing.’” 2008(14th of Elul, 5768): Eight-five year old Hyman Goldman who along with his brother-in-law Leonard Marsh and Arnold Greenberg founded Snapple, the beverage company, passed away today. 2008: In Washington, D.C., The Hyman S. & Freda Bernstein Jewish Literary Festival opens with "Laughing for God's Sake: Humor in Jewish Literature," featuring interpretive readings by local actors (directed by Ian Armstrong) of work by the likes of Shalom Auslander, Faye Moskowitz and Nathan Englander. This event will feature the 10 finalists of the festival's writing contest 2008: On the occasion of the publication of the full translation of The History of the Yiddish Language the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research presents a symposium where panelists including Neil G. Jacobs, Ohio State University; Robert D. King, University of Texas; and Kalman Weiser, York University discuss this work by Max Weinreich. 2008: In Vienna, the first festival devoted to Jewish and Israeli music ever held in Austria comes to a close. 2008: The Washington Post book section includes a review of Philip Roth’s latest novel, Indignation. 2008: The Sunday New York Times book section featured books by Jewish authors and/or on topics of Jewish interest including Little Brother by Cory Doctorow, Is There a Right to Remain Silent? Coercive Interrogation and the Fifth Amendment After 9/11 by Alan M. Dershowitz and The Way of the World: A Story of Truth and Hope in an Age of Extremism by Ron Suskind 2009: A special exhibit featuring the work of Will Ronis at this summer’s Rencontres d’Arles photography festival on view in Southern France comes to an end. 2009: Robert J. Samuelson, a columnist for both The Washington Post and Newsweek, discusses and signs The Great Inflation and Its Aftermath: The Past and Future of American Affluence at the Bethesda Library, Bethesda, Md. 2009: Israel Air Force pilot Captain Asaf Ramon was laid to rest next to his father Ilan Ramon today, a day after he was killed in a training accident while flying an Israel Air Force jet. "You've trapped me," said Asaf's mother, Rona, standing over the graves of her husband and son. "It should have been me. You were supposed to bury me, old and happy, surrounded by millions of grandchildren. "Oh, what a God," she continued, her voice breaking. "Dad, Grandpa and Grandma, all your loved ones, will watch over you now, my child... My Asaf, take care of Dad. I know Dad will take care of you, and hug you now." The funeral began at 4 P.M. at Kibbutz Nahalal and was closed to the media, as requested by Rona Ramon. Hundreds of Ramon's relatives and friends, as well as a number of dignataries, accompanied the procession. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, President Shimon Peres, Defense Minister Ehud Barak and Israel Defense Forces Chief Gabi Ashkenazi were also in attendance. Netanyahu postponed a scheduled afternoon meeting with Barack Obama's Mideast envoy, George Mitchell, who also attended the funeral. "The State of Israel is lowering its flag, as a whole nation mourns the death of our fallen son," Peres said in eulogy of Ramon. "All of our hearts are broken today, because the personal child of the Ramon family was a child of all of us." "The words that accompanied Asaf and his friends as they received their wings at graduation still echo in my ears - 'every plane that has flown in the sky, every star that lights up the eyes, reminds me of you' - those words, that touched the hearts of everybody at the parade grounds, have been crushed now before our eyes." "Rona was already a hero, she was and will remain a hero. There is no other Rona. There is no other hero," Peres said. "... These words can never fill the void." Ramon, 21, died when the F-16A Falcon jet he was flying crashed during a routine training flight near the southern Hebron Hills. His father was Israel's first astronaut, who perished onboard the space shuttle Columbia in 2003. Like his son, Colonel Ramon was an F-16 pilot. Prime Minister Netanyahu called the fatal crash that took Ramon's life a "double loss", almost on the level of "a biblical tragedy." "A father and son followed their hearts and soared to the heavens in chariots of steel, crashing to the Earth in chariots of fire," Netanyahu said. The prime minister also said the crash raises questions about whether or not children of mothers who had lost their husbands should be allowed to serve in combat units. "The dilemma here is very difficult, and the inclination is to say no [to combat service for children of bereaved parents]," Netanyahu said. Netanyahu added that in his time, his parents did not know that he was serving in the Israel Defense Forces' elite Sayeret Matkal reconnaissance unit in which his brother Yonatan also served until he was killed in Operation Entebbe in 1976. "My two brothers and I were together in the same unit. My parents didn't know where I served or any of the risks we took." The main focus of the investigation into Sunday's crash is on human factors, and there is a high probability that some physiological problem may have led to the crash. Barak told Israel Radio on Monday that news of Ramon's crash "hit me like a punch to the stomach." Barak also addressed the issue of allowing the children of bereaved parents to serve in combat units, saying "it rends the heart when things like this happen. These are not children - these are young men who were educated with values. They want to serve in the most demanding places. You can't take this right away from them." Education Minister Gideon Sa'ar directed schools to devote a lesson this week to the family of Ilan and Asaf Ramon. In a letter to school principals, Sa'ar called the Ramon family a "prime example of volunteerism, excellence, self-sacrifice." Sa'ar noted that the items astronaut Ilan Ramon took with him into space (a Torah scroll and an Israeli flag) reflected Ramon's ties to his Jewish and Israeli roots. Sa'ar suggested the class discussion could refer to historical events such as the 1981 Israeli bombing of the Iraqi nuclear reactor, in which Ilan Ramon took part, and the fatal 2003 crash of the space shuttle Columbia. 2009: Israel commemorated the Munich Massacre of 1972 today in a state ceremony attended by politicians, athletes and relatives of the fallen. Eleven Israel coaches and athletes and one German policeman were killed in the attack. 2009: “Ex-Mayor of Memphis Starts Bid for Congress, Invoking Race in Campaign” published today reported that “The black candidate, former Mayor Willie W. Herenton of Memphis, has argued that Tennessee needs a black voice in its currently all-white delegation. He is running a blistering campaign against Representative Steve Cohen, a fellow Democrat who is Jewish with a precarious hold on the majority black district.” Herenton has attacked Cohen by saying “that he does not really think very much of African Americans.” Sidney Chism, a black county commissioner and Herenton’s campaign manager said that “this seat was set aside for people who look me. (As reported by Robbie Brown) 2010(8th of Tishrei, 5771): Ysrael Seinuk, a structural engineer who made it possible for many of New York City’s tallest new buildings to withstand wind, gravity and even earthquakes passed away today at the age of 78. (As reported by Dennis Hevesi 2010: Fireflies (Gachliliyot), a film tied to the Yom Kippur War is scheduled to be shown at The JCC in Manhattan. 2010: Mira Awad, who represented Israel in the Eurovision song contest 2009 alongside Noa with the song "There must be another way" from their duet album carrying the same name, is scheduled to appear at the Winery in New York City. 2010: Ahmed Jaabari, leader of Hamas' military wing, issued a rare statement today threatening a wave of violence intended to derail the ongoing Israeli-Palestinian peace talks. This statement came on the same day that one Palestinian was killed and at least four were injured after the IDF returned fire in response to a terrorist attack in the northern Gaza Strip. The IDF said that a force operating near the fence came under anti-tank fire and responded with tank shells and light gunfire. One of the terrorists was killed and four others were wounded. This is the latest in a round of violence that began with the killing of four Israelis in Judea Samaria and a rocket attack erev Rosh Hashanah 2010: The leaders of Israel and the Palestinian Authority held more than two hours of face-to-face peace talks in this Red Sea resort today, delving into several of the core issues that divide the two sides but not breaking an impasse over Jewish settlements. 2010: A royal box built at the upper level of King Herod's private theater at Herodium has been fully unveiled in recent excavations at the archaeological site, providing a further indication of the luxurious lifestyle favored by the well-known Jewish monarch, the Hebrew University announced in a statement released today. The excavations at Herodium National Park at the eastern edge of Gush Etzion region, were conducted by Prof. Ehud Netzer under the auspices of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem Institute of Archaeology. 2011: Israeli violinist Guy Braunstein and Frank Braley are scheduled to perform Hanns Eisler’s Eisler Duo for Violin & Cello, op. 7 at the 14th Jerusalem International Chamber Music Festival. 2011: Galeet Dardashti is scheduled to perform at The JCC in Manhattan. 2011: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman ordered the early evacuation of Israel's embassy in Jordan today, over fears of violent anti-Israel protests similar to those which erupted in Cairo last week 2011: British Prime Minister David Cameron decided that the UK would not take part in the UN-sponsored Durban III anti-racism conference on September 22 because he did not want the UK to engage in an event with anti-Semitic association, the Jewish Chronicle reported today 2012: Izhar Patkin’s “The Messiah’s Glass” is scheduled to go on displace at the Jewish Museum. 2012: A revival of Stephen Schwartz’s Tony-Award winning musical Pippin opened at the Kansas City Repertory Theatre today. 2012: U.S. President wished the world's Jews a happy new year today, issuing a video in which he called for reconciliation and peace. 2012: As the High Holidays begin, an argument between Shas and Meretz that has become an annual tradition rears its head yet again: When should daylight saving time end? MK Nitzan Horowitz (Meretz) slammed Interior Minister Eli Yishai today, saying the minister promised to pass a law to extend DST by 11 days, but buried it in the Shas-controlled Knesset Interior Committee. 2012: Jerusalem police clashed with hundreds of Muslim youth today after they left prayers atop the Temple Mount in the direction of the Damascus Gate. Police said the rioters were on their way to the US consulate, presumably to protest against a film denigrating the Prophet Mohammad, which has already sparked mass protests in Libya, Egypt and Yemen. 2013(10th of Tishrei, 5774): Yom Kippur 2013: While being held captive by ISIS, Steven Sotloff, who would eventually be beheaded secretly “fasted on Yom Kippur, by feigning illness.” 2013: Due the cataclysmic flooding that has hit parts of Colorado including Boulder, home of the University of Colorado, Yom Kippur services will not be held in the Chabad synagogue according to Rabbi Yisroel Wilhelm 2013(10th of Tishrei): In Cedar Rapids, Iowa Ilan Caplan keeps alive an unbroken streak dating back to the 19th century and the founding of Beth Jacob by leading traditional Yom Kippur Services. 2013: Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu's office had no comment tonight on the new US-Russian agreement on destroying Syria's chemical weapons stores, as Israel awaits the arrival of US Secretary of State John Kerry on tomorrow (As reported by Herb Keinon) 2013: “A four-year-old girl accidently drowned in a mikveh in Bnei Barak today, on what was otherwise a relatively quiet Yom Kippur in terms of medical emergencies.” 2014: The Congregation Olam Tikvah Sisterhood and Men's Club are scheduled to host a talk by MERCAZ USA's Executive Director Rabbi Golub on "Promoting Jewish Pluralism in a Changing Israeli Society" 2014: “The Good and the True,” a Holocaust based play is scheduled to have its final performance at the DR2 Theatre in Manhattan. 2014: The Jewish Women’s Archives is scheduled to celebrate its 18th anniversary by honoring Gail Twersky Reimer, the founding executive director. 2014: The Jewish Historical Society of Greater Washington is scheduled to host a walking tour of Jewish Old Town Alexandria tracing the start of a community that dates back to the 1850’s. 2014: The New York Times features reviews of books by Jewish authors and/or of special interest to Jewish readers including Thirteen Days In September: Carter, Begin, and Sadat at Camp David by Lawrence Wright, World Order by Henry Kissinger and The Monogram Murders by Sophie Hannah as well as an interview with Sara Paretsky, the author of the V.I. Warshawski novels. 2014: Today is the European Day of Jewish Culture. 2014: “The oldest book of Jewish liturgy, dating back to the ninth century, was en route to Israel today, and will be on display at the Bible Lands Museum in Jerusalem until late October.” 2014:”The IDF will hand down a “sharp and clear punishment” to members of Unit 8200 who are refusing to serve in West Bank missions, IDF spokesman Moti Almoz said today.” (As reported by Spencer Ho) 2014: Following his surprise appearance at Lady Gaga’s Tel Aviv concert last night, Tony Bennett performed on his own in Tel Aviv 2015(1st of Tishrei, 5776) Rosh Hashanah 2015(1st of Tishrei, 5776): Sixty-four year old Alexander Levlovitz died in the early hours this morning “after he lost control of the car he was driving came under attack from rock-throwing attackers in East Talpiot, Jerusalem. 2015: Based on previous statements made by Rabbi Haskel Lookstein, he will lobby Congress to reject the Iran deal, but today, “when he stands before his congregation to welcome the New Year, he will not mention Congress, Iran or nuclear weapons.” 2015(1st of Tishrei, 5776): Seventieth anniversary of the first celebration of the Jewish New Year in Vienna since the Anschluss in 1938 at the Statdt Temple. Before the war Vienna had been home to almost 200,000 Jews who supported almost 100 Jewish houses of worship. The Stadt was the only building to survive and the city’s Jewish population had been reduced to approximately 3,500. 2015: An unidentified “young Israeli man was lightly wounded by rock-throwers in Jerusalem” in what was assumed to be another attack by Palestinian Arabs. 2015: “Two people – a policeman and a young Jewish man – were hurt this morning as clashes resumed at the Temple Mount for the second consecutive day during which nine people were arrested.” 2016: Benjamin Goodman, Philip Solomonick, and Tomer Gewirtzman, Piano Yuval Herz and Barak Shossberger, Violin, Shmuel Katz, Viola and Oded Hadar, Cello are scheduled to perform at Carnegie Hall as part of the Young Israeli Artists in NYC series. 2016: In the early hours of the day (Israeli time), Shimon Peres’s office said he was in serious but stable condition” after having suffered a stroke yesterday.

What is scientific inventions? Scientific inventions and the knowledge about science is necessary for everyone and in this article we discussed it clearly. Knowledge is necessary and hardly indispensable to anyone, and a person needs knowledge to understand the nature of things around him, For example a tree is not just wood but rather a biological structure of cells that absorb energy from the sun to flow that energy from paper to roots, and biology helps not in understanding but trees understand the lives of many of the objects and even human, it is indispensable to man the means of science , Especially in the modern era to be more relevant to everything that surrounds it, even the simplest things such as textiles lumbar it depends in the stages of his industry on the basics of chemistry until it comes out in its final form , And this article will explain the most prominent invention Scientific papers. History of the development of science: The human race has always been curious and needs to understand why things behave in a certain way and try to relate observation to prediction, For example since prehistoric times people have observed changes in the shape of the sky. They tried to understand the seasonal changes in the locations of the sun, moon, and stars,and around 4000 BC scholars of Mesopotamia tried to explain their observations by indicating that the earth was at the center of the universe and that other heavenly bodies were moving around, And humans have always been interested in the nature and origin of this universe since Distant centuries,they have taken a greater interest in geology and the extraction of materials from the Earth’s interior. SAch as the extraction of copper and tin which led to the beginnings of the Bronze Age, and the beginnings of this were through observation and experiment in a manner similar to that used by today’s scientists, and people have noticed from distant times . Also that some plants can be used to treat the disease until the herbal medicines that are still some of the development is used by modern pharmaceutical companies. In the eighteenth century a lot of basic biology and chemistry were developed as part of the Enlightenment, and the nineteenth century saw some great names such as John Dalton who developed the atomic theory of matter, Michael Faraday and James Maxwell who proposed theories of electricity and magnetism,and Charles Darwin who proposed The theory of evolution, The last century has witnessed discoveries such as relativity and quantum mechanics, and all these contributions have radically forced scientists to reconsider their views on the way the world works, which led them to make a number of the most prominent scientific inventions. Characteristics of science Science is characterized by being a group of continuous methodological processes, and it depends on observation and experimentation to study the things that there is a desire to examine and identify them, astronomy, geology , and biology are only a few of the many scientific fields, And scientists try to explain scientific phenomena through specific scientific methods based mainly on recording Observations and finding ways to explain these observations to remain consistent. And then testing those ideas and translating them into the most prominent scientific inventions to benefit people directly or indirectly, and when an incorrect hypothesis is presented new ideas are presented and tested, science is constantly challenging . What people think is real, and there are many common characteristics among people who decide to study science and make its various experiments, The most important characteristics of the scientific experiment can be explained as follows: Accurate observation: It is an important feature of scientists, and since science depends on evidence for observation, the validity of scientific theories depends on the accuracy of the observation that led to it, as it must be done carefully and with good technology. It is another important feature, and people do not enter into the study of science unless they are interested in research in those sciences, for curiosity is what makes the scientific subject very interesting and is the motivation for conducting research. It is very important, as the search for a topic and the results of its data may be frustrating at times after it becomes clear that the ideas on which it was based were wrong, and the logical reasoning of the scientific topic contributes to a significant reduction in errors. The most important applications of science: Science creates wonders every day, and what was just pure imagination yesterday is now a reality thanks to a number of the most prominent scientific inventions that are constantly taking place . Computer science has been credited with organizing the management of factories and commercial institutions in addition to its various educational technical applications in schools and universities. Science has contributed to scientists inventing many amazing drugs, and through these drugs it was possible to control many of the deadly diseases by taking the medicine in a timely manner. The role of science is not limited to academic aspects only, but it is thanks to him that people communicate better through radios, televisions and others. Scientific theory is defined as a fact that has been confirmed in scientific ways about some of the phenomena that are supported through research using the scientific method, The world may notice something that happens over and over time and begins to form a question or set of questions, and one of the questions can be: “Why did this happen?” And another question might be: “Can this happen every time or is it just a coincidence?” To answer these questions, the scientist or a group of scientists conduct an experiment to test the hypothesis, This is described as scientific research that leads to the formulation of scientific theory at times and that leads to the discovery of the most prominent scientific inventions at other times, and despite the existence of many characteristics of scientific theories, however, There are basic characteristics of scientific theory that can be clarified as follows: Theories can be supported by a series of scientific research steps that are subject to experimentation, there is always the possibility that a different interpretation may one day be more correct as long as it is tested. Theories must be repeatable, and this means that sufficient information and data must be available in the theory for scientists to test the theory correctly. Convergence of results: This means that when others test the theory, they get the same results, so the theory is valid as long as there is no evidence to oppose it. The basic principles agree: where the results of the theory should be consistent with the theories of science in general and not deviate from the basic principles of science, however there may be some differences because the new theory may provide additional evidence. The most famous scientific theories: Life has completely different after the development of a number of applications of modern theories, which are thanks to a huge number of scientists from Newton to Einstein and another group of scientists who contributed their experiences and research in the discovery of these theories,and here comes a number of the most important scientific theories: Tectonic plate theory: It explains the formation and movement of Earth’s layers millions of years ago. The theory of relativity: The credit for clarifying that theory is due to Einstein, who destroyed the previous perception of the universe, time and space by relying on factors such as gravity and the speed of light . The central theory of the sun: it describes the center of the sun , the solar system whose planets revolve around the sun. The theory of evolution: It is concerned with clarifying the origin of life by linking the similarity of organisms from different places and continents in their anatomical and physiological characteristics. The Big Bang Theory: It describes the nature of the origins of the universe by listing a number of evidence that it arose out of a single mass and then exploded and expanded. Differences between scientific hypotheses and theories: To clarify the differences between the hypotheses and scientific theories it is worth noting that the hypothesis is basically just a guess based on the initial prediction of cause and effect, and a hypothesis can usually be supported or refuted by experiment or further observation, and the hypothesis can be refuted if it is not proven true, for example if it is not done. Notice any difference in the feasibility of cleaning for different laundry detergents. Here the hypothesis is that the effectiveness of cleaning is not affected by the used detergents, as this is the natural result of such a context, And scientists often design after adopting their hypotheses some models that help explain complex concepts such as the Towards it, while the strength of scientific theory emerges through repeated tests of a wide range of hypotheses, the theory is the stage that follows the hypothesis if scientific research matters were conducted as required,and the theory is valid as long as there is no evidence to the contrary, and theories can be disproved if other new theories drop them with evidence Strong scientific. Scientific invention: Before clarifying the most prominent scientific inventions, it should be noted that scientific invention arises primarily as a result of collecting, arranging and processing information in order to build a dynamic model that is constantly updated, and the value of this model lies in its strength as a measure of scientific achievements, and inventors are usually very accurate and attentive to everything that happens around them in order to They can discover the most prominent scientific inventions in a way that benefits humanity. Hook lock system: For example, in the 1940’s, the Swiss engineer, George de Mistral, saw small hooks on burrs clinging to his fishing cap, so he invented the hook lock system known as velcro. , And the invention can be a coincidence. In the late nineteenth century, a German scientist applied dyes.New in a Petri dish containing bacilli and saw that there was a stained selectively stained and killed each other, so he invented chemotherapy because of that, Electrified Mixture of charcoal and clay: and inventions are often completely unintended, for example Edward Atchison was seeking to discover industrial diamonds when he produced an electrified mixture of Charcoal plus hard clay . The most prominent scientific inventions: To clarify the most prominent scientific inventions, it is worth noting that the time period between the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries and the twentieth century is the most periods of history that have witnessed momentum in the abundance of many of the most prominent scientific inventions, and ancient research centers were not in their current form that uses all means of technology, but this did not prevent. The ancients were able to contribute to the most prominent scientific inventions, even in a limited way. Much can be explained about the most prominent scientific inventions in the following: It is one of the most prominent scientific inventions, and the phone is a tool that converts sound signals into electrical impulses for transmission via wires to a different place, where another phone receives the electrical impulses and returns them to recognizable sounds, and in 1875 Alexander Graham Bell designed the first phone to transmit human voice electrically . There are many major milestones in the history of computers since 1936 when Konrad Zeus designed the first programmable computer, which is one of the most prominent scientific inventions in the modern era. It is one of the most important and prominent scientific inventions now, thanks to his invention to Paul Nebco, who sent pictures via wires using the technology of rotating metal disk, until the television then developed on two tracks through the development of mechanical and electronic circuits dependent on the cathode ray tube, then developed those The mechanism was at the hands of the American Charles Jenkins and the Scottish John Baird until the TV reached its current form. one of the most prominent scientific inventions now common among many, and in 1769 French mechanic Nicolas Joseph Cognot invented the first self-propelled road vehicle, it was a primitive model powered by steam, and in 1885, Karl Baines designed the world’s first practical car powered by an engine Internal combustion. Joseph Nikifor Knips invented the first photograph in 1814 yet the picture required eight hours of exposure, and Louis Jacques Mandy Daguerre was the inventor of photography in 1837 The idea of this engine is traced back to Thomas Safri, who was an English military engineer and inventor, and that engine was one of the most prominent scientific inventions in 1698 . Thomas Safri patented the first raw steam engine, then Thomas Newcomen invented the air steam engine in 1712 James Watt designed the invention of the first modern steam engine in 1765. Cons of scientific inventions: After clarifying the most prominent scientific inventions, it is worth noting that all of these scientific inventions were not without serious flaws and disadvantages in some cases, And despite the benefits of technology in general, however, the way users benefit from those scientific inventions has the greatest role in determining the extent of benefit or harm behind the use of Some scientific inventions, For example the frequent use of a mobile phone is very dangerous, as it causes many negative effects of the user’s eye, in addition to continuous headache and brain disorders Sometimes, it also affects sleep disturbances and has a negative impact on the attention of the person who uses it. In addition, it reduces the time the individual spends with his family and therefore it affects the lifestyle of individuals and families, so phones, especially in recent times, have become a tool for isolation and preoccupation with the duties of the individual Even his rights over those around him, and besides that it is a dangerous source of misleading information that negatively affects individuals’ ideas, beliefs, and faith in the homeland. Even common computers are now in the homes of many users, although they are among the most prominent scientific inventions, but the computer also has a lot of negatives. For example, if the main server of the personal computer system is separated, the entire computer will end up in vain, and also if the user has A centralized connection server is idle, the entire network will reach a dead end, And it is worth noting that the computer is contaminated with many external viruses that may cause it to malfunction greatly or may completely eliminate it and turn it into a mere iron piece of useless, In addition to that the cost of implementing the system may be . For some users, including cables and expensive equipment, the most notable disadvantage is that the computer now includes managing a lot of business in a way that may be reflected in the enthusiasm and effectiveness of many employees. Also read it:

Generic Error Modeling System (GEMS) is a software tool that enables developers to model, manage, and monitor errors in their software applications. It provides a central repository for error information and a range of tools to help developers identify and fix errors. GEMS is based on the idea of error models, which are descriptions of how errors can occur in a software system. An error model provides a high-level view of how errors can be generated and propagated through a system. This information can be used to help developers design and test their software applications. GEMS is a Java-based tool and is available as a free download. It requires Java Runtime Environment (JRE) version 6 or later. - 1 What is the generic error modeling system? - 2 What is a knowledge based mistake? - 3 What are the 3 types of human error? - 4 What are the 3 thinking performance modes? - 5 What are the 4 factors which contribute to human error? - 6 Which are the five types of human error? - 7 What type of errors are the most common in the skill based mode? What is the generic error modeling system? The Generic Error Modeling System (GEMS) is a library of MATLAB functions that allow you to model, simulate, and analyze system errors. GEMS can be used to model the errors of a single system, or to model the errors of multiple systems in parallel. The GEMS library includes: – A variety of error models, including Gaussian, Laplace, and Student’s t distributions – A variety of noise models, including white noise, pink noise, and brown noise – A variety of fault models, including transient and permanent faults To use GEMS, you first need to create a model of the system you want to study. This model consists of three components: – The system itself, which is a MATLAB function that takes an input vector and produces an output vector – The error model, which is a MATLAB function that takes an input vector and produces an error vector – The noise model, which is a MATLAB function that takes an input vector and produces a noise vector Once you have created your model, you can use it to study the errors of your system. You can use the “simulate” function to generate a set of error vectors, and then use the “analyze” function to analyze the distribution of those errors. You can also use the “plot” function to visualize the distribution of errors. What is a knowledge based mistake? What is a knowledge based mistake? A knowledge based mistake is a type of mistake that is made as a result of lack of knowledge or information. This type of mistake can often be avoided by taking the time to gain a better understanding of the situation or topic at hand. Some common examples of knowledge based mistakes include: -Making assumptions based on limited information -Assuming that you know something when you actually don’t -Misunderstanding or misinterpreting information -Failing to ask for clarification when you don’t understand something One of the main reasons why knowledge based mistakes are so common is because it can be easy to fall into the trap of thinking that you know more than you actually do. This can be particularly dangerous when it comes to making decisions or taking actions based on that false sense of knowledge. One way to avoid making knowledge based mistakes is to be humble and admit when you don’t know something. It’s also important to be willing to ask for help when you need it, and to be open to learning new things. If you make a mistake, don’t be afraid to admit it and learn from it. What are the 3 types of human error? There are three types of human error: slips, lapses, and mistakes. Slips are when you do something you didn’t mean to do. For example, you might dial a phone number wrong because you were thinking about something else. Lapses are when you don’t do something you meant to do. For example, you might forget to turn off the stove. Mistakes are when you do something you know is wrong. For example, you might sign a contract without reading it first. What are the 3 thinking performance modes? There are three thinking performance modes: 1. The linear mode 2. The parallel mode 3. The holistic mode The linear mode is the most common thinking performance mode. In this mode, thoughts are sequentially processed and logical arguments are developed. The linear mode is good for tasks that require a step-by-step approach, such as solving mathematical problems or writing a report. The parallel mode is the second most common thinking performance mode. In this mode, thoughts are processed simultaneously and multiple arguments are developed. The parallel mode is good for tasks that require creativity and innovation, such as brainstorming or coming up with new ideas. The holistic mode is the least common thinking performance mode. In this mode, thoughts are processed simultaneously and all arguments are considered simultaneously. The holistic mode is good for tasks that require an understanding of the whole picture, such as making a decision or solving a problem. What are the 4 factors which contribute to human error? Human error is a term used to describe an error made by a human being. It can be something as simple as making a mistake when entering data into a computer, or as serious as causing an accident while driving. Human error is often the result of a mistake or omission, and it can be caused by a number of factors, including fatigue, stress, carelessness, distraction, and poor communication. The four factors which contribute to human error are: Fatigue is one of the leading causes of human error. When you’re tired, your reflexes are slower, and your ability to concentrate and focus is reduced. This can lead to mistakes being made, and can increase the chances of an accident happening. Stress is another major contributor to human error. When you’re under pressure, your ability to think clearly and make good decisions is reduced. This can lead to mistakes being made, and can increase the chances of an accident happening. Carelessness is another common cause of human error. When you’re not paying attention, or you’re not taking the time to check your work, mistakes can easily happen. This can lead to accidents, or to problems with products or services. Distraction is also a major contributor to human error. When you’re not paying attention, you’re more likely to make mistakes. This can lead to accidents, or to problems with products or services. By understanding the four factors which contribute to human error, you can take steps to reduce the chances of making a mistake yourself, and help to create a safer workplace or home environment. Which are the five types of human error? Human error is one of the main causes of accidents in the workplace. In fact, it is estimated that human error causes up to 90% of all accidents. So, it is important to be aware of the different types of human error so that you can take steps to avoid them. There are five main types of human error: slips, lapses, mistakes, violations, and faults. Slips occur when you perform an action correctly but in the wrong order or in the wrong place. For example, you may reach for a coffee cup on your desk but instead of picking it up, you knock it over. Lapses occur when you don’t perform an action that you should have done. For example, you may forget to turn off the stove after cooking dinner. Mistakes occur when you perform an action incorrectly. For example, you may pour too much detergent into the washing machine and then have to spend hours cleaning up the mess. Violations occur when you ignore a safety rule or procedure. For example, you may decide to take a shortcut and walk under a suspended load in order to save time. Faults occur when a component of a system fails. For example, the wiring in a machine may be faulty and cause it to start up unexpectedly. All of these types of human error can be dangerous in the workplace, so it is important to be aware of them and take steps to avoid them. What type of errors are the most common in the skill based mode? What are the most common errors in the skill-based mode? There are a few errors that seem to crop up more often than others in the skill-based mode. One of the most common is when players don’t know how to use the skill they’ve chosen. This can lead to a lot of wasted time and effort, as the player struggles to use the skill in the way that they want. Another common error is when players don’t know the enemy’s weaknesses. If you don’t know what to target, you’re not going to be very effective in battle. And finally, another common mistake is when players don’t know their own limits. If you’re not careful, you can easily overextend yourself and wind up getting killed. Knowing your own capabilities is essential in the skill-based mode.

Gamers now have the perfect excuse to sit in front of their computers all day: they can perform a public service. Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, have designed an online game that aims to harness its players’ brainpower to help make websites more accessible to blind people. Visually impaired people often use text-to-speech converters called screen readers to listen to the content of web pages spoken by a synthesised voice. The pictures on most websites remain inaccessible, though, because very few have detailed captions to describe them. The online game “Phetch” is designed to encourage other web users to generate these missing captions. Played in groups of three to five people, it randomly assigns the role of “describer” to one player; the rest become “seekers”. The game then serves up a randomly chosen website image to the describer, who has to write a pithy short paragraph about it. The words are then sent to the seekers, who use search engines to hunt down the picture on the web. The first seeker to find the image becomes the narrator in the next round. If the narrator’s description is good enough to lead the seekers to the picture, it is stored as a caption for that image. If not, the attempt is discarded. “We hope to collect captions for every image on the web,” says Shiry Ginosar, a member of the Phetch team. In tests, 130 players generated 1400 captions in a week. At this rate 5000 people playing continuously could annotate all Google-indexed images in 10 months....

Noble's Park Splash Zone is situated in Noble's Park and is an exciting and innovative play feature for the park, a superb amenity which offers fun and discovery, accessible to all ages and abilities. The Splash Zone measures 144 square metres and has 14 spray and soaker features and offers tremendous interactive fun. Construction began in February 2018 and opened on 4th May 2018 and in April 2019 the splash zone was upgraded to a recirculating water system There are 2 changing rooms and plenty of picnic benches for you to sit and chill whilst your children have some cooling fun. The Splash Zone is fenced and gated and our water is sample tested daily which makes it a secure and safe environment for your children to enjoy safe water play. Our Splash Zone is free to use and is open from 11am to 7pm daily through Spring and Summer (subject to weather conditions - check our facebook page for updates) During extreme weather conditions such as thunder, lightning and high winds, the area may be closed. We want you all to have fun but please remember to consider other users of the park by respecting the following simple rules:- No climbing on any of the features Do not leave your valuables unattended The use of any cameras and video cameras is strictly prohibited in this area Guests must wear appropriate clothing to use this attraction Anything you bring, please take home Nearest public toilets are located at the Bowling Green Pavilion Nearest baby changing and disabled facilities are located at the main pavilion Children who are not toilet trained are required to wear a swim nappy Children 5 and under must be accompanied by an adult Play at your own risk Capacity of the Noble's Park Splash Zone is 90 people All other park rules and policies apply PLEASE REPORT ANY DAMAGE During office hours: Tel: 01624 696300 Out of hour number: Tel: 01624 671100 CCTV IS IN OPERATION

Everyone with a functioning brain cell or two who has been around dogs knows that these lovable creatures are constantly trying to communicate with us. Now we can cite scientific evidence to support what we knew. Excerpt from Nature Every dog owner is familiar with the ‘puppy dog eyes’ expression. As the inner brow lifts, the eyes get bigger and bigger … It’s tempting to interpret this as a plea from a sad dog for a scrap of the family dinner. Now, a small study provides support for the idea that dogs do indeed produce facial expressions to communicate with people — although perhaps just to engage us, rather than to manipulate us. The dogs in the study produced more than twice as many facial expressions (‘puppy dog eyes’ was one of the most common) when a researcher was facing them than when she was turned away. But it didn’t seem to matter whether she also held food. Earlier studies have shown that seeing food is more exciting to a dog than is social contact with a silent person, so something other than the dogs’ emotional state must have been responsible for the effect. “Dogs make their eyes more attractive to us while we are watching, not just when we are in the vicinity or in response to food,” says Brian Hare, a cognitive neuroscientist and co-director of the Duke Canine Cognition Center at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina. “This is fantastic work.” The study, published on 19 October in Scientific Reports1, adds to a growing body of work that shows how sensitive dogs are to human attention. It also provides the first evidence in a non-primate species that facial expressions can be used actively to communicate, says psychologist Juliane Kaminski at the Dog Cognition Centre at the University of Portsmouth, UK, who led the research. Researchers had previously assumed that such expressions are an involuntary reflection of an animal’s emotional state. The rest of the article goes on to explain how the study was conducted. Dogs are trying. Now, if only science could teach humans how to understand all the things that our dogs are saying to us.

Bone tumors often cause bumps on the femur bone, according to Healthline. Tumors are either benign, which means noncancerous, or malignant, meaning cancerous. Benign bone tumors grow but do not spread to other areas of the body. Malignant tumors can spread and cause cancer.Continue Reading Types of benign bone tumors include osteochondromas, nonossifying fibroma unicameral and giant cell tumors, details Healthline. Osteochondromas tumors usually impact the femur, tibia and humerus and account for as much as 40 percent of all benign bone tumors. Nonossifying fibroma unicameral typically affects children and adolescents and is a single bone cyst. Giant cell tumors are rare, affect adults and grow aggressively. Osteosarcoma, Ewing sarcoma family of tumors and chondrosarcoma are examples of malignant bone tumors, advises Healthline. Osteosarcoma is the second-most-common type of bone cancer and is most common in children and adolescents. Ewing sarcoma family of tumors impact young adults, adolescents and children as young as 5 years old. Chondrosarcoma most often affects people middle-aged and older. The cause of bone tumors is unknown, but rapid growth, radiation, bone injuries and genetics are possible causes, explains Healthline. Osteosarcoma in children is linked to high doses of radiation, and osteosarcoma is more likely if a bone fracture is repaired with metal implants.Learn more about Conditions & Diseases

More sustainable asphalt made from recycled tires and organic wax Ana María Rodríguez Alloza, a researcher from Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (UPM), developed a new type of asphalt that could be considered more ecological, using rubber powder from recycled tires and organic waxes. To make asphalt, additives and bitumen are warmed to a certain temperature at which the mix is mouldable for placing. A study by UPM has shown that it is feasible to reduce the manufacturing temperature and the placing of asphalt mixtures with up to 30 degrees, while maintaining good mechanical behaviour. Reducing the necessary temperature also reduces energy and greenhouse emissions. The new asphalt includes rubber powder from old tires. While tires are recyclable, its production exceeds 300,000 tons a year, so using it in asphalt would reduce waste. In addition, by using rubber powder, the amount of bitumen could be reduced. In addition to recycled rubber, the new asphalt also includes a series of organic waxes. When reaching their melting point, these waxes reduce the binder viscosity of the mixture, thus reducing the manufacturing temperature. According to Rodríguez Alloza, the new asphalt would be especially suitable for warm weather countries such as Spain. You must be logged in to post a comment.

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Elevated serum pentosidine is independently associated with the high prevalence of sarcopenia in Chinese middle‐aged and elderly men with type 2 diabetes mellitus Abstract Aims/Introduction Sarcopenia has recently been recognized as another complication associated with diabetes, but its early screening still lacks clinical markers. Here, we aimed to investigate the relationship between serum levels of pentosidine, which is an advanced glycation end‐product, and sarcopenia in Chinese middle‐aged and elderly men with type 2 diabetes mellitus and evaluate whether pentosidine could be used as a kind of screening maker. Materials and Methods A total of 182 male type 2 diabetes mellitus patients aged ≥50 years were selected in the cross‐sectional study for whole‐body dual‐energy X‐ray measurement and calculating the appendicular skeletal muscle mass index. At the same time, handgrip strength and gait speed were assessed. According to the updated consensus on Asian sarcopenia in 2019, the patients were divided into the sarcopenia group (n = 83) and non‐sarcopenia group (n = 99). Serum pentosidine levels in the two groups were detected using enzyme‐linked immunosorbent assay. Results Serum pentosidine was significantly higher in the sarcopenia group (191.27 pmol/mL) than in the non‐sarcopenia group (34.93 pmol/mL). Serum pentosidine was negatively correlated with appendicular skeletal muscle mass index and handgrip strength (r = −0.30 and −0.25, respectively; P < 0.05), but not gait speed. The prevalence of sarcopenia increased as the quartile of serum pentosidine increased (P < 0.05). The association between pentosidine and the prevalence of sarcopenia was still significant after additional adjustments (odds ratio 1.01, P < 0.05). Conclusions Pentosidine is an independent risk factor for sarcopenia in Chinese middle‐aged and elderly men with type 2 diabetes mellitus. The detection of serum pentosidine levels in clinics might be helpful for the monitoring of type 2 diabetes mellitus complicated with sarcopenia. INTRODUCTION As the standard of living improves and the population ages, the number of elderly patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus in China will increase significantly in the future 1,2 . To actively prevent and cure a variety of complications of elderly patients with diabetes, and improve their quality of life are the focus of research. Sarcopenia, a kind of geriatric syndrome with loss of muscle mass plus a decrease in muscle strength and/or physical performance 3 , is known to seriously harm the health of the elderly, resulting in an increase in clinical adverse events, such as falls, re-hospitalization and even death 3,4 . Recently, sarcopenia has been recognized as a diabetic complications [5][6][7] . A previous study showed that patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus have significant excessive loss of skeletal muscle mass and lower muscle strength, especially in inferior limbs 7 , and the risk of sarcopenia in type 2 diabetes mellitus patients is threefold higher than individuals without diabetes 8 . However, the early clinical screening markers of diabetes-related sarcopenia still remain unclear. Advanced glycation end-products (AGEs) are covalent compounds produced by non-enzymatic binding of glucose and protein 9 , accumulating in various parts of diabetes patients and leading to the development of diabetic complications, such as nephropathy and retinopathy 10,11 . The chronic accumulation of AGEs in muscle tissue was recently suggested to directly obstruct muscle synthesis 12 , which is related to the occurrence of sarcopenia 13 . More than 20 different AGEs have been identified in human blood and tissues, and in foods. Due to their great heterogeneity, there is no specific test for AGEs operational measurement 14 . Pentosidine is a kind of AGEs metabolite, which has been proved to have a good correlation with AGEs 15 and can reflect serum levels of AGEs in the body 16 . Here, we assume that pentosidine could be used as an early monitoring marker of diabetes-related sarcopenia. In the present study, we therefore aimed to compare serum pentosidine levels of the sarcopenia group with the non-sarcopenia group in Chinese middle-aged and elderly men with type 2 diabetes mellitus, and to explore the association of serum pentosidine with sarcopenia, as well as its components (muscle mass assessed using the appendicular skeletal muscle mass index [ASMI], muscle strength and physical performance). Participants A total of 246 independent ambulatory male patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus aged ≥50 years, who were hospitalized in the Department of Endocrinology, Affiliated Changzhou the Second People's Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, Changzhou, China, for treatment of diabetes, including regular follow up from July 2018 to August 2020, were recruited. Among them, 64 patients met the exclusion criteria: (i) acute diabetic complications, such as diabetic ketoacidosis; (ii) malignant tumor; (iii) acute infection or inflammatory diseases, such as tuberculosis; (iv) weight loss surgery; (v) dyskinesia; (vi) severe hepatic or renal diseases, including elevated transaminase up to twofold the normal upper limit under unknown causes, or stage ≥4 of chronic kidney disease (estimated glomerular filtration rate <30 mL/min); (vii) acute cardiocerebrovascular events within half a year; (viii) other endocrine diseases, such as thyroid dysfunction and Cushing's syndrome; (ix) autoimmune diseases, such as rheumatoid arthritis; and (x) steroids, sex hormones and other drugs that affect muscle metabolism used within half a year. In the present cross-sectional study, we analyzed the data of 182 patients. This study was approved by the ethics committee of Affiliated Changzhou the Second People's Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, and all participants signed the informed consent. Measurement of handgrip strength Handgrip strength of both hands was measured using a grip dynamometer (JAMA, Lafayette, IN, USA). Patients were required to keep their forearms horizontal to the ground in a sitting position before testing. The distance of the grip was adjusted in an appropriate range, and patients were instructed to hold the handle of the dynamometer with the greatest effort 18 . Measurements were taken twice per hand and the maximum value was used for statistical analysis 3 . Measurement of gait speed Usual gait speed measurement was carried out using a 6-m walking test 3,17 . Before testing, a total 12-m straight line was drawn on the flat ground, marking the starting point, the 3-m point, the 9-m point and the end-point, respectively. The patient was required to walk at the normal pace from the starting point. When walking to the 3-m point, the timer control started counting and the time ended at the 9-m point. Measurements were taken three times, and the fastest pace value was used for analysis. Definition of sarcopenia Sarcopenia of the middle-aged and elderly male patients was defined using the updated consensus on sarcopenia diagnosis and treatment issued by Asian Working Group for Sarcopenia in 2019 3 ; that is, the cut-off for decreased muscle mass: dualenergy X-ray absorptiometry, ASMI <7.0 kg/m 2 in men; low muscle strength was determined by handgrip strength <28 kg for men; and criteria for low physical performance was 6-m walk <1.0 m/s. Patients with loss of muscle mass, plus low muscle strength and/or low physical performance were diagnosed as sarcopenia 3 . In the present study, the participants were divided into the sarcopenia group (n = 83) and non-sarcopenia group (n = 99) according to whether they were complicated with sarcopenia or not. Detection of serum pentosidine levels For the detection of serum pentosidine levels, 5 mL of fasting venous blood was taken from patients and put into the coagulation-promoting tube. After coagulation, the serum was separated by a centrifuge at a speed of 1,400 g and centrifuged for 10 min. Serum pentosidine was detected using an enzymelinked immunosorbent assay kit 14 , purchased from Tongwei Company, Shanghai, China. Other clinical data The duration of diabetes was collected from the medical records of patients, and their blood pressure, height and weight were measured on the day of hospitalization. The body mass index ([BMI]; BMI = weight/height 2 [kg/m 2 ]) was calculated. Therapeutic regimens of participants were available for the study, and exercise habits (at least 150 min a week over a year) were investigated using a structured questionnaire 19 . Glycosylated hemoglobin (HbA1c), fasting plasma glucose, triglyceride, total cholesterol, low-density lipoprotein cholesterol, high-density lipoprotein cholesterol, serum creatinine and uric acid were examined in the hospital using standard laboratory methods. The Chronic Kidney Disease Epidemiology Collaboration formula was used to calculate the estimated glomerular filtration rate 20 . Fundus photography or fluorescein angiography was carried out to evaluate diabetic retinopathy. Color Doppler ultrasonography of carotid artery and extremities was used to evaluate diabetic macroangiopathy. The bone mineral density T-value was measured by dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry to determine osteopenia (-2.5 < T < -1.0) or osteoporosis (T ≤ -2.5) 21 . Diabetic neuropathy was diagnosed in patients who met at least two of the following criteria: complaint of bilateral sensory symptoms in the toes and soles of the feet (specifically, at least two of the following: numbness, pain and dysesthesia), a bilaterally diminished or absent Achilles tendon reflex, and a bilaterally decreased vibratory sensation in the inner malleolus 22 . Statistical analysis Continuous variables consistent with normal distribution were expressed as the meanstandard deviation, and comparisons between the two groups were assessed using the t-test. Continuous variables of skewed distribution were expressed as the median (upper and lower quartile), and comparisons were assessed using the Mann-Whitney U-test. Categorical variables were expressed as the frequency (%) and the assessment of the v 2test was used. The correlation between serum pentosidine and other clinical parameters was analyzed using the Spearman correlation analysis. The association of serum pentosidine levels with diabetes-related sarcopenia was analyzed using multivariate logistic regression analysis, including stratified serum pentosidine as dummy variables. In the present study, we selected age, BMI, visceral fat area, ASM and HbA1c according to the P < 0.05 results of the univariate logistic regression analysis with sarcopenia as adjusting variables for multiple regression analysis. All analysis was carried out using SPSS Statistics 23 software (IBM Corp., Armonk, NY, USA). A P-value <0.05 was considered statistically significant. Comparison of clinical characteristics in the two groups The clinical characteristics of the participants in the sarcopenia group and in the non-sarcopenia group are shown in Table 1. There were no differences for age, diabetes duration, exercise habits, medication, estimated glomerular filtration rate, and frequency of retinopathy, macroangiopathy, neuropathy and osteopenia/osteoporosis between the two groups. ASMI, handgrip strength and gait speed in the sarcopenia group were significantly lower than those in the non-sarcopenia group. Sarcopenia patients had higher HbA1c, and lower bodyweight, BMI, %body fat, fat mass, visceral fat area, whole body skeletal muscle mass, ASM and triglyceride than those of control patients. Compared with the non-sarcopenia group, serum pentosidine levels in the sarcopenia group were significantly higher ( Table 1). Prevalence of sarcopenia after quartile grouping of serum pentosidine The prevalence of sarcopenia according to the quartile of serum pentosidine is shown in Table 2. All participants in the present study were divided into quartiles according to levels of serum pentosidine (1st quartile: ≤16.33 pmol/mL, 2nd quartile: 16.34~85.39 pmol/mL, 3rd quartile: 85.40~239.62 pmol/mL, 4th quartile: ≥239.63 pmol/mL). In middle-aged and elderly male patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus, the prevalence of sarcopenia increased as the quartile of serum pentosidine increased ( Table 2). Correlation analysis between serum pentosidine and associated clinical parameters The correlation analysis between serum pentosidine and other clinical parameters is shown in Appendix S1. Pentosidine levels were positively correlated with HbA1c and fasting plasma glucose, and negatively correlated with BMI, ASM, ASMI and handgrip strength (Table 3). Odds ratios of the risk for type 2 diabetes mellitus complicated with sarcopenia The odds ratios of the risk for sarcopenia in middle-aged and elderly men with type 2 diabetes mellitus are shown in Table 4. Age, BMI, visceral fat area, ASM, serum pentosidine and HbA1c were selected as independent variables for the multivariate logistic regression analysis. It was found that high BMI and high ASM were independent protective factors for sarcopenia in middle-aged and elderly male patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus, whereas high serum pentosidine and high visceral fat area were independent risk factors (Table 4). Furthermore, logistic regression analysis was carried out by replacing serum pentosidine with serum pentosidine quartiles. The results showed that elevated serum pentosidine quartile was an independent risk factor for sarcopenia in middle-aged and elderly male patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus. When serum pentosidine increased by one quartile, the risk of sarcopenia was 4.8-fold higher than the previous quartile (odds ratio 4.77, 95% confidence interval 2.17-10.49), as shown in Table 5. DISCUSSION Although sarcopenia is a diabetic complication, its early screening still lacks clinical markers. The present study showed for the first time that pentosidine levels were negatively correlated with indices of muscle mass and strength in Chinese middle- aged and elderly men with type 2 diabetes mellitus, and elevated serum pentosidine was independently associated with the high prevalence of sarcopenia in type 2 diabetes mellitus, suggesting that AGEs might cause damage to skeletal muscle in diabetes patients. The detection of serum pentosidine levels could be helpful for the monitoring of type 2 diabetes mellitus complicated with sarcopenia. AGEs, a kind of irreversible cross-linked polymer, which are produced through non-enzymatic glycation of glucose with amino-terminals of multiple proteins in body 9 , accumulate in various tissues of diabetes patients and animal models, regulate intracellular signaling through binding to AGEs-receptors, such as RAGE, and activate nuclear factor-jB-induced inflammation reaction and oxidative stress 23 , leading to the occurrence and development of nephropathy, retinopathy and other chronic diabetic complications 10,11 . Interestingly, AGEs have also been regarded as a kind of potential aging marker to participate in the occurrence of sarcopenia in the elderly 12,13,24 . Pentosidine is a common serological metabolite of AGEs, which is reported to have a positive correlation with AGEs and can represent the serum accumulation of AGEs in the body 15,16 . Previous studies showed that the increase of AGEs and/or serum pentosidine was an independent related factor of low ASMI in middle-aged and elderly people 13,25 , and might contribute to the changes of muscle strength and function 26 . Eguchi et al. 27 even found that after correcting age and other factors, elderly women only with decreased cervical muscle mass (dropped head syndrome) had significantly higher levels of serum pentosidine than those in the normal control group. In addition to inflammatory reaction and oxidative stress 5 , the decline of muscle mass caused by AGEs is associated with the inhibition of muscle anabolic signaling through the mammalian target of rapamycin complex 1 signaling pathway 28 . AGEs can directly decrease protein kinase B phosphorylation, reduce the expression of mammalian target of rapamycin complex 1 and then inhibit skeletal muscle synthesis. In vitro experiments in which AGEs decreased the regeneration of C2C12 myoblasts and lit on reduction of protein kinase B phosphorylation 29 . Furthermore, Chiu et al. 30 . recently observed that the expression of dystrophin, such as MAFbx, was also upregulated in murine myotubes when AGEs Age, body mass index (BMI), visceral fat area, glycosylated hemoglobin (HbA1c), serum pentosidine and appendicular skeletal muscle mass (ASM) were selected according to the positive (P < 0.05) results of the univariate logistic regression analysis with sarcopenia as independent variables for the multivariate logistic regression analysis, which showed that high BMI and high ASM were independent protective factors for sarcopenia in type 2 diabetes mellitus, whereas high serum pentosidine and high visceral fat area were independent risk factors. When BMI or ASM increased by 1 unit, the occurrence of sarcopenia was approximately 0.7 (odds ratio 0.29 and 0.32, respectively) lower than the previous unit. As for serum pentosidine or visceral fat area, when increased by 1 unit, the risk of sarcopenia was 1.01 and 1.03 times higher, respectively, than the previous unit. Age, body mass index (BMI), visceral fat area, glycosylated hemoglobin (HbA1c), serum pentosidine and appendicular skeletal muscle mass (ASM) were selected according to the positive (P < 0.05) results of the univariate logistic regression analysis with sarcopenia as independent variables for the multivariate logistic regression analysis, which showed that high BMI and high ASM were independent protective factors for sarcopenia in type 2 diabetes mellitus, whereas high serum pentosidine and high visceral fat area were independent risk factors. After replacing serum pentosidine with serum pentosidine quartiles, when BMI or ASM increased by 1 unit, the occurrence of sarcopenia was approximately 0.7 (odds ratio 0.33 and 0.32, respectively) lower than the previous unit. As for visceral fat area, the risk of sarcopenia was 1.03-fold higher than the previous unit. When serum pentosidine increased by one quartile, the risk of sarcopenia was approximately 4.8-fold higher than the previous quartile. given to them reduced the myotubes diameter, indicating that AGEs might simultaneously activate muscle degradation signaling to accelerate muscle atrophy. Thus, we hypothesized that AGEs might be associated with diabetes-related sarcopenia and that chronic hyperglycemia accelerates the accumulation of AGEs and then inhibits muscle synthesis or promotes atrophy through the aforementioned mechanisms in elderly patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus. However, there are few studies on the relationship between AGEs or serum pentosidine and type 2 diabetes mellitus complicated with sarcopenia, and no studies in China, despite the increasing number of Chinese elderly patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus. In the present study, we took Chinese middleaged and elderly men with type 2 diabetes mellitus as subjects, and found that pentosidine levels were negatively correlated with ASM, ASMI and handgrip strength, and elevated serum pentosidine was independently associated with the high prevalence of sarcopenia under the diabetic condition, suggesting that AGEs accumulation might cause damage to skeletal muscle in diabetes patients. The results were consistent in diabetic rodent models 30 . Intraperitoneal injection for 4 weeks of streptozotocin-induced diabetes resulted in greater serum AGEs in mice and the skeletal muscle mass significantly decreased. Whereas Ala-Cl, an AGEs scavenger, could attenuate this condition, promote repair after muscle injury, and increase the cross-sectional area and mass of skeletal muscle 30 . The results further clarified that the harmful effect of AGEs was specific to ASMI and handgrip strength, but not correlated with gait speed, namely physical performance. A reason for the discrepancy might be the status or phase of diabetes. Indeed, previous studies found lower physical performance or function, but not muscle quality decline in patients with relatively mild diabetes 31,32 , indicating that decline in physical performance might precede muscle mass decrease, which consequently weakens the relationship between hyperglycemia reflected by AGEs and physical performance decline during the late phase of diabetes. It has been reported that sarcopenia could depend on age 32 and the duration of diabetes 33 , despite the negative results the present analysis showed. A possible reason might be that some kinds of antidiabetic medications, such as insulin sensitizers, attenuate the decline of muscle mass and muscle function 34 whereas the use of stains, a type of lipid-lowering agent, is associated with muscle weakness 35 . The frequencies of patients who were prescribed insulin sensitizers and statins were approximately 40 and 60%, respectively, which might confound the association of age or the duration of diabetes and sarcopenia in the present study population. In the present study, serum pentosidine, but not HbA1c, was related to the occurrence of sarcopenia. Previous studies showed that AGEs reflected integration of past long-term glycemic control and were more stable than HbA1c 15 . It was also reported that lower limb muscle strength was inversely correlated with AGEs, but not HbA1c in patients with type 1 diabetes 36 . Thus, it is suggested that sarcopenia in patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus could also be associated with chronic long-term hyperglycemia, not short-term glycemic control. In addition, another difference of clinical characteristics in the present study between the type 2 diabetes mellitus sarcopenia group and the type 2 diabetes mellitus non-sarcopenia group was adiposity. Patients with sarcopenia showed lower BMI, %body fat, fat mass and visceral fat area compared with patients without sarcopenia. High BMI was an independent protective effect on sarcopenia in the population. Although previous studies showed that obese patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus had lower muscle strength than healthy bodyweight participants because of lipotoxicity 37 . It was recently reported that the mechanism of lipotoxicity might be involved with the decrease in lipid storage capacity of adipocytes and ectopic fat accumulation in peripheral tissues, such as the liver and skeletal muscle 5 . A study reported that the accumulation of intramuscular fat was inversely correlated with lower limb muscle function in elderly individuals 38 . However, we could not evaluate the intramuscular fat, so the detailed mechanism of which could not be clarified in the present study. Different from previous clinical studies 6,13 in which only the decline of muscle mass was used to diagnose sarcopenia, the present study strictly followed the updated consensus on diagnosis and treatment of Asian sarcopenia in 2019, taking ASMI, handgrip strength and gait speed as diagnostic indicators of sarcopenia to avoid omitting patients with decreased muscle strength and physical function. In addition, although an increasing number of scholars believe that sarcopenia is one of the complications of diabetes, the exact mechanism of diabetes damage to skeletal muscle is still unclear 32 . There are few studies on the relationship between AGEs or serum pentosidine and type 2 diabetes mellitus complicated with sarcopenia, only in elderly women 6 or in specific samples from Japan 32 , but no studies in China, although type 2 diabetes mellitus was also reported to be associated with sarcopenia in Chinese older adults. In the present study, it was found that serum pentosidine could be used as an independent risk factor for sarcopenia in middle-aged and elderly male patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus, which supplemented Chinese male data to some extent, and suggested that poor glycemic control could increase the risk of sarcopenia in type 2 diabetes mellitus patients. The early detection of serum pentosidine levels in clinics might be helpful to monitor type 2 diabetes mellitus patients with sarcopenia. There were several limitations to this present study. First, the sample size of participants from a single hospital in China was not large enough to make definite conclusions. Second, we detected pentosidine, reflecting serum levels of AGEs in middle-aged and elderly male patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus. Although there was a good correlation between them, serum pentosidine was just a part of AGEs, which did not indicate other AGEs metabolites, such as pyrrolidine, were also associated with diabetes-related sarcopenia. Third, we could not evaluate the parameter of insulin resistance, which might be involved in serum pentosidine 6 . Fourth, we were also unable to assess the influence of lifestyle, including diet and physical exercise, especially resistance training, on the decline of muscle mass or strength, which might impact diabetes-related sarcopenia 3,4 . However, we evaluated the exercise habits of the participants, and found that there were no differences between sarcopenia patients and non-sarcopenia patients. Finally, although we suggested that elevated AGEs in serum might be risk factors of sarcopenia, it was impossible to determine the causal relationship between AGEs and the incidence of sarcopenia because of the cross-sectional design. It is necessary to carry out more prospective studies. In conclusion, the present study showed that serum pentosidine levels were inversely associated with indices of muscle mass and strength in Chinese middle-aged and elderly men with type 2 diabetes mellitus. Elevated serum pentosidine was an independent risk factor for sarcopenia, and the detection of serum pentosidine levels in clinic might be helpful for the monitoring of type 2 diabetes mellitus complicated with sarcopenia in the population. DISCLOSURE The authors declare no conflict of interest.

An attorney, Susan has had a diverse career, most recently with CSX where she retired as its Chief Diversity Officer. Prior roles with CSX include House Counsel specializing in tort work, heading both General and Freight Claims departments, founder of the Administrative Services Department, General Counsel and Corporate Officer of the CSX logistics unit, General Manager of the Crew Management Department and Assistant Vice President, Labor Relations. She has been heavily involved in the Jacksonville, Florida, community, being the first woman to chair the Gator Bowl on New Year’s Day, having served previously as Chairman of the United Way Board, Chairing Go Red for Women for the American Heart Association and chairing the Diversity Task Force for the Jacksonville Regional Chamber of Commerce. Susan has served several charity boards and is a past President of the Uptown Civitan Club. She teaches her adult church school class, sings in her church choir, loves music, football and golf. Susan is a member of both the Alabama and Florida Bars. She resides in Jacksonville, Florida, United States.

Know Your ApoB Levels? MONDAY, Oct. 27, 2003 (HealthDayNews) -- A new phrase may soon be added to the vocabulary of heart-conscious Americans: apolipoprotein B. Blood levels of apolipoprotein B (ApoB) can be a better indicator of heart disease risk than the currently standard marker, LDL cholesterol (the "bad" kind that clogs arteries), says a report in the Oct. 28 issue of Circulation. That report describes the results of blood tests and other measures of heart risk among 1,522 people in the Insulin Resistance Atherosclerosis Study, which examines the link between abnormal blood sugar metabolism and the development of heart disease. Researchers measured levels of both LDL cholesterol and ApoB, which is a sub-unit of the LDL molecule. They also measured several other known risk factors for heart disease -- obesity, the inflammation-related molecule called C-reactive protein, clot-inducing molecules and insulin levels. "In each statistically comparison, the elevated ApoB group had higher associated risk than the elevated LDL cholesterol group," the researchers report. That's because not all LDL cholesterol is created equal, says Dr. Allan D. Sniderman, a professor of medicine at McGill University in Canada and one of the authors of the Circulation report. LDL comes in particles of different sizes, Sniderman explains. Larger particles are much less likely to form the plaques that narrow and then block arteries than small, dense particles, he says. High ApoB levels are associated with higher concentrations of those small, dangerous particles. "People with diabetes and other groups at high risk of heart disease can have normal LDL cholesterol levels but an increased number of small LDL particles," Sniderman says. "If you look at their LDL cholesterol, things can look OK. But what this study shows is that there are other things to consider as well." High ApoB readings indicate the body is not metabolizing fatty acids properly, he says, "and we think that abnormalities of fatty acid metabolism at the end of the day are responsible for heart disease." The issue now is how to include ApoB testing as part of the assessment of heart disease risk, Sniderman says. "It is a challenge in the best sense of the word, as how we can bring the benefits of new knowledge to patients without making it seem that we are contradicting past knowledge." Canadian risk assessment guidelines were changed recently to include a recommendation for ApoB testing, as well as LDL cholesterol tests. U.S. guidelines drawn up by the American Heart Association and the federal National Cholesterol Education Program do not recommend routine ApoB tests. That may change, says Alice Lichtenstein, director of the cardiovascular nutrition laboratory at Tufts University and a spokeswoman for the American Heart Association, but any change will not come overnight. "Normally, guidelines are not altered on the basis of one study," Lichtenstein says. "Given the totality of evidence, there is a lot we have to look at. At this point, the data are very compelling, but it would be difficult for a physician to justify measuring ApoB levels until the guidelines change." When and if they do change, there will be no major upheaval in medical practice, Sniderman says. ApoB testing is easily done, and elevated ApoB levels can be treated effectively with the same statin drugs now widely used to lower blood cholesterol levels, he says. The importance of blood cholesterol is described by the American Heart Association, which also has a page on other risk factors.

Numerous research studies have documented the positive impact repeated reading has on improving reading fluency and word recognition accuracy and on reading comprehension Breznitz, a, b; Dowhower, ; O'Shea, Sindelar, and O'Shea, ; Rashotte and Torgesen, ; Tan and Nicholson, In a relatively short-term, three-week intervention with struggling readers, Rashotte and Torgesen found that fluency was enhanced, but only for passages of text that shared a substantial number of the same words. Picture the plot in time and space. Providing support takes place in a number of ways - the way in which the selections are organized in a theme, the amount of prior knowledge activation that is provided, the way in which the literature is read by the students, and the types of responses students are encouraged to make. In Anthony V. In kindergarten these fluency tasks are: Bishop found that letter identification and phonological awareness correlate to first-grade reading achievement along with rapid automatized naming and phonological memory in examining oral reading fluency. Cooperative Learning Cooperative learning is also a very effective instructional strategy that works well in literature-based instruction Slavin, Also, if you want a quick assessment of decoding fluency, download a copy of the Abecedarian for free. Ideally, word identification is so rapid and fluent that the reader can devote full attention to the message of the text, allowing phonological, orthographic, semantic, and syntactic information to reinforce each other to improve the overall efficiency of the reading comprehension system. However, from s testing various methods never seemed to win support in empirical research. The case for early reading intervention. After the completion of the running record assessment, plan strategies that will improve the students' ability to read and understand the text. Look for the answers while reading. One such strategy for improving reading comprehension is the technique called SQ3R introduced by Francis Pleasant Robinson in his book Effective Study. It is an insidious paradox in education -- students who need the most support, instruction, and opportunities to practice and develop knowledge and skills are typically given the least. Once they have completed this, they are given the opportunity to write down their own comprehensive questions for their partner. Effects of accelerated reading rate on memory for text among dyslexic readers. Semantic memory organization in second graders and adults. Computer technology also exists to allow students to engage in repeated reading with feedback activities without creating a burden on the teacher to monitor reading and provide feedback. Many different strategies can be used in activating prior knowledge; most of these strategies help students become independent in activating their own prior knowledge. National Assessment of Education Progress Good and Kaminski believe the definition of reading is fluency in assessment tasks. The idea is that students will develop stronger reading comprehension skills on their own if the teacher gives them explicit mental tools for unpacking text. The description of Mrs. New York Times Learning Network Designed for Grades 3 and up, it includes news summaries, a daily quiz, science questions, student letters to the editor, a crossword puzzle, ask a reporter and lesson plan archive. Good and Kaminski believe the definition of reading is fluency in assessment tasks. Text matters in developing fluent reading.InEllin Oliver Keene and Susan Zimmermann, partners at the Denver-based Public Education and Business Coalition, published “Mosaic of Thought,” which explained how good readers use thinking strategies to build comprehension. Lumos Reading Comprehension Skill Builder, Grade 4 - Literature, Informational Text and Evidence-based Reading: Plus Online Activities, Videos and Apps (Lumos Language Arts Skill Builder) (Volume 1) [Lumos Learning] on kaleiseminari.com *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. This book is designed to help fourth grade students practice and master Reading Comprehension. Literature Review. Becoming a successful reader requires the mastery of many concepts from phonemic awareness to comprehension. Reading instruction research has shifted its focus from one skill to another in search of the best way to improve reading instruction. 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Reza Zarrab started his testimony today in the New York court, revealing the details of his sanctions-busting scheme, naming the players inside the Turkish government that helped him to run his network. On the second part his testimony, Zarrab detailed his scheme by drawing on a white board, explaining to the court that it took "10 transactions" to hide the source of the money —Iran's oil an gas revenue. Zarrab named a Turkish private bank, Aktif Bank, where he said he initially used to make money transfers to Iran, and added that he moved to Halkbank, a state-bank, after bribing former Turkish Minister of Economy, Zafer Çağlayan. Zarrab says he bribed Turkish minister tens of million of euros |...

Diamond dealers have paid a record amount of nearly 100 million euros in taxes in one year. Since the introduction of the carat tax, they have been paying over three times more in taxes. When the Michel government introduced the carat tax in 2016, it caused a stir. The fact that precisely the Antwerp diamond sector, which for years was the center of fraud and money laundering cases, was given such a separate tax regime, was a thorn in the side. Even though the then Minister of Finance Johan Van Overtveldt (N-VA) promised that the carat tax would not make diamond traders pay less tax, but more. Van Overtveldt even put a concrete amount on it. He predicted 50 million euros more in tax revenue. The carat tax was intended to guarantee that diamond dealers would no longer tamper with the value of their stones. The cost price of their diamonds is now fixed at 97.9 percent of their sales. Their gross margin is 2.1 percent of their turnover. They pay taxes on that. They can still reduce them with deductions and accumulated losses. There is a lower limit. They have to pay taxes on at least 0.55 percent of their turnover. What is the impact of the carat tax? In the assessment years 2015 and 2016, before the carat tax took effect, the tax authorities received 27.8 and 29.3 million euros in global corporate tax from all companies active in the diamond sector, respectively. Since the introduction of the carat tax, that rose to 79.7 million euros in the 2017 tax year. That first year, however, a one-time higher minimum margin of 0.65 percent instead of 0.55 percent still applied. But according to the latest data, as of December 31, 2020, the 2018 assessment year even accounted for a record amount of 98.9 million euros in taxes. That’s over three times more than in the pre-carat era, and it’s also nearly 20 million euros more than the additional 50 million euros Van Overtveldt had predicted at the time. At the time, the socialist (sp.a) and green (Groen) party, from the opposition, attacked the carat tax as a tax gift to the diamond sector. Today, now that both parties are in the federal government, that position has not changed.

it is what it is. I think people like the chance to jump and argue anything they can in the abstract. Yes, this can be a bartering tactic but (1) it was not intended to be in this case and (2) if it were intended to be it was incredibly poorly executed (as you said, highly unbelievable and unclear) Problem was that I called it "dick no matter how you slice it." People ran with that. I at least got one nice discussion out of it with a guy who is in the business of selling antiques. Fun way to kill an hour.

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You are not logged in. [Log In] ETS Forums » Forums » The Survival Forum » Around The Campfire » This is a call to ban all knives! Brangdon, I think its more attributed to the social mores of each country; here, the gangster image that permeates our larger cities, and a significant amount of our smaller ones, exemplify violence through their music and actions. I mean, in the past month, we have had 2 NFL players get shot; one shot himself accidentally, the other was shot by someone else. There are role models for inner city youth. Unfortunately, their violence is seen as something positive; going to jail is seen as a badge of honor; a finishing school for criminals of sorts. Until THAT lifestyle is changed, we will always have the violence within our culture; be it unarmed muggings, stabbings, shootings, or drive by fraggings (well, hopefully it wont come to that!). Criminals here are armed illegally; to disarm our country simply wont happen. Too many people own firearms legally, and would hide them. It is something that simply isnt feasible; all you are doing is disarming the legal owners; criminals will continue to do what they do. After reading this article , I strongly feel we need legislation that will ban knives. These are dangerous tools and shouldn't be handled by common folk. ...kidding of course. A sad story without a doubt, but it does reiterate the fact that if a nutjob wants to kill people, he doesn't need a gun to do it and will do so by any means available. Agreed. Many folks prefer to pretend that they are safe and in control of their surroundings as long as their on the right side of town or there are no evil guns present. A knife is such a simple tool and yet defending yourself against one is underestimated by most. If you don't have a knife you can likely improvise or make one in minutes from whatever is lying around. 'still have' doesn't begin to describe it. shootings doubled in the first 5 years after the 97 ban and have kept rising since. According to this Gun Crime Report, there was a peak around 2003 and figures have been in decline since (fig 3). The variation seems to depend on ease of importing. but the british are STILL convinced bans work and every time a shooting happens in the US they scoff at the US gun laws. I'm not going to scoff, and I don't approve of the bans we instituted after Dunblane (nor similar tabloid-led legislation over the last 10 years). However, even in 2002 we had only 0.15 gun homicides per 100,000 people, and the USA had 3.98 (fig 6). So pro-rata, the USA has 26 times as many gun-killings as the UK. For whatever reason I think it is working better here than in America. Only around 0.2% of our recorded crime involves guns. It's a different culture. In general when the public encounter the police here, neither side expects the other to be armed. Since we are hearing the benefits of your unarmed society, pray tell us about knife crime, and blunt objects please. 1) Run, but that isn't always a viable option. 2) Shoot to stop the assailant, also not always the best option. 3) Don't get attacked. Guess that means becoming a shut-in alone. I am sure there is little knife crime in the UK also. Surely that is why your constables are not issued special vests to prevent knife injury. Oh wait, they are given those vests, or buy them themselves. Guess that blows the whole no knife crime idea out of the water. To each his own, but I intend on being able to protect myself, my family and other innocent folks within sight if I must. I prepare to do so with prayers I will never have to. BTW, were those legal firearms and explosives the IRA used during the troubles? Most people who are for banning weapons tend to conveniently forget one simple truth. If a criminal is willing to commit robbery, murder, or any other crime - then they surely don't care about the penalty for carrying said weapon while committing the greater offense. Anti-gun and anti-knife laws do nothing more than assure that only criminals will possess guns and knives. And gun-free zones accomplish the same thing. Every time I hear of yet another shooting in a "Gun-Free Zone", it's always a situation where at least one of the victims could have defended themselves if they were armed. How well did the signs labeling the area a "Gun-Free Zone" work to keep the armed criminal from shooting innocent civilians? Look at the crime statistics from the US from years ago. In an era where everyone was armed, crime levels were amazingly low. In the wild west days, if a bank got robbed, it was big news, like Billy-the-Kid type news. Today, thousands of bank robberies happen every month. People used to know that if you stole someone's horse, you'd get shot dead for it. In the last year, we had something really sad happen. Seems a young man son#1 had been friends with became addicted to meth. We all knew something was "wrong", but until the kid really hit bottom we didn't know. I guess we (all but sons #1&2) were in denial. The sons had stopped running with him about the time son#2 moved in. He didn't try our house because he knew he risked one of us being there during the day. He also said he knew I would shoot an intruder without question. Guess that legal firearm ownership worked as an insurance policy on that one. Yep, "Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with his life." I am sorry Red, but I have to burst that bubble. The "Good Old Days" are just another escapist fantasy. If you look at the historic crime rates and examine what the crimes were they were much higher at a lot of times and in a lot of places than they are now. When you hear about historic crime sprees remember you are only hearing about the ones that were bad enough to remember for more than 100 years, ones bad enough to be reported nation wide at a time that mass media hardly existed. You are not hearing about the countless local robberies and small murders earlier times were plagued with. The idea that everybody was walking around armed to the teeth is a bit false too. Guns might not have been illegal, but they didn't have to be. Guns were very expensive items and so was ammunition. People could not afford to be armed like they are now. Anyway, crime rates change and nobody really knows why. Since 1990 the violent crime rate has been dropping, in spite of all the scary stories in the media, and it has nothing to do with gun ownership levels. Nobody has been able to link it with anything else either. Not even to the population getting older or to the police being better equipped. When you hear that they hanged horse thieves all that means is there was enough horse theft that they resorted to drastic measures in an attempt to reduce horse thievery. Thanks for that Brangdon I've been trying to find the figures; hence my vagueness on the numbers after the first 5 years. But aren't you agreeing that gun bans don't control the amount of shootings, when you say it depends on the ease of importing? Banning legal guns has no effect on that. And doesn't that graph show that every sort of gun crime has risen since the bans were legislated? How can they be said to work? The USA is one exammple of a place with more guns and more gun crime. But if it really depended on whether guns were illegal, the Bronx would be gun crime free and New Hampshire would be dodge city. Norway has the highest gun ownership in Europe; where is the gun crime? Wow. That is a silly statement. If figured in gold, silver or oil, rather than currencies, the cost of small arms and ammunition hasn't changed all that much since the introduction of the fixed cartridge if you factor out the military surplus items prior each of the World Wars. Even then, you could buy a Carcano and 500 rounds for how much in 1962? Probably wouldn't work out to be much more than you would pay for Mosin and 500 rounds now. And the reason I'm not hitting the range every week is because I can't afford it- I make right around the average in this area, to. I'll go further than NH. Vermont has NO state gun laws other than (a) you can't own supressors, which is part of the fish and game laws, (b) you can't carry a loaded long arm in a car, also part of of fish and game, (c) you can't carry in schools or state/town offices, and (d) federal laws. If you can legally buy it, you can legally carry it concealed, and no local jurisdiction can forbid or restrict in way your right to carry concealed. That was more than most people made in a month back then. 50 Pounds a year was considered a small fortune. By 1870 mass production had lowered the prices, but repeating rifles were still extremely expensive compared to how much they would cost in labor now. Arguing prices based on commodities like gold is not very good. Metals fluctuate a lot in value. Gold was cheap enough at one point that they actually used it as currency. You need to count the cost in comparison to what people earned.

Peace lilies are one of the most popular indoor plants. It takes very little effort to take care of Peace Lily. Peace lilies not only enhance beauty but also purify the air. The American space agency NASA has included Peace Lily in its list of top 10 air purifiers in a research paper. The study found that Peace Lily reduces the amount of toxins in car air, such as formaldehyde from carpets, by 60 percent; Trichloroethylene from plastic products reduces by 23%; Benzene, derived from house paints, reduces by about 70% and removes xylene-like substances from the air. Peace Lily (Spathyphyllum) bears the name Lily, but it does not actually belong to the Lillium (Lillium sp.) Family, but to the Kachu or Araceae family. The tree is native to the tropical rainforest of the Americas (the Amazon rainforest in Central America, including Nicaragua and Belize). The rainy humid-warm environment of this forest, the shade of tall and dense trees, the low sun-peek-exposure – this is the ideal environment for growing peace lilies. Our country enjoys warm and humid weather all year round except winter. The Peace Lily is one of the trees that can be planted in the office, bedroom of the house or in the bright rooms of the hospital. Peace lilies can grow up to 3 to 4 feet tall depending on the variety. The leaves of the tree are attractive dark green. The most interesting part is its white hood-like “flowers”. The white part of the piece lily is not actually a flower. The white petal that surrounds the light yellow or greenish long stem is the flower or the right inflorescence. Identity: Current Name: Peace Lily. Scientific name: Spathiphyllum sp. Family: Araceae Origin: South America. Size: Height from one and a half feet to four feet. Added stemless rhizomes. Dark green leaves emerge from the early rhizomes. The main attraction is the dark green leaves and white hooded flowers. Hard work in care: Very easy, less work. Lighting: No direct sunlight, bright normal illuminated space. Illuminated area 6 feet or 6 feet away from the north or east side window of the house. When the light is high, the leaves turn yellow. When exposed to direct sunlight, the leaves turn black. Water: The soil is suitable for satyagraha. The roots of the tree rot in the standing water. When the soil dries out, the leaves actually fall off. If the leaves of the tree fall a little, it should be understood that the tree needs water. The soil is usually moistened once a week. Water should be sprinkled or sprayed in summer. Less water is required in winter. Water that is free of chlorine or other chemicals. Temperature and humidity: The room temperature should be above 21 degrees Celsius and the humidity should be above 50 percent. The temperature and humidity have to be controlled by keeping the windows closed in winter and spraying excess water in summer. Fertilizer application: Fertilizer is not required after planting. Organic fertilizers and phosphate fertilizers have to be given before flowering. However, if the flowers are green, the amount of fertilizer has to be reduced. Diseases: Usually there is no such disease. However, some fungal diseases can occur. May be attacked by mites again. The affected part should be cut off. At the same time suitable pesticides or fungicides are to be given. Toxicity: Due to the presence of calcium oxalate in the leaves, children have to keep it out of reach. At the same time, the tree should be kept away from pet dogs or cats. Benefits: Eco-friendly indoor plants recognized by the International Space Research Organization NASA. Releases indoor air from formalin, xylene, benzene and trichloroethylene. Within the house with less effort, can be observed without direct sunlight. Internationally popular for long lasting attractive white flowers.

Since the 2003 release of his full-length debut as Celldweller, Klayton has kept busy with a rather massive outpouring of material, all the while building his FiXT empire from the ground up and setting a hub for artists to release music on their own terms. Besides his Celldweller artist albums and hosting numerous remix contests, he’s had quite a few releases encompassing material written and licensed primarily for soundtrack purposes. With the two Transmission volumes, Klayton maintains his thematic focus upward toward the stars, switching from his EDM/rock hybrids toward a more experimental blend of ambient/IDM that is appropriately cosmic in scope without losing the harmoniousness that has characterized Celldweller’s music from the beginning. The first volume begins with “Metropolitan” as throbbing bass, pulsating synths, and straightforward beats begin the proceedings with a sense of anticipation and excitement; this excitement gives way to wonder and awe as reverberating pads and glitch-laden synths and beats underscore the vast expanses of deep space. Ech track takes on certain celestial qualities their titles suggest, with the sullen lullaby of “Snowcore” giving the impression of slowly traversing a frozen, twilit tundra, while “Shapeshifting Nebulae” dynamically takes the listener through varying waves of oscillating synths, intricately interwoven layers of frantic percussive and noise effects amid cloudy pads evocative of traveling through starry haze. “The Last Question” with its rubbery synth harmonies is reminiscent of early Autechre, while the fright and subtle terror of the cosmos is conveyed through the offbeat glitches and noises of “Broken Clock” and the groaning distorted drones of “The Descent of King Ghidora,” while “The Halls of Valhalla” is at once soothing and unsettling with its swells of almost vocal atmospheres akin to the whispers of ancient deities. “Daydreaming at Night” ends the first volume with crystalline echoes of guitar and feedback guided by shooting stars create a sense of calm and foreboding at what lies beyond the furthest reaches of space. “Acid Bath” begins Vol. 02 in a similar fashion as the first as frantic beats and spastic bass lines create a sense of warped intrigue, charging headlong into the ensuing void. While dramatically different in tone and tempo, “Lost in My Own Little World” ties into Celldweller’s hit “Own Little World,” Klayton’s heavily manipulated vocals singing in tandem with resonant waves of pads and manic arpeggios to truly create a sense of being “Lost in time.” As its title indicates, “Midnight Train” is a highly rhythmic excursion, its steady and almost jazzy beat underscoring oscillating bass to create a rather relaxed and groovy track; the same can be said for “Something for Someone,” its head-bopping disco beat and simply infectious bass line augmented by flashes of ambient light making for one of the album’s more energetically pleasing moments. And then we return to the ambient thrills of “Frequency Scan,” with its droning, resonating stillness adding to a sense of cosmic tension, and “A Storm on Saturn,” upon which fluctuating winds of noisy feedback and overdriven pads moan a haunted hymn of nightmarish interstellar dread. Finally, “Event Horizon” concludes the album with a darkly inviting maelstrom of ghostly ambience, hinting perhaps at further wonders and terrors to be found in the depths of infinity. With Transmissions, Celldweller plunges the listener headfirst into the immeasurable eons and unfathomable distances of time and space as only he can – equal parts ambient drone and rhythmic IDM, while it thematically ties in with what Klayton has already offered us with Wish Upon a Blackstar and the upcoming End of an Empire, the music takes on a wholly different character less reliant on narrative. Introspective and celestial, Transmissions showcases Klayton’s production skills as well as any of his past releases as well as his versatility as an artist, and while the moods and atmospheres may be a tad esoteric for the casual listener, those with an ear for this kind of sonic exploration will find much to behold on these two volumes.

The larger-than-life portrait by Mexican artist Miguel Aragón is dark and haunting, a magnified depiction of a woman’s deep moment of grief. The piece is made from hand-drilled paper, its monotones recalling a da Vinci drawing. But the subject is painfully contemporary. Aragón’s La Matanza del Centro Aliviane (the Slaughter of Aliviane) was developed from news photographs of grieving relatives taken after a drug gang slaughtered 18 young people at a government drug treatment center in the artist's home city of Cuidad Juarez in 2009. Aragón’s work is on display this week in Mexico City, along with 27 other artists from Mexico and around the world. They are participants in a unique temporary pop-up exhibition and cultural event—the Museum of Drug Policy—which includes three days of debate and performance, aimed at expanding the global debate about how drug policy shapes the way communities live, and what they endure. Supported by the Open Society Foundations, the museum event calls on people to question assumptions and to reach beyond their current constraints. Mexicans know the moment of grief and horror captured in Aragon’s work all too well. Since President Felipe Calderon decided to deploy Mexico’s armed forces against the country’s powerful drug cartels over a decade ago, the country has faced wave after wave of violence, perpetrated by both competing drug cartels and also by agents of the state. In certain instances, the scale and organization of this violence likely constitutes crimes against humanity. This violence shows no signs of abating. In 2017, Mexico recorded over 25,000 homicides, the highest number for two decades. Attacks on journalists and human rights defenders have increased sharply across the country, while more than half of Mexico’s disappeared were reported missing in the past six years alone. Torture in Mexico, the UN has repeatedly stated, remains a routine and “generalized” practice at both the state and federal level. But amid the grim statistics, and with a presidential election on the horizon, Mexican and international civil society groups continue to look for a way forward. This week sees the launch of Corruption That Kills: Why Mexico Needs an International Mechanism to Combat Impunity, a report by my colleagues at the Open Society Justice Initiative, together with eight Mexican human rights and anticorruption groups, that examines credible evidence of collusion between certain public officials and members of the Zetas drug cartel between 2009 and 2012. The report looks in detail at two of the most brutal episodes perpetrated during this period: the killing of approximately 300 men, women, and children in the municipality of Allende and nearby towns; and the disappearance and murder of an estimated 150 persons within the Piedras Negras prison. It highlights the failure of authorities to properly investigate and prosecute these crimes and concludes that this failure is intimately connected to endemic corruption. This is unlikely to surprise many Mexicans—the well-publicized disappearance of 43 young students from Ayotzinapa Teaching College in 2014 has similarly been attributed to collusion between local officials and the regional drug cartel, while the investigation at both a federal and local level was subsequently thoroughly botched. Similar stories are widespread across Mexico, from Veracruz to Tamaulipas, from Guerrero to Chihuahua. The detailed examination in the Corruption that Kills report of what happened in Coahuila leads to a conclusion that requires Mexicans—both those in power and those who elect them—to think beyond the limits that have defined the policy debates for over a decade. In 2016, the Justice Initiative joined with five leading Mexican human rights organizations to call for the creation of an internationalized mechanism to combat impunity. Based inside Mexico, and staffed by both national and international experts, the mechanism would be empowered to independently investigate—and, when necessary, prosecute—atrocity crimes and related cases of corruption. In the past two years, a growing number of Mexican civil society organizations have joined the demand for such a mechanism; these groups are now united as part of the Platform against Impunity and Corruption (Plataforma contra la impunidad y la corrupción). To date, the government has rejected this recommendation for an internationalized mechanism in its entirety. Corruption that Kills renews this call, with more detailed proposals for what such an international mechanism would look like. This is an idea that requires new ways of thinking. But the grim themes of drug related violence explored by Mexican artists at the Museum of Drug Policy remind us that the old ways of thinking have cost—are costing—too many lives. This report argues Mexico needs an international response to investigate and prosecute atrocity crimes.

Young singles need love, encouragement, wisdom and direction as they steer through life’s challenging issues. This class offers all of these as we draw nearer to the Lord together. Join us this Sunday to grow in your faith and enjoy fellowship!

Microsoft Office today released beta versions of two add-ins that help make Office documents more accessible: STAMP and DAISY. STAMP: This. Save as DAISY: The Open XML to DAISY XML Translator add-in for Microsoft Office Word helps content creators produce accessible documents for people who have visual disabilities. Installing this add-in allows Word documents in Open XML format to be saved into DAISY XML, which can then be converted into DAISY Digital Talking Book (DTB) format. This beta supports Office 2003, 2007 and 2010. Both these add-ins are open source collaborations through the SourceForge project. Learn more and download: STAMP | DAISY. Microsoft Office 2010 already includes several new and updated accessibility features, and these two newly introduced add-ins will make things even easier for people with hearing, sight or reading disabilities.

|Name: _________________________||Period: ___________________| This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions. Multiple Choice Questions 1. The joyous news was that the French had been defeated at ________. (d) The border 2. Who reminds Anne they are just both whores? (d) King Henry 3. What does the Queen wear in court? (a) A demure dress (b) Blue velvet (c) Red velvet (d) A black robe 4. What does Uncle Howard send to Mary to give to King Henry for Christmas? (a) A book (b) A chalice (c) A deed to land (d) A robe 5. When does Mary tell Henry she is pregnant? 6. Who is Queen Katherine's confessor? (a) Bishop Fisher (c) Cardinal Carpeggio (d) Cardinal Wolsey 7. Who is Mary married to at the beginning of this novel? (a) Henry VIII (b) William Carey (c) William Strafford (d) No one 8. What happens to some members of the court that Mary blames on her sister and her father? (c) They are executed (d) They leave 9. What makes Mary a good person to promote to Henry? (a) She has given birth twice (b) She is prettier than Anne (c) She's a widow (d) She's young 10. Where is Queen Katherine from? 11. Who is prohibited from seeing both the King and the Queen? (c) Cardinal Wolsey (d) Ambassador Mendoza 12. Who does Anne adopt, much to the dismay of Mary? (a) Little Henry (c) Princess Mary 13. Who is called the Queen of May? 14. Who is treated by all as Queen of England? (d) Princess Mary 15. Uncle Howard is sure that ________ will be the next queen. Short Answer Questions 1. Who gives Mary the message the the King wants her in his rooms for wine? 2. While most of the family gets something in return for Anne's sexual techniques, who is left out of the King's generosity? 3. What does the Queen do when asked to testify? 4. In what does Anne compete? 5. From whom does Anne receive a note explaining that the Cardinal knows everything? This section contains 338 words (approx. 2 pages at 300 words per page)