Mr. President, I rise in support of S.130, which I am proud to cosponsor. This legislation would ensure that healthcare providers treat babies who have been born alive, after failed abortion attempts, with the same care they would treat any other baby born at the same stage of pregnancy.
I also thank the Senator from Nebraska for his leadership on this issue and for bringing this issue to the floor.
In one sense, it is very hard to imagine this legislation is even necessary in the United States of America. In the twenty-first century, when, every day, new, advanced technologies bring new revelations about the wonders of human life, it is hard to fathom the extremism of the politicians in New York and now in Virginia who would deny the protections of law to the most vulnerable members of our society—the innocent unborn—and allow them to be aborted, allow them to be killed right up to the moment of birth. It is hard to comprehend statements like those of Ralph Northam's, the Virginia Governor, who said that if he had his way, infants who survived abortion attempts would be delivered and kept comfortable—that is his word—while the doctors and the parents decided their fate.
Is this really what it has come to in the United States? Is this really the social vision of today's Democratic Party? Frankly, I can't imagine a vision less just or less consistent with the goodness and compassion of the American people.
In another sense, perhaps we should not be so surprised. After all, the cruelty and extremism that has been advocated by a growing number of Democratic politicians made up the conventional wisdom for much of recorded history.
We often hail the ancient Greeks as the founders of democracy, but, of course, most of the Greeks believed that most humans were born to be slaves and that their lives were utterly worthless. Oh, they had a democracy, of course, but it was the democracy of the few ruling over the many.
The Romans took the same view. They kept most of their subjects in chains. They infamously killed children they didn't want and left them to be exposed on hillsides or in deserted places. The Romans had a republic, but citizenship was for the few. The strong ruled. Most lives, they thought, didn't matter.
This has been the general rule of the ages. The Aztecs, the Mayans, the Incas all practiced child sacrifice. Archaeologists recently discovered a burial ground dated to the time of the empire in Peru where more than 140 children were dismembered in a ritual of sacrifice.
So it has gone down through the years. The strong prey upon the weak. The few rule the many. Individual lives don't count.
We here in the United States of America hold to a different conviction. Our Constitution was written and the whole edifice of American liberty depends on a very different belief, on a belief that is as simple as it is powerful—that every life matters. We believe and it is our pride to believe that every person has dignity and worth—worth that is not given to one by the strong or the rich, that does not come to one from the State or the city, that does not depend on place of birth or social status, but is one's by right because of who one is—a human being created in the image of the living God.
That is our faith, and against the drift of history, it is a revolutionary creed. It is a creed that inspired the early Christians to rescue those infants the Romans left to die and to bring them up to be free. It led them to found hospitals and schools and, later, universities on the supposition that all people should be cared for, that all could learn, and that all could govern themselves. It is a creed that has brought down empires and raised up the forgotten. It is the faith of our Constitution and of our whole way of life.
Yes, we have struggled to realize it in this Nation. We have struggled to make it real, and we have fallen short many times, but this struggle for this faith defines our history and binds us together as Americans, and this faith is again at issue in our time.
I know some are tempted, when they see this rising tide of barbarism and cruelty, to feel despair, but I do not. I think of the words of Lincoln, who spoke of the unfinished work of this Nation, and I take courage that all of these years later, we are a revolutionary nation still.
So we must press forward in this generation for our revolutionary faith. Let us not go back to the darkness and cruelty of the past. Let us not go back to the arbitrary rule of the powerful and the few. Let us affirm again our founding belief in the equal worth and equal dignity of all. As we do, we will do our part for liberty and justice in our day.


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Immersive Learning Tools
Discovery Education Introduces Free Augmented Reality App for Students and Educators
Sandbox AR Lets Users Create Virtual Worlds or Augment Their Own — All Linked to Real World Knowledge
By Kristal Kuykendall
Discovery Education today introduced its new Sandbox AR iPad app, giving students and educators no-cost access to an immersive learning tool using augmented and virtual reality to create interactive learning experiences that unlock students' natural curiosity.
By superimposing virtual images and data on a user's view of the real world, AR allows learners to visualize and interact with complex topics and heightens student engagement with digital content. The Sandbox AR app empowers students and teachers to create, share, and even inhabit virtual environments; users can create virtual "scenes" and populate those scenes with any of the hundreds of built-in unique objects from history, science, nature, and more, Discovery Education said.
The app also has a mode allowing users to scale up and inhabit their own environments in a virtual setting, using their iPad to take photos of what's around them; that virtual world or scene can then be filled with the app's built-in objects to create a scene mixing virtual and augmented reality, Discovery Education told THE Journal recently. The objects within the app each connect to information about its history (such as the Great Pyramid at Giza), its origins in the natural world (such as an African elephant), and so forth.
Once a user has their Sandbox AR scene built to their satisfaction, they can take photos or record a video walkthrough with their own voiceover, to introduce their classmates or their teacher to what they created or what they learned, for example.
To help educators leverage the power of AR wherever learning takes place, Discovery Education has made the Sandbox AR iPad app available for free in the Apple App Store.
"We know educators and students love augmented reality," explained one of the app's developers, Phil Birchinall, Discovery Education's senior director of immersive content. "Sandbox gives students the ability to control and have some agency over that augmented reality."
Sandbox adds multiple laters of data over the scene users create, using built-in links attached to each object within the app to teach users "real world" information about each object they're seeing in their "virtual world," he explained.
"Sandbox AR gives students the ability to immerse themselves in whatever scene or topic they're learning and really show their knowledge," said Jason Ediger of Discovery Education. "This app will have a real impact in the classroom and on learning outcomes. Highly engaging content is important, but giving kids a sense of ownership — underpinned by proper learning concepts — is the key."
Sandbox AR has pre-made scenes such as ancient Egypt, Mayan ruins, road construction worksites, space exploration, and more, as well as hundreds of individual objects that students or educators can use to build their own scenes. Each scene and object links to learning materials, or for teachers using the app, each links to instructional materials.
Visit the Discovery Education website to view a demo video of the Sandbox AR app's capabilities.
"It's critical for teachers to understand the power of this tool for them and their students, so we've included lessons for educators on how to use this in their teaching," Ediger said. "The uses of this are endless — students can inhabit an AR world they build and truly experience it; it could be part of a mindfulness meditation, or a game" or a lesson on endangered species like the African elephant.
Birchinall, a former teacher himself, said his team created the Sandbox AR with purpose, not just to bring cool tools to the classroom. "We know AR has a huge impact on learning," he said. "Tools like these amplify the power, depth, and speed of student learning."
Discovery Education first entered the education technology world over two decades ago, digitizing educational video content previously brought into classrooms on VHS tapes and media carts, and then introducing digital textbooks.
"While 2021 marked Discovery Education's 20th year of providing innovative digital learning solutions to educators worldwide, it also began a new chapter in the company's history," said Discovery Education Chief Executive Officer Scott Kinney. "Sandbox AR and resources we make available to educators today are just the beginning of what will be a number of powerful new resources Discovery Education plans to provide students and educators in 2022 and beyond."
Discovery Education also introduced DE Originals today. Produced by Discovery Education's curriculum team, DE Originals are streaming videos featuring former teachers presenting assorted topics to students in a "fun and engaging fashion," the companys aid. DE Originals are exclusively available to subscribers of Discovery Education's K-12 learning platform.
The more than 100 new DE Originals kick off with the DEmystfied series, which explains complex science concepts through fun, funny, short, digestible, and standards-aligned videos. Combining Discovery Education's signature storytelling style with creative graphics, DEmystfied helps students ask and answer questions about the world around them. Discovery Education users can access DEmystfied through the DE website.
For more information about Sandbox AR, educators can view the Sandbox AR quick start guide or check out a free Sandbox AR lesson. To learn about Discovery Education's digital learning resources, visit www.discoveryeducation.com.
Kristal Kuykendall is editor, 1105 Media Education Group. She can be reached at [email protected].

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1. 	9th meeting of European geographers of religion: International Colloquia on the Changing Religious Landscape of 	Europe "Development and Transformation of Religious Landscape in the New European Context"
2. 	International and interdisciplinary conference Movements, Narratives and Landscapes, 5-7.6.2015.
Contemporary development of European rural areas, Zadar, 4-6. 9. 2014.
9. savjetovanje Kartografija i geoinformacije, Zadar 20.-22. studenoga 2013.


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> samtrans.com > About SamTrans > Bus Operations Information
Bus Operations Information
SamTrans operates 76 bus routes throughout San Mateo County and into parts of San Francisco and Palo Alto. It began operating bus service in 1976 after consolidating 11 municipal transit services in the county into a coordinated network. In mid-1977, SamTrans inaugurated its mainline service from Palo Alto to San Francisco, previously operated by Greyhound.
Also in 1977, SamTrans initiated service for persons with mobility impairments through its Redi-Wheels program - more than a decade before the passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act. The service - provided by Redi-Wheels on the bayside and RediCoast on the coastside - has grown steadily as the San Mateo County population ages, and the service regularly provides more than 1,000 trips in a day.
Over the years, SamTrans has introduced improved vehicles, such as hybrid and low-floor buses. It also has adjusted coverage area and service in response to customers' travel patterns and available resources. Below are some key areas of interest.
Bus Fleet - Types of buses used to serve customers.
Ridership - How many people ride SamTrans?
Surveys - Asking questions and listening to the answers.
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Norsat introduces portable satellite terminal
EP&T Magazine January 24, 2015
Electronics Wireless Engineering
Norsat International Inc., Vancouver, a leading provider of communication solutions that enable the transmission of data, audio and video for remote and challenging applications, has launched the Journey Manpack 0.9m ultra-portable Ku-Band satellite terminal.
The 6-segment, carbon fibre portable terminal weighes less than 18 kilograms (40 pounds) including the backpack, making it suitable for military special forces and government applications that require maximum portability. Setup takes less than 10-minutes allowing users with minimal training to quickly lock onto a satellite and transmit/receive. The Journey Manpack is optionally equipped with LinkControl software, which simplifies the antenna alignment process with its alignment wizard, beacon detector and built-in spectrum analyzer.
The high performance Journey Manpack terminal delivers Rx data rates up to 45Mbps and Tx data rates up to 20Mbps. Designed for low power consumption, the Journey runs on ac power or a 4/6 cell battery pack that provides more than 4-hours of continuous run time. Providing unmatched durability, the system is MIL-STD-810G compliant and has been built to operate in harsh and hostile environments.
The Journey Manpack includes an integrated BUC, LNB and modem, providing a full solution in one case or backpack. Journey can also be customized with a variety of BUCs, LNBs and modems to meet varying customer requirements and budgets.
"Norsat is pleased to add this new innovation to its broad range of portable satellite terminals, helping to provide communication access to some of the most remote and/or challenging locations in the world," says Dr. Amiee Chan, chief executive officer of Norsat. "The Journey Manpack showcases technical superiority in a compact lightweight package and represents one of the easiest to use, ruggedized, satellite micro terminals on the market. Our continued investments in research and development are allowing us to stay at the forefront of innovation, creating next generation products that our customers have come to expect from Norsat."
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A 53-year-old female patient had a fixed bridge on site 23-26 and presented with secondary caries on #26.
The treatment plan provided for a 8-week period to allow the extraction socket to heal.
Buccal view of the edentulous narrow ridge 8 months after the extraction.
Extremely narrow ridge was found. The implant-beds were prepared after reduction of the alveolar ridge.
The sinus floor on site 26 was augmented by the crestal approach using SCA kit.
3.5X13mm and 4.5X10mm implants were placed on site 24 and 25 respectively. CMI fixation with 35Ncm of initial stability was achieved on #26 through inferior cortical fixation. A severe buccal dehiscence was present on site 24.
1mm CTi-spacers were placed on site 24 and 25.
A combination of autogenous bone and allograft was applied to the defect. E2 type of CTi-mem was placed and 3 point fixation was made using two cover screws and one fixing screw over the graft.
A sheet of Collatape was placed over the CTi-mem.
The flap was secured with horizontal mattress and interrupted technique.
Incision line has healed 2 weeks after the surgery.
No CTi-mem exposure was observed at 16 weeks after the surgery. It would be due to the ideal fixation of the CTi-mem.
4 months later, CTi-mem was uncovered and it was verified that new bone formation has been made on the buccal and the lingual side.
Complete bone regeneration was observed following the spacer removal.
Healing abutments are in place. The flap was apically positioned to achieve keratinized gingiva.
Panoramic radiograph taken after stage Ⅱ surgery.
Impression was made a month after stage Ⅱ surgery.
A 3 unit cement retained PFM FPD was delivered.
This patient presented with extremely narrow ridge after the extraction socket of #26 was allowed to heal for 8 weeks. A 3 unit cement retained PFM FPD was delivered 4 months after GBR was conducted using titanium mesh.
This case features intraoral scanning system using an intraoral scanner (Trios) and a scan body.


FIGURE 23. Cells 8 and 15 (far left, top and bottom): Iconolatry and iconoclasm in Tlaxcala and Tenochtitlan.
FIGURE 24. Cells 42 to 45 (top row) and 49 to 52 (bottom row): The last appearance of Cortés, in context.
FIGURE 25. Cell 42: Tenochtitlan at the center of the Lienzo's grid.
FIGURE 26. Cell 29: Tlaxcala and the First Sunrise at the center of the Lienzo's cloth.
FIGURE 27. Cell 29: Tlaxcala and the First Sunrise (detail).
FIGURE 28. Central Mexican Calendar Stone. The Four Motion sun of the present Age of Creation is in the center, surrounding it are the hieroglyphic calendar names of the suns of the four previous (failed) Ages of Creation. Photo of YPM Ant 19231 courtesy Peabody Museum of Natural History, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, USA.
FIGURE 29. Visual structures in the Lienzo de Tlaxcala. Left pair: distribution of Malinche (shaded cells on left) and "Santiago" (shaded cells on right). Right pair: Tenochtitlan (left) and Tlaxcala (right) as the two centers of the Lienzo de Tlaxcala.
FIGURE 22. Cells 49 to 51: Battle scenes.
FIGURE 30. Eyes and Mirrors in the Codex Laud (page 11r).
FIGURE 31. Mosaic mirrors from Mesoamerica (not to scale). On the left, a Classic-period mirror from the site of Kixpék, Guatemala (courtesy of The University Museum, University of Pennsylvania; accession # NA11610). On the right, a Postclassic turquoise mosaic mirror-shield from Central Mexico (from Saville 1922, frontispiece).
FIGURE 32. Cell 27: European and Mesoamerican shield types.
FIGURE 33. The kingdoms of the Holy Roman Empire in the coat of arms of Emperor Charles V.
FIGURE 34. Cell 37: Quilted cotton armor.
Looking with care at the spatial connections between the different cells reveals a number of subtle patterns. Consider the pairing of iconolatry and iconoclasm in cells 8 and 15, stacked on top of each other (Figure 23). Above, Tlaxcalan nobles are converted to Christianity. To the right of the Host is an image of the Virgin and Child and a crucifix. The same pairing of Virgin and Child with crucifix occurs directly below, one cell down—but the story has moved to Tenochtitlan. This scene shows an attack by the Aztecs on the palace where the Spaniards held Moctezuma hostage. Amidst a hail of arrows and stones, sacred Christian images are being consumed by flames. The pairing of cell 8 and cell 15 visually contrasts Tlaxcalan conversion with Aztec iconoclasm.
The attack on Moctezuma's palace triggered a chain of events that culminated with the flight of the Spaniards from Tenochtitlan. Their escape is shown in a series of cells that begin just to the right of Cell 15, a sequence which unfolds in a beautiful play of positive and negative space, of water and land and shields (Figure 20). The narrow canal-crossed streets of Tenochtitlan (cell 17) become one of the causeways (cell 18) connecting the island-capital of Tenochtitlan to the mainland, where (cell 19) the fleeing army enters a protective corridor of shields (chimaltin) held by indigenous allies.
As a third example of these compositional nuances, consider the band of water that flows along the bottom and up the right-hand side of cell 51 (Figure 24). This creates a visual moat between the cells below and to the right, but its upward flow connects cell 51 to the row above, which shows watery scenes of the conquest of Tenochtitlan. Significantly, Cell 51 is the last time that the Lienzo deals with expeditions led by Hernán Cortés. The rest of the Lienzo deals with Spanish-Tlaxcalan expeditions under other Spanish captains. In other words, the channel of water in Cell 51 both divides that cell from the rest of the story which follows, and links it to scenes of Cortés' great victory in the row above.
But the Lienzo, of course, is centered on Tlaxcala's history. And so it is not surprising that its creators embedded a second center within its imagery—a second center that is actually far more important to the document as a whole. If cell 42 is at the exact center of the grid, moving two cells up brings us to the exact center of the cloth—originally about 2.5 meters down from the top (or up from the bottom). Cell 29 is visually flagged in a number of ways (Figure 26). First, to the left and the right are double-wide cells which, like the unusual composition of Cell 42, stand out from a distance to the viewer. The importance of Cell 29 is further underscored by its alphabetic label: we have returned to "Tlaxcallan." Remember that the scene at the top of the Lienzo presents a schematic map of Tlaxcala (Figure 13), and the scene in its very first cell is also labeled as taking place there (Figures 7 and 12). Compositionally, the Lienzo presents Tlaxcala as the starting-points of its narrative as well as the central pivot around which all other events radiate.
Cell 29 does not simply place Tlaxcala at the physical center of the Lienzo's story. It also signals a turning-point in the narrative. It contains a deceptively simple scene (Figure 27). In the center, Cortés speaks with one of the four rulers of Tlaxcala, perhaps Xicontecatl. Malinche stands below. Floating above all three, oddly, is a battle standard. A radiating circle of green quetzal feathers bursts from a golden center. This circle stands out visually from a distance, easy to spot. But why is a feathered battle standard hanging in the air between Cortés and Xicontecatl? Its details are very interesting. Bursting out from its golden circular center are four V-shaped rays. These are sunbeams. This battle standard takes the form of a gilded, feathered sun. Cell 29 shows a golden sun rising into the sky above Cortes and Xicontecatl (and Malinche, down below). The depiction of a sun rising in Tlaxcala, at the exact center of the Lienzo, is no trivial detail. In origin stories told throughout Mesoamerica, sunrises symbolically separated a past age of barbarity from the civilized age of the narrator's present.27 Ages of creation—and human-like beings—had existed before the present. But these prior ages were all flawed, incomplete. Their inhabitants did not practice agriculture, for example, or did not know how to properly honor the gods. These prior creations were, therefore, destroyed to make way for the properly-ordered present. Typically, strange suns burned in the sky of these previous creations. These vanished suns, plus the Four Motion sun of the present, are often depicted on Central Mexican Calendar Stones (Figure 28).
A new political order was often said to begin with the dawn of a First Sunrise. After the first attempt to conquer Tenochtitlan failed, Cortés and his joint European-indigenous army retreated to safety in Tlaxcala. According to an account written in Tlaxcala in 1562, Cortés then promised his loyal allies that Tlaxcala would have an elevated status in the new colonial order.28 What cell 29 probably shows, then, is the conversation in which Cortés offered special privileges to the Tlaxcalans. A New Sun, therefore, dawns above an image of the covenant between Tlaxcalans and Europeans, setting the foundation for Tlaxcala's privileged position in the colonial New Spain.
In addition to marking the exact center of the cloth, cell 29 also divides the Lienzo into two halves. This spatial division has important consequences for our understanding of the document as a whole. Cell 29 marks the beginning of Malinche's virtual disappearance from the Lienzo. Up until this point, Malinche has appeared in 19 of the 28 scenes. In contrast, she appears in only 2 of the 58 scenes which follow (Figure 29, first image on the left: shading indicates cells where Malinche appears). Her virtual disappearance cannot be explained because the scenes after cell 29 focus on battles. Up until this central point, Malinche has appeared in battle scenes again and again (Figure 2). Nor can her disappearance be attributed to "actual historical events." We know from alphabetic accounts that Malinche was present at many of the events which are shown after cell 29 (such as accompanying Cortés on the second, successful assault on Tenochtitlan). The authors of the Lienzo, then, intentionally write Malinche out of Tlaxcala's history after the First Sunrise in the document's central image.
There are several ways to understand her disappearance. A number of prehispanic narratives from Mesoamerica—and from the Americas generally—involve primordial accounts of a female-dominated age replaced by a male-dominated age, or tell how a male hero defeats a powerful female predecessor.29 The Lienzo's gendered transition may draw on prehispanic narrative roots.
This change also relates in complex and contradictory ways to the colonial order. One of the hallmarks of the Spanish regime was the predominance of men in official positions of political power—a masculine bias which had not been so extreme in prehispanic times.30 Malinche's disappearance after this scene may reflect this new reality. Yet at the same time the Spanish legal regime seems to have initially empowered women in its courtrooms.31 The new power of women under Spanish rule seems to have caused some anxiety in Tlaxcala. Tlaxcala's city council minutes from 29 April 1555—the same minutes which may record the commissioning of the Lienzo in 1552—describe plans to send a commission to Mexico City to greet the Viceroy and to complain that lordly teccalli in Tlaxcala "are coming to ruin because of new prerogatives assumed by women." A year later, the same minutes record a request for an inquiry as to whether a woman had ever been a ruler in Tlaxcala, or ever headed a lordly teccalli in the past (These complaints, of course, were voiced by an all-male institution modeled on Spanish political forms). Twenty years later, Tlaxcalan historian Diego Muñoz Camargo suggests that female property ownership and control of teccalli was a new, colonial phenomenon.32 The erasure of Malinche, then, may be an anxious attempt to assert the fundamental androcentrism of the new colonial regime.
The gendering of the Lienzo into a first half and a second half relates in complex ways to what Federico Navarrete has observed about the role of Christian supernaturals in its imagery.33 Navarrete argued that the Lienzo incorporates into its history the actions of two Christian supernaturals. One was female: the Virgin Mary, manifested in Malinche (a Nahuatl transformation of the name María), both as interpreter and as the mountain of La Malinche shown at the center of the main scene (a mountain decorated, you will remember, with an image of the Virgin Mary). The second supernatural was male: Santiago Matamoros (Moor-Slayer) transformed in the New World as Santiago Mataindios (Indian- Slayer). He is manifested, Navarrete argues, in the figure of a charging spear-wielding Spanish knight, trampling severed body parts underfoot (Figures 2, 22, and 24).
By joining the pieces of the Lienzo together again, we can see the profoundly spatial nature of Navarrete's observations (Figure 29, left pair, left side). The first half of the Lienzo is dominated by scenes involving Malinche / María / Mountain, scenes that focus on dialogue and intercession—Malinche was a translator; the Virgin was and is an abogada, a lawyer who pleads with God on behalf of her human worshippers. And as we saw, indigenous women had power in colonial courtrooms that they did not have in colonial political institutions.34 In contrast, the second half of the Lienzo is dominated by scenes involving the charging Spaniard as Santiago, scenes that focus above all on warfare. Indeed, the basic template of the "Santiago" scene is repeated 49 times in the second half of the Lienzo: a charging Spaniard on the left, a mountainous place sign on the right (Figure 29, left pair, right side). Careful eyes can detect this visual rhythm when looking at the Lienzo from a distance. The differing appearances of Malinche and Santiago, then, further underscore the way cell 29 divides the Lienzo in two.
Significantly, disembodied eyeballs were also used in prehispanic and colonial art to mark the surfaces of reflective things. This probably relates to a linguistic pun in Nahuatl; the same word, ixtli, was used for both eye and surface. A shining surface (ixtli) is therefore marked by an eye (ixtli).35 Dana Leibsohn has argued that eye-marked surfaces attached human eyes to them through a kind of visual homology.36 Shining surfaces were "eye-catching" or "eye-popping" things. They drew humans and nonhumans together in a kind of sympathetic resonance: shining eyes attracted shining eyes.
What all this suggests is that the Lienzo, at its deepest structural levels, was conceived as a giant mirror, a giant staring eye. From a Mesoamerican perspective, the eye-like structure of the Lienzo's imagery would have had the power to draw human eyes to it, ixtli to ixtli, in sympathetic resonance. The Lienzo's imagery was thus made irresistibly attractive. The macro-visual image of the Lienzo as a giant mirror, a giant staring eye, may seem absurd. But from a Mesoamerican perspective this would have made perfect sense. One type of mirror common in prehispanic Mesoamerica was made out of mosaic (often turquoise or pyrite).37 The tessellated surfaces of these mirrors, made up of dozens of stone tiles, looked a great deal like the tessellated appearance of the Lienzo, made up of dozens of painted cells (Figure 31). Furthermore, it is well documented that Mesoamericans linked written surfaces to mirrors, and thought about reading as a kind of seeing. Written documents, like the mirrors used in divination, allowed one to see into the past and future, to see things distant in time and space.38 Finally, the Lienzo has a mirrored relationship to one of its probable sources, the Texas Fragment. You will remember that the four scenes of the Texas fragment seem to have inspired the last four scenes in the first row of the Lienzo (cells 4-7). But when the artists of the Lienzo copied the Texas Fragment, they made one major change: they reversed the order of all of the figures in the scenes (Figures 8 and 9). The Lienzo's relation to the Texas Fragment scenes is like that of a mirror, reflecting all of those images backwards.
And all this does not exhaust the cleverly designed structure of the Lienzo. If, on one level, it was conceived as a giant mirror, it was also conceived as a giant shield. Representations of shields are something of an obsession in the Lienzo. They are constantly depicted—only 8 of the Lienzo's 87 small cells do not contain representations of shields. The Lienzo's artists carefully distinguish the forms of European versus Mesoamerican shields. This is well-illustrated in cell 27, where round Central Mexican chimaltin, lobed European adargas, and oval European escudos alternate in the ranks of the massed soldiers on the left (Figure 32). Indeed, the obsession with representations of shields within the Lienzo's grid is underscored by the massive shield that dominates the whole composition: the coat of arms of Emperor Charles V. Like the whole Lienzo, the coat of arms of Charles V is divided into dozens of cells by vertical and horizontal lines. Each of the cells in the coat of arms bears a distinct image, and most of these images have an explicit geographic symbolism that refers to the kingdoms that made up the Holy Roman Empire (Figure 33). This presentation of cellular geography finds echoes in the Lienzo, most of whose cells are labeled with place names and contain prehispanic-style place glyphs. As mentioned above, Charles V granted the Tlaxcalans their own coat of arms in 1535. But here, in the Lienzo, Tlaxcalan artists created a new historical heraldry on a massive scale.
24 Brotherston and Gallegos 1990, 122.
25 The arguments in this section are based on a longer discussion in Hamann 2009.
26 Magaloni (2003, 28-29), following Brotherston (1992, 92-93) points out that this scene is laid out like a quincunx-cosmogram of the universe, and presents the conquest of Tenochtitlan as a cosmic apocalypse out of which a new, Christian era of creation was born (see also Navarrete 2008, 67). Both authors deal with fragmented images, so the do not realized the physical centrality of this scene in the Lienzo as whole (which further supports their arguments). As we will see shortly, the Lienzo contains a second image of cosmic apocalypse and renewal, centered on Tlaxcala itself.
27 Hamann 2002; Hamann 2008a, 122-138; Hamann 2008c, 803-808, 813.
29 See Bamberger 1974; Carrasco 1987, 132-136; Pohl 1999,183-184, Hamann 2004, 101-107.
30 McCafferty and McCafferty 1988.
33 Navarrete 2007; Navarrete 2008, 62-64.
34 On Mary and the saints as Christian abogados and abogadas, see Christian 1981, 55. These terms are still commonly used today in both Latin America and Spain.
37 Saville 1922; Taube 1992; Taube 2000.
38 García-Zambrano 1994, 221; Monaghan and Hamann 1998; Hamann 2008b, 58-66.
39 Of course, these same qualities would have made it an effective object in New Spain as well, whether before Europeans or Native Americans.


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Children's hospital governance structures have to change – Harris
Minister has power to change board structure in order to strengthen project oversight
Wed, Apr 10, 2019, 11:53 Updated: Wed, Apr 10, 2019, 11:54
Jennifer Bray
Simon Harris: 'What the report doesn't find is that there should be a clear-out of the board, in fact it explicitly recommends against.' Photograph: Nick Bradshaw
The governance structures of the national children's hospital will have to change, the Minister for Health Simon Harris has said.
Mr Harris has indicated that he will place additional members on the hospital board charged with overseeing the project.
It comes after consultants PwC identified "significant failings" in planning and budgeting in a report into cost overruns.
The report found "red flags" were missed from an early stage.
The long-awaiting PwC report found all but €16 million of the over-run could have been controlled, and attributed most of it to an under-estimation of the project's real cost. Retendering the project is ruled out as unfeasible and the report suggests there is little scope for savings.
Unions allege bogus employment practices on Children's Hospital site
Children's hospital costs put other projects in peril, HSE says
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Speaking at the Oireachtas Committee on Health this morning, Mr Harris said he has the power to change the structure of the board in order to strengthen the oversight of the project.
"There is no doubt that the governance structures need to change and they will need to be strengthened. What the report doesn't find is that there should be a clear-out of the board, in fact it explicitly recommends against.
"In auditor's speak it basically says if you were to do that you would lose such corporate memory that you could jeopardise the project.
"But it does say I need to strengthen it. You don't bring in auditors if you think everything is great."
He said he has the power to add people to the board, indicating that individuals with experience in health construction may be appointed.
Mr Harris said he intends to meet with the authors of the report.
The PwC found that there remains a "significant risk on this project, which will require careful monitoring and control."
The cost could rise by almost €100 million if construction inflation increases to 10 per cent this year. Furthermore, elements of the design still have not been finalised.
If an upwards trend inflationary continues, there will be a "material cost implication over the duration of the construction" of the hospital out to 2022. There is "very limited protection" for the State against such inflationary increases.
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The graduating class from last year's list include Alex Verdugo, the number one prospect and Luis Urias, who was at number three. Four players were dropped from last year's list (Florencio Serrano, Luis Verdugo, Jose Albertos and Reivaj Garcia). Serrano was ranked as the number two prospect last year based on the wild invalid signing issues by the Cubs allowing him to slip to the Rangers as an international signing prospect for $1.5 million. He then bombed in his first season in rookie ball with a 6.49 ERA. Myworld will wait another year before ranking him in our top ten. That leaves six new names to propagate this year's list. Below are the 2020 top ten prospects from Mexico playing in the minor leagues.
1. Andres Munoz RHP (Padres) - He moved up from number six last year. The fastball is quite impressive, hitting triple digits pretty consistently. It got him 22 appearances with the Padres last year in the bullpen. He is expected to compete for their closer job this year. In AA he struck out 18.4 hitters per nine innings. In the major leagues it dropped to 11.7. While his fastball is impressive, his second pitch, the slider is just a show me pitch to keep hitters from sitting on the fastball. He also has issues finding the plate and staying healthy for a full season. So the bullpen is where he stays. In his minor league career he has given up 69 hits in 106 innings and walked 65.
2. Alejandro Kirk C (Blue Jays) - Last year Kirk did not appear on this list even after he hit .354 with 10 homeruns and a 1.001 OPS in rookie ball. For the 2019 season he split his time between Low A and High A where he combined for a .290 average with seven homeruns. At 5′9″ and 220 he doesn't have the body to impress scouts, but he makes consistent contact with the ball, resulting in a 89/60 walk to whiff ratio. His power will probably be restricted more to the gaps and his lack of speed will prevent him from taking the extra base. So far, he has not shown a lot defensively and may have to move from the catcher spot, with DH and first base his only real alternatives. Kirk may lack the power to play first base. So the Blue Jays will keep him at catcher and hope his weight stays in check and his defensive skills progress as he rises up the minor league ranks.
3. Jose Urquidy RHP (Astros) - Jose also rose from the ranks of the non-existent. Myworld watched him pitch in a playoff game against the Nationals. His stuff is not impressive, but he gets hitters out. He stands only 6′0″ and his fastball sits in the low 90s, but he can tip the mid-90s with a little effort. His excellent changeup and the command he shows with his pitches is what gets hitters out. In the minor leagues opponents were able to hit .248 off him, but Jose limited the runners from scoring by limiting his walks and whiffing 9.8 hitters per nine innings. Next year he will fit at the back end of the Astros rotation. Whether major league hitters can figure him out in his second year will determine his staying power.
4. Isaac Paredes 2B/3B (Tigers) - Isaac was rated fourth last year and he remains in that position this year. He started as a shortstop, but like Kirk his 5′11, 225 pound frame makes it tough for him to stay at that position. His hit tool is impressive, with a .274 minor league average and his power could develop. Last year he hit 13 homeruns with a .416 slugging percentage. That will fall short if he wants to fit into a corner slot. His defense at second may remind people more of Carlos Baerga. It will be his bat that will put him in the lineup. His best bet may be to make it as a utility player, with the possibility to even add left field to his defensive repertoire.
5. Gerardo Carrillo RHP (Dodgers) - Gerardo moved up four spots from the ninth position he occupied last year. At 6′1″ Gerardo is not a big man on the mound, but his fastball can cross the plate in the mid-90s, with lots of movement. Last year he struck out a hitter per inning. Developing his secondary pitches and finding the plate are his next challenges. Last year he walked 51 hitters in 86 innings and plunked 17. That wildness alone can send a message. His cutter is his most developed secondary pitch. Last year he pitched in High A and his 5.44 ERA and .263 opponents average told the tale of a year of struggle.
6. Tirso Ornelas OF (Padres) - He was the 10th rated prospect last year and his 2019 season may have been worse. He struggled to hit for average (.217) and his slugging percentage was below .300. The Padres paid $1.5 million on the talent they saw in Tirso. At 6′3″ he has impressive height but his swing is slow, not allowing him to catch up on fastballs. There is the potential for good plate discipline and a tinge of power, but that won't develop until he speeds up his swing. His speed is a little above average, not enough to play centerfield and his below average arm may be a better fit for left field. This will put more pressure on him to develop that power that won't be seen unless he can quicken his swing.
7. Victor Gonzalez LHP (Dodgers) - The last six guys on this list are all borderline prospects. Victor makes it because he throws lefthanded and his fastball sits in the mid-90s. The secondary pitches sit average at best but need a lot of work if he does not want hitters sitting on his fastball. Last year he rose up three levels, finishing the season at AAA. At each level he rose he got easier to hit, going from a .174 opposition average at High A to a .286 at AAA. He does throw strikes but he needs to improve his secondary pitches if he hopes to have success against major leaguers.
8. Ramon Urias 2B (Orioles) - When myworld first started working on this list Ramon was a Cardinal. He was placed on waivers and the Orioles picked him up. He was originally signed by the Rangers in 2010 but he returned to the Mexican League to play there during the 2013 season. The Cardinals then picked him up in 2018. He has a decent hit tool with limited power that could get him into the double digits in homeruns. His defense will not overwhelm you, but as a hitter he could end up fitting as a utility player. Last year he reached AAA, hitting .263 with 9 homeruns and a .793 OPS.
9. Aldo Ramirez RHP (Red Sox) - Aldo throws a vanilla mix. His fastball sits in the low 90s but can travel in the mid-90s on occasion. His curve and change give him three average pitches. The Red Sox signed him in 2018 and last year he made his minor league debut, stitching together a 3.94 ERA in 13 starts and one relief appearance. Opponents hit him at a .245 clip but he did strike out more than a hitter an inning. He turns 19 in May so he has plenty of time to develop. At only 6′0 at best he will fit in the back of the rotation or be used in middle relief.
10. Manuel Rodriguez RHP (Cubs) - Manuel does not reach 6′0″ but his fastball sits in the mid-90s and he can reach the upper 90s. The Cubs signed him in 2016 for $400,000. All of his minor league appearances have been in the bullpen. His secondary pitches are average or below, which will keep him in the bullpen. Last year he improved his command, throwing more strikes and the opposition average went from .308 to .242. He won't be anything more than a situational reliever that is used to get right handed hitters out.
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Launched in March 2018, the Concacaf Ranking Index determines the "qualification for important regional and international championships."
Since March 2018, Canada have climbed 54 points on the Concacaf Ranking Index, from 1,448 points in March 2018 (seventh place) to 1,502 points in June 2019 (sixth place). Canada moved into sixth place in April 2019 after their Concacaf Nations League Qualifying campaign wrapped up in March with a 4:1 win over French Guiana at BC Place in Vancouver. Junior Hoilett, Lucas Cavallini (two) and Jonthan David were the goalscorers in the 24 March victory.
After a 2:0 exhibition victory over Trinidad and Tobago in June, Canada finished second in their Concacaf Gold Cup group with six points after a 4:0 win over Martinique, a 1:3 loss to Mexico, and a 7:0 win over Cuba. With 12 goals scored, Canada set a Men's National Team record for goals in the group phase of the Concacaf Gold Cup. David is currently the top scorer in the 2019 Concacaf Gold Cup with five goals followed by Cavallini with four. Hoilett (two) and Scott Arfield have also scored for Canada at this year's Concacaf Gold Cup.
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Abina And The Important Men Analysis
Ever since there has been humanity, slavery has been a mechanism used by people in order to subjugate and dehumanize other individuals. Abina and the Important Men is a book that illustrates how slavery was still able to manifest, even after it had been abolished within British society. By enslaving young women under the false pretense that the individuals were wards, powerful African leaders and British rulers were able to maintain a social hierarchy where African women occupied the lowest rung. The trafficking of Africans through the Transatlantic Slave Trade, brought wealth to European and other western nations as well as African leaders who were willing to cooperate. Europeans, such as the Portuguese, British, and French, first began arriving to Africa in the 16th century since they were drawn by the valuable resources that could be found in coastal, African societies. Early on, African leaders were able to maintain power over the Europeans and prevented the foreigners…show more content…
The trial was used to paint Abina as a complainer since there were other young girls who worked for Quamina Eddoo who did not report him or his sister. Another way Abina's was silenced was the fact that her perspective was not recorded. Even though the court case was documented by an observer in the court, Abina's personal narrative was not. It is probable to assume that Abina was illiterate since she was a slave from a young age and would not have been provided the opportunity of education. Due to this fact, the audience is unaware if the represented story of Abina is an accurate depiction of her story. The documented court hearing provides the reader with a strong sense of who the powerful men are in the room since the dialog was dominated by the men. Another reason why Abina's story was quieted was because of her
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If she did want to confront her father on Celia's behalf and tell her father what he was doing was wrong. It would not have been in her best interest, given the fact that she had no husband her father could have thrown her out. These two women are prime examples of how women during this time period were oppressed and did not have much say. It is one thing to be a female but in Celia's case a black woman did not play in her
The Impact of 19th Century European Imperialism in Africa
The tribal stratification was changed to a caste system where racial, ethnic, and religious differences were of utmost importance, as delegated by European rule. The structure and business of the African economy was directed by what the colonial powers felt was necessary. The European powers interjected in the African society and inflicted them with their supposedly superior way of life. The slave trade was one important method that the Europeans used to dominate the Africa. Even though the slave trade was beginning to decline by the early 19th century, it gave the Europeans a pass into the whole continent, enabling them to divide the land as they pleased.
The Negative Effects of Imperialism in Africa
Their foresight was limited to only the positive outcomes. After the Europeans began to colonize Africa, they saw great results rather quickly. European influence had caused the opening of many lumber, mining,and planting corporations, as well as many other means of wealth. Document 4 shows this when it says, "...who were largely responsible for the for the opening of the region to the lumberman, miner, planter, and other means of wealth." By having colonies in the prosperous continent of Africa, countries would have a terrific source of income. By having a colony in Africa, Europeans would have easy accessibility to cheap labor, and be part of the slave trade.
European Imperialism in Africa
In the early 1880's, the powers of Europe started to take control of regions in Africa and set up colonies there. In the beginning, colonization caused the Africans little harm, but before long, the Europeans started to take complete control of wherever they went. The Europeans used their advanced knowledge and technology to easily maneuver through the vast African landscape and used advanced weapons to take control of the African people and their land. The countries that claimed the most land and had the most significant effect on Africa were France, England, Belgium, and Germany. There were many reasons for the European countries to be competing against each other to gain colonies in Africa.
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The primary reason was simply for economic gain. Africa is refuge to vast, unexplored natural resources. European powers saw their opportunity and took it. Another motive was to spread the Christian religion to the non-Christian natives. The last major incentive was to demonstrate power between competing European nations.
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The English slavers ambushed the slave traders of Old Town, capturing and enslaving Ephraim and Ancona (Spark, 21). These two African traders, Ephraim and Ancona, when returned back to Africa continued with life as usual, as slave traders. Although, exposed to a life contrary to what they were used to slave trading was their culture, the most profitable business during that time and a definite way of revenge. Persons that were enslaved, in African, were able to return to the life as a slave trader once they were released from slavery. With this being the way of life for Africans in their culture, no matter what hardship was experienced that characterized slavery in the Caribbean and the Americas one could have returned to a life as a trader.
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Anna did not fit into the colonizer's status quo since she came from a mixed background, and when she would try and connect to the colored people around her, she was told that she could never understand their culture because she was "privileged". This dynamic set the rest of the plot of Anna's life in England. Being
Effects Of Slavery In The 19th Century
Contrary to popular belief, Americans weren't the only perpetrators; "Europeans and slave traders also played a role in promoting internal conflict" (Nunn). Many African tribes would capture opposing tribes with the sole purpose of selling their prisoners as slaves. Tribes would send prisoners that they captured to America along the Middle Passage; in several instances wars would be started solely to obtain prisoners to sell into the slave trade (Angeles). If the financial situation in a family became desperate, some parents would go so far as to sell their child into the vicious slave
Analysis of The Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl by Harriet Jacob
In the story" The incidents in the life of a slave girl" (ILSG)which was written by Harriet Jacobs implies that masters, and slaves are victims, in addition neither of them are to blame for what society institutionalized, not just one individual whites discrimination for blacks; which is rape, extreme labor, whipping and other violence in the act of slavery. As sectional tensions within the U.S. escalated toward civil war, African slavery became an increasingly important point of focus for literary texts of the antebellum period such as ILSG; underlining the violence and decrepitude experienced by slaves within the South. Slave journalists had visions of loyal and happy slaves who were contingent upon their owners for their own well-being and protection ("Slavery, Violence, and Exploitation in 19th-Century U.S. Literature | OER Commons"). Slaves are well-defined as being people who are bound in vassalage as the property of a person or household ("slave").
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The case also sheds a light upon the unequal slave treatment that already belittled the black, but oppressed black women even more. Celia's story about the relationship between her and her slave master, Robert Newson, brought attention to the unequal protection laws for slaves. The story helps illustrate the realities of slave life in America and the personal choices slavery forced upon slaves and slave-owners. The outcome of Celia's trial was an eye-opener that slavery was definitely inhumane, and help influence the prohibition of
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A landslide, also known as a landslip, is a geological phenomenon that includes a wide range of ground movements, such as rockfalls, deep failure of slopes and shallow debris flows. Landslides can occur in offshore, coastal and onshore environments. Although the action of gravity is the primary driving force for a landslide to occur, there are other contributing factors affecting the original slope stability. Typically, pre-conditional factors build up specific sub-surface conditions that make the area/slope prone to failure, whereas the actual landslide often requires a trigger before being released.
predispose the slope to becoming unstable. The trigger is the single event that finally initiated the landslide. Thus, causes combine to make a slope vulnerable to failure, and the trigger finally initiates the movement. Landslides can have many causes but can only have one trigger as shown in the next figure. Usually, it is relatively easy to determine the trigger after the landslide has occurred (although it is generally very difficult to determine the exact nature of landslide triggers ahead of a movement event).
Debris flow channel with deposits left after 2010 storms in Ladakh,NW Indian Himalaya.
Muddy-debris flows in alpine areas cause severe damage to structures and infrastructure and often claim human lives. Muddy-debris flows can start as a result of slope-related factors and shallow landslides can dam stream beds, resulting in temporary water blockage. As the impoundments fail, a "domino effect" may be created, with a remarkable growth in the volume of the flowing mass, which takes up the debris in the stream channel. The solid-liquid mixture can reach densities of up to 2 tons/m³ and velocities of up to 14 m/s (Chiarle and Luino, 1998; Arattano, 2003). These processes normally cause the first severe road interruptions, due not only to deposits accumulated on the road (from several cubic metres to hundreds of cubic metres), but in some cases to the complete removal of bridges or roadways or railways crossing the stream channel. Damage usually derives from a common underestimation of mud-debris flows: in the alpine valleys, for example, bridges are frequently destroyed by the impact force of the flow because their span is usually calculated only for a water discharge. For a small basin in the Italian Alps (area = 1.76 km²) affected by a debris flow, Chiarle and Luino (1998) estimated a peak discharge of 750 m3/s for a section located in the middle stretch of the main channel. At the same cross section, the maximum foreseeable water discharge (by HEC-1), was 19 m³/s, a value about 40 times lower than that calculated for the debris flow that occurred.
Earthflows are downslope, viscous flows of saturated, fine-grained materials, which move at any speed from slow to fast. Typically, they can move at speeds from 0.17 to 20 km/h (0.1 to 12.4 mph). Though these are a lot like mudflows, overall they are more slow moving and are covered with solid material carried along by flow from within. They are different from fluid flows because they are more rapid. Clay, fine sand and silt, and fine-grained, pyroclastic material are all susceptible to earthflows. The velocity of the earthflow is all dependent on how much water content is in the flow itself: if there is more water content in the flow, the higher the velocity will be.
A debris slide is a type of slide characterized by the chaotic movement of rocks soil and debris mixed with water or ice (or both). They are usually triggered by the saturation of thickly vegetated slopes which results in an incoherent mixture of broken timber, smaller vegetation and other debris. Debris avalanches differ from debris slides because their movement is much more rapid. This is usually a result of lower cohesion or higher water content and commonly steeper slopes.
In the following table shows a schematic landslide classification adopting the classification of Varnes 1978 and taking into account the modifications made by Cruden and Varnes, in 1996. Some integration has been made by using the definitions of Hutchinson (1988) and Hungr et al. 2001.
Height: The height of a bluff can generally indicate landslide risk. While sediment strength depends on several factors, the thicker the sediment deposit, the more likely its weight will cause subsurface movement or slippage that leads to a landslide. The risk of a landslide increases when mud bluffs have a height of twenty feet or more. In general, the higher the exposed bluff face the greater the risk of a landslide.
Sediment type: Earth material that makes up a coastal bluff influences the risk of a landslide occurring. Clay and silt (muddy) sediment is the most unstable material that can make up a bluff. These fine-grained sediments are weak and prone to moving in the form of slow-motion creep, moderate-sized slumping, or large landslides. Sand and gravel deposits tend to be stronger and better drained than muddy sediment. Landslides can occur in coarse-grained bluffs although they are less frequent than muddy landslides along the Maine coast.
Slope: Coastal bluffs have a relatively steep ocean-facing slope. The angle of a bluff face varies due to factors such as the sediment type and rate of erosion at the base of the bluff. Slope is also affected by the history of slumps and landslides at the site. Some slopes are uniformly straight while others are terraced or uneven due to earth movements. In general, the steeper the slope, the easier it is for gravity to initiate a landslide.
Vegetation: Types, shapes, and distribution of vegetation above and on a bluff face can be used as an indication of site stability. In areas where the soil has shifted, either due to previous landslides or to gradual surface creep, many tree trunks can become tilted or twisted in the same direction. Curved tree trunks near the roots often indicate land movement down the face of a bluff. Large trees on the bluff face may be moved by wind and resulting root motion may loosen bluff sediment. Natural vegetation that consists only of small shrubs and trees may indicate recent bluff erosion or a landslide.
Bedrock: Crystalline rock or ledge is much more stable than any sediment bluff and not likely to erode or slide. The elevation of bedrock at the shore and inland beneath a bluff is important in determining landslide risk. Bedrock exposures along the shoreline may slow erosion and make sediment less susceptible to landsliding. Beneath a sediment bluff, bedrock may rise toward the surface and reduce the overall thickness of sediment and thus reduce the risk of deep-seated movement below the ground surface.
Waves, tides, and sea level: Several marine processes affect the risk of landslides along a coastal bluff. A gradual, but ongoing rise in sea level at a rate of about an inch per decade is causing chronic erosion along the base of many bluffs. As sea level rises, wave action and coastal flooding can reach higher and farther inland and scour more sediment from a bluff. Sea ice erodes tidal flats and the base of bluffs by abrasion and freezing sediment in ice blocks. Erosion can increase a bluff slope and make it more susceptible to landsliding. Tides are also important in washing away eroded bluff sediment which helps wave action move inland. Storms that create wind, waves, and flooding can cause more extreme erosion at the base of a bluff, increase the bluff slope, and make a landslide more likely.
Surface water: The amount, type, and location of surface water can influence bluff slope stability and may contribute to some landslides. Wetlands, ponds, and streams above the bluff can supply water to the bluff face and also to the ground water. The elevation or topography of the land surface determines which way surface water will flow. Water that runs over the face of a bluff can wash sediment to sea, increase the bluff face slope, and weaken the remaining sediment holding up the bluff. Removal of sediment from the bluff face can increase the risk of a landslide.
Ground water: Ground water inland of a bluff comes from surface sources, such as rain or a stream, uphill in the local watershed. Ground water tends to flow horizontally beneath the surface and may seep out the face of a bluff. Seeps and springs on the bluff face contribute to surface water flow and destabilize the bluff face. In addition, a high water table can saturate and weaken muddy sediment and make the ground more prone to slope failure.
Weathering: Weathering in clay and silt can change the strength of bluff sediment and stability of the bluff face. Drying of clay can increase resistance to sliding. The seasonal cycle of freezing and thawing of the bluff face can lead to slumping after a thaw.
Earthquakes: Landslides can be triggered by earthquakes. Ground vibration loosens sediment enough to reduce the strength of material supporting a bluff and a landslide results. Most landslides triggered by earthquakes in sediment like that found in Maine have been of Richter magnitude 5 or more. These are relatively rare events, but a few have occurred in historical time.
Land use: Human activity and land use may contribute to or reduce the risk of a landslide. Actions that increase surface water flow to a bluff face, watering lawns or grading slopes, add to natural processes destabilizing the bluff face. Surface water, collected by roofs, driveways, paths, and lawns flows toward and down the bluff face. Walkways down the face of a bluff can lead to greater erosion from foot traffic or the concentration of surface water flow. Both surface and ground water above a bluff can be supplied by pipes, culverts, surface drains, and septic systems. Increased water below ground can weaken a bluff and contribute to internal weakness that leads to a landslide. Greater seepage of water out of the bluff face can also increase the risk.
Clearing of vegetation from the bluff face can lead to greater bluff erosion and a steeper bluff that is more prone to landslide. Vegetation tends to remove ground water, strengthen soil with roots, and lessen the impact of heavy rain on the bluff face.
Adding weight to the top of a bluff can increase the risk of a landslide. Buildings, landscaping, or fill on the top of the bluff can increase the forces that result in a landslide. Saturating the ground with water that raises the water table also adds weight. Even ground vibration, such as well drilling or deep excavation, may locally increase the risk of a landslide.
Shoreline engineering in the form of seawalls, rip rap, or other solid structures is sometimes used to reduce wave erosion at the toe of a bluff. In some settings, engineering can increase the rate of beach or tidal flat erosion and lower the shore profile over time. This intertidal erosion can undermine engineering and result in less physical support of the base of the bluff by natural sediment. Where engineering ends along a shore, erosion can become worse on adjacent properties. Engineering alone cannot prevent some large landslides.
In general, human activities that increase the amount or rate of natural processes may, in various ways, contribute to landslide risk.


This is a last-minute blog post before I head to the North for a vacation.
Why do we celebrate birthday anniversaries anyway? Do we really have to be reminded that we're a year older? Nowadays, my own birthday just depresses me and that's about it. On the 25th, I wish that there is nothing in the house to show that said day is another milestone in my life - another year gone by. So why do I not want to celebrate my birthday? I could come up with a lot of reasons or excuses for this such as "Sorry guys, I got up on the wrong side of the bed this morning" or that it is a waste of money and energy, but the following are the deeper reasons.
The reason is not because I do not want to clean up the mess or wash a pile of dishes taller than me afterwards or that I am a grumpy gentleman. It is more of a personal perception and feeling. I personally do not enjoy the psychological aspect of these days. For example, I have a tiny feeling of displeasure over few people who only make contact on birthdays. Magtetext lang minsan sa isang taon dahil birthday mo at pag ire-reply mo ng "thanks", magrereply siya, "k". haha nakakasakit ng bangs!
Birthdays are meant to mark our ages. When we were young, excited tayo na i-celebrate ang ating birthday kasi we get to receive a handful of presents, mostly toys at pag pera ang regalo, kukunin ni mommy at isi-safekeep nya raw muna baka mawala until you'll forget about it na. When we get too old for presents, birthdays are celebrated so that our relatives and friends can make fun of us for being old grrrr! Besides, I think having a birthday party is just an excuse to eat, drink and be merry at the expense of the person whose birthday is being celebrated . Kesyo dapat ang celebrant ang mag-treat, mag painom or something else.
"WHO WANTS TO CELEBRATE AGEING?"
A mentor once told me that, when you reach the age of 20, on average you will have 2,600 weekends left to experience in life. His recommendation was that you put the same number of marbles in a jar and pick one out at the end of each weekend. The goal is, when picking out the marble, you should reflect on how well you had performed during that weekend and resolve to do better during the remaining marble weeks.
Isa pa, I am not really comfortable being the center of attention. Minsan may program pa and as part of it, they would ask you to stand in front to either make a speech or tell everybody your birthday wish habang halos mabulag ka sa dami ng camera flashes haha bongga! I also am not comfy about the premise that you have to be really happy just because it's your birthday ... eh what if you had a bad day dahil halimbawa you were awakened because you fell off the bed (eh double-deck sya at sa taas ka natutulog) OR while climbing down the stairs you were reading greetings and text messages and your Iphone slipped off your hand and got smashed to pieces OR ikaw ang nadulas and you hit your head against the staircase at nabitawan mo ang phone mo?
Lastly, I am not happy to be constantly reminded that my life is not being spent efficiently or to its fullest. I'll do better next year and make GIANT steps forward to make amends for my mistakes or for the delays brought about by procrastination and sluggishness. I know there are a lot of things to catch up on but on my birthday anniversary, I prefer to just open my eyes in the morning, thank God and my parents, and treat the day as ordinary and enjoy it for what it is and what it brings.
celebrating our birthdays does not have to mean partying. it just simply means being thankful for another year added to our life...blessings, problems, and all [no, not ageing]!


Today, business owners are constantly and predominantly affected by providers who start search engine optimization (SEO). Email SEO "experts" mailboxes with unwanted suggestions and promises of # 1-page rankings and terrible warnings of bad luck when a company does not spend more time optimizing its website.
For years, SEO has been Shangri-La's escape from digital marketing – an undefined product that promises a relatively modest amount to many visitors to a website. If it sounds too good to be true, it's because it's so.
Here is the truth. SEO is a real thing and if it is done successfully, it is extremely useful. But it's not cheap, it's hard to do, it takes a lot of time to get results, and finally, there is no guarantee that it will work.
The thing about SEO that has made snake oil sellers is that it is also very difficult to prove whether it is effective or not. If you have a good argument and you have a businessman who has neither the time nor the desire to understand digital marketing but knows it, SEO is the ultimate solution because everyone knows it works. In the end, there is no responsibility.
SEO is certainly complicated to do and understand, but try to simplify it. SEO has two main components: the technical page and the content page.
The technical side of SEO is based on how your website works. Will it load quickly? Does the mobile site react? Is your sitemap up to date? Do you have broken links on the site? Do You have SSL on Your site? These and other technical issues determine how Google places your business on search queries.
To improve your technical reference, you probably need a web developer (preferably the company that created the site) to regularly review your site to make sure it complies with the latest Google standards (which are constantly changing)).
SEO technical maintenance is a "best practice" and something you should do. However, be aware that less honest agencies and developers ask you to keep your SEO without ever changing the site. It is advisable to ask your SEO experts from time to time what he has been doing lately to improve your search results.
When SEO is sold, it is often on the content page. Essentially, the SEO content strategy is to fill a website with the new, fresh and attractive material. This content is written using relevant "keywords" for a company website. Content SEO is popular because it is relatively easy to produce and publish. All you have to do is write with keywords and relevant topics.
The problem with SEO content is that you can spend months there, write dozens of stories and never make a dent in the search engine rankings of websites. It is more of an art than a science. Sometimes it works, sometimes it does not work. There is simply no guarantee of the return on investment because Google does not specify exactly how websites are classified. We only know that it is based on many, many variables.
In the end, SEO is important, but if your business does not need the marketing money to run a consistent SEO campaign with a trusted SEO specialist, the best thing to do is buy digital advertising. With the many forms of digital advertising, you can tailor your customers to the needs of your business. More importantly, unlike SEO, you can control the amount of your advertising. You can analyze the effectiveness of your campaigns through analysis. After all, you can be close enough to determine an ROI on your marketing dollar.


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Discussion in 'Mapping Questions & Discussion' started by Moonrat, Mar 3, 2015.
Is the map compiled for Half Life 2?
It seems GMod doesn't like TF2 maps right now (not this website). There are more cases going around where GMod would crash when loading a TF2 map.
Putting the map in your garrysmod/maps folder may solve the issue, not really sure though.


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In his day, Cardinals great Bob Gibson was feared like no other pitcher
In 2006, less than an hour after Tony La Russa had won his first World Series as the manager of the St. Louis Cardinals, he was greeted in the hallway at Busch Stadium by an iconic figure.
"Bob Gibson just shook my hand," said La Russa, who had won a World Series with Oakland, and won nearly 2,500 games by that time, yet he was glowing, in awe of what had just happened. "I just got welcomed to the club by Bob Gibson."
That's the reverence paid to Bob Gibson, not just in St. Louis, but across major league baseball: Something, or someone, becomes official when endorsed by Bob Gibson. He was one of the greatest pitchers of all time, he was arguably the greatest athlete ever to pitch in the big leagues, and when it came to competing, no one was more ferocious than Gibson.
Gibson, who announced in July 2019 that he had pancreatic cancer, died Friday at age 84.
"I loved facing him because he wanted to win so much," said Frank Robinson, a fellow Hall of Famer. "If I won the battle against him, I knew that I had beaten the absolute best."
Gibson went 251-174 with a 2.91 ERA for the Cardinals from 1959 to 1975, making him, without a doubt, the greatest pitcher in Cardinals history, and after Stan Musial, the greatest player in Cardinals history. Gibson won two Cy Young Awards, in 1968 and 1970, the first Cardinal to win the Cy Young, the only Cardinal to win the award twice.
In his 1968 season, he posted a 1.12 ERA, the lowest by any pitcher in the live ball era (since 1920), and the second lowest to the Cubs' Mordecai "Three Finger" Brown (1.04 in 1906) in the modern era (since 1900). That season, Gibson threw 47 consecutive scoreless innings, which, at the time, was the third-longest streak in history. He completed 28 out of 34 games, and he was removed for a pinch hitter eight times: meaning, he was not replaced on the mound, in mid-inning, by another pitcher all season. He threw 13 shutouts, he had 56 in his career, nearly as many as Greg Maddux and Tom Glavine had combined.
Gibson made nine All-Star teams.
"I hated the All-Star Game," Gibson said years after retirement. "I hated having to talk to guys that I spent the rest of the season trying to kick their ass. They were the enemy to me."
"Gibby was no fun at the All-Star Game," Willie Mays said, smiling. "He didn't talk to anyone."
"No pitcher I faced competed like Gibson," Hank Aaron said. "He hated you when he pitched."
Bob Gibson was a fearsome ace for the Cardinals in the '60s. TSN Archives
Gibson especially hated hitters, it seems, in the postseason. He made nine starts, all in the World Series, and completed eight, went 7-2 with a 1.89 ERA. In 81 innings, he gave up 55 hits, walked 17 and struck out 92.
In Game 7 of the 1964 World Series, he pitched a complete game to beat Mickey Mantle and the Yankees.
In 1967 against the Red Sox, Gibson won Games 1, 4 and 7, making him the first pitcher to record a complete-game victory in a Game 7 of two World Series. In Game 1 of the 1968 Series against the Tigers, Gibson struck out 17, which remains a postseason record.
"We had no chance," former Tiger Norm Cash said. "That was the best stuff I had ever seen."
Gibson was the second pitcher — joining the great Walter Johnson — in major league history to reach 3,000 strikeouts, a distinction Gibson held at the time of his retirement in 1975. The Cardinals retired Gibson's uniform No. 45 before his final season had even ended.
"The best I ever played with," ex-teammate Mike Shannon said. "There was no one like Gibby."
Gibson was perhaps as good an athlete as has ever pitched in the major leagues. He was a great hitter, with 24 home runs, a mark only seven pitchers surpassed in the game's history. In 1970, he joined a select group of pitchers who won 20 games in a season in which he batted .300. Gibson was also one of the best fielding pitchers of all time, winning nine Gold Gloves.
Gibson was an all-state basketball player in high school in Omaha, Nebraska, then averaged 22 points a game his junior year at Creighton University. He signed with the Cardinals in 1957 but delayed his baseball career so he could play a year for the Harlem Globetrotters.
"Playing basketball made me a better baseball player," Gibson said. "It helped with my footwork, my hand-eye coordination, my stamina. I loved basketball just like I loved baseball."
And he showed that love by competing, by overpowering hitters, by intimidating hitters.
"If you showed him up in any way on the field," Robinson said, "you were going down."
"I was told by Hank Aaron never to mess with Bob Gibson," Astros manager Dusty Baker said. "I was told never to stare at him, or talk to him, or smile at him. And if he hit you with a pitch, I was told never to charge the mound because he would beat your ass."
Tim McCarver caught Gibson for many years, becoming close friends with him. And yet, when McCarver went to the mound to talk to Gibson, he wasn't always given a kindly welcome. McCarver famously said that Gibson was particularly ornery during one trip to the mound, and said to McCarver, "The only thing you know about pitching is you can't hit it."
Gibson retired after the 1975 season in part because a knee injury took away his greatness, and he wasn't about to pitch to an ERA above 5.00. In his final seasons, Gibson had a brief confrontation with Pirates third baseman Richie Hebner, but Gibson never got to finish it on the field. In retirement, he saw Hebner on an elevator and, only half-joking, went after him.
That was Bob Gibson, a fighter, a ferocious competitor, to the end.
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This is Accountant from uae. I am going to join a new within few days... this company is a construction company. The problem is for me that they don't have any record properly there. They have just maintained some of the expenses for the year feb 2008 in excel. Now I want to start in focus or tally all details.. one is that I dont know there receipts during the period. they only few records about that. they dont have any record about tools as well and there depreciation. I don't know how start the work. i am bit confused about that how to start and from where should I start. what are the things I need to keep in mind. I hope that you will help me in this regard. So suggest me how to start the work.
Not only you many accountants face this problem when they join any new concern they find incomplete record. Preparing accounts without some or all prime accounting information is very difficult. When there is no old record of assets, liabilities, debtors, creditors or any bills of incomes or expenses, writing up his client's books is not easy. In this situation following steps will be helpful to you to prepare accounts from incomplete records .
You must start your working by making an opening balance sheet manually before recording it in tally. If opening balance sheet is not available for your construction company, then try to trace the balance of different assets and liabilities from your Company's owner, directors, CEO and manager after meeting with them and you can check all assets and liabilities by physically by making a rough list .
If your construction company has building or plant then how many and what is its cost.
If your construction company has taken loan, then from where and what is its opening balance.
You have said me that your client has given you the information of his expenses in excel sheet. Ask more information about bank transactions or try to get bank receipts with this you can trace old receipt transactions of your construction company which will be record in tally receipt voucher.
You know that in the receipt side, we write cash sale and other incomes of business which we receive either in cash or through bank. Even company can introduce new and fresh capital which you have to write in the receipt side. Try to recognize your cash book with bank pass book and it will give you many information regarding which item is not recorded in Company's book.
You also analysis advance payments to creditors and also advance amount received from debtors.
You should help the specialize person who can calculate the value of present stock.
If you succeed to make final accounts after analysis above. After this never to forget to record your current transactions. Many current transactions will be linked with your old transaction and you will know many new things which you have omitted. After some time, your company's financial and revenue position will show correct position. If you have doubt any specific item, then you can contact me again.


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LLAMA is now accepting submissions for the 2017 John Cotton Dana Awards, which honor outstanding library public relations. Eight $10,000 awards are granted each year by the H. W. Wilson Foundation at an annual ceremony sponsored by ALA and EBSCO Information Services. Entries are submitted electronically and must be received by March 17; they may be submitted by any library, Friends group, consulting agency, or service provider.
Most people tend to think of speaking and writing when they hear the term communication skills. However, those are only two of the skills librarians need to effectively communicate. LLAMA will present a series of two new webinars: "Data Design Made Simple" on March 16, and "Slide Design Made Simple" on April 6, with Andy Spackman as instructor. This series will present basic design skills that will help participants increase their competency in communication skills.
Brian E. Coutts, head of the Department of Library Public Services at Western Kentucky University, was selected as the 2017 winner of the Isadore Gilbert Mudge Award, RUSA's highest honor, for his distinguished contributions to reference services and librarianship. Sponsored by Credo Reference, the award consists of $5,000 and a citation, which will be presented to Coutts at the RUSA Achievement Awards Ceremony at the ALA Annual Conference in Chicago.
Sarah Laskow writes: "Finding an anonymous text, if you don't know which one, exactly, you're looking for, can be difficult, if not impossible. When Emily Kopley, a scholar of British and American literature, was first researching anonymous texts, she would try searching in library catalogs for a variety of terms: 'by anonymous'… 'no author'… 'by a lady.' Few people signed 'by anonymous.' There's no agreed-upon system, among libraries, about how to list anonymous or pseudonymous books."
Tools are available to help you celebrate National Library Week, held each April by ALA and libraries across the US. Communities nationwide will celebrate the contributions of libraries and library workers during National Library Week, April 9–15. The Public Awareness Office is offering resources—including PSA scripts, a proclamation, and a sample press release in both English and Spanish—to assist in promoting the theme of "Libraries Transform" during National Library Week.
Miguel Figueroa writes: "For many futurists and trend spotters, 'futuring' is fundamentally about the study of change. We study change so we can prepare for the many futures that might happen. We start seeing what's coming next. Collected below are highlights from a conversation with three librarians, each demonstrating how her commitment to library values has helped her pursue library futures in times of change. The interviewees are Emily Drabinski, Sarah Houghton, and Charlotte Roh."
ALA Editions, in collaboration with the San José State University School of Information, will host a new advanced eCourse, "Project Management Fundamentals for Librarians" with Sean Gaffney as instructor, starting on April 17. The course covers management styles, institutional constraints, project life cycles, stakeholder management, risk assessment, and team management. Participants will receive an SJSU iSchool/ALA Publishing Advanced Certificate of Completion.
ALA Editions will host a new iteration of its four-week facilitated eCourse, "Using and Understanding Library of Congress Classification" with Robert Bothmann as instructor, starting on April 24. Bothmann offers a comprehensive grounding in Library of Congress Classification principles and practice. Registration is through the ALA Store.
YALSA has chosen 20 libraries to receive its 2017 Summer Learning Resources Grant. The grant's purpose is to provide libraries with funds to purchase literacy resources that strengthen and expand the impact of the library's summer learning program towards teens most vulnerable to summer learning loss, including teens who speak English as a second language, teens in socioeconomically challenged communities, and teens who are at risk of failing school. Each grant is worth $1,000.
To help libraries meet the information needs of their communities during these challenging times, the ALA Office for Diversity, Literacy, and Outreach Services has created Libraries Respond, a comprehensive online resource that aims to keep current events in conversation with libraries' ongoing work in and commitment to equity, diversity, and inclusion. The site now has a page on protections for our nation's transgender students.
Science educator, mechanical engineer, television host and New York Times bestselling author Bill Nye, popularly known as Bill Nye the Science Guy, will be joined in an Auditorium Speaker session on June 26 at ALA Annual Conference in Chicago by coauthor Gregory Mone, a novelist, science journalist, speaker, and children's book author. The first book in their new middle-grade series from Abrams, Jack and the Geniuses, will be released this spring.
Luren Dickinson writes: "Public libraries across the country, both large and small, have struggled with reduced revenue and keeping up with technology. But one small library has shown that where there is a will, there is a way. Beaumont (Calif.) Library District is the 'little library district that could.' Perhaps the biggest recent changes at Beaumont have been in the area of expanded technology."
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Q: Identity for BinaryOperator I see in Java8 in UnaryOperator Interface following piece of code which does nothing on parameter and returns same value.
static <T> UnaryOperator<T> identity() {
    return t -> t;
}

Is there anything for BinaryOperator which accepts two parameters of samekind and returns one value
static <T> BinaryOperator<T> identity() {
    return (t,t) -> t;
}

why I am asking this question is for below requirement,
List<String> list = Arrays.asList("Abcd","Abcd");
Map<String,Integer> map = list.stream().collect(Collectors.toMap(str->str,
str->(Integer)str.length(),(t1,t2)->t1));
System.out.println(map.size());

in above code I don't want to do anything for two values of same key, I just wanted return one value, because in my case for sure values will be same.
As am not using t2 value Sonar throwing error, So I am finding out is there any thing like UnaryOperator.identity() for BinaryOpertor also in java8

A: Your question doesn't really make sense. If you were to paste your proposed BinaryOperator.identity method into an IDE, you would immediately see that it would complain that the identifier t is declared twice.
To fix this, we need a different identifier for each parameter:
return (t, u) -> t;

Now we can clearly see that this is not an identity function. It's a method which takes two arguments and returns the first one. Therefore the best name for this would be something like getFirst.
To answer your question about whether there's anything like this in the JDK: no. Using an identity function is a common use case, so defining a method for that is useful. Arbitrarily returning the first argument of two is not a common use case, and it's not useful to have a method to do that.

A: T means they have the same types, not the same values, that is not an identity per-se.
It just means that BinaryOperator will be used for the same types, but providing an identity for different values... this somehow sounds like foldLeft or foldRight or foldLeftIdentity/foldRightIdentity, which java does not have.

A: Your code seemingly can be improved as
List<String> list = Arrays.asList("Abcd", "Abcd");
Map<String, Integer> map = list.stream()
            .collect(Collectors.toMap(Function.identity(), String::length, (a, b) -> a));
System.out.println(map.size());

Or possibly for your use case I don't want to do anything for two values of same key, I just wanted return one value, you may just choose to randomly return any value in using an implementation as following:
private static <T> BinaryOperator<T> any() {
    return Math.random() < 0.5 ? ((x, y) -> x) : ((x, y) -> y);
}

and then in your code use it as
Map<String, Integer> map = list.stream()
            .collect(Collectors.toMap(Function.identity(), String::length, any()));

Thanks to the suggestions from Holger, Eugene, and Federico, there are other efficient implementations of the any method that can actually involve using :
private static <T> BinaryOperator<T> any() {
    // suggested by Holger
    return ThreadLocalRandom.current().nextBoolean() ? ((x, y) -> x) : ((x, y) -> y);
    // suggested by Eugene
    long nt = System.nanoTime();
    ((nt >>> 32) ^ nt) > 0 ? ((x, y) -> x) : ((x, y) -> y);
}

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