Warangesda: Deep Waters was Western Riverina Arts' 2017 annual Aboriginal Arts project in partnership with the Griffith Regional Art Gallery and National Parks and Wildlife Service, in collaboration with the Aboriginal Medical Centre, Murrumbidgee Shire Council, Waddi Housing and Leeton & District Local Aboriginal Land Council and Youth Off the Streets. Warangesda: Deep Waters examined the history and legacy of the Warangesda Mission at Darlington Point, a significant cultural site for the Wiradjuri People.
A year-long project in the making, local Aboriginal artists participated in workshops and visited Warangesda, reacting to the remains of the original Mission site and pondering their personal connections to the surrounding landscape while producing new works. Historian Dr Peter Kabala has produced the historical information relating to Warangesda. Both components of the exhibition endeavour to showcase the history, significance and ongoing legacy of Warangesda.
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Lisa Marie Presley Reveals She'll "Occasionally Ask for Help" From Late Dad Elvis Presley
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Though Lisa Marie Presley was only nine years old when her dad, Elvis Presley, tragically passed away, the singer says she still feels close to her late father today. During an interview to promote her new duet with Elvis, "Where No One Stands Alone," Lisa Marie, 50, revealed she still asks her dad for guidance during some moments of her life.
"I wouldn't say I talk to him… I just remember everything. I can sort of pull out of the files whatever memories I have and stuff like that. And occasionally ask for help. Which was the case with this record. I just felt like a hand come down to me, it felt like that a little bit," she said on the UK talk show Lorraine.
Lisa Marie also admitted it was "emotional" to record a new duet version of Elvis' gospel song "Where No One Stands Alone" on the King of Rock and Roll's latest posthumous album of the same title.
"I just felt really emotional. It's never pleasant to sing and cry. You just can't do that in a good way. I had to keep my composure, but I felt very connected to him and to the song," she shared of the experience.
Lisa Marie was born to Elvis and his wife, Priscilla Presley, in February 1968. Nine years later, Elvis sadly died at age 42 after suffering a heart attack in August 1977. During her sit-down on Lorraine, Lisa Marie shared that she recently learned of a sweet quote her dad once said about fatherhood.
"There was a quote on the wall as I was leaving the [new Graceland] exhibit, it said something like, 'Becoming a father is the best thing that's ever happened to me.' I had never seen it before, last night was the first time I saw it, so that was really cool," she said.
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Q: input width, padding missmatch I am having a quick and interesting problem.
The padding applied to the input tag, is not being added the width of the input, but rather subtracted.
In the print-screen, you can see that .acct_input_bg element has width of 390px.
In DevTool's box-model utility, the element is having 363px ( 390 - 20 - 7)!
I googled a bit and found that Paul Irish blogged about the problem, but I have boostrap.css which applies proper box-sizing element. I also found less helpful here on stackoverflow in this query and this.
Thanks for helping out!

A: This is caused by Bootstrap.
The default box sizing is content-box, and Bootstrap is changing it to border-box, and that is the behavior you're seeing.
Have a look at the source code:
// Reset the box-sizing
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// Heads up! This reset may cause conflicts with some third-party widgets.
// For recommendations on resolving such conflicts, see
// http://getbootstrap.com/getting-started/#third-box-sizing
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'Grand Theft Auto V' For Next-Gen Will Offer A First Person POV (Video)
Grand Theft Auto V was the highest grossing video game in the past five years although its unfortunate timing kept it from being an early option for next-gen gamers. Since its release on the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3, Rockstar has been working diligently to port the game over to the PS4, Xbox One, and PC. The next-gen version will offer updated graphics, new in-game content, and even a "first-person" mode which will be a first for the Grand Theft Auto franchise.
A sneak peek at the first person experience was uploaded to YouTube yesterday via Rockstar's official YouTube account. From the looks of it, the first person point of view brings a refreshingly new feel to the traditionally 3rd-person gameplay, and this new perspective is available both while on foot or in a vehicle.
Unfortunately, it seems that the graphics aren't much better based off the trailer alone. While the environments are detailed and look great thanks to dynamic lighting effects, the character, gun and vehicle models still leave much to be desired especially when viewed from a first-person perspective.
Grand Theft Auto V is now available for pre-order and will be released on the Xbox One, PS4, and PC come November 18th.
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Costain, in joint venture with Skanska, was awarded a contract to construct the Crossrail Paddington station. The new station is a key interchange with the existing National Rail services at Paddington Mainline station and with London Underground.
Through early collaboration with our customer and supply chain, our design team was able to change the concrete specification from one with 50 percent ground granulated blast slag [GGBS], to one with 72.5 percent content.
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MOSCOW, March 13 (UPI) -- UPI's Moscow correspondent Peter Lavelle interviews Robert Bruce Ware, noted expert on the North Caucasus and Chechnya, concerning the death of Chechen rebel leader Aslan Maskhadov, killed March 8 by Russian forces. Ware is an associate professor of philosophy at Southern Illinois University.
UPI: How would you describe Maskhadov's political career? Was he a "moderate," as he was commonly described?
Ware: As compared to a monster such as Chechen commander Shamil Basayev, Aslan Maskhadov might have been described as a "moderate" up to 1998. In January 1997, he became the first and last legitimately elected president of Chechnya.
His incapacity to cope with pressures endemic to Chechen society led to his drift toward radicalism beginning in the latter part of that year. In 1999 he disbanded the Chechen parliament and abolished the same Chechen constitution that legitimized his presidency.
He replaced it with an Islamist code similar to that of Sudan. Under the ensuing Sharia rule, there were public executions, amputations, and other punishments for offences, including adultery and homosexuality. Those who were punished included pregnant women and children.
Later that year, Maskhadov did not repudiate Basayev's invasion of Dagestan while it was in progress, let alone assist the Dagestanis in resisting it. Then Maskhadov declined Vladimir Putin's requests to extradite Basayev, to close his al-Qaida-connected training camps, and to renounce terrorism -- essentially the same three requests that President George Bush made of the Taliban in the autumn of 2001.
In the summer of 2002, Maskhadov stated publicly that all Chechen fighters were directly under his control, and warned of an upcoming campaign to wage war on Russian territory. That October, the leaders of the Dubrovka hostage atrocity clearly stated in three separate press interviews that they were acting under Maskhadov's direction. Yet Maskhadov failed to condemn the Dubrovka atrocity while it was in progress.
On June 22, 2004, bands of terrorists from Chechnya killed approximately 100 people in the neighboring Republic of Ingushetia. About 60 of these fatalities were police officials. About 40 were civilians, some of whom were hacked to death. The terrorists took approximately 20 hostages. The raids had no military targets. A few weeks later Aslan Maskhadov publicly claimed responsibility for the Ingushetia raids.
When bin Laden killed police officials and civilians in the World Trade Center, there were no Western analysts who failed to call him a terrorist. When Timothy McVeigh killed law enforcement officials and civilians in an Oklahoma blast, no Americans failed to label him a terrorist. Why do people insist that Maskhadov is anything but a terrorist after he claimed responsibility for the slaughter of police officials and civilians in Ingushetia?
It is revealing that those people who claim most loudly to care about the suffering of Chechen civilians seem to care nothing at all about the suffering of Ingushi civilians. The same might be said about Dagestanis, since Maskhadov claimed to control the terrorists that have killed more than 50 of Dagestan's political and law enforcement officials in the last three years. Why is it that our Western journalists and "observers" seem to care about the suffering of only those North Caucasians who are fighting the Russians?
Whatever Aslan Maskhadov may have been in 1995 or 1997, he was a terrorist on the day he died.
Q. How does Maskhadov's death change the internal dynamics of Chechen society, or the Chechen resistance to the Kremlin? A number of observers claim that warlord Shamil Basayev is a net winner from Maskhadov's death and that resistance will become more "radicalized."
A. Aslan Maskhadov was a symbol of all that was legitimate and worthy in Chechen aspirations toward independence. Unfortunately, he was no more than a symbol. Whether because he was unworthy of his cause or because his cause itself was unworthy, he quickly proved unable to lead a semi-independent Chechnya, and was himself led into radicalism.
Because of his symbolic appeal, Maskhadov retained the sympathy of as much as 30 percent of the Chechen population. Yet he was also widely blamed by Chechens for their problems. Had they been given the chance to do so, it is unlikely that more than 10 percent would have supported him in last year's presidential election. In any case, many Chechens had sworn vendettas against Maskhadov, so that he surely would have died soon after attempting to resume any sort of public life.
Maskhadov had no more than this symbolic value to the Chechen resistance. He controlled no more than a few people around him, and some days he barely controlled his own bodyguards. He was not the "moderate" ballast to radicals such as Basayev, as has sometimes been suggested. On the contrary, after 1997 Maskhadov devoted much of his energy to preserving the illusion that he maintained some sort of control over Basayev. Negotiations with Maskhadov would have had no effect upon Basayev or other radical leaders.
Hence, Maskhadov's death will have only three consequences for Basayev. First, without his political front man, Basayev will suffer further reductions in external funding, by which however he will be undeterred. Second, Basayev's own demise will become more present to him. Basayev does not fear death, but the narcissism of his personal mythology is a significant part of his pathology. Third, Basayev may proclaim that one of his upcoming atrocities is vengeance for the martyred Maskhadov, even though Basayev has spent the last eight years undermining Maskhadov.
Q. What are the immediate implications for the Kremlin's approach to Chechnya? Vladimir Putin is using Maskhadov's death to legitimize what is often called his "stay tough" approach. Asked differently, is Putin's approach working?
A. Because of his iconic status, Maskhadov's death was necessary for the stabilization of the North Caucasus, but it is far from sufficient. In all but his iconic status, Maskhadov will be quickly replaced, as indeed would Basayev. In order to begin stabilizing the North Caucasus, the Kremlin must support genuine democratic procedures throughout the region beginning with the upcoming Chechen parliamentary elections. Instead of consolidating corruption, the Kremlin, secondly, must strive to reduce it. Finally, Russian officials must stimulate dramatic and widespread economic development. Otherwise poverty, unemployment, corruption and despair will continue to nourish radicalism, alienation, and instability in the region.
Q. How does the death of Maskhadov impact the legitimacy of the Kremlin-backed Chechen president, Alu Alkhanov? Should we expect the much feared deputy minister Ramzan Kadyrov (and his "private security forces") will feel empowered?
A. It's hard to imagine Ramzan Kadyrov feeling any more empowered, though his pompous depiction of Maskhadov's death as a gift to Chechen women would suggest that this is the case. Following his flawed election, Alu Alkhanov unfortunately can draw legitimacy from nothing but his own political efficacy. Many Chechens perceive him as making an earnest attempt to improve political stability and public services, but the task has ultimately defeated all of his predecessors.
Q. How do you think the West will now try to engage the Kremlin with a view toward changes in its Chechen policies? Many in the West had strongly supported Maskhadov as the last hope for peace.
A. Those who supported Maskhadov as the last hope for peace have been without either insight or influence. Some of them have already exploited Maskhadov's death as an opportunity, like every other, to bash Russia and its leaders. This does nothing but further reduce the likelihood that Russian officials will respond to informed critics who recognize the genuine complexities of the situation when urging Russian officials to attend to human rights and democratic procedures.
One can only wish that Western critics would put their money where their mouths are. If they truly care about the peoples of this region then why don't they offer to assist Russia in programs targeted to provide for the region's economic development? Such programs would, of course, raise problems of corruption and oversight that are daunting but not insurmountable.


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Our work is focused on molecular mechanisms underlying pathology in humans, specifically cancer and membrane pore formation and cell adhesion. We are studying mechanisms of 3' uridylation of RNAs with clear effects in tumourigenesis and are engaged in related translational research in collaboration with the Target Discovery Institute and Cancer Research Technology. We are also working on mechanisms of pore formation relevant to inflammation and cytotoxic T cell activity, and to infection processes in diseases such as malaria and toxoplasmosis. Our work on membrane biology in disease includes a focus on the kindlin proteins which are involved both in cell adhesion activation and also function nuclearly in suppression of tumour-suppressor miRNAs.
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Miles Davis is not Mozart: The brains of jazz and classical pianists work differently - NEUROSCIENCE
A musician's brain is different to that of a non-musician. Making music requires a complex interplay of various abilities which are also reflected in more strongly developed brain structures. Scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences (MPI CBS) in Leipzig have recently discovered that these capabilities are embedded in a much more finely-tuned way than previously assumed—and even differ depending on the style of the music: They observed that the brain activity of jazz pianists differs from those of classical pianists, even when playing the same piece of music. This could give insight into the processes which generally take place while making music and which are specific for certain styles.
Keith Jarret, world-famous jazz pianist, once answered in an interview when asked if he would ever be interested in doing a concert where he would play both jazz and classical music: "No, that's hilarious. […] It's like a chosen practically impossible thing […] It's [because of] the circuitry. Your system demands different circuitry for either of those two things." Where non-specialists tend to think that it should not be too challenging for a professional musician to switch between styles of music, such as jazz and classical, it is actually not as easy as one would assume, even for people with decades of experience.
Scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences (MPI CBS) in Leipzig demonstrated that there could be a neuroscientific explanation for this phenomenon: They observed that while playing the piano, different processes occur in jazz and classical pianists' brains, even when performing the same piece.
"The reason could be due to the different demands these two styles pose on the musicians—be it to skillfully interpret a classical piece or to creatively improvise in jazz. Thereby, different procedures may have established in their brains while playing the piano which makes switching between the styles more difficult", says Daniela Sammler, neuroscientist at MPI CBS and leader of the current study about the different brain activities in jazz and classical pianists.
One crucial distinction between the two groups of musicians is the way in which they plan movements while playing the piano. Regardless of the style, pianists, in principle, first have to know what they are going to play—meaning the keys they have to press—and, subsequently, how to play—meaning the fingers they should use. It is the weighting of both planning steps which is influenced by the genre of the music.
According to this, classical pianists focus their playing on the second step, the "How". For them it is about playing pieces perfectly regarding their technique and adding personal expression. Therefore, the choice of fingering is crucial. Jazz pianists, on the other hand, concentrate on the "What". They are always prepared to improvise and adapt their playing to create unexpected harmonies.
"Indeed, in the jazz pianists we found neural evidence for this flexibility in planning harmonies when playing the piano", states Roberta Bianco, first author of the study. "When we asked them to play a harmonically unexpected chord within a standard chord progression, their brains started to replan the actions faster than classical pianists. Accordingly, they were better able to react and continue their performance." Interestingly, the classical pianists performed better than the others when it came to following unusual fingering. In these cases their brains showed stronger awareness of the fingering, and consequently they made fewer errors while imitating the chord sequence.
The scientists investigated these relations in 30 professional pianists; half of them were specialized in jazz for at least two years, the other half were classically trained. All pianists got to see a hand on a screen which played a sequence of chords on a piano scattered with mistakes in harmonies and fingering. The professional pianists had to imitate this hand and react accordingly to the irregularities while their brain signals were registered with EEG (Electroencephalography) sensors on the head. To ensure that there were no other disturbing signals, for instance acoustic sound, the whole experiment was carried out in silence using a muted piano.
"Through this study, we unraveled how precisely the brain adapts to the demands of our surrounding environment", says Sammler. It also makes clear that it is not sufficient to just focus on one genre of music if we want to fully understand what happens in the brain when we perform music—as it was done so far by just investigating Western classical music. "To obtain a bigger picture, we have to search for the smallest common denominator of several genres", Sammler explains. "Similar to research in language: To recognize the universal mechanisms of processing language we also cannot limit our research to German".
Source:http://www.cbs.mpg.de/brains-of-jazz-and-classical-pianists-work-differently
Journal article:https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1053811917310820?via%3Dihub
Source: Corina Marinescu
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I'd first like to explore the differences between software in the data ecology, and then dive deeper into key topics affecting their use.
Redis: OSS in-memory data structure storage, used as a database, cache, and message broker. Key-value based database system.
Memcached: distributed memory cacheing system. Key-value associative array.
Apache Cassandra: Open-source distibuted NoSQL disk database. CQL.
Hive: Data wharehouse built on top of Hadoop. SQL queries must be written in the MapReduce Java api.
HBase: Non-relational distributed database written in Java (part of Hadoop), and runs on top of HDFS.
A database transaction is a single unit of work that makes a change to a database. It can consist of many logical operations. For instances, removing an dollars from one bank account and adding them to another could constitute a transaction. It has multiple steps, but holds together as a logical unit of work. Database transactions must be ACID gurenteed, and its an all or nothing situation, meaning all the operations of the transaction need to happen, or none are applied.
These ensure changes in one relation do not propogate errors to other relations, and include restricted delete (can't delete target row until all rows that point to it are deleted), cascades delete (like restricted delete, only if you delete the target row, the rows that point to it will be automatically deleted), and nullifies delete (you can delete the target value, and all foreign keys pointing to it are set to null).
The purpose of ACID (Atomicity, Consistency, Isolation, Durability) is to ensure data validity even in the event of errors and system failures. What does each guarentee provide in the face of such faults?
Atomicity ensures that all operations/statements of a database transaction execute fully in order for the unit of work to be considered succesful. If any operations fail, the entire transaction fails and the database is not changed. So an ACID system ensures that this happens in any fault event. If there is a power outage halfway through a transaction, the database will not register the change.
Consistency ensures that it is database transactions alone that can bring a database from one valid state to another. More on that in data integrity.
Isolation ensures that concurrent execution of transactions leave the database in the same state that would have been obtained had the transactions been executed sequentially.
Durability ensures that completed transactions are stored in non-volatile memory. For instance, if a completed transaction were stored in a cache to later be written to disk and there was a power outage and the data was loss, that wouldn't be a system that ensured durability.
I read an interesting Stack post that challenges our assumption that RDBMS are the only systems that can provide ACID guarentees. NoSQL ACID? Let's see why.
Big topic. Fully address it here we can't. Try to summarize we must.
Data should be corrupted while existing in physical storage, and the data itself should be logical. There's not need storing data that represents an impossible signal born of faulty hardware or human error. As with many things in life (minus those pesky network effects that beautifully complexify everything), you get out what you put in.
What's interesting to us as engineers are the contraints we build into our database systems to ensure data integrity. This includes entity integrity (each row in a table has a non-null unique identifier as its primary key), referential integrity (for a database to be relational, every value of a primary key column of one table must have a corresponding value in another attribute in another relation if there is indeed a relation), and domain integrity ensures the domain of values for each column are defined so that each data will exist in that domain (if it exists at all).
Quite simply, a rollback rolls a database back to some previous state. If something goes wrong, we want to be able to roll back to a time when things were going right.
Imagine you run a small company and maintain a relational database to keep track of all employee data. In your database you have a table for personal information, with all the security bells and whistles that requires, and then related tables for teams, payroll, etc. You are onboarding a large number of people, and would like to create associated records in all tables for each employee, and ensure all those records are maintained when changes are made to the system. This is a great use case for a trigger!


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A hard drive is a component inside a computer that is used to read and write data, and to store the computer's data, operating system and software. It contains a moving mechanical arm which writes and reads data. A SSD (solid state drive) has exactly the same function but is much smaller than a hard drive and contains no moving parts, which makes it faster. However an SSD costs a lot more than a hard drive.
An optical drive uses a laser to read and write dvd, cd and blu-ray media that has been inserted into the computer.
A monitor is a device with a screen that displays the output from the computer.
A CPU (central processing unit) is the so-called 'brain' of the computer. It processes all of the information the computer is trying to run.
RAM (random access memory) is a form of computer data storage that remembers what you have opened on the computer so that it can be re-opened very quickly in a random order (This means that when you have many programs opened at the same time you can easily switch from program to program). The higher the RAM the faster the computer runs.
A motherboard is a circuit board inside a computer which holds and powers all of the computer's crucial components, such as the CPU, hard drive/SSD and RAM. Eveything in a computer is somehow connected to the motherboard.
Inputs are signals or data recieved by a computer system and input devices for computers are devices that send signals or data to the computer. An example of an input device for a computer is a mouse.
Outputs are signals sent by a computer system to an output device for the computer. An example of an output device is a monitor.
A touch screen is a device which is found on a lot of modern computers such as phones, iPods and Tablets. It is both an input device and an output device as it sends information to the computer system when being touched and it recieves that information again in order for the screen to display it.


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In 1872, three years after a civil war had brought about the Meiji Restoration, Japan was rapidly evolving from a feudal society into a quasi-democracy. The country was looking to the West for rapid acquisition of all the technologies of a modern society and in addition to the obligatory ships and armaments it was also eager to adopt steam powered transport. Trains were the future. Test runs having been satisfactorily completed between Shinagawa and Yokohama, on 14 October of that year, the first commercial railwayline was inaugurated and, as the train pulled out of the old Shimbashi station at Shiodome, the crowds cheered and the passengers enjoyed a journey of a little under an hour to Sakuragicho in Yokohama, not that dissimilar from today.
But train systems were prohibitively expensive to develop and a cheaper solution for mass transport inside the capital was required. And so, after many years of debate, the government turned to the electric tramline, something to be first successfully demonstrated in Kyoto in 1895. Opening in 1903, the tram system grew to over forty separate lines with the peak utilisation actually in the early 1960's. But by then the more efficient busses as well as the motorcar and the rapidly growing subway system were eating into the networks reason to be and by the 1970's the trams were all but consigned to history.
Today the trams do still exist in Tokyo but are a ghost of their former selves. Threatened with closure in the 1960's, an urban uprising eventually secured the life of the Toden-Arakawa line in northern Tokyo. Running from Minowabashi, near Asakusa, to Weseda, home of the university, the line remains a public service and popular tourist sight to this day. The only other tramway to still operate in Tokyo is the Tokyu-Setagaya line from Sangenjaya, the branch-line being the remnants of the once major Tamagawa line from Shibuya. With the little bell that warns of its approach, the trams are affectionally referred to as "ding ding trains" or "chin chin densha" in Japanese. And that has an entirely different meaning to a thirteen year old school boy in Japan.
Roppongi Crossing c1930. Trams and cars compete for the future.
My thanks to Timo Budow for tracking this picture down.
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Azure Acres' renowned addiction recovery program includes counseling, education, relapse prevention, family therapy and continuing care - all of which are provided by experienced and highly trained treatment professionals in a supportive and respectful environment.
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Institutional Transformation Stories How the Foundation of Student Success at Delaware State University Prepared It for Covid-19
In 2016, Delaware State University deployed predictive analytics to bolster student success. Among the changes the historically Black university with more than 5,000 students made was to centralize advising and make it more proactive and structured rather than waiting for undergraduates to ask for help. The university also developed individualized development plans for every incoming student to keep them on track to graduation.
Recently, higher education author and expert Jeff Selingo caught up with Saundra DeLauder, the university's provost and chief academic officer, and Alexa Silver, a professor of history and political science and chairperson of the faculty senate, to see how the university has continued its student success efforts and managed the shift to remote learning in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic.
Delaware State University was already offering online courses before the pandemic, in part to help students lighten their in-person course load during the semester. How did that experience help in making the pivot to remote learning last spring?
Silver: We've offered online courses for quite some time. They are 100 percent online, offered in an asynchronous format, meaning that the faculty and the students do not meet together at any particular time. Professors create the curriculum, lectures, and assignments. Students view lectures, complete assignments every week and professors grade them. Students can email faculty members, but there's no required shared time together.
When we moved to remote education in the spring, we wanted to offer virtual classes that were synchronous so that the students could maintain their schedules. We have our class meeting during that time period, just like we would if we were on campus. We meet on Blackboard or some faculty use WebEx or Zoom for video.
It has been more challenging to deliver synchronous courses virtually compared to asynchronous online courses. But we're already getting more comfortable with it, and faculty and students are figuring out ways to be more engaged with one another.
How would you describe this academic year in terms of remote learning compared to last spring?
DeLauder: In the spring, we moved all of our classes—some 1,400 courses—to remote in about a week and that was no small feat. After the spring semester, I held a faculty forum to give the faculty some idea of how we were envisioning the fall.
The transition plan was to be a little more thoughtful in how we were going to open for fall. We still wanted to keep as low a footprint on campus as possible. We decreased our housing by about 25 percent, to 1,900 students. We are able to offer students housing because we have a rigorous testing protocol on campus. We are testing twice a week. Courses that have to be offered in person are being offered in person. But that's only about 15 percent of all courses. Everything else is being offered in a virtual format.
Silver: Even before COVID-19 hit, we were planning a summer course to help faculty members transition from face-to-face to online courses. We weren't planning for a pandemic; we were just trying to expose people to the idea of how you can deliver a course online.
Twelve of us had taken training with Quality Matters to learn how to design and teach in the online environment. The idea of our course was to share best practices, discuss how to engage students, and gave faculty access to different digital applications that they could use in the classroom.
It was incredibly fortuitous timing. We had 120 people sign up for the course. About 85 percent were faculty and another 15 percent were staff members. Most of the faculty completed the course. Every module of the course had a discussion piece where they could talk with each other about the challenges they face and ideas they came up with.
I'm chair of our faculty senate, and I have to say from talking to faculty, they were a lot more comfortable coming into the fall. There was a lot of discomfort in the spring. Some didn't know where to begin. They were overwhelmed with digital applications.
So, in the summer we told them to try one or two at a time to see what they liked. We created online portals so they could access different tools.
What hasn't worked well in the remote environment?
Silver: The biggest challenge we're facing is technological access. My students come into my class and some of them have bad connections, so they're dropping in and out.
DeLauder: I have a different take on this because there were some things that were not working well before the pandemic: COVID-19 has forced faculty to really take a look at their students as people, and not just students.
We have students who are sharing their technology with other members of their family, so sometimes they can't sign on to class at the scheduled time. Some students have sick parents, and so they have to become the breadwinner. Some are at home taking care of younger siblings, and working, and trying to go to school, all at the same time.
So this was an opportunity for us to actually just stop for a moment and see each other as people and not just faculty and students. I think the technology allowed some of those barriers to come down in a way that they may not have if we were face-to-face.
Your student success efforts require student engagement with advisers and faculty members. How are you ensuring that engagement in a virtual environment?
Silver: When we left campus in March, I don't think students realized what an oasis it was to have the freedom and the space to do their studies and not have to be dealing with family, health, and work issues.
It's made them a little more mature in how they approach their classes. This experience has made all of us grow up a lot faster than we wanted to, faculty and students alike. Faculty are taking on more responsibility for how they teach and engage students. They can't be on auto-pilot anymore, and students feel like they're taking more responsibility for their learning.
Students are realizing that they can no longer be passive recipients. They're starting to get that they actually can learn more when they actively participate in their learning and that's a good thing. I would say that's been my most pleasant surprise during this pandemic.
The students and faculty feel like they are in this together, and the students are actually kind of having more mercy on faculty members than they would normally. We're a very caring institution, and I think through this experience our students see that even more, and so everyone is willing to go the extra mile.
What do you think might stick from this experience in the long run?
DeLauder: From a resources standpoint, holding more administrative and faculty meetings virtually in the future is going to enable us to get a lot more done than constantly running from face-to-face meetings. Before the pandemic, we also had a lot of manual processes. We had to figure out how to do student orientation virtually and nearly all aspects of enrollment management. I don't think everything will go back 100 percent to the way it was done before.
Silver: I agree that as chair of the faculty senate that I intend to keep a lot of the virtual work in how committees can get their work done even once we're on campus.
In the classroom, I'm hoping that a lot of teaching practices will continue, including using all this technology that's in our hands. Part of our digital initiatives for students was about getting them to use technology for whatever purpose, not just Instagram. We want to prepare them to be professionals using these technologies, and so I think the last several months is going to be positive on that front. I have a feeling we're never going to go back to where we were.
On the other hand, I really miss seeing our students. I think that's the greatest challenge, so one of the things we keep pushing is that faculty members must create a sense of community in this virtual environment. As a faculty member, I start every class with a couple of personal questions to engage them in some human conversation before we get into the content. Hopefully, that new way of engaging students will stay with us.
Our Country's Economic Rebound Must Include Dismantling Barriers to Mobility and Opportunity
The ongoing spread of the Omicron variant of COVID-19 continues to put a strain on our health and education systems and the economy. Staff shortages, delayed school reopenings, and economic hardships evoke a feeling of deja vu, draining us physically and emotionally and putting economic mobility further out of reach for everyday Americans. That fatigue can become an obstacle to public health as it may drive people not to adhere to COVID safety precautions.
Getting Behind the Numbers When it Comes to the Value of Higher Education: Five Questions for Excelencia in Education's Deborah Santiago
To define the more qualitative advantages of postsecondary education, we recently caught up with Deborah Santiago of Excelencia in Education, who urges college leaders, policymakers, and community partners to prioritize human and societal factors in calculating the return on investment in higher education.
Postsecondary Success | Fighting the Good Fight
Two years into the pandemic, we are all still searching for new ways of doing things, so I'd like to show some gratitude to a few partners who did just that with us in 2021.


It's unfortunate, but self-employed Canadians have to work harder than most to secure a mortgage. Thankfully, it's not impossible and can go very smoothly if done right. Read on to learn more.
Mortgage lenders are picky people and most of them consider self-employed people as higher risk. On the lender's end, there's more paperwork and a more thorough vetting process that goes with self-employed applicants. That's why most lenders prefer traditional T4 employee applicants.
Because self-employed people are viewed as higher-risk, you will likely have to pay a higher interest rate than your peers. Don't take it personally; it's just the nature of the business.
The mortgage application process for self-employed people is not all that different from T4 employees. You'll fill out an application, you'll sign paperwork you'll have to provide support documents, and you'll be quoted a rate. Down payments, credit requirements and debt to income ratios will be similar as well.
Mortgage documentation requirements are where things diverge. Traditional employees only need to provide a few documents (commonly a T4 or a payment stub) as proof of income. Self-employed people must show more including Notices of Assessment, financial statements prepared by an accountant, and T1 and/or T2 Generals. How is your business organized? Is it a sole proprietorship or is it a corporation? Documentation requirements differ for each.
Most lenders will require a two-year record of earnings at a minimum which means two years of tax return history. There are specialty lenders that will look at applicants with less than two years income, but these lenders tend to have higher interest rates and restricted terms.
Self-employed people write off their expenses to lower their net income and save on taxes. This is a double-edged sword when it comes to securing a mortgage. When considering applicants, lenders use debt-to-income ratios – a measure of how much of your income is used to pay debt. If you're deducting expenses to show a lower net income, your debt-to-income ratios will be higher, which will hurt your chances of getting a mortgage.
You may be discouraged right now, but don't be. There are lenders out there who cater to self-employed applicants and love helping them buy homes. Here are a couple of tips that can help you score a great mortgage.
It is very important to have good credit history. Many mortgage products are only available to those with credit scores above a certain threshold. There are websites that allow you to view your credit score for free, so be sure to take advantage once or twice a year. If your credit score is low, try to improve it. Otherwise, you'll have to find a cosigner.
Make sure your financial statements, tax returns, etc. are organized and accessible. If you're meeting with your lender, try to have a tidy folder with all necessary documents in place. This will help instill confidence in your lender and possibly lead to more favourable rates and terms.
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Described by The Strad Magazine as 'hugely impressive, he plays with seemingly effortless control' Irish violinist Darragh Morgan was born in Belfast in 1974. A renowned exponent of contemporary music, Darragh has appeared as a soloist at Aldeburgh Festival, Philips Collection Washington DC, Wiener Konzerthaus, Spitalfields Festival, Osterfestival Tirol and BBC Proms Chamber Music. His numerous concerto appearances with The Ulster Orchestra include the world premiere of 'Hymn of Dawn' by Sir John Tavener which he also performed with Istanbul Symphony Orchestra. With National Symphony Orchestra of Ireland he has toured Beethoven Triple Concerto, recorded 'Elastic Harmonic' by Donnacha Dennehy for NMC Recordings and he has premiered Brian Irvine's 'A Mon Seul Desir' with RTÉ Concert Orchestra. With London Musici/Rambert Dance Company he has given over 40 performances of 'Tabula Rasa' by Arvo Pärt (including in the presence of the composer). He gave the South African premiere of Barber Violin Concerto with the KZN Philhamonic Orchestra. Other concerto appearances have included Kölner Kammerorchester and Cyprus Symphony Orchestra. Iconic collaborations have included with Thomas Adès, Emmanuel Pahud, Darius Brubeck, John Tilbury, Mícheál Ò Súilleabháin and David Holmes.
A passionate chamber musician Darragh is founder member of 'the virtuosic Fidelio Trio' (Sunday Times). They were shortlisted for the Royal Philhamonic Society Awards Ensemble Prize and have received Gramophone Magazine Editor's Choice for their recordings. The trio have appeared at prestigious venues around the globe including Shanghai Oriental Arts Centre, Wigmore Hall, Purcell Room Southbank Centre, Casa da Musica Porto, National Sawdust New York, Morrison Artist Series San Francisco, Princeton Sound Kitchen, Andy Warhol Museum Pittsburgh, National Centre for Performing Arts Mumbai, Beijing Modern Music Festival, National Concert Hall Dublin, Kilkenny Arts Festival, Brighton, Cheltenham and Vale of Glamorgan Festivals. They have collaborated with actor Adrian Dunbar, writer Alexander McCall-Smith and poet Sinead Morrissey.
Darragh was for a number of years violinist with the award winning Smith Quartet, praised by The Guardian as 'Britain's answer to the Kronos'. Highlights of his time with The Smiths included appearances with Rokia Traore at Peter Sellars New Crowned Hope Festival at The Barbican, Bang on a Can Marathon New York, two sold out concerts at Seoul Arts Centre, Maerz Musik Berlin, 10 performances of the music of Morton Feldman with pianist John Tilbury at Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival (shortlisted for an RPS Award), Steve Reich 75th Birthday Concerts, Kevin Volans 60th Birthday at The Wigmore Hall and many acclaimed albums including the first ever complete recording of Philip Glass String Quartets for Signum Classics.
Darragh regularly leads London Sinfonietta including recently at The Esplanade Singapore and Venice Biennale. He has appeared as leader of Ensemble Modern at Lucerne Festival, Sciarrino's 'Macbeth' at Festival d'automne Paris, Klangspuren Schwaz, Tongyeong International Music Festival and at the Alte Opera Frankfurt. He has also appeared with Musik Fabrik in the world premiere of 'La Passione' by Louis Andriessen and 'Shelter' by Michael Gordon, Julia Wolfe and David Lang. Darragh has worked closely with conductors including Oliver Knussen, Pierre Boulez, Francois Xavier Roth, John Eliot Gardiner, Heinz Holliger, En Shao and Paul Daniel. He has appeared as guest leader of Aurora Orchestra, The Philharmonia, RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra, Macau Orchestra, Les Siecles and Athelas Sinfonietta, Remix Ensemble, BCMG and Red Note Ensemble. Darragh has been invited to direct European Union Chamber Orchestra and 2004-2005 was Artistic Director of Baroque 2000, South Africa's premiere period instrument ensemble.
Special composer associations have included Michael Finnissy's Violin Sonata and the recording of his complete Violin and Piano repertoire for Metier, commissioning Kevin Volans Piano Trio No 3 'Le Tombeau des Regrets' and recording his first piano trio for NMC, recording Philip Glass Trios for Orange Mountain Music, Chris Newman violin concerto 'Free Standards', much music by Joe Cutler including his violin concerto 'Macedonia', Gerald Barry's chamber music recorded for Mode Records, Andrew Poppy's Violin Concerto with Crash Ensemble, Steve Reich 'Double Sextet' Recording with Ekkozone which was awarded a Diapason D'or Award, Michael Nyman complete piano trios for MNR as well as works by Robert Fokkens, Judith Weir, Tansy Davies and Howard Skempton. He has recorded over 50 chamber music and solo albums for NMC, Resonus, Delphian, Signum, Diatribe, Metier, Da Capo, Centaur, Naxos and Col Legno.
Darragh has been a member of the string teaching faculty at Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama and chamber music faculty at Royal College of Music. He has been invited to give masterclasses at Curtis Institute, Peabody Conservatory, San Francisco Conservatory, Yong Tew Conservatory Singapore, Central Conservatory Beijing and summer faculty at Britten-Pears Young Artist Programme and Apple Hill Center for Chamber Music, New Hampshire, USA.
Darragh regularly records for soundtracks at Abbey Road Studios and Air Lyndhurst Studios. Credits include Children of Men, Steve Jobs, Spiderman, Shazam, Edge of Tomorrow, Merlin, Poldark, Downton Abbey, Call the Midwife, The Crown and Spice Girls, Deep Purple, Sigur Ros, The Corrs, Paul McCartney, The Hours and Divine Comedy. Darragh studied at Guildhall School of Music & Drama with Detlef Hahn, and often in masterclasses with Yehudi Menuhin, Pinchas Zukerman, Pierre Amoyal, Mauricio Fuks, Paul Zukofsky and the Takacs and Amadeus String Quartets.
Darragh plays an 1848 Giuseppe Rocca violin, generously on loan from the Morgan-Rocca Instrument Trust which is administered by The Royal Society of Musicians and a bow by Joseph Alfred Lamy.
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'One soon got over the surreal experience of someone playing like Paganini, but wearing pants like Robbie Williams…'
Sunday Tribune, South Africa
'Virtuosic playing, especially the clear and precise violin of Morgan, and Dullea's work on the piano…'
San Francisco Classical Voice
' "Definitive" isn't a word to be brandished lightly but the sheer sonic loveliness of Tilbury's softer-than-soft softs and Morgan's salamander zigzag slide around Feldman's self-renewing lines is, you guessed it, matchless.'
Gramophone Magazine
'Gorgeous lyrical playing from violinist Darragh Morgan…'
'The former Concert Master is the perfect master of his art…'
Der Standard Wien
'This was a remarkable performance, one that seemed shrouded in the aura of John Tilbury's experience in this music. Tilbury is rightly seen as a foremost interpreter of Feldman. He was joined by Belfast‐born violinist Darragh Morgan, who seemed to think little of being in a very exposed spotlight for just under 90 minutes.'
Seen and Heard International
'Morgan and Dullea do a superb job with razor-sharp articulation…'
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NEW BIKE RENTAL SCHEME COMING TO GLASGOW
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sustainableglasgow
The Sustainable Glasgow Project aims has named its latest project 'city cycle' the concept consists of various bike rental pods around the city centre similar to London, Paris and Dublin's rental schemes.
The project aims to start small and eventually expand throughout the city centre. The project is currently at its funding stage and aims to start development next year.
for more information visit http://www.sustainableglasgow.co.uk/projects.html.
Quirinalian
Boris bikes in Glasgow? Great. Now where to actually cycle them...
Glasgow city centre is probably one of the worst that I can think of in terms of accessibility for cyclists.
Due East
Quirinalian said:
It's no worse, if not better, than the majority of central London.
Good luck to them!
Steel guitar in my soul.
The details of this scheme will be interesting to see. More power to them for giving it a go!
Two wrongs don't make a right... but three rights do make a left.
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bestbud
For these types of schemes to be successful (or at least to realise their potential)I'm very much of the opinion that the city needs to be flooded with the bikes instantly. Of course to do that would require big pockets. I suspect the scheme will be phased though, which would require some very careful planning.
Would be amazing to see them take off.
JohnnyFive
bestbud said:
Kolothos
I used one of these things in Berlin. It's free if you make your journey in less than 30 minutes, then it's 8p a minute after that out of your account. So I park it up at Freiderichstrasse, lock the thing up, turns out it's still charging my account and isn't registering on the machine at the station. So I try to unlock the thing, it's asking for a code that I don't know, I end up having to phone the fuckers up to sort the thing out, and as it turns out I put in absolute giberish into the machine when I registered so that I could get the bike out quickly, so I have to explain this to the (very helpful, I'll give them that) German woman on the phone, and I eventually get a code to unlock the bike with.
So after a good hour and ten minutes, I'm finally all sorted out. It took me longer to sort out the issues with parking the bike than it did to make the journey!
It would be far better if they invested such money into good cycling infrastructure for Glasgow!
Or perhaps it's just me, and these schemes are actually not bad.. Who knows?
Kolothos Aug 17, 2012


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Merkwaardige kasteelen in Nederland is een zesdelig naslagwerk geschreven in de periode van 1852 tot 1861 door Jacob van Lennep en Willem Jacob Hofdijk. De reeks bespreekt de historische context van een klein veertigtal kastelen in Nederland.

De boeken zijn geïllustreerd met lithografische prenten van deze bouwwerken in glorietijden en in de herdruk van 1884 waren illustraties van wapenborden en banieren toegevoegd alsook extra afbeeldingen van de kastelen zelf. Sommige van de prenten waren door Hofdijk getekend voordat ze door P.W.M. Trap en andere artiesten in steendruk omgezet werden.

Geschiedenis
Het naslagwerk bestaat uit een kleine veertigtal artikelen ('afleveringen') die in de periode van 1851 tot 1860 uitgeven waren in drie series van ca. vijftien afleveringen, in de eerste jaren nog onder de titel Voorname Kasteelen in Nederland. Later werden deze afleveringen getiteld als Merkwaardige kasteelen in Nederland en werden ze gebonden in twee delen per serie. De eerste druk van het naslagwerk was beperkt tot het aantal intekenaren, die bestond uit diverse edelen en met de toenmalige Nederlandse koning voorop.

Er was veel belangstelling voor de boeken en het werk is daarna nog diverse keren herdrukt: de eerste herdruk volgde in 1884, toen de serie in drie dubbel-delen werd uitgegeven. In de jaren 1970 verscheen een herdruk in zes delen. Er volgde nog een herdruk in 1983 (uitgeverij Foresta, Groningen) en in 2013 is een herdruk in één grote band verschenen.

Inhoud
Van de eerste serie bevat deel 1 (1854) een inleiding, die handelt over het ontstaan en de ontwikkeling van het kasteel, over belegeringen en over de kasteelbewoners. Vervolgens worden de volgende kastelen besproken: kasteel Egmond, het kasteel van Brederode, kasteel Torenburg, het kasteel van Arkel, kasteel Westhove, kasteel Haemstede en kasteel Aldegonde. Deel 2 (1854) behandelt het kasteel van Heusden, het kasteel van Gemert, kasteel Monfoort, kasteel IJsselsteyn, het jachtslot het Loo en kasteel Ammersode.

In de tweede serie behandelt deel 3 (1855) De Stins Voorst, kasteel Rechteren, kasteel van Coevorde, het kasteel te Wedde, kasteel Ewsum en kasteel Lyauckama. Deel 4 (1857) behandelt kasteel Ter Coulster, Muiderslot, Slot Zuylen, het Kasteel Sandenburgh, kasteel Culemborg en het Valkhof aan de Waal.

In de derde en laatste serie behandelt deel 5 (1961) het Hof van 's Gravenhage, het kasteel van Ter Goude, Kasteel van Medemblik, Slot Loevestein, Kasteel van Sluys, kasteel Grave en kasteel Vreeland. Deel 6 (1961) behandelt het huis te Rozendaal, kasteel Duurstede, kasteel Toutenburgh, Jachtslot Teylingen, slot Schagen en kasteel Buchorst.

Lof en kritiek

Merkwaardige kasteelen in Nederland heeft veel lof ontvangen voor de aantrekkelijke geschiedschrijving en de afbeeldingen. Het is sinds zijn verschijning een standaardwerk over kastelen in Nederland geworden waar nog altijd naar teruggegrepen wordt. Toch zijn er ook enkele kritiekpunten. De romantische insteek van de schrijvers en de soms wat vrije interpretatie van middeleeuwse poëzie waarop ze zich niet zelden hebben gebaseerd, heeft er toe geleid dat zowel de afbeeldingen en tekst van het werk hier en daar met een korreltje zout genomen moet worden.

Zo zou volgens Hofdijk Johanna van Polanen, toen ze veertien jaar oud was, soms verblijven op het kasteel de Slotbossetoren bij Oosterhout, hetgeen zou kunnen kloppen. Maar dat ze daar bemind werd door een minstreel die haar regelmatig toezong aan de voet van het kasteel, lijkt geheel te zijn ontsproten uit een romantische fantasie van de auteur.

Charles Rochussen's romantische interpretatie van het kasteel van Arkel werd in stijl van de schrijvers opgenomen in de betreffende aflevering van deel 1. De schrijvers schreven daarbij echter over het geslacht van Arkel, daarmee onjuist de suggestie wekkend dat de afbeelding die van het kasteel van Arkel was toegevoegd iets met deze adellijke familie van doen had: het ging namelijk om het kasteel van Willem VI van Beieren die sinds 1412 heer van Arkel was.

Behalve de twijfels over de historische betrouwbaarheid hier en daar, wordt nergens getwist over de originaliteit van het werk. Toch lijkt er geleund te zijn op eerder werk. Zo is in elk geval de aflevering over kasteel Lyauckama grotendeels een nagenoeg letterlijke kopie van Van der Aa's Burgen en Kasteelen, een publicatie van een klein decennium eerder, waarin de geschiedenis van dat kasteel verhandeld wordt.

Externe links
Van de reeks Merkwaardige kasteelen in Nederland zijn alle oorspronkelijke delen, te weten deel 1, deel 2 (1854), deel 3, deel 4, deel 5 en deel 6, online in te zien.

Online is ook de tweede uitgave (1884) beschikbaar, waarin het werk per serie is in te zien: Volume 1 (deel 1 - met in het begin de oude titel - en 2); volume 2 (deel 3 en 4) en volume 3 (deel 5 en 6). In deze versie worden voorin elk deel tevens de wapenborden en vlaggen van de behandelde kastelen gepresenteerd en zijn er ook extra afbeeldingen van de kastelen zelf toegevoegd.

Kasteel in Nederland
Nederlandse literatuurgeschiedenis

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This issue has just taken on increased significance with the recent reported proposal by a Virginia politician, Virginia House of Delegates Democrat, Kathy Tran, to allow abortions in the 4th trimester – in other words, kill after birth. The proposal apparently has the blessing of the Virginia Governor, Democrat Ralph Northam (who is also under political fire for "blackface" and KKK photo issues). I believe the attainment of the goal of the proposal has been a defining issue and intent of the progressive movement and Democrat Party for many years. They continue to offer more irrational, extremist proposals in many areas of the Unites States of America (USA) Government. We are already far down "the slippery slope!" This onward march must be stopped!
A little on-line research on birth control methods make it pretty clear, to a logical mind, that some of the methods actually abort the conception. The baby is aborted when the union is prevented from attachment to the woman's body. With some, or perhaps all, implantation of the union (fertilization) is prevented and the conceived baby dies. In the case of the "morning-after" pill, the result is achieved by massive hormonal doses. The use of hormones plays a major role in birth control methods and operate through the above described mechanics. So, the progression of abortion has taken us from elimination (subjection to destruction or death) of the conception product (baby) to the apparent state of killing the baby at or after birth. Pure evil!
An American, Margaret Sanger, founded the organization known as "American Birth Control League (ABCL)" in response to concerns about the rising "black" and "yellow" perils in America. This organization eventually morphed, along with others, into Planned Parenthood. Concerns for their abortion activity, and funding by taxpayers through the US Government, have been widely discussed and opposed. Their goals appear evident.
It is hoped that the below Bible verses will aid you in your study of the abortion issues. A good Bible commentary may be very helpful in interpretation of some of the verses, if needed. I feel that most are pretty straightforward in meaning. In comparing to other Bible versions you will likely find some differences in interpretation of some verses. I feel that the King James Version is closer to the language usage of the time period of interest.
Bible verses related to Abortion from the King James Version (KJV) 5 by Book Order. The verse links are to an on-line source which states the verses a little differently from the below statements which are in accord with the above noted (5) reference. The reference is an in-print KJV study Bible.
6Whoso sheddeth man's blood, by man shall his blood be shed: for in the image of God made He man. Genesis 9:6 (KJV).
13Thou shalt not kill. Exodus 20:13 (KJV).
22If men strive, and hurt a woman with child, so that her fruit depart from her, and yet no mischief follow: he shall be surely punished, according as the woman's husband will lay upon him; and he shall pay as the judges determine. 23And if any mischief follow, then thou shalt give life for life, 24Eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot, 25Burning for burning, wound for wound, stripe for stripe. Exodus 21:22-25 (KJV).
12Let her not be as one dead, of whom the flesh is half consumed when he cometh out of his mother's womb. Numbers 12:12 (KJV).
17Thou shalt not kill. Deuteronomy 5:17 (KJV).
19I call heaven and earth to record this day against you, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing: therefore choose life, that both thou and thy seed may live: Deuteronomy 30:19 (KJV).
11And Naomi said, Turn again, my daughters: why will you go with me? Have are there yet any more sons in my womb, that they may be your husbands? Ruth 1:11 (KJV).
3And they said unto him, Thus saith Hezekiah, This day is a day of trouble, and of rebuke, and blasphemy: for the children are come to the birth, and there is not strength to bring forth. 2 Kings 19:3 (KJV).
3Let the day perish wherein I was born, And the night in which it was said, There is a man child conceived. Job 3:3 (KJV).
16Or as a hidden untimely birth I had not been; As infants which never saw light. Job 3:16 (KJV).
15Did not he that made me in the womb make him? And did not one fashion us in the womb? Job 31:15 (KJV).
9 But thou art he that took me out of the womb: Thou didst make me hope when I was upon my mother's breasts. 10I was cast upon thee from the womb: Thou art my God from my mother's belly. Psalm 22:9-10 (KJV).
38And shed innocent blood, even the blood of their sons and of their daughters, whom they sacrificed unto the idols of Canaan: and the land was polluted with blood. 39Thus were they defiled with their own works, And went a whoring with their own inventions. Psalms 106:38-39 (KJV).
3Lo, children are an heritage of the LORD: And the fruit of the womb is his reward. Psalm 127:3 (KJV).
13For thou hast possessed my reins: thou hast covered me in my mother's womb. 14I will praise thee; for I am fearfully and wonderfully made: Marvellous are thy works; And that my soul knoweth right well. 15My substance was not hid from thee, When I was made in secret, And curiously wrought in the lowest parts of the earth. 16Thine eyes did see my substance, yet being unperfect; And in thy book all my members were written, Which in continuance were fashioned, when as yet there was none of them. Psalms 139:13-16 (KJV).
16These six things doth the LORD hate: Yea, seven are an abomination unto him: 17A proud look, a lying tongue, And hands that shed innocent blood, 18A heart that deviseth wicked imaginations, Feet that be swift in running to mischief, 19A false witness that speaketh lies, And he that soweth discord among brethren. Proverbs 6:16-19 (KJV).
5As thou knowest not what is the way of the spirit, nor how the bones do grow in the womb of her that is with child: even so thou knowest not the works of God who maketh all. Ecclesiastes 11:5 (KJV).
2Thus saith the LORD that made thee, And formed thee from the womb, which will help thee; fear not, O Jacob, my servant; And thou, Jeshurun, whom I have chosen. Isaiah 44:2 (KJV).
24Thus saith the LORD, thy redeemer, And he that formed thee from the womb, I am the LORD that maketh all things; That stretcheth forth the heavens alone; That spreadeth abroad the earth by myself; Isaiah 44:24 (KJV).
1Listen, O isles, unto me; and hearken, ye people, from far; The LORD hath called me from the womb; From the bowels of my mother hath he made mention of my name. Isaiah 49:1 (KJV).
5Before I formed thee in the belly I knew thee; and before thou camest forth out of the womb I sanctified thee, and I ordained thee a prophet unto the nations. Jeremiah 1:5 (KJV).
14Give them, O LORD; what will thou give? Give them a miscarrying womb and dry breasts. Hosea 9:14 (KJV).
16Samaria shall become desolate; For she hath rebelled against her God: They shall fall by the sword: Their infants shall be dashed in pieces, And their women with child shall be ript up. Hosea 13:16 (KJV).
13Thus saith the LORD; For three transgressions of the children of Ammon, And for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; Because they have ript up the women with child at Gilead, That they might enlarge their border: Amos 1:13 (KJV).
41And it came to pass, that, when Elisabeth heard the salutation of Mary, the babe leaped in her womb; and Elisabeth was filled with the Holy Ghost: 42And she spake out with a loud voice, and said, Blessed art thou among women, and blessed is the fruit of thy womb. Luke 1:41-42 (KJV).
28And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient; 29 Being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity; whisperers, Romans 1:28-29 (KJV).
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Manual Thermostat
Digital Manual Thermostat
Programmable Thermostat Manual
How does a Manual Thermostat Work?
B. Turner
A thermostat is a device used for temperature control within a home or commercial building. While newer programmable models offer advanced features and increased levels of efficiency, a standard manual thermostat is operated by hand using a built-in dial or switch. Homeowners can set the thermostat at the desired temperature so the heat or air conditioning switches on and off automatically, or simply turn heating and cooling or or off at the flip of a switch.
Different types of manual thermostat models operate using a variety of different systems. These include mercury indicators, metal contacts or digital systems. While any of these systems can be used to manually control heating and cooling units, each operates slightly differently, and offers its own unique advantages and disadvantages.
Man holding computer
A mercury-based manual thermostat contains a sealed tube filled with mercury gas. As the temperature in the home changes, the mercury heats up or cools down. After the mercury reaches a specific temperature, the thermostat sends a signal to the heating or cooling unit to switch on or off. Because of the dangers associated with mercury, many of these thermostats are being phased out for newer and safer models.
One of the most operating systems used in the manual thermostat is the bi-metal conductor. These units contain a strip or metal, which can be made from aluminum, tin, steel or some other material depending on the unit. As the room heats up or cools down, the metal reacts to the change in temperature. Once it reaches a specific set point, it sends an electric signal to the furnace or air conditioner to switch on or off. These units tend to be the most affordable, but are also slow to react to temperature changes. While they are effective in the long term, they offer fairly imprecise levels of temperature control.
A manual thermostat may also contain a digital control system, which tends to be the most accurate and reliable of the three systems. With a digital thermostat, an electric temperature gauge senses temperature changes in the room. When the temperature in the room falls above or below the set temperature, the thermostat sends an electric signal to the heating or cooling unit to bring the room's temperature to the desired range. While these units offer the highest level of control for users, they are also the most expensive.
While a manual thermostat is less efficient all around than a programmable unit, there are steps homeowners can take to operate these thermostats more efficiently. By setting the temperature a few degrees less than the desired level in the winter, or a few degrees higher in the summer, homeowners and building managers can significantly improve the efficiency of these thermostats while still maintaining a comfortable temperature range.
What is a Bimetal Thermostat?
What is a Setback Thermostat?
What is a Refrigerator Thermostat?
What is a Digital Thermostat?
What is a Programmable Thermostat?
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And I've seen people discovering a whole new identity when they work with their hands on our gathering places. In Pomegranate Center's model, insights are gathered from many people who are encouraged to think (and draw) about the future of their neighborhoods, to be creative and civic. The project's vision that starts with many ideas naturally selects the most valuable and meaningful. We then create designs to express that vision and invite community members to work alongside with us to construct the gathering place and fabricate its artifacts. We demonstrate the technique, and then we turn it over to volunteers. That is when the moaning begins: I am not an artist; I do not know what to do; I can't do this. And my response is: you see this brush? You see the paint bucket? You see the wall? Put the brush in the paint and start painting. Pick up this rock and place it in that wall. Pick up a chisel and start carving. And there is this special and glorious moment when it becomes clear that hands know what to do, even though minds seem to think otherwise. Before too long, the brush moves with ease and confidence; a rock finds just the right spot in the wall; and chisels start chipping away a design. And the mood changes from anxiety to satisfaction. When hands are involved, people start relating to each other differently: there are more smiles, a great feeling of satisfaction, and infectious pride.
Some of the happiest people I've known were people working with their hands. The moral is that hands are handy (ha-ha) for figuring things out and deepening our wisdom. As our existence becomes more virtual, hands may well lead us into new knowledge and insight. Artists will become guides in how societies can better balance the 'descending' and 'ascending' modes of gaining wisdom. Both are necessary.
I agree that hands and minds work together to make a perfect creation. The skills that we developed and honed can now be implemented into making new and useful products.