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Caleb Harper Biography
Caleb Harper is a Principal Research Scientist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Director of the Open Agriculture (OpenAg) Initiative at the MIT Media Lab. He leads a diverse team of hardware and software engineers, plant scientists, dietitians and educators in the exploration and development of future food systems. Harper's lab is developing an open-source agricultural hardware, software, and data common with the goal of creating a more distributed, transparent and collaborative food system.
Harper's academic research interests are in the areas of computationally based approaches to resource and biologic optimization in agricultural systems and products, and citizen science and project-based STEM and STEAM education programs.
Harper is a National Geographic Explorer, a member of the World Economic Forum (WEF) New Vision for Agriculture working group, a member of the Annenberg Foundation working group on food security, a board member of the open-source cellular agriculture non-profit New Harvest and an advisory board member of the USDA Coordinated Agricultural Projects (CAP) Smartpath.
Harper has been an invited lecturer at the Nobel Foundation, The Royal Society, United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization, United Nations World Food Program, and TED among others.
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Chocolate and Cardiovascular Health Tea
Heart disease is recognized worldwide as the leading cause of death. High cholesterol, hardening of the arteries, and harmful blood vessels because of high blood pressure are all factors related to cardiovascular health.
Medical experts and nutritionists recommend a heart-healthy diet and plenty of exercise to combat heart disease. Research also suggests that antioxidants may play a vital role in helping to support cardiovascular health.
epigallocatechin gallate, ECGC in green tea, and procyanidins epicatechin in the purest cocoa and the powerful antioxidant resveratrol have been studied extensively for their antioxidant value, especially for their benefit to heart health. Along with a healthy heart diet and exercise, research suggests that these flavonoids, if included regularly in your diet can help reduce the risk of cardiovascular disease.
Its power depends on its antioxidant value. antioxidant value is measured in ORAC (Oxygen Radical Absorbance Capacity Total). in pure raw cocoa has the highest ORAC value of 26,000 units and dark chocolate with a 13,120 ORAC. Green tea brand in 1220 ORAC and red grapes contain resveratrol has an ORAC of 750.
Heart Healthy The antioxidants in green tea, chocolate and resveratrol
Epidemiological studies show that these antioxidants help to improve the heart health in a number of ways. They basically work the same way to support healthy cardio-protective. 1.2
Studies show that flavonoids can help to dilate the brachial artery by 3.9% after the first 30 minutes from the time that is believed ingestion.3 Resveratrol antioxidant found in green tea, chocolate and resveratrol helps to stimulate the production of nitric oxide, which in turn helps relax blood vessels, increasing its expansion. This results in better flow and circulation. Poor circulation and circulation is the main reason for the progression of atherosclerosis, or hardening of the arteries of the heart.
These particular antioxidants also help protect the arteries by reducing cholesterol oxidation LDL leading to the formation of plaque in arteries. 4-7
ECGC in green tea, chocolate and resveratrol Procyanidin is thought to help block a blood protein that is responsible for inflammatory damage to the heart after myocardial infarction. These antioxidants help reduce death of heart muscle cells by reducing cell damage caused by oxidation. In addition, green tea is also believed to accelerate the recovery of patients who have suffered myocardial infarction. 8-15
Studies indicate regularly including these antioxidants in your diet can provide cardio-protective results. ECGC in green tea, epicatechin and procyanidin Chocolate Resveratrol and believes that all They reduce the risk of coronary heart disease by supporting good blood flow and circulation in the heart, helping to reduce oxidative damage caused by the activity of free radicals. 16-18, 20-22, 26
Belinda Linden, head of health information to the British Heart Foundation, said: "Tea Green has in the past, has been associated with a lower risk of coronary artery disease, claims that its high antioxidant properties can reduce the amount of cholesterol in the arterial wall. "
These antioxidants are believed to have anti-thrombotic properties. This means that it helps reduce clotting of blood, or thrombosis that can lead to stroke or heart attack.19, 23-25
Reseveratrol and antioxidants found in green tea and chocolate help reduce the risk of high blood pressure. According to the Archives of Internal Medicine (July 2004), there is a 46% risk lower risk of developing high blood pressure for people who drank ½ to 2 ½ cups of green tea per day for a year. The risk was 65% lower for people drank more than 2 ½ cups a day. 27-30
The reduction in bad cholesterol
Studies show that these antioxidants increase LDL receptors in the liver. These receptors bind LDL, bad cholesterol, and drive through the digestive system without synthesizing system. This helps to support regulation of normal cholesterol levels. 31-34
The combination of cocoa, green tea and resveratrol produced a powerful drink that supports heart health. CocoPure contains the three ingredients and no fat, no milk or sugar. It has an ORAC value of 5,250 for each 7.4 grams.
Evidence that the antioxidant flavonoids in tea and cocoa are beneficial for cardiovascular health. Curr Opin Lipidol. 2002 Feb; 13 (1) :41-9
Effects of cocoa flavanols on risk factors for cardiovascular disease, Asia Pac J Clin Nutr. 2008, 17 Suppl 1:284-7. PMID: 18296357
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Resveratrol, a phytoalexin present in red wine polyphenol, enhances expression and activity of endothelial nitric oxide synthase, Circulation. 2002; 106:1652-1658, American Heart Association, Inc.
inhibits epigallocatechin-3-gallate STAT-1 activation and protects cardiac myocytes ischemia / reperfusion-induced apoptosis. FASEB J. 2004 October 18 (13) :1621-3. Epub 2004 Aug 19.
Possible contribution of green tea drinking habits to the prevention of stroke. Tohoku J Exp Med. April 1989, 157 (4) :337-43.
Protective effects of green tea catechins in brain damage. Med Sci Monit. 2004 Jun; 10 (6): BR166-74. Epub 2004 1 June.
effects neuroprotective (-)-epigallocatechin gallate following hypoxia-ischemia induced brain damage: novel mechanisms of action. FASEB J. 2005 Feb; 19 (2) :258-60. Epub 2004 November
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Cardioprotective effect of resveratrol, a natural antioxidant derived from grapes, Cardiovascular Research 2000 47 (3) :549-555, doi: 10.1016/S0008-6363 (00) 00102-4, European Society of Cardiology
Mechanism of cardioprotection by resveratrol, a phenolic antioxidant present in red wine, Int J Mol Med July 2001, 8 (1) :3-17. PMID: 11408943.
Effects of green tea consumption on the development of coronary artery disease. Circ J. July 2004, 68 (7) :665-70.
Relation between green tea consumption and severity of coronary atherosclerosis in Japanese men and women. Ann Epidemiol. 2000 Aug; 10 (6) :401-8.
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Antithrombotic activities of green tea catechins and (-)-epigallocatechin gallate. Thromb Res November 1, 1999; 96 (3) :229-37.
Flavonoid intake and coronary mortality in Finland: a study cohort. Brit Med J 1996; 312:478-81. Hertog M, Kromhout D, Aravanis C, et al.
Dietary antioxidant flavonoids and risk of disease Coronary heart: the Zutphen Elderly Study. Lancet 1993, 342:1007-11. Hollman PC, Hertog MGL, Katan MB.
Role of flavonoids in the diet protect against cancer and coronary heart disease. Biochem Soc Transact 1996; 24:785-9. 5 D Rein, TG Paglieroni, T Wun, DA Pearson, HH Schmitz, R Gosselin, and CL Keen.
Cocoa inhibits platelet activation and function Am J Clin Nutr 2000, 72:30-5.
Dark Chocolate Improves Coronary vasomotor activity and reduces platelet reactivity, Circulation. 2007; 116:2376-2382, American Heart Association, Inc.
Cocoa inhibits platelet activation and function, American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, Vol. 72, No. 1, 30-35, July 2000, the American Society for Clinical Nutrition
Resveratrol attenuates TNF-induced activation of coronary arterial endothelial cells: the role of NF-B inhibition, Am J Physiol Heart Circ Physiol 291: H1694-H1699, 2006.
epigallocatechin gallate, a polyphenol of green tea, half a NO-dependent vasodilation using signaling pathways in vascular endothelium requiring reactive oxygen species and Fyn. J Biol Chem 2007 May 4, 282 (18) :13736-45. Epub 2007 Mar 15.
Prevention of hypertension, cardiovascular damage and endothelial dysfunction with green tea extracts. Am J Hypertens. December 2007, 20 (12) :1321-8.
The protective effect of habitual tea consumption on hypertension. Arch Intern Med 2004 July 26, 164 (14) :1534-40.
Cocoa reduces blood pressure and insulin resistance and improves endothelium-dependent vasodilation in hypertensive Hypertension. 2005, 46:398-405, American Heart Association, Inc.
Relation between green tea consumption to serum lipids and lipoproteins in Japanese men. J Epidemiol. 1996 Sep, 6 (3) :128-33.
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State Gallery of Contemporary Art –SPEL present the exhibition «In the Sea of the Setting Sun – Contemporary Photographic Practices and the Archive"
The State Gallery of Contemporary Art - SPEL presents the exhibition "IN THE SEA OF THE SETTING SUN - Contemporary Photographic Practices and the Archive", from 11 November 2022 until 25 February 2023. The exhibition invites 17 Cypriot artists based in Cyprus or abroad, whose work engages with contemporary photographic practices, focusing especially on the research and use of the photographic archive.
According to the exhibition curator, Dr Elena Stylianou:
"In the Sea of the Setting Sun explores the relationship between contemporary photographic practices and the concept of the archive. Although a term that has appeared in art discourse since the 1960s, "archive" is not only still widely used but also changing, while digital and emerging technologies have altered our relationship to it in imaginative ways. This exhibition begins with the notion of the archive as an open concept, activated by the "archival turn" in art, reflecting the poststructuralist shift from the archive-as-source to the archive-as-subject. The works in this exhibition negotiate the tensions between romanticized understandings of the archive as a dusty place where one can retrieve treasures of the past and connect with history, and the archive as a metaphor or concept directly linked to the construction of interdisciplinary knowledge, systems of political imagination, power structures, the formation of national consciousness, and patterns of exclusion. The artists included in this exhibition explore the concept of the archive through the photographic medium and its multiple intersections with video, sculpture, painting, printmaking, sound and performance; some do so humorously and playfully; some approach it with the diligence of a researcher or an archivist, while others vacillate between idiosyncratic narratives and official discourse.
The curator's work becomes part of these fields of experimentation, dialogue and research, itself contributing to the formation of yet another archive that insists on remaining open to expansion: an archive of contemporary artistic practices from Cyprus. As the question of origin and identity is complex and contested, particularly in relation to the island and its history, the exhibition ultimately aims to also serve as an open archive of the intersections of artistic practice, topos, identity and politics. In this process of exploring any archive as a space of possibility that is always in flux – a network of relationships prone to gestures that disrupt it – the words of French philosopher Jacques Derrida in his Archive Fever (1995) still resonate as relevant: "[T]here is no political power without control of the archive … [e]ffective democratization can always be measured by this essential criterion: the participation in and access to the archive, its constitution, and its interpretation."
Curator: Dr Elena Stylianou (Curator / IAPT President, Associate Professor in Art and Art Theory, European University Cyprus).
Alexia Achilleos, Marianna Christofides, Andreas G. Coutas, Haris Epaminonda, Mustafa Hulusi, Stelios Kallinikou, Nicolas Lambouris, Orestis Lazouras, Anastasia Mina, Christodoulos Panagiotou, Haris Pellapaisiotis, Nicos Philippou, Efi Savvides, Theopisti Stylianou-Lambert, Constantinos Taliotis, Maria Toumazou, Rahme Veziroglou.
The exhibition is being co-organised by the Cultural Services of the Deputy Ministry of Culture and IAPT (International Association of Photography and Theory, Cyprus), and opens in connection to IAPT's 6th International Conference of Photography and Theory (ICPT2022, 17-19 November 2022, Nicosia).
The opening will take place on Friday, 11 November 2022, 19:00, in the presence of the Deputy Minister of Culture, Dr Yiannis Toumazis.
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Notre Dame Football: Brian Kelly talks about the impact the ACC made on the Irish in 2020
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Whichever way you want to take the narrative, the one year admission of the Notre Dame football into the ACC has been a success for the league, and for the Irish. At 10-0, #2 in the country, and on a well-lit path to the college football playoff —it's hard to argue otherwise.
On Monday, Notre Dame Fighting Irish head coach Brian Kelly took questions from the media about a wide variety of topics. One of those questions was about the impact the ACC has had on Notre Dame and its national championship hopes.
"Well, we got a matchup with the team that's camped out in the playoffs with Clemson. So, when you're looking at your schedule and you know that Clemson's on it and now you've gotten the opportunity to join the ACC, obviously it puts you in a pretty good position because we were able to keep our schedule together by the ACC being gracious enough to bring us in this year and then with Clemson on it, it just all fell together really nicely for us. I think those are the two pieces, right? We had Clemson on the schedule, getting the invitation to come in to the ACC, you then start thinking okay, this could workout pretty nicely here, where they're coming to Notre Dame in November. I think the only dream that didn't come together is we were hoping for maybe 18 degrees and snow for Clemson and it was a mild night, but it worked out okay."
Because the Irish are in a conference, the path to the college football playoff runs through the ACC Championship game — and to play the Clemson Tigers for a second time this season. Playing a team a second time around presents new challenges — especially when it's a team of Clemson's caliber. Kelly was asked about these challenges:
"There's certainly pluses and minuses on that, right? I think you learn the strengths and weaknesses of each team. So, maybe what you lose in terms of tendencies and breaking tendencies, you pickup in getting a better in depth knowledge of where to attack and having compliments off of that. I really think it's a push on both sides. I think maybe this really comes down to, and more than anything else this becomes much more of a physical presence and playmakers making plays, and then the fundamentals. I think in those three areas, physicality, playmakers making plays, and then the fundamentals of the game, those will be on display for us in terms of how we prepare moving forward, than trying to get too involved in out-scheming. I don't think this game is about who out-schemes who. I think it comes down to those three elements that I just articulated."
The potential of winning an ACC Championship has the team motivated, and very excited.
"I know they're really excited about playing for a championship. This is what they've wanted. This has been the impetus for them to make all the sacrifices that they have made to get to this point. Living through this pandemic has been very difficult for them, so this is really what they've been chasing — the opportunity to win an ACC Championship and to win a National Championship. So, exciting? Yes, absolutely. This is this is what they have been shooting for. From the very first time that the university decided to open up campus, this has been their goal. There will be a lot of excitement, there's no doubt about that."
Of course, Brian Kelly first made a name for himself at Grand Valley State where the NCAA Playoffs provided him the chance at a couple of in-season rematches. Kelly will take those experiences in account over the next couple of weeks, and he explained what he learned from those games:
"You win all different ways. I'll give you an example. Everybody is talking about the double overtime game and what the score is. Don't get misled. Everyone thinks that this might be a shootout. I think we won that second rematch [Grand Valley State vs. Saginaw State], I think it might have been 14-7 and the first time we played it was a shootout. You learn so much about your opponent, and both both teams do, that sometimes when you play a second time, it makes it hard to move the football because the defense gets the edge in the second time. I'm telling you that right now. Those are probably the things that I've learned in the rematches, that the defenses tend to get a little bit of an edge against you because they have seen you and they know a little bit about where they can lean on you a little bit. That's why it's about physicality for me. It's about playmakers making plays and then fundamentals, because these games are generally going to be close, hard fought, and separated by one score and sometimes low scoring games."
OTHER IMPORTANT NOTES FROM THE PRESSER
Brendon Clark is having issues with a knee that he injured in high school and will have surgery in the offseason to clean it up. Drew Pyne (as we saw Saturday) is the #2 quarterback.
Health of the team is good, and there are no concussions to report.
Team will be on campus through the Christmas break
Bo Bauer had a contusion on Saturday, but should be able to practice on Wednesday.
Some high praise for a handful of freshmen including Chris Tyree, Michael Mayer, and Rylie Mills.
Gameday atmosphere was one of the biggest surprises for Kelly.
You can watch the entire press conference in the player below.


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About this degree
Students study core anthropological theories (including kinship, materiality/immateriality and embodiment) with emphasis on their relevance for understanding digital culture; gain skills training in digital ethnography, social media analytics, social data analysis, mapping, digital design, user research methodologies and applied digital anthropology; and develop an understanding of digital cultures through the ethnographic study of their social and regional impact in a global and comparative context, as well as a critical understanding of their imbrication with other cultural and social systems.
Students undertake modules to the value of 180 credits.
The programme consists of one compulsory module (45 credits), three optional modules (45 credits) and a research dissertation (90 credits).
Upon successful completion of 180 credits, you will be awarded a MSc in Digital Anthropology.
Please note that the list of modules given here is indicative. This information is published a long time in advance of enrolment and module content and availability is subject to change.
All students must take the following module:
Digital Anthropology
Students must take 45 credits in total from the recommended optional modules below or modules available within the department. Out of the total, up to 15 credits can be taken from appropriate options in other departments (with approval from the programme tutor and host department).
Advanced Topics in Digital Culture
Anthropology and Photography
Art in the Public Sphere
Anthropology of Social Media
Anthropology of Technology and Techniques
Current Themes in Material, Visual, Digital and Design Anthropology: Smart Phones
Design Anthropology
Digital Infrastructure: Materiality, Information and Politics
Documentary Film and the Anthropological Eye
Practical Ethnographic and Documentary Filmmaking
Social Construction of Landscape
The Anthropology of the Built Environment
For a complete list of modules available within the department or in other departments, please see UCL's Module Catalogue.
Dissertation/research project
All MSc students undertake an independent research project which culminates in a 15,000 word dissertation.
Students have the option to conduct ethnographic fieldwork as part of their dissertation research.
The programme is delivered through a combination of lectures, seminars, practicals and laboratory sessions. It includes a weekly seminar series, with invited international speakers. Assessment is through essays, methodology practicals, written examination and the substantial research dissertation.
For more information on additional costs for prospective students please go to our estimated cost of essential expenditure at Accommodation and living costs.
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For a comprehensive list of the funding opportunities available at UCL, including funding relevant to your nationality, please visit the Scholarships and Funding website.
The Digital Anthropology MSc prepares students for careers in government, industry, the not-for-profit sector and academia. We have strong links with non-academic partner organisations including the UK Government Digital Service, the Open Data Institute, NESTA, Facebook/Deepmind, The Ada Lovelace Institute, Centre for Data Ethics and Innovation, Inventi V, Stripe Partners, Human City and BMB Agency. Our former students have gone on to work for organisations such as NESTA, Open Knowledge Foundation, DELL, Big Fish Games, UK Home Office and New York City Council; have set up their own successful digital consultancies; and have gone on to study PhDs at universities such as UCL, University of Oxford, and the University of California (Careers data from Destination of Leavers in Higher Education Survey).
Digital Anthropology provides an important skillset for employers in the technology industries and government and is frequently listed as a desirable qualification in user research and digital design job specifications. The ability to understand technology use in context, delve behind data, understand the biases of technical systems, grapple with ethical questions raised by new technologies, and introduce a comparative understanding of how digital objects are used by people around the world, are uniquely provided by training in digital anthropology. Moreover the MSc programme also provides a strong theoretical grounding for those interested in continuing to a PhD.
Why study this degree at UCL?
The Digital Anthropology MSc at UCL was the first degree course in Digital Anthropology and remains the only masters level programme in Digital Anthropology in the world. It is unique in combining a world-class training in anthropology with the empirical study of the development and use of digital technologies in a diverse range of settings around the world.
UCL Anthropology ranks fourth in the QS World University Rankings by Subject 2020, making it the top ranked institution in London, and third in the UK and Europe for the subject. Our excellent results in the Research Excellence Framework 2014 also identify us as a leading Anthropology department in the UK, offering an exceptional breadth of expertise. The programme combines ethnographic methods, critical thinking and practical explorations of the digital world and encourages in-depth research to develop the next generation of understanding about the impact, consequences, aesthetics and politics of digital technologies and infrastructures.
Department: Anthropology
Application and next steps
Students are advised to apply as early as possible due to competition for places. Those applying for scholarship funding (particularly overseas applicants) should take note of application deadlines.
This programme requires two references. Further information regarding references can be found in our How to apply section.
There is an application processing fee for this programme of £90 for online applications and £115 for paper applications. Further information can be found at: ucl.ac.uk/prospective-students/graduate/taught/application.
The programme is suitable both for those with a prior degree in anthropology but also for those with degrees in neighbouring disciplines who wish to be trained in anthropological and related approaches to digital culture.
For more information see our Applications page.
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Growing vegetables in hanging planters can add beauty in your home.
2 What Kind of Vegetables Like Full Sun to Grow?
3 What Vegetable Plant Can Grow in a Gallon Milk Jug?
Hanging planters allow comfortable access to growing vegetable plants and ease of watering, and they simplify the process of picking fresh produce. While plants such as corn, potatoes and large carrots are best grown in-ground, hanging planters can support a wide variety of vegetables, including beans, peas, tomatoes, cucumbers, onions, lettuce, spinach, radishes and squash. As with any vegetable garden, a regular routine of maintenance is crucial to a successful harvest.
Select a site to hang the planters. Because most vegetable plants do best in full sun, a location that receives more than six hours of direct sunlight each day is ideal.
Mount or install a planter bracket or hook for each hanging planter, placing them at a level that will be comfortable for reaching the planters on a regular basis. Typically, eye level is a sufficient height for most hanging plants if their brackets or hooks are mounted on an outdoor wall. If mounting hooks on a ceiling, then add a chain to each hook to set its planter at eye level. Planter brackets and hooks generally include screws.
Select terracotta or coco-lined planters for your vegetables. Fill each planter with fresh, bagged potting soil that has not been used in other planters. Fill the soil to within 1 to 2 inches from the top rim of each planter to allow room for planting and watering.
Plant one to two vegetable seeds, or one vegetable plant seedlings, in the center of each planter according to the directions on the seeds' or seedlings' packages. Hang the planters on the brackets or hooks.
Water the planters well to moisten their soil thoroughly. Large planters require more water than small planters to dampen all of their soil. Test the soil with your finger to feel for dryness 1 inch below the soil surface. Water the planters' soil as often as needed when their soil is dry.
Apply a water-soluble fertilizer to your vegetable plants based on the kinds of plants you grow and the recommendations on the seeds' or seedlings' packaging. Not all vegetable plants need fertilizer, and most are treated based on their growth phase, such as fertilizing plants before they flower but not after they produce fruit. Water-soluble fertilizer is easier than other kinds of fertilizer for plants to absorb.
Don't crowd a planter with too many vegetable plants. Crowding decreases air circulation, which is important for lessening the chance of fungal diseases.
A wide variety of herbs as well as strawberries also can be grown in hanging planters.
Mount planter hooks or brackets only on secure walls or ceilings. The plants you grow can become quite heavy when loaded with ripening vegetables.
Avoid overfertilizing your plants, which can be harmful to their growth and fruit production. If bagged potting soil comes with plant feed mixed in, then little to no additional fertilizer may be needed.
Plastic and pretreated wooden planters should be avoided for growing edible plants to prevent their chemicals from seeping into the plants' soil and the plants.
Marfo, Amma. "How to Grow Vegetables Using Hanging Planters." Home Guides | SF Gate, http://homeguides.sfgate.com/grow-vegetables-using-hanging-planters-46789.html. Accessed 25 April 2019.


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Google Completes Motorola Mobility Acquisition
By Max EddyMay 22nd, 2012, 10:35 am
This morning, Google CEO Larry Page announced that the search giant had completed its acquisition of Motorola Mobility. According to the blog post, Motorola Mobility CEO Sanjay Jha will be stepping down to be replaced by Googler Dennis Woodside and that trading of Motorola Mobility stock will cease immediately. The deal, which was originally announced back in August, is reported to have cost google a cool $12.5 billion. That's some serious scratch to buy a failing phone-maker.
To give a little background, Google is only acquiring Motorola Mobility — the cellphone-making arm of Motorola, Inc. that was spun off from the company in 2008. Though it had made great strides in bringing the cellphone mainstream, and built those Razr phones that everyone had in the early 2000s, the company had fallen on hard times towards the end of the decade. Famously, it lost over a billion dollars in 2007 alone.
In August, Page announced that the deal would "supercharge" the Android OS, which Motorola had supported since early on. From that announcement:
This acquisition will not change our commitment to run Android as an open platform. Motorola will remain a licensee of Android and Android will remain open. We will run Motorola as a separate business. Many hardware partners have contributed to Android's success and we look forward to continuing to work with all of them to deliver outstanding user experiences.
Page went on to say that the acquisition would also strengthen Android's patent portfolio. This could be a key point, as the smartphone biz has been embroiled in various lawsuits as of late.
Today's announcement did not delve into the specifics of how the newly acquired business would be run, but focused on top-level staffing changes. Page lauded incoming CEO Woodside for his years at Google, where he helped expand Google's business across Africa, Eastern Europe, the Middle East, and Russia. Page also notes that while serving as the President of the Americas region, Woodside raised revenue t0 $17.5 billion — an increase of some $6.7 billion.
However, Page did end his announcement with this message, which may give a glimpse into how Motorola will fit into the future of the Android universe:
It's a well known fact that people tend to overestimate the impact technology will have in the short term, but underestimate its significance in the longer term. Many users coming online today may never use a desktop machine, and the impact of that transition will be profound–as will the ability to just tap and pay with your phone. That's why it's a great time to be in the mobile business, and why I'm confident Dennis and the team at Motorola will be creating the next generation of mobile devices that will improve lives for years to come.
Sort of sounds like Motorola will be taking the place of Google's attempt at selling smartphones directly. I wouldn't be surprised if we start seeing Google innovations rolling out first onto Motorola devices, setting it as the poster child for Android. It could also be an effort to solve the problem of forked Android devices — like the Kindle Fire — which use the operating system, but lack much (if any) Google integration.
Speculation aside, it should be very interesting to see where Motorola goes from here.
(Google Blog via Techmeme)
Motorola, who brought you the R2D2 phone
The RAZR is back, in smartphone form
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These 4 e-learning videos on DISC Leading (plus using ej4 to lead) lasting over 38 minutes covers using DISC to lead.
If you can get this figured out it's going to make you a better leader. It's going to make you have a better team that is going to get more done which obviously in the end makes you more successful.
Our view….These e-learning videos advise as to how best communicate and lead with the differing DISC personality styles of individuals that will make up your organisation and as such are very well researched and produced.


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Павулло-нель-Фриньяно () — муніципалітет в Італії, у регіоні Емілія-Романья,  провінція Модена.

Павулло-нель-Фриньяно розташоване на відстані близько 310 км на північний захід від Рима, 45 км на південний захід від Болоньї, 36 км на південь від Модени.

Населення —   (2014).
Покровитель — святий Варфоломій.

Демографія

Народжені
 Джованні Антоніо Кавацці (1621—1678) — чернець-капуцин, дослідник Африки.

Сусідні муніципалітети

 Гуїлья
 Лама-Моконьо
 Марано-суль-Панаро
 Монтекрето
 Монтезе
 Полінаго
 Серрамаццоні
 Сестола
 Цокка

Див. також
 Список муніципалітетів провінції Модена

Примітки

Муніципалітети провінції Модена

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Q: What is the purpose of the viewport meta tag? I am designing a mobile website and I first tried just to use a regular html page with a h1 tag. It looks very tiny so I searched and found out that I need to add these lines:
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width" />
<meta name="viewport" content="initial-scale=1.0, user-scalable=yes" />

After trying several web pages to understand it, I still am confused. Is the viewport an additional device-width that on for example iPhone is 960px? Even though the iPhone 4 is only 640px so it scales it down to emulate that size? So in order to prevent it from thinking the viewport is 960px it says that it is equal to the size of the screen?
If this is the case, does other browswers/devices such as Android running devices have different widths (other than 960px)?

A: Per the jquery mobile documentation, there is a bug for iOS with this:

There is a minor issue in iOS that doesn't properly set the width when changing orientations with these viewport settings, but
  this will hopefully be fixed a a future release. You can set other
  viewport values to disable zooming if required since this is part of
  your page content, not the library.

They recommend the follow line:
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1">

You also don't need the user-scalable either, the above line won't disable user zoom.

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HSU Adapts to Low Enrollment
Inside the multi-pronged battle against declining enrollment
Collin Slavey
Enrollment numbers are down and Humboldt State University is looking for ways to keep them stable. With just 6,900 students enrolled in 2019, administration and faculty are exploring recruitment strategies and program changes to stimulate growth on campus.
Vice President of Enrollment Management Jason Meriwether is on the front lines of the enrollment situation.
"We've lost well over 2,000 students in the last four or five years," Meriwether said. "It's a symptom of a few things. We're graduating larger classes and our graduation rate has gone up. So that does have an impact. Part two is from a recruitment standpoint. There have been a number of things in place that have changed this year to get us to be a viable recruiting option."
Humboldt State University enrollment has declined to around 6,900 students in 2019. | Graph adapted from HSU Office of Institutional Effectiveness
Meriwether divided the recruitment efforts into three elements. First, the school got rid of barriers to campus visitors like fees for preview day, parking and lunch. Second, the Division of Enrollment Management is focusing its efforts to draw students from local communities to the campus. Third, the school is using data-driven strategies to make enrollment and engagement decisions.
"We're using data analytics to mine our top feeders and where we're getting most of our applications," Meriwether said. "And we're using that type of data to make decisions about where we put our time and our energy for the maximum benefit for HSU. We want the community to know HSU is a first-choice university."
"I think that budget component has overshadowed the fact that we still have students here to serve."
Casey Park
Former chair of the University Center Board of Directors
Historically, HSU regarded low enrollment in a more negative light. A decrease in student enrollment was correlated with a decrease in campus revenue, and campus policies reflected the budget deficit. Casey Park, former chair of the University Center Board of Directors, offered some insight.
"I think that budget component has overshadowed the fact that we still have students here to serve," Park said. "And the narrative for the last two years was that we just didn't have enough."
To help staff make decisions based in reality rather than through hypothesis and conjecture, the Office of Institutional Effectiveness provides data and information to faculty and staff. Lisa Castellino, the associate vice president of the Office of Institutional Effectiveness, acknowledged student resources being out-of-date with the current demographic.
"We have a student demographic that has changed over the last five to seven years," Castellino said. "It has become more diverse. There are more first generation students. It's more low income. It's the institution's responsibility and priority, and it has been the last five to seven years, to help students, because going to college is complicated."
Thus, on-campus resources are evolving. With low enrollment, Molly Kresl and the Clubs and Activities office said they are being more deliberate and intentional with campus programming by engaging students in a way they prefer.
Meriwether and Enrollment Management said they are promoting HSU's educational experience to potential students in Humboldt, Siskiyou and Trinity Counties as a first choice rather than a backup. Beyond administration, academic departments are attempting to provide quality education for their students, regardless of enrollment numbers.
"Often during times of change is also our greatest opportunity for growth," Kresl said. "We stop doing things that really aren't working that we've just done forever because we've always done it that way, and we start saying, 'Okay, then why are we doing this?'"
6.4 magnitude earthquake shakes up life in Humboldt County
By Jake Knoeller A 6.4 magnitude earthquake struck the North Coast of California during the early hours of Tuesday morning. Humboldt County residents were heavily affected. Many had objects knocked off shelves, broken valuables or even major structural damage. "I
Web Editor Wednesday, December 21, 2022
Destroy Boys and Margaritas Podridas rock the Gutswurrack
By Ollie Hancock and Kiana Znika In masks and makeup, showgoers shook the barrier, moshed, and crowd surfed to queer punk anthems to kick off the Halloweekend in an alternative safe space. Destroy Boys, and Margaritas Podridas filled the Gutswurrak
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Humboldt queer community faces increased threat, following national trends
by Ollie Hancock and Camille Delany On Oct. 28, the Humboldt County Human Rights Commission (HCHRC) issued a press release condemning "incidents of hate speech and threats of violence against the LGBTQ community." This came in response to the disruption
Letter to the editor RE: Faculty union challenges TimelyMD
Letter to the Editor I am writing in response to the article published on 11/16/22, "Faculty Union Challenges TimelyMD." While I was frustrated by the one-sided tone of the article, as well as the unsubstantiated claims, and inaccuracies, within it,
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Roger Saturday, December 14, 2019
Fantastic! Hopefully the enrollment in this SJW disaster of a school keeps going down and it shuts down. Bunch of entitled chumps who scream and yell at anyone who disagrees with them.
wolfgangsterling Saturday, February 1, 2020
The Population of students is HIGHER Than when I went 2001 – 2005… and Back then it was Difficult to Find an Apartment to rent in Arcata. Difficult to find a Parking Space… and Difficult to Get the Classes I wanted because Other Students Had already Grabbed all available seats… SO, In My Humble Opinion… Fewer Students would be better… The Only People That Want More Students are the Corporate-Corporate" People That work in Administration… Smaller Class Sizes Would Be Great! I LOVED GOING TO HSU AND WOULD RECOMMEND IT TO ANYONE… Computer Science Graduate and Happy With What I Learned. I especially enjoyed Taking Journalism and Writing for the Lumberjack Newspaper. https://gvan42.blogspot.com/search?q=HSU
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Just been made aware of yet another 'incident' involving a certain other firework supplier on Samui… happened some time ago (yet another case of setting fire to a villa!) . Obviously the villas/resorts involved don't want the negative publicity to reflect badly on them (perfectly understandable seeing as how they are in no way to blame), and of course the self-proclaimed 'firework expert' obviously isn't going to tell anyone that he is responsible for setting fire to/damaging yet another building, and so he gets away with it… again… and again… and he is still putting people and property at risk! Unreal! He should stick to running his massage parlours! Sheeeesh!


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ECB President Mario Draghi: Fiscal Policy Expected On September
ECB President Mario Draghi looking for new stimulus
ECB President Mario Draghi doesn't cut rates during yesterday session.
Draghi set the stage to deliver another round of monetary stimulus in September to combat the euro area's severe economic slowdown.
"This outlook is getting worse and worse," Draghi said in Frankfurt on Thursday after a meeting of the ECB's Governing Council. "It's getting worse and worse in manufacturing, especially, and it's getting worse and worse in those countries where manufacturing is very important."
"Markets will keep speculating about the composition of the stimuli, and were somewhat disappointed with the lack of details," said Piet Christiansen, an economist at Danske Bank, which is expecting 20 basis points of rate cuts and more QE. "Still, it's a matter of when and how ECB will act, no longer if."
The German sentiment mirrors the mood across the eurozone as a contraction in manufacturing. Draghi said the risk of a broad recession is "pretty low" but he repeatedly noted that significant support is necessary.
"On the inflation front, we don't like what we are seeing," he said. "That's very important."
"If there were to be a significant worsening in the euro-zone economy, it's unquestionable that fiscal policy, a significant fiscal policy, becomes of the essence," he said.
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Iran Oil Piled Up In Chinese Ports: China Ready To Counterattack
Google "Terminated" China Prototype Dragonfly: Facebook Inc. Reacts
Central Banks Launch Growth Mission


or you can grab a bumper from the yard sand it and paint it. Should be cheaper, man I'd break that guy in half, some people have no respect for other people's property.
Yes, the junk yards are reasonable, especially if they will do something with incentive, I know this yard that has ALL YOU CAN CARRY parts for $45 entrance fee.
If the question was for me, I got the car for $100. It was my sister-inlaws car. The ac compressor froze up on her, so she went and bought another car. I just put a shorter belt on it to bypass the ac and got it running again $100 to transfer the title and registration.
Magnaflow exhaust, FRPP C springs, 18" Saleen rims.
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Through big thinking and big partnerships, the NEC Group's venue management is about far more than putting on a spectacular show.
For the NEC Group, the beating heart of any city is its major entertainment centre; where dreams are realised, battles are fought and won, and the world's most creative thinking and innovative technology is put on display.
Led by CEO, Paul Thandi, the NEC Group has distinguished itself as one of Europe's leading venue management companies by translating its big ideas into even bigger visitor numbers. Through its fresh approach to all aspects of the live event business and fostering global expertise with a local focus, NEC Group has welcomed exciting business opportunities that have revolutionised the venue management industry in a relatively short period of time.
Today NEC Group welcomes more than 4 million visitors to its venues each year and Paul attributes this growth to the diversification of the business in recent years, offering hospitality, marketing and ticketing services to name a few. His current focus is on doing everything really well to maintain the flow of visitors.


Efficient Sticky Notes Pro is a versatile post it note calendar software application that can help you organize and create post notes and reminders on your desktop. It's not quite as light as air, but it is far more environmentally and aesthetically friendly than covering the edge of your monitor with paper notes.
"... There are a lot of modules which could help to organize my routine business work. For me, it was - beside the fact that I need a calender / scheduler - important to have a password manager, an URL-manager. And in the meantime, it's very helpful to have a diary 2. ... I got very quick an answer to my e-mail concering problems with the software Please write down your comments on EfficientPIM. My answer: I recently bought two software packages for my routine work (LexiCan and EfficientPIM). ..."
"... To protect the file you need to enter the password and also you can import the predefined holidays. The software screen shows up option all over the screen. You can add contacts with all the details such as name, company, position, address, you can load image and fill in all type of information. ... For all the options the utility window appears to fill the required information. The event option shows the event according to the selected aspects like 7, 30 days, high importance, overdue, etc. ..."
For those people who do not have laptop computers, does the software allow the password list to be printed onto paper?
Yes, it can. Please click "Print" in "File" menu.
... I need this fixs or my money back, I like the organizer but I do not like to register it every time I need to open it.


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Physician, heal thyself (, ), sometimes quoted in the Latin form, , is an ancient proverb appearing in Luke 4:23. There, Jesus is quoted as saying, "Ye will surely say unto me this proverb, 'Physician, heal thyself': whatsoever we have heard done in Capernaum, do also here in thy country." Commentators have pointed out the echo of similar skepticism in the taunts that Jesus would ultimately hear while hanging on the cross: "He saved others; himself he cannot save". The shortened Latin form of the proverb, , was made famous through the Latin translation of the Bible, the Vulgate, and so gained currency across Europe.

Background
Similar proverbs with a medical theme appear in other Jewish literature. For example, "Physician, physician, heal thine own limp!" () can be found in Genesis Rabbah 23:4 (300–500 CE). Such proverbs also appear in literary Classical texts from at least the 6th century BC. The Greek dramatist Aeschylus refers to one in his Prometheus Bound, where the chorus comments to the suffering Prometheus, "Like an unskilled doctor, fallen ill, you lose heart and cannot discover by which remedies to cure your own disease."

Interpretation
The moral of the proverb in general, containing within itself also a criticism of hypocrisy, is to attend to one's own defects before those in others. This meaning is underlined in the fable of The Frog and the Fox that was attributed to Aesop.

See also

 The pot calling the kettle black
 List of Latin phrases
 The Mote and the Beam
 Woes of the Pharisees

References

Proverbs
Classical literature
Gospel of Luke
Sayings of Jesus
New Testament words and phrases
Hypocrisy


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Ebert's Top Movies of 2012
http://blogs.suntimes.com/ebert/2012/12/eberts_top_movies_of_2012.html
Lady and the Tramp * * *
I find myself making excuses for Lady and the Tramp. The plot is thin, but it is very cute and ideal for kids. Some adults that I spoke to liked the movie as well. It is enjoyable for the kids film that it is.
There are a couple of interesting songs like He's a Tramp and Bella Notte.
The Amazing Spider-Man (***); Total Recall (***)
For me it seems like a bit of an education to recently watch both The Amazing Spider-Man and Total Recall. Since both these movies are remakes, I find myself asking what do they bring to the experience that did not already exist the original films? The answer is not a whole lot. Both films represent a different vision and different back story that is darker and gloomier. Both movies lack some of the charm of the originals. The characters aren't as interesting to me but the action is more intense and there is more eye candy to look at.
If you hadn't seen either of the original movies then both films stand on their own pretty much fine. The problem is when you compare them with the original films then you wonder why did they bother doing a remake? (The answer is DVD sales.)
You could take all my comments and also apply them to the 2001 version of "The Planet of the Apes." This particular remake was O.K. but now has been mostly forgotten. On the other hand, the 2011 Rise of the Planet of the Apes was a triumph of film making because it wasn't so much a remake as it was a prequel that gave us a new and original story.
Best movie I never heard of: Cloud Atlas Extended Trailer #1 (2012) - Tom Hanks, Halle Berry, Wachowski Movie HD
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His dislike of the United States (which he has never visited, since he is afraid of airplanes) is so palpable that it flies beyond criticism into the realm of derangement. When the film premiered at Cannes 2003, he was accused of not portraying Americans accurately...
What von Trier is determined to show is that Americans are not friendly, we are suspicious of outsiders, we cave in to authority, we are inherently violent, etc. All of these things are true, and all of these things are untrue. It's a big country, and it has a lot of different kinds of people. Without stepping too far out on a limb, however, I doubt that we have any villages where the helpless visitor would eventually be chained to a bed and raped by every man in town.
http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20040409/REVIEWS/404090303/1023
"Killing Them Softly" continues as a dismal, dreary series of cruel and painful murders, mostly by men who know one another, in a barren city where it's usually night, often rainy and is never identifiable as New Orleans — not even by the restaurants.
http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20121128/REVIEWS/121129985
Ang Lee's "Life of Pi" is a miraculous achievement of storytelling and a landmark of visual mastery. Inspired by a worldwide best-seller that many readers must have assumed was unfilmable, it is a triumph over its difficulties. It is also a moving spiritual achievement, a movie whose title could have been shortened to "life."
In this 50th year of the James Bond series, with the dismal "Quantum of Solace" (2008) still in our minds, "Skyfall" triumphantly reinvents 007 in one of the best Bonds ever.
I've rarely been more aware than during Steven Spielberg's "Lincoln" that Abraham Lincoln was a plain-spoken, practical, down-to-earth man from the farmlands of Kentucky, Indiana and Illinois.
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Buyer reaction has been swift to the Federal Election result in the Sunshine State, as certainty returns to Queensland.
Swift buyer uptick off election result in Queensland
Sophie Foster
Brooke Llewellyn and her children Anna Hugh 5yrs and Claire Hugh 3yrs at their home which goes on the market Tuesday at 56 Balmoral St, Hawthorne. Picture: Annette Dew
Delayed contracts were signed and inspection bookings jumped in Queensland just hours after the Coalition was declared the winner of Federal Election 2019, some of the state's premier agents confirmed.
Vaughan Keenan of Grace and Keenan Newstead, who put a Hawthorne property under contract over the weekend for $3.305m, said the response was almost immediate.
"Sunday morning I had enquiries from people who had been sitting on their hands," he told The Courier-Mail. "It's that positivity that there is no change to all the housing policy which gives some relief and confidence to that end of the market."
"Literally on Sunday five sets of buyers have made appointments to see properties this week. It's very positive out there now."
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146 Virginia Avenue Hawthorne, sold for over $6m over the weekend.
Place Bulimba signed one of Brisbane's biggest 2019 residential deals this weekend with a riverfront property at 146 Virginia Avenue, Hawthorne selling for over $6m, agent Sarah Hackett confirmed. The property is on a coveted riverfront stretch that includes Australia's richest woman Gina Rinehart's Brisbane home,
"People just want confidence and a clear idea of what was going to happen," Mrs Hackett said. "But the market has been very strong this year because banks have started to lend and money is so cheap. It's never been better to borrow."
Sarah Hackett of Place Bulimba said buyers and sellers just wanted a clear idea of what was going to happen to the property sector.
Queensland Sotheby's International Realty chief executive Paul Arthur said there was "an almost immediate bounce".
"We've seen an immediate uptick in activity. We signed contracts on two properties on Sunday that were just teetering pending election outcome. There's certainty for the next three years. Obviously the election was fought on certain key items that had the opportunity to affect the housing market. Now we have clarity about that and buyers and sellers are moving forward."
That's good news for sellers like Brooke Llewellyn, whose home at 56 Balmoral St, Hawthorne, goes up for sale three days after the electoral result (Tuesday May 21). "We're selling so we want a bit more certainty in the market," she said. "It's been a great home, a big home and we've loved the area."
Her agent Cathy Richards of Place said the listing would go live Tuesday, and was confident it would "generate excellent interest" post election — potentially even attracting investors and first home buyers.
Place Estate Agents head Damian Hackett said there had been "so much uncertainty around how negative gearing, changes to capital gains laws and the general thought of increasing taxes".
"If Labor had come into leadership, we could've seen the biggest changes to the Brisbane property industry in decades. Now, a cloud has been lifted due to this result and there's more clarity on what to expect," he said.
Mr Hackett said "with the potential interest rate drop and the loosening of the banks, following requirements that were implemented mid last year, we can expect confidence to return to the property market.'
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Navy, Army decide to call off operation in Meghalaya's mine tragedy
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A team of rescuers from the Navy and Army Friday announced to leave the operation site in Meghalayas East Jaintia Hills district after 60 days of searching the 15 miners trapped in a 370 feetdeep illegal coal mine
Shillong: A team of rescuers from the Navy and Army Friday announced to leave the operation site in Meghalaya's East Jaintia Hills district after 60 days of searching the 15 miners trapped in a 370 feet-deep illegal coal mine.
The Navy and the Army informed local authorities about their decision to pack up and leave the operation on direction from their higher-ups, operations spokesperson R Susngi said.
However, the National Disaster Response Force (NDRF), which has been engaged in the rescue operation since the day of the tragedy on December 13 last, will continue with their services.
"There is no instruction for us to wind up the operation and we will continue with our work," Santosh Singh, Assistant Commandant of Guwahati-based NDRF team, told PTI Friday from the site.
The Navy will be going back on Saturday, the operations spokesperson said, adding the Army will also pack up and leave on receiving a direction from the higher authority.
The Navy and Army personnel along with rescuers of the NDRF had so far detected five bodies deep inside the mine and retrieved two of them, officials said.
The Navy arrived at the accident site at Ksan area of Lumthari village on December 31 last and lately operated their underwater remotely operated vehicle (ROV) to search the holes 24/7.
The district authority congratulated and saluted the efforts, dedication and the tremendous contribution of the agencies in the two month-long rescue operation for the trapped miners at Ksan.
District Deputy Commissioner FM Dopth also conveyed his deepest gratitude.
On Thursday, the second body was handed over to the relatives from Lumthari village, Susngi said. The highly decomposed body was identified by his family members from the clothes he wore, he said.
The companies involved in discharging water from the mines, including the Coal India Ltd, Kirloskar Brothers Ltd and KSB dewatered over 1 crore litres every day, he said.
The operation to rescue the miners is one of the longest in the country and involved multiple agencies, including the Navy, Army, NDRF among others.
The family members of each of the 15 miners have been given Rs 1 lakh interim relief each by the district authorities.
The mine disaster had shocked the nation. Media reports highlighted the cash-rich illegal coal mining in East Jaintia Hills district of Meghalaya in violation of a ban imposed by the National Green Tribunal in 2014.
The Supreme Court is monitoring the development and the rescue operations on a weekly basis.
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Why Animal Farts Are A Dangerous Thing !
Posted on May 15, 2017 by Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)
China now eats twice as much meat as the United States, which is far too much on both counts !
"It is not possible to feed everyone so much meat," said Wen Tiejun, the dean of Renmin university's Agriculture school a leading advocate of rural reform. "People must simply eat less (meat)".
Over the last 30 years, the Chinese demand for meat has quadrupled, according to figures from the USDA. China alone now eats a quarter of the world supply, approximately 71 million tons a year.
With lots more money in their pockets, the majority of Chinese citizens have turned away from their traditional diet of rice and vegetables, flavored with only a small quantity of meat. They now embrace Western diets and have become fast food junkies. But Chinese farmers are unable to keep pace with the demand, and imports of meat, breeding stock and animal feed have risen dramatically.
Thanks to Philip at CIWF (England) – https://www.ciwf.org.uk/
The average Chinese still only eats half the meat that his American counterpart does. But American and European meat consumption has now started to fall, while it is still rising strongly in the developing world, of which China is considered one. Leading water scientists have also issued warnings that the world may have to switch almost completely to a vegetarian diet over the next 40 years to avoid catastrophic shortages.
So what is China doing about it ? – New dietary guidelines could reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 1 BILLION tonnes by 2030, and could lessen country's problems with obesity and diabetes.
The Chinese government has outlined a plan to reduce its citizens' meat consumption by 50%, in a move that climate campaigners hope will provide major change in the effort to avoid runaway global warming of the planet.
New dietary guidelines for citizens drawn up by China's health ministry and only released once every 10 years recommend that the nation's 1.3 billion population should consume between 40g to 75g of meat per person each day. The measures are designed to improve public health but could also provide a significant reduction to global greenhouse gas emissions.
The Chinese Communist party has released a series of new public information adverts encouraging Chinese citizens to consume less animal flesh each day to help the environment. If the new guidelines be followed, carbon dioxide equivalent emissions from China's livestock industry would be reduced by 1 billion tonnes by 2030, from a projected 1.8 billion tonnes in that year.
14.5% of planet-warming emissions emanate globally from the keeping and eating of cows, chickens, pigs and other meat animals – this is more than the entire global emissions from the transport sector. Livestock produce and release methane, a highly potent greenhouse gas. Land clearing and the use of fertilizers also release large quantities of carbon into the atmosphere.
Tackling climate change involves many routes – scientific judgement, political decisions, entrepreneurial support, but in the main, it still very much relies on involvement of the general public to change their meat consuming behaviour. Every single meat eating person around the globe has to believe in the low-carbon concept and slowly adapt to it by making changes to their diet and cutting down on, or preferably eradicating, meat consumption.
Meat has gone from a rare treat to a regular staple part of daily diet for many Chinese people. In 1982, the average Chinese person each year ate just 13kg of meat, nicknamed "millionaire's meat" due to its scarcity. Beef consumption was almost non existent.
But the emergence of China as a world economic power has radically altered the diets of a newly wealthy population. The average Chinese citizen now eats 63kg of meat a year, with a further 30kg of meat per person expected to be added by 2030 if nothing is done to stop or amend the trend. The new guidelines set out in government guidelines would reduce this to between 14kg and 27kg a year – a reduction of more than 50%.
China currently consumes 28% of the world's meat, including half of its entire pork capacity. Animals are reared in and spend their short lives in utterly terrible conditions – read and see much more from Phil at CIWF (England) at: https://serbiananimalsvoice.com/2017/04/19/england-china-ciwf-england-work-on-all-fronts-to-improve-pig-welfare-in-china-with-great-results/
But, China still lags behind more than 12 other nations in 'per capita' meat consumption, with the average American or Australian consuming twice as much meat per person compared to China.
According to a new report by Wildaid – http://wildaid.org/ – the predicted increase in China's meat consumption would add an extra 233m tonnes of greenhouse gases to the atmosphere each and every year, as well as put an increased strain on the country's water supply, which is already blighted by polluted and denuded rivers and groundwater.
The report also warns that unchecked Chinese meat consumption will degrade its arable land and much worsen the country's problems and costs relating to obesity and diabetes. Already (2017) an estimated 100 million Chinese people have diabetes, more than any other country.
Research released by the think tank Chatham House in 2014 predicted that China alone is expected to eat 20 million tonnes more of meat and dairy a year by 2020 and warned that "dietary change is essential" if global warming is to not exceed the 2C limit eventually imposed at the Paris climate accord recently.
Scientists at the Oxford Martin School found that the widespread adoption of vegetarianism around the world could bring down greenhouse gas emissions by nearly two-thirds – https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/mar/21/eat-less-meat-vegetarianism-dangerous-global-warming .
China's potential move to cut meat consumption in half would not only have a huge positive impact on its public health, it would also be a massive step towards drastically reducing carbon emissions and reaching the global goals set out in the Paris agreement. Animal agriculture emits more than all transportation combined. Reducing demand for animal-based foods is essential if we are to limit global warming to 2C as agreed at COP21.
Despite the Chinese government's commitment to reducing meat consumption by 50% or more, it may be very difficult to convince the country's big spending, rising middle classes to cut down on their meat intake. There are strong cultural traditions attached to the eating of many animals, especially pigs, which will be difficult to change.
Recently, Chinese companies have been buying farms in the United States and Australia to provide feed for their country's dairy and beef industries. In late 2013 a Chinese company, (Shenghui), purchased the largest US pork producer, named 'Smithfield Foods', to help keep up with demand.
China's demand for meat could potentially continue to grow and support hundreds of thousands of jobs in the US meat industry. Sounds good for the USA; but also think; from a climate perspective, the methane produced by the animals will still continue to be created, but it will be shifted to the United States rather than remain in China. We wonder what President Trump would have to say about this if he cared – but then does he not think climate change is a non-reality invented by the Chinese ?
Maybe he should think again, if he is capable.
– By Mark
– compiled from various sources.
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Vicki Crane, a Missional Impact mentor and expert in leadership excellence, shows how asking the right questions can help you know what you're facing, navigate conflict, and become culturally savvy.
Good leaders are great listeners. Inviting feedback from others helps you identify trouble spots, set priorities, develop empathy, build connections, and more. With these valuable benefits, the skill of asking questions should be honed throughout your career. When we asked Vicki Crane, a Missional Impact mentor, to share specifics from her own experience, she quickly identified three key areas where good questions have helped her and can help you, too.
Those conversations helped me understand the current challenges and focus my efforts on what both the people and the organization needed most. I learned so much through listening. For example, I had thought that it would be a great idea to expand the existing pharmacokinetics program and begin a cardiac pharmacokinetics program. But, in my meeting with the physician head of cardiology who was also the section head of internal medicine, he told me, "Actually, what would be most helpful for us is if pharmacy could get the drugs to the floor on time." Obviously, information like that speaks into priorities! The best drug in the world dosed in exactly the right way does absolutely no good for the patient if it's not there to use. Because I had listened, I knew what would serve the medical system best. That helped create goodwill and positive volition for changes that needed to be implemented later. Even if you're not new to your position at work, asking those three simple questions at least once a year is a good practice.
When there is disagreement, asking questions can help you handle the situation biblically. When colleagues did something upsetting or unhelpful, I often wanted to resolve the situation. But it can be hard to resolve a disagreement and still follow the command of Philippians 2:14: "Do everything without grumbling or arguing." Not complaining or arguing does not mean that you just let negative behaviors slide without saying anything.
I personally have found asking questions to be a great tool when there is disagreement. I can engage most biblically when I imagine myself in the other person's shoes and not just ascribe negative motives to them. I ask them questions to try to get a sense of their thought processes and priorities so that we can come up with a mutually agreeable solution. Trying to understand their perspective helps resolve problems without turning things into an argument.
As it turns out, this man was a Muslim and in the middle of Ramadan — the annual month-long fast of Islam. This man felt I had asked him to behave immorally and contrary to his beliefs. But if I hadn't asked why and then listened to his perspective, I might have just written him off as rude or unfriendly. It's always good to slow down and consider what the other person might be thinking or feeling and why.
Vicki Crane, a pharmacist-MBA, held progressive leadership positions in pharmacy, systemwide administration, and patient safety. Her practice focus included patient safety, transforming care through behavior changes, coaching and mentoring the leadership team, process redesign and technology innovation, and cost-effective, outcomes management. Vicki retired in 2013 but makes her expertise available in Missional Impact's Mentor Network. | Read Vicki's full bio. | Send a question to Vicki.


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Julia Letlow wins Louisiana's 5th Congressional District special election
By Ethan Rice
In Federal
Julia Letlow (R) defeated 11 other candidates to win the special election for Louisiana's 5th Congressional District on March 20. Letlow received 65% of the vote, followed by Candy Christophe (D) with 27% of the vote. Under Louisiana's majority-vote system, Letlow won the election outright by receiving more than 50% of the vote.
Julia Letlow is the widow of Rep.-elect Luke Letlow (R), who was elected to represent the district on Dec. 5, 2020. Luke Letlow died from complications related to COVID-19 on Dec. 29. Julia Letlow has worked in marketing and as an administrator at the University of Louisiana Monroe and Tulane University.
Before the 2020 general election, Louisiana's 5th District was represented by Ralph Abraham (R), who did not seek re-election. The district was last represented by a Democrat in 2004 when Rep. Rodney Alexander (R) changed his partisan affiliation from Democratic to Republican. In the 2020 presidential election, Donald Trump (R) defeated Joe Biden (D) 65% to 34% in the district.
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Ethan Rice is a staff writer at Ballotpedia. Contact us at editor@ballotpedia.org.


When a company declines to insure us, we can feel rejected. It doesn't hurt as badly as being rejected as a person, but it still is not a pleasant experience. First of all, we do know more about our bodies than the insurance company. We feel good and function every day at full capacity. So how can they say that we are not insurable? I understand the problem. I was declined for insurance coverage three times. In the past ten years since I was declined coverage, I have had no sick days when I was out of the office, I was never incapacitated, nor did I run up any unusual medical bills. So who are they to say that I was uninsurable? That I was an insurance risk? I felt they were not being fair.
But insurance companies do not really care how I feel or my opinion about my good health. They consider past ailments, my age, height and weight, etc. Based on their own experience with applicants similar to me (and they deal with thousands of applicants and clients), they determine if insuring me is a risk. If I am not a risk based on their experience with people who are similar to me and have had ailments similar to mine, they will provide me with an insurance quote.
So when an insurance company declines insuring you as an acceptable risk, don't take it personally. They look at one factor only – risk! If the risk is acceptable, they will insure you.


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The Ventura College Promise — the brainchild of then-College president Dr. Robin Calote in 2006 — is a first-year program sponsored by the Ventura College Foundation that is designed to remove the economic barriers to education for graduating Ventura County high school seniors, improve the college-going rate in Ventura County and enhance the quality of the workforce in Ventura County.
The "Promise" is that qualified Ventura County high school graduates will have their enrollment fees covered during their first year of attendance at Ventura College. This same promise is extended to students who have successfully completed their GED requirements or who have completed the coursework for high school in the current year, but have not yet passed their exit exam. Expenses covered by the Ventura College Promise include the per-unit cost of classes, the Student Rep fee, the Health fee and the Student Center fee.
The money that supports the Ventura College Promise comes from the space rentals at the Marketplace, a 700-vendor weekend open-air market hosted by the Ventura College Foundation on campus. Since 1985, the Marketplace has raised more than $10 million in program support.