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Land, Sea, and Air – LifeLine Paramedic is Rescue Ready
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A firefighter, paramedic, and veteran Marine, Matt Davidson is always ready and willing to respond to his call of duty.
Listening to Matt Davidson talk about his life is a little like watching a movie – there's the action of "Black Hawk Down," the courage of "Backdraft," and the urgency of "Men of Honor."
This is a guy who swims in murky waters to search for victims and evidence; flies to remote locations to provide emergency care; and rides in ambulances and fire trucks to offer life-saving assistance. He's also a fanatic about riding dirt bikes and races professionally – competing in the most challenging off-road distance courses - the Baja 500 and Baja 1000.
Seven years ago, at the age of 38, Davidson joined IU Health LifeLine as a paramedic. Even before that he was living a life worthy of a Pierce Brosnan or Tom Hanks portrayal. Thirty days after he graduated from Greenwood Community High School, Davidson followed in the footsteps of both of his grandfathers and joined the service. During his six-year stint as a Corpsman medic, he completed combat diving school and was part of a Special Forces unit assigned to amphibious missions. Those included deployments to Somalia and to South and Central America.
"Working in reconnaissance, we were the forward eyes and ears of the battalion. They'd drop us three miles out, we'd swim up to shore and sit and watch and listen for hours," said Davidson. "We'd go in the rivers and canals sometimes looking for clandestine drug labs. We were always wet and usually wet and cold. I've been in the Suez Canal, the Panama Canal, and across the equator. I like to tell people I've traveled all around the world and come back to the same spot."
When he returned to Indiana, Davidson enrolled at IUPUI and pursued a degree in paramedic science. He worked for a time with a private ambulance service and then joined the Greenwood Fire Department where he worked his way up the ranks to lieutenant. His role on the fire department has included rescue dives; handling of hazardous materials; emergency extrication; and various medic duties.
He has been on evidence search dive teams for high profile cases involving missing college students, Alzheimer's patients, and teenage boys. His dives are mostly local and he serves as back up for the Indianapolis Fire Department in southern portions of Marion County. He has been called to Lamb Lake in Johnson County and Lake Lemon in Monroe County.
"It's all been a progression. I start my 20th year with the fire department pension in February and I have a well-rounded and varied career," said Davidson. "Coming out of the Special Forces you have a good radar for people. That's helped me in my role with LifeLine. It's the best with EMS and transport and there's a lot of autonomy in the field. It involves a lot of thinking on your feet and problem solving."
When he's not on call, Davidson enjoys spending time with his family on their 119-year-old Morgan County farm. Seven years ago he married Stacie, who works in EEG at IU Health Methodist Hospital. He also has two sons from a previous marriage – Zeke, a freshman at West Virginia University studying mechanical engineering; and Zane, 14. Last year Zane ended three and half years of leukemia treatments at Riley Hospital for Children. He is now in remission.
"It puts a whole new perspective on life when you see kids go through that," said Davidson. "It has made me want to be a better leader, a better provider, a better caregiver and it's definitely made me more sensitive on the job. I just want to be up for the challenges and recognize that people are often depending on me on their worst days."
-- By T.J. Banes, Journalist, IU Health.
Reach Banes via email tfender1@iuhealth.org.
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When guests come to your home, you want to make an instant impression upon them. You want these guests to take one look at your home, and to then know that you and your family are people of refined taste and style. Naturally, creating this impression begins at the beginning: with your entryway.
Although it is ultimately not the most important part of your home's design, you should consider how the entryway can set the tone – so to speak – for the other living spaces that comprise your home. With a properly designed entryway, you'll be able to signal to guests what kind of home they can expect beyond. For example, if your home is exceptionally contemporary, then you'll want an entryway that foretells of this design concept, with minimal styling and striking décor.
Regardless of what style your entryway (and home) adopts, having a beautiful entryway is always a wonderful thing for a home. That's why we've put together this list of 25 jaw-dropping entryways. In the examples that follow, you're going to see some extremely luxurious home entrances that cover the gamut in terms of style and functionality. Some of these are perfect for luxurious and large homes, whereas others are perfect for a family home. In any event, you simply need to see these beautiful home entryways!
The patterned stained hardwood floors used in this beautiful entryway really make a statement.
In this entryway, anchor-shaped wall hooks are used in order to introduce guests to the home's coastal styling.
A wonderful level of visual contrast is achieved here thanks to the curved lines of the center table and the squared lines elsewhere.
Combined with the pure white of the walls, the reclaimed wood floors really create a classic look for this jaw-dropping entryway.


I dag vil jeg vise ett konfirmasjonskort.
Kjekt å ha noen fargelagte trykk liggende, for da går det så mye fortere å lage kortet.
Ikke så mye fargelegging på dette da, men litt farge gjør seg.
Today I will show you a confirmations card.
I had a pre-colored image on my desk, then it goes mush faster to make a card.
And on this one it isn't much to color, but a litle color makes fine.
Begge innsidene har blitt pyntet denne gangen.
Jeg har ett vers fra Stempelglede på den ene siden.
Both insides have got paper this time.
I have a vers from Stempelglede on one side.
Noen rester på baksiden, med mitt personlig stempel.
Some scraps on backside, with my personal stamp.
Kortet fra andre vinkler + detaljer.
The card from other angles + details.
Her vises glansen i mønsterarket.
Here is the gloss in patterned paper.
Thanks for visiting me !
Hi Berit this is absolutely beautiful, wow, wow, wow, those papers, flowers, pins and image look stunning, excellent creation.
Hi Berit! This is just SO pretty. You really did a wonderful job on this card. Everything about it is beautiful. Thanks so much for sharing it with us in this week's challenge at Word Art Wednesday. We are SO blessed to have you play along and share your lovely art with us. Hope you're having a great week.
This is a gorgeous card, Berit, I love the bits and pieces you added to your card! Thanks for joining us this week for the Papercraft Star "Use a stamp" challenge.
This is absolutely beautiful Berit! Thanks so much for joining us at The Sisterhood 'FLOWERS' challenge and please come back again soon!
Wow, this is beautiful. I love the image and the flowers are just the perfect enhancement. Thanks so much for playing along with us in the Sisterhood of Crafters.
Oh, Gosh, this is just so very beautiful. So soft, I love the design, the flowers and the pins. The colors are great and the paper piecing is amazing. You made an awesome creation. Thanks so very much for entering your beautiful creation in The Crafty Pad Challenge this week. Hope to see more of your cards here.
Cute card! Love the colors and the image.
Thanks for playing along with us at WAW.
What a stunner! Those pins are fabulous and your flower is lovely =) Thanks for playing along with The Sisterhood of Crafters' May Flowers Challenge!
Stunning Card. Love the flowers. Thank you so much for playing with us over at Sassy Studio Designs Dare to Be Sassy Thursday.
Stunning card, Berit. Love all the gorgeous DPs and lovely image. Thanks for sharing it with us at Craft Your Passion Challenges.
This is so beautiful and elegant... lovely layout and paper choices too !
Thanks for joining in this week at Stamptatcular.. GOOD LUCK!
This is so elegant. Love the vintage look. Thanks for playing along with us at DTBST this week.
What a beautiful image & sush a lovely card!
Thanks so much for playing along at The Crafty Pad this week in our We're Girly Girls (Use Pink & Bling) Challenge!
Love your project! The image is absolutely gorgeous and your subtle coloring makes it look very romantic and vintage! Thanks for playing with us this week at Craft Your Passion Challenges!
gorgeous card....love all the details. The stamens are stunning and great colors!
A lovely card, so elegant. Thanks for joining us at CCC.
So Pretty! Love the Design! Thank you so much for joining us at Love to Create Challenge this week!! Come back and play with us again soon!


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Compare and contrast two change theories, and determine which theory makes the most sense for implementing your specific EBP - Nursing Papers
Compare and contrast two change theories, and determine which theory makes the most sense for implementing your specific EBP
I NEED A POSITIVE COMMENT BASED IN THIS ARGUMENT..BETWEEN 100-120 WORDS
Compare and contrast two change theories, and determine which theory makes the most sense for implementing your specific EBP project. Why? Has your mentor used either theory, and to what result?
The first change theory is Lewin's Change Theory. This theory is very widely used in nursing. This theory has three stages the unfreezing stage, moving stage, and refreezing stage. The theory has driving and resistant forces and for the theory to be successful the driving forces have to overcome the resistant forces. The other change theory is Rogers' Change Theory. This theory has 5 stages and they are awareness, interest, evaluation, implementation and adoption.(Oguejiofo,2017) It is successful when nurses who ignored the proposed change earlier adopt it because of what they hear from nurses who adopted it initially. Both of these theory's are widely used in nursing and both require nurses that want the change or who are willing to make the change. My mentor has used the Lewin's change theory recently. The hospital already has hourly rounding but she just introduced new paperwork that has to be signed every hour. The unfreezing period she just explained how the new way will be better and she showed the nurses how it will be easier because the techs can also sign the sheet. The moving stage she let the nurses tell her how they feel about the whole situation and letting them express what they think will work. The final stage is refreezing and during this stage she went around for the first week making sure the nurses get this in their daily habit. I believe this theory makes more sense to my EBP because there are a lot of nurses that will be the driving force to make this happen and less people being the resistant force. So, it will be more likely to succeed.
Oguejiofo,N. September 26, 2017. Change Theories in Nursing. https://bizfluent.com/about-5544426-change-theories-nursing.html

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By popular demand from candy lovers and parents alike, Nextdoor's Treat Map is back for another year of tricks and treats!
Halloween is the perfect time to head out into the neighborhood and celebrate with neighbors, whether it's with an incredible haunted house or king-sized candy bars.
To honor one of the most neighborly holidays of the year, Nextdoor is launching the Halloween Treat Map for the second year in a row to give Nextdoor members an insider's guide to the best streets for treats in your neighborhood.
Nextdoor's Halloween Treat Map lets you mark your home with a candy corn icon to let your neighbors know you will be giving out candy. We're taking the guesswork out of Halloween to ensure you find the best, most convenient route possible for your trick-or-treaters, whether you're on your computer or headed out into the neighborhood with Nextdoor for iPhone and Android.
And new this year: haunted houses! If you're turning your home into a haunted house, you can mark it on the map so neighbors can plot the scariest route around the neighborhood.
Nextdoor members can sign in to their account. If you are not yet a member, you can sign up and verify your address to ensure you don't miss out on the fun: nextdoor.com/treat.
From all of us at Nextdoor, we hope you have a very happy and safe Halloween. Enjoy the treats!
The Halloween Treat Map is a great idea, but having an option to add a message such as "I will be home to give out candy until 6pm only" would be a great addition. The options now are just yes or no. Thanks!
This app uses the default home locations from another source such as google maps. Its horrible that we cannot adjust our homes locations. I just joined and our houses are clumped together. I feel bad because I just sent an invite to my neighborhood and they will experience the same default map with their homes not in the right location. NEXTDOOR should allow users to modify house locations etc.
I love the holiday maps! Wish you had this option for pinning houses for community wide garage sales.
Is there a way to print the treat map? Can you add a print icon?


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Monero's former maintainer released from US custody
"I am actively working with my attorneys on a way to return to South Africa as soon as possible so I can address this matter and get it behind me once and for all," said Riccardo Spagni.
Riccardo Spagni, the former lead maintainer of the privacy coin Monero, has reported that United States officials have released him after more than a month in custody.
In a Tuesday tweet, Spagni said he was working with his legal team to return to South Africa to address the allegations against him. Authorities in the U.S. arrested Spagni in August on fraud charges tied to alleged crimes that occurred in South Africa between 2009 and 2011 at a company called Cape Cookies.
"I am actively working with my attorneys on a way to return to South Africa as soon as possible so I can address this matter and get it behind me once and for all," said Spagni. "That's what I've always wanted to do."
The South African government had been seeking Spagni's extradition on the charges, alleging he "used false information" to create invoices which inflated the prices for certain goods and services and had funds transferred to a bank account he controlled. If convicted, he could face up to 20 years in prison.
Tuesday marks the first time Spagni has tweeted since July, though someone — presumably his lawyers — did retweet a statement posted to his wife's Twitter account shortly after his arrest. The legal team claimed the arrest was on account of "his alleged failure to appear in court, and nothing more."
Related: Liquidators seek expanded probe of alleged South African Bitcoin scheme
The lead maintainer of the privacy coin Monero (XMR) until December 2019, Spagni has been involved in the crypto space for more than a decade. Many know him for his colorful social media posts and wry humor on cryptocurrency projects and industry figures.
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The Dodgers played in Brooklyn from 1883 to 1957 — in 1883 in the Eastern League, 1884 to 1889 in the American Association, and from 1890 onward in the National League. And Wright has nearly always disappeared in the clutch — not that the Mets have had very many big games since September 2008. The National League East is likely to be tough again. The postgame ceremony was nice, with most of the living '69 Mets, and most of the '86 Mets, on hand, though it's still hard to think of Yogi and Willie Mays as Mets. Injuries are still an issue for stars like Alex Rodriguez, Mark Teixeira, Carlos Beltran and CC Sabathia. Dysfunction Level: 6. If the injuries clear up, and everybody plays the way they were expected to, this could drop to a 2 — through September, and October would be likely. Dysfunction Level: 9 — and it hasn't been lower than an 8 since Jeff Van Gundy was still the head coach, nor is it likely to be in the near future.
Aside from Wright, the team doesn't hit enough: Too many players are in the Dave Kingman mold of hitting the ball far when they connect, but striking out enough to still be a liability. Easily recognizable with his swept-back hair and bulging calf muscles, Grealish carries the ball superbly and with such pace and directness that it is no surprise he is constantly fouled. "City are the best team in the country with a manager considered to be the best in the world — it's a dream come true to be part of this club," Grealish said in a team statement. If the Dolans and The City don't come to some sort of agreement soon, it may come to that. He might come into your section and razz you a bit, but, since he's supposed to be silent, it'll be limited to gestures. The American League East is as balanced as it's been since the late 1980s; there is no creampuff team in the Division.
Overall, the team is among the oldest in the 4 major North American sports leagues. The cloud of A-Rod's PED use still hangs over the team. The team's finances are still in disarray: The chances of signing, say, Justin Verlander or Mike Trout when their contracts run out are remote at best. Strange game, soccer/football/futbol. I'm still glad I got into it. Since he got that role, 14 years ago, the Knicks have won exactly one Playoff series. 2. New York Knicks. 3. New York Mets. The Mets have David Wright who, in the wake of Jeter's retirement and A-Rod's suspension, is now, beyond any question, the biggest baseball star in New York. Injuries are healing. Dellin Betances looks ready to step in as closer in place of David Robertson. It's impossible to know for sure if Betances is ready for the closer role until he's had a few outings in it.
The one major injury, to starting pitcher Matt Harvey, is healing, and he should be ready to go for Opening Day. And the team needs more goals, and having Oates, one of the great assist machines in NHL history, on the staff can only help so much. After the match statistics indicated that running away from Rooney in this field reached as much as 11 kilometers, is the largest player audience, so running at force has also been one of Rooney's label. I realize he was 64, but Julia Stevens wasn't that much further off the plate a week earlier, and she was 91! The Futera UNIQUE 2015 World Football specification includes a Memorabilia Card in every pack or a '1 of 1' Printing Plate Production Set or a '1 of 1' gold-plated framed Autograph card. "His natural talent together with his commitment to improve as a player has seen him become one of the most exciting attacking players in world football today.
The only player in history who has won Ballon d'Or, FIFA World Player, Pichichi Trophy, and Golden Boot in the same season. The history of the first move! Our Manchester City FC range starts from the beginning in 1884 when the club was first known as Gorton FC, before it was reformed as Manchester City Football Club. Every Premier League club has now unveiled their home jersey for the 2021/22 campaign. Supposedly, the New Jersey Devil lives somewhere around there. 4. New Jersey Devils. So, as bad as the Devils are, they're not the worst team their owners own. NHL allowing the Devils to be moved out of the Tri-State Area, have been put to rest. The offense is a shambles: It turned out that Mark Sanchez wasn't the problem after all. And speaking of competence, there was a video on the team website which suggested that Idzik was out. And then, of course, there's the question of where the Knicks are going to play when The Garden's current lease runs out. The arena situation is settled for the next 50 years; while we don't know how far the team is going, as far as the Playoffs are concerned (if at all), the franchise isn't going anywhere.
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Japanese HA-19
Class: Type "A" Midget Submarine
At: Kure Naval Dockyard, Japan
Length: 78 feet, 5 inches
Beam: 6 feet
Draft: 6 feet
Displacement: 46 tons (submerged)
Armament: Two 18-inch torpedo tubes
National Museum of the Pacific War
http://www.pacificwarmuseum.org/index.asp
Latitude: 30.2729774289, Longitude: -98.8672721923
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HA-19 is one of five Japanese midget submarines that participated in the attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941. HA-19, with her four companions, was supposed to penetrate the harbor and attack the U.S. Pacific Fleet. However, none of the vessels managed to damage or sink any U.S. ships. HA-19 developed problems with its gyrocompass, forcing it to make a visual approach to the harbor entrance. It ran aground on a coral reef. Draining its batteries attempting to back off the reef, the boat was abandoned by it's two-man crew. Scuttling charges failed to work. The boat, with one crewmember, was captured by U.S. forces.
The vessel was powered by a single shaft electric motor capable of 600 horsepower. It was brought close to its targets by a conventional submarine. HA-19 had a surface speed of 23 knots and a submerged speed of 19 knots. At top speed the submarine's battery charge would only last 55 minutes. While at a submerged speed of 2 knots, the submarine had an effective range of 100 miles.
During World War II, HA-19 was put on tour across the United States to help sell War Bonds. The tour included a stop in Fredericksburg in 1943. She is now displayed in the museum's George Bush Gallery in a setting depicting her just prior to launching from the deck of the I-24 mother submarine off the coast of Oahu.
HA-19 is a National Historic Landmark.
Kazuo Sakamaki takes a turn around HA-19, the submarine he piloted the morning of the Pearl Harbor attack.
HA-19 on Dec 8, 1941 on the beach at Bellows Field, HI
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This incredible halo engagement ring design features a diamond halo comprised of step-cut baguette diamonds. Step-cut stones have to be of near perfect quality as their unique facets allow for more visibility of flaws, which makes this an opulently luxurious design style that reflects truth and honesty in your relationship. Baguette diamonds are included in both the halo and alternate with round brilliant cut diamonds in the pave band. They are also bordered and ornamented by milgrain. The center stone in this engagement ring is also an emerald cut morganite, which is romantic and further emphasizes how real and deep the connection is between you and your true love.


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detail from Feedback, by Stephen Jones, 1987.
Destiny Deacon
Destiny Deacon is a photo artist, video maker, performer, writer and broadcaster, whose images work to re-interpret, parody and make transparent cultural stereotypes. She was born in Maryborough, Queensland in 1957, however she was raised in Melbourne. Deacon has a Bachelor of Arts, major in politics, from the University of Melbourne (1979) and a Diploma of Education from La Trobe University (1981). Deacon has spent much time teaching in state secondary and community schools, at the University of Melbourne as a tutor and with the Commonwealth public service as a staff trainer.
Deacon's work has been exhibited extensively in Australia and overseas. Individual exhibitions include 'My Boomerang Won't Come Back' in Adelaide, Auckland and Christchurch, New Zealand in 1994; and Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi, Melbourne in 1995 and 1998.
Deacon's work has appeared in numerous group exhibitions including the fifth Havana Biennial 1994, Johannesburg Biennale 1995, second Asia-Pacific Triennial 1996, Melbourne International Biennale 1999, Perspecta 1995 and 1999, Biennial of Sydney 2000, 'Das Lied von der Erde, Kassel' 2001 and in this year's Yokohama Triennale, Japan. Her work is held in public and private collections in Australia and overseas.
80.0 x 100.0 cm image; 100.0 x 120.0 cm sheet
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The other week I attended a webinar run by the fine folks at the Turnitin Academy and they thoughtfully sent me a certificate of completion. At this point I thought "Is this certificate just a big rectangular badge?" at which point I realized I had the inspiration for another blog post.
In contrast, certificates are much more serious in tone. They often feature old-fashioned type faces and official logos (and signatures). The content typically marks the user's accomplishment and the time the certficate was issued in very formal language (sometimes in Latin). They are meant to be official acknowledgements from respected institutions that some achievement has been noted.
Already the styles are very different in terms of tone. It shouldn't matter, but it's something to consider when considering badgification.
I should add here that a badge logo could go to a certificate type description. They don't have to be mutually exclusive.
Something else to consider is granularity. In many systems, a badge is awarded for a specific accomplishment, while certificates may be awarded for a larger scale accomplishment.
For instance, the TWT Certificate program awards one certificate for completing a portfolio which contains a set of elements (e.g. a teaching philosophy statement, example presentation…). But could a set of supplementary badges be included? I was thinking of one for accessibility, but we could include multimedia creation, exceptional use of a tool like Voicethread, ANGEL or the blogs or something similar. Badges could be a way to further personalize the experience or even provide stepping stones to the final certificate.
As with any new system it's worth looking back to previous analogues to see if we can learn anything. Certificates are a known model here at Penn State. What should be adapted for badges? What should be discarded?


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Tom Brady reportedly sought out Patrick Mahomes in private after beating the Chiefs in a sign of respect to the young quarterback
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Tom Brady sought out Patrick Mahomes in private after leading the New England Patriots over the Kansas City Chiefs.
The meeting appeared to be a sign of respect from the 41-year-old legend to the 23-year-old rising star.
Brady has ruled the AFC for two decades, and there's a chance Mahomes' reign could be coming after the two quarterbacks dueled on Sunday.
Tom Brady made a classy gesture to Patrick Mahomes after leading the New England Patriots over the Kansas City Chiefs in the AFC Championship game.
According to ESPN's Jeff Darlington, after the game, Brady went up to a security guard outside of the Chiefs' locker room and asked to see Mahomes. The two reportedly met in private, as the 41-year-old legend praised the up-and-coming star.
—Jeff Darlington (@JeffDarlington) January 21, 2019
Mahomes had the best season of any quarterback in the NFL, and certainly impressed Brady on Sunday. After struggling in the first half, Mahomes helped the Chiefs score 31 points, 24 of them in the fourth quarter, as he went toe-to-with Brady and the Patriots. Mahomes even made the difficult look easy, getting the Chiefs into field goal range at the end of the fourth quarter with just 39 seconds to play to tie up the game. This, after Brady led the Patriots down the field for what looked like the game-winning touchdown.
It's tough to top the "GOAT," though. Brady threw 2 interceptions to just 1 touchdown, but when the game counted, he was sharp as ever, even converting on several 3rd-and-long scenarios in overtime to lead the game-winning drive.
Brady and the Patriots are going back to the Super Bowl, but Mahomes' time to rule the AFC, much like Brady, may just be starting.
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I get this kind of comment a lot from my academic colleagues, even those who are otherwise sympathetic to me. They don't know how much I am in contact with Milo or the kinds of things he and I have been talking about, and they tend to assume that Milo is as he has been portrayed in the mainstream media or by Buzzfeed: an agent provocateur, someone who is outrageous purely for material gain, a grifter, not a serious interlocutor, doing what he does for the sake of publicity and nothing else. How is it possible for me to defend such a person? Surely doing so, as one friend recently put it, is at odds with everything I am as an intellectual.
Well. My first response must be of course, "Have you read much of my blog?" But I know that that is asking a lot of colleagues who are busy doing their own research and who tell me, bluntly, "I don't usually read blogs." But even those who write their own blogs have a hard time being sympathetic, particularly with my insistence that the crisis we are in as academics has anything to do with religion. One, commenting on my Sightings article about what Milo's campus tour demonstrated about our culture on campus, noted that he found my argument "distressing on several grounds, most notably Fulton Brown's criticism that secularism is an inadequate substitute for religious ideals." At least he got my argument right! And, to be fair, he does defend my—and Milo's—right to speak when invited to do so on campus, even if he disagrees with what we have to say. But—as a professor of evolutionary biology, not to mention the author of a book entitled Faith vs. Fact: Why Science and Religion Are Incompatible—he is already in the other camp, as it were. The camp that finds whatever I say about faith and the importance of Christianity for our culture ridiculous.
And you ask how I can defend Milo? How can I not? You may say, as does Professor Coyne, that "a Catholic [like Milo] who is gay is somewhat of a hypocrite," but it is saying something if that is the worst accusation you can bring. Which it is—everything else you have heard about Milo are lies. Milo has threatened no one, doxxed no one, called down internet trolls on no one. Neither is he a white supremacist or a Nazi. Nor, for the gazillionth time, does he "support pedophilia"—quite the reverse. What Milo is, as everyone knows who watches even one of his talks all the way through, is a Christian dedicated to defending the soul of Western civilization. Don't believe me? It says so right on his website.
Dangerous is owned and operated by Milo, Inc., a 360-degree media company conceived of and founded by Milo. Milo, Inc., is dedicated to leading the battle for the soul of Western civilization by harnessing Milo's unique blend of laughter and war.
So let us fight, but let our motto be Risus et bellum, Laughter and war. Because nothing stings our foes, foreign and domestic, more than our hearty laughter at their lies and nonsense. And also because nothing will better remind us what we're fighting for than the laughter of Chesterton, of Chaucer and of Shakespeare, and of course the God who inspired them all.
The usual verdict of educated people on the Salvation Army is expressed in some such words as these: "I have no doubt they do a great deal of good, but they do it in a vulgar and profane style; their aims are excellent, but their methods are wrong." To me, unfortunately, the precise reverse of this appears to be the truth.
I do not know whether the aims of the Salvation Army are excellent, but I am quite sure their methods are admirable. Their methods are the methods of all intense and hearty religions; they are popular like all religion, military like all religion, public and sensational like all religion.
They are not reverent any more than Roman Catholics are reverent, for reverence in the sad and delicate meaning of the term reverence is a thing only possible to infidels. That beautiful twilight you will find in Euripides, in Renan, in Matthew Arnold; but in men who believe you will not find it—you will find only laughter and war.
A man cannot pay that kind of reverence to truth solid as marble; they can only be reverent towards a beautiful lie. And the Salvation Army, though their voice has broken out in a mean environment and an ugly shape, are really the old voice of glad and angry faith, hot as the riots of Dionysus, wild as the gargoyles of Catholicism, not to be mistaken for a philosophy.
Professor Huxley, in one of his clever phrases, called the Salvation Army "corybantic Christianity." Huxley was the last and noblest of those Stoics who have never understood the Cross. If he had understood Christianity he would have known that there never has been, and never can be, any Christianity that is not corybantic.
Why are academics so allergic to Christianity, when, as I pointed out in my Sightings article, the very universities at which they teach trace their institutional foundations back to the Middle Ages when theology was queen?* Chesterton knew.
There is only one thing in the modern world that has been face to face with Paganism; there is only one thing in the modern world which in that sense knows anything about Paganism: and that is Christianity. That fact is really the weak point in the whole of that hedonistic neo-Paganism of which I have spoken.
All that genuinely remains of the ancient hymns or the ancient dances of Europe, all that has honestly come to us from the festivals of Phoebus or Pan, is to be found in the festivals of the Christian Church. If any one wants to hold the end of a chain which really goes back to the heathen mysteries, he had better take hold of a festoon of flowers at Easter or a string of sausages at Christmas.
Everything else in the modern world is of Christian origin, even everything that seems most anti-Christian. The French Revolution is of Christian origin. The newspaper is of Christian origin. The anarchists are of Christian origin. Physical science is of Christian origin. The attack on Christianity is of Christian origin. There is one thing, and one thing only, in existence at the present day which can in any sense accurately be said to be of pagan origin, and that is Christianity.
The real difference between Paganism and Christianity is perfectly summed up in the difference between the pagan, or natural, virtues, and those three virtues of Christianity which the Church of Rome calls virtues of grace. The pagan, or rational, virtues are such things as justice and temperance, and Christianity has adopted them. The three mystical virtues which Christianity has not adopted, but invented, are faith, hope, and charity.
Now much easy and foolish Christian rhetoric could easily be poured out upon those three words, but I desire to confine myself to the two facts which are evident about them. The first evident fact (in marked contrast to the delusion of the dancing pagan)—the first evident fact, I say, is that the pagan virtues, such as justice and temperance, are the sad virtues, and that the mystical virtues of faith, hope, and charity are the gay and exuberant virtues. And the second evident fact, which is even more evident, is the fact that the pagan virtues are the reasonable virtues, and that the Christian virtues of faith, hope, and charity are in their essence as unreasonable as they can be.
My academic colleagues want me—and Milo—to be soberly virtuous. They want him and me to behave with justice and temperance, not exuberant hope. They cannot understand why I spend my time championing someone who dresses up in costume in order to make a serious point—or uses jokes to make intellectually challenging arguments. They see only his antics, never his joy. They hear only his laughter, never his love. They worry about Milo's campy posturing and the effect that it will have on how my own work is received.
They think they are being reasonable. I think they are being sticks in the mud.
Perhaps it is impossible for me to help my academic colleagues see what Milo and I are doing with our costumes and jokes. Certainly, they have proved resistant to the arguments I have made about why I have adopted the methodology that I have in my teaching and in my research. But I do not think that this is a reason to stop trying, any more than I think Christianity is dependent on "superstitious 'revelation'" or religion only about being well-behaved.
Hot as the riots of Dionysius, wild as the gargoyles of Catholicism. Indefensible? Yes, if you are a pagan. Not at all if you are willing to give yourself over to faith, hope, and love.
*They have argued with me about this, too—clearly none of them has ever heard of the universities of Oxford and Cambridge, never mind Paris. Harvard was founded to be the Cambridge of New England. Just saying.
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Poverty prevails 91% of population of Althawahir and Bani Hudhaifah villages, on mountains of Razih district (Sa'ada Governorate). Population there does not have sustainable sources of income. The area has still been suffering impacts of several climatic, political and economic shocks making it severely vulnerable while surrounding mountains restrict their movement for displacement or livelihood. The Social Fund for Development targeted the area with a cash-for-work project in order to increase the people's resilience to adapt to impacts of the shocks.
Poverty has intensified here due to the last six wars in Sa'ada and drought. As a result, the population suffered food insecurity and drop in the number of livestock. And the people remain without work after their livelihoods have been perished.
The local people also suffered lack of drinking water, and women crossed rugged and long road an hour away from the village in order to get 20 liters of water. Saleh Ali Jaber expresses the suffering "We were tired to get water. We used to do a one-hour trip to fetch water from the spring. We take a queue as early as 2 pm hours, and each family gets 20 liters. We do not have road and water containers were carried by women and donkeys."
In response to those compound, hard conditions, the SFD cash-for-work projects intervened engaging the community in building 62 household rainwater collecting tanks, and rehabilitating agricultural terraces of a total area of half a hectare worth a total of $98,000. Some 459 people in 72 households have directly attained access to drinking water and cereals during rain seasons. Females also were given time access to education,.
As a result, SFD has provided temporary income generating employments with a priority for female-headed households in the current critical times across the country. The project generated a total of 20,157 working days, including 2,872 for females.
The project has indirect benefits. Some participants in the project purchased varied assets for sustainable income generation that secures most basic needs. The 72 beneficiary households purchased 50 goats, 10 calves, 6 sewing machines and 17 rock drilling compressors.
The SFD teams focused on awareness campaigns to encourage beneficiaries to take advantage of their work wages to improve and diversify food and nutrition of their households, as well as to purchase income generating assets for resilience of their families. " I and my brothers benefited from the first payment of wages as we ought food and compressors for rent," said the beneficiary Salih Jaber Qassim. The widow Bahjah Hassan also said "I worked in the my water reservoir, and I bought food for my children and two goats"
In addition, 44 participants gained building skills that helped gave them access to the labor market. One of them, Dhaif Ali Jaber said "I learned from the project how to refine stones and how to build. I and my sons built our water tank ourselves, and my son Abdullah learned stone cutting."


The one thing I love baking for as much as preschool snack day are school bake sales!
ESPECIALLY when there is a theme involved. My bonus middle child is in a play this weekend! They are doing a production of one of my all time personal favorites, Charlotte's Web.
These are the cute little Wilber cakes I just finished making for the opening night bake sale. I love their little personalities. So adorable! It is just a Devil's food with a basic buttercream frosting. I didn't want to get too fancy schmancy since I was baking in bulk and my audience is going to be a lot of Elementary age kids.
I used the Wilton #11 round tip to make the head and the snout and a small leaf tip for the ears. The nostrils are Nestle Toll House Mini Morsels.
I also finally got to try out using the Wilton Candy Eyeballs. I kept seeing them in the store and finally picked up a pack. They really did give these little guys a little extra boost of adorable!


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The Grönefeld brothers' upbringing in a small town in the Eastern part of the Netherlands was permeated in horology. In the evenings and on the weekends, as children, they used to play in their grandfather Johan's workshop, surrounded by instruments and by the sound of their ceaseless ticking. As a gifted watchmaker, Johan also looked after the clock of the nearby church, dating back to 1240. On his death, this custodianship was passed onto his son, the Grönefeld brothers' father. The year the Grönefeld name was established in watchmaking was commemorated in the reference of the '1912 One Hertz'.
Watchmaking having made a strong imprint on them in their respective youths, Bart and Tim Grönefeld both trained in horology, cutting their teeth at famed complications specialist Renaud et Papi, alongside notable contemporaries such as Stephen Forsey and Stepan Sarpaneva. Producing no more than 70 watches a year, the Grönefeld brothers create extremely high-quality pieces, having commanded the admiration and respect of none other than M. Philippe Dufour, amongst others.
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In the case of the One Hertz, Bart and Tim designed their movement to operate using two gear trains, based on two synchronised spring barrels feeding two separate (but linked) movements – one for the hours and minutes and the other for the seconds. According to Bart Grönefeld, the parts for the One Hertz movements were machined by Renaud et Papi in Switzerland, before being shipped to the Netherlands to be finished, painstakingly decorated and assembled in the Grönefeld workshop. The movement features over a dozen different finishing techniques, from snailing to frosting. The bridges, shaped like the bell gable roofs of Dutch houses, are fashioned out of steel, which is much more difficult and costly to work with, than brass or silver.
Each individual bridge requires dozens of steps and up to ten hours of work, including mirror polishing of the screws, and chamfering rims and slots, demonstrating the brothers' fascination with depth and light. The overall dimensionality is reminiscent of A. Lange & Söhne, or even fellow Renaud et Papi alumni Greubel Forsey.
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Australia: Environmentalists' Market 40 Years on Going Strong
By Kalinga Seneviratne
CHANNON (IDN) – At the peak of the hippie movement in the West, in 1976, the traditional farming village here in this scenic setting was a battleground between loggers and environmentalists who had travelled from across Australia, to stop the clear-felling of the rainforest at Terania Creek close by. This was the first direct action protest in Australia.
Many of the environmentalists decided to settle in the region, buying cheap agricultural land and setting up communities with a "back to the land" philosophy.
"We moved here in the 1970s with my husband to live a poor self-sufficient lifestyle. Soon as we arrived, we found that Terania Creek rainforests were to be felled. We fought for many years to protect that forest and protect other rainforests as well," says Nan Nicholson, a rainforest Botanist, who has lived in The Channon for over 40 years and published many books on rainforest plants and herbs.
It is newcomers like Nicholsons who settled down in the villages around here, that includes artisans and woodworkers, that started a traditional village market in a small hall here, where they could exchange and barter goods. It had a strict ethic of "make it, bake it, or grow it". It is still going strong after 44 years where over 200 stallholders and between 2000-3000 people visit this monthly market.
"This market is definitely a part of our local culture," Chris McFadden, secretary of the market management committee told IDN. "It gives people opportunities for employment and to sell their products, including artistic creations".
< A closer view of the Channon market | Kalinga Seneviratne
The Channon Crafts Market, held on the second Sunday each month, supports 100's of community groups, small business and individuals. The market was the site for environmental campaigners community meetings four decades ago and to this day the market still supports such activity. In fact, Nicholson, when she spoke to IDN was manning a stall promoting a new environment campaign to stop a dam planned to be built close by.
Due to its increasing popularity, the market outgrew the Channon Hall and moved to the beautiful Coronation Park to allow people to enjoy an open-air market experience. It is run by a Management Committee consisting of nine volunteers and a number of paid staff.
McFadden said that the land was donated to the village by a local landowner, which is now managed by the local council as a cricket oval and recreational park. "We are a non-profit community organization, not part of the council," she explained. "The stallholders pay us a small fee and also take out insurance". From this fee, they pay their staff and has recently built a second toiled block.
While the Channon market has outgrown its beginnings, its ethos has remained unchanged and it has the reputation as one of Australia's most vibrant markets. Many of the stalls sell the produce of local farmers and plants from their nurseries, arts and crafts of local people, and there are also a lot of food stalls run by people in the communities. Some stalls were selling imported items such as dresses from India and Thailand, or crafts from Maori New Zealand and Peru.
When asked how the latter products fit into their motto of "make it, bake it, or grow it", McFadden said: "After we moved to the oval here and the market became bigger and bigger, there was a diversity to what people sell here, but it's still an arts and crafts market. Whatever you make you sell. There are some imported goods, but we don't encourage it."
< Sunlighters | Kalinga Seneviratne
Besides amazing art and products, visitors have a chance to enjoy some local music with the 'band of the day' playing from the main stage, and all manner of impromptu musicians dotted around the park. If you stay to the end of the market you can experience the infamous 'Drum Dance' where people dance to the rhythms of a variety of drums.
But this was missing this month because the market was closed for four months due to Covid-19 lockdowns and social distancing regulations still in force outlaws such activity for now.
The Channon market has given rise to a surge of such Sunday markets across the region known as the Northern Rivers that includes tourist resort areas along the northern New South Wales coast. Many of these markets are scattered through the month on Sundays and Saturdays. Thus, there are some stallholders that go from one market to another, to make a living throughout the month.
One such stallholder is Adrienne Hmelnitsky from the village of Urunga about 3 hours' drive from here. She producers what she has branded as 'Sunlighters' that is made with colourful plastics, which gives a stained glass effect when they cling on to glass windows. "I'm an artist and all these are handmade," she told IDN, pointing out the products gleaming colourfully from the transparent walls of her tent stall. "This is the fourth time I'm here and I do a number of markets in northern rivers". She also pointed out that her products are made of non-toxic material and are reusable.
A local artist who cuts various coloured rocks and makes jewellery and necklaces use this market to sell his products. "I buy rough stones, cut and polish them to make these" he explains. "I live off a van and don't need to spend for accommodation. I sell it at the market". The artist who gave his name as Sam sells most of his necklaces at between $50-150 per piece.
John Arklan is a third-generation Sikh-Australian who used to be a banana grower. He drives three hours each way from his home in Woolgoolga
< Third-generation John Arkan | Kalinga Seneviratne
in his mobile Indian food kitchen to sell butter chicken and dhal curry with rice and naan. "This is a spectacular setting," he told IDN. "I enjoy the atmosphere here and I sell a lot of food. They embrace whatever you cook, and the people here are different (in their outlook)."
The government recognized the unique contribution this market has made to the people and culture of the region so that they included the staff in the "job keeper" scheme that pays business to keep their staff on the payroll while the Covid-19 lockdowns are in place.
"When we were closed our staff helped to improve the facilities here like painting the railings and toilet walls," McFadden said. She also added that they started developing an online market for the stallholders from the local community, but it is being handicapped due to the cost of transporting the goods.
"Thousands come here each month [November], even as far away as Brisbane," says McFadden. "But we try to limit the stallholders to a 100 km radius. We want to give the opportunity to local farmers and artistes to sell direct (to the public)." [IDN-InDepthNews – 17 November 2020]
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Q: How to unzip folder and change directory to extracted folder I'm trying to make a script where I can unzip a file and then cd into that unzipped file (ie. unzip test.zip and then cd into the test folder). The problem is that the name of the zip file varies and I'm trying to write a script that will work regardless of the name.
Currently, I have:
for file in $(ls *.zip);
do
        unzip ${file}
        cd ${file};
done

but I'm getting an error because ${file} is still a .zip file (if I understand the error correctly).
Any suggestions?
Thanks.
Edit:To clarify, I'm trying to do analysis on the files that are inside the .zip file. So I think my goal is to unzip the file first (which will then create a directory with the same name as the zip file without the .zip) and then cd into that directory. Once inside that directory, then I would have another line of code that would start the analysis of the files.

A: Assuming that i) the zip file creates a new directory and ii) the name of that directory is the same as the name of the zip file without the .zip extension (note that both of these assumptions will very often be wrong), then you can do:
for file in *.zip
do
    unzip -- "$file"
    cd -- "${file%%zip}"
done

The ${file%%zip}, or more generally the syntax ${variable%%pattern} will return the value of $variable with pattern removed. So ${file%%zip} will return foo if the file's name is foo.zip.
The -- are there to signify the end of options, which can be useful if you can have file names starting with -. Also note how there is no need to use ls at all, which is a very good thing since parsing the output of ls is very fragile and never recommended.
You can make this a little bit more sophisticated by making sure the directory exists first:
for file in *.zip
do
    unzip -- "$file"
    [ -d "${file%%zip}" ] && cd -- "${file%%zip}"
done

Note that this is only useful if you now want to do things in the script that run in the directory. Otherwise, if you expect to run this and have your current shell session now be in the target dir, that won't happen because the cd don't affects the shell running the script which is not the shell you launched the script from.
So if you want this to be a way for you to extract the file, move to the new directory and then do things in an interactive shell session, you need to make this a function and not a script:
unzipcd(){
    for file in *.zip
    do
        unzip -- "$file"
        [ -d "${file%%zip}" ] && cd -- "${file%%zip}"
    done
}

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From the employee perspective, there are several key elements, including credibility, trust, fairness, respect, camaraderie and pride. For managers, trust remains the central pillar and is based around objectives such as hiring, inspiring, celebrating, developing, speaking, listening, sharing, caring and thanking.
There are three individual categories based on the company size; over 1000 employees, 100-999 employees and under 100 employees.
Salesforce topped the charts for companies with 1000+ employees, with the sales software giant recently introducing a program that incentivises their staff to give back to the community, with the top 100 volunteers eligible for a US$10,000 grant for a non-profit of their choice.
For the 100-999 employee range, local online design tool Canva took the number one mantle, a company where each team is run as a 'little startup' with autonomy over their projects. There is also a dedicated 'Vibe team' which is responsible to maintain a happy and productive workforce.
Sunshine Coast-based Avenue Dental were recognised as the best workplace with less than 100 staff, a testament to the group's BOB (Bringing Out the Best in others policy), a role filled by individuals at each practice that involves coaching and promoting the professional development of employees.
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Rodi Zutt thesis defence
On February 7th 2018, Rodi Zutt has defended her thesis called 'Myoclonus. A diagnostic challenge.'
An involuntary muscle shock when you almost fall asleep - that is an example of myoclonus. Patients with this type of movement disorder experience such shocks all day. Myoclonus can be present in the face, the limbs, the neck and / or the trunk. Neurologist Rodi Zutt investigated the disorder in her doctoral research. Together with colleagues from the expertise center for movement disorders in the UMCG, she developed a new diagnostic protocol that helps to determine if a patient have myoclonus, and if so, which subtype. In addition, the protocol offers guidance in determining the underlying condition and the best treatment. The protocol is already being used all over the world.
Zutt explains in her thesis that the symptoms of myoclonus can be very diverse. Patients can suffer from shocks when they are at rest, but mostly, the shocks occur when patients are doing things or hearing unexpected sounds. These involuntary movements can be a burden to patients in their daily functioning, such as eating, drinking and walking. Myoclonus has many possible causes. The shocks often occur as a side effect of medication in patients with various diseases including Alzheimer's disease, but also as an expression of a functional (psychogenic) complaint. In addition, there are now more than a hundred genetic disorders known which can give myoclonus. Due to rapid developments in clinical genetics, it is possible to examine all genetic causes with 'next generation sequencing'.
Determining myoclonus is often complex and it is not always possible to determine the subtype. Zutt shows in her research the additional value of neurophysiological research. She wrote an article on this subject, which has recently been published in the leading journal 'Neurology' (January 2018). In her thesis, Zutt describes a new neurophysiological test for the determination of functional muscle twitches. In summary, her research shows the importance of accurately diagnosing (the different subtypes) of myoclonus and which diagnostic tests can help.
Rodi Zutt (1984) studied medicine at the University of Amsterdam and followed the general neurology training at the University Medical Center Groningen. Zutt now works as a neurologist / specialist in movement disorders in the Haga Hospital in The Hague. The title of her thesis is: "Myoclonus. A diagnostic challenge ".
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Shri Gujarati Samaj has contributed largely to the educational scenario of Indore . Its years old history tells a tale of the sacrifice and devotion of the elders of that era. It has no match in the present. A few Gujarati families made this place their home in the 2nd decade of The 20th century. Their aim was to earn a living. At that time they realized that their children would be cut off from Gujarati language, culture and tradition due to lack of a Gujarati medium school. Keeping this in mind, a small school was opened in a single room on Jail Road in 1922 with just 8-10 students. In due course of time, it occurred to them that even the localites were lacking a proper school. This fact motivated them to push the thought of income to the back of their minds and establish numerous educational institutions one after another. Thus a small seed sown in the direction of giving education to Gujarati children in the year 1922 grew into a large tree with branches in every field from primary schools, middle schools to colleges with different courses. Today the Gujarati community residing in Indore has taken to the Malwi Culture. Thus Malwi and Gujarati cultures have found a common ground here. This is the reason why Malwi people dance to the tunes of Garba during the Navartra so enthusiastically.
At present Shri Gujarati Samaj is a large educational organization dedicated to the cause of education. It represents, not only the City, but entire Madhya Pradesh. Presently it is running 9 colleges and 6 schools . The Samaj has also made its foray in the medical field with onset of Homeopathy Medical College and Research Center . Similarly career oriented courses have been included in Professional Colleges. The Samaj started B. Ed. College in July 2005 and a new college namely Shri Gujarati Samaj Innovative College of Commerce & Science (English Medium) in July 2006.Shri Gujarati Samaj College of Pharmacy started in the year 2007.
Around 980 teachers and other employees are serving to the cause of imparting education and nearly 20,000 students are taking education under the aegis of the Samaj. It is a matter of pride for the Samaj that amongst every 7 students of the University, one student belongs to Gujarati College . Shri Gujarati Samaj has given political leaders, ministers. I.A.S. officers, successful industrialists, scientists etc. to the nation. Another achievement of the Samaj is that the MP Minority Commission has also recognized the educational institutions run by Shri Gujarati Samaj as those run by the Linguistic Minority Community and given it Linguistic Minority Certificate. Shri Gujarati Samaj also gives financial support to women for making them self-reliant. Gujarati women are given free training of tailoring.
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Smt. Kamlaben Raojibhai Patel Community Hall, Nasia Road, Indore .
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Shri Gujartai Samaj Polio Centre.
The main aim of the Samaj is service without any self interest.


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Soot From Europe's Industrial Revolution Found in Himalayan Glacier
February 10, 2020 February 11, 2020 JON PARTON
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(CN) – Long before humans explored the world's highest peaks of the Himalayas, new research released Monday reveals our pollution got there first.
The study, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, posits that pollution from coal-burning Europeans during the early Industrial Revolution in the late 18th century was found in the Dasuopu glacier, about 6,400 miles from London.
"The Industrial Revolution was a revolution in the use of energy," said Paolo Gabrielli, lead author and research scientist at The Ohio State University Byrd Polar and Climate Research Center. "And so the use of coal combustion also started to cause emissions that we think were transported by winds up to the Himalayas."
Shishapangma (left), one of the world's tallest mountains, towers above Nepal and other peaks in the Himalaya range.
The researchers were part of a larger team that traveled to the glacier, located about 23,600 above sea level, to gather data about environmental changes that affected Dasuopu over time. The glacier sits atop Shishapangma, one of the 14 tallest mountains in the world.
Drilling ice cores from the glacier, the team was able to piece together a climate record. The scientists said the ice cores "operate as sort of timeline," able to show exactly when new layers of ice formed.
Gabrielli and the rest of the team analyzed the ice core and discovered the presence of toxic metals like nickel and cadmium in the ice dating back to around 1780, the start of the Industrial Revolution. The metals are byproducts of burning coal, largely used by emerging factories and industries at that time.
The scientists believe the pollutants were likely carried by winter winds that travel from west to east. They also said some of the metals, including zinc, could have originated from large forest fires used to clear out land for farms.
"What happens is at that time, in addition to the Industrial Revolution, the human population exploded and expanded," Gabrielli said. "And so there was a greater need for agricultural fields – and, typically, the way they got new fields was to burn forests."
Gabrielli noted that the contamination in the glacier arrived before humans did. Shishapangma, at 26,335 feet, wasn't climbed until 1964. He said the metals found in the glacier were not at a level considered dangerous but cautioned that continual build-up of such metals could change that.
"The levels of metals we found were higher than what would exist naturally, but were not high enough to be acutely toxic or poisonous," he said. "However, in the future, bioaccumulation may concentrate metals from meltwater at dangerous toxic levels in the tissues of organisms that live in ecosystems below the glacier."
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GIFFONI FILM FESTIVAL 1993 - 2.7 August
Pregnant girl in trouble teams up with a young boy to find the mother of the boy.
Original Title Marie
Italian Title Marie
Section Competition
Duration 85'
Nationality Belgium, France, Portugal
Directed by Marian Handwerker
Screenplay Marian Handwerker, Luc Jabon
Main cast Marie Gillain, Alessandro Sigona, Aurore Clément
MARIAN HANDWERKER
Born on December 14, 1944 in Taldykurgan (Kazakhstan, USSR), Marian Handwerker has lived in Belgium since 1967, where he has spent his entire career. Graduate with the highest distinction of the IAD, section realization, he is still a student when he directs his first short films, Anars, Bidonville and Head of Turks. His first feature film, The Cage aux ours, competed in 1974 in an official selection at the Cannes Film Festival. He has since directed many documentaries and feature films for film and television. Several of his films, including Marie (1992), were written with screenwriter Luc Jabon.


Masshole Sports: Belichick Says Patriots' Long Term Goals Are "Within The Next 12 Hours." Looks Like He's Back To Being The Bill We Know And Love.
Belichick Says Patriots' Long Term Goals Are "Within The Next 12 Hours." Looks Like He's Back To Being The Bill We Know And Love.
"Right now our goal is really just today. Go out there and take what we put in last night, what we talked about this morning. Back in this afternoon, make the corrections from this morning and then move on and start preparing for tomorrow. Our long term goals right now are, say, within the next 12 hours."
On the Patriots first day of training camp Bill Belichick wouldnt talk about the Patriots long term plans. He wouldnt talk about how he plans on filling the void left by Aaron Hernandez being in jail. He wouldn't talk about what he plans to do if Rob Gronkowski isnt ready by Week 1. He wouldn't talk about how he plans on using Tim Tebow.
He basically isnt looking past the next 12 hours. So, I guess there's nothing to talk about here.


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Renowned academician Prof. Dr. Dhrubo Jyoti Sen has completed his B.Sc. (Hons) (1987) from Patna University, Patna & B.Pharm. (Hons) (1992), M.Pharm. (1994) & Ph.D. (2001) from Jadavpur University, Calcutta and now working as a professor of pharmaceutical chemistry at Shri Sarvajanik Pharmacy College, Mehsana, Gujarat. Prof. Sen as head of the Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry of Shri Sarvajanik Pharmacy College, Mehsana, Gujarat has more than 15 years of teaching experience and 6 years of research experience as senior research fellow in pharmaceutical and chemical science, has published 256 articles in national and international peer-reviewed journals of high impact factor and editorial board member/advisor of 40 international peer-reviewed journals. He is the author of 160 abstracts of national/international conferences and also the author of 16 books. He has guided 42 MPharm research projects and 33 BPharm elective projects and guided 2 PhD projects. He is also the paper setter & examiner of 10 Indian universities for B.Pharm., M.Pharm. & Ph.D.
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Alleged Limpopo wife killer back in court
Johannesburg- The bail hearing of businessman Rameez Patel, who is accused of killing his wife Fatima, is expected to continue in the Polokwane Magistrate's Court on Monday.
The 29-year-old woman was beaten, shot and killed in the couple's rented apartment in Nirvana, Polokwane, on April 10. A blunt object was used to attack her.
Patel, 28, was arrested six days later. He denied involvement in the murder and said a house robbery had taken place.
He said he wanted to be released on bail as he has been psychological and emotionally affected by his wife's death, and needed to see his children.
During the bail hearing last Wednesday, an in loco inspection was conducted at the Patel home, apparently to determine whether anyone could have tampered with the property's gate in order to gain entrance.
Investigating officer Constable David Nkuna told the court earlier this month that after his wife's murder, Patel went to take a bath at his uncle's house and changed his clothes.
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>Believe it or not, John Jardini isn't the first guy to try this particular pick-up trick. This sort of thing has happened before. At least twice, actually.
Obviously, the only one who ended up getting picked up that night was Jardini, by police who arrested him at the scene. Their date went so well they plan on keeping him around for a trial.


Seems like we've seen him a million times (though, according to the IMDB, the guy's made only 215 film and TV appear-ances). Yet Harry Dean Stanton -- who worked the first 16 years of his career as Dean Stanton, switched in 1971 to H.D. Stanton for a couple of films, and from 1972 onward graduated to the name we all know -- has become (with no particular ambition, I would suspect, to achieve this goal) the pre-eminent character actor in all of Hollywood. He's someone who is now known worldwide and whose appearance in a movie, while it cannot force that film to be good (The Mini-Skirt Mob, anyone?) almost guarantees it'll be worth seeing -- if only to discover what Mr. Stanton will do with his role in it.
In her new film (one that's almost indispensable, I think, for anyone who wants to know how to make an interes-ting documentary about an actor), HARRY DEAN STANTON: PARTLY FICTION, the actress/filmmaker Sophie Huber (shown at right) spends quite a bit of time with Mr. Stanton (below). The actor starts out the film by telling her that "I don't give anything away" and then soon asks, "How about silence?" But slowly, quietly, perhaps by beginning to trust, he starts to talk as she films. Before we know it we're neck-deep in Stanton-land, which turns out to be a pretty fascinating place, full of both buried sadness and overt strength, the reason for which we derive only hints -- from childhood, mostly failed female relationships, close male friends and an integrity regarding his profession that has consistently seen him through.
As expected, Huber has larded her film with some archival footage, mostly from various of his films, plus interviews with important directors -- Wim Wenders, David Lynch (below, left) -- who have worked with and clearly admire him immensely.
One of the things the movie makes clear, and that I either did not know or had totally forgotten, is how much music means to the actor, who turns out to be a fine singer, even now (he's in his 80s). Song has dotted his career throughout; remember Cisco Pike?
We get a clip of that film (above) -- one of those in which our guy was billed as H.D. Stanton and in which he co-starred with Kris Kristofferson -- as well as a nice duet between these two in more current times. It was Stanton, notes Kristoffwerson (below), "who got me my first part."
The only other major and starring role I remember with Stanton is that in Repo Man (which arrived in the same year as Paris,Texas), which we also see here. His co-star in it was Emilio Estevez, who was riding high at the time and continued so for maybe a decade. I have nothing against Mr Estevez, but which man's work is now (and probably will be in perpetuity) remembered most?
We also see and hear from Deborah Harry, who looks fabulous and charms us as she probably did Stanton (and clearly, he her) and later from a young man named Logan Sparks, the actor's assistant who helps him practice lines for memory. Toward the end Stanton talks a bit about people like Nicholson and Brando, and we learn some more interesting stuff.
Style-wise, Ms Huber moves from present to past and from color to black-and-white (for some of the more current interviews) and back again, and she finds some impressionistic visuals to accompany Stanton's words and thoughts. Mostly though it's that face, craggy and deep, together with what the actor has to say, that holds us. Was H.D. ever a young man? Younger, of course, but even in the clips we see here, he always seems middle aged.
By its finale, the film has becomes something akin to spending quality time with a new friend who, in 77 minutes, you have gotten to know well enough to want to know better. Who, as Ethel Merman used to wonder, could ask for anything more?
Harry Dean Stanton: Partly Fiction-- from Adopt Films -- opens this Wednesday, September 11, in New York City at City Cinemas Village East and in Los Angeles at Landmark's NuArt on Friday September 13. To view all currently scheduled playdates, cities and theaters, click here (and then click on the film itself).


Aims: Major depressive disorders are common, with substantial impact on individuals/society. Brief scales for depression severity, based on a small number of characteristics all of which are necessary for diagnosis, have been recommended in self-reported versions for clinical work or research when aiming to quickly and accurately measure depression. We have examined psychometric properties of a brief 6-item version of the Symptom Checklist (SCL), the Symptom Checklist core depression scale (SCL-CD6) and aimed to identify a cut-point for epidemiological research. Methods: The psychometric evaluation of the SCL-CD6 was mainly performed by a Mokken analysis of unidimensionality in a random sample of 1476 residents in the Stockholm County, aged 18-64 years. The standardization of SCL-CD6 was based on ROC analysis, using the Major Depression Inventory as index of validity. Predictive validity was subsequently assessed using register data on hospital admissions and purchases of prescribed medications linked to a sample of 5985 participants in the Swedish Longitudinal Occupational Survey of Health (SLOSH). Results: The SCL-CD6 obtained a coefficient of homogeneity of 0.70 by Mokken analysis, which indicates high unidimensionality and a meaningful dimensional measure of depression severity. By ROC we identified a score of 17 or higher (total range 0-24) as the best cut-point for major depression (sensitivity 0.68, specificity 0.98) which predicted subsequent purchases of antidepressants as well as hospitalisations with a depressive episode. Conclusions: The SCL-CD6 was found a valid depression scale with higher unidimensionality than longer epidemiological instruments and thus particularly suitable for assessment in larger population surveys.


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Comparative Analysis of Labor Market Dynamics Using Markov Processes: An Application to Informality
World Bank Policy Research Working Paper No. 4429
50 Pages Posted: 20 Apr 2016
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Mariano Bosch
London School of Economics & Political Science (LSE)
William F. Maloney
World Bank - Poverty and Economic Management Unit; IZA Institute of Labor Economics; World Bank - Development Research Group (DECRG)
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This paper discusses a set of statistics for examining and comparing labor market dynamics based on the estimation of continuous time Markov transition processes. It then uses these to establish stylized facts about dynamic patterns of movement using panel data from Argentina, Brazil and Mexico. The estimates suggest broad commonalities among the three countries, and establish numerous common patterns of worker mobility among sectors of work and inactivity. As such, we offer some of the first comparative work on labor dynamics. The paper then particularly focuses on the role of the informal sector, both for its intrinsic interest, and as a case study illustrating the strengths and limits of the tools. The results suggest that a substantial part of the informal sector, particularly the self-employed, corresponds to voluntary entry although informal salaried work may correspond more closely to the standard queuing view, especially for younger workers.
Keywords: Labor Markets, Labor Policies, Work & Working Conditions, Labor Standards
Bosch, Mariano and Maloney, William F., Comparative Analysis of Labor Market Dynamics Using Markov Processes: An Application to Informality (December 1, 2007). World Bank Policy Research Working Paper No. 4429, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=1066221
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Open bracelet from the Fra Fra (Gurunsi) in Ghana.
A single bracelet was always worn on the left wrist and not on the right as brass is "poisonous", and a person eats with his right hand. Brass ornaments are closely connected with religious beliefs. When a young child is named, a soothsayer will inform the parent that the child is to be under the protection of one of the ancestral spirits. The soothsayer then prescribes a particular article, such as bracelet, anklet or pendant, which the child should wear throughout its life. This maybe changed for a larger and heavier one as the child grows to adulthood.


One of Blackburn's largest and oldest Mosques has applied for a major extension to improve facilities at its school for young Muslims.
The Jaame Masjid in Cumberland Street wants to put up a new three storey building, a third-storey on an existing one, alter its entrance minarets and provide a bridge walkway from the upper car park to the first floor of the school.
Started in 1962, the mosque had a major extension in 1995 and another in 1998.
It now wants to improve facilities for the 405 students in its madrasa or religious school which provides evening, weekend and holiday classes for youngsters in Islamic teachings. There will be 16 new classrooms and a new library.
It has submitted a planning application for the improvements and extension to Blackburn with Darwen council.
The document says: "The current facilities do not do justice to the aims of the mosque and the committee wish to create a purpose-built madrasa extension for the existing students.
"The proposed extension will particularly improve the facilities available to female students.
"A landscape scheme also forms part of this application, allowing the committee to achieve a centre which presents itself well to the community at large.
"The madrasa hopes to provide improved services and facilities to its existing users. A new, refurbished setting for the centre will allow it to fulfil its potential in serving the locality and increase the benefits it can provide.
"The centre aspires to be a thriving hub of activity that is inclusive, safe, and environmentally sensitive. The mosque committee wish that their students work from a building that is well laid out and furnished so as to instil a sense of pride in its users and is well connected and open to the local community.
"The centre will be able to provide improved education, and skills provision, also the mosque aims to educate its students on working towards removing cultural barriers in the locality.