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Best iPad apps for students
If you're tired of hearing your parents talk about what it was like to walk to class in the old days—uphill both ways and in the rain (yeah, yeah, you get it)—then leave the past for the more palatable present. The technology boom has collided with college in a beautiful way, making it easy for you to learn. In light of that, check out the iPad apps every college student needs:
This free app lets you take notes that stick. You can simply jot down important points to remember during lectures, and you can even draw graphs, record audio, or take pictures and videos. In other words, this application does almost all the work for you—just show up and pay attention, and you'll have instant study guides at your fingers.
This app costs a few bucks, but it's definitely worth the spare change. With Goodreader, you can read articles and books as PDFs, and then annotate and highlight the information you want to go back to. Sound better than underlining sentences in a hard copy book and then going back and trying to find them come finals week? It is.
This app is the price of a couple cups of coffee, and its effects are just as magical. If you're a business major or if you need to make a lot of presentations then this is the app for you, as it allows you to make simple, accessible, and distinct presentations that will leave your professors and fellow students enthralled. For example, you can embed videos and animations, and it's incredibly clean. Fancy.
If you already have a Netflix account then download the application to your smart device, because, come on, every college student needs to watch a trashy movie once in a while. (Just avoid doing so in class.)
Another note-taking app, this one's definitely worth a try. You can take audio of your professor's lecture and write down key words that sync up with a specific moment. It's pretty much SparkNotes for lectures—except you create them yourself.


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a fondness for rabbits
well, more like a fondness for the idea of rabbits. (i'm allergic to the real ones). the conceptual rabbit and his magnificent ears that he would not have if he wasn't the animal he is, an object of pursuit. the biggest parts of a rabbit are his ears and his back legs. these are what have developed in response to his lot in life, his position as a non-predator.
he hears well and runs fast--these are two qualities i can admire.
also his burrowing habits.
even the word 'rabbit' is lovely; it is a word as shapely as a rabbit's long ears.
remember rabbit ears in the 70's? having to wiggle them to enhance reception?
remember eddie rabbit?
well, it might be better to leave you with peter.

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Shouldn't this be འཀྱག་གྲིར་འཆི། not 'ཀྱག་གྲིར་འཆི། ? - And should head words in a dictionary be terminated with "།" ? If not this should simply be འཀྱག་གྲིར་འཆི
Chris 11:17, 15 March 2008 (EDT)
Hi Chris
Although I had these same questions and needed to check the way the Keyman keyboard was presenting this particular ('kyag grir 'chi), it remains as is. It has to do with this particular assemblage of characters, and if you notice on the page of the list for ka (ཀ), there are a few others which came out this way as well.
Regarding the shad (།) at the end of words, phrases and names, we've had a fairly extensive discussion and actually, Andres Montano, the creator the Online Tibetan Translating Tool, had a 'think-tank' with the scholastic department-་heads at the University of Virginia, and it was decided that this is actually how Tibetans end their words, names and phrases, particularly when they consist of more than one syllable...ie, separated by the tshegs. (་). Note that the single syllables such as ka, ra, etc. stand on their own as is (ཀ), (ར), etc. We're just now starting out with the Tibetan character additions, so many of the links still appear in red until we actually create pages for each of these, complete with their definitions. Here's hoping all is well with you. --Richard 14:21, 15 March 2008 (EDT)


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Our latest weird interactions have revolved around the fact that he seems to not have typical inhibitions. This is not cultural. It's him. It isn't a Latino deal. A few times I've walked by when he's in the bathroom peeing. He doesn't close the door. Everyone pees, I know. But every visitor I've had has made sure they close the door securely when they do it. The norm is to use the bathroom closest to the bedroom they are staying in (and close the door). When he didn't close the door to the bathroom he shares with Jasper, it sort of amused me. It more than sort of disturbed Jasper.
When he used the main floor bathroom (just off the living room) and left the door open, I found it surprisingly disconcerting. To walk into the living room and realize there is a man (who isn't even my kin) in the next room urinating is weird. But like usual, I tried to talk my self out of it. What's the big deal. He obviously feels completely at home here. That's great. It means I haven't come off as nearly as stressed as I feel. Good for me.
But after the third time I went to use said bathroom and sat upon a wet toilet seat, I couldn't stop obsessing about how it was all wrong. I'd hear him go into the bathroom and I'd start obsessing, he shouldn't be in that bathroom, he should be closing the door, he should be lifting the seat, he should aim, he should clean up his mess… And I couldn't for the life of me figure out how to tell him that it wasn't OK to pee on my seat and on my floor. I even know how to say "aim" in Spanish.
I have boys. I'm not easily shocked. That said, what's the right way to bring urinary etiquette up with a 21 year old man? Why did I care? If it embarrassed him, good! But for some stupid reason, I was too embarrassed to bring it up. So I fussed and festered and fumed (and diligently checked the seat and floor before I used the toilet). I got to be like a dog. You know how they can be sitting peacefully and then the dog satellite passes by, and their heads jerk up? And their ears prick up? I could be visiting neighbors and suddenly hear this guy go into the downstairs bathroom back at my house, that's how obsessed I got.
My boy-raising experience has prepared my to not be surprised by things that turn up during laundry or room cleanings. While cleaning the room of someone who shall remain nameless, I found a book under the mattress that made me chuckle. It was "Lesbian Vampire Tales". I threw it onto the charity pile (because the poor deserve bad porn just as much as anyone else). But Roberto happened by soon after and immediately zeroed in on it. He picked it up and asked (no glint in his eye, no bashful smile) if he could read it. I smiled and said, "Sure, I bet it will be pretty interesting.", knowing that both lesbian and vampire translate quite directly.
For weeks after he picked up the book, he could be found sitting in front of the fire in the living room, Lesbian Vampire book in hand, pencil, notepad, two Spanish dictionaries and an English dictionary at the ready. He read, wrote, flipped pages and muttered to himself. I checked out his list which was usually parked on the footstool by the fire: moan, nipple, thighs, take-off, arch… He was getting the gist of the story.
I always tried to answer his questions as if it were the most normal thing in the world for this 21 year old house guest to be asking his 38 year old host-mom about whatever the word or phrase might be ("toe-curling, making out"). I never like to make people feel ashamed, but sometimes I wish they'd just do it themselves. I felt like the conversation about precocious puberty in American girls could have been treading on thin ice, but I wasn't sure until he started to talk about when he got his semens, and when his cousins got theirs. I could easily have gone the rest of my natural life without ever hearing about his semens or what it meant for someone to actually get them. Clearly an what my friend Maggie would call an OverShare.
When I taught English I prided myself on teaching all the body parts to my adult students. If it made me uncomfortable, it was important enough that I just pushed ahead anyway. So even if I got creeped out by Roberto sitting in one chair reading the lesbian vampire tales, and Jasper next to him reading Japanese comic books , I just went on making dinner. They were both reading. Good for them.
Then I cleaned out the bathroom closet and what should pop out from between some linens but a little red book with the title, "1001 Ways to Drive a Man Wild in Bed and Satisfy Him Every Time" or something close to that. Thinking that how to satisfy him seems like it would be a pretty short chapter, not an entire book, I didn't put it into my reading pile. It went into another charity pile. This time I put it face-down in the hall. I didn't really want to have to explain it to anyone who happened by while I was cleaning.
Later in the day Roberto came up to me with the book in hand, "May I read this?" I looked up and winced, "Well yeah, but I bet it's pretty stupid." to which he responded, "But I like so much to learn the things." He was headed back upstairs when a thought occurred to me," Roberto, maybe don't read it in front of Jasper, OK?" He seemed puzzled, "OK, sure…" And then another thought occurred to me, "And I think you shouldn't bring it to work with you." This made more sense to him and he headed up the stairs again. But then he had a thought, "I brought the other book with me (biting lezzies), but I only read it on the bus."
He teaches in an elementary school. But the fact that he rides the school bus to school sort of escaped me. I started to try to explain to him that if he read a book on the (city) bus about satisfying a man every time, he might get attention he didn't want. He looked at me blankly when I said I thought he shouldn't read it on the bus. "No? Why?" If he were anyone else, I would have thought he was yanking my chain.
"Don't read it on the bus, just trust me."
After I realized that he was probably talking about the school bus, I felt better about telling him I couldn't explain it further, but that he shouldn't do it. (Note to self: look up Spanish word for "creepy".)
I think the final thing that snapped me was when he started to get his bus money from the family change jar. What a petty and stupid thing. But once I latched onto it, I couldn't let it go. The first time he asked if I had some quarters, I tipped over the change jar and handed him his 50 cents. I thought it was a one time deal. Over the next 7 days every time he left the house, he'd tip the change jar and get his bus fare.
I started to get resentful. I could hear the change jar from across the house, from the back yard. My hearing became more acute, almost bat-like. I complained to my friend. I was not just bothered about the fact that he was harvesting all the quarters from the jar, but I was bothered by the kind of person I was becoming. It was making me crazy.
Diane said, "He's taking your money. That's a boundary. You have to have boundaries." But how could I bring it up without calling him a thief? "Move the jar." Diane is a genius. I moved the jar to the third floor. Two days later he came looking for me."Um, Lisa? Where it is the change jar?"
I had to say, "Roberto, you have to pay for your own bus ride. You can't take money every day for your bus. " He looked confused. I got him fifty cents from my purse and said he had to get his own change from now on. "Where I can get the change?" We talked about banks and stores. During the whole discussion, his brow never unfurrowed. I felt like a miserly biddy.
But now he's gone. Every day at 4pm I watch the neighbor kids get off the bus and I have no sense of dread. He stopped by the other day to pick up some things and he stayed just long enough, which was not long at all. Watching him leave was like watching a whole flock of chickens, a couple goats, a pig, a bat and a dog all head back out to the barnyard where they belonged. I was happy.


text: Dignitaries will walk through the centre of Kabul to a central mosque where prayers will be said [AFP] Members of the Afghan royal family also came to mourn the king, who died on Monday, aged 92. Tight security James Bays, Al Jazeera's correspondant at the Shah's funeral in Kabul, said: "The security is tight in Kabul because this is a gathering of Afghanistan's politicians, foreign dignatries, senior figures and tribal elders. "The funeral proceedings will last a few hours - starting at the palace, then all of the dignitaries, quite remarkably, will walk through the centre of Kabul, to one of the biggest mosques, where prayers will be said for the last king of Afghanistan. "He is then expected to be buried on the edge of the town, where the ancestral relatives of the king are all buried." Zahir Shah's body will be taken to a hilltop mausoleum overlooking Kabul where he will be buried beside his father, King Nadir Shah who was shot dead in 1933, and his wife Homaira, who died in 2002. Return from exile The king returned from 29 years of exile after the Taliban were toppled by a US-led invasion following the September 11, 2001 attacks, and was given his honorary title as the nation's father. Zahir Shah ended the centuries-old monarchy when he abdicated while on holiday in Italy in 1973, after hearing his former premier Mohammad Daud, who was also his cousin, had staged a coup. Three days of mourning has been declared by Karzai for the late king, and two days of holidays for his funeral and prayer ceremonies. India said it would mark his death by lowering its national flag on Tuesday on state buildings and diplomatic missions worldwide.


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I had the option this weekend of going away for a night and leaving E, my 13 month old at home with daddy.
A Sunday lie in? An absolutely restful night with no risk of wake ups? Sounds temping, right? Amazingly I didn't even find myself at the stage of tempted. My heart sank at the though of leaving her for a night.
I am a working mum. I am a head of subject at a large secondary school and my job sometimes consumes more of life that I would like it to. I went back to work when E was 5 months old and she is at nursery for all four of those days now having done one day a week with family previously. She adores nursery and is thriving there, and I never have to worry about her between 8am and pick up time. We chose her nursery with our new parent hats as well as our teacher hats, and it ticked every box. I trust them implicitly. It's transparent, loving and stimulating as well as firm and fair. It's what I try to be at home.
I am picky about who I leave her with when she isn't at nursery. I can't help that. I am unsure why I was able to leave her with strangers when she was so tiny yet a year into this parenting thing I am picky about who I choose now. I guess one reason is that some people only offer help on their terms; no, I don't need child care on a Saturday afternoon, thanks all the same, I see too little of her enough as it the week to give up time at the weekend too. I think another is how I've observed some people with her; encroaching on her space as a tiny, helpless being and virtually sitting *on* her... Doing thoughtless things like trying to pacify my new born with an unwashed finger - what? We don't even do that, what gives you the right? These things have, rightly or wrongly, marred my view of the capabilities of those people to be entrusted with my most precious thing.
It is absolutely fine. I made sacrifices when I had a baby, and two of those things were freedom and spontaneity. I love every moment I have with her and still have very little desire to be away from her. I am going out for the day on Saturday and she can enjoy same quality times with daddy and that's really important. Her and I went away for a night last weekend to visit her godfather. D doesn't mind her being away occasionally like I do... He works very hard and loves the sleep I mentioned at the start of my post!!
So in the week, I am happy for her to be with other people, within reason. I am happy to entrust her care to nursery, or grandad occasionally, or a mummy friend. The girls I'd love to look after her more, her wonderful god mothers, sadly don't live close enough to help all that regularly, but some of my other top girls have saved the day when there have been child care emergencies.
For my birthday, the aforementioned godmothers bought me two tickets for 'Puppetry of the Penis' at the local theatre later on in the year. I have the choice of one of them baby sitting so my husband and I can go, or taking one of them and letting daddy baby sit. Now there's a couples of things here... I've seen the trailers, I am excited, if a little apprehensive but there's no way I want to go and watching dancing penises with my husband. I'd rather enjoy it in the company of one of my favourite girls. More over, I am still not ready to leave E at home without one of us being there just in case. Really. Just in case. Even with one of the most trusted on my list. In her 13 month existence she has woken twice before midnight, and I can count on my fingers on toes the number of nights she has woken in the night full stop. Yet I am terrified she will wake and that one of us won't be here for her. I have been out of an evening once since she was born leaving D in charge and work commitments have made meant I've not been home until late a few times. But I just feel sick at the thought us both leaving her, even with one of our closest friends who she knows well, never mind a baby sitter. I honestly don't mind. I am happy with a glass of white in my home, in my pjs, with my husband, without my husband, with friends, in front of the tele, in silence. Well almost, a peaceful snoozing baby is nearly silent.
I know some of my friends think I'm crazy. They don't understand why I'm not jumping at the chance for a night away or an evening out. Even some of my mummy friends don't seem to get it. I wonder when I will feel able to step back a little, or if this is something I'm in for the long term... I know that at the moment it doesn't bother me, and being here for my baby in the night if she needs me, us, is more important that any evening out. I guess when I start missing those nights out I can rethink and give it a try...
Right now, I wouldn't have it any other way.
Friday, 10 May 2013
Guest Post from Mama H
Today I am sharing with you a brilliant guest post written by Mama H. Mama H is a working mum & has a beautiful 13 month old daughter, E. She has recently started her own fab blog which contains the most gorgeous photos. You can check it out here- Thursday's Child, Friday's Thoughts.
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I had an awesome weekend. Sam and I took a trek up to Snow Shoe, Pennsylvania, where my father-in-law is a member of a hunting lodge. He and my mother-in-law had been there all week, and invited us up for the weekend. I'm so glad we went.
Friday we left for our destination in rain. It was yucky, and a three hour drive. Still, we got there, tired, but happy to have arrived.
Saturday couldn't have been more gorgeous. It was a beautiful, misty morning. I took out my cameras and captured the fog. I love mist in the trees.
We had a huge breakfast, courtesy of my MIL, and set out on a hike to the scenic Black Moshannon Creek. The hike was lovely, and the creek itself was gorgeous.
On our return trip up through the field on the property where the hunting lodge is, I saw this beautiful scene. I didn't do much to retouch this photo. The sky was that blue and the clouds that white. It was a near perfect day.
Another sight in the field were the insects. There were tons of grasshopper, and they would scatter by the hundreds as you would walk through the trail. There were lots of flowers and butterflies, such as the lovely one sitting atop a Queen Anne's Lace.
Evening brought a gorgeous sunset and Sam and I took a hike up to the top of the field to catch a glimpse of the sunset after another excellent meal by my MIL (We ate very well that weekend.). Here, Sam caught a me in the golden light of the evening sun. Oh, and a pattern is forth coming for the hat that finished up there. I was going to donate it to the local cancer center, but liked it too much. I slapped it on my head and wore it all weekend. I figured, hey, I could use a new hat every now and then. This one has become a favorite.
Ah, the sunset! It was another breathtaking scene. Central/Northern PA is an amazing place to be.
Later that evening, my FIL built us a campfire and we sat outside for a few hours, watching the stars pop out one by one. There are so many stars in the sky that we can't see when in normal civilization. We could see the Milky Way. I need to set up my camera there for a long exposure of the night sky next time we go.
Despite being exhausted from the day before, I couldn't sleep well, and was outside to see the sunrise with my FIL. He likes to sit on the porch and look for critters. One day he saw a mother black bear with three cubs. Another day, he saw a momma turkey with eight poults. We saw a bunny, and heard animals in the woods, but just saw that bunny that had been hanging around the cabin all day. I did manage to capture a bit of the sunrise.
After breakfast, the four of us went to get the newspaper. The mailbox was about a mile and half away, so it was a lovely hike full of green forest and tons of small animals. Here's a view looking up the road back to the cabin.
Lots of small critters! Sam pointed out this bright orange newt sitting on a leaf. The day before, he took the same hike with his dad, and saw a lot of these little guys. I guess they like the moisture from the day before.
After a hearty lunch of leftovers, we had to pack up and leave this wooded paradise. It was fantastic to unplug for the weekend. No TV and I only checked my e-mail twice on my phone. I got a bit of knitting done there, and in the car rides there and back. We all had a wonderful time and plan on making this an annual trip. Expect that pattern after I have the test hat knit from the directions I jotted down.
Want to see more of my pictures from the trip?. Head on over to Jenn Dixon Photography and take a look. I hope you do, because I got some of the best photos that I have gotten in a long time. I also took the film SLR camera that my FIL gave me that was once his. I just dropped the roll off to be developed and should have it Thursday, so expect more photos here, too!


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A 15-year-old rape victim was raped again while being treated for her injuries at a hospital in India, authorities said.
The girl said she was sexually assaulted by a security guard at a hospital in the eastern Indian state of Jharkhand, which is mostly impoverished.
Read: Rapist Cop Daniel Holtzclaw Sentenced to 263 Years In Prison For Attacking 13 Women
She had been admitted to the medical facility several days before after telling police she had been raped by a teenager in her neighborhood, Agence France-Presse reported.
"We registered a case and arrested the private security guard posted at the hospital after the girl's complaint and are now awaiting her medical report," police superintendent Chandan Jha told AFP.
The victim was sent to another hospital for treatment, the wire service reported.
Read: Seminary Student Sought to Purchase Infant for Sex in Mexico: Feds
Her first alleged attacker was arrested and sent to a juvenile detention facility.
Rape and assaults against females in India, including children and teenagers, has been the recent focus of increased attention and efforts to reform the country's treatment of girls and women.
Watch: Saudi Millionaire Cleared of Rape, Claims He Fell Into Teen


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What do you like best about being in the business you're in?
I love seeing the excitement in people's eyes when they see how easy it is to tell their stories with my app, and how powerful it can be to do so. I like being part of helping people create something out of nothing, and using today's technology to bring something special to life for people.
What kinds of pressures do you face as a business person?
There's a constant juggling of information to try and choose the right path as I proceed and grow. Starting a business, you get so much different advice from different mentors and organizations, but you really need to be true to your own understanding of your industry, your capabilities, and what you want your company to do. You have to trust your instincts – it's YOUR business, and you are the one who has to learn how to discern good advice from bad, and not be afraid to make changes if you hit a wall.
Has any one or anything in particular influenced your choices?
I'm particularly fond of the idea that you do well when you do good. Kevin Goodman of BlueBridge Networks, one of my partner vendors, builds philanthropy into everything they do as a business, and it changes lives. I'm so pleased to be able to do this too, to use my business a tool to help the community.
How has HRCC helped you connect with clients?
A couple of my inaugural clients are HRCC members, some of whom I met through HRCC, and some of whom I met through referral by HRCC and HRCC member. I love that HRCC creates the kinds of opportunities to expand my network that go way beyond HRCC alone.
What turns you on about the Expo?
I have worn every Expo hat – as an Expo attendee, then as an exhibitor through Bad Girl Ventures, then as a planning team member and exhibitor on my own, now as a sponsor / exhibitor AND planning team member! I've met so many interesting people there, from fellow planning team members to the other exhibitors and people who come to network, every year I've come away with a new relationship that has helped my business grow in some way, whether a partner-vendor or new customer or professional service. Expo attracts a great energy to it that I love being a part of, AND I also walk out with new business all the time!
How is HRCC essential to your business?
There's such a variety of opportunities that HRCC offers to stretch your leadership wings, to learn from others who are further along than you as entrepreneurs, and even to learn best practices from the way HRCC markets itself – how HRCC as a business takes its values and applies them to the logistics of creating these opportunities for people. Being a part of HRCC feels great because you get to surround yourself with a lot of people who really have it going on.
That I'm involved with HRCC and putting myself forward through opportunities like Expo, also strengthens my relationships with my clients (and others that I already know). Networking other exhibitors, for example, you have the opportunity to interact with people on a professional level. It builds your credibility, especially when you're an early stage company. It also amplifies the B2B conversation in general to have this many different kinds of resources coming together to support each other.
The Digital Mosaic is a 2017 and 2018 Expo Sponsor. For more information about participating in the HRCC Business Expo, please visit hrcc.org/expo.


text: Germany - Volkswagen CEO Matthias Mueller says the automaker had "an excellent year" in 2017 and is committed to addressing concerns about diesel pollution.Mueller cited the company's efforts to reduce diesel emissions and recover from its 2015 diesel emissions scandal. He said 160 000 older diesels had been taken off the road through trade-in incentives, and decided to update software on 4-million cars to reduce emissions.He said on Tuesday the company would be "part of the solution" in finding a way to address controversy over the diesel issue. Environmentalists are pressing for bans on older diesels in German cities with high pollution levels.Mueller, speaking at the company's annual news conference in Berlin, gave an upbeat view after last year's record sales of 10.7-million vehicles.He said: "We are on the offensive and we're going to stay that way." Mueller said conventional internal combustion engines would play a role in the company's push to meet tougher European Union limits on carbon dioxide emissions by 2021. But he said the company would invest €34-billion by 2022 on autonomous and electric technology and on developing digital transportation services.In 2015, Volkswagen was caught rigging cars to cheat on US diesel emissions tests and paid more than €20-billionin fines and legal settlements.


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This page collects information about nutritional facts and other properties of raw Pacific herring in summary. The information on this and other food has been gathered from various sources and may not be totally accurate. Among the data shown in this website you can find information about proteins, vitamins and minerals from raw Pacific herring and other nutrients like fiber, calories or cholesterol.
The proportions of nutrients in raw Pacific herring may vary depending on the type and quantity of food, and other factors that might contribute to the modification of its nutrients. Remember that depending on the preparation, raw Pacific herring may vary their properties and nutritional characteristics.
You can use this information to understand your dietary intake of this food or any other finfish and shellfish products. This can help you to cook better and healthier recipes including raw Pacific herring, but remember to consult your doctor or nutritionist before beginning any regimen or make drastic changes in your diet.
Properties of raw Pacific herring
In your regular grocery store in the group of fish you can find raw Pacific herring among other available foods.
Below you can see information about nutritional facts, properties and benefits of raw Pacific herring for your body as well as the amount of each of its major nutrients.
This food belongs to the finfish and shellfish products group.
Nutritional facts tables of raw Pacific herring
Below is a summary table of key nutrients of raw Pacific herring and a list of links to tables showing details of nutritional facts of raw Pacific herring. They include the main nutrients as well as the proportion of each.
|195 kcal.
|13.88 g.
|77. mg.
|74 mg.
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|32 μg.
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|10. μg.
|83 mg.
|1.12 mg.
|Vitamin B3
|2.2 mg.
The quantity of nutrients shown in the previous table, correspond to 100 grams of this kind of fish.
Food related to raw Pacific herring
Below you can find some food related to raw Pacific herring. You can see more information about them by doing click in their image:
|Salted butter
|Whipped butter with salt
|Anhydrous butter oil


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Sunday, September 9, we begin a brand new school year with all of the fun, great possibilities, and learning that a new year can bring!
Join us as early 8:00 am for a continental breakfast, to register for youth activities, and to check out all the other things going on with the church!
Our Daybreak Worship Service will begin at 8:30 am with a 1-Room Schoolhouse for children 5th Grade and younger.
Coffee, fruit, and goodies will be available prior to and after the 10:00 Celebration Service.
During the 10:00 Worship Service, a full church school program will be offered for children Preschool through High School.
Children will be dismissed from the service around 10:15.


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Walla Walla business development center plays role in 7 startups
Small business owners have gotten a big helping hand from the free business counseling and guidance services offered through the Walla Walla Small Business Development Center this year.
So far in 2016, seven new businesses have gotten started, resulting in the creation of 20 jobs and a $4.9 million capital infusion in the community, according to the latest numbers from adviser Joe Jacobs. For more information, contact Jacobs at firstname.lastname@example.com
Read full article by Vicki Hillhouse in the Union Bulletin here: http://www.union-bulletin.com/local_columnists/strictly_business/walla-walla-business-development-center-plays-role-in-startups/article_72470d1c-b33b-11e6-b2e1-53181b84ad16.html


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NTNU malwarelab is an academic group for teaching, research and development, and an arena for cooperation and knowledge development. The aim is to increase knowledge about malware in both public and private sectors.
The laboratory was established in October 2016, and builds on the malware research and education at NTNU Testimon Forensics Group. Testimon Forensics Group has focused on malware since 2010, and is an active member of NTNU malwarelab. Testimon has since 2010 had master and doctoral students who focuses on malware in their research.
Associate professor Geir Olav Dyrkolbotn
Visiting address: Teknologivegen 22, Gjøvik
Mobile Malware Campaign
Mobile Malware Campaign
NTNU, in a joint effort between the Center for Cyber and Information Security (CCIS) Defence Group and Testimon Forensics group, during the last week of October 2016 joined Europol's European Cybercrime Centre (EC3) in a mobile malware campaign. The objective of the campaign was to raise awareness among users on how to protect oneself from getting malware on mobile devices.
Malwarelab employees
Malwarelab employees
NTNU malware lab list of emloyees.
Information about events hosted by NTNU malwarelab will be published here.


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God With Us, Emmanuel
Christmas for Senior Adult Choir / Arranger: Ed Kee
- Powerful musical that explores what it meant for God to come as a baby and what it means for us today
- Singable, easy-to-learn musical celebration designed for senior adults
- Features sensible ranges, limited solos, slightly abbreviated performance time and easy SATB voicing for optimum sound and vocal performance
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Of all the awesome events in the story of Christ's birth – the star, the angels, the shepherds, the wise men – the most remarkable is simply the fact that He came! Centuries later, we still find it hard to comprehend why God would leave the glory and splendor of heaven to live among men on earth. Whether we can wrap our minds around that or not, the truth remains. His name, spoken by the angel, reminds us that He is God with Us – Emmanuel. This musical explores what it meant for God to come as a baby: perfect Creator, becoming creation; and what it meant for us: the reconciliation of sinful man to a holy God.
This singable, easy-to-learn musical celebration is designed for senior adults and features sensible ranges, limited solos, slightly abbreviated performance time and easy SATB voicing for optimum sound and vocal performance.
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Guilty in Innocence Project -The New Movement to Exonerate George Stinney Jr. At 14 the Youngest Person executed in US History
The New Movement to Exonerate George Stinney Jr. Youngest Person ever executed in U.S. History
FLORIDA, September 21, 2013 —Today the Guilty in Innocence Project along with the website Causes announced its first campaign to Exonerate and correct the historical record of seemingly innocent young man, who was the victim of one of the most horrible incidents of racial prejudice and a broken justice system in United States History
Clarendon County, South Carolina, -At fourteen years of age George Stinney Jr., a young boy with no criminal record in his entire life, who's name now lives in infamy as the youngest person executed in U.S. History. The case of George Stinney Jr. stinks of circumstantial, unproven and unsubstantiated prosecutorial testimony combined with a host of other injustices. The list of questionable characters is heavy, they include; a judge with double standards, a prosecutor who mislead jurors and a Defense Tax lawyer who was not trained for Defense of Capital Cases preparing for an election that dropped the ball and totally misrepresented Stinney. Also don't exclude the Racist Sheriff who may have been responsible fabricating the case from start to finish. The confession of George Stinney, Jr. was never recorded in police files Detectives offered the boy ice cream once they were done.
On the day of the Murders on March 23, 1944–The defendant, a young George Stinney Jr. was walking his cow and happened to pass two white young white girls who were collecting "maypop" flowers. The two girls, 11-year-old Betty June Binnicker and seven-year-old Mary Emma Thames, had crossed paths with George and his sister Katherine Stinney the day the two girls would eventually go missing. Binnicker and Thames' bodies were later found in a ditch the following morning. Their skulls shattered into pieces and their bodies were so brutally beaten with a railroad tie rod that many medical experts felt a 95 pound boy could not impose that amount of damage and not leave physical scars to him. Stinney even participated in the manhunt for the murder of the girls, mistakenly telling the posse members that he saw the two girls "down by the railroad"
The Confession of Stinneywas a historic miscarriage of justice and according to witnesses and court records the confession of George Stinney, Jr. was never recorded in police files and Three Sheriff's offered the boy ice cream once they were done.
To this day, no physical evidence that he committed the crime exists. His trial — if you call it that —He was convicted and sentenced in one day of court which lasted less than two hours. Prosecution Testimony included three sheriff officers who claimed that Stinney had confessed, although that was the only evidence the prosecution presented. No outside witnesses were called. No defense evidence was presented. The boy faced his sentence without family who were forced to move away from the city for fear of lynching from the angry mobs. Stinney Jr. would be left to face trial alone 1,000 people-whites only crammed the South Carolina courthouse. Blacks weren't allowed inside. Jury selection began at 10:00 am and a guilty verdict just after 5:00 p.m the all-White jury deliberated for all of 10 minutes in between lunch before sentencing him to death by electrocution
On June 16, 19447:30 pm Execution Day, – Stinney walked into the chamber with his bible under his right arm. The shackles did not fit the 14 year olds feet! Stinney's frail, 5-foot-1, 95-pound when fully seated would not touch the floor. Stinney had to step up and sit on the bible as his booster seat because his small frame would not encompass the entire electric chair seat. 2,400 volts had to be sent three times into the boy's body, and at one point his arm slipped out of the constraints. The mask was too large and slipped off his small face, exposing Stinney's wide open tearful eyes. Within four minutes Stinney Jr. was declared dead!
Guilty in Innocence Project-Efforts to correct the History Record of the Stinney Case
According to Gregg Greer the Chair of the Guilty in Innocence Project, we must began to combat and look at wrongful convictions in America overall-According to Amnesty International Since 1973, over 130 people have been released from death rows throughout the country due to evidence of their wrongful convictions. In 2003 alone, 10 wrongfully convicted defendants were released from death row. Example-African Americans are disproportionately represented among people condemned to death in the USA. While they make up 12 per cent of the national population, they account for more than 40 per cent of the country's current death row inmates, and one in three of those executed since 1977.
Factors leading to wrongful convictions include
- Inadequate legal representation
- Police and prosecutorial misconduct
- Perjured testimony and mistaken eyewitness testimony
- Racial prejudice
- Jailhouse "snitch" testimony
- Suppression and/or misinterpretation of mitigating evidence
- Community/political pressure to solve a case
I believe the best way we can commemorate the birth of this poor 14-year-old boy's short life is to take a moment to really ask ourselves would we allow any member of our own family to be treated like this, secondly we must look at the cruel form of punishment to begin with
What you can do to help clear Stinney's Name!
Guilty in Innocence Project and Causes have a joint petition Campaign to ask President Obama to Pardon George Stinney Jr.
Guilty in Innocence Project has a Posthumous Presidential Campaign to Pardon 14 year old George Stinney because his case reveals the outrage of human rights abuse but inspires in each one of us to strive for change of Justice Laws; we are dedicated to exonerating wrongfully convicted people to prevent future injustices. Specifically when those cases are due to racial prejudice. We also believe strongly that when we raise awareness and concern about the failings of our criminal justice system, if innocent people are imprisoned or, worse, being put to death for crimes that they did not commit, it is a facet of our society that eventually will inflame our society. We think the President will agree that year, 2015, the 71st anniversary of Stinney's birth, is a most timely moment to correct this historic miscarriage of justice.This type of injustice should be intolerable to every American, or human being. Stand with us! Please go to causes and sign our campaign.
Greer is a member of the SCLC-Southern Christian Leadership Conference and Chair of the Guilty in Innocence Project spent 2 years in research of the case. We hope to write a final chapter in this case. I've told my team that ultimately it must be our goal to protect human rights worldwide. As we enter into a new world a new day and age, we must look for change, too much pain, too many lives lost we must dedicate our lives to this cause..
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Hey guys, so I am facing a bit of a dilemma. So I decided to change the structure of the content I produce for my channel about a month ago from let's plays to commentaries of cringy/weird stuff on the internet (of course with gameplay playing in the background). What I noticed is that I have been getting a lot less views but a lot more engagement from my subscribers, I noticed how my subscribers seems to be coming back a lot more cause they genuinely enjoy the content, but it does not compliment the amount of views I used to be getting. Just curious, what are your guys thoughts on this? And any advice you can give a fellow Youtuber? Thanks in advance M8s, Bros, Bro-ets
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(L-R Judy Sampson, Jeanne Dimock Clifford, Mary Papageorge Ardan)These ladies toured our Clara Barton Elementary School in July 2018.All three ladies attended the Clara Barton Elementary School in Oxford, Massachusetts.
Grant Award from NJ Historic Trust - October 2017Bordentown Historical Society is elated to share with our members and friends that the Society has been awarded a Level 1 Capital Grant from the Board of the NJ Historic Trust in the amount of $88,110 for our overall roof replacement application. Margaret Westfield of Westfield Architects and Preservation Consultants truly did a fabulous job guiding this proposal through the State Board. We anticipate starting work on this project sometime early spring 2018. In addition to this award we received a very generous bequest from the Crosswicks Foundation of Crosswicks, NJ to also support our roof project. We are very thankful to our supportive neighbors who also funded the Clara Barton Schoolhouse restoration a few years ago----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASECLARA BARTON SCHOOLHOUSE AWARDED 2016 CSAA PRESERVATION GRANTCountry School Association of America (CSAA) (www.countryschoolassociation.org) headquartered in League City, Texas has awarded the Bordentown Historical Society (BHS) a 2016 Country Schoolhouse Association Preservation Grant of $1,000 grant toward the Clara Barton Schoolhouse Preservation Project. CSAA works to preserve America's early school history throughout the country.Dr. Michael Skelly, BHS Trustee, said, "Bordentown Historical Society is pleased to be awarded this grant. It is great to be recognized by this national association for our efforts in Bordentown. This is one part of a large effort by BHS. We have been actively conducting professional preservation work and education programs so that America's history in our community can be enjoyed today and passed on to future generations." In 1852 Clara Barton established the school. The schoolhouse was the first publicly funded community school in New Jersey that served students of all races and all economic classes. It was a huge success. Clara Barton went on to serve as a nurse in the Civil War under Dorothea Dix and later established the American Red Cross.Bordentown Historical Society owns and operates the schoolhouse as a museum. Tours are available to the public or groups by appointment. The schoolhouse is located at the corner of Crosswicks and Burlington Streets in Bordentown City New Jersey.--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------1740 Bordentown Friends Meetinghouse Returns to Historic LookThe 1740 Bordentown Friends Meetinghouse, now at 302 Farnsworth Avenue, is undergoing an extensive restoration and preservation effort that will return it to its historic appearance as shown in an 1890 photo and as reported in the 1937 Historic American Building Survey (HABS).An evaluation of the existing masonry was completed by Schnabel Conservation in 2012. The building had its 1800's stucco finish stripped away years ago. This caused damage to the brick and exposed the damaged brick directly to the weather for the next half century. The facade restoration project will save the 1740 Meetinghouse for future generations, by protecting its fragile Northeast facing brick façade from rapid deterioration, and restore it to historically accurate look.From 2012 to the present Bordentown Historical Society, local donors, 1772 Foundation, and New Jersey Historic Trust have funded and managed work on the oldest building in continuous use in Bordentown City. All work is being performed in accord with priorities and high historic standards of a Restoration Plan prepared by Westfield Architects & Preservation Consultants in 2012.Dr. Michael Skelly, Sr., Trustee and Restoration Project Coordinator said, "When you stand inside this building you are connected to the spirit of the American Revolution. This building is a direct link to our City's founders Thomas Farnsworth (a Quaker) who donated the land it sits on, and Joseph Borden (a Baptist) who donated the money for its original construction in 1740. It is the physical proof that our City's founders wanted freedom of religion in this land."This project is made possible by your tax-deductible donations to the Bordentown Historical Society Preservation and Restoration Fund. Most donations are DOUBLED by using them as matching money for outside grants acquired by the Bordentown Historical Society. Recent tax returns for BHS are available free to donors on request.Bordentown Historical Society members and guests recently visited the Bonaparte exhibit along with Peter Tucci who gave a personal tour.Dr. Mike Skelly gave an informative presentation on Joseph Bonaparte on 10/13/15 at the Friends Meeting House for the Bordentown Historical Society.
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Allan Rock, President & Vice Chancellor, University of Ottawa
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Whistler's Garrett Milan may be one of the most dominant players ever to move through the Whistler Minor Hockey Association ranks, and is now recognized among the top midget players in Western Canada.
Last week Milan helped his team, the Vancouver Northwest Giants, finish second overall in the Mac's AAA hockey tournament in Calgary after losing in the finals to a top-ranked team from Russia. This was the first time that a B.C. team had made the finals in the tournament, and Milan was named to the tournament's first all-star team as a result of his efforts. He was the only forward with the team to get picked for the first team, but was joined at the awards by goalie Peter Alexander and defenceman Cole Gelley.
The Giants started their tournament with a record of three wins, no losses and one tie in their pool, upsetting the Calgary Buffaloes, Edmonton CAC Canadians, Saskatoon Blazers and Moose Jaw Warriors. All teams have been contenders in past tournaments.
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The team was badly outplayed in the finals by the Severstal club from Russia, and were down 6-0 after the first period. The Giants played better in the second and third periods, but still couldn't find the net. The Russians, described as a world-class team by the Giants coach, added another goal to make the final score 7-0.
Milan has been playing outside of Whistler the past two seasons, after helping a Whistler bantam rep team place second overall in the province in 2006. The year before he played on a Bantam C1 Winterhawks team that went undefeated in 30 regular season games, and seven games in the playoffs.


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GeekGold Exchange Rate
Current Exchange Rate
GeekGold has an intrinsic monetary worth. After ongoing GeekGold inflation, the current rate of exchange is about 100 GG per US$ (2018).
Calculating the Exchange Rate
The value of GeekGold is measurable to some extent, because in the GeekAuctions people buy GeekGold with real money and with real games that have an actual material value. Based on such data from GeekAuctions, it is possible to guesstimate the rate of exchange between GeekGold and the US dollar, and to track how this has changed over the years. However, the estimated exchange rates below have for the most part not taken into account GeekGold exchanged for items, which would likely make the value of GeekGold higher than what is shown. GeekAuctions were disbanded a year ago, and since then a GeekGold for Sale thread gives another indication of the trade value of GG.
Exchange Rate from 2005-2017
The real-world value of GeekGold has steadily decreased over time, and this trend is expected to continue (though not as quickly as in the past), mostly because of the finite possibilities for spending it. The values shown below are based mainly on direct cash for GG auctions. Note that originally the vast majority of GG auctions were for games, whereas now the vast majority of such auctions are for cash. (As explained below, arguably the best option for exchanging GeekGold for games is The GeekGold for Game Lotteries where you can attempt to win games, gift certificates and more with GG.) The GeekAuction feature was discontinued in 2016, although similar transactions of GG for US$ still occur in GeekBay.
2005: ~6GG per US$
Note that prior to 2010 the data used is very limited and based on a small sample size, and only a rough approximation is possible, rather than an accurate value. Also note that as mentioned already, the above exchange rates are mostly based on geekgold auctions for direct cash rather than for items, and so the above figures are at best a rough and subjective guesstimate, rather than an exact value.
Inflation Data
Since 2005, the value of GeekGold has deflated significantly, so that 1US$ is presently considered the approximate equivalent of almost 41GG. Examples are available of what you could purchase with GeekGold from 2005-2007 (see here and here and here). For more historical data about the changing value of GeekGold, see the original content of this wiki article as it appeared in 2006, the excellent article by Simon Hunt from 2007, and the thread by Tom Rosen from 2007. This more recent summary from 2010 traces the declining value of GeekGold over time. From 2014-2016, GeekAuctions for US$10 have often sold for 400GG-500GG.
Inflation Causes
One significant catalyst for this inflation was the 150GG supporter bonus of 153.15GG that was distributed to all paying BGG supporters at the end of 2010 in connection with the 2010 end-of-year support drive, as first discussed in this thread started by John Peterson. While the rate of exchange was 15GG per US$ at the end of 2010, by early 2011 it was already typical for amounts of US$10 to sell for 250GG in the GeekAuctions. The influx of GG created by these supporter drives and its effect on the value of GeekGold has continued in subsequent years, with a further 143.30GG supporter bonus distributed at the end of 2011 in connection with the 2011 end-of-year support drive, which witnessed an immediate increase in the GeekGold paid for money auctions. By early 2012, most GeekAuctions for US$10 were selling for 300GG or more, some even as high as 500GG or more. This trend continued in later years, with several GeekAuctions for US$10 selling for 600-1000GG in January 2016 (i.e. 60-100GG per US$). Subsequent supporter bonuses awarded were 160.00GG at the end of 2012, 207.36GG at the end of 2013, 219.82GG at the end of 2014, 387.81GG at the end of 2015, and a massive 929.5GG at the end of 2016. In 2017 the supporter bonus was again paid out but was fixed at 1000GG.
Another contributing factor is the improved technology (e.g. phones, cameras, tablets, videos) available to the average user, making it easier to submit photos and videos in return for GeekGold. Prior to 2005, most users did not own such technology, meaning that the only way to earn GG was by writing articles, making it much harder to accumulate GeekGold.
With GeekGold steadily being introduced into the economy, there have been many discussions about the need for further ways to spend GeekGold, and to create "GeekGold sinks" that reduce the impact of this devaluation of GeekGold. See for example this thread (December 2010) and this thread (January 2013). With an steadily increasing user-base earning GeekGold, and with long time users often accumulating large amounts of GeekGold over time, more and more GeekGold is being injected into the economy without new ways to spend it, so invariably its value gets diluted.
Games for GeekGold (G4GG)
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Last updated: February 10, 2019.
Green New Deal Update
Some parts of the proposed Green New Deal (GND) are OK. Some parts are lunacy.
Smart parts:
Stupid parts:
If this is really as urgent as the GND proponents believe then all environmental, zoning, and other "permitting" processes should be waived for renewable and non-CO2 generating energy anywhere. I predict the left-leaning NIMBY and BANANA types will always try to block and delay these projects everywhere.
What should you do?
If you believe in anthropogenic global warming, take direct action to reduce your energy and greenhouse gas (carbon, methane, CFC, etc.) footprints. Get serious about reducing your energy use and greenhouse gas emissions. Convince your friends, acquaintances and co-workers to do the same. Stop opposing the efforts of others to build non-carbon-emitting solar, wind and nuclear energy projects. Lead, or get out of the way.
Reduce your energy use at home and work and use truly renewable energy sources whenever possible.
If you are not willing to do these yourself, stop trying to tax, legislate, or otherwise get other people to do them.
If you're just whining because government isn't imposing a solution on other people, you're part of the problem.
Background - the long view
Global climate change is a fact. The problem is that
the climate has always been changing, and not always due
to human activity. And during the peak of the last interglacial optimum, sea level was up to 6 meters higher, and the temperature up to 3 degrees Celsius warmer than at present. And somehow humans, penguins, and polar bears survived it all.
Many scientists and politicians like to focus on the very short 135 +/- year long period of "instrumented" meteorological records when discussing climate change. But the truth is, we have detailed scientific evidence for climate change going back hundreds of thousands of years.
The study of past climates, particularly those before historical instrumented records, is called paleoclimatology. Paleoclimatologists use a number of proxies to substitute for the lack of actual instrumented temperature measurements. These include:
The time resolution of the proxy data decreases as we go back in time. Some climate proxies have limited periods of record. For example, Carbon-14 dating is limited to only 60K years; ice core data go back 800K years, and oxygen isotope fractionation in sedimentary rocks goes back millions of years. Figure 1 shows paleotemperature proxies going back over 500 million years.
Figure 1. Rohde and Royer, et al. paleotemperature graphs composited, Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:All_palaeotemps.png
Dr. Rohde has prepared a whole series of graphics relating to past temperatures as well as other aspects of climate change at http://www.globalwarmingart.com.
Additional forcing of global climate changes comes from the precession of the earth's poles, the eccentricity and obliquity of the earth's orbit around the sun. In fact, the 100 Kyr, 41 Kyr, and 26 Kyr spectral components of these predictions are found in ice cores and sea floor sediment data. There are, however, significant phase shifts between the times of maximum and minimum insolation and the climate shifts.
Some of the most compelling data comes from the analysis of Antarctic and Greenland ice cores. The core series going back farthest in time are the Vostok (450 Kyr) and European Project for Ice Coring in Antarctica (EPICA , 800 Kyr). And what do these cores show? As illustrated in Figure 2 below, there have been a series of four long, cold glacial periods interrupted by relatively short interglacial periods over the last 420 Kyr. The EPICA core goes on to show four more glaciations in the 400 Kyr previous period. The Vostok and EPICA cores agree quite well over the common period of record. Greenland ice cores show evidence of repeated major temperature shifts (12 C, or 22 F) in as little as 50 years in the period 12 - 15 Kyr ago.
Figure 2. 420,000 years of CO2, CH4, Oxygen isotope ratios, insolation, and Temperature from the Vostok ice core. (Reference)
There are additional proxies for changes in solar irradiance. While the changes in total irradiance over an 11 or 22 year solar cycle are small (order 0.1%), changes in ultraviolet (UV) exceed 1%. Other indirect effects include modulation of the earth's exposure to cosmic radiation and the resulting cosmogenic generation of beryllium-10 (Figure 3), carbon-14, and chlorine-36. Increased cosmic radiation may also be associated with production of cloud condensation nuclei and changes in the overall earth albedo. A new model of solar activity (July, 2015) predicts a 60% decrease in solar activity (sunspots, flares, etc.) over the next few solar cycles.
Figure 3. Beryllium-10 concentration vs Sunspot Number
We live in the most recent interglacial period -- the same one in which agriculture developed, along with the rest of "recorded" human history. What the ice core record shows is increasing CO2, CH4, and temperature for the last 20,000 years. The Industrial Revolution accounts for only the last 1% of this time period -- a figurative "boil on the butt" of an existing, non-anthropogenic global warming trend. Temperatures haven't been increasing only for the last 200 years, they've been increasing for 20,000 years.
Figure 4. The rise of sea level since the last glacial maximum. (Reference)
About 125,000 years ago, during the last interglacial optimum (the Eemian period), sea levels were 4 to 6 meters higher than they are today, and Northern hemisphere temperatures up to 3 degrees Celsius warmer than today -- without significant anthropogenic land use changes and emissions of CO2, soot, or CH4. As shown in Figure 4, sea level was more than 120 meters below current levels at the time of maximum glaciation 22,000 years ago. The average rate of sea level rise over the last 20,000 years is greater than the rates observed over the last two centuries.
As more than one observer has noted, analysis of this time series might lead one to believe we are getting ready start another period of glaciation. It is unclear what triggers the periodic rapid warmings and coolings -- it is not only predicted orbital cycle changes in insolation, or changes in CO2/CH4 levels. Other parameters that may contribute include dust (from soil erosion and volcanic eruptions, which have been observed in the ice core and ocean sediment records) and small changes in the amount or character of solar or cosmic radiation. The consensus view appears to be "nobody knows for sure, but it probably wasn't human beings".
In the Antarctic, the temperature fluctuations lead the changes in CO2 and CH4 by several hundred years, when exactly the opposite might be expected by the most popular global warming theories. Both ice core and stomatal density/index data show this. Recent articles categorize this as an anomaly, but CO2 is well mixed in the atmosphere, with regional seasonal variations on the order of only 1% to 2%. And the explanations (more fossil fuel burning in the Northern Hemisphere) point to factors that probably were not significant before 2,000 years ago.
What does this all mean
We are in a period of global warming that started 20,000 years ago. Human beings have contributed to detectable climate change on the micro-, local and regional scales through changes in land use and population (and energy consumption) concentration. The urban heat islands are a good example. Human beings may have contributed to changes in global climate through changes in land use and industrial emissions of CO2, CH4, and other "greenhouse" gases. The human population has increased dramatically during this period with both warming temperatures and increased CO2 - it is difficult to argue that CO2 has been deleterious to human existence to date. The best evidence shows that per capita CO2 emissions are increasing as living standards improve over most of the world. Combined with projected population increases to 11 billion or more, it does not bode well for decreases in either emissions or atmospheric CO2 levels. The certainty and magnitude of those potential anthropogenic changes is a matter of current scientific research and political dispute.
In view of the paleoclimatology record, I believe that some scientists have gone too far propagating a crisis mentality. Those scientists who fudge the data (and won't release it), and who have tried to exclude scientists with contradictory data from publication have certainly gone too far. Scientists who switch from the science to political advocacy risk damaging science.
In view of the uncertainties in the paleoclimatology record, I do not believe that sweeping political "solutions", particularly those that concentrate power in governments, are needed at this time. It is appropriate to promote energy conservation and renewable sources of energy. That can be done without the hype, global treaties, global targets, and so-called "cap and trade" tax increases.
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MEP James Carver quits after firing Brexit broadside at Theresa May
Eurosceptic MEP James Carver will not be seeking re-election at next month's European elections – and has delivered a parting shot at MPs who failed to deliver Brexit.
Mr Carver, who was elected as Ukip candidate five years ago but now sits as an independent, said he will be retiring from politics to return to his umbrella manufacturing business. His West Midlands constituency covers Shropshire, the Black Country, Worcestershire and Staffordshire.
He will remain an MEP until the end of June, but will not sit in the European Parliament again due to the recess, and his Kidderminster office will close tomorrow.
Mr Carver said: "I have campaigned for more than 20 years for Britain to regain its independence from the shackles of the EU, but my joy at the referendum result in 2016 has been soured by the inept handling of Brexit by the Conservative government and Parliament's failure to endorse the decision of the people and leave on WTO terms on the date set."
Mr Carver described the Prime Minister's withdrawal agreement as the 'worst in history'. "It is about leaving the UK tied to EU rules but with no influence, a backstop that potentially locks us into a customs union indefinitely and a bill of at least £39 billion," he said.
"It satisfies no-one, neither Remainers nor Leavers, and our MPs should have voted to leave on World Trade Organisation terms, enabling the UK to trade around the world, free from the protectionist, self-serving EU with its desire for ever closer union."
"Tariffs are falling across the globe – the fear of Armageddon is unfounded, and businesses would not allow political motivations to harm their trading opportunities."
Mr Carver said he had been proud to serve the West Midlands as an MEP for the past five years.
He added: "I have done my best to help, support and campaign for the region and its people.
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Bullying, in a nut shell, is a form of intimidation or domination toward someone who is perceived as being weaker.It's almost like we are living in the jungle with a pack of wolves fighting over alfa male. We do all sorts of harmful acts to show our dominance and take what we want by force. Typically as kids, the only thing we want is make the other child feel humiliated. Usually this is because we are insecure for some reason. There are different types of bullying. While some may think that bullying mainly consists only of physical domination, the fact of the matter is that there are verbal and emotional forms of bullying as well. And, with the rise of the Internet, there are now instances of children being bullied online through email, chatrooms and on Facebook. It is even possible to be bullied through text messaging on a cell phone. Chid bullying can happen in any of these forms. It's not like in the 90's when you had to go knock door to door to bully someone, now they make it easy for you.
For the most part, boys prefer to use physical intimidation tactics in their bullying. They will use physical aggression to force others to do what they want, or to feel in charge of a situation. Something about testosterone I would imagine. Girls, on the other hand, typically use more of a subtle approach. They stick to teasing, name calling, and passive aggressive methods. None the less it still hurts the same.
so how many ways can someone bully your child?
- Name-calling
- Teasing
- Pushing
- Hitting
- Threatening
- Spreading rumors
- Playing mean practical jokes
- Social exclusion
- and lets not forget our new favorites, SOCIAL MEDIA
So why do kids bully other kids?
They may be abused or neglected at home. They may not have parents that get involved in their life or well being. And how well do our school spread knowledge about bullying and taking a stand?
Let's break down some numbers shall we?
- 60% of 4th through 8th graders report being victims of bullying.
- 86% of students said, "other kids picking on them, making fun of them or bullying them" causes teenagers to turn to lethal violence in the schools.
- 282,000 students are physically attacked in secondary schools each month.
- Suicide is the third leading cause of death among young people, resulting in about 4,400 deaths per year, according to the CDC. For every suicide among young people, there are at least 100 suicide attempts. Over 14 percent of high school students have considered suicide, and almost 7 percent have attempted it.
- Bully victims are between 2 to 9 times more likely to consider suicide than non-victims, according to studies by Yale University
- A study in Britain found that at least half of suicides among young people are related to bullying
- 10 to 14 year old girls may be at even higher risk for suicide, according to the study above
- According to statistics reported by ABC News, nearly 30 percent of students are either bullies or victims of bullying, and 160,000 kids stay home from school every day because of fear of bullying
- One third of teens reported being bullied while at school
- About 20 percent of teens had been made fun of by a bully, 18 percent of teens had rumors or gossip spread about them, 11 percent were physically bullied, such as being shoved, tripped, or spit on, 6 percent were threatened, 5 percent were excluded from activities they wanted to participate in, 4 percent were coerced into something they did not want to do, and 4 percent had their personal belongings destroyed by bullies
- 4 percent of teens in this study reported being the victims of cyber bullying
- Most bullying occurred inside the school, with smaller numbers of bullying incidents occurring outside on the school grounds, on the school bus, or on the way to school
- Only about a third of bully victims reported the bullying to someone at school
- About 2 of every 3 bully victims were bullied once or twice during the school year, 1 in 5 were bullied once or twice a month, and about 1 in 10 were bullied daily or several times a week
- In this study, females and white students reported the most incidents of being the victims of bullying
- 44 percent of middle schools reported bullying problems, compared to just over 20 percent of both elementary and high schools
Are you like many other parents out there who are concerned for our children's safety in school? There are many signs that indicate your child is a victim of bullying.
- Becoming withdrawn
- Showing fear when it is time to go to school
- Increasing signs of depression
- Decline in school performance
- Speaking of another child with fear
- Noticeable decline in how the child sees him or herself
- Signs of physical altercations, such as bruises, scrapes and other marks
Also try to be alert on if your child is the one doing the bullying at school:
- Views violence positively as the solution to most problems
- Shows aggression toward adults as well as other children
- Need to dominate others and control situations
- Easily frustrated
- Shows little sympathy to others who are being bullied, or who are having problems
- Won't help stop bullying
If your child is the one being bullied, you need to help them as soon as possible. Don't wait. Try talking to them.
- Let them know that you can go together, to school authorities to see what can be done in terms of mediation, and in terms of increased attention paid on the school grounds.
- Encourage the child to avoid the child bully, and seek help from a teacher or trusted adult when necessary.
- Practice being assertive and asking the bully to leave the child alone.
- Encourage your child to be with true friends – bullies are less likely to pick on children who are in a group.
- take up a martial arts class to teach confidence, self discipline, respect, and much more.
Please help Dragon Within Martial Arts spread the word about bullying. Talk to as many people as you can. We are hosting an anti-bully workshop that is free to your child. We want to help teach every kid the importance of knowing the signs of bullying. We need to stop this and together we can.
Join us November 22nd from 2-4 for a free community event. We will be teaching anti-bully techniques and how to get away from someone who is bullying your child.
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