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Trip-hopâ??s trailblazer keeps underground cool
by Roni Sarig
It's no small feat that 30-year-old Adrian Thaws, a mixed-race street kid from Bristol, England, has managed to create one of this decade's most distinctive, virtually unprecedented music styles under the nom de rap Tricky. His distillation of hip-hop into a cinematic, often nightmarish, soundscape of funk beats, soulful vocals, spoken grumbles and some of the most wicked sonic thrills ever popped out of a sampler has been labeled trip-hop. It just as easily could be called Tricky music and it can be experienced Nov. 5 with DJ BMF at House of Blues.
Since his origins rapping with Bristol-based group Massive Attack, Tricky has been interfacing the sounds of the streets with the music in his head. "I wanted Massive Attack to do a cover of a rap song, and they weren't into it," he says. "So I've always been into representing hip-hop -- but in my own way, because I knew I wasn't American. I didn't live that sort of life."
There's nothing tricky about his success. For Tricky, creation is as natural an instinct as a predator's need to hunt. The only thing that will soothe this savage beast's hunger is feeding. "I just keep learning and trying to have fun and not get too caught up in it," Tricky says, his voice racing over the phone. "It's meditation more than fun, actually. Writing lyrics or writing music is like a meditation."
Since his 1995 debut, "Maxinquaye," arrived to critical genuflection, Tricky released three records: "Nearly God," a collection of tracks with guest vocalists such as Neneh Cherry, Alison Moyet and Bjork; "Tricky Presents Grassroots," a mini-album featuring underground rap acts; and finally, his second proper album, the apocalyptic "Pre-Millennium Tension."
As Tricky began recording this year's Angels With Dirty Faces (Island), a broken leg threatened to curtail his hectic pace. Tricky and his backing musicians ventured to New Orleans and holed up in the popular studio/residence Kingsway. "The bedrooms are just upstairs from the studio, so it was real convenient," he says. "I didn't leave the house for two and a half weeks, because I couldn't move around much. I was just making music. I was rested and very relaxed, and not tense."
It seems the only things able to distract Tricky from creating new music have been other creative endeavors: remixing, starting his own label and touring. He's produced tracks by artists ranging from horror rappers Gravediggaz to Elvis Costello.
In September, Tricky hopes to release the first two records from his own Durban Poison label: the debut of Baby Namboos, a group made up of Tricky's cousins, and a spoken-word album that features true-life crime stories told by British gangsters. Island Records, the label that releases Tricky's own albums, is said to be in a state of turmoil after the departure of its longtime head, Chris Blackwell, and the company's recent sale to Universal. "Island Records is falling apart," he says. "People are leaving because they don't know if they're going to have a job in a couple of months. So I just have to wait and see what the damage is after they fall apart."
Tricky's live show is closer to a club/DJ experience than a rock spectacle. You won't see Tricky hamming it up or working the crowd. In fact, you might not see much of him at all. He's been known to perform behind stacks of keyboards or with his back to the crowd. "I don't feel like it's a performance," Tricky says. "It's just as important for me and my band to have a good time as it is for the crowd to. If we ain't having a good time, then you ain't gonna have a good time."
In some ways, Tricky has been felt and not necessarily seen by the entire spectrum of underground and popular music. "It gets me confused," Tricky admits. "Sometimes I think I'm a very successful artist and other times I realize I'm not. But this album is more successful than all of them, for the time scale we're on now. And that makes me happy."
Reflecting on his rise from ghetto orphan to cultural elite, Tricky can't help but feel appreciative. "I've been lucky enough to get accepted for doing my own thing, and now people take it for granted that I'll do my own thing," he says. "My fans have stayed with me through change, and that makes me feel strong. I've been lucky, so I just take advantage of it."
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package com.github.mauricio.async.db.mysql

import org.specs2.mutable.Specification
import java.util.UUID
import java.nio.ByteBuffer
import io.netty.buffer.Unpooled
import io.netty.util.CharsetUtil
import com.github.mauricio.async.db.RowData

class BinaryColumnsSpec extends Specification with ConnectionHelper {

  "connection" should {

    "correctly load fields as byte arrays" in {

      val create = """CREATE TEMPORARY TABLE t (
                     |  id BIGINT NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT,
                     |  uuid BINARY(36) NOT NULL,
                     |  address VARBINARY(16) NOT NULL,
                     |  PRIMARY KEY (id),
                     |  INDEX idx_t_uuid (uuid),
                     |  INDEX idx_t_address (address)
                     |);""".stripMargin

      val uuid = UUID.randomUUID().toString
      val host = "127.0.0.1"

      val preparedInsert = "INSERT INTO t (uuid, address) VALUES (?, ?)"
      val insert = s"INSERT INTO t (uuid, address) VALUES ('${uuid}', '${host}')"
      val select = "SELECT * FROM t"

      withConnection {
        connection =>
          executeQuery(connection, create)
          executeQuery(connection, insert)

          val result = executeQuery(connection, select).rows.get

          compareBytes(result(0), "uuid", uuid )
          compareBytes(result(0), "address", host )

          executePreparedStatement( connection, preparedInsert, uuid, host)

          val otherResult = executePreparedStatement(connection, select).rows.get

          compareBytes(otherResult(1), "uuid", uuid )
          compareBytes(otherResult(1), "address", host )
      }

    }

    "support BINARY type" in {

      val create =
        """CREATE TEMPORARY TABLE POSTS (
          | id INT NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT,
          | binary_column BINARY(20),
          | primary key (id))
        """.stripMargin

      val insert = "INSERT INTO POSTS (binary_column) VALUES (?)"
      val select = "SELECT * FROM POSTS"
      val bytes = (1 to 10).map(_.toByte).toArray
      val padding = Array.fill[Byte](10)(0)

      withConnection {
        connection =>
          executeQuery(connection, create)
          executePreparedStatement(connection, insert, bytes)
          val row = executeQuery(connection, select).rows.get(0)
          row("id") === 1
          row("binary_column") === bytes ++ padding
      }

    }

    "support VARBINARY type" in {

      val create =
        """CREATE TEMPORARY TABLE POSTS (
          | id INT NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT,
          | varbinary_column VARBINARY(20),
          | primary key (id))
        """.stripMargin

      val insert = "INSERT INTO POSTS (varbinary_column) VALUES (?)"
      val select = "SELECT * FROM POSTS"
      val bytes = (1 to 10).map(_.toByte).toArray

      withConnection {
        connection =>
          executeQuery(connection, create)
          executePreparedStatement(connection, insert, bytes)
          val row = executeQuery(connection, select).rows.get(0)
          row("id") === 1
          row("varbinary_column") === bytes
      }

    }

    "support BLOB type" in {

      val bytes = (1 to 10).map(_.toByte).toArray

      testBlob(bytes)

    }

    "support BLOB type with large values" in {

      val bytes = (1 to 2100).map(_.toByte).toArray

      testBlob(bytes)

    }

  }

  def testBlob(bytes: Array[Byte]) = {
    val create =
      """CREATE TEMPORARY TABLE POSTS (
        | id INT NOT NULL,
        | blob_column BLOB,
        | primary key (id))
      """.stripMargin

    val insert = "INSERT INTO POSTS (id,blob_column) VALUES (?,?)"
    val select = "SELECT id,blob_column FROM POSTS ORDER BY id"

    withConnection {
      connection =>
        executeQuery(connection, create)
        executePreparedStatement(connection, insert, 1, Some(bytes))
        executePreparedStatement(connection, insert, 2, ByteBuffer.wrap(bytes))
        executePreparedStatement(connection, insert, 3, Unpooled.wrappedBuffer(bytes))

        val Some(rows) = executeQuery(connection, select).rows
        rows(0)("id") === 1
        rows(0)("blob_column") === bytes
        rows(1)("id") === 2
        rows(1)("blob_column") === bytes
        rows(2)("id") === 3
        rows(2)("blob_column") === bytes
        rows.size === 3
    }

  }

  def compareBytes( row : RowData, column : String, expected : String ) =
    row(column) === expected.getBytes(CharsetUtil.UTF_8)

}

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Explorations of the rapid automatized naming (RAN) task : what should the "A" in RAN stand for?
This research explored the cognitive nature of the RAN (Rapid Automatized Naming) task, a test widely used to assess reading development. It addressed automaticity- and attention-based processing and their relative contribution to RAN task performance to better understand why the RAN task has the predictive value for reading development. Study 1 (N=68) utilized two different indices of automatic stimulus recognition and an index of attention control as predictors of naming speed on the four original versions of the RAN task. The study found little support for an automaticity-based account of RAN task performance, but did support an attention-based account. Symbolic and non-symbolic RAN subtasks differed in terms of the role played by automatic and attention-based factors, and in terms of their correlations with reading speed. Study 2 (N=16) used ten modified versions of the RAN task that manipulated attention and memory demands. Naming speed was sensitive to attentional demands and to stimulus familiarity, but not to factors of long-term memory retrieval. Study 3 (N=97) provided additional information on the roles played by automatic and attention-based processing in RAN task performance, using new measures of these constructs. Attention came out as explaining a large proportion of the variance in naming speed; skill in automatic stimulus detection and in lexical access efficiency did not. Working memory was strongly associated with RAN task performance. Finally, a meta-analysis on a representative sample of research data (65 studies reporting 530 coefficients of correlation between RAN tasks performance and different measures of reading, N=8555) revealed the average point estimates were r + = .345 and r + = .398, for cross-sectional and longitudinal research designs respectively. The moderator analyses showed that reading skills more closely associated with RAN task performance required expertise with printed text and depend on applying rules and building and managing associations. These regularities are largely consistent with the results of the three experimental studies. Overall, these indicated that attention-based factors rather than automaticity underlie naming speed as measured by the RAN tasks, and these mechanisms presumably link RAN to reading performance. Implications for further research and educational practices are discussed.
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Henry James Farmer is widely and favorably known in insurance circles of Detroit. He deals in insurance and surety bonds, in which connection he has built up a business of extensive proportions, displaying sound judgment, energy and enterprise in the management of his interests. He was born in Lawrence county, Ohio, May 14, 1876, and is of Scotch descent, his parents being James Henderson and Naomi M. (Williams) Farmer. Representatives of the family patented the land upon which Trinity church in New York city now stands and in the early days the paternal and maternal grandparents came west over the mountains, traveling by means of wagons, and established their homes in southern Ohio and northern Kentucky.
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Mr. Farmer is a member of the Ohio Society of Detroit, of which he has been secretary for the past four years. He is a Mason, belonging to Aurora Lodge, F. & A. M., of Portsmouth, Ohio; Peninsular Chapter, R. A M.; and Detroit Commandery, No 1, K. T. of Detroit. He is also connected with the Masonic Country Club, the Wayfarers Club and the Board of Commerce, and is serving as a member of the board of governors of the Wayfarers Club He is a well known member of the Woodward Avenue Presbyterian church, wherein he has held numerous offices. He is a man of high personal standing, of marked business ability and enterprise, and in all matters of citizenship his influence is on the side of advancement and improvement.
Title:	The city of Detroit, Michigan, 1701-1922; Volume 3 of The city of Detroit, Michigan, 1701-1922, The city of Detroit, Michigan, 1701-1922
Authors:	Clarence Monroe Burton, William Stocking, Gordon K. Miller
Publisher:	S.J. Clarke Publishing Company, 1922

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I. Concentration and Competition in Steel
In 1901 a series of high-level mergers effectively terminated the era of active competition in the U.S. steel industry. The United States Steel Corporation, or "Big Steel," as it came to be...
...Electric arc furnaces have become the mainstay of the "mini-mill," a much smaller and less costly steel mill...
...cit., p. 113...
...For example, the government built an integrated steel plant (including mining facilities) at Geneva, Utah, in 1942-43 at a cost of $191.2 million...
...Moore group...
...X, No...
...Essentially, U.S...
...It doesn't frighten me if it shortens my week...
...89-97...
...Again, the introduction of greater competition in the industry, via foreign steel, was the fundamental reason for this change...
...These " greenfield" plants (as they are called) are the Fairless, Pennsylvania, works of U.S...
...Mueller and Kawahito, op...
...CIA, op...
...1 2 This conclusion was bolstered by two studies commissioned by the American Iron and Steel Institute (AISI), the industry's major trade representative...
...Between 1960 and 1965, productivity rose by an average of 4.1% per year...
...D. Ault,"The Continued Deterioration of the Competitive Ability of the U.S...
...Hans Mueller and Kiyoshi Kawahito, Steel Industry Economics: A Comparative Analysis of Structure, Conduct and Performance (New York: Japan Steel Information Center, 1978), p. 7. 7. See, for example, C.R...
...Putnam, Hayes & Bartlett, Economics ofInternational Steel Trade: Policy Implications for the United States...
...cit., p. 16...
...Putnam, Hayes and Bartlett, 1977, pp...
...53-4...
...For the first time since 1907 when Judge Gary sat down to dinner with the other U.S...
...The Council on Wage and Price Stability recently acknowledged this critical competitive function of foreign steel...
...In a letter "to the members and families of the NACLA Report 8JanlFeb 1979 9 United Steelworkers of America," David McDonald, Howard Hague and I.W...
...In 1956, for example, it took 60.7 employee hours to produce a metric ton of steel in Japan and only 16.3 hours in the United States...
...Costs are lower in Japan and the Japanese government's subsidies to its steel producers are so minimal as to be insignificant...
...9915. Adams, op...
...steel production was located on coastal sites, accessible to large freighters, compared to 82% of Japanese production...
...Twenty years later it took 10 employee hours to produce a metric ton in Japan and 11.8 in the United States...
...or they could push their old equipment as far as possible without making major repairs: According to Ike Gittlen, a steelworker in Steelton, Pennsylvania, the companies are following the last alternative: Foremen (are) urged to operate furnaces in a reckless fashion to get the highest ton-per-hour rate possible and all maintenance is of the patchand-go variety so that down time is minimized...
...This has been particularly evident since 1967.9 As Chart I demonstrates, this corresponds to the years in which foreign imports began to make a serious dent in the domestic market...
...In this section we will begin to examine the reasons why...
...Each side has mustered its own team of economists to demonstrate through elaborate forward and backward projections that yes, there has, or no, there has not, been dumping-which only recalls Mark Twain's definition of the three types of lies which exist: lies, damn lies and statistics...
...Steel Industries, 1955-1970," Economia Internationale (February 1974), pp...
...Unfortunately, an analysis of internal dynamics within the USWA lies outside the bounds of our present study...
...All seem to agree that the largest producers were quite often the last ones to adopt new techniques...
...FTC, op...
...It concluded that the U.S...
...Most analysts note that pricing behavior in the domestic steel industry began to change in the late 1950s and early 1960s, with prices becoming gradually more responsive to demand...
...cit., pp...
...Our next task is to determine if this competition reflects the lower costs of foreign steel or if, as U.S...
...Betheil, op...
...First, what is steel...
...According to many union members, however, this lack of democracy in the union and the leadership's ever more conciliatory policies toward capital, did not originate in this period, but merely became more accentuated...
...7 Opponents of base point pricing, including the Federal Trade Commission, have stressed that it promoted collusion and the elimination of any price competition...
...Indeed, even as U.S...
...3 4 Moreover, the Central Intelligence Agency, in a study of the world steel industry, reported that Japanese blast furnace design and operations are "the best in the world, and the highly efficient basic oxygen furnace operations are the envy of the world's steelmakers...
...order to reach parity with the Japanese steelworkers and again make domestic steel more competitive on the world market...
...producers not maintained these high levels of spending but, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, real spending is moving backwards...
...Cited in Betheil, op...
...Regardless of the system, steel prices have risen faster than the national industrial average...
...AISI, Annual Statistical Reports...
...Quoted in Staughton Lynd, "History of the United Steelworkers of America," Part V, Guardian, April 25, 1973...
...4. Subcommittee on Antitrust and Monopoly, Committee on the Judiciarv...
...It wasn't long before the new-born behemoth had its hooks into the essential problem faced by capital: price competition tends to reduce profits...
...In fact, no sooner did imports begin to win a slice of the American market than steel producers started tackling the cost problem...
...4 3 As a result, U.S...
...Although the 1959 strike ended in a standoff, it has been called "the turnaround between the steelworkers' offensive and management's counteroffensive...
...Cold rolling mills reform sheets and other semi-finished forms (produced by hot rolling mills) without a second-heating...
...Mike Lefevre, Chicago steelworker 2 7 Japanese and other foreign producers not only enjoy lower labor costs than U.S...
...In June 1946 the plant was sold to U.S...
...producers stack up against foreign competitors in terms of the application of technology advances...
...Estimates from David R. Dilley, "Financing Future Capital Expenditures," in Szekely, op...
...The intended negative effect that such policies have had on wages, however, has not prevented foreign steel from penetrating the U.S...
...2 " Nevertheless, by 1959 steelworkers received an average wage of $3.10 an hour, 91C an hour more than the average for manufacturing and about $2.60 an hour more than Japanese steelworkers made...
...Putnam, Hayes and Bartlett, 1977, p. 39...
...By 1968, foreign imports were absorbing nearly 20% of the market...
...148-54...
...In 1959 the American Iron and Steel Institute counseled steelworkers, then in the midst of contract negotiations with the steel industry, that: The great advantage of foreign steel producers is that their wage rates are much lower than ours...The narrowing margin of U.S...
...3 0 Once molten steel is produced, it must be shaped...
...4 Furthermore, the AISI studies identified the Japanese-the major exporters of steel to the United States-as the worst offenders...
...The upshot, simply, is that it costs less to make steel in Japan both because wages are lower and because output per employee is higher...
...The United States Steel Corporation, or "Big Steel," as it came to be known, was the powerful progeny of three of the largest financial groups of the time: the Andrew Carnegie group, the J.P...
...2 Morgan and the others argued that the giant company would allow for more efficient production, greater technological advances and lower costs...
...Since 1959, wage increases in the steel industry, while still high for manufacturing as a whole, have declined in relation to what workers were able to win in the 1949-1959 period...
...producers, but output per employee hour in these countries is also going up much more rapidly than in the United States...
...Needless to say, the steelworkers did not react kindly to a suggestion that they accept a more than 80% reduction in wages in JanlFeb 1979 7a AL Rpr Jones & Laughlin's Pittsburgh Works start up after 116-day strike in 1959...
...2 9 The "cold-metal" route obviates blast furnaces and coking ovens by eliminating the pig iron stage and refining scrap steel or other solid-state iron directly into molten steel in an JanlFeb 1979 9NACLA Report "electric arc furnace...
...Indeed, when faced with a choice between expanding markets by adopting a more competitive pricing posture or bolstering profits by raising prices when competitive pressures are re moved, the industry has consistently opted for fatter profits...
...David Gordon and JosephJ...
...2 4 As we have argued, the major element in this turnaround was the reintroduction of competition into a monopolized industry...
...3 9 This may seem like a huge sum, but, in fact, it isn't...
...Charles Stern, the president of the American Institute for Imported Steel, predictably called the steelmakers' charges "a fantastic propaganda campaign...
...technical superiority can no longer overcome so enormous a cost disadvantage...
...The most significant factor in this reversal has been the introduction of new technology into the steelmaking process, allowing workers to turn out more steel in less time than before...
...As with the BOF, continuous casting, by eliminating approximately half the steps of hot rolling mills, can produce the same amount of steel with 10-15% less labor power...
...steel industry "would benefit from a reduction of imports only to the extent that the removal of' competition allows it to fatten profit margins by raising prices...
...Steel companies in Japan built nearly 100 million tons of greenfield capacity in the 1960s and 1970s, as compared with only 10 million tons in the United States...
...In general, most writers have found that U.S...
...market...
...Steel (built in 1953) and the Burns Harbor, Indiana, works of Bethlehem Steel (1967).38 The U.S...
...As of 1975 only 10% of U.S...
...In a single action, a "combination of combinations," more than 65% of the nation's steel capacity was united in one firm...
...COWPS, op...
...Since 1970 steelmill prices have risen above those of all industrial products by 33%.8 Not even Kennedy's legendary "jawboning" of the steelmakers served to counteract this trend...
...cit., p. 7. 25...
...Moreover, a study undertaken by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) in 1977 also concluded that the net effects of government subsidies on the steel industries ofJapan and the United States were quite minimal, amounting to a 46C a ton advantage for Japanese steelmakers over the 1957-75 period...
...The molten iron is then combined with carbon, other alloys and scrap steel at temperatures up to 3000' F. This process first took place in Bessemer furnaces (developed in the mid-19th century), open hearth furnaces (dominant in the first half of the twentieth century), and now, increasingly, in the basic oxygen furnaces (BOF...
...Senate, October 4, 1977, p. S16257...
...At the end of the war it turned these plants over to the largest steel companies, their wartime managers...
...Market (Newton, Mass: Putnam, Hayes and Bartlett), 1978...
...William T. Hogan, Economic History of the Iron and Steel Industry in the United States, V (Lexington, Mass: Lexington Books, 1971), p. 2090...
...9. Federal Trade Commission (FTC), The United States Steel Industry and Its International Rivals: Trends and Factors Determining International Competitiveness (Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1977), Chapter 4; Richard Mancke, "The Determinants of Steel Prices in the United States: 1947-1965," Journal of Industrial Economics (April 1968), pp...
...Before 1959 the United Steelworkers of America (USWA)--which had organized 90% of basic steel by 1942-was able to boost wages significantly without yielding any ground in the important areas of organization or pace of work...
...Essentially, it is iron alloyed with a certain percentage of carbon or other minerals...
...steelmakers argue, it represents "unfair" competition, the dumping of below-cost steel...
...Similar conclusions have come from less immediately interested sources such as Charles Bradford, of Merrill, Lynch or Sanford Rose, a noted editor at Fortune, who wrote, "Japan's export success, which is causing such consternation in the United States these days, does not depend to any appreciable degree on such illegal trade tactics as dumping...
...Ralph Hindson, "The Changing, Map of the World Steel Industry," inJulian Szekely, The Future of.the World's Steel Industry (New York: Marcel Dekker, Inc., 1976), p. 78...
...The unavoidable inference from this fact is that foreign producers were selling below their full production costs...
...Morgan group and the W.H...
...How do U.S...
...3 5 They are clearly the envy of U.S...
...To answer this we must look at two important factors in cost: the cost of labor and the productivity of labor, which is a reflection of both the application of technology and the struggle between labor and capital...
...steel one plant-the Gary works-which was larger than the total operations of Jones & Laughlin, National Steel, Youngstown Sheet & Tube, Armco Steel and Inland Steel!5 By 1950 twelve firms dominated the industry, controlling more than 85% of blast furnace capacity, steel production and control of iron ore reserves...
...The furnaces are in a sad mechanical state and suffer an increasing number of small delays...
...As we have seen, from the end of World War II until the late 1950s, the steel companies fixed prices without the constraints of price competition, which generated a long period of monopoly profits for the industry...
...At the present time over 80% of Japanese steel is fired in basic oxygen furnaces "Fire in every horrible form: pits of flame waving in the wind...
...steelmaker recently contracted with Nippon Steel for a team of experts to advise it on design changes in its biggest blast furnace at Gary, Indiana...
...An Analysis and Forecast for American Iron and Steel Institute (Newton, Mass: Putnam, Hayes and Bartlett, Inc...
...steel industry invested almost $35 billion in steelmaking facilities between 19571976, an average of $1.7 billion a year...
...In a hot rolling mill, the molten steel is poured into ingot molds where it cools and is then reheated and shaped by a system of rollers...
...167-189...
...Bureau of Labor Statistics, Technological Change and Manpower Trends in Five Industries, Bulletin 1856 (Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1975), pp...
...The largest U.S...
...In the words of economist Walter Adams: He exhorted them like a Methodist preacher at a camp meeting to follow the price leadership of U.S...
...3 This practice of "friendly competition" allowed U.S...
...Recently, the foremen took some bad risks and two major breakdowns resulted...
...107-8...
...The electric arc furnace has been adopted by two types of producers, those with small supplies of coking coal or iron but with large supplies of scrap steel, and those with not enough space for a fully integrated steel mill...
...In These Times, October 4-10, 1978...
...While many factors pushed for a highly centralized industry-such as the monopolization of raw materials in the hands of a few companies, or the increasing cost of building steelmills-the U.S...
...Others strongly disagree with the AISI's conclusions...
...liquid metal-flames writhing in tortuous streams...
...Steel, instituted his "Gary dinners," social gatherings to which he invited nearly every steel producer in the country...
...Business Week, August 21, 1978...
...The result was a massive 116-day strike which virtually shut down the industry and idled 250,000 workers in secondary industries as well...
...COWPS study...
...To begin to cut through this Gordian knot, we must start with the basic question: Does it cost more or less to produce steel in the United States or Japan, to cite the major foreign competitor?Five major studies have examined the comparative costs of steel production in these two countries...
...3 6 Costs of shipping and transport are also much higher for U.S...
...31, 35, 36...
...Throughout the late 1960s, foreign producers did not have sufficient cost advantages to account for the difference between their prices on U.S...
...steelmakers, bankers and other interested parties are doing about this fair competition, we will see how intensified competition reflects a much larger process: the restructuring of production on a world scale...
...Steel to avoid the trust-busters and maintain industry discipline over pricing for decades...
...Abel (USWA president, vice president and secretary-treasurer, respectively) cautioned that: while your attention and the eyes of the public have been fixed on the alleged effect of 'inflation' and 'foreign competition,' the steel corporations mapped their plan to atomize and completely undermine your job rights...
...The BOF (and its more advanced successor, the "Super BOF") is considered more efficient since it requires substantially less labor power per unit of output-roughly onefifth the labor power of the open hearth process...
...Steel merely assumed the lead incumbent on a firm its size...
...It frightens me if it puts me out on the street...
...To calm these troubled waters, Judge (Elbert H.) Gary, the president of U.S...
...Bureau of Labor Statistics, Bulletin 1983...
...Tom Seidl, "Working Paper on the 'Steel Project': 'Economic Consequences on Steel Workers...', unpublished manuscript...
...they could add new parts to their old plants in a piecemeal fashion (which doesn't yield the same productivity gains...
...Richard J. Leary, "Economic and Technologic Factors in Steelmaking," in Szekely, op...
...3 3 In contrast, U.S...
...Analysts estimate that steelmakers will have to spend at least $5-6 billion a year just to maintain production at current levels, and over $18 billion a year if capacity is to be increased by 30 million tons in the near future...
...steelmakers are left with several alternatives: They could inject massive amounts of capital into the construction of new, modern mills...
...Bureau of Labor Statistics, Bulletin 1856, p. 27...
...Between 1949 and 1959 steelworkers engaged in at least one major strike a year, including a massive wildcat by 400,000 workers in 1955...
...13 Not unexpectedly, the AISI studies confirmed the steel companies' worst fears...
...Business Week, October 24, 1977...
...The Economic Implications ofForeign Steel Pricing Practices in the U.S...
...Although a lengthy series of mergers among top steelmakers produced for U.S...
...Depends how it's applied...
...producers turn out only slightly more than 60% of their steel in BOFs, and still employ open hearth furnaces...
...2 5 The post-1959 period also marked the increasing isolation of USWA leaders from the rank and file...
...2 3 In rejecting the industry's 1959 proposal which called for greater productivity at constant wages, the USWA maintained its principle of refusing to yield the controls it had won on the shop floor...
...market in significant quantities after 1959, has forced the industry to compete, a fact that has greatly disturbed them...
...Business Week, September 19, 1977...
...THE INTERNATIONAL COMPETITIVENESS OF THE U.S...
...By examining what U.S...
...Government Printing Office, 1958), pp...
...Hearings, 85th Congress, First Session, October 29, 30, Nov...
...Central Intelligence Agency, World Steel Market: Continued Trouble Ahead (Washington, D.C.: CIA, 1977), p. 10...
...4 ' Not only have U.S...
...2 (Summer 1978), p. 23...
...Their solution was, to say the least, typical...
...firms because of their inland locations...
...2. Walter Adams, "The Steel Industry," in Walter Adams, ed., The Structure of American Industry...
...shipments and the price of comparable domestic shipments...
...3 2 By the late 1960s it was evident that U.S...
...2 6 THE TECHNOLOGY OF STEELMAKING Automation...
...On technology and the process of steelmaking, see Dale L. Hiestand, High Level Manpower and Technological Changes in the Steel Industry (New York: Praeger, 1975), pp...
...Daugherty, M.G...
...steel producers, the domestic industry was forced to eat crow and adopt a more competitive pricing behavior...
...1 We see, then, that foreign steel, entering the U.S...
...Emphasis in original, AISI, "Economic Trends in Iron and Steel Industry," 1959, cited in Richard Betheil, "The ENA in Perspective: The Transformation of Collective Bargaining in the Basic Steel Industry," Review of Radical Political Economics, Vol...
...They have concluded that Japanese costs (which include all labor and employment costs plus the cost of raw materials, but not shipping, capital costs or profits) are between 31% and 82% less than average costs in the U.S...
...Hogan, op...
...steel companies had completed their major period of expansion in the early 1950s, shortly before the basic oxygen furnace and the continuous caster were commonplace...
...Integrated mills are absolutely immense affairs, containing all parts of the steelmaking process from coking ovens and blast furnaces to heating vessels and rolling mills...
...2 1 In large measure, the steelworkers' success in fighting for higher wages, without "paying" for it in terms of increased productivity, was determined by rank-and-file militancy...
...The rolling mills which shape and form molten steel are at the heart of most steel plants...
...Studs Terkel, Working (New York: Avon, 1972), p. 4 . 28...
...But increasing imports in the 1960s made steel producers far more determined to hold the line on wages and/or tie any wage increase to productivity hikes...
...8 Thus, at least as far as Japanese steel is concerned, the two main legs of the dumping argument seem to have been knocked from under it...
...But another factor did challenge the industry's ability to collude on pricing: the introduction of a new competitor, foreign steel...
...19 We can be fairly sure that what U.S...
...steel producers have been lagging, and where Japanese producers shine...
...government served as a particularly important catalyst in spurring the monopolization of the industry...
...the BOF needs only 45 minutes...
...4 2 Japanese steelmakers, on the other hand, began a major expansion program after most major technological advances had come on stream...
...8. Council on Wage, and Price Stability, Report to the President on Prices and Costs in the United States Steel Industry (Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1977), pp...
...More than one congressional committee, would later take exception to these arguments, finding instead that the intent to monopolize and eliminate competition was, in fact, the apple of the financiers' eye...
...4 and 5, 1957 (Washington, D.C.: U.S...
...As with pricing policy, relations between mill owners and steelworkers underwent a significant change in the late 1950s and early 1960s...
...19, 41...
...Rebecca Harding, Life in the Iron Mills...
...Capital expenditures per worker dropped at an annual rate of 6.3% between 1966-1972 and BLS data suggest that, given a sharp rise in general machinery and equipment prices, real capital outlays in steel are going down...
...For example, an open hearth furnace requires 9-10 hours to process a "heat" (load) of steel...
...It is precisely in this area that U.S...
...The most important recent advance in the field of shaping is a process known as "continuous casting...
...Revised Edition (New York: Macmillan, 1954), pp...
...It is produced by one of two basic methods...
...See, for example, Walter Adams and Joel Dirlam, "Big Steel, Invention and Innovation," Quarterly Journal of Economics (May 1966), pp...
...cit., IV, Chapter 41...
...4 This single purchase allowed Big Steel to more than double its total capacity in the Pacific coast and mountain states...
...2 8 An incredible decline, to say the least...
...See, for example, Forbes, January 8, 1979...
...Perasky, "Appendix 'A' To Plaintiffs 'Trial Memorandum on Hearing for Preliminary Injunction: Economic Consequences on Steel Workers of Strikes and the Right to Strike in the Basic Steel Industry (1949-1970)," mimeographed, 1976...
...These repairs, along with the chronic short delays, made for several months of substandard production...
...United States Senate, Administered Prices: Part III - Steel...
...Between the end of World War II and 1959, productivity in steel lagged seriously behind the average level for industry as a whole, increasing by an average of only 1.1% per year...
...This is increasingly true if steel wage costs in the United States continue to rise as rapidly as they have in the past . . The only effective solution is less disparity between the labor cost of steel production in the United States and abroad...
...3. Ibid., pp...
...The Secret of Japan's Export Prowess," Fortune 17, The studies are from Chase Econometrics Associates, cited in Iron Age, May 22, 1978, p. 111...
...WAGES, PRODUCTIVITY AND THE STEELWORKERS Steelmakers have not always argued that their costs were less than foreign producers...
...A similar contrast holds in the case of continuous casting...
...de Chazeau and S.S...
...In the majority of cases," writes a Canadian expert, "large establishments, or even major steel producing countries, have not featured as prominently as you might expect in conceiving and originating significant new technology or in anticipating and reacting in a positive way to changing world conditions...
...Bureau of Labor Statistics, Productivity Indexes for Selected Industries, 1977, Bulletin 1983 (Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1977), pp...
...6 THE PRICE IS RIGHT The monopolization of the steel industry increased its ability to set prices without regard to the golden law of supply and demand...
...Iron Age, May 22, 1978 andJune 5, 1978...
...Steel Industry: The Development of Continuous Casting," Western Economic Journal (March 1973), pp...
...producers lagged seriously behind the Japanese in terms of installing new technology which could lower the costs of steel production...
...Accustomed to monopoly control, protected markets and administered prices, domestic producers have watched their most perfect of all worlds slowly crumble as foreign producers enter their competitive ring...
...Steel and Bethlehem, control nearly 40% of output...
...There was no need to force a group of reluctant competitors into a cooperative arrangement...
...What can be said is that since 1959, USWA leaders have taken the threat of imported steel to mean that a "community of interests" must be established between labor and capital in the steel industry...
...SupJan/Feb 1979 56 NCARpr porters of the steel pricing system (known as "base point pricing") argue that the system provided price stability which prevented prices from rising rapidly in times of high demand...
...When the contract came up in 1959, management planned, in the words of the industry journal, Iron Age, "to make up quickly what had been bargained away in the past...
...The next question to ask is: Why are costs so much lower in Japan...
...4 0 Moreover, the cost of adding new capacity has skyrocketed...
...Congressional Record...
...News & Wobrld Report, October 24, 1977...
...22 Yet the owners' attempt to link USWA wage demands with a threatened increase in imports (which would cost steelworkers their jobs) did not get off the ground...
...New York Times,January 5, 1979...
...steelmakers have been slow to place in production steelmaking advances...
...its rivals followed, fully realizing that cooperation was more profitable than competition...
...Steel scrambled to snatch up all available coal mines and iron ore deposits, a business panic in 1907 had reinserted price competition into the industry...
...Two further purchases of government mills in Gary, Indiana, gave U.S...
...3 7 This takes on an added importance as shipping costs continue to rise relative to the cost of raw materials...
...Steelmaking is an extremely capitalintensive industry, about 2 V2 times the manufacturing average...
...CONCENTRATION AND COMPETITION 1. Harriette Arnow, The Dollmaker (New York: Avon Books, 1954) pp...
...In fact, since 1953, domestic steel firms have built only two new integrated plants...
...The Steelworkers' refusal to link wage increases to greater output is reflected in the industry's productivity indexes...
...Thirty-five percent of Japanese output was continuously cast in 1977 compared to 10.5% in the United States...
...Through the War Assets Administration, the government spent $770 million to build the steel plants it needed to execute World War II...
...Steel some playmates of its own size, they also produced a severely monopolized industry...
...Furthermore, particularly in the early 1960s, productivity began to rise in the industry, as the result of speed-ups and other means of intensifying the work process...
...Steel for $40 million...
...6. Iron Age, April 24, 1978...
...10JanlFeb 1979 11 and the rest in electric arc furnaces...
...The vast majority of these plants were sold at a fraction of their cost...
...STEEL INDUSTRY As steelmills faced one of their worst slumps on record in 1977, legislators from the steelmaking state of Ohio argued that, It is imperative that the administration and the Congress understand that it is not better techSource: American Iron and Steel Institute, Annual Statistical Reports NACLA Report 6Janl~e 19797 nology and lower production costs responsible for high steel imports at unrealistically low prices, but the deliberate and planned use by foreign governments of the American steel market to gain economic advantage...
...producers had in mind was not to raise wages abroad, but rather to lower them in the United States...
...Yet their success was also tied to the companies' ability to pay higher wages...
...To that end, the USWA has not led a single national strike in basic steel since 1959...
...Bureau of Labor Statistics, Bulletin 1856, pp...
...Baumann, "The Relative Competitiveness of the Canadian and U.S...
...It allows molten steel to be poured directly into a caster where it solidifies as it moves, emerging as a solid semifinished slab, billet or bloom...
...steel plants are less productive and more costly than Japanese plants because they were built earlier, before many steelmaking innovations came on the scene...
...Stratton, The Economics of the Iron and Steel Industry (New York: McGraw-Hill), 1937...
...The "hot-metal" method requires prior production of high grade molten iron (or "pig iron") by firing iron ore, sinter, pellets or "briquettes" with coke (a high temperature coal) in a blast furnace...
...Today, only eight firms produce approximately 95% of all steel in the United States (while the top two companies, U.S...
...Some Case Studies...
...16 Who are we to believe...
...7 In other words, it costs Japanese producers approximately $78-133 less for each ton of steel they produce...
Vol. 13 • January 1979 • No. 1


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Toybank's first Card Making Workshop!
We kick-started our events in 2011 with an amazing event in Mumbai. Toybankers all set with drawing papers, Hari Puttar colors and painting kits and ofcourse toys :), walked into Dreamz home on this Tuesday afternoon.
For the very first time Toybank was conducting a card making workshop for the children at Dreamz Home. Dreamz Home is a project managed by the Social Development Centre. It is a rehabilitation and recreational home for street children and child beggars.
" 'Toybank' was formally launched on August 15th, 2004 to conceptualize the vision of Shweta Chari, an Electronics Engineer of a world where all children have a happy and healthy childhood. To bridge the gap between children from different backgrounds various activities are undertaken such as dance, sports, painting, etc through creative play/group events/community events. One such group event was held on 18th January, 2011.
The children attending this event were between 4 to 15 years of age group. A total of 10 volunteers along with Toybank Mumbai coordinator Farnaza, Toybank Founder Shweta Chari and a Toybank supporter Nathan Hugh Coll (who has come all the way from UK to run the Marathon for Toybank!) interacted with the children.
The team conducted a card-making event where in the children were assisted in making greeting cards for one another after being split into six groups. The entire stationary including paints, pencils, erasers, colours etc. were provided to the children. Everyone present at the event was surprised to see the beautiful cards made by the children. Some of the cards were made very artistically. The children were asked to present the cards to the ones they had made it for. Few were lucky to have received more than two cards. This was followed by distribution of toys to the children.
The event proved to be an immensely satisfying experience for the volunteers as well as succeeded in spreading joy among the lesser privileged children. It was great interacting with the children whose enthusiasm and vibrancy infused a great deal of satisfaction in everyone's hearts."
"I recently had a very good opportunity of being a part of Toybank Distribution and I must say that the very feeling of giving a child a toy, of bringing a smile on those innocent faces is just simply beautiful!
Being at Toybank has actually made me realise that its not always about money. There is something way bigger than that and that is LOVE! Somewhere I had read that "Time we spent enjoying is not wasted time" It is only here that I understood the meaning of that.
I am really glad to be a part of Toybank. The feeling of gifting is something that can only be experienced and not described and I am grateful to Toybank for giving me such a pricless experience. I look forward to various such events. Below are a few pictures I clicked during the Toybank distribution event just to capture some beautiful memories :)"
Catch all the fun from the event here!
It's time to run for Toybank!


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Žirje () je ostrov v Jaderském moři. Je součástí Chorvatska, leží v Šibenicko-kninské župě a je součástí Šibenického souostroví. V roce 2011 žilo na celém ostrově 103 obyvatel, všichni ve stejnojmenné vesnici na severu ostrova. Dopravu na ostrově zajišťuje silnice D128.

Většími sousedními ostrovy jsou Kakan a Kurba Vela, nejbližší obydlený ostrov je Kaprije. Dále se kolem Žirje nacházejí ostrůvky Raparašnjak, Mikavica, Gušteranski, Mažirina, Bakul, Škrovada, Kosmerka, Balkun, Sedlo, Nozdra a Bačvica.

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Throughout the seasons, people like to make their own type of sweet and delicious food. For fall I have two amazing recipes that you can make in your home.
· Grease 15 x 10-inch jelly-roll pan; line with wax paper. Grease and flour paper. Sprinkle towel with powdered sugar.
· Mix flour, baking powder, baking soda, cinnamon, cloves and salt in small bowl. Beat eggs and sugar in large mixer bowl until thick.
· Stir in flour mixture.
· Spread evenly into prepared pan.
· Bake for 13 to 15 minutes or until top of cake springs back when touched. Immediately loosen and turn cake onto prepared towel, and carefully peel off the paper.
· Roll up cake and towel together, starting with narrow end.
· Whip cream cheese, powdered sugar, butter and vanilla extract in small mixer bowl until smooth.
· Re-roll cake, then wrap in plastic wrap and refrigerate at least one hour.
· Sprinkle with powdered sugar before serving.
Tie up Cinnamon Sticks and Whole Cloves into Cheesecloth.
Add Apple Cider and all other ingredients into slow cooker.
Cover and simmer on low. Cider will be ready in about 3 hours, but can continue simmering on low.
Remove cheesecloth bag and orange wedges, and serve!


Nearly simultaneously on Saturday night, the top two teams in the Atlantic Division saw their seasons come to disappointing ends, as Manchester and Hartford bowed out in their respective division semifinal series.
Brad Boyes scored with four minutes remaining in regulation at the Dunkin' Donuts Center, lifting Providence to a 3-1 win over the Monarchs, and Cam Ward made 40 saves as Lowell shut out the Wolf Pack, 3-0.
The Bruins and Lock Monsters will meet in the Atlantic Division final, beginning Friday night at the Tsongas Arena.
Providence scored three times in the third period to knock off the Monarchs, who finished with the best record in the Eastern Conference but failed for the fourth year in a row to make it out of the first round of the Calder Cup Playoffs.
Patrice Bergeron tied the score on a power play 4:34 into the final frame, and Jayme Filipowicz iced it with an empty-netter in the final seconds.
Hannu Toivonen made 31 saves on the night.
Manchester finished the regular season with the second-best defense in the AHL, but allowed 22 goals in six games to the B's.
Troy Milam scored the only goal for the Monarchs in Game 6. Mike Cammalleri picked up an assist, but the league's leading goal-scorer in the regular season was held to just one goal in the series.
In Lowell, Chuck Kobasew led the offense with two goals and an assist and Eric Staal added three assists, but the hero was Ward, who made 20 of his 40 stops with the Wolf Pack buzzing in the third period.
A Hartford parade to the penalty box in the second period allowed the Lock Monsters to break a scoreless tie on power-play goals by Kobasew and Allan Rourke. Kobasew added an empty-net goal in the third period.
Kobasew and Staal combined for six points in Game 6; they had a combined four points in Games 1 through 5.
The Wolf Pack, who were one goal away from reaching the Calder Cup Final in 2004, failed to win a playoff series for the third time in the last five postseasons.
Lowell and Providence will play a 3-3-1 format in their division final series as the Ringling Bros. & Barnum and Bailey Circus invades the Dunkin' Donuts Center next week.


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L'endotossina è un composto tossico che si sviluppa all'interno di agenti patogeni quali i batteri; a differenza delle esotossine, le endotossine sono di natura lipopolisaccaridica ed hanno profili d'azione molto simili tra loro.

Un esempio di endotossina
Un esempio tipico di endotossina è rappresentato dal lipopolisaccaride (LPS), che è presente nella membrana esterna dei batteri Gram-negativi (si definiscono tali quei batteri che si tingono di rosso con la colorazione ideata da Hans Christian Gram).

Il lipopolisaccaride è costituito dal nucleo R, da una catena polisaccaridica ripetuta laterale O (la sua parte idrofila), e dal lipide A (responsabile degli effetti tossici). L'endotossina è la parte antigenica del batterio Gram-negativo, ovvero la parte in base alla quale vengono sviluppati gli anticorpi dell'organismo ospitante. Gli anticorpi vengono però formati solo sulla base della matrice della catena polisaccaride O, mentre la parte lipidica (quella tossica) varia la sua struttura nei vari tipi di endotossine, riducendo così la possibilità dell'organismo di difendersi.

Azioni ed effetti
Le endotossine sono le principali responsabili delle conseguenze cliniche delle infezioni di batteri gram-negativi, come nel caso delle meningiti fulminanti, inoltre queste molecole costituiscono una barriera che limita l'azione degli antibiotici. Gli effetti scatenati dalle endotossine vanno dalla febbre allo shock irreversibile, dalla difficoltà negli scambi fra sangue e tessuti fino a conseguenze letali. Nello stesso tempo sono però in grado di potenziare le difese immunitarie e proteggere l'organismo dalle infezioni virali e batteriche.

Le endotossine sono contaminanti frequenti del DNA plasmidico estratto dai batteri, e devono essere rimosse dal DNA per evitare reazioni infiammatorie nel corso delle applicazioni in vivo, quali la terapia genica. Nelle preparazioni farmaceutiche, è necessario rimuovere tutte le tracce di endotossine che possono coinvolgere il processo di produzione, perché anche piccole quantità potrebbero causare lievi effetti clinici di tipo tossico nei pazienti trattati con i prodotti contaminati.

L'ipotesi più probabile è che i gram-negativi producano endotossine perché ne hanno bisogno; secondo studi recenti sembrerebbe che queste sostanze aiutino i batteri a riprodursi, inoltre i batteri utilizzano le endotossine a scopo difensivo.

Storia
Gli studi e le ricerche sulle endotossine iniziarono subito dopo le scoperte di Robert Koch, e fu proprio un suo allievo, Richard Pfeiffer a rilevare che l'agente eziologico del colera sintetizzava anche una sostanza che veniva liberata solo quando le cellule si decomponevano, e nell'ipotesi che la sostanza restasse all'interno del batterio, la chiamò endotossina, anche se poi si è scoperto che quest'ultima si trova sulla superficie della cellula. Solamente negli anni trenta, ricercatori francesi, statunitensi e inglesi compresero le caratteristiche della tossina resistente al calore. Negli anni quaranta Murray J.Shear, scoprì che la sostanza tossica e capace di provocare una regressione dei tumori era costituita di lipidi e polisaccaridi. Alla fine degli anni quaranta, in Germania, Otto Westphal e Otto Luderitz dimostrarono che tutti i gram-negativi producono endotossine e compresero anche l'importanza del fosforo sul comportamento degli altri due componenti principali delle endotossine.

Una volta compreso che le glucosammine possiedono un gruppo fosfato, i ricercatori hanno scoperto che le glucosammine sono collegate fra loro grazie ad un ponte gettato fra il primo carbonio ed il sesto, configurazione atipica tranne che nei gram-negativi. In seguito, i ricercatori stabilirono che endotossine formate solo dal lipide A e dal Kdo, che collega il polissacaride al lipide, erano tossiche allo stesso modo delle molecole costituite dal polissacaride intero. Studi recenti hanno confermato che le endotossine tendono a reclutare cellule dell'ospite, costringendole a secernere i mediatori; i macrofagi spesso vengono prescelti dalle endotossine per questa funzione e producono una proteina, denominata fattore di necrosi tumorale, che può indurre effetti negativi, ma anche positivi, come lo spostamento di cellule immunitarie nel sito bersaglio per distruggere cellule tumorali.

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Bibliografia
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 David Morrison, John Ryan, Bacterial Endotoxic Lipopolysaccarides; Vol.I: Molecular Biochemistry and Cellular Biology; Vol.II;Immunopharmacology and Pathophysiology, CRC Press, 1992

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"I, (Yahweh) Jehovah, am your God, the One teaching you to benefit yourself, the One guiding you in the way you should walk. If only you would pay attention to my commandments! Then your peace would become just like a river and your righteousness like the waves of the sea."—Isaiah 48:17, 18.
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A river of blessings. In the Bible, rivers and water are often used to picture the flow of Jehovah's life-giving blessings. Ezekiel saw such a river flowing from the temple, so the vision would have led God's people to expect that Jehovah's life-giving spiritual blessings would flow to them as long as they adhered to pure worship.
[…]Trees for food and healing. Do the visionary trees along the riverbanks convey encouraging lessons to us today? Certainly! Remember, those trees produced a new crop of delicious fruit every month, and their leaves provided healing. (Ezek. 47:12) They thus remind us that we serve the God who generously feeds us and heals us in the most important way, spiritually. Today's world is sick and starving in a spiritual sense. By contrast, think of what Jehovah provides.
Does our spiritual food promote spiritual health? The wholesome counsel we receive, based solidly on God's Word, helps us to fight off such spiritual enemies as immorality, greed, and lack of faith. Jehovah has also put in place an arrangement to help Christians overcome spiritual sickness brought on by serious sin. (Read James 5:14.) We are indeed blessed, just as suggested by Ezekiel's vision of the trees.
Consider some different Bible passages that use the terms "river" and "water" to picture blessings that flow from Jehovah. Taken together, they say something very encouraging about the means by which Jehovah blesses us. How so?
JOEL 3:18 This prophecy shows a spring emanating from the temple sanctuary. It flows out to irrigate the dry "Valley of the Acacia Trees." So both Joel and Ezekiel see a river bringing life to a barren place. In both cases, the river comes from Jehovah's house, or temple.
ZECHARIAH 14:8 The prophet Zechariah sees "living waters" flowing from the city of Jerusalem. Half of the water runs to the eastern sea, or Dead Sea, and half, to the western sea, or Mediterranean Sea. Jerusalem was "the city of the great King," Jehovah God. (Matt. 5:35) Zechariah's mention of that city thus reminds us of Jehovah's rulership over the whole earth in times to come. We have long understood that the waters in this prophecy suggest that Jehovah will bless two groups of faithful humans in Paradise, those who live through the great tribulation and those who are resurrected afterward.
REVELATION 22:1, 2 The apostle John sees a symbolic river much like the one that Ezekiel saw. However, it emanates, not from a temple, but from Jehovah's throne. So this vision, like that of Zechariah, seems to stress the blessings of divine rulership during the Millennium.
Of course, there is only a subtle distinction between the blessings that come from Jehovah's rulership and those that are represented by the river that Ezekiel saw in vision. All such blessings come from Jehovah and flow to all faithful people.
PSALM 46:4 Note how this one verse seems to embrace both aspects—worship and rulership. Here we see a river that brings rejoicing to "the city of God," suggesting the Kingdom and rulership, as well as to "the holy grand tabernacle of the Most High," suggesting pure worship.
Taken as a whole, these passages assure us that Jehovah will bless faithful mankind in two ways. We will benefit eternally, first, from his rulership and, second, from his arrangement for pure worship. So let us be determined now to keep seeking from Jehovah God and his Son "living water"—their loving provisions for everlasting life!—Jer. 2:13; John 4:10.
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Should University Courses Be Taught In English?
iiii...how to write dis topic "should university courses be taught in english" in argumentative essay..
1. Form an opinion on the matter.
2. Research it and find facts to support your opinion.
3. Write your opinion, supported by the facts you find, and using capital letters, proper punctuation, and only real words, not the jargon you use in a text message.
4. Optional: Post it here for someone to take a look at.
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can somebody help me how to begin ...really need help .
Here's how you begin: Do you think that courses should be taught in English?
Say: Courses should be taught in English.
Say: Courses should not be taught in English.
Then write your points in favor of your view.
pro argument 1----as a student,you will be doin a lot of writing in college, no matter what classes you take. different classes require different kinds of writing and english classes will definetely be part of your general educations.
pro-argument 2---- english is considered very important for university/college students. this is because all your textbooks, lecture classes and note are well done with english language. in most of the language, english is even the main language for the students to communicate..
i need a help about dis topic.. <<< Is this an example of your best writing?
Write your introduction this way.
Begin by explaining the topic and putting it in context. For example, are you going to talk about university courses in a particular country? Then state your position on it. Then briefly mention the arguemnts that you are going to discuss in more detail in your later paragraphs.
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Preservation Microfilming of Slavic Culture and History
The preservation microfilming and cataloging of 5,200 brittle Slavic-language volumes published from 1850 to 1960 and held in the university's Russian and East European collections.
Columbia University Libraries proposes the two-year Slavic Culture and History Project, Phase IV, to preserve brittle, damaged Slavic-language materials. These materials are in the subject areas of Russian and East European history and literature published between 1850 and 1960. Columbia's holdings in this area are among the top five in the nation, and are in constant demand by researchers locally, nationally, and internationally. The project goal is to create archival-quality master microfilms with a potential lifespan of hundreds of years and to store them in conditions optimized for longevity. A total of 2,300 monograph volumes and 3,450 serial volumes comprising approximately 2,248 titles will be microfilmed.


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Ep. 48: Interview with Dr. Robert Jensen
Robert Jensen is a professor in the School of Journalism at the University of Texas, a founding board member of the Third Coast Activist Resource Center, and a member of the board of Culture Reframed.
Robert is featured in the documentary Liberated: The New Sexual Revolution and his new book, The End of Patriarchy: Radical Feminism for Men, published by Spinifex Press offers a critique of the pathology of patriarchy that is at the core of today's crises.
Robert's previous recent book was Plain Radical: Living, Loving, and Learning to Leave the Planet Gracefully, published by Counterpoint under its Soft Skull imprint. This "polemical memoir" draws on Jensen's long friendship with Jim Koplin, described in this essay. Kirkus Review called the book "A heartfelt book about an inspiring model of wisdom, self-awareness, and thoughtful engagement with the world."
Robert is also the author of Arguing for Our Lives: A User's Guide to Constructive Dialogue (City Lights, 2013) and We Are All Apocalyptic Now: On the Responsibilities of Teaching, Preaching, Reporting, Writing, and Speaking Out (CreateSpace, 2013).


Ativists from the air pollution campaign group Stop Killing Londoners spray paint their message on City Hall and the walls by the Thames Wednesday 21st of March 2018 in Central London, UK. Many thousands of Londoners and people in major UK cities die every year from air pollution mainly from diesel emmissions. The activists want the Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan to do much more to curb the air pollution in London. The spray paint is chalk based and easily removed. In spite of this the activists were arrested for criminal damage. The action is part of a long running campaign and all 4 activists broke their bail conditions imposed the day before from a previous similar action.


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abstract: "Emoji have a rich history of allowing communication of ideas in a reduced\
  \ amount of data. However, there is a responsibility to ensure limited miscommunication.\
  \ We'll discuss the history of emoji, cross-platform adoption, the Unicode standard,\
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Communication is difficult. Whether between humans, machines, or a combination of the two, trying to translate meaningful information is a lossy process.

Converting programming languages to use the new Unicode standard is hard, but once it's in place, you get this marvelous feature-add: emoji compatibility. No longer do we have to make faces with symbols or use platform-specific emoticons. Rejoice in the extended character set.

Emoji have a rich history as a way to allow the communication of ideas in a reduced amount of data. They date back to a time where this was important: SMS communications in Japan. However, as social networks feverishly try to clamber onto this bandwagon, their implementations of the standard create issues with miscommunication that aren't possible with a 12×12 pictograph.

We'll discuss the history of emoji, cross-platform adoption, the Unicode standard, and emoji accessibility in web applications. :sparkles:


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Science, Technology, Engineering, & Math
If you're driven by discovery and innovation, NYU offers world-class programs in the sciences, technology, engineering, and mathematics. Environmental science is the scientific study of the ways in which biological, physical, and chemical components of the environment interact, and the relations between them. The intrinsically cross-disciplinary character of science-technology-society interactions is reflected in the B.A. requirements.
NCSES collects its own data on science, technology, and innovation (STI) activities and also incorporates data from other agencies to produce indicators that are used for monitoring purposes – including comparisons among sectors, regions, and with other countries – and for identifying trends that may require policy attention and generate research needs.
During that decade, two works appeared en seriatim that signaled what Steve Woolgar was to call the "turn to technology": Social Shaping of Technology (MacKenzie and Wajcman, 1985) and The Social Construction of Technological Systems (Bijker, Hughes and Pinch, 1987).
The College of Science and Technology strives to implement a strong educational pathway for students through a comprehensive dedication to quality teaching, research, and service. In-depth study of selected topics in science, technology, and society with special attention to methodological issues.
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Dr. Cynthia Breazeal is an Associate Professor of Media Arts and Sciences at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology where she founded and directs the Personal Robots Group at the Media Lab.
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Oceanography, one of the important four branches of Earth Science , is the study of the oceans. We have particularly strong ties with the Minnesota Center for Philosophy of Science, the Department of History, and the science and engineering departments where the faculty hold tenure. At least two of the student's three electives must be drawn from one of the focus clusters: science and society, technology and society, or medicine and society.
Majors must complete a minimum of 30 credit hours in STS courses, listed below, together with at least 15 credit hours in any traditional academic discipline: engineering, physical or life science, the humanities, or the social sciences. Study of science evolved with the civilization of human beings.
Sponsored by the Ministry of Science and Technology, Taiwan, East Asian Science, Technology and Society: An International Journal (EASTS) aims to bring together East Asian and Western scholars from the fields of science, technology, and society (STS). 3) Consistent positive reinforcement by STEM teachers of their female students, with a positive expectation of outcome, will assist them in hanging in there during those difficult beginning weeks when they have not yet developed a technology schema or hands-on proficiency and everything they undertake seems like a huge challenge.
Majors take four core classes in STS: philosophy, history, and either public policy or anthropology of science and technology. Without society then there would be no science and technology and that is why the invention of certain tools and equipment have helped achieve big things.
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Science and technology are forms of knowledge utilized for different purposes within society. This collateral set of courses should be chosen in consultation with the program director to provide the foundation needed to engage STS studies issues in which that discipline is implicated. The Science, Technology, and Public Policy Program (STPP) is a research, teaching, and outreach program of the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs.
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Why Didn't Monotheism in Ancient Egypt Work?
By Lynn Blanch
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Ancient Egypt is often associated with the celebration of its many gods. Daily life revolved around customs and rituals of worship. Pharaoh Akhenaten stands out in Egypt's history because of his attempt to transform centuries of polytheistic worship into a monotheistic culture by abolishing the worship of other gods in favor of Aten, the sun god. His reign, which lasted from 1375 to 1358 B.C., was almost entirely dedicated to this goal.
A New Name and a New Capital
One of the first acts that signaled Akhenaten's departure from the existing religious structure in Egypt was abandoning his name, Amunhotep, which came from the god Amun, the god of mysteries whose center of worship was in Thebes. He adopted the name Akhenaten, which means "he is agreeable to the sun disk." Soon after, he removed the Egyptian throne from Thebes and re-established it in a remote, unpopulated desert location on the Nile. He named the new capital Akhenaten. This departure marked not only a religious but also a political separation from the rest of Egypt. Egyptian priests possessed a great deal of social, economic and political power at the time, and the shift from polytheism to monotheism threatened their power. The rejection of Thebes and the priests spelled popular doom for Akhenaten.
The Sole Link to Aten
Once established in his new capital, Akhenaten declared himself the sole link to Aten. Though pharaohs in Egypt had always been considered to have a divine connection to the gods, none had ever been decreed to have sole access to them. Having removed himself from the public to his new remote capital, he also removed the public's only access to the new god he wanted them to follow. This was a complete departure from the religious customs of the Egyptian population, which had always maintained connection to the gods through individual worship, priests and access to the pharaohs. Even those who followed him to his new location saw little benefit from this new religion, which was almost exclusively built on Akhenaten's personal relationship with Aten.
The Mythless God
The sun god Aten was represented by a sun disk, unlike the other Egyptian gods who were represented by humans, animals or a combination of the two. A sun disk was an inanimate object that was difficult for people to relate to. In addition, there was no myth or story associated with Aten's supremacy, just a sudden declaration by an isolated pharaoh who did little to inspire the population to worship this deity.
Akhenaten's attempts to convert Egypt into a monotheistic nation during his lifetime led him to commit extreme acts. He had inscriptions that read "gods" changed to "god" and had the name Amun erased from temples and other public areas. Temples dedicated to other gods were closed or destroyed. In addition, his worship of the sun god included constant sunbathing, and many of the structures he built in his new capital were roofless, making them unbearable for visitors, both foreign and Egyptian. Akhenaten's odd practices and extremism made him unpopular and difficult to understand, let alone follow. His efforts to institute monotheism in Egypt failed, and after his death, polytheistic worship reemerged throughout the country.
COJS.org:The Monotheism of the Heretic Pharaoh
USU History and Civilization: Akhenaten and Monotheism
Lynn Blanch is a writer, translator and educator. She is the co-founder of an educational/cultural nonprofit in Brazil, speaks fluent Portuguese and has published a travel blog. She holds a bachelor's degree in liberal arts from Sarah Lawrence College.
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Monotheism in Ancient Egypt
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Minor earthquake recorded in Lakes Region
Quake occurred Monday night
Heather Hamel
Did you feel that?A minor earthquake shook parts of the Granite State on Monday night.The Weston Observatory confirmed that a 1.4-magnitude earthquake was recorded about 8 miles north east of Meredith around 10:45 p.m.Click to watch News 9's coverage.Resident Bonnie Bassett said it sounded like an explosion."And then me and my husband looked at each other and said, 'What the?'" Bassett said. "And we were waiting for the pagers to go off, thinking it was a house explosion."But the retired EMT said she never heard the tones, so she rushed to Facebook to see if her friends had heard it too, and many had."It was a very small earthquake," said John Ebel of the Weston Observatory. "We get earthquakes like this maybe once or twice a month somewhere in the New England region on average. Such a small earthquake its well below the threshold for damage."The epicenter of the earthquake was in Moultonborough. It could be felt several miles away in other parts of the Lakes Region.Two weeks ago, an earthquake of similar size struck Exeter."There's no way of knowing if these small earthquakes are an indicator of something bigger happening," Ebel said. "In most circumstances, they are not."Bassett said she has felt some that have moved her TV and shaken pictures, but she takes it in stride."It seems like the earthquakes are happening more and more, and it doesn't happen where you live," she said.
MEREDITH, N.H. —
Did you feel that?
A minor earthquake shook parts of the Granite State on Monday night.
The Weston Observatory confirmed that a 1.4-magnitude earthquake was recorded about 8 miles north east of Meredith around 10:45 p.m.
Click to watch News 9's coverage.
Resident Bonnie Bassett said it sounded like an explosion.
"And then me and my husband looked at each other and said, 'What the?'" Bassett said. "And we were waiting for the pagers to go off, thinking it was a house explosion."
But the retired EMT said she never heard the tones, so she rushed to Facebook to see if her friends had heard it too, and many had.
"It was a very small earthquake," said John Ebel of the Weston Observatory. "We get earthquakes like this maybe once or twice a month somewhere in the New England region on average. Such a small earthquake its well below the threshold for damage."
The epicenter of the earthquake was in Moultonborough. It could be felt several miles away in other parts of the Lakes Region.
Two weeks ago, an earthquake of similar size struck Exeter.
"There's no way of knowing if these small earthquakes are an indicator of something bigger happening," Ebel said. "In most circumstances, they are not."
Bassett said she has felt some that have moved her TV and shaken pictures, but she takes it in stride.
"It seems like the earthquakes are happening more and more, and it doesn't happen where you live," she said.