Back in the earlier (read: lighter) days, I carried Baby Spawn in a linen ring sling or a stretchy wrap. The ring sling (rs) was very light and easily transportable in our diaper bag or backpack. It kept her close but didn't make her too sweaty.
Ring slings are exactly that. A long piece of fabric with two metal rings that you adjust to hold the baby. The anatomy of the sling consists of shoulder, top rail, bottom rail, rings, pouch and tail. They're pretty amazing for newborns because you don't need an insert or padding. But you do need to learn how to carry them correctly because there is a lot of room for error.
The most popular fabrics used are linen, cotton and conversions from woven wraps! There are also nylon or polyester ring slings that are made to go into the water! Most ring slings tend to be priced between $35-100, depending on manufacturer and material.
I ordered mine from Sleeping Baby Productions (SBP), and it is a simple linen RS. There are lots of manufacturers who make ring slings and they're beautiful. Some use woven wraps and convert them. Some use silk. You could custom order one! Whatever you choose, do your research on its quality, check out reviews and find a local babywearing meetup to try them on to see if it'll work for you and baby!
As she got older, Spawn liked to be carried on my hip with the ring sling. She could look out and turn her head and still have a good seat on her. I've since lent out my ring sling to new mom friends and it's been getting some great use!
If you're wondering how a ring sling might fit you and your baby, check out your local babywearing group and attend a meetup!
Question – when they're little, are their feet supposed to be in the sling or outside the sling? I used one with Luke and I thought it had to be in but i feel like it would be a better fit if it was outside?
I think it depends on how little. From what I've learned, you keep their legs in an M-shape/froggy with legs IN. But by about Month 3, you can have legs out. I would double check with a certified babywearing educator in your area, just to verify. Thank you!
Great wisdom thanks! I was wondering have you ever heard of Vienna springs slings? Im trying to make a decision of ego to buy for my first day wear RS purchase. I currently own a water RS & I fell in love! My daughter is 1 and about 25lbs.
Great wisdom thanks! I was wondering have you ever heard of Vienna springs slings? Im trying to make a decision of which brand and materialistic to buy for my first day wear RS purchase. I currently own a water RS & I fell in love! My daughter is 1 and about 25lbs.
I haven't heard of Vienna Springs, so I looked them up. They are a BCIA member and follows the CPSIA guidelines for carriers, which gives me peace of mind. Have you been able to check out the slings in person, to feel the materials and see if they'll work for you? I know that cotton/bamboo blends tend to be nice and soft; same with WCRS (wrap conversion ring slings) – the more you wear them/break them in, the softer they get. (But they are also a little pricier from the get-go. So budget is going to be a factor in considering a WCRS.) Please let me know what you end up purchasing!! Thank you for visiting!


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Groundwater withdrawals 1976, 1990, and 2000--10 and land-surface-elevation changes 2000--10 in Harris, Galveston, Fort Bend, Montgomery, and Brazoria Counties, Texas
Prepared in cooperation with the Harris-Galveston Subsidence District
By: Mark C. Kasmarek and Michaela R. Johnson
https://doi.org/10.3133/sir20135034
Document: Report (2.06 MB pdf)
The study area comprising Harris County and parts of Galveston, Fort Bend, Montgomery, and Brazoria Counties in southeastern Texas forms part of one of the largest areas of land-surface-elevation change in the United States. Land-surface-elevation change in the study area primarily is caused by the withdrawal of groundwater. Groundwater withdrawn from the Chicot and Evangeline aquifers has been the primary source of water for municipal supply, industrial and commercial use, and irrigation in the study area. Groundwater withdrawals cause compaction of clay and silt layers abundant in the aquifers, which has in turn resulted in the widespread, substantial land-surface-elevation changes in the region with increased flooding. To estimate land-surface-elevation changes, the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), in cooperation with the Harris-Galveston Subsidence District (HGSD), documented land-surface-elevation changes in the study area that occurred during 2000–10 and 2005–10 based on elevation data measured by 11 USGS borehole-extensometer sites, a National Geodetic Survey Continuously Operating Reference Station, and Global Positioning System Port-A-Measure (PAM) sites operated by the HGSD and the Fort Bend Subsidence District. Groundwater withdrawals in the study area also were documented for 1976, 1990, and 2000–10.
In 1976, about 428.9 million gallons per day (Mgal/d) were withdrawn from the aquifer system in Harris County, but by 2000, because of HGSD regulation, withdrawals had decreased to about 337.8 Mgal/d, or about a 21-percent reduction since 1976. By 2010, withdrawals had decreased to about 227.1 Mgal/d, or about a 47-percent reduction since 1976. Among the counties in the study area, the largest decrease in groundwater withdrawals has occurred in Galveston County since 1976. In 1976, about 27.4 Mgal/d were withdrawn from the aquifer system, and by 2000, withdrawals had decreased to about 4.12 Mgal/d, or about an 85-percent reduction since 1976. By 2010, withdrawals had decreased to about 0.626 Mgal/d, or about a 98-percent decrease since 1976.
Since the mid-1970s, Fort Bend and Montgomery Counties have undergone extensive urban development and corresponding large increases in groundwater withdrawals. Total groundwater withdrawal for Fort Bend County in 1976 was about 16.0 Mgal/d, and by 2000, withdrawals had increased to about 86.5 Mgal/d, or about a 441-percent increase since 1976. By 2010, withdrawals in Fort Bend County had increased to about 99.8 Mgal/d, or about a 524-percent increase since 1976. Total groundwater withdrawal for Montgomery County in 1976 was about 7.84 Mgal/d, and by 2000, withdrawals had increased to about 43.6 Mgal/d, or about a 456-percent increase since 1976. By 2010, withdrawals in Montgomery County had increased to about 64.2 Mgal/d, or about a 719-percent increase since 1976. Total groundwater withdrawal in Brazoria County in 1976 was about 18.0 Mgal/d, and by 2000, withdrawals had increased to about 26.0 Mgal/d, or about a 44-percent increase. By 2010, withdrawals in Brazoria County had increased to about 24.7 Mgal/d, or about a 37-percent increase since 1976.
Measured land-surface-elevation changes from December 31, 2000, to December 31, 2010, ranged from an elevation increase of 0.06 feet (ft), or an average increase in elevation of 0.006 ft per year, at the Seabrook borehole extensometer located near Seabrook, Tex., to an elevation decrease of 1.28 ft, or an average decrease in elevation of 0.128 ft per year, at a PAM station north of Jersey Village, Tex. (PAM 07). Measured land-surface-elevation changes from December 31, 2005, to December 31, 2010, ranged from an elevation increase of 0.07 ft, or an average increase in elevation of 0.014 ft per year, at PAM 09 in far northeastern Harris County to an elevation decrease of 0.51 ft, or an average decrease in elevation of 0.102 ft per year, at PAM 07.
Scientific Investigations Report
10.3133/sir20135034
iv, 17 p.
Brazoria County, Fort Bend County, Galveston County, Harris County, Montgomery County

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Our family loves the Polynesian Resort and we always try to make at least one ADR to eat there. We love venturing to the Polynesian Resort to explore the property, gift shop and of course the yummy food. We have chosen to eat at the Kona Cafe for breakfast and O'hana for dinner on our next trip in April. We did the Laua last year at the Polynesian and absolutely loved every second.


It's depressing – the end of September has gone and the nights are drawing in. Soon we will be getting up in the dark. I think most of us find it a little harder to get motivated in the winter, perhaps not to the stage where we would say we were actually depressed or suffering from SAD, just a bit "meh".
1 – Get a "Dawn Simulator" Alarm.
I've got a Lumie Bodyclock Starter 3o (there are much cheaper alternatives). Half an hour before the alarm goes off it starts to turn the light on. It steadily increases the brightness so that when the alarm finally does go off it's actually quite light in the room.
The effect is relatively subtle – I don't wake up full of the joys of spring as the marketing material for these things implies. What I find is that I'm alert when I wake up instead of half asleep and that actually makes a big difference to the start of the day, which in turn makes a big difference to the rest of the day.
It may be a stereotype that programmers like to sit in the dark but not all of us are like that. I'm lucky – my office environment is under my control. I've replaced all the lights with daylight coloured LED units. This makes a big difference too – the office is bright and cheerful even on a grey winter day. It just makes putting in a day's work that little bit easier.
If you're not as lucky as me you can always put a request in to your building manager to get the light colour changed. Often "daylight" units are the similar prices to other colours so you can usually get them swapped out, if not immediately then when the units fail.
You can also try getting a daylight desk light – be aware though that when using a desk light you have to make sure that you look away from your desk a lot. It's rather easy to get zoned in for hours and that won't do your eyesight any good at all.
These are 2 really simple and easy things that can make a big difference in the middle of December when you start and finish work in the dark.
This entry was posted in Life on 2012-10-01 by Tom Fosdick.


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Human rights online at the Human Rights Council 45th Session
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The Human Rights Council (HRC) has started its 45th session in Geneva. The session will be taking place from 14 September to 2 October 2020. APC considers the Council sessions an important opportunity to discuss country situations of concern, to review how states are complying with their human rights situations and to influence the setting up of international standards in the area of human rights online.
The HRC meets three times each year. Thematic resolutions and Special Procedures reports are organised according to a yearly calendar. September sessions tend not to be particularly strong on digital issues, but here are some highlights:
The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights will present an oral update on the impact of COVID-19 on human rights, as she has been doing for the past sessions. (A report on this issue will be presented by her to the HRC in its 46th session.)
There will be an annual panel discussion on the "integration of a gender perspective" on the theme "Gender and diversity: Strengthening the intersectional perspective in the work of the Human Rights Council".
A resolution on violence against journalists will be presented.
The Independent Expert on the enjoyment of all human rights by older persons will release the report "Human rights of older persons: The data gap".
Among the country situations, there will be discussions on China (Hong Kong and Uyghur region), USA (racism and police brutality) and Egypt (the cases of imprisoned human rights defenders, bloggers and other activists has been repeatedly highlight in previous sessions).
A new member from the LAC region will be appointed to the Working Group on Discrimination Against Women and Girls.
No formal events will be allowed due to COVID-19. NGOs may participate in person in Geneva or via video statements during interactive dialogues and panels, but this has to be confirmed by the Council in the opening session on 14 September.
APC will seek to engage in the discussions around the resolution on safety of journalists, which has a number of provisions on digital issues and violence against women journalists. APC will also participate in the gender perspective panel.
See at the end the full list of country situations, resolutions and reports that will be reviewed, along with some relevant links.
Detentions in Egypt
The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights as well as several Special Procedure mandate holders have repeatedly raised concerns about the serious situation of arbitrary detentions in Egypt, in particular the use of pre-trial detention as a form of punishment against human rights defenders, bloggers and journalists, among others. APC has highlighted this concern, together with partner organisations, during the 44th session of the HRC. The families and lawyers of detainees have reported ill treatment in detention centres and difficulties to communicate with those who are being held. This situation has been particularly aggravated with the spread of COVID-19, imposing further risks on their health and wellbeing.
Last August APC launched, in partnership with ARTICLE 19, Access Now and the Electronic Frontier Foundation, the #IWantALetter campaign to take action demanding that Egyptian authorities provide transparent, accurate and regular updates on the measures being taken to curb and respond to the spread of COVID-19 in prisons.
APC urges states to call on Egypt to immediately cease these practices and free jailed human rights defenders, bloggers and journalists.
Human rights of older persons: The data gap
According to this new report by the Independent Expert on the enjoyment of all human rights by older persons, there is a serious gap in the data available to capture the lived realities of older persons, including in terms of enjoyment of human rights. This lack of significant data and information on older persons is, in itself, an alarming sign of exclusion and renders meaningful policymaking and normative action practically impossible. Overcoming these impediments to the realisation of the rights of older persons requires a fundamental conceptual shift in method and process that takes into account the entanglement of digital and analogue realities, or the so-called digitality.
Data is significant for the realisation of human rights. It is necessary in order to provide evidence of the extent of the challenges faced by older persons and of the policy and legislative needs. Data collection is crucial to create visibility and build an evidence base about human rights impediments for older persons and potential responses, to dispel stereotypes that feed ageism, stigma and discrimination, and to aid policymakers and advocates in the formulation of measures regarding antidiscrimination action, socioeconomic inclusion, and access to health and care. There is a need to set standards and reporting requirements for data gathering, in order to improve the existing data ecosystem and as an important impetus for statistical offices to gather more data on older persons.
A new resolution on the safety of journalists will be proposed by Austria, Brazil, France, Greece, Morocco, Qatar and Tunisia this upcoming session. In the past, these resolutions have raised important issues concerning the responsibilities of states, which have included the protection of communications against surveillance and interception, the importance of encryption and anonymity, and the online harassment of women journalists, among others.
The new resolution should include new wording referring to the impact of COVID-19 and restrictions imposed by states in this context. APC believes it would be important to see new language included in the resolution condemning network disruptions, including internet shutdowns, given the enormous impact they have - among others - on the flow of information, limiting journalists' access to sources and impeding them from informing the public about the health crisis.
Annual discussion on the integration of a gender perspective throughout the work of the Human Rights Council and that of its mechanisms
As planned, the panel discussion will focus on the importance of a closer examination of gender-based discrimination with respect to other dimensions of the human condition, such as race, ethnicity, nationality, location, religion, socio-economic status, indigenous/minority/migration status, profession, disability and/or age. It will provide a platform to exchange good practices and to discuss how to strengthen existing measures and overcome challenges to identify and address intersectional discrimination in the work of the Human Rights Council and genuinely promote substantive gender equality for everyone.
The panel is scheduled for 28 September (check the link to the Programme of Work below).
Civil society participation in HRC activities
APC, together with partner organisations, issued a Joint Statement at the end of the HRC 44th session in which it recognised the HRC, United Nations Office at Geneva (UNOG) and the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights' efforts to organise activities in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, but raised concerns with delays in finalising the session dates and modalities, and subsequent changes in the programme of work, reduced the time civil society organisations (CSOs) had to prepare and engage meaningfully. This had a disproportionate impact on CSOs not based in Geneva, those based in different time zones and those with less capacity to monitor the live proceedings. Other barriers to civil society participation that session included difficulties to meet the strict technical requirements for uploading video statements, to access resolution drafts and to follow informal negotiations remotely, especially from other time zones, as well as a decrease in the overall number of speaking slots available for NGO statements due to the cancellation of general debates as an "efficiency measure".
APC contributed to efforts by the HRCNet to collect views from CSOs and present such concerns to the Council's President, UNOG and the Secretariat of the Council (OHCHR). A Summary of Recommendations and the survey results can be found here and here. APC calls on these actors to address these recommendations throughout this and upcoming HRC sessions.
You can find here a complete guide for NGO participation in the HRC sessions prepared by the UN.
This great organogram prepared by HRCNet will help you find your way around the HRC if you want to participate in this 45th session.
In case you just want to follow the discussions, here is the Webcast access.
See here a full list and access to the full text of the reports to be presented during this session.
The Programme of Work and Agenda are available here.
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Demetriusz II Antygonida (ur. ok. 275 – zm. 229 p.n.e.; panował w latach 239-229 p.n.e.) - król macedoński z dynastii Antygonidów, syn Antygona Gonatasa i Fili, córki Seleukosa I.

W 266 p.n.e., w wieku trzynastu lat, dowodził (przynajmniej nominalnie) wojskami, które obroniły Macedonię przed najazdem z Epiru - w tym czasie jego ojciec prowadził walki w Grecji. W 247 p.n.e. Antygon Gonatas wykorzystał syna do odzyskaniu utraconej twierdzy Akrokoryntu, w której władzę tymczasowo sprawowała Nikaja, wdowa po Kraterosie, bracie Antygona. Król macedoński, zaproponował Nikai małżeństwo z Demetriuszem, wdowa się zgodziła i otworzyła bramy Koryntu przed Antygonem. W czasie uroczystości przedślubnych król podstępem dostał się do twierdzy i przejął nad nią kontrolę. Małżeństwo Demetriusza i Nikai odwołano.

Przejmując władzę w Macedonii w 239 p.n.e., po śmierci Antygona, musiał od razu stawić czoło koalicji dwóch związków: Etolskiego i Achajskiego. W 229 p.n.e. zginął w walce z iliryjskim plemieniem Dardanów, pozostawiając 9-letniego syna Filipa V, przyszłego króla Macedonii.

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Five members of the Afghan Talibanwho were freed from the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay in exchange for captured American Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl have joined the insurgent group's political office in Qatar, Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid said Tuesday.
They will now be among Taliban representatives negotiating for peace in Afghanistan, a sign some negotiators in Kabul say indicates the Taliban's desire for a peace pact.
Others fear the five, all of whom were close to the insurgent group's founder and hard-line leader Mullah Mohammed Omar, bring with them the same ultra-conservative interpretation of Islam that characterized the group's five-year rule that ended in 2001 with the U.S.-led invasion.
The five Taliban figures released from the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay in May 2014 in exchange for Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl, who was held hostage by the Taliban for nearly five years:By: Deb Riechmann
"The Taliban are bringing back their old generation, which means the Taliban have not changed their thinking or their leadership," said Haroun Mir, political analyst in the Afghan capital. "What we are more worried about is if tomorrow the Taliban say 'we are ready to negotiate,' who will represent Kabul? That is the big challenge because the government is so divided, not just ideologically but on ethnic lines."
Efforts to find a peaceful end to Afghanistan's protracted war have accelerated since Washington appointed Afghan-American Zalmay Khalilzad as envoy to find a peaceful end to America's longest war, which has already cost the U.S. more than $900 billion.
But Mohammed Ismail Qasimyar, a member of a government peace council, warned Washington against negotiating peace terms with the Taliban, saying Khalilzad's only job is to set the stage for direct talks between the Afghan government and the Taliban, something the insurgents have so far refused, calling the government a U.S. puppet.
Taliban officials reported meeting with Khalilzad in Qatar earlier this month, calling the exchange preliminary but pivotal. Washington neither confirmed nor denied the meeting, but Khalilzad was in Qatar at the time.
A Taliban official familiar with the discussions told The Associated Press that talks ended with an agreement to meet again. Key among the Taliban's requests was recognition of their Qatar office, said the official, who spoke on condition he not be identified because he was not authorized to speak to the media.
In an unexpected development, Pakistan also bowed to a long-standing Afghan Taliban demand that it release its senior leader, Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, who had been in jail in Pakistan since 2010. At the time, Baradar was reportedly jailed after bypassing Pakistan to open independent peace talks with Hamid Karzai, who was then Afghanistan's president.
Baradar's release followed Khalilzad's first visit to Pakistan since being appointed Washington's peace envoy.
Baradar issued an audio message after his release to the Taliban. The Pashto-language message, heard by an Associated Press reporter, seemed to indicate he was preparing for a role in the insurgent movement moving forward.
Hakim Mujahed, a former Taliban member who is now also a member of the Afghan government peace council, said the presence of the five former Guantanamo prisoners in the Taliban's Qatar office is indicative of the Taliban's resolve to find a peace deal. He said the stature of the five within the insurgent movement will make a peace deal palatable to the rank and file, many of whom have resisted talks believing a military victory was within their grasp.
"These people are respected among all the Taliban," said Mujahed. "Their word carries weight with the Taliban leadership and the mujahedeen."
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AWS Lambda may seem to you just another cloud platform, but it has numerous different aspects from other cloud systems.
Hopefully, there are plenty of good books to help you learn this technology. In this article, I've organized a number of best books on AWS Lambda. These books will surely help you to understand AWS Lambda and learn this amazing technology.
AWS Lambda - A Guide to Serverless Microservices is a comprehensive guide to understand and develop "serverless" workloads using the new AWS Lambda service. This well explained, easy to follow, in-depth reference will make you an expert in AWS Lambda services.
This book offers a comprehensive guideline for the beginners to learn AWS Lambda. If you are a newbie to this technology, then you should start with this book.
AWS Lambda in Action follows an event-driven approach to teach you how to build applications on the back end of AWS Lambda. With clear, easy to understand, real-world examples, this book will surely help to become a successful Lambda developer.
This is another good book to learn all the aspects of AWS Lambda. With real-world examples, code snippets, diagrams, and descriptions of architectures, this book will guide you to build, secure and manage your own serverless applications on AWS.
If you are looking for a book that will give a quick, clear, and comprehensive understanding of AWS Lambda, then you should pick this book. AWS Lambda clearly explains every aspect of this emerging technology in a comprehensive manner.
This this is the official documentation guide for AWS Lambda. This reference manual contains references to all the basic functionalities of this service. This is not helpful to learn AWS Lambda from the beginning, but it will help the developer and experts as a reference book.
If you have some prior knowledge to AWS Lambda and want to advance your skill in this technology, then you should read this book. With step by step explanations provided in this book, you can explore, learn, and leverage your skill in designing, building and deploying serverless applications in AWS Lambda.


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College basketball: FGCU's Kierstan Bell says she's entering WNBA Draft in Facebook post
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Kierstan Bell's junior season at FGCU could be her last for the Eagles.
The star forward posted on her Facebook page Wednesday that she was entering the WNBA Draft.
"oh I forgot to mention.. I will be entering the 2022 WNBA draft .." she wrote.
Bell can withdraw her name from the draft, which will be in April, and retain college eligibility. She played her freshman season at Ohio State, and is in her second season at FGCU.
"I appreciate all the love and support man it's only up from here y'all !!" Bell commented below her post. "Finishing this year out with a bang let's go."
FGCU sports information director John Sinnett confirmed Bell's announcement via text. Bell could not be reached for comment.
The Eagles (16-1), who are ranked No. 21 in the USA TODAY Coaches Poll and No. 24 in The Associated Press Top 25, won 78-41 at Stetson on Wednesday night.
Bell followed up her post by scoring five points in 17 minutes against the Hatters while being hampered by a left knee issue, Sinnett said. Her previous low at FGCU was nine points in the ASUN tournament quarterfinals last season.
Bell, who was just 2 of 10 from the floor and 1 of 8 from 3-point range, had four rebounds, three assists and two blocks Wednesday.
Earlier in the day, Bell was selected to the Becky Hammon Mid-Major Player of the Year Midseason Watch List as announced by Her Hoops Stats. This comes after she was earlier named to the John R. Wooden Award Midseason Top 25 Watch List at the beginning of the month.
Bell won the Hammon award last season, leading the Eagles to a 26-3 record that included a 25-1 record with her playing. The Ohio State transfer was ineligible the first two games of the 2020-21 season while awaiting a waiver on an NCAA transfer rule. FGCU won 25 straight before losing to Michigan in the first round of the NCAA Tournament.
"Kierstan is having an exceptional season," FGCU coach Karl Smesko said in a release regarding the Hammon watch list. "She is absolutely one of the best players in the country."
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Bell is also in the running for several other national awards: the Atlanta Tipoff Club Naismith Trophy Watch List, the Wade Award Top 30 Watch List, and the Ann Myers-Drysdale Award Top 20 Watch List.
Bell, who set an ASUN record this week with her 11th career Player of the Week honor, entered the Stetson game as the third-leading scorer in the nation at 24.6 points per game while also adding 7.9 rebounds, 2.7 assists, 1.9 steals, and 1.4 blocks.
She holds the FGCU record for career double-doubles with 23 through 42 games. Overall, she has 1,351 total career points through 72 total games between her season at Ohio State and two seasons with the Eagles.
The highest-rated recruit to ever play for FGCU, Bell was named the 16th best player in NCAA Division I women's basketball heading into the 2021-22 season by ESPN.com.
In her first season at FGCU last year, Bell had one of the best seasons of any player in the country by averaging 24.3 points, 10.6 rebounds, 2.7 assists, 2.3 blocks and 1.9 steals per game. She became the first player in ASUN history to be tabbed both the conference's player and newcomer of the year, earned a spot on the Wade Trophy Mid-season Watch List and landed on the NCAA.com Starting Five twice.
She was named the ASUN tournament MVP last year, while leading the Eagles to the ASUN tournament championship and finishing the season as the nation's fourth-leading scorer.
Last season, Bell was named WBCA Honorable Mention All-American, Associated Press Honorable Mention All-American, USBWA Honorable Mention All-American, ASUN Player of the Year, and ASUN Newcomer of the Year. The pair of ASUN awards were unanimous.
Bell also established FGCU single-season records for total points (632), scoring average, field goals made and defensive rebounds per game. She led the ASUN in scoring, rebounding, field goals made and 3-point field goals made while finishing second in blocks and third in steals.
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Intel Builds Sandy Bridge With a DRM Tollbooth
By Richard Adhikari January 4, 2011 5:00 AM PT Email Article
Intel has reportedly revealed details about its new family of laptop and desktop processors, code-named "Sandy Bridge."
The processors, which will be demoed at the CES 2011 show in Las Vegas later this week, offer better energy performance, improved 3D and graphics performance, and can overclock when needed without overheating, according to press reports.
Intel will reportedly build a hardware security layer into the processors to prevent people from copying streaming videos.
However, the chip giant was reluctant to discuss the new processors. "The release has not been issued yet," Intel spokesperson Susan Ramirez told TechNewsWorld.
Water Under the Sandy Bridge?
The new processors will reportedly be available as dual- or quad-core chips.
They will use version 2 of Intel's Turbo Boost technology, which will let them overclock, or exceed each processor's rated speed, as needed without overheating.
"Turbo Boost basically measures the power going into the chip, and as long as that power's under a certain threshold for a predetermined period of time, it'll let one or more cores, including the graphics cores, accelerate to over their clock speed and then shut off," Jim McGregor, chief technology strategist at In-Stat, told TechNewsWorld.
"This is based on the philosophy that you use less power if you finish a task quickly and then shut down the chip, and they're right," McGregor added.
The Sandy Bridge processors, built around Intel's 32nm micro architecture, apparently offer improved graphics and 3D performance.
The chip giant has been leaking information about the Sandy Bridge processors for months. Back in July, information surfaced indicating that Intel would retain the current Core i3, i5 and i7 nomenclature and that power consumption would be lower than current chips.
In September, the company released more information about the Sandy Bridge processors at the Intel Developer Conference. It includes these facts: The Sandy Bridge processor core is an extension of the Nehalem micro architecture, the Sandy Bridge processors have a new 256-bit instruction set, and they support Intel hyper-threading technology.
Thou Shalt Not Stream
One particularly interesting reported detail regarding the processors is that Intel will incorporate hardware-level copy protection technologies.
The technology it'll use is apparently called "Insider." It will incorporate an end-to-end protection layer and a management feature to unlock high-definition movies downloaded from online streaming services or off DVDs.
"These are features built into the hardware, so if you're a Netflix or a Warner Bros., you can program a time clock into a movie or code it so it's good for only a certain number of days after the consumer downloads it," In-Stat's McGregor pointed out. "It's all related to DRM."
DRM, or digital rights management, has long been a bone of contention between consumers and content providers, mainly motion picture studios and recording companies. The Recording Industry Association of America spent more than US$16 million on legal fees in 2008 alone to sue individuals for downloading music illegally, according to its tax returns, as published on P2Pnet.
"I'm really interested to see how this is going to go over," McGregor said. "Only Hollywood likes the idea of copy protection, and consumers have got around every protection they've put in place."
Apparently, Warner Bros. Digital distribution has agreed to make 300 HD titles available for streaming to computers using the new Intel Core processors with the built-in Insider feature.
Intel's apparently working with more studios to get their content. Further, it reportedly will include the "Insider" feature in lower-end consumer processors.
What if you don't upgrade your laptop or PC to one with the new Core processor? You're out of luck.
That's where things could really get interesting.
"As long as just a few people are shut out of access to these high-definition videos, things will be quiet," McGregor said. "But if things get to a point where every bit of streaming content's protected this way, there might be a serious consumer backlash."
What About Nvidia?
Intel's incorporation of ever more high-powered graphics into its processors could pose a threat to discrete graphics hardware makers like Nvidia.
That might be the case in the long run, but Nvidia's probably safe for now.
"The discrete graphics solution that Nvidia offers is always on the high end, and a lot of OEMs have positioned it as a key feature even for mainstream computing," In-Stat's McGregor remarked. "The Intel solution can by no means be called a high-end one, but over time, you're going to see integrated multimedia solutions getting better and better," he added.
"Intel's Sandy Bridge is an evolutionary improvement in integrated graphics, but it would be like Toyota coming out with a basic 4-cylinder sedan and then saying no one has any need any more for a Lexus," Nvidia spokesperson Ken Brown told TechNewsWorld.
"Intel introduced an improvement in its graphics, but that doesn't replace the need for a discrete GPU," Brown pointed out.
"There will be 200 PCs coming out in 2011 that use the Sandy Bridge CPU with our GeForce GPU, and that's a record number for us," he added.
psiclone says:
So let me get this straight. Intel thinks it's going to win over customers or keep them, let alone beat their competition, by alienating the very people giving them $$? Good job on that one.
I don't condone illegal copying of any sort, but it's been proven time and time again. If people want something bad enough, they can get it, regardless of the technology. This doesn't hurt pirates and hackers. It only hurts the consumer. I can't tell you how many times I have been screwed by crappy DRM on stuff I've bought. No wonder people pirate the mess.
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Structural barriers to sustainable development are woven in the malfunctioning neoliberal economic policies. For issues like food security, poverty eradication and reaching a sustainable environment, governments have to think outside the neoliberal box. Neoliberal institutions like the G20 are not looking to help developing countries to become food secure. Instead, developing countries are increasingly dependent on food imports, and the G20 chooses to look the other way since they don't want to hurt the commercial interests of corporate agricultural giants. In this interview, Devinder Sharma explains.
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Devinder Sharma is an analyst on trade and food policy, as well as an award-winning journalist, writer, thinker and researcher. Well known for his forthright views on the implications of the free trade paradigm for agriculture in developing countries, Sharma has been dubbed the 'Green Chomsky' by India's leading English magazine, The Week. Living in New Delhi, he chairs the independent Forum for Biotechnology and Food Security. He also regularly updates the influential blog, Ground Reality - Understanding the politics of food, agriculture and hunger.
This interview was conducted via the internet by Eduardo Almeida, a freelance journalist based in Brazil who specialises in development and agrarian issues.
Eduardo Almeida - Mozambique witnessed food riots in the first week of September. Seven people were killed when protestors voiced angry over bread prices increasing by 30 per cent. Do you think it is likely to trigger a repeat of the global food crisis of 2007-08?
Devinder Sharma - Food riots in Mozambique, and the rising anger in Pakistan, Egypt and Siberia over spiralling food prices shows how vulnerable is the world to food crisis. Although the UN FAO has expressed concern, but does not fear a repeat of the global food crisis of 2007-08, there is no effort to remove the imbalances in the food management system that is responsible for the crisis. Agribusiness giants have in the past made a killing over growing hunger. When the world was witnessing food riots in 37 countries, the stocks of multinational grain trading and agribusiness companies had skyrocketed.
There is no lesson drawn [by most governments] from the food debacle of 2007-08. In fact, the G-20 is encouraging more of the same. It is directing member countries to remove all impediments to allowing foreign direct investments in food retail, and at the same time is aggressively pushing developing countries to remove all trade barriers under the Free Trade Agreements and other regional treaties. Developing countries are therefore increasingly becoming food importing countries. The more the dependence on food imports, the more the vulnerability to food crises. After all, Mozambique witnessed food riots when Russia imposed a ban on wheat exports for another year following the severe drought and wildfires.
What happened to Mozambique in September is a story that can be repeated anywhere in the coming years. Unless the world encourages developing and least developed countries to become self-sufficient in food grains, the threat of impending food riots will remain hanging over nations like the sword of Damocles. But since it hurts the commercial interests of the agribusiness giants, the G-20 is looking the other way.
EA - You recently spent seven days in Brazil where you have both praised and denigrated this country's food policies with respect to the fight against hunger, and large-scale agribusiness with a big appetite for deforestation and genetically modified organisms. Which aspects of these contradictory themes drew your attention most in Brazil?
Devinder Sharma - I went to Brazil at the invitation of AS-PTA [a Brazilian agroecology NGO] to participate and speak at an international conference on GM foods/crops in Rio de Janeiro. The conference brought together activists, experts, NGOs, government officials, and representative of farmer's organization from India, Brazil and South Africa, the IBSA countries, besides other countries. In a way it was aimed at strengthening the GM movement in Brazil. Knowing that Brazil is fast adopting GM crops, and it has now replaced Argentina as the country with the largest area under GM crops in Latin America, it was important to have a first-hand understanding of the reasons behind the increasing spread of GM crops, and at the same time to know of the people's struggles against these crops.
In addition, in the week that I stayed in Brazil, I also looked into two other areas of my interests. One relates to the Zero Hunger programme that President Lula had launched sometimes in 2003-04, and the other pertained to the remarkable turnaround that Brazil has made in developing the pure breeds of some of the Indian cattle breeds, and also emerging as a major exporter of these breeds to Latin America, Africa and Asia. These cattle breeds provide milk yields matching Jersey and Holstein Friesen, while their poor cousin in India are categorized as 'unproductive' with very poor milk production capacity.
EA - In other tropical countries (especially in Africa, but also across Latin America), Brazil is increasingly promoting technologies for large scale "green revolution" type grain and meat production in packages that frequently include genetically-modified organisms (GMOs) and chemical inputs that take a heavy toll on the environment. Do you think the so-called "success story of modern Brazilian agribusiness" is a good example for developing tropical countries?
Devinder Sharma - This is a cause for grave concern. Brazil's deliberate shift from sustainable agriculture, utilizing the vast storehouse of biodiversity and genetic wealth it has, to industrial agriculture, which is ecologically destructive and leads to global warming, is not only leading to the marginalization of the farming communities but is leaving behind a large ecological footprint the cost of which will be borne by the future generations. The ecological debt that Brazil has created in the process outweighs the short-term economic gain that it is looking for. Since there is no way to measure the ecological footprint in economic terms, Brazil seems completely unconcerned.
I am dismayed at the way agribusiness companies, including multinational giants, control the Brazilian economy. Agribusiness thrives on destruction of the pristine forests, poisoning the soils, mining groundwater and contaminating the food chain. Recent studies show that small farmers are the worst hit, and are swarming into the cities. Regardless, the Ministry of Agriculture as well as the Ministry of Commerce appear to be simply facilitating the corporate takeover of agriculture, and are therefore pursuing farm and trade policies that do not protect the farming and livelihood interests, not only of Brazil but also of the other developing countries.
EA - What role do you think democratic countries like India and Brazil could play in the building of a new world order that is free from hunger and promotes sustainable agriculture, respect for biodiversity, social justice and fair commerce? Considering that India is the world's largest democracy, are you critical of the Indian governments' unwillingness to prevent recurrent social oppression? If democracy is failing to assure real power to people in so many countries, should democracy be redesigned?
Devinder Sharma - There was a time when Abraham Lincoln had remarked that "democracy is of the people, by the people, for the people." Today, the so-called democracies across the globe, including India, Brazil and the United States, have turned into "of the industry, by the industry, for the industry." Big democratic giants among the developing world - Brazil, India, South Africa - are therefore busy creating a new world order where corporate interest reigns supreme. The governments in all these countries have lost touch with the masses, and are following an economic model that does not look beyond business, trade and industry.
In India, which claims to be the world's largest democracy, there is no plausible justification as to why a third of the 1.2 billion people should be living in hunger. With nearly 47 per cent of the children below the age of six years malnourished, and with 55 per cent of the population classified as poverty-stricken by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), India is projecting itself to be the emerging superpower. In the past few years, ever since India ushered in economic liberalization, the economic disparities have only widened. The rich have become richer and the poor are being driven against the wall. The gradual take-over of the natural resources by industry has created a sense of despair among the tribal communities. Such is the deepening mistrust against the government's policies in the poorest of the poor regions of India that almost a third of the country, predominantly the mineral-rich belt, is facing rebellion by Maoists.
I wonder how India can be a proud democracy if the successive governments have failed to fulfil the aspirations of the majority population. How can hunger and poverty exist at such an alarming rate in a democracy? The projection of economic growth, which proclaims India to be the second fastest growing economy, therefore has little semblance with the realities. The governments have lost touch with the masses, and the real power is in the hands of the 'Corporate'. So much so, that a majority of the people's representatives who are elected to parliament now are millionaires. You cannot win elections if you are not rich. The true essence of democracy has therefore been lost. Democracy has turned into Corporatocracy. I strongly believe that the time has come to have a re-look at what democracy means. Business as usual cannot be allowed to go on for much longer.
EA - You have expressed that stock markets are the main protagonists in causing the depletion of the world's natural resources, escalating levels of hunger and widening inequalities. Do you believe in alternative ways of development that benefit the excluded majorities and minorities in socially and environmentally sustainable ways?
Devinder Sharma - There is no other innovation (if you don't like to use the word invention) in recent times that has not only influenced but hastened the process of unbridled consumption than the emergence of the Wall Street. In fact, the economists may refuse to accept it now, and for obvious reasons, but the stock market will lead the world towards the extinction of the human race that an Australian scientist Frank Fenner has warned us about.
I am amazed at the way the stock markets work. These markets have commodified everything. Much of the world's environmental ills are a direct fallout of the stock market. Stock markets will squeeze every drop of water (or other natural resources) out of the planet. There is a price for everything, including the air you breathe.
The 'growth economics' that emergent economies follow is in reality nothing but violent economics. It unleashes violence against natural resources, against the climate, against nature, and also against fellow human beings. It shifts natural, physical as well as financial resources from the hands of the poor into the pockets of the rich and the elite. We have been often told that 20 per cent of the world's population of haves controls and uses the resources of the 80 per cent of the have not. Globalisation further strengthens that monopoly control and widens the already existing disparity. It takes away resources from the hands of the poor, to add on to the wealth of the rich.
EA - Many socially concerned thinkers and economists have been arguing that it is inevitable to first push up GDP by all means and only then implement income distribution policies. Do you think this is an effective strategy?
Devinder Sharma - The economists are a clever breed. They designed GDP as an indicator of growth. They crafted it so deftly that we accepted an indicator of personal wealth to be a pointer to national development. What an illusion of growth they created. They made everything, including global climate, look like a commodity to be sold and exploited. The more you exploit, the more GDP goes up. You can destroy a country in war, and then when you rebuild it, the GDP soars. This is what happened to Iraq.
GDP in layman's term means the amount of money that exchanges hands. If you buy a car, the GDP goes up. If you cut a tree, the GDP goes up. But if you preserve the tree, the GDP does not grow. Now you have to decide whether you need the tree or the GDP.
If you look at it globally, the increase in GDP has not led to all round development. Even in the United States, the richest country in the world, hunger has broken the 14-year record. Today, every person in 10 in the US is hungry. Unless we reverse this faulty prescription of economic growth, we will never have income being distributed fairly in any population. Let us remember, GDP is not the touchstone to development. It is a smokescreen for the rich to exploit the poor.
EA - In the context of the present economic crisis and its impact on agriculture and food security, what guidelines and approaches, in your opinion, should be adopted by developing countries in order to prevent disasters and resume sustainable social development?
Devinder Sharma - The economic meltdown has brought in globally US $20 trillion as bailout packages. This package has actually gone to those banks and investment firms who in reality should have been penalized for bringing the world economy to the brink. Instead, they have been applauded and honoured for the economic crime they indulged in with all impunity.
The question that needs to be asked is why did the world pump in so much money into banks/investment firms? The answer is to keep the financial flow, which will allow governments to keep the pace of economic growth. I have often asked as to what is the underlying objective of this generosity. The answer I get is to ameliorate hunger and poverty by providing livelihoods, and income opportunities. Unless there is growth, there will not be opportunities for livelihood creation. This is certainly amusing, and smacks of intellectual arrogance bordering stupidity.
What is being conveniently ducked is that the world needs just US $1 trillion to wipe out hunger, disease and poverty from the face of the planet. We don't have money for that. But we have US $20 trillion for bailing out the corrupt and the crooks in business and industry.
EA - To overcome the political, economic and ideological structural barriers to sustainable development, including zero hunger, is certainly not an easy task. In this struggle, how can we cope with the extra challenges represented by the so-called world emergencies like global warming, climate changes, biodiversity loss and energy crisis?
Devinder Sharma - The structural barriers to social and sustainable development, including fighting hunger, are actually woven in the faulty neoliberal economic policies. The extra challenges of climate change, global warming, loss of biodiversity and the ever-growing energy crisis is also the result of the growth paradigm.
Let me ask you a question. If the economic prescriptions for the global economy that the world has been following were so good, please tell me why has the world come to a tipping point? Why has the planet's natural resources been polluted and plundered? Why are the rivers flowing dirty, and why are the freshwater sources all drying up? Why has the biodiversity disappeared at an alarming rate, bringing the world closer to extinction? How come the IPCC [Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, sponsored by the UN] has to warn that if we do not make any radical change in the way the world is progressing, there is not much time left before the human population collapses? This is a clear indictment of the economic policies that the world has been made to follow. The emergencies that you talk about are the outcome of grossly flawed economic thinking.
The answer lies in what Mahatma Gandhi had told us. He had said that the earth has enough for everyone's need, but not greed. He had also said that what is needed is a production system by the masses and not for the masses. This in essence is the foundation of the concept of food sovereignty that the civil society talks about. Instead of pushing free trade, using the WTO as the policeman, to basically provide a market for the highly subsidized farm produce of the OECD countries, the world must revert back to attaining food self-sufficiency. Making countries dependent upon food imports is a recipe for disaster, but it certainly adds to GDP - yet we are not told that [increasing trade will also increase] to global warming. Nevertheless, you will be surprised to know that in the past 30 years or so, ever since the World Bank/IMF began the structural adjustment program, 105 of the 149-odd Third World countries have already become food importers. If the Doha Development Round, the way it is being designed, comes to a conclusion soon, mark my words the remaining of the Third World countries would also become food importers in no time. And don't forget, importing food is like importing unemployment. Food will then become the strongest political weapon.
EA - How do you evaluate the role being played by the UN and its system (UNDP, FAO and others) in the effort to cope with humanity`s major problems? The UN established the MDGs (Millennium Development Goals) to be accomplished by 2015. Will that work?
Devinder Sharma - The MDGs are not going to work. I remember when the World Food Summit in 1996 first declared that it is criminal to see that 24,000 people succumb to hunger every day, and the international leadership expressed [an] urgency to address hunger, promising to remove 50 per cent of the estimated 842 million people living then in hunger by the year 2015, I had expressed shock and disgust. I had said that this is a classic case of political dishonesty.
By the time the world promises to remove half the number of hungry, considering that 24,000 people die every day somewhere from hunger, 128 million people would have perished from hunger alone. How can this be called urgency? Isn't this a crime against humanity?
The MDG's have merely reiterated the WFS promise. And as we know now, the number of hungry has actually increased - from 842 million in 1996 to 1.1 billion in 2010. The UN can surely bask in the sun, be satisfied with the 'great' humanitarian task it is working towards. But the reality is that the UN is no better than the World Bank. The line between the UN and the World Bank has blurred over the years.
EA - What are your views on South-South co-operation? Countries like India and Brazil share similar conditions in many respects but still have relatively weak commercial relations and technical-scientific exchange. Old North-South links, with the inheritances of colonialism, seem to collide with the perspective of Third World countries aligning themselves to cope with common challenges. What do you think India and Brazil could do together to strengthen their struggle against hunger and for sustainable development in respective and other Third World countries?
Devinder Sharma - It looks nice to hear of South-South cooperation. Academicians have used this as the answer to the TINA (There is no alternative) factor. I have always felt amused when I hear of South-South cooperation. I don't know of any country in the South, which does not aim at emulating the North. Whatever the political leaders might say, they feel honoured when invited to queue up for a photo session at G-20 summits. Academicians do the same; economists of course excel in this. If you look at their CVs, they proudly mention the universities in the North they have visited or worked with.
Even when President Lula and Prime Minister Manmohan Singh talk of bilateral collaboration, it is more often than not to promote the same system they have borrowed from the western countries. In reality, the South-South cooperation if any is built on the same principles of exploitation. The big brother does exactly the same to the smaller cousin what the US does to India and Brazil.
It does not however mean that South-South cooperation is not possible. All it needs as the starting point is trust and respect. This is possible only if the leader of the big developing country exhibits political statesmanship and refrains from being the big fish that eats the smaller one. Let us hope someday someone shows political sagacity, and a new world order would be born.
Africa is launching an ambitious programme, Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA) to increase agricultural production. Kofi Annan [ex-UN Secretary General] is heading this initiative. Unfortunately, this programme is based on industrial farming and encourages corporate takeover of agriculture. AGRA is not what Africa needs. It is here that Africa could have gone in South-South cooperation with countries of the developing world to look for sustainable farming systems that do not kill farmers. Africa needs to learn lessons from the debacle of the green revolution in India. Over 200,000 farmers have committed suicide in the past 15 years in India, essentially because the green revolution equation has gone wrong. I am sure African leaders don't want their farmers to die. Therefore, Africa does not need AGRA, it needs SAGRA - Sustainable Agriculture for Africa.


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Published May 28, 2009 | By Rod Warner
Resilience is the inner strength and reserves that enables us to endure in tough times, but more than that, it is the magic that enables us to recover, heal and become better people. In other words it's that human quality which enables us to thrive and flourish.
Fortunately we all have resilience. That's the good news – the bad news is that it often feels that this special quality fluctuates. Just when we need it most, it may feel like it escapes us.
So how do we hold on to it? What can we do to build our resilience to cope with tough times?
Our research on resilience in South African adults found that a foundation or core component of resilience is that of a strong sense of personal meaning and connection. The people we studied reported that when things become really bad the question inevitably arose in their minds: "Why carry on……. why not just give up?"
Our national weekend papers frequently carry stories of people who just give up – and often end their and their family's lives with violence. Fortunately the majority of us haven't just given up and we have coped through a range of adversity from days when everything goes wrong to profound tragedy and adversity.
Our research highlighted the importance of having clear meaning, connection and purpose in one's life in order to be resilient. Examples of this fitted into one or more of three categories of significance – people, causes and faith.
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Most often this referred to partners and children. An example was a single mother living in the Cape Flats area of Cape Town, who found deep meaning in raising her son without help or maintenance from his father, keeping him at school, off drugs and out of gangs.
To her horror one day, she realised that he was not doing household chores, was skipping school and ……… was into drugs. Her worst fear had come about.
She said that in her darkest moments of despair, she felt she had to persevere and could not give up, because if she did he would be lost to gangsterism, crime and drug dealing and his short life would come to a violent end.
So she walked a long and difficult road with him to his present rehabilitation and recovery. She persevered for his sake and found great satisfaction and joy in his recovery. She now has established a book club where mothers are encouraged to join and borrow books to read to their youngsters, and in so doing to forge and maintain tight family relationships. She believes that this will ultimately help reduce gangsterism and crime in her community.
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Causes can become "magnificent obsessions" that give purpose beyond oneself. Examples which were given included de-oiling of penguins; being an activist for people with disabilities; saving an endangered fynbos species from extinction; working with jobless people to give them income-producing skills.
Time spent on their activities was deeply significant. "Making a difference" was all they asked, and they seemed to be rewarded with a feeling of deep satisfaction.
Significant faith
Faith was reported to be very important in making sense of an adversity and tough times. Descriptions of their faith ranged from that of formal religion (Using terms like Catholic; Muslim; Born again Christian) to those who preferred to just describe their connection as "spiritual".
It seemed to us that the label people used for their beliefs was less important than the feeling of deep connection and meaning they experienced, and how this played out in their lives. A commonly repeated refrain was "I will not be tested more than the ability I have been given". One wag wryly added she sometimes just wished that she was not trusted so much by her Maker!
In summary, our research showed that significant people, causes and faith are important in providing the foundation for the inner resources and strength needed to deal with adversity. Connection, meaning and purpose in life underpin resilience. Everyone should strive to keep these connections strong in good times as well as tough times – how strong are yours?
If you would like to find significant causes to which to give your time, effort and skills, and by so doing enhance your connection, meaning and grounding, click on this great South African web site: www.myggsa.co.za/connect/ways_to_give/
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Did you know that Massachusetts General Laws (c. 140 Section 155) imposes strict liability on dog owners who have caused a victim bodily harm?
This means that the dog keeper is liable to the victim immediately after the bite occurs with very few exceptions. A victim need not prove that the dog owner was negligent, or that the dog had a vicious propensity or that the animal had bitten other people in the past. The victim only has to show that he or she was bitten. The law is even more stringent where it pertains to dog bite victims under the age of seven (7) years old. In such instances there are no exceptions to the strict liability rule. If you or your minor child has been a victim of a dog bite then contact Attorney Mike Suarez at (508) 759-1122 for a free no obligation consultation.


The outline of the Kort nozzle has become familiar to operators of towboats, fishboats, supply vessels and other workboats over the years. The inside of the Kort nozzle is shaped like a venturi tube, flared entry, cylindrical section usually made of stainless steel at the propeller plane and a cylindrical or cone section on the nozzle exit. Its leading and trailing edges are made from the pipe or the solid round. The exterior of the nozzle is always a cone.
After carrying out extensive tests on various nozzle configurations, Josip Gruzling, marine engineer, NautiCan Enterprises Ltd., decided that if one could design a nozzle with an airfoil shape that had extremely low drag, then it would be possible to increase the efficiency of any vessel.
The new NautiCan nozzle has a continuous curvature of its inside and outside surfaces, similar to the wing section of an advanced aircraft.
Unlike the conventional nozzle which is circular, the new nozzle is actually a 36-sided polygon.
NautiCan Enterprises claims that by adapting the advanced theory of the wing section to the original nozzle design, the newly developed nozzle not only improves thrust at lower speeds but also increases the freerunning speed of a vessel.
According to company literature, the superior performance of the NautiCan nozzle was achieved with the use of a more efficient airfoil section. Model tests performed at the Vienna Ship Model Basin showed that the NautiCan nozzle has 17 times less drag than an industrial standard 19A type nozzle.
There was no flow separation observed on either the inside surface or outside surface of the NautiCan nozzle. The model test also showed a 12 percent better efficiency over the open propeller at higher speeds.
NautiCan Enterprises reports that in actual sea trials, speed increases of 0.4-1.0 knots were attained.
In the instance where a NautiCan nozzle was used to replace an existing Kort nozzle, the measured bollard pull increased from 20,000 pounds to 23,000 pounds. Free running speed of the vessel was increased by three-quarters of a knot.
With the use of an advanced propeller design in place of the conventional Kaplan propeller, there was a significant reduction in vibration and noise.
The NautiCan nozzle is fabricated out of a number of small segments, each of which resembles a section of an aircraft wing. The inside surface of the nozzle is made entirely of stainless steel.
For a recent order for eight 42- inch NautiCan nozzles from Ulstein Maritime Ltd., NautiCan Enterprises developed a one-piece, hollow- cast nozzle using stainless steel or high tensile bronze.
The nozzles and propellers were incorporated into Ulstein Maritime Z-Drive units and supplied to the U.S. Navy.
To date, NautiCan Enterprises has received orders for 11 nozzles for the U.S. Navy's torpedo weapons retrievers (TWRs), as well as over a dozen installations aboard tugs and fishing vessels. A survey vessel, the GSI Explorer, operated by Geophysical Services Ltd., is fitted with three of the nozzles.
According to a paper, "Advanced Nozzle/Propeller Development," presented by Mr. Gruzling at the Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers (SNAME)-Pacific Northwest Section's spring meeting last year, the full potential of the nozzles will be realized only when they are applied to vessels operating at higher speeds. Improved flow over the nozzle section opens possibilities for quieter running propellers for military applications and seismic research vessels and passenger vessels.


Behavioral Interview Question: Give me an example of a project where you successfully delegated some components? How did you decide what to delegate and to whom?
For this type of question, your goal is to show that you've thought about it, and that you're aware enough of your decisions to be able to highlight who thrived under your instruction.
Remember, there isn't always an excellent answer to this question. What the employer is looking for is any answer at all that shows you understand the role you're getting into, and that you put thought behind it.


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Frequently Asked Questions about the GEO–Google Earth Engine Programme
Do you have a project using Earth observation data to address social or environmental challenges? Are you interested in applying for the Group on Earth Observations – Google Earth Engine Programme? Do you have questions about the process or how to apply?
Here are answers to some of your frequently asked questions:
What is the GEO-GEE Programme?
The Group on Earth Observations (GEO) has partnered with Google to offer 25 licenses for the sustained use of Google Earth Engine (GEE) for projects using Earth observation data to address global challenges related to climate change, sustainable development, disaster risk reduction and others.
These licenses, valued up to US$3 million, aim to empower public sector and commercial recipients to tackle significant societal challenges and improve understanding of our planet.
What are the benefits of this programme, how does this differ from engaging directly with Google and using GEE?
This offer is for a commercial-grade license to use GEE free, for 2 years, and extends to proposals coming from the private sector. For non-profit educational and research institutions, this type of arrangement is already free.
However, this offer goes beyond the typical research arrangement in that it includes the sustained use of GEE in a production environment. In other words, the workflow may be used in a regular, operational manner during the 2-year period to inform decisions that the organization or its customers are taking, rather than in a one-off, research or evaluative manner. Thus an extended flexibility in terms of what may be done operationally with GEE is possible with this programme.
Further, as noted in the application form, EO Data Science will provide technical support and mentoring through an outreach programme to help approved proposals from the GEO community get the results needed from GEE, adding valuable knowledge and know-how to the programme.
Both non-profit and for-profit organizations, government agencies and research institutions associated with GEO are eligible to apply to use GEE for projects approved under this Programme, at no charge, for a 2-year period.
Do I need to be a GEO member to apply?
GEO is an intergovernmental partnership comprised of Member Governments. One does not personally need to be a member of GEO to apply, but your country must be a member. For a full list of GEO Member countries, click here.
How are projects selected? How will I be notified if my proposal is accepted?
Project leads will be notified via email after all applications have been reviewed and evaluated by the GEO Secretariat Director, the GEO Senior Scientist, three members of the GEO Programme Board, Google and EO Data Science.
What is the eligibility of academic researchers to apply for GEO-GEE programme?
Academic researchers and Universities from any GEO Member country may submit a proposal. For a full list of GEO Member countries, click here.
What is the deadline?
Please submit your proposal via this Application Form to dcripe@geosec.org by April 15, 2020.


The Orleans Town Council has adopted a new wind law after more than a year of determining new regulations and fine tuning.
The town's attorney, James A. Burrows, said the board adopted the law at its Dec. 28 meeting and he sent the law to the state Department of State for its files less than a week later. The new law, which combines the 2011 version with dozens of amendments, takes effect when the department officially files it.
Creating and revising the town's wind law has been an ongoing project for more than a decade, Mr. Burrows said. The board adopted the first version of its wind law in 2007.
A draft version of the new law can be found on the Orleans website.


Last year I blogged about wanting to invest in bonds as one of my goals because I've heard smart people invest in stocks, but smarter people invest in bonds 😉 Then earlier this month I wrote about taking out a loan and have dedicated some money to buy bonds with.
Well I have finally taken the plunge into bonds. Yesterday morning I purchased $5,000 face value of the Sherritt International Corporation 8% bonds, maturing on Nov 15, 2018, for the price of $104.475. I will explain the jargon in a moment, but essentially what this means is I have made an investment of roughly $5,200. And by the end of 2018 that investment will turn into $6,800. That represents a 6.8% annual return 😀 It's not the best investment ever, but it sure beats the low returns on 5-year CDs and GICs.
I will discuss three topics in today's post: Why I've decided to buy these bonds. How to buy bonds. And what are the risks and expected returns of my new bonds.
In many countries like Canada and the U.S., the interest we pay on loans for investment purposes is tax deductible, as long as the investment is expected to produce an income, like with dividend paying stocks or rental properties. So if we pay $1,000 of interest this year on an investment loan, and our marginal tax bracket is 30% (like mine is,) then the tax man will give us back $300.
Here's a look at all my tax deductible debts taken from my latest net worth update 🙂 I've left out my mortgage and RRSP loan because those do not qualify for interest tax deductions.
The term on my mortgage is up for renewal in a couple of months. I have to decide between fixed or variable. The good news is that interest rates are lower today than when I bought my condo almost 4 years ago so no matter what I choose my monthly payments should become lower. My strategy is to try and prolong the life of my mortgage for as long as I can or until interest rates are much higher. I believe making extra payments to a mortgage in a low interest environment likely won't be as financially beneficial as putting that extra money to work in a diverse investment portfolio instead.


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César Gracia Samper, conegut afectuosament com a Cesarín (Barri del Carme, València, 21 d'octubre de 1939) és un expilot de motociclisme de velocitat valencià que destacà en competicions estatals durant les dècades de 1950 i 1960. Considerat un dels millors de la seva època, el seu palmarès no li fa justícia i només una certa mala sort impedí que aconseguís més títols de campió. De fet, debutà guanyant-ne un que s'anul·là i en perdé quatre que tenia pràcticament assegurats, a banda d'haver estat el millor en cilindrades petites -com ara els 50 cc- justament quan no se'n disputava cap campionat estatal o internacional. Tot això, unit a la manca d'encert en moments clau (es quedà a Ducson i  quan li caldria haver canviat a  i Bultaco, fitxà per Lube quan la marca estava a punt d'enfonsar-se i desaprofità l'oportunitat que li brindà OSSA, cedint-li el lloc a Santi Herrero) feu que s'hagués de conformar amb un Campionat d'Espanya i cinc Subcampionats, més un Subcampionat d'Europa.

Biografia
Nascut en ple Barri del Carme, en una família d'arrels populars i d'esquerres (el seu avi fou Governador de València durant la Segona República espanyola), César és el gran de 3 germans. El seu pare, César Gracia Raga, tenia un taller de motocicletes al Carrer de Baix que arribà a ser servei oficial de Montesa. Gran afeccionat al motociclisme (fou subcampió d'Espanya de 125cc el 1952), el pare traspassà la seva passió als seus fills César i Manolo (3 anys més jove) i els portava sovint a veure les curses en què participava. Durant el Trofeu de Falles de 1950 construí un sidecar i el muntà en una moto  amb la qual els dos petits obriren el circuit situat a l'Albereda de València.

1957, debut en competició
Després d'aprendre mecànica al taller de son pare, César Gracia fill debutà en competició el 1957 amb un velomotor OSSA 50cc que li deixà un amic, corrent i guanyant la seva primera cursa al Trofeu de Falles celebrat al Passeig al Mar. Era una cursa puntuable per al Campionat d'Espanya Afeccionats Velomotors 50cc. En la segona, dins el Trofeu de la Magdalena de Castelló de la Plana, fou segon després d'haver lluitat amb tres pilots oficials de la marca. En veure-ho l'amo d'OSSA, Manuel Giró, decidí patrocinar-lo de cara a la tercera cursa a Sevilla, on fou també segon. Passades quatre curses encapçalava la classificació general, però en no celebrar-se les cinc mínimes establertes el campionat s'anul·là i es quedà sense títol.

El 1958, OSSA es retirà de les competicions i Gracia es quedà sense ajuda, però uns amics li regalaren l'equipament i el seu "padrí" José Monfort (tot i no estar batejat, César li deia així) li comprà una Montesa Brío 91 amb la qual disputà el campionat "125 Turisme de Sèrie" (conegut també com a "125 Afeccionats"), amb tan mala sort que després de la segona cursa agafà una pneumònia per culpa d'un refresc gelat i no reaparegué fins a la tardor, fent bones actuacions però sense poder ja optar al títol.

1959, Campió de 125cc
El 1959 es vengué la Brio 91 i es comprà una Brío 110, però després s'assabentà que aquella moto no era homologable per al campionat "125 Turisme de Sèrie". José Monfort pogué recuperar la seva antiga Brio 91 i els dies de cursa li la canviava per la 110, però aleshores no podia competir en condicions en categories superiors, amb la qual cosa decidí córrer també curses de velomotors amb un Motobic i un .

En 125cc guanyà força curses i acabà conquerint el títol en dura lluita amb l'equip oficial de Montesa, format per Jaume Bordoy (que fou subcampió), Maurici Aschl (tercer) i Molina. Tot i ser inferior a les dels seus rivals, amb la Brio 91 feu també un bon paper a la categoria de 175 Comercial. Els seus resultats li obriren les portes de Montesa, que li oferí córrer les 24 Hores de Montjuïc amb una Brio 110, formant equip amb Ángel Sanjuan. Hi feren molt bon paper, anant vuitens a les 12 de la nit, però caigueren tots dos (César es trencà el nas) i tanmateix acabaren en setzena posició final.

Com a premi a la seva temporada, la RFME (federació estatal), l'inclogué en l'equip de pilots que enviava de gira a l'Uruguai amb Paco González a finals d'any. Per a la gira, Leopold Milà li preparà una Brio 110 a mida, amb xassís modificat, dipòsit llarg i amortidors Telesco tipus "llapis", amb la qual guanyà a Colonia del Sacramento i fou segon a Montevideo rere González.

1960, oficial de Montesa i Ducson
Pere Permanyer, l'amo de Montesa, li compensà econòmicament la temporada i el fitxà oficialment per a 1960, tot oferint-li motos, sou, primes de desplaçament i premis dobles. Al mateix temps, Gracia aconseguí un acord similar (llevat del sou) amb Ducson per a córrer en cilindrades petites, gràcies als contactes dels germans Mira de RMH amb la marca de Mollet, de la qual n'eren distribuïdors.

Segons César Gracia, les Ducson de 50, 60 i 75cc han estat les millors motos que mai pilotà, aconseguint-hi més de 30 victòries. Malauradament, fins a 1966 no hi hagué Campionat estatal de 50cc i no pogué, doncs, augmentar el seu palmarès. Les Montesa eren una altra cosa, ja que havent-se'n anat Francesc Xavier Bultó la seva tecnologia no havia evolucionat prou. Tot i així, després de lluitar molt amb Jordi Sirera i guanyar força curses, quedà subcampió de 125cc. En cilindrades petites, guanyà totes les curses en què participà amb les Ducson.

El 1961 hagué de fer el servei militar. Amb Ducson seguí liderant les petites cilindrades, però Montesa aquell any se centrà a desenvolupar el seu nou model, la Impala, i amb les Brio cada cop costava més de superar les Bultaco (Tralla, TS i TSS), que acabaren guanyant el títol estatal amb Paco González, essent Gracia subcampió després de guanyar força curses. Aquell any fou novè al  de 125cc, disputat al Circuit de Montjuïc, i a les  formà parella amb Josep Maria Busquets, acabant-hi en setena posició absoluta (tercers en 125cc). Amb Ducson sortia a victòria per cursa i guanyava tots els Trofeus i Campionats territorials en què participava, així com la prova que es disputà a Saragossa puntuable per a la Copa d'Europa de 50cc (l'avantsala del Mundial de 50cc, que s'inaugurà el 1962).

1962, oportunitats perdudes
El 1962 cometé potser un dels seus pitjors errors, en rebutjar diverses ofertes de  i quedar-se a Ducson. Segons explicà, seguia considerant millors les motos d'aquesta marca, i a més a més es trobava molt còmode al seu equip oficial, on era tractat com a primer pilot tot i tenir-hi companys del nivell de Pere Auradell, Jaume Bordoy, Ricard Fargas i Ramon Torras. Mentrestant, el seu amic Josep Maria Busquets començà a destacar internacionalment amb Derbi aquell mateix any.

Aquella temporada, Enric Sirera guanyà la pujada de muntanya a Vallvidrera amb la nova Impala i Montesa decidí retirar-se fins a enllestir el model. A Gracia li oferiren deixar-li motos menys competitives a l'espera que el nou projecte estigués a punt, donant-li plena llibertat per a canviar d'equip. Com que, simultàniament, Luis Bejarano (l'amo de la basca Lube) li havia fet una oferta fabulosa per a l'època, Gracia decidí d'acceptar-la. Hi influí el fet que aquell any havia deixat passar també un acord amb Bultaco perquè Bultó no li volia concedir la distribució de la marca al País Valencià (en tenir-la ja Paco González). Aquesta condició sí que li la concedí Lube.

El 1962 arribà també a un acord amb Eusebi Andreu Virgili, a qui havia conegut el 1961, per a pilotar les seves Ducati Mototrans en altres cilindrades que no interferien amb les Ducson i Lube. Aquell fou l'any de l'inici del seu declivi, a causa de la pèssima resposta de les Lube i la pèrdua de competitivitat de les Ducson enfront de les més innovadores Derbi. Guanyà encara força curses amb la Ducson davant de Josep Maria Busquets i la seva Derbi, però amb la Lube no hi havia res a fer, arribant a una situació insostenible amb la marca, tip que no li fessin cas quan els demanava millores.

A començaments de 1963 Lube feu finalment cas de les seves exigències després de veure com guanyava al seu company d'equip Santi Herrero en dues curses amb sengles Ducati de menor cilindrada. A partir d'aleshores les Lube milloraren i l'equip oficial (format per Gracia, Manuel Esteban i Santi Herrero) començà a obtenir bons resultats, decidint-se a competir per Europa. Entre 1963 i 1964 César Gracia disputà diverses curses internacionals a Clarmont-Ferrand, Imola, Mòdena i Pau amb la Lube i la Ducson, aconseguint-hi bons resultats. Arribà a córrer fins i tot amb una Derbi que li deixà Simeó Rabasa en no haver-hi cap Ducson disponible a la fàbrica de Mollet.

El 1963, al Gran Premi d'Espanya de 50cc celebrat a Montjuïc, fou sisè amb una Ducson antiga, ja que el prototipus més modern s'avariava massa. Més tard tornà a participar amb Busquets a les 24 Hores, als comandaments d'una Impala 250, assolint el tercer lloc absolut i el Subcampionat d'Espanya de resistència.

El 1964, tant Ducati com Ducson decidiren retirar-se de les competicions. Només li quedava la Lube, que tot i que havia millorat no pogué fer res davant el tàndem Ramon Torras-Bultaco TSS, que aquell any abassegaren. Tot i així, encara guanyà alguna cursa i fou Subcampió estatal júnior rere Torras.

1965, l'ensulsiada
El 1965 fou l'any en què tot se li enfonsà. Lube entrà en una profunda crisi que n'acabà provocant el tancament i durant el campionat estatal anaven provant invents sense èxit. Gracia veié que no hi havia res a fer i abandonà el campionat, passant a córrer només al País Valencià. En un intent d'evitar l'irreversible fracàs comercial de la marca (que seguí a l'esportiu) aquell any participà amb els seus models en tota mena de disciplines, des de motocròs a regularitat passant per pujades de muntanya i ral·lies, amb bons resultats que no serviren de res: Lube acabà tancant i el seu negoci de distribuïdor de la marca feu fallida, havent de respondre'n financerament. Abans, però, repetí parella amb Busquets a les 24 Hores, arribant a encapçalar la cursa durant setze hores seguides, fins que per culpa de problemes tècnics hi acabaren quarts (segons a 250cc) i altre cop Subcampions estatals.

1966, retirada
Desenganyat, el 1966, a només 26 anys, decidí retirar-se i en fer-ho desaprofità potser la millor ocasió de la seva carrera: l'oferta d'OSSA, que aquell any tornava a les curses amb el revolucionari motor de vàlvula rotativa que estava desenvolupant Eduard Giró. El varen cridar a ell per les seves grans dots de pilot provador, però estava a punt de casar-se, encara lluitava pel seu negoci i feia un any que no competia al màxim nivell, motius que el feren rebutjar l'oferta. En demanar-li Giró qui el podria suplir, Gracia els recomanà Salvador Cañellas, Ángel Nieto i especialment Santi Herrero, qui fou finalment l'escollit. Com a antic company seu a Lube, Gracia l'acompanyà a Barcelona a signar el contracte amb OSSA i aconseguí de passada la representació de la marca a València. Més tard aconseguí també la de MV Agusta i la dels ciclomotors Honda, però fou debades, ja que el 1970 hagué de tancar definitivament. Fou l'any que el seu antic company Herrero, que havia entrat a OSSA gràcies a ell, es morí al Tourist Trophy de l'Illa de Man mentre anava en camí de guanyar el mundial amb la 250 monocasc.

Actualitat
Un cop retirat de la carrera esportiva, César Gracia treballà de cap de recanvis de Chrysler i de Ford i actualment porta la gestió comercial de recanvis en un concessionari Volvo. El seu germà Manolo continua en el negoci familiar, situat ara al Passeig de la Petxina, i els fills dels dos germans desenvolupen també la seva tasca professional en el món del motor: el de César com a tècnic de suspensions i el de Manolo portant la part comercial del taller fundat pel seu avi.

Palmarès

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Referències

Bibliografia

Enllaços externs

 Article sobre la Montesa GP que pilotà a l'Uruguai el 1959
 Article sobre un homenatge als germans Gracia fet a Meliana el setembre del 2011

Campions d'Espanya de motociclisme de velocitat
Pilots valencians de motociclisme de velocitat
Pilots de Ducson
Pilots d'OSSA
Pilots de Montesa
Esportistes de València contemporanis


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