Never underestimate the power of this effect.

Group consensus breaks your mind.

Consider the Asch protocol, a real experiment which has been replicated many times. Shown an image of three lines, one of which is obviously longer than the other two, most respondents will agree with planted subjects who have been instructed to lie and say they are all the same length.

Make sure you read that right: people, by and large, will not trust their own perceptions when challenged by an apparent group consensus.

What’s worse is that the pressure to conform is experienced as a kind of severe pain by the brain. Imaging has demonstrated this.

Consensus is when everyone around you appears to believe the same thing, and act accordingly. We are moved by consensus in almost everything that we do. What we wear, what we eat, how we spend our leisure time and even our deeply held values are all shaped by beliefs and attitudes expressed by those around us and those whom we choose to be around.

When you were in high school and they talked about “peer pressure” incessantly, they were warning you of the power of consensus.

The real trouble is when imaginary consensus, like the one created by sycophantic applause at a press conference, skews our perceptions of the world.

This is mind-breaking: using false representations to warp others’ perceptions of reality toward ends that serve the mind-breaker.

In this historical moment, it is vital to publicly demystify the topic of mind-breaking, the first objective of all psychological warfare, is vital in this historical moment.

Mind-breaking is more than gaslighting.

“Gaslighting” is a specific kind of mind-breaking in which getting targets to question their own sanity is the explicit goal. What is more dangerous are the mind-breakers that keep you from questioning anything at all.

If anything, successful mind-breakers fabricate realities in order to hide the psychotic nature of their own activities.

For instance, mind-breaking the public is the only way to make such atrocities as war not only permissible on pragmatic grounds but actually palatable to a liberalized nation. Propaganda and widespread misinformation (classic mind-breaking tools) can even instill the active celebration of militarism. Support our troops = support our leaders’ military agenda, for which the “troops” are a thinly veiled symbol. After all, they are all legally bound to follow those leaders’ commands without question. Who do you think is most likely to benefit from such displays of generic patriotism? Certainly not the enlisted cannon fodder, themselves powerless and likely victims of mind-breaking. No, the mind-breakers, who rely in part on manufacturing a car-bumper consensus of support for nationalistic militarism are the real winners here.

False balancing between opposing opinions is another classic mind-breaking tactic. It occurs when a set of opinions are treated as though they all deserve equal consideration and respect when at least one opinion is certainly the product of mind-breaking. Vastly overstated beliefs in the amount of violence perpetrated by immigrants and the mentally ill are an example, giving the fear of broken minds equal play with conclusions derived from verifiable facts.

A mind-broken opinion is always inferior to any others arrived at through clear-minded perceptions.

Plenty has been written on the reframing effects of fake news and the distraction tactics that are used to hide unsavory behavior that is otherwise public record. Both operate at least partly on consensus.

Fake news appears real because it is shared and liked by so many people. Sensational events and tweets are distracting because when one person points, everyone around them tends to look in the same direction. And keep looking in that direction, drawing in more people. Even when nothing is there.

Fake news and the like are only initial attempts at breaking your mind. The problem will only intensify, and consensus is perhaps the strongest principle that can be leveraged against your perception of reality.

  • Censorship creates false consensus in the media.
  • Selectively funding and strictly regulating research in academia creates false consensus at universities. This contributes to mind-breaking faculty, staff, and students alike.

Hiding reality is the best way to distort it, as the dishonest few in power know so very well.

Accepting a “post-fact” world is cynical and unhelpful. It is an act of submission to mind-breaking. Honesty has decayed as a public value, and this needs to be remedied.

Remember the Asch experiment? It only works when someone lies.

This piece is an adaptation of a response to this article. I thought the topic deserved a somewhat more thorough treatment.


Whimsical Landscaping Design Ideas

Repurpose Practical Pieces
Infuse your garden with color and lightheartedness, courtesy of this collection of whimsical landscaping design ideas. These whimsical garden ideas will inspire your imagination.

Find Cool Planting Places

Repurposed items such as bathtubs, toilets, and cinder blocks are great for container gardens. They're also unexpectedly striking garden accents that are sure to draw smiles. Use them for growing vegetables, edible flowers, and culinary herbs to add to your harvest.

More Ideas: Fill up bicycle baskets, toolboxes, jugs, galvanized containers, buckets, ceramic bowls, old pots, and enamel tubs.

Reuse, Reuse

Retired garden gear makes a great addition to the garden. For an easy-to-plant whimsical landscaping design idea, roll an old wheelbarrow into a corner or curve in the garden, and plant it with a pretty collection of same-color flowers. The portable nature of the planter makes it possible to move to make the wheelbarrow even more of a focal point for special occasions, such as a garden party.

Planting Tip: Line metal vessels such as wheelbarrows with heavy-duty plastic. If there's a rusted hole, pull the plastic through and snip a hole for drainage. Then fill with potting soil

Add Natural Accents

Ordinary grapevine wreath can give an interesting organic twist to a variety of garden elements, including a birdbath. Here, grapevine is twisted around a shallow ceramic bowl. Loops of copper wire suspend the birdbath from a branch. Twigs tucked in here and there add to the natural look.

Design Tip: Position your birdbath so you can enjoy it both indoors and out. The view of birds splashing in the water can warm even a winter day.

Use Surprising Finds

Unusual finds might be just the inspiration you need to implement your own whimsical landscaping design ideas. Here, curved bases transform a trio of Gothic-style windows into beautiful, one-of-a-kind cold frames.

Design Tip: Salvaged windows can be useful and beautiful garden accents. Use them to top cold frames. Hang window frames on a fence or wall as garden art. Add a shelf to a window frame and suspend it in the garden; rest potted plants on the shelf and surround the vignette with larger plants.

Display Castoffs

Whimsical landscaping design ideas often come from found bits and pieces. Grouped together, those items have impact. It doesn't matter that they were intended for completely separate purposes. Here, a fire-hose winder, a rusted children's pedal car, and a fencing fragment add texture to a collection of pretty flowers.

Design Tip: Use material, color, and shape to create cohesiveness among disparate elements. For example, the rusty color and curved shapes of the pieces in this grouping bind the scene.

Sculpt Your Own Accents

Other people's trash can become your unique and whimsical landscaping design idea. This homeowner found inspiration in old water-spigot handles and brass garden nozzles; she used them to decorate a piece of barn board on a potting shed for sculpture that dresses up the wooden building.

More Ideas: Arrange a group of glass bottles to catch light, hang garden hand tools to focus on their shapes, arrange broken ceramic pieces in a mosaic, or hang nuts and bolts as a mobile.

Group a Collection

One old shovel might be trash, but a small collection of them is treasure, as this display inside a potting shed demonstrates. It's an example of using garage-sale finds and flea market scores to create your own whimsical landscaping design idea.

Design Tip: Look for a consistent element, such as shape, color, or material, to create an eye-catching display. Typically, a grouping of objects looks less static with an odd number.

Get Your Glove On

Before you trash those old garden gloves, consider them a display-worthy badge of honor. This wooden fence got a fabric-focused accent with the display of a variety of worn-out gloves.

Design Tip: Arrange colors and patterns to create smooth movement through a linear display. A fence naturally leads the eye in one direction. Display your gloves or other fence accents so the eye follows the linear flow.

Create New Life for Old Things

Flotsam and jetsam -- wreckage or things cast aside -- become a stationary metal tree when grouped together on a tall pole with varied arms. Use different types of materials -- chipped porcelain, old wicker, rusted metal -- for surprising depth in the back of a flowerbed.

Design Tip: Top your display with a shapely focal point. Just as on a Christmas tree, a starring object at the top leads the upward and allows a visual respite.

Add a Focal Point

Part of getting motivated to incorporate your own whimsical landscaping design ideas is figuring out how to use items as vignettes to draw the eye or create a focal point. Repetition of similar pieces is one visual trick; here, a grouping of old watering cans, tilted in the same direction, adds a fun, festive face to a shed wall.

Design Tip: Create motion in your display by giving things a tilt. These watering cans look ready to douse the nearest bloom and, as a result, imply a sense of motion.

Embrace Less-Is-More

In a different garden, this old purple-martin birdhouse might need a coat or two of paint. But in this cottage-style space and accompanied by battered Adirondack chairs, the house's weathered finish is completely copacetic. An old wire basket holds glass fishing floats, adding luster and color to the seating nook. This eclectic grouping relies on the well-worn look for its whimsical landscaping appeal.

Design Tip: Add contrast. The peeling paint and distressed finishes gain prominence when paired with shiny colored-glass balls. One element that's different from the rest can actually meld the individual pieces.

Set Up Statuary

Architectural castoffs can provide inspiration for whimsical landscaping design ideas. To integrate such objects into a garden, plant flowers or foliage-focused plants that will trail onto or grow up and over the pieces, as done with these two stone heads. Besides statues, consider stone or concrete architectural pieces such as pedestals, cornices, corbels, and other decorative fragments.

Planting Tip: Rock-garden plants and creeping groundcovers can settle nicely in crevices next to salvaged stone statues or decorative fragments.

Pick a Theme

Whimsical landscaping design ideas are perfect for adding texture and height to a garden. A good way to group several items together is to pick a theme, such as this bird-focused border that includes a birdcage, birdhouses, flamingoes, and a tuteur.

More Ideas: Other landscape-friendly themes include garden tools, outdoor games, wildlife, color, or geometric shapes, such as circles or squares.

Look Upward

Favorite plants may thrill with blooms, foliage, or color, but many lack in height. If that's the case, whimsical landscaping design ideas can help you integrate hardscape. Here, a collection of lightning rods adds vertical dimension to peonies and perennial geraniums -- and it acts as a conversation starter, too.

More Ideas: Arrange a display of whirligigs, windmills, columns, weather vanes, metal fence posts, or long-handle garden tools.

Embrace the Unexpected

To maximize whimsical impact, think about how you can replace the ordinary and everyday with something unique. For example, mulch doesn't always have to be chopped-up wood -- especially in small spaces. Here, a "mulch" of blue glazed ceramic balls brightens up the base of a Japanese maple.

Design Tip: Be bold. Half the fun of a whimsical focal point is the surprise. Pick a contrasting or complementary color and concentrate it in one locale. The results will be impressive.

Include Impracticality

Part of adding whimsical landscaping design ideas is incorporating patina or layering to gardens. That might mean including practical items, such as a chair, in impractical places, such as in the middle of a flowerbed. The purpose is not so much to use the piece as it is to highlight the beauty and originality of the item, such as these Carre pillow-style chairs.

Design Tip: Nestle real resting places in niches and at the ends of pathways to create focal-point destinations for whimsical elements that combine the practical with the unexpected. Splash the seating with color, or position a vignette so it is primarily visible from that spot.

Tap Your Inner Artist

Drama can be a wonderful aftereffect of whimsical landscaping design ideas. This trash art, constructed from pipes and found pieces of wood, adds a sculptural element to a backyard's entry gate. Striking neon colors welcomes guests with folk-art flair.

Design Tip: Embellish the ordinary. A simple gate takes on whimsical personality with bright paint and a few accents. You can transform a basic gate by coating the frame and individual panels, pickets, or posts in bright, contrasting colors. It's a great use for leftover paint. Attach metal or glass baubles or other accents for a little shine.

Play with the Palette

If flowers can't provide the color you want, whimsical landscaping design ideas might do the trick. Here, a collection of blue bottles adds pop and vibrance; the collection resembles a cloudlike sculpture.

Design Tip: Insert color in uncommon forms. Arrange bright-color bowling balls along a path. Coat old garden tools with a vibrant hue and tuck the collection beneath a group of ferns or hostas. Create an edging of bright tiles along the perimeter of a foliage grouping.

Spell It Out

Being whimsical is all about being fun, fresh, and festive. In this garden display, tin letters deliver a welcoming message for plants and visitors alike. Note how the arrangement of the letters emphasizes the waterfall-like flow of the container plantings.

Design Tip: Whimsical messages can elicit smiles. Make your own from tin, plastic, wood, or other weatherproof letters. Or scour flea markets for old signs that suit your sensibilities.

Turn the Focus

One of the benefits of whimsical landscaping design ideas is the ability to meld garden styles without feeling chaotic. To do that effectively, pick a single pattern or bright color for uniformity, or one large element that adds a focal point, such as this oversize, folk-art-style sculpture.

Design Tip: Position a main element in a place of honor: at the end of a winding path, amid a riot of flowers, or at an entrance. This placement showcases the piece and creates a sense of arrival for visitors.

Focus Skyward

Create wonder and amazement. For example, no one really expects a hardscape garden element to soar above shrubs or container plantings to tower at tree height. But this collection of neoclassic columns does both, shaking loose traditional expectations of a garden.

Planting Tip: To emphasize the vertical impact, choose plants with columnar or upright forms. Consider ornamental grasses that do well in containers. A plant with a mounding habit adds interesting contrast at eye level.

Be Practical and Playful

Pergolas, arbors, and trellises are great garden elements; this structure gains whimsy and style from interplay with the accents. Hanging stained-glass windows add a sense of boundaries to the space, and a chandelier, accented with a potted plant, creates an unusual overhead focal point.

Design Tip: Dress your whimsical space for comfort and style. Soften leggy wire furniture with fabric cushions in colors drawn from elements such as the stained glass. Include a pedestal, plant stand, or other flat-top element to act as a side table for drinks, books, or other necessities.

Maximize Little Details

Nearly every garden has must-haves -- paths, edging, and mulch, for example. Whimsical elements can turn these essentials into personality statements. Here, blue bottles are recycled into striking edging. Repurposing everyday items for unexpected uses places emphasis on their color, material, or design rather than the original intent.

Design Tip: Mix and match. Every piece in your design need not be identical -- or perfect. Emphasize similarities and hide flaws through your placement of each item.

Fancy the Fairies

Tiny tabletop pieces can turn the focus to your garden's whimsical side. Here, a miniature garden becomes a perfect setting for fairies to pay a visit. For added impact, make the display a replica of your real-size garden.

Design Tip: Imagine you're Alice in Wonderland. How do tiny elements still seem to draw the eye? How do you react to the contrast of oversize pieces in another vignette?

Repurpose Practical Pieces

Most items are created with a particular use in mind; part of integrating whimsical landscaping design ideas is to turn that use on its head. A birdbath becomes a spot to display a colorful collection of marbles. Covered with a piece of plastic or glass, the structure is a conversation piece that doubles as a small table.

More Ideas: Make use of old windows or doors as tabletops, old folding chairs as plant stands, salvaged columns as lantern holders or plant stands, and flip-top mailboxes as flower vases.

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John Latham (1921–2006) was a pioneer of British conceptual art, who, through painting, sculpture, performances, assemblages, films, installation and extensive writings, fuelled controversy and continues to inspire. A visionary in mapping systems of knowledge, whether scientific or religious, he developed his own philosophy of time, known as ‘Event Structure.’ In this doctrine he proposed that the most basic component of reality is not the particle, as implied by physics, but the ‘least event,’ or the shortest departure from the state of nothing. The entire universe is to be viewed as a system of events in time, rather than objects in space. Thus, for Latham all artworks were considered events and were activated as such through diverse processes ranging from spraying, chewing, shredding or spitting to simply declaring. For instance, his seminal 'skoob' happened in 1966, while Latham was teaching at St Martins School of Art. Latham borrowed a copy of Clement Greenberg’s recently published art history opus, Art and Culture, from the school’s library, and invited his students to join him in a ritualistic ceremony: the chewing and spitting out of select pages of the book. Latham decanted the vestiges into a phial, doused it in acid and yeast, and fermented it for a year, then returning the liquid he described as ‘Essence of Greenberg’ to the school. The Spit and Chew event poked at Greenberg’s emphasis on space and form, which was contradictory to Latham’s focus on the function of time in art, and cemented itself as a key example of conceptual art. The resulting artwork, Spit and Chew: Art and Culture (1966-69) is now owned by the Museum of Modern Art in New York. Whether in his early spray paintings and One-Second Drawings, to the book reliefs he created in the 1960s, the roller paintings of the 1970s and the late glass towers works which incorporated bits of all theorems, John Latham maintained steadfast devotion to exploring the most complex cosmological ideas and questioning the traditional notions and structures of art, science and philosophy.

In 2003, John Latham declared his house and studio a living sculpture, naming it FTHo after his theory of time, ‘Flat Time.’ Until his death, Latham opened his door to anyone interested in thinking about art. It is in this spirit that Flat Time House opened in 2008 as a gallery with a program of exhibitions and events exploring the artist's practice, his theoretical ideas and their continued relevance. It also provides a center for alternative learning, which includes the John Latham archive, and an artist's residency space.

John Latham was born in Livingstone, Northern Rhodesia (now Maramba, Zambia) in 1921. In 1946 he enrolled at Regent Street Polytechnic, London, UK and then studied painting at Chelsea College of Art and Design, also in London, from 1947 to 1951. His work was included in the 2017 Venice Biennale, and was the subject of an exhibition, 'A World View: John Latham', on view at the Serpentine Galleries, London, UK in the same year. Additional solo museum exhibitions include Henry Moore Institute, Leeds, UK (2016); Triennale di Milano, Milan, Italy (2014); Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, UK (2010); P.S.1. Contemporary Art Center, New York, NY, USA (2006); Tate Britain, London, UK (2005); Staatsgalerie, Stuttgart, Germany (1991); Société des Expositions du Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels, Belgium (1984); and Städtische Kunsthalle, Düsseldorf, Germany (1975). His work was shown in many group exhibitions including documenta 6, Kassel, Germany (1977) and the Venice Biennale’s 2005 edition.


James McMurtry: Complicated Game

James McMurtry Complicated Game

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James McMurtry hasn’t released an album since 2008, way back when singing protest songs about Dick Cheney and Hurricane Katrina was the thing. And sing about them he did, on Just Us Kids, which smoked with snorting Telecaster riffs and sharp, bitter commentary. By comparison, McMurtry sounds ruminative, world-weary, and just plain tired on his new album, Complicated Game, intoning mostly slow, acoustic songs in a deadpan drawl that at times sounds more like sighing than singing. This is the kind of album where a line like “At the end of the rope/There’s a little more rope most times” passes for optimism.

Complicated Game’s downbeat vibe has little to do with politics. McMurtry has often been pigeonholed as a political songwriter, but protest songs have never been his bread and butter. Rather, like his father, novelist Larry McMurtry, he’s a storyteller with a literary knack for using detail and narrative to draw complex, relatable characters, and his storytelling finesse has never been more evident than it is here.

Not that Complicated Game isn’t abundant in musical acumen. McMurtry is a solid guitarist in his own right, and producer C.C. Adcock recruited some crack musicians to back him, including Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers keyboardist Benmont Tench, former Allman Brother Derek Trucks, and banjo hotshot Danny Barnes. But the opportunity for those folks to really cut loose is confined largely to lead single “How’m I Gonna Find You Now,” which, with its caustic spitfire vocals and snaky electric guitar licks, is the only song on the album that could be legitimately classified as a “rocker.” The rest of the songs put the focus right where it should be: McMurtry’s voice and lyrics.

Complicated Game starts off with its most vivid vignette, “Copper Canteen.” The opening descending arpeggios set the album’s contemplative mood effectively, but it’s McMurtry’s couplets that do the heavy lifting. He employs a few small details to acquaint the listener with the setting: References to ice fishing for walleye and perch place the song clearly in the rural upper Midwest, “where the pickings are thin and there’s not much to do.” The song captures a boredom, even a dread, underlying the stillness and monotony of the characters’ lives. The narrator tells his wife to “hang onto your rosary beads/And leave me to my mischievous deeds” (which may or may not include sleeping with “the bridge tender’s widow”), and then “wake[s] up at night in the grip of a fright,” wondering desperately if he’s coping with the hand he was dealt as best he could.

Following that opener, McMurtry steps back from this heady, narrative storytelling style for the remainder of the album’s first half, adopting a more personal songwriting mode. Compared to the album’s heavier second half, this stretch of songs feels like a lull at times, especially during “She Loves Me,” which features a hokey male choir. But as always, McMurtry’s ability to turn a phrase keeps the listener invested through the endearing old-guy sentimentality found in the nostalgia trip “You Got to Me” and the wizened romanticism of “These Things I’ve Come to Know.” Meanwhile, the rhythmic drive of “How’m I Gonna Find You Now” and the concise, sing-along chorus of “Ain’t Got a Place” (clearly modeled after, and a worthy successor to, Woody Guthrie’s “I Ain’t Got No Home”) endow the album with some stylistic diversity.

Complicated Game doesn’t hit its peak until two of its last songs: “South Dakota” and “Long Island Sound.” The geographic and cultural discordance of the locales that gave these songs their titles should be noted, since if you take Mike Huckabee’s word for it, they might as well be on two different planets. But McMurtry is a good enough writer to capture life in both places authentically. “South Dakota” focuses on a young war vet returning home to the titular state to find a life and a future so bleak that he prefers a war zone: “I won’t get nothing here but broke and older/I might as well re-up again.” McMurtry doesn’t condescend to the song’s humble ranchers; rather, he somberly reflects on the precariousness of a lifestyle that can plunge its adherents into destitution as quickly as it takes a blizzard to hit and kill all the horses. The family in “Long Island Sound”—transplants from Tulsa who left the heartland for New York City instead of Kabul—is much better off. McMurtry plays it like an Irish drinking song—lilting button accordion, gang chorus vocal, and all—as the narrator proposes a proud toast: “Here’s to you, strangers/The Mets and the Rangers/Long may we thrive on the Long Island Sound.” But as he brags about how his kids “Drop all their R’s like the islanders do,” he also warily alludes to artifacts and memories he sometimes happens to stumble across from his life back in Oklahoma: “the shotgun I got when I was nine” locked away in the attic; the smell of “tobacco from Granddaddy’s pipe”; “a couple old picks and a 20-gauge shotshell left from a dove hunt a couple years back” in the glove box. Are they gladly forgotten or are they sadly fading away? It’s a thought-provoking question indicative of the narrative richness of McMurtry’s songs.

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To find the mean of a set of values add them together then divide by the number of values.

Example: find the mean of 8,9,10: 8+9+10=27, 27÷3=9: The mean is 9

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Crouching Venus

Roman art
1st cent. A. D.
Carrara marble
78 cm (height)
Inv. 1914, no. 188

The statue represents an elegant Venus, crouching as she takes her bath, turned towards her observer and seeking to cover her breasts and pubis with her hand. Celebrated in antiquity and a model for artists of the Renaissance, this iconographic type has been copied many times and is identified as the Venus attributed by Pliny the Elder to sculptor Daedalsas. There are different variations and copies, but scholars agree that the archetype - the first example ever - could have been created around the middle of the 3rd century B.C., probably for Nicomedes I, King of Bithynia.

The Venus at the Uffizi has very delicate features, emphasising the gentle, relaxed shape of her stomach. In spite of her surprise at being caught naked, there is an almost studied elegance in her gesture of modesty, confirmed by her lively gaze, directed towards the observer. A jewelled bracelet adorns her left arm delicately, while her hair is gathered up in an articulated, elegant style, with curls that fall softly over her bare back. However, the current head is the result of restoration.

The sculpture was mentioned for the first time in the inventory of Villa Medici, the residence of the Medici family in Rome, in 1670, where it would remain until 1780/88, when it was moved to Florence together with other important art works, such as the Knife Grinder on display in the Tribuna of the Uffizi.

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Russian Defense Minister Sergey Shoigu said Wednesday that his country's nuclear stockpile, the largest in the world, should be almost entirely fitted with new, advanced weaponry in the next few years. While the Russian military remains a fraction of its Soviet-era size, Putin's efforts to revolutionize his armed forces into a leading warfighting power capable of tackling conflicts abroad and defending the massive Eurasian country's borders have included a renewed focus on weapons of mass destruction.
"The main focus should be made on further bolstering strategic nuclear power. The share of advanced armaments in the Russian nuclear triad should constitute at least 90 percent by 2021," Shoigu said at a ministry meeting, according to the state-run Tass Russian News Agency.
Shoigu said back in November that Russia's non-nuclear strategic forces would become fully capable of defending the country by 2020, but development and additions to Russia's nuclear triad have persisted. Putin said last month that the nuclear modernization effort had already reached 79 percent and that the 90 percent of advanced arms in 2021 would include "missile systems that are capable of confidently overcoming existing and even projected missile defense systems."
At sea, Russia was developing new submarines equipped with R-29RM Bulava nuclear-capable intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs) and, on land, it has reportedly improved its nuclear-capable Topol-M ICBM with the ability to penetrate missile defense systems not unlike those deployed by the U.S. in Europe. Despite numerous setbacks, Russia was also expected to soon test its "Satan 2" Sarmat ICBM, said to be capable of wiping out the entire state of Texas. The Tupolev Tu-160M2, Russia's latest nuclear bomber, was set to make its first test flight next month.
Citing Pentagon officials and nuclear experts, The Washington Free Beacon reported last month that Russia was believed to be expanding its arsenal of nuclear weapons to 8,000 warheads by 2026. These findings were anticipated to be included in the Nuclear Posture Review expected to be released sometime around Trump's first State of the Union address later this month.
Like Putin, Trump has expressed an eagerness to bolster his nuclear arsenal and made it clear early on in his tenure as president that he wanted a bigger, stronger U.S. force, requesting a tenfold increase in nuclear weapons according to one report. While the Trump administration's debut Nuclear Posture Review has yet to be released, at least one former official who saw a copy of the document said Tuesday the Pentagon was now looking to develop smaller, more "usable" nuclear weapons and deter other nuclear powers.
Tridentmissile An unarmed Trident II D5 missile launches from the Ohio-class fleet ballistic-missile submarine USS Maryland (SSBN 738) off the coast of Florida. Under the Trump administration, the Pentagon has reportedly considered fitting the missile with a low-yield nuclear weapon. U.S. Navy
“What I’ve been told by the people who wrote the thing was what they were trying to do was to send a clear deterrent message to Russians, the North Korean and the Chinese," Jon Wolfsthal, who served as an arms control and nuclear nonproliferation adviser to former President Barack Obama, told The Guardian.
Russia and the U.S. have both adopted forms of a "launch under attack" policy, meaning they would not necessarily be opposed to conducting a pre-emptive strike, but only if an existential threat was detected. In a fact sheet updated earlier this week, the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons estimated that Russia possessed 7,000 nuclear warheads and the U.S. had 6,800.


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If you need to perform fixes on your own Opel Zafira 1.6 CNG then it is usually a good idea to have a Workshop Manual to keep just for reference in the event you want to know the best way to remove a certain part much like the Wheel and install it again efficiently.

Opel Zafira 1.6 CNG Workshop Manuals will provide you with detailed diagnostic information for your vehicle so if something is broken it helps you identify what the situation is and the best way to fix it. You can then analyse if this can be achieved on your own or in case the job is too big it is possible to make a reservation for your Zafira 1.6 CNG right into a decent mechanic.


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Tyn y Bryn Farm Virtual Tour

Tyn y Bryn forms part of the Pontbren group of farmers in Mid Wales. Farmed by Roger and Eirlys Jukes since 1972, much of the land was improved in the 1970’s using grants for land drainage and reseeding. This was accompanied by a shift to continental breeds of sheep and cattle. Alongside their neighbours, the farmers soon realised they were on a ‘treadmill’ and began to explore ways to reduce costs, add more value to their produce and reduce reliance on the ‘brown envelope’. In the early 1990’s they explored keeping hardier stock requiring lower inputs and less time indoors which meant restoring and extending the network of hedges, copses and shelter on the farms. They each drew up a plan for their farms and carried out the work over a 10 year period. 15 years later this ‘virtual tour’ demonstrates some of the results of their work and the contribution of trees to the management of the farm, wildlife and soil and water.

Later on after the trees had established, it was noticed that water after heavy rainfall was disappearing into the shelter belts. The farmers invited scientists to investigate and a major research study resulted. This work showed why strategically located belts of trees are so effective in reducing the water runoff from improved upland grassland with much wider implications for land use policy in Wales and beyond. In 2013 a Pontbren Project report was produced.

Our view of ‘forestry’ in Wales is changing, with a shift away from trees being seen as an alternative to farming and towards the integrated approach demonstrated here. The tree cover you see in these pictures covers just 5% of the total 280 acres on the farm. Our challenge is to find better ways to implement this type of work across Wales providing support for farmers to make these changes.

Most of the work shown was carried out between 2000 and 2011.


Arrays worksheet #1 writing and balancing formula equations answers

You should remember that polyatomic ions should be balanced as a whole. Ensure to change the value of co-efficient and not subscript. To help you resolve this issue, we have balancing equations worksheet with answers on our main website.

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Combustion Reaction Method This is the type of method that is used to balanced equations that have oxygen on both sides. When you successfully balance the equation, ensure to check the co-efficient. For instance, SO4 should be balanced as a whole instead of Oxygen and Sulfur separately.

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Driving distance between Mc Gehee, AR and Harrell, AR is 65.10 miles (or 104.78 kilometers). If you drove an average car (using about 3.6 gallons of gas per mile), the gas would cost you around $, since you would need about gallons of fuel.

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Niko Neufeld holds a degree in engineering physics from the University of Technology in Vienna, Austria, and a PhD in particle physics. Since 2000 he has been working in the field of high-speed data acquisition and embedded processing. He co-designed the data-acquisition system of the LHCb experiment, which sifts through almost 70 gigabytes of data per second. Niko is now in charge of the upgrade of the LHCb data-acquisition system, which will increase the data-rate by almost a factor 50. He is a staff scientist in the physics department at CERN, and has published on numerous topics related to high-speed networking, physics data-processing, and embedded systems.


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Writing mission statement, What is a mission statement your mission statement answers the question, why you exist as a company or what is your organization's core purpose.

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Online Entrepreneurship Degree

what is online entrepreneurship?
the internet is far more accessible today than it was in the past. many users and websites exist which allow individuals to make money via different services. from freelancing to website designing to teaching and more, the trend is on the rise. this trend is referred to as online entrepreneurship, which is when an individual uses an internet based enterprise to earn revenue. whether it is creating your own youtube channel, or using google ads on your blog, the opportunities are only limited by your own creativity. recognizing the need to help students learn a more methodical way of using the internet as a revenue source effectively, online entrepreneurship is gaining momentum. universities across the united states are offering formal degrees in this subject, which you may enroll.

what does such a degree entail?
an online entrepreneurship degree is offered at both undergraduate and graduate levels. this may vary depending on the school you are studying at. graduate level topics generally explore concepts more deeply than their bachelor's counterparts, but both types of degrees focus on teaching you the fundamentals necessary for excelling at your field. typically, undergraduate degrees are completed in four years, and cover a mix of subjects focusing on the aspects of an online startup. from drafting creative concepts to managing finances, you will be taught everything you need. some universities will also cover courses to help you understand the legal requirements an online startup must fulfill and abide by. if you choose to enroll as a part-time student, the duration of your degree may be extended, because you will take the courses over a larger spread of time.

online degrees
it is now possible to enroll in online programs offered by accredited universities to complete a degree in entrepreneurship. this option is perfect for those who are currently working full-time or part-time jobs and cannot accommodate a campus-based education into their schedule. online programs are offered by many leading universities, and culminate in a bachelor's or master's degree, depending on your which degree you are seeking. these programs are highly convenient and offer a flexible framework in which the students can complete their assignments and tests. the deadlines are more lenient and students may work through lectures at their own pace for better understanding. the best part is that these online degrees do not limit your opportunities in any way. since the material covered is the same, your education is at the same level as a campus-based graduate, and you are able to apply for the same jobs as well.

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with an online entrepreneurship degree, you will be well-versed in the skills needed to begin an original enterprise online and gear it to obtain revenue. you could also help existing businesses establish an online branch of their services from the ground-up. should you choose, you could teach the skills you have learned to other aspiring entrepreneurs. because your skill set is focused on encouraging innovation, and the internet is an open platform, a degree in online entrepreneurship, or entrepreneurship in any form, allows you to be independent in the job market.

Q:What is a business entrepreneurship degree?

A:A business entrepreneurship degree is a business degree with a focus on entrepreneurial related skills and education. The aim of the degree is to give students a thorough understanding of key components of entrepreneurship. These include topics such as accounting, ethics, marketing, management, economics, finance, etc. An understanding of all of these is essential when planning to launch your own business or pursue a new business venture. A degree in business entrepreneurship enables you to understand how to effectively enter the market.

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Day 591 OUT OF Beijing: Tiny Tesla.

The All-Electric Tesla Roadster.

The All-Electric Tesla Roadster.

Strangely enough, on the same day that Jill and I saw the Austin Healey, we also saw this tiny little Tesla.

Many decades apart but both on the cutting edge of design for their time.

If you don’t know about the Tesla cars, they are all electric powered vehicles and Elon Musk was the originator of them.

Also, if you don’t know about Tesla, research him.  He was a genius and wanted people to have power that was free of charge and easily accessible.

Thomas Edison basically stole his ideas of Tesla and ruined him.

If you’ve never seen a Tesla coil in action, go Google it now and watch it on YouTube.  It is truly magical.

There was movie called “The Illusionist” directed by Christopher Nolan of Inception fame.  It stared Christian Bale and Hugh Jackman a few years ago where a Tesla Coil was a major feature. If you’ve seen the movie, you know of what I write.

Either way, I wanted Jill to stand beside this car so people could get a good representation of how small it is beside her.

It barely came up to the top of my hip when I stood beside it.

It must be like driving a go-cart and basically sitting on the ground.

I can only imagine how fun it is to take corners, at high speed, and just know your car won’t flip or lose traction since it is set so low to the ground.

Fun for kids of all ages.

Jill standing beside the All-Electric Tesla Roadster.

Jill standing beside the All-Electric Tesla Roadster.

Day 590 OUT OF Beijing: Healey. Austin Healey.

I love the reflection of the tree from the incredible paint job.

To paraphrase James Bond, “Healey.  Austin Healey.”

Jill and I aren’t huge fans of using cars.

We both sort of agree that they are used for getting around, doing what you need, and not much more than that.

People seem to become branded by their car and their car style to some extent and we have become branded to the fact that we are car-less.

The more we drive on bus, take planes and ride trains, the more we realize how easy it is to get around in the USA without a car.  We also don’t work in an office or have hard time lines for a lot of things we want to do so it does make it easier for us.

We also realize we have chosen to be kid-less also so that makes it much easier.

However, my brother David and his wife Meta, were also car-less while having two young kids, for a quite a while and he survived in Portland by just using bikes and cycling wherever they needed to go.

We aren’t trying to change the world, or anyone else’s way of living, we are just enjoying the way we live and the freedom it affords us.

That being said, Jill and I still love seeing super cute cars and we were walking around San Francisco yesterday, researching information for her site, SF Tourism Tips, and saw this beautiful Austin Healey.

My mom and dad, long before I was born, used to have an old Triumph TR-3.  I believe it was black and they sold it since they knew they’d be having kids and a tiny two seater wouldn’t really have been a viable means to transport.  I seem to remember that the person that bought it crashed it soon after it was delivered and it was wrecked.  The balance of joy and the impermanence of objects.

This tiny 1960 Austin Healey Sprite Mark 1 was parked in the SOMA district, near Southern Pacific Brewery and the Lyft headquarters, and the owner was obviously still making repairs and fixing it up but it was gorgeous none-the-less.

The owner had a few other cool looking motorcycles in his garage but we didn’t want to intrude or bother him.

We just took a few pictures, admired the beauty of this car, and smiled as we walked away.

We truly love being back in the Bay Area and being able to walk around the amazing city of San Francisco.

Day 589 OUT OF Beijing: Upwardly Vagabonding.

Day 585 OUT OF Beijing: Frugality, Fitness and Minimization.

Two pair of shoes for $54.99.

Ready to run.

Jill and I love to go running.

This includes running shoes.

It is so nice to be home.

Day 584 OUT OF Beijing: Moving Around.

It seems like it would be so simple but it isn’t.

Off to catch the bus to Petaluma.

Have a wonderful Monday!

Day 581 OUT OF Beijing: Being Carless.

The bus stop in Petaluma.

The bus stop in Petaluma.

Jill and I have made a conscious decision to be carless.

Things are quite easy.

If possible, I’d suggest more people try it.

Day 580 OUT OF Beijing: The Great Purge of 2015.

Jill and me on the 17th floor looking out over Coit Tower and Alcatraz in the backgroud.

Jill and me on the 17th floor looking out over Coit Tower and Alcatraz in the background.

Jill has about 900 friends on Facebook.  I have 2,710.

I had 2.710.  I am now down to just over 1,000.

I decided, last weekend, to do the great purge of 2015.

I’ve been reading a book titled You Are not so smart by David McRaney.

It primarily deals with cognitive distortions and why we think we know or believe something when, in reality, we tend to either be primed by something or we make up reasons to justify our beliefs.

We even make up stories and memories to prove our own beliefs and this can be fairly easily manipulated.

At one point in the book, he writes about how we can only really focus on a certain amount of stories/people at one time and any more than that we lose concentration and the themes of what they are telling us.

Since Jill and I are working on our new site, our books about life and how you want to live it, and how to minimize your things to maximize your life, I wanted to minimize my friends list to have more control over who I interact with each day.

I also set a goal of only being on Facebook for 30 minutes a day for the month of January and seeing how it affected my mood and my ability to reach important goals that we need to get done for our new site to go live and our books to be published.

We need to work on the covers for our books and our bios for them.  They also need more editing and we have a lot of places to visit, people to see, and events to update for our site SF Tourism Tips and we are working with our friend on building the new website which takes time and effort.  We have our logo, which we are still in the design stage but getting close, and it will need concerted effort and not wasted Facebook time.

We are heading off to some museums today to see them and take pictures, update information, and make connections.

Yesterday we went to a local and were shown around it and treated to lunch because our site has brought them business and they were thankful for everything we’ve done.  It was really wonderful to put a person to the page and know that we are making a difference in their business and they see all the hard work Jill has put into it and that they wanted to hear her story, and our story, and how much we had in common.  It was also delicious food and we had excellent wine.

Back to this weekend and The Purge:  I just decided I want to drop people I don’t really connect with or post to my wall.  I just don’t see the need for so many friends if I’m not actually connecting and being “friends” with them.

I still have over 1,000 friends but these are people that I do actually tend to connect with in some way.  They are fellow travelers, or from high school, or salsa dancing, or somewhere else and I think they will be important as Jill and I start our life of being vagabonds and traveling the world.  They will keep me grounded by being able to check in, say hello, and also meet up on our trip around the world.

It is a pretty daunting change to think of moving to another country, after living abroad for the last 1.5 years, but as long as we can spend time seeing our friends and family in the next 6 months, I think it will work itself out quite well.

I’m excited, and nervous, to be taking on this adventure because we will be able to see so many exciting sites and locations around the world.  We will also be able to meet so many new friends.

The part that makes me nervous is being away from family and friends in case something negative happens and not being able to help or be there in time.

This is the trade off one makes when they are an expatriate.

You see things others may never see but you miss things you wish you were there for.

Day 577 OUT OF Beijing: New Year’s Eve.

Happy New Years!

Happy New Years!

Jill and I celebrated New Year’s Eve in Singapore last year with our friend Dipesh.

It was an 8 minute show of fireworks and then a very delayed walk home to our hotel because they aren’t used to crowds of that size in Singapore and they forced everyone to walk down the same route which led to massive people jams and nowhere to go for a long time.

The day before, we did the same walk home in about 30 minutes.  That night took 3 hours.

We prefer smaller, and more intimate, parties with just our friends.

Luckily, our friends Alvaro and Kelly have their New Year’s Eve party most years and had it again this one.

We were in San Francisco and the party was in San Leandro, over the bay, so we had to figure out a way to get there on mass transit since we are going carless from now on.

We hopped on the Muni train, then moved over to BART and then Alvaro picked us up at the BART station near his house.  We were going to grab a bus to his place but he was nice enough to offer and we accepted.  Muni was free from 8 pm that night until 5 am the next morning so our trip only cost us about $6 bucks each way which was a steal as far as we were concerned.  Jill hasn’t had a car for over 5 years, and I haven’t had a car since I left for China, and the savings are amazing.  I mostly rode the bus the last two years I was in the states and took carpool whenever I could.  It is also a nice way to meet with people I may not have met in any other circumstance.  It is also part of our drive (pun intended) towards minimization and being more frugal.  We find we don’t make as many frivolous trips when we don’t have a car and plan out our days to be more efficient in regards to what we do and when we do it.

We arrived at the party and said hello to Kelly, her parents, Alvaro’s parents and their twin daughters.  They are incredibly cute and love to dance around.  Sadly, I didn’t get any pictures of them.  Simply stated, they were wearing princess gowns with tiaras and are about 3 years old.  We were having a great time just watching them run, dance and play with each other for a bunch of the night.

People started arriving, many who didn’t know I had returned from China, so we were able to catch up with many of them and update them on our adventures.  It was wonderful to see so many happy faces at our return and to realize that we are part of this small salsa community that seems to grow and add people but still stay close and like a family.

We danced a bit and mostly talked and ate delicious food while talking and catching up.  As 12 pm arrived, we all gathered by the tv and started to countdown the seconds at 10…9…8…7….6…5…4…3…2…1…HAPPY NEW YEARS!!!!

We had a great one.  I hope you did to and wish you the best 2015.

Day 571 OUT OF Beijing: Christmas Morning above the Castro.

We walk Dante everyday and most days we walk him twice.

We can not express how different it is actually.

Day 570 OUT OF Beijing: Murals, Murals and More Murals!

Jill created and owns a website called SF Tourism Tips.

It is our business since I’ve decided to take a break from being a psychotherapist.

I may go back to it but I think I’d rather start coaching people on living their dream life and understanding what is getting in their way instead.

It is similar but Jill and I both want to change up our lives and want others to know that they are also able to do it if they want to.

It is something that will be happening in the near future and we are quite excited by the possibilities and what we have to offer since we have such a varied amount of knowledge and experience and people seemed to want to learn more about how we were able to do so much with so little.  We are big fans of minimization and travel, as if you couldn’t tell by my blog so far.  🙂

We were walking around San Francisco, on another gorgeous day, and decided to take pictures for SF Tourism Tips so that she can update her site and let people see some of the beautiful pieces of art that people have created all over the Mission District.  She has a page dedicated to seeing them and learning a bit about the murals and the artists that created them.  It is at SF Tourism Tips Mission District Murals.

It is truly a wonderful way to spend the day, just walking around, snacking on whatever we want (since we have so many choices in the Mission), and people watching at the same time.

I can only say that it is wonderful to have fresh air, uncrowded streets and friendly people everywhere we go when we are cruising around San Francisco.

It is also wonderful to be able to walk through so many parks and bits of nature, even in the heart of the city, and feel like we aren’t stuck in a cement jungle.

At least for the next few months, we are home.


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Aliyeh Salehi, Sina Fallah, Reinhard W. Neugschwandtner, Bano Mehdi and Hans-Peter Kaul

Intercropping can increase crop growth and yield due to improved resource use efficiency. A two-year field experiment was performed in Shahrekord (Iran) to determine the effect of crop stand composition and fertilizer type on the productions of aboveground dry matter and growth parameters of fenugreek-buckwheat intercrops. Sole crops of fenugreek (F) and buckwheat (B) were compared to the three substitutive intercropping ratios (F:B = 2:1, 1:1 and 1:2). Crop stands were fertilized with chemical fertilizer or broiler litter. Fenugreek could produce in intercrops a similar amount of above-ground dry matter compared to its corresponding share on the sowing ratio. Contrary to that, buckwheat could produce in intercrops more above-ground dry matter than its share on the sowing ratio, especially with a low to medium share of buckwheat. Consequently, the intercrops with F:B (2:1) and F:B (1:1) had an above-ground dry matter yield advantage compared to the pure crop stands of both crops. Broiler litter was more effective in increasing the growth rates and thus the above-ground dry matter production compared to the chemical fertilizer. Thus, growing fenugreek and buckwheat in intercrops fertilized with broiler litter can be beneficial for increasing the biomass production in semiarid environments.

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Aliyeh Salehi, Seyfollah Fallah and Ali Abasi Sourki

Cattle manure has a high carbon/nitrogen ratio and may not decompose; therefore, full-dose application of urea fertilizer might improve biological properties by increasing manure decomposition. This study aimed to investigate the effect of combining cattle manure and urea fertilizer on soil CO2 flux, microbial biomass carbon, and dry matter accumulation during Nigella sativa L. (black cumin) growth under field conditions. The treatments were control, cattle manure, urea, different levels of split and full-dose integrated fertilizer. The results showed that integrated application of cattle manure and chemical fertilizer significantly increased microbial biomass carbon by 10%, soil organic carbon by 2.45%, total N by 3.27%, mineral N at the flowering stage by 7.57%, and CO2 flux by 9% over solitary urea application. Integrated application increased microbial biomass carbon by 10% over the solitary application and the full-dose application by 5% over the split application. The soil properties and growth parameters of N. sativa L. benefited more from the full-dose application than the split application of urea. Cattle manure combined with chemical fertilizer and the full-dose application of urea increased fertilizer efficiency and improved biological soil parameters and plant growth. This method decreased the cost of top dressing urea fertilizer and proved beneficial for the environment and medicinal plant health.


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Pan-Americanism: In the Nineteenth Century

The struggle for independence after 1810 among the Latin American nations evoked a sense of unity, especially in South America where, under Simón Bolívar in the north and José de San Martín in the south, there were cooperative efforts. Francisco Morazán briefly headed a Central American Federation . The United States was looked upon as a model, and recognition of the new republics was a part of U.S. foreign policy. Henry Clay and Thomas Jefferson set forth the principles of Pan-Americanism in the early 1800s, and soon afterward the United States declared through the Monroe Doctrine a new policy with regard to interference by European nations in the affairs of the Western Hemisphere. Initially welcomed, despite establishing U.S. hegemony, the doctrine later was seen by many Latin American nations as a mask for U.S. imperialistic ambitions.

In the 19th cent., Latin American military nationalism came to the fore. Venezuela and Ecuador withdrew (1830) from Greater Colombia; the Central American Federation collapsed (1838); Argentina and Brazil fought continually over Uruguay, and then all three combined in the War of the Triple Alliance (1865–70) to defeat Paraguay; and in the War of the Pacific (1879–83), Chile defeated Peru and Bolivia. However, during this same period Pan-Americanism existed in the form of a series of Inter-American Conferences—Panama (1826), Lima (1847), Santiago (1856), and Lima (1864). The main object of those meetings was to provide for a common defense. The first of the modern Pan-American Conferences was held (1889–90) in Washington, D.C., with all nations represented except the Dominican Republic. Treaties for arbitration of disputes and adjustment of tariffs were adopted, and the Commercial Bureau of the American Republics, which became the Pan-American Union , was established. Subsequent meetings were held in various Latin American cities.

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Generation, Education, Gender, and Ethnicity in American Digital Divides

Generation, Education, Gender, and Ethnicity in American Digital Divides

Susan Carol Losh (Florida State University, USA)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-60566-699-0.ch011

Through increasing access to knowledge and facilitating widespread discourse, information and communication technology (ICT) is believed to hold the potential to level many societal barriers. Using national probability samples of United States adults from 1983 to 2006, I examine how gender, ethnicity, and education interacted with generation to influence computer ownership and Internet use. Narrower digital divides in more recent generations can mean greater future digital equality through cohort replacement. However, although gender is now of far less consequence than previously in ICT access and use, significant divides, especially in PC ownership and selected Internet uses have widened by ethnicity and education over five birth cohorts. On the other hand, results from earlier research interpreted as “aging effects” are most likely generational influences instead. Implications of these findings are discussed.
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Within only a few decades of its public inception, information and communication technology (ICT) has become indispensable to most Americans. By 2006, about 80% of U.S. adults were at least minimally involved with computers, cell phones or the Internet (Horrigan, 2007). By late 2006, over 75% of Americans at least age 12 had gone online, most at home (Center for the Digital Future, 2007). Kennedy, Smith, Wells and Wellman (2008) found that 52% of U.S. households had broadband connections and 77% had a resident go online.

Online users are positive about ICT: 41% of men and 35% of women in 2002 felt it would be “very hard” to “give up the Internet” (Fallows, 2005). Seventy percent of 2006 workers said the Web increased their productivity (Center for the Digital Future, 2007). Nevertheless, a significant minority of Americans totally abstains from ICT, a minority differentially distributed across ethnicity, age, degree level and other variables; ICT access and use also often vary along these dimensions. “Digital divides” refer to gaps in ICT access and use across individuals and groups who occupy different societal situses.

Even in the early days, national governments, academics and commerce centers recognized the potential of ICT to create a more equitable society. Digital technology can generate greater demand for skilled workers and thus potentially create more opportunities for previously disenfranchised groups who possess digital skills (e.g., DiMaggio, Hargittai, Celeste & Shafer, 2004). Certainly the United States, with its history of gender, ethnic, and social class divisions, ideology of equality, and technological development, provides an appealing test case to track computer and Internet gaps across generations.

In this study, I focus on how generation, combined with education, gender and ethnicity affects U.S. computer ownership, and selected Internet uses, examining how generational effects contrast with those of age or life cycle stage. Age is often considered a predictor for ICT, but generation, especially over a period of several years, typically is not. This study will show that the generational construct provides valuable information about digital divides and that earlier research using only the variable “age” can mislead. Using the General Social Survey and the NSF Surveys of Public Understanding of Science and Technology I track five generations of U.S. adults over periods ranging from one to 28 years. Many scholars, executives (e.g., Gates, 2005), and government agencies emphasize the need for Americans to be “technically adept”; with their educational focus, they seem to pin their hopes on “the next generation” growing up.

Examining education, gender and ethnicity across generations may show whether the advantages of ICT are diffusing, or which, if any, groups lag behind. Cohort analyses are more informative than studying ICT use across time (which tells us where we have been) or by age (which in a single period provides a snapshot of the present). Generational changes provide data for the future as recent cohorts replace earlier ones. If aging effects are small or nonexistent, then cohort effects can suggest relative permanence in ICT skills and use across the life cycle. Thus I juxtapose adult developmental issues versus cohort socialization experiences.

When data from just one time point are analyzed, age and cohort are inevitably confounded because earlier generations are simultaneously older adults. Nearly all “one shot” surveys find that senior adults use ICT the least. Meanwhile young adults are said to “omnivorously devour” ICT, (e.g., Horrigan, 2007). These studies cannot disentangle whether something causal about aging processes occurs, whether youthful enthusiasm promotes ICT use, or whether more recent cohorts simply have acclimated more to ICTs.1

Key Terms in this Chapter

Baby Boomer, Boomers: Member of the “Baby Boom” generation, born between 1946 and 1961 (when the absolute number of U.S. births peaks; U.S. birth rates peak in 1957); very large generation with profound effects on occupational opportunities and consumer demand.

Generation, birth cohort, cohorts: Individuals born during a restricted time period who typically experience a social-time specific set of experiences.

Aging, age, seniors, older workers: A set of processes associated with chronological aging, e.g., slowing of reaction time, slower learning processes or presbyopia. Stereotyped views of aging may predispose employers to avoid older workers for digital skills jobs.

ICT: Abbreviation for information and communication technology.

The Lucky Few, Depression or War Babies: Term coined by Elwood Carlson (2008) to describe members of the generation born approximately between 1930 to 1945. This relatively small birth cohort enjoyed superior occupational opportunities due to high demand for labor as it matured during the 1950s and 1960s.

Generation Y, Gen Y, Generation Next, Millennials: Born after 1978, these (currently) young adults grew up with information and communication technology.

Cognitive priming: Typically through specifics experiences, individuals possess a heightened readiness to perceive particular events or predisposition to more easily learn particular skills; applied to “Gen Y’s” proclivity toward information and communication technology.

Generation X, Gen X: The birth cohort born between 1962 and 1978.

Ethnicity: A particular “racial” or cultural heritage, e.g. Hispanic or Latino background.

Gender, sex roles: The social construction of what it means to be male or female, contrasted with biological sex.

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u s history course About the ap us history course 4 participating in the ap course audit 5 ap us history course framework 7 overview 7 i ap history disciplinary practices and reasoning skills 8 ii thematic learning objectives  ap united states history course and exam description.

Ap us history syllabus course description: advanced placement united states history is a challenging course that is meant to be the equivalent of a freshman college course and can earn students college credit it is a two-semester survey of american history from the migration of native americans across the. Full-year course this course will prepare students to take the college board’s advanced placement us history exam students will learn to “do” history while also gaining a deeper appreciation for the crucial role that history plays in our contemporary world. History the first us open was played on october 4, 1895, on a nine-hole course at the newport country club in newport, rhode islandit was a 36-hole competition and was played in a single day.

United states history examines the entirety of united states history, beginning with the pre-columbian period and extending to about 2000 the subjects, events, trends, themes, and historical debates that comprise a typical college-level us history survey course are covered. The theme of this course is the making of modern america during the course we will trace the historical development of our modern national institutions and social and economic structures in the late nineteenth century, enormous economic and social changes resulting from industrialization and urbanization led to massive upheaval in american society. Public school students enrolled in us history must participate in the next generation sunshine state standards (ngsss) us history end-of-course (eoc) assessment during the 2018-19 school year, students taking the us history eoc will have the opportunity to test during one of the following administrations throughout the year. The us history i course is designed to prepare students for the us history ii course chapter 1 – introduction to social science the materials in this chapter introduce the study of history and the social sciences as a way of understanding our world.

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This course presents a complete set of lessons meant to help students for the college board's advanced placement united states history test it provides a rich set of interatcive media and multimedia presentations that explore the history of north america from pre-colonial times, though the forming of the united states, and the two hundred years since. Course summary history 103: us history i has been evaluated and recommended for 3 semester hours and may be transferred to over 2,000 colleges and universities. Learning objectives, key concepts, and exam design for the ap us history course, with the expectation that each individual district and teacher will create a complete ap us history curriculum for their students this course framework reflects changes made to the course and ap united states history course framework. The ap us history course is designed to provide the same level of content and instruction that students would face in a freshman-level college survey class ap us history classes generally use a college-level textbook as the foundation for the course.

Us history i covers the chronological history of the united states from before discovery through reconstruction based on the american yawp text includes crash course videos, quiz questions, and assignments. This course examines the history of the american southwest from the us-mexican war in 1846–48 to the present, focusing on immigration, racial and ethnic conflict, and the growth of chicano national identity. Archived history courses some prior versions of courses listed above have been archived in ocw's [email protected] repository for long-term access and preservation links to archived prior versions of a course may be found on that course's other versions tab. Ap us history is designed to be the equivalent of a two-semester introductory college or university us history course in ap us history students investigate significant events, individuals, developments, and processes in nine historical periods from approximately 1491 to the present.

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The word history comes from the greek word historía which means to learn or know by inquiry in the pieces that follow, we encourage you to probe, dispute, dig deeper — inquire history is not static it's fluid it changes and grows and becomes richer and more complex when any individual. Multi-level courses are more apt to be literature-based with more hands-on projects most of the u s history curriculum that we offer is christian-based holt mcdougal is a secular-based curriculum. Usu has two us history courses worth taking a look at: history of utah and us institutions history of utah is a reading and writing intensive course that focuses on events of historical importance within the state.

The ap program in united states history is designed to provide students with the analytical skills and enduring understandings necessary to deal critically with the. This course not only introduces students to early us history, but it also provides them with an essential understanding of how to read, understand, and interpret history. After completing this course, you will be able to: identify and evaluate the major controversies, issues, personalities, problems and trends in us history up to 1865 evaluate trends and issues in intellectual and cultural history and be able to relate them to topics in us history. The united states of america is a nation with a rich history and a noble goal: government of the people, by the people, for the people its citizens' struggle to achieve that goal is a dramatic story stretching over hundreds of years.

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How to write day and dates

How to Write the Month and Day. When referring to a specific date in the monthday date format, use cardinal numbers (one, two, three) rather than ordinal numbers (first, second, third). This may feel counterintuitive because we normally use ordinal numbers when we speak of dates.

How can the answer be improved? How to write dates in British and American English. If you wish to add the name of the day, it should come before the date, and should either be separated by a comma or joined by the and of.

Sunday, 13 April 2014; Sunday the 13th of April, 2014. Writing Dates in American English. Another common practice is to add the last two letters of the number word to the day. 18th November, 2009 (OR 18 October, 2009) 4th October, 2005 (OR 4 October, 2005) Sometimes dates are written entirely in numbers.

Several formats are possible. . Note that dates are written differently in American In written American English, the month of the date comes before the day and year. For example, Independence Day in the USA is on July 4th each year. In the year 2000 the date was in British English. In American English this is written. As indicated in this Writing Dates and Times article, the following examples apply when using dates: The meeting is scheduled for June 20 Responses to How to Punctuate References to Dates and Times codebeard on August 30, 2011 4: 37 am.

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Gun control in the us

Miller said, as we have explained, that the sorts of weapons protected were those "in common use at the time. We think that limitation is fairly supported by the historical tradition of prohibiting the carrying of "dangerous and unusual weapons.

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Concealed carry and open carry vary by state. This potentially enables guns to fall into the hands of users who might otherwise not be allowed to own a firearm. Just like gun owners, they must fulfill the same criteria regarding their history of prior convictions and mental state.

Children younger than 18 may possess guns that were given to them by parents or guardians as gifts provided that they have written permission. It is not a right to keep and carry any weapon whatsoever in any manner whatsoever and for whatever purpose: This was a reversal of the position of the Bush administration which had chosen not to participate in the treaty negotiations.

Yet, as early as the s, the mandatory universal militia duty evolved gradually to voluntary militia units and a reliance on a regular army. The specific problem is: Proponents of stricter gun regulations fear for their safety in a country where there is an average of 88 guns per people, according to the Small Arms Survey.

Supreme Court consistently ruled that the Second Amendment and the Bill of Rights restricted only Congress, and not the States, in the regulation of guns. New groups have also arisen, such as the Students for Concealed Carrywhich grew largely out of safety-issues resulting from the creation of gun-free zones that were legislatively mandated amidst a response to widely publicized school shootings.

'A human rights crisis': US accused of failing to protect citizens from gun violence

Circuit became the first federal appeals court to strike down a gun control law on Second Amendment grounds. According to the Center for Responsive Politicsgun politics groups with the most lobbyists in were: The Second Amendment serves as the legal basis for the "right of the people to keep and bear arms.

The right to bear arms in defense of themselves and the state was interpreted as an individual right, for the case of a concealed sword cane. Only individuals whose "principal motive" is to make a profit via sale must obtain an FFL. The era was famous for criminal use of firearms such as the Thompson submachine gun Tommy gun and sawed-off shotgun.

It entered into force on December 24, after it was ratified and acceded to by 50 states. And for us not to be able to resolve that issue has been something that is distressing. Rosenbergincluding research authored by Arthur Kellermann.

And those laws limit violence. InTexas introduced a law allowing concealed weapons on university campuses Estimated to take under 10 minutes by phone or online, the check gives the FFL holder an immediate answer: One particular concern was the disarming of former slaves.

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In response to the problems freed slaves faced in the Southern states, the Fourteenth Amendment was drafted. German weapons firms find lucrative market in United States Though state and local governments regulate whether residents may, for example, carry guns in public, laws regulating who may receive or possess guns are set out at the federal level.

The Israeli government has even restricted firearm access to current Israeli soldiers when off-duty on weekends as part of a successful prevention program that has halved firearm suicide — and 80 percent of the suicide reduction appears to have come from the gun restrictions, rather than counseling.

InObama called for a "sense of urgency" against gun violence [98] and made several changes to gun control enforcement, [99] [] including: Then in October a bipartisan group of 50 Senators and Representatives released concurrent letters to President Barack Obama pledging their opposition to ratification of the ATT.

In the past 15 years, the US suicide rate has increased by 24 percent, and two-thirds of firearm deaths are suicides.Moreover, meaningful federal gun control has been blocked for a generation, and red-state legislatures are moving almost uniformly to liberalize state gun laws.

Feb 22,  · Watch video · The FFA was repealed in by the Gun Control Act (GCA), though many of its provisions were reenacted by the GCA. In the U.S.

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Sep 13,  · News about Guns and Gun Control, including commentary and archival articles published in The New York Times. Arizona students' stand on gun control switches to voter registration Published: 17 Aug On the road to the ballot box: anti-gun violence bus tour aims to turn out youth of color.

A number of recent massacres have reinvigorated a national debate over gun control in the US. In February, lone gunman Nikolas Cruz killed 17 people at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in. Gun control is one of the most divisive issues in American politics.

With each mass shooting — defined as four or more victims having been killed indiscriminately — antagonism grows between both sides of the gun control argument.

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