Related to recall: Total Recall

The right or procedure by which a public official may be removed from a position by a vote of the people prior to the end of the term of office.

Recall is the retiring of an elected officer by a vote of the electorate. Some state constitutions prescribe the procedure that must be followed in a recall—for example, requiring the filing of a petition containing the signatures of a specific number of qualified voters.

(Call back), verb abolish, abrogate, annul, cancel, disannul, dismiss, disqualify, invalidate, nullify, reanimate, reassemble, reconvene, repudiate, rescind, resuscitate, revive, revivify, revocare, revoke, summon back, take back, unsay, void, withdraw

(Remember), verb be reminded of, call up, commemorate, conjure up, dwell upon, evoke, fix in the mind, have memories of, keep in mind, know again, know by heart, look back upon, memorialize, memorize, place, recognize, recollect, recordari, recover knowledge of, reeresh one's memory, relive, reminisce, retain, retrace, review, revive, see in retrospect, summon up, think back to
See also: abjuration, abrogate, ademption, annul, annulment, cancel, cancellation, countermand, defeasance, depose, disavow, discharge, disinherit, hindsight, nullify, perceive, recant, reclaim, recognition, recognize, recollect, recollection, redeem, remember, remembrance, remove, renege, repeal, repossess, rescind, rescision, retain, retraction, retrospect, revocation, revoke, withdraw

TO RECALL, international law. To deprive a minister of his functions; to supersede him.

References in classic literature ?
And when you'd lost your little all, And found yourself a thing despised, I need not ask you to recall How tenderly I sympathised!
The earliest impressions I can now recall are of the plantation and the slave quarters--the latter being the part of the plantation where the slaves had their cabins.
Darling and Nana to recall now, but not so little if that was to be Michael's last night in the nursery.
The accident he did not recall, nor did he recall aught of what had led up to it.
As I try to recall them, the memory of those more recent and more interesting events which occurred after my return to England gets between me and my adventures in Spain, and seems to force these last into a shadowy background, until they look like adventures that happened many years since.
I recall the impulse that awakened in me to preserve those words in writing, exactly as they were spoken, while the time was my own, and while my memory vividly retained them.
I would paint her the life and joy of the fire-side circle and the lively summer group; I would follow her through the sultry fields at noon, and hear the low tones of her sweet voice in the moonlit evening walk; I would watch her in all her goodness and charity abroad, and the smiling untiring discharge of domestic duties at home; I would paint her and her dead sister's child happy in their love for one another, and passing whole hours together in picturing the friends whom they had so sadly lost; I would summon before me, once again, those joyous little faces that clustered round her knee, and listen to their merry prattle; I would recall the tones of that clear laugh, and conjure up the sympathising tear that glistened in the soft blue eye.


San Antonio Paranormal Investigations is a local non-lucrative organization (based in San Antonio, Texas) devoted to the investigation, study, and documentation of paranormal phenomena - associated to the existence of life after-death, and the continuation of human consciousness (memories, awareness, behavior, etc.) after physical departure. SAPI embraces a scientific perspective of the paranormal, always attempting to locate and identify rational realistic explanations, but to also approach a case with an open mind as to the possibility of dealing with the presence and existence of phenomena strongly related to life after death. SAPI applies a degree of science combining non conventional methods of investigation (Psychic Mediums) with a strong emphasis in Scientific Methodologies, and in accordance to SAPI Rules, Protocols, and in compliance with ethical and professional standards of conduct. San Antonio Paranormal Investigations (SAPI) conducts Monthly Meetings with the objective of educating, presenting and reaching out to the community. Monthly Meetings are opened to the general public and are free of charge.

SAPI offers assistance/second opinion (free of charge) to those experiencing unexplained phenomena related to the presence of unexplained forces. SAPI can help with paranormal events taking place in your home, business, land, etc. This organization serves as a group for people in need, support, and to those searching to educate themselves as to the nature and understanding of abnormal manifestations related to the afterlife and related fields. SAPI is interested in individuals with a keen interest in studying and researching paranormal events, conducted under and in accordance, to SAPI Rules, Protocols, Scientific Methodologies, ethics, and professional standards of conduct.

With more than 16 years of continuous and serious research, SAPI strives for the necessity to investigate the paranormal under controlled conditions with a strong emphasis in documenting physical and environmental conditions in which abnormal phenomena may occur. For SAPI, it is imperative that all experimental data collected from a paranormal investigation is submitted, analyzed, and processed with the intent for a better understanding and for the overall commitment to explain the root-cause of the phenomena. SAPI is interested in locating and identifying key elements that contribute to the presence/existence of life after-death activity and related fields. It is SAPI's commitment to ensure that each case reflects a solid degree of continuity and solid data so that our results/findings are consistent, obtained under scientific/psychic methodologies and in compliance with ethical and professional standards of conduct. As a serious organization and with a firm foundation in science and psychical resources, we acknowledge the importance of establishing a correlation between past events with paranormal occurrences manifesting in present day, and determine whether the phenomena is derived from a psychological ability (RSPK/TK/etc.), a natural source or from an after-life force. SAPI is determined NOT only to proof, beyond reasonable doubt, the existence of afterlife activity, but to also study the state of consciousness of a spiritual being, as well as its behavior. SAPI embraces the ideology that, once a transparent understanding of the phenomena is achieved, a system of direct communication is plausible with spiritual presences.

San Antonio Paranormal Investigations remains as an independent organization with no association/affiliation with other groups, institutes, organizations, societies, etc., in the paranormal field. We operate strictly on the principles of Research, Documentation, Study, Education, the Client's concerns, and under SAPI's Rules and Protocols - these measures guarantee the Client's Right to Privacy and Credible Results.

To learn more about SAPI, please click on the following link:San Antonio Paranormal Investigations

A Haunting in South Texas

Members of San Antonio Paranormal Investigations (SAPI) have been invited by KSAT-12 to participate in their Halloween series called, "A Haunting in South Texas." This will be SAPI's 3rd year contributing with KSAT-12 and their crew of producers. We hope to start filming soon with road-trips to various cities around the great state of Texas. Destinations included for this year are Castroville, Hondo, Mineral Wells and San Antonio, Texas. There will be 5 episodes for this year's season.  SAPI will provide more information as it becomes available.

This will be part of SAPI's Autumn Season 2017.

Frederick Willian Herschel

Sir Frederick William Herschel (1738-1822) was born in Hanover, Germany and became well known as both a musican and as an astromer. He moved to England in 1757 and, with his sister Caroline, constructed telescopes to survey the night sky. In year 1800, Sir William Herschel made a dramatic discovery. He wanted to know how much heat was passed through the different colored filters he sued to observed sunlight. He noted that filters of diffrerent colors seemed to pass different amounts of heat. Herschel thought that the colors themselves might be of varying temperatures, so he devised a clever experiment to investigate his hypothesis. He directed sunlight through a glass prism to create a specturm, and with sunlight broken into its colors, Herschel proceeded to measure the temperature of each color, thus resulting in different temperature readings from the violet to the red color. Curious to know what was beyond the red color, Herschel moved his blacked bulb termometers beyond the red color and noticed that the temperature was much hotter. This discovery is known as infrared radiation.

Cool Cosmos.

Is it Possible to Measure the Soul or Spirit?

Would you let someone weigh your body before physical departure and after being clinically and medically dead? Well, five people did in the early 1900's. In one very limited 1907 study, researcher Duncan McDougall attempted to measure the soul by weighing five patients, as they died one by one. In two of the patients, there was a sudden weight loss of a half-ounce, followed by another sudden one-ounce weight loss within three minutes of time of death. A third patient's weight fluctuated just after death, first dropping a bit, followed by an abrupt large weight gain, then another loss. There was no discernable change on the other patients. Needless to say, the results were inconclusive.

Tom Ogden.

Carl Gustav Jung (1875 - 1961)

(A Believer in the Paranormal)

Carl Jung was born in Kesswil, Switzerland to Johann Paul Achilles Jung and Emilie Preiswerk on July 26, 1875 (Infoplease, 2005). Carl was named after his paternal grandfather who was a surgeon at Basel. His father, Johann, was a Protestant Clergyman who had difficulties with his spiritual life when Emilie's health declined. Carl and his father rarely saw eye-to-eye on most issues. Emilie suffered from poor health in her later years and was described by Carl as distant emotionally (Frostburg).

As a young child Carl, too, suffered from fragile health. He spent much time studying at home under watchful care. In grade school, he found practically no friends and was relatively disliked (Jung, 2005). Despite this, however, it was recognized that he had a vivid imagination. (Jung, 2005, p. 1) Later in grade school, Carl began to suffer from fainting spells from reading (Biography, 2005). He continued to read despite this handicap and eventually grew out of it. After high school, Carl went on to become a medical student at Basel, which his family ties probably dictated. One year into college, his father died and Carl was left to explore other fields of interest. He became interested in parapsychology and wrote his first publication on occult phenomena. Carl graduated from Basel in 1900.

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Carl Jung (1875 - 1961)


Another pre-breakfast creation made me reminisce of the bright summer mornings I missed before I went off to work in the studios during the dark sunrises of winter.

The blue and red dripped paints were applied long before I had discovered Jackson Pollock's techniques of the same aesthetic genre. I use dots, circles, balls and globes connected linearly as symbols of traveling and flowing like molecules in a running stream of water. They represent the escape from the monotonous regularity of the everyday ambitious grind symbolized by the mass of color at the base of this spontaneously constructed composition. Like as if the sun were communicating to Earth.

I would try to create a work of art each morning with fast drying enamels so that when I returned back home they would be dry and ready enough to make additions, where as the oil paintings would dry more slowly.

Solar sunrise by a drip and spray can creation.
"Solar morning in winter"


Building healthy cities: the role of universities

It is no secret that the National Health Service is under immense pressure. An ageing and expanding population, combined with increases in chronic illness and multiple disorders, is placing strain on services and pushing up costs. There is a gap between spending and demand. Yet to meet the Government’s expectations, NHS England must make savings of £22 billion by 2020. At the same time local authority funding continues to be squeezed, as an area of unprotected spending, with implications for public health and social care. A perfect storm is heading our way unless we can find innovative ways of improving the health of our nation quickly, reducing the demand on our already stretched services.

In response, health leaders are having to work smarter and more creatively, harnessing technology where possible, to achieve efficiency and productivity gains. They are also shifting the focus of services towards prevention, rather than cure, to relieve pressure on services. This means addressing public health challenges like obesity at source instead of dealing with the higher costs of medical and surgical interventions down the line.

How well this is working in practice will vary across the country. But it is possible to observe some good examples of the NHS and local government working effectively with others to promote health and wellbeing. The crucial part about this is the “working with others” – because that is the only way to achieve impact on the scale required. In a new report from University Alliance, the first in our four-part Regional Leadership series, we examine the contribution of universities.

As the main suppliers of doctors, nurses, allied health professionals, health scientists and social workers, universities have long been instrumental in health and social care policy and planning. Collectively, we turn out a vast volume of health relevant research and innovation and are responsible for many of the lifesaving technologies used in clinical settings. But less acknowledged, perhaps, is the contribution universities make as anchor institutions within local health economies.

In this unique role, universities are able to unite the complex array of organisations that make up the ‘health ecosystem’ within a city or city region. They can then help to make health and wellbeing provision more efficient and more responsive to the needs of the surrounding population. In Bristol, where my institution UWE is situated, there are positive signs of this happening. Through Bristol Health Partners, for example, the city’s universities have joined forces with providers and commissioners as well as Bristol City Council to integrate provision and improve health and wellbeing through innovation, research, adoption and spread.

Our report also identifies how the research capacity of universities is being harnessed to produce healthier communities. The scope of this activity is exceptionally broad, covering everything from applied clinical medicine, to studies on improving the urban environment through effective planning, to the development of robots that enhance patient care or assist those with permanent health conditions.

Because of the cross-cutting nature of health and wellbeing challenges, there is a growing volume of interdisciplinary research at UK universities. Many institutions also work closely with non-academic partners including businesses, charities and social enterprises.  Incubation spaces on campus enable entrepreneurs to design products and innovate with the support of specialists at the university. This type of engagement will be further enhanced by the soon-to-be-opened University Enterprise Zones like the one at UWE which will focus around MedTech, Robotics and Autonomous Systems.

Finally, university research and innovation and the funding that enables it has the added benefit of supporting local services. Clinical research, for example, will often involve observing and trialling treatments with patients in a local hospital. From the perspective of providers and commissioners, this represents an investment additional to that coming directly from government. Similarly, university-based health academics are often specialists within a particular field of medicine, surgery or other health-related discipline. Through what is effectively a joint appointment with the NHS, their contribution is essential for maintaining the quality of clinical services in the region.

The health challenges Britain faces are multifarious, and it be would be disingenuous to suggest that universities hold all the answers. However, as this exercise proves, universities can and do make significant contributions to the well-being of surrounding populations. They are also major employers and influencers. Our staff and student populations are significant and many universities are working hard to create healthy working and living environments for staff and students alike.

The Healthy University movement is spearheading work-based health living approaches to improve the physical and mental health and well-being of university communities and importantly playing a part in spurring behavioural change in generations to come through education and action. At a time when the NHS and local government are becoming increasingly overstretched, the significance of universities in this space is likely to grow.

As published on WonkHE 25 February 2016


Hidden itDuzzit Gems - Looping through text data.

If you have to parse text or delimited multiline structured data, there are some really great built-in itDuzzit features you should know about. ItDuzzit can automatically parse CSV and pipe-separated values with ease, and make it trivial to loop through the values. In this post, I'll walk through some examples of how to put this feature to use.

Let's start off with a sample duzzit, that just has one output variable, temp, that we use as a holder for the delimited data. Below, you can see I've added some CSV data to this variable. It's pretty common that you'll want to loop through each line of this data  and do something with each row. The nice thing is that you can just pass in this entire block of text into a loop step! I want to test this will work, so I create another output variable, count, and increment it for each row found.

Now, when I run this duzzit, I get...

Nifty! What happened was that itDuzzit found the line-feeds in the text, and was able to treat each line as a loop. But what about getting values out of each line? If you've worked with loops in itDuzzit, you'll know that the current value whatever you're looping over is stored in the Loop.Item itDuzzit variable.

Here, I'm taking the Loop.Item value and sticking it in another output variable I've created to temporarily hold the output value, row_temp, each pass through the loop. But, this data is itself delimited by commas, how do I work with each column in the row? You guessed it, just feed the row_temp into another loop inside the current one. Itduzzit will loop through the comma-separated values automatically, allowing you to work one in each loop pass.

Below, you can see I've created an inner loop to go through each column of data, and am checking the Loop.Counter variable to see which column I'm on. If it's the first column, I'm putting it in another temporary variable, english_names.

Now, when I run the duzzit, I'd expect to have the english_names value from the very last row of data, and...

...I do.

This brings up another important concept in text-looping - the precedence of delimiters.  ItDuzzit handles these three delimters in this order:

  1. line breaks (including CRLF)
  2. commas (semantic commas enclosed by double-quotes are ignored)
  3. pipes.
  • note, tabs are not currently supported.

If you give some text to a loop, the first delimiter that will be iterated over will be the line breaks, followed by commas, followed by pipes.  In our example, that means:

is equivalent to

Keeping this in mind can be useful when building duzzits that output text that may later need to be parsed, but can't handle line-breaks.

Try it! Log in to your itDuzzit account and copy this duzzit to try your hand at looping through text:


Preserving Access to Orphan Drugs Act Encourages Mesothelioma Research

Orphan diseases are those that the pharmaceutical industry has not "adopted" because companies have little financial incentives to create drugs to treat them. These diseases are either very rare, affecting fewer than 200,000 people or are only prevalent in developing countries. There are approximately 5,000 such diseases. Congress is considering a bill called Preserving Access to Orphan Drugs Act of 2011 that would encourage pharmaceutical companies to look for cures or treatments for rare diseases, such as mesothelioma, by removing financial and regulatory impediments that discourage the companies from pursuing such research. Lawmakers drafted the bill, which has bipartisan sponsorship, to clarify previous legislation. The bill has humanitarian intentions and it is important to understand how the bill intends to accomplish its goals and why the nation needs the bill.

The Preserving Access to Orphan Drugs Act would make clear that there is an orphan drug exception to the annual fee that the Affordable Care Act imposes on name brand medications. Congress intended the exceptions to apply to all drugs for orphan diseases, but the way that the I.R.S. interpreted the new law left some drugs for orphan diseases subject to the annual fee. With the Preserving Access to Orphan Drugs Act, Congress would expressly exempt all drugs intended to treat one or more orphan diseases from the annual fee.

The sponsors of the bill recognize the need to encourage drug companies to look for medications that treat orphan diseases. The research that drug companies do could develop medications that benefit a great number of people who suffer from rare diseases. Over 30 million people in the U.S. suffer from orphan diseases. However, the investments needed to find a medication for each of the 5,000 rare diseases is huge when compared to the number of people that the medicine would treat, and Congress did not want to jeopardize further research by levying the annual fee on those medications.

The proposed act could specifically have a positive impact on those who suffer from mesothelioma, a form of cancer that people develop as a result of asbestos exposure. Each year, about 3,000 more people in the U.S. are diagnosed with mesothelioma. This form of cancer takes between 20 to 40 years to develop. Patients often do not show symptoms until they are stage three or four, making it difficult to cure. Current medications for mesothelioma are palliative, but with further research science could find a treatment that is curative. The Preserving Access to Orphan Drugs Act would ensure that drug companies continue to engage in this research.

Mesothelioma can be a devastating disease. If you or a loved one is suffering from mesothelioma, contact an experienced mesothelioma attorney who can discuss your situation with you and advise you of your options.


Much of the philosophical underpinnings for environmental regulation in the United States and around the world are found in a predominant view that mistrusts private property rights and free markets. Many environmental groups prefer government ownership of land and water, believing that government will do a better job protecting natural resources and the environment than will private landowners. An example of this in Michigan was the introduction of legislation that would have transfer ownership of water from private property owners and given it to state government. Although the legislation did not pass, it was supported by environmental groups that were enamored with the idea of privately owned water being placed in the “public trust.”

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A recent study authored by Carrie B. Kerekes, an assistant professor of economics at Florida Gulf Coast University, for the Cato Journal finds that in most cases countries with the most secure private property rights have the best environmental protection. Her findings indicate that there is a strong positive relationship between secure private property rights and both land and water protection. Interestingly she found that secure private property rights are negatively related to air quality. She concludes that countries with more secure private property rights tend to have more manufacturing, which increases air pollution. She also notes that the concept of private property rights does not lend itself as well to air as it does to land and water resources, which could be a contributing factor to the negative air quality finding.

Kerekes has put numbers to what many of us have observed — private property rights help rather than harm environmental protection. People who usually operate out of their best self interests do a better job of protecting what they own as opposed to common property. Michigan lawmakers should continue to resist future initiatives that would place private property, including water, into government ownership.


 Politics of Transportation

Politics of Transportation

Publisher:  Institute for Saskatchewan Studies, Saskatoon, Canada
Year Published:  1976
Pages:  12pp
Resource Type:  Article

Articles on the role of transportation in Saskatchewan society.

Abstract:  The Institute of Saskatchewan Studies was organized in 1971 as an independent group to provide continuing political education through seminars and subsequent newsletters. This newsletter reports on three seminars held in Regina, Saskatoon and Weyburn in 1975. It contains articles on the role of transportation in Saskatchewan society, transportation modes and planning, transportation of the handicapped, a comprehensive transportation plan and transportation of grain. In the area of grain transportation, five critical events are identified as an ominous pattern. These are: 1) the large American-based grain companies, Cargill's and Continental, are moving into the Canadian scene; 2) the federal government has proposed the abandonment of the Crow's Nest freight rate; 3) the federal freeze on rail line abandonment is scheduled to be lifted within the year; 4) the provincial government has increased the load limits for truckers on provincial highways; 5) attempts to establish large inland grain terminals are occuring at several centres in the province.


Sólja, Sóley

Gender: Feminine
Origin: Faroese/Icelandic
Meaning: “buttercup.”
(SOLE-yah); (SOO-lay).

Both names are derived from the Norse word sol meaning “sun.” In modern vernacular both names are used to refer to the buttercup flower in their own respective languages. Sólja is the Faroese form and Sóley the Icelandic. Though Sóley is used as a given name in the Faroe Islands as well.

As of 2010 Sólja was the 8th most popular female name in the Faroe Islands.


Trademark Enforcement

California cannabis trademarks in 2018?

On November 8, 2016, California voters approved Proposition 64, the Adult Use of Marijuana Act ("AUMA"). And on December 12, 2016, Assembly Bill No. 64 ("AB 64") was introduced in the California Legislature. Although the AB 64 is still in its early stages and has a ways to go before being passed by the California Legislature and approved by the Governor, it has some important consequences for recreational and medical marijuana businesses who want to protect their trademarks. continue reading→

Trademark Attorney's Checklist

Picture of a venue with text that reads Venue: picking a judicial district. Trademark Well.

When filing a complaint for trademark infringement, the plaintiff should make sure that the court has jurisdiction to hear the case and the court is a proper venue for the lawsuit. More specifically, jurisdiction refers to a court's legal authority to hear a case (i.e., the power to adjudicate the action) whereas venue refers to where jurisdiction should or may be exercised (i.e., the location where the lawsuit should take place). continue reading→

Personal Liability for Trademark Infrinement

Sometimes you're the windshield. Sometimes you're the bug.
-Mark Knopfler, Dire Straits


Mrs Garon

An elderly, rather pompous widow. Active but judgemental charity worker from Trois Rivieres in Quebec.

She wears clothes that might have been in fashion in the 1870s. She takes out a lorgnette if she has to look at anything further than about six inches from her face. Around her neck are two things of interest – a pendant in the shape of some sort of sea creature and a jet medallion which appears to have some kind of Greek deity on it.

She finds that she quite likes the winter weather, being a tough old bird but her husband never did like snow. Her jewellery came from her husband who had visited the very north west coast of Nova Scotia many years ago. Her husband was a captain in the Canadian Merchant Navy (Pierre Garon 1845-1908) whose last command, the Boreale was lost in 1905 somewhere in the North-West passage. Garon and six of his crew managed to make it back to civilisation but he would never speak of what happened on the voyage.

Mrs Garon

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Posted: Wednesday, September 27, 2017 4:45 AM

Job Description:/h3:
About Momentum Machines:
Founded in 2009 and located in San Franciscos South of Market neighborhood, Momentum Machines is a small collective of food lovers and engineers with decades of robotics and restaurant experience. In the past five:plus years, weve solved many difficult engineering and manufacturing challenges, helped each other grow, and built some interesting intellectual property.

Our first device makes gourmet burgers from scratch. Not only do we literally grind the meat to order, we also slice tomatoes, onions, pickles, and a brioche roll fresh for you. Accented by an infinitely personalizable variety of produce, seasonings, and sauces, you can get exactly what youre craving. Serving a burger this great at such affordable prices would be impossible without culinary automation.

Were building an engineering:focused group of analytic and creative individuals. The team consists of roboticists from institutions including Berkeley and Stanford and firms like Tesla and NASA. Our culinary team contains veterans of Chez Panisse and Fat Duck. Our advisors include experts across fields like engineering, culinary, design, intellectual property, and even a NRN Restaurant Operator of the Year Award winner. Additionally, were further advised and supported by some of the top investors in the Silicon Valley.

About the Team Thats Hiring:
Were a small multidisciplinary team of engineers and fabricators who work alongside very bright robots. We all focus on making the highest:quality gourmet food.

You Are:
:An experienced test technician. You have experience executing test plans, collecting and recording data. You would ideally have experience in mechanical assemblies, electronics, soldering or crimping.
:Organized and detail oriented: Youve spent a lot of time working on spreadsheets that its become second nature. You can keep track of numerous tests and keep meticulous records of data and results. You would ideally have experience with task organizational tools like JIRA or Asana.
:Analytical and data driven: When data shows that things arent going as planned, you are the first to pick up on it and share the information with the team. Previous experience with Linux Tools Jupyter Notebook, and Python/C++ is a big plus.
:Curious: You are comfortable navigating through new software and you like to go the extra mile with learning how to best utilize the features.
:Collaborative: You can clearly express your needs and timelines and you actively listen for others needs and timelines. You are quick with providing updates. You like to help with tasks that may fall outside your regular responsibilities.

You Will:

:Run and maintain tests: You will work closely with the engineering team and fabrication team in the operation and testing of our devices. This will be especially important as new capabilities in the system are brought online or issues pop:up in the field.
:Meticulously log tests: You will navigate software to identify what data to collect and record. We have a lot to test and we want you to own running these tests. Its fun but also requires 100 of your attention. And it will also probably be delicious.
:Explore new products: Perform exploratory testing on new:to:world designs to identify unanticipated problems and test need.
:Find out if stuff works: Conduct functional tests on electrical, mechanical, and software to ensure products function as anticipated.
:Find out how reliable things are: Conduct tests to gauge reliability and durability of designs.

Momentum Machines doesnt discriminate based upon race, religion, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, or other applicable legally protected characteristics. Were committed to being a team that reflects a broad range of experience, thought, geography, age, background, gender, sexual

• Location: San Francisco


12 civilians injured by ISISchemical attack in Mosul

Twelve civilians were injured in a chemical attack conducted by the so-called Islamic State (ISIS) militants in Mosul.

The attack was launched on the liberated areas of Mosul, using highly toxic gases, a police officer in the province of Nineveh said.

Captain Yunis Mohammed said in a press statement on Saturday that at least twelve civilians, including women and children, suffered severe suffocation, as a result of a chemical attack with toxic gases conducted by the ISIS militants.

According to Mohammed, ISIS shelled the liberated areas of al-Adala, Bab al-Saray and Shaer Nineveh with missiles containing highly toxic gasses. He added that all casualties were transferred to nearby hospitals and medical centers immediately.

The operation against ISIS in Mosul continues, as the Iraqi forces backed by the US-led coalition continue advancing deeper into western Mosul.

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Anger, disbelief as minister touts GST on private education

by The Educator16 Jan 2015

It has brought down mighty governments and polarised entire nations - now the GST may be back to wreak havoc on education.

Trade Minister Andrew Robb (and fellow Liberal MP Dan Tehan) have drawn the ire of voters by controversially suggesting a GST should be applied to the sector amid rising tuition fees.

According to the report, by the Australian Scholarships Group (ASG), the cost of private tuition is set to soar by 25% over the next four years.

While this increase is likely to alarm parents already paying through the nose, it doesn’t end there. The jump in costs will accompany a 23% rise in Catholic school fees and a 10% hike in government school fees respectively.

A Sydney Morning Herald poll asked its readers whether it supported a GST on education.

The answer was a resounding “No” by 80% of the poll’s respondents.

In an interview with the Australian Financial Review, Trade Minister Andrew Robb provided tacit backing to the idea.

"I think there's general agreement that the broader the base, the better, obviously," the Minister said.

“And the lower the personal tax, the better; whether it's the GST or a combination of other broad-based taxes."

In an article by The Guardian titled Paying GST on education would be an unpopular but progressive move, it argued in favour of the move, adding that the Government could generate $3.3b in revenue.

“Last week’s release of the 2013-14 tax expenditures showed, the exemption of education fees from the GST cost the government $3.3bn in revenue,” it stated.

However, Prime Minister Tony Abbott finally broke his silence late last week by saying that he was opposed to the move.

"The GST will not change in this term of Parliament without a Parliamentary consensus," Abbott told Sydney radio station 2GB.

However, not everyone is convinced. Fraser MP Andrew Leigh said he believes Abbott is quietly preparing for a policy U-turn.

“On 33 occasions he specifically ruled out changes to the GST,” Leigh rebuked.

“But now Tony Abbott and Joe Hockey appear to be letting their Liberal colleagues lay the groundwork for them to break that promise.”

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Nature communications

Microenvironment-derived factors driving metastatic plasticity in melanoma.

PMID 28181494

Cellular plasticity is a state in which cancer cells exist along a reversible phenotypic spectrum, and underlies key traits such as drug resistance and metastasis. Melanoma plasticity is linked to phenotype switching, where the microenvironment induces switches between invasive/MITF(LO) versus proliferative/MITF(HI) states. Since MITF also induces pigmentation, we hypothesize that macrometastatic success should be favoured by microenvironments that induce a MITF(HI)/differentiated/proliferative state. Zebrafish imaging demonstrates that after extravasation, melanoma cells become pigmented and enact a gene expression program of melanocyte differentiation. We screened for microenvironmental factors leading to phenotype switching, and find that EDN3 induces a state that is both proliferative and differentiated. CRISPR-mediated inactivation of EDN3, or its synthetic enzyme ECE2, from the microenvironment abrogates phenotype switching and increases animal survival. These results demonstrate that after metastatic dissemination, the microenvironment provides signals to promote phenotype switching and provide proof that targeting tumour cell plasticity is a viable therapeutic opportunity.


Manga ‘Taboo-Tattoo’ gets anime adaptation

The wraparound jacket of the 9th volume of  Taboo-Tattoo manga has announced that it will getting an anime adaptation.

The series follows a martial arts trained middle schooler named Seigi. After saving a homeless man one day from some thugs, he is given a mysterious tattoo by him. This mysterious tattoo is a secret weapon that grants him unique powers. Afterwards, he is caught in a conflict when a young woman named Ijii is sent to retrieve the tattoo. The story tells of Seigi’s involvement with Ijii as well as the events that changes his life forever.


Things look rosy on the outside or they are portrayed to be rosy to the outside world. By portraying so, the inner rottenness can be concealed from the outside world.

Some governments run their economies in the same manner too. Only the top echelon in the policymaking bodies in these governments are privy to the actual workings of their economies. The information and the figures concerning the real state of their economies remain at the top.

If the information and the figures of an economy are really good, they can be revealed to the general public and the investors. The economy prospers.

If the information and the figures of an economy are really bad, they can be suppressed or tampered with so as not to create a panic among the general public and chase away the investors. The economy may experience turbulence or even collapse altogether.

What if the information and the figures about an economy keep getting worse by every quarter? No matter how good the members of the top policymaking body in a country try to suppress or tamper with the information and the figures, they will finally have to tell the truth to everyone as hiding that information can trigger something even worse for the economy later on. No matter how good a maestro is in his calling, he still has to admit his failings sometimes.

Governments have an obligation to tell the real truth about the performance of their economies. They cannot keep it under wraps for long. They have to say the truth as it is. If it means the introduction of austerity measures spanning all vocations in the land, massive cuts in operating expenditures and large-scale job cuts, so be it. If the economy needs to be trimmed to stay lean and mean for the long run, so be it.

Get the real picture?

A new economic phrase has been bandied about by research houses in many economies, albeit subtly. Many of the experts in these research houses “expect the worst is over” for their countries’ bleak economic performance and future scenario. But the worst just keeps getting better.

Some countries are adopting an insular approach as they want to protect their respective currencies, their national interests and their borders against encroachments by refugees fleeing from other lands. Worst, some countries are tearing trade pacts meant to improve their citizens’ livelihood. All these happenings have an effect on the world’s economy.

Is the worst really over or is it just the beginning of the worst?

During these tumultuous times on the global economic front, a country may be forced to go it alone as policymakers from various developed countries will put their citizens’ benefits first and foremost at the expense of the benefits for people in the third-world economies.

Sentiments are powerful. They can make or break people.

Sentiments concerning a country’s economy among its population are even more powerful. They can make or break the country, economically and financially. In addition, negative sentiments about the economy, if they are allowed to fester for a period of time, can eventually break the will of a people, who are desperately making ends meet.

In order to maintain positive sentiments about the economy of a country, experts in the research houses, economists and policymakers constantly harangue its population on how good that economy is performing even though the country is drowning, economically. Hence, the phrase “expect the worst is over” is perennially played to minimise the level of panic and fear among citizens of any country.

Unfortunately, the citizens become more panic-stricken when they hear that “the worst is over” as the economic environment, internal and external, unfolding right before their eyes tells a different story. As a result, the citizens become jittery about the actual situation pertaining to their countries’ economic status because the global business environment keeps fluctuating without showing any signs of consistency. It is like sitting on a see-saw – swing up and down, swing up and down, swing up and down, etc.

Let’s hear what the experts in the research houses, the economists and the policymakers have to say then.

“The worst is here”?

Men, women and children from different persuasions are being killed for nothing lately. This situation does not bode well for the world at large.

People really need to ask serious questions about their religious beliefs. Are their religious beliefs a hindrance in the present-day world? How far have their religious beliefs enabled them to bring peace to others living in poor countries and in war-ravaged countries? Can the prayers of the religious people from various faiths soothe the pain and suffering of innocent souls desperately searching for lasting peace?

In all this chaos and mayhem, where is God? Why doesn’t He prevent terrorist attacks and wars from taking place? Why doesn’t He alert the faithful of impending dangers beforehand? Since the faithful are constantly praising God in all His majesty, why can’t they sense negative events coming their way? Isn’t it the duty of God to warn and protect His flock?

These days, people are dying needlessly. We really need to ask ourselves this question: Where is God in this chaotic world of ours? Is He just a spectator to these chaotic events?

Does God even exist?

Can you believe it?! The English still dominate the whole world through their language. Which other race on earth can boast of such an achievement?

Practically, every discipline on earth owes its development through the English language. When new inventions and further discoveries are made, they are disseminated through the English language as it is the one language that can reach many people in the four corners of the globe effectively. No other language comes close to the English language in the spread of information on a large scale.

Therefore, if anyone wants to make an impact on the world’s stage, he needs THE MOTHER OF ALL LANGUAGES – ENGLISH – to do so.

Is the English language ONLY for the English people? I don’t think so.

Holy Mother!

It is the accepted practice that after numerous tests and re-tests, a hypothesis or a guess (in a layman’s term) becomes a law.

What about prolonged observations about a certain issue? Can’t those prolonged observations about a certain issue showing certain results be accepted as facts in the absence of tests or studies conducted?

When that issue has produced only a certain form of results for decades, can’t those prolonged observations be accepted as verifiable truths in the absence of tests or studies conducted?

When certain issues are subjected to tests and re-tests, threatening to reveal contrary and embarrassing results concerning the majority of a population, wouldn’t the entity called the government of the day try its level best to stop such tests from taking place?

Thus, the same results about a point in question gathered after prolonged observations in the absence of tests or studies conducted over a period of time can be accepted as verifiable truths.

Even governments can work hand in glove with parties that advance particular interests to alter the results of studies pertaining to any endeavour related to man’s progress in order to conceal the shortcomings of certain sections of their population. The results of these studies may also be used by these governments to advance the suitability of a course of action for the greater good of the country as a whole in the future. Governments can tamper with the outcomes of studies conducted on certain issues to legitimise their stranglehold on the various vocations affecting the citizens’ livelihood. That is the brutal truth.

Learning any language involves its four skills.

A person competent in any language should also exhibit the SUBTLETY OF THOUGHT to express his feelings and ideas to the greater population of the world.

I define subtlety of thought as “one’s ability to give an intelligent account of a matter from all angles honestly in order to deal with all the parts that make up the whole”.

Honesty is vital in any argument or debate. If parties in an argument or a debate are not honest at the outset in admitting any shortcomings with a view to rectifying them immediately, then that argument or debate is an exercise in futility. There will be no progress made at all where the matter is concerned. Things will remain stagnant forever or they will get worse.

We need to realise that not ALL environments are the same. We also need to realise that the learners whom we teach in one environment are not the same kind of learners in other environments. There are many other factors that come into play about certain races in the world.

Characteristic as an adjective means “being or revealing a quality specific or identifying to an individual or group”. The synonyms are distinctive, peculiar or specific.

Characteristic as a noun means “something that marks or sets apart”. The synonyms are feature, point or trait.

Certain races display certain characteristics.

One of it is INTELLIGENCE. Some races show quickness of understanding, and therefore have an upper hand over other races in certain disciplines on earth. Look around the world. What do we see? Can’t we see that some countries are developed and some countries are still in the third-world category? Not ALL members of the human race are capable of learning anything, anywhere. Perhaps, their environments lack the necessary infrastructure with the competent manpower or their environments are ravaged by war. Hence, some races need the structured manner to learn something valuable for their future. They can’t just jump to the complex without knowing the simple.

Another is the INCLINATION TO WORK. Some races are very hardworking. On the other hand, there are races who lack the will to work. Despite all the incentives given to toil and prosper, some races are still lazy to work. The degree of intensity to work varies considerably among the races of the world.

Not ALL members of the human race are the same in terms of characteristics, and so they don’t possess the same degree of qualities required for certain vocations.

An example will show this clearly.

When many students gain admission into universities for tertiary studies delivered in the medium of instruction called English, they are expected to show competence in English as well as subtlety of thought. After graduation, they don’t possess competence in English and they are at a total loss in expressing their thoughts clearly upon any subject-matter with confidence. Why is that so? How did they prepare their assignments in universities? What benchmark did the university authorities use to mark their students’ assignments? HOW DID THEY EVEN GRADUATE?! Is the profit-motive the only criterion for the public and private universities of a country? These “graduates” are herded into the public and private sectors of an economy. And some governments even spend a lot of money to train and re-train these “graduates” in their respective economies. HUH?!

My observations are not those of an anthropologist. My observations are those of a layman watching ordinary events pertaining to ordinary people in their everyday lives.

When a person possesses competence in a language in all its FOUR skills along with the subtlety of thought to express himself clearly in the spoken and written forms of that said language, he can truly claim to be proficient in that said language.

As such, if anyone wants to learn a language, he must bear in mind the time, effort and money (in some instances) involved to attain proficiency in the said language.

But when a lot of resources of various kinds have been put in place by an entity called a government to improve the proficiency and use in that said language of a population with no tangible results using MANY approaches over a period of decades, what does it mean?

Naturally, the blame must fall on the people who teach and learn that said language.

Naturally, these people may not just be suited to teach and learn that said language at all.

Am I a racist for telling the truth?

The major hurdle in any language teaching and learning is the approach used. The approach to teach and learn any language makes a world of difference to the person teaching it and to the person learning it.

When the approach used incorporates materials that contain a body of objective facts presented logically to teach and learn a language, it will definitely yield the vital results of language proficiency and usage among learners over a period of time.

Those materials containing a body of objective facts presented logically to teach and learn a language must not include fun in teaching as well as learning, telling stories, strumming guitars, singing songs and dancing. One cannot teach or learn any language in the world in a playful manner.

Those materials containing a body of objective facts presented logically to teach and learn a language must include its grammar, vocabulary, sentence structures, sentence-building, summary, reading, essay writing, letter writing and comprehension. To teach or learn such materials demands a teacher’s or a learner’s serious commitment on a prolonged basis.

Interest and motivation to learn that particular language that contains a body of objective facts presented logically will be aroused in the learners and that same interest and motivation will sustain the learners’ willingness to study the language further.

When countless approaches used to teach and learn English don’t give the necessary results in proficiency and usage among students for decades, then those approaches should be abandoned altogether as they have failed to sustain the willingness of students to learn English over a period of time. Naturally, the rot sets in and repels learners to continue learning English. Then, these learners will fear learning the English language altogether.

The true substance of English teaching and learning is its logical presentation of materials based on the solid foundation of grammar. The mastery and usage of English grammar related to its sentence structures as well as sentence-building sets the stage for further work incorporating its summary, essay writing and letter writing which are essential items for a learner in his adult life.

It is also a FACT that some races around the world will not have the ability to learn English at all but these same races of people display a lot of ability to learn other languages besides English. Wouldn’t a sane, sensible and thinking person then conclude that some races around the world are just not suited to learn the English language?

Consider the fact that some members of these races, who don’t have the ability to learn English, become teachers of the English language. Wouldn’t English teaching and learning become A HORRIBLE AND TERRIBLE AFFAIR? The standard of English can NEVER improve.

Some races of people around the world are not suited to teach and learn English.

English can never be the lingua franca of the world. It has many contenders that aspire to be the lingua franca of the world. For many people, this is great news.

English is a major headache for many races in the world as they are just not cut out or suited to learn the language. As English is not a “straight-forward” language, the headaches grow deeper and more painful for these races to learn it. With the many exceptions spread throughout its grammar, sentence structures, variety in sentence-building, etc., the teaching and learning of English can be a monumental task even for the English people.

In an effort to minimise the numerous headaches prevalent in teaching and learning English in the current day, a lot of approaches have been advanced. By doing so, it is hoped that the fear of learning the language among the masses around the world can be eradicated. It is a mighty fine endeavour on the part of those who have advanced these approaches.

The proof of the pudding is in the eating. When all these various approaches yield no practical and tangible results in English proficiency and usage among learners for decades, something is definitely wrong with the approaches used and the practitioners who advanced them.

It is futile to argue with arrogant and misguided people. It is not their fear of teaching or learning English. It is their inability to teach or learn the English language as the majority in some of the world’s races are just not suited for it. They should admit it. For that reason, they hide their inadequacies behind their pride which is their mother-tongues. Their mothers must be very proud of them. They vehemently clamour for the relevance of their mother-tongues for all eternity even though THE WORLD IS ENGLISH in terms of economic progress.

Only funny people resort to strumming guitars, telling stories, singing songs and dancing to teach and learn English. Only funny people resort to fun in teaching and learning English. Maybe it’s in their DNA to remain as funny people forever. That is perfectly understandable.

Can English proficiency and usage among users improve without the element of seriousness? The economic scenario around the world is very serious, and yet funny people persist in doing what they do.

People who are brutally honest about their shortcomings concerning any endeavour related to their everyday lives will eventually make the right progress.

The real truth hurts but it will propel us to better outcomes when we take stock of our real abilities.

Can people who are not proficient in the English language take on life with all its manifold and serious challenges in the global economic community?

World! Here we come!

Some jobs require people who project a modern image to clients.

Sometimes, companies can’t advertise openly as to the kind of attire employees should wear. The companies don’t want lawsuits coming their way and also they don’t want to be seen as practising discrimination towards another race or religion.

Another most crucial factor that employers look for in a future employee is his or her ability to communicate and write well in English as it is a globalised world where companies are fighting for business in the world’s market. Companies NEED individuals who can blend in very quickly and who don’t need to be trained OVER AND OVER AGAIN to perform their tasks. Those companies don’t have the time and the resources to train new employees.

Therefore, we really need to project an appropriate and right image through our articles as well as comments on social media platforms like WordPress, LinkedIn, Facebook, etc. Those postings reveal our competence and personality to others.

Governments run on the supply of money. Governments don’t run on the supply of water or praises to God. Least of all, governments don’t run on faith in God alone.

War costs money. A government itching for war must realise the costs involved when war plans don’t proceed accordingly. Otherwise, the coffers of the state will disappear quickly as it tries its best to finance the cost of a protracted war with an enemy nation.

Peace costs money too. To run the daily activities of a state requires prudent planning in terms of money well-spent for its peaceful existence. Even during peaceful times, the coffers of a state need to be maintained to finance its services to its citizens. Without money, everything comes to a standstill.

War as well as peace can afford some greedy politicians and their cronies opportunities to make money for themselves.

The supply of money is needed for war and also peace. Without money, nothing happens.

Moreover, no amount of religiosity can finance any endeavour. The religious bigots from all persuasions need to etch this statement into their thick skulls. Try praising God on an empty stomach and watch if He definitely and quickly answers one’s prayers during pressing times.

Therefore, the rapacity of the governing class and the religious fervour displayed by some members of a state must be controlled by a stronger electorate to safeguard the public finance of a country.

The economy of a country functions smoothly in the absence of greed and extreme religiosity exhibited by some members of the country.


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Here are some answers to the most frequently asked questions about Gumber campsite.

Where is the nearest town or village?

Slindon village is just over 2 miles away, but remember that you will have to walk the last 1.5 miles from the parking area to Gumber Farm so it pays to arrive fully equipped.

Where is the nearest food shop?

The Forge in the village of Slindon is a small convenience store and café. It stocks all the everyday essentials.  There is a Tesco in Littlehampton, 8 miles away.

Where is the nearest pub/restaurant?

There are two pubs in Slindon, The George Inn and The Spur.

Where is the nearest bank?

The closest bank is in Littlehampton, which is 8 miles away.

Do you take bookings?

Yes we do. It is stongly recommended, especially for the camping barn. To make a booking please contact the Gumber Camping team on 01243 814484 or email

Do you accept dogs?

Do you hire freeze packs?

No, as there is no electricity to the site we do not offer fridge or freezer facilities.

Can I park my car by my tent?

To protect the natural beauty of the site we ask our guests to travel on foot, bike or horse as there is no vehicle access to the site. The closest car park is 2 miles away in Bignor Hill or Northwood (grid ref SU 959098).

Where is the nearest bus stop?

Take the Compass 85A bus between Arundel and Chichester, alighting at Fontwell Village; take Orchard Way [opposite the bus stop] to the A27 underpass, then cross Duke's Road into Slindon Estate.

Where are some good walks/cycle trails for families?

There are many walks and tracks to explore, with trails around the Slindon Estate on the National Trust Slindon web pages.

Can we go fishing nearby?

Heronbrook fisheries are located in Slindon, visit  for further details.

Do you have laundry facilities?

There is a drying room in the camping barn, which all campers have access to.

What places are there to visit nearby?

There are plenty of local National trust properties to visit including: Drovers Estate, Lavington Common, Petworth and Woolbeding Countryside. Please check the website for further details.

You mention arriving by horse, do you have stables?

No, but with prior arrangement we can arrange for horses to use one of the surrounding fields and yards.

Do you take credit card payments?

Yes, we accept most credit and debit cards when you pre-book your places. (a 1.5% fee applies to credit card payments).

Are you open all year round?

We usually open during March and close late October.

Can I have a fire or barbecue?

There is a barbecue available to use on the site and a fire pit area.

Can under 18s stay at the site?

Under 18s must be accompanied by an adult.


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identify the line of symmetry of then parabola defined by y=-2(x+w)^2+6

a. x=-6

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c. x=-4

d. x=4

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Hi, Maira.

The vertex form of a parabola is written y = a(x-h)2 + k  where h and k are the coordinates of the vertex of the parabola.

The x-coordinate of the vertex, or h, also represents the axis of symmetry.

So in your problem y=-2(x+w)^2+6, the axis of symmetry would be x = -w  (Note that in the general form it is x - h inside the parentheses, so the sign changes.)

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In 1891, J. Naismith, an instructor of anatomy at Springfield College (USA), worked out the rules of the game. The first game in Russia took place in 1906 in St. Petersburg. The systematic playing of basketball develops coordination of movement, trains organs of respiration and blood circulation, improves the regulatory function of the nervous system, develops muscles, and fortifies health.

The most important basketball tournaments are usually played on a rectangular court 26 m x 14 m in rooms not less than 7 m in height. Parallel to the base line, there are backboards supported on poles and baskets (metal rings with stretched nets that have no bottom) attached to the backboards. The circumference of the ball is 75–78 cm; its weight, 600–650 g. Two teams, each with 12 members, participate in the game. Five players are on the court at a time. (Players may be substituted.) For every basket made during play, a team scores two points; for every penalty shot, one point. The winning team is the one that scores the most points. The game for men lasts 40 minutes of actual playing time; for women, 36 minutes; for 15–16–year-old boys and girls, 30 minutes; and for 13–14–year-old boys and girls, 24 minutes. (The clock stops every time the referee blows his whistle.) The time is divided into two halves, with a ten-minute break. If after regulation play the teams have an equal number of points, five-minute overtimes are played until one of the teams wins.

Since 1936 men’s basketball has been an Olympic event. The Olympic championship was won by US athletes in 1936, 1948, 1952, 1956, 1960, 1964, and 1968. The Soviet team took second place in the Olympics of 1952, 1956, 1960, and 1964 and first place in 1972. The first and second women’s world championships were won by the USA (Chile, 1953; and Brazil, 1957); and the third, fourth, and fifth women’s world championships were won by the USSR (USSR, 1959; Peru, 1964; and Czechoslovakia, 1967). The first men’s world championship was won by Argentina (Argentina, 1950); the second by the USA (Brazil, 1954); and third and fourth by Brazil (Chile, 1959; and Brazil, 1963); and the fifth by the USSR (Uruguay, 1967).

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Disposable packaging is at the top of the list when it comes to applications for environmentally friendly flexible films. Yet, unlike other consumer goods manufacturers, the medical sector has limited suitable alternatives available to them. Down-gauging of thickness in commonly used films, such as polyethylene, polypropylene, and nylon, continues to be the most widely implemented strategy, as it reduces both waste and cost through decreased weight without compromising barrier functionality.

Sustainable Alternatives for Disposable Packaging

Optimizing package design and applying eco-friendly materials to secondary and tertiary layers are other effective strategies moving the medical industry a step closer to sustainability. Where sterility requirements limit the options for primary layers, films made from recycled plastic, such as RPET, (recycled polyethylene terephthalate), or recycled film with a virgin PET cap layer are proving suitable options for outer packaging.

Healthcare Facilities & Recycling Programs

Perhaps the most significant advance in mitigating medical and hospital waste is the push to implement more comprehensive recycling programs for healthcare facilities. Aware of the high volume of waste produced in their day-to-day operations, healthcare professionals are getting on board with innovative recycling initiatives, for waste as well as overhead cost reduction. Established in 2012 with assistance from HPRC (Healthcare Plastics Recycling Council), Stanford Healthcare's recycling pilot program is estimated to keep 110 tons of packaging a year from entering the landfill, 75% of which is plastic. Additionally, partnering their recycling program with GreenWaste, resulted in a 75% cost savings over traditional disposal methods.

Recycling Programs for PETG Packaging

As highlighted on May 3, 2017 in Recycling Today, Resinate Materials Group, HPRC, and the Plastics Industry Association collaborated on a project to demonstrate how landfill-destined waste materials such as PETG packaging can be recycled into a valuable resource through incorporation into coatings. Moreover, their findings implicate rPETG as a potentially effective additive to other materials such as adhesives, elastomers, and flexible foams. Each medical film and packaging material like PETG, once considered unusable waste, that gets recovered and fed back into the supply chain is a step closer to eliminating the barrier between medical care and sustainability.

“Health care leaders recognize the sizable impact their facilities and practices have on the health and safety of those they serve and on the greater world, and accordingly they understand the importance of making decisions that simultaneously improve their bottom line, the environment, and the community.” -Sustainability Roadmap for Hospitals

In Summary

With more freedom to explore the potential of cutting-edge barrier materials, flexible films from within the food packaging sector are increasingly showing up on the medical industry's radar. Manufacturers of films for food application are edging in on specialized medical production with advanced coextruded and multi-layered cast films. Their enthusiasm for innovation, if combined with a focus on product sustainability, would be a welcome response to health care providers' call for environmentally sound solutions.

Healthcare facilities are faced with a burgeoning patient population and medical product and packaging industries are ramping up production to keep pace. The flexible film market is rapidly expanding in tandem, with an expected surge of synthetic polymer films being introduced into the environment. The barrier, sterilization, and migration considerations of medical films present unique challenges when it comes to alternative materials. However, with contributions from across all participating sectors, sustainability will permeate the medical and pharmaceutical industries at a faster rate.

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METROPOLIS NOW Journey to the East

An exhibition at the Yale School of Architecture on display now until June!

Finally pulling together some of the travel research and photos from the Wood Travel Fellowship. So here it is:

The goal of the trip was to visit some of the most populous cities in the world, in countries very different from what I had been used to, with the hope of exploring and better understanding the notion of a metropolis. A very ambitious agenda, indeed, and that became clear once I started travelling and realized that to analyze, categorize, research, or simply ‘understand’ what a metropolis is and how individual pieces of architecture operate within it is a much more complicated task than I ever imagined.

When Le Corbusier made his journey to the East, he kept journals of highly personal impressions and sketches to record his observations. Despite my love of drawing, I sketched very little during my two months of travels. Instead, innumerable photographic observations were made of each city, area, and building visited, with quick accompanying notes and ideas recorded in a travel journal. One could argue that the difference between the two modes of observation arises from the rapid speed and chaotic nature of the delirious metropolis of today. But just like for Le Corbusier, the journey to the East was a voyage of discoveries, self-reflections, and an almost overwhelming source of inspiration that will last a lifetime.

This comparative matrix is looking at the visited metropolitan areas in a more objective way, in order to better understand their geography, size, formal organization, and structure of the urban fabric. Naturally, the more stable features - topography and infrastructure networks - provide the overall physical structure, the spatial skeleton. However, while travelling it became apparent that the boundaries of these metropolises are ambiguous, and clear distinctions between urban and rural do not exist. Additionally, they do not have a center, but multiple areas acting as central nodes, and the typical notion of inside and outside, or the almost archaic dichotomy of public and private, do not exist, which poses new challenges for visualizing them. Especially in Japan and China, cities have become complex, three-dimensional spatial networks with unprecedented scale and speed of development, where buildings or even whole areas come and go literally over night.

The bottom portion of the board attempts to portray this complexity of space and time:

Unlike the more objective matrix of the metropolises (above), the following board represents subjective snapshots of my journey to the East.

In this display, rather than portraying each metropolis separately, the idea is to look at the photographs collectively, cross-referencing topics that defy an already arbitrary boundaries.

A book - photo journal of sorts - will come in a couple of days! I'll post some sample photos once it's done.


Your topic: An Analytical Essay on Harriet Jacobs\' \'Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl\

Your topic's description: How did this narrative affect the national debate concerning slavery? Did the narrative become a valuable means to assert enslaved individuals\' strength of character and resolve to destroy slavery in America? Do you think it was successful in arousing northern whites\' outrage and convince them to support to the abolitionist cause?

Your desired style of citation: MLA

Your educational level: School

Word Count: 500

Paper Type: Essay

Number of page: 2

[Writer Name]

Harriet Jacobs's Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl

"Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl" is a narrative written by Harriet Jacobs in 1861. This narrative provides a different, more pragmatic, viewpoint on slave experience than that expressed in the typical "daring" male narrative.

It is fact that the influence of this narrative on the national debate concerning slavery is notable. From a literary point of view, Jacobs's autobiographical narrative is the most extensive and powerful customs in African American literature and civilization. Up to a time of Depression period, these narratives outnumbered books composed by African Americans. A few classic writings, like most influential 19th century novel "Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl", accept the influence directly of the slave narrative. Narratives of slavery and their imaginary descendants have contributed a vital part in national debates regarding slavery, and American recognition that have challenged the moral sense and the chronological awareness of the U.S. from the beginning time.

Slave narratives in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, were a significant means of developing a debate between the community of whites and blacks concerning slavery and liberty. Jacobs's slave narrative is the most influential narrative of the antebellum period were prepared to make clear to white reviewers regarding the ground facts of slavery as an organization and the humanity of black community as human beings deserving of complete human rights (Jacobs, 111-122). Even though frequently dissolved as mere antislavery misinformation, the extensive consumption of this narrative in the 19th century United States and Britain and their ongoing standing in literature and chronological curricula in education organizations today testify to the influence of this narrative, then and now, to stimulate debate amongst the readers, mainly on questions of social equity, race, and the importance of liberty.

"Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl" became Jacob's self-defining text for all the America, as well as offered the first thoroughly, matter-of-fact, unapologetic, non-propagandizing portrayals of what the life of slave was really like. He was energetically engaged with the movement of abolition prior to the beginning of the Civil War. Throughout the war she employed her celebrity to funding for black displaced persons. Following the war, she put great efforts to enhance the situations of the recently-freed slaves (Jacobs, 111-122). With the great efforts of Jacobs, her slave narrative became a valuable means to assert enslaved individuals' strength of character and resolve to destroy slavery.

In my opinion, in the South and later a free person in the North, due to her experiences as a slave, Jacobs was able and successful to gain the needed social and cultural experience to make her aware of how she could convince Northern whites people mainly women to support the Abolitionist movement. Jacobs knew that Northern white women reading domestic fiction had the influence to sway their husband's opinions involving slavery issues and white men had the power to make changes. Using her understanding of the social institutions of the times, she tells her story with a cautiousness not to offend her white audience while still establishing herself as a trustworthy source of information. Establishing the sympathy and understanding of a female audience of the 19th century began with the reader's viewing her as a woman more similar to themselves than different (Sheen and Robert, 261-265).

In conclusion, the slave narrative of Harriet Jacobs is one of the greatest and literary influential efforts to destroy the slavery in America. This Incidents' originality would have had leastwise two effects, first, a recognition between Jacobs and the readers, who would hence struggle for the elimination of slavery, and next, a model of narrative for future women writers.

Works Cited

Jacobs, John S. 2000. Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl. Published by Penguin Books. ISBN 0140437959, 9780140437959. 111-122.

Sheena, Gillespie and Robert, Becker. 2004. Cross Cultures. Published by Pearson Longman. ISBN 0321213181, 9780321213181. 261-265.


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Assignment 4, due on Oct. 19 (delayed due to request).

All diagrams must be hand drawn, no photocopies or computer images will be accepted.

  1. Light with wavelength in the range of 400 to 750 nm (1 nm = 10-9 m) are visible, whereas wavelength of X-rays are about 0.5 to 0.001 nm. According to Max Planck's assumption, the energy E of a photon with frequency v is E = h v, where h is the Planck's constant. The frequency v is related to the speed of light c, and wavelength l by v = c / l. Calculate the frequencies and energies of the photons with the four wavelengths indicated above. (h = __, c = __)

    __ (show calculation for one, and results for all below)

    Wavelength  v         E
    / nm       /Hz       /J per photon
    400        __        __
    750        __        __
    0.5        __        __
    0.001      __        __

    X-rays of what wavelength will be suitable for structural investigation? Please recall the bond distances for diamond and silicon from Assignment 3 for consideration.

  2. Packing of spheres are used to model the structures of solids. Provide information on the following questions based on this model.

    Draw pictures to show the two types of packing sequences ABAB... and ABCABC....

    __, __

    Draw pictures to show spheres around an octahedral (O) and a tetrahedral (T) holes or sites.

    __, __

    Calculate the radii of the largest spheres that will fit in the octahedral and tetrahedral hole without pushing the large spheres apart. Assume the radii of the spheres around the holes to be 1.000 nm.

    __, __

    Draw a cubic unit cell of the face-centered closest packing (fcc), and mark the layers of packing sequense ABCABC... etc.

    __, __

    Classify these metals according to their structure types: copper, silver, gold, zinc, cadmium, sodium, potassium, and rubidium.

  3. Describe the sodium chloride and zinc blend structures and their relation ship with the closest packing models. What are the differences between the zinc blende (sphalerite) and wurtzite structures?

    The purpose of these comparisons is to entice you to these topics:

    Radius Ratio Rules
    Ionic Solids
    Perovskites and Spinels

  4. Draw a diagram to show the Born-Haber cycle for the formation of FeO, the common iron rust.


Childhood Development

Large groups of researchers understand the information processing theory in different ways, but almost all of them agree on the fact that thinking itself is information processing (Siegler, 1991). Instead of concentrating on different stages in the development of young ones,, the focus is directed to the information that children disclose, the methods they use, and the memory limits for obtaining and analyzing certain pieces of information. In addition, information-processing theories of development give an emphasis to precise analysis of change mechanisms (Siegler, 1991). This paper aims to critically analyze the five information processing theories of childhood development, clearly highlight their difference and single out the most appropriate one according to my understanding.

Production-system theories integrate a huge variety of paradigms that explore long-term and short-term memory. Each production is similar to “if-then” principle and can clearly demonstrate what the system would do in a specific situation. The principal aim of neo-Piagetian theory is to maintain the power of Piaget’s approach while raising the strengths of information-processing approaches. Basically, it incorporates Piaget’s stages with the emphasis on goals, working memory limitations, and problem-solving techniques. Connectionist theories of learning are computer simulations of how thinking occurs. The main reason for enormous popularity of connectionist models is their general resemblance to the workings of the brain. Psychometric theory clarifies the processes measured by mental abilities tests, such as intelligence test. This is also known as the Intelligence Quotient test.

Evolutionary theory explains that competition among species is a basic aspect of existence. Species originate and change through two main processes: variation and selection.

In my opinion, Psychometric theory, which uses Intelligence Quotient, is the most coherent one. This is because it has proved to be effective and accurate over a prolonged period of time and it normally produces positive results despite some small errors.


Little Shepherd - Cheryl C. Malandrinos

Beautifully illustrated and written with such good teachings. Although a five year old warming his hands at a fire initially alarmed me, I had to remember that was probably how they did things back then. Sometimes the boy seemed awfully tall for five, but that's not a big deal either. What was a problem for my aging eyes was some of the wording sometimes was lost in the illustrations and I had to re-read it a few times. I have no problem re-reading God's word though, so once I could see it, it was okay.
No matter the nit-pickey imperfections this book has, God's teachings and his words come alive through Cheryl's writing. It shines brightly through, and as a parent, that is what you want your kids getting too. The children won't notice those imperfections either.
Definitely a great book with the holiday season barreling down. One both parents and the kids will enjoy together.


This article will show you how to allow parents to pay for their student's account prior to the start of the school year.

Step 1: Navigate to Your School Dashboard

From the first page of your dashboard, use the left menu to select "School" and select "My School".

Step 2: Navigate to Student Information

Click on the "Students" tab.

Step 3: Copy Early Enrollment Token

Here you will be able to see the Early Enrollment Token. This is the token that your students and parents will use to enroll in Membean early and pay for their account.

Step 4: Send Early Enrollment Instructions

Please include in your instructions to parents that they will need to go to membean.com/enroll, enter the code, and then follow the instructions to enroll and pay.

Upon beginning the school year, students will need to enroll into their appropriate class. They can do so by clicking on "Change Class" on their dashboard


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What is the true meaning of mercy?

Mercy matters. Romel, CC BY-NC-ND

What is the true meaning of mercy?

Mercy matters. Romel, CC BY-NC-ND

In such times, talk about mercy may seem more like wishful thinking. But mercy matters – now more than ever.

The extraordinary Holy Year of Mercy called by Pope Francis ended in November 2016. Pope Francis has encouraged President Donald Trump to draw upon “the rich spiritual and ethical values that have shaped the history of the American people.”

I recently wrote about mercy in a book, “Mercy Matters: Opening Yourself to the Life Changing Gift.” Mercy has touched my life in many ways – such as in my recovery from alcoholism and through my experiences as an adopted child. So, to me, mercy is a “love that responds to human need in an unexpected or unmerited way.”

So, how can we begin to understand the true meaning of mercy?

Mercy in the Hebrew Bible

Christians usually understand the “Hebrew Bible” as the “Old Testament,” which is replaced by the “New Testament” of Jesus Christ as found in the gospels of Matthew, Mark, Luke and John.

How Christianity has interpreted the Hebrew Bible, often not fully appreciating its Jewish context, continues to be a matter of scholarly debate. But many Christians see connections between themes expressed in the “Old Testament” and Christ’s later teachings about the importance of mercy.

The Hebrew Bible. FirewallJC, CC BY

In the Hebrew Bible, there is a cluster of related words that are often translated as “mercy,” depending upon where they appear in the text. There is “ahavah,” which refers to God’s enduring love for Israel, much like the love between husband and wife. Then there is “Rachamim,” which comes from the root word “rechem,” or womb, and therefore might be more literally understood as suggesting a “maternal connection” between God and human beings.

In a famous passage from Psalm 85 that speaks of the Israelites’ return from exile, it is said that when “mercy and truth have met together, righteousness and peace have kissed.”

Chesed,” the word translated as “mercy” in this verse, additionally suggests God’s quality of “steadfast loyalty.” The psalm thus relates steadfastness and mercy with “truth” – in Hebrew “emet”– which means behaving ethically and being faithful to God’s will.

Mercy in the Christian gospels

A point of connection between the Jewish and Christian traditions is what is called the “Great Hallel.” Hallel means “praise” and refers to a group of psalms regularly recited at the time of the new moon as well as during important Jewish feasts like Tabernacles or Sukkot, which commemorates the period the Jewish people spent in the desert on their journey to the Promised Land.

The great Hallel is the refrain of Psalm 136 that celebrates how God’s “mercy endures forever.” Some scholars believe Jesus sang the Great Hallel with his disciples when they went out to the Mount of Olives after the Last Supper, the final meal that he shared with his Apostles before his crucifixion.

Mercy sets the context for many of Jesus’ teachings. In the Gospel of Matthew, Jesus tells the story of the “unmerciful servant” who has his own debt wiped away but refuses to forgive another servant who only owed him a few cents.

The story teaches us that we need to forgive others, because we have been forgiven ourselves.

Jesus as the face of mercy

Also in Matthew’s gospel, Jesus tells his disciples to understand the meaning of the phrase:

Perhaps most significantly for Christians, Jesus shows us what it means to be merciful: He healed the sick, welcomed the stranger and pardoned those who persecuted and killed him.

As Pope Francis tells us in Misericordiae Vultus, his letter introducing the Holy Year of Mercy, Jesus’ mercy is not abstract but “visceral” – it’s something that quite literally changes us from the inside out.

And Christians believe that this visceral aspect of mercy comes in the personal relationship Jesus promises to all of us: a relationship based on forgiveness and love, reconciliation and truth. As Pope Francis writes in the very first sentence of Misericordiae Vultus,

“Jesus Christ is the face of God’s mercy.”

Practicing mercy

Protest against the immigrant ban in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Fibonacci Blue, CC BY

But what does it mean – in concrete terms – to be merciful to the refugee, the immigrant, not to mention to those nations, institutions and communities that face the challenge of welcoming them? What does mercy mean in Syria? What is a merciful response to the atrocities of the Islamic State, or ISIL/ISIS – a group that has been merciless in persecuting Christians, Yazidi and the Shia? How might mercy shape the Trump administration’s response to Iran following its missile tests, or to the Chinese expansion in the Spratly Islands and the South China Sea?

I certainly can’t say how mercy can be specifically applied to these challenges: The possibilities, and pitfalls, are as numerous as the various meanings associated with mercy in the Bible itself.

But I would like to suggest a starting point for thinking about how mercy matters. In a recent discussion about my book “Mercy Matters,” a participant related how she’s been watching both Fox News and MSNBC in a effort to expose herself to different views about crucial issues facing the United States. I never learned whether she was a Democrat or a Republican; a liberal, conservative or libertarian.

But what I did learn is that mercy begins by opening oneself to those with whom one might strongly disagree. Mercy doesn’t end there, of course, but it begins with such small acts of understanding, which can lead to life-changing experiences of love.