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Picture Books About Maps
We usually turn to books for research and to reinforce themes. Since the children are already familiar with maps from our travels and nature hikes, we are ready to delve deeper into cartography and study up on maps.
Here are a few picture books we've found that work well with our study of maps. What are your favorites?
As the Crow Flies: A First Book of Maps: This is a clever introduction to the concept of mapping. Several animals take a journey and then a lovely map illustrates the landscape.
Me on the Map (Dragonfly Books): A great introduction to the concept of zooming in and out to focus on details or look at the "bigger picture". This is an essential geography and history skill and an important "habit of the mind" that will help children in their lifelong learning.
Where Do I Live?: This book is very similar in concept to Me on the Map, with more text aimed at a slightly older audience.
There's a Map on My Lap!: All About Maps (Cat in the Hat's Learning Library): The Cat in the Hat, with some help from Thing 1 and Thing 2, leads Sally and Nick on a cartographic adventure. The rhyming text helps my kids remember concepts and vocabulary, such as scale, legend, and compass rose. This is a fun introduction to map basics.
Mapping Penny's World: A young girl learns about maps at school and then maps her room for homework. She decides to map her dog's world, as well, including Penny's hiding spots, the shortcut to visit another dog, the park, around town, and eventually places Penny might want to visit throughout the world. Although this is a great concept, I found I had to do a lot of the "work" as the reader, filling in the gaps of information for my kids and engaging them with the maps in the book. If your kids love dogs, though, this may be just the "hook" to get them into mapping their world.
Follow That Map!: A First Book of Mapping Skills: When Sally and her friends look for her missing pets, the result is a fun scavenger-hunt in book format. The wide-ranging search takes them from their neighborhood to the solar system. Kids will get lots of practice reading and decoding maps in this interactive book.
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These are great. I'm so glad you included some even for really young learners–never to early to start introducing these concepts!
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I am looking for a book I read year ago with my children. This book would be a great way to engage my students in learning map skills. It is a mystery picture book where the reader finds clues (not read in the traditional way, like choose your own mystery series) to the reptile being held ransom. I thought it was titled "Map it" or "Map it out" but none of my searches is coming up with anything remotely familiar. If you could help me solve this mystery, I am grateful.


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Nebivolol Effect on Nitric Oxide Levels, Blood Pressure, and Renal Function in Kidney Transplant Patients
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This study will investigate the blood pressure lowering efficacy of nebivolol among renal transplant recipients who are on calcineurin inhibitors which are believed to contribute to hypertension by SNS activation and decreased prostaglandin and nitric oxide production. Hypotheses:
- Nebivolol is more beneficial than metoprolol in favorably affecting markers of oxidative stress in hypertensive renal transplant patients.
- Nebivolol has a better impact than metoprolol on kidney function among hypertensive renal transplant patients
Condition | Intervention | Phase |
Hypertension Kidney Transplantation |
Drug: Nebivolol Drug: Metoprolol |
Phase 1 |
Study Type: | Interventional |
Study Design: | Allocation: Randomized Endpoint Classification: Efficacy Study Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment Masking: Open Label Primary Purpose: Treatment |
Official Title: | Nebivolol Effect on Nitric Oxide Levels, Blood Pressure, and Renal Function in Kidney Transplant Patients |
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Nitric oxide
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Primary Outcome Measures:
- To determine the effect of nebivolol versus metoprolol on serum nitric oxide levels in hypertensive renal transplant patients [ Time Frame: one year ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]
Secondary Outcome Measures:
- To determine the effect of nebivolol versus metoprolol on markers for oxidative stress. [ Time Frame: One Year ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]
- To determine the effect of nebivolol versus metoprolol on renal function in hypertensive renal transplant patients. [ Time Frame: One Year ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]
- To determine the effect of nebivolol versus metoprolol on blood pressure control in hypertensive renal transplant patients. [ Time Frame: One Year ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]
Estimated Enrollment: | 50 |
Study Start Date: | July 2010 |
Estimated Study Completion Date: | July 2015 |
Estimated Primary Completion Date: | July 2015 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure) |
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Active Comparator: Nebivolol |
Drug: Nebivolol
Nebivolol 5 mg once daily, titrated to a maximum total daily dose of 40 mg to achieve a blood pressure of < 140/ 90.
Other Name: Bystolic
Active Comparator: Metoprolol |
Drug: Metoprolol
Metoprolol 25 mg twice daily, titrated to a maximum total daily dose of 400 mg to achieve a blood pressure < 140/90.
Other Name: Lopressor
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Ages Eligible for Study: | 18 Years and older |
Genders Eligible for Study: | Both |
Accepts Healthy Volunteers: | No |
Inclusion Criteria:
- Men or women at least 18 years of age who are recipients of - a solitary kidney or combined kidney-pancreas transplant within the last twenty four months
- Current diagnosis of hypertension
- Normal hepatic enzymes
- Estimated creatinine clearance (by cockcroft-gault formula) >or= 30 ml/min
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- Any contraindication to taking beta-blockers, specifically Nebivolol or Metoprolol. Conditions such as : (bradycardia HR<60 beats per minute , heart block > 1st degree, decompensated cardiac failure, sick sinus syndrome (unless permanent pacemaker in place), severe hepatic impairment( defined as elevation of aspartamine aminotransferase , alanine aminotransferase, or bilirubin levels to three times upper limit of normal reference range), severe peripheral arterial circulatory disorder, history of bronchospasm and /or asthma and /or regular medication with inhaled bronchodilators. or , or any medical condition that in the opinion of the investigator may interfere with the subject's ability to successfully complete the protocol.
- Any medical condition which, in the opinion of the Principal Investigator, might compromise the safety of the subject in participating in the protocol such as hypotension or not requiring antihypertensive medications.
- Any serious systemic disease that might complicate management and reduce life expectancy.
- Uncontrolled hypertension defined as SBP > 210 or DBP > 120 mm Hg.
- Symptomatic hypotension
- Previous intolerance to beta blockers
- Cerebrovascular accident within 3 months of randomization
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Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT01157234
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University of Florida | |
Gainesville, Florida, United States, 32610 |
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University of Florida
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Principal Investigator: | Alfonso Santos, MD | University of Florida |
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ClinicalTrials.gov processed this record on March 06, 2014
Sharma SP. Nitric oxide and the kidney: Review. Indian Journal of Nephrology 2004;14: 77-84.
Schwenger V, Zeier M, Ritz E. Hypertension after renal transplantation. Ann Transplant. 2001;6:25-30.
Responsible Party: | University of Florida |
ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: | NCT01157234 History of Changes |
Other Study ID Numbers: | BYS-MD-42 |
Study First Received: | July 2, 2010 |
Last Updated: | November 19, 2013 |
Health Authority: | United States: Institutional Review Board |
Keywords provided by University of Florida:
Hypertension Kidney Transplantation Beta-blockers Nitric Oxide Nebivolol |
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
Hypertension Vascular Diseases Cardiovascular Diseases Metoprolol Nebivolol Metoprolol succinate Nitric Oxide Anti-Arrhythmia Agents Cardiovascular Agents Therapeutic Uses Pharmacologic Actions Antihypertensive Agents Sympatholytics Autonomic Agents Peripheral Nervous System Agents |
Physiological Effects of Drugs Adrenergic beta-1 Receptor Antagonists Adrenergic beta-Antagonists Adrenergic Antagonists Adrenergic Agents Neurotransmitter Agents Molecular Mechanisms of Pharmacological Action Bronchodilator Agents Anti-Asthmatic Agents Respiratory System Agents Free Radical Scavengers Antioxidants Endothelium-Dependent Relaxing Factors Vasodilator Agents Protective Agents |
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PUTRAJAYA: The Government has strongly advised that all sports events be postponed should the air pollution index (API) hit readings of 100 or higher.
Youth and Sports Minister Khairy Jamaluddin said the decision was made after consulting with the National Sports Council (NSC), National Sports Institute (NSI) and health experts.
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Herbert Smith managing partner David Willis has been forced to delay plans to step down next year while he oversees the firm's merger with Australia's Freehills, after which the combined entity will be run by a sole chief executive – likely to be Freehills' Gavin Bell.
Willis had intended to step down in April next year when his term as managing partner, which has already been extended twice, came to an end. However, Herbert Smith's tie-up with Freehills (28 June 2012) invoked a transitional period written into the information memorandum on the merger, meaning that Willis will stay on for another two or three years.
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KPcommerce.net, also known as KPcommerce, is a bigcommerce designer. These guys are crooks. Russ, the owner KPcommerce.net, stole $2000 from me and did nothing. I paid him $2000 to redesign two sites. Nothing was heard from him in three weeks. I contacted him to concel the project and asked for a refund. He lied that he was on vacation etc..
I received half of a page design witha a logo he stole from my old site and names of top navigation bars. The design was very crappy. I immediately refused to work with him. However, this guy refused to refund me. He stole $2000 from me and did nothing. The same report was also filed with local attorney general.
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We'll start by saying that the name of the person (Steven K.) who filed this complaint is not a former client of ours, we assume that Steven K. is a friend of Henry Zhang who is responsible for filing a complaint 2 days earlier. The response below is the same response we provided relating to Henry's June 1st filing.
KPCommerce.net is a reputable website design company that has been in business for over 3 1/2 years now and our reputation has always been impeccable. We service hundreds of small and medium size online retailers and have grown our success by always providing quality service to our clients. Here is proof of our proven reputation:
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Unfortunately as part of any business, there will be an occasional circumstance where a client can have buyer's remorse or some other reason to change their mind about the services paid for. With Henry, he had booked 2 different projects with us and asked us to start them quickly as "emergency" projects. He paid the initial deposits of $1,000 each, total of $2,000 for both (the deposits were based on a total project cost of $2500 each – total of $5,000 for both). We had already begun working on both projects within a week and spent time in drawing the initial concepts but while we were well into the work, he asked us to cancel the project and provide a refund.
We re-iterated the Terms of Service that he was required to read and agree to prior to paying the deposits on our website and we asked that rather than he lose the deposits as per our TOS, that we continue working with him and make great websites as promised. Our TOS states that once work has begun, 50% of the project cost will be retained, in this case, his deposits were less than 50% of the total cost but we did not feel the need to press that matter, our goal was truly to continue working with him to completion of both projects. He did agree to provide feedback on both design concepts but never did and subsequently initiated a credit card dispute several weeks later. In spite of our continued efforts to work with the client by better describing the design process and asking for feedback on the designs so we could continue the projects, he was firm in his decision.
Our payment processor is PayPal and when they received the dispute from Henry, we were automatically put into their "Dispute Resolution" process which is where they (PayPal) accept information from both parties and make an informed decision about whether or not a refund is appropriate. After we provided all evidence of our communications with Henry, PayPal sided in our favor and disputed with the clients credit card on our behalf. Please click the link to see a screen shot of PayPal's response to us regarding this dispute:
Clearly PayPal felt our position in the matter, particularly with regards to our Terms of Service, was that no refund should be due and they did continue to work on our behalf by disputing the matter with Henry's credit card company.
On June 13th, only a week or so after Henry filed the complaint on this website, PayPal received word from Henry's credit card company that they did not accept the dispute and consequentially, PayPal was forced to provide the refund as you can see evidenced here:
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So in the end, Henry was in fact provided a refund after we accepted PayPal's terms to control the Dispute Resolution process. We are comfortable with PayPal's decision to dispute on our behalf and accept that the client's credit card company sided with their paying customer.
Our advice to anyone is to always closely read the Terms of Service as it is considered the contract of work. We always try very hard to work with our clients if there are issues or concerns and until this client we have never had any issues to resolve but we will enforce our Terms of Service very strictly whenever we feel the client has made an attempt to break the contract unreasonably.
If you have any questions about this dispute, we are completely open to discussing the matter freely and maintain no ill will towards Henry…we hope he has the greatest success with his business.
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Three computer programs are presented in this dissertation. The first one is a onedimensional (1D) program, simulating a sinusoidal signal propagating along the xaxis. The second one is a two-dimensional (2D) program, simulating radiation from a narrow slit. The third one is also a 2D program, which is a simulation of a Time Domain Reflectometer (TDR) probe. A graphical user interface (GUI) is included in the 1D program, which makes the computer program user-friendly. A flowchart with details is included in the appendices. When applying FDTD to problems where solution regions are unbounded, difficulty arises. Since no computers can store unlimited amount of data, it is necessary to somehow, limit the solution regions. Mur's first-order absorbing boundary condition (ABC) is a method to achieve this. The derivation of Mur's ABC is given in details in Chapter Four, and implemented in the 1D program. This program serves as an introduction to FDTD. The 2D program simulating radiation from a narrow slit has two interesting aspects. The perfectly matched layer (PML) is expected to absorb all electromagnetic (EM) waves. No EM waves are supposed to pass through a perfect electric conductor (PEC). Surprisingly, EM waves do penerate through the connecting points between PEC and PML. The reason and solution for this 'leakage' are given in this dissertation. Also one might find it a bit confusing to observe that in this program, the x-component of electric field seems to be propagating along the y-direction. The clarification is given in this dissertation. TDR can be used to measure the amount of moisture in soil. In the TDR program, it is required to simulate a 2D model of a TDR probe of given geometry, and to specify the time constant of a raised cosine function. A plane wave using the raised cosine function is then introduced into the TDR probe.
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Special Olympics Indiana will host its 44th annual Summer Games on June 7-9. The 2013 games will take place on the campuses of Indiana State University and Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology.
The annual Special Olympics Indiana Summer Games is the largest Special Olympics event in Indiana each year. This year's games will welcome more than 2,500 athletes ranging in age from 8-83. Approximately 2,500 coaches and volunteers and hundreds of spectators will converge on Terre Haute during three days of state-level competitions in aquatics, bocce, bowling, cycling, horseshoes, powerlifting, track and field, and volleyball.
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look: 3.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.5
Appearance- Pours up a decent amount of head which has pretty good retention. The head is pure, cotton-white while the body is a medium amber that appears as a pale to medium amber when held up to the light. Fair amount of lacing.
Nose- Fairly subtle. Light notes of biscuit, faint hints of pine and resin. Some fruitiness around the edges that resembles white grape but nothing very conspicuous. Swirling shows a woody note from the hops and a little more grain.
Taste- Starts off with a good amount of malt that ranges from biscuit to grain to cornflakes. Slight woody bitterness from the hops on the finish. Slight fruit esters but nothing pronounced, just as with the nose. Seems like a good representation of the style but that style is a tad boring. Some pine and resin, even a hint of spice, black pepper. Definitely more assertive that I would expect a 3 month old beer to be. I would place it as above average because it is a rather simplistic beer. Some citrus (orange and lemon) start to come out as it opens up. Some hints toward being a solid, good beer.
Mouthfeel- Light to medium bodied with not a lot of carbonation. Some dryness on the finish.
Drinkability- Pretty easygoing and quite sessionable. Gets a little boring but is Widmer's standard cheap price. Probably wouldn't buy this again though.
Overall- Above average beer that has glimmers of being good. Worth a try, especially if you want another example of the style.
Serving type: bottle
02-24-2014 02:18:46 | More by artoolemomo
2.55/5 rDev -26.5%
look: 3.5 | smell: 2.5 | taste: 2.5 | feel: 2.5 | overall: 2.5
This beer is a complete bore. Tastes like something one would find in a case of Kirkland generic beer from Costco. I can't believe this sells for the same price as Deschutes offerings in the supermarket. Widmer was on my no no list for years... they just hit the reset button.
Serving type: bottle
02-13-2014 21:49:33 | More by fuhkyou
4.05/5 rDev +16.7%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4
Translucent orange with a large head, excellent retention. Aroma is fruity, grapefruit & orange hops with some floral notes. Very crisp beer with strong fruitiness, some grassy notes, honey-like sweetness but finishes very dry. Strong carbonation, but not so strong that it interferes with drinkability. Fantastic session ale, it'd be nice to see more stuff like this on the shelves.
Serving type: bottle
01-15-2014 04:15:23 | More by anarchia
3.84/5 rDev +10.7%
look: 4.25 | smell: 3.25 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 4
A- Brilliantly clear copper with a one finger head of tight bubbles that slowly fade to a small ring. Pretty looking beer.
S- Some earthiness, some strawberry/banana fruitiness giving a taffy smell. Just a little minty herbal character and a touch of sulfur as it warms.
T- Up front the fruity esters (again strawberry) dominate with a woody, herbal, minty hop balance in the middle and a slightly sweet toffee/taffy sweet finish.
M- Light body with low carbonation that gives some similarities to an English bitter and makes for a very mouth filling beer.
O- I liked this one a lot. Not dominated by any single characteristic but the herbal hops are balanced well by everything else going on. Seems to have held up even greater than 4 months after bottling.
Serving type: bottle
10-22-2013 03:52:15 | More by Guden
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From the moment he took office as governor in 1928 to the day an assassin's bullet cut him down in 1935, Huey Long wielded all but dictatorial control over the state of Louisiana. A man of shameless ambition and ruthless vindictiveness, Long orchestrated elections, hired and fired thousands at will, and deployed the state militia as his personal police force. And yet, paradoxically, as governor and later as senator, Long did more good for the state's poor and uneducated than any politician before or since. Outrageous demagogue or charismatic visionary? In this powerful new biography, Richard D. White, Jr., brings Huey Long to life in all his blazing, controversial glory.
White taps invaluable new source material to present a fresh, vivid portrait of both the man and the Depression era that catapulted him to fame. From his boyhood in dirt-poor Winn Parish, Long knew he was destined for power–the problem was how to get it fast enough to satisfy his insatiable appetite. With cunning and crudity unheard of in Louisiana politics, Long crushed his opponents in the 1928 gubernatorial race, then immediately set about tightening his iron grip. The press attacked him viciously, the oil companies howled for his blood after he pushed through a controversial oil processing tax, but Long had the adulation of the people. In 1930, the Kingfish got himself elected senator, and then there was no stopping him.
White's account of Long's heyday unfolds with the mesmerizing intensity of a movie. Pegged by President Roosevelt as "one of the two most dangerous men in the country," Long organized a radical movement to redistribute money through his Share Our Wealth Society–and his gospel of pensions for all, a shorter workweek, and free college spread like wildfire. The Louisiana poor already worshiped him for building thousands of miles of roads and funding schools, hospitals, and universities; his outrageous antics on the Senate floor gained him a growing national base. By 1935, despite a barrage of corruption investigations, Huey Long announced that he was running for president.
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The nation of Mali, and much of Sahelian West Africa, has long-standing moderate Muslim practices dating back to the ninth century. This broadminded intellectual, spiritual and cultural tradition is being undermined by a new wave of religious colonialism emanating from outside of the region, an especially violent and intolerant form of fundamentalist Islam. The hijacking of a secular separatist movement in northern Mali by outside Islamist groups, and the subsequent loss of human life, restrictions on basic freedoms, and destruction of historical monuments that comprise a UNESCO world heritage site, is the latest and most egregious act of aggression-cum-religion in this embattled country.
Having had elected governments for 20 years, Mali was considered a shining light of democracy in West Africa and a darling of Western donors. This facade came crashing down with a coup d'etat on March 22, launched by a group of young military lieutenants who were frustrated with the government's inadequate support for the army in its ongoing fight against separatist Tuareg rebels in the North, a group that had become emboldened by a recent infusion of trained Tuareg fighters and heavy arms leaving Libya after the fall of Muammar Gaddafi in late 2011.
"Unlike its tenuous tradition of multiparty democracy, Mali now risks losing a much deeper and culturally ingrained custom of moderate Islamic practice and religious tolerance."
But the flagging military fight in the North offers only a partial explanation of the Malian coup. Mali's population had grown weary of democracy's promises, with multi-party elections yielding limited development gains, and corruption was on rise in recent years. Absent this frustration, the Malian population may have more vigorously resisted a coup that occurred a mere month before the then president, Amadou Toumani Toure, was ready to step down and democratic elections were to be held.
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Political scientists, and Western donors who have supported governance efforts in Africa, will long debate the depth (or lack thereof) of democracy in Mali and the reasons for its fragility at that moment. Unlike its tenuous tradition of multi-party democracy, Mali now risks losing a much deeper and culturally ingrained custom of moderate Islamic practice and religious tolerance. This would be a loss to the entire Muslim World and the global community.
Things have gone from bad to worse in Mali since the March coup. Seizing on the power vacuum in the South, Tuareg separatist rebels, led by the secular National Movement for the Liberation of Azawad (MNLA), quickly overran the Malian military and captured the major cities of Kidal, Gao and Timbuktu in the North, culminating in the declaration of an independent state known as Azawad on April 6. In the South, the situation started to look a little better when the putschist regime, led by Captain Amadou Sanogo, agreed to yield power to a transitional government following the squeeze put on them by sanctions imposed by the regional block known as ECOWAS (Economic Community of West African States). However, the transitional Malian president, Dioncounda Traore, has been in Paris since he was attacked and beat up by a mob on May 21 that stormed the presidential palace. Now it is even more transparent that it is the military putschists that are incompetently running the southern part of the country.
In the North, the secular MNLA has been ousted by the Islamist Ansar Dine and al-Qaeda Organisation in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM). Ansar Dine, whose sole stated aim is to impose sharia law in the North of the country, has unleashed a storm of religious intolerance on this once religiously broadminded and moderate Muslim region. Women have been whipped for not wearing the veil, music banned in this deeply lyrical society, the tombs of ancient Muslim saints destroyed, and the famous Timbuktu university and library (containing ancient manuscripts) is under threat.
"In addition to the brutal dismemberment of religious tolerance and local expression in this part of world, this region is on the brink of a major famine due to turmoil created by recent power shifts in the North of Mali."
What the outside world needs to understand is that Islam in Mali has long been tolerant and inflected with local traditions. Religious practices have generally not restricted women from economic and political activity, or social interaction. Until recently, very few Malian women wore veils. Not unlike most world religions which tend to absorb local practices as they spread, Islam in Mali often took on mystical elements, ancestor veneration and certain indigenous animist beliefs. Relations between the 90 per cent Muslim majority and religious minorities (mainly Christian and traditional animist) were also generally amicable. In fact, it was not unusual to find adherents to various faiths in one family or for practitioners of one religion to attend the important religious ceremonies of another, such as marriages, baptisms or funerals.
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It is not a stretch to suggest that Islam in Mali, and much of West Africa, had a lot to offer the rest of the Muslim world, and the global community more generally, in terms of its indigenous expression, tolerance of other religions, and freedoms accorded to women. Sadly, this rich tradition is being hijacked in the North of Mali by Ansar Dine and AQIM, groups that have significant ties to outside interests and funding. Make no doubt about it, this is not a divinely endorsed action, or the spiritual epiphany of an impoverished population, but externally financed religious colonial aggression designed to supplant and destroy local desires and practices.
In addition to the brutal dismemberment of religious tolerance and local expression in this part of world, this region is on the brink of a major famine due to turmoil created by recent power shifts in the North of Mali.
We all have a role to play in sorting out this problem. Those foreigners with deep pockets who are financing AQIM and Ansar Dine ought to think carefully about the harm they are inflicting on innocent people in this part of the world, most of whom are Muslim. The Malian people must place increasing pressure on the current putschist military regime in Bamako to completely step aside and allow for the return of freely elected civilian rulers. The international community, including ECOWAS and the UN, must send peacekeepers to northern Mali to stop the killing of innocent people and the destruction of cultural artefacts, to make possible the delivery food aid, and to facilitate a democratic referendum on the future of this region of the country.
William G Moseley is professor and chair of geography at Macalester College in Saint Paul, Minnesota, USA. He has worked and conducted research in Mali, on and off, for the past 25 years.
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DetailsThe new, updated version of the best-selling controller for Ableton Live and now, other software too. It has much brighter LEDs, a significantly faster refresh rate, is now plug and play with other software such as FL Studio and even works with iPad.
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View Full DescriptionWhether you're a DJ, performing musician or studio producer, Launchpad gives you all you need to use your software straight out of the box. Use the 64-button grid to launch and manipulate clips, trigger loops, fire off effects, control your mixer - and much more. It comes with Ableton Live music software (Launchpad Edition), used by some of the world's top DJs and producers. Launchpad S also triggers loops and effects in the new Novation Launchpad app for iPad.
Launchpad S - the next generation of Launchpad
Launchpad is totally portable. Hooked up to your computer - or iPad - via USB, it's fully bus powered (no need for power sockets), and it's lightweight and easy to carry anywhere. Launchpad S is MIDI Class Compliant so it works with any MIDI software on your Mac or Windows PC and works on your iPad via a Camera Connection Kit (not included): Launchpad S converts your iPad into a grid-based music system - no additional power supply required, just plug in and play.
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Novation has created a Launchpad app for iPad, which is a totally self-contained music making and performance experience. This is not a software control app, it hosts its own sounds and enables you to trigger loops with your Launchpad S hardware. There is also a whole range of effects that can be triggered using Launchpad's buttons, including filters, stutters and drum roll-styled effects. They can be triggered in combination to create some incredibly powerful performances.
Launchpad S and FL Studio
Launchpad S integrates with FL Studio's performance mode, so you can trigger clips and get hands-on control of FL Studio's powerful new performance zone features. Use the buttons to sketch out beats with drum racks, and assign them to additional functions. You can control almost any music software using Novation's award-winning 'Automap' control software - and Launchpad S is fully MIDI class-compliant so it'll drive any MIDI application.
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As well as 'Ableton Live Launchpad Edition', Launchpad S comes with a software version of Novation's classic analogue mono-synth - the Bass Station. You can use this as a plug-in within Ableton, FL Studio or other DAWs. There is also a sample pack supplied by world leading sample producers - Loopmasters. Get started straight away with over one gigabyte of loops including drums, FX and artist content.
- 64-button music software controller - Launch loops / clips, trigger drums and samples, and control effects and volumes
- Brighter, faster and works with more software - Launchpad S is an update to the best selling original Launchpad
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- Loan or replacement equipment will be provided if the product isn't repaired within 28 days
- If an item can not be repaired, a similar alternative product or cash discount (as defined in this policy) will be offered
- The policy can be cancelled within 30 days, and at any time after that for a pro-rata discount
Please note that this extended warranty is currently only available on products sold within mainland UK, and is subject to the terms and conditions as detailed on the extended warranty certificate provided.
This enhanced warranty is in addition to the standard Gear4music and manufacturer warranty policies, and the Gear4music terms and conditions of trade. No statement or condition of sale contained within these terms affects or restricts your statutory rights as defined under the Consumer Protection (Distance Selling) Regulations 2000.
All Products are new unless stated, and include a minimum of one year warranty.
This offer excludes computer software, in-ear monitors that have been opened, and items supplied to your personal specification.
If you also purchase items that do not qualify for free delivery, some delivery charges may be applied to your order which will be shown in your shopping basket.