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Written by Kayla Miller
Having original art in the home is vital to your well being. Art is a key piece of furniture for many reasons and yet it is sometimes put on the back burner in comparison to other home objects. This list is dedicated to the understanding of importance of art from perspectives of interior design, well being, social atmosphere, creating a mood in the home, and more. One quote that stands out about the importance of original art is the following, "You would never put fake books on your bookshelf, so why would you put fake art on your walls?"
1. Creates Mood
Brain scans have revealed that looking at works of art trigger a surge of dopamine into the same area of the brain that registers desire, pleasure, and romantic love (https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/what-the-wild-things-are/201109/love-desire-and-art). Romantic, sublime landscapes provoke contemplation of nature and purity. Such works then create a mood of peace and are good for relaxation rooms such as the bedroom.
2. Adds Personal Character to the Home
We all love to express ourselves, be it through clothing, accessories, social media - the list goes on! Original art in the home is a perfect way to express your artistic and aesthetic interests in a way different from most, for original artworks are one of a kind.
3. Makes Memories
Buying an original work of art is an experience. For whatever reason, you were drawn to a specific piece (or multiple). You may have seen it at a show opening, had a nice trip to the ice cream shop before hand. Whatever happened leading up to/during/after the purchase of a meaningful original work will be remembered every time you see it. This will not happen with a poster from Ikea.
4. Provides a Color Palette
When rooms have a lot of colors, or many shades of the same color, it can become overwhelming. An original work of art is a beautiful, meaningful way to tie everything together and create a general focal point.
5. Makes a Room Feel Finished
When walls are empty, a room does not necessarily look bad, but by no means does it look finished. Rooms with empty walls are functional rooms in a house. Rooms with original art work are comfortable rooms in a home.
6. Inspires and Fosters Creativity
This one is simple - in rooms with no art, artistic expression is lacking and therefore the need and want for creativity is not very prominent. On the opposite end of the spectrum, original artworks foster creativity, expression, artistic inspiration. This is particularly important in homes with children as being surrounded by artwork will allow creative thinking. This idea is expanded on in reason 11.
7. Conversation Starter
As mentioned in reason 2, hanging original art in your home is a way of expressing oneself. That being said, guests will always be curious about the choice of artwork, the story, have questions about the artist, etc. It is a way to show off your art collection while having passionate conversations with house guests.
8. Supports Artists
One of the most important things about buying original artwork is that you are supporting an artist's career. Each time you have a look at a work in your home, it provides a feel-good emotion that you are assisting an artist in achieving the success and recognition they deserve.
9. It is an Investment
Building off of reason 8, not only does owning original work in the home allow you to support artists' careers, but it is also an investment. These artworks can be passed down through family and friends, be shared with loved ones for many years all while increasing in worth. This is never something that will be achieved with a $12 print from Walmart.
10. Creates a Livable Environment
Art can make rooms that are not necessarily "home-y" become comfortable working and living environments. A home office, for example, can transform from a place of work and business to one of relaxation and productivity all the with addition of an original work of art. Attached is an article explaining how artwork in office spaces improves employee productivity (http://www.forbes.com/sites/drewhendricks/2015/01/12/can-office-artwork-influence-employee-productivity/#243c119d2c44).
11. Keeps the Brain Active
Art is very conceptual, artists use it as a medium to express personal thought, political or social issues, and to make us as viewers think. Some people do quizzes or crossword puzzles to keep their brain active, but another way to do so is to own original artwork in the home, to just sit, look, and think.
12. Relaxation
In a busy, fast-paced world that demands speed and productivity, home should be a place of relaxation. Coming home from a busy day at work to sit on your couch and stare at a TV or a blank wall is not as recharging or relaxing as enjoying an artwork purchased with the means to create a positive mood.
13. Curating Your Own Gallery is Fun!
Last but certainly not least, curating a gallery is fun! Attending show openings, going to galleries, chatting with artists even, it is a fun experience! After a while you will start to notice a theme, in subject matter, color, concept, etc. Playing with moods, composition, placement in the home, of all these reasons why to have art in the home, let's not forget the fact that it is simply something fun to do.


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Participating Organization(s) |
National Institutes of Health (NIH) |
National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) |
Funding Opportunity Title |
PsychENCODE: Identification and Characterization of Non-coding Functional Elements in the Brain, and their Role in the Development of Mental Disorders (R01) |
Activity Code |
R01 Research Project Grant |
Announcement Type |
New |
Related Notices |
Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) Number |
Companion Funding Opportunity |
None |
Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance (CFDA) Number(s) |
93.242 |
Funding Opportunity Purpose |
The Encyclopedia of DNA Elements (ENCODE) project, by systematically cataloging transcribed regions, transcription factor binding sites, and chromatin structure, has recently found that a larger fraction of the human genome may be functional than was previously appreciated. However, our understanding of the role of these functional genomic elements in neurodevelopment and mental disorders is at an early stage. This funding opportunity will support studies that identify non-coding functional genomic elements and elucidate their role in the etiology of mental disorders. |
Required Application Instructions
It is critical that applicants follow the instructions in the SF424 (R&R) Application Guide, except where instructed to do otherwise (in this FOA or in a Notice from the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts). Conformance to all requirements (both in the Application Guide and the FOA) is required and strictly enforced. Applicants must read and follow all application instructions in the Application Guide as well as any program-specific instructions noted in Section IV. When the program-specific instructions deviate from those in the Application Guide, follow the program-specific instructions. Applications that do not comply with these instructions may be delayed or not accepted for review.
Part 1. Overview Information
Part 2. Full Text of the Announcement
Section I. Funding Opportunity Description
Section II. Award Information
Section III. Eligibility Information
Section IV. Application and Submission
Section V. Application Review Information
Section VI. Award Administration Information
Section VII. Agency Contacts
Section VIII. Other Information
The completion of the human genome sequence was a watershed event in understanding human biology and has led to a plethora of new insights into the complexity and structure of the genome. One of the most striking findings is that protein-coding sequences appear to comprise only about 1% of the human genome, raising the questions: how much of the rest of the genome is important, and what does it do? In 2003, the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) embarked on an ambitious project the Encyclopedia of DNA Elements (ENCODE) with the goal of creating a catalog of the functional elements encoded in the human genome sequence. The term functional element in this context is used to denote a discrete region of the genome that encodes a defined product (e.g., protein) or a reproducible biochemical signature, such as transcription, transcription factor binding, or a specific chromatin structure. This work was expanded in 2007 to examine the fly and worm genomes, and subsequently the mouse genome. It is now widely appreciated that such signatures, either alone or in combinations, mark genomic sequences with important functions, including exons, sites of RNA processing, and transcriptional regulatory elements such as promoters, enhancers, silencers, and insulators. The resource created by the ENCODE project is increasingly being used to inform studies by researchers that are outside of the consortium (http://encodeproject.org/ENCODE/pubsOther.html). Further, in 2007, the NIH Common Fund launched the Epigenomics Program to produce complete reference sets of a variety of epigenomic marks from a range of human tissues (https://commonfund.nih.gov/epigenomics/).
The most recent results of the ENCODE project were released in a coordinated set of 30 papers (http://www.nature.com/encode/). These publications combine to show that approximately 20% of the noncoding DNA in the human genome has biochemical marks that are characteristic of cis-acting regulatory regions, while an additional 60% is transcribed. Furthermore the expression of genes is controlled by multiple regulatory sites, and these regulatory sites can be located at a great distance from the gene that they regulate. Primate-specific elements as well as elements without detectable mammalian constraint show evidence of negative selection, which could have important functional significance. Analyses using data from ENCODE and the NIH Epigenomics Program revealed that 90% of genome-wide association study (GWAS) variants associated with disease lie outside of protein coding regions; moreover, these non-coding variants are enriched in ENCODE-annotated regions that sometimes occur in a cell-type-specific manner that is consistent with certain traits.
Though the findings reported by ENCODE cover more than 1600 experiments in 147 cell types, providing huge advances to our knowledge base, there is still a gap with respect to regulatory elements in the brain and how they may relate to neural function or the development of mental disorders.
While the high heritability of mental disorders has been well established for several decades through family and twin studies, conclusive genetic causes have remained elusive. Genetic studies to date have detected associations of inherited and de novo common and rare single nucleotide as well as large copy number variants, but a large proportion of the heritability remains unexplained. The latest findings of both the ENCODE and Epigenomics initiatives provide exciting new avenues for exploration into the previously unidentified regulatory elements and networks of the genome that could have a profound influence on the complex neurodevelopmental phenotypes in mental disorders.
The key objective of this FOA is to support research in the discovery and characterization of non-coding functional genomic elements, including enhancers, promoters, silencers, long non-coding RNAs (lncRNAs), microRNAs (miRNAs), and piwi-interacting RNAs (piRNAs), and in elucidation of their role(s) in the molecular pathophysiology of mental illness through genome-wide examination of various human cell and tissue sources (e.g., human brain). This FOA is intended to encourage the application of comprehensive genome-wide approaches, to transform our knowledge of the potential role of non-coding elements in the development of serious mental illnesses. Applicants should propose projects that employ unbiased, genomic approaches using appropriate cells or tissues derived from patient populations to correlate findings with development of mental illnesses. Another focus of this FOA is to support the identification of human-specific elements, preferably in patient populations. Because the primary focus of an application should be discovery using global mapping approaches across the genome, any proposed follow up and/or secondary studies should only take place in the last year of the proposed project. Applications that propose to examine a pre-identified target (single gene, gene set, or restricted genomic region) already known to be associated with functional brain processes and/or the etiology of mental illness will not be considered responsive to this FOA and will not be reviewed.
Applicants should use existing data standards (such as used by ENCODE http://encodeproject.org/ENCODE/dataStandards.html or the NIH Epigenomics Program http://roadmapepigenomics.org/protocols) or explain and justify their own, more stringent standards.
To achieve the goal of advancing our understanding of the role of non-coding functional elements in the molecular pathophysiology and development of serious mental illnesses, this FOA encourages research including, but not limited to:
This is not an all-inclusive list and other possibilities are important. Applicants should propose studies involving human cells/tissues and provide a rationale for the selection of cells/tissues and the extent to which they have the potential to elucidate the pathophysiology of mental disorders. NIMH encourages the use of existing resources to the extent possible, such as:
Funding Instrument |
Grant: A support mechanism providing money, property, or both to an eligible entity to carry out an approved project or activity. |
Application Types Allowed |
New The OER Glossary and the SF424 (R&R) Application Guide provide details on these application types. |
Funds Available and Anticipated Number of Awards |
The NIMH intends to commit approximately $4,000,000 (total costs) in FY 2014 to fund 3-6 awards. |
Award Budget |
Application budgets are not limited, but need to reflect the actual needs of the proposed project. |
Award Project Period |
The total project period for an application submitted in response to this FOA may not exceed 3 years. |
NIH grants policies as described in the NIH Grants Policy Statement will apply to the applications submitted and awards made in response to this FOA.
Higher Education Institutions
The following types of Higher Education Institutions are always encouraged to apply for NIH support as Public or Private Institutions of Higher Education:
Nonprofits Other Than Institutions of Higher Education
For-Profit Organizations
Non-domestic (non-U.S.) Entities (Foreign Institutions) are eligible to apply.
Non-domestic (non-U.S.) components of U.S. Organizations are eligible to apply.
Foreign components, as defined in
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Applicant organizations must complete and maintain the following registrations as described in the SF 424 (R&R) Application Guide to be eligible to apply for or receive an award. All registrations must be completed prior to the application being submitted. Registration can take 6 weeks or more, so applicants should begin the registration process as soon as possible. The NIH Policy on Late Submission of Grant Applications states that failure to complete registrations in advance of a due date is not a valid reason for a late submission.
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Investigator(s) (PD(s)/PI(s)) is invited to work with his/her organization to
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Person Profile (Expanded) Component of the SF424 (R&R) Application Guide.
This FOA does not require cost sharing as defined in the NIH Grants Policy Statement.
Applicant organizations may submit more than one application, provided that each application is scientifically distinct.
NIH will not accept any application that is essentially the same as one already reviewed within the past thirty-seven months (as described in the NIH Grants Policy Statement), except for submission:
Applicants must download the SF424 (R&R) application package associated with this funding opportunity using the Apply for Grant Electronically button in this FOA or following the directions provided at Grants.gov.
It is critical that applicants follow the instructions in the SF424 (R&R) Application Guide, except where instructed in this funding opportunity announcement to do otherwise. Conformance to the requirements in the Application Guide is required and strictly enforced. Applications that are out of compliance with these instructions may be delayed or not accepted for review.
For information on Application Submission and Receipt, visit Frequently Asked Questions Application Guide, Electronic Submission of Grant Applications.
Although a letter of intent is not required, is not binding, and does not enter into the review of a subsequent application, the information that it contains allows IC staff to estimate the potential review workload and plan the review.
By the date listed in Part 1. Overview Information, prospective applicants are asked to submit a letter of intent that includes the following information:
The letter of intent should be sent to:
Susan Koester, Ph.D.
Division of Neuroscience and Basic Behavioral Science
National Institute of Mental Health
6001 Executive Boulevard, Room 7205, MSC 9645
Bethesda, MD 20892-9645
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The forms package associated with this FOA includes all applicable components, required and optional. Please note that some components marked optional in the application package are required for submission of applications for this FOA. Follow all instructions in the SF424 (R&R) Application Guide to ensure you complete all appropriate optional components.
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All instructions in the SF424 (R&R) Application Guide must be followed.
All instructions in the SF424 (R&R) Application Guide must be followed.
All instructions in the SF424 (R&R) Application Guide must be followed.
All instructions in the SF424 (R&R) Application Guide must be followed.
All instructions in the SF424 (R&R) Application Guide must be followed.
All instructions in the SF424 (R&R) Application Guide must be followed.
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Resource Sharing Plan: Individuals are required to comply with the instructions for the Resource Sharing Plans (Data Sharing Plan, Sharing Model Organisms, and Genome Wide Association Studies (GWAS)) as provided in the SF424 (R&R) Application Guide, with the following modifications:
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Foreign (non-U.S.) institutions must follow policies described in the NIH Grants Policy Statement, and procedures for foreign institutions described throughout the SF424 (R&R) Application Guide.
Part I. Overview Information contains information about Key Dates. Applicants are encouraged to submit applications before the due date to ensure they have time to make any application corrections that might be necessary for successful submission.
Organizations must submit applications to Grants.gov, the online portal to find and apply for grants across all Federal agencies. Applicants must then complete the submission process by tracking the status of the application in the eRA Commons, NIH's electronic system for grants administration. NIH and Grants.gov systems check the application against many of the application instructions upon submission. Errors must be corrected and a changed/corrected application must be submitted to Grants.gov on or before the application due date. If a Changed/Corrected application is submitted after the deadline, the application will be considered late.
Applicants are responsible for viewing their application before the due date in the eRA Commons to ensure accurate and successful submission.
Information on the submission process and a definition of on-time submission are provided in the SF424 (R&R) Application Guide.
This initiative is not subject to intergovernmental review.
All NIH awards are subject to the terms and conditions, cost principles, and other considerations described in the NIH Grants Policy Statement.
Pre-award costs are allowable only as described in the NIH Grants Policy Statement.
Applications must be submitted electronically following the instructions described in the SF424 (R&R) Application Guide. Paper applications will not be accepted.
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For assistance with your electronic application or for more information on the electronic submission process, visit Applying Electronically.
All PD(s)/PI(s) must include their eRA Commons ID in the
Credential field of the Senior/Key Person Profile Component of the
SF424(R&R) Application Package. Failure to register in the Commons
and to include a valid PD/PI Commons ID in the credential field will prevent
the successful submission of an electronic application to NIH. See Section III of this FOA for information on
registration requirements.
The applicant organization must ensure that the DUNS number it provides on the
application is the same number used in the organization's profile in the eRA
Commons and for the System for Award Management. Additional information may be
found in the SF424 (R&R) Application Guide.
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Upon receipt, applications will be evaluated for completeness by the Center for Scientific Review and responsiveness by NIMH, NIH. Applications that are incomplete and/or nonresponsive will not be reviewed.
In order to expedite review, applicants are requested to notify the NIMH Referral Office by email at firstname.lastname@example.com when the application has been submitted. Please include the FOA number and title, PD/PI name, and title of the application.
Applicants are required to follow the instructions for post-submission materials, as described in NOT-OD-10-115.
Only the review criteria described below will be considered in the review process. As part of the NIH mission, all applications submitted to the NIH in support of biomedical and behavioral research are evaluated for scientific and technical merit through the NIH peer review system.
Reviewers will provide an overall impact score to reflect their assessment of the likelihood for the project to exert a sustained, powerful influence on the research field(s) involved, in consideration of the following review criteria and additional review criteria (as applicable for the project proposed).
Reviewers will consider each of the review criteria below in the determination of scientific merit, and give a separate score for each. An application does not need to be strong in all categories to be judged likely to have major scientific impact. For example, a project that by its nature is not innovative may be essential to advance a field.
Does the project address an important problem or a critical barrier to progress in the field? If the aims of the project are achieved, how will scientific knowledge, technical capability, and/or clinical practice be improved? How will successful completion of the aims change the concepts, methods, technologies, treatments, services, or preventative interventions that drive this field? Will the project use comprehensive genome-wide approaches to transform our knowledge of the potential role of non-coding elements in the development of serious mental illnesses?
Are the PD(s)/PI(s), collaborators, and other researchers well suited to the project? If Early Stage Investigators or New Investigators, or in the early stages of independent careers, do they have appropriate experience and training? If established, have they demonstrated an ongoing record of accomplishments that have advanced their field(s)? If the project is collaborative or multi-PD/PI, do the investigators have complementary and integrated expertise; are their leadership approach, governance and organizational structure appropriate for the project? Are the track records of the PD(s)/PI(s) and other key personnel in the production and analysis of high-throughput data adequate to conduct the proposed research successfully?
Does the application challenge and seek to shift current research or clinical practice paradigms by utilizing novel theoretical concepts, approaches or methodologies, instrumentation, or interventions? Are the concepts, approaches or methodologies, instrumentation, or interventions novel to one field of research or novel in a broad sense? Is a refinement, improvement, or new application of theoretical concepts, approaches or methodologies, instrumentation, or interventions proposed? Will the data arising from these studies support the identification of human-specific elements in patient populations?
Are the overall strategy, methodology, and analyses
well-reasoned and appropriate to accomplish the specific aims of the project?
Are potential problems, alternative strategies, and benchmarks for success
presented? If the project is in the early stages of development, will the
strategy establish feasibility and will particularly risky aspects be managed? Do the applicants propose projects that employ unbiased, genomic approaches using
appropriate cells or tissues derived from patient populations to correlate
findings with development of mental illnesses? Is the primary focus of the
application discovery using global mapping approaches across the genome?
If the project involves clinical research, are the plans for 1) protection of
human subjects from research risks, and 2) inclusion of minorities and members
of both sexes/genders, as well as the inclusion of children, justified in terms
of the scientific goals and research strategy proposed? Does the proposed project adequately address issues of statistical power? Does the project include
patient samples and appropriate controls? Is the justification for samples
and/or tissues to be studied acceptable for gaining insights into mental
Will the scientific environment in which the work will be done contribute to the probability of success? Are the institutional support, equipment and other physical resources available to the investigators adequate for the project proposed? Will the project benefit from unique features of the scientific environment, subject populations, or collaborative arrangements?
As applicable for the project proposed, reviewers will evaluate the following additional items while determining scientific and technical merit, and in providing an overall impact score, but will not give separate scores for these items.
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For research that involves human subjects but does
not involve one of the six categories of research that are exempt under 45 CFR
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subjects, 2) adequacy of protection against risks, 3) potential benefits to the
subjects and others, 4) importance of the knowledge to be gained, and 5) data
and safety monitoring for clinical trials.
For research that involves human subjects and meets the criteria for one or
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the committee will evaluate: 1) the justification for the exemption, 2) human
subjects involvement and characteristics, and 3) sources of materials. For
additional information on review of the Human Subjects section, please refer to
the Human
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Reviewers will assess whether materials or procedures proposed are potentially hazardous to research personnel and/or the environment, and if needed, determine whether adequate protection is proposed.
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As applicable for the project proposed, reviewers will consider each of the following items, but will not give scores for these items, and should not consider them in providing an overall impact score.
Applications from Foreign Organizations
Reviewers will assess whether the project presents special opportunities for furthering research programs through the use of unusual talent, resources, populations, or environmental conditions that exist in other countries and either are not readily available in the United States or augment existing U.S. resources.
Select Agent Research
Reviewers will assess the information provided in this section of the application, including 1) the Select Agent(s) to be used in the proposed research, 2) the registration status of all entities where Select Agent(s) will be used, 3) the procedures that will be used to monitor possession use and transfer of Select Agent(s), and 4) plans for appropriate biosafety, biocontainment, and security of the Select Agent(s).
Resource Sharing Plans
Reviewers will comment on whether the following Resource Sharing Plans, or the rationale for not sharing the following types of resources, are reasonable: 1) Data Sharing Plan; 2) Sharing Model Organisms; and 3) Genome Wide Association Studies (GWAS). Applicants should provide a specific proposal for release of production data in the application, and are encouraged to address the issue of the release of data analyses. Is the data sharing plan reasonable and appropriate? This information should be provided as an administrative note and should not factor into the determination of scientific merit or the impact score.
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As part of the scientific peer review, all applications:
Appeals of initial peer review will not be accepted for applications submitted in response to this FOA.
Applications will be assigned to the appropriate NIH Institute or Center. Applications will compete for available funds with all other recommended applications submitted in response to this FOA. Following initial peer review, recommended applications will receive a second level of review by the National Advisory Mental Health Council. The following will be considered in making funding decisions:
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If the application is under consideration for funding, NIH
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described in the NIH
Grants Policy Statement.
A formal notification in the form of a Notice of Award (NoA) will be provided
to the applicant organization for successful applications. The NoA signed by
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email to the grantee's business official.
Awardees must comply with any funding restrictions described in Section IV.5. Funding Restrictions. Selection
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costs incurred before receipt of the NoA are at the recipient's risk. These
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Any application awarded in response to this FOA will be subject to the DUNS, SAM
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Worried about the world situation? About your spiritual life? Jesus gives us the hope-filled solution. Seek and accept his mercy. Start in the Eastertide, celebrate Divine Mercy Sunday, then continue with the devotion.
Jesus himself called for this devotion and feast. He made his urgent, essential request through Polish mystic St. Faustina Kowalska, the first saint canonized in the New Millennium by John Paul II.
Jesus said, "I desire that the Feast of Mercy be a refuge and shelter for all souls, and especially poor sinners," Jesus explained. "On that day the very depths of My tender mercy are open… I pour out a whole ocean of graces upon the souls who approach the Fount of My mercy. On that day all the divine floodgates through which graces flow are opened. Let no soul fear to draw near to Me, even though its sins be as scarlet…. Mankind will not have peace until it turns to the Fount of My Mercy." (Diary 699)
Divine Mercy Sunday Also known as "The Feast of Mercy," marks the Second Sunday of Easter. The Marian Fathers of the Immaculate Conception, the authentic promoters of The Divine Mercy message and devotion, explain that there are tremendous promises of graces and benefits that Jesus attached to the feast.
Jesus said, "I want to grant a complete pardon to the souls that will go to Confession and receive Holy Communion on the Feast of My mercy" (Diary, 1109)."The soul that will go to Confession and receive Holy Communion will obtain complete forgiveness of sins and punishment" (Diary, 699).
In 2002, the Church "endorsed" this promise by granting a plenary indulgence on this feast under usual and certain conditions.
In A Nutshell–To Prepare for the Feast and Receive These Promises:
1. Celebrate the Feast of Divine Mercy on the Sunday after Easter;
2. Sincerely repent of all our sins;
3. Place our complete trust in Jesus;
4. Go to sacramental Confession, preferably before that Sunday; preferably during the Lenten season.
5. Receive Holy Communion on the day of the Feast;
6. Venerate the Image of The Divine Mercy;
7. Be merciful to others, through our actions, words, and prayers on their behalf.
The Marian Fathers make clear The Divine Mercy Image represents the risen Christ. The "two rays signify the Sacraments of mercy (Baptism and Penance or Reconciliation, and the Eucharist). The Eucharist is the blood of souls, carrying life-sustaining food for our spiritual journey. The water points to the Sacraments of Baptism and Penance, in that through these Sacraments, our souls are washed clean."
"I want the Image to be solemnly blessed on the first Sunday after Easter," Jesus said, "and I want it to be venerated publicly so that every soul may know about it" (Diary, 341).
Jesus said, "I am offering people a vessel with which they are to keep coming for graces to the fountain of mercy. That vessel is this image with the signature: Jesus, I trust in You". (Diary 327)
Listen to Marian Father Seraphim Michlenko, an international expert on Mercy authority, explain more about Divine Mercy Sunday here.
Don't fear confession. Our Lord noted he himself is there waiting for you. Jesus said, "When you go to confession, to this fountain of My mercy, the Blood and Water which came forth from My Heart always flows down upon your soul…" and "Every time you go to confession, immerse yourself entirely in My mercy with great trust, so that I may pour the bounty of My grace upon your soul (Diary, 1602).
Jesus also added incredible promises and wants to grant great graces to souls for praying the Chaplet of Divine Mercy. In part, he said, "Say unceasingly the Chaplet that I have taught you. Whoever will recite it, they will receive great mercy at the hour of death… Even if there were a sinner most hardened, if he were to recite this chaplet only once, he would receive grace from My infinite mercy" (Diary, 687). "It pleases me to grant everything souls ask of me by saying the chaplet." (Diary 1541)
"At the hour of their death, I defend every soul that will say this Chaplet as I do my own glory. When this Chaplet is said by the bedside of a dying person, God's anger is placated and His unfathomable mercy envelops the soul" (Diary, 811)
Learn to pray it here and pray along in either the recited or sung Chaplet . Or learn here.
Pray it in the 3 o'clock hour. Jesus said, "This is the hour of great mercy. In this hour, I will refuse nothing to the soul that makes a request of Me in virtue of My Passion (Diary, 1320).
After you pray it once, guaranteed you'll find you want to continue praying it for mercy for yourselves, your loved ones, the sick, dying, and the world.
Blessed John Paul II emphasized, "There is nothing that man needs more than Divine Mercy…it is a message that is clear and understandable for everyone. Anyone can come here, look at this image of the merciful Jesus, His Heart radiating grace… And if this person responds with a sincere heart: "Jesus, I trust in You," he will find comfort in all his anxieties and fears….
Our Lord made the Divine Mercy message clear as the "Great Mercy Pope" died on the evening of April 2, 2005, the Vigil of the Feast of the Divine Mercy, after the Vigil Mass.
The next day, John Paul II's last message, prepared for that Divine Mercy Sunday, was read at the end of the Mass in St. Peter's Square. He reassured: "the Risen Lord offers his love that pardons, reconciles and reopens hearts to love. It is a love that converts hearts and gives peace. How much the world needs to understand and accept Divine Mercy!"
"Lord, who reveal the Father's love by your death and Resurrection, we believe in you and confidently repeat to you today: Jesus, I trust in you, have mercy upon us and upon the whole world."
Don't pass up on our Risen Lord's incredible promises by accepting his mercy and trusting in him.
Learn more about The Divine Mercy devotion from the official site, of the Marian Fathers and the National Shrine of Divine Mercy.


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Any person intending to sell or dispense any alcoholic or malt liquor in an established location must first obtain a liquor license authorized by the governing body from the City of Evanston. The license needs to be filed in the City Clerk's Office.
For additional information in obtaining a liquor license in the City of Evanston, please contact the City Clerk at (307) 783-6300.
Obtaining a Limited Malt Beverage Permit or a Catering Permit
A limited malt beverage permit authorizing the sale of malt beverages only may be issued by the City Council to any responsible person or organization for sales at a picnic, bazaar, fair, rodeo, special holiday, or similar public gathering. With the permit, you cannot sell any alcoholic beverages other than malt beverages on the premises described on the permit.
A catering permit authorizing the sell of alcoholic and malt beverages may be issued to anyone with a retail or resort liquor license, authorizing the off-premise sale of both alcoholic and malt beverages at meetings, conventions, private parties, and dinners not capable of being held within the licensed premises. With either permit, the alcoholic and malt beverages cannot be sold or consumed off the premises authorized by the permit.
To obtain a 24-hour Limited Malt Beverage or Catering Permit you will need to submit a completed form to the Evanston City Clerk one week prior to a regularly scheduled City Council meeting. A $25 fee for each day of the permit is to be paid at the time of application. The Evanston City Council will then review the application at a regular City Council meeting. If approved, the City Clerk will then issue the permit.


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1. WordPress
What is there left to say about WordPress that hasn't already been said? The PHP blogging platform is far and away the most popular CMS for blogging, and probably the most popular CMS overall. It's a great platform for beginners, thanks to their excellent documentation
and super-quick installation wizard. Five minutes to a running CMS is pretty good. Not to mention the fact that the newest versions auto-update the core and plugins from within the backend, without having to download a single file.
For those users not familiar with HTML or other markup language, a WYSIWYG editor is provided straight out of the box. The backend layout is streamlined and intuitive, and a new user should be able to easily find their way around the administration section. Wordpres also comes with built-in image and multimedia uploading support.
For developers, the theming language is fairly simple and straightforward, as well the Plugin API.
The WordPress Community is a faithful and zealous bunch. WordPress probably has the widest base of plugins and themes to choose from. We have thousands of professional WordPress Themes and WordPress Plugins available for sale on Envato Market, with a full suite of styles and options to choose from.
A great part about the WordPress community is the amount of help and documentation online you can find on nearly every aspect of customizing WordPress. If you can dream it, chances are it's already been done with WordPress and documented somewhere.
If you need help with anything from installing a theme to optimizing the speed of your WordPress site, you can find plenty of experienced WordPress developers to help you on Envato Studio.
2. Drupal
Drupal is another CMS that has a very large, active community. Instead of focusing on blogging as a platform, Drupal is more of a pure CMS. A plain installation comes with a ton of optional modules that can add lots of interesting features like forums, user blogs, OpenID, profiles and more. It's trivial to create a site with social features with a simple install of Drupal. In fact, with a few 3rd party modules you can create some interesting site clones with little effort.
One of Drupal's most popular features is the Taxonomy module, a feature that allows for multiple levels and types of categories for content types. And you can find plenty of professional Drupal Themes, which are ready to be customized and worked with. You can also grab Drupal Plugins.
Drupal also has a very active community powering it, and has excellent support for plugins and other general questions.
You can also hire a developer to complete a range of tasks for your Drupal site for a reasonable fixed fee.
3. Joomla!
Joomla is a very advanced CMS in terms of functionality. That said, getting started with Joomla is fairly easy, thanks to Joomla's installer. Joomla's installer is meant to work on common shared hosting packages, and is a very straightforward considering how configurable the software is.
Joomla is very similar to Drupal in that it's a complete CMS, and might be a bit much for a simple portfolio site. It comes with an attractive administration interface, complete with intuitive drop-down menus and other features. The CMS also has great support for access control protocols like LDAP, OpenID and even Gmail.com.
The Joomla site hosts more than 3,200 extensions, so you know the developer community behind the popular CMS is alive and kicking. Like WordPress, you can add just about any needed functionality with an extension. However, the Joomla theme and extension community relies more on paid resources, so if you're looking for customizations, be ready to pull out your wallet. You can also grab Joomla plugins, or hire Joomla developers to help you get your store set up right.
4. ExpressionEngine
ExpressionEngine (EE) is an elegant, flexible CMS solution for any type of project. Designed to be extensible and easy to modify, EE sets itself apart in how clean and intuitive their user administration area is. It takes only a matter of minutes to understand the layout of the backend and to start creating content or modify the look. It's fantastic for creating websites for less-than-savvy clients that need to use the backend without getting confused.
ExpressionEngine is packed with helpful features like the ability to have multiple sites with one installation of software. For designers, EE has a powerful templating engine that has custom global variables, custom SQL queries and a built in versioning system. Template caching, query caching and tag caching keep the site running quickly too.
One of my favorite features of EE that is the global search and replace functionality. Anyone who's ever managed a site or blog knows how useful it is to change lots of data without having to manually search and open each page or post to modify it.
ExpressionEngine is quite different than other previously-mentioned CMS in that it's paid software. The personal license costs $99.95, and the commercial license costs $249.99. You can also get help with ExpressionEngine on Envato Studio.
5. TextPattern
Textpattern is a popular choice for designers because of its simple elegance. Textpattern isn't a CMS that throws in every feature it can think of. The code base is svelte and minimal. The main goal of Textpattern is to provide an excellent CMS that creates well-structured, standards-compliant pages. Instead of providing a WYSIWYG editor, Textpattern uses textile markup in the textareas to create HTML elements within the pages. The pages that are generated are extremely lightweight and fast-loading.
Even though Textpattern is deliberately simple in design, the backend is surprisingly easy to use and intuitive. New users should be able to find their way around the administration section easily.
While Textpattern may be very minimal at the core level, you can always extend the functionality by 3rd party extensions, mods or plugins. Textpattern has an active developer community with lots of help and resources at their Textpattern.org site.
6. Radiant CMS
The content management systems that we've listed so far are all PHP programs. PHP is the most popular language for web development, but that doesn't mean we should overlook other popular web languages like Ruby. Radiant CMS is a fast, minimal CMS that might be compared to Textpattern. Radiant is built on the popular Ruby framework Rails, and the developers behind Radiant have done their best to make the software as simple and elegant as possible, with just the right amount of functionality. Like Textpattern, Radiant doesn't come with a WYSIWYG editor and relies on Textile markup to create rich HTML. Radiant also has it's own templating language Radius which is very similar to HTML for intuitive template creation.
7. Cushy CMS
Cushy CMS is a different type of CMS altogether. Sure, it has all the basic functionality of a regular content management system, but it doesn't rely on a specific language. In fact, the CMS is a hosted solution. There are no downloads or future upgrades to worry about.
How Cushy works is it takes FTP info and uploads content on to the server, which in turn the developer or the designer can modify the layout, as well as the posting fields in the backend, just by changing the style classes of the styles. Very, very simple.
Cushy CMS is free for anyone, even for professional use. There is an option to upgrade to a pro account to use your own logo and color scheme, as well as other fine-grain customizations in the way Cushy CMS functions.
8. SilverStripe
SilverStripe is another PHP CMS that behaves much like WordPress, except has many more configurable options and is tailored towards content management, and not blogging. SilverStripe is unique because it was built upon its very own PHP framework Saphire. It also provides its own templating language to help with the design process.
SilverStripe also has some interesting features built in to the base, like content version control and native SEO support. What's really unique with SilverStripe is that developers and designers can customize the administration area for their clients, if need be. While the development community isn't as large as other projects there are some modules, themes and widgets to add functionality. Also, you'll want to modify the theme for each site, as SilverStripe doesn't provide much in terms of style, to give the designer more freedom.
9. Alfresco
Alfresco is a JSP is a beefy enterprise content management solution that is surprisingly easy to install. A really useful feature of Alfresco is the ability to drop files into folders and turn them into web documents. Alfresco might be a little bit more work than some of the other CMS and isn't as beginner-friendly, it certainly is quite usable given the massive power of the system. The administration backend is clean and well-designed.
While Alfresco might not be a great choice for most simple sites, it's an excellent choice for enterprise needs.
10. TYPOlight
TYPOlight seems to have the perfect balance of features built into the CMS. In terms of functionality, TYPOlight ranks with Drupal and ExpressionEngine, and even offers some unique bundled modules like newsletters and calendars. Developers can save time with the built-in CSS generator, and there are plenty of resources for learning more about the CMS.
If there is a downside to TYPOlight, it's that it has so many features and configurable options. Even though the backend is thoughtfully organized, there are still a lot of options to consider. But if you're wanting to build a site with advanced functionality and little extra programming, TYPOlight could be a great fit.
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- White House tribute ends with Obama singing along to "Sweet Home Chicago"
- B.B. King, Mick Jagger, Buddy Guy and others perform in the East Room
- Obama says blues music "speaks to something universal"
- The event was a PBS special in its White House performances series
Washington (CNN) -- President Barack Obama complained Tuesday that he doesn't get out much. Then he noted he doesn't have to when B.B. King and Mick Jagger come to play a concert at his house.
The blues and rock legends were at the White House for a PBS performance series in the East Room honoring the history of blues music. A lineup of top blues performers past and present offered a selection of standards that displayed all the raw elements of a distinctly American musical genre originating from the days of slavery.
Obama even got in the act. When goaded by blues giant Buddy Guy, he sang a verse of the rollicking finale "Sweet Home Chicago."
Earlier, Obama described the genre as a form of oral history that bore witness to the struggles of African-Americans.
"The blues reminds us that we've been through tougher times before," Obama said. "That's why I'm proud to have these artists here not just as a fan but also as the president because their music teaches us that when we find ourselves at a crossroads, we don't shy away from our problems. We own them. We face up to them. We deal with them. We sing about them. We turn them into art. And even as we face the challenges of today we imagine a brighter tomorrow."
Blues music, Obama said, "speaks to something universal," because "no one goes through life without joy and pain, triumph and sorrow," and the blues encompasses all of that "sometimes with just one lyric or just one note."
"In Performance at The White House: Red, White and Blues," scheduled in February as part of Black History Month, featured longtime blues greats King and Guy playing with contemporary musicians Shemekia Copeland, Trombone Shorty, Keb' Mo' and Gary Clark Jr. The evening also recognized the British blues invasion of the 1960s with performances by rock pioneers Jagger and Jeff Beck.
Renowned rockers Warren Haynes and Derek Trucks of the Allman Brothers Band also took part, along with Susan Tedeschi, a blues guitarist and singer who is married to Trucks and forms a Grammy-winning band with him.
Most of the assembled performers took the stage for an opening rendition of "Let the Good Times Roll," after which the 86-year-old King -- playing ringmaster from his seat at center stage -- offered his encouragement for the president's re-election bid.
"Mr. President, I've been praying for you for three years, and I want you to keep your job," King said to applause.
Republican candidates blast Obama
The event was emceed for PBS by actress and singer Taraji Henson, who commented on the somewhat surreal juxtaposition of the evening's lineup and setting.
"I never dreamt in a million years that I would ever say these next five words, and certainly never thought that I'd be saying them right here at the White House, but, ladies and gentlemen, Mick Jagger," Henson said in introducing the original Rolling Stone.
In appropriate rock star fashion, Jagger ran onstage to dance and sing "I Can't Turn You Loose" backed by the "house" band led by Booker T. Jones. Before his second number -- a cover of the Howlin' Wolf song "Commit a Crime" performed with fellow Brit Beck -- Jagger talked about his introduction to the blues as a young man in England with the music of Sonny Boy Williamson.
Recounting how Williamson visited London and even dressed the part in bowler hat with umbrella in hand, Jagger added: "He said those English boys, they want to play the blues real bad, and they do -- real bad."
Copeland and Tedeschi then joined Jagger to provide background vocals on his Rolling Stones hit "Miss You."
In a tribute to the roots of the blues, Copeland and Clark performed a moving version of "Beat Up Guitar," and Clark followed with "Catfish Blues" and Mo' did a solo version of "Henry."
Tedeschi, Trucks and Haynes played a tribute to Etta James with a powerful rendition of her classic "I'd Rather Go Blind," and Jagger returned to join Guy, Beck and Clark for blues standard "Five Long Years," originally written and recorded by Eddie Boyd.
The finale brought the entire ensemble on stage one more time to serenade the president and first lady with the tribute to their hometown, with Obama welcoming them as the "White House Blues All Stars."
The roughly 200 guests, including Cabinet members Kathleen Sebelius, John Bryson and Jacob Lew, stood and clapped at Obama's prompting, then shrieked when the president took the microphone after Guy called him out about his recent impersonation of singer Al Green.
"I heard you singing Al Green," Guy said, waving for Obama to indulge him. "You started something. You got to keep it up."
Obama did, a bit hesitant at first and then gaining gusto, offering the microphone to King at one point to help him finish the verse.
While Obama's voice may have lacked the power of the other performers, it was a presidential musical performance unseen since Bill Clinton on the saxophone.


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I have a great cast iron skillet that I use frequently and also take superb care of. Until I noticed the bottom is coated in rust. I believe the high heat that I use from the range top cooked off all the seasoning on the bottom + I never re-season this skillet ever since the business end of the skillet is in such fine shape.
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About This Quiz
Although they say a little knowledge is a dangerous thing, these days, there is so much knowledge at our fingertips that it may be dangerous to try and absorb it all! Take, for instance, the sciences; there is chemistry, biology, archaeology, pathology... it goes on and on. What about history? You could spend your life learning everything about the 18th century alone. That's why this quiz is for generalists, not specialists. It takes the most important information from social studies, art, history, and literature and offers just a smattering of questions that touch on each topic.
In this quiz, we're also looking for your general knowledge to be worldly. So don't be surprised if you're asked the capital of Iran (Tehran) or the difference between billiards and snooker. And remember, what happens today may be in the history books (or the internet) tomorrow. So you'll be asked about current TV shows and queried about recent Olympics.
All in all, when you take this quiz, you'll not only find out what you know, you'll learn what you ought to know. Like the metric system or what religion the Dali Lama practices. It's time to see where you stand. Start the quiz. As Benjamin Franklin said, "An investment in knowledge pays the best interest." Get interested now!
Individuals with Type AB blood are fortunate; they are universal recipients because they can receive any blood type.
People with Type O negative blood are considered to be universal donors because they can donate to people of any blood type.
Even though the majority of Quebec is French speaking, English is widely spoken in major cities, like Quebec City or Montreal.
The terms used in golf are "front nine" and "back nine," meaning there are 18 holes in all in a standard golf course.
Brutus is manipulated into believing that Caesar will become a tyrant and destroy Rome as a republic. So he kills Caesar, his friend, for the public good.
In 1905, Albert Einstein determined that the laws of physics are the same for all non-accelerating observers and that the speed of light in a vacuum was independent of the motion of all observers.
On August 4, 1944, after 25 months in hiding, Anne Frank and the seven others in the attic were discovered by the Gestapo. She was 15 when the family was found and sent to concentration camps, where she died.
Vostok, Antarctica hosts a Russian research station. It lies south of the Pole of Cold with temperatures dipping into -128 degrees Fahrenheit (-89 degrees Celsius).
If you recall your middle school geography, there are seven continents: North America, South America, Antarctica, Europe, Asia, Africa, and Australia.
Shakespeare is widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's greatest dramatist. He is often called England's national poet and the "Bard of Avon."
Peter Pan and his friend Tinker Bell live in Neverland where children stay young forever. He is able to fly and is always trying to escape his nemesis, Captain Cook.
One of the most famous Disney movies of all times is called "Bambi." It features a fawn (Bambi) who loses its mother when a hunter kills her.
The kidneys are two bean-shaped organs, each about the size of a fist, located just below the rib cage. Kidneys filter your blood, by removing wastes, toxins and extra water and empty that into the bladder.
The latest data disqualifies Pluto as a planet. Therefore there are eight planets: Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune. Pluto is called a dwarf planet.
English naturalist and biologist, Charles Darwin theorized that all species of life evolved over time from common ancestors through the process called natural selection.
It starts with five syllables, the next line is seven syllables and it ends with a five-syllable line. There are only three lines in a haiku and there are no rules regarding punctuation and capitalization . A haiku does not need to rhyme; in fact, it usually doesn't.
A Full House is the third best possible hand in poker hand. Only a Straight Flush and Four-of-a-Kind rank above it. The best possible straight flush is known as a Royal Flush, which consists of the ace, king, queen, jack and ten of a suit.
Just think about a storm. You see the lightning before you hear the thunder because light travels faster than sound. In a storm, if you count the seconds between seeing the lightning and hearing the thunder, you know how far off the storm is since five seconds equals one mile.
Botany is the scientific study of plants or multi-cellular organisms that use photosynthesis to create food energy. This science is important because plants are used as food, they generate oxygen, provide fuel, medicine, and fibers that allow us to live.
From books to movies to video games and amusement parks, Harry Potter is popular world wide. 2016 statistics show that 49 percent of kids aged 15 to 17 have read a Harry Potter book.
If you thought the answer was Spanish, it's similar. However, there are enough differences and subtleties between Portuguese and Spanish to make two different languages.
Some 500 million people in Asia, including the Dalai Lama, practice Buddhism. Buddhism is an outgrowth of Hinduism, which accepts the idea of reincarnation.
A pentagon is a five-sided shape, a six-sided shape is a hexagon, a seven-sided shape is a heptagon, while an octagon has eight sides.
Gravity is why an apple falls off a tree and lands on the ground. Issac Newton realized that there is a force that attracts a body toward the center of the earth, or toward any other physical body having mass.
A woman tells a tale each night to a sultan and then starts a new tale that can't be finished until the next time they meet, in order to keep the sultan from killing her in the morning. She continues to do this for 1001 nights. By that time, the sultan has become enamored with her and no longer wishes to end her life.
Canada features a large maple leaf on its flag. The maple tree and its distinctive leaves are a part of Canada's natural beauty.
There are approximately 72 rupees to a US dollar. For a comparison, in India, a dozen eggs cost approximately 64 rupees while it costs approximately $2 - $3 for a dozen eggs in the United States.
The pancreas is located behind the lower part of the stomach and in front of the spine. Because it produces insulin, it plays a vital role in diabetes, since it regulates blood glucose levels.
Not only was "Friends" the most popular show in the '90s, but it has never stopped being popular, which is why it's on a general knowledge quiz. "Friends" was the third-most popular English-language show in India and Pakistan in recent months. It was also the 26th-most popular English-language show on worldwide!
This is a tricky question. Although Ankara is the capital, Istanbul was the capital during the Ottoman Empire. Also, Istanbul is the biggest city in Turkey, so it's easy to get this answer wrong. Tehran is the capital of Iran, and Baghdad is the capital of Iraq.
With the tensions in Russia, you may have easily remembered Sochi and the Olympics held there. Russia was the big winner with 12 gold medals, Norway had 11, Canada 10 and the United States earned nine.
The books have been around for almost 90 years and have touched the hearts of millions of children around the world. Winnie-the-Pooh has been translated in over 50 languages. Eeyore is a pessimistic, gloomy, depressed, old grey stuffed donkey who is Pooh's friend.
The main difference between snooker and billiards is the number of balls used. In snooker, 22 balls, including the white striker ball, are used. In billiards, only three balls that are white, yellow, and red are used. And there are 15 balls in pool. Rules are different for each sport as well.
Carbon under pressure can become a diamond. Diamonds are the hardest substance found in nature and are used in heavy-duty drill bits due to their ability to stay sharp and not break. They look great on a ring, too.
This should be part of your general knowledge because all other countries except the United States, Liberia, and Myanmar use the metric system. You should be familiar not only with meters but volume in liters and Kelvin and Celsius for temperature.


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A Chilling Response to Gulf Oil Spill
The Obama administration has overreacted to the Gulf oil spill by suspending most new offshore drilling and moving to expand liabilities for future accidents, with implications for U.S. energy security, says Jack Coleman, an energy industry official and legal expert.
June 30, 2010 2:24 pm (EST)
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- To help readers better understand the nuances of foreign policy, CFR staff writers and Consulting Editor Bernard Gwertzman conduct in-depth interviews with a wide range of international experts, as well as newsmakers.
The oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico is a continuing headache for the U.S. government, posing particularly tough decisions about the direction of U.S. energy policy. Jack Coleman, a former federal lawyer for energy policy issues who is now an industry lobbyist, criticizes the Obama administration's decision to place a moratorium on most new Gulf drilling. "This is a devastating blow to American energy production," he says, adding the six-month moratorium could translate into years of a delay because of competition for drill leases worldwide. He says the proposed changes in liability for new drilling activities could also have serious repercussions for the oil industry. "Multibillion-dollar companies will not be able to operate [offshore] if you have unlimited damages liability," Coleman says.
At a recent congressional hearing, executives from the oil industry were chided for their oil spill response plans, and one oil executive admitted that the industry was not well-equipped to handle large spills. Why were they so unprepared?
The belief was that the technology, particularly in blowout preventers, had advanced so much that [there was] a miniscule chance of this happening. Those other technical advances in drilling and cementing and things of that nature greatly diminished the likelihood of this happening. And so when you combine that with much better blowout preventers, more capable blowout preventers, then you have a situation nowhere near as likely as a space shuttle accident, for example, or even a nuclear accident.
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Accidents are going to happen every now and then. The whole idea of having the Oil Spill Liability Trust Fund was so that after you get past the cleanup cost and a certain level of damages at $75 million, then you share the rest of it across society because it's so important to society that we have oil.
For example, the National Environmental Policy Act applies to everything that gets permits. All permits get analyzed based on what are reasonably foreseeable impacts to the environment. Well, this is certainly not a reasonably foreseeable impact. Could you foresee that a blowout might happen? Under some extremes, yes. But under the legal standard of things, this is not a reasonably foreseeable event.
Under the Oil Pollution Act, you're supposed to look at the worst-case scenario, and design, and have equipment on hand to deal with the worst-case scenario, no matter how remote that scenario could be. But once again, there is an element of likelihood that goes into this. Spill response plan requirements are laid out by the government, not by BP or the other operators. It's laid out by this whole spill response plan organization, the National Response Team. It's headed up by the Coast Guard. So they determine under the Oil Pollution Act what kind of spill response should be able to be performed. The government has the ultimate responsibility, not the company, for making sure that the equipment is available to implement that plan.
There's been significant criticism of the federal response to the oil spill, particularly on the inability to stop the spill. Do you think this is a feasible expectation?
I don't think it's reasonable that the government is going to have the equipment on hand to be able to cap the well, for example, because they don't have this technology, they just don't have this expertise. It would cost a lot of money to duplicate the expertise that's in the private sector. So I'm not faulting the government for that. What I am faulting the government for, though, is the failure to make sure that all the equipment is on hand that is needed to do these things. For example, they had very little fire booms available in the Gulf of Mexico. That five hundred feet or a thousand feet, whatever it was, was so minimum, it's not even laughable. That's a government responsibility, to make sure that either the government has it on hand or the private sector has it on hand.
On the one hand, you're saying about the industry, "This was such a remote possibility that it wasn't something that they were going to plan for," but then on the other hand, it sounds like you're saying it was the government's job to make sure that the industry planned for it.
We're talking two different things here. The government had to give them different approvals to drill, and normally when you give approvals, you look and say, "What are the reasonably foreseeable impacts of drilling?" You try to put in mitigation measures before you give them permission to drill. This would not be a reasonably foreseeable event. Therefore, under the law, they're not required to have any kind of mitigation measures to deal with this extreme unlikely event. That's under the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act.
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What we've just been talking about is under the Oil Pollution Act, where the Coast Guard has responsibility for worst-case scenario response. And it is a different law. And it is a different matter. The Oil Spill Response Plan doesn't get developed for this one BP well. It's developed for all these similar kinds of activities in the Gulf of Mexico. And there's not just an oil response plan for BP.
You're saying that the Coast Guard should have had better contingency planning because it's their role to foresee worst-case scenarios?
That's right. This has nothing to with whether it was five thousand feet below the surface. Many of these things don't have anything to do with the fact that a blowout of the sea floor was not reasonably foreseeable. They're just poor planning, generally. Even for a spill that might've happened at a platform in shallow water on the surface.
There's been a lot of finger pointing at the Mineral Management Service. The MMS is being restructured, and there's talk in Congress about removing or increasing the oil liability cap.
Accidents are going to happen every now and then. The whole idea of having the Oil Spill Liability Trust Fund was so that after you get past the cleanup cost and a certain level of damages at $75 million, this current law says then you share the rest of it across society because it's so important to society that we have oil. And it's not just that we have oil production in the United States, but it's also important that we have oil imported in tankers.
If you're going to have unlimited liability, for companies there's very little reason to have an Oil Spill Liability Trust Fund. Multibillion-dollar companies will not be able to operate [offshore] if you have unlimited damages liability. I'm absolutely convinced of that because the insurance market is not available to cover that kind of risk.
If the law is written fairly, it would also affect tankers and companies that bring oil in by tanker. You can have a tanker with 250 millions of barrels of oil and you would have a huge environmental problem because the oil would likely, potentially, come out much faster than this well and closer to shore near sensitive habitats.
The Obama administration put a moratorium on new drilling in more than five hundred feet of water for six months, which is being fought over in court. What's the industry got to do to prove these operations are safe enough to continue and that the oil industry is equipped to handle things going forward?
Number one, this moratorium was not well-supported in the law. The technical experts who were peer reviewers for [the U.S. Interior Department's] safety report (PDF), more than half of those technical experts came out saying that this moratorium was not necessary, that there were actions that could be taken immediately and that this was such an unusual confluence of events that was not repeatable anytime soon. And you don't shut down everything because of such a low-risk event.
You do take extra action--one of the first things they could do is send out an MMS inspector to be there to test, be there when the blowout preventers test right before they start drilling, make sure that blowout preventer is fully operational. That's not a path they've chosen to take. This is a devastating blow to American energy production, what the president's done. It's something akin to a hydrogen bomb. And I say that because I don't believe it was technically driven. It was politically driven. When you start having politically driven actions, they impact energy security. There are only so many deepwater rigs in the world. And if we're saying that we're not going to allow any drilling for six months in deepwater, they're not going to stay here, just sit idle. These rigs that normally get paid $400,000 a day to drill, they're going to go somewhere else, and they're going to be on contract for somewhere else for multi-years.
I just see this thing dragging out. All the companies have been told they've got to re-file their drilling plans and ask for permission again. You cannot solve those new drilling plans at the end of the moratorium until you have the drilling rigs under contract. You have to name what rig it is. Well, what drilling company is going to allow their rig to be under contract until after the moratorium's gone? We're going to start seeing reductions in oil and gas production in this country because of it.


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Justin Bieber Tells Sheriff's Deputies to Pound Sand -- My Cell Phone Is My Secret!
Justin Bieber Tells Sheriff's Deputies ... Pound Sand!!! My Cell Phone Is My Secret
Justin Bieber scoffed at L.A. County Sheriff's deputies who raided his home when they asked for the password to his cell phone ... and now they may have to get ANOTHER search warrant.
Law enforcement sources tell us ... during the raid on Bieber's home, a member of the Sheriff's Department asked the singer if they could take a look at the texts ... to see if he bragged about the egging of his neighbor's home. We're told he immediately shut them down.
Now get this ... It's been a week since the search and the Sheriff's Department has NOT cracked the code. One law enforcement official tells us ... they have no interest in looking at Bieber's unrelated photos or texts. They have some sort of machine that can isolate the time frame around the egging so that the only texts that come up are from that period.
Our sources say the Sheriff's officials now think they may have to get another search warrant -- this time from Bieber's phone carrier -- to get the elusive texts.
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Senator Scott Brown, who won office vowing to be the 41st vote to block President Obama's health care law and who has since voted three times to repeal it, acknowledged Monday that he takes advantage of it to keep his elder daughter on his congressional health insurance plan.
"Of course I do,'' the Massachusetts Republican told the Globe.
Brown is insuring his daughter Ayla, a professional singer who is 23 years old, under a widely popular provision of the law requiring that family plans cover children up to age 26.
Brown said the extended use of his congressional coverage is not inconsistent with his criticism of the federal law, enacted over his objection after he won a special election in 2010, because the same coverage could be required by individual states.
On the campaign trail this year, Brown has said he still wants to repeal the law, which he argues is inferior to the health care law enacted by Massachusetts in 2006.
"I've said right from the beginning, that if there are things that we like, we should take advantage of them and bring them back here to Massachusetts,'' the senator said.
As to whether the federal law should be repealed or rewritten, Brown replied: "I've already voted to repeal it. You know where I stand on this. This isn't news.''
His political opponent said that Brown is being hypocritical.
"Senator Scott Brown has gone Washington,'' said Alethea Harney, spokeswoman for Democrat Elizabeth Warren.
"He says he likes being able to keep his daughter on the family health insurance plan; what he doesn't say is that he voted to stop other parents from doing the same.''
"It's not right,'' Harney added. "Scott Brown spells health care: H-Y-P-O-C-R-I-S-Y.''
The US Supreme Court is reviewing the constitutionality of the federal plan.
It, like the Massachusetts law, includes a mandate requiring those who can afford it to purchase coverage. Twenty-six states have sued, saying that violates the Commerce Clause by requiring the public to buy a private product.
A specialist on the Obama plan said that while some states would probably pass their own requirement for coverage extending to age 26 if the federal law is struck down, many would not. It is also unlikely that Congress could unite to pass an alternate means of providing the extended coverage in all states.
"If you're trying to envision a world without the [Affordable Care Act], where the court overturns the entire law as opposed to some of its provisions, the first big question is, 'Can a sharply divided Congress agree on anything related to the ACA?' '' said Drew Altman, president of the Kaiser Family Foundation and former human services commissioner in New Jersey.
"Some [states] will try to move forward in some ways, others will not, and some will be in the middle,'' he said. "It will largely be dictated by their finances.''
In fact, the Massachusetts law - signed by Mitt Romney, the state's former governor and now the presumptive Republican presidential nominee - contained an insurance extension provision that was less extensive than the federal plan.
It required that family policies include coverage for up to two years after "loss of dependent status'' or age 26, whichever occurred first.
Such status can be lost when a child graduates from college, typically around 21 or 22, or marries.
In practical terms, the Massachusetts provision required some companies to cover a child up to age 24.
Brown, while still a state senator, voted to approve the measure.
That provision was superceded on Jan. 1, 2011, by the new requirement in the Obama health care law, which Brown, then a US senator, opposed.
The Obama law extended the coverage cutoff for the children of federal employees from 22 to 26, and in Brown's case will allow him to keep covering his daughter, who graduated from Boston College two years ago this month.
The former "American Idol'' contestant has worked as a correspondent for the
Brown's younger daughter, Arianna, is 21 and graduating after just three years at Syracuse University. She, too, will be able to keep her coverage under the congressional plan through the Obama law.
"I've always said that I love covering my daughter until 26 years old,'' Brown said in an interview conducted after he received the endorsement of Raymond L. Flynn, Boston's former mayor.
"But the fact is, we can do that here,'' the senator said. "That's only one component.
"And we're doing a lot of what the federal bill does, but we're not doing it by raising taxes and cutting Medicare and doing all the things.''
Earlier, during a speech to The New England Council, a probusiness trade group, Brown said the biggest health care challenge is controlling costs. He said that also is best handled at the state level.
"The governor and the Legislature can fix it,'' he told the group.
"They can work on those things, and if there are parts of the federal plan that we like - like covering your kids to 26 years old - I've said it before, we should incorporate that into our plan.''
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Callisto's Atmosphere
The Galileo mission discovered an amazing thing: Callisto seems to have its own atmosphere, although it is very, very thin, and may come and go with time. The atmosphere is created when molecules from the magnetosphere, moving very fast, hit the surface and knock out a water molecule. The surface may also evaporate, or sublimate when the sun is shining, the way the surface of a comet does.One of the instruments on the spacecraft measured the presence of an Ionosphere, a part of the atmosphere that is filled with ions. But it wasnt always there.
Even though Ganymede and Callisto have thin atmospheres, there does not seem to be a Ganymede or Callisto torus, as there is at Europa and Io.
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New Haven's Coffey among triathlon winners
SALISBURY — New Haven's Chris Coffey was among the winners on Saturday as the Vermont Sun Triathlon Series opened its 29th season at Branbury State Park on Lake Dunmore with two simultaneous races.
Coffey prevailed the men's side of the shorter Vermont Sun Triathlon, consisting of a 600-yard swim, 14-mile bike ride and 3.1-mile run. Also contested was the Lake Dunmore Triathlon, an Olympic distance event consisting of a 1,600-yard swim, 28-mile bike ride and 6.2 mile run.
The day's other winners were Dot Martin of Montpelier in the women's Vermont Sun Triathlon, while Nick Richardson and Ann-Marie Stearns were the men's and women's winners, respectively, in the Lake Dunmore Triathlon.
Coffey won his second Series Triathlon in what organizers said was a strong field, with a time of 1:01:06. Don Kjelleren of Shelburne followed 17 seconds later to claim second.
Kjelleren, Coffey and John Spinney of Burlington finished their swim in Lake Dunmore together. Coffey was first to get out of the transition on his bike. His ride was the third fastest of the day, while Kjelleren had the fastest bike ride (33:05) by 45 seconds to take the lead. Coffey then had the best run of the day (17:58) to win.
Spinney claimed third in 1:02:30. Cory Coffey, Chris' brother, of Vergennes used the day's second-best bike ride (33:27) to take fourth in 1:03:02. Cory Coffey's time was his personal best for the distance and the closest he has finished to his older brother.
Martin, 53, easily topped the women's field in 1:12:22. Melissa Rowe was second in 1:14:39. Former top overall finisher Linn Larson won the women's 55-to-59 age group in 1:26:33.
Richardson won the Lake Dunmore Triathlon in 2:12:07, more than 13 minutes faster than the second-place finisher, while the next six finishers were separated by just 2:29.
Richardson was third out of the water but then had the fastest bike ride by nearly two minutes (1:11:30) and run by almost six minutes in 37:05.
Charlie Cowen, James Frazier, and Middlebury's Steve Hare all finished the swim together in the top five, and then went back and forth on the bike to all start the run within 15 seconds of each other in third through sixth places. Then Cowen, 62, used his 42:58 run to pull away. Frasier, 52, ran 44:24 to stay in front of Hare, 57, who ran 44:49. Cowen took second in (2:25:20); Frazier, third in (2:26:20); and Hare, fourth in (2:26:56).
Stearns won the women's Olympic race in 2:31:32. She trailed Keelie Kozak by 2:39 after the swim. Stearns then posted the fastest women's bike ride (1:17:59) and run (44:47) to pass Kozak on the bike and pull away on the run. Kozak's second-place time was 2:36:48. Kim Rheaume of New Haven took second place in the women's 40-45 age group.
Complete results are at www.coolrunning.com. Details on future events and on volunteer opportunities can be found at vermontsun.com.
The Vermont Sun Triathlon Series continues with the second Vermont Sun Sprint on July 20. On Aug. 10, both the Sprint and Olympic events will be held again to complete the 2014 Triathlon Series.
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Honda recall: 225,000 SUV's and minivans affected
NEW YORK (CNNMoney) -- Honda is recalling over 225,000 vehicles in the U.S. and Canada because of a problem related to their brakes and transmissions, the latest in a series of large-scale recalls for the company.
In the U.S., the recall affects roughly 128,000 Honda CR-V's and 59,000 Odysseys from model years 2012 and 2013, as well as 17,500 Acura RDX's from 2013, Honda said in a statement. Some 14,000 CR-V's, 4,500 Odysseys and 2,300 RDX's in Canada are also being recalled.
Honda said that in sub-freezing temperatures, these vehicles may be shifted out of park even with the brake pedal isn't depressed. There haven't been any complaints, crashes or injuries reported in connection with this issue, the Japanese automaker said.
Honda will notify vehicle owners of the problem and direct them to dealerships where the issue will be resolved free of charge. Owners can check if their vehicle needs to be repaired at www.recalls.honda.com and www.recalls.acura.com.
This week's recall follows several similar headaches in the past few months.
In January, the company announced the recall of 748,000 Odyssey minivans and Pilot SUVs because of problems with their airbags. In March, the automaker ordered the recall of 180,000 vehicles in the United States, and almost 250,000 worldwide, because of a defect that could potentially cause the brakes to be applied inadvertently.
Just last week, Honda announced the recall of 1.1 million vehicles in order to replace their passenger airbag inflators.
In all cases, the company said it was not aware of any injuries resulting from the problems.