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The function above will recursively call the factorial function from 5 to 0 with an accumulator value. The condition n === 0 is the break condition for this function. Every recursive function must have a break condition. Otherwise calling the function will lead to an infinite loop.
In JavaScript every function call will add a call frame to the call stack. The frame is popped off the call stack when the call returns. However a recursive function does not return immediately. It will make a recursive call before it returns. This will add to the call stack every time. Recursively calling from the tail position sufficently deep, will cause the call stack to run out of space, throwing a RangeError.
Proper Tail Call
A “Proper Tail Call” is a mechanism by which the language compiler recognizes tail calls, and reuses the call frame, so that the call stack does not grow. The tail call does not need the call frame anyway, since its only job is to return the call. Proper tail calls are otherwise known as tail call optimization.
Tail call optimizations are important to functional programming languages as they are used for iteration and extreme recursion. The language Scheme uses recursion for all loop constructs, and does not have any other looping mechanism.
Does that mean we cannot use recursion in JavaScript? The answer is no. We can, but we need to use it carefully. For the call stack to throw a RangeError we need to recurse to a depth of more than 10000. We can safely use recursion when we know that we are in a situation that will never hit that limit. Examples are
Iterating over nested Objects like the DOM.
Iterating over the arguments of a function.
ES6 specifies proper tail calls. So you can use recursion safely in future, in ES6 compliant engines.
We will write a simple JSON stringify function using recursion.
scores: [89, 72, 96, 55, 66]
return Object.prototype.toString.call(obj).match(/.* (.*)\]/)[ 1]
if (type(obj) === “Undefined”) {
if (type(obj) === “Null”) {
if (type(obj) === “Number”) {
if (type(obj) === “String”) {
return ‘”’ + obj + ‘”’
if (type(obj) === “Array”) {
return ‘[‘ +
obj.map(function(o) {
return stringify
}).join
if (type(obj) === “Object”) {
var val = stringify
result.push
return “{“ + result.join(“,”) + “}”
The function type returns the type of the given object as a string. Function stringify will return the corresponding stringified object based on the type. It is recursively called when the type is Array or Object. As you can see, recursion is a very elegant way to do a task.
Asynchronous calls using recursion
You can write a series of asynchronous calls without nesting them, by using recursion. Here is a function asyncSerial which takes a set of asynchrous functions as its arguments. It calls each function with a function called next. Inside the callback of the asynchronous function you must call next to trigger the next function in the series.
function asyncSerial() {
var func = args.shift
func
The arguments to asyncSerial are coerced into an array called args. The function next when called will shift out the first element of args which will be a function. Then it simply calls the function with itself as the argument. next will be called inside the callback defined inside the funtion. See this in action.
The example below is a nodejs program to asynchronously copy an input file to an output file. It makes three asynchronous calls. fs.exists, fs.readFile, fs.writeFile. Of cource we could write such a program in one line of code, but the purpose of this example is show you how you can use recursion, and how you can use it solve your own problem.
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'm afraid of her father, Senator Gringo Honasan, who was at the audience lookin' sincerely supportive to his daughter. So maybe I'll just rank Daryl in 4th and have Monique and Kai tie in 5th.
As announced, 8 from the 12 artists who performed last night will advance to the next round. In each team, the one who topped the public voting will advance (to vote, just type VOICE<space>name of artist and send it to 2331/231) and the coach will save one from the remaining 2. </s> Mortar And Pestle Natural Marble Soap Stone Black Pestal Set To Grind Food crusher machine for granite in India; Starting a Granite Marble Dealership Business. ;.
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In an earlier interview he spoke out about the expectations to harvest the first rocket this summer and showed how rocket lettuce, dill and chives are grown in an ebb and flow system. "And before next year there will be fresh Swedish strawberries."
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Completely British made and we are proud of it. </s> Friday, January 30, 2009: As the cracks begin to show themselves more evidently in talks between British Airways and Iberia, local media have begun to speculate around whether the two could simply walk away from a deal.
When talks began in the middle of last year, the dynamics at both companies were dramatically different to the current situation. Back in July British Airways entered with the upper hand, but recent issues have seen the carrier fall from grace.
Ballooning pension debt, profit warnings and plummeting shares have made British Airways less than appealing, and operations appear so bad that Standard & Poor have hinted that it may drop ratings on the carrier into the junk pile.
Currently British Airways carries a BBB-minus rating, the lowest rating S&P gives for stocks which carry investment value, but the analysts may move it into “junk bonds” territory as it says “BA’s financial profile is likely to come under increased pressure”.
Due to British Airways shares losing some 45% in value and Iberia gaining some 11%, the stakes have turned, with Iberia now valued higher value than British Airways, as BA currently carries a market price of EUR1.6 billion and Iberia at around EUR1.8 billion.
Despite these downturns, British Airways will reject a 50:50 split in a merged entity as it believes it outweighs the Spanish carrier in other fields, and it is unlikely that British Airways shareholders will agree to a 1:1 share swap.
Going into discussions, it is understood that British Airways was eyeing a 65% stake in the new carrier. </s> The Williamsport, Pennsylvania, native transferred to Missouri State after playing junior-college ball at Frank Phillips College in Borger, Texas.
For the first time since the legendary Winston Garland was selected during the 1987 NBA Draft, Missouri State has produced an NBA Draft pick.
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Johnson, who worked out for the Pacers during the draft process, led Missouri State in scoring (15), rebounding (11.6) and assists (2.8). He attempted 4.4 3-points per game despite shooting just 28.1 percent on them. He did shoot 38.8 percent as a junior.
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The desire to be a parent is a natural, God-given longing that can be profoundly strong. So when you discover that you can’t have children when you expected to, grief can overwhelm you. Whether you’ve experienced infertility, a miscarriage, or a failed adoption attempt, God sees your empty arms and aching heart. Since you are God’s child, He cares, and He’ll give you hope if you place your trust in Him.
Shift your focus. Look beyond your own struggles in this fallen world toward God, whose power is far greater than any of your circumstances. Don’t wallow in self-pity. Instead, decide every day to place your trust in God to guide you.
Embrace your true identity. Don’t define yourself by your challenges in your quest to have a child. Realize that, while parenthood is valuable, there is so much more that’s also important in life. Understand that God loves you deeply and unconditionally. Know that you’re just as valuable to Him when you’re not a parent as you would be if you had a child. Remember that your true identity is based on who you are in Christ – not parenthood.
Remember that you and your spouse are already a family. Realize that you don’t need to validate your marriage by having children before you can be considered a family. Understand that God already considers you and your spouse a family of two.
Expect a miracle – even if it’s not in the form of a child. Recognize that there’s no guarantee that God will choose to give you a child, but there is a promise you can count on no matter what: God will heal your heart if you ask Him. Understand that God’s perspective is much greater than yours, and that He has good purposes behind everything He allows and doesn’t allow. Realize that, although you can’t predict the future, you can depend on God to do what’s best for you, in wisdom and love.
Be honest. Go ahead and pour out your thoughts and feelings to God in prayer. Rest assured that He won’t be shocked or offended by anything you say. Know that He wants you to marked by honest communication.
Deal with envy and bitterness. Don’t try to pretend that you’re not envious of people who achieve parenthood easily. Admit how you feel, and pray about it. Realize that God’s decision to give someone a child isn’t based on whether or not that person deserves to be a parent, but on His particular plan for the child He is creating. Don’t let envy take root in your heart and grow bitterness. Ask God to constantly pull the weeds of envy and bitterness out of your heart.
Realize that God isn’t punishing you. Understand that, although past sins do have natural consequences, your inability to have a child isn’t a direct punishment from God. For instance, if you once had an abortion and now are infertile, know that God grieves along with you. Know that God stands ready to forgive any sin if you confess it and repent of it. Accept God’s forgiveness and ask Him to wash away your guilt with His grace. Invite Him to show you whatever He wants you to learn from your struggles so you can grow.
Guard your marriage. Beware of how the challenges you’re facing place stress on your marriage. Realize that neither you nor your spouse is immune to temptation that can lead to infidelity. Talk with one another frequently, sharing your thoughts and feelings openly. Pray often for your marriage to remain strong. Assure each other that, no matter whose body is the cause of your infertility, you’re both in this together. Place your spouse’s needs above your own and treat each other with kindness, actively serving one another. Keep your sex life as free of stress as possible; although you may need to time sex and deal with performance pressures, make sure you also take time for relaxed romance apart from your fertility goals.
Deal with insensitive comments wisely. Understand that people who make insensitive comments about your situation often mean well but simply don’t know any better. Ask God to help you view the situation from their perspective. Take into account that someone’s unkindness can have more to do with his or her own struggles than with your circumstances. Wheneversk God to give you the grace to survive the moment. Be willing to forgive others when they unintentionally hurt you. Prayerfully consider who among your family and friends you can entrust your story to, how much to share, and when. As God leads, gently help people understand your needs so they’ll be less likely to hurt you in the future.
Be kind to yourself. Take it easy on days that trigger more grief than otherthe due date for a baby you lost, etc. Give yourself permission to politely decline baby shower invitations, or even to skip church or attend another service when a baby dedication is scheduled. Don’t worry about pleasing other people; do what will help you manage your feelings best.
Take advantage of resources to help you heal. Talk with your pastor or a professional counselor. Consider joining a local senges.
Decide how far you’ll go for a baby. Set clear moral boundaries before you face emotionally charged situations that demand decisions about infertility treatment or adoption. Talk and pray with your spouse, and agree about specific moral boundaries you’ll set (such as not destroying embryos). When considering the ethics of a given scenario, ask yourself questions such as: "Do we know the Bible well enough to make choices in line with scriptural principles?", "Am I treating my body in a God-honoring manner?", "Am I honoring God’s view of children and upholding the sanctity of life?", "Will this course of action hurt my testimony or become a stumbling block to others?", "Are we honoring our marriage vows and God’s desire for a mutually submissive, loving partnership?", "Are we being good stewards of our time and money?", "Am I waiting on God’s perfect timing?", "If this path ultimately leads to parenthood, can I explain to my child, without shame or secrecy, exactly how she joined our family?", "I" and "Am I trying to force God’s hand?". Don’t proceed with any course of action about which your spouse is not comfortable. Wait until you achieve unity before taking action.
Take one day at a time. Ask the Holy Spirit to give you fresh strength every day. Write down ways God is working in your life and record answers to prayer, then read what you’ve written in a few weeks or months to encourage you as you continue along your journey.
Place your faith in the right place. Seek God – not a child – first, making Him your top priority. Don’t hang your hope on what you want God to do for you. Instead, truly seek to get to know God Himself, and His best plan for your life. Make sure that your faith is solidly grounded in God, no matter what. Check your motives to determine if you’re asking for a child for selfish gain or for God’s glory. Pray for God’s will to be done above your own.
If your church doesn’t support you, don’t give up on God. Don’t allow the failure of any people at your church to reach out to you cause you to abandon your faith. Rest assured that God is always with you – and He cares deeply about your situation. Feel free to take your concerns directly to Him in prayer at any time. Don’t feel as if you need to cave into pressure to do something in church that triggers pain for you, such as volunteering in the nursery or joining a women’s Bible study that feels like a club for moms.
Pray for the children you’ve lost. Although you won’t know what your miscarried baby’s life would have been like or how the life of the child you’d hoped to adopt will turn out with another family, realize that you can always pray for themless them and yourself.
Worship while you wait. As you wait for your dreams to possibly come true someday, focus on knowing, loving, and trusting God. Recognize that all your time is valuable for worshiping God. Ask God to help you delight yourself in Him and be content while you wait.
Invest in your spiritual children. Take heart that, even if you’re not a biological or adoptive parent of a child, you can always be a spiritual parent to people who need to be touched with God’s love. Ask God to show you who you can express His love to in tangible ways through kindness and service. Build lasting friendships with people you help, and take heart that God will bless you as you bless them.
Adapted from, copyright 2005 by Jennifer Saake. Published by NavPress, Colorado Springs, Co., 1-800-366-7788,www.navpress.com.
Jennifer Saake and her husband, Rick, are the founders of Hannah’s Prayer Ministries (www.hannahe infertile or have suffered miscarriage or adoption loss. Since their inst 10 children via miscarriages or.
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Information about religion
Which, if any, of the world's
10,000 religions is the true one?
. However, you might want to read it anyway.
"...just because you don't bow
on your knees and worship an idol or an invisible being, does not mean
you are not a Satan worshiper. The worship of any other god (s) is the
same thing. There are no other gods. They are demons and Satan is in
control of them." From the website www.exposingsatanism.org
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How many religions are there in the world from which to locate the "true" one? According to David Barrett and team, there are 19 major world religious groupings in the world which areOf the latter, there were 270 religions and para-religions which had over a half million adherents in the year 2000 CE. Within
Even considering "Christian confessions and denominations." For example, Barrett et al. states that there are: 4,684 groups in the U.S.
3,364 in South Africa.
1,581 in Brazil.
1,327 in South-central Asia.
469 in Canada.
Differences in the beliefs and practices of various faith groups:
Probably the one area where religions differ the most is over the nature of deity. Various groups teach Agnosticism, Animism, Atheism, Strongthe Trinity, and probably some others that we have missed.
Perhaps the next greatest range of beliefs are about the fate of people after death: whether there is simple annihilation, some form of energy-less existence as taught by the ancient Hebrews, Purgatory as taught by the Roman Catholic Church, Heaven or Paradise as taught by many religions, Hell which is also taught by many faiths, Limbo, reincarnation,
h, and probably some other places or states that we have missedd "Dominus Iesus" implies that "Churches s'proper' churches.""churches in the proper sense." They suffer from "defects." "gravely deficient." Their rituals can constitute "an obstacle to salvation" for their followers. 3,4
Other faith groups are either more inclusive or more exclusive than the Roman Catholic Church regarding the "truth"
India is about 80% Hindu. There is a very high probability that any given citizen believes that their tradition with Hinduism is the true religion.
The U.S. is about 75% Christian. The population in the American "Bible belt" is significantly higher than thatin South Carolina, for example, believes that their denomination within Christianity is the true religion.
It is obvious that one's personal beliefs about the true religion is largely a function of the country in which one happens to have been born, the area of that country, and the beliefs of one's parent(s):
be promoting Islam today. I"Holy Qur'an," One'e's culture and the faith of one's parents -- be"true" faith group.
Pray to God 5. Mormonsry CE purity before it fell into heresy. This is the true one. If people could access the will of God on this matter, then a vast majority of the world's population -- the folks who pray -- woul The OCRT, the group that sponsors this web site, We used a controversial topic: whether God favors st we . Communication from God: God could initiate a direct communication to humanity. In order to be convincing, it would have to be totally unambiguous, clear and convincing. One example might be for God to rearrange a few thousand stars to spell out in the evening sky the name of the true religion. Unfortunately, at least within the Judeo-Christian traditions, God seems to be progressively withdrawing from humanity. He walked in person with Adam and Eve. Later, he only appeared in rare occasions as at Mount Sinai. Still later, he communicated with humans only through prophets. Most Christians believe that Jesus Christ is God and walked among humans in first century CE Palestine. However, he was seen by only a miniscule percentage of the human race. Now, access to God is through prayer.
Unless God were to take the initiative, it appears that there is no way for humans to determine which religion is "true." Editorial comments:d
gReligious makeup of each country
Other spiritual paths, ethical groups, etc.
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for the Doctrine of the Faith. See: http://www.vatican.va/ In this essay, the author uses the term "God" "Sheikh Mohamed Mutwali al-Sharawi," at:
Important essays > here or Home >
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Go to the previous page, or to home, or to the "Important essays" menu or to the "religious information" menu, or to the "Truth in religion" menu, or choose: Web ReligiousTolerance.org
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New Wave: Creston Valley Thunder Cats
Next in the New Wave series are the Creston Valley Thunder Cats. The Thunder Cats finished third in the Neil Murdoch division with 19 wins in 42 games and advanced to the KIJHL Teck Cup playoffs, losing a seven-game series to the Beaver Valley Nitehawks.
Here’s a look at their new wave of rookies with insight from former Head Coach Brandon Switzer.
Brent Calver/Okotoks Today photo
The Okotoks defenceman had 22 points in 34 games last season, and also played three games with the Okotoks Bisons in the Heritage Junior Hockey League, earning one assist.
“He is a big, right-handed defenceman, who has a high ceiling. His brother played in the league so he’s familiar with the KIJHL.”
Defenceman, West Van Prep U18
The Airdrie, Alberta product captained the West Van team and had 12 points in 34 games.
“He has a high ceiling as well as leadership qualities.”
Goalie, OHA Black U17 Prep
From De Winton, Alberta, Burnside won 12 of 19 games last season with an .893 save percentage and a 3.70 goals against average.
“There is lots of potential with Jacob, who is a competitive goaltender who spent time playing with Harmon Laser-Hume at OHA.”
Last season the Calgary product had 10 goals and 17 points in 26 games. McKague is described as a big, strong forward who plays a physical game.
“He should develop into a top-end player who’s tough to play against.”
The Moose Jaw product captained his Wings U18 team and finished third in league scoring with 65 points in 34 games.
“He has high-end IQ and is a great leader.”
Newhook produced 21 points in 29 games last season for the Wolverines.
“He is a speedy forward who has the tools offensively. Newhook comes from the same program as Zach Augot and Campbell McLean.”
The defenceman produced five points in 16 games for his North Zone team.
“He is a right-shot defenceman who should develop nicely, and has the tools to be a great D-man in our league.”
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"Essentially our objective is to raise awareness on the stigmas that come along with sexual violence, specifically issues on post secondary campuses. Our secondary objective is to help people from Brock of all different backgrounds and experiences become involved in this campaign, which makes the campaign more meaningful…
Sexual violence can happen literally any place, anytime and to any individual, which is why this is such an important concept to get across the students. "We wanted to educate students on this because we believe they must know about the safety precautions, and where they can find support on the subject. We believe each individual should know as much as they can on the topic."
"There have been various cases within at least my time here at the school where a fairly large population of people simply do not believe that sexual violence happens here," says Oates. "I also am passionate about this because I became frustrated that many people also did not believe that individuals of any sort caWe have a diverse school, and it is important for each person to know their rights, their responsibilities, and their support."
But how does this campaign balance awareness and safety without instilling fear?Oates said this is definitely something that he's thought about thoroughly and reminded students of the safety that is available at Brock and the methods of support for them. "Essentially, we wanted to be blunt about how sexual violence is an everyday occurrence, and that this needs to stop- especially the stigma around it. Our best way to balance awareness with fear is to continue to grow our methods of support, and let students know as this progresses."
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A major problem with naturalization studies is the ________ on the observed.
Effect of the behavior
Effect of the observer
Effect of the observed
Question 52
Which of the following is/are example/s of continuous organismic variable?
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Title: Report of the North Canterbury Hospital Board [1886/1887]
Author: North Canterbury Hospital Board
Report of the North Canterbury Hospital Board,
With Statement of Receipts and Expenditure
For Twelve Months,
From 1st April, 1886, to 31st March, 1887.
Christchurch: Printed by Angus Turner, 100 Oxford Terrace. 1887.
been effected. Insurances on the Hospital have been effected, and steps are being taken towards having the various properties now in the possession of the Board vested therein by deed.
The Board gratefully acknowledges the constant and valuable services rendered by the Honorary Staff in the care of the sick; to the many presents from kind and thoughtful persons for the inmates of the Hospital, and specially to the Belfast Freezing Company for supplying ice whenever solicited.
On assuming control, the Board found it necessary to at once consider the question of building an Operating Theatre. For some time previously this had been very strongly advised by the medical staff, owing to the unsuitable and unsafe condition of the room used for performing operations.
The building is now finished, and for design and completeness in every detail it reflects great credit on the architect, Mr. Seager. As the heating of the operating theatre was to be effected by means of a system of hot-water pipes, it was considered to be a most opportune time for introducing the same, (heat being generated from the same boiler) for heating and ventilating the adjoining (No. 6) men's surgical ward, and supplying hot water for baths. The previous method of heating consisted of two unsightly detached fire-places, which were not only quite inadequate to perform the purpose for which they were intended, but militated somewhat against the free circulation of air. Separate fires were also necessary for heating water for baths. All these works have been carried out in the most successful manner. The pressing want for more accommodation convinced the Board that, as the finances would not at present permit of building a new ward, it would be better to effect such alterations to the old portion, formerly used mostly as a convalescent ward, as would in a measure meet the difficulty.
Accordingly, it was decided to so convert the internal arrangements that it would contain two children's wards, one ophthalmic, one observation, and two convalescent wards, to- page 5 gether with the necessary offices, giving 36 additional beds, thoroughly ventilated throughout, all the old flooring, lining, and plaster being renewed with new material. 102 beds will then be available in the Hospital for ordinary cases, and on completion of an Infectious Diseases Ward, now under construction, a total number of 116 beds.
The principal portion of this work is now approaching completion, and the Board instructed the House Committee to prepare a report of similar alterations to Nos. 4 and 5 wards, with regard to heating and ventilating as were carried out in No. 6 ward. This has not yet been sent in, and is therefore a work which this Board may fairly recommend to the consideration of the new Board, together with the urgent necessity of erecting a new kitchen, and, connected with the laundry, a drying closet. The want of the former has been of long duration; for years past it h constantly: the building is in a deplorable state of decay, and in a great degree devoid of those conveniences so necessary in carrying out satisfactorily the duties devolving upon the occupants thereof. With regard to the latter, an improved system of drying is indispensable before the advent of next winter; the powers of the laundresses were taxed to the uttermost in keeping up the supply of dry linen during the last wet weather, and an increase of washing must be expected with increased accommodation.
The Government having voted £1000 towards building an infectious diseases ward, a tender for the erection thereof has been accepted for the sum of £1543.
Attached to this is thtwelve months ending 31st March, 1887, classified, of contracts for alterations and new buildings; also a comparative statement of ordinary expenditure between the last two annual returns and the present. By reference to the Statement of Receipts and Expenditure of Christchurch Hospital page 6 it will be seen that, with regard to ordinary expenditure, a considerable saving has been effected under each head, with the exception of drugs and printing; the former is probably due to the increase of patients, the latter to the complete renewal of office books, voucher forms, printing by-laws, &c. Of the last there is no corresponding item with which to form a comparison. Until the present Board took office, wages for men employed at daily labour about the grounds were paid by the Charitable Aid Board, and were not included in Hospital expenditure.
It will be seen that the amount of expenditure for Christchurch Hospital for the twelve months has been, for ordinary purposes £5098 16s. 2d., that for permanent works on contracts completed £2288 14s. 4d.; payments on account of uncompleted contracts, £750; and Architect's fees in connection therewith, £102 3s. 0d.; being £3140 16s. 7d.; and with regard to the latter it may be necessary to explain that the Hospitals and Charitable Institutions Act, 1885, came into operation on the 1st October of that year, from which date the contributions from the various local authorities were levied, the Government, however, in order to enable the Boards to more readily perform their functions, made provisions for the payment of all expenditure up to the 1st December: by so doing the Board became possessed of an amount equal to two months' expenditure, which, added to that already voted for permanent works and decrease in ordinary expenditure, enabled the Board to more effectually carry out those most necessary improvements.
Additional land having been granted for building a Fever ward, it was found necessary to clear and level it: doing this and the ordinary work about the grounds has absorbed the principal portion of the amount set down to wages account.
It must not be forgotten that the latter four months of the year ending 31st March, 1886, was carried on under the provisions of the new Act, by the Board, elected in accordance therewith, so that a comparison of the expenditure between the administration of the Government and the Board can only be made by comparing the years 1885 and 1887.
The number of patients in the Hospital on March 31st, 1886, was 73
Admitted from April 1st, 1886, to March 31st, 1887 542
Discharged during that period 486
Remaining in Hospital March 31st, 1887 70
The daily average number was 70
The receipts from patients for maintenance fees were £369 10s. 3d., as against £334 2s. 3d. and £354 6s. 6d. for the years quoted in comparative table.
The average daily cost of each patient, excluding cost for permanent works, has been 4s., but deducting the item wages, in order to form a comparison with former years, this would be reduced to 3s. 8d., as against 4s. 8¾d., (1885), and 4s. 3d., (1886), respectively, as per table.
The total number of out-patients treated at the Hospital during the year was 2547, viz., 1130 males and 1417 females.
There were also 131 cases of accidents treated which were not admitted to the wards.
Akaroa Cottage Hospital.
In Hospital March 31st, 1886 3
Number a26
Discharged during that period 26
Remaining in Hospital on March 31st, 1887 3
The receipts for the year have been £14 5s., as against £31 7s. and £35 8s. for previous years.
The expenditure was £402 3s. 7d., as against £415 19s. 1d. and £391 4s. 10d.
Casual Ward, Lyttelton.
Number admitted for the year 5
Discharged for same period 5
Receipts, nil; expenditure, £71 5s. 9d.
Return of out-Patients.
Accidents treated but not admitted to wards.
April 58 118 11
May 65 95 10
June 78 93 8
July 127 146 8
August 157 187 10
September 123 158 12
October 126 151 14
November 111 102 19
December 97 117 12
January 90 107 6
February 43 58 20
March 55 85 10
Of the Annual Expenditure, for ordinary purposes, classified for the three years ending respectively 31st March, 1885, 31st March, 1886, and 31st March, 1887.
North Canterbury District Hospital Board.
Balance Sheet from 31st April 1886, to 31st March, 1887.
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Sales Start For Single-Family Homes at Floral Avenue in Skokie
Floral Avenue is the perfect setting for this project, as more and more people are looking to live in walkable neighborhoods that cater to a more urban lifestyle.
The firm’s unique custom approach to building residential communities – trademarked “How Do You Live?” – has received widespread acclaim, and continues to attract buyers looking for a one-of-a-kind home design that reflects their lifestyle, according to John McLinden, president and CEO of StreetScape Development.
Among the many features and amenities available to homebuyers at Floral Avenue arigh-quality plumbing fixtures; natural stone, porcelain or ceramic tile floors; maple cabinetry; professional landscaping; and two-car garages.
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"Dingy Beer Joint With NFL Football On"
Shoeless Joe's El Alamo is your traditional college-style dingy beer joint. It's actually not that...
Great place to watch football and the beer is cold. Went a couple of times and both times the food... dingy but the dark setting makes it appear that way. If there are windows there, I didn't see any. The joint is rather small and it didn't seem like there...
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TV's galore to watch the football games!
Just the spot for going and watching the Sunday football games!A little smoky for me, but very cold beverages and nice people throughout the bar!Thanks for being there in the time of a football fix!
American Football in BA!
Stayed at the nearby Howard Johnson Hotel Boutique Recoleta -- and loved this place for an afternoon of NCAA football (had to catch the Oregon Ducks). Staff was wonderful!
This is a good place to go to watch the game and have some cheap but pretty good beers. It's also a good place to run into expats and other visitors from the U.S. who will give you helpful tips on things to check out...
so i had a 12 hour layover in BA, and looked this place up and dropped in. HOLY HELL.....i accept all of the above reviews--good and bad. i first arrived to what appeared to be a army of young ones trying to drink themselves to...
I've been there with my friends last friday and to be honest I had a terrible experience. First of all, the service is really terrible especially the security guards are such rude persons. They charge 50 pesos at least to get in, if you don't...
We were looking for a spot to watch Texas A&M play the first game of the season. I had searched online and read that it was a good place to watch US Sports. I also asked a few people on tours when we arrived in...
I really like the bar. If you pay 50 pesos you will drink beer all night at Alamo. For those who doens't like to smoke I do not recomend, cause it's ok to smoke inside the bar...It's always full of people, many tourists. I...
A great American sporta bar hidden off the street. A good place to meet other Americans traveling along with what seemed to be fluent Argentinians, making it easier to communicate. (Or at least for non Spanish speakers like myself) The smoke aspect is something you...
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"There are 152 children in class I, 350 kids in class II, 284 kids in class III, 235 kids in Class IV and 141 in Class V. For 1,200 students, there are only six classrooms. When power goes off, it is only students or teachers who know what it means to stand here for a minute, forget studying. We cannot breathe and ultimately students carry their benches out and sit under trees. Even benches are short and they use tattered gunny bags to sit on ground."
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« Russian Aggression In The Caucuses Accelerates | Main | What Happens Next? »
Community (or League) Of Democracies
A community (or league) of democracies has been proposed by a number of politicians (GOP POTUS nominee John McCain and potential GOP VP nominee Mitt Romney. In response to Georgia's crushing defeat at the hands of a well prepared Russian army, navy and airforce, Austin Bay "wonder[s] if one long-term effects of the Russo-Georgia War will be to re-energize the Community of Democracies concept".
The rationale for setting up a Community of Democracies is that:
the U.N. and other pan-national institutions are hobbled from acting decisively in places like Darfur, Zimbabwe or Georgia by U.N. Security Council vetoes held by China and Russia
Chinese and Russian geo-political ambitions in these spheres run counter to the concepts of "peace and liberty" espoused by like-minded democracies
Therefore, a formal structure should be developed - a League or Community of Democracies - that will act to resolve conflicts that are sewn up of diplomatic wrangling at the U.N.
Moreover, it is not just the political class that are taking to this concept in increasing number. A larger number of the ordinary populace discount or scoff at the ability of pan-national institutions to provide their collective security needs.
However I can't help wondering if even this narrower block of like minded nations would achieve much considering how ineffective NATO was in dealing with Russian aggression in Georgia. Western European diplomacy arguably won a Russian pause. But as per a post I linked to yesterday at what cost? (As of writing this post, reports indicate that Russia is regrouping and continuing their march to Tblisi - European diplomacy has failed.). Then consider the community of democracies efforts in Afghanistan. Germany sends scant resources and ties knots in the muzzles it sends.
U.S. soldiers a disproportionate amount of the work and own all the hardware. Commensurate with their national wealth, Europe is providing almost no military support. Diplomatically patchy results as well. Think of Syria, Lebanon, Iran, Pakistan, Venezuela (and now Georgia as well). A community of one is not a community.
Which got me thinking. What has brought formerly great powers to their knees? Has it been weak kneed politicians that their people elect? Could it be the geo-political nannying that these nations have received from the U.S. over the last seven decades?
This may all be true. But it has the whiff of convenient macro rationale. Judging from the disinterestedness (I would go so far as to say, immoral self-interest) of most people around me over Georgia's helpless plight, I think the reason is more micro. We have forgotten what it means to stand beside a friend and fight along side them. Now we are content to bellow mute encouragement from a distance. I even wonder if we understand the concept of friendship. Sure we are talking about a nation state and not an individual. Nevertheless, these nation states consist of individuals. And they are being attacked by individuals from another nation state intent on upending our friends' station in life.
Is it therefore a surprise when our leaders demonstrate spineless vapid rhetoric and not an iota of courage or decency a decidedly friendly nation is overrun by men whose comport we find alien and should find anathema? A Community (or League) of Democracies is doomed to the same failures and to an extent that would make the U.N. proud.
A more micro solution is required. Macro is to big picture and doesn't get at the problem: democracy's generally apathetic constituents. In the meantime, the U.S. needs to wield more Leviathan and outsource SysAdmin to weaker, more apathetic states found in Western Europe. Interestingly, it has been Eastern European leaders standing shoulder to shoulder with Georgia's President.
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There is a serious need some Reaktor video tutorials. NI has provided none and this still is really the Grandaddy of all softsynths and deserves an in depth tutorial series. Many people do not know how to harness this beast for their music making and it is capable of more than anything out there. Tutorials on this would probably help in the evolution of platform as well since the people who might normally be intimidated by it would give it another look through the ease of video tutorials. I also think a subscription series like tips and tricks would be great to show off the best of the NI library and some of the amazing synths, samplers, and beatmachines and effects in the user library (over 1000 instruments strong). Also an in depth tutorial on the basics of creating your own Reaktor instruments or revising other peoples reaktor ensembles for your own purposes would be very useful as well.
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08, 09:36 PM
Sugar Valley (20-15) is 1.5 games in front of third place Belair Beach (19-17) and a half-game ahead of second place Marston (20-16).
The Marston Nine (20-16) kept pace with the top club in the RU South, the Sugar Valley Rattlers (20-15) and trail them by only a half-game.
Waleska sent Forest City to its third loss in a row, whipping them 6-3 behind Smokey Joe Carter (6-4 2.70), who gave up 10 hits, but only three runs. Carter chalked up four Ks and issued just one walk. The Westerners were outhit by the Lumberjacks, but Waleska got the clutch hits with men on base. First baseman Freddie Shelton (.315) led them with two hits including a two-run two-bagger. Catching the loss was Gene Stuart (3-2 4.28), who was treated roughly by the Westerners. He surrendered eight hits, four walks and six runs in seven innings.
Waleska (19-18) is in the fourth spot in the RU South standings, but only two games behind the division leader. Forest City (17-20) is fifth and is four games out.
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Journal Article – Engaging with a Networked Public
by tracy | Aug 16, 2012 | Blog, Digital, Social Media | 0 comments
One of the key areas that I’ve uncovered in the process of writing the article is that there are someexpectations and phases of communication during a disaster. From an organizational perspective, ensuring that you have relevant messages for the public that accurately reflect their needs is key in managing emergency response. Social media makes this response one, adding to difficulties for an organization that may be slowed down by approvals and process.
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Congratulations to recent MA Screenwriting (MASTFiR) graduate Ollie Wolf, who has won the prestigious Jameson First Shot Competition. Ollie’s original short screenplay was selected from over 2,000 entries, and he will now be flow to L.A. to shoot his script with actor Dominic West (Money Monster, 300) supported by a full Hollywood crew. In the video announcement for the win Dominic describes the script as a brilliant mix of the epic and the everyday:
We wish Ollie the very best. The Jameson competition has launched many careers, and we are sure that the world of feature films will soon be beck.
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The transaction consists of the granting of stand-by letters of credit to local commercial banks in connection with the leasing of imported equipment by subsidiaries of Sacyr Construcción SAU for up to US$20 million by eligible subsidiariese eligible subsidiaries will use the equipment in strategic infrastructure projects in the region.
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Next entry: Scientific Materialism and the Socialist Religion
Previous entry: A Movie Made For TV </s> Many people overlook the nuanced art of rock n roll, both within the songs*, and within the performance itself. Consider then: the set list. A good set list (or track listing**, for that matter) is a thing of beauty, complete with its own narrative arc of musical peaks and valleys that carry the audience through a complete cathartic hour-long rock n roll experience. But I realize that it's an art form that not many have mastered. And so this week on Five by Five Hundred, I've offered my assistance in a very public format. So you're welcome, Aspiring Rock Stars. Go forth, and make rock!
"Set List For A Washed Up Rock N Roll Band" on FiveByFiveHundred.com
**Foo Fighters' "The Colours & the Shapes" has the best non-concept album track listing ever. I'll fight you on it. </s> Anyway, I'm off to fight Dennis Green in an alley. The only real rule we set is no firearms or testicle grabbling. Everything else, trash can lids included, is fair game. Kurt Warner will be the guest referee, though look for him to interfere in my favor approximately 30 seconds into the fight. Praise Jesus. </s> St
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08 Sep 2004, 08:22 I feel the answer is E.
Quote:Therefore, it is law-abiding people whose actions, and nothing else, make them alone truly responsible for crime. intr3pid Manager Joined: 05 Sep 2004 Posts: 97 Followers: 1 Kudos [?]:
08 Sep 2004, 12:25 crackgmat3 wrote:I feel the answer is E.The conclusion of the argument isQuote:Therefore, it is law-abiding people whose actions, and nothing else, make them alone truly responsible for crime. Again, let's strip the argument < remaining sentence edited by praet; please avoid such language. > (i) Criminal actions = products of environment
(ii) Law-abiding actions create/maintain environment
(iii) Thus, law-abiding actions are responsible for criminal actions.
(A) is out because we don't have any real confusion over how the author is defining the word environment.
(B) is interesting. The argument does differentiate b/w law-abiding and criminal actions. However, when it says that the law-abiding actions create/maintain the environment, it seems to put slight burden on the to-be-criminals to make a choice b/w socially acceptable and unacceptable crimes. Nevertheless, this slight burden is not relied upon significantly by the argument to make its point.
(C) comes the closest.
The argument is attempting to define its own judicial system by tracing the emotional/demographic/cultural/economic roots of the criminal's intent to something deeper. Based on the argument, if Bob's uncle assaulted Bob sexually when he was an 11-year-old and then Bob turns around and rapes Daria, then it's Bob's uncle who is responsible for the crime and not Bob.
Thus, the argument is denying (= refusing to accept) that, in reality and in our society, we have a defined judicial process. This defined process holds someone responsible for a crime that he/she has committed regardless of the motivation. Yes, you can still have a contributory crime from someone else, but that doesn't exempt the original offender from the crime he/she has committed.
(D) is wrong because we're not relying on statistics here.
(E) refers to a contradicting implicit principle, which is what? Based on my bare-bones structure above, I don't necessarily see a contradictory principle or conclusion.
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% the lookup functions can directly use the ets named_table from within
% the client process, no need to go through a synchronous IPC
case ets:lookup(mtp3_services, Service) of
case ets:lookup(ss7_link_table, {LinksetName, Sls}) of
[#slink{user_pid = Pid}] ->
{error, no_such_link}
#slinkset{remote_pc = Dpc, _ = '_'}),
case Ret of
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case get_linkset_for_dpc(Dpc) of
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end.<commit_msg>ss7_links: add type annotation2,
mtp3_tx/1, mtp3_tx/2,
-type link_state() :: down | up_inactive | active.
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-type error() :: { error, term() }.
-type osmo_point_code() :: non_neg_integer().
linkset_name, % name of the linkset to which we belong
sls,
user_pid :: pid(), % Pid handling MTP-TRANSFER primitives
state :: link_state()
name :: string(), % name of the linkset
local_pc :: non_neg_integer(), % local point code
remote_pc :: non_neg_integer(), % remote point code
user_pid :: pid(),
state :: link_state(),
active_sls :: list() % list of Sls of currently active links
name :: string(),
service_nr :: non_neg_integer(),
user_pid :: pid()
linkset_tbl :: tid(),
link_tbl :: tid(),
service_tbl :: tid()
ServiceTbl = ets:new(mtp3_services, [ordered_set, named_table,
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hso i had my very last zone conference this week! we learned a lot about the doctrine of christ and how the simple things we teach and do are always the ones that matter. we had some really great role plays for some investigatores and they worked out really nice!! i was able to bear testimony to the two zones that were there, and it really hit me on how much i have grown and how much the lord has blessed me with and the great love he has for me and i know that as i keep doing the things tha ti have learned as a misionero on my life, that will be the best thing for me and it will help me to grow and become like my savior, Jesucristo.
so between all the teaching 61 lessons this week, yeah way loco, and the fiestas and actividades por los miembros and all the great and amazing miracles the lord show us every day, there was one that really stood out to me, and it was yesterday. the sacrament is algo tan impotante en our vidas! i know that as we partake of the sacrament the cleaning power of it makes us pure and clean to be worthy and enter into the presence of out father in heaven. i am so excited for this day, when i can be in the presence of Him, my creator. I love this gosepl so much and i am so grateful for all the many blessings i reacieve for being a servant of him. the many blessing that are involved in this is the testimony that i have gained. many people think of blessing as just liek being rich or having many things, when really that has nothing to do with it, that is fortune. BLESSINGS are the true yet eternal simplicity in life that we will carry with us to the next :) it will be something that in thsis short periodo of 2 years that will have an eternal effect on my life. i know that the mision is nothing easy, but it takes work that will help to build you into who you NEED to be in the future. I have an AMAZING father, and he didnt serve a mision. But i do remember him telling me all the time that if he had the chance and he knew about the gospel at a younger age, he would have. I know that he will serve with my mom and i know that it will be an amazing experiencia, but i also know that as i am following the counsel of him, and my Father in Heaven, they will lead me to the same spot.
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Roman Villa of Skala
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On average, the nightly rate for a 3-star hotel is MYR 258, while a stay in a 4-star hotel costs MYR 210 per night. For an extra special stay, a night in a luxurious 5-star hotel will cost MYR 418 per night, on average. Prices are based on a double occupancy room and may not include all taxes and fees.
During your stay, be sure to check out Roman Villa of Skala, a popular landmark.
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An early example of a course-of-value recursion was given by Leonardo da Pisa, also called Fibonacci, in his Liber abaci, written in 1202 and revised in 1228, when discussing the famous rabbit problem (paria coniculorum):
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discussion earlier today on their way to the quidditch pitch. He deflected George’s parry easily.
“Baby? I don’t have a baby! I’ve never even… er, never mind.” Harry trailed off with feigned embarrassment and no one was the wiser. Instead, the guests responded with gales of laughter. Ginny turned bright red with embarrassment for Harry and with happiness for another reason. She was relieved to hear that he had not been with another woman in all the time he had been away from her. It was a niggling little concept that had long ago settled in the back of her mind. Ever since first hearing the name ‘Alison Friel’, Ginny had long been disquieted by the possibility that he would find love with another woman.
“No, the name of the elf’s baby, Harry. You know, the elf that’s not working the wedding because she just had a baby. What’s the baby’s name?” Hermione asked.
“Oh, er, right.” Harry had to think for a moment. “It’s ‘Krizenimas’.”
“Oh, ‘Giggle’!” Xenophilius said aloud.
The table roared and Charlie asked, “What was that, Xeno?”
“Giggle! That’s the baby’s name. ‘Krizenimas’ is Lithuanian for ‘Giggle’. I LOVE it! What a great name!”
The guys around the table chuckled while the girls breathed ‘Ooh, how sweet!’ and with that, Harry’s identity as the Benefactor remained safe, but he wondered just for how long.
Harry was interrupted once again as dessert was being served and he left the dining room with Bezobrazan. Once he cleared earshot, Ginny’s façade broke and she turned to Bill across the table.
“What am I supposed to do, Bill? Even when he’s here, he’s not here! If I didn’t know any better, I’d say he was purposely trying to avoid me!”
“Just be patient, Gin. You’re doing fine. It’s just… there’s a lot going on with the wedding tomorrow, you know?. You’ll find time to talk. I’m sure of it.”
However, Bill’s comforting words were lost on Ginny. Her stomach was churning as if she’d swallowed undiluted bubotuber puss. She looked up at the ceiling and took several deep calming gulps of air, but they only seemed to help a little. Her anxiety was all too conspicuous.
“Sweetheart, after dessert, I’ll go see what he’s doing, but Bill’s right. Just be patient. I’m sure he’s not trying to avoid you on purpose,” stated Arthur soothingly.
“I’ll go with you, father,” said Percy reassuringly.
Arthur and Percy entered the kitchen to see Kreacher working on preparations for the following day’s wedding. He was still wearing Harry’s old Weasley jumper. Arthur could not suppress a smile upon seeing the old elf working away energetically while taking the utmost care with the clothing his wife knitted for Harry so many years ago.
“Hello, Kreacher! That was a wonderful meal. Thank you!”
“It is Kreacher’s pleasure to serve Master Weasley and his family,” he replied with a nod toward Arthur before returning to his business.
“Er, Kreacher, do you know where Harry happens to be?”
“Master Harry is in the marquee, tending to wedding preparations.”
“Thank you again, Kreacher.”
“Again, it is Kreacher’s pleasure to serve Master Weasley,” the elf replied with another nod.
Arthur and Percy proceeded down the hall from the kitchen to the lounge and through to the veranda. Reaching the bottom of the marble steps near the rear of the marquee, they could clearly hear Harry’s exasperated voice.
“No, Forcedyme, I said one extra large reinforced chair in the back and two hundred standard chairs.”
Entering the marquee, Arthur and Percy began to laugh heartily. Two hundred massive folding chairs strong enough to support Hagrid were crammed into the marquee and stacked atop one another haphazardly. Harry was feverishly pulling the extra large chairs from the various stacks and waving his hand over each to reduce it to a standard size.
“Need a hand, Harry?” asked Percy, struggling to control his amusement.
“Please!” replied Harry, a little more forcefully than he intended.
Arthur and Percy extracted their wands, pulled chairs from the stacks, and began performing ‘reducio’ spells on them. Shortly thereafter, Bill peeked he head inside the tent and quietly whispered to Percy, “Everything under control?”
“We’re going to be awhile, but we got it under control,” Percy replied with a nod.
Bill glanced around the tent and sniggered one last time before returning to the rest of the family to report on Harry’s preoccupations.
Ron was settled into bed for the last night of his single life when Harry finally entered the room looking weary. As he changed into his bedclothes, Ron asked, “So, did you and Ginny have a talk yet?”
“No, mate. I was too busy running around with the elves. I never realised everything that goes into a wedding before all this. Remember this, never hire family to work for you.”
“Yeah, I heard about your old Uncle Kreacher! I can see the family resemblance!” added Ron with a silly snigger. “And now you have Teddy and Victorie calling him that!”
“Yeah, pretty good, isn’t it? And Kreacher loves it. I don’t think he ever had a real family of his own, elfin or human. He’s really taking to the little ones – caring for them like they were his own! So, not to change the subject or anything, but are the nerves getting to you yet?”
“Nope. But ask me again in about twelve hours and you might get a different answer.”
As Harry climbed into bed, Ron asked, “Hey Harry, when was the last time we slept in the same room together?”
“Er, the night after the battle, I think.”
“Just like our old dormitory at Hogwarts, yeah Harry?”
“Suppose so, yeah.”
“Do you remember when we were at Hogwarts, Harry?”
“Do you remember there was that gormless guy…”
“There were several of those, weren’t there!” Harry interjected.
“Yeah, well, there was this one gormless guy in particular. Didn’t know his arse from a hole in the ground. Anyway, do you remember there was that girl who was smart and pretty and who was absolutely in love with the guy, but he was so dense that he never noticed? And then when he did notice her, all they ever did was bicker. Man, he must have driven everyone loony, particularly his best mate!”
Ron looked over to Harry’s bed and saw that he was grinning from ear to ear. He hesitated for a moment before continuing.
“And the funny thing was, he was absolutely in love with her, too! But he was so insecure, he never had the nerve to suck it up and ask her to date him until it was almost too late. Could you imagine that? What do you think would have happened to that guy if he never got past all their squabbling? What do you think would have happened if that guy never plucked up the courage to ask her out, huh?” asked Ron.
“I dunno. Probably hustling enchanted fish heads for five sickles apiece in Diagon Alley like old Mundungus Fletcher,” chuckled Harry.
“Yeah, that guy and that girl drove everybody round the twist! Everyone saw how perfect the two of them were for each other. Everyone but that guy!” said Ron.
Harry chuckled again. He could clearly remember almost every fight his two best friends ever had.
“Yeah, well, you’re truly my best mate, Harry, the best ‘best mate’ ever, so I feel I’m on pretty safe ground when I tell you this…
“When it comes to Ginny, stop being that guy or you’ll be.”
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"I was like don't screw up," said FastVisa co-founder Paul Kang. "All the other companies that I competed with didn't make any mistakes, so I was like ya this is a big moment for raising awareness and letting people know what we do."
"What I noticed this year is that there were a lot of agricultural, food, women, technology and social impact related technology," said Kang, "I think because of that we got into SXSW along that trend of what sort of impact a company can bring and to society in general. That's what I noticed from the 50 companies that pitched. If they scale, they can have really great impact."
"[Our team] thought immigration was an issue with the actual individuals," said Kang. "Over time, we decided it's a systematic issue, so we focused on handling organizations."
"The Dallas startup community is getting better and better for sure," said Kang. "Tech Wildcatters helped us have connections with the local mentors and advisors, but if someone moves here completely new, finding those people is probably a little bit difficult."
"Participating in these accelerators has allowed me to meet people and have that awareness, and it's really helping me understand," said Kang. "All the people that have been through the startup world or built a company have their perspective, so it's helping me form our own strategy built on that one. Sometimes we come up with some strategy, but it's probably not perfect."
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Retrieved 3 March 2009.
- ↑ How unhealthy is a doner kebab?, BBC News Magazine, 21 January 2009
- ↑ UK study reveals 'shocking' kebabs, BBC News, 27 January 2009
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- ↑ Testi kebab: a specialty of Cappadocia. Retrieved on 22 May 2009 (scroll to the bottom of the page)
- ↑ "Kuwait News Agency (KUNA)". Retrieved 1 November 2014.
- ↑ "A Walled City in Tuscany Clings to Its Ancient Menu". The New York Times. 12 March 2009. Retrieved 5 November 2015.
- ↑ Taylor, Adam (4 November 2015). "French mayor rants against kebabs so critics declare an international kebab festival". The Independent. Retrieved 5 November 2015.
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Kim wins for bamboo and Michael wins for the Money plant. Hey, you're both winners.
next time don't pass the names! use photographer a and b, or something. it would be more suspenseful.
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How Clinton Passed Dress Test
August 11, 1998 / 5:17 PM / CBS
The future of Bill Clinton's presidency and his place in history may well be determined by the results of a simple set of laboratory tests on Monica Lewinsky's dress.
FBI technicians would have first subjected the stain on Lewinsky's dress to a pair of chemical tests. The first test would have revealed the presence of an enzyme found in high concentrations in seminal fluid. The second test would have detected a protein called "P-30" that is found in seminal fluid.
"The two together are essentially unique to human semen," said Prof. Walter Rowe of George Washington University, a forensic scientist and an expert on DNA.
The FBI may also have slipped a sample from the stain under a powerful microscope to look for sperm.
First published on August 11, 1998 / 5:17 PM
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The Amaker Era Begins
Duke graduate Tommy Amaker, accompanied by his wife, Stephanie Pinder-Amaker, was introduced as Harvard’s new head coach at a press conference on Friday. Amaker has a 177-138 career record in two previous coaching stops, first at Seton Hall and most recen
By Ted Kirby, Crimson Staff Writer
Tommy Amaker was introduced as the new head coach of the Harvard men’s basketball team in a press conference on Friday at the Murr Center lounge in Allston.
“I can’t say how proud I am to be the committee’s selection,” Amaker said as he addressed a room full of Friends of Harvard Basketball, fellow Crimson coaches, representatives of various media outlets, and members of the men’s basketball team.
The former Michigan and Seton Hall coach was accompanied by his wife, Dr. Stephanie Pinder-Amaker.
In his introductory remarks, Nichols Family Director of Athletics Robert L. Scalise connected the beginning of the Amaker era with the foundation of Harvard basketball 107 years ago.
“More than a century later, we are here today with that same optimism, as our program is reborny,” he said.
Amaker had been the head coach at Michigan for the past six years, accumulating a 109-83 record but failing to make the NCAA Tournament before being fired after last season.
“I can’t thank you enough for this opportunity,” Amaker said. “I certainly feel like it is going to be a joyous ride.”
He replaces Frank Sullivan, who coached the Crimson for the past 16 seasons.
“One of the people who was mentioned was Tommy Amaker,” Scalise said. “I told the team, ‘If you would like me to, I would be happy to call Tommy. I have heard great things about him and would be happy to initiate contact and see if he might be interested in being our basketball coach.’ The guys on the team were instrumental in this happening.”
“After meeting all the candidates, [Amaker] was our top choice, and they got him,” said sophomore point guard Drew Housman.
Amaker also met with the search committee, which consisted of Scalise, Harvard football coach Tim Murphy, Associate Athletic Director Sherri Norred, and Assistant Athletic Director Ryan Fry. According to Murphy, Amaker won the committee over soon after he met with them.
“About five minutes into the interview, we were on a recruiting mode,” he said.
“We were just so impressed. I mean, obviously the experience and pedigree speak for themselves in the context of basketball, but when you meet the guy, you just find out that he’s the real deal.”
Scalise also said Amaker has signed a five-year contract.
“Tommy will be fantastic for Harvard, and Harvard will be fantastic for Tommy,” Scalise quoted from Duke coach and Amaker mentor Mike Krzyzewski.
The lack of minorities had drawn criticism from the Boston Globe and CBS SportsLine.com, among others, but both Scalise and Amaker denied that race played a role in the hiring decision.
“Once we’ve amassed a candidate pool, then our job is to hire the best possible person for the job—and that’s what we’ve done here.” Scalise said. “Tommy Amaker, that’s a home run, even though we don’t have home runs in basketball. He is someone with stature, and you can just hear in his voice—he’s an educator. His fit with Harvard is outstanding.”
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South Korea is a land of temples and palaces. Of course, it’s also the land ofkimchi(spicy pickled cabbage) and adorable face masks, but if offers so much more. There’s the juxtaposition of skyscraping glass and steel buildings with the gentle sloping roofs ofhanoks(traditional Korean house) too. In the past couple of years, it’s also become a land of coffee shops so vibrant and adorable, you’re going to want to plan a trip to Korea just for cafe-hopping.
Along with serving freshly brewed coffee and fluffy waffles, Thanks Nature Café is decorated in an earthy undertone and has an alfresco seating area where the sheep roam freely. Customers are allowed to pet and feed the animals after a quick bout of instructions from the owner. It’s quite a fresh take on the cat and dog cafes that now crowd the city.
Location:75-3, Yulgok-ro 3-gil, Jongno-gu, Seoul.
Soft and soothing music plays at all times
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Southwest Consulting Associates offers financial cprimarily on Worksheet S-10 uncompensated care data preparation and compliance reviews; Medicare DSH reimbursement data preparation and compliance reviews; and 340B optimization through its ELEVATE340B service. Endorsed to assist Texas hospitals with S-10 services relating to the Texas 1115 Waiver demonstration protocol, SCA's fully developed, detailed Worksheet S-10 solution manages not only the large hospital datasets, but also produces patient-level detailed reports for MAC submission in support of the data reported on worksheet S-10.
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Texas hospitals are changing how they calculate uncompensated care costs. The terms and conditions of the new five-year Medicaid 1115 Transformation Waiver require a new UC cost calculation methodology that relies on the Worksheet S-10 of the Medicare cost report.
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A London, Ont. restaurant is sounding alarm bells after becoming aware of a fake job ad asking applicants to meet interviewers at an off-site location just days after local police laid human trafficking charges stemming from an online ad.
Staff at the Black Trumpet became aware of the fake job ad, which was posted to job listing website Indeed, after receiving a sudden spike in resumes.
general manager Scott Wesseling told CTV News London.
The fake ad comes just days after London promoting a “great opportunity” for students to make hundreds of dollars a day.
Though no connections have been drawn between the two cases, Ashley Franssen-Tingley, stakeholder relations advisor, says both display tactics commonly used by human trafficking recruiters.
While it’s unclear whether the fake restaurant ad is related to human trafficking, Franssen-Tingley says it serves as a reminder of the potential risk of facing Canadians online.
She noted that although the ad was posted to a reputable job site, any requests to meet an interviewer off-site or after business hours are clear red flags to pay attention to.
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USUAA Constitution: Article Ten: Green Fee Board; Sections 1-3
the Green Fee Board will be to promote sustainability efforts on the UAA campus
purpose by managing the Green Fee to fund student initiated projects.
The board consists of seven (7) voting members: the director of sustainability, one (1)
the USUAA Assembly, and three (3) students-at-large appointed by the USUAA
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Bylaws. USUAA Bylaws: Green Fee Board Article Twenty-One, Sections 1-4
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If 've probab"茶宠"(tver's petMost common are Golden toad, pixiu (baby dragons), and other mythical creatures which are always related to happiness, treasure or best wishes in Chinese culture. "pee" iSurple tea sets, so they are mostly monochromatic, unglazed with a coarse surface. This is the reason why the newly purchased tea pets usually are purple red, purple or red and always give an unexploited feeling. If being taken care of and rinsed with tea (usually leftover) continuously, they will become more and more polished and adorable with fragrance of tea.
3. All tea types are available for nourishing tea pet while pu-erh tea works the best. Generally speaking, black tea, Pu'er and Oolong will result in the faster "changes" while green tea effects relatively more slowly. Positive changes may occur in 1-2 months when raising with pu-erh tea and generally after six months you can get the pleasant shine appeared on the surface.
5. Don't soak your tea pet in tea water. It is said that raising the tea pet with this way may lead to a kind of subdued color.
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These bizarre letters were sent to people in Edinburgh - have you received one?
Bizarre letters have been sent to people in Edinburgh and they are causing a stir.
Posting on Reddit, one user shared a photo of the letter sent to them, writing: "Anyone got one of these letters? Not sure if I should open it."
A piece of paper attached to the the front of the envelope starts: "I was poisoned by a criminal act in the Royal Edinburgh in 91 and recovered life in a body bag by divine intent".
The sender claims that their son "threatened me with a hand axe", refers to Margaret Thatcher and writes in caps: "MY FATE WAS TO BRING A DIVING JUDGMENT TO SOLVE THE MYSTERY OF CHRIST".
The social media user later added that they had opened the letter and "haven't been poisoned yet".
The contents of the letter inside are equally as bizarre, with the final line reading: "I don't want to find out he is still alive on Monday 11 not having don't anything to expose Margaret."
Some Reddit users voiced concern that person who wrote the lettervised that the recipient report it to the police, with one person saying: "Stick it in a plastic bag and give it to the cops."
Elsewhere, another suggested it could be a scam, writing: "Give it to the police as there might be someone who is running a scam, or someone with mental health issues at the back of these and they can look into it, do a wellness check if they can work out who it might be."
Tweets also surfaced last week that contained similar ramblings. However it is unknown whether these were authored by the same person.
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Troubled Coconut Grove Charter School Loses Funding
Administrators, Arts and Minds Academy Charter School, Charter School Malfeasance, Coconut Grove, Gary Nelson, Manuel Alonso-Poch, Miami Dade School District, Possible Misappropriation of Funds, Teachers
Halloween Complete Coverage COCONUT GROVE (CBS4) – has now had its funding cut off by the school distric and which is a violation of state and federal law.
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The school has faced plenty of criticism from parents lately including claims that the school lacks teachers and books and claims that the school failed to conduct required background checks on employees.
Arts & Minds will likely receive its funds when it is in full compliance with the law.
Balere is facing a foreclosure lawsuit on its school building, and the school has about $136,000 in outstanding debts, including $99,000 owed to a previous landlord.
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Does anyone think these states would allow websites on the Internet if these websites were a threat to them?They could close the whole Internet as easily as you would turn a light off. Is the answer raising money, writing, and speaking, is it nationalism?
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Interesting to note that the Transport Manager is listed as 'Clayon Jones'. A rather unfortunate typo!Of all the words you could get wrong...(!
!Wasn't NAT founded by Mr. Jones' son Kevyn?
ThI wonder if this will come off?
Standard tactic from the early years of deregulation, mostly the industry is past that now. Even before Covid the extra costs of insurance, all the legal requirements for buses and pass acceptance meant that on road competition just wasn't happening very often. A new service isn't going to be able to claim any of the Covid support money, whereas (I suspect) an existing service will still get it which will make it even more of a drain. Still, I'll look forward to seeing the left hand drive buses that are on the leaflet for however long Clayton can afford to run them!
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Game Garden™ published Fairy Kingdom: World of Magic, Farmdale, Fairy Farm. All apps from Game Garden™ at MetricsCat
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Wish you were in a tropical paradise? Haven't seen the sun and the ocean for a while? Need some adventure in your life? If so, you are in the right place!A sea voyage has gone completely wrong...
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'Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings' Sequel Confirmed By Marvel, Director Destin Daniel Cretton to Return!
It’s official: a sequel!
The news broke today and Marvel also confirmed that Destin Daniel Cretton will be back to write and direct the sequeld thea Variety).
The cast of the first movie included Simu Liu in the title role with Michelle Yeoh, Awkwafina and Tony Leung also starring.
Find out how much money some of Marvel’s biggest stars were paid for their hit superherounstoppable.
The film brought in $13.3ally up to $196.5 million, a pandemic-era record that breaks Marvel‘s own previous record for highest-grossing movie of the year with Black Widow, which brought in $183 million.
Other box office entries include Dear Evan Hansen, which started at $7.5 million, underneath the $10 million projection.
The Marvel superhero film once again ruled as of Sunday (September 19), Variety reported.
The Marvel movie opened at the No. 1 spot at the box office over Labor Day Weekend, Variety reports.
Simu Liu is sending his gratitude to the cast and crew ofday of the premiere in theaters.
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Pamela Denise Anderson is the Canadian-American actress, model, television actor and author. Her work on “Home Improvement”, “Baywatch” and “V.I.P.” are some of her notable works. Other than that, Pamela is also s. Moreover, Andersony’s magazine in February 1990. She has also often appeared on the cover of the magazine and reported all Playboy covers by everyone.
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The MP for Sittingbourne and Sheppey, who is part of Conservative Friends of Israel, said Palestine has encouraged its children to hate Jews, Israel and the West, and urged the British Government to take a stand against this attitude.
The speaker claimed that, while Israeli jingoism is "rightly" condemned by the Government, "widespread PA-endorsed incitement has gone unchallenged for too long."
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According to Henderson, the Palestinian veneration of martyrs and prisoners only prolongs the cycle of hate incitement. (
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to view PMW reports on UK aid financing PA salaries for terrorist prisoners
"I also feel," he adds.
Discussing funding, Burt highlighted the fact that the UK engages closely with the PA in order to make sure the funds are allocated to their intended destination, and that the aid goes directly to families who have children in prisons.
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F"act now" on the cost-of-living crisis. He fears that by waiting until a new prime minister is chosen, it will be "too late" and that people will be "experiencing great hardship and an unbearable burden of unpayable bills" in...
The new prime minister gave her first speech outside Downing Street, shortly after returning from Scotland where Queen Elizabeth asked her to form a new government, as per tradition.
Former Conservative Party treasurer Lord Jonathan Marland says former UK prime minister Boris Johnson is such a "charismatic character" that if he's learned from his..
Scouse Spud Boris Johnson Interview in Full Watch our funny interview with Ex-British Prime Minister Boris Johnson. Shocking Response.Drop a comment below on what your favourite video is so far!
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GLOFII is a private organization that seeks to establish a business platform through integrated farming agricultural sector, job opportunities, innovate as well as start their own business, along with new innovations in the fields related to agriculture, an environment to find solutions of problems and that the same people cancountry.
To those who works in acres not in hours.
Making people self-reliant through franchise model.
Glofii Foundation for social works which will focus mainly on the health and education sector.
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Anno is a simulation series that has been keeping players entertained for quite a while. Its first title came out in 1998, and since then, plenty of games and spin-offs have followed it. Each of the Anno titles usually focuses on a certain period in history and offers us a very accurate view of the situation in that era, adapting the city-building and colonization mechanics to fit the appropriate setting. After jumping to the future in the last installment of the series with Anno 2205, developer Blue Byte has decided to go back to a past era for the next entry. Anno 1800 will take us back togame will let us experience industrialization from its beginning to its apogee, following the city-building and combat mechanics seen in previous titles of the series but also with the addition of interesting new features with a heavy impact on the gameplay, like tourism, pollution, or worker strikes.
You should also know that Anno 1800 has joined the increasingly bigger list of video games that will not be available on Steam but in Epic Games Store instead. In this case, Ubisoft has decided that it will fulfill the previous sales that were made through Valve´s gaming platform. Anno 1800 will be removed from Steam when the game launches on April 16th, but anyone that has purchased it there will still have access to the game and future patches. After that date, the game will only be available at Epic Games Store and Ubisoft's Uplay. You can check out our comparator for the best prices, as usual.
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Most firearms instructors will talk about shooting stance even in basic instruction. While the stance is important, overemphasis on just the “stance” is common. Think about the dynamics involved in defensive shooting: in a fight you might end up shooting from a shooting stance, or not. If you need to shoot from the ground while laying on your back, is that a stance?If you need to shoot while on your knees, is that a stance. How about laying face down over a car hood, what stance is that?
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While you may be experiencing snow blizzards in your neck of the woods, it's all thunderstorms here. Not a bad way to spend the day with my boy cooped up indoors {in our pjs, nonetheless}. I actually love days like this. You don't have to feel guilty for not running your seemingly endless errands. You can focus on things around the house {laundry, dishes, the things that are always piling up}, watch an old favorite movie, or spend wasteful time on the computer. Let's just hope I don't go into labor in this weather!
Watercolor is a huge trend right now. This photo from The Sweetest Occasion made me feel like a child again. Pull out the paint, water, and brushes!
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end to Portland’s regular season and get you set for te final games of Portland’s regular season, and preview the team’s upcoming series against the Denver Nuggets. They’ll also fill out their (nonexistent) end-of-season award ballots, and examine the entire NBA Playoffs field.
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By Thomas Butko Ina heightened focus on political Islam (or Islamism) as a global area of research. Yet, in spite of the view that political Islam is essentially internationally oriented in its outlook, the primary focus of Islamist groups is actually at the domestic level, as Islam is utilized as a polit […].
ical instrument to initiate radical political change within Middle Eastern states. These movements have arisen in reaction to attempts at rapid development and modernization which have not fulfilled the expectations of a majority of their populations. Urbanization, higher education, and the perception of relative material deprivation have led to feelings of alienation, frustration, and hence, a growing sense of powerlessness. Most individuals and groups disenchanted with the economic mismanagement and authoritarian political structures of Middle Eastern states have rallied around the Islamists. With angy, the Islamistse to the region’s tired, inefficient, and repressive regimes.majority of research on political Islam (also referred to as Islamism) has predominately focused on the movement’s ideology and strategy on the international level. However, Islamists’ primary target remains the domestic regimes of individual Muslim countriesfactors that account for the increase in support accorded the Islamists since the 1967 Six-Day War. Specifically, this article claims that their success is rooted in their appropriation of religious symbols, discourse, and language to express socio-economic grievances, utilizing them as instruments to enact radical internal political change. This has been achieved through a linking of interests and ideas both inside Islamic societies and at the individual level as well.
This article begins with a brief survey of contemporary Muslim societies. At the macro or systemic level, these societies exhibit certain common rapid development and modernization. Some important consequences of attempts at advanced modernization have included greater urbanization (or conversely a massive rural exodus), wider attainment of higher levels of education, and an increase in perceived material deprivation. Second, this has impacted the micro-level in terms of an individual’s subjective perceptions and evaluations towards the system as a whole, leading to increased feelings of alienation, frustration, and a general sense of powerlessness. As a result, there are specific socio-economic groups within contemporary Muslim societies who have been more detrimentally affected by these recent developments. This article argues that what ultimately unites these sometimes very divergent individuals into a common cause that supports the Islamists is their shared animosity towards a ruling elite they believe to be solely responsible for their grievances. Since the regime dominates all aspects of the political, economic, and social process, and forbids any opposition to and criticism of its rule, the state then becomes the exclusive target of those dissatisfied groups frustrated with what they perceive as corrupt, incompetent, and oppressive regimes. In fact, throughout its history, Islam has been seized upon by those groups seeking to radically restructure the existing socio-political order as an ideology of protest and an instrument of revolt.
One of the most important consequences of rapid economic development has been the accelerated urbanization and a corresponding rural exodus that has occurred since the 1970s. As populations throughout the Muslim world increased exponentially and the land available to sustain rural populations continued to shrink, more and more people moved to the city in search of employment and the promise of a better future. Oliver Roy estimates that the entrance of millions of peasants into the city led to a threefold increase in the population of the great Muslim metropolises from 1970-1990.[8] Consequently, these new cramped conditions have led to severe overcrowding and massive housing shortages, and in these growing megacities and shantytowns increasingly even the most basic of services—water, sewers, transportation—are either lacking or non-existent.[9] Not surprisingly, this has led many people to become progressively more disenchanted with a system which does not seem to properly attend to their growing needs.
In addition, increased levels of education, without a corresponding expansion in the number and quality of employment, is another factor leading to the growth of political Islam throughout the Muslim world. Many young Muslims attempting to find their way out of their current state of poverty and underemployment have sought higher education as a means to this end. Despite their hard work and parents’ financial sacrifices, recent graduatethe types of jobs they expected their new educational skills and status as graduates deserve. This problem was especially pronounced in Egypt because of Gamal Abdel Nasser’s twin policies of free higher education and guaranteed state employment. As Carrie Rosefsky Wickham argues, such “paradoxical” polices led to a tripling of university graduates in Egypt between 1975 and 1985absorb such an increase.[10] Consequently, many recent university graduates—not just those with general arts degrees, but individuals with science degrees, engineers, and doctors—along with their parents, have become very receptive to the Islamists’ promises what they perceive to be a more just and fair system.
In the end, the common characteristic exhibited by those individuals that tend to support the Islamists’ platform is the self-perception as victims or “losers” in the attempts at modernization and economic development; the repercussions of which are only accentuated in the current era of globalization. These individuals are driven by crowded conditions and a sense of anonymity, frustrations created by “wasted” educational opportunities, individual alienation, frustration, powerlessness, and their exclusion from the consumer society which they see just out of reach. As a result, they are often drawn to the single credible group that promises to deliver a fresh beginning and a new and more just system.
In contemporary Muslim states, a principal reason why many authoritarian regimes have become the primary target of frustration for the middle and lower-middle classes is their monopolization over all actual and potential power bases through their complete domination of the state apparatus and civil society. In turn, this creates the impression that the current regime, either through corruption, mismanagement, or incompetence, is solely responsible for all the contemporary problems inflicted on these disaffected groups. Since the Islamist opposition is better organized, more efficient at providing alternative services, and represents an indigenous belief system, the Islamists are usually able to outperform the secular opposition by presenting themselves as the only legitimate alternative to the current ruling elite.[44] The fact that Islam represents a native ideological approach is especially important since the ability to “frame”[45] contemporary grievances through religious discourse and language has allowed the Islamists to eclipse the ability of other potential critics of the regime (i.e., Marxists, socialists, Nasserists, liberals, and others).
When examining the specific policies pursued by various Middle Eastern states, much of the hostility directed towards these regimes is based on the perception of incompetence and mismanagement on the part of the ruling elites and their failure to address the actual problems affecting a majority of their populations. In this sense, the dominant powers are seen as having created an atmosphere of political stagnation, through their inability to fulfill the expectations they themselves have created.[47] In turn, this failure to deliver the political ‘goods’ leads to the impression that the regime and its representatives are corrupt, distant, and inefficient. The fact that in many of these states the same leaders and/or party have ruled uninterrupted for several decades—the National Liberation Front (FLN) in Algeria, the National Democratic Party (NDP) in Egypt, the Ba’th party in Syria, or the royal families in Saudi Arabia, Jordan, and the Gulf states—reinforces the perception of the regime as overly bureaucratized and bloated, where nepotism, not merit, is the primary requirement for advancement.[48] For many in the middle class, the regime is viewed as nothing more than ineffectual centers of political patronage for party hacks and members of their immediate family.
Of course, Islamists do not simply oppose specific governmental policies. Instead, they refute the regime’s entire legitimacy and question its overall credibility, leading to what Bassam Tibi refers to as a general “crisis of legitimacy.”[60] In fact, most of the Islamists’ success has been based on their ability to de-legitimize both the various governments and their leaders. Such criticisms have only been exacerbated by regimes that appear incapable or unwilling to allow either limited political participation or create policies that can lead to sustained economic growth.
In some states, such as Egypt, attempts have been made to work outside the political structure (i.e., within civil society), since as Wickham makes clear, participation in politics can lead to “the risk of harassment, imprisonment, or worse.”[61] In response, the ability of a regime to monopolize control over certain coercive agents of the state, such as the military, judiciary, and police forces, is sometimes less important than its capacity to dominate what tend to be specifically “private” realms, such as the content of education and the environment of intellectual development. Hence, through its ability to coopt the means of socialization and penetratey, these regimes have been able to integrate and control their populations, while maintaining at least a degree of popular legitimacy.
The last aspect to examine regarding the ruling elite and its all-pervasive dominance of the state and civil society involves the greater question of political ideology. In other words, have these regimes provided their people with a larger ideological context or meaning through which to live their lives? For example, in the West, liberal democracies promote ideas of individual freedom and the collective good as the fundamental principles necessary to mask inequalities and specific cases of blatant political, economic, and social injustice.
In the Muslim world, however, the biggest threat confronting the current ruling elite may be their inability to espouse a larger ideological meaning for the masses or, perhaps more accurately, the fact that their ideologies have emerged as bankrupt, meaningless, and essentially void. As a result, the ruling regimes have as much failed as the Islamist movements have succeeded in providing a more effective ideology by which to guide the lives of their followers. It is in this political and ideological vacuum created by the breakdown of current ideologies that the Islamists have been offered their greatest opportunity. Thus, the Islamists have presented the masses with the chance to believe in something beyond the mere exertion of power; namely, a belief in the ideas of equality, social justice, and brotherhood.
Theoretically, contemporary Islamists had a much more difficult time discovering historical justification for their revolutionary doctrine since Sunni political theory clearly assumed the position that “even an unjust ruler was better than strife and the dissolution of society.”[74] This is where the works of Ibn Tamiyya (1260-1327) were used to justify the overthrow of a ruler based on his non-compliance with the Shari’a.[75] In other words, “a Sunni ruler becomes illegitimate if he does not apply a substantial part of the Shari’a.”[76] It were these types of arguments that were seized upon by contemporary Islamists, such as Abd al-Salam Faraj (leader of the al-Jihad Group which assassinated Sadat) in their justification of a Sunni-style revolutionary doctrine with its roots in Islamist political thought.[77] Contemporary Islamists now had the philosophical legitimacy they sought in justifying the overthrow of current leaders who refuse to rule in the shadow of the Shari’a. As an instrument of revolt, they maintain that they are simply fighting the same non-Islamist and foreign rulers who have consistently plagued the history of an otherwise peaceful and just Islamist state.
By examining contemporary Islamist movements, the main argument is that while utilizing religious symbols and Islamic discourse, the primary objectives of the Islamists remain explicitly political. In addition, in spite of the heightened focus in the West on the international aspects of Islamist ideology and radical Islamist groups, these movements remain primarily orientated towards their domestic environments. In this sense, Islam is utilized principally as a tool or instrument to initiate radical internal political change through the overthrow of the current regime and the destruction of its political, economic, and social power. Both the specific policies conducted by contemporary governments and their total domination over the state and civil society have contributed in unifying those groups most detrimentally affected by the current environment (i.e., the casualties or “victims” of modernization) into supporting what they perceive as the only practical alternative to this hegemonic control. Thus, it is this unity through opposition that has thrust the Islamists to the forefront of the current political struggle. With its historical roots as an ideology of protest and instrument of revolt, Islam has an advantage over other movements and ideologies which seek to radically transform the existing political order. Only Islam is perceived as a legitimate and indigenous option available to those disadvantaged segments that link both their interests and ideas into a concrete agenda for change and an alternative vision of a better and more just future.
[1] Some recent works do an excellent job of linking recent Islamic activism with the new research originating from social movement theory. Two examples include: Quintan Wiktorowicz, and Carrie Rose2] As Mahmud Faksh asserts, “Islamism is basically an indigenous response to prevalent socioeconomic and political problems.” Mahmud A. Faksh,Westport: Praeger, 1997), p. xii. Also see Emmanuel Sivan, Radical Islam: Medieval Methodology and Modern Politics (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1997), p. 125.
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[4] For an excellent examination of this point see Benjamin Smith, “Collective Action With and Without Islam: Mobilizing the Bazaar in Iran,” in Wiktorowicz (ed.), Islamic Activism. In demonstrating the links between the ulama and the bazaar, Smith argues that the association was not solely motivated by religion and, hence, was more a temporary alliance based on a “convergence of grievances.” See Smith, especially pp. 186 and 201.
[5] Ayubi asserts that contemporary Islamic movements should be seen primarily as “the moralist/culturalist expression of a developmental crisis.” (London and New York: Routledge, 1991), p. 158. For other examples, see Saleem Qureshi, “Political Implications of Fundamentalist Islam,” in Janice Gross Stein and David B. DeWitt (eds.), The Middle East at the Crossroads: Regional Forces and External Powers (Oakville: Mosaic Press, 1983), p. 76; and Sivan, Radical Islam, p. 125.
[6] Ayubi, Political Islam, p. 171.
[7] Daryush Shayegan, (London: Saqi, 1992), p. 84.
[8] Olivier Roy, The Failure of Political Islam (trans. by Carol Volk) . 55. In Tehran alone, Roy states the population increased from 3 to 9 million over this period.
[9] Quintan Wiktorowicz, ,” in Wiktorowicz (ed.), Islamic Activism, p. 7.
[10] Wickham, Mobilizing Islam, p. 38.
[11] Sivan, Radical Islam, p. 11. Roy makes a similar point, suggesting Islamic movements are a response of “the oppressed of all countries… [who] dream of access to the world of development and consumption from which they feel excluded.” Roy, The Failure of Political Islam, p. 52.
[12] Ayubi, Political Islam, pp. 176-77.
[13]2nd ed. (New York: Oxford University Press, 1995), p. 15.
14] Ibid., pp. 15-16.
[15]p. 77.
[16] Conversely, part of the Islamists’ success is their ability to create a sense of “empowerment” among its supporters, or what Wickham calls “physical empowerment.” See Carrie Rosefsky Wickham, “Interests, Ideas, and Islamist Outreach in Egypt,” in Wiktorowicz (ed.), Islamic Activism, p. 244; and Wickham, Mobilizing Islam, pp. 153, 170.
[17] In her studies on recent Egyptian graduates, Wickham mentions that many university graduates were unwilling to do menial jobs that they felt detrimentally affected their social status or prestige; jobs they believed that were “beneath their station” or a “blow to their dignity (karama).” Wickham, Mobilizing Islam, pp. 54, 58, and 62.
[19] Ayubi, Political Islam, pp. 159-60. Emmanuel Sivan makes a similar point in examining the role played by “rising expectations,” especially among the educated youth. According to Sivan, “The greater the expectations, the deeper the fall to the abyss of despair when the hopes failed to materialize.” Sivan, Radical Islam, p. 125.
[20]17. Also see Wiktorowicz, “Introduction,” pp. 11-12.
[21] 21. Also see Sivan, Radical Islam, pp. 119-20; Kepel, Muslim Extremism in Egypt, p. 217; and Ayubi, Political Islam, p. 168.
[22] The actual social bases of the Islamists’ support will be examined more clearly in the next section.
[23] It is clear that one crucial factor accounting for the Islamists’ success in the Middle East has been their ability to provide certain social services—health, education, welfare—that the mainstream regime either is unwilling or unable to provide. For a discussion of this crucial issue see Wiktorowicz, “Introduction,”pp. 11-12; and Kepel, Muslim Extremism in Egypt, p. 17.
[24] Esposito, The Islamic Threat, p. 16.
25] In general, Richard Mitchell describes these groups as the “urban middle class.” 329. According to Gilles Kepel, the degree of success accorded various Islamist groups throughout the Middle East was based on their ability to link the interests of their two principal bases of support: “the young urban poor” and the “devout middle class.” While such a strategy was highly successful in Iran, he argues that the Islamic Salvation Front’s (FIS) eventual failure in Algeria was their inability to preserve such an “alliance” beyond the elections of 1991. Strans. Anthony F. Roberts
[26] Mitchell, The Society of the Muslim Brothers, pp. 12-13. Also see Christina P. Harris, Nationalism and Revolution in Egypt (The Hague/London/Paris: Hoover Institute on War, Revolution, and Peace, 1964), p. 158; and Dilip Hiro, the Global Response (London: Routledge, 2002), p. 61.
[27] Choueiri, Islamic Fundamentalism, p. 12. Also seeOn America (London: Granta Publications, 2002), p. 115; and Ayubi, Political Islam, p. 161.
[28] In Egypt, Wickham claims that thegarnered most of their success from what she terms the “lumpen intelligentsia.” Wickham, Mobilizing Islam, p. 37.
[29] Mitchell, The Society of Muslim Brothers, pp. 283-84.
[31] Abrahamian, Khomeinism, p. 53. It should not be surprising that in Iran, where Islamists control the government but have faired no better in providing for their urban citizens, it is again the students and intellectuals that have been among the most prominent opponents to the regime.
[32] Unquestionably, all those theorists who have examined in depth the main socio-economic bases of the Islamists’ support focus on the “young” as the primary demographic group. Kepel’s views have already been addressed regarding the “young urban poor.” Kepel, Jihad, especially see pp. 6, 107, 127, 152, 159, and 168.
[33] See; and P.J. Vatikiotis, The History of Egypt (London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1968), p. 440.
[34] Kepel argues that education—even higher education—is more, not less likely to lead an individual into supporting radical Islamic movements. Kepel, Muslim Extremism in Egypt, p. 217. For some other examples see Choueiri, Islamic Fundamentalism, p. 12; Edward Mortimer, Faith and Power: The Politics of Islam (London: Faber and Faber, 1982), pp. 403-04; and Ayubi, Political Islam, p. 161. These points were also examined in some detail in the previous section.
[35] From a macro or systemic level, certain authors argue that one common feature in those countries that have exhibited higher rates of support for the Islamists’ cause, especially greater degrees of Islamic radicalism, are countries with a larger percentage of young people. According to Kepel, 50 percent of Palestinians are under 15, while 70 percent are under 30, Kepel, Jihad, p. 152; while Mark Juergensmeyer’s argues that Algeria’s radicalized political environment191.
[36] The Munazzamat al-Tahrir al-Islami is probably best known for its 1974 seizure of a Technical Academy in Northern Egypt. It was hoped that such a brazen attack would spark a general uprising among the Egyptian masses.
[37] Pinter, 1985), p. 114.
[38]link between a “rural background” and support for the Islamists’ cause. For an example see Ruthven, A Fury for God, p. 113.
[39] Michael M. J. Fischer, “Imam Khomeini: Four Levels of Understanding,” 162. Kepel argues that “young immigrants from the countryside” remained a key cornerstone of the Islamists’ core constituency up to and during the Iranian revolution. See Kepel, Jihad, p. 108.
[40] Esposito, The Islamic Threat, p. 189.
[41 41. John L. Esposito, “Introduction,” in Esposito (ed.), Political Islam, p. 3.
[42] Ayubi, Political Islam, p. 175 (emphasis added).
[44] Anderson, “Fulfilling Prophecies,” p. 24.
[45] Wiktorowicz examines the importance of this issue of “framing” in terms of the Islamists’ discourse. His main argument is that the Islamists have been the most successful in utilizing the symbols and language of Islam to construct shared “meanings” and “identities” as the “basis of collective action.” Wiktorowicz, “Introduction,” pp. 2, 3, and 16.
[46] Gilles Kepel provides a good example of how the mosque has been utilized in the Islamists’ struggle in Egypt. See Kepel, Muslim Extremism in Egypt, Chapter 6: The Sermons of Sheikh Kishk. Others authors also examine this issue including: Wiktorowicz, “Introduction,” pp. 1 and 10; Robinson, “Hamas as a Social Movement,” p. 126; and Wickham, Mobilizing Islam, pp. 131-33.
[47] Wickham’s examination of the “paradox” between the Nasser, and the resulting frustrations, has already been examined. See Wickham, Mobilizing Islam, p. 38.
[48] Roy, The Failure of Political Islam, p. 52. In Wickham’s interviews, a common complaint of Egyptian graduates, and a prime reason that they felt growing disillusionment with the regime, was their perception that nepotism and not merit was the only way one could hope to achieve decent paying government employment. The term she uses is “wasta” (i.e., right connections). Seepp. 237-38; and Wickham, Mobilizing Islam, p. 62.
[49] While Ruthven mentions the existence of a “democratic deficit,” Ruthven, A Fury for God, p. 281; and Mohammed Hafez argues about the deliberate exclusion of all “opposing voices,” Mohammed M. Hafez, “GIA Violence in Algeria,” in Wiktorowicz (ed.), Islamic Activism, p. 43; Diane Singerman goes so far as to refer to what she perceives as the actual “criminalization of politics.” Seet,” in Wiktorowicz (ed.), Islamic Activism, p. 160.
[50]der: Westview, 1994), p. 114.
[52] Abdulwahab Saleh Babeair, “Intellectual Currents in Contemporary Islam,” The Muslim World, Vol.81, No.3 (1991), p. 234.
[53] Qureshi, “The 54] For an example see Kepel, Jihad, p. 83.
[55] See Ismael and Ismael, Government and Politics in Islam, pp. 105-07. In many ways, this parallels the attraction socialism and communism held in the region during the mid-20th century.
[56] Abdel Salam Sidahmed and Anoushiravan Ehteshami, “Introduction,” in Abdel Salam Sidahmed and Anoushiravan: Westview, 1996), p. 7.
[57] See Mary-Jane Deeb, “Militant Islam and the Politics of Redemption,” The Annals of the American Academy, Vol. 524 (November 1992), pp. 55-55.
[58] In their critiques against the Mubarak regime, many of more “radical” Islamists accused the Egyptian President of being “un-Islamic.” According to Mahmud Abouhalima, one of the alleged s, “the character of many contemporary [Middle Eastern] politicians was deceitful: they pretended to be Muslim, but in practice followed secular—implicitly Western—codes of conduct.” Abouhalima, as quoted in Juergensmeyer, Terror in the Mind of God, p. 64. For some more general examples see; Esposito, The Islamic Threat, p. 135; and in what Sivan terms “Westoxicated” Sivan, Radical Islam, p. 183.
[60]8. Also see Najib Ghadbian, “Political Islam: Inclusion or Violence?” i (eds.)New York and London: Routledge, 2002), p. 101.
[61] Wickham, Mobilizing Islam, p. 74. This is a core component of her overall thesis regarding the development of the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood and the growth of its influence over the last two decades.
[62] Sees (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1990), p. 20; Sivan, Radical Islam, p. 54; and Kepel, Muslim Extremism in Egypt, p. 100. According to Wickham, to temper the influence of the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt, the Mubarak regime has declared the ulama “the guardians of the Shari’a,” while allotting them a prominent role in the formation of government policy. Wickham, Mobilizing Islam, p. 211.
[63] See Abu-Rabi M. Ibrahim,st Thought: Sayyid Qutb: A Review Article,” The Muslim World, Vol. 81, No. 3 (July-October 1991), p. 294.
[64] Sivan, Radical Islam, pp. 47 and 131. See also Cambridge University Press, 1981).
[65] Kepel, Jihad, p. 63.
[66] Edward Mortimer, Faith and Power, p. 285.
[68] Whether in terms of a religious answer or political ideology, according to Mortimer, the one thing all could agree upon was that “the 1967 defeat had only demonstrated more conclusively the rottenness of the whole political and social order.” Ibid., p. 288.
[69] As Kepel argues, in Iran, the Islamists succeeded primarily because of their ability to attract and “unite everyone with an axe to grind [who wanted to] bring down the establishedpower.” Kepel, Jihad, p. 118. Or, as he argues elsewhere, Islam has become the “weapon” or “vehicle” for all who desire an overthrow of the state and a destruction of the existing order. Ibid., p. 63.
[70] Faksh, The Future of Islam in the Middle East, p. 23.
[71]985), p. 176.
[72] See Sivan, Radical Islam, p. 165; and Ayubi, Political Islam, p. 62.
[73] Dekmejian, Islam in Revolution, p. 38. The Kharijites were the first major sect to break from mainstream Islam. This occurred during the period of the Caliph Ali (657-661). Primarily consisting of economically al, they argued that those who did not follow the literal word of God as expressed in the Koran should be excommunicated from the community. Several authors draw parallels between the Kharijites and the contemporary Islamists. For some examples see Ayubi, Political Islam, pp. 4 and 125; Mortimer, Faith and Power, p. 62; Kepel, Muslim Extremism in Egypt, p. 58; and Fouad Ajami, “In the Pharaoh’s Shadow: Religion and Authority in Egypt,” in James P. Piscatori (ed.), Islam in the Political Process (Cambridge; New York: Royal Institute Of International Affairs, 1983), p. 27.
[743), p. 19.
[75] Ibn Tamiyya lived during the period of the Mongols’ capture of the Muslim Caliphate in Baghdad. He was persuaded to declare a fatwa instructing jihad against the Mongol prince who was governing according to Mongol tradition at the exclusion of the Shari’a. Kepel, Muslim Extremism in Egypt, p. 194. Also s. 19; and Ayubi, Political Islam, p. 33.
[76] Sivan, Radical Islam, p. 99.
[77] Kepel, Muslim Extremism in Egypt, pp. 193-94; and Sivan, Radical Islam, pp. 104 and 190. Admittedly, while Faraj may have gone further than his predecessors within the “radical” Islamist movement, he was really just following in the footsteps of other 20th century Islamists, such as Abu A’la Mawdudi and Sayyid Qutb.
Thomas Butko teaches Political Studies at Augustana Faculty, University of Alberta, in Camrose, Alberta, Canada. His research focuses most specifically on Islamist, anti-globalization, and other counter-hegemonic movements. His publications include “Political Islam and the Middle East Peace Process: A Veiled Threat,” in Tami Jacoby and Brent Sasley (eds.), Redefining Security in the Middle East (London“. 1 (May 2004) and “Islam as Political Ideology,” in Don Carmichael (ed.), From Philosophy to Politics: Essays in Memory of Dimitrios S. Panopolis (Edmonton: University of Alberta, 2004).
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Nurturing Leads on Social Channels
Connor Brooke Last updated: 1 August 2013
Many businesses have trouble seeing how social media could help generate more leads — and, yes, in fact, qualified leads. After all, posts to various social channels are much more a generalized blast than they are tailored information suited to specific leads. Still, studies have shown time and agaiales process, and the percentage of people who are making decisions based on interactions on social channels is only growing.
Maybe it took some time for your business to even get up and running on social media – you didn’t see what all the fuss was about at first, and then once you realized your customers were there and they were paying more attention to your competition, you hurried to catch up. It’s okay – a lot of businesses were in this boat. The important part is that you’re on social now, right?
Yes and no. You’ve got the tools and you’re interacting across various channels, but it’s not enough to just maintain. Whereas the last wave was just becoming social, this wave is all about managing your prospects. So how can you make social media work for your lead nurturing?
First, keep in mind the important social media lessons that you’ve already learned: social Now, think about the natural extension of that. If it’s great for building those relationships, it’s also a good way to maintain them.
You’re likely already sending emails and other correspondence as part of your lead nurturing. Something you can do that is so simple (and therefore often overlooked) is to include icons linked to your social channels so that prospects can connect with you if they haven’t already.
From here, make sure that the content that you’re sharing on your social channels is segmented to some extent. That is, create a strategy in which you share content geared toward tl with a relatively equal balance. While this method of social lead nurturing isn’t personally tailored to each prospect, it is suited toward a general population that could find the information useful and reach out to you (via social sites) to ask questions or discuss further.
Don’t forget to include social share icons so that they can pass the content along! That’s another small but effective way to make your lead nurturing more social. You never know when prospects will share content and introduce more prospects into your funnel.
Of course, one of the biggest and best ways to engage in social lead nurturing is through your Social Media Management Platform, which preferably integrates with your CRM system and also offers some lead scoring capability over social channels. Such solutions allow you to monitor key words and phrases that and (and should) trigger some action from your business. It’s wise to set yourself up with more than just one term (your company name, for example). Prospects aren’t necessarily looking for you by name (yet). They have a need that must be satisfied, so you need to set up search terms that will help you locate prospects expressing such a need. And then what? Once you find them (and when your monitoring is set up properly, you will), you need to reach out to them and open the lines of communication. Depending upon the engagement the platform would ideally assign lead scores.
Social nurturing is not a one-and-done deal! Reaching out to a potential lead on social media is great, but you have to be willing to interact. If you offer to answer questions and they reply by asking you questions, be prepared to answer – and in a timely fashion. This might mean that you have one social account solely dedicated to these kinds of interactions, or it might mean that you ask a team of your employees to get involved and take turns responding. Whatever you choose to do, keep nurturing in mind: you’re planting the seed and helping it to grow, not putting it in the ground and then depriving it of nourishment.
Does social lead nurturing take time? Yes. Is it always easy? Of course not. But the best things rarely are, and when you’ve worked hard to nurture a lead that eventually becomes a sale, the effort is always worth it.
What are some of your favorite social lead nurturing techniqu.
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Japanese plant physiologist Shigeharu Shimamura is changing the agriculture industry as we know it. Every single day he grows 10,000 heads of lettuce at his indoor farm. He's truly at the forefront of an agricultural revolution.
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U’s seconds leading scorer before his injury and now all of a sudden he can’t play or is overrated. That’s crazy and to be considered a headache or problem at the next level – this is a kid who sat through all the NCAA bull and didn’t know if he would play, but kept his smile and his cool through it all. How quickly we forget,” added Witherspoon.
I told my son today, exactly what the scout was telling Keegan. Selby will likely go to the NBA work outs and blow them away with his athleticism, and may even work his way into a lottery pick. We did see flashes of that athleticism. Unfortunately, it was usually when he was a bit out of control. I was at the KU-OSU game in the Big 12 tourney, and at one point he blew by someone, put on a lightning quick spin move and laid it off the glass, he missed, and I believe he was called for a charge (poor call with a guy too far under the basket defensively to have gotten the call.) Self immediately pulled him, but I remembered thinking "that is the athleticism we've all been hearing about." It was quicker than any move I've ever seen Taylor make.
Let's not forget, he was just starting to play well prior to the foot injury. He was taking on more of the point guard duties and I thought it was the point in the season when KU was playing its best basketball. Selby was fitting in with what the offense was trying to do. The foot injury clearly slowed him the rest of the conference season, and he basically played the entire season without really even getting into mid season form.. He only started to get that explosivness back about the time the Big 12 tournament started.
Personally, I think he should have come back one more year. I really think he could have assured himself of being a top 10 pick. On the other hand, with the lockout looming, there are a lot of guys sticking around and next year's draft will be loaded.
Bottom line, I think he'll be a first round draft choice. I doubt he'll play a lot initially because I'm not sure he's ready, but hopefully hell develop into a good NBA player. If I have one reservation about him, it is whether or not he's coachable. I did see a lot of frustration from Self this year in dealing with him, and Josh's body language in reaction to Self wasn't always the best. Of course, the NBA is full of guys who don't necessarily take well to coaching. The very best NBA players do allow themselves to be coached. I hope I'm wrong about that side of Josh, because if he does open himself up to coaching, he has the potential to be a very good NBA player.
I do wish him the best. I would never root against a kid who thought enough of KU to come play here in the first place. I hope he becomes a star, and speaks well of his time at KU.
Good to see some people on here defending Josh a bit. Give the kid a break, people! Selby did exactly what we all thought he would do. He played at KU for 1 year, and now he's going pro. That has always been the plan. Don't fault Selby for the stupid one year rule. He would have gone pro straight out of high school if it were possible (which it should be).
People making negative comments stating that they hope Josh fails/goes to the d-league/goes to Europe/doesn't get drafted seem like fair-weather fans to me. Nobody was complaining when Josh chose to come to KU. Now, just because he had a disappointing season and is still going to get drafted, people are acting like bitter ex-girlfriends/boyfriends.
Think about it, if he would have stayed, people would be saying, "well, I hope he learns how to play Division 1 ball!" And he would have to deal with that the entire offseason. However, since he's leaving, KU "fans" are flat-out making fun of the guy and wishing him the worst. Its a lose-lose for Josh Selby, which isn't fair IMO.
If you're going to be mad at anything, be mad at the NBA for having this stupid one year rule. It hurts college basketball far more than it helps, and it really doesn't do a whole lot for talent in the NBA either. I wish more players would do it like Brandon Jennings and play in Europe for a year. I think college basketball would be a whole lot better. (NBA would probably still suck just as much, but who really cares? The NBA is only competitive during the playoffs anyway.)
Brett Forreal 3 years ago
Yes, Selby did cost KU something, the Turner kid that was almost a lock for KU and then went to Zona.
Ralster Jayhawk 3 years ago
kubball99, And I would support your contention by saying Self's own system frankly benefits from guys who can learn it well enough to execute it. Seems to take Self's own recruits 2-3years to get really proficient at it. That being said, it was hard to see this year's MorrisHawks go down with 2 junior Twins, 3 seniors (Reed, BStar, Little), junior lead-combo (TT), especially since the team, as a group did not execute as they did almost all season long. The time for finger-pointing/calling out specific players has quickly passed--its more about the bigger lesson: if such a result could befall such a team, take pains to learn why (for the youngsters), move forward...stay vigilant against supposed 'lesser' teams.
Ty Mar 3 years ago
Get over it. He didn't have a chance to do what he is capable of doing because of suspensions, broken hand, foot injury. He's 100% now and destroying the workouts. You mad? I can't wait to see Josh play in the NBA! Rock Chalk!.
William Blake 3 years ago
"NBA riches await Josh Selby"
"Josh Selby bids KU adieu"
The headlines have been quite inflammatory...
I know it is a sign of the times, but I miss the days when journalism was focused on content more than playing on emotional drama...
Hard to believe we live in the "age of communication".... where you can interview someone from your personal cellphone while you remain seated in your john boat trying to land the big bass. All of this accessibility and convenience but it is not being utilized to investigate or verify a real story.
In these days it is much easier for writers to go off on their own tangents and purposely incite the herd for reactions, versus creating an idea/theme and then following up with phone calls to substantiate some level of truth.
I don't mean this as an attack on Keeg.... more of an attack on what we call journalism today.
I believe kusports.com can improve substantially if they make a split in content. Have one section called "News" and one section called "Editorial."
By doing so they can raise their standard on news by keeping it to the 'facts' with less bias and drama. Then on the editorial page open it up more and get all the talented writers on this site to totally cut loose with their opinions.
Jocelyn Kennedy 3 years ago
Sure will make watching this year's draft a little more exciting! Good Luck to you, Josh!!
stedman15 3 years ago
The mock draft sites have him going in the second round, which means that any contract he gets will be non-guaranteed. Whoever told him to declare is a fool.
63Jayhawk 3 years ago
I really DO NOT understand all of the negative comments about Selby. We knew when he came that it was for one year only. Yes, he probably would have gone straight to the NBA out of high school if he could. But he couldn't, and he chose KU as the best place to spend that year. He came to KU because he WANTED to come to KU.
Some mistakes were made before he got to KU that cost him nine very valuable weeks. Those mistakes were never hidden. The staff was aware of them before he became a Jayhawk.
He was injured for much of the season. He NEVER had a chance to get comfortable playing with the team in games.
Had he not missed all of that time, all of you who are putting Josh down would be talking about what a great player he is...and crying because he's leaving.
Josh is going to have a GREAT pro career. Be glad for him. Be proud of him as one of us. Cheer his success. Invite him back for celebrations.
I want him to be successful as a pro. I want
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Arthur, John A. Class Formation. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2014.
In, John A. Arthur attempts to insert class and inequality narratives into post-colonial African migration and Diaspora scholarship using Ghanaian experiences. He looks at how the class dynamic plays out in the countries of origination and also in the various destinations or host countries. The book is an interesting one; and as the author himself indicates, it is one that will "hopefully open up a discussion and illuminate the inter-connections between African class structures, social inequalities, and migration" (p. xi). Grounding his thesis in the assertions of Bahr et al. (2002), Arthur argues that "South-North migration is principally driven by the concept of inequality in varied forms, especially the disparate distribution of goods and services, or lack of access to structural opportunities" (p. xi).
In the book, which has seven chapters, the author asserts that although a good number of books deal with the sociological and non-sociological factors involved in defining the nature, content, and outcomes of African migration, none devotes attention to how post-colonial class and constructions have been influential. Arthur's discussion of various theories and general data pertaining to migration is impressive; the book is equally very strong on what Arthur refers to as the layers of social class formations in Ghana pointing out that decades of planned and unplanned biases in the distribution of economic and cultural opportunities have created permanent social, cultural, and economic disparities among regions impacting social mobility widening and aggravating nascent social class differentials in the country. The author proffers quite a brilliant description of the lives of immigrant Ghanaian underclass and professionals in the United States.
Arthur's anticipation of his work "opening up discussions" will certainly be met. Although he does not fully discuss the element of class intricacies and nuances in Africa, he makes several passing references to that effect. For instance, he states that "my attempt to bring a sociological praxis to unravel the relationship between class and migration was made even more difficult by the intricate systems of class structures operating simultaneously in...
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I have been looking into using sessions more carefully (i.e. not allowing external sessionID's for one example) but I cannot think of any way to protect data transmission from a man in the middle that doesn't involve encryption (which I know nothing at all about in terms of setting up) any suggestions?
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Via Mike Munger, my department chair here at Duke and the L, there are rumors that Tucker Carlson may take a shot at the Libertarian presidential nomination. I'm not sure if this is for real or not, but I'm not as surprised by the idea as you might think. Many people forget that Carlson was a conservative but non-dogmatic print journalist before he started doing shout TV. In particular, he wrote a Talk magazine story about George W. Bush in 1999 that got him in a lot of trouble with conservatives. Along the same lines, I had lunch with him once in DC when he was doing Crossfire and I remember thinking that his views were more heterodox than his TV work suggested (he might have even referred to himself as a libertarian). And he was also kind enough to blurb All the President's Spin even though it wasn't in his interest to do so. In any case, I would love to see a debate matching Carlson against Bob Barr and Mike Gravel.
Update 5/23 5:41 PM: Via Tommy Christopher, Jake Tapper at ABC News is reporting that Carlson isn't runnine55282aebCarlson for president?:
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Tonight the Mavs face the Portland Trailblazers in Portland where Dalls suffered a heart-breaking loss to one of their former coaches, Dewayne Casey; but they also got a much needed win against the Blazers at home in February so these last games are up to Dallas in what they want to do and how they want to finish, either strong or just getting through with the season.!
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cense and Perfumes
In the ancient world, incense and perfumes were extremely precious commodities, sometimes even more than silver and gold, and were greatly sought after for their fragrance, for both secular and religious purposes. Among the gifts the Queen of Sheba brought Solomon, perfumes are mentioned (i Kings 10:2). "The spices and precious oil" were kept in the royal treasure chamber together with silver and gold (ii Kings 20:13). Some maintain their value lay in their hygienic qualities, since they served to dispel the prevalent evil smells. It is probable that this is true of the incense burned with the sacrifices, where it was an antidote to the smell of the burning meat (cf. Avot 5:5, where the fact that sacrificial flesh did not become putrid is regarded as a miracle). It was stated that a woman needs to perfume herself but not a man, because she was formed from the rib – flesh – which is subject to putrefaction (Gen. R. 17:8). There is no doubt, however, that the main reason for the desire for perfumes was due simply to their fragrance. The price of incense and perfumes was extremely high, due to various reasons: the laborious task of extracting the aromatic juices, the expense and dangers involved in bringing them from distant countries of origin, and the high profits of the spice merchants' middlemen, who in certain cases kept secret the place of origin of the perfumes (see *Cinnamon).
Sources of Incense and Perfumes
Most incense and perfumes originate in tropical countries: cinnamon came from Ceylon and China, aloe (*algum) and *calamus from India; *nard from Nepal and the Himalayas, and *frankincense from India, Somaliland, and Arabia Felix, which last place also supplied *myrrh; *bdellium originated in Africa and the vicinity of Afghanistan, *tragacanth in the mountains of Asia Minor which was also the center for the growing of *laudanum and *galbanum (also widespread in Turkestan, Persia, Syria, and Crete). Among aromatic plants which grew in Israel were *henna, *saffron, and *balsam (the latter besem, nataf, and ẓori in the Bible; ketaf, apparsemon, and balsemon in rabbinic literature). Balsam was the perfume par excellence. In the time of the Mishnah and the Talmud other perfumes were extracted either from plants which were indigenous to Israel, or from plants, like the *rose, narcissus, and jasmine which originated in foreign countries and were successfully introduced and cultivated in Israel. Besides incense and perfumes of plant origin, aromatic ingredients were produced from fauna, such as sheḥelet "*onycha" (the mishnaic ẓipporin). Rabbinic literature mentions musk, and notes that it is derived from a beast (Ber. 43a); elsewhere it is called muskin (TJ, Ber. 6:6, 10d; from Gr. μόσχος. It is extracted from a gland in the body of the musk deer, Moschus moschiferus, which lives in Nepal and Tibet. Saadiah Gaon and Maimonides erroneously identified musk with the scriptural mor ("myrrh"). Apparently at different times efforts were made to grow other tropical perfumes. This is possibly the source of the aggadah about the growing of cinnamon in Ereẓ Israel. An interesting problem is posed by the statement of Theophrastus about calamus and schoenus, apparently two species of keneh-bosem – (Cymbopogon) growing in a valley not far from the Lebanon, probably the Ḥuleh area. The English naturalist H.B. Tristram, who explored Ereẓ Israel in the second half of the 19th century, wrote that the second species grew then in the vicinity of Lake Kinneret. Nowadays no trace of this is to be found.
The "Spice Route" through Israel
From what has been said, it is evident that "the garden of perfumes" to which the beloved is compared, in the Song of Songs (4:14–15) does not reflect the flora of Israel, since six of the plants mentioned do not grow there. It is an exotic, imaginary garden in which the aromatic plants of the world are assembled. Through Israel passed the "spice route" which led from the countries of the south and the east to the north and west, and from the north to Egypt (cf. Gen. 37:25). This route is very old, and it is not surprising that the children of Israel when traveling in the wilderness already obtained four species of perfumes and at least (see below) four ingredients of the incense which had their origin in different parts of Asia and Africa: myrrh, cinnamon, calamus, keneh-bosem, and kiddah (cassia; Ex. 30:23–24); balsam (nataf), onycha (sheḥelet), galbanum, and frankincense (levonah; Ex. 30:34). While the above applied to both perfumes and incense, the following remarks deal with each group separately.
The ancients liked to savor local aromatic plants. Of the lily (shoshannah; see *Flowers of the Bible), it is stated that "it exists only for its fragrance," and was placed upon the table on Sabbaths and festivals (Lev. R. 23:6).
forms of perfume
Sometimes the perfume was in the form of granules that were smelled from time to time, as in "a bag of myrrh that lieth between my breasts" (Song 1:13), where congealed myrrh, which is also called mor-deror, is meant (Ex. 30:23). In the main, expensive perfumes were used in liquid form, dissolved in oil, this being shemen ha-tov ("the precious oil") frequently referred to in the Bible. Two methods are described for the preparation of "holy anointing oil": in the one, the aromatic sap or plant was boiled in oil; in the other, which was more economical, "they brought the roots and boiled them in water, and poured over them the oil which absorbed the smell. Finally they separated the aromatic oil from the water" (Ker. 5a). Some also put the aromatic plants into oil which gradually absorbed the odor, as was customary in preparing rose oil (Shev. 7:7).
the sale of perfumes
Perfume was sold in special shops, the perfumer's craft being regarded as a pleasant and agreeable occupation: "The world cannot exist without a perfumer and without a tanner – happy is he whose craft is that of a perfumer" (Kid. 82b). There were also itinerant peddlers of perfume, whose wares are called avekat rokhel ("powders of the merchant"; Song 3:6). Some falsified their wares, hence the caution against the adulteration of myrrh with kumos (acacia gum; Sitra 1:22). Harlots used perfumes extensively and the perfumeries were near "the market of harlots" (Ex. R. 43:7). The fragrant oils were sold in ẓeloḥiyyot ("small bottles"; Shab. 8:2; et al.), many.
ritual and secular uses
Perfumes were used for ritual and secular purposes. "Holy anointing oil" was prepared in the wilderness for the *anointing of Aaron and his sons, of the Tabernacle and its utensils. This was prepared from four tropical aromatic ingredients dissolved in olive oil. The Torah forbade it to be used for ordinary purposes, and the preparation of an oil of like proportions was prohibited (Ex. 30:22–33). Samuel anointed Saul and David with the anointing oil, and Zadok anointed Solomon with it. Subsequently, usurpers to the throne of Judah took care to be anointed with the anointing oil. According to rabbinic tradition "a king's son does not require anointing [except in cases where his succession is disputed], nor were the kings of Israel anointed." In the days of Josiah, the anointing oil "was hidden," and from then on kings were anointed with balsam oil (Ker. 5b; tj, Sot. 8:1, 22c). Oil saturated with perfume used for ordinary purposes was called "apothecary's oil" (Eccles. 10:1) or "precious oil" (ibid. 7:1). It "rejoices the heart" (Prov. 27:9); it is the "oil of gladness" (Ps. 45:8). Ecclesiastes, in its description of the life of pleasure says "let thy head lack no oil" (Eccles. 9:8). It was used for scenting the beard (Ps. 133:2) and was particularly favored by the youth (Song. 1:3). Perfume was, however, as can be expected, mainly used by women. The candidates for Ahasuerus' favor were treatointments of the women" (Esth. 2:12).
Incense of offerings is designated by two terms which were originally different in meaning: ketoret (qeṭoret) and levonah. Qeṭoret denotes primarily "that which goes up in smoke" and thus can refer to any type of burned sacrifice (Ps. 66:15). In several instances, the piʿel form of the root ktr (qṭr) appears without a direct object and in close parallelism with the root zvḥ ("to sacrifice"; i Kings 11:8; 22:44; ii Kings 12:4; 14:4, cf. ii Kings 22:17; 23:5; Isa. 65:3; Jer. 1:16; 7:9; 19:14). Hence it is doubtful that these verses contain a reference to incense offering, as suggested by many modern translations. But qeṭoret obviously does mean "incense" as attested in Ezekiel 8:11 (cf. Ezek. 16:18; 23:41) and probably in Deuteronomy 33:10 (qeṭorah), and i Samuel 2:28 as well. In sources usually assigned to priestly writers, qeṭoret and qeṭoret (ha) sammim (Ex. 25:6; 30:7; 31:11) designate an offering of a burning mixture of powdered spices, specifically, stacte, onycha, galbanum, and frankincense (Ex. 30:34–38). Many scholars hold that this recipe may have been taken from an older usage.
The second term for incense, levonah (Jer. 6:20; 17:26; 41:5), designates frankincense and is probably so called because of its white color (Heb. lavan "white"). Levonah is one of the ingredients in qeṭoret (ha-) sammim (Ex. 30:34). M. Haran distinguishes three different uses of incense in the Bible. As a supplement to sacrifice, the incense offering was concomitant to other offerings. Frankincense (levonah) was used without any additional aromatic ingredients. This custom is laid down in the ritual for the meal-offering (minḥah; Lev. 2:1ff.), for firstfruits (bikkurim; Lev. 2:14), and for the showbread (Lev. 24:7; cf. Neh. 13:5, 9). In no instance are spices added to the sacrifices of animals or birds. Incense was also offered in a censer called maḥtah (Lev. 10:1) or miktar (miqṭar; Ezek. 8:11). This was a separate offering which is given special prominence in the priestly sources (Num. 16:16–18). Another separate incense offering was performed by Aaron in order to stop a plague (Num. 17:11–12). In other passages (e.g., Isa. 43:23; Jer. 6:20; 17:26; 41:5) it is not clear whether a separate incense offering was intended or whether the levonah was to accompany the meal-offering. Since the sources do not specify the ingredients of the separate incense offering – Leviticus 10:1, Numbers 16:17, and 17:12 speak only of qeṭoret – its composition cannot be determined. When, however, the high priest was directed to carry a censer of burning incense of qeṭoret sammim (Lev. 16:12–13), but this practice is exceptional. There is no compelling reason to assume that the ritual of burning incense in censers appeared late in the Israelite cult. Egyptian paintings and reliefs from the New Kingdom depicting the sieges of various cities in Canaan and Syria occasionally show a man holding a censer of burning incense (see Gressmann, Bilder, fig. 105 and Pritchard, Pictures, fig. 334).
Except on the Day of Atonement, qeṭoret (ha-) sammim was always offered on a special altar, specifically, the "altar of qeṭoret sammim" (Lev. 4:7 see *Altar). The altar incense was burned each morning and evening by the high priest and came to be designated "perpetual incense" (qeṭoret tamid; Ex. 30:7–8). There is good reason to believe that the "altar of gold" (i Kings 7:48) which stood in Solomon's Temple (i Kings 6:20, 22) was an incense altar, a feature that may have been missing in Ezekiel's vision of the Temple (but see his reference to a table in 41:22). Scholars often compare this altar and the one mentioned in Exodus 30:1–7 to the horned limestone altars (tenth century b.c.e.) excavated in Palestine, especially to those of Megiddo and Tell Beit Mirsim. According to many scholars the horns were designed to support a bowl of incense. Though it is not known exactly when the practice of burning incense was absorbed into the Israelite cult, the suggestion of Van Hoonacker that incense was introduced into Israel in the sixth century b.c.e. is certainly not vindicated by archaeological discoveries.
The offering of incense is treated with the utmost seriousness by biblical writers, who chastise the unqualified persons bold enough to offer it (Lev. 10:1–2; Num. 16:6ff.; ii Chron. 26:16–21). Offering incense to other gods – a practice well attested in the Bible (i Kings 11:8; ii Kings 22:17; 23:5; Jer. 1:16; 7:9; ii Chron. 34:25; et al) – is particularly displeasing to the God of Israel (ii Kings 22:17; Jer. 1:16; ii Chron. 34:25). Its use according to the exact specified proportions was forbidden for nonholy purposes. The use of incense was not restricted to the cultic sphere. It was also offered in honor of distinguished persons (Ezek. 23:41; Dan. 2:46). The bride in Song of Songs 3:6 was perfumed with various types of incense. Proverbs 27:9 praises ointment and incense which "rejoice the heart." It was probably assumed that whatever pleased men would also please God. This may be reflected in Psalms 141:2, where prayer is compared to the rising smoke of incense.
Another term for the ascending smoke of ketoret is tamer, the smoke being timrah; it was stated that the blessing over the incense had to be recited "as soon as the tamarah ascends" (Ber. 43a). From the Aramaic gumra ("coals") is derived the word mugmar for the incense upon the coals. Hence "to say the blessing over the mugmar" literally means "over the fragrant odor of the incense" (although in modern Hebrew the phrase is used as though the word is derived from "gamar," to finish, to mean "to congratulate on the completion of a task"). The verb is also used for the scent of incense permeating a room or clothes (cf. Shab. 18a).
Preparation of the Incense
An ancient baraita from the time of the Temple (Ker. 6a) describes the preparation of incense in the Tabernacle and the Temple. The preparing of incense was called *pittum ha-ketoret and those who did the work were the pattamim ("compounders"). Although the Torah mentions the names of only four ingredients, according to rabbinic tradition "11 ingredients were mentioned to Moses at Sinai," and the increased number is arrived at by homiletical interpretation of that verse. These are (1) balsam, (2) onycha, (3) galbanum, (4) frankincense, (5) myrrh, (6) cassia-cinnamon, (7) spikenard, (8) crocus, (9) costus, (10) cinnamon bark, (11) cinnamon. Loew regarded the increase in the number of spices as determined by the import of new spices in the time of the Second Temple. The same chapter of the Torah, however, numbers among the components of the anointing oil, myrrh, cinnamon, and also kiddah which is a species of cinnamon similar to cassia-cinnamon and cinnamon bark. There is no ground for doubting the tradition that the other types of incense were already used in the wilderness. In the course of a year, 368 maneh (c. 580 lbs; c. 264 kg.) of incense were consumed. To these was added a small amount of ma'aleh ashan ("that which makes the smoke ascend"), apparently the plant Leptadenia pyrotechnica which contains nitric acid, and also kippat ha-yarden, the identity of which is unknown, but it has been suggested that it is the cyclamen. At the time of the Second Temple the preparation of incense for the Temple was the monopoly of the priests of the House of *Avtinas who kept the technique and exact proportions secret, for which they were censured by the rabbis (Yoma 3:11). The use of incense which was common in biblical and talmudic times steadily declined, and as though in memory of it the blessing "who createst diverse kinds of spices" is said in the Havdalah.
Krauss, Tal Arch, 1 (1910), 233–44; H. Bluemner, bei Griechen und Roemern, 1 (19122), 328–55; Loew, Flora, passim31–77. incense offering: A. Van Hoonacker, in: rb, 23 (1914), 161–87 (Fr.); M. Loehr, Das Raeucheropfer im Alten Testament (1927); ), especially plate xii; R. De Langhe, in: Biblica, 40 (1959), 476–94 (Fr.); M. Haran, in: vt, 10 (1960), 113–29 (Eng.); de Vaux, Anc Isr, index.
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Code, Example for Program of an applet to illustrate BarChart in Java
A bar chart uses different orientation (horizontal or vertical) bars to show comparisons in various categories. One axis (domain axis) of the chart shows the specific domain being compared, and the other axis (range axis) represents discrete values. Business Data. The following example depicts various car statistics with the help of a bar chart 4.12. Bar Chart - Java - YouTube 16.10.2016 · ----- Starting out with Java: From control structures through objects Chapter 4 Programming Challenges ----- 12. Bar Chart Write a program that asks the user to enter today’s sales for five Simple bar chart : Chart « 2D Graphics GUI « Java Simple bar chart. import java.awt.Color; import java.awt.Dimension; import java.awt.Font; import java.awt.FontMetrics; import java.awt.Graphics; import java.awt.event Java Programming: Program to create applet to draw Bar Chart Program to create applet to draw Bar Chart Here, we are displaying bar chart on applet window. The values for labels, columns are passed from applet's tag and stored in applet's init( ) method with the help of arrays.
Our custom graph components require manual drawing, so we'll need to subclass We'll create two custom graphing components: a bar chart and a line graph. Learn Java from beginning concepts to advanced design patterns in this Multi-Bar Chart - ChartDirector This example demonstrates a multi-bar chart, in which bars are clustered. A multi-bar chart is a bar chart in which multiple data sets are represented by drawing the bars side by side in a cluster. [Java Version] javademo/multibar.java Bar Chart Array with Java · GitHub Fig. 7.6: BarChart.java. // Bar chart printing program. public class BarChart {. public static void main( String[] args ) {. int[] array = { 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 2, 4, 2, 1 };. Create Beautiful Bar Chart Java Tutorial using Netbeans IDE 19 Jun 2017 This tutorial is all about How to Create Beautiful Bar Chart Java Tutorial using Java Netbeans IDE.In this tutorial you will learn how to create bar
The JFreeChart project was founded fourteen years ago, in February 2000, by David Gilbert. Today, JFreeChart is the most widely used chart library for Java (see a list of some of the products and projects that use JFreeChart), with more than 2.2 million downloads to date. The project continues to be managed by David Gilbert, with contributions Bar Chart in Java - Java Tutorials - Learn Java Online In this series of Java Graphic examples, we are going to show you how to draw simple bar chart in Java. Bar Chart in Java In this series of Java Graphic examples, we are going to show you how to draw simple bar chart in Java. A bar chart (bar graph) is a way of comparing two or more values using rectangular bars of lengths. The bars can be horizontally or vertically oriented. We are providing you an example which shows the Bar chart in Java. Draw a bar chart in Java Draw a bar chart in Java By: Paawan Chaudhary Printer Friendly Format This is a Java program to draw a bar chart for the table given below which shows annual result analysis of a school from period 2001-2005.these values may be placed in a HTML file as attributes and then used in Applet for dislaying bar-chart.
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With outdoor activities that come with summer, your garage can get a lot more use than usual as it becomes a hub for preparing for summer activities, storing BBQ equipment, and perhaps working on hobbies. This makes summer the perfect time to ensure your garage is clean and organized. Today, Closet & Storage Concepts Philadelphia wants to outline a few tips for cleaning out your garage to help you get ready for the summer and stay organized by winter.
Toss and Donate Items
For many, garages are a universal storage space. While this tactic makes things convenient in the short-run, it also means that your garage will fill up with items to the point of excess. If this resonates with you, the first step in clearing out your garage should be to sort through all of your items and remove any you don’t absolutely need. A good rule of thumb in making this decision is to imagine when the next time you’ll use an item will be. If the answer is never, then it’s a good sign that you should toss the item out for good. Once you complete this step, you’ll find yourself with a garage that looks a lot more manageable, and you’ll be ready to take to the next step.
Stick to a System
It’s equally important to come up with an organizational system for your garage once you clear out all excess items. Without a system in place, you’re more likely to fall into your old routine of storing new items in an ad-hoc way. But that’s what caused the mess in the first place! Instead, it’s crucial to implement and commit to a logical organizational system. This will help reduce stress and promote cleanliness not just today but in the long-run!
You should set up your system with two very simple goals. First, it should help you easily find any items that you own. And secondly, it should make it easy to know where to store new additions. This part of the cleaning process takes a little more thinking and planning, which is why we recommend writing your system down on paper while you brainstorm. This will make it easier to remember and commit to in the future.
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1. Optimize the query, should try to avoid full table scans, we should first consider where and order by column index involved.
You can set the default value of 0 num, num column in the table to ensure that no null values, then this query:
5.in and not in should also exercise caution, otherwise it will result in full table scan, such as:
7. If the where clause with parameters, can lead to full table scan. Because SQL will only run-time analysis of local variables, but the optimizer's access plan can not be postponed until run-time options; it must be selected at compile time. However, if the establishment of access plan at compile time, the value of the variable is unknown and can not be selected as an index entry. As the following statement will be a full table scan:
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9. Should be avoided in the where clause of a function of field operations, which will cause the engine to renounce the use of index and full-table scan. Such as:
12. Do not write the queries that have no meaning, such as the need to generate an empty table structure:
22. Do not use the temporary table is not appropriate use of certain routines that they can make more effective, for example, when the need to repeat the reference to a large table or a table used data sets. However, for a one-time event, it is best to use derived tables.
24. If you used a temporary table in the stored procedure will last all of the temporary table must be explicitly removed, first truncate table, then drop table, to avoid locking the system tables a long time.
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Kassie Siegel & Darryl Molina Sarmiento on the Need for California Public Health Protections – Fire Drill Fridays
On August’s Fire Drill Friday, we’re zooming into California to talk about the urgent topic of public health protections for communities living near oil drilling. We’re joined by Darryl Molina Sarmiento, Executive Director of Communities for a Better Environment, and Kassie Siegel, Director of the Center for Biological Diversity’s Climate Law Institute, to discuss the tour they recently did with California’s First Partner, Jennifer Siebil Newsom, of sites where oil wells and drilling exist right in peoples’ backyards. More than two million California residents currently live within 2,500 feet of oil drilling. This important episode highlights the issue and explains how you can join the campaign calling for Governor Gavin Newsom to speed up formal public health protections ending neighborhood drilling and in the meantime, halt all new oil and gas permits within 2,500 feet of homes, schools, and other sensitive sites.
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as <7 vs. ≥7%, LDL cholesterol as <100 vs. ≥100 mg/dl, blood pressure as SBP <130 mmHg or DBP <80 mmHg vs. SBP ≥130 mmHg or DBP ≥80 mmHg. General physical and mental health were assessed using scores on the Short Form 12 (SF-12) (physical and mental health component scores) (24); higher scores indicate better well-being.
We used descriptive statistics to summarize each variable and conducted unertile of neighborhood problems score. We fit hierarchical linear mixed models problems and behaviors and outcomes tracts and for fixed health plan effect: patient age, sex, race/ethnicity, education, income, Charlson Comorbidity Index (20,21), duration of diabetes, and objective neighborhood SES (proxied by the percentage of individuals in the census tract who were living in poverty). For continuous outcomes, we present estimates of least squares means by tertile of neighborhood problems score, adjusted for potential confounders. We calculated least squares means using the observed margins for all categorical variables and at the mean for all continuous variables.
Unadjusted associations between neighborhood problems and characteristics of the study population
Severalntermediate outcomes were significantly (P < 0.05) associated in unadjusted analyses with the perceived neighborhood problems score (Table 1). Women and or more comorbid conditions reported more neighborhood problems. Individuals who(according to the 2000 U.S. Census) also reported more neighborhood problems.
The percentage of current smokers was higher and the percentage of individuals engaged in weekly physical activity was lower in neighborhoods perceived as having more problems. There was no association between the neighborhood problems score and SMBG. A subanalysis of the perceived neighborhood problems score and SMBG, conducted only among insulin users, also yielded nonsignificant resultfoot self-care behavior.
Regression models for neighborhood problems score, health behaviors, and intermediate outcomes
Several subkey study variables. The results did not appreciably change when we entered interaction terms between race and the perceived neighborhood problems score or between health plan and the perceived neighborhood problems score. Furthermore, the interaction between the perceived neighborhood problems score and the objective neighborhood SES measure (percentage living in poverty) was nonsignificant for every outcome except for blood pressure (P = 0.02). When evaluating blood pressure outcomes for the extremes of the subjective neighborhood measure, we see that for the lowest level of subjective neighborhood perception (most problems), a smaller proportion of individuals was well controlled (17%) even at the lowest level of objective neighborhood poverty. In contrast, for the highest tertile of subjective neighborhood, more individuals were well controlled (51%) even at the highest level of objective neighborhood poverty. We interpret all of the interactions with caution because statistical power to detect them was limited.
Among this diverse group of individuals with diabetes in managed care, having more perceived neighborhood problems was associated most strongly with current smoking and poorer control of blood pressure. These relationships persisted, even after adjusting for an objective measure of neighborhood SES, for individual-level SES and for other potential confounders. Small associations with any reported physical activity and SF-12 physical and mental health scores were also noted but not considered clinically significant.
Sostudy was cross-sectional, no causal inferences were made. Second, assessment of health behaviors was based on self-report; thus, the measure of physical activity used in our study was nonspecific and unrelated to current recommendations. Finallyo other clinical settings. Nonetheless, our cohort was large and diverse, with a wealth of data on neighborhoods, sociodemographic characteristics, and diabetes-related behaviors and outcomes. Accordingly, the study sdiabetes literature.
Our results suggest that perceptions of neighborhood problems are associated with smoking and high blood pressure among adults with diabetes. As these are potenth diabetes, it is important to identify the mechanism that may explain these findings, which could include previously hypothesized influences of poverty and chronic stressors that might be present in suboptimal environments (33). In addition to such mechanisms, additional determinants of relevant behaviors and risk factors that expand the traditional paradigm are needed.stratified by tertile of perceived neighborhood problems score
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Theatrical Review: Les Miserables (2012)
ShowTime: 1:15pm
Duration: 157 minutes (+4 trailers)
Party: 2
The short version of this post is as follows:
"It was freaking amazing"... those exact words.
I previously remarked that "The Hobbit" was one of those movies where you had to mentally prepare for the commitment of giving nearly 3 hours of your time to watching a film.
"Les Mis" was the same thing, but with one difference:
ironically I bring up the Lord of the Rings prequel because it's a comment that had been used to describe the trilogy's finale.
The last 20 minutes was similar in that I kept expecting the ending to come at least 3-4 times until it finally did.
But at the same time, I kinda didn't want it to end. You spend a lot of time in this other world, really getting to know all of these characters and how they tick, etc, etc. You get engrossed to the point where breaking away is hard.
My mom and I were 2 of 9 people. The first two were a young couple around my age, which had me pondering if "Les Mis" was a good date movie. And part of me also wondered if it was going to be like that "Seinfeld" where Jerry and his girlfriend were making out for the duration of "Schindler's List." (As it turned out, they were cozy through most of the movie and he was probably a good shoulder to cry on if needed).
Another couple came in during one of the previews and there were three older ladies sitting at the back of the theater.
There were 4 previews:
I'd only seen a teaser of the "Oz" prequel and this is going back to maybe August when I saw "The Bourne Legacy." It was so visually stunning and intriguing (which witch is the bad witch?) that I've started to consider it as well.
"Epic," I saw the teaser trailer before the final Ice Age movie and it looked amazing then. The animation only gets more impressive.
I'd seen the movie poster on IMDB a number of times for the movie "Identity Theft" where Jason Bateman, oddly enough, has his identity stolen by Melissa McCarthy. Most likely the studios want to capitalize on her success with "Bridesmaids" and give her a starring role. With the one huge LOL moment in that trailer, I get the feeling it might do all right.
Finally, there was "Oblivion." When I first heard of it, I was asking myself how Tom Cruise had time to do all these movies (especially when I have enough trouble with my favorite actors starring in more than ONE movie each year... 2010 had me spoiled rotten, let's just say). It's one of those post-apocalyptic sci-fi thrillers with all the great special effects and CGI. There's no huge rush on that one, but I'll have to remind myself to get around to watching "Minority Report" because the spacecrafts were giving me major Blade Runner/Total Recall vibes.
Now onto the actual film.
The only version I saw of "Les Mis" was in 8th grade French Class... in French... and it may have been the version with Liam Neeson as Jean ValJean. My memory is so foggy that I remembered very little about the movie except for the four main characters and the fate of at least two of them.
(This is also part of the reason why I had no idea when the cut-off point would be).
It didn't take very long at all to say that all of the props the cast and crew received were very richly deserved. Coming off his Oscar win directing "The King's Speech," Tom Hooper did so well with this that I doubt anyone else could have managed quite as well. As with any musical being translated to the movie screen, it's amazing how grand a scale they use to bring that extra something to the material. But the grandeur of THIS, I'd never seen anything like that before. Colossal sets, doing incredible justice to a show already larger than life to a lot of people.
It comes with not knowing the play all that well, but a few questions sprang to mind that had me wanting to pause and find answers to.
It started when Fantine was thrown out of the factory. It was a mix between the reasoning behind it and also why she was victimized by the other women and singled out. Was it because she was the prettiest one there (wearing pink where everyone else wore drab colors)? Was it because she was the only one who wasn't a virgin? Was it because she had a daughter and rejected the foreman's advances? Some of it got lost in translation, obviously, but that bothered me. (Strangely, even more so than what came next for her).
There were examples everywhere about how things were at that time, like all of the things she did to get extra change in her pocket (how locks of hair and teeth were even worth a couple francs). A major example were the duo of Helen Bonham Carter & Sasha Baron Cohen, inn-keepers, but also pickpockets at every opportune moment. For sure, they were scene stealers and in the otherwise emotional and somber musical, Sasha Baron Cohen produced the only laughs (and always welcome, they were).
With all oftory, it boggles my mind why this isn't one of those books we were assigned in school. We could have easily done an essay on whether Jean ValJean or Javert went through the mostPersonally, it's a hard decision at the moment.
Act I came and went. Jean Val Jean assumed another identity and the role of fatherhood to Fantine's daughter, Cosette.
Act II opens with the backdrop what seemed to be a 2nd French Revolution, led by the youth no less. (Funny enough, it was giving me major "Occupy Wall-Street" vibes).
This was also around the part of the film where I had no idea was what going to happen from this point on. Wasn't even aware that there was a love triangle in this movie.
Samantha Barks, as everyone who'd followed the production of the film knows, played Eponine in the stage showelse.
My friend Dave posted a couple of bits on his Facebook page, poking fun at the fact she's singing how she's in love with this guy, Marius and at the same time, he's singing about how beautiful Cosette is, despite the fact he'd only just seen her for the first time.
I had to ask myself. "Dude, you just saw her for the first time and hadn't even spoken to her yet. How can you be in love with her?"... apparently forgetting all about her storyline with Jean Val Jean.
Then again, they did the same thing in "Sweeney Todd" with Anthony and Johanna, but I didn't question it then.
Marius and Cosette spent a lot of time pining for each other, only sang in each other's company once and suddenly, it's a relationship. I didn't buy it for a while.
Eponine is a tragic character in a number of ways, but I don't think anything made me feel bad for her more than who her parents were (take a wild guess!).
Another confusing moment was when Javert passed himself as part of the resistance, I assume to be a fly on the wall, get inside information to inform his troops... he was found out quickly enough. Bring Jean Val Jean back into the mix (he's all but forgotten about in the 2nd act until he receives the note from Marius to Cosette) and more conflict ensues within Javert.
Not to give too much more away, Jean Val Jean escapes with a wounded Marius via the sewer line and they did not skimp on the graphics at all... really is as gross as it sounds. The revolution comes and goes. There's one happy ending in this entire show, but when it finally gets here, the finale was pretty spectacular.
From an aesthetic POV, take away the length, it's probably the best executed musical they'd done in a long time.
From a personal POV, it was amazing, but at the same time, I don't see myself watching this as many times as my other favorite musicals. If anything, it's a one-time-a-year thing.
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But when Max Apton initial ly announced that he had quit his job in journalism to farm-in Hawaii, then in Vermont, now in an exurb of New York-she didn't speak to him for two weeks. And that was after Robin "finally stopped crying on the kitchen floor," she now admits. Her emotional response had more to do with the fact that he was moving far away than with what he was planning to do there, but she was plenty concerned about that, too: "To be perfectly honest, I was just hoping he wasn't going to Hawaii to learn how to grow pot."
"It's" saysjacqueline Allen, whose daughter Danielle has farmed for 13 years. When it became clear that Danielle was set on her career path, Jacqueline mostly just wondered how it was going to work. "I didn't have farmingin my background, and I didn't know anybody who was a farmer," says Allen, who spent three decades in corporate marketing. "This is all new territory."
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Frontiers | Promoter Methylation of QKI as a Potential Specific Biomarker for Early Detection of Colorectal Cancer
Second Affiliated Hospital and Yuying Children's Hospital of Wenzhou Medical University, China
Front. Genet., 09 August 2022
Promoter Methylation of QKI as a Potential Specific Biomarker for Early Detection of Colorectal Cancer
Lei Zhang1†, Dapeng Li1†, Lijing Gao1, Jinming Fu1, Simin Sun1, Hao Huang1, Ding Zhang1, Chenyang Jia1, Ting Zheng1, Binbin Cui2*, Yanlong Liu2* and Yashuang Zhao1*
1Department of Epidemiology, College of Public Health, Harbin Medical University, Harbin, China
2Department of Colorectal Surgery, Harbin Medical University Cancer Hospital, Harbin Medical University, Harbin, China
Early and specific detection of cancer provides an opportunity for appropriate treatment. Although studies have suggested that QKI is a tumor suppressor gene, no studies have evaluated the diagnostic utility of QKI methylation in colorectal cancer (CRC). Here, we evaluated the methylation status of QKI by integrating the methylation data of tissues and cell lines of multiple cancer types. The diagnostic performance of QKI was analyzed in the discovery dataset from the TCGA CRC 450K array (n = 440) and tested in the test sets (n = 845) from the GEO. The methylation level of QKI was further validated in our independent dataset (n = 388) using targeted bisulfite sequencing. All detected CpG sites in the QKI promoter showed CRC-specific hypermethylation in 31 types of tumor tissues. In the discovery dataset, six consecutive CpG sites achieved high diagnostic performances, with AUCs ranging from 0.821 to 0.930. In the test set, a region (chr6: 163,834,452–163,834,924) including four consecutive CpG sites had robust diagnostic ability in distinguishing CRC and adenoma from normal samples. In the validation dataset, similar robust results were observed in both early- and advanced-stage CRC patients. In addition, QKI exhibited hypermethylation in the cfDNA of patients with CRC (n = 14). Collectively, the QKI promoter is a CRC-specific methylation biomarker and holds great promise for improving the diagnosis using minimally invasive biopsy.
With an estimated 1.9 million new cases occurring in 2020, colorectal cancer (CRC) is the second most common cause of cancer-related death worldwide (Sung et al., 2021). CRC occurs via a multistep process of transition from benign neoplasm to overt adenocarcinoma that takes 10–15 years, which provides a window for cancer intervention and prevention (Vogelstein et al., 1988; Arber and Levin, 2005). With the current treatment options, the 5-year survival rate of patients with stage I or II is more than 80%. However, less than half of CRC cases are detected at early stages, and the early detection of CRC remains a challenge (Miller et al., 2019).
DNA methylation is a heritable epigenetic modification that modulates gene expression without changing the underlying DNA sequence (Bird, 2002). Aberrant hypermethylation of tumor suppressor genes occurs early in tumorigenesis, making it a promising biomarker for cancers, including CRC (Irizarry et al., 2009; Baylin and Jones, 2011; 2016). Meanwhile, there are several potential advantages of assessing methylation over tumor somatic mutations, including geometrical increases in the number of detectable sites, and the methylation patterns often reflect the epigenetic origin of specific cancers to reveal the origin of the unknown primary cancers (Chen et al., 2016; Moran et al., 2016).
In a liquid biopsy, circulating cell-free DNA (cfDNA) has emerged as a key biomarker for early diagnoses (Hao et al., 2017; Jin et al., 2021). Genetic or epigenetic changes can distinguish circulating tumor DNA (ctDNA) released from circulating tumor cells (CTCs) or primary tumor tissue from cfDNA derived from leukocytes (Schwarzenbach et al., 2011; Moss et al., 2018). For instance, the blood-based test of SEPT9 methylation has been approved by the FDA for CRC screening (Lamb and Dhillon, 2017). However, this test showed varied performance in different studies and a high positive rate for other cancer types (Grützmann et al., 2008; Lee et al., 2013; Schrock et al., 2017; Jiao et al., 2019; Petit et al., 2019). Therefore, tests for cfDNA can be improved if they are combined with cancer-specific methylation patterns.
The RNA-binding protein quaking (QKI), which is a member of the signal transduction and activator of RNA metabolism (STAR) family (Vernet and Artzt, 1997), has been proven to affect pre-mRNA splicing, mRNA turnover, and translation (Saccomanno et al., 1999; Wu et al., 2002; Larocque et al., 2005). The function of QKI was first glimpsed in brain tumors, suggesting that it may have a role in tumor suppression (Li et al., 2002). Furthermore, the expression of QKI was greatly reduced or absent in the tissue of patients with CRC, and the change was accomplished at least partially by DNA hypermethylation (Yang et al., 2010; Iwata et al., 2017). A long non-coding RNA (lncRNA) named CAHM (chr6: 163,834,097–163,834,982), located adjacent to the QKI gene, has been demonstrated to be specifically hypermethylated in CRC and adenoma, with a low methylation level in the tissue of lung, prostate, and breast cancers (Pedersen et al., 2014). Given the fuzzy boundary of QKI and CAHM, the methylation of the QKI gene in CRC is worth exploring.
By integrating large-scale genome-wide methylation data of multiple cancer types from TCGA, we discovered that the QKI promoter was specifically hypermethylated in the CRC tissues but not in other cancer types or adjacent normal tissues. Although studies have found that QKI is hypermethylated in colorectal cancer tissues compared with normal tissues, whether hypermethylation of QKI is a promising molecular marker for early detection of CRC has not been investigated. Therefore, we further validated the potential diagnostic performance of QKI methylation for CRC in tissues, cell lines, and blood from public and in-house data.
Publicly available datasets were obtained from the TCGA and GEO. The Illumina 450K methylation array of 31 types of cancer, including CRC, was downloaded from UCSC Xena1. Meanwhile, RNA-Seq gene expression data of CRC, as in log2 (x + 1) transformed RSEM-normalized count was obtained from UCSC Xena. The 450K array of cell lines of 29 different tissues was obtained from GSE68379 (Iorio et al., 2016). Whole-blood DNA methylation profiles from healthy donors were generated in GSE40279 (Hannum et al., 2013). Moreover, two independent test sets, A and B, were established using the 450K array from GEO, including GSE42752 (Naumov et al., 2013), GSE48684 (Luo et al., 2014), GSE101764 (Barrow et al., 2017), GSE131013 (Díez-Villanueva et al., 2020), GSE77954 (Qu et al., 2016), GSE129364 (Fiedler et al., 2019), and GSE139404 (Fan et al., 2020). An additional methylation dataset array was obtained from GSE122126, which provided the methylation profile of three cfDNA samples from CRC and four samples from healthy controls with the Illumina EPIC (Moss et al., 2018). The methylation level of the CpG sites was represented as beta values, which is a ratio of intensities between the methylated (M) allele and the sum of methylated (M) and unmethylated (U) alleles. The beta values are continuous and range from 0 (unmethylated) to 1 (completely methylated). Details of the included subjects are presented in Table 1. The genome information of CpG sites of the QKI gene in the 450K array is shown in Supplementary Table S1, and the CpG sites with the missing value above 10% in the TCGA CRC dataset were excluded from further analysis.
TABLE 1. The basic information of datasets used in the current study.
In total, 316 fresh frozen tissue samples were collected, including 275 CRC tissues, 24 adjacent normal tissues, eight adenoma tissues, and nine hyperplastic polyp tissues. We also collected 29 white blood cell (WBC) samples from CRC patients and 29 WBC samples from healthy controls. Blood specimens of nine patients with CRC were collected in ardent cell-free DNA BCT before surgical and neoadjuvant chemotherapy, as well as five healthy normal individuals. The plasma was separated from the blood (8–10 ml) via double centrifugation (3,000 rpm for 10 min at RT, and then, 16,000 g at 4°C for another 10 min) within 4 h after the blood was drawn and stored at −80°C until cfDNA isolation. These samples were collected at the Third Affiliated Hospital of Harbin Medical University. All patients with CRC or precancerous lesions were newly diagnosed by postoperative pathology or colonoscopy pathology and underwent surgery without neoadjuvant chemotherapy. Healthy controls were free from a history of malignancy, and without any benign or malignant diseases confirmed by colonoscopy. Demographic and clinical information including age, gender, tumor location, and tumor stage were obtained from medical records and pathological reports (Supplementary Table S2). All procedures performed in studies involving human participants complied with the 1964 Helsinki Declaration and its later amendments or comparable ethical standards.
Sample Preparation and Targeted Methylation Sequencing
Tissue and WBC genomic DNA (gDNA) were extracted using the phenol-chloroform method and QIAamp DNA Mini kit (Qiagen, Cat# 51306). cfDNA was isolated from 4–5 ml plasma using the QIAamp Circulating Nucleic Acid Kit (Qiagen, Cat# 55114) following the manufacturer’s protocol. The concentration of cfDNA was measured using the Qubit™ dsDNA HS Assay Kit (Thermo Fisher Scientific, Cat# Q32851). All samples were bisulfite-converted using the EZ DNA Methylation-Gold™ Kit (Zymo Research, Cat# D5006) according to the instruction manual. Targeted bisulfite sequencing is a next-generation sequencing-based technology for the quantization of the methylation of targeted regions at a base-specific level. We designed three regions to measure the methylation level of QKI in tissues and WBCs, and a short overlapping region in cfDNA (Supplementary Table S3). Multiplex PCR was performed first and amplified further using indexed primers, and target capture libraries were sequenced on Illumina’s MiSeq with a 2 × 150 bp paired-end mode (Genesky Biotechnologies Inc.). In data analysis, samples with bisulfite conversion rate <98%, or average coverage less than ×10 were filtered out.
Tissue-specific Methylation of the Quaking Gene in Colorectal Cancer
The workflow is described in Figure 1. There were 22 available CpG sites of QKI after removing three CpG sites with missing values above 10% in the TCGA CRC dataset. The methylation level of 10 CpG sites in the QKI promoter was significantly higher in CRC than those in normal tissues, and the neighboring CpG sites were highly correlated with each other (termed as co-methylation, Figures 2A,B, Supplementary Table S4). In 391 CRC samples with both methylation and expression data, QKI promotor methylation was negatively correlated with the gene expression (average r = −0.331, p < 0.001; Supplementary Figure S1).
FIGURE 1. Workflow for analyzing the methylation level of the QKI gene in multiple datasets.
We first assessed whether QKI methylation was a tissue-specific alteration of CRC by comparing the genome-wide methylation data of tumor tissues (n = 8930) and adjacent normal tissues (n = 749) of 31 cancer types from TCGA. We found that 10 CpG sites in the QKI promoter were specifically hypermethylated in CRC tissues but not in tumor tissues from 30 other cancer types or normal tissues (Figure 2C). Given that peripheral blood leukocytes are the main source of cfDNA, methylation levels of the QKI promotor were relatively low in whole-blood samples from healthy individuals (n = 656, Supplementary Figure S2). Moreover, the QKI promoter was specifically hypermethylated in cell lines of CRC (n = 49) compared with cell lines of other cancer cell lines (n = 908, Supplementary Figure S3). In summary, QKI promoter methylation is a tissue-specific marker of CRC that can distinguish CRC tissues from the tumor or normal tissues of other cancer types.
The Diagnostic Performance of Methylation of Quaking Promoter in Colorectal Cancer and Adenoma From the TCGA and Test Sets
FIGURE 3. Methylation analysis of QKI promoter in the test set. (A) The methylation level of 10 CpG sites of the QKI promoter in the test set. (B) ROC curve analysis of 10 CpG sites of the QKI promoter for discriminating CRC or adenoma tissues from normal tissues in the discovery and test dataset. The content in brackets denotes the “chromosome”-“coordinate” of each CpG site.
Quaking Methylation Status in the Cell-Free DNA Sample of Colorectal Cancer
In addition, we evaluated the methylation status of the QKI promoter in cfDNA samples from three CRC patients and four healthy controls. Hypermethylation of eight available CpG sites was observed in at least one cfDNA sample from CRC, but not in cfDNA samples from healthy individuals (Figure 3A, Supplementary Figure S4).
Diagnostic Performance of Quaking Methylation in Colorectal Cancer Tissues From the Validation Dataset
Based on the genomic coordinates of the QKI promoter in the discovery dataset, we designed three amplification regions (chr6: 163,834,632–163,835,160; Supplementary Tables S5–S7) for targeted bisulfite sequencing. A total of 76 CpG sites were detected in the three target regions, covering four CpG sites in the 450K array. Three samples with bisulfite conversion rate <98% and one sample with average coverage less than 10× were excluded. Differential methylation analysis showed that all 76 CpG sites in the target regions were hypermethylated in 271 CRC samples compared to 24 normal tissues (Figure 4). The cg08169901 (CpG39) was detected repeatedly in region 1 and region 2, and the AUC values were 0.896 and 0.911, respectively. We preferred the detection result of region 2 since it was located in the middle of target region 2, and its AUC was slightly lower than that of the discovery dataset (AUC = 0.930). The AUC value of cg09854653 (CpG41) was consistent with the discovery dataset (0.895 vs. 0.894). The cg00852768 (CpG44) appeared at the boundary of both target 2 and target 3, with AUC values (0.872 and 0.867, respectively) similar to those of the discovery dataset (AUC = 0.821). The AUC value of cg25157874 (CpG75) was lower than that of the TCGA dataset (0.782 vs. 0.830). The sensitivity of the four target CpG sites was 84.5, 82.3, 77.9, and 60.5%, with corresponding specificities of 95.8, 95.8, 91.7, and 100%, respectively (Figures 5A–D, Supplementary Tables S5–S7).
FIGURE 4. The methylation level of the QKI target region in the validation dataset. The top three panels show the methylation level of 271 CRC tissues and 24 normal tissues, where each dot represents one CpG site for each sample. The middle three panels show the methylation level of white blood cells from CRC patients (n = 29) and healthy controls (n = 29). The lowest panel shows the methylation level of cell-free DNA samples from CRC patients (n = 9) and healthy controls (n = 5).
FIGURE 5. Methylation analysis of the QKI promoter in the validation dataset. (A–D) Diagnostic performance of four target CpG sites for distinguishing CRC from adjacent normal tissues. The black point indicates the optimal cut-off value for each CpG. (E–G) Average methylation levels of three regions of the QKI promoter at different disease stages during neoplastic progression of colorectal cancer tissues. Symbols indicating statistical significance: NS, p > 0.05; *, p ≤ 0.05; **, p ≤ 0.01; ***, p ≤ 0.001; ****, p ≤ 0.0001.
Furthermore, we evaluated the diagnostic performance of the target CpG sites in different subgroups, including age, gender, tumor location, and tumor stage (Table 2). AUC values of the cg08169901 (CpG39), cg09854653 (CpG41), and cg00852768 (CpG44) were consistent among the different subgroups. However, cg25157874 (CpG75) had a higher AUC value when the tumor was located at the rectum (0.710 vs. 0.822, p = 0.043). Indeed, four CpG sites had consistent diagnostic performance in early-stage (stage I/II) and advanced-stage (stage III/IV) patients with CRC. In addition, the remaining CpG sites in region 1 (Supplementary Table S5) and region 2 (Supplementary Table S6) had similar AUC values ranging from 0.885 to 0.918, while the AUC values of region 3 (Supplementary Table S7) were slightly lower, having a range from 0.757 to 0.861.
TABLE 2. The AUC values of four CpG sites in the subgroup of different clinicopathological factors in the validation dataset.
Quaking Methylation Status in Colorectal Precancerous Lesions From the Validation Dataset
Furthermore, we detected the methylation level of the QKI promoter in eight adenoma tissues and nine hyperplastic polyp tissues. In three target regions, the average methylation of adenoma (median beta-value of 0.094 for target region 1, 0.133 for target region 2, and 0.184 for target region 3) was significantly higher than that in normal tissues (median beta-value of 0.016 for target region 1, 0.022 for target region 2, and 0.012 for target region 3). No statistically significant difference was observed between polyps and normal tissues in target region 1 and region 2. There was an obviously increasing trend from polyps to adenomas to CRC (P for trend <0.001, Figures 5E–G).
Quaking Methylation Status in White Blood Cells From the Validation Dataset
Methylation levels of three target regions were detected in WBC samples from 29 CRC patients and 29 healthy controls. The median methylation level of the three target regions was 0.005 for CRC (range, 0.003–0.012) and 0.008 for healthy controls (range, 0.004–0.014; Figure 4, Supplementary Tables S8–S10). The low level of methylation in WBCs from both CRC and healthy controls is unlikely to cause confusion in the detection of the cfDNA methylation level.
There are six CpG sites in the target region, covering cg09854653 (CpG41) and cg00852768 (CpG44, Supplementary Table S11). As shown in Figure 4, the methylation level of six CpG sites was significantly higher in nine cfDNA samples of CRC (range, 0.106–0.230) compared to five healthy controls (range, 0.003–0.036). Potentially, the methylation status of six CpG sites in this region was extracted to form methylation haplotypes, which accounted for a higher proportion of cfDNA from CRC patients than healthy controls (Supplementary Figure S5). In short, the methylation of the QKI promoter is promising as a specific marker for the non-invasive detection of CRC.
In this study, we demonstrated that the QKI promoter is a tissue-specific methylation marker for CRC by integrating large-scale public methylation datasets. A region including four consecutive CpG sites (chr6: 163,834,452–163,834,924) has excellent diagnostic performance in distinguishing CRC and adenoma tissues from normal tissues, which was further validated by a PCR-based method. As expected, methylation of the QKI promoter remains robust in diagnosing CRC, even in the early stages of cancer. A gradually increasing methylation level was observed during the tumorigenesis of CRC. The pilot cfDNA test suggested that methylation of the QKI promoter has the potential to be a non-invasive diagnostic marker for CRC.
An ideal biomarker of CRC should identify the tissue of origin of the tumor in clinical practice, and have considerable ability to diagnose colorectal adenoma. Previous studies have demonstrated that the combination of cancer-specific DNA methylation patterns and ctDNA can achieve highly specific detection in more than 38 cancer types, and detect asymptomatic individuals who were diagnosed later (Moran et al., 2016; Chen et al., 2020; Liu et al., 2020). Integrating large-scale datasets of multiple cancer types, our genome-wide methylation analysis identified that QKI was specifically hypermethylated in CRC tissues but not in other cancer types. We found that QKI methylation can distinguish both CRC and colorectal adenoma tissues from adjacent normal tissues. Collectively, methylation of the QKI promoter is a tissue-specific methylation alteration of CRC and it occurs early in the process of CRC formation.
Although previous genome-wide methylation studies have achieved high accuracy in diagnosing multiple types of cancers, the single-gene approach is more suitable for screening CRC in large-scale populations. Therefore, we validated hypermethylation of the QKI promotor in CRC tissues using a cost-effective PCR-based technology, with results consistent with the genome-wide methylation data. In addition, our analysis suggested that QKI methylation in cfDNA of CRC patients was not derived from DNA released from WBCs. Moreover, our plasma pilot study suggested that the QKI gene was hypermethylated in cfDNA samples from CRC patients. Both the high-throughput detection method and single-gene approach suggested that methylation of the QKI promoter was a candidate early diagnostic marker of CRC.
We extended the analysis of QKI methylation in cfDNA to the analysis of the methylated haplotypes. Early sequencing studies have indicated that adjacent CpG sites share similar methylation patterns (Eckhardt et al., 2006). Locally disordered methylation has also been observed, which indicates that methylation heterogeneity is primarily from variability within DNA fragments (Landau et al., 2014). Therefore, some studies have extended the theoretical framework of linkage disequilibrium (Slatkin, 2008) to CpG co-methylation analysis to annotate these methylation blocks as methylation haplotypes with a unique set of genomic features (Shoemaker et al., 2010). Studies have shown that methylated haplotypes show high accuracy in predicting the tissue of origin and the cancer status in cfDNA, whether it is built on 450K sparse genome coverage or the whole-genome sequencing analysis (Lehmann-Werman et al., 2016; Guo et al., 2017). Therefore, methylation haplotype detection may be more suitable for tumor-derived ctDNA without a clear source. As shown in our results, the methylated haplotype of cfDNA provides a reference for the primer design of PCR-based methods, and we hypothesize that identifying different haplotypes of patients at different stages can achieve an accurate diagnosis.
Although Yang et al. (2010) and Novikov et al. (2011) have provided evidence that QKI acts as a tumor suppressor gene and the down-regulation of QKI expression may be involved in CRC onset and progression, no study has assessed the diagnostic utility of QKI methylation in CRC. Particularly, a PCR-based region (chr6: 163,834,393–163,834,455) of CAHM demonstrated frequent methylation, with a positive rate of 81% (17/21) in adenomas and 71% (56/79) in CRC tissues. Indeed, increased methylation of CAHM was also found in the plasma DNA of 55% (40/73) of CRC patients, but not in 73 adenomas (4%) and 74 subjects without neoplasia (7%) (Pedersen et al., 2014). Complementing this, our study demonstrates that a region of the QKI gene (chr6: 163,834,452–163,834,924) has similar robustness in distinguishing CRC from normal tissues and is a CRC-specific methylation marker relative to 30 other types of cancer. Iwata et al. (2017) demonstrated that gene expression of QKI was significantly down-regulated in CRC tissues (p = 0.049), and patients with low tumor QKI expression were associated with worse prognoses (n = 153). In contrast, our survival analysis based on the TCGA CRC dataset (n = 361) and our in-house validation dataset (n = 246) did not suggest a significant association between the methylation level of the QKI promoter and the overall survival of CRC (Supplementary Figure S6).
This study has several limitations. First, all samples in the validation dataset were collected from a single center. Second, although our study demonstrated that the QKI gene was hypermethylated in cfDNA samples from CRC patients, its clinical utility should be further evaluated in cohorts with more cfDNA samples.
By integrating genome-wide methylation data from tissues and cell lines of multiple cancer types, this study revealed that methylation of the QKI promoter was a CRC-specific marker. Its diagnostic performance is stable in patients with CRC and its precursor lesions from the GEO database and our in-house dataset. Hypermethylation in cfDNA of CRC patients indicates that QKI methylation is a tissue-specific and non-invasive marker for the detection of CRC, and is worthy of further verification in a large-scale cohort.
The datasets presented in this study can be found in online repositories. The names of the repository/repositories and accession number(s) can be found at: https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.20055134.
The studies involving human participants were reviewed and approved by Ethical Committee of Harbin Medical University. The patients/participants provided their written informed consent to participate in this study.
YZ and YL contributed to the study design. LZ, DL, and LG contributed to data collection. LZ, DL, JF, and SS performed data analysis and interpretation. LZ, HH, DZ, CJ, and TZ performed experiments. LZ and DL drafted the manuscript. YZ, YL, and BC revised the manuscript. YZ and BC provided funding and supervision. All authors read and approved the final manuscript.
This research was funded by National Natural Science Foundation of China, grant number 81473055, and Nn10 Program of Harbin Medical University Cancer Hospital (Nn102017-02).
We would like to thank all the patients who participated in the studies from TCGA and GEO datasets and our study.
The Supplementary Material for this article can be found online at: https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fgene.2022.928150/full#supplementary-material
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Keywords: colorectal cancer, diagnostic, QKI, DNA methylation, biomarker
Citation: Zhang L, Li D, Gao L, Fu J, Sun S, Huang H, Zhang D, Jia C, Zheng T, Cui B, Liu Y and Zhao Y (2022) Promoter Methylation of QKI as a Potential Specific Biomarker for Early Detection of Colorectal Cancer. Front. Genet. 13:928150. doi: 10.3389/fgene.2022.928150
Received: 25 April 2022; Accepted: 24 June 2022;
Nejat Dalay, Istanbul University, Turkey
Mohsen Nikbakht, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Iran
Huihui Ji, Second Affiliated Hospital and Yuying Children’s Hospital of Wenzhou Medical University, China
Copyright © 2022 Zhang, Li, Gao, Fu, Sun, Huang, Zhang, Jia, Zheng, Cui, Liu and Zhao. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
*Correspondence: Yashuang Zhao, [email protected]; Yanlong Liu, [email protected]; Binbin Cui, [email protected]
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get the Federal Government out of school and kids will learn again more than the federal government. Perhaps, I can persuade you that all government owned and run K-12 schooling, on every level ( federal, state, and local) should be abolished. Why?Answer: Government schooling is a freedom of conscience and First Amendment abomination no matter how big or small the districts. 1) Itn. All education has a worldview that his **not** neutral in its content or consequences. Therefore....When government owns and runs education it imposes a government sanctioned NON-neutral worldview on the children and forces the taxpayer to pay for it. This would be true even if districts were the size of a city block. One group of neighbors would be imposing their worldview on neighbors who were less politically powerful. 2) Government run schooling is socialist-funded schooling. It is a single-payer entitlement . Simply by attendingrisk learning that any government powerful enough to give a child **lots** of free stuff. ( Franklin D. Roosevelt wasn't an accident. All it took was one to three generations of socialist schooling.) 3) When the earliest modern government schools were formed in the mid-1800s), the worldview of these schools necessarily had to be generic and lukewarm in their Protestant worldview. What does Christ do with the lukewarm?
And none of the founding fathers had indoor plumbing, electricity, or computers. We should dump those as well ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ The above is a snarky sharp poke in the eye of homeschoolers and homeschooling and contributes nothing but disruption to the conversation. Do you get paid for doing this?It is a quick talking point and would work well on MSNBC. Did you find this at the NEA website?
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Stories of booze gone bad in the skies
Filed under: Canada, Airlines, Galley Gossip
Master Shake Oct 16th 2009 2:33PM
I assisted with a wheelchair passenger other day, he took the wrong seat. He looked at his second flight of the day boarding pass. That said, 8C. He should of been in 20C. The man who was rightfully booked in 8C said he would move to 20C. And, for that, I offered him a BEER. Why? He could of demanded his seat assignment for whatever reason and have the elderly man struggle down the aisle, but HE DIDNT. I caught that compassion in him. He saw he had a cane, etc and helped out the situation. The inconvenience was lessened by him being compassionate.
Don't ask! Even if you think you deserve it:
ted9255 Oct 16th 2009 11:03AM
"Don't ask'? So we have to beg or pass some kind of 'test' to deserve another drink? Sounds like these people are like governement workers - give them a little authority and they abuse it! Another reason to hate flying especially US AIrlines!
F.B. Oct 16th 2009 11:47AM
Take care, and safe flight!
Tonia Oct 21st 2009 5:15PM
I agree!! I am a people person, so my playful-chatty personality is greatly appreciated by crew. I don't have to ask, infact the FA for first class and for coach both offered me freebies on my last flight to St Thomas. SeriousIy, I was just being myself joking with them, and I ended up with 3 cocktails...and I'm not a drinker! If you only do things with "whats in it for me" metality, you will always be disappointed thinking someone owes you.
Carrie Oct 16th 2009 11:50AM
At the risk of sounding like a Puritan (and as someone who, admittedly, enjoys a beer on her long-haul flights) I really think that in flight, especially in coach, there should be a two- or three-drink limit. I've seen someone get dehydrated AND drunk from imbibing too much alcohol on a plane, as well as the usual instances of someone being a drunken fool. In the air there's no way for me to walk away like I can in the ballpark, at a concert, etc., and while I don't think alcohol should be removed from flights (even though it would make life so much easier on everyone involved in many cases), I do believe that it should be limited however, and that the limits should be enforced. Conservatively, half of the problems I have seen on the flights I've been on were directly caused by one passenger's alcohol overconsumption and subsequent inability to act like a (civilised) human being.
DENGuy Oct 16th 2009 11:52AM
I got "bumped" to first class when I helped out an elderly lady in a walker. Gave her my bulkhead isle seat. Helped pick-up mags she had dropped and best of all, rebuttoned her blouse that had come open with only a male attendant present. I ended up in the middle of a row in the back of the plane for a couple of minutes, then settled into first class with a drink in my hand! No one else made any effort to help and all I could think of was my grandmother!
Bill Oct 16th 2009 2:22PM
I always get free beer or anything else - never a problem. Just fly first class. The food's better too.
8. Go to medical school. Fly on a plane where the purser asks "is there a doctor on board?" Help out. Free alcohol!
something that's relatively cheap? Barring that buy some beer when you deplane.
Matthew Oct 16th 2009 3:49PM
mario Oct 16th 2009 3:57PM
Courtesy will get you a good deal more than a free beer...I know...nudge, nudge, nod, nod, wink, wink...eh? eh? eh?
So... let me get this straight. If we lie and do your job for you we get a beer? Awesome.
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Protagonists, Fallen Heroes, Tragic,
Davey Stone is the protagonist villain of Adam Sandler's animated movie Eight Crazy Nights. He is a 33-year-old Jewish man who lives for making the town of Dukesberry as miserable as him. He is eventually a good guy near the end. He is voiced by Adam Sandler, off whom he is based, and who also voiced Whitey and Eleanore, and the deer's vocal effects.
Davey Stone is first seen inside walking out on his bill at Mr. Chang's restaurant, "The China Dragon" (where he drank four scorpion bowls). He is seen about to leave his own car when its taillights flash. He then performs sex on his car in front of the police (one of them begins to cry and the other is grossed out). He is pursued by the police (for not paying for his scorpion bowls) and finally stopped after destroying a couple of ice sculptures (using a snowmobile he stole from a garage).
While he is arrested, a short man named Whitey Duvall from Davey's former basketball league suggests sentencing Davey to being a referee in training for the Youth League Basketball in the Jewish Community Center (where he torments a chubby boy and his parents who attack Davey out of revenge). Under the terms of the community service, the judge tells Davey that if he commits a felony before the period is completed, he will be sent to prison for 10 years. Whitey takes him to the mall to try and calm him down, but after he meets his former girlfriend Jennifer Friedman and her son Benjamin, he starts to have a crush on her, but Whitey reminds him he lost his chance with her 20 years ago.
That night, a drunken Davey breaks into the obviously-closed mall to yell at an obviously-absent Jennifer, but the mall logos (led by the Foot Locker logo) confront him to try and make him cry (which should have been done 20 years ago). Because it doesn't work, they bring in Davey's Hannukah card, revealing his own parents congratulating him 20 years ago. Finally, Davey breaks down and cries just as the police arrive, but Davey escapes (on a bus to NYC until all of its tires popped from a thumb tack), in hopes that he will be free. He decides to apologize to Whitey and keeps hiding from the police. Finally, at the All-Star Banquet, as he enters and decides to talk, the police start to arrest him, and the judge is about to start his 10-year sentence (in the state penitentiary). However, Jennifer orders them to let him talk (because it is the holidays). Davey then starts convincing everybody that Whitey should have won because of what a great man the latter was. So, he is not sent to jail after all. Instead, he goes to apologize to Whitey (who is given the award that was already given to a hook-handed man named Tom Baltezor, and later, all of the previously-won patches, especially three won by a three-breasted woman named Mrs. Selman). Davey and Whitey then actually become friends and the former reconciles with Jennifer.
His unlikeable, mean-spirited personality is similar to that of the main character, Surly from the 2014 CG animated film The Nut Jobvey_Stone?oldid=2149490"
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The Age of Poor Journalism: 'Backlash as God forced into schools'
You may have read recently how "the Victorian Education Department is forcing public primary schools to run Christian education classes taught by volunteers, angering parents and schools that do not want to host them. " (source: The Age) At first glance, this seems both an unjust and a brainwashing use of power by the Victorian government, arguably the top two pet hates of a typical Aussie, if such a list exists. In this post, I'll analyse the article in more detail and then in (hopefully) near future follow it up with another post regarding a trend that I think we're seeing in our Western world. That is, the demise of good journalism. Recently I've been developing how I think about journalism and critical reading, and so after a bit of reflection and Googling a few things about this article came to light. First of all, it seems to me that this article was not written in a neutral tone but actually using misleading rhetoric, for example the author, Michel Bacheland, writes: "Under Education Department guidelines children who opt out are not allowed to do other school work and are often forced [italics mine] to sit at the back of the class, or in quiet rooms or corridors while religious education is under way." Note the word 'forced'. This is hardly accurate, balanced or objective use of language. If students wanted to, I'm sure they could go to the library to go do homework/ read a book for example. No teacher worth their salt would stop a student from doing homework, right? Er, or have schools changed recently and students are being prevented from being efficient and studious?
The article 'Backlash as God forced into schools' by Bacheland continues: "But the department and Christian religious education provider Access Ministries says they have no choice." That's hardly a balanced, contextualised use of quote from the Access Ministries--why not quote the original statement? I understand that newspapers such as The Age often use summarising sentences like this to synthesize a long conversation, but if you note in the article, there are actually no unbroken quotes from the Access Ministries chairman, Stephen Hale. The second last paragraph does however include a quote from Mr. Hale more fully with:
I can imagine some readers of this article would be really rankled by this because it comes across as brainwashing. But I've recently read Education and Training Reform Act 2006 - SECT 2.2.11. and there is no indication that RE (religious education) teachers are obliged to teach their content 'in a neutral way'. Of course, there may be individual public schools in Victoria, Australia, which give RE teachers a strict syllabus which requires a 'neutral' voice--I'm not sure--but Access Ministries doesn't seem to contravene any state level regulations. It seems then that Access Ministries is being ostracised unfairly by The Age when in fact it is obliged to operate in the same way as other world-view teachers would. That is, according to the 2006 Reform Act in Sect 2.2.10 regarding secular education,
Key word: "except". Yet this article presents the situation as if there is somehow an injustice toward students of secular-minded parents, or rather, a bias toward to Christian worldview , at work. If this is true, how is it that The Age has waited 4 years before reporting on this? The Reform Act of 2006 was a public document that had been accessible for all to view, and it's only now when, presumably, a secular parent gets irritated that a paper reports on a topic. Is this good journalism practise? It's also worth noting here that, historically, there has been a lot of vitriol regarding the Victorian Education Department and this article is definitely just the tip of the iceburg.
As a side-note, 'promote' is an interesting word. I'm so glad that Section2.2.10 doesn't forbid religious teachers from 'promoting' an idealogy. Any teacher, not matter what religion, would want be passionate for what they believe and would actively encourage students to engage with what they are saying! If they weren't passionate I would be wondering why are they continuing to spend their time with students who are often disruptive and less than enthusiastic learners. But it's worth asking the question, is it a good idea to ask a teacher to be 'neutral' when talking about religious beliefs? And what does that actually mean?
Well, later in The Age article the journalist writes:
So, statistically Christian educators are the majority. But that would make sense, right, as there are more Christian teachers available than teachers from other religions! Also there is an intrinsic urgency or motivation to teach kids about Jesus in Christianity which is not necessarily inate in teachings of Bahá’u’lláh, the latest teacher of the Bahai faith, for example. Finally, this quote actually contradicts the very first sentence of the first article which states:
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Evidently, the classes do not have to be Christian education--other religious teachers are welcome too, provided they are "persons who are accredited representatives of churches or other religious groups and who are approved by the Minister for the purpose" ()
So sadly, this is an example of poor journalism by The Age which is unnecessarily inflammatory. Could it be that the journalist is expressing his anti-Christian sentiments through poor journalism practise? Although, arguably, many of the above quotes look reasonable enough, they actually don't evidence balanced reporting. If you're interested, here is a highly informative link on what is good journalism. Please share if you liked it! ~by
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