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Berry's poem is a reminder that to truly know darkness and its divine power, we need the courage to step into and leave the light behind.
E.E. Cummings – A Poet’s Advice to Students
E.E. Cummings' short missive to young poets in which he urges confidence in oneself and authentic expression. We must distinguish between thinking, believing, knowing and feeling, the latter being the territory of real art and poetry.
Ordinary Mind is the Way
This koan is an exchange between Master Nansen and his student Joshu that would have taken place in China around the 9th century. Their dialog concerns the nature of the Way and how to attain it. Nansen advises his student that ordinary mind is the key, but that it is not something he can seek… Continue reading Ordinary Mind is the Way


This summer marks 36 years since the fall of Saigon, 16 since the United States and Vietnam established diplomatic relations, and 14 since the US Embassy in Hanoi opened its doors. Today, the two countries find themselves sharing more positions on a broader range of issues than ever before. Indeed, diplomats have even spoken in terms of a ‘strategic partnership’ developing between Hanoi and Washington.
Policymakers in both capitals justifiably speak with pride and enthusiasm of their achievements, and the great potential that exists to develop an even more robust relationship in coming years. Speaking on May 31 at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs Kurt Campbell spoke of Washington’s ‘desire and intention to improve this relationship going forward.’
Yet while both sides rightly want to grow closer, absent improvements in human rights and political freedoms in Vietnam, the Barack Obama administration has taken engagement with the Vietnamese government as far as it can without alienating the US public and Congress. Although there remains room on both sides for further adaptation and accommodation, the onus now rests squarely on Hanoi to meet the US halfway by pursuing domestic policy reforms, particularly in the areas of political freedom and civil rights. Effectively addressing these Vietnamese domestic issues – what Campbell referred to as a ‘limiting factor’ in the relationship – would give the Obama administration a greater ability to work with Vietnam and allow the relationship to progress to the next level.
Since taking office, Obama has expended energy and political capital in pursuit of strong ties with Southeast Asia. After eight years that saw Washington disengaged and distracted from Southeast Asia, on coming to power Obama moved quickly to increase US engagement with this important region. Since the beginning of the Obama presidency, US engagement with Vietnam has grown particularly fast – though admittedly from a low base – to a level not seen since the heady days when President Bill Clinton visited Hanoi in 2000 and delivered the first ever speech by a foreign leader to be broadcast live across Vietnam.
In pursuing stronger ties with Southeast Asia and defending US maritime interests, the United States earned Beijing’s ire when, at the ASEAN Regional Forum Foreign Ministers' Meeting in Hanoi last July, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton aligned the US with Southeast Asian countries by raising concerns about China’s ambitious maritime territorial claims in the South China Sea and calling for ‘a collaborative diplomatic process by all claimants.’
However, such US actions have been met with a warm welcome in a Hanoi eager to promote its own political and economic integration with the world and increasingly wary of China. Moreover, recent US overtures may have finally disabused most of the Vietnamese leadership of the notion that Washington seeks to orchestrate a ‘peaceful evolution’ away from Vietnamese Communist Party rule.
Vietnam’s enthusiastic welcome last August of both the USS George Washington’s cruise down the Vietnamese coast, and the guided-missile destroyer USS John S. McCain’s port call in Danang shortly after, demonstrate the importance that Hanoi now places on robust security ties with the United States. Similarly, Vietnam’s decision to join the Trans-Pacific Partnership, which is quietly emerging as Washington’s preferred Asia-Pacific forum, highlights Hanoi’s desire for greater political and economic integration as well as its growing comfort with a strong United States that’s deeply engaged with Southeast Asia.
Still, Vietnam continues to take domestic actions that alienate US observers and make the sort of close relationship that Hanoi desires politically impossible and morally untenable for the Obama administration.
Continuing crackdowns on politically and socially-active religious leaders, increased and more severe prosecution and sentencing of Vietnamese dissidents as well as continued maintenance of substantial restrictions on Internet, communications and the press make Vietnam hard to fully embrace for an Obama administration that is already facing strong headwinds domestically.
All this means that strong move forward is needed from Hanoi. With tensions in the South China Sea showing no signs of cooling in the near term, and with China’s naval capabilities continuing to grow, a robust US-Vietnam relationship is in both parties’ interests (although it is an inescapable reality of global power dynamics and Asian security that the United States matters more to Vietnam than Vietnam does to the US).
The Obama administration’s overtures to Vietnam have reached the acceptable limits imposed by America’s democratic society and values, and it’s now time for Hanoi to make the next move. Only by so doing will both Hanoi and Washington be able to develop the strong relationship that both rightly seek.
Richard Pearson is a programme associate at the Maureen and Mike Mansfield Foundation where he manages China, Vietnam and South China Sea programmes.


The Master of Arts in Art Education (MAAE) Program
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MAAE Program Overview
The program’s structure is highly flexible. A total of 36 credit hours, which can be completed on a part-time or full-time basis, are required to graduate. Students pursue research and fieldwork in individualized, established settings.
Credit requirements include:
- Art Education Seminars – 6 Credit Hours
- Art Education Courses – 9 Credit Hours
- Art History or Visual Critical Studies – 3 Credit Hours
- Electives – 9 Credit Hours
- Professional Core – 9 Credit Hours
To learn more, please visit the School of the Art Institute of Chicago online and view their MAAE brochure.


Last updated on December 6th, 2022
West Virginia is the 39th most populous and the 41st most extensive of the 50 states of the United States. It is located in the Appalachian region in the Southern United States that is also considered to be a part of the Middle Atlantic States. The state attained statehood on June 20, 1863, becoming the 35th state to join the union. Its five bordering states are Kentucky, Maryland, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Virginia. See the complete list of the 50 states and their borders here. West Virginia (nicknamed: Mountain State, Panhandle State) has 55 counties. The state’s capital is Charleston. The abbreviation for West Virginia is WV.
1. A human faster than the speed of sound
Chuck Yeager, born in 1923, from West Virginia became the first person in the world to break the sound barrier. He made history in October 1947 when while he flew the Bell X-1 rocket at 700 mph in level flight and crossed the speed of sound. Charleston’s Yeager airport is named after the iconic hero.
2. Capital woes
When it comes to picking the right capital city for the state, West Virginia found it difficult to make a final decision. Its capital was Wheeling before a decision was made to transfer the capital to Charleston, then Wheeling again before West Virginians finally settled on Charleston.
3. Not-so-secret nuclear bunker
The state is home to a nuclear bunker designed to accommodate congressmen and women, including support staff if there is a nuclear attack. The bunker’s existence should be a secret but West Virginians have long spilled the beans on the feature hidden underneath the Greenbrier resort. The bunker opened in 1961 and remained on constant alert as a nuclear fallout shelter. However, the bunker is now open for public tours.
4. A state for the young and old
The state loves its young and old as evidenced by the rise of Cecil Underwood who became the youngest governor at the age of 34. After this feat in 1956, he went to become the oldest governor in West Virginia at the age of 74. He has the unusual distinction of being both the youngest person to be elected as governor and the oldest to both be elected and serve.
5. Falling ceremony for a tree
Locals know how to provide a special sendoff for falling trees in West Virginia. In 1938, residents hosted a falling ceremony for the largest and oldest white oak tree in the country after it was declared dead.
6. Coal houses
The state is home to coal houses that provide a unique living experience. It is most likely that West Virginia is the only or one of a few places on earth where you will find livable coal houses. The Coal House is situated in White Sulphur Springs.
7. A basketball record
In 1960, Danny Heater, a local student was entered into the Guinness Book of World Records after scoring 135 points during a high school basketball game.
8. Elevated graves
The state hosts one of America’s oldest and largest burial grounds for Native Americans. The site has distinctive features that make it stand out. The cone-shaped burial ground stands at 69 feet high and it has a circumference of more than 900 feet.
9. Border to Border
Weirton undoubtedly comes with a unique feature. It is the only city in the United States that runs from one state border to another. The metropolis shares borders with Ohio to the west and Pennsylvania to the east.
West Virginia on the map
10. The senate connection
A West Virginian woman boasts astonishing links to former United States senators. Hallie Davis Elkins is the only United States citizen who is a mother, daughter, and wife of senators. It comes as no surprise that the city of Elkins is named after her husband.
11. Kanawha to West Virginia
In 1861, residents of West Virginia were presented with the name Kanawha when they voted on whether or not to break away from Virginia. The suggestion was aimed at honoring a local Native American tribe. However, the legislators finally chose West Virginia.
12. Lion vs Giant Sloth
In 1796, soldiers operating in Greenbrier County discovered animal bones that appeared to belong to a large lion. However, the real identity of the animal was unmasked by an amateur paleontologist who correctly identified it as a giant sloth.
13. The largest alluvial diamond
In 1928, a family in Peterstown found a 34-carat diamond at their home and stashed it in a cigar box for 14 years thinking it was a quartz rock. The family only discovered that it was a diamond after taking the gem to a local geologist.
14. Longest steel-span bridge
Base jumpers in West Virginia are privileged to have the longest steel-span bridge in the western hemisphere in their state. The New River Gorge Bridge, which is situated in Fayette County measures 3,030 feet long. China’s Shanghai’s Lupu Bridge is the longest single-span steel arch bridge in the world.[10,27]
15. The world’s oldest river
West Virginia hosts one of the world’s oldest rivers, which meanders through the state heading towards Virginia before reaching North Carolina. The New River takes the number two spot after the world-famous River Nile.
16. The only state
West Virginia is the only state to form by seceding from a Confederate state and one of three states to secede from another state.
17. The last World War I veteran
Frank Buckles who was the last surviving veteran of World War I was a resident of Charleston. He died in 2011 aged an astonishing 110 years old. During his younger years, Buckles had to lie about his age to enlist in the US Army.
18. The first steamboat
In 1787, West Virginia made history by launching the first steamboat in the Potomac River at New Mecklensburg.
19. Storefront museum
The state hosts a one of a kind storefront museum that exhibits a humanoid creature named Mothman. The creature was reportedly seen many times in the 1960s, which helped propel its status to a local legend.
20. World record for stalagmite sitting
One of the residents of this state, Bob Addis, set the world record for stalagmite sitting. Bob spent nearly 16 days sitting atop a stalagmite rock formation where he received supplies using a bucket thanks to the help of a well-wisher.
21. West Virginia gave the world Mother’s Day
Grafton, West Virginia, was the venue for the world’s first Mother’s Day celebrations. The occasion took place on May 10, 1908 after, the founder, Anna Jarvis, honored her mother posthumously. This day of remembrance turned into a global celebration.
22. Largest hand-cut stone masonry building
The state is home to the largest hand-cut stone masonry building in the United States. The Weston State Hospital building, which was constructed in the late 19th century, holds the record.
23. Historic dunk
In 1984, Georgeann Wells made history for the state when she successfully dunked during a college basketball game. The feat, which took place at West Virginia University, was special in that she was the first female to dunk.
24. The first red brick road
The first red brick road in the U.S. was laid in Charleston in 1873. A Charleston resident by the name Mordecai Levi wanted to change the condition of the hard-packed dirt streets of the city. He paved the Summers Street in Charleston with bricks and later got a patent for the paving method he had invented.
25. Post-war debt squabbles
At the end of the Civil War, Virginia demanded that its new neighbor pay its pre-war debt. The Supreme Court ordered the state to pay after it initially declined.
26. First for the House of Delegates
In 1928, Minnie Buckingham Harper became the first African-American woman to join the House of Delegates.
27. Spelling problems
Although the state’s residents are big achievers, they failed to spell Mullins correctly after naming a town Mullens in Wyoming County. They later voted to retain the incorrectly spelled name.
28. No traffic lights
Monroe County in West Virginia is void of any traffic lights, 4-lane highways, and fast food restaurants. It is a place to be and enjoy the life in the simplest manner.
29. Global flavor
For a small state, West Virginia has a surprisingly global flavor. It holds the record for most towns named after cities in countries around the world. You will find Shanghai, Athens, Cairo, Geneva, and Berlin.
30. The split from Virginia
Did you know that Virginia split into Virginia and West Virginia due to political differences? The split happened in 1861 and the new state was admitted to the union in 1863.
31. During The American Civil War
West Virginia is one of two American states formed during the American Civil War (1861–1865), along with Nevada.
32. Free rural mail
The first rural free mail delivery started in the United States in Charles Town, Hall Town and Uvilla on October 1, 1896.
33. Some special snakes
The Bluestone River in West Virginia is home to the northern water snakes. These snakes are special because they incubate their eggs inside their bodies and then give birth to the live young. The snakes grow to be about 24-55 inches. They can hatch 9 to 45 young in a year.
34. The first woman to win an Olympic gold
On August 3, 1984, gymnast Mary Lou Retton became the first U.S. woman to win an Olympic gold for the All-Around event.
35. The origin of the name
West Virginia is named for Queen Elizabeth I of England, “The Virgin Queen.”
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More and more people are moving closer to an “climate action now” mode today. They realize that the climate crisis really is an emergency. That, after all, is what emergencies are all about—action that people must take now or all is lost.
Recognition is the important first step, but it is only the beginning. Many of us find it very difficult to know what we can do that could make a difference for the climate emergency. We know that is it a problem so big that individual action seems almost meaningless. Some of us dutifully sort our recyclables knowing that it is a much larger problem than reducing the flow of waste into overloaded landfills.
Surviving a Life-Threatening Emergency
I recently read some books on what distinguishes survivors from those who don’t survive life-threatening emergencies. The differences between survivors and victims are clear, although an airplane crash may be very different from being lost at sea.
The key to survival in an extreme emergency is that the survivor more readily turns from her/his mental map of everyday reality to a new paradigm that abandons conventional thinking. Some call that situational awareness.
Mapping the reality s/he faces now in its own terms, enables the survivor to accept the new data that reflects the extraordinary parameters of the emergency. The new data usually conflicts with the familiar patterns of everyday life. Once a person stops mentally mapping the situation based on the images of ordinary reality and begin to observe the non-ordinary reality of the emergency on its own terms, the odds of that person surviving go way up. Certainly that principle applies to societies too.
The Climate Emergency and the Survival Response
The climate emergency requires that we experience a major paradigm shift if we are to muster a viable survival response. That, I think, is the situation most of us, not just environmentalists and climate activists, or government officials and corporate executives, find ourselves in today.
Most have not made that paradigm shift to the new reality of the global climate emergency. Even many fully informed people continue to view the new existential threat to human survival through the lens of everyday reality. They have not shifted to mapping the new reality—the climate emergency—on its own terms.
Business as usual lies gasping for air on its deathbed, in obstinate denial. Beliefs and behavior have not fully caught up with reality, even for many who understand the gravity of destabilizing the Earth System. The best scientific evidence indicates that if industrial nations do not make massive reductions in carbon emissions in the next eight to ten years, we will have reached several tipping points in climate factors that will propel the entire Earth System into chaos. That will force the collapse of civilization itself.
Setting “targets” for reducing emissions by 2050 to stay below 2 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels or any of the other empty pledges made by governments and corporations, remain completely within the paradigm of business as usual as we rush headlong deeper into the Anthropocene epoch we have created.
We have an extremely short time before crashing into multiple overlapping tipping points, some of which are already here. Yet, as societies, we are completely unprepared for the extremity of the emergency we have failed to face on its own terms.
Now, we must focus all our attention on how to mobilize masses of people very quickly to act in concerted ways to restore/repair ecosystems, while at the same time to force large institutions to stop their carbon emissions now. What a daunting task!
Without stopping the immediate threat, none of our thinking about ideal new economies based on human need instead of profit and greed, on social justice or anything else, will matter. Survival is the prerequisite to building a good society, or to sustaining any society. And to survive, we must shift to an emergency paradigm to face the non-ordinary reality before us.


"Beyond Earth Art"
Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art
Looming, industrial contraptions made from metal tanks, plastic tubes, glass bottles and rubber gloves greet visitors at the newest exhibit in Cornell University’s Johnson Museum of Art, “Beyond Earth Art.” These impractical devices are at the heart of Lucy and Jorge Orta’s multimedia installation, “Food-Water-Life,” a project featured within the exhibit that seeks to present conceptual solutions to global issues such as climate change and biodiversity. Though the Ortas’ water transportation devices are unfeasible from a true engineering standpoint, their whimsical nature prompts visitors to ambitiously imagine technology of the future.
“Beyond Earth Art” pays homage to Cornell University’s 1969 “Earth Art,” a collection of site-specific installations that was revolutionary for its time, with artists moving their workspaces from the studio directly to the exhibition space. “Beyond Earth Art” resembles its predecessor, particularly in its inclusion of “social sculpture,” or artwork that includes human activity and is meant to influence the restructuring of society or the environment. However, the exhibit represents a wide range of artists that employ different mediums in addition to sculpture. Featuring photography and large-scale murals as well as interactive installations and experimental video, the exhibit provides a diverse approach to its globally conscious theme.
Even within a specific medium are a variety of artistic subgenres. The exhibit’s photography collection includes work from documentary photographer Edward Burtynsky as well as Dionisio Gonzalez, who digitally combines real and imaged environments to create a commentary landscape. Gonzalez’ photograph “Halong X” features Vietnamese houseboats on Halong Bay, digitally juxtaposed against futuristic constructions. These saturated, almost comically, mismatched compositions will evoke queries about the impact of foreign commercial interests on developing nations and their impoverished communities.
Alongside its traditional two-dimensional artwork, “Beyond Earth Art” also features several multimedia installations ranging from time-delayed video footage to more hands-on experiences. Maya Lin’s “Empty Room” is an interactive installation meant to enlighten visitors on global habitat loss for animals. Patrons are invited to don a pair of white cloth gloves and hold a rectangular acrylic panel over the light beaming from the projectors installed within the room’s floor. Upon doing so, documentary footage and text comes into focus on the panel, prompting visitors to answer the question projected by Lin’s work: “What is missing?”
Another digital installation, “Flooded McDonald’s,” a film by art group SUPERFLEX, depicts the deliberate flooding of an abandoned fast food restaurant. Sandwiches sit in their paper wrappings under sickly yellow lights. Trays of food and drink bob around in the rising water with the perpetually smiling statue of the trademark red-haired clown, drifting on its fallen side. Acquired from staged footage of an ambitiously life-size replica of a typical McDonald’s chain store, this experimental video alludes to issues with the failings of capitalism and commercialism as well as the resulting climate change because of growth in fast-food industries.
However, the numerous sculptural objects dispersed among the other two-dimensional and digital media installations remain the exhibit’s standout pieces. In Mark Dion’s found object sculpture, “Trichechus manatus latirostris,” a tub-sized tar pit sits encased in glass with a plastic skeleton of a Pacific manatee. A hodgepodge collection of junk items is stuck in the dried black substance: broken teacups, a discarded lighter, metal rings and bottle caps. An unlabeled mass of rock and metal sits near the entrance of one floor’s installation. The decaying organisms reminiscent of coral and corroding metal pieces will captivate visitors with its odd beauty and chemical colors of rust, turquoise and yellow.
“Beyond Earth Art” is an intriguing exhibit with pleasantly surprising discoveries around every corner. Visitors will be imaginatively inspired by the quirkier installations, while more serious projects will prompt necessary reflection on the direction of human civilization and our inevitable impact on our global environment.


This is an extremely common question when it comes to making clothing because all clothing, regardless of size, must conform to the Flammability of Wearing Apparel regulation (16 CFR Part 1610).
The problem is that the definition of "raised surfaced" can be unclear!
"Raised" is a material that has an intentionally raised fiber such that has been brushed or sheared and has pile, napping, or tufting. This includes the loops of Terry materials and the soft brushing of flannels.
I like to think of the material as having tiny fiber fingers that want to grab a flame source. Some common raised surfaced materials are:
- Flannel / Flannelette
- Fleece / Reverse Fleece
- Flocked finish
- Peach finish
Materials that you might think are be raised but aren't
- Bird's Eye
- Cable or Chunky Knit / Weave
- Chiffon (includes toile)
- Crepe (includes Canton, Crinkle, Georgette, Moroccan, Plisse)
- Jacquard (includes Brocade, Damask)
- Lace (includes mesh, Raschel knit, Tulle)
- Rib knit
- Shirred / Smocked
- Sweater Knit
- Twill (includes Gabardine, Herringbone, Tweed)
If you have a raised material, don't fret yet about testing! You may actually still be exempt from testing or from searching for a supplier with testing.
If you are making any of the following types of clothing, your product (and thus the material), is automatically exempt from testing.
- Gloves - Under 14" in length and not attached to a garment
- Hats - That do not cover the neck, face, or shoulders (includes hair accessories)
- Shoes - That are not attached to a garment (includes slippers, booties, and other footwear)
If your raised material is made of one or more of ONLY the following fibers, it is automatically exempt from testing.
If you are using the material in a way that would make the raised side unexposed to air when worn, it is automatically exempt from testing.
- Snap-able Cloth Diapers
- Hoodies with the hood lined
- Pants/shirts that are not cuffed outwards
- Rolled cuffs
- Sweatshirts (they are considered capable of being worn napped side out*)
- Zip Ups
If you've come to this point and still have no exemption, then you have one more decision:
- Don't use the material for clothing
- Contact your supplier and hope they've had testing (result should be Class I or Class II)
- Test on your own (result should be Class I or Class II)
- *Make sure your marketing doesn't include any ideas of wearing the garment in a way that would expose the raised surface side & watch that your consumers aren't frequently wearing the garment in a way that would expose the raised surface side. This is not necessarily CPSC-specific guidance, but we have spoken with agents that have said this could be an option if we'd like to make that choice.
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Through complaints on social networks, inhabitants of Vainillo pointed out that there is a person who is poisoning dogs and cats frequently and there are already many cases
Mazatlán, Sinaloa.- The director of Ecology and Environment of Mazatlán, Miriam Isaraí Rodríguez Paniagua, condemned the acts perpetrated against dogs and cats in the community of El Vainillo, and pointed out that whoever is responsible should be prosecuted according to the penal code of the State.
Through complaints on social networks, residents of Vainillo pointed out that there is a person who is poisoning dogs and cats frequently and there are already many cases, for which Rodríguez Paniagua answered, explaining that Ecology can receive complaints, however, it is the ministry is in charge of proceeding legally against the person who perpetrates such a crime.
“Here it is important that the citizen has the knowledge that this type of complaints must be made before the public prosecutor so that the person who is committing the crime is prosecuted in accordance with the criminal code of the State of Sinaloa in force,” he justified.
He also said that it is important that the inhabitants, in this case of the El Vainillo community, know the animal protection regulations and that any act that threatens the life of a dog or cat could be criminally punished.
“That the inhabitants of El Vainillo are aware that there are laws, regulations, and codes that protect them, and that at the moment there is an indication of the person who is committing said act, a procedure will be initiated by the environmental legal department and a Once the necessary data is obtained, it will be sent to the civic court so that they can resolve it ”, explained the owner.


Edge Servers Versus Rack Servers: Which Is Better?
Do you know the contrast between a cutting-edge server and a rack server? In the event that is not, sit back and relax. You’re in good company!
Many individuals are uncertain of the distinctions between these two sorts of servers on account of the numerous servers available. To more readily figure out cutting-edge servers and rack servers, we should investigate each sort of server and its key elements.
A sharp-edge server, which is a high-thickness server, is a minuscule PC that oversees and circulates information across a few PCs and organizations. It fills in as a connection between machines, projects, applications, and frameworks.
What Is A Rack Server?
A rack server, then again, is a kind of server that is commonly mounted on a rack. Rack servers are typically more affordable than edge servers and are all the more generally utilized in little and medium organizations. They are likewise called rack mount PCs and rack-mounted servers.
Here, we’ll separate the advantages and disadvantages of sharp-edge servers and rack servers with the goal that you can arrive at an educated conclusion about which server is appropriate for your business.
How About We Get Everything Rolling?
Rack Server Versus Edge Server: Must-Know Realities
- Edge servers are overseen by the Cisco UCS chief through the UCS Texture, while rack servers can be overseen both freely or by the Cisco UCS director.
- Sharp edge servers highlight hot-trading abilities that permit parts to be added or taken out without turning off the servers. Rack servers don’t require hot trading as the entirety of their parts are inbuilt.
- Cutting edge servers are mounted on a frame that can uphold different servers while rack servers are mounted on a rack.
- The plan highlights that cutting edge waiters and rack waiters are appropriate for medium-to-huge associations and little associations, individually.
- The sharp edge servers don’t uphold an optical drive while, for the rack servers, the optical drive at the front board is discretionary for both Album and DVD media.
- Edge servers are mounted on a frame that can uphold numerous servers, while rack servers are mounted on a rack.
What Are The Highlights Of Edge Servers?
Sharp edge servers have a slim plan that permits a few servers to be obliged in a more modest space. They have a few parts, including computer chips, memory, worked away drives, and organization regulators.
Their capacity to have a few servers in more modest regions and their high handling power makes them ideal for use in huge server farms. Different servers are many times slid on a huge suspension mounted on a server rack. This empowers the utilization of fewer parts as well as empowers more proficient activity of the machine. Accordingly, they give the most elevated handling power per Rack Unit (RU), notwithstanding the little space they involve.
The edge servers include a frame with a few servers slid on it. This extraordinary plan permits the framework to disseminate capacity to all servers in a solitary nook, consequently consuming less power. By keeping all servers in a solitary frame, fewer parts will be expected to run every server.
- Fits in little spaces
- Consumes less power
- Fewer links are utilized
- Higher cooling costs
- Rack Servers: Grew Sooner than Edge Servers
Dissimilar to sharp edge servers, rack servers were grown before on, after the quick expansion in server innovation advancement and use. The Compaq’s ProLiant Series’ very first rack server was created in 1993. Because of mounting a few servers on one rack, associations could save money on space. Notwithstanding, keeping the servers in encased regions prompted heat development, which saw the advancement of cooling frameworks to direct temperatures.
At around a similar time, associations needed to move these servers to single rooms after they obtained extra innovation. These rooms were generally alluded to as “server rooms” and were for the most part away from typical office spaces. Ultimately, these associations saw the need to plan exceptional spaces for servers to address these frameworks’ temperature and security dangers. This move at last prompted the advancement of the current server farm.
Edge servers are for the most part prescribed for medium to huge estimated organizations, while rack servers are viewed as best for more modest organizations.
What Are The Elements Of Rack Servers?
Rack servers’ extraordinary and broadly useful plan permits them to be mounted on a server rack and empowers them to help a few prerequisites subsequent to being designed. They worked to function admirably in huge server farms and little PC bureau nooks. They vary from cutting edge servers in that they consume bigger spaces. While huge servers require extra parts like computer processors and memory, you can use a more modest space by mounting every server on top of the other. Nonetheless, utilizing numerous servers will increment front and center expenses related to the machine.
The rack server is known to deliver more power contrasted with edge servers. This is basically on the grounds that rack servers accompany every one of the parts it necessities to work successfully, as they are been inherent. The power makes it reasonable for very good-quality applications.
- Delivers high power
- Functions admirably in little, medium, and huge applications
- It Consumes a great deal of room
- Requires heaps of links
Edge Server Versus Rack Server: What’s The Distinction?
There are tremendous contrasts between cutting-edge servers and rack servers. Here are some of them.
Mugginess Control and Cooling
Servers produce a ton of intensity when functional. While the quantity of starting establishments in cutting-edge servers impacts their air temperature, rack servers impact the number of servers inside.
Cutting edge and rack servers have inherent stickiness control including that advance wind current and eliminating warm air, empowering the servers’ compelling activity. As to costs in cutting edge servers and rack servers, it’s higher with sharp edge servers because of their higher focus.
Arrangement of Parts
Sharp edge waiters are more reasonable for information grouping because of their elite exhibition abilities. Their inward design incorporates hot-swappable abilities, permitting you to add or eliminate parts from the server without turning off the framework. This assists with diminishing margin time related to the framework.
Rack servers are outfitted with all parts, and the link makes the association. In any case, every one of the parts of the server works freely. You don’t need to add different parts for the extension as the server highlights memory, stockpiling, and computer chips that are added during its underlying establishment.
Cutting edge servers have high adaptability, upgradeability, and handling power, making them ideal for high-accuracy projects and space preservation. Additionally, sharp edge servers might be obliged inside racks in edge frameworks, where they are viewed as a certain something.
Rack servers are great for a large number of purposes. Their capacity to function admirably in exceptionally PC-concentrated applications and their high versatility, expandability, and upgradeability make them the favored server in modern, business, and military use.
Which One Is Better? Which One Would It Be A Good Idea For You To Utilize?
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Shock as an aid to our development
10 October 2017
In pre-Christian times, people were initiated in a process of near death that loosened their etheric or life body from their physical. (A complete separation happens at death.) While in this state they were able to go into the world of spirit for a few days while being ‘managed’ by other inititates around them. They were then brought back by the inititates into a normal state of consciousness. Because of the preparation before this event and the support during it, the person would come back knowing the quality and reality of the world of spirit and would be permanently changed as a consequence.
They would know why patience, clarity, compassion, objectivity, diligence, ownership of self, openness, positivity, courage, skill, experience were so important. They could then be this.
This process and possibility slowly left mankind as our constitutions changed. Christianity requires of us that we loosen our etheric ourselves, without carers, and find the world of spirit ourselves.
Shock however has a similar effect on us as the old way of separation did. It shakes our etheric loose and in the immediate aftermath of this, we can have feelings of deep devotion as a consequence of very briefly being in touch with the good and the true of the spirit.
Our challenge as modern people is to invite the qualities of the spirit into our souls voluntarily, with our own designed and practised effort, and not to rely on the shocks of life for this. If one can, we are in the right place and better people.


Meet Ella – Neuroblastoma Warrior
“None of this could have been possible without the NCCS...” said Jennifer, Ella’s mom.
It was only a few months before Ella’s 4th birthday and instead of being excited for the upcoming celebration, the only thing she could think about was how much her tummy hurt. Within a few days, her pain became so excruciating that she could not stop screaming. Her parents rushed her to the emergency room where doctors ran a battery of tests and finally found the reason this little girl was in so much pain – she had an aggressive high-risk tumor on her left kidney. She immediately began treatment at her local hospital – about thirty minutes away – where she endured five rounds of harsh chemotherapy.
When the first round of treatment failed to keep her disease away, doctors told Ella’s parents there was a treatment available that may help save her life at one of the finest facilities in the country, but it was in New York; hundreds of miles away from home. When they realized how frequent their trips to New York would be, they reached out to the NCCS for transportation assistance. At the NCCS we know, if a child can’t get there, the treatment might as well not exist.
Ella completed a massive resection of her tumor, more chemotherapy, radiation and immunotherapy and was finally considered cancer-free. Tragically, she relapsed a few months later and had to endure another surgery and more chemotherapy, radiation and immunotherapy. Her last resort was participating in a clinical trial . . . which proved successful! Ella was considered cancer-free once again. “None of this could have been possible without the NCCS…” said Jennifer, Ella’s mom. “We thank you for everything you do!!”


The following acronyms are often used in the source code (and the documentation).
These acronyms will often occur in lower case due to coding conventions. When a class represents just one of these terms, longer names may be used for the sake of clarity. Unit conversion constants are not abbreviated.
- AP1roG – Antisymmetric Product of 1-reference orbital Geminal
- DM – Density Matrix
- DFT – Density Functional Theory
- ER – Electron repulsion
- GDB – Gaussian Density Basis
- GOB – Gaussian Orbital Basis
- GPT – Gaussian Product Theorem
- HF – Hartree Fock
- KIN – Kinetic Energy
- LF – Linear Algebra Factory, i.e. class that bundles a set of related linear algebra routines.
- MP2 – 2-nd order Moller-Plesset perturbation theory
- NA – Nuclear Attraction
- OLP – Overlap
- SQ (as suffix, e.g.
dist_sq) – Squared
- WFN – Wave Function


New Delhi: Commissioned into the Indian Navy in 1977, the long-range surveillance and anti-submarine warfare aircraft Ilyushin 38 SD will make its first and last flypast over the Kartavya Path in this year’s Republic Day.
The IL 38SDs, the oldest maritime surveillance aircraft in the Indian inventory, have seen their duties being taken over by the American P8is manufactured by Boeing.
Known as the Winged Stallions, the last of the legacy fleet will be decommissioned by the end of this year.
“This is the first and last flight in a Republic Day celebration for the aircraft,” a source in the defence and security establishment said.
The Republic Day flypast will comprise 44 other aircraft, including 9 Rafales, of the Indian Air Force.
IN 301, the first IL 38SD (Sea Dragons) aircraft of the Navy, was decommissioned on 17 January last year after completing 44 years of service to the nation. It remained fully serviceable to the last day of operational life, and flew a seven-hour mission sortie before bidding adieu.
The aircraft belongs to INAS 315 squadron which was commissioned on 1 October 1977 by Rear Admiral M. K. Roy, and was then commanded by Commander B. K. Malik.
The squadron was initially equipped with three Ilyushin 38s and later two more were inducted. The aircraft provided the Navy with modern maritime reconnaissance and fixed-wing Anti-Submarine Warfare (ASW) capability.
With these aircraft, the Navy had moved into the arena of airborne long-range maritime reconnaissance capabilities combined with long-range anti-submarine search and strike, anti-shipping strike, electronic signal intelligence and distant search and rescue missions.
The aircraft was used for other operations including in January 1978, when it used the on board Magnetic Anomaly Detector (MAD) equipment to locate the wreckage of the Air India Jumbo which crashed soon after take-off off the Mumbai coast.
The Winged Stallions completed 25,000 hours of accident-free flying in 1996. However, tragedy struck in 2002 when there was a mid-air collision of two IL-38s. The occasion was ironically the celebration of the Squadron’s silver jubilee as well as of over 30,000 hours of accident-free flying.
Seventeen personnel were killed in the accident which also resulted in the loss of these aircraft, two years after they underwent an upgrade in Russia to add 15 more years to their life cycle.
(Edited by Tony Rai)
Also Read: These 4 major new Indian military inductions mark a positive turning point


THE Philippine Green Building Council (PHILGBC) is developing a ratings program that will measure a building’s performance based on how its features impact the health and wellness of users.
In a statement, the council said it will launch the first version of the PHILGBC Health and Well-being for Buildings (H+W) rating scheme on the first episode of the Building Green Conference 2022 on Sept. 8.
PHILGBC said the H+W program is designed as “a tool to measure, monitor, and certify the performance of projects based on social, economic, and environmental priorities that affect the health and well-being of users.”
The rating scheme will focus on health, comfort, lifestyle, social and environment.
“Health focuses on maintaining a physically and mentally healthy environment throughout the building life cycle. It emphasizes the need to address physical and mental health, and the safety of the building users and employees,” PHILGBC said.
Projects are also assessed in terms of the comfort level for users, as well as social and environmental sustainability.
There will be an online H+W Professionals Training Course, a formal accreditation program for professionals and project proponents on the PHILGBC Health and Well-being for Buildings rating scheme. Individuals that pass the qualifying examination for the course will be recognized as H+W Accredited Professionals.
PHILGBC is holding the digital edition of the Building Green Conference 2022 this month. The conference, which runs from Sept. 8-30, focuses on the theme “Experience Circularity and Pursue Regeneration — Today.”
“With circularity, we close the resource loop. We ensure nothing is wasted. We ensure that precious resources are conserved. It is important that our cities, along with the private sector, work together in completing the green shift. We owe it to the next generation,” PHILGBC Chief Executive Officer Christopher C. de la Cruz said in a statement.
PHILGBC advocates for healthier buildings, communities and cities, by introducing green and innovative design and construction solutions. It is a coalition of public and private sector leaders representing more than 300 organizations.
September is known as World Green Building Month, while Sept. 8 is National Green Building Day in the Philippines.
President Ferdinand R. Marcos, Jr. will deliver the keynote address at the conference.
The conference will also feature speeches from officials of the Department of Energy and Department of Environment and Natural Resources, World Green Building Council (WGBC) Chair Ilari Aho, WGBC Chief Executive Officer Cristina Gamboa and WGBC Asia-Pacific Network Chair Cary Chan.
Those interested may register for the different episodes of the Building Green 2022 conference by sending an e-mail to PHILGBC National Secretariat at firstname.lastname@example.org.


Robocalls doubled in 2018 and 40% of them are scams targeting 10 billion people per year
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Americans receive tens of billions of robocalls each year—that’s billions with a “B.” And, you can make bank on the fact that too many of them are not from telemarketers but from telescammers targeting senior citizens, says the Association of Mature American Citizens (AMAC).
“Technology is making it easier to place automated phone calls and while many legitimate companies use them to sell products and services, criminals are having a lucrative field day using computer generated calls to swindle innocent citizens,” according to AMAC president Dan Weber.
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) says that the number one consumer complaint it consistently receives is for unwanted automated calls. In fact, during the first half of 2018, the number of robocalls increased by at least 50%.
Ethan Garr, an executive at TelTech, a company that makes one of the many call blocker apps on the market, says that robocalls are cheap. He says it costs just a penny a minute. And, the technology news Web site, Futurism reports that some phone carriers actually kick back micropayments to telemarketers, and scammer.
Although such payments amount to just a fraction of a penny a call, it adds up considering the fact that the callers are making billions of calls a month. The Robocall Index, which keeps track of automated call frequency, says that more than 5 billion such calls were made in the U.S. in October 2018, more than double the number of calls made in the same month in 2017.
As for the scam calls, just last month police in Pennsylvania arrested a man in connection with a telescam leveled at senior citizens. He was charged with swindling elderly in various parts of the country out of some $400,000. What he allegedly did was to call seniors and tell them that a grandson was in trouble and needed cash immediately.
And then there was the Publishers Clearing House scammer who called a 90-year-old woman in New York earlier this month and conned her out of $20,000 by claiming she had won a PCH prize.
“Both of these scams are fairly common,” says Weber. “But, oftentimes the crooks get creative. For example, the IRS says some of them have found ways to alter their caller IDs to make it look as though the Internal Revenue Service is on the line. They’ll then threaten stiff penalties if the victims fail to pay money that they allegedly owe.”
The problem has gotten so bad that the Federal Trade Commission has created a scamalert that can help consumers avoid fraud, including telephone fraud. It also provides what some might call a “hit parade” of the latest cons.
Automated telephone calls may be annoying, but the statistics show that most them are legitimate sales calls. However, NBC News recently reported that as many as 40% of robocalls in the U.S. are from scammers. That means telescammers are targeting more than 10 billion potential victims a year.
“It doesn’t mean that all robocalling is bad. Such calls can serve useful purposes such as when they alert you to a life-threatening storm that may be approaching. Or when they alert you to potentially fraudulent use of a credit card, remind you of an upcoming appointment with your doctor or let you know that your prescription is ready for pick up at your local pharmacy,” says Weber.
The Association of Mature American Citizens [AMAC] [www.amac.us] is a vibrant, vital senior advocacy organization that takes its marching orders from its members. To join them, visit amac.us/join-amac.


- Attila the Hun: Barbarian Terror and the Fall of the Roman Empire
- McArthur & Company (2008)
Most of what we know about Attila and the Huns is wrong.
The Huns were not savages on horseback, sweeping suddenly out of Asia to the gates of Rome only to vanish again. Attila himself was an effective ruler and an astute diplomat. While he lived, he was actually a force for stability in fifth-century Europe.
Christopher Kelly's book on Attila's life and times clears up a lot of misconceptions about the Huns, and shows us a world that is a lot like our own.
The Huns themselves remain a mystery. They were just another Central Asian nomadic people, moving west like countless other tribes. Some historians think they were known to the Chinese as the Xiong Nu; Kelly argues persuasively that they were not.
If the Huns had an advantage over other nomads, it was in their mastery of archery on horseback: Launch an arrow at the precise moment when your horse's feet were all off the ground, and you could kill an enemy 200 metres away.
When they arrived in eastern Europe late in the fourth century, the Huns found turmoil and created still more of it. As a realm of peace and prosperity, the Roman Empire had attracted peoples who had neither. They pushed at the empire's frontiers, and keeping them out was an expensive problem. Some emperors admitted this or that tribe and gave it land, in exchange for men to fill the legions. Others resisted the push from the east, sometimes with the help of earlier invaders.
Roman propagandists, when the Huns arrived, drew on old Greek propaganda against the "barbarians" -- people whose speech was an incoherent "bar-bar-bar," and who lacked civilized Mediterranean values. So the Huns, like the earlier Scythians, were portrayed as anarchic subhumans who ate their meat raw -- just zombies on horseback.
In reality, the Huns were a tightly organized community. They had originally lived off their herds, but they soon learned the value of extorting goods from farming communities -- not just grain, but wagons and iron weapons. When a bow took a year to create, the Huns needed an elaborate technological infrastructure.
Moving west, the Huns drove other tribes ahead of them, putting pressure on both the Eastern and Western Empires. They played a minor part in the battle of Adrianople, the worst military disaster in 700 years of Roman wars, but as the Eastern Empire recovered from that shock, the Huns effectively took over the lands north of the Danube.
This actually stabilized both empires. Tribes like the Vandals were migrating from Spain to the grain-growing lands of North Africa. The Goths occupied most of France. The Eastern Empire, based in Constantinople, was trying to deter the Persians from moving west. The Romans simply couldn't fight on all fronts at the same time.
The Huns gave the Romans a breathing space by effectively shutting down migration from eastern Europe, just as the Soviets would 1500 years later. The Romans could then turn to problems with the Goths, Vandals, and Persians.
An imperial protection racket
Like other nomad conquerors before and after them, the Huns did not impose their own culture on their new subjects. Quite the reverse: The lands the Huns occupied included many Romans and Rome-influenced tribes, who taught their new masters a lot. The Huns' power remained their cavalry, and they settled in what is now Hungary because its grassy plains could support horses. But they began to settle down in villages, enjoying the income from their subjects. Kelly says the Huns were not so much an empire as a protection racket.
When Attila emerged as the Huns' supreme leader, he extended the racket to the south and west. Sometimes he fought as a Roman ally against other "barbarians." But he also expected sizable payoffs in return for leaving Constantinople alone. The eastern emperors, worrying about Vandals in North Africa and Persians in the east, thought it was far better to pay him than to fight him.
Then the emperor Theodosius made a disastrous miscalculation: He cooked up a literally Byzantine intrigue to create regime change in the Hunnic Empire.
The most fascinating part of Kelly's book is the account of an embassy to Attila that was actually a front for a planned assassination. The ambassador, a young aristocrat named Maximinus, was completely out of the loop. So was his colleague the historian Priscus, who later reported the plot.
But Attila's own spies knew exactly what Constantinople was planning, and handled the plot with exquisite style--perhaps like Fidel Castro thwarting yet another CIA plot. The ambassador and the historian escaped with their lives, but others were not so lucky.
The climax of Attila's career was his foray into the Western Empire, when his forces swept across France and then moved south into Italy. His pretext was that a Roman princess had offered herself in marriage to him, only to be married off to someone else instead. So he marched west to claim his bride -- and to make himself at least the co-emperor of the West.
Armed robbery on a large scale
An army of Romans and Goths gave him a good beating in the Battle of the Catalaunian Plain, effectively ending the myth of Hunnic invincibility. But Attila turned south to ravage Italy. He was turned away from Rome by the Pope's intercession; but Rome was a relic by then. The West was ruled from the Adriatic city of Ravenna, and Rome was hardly worth sacking.
But Attila had achieved his main purpose, which was armed robbery on a large scale. His armies returned to Hungary with enormous plunder. Not long after, in bed with his latest new wife, he fell into a drunken stupor, suffered a nosebleed, and drowned in his own blood.
His empire died with him. His sons fought one another for mastery, and all of them lost. But this was not good news for the Romans. Like people in the Soviet satellites in 1989, the Huns' subjects headed west for the relative safety of the empire. A few more decades of illegal immigration and general chaos turned a continental empire into a mob of squabbling barbarian kingdoms. Just as Rome hadn't been worth sacking, its last emperor, Romulus Augustulus, wasn't worth assassinating. He was pensioned off instead.
Kelly's account lets us draw some obvious parallels with our own era of imperial overstretch and mass migration. But he doesn't make a point of them, though the "Barbarian Terror" in the title looks like a publisher's marketing gimmick. Like the Romans, and like modern governments, Attila used terror when it was cost-effective. When it wasn't, he negotiated.
We can even regard him as a kind of tragic hero. He was a military and political genius who had come out of nowhere. He could usually outsmart and outfight his supposedly civilized enemies.
But he was a gangster who never went legit: The Huns created no institutions, built no culture, and left not a word of their own to describe their rise and fall. No one knows where Attila's tomb is, and his people have vanished.
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I’m not in my 40s quite yet, but as I quickly approach the next decade (a bit faster than I want), I’ve been thinking about what important financial decisions will need to be made in the coming years. For many Americans, our 40s can be a time where earning potential is very high, but it’s also an important time to make sure the proper retirement moves are being made.
Personal finance information is often just that — personal — in the sense that not everything is applicable to your specific financial situation. But here are two key ideas that you should be following in your 40s to help you transition into the next stage of life.
1. Stay focused on retirement contributions (or start today)
To help give you an idea where other Americans are with their retirement, take a look at the chart below. It’s from the Economic Policy Institute (EPI) and it shows the median retirement amount for Americans between 1989 and 2013 (which is the latest data available).
IMAGE SOURCE: ECONOMIC POLICY INSTITUTE.
The red line shows that Americans between ages 44 and 49 had a median retirement account savings of just $6,200 in 2013. News flash: That’s not good. And according to EPI, “For most age groups, median account balances in 2013 were less than half their pre-recession peak and lower than at the start of the new millennium.”
Maybe your retirement is all set to go and you’ve been socking away money for decades. But this set of data suggests that’s probably not the case. Which means that right now (like literally, when you finish this article) you need to set up a plan for putting more money away for retirement. You can do this through an employer-provided 401(k) or by setting up your own individual retirement account (IRA). The important part is to start now, if you haven’t already, and continue increasing your contributions to the account if you’re able.
2. Kick debt to the curb
According to the latest data from Bureau of Labor Statistics, American workers have some of their highest-earning years between the ages of 35 and 44 (for women) and second highest-earning years between 45 and 54 (for men). In short, your 40s are some of the best times to reach your earnings potential.
|Age||Average Weekly Earnings for Women||Average Weekly Earnings for Men|
|Total, 16 years and older||$749||$915|
|16 to 24||486||512|
|25 to 34||705||794|
|35 to 44||839||1,007|
|45 to 54||836||1,075|
|55 to 64||812||1,102|
|65 and older||749||992|
DATA SOURCE: BUREAU OF LABOR STATISTICS.


An eyelid cyst medically known as a chalazion, is a small lump that appears under the skin of the eyelid because of a blocked oil gland. It can develop on the lower or upper eyelid. It is not contagious and is more common in adults than children.
In Zambia, when you have an eye cyst you are said to be stingy and very tight fisted with giving out things .Lol….
There are several types of eyelid cysts, consisting of:
Stye (also called a hordeolum): A stye is an abscess in the oil glands, and is one of the most typical types of eyelid…
Chalazia (also referred to as meibomian cysts): A chalazion is a swelling on theeyelid that is commonly the result of a…
Sweat Gland Cysts: These cysts tend to be round, shiny, transparent lumps that appear near the tear ducts. This kind of…
Keratosis: These cysts are a mix of keratin and tissue and are discovered in various kinds.
The most common cause of eyelid cysts is blockage and inflammation of the oil-producing meibomian glands in the eyelids.
👀Eyelid cysts are usually not serious and only rarely obstruct vision or pose an immediate problem for the eye. Most eyelid cysts heal on their own within 2 to 8 weeks. However, you can use Guava Leaves to heal it faster.
How To Cure It?
•Wash 5 or 6 guava leaves thoroughly.
•Warm these leaves in the microwave for a few seconds or place on top of a pot cover that’s on fire to heat up the leaves .
•Place one warm leaf in a clean dry cloth.
•Put this cloth over the swollen area of your eyelid👁
•When the leaf cools down, replace it with a new warm leaf.
•Repeat this remedy twice daily for several days.
Stay healthy friends .


Ted Weigal was wondering how to cook a steak like restaurants do: seared then cooked to perfection. By the time I had found an answer for Weigal, I was ready for a thick, juicy steak.
The sources I consulted agree that pan broiling is the best method for cooking steak, although an excellent argument can be made for grilling, and you will see another method in today's recipe. Sources also agreed that:
Searing should be done in a heavy pan on medium-high heat.
Meat should be dried before searing.
Because the solids in butter will burn, oil should be used to sear meat. If you want a buttery flavor, allow a pat to melt over the finished steak or if you are serving a sauce with the meat, add the butter to that.
Rubbing oil on the meat is preferable to spreading it in the pan. This will prevent oil in unused portions of the pan from burning.
Other aspects of meat cookery — searing, salting and piercing — have been debated on a number of occasions.
That searing seals in juices has been pretty much been disproved. In "How to Read a French Fry," Russ Parsons points out that if you sear a steak on one side then turn it over, you will see drops of juice emerging through the crust that was thought to seal the meat.
So searing not only doesn't seal in juices, it dries the meat slightly. But it makes up for this by increasing the perception of juiciness, which can be attributed to both the moisture in the meat and the salivation triggered by the seared meat's complex aromas and flavors.
"Browning is good," says "Steaks, Chops, Roasts and Ribs," from the editors of Cooks Illustrated magazine. Browned food's wonderful flavor comes from the Maillard reaction, named for the French chemist who first described it a century ago. The combination of meat's amino acids (proteins) and natural sugars with intense heat results in new compounds, which in turn break down and form still more complex and flavorful compounds on the outside of seared meat.
For the Food Lab page at seriouseats.com, executive editor/recipe czar J. Kenji Lopez-Alt documents his own experiments to find the best way to cook a steak.
Like others, he concluded that searing doesn't seal in juices, but does enhance flavor and textures, and he suggests that the best way to cook steak is to have oil smoking hot in a heavy pan then add a salted and peppered steak, turning it every 15 or 30 seconds until the desired internal temperature is almost reached. And if it is a thick steak, be sure to sear the edges.
There has been some disagreement over the merits of salting meats before cooking them.
"Start with salt," advise Chris Schlesinger and John Willoughby in "How to Cook Meat" (Morrow/HarperCollins, 2000). The small amount of juice that salt draws to the surface of the meat is more than compensated for by the amplified flavor that results from the interaction of the salt with the meat.
Lopez-Alt concluded that not only does salting before cooking enhance the flavor of meat, the amount of time that elapses between salting and cooking makes a difference.
He salted several steaks at 10-minute intervals before searing them in a hot skillet. The steak that was cooked immediately after salting and the steak that was cooked 40 minutes after salting were much better than those that sat 10, 20 or 30 minutes between salting and searing.
Documenting photos and videos show how the salt is taken into the meat as time elapses. When steak is seared immediately after salting, the salt rests on the surface of the meat and the steaks juices remain inside the muscle fibers.
Within three or four minutes of salting, juices are drawn to the surface of the meat. Searing at this point wastes heat and energy to evaporate the liquid and the temperature of the pan drops, inhibiting the Maillard reaction.
About 10 or 15 minutes after steak is salted, a brine forms as the salt dissolves in the meat juices. The muscle structure of the beef begins to break down becoming more absorptive and enabling the brine to work its way into the meat, which begins about 20 minutes after salting. By the time salt has been on the meat for 40 minutes most of the liquid has been reabsorbed.
The best steak, however, according to Lopez-Alt, was one that was salted on both sides and allowed to rest on a rack, uncovered, in the refrigerator overnight. This allows the steak to dry naturally on the outside and the juices to distribute throughout the meat.
So, he suggests, if you have the time, salt the meat and let it rest for 40 minutes and up to overnight before cooking. If you haven't got 40 minutes, it's better to salt immediately before cooking.
One other subject for debate has been whether or not to pierce or cut a small slit in meat to test for doneness. Even though a lot of juice seems to escape from the meat when you pierce it with a fork, the amount is insignificant compared with the juices remaining throughout the steak, according to Lopez-Alt.
Even cutting a small slit in the meat with a knife will not affect the juiciness of the steak. If this is your chosen method of testing for doneness, however, keep in mind that the hot juices released by cutting the muscle fiber will make the meat appear rarer than it actually is.
The most accurate way to test for doneness is to use a digital thermometer.
AND ONE MORE THING
Letting meat rest for 10 minutes after cooking allows juices to redistribute evenly so when you cut it, more juice remains in the steak. Of course Lopez-Alt has a well-documented logical and technical explanation for this, which you can read at http://tinyurl.com/3fzdjl9.
Email firstname.lastname@example.org. Or write to Linda Brandt, Sarasota Herald-Tribune, P.O. Drawer 1719, Sarasota, FL 34230. Read previous articles and columns at www.heraldtribune.com/linda.


Dilbert’s “Salary Theorem” states that “Engineers and scientists can never earn
as much as business executives and sales people.”
This theorem can now be supported by a mathematical equation based on the
following two postulates:
Postulate 1: Knowledge is Power.
Postulate 2: Time is Money.
As every engineer knows:
Power = Work / Time
Since Knowledge = Power
And Time = Money
Then Knowledge = Work / Money
Solving for Money, we get:
Money = Work / Knowledge.
Thus, as Knowledge approaches zero, Money approaches infinity, regardless of the
amount of work done.
Conclusion: The less you know, the more you make.


Training the Inner Self
Training the Inner Self
Instruction: Learning through instruction consists mainly of hearing and reading. Some people say, ‘Instruction is wrong; let students find out everything for themselves by experiment’. That idea is nonsense. How can we say to a student? ‘Here are some copper, zinc, acid and wire. Now discover electric current! Geniuses like A. Volta, M. Faraday and James Clerk Maxwell took only about 200 years. Perhaps you can do it in an afternoon’. Clearly it would be impossible; he must have some instruction.
For a negative—‘Don’t do that!’—the instruction alone should be enough. Judo beginners are often told: ‘Do not try to prevent yourself from being thrown by putting your arm out on to the tatami. It is dangerous. You may dislocate your elbow’. In life a similar instruction would be: ‘Do not drive a car when you are drunk’. These instructions may be followed, or not followed, depending on the intelligence of the pupil and also on how much he respects the instructor. For many people, such warnings alone are not enough. ‘A hundred hearings are not like one seeing’. The instruction may have to be confirmed by other means of knowledge.
Observation: This is seeing what happens to others. If we see an elbow damaged in the dojo, or a drunken driver go into a tree, the instruction is confirmed.
Inference: We look at some tough but not too intelligent Judo men and see how many of them cannot straighten one of their elbows. Or we can read about the many police-court convictions for drunken driving. We infer that the instruction was not right.
Personal experience: If in spite of the instruction not to do so, observations of accidents to others and inference from the long-term effects, we still do these things, then we get personal experience. Our own elbows are dislocated, or we drive into trees.
It is sometimes said that ‘we must learn by personal experience alone’. But this cannot always be possible. If we get drunk, drive the car and crash into a tree, it is a personal experience. But often we shall learn nothing from it, because we shall be dead. Therefore, with negative things, personal experience is not necessary. It is usually undesirable. The most intelligent learn—from instruction alone—not to make mistakes. The less intelligent need observation and inference before they are convinced. The stupidly obstinate have to undergo a disaster before they understand, but quite often it is then too late.
My generation is very opposed to taking drugs, even though we drink tea and coffee which are mild drugs. Sometimes young people say to me: ‘It is unreasonable to condemn drugs, if you have never taken them yourself, because you do not know about them from personal experience. You say they have bad effects, but how do you know what the effects are? You have never taken them yourself, so you do not know what the experience is like’. Elderly people often do not know how to answer this argument and become silent. But I reply, ‘I do not have to jump into a cesspit to know what it would be like.’ Then usually the young people become silent, or else hurriedly change the subject.
So with negative things it is best to be able to accept instruction, without waiting for observation, inference and personal experience. We can learn this fact in the dojo.
But with positive things it is the reverse. Instruction is merely a starting point. It must be deepened by observation, inference and finally personal experience. There is always a danger that instructions will be too detailed so that the pupil follows them mechanically. Such a pupil may become technically expert, but he is simply like a machine. He can carry out his programme, but he cannot meet anything unexpected. The Budo schools knew about this danger. The teachers would give the main points but not all the details. The students had to work out the details themselves.
One of the ‘secret scrolls’ of the Shinno shintoryu13 school says: ‘My own teacher used to explain a technique to us only roughly and then tell me: “You have the root. Now you have to train relentlessly, crushing the bone and flesh, for a long time, never forgetting that the basis of our training is mental. Jujutsu is shinjutsu, or the art of the heart’.
Again and again these old traditions emphasize this: a Way or do is not simply a collection of tricks or a sequence of correct moves. There must be something living in it, which comes from a much deeper level than thinking: ‘Now I will do this. Now it is time to do that’.


ep. 04 it’s never too late to learn about money with meera meyer, cfp
“STANDING FIRM IS A HUGE PART OF BEING A GREAT NEGOTIATOR. TRULY ACKNOWLEDGE THE VALUE YOU BRING TO THE TABLE.” – MEERA MEYER
PODCAST EPISODE DESCRIPTION
Founder of “Life, Money, Balance” Meera Meyer, CFP, corporate financial planner turned financial wellness coach, talks about taking control of the role money plays in your life and the importance of communicating your value. Two steps towards personal growth. Money is energy, and it is one of the most underrated forms of self-care.
She explains how understanding what you bring to the table, standing firm on what you want, and negotiating for it to take control of your financial future is one of the best things that you can do for yourself as an ambitious woman. To pay off debt and build wealth, you might have to have uncomfortable conversations. The truth is that women still make way less than their male peers. And, they are not scared to ask for that raise.
We go deeper into the disparity between working men and women, saving in your 20s, 30s, and 40s, how to start investing, managing emotions around your financial health, the best finance apps, budgeting, and more.
Money is a scary topic. Meera breaks it all down in an easy-to-understand way. It’s never too early, or too late, to take control of your finances and your life. Tune in for some great advice, and learn how to prepare for your future.
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Knaamys (pro. names) of the 20th Century
By TRACEE SIOUX
The most hysterical thing about substitute teaching are the names of the kids.
Not the names themselves . . .
But, the reaction of the kids when you phonetically read their names.
They snicker. They talk to you like YOU’RE the stupid one for mispronouncing their names when you call roll.
It takes about everything I have not to say out loud, “Its not MY fault your mother doesn’t know how to spell. I read the word correctly.”
What on earth possessed the parents of the 20th Century to misspell and “cutesify” their baby’s names?
What on earth possessed me to do this to myself with the name Tracee Sioux? As a writer, its all well and good – memorable, interesting.
As a substitute teacher, it’s just annoying. I’m so over explaining it: where it came from, whether I’m a Native American, how to pronounce it. Seriously, I’m almost considering taking my husband’s nice, normal name so I can stop having the same conversation every single time I meet someone or introduce myself. Why did I think this would be an interesting conversation to have for the rest of my life? Only another 60 years to go.
Note to parents of 21st Century parents – if you want to name your kid Jennifer – just name her Jennifer and not Gwennipher. If you want to name your kid Simone try not to throw in a silent Y at the end.
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There are many different ways to brew coffee, each with its unique flavour profile and brewing method. In this blog post, we’ll explore some of the most popular methods of brewing coffee and their key differences.
1. Drip Coffee
This is the most common brew method in North America. Water is poured into a reservoir and heated, and then it drips onto a bed of coffee grounds, passing through a paper or metal filter. Drip coffee is known for its simplicity and consistency, but the flavour profile can vary depending on the type of coffee beans used and the brewing time.
2. French Press
This method involves the immersion of coarsely ground coffee beans in hot water for several minutes before pressing the plunger down to separate the grounds from the liquid. French press coffee has a more robust flavour profile than drip coffee, with more oils and sediment in the cup.
Espresso is made by forcing hot water through finely-ground coffee beans using a high-pressure machine. Espresso has a concentrated flavour profile and is the foundation for many coffee drinks like cappuccinos and lattes.
This method involves pouring hot water over a bed of coffee grounds held in a paper or metal filter. The water is typically poured in a slow, circular motion to ensure even saturation and extraction of the grounds. Pour-over coffee has a lighter body and a more delicate flavour profile than other brewing methods.
AeroPress is a unique brewing method that involves the immersion of coffee grounds in hot water and then using a plunger to extract the liquid. The result is a concentrated coffee shot that can be used as the foundation for other coffee drinks or diluted with hot water for a milder cup.
6. Cold Brew
This method involves the immersion of coffee grounds in cold water for several hours, resulting in a smoother, less acidic cup of coffee. Cold brew coffee is often served over ice and is a popular choice during the hot summer months.
In conclusion, there are many different methods of brewing coffee, each with its unique flavour profile and brewing process. By experimenting with different brewing methods and coffee beans, you can discover your preferred flavour profile and brewing style. Whether you prefer a robust French press or a delicate pour-over, there is a coffee brewing method that is perfect for you.


Occupational Therapy Assistant
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With this 16-week diploma program, you will master numerous occupational therapy techniques catering to different types of clients. Given our small class sizes, you can receive the proper attention and guidance you need from our highly-skilled instructors. Even if you have other major priorities that you need to juggle, you can still take this program through evening and weekend courses.
Occupational Therapy Assistants administer rehabilitation treatments to patients under the direction of an Occupational Therapist. Work settings include hospitals, private rehabilitation clinics, rehabilitation centers, long-term care facilities, retirement homes, sports medicine clinics, community health care agencies, and other medical settings. Graduates of this program may also become certified as a Personal Training Specialist and pursue a career as a Personal Trainer providing one-on-one coaching or working in a fitness facility.
Some career and education options may require advanced degrees, further training or experience.
Employers Who Have Hired triOS Grads
- Medrehab Group Inc.
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*Employment Rate based on 2021 contactable triOS graduates employed in a related field within 12 months.
NOC Code: 3414/33109 - **Wage data rounded down to the nearest dollar. Average wage doesn't reflect the starting salary but represents the middle value between lowest to highest wages. Local (or regional) income may vary. Last updated in Dec 2022.
Is your goal to be able to work at various healthcare facilities? Do you want to help patients live a comfortable life? If you’re aiming to become a healthcare professional, then the Occupational Therapy Assistant program is just what you need to get started.
Learn therapeutic techniques for children, older individuals, and mental health patients; gain in-depth knowledge on communication disorders and group interventions. You will gain practical knowledge in the field to help you succeed in any given circumstance, while on the job.
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Do you remember your first car? I guess nobody forgets the moment of excitement when they finally get their first vehicle, no matter how good or bad. That feeling of independence and being able to travel around by yourself mean a world to everybody.
Today you most likely drive something more advanced, but those memories will remain with you forever. Still, you are probably dreaming of something better, faster, more powerful. On the contrary, imagine how crazy it is that celebrities have so many expensive and excellent vehicles, most of which are only a part of the collection and have never been driven (sigh).
But have you ever thought about why then they choose limousines to take them to all those high-end events? Well, it’s not only because they look cool.
In its very essence, a limousine service has been in existence for about four centuries. They started as horse-drawn carriages, gilded in gold & pulled by only the finest animals. In 1902, the first automobile limousine was developed. It consisted of the two compartments – one in the back for the passengers, and the other in front for the chauffeur.
This frontal compartment was open on all sides except it had coverage for the protection of the driver from rain, snow and sun heat. The coverage resembled a raised hood of the cloaks shepherds in the Limousin province in France used to wear, and that’s where the name for the limousines come from.
As time passed by, motor vehicles were becoming more common. In present time, having a car is nothing unusual, what more it is a necessity. But, limousines and private chauffeur services as such have remained exclusive and extraordinary and we still associate them with the upper class.
So, what is that which makes limousines stand out from other vehicles?’
- Sophisticated appearance
What most people don’t know is that there is no such thing as a limo car type or a brand. This implies that any vehicle can, actually, be a limousine. There have been some attempts to make strange and unusual limousines, like the Tank Limo, the Stretch Harley Limo, or the 30-meters-long Limo, the longest car in the world. Luckily, those were just caprices of rich and idle people. The most usual limousines are long sedans, SUVs, stretch limos, and Hummers or party buses. Which to choose would depend on the number of passengers and the occasion, but an awesome ride is certainly promised with any of those.
The main difference between the limousine and a regular car is clear at first glance. Limousines have longer frame and wheelbase and have a partition between the driver’s compartment and the rear passenger compartment.
This partition usually contains a sliding glass window so that the conversation between passengers may be kept private from the chauffeur. Limos take the pedestal in the world of exclusive travel. It cannot get enough of classics, so they usually come in black or white colour. They have an attractive, spotless appearance and their wheels are shinier than your future.
- Luxurious interior
Not many people actually own limousines but they make a contract with limo services. Limousines are there to provide people with a cosy, pleasurable and extraordinary ride. It’s hard to decide which is more attractive with limos – their elegant exterior or their jaw-dropping interior. Highly durable premium leather seats come with all the little cushions at rights spots for comfortable seating, and with more than enough legroom for each of the passengers. For entertainment, there are flat TV screens, a sound system, Wi-Fi connection and built-in computers, usually hidden behind a sliding mechanism allowing for quick and easy access. No need to mention the beverage station – limos and sparkling wines go so well together.
Other luxuries might include:
- Heated seats,
- Interior with theme or materials matching any style,
- Cabin lighting illuminating in any colour and with multiple intensity levels, to add to the atmosphere,
- Aux Input, to connect your device straight to the stereo system and play the music of your choice,
- Video game slots,
- Tinted windows for privacy,
- Dancing floor with a pole for a crazy night out.
Conclusion: Limousines are a perfect combination of business and pleasure, relaxation and party.
- A professional service
Limo services are there to serve you and make sure that your event is perfect. You can ask for special decorations, drinks, music or a scenic drive around the city – everything is possible with a quality limo service.
You can make online and reservations in advance, and have the ability to choose your car. If you are arranging an airport pickup, a transportation service will monitor your flight schedule so they know exactly when to be there. Thanks to this, you won’t have to worry about your transportation even in the occurrence of flight delays. And the chauffeur is there to carry your luggage and accommodate any scheduling changes.
Limos can be fast and capable of offering a thrilling ride. Their drivers are trained professionals who handle well the vehicles, have all the necessary licenses and extended knowledge of roads and regulations. Yours is to arrange the itinerary and all those little luxuries you might need. When the car arrives, you just have to sit back and let them do the driving while you are fully enjoying your trip.


May 29, 1988
It’s easy to sing when life is good. But what happens when circumstances take a turn for the worse? After being beaten and thrown into prison, the apostle Paul wrote, “For Christ’s sake, I delight in weaknesses, in insults, in hardships, in persecutions, in difficulties.” Alistair Begg examines this great Christian paradox of rejoicing in suffering as we learn that with God there is no such thing as purposeless pain.
16As we were going to the place of prayer, we were met by a slave girl who had a spirit of divination and brought her owners much gain by fortune-telling. 17She followed Paul and us, crying out, “These men are servants5 of the Most High God, who proclaim to you the way of salvation.” 18And this she kept doing for many days. Paul, having become greatly annoyed, turned and said to the spirit, “I command you in the name of Jesus Christ to come out of her.” And it came out that very hour.
19But when her owners saw that their hope of gain was gone, they seized Paul and Silas and dragged them into the marketplace before the rulers. 20And when they had brought them to the magistrates, they said, “These men are Jews, and they are disturbing our city. 21They advocate customs that are not lawful for us as Romans to accept or practice.” 22The crowd joined in attacking them, and the magistrates tore the garments off them and gave orders to beat them with rods. 23And when they had inflicted many blows upon them, they threw them into prison, ordering the jailer to keep them safely. 24Having received this order, he put them into the inner prison and fastened their feet in the stocks.
25About midnight Paul and Silas were praying and singing hymns to God, and the prisoners were listening to them,
Copyright © 2023, Alistair Begg. Used by permission. All rights reserved.
Scripture taken from The Holy Bible, English Standard Version. Copyright ©2001 by Crossway Bibles, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers. Used by permission. All rights reserved. Text provided by the Crossway Bibles Web Service.


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Due to the constant work with a computer and smartphones, a shortage of sleep, the impact of chemical and physical factors, such as smoke, dust, ultraviolet radiation, our eyes are experiencing a strong load, eye proteins are blushing.
According to Lion's research, a person looks like 5 years older than 5 years old. To combat inflamed eyes, Lion in September 2016 has released new drops for SMileWhiteye's eyes.
SmileWhiteye helps to create the effect of white proteins, as a result of which the eyes become attractive and brighter.
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4 Jan 2020
The Krefeld Zoo has reopened after a fire on New Year's Eve decimated its primate exhibit. Visitors mourned the community's loss but cherished the international support it has received.
2 Jan 2020
A zoo in the German city of Krefeld said "our worst fears have become reality" after a fire destroyed a primate sanctuary. Police said a drifting New Year sky lantern was be to blame for the tragedy.
1 Jan 2020
People across the world welcome the start of the new year with fireworks and parties.
17 Dec 2019
Every year, about 25 million Christmas trees are used to decorate German homes. Since 2018, a Berlin landscape gardener has been making trees available for rent, in order to avoid them being discarded after New Year's Eve.
1 Apr 2019
While the effects of Chinese New Year in early February played a part, the figures were a surprise for market analysts. They come amid a global slowdown and ongoing dispute with the US over trade tariffs.
1 Jan 2019
Nigeria's share their expectations for the New Year.
1 Jan 2019
Trade conflicts have put a stamp on 2018. There was no lack of threats voiced and punitive tariffs implemented. Is there any hope that the New Year will bring some improvement? DW's Andreas Becker looks for answers.
31 Dec 2017
Sydney hosts its annual fireworks spectacle to welcome in the New Year.
3 Jan 2017
Islamic State claimed responsibility for the killing of 39 people celebrating the New Year inside a fabled Istanbul nightclub, an act of terrorism that has become grimly familiar in Turkey as it fails to keep the violence in Syria from spilling into its cities.
2 Jan 2017
Islamic State claimed responsibility on Monday (January 2) for a New Year's Day mass shooting in a packed Istanbul nightclub that killed 39 people, an attack carried out by a lone gunman who remains at large.
1 Jan 2017
Confetti rains down on a crowd estimated at 2 million as New York's Times Square welcomes in 2017.
1 Jan 2017
The New Year arrives with fireworks and light shows coordinated to musical programs in Hong Kong and Taiwan.