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1895 Peugeot ‘Bicyclette Lion’
I purchased this Peugeot Lion from a friend who had owned it for thirty years.
One problem with Victorian bicycles is that most were built for tall people. So I’ve had to get used to riding much taller bikes than were built for my height (5′ 8″ with inside leg 31″).
This is a rare lower-framed Victorian safety bicycle. I can ride it comfortably with the saddle post higher.
But it would also suit someone shorter: with the saddle post low it could be used by someone nearer 5′ 0″
The frame size is 20.5 inches – that’s from the centre of the pedal axle to the top of the seat tube (ie add around 3 or 4 inches for saddle and compare your inside leg measurement)
Being an ‘upsloper’ means it’s easier to get your leg over the crossbar.
WHEELS & TYRES: Single-tube tyres are no longer available. Original ones, being over 100 years old, are only suitable for display purposes rather than riding. So my friend rebuilt the wheels so that modern pneumatic tyres can be used. I will advertise this Peugeot for sale, and I’ll supply a pair of new old-style 28 x 1 1/2 tyres and inner tubes with it.
This Peugeot is very well preserved. It’s interesting that it has mudguards; although they were featured in catalogues of the time, they were usually discarded by riders because they added to the weight of a bicycle – remember that bicycles of this era were fixed-wheel machines, so this Peugeot would have originally had to be pushed uphill, and ridden slowly downhill.
My friend also installed a freewheel hub, so no uphill pushing is required! This is therefore a very practical machine for riding.
1895 was the final year of the ‘upsloper’ style of bicycle; in the following year a lightweight diamond frame was introduced, which meant that upslopers would soon become obsolete. So, in 1896, many of the larger bicycle manufacturers sold their stock of this style of bike as fast as they could at discount prices. However, not everyone would have been aware of the latest developments in bicycle design. Richer cycle enthusiasts who lived in cities would have been aware of new bicycle fashions and styles, but in rural areas news did not travel so fast and, in this era, newspapers did not provide many articles on cycling. So another strategy, favoured by Peugeot and other French companies, was to establish many more shops around the country, where they could still market the older style of bicycle for the local population.
In Great Britain, manufacturers had similar issues as styles became outdated, but British companies solved the problem by exporting such models to the Commonwealth countries.
Year by year through the 1890s, bicycle frame design evolved until, in 1896, the diamond frame with which we are familiar today became the dominant style.
According to the Peugeot company website, in the early 1890s the catalogue illustrated 32 models, and they manufactured around 10,000 machines a year.
As you can see from these 1894 Peugeot catalogue illustrations, the ‘Militaire’ model (above) was essentially the style we’d describe in Britain as an 1893/1894 ‘upsloper’ safety, while the Populaire model (below) was the previous style of safety prevalent in 1891/1892. | <urn:uuid:4ef6bad2-30c5-48b6-8ad6-5293bcaa7958> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://onlinebicyclemuseum.co.uk/1895-peugeot-bicyclette-lion/?tax=tour&tid=74 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571147.84/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810040253-20220810070253-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.980131 | 734 | 2.015625 | 2 |
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Joseph "Joe" C. Gillis is the main protagonist of the 1950 Billy Wilder film Sunset Boulevard. He the posthumous narrator who explained the events leading up to his death in the beginning of the film. He was a screenwriter for Hollywood who ended up having to stay with Norma Desmond, who ultimately kills him in the end.
He was portrayed by the late William Holden.
Why He Rocks
- As a character, he's used as a symbol of Billy Wilder's frustrations and fears he got as a personal writer in real life.
- He's one of the very first users of the "how we got here" trope used in various forms of media.
- With everything going on with him -- being unable to think of new script ideas, nearly losing his car, being forced to stay in Norma's place, and his death -- he's an easy target for viewers to sympathize with and feel for.
- His trait for being humorous and a constant snarker makes him a pretty entertaining screenwriter.
- His relationships with Norma may not be very healthy, but he still has some pretty touching scenes with her. His brief relationship with Betty was much better and the moments together were pretty memorable.
- There are some who might say he isn't as fleshed out as some of the other characters. | <urn:uuid:7bb65735-59b6-4d6a-add4-29735e7fbe0c> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://great-characters.fandom.com/wiki/Joe_Gillis | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571147.84/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810040253-20220810070253-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.9854 | 290 | 1.851563 | 2 |
The chance of six specific Irish horses winning at Cheltenham on the same day last week was 1.5 million to one. But it happened.
The probability of the results of the Euro 2012 qualifiers being exactly as they will turn out to be is extremely low. But it will happen.
If you had correctly put an accumulator on this years election results being exactly as they were (seat by seat), you’d have made a fortune.
So events, which have a low probability of occurring, can occur. But given that few gamblers wind up billionaires, we know it is extremely difficult to select in advance which low probability events will occur.
If we continue to build, and extensively use, a lot of gas pipelines, nuclear power stations, bridges, dams, airplanes, ships or other things capable of spectacular destruction – some of them will destruct spectacularly.
Nassim Taleb, an expert on risk, styles the modern world ‘extremistan’ – the lack of redundancy in the system and the interconnectedness of everything makes our world fragile rather than robust (see note 142 here on the Japanese nuclear problem). Vulnerable to large scale asymmetric shocks (low probability / high impact events) that can derail our financial, economic, energy and food systems. Elsewhere, Jared Diamond has documented the stratospheric rise and fall of many civilisations, often peaking just before outright collapse.
Modern life is dangerous and fragile, but we probably couldn’t support the planet’s 7 billion inhabitants without abundant energy supplies and other risky infrastructure. The large asymmetric risks associated with these are real. If we are uncomfortable with this, do we want to take our chances in the stone age, or is that we just want other people to take these risks for us? | <urn:uuid:c6100b19-f9e6-4498-98af-bb0f436f5b9d> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://sluggerotoole.com/2011/03/23/modern-life-is-fragile/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571147.84/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810040253-20220810070253-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.948612 | 373 | 2.21875 | 2 |
This Spring 2022 seminar series taking us from Seminar #29 through #34 starts with an in depth look at the history of written bread recipes starting with Ancient Egypt and ending in the late 19th century. There are three talks in my “close reading” series where I read from historic texts and then talk about the reading, pointing out why I think the texts are important, what we can learn from them. As is said, “The Devil is in the details.” In bread history, gold is in the details. It is often only when you get to sentence level that you find what is special. Seminar #31 centers on the English language baking vocabulary from roughly 1550 to the end of the 19th century. This talk is based on my bread term dictionary manuscript. The last talk in this series explores flatbreads—and will include solid how-to instructions for home bakers working in both modern kitchens and who may have access to wood fired ovens.
I am looking forward to seeing you at these talks—they are always on Thursdays, every two weeks from the start of March 17, and always at 9 am Pacific.
Rubel’s Bread History Seminar #29: Bread Recipes 1300 BCE-1900 CE (Thursday, March 17, 9am Pacific. For this date, and this date only, California is GMT-7. We go back to GMT-8 for the next talk, because of Daylight Savings.)
History of bread recipes from 1300 BCE to the 1880s, plus hands-on experience interpreting recipes. Zoom Rooms for part of the session. This is reasonably technical talk about recipes and recipe structure. People who bake historic recipes will find the talk especially useful.
Rubel’s Bread History Seminar #30: Close Reading of Maison Rustique (Thursday, March 31, 9am Pacific)
This week, we delve into the world of early modern bread with a close reading of the 1616 edition of Maison rustique. The 1616 edition is one of the best selling agricultural texts of all time, a book that, with revisions, was in print for roughly two hundred years, and was edited and expanded by Gervase Markham, an important English writer on agriculture and bread. This text offers a deep look into the grain and bread culture of the early 17th century, offering useful insights for historic research, and for understanding our bread today.
Rubel’s Bread History Seminar #31: Finding Bread Culture in Medical Texts (Thursday, April 14, 9am Pacific)
Readings from medical texts from the 1580-1850s. Exploring bread and bread culture in health manuals and medical texts. Not boring! Another of my deep reading lectures. The devil is always in the details, and the medical texts are filled with details that enrich our understanding of bread in our reasonably recent past. The yeast/sourdough discussions today have a foundation that is traceable back to Classical Rome and are evident in Early Modern medical texts, as well. Quoting the famous lines by the American writer, William Faulkner, “The past is never dead. It’s not even past.”
Rubel’s Bread History Seminar #32: Brexit, French Bread, & English Muffins (Thursday, April 28, 9am Pacific)
Two 18th-century English breads offer us insights into 21st century politics: English French Bread and English Muffins. Talk plus recipes. Why study the past? What makes bread history valuable? I think that this look at what the English called “French Bread”—a yeasted, lightly enriched white bread that was a popular style amongst the French elite in the 18th century—along with a look at the “muffin” we know as the English muffin, first popularized in the first half of the 18th century—offers insights into both English and American culture. In England, the Brexit split can be seen as a playing out of cultural divisions that were articulated in the 18th and 19th centuries around “French bread” and muffins.
Rubel’s Bread History Seminar #33: Finding Insights in Words (Thursday, May 12, 9am Pacific)
A riff on words. We glean cultural and technical insights from William’s Dictionary of English Bread Terms, 1550-1880. My bread term dictionary (mostly English) manuscript is now around 60,000 words explaining a couple hundred terms. Culture is encoded in words. The bread vocabulary gets into lost techniques, but I think more importantly, it offers up insights into bread and culture that are otherwise very hard to see, including a record of deep misogamy.
Rubel’s Bread History Seminar #34: Flatbreads! Breads of Choice and Breads of Poverty (Thursday, May 26, 9am Pacific)
Breads of choice, breads of poverty. I’ll discuss flatbreads and show you how to make a bread formed around a hot rock and other techniques. Most of us attending my lectures, including me, are from a loaf bread culture. Most of the world’s bread eaters eat flatbreads. Flatbreads were the first breads, remain the bread of choice for most bread eaters AND have always been available to the abject poor in loaf cultures as breads of necessity. A few of those breads, like the French crepe, the Scottish oat cake, and the Italian piadina have survived to become commercial bread products, but most European flatbreads have disappeared. | <urn:uuid:5a823547-4ce9-4d60-84cc-6b284538a7ed> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://williamrubel.com/2022/03/02/rubel-spring-2022-bread-history-seminar-series/?like_comment=16313&_wpnonce=6a3b28a558 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571147.84/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810040253-20220810070253-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.959251 | 1,160 | 2.234375 | 2 |
Select Bibliography for Heckel-System Bassoon
Apfelstadt, Mark and Klimko, Ronald. Bassoon Performance Practice, Teaching Materials, Techniques and Methods. Moscow, Idaho: The University of Idaho School of Music Publications, 1993.
Backus, John. "Multiphonic Tones in the Woodwind Instruments." Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 16/2 (February 1978): 594-596. Figures include osciloscope tracings of sound pressure inside the bassoon reed for two multiphonic fingerings given in Bartolozzi's New Sounds for Woodwind.
Bartolozzi, Bruno. New Sounds for Woodwind. London: Oxford University Press, 1971.
Christlieb, Don. "Pictorial bassoon fingering." Woodwind Magazine (1950-51), also self-published by Don Christlieb, 3311 Scadlock Lane, Sherman Oaks, California.
Cooper, L. Hugh and Toplansky, Howard. Essentials of Bassoon Technique. New Jersey: Howard Toplansky, 1968, 1974, 1976.
Corey, Gerald E. "Thoughts on Improving Both the German and French System Bassoons." Journal of the International Double Reed Society 5 (1977): 82-86.
Dietz, William. "The Flicking Technique of the Bassoon." The NACWPI Journal 37/3 (Spring 1989): 21-26. Includes a discussion of the flicking technique for A3-D4.
Groffy, Franz. "Piano-Key Mechanisms for the Bassoon." Woodwind Magazine 7/7 (April 1955): 8-9, 11. Discusses different locking mechanisms for the Heckel-system bassoon.
Heckel, Wilhelm. Bassoon fingering chart for the Heckel system chromatic scale with table of shakes and trills. New York: Carl Fischer, Inc.
Heckel, Wilhelm. Grifftabelle für Fagott und Kontrafagott. Biebrich: private edition.
Heiss, John C. "Some Multiple-Sonorities for Flute, Oboe, Clarinet, and Bassoon" Perspectives of New Music 7/1 (Fall-Winter 1968): 136-142. Includes 20 fingerings, the last 8 of which are overblown low register pitches Bb1-F2.
Hendrickson. Handy manual of fingering charts for instrumentalists, inc. woodwind and brass instruments. New York: Carl Fischer Inc.
Jolivet, Michel. "Letters to the Editor." The Double Reed 10/3 (Winter 1987): 55. Gives a A1 Multiphonic.
Klimko, Ronald. Bassoon Performance Practice and Teaching in the United States and Canada. Moscow Idaho: University of Idaho School of Music Publications, 1974.
Klimko, Ronald. "From the Bassoon Editor: an Editorial: The Double Reed 5/2 (Fall 1982): 23. Klimko advocates the construction of a better bassoon, which could play Bb2 and Eb3 with Boehm fingerings.
Lacey, Edwin. "A Survey and Acoustical Evaluation of Bassoon Fingerings, and an Annotated Fingering." Indiana University doctoral dissertation, 1979.
Lapina, Theodore J. "Multitone Fingerings on the Heckel System Bassoon" NACWPI Journal (Spring 1977): 19-28, 37-38. Discusses embouchure settings and reed adjustments necessary for the 21 fingerings included in the article. To date the most comprehensive article on the subject.
Longazo, George. "Our Colleagues in the People's Republic of China." The Double Reed 5/1 (Spring 1982): 22. Reproduces the fingering chart from a brochure for the Hsinghai bassoon, Bb1-G#5.
Meek, Richard. In Apfelstadt, Marc and Klimko, Ronald. Bassoon Performance Practice, Teaching Materials, Techniques and Methods. Idaho: University of Idaho, 1993, pp. 61-62. Gives fingerings for AM7, AbM7, GM7, F#M7, FM7 chords.
Penazzi, Sergio. Metoda per Faggotto. Milan, Italy: edizioni Suvini Zerboni, 1971. Contains extensive quartertone and timbral fingerings.
Reinhard, Johnny. "The Microtonal Bassoon." The Double Reed 10/2 (Fall 1987).
Sharrow, Leonard. "The Bassoon is Archaic; The Need for a New Instrument," Parts I and II. Woodwind Magazine 2/8? (April? 1950):? and 2/9 (May 1950): 5, 13.
Spencer, William. The Art of Bassoon Playing. Evanston: Summy-Birchard Company, 1958.
Steinmetz, John. In Klimko, Ronald. Bassoon Performance Practices and Teaching in the United States and Canada. Idaho: University of Idaho, 1974, p. 69. Supplies a cadence in D major with three multiphonic fingerings. This is repeated in his 1979 article.
Steinmetz, John. The Double Reed 2/1 (April 1979): 10-11. Supplies a number of fingerings for multiphonics and difference tones under the headings: Gurgles, Impossible Notes, A Cadence (D major), Miscellaneous Death Rattles and Lost Chords, and Filtering.
Thornton, James. "Bassoon Wing Keys." The Instrumentalist 13/5 (January 1959): 51. Reprinted in Woodwind Anthology. Evanston: The Instrumentalist Company, 1976: 577. Written at a time when the addition of a D speaker key cost $25!
Timm, Everett LeRoy. The Woodwinds: Performance and Instructional Techniques. Boston: Allyn and Bacon, 1964. Contains extensive and unusual fingering combinations Bb1-G#5 and trill fingerings from C2-D2 to E5-F5.
Vigder, Scott. "A Table of Quarter-Tone Fingerings for the Bassoon," The Double Reed 4/2 (October 1981). These fingerings were extracted from Sergio Penazzi's Metodo per Fagotto (Edizoni Suvini Zerboni-Milano, 1971).
Weait, Christopher. "Pitch Sliding on the Bassoon," The Journal of the International Double Reed Society 3 (1975): 38-39. Comments on slides from F3-G3, G3-Ab3, A3-C4, B3-C4. Also discusses upper register portamenti.
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The milkshake is a ubiquitous drink, whether you call it by its original name or modern synonyms like a smoothie, protein shake or the more arcane cabinet. You can find them at every ice cream shop and most fast food restaurants like Burger King or Sonic. But what is the milkshake’s origin story?
In the golden era of the soda fountain (1870 to 1900), drink names and categories were well defined, unlike today. For example, a Shake and a Milk Shake were different creatures. There was also the upgraded Cream Shake that removed a portion of milk and added heavy cream. Then there was an Egg Cream, with cream and eggs, unlike the modern New York Egg Cream which is just milk soda, a downgraded version of the Cream Soda. The Egg Cream was definitely a rich milkshake-like concoction. As you can see, the passage of time has simplified things but also disconnected history.
Milk drinks have been around for as long as we could tame a cow. However, until refrigeration only rudimentary cooling systems—ice houses or ice delivery,—were available and that made storing fresh milk difficult. Most milk drinks were cooked or served hot. Drinking raw milk was known to be problematic in the unhygienic past due to contamination from Salmonella, E. coli, Listeria, Campylobacter. The first popular milk-based drinks were posset and syllabub, both going back to at least the 16th century, but probably much earlier. Flips and egg nog were famous as well, and as Jerry Thomas noted about Egg Nogg in 1862 “it has a popularity that is cosmopolitan” which is still true today.
Cold milk drinks with considerable antiquity include Milk Punch and White Tiger’s Milk, both used fresh milk and lots of ice and were included in Jerry Thomas’ 1862 bar book but they were alcohol flavoured milk drinks, not milkshakes.
The first reference to the term that we understand today as a milkshake was in the Atlanta Constitution with the title “Milk Shake” published on May 17, 1886.
So what was this “Milk Shake”? It was a simple drink with substantial effort. The ingredients were whole milk, a flavouring syrup like vanilla or strawberry and a grating of nutmeg on top. Yes, that is just flavoured milk, but if you give it a vigorous shake for 2 to 3 minutes, you will end up with a light frothy beverage that was interesting and unique. If you are familiar with a properly made Ramos Gin Fizz, then you will understand that the airiness of the drink is what makes the drink novel. As for the mystery ingredients, they were probably some additional flavouring or a foaming agent like soap bark solution which helped stabilize the foam.
The milkshake may have even started the drive-through craze:
The Atchison Daily Globe (Atchison, Kansas), Monday, April 23, 1888
People out driving, and who drive up to Stoll’s drug store, will be accommodated without getting out of their carriages with his delicious cream soda, milk shake, or any other article they may want.
Here is how a milkshake was made in the 1880s:If you wanted a serious calorie count in your shake, the Cream Shake was an option with one half of the milk being replaced by cream.
Cream Shake (Saxe’s New Guide)
1¼ oz Don’t Care Syrup
A little cracked ice
Fill the glass with half milk, half cream
Shake very hard for 2 to 3 minutes
Strain into a long thin glass
Add a little nutmeg on top
If you’ve ever asked “How do you make a milkshake without ice cream?” the original method is the way to do it and not only does it have fewer calories, the two minutes of continuous shaking is a great way to burn calories. All that vigorous shaking led to the invention of milkshake machines, though not the blender we think of today, they were mechanical shakers like the video below.
VIDEO NO LONGER AVAILABLE
These machines were thought to be mechanical cocktail shakers but are in fact purposely built milkshake machines for soda fountains. Shaking a cocktail is done just to chill a drink, and that takes 15 seconds, the first iteration of the milkshake required 2 to 3 minutes of vigorous shaking and these mechanical shakers could do it better than the local soda jerk. There is even a patent (Machine for mixing beverages) that describes the inventions use for milkshakes.
“Our invention relates to improvements in machines for mixing beverages such as milkshakes, shaker lemonades, mint juleps, etc. and it consists in certain novel features hereinafter described and claimed.”
As for flavours, the most popular choices were chocolate, vanilla, pineapple and coffee, but strawberry, ginger, banana and peach we common as well. Any syrup that was used to make a soda could be used to flavour a milkshake.
The influence of the soda fountain on cocktails can be seen with the original version of the milk shake. It no doubt influenced the Ramos Gin Fizz and other frothy drinks like the Peach Blow as well as the starting point for the modern trend of “foams” applied to cocktails.
If you look at Internet-based historical references to this drink you would think they started as whisky drinks or the electric blender was the start, but that is not the case. Milk as a drink, or in a drink, is universal and the only thing original about a milkshake in 1886 was that they shook it so long that is became light and airy.
The milkshakes we enjoy today developed from the ice cream desserts (Sundae’s, Splits, etc.) that soda fountains started serving in the early 1900s with the advent of modern refrigeration. In the Dispenser’s Formulary (1915), the start of the chapter on ice cream states:
“What has been jocularly called “the solidification of the soda fountain business” is one of the most significant developments in recent years.”
The carbonated beverages element split into prepackaged bottles and cans, and the soda fountain evolved into ice cream shops and bars.
Shaking a drink for two minutes isn’t practical in the modern age of laziness. And the blades of a blender do not work nearly as well as shaking by hand. This milkshake has a silky smooth texture that is light and flavourful. It is unique, and everyone should try one at some point.[socialpug_tweet tweet=”History of the Milkshake https://artofdr.ink/milkshake-history via artofdrink.com and @dsoneil” display_tweet=”History of the Milkshake https://artofdr.ink/milkshake-history by @dsoneil” style=”2″ remove_url=”yes” remove_username=”yes”]
Soda Fountain Dairy Drinks Reference Guide
Mixed Fancy Drinks – Dispenser’s Formulary (1915)
1. Shake.—Any syrup or combination of syrups may be used, sometimes with the addition of solution of acid phosphate. Shaved ice is added with a little plain water. It is then shaken and strained and the glass filled with carbonated water. The shaking can be done by hand with a shaker or by machine.
a. Milk Shake.—The milk shake is made without carbonated water by the shaking together of syrup and rich milk, either with or without crushed ice and then serving after straining.
b. Ice Cream Shake.—An ice cream shake is made in a similar manner, the ice cream being added before shaking.
c. Egg Shake.—When an egg is added to a milk shake prior to the shaking it becomes an egg shake. Acid flavors should never be used in any of these as they curdle the milk.
2. Cream Soda.—A mixture of carbonated water, cream or milk and such syrups as chocolate, vanilla, coffee, maple, etc.
3. Creme.—A syrupy liqueur, the principal flavor being usually specified, as creme de menthe, creme de rose, creme yvette, etc. As a fountain beverage the cream is related to the cream sodas, being very sweet and made with syrups of distinctive flavour, cream or milk, and topped with whipped cream.
4. Ice Cream Soda.—A measured quantity of ice cream added to the mixture of syrup and carbonated water. The best fountains use chocolate milk, vanilla and strawberry ice cream with syrups of the same flavor. In some fountains, milk or cream is also added to the beverage, which is served with a spoon.
5. Float.—An ade upon the top of which is floated a layer of grape juice, ginger ale, or in some cases, a disher if fruit sherbert or ice cream. In the latter case it would be known as a “sherbert float” or an “ice-cream float.”
Old-Fashioned Milk Shake
Put 4 ounces, or less, or shaved ice into a thick 12-ounce tumbler, add 1 ounce vanilla syrup, fill the whole glass with milk and agitate the whole thoroughly. The shaking may be done in the special machine known as a “milk shaker,” or by means of a small hand shaker like that used for making egg drinks. After shaking, strain into another glass and serve. Sprinkle on some powdered nutmeg, if desired. Chocolate or any other non-acidulous syrup may be used if desired (acid syrups tend to curdle the milk). Price—12 ounces, 10 cents. —from the Dispensers Formulary (1915) | <urn:uuid:0311134b-a419-4a9c-ad38-92eaf6d2b9b5> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.artofdrink.com/soda/history-of-the-milkshake | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570879.1/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808213349-20220809003349-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.9589 | 2,112 | 2.703125 | 3 |
A friend on Facebook asked:
- In what circumstances is censorship the right answer, or is it /ever/ the right answer?
- Are there specific types of content that ought to be limited/ censored?
- Do the morals (or other qualities) of the director/producer/writer/actor/artist etc. warrant censorship?
I spent many years thinking about philosophical topics like this and my conclusion was that there are certain areas in life where people tend to ask subtly malformed questions. For example, it seems to me that censorship isn’t a matter of “right” and “wrong”, it’s simply a matter of a power struggle between different groups. It’s like asking “in what circumstances is a lion catching a zebra the right answer?”. I think “what is the meaning of life?” is another example of a malformed question. A math example would be something like “what color is the number five?”.
is this the same as moral relativism? For societies to function, there must be some moral ‘absolutes’ though, right? Otherwise there is no law… But how does one agree on those, and to what extent should deviations from those laws be screened from the public eye? As mentioned in the response above, I’m -in general- opposed to censorship, but am trying to find instances where censorship is the only recourse, let’s say for society to adequately function.
“For societies to function, there must be some moral ‘absolutes’ though, right?”
I’m not totally sure I understand what you mean by “absolutes”, but: after a lot of classes and a lot of thinking about it, my understanding is that there’s a part of our brain (the prefrontal cortex) that is inclined to make consequentialist judgements, and another part of our brain (I forget which) that is inclined to make deontological judgements. The trolley problem is a great example of when these two parts of our brain are in conflict: the utilitarian part wants to pull the switch so that the trolley kills fewer people, while the deontological part doesn’t want to pull the switch because it would mean that you’re “responsible” for the death of the person the trolley ends up killing.
So, people do have these parts of our brain that tend to think in these ways, but beyond those broad strokes, the details seem to be determined by the environment that a person is raised in. So those could function as the “moral absolutes” you’re talking about: the shared brain structure and the shared environment / learned rules of behavior.
But there can be a lot of disagreement because people don’t all have the same environment growing up (“My parents taught me to do X in this situation!” “Well, my parents taught me to Y!”), and beyond that, a lot of people’s behavior is just determined by “what’s good for me?” or by whatever pressures they’re subject to. So you can end up in situations where, for example, people vote for some policy (like censorship) not because they’ve made some judgement about the morality of it but instead because they were paid to vote that way, or they were urged to vote that way by their pastor, or whatever.
So when I think of these kinds of questions (like the censorship one), I think not so much in terms of “What ought to happen?” and more in terms of “What will happen?”, like if it was a physics problem. I actually imagine billiard balls bouncing around, where the question is trying to predict the future state of things.
Another way of putting it: when you’re asking an “ought” question, you need to be very precise and explicit about what you’re trying to optimize for / what the “ought” is trying to optimize for. Are you trying to maximize your own average daily reported wellbeing over the course of your life? Are you trying to maximize the duration for which a nation known as the “United States” continues to exist? And it’s probably not possible to optimize for everything that you’d like to optimize for. But if you don’t have a precise goal you could end up feeling lost, like you can’t figure out a satisfying answer and you can’t understand why.
I highly recommend checking out Joshua Greene (psych professor at Harvard) and his dissertation:
To answer the last part of your question:
“As mentioned in the response above, I’m -in general- opposed to censorship, but am trying to find instances where censorship is the only recourse, let’s say for society to adequately function.”
Censorship is very common during times of war / life-or-death struggle, when the very survival of (you/your family/your nation) is at stake. Censorship was widespread during WW2. IMO that’s a good example of how these moral judgements (“censorship is wrong!”) can be subordinate to a judgement of “What’s good for (me/my family/the nation)?” They’re just a set of rules that people agree to abide by as a compromise with each other, but when things get crazy, the rules go out the window. There’s nothing objective about them. | <urn:uuid:b2c844ad-3aa6-4fef-8730-25366e78f7ef> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://www.nathanwailes.com/blog/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573908.30/warc/CC-MAIN-20220820043108-20220820073108-00264.warc.gz | en | 0.955117 | 1,241 | 2.296875 | 2 |
Understanding statistics, tables, and charts offer useful insights to understand complex health problems, identifying the population at risk, developing adequate treatments, and promoting effective prevention strategies. One of the most complex health problems in the United States relates to the vast field of heart diseases, where the primary threat is represented by coronary heart disease (CHD) and angina. Analysis of the statistics and monitoring of the population at risk have helped the research attain significant achievements, and the incidence of CHD and angina has decreased over the last decades remarkably.
However, heart disease remains one of the major cause of death in the US, killing almost 400,000 people every year. Statistics show that CHD affects men more than women, and that white population is more at risk than Afro-Americans, Hispanics, Asians, and Native Americans (Benjamin et al., 2017). This paper will analyze the population of Florida from the perspective of the incidence of CHD and angina. Data have significance in evaluating health care outcomes in a multicultural society where Hispanic whites constitute the majority of the population.
|Data, Search and Directions||Findings|
|Population of interest.||The population of interest is made from men and women over 18 years of age with no special condition, living in areas with different levels of urbanization, and belonging to different races and social classes. The search aims at creating a mapping of the population of Florida, highlighting groups at risks and their distribution across the State. Heart-related diseases are the first cause of death in Florida, with 150.8 cases every 100,000 inhabitants (County Health Profile, 2018). The findings show data that are aligned with the national trend and indicate that the risk of CHD and angina increases with age. Smoking tobacco, obesity, high blood cholesterol, and physical inactivity are among the most significant causes of heart diseases.|
|Sources, organizations, and agencies.||Several governmental and non-governmental agencies monitor heart-related diseases. The American Heart Association (AHA) promotes campaigns aimed at improving the health status of the US, spreading knowledge about cardiovascular wellness. AHA also provides a yearly rapport containing detailed information to address the leading causes of heart diseases. The American Public Health Association and America’s Health Rankings cooperate to create a state by state analysis of the health of the nation. The Florida Department of Health offers many charts, tables, and statistics.|
|Statistics and information on risk factors.||The category most at risk consists of the population over 65 years of age, with a percentage of 10,9% people hit by heart disease. The national data are slightly larger, showing an 11,2% percentage. Within this percentage, men are more likely to develop heart disease compared to women, 5,8% and 3,7% respectively. The white population is most at risk, 5,6%, while Blacks and Hispanics have a decidedly lower incidence, 3,3% and 3,6% (Annual Report. Heart Disease in Florida 2018, 2018 ). These data highlight a discrepancy with the national trend, where the incidence of heart diseases in the Black population is more significant and comparable with the disease rate within White people (Benjamin et al., 2017). |
Other data underline the influence of secondary factors on the incidence of heart diseases, including education level, urbanicity, and income. High wages and educational level correspond to fewer chances of developing heart conditions (Annual Report. Heart Disease in Florida 2018, 2018 ). Quite surprisingly, heart diseases affect 9,3% population living in the countryside, while in urban areas the percentage decreases to 6,2%. In the rest of the US, the ratio of heart diseases in rural country settings is decidedly lower, with a value of 7,6%.
|Interpreting the findings.||The trend of heart-related diseases among the population of Florida is aligned with the rest of the United States, where a significant reduction of the mortality rate has been witnessed over the past decades (Wilmot, O’Flaherty, Capewell, Ford, & Vaccarino, 2015). However, the decrease seems to affect white and black populations, while the percentage of heart diseases among Hispanic-Latino people has remained substantially unaltered. The evidence might be related to the difficulty among Hispanics at having access to quality health care (Ortega, Rodriguez, & Bustamante, 2015). Latinos have the lowest rates of health insurance coverage, and the continually increasing of the population suggests that different approaches to health care delivering should be planned.|
Though great efforts have been made to reduce the incidence of heart-related diseases, CHD and angina are still among the most significant causes of death in the United States. Data and statistics have displayed a substantial alignment of Florida with the national trend. Aged people and men among white and black ethnic groups remain the categories most at risk, but the mortality rates due to heart-related diseases have decreased over the last decades. However, the decreasing does not affect the Latino-Hispanic population, confirming a documented lack of quality health care delivering among this ethnicity. Considering that Latinos communities are increasing in the US, addressing what is becoming a big demographic change should become a priority.
Annual Report. Heart Disease in Florida 2018. (2018). Web.
Benjamin, E. J., Blaha, M. J., Chiuve, S. E., Cushman, M., Das, S. R., Deo, R.,… Muntner, P. (2017). Heart disease and stroke statistics-2017 update: A report from the American Heart Association. Circulation, 135(10), 146-603. Web.
County Health Profile. (2018). Web.
Ortega, A. N., Rodriguez, H. P. & Bustamante, A. V. (2015). Policy dilemmas in Latino health care and implementation of the Affordable Care Act. Annual Review of Public Health, 36, 525-544. Web.
Wilmot, K. A., O’Flaherty, M., Capewell, S., Ford E. S., & Vaccarino, V. (2015) Coronary heart disease Mortality declines in the United States from 1979 through 2011. Evidence for stagnation in young adults, especially women. Circulation, 132(10), 997-1002. Web. | <urn:uuid:ae55d20d-54dd-4c42-b1a4-dd108fe0d455> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://nursingbird.com/health-statistics-and-populations/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570651.49/warc/CC-MAIN-20220807150925-20220807180925-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.903734 | 1,303 | 3.109375 | 3 |
Why do dreamwork? One could certainly do other valuable things in the early morning rather than spending time writing down dreams and images from the night before. Sipping morning tea or coffee, reading the paper, working out, reading devotions, or just getting ready to meet the day — all worthy activities. So why do dreamwork?
The answer, for me, is that there really isn’t any universal reason that one should do dreamwork. Dreams are interesting, entertaining, and, according to some dream researchers, dreams accomplish necessary functions regardless of whether we attend to them or not. Apparently, dreams help to integrate memories, thoughts, and emotions important for our survival. In fact, if we are prevented from REM sleep and thus dreaming, we will begin to hallucinate in waking life! Some dream researchers even claim that dreams, left unattended, still serve as a kind of “unconscious psychoanalysis” that works nightly to keep us in balance.
So, there needs to be some compelling reason for doing dreamwork, a reason that addresses a felt need on the part of the dreamer. A reason such as a desire to understand relational difficulties that seem to repeat themselves, despite our best efforts to change. Or one might want to better understand what vocation or career one is being called to. Or you might be confronted with the challenges of parenting or of aging, or some other life transition.
A common reason people give for doing dreamwork is that they desire to grow spiritually — knowing that our ego-centric lives, by definition, ultimately defend us against the authentic stirrings of our souls. When people feel that there is “something missing,” dreamwork is something they turn to in order to discover what their egos are unable to find.
This is the perspective of Jung’s view of the ego-Self axis.
As we go through life, we typically shift from being united with our deeper selves to gradually becoming more and more alienated from the Self, the God-image (imago dei) that is unique to each individual. So the question is a good one: “How do I stay in-tune with my own soul? How do I open up to God’s guidance in my life?”
Most forms of spiritual discipline do not help with this process of experiencing in a deeply felt way God’s guidance for one’s life. Prayer, Worship, Bible Study, doing acts of charity — all of these tend to rely on conscious behavioral practices. They do not deal with the unconscious, where the God-image or Self resides. While other spiritual practices, such as Centering or Contemplative Prayer, Lectio Divina, Walking the Labrynth, and Meditation do provide ways of setting consciousness aside in order to provide for a more immediate experience of the Sacred or the Holy.
Dreamwork enables a person to go more directly and consciously to the Source — the GPS system inside of us that God has so wonderfully designed for our guidance through life. Just as the Monarch Butterfly (See Flight of the Butterflies at IMAX) “knows” precisely how to travel over 2500 miles, not to a country or a county or a city or a town, but to a specific mountain peak where it has never been before, so we can find our way through the challenges, the storms, and the uncertainties of life to fulfill God’s plan for us by paying close attention to our dreams.
Of course, it involves taking time to write our dreams down, learning how to interpret our dreams, either alone or preferrably in a group. Also, reading deeply and widely in Jungian psychology is a must, it seems to me. It may take years to learn well the symbolic language of archetypes and one’s own personal symbol-world. But the opportunity to live one’s life feeling “fully alive,” deeply in touch with the same energy that formed the stars, the planets, the incredible diversity of Mother Earth, as well as the chance to make a unique difference in this world — for those willing to travel this journey, what a remarkable privilege! | <urn:uuid:022415bf-583f-4406-8de3-2da8ba3f3c11> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://johnbrowe.com/tag/knowing-god/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573533.87/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818215509-20220819005509-00264.warc.gz | en | 0.941993 | 857 | 1.757813 | 2 |
The final project gives you a larger structure (or form) for documenting and reflecting on the process of creating a text that intervenes in one of the public conversations we’ve been exploring. While the larger structure is fixed, the choice of a form (genre) for the text you create is entirely up to you. Think carefully about which genre is most appropriate to serve your purpose.
You final project should consist of three basic components:
A Discussion section
A section presenting the text you’ve created
A Commentary section
should contextualize the public conversation in which you wish to intervene.
should indicate your choice of a base text (a text that addresses that public conversation in a particularly significant way) or the genre you wish to use to address that conversation.
should explain your choice (why is it significant? What is noteworthy about its contribution to the public conversation you are intervening in?)
may describe research you did to prepare for your re-write–texts that you read and analyzed because you wanted to imitate their generic structure/style or use/respond to their content.
Your own Textual Intervention
presents a text you’ve created that responds to the conversation in some way (could be a re-write of the base text)
could be in the form of any genre—this needs be carefully thought out and should be based on the purpose you seek to accomplish.
should address a specific audience in a well-defined rhetorical situation.
should critically analyze and compare “the text as you found it with the text as you re-made it” (or compared to a typical example of the genre you’re imitating)
should reflect on the problems and possibilities you encountered in the process of creating, revising, and refining your re-write.
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There are so many career choices in the UK but it’s about what best suits your lifestyle, experiences, and education. This article will take you through some great ideas for a new career, whether you want to work from home due to other priorities or use your life experiences to find your passion.
With so many people having the need to travel at different ages, it’s something most people could end up loving! passing on your experiences of different counties onto people who want to see new places for the first time. Being able to recommend places in different countries would be amazing whilst enticing someone to stay somewhere you have in mind. A great thing about this career choice is that it can be done from home or if you prefer to work in an agency they’ll be glad to have you. If you were traveling or just visited a lot of countries in your time you’ll be able to do this job with a great level of confidence.
A lot of people find themselves leaving education unsure of what to do with their knowledge. Teaching is one of the most satisfying careers, helping young minds develop and grow. Teaching also offers convenient working hours and holidays and you can manage your own workload during your time off. Teaching is a career you can do with a great attitude because you’ve already experienced it and can offer you knowledge in the best way possible. Another thing to consider is that teaching/ tutoring can be offering your own home if Required, it’s defiantly worth considering if you have the knowledge to share.
We all get taught a second language in high school, but how can we use it? Being a translator is one of the fastest growing occupations and is likely to increase by around 29 percent by 2024. It’s a well-paying career path and if you are fluent in another language (or willing to learn) you can be working all around the world or simply interpreting audio files and document from your own home.
Another great way to work from home and feel good about it is becoming a foster carer. A lot of people think to become a foster carer is difficult but most people can do it. It’s a rewarding career that offers happiness to children of all different ages. Foster carers don’t have to be a status either agencies will not discriminate against you due to marital status, sexual orientation or gender. So, if you feel like this could suit your lifestyle the best thing to do is enquire.
This is usually a hidden talent for most people, being creative with words is desirable to a lot of companies and is a career that can be done from home or the office. Some companies won’t even require the creative aspect just editing or proofreading can even be a career opportunity. Not only will this help your career prospects but if you’ve always wanted to write a novel of any sort this will help build your skills daily. | <urn:uuid:935cb21c-e273-4dbe-9a61-a5c8ffc1e804> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://itsmyownway.com/5-new-career-changes-consider/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571147.84/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810040253-20220810070253-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.96567 | 611 | 1.921875 | 2 |
If you can’t pay the interest on your debts, an IOU isn’t going to be enough to save you from bankruptcy.
That’s the problem with the succession of net zero commitments emerging from companies and governments. The carbon emissions generated by our current industrial and agricultural systems are going to lead to a disaster far worse than insolvency without vigorous efforts to reduce them. If promises to offset them with carbon-absorbing activities are to be worth anything, they’re going to need to be more than aspirational words on paper.
Take Royal Dutch Shell Plc. It was the first oil major to make a commitment to cutting the emissions from its customers — known as “Scope 3 emissions” — making it one of the most progressive oil companies on climate.
That was 2017. Last month, Shell set out its latest plan to get to net zero. The big reveal left climate experts mostly unimpressed, in part because the company plans to increase its total fossil fuel output in the near term by boosting gas production, and the majority of its capital expenditure will continue to go towards oil and gas. To get to net zero while doing that, it plans to capture 120 million metric tons of carbon dioxide per year via “nature-based” offsets by 2030.
Days after Shell’s announcement, Italian oil company Eni SpA updated its own net-zero strategy. A Greenpeace UK study of its earlier 2019 pledge to use forest conservation to offset its emissions said such a promise would have to account for as much as 6% of the world’s capacity to absorb carbon in forest land. Eni’s update increased its 2030 forestry offset target by a third, to 40 million tons of CO2 per year.
Plenty of other companies and governments have jumped on the bandwagon. A tracking project from American University lists dozens of large companies that, as of December 21, cited carbon dioxide-removal (CDR) in their pledges for climate neutrality. They include Apple Inc., Walmart Inc., British Airways Plc, and many of their peers. It’s not just companies. The European Union’s promise to cut emissions 55% by 2030 has been criticized for relying in part on land-based “carbon sinks” to soak up some of the pollution.
As more companies follow suit, the total volume of offsets they rely on will quickly exceed the ability of the planet to provide them. Without more concrete near-term actions, “net zero” risks becoming a fairytale providing cover for the heavy emitting industries, particularly those in the fossil fuel sector who have aggressively blocked climate action.
Most emissions-reduction scenarios indicate that we need to see significant cuts in our annual rate of greenhouse gas emissions to about half their current level from now till 2030. Even if human emissions fall quickly to zero by mid-century, however, most scenarios indicate that some CDR will be necessary to keep a relatively safe lid on warming. “There are very, very few pathways where nature-based solutions or carbon capture and utilization sequestration do not play a role,” Shell Chief Executive Ben van Beurden said at the company's strategy update. That’s true, but the size and role of those and other negative emissions is a very sensitive matter in the pathways he refers to.
That cautiousness is mostly due to the well-documented risks and limitations around every method of removing CO2 from the atmosphere. Some, such as carbon capture & storage combined with bio energy, are expensive and complex industrial processes. Others, such as planting trees to capture CO2, involve trade-offs when land could be needed for other purposes, like growing food.
Fears that CDR would become a loophole in net-zero plans have lurked for years. Experts worried that unrealistic assumptions about negative emissions were being baked into advice policymakers were receiving from scientists.
There’s work underway to impose more rigor on the flurry of aspirational pledges. The Science-Based Targets initiative, the closest thing to an arbiter of emissions reductions plans for companies, is aiming to release guidance on net zero ahead of the COP26 climate conference in November. The Greenhouse Gas Protocol, which has been developing standards for measuring and managing emissions since 1998, plans to publish final guidance on negative emissions by next October.
One popular proposal suggests having each net-zero pledge break out how much will come from actually reducing emissions, versus the portion of emissions the company or government assumes it will offset.
That would be welcome, but also doesn’t necessarily give enough useful information on ambition, as Stephen Smith, executive director of the Oxford Net Zero initiative, argued in a recent comment in Nature Communications Earth & Environment. What would be more helpful, he writes, is information on three things: how CDR will be achieved, how emissions will be kept permanently out of the atmosphere, and near-term targets.
That last point may be most important. The most urgent task is emissions reductions over the next decade, especially from burning fossil fuels. Smith’s analysis also shows that, in the research scenarios, the emissions reductions achieved in 2030 are a better indicator of a lower warming level than the date of hitting net zero, or the presence of negative emissions. CDR is not a solution we can simply dial-up if we feel like it. All methods have hard limits, uncertainties, and known shortcomings, from scientific questions about trees’ ability to remove CO2 as the world heats up, to human rights questions about use of land, to the sheer energy-intensity and experimental nature of removing CO2 from the air.
Many of the recent net-zero commitments, however, behave as though these constraints don’t exist. What is discretionary is how fast we eliminate fossil fuel use and transition to clean energy. We have great deal of visibility about how to do that, and agency to make it happen.
Kate Mackenzie writes the Stranded Assets column for Bloomberg Green. She advises organizations working to limit climate change to the Paris Agreement goals. Follow her on Twitter: @kmac. This column does not necessarily reflect the opinion of Bloomberg LP and its owners.
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For plants to grow and be strong and healthy, they require sun, water and nutrients that they absorb from in the soil. Nutrient needs change as plants grow. What a plant requires at the seed germination stage to what a plant requires when producing flowers or fruit is very different.
Growing requirements also vary between different plants. Sun or shade, tropical or cooler conditions, sandy or clay soil, acid or alkaline soil pH as well as moisture levels are all factors that must be ideal for a plant to thrive.
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A small group day camp for kids 9-12 years.
At Camp Paranormal, kids will learn to explore the strange and unusual without fear. The unknown can be exciting, but also frightening. At Camp Paranormal, we approach things that go bump in the night with a critical eye and lots of cool equipment! From history walks through town, to research techniques and library time, Camp Paranormal is a great way to learn about critical thinking while also exploring possibilities.
Each day of this 5 day full day (9-3pm) Camp will be dedicated to a different area of the Paranormal. In addition to history and exploration, kids will get to use real paranormal investigative equipment, perform a full investigation including research and present their case to you! Each camper will also go home with a limited-edition Camp Paranormal Tee Shirt and a video of their experience to share with friends and family. A truly unique Camp experience!
Introduction and Team Building – Kids get to know each other and their counselor!
Tour of Artifacts – learning about the collection at The Paranormal Museum
History Of the Boardwalk – how stories begin (Outside/Walking) Shipwrecks, Pirates, presidents and more!
Research/Equipment Introduction – Visit the Librar
Tales of the Jersey Devil – Cryptids and More
Walk to St. John’s Island and learning equipment
Investigation of the Museum – a hands-on investigation of the museum using the equipment they have learned about.
Evidence reviews and discussion- Critical thinking and discussion
Evidence Reveal & Creation of a report.
REVEAL and Discussion- Certificate presentation- Parents are invited to participate and ask questions.
Limited to 10 children
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As the owner of a property, there are plenty of reasons to get a comprehensive land survey done. Maybe you want to add a structure. Maybe you want a clearer idea of your boundaries. Maybe you just want to know what kind of flora and fauna call your property home. Whatever the reason you decide to enlist local land surveyors in Columbus, GA, you certainly want to make sure you’re getting the most value for your dollar. Here’s how to do it.
When you’re looking at the national average for land surveying, the most common price tag home and property owners see is about $500. Of course, that number will fluctuate depending on various factors.
More often than not, local land surveyors in Columbus, GA charge on a sliding scale. That means that the more land you have, the less they’ll charge. For example, if you’re having a single acre surveyed, the price tag will likely fall between $400 and $700. The more acres you own, however, the more you can expect that price to drop. For example, if you’re having 200 acres or more surveyed, the average cost per acre drops to about $50 per acre.
Walking the land
There are more costs that go into surveying your land beyond its sheer size. If your property is flat and mostly clear of trees, then you can expect a more reasonable price. The more varied your terrain, the bigger the changes in altitude and the larger the variety of plants and animals, the more you can expect your survey prices to rise accordingly.
What’s your purpose?
Depending on the specific purpose you have in mind, the cost of your survey can vary greatly. A comprehensive land survey should cost about $500, give or take. However, if you just want the borders located, you could pay as little as $100 depending on the size of your property. A topographic survey, on the other hand, will run you a little bit more than the standard and could cost as much as $1,200 to complete the job.
Skip the uncertainty
When you’re looking for highly skilled local land surveyors in Columbus, GA that won’t charge an arm and a leg, come to Moon, Meeks and Associates, Inc. Since we opened our doors all the way back in 1946, we have offered the area’s most comprehensive civil engineering and land surveying services to our valued clients throughout the greater Columbus area. We do it all—construction staking, civil engineering, topographic surveys, boundary disputes, elevation certificates, erosion control and so much more.
Over the last half century, we have developed an extensive knowledge of the local area that we put to use for each and every one of our clients. We’re happy to combine that incredible expertise with state-of-the-art equipment and a commitment to continuing education. When you need your next project done correctly, come to Moon, Meeks and Associates, Inc., where your satisfaction is our top priority. Visit us online or give us a call today.
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SON, Netherlands, May 17, 2018 /PRNewswire/ --
Rousselot, the world leading producer1 of gelatin and collagen peptides, today launches a new medical grade gelatin range, X-Pure™, with outstanding levels of purity for in-body applications.
Visitors at the Bio International Convention in Boston can find out more at booth #2838 from 4 - 7 June. As part of the event's partnering initiative, Rousselot experts will be available for meeting with interested collaborators throughout the event.
Gelatin, a widely used biomaterial for pharma and medical applications
Designed by nature, with low allergenicity and fully compatible with the human body, gelatin has been Generally Recognized As Safe (GRAS) by the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA). Its natural properties and high versatility make it the biomaterial of choice for the pharmaceutical and medical applications, including the most demanding ones such as in-body applications where undetectable or very low endotoxin levels are required.
Endotoxins may lead to immune response, even in minute quantities. For in-body applications, Rousselot has developed advanced gelatins with very low-endotoxin levels that can be used in wound healing, injectable fillers and high-end regenerative medicine applications.
The X-Pure range - An unrivalled offer for medical applications
The latest innovation from Rousselot, X-Pure offers unrivalled levels of safety with endotoxin below 100, 20 or 10 Endotoxin Units per gram (EU/g) or even below LAL analysis detection limits2 if required. The range comprises of different grades of gelatin to exactly match the needs of final medical applications and bring a new level of safety in medical devices for in-body usage.
X-Pure for hemostatic medical devices: the world's lowest endotoxin levels
Gelatin-based hemostats such as sponges, strips or powder are highly efficient in stopping blood flow. Fast acting, gelatin absorbs at least forty times its own weight. With X-Pure, Rousselot proposes four new gelatin solutions of porcine and bovine origin. With the X-Pure™ 10 P grade in particular, Rousselot launches an exceptionally safe acid porcine skin gelatin that exhibits outstanding foaming properties and unseen lows in endotoxin levels.
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For parenteral formulations, Rousselot has developed X-Pure™ 10 HGP, a hydrolyzed gelatin with excellent stabilizing properties. As it is purified by a validated process, manufacturers also benefit from maximum quality consistency. X-Pure™ 10 HGP comes with less than 10 EU/g Endotoxin units, and is the safest choice for parenteral formulations.
X-Pure for regenerative medicine applications: a unique, global one-stop brand of purified gelatins
Used in particular for tissue or stem cell bioengineering, or for the controlled delivery of biomolecules, gelatin mimics the extra-cellular-matrix closely and it is one of the most favorable biomaterials used today. However for most applications in the regenerative medicine field, biomaterials should exhibit a strict purity and safety profile. In the case of cell culture for example, endotoxins have been shown to have a negative effect on cell growth. To answer the needs of this fast growing and diverse market, Rousselot developed five grades of highly purified gelatins, each of them exhibiting different viscosities, gel strengths and endotoxin levels.
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Rousselot X-Pure endotoxin levels are determined using Charles River LAL (Limulus Amebocyte lysate) assay, validated for our product. This method provides rapid and reliable results without animal testing and is US FDA compliant.
To find out more, visit X-Pure.com and meet our experts at booth #2838 at Bio International Convention in Boston from 4 - 7 June 2018. Rousselot's teams are available to support customers develop specific tailored advanced solutions and help them maximize the use and application of ultra-pure gelatin.
Rousselot and Peptan are both brands of Darling Ingredients Inc. Rousselot is the global leader3 in gelatin and collagen peptides. Rousselot's wide range of collagen peptides are marketed under the Peptan brand. We work in partnership with our customers all over the world, delivering innovative and advanced ingredient solutions manufactured through state of the art operations. We help our customers achieve their goals, enabling them to create world class pharmaceutical, food and nutritional products to inspire and excite today's demanding consumers.
1 Global Industry Analysts, Inc, Gelatin a Global Strategic Business report, Nov 2016
2 These levels are determined by means of the Charles River LAL (Limulus Amebocyte lysate) assay, an FDA compliant method.
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Australia’s largest hotel operator, Accor and Greening Australia have announced a new agreement that will see more than 50,000 trees planted over five years across Australia.
As part of Accor’s Plant for the Planet program, trees will be planted to support several of Greening Australia’s large scale restoration projects across the country.
Accor Pacific boss Simon McGrath said through the group’s sustainable development program, Planet 21, Accor is deepening its focus on preserving the ecosystems in which its hotels operate. Plant for the Planet is a global reforestation initiative within Planet 21.
“Through our partnership with Greening Australia we are putting large scale landscape restoration, and people and wildlife thriving together as a top priority for our organisation as we strive to leave our planet in good health for generations of hoteliers and guests to come.”
Simon McGrath, Accor Pacific chief operating officer
Three Australian landscape restoration projects set to receive a significant boost thanks to the partnership between Greening Australia and Accor hotels include:
Peel Biolinks – A biodiversity hotspot on the edge of the Perth Metropolitan area. Many plant and animal species are under threat from increasing population pressures, associated land use and a reduction in rainfall due to a shifting climate. Trees planted in the Biolink will aid vegetation and conservation within the fragmented landscape to maintain and improve the broader ecosystem across the region.
Habitat 141 – a fifty year project to restore and reconnect the iconic landscapes along the 141º longitude. This biodiversity hotspot stretches from the wild coast of South Australia, along the Victorian border, and up to the rugged rangelands of New South Wales.
Cumberland Plain Woodland – critically endangered grassy woodland in the north-west basin of Sydney. With less than 8 per cent remaining and situated in Australia’s most populated region, the Cumberland Plain Woodland and its 300 native plant varieties and other threatened and endangered species are at serious risk of disappearing.
It is the small actions taken by Accor Hotels that help contribute to the important restorative environmental work carried out by Greening Australia, and guests can play an active role too. Hotel guests who re-use their towels and bed linen for more than one night help to conserve water and energy consumption, and these combined efforts can make a big difference.
In addition to supporting homegrown projects, globally Accor has made a commitment to the United Nations Environment Program’s Plant for the Planet Billion Tree campaign. Around four million trees have been planted by Accor hotels to date. Members of Accor’s loyalty program LeClub Accorhotels can contribute to reforestation in Peruvian Amazonia. In exchange for 2,000 LeClub Accorhotels member points, guests can enable eight trees to be planted to support the Alto Huayabamba reforestation project.
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How Many Times Does It Take to Memorize Something?
As of 2014, research suggests that repeating something over and over again is not the best way to memorize it. Instead, step-by-step processes, such as saying the phrase out loud and drawing a picture of the phrase, help the mind to memorize.
The suggested order of these steps begins with saying the concept out loud. Then, one should draw a concept map about what is being memorized to ensure it is fully understood. For example, when a person is trying to memorize a long number, the concept map could include breaking the number into sections and then checking for duplicate numbers. Next, one should try to extract personal meaning from what is being memorized. The brain is much more likely to remember something if there is an emotional attachment to it. For example, trying to remember that a car is parked in section 3P of a parking lot may be made easier by remembering that there were three pickles left in the jar at home. | <urn:uuid:81a77363-3745-4a9b-ac02-da282f9f83ef> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.reference.com/world-view/many-times-memorize-something-5a2072491bb84680 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571147.84/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810040253-20220810070253-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.972037 | 206 | 3.71875 | 4 |
The weather in the wake of the large Nor’easter will be the coldest in at least the last decade in Southern New England. The temperature dropped to near zero Thursday night away from the coast during the storm, but it will be even colder Friday night as skies clear. Friday will begin with lingering snow that tapers to flurries by mid-morning. The snow will end by midday in RI and interior SE MA, but may linger on Cape Cod into the afternoon. It will be a windy and bitter day, with highs in the single digits to low teens, and wind chills below zero.
The temperature will tumble below zero in many spots by late Friday evening. The wind will gradually diminish, but wind chills could be -10 to -20 for a time early in the evening. The temperature will bottom out between 0 and -10 in most of Southern New England before dawn Saturday. Record low temperatures are possible Friday and Saturday. The last time the temperature fell below -2° in the Providence area was in January of 2004. The last time it was below -6° was in 1984. We expect a low temperature of near -6° in Providence on Saturday morning.
The temperature will bounce back pretty nicely over the weekend. Saturday should be in the mid to upper 20s with partly sunny skies. It looks like a decent day for sledding. Sunday will be even better, with highs in the upper 30s to low 40s under partly to mostly cloudy skies.
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Students attending the Russian language lesson at the People's Friendship University in Moscow.Grigoriy Sisoev / RIA Novosti
Nick Holdsworth, UK-based editor and journalist
When I first came to Russia in 1991, I taught myself the alphabet and studied a BBC phrase book. My first sentence in Russian – “red caviar doesn’t cost that much” - only got me into trouble at a sumptuous lunch a friend hosted.
Chenoa Davidson from the UK, EFL teacher in Poland
If you speak Russian without knowing how to use the cases in a vaguely coherent way, it is basically nonsense. So I would advise anyone learning Slavic languages to focus on grammar in the beginning, even though it can be quite overwhelming. When you're good enough at making sentences to have a proper conversation and practice, eventually it will click.
Joe Crescente, U.S. based writer and Director of Content Creation at Content COLAB
Not to contradict almost every language teacher in the world, but my advice is learn as many words as you can and just start speaking – the grammar will come later. When I would make a mistake and the cashier or whoever would ask me what I wanted in proper Russian – then I would learn and remember.
I studied in St. Petersburg with some very diligent students from Japan and they refused to go out into the world until they perfected their grammar. I just opened my mouth and what it did is it gave me confidence in all kinds of situations. Sure, probably not everybody understood me, but it was my language learning after all. And getting deeper into the culture makes you feel more comfortable – impossible if you’re trapped in your room with a grammar book.
Lindsay Caudron, a student from Belgium
I remember how we started the first classes with oral practice at the university in Belgium. The teacher spoke simple sentences in Russian with no translation. At first we were completely confused. However, finally we understood and learned the language thanks to the enthusiasm of the teacher.
Then we faced the bigger problems of reading and writing. We returned to childhood and sang songs in Russian almost every day – after we counted to 100 all together. We also had pronunciation classes with a native Russian and we were taught these "strange" sounds, like “ы” – this sound was very rough and we were so proud when we finally were able to use that letter – and “ь.” The teacher threw a strict glance at us when our ЛЬ (‘L”) was not soft enough!
I think there is one thing that remains the most difficult for me – verbs of motion. The professors exited and then re-entered the auditorium and they’d be moving in all directions to explain prefixes. They used books, notes, cabinets and even their bodies in order to get us to understand.
Thomas Giles, UK-based student (studying journalism)
Although I initially wanted to study history, on registration day at the university there was a small table in the corner labeled “Eastern European Studies,” something I had always been fascinated by. I found out that the entry requirements were lower than they were for history so I decided to apply.
I studied beginning Russian at an evening class to prepare for the course. This made me want to study the language properly, so when I turned up at the university, I begged them to give me a place in the Russian language course. Thankfully they accepted me.
It was certainly harder than the evening class. I failed my first year exam and considered quitting but I decided to carry on and passed after taking the exam a second time.
I subsequently lived in St. Petersburg during my year abroad. This made me realize that living in another country is the only way to learn a language, as you have to completely immerse yourself in it. When you study in a classroom you can switch off [the language] after the lesson and forget about the language for a while. However, when you are living abroad, the learning does not stop and therefore you become better at the language.
Although I now permanently live back in Britain, I return to Russia all the time. I am still in touch with my Russian teacher from the evening class and I think she is a bit like a proud mother when she sees the progress I have made since those classes.
French journalist (asked not to disclose his name):
It was an unusual process because I had to learn Russian in Spain, although I myself am French. In Barcelona I found quite a modern school that gave students the opportunity to watch Russian television. So I spent a lot of time (five hours a day for months) in front of the television. I watched everything: the series “Karmelita,” the film “Boomer” and talk shows. Not the most intellectual programs, but it gave me an opportunity to open my mind to the realities of modern Russia – until this, I only knew Russia through its literature.
David, Spanish-based journalist
Pronunciation is very hard. I need to put on a serious voice – kind of like the stereotype – in order to sound good. I also found it interesting that if people tell you that your Russian is good, it means that you need to improve it. Foreign people I know who speak the best Russian are never told how well they speak.
Enrique Fonseca, Mexican journalist
Once I asked my Russian friend to heat water in a kettle: “Dasha, sgori v ady, pozhaluista” (Dasha, burn in the hell, please”) instead of “Dasha, sogrei vody, pozhaluysta” (Dasha, heat the water, please).
Anna Yegorova, Russian as foreign language teacher in Moscow State University:
Pronunciation is important. My friend from Croatia wanted to pay the check in a restaurant and said: “Ya seychas zaplAchu” (I’ll cry now) instead of “Ya seychas zaplachU” (I’ll pay now).
My friend from Mexico was just crazy about word order in Russian phrases. He couldn’t understand the difference between “ty poshla domoi” (you went home) and “poshla ty domoi” (go home!).
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How to Improve Heavy Clay Soil
Clay soil is both a blessing and a curse. If you have it, you may not be able to think of it as a blessing at all but you may feel better to know that clay soil is capable of holding onto more of the nutrients your plants need than any other type of soil.
The trouble with clay soil is that it doesn't just hold onto nutrients. It holds onto water too meaning, if you have clay soil, you are likely to have poor drainage. This ability to hold onto water makes clay soil swell up during periods of heavy rainfall and then, in summer, it shrinks, leaving your soil cracked and parched. On top of this, clay soil likes to hold onto weeds. It seems unusually attached to them. So much so, it won't let you dig out a weed without taking half your soil with it.Air spaces in clay soil are limited, meaning plant roots have less access to oxygen.
Clay soil is slow to warm up in spring, difficult to work when wet and even harder to dig when its completely dry. However, clay soil's ability to hold onto nutrients is a real benefit, if only it was easier to work with.
If you have clay soil, the good news is that it is possible to make it more gardener-friendly and the method is, mercifully simple.
You don't need a sophisticated soil-testing kit to find out what type of soil you have and how much of it is clay. All you need is a jam jar, your soil and some water.
It is unlikely your soil will be pure clay. There will be particles of sand and silt and hopefully organic matter in there too. To find out how much clay is present in your soil, simply put a sample of your soil in a jam jar, add some water and shake it vigourously.
Leave the soil in the jar to settle. The bigger sandy particles will settle first, then the smaller silty particles and, last of all, the tiny clay particles. Eventually, you should get three distinct bands, with the clay soil band at the top. If you have a high percentage of clay, this band will be wider than the rest. Any organic matter in the soil will float near the top.
I did tell you the method of improving clay soil was mercifully simple and it is. All you have to do is to add organic matter.
Organic matter is the decomposing remains of once living organisms - plant or animal. When organic matter is fully decomposed, we call this humus. You can get organic matter from various sources: well-rotted manure, home compost, leafmould, used compost from tubs and hanging baskets and composted bark. You can buy in compost or peat from your garden centre but this is costly to both you and the environment and should only be used as a last resort.
Clay soil particles are very small and, because of this, there is little room for air spaces in between these tiny particles. This means there is also little room for water to drain. Organic matter binds the tiny soil particles together, causing them to crumb and these crumbs allow for more air space. Think of it like rubbing butter into flour. At the end of the process, you get bigger crumbs.
Adding organic matter to clay soil will not only improve your drainage, but also make the soil more workable over time. As an added benefit, it improves fertility, providing essential carbon and other nutrients. Another huge benefit is that earthworms and other soil organisms have a taste for organic matter and the tunelling effects of these tiny creatures opens out the soil and increases the volume of air spaces.
By far the best source of organic matter is your own compost bin. Gardeners of old wouldn't have considered themselves to be true gardeners unless they had a compost heap, happily rotting and steaming away at the bottom of the garden. These days, we're a little more high-tech. Composting areas don't have to look like a mini version of the local landfill site. You can buy nice plastic composting bins that will sit neatly in a hidden corner of the garden or beside your normal bins and you may be surprised to learn too that it's not just garden waste you can compost. Spent kitchen roll holders, toilet roll holders, newspapers, cardboard, vegetable peelings and many other items of household waste can all be put into use to create compost.
So, instead of throwing away your precious organic waste, be a bit more selfish - keep it to yourself and make some compost.
You could add sharp sand or grit to improve the drainage but this is only really a short term solution. You would need to use plenty of it and be careful you don't make the problem worse by using soft sand which will bind to the clay giving you something resembling concrete. To change your soil type from predominately clay to one which is more sandy, you would need an awful lot of sand. Think about the jam jar test and how the sand in soils sinks to the bottom of the jar. The same would occur over time if you added sand to clay soil.
Adding grit or sand to your soil won't give you improved fertility, it won't feed your beneficial soil-dwelling creatures and it won't give you the lovely, satisfying dark brown humus-rich soil you've been dreaming of. Only organic matter can do all of these things and improve your clay soil in the process.
Unless you happen to have a quarry at the foot of your garden, you will also have to shell out good money for enough sand to make a difference and why would you want to do that when you can make your own compost for free?
The best method for adding organic matter is to dig it well in to your soil. As you dig you not only incorporate the organic matter but you add air to the soil too. Of course, digging the soil over like this is only practical if your border is not full to the brim with plants and is a good method for improving the soil in vegetable plots.
Most of us however, have established borders and, if you're feeling really energetic, you can, of course, temporarily move your plants out of the way while you give the border a good going over with the spade. If you can't do this, you can still improve your clay soil by simply mulching it. Mulching is the term used for adding material to the surface of the soil.
When you mulch with organic matter such as home-made compost, you encourage earthworms to visit this layer and, over time, they pull the organic matter down into your soil, acting like your own private army of very mini diggers. It may take some time and repeated applications of compost before you see a benefit by using this method but, in the meantime, your mulch of compost will help suppress weeds and anything that does that has to be a bonus.
You might find that, if your soil is really heavy, you don't have many earthworms. Given time, they will appear but you can speed up this process by borrowing some from a friend who has an excess. Earthworms breed rapidly if the conditions are right so you only need a handful or two to get things going.
Improving your clay soil takes time and patience, whatever method you choose for applying the organic matter. In case you run out of patience, here's a thought to keep you going. There will come a time when it will take you no more than half an hour to weed your garden with that hoe you've never been able to use instead of hours and hours on your knees with a trowel.
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The phrase "television failure" recalls high-profile series that couldn’t live up to early expectations such as Coupling, FlashForward and recently, Lone Star. It also recalls the controversial conclusions of long-running programs such as Battlestar Galactica, The Sopranos and Lost.
Early flops and stumbling final chapters often define a series and the industry itself, but what about those individual episodes somewhere in the middle? A season of American television involves producing between 10-24 episodes a year. Even for the best of television’s "quality" series, there are bound to be problematic outings and flat-out terrible entries along the way.
As television criticism continues to grow, it might be easier to identify letdowns, but shining the spotlight on an episodic disaster is just one, less important half of the process. The more significant question we need to consider is what impact those failures, however big or small, have on a series’ story or production. Can a terrible 19th episode categorically change a series forever? A bad 55th? Are these missteps random byproducts of the tough demands of U.S. television or can they tell us something more?
You might now understand the meaning behind this post’s title. Not only are botched episodes of well-respected series outliers in the tapestry of quality television, but the case of a specific fiasco crystalizes why individual failures mean more than we think.
Lost’s season three episode "Stranger in a Strange Land" is a prime example of what happens when good series go bad, if only for a moment. It is an awful episode of the series that both critics and fans despise, but also one that positively impacted Lost in perhaps a way no other episode, before or after, did. Damon Lindelof and Carlton Cuse used the episode’s diminished quality as a bargaining chip in their end-date discussions with ABC and ultimately got their wish. Without "Stranger," Lost still might be pilling on the mysteries and introducing new enigmatic characters with no end in sight.
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By a majority (4 votes to 3), that there had been a violation of Article 10. The French Courts had failed to distinguish between the information which formed part of a debate of general interest and that which pertained merely to the sphere of Prince Albert’s private life. There was no reasonable relationship of proportionality between the restrictions on the applicants’ right to freedom of expression and the legitimate aimed pursued.
The Court set out well-known general principles from its Article 10 case-law and the essential role of “watch-dog” played by the press in a democratic society. It reiterated that those in political positions had to display greater tolerance, Lopes Gomes Da Silva v Portugal (2002) 34 EHRR 56 and Artun and Güvener v Turkey no. 15510/01 considered.
Having regard to the margin of appreciation enjoyed by national courts, the Court applied the criteria set out in von Hannover v Germany (No.2) (2012) 55 EHRR 15 and Axel Springer AG v Germany ECHR 227 as relevant for the balancing exercise between Articles 8 and 10:
- Contribution to a debate of general interest
A distinction had to be made between the core message of the article and the details contained therein. Even if, under the current state of the Constitution of Monaco, the child could not succeed to the throne, his very existence was such as to interest the public and notably the citizens of Monaco. In the context of a hereditary constitutional monarchy the birth of a child was of particular interest. In addition, the Prince’s behavior could be an indicator of both his personality and ability to perform his functions properly, Ruusunen v Finland n.73579/10 considered. The need to protect Prince Albert’s private life had to be balanced against the debate on the future of the hereditary monarchy. The matter being one of political importance, there had been a legitimate public interest in knowing of the child’s existence and being able to debate the possible implications it had on Monegasque political life.
The Court noted that the article contained as well elements relating exclusively to the private, or even intimate, life of Prince Albert and C, to which it made clear its analysis on public interest did not apply.
- Notoriety of the person concerned and the subject matter of the report
As Head of State, Prince Albert had evidently been a public figure at the time where the interview had been published. The Court reminded that it was not just Prince Albert’s private life that had been at stake, but equally that of C and of the child. It was difficult to conceive how the private life of a person – in this case, Prince Albert – could be an obstacle to the claims of another person – his son – seeking to affirm his existence and to make his identity known to the world. C had consented to the publication on her own behalf and on that of her son.
- Method of obtaining the information and its veracity
Unlike previous cases before the Court where the press had itself investigated and discovered information (see Von Hannover (No.2) and Axel Springer), it was C, one of the individuals directly concerned, who had taken the initiative to bring the information to the press’s attention. Similarly, the photographs accompanying the article had been taken by C, in the privacy of her apartment, in circumstances which were not adverse to Prince Albert nor to the child. The Court further noted that Prince Albert had only challenged the publication, rather than the authenticity, of the photographs.
The fact that the interview had been initiated by C and that she had willingly handed over the photographs to the magazine was an important factor to take into consideration when balancing the protection of private life against freedom of expression.
- Content and consequences of the publication
Over a million copies had been printed of the Paris-Match issue in question. The Court noted, however, that the content of the interview with C and a number of photographs had already been published by the Daily Mail on 3 May 2005 and by the German weekly magazine Bunte on 4 May 2005. In such circumstances, although the article had certainly had significant repercussions, the information it contained was no longer confidential. The Court further pointed out that article contained no defamatory allegations and that Prince Albert had not questioned the truth of the claims made therein.
- Severity of the sanction imposed
The Court observed that in addition to the considerable sum of EUR 50,000 granted by way of damages, the applicants had been required to publish a statement, occupying one third of the cover page.
- Effect of the publication on those concerned
The Court noted that, in making the disclosure, C had sought to obtain public recognition of her son’s status and of Prince Albert’s paternity, both crucial factors in enabling her son to emerge from secrecy. In doing so, she had revealed information that had not been necessary and fell within the sphere of Prince Albert’s private life. | <urn:uuid:e5aece2c-4372-41e9-8eae-7e356a998f24> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.5rb.com/case/couderc-hachette-filipacchi-associes-v-france/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571147.84/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810040253-20220810070253-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.978082 | 1,023 | 1.804688 | 2 |
Educational Empowerment & Cultural, Religious Diversity of 21st Century Learners:
Unpacking Learning Experiences of Muslim Children and Young People in European Education Systems
Dr Abdullah Sahin
25-28 September 2022
5th Warwick Islamic Education Summer School
Lecture: 'Islamic Education within the Muslim Minority Context of Europe: Pedagogy, Politics, and Future Directions'
Dr Abdullah Sahin has been invited to deliver a lecture entitled 'Islamic Education within the Muslim Minority Context of Europe: Pedagogy, Politics, and Future Directions'. The lecture will mark the launch of 'Islamic Religious Education in Europe book (Routledge 2021) coedited by our late colleague Dr. Bill Gent who was an Associate Fellow at the Department of Education Studies and Dr. Leny Frankn, University of Antwerp.
Colleagues interested in joining this online seminar on 18th May 2021 please register here. | <urn:uuid:bcf4e1bb-d406-448c-9513-0c23fca8ecc9> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/ces/news/?tag=Islamic%20Education | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571147.84/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810040253-20220810070253-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.882625 | 195 | 1.765625 | 2 |
Lower house rejects new Covid-19 bill
The Sejm, lower house of parliament, has rejected a Covid-19 bill which envisaged the possibility for free-of-charge testing of employees and increased fines for the violation of epidemic regulations.
The bill was submitted, last week, by a group of MPs from Law and Justice, Poland's governing party. Under the draft, employees were to be able to take a test for SARS-CoV-2 free of charge and employers were to be allowed to request information from employees about test results.
The Sejm rejected the bill in a 253-152 vote, with 37 abstentions.
Katarzyna Lubnauer of the Civic Coalition (KO) said during a heated debate that the bill was an attempt to replace a vaccination programme with a programme of "snitching" on each other. She also said it was based on an absurd assumption that the workplace was the only place where one can become infected.
A Polish Coalition MP said that the bill showed that the government and the ruling party neither wanted to fight against the coronavirus pandemic nor knew how to do so.
The Left stated that the bill mocked the fundamental principles of the state of law and social life based on mutual trust.
Earlier in the day, the Sejm Health Committee recommended that the lower house reject the bill.
The draft had been earlier criticised by employers' organisations which said that it would do little to reduce infections in the workplace. | <urn:uuid:a535820f-85c0-4088-bd76-5f2982eda3e4> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.thefirstnews.com/article/lower-house-rejects-new-covid-19-bill-27637 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570879.1/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808213349-20220809003349-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.978859 | 307 | 1.554688 | 2 |
Recreational Fishing License
In order to fish the saltwaters of Georgia, individuals 16 years of age and older must have a current Georgia Fishing License and a free Saltwater Information Program Permit (SIP Permit). There are multiple ways you can obtain these:
- Download via the internet - Click here to access the Online License System for Georgia DNR. Here you can buy a license, print a replacement, or obtain a free permit.
- Obtain from any current license vendor - Click here to find a License Agent in your area.
- Obtain over the phone - call 1-800-366-2661- (Monday–Friday 8:00 a.m.–6:00 p.m. and Saturday–Sunday 9:00 a.m.–5:00 p.m.)
- Use a Smartphone App - Use the Outdoors Georgia app (download from Apple or Google Play store). You can store your license on the app, get tide, sunrise/sunset information, and more.
- Click this link to learn more about the Saltwater Information Program Permit (SIP Permit).
Charter captains may or may not choose to purchase an annual license that covers all of their clients. For this reason, anglers booking a charter should inquire whether they will need a Georgia Fishing license and SIP Permit or if they will be covered under the charter fishing license.
The following is a list of clickable links to access the one-stop location Go Outdoors Georgia website:
- Fishing and hunting licenses/permits
- Register, renew or manage your boat/watercraft registrations
- Apply for quota hunts
- Register for safety education courses
Coastal Georgia Fishing Maps
Click here to visit the online Coastal Georgia Fishing Map, or for information about how to order a paper copy by mail. Paper copies are also available for free at DNR's Coastal Regional Headquarters, One Conservation Way, Brunswick, Georgia. The office is open to the public from 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Monday through Friday, excluding holidays.
Click here to download the 2022 tide chart for Coastal Georgia.
The Georgia Cooperative Angler Tagging Project is an effort to involve the recreational angling public in the conservation and management of marine finfish. Click here for more information about Georgia Cooperative Angler Tagging Program. Anglers reporting tags from fish they have captured are eligible for a variety of awards, including hats, T-shirts, golf towels and more.
Recreational Saltwater Fishing Regulations
Click the image icon below to go to the website where you can view the regulations or download a copy of the regulation book.
Printed copies of the Georgia Sport Fishing Regulation book are available at DNR offices and at participating fishing license vendor locations.
Click this link to learn about the Atlantic Highly Migratory Species (HMS) Regulations. This is a NOAA website with fishing regulation information concerning Billfish, Swordfish,Tunas and Sharks.
Recreational finfish season, limits, and sizes
|SPECIES||OPEN SEASON||DAILY LIMIT AND POSSESSION LIMIT||MINIMUM SIZE (INCHES)|
|Amberjack*||All year||1||28 FL|
|American Eel||All year||25||9 TL|
|Atlantic Croaker||All year||25||None|
|Atlantic Sturgeon||No harvest|
|Billfish (Blue marlin, White Marlin, Sailfish)||SEE FEDERAL GUIDELINES|
|Black Drum||All year||15||14 TL|
|Black Sea Bass*||All year||15||12 TL|
|Bluefish||All year||15||12 FL|
|Cobia||Mar.1-Oct.31||1 per angler, max 6 per boat||36 FL|
|Dolphin*||All year||10 (not to exceed 60 per boat, except headboats, which are allowed 10 per paying customer)||20 FL|
|Flounder||All year||15||12 TL|
|Gag Grouper*||All year||2||24 TL|
|King Mackerel*||All year||3||24 FL|
|Red Drum**||All year||5||14 TL (max. 23 TL)|
|Red Porgy||All year||3||14 TL|
|Red Snapper*||All year||2||20 TL|
|Sharks (other than hammerheads, SSC and prohibited sharks)^||All year||1 per angler or boat, whichever is less||54 FL (83 FL for Shortfin Mako Sharks)|
|Sharks: Hammerheads (Great, Scalloped, and Smooth)^||All year||1 per angler or boat, whichever is less||78 FL|
|Small Shark Composite (SSC) (Atlantic Sharpnose, Bonnethead, Spiny Dogfish)^||All year||1 per angler||30 FL|
|Prohibited Sharks^:||Sand tiger, Sandbar, Silky, Bigeye sand tiger, Whale, Basking, White, Dusky, Bignose, Galapagos, Night, Reef, Narrowtooth, Caribbean sharpnose, Smalltail, Atlantic angel, Longfin mako, Bigeye thresher, Sharpnose sevengill, Bluntnose sixgill, Oceanic Whitetip, and Bigeye sixgill|
|Sheepshead||All year||15||10 FL|
|Spanish Mackerel*||All year||15||12 FL|
|Spotted Seatrout||All year||15||14 TL|
|Striped Bass (saltwater)||All year||2||22 TL|
|Striped Bass (Savannah River)||All year||2||27 TL|
|Tarpon||All year||1||68 FL|
|Tripletail||All year||2||18 TL|
|Weakfish||All year||1||13 TL|
* These species are also federally managed from 3 to 200 miles offshore. Go to https://safmc.net/regulations/ for federal regulations.
** Red Drum are a gamefish in Georgia [O.C.G.A. 27-1-2 (36)(I)]. As gamefish, Red Drum may only be fished for with pole and line (rod/reel) [O.C.G.A. 27-4-5].
^ These species are also federally managed. Go to https://www.fisheries.noaa.gov/atlantic-highly-migratory-species/atlantic-highly-migratory-species-minimum-sizes-and-bag-limits for federal regulations.
Recreational Shellfish Harvesting
A Georgia fishing license is required to collect oysters and clams for recreational purposes. Oysters and clams can only be collected from approved recreational harvest areas.
State Saltwater Gamefish Records Program
Below is a list of clickable links for the various documents, forms, and information on Gamefish Records Programs:
- Georgia Men's and Women's Saltwater Gamefish Records
- Official Rules for Georgia Saltwater Gamefish Record Submission
- Official Entry Form for Georgia Saltwater Gamefish Record Submission
- Summary of International Game Fish Association (IGFA) World Records Set in Georgia
- Website for the IGFA World Record Search
- Website for Georgia's Men's and Women's Freshwater Gamefish Records
Data Collection and Surveys
Division staff conduct a variety of regularly scheduled surveys to gather biological, distribution, habitat, catch and effort data on a number of recreationally important species. Examples include the carcass recovery project, the cooperative angler tagging project, recreational angler surveys, red drum and shark longlining, seafood harvest reporting, and trawl surveys. This information is used by the Department and interstate organizations to make resource management decisions at both the state and regional level. Click this link to learn more about Data Collection and Surveys.
The Georgia Department of Natural Resources (GADNR) is promoting the use of descending devices by offshore anglers and short leader rigs for catch & release fishing for large adult red drum. Click this link to learn more.
The Coastal Resources Division (CRD) is responsible for managing fisheries in state waters (out to three miles offshore).
Click here to watch a narrated presentation on the status of Red Drum given during a CRD Finfish Advisory Panel meeting June 9, 2022.
Click here to access the report "Status of Research and Management of Red Drum Sciaenops ocellatus in Georgia" updated through 2021 data collection.
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In recognition that fish do not adhere to political boundaries, the Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission (ASMFC) was formed. The ASMFC is a partnership of the 15 Atlantic coastal states working cooperatively for the conservation and management of shared near shore fishery resources. Examples of fish species managed by the SAFMC that are caught by anglers fishing off the Georgia Coast include: Atlantic croaker, black drum, red drum, spot, spotted seatrout, summer flounder, and weakfish.
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The South Atlantic Fishery Management Council (SAFMC) is responsible for the conservation and management of fish stocks within the federal 3-mile to 200-mile waters of the Atlantic off the coasts of North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia and east Florida to Key West. Examples of fish species managed by the SAFMC that are caught by anglers fishing off the Georgia Coast include: amberjack, black sea bass, cobia, dolphin, grouper, king mackerel, red porgy, snapper, Spanish mackerel, triggerfish, and wahoo. | <urn:uuid:44119ba0-8d49-42b8-b5b5-b2419070c29e> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://coastalgadnr.org/RecreationalFishing | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571147.84/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810040253-20220810070253-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.842033 | 2,091 | 1.507813 | 2 |
Cupric oxide (CuO) nanostructure arrays have been extensively investigated for solar energy harvesting, electrochemical energy storage, chemical sensing, field-effect transistors, etc. Although most of these applications depend on the collective behavior of an array of such structures, analysis of electrical transport in a single nanostructure, which are the building blocks, is essential for understanding both the fundamental aspects and device performance. Here we report the electrical conduction mechanism in thermally grown single CuO nanowire (NW), which reveals that the current density has an anomalous dependence on the diameter of the NWs - decreasing with an increase in diameter. An analysis of the electrical behavior at room temperature shows that the current density in CuO NWs has different slopes in different regions of the applied bias indicating distinct types of charge transport, which are characterized as near Ohmic (lower voltage), trap controlled, and space charge limited conduction (higher applied voltage). Further, the trap density and activation energy are calculated from the temperature-dependent current density data, which shows higher values (9.38 × 1015cm-3, 79.4 meV) in thicker NWs compared to that in the thinner ones (3.96 × 1015 cm-3, 63.9 meV). Investigation of the NWs with Raman and photoluminescence spectra establishes the presence of Cu2O phase in thicker NWs, which act as hole traps to hinder the charge transport in p-type CuO and resulting in lower conductivity at higher diameters. This study helps to design and fabricate prototype nanodevices with desired conductivity based on CuO NWs. © 2021 IOP Publishing Ltd. | <urn:uuid:7931fca2-a8bb-48ed-b4ff-d4bb4bd719dd> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://publications.iitm.ac.in/publication/anomalous-diameter-dependent-electrical-transport-in-individual | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570879.1/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808213349-20220809003349-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.906612 | 346 | 2.078125 | 2 |
Several populations of wild Japanese macaques (Macaca fuscata) inhabit the area around Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant (FNPP). To measure and control the size of these populations, macaques are captured annually. Between May 2013 and December 2014, we performed a haematological analysis of Japanese macaques captured within a 40-km radius of FNPP, the location of a nuclear disaster two years post-accident. The dose-rate of radiocaesium was estimated using the ERICA Tool. The median internal dose-rate was 7.6 μGy/day (ranging from 1.8 to 219 μGy/day) and the external dose-rate was 13.9 μGy/day (ranging from 6.7 to 35.1 μGy/day). We performed multiple regression analyses to estimate the dose-rate effects on haematological values in peripheral blood and bone marrow. The white blood cell and platelet counts showed an inverse correlation with the internal dose-rate in mature macaques. Furthermore, the myeloid cell, megakaryocyte, and haematopoietic cell counts were inversely correlated and the occupancy of adipose tissue was positively correlated with internal dose-rate in femoral bone marrow of mature macaques. These relationships suggest that persistent whole body exposure to low-dose-rate radiation affects haematopoiesis in Japanese macaques.
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August 1, 2002｜China
Special Adviser, International Planning & Co-ordination Corporate Planning Unit, Nissho Iwai Corporation
Against the background of five years having passed since Hong Kong was handed back to China and with the southern and eastern delta regions of China enjoying prosperity, there have been a remarkable number of media reports taking up the issue of the “Hong Kong bashing phenomenon”. Some claim that Hong Kong will lose its advantage and will soon be overtaken by Shanghai.
In fact, there are already fifty thousand Hong Kong companies in Guangdong and foreign companies that set up in southern China do not always base themselves in Hong Kong as a first step.
In addition, Hong Kong is no longer the only place with transportation infrastructure and infrastructure in mainland China has gradually come to be used. The first international container shipping lane was opened last June, between Guangzhou and the west coast of the U.S., served by five container ships of the 2,500 TEU class, thereby making it possible to connect China and the U.S. in 12 hours; it is said that transportation costs on this route will be much cheaper than the route via Hong Kong. It seems that the position of Hong Kong, home to the world’s largest international cargo center with cutting-edge equipment (airport) and the world’s busiest container facility in terms of freight handled (port), has come under threat.
In addition, according to a survey about the scale of their future business in Hong Kong conducted by NNA Ltd. among Japanese companies in Hong Kong (96 valid responses) between the beginning of May and the beginning of June, 72.9% of companies were very uncertain about business in Hong Kong or were retrenching, with 42.7% saying they were unsure about their future plans, 30.2% responding that they planned to scale down their operations and 20.8% answering that they planned to expand. Comparing this with mainland China, which is enjoying an influx of foreign capital, Hong Kong seems to be the loser, while China is the winner.
In terms of the business environment, the differences between Hong Kong and the mainland China are evident.
These are things that China will be unable to achieve easily even though it has joined the WTO.
It is reported that the number of Japanese companies which have established their Asian headquarters or branch offices in Hong Kong with the aim of enjoying this friendly business environment has increased by 40% from 482 in 1999 to 693 at the end of 2001 (Hong Kong Trade Development Council). In addition, many foreign enterprises are transferring their Asian operational headquarters from Singapore to Hong Kong.
There was a boom in Hong Kong investment in China between January to June this year, with 4,841 individual cases of investment reported (an increase of 32.8% on the same period of last year). The amount of cargo handled at Chek Lap Kok airport in June increased significantly, rising 25.4% on the same month of the previous year, while the amount of cargo loaded, which indicates exports, increased 33.9%. One hundred and fifty years after Hong Kong opened its doors as a trade port, the “south gate” to mainland China is still going strong.
From what I have seen of Hong Kong, which has changed and been developed as a city of international finance and business, I believe that the formation and development of the Northeast Asian economic subregion would accelerate if a gateway with the same function were to emerge in northern China. However, no sign of this has yet been seen. | <urn:uuid:e84c1c47-d6f2-4a6e-82a6-0aeaa08b1e8e> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.erina.or.jp/en/columns-opinion/4751/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570879.1/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808213349-20220809003349-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.973946 | 734 | 2.015625 | 2 |
The water at Westminster Towers, a senior retirement community in downtown Orlando, FL, tested positive for the Legionella bacteria, according to the Florida Department of Health in Orange County (FDHOC). Testing was performed by the FDHOC after officials were informed that a former resident of the facility had contracted Legionnaires’ disease.
An FDHOC spokesperson said the health department tested “pre-remediation” water samples, which returned the positive result.
Westminster Towers, which has more than 300 residents, commissioned Nalco Water in late July to hyper-chlorinate the water system, which raises the levels of chlorine in the water. It was the first time the company treated the community’s water system since the illness was reported in early July, according to a Nalco spokesperson.
Results from testing after the water treatment by Nalco have not been received.
Neither the health department nor Westminster Towers would provide further details about the status of the former resident.
Orlando a hotbed for Legionnaires’ in 2017
The Westminster Towers illness was the 21st confirmed or probable case of Legionnaires’ disease in Orange County this year. Also in July, two residents at Summit Greens, a 55-and-older living community in suburban Orlando, and four members at two LA Fitness clubs in the Orlando-area were infected with Legionnaires’ disease.
CDC: About 25,000 cases of Legionnaires’ annually
Legionnaires’ disease is a severe type of pneumonia or lung infection. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), an estimated 25,000 cases of pneumonia due to Legionella bacteria (Legionella pneumophila) occur in the United States on a yearly basis. However, only 5,000 cases are reported because of the disease’s nonspecific signs and symptoms.
Legionella bacteria are contracted by inhaling microscopic water droplets in the form of mist or vapor. The bacteria, which thrive in warm water, are found primarily in human-made environments, such as cooling towers, air-conditioning systems, hot tubs, and spas, to name a few.
Complications of Legionnaires’ disease
After Legionnaires’ disease has been diagnosed, hospitalization is often necessary. In the most severe cases, complications can include respiratory failure, kidney failure, septic shock, or even death.
Anyone can get the disease, but those at the greatest risk of infection include:
- people 50 or older
- smokers (current or former)
- heavy drinkers of alcoholic beverages
- people with chronic lung disease
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According to Greek legend, a young man was so fascinated, awestruck, and enraptured by his own image reflected on the surface of a pool that he sat lovingly gazing at water’s edge for so long that he succumbed to his own vanity and eventually transformed into a flower that carries his name, “Narcissus.”
The American Psychiatric Association, in its Diagnostic and Statistical Manual II (DSM) from 1968 lists “Narcissism” as an emotional problem and “Narcissistic Personality Disorder” (NPD) with a number of characteristics. These include
• An obvious self-focus in interpersonal exchanges
• Problems in sustaining satisfying relationships
• A lack of psychological awareness
• Difficulty with empathy
• Problems distinguishing the self from others (having bad interpersonal boundaries)
• Hypersensitivity to any insults or imagined insults
• Vulnerability to shame rather than guilt
• Haughty body language
• Flattery towards people who admire and affirm them
• Detesting those who do not admire them
• Using other people without considering the costs of doing so
• Pretending to be more important than they actually are
• Bragging and exaggerating their achievements
• Claiming to be an “expert” at many things
• Inability to view the world from the perspective of other people
• Denial of remorse and gratitude
In summary, this condition results in the over-inflation of one’s self-importance.
One does not have to have earned a Ph.D. in psychology to identify Donald Trump as someone suffering from Narcissistic Personality Disorder since he clearly manifests many, if not all, of its symptoms. While he definitely has not transformed into a beautiful fragrant flower as did the character in the Greek legend, we nonetheless have to ask some critical questions, which include:
How did Trump, as someone who may suffer from a serious emotional character disorder, garner so much support from the electorate to have vanquished 16 other candidates to win the mantle of the Republican Party for the presidency of the United States?
Does Trump’s meteoric ascendancy reflect a sort of collective Narcissistic Personality Disorder in the larger U.S. body politic?
Narcissistic Personality Disorder falls within the overall category of “sociopathology,” in which a person’s antisocial behavior demonstrates a lack of a sense of moral concern or responsibility or a deficit of social conscience. The American Psychiatric Association’s DSM classifies this condition as “Antisocial Personality Disorder” (APD), which it defines as “a pervasive pattern of disregard for, and violation of, the rights of others that begins in childhood or early adolescence and continues into adulthood.”
On a macro level, from Colonial times through the Revolutionary War and beyond, whose rights were considered important and included in the founding documents of the United States, and which groups of people were disregarded or not even considered?
And after so many years, have these violations been corrected at all?
Did any of the leading Republican primary candidates or the person (Trump) who went on to win, specifically identify and target any group or groups to disregard and violate their rights? And if so, did this candidate or candidates gain traction in terms of the vote count by employing this tactic? | <urn:uuid:da294300-1192-41d5-81fa-507237b7ab0a> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2016/08/donald-trumps-enablers-time-intervention/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571147.84/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810040253-20220810070253-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.955699 | 693 | 2.46875 | 2 |
A new regional dynamism on peace and conflict led by Russia and China has emerged. With the presence of armed groups and the emergence of new terrorist bands such as Daesh there, Afghanistan remains at the core of these new developments. The third session of a trilateral “working group” comprising Russia, China and Pakistan held on December 27 in Moscow also underscores what is playing out in the region.
Following the rare meeting, the group announced that Kabul will be invited to participate in future meetings on the threat posed by Islamic State (IS) militants in Afghanistan. The decision appeared to be a response to Afghan Foreign Ministry spokesman Ahmad Shekib Mostaghani who, in a note of disapproval, had asserted that “regardless of the good intentions of the participants, the Moscow talks would not help the situation in Afghanistan.” In a joint statement the three nations also reiterated their interest in facilitating peace talks between Kabul and the Taliban. The most striking in the statement was the collective “particular concern” over “increased activities of extremist groups including the IS (Daesh) affiliates in the embattled country.”
A cursory look as to what is driving the new developments and guiding the Moscow-Beijing-Islamabad consultations entails some worrying as well as encouraging realities. Firstly, the stalemate on ground in Afghanistan, with 2016 having been the bloodiest year in over a decade of conflict between Taliban insurgents and Kabul. Secondly, the realisation that only a regionally-led and coordinated solution might work following failure of international, US-led efforts to normalise Afghanistan. This might also result in the cooption of Iran, one of the two strategic neighbours of Afghanistan, into the dialogue, which should serve as a big facilitating factor. Third, the birth of Daesh, which most regional players view with extreme skepticism, resonated also by Ambassador Vitaly Churkin, Permanent Representative of Russia to the UN, in a rather dramatic way only days before the Moscow meeting.
Speaking during the quarterly review of the Afghan situation at the Security Council on December 19, Churkin said elimination of Taliban leader Mullah Mansoor only strengthened the influence of irreconcilable radicals which only compounds the current situation in the country.
The most startling was Churkin’s revelations on the expansion/activities of the IS/Daesh influence in Afghanistan. Some excerpts from his statement are quite alarming. He stated that “There is also information about the presence in Afghanistan of IS camps and safe harbors where people from Central Asian states and Northern Caucus’ republics are being trained and where 700 terrorist families from Syria have already arrived. The intensive nature of hostilities in Syria and Iraq make fighters look at Afghanistan increasingly frequently because they can find refuge there and can find a new platform for expanding their influence to Central Asia and Russia as well as China. Some of our partners are not averse to contacts with the extremist and terrorist groups existing in Afghanistan. We know many events when ISIL fighters were re-deployed into northern provinces of Afghanistan by helicopters without any identification signs”. Raising serious, intriguing questions on the US-NATO “attempts to diminish the threat of IS in Afghanistan,” he also quoted the US- NATO forces Commander General John Nicholson who had “stated that the terrorist organisation IS had set itself the goal of creating Caliphate in Afghanistan and the fighters Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan joined in with so-called Khorasan Velayat.”
Churkin also spoke of combat helicopters being used for the transfer of terrorists from one place to the other within Afghanistan, resonating similar apprehensions by Afghan law-makers in recent months. Fourth, the increasing craving for regional trade connectivity — epitomised by the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor. Fifth, despite the stated intent to help the Afghan peace process delisting Afghan individuals from the UN sanctions lists.
The joint statement said that China and Russia, as permanent members of the UN Security Council, had confirmed their “flexible approach to delisting Afghan individuals from the UN sanctions lists” as a contribution to peace efforts in Afghanistan. The Taliban has identified removal of international travel and financial restrictions on its leaders as one of its conditions for engaging in reconciliation talks.
Keeping in view these aspects, one wonders whether the new regional group will eventually trump the Quadrilateral Contact Group comprising China-Pakistan-USA-Afghanistan that was created on the sidelines of the Heart of Asia conference at Islamabad on December 9, 2016. Or is the beginning of a new geo-political game between two obvious blocs (Indo-Afghan-USA and Moscow-Beijing-Pakistan-Iran) divided by conflicting views on sources of terrorism and shared interests in regional peace and development? | <urn:uuid:39f82687-d545-4f88-a3f2-4cbe1744635a> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://imtiazgul.com/geo-politics-and-afghanistan/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570651.49/warc/CC-MAIN-20220807150925-20220807180925-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.958274 | 970 | 1.90625 | 2 |
Kelly, Isabella. A Collection of Poems and Fables. Richardson, 1794.
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|Family and Intimate relationships||Elizabeth Isabella Spence|
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|Instructor||Lady Anne Barnard||
The education supplied for her and her siblings was particularly haphazard. The girls' governesses were the masculine Sophy or Sophia Johnston , illegitimate daughter of a laird, and Henrietta Cummings , who later married James...
|Textual Production||Alison Cockburn|
|Textual Production||Isabella Kelly|
|Theme or Topic Treated in Text||Isabella Kelly|
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This position was conveyed by António Costa in statements to journalists, after having attended a briefing with the president of the Portuguese Institute of the Sea and Atmosphere (IPMA), with the president of the National Emergency Authority and the Civil Protection, General Duarte Costa, and the Minister of Internal Administration, José Luís Carneiro.
“Weather forecasts indicate that today we will have the most severe day from the point of view of rising temperatures, with an increase in winds from the east and low humidity levels. Today is the day we need more care than ever to prevent new occurrences – and Wednesday was already a very hard day, with more than 200 occurrences of rural fires”.
Next, António Costa left a warning regarding how the next week could unfold: “We may stop being in the state of contingency, but we cannot pass to the state of carelessness”.
“We will continue to record very high temperatures next week. The accumulation of this critical period, first of all from a climatic point of view, has consequences on the risk of fire, increasing dryness and reducing moisture at ground level”, he warned.
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What does a cooler half full of peony roots look like? Becky took a wonderful pic before this cooler was absolutely full. Some of you have asked why do we store the processed roots in a cooler? Well here you go, the thoughts for us anyways, is the fact that we can maintain a constant temperature and humidity level vs storing them elsewhere. The key though is not to store at too cold of a temp whereby they think its time for winter. Thus a constant temp of 55 to 56 degrees affords them less stress especially when it has been in the mid 80’s all this week. Humidity is important as well as you don’t want the humidity too low where by the moisture is removed from the roots or too high which may lend itself to surface mold so we settled on 70% for now. All the tricks of a peony grower to make sure the roots are out of our ground, stored properly and then they can find a new home in your gardens! If you haven’t been liking or following us on Facebook, Becky has a whole series on what our process is at Swenson Gardens. A MAJOR milestone today as the picking and packing crew completed the majority of the orders with only 38 more to go tomorrow. Congratulations team on setting a new one day picking and packing record of 315 orders. They did a great job and when finished the packed roots went into another cooler and the remaining roots went into this cooler. Lots of love expended on our peonies whether in the ground or out! If only the peonies knew how much work it takes grow and sell them! | <urn:uuid:d76709ad-1f10-42c6-9453-dad3e4aaa4a4> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://swensongardens.com/blog/2015/09/04/a-cooler-full-of-peony-roots/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571147.84/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810040253-20220810070253-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.969838 | 326 | 1.710938 | 2 |
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|Título:||Habilidades de pensamiento crítico sobre contenidos históricos en alumnos de bachillerato|
teaching of History
|Editorial:||Consejo Mexicano de Investigación Educativa, A.C.|
|Descripción:||Based on two theoretical models of critical thinking skills (arguments evaluation and critical literacy) a case study research with three female teachers and six of their own Universal History groups with 190 students, was conducted at two Campuses of CCH-UNAM high school system. The study had the following main purposes: first, assessing students critical thinking skills before and after teaching episodes related to the topic ?Imperialism, their origins and consecuences?, and second, helping professors to analize and innovate their own practice by means of a constructivist teacher education training program. The study was divided in two great phases: previous and subsecuent to teacher?s education training. Such training consisted in clinical interviews, critical reflection of their own practice, class projects analysis and strategic teaching reviews. Students were tested (before and after each teaching episodes in the two phases) in relation to declarative knowledge and acquisition of critical thinking skills toward the topic mentioned. Data analysis (qualitative and statistical) indicate that in the first didactic sequence (before teacher?s education training), students learned just declarative knowledge but not critical thinking skills. In contrast, in the second didactic sequence (after teacher?s education training) students improved in declarative knowledge in all the three groups evaluated, but their performance continued at a low level in critical thinking because just one group improved significantly. A multiple regression analysis shows that students achievement level can be predicted in relation to the following main components: declarative knowledge, critical thinking and teacher.|
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Today, the name Jeep has become synonymous with American patriotism, adventure, and even freedom, giving consumers the chance to get off the beaten path and explore the country as they see fit. But the Jeep brand wasn’t created overnight. It took years for this 4x4 vehicle to make it to the mainstream, earning the respect and admiration of drivers everywhere. From outdoor excursions and Jeep lift kits to everyday errands, there are so many reasons to invest in a Jeep. Learn the surprising history behind one of America’s best-selling off-road vehicles.
Willys Quad – The First Jeep
Back in 1940 with the WWII looming on the horizon, the U.S. military was in the market for an off-road vehicle that could help the troops traverse all kinds of terrain, including mud, dirt, deserts, and the open countryside.
The American Bantam Car Company was the first to manufacture the jeep. The company submitted three vehicles to the U.S. Army for testing. Based on the success of these early models, the Army asked 135 auto manufacturers to submit contract bids for a vehicle similar to the one developed by Bantam. Willys-Overland was the only other company to submit a bid, but Bantam had the right blueprints. The Army ordered 70 more jeeps from Bantam in the next 12 weeks. But Bantam was falling on hard times, and the company eventually lost the next contract, this time for 16,000 jeeps, to Willys-Overland. Within a year, Willys created the “Quad,” which became the Army’s vehicle of choice during WWII.
Deemed too heavy and slow for an active warzone, the Quad was eventually retooled into the Willys MA, complete with a gear shift on the steering column, low side body cutouts, and a handbrake. The new model was so successful at navigating off-road terrain, the U.S. military embraced it with open arms. The Army soon contracted Willys-Overland to manufacture 16,000 Willys MBs, an updated version of the original Willys MA. The newer model would be lighter than the Willys MA, helping the military stay agile in the field.
Soldiers and Their Jeeps
It wasn’t long before the brave soldiers of WWII started to fall deeply in love with the name “Jeep.” Soldiers began nicknaming the vehicle “Eugene the Jeep,” which eventually led Willys-Overland to register the name “Jeep” as its official trademark in 1950. One Willys MB was even awarded the Purple Heart, the highest honor a soldier can receive. Cartoons and footage from the war highlighted the vehicle’s power on unpaved surfaces, piquing the interest of consumers far away from the front lines. The Willys MB was eventually introduced to the public in 1945, leading to a new generation of off-road enthusiasts.
The Jeep Goes Mainstream
As the American economy continued to grow and the troops returned home, consumer demand for off-road vehicles was growing at a rapid rate. Soldiers spoke highly of their experiences with the Jeep in battle and started looking for a similar vehicle when they returned home. With extra money to burn and new national parks to explore, it was only a matter of time before Jeeps started popping up on nearly every block in America.
With public interest in off-road vehicles on the rise, Willys-Overland saw an opportunity. They created the CJ-2A, the world’s first civilian Jeep. To distinguish it from the Willys MB, the company added larger, flush-mounted headlights and a seven-slot grille, instead of the MB’s nine-slot grille. The CJ-2A also came with a T-90 transmission, an upgrade from the MB’s T-84 transmission. The company marketed the vehicle to farmers, dubbing the vehicle an “All-Around Farm Work-Horse” that could do the job of two heavy draft horses.
The company also advertised the vehicle as a “Powerhouse on Wheels,” targeting industrial workers, businesses, and other laborers. It wasn’t long before Jeep became one of the most recognizable brands in the country, wooing over an entire generation of workers.
A Jeep for All Seasons
But the Jeep brand was just getting started. The company eventually expanded its line to include 14 different kinds of Jeeps, including the all-new FSJ Series or Full-Size Jeep lineup that included a Jeep Wagoneer for the family or even the Jeep Gladiator Pickup.
For the first time in the history of the company, there was a Jeep for every kind of driver on the road. These new models featured an automatic transmission—making them more consumer-friendly—independent suspension, and some models even had the new V6 engine, which had double the power of previous models. The Jeep brand evolved beyond its industrial roots and became the vehicle of the people, capturing the imagination of families looking for a new adventure.
Demand for recreational vehicles continued to rise as the years went on. To stay in the game, Jeep continued to update its models with the latest off-road features. During the “Great Escape” marketing campaign of the 70s, the company unveiled the Quadra-Trac 4x4 System, the world’s first automatic full-time four-wheel-drive system, helping drivers take their vehicles farther off-road. Buying Jeep Chrysler lift kits also became more popular during this time, as drivers started making their own off-road modifications.
During the 1980s, the company introduced the Jeep Cherokee XJ, the first compact four-door SUV, and the Jeep Wrangler, a series of compact and mid-size SUVs with all-wheel drive and off-road capabilities for drivers that love the thrill of adventure. Thanks to the success of these new vehicles, the company was enjoying all-time-high profits. These advancements also solidified Jeep as one of the most forward-thinking automakers in the world.
The Jeep as We Know It Today
After over 75 years in the business, Jeep remains one of the most trusted brands in the auto industry. The company is constantly unveiling some of the most sought-after models on the market, meeting the needs of all kinds of drivers. Recent models, including Grand Cherokee and Renegade, feature a mix of both on and off-road capabilities, helping drivers stay versatile. Jeep announced a massive 13.4% increase in sales during 2016, and they show no signs of slowing down. Thanks to the abundance of Jeep lift kits on the market, drivers can further modify their vehicles, making room for larger tires.
When you own a Jeep, the sky’s the limit. From running errands and driving on the highway to exploring mountains and deep forests, these versatile, compact vehicles are perfect for all kinds of adventures on and off the road. If you want to take your Jeep even further, and experience the magic of leaving the paved road behind.
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Volcanoes led to world's largest extinction: study
The world's biggest extinction was triggered by a massive volcanic eruption, burning coal and steep increases in greenhouse gases, say researchers at the University of Calgary.
About 250 million years ago, before the age of the dinosaurs, the Permian extinction wiped out 95 per cent of life in the oceans and 70 per cent of life on land. While scientists have long suspected volcanic eruptions in Siberia were to blame, the Calgary team says it has found credible evidence to back up the theory.
Stephen Grasby, a geoscientist with the University of Calgary and research scientist at Natural Resources Canada, says he and his colleagues found evidence of the eruption in the Canadian Arctic. Specifically, they found layers of coal ash in rocks from the time of the extinction.
"Our research is the first to show direct evidence that massive volcanic eruptions — the largest the world has ever witnessed — caused massive coal combustion, thus supporting models for significant generation of greenhouse gases at this time," Grasby said in a release.
The results of the research are published in the current issue of Nature Geoscience.
During the Permian extinction, the Earth was basically one big land mass called Pangaea, containing ecosystems ranging from desert to lush forest. Pangaea was home to primitive amphibians, early reptiles and synapsids: the group that would one day include mammals.
The volcanoes that erupted so spectacularly and signalled the beginning of the end for so many plants and animals of this period are now found in northern Russia. The ash was blown to regions now in Canada's Arctic.
"It was a really bad time on Earth," said Grasby. "In addition to these volcanoes causing fires through coal, the ash it spewed was highly toxic and was released in the land and water, potentially contributing to the worst extinction event in earth history."
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What architecture is Nvidia GPU?
The GPU is comprised of a set of Streaming MultiProcessors (SM). Each SM is comprised of several Stream Processor (SP) cores, as shown for the NVIDIA’s Fermi architecture (a).
What is the latest GPU architecture?
Ampere is the codename for a graphics processing unit (GPU) microarchitecture developed by Nvidia as the successor to both the Volta and Turing architectures, officially announced on May 14, 2020. It is named after French mathematician and physicist André-Marie Ampère.
Is GPU part of computer architecture?
It is considered to be the most important part of a computer system. Renders images faster than a CPU due to the parallel processing system. This architecture allows the GPU to execute multiple calculations at the same time.
How is GPU architecture different from CPU?
The main difference between CPU and GPU architecture is that a CPU is designed to handle a wide-range of tasks quickly (as measured by CPU clock speed), but are limited in the concurrency of tasks that can be running. A GPU is designed to quickly render high-resolution images and video concurrently.
Is GPU SIMD or MIMD?
GPU uses the SIMD paradigm, that is, the same portion of code will be executed in parallel, and applied to various elements of a data set. However, CPU also uses SIMD, and provide instruction-level parallelism.
What are cores in GPU?
CUDA Cores are parallel processors, just like your CPU might be a dual- or quad-core device, nVidia GPUs host several hundred or thousand cores. The cores are responsible for processing all the data that is fed into and out of the GPU, performing game graphics calculations that are resolved visually to the end-user.
Does the RTX 3090 have tensor cores?
The GeForce RTX™ 3090 Ti and 3090 are big ferocious GPUs (BFGPUs) with TITAN class performance. Powered by Ampere—NVIDIA’s 2nd gen RTX architecture—they double down on ray tracing and AI performance with enhanced Ray Tracing Cores, Tensor Cores, and new streaming multiprocessors.
Why is GPU called SIMD?
SIMD stands for single instruction, multiple data, as opposed to SISD, i.e. single instruction, single data corresponding to the traditional von Neumann architecture. It is a parallel processing technique exploiting data-level parallelism by performing a single operation across multiple data elements simultaneously.
How many tensor cores does a 3090 have?
Designed for the most demanding gamers, content creators and data scientists, the GeForce RTX 3090 Ti features a record-breaking 10,752 CUDA cores, and boasts 78 RT-TFLOPs, 40 Shader-TFLOPs and 320 Tensor-TFLOPs of power.
What are the components of a GPU?
What Are the Components of a Graphics Card?
- CPU. Just introduced in the above, it is designed for rapidly manipulate and alter memory.
- Video Memory. …
- Video BIOS. …
- RAMDAC (RAM digital-to-analog converter) …
- Motherboard Interface. …
- Output Interfaces. …
- Heat Sink.
How are GPUs programmed?
GPGPU Programming is general purpose computing with the use of a Graphic Processing Unit (GPU). This is done by using a GPU together with a Central Processing Unit (CPU) to accelerate the computations in applications that are traditionally handled by just the CPU only.
What is GPU and how it works?
Graphics processing unit, a specialized processor originally designed to accelerate graphics rendering. GPUs can process many pieces of data simultaneously, making them useful for machine learning, video editing, and gaming applications.
Is GPU or CPU more important for architecture?
CPU is the brain and most important part of every machine, but in case of workstations, if you don’t add the right GPU with it, you won’t get the required performance.
Why do GPUs have so many cores?
The GPU is a processor that is made up of many smaller and more specialized cores. By working together, the cores deliver massive performance when a processing task can be divided up and processed across many cores.
Why GPU is faster than CPU?
Why is GPU Superior to CPU? Due to its parallel processing capability, a GPU is much faster than a CPU. For the hardware with the same production year, GPU peak performance can be ten-fold with significantly higher memory system bandwidth than a CPU. Further, GPUs provide superior processing power and memory bandwidth.
Is a GPU a MIMD?
Unfortunately, most GPU hardware implements a very restrictive multi-threaded SIMD-based execution model. This paper presents a compiler, assembler, and interpreter system that allows a GPU to implement a richly featured MIMD execution model that supports shared-memory communication, recursion, etc.
What is SISD SIMD MISD?
SISD (Single Instruction, Single Data) refers to the traditional von Neumann architecture where a single sequential processing element (PE) operates on a single stream of data. • SIMD (Single Instruction, Multiple Data) performs the same operation on multiple data items simultaneously.
What is SIMD and MIMD?
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California officials headed to Ireland for study trip
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A group of California lawmakers and business leaders is flying to Ireland on Thursday to study, among other things, how to turn sewage and wind into energy.
The 10-day trip is largely being paid for by the California Foundation on the Environment and the Economy, a group that includes Chevron Corp., Southern California Edison, Sempra Energy and the State Building and Construction Trades Council. The group declined to say how many are going. Last year, it took seven lawmakers to Spain.
The trip by lawmakers to Ireland has its critics. ‘They should be staying in Sacramento to deal with the alleged budget deficit,’ said Jon Coupal, president of the Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Assn.
Those planning to take the trip, including Assembly Democrats Fiona Ma of San Francisco and Steven Bradford of Gardena, say no taxpayer money is being used, and they hope to gain valuable information in Europe.
The trip is timely because the Legislature just approved a mandate to boost the use of renewable energy, Bradford said. ‘I want to see what other countries including Ireland are doing to make this sustainable and affordable, and make sure the jobs are real,’ Bradford said, noting he has to work out some scheduling conflicts to make the trip.
Added Ma, ‘Ireland has been leading the way in green technology, waste diversion and wind energy and I always look forward to exploring what other countries are doing.’
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By Mark Hampton, 2014 Chair of the Board
April showers bring May flowers. At least that is how the saying goes. And right now, many of us are focusing on those showers and when we might see them. But in all seriousness, water is a necessity and right now we are experiencing one of Texas’ worst droughts since the drought of the 1950’s (which is considered the “drought of record”). If you attended the 48th edition of the Texas Legislative Conference hosted by the Greater New Braunfels Chamber of Commerce, Inc. on March 28th, you heard panelist State Senator Troy Fraser discuss this very topic.
The 83rd Legislature passed numerous bills addressing water conservation, management strategies and planning. Probably the most significant bill passed and approved by voters in November was HB 4 (Prop 6). This bill allocates $2 billion toward a new State Water Implementation Fund (SWIFT) for Texas. SWIFT will be used to fund water related projects, infrastructure and conservation projects with loans.
The constitutional amendment (Prop 6) approved by voters allows use of the state’s “rainy day fund” or surplus to leverage into water projects across the state. Your Chamber Board at their annual board planning retreat voted to form a water quantity task force under the Natural Resources Committee to ensure that New Braunfels gets its fair share of these funds. We’ll be working with local water purveyors this year to help educate the community about the importance of seeking more water.
Senator Fraser also talked about the need for additional water resources considering the continued growth and demand. Some of these considerations are the use of brackish water, desalination plants and utilizing aquifers to store supplies. NBU is being pro-active with Aquifer Recovery Systems (ARS) to enable our community to benefit for larger and more affordable water supplies, especially in times of drought.
Texas is currently growing by approximately 1,000 people a day. In addition to water being an immediate concern, we all see the increase demand on our transportation infrastructure. State Senator Robert Nichols discussed the status of our current transportation infrastructure and the challenges with funding this infrastructure. A key component in taking a proactive approach to this need will be put before the voters this November. This vote will provide additional funding that is critically needed for our state.
Why is this action needed you may wonder? There are basically three funding sources of our roads statewide: state and federal gasoline taxes and registration fees. There have not been any increases in the gasoline tax in decades; cars are more fuel efficient and registration fees have not been increased. Combine these factors with inflation and the end result is our revenue/funds are limited to maintenance and upkeep.
While listening to Senator Fraser and Senator Nichols, you couldn’t help but pick up on the fact that our state legislature took a very proactive approach in addressing these critical needs for our state’s economic future. This took teamwork in passing and it took teamwork to inform the voters on the importance of this legislation.
Your Chamber of Commerce brings the Texas Legislative Conference to New Braunfels every year. This successful event occurs because of the teamwork from members of our Chamber of Commerce, business leaders around the state, and from state and local government officials. It is TEAMWORK TODAY THAT DETERMINES SUCCESS TOMORROW.
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Local Sales Tax Revenue City Fiscal YTD (5 months)
Previous Year $9,592,817
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Darmstadt, Germany, and New York, US, September 25, 2015 – Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany, and Pfizer today announced that the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted orphan drug designation for the investigational cancer immunotherapy avelumab(*) for the treatment of Merkel cell carcinoma (MCC), a rare and aggressive type of skin cancer.(1,2) Each year, there are approximately 1,500 new cases of MCC diagnosed in the US.(3)
Avelumab (also referred to as MSB0010718C) is an investigational fully human monoclonal IgG1 antibody against programmed death-ligand 1 (anti-PD–L1). Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany, and Pfizer are currently conducting a Phase II study (JAVELIN Merkel 200) to assess the safety and efficacy of avelumab in patients with metastatic MCC who have progressed after at least one prior chemotherapy regimen.
“We continue to dedicate significant resources to accelerate our clinical trial program, with a goal of helping patients who are fighting rare and difficult-to-treat diseases, such as Merkel cell carcinoma,” said Dr. Luciano Rossetti, Head of Global Research & Development at the biopharmaceutical business of Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany. “It is encouraging to be included in the FDA’s orphan drug program as we eagerly await the results of our Phase II trial of avelumab in this deadly skin cancer.”
“This is a rare and lethal type of skin cancer, especially when it has progressed despite prior chemotherapy,” said Dr. Mace Rothenberg, Senior Vice President of Clinical Development and Medical Affairs and Chief Medical Officer for Pfizer Oncology. “There is a strong scientific rationale that by harnessing the body’s immune system, we may be able to control the disease and provide hope to patients fighting Merkel cell carcinoma.”
JAVELIN Merkel 200 is a multicenter, single-arm, open-label study evaluating patients with metastatic MCC who have previously received at least one line of chemotherapy. The primary endpoint is objective response rate, and secondary endpoints include duration of response, progression-free survival, overall survival and safety. The study, which exceeded its expected enrollment of 84 patients with 88 patients enrolled, is being conducted in sites across Asia Pacific, Australia, Europe and North America.
The JAVELIN clinical trial program also includes a Phase III study in Stage IIIb/IV or recurrent non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) designed to assess the efficacy and safety of avelumab compared with docetaxel in patients who have experienced disease progression after receiving a prior platinum-containing doublet therapy (JAVELIN Lung 200); a Phase Ib, open-label, multicenter, multiple-dose trial designed to estimate the maximum tolerated dose and select the recommended Phase II dose of avelumab in combination with axitinib** in patients with previously untreated advanced renal cell carcinoma (RCC, JAVELIN Renal 100); an international Phase I open-label, multiple ascending dose trial to investigate the safety, tolerability, pharmacokinetics, biological and clinical activity in patients with metastatic or locally advanced solid tumors (JAVELIN Solid Tumor); and a Phase I trial to investigate the tolerability, safety, pharmacokinetics, biological, and clinical activity of avelumab in Japanese patients with metastatic or locally advanced solid tumors (JAVELIN Solid Tumor Japan) with an expansion part in Asian patients with gastric cancer.
The clinical development program for avelumab now includes more than 1,000 patients treated across more than 15 tumor types, including NSCLC, breast cancer, gastric cancer, ovarian cancer, urothelial cancer (e.g. bladder), esophageal cancer, SCCHN, RCC, MCC, melanoma and mesothelioma.
About the FDA Orphan Drug Designation
FDA orphan drug designation is granted to drugs intended to treat rare diseases or disorders that affect fewer than 200,000 people in the US, or those that affect more than 200,000 people, but are unlikely to recover the costs of developing and marketing the drug. Orphan drug designation by the FDA qualifies the sponsor for incentives provided for in the Orphan Drug Act, which can include protocol assistance for clinical trials, prescription drug user fee waivers, tax incentives and seven years of market exclusivity upon approval. The granting of an orphan drug designation does not alter the standard regulatory requirement to establish the safety and effectiveness of a drug through adequate and well-controlled studies to support approval. The orphan drug designation for avelumab applies only to MCC.
*Avelumab is the proposed International Nonproprietary Name for the anti-PD–L1 monoclonal antibody (MSB0010718C). Avelumab is under clinical investigation and has not been proven to be safe and effective. There is no guarantee any product will be approved in the sought-after indication by any health authority worldwide.
**Axitinib is not approved for first-line treatment of advanced RCC.
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3. Lemos BD et al. Pathologic nodal evaluation improves prognostic accuracy in Merkel cell carcinoma: analysis of 5823 cases as the basis of the first consensus staging system. J Am Acad Dermatol 2010;63(5):751–761.
About Merkel Cell Carcinoma (MCC)
MCC is a rare and aggressive disease in which cancer cells form in the top layer of the skin, close to nerve endings. MCC, which is also known as neuroendocrine carcinoma of the skin or trabecular cancer, often starts in those areas of skin that are most often exposed to the sun, including the head and neck, arms, legs, and trunk. Risk factors for MCC include sun exposure and having a weak immune system (i.e., solid organ transplant recipients, people with HIV/AIDS and people with other cancers, such as chronic lymphocytic leukemia, are at higher risk). Caucasian males over age 50 are at increased risk. MCC tends to metastasize at an early stage, spreading initially to nearby lymph nodes, and then potentially to more distant areas in the body, including other lymph nodes or areas of skin, lungs, brain, bones, or other organs. Current treatment options for MCC include surgery, radiation and chemotherapy. Treatment for metastatic or Stage IV MCC is generally palliative.
Avelumab (also known as MSB0010718C) is an investigational fully human anti-PD-L1 IgG1 monoclonal antibody. By inhibiting PD-L1 interactions, avelumab is thought to potentially enable the activation of T cells and the adaptive immune system. By retaining a native Fc-region, avelumab is thought to engage the innate immune system and induce antibody-dependent cell-mediated cytotoxicity (ADCC). In November 2014, Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany, and Pfizer announced a strategic alliance to co-develop and co-commercialize avelumab.
Alliance between Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany, and Pfizer Inc, New York, US
Immuno-oncology is a top priority for Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany, and Pfizer Inc. The global strategic alliance between Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany, and Pfizer Inc, New York, US, enables the companies to benefit from each other’s strengths and capabilities and further explore the therapeutic potential of avelumab, an investigational anti-PD-L1 antibody initially discovered and developed by Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany. The immuno-oncology alliance will jointly develop and commercialize avelumab and advance Pfizer’s PD-1 antibody. The companies will collaborate on up to 20 high priority immuno-oncology clinical development programs, including combination trials, many of which are expected to commence in 2015.
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The information contained in this release is as of September 25, 2015. Pfizer assumes no obligation to update forward-looking statements contained in this release as the result of new information or future events or developments.
This release contains forward-looking information about avelumab (MSB0010718C), including a potential indication for MCC, Pfizer’s and Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany;’s immuno-oncology alliance involving anti-PD-L1 and anti-PD-1 therapies and clinical development plans , including their potential benefits, that involves substantial risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those expressed or implied by such statements. Risks and uncertainties include, among other things, the uncertainties inherent in research and development, including the ability to meet anticipated clinical study commencement and completion dates as well as the possibility of unfavorable study results; risks associated with interim data, including the risk that the final results of the Phase I study for avelumab and/or additional clinical trials may be different from (including less favorable than) the interim data results and may not support further clinical development; the risk that clinical trial data are subject to differing interpretations, and, even when we view data as sufficient to support the safety and/or effectiveness of a product candidate, regulatory authorities may not share our views and may require additional data or may deny approval altogether; whether and when drug applications may be filed in any jurisdictions for any potential indications for avelumab, combination therapies, or other product candidates; whether and when any such applications may be approved by regulatory authorities, which will depend on the assessment by such regulatory authorities of the benefit –risk profile suggested by the totality of the efficacy and safety information submitted; decisions by regulatory authorities regarding labeling and other matters that could affect the availability or commercial potential of avelumab, combination therapies, or other product candidates; and competitive developments.
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31st Mozart Festival in Warsaw
Theatre of Warsaw Chamber Opera
Wolfgang Amadeusz Mozart
The Magic Flute
Opera in two acts with Polish dialogues
Composer | Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Libretto | Emanuel Schikaneder
Premiere | 13 June 2019
Staging and director: Giovanny Castellanos
Revival: Jolanta Denejko
Music director: Marcin Sompoliński
Set designer: Rafał Olbiński
Costume designer: Marcin Łobacz
Choreographer: Jakub Lewandowski
Lighting director: Damian Pawella
Multimedia/graphics: Sylwester Siejna
Sarastro | Krzysztof Borysiewicz
Queen of the Night | Katarzyna Drelich
Tamino | Aleksander Kunach
Pamina | Anna Farysej
Speaker | Piotr Nowacki
Papageno | Paweł Trojak
Papagena | Aleksandra Żakiewicz
Monostatos | Łukasz Wroński
I Lady | Sylwia Krzysiek
II Lady | Joanna Lalek
III Lady | Katarzyna Nowosad
I Boy | Lucyna Białas
II Boy | Marcelina Górska
III Boy | Tomasz Raczkiewicz
I Armoured man / I Priest | Tomasz Grygo
II Armoured man / II Priest | Łukasz Górczyński
Bird-of-paradise I | Maria Bijak
Bird-of-paradise II | Agnieszka Borkowska
Magical Animal I | Dominika Gryz
Magical Animal II | Kamil Wawrzuta
Slave I | Jarosław Mysona
Slave II | Patryk Gnaś
Vocal Ensemble of Warsaw Chamber Opera
Chorus master: Krzysztof Kusiel-Moroz
Ancient Instruments Ensemble of Warsaw Chamber Opera
Musicae Antiquae Collegium Varsoviense
The Magic Flute is considered to be one of Mozart’s greatest stage masterpieces. The opera was created in the year of Mozart’s death, and its stage life has continued uninterruptedly since the end of the 18th century. Even such masterpieces as The Marriage of Figaro or Don Giovannni are not as popular. What is the magic of this particular piece? The Masonic symbolism contained in a slightly elaborate libretto, or perhaps a particularly fantastic vision of an unreal world that can be found everywhere and nowhere? The director’s vision of Giovanny Castellanos, who tried to exploit the full potential of absolute fantasy and masterfully incorporated into this bizarre libretto of the most brilliant music, lean towards the latter interpretation. Mozart surprises here with a variety of forms: choirs, arias, coloraturas, songs, great ensembles and finals. The composer also shows a unique catalogue of characters, some of which are balancing on the edge of a semi-buffa (Papageno, Papagena, Monostatos), and others are vividly taken from the opera series (The Queen of the Night – the evil witch, Sarastro – the good priest, Pamina and Tamino – a couple of lovers, choirs of priests). There are also completely new elements unknown from earlier opera conventions – Guardians, Three Boys, Three Ladies. All these elements have been given a special musical aura by Mozart, and each character has its own unique features of the musical language. Olbiński’s set design describes this dreamlike-surreal world in a way literally full of fantasies, associations and allusions, but at the same time friendly to the viewer. Marcin Łobacz’s costumes emphasize the animal-fairy-tale associations, giving the whole a unique aesthetic dimension.
The new staging of The Magic Flute is a development of the theatrical tradition of the Warsaw Chamber Opera, its creative continuation with the use of new possibilities offered by today’s technology. This was noticed by Dorota Szwarcman from the “Polityka” weekly newspaper:
– The boisterously announced event did not disappoint, on the contrary – it literally charmed the audience, who awarded the artists and creators with long standing ovations. This delight was aroused by the excellent performance and incredible visual coherence – wrote Anna Krajkowska (niezalezna.pl) after the premiere. The authors of the visual side did not dominate the performance, but brought out its charm, magic and chic. This is largely due to the sensational colour selection. The various shades of navy blue dominating the stage are a beautiful, exceptionally dignified background. They add depth to the fantastic graphics that appear there, but also do not overshadow the actors. There are many ancient and fairy-tale motifs here. It is impossible not to pay attention to the opening and closing cat’s eye. The stunning costumes perfectly correspond with the scenery. Marcin Łobacz, a young fashion designer with a breath-taking career in London, created clothes so consistent with Olbiński’s works that sometimes you had the impression that the characters came out, emerge from the scenery. It’s amazing! – the critic marvelled.
Although the director of the new version of “The Magic Flute” at WCO is a Colombian living in Poland, who work, among others, with Krystian Lupa and Andrzej Wajda, it is the set designer, Rafał Olbiński, who left the greatest mark on the show. This scenography consists mainly of animated projections in the style typical of a well-known poster artist. However, in this performance they have more charm and wit, they are more fabulous. They are also matched with fairy-tale costumes by Marcin Łobacz, a young fashion designer who has already dressed Cher or Rihanna. The costumes of the Queen of the Night as well as Papageno and Papagena are especially lightsome. There was created a performance for both adults and children, the more so as the dialogues are spoken in Polish (usually they are performed in the original language – German). What’s more, the spectacle is also musically attractive. Practically all the main characters are good: Pamina (Ingrida Gapova) and Tamino (Aleksander Kunach), Papageno (Artur Janda), Queen of the Night (Joanna Moskowicz) and Sarastro (Krzysztof Borysiewicz), also the supporting roles are of the good level. The orchestra is led thoughtfully by Marcin Sompoliński.
Dorota Szwarcman – Polityka
Above all, this set design cannot overwhelm people with scale. You have to surprise the viewers with a surprise, one would like to say – with beauty. If it succeeds, it will be fantastic – said Olbiński during a conversation with me. And we did it. The authors of the visual side did not dominate the performance, but brought out its charm, magic and chic. This is largely due to the sensational colour selection. The various shades of navy blue dominating the stage are a beautiful, exceptionally dignified background. They add depth to the fantastic graphics that appear there, but also do not overshadow the actors. There are many ancient and fairy-tale motifs here. It is impossible not to pay attention to the opening and closing cat’s eye. The stunning costumes perfectly correspond with the scenery. Marcin Łobacz, a young fashion designer with a breath-taking career in London, created clothes so consistent with Olbiński’s works that sometimes you had the impression that the characters came out, emerge from the scenery. It’s amazing!
Maestro Marcin Sompoliński has a hand for Mozart, which is heard in “The Magic Flute”, and listening to the music lovers’ beloved opera by the Salzburg master performed on ancient instruments by MACV orchestra is a pure pleasure. The singers did a great job. Aleksander Kunach in the role of Tarnino and Joanna Moskowicz as the Queen of the Night have delighted more than once.
I was taken by sensitivity and beautiful voice of Ingrida Gapova in the role of Pamina, and Artur Janda as Papageno charmed me with his brilliant vocal and acting performance. This is another challenging role that Janda has recently been entrusted with in the premiere performance on the WCO stage. He shone as Orpheus, later as Figaro (“The Marriage of Figaro” can be seen as part of the Mozart Festival on 21, 22 and 23 June), and now he delights and entertains as Papageno. It is not surprising that the artist was nominated for the 13th Jan Kiepura Theatre Music Awards in the category best opera singer (Marcin Sompoliński was nominated in the category best conductor). The figure of Bird-Catcher is colourful and humorous in the libretto itself. Giovanny Castellanos added to it a little more comedy, just by weaving a funny chant in the scene where Papageno was put to the test of silence.
Anna Krajkowska – Gazeta Polska
The opera “The Magic Flute” has already been subjected to various interpretations, here it’s been used traditional, conservative and fairy-tale. The scenery was designed in accordance with his recognizable style of naive surrealism by Rafał Olbiński, and the costumes full of fantasy, slightly based on ancient Egyptian motifs were proposed by Marcin Łobacz. The chamber choir was prepared by Krzysztof Kusiel-Moroz. The honorary patronage over the premiere was taken by the Austrian Ambassador Dr. Werner Almhofer. As we all know, nobody can take Mozart away from Austrians.
Joanna Tumiłowicz – Maestro.pl
The world from Rafał Olbiński’s posters effectively came to life in the “The Magic Flute” at the Warsaw Chamber Opera. The performance is visually pretty, attractive and audience-friendly, which is not often the case in contemporary theatre. The producers did not try to discover hidden meanings in Mozart’s masterpiece, although there are plenty of them, which other producers are trying to prove – sometimes even by force.
The hero of the Warsaw production is also Marcin Łobacz. His costumes inspired by the aesthetics and colours of Rafał Olbiński’s works create a coherent, surreal world. It is worth appreciating in this designer a great sense of colour nuances and the ability to combine them in various variants. Finally, the group of performers at the Warsaw Chamber Opera was selected carefully and, above all, with an understanding of the requirements of Mozart’s music. On stage, we have an overview of various artistic generations – the experienced Krzysztof Borysiewicz (Sarastro), who came from abroad, the perfect Joanna Moskowicz (Queen of the Night) and Artur Janda (funny, but not exaggerated Papageno) or the young Aleksandra Żakiewicz (Papagena).
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583 million results in 0.47 seconds. That’s what you obtain when searching “shopping experience” in Google. It is a hot topic, an expression on everyone’s lips… and as a result, paradoxically dangerous.
Here we shall see the evolution of the concept shopping experience in academic literature and conclude with some practical thoughts.
The playing field
This experience takes place in the store, where many shopping decisions are taken. How many? I’m not sure, as I doubt that a fully validated percentage even exists. If it did, it couldn’t be applied in the same way to people who are doing their shopping (chore) as to those who are going shopping (leisure). In addition, there are two kinds of buyers who represent different situations:
- Those who are replenshing, well aware in advance of what they want to repurchase. They know their products so well, that they spot them at first sight on the shelf, just by their shape or colour.
- Those who make up their mind on the go, based on what they see, read or perceive in the shop. Whatever these end up buying will be much more influenced by what they have experienced in the point of sale than the previous ones. In particular, what shall be influenced is their motivations, beliefs and attitudes.
From 1973 to the early 90s
Philip Kotler (1973) was the first one who claimed that the atmospherics of a shop was a marketing tool. When the design is consciously thought up, it produces emotional effects on the visitor and this increases the probablity of a purchase.
Then, companies in retailing understood the importance of interior and exterior design as a way to stimulate the willingness to purchase. That is, they intended to influence customer behaviour and this aim was their prevailing mindset.
As a marketing tool, the ambience has three main contributions to make:
- If properly differentiated, it draws attention to the shop.
- It is the message. The shop communicates something to the visitor.
- It’s a way of bonding with the shop and its assortment, which increases the immediate intention of purchase.
From the early 90s to nowadays
At that time, it started to become clear that which today is an actual clamor: markets and audiences are increasingly fragmented, and therefore it’s difficult to achieve an effective communication with limited resources. Using the shop as a means of communication could become more cost efficient.
In this context, the main goal was to identify what has most influence on the shopping behaviour.
We can highlight two of the most relevant investigations in this second stage:
Donovan & Rossiter (1982) studied the works of Mehrabian & Russel in further depth, in order to investigate the responses that certain stimuli would cause on visitors. These are some of their conclusions:
A high degree of novelty and sophistication in the shop creates stimulus and interest.
In appealing surroundings, a high level of interest derives in a larger probablity of positive reaction. Conversely, if the interest and attention of a customer are activated in an unpleasant ambience, the reaction is negative.
That behaviour might also determine the time in the shop, the eagerness to explore, the readiness to talk or interact with other people, the predisposition to spend more money than forseen, the intention to return and the customer satisfaction.
Baker et al. (1992) completed the previous model by classifying the variables of the shop’s interior ambience:
- Atmospherics: music, light, fragrance.
- Social: presence of sales assistants, furniture and customers. An empty store discourages customers… in the same way that a crammed one would.
- Design: both functional (wide corridors, e.g.) and aesthetic.
All these points are of proven relevance, but their combined use hasn’t yet been sufficiently ascertained in order to foresee a given outcome out of each mix.
The shopping experience today
The emphasis is currently put on a shopping experience that expresses the differential sense of the chain brand. Firstly, to draw customer attention, and next, to feel the values of the chain at their fullest.
On the other hand, today the shopping experience cannot be complete without taking into account the internet. Similar guidelines to those of brick and mortar shops can be applied, even if less senses are involved.
It is basic that the shopping experience shows the same brand sense as the retail firm, both in the offline and online shops. The interaction experience must be nearly equal, because digital and physical media are every day more intermingled. (87% of people who buy a car in a dealer have checked them all out on the internet previously).
At the beginning, the first companies that enhanced their customer shopping experience were in the retail business already.
Later, suppliers who saw that many of the purchases were decided in situ awakened and chose either of these two paths:
- To strive to draw visitor attention towards their products in third party shops. Consequently, all sorts of displays and exhibitors have thrived, including sophisticated ones with augmented reality. An avalanche of digital media is now available, yet its focus is in many cases more appropriate for the second stage we mentioned (communication by improved impact) than for enhancing actual brand experience.
- Other suppliers, conscious of the power of multisensoriality but seeing the limitations of acting upong third party shops, have decided to launch their own retail outlets, both offline and online. The examples flourish in every sector and corner of the world. In the mass consumer sector in Spain there are several yogurt shops opened by Danone, and Nestle launched the webside diseloconchocolate.es (tell him/her with chocolate, in English).
In any case, it’s important to remember that communication flows in both directions. Customers now can and want to say things to companies. Thinking about only improving the unidirectional communication just comes to show an obsolete and ineffective management approach.
In collaboration with my former student Aline Adam (MSc Esade).
Bibliography, in order of appearance:
Kotler, P. (1973). “Atmospherics as a Marketing Tool”, Journal of Retailing, Vol. 49, Nr. 4, pp. 48-64.
Donovan, R.J. Rossiter, J.R. (1982). “Store Atmosphere: an Environmental Psychology Approach”, Journal of Retailing, Vol. 58, Nr. 1, p. 42.
Baker, J. Grewal, D. and Parasuraman A. (1994). “The Influence of Store Environment on Quality Inferences and Store Image”, Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science, Vol. 22, Nr. 4, pp. 330
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(Natural News) Authorities have already ruled out disease, including the infamous “Colony Collapse Disorder” (CCD), as the cause of a recent honeybee holocaust that took place in Brevard County, Florida. The UK’s Daily Mail reports that up to 12 million bees from roughly 800 apiaries in the area all dropped dead at roughly the same time around September 26 — and local beekeepers say pesticides are likely to blame.
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“I’m a pretty tough guy, but it is heart wrenching,” said Charles Smith of Smith Family Honey Company to News 13 in Orlando. His family’s company lost an estimated $150,000 worth of bees in the recent die-off. “Not only is it a monetary loss here, but we work really hard on these bees to keep them in good health.”
The Florida die-off coincides with a recent county-wide mosquito eradication effort, during which helicopters flew over various parts of the county and sprayed airborne pesticides. Officials, of course, deny that this taxpayer-funded spraying initiative had anything to do with the bee genocide, though.
“The fact that it was so widespread and so rapid, I think you can pretty much rule out disease,” said Bill Kern, an entomologist from the University of Florida (UF) to Florida Today. “It happened essentially almost in one day. Usually diseases affect adults or the brood, you don’t have something that kills them both.”
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Studying Art, it’s almost a rite of passage. As I began my Fine Art degree, I spent hours each evening sketching my hand to improve observation and copying crude sketches by Renaissance artists. Masaccio’s Holy Trinity, Michelangelo’s David and, of course, a Botticelli. My choice happened to be La Primavera, and a close up of Flora’s face. The V&A exhibition, Botticelli Reimagined, celebrates this practice and the influence Botticelli (and, in particular, The Birth of Venus) has had on artists.
Famously, the Renaissance is an era where Italian artists took art into their own hands. Gone were the days of flat, identical Virgin Mary’s and awkwardly-shaped Christ’s, squirming around on her lap. Suddenly perspective offered depth and life-studies informed three-dimensional forms that appeared lifelike. Botticelli was among these masters, with Birth of Venus and La Primavera considered his masterpieces. He also had the cheek to place himself in his Adoration of the Magi¸ clearly proud of his achievements. He looks down on us, dressed in his robes, clearly elevated by his stature and artistic link to the elite of Florence.
But the V&A is not the Uffizi. The gallery that holds so many of his pieces (including Birth of Venus and La Primavera in the same room; two sides to the same coin) isn’t recreated and, crucially, the V&A don’t have these particular pieces on display (though La Primavera’s companion piece, Pallas and the Centaur, from the Uffizi is on loan). Nor do they need to. Instead, they have the consequence. The evolution of art as photographers, sculptors, printers and imitators recreated Botticelli’s work and we, often oblivious, live in his debt. Jeff Koons, on Lady Gaga’s Art Pop album cover was aware of the influence. Andy Warhol, decorating the poster for the exhibition, depicts an electric pink extreme close-up of Venus’ face. Ursula Andress, emerging from the ocean in Terence Youngs’ Dr No. They hark back to Botticelli and his goddess on the shell.
Then there are those who take his work and use its iconic value to elicit meaning from their own work. Venus, goddess of love, is portrayed on a shell with her flowing hair falling behind her back and only subtly covering her. One breast is displayed while the other is covered by a loose hand. There’s no question that, though depicting beauty and love, it is also an erotic, lustful image. She’s untouchable and she boldly looks at you; she knows it. That’s why David LaChapelle’s Rebirth of Venus is the porn star version, suiting our objectified era so well. The men and women are gorgeous but, between the glossy, glam colours and the explicit model and composition, there’s a darker edge. Then there’s Yin Xin’s Venus after Botticelli, whereby the blondes locks and western ideals of beauty are replaced with Asian features; no less beautiful but lifting the lid on our definition nevertheless. Vik Muniz recreates Birth of Venus with litter; the items we’ve discarded reformed to become a masterpiece.
Dolce and Gabbana’s fashion. Cindy Sherman. Ingres. The list goes on and on. The V&A may have it mapped it out, but it is no less powerful. Art and technology always evolves. Only through recreation, imitation and adaptation, do we move forward. This exhibition is fascinating for that reason; an obsessive collection of influence and inspiration. By the time you’ve witnessed the weight of influence Botticelli has created, you see his work in the last room. Suddenly, those old masters carry more than history and their relevance can’t be restricted to a single period. Suddenly Botticelli, and his contemporaries, become immortal.
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- 1 What umpire can call a balk?
- 2 How do you call a balk?
- 3 Why do they call it a balk in baseball?
- 4 Can you balk with nobody on base?
- 5 What is the balk rule?
- 6 Can a batter hit a balk pitch?
- 7 Is it a balk to fake a throw to first base?
- 8 Is it a balk to fake a throw to third base?
- 9 Can a pitcher be on the rubber without the ball?
- 10 Can a pitcher throw to third without stepping off the rubber?
- 11 Is a balk a dead ball?
- 12 What is an illegal pitch in baseball called?
- 13 Can a catcher balk?
What umpire can call a balk?
With runners on base, after the pitcher goes into his wind-up or makes any movement associated with delivering the ball to home plate, the pitcher must not interrupt his motion or the umpire can call a balk.
How do you call a balk?
When you call a balk, verbalize it loudly. If the pitch is delivered, wait until the catcher receives the ball and then call time, announce the balk, and award bases. If on the pitch the ball is put in play, allow play to conclude.
Why do they call it a balk in baseball?
Allegedly the most famous balk was called during the 1961 All-Star Game in Candlestick Park. The former home of the San Francisco Giants was notorious because of the gusty winds. According to the legend, Giants pitcher Stu Miller was blown off the mound by a gust of wind and the home plate umpire called a balk.
Can you balk with nobody on base?
Umpires will judge a quick pitch as one delivered before the batter is reasonably set in the batter’s box. With runners on base the penalty is a balk; with no runners on base, it is a ball. The quick pitch is dangerous and should not be permitted.
What is the balk rule?
Definition. A balk occurs when a pitcher makes an illegal motion on the mound that the umpire deems to be deceitful to the runner(s). As a result, any men on base are awarded the next base, and the pitch (if it was thrown in the first place) is waved off for a dead ball.
Can a batter hit a balk pitch?
When a balk is made on a pitch that is a fourth ball it shall be ruled the same as when the batter hits a balk pitch and is safe on a hit or error, provided all runners advance at least one base on the play.
Is it a balk to fake a throw to first base?
A pitcher can not feint a throw to first base. That is a balk.
Is it a balk to fake a throw to third base?
The ol’ fake-to-third, throw-to-first pickoff move, a pitcher’s trick that fooled only the most gullible base runners, will now be a balk. Under a rule change imposed by Major League Baseball for this season, pitchers can no longer fake a pickoff throw to third base.
Can a pitcher be on the rubber without the ball?
In professional baseball, under Rule 6.02(a)(9), a balk occurs if the pitcher is standing on or astride of the pitching rubber without the ball. As play after a foul ball, hit batsman, or time out, must not resume until the pitcher is on the pitcher’s mound, the infielder cannot use these times to obtain the ball.
Can a pitcher throw to third without stepping off the rubber?
The pitcher throws (without stepping off the rubber) to the third baseman who makes no attempt to make a putout at 3rd base. The rule book says that, while a pitcher is touching the pitching rubber he must first step directly towards the base and then throw to the base.
Is a balk a dead ball?
If the pitcher balks and continues by throwing to a base and the ball is caught, that is the end of playing action; the ball is dead and any out is voided. In NCAA and pro, if the ball is overthrown and all runners advance at least one base, the balk is ignored.
What is an illegal pitch in baseball called?
From BR Bullpen. An Illegal pitch is a pitch that does not conform to the rules. With men on base, such a pitch is a balk, while without it is called a ball, but repeated offenses may lead to further punishment.
Can a catcher balk?
Rule 5.02(a) says a catcher’s balk happens when the catcher is out of position on a pitch: “Except that when the batter is being given an intentional base on balls, the catcher must stand with both feet within the lines of the catcher’s box until the ball leaves the pitcher’s hand.” | <urn:uuid:3d832528-3cb0-415c-9c11-61b0cf95f2d6> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://ctdistrict4.com/baseball/readers-ask-how-to-call-a-balk-in-baseball.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571147.84/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810040253-20220810070253-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.964126 | 1,031 | 2.703125 | 3 |
[ by Charles Cameron — moving from a consideration of Holbein’s Ambassadors to a celebrated scene in Ridley Scott’s Blade Runner — and thence, wide-angle, to Kumbh Mela ]
Here’s the Bladerunner scene:
What Ridley Scott depicts is a camera with the ability to see around corners — a fantastic piece of science fictional cinematography, demonstrating a sufficiently advanced technology with a skill amounting to wizardry.
How close, though, can state-of-the-art cameras come to seeing around corners? Here’s what Nature has to say:
Andreas Velten, Thomas Willwacher, Otkrist Gupta, Ashok Veeraraghavan, Moungi G. Bawendi & Ramesh Raskar, Recovering three-dimensional shape around a corner using ultrafast time-of-flight imaging:
The recovery of objects obscured by scattering is an important goal in imaging and has been approached by exploiting, for example, coherence properties, ballistic photons or penetrating wavelengths. Common methods use scattered light transmitted through an occluding material, although these fail if the occluder is opaque. Light is scattered not only by transmission through objects, but also by multiple reflection from diffuse surfaces in a scene. This reflected light contains information about the scene that becomes mixed by the diffuse reflections before reaching the image sensor. This mixing is difficult to decode using traditional cameras. Here we report the combination of a time-of-flight technique and computational reconstruction algorithms to untangle image information mixed by diffuse reflection. We demonstrate a three-dimensional range camera able to look around a corner using diffusely reflected light that achieves sub-millimetre depth precision and centimetre lateral precision over 40 cm×40 cm×40 cm of hidden space.
Here’s another illustrative video:
Okay, seeing is simple, but we’re Zenpundit, so there’s gotta be a military angle we can see around, no?
Here are two possibilities — the first is called CornerShot:
while the second is called ShotView:
We’re still pretty far from Ridley’s Blade Runner, but the idea of seeing / shooting around corners has clearly caught the imagination of others.
Okay, those last two videos are for those interested in matters martial.
For my own sake, and for the possible interest of blog-friend Pundita, let’s take a look at a video of Ramesh Raskar, head of MIT Media Lab’s Camera Culture research group and one of the authors of the Nature paper quoted above.
Here Dr Raskar is talking about that most fascinating of Hindu festivals — and largest of human gatherings? — the Kumbh Mela
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Transformer outages have a considerable economic impact on the operation of a power supply network. Therefore, it is the aim to ensure an accurate assessment of the transformer condition. Partial discharges, leakage currents, hot spots, and arcing are phenomena that contribute to the degradation of oil insulating performances by generating dangerous gas flow inside the transformer tank. Internal gas accumulation and oil flow are monitored and kept under control by the Buchholz relay. Buchholz relay has many advantages and disadvantages for the transformers. Let’s list them one by one.
Advantages of Buchholz Relay
- The Buchholz relay has a long history. It was first developed in 1921 by Max Buchholz, Oberrat at Preußische Elektrizitäts-A.G. (Prussian electricity company) in Kassel.
- It is an important protection and monitoring device for insulating liquid-filled transformers with the conservator and choke coils.
- It is the simplest form of transformer protection. A Buchholz relay is a fundamental device for transformers, it keeps internal gas accumulation and oil flow monitored and under control.
- It detects incipient faults much earlier than the other forms of protection.
- It also allows separate monitoring of oil-filled bushings or cable terminal boxes. It is mounted in the cooling cycle of the device to be protected and responds to faults such as gas generation, loss of as well as high flow rates of the insulating liquid.
- The Buchholz relay is suitable for open-air as well as indoor installations.
- The Buchholz relay is installed in the pipe between the tank of the device to be protected (transformer, reactor) and the conservator. During normal operation, it is filled completely with insulating liquid. Due to buoyancy, the float of the single-float relay and both floats of the double-float relay are at their top position. The upper and lower switching systems form a functional unit in the single-float Buchholz relay so that in the event of a fault the transformer is immediately disconnected from the power system.
- Normally a protective relay does not indicate the appearance of the fault. It operates when a fault occurs. But Buchholz relay gives an indication of the fault at a very early stage, by anticipating the fault and operating the alarm circuit. Thus, the transformer can be taken out of service before any type of serious damage occurs and accidents can be prevented.
- It has a high degree of ingress protection.
- It can operate at very high and low temperatures effectively.
- The Buchholz relay does not need periodic maintenance; however, it is advisable to check regularly the electric contact and the free movement of the float.
- The relay is designed to withstand corrosion.
Disadvantages of Buchholz Relay
- The Buchholz relay can only be implemented in transformers and other electrical equipment having absorbed oil.
- The relay is only detecting faults in cases when the level of oil is below.
- The relay is not guarding connecting cables, therefore dedicated protection is required for cables.
- The response time of the Buchholz relay is a bit too high.
- The relay is slow to operate having a minimum operating time of 0.1 seconds and an average time of 0.2 seconds.
- The setting of the mercury switches cannot be kept too sensitive otherwise the relay can operate due to bubbles, vibration, earthquakes mechanical shocks, etc.
- Using the relay in transformers for rating less than 500 kVA is not economical.
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How do you like the idea of a taking a virtual tour of the hotel that you’re considering booking? Thanks to technology that’s now readily available, hotel operators can place tours of properties on their websites, enabling virtual walkthroughs.
A virtual tour provides potential clients with reassurance of how a property looks. It may be the difference between somebody simply looking at a hotel and booking a room.
A way of seeing all?
“This is a great way of showing that you’ve got nothing to hide and guests can book with confidence,” says Justin Edlagan, the Creative Director of NewGen Creative Limited, a business based in Gateshead.
A walkthrough allows potential guests to view the interior of a hotel from multiple angles. In comparison, photos posted to websites can be carefully curated, showing rooms from carefully selected, optimal angles.
Justin says that early in 2018 just two companies based north of Nottingham were creating virtual tours for the hospitality industry. That number has now surpassed ten. In a saturated marketplace photographers and videographers are having to develop new skillsets.
“There are many skilled videographers based in the north-east of England who can create advertising content for businesses. A way for us to expand what we do was to explore 3D photography, 3D video and virtual reality,” explains Justin, who completed an apprenticeship in filmmaking before setting up a business making promotional videos.
Used by hotels and cruise companies His company has created virtual tours of hotels such as Motel One Newcastle, a budget design hotel in the heart of the city, and the Grand Hotel Tynemouth, a seafront property built as the summer residence of the Duchess of Northumberland in the early 1870s. Four months after the Grand Hotel’s virtual tour was created, it had been viewed 20,000 times, drawing a weekly average of 1,000 visits.
The cruise industry has been an early adopter of virtual tours. The Aurora, operated by P&O Cruises, and Viking Ocean Star, operated by Viking Ocean Cruises, are just two of the many ships that people can look around before every stepping aboard.
Employed in other sectors
Justin explains that it’s possible to create virtual tours of bars and restaurants far more quickly than hotels. “If it’s an empty room, depending on the size, it can take 10 minutes or an hour. But the last thing we want to do with our hotel clients is affect their business. They’re rarely ever closed. So while we’re scanning we try to work around their footfall. A bar or reception might take just a day, but if we have to work around their footfall it might take two, three or even five days in some cases,” he says.
The hospitality sector and travel industry are not the only branches of the economy making use of the technology. “One of our targets is the real estate industry, which has been selling houses using photos and videos, so it’s changing that idea,” says Justin.
Over time, the application of virtual tours looks likely to expand within the travel industry.
“It’s educating the industry that this is the way forward, selling rooms and space. Once they see it, they like it,” says Justin, who predicts that the technology will also be used for immersive storytelling. | <urn:uuid:94459019-0348-4d1a-886e-eab8b2e9472e> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://bgtw.org/virtual-tour-hotel-never-visited/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571284.54/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811103305-20220811133305-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.956533 | 703 | 1.703125 | 2 |
Fiona McGowan- Gilgamesh Pots (Small)
The EPIC OF GILGAMESH was an old oral tale of Gilgamesh, the great King of Uruk and his quest for the meaning of life. It was written down by scribes in cuneiform script on clay tablets about 2150 BCE and is generally considered to be the oldest existing written literature.
Size: 10cm x 18cm (15cm diameter top)
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Erik Satie has given me much joy this year, as well as the welcome opportunity to write about him thanks to the convenient fact of his birth in 1866. Here’s a portion of a piece I wrote for The Catholic Herald to mark the day itself, on 17 May.
In countless small ways, Satie is remembered every day, around the globe, whenever a Gymnopédie drifts over the radio or is placed on the music-stand by a student pianist. Easy to get your fingers around yet hard to capture its gentle mood, simple yet unconventional in harmony, instantly recognisable yet satisfyingly difficult to memorise, the First Gymnopédie has come to define the sound of Satie. He wrote it in 1888, and borrowed the title from the poetry of a friend, J.P. Contamine de Latour. The two young men knocked around together in Montmartre as penniless artists who conformed so wretchedly to the bohemian stereotype they even had to share clothes.
The poet later said Satie was like ‘a man who knew only thirteen letters of the alphabet but who had nevertheless decided to create a new literature with only these means, rather than admit his inadequacy.’ Harsh, but fair: seven years of study at the Paris Conservatoire had left the 20-year-old Satie lacking a diploma, but possessed of a lasting non-conformist mindset and a suspicion of formal education only overcome through hard work in middle age.
Satie was as unconventional in belief as in every other facet of his life. His father was no churchgoer, and his mother was a Scottish Presbyterian. She died when Erik was just six years old, and his grandparents only agreed to look after him on condition that he be baptised a Catholic. Yet his faith endured. In 1891 he reworked his Gnossiennes as stage music for a Christian drama, The King of the Stars, to a scenario invented by Sar Joseph Péladan, the leader of a Rosicrucian sect to which Satie had a brief but intense commitment. He left in 1892 to found his own subsect, ‘The Metropolitan Church of Art of Jesus the Conductor’. In pseudo-antique French he wrote a pocket Catechism: the new church would be ‘a refuge where the Catholic faith and the Arts, the which are indissolubly bound to it, shall grow and prosper, sheltered from profanity, expanding in all their purity, unsullied by the workings of evil.’
Late in 1892 Satie and Contamine de Latour produced Uspud, a ‘Christian ballet’ in which the set and costumes were entirely white. Like the Gymnopédies and all his early piano music, the score is built from slow, off-kilter chords. The influence of Gregorian chant on his melodies is best appreciated in the four Ogives, named after the architectural term for a diagonal arch across the vault of a Gothic cathedral. They have the same ageless solidity as the roughened granite of a Gothic pillar. Run your hand down it and feel the centuries, the craftsmanship and the weight of belief beneath your palm.
Read the rest of it here.
I’ve explored Satie’s music for his own instrument in the latest issue of Pianist magazine. And Gramophone has done Satie proud too: my cover story looks at his music for the stage, and much more. The Cheltenham Festival will cover Satie’s music extensively in July, and their programme booklet offers another perspective (from me) on this endlessly fascinating figure. And on 14 June I’ll give a pre-concert talk at the Ulverston Music Festival to introduce Alistair MacGowan’s witty cabaret-tribute. Wherever you go this summer, don’t miss out on Satie. | <urn:uuid:44726df2-0890-4ca2-b767-4ca530812e62> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://www.quantrillmedia.com/2016/05/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573533.87/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818215509-20220819005509-00264.warc.gz | en | 0.971442 | 822 | 2.265625 | 2 |
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Instead of worrying about our exposure to identity theft and financial fraud as we have in the past two columns, I thought it might be a nice change of pace to discuss something fun: digital watermarking. This brings back fond memories for I spent many years long ago doing R&D in the area. This will give me an opportunity to dust off some of my vintage software. (b.t.w., one of the smartest decisions Microsoft has made was to offer an XP virtual machine for Windows 7, one of the greatest benefits of which is the capability of running legacy and vintage software.)
Let's start with an operative definition: digital watermarking is the act of imprinting a digital signal or pattern on a digital file. Since all digital files are – well – digital, one may watermark any of them regardless of format. There are two basic forms of digital watermarks: perceptible and imperceptible. The perceptible watermarks commonly associated with hardcopy have been with us for centuries, starting with elegant stationery and currency, then with proof sheets, galley proofs, photographic samples, and so forth. They're everywhere, so we'll emphasize them in this column. Contradistinguished from perceptible digital watermarks of the imperceptible variety that are present but not apparent in a document or image. Both types have their place, but serve different purposes with some overlap. The table below illustrates the differences.
The subtlety and enlightened character of imperceptible watermarks is a product of the fact that the technique only works preventively if the criminal is knowledgeable enough to understand the capabilities and limitations of the digital technology behind it. For example, there are myriad ways to digitally sign a document to identify ownership. But the technique only works to prevent theft or unauthorized duplication if the potential crook knows that the document may be digitally signed and the theft traced back to him/her. Thus, the technique may be effective at preventing the theft of classified digital documents by IT professionals, but ineffective at preventing such theft by illiterati. Similarly, if a digital document is signed over to you biometrically (e.g., your fingerprint is embedded in the document) it would be challenging to say the least for a crook to argue in court that the document was signed over to him/her. Non-repudiable denial is one of those legal buzzwords that means “you can’t plausibly deny it.”
So perceptible and imperceptible watermarks serve to protect digital information, no matter whether images, movies, documents, audio files, etc. , in different ways and toward different ends. This is where the art and science comes in – knowing in which circumstances these techniques serve us best. Watermarks have been used to convey source or ownership information for copyright protection, as a self-referential authentication mechanism to determine whether the content has changed, and as a tool for covert back channeling to hide confidential or proprietary information, to name but a few applications. However, in order to be maximally effective watermarks should conform to a minimal set of guidelines:
Of course, there are additional criteria that may be applied (e.g., the fragility, reversibility) but these will get us started. It should also be recognized that some applications are less demanding than others. One might have higher standards for determining the source of a leak of classified documents than determining the source of scanned digital postcards.
For brevity, I’ll limit myself to digital imagery in the discussion to follow, although similar techniques apply to all other forms of digital media consistent with the character of the watermark.
Perhaps the easiest way to introduce the concept of a digital watermark is with a primitive form that all of us are used to: metadata in documents. You can easily look for metadata in Microsoft Word documents by clicking on “info” or selecting it from a pull-down menu. In recent versions of Word you can get a summary of the metadata with the Document Inspector (File>Info>Prepare for Sharing>Check for Issues>Inspect Document> -- note: do not click “Remove All” unless you want to remove metadata permanently. If you’re new at this, I recommend closing the window after you’ve viewed the summary!) Although Word metadata is pretty primitive, it does satisfy our definition of imprinting a digital signal pattern on a digital file – in this case the digital signal or pattern is simply hidden text. Word can create a perceptible watermark as well (Page Layout>Watermark>select watermark). There’s an entire family of tools built into modern office productivity suites that may be thought of as variations on the watermarking theme (e.g., headers, footers, background images, track changes, and so forth). They all involve superimposing one digital element on another.
I’ll illustrate another type of text-oriented watermarking below. See if you can detect the difference in the two lines of text in the box below.
The two lines appear to be the same to the unaided eye. Now I’ll superimpose some ruled lines over the text so we may check the spacing of the characters
The ruled lines clearly reveal that the position of the “f” in the lower line is several pixels to the left of the one above it. Let’s assume that the horizontal bar of this “f” is 10 pixels long, 4 on each side of the vertical stroke. We could adopt a convention that the position of the left most pixel in the horizontal bar designates a number 0-4 according to its position relative to the preceding “e”. We have thus created a primitive watermarking convention with 5 values. One may do that with every character in any printed line by spacing, kerning, modifying the size and shape of the serifs, modifying the length of the descenders, and so forth. One doesn’t have to be an expert in calligraphy to see that one may bury a lot of information in such text-based watermarks.
Here’s another example – this time of spatial watermarking. I’ll use an interactive watermarking tool that we built in my lab many years ago to demonstrate proof-of-concept. In this case, I’ll superimpose some blocked text on an image background by altering the least significant bits of the color palette for each affected pixel in the image. From our experience, the least 4 bits of a 16-bit color palette are frequently not that important for the recognition of a typical image because the part of the image unaffected by watermarks is the equivalent of a 12-bit color palette. Watch the watermark immerge from the image in the following three figures as the hidden watermark is made gradually made visible.
There are a few thousand intervening stages of illumination of the text that are also possible. The point should be taken that using the least significant bits of the color palette to hide information is relatively straightforward and may have little effect on the overall quality of the image. This is an example of using the same algorithms for both perceptible and imperceptible watermarking applications. Variations on this theme of spatial watermarking abound.
To illustrate the capability of digital watermarking, I’ll dust off another old program of my design – Biomarker. This was a tool that I designed about 10 years ago specifically to maximize the amount of information that could be hidden as an imperceptible watermark in another image. In this example, we take an arbitrary digital image in a standard format (jpg, bmp, gif, etc.) into which encrypted (3DES, AES, Blowfish) forms of the information below is embedded:
The result is depicted in Figure 4.
As the superimposed metadata window shows, all of these components have been successfully encrypted with AES256 and encoded into and then decoded from the 10MB digital copy of the Declaration of Independence. Approximately 29.5% of the image was used for this watermark. To put this in perspective, there are approximately 2,000 characters of text on a printed page. Using the same level of compression as our example, we could have used Biomarker to bury nearly 1,500 pages of AES 256-bit encrypted text in our image in the same amount of space. That’s a reasonably sized book. I originally developed Biomarker for provenance purposes for the security and protection of classified or proprietary documents. Although I didn’t bother with it, I could have added an owner’s DNA profile for good measure.
Like most security technologies, digital watermarking isn’t foolproof. For those of you who are technically minded, there is a counterfeiting scheme for a class of invertible, feature-based, frequency domain, imperceptible watermarking algorithms (how’s that for a Google search term) that can subvert ownership claims for any such watermarked document. There are many other types of watermark hacks that can be used to obscure claims of provenance. And of course the most effective destruction of a digital watermark is the delete key. But what watermarking does for us is raise the bar so high as to be an effective deterrent to would be counterfeiters, fraudsters, hackers, and e_criminals of any stripe. Digital watermarking is not perfect, but it’s close enough to be very useful. As I write this, the Government is prosecuting Pvt. Manning (of CableGate and Afghanistan War Diary fame) based on the correspondence of his computer’s and network’s logs and the logs of the Wikileak TOR sites, perhaps through some DNS leaks. As I understand the media reports, the Government claims that computer and network logs will provide the technological foundation for Manning’s courts marshal. This sort of evidence seems pretty flimsy to me. However, had the documents been watermarked, ……
Watermarking is here to stay. Publishers are using it to protect online content. The motion picture industry is using it. Record producers are using it. Not surprisingly, the early adopters think of digital watermarking it terms of the protection of intellectual property. It has only recently been extended to classified and proprietary documents – and not very successfully at that. From a law enforcement perspective, it’s a good thing that Anonymous admits its derring do or companies like Stratfor would never find the leaks. Eventually, digital watermarking will be extended to all forms of provenance of digital documents – in the widest sense. In fact, even camera manufacturers have adopted digital watermarking capability. It won’t be long before it surfaces in cell phones. After Wikileaks, the light may even go on within Governments. | <urn:uuid:380d98ed-b64b-441d-a074-3d7ac3edf2d8> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://w.berghel.net/col-edit/security_wise/s12/sw_s12.php | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571284.54/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811103305-20220811133305-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.930424 | 2,233 | 1.96875 | 2 |
The Social Discourse and Welfare
Whilst doing my research for my most recent blog post, I analysed a range of opinions throughout social media on the topic of contraception and welfare. Naturally, these threads across various pages gathered the opinions of those not on welfare and those who are. Comments on social media give one an insight into the thoughts of a wide and varied demographic. Often thoughts on social media are contained to a particular thread on a particular topic; so it is always interesting to view the differences of opinion from many on that particular subject. This is particularly evident when it is a newspaper forum, or another general page which attracts a diverse range of people. People will group together on opinion and often there are long debates from those for or against a particular opinion. I love reading the opinions of people on social media, as narrative or discourse, gives us a glimpse of the social psyche.
Social discourse is a key element to social change. Many of the comments from people, as per my last blog post, painted those on welfare in a very negative light. In fact, the ones highlighted were of the very strong view that those on welfare “should not breed”. The Liberal National Coalition (LNP) Government has a very strong discourse on punitive measures aimed to punish people on welfare and sets this standard, through their unfair cuts to welfare and treatment of jobseekers.
Newspapers and media also seem to slant their stories to the negative. There were many comments highlighting that Sunrise had posted the ‘welfare and contraception’ story three different times on their Facebook page. In my local regional newspaper today, there is an prominent article with the headline “Hard-working Australian culture fading away” which has a 20 year old mechanic front and centre telling people to “not cry poor and go out a get a job” and “I don’t believe for a second there’s no work out there”.
This is in spite of the unemployment rate being 6.3% nationally, youth unemployment sitting nationally at 14% nationally and being as high as 29.3% in outback South Australia, 26.7% in south east Tasmania and 21.3% in Cairns. This is also in spite of skills shortages in 2014 identified in specialized and professional fields as external auditor, surveyor, sonographer, phsysiotherapist, midwife, software engineer and construction estimator. The jobs listed as skills shortages are not jobs that would be likely to match young people seeking employment, or unskilled jobseekers. This means that contrary to the social discourse occurring at present, job search is a highly competitive environment and those with little to no skills or experience, or who face any barriers to employment (including sole parenting), will find securing employment very difficult.
This does not even take into account age discrimination or Indigenous unemployment, which sits at 17.2% nationally and the Government’s changes to programs that will greatly affect this group. These changes show blatant changes which target people through race, which are discriminatory as compared to other parts of Australia.
What about Sole Parents?
The blog post I researched most recently discussed the argument that ‘People on welfare should be forced to take contraception.’ Single mothers were certainly a group raised for discussion. In particular, young mothers featured prominently, as did women from certain suburbs in Australia and another prominent single mother group attacked negatively were those ‘assumed to be refugees’ or from an ethnic minority background or non-white people.
Single Parents have only had to seek employment as part of Mutual Obligation since the 2005 – 2006 Howard Budget. This has continued to be evolved by successive ALP Governments since 2007 and remains as a focus for the Abbott Government. There have been calls from ACOSS that the inclusion of single parents in mutual obligation contravenes Human Rights Obligations. I strongly agree with ACOSS, not only for the economic affects outlines, but especially for point 2, which discusses discrimination against women:
The Bill violates the rights of single parents to non-discrimination under Art 2, paragraph 2
of the ICESCR and Art 11(1)(e) of the International Covenant on the Elimination of All
Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW). Since the majority of recipients are
women, they will suffer indirect gender discrimination should the Bill become law. In
addition, sole parent families, identified for special measures due to their greater
vulnerability, will suffer discrimination through the loss of these measures.
As I delved into people’s conversations on social media whilst researching my last blog post, I noticed something quite prominent and thematic with young mothers and their arguments. I was becoming increasingly aware of the amount of young women (single mothers) who felt the need to defend their space in society. These young women felt the need to list every single effort they make to work in paid work, volunteering, job search or furthering their education through study or training. Often, they would write a long list of work and study they were doing at the same time, as well as caring for their child or children.
What this is saying to me, is that young mothers and single others feel the need to ‘reaffirm’ or establish themselves in the eyes of the privileged (those not a single parent) to be deemed worthy or accepted in society. My position is difficult here as I can only view the conversation and not seek clarity or construct any dialogue with these young mothers to further develop understanding; but I feel that these young mothers feel that there are societal pressures that say that being a mother 100% of of the time is not enough as set by the standards of society and in the eyes of those who view them as ‘sole parents.’
One theme that was quite prominent was when young mothers did list the whole range work or study activities they were undertaking as well as motherhood, people congratulated them on their efforts and ‘becoming a productive citizen.’ The comments resonated that being a mother was not being a productive citizen. Raising other little good citizens is being a productive citizen in itself.
I for one second do not take away any single parent’s choice to undertake any activities to better their future for employment etc., The key word there being choice. However, I question the need that there may be mothers who feel they cannot be a mother only, due to the strong social narrative that drives this pressure, which is enabled by the Government view of single parents. Something afforded by privilege to those who have this choice in a partnered relationship. I know many may argue that even women in partnered relationships need to go to work; but if a woman strongly wanted to be at home, they have the choice, through that partnership to adapt their lifestyle, so this can be supported on one wage in many cases. The fact of the matter is single parents do not have this choice even to contemplate, as that second wage is simply not there.
Some of the privileges afforded by those in partnered relationships or single people with no children, who set to condemn single parents are thus:
- Single parents do not have the option to share the workload.
- Single parents often have to do more than partnered parents, as all work, child raising and decision making are their sole responsibility
- Single parents bear the brunt of sole financial responsibility. If they get sick, there is no second wage to fall back on.
- There are forced expectations by the Government of mutual obligation on single mothers or fathers that is not enforced onto partnered mothers or fathers.
- There is a great social stigma still towards, particularly single mothers being a purposeful burden on the system
- Economic burdens, not affording take away, making all food, not affording childcare, or adequate medical care, including dental as compared to middle to upper classes
- There is a great social stigma about child spacing for single parents “they just pop another one out when the youngest turns six” Child spacing is a privilege afforded to partnered parents.
- Single parents have more likely high instances of low self-efficacy and low self-esteem than partnered parents
- Illness is a privilege afforded to those in partnered relationships. A single parent who falls ill still has to maintain all responsibilities
- There are many labor market constraints for single parents, including transport, available education, flexible work hours. In some cases partnered parents may face these barriers, but they have another partner to work with to reduce these barriers.
- Often stigma is also with the ex-wife/ex-partner that if the father is raising them, there is something wrong with the mother, but that is rarely questioned about the father
- Fathers are often perceived as heroes and pitied for abandonment, women are scorned, slut shamed etc.,
- In most cases the onus of blame is placed on the woman in a relationship breakdown.
- Single mothers experience stigma with employment, housing, applying for benefits, and community assistance afforded to most partnered couples (racial and disability discrimination acknowledged)
- Balancing custody and career. Often promotion means more work and more time away from family sole parents, both male and female risk custody if they are not seen to provide enough care an attention to the child/ren through absence to the home. This is intensified if the other parent has another new partner who can does paid work. There is little research if this is more particularly burdensome for single mothers or single fathers. Career and progression is something afforded to parents in a partnered relationship, without the risk of losing custody of their child/ren.
I will break out of the bullet points to direct attention to one that I am most passionate about. I will speak to this for mothers only. I would value input from how single fathers see this in the comments below.
Forced removal of the right to care for children.
Due to the mutual obligations forced upon single mothers by the Government, single parents have no choice but to have another person spend critical and valuable time with their child. They do not have the option that this may be the person they are in an intimate relationship with as a privilege afforded to partnered mothers who desire to return to work and have a stay at home father. Single Mothers are forced to pay strangers to spend critical and valuable time and input in the rearing of their child. Not only does this take away from critical and valuable parenting time, but places an extra financial burden on women as it cuts into money earned from employment.
This also places an additional burden on women fleeing domestic violence relationships and fleeing violent partners. It forces a woman to be engaged in employment (sometimes with no phone contact as enforced by the employer’s rules) and it creates more worry, stress and strain on a woman already experiencing heightened anxiety and concern for the safety of herself and her children.
I find this absolutely abhorrent that this choice is taken away from single parents by force, rather than by choice. It takes away one of the most important and most treasured days of a woman’s life by force.
Although the majority of single parents are mothers, single fathers make up 12% of single parents in Australia. Single fathers also face particular burdens based on how society positions gender and parenting, based on the notion that only women are the natural nurturers and men are the breadwinners.
- Single fathers are the loneliest and socially isolated of all types of household situation.
- Single fathers are deemed incompetent by others, due to the ingrained belief that women are the natural caregivers and nurturers.
- As per listed above, it is also unfairly assumed that the father is not the best option for care of the child, but must be by default. Society seeks to lay blame on either the mother primarily, and pities the father, but does not ever assume that this may be an amicable solution or what has been decided as a matter of choice between the former partnered parents.
- Single fathers have generally lower self esteem and depression issues than men in other households
- Affect on single fathers with balancing work choice, decision making, key provisions for the family, restrictions in childcare availability and shift work for many labouring / trades jobs
Gay and Lesbian single parents – there is more of a story to be told.
There is also appears to be an absence of research on single parents from a breakdown of a same sex relationship. Statistics included for single parents are inclusive of gay and lesbian parents as statistics do not specifically also target sexual preference.
There appears to be an abundance of literature on same sex parenting as a dual couple. However, the absence of literature on gay and lesbian single parents, makes for a gap in understanding the full picture of single parents and their lived experiences.
The Howard Government in 2005-2006 budget papers set forth the foundation for including single parents in mutual obligation. Successive ALP Governments since, have not sought to enable single parents by repealing this legislation, but have sought to tighten this legislation and provide even more restrictions and obstacles for single parents.
The Abbott Government’s response is hinged on ‘family values’ but defines this family as the predominantly white, dual parent family, with more than likely Christian values. Often classified as “The traditional family.” This is not representative of all families in Australia.
The Abbott Government has injected 20 million to “strengthen relationships and help improve personal and family well-being—it makes social and economic sense.” Because, you know single parents are a burden on society and a factor for social decline.
The Abbott Government has chosen to fund only Christian Chaplains in schools as a pastoral mechanism. Christian Chaplains would only advocate for traditional heterosexual relationships and traditional forms of family through marriage.
There is a lack of investment from the Abbott Government on Domestic Violence and funding for shelters and other programs for both women and men and an absence of understanding of the need for shelters for men who have experienced domestic violence or intimate partner violence.
There is an agenda of stigmatisation from the Abbott Government for those on welfare, adding to the layers of stigmatisation experienced by single parents, indigenous, the disabled, immigrants, people from low socioeconomic backgrounds and people in other minority groups.
Where to from here
If this blog post has resonated with others, I would encourage everyone to write to the Government and to both the ALP and the Greens to advocate to have mutual obligation as a forced measure removed from single parents and be implemented as a voluntary measure only, with no penalties.
One of the reasons behind me writing this blog post, was that I get so disheartened from reading harsh and judgemental comments from those in a position of privilege. The other reason was that I really want people to start assessing their own narrative when it comes to passing judgement of others on welfare.
The Abbott Government through their agenda of stigmatisation has really created a strong narrative to enable and encourage others to stigmatise those on welfare. If you oppose the Abbott Government, but contribute to this stigma by adding your voice, you are really supporting the Abbott Government by becoming a part of their agenda. Their agenda for stigma is strong as it paves the way for even more harsh cuts and unfair treatment of the disadvantage as the discourse becomes more widely sociably acceptable.
“Stigma is a process by which the reaction of others spoils normal identity.”
Originally published on Polyfeministix
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April is National Child Abuse Prevention Month – a time dedicated to raising awareness of crimes against children and endeavoring to prevent them.
The World Health Organization (WHO) defines child abuse as “all forms of physical and/or emotional ill-treatment, sexual abuse, neglect … or other exploitation, resulting in actual or potential harm to the child’s health, survival, development or dignity.” More than the definition, child abuse – in any form – is a heinous crime against the most vulnerable among us.
This month, the U.S. House of Representatives took up and passed (409-2) my Combat Online Predators Act (H.R. 4203). This bipartisan legislation provides increased criminal penalties for those who cyberstalk minors online, as well as enhances local, state and federal law enforcement’s ability to crack down on this online form of crime.
This measure was inspired by the story of a Bucks County family whose teenaged daughter, at the age of just 13, was cyber-stalked by a friend’s father through social media. Despite the stalking being sexual in nature, the then-51-year-old stalker pleaded guilty only to a misdemeanor stalking charge and was sentenced to probation and counseling. Three years later, in 2016, the same stalker began making contact again. Hiding behind social media, the predator created a perverted library of over 15,000 posts, detailing his warped vision to marry her and his insistence that no one would ever stop him from being with her. Thankfully, following a sting operation, local police arrested him and sentenced him to between 18 months and seven years in a state prison.
Stories like this, unfortunately, occur too often in this country, and they do not always end with the stalker in custody.
The Office of Women’s Health defines stalking as repeated contact that makes one feel afraid or harassed. Each year, this crime affects an estimated 7.5 million people, including many children. Stalking disproportionally impacts women: stalking victims are 50 percent more likely to be female, and according to the CDC, one in six women has experienced some form of stalking during their lives.
Today, stalking – especially against minors – can be committed online in the form of cyberstalking. Cyberstalking involves the use of the internet, email or other electronic communications (such as social media) to stalk someone. Instances of cyberstalking and internet-related crimes have been rising. While all 50 states have laws designating stalking as a crime, traditional remedies lack the continuity and gravity necessary to fight cyberstalking. The criminal codes among the states respond to cyberstalking in irregular ways – less than a third classify stalking as a felony on the first offense.
A more concerted effort must be made to protect internet users, especially young people, from this expanding crime.
With the House’s overwhelming passage of this common-sense legislation, now is the time for the Senate to act.
Cyber-stalking is a serious crime that needs to be met with stricter penalties and more cooperation among law enforcement agencies. The Combat Online Predators Act is the first step in making the internet a safer environment for all users, especially young Americans. And this step cannot come soon enough.
As the National Center for Victims of Crime stated in its endorsement of the legislation, “In today’s age where children can be stalked both in person and online, we must ensure that our laws provide real justice for our most vulnerable victims.”
If you or someone you know is experiencing stalking or looking for more information and resources on the topic, please visit my website, fitzpatrick.house.gov/stalking.
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Tomsk Polytechnic University (TPU) has opened a new subdivision based on the School of Earth Sciences and Engineering. The subdivision will unite a wide range of research areas and will allow carrying out more works for the benefit of industrial partners of the university.
According to Natalya Guseva, Director of the TPU School of Earth Sciences and Engineering, the opening of a new centre in the structure of the School and the reorganization of the Innovation Research Laboratory for Drilling, Washing and Slurry Solutions are caused by the development of staff’s competences.
“At the moment, the laboratory staff work in new research areas and can solve a quite wider range of tasks. It will allow the TPU School of Earth Sciences and Engineering to enhance cooperation with industrial partners and positioning on the market for services, as well as to take part in more large-scale projects, where different competencies are required,” Natalya Guseva says.
Konstantin Minaev, Head of the Innovation Research Laboratory for Drilling, Washing and Slurry Solutions, will lead the new centre. The subdivisions of the centre are located in the TPU academic buildings No. 2, 19 and at the TPU Science Park. JSC Tomskneft VNK, an industrial partner of TPU, contributed to the renovation and re-equipment of premises in academic building No. 19.
“First of all, I would like to thank all the team, as it is a serious step on team building for solving serious tasks at the frontier of the petroleum industry. The centre opening will allow expanding the range of research and engineering works in petrochemistry due to the new and up-to-date equipment, interdisciplinary contacts and query enhancement from industrial partners. It is a reply to the question on breaking down barriers among university laboratories. The most important is that the Center opens additional opportunities for students: they can choose a trajectory, come to the place where new projects are born, use the newest equipment,” Andrey Yakovlev, Acting Rector of TPU, said at the center opening.
The Research Center for Petrochemistry and Technology will unite five areas: oilfield chemistry, drilling fluids, slurry solutions, reservoir physics, the chemistry of petroleum and petroleum products. The skeleton staff is the laboratory staff, however, new experts, as well as young scientists: graduates and postgraduates, including international ones, will be invited.
“We can carry out large-scale projects, we possess accumulated experience that will allow us to holistically solve serious tasks both in a research area and for industrial partners. I am sure we will have interesting work ahead,” Konstantin Minaev, Head of the Center for Petrochemistry and Technology, addressed the staff.
The Center is planned to carry out both research and industrial projects, however, the key point will be focused on cooperation with industrial partners. To equip the Center on the program of renewal of instruments, there was purchased high-class equipment including a rheometer and tensiometer worth over 15 million rubles.
There was no equipment of such level for research in oilfield chemistry at TPU. It will allow our staff members to become participants of more serious projects for the benefit of industrial partners and will allow our students to master the devices during their study time,” Konstantin Minaev explained.
In total, there was spent over 70 million rubles during several years for installation and purchasing miscellaneous equipment for different units of the Center.
“Today, we see the result of the cooperative path that was travelled by our laboratories in approaching and building relations with each other. At the moment, different subdivisions can say that they can implement large-scale projects for the industry,” Artem Boev, TPU Vice-Rector for Technological Development and Entrepreneurship. | <urn:uuid:8f02f678-6eaf-432c-8d1d-5960557f755a> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://qs-gen.com/tpu-opens-research-center-for-petrochemistry-and-technology/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570651.49/warc/CC-MAIN-20220807150925-20220807180925-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.947057 | 805 | 1.554688 | 2 |
The World Health Organization declared Saturday that the ebola outbreak in Liberia is officially at its end. The country has gone 42 days without any new ebola cases, after having the highest number of deaths in the recent outbreak. During the outbreak's peak in September 2014, the country was reporting an average of 300 to 400 cases every week. "We are out of the woods," Liberia's Information Ministry declared on Twitter. "We are Ebola free. Thanks to our partners for standing with us in the fight against Ebola. We are Liberians."
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WANT TO KNOW WHO YOU ARE?
I am Derbyshire based, but can start in any county.
Family history is so popular now and many people are fascinated by the prospect of discovering more about their family origins.
If you haven't the time or opportunity to do your own research, live too far away or just require help, please read on.
You will be amazed at what I could find for you!
Perhaps you have already found certificates and census entries? If not that would be where I would start for you.
Next steps --there is a huge range of different original records available in Derbyshire and surrounding counties which may enable us to find out a great deal about their lives.
Sometimes we can identify a specific house and even view a snapshot of their lives in their wills and inventories,which list all the goods they owned at their deaths. We may also be able to find details of apprenticeships, occupations, careers and businesses.
Estate records may show rents paid for specific plots of land to the local great landowner. Newspapers and court records may add fascinating details of brushes with the law or unusual events.
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Making Computers Intelligent to answer from images
This is my second blog on Visual Question Answering, in the last blog, I have introduced to VQA, available datasets and some of the real-life applications of VQA. If you have not gone through then I would highly recommend you to go through it. Click here for more details about it.
In this blog post, I will walk through the implementation of VQA in Keras.
You can download the dataset from here: https://visualqa.org/index.html. All my experiments were performed with VQA v2 and I have used a very tiny subset of entire dataset i.e all samples for training and testing from the validation set.
Table of contents:
- Preprocessing Data
- Process overview for VQA
- Data Preprocessing – Images
- Data Preprocessing through the spaCy library- Questions
- Model Architecture
- Defining model parameters
- Evaluating the model
- Final Thought
NOTE: The purpose of this blog is not to get the state-of-art performance on VQA. But the idea is to get familiar with the concept. All my experiments were performed with the validation set only.
Full code on my Github here.
1. Preprocessing Data:
If you have downloaded the dataset then the question and answers (called as annotations) are in JSON format. I have provided the code to extract the questions, annotations and other useful information in my Github repository. All extracted information is stored in .txt file format. After executing code the preprocessing directory will have the following structure.
All text files will be used for training.
2. Process overview for VQA:
As we have discussed in previous post visual question answering is broken down into 2 broad-spectrum i.e. vision and text. I will represent the Neural Network approach to this problem using the Convolutional Neural Network (for image data) and Recurrent Neural Network(for text data).
If you are not familiar with RNN (more precisely LSTM) then I would highly recommend you to go through Colah’s blog and Andrej Karpathy blog. The concepts discussed in this blogs are extensively used in my post.
The main idea is to get features for images from CNN and features for the text from RNN and finally combine them to generate the answer by passing them through some fully connected layers. The below figure shows the same idea.
I have used VGG-16 to extract the features from the image and LSTM layers to extract the features from questions and combining them to get the answer.
3. Data Preprocessing – Images:
Images are nothing but one of the input to our model. But as you already may know that before feeding images to the model we need to convert into the fixed-size vector.
So we need to convert every image into a fixed-size vector then it can be fed to the neural network. For this, we will use the VGG-16 pretrained model. VGG-16 model architecture is trained on millions on the Imagenet dataset to classify the image into one of 1000 classes. Here our task is not to classify the image but to get the bottleneck features from the second last layer.
Hence after removing the softmax layer, we get a 4096-dimensional vector representation (bottleneck features) for each image.
For the VQA dataset, the images are from the COCO dataset and each image has unique id associated with it. All these images are passed through the VGG-16 architecture and their vector representation is stored in the “.mat” file along with id. So in actual, we need not have to implement VGG-16 architecture instead we just do look up into file with the id of the image at hand and we will get a 4096-dimensional vector representation for the image.
4. Data Preprocessing through the spaCy library- Questions:
spaCy is a free, open-source library for advanced Natural Language Processing (NLP) in Python. As we have converted images into a fixed 4096-dimensional vector we also need to convert questions into a fixed-size vector representation. For installing spaCy click here.
You might know that for training word embeddings in Keras we have a layer called an Embedding layer which takes a word and embeds it into a higher dimensional vector representation. But by using the spaCy library we do not have to train the get the vector representation in higher dimensions.
This model is actually trained on billions of tokens of the large corpus. So we just need to call the vector method of spaCy class and will get vector representation for word.
After fitting, the vector method on tokens of each question will get the 300-dimensional fixed representation for each word.
5. Model Architecture:
In our problem the input consists of two parts i.e an image vector, and a question, we cannot use the Sequential API of the Keras library. For this reason, we use the Functional API which allows us to create multiple models and finally merge models.
The below picture shows the high-level architecture idea of submodules of neural network.
After concatenating the 2 different models the summary will look like the following.
The below plot helps us to visualize neural network architecture and to understand the two types of input:
6. Defining model parameters:
The hyperparameters that we are going to use for our model is defined as follows:
If you know what this parameter means then you can play around it and can get better results.
Time Taken: I used the GPU on https://colab.research.google.com and hence it took me approximately 2 hours to train the model for 5 epochs. However, if you train it on a PC without GPU, it could take more time depending on the configuration of your machine.
7. Evaluating the model:
Since I have used the very small dataset for performing these experiments I am not able to get very good accuracy. The below code will calculate the accuracy of the model.
Since I have trained a model multiple times with different parameters you will not get the same accuracy as me. If you want you can directly download mode.h5 file from my google drive.
8. Final Thoughts:
One of the interesting thing about VQA is that it a completely new field. So there is absolutely no end to what you can do to solve this problem. Below are some tips while replicating the code.
- Start with a very small subset of data: When you start implementing I suggest you start with a very small amount of data. Because once you are ready with the whole setup then you can scale it any time.
- Understand the code: Understanding code line by line is very much helpful to match your theoretical knowledge. So for that, I suggest you can take very few samples(maybe 20 or less) and run a small chunk (2 to 3 lines) of code to get the functionality of each part.
- Be patient: One of the mistakes that I did while starting with this project was to do everything at one go. If you get some error while replicating code spend 4 to 5 days harder on that. Even after that if you won’t able to solve, I would suggest you resume after a break of 1 or 2 days.
VQA is the intersection of NLP and CV and hopefully, this project will give you a better understanding (more precisely practically) with most of the deep learning concepts.
If you want to improve the performance of the model below are few tips you can try:
- Use larger datasets
- Try Building more complex models like Attention, etc
- Try using other pre-trained word embeddings like Glove
- Try using a different architecture
- Do more hyperparameter tuning
The list is endless and it goes on.
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Modern technology affects our everyday life in more ways than we can count. Just take a look at all the activities we can make much smoother and simpler by using one of these. Not only that, we can see that technology is progressing practically every day. Sometimes, this progress is hard to follow.
We have got to the point when this progress has become an essential element both in our personal and professional life. You can complete some processes much faster. The process that required a couple of hours, even days, can now be resolved in just a couple of minutes. If that’s not progress, we don’t know what is.
Technology can help us in so many ways – even in the decision-making process. Here are ways that a random selection wheel can help you in your daily life. Write about different scenarios and how this site can decide multiple things when you spin the wheel. We can also discuss the different configuration options available. Users can spin the wheel on spinnerwheel.com.
Today, we want to focus on the decision-making process in the world of business, and how technology enhances it.
1. Gathering the Data
Before you can make any sort of business-related decision, you need to gather as much information as possible. A couple of decades ago, this was a process that could last for quite a long time, and there was no guarantee that the data you have is relevant. Today, doing this is much easier.
The reason is quite simple, you can gather all the data you need just by going online. The only obstacle you might come across is finding numerous sites that do not provide the necessary confirmation that the particular info is accurate. However, once you understand how to check the data, it becomes easier.
It needs to be stated that there are two types of data out there. The first one is internal, which means it has been created within the company. Another one is known as external and it can be obtained by going through countless materials, like online resources, connections, and even books.
2. Asset Management
Managing and utilizing business-owned assets is something that was quite a big problem for a long time. Fortunately, modern technology comes in quite handy in this situation. It is possible to do that by having an insight into how useful some assets were. If they only cost you, then you don’t need them, right?
When that happens, you can either sell these assets or put them to much better use. The same goes both for business-owned properties, software, and hardware. By using certain tools, it is easy to determine the useful ones and those that are not. Every company out there should conduct asset management as frequently as possible.
3. Monitoring Worker’s Efficiency
Having the ability to monitor the workforce’s efficiency and productivity is a key element of every company’s growth and success. By having this sort of insight, managerial staff can understand what members of the team, or departments inside the company, are not as efficient as they need to be.
By doing that, the decision on how to handle the situation doesn’t have to be as complex and challenging as it may seem. For instance, maybe someone from your team is not performing well, but you see some positive sides. So, shifting the position of that member can result in positive results.
Besides that, monitoring workers’ efficiency can help to spot any problems within the procedure. For example, maybe you can find about some company information leakage. We all know how crucial it is to prevent these situations as soon as possible, to prevent any damage that can harm the company’s interests.
4. Collaboration and Communication
Discussing all the possibilities and deciding on one of them is not possible without having a proper consultation within the team. All the members should have a say in it. After all of them have expressed their opinion, making the decision becomes significantly easier and as smooth as possible.
What does this have to do with technology, you ask? Well, it has to do with it the technological collaboration tools. By using these, all the team members can discuss their future position. It doesn’t matter if they are present at the meeting or not. They can do it from the comfort of their home.
Another crucial element to making a decision is analysis. Naturally, this process can be effective only when done right. Only competent and experienced members of the staff can do it properly. When you have a couple of options in front of you, you can analyze them and run some tests to see what works best.
Thankfully, many accurate tools can help with analyzing every particular aspect of your decision, and even provide you with a clear result you can expect to achieve after making the decision. Therefore, you can see that analysis is something business-related decisions cannot be effective without.
The final thing we want to talk about is the implementation of these decisions. Sure, you know all there is to know about them, but you yet have to determine the best way to carry it out. Sometimes, the implementation is the biggest obstacle out there, especially if you don’t work on it properly.
Before you are ready to conduct the implementation, you should put all elements in their place. Make sure that all the conditions are met. Also, it wouldn’t hurt to consider some alternatives, just in case. That way, you can prevent many potential problems that can arise during this process.
The Bottom Line
As you can see, making a decision is usually not that easy, especially when it comes to business-related ones. Technology is just the element that makes things go your way. Here, you can take a look at how technology can simplify your decision-making process in terms of providing a solid foundation for them. Removing all the obstacles in this procedure can do just that. We’re sure you will find this article of ours useful. | <urn:uuid:2a8eab90-53f2-4a71-b59f-8888a04dcde8> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://galeon.com/technology-can-simplify-decision-making-process/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570651.49/warc/CC-MAIN-20220807150925-20220807180925-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.967674 | 1,227 | 2.015625 | 2 |
It’s almost that time of year again … time for students to gear up to head back to school! While a new school year can be an exciting time for both students and parents, it can also be a stressful and expensive season. According to a survey by Communities in Schools, the average back to school costs exceed $1,000 per student. Take this opportunity to connect with your account holders using timely and relevant back-to-school tips to demonstrate that your financial institution is there to support them.
To help you get started, our team has complied a few back-to-school tips you can share with your account holders (adjust and make these your own!):
1. Review the school supply list
Most schools will provide a recommended school supplies list. Remind account holders to get a hold of this list early so they can see what they already have versus what is still needed to purchase to cut down on extra spending and plan ahead accordingly.
2. Create a budget
Once all the school supplies needs are clear, it is time to make a budget. Not only should items for the school supply list be accounted for, but also items like seasonal clothing and shoes, backpacks and lunchboxes, electronics, and special equipment for after school activities such as sports, music etc. Account holders should take a look at the entire school year to ensure a comprehensive budget is developed to cover all the expenses that might occur over the year. Encourage your account holder to involve their children in this process of determining how much to spend on various items. Remind your customers of the importance of including children in these types of activities to teach them how far money goes in relation to their wants and needs and foster valuable money-managing skills.
3. Take inventory
It is likely that there is left over or re-usable school supplies around the house from previous school years. Remind account holders to set aside time to figure out what they already have versus truly need. The best way to save may be not to spend at all so encourage your customers to check around their house before school shopping. Determine what is still usable for another school year versus what needs to be sold, donated or discarded.
4. Shop & sell secondhand
Take any outgrown or no longer needed, gently used items to a local consignment store to sell. Then use any money made toward this year’s school purchases. Remind account holders that while selling their items they can also look at the consignment shop for affordable gently used school supplies and clothing to add to this year’s wardrobe. For those that have high school or college students, encourage them to purchase used textbooks when possible as well as sell any previous years’ textbooks that are no longer needed.
5. Shop after school starts
Skip the August shopping rush by having kids use what they already have for the first few weeks of school. It is likely to still be warm outside when school starts, so they can get away with wearing summer clothes. Waiting to shop will give kids a chance to see what’s really in style and want to wear this year and if any additional supplies are really necessary. Remind your account holders that by waiting a few weeks until after school starts, they’ll also be able to take advantage of Labor Day sales as well as back-to-school clearance deals.
6. Look for bargains, use coupons & leverage student discounts
Local brick and mortar retailers will often have in-store only promotions that can be taken advantage of. Remind your account holders to check their mailboxes for weekly coupons and store websites for printable or downloadable coupons. Whether shopping online or in store, encourage your customers to buy in bulk to reap the benefits of additional savings and prepare for future school supplies needs. Remind them to utilize student discounts whenever possible, particularly when considering purchasing expensive items (computers, tablets, printers etc.); point your account holders to helpful student discount guides like this one from teachthough.com.
7. Shop during the sales tax holiday
Many states offer a shopping day or weekend during the summer which they waive state sales tax. Remind your account holders of your state’s sales tax holiday and encourage them to shop on these dates to avoid state and local taxes, which can approach 10% in some states. See this chart from salestaxinstitute.com
for information regarding sales tax holidays for participating states.
8. BONUS TIP: Shop Local
Go the extra mile and take this upcoming back to school season as an opportunity to connect with your business customers, community retailers and small businesses. Inquire if they have any back-to-school sales, discounts or deals they’ll be running and offer to promote them to your account holders through your financial institution’s channels. Encourage your account holders to shop local for all their back-to-school needs.
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Locking up young people has negative consequences both for the youth themselves and for their communities. While the past few decades have seen positive steps taken in juvenile justice, both by individual jurisdictions and through national initiatives, there is much more that needs to be done. Shifting resources to community-based services and youth development is key. Below are resources on needed reforms to ensure that young people are treated appropriately in the justice system.
The Council of State Governments Justice Center prepared this paper with support from, and in partnership with: Sponsored by and with guidance from: Acknowledgements This paper is the result of a collaborative effort involving juvenile justice experts, practitioners, and advocates from across the country.
It draws on an extensive review of the literature and related research, observations from the field, feedback from national experts, several multidisciplinary forums and advisory group discussions, and a rigorous review process.
Although the individuals involved in every aspect of the project are too numerous to thank, the authors hope they see their efforts reflected in this paper. This report could not have been developed without the esteemed expertise and contributions of Shay Bilchik, Dr. Mark Lipsey, Ned Loughran, Dr.
Brian Lovins, and Dr. Casey Foundation for their careful review and insight into the draft.
This report would also not have been possible without the support and leadership of Administrator Robert Listenbee, Jr. CSG Justice Center staff also had the opportunity to visit with several state and local juvenile justice systems to better understand the implementation of effective juvenile justice policies, practices, and programs.
Finally, a group of advisors and partners generously gave their time and expertise to the whitepaper and deserve recognition: Special thanks go to Karen Watts and Liam Julian for their editorial counsel.It is the mission of the Benton-Franklin Counties Juvenile Justice Center to advance the safety and well being of our community by reducing juvenile at-risk and criminal behavior and the .
The Office of Juvenile Justice is a part of the Louisiana Government serving youth who have been adjudicated delinquent or Families in Need of Services.
ACS provides a wide range of services to improve the lives of children and families involved in the New York City’s juvenile justice system, while building stronger .
Introduction Washington State provides members of the public with access to data and information contained in unsealed juvenile records.1 In this paper, I use multiple methods – including data analysis, interviews, and cost analysis – in order to examine the process, effects, and fiscal costs of records sealing, the only mechanism that allows such individuals to recover their privacy.
The Juvenile Justice System Improvement Project (JJSIP) is a national initiative to reform the juvenile justice system by translating "what works" into everyday practice and policy. Thank you for visiting the web site for the Butler County Juvenile Justice Center.
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During the scoping process there is regularly an onus (often from clients) on demonstrating sufficient justification for surveys to be scoped in. It is however, an underlying presumption of these guidelines that bird surveys should always be scoped in unless robust justification can be provided as to why they are not required. This presumption is due to the wide range of habitats that may be of value to bird species, seasonal variations in habitat use and/or value, the mobility of bird species and the potential sensitivity of bird species to a range of impacts that may result from development projects.
The scoping process should be proportionate to the scale and nature of the proposed development and be undertaken with a clear understanding of the available desk study information.
Depending on the nature, sensitivity and significance of the proposed development there may additionally be a requirement to undertake consultation with, and obtain agreement from, Statutory Nature Conservation Organisations (SNCOs) and/or other consultees during the scoping process.
Regardless of the decision made regarding the scoping of bird surveys, any documentation produced justifying this decision should be compliant with the EcIA checklist for local authority planning officers, produced by CIEEM and the Association of Local Government Ecologists (ALGE).
Considerations for proportionate scoping
When considering bird survey requirements, the following factors should be considered to ensure an appropriate and proportionate approach is taken:
- The size, scale and nature of the proposed development including:
- the extent and nature of works within the proposed development boundary both during construction, operation and decommissioning, and;
- the timing of works relative to seasonal bird activity.
- Desk study data including bird records, designated sites (within, adjacent or connected to the site) that include birds in their designation and other contextual information. One place to start would be with the BTO Data reports. These reports provide rigorous scientific information to inform fieldwork decisions and desk studies for Ecological Impact Assessment of potential development sites.
- Whether the effects are likely to be temporary or permanent;
- whether temporary effects will occur over the short- or long-term;
- what the likely significance of these effects will be.
- The likely nature and extent of effects resulting from the proposed development in particular:
- the location of the proposed development site within the country, and relative to areas of high biodiversity value (for example wildlife corridors, habitat mosaics or statutory and non-statutory nature conservation sites).
- The habitats present within, and in close proximity to, the proposed development site in particular:
- how much habitat may be lost or enhanced by the development proposals;
- how these habitats may be of value to bird species;
- how these habitats may be used throughout the year by bird species; and,
- what bird species these habitats may support.
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Have you ever watched a toddler playing on an iPad? I have. And I was in awe. Here I am—a Millennial—struggling to figure out why my app won’t update, while this two-year-old is putting me to shame. By the age of five he’ll probably be far more tech-savvy than I’ll ever be.
Generation Z and Technology
Generation Z is synonymous with technology. While Millennials were digital, Generation Z is the first generation to grow up with technology from the start. That’s why audience segmentation is so important when marketing to Generation Z; they shouldn’t be lumped in with Millennials. Marketers need to understand who they are, and use audience segmentation to customize their generation Z marketing strategies accordingly.
Who is Generation Z?
As Millennials are getting older, the Generation Z population is growing, and growing fast. Gen Zers—ages 19 and under—currently make up more than a quarter of America’s population, and are projected to account for 40% of all consumers by 2020. The generation is growing fast, and marketers need to understand them.
Generation Z Characteristics:
- Diverse, and are the most multicultural generation yet.
- Open-minded in many ways, such as acceptance of all sexual orientations.
- Gender-neutral when it comes to traditional job roles and transgender issues.
- Changemakers, interested in innovation and entrepreneurship.
- Dreamers, who want to follow their passions.
- Independent learners, who have the desire and know-how to self-educate.
- Do-gooders, who want to make a difference.
Generation Z's Buying Power
Gen Zers represent a buying power of $44 billion, and influence an additional $600 billion of family spending. They influence the way their parents spend more than Millennials did, including over 70% of family food choices and 80% to 90% of items purchased for them. They’re willing to challenge their parents, questioning things like how much they’re going to pay for something, trying to evoke their own price-sensitivity. Gen Zers have high expectations. With that said, if marketers focus on Gen Zers over Millennials, using them as the barometer, they’re likely to please other generations as well.
10 Tips for Marketing to Generation Z
1. They’re digital natives, so marketers must act that way, too.
While Millennials use three screens on average, Generation Z uses five. Gen Zers expect brands to move as seamlessly around digital devices as they do, and to create a unified experience across in-store, digital, and mobile.
2. Make the message quick, to the point, and in their language.
The average Gen Zer has an attention span of about eight seconds. They’ve grown up constantly being served enormous amounts information, and are accustomed to quickly filtering through it. In this emoji-era, brands must communicate with snackable content that captures their attention.
3. Social media is important, but differs from Millennials’ usage.
While Millennials pioneered Facebook, Generation Z prefers privacy and anonymous social networks like Snapchat, Secret, and Whisper. They have seen the social mishaps of Millennials and don’t want an ever-lasting social footprint.
4. Authentic experiences and two-way conversations are a must.
Initiate two-way conversations online, and create a social presence that Gen Zers can engage with. They value the opinions of their peers, making influencer marketing a very powerful tool, but it must appear genuine in order to be effective.
5. Humanize your brand.
Gen Zers don’t want a faceless company. Marketers need to showcase the personality of their brand. Consider a YouTube star or Vine personality.
6. They want realistic and relatable.
They look for products that embody their beliefs, and prefer brands that reflect independence (like Free People), rather than unrealistic messaging that projects perfection (like Abercrombie & Fitch).
7. Let them make it their own.
Market to Gen Zers with an understanding that they’ll want to personalize products and fashions; help them express their individuality.
8. Quality matters.
With a world of information at their fingertips, Gen Zers conduct extensive research before buying, and are selective in their purchase decisions.
9. Show you care, too.
Generation Z wants to make the world a better place, and they want to see that you’re truly committed to that cause.
10. Video content and cord-cutting is big.
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Oral pathology is a specialty in the dental care field which links medicine and dentistry. Sometimes, when patients have a complaint that is vague in natural and hard to diagnose from a strictly dental point of view an oral pathologist can be helpful. They are less concerned about teeth and more considered about the underlying abnormalities of the mouth, jaw, and soft tissues. Also called a maxillofacial pathologist, they have expertise in otolaryngology and dermatology too.
Patient education is a vital part of an oral pathologist’s job. As the diagnosis and treatment plans are discussed they will educate patients as to the causes and proper care following any recommended corrective procedures.
In oral pathology, a diagnosis is made based on tissue changes indicative of diseases affecting the mouth and jaw. They use radiographs, microscopes and biochemicals to determine the best of action in a patient’s treatment. Reach out to us as at San Tan Oral Surgery, and we will help determine if an oral pathologist can be of assistance.
Importance of Oral Pathologists
Examination of oral problems through proper scientific diagnosis is a key principle in oral pathology. By bridging the gap between medicine and dentistry, an oral pathologist aligns themselves within these principles. Dentistry is a branch of medicine, thereby requiring that all diagnosis and treatment follow the principles of medical care.
Through education, oral pathologists ensure all patients are aware of their diagnosis and treatment options as they prepare for the necessary procedures they will be going through. Every aspect is clearly explained so the patient can make an educated decision as to their dental care.
Conditions Diagnosed by Oral Pathologists
Although there are numerous conditions that can affect your overall dental health, oral pathology typically focuses on five major issues. The most common is tooth decay and cavities. The American Dental Association estimates 80% of all adults suffer from some form of tooth decay. Another area of focus is the early identification of oral cancer along with dental trauma and the oral manifestation of HIV. All have serious complications that need to be thoroughly explained to the patient so they can make informed decisions regarding their care.
Who Needs an Oral Pathologist?
Through thorough examination and assessment of the patient’s oral cavity, an oral pathologist can easily diagnose any mouth or jaw disorders and will be able to effectively recommend a proper course of treatment. These treatment courses can be either short term or long term depending upon the specific condition diagnosed. Through patient education and careful examination, oral pathologists ensure patients have the knowledge and the understanding to make better decisions about their dental issues.
We understand some patients have fear about dental care. It is one of the primary directives of oral pathologists to waylay these fears and allow a patient to fully grasp the complete spectrum of their diagnosis and available treatment options. Let our staff at San Tan Oral Surgery complete a full oral examination to determine if an oral pathologist would be of benefit. Call us at (480) 604-2592 for more information or visit our office location to schedule an appointment today. | <urn:uuid:9fdb7732-19f5-4240-9652-39aebfccf28d> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.santanoralsurgery.com/p/oral-surgeon-Gilbert-AZ-Oral-Pathology-p48737.asp | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570879.1/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808213349-20220809003349-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.940859 | 634 | 3.03125 | 3 |
Middle English fer, from Old English feorr "far, remote, distant," from Proto-Germanic *ferera- (cognates: Old Saxon fer, Old Frisian fer, Old Norse fjarre, Dutch ver, Old High German ferro, German fern), probably a development in western Proto-Germanic from the adverb (see far (adv.)). Far East "China, Japan, and surrounding regions" is from 1838.
Middle English fer, from Old English feor "to a great distance, long ago," from Proto-Germanic *ferro (source also of Old Saxon fer, Old Frisian fir, Old Norse fiarre, Old High German fer, Gothic fairra), from PIE root *per- (1), base of words for "through, forward," with extended senses such as "across, beyond" (source also of Sanskrit parah "farther, remote, ulterior," Hittite para "outside of," Greek pera "across, beyond," Latin per "through," Old Irish ire "farther"). For vowel change, see dark (adj.). Paired with wide to mean "everywhere" since 9c.
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The upper levels of classical ballet training begin with the Ballet Arts: Classical Ballet 1 Book. Within this curriculum, the student will begin to learn to function in a traditional ballet classroom setting, perfect classwork at the barre, learn proper preparations and finishes for exercises, as well as be introduced to a class format that they will use for the remainder of their training. Ballet 1 provides the teacher with teaching suggestions, step-by-step classroom choreography, several enchainements and short dances for class use, as well as a thorough look into the growth patterns of children between the ages of 8 and 12. Enjoy the classroom posters, detailed full-color illustrations of the arm and feet positions, as well as illustrated depictions of new positions and movements unique to the Ballet 1 level of technique. Download yours today along with a year of Lesson Plans and accompanying Music Album! | <urn:uuid:57bb111b-316e-41bc-ae50-0ebd814cf6af> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://balletcurriculum.com/product/classical-ballet-1/?add-to-cart=1382 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573908.30/warc/CC-MAIN-20220820043108-20220820073108-00264.warc.gz | en | 0.958047 | 180 | 2.484375 | 2 |
Relative Importance of Attributes of Locally Grown Apple that Affects Consumer’s Choice in Malang, Indonesia
Indonesian Citrus and Subtropical Fruits Research Institute (ICSFRI), Jalan Raya Tlekung no. 1, Junrejo, Batu – East Java, Indonesia.
Abstract: As the result of the emergence of middle class, and the awareness raising of consuming healthy food in Indonesia, the trend of diet and consumption pattern is gradually changing. People are getting aware of consuming fruit, such as apple. The provision of high quality fruit and appropriate fruit retailer easily access to consumers are important. These supports must comply with consumer’s needs and wants, because consumer’s attitude and preferences in selecting food is complex. Therefore, it is essential to comprehend consumers’ valuation towards attributes of the locally grown apple based on their preferences. The objective of the study is to identify attributes that are considered relatively important by consumers when purchasing locally grown apples in Malang, Indonesia. The study employed an intercept survey involving 200 consumer respondents. The sample was randomly selected at four different retailer types, namely, traditional wet market, road side stall, supermarket and modern fruit shop. A structured questionnaire was designed to collect the primary data regarding quality attributes of locally grown apples considered important by the consumers while buying locally grown apple. The study focused on 14 attributes of locally grown apple, comprising of twelve intrinsic attributes and two extrinsic attributes. Data were analyzed by using descriptive statistics. The results revealed that color, fineness, crispness, chewiness, sweetness, sourness and price had the highest mean values (above or equal to four), indicating that these attributes were considered relatively important for the consumers in decision making for buying locally grown apple.
Keywords: Apples, fruit attribute, consumer, wet market, buying behavior, Indonesia.
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Eating healthy is sometimes challenging, especially at summer barbecues where traditional foods can be high in fat, calories and additives. It’s not the meat — it’s the side dishes. Lean burgers, chicken, steak, portobello mushroom burgers, fish and even hot dogs are good sources of protein, but foods like potato, macaroni and pasta salads, buns, beans and whipped fruit salads are typically high-calorie, carbohydrate-dense foods with fat in the form of mayonnaise, cheeses, olives, sugars and oils.
Even a green salad can become unhealthy if drenched in a heavy creamy dressing. There are more than 350 calories — more than half of them from fat — in one cup of potato or macaroni salad. One cup of baked beans is close to 400 calories and has 25 grams of sugar. Calories get even more out of control when chips, soda and beer are added to round out the meal — or the waist.
Stay on top of your dive diet
Even if you do indulge in some fatty foods at a barbecue, don’t despair; a little planning or just throwing the veggie tray on the grill changes everything. Grilling releases vegetable flavors, and it will only take you from three to five minutes to prepare. If fruit is available, throw it on the grill too. Mix it up. Peppers, pineapple, apples, zucchini, asparagus, tomatoes, onion, summer squash, romaine hearts, carrots, cantaloupe and broccoli are some of the most popular choices. One cup of bell peppers is just 18 calories; cantaloupe is 53; asparagus is 72; and pineapple is 80 calories per cup. Four cups of these fruits and vegetables is about 225 calories and will fill you up quickly.
Low-calorie marinades, wood planks, salt blocks and skewers make for more interesting dishes as well and are fun when entertaining. Or, just toss the washed and portioned vegetables and fruit in your favorite dry seasoning. Then, place over the heat of the grill to release natural flavors. Stack grilled fruit and vegetables on top of grilled protein to transform the traditional burger, fish or green salad into a healthy and delicious summer barbecue dish.
The American Institute of Cancer Research recommends nine ½-cup servings of vegetables and fruit, and at least three different colors every day. Fruits and vegetables are an excellent addition to your dive diet, and will not only provide energy, but also help you maintain a healthy body weight, which is important in preventing diseases and reducing risks associated with being overweight and diving. So don’t be afraid of the calories at your next summer barbecue — just say no to the potato salad and throw some veggies on the grill instead. | <urn:uuid:0ea7e579-509f-405c-873d-1f8772a4f2ef> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://scubadiverlife.com/dive-diet-grilling-fruit-vegetables/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570651.49/warc/CC-MAIN-20220807150925-20220807180925-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.917449 | 571 | 2.109375 | 2 |
WASHINGTON, D.C., U.S. — Tunisia, a major producer and exporter of olive oil, is on track to become the largest international export market for U.S. corn oil for back-to-back years, the U.S. Grains Council (USGC) said on June 7. Traditionally Turkey and Saudi Arabia are largest export markets for U.S. corn oil, but due to biotechnology constraints in Turkey, Tunisia quickly stepped in to the number one slot in 2011. Note that the accompanying chart combines both crude corn oil and refined corn oil exports.
A large portion of the U.S. corn oil exports to Tunisia are refined in country and then sold into Libya, This is also common for refined corn oil brought into Tunisia to then be trucked into Libya. Sunflower oil (Ukrainian) is usually the cheapest vegetable oil option on the grocery shelves in Tunisia, but Libya has grown to favor corn oil over other vegetable oils over the years, giving U.S. corn oil a qualitative advantage in this market.
According to the USGC, roughly 70% of the total corn oil exported to Tunisia, eventually ends up in Libya. There are also some direct sales to Libya and Egypt has been a growing market for U.S. corn oil the last few years. The chart illustrates that Tunisia is off to a good start in just the first two months of data for 2012. | <urn:uuid:0d6c1e44-f07b-4e02-aad6-3eb168701730> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.world-grain.com/articles/2290-tunisia-becoming-top-corn-oil-export-market | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571147.84/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810040253-20220810070253-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.96828 | 290 | 1.570313 | 2 |
3 Different Types of Stencils Perfect for Crafting!!
Posted: Oct 10, 2021
Stencils are the cutouts representing distinct patterns used to design any surface uniquely. People who are into crafting can use most of the stencils over and again. This assists in making greater designs with utmost fewer efforts. The manufacturers use cooler papers and art blades for making stencils.
In case, anyone is searching for a pocket-friendly approach to beautify a room or background, stencils can be an extraordinary choice for backdrops or decals. Certain backgrounds are worth covering handily, which will cause less issue than eliminating backdrop. Stenciling a divider or scenery has become a new creating pattern for the savvy DIYer hoping. The unique cutouts will be very helpful to add character and design to a room.
However, custom reusable stencils also work the best and an extraordinary choice for revamping a room. Using stencils can likewise be a fantastic way for beautifying different ventures within no time.
Peruse underneath to find out about the various sorts of stencils people need to think about while crafting. This list available here will turn out to be very helpful in crafting. So, explore the list for more information:
1. Stencils for crafting
Specialty and Diversion Stencils, commonly known as crafting stencils, work the best for crafting and painting. These stencils are bigger and typically made of an adaptable plastic material.
However, they can likewise be manufactured using paper, metal, or have a gluey backing. They can be put on various surfaces, including dividers, furniture, and walls, to add a character to any item.
2. Scrapbooking Stencils
Stenciling can likewise be an incredible method to add more styling and design to the scrapbooks, greeting cards, handmade posters, and other crafts. People can effortlessly use these stencils to draw onto the papers and cut papers in different styles.
3. Knitting Stencils
Knitting Stencils can be an incredible method to add unique design and style to the blankets while sewing. Also, the quilting stencils are one of the widely preferable ones from the list.
Now, if anyone is planning to join the crafting classes or needs to learn something new and interesting, stencils are the one to go with. These ready-to-use designer cutouts will be very helpful for people in decorating the walls and cards.
But, blankets, posters, letters, projects, and normal papers also fall in this category. And, to meet the needs, it is only essential to use proper stencils for different works. So, without any further wait, switch to using custom plastic stencils and make crafting super fun and interesting.Source By :- https://stencilmonkey.com/different-types-of-custom-reusable-stencils-perfect-for-crafting/
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It's quick and easy to check your voter information
Are you registered to vote in the 2022 municipal and school board elections on October 24?
If you have moved, changed your name or turned 18 since the 2018 municipal election, you might not be on the voters list.
The municipal voters list is different from provincial and federal lists. So, even if you received a voter’s card for the recent federal and provincial elections, it doesn’t automatically mean you will be on the municipal voters list, especially if your information has changed. For municipal elections the Municipal Property Assessment Corporation - MPAC is responsible for collecting the information of residents in Ontario, such as name, date of birth, citizenship and school support, in order to create a preliminary list of electors. Municipalities then use that preliminary list of electors to prepare their voters lists.
Being on the voters list will save you time when you vote. Take a few minutes to verify your voter information using MPAC’s VoterLookup tool and encourage your friends and family to do the same.
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There are thousands of different stereos, both regular and third-party, which you can buy in the store and install in your car. They are designed to please, to dilute the monotonous day of the driver. Modern radio sets give you the opportunity not only to listen to music in high quality but also many car radio sets are equipped with touch screen displays which allow watching films, clips. Watch TV, play the set-top box, use the navigation system, etc. Even in some models you can use the Internet and make video calls. In addition, these boomboxes are equipped with touchscreens, which allow convenient and easy control of the device.
But since these touch-sensitive panels are made of the glass substrate and the touch screen film itself, they are the most vulnerable part of the boombox. And the most common failure is a broken touchscreen. As a consequence of accidental impact, abrasions, heavy pressure, as well as overheating or severe freezing. Rarely, but certainly occurs and marriage, when the sensor simply refuses to work due to loss of contact in the tracks or stratification layers and getting there air. About 10 years ago there was a problem with finding touch screen glass for cassette players and accordingly the repair, many cassette players simply can’t be repaired. Today we’ll look at how to quickly repair your boombox.
Signs of Touchscreen Breakage:
- Cracked glass
- Loss of control
- No reaction to touch
How to Repair A Car Stereo Touch Screen
To repair the sensor, or rather to replace the touchscreen of the boombox, you need to do several steps:
- You need to buy a touchscreen according to the model of the radio or universal one.
- if you can not find one by model, you need to disassemble the front panel of the boombox, take a ruler in your hands and measure the sensor from edge to edge
- Once you have the touchscreen in your hands, you need to disassemble the panel
- Remove the old broken touchscreen and its chips, if any
- Clean up the adhesive base
- Determine where the front and back sides of the sensor are located
- Attach the new sensor without removing the protective film and plug the flat cable into the connector on the board
- Test the touch
- After checking, you can do the assembly – as a rule, the sensor is glued to the display on a double-sided adhesive tape or tape
- And in the end to assemble the radio
How to Determine the Face Side of The Touchscreen:
- Look closely at the touchscreen and see that the stub is closer to the touch film – this is the front side. You also need to find out whether you have LCD or LED touch screens.
- Look closely at the sensor and you will see the glass base, this is the backing, i.e. the back side that should be close to the display.
Warning. If the new sensor does not react to touch or does not respond correctly (when you press in one place and it reacts in another), but the sensor is installed the right way, the problem is in the difference of pinout! In this case, you need to correctly swap the pins of the loop, and connect them according to the axes of the native sensor (re-solder pins)!
Today, many car service centers offer such a service as car stereo repair. The service is one of the most demanded and popular. Unfortunately, many car owners do not observe elementary rules of operation at all, so problems with the functioning of the device arise most often. So I hope this article was useful for you and you understood how to quickly repair a car stereo touch screen. | <urn:uuid:b4fa7c45-5b44-4100-a08d-36d2b22f33c0> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.walkermcguire.com/how-to-fix-a-car-stereo-touch-screen/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571147.84/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810040253-20220810070253-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.942822 | 778 | 1.960938 | 2 |
It is one of the few specializations in administration area which is sought by many aspirants but provided by a only a few B-Schools in India. MBA in International Business is a 2-yr publish graduate programme that trains and equips the candidate with all expertise required to run a global business efficiently. IBMI offers licensed online programs and programs in the fields of business, administration, governance, and economics. I particularly just like the quick and simple classes so you don’t get overwhelmed. The above VRIO evaluation of Woolworths offers that financial resources of Woolworths are organized enough to seize worth and huge competitive benefit in the industry. The distribution network of the corporate is also effectively organized which helps in procuring sustainable and ethical sources from number of suppliers. The employees of the group are rare resource as all the staff are highly trained.
As a world business main, you may be stunned with how a lot your salary would possibly differ depending on the trade you select to work in. For example, should you were to work in the hospitality industry, you might solely make $55,042 annually, however you could make $92,983 in the expertise business. If salary is crucial thing to you, then you must select the business you want to work in fastidiously. Computer techniques analysts examine a corporation’s current computer techniques and procedures and design data techniques solutions to assist the organization operate extra effectively and successfully.
What Can You Do With A World Business Degree?
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His main obligation is to evaluation and keep the curriculum which involves course distribution and the syllabus for Binus University International and Binus Business School. Prior to becoming a member of Binus International, Tetty Lubis worked in Pelindo Surabaya where she dealt with the company international affairs and was the company’s consultant at international port and harbor associations and forums. She has joined the United Nations agencies in London as an intern for one 12 months at the UN-International Maritime Organization and investor engagement for two years at UN-Principles of Responsible Investment. She obtained her LLM in Commercial & Maritime Law from University College London on a Chevening Award and an MBA in Marketing from Monash University on ADS scholarship. Tetty remains to be actively engaged in a number of governments’ maritime initiatives and authorized drafting works with INGO. Marko obtained his bachelor diploma in accounting from the University of Indonesia. He pursued his Master degree in International Business from Curtin University in 2000 and continued his doctoral diploma in Accounting at Victoria University of Wellington from 2011 until 2015.
- Study business administration and you’ll analyse global and native business challenges and find strategic solutions.
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- Through researching international markets and negotiating with other cultures and international locations, you’ll develop the talents wanted to follow a career in consultancy or administration for a multinational firm.
- Students ought to all the time speak with advisors at their house institution before making any course selection or main/minor area selections.
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They convey business and data expertise collectively by understanding the wants and limitations of each. Market research analysts examine market situations to examine potential sales of a services or products. They assist companies perceive what merchandise people need, who will purchase them, and at what worth. The report makes for good reading, and a very good matter for dialogue among international business managers, all the time concerned about threat, and the best way to hedge against potential losses. By using a means of surveying perceptions by business folks, academics and risk analysts, of the diploma of corruption inside a rustic, the numeric indexes will range between 10 and zero . Sukma previously labored in various positions, such because the Australia Awards Indonesia . Currently, he is the Curriculum Development Coordinator in Binus University International.
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Midnight is a novel by the best-selling author Dean Koontz. It was published in 1989. The book is a cross-genre novel. It includes aspects of suspense, science fiction, love story, and horror.
As with many Koontz books, Midnight is divided into parts. Part One: Along the Night Coast, contains chapters one through
fifty-seven. Part Two: Daybreak in Hades, contains thirty-seven chapters, but is similar to Part One in that it begins with its own 'Chapter One'. Part Three: The Night Belongs To Them, follows suit, begins with its own Chapter One, and has forty-one chapters.
It is interesting to note that Midnight contains a total of one-hundred and thirty-five chapters, far exceeding the chapter count of most contemporary novels.
Midnight is Dean Koontz's first No. 1 hardcover on the New York Times bestseller list.
More than a year has passed since the previous book, [The Darkest Hour (Warriors)]. Bramblepaw, Tigerstar's son, has received his warrior name, Brambleclaw. Firestar has had two kits with Sandstorm, named Squirrelpaw and Leafpaw. Squirrelpaw is apprenticed to Dustpelt, and Leafpaw is apprenticed to Cinderpelt, to train to become the next medicine cat of ThunderClan. While Leafpaw and Cinderpelt search for herbs, StarClan, the cats' ancestors, sends Cinderpelt an ominous warning in some burning bracken, a picture of a tiger running through fire, which she interprets to mean that fire and tiger will destroy the forest. Cinderpelt concludes that the warning must be about Squirrelpaw and Brambleclaw, the daughter of Firestar and the son of Tigerstar, respectively. They share the warning with Firestar, who later decides to keep Brambleclaw and Squirrelpaw separated.
Sheepshead or Sheephead is a trick-taking card game related to the Skat family of games. It is the Americanized version of a card game that originated in Central Europe in the late 18th century under the German name Schafkopf. Sheepshead is most commonly played by five players, but variants exist to allow for two to eight players. There are also many other variants to the game rules, and many slang terms used with the game.
Although Schafkopf literally means "sheepshead," it has nothing to do with sheep; the term probably was derived and translated incorrectly from Middle High German and referred to playing cards on a barrel head (from kopf, meaning head, and Schaff, meaning a barrel).
In the United States, sheepshead is most commonly played in Wisconsin as well as the German counties in Southern Indiana, which has large German-American populations, and on the internet. Numerous tournaments are held throughout Wisconsin during the year, with the largest tournament being the "Nationals", held annually in the Wisconsin Dells during a weekend in September, October or November, and mini-tournaments held hourly throughout Germanfest in Milwaukee during the last weekend of each July.
The .32 S&W Long was introduced in 1896 with the company's first hand ejector revolver. The .32 Long is simply a lengthened version of the earlier .32 S&W. The hand ejector design has evolved some, but with its swing out cylinder on a crane, has been the basis for every S&W revolver designed since. In 1896, the cartridge was loaded with black powder. In 1903 the small hand ejector was updated with a new design. The cartridge stayed the same, but was now loaded with smokeless powder to roughly the same chamber pressure.
When he was the New York CityPolice Commissioner, Theodore Roosevelt standardized the department's use of the Colt New Police revolver. The cartridge was then adopted by several other northeastern U.S. police departments. The .32 Long is well known as an unusually accurate cartridge. This reputation led Police Commissioner Roosevelt to select it as an expedient way to increase officers' accuracy with their revolvers in New York City. The Colt company referred to the .32 S&W Long cartridge as the .32 "Colt's New Police" cartridge, concurrent with the conversion of the Colt New Police revolver from .32 Long Colt. The cartridges are functionally identical with the exception that the .32 NP cartridge has been historically loaded with a flat nosed bullet as opposed to the round nose of the .32 S&W Long.
It wasn’t that of the local businesses lining Highway 33 – many had long closed for the night. As the clock ticked ever closer to midnight, the parking lot next to McIlvain Field – the location of the glow – began to fill.
Dumka ...Administrative sources said that the figure might touch the three-lakh mark by the end of the day. “Over two lakh devotees have already offered prayers at till 5pm ... A local priest named Rakesh Parihast said, “The queue of pilgrims extended over 5 km to from midnight itself. By morning the queue became 12-km-long from the temple.” ... .
There are plenty of games like GTA, if you need to fill the long wait ahead for the next entry in the series ... gaming, the latest big action-adventure title, or a long haul in American Truck Simulator ... Marvel'sMidnight Suns now coming by March 2023 on new-gen consoles, " ►.
The USOpen is the fourth and final grand slam on the tennis calendar and begins in New York at the end of August.� ... When is the US Open?� ... Expect the action to last long into the night, potentially beyond midnight depending on the course of each match.� What TV channel is it on?. Amazon PrimeSport has exclusive rights to the US Open ... .
Clyde Townsed (Boulder CountySheriff’s Office). A man accused of sexually assaulting a woman in Longmont in 2020 is set for trial ... 27 and a motions hearing Jan. 12 ... According to an affidavit, Longmont police were called to UCHealth Longs Peak Hospital just before midnight July 26, 2020, after a woman came in for a sex assault examination ... Tags ... .
ST. GEORGE — The brief break from the heavy monsoon rains was just that. brief ...The National Weather Service has issued a flood watch for Southern Utah ... GeorgeNews. Update Aug ... A flood watch has been issued that covers all five of Southern Utah’s counties through Tuesday until midnight but is likely to continue for a long period after that ... George News.
Marvel'sMidnight Suns has been delayed a second time, and while it doesn't seem to be a long delay, we're now once again without a clear release date for the Firaxis tactical RPG... Midnight Suns was originally planned for Take-Two's previous fiscal year with a scheduled release this past March.
A long time ago, a professor got the attention of his class one day as we studied the journeys of Paul... He stops at Troas, the brethren insist he preach, and he holds forth until after midnight ... Luke points out for us the crowd, the lamps pouring out heat, the smell of burning fuel and a bit of light, the late hour, and the long-winded preacher.
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The chamber was scheduled to start a vote-a-rama sometime around midnight, and it’s expected to run through Sunday morning. The hours-long process is part of the budget reconciliation procedure, which Democrats are using to pass their sweeping climate, tax reform and health care bill.
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Rebecca Lees examines the need for greater foreign languages skills in Wales if we are to compete with the emerging economies
Businesses in Wales need to tackle a shortage in languages skills if they are to compete globally with emerging economies. Many SMEs in Wales have not grasped the importance of recruiting staff with a practical knowledge of other languages and cultures. There is still a sense that ‘everybody speaks English’. Yet 75 per cent of our trade is carried out with non-English speaking countries.
Stephen Hagen, Professor of Multi-lingual Business Communications at Newport University, says there is a scarcity of linguists in Wales. He has led research which shows that SMEs in Wales could increase export sales by 44.5 per cent if they had a language strategy. Despite this the take-up rate of modern foreign languages at GCSE level has declined to 27 per cent in Wales. Earlier this month Swansea University announced plans to reduce the size of its languages department. The resulting outcry – including criticism from author John le Carré that the move was “contrary to all good sense” – highlights the contradiction faced by businesses in Wales. As Professor Hagen puts it:
“The UK is near the bottom of the European league in terms of its awareness of language and export strategy. The understanding is that English is the major global business language but this is not necessarily the position taken by most of the trading partners. The position for us in Wales is that we have the advantage of using English but it makes us more vulnerable as it limits our ability. Most of our competitor countries have two, three or four languages in their companies. In the UK we tend to have English and maybe one other. One argument is that we should be learning more foreign languages, which is true, and encouraging businesses to be more effective at exporting and removing cultural barriers.”
Professor Hagen points to the four elements of language management in successful export companies:
1. The company has a language strategy.
2. It employs native speakers.
3. It recruits staff with language skills.
4. It employs professional translators and interpreters.
“Companies with up to 250 employees in Wales could well achieve more than 40 per cent higher export sales if they adopted a language strategy along these lines,” says Prof Hagen. “Companies that are language-aware are far more likely to be successful exporters. It is important for Welsh companies to hire people with language skills. People who are bilingual are better placed to become trilingual or quadrilingual. We have to get more people who are language proficient in Wales. Bilingualism is a good step towards internationalism.”
The need for more languages candidates has been seen first-hand by Newport-based recruitment agency Concentric Consulting. “There are a lot of companies in Wales which have relocated from Bristol or London and they are finding a real shortage in the candidates they need,” says its managing director Natalie Rosato. “One of our clients distributes car parts from Germany, France and Spain, while we also work with a Spanish company which distributes across the world. More and more languages candidates are needed in this area, as the majority of people applying are from London. In particular, there is a real shortage in trilingual candidates. Companies need candidates who can speak English, Welsh and another language.”
The Welsh Assembly is combating the decline in language learning with the Making Languages Count action plan. Education Minister Leighton Andrews says:
“Learning a foreign language is a skill for life. In the world of work, knowledge of languages helps economic growth and business competitiveness through improved understanding of the business environment and intercultural understanding. Through this action plan I hope to see increased take-up of modern foreign languages, improved levels of attainment and more flexible access to high quality courses.”
As part of the action plan, a new NVQ Business Languages course is now available to students choosing their Year 10 options. The NVQ was successfully piloted in Wales last year and combines practical languages learning with a range of skills needed in the workplace. NVQ Business Languages is delivered in partnership with CILT Cymru, the National Centre for Languages based in Cardiff Bay, which has a key role in implementing Making Languages Count. CILT Cymru recently launched its Business Language Champions Awards to facilitate links between schools and business. This aims to inspire young people to see the relevance of language skills in the global economy and equip students with the international communication and employability skills needed for their future careers. CILT Cymru’s Language Teaching Adviser Claire Parry said:
“The growth of the global economy is creating new market opportunities for Wales. But we are currently facing a shortage of people who can combine language skills with other specialisms, such as engineering, law and marketing. Without the language and intercultural skills needed to compete successfully with the rapidly developing economies of Brazil, Russia, China and India, businesses in Wales will face increasing challenges in adapting to this competition. The British Chambers of Commerce state that export businesses that are proactive in their use of language and cultural skills achieve on average 45 per cent more sales than companies who conduct their business solely in English. So it is important to the future economic success of Wales that our schools produce competent linguists and that businesses in Wales continue to recruit these young people.” | <urn:uuid:5233c471-3099-4977-a601-0a117973302b> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.iwa.wales/agenda/2010/11/welsh-firms-should-become-more-language-aware/?lang=cy | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570879.1/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808213349-20220809003349-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.955776 | 1,102 | 1.921875 | 2 |
Department of Psychology Student Spotlight: Morgan Todd
- Wednesday, October 13th, 2021
Name: Morgan Todd
Major(s): Psychology (Forensic Psychology Concentration) and Arabic
Class Status: Junior
Hometown: Russellville, Kentucky
Why did you choose the Forensic Psychology concentration?
I chose the Forensic Psychology concentration because I have always been interested in the minds of criminals and why they think the way they do. I have also been interested in how crimes have a long term impact on victims.
What experience(s) have you had during your years as a WKU student that have helped or is helping you prepare for a career after graduation?
Some classes that I have taken as a WKU student that are helping me prepare for a career after graduation are Psychology and Law and Introduction to Law Enforcement. These classes have provided me with a lot of ideas of which pathway I should take. This semester I have joined Dr. Baker’s PLEA Lab as a Research Assistant, which is also helping me prepare for a career after graduation.
What do you hope to do after graduation?
After graduation I hope to attend graduate school and eventually pursue a career for the federal government.
What advice do you have for future forensic psychology concentration students?
Students who are interested in the Forensic Psychology concentration at WKU should consider joining Dr. Baker’s PLEA Lab sometime during their undergraduate experience to prepare them for graduate school.
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We are so excited to welcome Darren P. Wurz, MSFP, CFP® to discuss inflation and mistakes to avoid when investing. He is a Certified Financial Planner Professional with an MS in Financial Planning from Golden Gate University. As a fiduciary and fee only advisor, he is the author of The Lawyer Millionaire, available now through the American bar association. Darren specializes in working with attorneys, law firms, owners, and couples near retirement, providing comprehensive financial planning and active investment management.
What we cover in this episode:
- 01:46 – Risk and time
- 02:00 – What’s trending?
- 17:00 – Inflation and investment
- 25:15 – Investment mistakes to avoid
Risk and time
If you are really looking to get started with investing, the main thing to contemplate is, what is your timeframe? If retirement is 30, 40 years away, then you don’t need to worry necessarily about risk. Risk is really related to your timeframe. When you look at a long term chart of the market, you see this line that goes up and down over time so you really need to be concerned with just getting invested right away.
Now, if you’re closer to retirement, like 5 or 10 years away, it may be a little different for you. You may need to be a little bit more concerned about where and how you start investing. A great analogy is when you want to start exercising. If you go to the gym, you may see people doing some crazy things but you have to remember that the basics have always worked and that’s where you need to start. The same thing applies to investments; the basics have always worked and you don’t have to be concerned with starting off complicated, just start with the basics like buying the S&P 500.
There will always be mainstream media trends you see on the news, social media and other platforms, these are changing rapidly. You really want to try and avoid some of the fads and focus on the fundamental principles that work, the basics. One of the industries we know work great would be tech, and not necessarily the big tech companies that come to mind like Google or Facebook, but some of the smaller ones. This is because individual stocks can be much more difficult to predict and can be much less reliable in terms of performance since there are a lot of variables that come into play.
Other industries are energy, crypto and options trading. There has been an increased interest in options trading with Robinhood and other trading accounts. Options can work very well and can be very profitable but can also end up in a one hundred percent loss. Energy has been around for a long time but has also fallen off recently. Crypto is still a new industry and doesn’t have a history to look back on.
Things to consider when investing in trends is that the stock market has been around for hundreds of years and fads come and go. Although it is ok to speculate a little when deciding on investing in a new industry, you also have to be ok with losing what you invest since it comes with uncertainty and no history to back it up. When the market is in a positive trend, it is easier to meander in it until there is a sudden change. Something that worked two years ago may not work today.
Inflation and investment
The topic of inflation has always been around, but recently it is the subject of a daily conversation. Inflation is basically money losing value. The price of everything, including assets goes up and the value of money goes down. So when it comes to actual cash, the value of actual cash is decreasing and this can be a concern for those of you who are saving. This is why we speak about outpacing inflation.
When we talk about outpacing inflation, there are certain things that are brought up such as gold, commodities, physical assets and real estate. These tend to be good hedges on inflation and are recommended to have in your overall portfolio of investments. The thing with inflation is, commodities tend to make money on the front end so all the money to be made in commodities may have already been made because that adjustment may have already happened. Getting into commodities now could be good if the inflation saga continues; but if inflation is peaking, you may be getting in too late. This is why it is good for these to be in your portfolio as a component of your overall strategy for the long term, not something you run to and jump in when it’s hot.
Ultimately stocks have historically been the best hedge against inflation. This is because we don’t need to keep pace with inflation, we need to outpace inflation. With the stock market down right now, it may be one of the greatest times to invest because it will rebound and lead to accelerated growth. Stocks keep pace with inflation because they are an asset that increases value with inflation.
Investment mistakes to avoid
The first and biggest mistake is not having a plan at all. You need to make sure you understand how you’re invested and why you’re invested that way. You need to think about risk and about how much the market can go down. There are two components to risk tolerance. There is your risk capacity, which is basically your timeframe. If you have got a long timeframe, you can take more risk than if you have a short timeframe.
The second component is risk attitude. When the market is high, everyone is very risk tolerant until it drops. This is when people start panicking and maybe psychologically can’t handle it. So you really have to think about these things when starting off in investing; whether or not to be aggressive or a little more conservative.
A good example of this is to think of your investment portfolio going down by half. If you have $100,000, can you handle it if you see this go down by 50%, losing $50,000. If you can handle the thought of that, then maybe go a little bigger or all in when investing. If you can’t handle the thought of it, then figure out what you are ok with seeing be lost and scale it back to that number. Really understanding what you are invested in and making sure it lines up with the amount of risk you are able to handle, is a huge concern people overlook.
Another big mistake people run into is deviating from your plan based on emotions; that is a really big setup for disaster. There has been a ton of interesting psychological studies when it relates to investments. We are human beings and money can be a very emotional subject and studies show that most people are not capable of making good decisions when there’s a lot of volatility. So having a system of rules, a system of mathematical rules that dictates how you manage your investment and when to make changes is important. You have to be very disciplined and you have to remind yourself in difficult times why you have the strategy you do and why you’re going to stick to those rules.
A third mistake to avoid would be, don’t stop putting money in your investments just because you see the market’s going down. People sometimes don’t want to put any more money into their investment because they aren’t making anything, when the exact opposite is true, you want to keep putting money in at a time like this. You may even want to put more money in at a time like this because you’re buying in at a discount. You just have to keep in mind that the market will start to recover before the economy does.
The topics of inflation and investments can be discussed forever, especially considering they are ever changing. Darren reemphasizes to “…make sure you have a strategy that you’ve thought about in terms of risk and the reward, don’t make emotional decisions, and the basics work…If people can follow those things they will be successful and you just gotta stay focused on the long term outcome and don’t allow the short term ups and downs to let you get off course.” We always want to remind you to consult a professional when seeking advice for your finances. | <urn:uuid:6923b4a2-4756-47f4-a126-4012746c5f79> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://pjscpas.com/101-investment-trends-inflation-mistakes-to-avoid-with-darren-wurz/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573029.81/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817153027-20220817183027-00264.warc.gz | en | 0.966767 | 1,693 | 1.546875 | 2 |
NEW YORK, April 11, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Scholastic, the global children's publishing, education and media company, today announced the launch of a re-engineered and re-designed version of Grolier Online from Scholastic Library Publishing with new content and digital research tools to meet the needs of 21st Century learners and educators.
Grolier Online now includes separate portals for elementary, middle and high school students, adult public library patrons, and librarians and educators. The Grolier Online experience is tailored for each user with an enhanced search engine that delivers articles, maps, and videos adjustable to a wide range of reading levels for students, and a dashboard for librarians and educators filled with professional development tools, lesson plans and other resources.
The new Grolier Online continues its history of bringing the most up-to-date and authoritative content to students and educators in the formats they prefer. Grolier was one of the first comprehensive reference sources in the educational market to go completely digital in 1997. The latest upgrade continues to expand on the program's robust bank of multimedia content that is updated daily by a team of Scholastic editors, and provides students of all ages with the most comprehensive and compelling content and current events from around the world.
With the new Grolier Online, students in grades 3 and up get even more help with school assignments and projects with:
- An updated selection of more than 120,000 articles, arranged by reading level and aligned to national and state standards, as well as alignments to the Common Core standards – coming this summer.
- More than 340,000 web links vetted by editors.
- A revamped search engine that allows users to search for content according to Lexile® or reading level.
- A database of 1,100+ international newspapers in 73 languages representing 195 countries.
- More than 1,200 clickable maps connected to in-depth articles from the most remote regions in the world.
- A collection of debate questions and current event topics to help build critical thinking skills.
The backbone of the new Grolier Online is its enhanced search capabilities, which provide access to users from eight databases: three general reference encyclopedias (The New Book of Knowledge, Grolier Multimedia, and Encyclopedia Americana), four specialty encyclopedias (Amazing Animals of the World, The New Book of Popular Science, and America the Beautiful, Lands & Peoples), and one Spanish language encyclopedia (La Nueva Enciclopedia Cumbre). The search tool pulls articles, videos, maps, and other multimedia depending upon your custom collection.
"The new Grolier Online has been customized and reformatted to provide each user with age-appropriate content that is tailored to their unique needs," said Hugh Roome, President of Scholastic Library Publishing. "In today's ever-changing world with the 24 hour news cycle, it's critical that children, adults, librarians and teachers have access to the most relevant and up-to-date news from around the world. With thousands of new articles arranged by reading level, educational video, and teaching material, the new Grolier Online will provide them with limitless resources for endless exploration."
Scholastic Library Publishing is a leading provider of digital and print products for public and school libraries – delivering content and learning solutions that are proven to help raise achievement. Scholastic Library Publishing offers a suite of digital tools, including BookFlix for young readers, TrueFlix, which helps students build content-area knowledge in science and social studies, and Grolier Online, America's premier online reference source. Scholastic Library Publishing also offers high-interest non-fiction from the classic Franklin Watts and Children's Press imprints.
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A dental crown, or cap, fits over a tooth to restore and protect dental tissue. We create our crowns in house with our Planmeca milling machine. Each crown is custom designed to your individual tooth (or dental implant) so it can fit and function naturally. Most often, our dentists will recommend this when restoring a tooth with a root that is still healthy. Dental implants are also often completed with a dental crown.
- Remove any damaged tissue that may interfere with the fit or stability of the restoration.
- Take an impression of the new bite to ensure the restoration fits properly.
- Choose a customized color for the dental crown’s porcelain.
- Provide a temporary restoration while the permanent crown is being made.
- Schedule you to come in for a second appointment to fit the permanent crown.
Bridges are dental prosthetics our dentists can use to replace a missing tooth. Usually, these work best for patients who have some amount of gum recession or when neighboring teeth have tooth decay or large fillings.
Types of Bridges:
- Traditional — The cap is anchored to two neighboring teeth, bridging the gap left by the missing tooth.
- Cantilever — Only one cap is anchored to a single neighboring tooth.
- Resin-bonded — The appliance includes teeth made of porcelain or plastic, as well as gums supported by metal wings.
If you would like to improve the appearance of your smile, our team at Chevy Chase Dental Center may recommend dental veneers. Veneers help improve many different dental flaws and are non-invasive. Each is made of a thin porcelain or resin that can cover the surface of the enamel and blend in with neighboring teeth.
Common Uses for Veneers:
- Breaks or chips in the enamel
- Irregularly shaped teeth
- Stains that cannot be fixed with dental whitening
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An assault of gout comes when your body has high levels of uric acid. This uric acid then settles and crystallizes in your joints causing arthritis as well as severe soreness. Even though the problem of gout has been recognized for centuries, many still feel the condition today as it is a common medical condition now days. New medicinal investigations have since brought many effectual ways to eradicate the uric acid crystals problems in the human body. If you would like to get rid of gout crystals, then you have to follow certain guidelines that are now proven to help ease the discomfort and many times alleviate the problem.
A medical doctor is able to recommend a prescription to help your gout or prescribe a higher dosage than is obtainable over the counter if required. Continue getting anti-inflammatory pills until the attack has subsided or until your medical doctor suggests new treatment. You should consume lots of water and decrease any alcohol consumption that can slow down removal of the uric acid from your blood. Change your diet plan to eradicate specific foods like those rich in protein and purine, which supply uric acid fabrication. These contain organ meats, red meat, dried beans, asparagus as well as fatty fish. Just obtain a recommendation from your medical doctor for Allopurinal that will reduce the development of the uric acid as well as help melt the presented crystals.
While anti-inflammatories and a healthy diet are not the only thing that needs to change in order to experience the best life without gout. You will be able to cure this condition through knowing the reasons for uric acid swelling. Another way to help cure your gout is by consuming high-purine food. Purines are materials in your body, which form and break down uric acid. You should know that a high-protein diet is often able to lead to high uric acid stages that, in turn, might result in urate crystal creation over time. These deposits can lead to the inflammation or pain in the pretentious joint frequently related with a gout assault. Some other risk issues, which may lead to this form, are weight as well as certain medicinal conditions. You should make the essential dietary modification by limiting or reducing the regular utilization of high purine foodstuffs. These food items contain certain organ meats, sea foods as well as other meats. At the same time, you need to evade consuming alcoholic drinks. In its place, drink minimum 8 or 9 glasses of non-alcoholic drinks each day.
Consuming fluids can assist to eradicate urate crystals in your foot. You should maintain your body weight at a fit level as well as try to do exercises fairly on a daily basis. You should know that being heavy could boost the danger factor for this state. You might be able to utilize hydrotherapy to alleviate the inflammation or pain throughout a gout assault. Utilizing a mixture of cold and hot water compresses might assist to decrease the symptoms in an exaggerated foot joint. | <urn:uuid:f72d7e1b-336f-4860-8ae8-45024dc1e310> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://www.gouttreatmentme.com/how-to-get-rid-of-gout-crystals/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571284.54/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811103305-20220811133305-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.957899 | 605 | 1.992188 | 2 |
COVID-19 mortality and contemporaneous air pollution
This paper examines the relationship between contemporaneous exposure to fine particulate matter and COVID-19 morbidity and mortality. Harnessing daily changes in county-level wind direction (within the United States), they show that fluctuations in local air quality can almost immediately impact the rate of confirmed cases and deaths from COVID-19.
The authors find that a small increase in fine particulate matter – a one microgram (µg) per cubic metre increase in PM2.5 – increases the number of confirmed cases by approximately 2 per cent from the mean case rate in a county, and the same-day death rate by 3 per cent from the mean.
The results suggest that contemporaneous exposure to air pollution plays an important role in mediating the severity of respiratory syndromes such as COVID-19, for which progressive respiratory failure is the primary cause of death.
The findings have important policy implications: it follows that keeping current pollution at low levels may have an immediate payoff in that it may allow for fewer additional cases and deaths when reopening the economy. Therefore, policy levers to improve air quality may lead to improvements in COVID-19 outcomes.
Key points for decision-makers
- Fine particulate matter, or PM2.5, is a combination of particles with a diameter of 2.5 micrometres or less, such as nitrates, sulphates, ammonium and carbon. Wind speed and direction are among the factors influencing transported PM2.5. The authors’ approach uses plausibly random daily changes in wind direction to predict levels of fine particulate matter pollution.
- The paper is distinct from previous studies analysing exposure to pollution before the pandemic, upon which policymakers cannot act to improve COVID-19 outcomes. Changes in wind direction are also key to isolating the causal effect of pollution from other socioeconomic characteristics that correlate with pollution.
- The study controls for policies and practices aimed at limiting spread of the virus (such as limits on mass gatherings, social distancing controls, quarantine orders and school closures).
- The authors find a 2 per cent increase in confirmed cases resulting from a 1 µg/m3 increase in PM2.5 – where confirmed cases are likely to be a measure for severe cases, given that many infected people do not show symptoms. In absolute terms, this represents 0.7 additional confirmed cases in a county on any given day.
- The effects tend to increase in magnitude over longer time horizons, being twice as large over a three-day period.
- Meanwhile, a 1 µg/m3 increase in PM2.5 increases the same-day death rate by 3 per cent from the mean, or by between 0.05 and 0.06 additional deaths per 100,000 individuals in a county. These estimates are robust to a host of sensitivity tests.
- These results are in line with the medical literature, which points to progressive respiratory failure as the primary cause of death from COVID-19, as well as an older literature showing the immediacy of the relationship between exposure to pollution and potential death.
- Since the trade-off between reopening the economy and COVID-19 is already known, the study brings some good news in that it shows that it is possible to partly delink the relationship between reopening and COVID-19 cases and deaths by keeping pollution low. In this case, the quest for two conflicting desirable goals, jobs and health, can be helped by controlling a ‘bad’ factor – i.e. pollution. | <urn:uuid:843bc4e7-9d32-45a3-9a3a-5c332b01b6f9> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.cccep.ac.uk/publication/covid-19-mortality-and-contemporaneous-air-pollution/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570879.1/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808213349-20220809003349-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.93722 | 734 | 3.0625 | 3 |
Former US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, during a candid conversation, with Aroon Purie, Editor-in-chief of the India Today Group, said that she thought she would have won the much-publicised US Presidential Election of 2016.
She said there is a need to protect democracy. Clinton, in her address, also said that she will continue her work to help people raise their voices over various issues.
Later, during a Q & A session, Hillary Clinton said that she didn't think Republicans would pick Donald Trump as a candidate and that she didn't think Americans would vote for him.
Clinton said that now, Washington is following a one-party system without room for dissenting voices. The former secretary said that she was mobilising youngsters to contest in the elections.
Without making any direct references to President Donald Trump or his infamous tweeting, Clinton highlighted the negative consequences of social media in nations that are pluralistic. She said that the media could be used to make people go against each other.
The former first lady of the US also said that India held a special place in the hearts of the Clinton family. She also highlighted India's prominence on the global map and its position in maintaining peace. | <urn:uuid:b858e630-2d69-4a14-8acb-f24589b5e6d9> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.indiatoday.in/india-today-conclave-2018/story/hillary-clinton-thought-she-would-become-us-president-1186443-2018-03-10 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570651.49/warc/CC-MAIN-20220807150925-20220807180925-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.985884 | 246 | 1.90625 | 2 |
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Read excel files (.xls and .xlsx) into R (readxl)
The readxl package makes it easy to get data out of Excel and into R. Compared to many of the existing packages (e.g. gdata, xlsx, xlsReadWrite) readxl has no external dependencies so it’s easy to install and use on all operating systems. It is designed to work with tabular data stored in a single sheet. Readxl supports both the legacy .xls format and the modern xml-based .xlsx format. .xls support is made possible the with libxls C library, which abstracts away many of the complexities of the underlying binary format. To parse .xlsx , we use the RapidXML C++ library.
Quick Wraps 2 (qwraps2)
A collection of (wrapper) functions the creator found useful for quickly placing data summaries and formatted regression results into .Rnw or .Rmd files. Functions for generating commonly used graphics, such as receiver operating curves or Bland-Altman plots, are also provided by ‘qwraps2’. ‘qwraps2’ is a updated version of an package ‘qwraps’. The original version ‘qwraps’ was never submitted to CRAN but can be found at https://github.com/dewittpe/qwraps. The implementation and limited scope of the functions within ‘qwraps2’ (https://github.com/dewittpe/qwraps2) is fundamentally different from ‘qwraps’. | <urn:uuid:c1e0be57-f928-42c0-a5df-d2a90c25695c> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://analytixon.com/2015/04/13/r-packages-worth-a-look-84/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570879.1/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808213349-20220809003349-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.877913 | 368 | 2.8125 | 3 |
What are the 5 interesting facts?
The 60 Most Interesting World Facts You’ll Ever Hear
- Glaciers and ice sheets hold about 69 percent of the world’s freshwater. …
- The fastest gust of wind ever recorded on Earth was 253 miles per hour. …
- Recent droughts in Europe were the worst in 2,100 years. …
- The best place in the world to see rainbows is in Hawaii.
What is the most special thing about India?
Largest Democracy in The World
India is the 7th largest country in the world, measuring a total area of 3.29 mn sq km. According to UN estimates, the country is home to 18 percent of the world’s population. India is renowned as the most populous democracy in the world.
What are the top 10 interesting facts?
175 Random Facts So Interesting You’ll Say, “OMG!”
- More human twins are being born now than ever before. …
- A narwhal’s tusk reveals its past living conditions. …
- The first person convicted of speeding was going eight mph. …
- “New car smell” is the scent of dozens of chemicals.
How India is special in the world?
A unique land of vibrant colours, breathtaking landscapes and rich history, India is unlike any other. From the writhing streets of Mumbai to the idyllic shores of the Andaman Islands, this remarkable country offers a diverse feast for the senses.
What’s the most interesting fact in the world?
50 MOST INTERESTING UNKNOWN FACTS YOU SHOULD KNOW:
|1.||Hot water will turn into ice faster than cold water.|
|2.||The Mona Lisa has no eyebrows.|
|3.||The sentence, “The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog” uses every letter in the English language.|
|4.||The strongest muscle in the body is the tongue.|
How do I find my fun fact?
Examples of fun fact questions
- Who did you look up to as a child?
- What is your favourite hobby?
- If you could go anywhere in the world, where would it be?
- If you could only eat one type of food for the rest of your life, what would it be?
- Do you have any hidden talents?
- What is your favourite childhood memory?
Why is India the best?
The country has brought the world diverse languages, famous actresses, and six seasons. … India is the world’s largest democracy, with a 1.3 billion population. It is also the world’s second largest country, after China’s 1.4 billion population. 2.
Which country loves India most?
Incredible India Arrival of tourists from:
- United Kingdom 941,883.
- Canada 317,239.
- Malaysia 301,961.
- Sri Lanka 297,418.
- Australia 293,625.
- Germany 265,928.
- China 251,313.
- France 238,707.
Why is India important to the world?
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This morning I’ve been reading in Carolyn James’ book When Life and Beliefs Collide: How Knowing God Makes a Difference. A friend recently recommend this as a great resource for thinking about women’s ministry. Chapter two of the book is on “the dreaded T-word” – theology. Unfortunately, both men and women, in the church and in the academy, have promoted the idea that theology is for men, but not women. Carolyn James disagrees and explores the misconceptions behind such thinking and talking.
Two ideas seem to bolster the notion that theology is for men and not women. The first is the belief that God did not equip women for theological pursuits. According to this thinking, women are more relational and practical, and their role centers on being a wife and mother rather than theological reflection. The presupposition is that God designed a world in which womanhood and theology are incompatible. The second is the conviction that deep knowledge conflicts with the biblical idea of wifely submission; a thinking woman will find it difficult to submit to her husband and to church leaders. Consequently, the safest and most sensible path, according to some, is for women to leave theology to the men.
Carolyn James addresses both of these misconceptions and persuasively argues that theology – which is just a technical word for knowing God – is for everyone.
If we are not careful, we will post a “men only” sign over theology without stopping to realize that what lies beyond is for every Christian. The whole issue comes into focus when we remember that theology is knowing God. This is not a gender issue. It is not a matter of aptitude, instinct, or intelligence. It is about what it means to be a Christian. In one sense, it is fair to say that no one – man or woman – is wired to know God. All of us are blinded by our sin, and the task of knowing our Creator dwarfs every Christian’s abilities. Yet it is also true that God never leaves us to our own resources. He sent his Son to remove the only real barrier that prevents us from knowing him – our sin – and to help us on our way with a flesh and blood picture of what God is like. His Holy Spirit opens our minds and works in our hearts so we will understand and embrace him.
The chapter goes on to discuss the robust portrayal of women who knew God in Scripture, the false notion that theology is bad for the soul (rooted in the abuse of theology by those who pay lip service to truth but fail to let it permeate their hearts and change their lives), and the equally misleading notion that theology is only for professionals. The last few pages of the chapter list several reasons why women need theology – here they are with some brief excerpts:
· Women need theology for themselves.
Life comes to women in stiff doses. When it does, and we are crushed or shattered or stretched beyond our limits, we need to surround ourselves with good theologians . . . who will encourage and help us. But at the end of the day, it won’t be their theology we will lean on, no matter how good it is. We will lean on our own. Adversity and adventures have a way of exposing the state of our theology. We may have heard a lot about God. In the thick of things, we will discover what we really believe about him. We ask too much of ourselves to wade into these deep waters with so little to keep our faith afloat.
· Women need theology for each other.
Years ago I read an article in a magazine for Christian women that listed ways to cope with depression. One suggestion was to paint your nails. Perhaps a manicure, a trip to the mall, or a good laugh may serve to distract some of the pain for a moment. But in the end this trivializes our problems and leaves us right where we started.
· Women need theology for their children.
Many Christian leaders today would echo John Wesley’s words: “I learned more about Christianity from my mother than from all the theologians of England.” One of the biggest and most significant tasks facing the church today is to raise the next generation of strong believers. Is there a more pressing task than for us to leave behind an army of theologians – our own daughters and sons – stronger than we proved to be? It is a task to which every woman and man in the church is called and which demands the best from us. Some of the toughest theological questions are asked between supper and bedtime. The most perplexing problems we will ever face to come to us from a teenager caught between the allure of the world and the claims of Christ on her heart. Children and young people need adults – parents, friends, and mentors – who have something real to offer them.
· Women need theology for men.
Questions of leadership and teaching aside, women often have unique opportunities to minister to the deepest needs of men . . . A wife knows better than anyone the depth and intensity of her husband’s struggles. If her theology is weak or superficial, she will be ill equipped to come alongside with strength, encouragement, and godly counsel that she alone can give.
· Women need theology for the church.
By likening the church to a physical body, the apostle Paul shows the folly of neglecting theology. Weakness in any part of the body, no matter how small or insignificant, is a burden to the whole. “If one part suffers, every part suffers with it.” (1 Cor. 12:26). Just think how self-absorbed we can be over flabby muscles, the need for reading glasses, thinning hair, or a sore toe – nothing life threatening, but serious matters when they affect your body. Yet in the church, we do not simply tolerate weakness; we actually promote it. The consequences have been devastating. Atrophy and malnutrition are rampant in the body of Christ, and we have grown comfortable with them.
God calls women, along with men, to be runners (Heb. 12:1-2), warriors (Eph. 6:10-18), ambassadors (2 Cor. 5:20), body builders (Eph. 4:16), teachers, and encouragers (Col. 3:16; Heb. 3:13; 12:12-13). These callings stand in hopeless conflict with so-called feminine virtues of ignorance, passivity, and neediness. Each demands high levels of strength, courage, and activity – impossible for the spiritually malnourished.
When it comes to helping women become better theologians, the church should be first in line. The church is not threatened if we do. It is endangered if we don’t. Where there is weakness in the church, we are all vulnerable. When women are not included in the conversation, there are blind spots in the church’s ministry – overlooked needs and issues, places where our theology is underdeveloped and detached. In Christ’s body, every member needs all the others – not simply to be there but to contribute.
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