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Faith (πίστιϚ) stands in Hebrews as the supreme continuity between OT and NT worship since it functions as an essential link between the physical and metaphysical. The author of Hebrews defines faith as “the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen” (11:1). Two modifiers in the author’s definition of faith reveal its connection between physical and metaphysical. First, Morris argues that ὑπόστασιϚ (“assurance,” ESV) has the idea that faith is the basis by which we know metaphysical reality. He explains:
His meaning is that there are realities for which we have no material evidence though they are not the less real for that. Faith enables us to know that they exist and, while we have no certainty apart from faith, faith does give us genuine certainty. . . . Faith is the basis, the substructure (hypostasis means lit. “that which stands under”) of all that the Christian life means, all that the Christian hopes for.1
The second word that draws a connection between the physical and the metaphysical is ἔλεγχοϚ (“conviction,” ESV), which has the idea of testing something—in this case, “things not seen” (πραγμάτων οὐ βλεπομένων). The author’s point is that faith is what allows physical beings to both know and test metaphysical reality. He removes all doubt of his emphasis in 11:3: “By faith we understand that the universe was created by the word of God, so that what is seen [βλεπόμενα] was not made out of things that are visible [φαινομένων].” Faith is the basis for knowing and testing metaphysical truth. Without this faith, “it is impossible to please [God], for whoever would draw near to God must believe that he exists and that he rewards those who seek him” (11:6). No physical person can see God or his rewards, but faith allows true believers to know and have confidence in them even though they cannot experience them with their physical senses; thus faith allows a believer to “draw near” to God in worship metaphysically.
The great “faith chapter” of Hebrews (chapter 11) highlights, then, OT saints who exhibited true faith, and several cases specifically express how these saints believed in metaphysical realities that they could not perceive with their physical senses. For example, Noah obeyed God’s instructions even though what he was warned of was yet “unseen” (βλεπομένων) (11:7). Abraham, too, obeyed God, even though he did not “know where he was going” (11:8); instead, “he was looking forward to the city that has foundations, whose designer and builder is God” (11:10), that metaphysical kingdom described in 12:18-29. Joseph rested in confidence in a future exodus for the Hebrew people, even though he did not experience it himself (11:22). Moses “left Egypt, not being afraid of the anger of the king, for he endured as seeing him who is invisible” (11:27). Even Jesus himself is set up as an example of one who “endured the cross” because he was looking forward to the metaphysical “joy that was set before him” (12:2). In each of these demonstrations of faith, God’s true worshipers did not rely on what they could see or touch—in fact, they never experienced the fulfillment of what they had been promised in this life. Instead “these all died in faith, not having received the things promised, but having seen them and greeted them from afar” (11:13); they desired “a better country”—not a physical one but “a heavenly one” (11:16) They did not rely on their physical senses but rather on the only sense that can perceive the metaphysical—faith.
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Atlantic Highlands Elementary participates in world record attempt
Atlantic Highlands in Monmouth County just made the record books with its youngest residents.
Atlantic Highlands Elementary School joined children worldwide last Tuesday in an attempt to have "the most children singing simultaneously and the most children signing a song" at the same time, according to ahherald.com.
The video from Tuesday's attempt at the school has now posted, and I have to say, it's pretty incredible.
According to the Atlantic Highlands Elementary Schools Facebook page, "The Big Sing" made it into the record books with over 350,000 students participating worldwide.
I'm thrilled both my sons were able to participate in this attempt.
The only thing that would've made this even more epic for New Jersey? Having the entire Garden State attempt this and hold the record of "The Big Sing" for most children singing simultaneously across a single region in the world (that region, of course, being New Jersey).
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At some point when you have an online business you are going to need a website, contrary to what some people will tell you this isn’t essential as soon as you start. Once you have validated your business idea and started making some money using the methods outlined in Steps 1 – 4 you are ready to get your own website.
First you will need to buy a domain name from a domain registrar such as Godaddy.com, there are a huge number of domains to choose from and you should try to choose something which reflects your business name and is easy to remember. The best tld is still .com although there are a number of other options available these days including .org, .biz & .net.
Once you have bought your domain name, you need to buy a hosting package. We don’t recommend buying this from the same provider where you bought your domain name, they should be different. Basic web hosting can be bought at 1and1.com or if you require specialist web hosting for a large site you can contact [email protected] for more information.
Next you need to choose a platform to manage your website, for this purpose we recommend WordPress, which is the world’s largest open source content management system. WordPress can be downloaded for free at WordPress.org, please make sure not to confuse this with wordpress.com which is a free blogging platform and will most likely not be suitable for your needs.
You can watch this free guide on how to install WordPress onto your domain and setup your hosting – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2cbvZf1jIJM or if you need more information you can contact [email protected]
WordPress sites use themes to help you display your content in an attractive way. One of the best themes with many pre-made demos is Enfold, and this can be bought online at themeforest.com for around $60.
Once you have set up your website you can display your products and services to the world through the use of SEO & Adwords which we will be covering in the coming months.
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It’s easy to take polar bear research papers at face value but it’s not very scientific. The snappy sound bites provided for the benefit of the media – whether they’re embedded in press releases or in published abstracts – don’t cut it with trained scientists. Trained scientists read the whole report, critically examine the evidence it contains and assess that evidence within the context of previous knowledge. That’s what they are trained to do.
I challenge the superficial summary on the status of Alaskan polar bear populations provided by FactCheck.org journalist Vanessa Schipani. Schipani disputed a comment made by Alaska Senator Lisa Murkowski that, according to the latest research Alaskan polar bear population numbers are strong and healthy. I’m not especially interested in the political context of the statement, only Schipani’s bald claim that Murkowski’s declaration is false.
I’ve read all the relevant papers in full and I contend that the evidence supports Murkowski’s statement. Schipani is confusing the issue by regurgitating ‘facts’ that don’t tell the truth of the matter. By the sum of accounts, Alaskan polar bear populations are indeed healthy and strong – whether or not this status will continue is an entirely different question. Continue reading | <urn:uuid:8dd9a608-4e8a-48da-9b7b-d3ed04708992> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://polarbearscience.com/2016/03/15/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571284.54/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811103305-20220811133305-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.885954 | 278 | 1.945313 | 2 |
If you are familiar with programming, you know that Zero () is usually the starting point of arrays, that is called Zero-based numbering, what does it have to do with Zero-Day Attacks ?
Similar to the above, Zero-Day Attacks are “Zeroed In” on a certain vulnerability with one small twist, it’s the vulnerability’s starting point.
If the “life span” of the vulnerability is compared to an array, then in the place, Zero-Day events takes place, let’s expand on that.
what are Zero-Day Attacks ?
Let us demonstrate another example that will help us illustrate the situation a tiny-bit better,
Imagine that something you hold dear is inside a house, now someone has a key to that house without you knowing! and not only that, there was no door before! meaning that the “Breakthrough point” wasn’t even there and got created in the moment the vulnerability got found!
Exactly like that, Zero-Day Attacks works, the attacker finds a vulnerability, which are also called Zero-Day Vulnerabilities in the walls surrounding your assets, he then finds a way to exploit it, and sends a payload as a means of proof.
But wait, does he? because in these events only the attacker knows about the vulnerability, we hit a crossroad, which can lead to one thing that can happen out of several :
- The hacker will keep this new “Discovery” for himself, won’t report it, and basically, do nothing (unlikely).
- The hacker will report it to the authority responsible for securing the asset usually expecting some sort of reward or a job interview (Gray Hat).
- The attacker will sell what he just found for the highest bidder, meaning that in this moment, only 2 people know about this vulnerability, in case the buyer is the one who initiated the attack, there is a chance that the person who originally found it won’t be “connected” to the event, which acquits him of this crime.
- The last option that can happen (and probably the less-likely one), is that the hacker simply “releases” and spreads the vulnerability all across the web, in these cases, their motives is usually on a social basis (also called “Hacktivists”).
Fun Fact :
Did you know that Kayran’s Web Application Vulnerability Scanner can analyze and predict Zero-Day Attacks, by detecting potential Zero-Day Vulnerabilities and building payloads that Kayran has created during the scan ?!
And remember, no one likes surprise parties, especially not in the Cybersecurity field (confirmed).
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Who We Are?
The mission of the Boston HBCU Alumni Network is to provide Boston area youth with leadership development skills, mentorship opportunities and exposure to educational resources. We specifically focus on bridging connections from high-school to college, and from college to career.
We believe that if we are able to provide youth of color a space to authentically engage with and learn from people that share similar upbringing and racial ethnic backgrounds that have successfully navigated post-secondary education and careers, then we can positively change the educational/professional trajectory of the next generation of Boston’s youth of color.
George B. Cox Equity in Urban Education Fellowship
Named after prominent educator and HBCU Alumnus George B. Cox,
The Equity in Urban Education Fellowship through the Boston Public Schools (BPS) Office of Recruitment, Cultivation and Diversity (RCD) is designed to be an inclusive, project-based professional learning opportunity for undergraduates, students as they enter into the final phase(s) of their undergraduate careers, equipping them with the tools necessary to succeed in professional landscapes. Collaboration, professional learning,
and supporting the district of Boston Public School strategic plan are the three main drivers that will push the fellows’ work throughout their fellowship (Semester or Summer).
To provide additional development opportunities, each fellow will receive the following services:
- Interview preparation : Resume & Cover Letter Support and MockInterview Sessions,
- Mentoring and Career Coaching – Intergenerational meetings, a learn series with a strong emphasis on career trajectory and shadowing.
After each fellowship, each fellow will be asked to deliver a capstone presentation that showcases their contribution to the BPS RCD team with any organizational suggestions that they might have based on information collected throughout the summer. and highlights their professional learning acquired throughout the summer/semester.
Boston Public Schools Teacher Cadet Program
The BPS Teacher Cadet Program is a district-wide pathway that identifies and cultivates culturally, linguistically and racially diverse high school students who will become the educators of tomorrow. Students are engaged as early as freshman year of high school and continuing through college graduation, TC Student-Scholars receive academic support and professional development. Scholars are tracked and supported through their experience exploring the field of education through lesson planning, teacher observations, and tutoring. They gain leadership skills, participate in college visits and conferences, and prepare for a teaching career. The BPS TeacherCadet Program engages Scholars in monthly meetings, college visits and conferences, and a curriculum focused on teacher education, college access, and leadership development. The model engages students from all grade levels in high school through college graduation
Boston Day and Evening 2.0 Mentorship Program
In partnership with City Year and the Boston Day and Evening 2.0Academy (BDEA), the Boston HBCU Alumni Network will present a series of mentorship events, including but not limited to: recruitment fairs, mentor-match orientations, and special in-person events to engage students with potential and matched mentors from ourNetwork who are eager to provide educational and socio-emotional support and guidance. The goal of this partnership will be to pair our vast network of HBCU Alumni who are prepared to advise and pipeline BPS students from secondary school into post-secondary opportunities such as college and trade school. | <urn:uuid:337ceb7e-b6d5-4222-852c-96e24111e805> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://hbcuboston.org/about/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571745.28/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812170436-20220812200436-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.952887 | 703 | 1.632813 | 2 |
In Hearts of Iron IV, as in most of her games, Paradox gave little to no attention to "minor" countries, mostly emergent under-the-equator contries. One of them is Brazil.
Brazil is the 5th largest country and the 8th richest in the world by 2019. It has one of the largest mineral reserves of the planet and has a player in WWII, having it's 27,000 strong Expeditionary Forces, the Pisa-based FEB Pisa, forcing the surrender of a joint German-Italian Army, lead by General Otto Fretter-Pico, and being the most important army in the breakthrough of the Eastern Section of the Gothic Line and the liberation of the Po Valley, in what would end in the liberation of Ravenna and Bologna from the Axis, which culminated in the dismantling of the Italian Social Republic of 1943.
Between 1930-1945 Brazil suffered one of it's most troubled political times and it's second biggest economical and industrial boom of the 20st Century. The Vargas regime was marked by a Civil War in 1932 between the major brazilian states, the discovery of strategical resources in Brazilian territory, like Oil and Tungsten, the foundation of major government-controlled companies and most of the countries' industrial, military and legal bases.
Not only it's was a great time for the country, it was an unstable time of competition between rural oligarchs, liberals, integralists, communists and varguists for the absolute control of the nation and the capacity to set the countries' future.
In light of this historical setting and the importance that such decades represents of Brazilian history, it's nothing but fitting for it to have a focus tree, complete with a plethora of decisions, military and civil leaders, ideas, songs, sounds, resources, manufactories, advisors and flavour, in both English and Portuguese.
Here are the major features this mod adds
- An in-depth focus tree, being perfected on since June 2016, coming along with
--- The option to enable/disable sounds that play on completion, which include anthems and speeches
--- A trade-oriented diplomatic branch
--- A scaled and organic industrial branch
--- Player-friendly political, military and scientific branches, with the option to restore the Monarchy
--- The option to build Brasília
--- A technology to fight much better in the Amazon
- Game-setting ideas, with custom GFXs
- Huge decision categories, which range options for
--- Kickstarting the National Alcohol Program
--- Developing your industry with flavour through the Ministry of Public Works
--- Picking a leader among dozens, all of which having custom traits and being part of an contextualized ideological group
- Detailed map with at least 3 major cities per state, with lights on at night
- Carefully written localisation, in order to contextualize the player as much as he likes about the historical setting.
- A plethora of advisors, also with custom GFXs
- Dozens of Army and Navy leaders, with custom GFXs and thought-through skills
- Technology names and GFXs
- Custom designers and manufactorers, also with their own GFX
I've been working on this mod since 2016, and appreciate the support the steam and ModDB community have given me so far. I hope that I can continue my work for the forseeable future, in order to guarantee a pleasant experience for anyone trying to play this marvellous south american nation.
Wish you all good fun,
You guys thought i was dead, right? Well, you are wrong.
W R O N G
For those who don't know what my mod does:
"The Mod adds a Unique, historically-based, focus tree for Brazil, largest country in South America and her informal major power. It also adds more generals, policies and resources, all based on actual aspects of Brazilian Society to improve anyone daring to play as the South American Nation."
-Me, some months back then
For the last days i had been researching map customization. My goal, since i created this mod, was adding new cities and Victory Points, in regards to my countries' major urban areas.
So, yeah, i finally did it:
And it's absolutely glorious.
Also, i've finally fixed the music. Turns out it was a typo. Well, now you can play as Brazil with its best military marches while you head on forward to victory against the vile Argentine!
Also made some bug fixes and the best pun-idea from a brazilian to other brazilians.
That's pretty much it guys. You can download it here:
Have fun out there!
Another expansion is coming soonfor Hearts of Iron IV, so here's five more mods to welcome you back!
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It is believed that multi attribute decision making problem is an ill-defined and unstructured problem. This difficulty intensifies while considering the uncertainty of decision makers’ information about the problem. In recent years, interval valued intuitionistic fuzzy sets (hereafter IVIFs) as a generalization of ordinal fuzzy sets, became a well-known and widely applied framework for dealing with uncertainty of decision making problems. However, the mathematical programming aspects of interval valued intuitionistic fuzzy sets besides their applications in decision making problems are neglected. To reinforce the mathematical programming approach in IVIF environment, an IVIF multi attribute group decision making problem is formulated as a linear programming model. Using a variable transformation and the notion of aggregation operators, the proposed model is transformed into an equivalent linear programming model solvable by common approaches. Application of the proposed method is represented in a group decision making problem and the results are compared with similar methods, proving the compatibility of the proposed method with previous ones. The solid and understandable logic with computational easiness are the main advantages of the proposed method. Solving interval valued intuitionistic fuzzy linear programming problems can be applied lucratively in other problems being formulated in this context.
Bibliographical noteNOTICE: this is the author’s version of a work that was accepted for publication in Expert Systems with Applications. Changes resulting from the publishing process, such as peer review, editing, corrections, structural formatting, and other quality control mechanisms may not be reflected in this document. Changes may have been made to this work since it was submitted for publication. A definitive version was subsequently published in Expert Systems with Applications, Vol. 42, No. 23, (2015) DOI: 10.1016/j.eswa.2015.07.067
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- Multiattribute group decision making
- Interval valued intuitionistic fuzzy sets
- Variable transformation
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Social determinants of health are the environmental contributors to health outcomes. These may include components of the built environment, access to education and health care, and economic stability, among others (1,2). Area deprivation index (ADI) is a multidimensional measure of the socioeconomic conditions in a neighborhood, which extends beyond individual socioeconomic status and has been linked to health outcomes (3–7). The ADI is based on a measure created by the Health Resources and Services Administration and then validated by the census block group (3). The ADI is calculated using 17 indicators based on income, education, employment, and housing conditions and determines the areas of deprivation and affluence within a community. The ADI serves as a surrogate measure for actual determinants of income, education, employment, and housing quality. Similarly, the microbiome is shaped by the environment, including sociopolitical and economic factors, and is a potential mediator between social determinants and health inequities (8–10). However, the role of ADI and microbiome changes in determining health outcomes needs to be better studied in the context of cirrhosis.
There are several reasons to believe that cirrhosis-related cognitive impairment or minimal hepatic encephalopathy (MHE) may be mediated through a pathway through alterations of the gut microbiota and also to neighborhood disadvantage. Cirrhosis is an established cause of altered gut microbial structure and function (11–14). The most common causes of cirrhosis include obesity, viral hepatitis, and alcohol misuse, which disproportionately affect people with socioeconomic disadvantage (4,15–20). Furthermore, an altered gut-brain axis (21) is inherent in the causation of MHE that affects daily function, progression to the overt stage, and survival (22,23). Thus, we propose a conceptual model wherein ADI, microbiome, and other social and individual level factors influence MHE in cirrhosis.
Understanding how ADI and alterations of the gut microbiota interact to affect health outcomes for patients with cirrhosis may improve prognostication and generate individualized therapeutic strategies. Our aim was to study the associations of ADI and gut microbial changes with MHE in a large cohort of outpatients with cirrhosis. We hypothesized that ADI is associated with gut microbiota composition and with cognitive dysfunction in patients with cirrhosis.
We included outpatients with cirrhosis older than 18 years who were able to consent, provide stool samples, and perform cognitive testing using psychometric HE scores (PHES). Cirrhosis was diagnosed using liver biopsy, radiological or endoscopic evidence of portal hypertension in patients with chronic liver disease, evidence of decompensation, or using elastography. We excluded patients in whom the diagnosis of cirrhosis was unclear; those with recent or active alcohol or illegal substance misuse; and those unable to provide consent and samples or perform complete cognitive testing.
Data regarding demographics, including self-identified race (White, African American, or Asian based on Census bureau definitions) and ethnicity (Hispanic or not) on interview, years of education, current and all addresses lived at within the past 5 years were recorded. Cirrhosis severity; complications of cirrhosis; and medications that affect the microbiota, such as proton pump inhibitors (PPIs), lactulose, rifaximin, and other antibiotics, were also collected from the medical record.
We used patient-reported addresses to calculate ADIs for each patient for the address at the time of sample collection and testing. ADIs were calculated along with the state (decile) and national (percentile) levels using census blocks (3).
PHES is a validated 5-test paper-pencil battery which tests visuomotor coordination, psychomotor speed, and reaction time (24). It consists of the number connection test A, number connection test B, digit symbol test, serial dotting test, and line tracing test (has 2 components: time and errors). Based on population control values, the SDs are calculated for each subtest and the total is added to give 1 value (21). A low score indicates better cognition. We used adjusted norms to determine MHE when the total score was ≤−4 SD (25). Since these norms were based on some measures (educational status) that were also collinear with determining the ADI, we also performed analyses of individual tests for national and state ADI rankings.
Stool was collected using Para-Pak collection kits. DNA was extracted using published methods. The V1 and V2 variable regions of the bacterial 16S ribosomal RNA gene were sequenced using Multitag fusion primers and sequenced on an Ion Torrent PGM next-generation sequencer (see Supplementary Methods, Supplementary Digital Content 1, https://links.lww.com/CTG/A809). Data from each pooled sample were “deconvoluted” by sorting the sequences into bins based on the barcodes using custom PERL scripts. Thus, we were able to normalize each sample by the total number of reads from each barcode. We used a local installation of the RDP 11.5 Classifier to produce the taxonomic relative abundance tables used by BiomMiner (26).
Statistical and bioinformatics analyses
Patients with high vs low ADI were compared for demographics, race, ethnicity, cirrhosis severity, medications, and cognitive performance. Because the total PHES and MHE classification is age, sex, and education-adjusted but individual test results are not, we also compared the individual results between groups. Associations between ADI (continuous) and demographics, model for end-stage liver disease (MELD) score, and total PHES were also assessed using Pearson correlations.
Analyses were conducted at the bacterial genus level and measures of alpha and beta-diversity were calculated. DESeq2 was used to compare taxa between MHE-positive and negative patients and between those with high and low ADI (50th percentile/decile) rankings at state and national levels (27). PERMANOVA analyses of Bray-Curtis distance were performed between low/high ADIs, and t tests comparing Shannon diversity were performed between groups, including between those with/without prior HE and MHE. Shannon diversity was correlated with PHES, MELD score, and ADI state and national rankings.
Separate linear regression models were created, modeling PHES and then state and national ADI rankings as dependent variables. Demographics, race, ethnicity, cirrhosis details, and medications were independent variables. The model for MHE included ADI as a continuous variable, whereas the ADI model included PHES as a continuous variable. Finally, we created models using MAAsLin2 to evaluate the contribution of demographics, cirrhosis severity, concurrent medications, and microbiota toward neighborhood disadvantage and on MHE (28). A P value of <0.05 with a q value of <0.05 was considered significant on MAAsLin2.
We enrolled 321 patients with cirrhosis with a mean age of 60.1 ± 7.9 years and an educational level of 13.5 ± 2.4 years with mostly men (n = 249, 78%). Most patients (N = 241, 75%) self-identified as non-Hispanic White while 23% (n = 75) self-identified as non-Hispanic African American, 5 patients (1%) as Asian, and 14 (4%) as being of Hispanic ethnicity, all of whom had Latin American ancestry. The average national percentile of ADI was 49.08 ± 21.77 (range 6–100, with higher scores indicating higher disadvantage), and the mean state decile was 6.1 ± 2.3 (range 1–10, with 10 indicating the most neighborhood disadvantage). Approximately half of the patients fell below the national (44%, n = 142) and state (57%, n = 184) mean ADIs. Only 10 patients had moved to an area within the past 5 years that would have changed their state and national ADIs; remaining had stable addresses within that period.
Alcohol-related etiology was found in 112 patients (36%). Forty-five percent of the patients (n = 145) had prior HE, most of whom were on lactulose (n = 112) or rifaximin (n = 87). The mean MELD score was 12.5 ± 6.1, and most patients were on PPI therapy (n = 169, 53%). The mean PHES adjusted for age, sex, and education was −4.75 ± 4.89, with 181 patients (56%) diagnosed with MHE according to our norms.
Relationship between ADIs and patient characteristics
The individual education level was significantly, inversely correlated with state and national ADI deciles (both R = −0.20, P < 0.0001; Figure 1). However, no other liver-related and demographic characteristics were correlated with ADI (Table 1, Figure 1, see Supplementary Figure S1a,b, Supplementary Digital Content 1, https://links.lww.com/CTG/A809). Self-identified non-Hispanic White people with cirrhosis had a lower state ADI decile (5.8 ± 2.2) compared with non-Hispanic African American people (7.1 ± 2.4, P < 0.0001). Similarly, the national percentile was also lower in non-Hispanic White (46.5 ± 20.5) compared with non-Hispanic African American (57.1 ± 23.8, P = 0.001) patients. The state ADI decile (Hispanic 5.1 ± 2.7 vs non-Hispanic 6.1 ± 2.3, P = 0.2) and national ADI percentile (Hispanic 58.7 ± 26.0 vs non-Hispanic 48.6 ± 21.5, P = 0.18) were statistically similar between those who self-identified as Hispanic versus the rest. Because PHES and MHE are adjusted, we also studied raw scores of the 6 subtests, which were again not significantly correlated with ADI (Table 2).
Table 1. -
Comparison of clinical and demographic variables depending on area deprivation index rankings
|Area deprivation index 50th decile/percentile division
||State decile upper/lower half
||National percentile upper/lower half
|Lower disadvantage (n = 137)
||Higher disadvantage (n = 184)
||Lower disadvantage (n = 179)
||Higher disadvantage (n = 142)
||59.5 ± 8.1
||61.6 ± 7.7
||60.2 ± 7.9
||61.3 ± 7.9
||13.9 ± 2.4
||13.3 ± 2.4
||13.8 ± 2.3
||13.1 ± 2.5
||12.8 ± 6.0
||12.3 ± 6.1
||12.3 ± 5.3
||12.9 ± 7.0
|Proton pump inhibitors
||−4.45 ± 5.01
||−4.96 ± 4.80
||−4.63 ± 4.98
||−4.91 ± 4.77
||45.3 ± 22.7
||53.2 ± 52.0
||49.5 ± 48.1
||50.2 ± 33.2
||127.0 ± 102.0
||139.6 ± 96.5
||130.0 ± 104.0
||139.9 ± 91.6
|DST (raw score)
||47.7 ± 17.9
||44.2 ± 16.4
||46.4 ± 17.8
||44.8 ± 16.1
|SDT (raw score)
||76.5 ± 34.2
||80.7 ± 37.9
||79.3 ± 37.6
||78.4 ± 34.9
|LTTe (raw score)
||36.9 ± 35.4
||38.5 ± 26.3
||36.1 ± 33.0
||40.1 ± 26.9
||109.5 ± 54.2
||111.1 ± 66.2
||116.1 ± 64.9
||103.1 ± 55.6
Data are presented as mean ± SD or n (%).
A high PHES indicates good cognition. High scores on NCT-A, NCT-B, LTTe, LTTt, and SDT and low scores on DST indicate good performance. All Hispanic patients were White.
AA, African American; DST, digit symbol test; HE, hepatic encephalopathy; LTTe, errors on line tracing test; LTTt, time to complete line tracing test; MELD, model for end-stage liver disease; MHE, minimal hepatic encephalopathy; NCT-A, number connection test A; NCT-B, number connection test B; PHES, psychometric hepatic encephalopathy score; SDT, serial dotting test; SES, socioeconomic status.
Table 2. -
Correlations between area deprivation rankings and clinical variables
|DST (raw score)
|SDT (raw score)
|LTTe (raw score)
A high PHES score indicates good cognition. High scores on NCT-A, NCT-B, LTTe, LTTt, and SDT and low scores on DST indicate good performance. Higher area deprivation ranking is associated with higher neighborhood deprivation.
DST, digit symbol test; HE, hepatic encephalopathy; LTTe, errors on line tracing test; LTTt, time to complete line tracing test; MELD, model for end-stage liver disease; MHE, minimal hepatic encephalopathy; NCT-A, number connection test A; NCT-B, number connection test B; PHES, psychometric hepatic encephalopathy score; SDT, serial dotting test.
Shannon diversity was lower in those with MHE (2.08 ± 0.6 vs 2.21 ± 0.49, 0.03) and prior HE patients (1.99 ± 0.60 vs 2.25 ± 0.53, P < 0.0001) vs. the rest. Shannon diversity was negatively correlated with the MELD score (r = −0.4, P < 0.0001) and PHES (r = −0.4, P < 0.0001). There was also a significant separation on PCoA using PERMANOVA (Figure 2a). Patients with MHE had a greater log fold change of genera belonging to Lactobacillaceae (Pediococcus, Lacticaseibacillus, and Lactobacillus) and potential pathobionts (Enterococcus, Klebsiella, Escherichia-Shigella, Pseudomonas) compared with those without MHE (Figure 2b).
There was a significant separation between groups with high versus low ADI at both state and national levels on PERMANOVA (Figures 3a and 4a). In the state comparison, high ADI (high disadvantage) was associated with Lactobacillus (Pediococcus, Leuconostoc, and Weissella) and other lactate producers (Fournierella) with Proteobacteria members (Desulfovibrio, Phytobacter, and Raoultella), whereas Enterococcus and Enterobacter were lower on fold changes (Figure 3b).
On the national comparison, log2 fold change in those with low ADI (low disadvantage) was greater for short-chain fatty acid (SCFA)-producing taxa (Faecalibacterium, Roseburia, Alistipes, and Lachnospiraceae) while also higher for gram-negative taxa (Figure 4b). There was a very low correlation between Shannon diversity at the genus level and state decile (r = 0.15, P = 0.007; Figure 3c) and national percentile (r = 0.10, P = 0.09; Figure 4c).
Linear regression analyses were performed using PHES and state and national deciles as dependent variables using clinical data. National ADI was significantly, inversely associated with education (t value −3.31, P = 0.001) and positively associated with African American self-identification (2.73, P = 0.007), diabetes (2.4, P = 0.02), Hispanic ethnicity (2.1, P = 0.03), prior HE (−1.5, P = 0.13), and male sex (1.7, P = 0.09). The decile of state ADI was inversely associated with education (−3.56, P < 0.001) and positively associated with identifying as African American (3.83, P < 0.001), higher age (2.11, P = 0.036), and diabetes (1.45, P = 0.15).
Factors significantly associated with higher PHES (noting that higher score indicates better performance) for included prior HE (t value −2.20, P = 0.005), MELD (−0.17, P < 0.0001), education (0.38, P < 0.001), PPI use (−1.06, P = 0.04), and male sex (−1.40, P = 0.03). ADI was not significantly associated with PHES in multivariable models.
Neither state nor national ADIs were significantly associated with MHE on MAAsLin2. A higher national ADI percentile was associated with MHE with P = 0.09, which did not pass FDR (q value 0.69). Similarly, the state decile of ADI was associated with MHE with 0.41 and a q value of 0.99. As presented in Table 3, liver-related factors were significantly related to MHE. In addition, bacterial genera associated with SCFA production (Blautia, Lachnoclostridium, and Mediterraneibacter) were protective against while lactate producers (Lactobacillus and Lacticaseibacillus) were associated with MHE.
Table 3. -
Significant variables on MAAsLin2 using minimal HE as the dependent variable
||Direction higher in minimal HE
Neither national percentile nor state decile was significantly related with minimal HE when added to the multivariable model above.
HE, hepatic encephalopathy; MELD, model for end-stage liver disease.
Using the 50th percentile/decile of the ADI rankings as the outcome (modeling high vs low ADI), none of the clinical or microbiota-related features were significant after FDR correction (see Supplementary Tables 1 and 2, Supplementary Digital Content 1, https://links.lww.com/CTG/A809).
ADI was associated with gut microbial composition alterations in patients with cirrhosis on univariate analysis. However, when traditional cirrhosis-related risk factors such as HE and MELD scores were considered, ADI was not associated with gut microbiota composition or cognitive performance on multivariable analysis.
The focus of our study was to determine whether ADI was associated with microbiota composition and with cognitive impairment in the complex chronic disease setting of cirrhosis. The hypothesis was that cognitive impairment with cirrhosis would be related to higher ADI as a surrogate for socioeconomic and health disparities and to gut bacterial dysbiosis. This is relevant because cirrhosis and chronic liver disease are a sum of associated factors such as obesity, alcohol, and drug use that are strongly rooted in neighborhood disadvantage (15,29,30). These factors could impair access to health care, affect dietary habits, affect acceptance and response to medications or therapy, and therefore affect important clinical and psychosocial outcomes (4,15,17,31–33). Cognitive impairment in cirrhosis due to HE is related to gut bacterial changes, and this complication also has the highest negative impact on daily function and economic status (22).
We found that neither severity of disease, prior HE, or MHE status, nor specific demographics such as age were linked with ADI either as a continuous variable or when dichotomized into high vs low at a state or national level. However, self-identification as non-Hispanic African American and Hispanic ethnicity was associated with greater neighborhood disadvantage, indicating the need to account for these constructs. The lack of linkage with liver-related variables is striking because we included patients with an extensive spread of ADI deciles and national percentiles.
Neighborhood disadvantage was associated with changes in microbial beta-diversity and specific microbial composition focused on lower SCFA-producing taxa. These findings from univariate analyses mirror prior findings in nondiseased cohorts around the world (8,9,34) and give credence to our underlying hypothesis that area deprivation relates to microbial alterations. However, when clinical variables related to cirrhosis were included, these microbial distinctions disappeared on multivariable analyses. Cognitive impairment, as expected, was associated with worse liver disease, prior HE, along with contributions for microbial genera (higher Lactobacillus members and lower SCFA-producing taxa) indicating the validity of the overall results (35–37). A higher relative abundance of Lactobacillus genera could be because of lactulose use but has been associated with poor cognition even without lactulose in advanced liver disease (37,38). Moreover, Shannon diversity was associated with liver disease and cognitive performance, but not with national or state ADI rankings, again reiterating the impact of cirrhosis rather than the ADI on microbial composition (37). Fitting these multiple influences into the model proposed by Findley et al. (39) in cirrhosis, we included biological processes (MELD score, complications, and cirrhosis etiology), microbial composition (both diversity and individual taxa), and social and physical environmental factors using the surrogate ADI. The current results favor the relationship between microbiome and biological processes in this cross-sectional study as the main determinant of cognitive impairment in cirrhosis. The caveat of course is that ADI is only a surrogate of income, education, employment, and housing quality, and it is possible that alternative and direct methods of gauging social determinants of health may result in different results.
It is possible that the progression to cirrhosis rather the postcirrhosis course that was included in this study may be more dependent on microbiota-ADI interactions. For instance, patients with lower SES may be more likely to be obese, have lower access to healthier foods such as yogurt and high-fiber diets, and have lesser access to services that reduce alcohol and drug dependence (4,19,20,32,40). These may in turn affect the microbiota, brain function, and increase progression of patients with lower ADI toward cirrhosis (41–44). However, we found that once cirrhosis has set in, despite analyzing these factors from a univariate and multivariable approach, ADI was not significantly associated with cognitive testing results or microbiota composition in this cohort of people with cirrhosis.
Our study, although novel in its approach to understanding social determinants in cirrhosis and microbiome, has several limitations. This was a cross-sectional study only focused on patients who had already developed cirrhosis. It is possible that other, unexamined social determinants are implicated in the pathway toward interaction of environment, microbiota, and cirrhosis and HE development. ADI is distinct from individual SES and is a construct designed to capture allostatic load of living in an area and is not intended to capture the economic situation of an individual or family (3). Accordingly, we found that ADI was associated with education in this population. However, we did not inquire regarding personal and family income in our patients to evaluate how ADI links with SES in this population. That said, ADI generally has been found to contribute to health outcomes, independent of SES (5,6,18). In addition, we included self-identified race and ethnicity not as a biological construct but rather a measure of diversity in our cohort (45).
In conclusion, neighborhood disadvantage, which is a surrogate measure of income, education, employment, and housing quality, was associated with gut microbiota composition in cirrhosis on univariable analysis. However, when cirrhosis-related variables were included, the influence of area deprivation index on cognitive impairment and microbial composition did not remain significant. Microbiota related to short-chain fatty acid and lactic acid production was linked with cognitive impairment independent of area deprivation index rankings. Further exploration of aspects of socioeconomic status other than area deprivation rankings and focusing on patients before cirrhosis has developed are needed to determine the contribution of social determinants of health on microbiota and cognitive impairment.
CONFLICTS OF INTEREST
Guarantor of the article: Jasmohan S. Bajaj, MD.
Specific author contributions: J.S.B. was involved in all aspects. A.F., S.M., and R.K.S. were involved in research conduct and data/sample collection. M.S. and P.M.G. were involved in microbiota analysis. S.R. was involved in critical revision.
Financial support: This work was supported in part by 2I0CX00176 VA Merit Review and R21TR003095 to J.S.B. The funders had no role in the collection, analysis, and interpretation of data; in the writing of the report; and in the decision to submit the paper for publication.
Potential competing interests: None to report.
IRB approval: This protocol was approved by the Richmond VA and VCU IRBs.
WHAT IS KNOWN
- ✓ Neighborhood disadvantage is associated with poor access to healthier diet and social and medical services and can associate with altered gut microbiota.
- ✓ Cirrhosis is also associated with altered gut microbiota that work through the gut-brain axis to promote encephalopathy.
- ✓ The impacts of neighborhood disadvantage and altered microbiota on cognitive dysfunction in patients with cirrhosis are unknown.
WHAT IS NEW HERE
- ✓ In this cohort of outpatients with cirrhosis, the area deprivation index was not significantly associated with cognitive performance or hepatic encephalopathy.
- ✓ Although the area deprivation index was associated with lower gut microbes that produce short-chain fatty acids and higher lactate producers and there were differences in beta-diversity, this association did not remain significant on multivariable analysis.
- ✓ The impact of cirrhosis on gut microbiota may be so profound that associations between area deprivation index and microbiota are less important.
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Bitcoin was touted as the world’s first decentralized digital currency. It basically is a cryptocurrency which uses peer-to-peer technology to provide payment network gateway. Bitcoin is deliberately designed for public use by making it an open-source. Therefore, nobody owns or governs or control Bitcoin and everyone can be a part of it. Bitcoin financial infrastructure follows decentralized and automated systems which overcome the inefficiency of the traditional financial system. The unique feature of Bitcoin is that no one can block you from transferring money from anywhere in this world. Further, this makes whole transaction process irreversible. These transactions are recorded in a public distribution ledger called a blockchain.
When compared to traditional financial system which follows a centralized money transaction, where every transaction is monitored by bank or a country or a third party, Bitcoin defies all these logics. Here is a system which offers decentralized cryptocurrency using block chain technology and which can be used to exchange for other currencies, products or services.
The technology behind it
Using a Bitcoin?
Before using Bitcoin it is important to educate yourself as Bitcoin is a subject of market risk. Even storing Bitcoin in the wallet is not recommended as the market is pretty nascent and susceptible to risk. Also, Bitcoin transaction is irreversible this means that you should take utmost care while transferring Bitcoin to any person or company.
Before starting, all you need is your smartphone or a computer. Bitcoin offers three simple easy steps for its operation.
Step1. Bitcoin user needs to download a wallet to send, receive and store Bitcoin. The Bitcoin wallet will store your public and private key pair. Basically, the public key is your randomly generated Bitcoin address. In order to do any transaction, you need to share your Bitcoin address. Also, anyone can see your public key/Bitcoin address.
Step2. Bitcoin offers three modes from where you can buy Bitcoins – Bitcoin Exchange, Bitcoin Community and Bitcoin ATM. You can use your traditional money to buy Bitcoin from Bitcoin Exchange and stored in your Bitcoin wallet. You can also trade your Bitcoin at any nearby local community centers. Bitcoin ATMs offers an easy and simple mode to buy and sell Bitcoins closest to your location.
Step3. You can spend your Bitcoin at various business points such as online or local business. Spendabit is a search engine that offers a product for sale with Bitcoin. There are also companies, stores, and shops who accept Bitcoin for purchase. Even, small businesses like cafes and restaurants are not missing out this opportunity and are not hesitant to try this mode of transaction.
Bitcoin uses blockchain technology to transfer this cyrptocurrency across a peer-to-peer network without any intimidatory body. Blockchain technology makes this possible by incorporating its four key features:
1: Decentralization: A decentralized technology allows us to store assets in a network that can be accessed over the Internet. The assets can be anything ranging from a token, a contract, chain-of-evidence documents, or property registry documents. This decentralization allows the owner direct control by using a private key linked directly to the asset. The asset can be transferred as wished by the owner and to anyone.
The Block-chain technology is viewed as a powerful technology and has the potential to bring massive changes in the existing industries like in the field of banking and finance. The intended objective of giving owners the direct control of assets eventually avoids the huge transactional charges paid to a third party acting as a middle men. The individual can directly indulge in transaction giving minimal fee.
2: A publicly available distributed ledger: A block-chain is a public ledger that provides information of all the participants and all digital transactions that have ever been executed. A block is termed as “prevailing” part of a block-chain and keeps the record of the recent transactions. Once completed, it goes into the block-chain. Blocks are added in sequential manner with the next block containing hash of the previous block. A new block is generated as soon as the previous block gets entered in the block-chain database. This technology helps in recording each transaction and sharing it across the network. Every user in the network can validate transactions and has an identical copy of the ledger, to which the encrypted transactions can be added.
The end result is a highly efficient and secure method of performing transactions and it serves as an online ledger keeping record of transactions that can’t be changed.
3: Secure Ecosystem: Block-chain provides a tamper free environment for the participants in the network. Blockchain network automatically checks and updates itself every few minutes, this helps in providing a self-reviewing system. It helps in providing a very robust system. All data is embedded within the network which makes it public. Hence, it helps in providing transparency. It needs a huge amount of computing power to attempt altering of the data and eventually makes it less prone to corruption. Also, as the data is divided into blocks, verification happens at every block resulting in no failure.
4: Easily mintable: By data mining, one can easily mint a Bitcoin. A computational puzzle has to be solved to be able to mint a Bitcoin. The role of the miner is to create the block containing a number of latest transaction, it has to encrypt data by all the computational process and thus provide the proof of work. The proof of work is a protocol essential for Bitcoin mining. The miner gets rewarded financially by doing it. The miners compete with each other in order to be the first one to add the recent block on the top of the block-chain. The added block is then verified by other nodes when other blocks are added on top of it.
The Technology Transaction Flow
What does Patenting trends reflect?
Have we bored you with so much technology jargon? We believe so and hence we are shifting our focus towards what we do best – Patent research. For starters, Bitcoin and the technology behind it is still in the early stages of the research. What follows is an attempt to discuss the top technology trends that have been observed.
Patent filing activity
Bitcoin is making a huge buzz in the digital economy world. Technology futurists see it as a new financial system that could change the way we use banks. We have seen how Bitcoin popularity has grown tremendously and its value has climbed in price to over $10,000 USD per coin, and possesses a huge technological potential and is adapting new technology to reduce its flaws.
The chart below represents the research trend in the domain. It is evident from the chart that since 2006, there has been an increasing patent filing activity. With several players such Mastercard, Bank of America, Capital One, Microsoft and Paypal aggressively doing the R&D and filing patents. With such promising observations in terms of efficiency and security over the last five years, they intend on keeping up with the Bitcoin block-chain technology for commercial purposes. As said earlier, the trends of 2016 and 2017 do not reflect an accurate observance as most the patents are not yet available in the public domain. If the trend is extrapolated, it is highly likely that the filing should be anywhere between 300-400 patents for 2016-17.
Top countries researching
This graph gives an insight on which countries are leading in terms of filing the patents related to Bitcoin and block-chain technology in general. USA with 159 patents is the top country with a maximum number of the patents. Japan with 112 patents is ranked #2.
It is evident that USA, Japan and China has a huge market potential and is going to generate a great amount of user base for the consumption of this crypto currency.
Assignees investing heavily in R&D
Bank of America, Mastercard, Paypal, Capital One are some of the top companies that are heavily vested in the research related to the Bitcoin and block-chain technology. In order to figure out how exactly their focus has shifted from traditional transaction based research to the bitcoin research, we looked at their patents filed over the last decade. The insights revealed are as follows:
Bank of America leads the charge with most patents filed closely followed by Mastercard. Paypal, Capital One, IBM take the honors at #3, #4, and #5 slot respectively.
Top technologies filed
We analyzed the patent classes which had the most filings to understand what technologies have been at the centre of focus for the companies. Technologies such as financial forecasting, mathematical computations, digital data processing, and transmission of secure digital date has been the forefront.
What kind of Patents are filed?
Bitgo’s patent publication number US20150120569A1 is one of the most cited patents. This patent discloses a novel method and system to secure virtual currency address. This involves network device over an electronic network to receive public keys of two or more second public-private key pairs.
Another patent application, US20150287026A1 assigned to Modernity Financial Holdings, utilizes big data for providing a secure medium for the transaction through private hot wallet services. This hot wallet acts as an identifier for cryptocurrency account holder.
In another patent application US20140201057A1 by the assignee, Brian Mark Shuster discloses a method and system to manage certificates which are used for economy exchange. These certificates are electronically generated by computers and used as a digital currency similar to Bitcoins.
Apple has secured their Apple devices for cryptocurrency transaction by using an innovative method of cryptography. Apple’s US20150213433A1 discloses a method to use electronic devices for secure provisioning of credentials using elliptic curve cryptography. Further, this novel method provides a secure medium for cryptocurrency transaction such as Bitcoin.
Bitcoin and the competition
The other currencies other than the giant Bitcoin are collectively referred to as Altcoin in the industry. A comparison chart of various altcoin with Bitcoin has been created which are as follows:
To briefly summarize, Bitcoins are the new crypto currency that utilizes block-chain technology. Blockchains are nothing but distributed peer-to-peer networks that can have many different applications. It is the first and a goliath of block-chain technology and it acts as a financial network, ledger, software, currency and asset. It’s a kind of technology that can simultaneously integrate multiple functions, and thus the third party regulators have a hard time defining cryptocurrencies. Blockchains can be quite customizable to serve a wide array of needs.
Bitcoin is the most commonly acceptable currency these days on the web and has a great dollar value currently trading around 3000 US dollars. It is highly volatile and it remains to be seen how its value shapes up in the near future. In terms of research and patenting though, there is no stopping and several banking institutions have realized the potential of such technology and are vested heavily in to further developing this and staying ahead of the game. | <urn:uuid:98c9ef44-fff9-4a3e-9e79-0a08442fac00> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://www.ipwatchdog.com/2017/12/04/bitcoin-game-changer-overnight/id=90519/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571745.28/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812170436-20220812200436-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.936659 | 2,229 | 2.8125 | 3 |
Instead of chasing their prey across long distances in open grass plains, African wild dogs are hunting in wooded areas using multiple short-distance, high-speed bursts. Data from GPS collars reveal that their individual success rates are low, but they share their kills with other pack members: The energy return from group feeding outweighs the cost of multiple short chases. And in this way, their strategy may be more efficient than the sheer athleticism of cheetahs hunting alone in the same area. The findings are published as two papers in Nature Communications this week.
Since the 19th century, African wild dogs (Lycaon pictus) have been traditionally described as highly collaborative endurance pursuit hunters: They chase large prey at relatively low speeds over many kilometers in groups. But as their range became increasingly restricted to woodlands and wooded savannahs with dense vegetation, it's no longer clear that their energetically costly hunting strategy is still a successful one.
To investigate, a team led by Alan Wilson of the Royal Veterinary College attached high-resolution GPS collars with velocity data loggers to all six members of a pack of African wild dogs in the Okavango Delta region of northern Botswana: one dominant pair and their siblings. The collars (pictured to the right) are equipped with solar panels and two rechargeable batteries, allowing the team to track fine-scale movements for up to seven months in 2012.
After analyzing 1,119 chases, the team found no evidence of long-distance pursuits or cooperative chases requiring coordination (beyond greeting and rallying before hunts). Turns out, most of their hunting attempts are short-distance chases of multiple medium-sized prey (mostly impala) by several dogs simultaneously. This is an energetically cheaper strategy, though their individual kill rate is only 15.5 percent.
In a second study, the team developed an energy-balance model to compare the energetic costs of this hunting strategy with the returns. While the success rate of each dog is low, these costs are offset by sharing prey within the pack. On average, each dog chased prey about twice a day, though they do have a strict social hierarchy: Dominant adults and their pups feed first. “This may be why we saw the subordinates hunting more frequently,” Wilson explains to IFLScience. “They are more likely to be hungry.”
Furthermore, the team compare the dogs’ strategy with the stalk and sprint-pursuit of cheetahs (Acinonyx jubatus), an energetically demanding tactic that results in a higher success rate of 26 percent. In terms of the kill gain to kill cost ratio, a solitary hunting cheetah is twice as efficient as a solitary dog, but sharing prey boosts the pack’s efficiency to nearly triple that of one cheetah.
“The energy balance model would suggest it is a good strategy, and arguments can be made that if you can catch prey with short hunts, why invest energy in using long ones,” Wilson adds. As habitats for African wild dogs become less favorable, being flexible with hunting behaviors will become increasingly critical.
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Maureen Ochieng has been a farmer in Siaya for the last five years. But it is in the last two years that she has realised farming benefits, after discovering a wonderful dehydration technology.
Maureen has a one-and-a-half-acre farm. On one-eighth of an acre, she has planted mangoes.
She had been a victim of uncontrollable market forces that would drive prices down. The mother of three would tend to her mango trees only to find little or no market when the fruit ripened.
With Siaya having an abundance of mangoes during the peak seasons (November-January), plenty is harvested but most of it goes to waste on the farms. This is because, with surplus produce, the local market does not absorb all the produce. Prices dip to less than five Kenya shillings per mango, leaving many farmers counting losses.
“It was so bad that sometimes I would sell each mango for less than five shillings. By all standards that price is not competitive and I would be left counting losses. I was also unable to store them as they are very perishable and would rot within days,” says the farmer.
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The Youth Group
When a frustrated Maureen heard about a local youth group that was helping farmers improve their farms she decided to join to try and salvage her farming business. She had heard about a mango value addition FAO project which was designed to empower the youth and wanted to be a part of it.
Members in the group, called Kobiero Youth Group would make contributions and take loans to boost their farming. It was, therefore, an added advantage when through a stroke of good fortune, the group got an opportunity to partner with the Siaya County government and Agricycle Limited.
The partnership enabled members to receive training to improve their farming yields and sharpen their business management skills. Late last year, they were able to purchase dehydrators from Agricycle and learn how to dry fruit.
The use of this technology was the turning point in how Maureen and the other members would carry out their mango-growing business.
They are now transforming mangoes that would otherwise go to waste into premium products and selling them at higher prices to Agricycle’s sister company, Jali Fruit Co. The youthful farmers are now counting profits.
For specific value chains, Agricycle directly purchases the dried fruits at a rate up to seven times the average daily wage.
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So how did the dehydrator come to be?
When Josh Shefner decided to visit the beautiful Blue Mountains of Jamaica, he had no idea about the journey of social entrepreneurship that awaited him. What began as a simple visit quickly turned into a mission to empower farmers and a long winding adventure that has seen him partner with over 3,000 farmers from over six African countries.
While at Blue Mountain, Josh had the opportunity to interact with smallholder farmers. He discovered how they struggled to sell their produce in flooded local markets and at rock bottom prices. He discovered that not everything could be absorbed by the market and the farmers would watch, desolate, as their produce rotted.
The discovery devastated him and he knew that he needed to do something. An engineering student at the time, the food safety expert began designing a passive solar dehydrator (it uses the sun) that would enable the farmers’ to store their fruits for longer. Upon seeing this, the excited farmers asked him to link them to markets.
He realised that the farmers lacked adequate resources to brand their products to market and export them internationally. This severely limited their ability to market their produce.
It’s through this experience that Agricycle was born.
The company has a vertically-integrated supply chain that connects farmers to world markets through a portfolio of ethically sourced and upcycled products. With over 30 global employees and a global network of over 40,000 smallholder farmers, Agricycle has grown three distinct product brands: Jali Fruit Co, Tropical Ignition, and Field Better.
Agricycle operates in Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, and Liberia. In Kenya, it supports over 3,000 smallholders.
The company trains the farmers on modern ways to grow, harvest, and process their produce. The training includes value addition processing using passive solar dehydrators and food safety measures to support global market viability.
Agricycle buys dried fruits, brands, markets, and sells it to consumers in the United States of America.
Through the company’s ‘Find My Farm program’ stories of the women who dried it, the farmers who grew it, and the tree it came from are highlighted.
How it works
The dehydrators can produce three to five kilogrammes of dried fruit every 10-12 hours.
It consists of 12 trays made of high-quality, HDPE plastic (FDA-approved food-safe) and does not require any electricity. The dehydrators dry using the sun and natural airflow.
The rectangle tray measures 61 cm by 50.5 cm by 2.8 cm and includes 24 pieces (12 bottoms and 12 tops) which are stackable, making them easy to assemble and reassemble. They are also easy to maintain and clean as the plastic is portable.
To see how easy the dehydrators are to use? Check out Agricycle’s Director of East Africa, Patrick Nderitu, demonstration: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tpXoLUHq_Kg.
The Dehydration Process
- Products that would otherwise go to waste at the farm level are identified and dried.
- The dehydrator trays are cleaned with a mild disinfectant and thoroughly dried.
- The fruit is then sorted and defective or spoilt removed. The ripe and semi-ripe fruit is then set apart for processing.
- The fruit is thoroughly washed to remove dirt and any chemicals. It is washed again in treated water to disinfect it. Once clean, it is peeled and the flesh is cut into medium-sized pieces.
- The slices are then placed onto the bottom trays and covered with the tops. Each tray is packed with as much fruit as it can hold. The trays are placed on the stands and left to dry under the sun.
- The fruit is checked every three hours to monitor the progress.
On average, it takes 10-12 hours for the fruit to dry, however, on an extremely sunny day, it can dry in six hours. .. Approximately, 10 to 15 kilos of fresh fruit (mango, pineapple, or jackfruit) is used to produce one kilogramme of dried fruit.
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What is CBD oil and why is it a controlled substance? Marijuana is outlawed on a federal level in the United States and many other nations because of its high THC concentration, which induces mind-altering effects.
Can CBD be used to get a DUI? However, CBD is not classified as a restricted drug and does not cause impairment (or is not meant to). Thus, there is probably little chance of receiving a DUI for CBD usage in the majority of jurisdictions and circumstances—though it is theoretically conceivable.
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Is CBD oil detectable in a drug test? CBD will not be detected in a drug test since it is not screened for. However, since CBD products may include THC, you may test positive for THC after using CBD products. If you use CBD oil, you should prepare ahead if your job or activities involve drug testing.
Can I Get Arrested For Cbd Oil – RELATED QUESTIONS
Is CBD lawful on a federal level in 2020?
CBD oil may be derived from hemp or marijuana plants. Because marijuana remains illegal under federal law, it is prohibited for government personnel to utilize CBD oil derived from marijuana. However, government personnel are not prohibited from using CBD oil derived from hemp.
As a nurse, is I permitted to consume CBD oil?
Nurses and physicians are permitted to use hemp-derived CBD oil in all 50 states, provided the oil is THC-free. However, many CBD oils include THC, even when they are advertised as THC-free.
Is it safe to vape CBD oil while driving?
Following extensive marijuana vaping and more than 200 hours of experimental driving, Australian researchers conclude that driving a vehicle after inhaling cannabidiol, or CBD — a non-intoxicating component of marijuana — does not affect one’s ability to drive safely.
What function does CBD serve?
CBD is marketed as an anti-anxiety, anti-depressant, and anti-PTSD medication. Additionally, it is promoted to aid with sleep. CBD’s appeal stems in part from its claim to be “nonpsychoactive,” meaning that users may get health advantages from the plant without experiencing a psychoactive high (or the midnight pizza munchies).
Is CBD oil a narcotic?
In contrast to THC (tetrahydrocannabinol), CBD has no psychotropic effects. Additionally, whereas marijuana usage may result in addiction, current evidence indicates that CBD is not addictive.
Is cannabidiol (CBD) a controlled substance?
Cannabidiol (CBD) is a nonpsychoactive cannabis derivative. CBD is no longer listed as a banned drug by WADA as of 2018. We want to warn athletes that CBD oil often includes trace amounts of the prohibited chemical tetrahydrocannabinol (THC).
Is CBD legal on a federal level by 2021?
CBD Legality in the United States of America – The Bottom Line As of 2021, CBD derived from hemp that has less than 0.3 percent THC is permitted on a federal level.
How long can CBD be detected in the urine?
CBD normally lasts between two and five days in the body, however this may not apply to everyone. CBD may linger in some people’s systems for weeks.
Can physicians use CBD?
This is also critical because, under current cannabis-related treatment laws, physicians cannot actually prescribe CBD oil; they can only recommend it as a possible treatment.
Is Delta 8 detectable on a drug test?
Delta-8 is less powerful than delta-9, but it binds to the same brain receptors as delta-9 and may induce euphoria. Unfortunately, according to Quest Diagnostics Medical Science Liaison Jack Kain, PharmD, delta-8 interferes with testing for delta-9 in both presumptive and conclusive urine drug tests.
How do you feel when you use CBD oil?
CBD may have a number of beneficial effects. Several of these research-backed CBD uses even suggest that it may aid in relaxation. This may have a similar effect to a high, albeit it is not intoxicating. CBD may be effective for alleviating anxiety and depression symptoms, according to research.
What happens if CBD oil is ingested?
When you consume CBD, it goes through your digestive system and is immediately broken down by your body. This process may be sped up by combining the active components with another material, such as fat, or by employing an MCT oil carrier, although the difference is negligible.
What effect does CBD have on the brain?
In conclusion, neuroimaging studies have shown that CBD alters brain activity and connectivity in neural systems associated with psychosis and anxiety, presumably reflecting the therapeutic benefits of the compound.
Is CBD considered a narcotic?
This product is not a narcotic. It may be combined with other ingredients to create pharmaceutical-grade products for therapeutic use. These are not to be confused with preparations on the market that are labeled as having CBD but may also include concentrations of Tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) that exceed the threshold acceptable in meals.
Is CBD legal in each of the fifty states?
Contrary to common belief, hemp-derived CBD is not legal in all 50 states. This is because each state has its own Controlled Substances Act (CSA), which is mostly identical to the federal CSA.
Can I lose my job if I use CBD?
CBD or the usage of CBD-infused products may result in positive THC test results, which may result in termination. While the majority of companies do drug screenings for THC, current drug testing does not include CBD.
How many drops should I take of CBD oil?
To determine how many drops of CBD oil to eat, you should normally begin with the standard dose of two to three drops three times day. If you do not see an impact after a few days, you may increase the frequency or quantity of drops.
Is d8 allowed in the state of Texas?
DSHS petitioned the Texas Supreme Court to intervene and restore the items’ prohibition, but the high court declined to hear the case. The final hearing has been scheduled for January 2022. However, delta-8 is now permitted in Texas.
Is it possible for Delta 10 to fail a drug test?
Unfortunately, Delta-10 THC will cause you to fail a drug test. Delta-10, like Delta-8 THC, is a close relative of Delta-9. Delta-10 THC, like THC, has a similar molecular structure, which means that it will most likely show as THC on a normal drug test.
Is delta-9 psychoactive?
THC is an abbreviation for delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol (-9-THC). It is a cannabinoid molecule found in marijuana (cannabis) that has long been known as the primary psychoactive ingredient—that is, the one that causes marijuana users to experience euphoria.
Is CBD capable of causing paranoia?
It has previously been shown that strains of cannabis with a high THC content and a low CBD content might result in enhanced psychiatric symptoms such as paranoia, anxiety, and addictive behaviors, but the mechanism by which this occurs was not completely understood.
Why do I feel strange after using CBD oil?
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Verdigellas, a new genus of gelatinous green algae, is described from deep-water collections made in Puerto Rico and the Bahamas in the western Atlantic. Verdigellas presently contains two species, V. fimbriata sp. Nov., designated the generitype, and V. peltata sp. nov. which have irregularly arranged coccoid cells that are more dense at the surface fo the thallus than within. Verdigellas peltata forms simple peltate cushions and is very abundant on deep-reef slopes when encountered. Verdigellas fimbriata is a foliose species with intricate, irregular branches produced along the margins.
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Dr. Jack Abrams, and the team at Abrams Eye Institute, have performed thousands of LASIK procedures resulting in improved vision for our patients. LASIK can free people from glasses and contact lenses, and improve life with improved vision. Our team is always glad to assist patients interested in learning more about the procedure and the team shared a few commonly asked questions about the surgery.
Are there different types of LASIK surgery?
Yes. While many use the term LASIK to refer to any kind of laser eye surgery, there are really two different procedures that fall under this category: LASIK and Photorefractive Keratectomy (PRK). Each varies slightly in method. Some patients with high prescriptions may not be a candidate for either option, but other possiblities exists such as Implantable Contact Lens (ICL) and Clear Lens Exchange (CLE) also known as (RLE) Refractive lens exchange. Dr. Jack Abrams and the team at Abrams Eye Institute uses the most advanced laser technologies for these LASIK and LASIK alternative procedures to ensure optimal success.
How do I know if I’m a candidate for Laser LASIK surgery?
The doctors, technicians and staff at Abrams Eye Institute carefully evaluate everyone that visits the clinic to learn more about LASIK alternatives. We ask a list of questions regarding your vision, health history and other factors. That is combined with a complete review of the structure of your eyes. An evaluation for a LASIK procedure is done in the clinic and only after we have patients stop wearing contacts for at least one week. If you are a candidate, we offer options to get you started. If you are not a candidate, unlike some other practices, we will not perform surgery on your eyes. Dr. Abrams himself is not a candidate for LASIK, and wears standard lenses for his vision.
How does LASIK surgery work?
For LASIK and PRK procedures, a local anesthetic is applied to the eye (an eye drop) so that the patient can remain awake during the procedure. In the LASIK procedure, our ophthalmologists will make a small incision and pulls back the outermost segment of the cornea. This section of the eye is known as the epithelium. For the PRK procedure, we use a technique known as advanced surface ablation, which chemically loosens the epithelium so that it can be easily removed. After this first step is taken, an excimer laser is used to change the shape of the eye. Many patients see an immediate and dramatic improvement in their vision following the procedure. After the procedure, we provide follow up care to ensure a proper recovery.
What makes AEI the best place for LASIK surgery?
Dr. Abrams is an established leader in the eye surgery, and is counted on by the best healthcare organizations in the field that bring new technology to the market to evaluate. Dr. Abrams tests this groundbreaking new equipment and techniques before other surgeons in the state. When you have LASIK at our clinics, count on being taken care of by the best of the best. As noted before, Dr. Jack Abrams will say no to those interested in LASIK that he feels won’t have an optimal result. His talent, integrity, patient success and standard of patient care are what set the clinic apart.
Can AEI fix LASIK issues from procedures done elsewhere?
Abrams Eye Institute only wishes the best for people looking to improve their eyesight and their lives through LASIK surgery. We do know; however; that some practitioners of the surgery, do not provide the highest level of care for their patients. If you feel like your surgery wasn’t done properly, we’re happy see if we can help, as we have had success in those efforts in the past.
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The Future of AI Chips, They Will Be in Everything
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is already pervasive in many applications. Deep learning has happened since 2012 and it's only growing. We're just at the beginning of what's possible.
This is Nigel Toon's perspective, which he shared at Berlin's TechCrunch Disrupt conference on Wednesday. Toon is Graphcore's CEO, a company that specializes in AI chips.
For Toon, AI can allow many different kinds of innovation, deep learning, and probabilistic machine learning to make new breakthroughs.
How do Graphcore's AI chips function?
AI chips are designed to process data to work like the human brain. The challenge with that is that we don't even quite know how the brain works. However, what you're doing with a machine learning model — like a brain — is trying to pull together all the information that it's learned and turning it into a logical thought.
Toon explained that the way Graphcore's processor works is that it understands that data structure. Data can be moved when needed as the computer evolves with machine learning.
As Toon pointed out, the CPU in your laptop is working on what your next action is going to be, whereas in machine learning it becomes a smoother process.
How will AI chips affect our everyday lives?
Most of us won't be using Graphcore's chip directly. Instead, we'll be using the software that companies develop new applications from it.
Graphcore wants to make the technology available, so working with companies such as Dell, Microsoft Azure - is helping Graphcore to spread where the tech is available for people to use on a wider scale.
For instance, their tech would enable people to make the next breakthroughs in natural language processing. It's hard enough for humans to predict what's going to happen next in real life, let alone teaching a machine to predict the next move.
AI and safety
Some people say to keep a healthy dose of skepticism when it comes to AI.
Toon agreed and mentioned that Graphcore is building a tool, and would love to be part of the conversation about how this tech as a tool should be used. As a society, it's important to make sure regulations are set up so that nothing bad happens from this AI tech.
Toon stressed that these values are set by different nation-states and are most likely going to be different worldwide.
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No-one can predict the future, other than to be sure things will change. Here are 4 developments we anticipate will occur following the disturbing government suppression to which we have been subjected during the coronavirus panic.
The majority will completely stop listening to and believing in government.
In the coronavirus pandemic crisis, we have been ill-advised and misled, and confined and suppressed and coerced and controlled. By the time the virus panic is over, millions of economic lives will have been destroyed, with collateral damage to mental and physical health, friendships, families and other relationships, institutions, and business loyalties. Our faith in many things will have been damaged. One of those things is government.
Faith is an irrational belief in the truth of a proposition irrespective of evidence to the contrary. It is not boundless or endless. The more the believer’s faith is contradicted by reality, the greater the test. Government – using the term to mean the institution, irrespective of which political party is at the helm at any point in time – has asked us to believe that they are justified in shutting down the economy on the basis of a wildly erratic interpretation of wildly erratic data. It has asked us to pledge obedience to mad scientists posing as experts. It has asked us to accept draconian limitations on our movement, our socializing, our working and earning a living and our freedoms in general. It has threatened military action and legal action.
It’s hard to discern a motive for this destruction. Probably, governments prefer greater control over a diminished system than less control over a thriving population.
But it seems rational that intelligent people will now cease to believe a single utterance that comes from government, whether the executive, legislative or judicial branch. That they could mislead so deliberately as to drive a highly productive and highly civilized populace into depression and dysfunction must be viewed as shocking. Evil is a word that’s hard to use with accuracy, but it may fit.
The consequences of a loss of faith are impossible to predict. But change in the arrangements of the society and the polity are inevitable. Loss of faith in the dominant and hegemonic Catholic Papacy centuries ago led to the Reformation and a cascade of positive, civilization-advancing changes. Perhaps we can anticipate similar breakout progress when the people sever the cord of faith binding them to government.
We’ll all stop believing in data and models.
A central feature of the pandemic phenomenon has been the prominent role of data, models, and modelers. There is an increasing modern pretense that there is no limit to the amount and type of data that can be collected to shed light on wicked problems. Once collected, the data can be processed to identify patterns and trends. Once processed, it can be plugged into so-called models, riddled with assumptions about the unknown and the unknowable, and these models then claim to predict the future.
Our faith in these models knows no bounds. We believe we can predict how many coronavirus deaths there will be 10 days from now. We believe we can predict the warming of the planet’s atmosphere 10 years from now. We believe we can predict the extinction of species and the rate of growth of the economy.
But, of course, we can’t. And the reason is well-known, albeit ignored or suppressed. The quantification principle of modeling does not apply in human behavior. Every human is different, every individual reacts differently to changes in the environment and context, everyone makes their own arrangements, every value judgment is subjective, emotional, idiosyncratic and unpredictable. Value judgments precede behavior, and so behavior is equally unpredictable. Human populations are not subject to modeling.
Exacerbating the problem, the models are voracious for data – “big data” is preferred, but not necessarily good data or relevant data or accurate data. In the coronavirus panic, we do not know how many people are infected with the disease, or how communicable it is. We do not even know the death statistics, since identifying COVID-19 as a notifiable disease results in people who died with conditions that included COVID-19 being recorded as dying of COVID-19. In every single instance, that piece of data may or may not be accurate. Or, as we used to say, truthful. The projections of the models are worthless at best, misleading at worst, and provide the fuel for government misbehavior.
The credibility of models and modelers has taken a fatal blow.
We will start to press harder for the dismantling of regulation, and reverse its hitherto unstoppable growth.
A telling observation about government behavior in the Coronavirus crisis is that, at the same time as imposing their draconian new restrictions, they are finding the need to rescind their previous draconian restrictions, those given the name of regulation. For example, it is regulation that limits the number of firms that can produce masks and ventilators. But the government’s panic pronouncements increase the demand for masks and ventilators. Government belatedly recognizes that it is its own regulatory restrictions that are causing the bottleneck, and increasing anxiety among the populace. Since the last thing they can accept is social disruption and disobedience, they quickly relax the regulations to open the bottleneck again.
This realization that regulation is anti-productive, restrictive and damaging may be enlightening, at least to the governed if not to the government bureaucrats and regulators. We can expect a surge of anti-regulation sentiment and protests, and a welling up of support for anti-regulation activists.
We’ll abandon cities.
Governments and politicians love cities: concentrated locations of regulation, control and surveillance. Housing control, wage control, zoning control, educational control, health control, and mobility control are all concentrated and exaggerated in cities.
But cities have turned out to be critical culprits in the pandemic. Close living quarters, cramped mass transit, teeming office buildings and apartment buildings, crowded sports and concert venues, and poor sanitation combine to create virological time bombs that are now exploding.
Smart people will start making better trade-offs. Perhaps more will move to the greater separation afforded by suburbs, working from home or commuting solo despite the urging of urban planners to crowd into mass transit. Perhaps apartment buildings and their crowded, virologically suspect elevators will no longer be so attractive. Perhaps more people will seek jobs – or start companies – that don’t require an urban anchor. Perhaps many will permanently abandon live sports and concerts in favor of digital remote participation that, quite possibly, will enhance the experience rather than diminish it.
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What is LomiPod?
LomiPod is a proprietary blend of beneficial microbes (i.e. bacteria and fungi), which work to accelerate the composting process . These microbes help efficiently break down your food waste and any Lomi approved bioplastics when running a cycle in Lomi.
Why Use LomiPod?
LomiPod helps accelerate and facilitate the breakdown of food waste and Lomi approved bioplastics to give you the best possible end product. It also enhances nutrients in Lomi end product and has plant growth agents to make sure your plants thrive. While LomiPod has numerous benefits for your soil, it’s also there to help your nose! LomiPod works to suppress unpleasant odours, specifically by preventing H2S gas buildup.
How To Use LomiPod?
Good news, LomiPods are very easy to use! Simply add a LomiPod on top of your food waste/bioplastics in the Lomi bucket. Measure out about 50mL of water and add this over the pod. You are now ready to start your cycle.
When Is the Most Important Time to Use LomiPod? How Many Should You Use?
It is always good to use LomiPods, but it is especially important when running a cycle with bioplastics (Lomi approved mode) or when planning to use the end product in your garden or plants (Grow mode).
How Much of an Effect Does LomiPod Have On Lomi’s End Product?
Using LomiPod allows you to get the most nutrient rich and microbially dense end product which is the ‘healthiest’ version for your garden and plants. LomiPod also helps give you the best outcome when running a cycle with Lomi approved bioplastics.
When Grow mode is run with and without LomiPod and the end product is mixed in a 1:10 ratio with soil, the plants potted in the Grow mode end product which was run with a LomiPod were 123% taller than those potted in the Grow mode end product which was run without a LomiPod.
Additionally, Grow mode end product that was run with a LomiPod has 16% more microbial biomass than Grow mode end product run without a LomiPod. Microbial biomass (fungi and bacteria) is the leading indicator of soil health and is measured in microgram carbon per gram of soil (ug C/g). Living soil (soil rich in microbes) fixes nutrients, improves plant health, stores water more efficiently and builds soil structure. LomiPods help give you that healthy soil for your plants. The fungi to bacteria ratio (F:B ratio) is also very important to consider. LomiPods give your end product a higher F:B ratio (0.69:1) than if running a cycle without a LomiPod (0.56:1). Research shows that soils with higher F:B ratios are linked to higher Carbon storage potential. This is because high F:B soils lose less carbon through respiration (CO2 evolved) in comparison to soils with low F:B ratios. This difference in CO2 evolution is due to altered carbon cycling that occurs in response to different fungal and bacterial ratios in the soil. Additionally, high F:B soils have a higher carbon contribution to the non-living soil organic matter (SOM) fraction of the soil, which means they have higher short-term soil carbon storage compared to low F:B soils. All in all, using LomiPods allows you to lower your carbon footprint even more. | <urn:uuid:e3b349f9-afe3-45af-b53c-635d63e10b00> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://pela.earth/pages/about-lomipods | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571284.54/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811103305-20220811133305-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.92778 | 748 | 2.390625 | 2 |
Before the war came to his village, 12-year-old Timofey Z. had many of the usual teenage worries. And his closest confidant was his diary.
There was a special girl, Yarina, he wrote, but she ignored him. He loved the video game Minecraft and the family semi-feral cats. From time to time, he grumbled at his mischievous 6-year-old half-brother Seraphim, who did not always live up to his angelic nickname. When his stepfather drank, it bothered him.
These childish reflections were interrupted by a terrible noise in sky in February. 24. Tens of thousands of Russian troops crossed the borders of Ukraine, and suburb of the capital, Kyiv — including Timofey’s farming village of Shevchenkovo, about 30 miles to the northeast — were quickly overrun or threatened as the battle approached.
“An air raid alert was issued yesterday morning. You could hear in our village how planes dropped bombs. Timothy wrote an entry in his diary dated March 3. Family – he; Seraphim; his mother, Yulia Vashchenko, 37; and his stepfather, 43-year-old Sergei Esypenko, known as Seryozha, hid in the basement.
The parents talked about trying to leave. But where? They hesitated.
On the morning of March 8 less two weeks of war, the couple slipped out without waking the boys. The village market nearby was still open and they needed the extra money they made selling tea and other haberdashery there.
A few hours later, as Timofey later wrote, his mother called him. She was furious. Russian armored vehicles rumbled through the narrow streets of the village. She told him to grab Seraphim and hide in the bathroom. Little did he know then that this would be their last conversation.
A little later, Timofey’s aunt and uncle, 47-year-old Elena Strilets, whom family members called Lena, and her husband, 63-year-old Sergei Provornov, arrived and hurried the boys to the nearest house. They told the brothers that their parents had been recalled to Kyiv, but because of the fighting, they could not return just now.
Timothy, whose full name is not disclosed because he is a minor., worried, but not too much. The rush of events – the roar of artillery, the antics of the Seraphim, the settlement in the cramped house of his aunt and uncle – distracts him.
“I am accustomed to having shells fly over my head,” he wrote on 13 March. “We still don’t have electricity.”
A few more days passed, and Lena and Serezha apologized for the absence of Yulia and Serezha. It was Seraphim, an unnoticed little eavesdropper, eavesdropping on quiet, hysterical adult conversations, who blurted out the truth.
Timothy raged in his diary, his rage at first suppressing his grief. With slashing red ink, he drew a horned devil, from whose eyes angry darts flew.
“I found out what happened to my mother and Serezha,” the March 14 entry says, almost a week after the deaths. “They were killed!”
His aunt and uncle covered up another unbearable news. The bodies of the couple, who died from high-caliber fire directed almost at point-blank range at their car by a Russian tank, lay mutilated, not found and alone in their silver Opel Vectra for three days while Uncle Timofey tried to arrange a safe passage to take the ruins.
Like hundreds of others civilians killed by Russian troops in the once serene suburbs of Kyiv – many were shot like executioners, there are corpses with signs of torture – Yulia and Seryozha had to be temporarily buried in makeshift graves. They were near the garden gazebo.
Artillery bombardment rocked the village for nearly three more weeks before the Russians retreated as abruptly as they had come, abandoning their attempt to capture the capital and refocusing on the east.
The family wanted a proper burial, but had to wait for exhumation and examination by forensic scientists and investigators, who were gathering what quickly became a mountain of war crimes evidence. Over 1,300 bodies have been found in the metropolitan area alone. Russia continues to deny his troops deliberately targeted civilians.
Finally, among more than a dozen other fresh graves, the two were buried side by side in the village cemetery on 12 April.
In the margins of his magazine, whose blue cover was now adorned with drawings of a pair of ghosts and a sad face of a boy, Timofey wrote: “Dreams do not come true.”
The war in Ukraine was definitely awful for your kids. The United Nations estimates that about one third of them, more than 7.5 million young people, are forced to leave their homes. As of mid-July, at least 348 children have been killed, according to Ukrainian officials, but these numbers, which do not include counts in still-occupied territories, are considered low, possibly very low.
As if childhood itself had been erased, and something terrible had taken its place.
“I would say this war has touched the lives of every child in Ukraine,” Afshan Khan, regional director for the United Nations Children’s Agency, UNICEF, told reporters at the World Organization in June. “They either lost a family member or witnessed the trauma themselves.”
In the violent conflict, widely documented on social media and in news photos, there was at first some silence about the distribution of images of tiny corpses.
But now, nearly six months later, war and outrage are sparking endless postings of disturbing photos and videos online: photos of dead children next to their dead parents, bandaged and bloody children in hospital beds – if they are lucky enough to get to one – babies crying and being knocked to the ground. confused or stunned and silent as they are stuffed into trains and vans taking them away from the war zone.
Sometimes relatives who see dead and crippled loved ones over and over again, especially the smallest victims, ask for a break from the graphic imagery. But they keep coming.
Before the Russian invasion, there were already at least 100,000 orphans in Ukraine, many of whom lived in harsh conditions in the care of the state. Now their innumerable ranks have swelled. There are many separated families: fathers go to the front, and mothers and children seek refuge in other places. Entire families have been sent to “filtration” centers in occupied Russian territories, while hundreds of children have ended up in Russia itself and given up for adoption, according to Ukrainian officials.
Every day at 8 a.m., Daria Gerasimchuk, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky’s adviser on children’s affairs, receives a summary of the previous day’s events, including updates on those killed, injured, missing, or presumed deported. Or left without a mother or without a father, or both.
“This is the worst moment of the day,” she said. “It’s every day.”
Lena said that there had never been a question that she and her common-law husband Seryozha – each in a second marriage, with adult children who had long since left home – would take Timofey and Seraphim to their place. But this is an impossible task.
Their dilapidated house consists of three tiny rooms: a bedroom with new bunk beds for the boys; a living room with peeling paint where the couple now sleep on a double bed that also doubles as the only sofa; a smoky kitchen with a shower hidden behind a plastic curtain.
Sergei is working on an extension of cinder blocks, but so far the yard is littered with construction debris, and just outside the entrance, a hole in the ground is covered with shaky boards.
Seraphim is in perpetual motion. He jumps on the sofa bed, demanding to be tickled, dragging a watering can almost the same size as himself, rolling around on the floor, legs dangling in the air. He giggles and squeals, but although he seems to crave attention, he is far less talkative than most children his age.
“We have to work shifts with him,” said Lena, a former kindergarten teacher, ruffling his hair.
Timothy, fair-haired like his brother, has a sloping face, foreshadowing dull-witted masculinity. He can appear both childish and old, with pale eyes often either downcast or fixed in an anxiously intense gaze.
His main hobby these days is picking up “frags” from village alleys and yards—heavy, jagged fragments of shells and missiles that he likes to thrust into the hands of visitors.
The family receives some government support, including regular sessions with a psychologist for both boys. But Timofey frowned when asked about his sessions with a psychotherapist.
“I don’t tell him a lot of things,” he said, looking away.
He doesn’t sleep well, he said. Sometimes he thinks he sees eyes watching him in the dark. The light of early summer worries him. He wakes up tired; at night he must console Seraphim when he cries.
It’s now the boys’ home, but perhaps only for now. Stepfather Timofey’s sisters, now separated from Lena and Seryozha, moved into the family house a few streets away. They want to adopt Seraphim, their blood relative, his aunt and uncle said.
Lena and Serezha are adamant that the boys cannot be separated and want to keep both of them. But the situation is complicated by family hostility, missing documents and the unknown fate of Father Timothy, who has not been heard of for many years.
According to him, now Timofey takes his diary only occasionally. Sometimes he writes in what he describes as a personal code, and makes other notes in invisible ink. He readily boasts about the volumes, but also angrily states that the magazines have given him too much attention. The once constant and comforting journaling has become as strange as the upside-down world around it.
“Sometimes I just want to burn them!” he said.
Some aspects of normal life begin to return to the village. Flowers break through the rubble. There is talk that someday a school will start. The market near the place where Yulia and Serezha were killed is open again.
Some of the family cats disappeared during the fighting, but others returned home or were born a few weeks later. Timofey picked up the limp gray kitten and rubbed his nose against it. According to him, it helps him sleep.
Lena, ten years older than her dead sister, cries when she remembers Timofey’s mother, although she does so only if she is out of his sight and hearing. Yulia’s stormy relationship with Timofey’s father almost broke her, according to her older sister. He abandoned her when the boy was still an infant.
But as a single mother not yet in her 20s, Yuliya packed herself up and finished her education in Kyiv, Lena said. She got together almost ten years ago with Seraphim’s father and returned to the village, and six years ago the couple rejoiced at the birth of Seraphim’s child.
Lena was the godmother of both boys. Years ago, she took Timofey to school in the back seat of her bike or, when he was small enough, pinned him right up against the front basket, where the breeze blowing over his face made him laugh.
In her sister’s place, she said, she would do her best to take care of them.
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Highlighting Profitable Types of Commercial Real Estate
Many factors contribute to a profitable commercial real estate investment. At the fundamental level, the net operating income stream as a percentage of the acquisition price is where many investors start their analysis. However, other factors include streamlining operational expenses and upside with rents that might be below market. Another sometimes overlooked factor is scale. More significant multitenant properties often contribute to the stability of profitability for the respective commercial real estate investment. Along with investments in high-growth and high-traffic areas, properties with multi-tenants helps stabilize cash flow when periodic vacancies occur (i.e., cash flow does not stop from the loss of one major tenant).
- Multi-family Properties
Investments in multi-family units such as apartments (versus townhouses, condominiums, or cooperatives) in high-growth areas have yielded historically solid rates of return. Metro areas such as New York, Los Angeles, Austin, Denver, Nashville and Atlanta have proven to be among the best markets. With their rapid population rise within the past year and beyond, demand has outpaced supply contributing to rising rents and increased cash flow for many apartment investments. Property owners can also command higher rents or additional creative sources of income by including unique amenities such as assigned parking spots, gyms, pools, in-building laundry and more! According to a CBRE statistic, multi-family assets generated a 9.75% return between the years 1992-2017. This return is generally higher than the average commercial real estate returns for other product types over the same period.
- Storage Facilities
While regaining favor, self-storage facilities have often been one of the most overlooked types of commercial real estate investments. Much like apartment properties, the multitenant nature of self-storage facilities contributes to better and more stable investment returns. Storage facilities have generally performed very well in almost all economic cycles, including financial crises/recessions. Compared to many other types of commercial real estate, they are inexpensive to build yet still command higher rents as a percentage of the construction cost. Many of the tenants unintentionally become long-term tenants, with periodic rent increases secured by property owners.
- Student Housing
The student housing industry is one of the most stable market segments within commercial real estate. With long-term trends showing more students continuing to enroll in colleges or universities, student housing is a worthwhile investment consideration for investors in other product types/segments. Vacancy rates for student housing have remained considerably low (around 5%) even throughout periods of economic downturn such as the pandemic. As enrollment in higher education increases, so will the demand for student housing. Along with diversified income (income from multiple tenants), there are frequent opportunities for rent increases with the annual rollover associated with the incoming new student population.
Finding the most profitable types of commercial real estate can be challenging. Aligning your investment objectives and risk tolerance is an essential part of what we do, in addition to helping you maximize profits. At Tyler Duncan Realty Partners, we are the experts you need to make the right investment choice! Contact us today! | <urn:uuid:8fc81c86-003c-457f-a567-ae7ff54652d3> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://td-realty.com/highlighting-profitable-types-of-commercial-real-estate/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571745.28/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812170436-20220812200436-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.950232 | 632 | 1.601563 | 2 |
Expert Tips for Growing a Window Box Garden
Casey Lawrence grew up in the vegetable farm and garden center biz. Today, she spreads the joy she finds cultivating a plant-based lifestyle in southeast Wisconsin via The Lawrence Garden Farm website and social channels.
Casey's lush window box displays are a follower favorite. This exuberant design features orange canna, dragon wing red begonia, superbena large lilac blue verbena, wave petunias, 'purple knight,' liberty classic bronze snapdragons and vertigo grass. Here are her tips for creating your own window box garden designs at home, plus how to care for them.
Provide Adequate Light
Window boxes became popular in ancient Rome, where cramped city dwellers had no room for gardens. If you do as the Romans, pick a window that gets plenty of direct sunlight—most blooming annuals need at least six hours per day. Casey's boxes face east, but south or west works too.
Choose a Large Box
The bigger the box, the better—plants need space to develop good root structures. Casey's boxes measure 12 inches tall and deep. "The more space you have for roots to grow, the larger things get, and the more showy they get," she says. Include drainage holes so roots don't rot in wet soil.
Remove any old soil from the box, scrub the box clean and fill with fresh potting mix. Blend in a slow-release fertilizer per manufacturer's directions. And leave 1–2 inches between the soil level and the top of the window box so you can plant and water easily. "This step is crucial," Casey says.
Check the soil regularly for dryness. Casey waters every seven to 12 days in the first month, then five to seven by mid-July when plants are more rooted. Every other watering, she adds a water-soluble fertilizer. By August, she waters about twice a week, still fertilizing. Add water until it seeps from the drainage holes. | <urn:uuid:39c89758-71f0-4624-8cdc-9dd40e35aa02> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.midwestliving.com/garden/container/how-to-grow-a-window-box-garden/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571284.54/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811103305-20220811133305-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.920731 | 422 | 1.96875 | 2 |
The Effect of Two Trading Institutions on Price Expectations and the Stability of Supply-Response Lag Markets
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Johnson, Michael D.; Plott, Charles R.
A series of four experimental markets are described which examine the effect that different trading institutions have on sellers’ price expectations and market behavior. The results suggest that when sellers trade in information rich auction markets, their price expectations are relatively complex and adaptive. When sellers trade in more information poor posted price markets, their expectations are relatively simple and extrapolative. This difference in the complexity of expectations is reflected in the stability of the markets, the auction markets being more stable than the posted price markets. Overall the study supports the notion that trading institutions contribute to the observed complexity of price expectations.
price expectation models; trading; supply response
Required Publisher Statement: © Elsevier. Final version published as: Johnson, M. D., & Plott, C. R. (1989). The effects of fatigue on judgments of interproduct similarity. Journal of Economic Psychology, 10(2), 189–216. doi: 10.1016/0167-4870(89)90019-6 Reprinted with permission. All rights reserved. | <urn:uuid:7e32dd2e-1cf5-4005-9785-a1ec8b8db589> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://ecommons.cornell.edu/handle/1813/72055 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571745.28/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812170436-20220812200436-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.856135 | 327 | 1.601563 | 2 |
Have you recently had a tree planted in front of your house? Do you want to help the LoMo Environment committee care for the trees within our neighborhood boundaries? The Pennsylvania Horticultural Society offers a great training program on how to plant and care for trees in an urban environment. This series of 3 classes (one per week) starts Wednesday, May 13th, at 5:45 PM. Registration is $25. Visit this link for more details and to register online. | <urn:uuid:c6914d4f-31c3-4650-85d7-503345326b65> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://lomophilly.org/2015/05/07/sign-up-now-to-become-a-tree-tender/?shared=email&msg=fail | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571745.28/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812170436-20220812200436-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.962458 | 94 | 1.679688 | 2 |
Because of the high level of public concern over New Jersey’s children, teaching is a highly regulated and scrutinized industry. Not only are teachers required to meet significantly high standards of education and training, and, in most cases, to have specialized knowledge in their field, but they must also maintain a level of behavior and continued education to maintain their teaching certificates.
If a school board terminates a teacher, or otherwise refuses to renew a teacher’s contract, that school board is required, in some circumstances, to alert the New Jersey State Board of Examiners of discontinuation of employment. For instance, a school district is required to report a discontinuation of a teacher’s employment – even if that is due to the teacher’s resignation or retirement – if the teacher is accused of a criminal offense or “unbecoming conduct.”
The Board of Examiners is the state licensing agency which reviews and monitors teachers. IT has the power to bestow, deny, suspend, or revoke a teacher’s license. The Board of Examiners may revoke or suspend a teacher’s certificate if the teacher demonstrates inefficiency, incapacity, conduct unbecoming a teacher or for any other just cause – such as being convicted of a crime. However, the Board of Examiners cannot revoke or suspend a New Jersey teacher’s certificate unless it gives the teacher notice and the opportunity to be heard.
In considering to revoke or suspend a teacher’s certificate, the Board of Examiners will first vote publically regarding whether to initiate the revocation or suspension proceedings. If the vote is in favor of the proceedings, the Board of Examiners’ secretary will then issue an order stating this along with the specific charges which support initiation of the proceedings. The teacher must then file an answer within 30 days of the order, specifically addressing each of the charges. If the teacher does not respond, a second notice must be sent allowing an additional 15 days for the teacher to respond. If no answer is filed, the charges will be deemed admitted and the Board of Examiners will proceed accordingly.
If an answer is filed and there are material facts in dispute, the Board of Examiners will either hear the matter directly, or transfer the matter to the New Jersey Office of Administrative Law to conduct the hearing. The rules of procedure vary depending on which entity will hear the matter. However, typically documents in support may be exchanged. A personal appearance by the teacher may not be necessary. In any case, the Board of Examiners will advise of its determination and the factual basis supporting its decision.
If the Board of Examiners makes a determination in favor of revocation or suspension, the teacher must surrender her certificate within thirty days. Although a teacher can appeal the decision, the Board of Examiner’s discretion is vast. Moreover, the time period of a suspension for a teacher is largely discretionary. However, if a certificate is revoked, the teacher must wait at least four years until she can file a new application for a new certificate, and must be able to provide proof of rehabilitation from whatever conduct led to the revocation.
The attorneys at McLaughlin & Nardi, LLC are experienced with the law governing New Jersey’s public school teachers and can advice of your rights regarding revocation of your certification. To learn more about what we may be able to do to help, please visit our website, or contact one of our New Jersey lawyers by e-mail or telephone at (973) 890-0004. | <urn:uuid:50736734-8f93-4209-be86-51f6e475a8ba> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.newjerseylawyersblog.com/revocation-and-suspension-of-teachers-certifications/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571284.54/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811103305-20220811133305-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.949995 | 727 | 2.015625 | 2 |
Investing in the Heart of Healthcare: Hospital Employees Retraining ProgramJanuary 26, 2017
SB379 builds on Maryland’s current authority to establish a “Hospital Employees Retraining Program” for the retraining and placement of hospital employees who are unemployed or may become unemployed as a result of the closing, delicensing, downsizing, or possible downsizing of a hospital or merging of hospitals.
This bill would do three things:
• Apply the law to freestanding medical facility conversions.
• Specify the types of transition and support services for which the fund can be utilized.
• Require the filing of an economic impact statement for closures, mergers, conversions or delicensing.
Maryland is in the midst of the tremendous task of transforming our healthcare delivery system. The Legislature recently determined that such a transformation requires significant financial investments to transform both technical and physical infrastructure.
However, human capital investment in our own healthcare delivery workforce needs to be commensurate to the efforts already taken in capital and technological transformation.
Some forward thinking healthcare providers are currently contributing to the training and upgrading of the people on the frontlines of caregiving, such as community health workers and asthma educators. Unfortunately, those investments are not to the scale needed to ensure that the workers who deliver care in today’s healthcare settings will be prepared and certified to continue delivering care in the new All-Payer Model’s settings of tomorrow, such as nursing homes with increased acuity needs or outpatient clinics.
To ensure that funds are invested in workforce development at the scale needed to meet our waiver goals, we recommend investments in the Hospital Employees Retraining Program for training funding as well as to leverage federal and private funds to prepare the people delivering healthcare to transition up the healthcare career ladder.
Examples of Qualifying Uses of Funding:
• Developing readjustment plans for individuals
• Assessment of skills and aptitudes;
• Support services that enable workers to participate in an employment and training program, such as: family care assistance, child care, commuting assistance, emergency housing and rental assistance, counseling assistance, emergency health assistance, and emergency financial assistance.
Beginning in 1985, laws established of a program titled the “Hospital Employees Retraining Program” for the retraining and placement of hospital employees who are unemployed or may become unemployed as a result of the closing, delicensing, downsizing, or possible downsizing of a hospital or merging of hospitals. Hospitals are mandated to pay a fee, not exceeding 0.01 percent of the gross operating revenue for the year preceding their closure or delicensing. To date, there is no evidence that funds have been allocated to this program.
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The meaning of a.m. and p.m.
The abbreviations come from Latin and mean:
A.m. – ante meridian – before noon
p.m. – post meridian – afternoon
Germany uses the 24-hour system. In countries like Canada, the USA, and other English-speaking countries, the 12-hour system.
The day is divided into two halves of 12 hours each.
a.m. stands for the period from midnight to morning and p.m. for the afternoon.
a.m.: midnight (0:00) to noon (12:00)
p.m.: noon to midnight (24:00)
These statistics show that the analog or digital display is a decisive criterion when buying a wristwatch.
An analog display eliminates annoying conversions from the 24 to 12-hour system.
The alphabet: In the German alphabet, the letter p comes after a. So p.m. is behind in time.
You also remember AM like this: AM stands for “morning” and thus for the period from 00:00 to 12:00.
PM can be remembered by thinking of PM = Past Midday (afternoon).
Times: noon (am, pm) and 24-hour formats – computer
- While most countries prefer the 24-hour format, in English-speaking countries and Latin America, the 12-hour format is the most common, twice a day at midnight and midday.
- To differentiate, an am (ante meridian, Latin for before noon, morning) or a pm (post meridian, Latin for the afternoon) is added.
- The 12-hour format starts at midnight at 12:00 a.m., one hour later, it is 1:00 a.m.
- 12:00 p.m. is noon, followed by 1:00 p.m., and the last minute of the day is at 11:59 p.m. There is no 0:00.
- In the 24-hour format, the day starts at midnight, noon is noon, and the day ends at 11:59 p.m. There is no midnight.
Is noon 12 a.m. or 12 p.m.?
- Noon and midnight are cases where logically, the time and time do not stick to what they mean, e.g., Ante Meridian and Post Meridian.
- As suggested in other replies, 12 p.m. and 12 pm-midnight are used to avoid confusion.
- However, the convention is that midnight means noon after 23:59:59, so the day starts in the morning.
- In other words, the date on the calendar changes at midnight, and that time is midnight.
- We can use a different system like that used in the military, the 24-hour clock.
- The beginning of the day (noon or midnight) is indicated as 0000 and ends at 2359 (corresponds to 23:59).
- So the hour after noon is indicated by numbers from which we subtract 1200 to get the hour based on 12 hours.
- Note: for times between 12:00 and 13:00 (except 13:00)
- With the 24 hour time, 1200 does not need to be subtracted to get the 12 hour time. From 12:00 to 1:00 (except 1:00), we need to add 12 hours to change from 24-hour clock to 12-hour clock.
- It isn’t effortless, but that’s the way it is.
- Remembering the calendar thing can help, e.g., H. The date changes, and the day starts. So 12 is midnight.
When do you put AM and PM?
- AM is the acronym of Ante Meridian, which means before noon and indicates any time between midnight and one second before noon.
- PM is the acronym for Post Meridian, which means afternoon and indicates any time between noon and one second before midnight.
What time is 12 p.m.?
- The opposite word indicates the remaining hours of the day and is Ante meridian.
- This expression is used in the Anglo-Saxon states to tell the time.
- With the clarification that the 12: 00 PM are the noon while 12: 00 AM are the midnight.
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- How do connection names resolve to IP's?
- What should I enter as 'hostname' when connecting to a MySQL server at an ISP.
- SQL DM gives you the most options for connecting to MySQL
- SQL DM takes long time to connect when using SSH-tunnel.
- What Is SSH and SSH-tunneling?
- Connection Issues
How do connection names resolve to IP's?
It does not answer questions about the SQL DM program as such. But we experience quite often that SQL DM user having problems in getting the connection to one ore more MySQL servers working are missing the basic understanding of the TCP protocol that is used for connection. So this is a 'background article' that supplements the more typical FAQ items here.
The TCP protocol needs an IP to connect to a host. An IP is a group of 4 2-digit hexadecimal numbers. Like '0A.1B.2D.3D'. It is common to express this in decimal format 'v.x.y.z' where v,x,y and z are numbers between 0 and 255. To get your own IP in this format just type (on windows) 'ipconfig' on a command-line and the IP is returned.
The IP returned can be a global ip (accessible directly from the internet) or - if you are behind a router - a local ip that only applies behind the router. All computers behind the router share the global ip of the router itself. The router has the functionality to ensure that communication from each machine behind it to and from the internet works.
The TCP-protocol communicates on 'ports'. There are about 65.000 ports possible. A TCP-port is nothing physical but just a number that each 'packet' of information that is sent is coded with. Various ports are reserved for various server programs and programs with sort-of server functionality. Here, you can review the complete list of Service Name and Transport Protocol Port Number Registry:
So to access a MySQL server (running on the standard MySQL port 3306) on the ip v.x.y.z the client must ask for connection to the server 'v.x.y.z:3306'. The Internet can handle this. This is the basically how the Internet and the TCP-protocol works! Pretty simple actually! And there is one basic rule more: the ip 127.0.0.1 is always any computer itself!
However you probably never enter internet addresses that way no matter if it is a website, an FTP-server or a MySQL-server that you access. You use NAMES. However these names must be resolved to the above format. If not resolved to ip's the servers on the Internet can't handle the request.
There are basically four ways of resolving a name to an IP(and in that order):
- Using client hosts' file
- Using (local) nameserver lookup
- Using Domain Name Server (DNS) lookup.
- Using Remote Network routing (using either simple routing based on ports, hosts file or nameserver) on remote network.
1. Client hosts' file
There is an excellent article on the hosts file What is hosts?. Try to find your own hosts file. You will find this line in it:
You might find more lines too - for several reasons: some viruses and spyware add items to the hosts file. Some users and Sys Admins do it on purpose. But since you are able to connect to a MySQL server running on your local machine with the host name 'localhost' it is because of the above line in the hosts file. The hosts files resolves the name 'localhost' to ip 127.0.0.1. If you prefer to use 'cutie' instead of 'localhost' then just add the line
to your hosts file!
2. A local nameserver.
A local nameserver can be installed explicitly or implicitly. If you have more windows computers connected on a windows' network (using the TCP protocol - not old NETBEUI protocol etc) you already have a local nameserver that was implicitly installed. If you have two machines on your network named 'Bonnie' and 'Clyde', then you can connect to the MySQL server running on 'Bonnie' from the computer 'Clyde' with SQL DM entering 'Bonnie' as the host name. Because the nameserver that was implicitly installed as a part of the Windows network resolves the name 'Bonnie' to 'Bonnie's ip on the network
3. A Domain Name Server
Domain name Servers are part of the Internet structure. Any name/string in the format domain.topleveldomain (ie: school.edu, business.com, whisky.org etc. ) can be looked up on the Domain Name Servers of the Internet. The ip returned is then used for creating the connection.
A typical example
You connect to a remote server with the host name mydb.thisismyisp.com. What happens here? Simply:
- First: local hosts file is checked if there are any matching entry. if not proceed to step 2.
- Second: local nameserver (if exists) is checked if there are any matching entry. if not proceed to step 3.
- Third: Domain Name Server lookup identifies the ip of domain-host thisismyisp.com
- Fourth: local network routing systems (router, nameserver or hosts file) on the remote network identifies the local IP mapped to name 'mydb´'
After following the previous steps mydb.thisismyisp.com is resolved to ip v.x.y.z on the internet and IP a.b.c.d on the remote network. Once connection is established the routers and other networking gear in the complete communications chain keeps that information until it is closed or times-out due to inactivity (or some error occur).
One more detail, when connecting to the MySQL server at an ISP it is common practice that MySQL user names and MySQL database names must be prefixed with the domain user name (the one that is used for FTP for instance). Like me_username and me_mydb. Simple because other users may have created a MySQL user username and a MySQL database mydb. But failure to do so does not result in a connection error, but an authentication error. Also note that MySQL usernames can be up to 16 characters long only, review the error "I have a very long username for the MySQL database at my ISP. SQL DM won't let me use it" that is listed below.
Nevertheless, everything can get 'messed up' if it is the first time you try to connect to a remote MySQL server! And here tunneling is not involved.
What should I enter as 'hostname' when connecting to a MySQL server at an ISP.
It depends on the systems and the network settings at your ISP. The systems that ISP's operate are too numerous to mention. Some operate almost all their server programs on one very powerful (UNIX-) machine, others operate a network of many computers that are basically PC-type hardware. Some use Linux/Unix operating systems other Windows server systems (and some mix it!). And ISP's vary in size from 200 customers to 2.000.000. They can't all operate the same systems!
But the general answer is that probably the ISP operates some name server internally. Such name server will typically be configured with the some name like 'mysqlserver' pointing to the ip of the mysqlserver on the local network.
- Direct connection:
If the ISP has the domain name thisisanisp.com then with direct connection you will use mysqlserver.thisisanisp.com.
The information about the name assigned to the mysql server and thus the exact URL to the MySQL server usually is available as part of your account info from some web-based control panel application. Most likely it is something like 'mydb1.thisisanisp.com' or 'mysql.thisisanisp.com'. If you cannot find the information yourself you will have to ask the support/help desk there.
It also could happen that you could simply use thisisanisp.com or the global IP of the ISP, and traffic on port 3306 is routed to the MySQL server - but it will not always work - particularly not if it is a big ISP!. But everything here depends on the local routing systems used at the remote host - whether port-number based routing is active or not.
With HTTP-tunneling 'host' can simply be 'mysqlserver' (ie: 'mydb1' or 'mysql' or whatever). mysqlserver.thisisanisp.com will work too, but there is no need for an extra domain lookup! If it is the same computer that runs the Web-server (with PHP-interpreter) and the MySQL server it can also be 'localhost' or the ip '127.0.0.1'. PHP will connect to MySQL through a Unix-Socket if 'localhost' is specified and TCP if '127.0.0.1'. Both will normally work. TCP may be a little bit slower on Linux machines than Socket, so you can try 'localhost' first. However there are situations where 'localhost' will return an error like error: 'Error No. 2013: Lost connection to MySQL server during query'. This is likely because PHP looks for the socket file where it does not exist. The underlying reason could be that MySQL and PHP have been installed from different repositories using different file positions for the socket file and the mysql datadir.
With SSH-tunneling there are two hosts' settings:
- The 'MySQL Host Address' on the Server Tab on the connections manager: Here the 'host' is the 'path' to the MySQL-server relative to the SSH-server on the remote local network. Most often 'localhost' will do. If it does not work and 'mysqlserver' does not either you will have to ask the support/Sys Admin for more information. There are lots of possible ways to configure SSH on a network! Also here if the MySQL host as entered here cannot be reached from the SSH-server the MySQL client error: 'Error No. 2013: Lost connection to MySQL server during query' occurs. Thus this can be caused by an erroneous 'host' entry, but it can also be a network/configuration error on the remote network. Or the MySQL server simply could be down.
- The 'SSH host' on the Tunnel Tab on the connections manager: This is the 'global URL' of the SHH server at the ISP. The ip will normally work fine, thisisanisp.com too. And maybe SSH is available via the internal name server too - then use something like sshserver.thisisanisp.com.
SQL DM gives you the most options for connecting to MySQL
SQL DM connects to MySQL using the native C-API from MySQL - the fastest and most effective way to manage MySQL. This API is compiled into SQL DM code itself.
Even if the TCP-port (3306) normally used by the MySQL server is blocked (as often is the case at ISP's) SQL DM still let you connect using HTTP(s)-tunneling or SSH-tunneling. And if you are behind a proxy SQL DM can handle that too. The client for SSH connection is installed with SQL DM, and a PHP-script for HTTP-tunneling is too. That script must be uploaded to your webhost. The PHP-script uses php_mysql extension that is available practically everywhere where MySQL is available.
SQL DM works with MySQL version 3.23 and upwards.
SQL DM takes long time to connect when using SSH-tunnel.
If SQL DM is taking long time (more than 5-10 seconds) to connect to your MySQL server using SSH tunneling then there could be problem with the name resolution.
The first thing that the SSH server does before forwarding the connection to the specified MySQL server is to perform a reverse DNS lookup on the client’s IP. The SSH server may cause an unnecessary delay during authentication due to incorrect or absent of reverse DNS settings. So in case of any slowness you should check those settings.
You can also disable most of the server-side lookups by setting UseDNS = "no" in SSHD configuration file (/etc/ssh/sshd_config on most systems). But in that case the MySQL host must be specified with an ip and not a hostname.
What Is SSH and SSH-tunneling?
The Acronym SSH stands for Secure Shell Host. SSH was originally created to provide a secure way to access server systems at "low level", to be used instead of common (but insecure) telnet methods. SSH can use several different forms of encryption, anywhere from 56 to 1024 bit. SSH has been ported to Operating Systems on several platforms including Linux, Microsoft Windows and Macintosh. There are SSH servers and SSH clients available for different types of communication.
Here you may notice this: "OpenSSH includes the ability to forward remote TCP ports over a secure tunnel, allowing that way arbitrary TCP ports on the server side and on the client side to be connected through an SSH tunnel". This is excatly what we make use of.
The term "SSH tunneling" in relation to a database server means that in- and outgoing communications to the network that hosts the database server "passes through" the SSH-server and uses the communications port (usually port 22) and the protocol of the SSH-server. The SSH-server then "translates" and "transfers" that in-and outgoing communication to the database server. SSH is actually quite simple to use. However if you are totally unfamiliar with networking terminology you will have to study it somewhat. Actually you may even install an SSH server at your own local machine and use it for connecting to a local MySQL server. Not much use of that, but it will give you an excellent understanding of what SSH is!
There is a built-in SSH-client in SQL DM that lets you connect to a MySQL server using SSH.
Basically there are two benefits of SSH Tunneling:
* SSH can be used to encrypt communications between SQL DM and your remote MySQL server.
* It lets you access the MySQL server even if the MySQL port (3306) is blocked.
Unlike HTTP-tunneling, you cannot take it for granted that SSH-tunneling is available at your webhost. In general the "more professional" and "more expensive" hosting providers offer SSH and the cheaper ones don't.
Refer to the SQL DM help file for instructions how to set up the SQL DM Connections Manager, if you want to use SSH-tunneling with SQL DM. Each SSH-connection occupies a TCP-port at your local machine. With recent SQL DM versions this port is picked automatically from the pool of high-numbered ports not already in use.
A concluding note on the popular 'Putty' program and SQL DM SSH-tunneling.
Sometimes when people are having problems with SSH-connections, we often hear "I can connect with Putty without problems". Maybe so, but it does not tell very much (almost nothing actually!) because the type of connection with Putty or a similar program referred to here by users is not tunneling and does not make use of port forwarding. Putty creates a remote (and secure) shell on the client machine, and connects to the 'mysql' client program on the server. So here the MySQL client is the 'mysql' client on the remote server. It is true that Putty can be used for setting up a SSH-tunnel as well, but this is not the simple 'connect with Putty' most often referred to and compared with here. With (SQL DM) SSH-tunnel the MySQL client is the client API that is compiled into SQL DM (and SJA). That is why port forwarding is needed and must be functional with SQL DM SSH-tunneling!
You can review the SSH-related error messages.
I have a very long username for the MySQL database at my ISP. SQL DM won't let me use it.
Right! Because a MySQL user name is up to 16 characters long. The MySQL docs clearly state:
MySQL usernames can be up to 16 characters long. Operating system usernames might have a different maximum length. For example, Unix usernames typically are limited to eight characters.
However, it is a bad practice with some ISP's that they generate longer usernames than that. It is typically 'cheaper' hosting providers that offer a single MySQL database as part of a 'personal' or 'small business' subscription plan. They auto-generate the username from the user's domain name and it could be somewhat like mydb_myveryowndomain or similar. It is also true that some of our competitors offer support for that. However it is very bad practice! To make it work you will have to:
- ALTER the TABLE mysql.users and change the mysql.users.users column from a char(16) to some longer value
- You can no longer GRANT user rights, but must INSERT/UPDATE the mysql system tables directly
- You must 'patch' (or rather 'hack') the MySQL API/client code
We have had intense discussions with this the MySQL AB on this issue. From the official correspondence we quote:
"This is simply a lucky fluke of sorts (if it works). MySQL simply does not support longer usernames .... Altering the system tables, aside from using our own mysql_fix_privilege_tables script to keep up with our changes, is simply unsupportable. There are server and client changes needed to properly handle any sort of modifications here, even though in some cases a quirk (as above) may seem to function .... This is, basically, dangerous behavior. We will attempt to curb it as well as we can.... Luckily, our manual states clearly that in both cases, MySQL will not provide support if any problems arise ... That is , it may work and it may not work, but MySQL will not ponder as to why it works or why it does not work ... We simply do not provide support for such cases."
We won't play that game as others do! You should convince your ISP that changing the format of the user table is bad and dangerous practice!
And further: MySQL has 'stopped the game'. Again we quote from the above correspondence:
"To make things even more precise, I will now send a server patch to our development management. This patch adds a code that will truncate user column at 16 chars and other columns to their nominal sizes. This will ensure that future 4.1 and 5.0 versions will not work with longer names, whatever changes some application could envisage."
So with the most recent builds in the MySQL 4.1.x series and with MySQL 5.0 it would not work anyway. There is now code in the server binary itself that truncates any user name to 16 characters.
I get Error Nº 2002. Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket ...
This can occur when connecting using HTTP-tunneling to a MySQL server running on Unix/Linux platforms.
MySQL writes Problems with MySQL sock about this issue.
How to cope with this would depend on which webserver and which php version is used. But here is a workaround that has worked with Apache:
If the directory /var/lib/mysql doesn't exist than create it and chown to user mysql:
"mkdir /var/lib/mysql; chown mysql /var/lib/mysql"
Then edit the /etc/my.cnf file and specify:
And, restart the mysql server ("etc/init.d/mysql restart")
That is enough for MysSQL. However the chances are that PHP was compiled with a different default mysql socket location (e.g. /tmp/mysql.sock). In which case you have to edit the php.ini file and find the variable "mysql.default_socket". Set this to the above value
mysql.default_socket = /var/lib/mysql/mysql.socket
And restart Apache to re-read the php.ini file
If you do not have access to the configuration files and system command-line then you must ask your Sys Admin/support to help with this.
Error no. 1251: "Client does not support authentication..."
Error no. 1251: "Client does not support authentication protocol requested by server - consider upgrading MySQL client" occurs when the hashing-method for storing password used by the client differs from the one of the server. Typically it occurs when trying to connect to MySQL 4.1 or 5.x with a client compiled for 3.x or 4.0.
The Client as far as SQL DM goes is either the IderaSQLdmforMySQL-8.7.0-0.exe and sja.exe executable files (with its compiled-in MySQL C-API) or - in case you use HTTP-tunneling - your PHP-binary.
SQL DM itself (the IderaSQLdmforMySQL-8.7.0-0.exe -executable) handles all MySQL versions from 3.23.x and upwards automatically, and the error message should not occur with direct connection. In case you experience the error when HTTP-tunneling, you can EITHER replace the PHP-binary OR downgrade the hash-type for the user used for tunneling (and other PHP based connections) with the following command:
SET PASSWORD FOR 'some_user'@'some_host' = OLD_PASSWORD('newpwd');
The command must be written as it is.
At ISP's you should expect the Sys Admin there to have MySQL-installations and PHP-binaries that "fit". If you operate your own MySQL server the hashing method may or may not change when upgrading the server from 4.0 to a newer version. That depends on the upgrade method. This one is very similar to "Error no. 1045: Connection denied ..", which you can find it in this list. However, this case connection is established OK but access to data is denied. The user exists but most like he does not have any privilege at all. About user privileges start, please refer to the issue "I am able to connect but can't see the list of databases/tables" listed in this page.
I am able to connect using phpMyAdmin, but SQL DM will not let me connect.
PhpMyAdmin is running on the server itself so when connecting to MySQL with phpMyAdmin you are NOT connecting from a remote host! With SQL DM you are connecting from a remote host. This is a very important difference as far as user configuration with MySQL is concerned.
The user that you are connecting with maybe has no privilege to connect from remote.
By default, MySQL only gives access for users to connect from localhost. If you want to give some user access to the server from another host you must specify the hostname (an ip or a URL). You can use the SQL wildcards "%" and "_" (but not windows wildcards like "*"). Simply giving permission for a user to access the server from "%" means from everywhere. Read more about the MySQL privileges system in "Error Nº1044".
If the database is at an ISP there usually is some kind of "Control Panel" application available from where to configure users. Often user configuration is only allowed using this tool. It also is very likely that your ISP has blocked direct access to MySQL on port 3306. If that is the case SQL DM offers you the option of using HTTP-tunneling as well as SSH-tunneling.
Error Nº 1044: "Access denied..."
This one is very similar to "Error no. 1045: Connection denied .."
However this case connection is established OK but access to data is denied. The user exists but most like he does not have any privilege at all. Read more about user privileges in "I am able to connect but cannot see the list of databases/tables" issue listed.
I am able to connect but can't see the list of databases/tables.
You must have at least SELECT privilege (as a global privilege or a SCHEMA/COLUMN privilege, to be able to see any data. More information on the MySQL privilege system can be found The MySQL Access Privilege System.
If the database is hosted at an ISP/hosting provider it is likely that you must use some web-based "Control Panel" application to set up user privileges.
I am getting "Protocol Mismatch; Server Version 9; Client Version 10"
The protocol version 9 is used by MySQL 3.22 and earlier. The current version of SQL DM supports 3.23.x and above. To use it with 3.22 we have to provide you with a special build of SQL DM. Registered users can request such copy from firstname.lastname@example.org. We can not guarantee that it will be the latest version of SQL DM.
The opposite error message appears if you try to connect from an application with a connector (for instance an ODBC-driver) that is too old too be used with the actual MySQL version.
I have an account with Yahoo. Can I use SQL DM…
Yes. But several users have had problems getting connection parameters right. Here is what Yahoo say themselves:
Why can't I access my database?
First, make sure that you are using the hostname "mysql" and not "localhost" in any of your PHP or Perl configuration files that require a MySQL hostname.
You will need to use HTTP Tunneling. First upload SQL DMTunnel.php (available with the SQL DM installer). Put the correct URL in the HTTP Tunneling field and use the same credentials as you use in your PHP pages. The Hostname should be "mysql" (case-sensitive).
I get error 1130 "Host is not allowed to connect ..." or "Access denied ..." or "Could not connect ..."
Error 1130 is a networking error. The server cannot resolve the hostname of the client. Or the host is not allowed to connect to the MySQL server.
There are basically 2 categories of possible reasons:
- The simple one:
In MySQL a user a user is specified using BOTH the user name and the host from where the user may connect. If no user has been created where the host-part (using wildcards or not) mathces the host of the client trying to connect MySQL returns this error.
- Specific for MySQL 5.7:
When upgrading to MySQL 5.7.3 from a previous version this may occur due to changes to the user table introduced in 5.7.3. There is a good blog about it, Upgrade and Resolving ERROR 1130 Host ‘localhost’ is Not Allowed to Connect.
- The tricky ones:
- Your hosts file is damaged or invalid. Various vira and spyware attack and alter the host file in various ways. For instance if the hosts file does not contain the line
'Localhost' can not be resolved as pointing to ip 127.0.0.1. On some larger corporate network it is widely used to "roll out" host files to all clients with symbolic names (like 'mysqlserver', 'mailserver' etc.) for important machines on the network and the corresponding IP's. Check with your admin that you got the right file!
If you use the Windows network name as hostname, it may be a network configuration problem. Try using the ip instead.
On Unix/Linux systems the hosts files sometimes reads
Is a variation of number 3. With a complex server setup (involving more IP's, domains, subdomains and/or virtual hosts) a similar issue can occur.
In this situation HTTP-tunneling will normally work for all users, but often/sometimes direct connection and SSH will not work with the 'root' user - everything depending on the server configuration. Try another and 'ordinary' user account. You may mirror the privileges of 'root' to a 'superadmin' user.
This causes a problem with MySQL. MySQL docs at Access Control, Stage 1: Connection Verification say:
A Host value may be a hostname or an IP number, or 'localhost' to indicate the local host.
No mention of 'localhost.localdomain'. This means that MySQL cannot resolve that 'automatically'! This can affect SQL DM when tunneling and SJA for Linux. Workarounds for this include:
I: A workaround that has worked is to give the user access from 'localhost.%'
II: You can add localhost to ip 127.0.0.1 in host file like
a. Make sure your '/etc/hosts' file reads as follows:
127.0.0.1 localhost //localhost *MUST* be first (notice separate entries)
127.0.0.1 . . .
b. Make sure you reference the local server in the SJA.XML file as:
127.0.0.1 or localhost.localdomain
This is known to work in some situations where the MySQL configuration file contains:
bind-address = 127.0.0.1
III: It has sometimes worked to add a 'dummy' ip to my.cnf like:
bind-address = 10.10.10.10
.. supposed that 10.10.10.x is also the ip of the local machine. Then you use this 'dummy ip' as the host specification when connecting with SQL DM and SJA.
It seems to be something special for some DEBIAN distributions to use this 'bind-address' construction with MySQL. Solution II) and III) both are solutions that users have contributed at our Forums. Both situations involved DEBIAN.
IV: You can try any host name that the host file maps to ip 127.0.0.1. There might be several! Even a SAMBA NetBIOS alias might work!
V: You can use the local ip (ie. 10.0.0.1 or whatever) of the actual machine or a name server alias for this. But in this case normal TCP-connections must be enabled in MySQL configuration - that is 'skip-networking' must be disabled/commented out and no 'bind-address' may be there. Of course then an additional DNS lookup will have to take place for the connection to be established. This is of no practical importance.
Finally you could test if this connection issue is the same with 'MySQL Administrator'. It uses the same client code (the C-API) and connects exactly as SQL DM and SJA do.
Error no. 1045: "Connection denied..."
The error message: Error No. 1045: Connection denied for 'someuser@somehost' (using password: YES/NO)
It is a user authentication error. The user details specified do not "match" the user tables of the specified MySQL server. Common situations are:
- No such user.
NOTE: MySQL does not use the OS's or domain's user's management. It operates its own user accounts. With a fresh MySQL installation the user ROOT is created with NO PASSWORD. When working with MySQL databases at ISP's an admin user most often must be activated from some web based Control Panel Application before connection to the MySQL server is possible. There could be more "rules" applying here (database and user naming conventions etc). Refer to the docs/support at the ISP for details on that. We can't give them!
- User is not allowed to connect from the actual host. Note that MySQL by default only allows connection from 'localhost'. To specify from where a user may connect SQL wildcards (% and _) can be used. Simply 'someuser@%' means that user 'someuser' may connect from everywhere.
- Wrong password, missing password or password specified where it should not
- If you are upgrading MySQL from an old version (4.0.x or lower) to a more recent (4.1.x or highere) and if you are still using a rather old PHP version you may need to execute this command from command-line client
SET PASSWORD FOR some_user@localhost = OLD_PASSWORD('newpwd');
(where some_user@localhost is the user used for this connection) since the format for storing passwords has changed between 4.0.x and 4.1.x versions.
Error No. 2005: Unknown MySQL server host...
The error message: Error No. 2005: Unknown MySQL server host 'some_URL_or_ip'
Simply means that connection is not possible for the following (or similar) reasons:
A protocol is specified in the "MySQL host address" field of the SQL DM Connection Manager that does not support MySQL connection. It is a common mistake among beginners to use "http://...", instead of just "www.myveryowndomain.com" or "sales.myowncompany.biz" or "localhost" (if the webserver and the MySQL server is running on the same computer). When connecting to a remote network you may need to ask the Sys Admin there for the correct URL to use for addressing the MySQL server.
However if you use HTTP-tunneling the URL-field on the Tunnel -tab of the SQL DM Connection Manager should be a complete URL with the "http://" protocol specified. This is because the tunneling script must be addressed through a webserver (that is the idea of HTTP-tunneling!).
Error no. 2003: Cannot connect...
The error message: Error No. 2003: Can't connect to MySQL server on 'localhost' (or some other host)
Simply means that connection is not possible for one of the following (or similar) reasons:
- There is no MySQL server running at the specified host
- Connection to the MySQL server is not allowed using TCP-IP. Check the 'skip-networking' setting in the MySQL configuration file (my.ini on Windows, my.cnf on Unix/Linux). It shall be commented out like '#skip-networking'. If it is not commented out, then do it and restart the MySQL server for the change to take effect. SQL DM needs to connect using TCP-IP.
- Some networking issue prevents connection. It could be a network malconfiguration or a firewall issue. We have experienced sometimes that some firewalls (ZoneAlarm in particular) is blocking TCP-IP connections even if it claims to be disabled. Most often it will help to uninstall and reinstall the firewall.
- When trying to connect to a MySQL server at an ISP this error message often indicates that direct connection to MySQL has been blocked. You must then use HTTP-tunneling or SSH-tunneling to connect.
- Also, you can find more relevant information in Error No. 1130 above. It describes some more special situations when connection to MySQL on Linux. | <urn:uuid:03b071cc-26cd-4c00-b5de-db36cad56bce> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://wiki.idera.com/display/SQLDMMYSQL87/SQL+DM+for+MySQL+Solutions | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571284.54/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811103305-20220811133305-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.894938 | 7,514 | 3.3125 | 3 |
PIONEERING DIGITAL WATERMARKS FOR SMART PACKAGING RECYCLING IN
Digital Watermarks Initiative HolyGrail 2.0.
Welcome to the cross-value chain initiative HolyGrail 2.0
Driven by AIM - European Brands Association and powered by the Alliance to End Plastic Waste, over 160 companies and organisations from the complete packaging value chain have joined forces for the Digital Watermarks Initiative HolyGrail 2.0 with the ambitious goal to assess whether a pioneering digital technology can enable better sorting and higher-quality recycling rates for packaging in the EU, driving a truly circular economy.
The objective of the initiative is to prove the viability of digital watermarking technologies for accurate sorting and the business case at large scale.
For any questions, additional information or press related enquiries, please directly contact firstname.lastname@example.org.
About HolyGrail 2.0
The Digital Watermarks Initiative HolyGrail 2.0 – driven by AIM - European Brands Association and powered by the Alliance to End Plastic Waste – is a pilot project with the objective to prove the technical viability of digital watermarks for accurate sorting of packaging waste as well as the economic viability of the business case at large scale.
Digital watermarks are imperceptible codes, the size of a postage stamp, covering the surface of a consumer goods packaging and carrying a wide range of attributes. The aim is that once the packaging has entered into a waste sorting facility, the digital watermark can be detected and decoded by a high resolution camera on the sorting line, which then – based on the transferred attributes (e.g. food vs. non-food) – is able to sort the packaging in corresponding streams. This would result in better and more accurate sorting streams, thus consequently in higher-quality recyclates benefiting the complete packaging value chain.
For more details on the initiative, please see the general HolyGrail 2.0 Presentation.
About HolyGrail 1.0
The digital watermarks project was part of the broader pioneering project HolyGrail 1.0, which, facilitated by the Ellen MacArthur Foundation and bringing together different stakeholders from the packaging value chain, ran from 2016-2019.
Within this project, different initiatives in the field of improving post-consumer recycling by using chemical tracers and digital watermarks for better sorting were investigated. Digital watermarks were found to be the most promising technology within HolyGrail 1.0, gathering support among the large majority of stakeholders. The technology opens new possibilities for sorting that are currently not feasible with existing sorting technologies. Through the creation of smart packaging, it also has the potential to be used in other areas such as consumer engagement, supply chain visibility and retail operations. At the end of HolyGrail 1.0, a basic proof-of-concept for digital watermarks on packaging was established and demonstrated on a test sorting line during an Open House in May 2019.
The branded goods industry has stepped in to facilitate HolyGrail 2.0 as a cross-value chain initiative to assess how a pioneering digital technology can enable better sorting and higher-quality recycling rates in the EU, leading to a true circular economy.
About digital watermarks
HolyGrail 2.0 looks into coding the surface of packaging for consumer goods with imperceptible codes, so-called digital watermarks. These optical codes are the size of a postage stamp, applied directly within the packaging’s label artwork or embossed in the mould. They can carry a wide range of attributes such as manufacturer, Stock-Keeping Unit (SKU), type of plastics used and composition, food vs. non-food usage. As well as encoding a “digital recycling passport”, digital watermarks also have the potential to be used in other areas such as consumer engagement, supply chain visibility and retail operations.
HolyGrail 2.0 focuses on how digital watermarks can be used for improved sorting processes of post-consumer packaging waste. The aim is that once the packaging coded with digital watermarks has entered into a waste sorting facility, the digital watermark can be detected and decoded by a high resolution camera on the sorting line, which then – based on the transferred attributes – is able to sort the packaging in corresponding streams (e.g. food vs. non-food). This would result in better and more accurate sorting streams and consequently in higher-quality recyclates benefiting the complete packaging value chain.
Membership in HolyGrail 2.0 is open to all interested stakeholders from the packaging value chain. So far, 160+ companies and organisations have registered to HolyGrail 2.0.
If your company/organisation is interested in joining,
please have a look at our Membership Kit:
Full membership – open to branded goods manufacturers and retailers only / 20.000 EUR for 2nd project year (July 2021 – June 2022)
Associate membership – open to all stakeholders from the packaging value chain / 3.000 EUR for 2nd project year (July 2021 – June 2022)
HolyGrail 2.0 Charter – outlining the governance and membership structure, meeting and voting rules as well as the anti-trust statement
For further information: email@example.com
Phase 1 -
The prototype phase focuses on the hardware and the development of a functional add-on module for the detection sorting unit that can efficiently detect and separate the digitally watermarked packaging from packaging waste. The aim is that the validated prototypes will be used for the (semi-) industrial tests within the HolyGrail 2.0 initiative.
The success criteria of this phase consists in the units' ability to detect and sort digitally watermarked packaging of various sizes. The validation of this phase, overlooked by the HolyGrail 2.0 Technical Project Management, is based on the selection of 10 digitally watermarked types of packaging which will consist of 3 rigid prints, 3 embossed rigids, 3 flexibles in print and 1 paper based.
The machine vendor Pellenc ST, together with the selected digital watermarks technology provider Digimarc, developed the first add-on module for their detection sorting unit, combining digital watermarks detection with existing NIR sorters. The prototype detection sorting unit was successfully validated in September 2021, achieving a >95% ejection rate.
The second prototype detection sorting unit, developed by machine vendor Tomra and Digimarc, was successfully validated in April 2022, achieving a >95% ejection rate.
Successful completion of Phase 1 brings the Technical Readiness Level (TRL) to TRL 6 – technology demonstrated in relevant environment.
Phase 2 - Semi-industrial Testing
In order to convert the HG2.0 prototype from proof of concept (Phase 1) to industrial scale, the system is tested for speed, accuracy and detection efficiency during the Phase 2 semi-industrial trials. A software model and identification parameters will be developed and tested for a category specific sorting based on digital watermark detection.
Both developed prototype detection sorting units will be tested at two different test locations that are capable of running semi-industrial trials. The semi-industrial tests of the Pellenc ST/Digimarc prototype started in October 2021 at the Amager Resource Center in Copenhagen. The purpose was to evaluate the technology by replicating real-world industrial conditions. For four months, comprehensive sets of tests were successfully performed on approximately 125,000 pieces of packaging from 260 stock-keeping units (SKUs). Validation tests commenced in January 2022 at the headquarters of Pellenc ST. Consistent high results across all tested categories of plastic packaging material of 99% detection, 95% ejection and 95% purity rates, on average, demonstrated an impressive performance of the first prototype. The successful validation showed that the digital watermark technology can indeed achieve more granular sorting of packaging waste at scale, such as developing separate food and other new PCR streams that currently do not exist (e.g. for cosmetic or detergent applications).
Successful testing brings the Technical Readiness Level (TRL) from current TRL 6 – technology demonstrated in relevant environment towards TRL 7 – system prototype demonstration in operational environment and TRL 8 – system complete and qualified.
Phase 3 - Industrial Tests
The industrial test phase will focus on deploying the functional prototypes on large-scale in commercial sorting and recycling facilities under normal operating conditions. The aim is that brand owners and retailers will bring their enhanced products commercially to the market in three EU countries Denmark, France and Germany. Consumers will buy these on-shelf products with digitally watermarked packaging, which after consumption will enter the waste stream and end up for sorting in different material recovery facilities that will run the industrial trials for different packaging material.
Potential partners for industrial tests include MRFs (Materials Recovery Facility), PRFs (Plastic Recovery Facility) and recycling plants in France and Germany. These real-time test runs are to determine the systems reliability to ensure optimum sorting performance.
A successful completion of the industrial tests would bring the technology to TRL 9 – actual system proven in operational environment.
This last phase is planned to start in 2022 after which the HolyGrail 2.0 Initiative will release a final public report outlining the techno-economic analysis of the digital watermarks technology for sorting of packaging waste. A successful demonstration of the technical and economic viability of the technology would inspire more countries and waste management operators to implement this new sorting technology.
The HolyGrail 2.0 initiative has a clear governance and membership structure based on the HolyGrail 2.0 Charter.
The overall management of the initiative lies with AIM – European Brands Association as project facilitator.
The technical work and coordination is overseen and managed by the Technical Project Management.
The main funding partner for the (semi-)industrial trials is the Alliance to End Plastic Waste. Furthermore, also the City of Copenhagen provides funding and support for the semi-industrial testing phase in Copenhagen.
Based on the learnings obtained from the initial HolyGrail 1.0 project under the auspices of the Ellen MacArthur Foundation, and following the launch of HolyGrail 2.0, we launched a Call for Proposals, among participating digital watermarks technology suppliers and machine vendors. This open and transparent process was designed to offer a level playing field to any potential supplier that had signalled an interest in being considered for a role as a direct partner for HolyGrail 2.0. Suppliers had the possibility to provide their plan and budget for participation in HolyGrail 2.0 Phase 1 (prototype development), Phase 2 (semi-industrial tests) and Phase 3 (industrial tests). As part of the Call for Proposals, the participating companies were all given equal opportunity to present their proposals to the HolyGrail 2.0 Leadership Team, followed by a Q&A session. Based on these proposals and presentations, the Leadership Team unanimously decided to work together with Pellenc ST and Tomra for the development of the detection units, in combination with Digimarc, as the technology provider.
The elected HolyGrail 2.0 Leadership Team leads, coordinates and manages the activities of the initiative, ensuring effective use of membership fees and involvement of member companies. It overlooks the activities and decides on the set-up of technical work packages that are crucial for the progress of the project.
The Leadership Team - chaired by Procter & Gamble - consists of core members representing each of the sectors engaged in the initiative: brand manufacturers, retailers, material recovery facilities (MRFs), packaging converters, Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) organisations, and recyclers.
All HolyGrail 2.0 members are encouraged to get involved in the different technical work packages (WPs) of the initiative to contribute with their expertise and knowledge.
The nine different work packages range from field testing and packaging focus groups, to the development of an information management system, the business development analysis and the integration of digital watermarks into existing packaging types.
Each work package is led by a member of the initiative as WP Leader. All technical work is overlooked and supported by the Technical Project Management.
The Advisory Group is a panel for dialogue, exchange and input into both the operational implementation of key activities and the overall strategy of HolyGrail 2.0. The Advisory Group also provides advice to the Leadership Team, constituting the public policy complement to the cross value chain initiative.
The group is comprised of key stakeholders in the Circular Economy debate, including representatives from NGOs, media, European and national public agencies and other key stakeholders.
The group members are committed to contributing expertise, experience, insights and learnings to support the HolyGrail 2.0 initiative and to promoting the outcome and learnings from the initiative to a broader audience. | <urn:uuid:ec0c0fb0-f7e7-461d-9938-372b1b3cbfd0> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.digitalwatermarks.eu/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571284.54/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811103305-20220811133305-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.916719 | 2,655 | 1.796875 | 2 |
Sustain for Life funded the first year of a pilot project originally devised by Plan UK to provide young girls engaged in commercial sex work with the skills to find alternative means to support themselves. The project targeted female sex workers between the ages of 13 and 25 years. Major activities included forming development clubs, training club members in vocational, entrepreneurial, livelihood and effective parenting skills, introducing and strengthening business areas in the target clubs and identifying and referring children to paediatric health centres.
The girls who took part in the project were equipped with skills for alternative economic support for themselves and their dependants. The girls were also provided with start up capital necessary to set up their own businesses. Plan UK is committed to funding this important project going forward.
Sustain for Life has been instrumental in establishing Margaret Vocational Tailoring Centre (MVTC), a community based organisation operating in Palabek in northern Uganda to train girls in tailoring skills as a sustainable way to fight poverty, restore hope and improve livelihoods.
MVTC supports a number of disadvantaged girls who have suffered as a result of the prolonged war in northern Uganda. The funding we provided allowed MVTC to purchase sewing machines and materials and paid for training, technical expertise and other essential support to give these impoverished and vulnerable girls an opportunity to become full members of society and their communities. At the end of a year’s training the girls were given the sewing machines they had been using to give them the basic means to become self-reliant in the future.
MVTC’s first group of students graduated in July 2009 following a very successful year. The girls gained confidence and self-esteem while developing the skills to enable them to pursue a self-sustainable life with ongoing support from MVTC as long as they need it. They now have the opportunity to make a better life for themselves, their families and their communities.
Sustain for Life supported Mummy’s Crib Vocational Training Centre to respond to the plight of disadvantaged girls by giving them access to employable life skills, training and business education. The project helped young women realise their potential and gave them the vocational skills for a self-sustainable future. Our funding provided courses in tailoring and embroidery and allowed the centre to purchase sewing machines and materials to give these impoverished and vulnerable youths an opportunity to help themselves and become full members of society and their communities.
The Bwindi Advanced Market Gardeners’ Association (AMAGARA means ‘life’ in the local Rukiga language) was established with the support ofSustain for Life in 2006 to create opportunities for local farmers to produce foods to supply the tourism industry. The concept of AMAGARA was to create a farmers’ association where local subsistence farmers could be trained to grow a variety of good quality produce which would be bulked, graded and marketed directly to the tour camps through the association, thus ensuring that the revenue it achieved came straight back into the local community.
AMAGARA has shown dramatic progress and, as of April 2008, boasted over 100 member households who now benefit directly from supplying vegetables and other products to every tour camp at Bwindi. It has trained several hundred members and other local people in land management and horticultural techniques and it now employs three full time staff and numerous casual workers.
The AMAGARA project encapsultaes Sustain for Life’s aim of helping people to help themselves. It is flourishing and is now a self-funding concern. We have been pleased to support AMAGARA and are now delighted that it can run on its own – the local committee and all those involved can rightly be proud of what they have achieved.
Sustain for Life purchased and donated a quantity of large capacity washing machines and driers to St Joseph’s Hospital, a private not-for-profit hospital located at Kitgum in northern Uganda. The laundry facilities have provided an instant improvement to existing services and quality of care at the hospital.
St Joseph Hospital is a referral hospital for the Kitgum district and part of the Pader district, including southern Sudan. Originally established in 1943 as an aid post under a mango tree, the hospital has grown over the years and now has a capacity of 350 beds. About 300 to 400 patients are seen daily in the outpatients department with approximately 50 to 60 of those having to be admitted to the wards. This is a relatively large establishment and while it receives some government funding directly related to patient treatment and drugs, it is still very reliant on external donations both in cash and in kind to assist with other essential areas of hospital activity. | <urn:uuid:9532e176-659d-47df-a10c-37464812a4cd> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://sustainforlife.org/en/projects/sustain-for-lifes-early-projects/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571745.28/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812170436-20220812200436-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.968041 | 940 | 2.140625 | 2 |
I’ve said that being an eclectic homeschooler doesn’t mean that you just throw a bunch of stuff together and hope it works. Every piece of curriculum is chosen, for a reason.
However, I am going to admit that being an eclectic homeschooler does often mean that you have a large variety of materials at your disposal. (Because I like variety. And options.)
That said, I do have a large variety of materials available to study History here at our house. I love History. I didn’t used to, no sir. But as an adult–I think it might be my favorite. And I have a long list of favorites when it comes to materials, too. And yes, I’m going to share them with you.
Everything You Need For Eclectic Homeschool History Curriculum
The Mystery of History
Why do we love it? The things I like most about The Mystery of History are that it’s chronological, with a Biblical Worldview, and it’s great for teaching multiple ages at once. Even though the book itself comes with everything you have to have (and you are allowed to copy it as needed,) I am also a big fan of the digital extras that you can add — like the notebooking pages, for example.
Homeschool Legacy, Once-A-Week Unit Study
Chosen for: American History
Chosen because: Easy to implement, Christian perspective
Benefits: The lessons are prepared, are literature rich, and easy to add on to an already full schedule
Why do we love it? I really love how much literature this adds to our week (and it helps me keep diligent with my library borrowing habits.) The Homeschool Legacy unit studies are written and intended as a complete curriculum in and of themselves, but we use it as an American History supplement. The extra geography, art, etc, that we get out of it is just a sweet bonus. (To learn more about how we use it with our existing curriculum, you can check out my review.)
Chosen for: Historical Literature
Chosen because: Living books, compact “Library” on cd, can read on Kindle
Benefits: learn History, increase vocabulary and reading comprehension, and broaden horizons all at the same time.
Why do we love it? Having a whole library of historical literature at my fingertips makes it really easy to provide living books for my kids to read (or to read to them.) The Heritage History cds don’t take up a lot of space, either. The historical literature also provides a perspective from the time in which they were written, and when we ready books from time periods we’ve covered in History we are excited to find “evidence” of things we studied inside the context of the story. (I wrote about the Young Readers Curriculum here and I also have a post about we supplement our Mystery of History with Heritage History.)
Chosen for: Geography
Chosen because: Easy to reference, edit, and print maps for History lessons
Benefits: Contains World, American and Biblical maps as well as Maps organized by lesson for The Mystery of History.
Why do we love it? Aside from the very large resource of maps in one little software program (which is enough to love right there,) the two things I love most about WonderMaps are that I can pull up the Mystery of History Table of Contents and go straight to the map I need (instead of copying the map out of the back of the History book,) and that I can edit the maps before printing them. (Yes, I have a post about WonderMaps, too!)
Why do we love it? I love my Kindle. My grandmother recently gave the girls a used Kindle, too. When I assign digital books to read I can put them on the “Kid Kindle” and they can take it with them wherever they go.
Chosen for: Historical Documentaries
Chosen because: Visual learners like to “see” things.
Benefits: Further explore a History subject; appeal to a variety of learning styles.
Why do we love it? Well, first because we like our tv. We watch a lot of movies. But one of the biggest reason I love Netflix is because of the large amount of educational content. Sure, you have to weed out some less than great documentaries but we have found a lot of good ones, too. Documentaries can give you a visual of far away places and people.
And if you need Texas History…
I’ve already written an ultimate list of Texas History Homeschool resources here. Enjoy!
I also want to mention that we have a lot of great Usborne books that are History or Geography related. We have several atlases and historical encyclopedias. Having a good collection of reference materials is also good when you want to do further research on a particular subject you have covered in a History lesson. I sort of have an addiction to reference materials. =)
Want more posts like this? Hop over to the “Must Haves” Link-up over at iHomeschool Network to find more “musts” and “faves” on a large variety of homeschool topics!
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Who is the first person construction team members go to when they have a problem? Right. The Project Manager.
But handling the team’s questions and concerns is only a small part of a construction Project Manager’s duties.
Broadly speaking, a PM takes the construction project from A to Z.
You work both on-site and in the office. You meet and fight new challenges, day in and day out. You are expected to listen to those you work with, understand the emergency, and then get the job done. It is your duty to make sure everyone’s ideas are heard and expectations are met.
Construction Project Manager’s main duties include planning, cost, schedule, scope of work, safety and quality management.
These categories embrace all of the major stages in the construction process: site selection, design, bids and permitting, construction, and delivery.
1. Creating benchmarks.
Benchmarking is key to understanding if everything is in line with plans, specs, and blueprints.
Benchmarks are a sort of checkpoint to estimate the overall effectiveness of the construction process, identify pitfalls, and design viable strategies.
If you are good at benchmarking, it will help to set realistic timelines and attainable goals so that you can deliver projects on time and under budget.
2. Understanding the “big picture”.
You should have a clear understanding of the project ultimate goals and be able to communicate your vision to your team. This will help every team member to act proactively, stay goal-oriented, and work with minimum supervision.
3. Continuous planning and revisions.
Any experienced project manager will confirm that planning starts long before construction begins. You will spend a lot of time revising and adjusting milestones to address unexpected issues and make sure the project plan aligns with the overall objective and timeline.
4. Performing risk management.
Construction site conditions, environmental concerns, worker safety, design alterations, financial fluctuations… There are so many factors that can pose a risk to your project.
Managing these risks is another important aspect a Project Manager should deal with.
Identifying and assessing risks top the priority list. Then you should categorize them based on their potential impact on the overall project and the probability of their occurrence.
Roles should be clearly defined so that each of your teammates knows the scope of their duties when it’s time to address the risk.
5. Ensuring workers’ and the building’s safety.
Successful completion of a construction project is not only about time and cost-effectiveness. Every single aspect of the accomplished work should comply with building codes, plans, and specifications.
Besides, deep knowledge of workplace health and safety regulations is an absolute must. Unfortunately, worker safety remains one of the most important issues in the construction industry, and the PM has a primary role of making the construction site safe for every single worker and visitor.
6. Putting together the budget.
You are the keeper of the budget, so staying within the predetermined boundaries is essential.
Budgets for wages, equipment, and materials — everything should be thoroughly considered.
Remember, it’s important to keep the clients updated for any budget-related issues as soon as they pop up. This will help you take the stress out of the process and tackle issues effectively before matters get too complicated.
7. Obtaining and distributing resources.
From nails to bulldozers, the construction Project Manager must obtain all of the materials, equipment, and supplies necessary for the construction.
Tracking inventory effectively is also important. You don’t want unnecessary stuff to pile up on the construction site. On the other hand, you don’t want to lose time on obtaining necessary supplies when the construction is in full progress. Finding the balance is tough, but that’s what makes a PM stand out.
Also, be prepared to review and update any changes in the project and allocate resources accordingly. Flexibility and strategic thinking are important to be able to make the right decisions.
8. Hiring, firing, and managing staff.
Do you have competent and motivated staff on board? You are halfway through. Most likely, your project is going to be a success!
As a Project Manager, you are required to hire the best talent and help them succeed in their roles. Construction is a high-risk industry, so taking care of employee’s well-being is one of your top tasks, otherwise “health, safety, and productivity can be negatively impacted.”
The team spirit is of no less importance. A strong corporate culture where people enjoy a positive atmosphere and integrity is a hint that a professional manager is there leading the team. Employees should get a clear direction from their manager and should know their hard work is recognized and rewarded.
Each of the above-mentioned duties will be impossible to accomplish without a number of essential skills.
Required skills for a construction project manager:
1. Time management skills.
2. Communication and interpersonal skills.
3. Ability to work under pressure.
4. Being tech-savvy.
Tools are great but every decent career starts with a well-designed, comprehensive training.
No matter your background or work experience, the first step to becoming a construction project manager can be enrolling in a course that will enable you to become a licensed builder. The training CPC40110 Certificate IV in Building and Construction is the right one to help you get the qualification. Enrolling and completing the CPC40110 Certificate IV in Building and Construction is required in order to apply for a Low Rise Builders Licence.
Next comes a higher-level construction course which will open new professional horizons and help land a job as a project manager. It’s called CPC50210 Diploma of Building and Construction.
Before that, we have one last piece of advice for you: if you plan to become a PM, commit yourself to lifelong learning.
If you are not the type of person who plans too far into the future, start small and set short-term goals that will lead you to accomplish your bigger objectives.
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SAN DIEGO (Border Report) — The essential travel restrictions instituted in March 2020 have been extended for at least another month, Jeff Zients, the White House Coronavirus Response Coordinator, said during a news conference on Monday.
The restrictions affect primarily Mexican nationals with tourist visas who cross the border to shop, visit, or for leisure activities. They were set in place as a way to prevent the spread of the COVID-19 virus.
One thing that is changing, although not in play for visitors from Mexico or Canada, is that fully-vaccinated travelers from all E.U. nations, the U.K., Brazil, China, India, Iran, Ireland, and South Africa will be allowed to enter the U.S. starting in early November.
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Canada is a fantastic country to start your online business in, with its diverse population, stable economy and its supporting regulations. There are a lot of ways that you as an entrepreneur can make money online, but before you go out on your own make sure to read up on what Canadian regulations are like. Canada is a country with many opportunities for online entrepreneurs. For those looking to succeed as an online entrepreneur, there are many factors to consider – technology, legislation, and marketing. This article explores how you can use these three factors to your advantage in order to be successful in Canada. Ever since Canada created a new platform that allows entrepreneurs to start their own online businesses <a>no text</a>, the country has quickly become a hot spot for budding entrepreneurs. The article explains how entrepreneurs can succeed as online entrepreneurs in Canada and provides tips on how to position yourself as an expert in your field so you can get more clients or customers.
What is Canada’s Online Marketplace?
Canada is a country with many innovative entrepreneurs. While there are many forms of business that one can do, it’s important to understand how they can be successful in Canada. One of the most popular ones is selling their products or services online through an e-commerce website. Online Marketplace websites allow Canadian entrepreneurs to sell their products and services on a global marketplace without any limitations or restrictions. Canada’s online marketplace is called Shopify, and it helps some of the best entrepreneurs in Canada do what they do best: sell their products. If you are interested in starting your own business, then this is a resource you should try to learn more about. Canada’s Online Marketplace is one of Canada’s leading online marketplaces which provides customers with a number of products and services. Customers can shop for hash online, view the latest listings from local businesses, sign up for business owners’ emails and newsletters, and read articles about their local communities.
Canada has an abundance of ecommerce opportunities
Canada is one of the biggest eCommerce markets in the world, and this has led to an abundance of online entrepreneurs in Canada. It’s easy to get started in eCommerce, but it can be hard to find success as an online entrepreneur. Successful Canadian online entrepreneurs know how to make steady progress. Canada is home to some of the largest companies in the world, with eCommerce opportunities that are not just global, but also local. In Canada, even smaller cities have a thriving online market and many Canadians are taking advantage of this. Canadian businesses can leverage their location on the web and take advantage of both domestic and global markets by creating Ecommerce websites. Canada is an amazing country for online entrepreneurs. It is home to some of the best eCommerce opportunities on the planet. That’s not to say that you can’t find competition here because Canada has over 4 million people, but it’s not nearly enough to saturate the market.
How to leverage these opportunities as a Canadian entrepreneur
In this blog article, the author talks about how to leverage opportunities as an online entrepreneur in Canada. This includes how to achieve success by focusing on your strengths and emphasizing the benefits of being Canadian. For instance, one way to do this is to pitch your product as a “Canadian made” or “Canadian designed” product. The article concludes with a few tips on how to succeed as an online entrepreneur in Canada. Canada is a diverse and technologically progressive nation. This can often make it difficult to create a successful online business here. The good news is that Canada offers entrepreneurs many opportunities in the online market, such as social media platforms and e-commerce, which can be leveraged to build a profitable business.
What are the future prospects of online entrepreneurs in Canada
It is hard to say for sure what the future of Canada’s online entrepreneurs will be, but it isn’t too difficult to assume that the opportunities for the industry are going to continue to exist. The problem is that the market can change quickly. Online entrepreneurs are not just finding themselves in a digital world. They have found themselves joining the ranks of other established industries and becoming part of the future economy. With that said, as an online entrepreneur, you have to understand how technological advancements set your company apart from any other industry. The future of online entrepreneurs in Canada is promising. The Canadian government is trying to develop a digital economy that creates opportunities for entrepreneurship, leading to more jobs and new businesses. As a country with a booming population, Canada’s economy will be able to support the growth of new companies and job creation for decades to come.
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The Supreme Court’s overturning of Roe v. Wade and the subsequent trigger laws that have re-criminalized abortion in certain states may have a number of unexpected consequences that go well beyond a right to choose.
Already some people are saying their access to life-saving medications is being threatened on the grounds that they might cause a miscarriage or birth defects
TikTokers are trying to raise awareness of the number of potential drugs that could be outlawed or banned thanks to overreaching, uninformed right-wing state legislatures.
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A significant amount of anti-abortion legislation either intentionally or negligently criminalizes medical care either unrelated to abortion or which is medically necessary.
In the wake of the decision overturning Roe, people online have noted that women could be prosecuted for ectopic pregnancies. One TikToker said, in the wake of the ruling, a doctor was consulting with a lawyer before performing a life-saving procedure.
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These restrictions placed on necessary medical care by some anti-abortion legislation could even be extended to patients who aren’t actually pregnant.
Laws banning the administration of drugs that cause miscarriage, while intended to outlaw abortion that is induced chemically rather than surgically, could also be applied to other medications where there is a risk of miscarriage or severe fetal defects, regardless of if the medication is necessary for keeping the pregnant person alive.
Even where a patient is not pregnant nor intending to, the risk of them becoming pregnant and suffering a miscarriage as a result could potentially be enough for both patient and prescriber to suffer legal consequences.
Commonplace medication like benzodiazepines have been flagged by TikTokers as something that could one day be outlawed and demonized as abortion pills.
After Texas’ most recent set of abortion restrictions, prior to the overturning of Roe, pharmacists refused to dispense medication for treatment of ectopic pregnancy, even though the law did in fact make exceptions for those cases. Similarly, the aggressive prosecutions of those who’ve suffered stillbirths and miscarriages in the parts of America that already had restrictive abortion laws demonstrate a precedent for how patients who find themselves pregnant while taking certain medications could be forced to stop taking them or prosecuted for doing so.
Whether or not prosecution is likely, patients are expressing their concerns about the lack of access and potential criminalization of medications.
At least one person, @the_little_raven, went on TikTok to recount how her doctor already wanted to withdraw and stop prescribing the medication she takes for a heart condition, despite the lack of suitable alternatives and no intent to become pregnant on her part, because of the overturning of Roe vs. Wade and new abortion restrictions in her state.
@the_little_raven did not specify what state she was in.
Though the TikToker said she has managed to find an alternative source for her medication since posting the video, it shows a potential world were any medication could be banned.
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Flying A Plane - Fast Cardless Charades
Fast Acting Cardless Charades
Hi, A while ago I heard of a game where you act out one thing, but you answer, no, I'm flying a plane. The next person has to act out the plane flying and so it continues.
I tried playing this with the family, but there is something missing, as everyone knows that person b is flying a plane. Do you know this game, can you post the real rules?
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Have not heard of this, sounds like a fun idea and like a fast charades game without cards, if we had to make up rules or instructions for this acting game it would go something like this:
First person choose any action to act out say "chasing butterflies".
The first person will then whisper to the person that guess correctly: "No, I'm flying a plane". The person that guessed correctly must now act out "I'm flying a plane"
The next person that guess "I'm flying a plane" correctly will then receive a whisper "No, I'm exercising my upper arms" from the current actor. This person must now act out the whisper he receives and so the game continues.
You can then make more rules like:
The "no, I'm... part must somehow relate to the motion or action of the previous act.
If a person guess correctly the current actor must immediately reply with a whisper of "no, I am...." without taking any time to think about it.
Hope that gives an idea on how to play a fast acting charades game without cards.
This type of game is especially nice to play when you seek really fast paced fun or when the aim is attention building skills, also great for kids that can't read cards yet.
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In 1888, Burroughs Wellcome & Co. developed a new machine that could produce 600 compressed pills a minute, each pill having an unprecedented standard of precision. To eliminate the threat of competition the company registered as a trademark one of the most famous and powerful brand names in business history Tabloid, a word created by blending the words tablet and alkaloid – to denote the company's pills. The name was applied to the full range of the company's products, including tabloid first aid kits and medicine chests, tabloid photographic developer and even tabloid tea. The term has now passed into general use to mean anything in compact form, in particular a newspaper format, though it is still technically the property of Burroughs Wellcome & Co.
Silas Burroughs died in 1895, leaving the company in the hands of his partner. The business flourished under Henry Wellcome's leadership, expanding massively and setting up several research laboratories which employed some of the most outstanding scientists of the day.
In 1995, Wellcome merged with Glaxo to form Glaxo Wellcome plc. The company merged with SmithKline Beecham in 2000 to form GlaxoSmithKline which is currently the fourth largest pharmaceutical company in the world.
Burroughs Wellcome & Co. Head Office, Snow Hill, London, 1880s
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The “Pacific Exchange: China & U.S. Mail” exhibition opened today in the Postmasters Gallery of the Smithsonian’s National Postal Museum. It tells the story of the Chinese and U.S. relationship through the unique lens of stamps and mail. U.S. artwork and die proofs related to China and the Lunar New Year are featured and organized into three thematic areas: commerce, culture and community. The sections about commerce and culture focus on the decades between 1860 and 1980; the section on community tells the story of Chinese Americans from the Gold Rush to today’s celebration of the Lunar New Year.
“We look forward to sharing, publicly for the first time, stunningly beautiful pieces from our international collection,” said Allen Kane, director of the museum. “This exhibition provides additional incentive for people around the world to want to visit our William H. Gross Stamp Gallery.”
The U.S. and China are the world’s largest economies, and they share a complicated history. In recent years, about 2½ million Chinese have become avid stamp collectors.
“Stamps and mail never before on public display will offer insight into the complex relationship between the two countries,” said Cheryl R. Ganz, exhibition curator. “Viewing this cultural exchange will offer a deeper understanding of each nation’s history and people in relationship to the other.”
Highlights of the exhibition include an 1849 letter to an American opium trader in Canton, very rare proofs of stamps from the China Bureau of Engraving and Printing (1912–1928), original artwork for U.S. Postal Service Lunar New Year postage stamps and the iconic map-design error of the People’s Republic of China, of which less than 10 are known to exist in private hands.
On Saturday, March 8, Ganz will give a talk and a curator-led tour of the exhibition. She will speak about China’s founding father Sun Yat-sen on American postage stamps at 2 p.m. in the museum’s Byrne Education Loft, followed by a tour of the exhibition at approximately 2:45 p.m. Before and after the talk and tour, she will autograph copies of the exhibition catalog at the museum store from 1–1:45 p.m. and 4:15–5 p.m. The 50-page, full-color catalog is available for purchase for $14.95 in the museum store or online.
A special online version of the exhibit is available, featuring many of the items on exhibit, plus resources and additional images of archival artwork that shows how postage stamp designs evolved.
The National Postal Museum is devoted to presenting the colorful and engaging history of the nation’s mail service and showcasing the largest and most comprehensive collection of stamps and philatelic material in the world. It is located at 2 Massachusetts Ave. N.E., in the Old City Post Office Building across from Union Station. The museum is open daily from 10 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. For more information visit the museum’s Web site at postalmuseum.si.edu.
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The DAIA Foundation is organizing an online COVID-19 Simulation Summit on April 30th, 2020. Please enter your email address in the newsletter box below to receive an invite. The schedule for the event will be published soon. Attendance is free and open to both members and non-members of the DAIA Foundation.
An Online Meeting of the Minds Among Top Global Scientists
The COVID-19 Simulation Summit will be an online event, focused on the use of agent based simulation models for more effective simulation of COVID-19 spread and evaluation of COVID-19 policies. The event will consist of live video talks, Q&A sessions, and panel discussions.
The event will gather together scientists with insight and experience in simulation modeling of complex systems (especially but not only agent based modeling) and complex systems dynamics; along with scientists and physicians with specific insight into COVID-19 and related epidemiological issues.
The aim of the COVID-19 Simulation Summit is to gain understanding of
- What tools and approaches should be used to provide the most accurate possible models of COVID-19 and its spread and implications, both in the current phase and in future phases of disease propagation?
- What assumptions should be made or questioned within COVID-19 simulation models?
- What assumptions have been left unquestioned in current models and need to be more thoroughly explored?
- What data sources might best be leveraged in constructing models related to COVID-19?
- What data should we be gathering that we aren’t currently, and how may this be done in a way that respects personal privacy and data sovereignty?
- What real-world test cases might best be used for initial exploration of more accurate simulation models
The epidemiological models of COVID-19 spreading dynamics that are driving current policy decisions are generally well thought out and carefully implemented, however they also tend to be highly simplistic relative to the complexity of the actual situation. Among many other factors, they don’t generally factor in the impacts of various interventions and control policies, nor do they account for the different behavior patterns of different classes of people.
The agent based simulation paradigm allows a finer-grained sort of modeling, in which a region (or the world as a whole) is modeled as a specific geometry occupied by interacting autonomous agents with a diversity of specific behavior patterns. An in-depth agent based simulation of COVID-19 spreading would allow better-grounded policy choices to be made regarding how to manage, control and cope with the pandemic.
An agent based simulation, like any other model, depends on the underlying assumptions used to structure it. However, the agent based modeling paradigm provides a more flexible approach to evaluating the consequences of various assumptions, and thus exploring their validity.
The list of speakers and panelists for the COVID-19 Simulation Summit is not yet finalized, but will include diverse global experts from multiple relevant expertise areas; the current list includes
Dr. Yaneer Bar-Yam
President, New England Complex Systems Institute, physicist and pioneer in cross-disciplinary complex systems modeling and its implications for public policy
Dr. Robin Hanson
Economist at George Mason University and research associate at the Future of Humanity Institute of Oxford University, global leader in application of rational economics analysis to social and futurist issues
Roger Ng, MD
Cardiologist and co-founder of medical informatics startup NthOpinion — currently working on the front lines as a physician treating COVID-19 patients.
Dr. Petronio Candido de Lima e Silva
Computer Science Professor at IFNMG, expert on theory and practice of simulation model development.
Dr. Ben Goertzel
SingularityNET Foundation and Chairman of OpenCog Foundation, with 30+ yrs of experience in Artificial General Intelligence and bioinformatics/AI.
Dr. Deborah Duong
SingularityNET Foundation, PhD from George Mason University on complex biological simulations.
Gina Smith, PhD
Based in Hong Kong, Gina Smith, PhD is the New York Times bestselling author of Apple cofounder Steve Wozniak’s biography, iWoz, and The Genomics Age, a 2008 Barron’s Book of the Year. A former ABC News correspondent and a longtime tech journalist, she holds a PhD in clinical psychology and currently works as a research analyst at International Data Corp.
Dr. Anish Mohammed
Anish is a multi disciplinarian who has worked as medical doctor, bioinformatician, strategy consultant and cryptographer. He has spend half his career researching cryptographic algorithms and protocols at three different research groups.He was an early adviser to Ripple, cofounder of Ethicsnet, advisor to Ocean Protocol and head of research at the Information Sciences Institute at SRH University of Applied Sciences
Vinay Gupta was the release coordinator for the Ethereum blockchain, and is now CEO of Mattereum, a leading blockchain firm working on digital identities for a variety of physical asset classes. Prior to this, he was a worst case scenario planner and humanitarian innovator working on large scale contingencies including climate refugees (Hexayurt Project) and pandemics.
Dr. Mircea Davidescu
Mircea Davidescu is an enthusiast for data-driven business strategy targeted to marketing and customer behavior in the financial sector. Mircea completed his Ph.D in ecology at Princeton University, focusing on collective behavior. With experience in analytics consulting, data science, and marketing, Mircea currently leads big data innovation initiatives at Fair Square Financial, a fast-growing fintech startup. He is passionate about the use of data to understand customer behavior, and using next-generation technologies that can unlock the collective wisdom of crowds and societies.
Dr. Eva Lee
Eva Lee Professor and Director of the Center for Operations Research in Medicine and HealthCare at Georgia Institute of Technology, a center established through funds from the National Science Foundation and the Whitaker Foundation. She is a Distinguished Scholar in Health Systems, Health System Institute at Georgia Tech and Emory University School of Medicine. She previously served as the Senior Health Systems Engineer and Professor for the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs. She has also served as Co-Director for ten years for the Center for Health Organization Transformation, an NSF Industry/University Cooperative Research Center.
Ray Ng, MD
Ray Ng, MD was born a polymath and entrepreneur: physician by day and avid technology geek, coder, and blockchain developer by night. MD with board certification and licensure in Canada and US.
Dr. Nabarun Dasgupta
As an epidemiologist, Dr. Nabarun Dasgupta’s mission is to tell true stories about health with numbers. His data lab at the Univeristy of North Carolina at Chapel Hill harnesses big data to study infectious diseases and medication side effects, including COVID-19 and opioids. Prior to joining UNC, he was the co-founder and Chief Science Officer of Epidemico, Inc. a public health informatics startup.
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Decentralized AI Alliance (DAIA)
The COVID-19 Simulation Summit is organized by the Decentralized AI Alliance (DAIA), an industry organization led by Toufi Saliba and Ben Goertzel, gathering together 50+ companies and projects operating at the intersection of AI and blockchain.
Together with Ocean Protocol and SingularityNET Foundation, DAIA has organized the COVIDathon hackathon, operating April-May 2020, bringing together developers around the world to leverage decentralized AI technology to help combat and cope with COVID-19 in various ways.
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The festive season is almost upon us and the same question will be asked, will health and safety prevent our Christmas decorations and ruin our Christmas spirit?
The answer is no! We’ve put together some pointers so that when it comes to jazzing up your workplace this Christmas, it really will be easy to get right!
Attempting to decorate your workplace can present a series of risks indeed. Each year people are injured whilst decorating their tree and hanging their decorations, but this can be avoided by following some simple guidelines.
Working at height putting Christmas Decorations up?
- Provide your staff with suitable step ladders to put up Christmas decorations, rather than standing on desks or balancing on office chairs, easy win!
- As with any other instance of working at height, employees should always be careful not to over reach and ensure they’re sporting sensible footwear. Heals are a big no no!
- Get some help, have someone hold the bottom of the ladder (which has should have been inspected before use).
- Always make sure the tree is stable and secure, if your tree is real rather than artificial, you should also keep it well-watered, but do not water it while the lights are switched on!
Talking of lighting…
Your Christmas lights can deteriorate over time, bringing the risk of shocks, burns and could even be a potential fire hazard!
So before putting lights on the tree, you should always conduct a visual inspection, checking the condition of the wiring and ensuring that there aren’t any frayed/bare wires or broken/cracked sockets. If you are suitably trained, check the fuse protection rating at the plug top.
The use of a Residual Current Devise (RCD) is ideal, as is the purchase of a new set! It is a good idea these days to switch from your regular 240V mains lighting to low-voltage lighting, which removes the risk of a fatal electric shock and remember to have them on a timer to switch them off.
Fire, a huge area of importance which needs to be considered when putting up your Christmas decorations, don’t hang/stick them:
- Too close to light fitting or heaters;
- Covering the fire detection sensor;
- Across doorways, make sure that trailing cables do not create a tripping hazard.
Use your common sense with this one and please, be extra vigilant.
Make sure that trees are sensibly placed, not close to potential sources of ignition and not blocking fire escape routes or exits.
- They must never be decorated with lit candles
- should always be set firmly in a suitable container so they don’t fall over
- Never located where they can cause an obstruction to the means of escape from the room/building;
- Natural Christmas trees can be extremely flammable, particularly as they dry out and should therefore be kept in a tree stand filled with water and adequately separated from heat source. Where possible use a flame retardant alternative, they aren’t only a far lesser risk, but also less hassle.
Aerosol cans (e.g. decorative paint, artificial snow etc.) use flammable propellants and must never be used near heat sources.
Party poppers are not considered a significant fire hazard but it is advised that they are not fired towards heat sources.
Did someone say party?
Most of us will be looking forward to letting our hair down at the Christmas party, a chance to eat drink and be merry! Rather than having this in your workplace it’s both safer and more practical to hold it at a local venue as sometimes it just isn’t worth the risks, of which there could be many.
Last but not least, enjoy yourself and have a very Merry Christmas! | <urn:uuid:4694f1c8-3f68-432c-b485-d925b2b67a14> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.avensure.com/articles/health-safety-christmas-decorations/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571284.54/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811103305-20220811133305-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.937638 | 800 | 1.992188 | 2 |
If that bright sun begs you to hop into your RV this summer and hit the road, we get it. There’s nothing like a warm-weather road trip to bring the family to new places, and riding out in an RV means no hotels to worry about.
There are 11.2 million RV-owning households in the United States. This number shows a massive increase in RV ownership over the last 20 years. Not only are more people owning an RV, but a wider variety of owners are opting for this special vehicle. While there used to be a ‘typical RVer,’ today this mode of travel is enjoyed by everyone.
Driving across the country in your RV may make those concerned with sustainable practices struggle with how to keep it green on the road. How do you translate your sustainable activities from home to your home on wheels? Here are a few things you can do.
Just like you swapped out all your lightbulbs at home for more energy-efficient options, you can take steps to make sure your RV operates at full efficiency.
Keeping your RV engine well-tuned, and taking the vehicle in for its oil changes and regular maintenance can help you conserve RV energy and even reduce your RVs emissions.
You can also help reduce energy output by working with what nature throws at you. On those super sunny, hot summer days, try to park your RV in the shade. Shading your RV from the sun means it’s not working as hard to cool the vehicle off.
Just like you turn off your faucets when brushing your teeth, or time your showers to keep them short and sweet, minimizing water use on the road is better for the environment.
Many RV toilets and in-vehicle washing machines actually use less water than your versions at home, so you’re already a little ahead of the game. Even with these features, it’s still best to keep your RV showers short and use water as efficiently as possible.
Practice green cleaning
Just like your home does, your RV will get dirty. In fact, you may find yourself cleaning your RV more simply because it’s a smaller space everyone is sharing. Buying green cleaning supplies to keep on board means you’re using products that won’t harm the environment.
Even better, staying in your RV means there’s no hotel room that’s getting cleaned daily, most likely by less-than-friendly products when it comes to the environment.
To take the green cleaning up a notch, don’t forget to recycle the cleaning bottles, or pick a product whose containers are reusable.
When you’re on the road, you can’t take advantage of that great vegetable garden you planted in your backyard. That’s okay though. Tell your neighbors to help themselves to the fruit of your labors, and make an effort to buy local wherever you are.
Although it may be tempting to bulk up at those big box stores, leave a few things off that list and shop local vendors wherever you stop. You’ll not only support local businesses, but those items used less fuel and energy to get to you. They didn’t have to travel as far.
Fuel up efficiently
The average RV gets around 6-10 miles per gallon. This means you’re going to have to fill up quite a bit on your road trip. Where you fuel up can be a green choice if you know where to go.
At Circle K, pumping fuel does something more. Through the Circle K Conserve program, up to 30 percent of your RV’s carbon emissions are offset through investments in certified carbon reduction projects. All you have to do is pull into a Circle K Conserve station and fill up your tank.
With the right gas and an eye on conserving energy and water, you can take your summer RV-ing experience into the green. | <urn:uuid:2a20a482-e94a-4f7b-b492-0570df183034> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://circlekconserve.com/2022/07/05/keep-it-green-when-rving/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571147.84/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810040253-20220810070253-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.948618 | 822 | 2.109375 | 2 |
Please understand the difference between motivation and (best) intentions. You want to be working with your motivation rather than your intentions. Intentions are sweet. They mean well. But it is too easy to shrug off responsibility by saying, ‘… sorry, but I meant well. It didn’t happen, but I hoped it would.’ Meaning well is not good enough. It is like making a promise that you have no intention of keeping. It is admirable, because you are thinking with your heart, but it is simply not good enough. You have to understand the why of doing something. Then you will know your motivation. When you know your motivation you can decide straight away if it is pure, or not. Your motivation needs to be pure. Whatever it is that you are doing. Pure motivation makes magic, miracles happen.
When you operate from a place of openness, of trust, you will see that your world becomes lighter and easier to manage. Things begin to happen the way you need them to happen. When you trust the universe, Nature, Karma, The Spirits, The Dead, Providence, God, the gods, Buddha, Krishna, Jesus, yourself, your mind, your soul or Allah, whomever, whatever – you will find that your purpose on this planet becomes clearer to you. It is through trusting that you learn to let go. Letting go shows you a clearer picture of who it is that you are, it is a process that defines you. There is a part of yourself that you must let go of each time you share of yourself, each time you tell another person your secrets. And we all have secrets – do not pretend for one minute that there is not something in your life you would rather no-one knew. Secrets are fine – if you feel safer keeping them – just do not lie to yourself about who you truly are. Trust that your heart knows only pure motivation. You have to act with pure motivation when you have opened your life to another. That is best for both of you. You have to be aware of the world around you flooding into that opening, when you open up. When you choose to open your heart you will be physically affected. The body responds in kind. It is most important to evaluate your whys when you do what you do. When you understand your whys you will feel empowered to act for the right reasons and be brave enough to follow your heart without fearing or feeling vulnerable. Know there is no point in acting for a bad reason – karma will kick you for that.
Motivation is a driving force that affects every single one of us, every single day. You will either be bothered, or you won’t. If you won’t be bothered about anything: about life, about people, about animals, about the environment, about your state of mind – then you need to change your life. There is no question. You have to find something to be bothered about. Even if it is just staying alive. A lot of people have that bother. Life does not inspire in them much enthusiasm for living. A lot of people exist in this limbo-land between living and not-living. There is a fine line between alive and dead, and a fine line between genius and madness. A very fine line. I think the world needs to wake up to the reality that schizophrenics on this planet are not called ‘revolving doors’ for nothing. In and out, in and out. Their consciousness. They are not in control of their aspects, at all. Their minds are bent by hallucination, their realities warped by the projections of their minds. They believe everything their minds tell them, which is a worry. Like those who drink to blackout. Where is your consciousness during that time and what is driving you – purely your subconscious? It is interesting. People are interesting when they substance-abuse. I think this world needs to wake up to the fact that there are a lot of young people – in fact, a lot of people – escaping this reality because they find it intolerable. Would the governments not be serving us better if they tidied up the reality? The reality we find ourselves faced with is flawed. Flawed is not a train-smash. It can be fixed. We just have to be bothered to fix it. | <urn:uuid:b904bece-4c81-414d-b122-1648815329c8> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://cjbirch.com/tag/jesus/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571284.54/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811103305-20220811133305-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.974197 | 880 | 1.898438 | 2 |
DiskOnChip 2000 consists of the following major functional blocks• System Interface for host interface.
• Boot Block that contains IPL ROM required for recognition during BIOS expansion search in PC architectures.
• Reed-Solomon-based Error Detection and Error Correction Code (EDC/ECC) for on-the fly error handling.
• Flash Control block that contains registers responsible for transferring the address, data and control information between the TrueFFS driver and the flash media.
The BIOS code first executes the Power On Self-Test (POST) and then searches for all expansion ROM devices. When DiskOnChip 2000 is found, the BIOS code executes from the IPL (Initial Program Loader) code, located in the boot block. This code loads the TrueFFS driver into system memory, installs DiskOnChip 2000 as a disk in the system, and then returns control to the BIOS code. The operating system subsequently identifies DiskOnChip 2000 as an available disk.
TrueFFS responds by emulating a hard disk.
From this point onward, DiskOnChip 2000 appears as a standard disk drive. It is assigned a drive letter and can be used by any application, without any modifications to either the BIOS set-up or the autoexec.bat/config.sys files.
Since QNX runs entirely in 32-bit protected mode and does not rely on BIOS services, the Fsys.diskonchip device driver must be active at boot time to allow access to the DiskOnChip.Normally, the driver is started without any parameters. Since the DiskOnChip is a memory-mapped device, the driver should locate it in memory. By default, the driver looks in the memory range 0C8000h to 0E0000h.
If the memory window address is known, it is possible to pass it to the driver from the command line, thus eliminating the search. For example, if the DiskOnChip address is D4000h, the drivercan be started as follows:
Option above with Fsys:
-8 Force 8 bit mode * should be used to detect older firware Diskonchip with newer version of Fsys.diskonchip
-w used to pass exact address at which diskonchip is on socket viz: D8000
Issues with DFORMAT and Firmware version
The version of the DFORMAT utility and the firmware file version need to be same .However it is pertained to mention that Disk on chip firmware file to be updated using DOS institutes from M System (In the case of using boot qnx from DOC it is recommended to use DFORMAT from DOS utilities for low level format and firmware update). If the error message “File too large for specified Boot-Image size“ is displayed during formatting, then there was an incompatibility between the firmware file and the DFORMAT utility. To solve this problem go through to following steps :
1. Delete the previous firmware file:
DFORMAT /WIN:D000 /S:!
2. Re-install the required firmware file, i.e. DOC514.EXB:
DFORMAT /WIN:D000 /S:DOC514.EXB
* It is advised to use actual firmware file for firmware which actully exist
disk on chip i.e for a Disk on chip 2000 ver 4.22 the firmware file will be DOC422.EXB
Important point to be taken care while booting from disk on chip in QNX :
> The driver version included on .boot image should be of the same version as of firmware of Diskonchip.
> The Fsys should be old 8 bit ver 1.1 for Fsys.diskonchip being version 1.22 otherwise it wil not work because newer version of Fsys forces 32 bit emulation while older Fsys forces into 8 bit. | <urn:uuid:28197d56-232e-42f1-ab56-676d15507fab> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://bhaaratham.com/disk-on-chip-driver-issue-in-qnx-and-other-troubleshooting-with-disk-on-chip/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571745.28/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812170436-20220812200436-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.869796 | 813 | 2.0625 | 2 |
Here I am…
Again... with these patterns and masks clinging tightly to my skin.
I can barely breathe. If I am not constantly doing, thinking, feeling… I will lose control.
I am afraid to let go, to be, to allow the mask to drop away. What if I am not accepted, not loved, unseen, isolated, disconnected… How did I end up here again?
At times, life can feel meaningless, confusing, and overwhelming. You feel stuck, anxious, or depressed. You may start to wonder who you are and why you keep falling into these patterns over and over.
FOLLOW THE ROOTS INTO YOURSELF
I need a map pointing to the center of myself, where I can go back to who I was when I started. See with new eyes, new awareness, new experience. Tabula rasa- the blank slate.
I need a lantern, a compass, a way to untangle the webs of unhealthy thinking and doing I have created. As children, we are whole - our psyches have not been split into all the pieces that become ego, personality, habit. Life experiences move in quickly and we believe that the only way to be loved or to feel worthy and safe is to put on a mask.
As we grow into adults, the mask hardens and seals and we forget it is a mask at all.
This is me- this is my personality.
THE ENNEAGRAM: (ANY-a-gram)
The Enneagram is a powerful instrument for personal transformation, a map showing how to start this journey into the self. It stems from the Greek words Ennea (the number nine) and grammos (symbol). The nine-pointed Enneagram symbol represents nine distinct strategies for relating to the self, others, and the world.
It is a tool to begin to understand why we act, think, feel, and behave the way we do, a mirror for consciousness, revealing how we have become falsely identified with particular forms. It's a compass, a way to illumine the personality and the constructs of the ego.
The Enneagram teaches that early in life we learned to feel safe and to cope with our family situations and personal circumstances, by developing a strategy based on our natural talents and abilities. Each Enneagram type has a different pattern of thinking, feeling, and acting that arises from a deeper inner motivation or worldview.
We all share common experiences, while also being unique individuals. This tool is not used to put us in a box, but instead gives us an awareness of the box we see the world through.
Personality is the way we express ourselves as individuals, but at times, we can get stuck in automatic thoughts and beliefs. Challenges arise when your point of view becomes rigid and you get stuck in mindless habits. By working with the Enneagram, you develop a deeper understanding of others and learn alternatives to your own patterns of behavior.
You can break free from outdated coping strategies and begin to see life from a broader point of view. By discovering these unconscious patterns, you can lead a more fulfilling life, enjoy healthier relationships, and connect with your true authentic Self.
LIGHT THE PATH AND EMPOWER CHOICE
The Enneagram shines light on your gifts and your shadows. Instead of allowing the ego to work in the shadow of the unconscious, where it tends to create drama, the Enneagram shows you what's working underneath, allowing you to observe motivations and manipulations within yourself that keep you from what you truly desire.
When you uncover the shadow self and shine a light into the dark corners of your personality, you give yourself a powerful gift- the ability to choose. You get to decide, consciously, if and when you want to put on the mask.
Instead of the personality controlling your spirit, you take back the compass and allow your soul to return to its rightful place as your wise inner guide.
This is where I can help! I provide a space for you to understand and claim your gifts while gaining a better understanding of where you are stuck. I have a rich appreciation of how the Enneagram can be used as a tool in life. We can explore all of the places where you are losing your energy and zest for life. Challenges arise when our point of view becomes rigid and we get stuck in automatic habits. By discovering these unconscious patterns, you can lead a more fulfilling life, enjoy healthier relationships, and connect with your true self. | <urn:uuid:97acc9e0-f74b-4e40-a192-7d8d2f3df4b3> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.psychespiritsoul.com/enneagram | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570651.49/warc/CC-MAIN-20220807150925-20220807180925-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.929603 | 927 | 2 | 2 |
The Language (from Poetry)
love you some-
take care not
to hurt, you
I heard words
and words full
is a mouth.
I love you, from nowhere. We’re trying to locate it, bite it, watch out for ourselves (“take care”). Maybe it is coming from a beloved who loves us back. We’ll eventually find the nose, between “teeth and eyes,” what’s central to a face. And maybe something more sensual will ensue (“bite”), and the paradox of our desire, “so much so little,” will remain an abstract problem for a short while.
However, I love you, strictly speaking, came from nowhere. While Creeley captures the tense giddiness of loving and being loved, he’s not doing it to celebrate that which can celebrate itself well enough. What about those of us who, alone, are trying to love? We unfortunate souls start by finding our nose. (1) The smell of another means they exist for us in some concrete way, not possessed but not entirely distant from us. Our longing is our nutrition, and yet too much longing is no love at all. Real love respects, as “you want so much so little.” There’s no insistence, no power game, no craziness. Just hope and a lot of self-doubt.
“Words say everything” – that’s just it, that’s the problem. We consider love beyond mere syllables. Two who love each other don’t need words. They have everything. Speech and action couldn’t be further apart. One is merely imaginary, the other seems to be the reality of the situation. One can almost feel this question underlying the first half of the poem: does love only exist when two people share it?
In beginning the second half, I love you again comes from nowhere. This second time confronts the doubt, the emptiness. Somehow, I know I’m in love. I know I can enjoy it, be hurt, be patient, let go. Greater virtue may be exercised in the service of loneliness than for another person. Love, in truth, is potential: “then what is emptiness for. To fill, fill.” It is an emptiness, the same thing causing doubt and fear in those who do love and are loved back. It is a language, shared by those who are loved and those longing alike. Through it, I can hear things – sometimes, things coming only from myself – and I understand the needs conveyed. Only with those needs in mind do I have a mouth. Love gives the capacity to voice love, and strange as it sounds to say, to actually love.
1. “Somewhere in teeth and eyes” – one can say there is no nose being sought. Rather, “I love you” emerged directly from somewhere in the teeth, somewhere in the eyes. But what more does one hope to find within teeth and eyes? “Somewhere in teeth and eyes” can speak to the combination that is a face. | <urn:uuid:373b31e5-6aae-4324-a2c4-57a3161c7e85> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://www.ashokkarra.com/2014/10/robert-creeley-the-language/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571284.54/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811103305-20220811133305-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.950316 | 735 | 2.453125 | 2 |
PVC Balustrade in Durban
PVC Balustrade in Durban
What is Balustrade?
PVC Balustrades are a popular choice for Durban-based homeowners as they are more durable, cost-effective and aesthetically pleasing.
Balustrade is a railing or guard for a staircase, balcony, or other construction. It provides additional protection to those who are walking on the upper surface from falling off. A balustrade is a railing, constructed typically along the edges of a staircase or walkway, that provides protection and prevents people from falling. PVC Balustrade in Durban are safety-rated and designed to be aesthetically pleasing.
Value Fencing is a Durban-based balustrade supplier with over a Decade of experience in the industry and manufacturers offer different types of balustrades with varying prices.
The primary advantages of PVC Balustrades include their durability, low upkeep and relative low price. Compared to wood, aluminum or wrought iron balustrades, PVC is less likely to warp with humidity or change colour over time. They also require significantly less care than traditional wooden balustrades making them much easier to maintain.
What is Balustrade used for?
Balustrades provide a necessary safety barrier between people and the drop below. It’s important to choose a balustrade material that is strong, durable and aesthetically pleasing to the eye. PVC balustrade is one of the few materials that can tick all three boxes.
PVC balustrades offer an affordable yet durable solution for any home or business owner. They are low maintenance, recyclable and sturdy enough to withstand harsh weather conditions. This makes them a popular choice for many home owners because of its durability and reliable performance in various weather conditions including snow, rain and wind.
The introduction should answer the following questions:
- What are the benefits of installing PVC Balustrade?
- How does it differ from other balustrade materials?
What is PVC Balustrade?
PVC balustrades are a popular choice because they are longer-lasting, less expensive and more resistant to damage.
PVC Balustrade is the perfect choice for your property because it is a durable and cost-effective option. It also offers an aesthetically pleasing appearance that makes it a great choice for both commercial and residential properties.
What are the advantages of using PVC Balustrade?
1) PVC Balustrades are less expensive than other materials that can be used to create a railing or stairway, such as iron or steel, which means you’ll save money in the long run.
2) The lifespan of PVC products is much longer than that of iron products and is covered by a 20 years Warranty.
What types are available?
Value Fencing offer a range of PVC balustrades is available in Durban which include:
Standard style &
Estate style (3 rail)
Is Value Fencing's PVC Balustrade legal?
Value Fencing PVC Balustrades are totally legal & Conform with:
SABS 10104 Edition 2 1991 – Handrailing and Balustrading (safety aspects)
SANS 10400-A: 2011 Edition 3 – NBR – General Principles and Requirements
SANS 10400-B: 2012 Edition 3 – NBR- Structural design
SANS 10400-D: 2011 Edition 3 – NBR- Public safety
SANS 10400-M: 2011 Edition 3 – NBR- Stairways
* 85mm Newel spaces done (Not 100mm as by others)
* Max section width = 1,2m (Not 1,6m as by Other Contractors)
* Proper T- top rails to be used (Not 51x89 rectangular Pool fence rails as by others)
* Posts filled with steel re-enforced 42.5s concrete mix at 30MPA
* Our balustrade conform to NBR & SANS regulation principle criteria for balusters & safety railing.
PS: Ours is the ONLY "PVC balustrade" to PASS the Engineers Pendulum sand bag Test
PVC Balustrade in Durban use cases:
PVC can be used instead of wood for its durability as it is resistant to insects and moisture, making it ideal for exterior conditions. It is also much safer as it does not splinter, making it an excellent choice if you have children or pets. It can also be moulded into any shape imaginable with ease which means that you can create an attractive balustrade railing without compromising on style. You can select from a wide range of colours or even add paint to achieve the desired effect! | <urn:uuid:c2c6acf2-8144-49f7-b753-d0b34bf60792> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://valuefencing.co.za/blog/view/224/pvc-balustrade-in-durban | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571745.28/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812170436-20220812200436-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.929765 | 989 | 1.578125 | 2 |
Tools for Participatory Economic Analysis
Thai Community Currency Systems Project
Created by Jeff Powell and Menno Salverda
Like the 'Community Currency Role Play', the following activities can be used by Community Currency Systems (CCS) practioners to increase awareness and understanding of CCS; how they work, and where they fulfill a need. Problems of the current monetary system and its impact on our local economies can be easily addressed. The activities are explained underneath in detail. We would welcome any comments, suggestions and improvements. Enjoy!
Activity: 'The Bucket’
Objective: ‘The Bucket’ is a simple, participatory activity that allows participants to understand how and why money flows out of a community. Visual reinforcement.
Preparation: Two buckets are required. Puncture about a dozen holes through one of the buckets and then cover the holes with masking or electrical tape. It works well if you fold over a corner of the tape so that it can be removed easily without having to scrape it off with your nail! Test out the size of the holes—if they are too small, water will not be able to flow out; if they are too large, the tape will not hold. Fill the second bucket with water.
Note: The activity is best conducted outdoors where water can be splashed about. If it is necessary to do the activity indoors, the empty bucket should first be placed in a large basin or washtub.
To begin: The facilitator begins with two buckets—one empty and one full. The empty bucket, which represents the local economy, is placed on the ground and participants stand around it. Everyone should have a clear view of the bucket. Ask participants how they earn money in their community. As responses are given, ask that person to pour some water from the full bucket into the empty bucket in the middle. A lot of water denotes a primary income-generating activity; a little water symbolises a secondary enterprise. If an activity is suggested which involves trading within the community, no additional water should be poured into the bucket—this represents a transfer of money from one community member to the next.
Once the community economy bucket is nearing full or participants are out of income generating activities, explain to participants that the goal of community currencies (or any CED activity, for that matter) is to encourage the money to circulate many times within the community. Stir the bucket with your hand or a stick. (Note: you have just explained the ‘multiplier effect’!) Rather than enriching one person and then leaving town, money that circulates many times within the community enriches all.
Unfortunately, in our community we also have expenses. Once again ask participants to list their expenses. For each example, it must be decided whether the expense represents money flowing out of the community. If, for example, Mayuree buys vegetables from neighbour Pornpimon, then no money leaves the community. Stir the bucket. If, however, Mayuree buys a new 24-inch colour Sony, ask Mayuree to come forward and peel one of the pieces of tape off of the bucket. Water should rush out.
Once all of the holes have been uncovered, or participants have exhausted their list of expenses, ask participants how they can do a better job of ‘keeping their bucket full’. One suggestion will be to pour in more water (income generation). Ask participants how effective this will be if the number of holes and size of holes are continually getting bigger. The other suggestion, of course, will be to plug some of the holes. This can be accomplished in two ways; one, we can reduce our expenses, or, we can purchase local goods and services as substitutes for imported ones. This is an ideal lead-in to, for example, the second round of the community currency simulation.
Activity: Coupon Flow Example (Kud Chum)
(Refer to the following diagram. Note that diagram should be drawn sequentially as explained in the text below; presentation of the completed diagram creates confusion.)
Objective: To provide a concrete example of how community currency could begin to circulate between community members.
Preparation: The facilitator will need to familiarise herself with the example, and will require a whiteboard/flip chart and marker.
To begin: The facilitator will begin by drawing as large a circle as the whiteboard/flip chart will allow. In the middle, draw a stick family—label this ‘community members’. At the edge of the large circle, draw a building and label it ‘community currency bank’. Explain that those community members who understand the objectives of the CCS can join as members; this gives them the right to withdraw or deposit community currency notes. These notes can then be used to exchange goods and services amongst themselves. That easy.
The number of community members who are immediately convinced by the CCS concept will be quite small. How do we reach a larger share of the community in order to increase the diversity of goods and services available for exchange? Some kind of a catalyst or ‘wedge’ is required. In Kud Chum, plans are to use the cooperative rice mill. The facilitator should draw another building on the edge of the circle and label it ‘rice mill’.
Current rice mill policy is to pay a premium to local farmers who are members of the co-op when they bring their rice to sell. If the rice is chemical-free or organic, this premium is even higher. Instead of paying the premium in baht (the national currency), the rice mill will pay it in community currency. (Remember that the price paid for the rice by weight, the lion’s share of the payment, will continue to be paid in baht.) Where does the rice mill get the community currency? It withdraws it from its account at the CC Bank.
Farmers will be assured that, at the very least, they can use their community currency to purchase milled rice, rice husks and rice bran from the rice mill. The rice mill benefits from an improved cash flow; community members are receiving the same price as before and helping to initiate a valuable community project. The facilitator should draw double-headed arrows between the community members and the rice mill, and the rice mill and the CC Bank.
The challenge for CCS organisers is to create opportunities for the CC to circulate within the community. In Kud Chum, a weekly farmers’ market is planned where community members can exchange their agricultural products with each other using community currency. Draw a mango on the edge of the circle, and connect it to the community members using a double-headed arrow.
There is also a health centre in Kud Chum. Community members will be allowed to use community currency to pay for a part of the cost of herbal medicines. The health centre will then use the CC to pay for the raw materials from other community members. Draw a building with a cross on it at the edge of the circle and connect it to the community members with a double-headed arrow; label it ‘health centre’.
Co-operative retail stores can also be involved. Products that are made within the community can be sold to the co-op for CC; the co-op can then re-sell these products to other community members. Draw another building at the edge of the circle connected to the community members by a double-headed arrow and label it ‘co-op store’. Draw double-headed arrows from the co-op store to the health centre, the rice mill, the farmers’ market and another unit titled ‘small business’.
This is probably enough of a picture to get the idea across. It is possible to incorporate the local temple, a village school and labour circles in a similar fashion.
Do members of the CCS pay for their community currency in national currency?
No. Each member has the right to withdraw an amount of community currency up to a pre-determined, universally applied limit set by the CCS board. If they have withdrawn the maximum amount, they can not make a further withdrawal until they have earned enough CC to make a deposit in their account. Remember, there is no interest on either loans made to community members, or deposits placed in the CC Bank.
Can members exchange their community currency for national currency?
No. If this were allowed, those within the community who had more national currency than others could use this position to obtain more favourable ‘exchange rates’.
How do we avoid corruption in the system?
A record should be kept of the number of coupons printed. Each time coupons are withdrawn a record of disbursement should be made. The overall system must balance to ensure that no coupons are ‘disappearing’. These books are open to all community members to audit.
To avoid forgery, community currency will be printed professionally with coloured ink, and serialised. The cost of forging such notes will not be worth the goods that it would be possible to buy with them. After all, you can not buy a TV or a gold chain with community currency. Furthermore, in a small community, it will be very difficult to cover up sudden discrepancies in any one members’ CC savings.
Can we use community currency to purchase goods or services outside the community?
No. Community currency is strictly limited to the community of origin.
How will we pay for things such as medical or school fees?
Remember that we are not suggesting that we replace the national currency economy with a CC-only economy. The two currencies are used in parallel. Each individual must determine their national currency needs and make sure that they have enough to meet those needs. In the early stages of CCS start-up, it would be foolish for community members to forego a large part of their national currency income. The strength of the CCS is in allowing community members to mobilise resources and labour to fulfil local needs. By structurally encouraging community members to support local economic activities, more value is kept within the community. Over time, this will mean greater wealth and a reduction in national currency expenses.
Objective: ‘The Resource Flow Exercise’ is an activity that attempts to increase awareness of how and why money flows out of a community.
Beginning: The facilitator will divide the participants into groups (ideally according to where they come from; village, community or region). The groups will be given the task to (hypothetically) purchase one good. This could be a durable, luxury, locally produced good, an input for production or a service (give example)). There are five questions the groups will have to answer (questions presented on a flipchart):
Facilitators should make sure that not all groups choose the same good and that at least a locally produced good and a good produced externally, is included in the group examples; the facilitator can use these examples for the analyses later on.
Presentation of examples: 10 –15 minutes are allowed for the different groups to present their examples, by way of a representative. The flipcharts used for this purpose, should be put somewhere visible for future use. After the various group presentations the facilitator presents the COKE example.
COKE (Diagram 1):
The different steps in the ‘COKE’ buying process and its effects on money and resource flows are given underneath. The numbers are hypothetical; no official data have been used in the calculations. As we have used this exercise mainly in Thailand and Indonesia, prices are given in Thai Baht with the equivalents of Indonesian Rupiah in brackets. (Note: the facilitator does not need to prepare the flipcharts; she should draw them while she presents.)
(Note: economic and business terms, like direct and fixed costs are difficult to understand. The list of costs, involved in producing a can of coke, is however very straightforward. Participants can make suggestions to costs of course.
Summarising: We are interested specifically in how much of the original 12 baht (3000 Rp.) remains within the community. Out of curiosity we will also look into how much remains within Thailand after the purchase is made.
After purchase of the can of COKE there remains:
Of the original 12 baht (3000 Rp.) spent on the can of COKE, at the most only 1.5 baht (375 Rp.) stays within the community. The other 10.5 baht has left. With the money leaving the community, purchasing power has also left the community.
(Note: at this point the facilitator could take the opportunity to reflect on the different examples from the groups, presented earlier on. Some will have chosen very expensive consumer luxury goods (like a car). This will show more money (purchasing power leaving the community.
Interest rates: Imagine the consumer has no money. How does the consumer get the can of coke? If you do not have money you are forced to borrow money; from the bank. So, in our case the consumer loans the 12 baht (3000 Rp.) from a bank, located outside the community. An arrow is drawn from the bank to the consumer, crossing the community border line. Admitted, 12 baht is perhaps a strange amount to loan, and in reality this will of course not happen. (Facilitators might want to refer to a more realistic example, preferably taken from the group examples).
The interest rate we have used in our examples in Thailand and Indonesia is 10 %. This will result in an extra 1.2 baht (300 Rp.) leaving the community as interest payments (10 % of 12 baht (3000 Rp.). An other arrow is drawn from the consumer to the bank, with 13.2 baht leaving the community.
Before the loan was made, we saw that less than 1.5 baht (375 Rp.) remained within the community, resulting from buying a can of coke. With interest payments also leaving the community we are now left with, at the most 0.3 baht (75 Rp.), of the original 12 baht (3000 Rp.) spent.
(Note: with not too much imagination, one can see that with interest rates only a little higher, the total sum of money leaving the community as the result of buying a can of coke, will actually be more than the value of the resource coming in (the can of coke)). The facilitator could opt to choose a few more examples from the various groups.
Roselle fruitjuice (Diagram 2):
So what happens with the resource and money flows, when instead of a can of coke a fruitjuice is bought which is produced using as many local resources as possible. In Thailand we often use the example of Roselle which is grown in many communities, is hence wellknown and popular. Nevertheless the facilitator could ask the participants for examples and use that instead.
Summarising: Of the original 12 baht (3000 Rp.) spent, 10 baht (2500 Rp.) stays within the community. This serves as purchasing power for other members of the community. We can see that these bahts circulate within the community more often than if we buy from external sources.
Interest rates or Community Currency.
Nevertheless, the consumer is still dependent on the money market and needs to go to the bank to get 12 baht (3000 Rp.) needed for the purchase and face a loss equivalent to the interest rate. An additional 1.2 baht (300 Rp.) would still leave the community under the given circumstance.
If this community were to chose a community currency as their exchange medium, community members would have access to interest-free money, created by themselves. It would be able to cut off links with the outside making communities more independent.
Potential Discussion points.
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alicyclicadjective Referring to a chemical compound (e.g., cycloporopane) that is both aliphatic and cyclic and has one or more all-carbon rings.
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“After 100 years, it is still one of the most innovative electronic instruments,” say Moog Music engineers, who are producing the Claravox Centennial Theremin.
Theremin-inventor Lev Termen inspired Bob Moog himself to pursue electronic music instrument design from the time when he was a teenager. Moog has said that he found it doubtful that the modern synthesizer would exist at all if it were not for the theremin.
Invented in 1919 by 23-year-old Russian engineer Lev Sergeyevich Termen (1896 — 1993), and named for him, this is the first electronic musical instrument in history, invented almost accidentally.
A brief pause here about the various spellings of the name: The inventor was born Lev Termen into a noble Orthodox family with French Huguenot roots. In French, the family name was spelled “Theremin,” which is the name he gave his invention. Later he adopted that spelling for his own last name, too, and today he is known as Leon Theremin. In Russia, the instrument is called “Termenvox” — Termen’s voice.
Young Termen was working on the design of a new electronic device to measure gas density when he observed display values changing proportionally to the proximity of his hands.
The device emitted a tone that changes pitch with the variation in gas density, and Termen noticed that his body’s proximity to the device would interfere and affect the tone. Using the control he had learned as a cello player, he managed to play a simple tune with the device. His colleagues marveled at the invention, which led to his decision to develop it into a full-fledged musical instrument.
Not long after moving to the United States and patenting his invention in the late 1920s, Termen met violin prodigy and fellow Soviet musician Clara Rockmore, who subsequently adopted the theremin as her primary instrument. She toured the U.S. to wide acclaim throughout the 1930s, mystifying audiences with classical arrangements performed on what was then a new and highly unusual electronic instrument. With her classical training, she played a significant role in refining Termen’s original design of the instrument. Today, Rockmore is widely considered the greatest theremin player of all time.
In 1949, the teenager Bob Moog first learned of the theremin in an issue of Electronics World, and shortly after built his first model of the instrument from plans published in the magazine. By 1954, when he was just 19 years old, he and his father were building and selling theremins out of their home in Queens, New York.
The theremin produces a tone close to a sine wave. It is a monophonic instrument, meaning it plays one tone at a time (unless it is used as a MIDI controller). Originally imagined to accompany or replace orchestral instruments like the violin and cello, the theremin has stood on its own. It didn’t take long for the theremin to become became part of music and cinema history, along with the kindred ondes Martenot, invented in 1928.
The theremin hit parade goes from Bohuslav Martinu’s 1944 Fantasia for Theremin, Oboe, String Quartet, and Piano; to Bernard Herrmann’s 1951 The Day the Earth Stood Still; Star Trek in the 1960s; Neil Armstrong’s voyage to the moon; Ennio Morricone’s 1968 Once Upon a Time in the West, and soundtracks for hundreds of sci-fi, horror, and suspense movies and TV episodes. The discerning reader will note the absence of reference to Olivier Messiaen’s St. Francis of Assisi and his other works, but that and the ondes Martenot belong to another story.
Innovation with Termen’s accidental invention continues. The Claravox Centennial is Moog’s latest versatile theremin product, in a walnut cabinet, with brass antennas and cloth-bound control panels. For those in the know, it allows toggling between classic heterodyne analog oscillators and multimode DSP oscillators (sine, triangle, saw, wavetable) with assignable scales, quantization, and octave ranges.
“What makes the theremin so unique, even after 100 years of innovation in musical instruments,” says the Moog Claravox release, “is that when you play the theremin you are physically part of the electronic circuit. Your body has a direct impact on the capacitance of the oscillators — this integration between artist and the machine creates a bio-physical experience that is utterly unique in musical expression.
“Moog’s Claravox retains the magic and heart of the original theremin, but also looks forward by expanding the instrument’s features so musicians can expand their sonic vocabularies, techniques, and integration capabilities.”
As to Termen’s other claims to fame and infamy, he is also responsible for “The Thing.” The expert in high-frequency circuits, optics and magnetic fields invented a listening device for the Soviet government, hidden in the U.S. ambassador’s Moscow office, enabling agents to listen to high-level communications there for years.
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|Ottawa Citizen, 5 December 1898|
Sunday morning at 3 o'clock a C.P.R. train going east ran into a Canada Atlantic freight which was crossing the diamond at St. Polycarpe Junction, cutting though it and knocking part of the train off the track.
The engine and part of the C.P.R. train also left the track, and struck the station, moving it about three feet. The tracks at that point were blocked for some time yesterday, but the C.A.R. company had everything removed for the passage of the Montreal train leaving here yesterday morning at 8 a.m.
The exact cause of the collision is unknown but was probably caused by the failure of the working of the C.P.R. signals. The C.A.R. train was moving slowly, and was almost stopped when the other engine crashed through the centre with the above results. The trainmen on the C.P.R. engine had a narrow escape but fortunately no one was injured.
Ottawa Journal 5 December 1898
A CPR freight train pitched into a CAR freight train at St. Polycarpe Junction yesterday morning and wrecked an engine, a number of freight cars and the station house at the junction. Several CPR men were somewhat injured. The CPR engine is a total wreck, several freight cars are ruined and six loaded cars belonging to the CAR were damaged. One car loaded with hay was completely demolished and two others loaded with structural iron for the Hawkesbury pulp mills were very badly damaged. None of the CAR train hands were hurt.
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Sociology at the University of Melbourne explores the social patterns characterising contemporary societies. The program also equips students with a range of research skills that allow them to design and carry out data collection and analysis, from in-depth interviewing techniques to computer-based data analysis. Many subjects involve a fieldwork emphasis that underpins the professionally oriented skills that students develop. Majoring students may undertake an internship in a public, corporate or community sector organisation. The program has a strong research identity, with international links to North America, Asia and Europe. Sociology graduates are able to choose a variety of career paths that draw on the substantive areas of their study as well as research skills. Students interested in expanding their interests and knowledge are provided with an articulated structure of higher degree options at the University of Melbourne.
The discipline of sociology involves the study of social practices and relationships. The program at the University of Melbourne focuses on major areas of social change and professional employment. These include the social patterns and issues involved in terrorism, community and place, media and communications, work and organisations, cyberspace, family transformation, youth issues, health and illness, as well as contemporary forms of social policy, social movement and social problems from drug use to poverty. The program in sociology also includes subjects offered through the anthropology, political science, criminology, geography and social theory programs. | <urn:uuid:8029d662-d366-4b0f-8168-2fc8d1f01932> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.educaedu.com.au/diploma-in-arts-sociology--diploma-3304.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571745.28/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812170436-20220812200436-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.945547 | 277 | 2.09375 | 2 |
|Reaction time tests
Have you ever sat in your car
at a stoplight trying to predict the exact moment the light
will change? You might say that these tests are for the easily
amused -- those of us who can become surprisingly absorbed in
even the simplest games. These reflex tests are very simple,
and yet strangely captivating. Scientific tests have also
shown that reaction times to simple tasks have high
correlations with g the general intelligence factor.
Simply click the start button and wait for the screen to
change color. As soon as it does, click the stop button. The
Tester will report how quick your response time was (along
with a snide remark challenging you to do better). If you
think it will make any difference, you can choose from a list
of background colors. Good luck!
Stop the counter
as close to 500 as possible.
reaction time tests
Fun games that test reaction
times, reflexes and speed processing.
Simply smack the gophers as they come out of their holes
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Whether you are questioning your sexual identity or have already begun exploring it, you’ve come to the right place. Feel free to write me about topics you’d like to see covered and post your comments or articles. Ask me about the weekly support call and private Facebook group if you’re interested in joining a supportive group of “women-who-love-women” in the midst of coming out. Scroll down to read a plethora of articles on the topic.
I’ve met a lot of lesbians who were married to men for years and many had children. Most were even happily married at some point, but as time wore on, the relationship slowly eroded as a new identity began to emerge. It was lurking for most, with hints of infatuation in middle or high school. For a few it came a complete surprise, but there it was. It had become as plain as the ring on their finger, now more of shackle than a symbol of love.
If you are one of these women, emerging as a lesbian (or bisexual) later in life, you are not alone. I haven’t read this woman’s book, but if her story is one you can relate to, I share this with you in the hopes it will help you to know someone else who has gone through what you are.
Check out this book.
I know this isn’t easy. Stay strong my sister.
We’ve had discussions on the blog about what to call ourselves, which can be particularly daunting when you are first coming out. A label might not sound right to you or you may even have some negative stereotypes associated with it that you’re unaware of consciously. Below is a good post on the difference between using “Lesbian” or the more umbrella term of “Queer” as an identifier.
I like what one person said about the label “Queer” transcending stereotypes, which they felt as empowering. There can be much “to do” about identity politics, which some believe is just over-intellectualizing a non-hetero experience, when at the root of it all, it’s simply about who we are attracted to and who we love.
What are your thoughts about labels? Let us know what you think even if it’s “What’s the big deal?”
The stats are in and just look at that huge spike in the number of people who are coming out on FB since the Supreme Court marriage decision in June of 2015! [See graph] I’ve been fighting for marriage equality since the early days when HRC wasn’t even on board. They felt it was pushing for “too much, too soon” and it was better to fight for civil unions. Fortunately for all of us they were eventually persuaded by grass roots organizations like Marriage Equality USA and Marriage Equality New York.
I had conversations with many people in our community who didn’t want marriage equality because they believed it was entering into a “heterosexist institution.” All I can say is, look at what this has done for people’s pride in standing up for who they are. We are no longer riding at the back of the bus. Perhaps we always knew our love was equal, but now it’s legal.
Some queer folk say we will use our unique gay culture as we become more and more accepted in society. I think some unique elements will remain since we will always enjoy those moments when we can steal away from mainstream society to be with one another. Will our numbers grow as we become more accepted? Will gay culture be not 10% but 20% of society some day, simply because people won’t be afraid to embrace it? Or does nature balance us out around 10% just enough to keep the population under control. (Um, memo to nature, with the gay baby boom this isn’t exactly working.)
What do you think, dear reader? Does the legalization of marriage help with coming out? Do you feel we will lose our queer culture? Post your thoughts below.
We are complex beings and fall into many different “categories,” one of which is our sexuality. This is Emily’s story with labels…
“While many of the people in my coming out group have a hard time with the term, I claim “lesbian” as a sexy word. It is also my preferred word when coming out to others [over gay, queer and certainly homosexual]. Yet, most people respond back to me with gay or homosexual, which I find interesting. I think it says more about their culture and the words they are used to hearing in that culture. My mother barely squeaked out the word lesbian after I repeatedly used it the night I came out to my parents.
For many to whom I have come out, gay is associated with a negative connotation. Perhaps I preference lesbian precisely because it isn’t A) spoken and B) used negatively. I am free of the baggage because I am introducing a “new” word; I get to define/model/teach what that word means rather than one putting me into a box that’s already full of their ideas].
I also had a very positive introduction to the word lesbian. A dear friend came out to me by saying she is lesbian. She and I are both deeply influenced by 2nd wave feminism and call things as they are: lesbian. vagina. breast. etc. For centuries society silenced anything remotely close to female sexuality. So we ended up with a psyche that couldn’t name our own body parts without sounding and feeling dirty. I don’t want that for the next generation. By using lesbian or vagina, I normalize it. I also think my choice to use lesbian is where I am at right now: I am not interested in men.”
Thanks for guest blogging Emily!
Emily is the co-facilitator of our coming out group, and in the process of coming out herself, she is able to share real-time experiences with the group in a supportive framework. Have you had any specific people in your life that have had positive or negative influences on the terms that you choose to use? If you do have a negative connotation with a term, how might you reclaim it?
It can be difficult to pin down something as complex as sexuality in just a single term. “Gay, bi, lesbian, pansexual, demisexual…” We are fluid beings (some of us more than others) and our labels may reflect that and change from time to time. This is Jenn’s story with labels…
“With every ounce of shame, guilt, and dependence on my former self that I shed, I am constantly bumping into newer versions of myself, and, consequently, the labels become easier to navigate.
When my coming out process first began in June of 2014, I was adamant about not wanting to be labeled, for I was certain it was not fair to compartmentalize my sexual orientation into one box or another. I was against “labeling,” because, and I say this retrospectively now, I was still struggling with coming out and revealing my truth. While in the throes of disclosing this recently raw, authentic self, naming my sexuality was the least of my problems.
A 60+ year old radical mentor of my ginger girlfriend claimed that it took her many years of clearly annunciating the word “lesbian” in a mirror before she became truly at ease with connecting her sexuality to that term. She knew she liked girls, but calling herself a lesbian was too daunting a task because of the legal, political, social, and emotional implications the term implied, particularly when she came out over forty years ago.
I came out at 38 years old while I was in a (dwindling) straight 13 year-long marriage, including two amazing daughters, an exceptionally hyper dog, a tabby kitty, and even a multi-colored Betta! So, you, my imagined reader, may correctly assume it is an understatement to say that people in my life were not only outraged and shocked at my reveal, but, instantly, they implored me to name my sexuality:
“Well, then, what are you?!”
“So, now you’re a lesbian? All of a sudden? Just like that?”
“Are you bi? You must be bi because you were married, right?”
“Are you straight but you just like to fool around with girls?”
“Wait. You’re gay? You’re not gay. You’re bi. Are you bi? Wait. What are you?”
To their probing I often replied, “No clue” or “I don’t know WHAT I am” as though I was considered a mere, filthy spec of some outrageous life form though not quite human at all.
Or, at times, when my mother or cousin or best friend asked what I “was,” I’d breathe deeply and simply respond, “Jenn.”
After being out for over a year now, the struggle to name my sexuality exists, though the debilitating anxiety I experience every time I am asked to put my love in a box and stamp some word on it has greatly lessened. I play around with terminology, though presently I prefer “dyke” (for its grunge, in your face-fuck you!, and, in my mind, relation to the “type” of women I’m into), “queer” (an umbrella term that’s a bit radical and covers all sexualities), “gay” (though this term has historically been used negatively and in connection with queer males), and, yes, sometimes “lesbian.”
The more sexually and emotionally secure I become, the clearer I am able to envision what term suits me best and what I feel comfortable with. I am beginning to recognize my ability to identify what feels right to me, and that recognition is exhilarating!”
Thanks for guest blogging Jenn!
What terms do you the reader feel comfortable with? Are there any terms still make you want to run for the hills? What is it about them that makes you feel that way? What do you associate with that term and where did that association come from?
Coming out is a process. We may find it’s easy with some and harder with others. This is Anu’s new strategy to assist her state of mind when coming out…
“I, for one, can get caught up in the whirlwind of fears and assumptions when I think about coming out. It’s easy to do. And time-consuming. And not all that productive. So then I got to thinking…
We are conditioned to assume the worst of people. When we assume the worst of others, we are stopped in our tracks by fear. And it’s this fear that keeps us from embracing our most authentic selves. So what would happen, I thought, if instead we assumed the best?
I pondered whether making a good assumption about someone is the same as having expectations. We know how dangerous expectations can be, right? As a general rule, expectations lead to disappointment. And disappointment is hard to bounce back from. So couldn’t making a good assumption about a family member’s response to your sexual identity also lead to disappointment? Indeed. Except for one very important power shift.
When we assume the best of someone, and they prove us wrong, we are no longer the victim of that disappointment. Now we are the person who knows they could have done better, and we are disappointed with them, not by them.”
~ Anu Day
Thanks for the guest post Anu!
Hey everyone, do you think that assuming the best response from someone when you tell them you are gay might put you in the “drivers seat” or help the outcome? (If you are in a dependent situation you might want to find an ally before you try this.) Please respond in the comments below.
I was talking with some colleagues about the difference between the Kinsey test and the Klein grid this week, and looked online to research it a bit further. There are many tests we can take to help determine our sexuality and for people just coming out it may help remove some of the confusion. But I often find these tests even more confounding, because let’s face it, sexual orientation is just not as cut and dried as we want it to be. We are fluid beings, and perhaps that’s a beautiful thing. So even though I identify as a lesbian, I am not 100% off the chart as a lesbian. I have known some women who are, but I fall somewhere close to the coveted gold star but slightly tarnished. LOL.
I mentioned to some of the women in my coming out group this week that I thought pan-sexuality seemed like the most evolved choice that anyone could make. I worried later that saying this would confuse them, but they seemed undaunted. Getting philosophical here, this was just a half-formed opinion of mine, based on the idea that loving a human being for who they are at the level of personality and perhaps the soul seems to be more in line with our higher self. While I can hold pan-sexuality as an ideal, my reality is much different. Lust I realize is not based on ideals, but on raw human sexual energy.
While most people can recognize that bodies of all genders can all be attractive, it is our energies (butch/femme, top/bottom, lead/follow, giver/taker, sweet/salty, and on and on) that have so much to do with attraction. Energy can be both ephemeral and hard to define. It is that spark we feel, that electric heat that shoots down our body. So let’s face it, how we react to these energies just isn’t something we can control. For me, I find the energy of a man to be too in polarity with mine and I enjoy the subtle energy play between two females better. I have no better way to describe this as the reason why I am gay. (Not that I need to give a reason any more than a heterosexual does, damnit.)
So is our sexuality really a choice? I don’t have a clear answer to that, nor do scientists though they have tried to prove there is a gay gene. The only thing I know for sure is that we are at the mercy of energies that play upon us and lure us into our sweet attraction.
What are the various energies in which you show up in your life? We may be “butch on the streets, but femme in the sheets” as the saying goes. Comment below about what you have noticed about your own energy and others.
In the interest of raising our collective “gender awarenesses,” did you know there are over 50 genders to choose from? If you thought that gender was as cut and dried as checking off “male” or “female” on a form, read on.
Though I may want to rebel, I’m personally not confused what box to check off on a form that asks whether I am male or female. I assume the form is asking for my cis-gender (biological sex), and for me, that’s also how I happen to show up in the world (well, generally.) There are some people who are born intersex, or a combination of male and female, so their cis-gender might more accurately be reflected by checking off a third box that reads “both.” In the old days when forms were paper, one could simply confound the form-takers and check off both boxes, allaying the need for a third. In the digital age, it won’t allow both to be checked, so we need another option.
Cis-gender aside, there are many of us who challenge the idea of choosing between sexual binaries regardless if that is how our bodies read. Our gender may appear more as the opposite sex or something in between. It may even fluctuate over time. A box reading “androgynous” might work best for us.
Some folks may choose to permanently live as a gender/sex other than the one they were born with, so a fourth box called “transgender” might be most appropriate – that is, if they want a separate category than “male” and “female,” which might work just fine for many. Form-makers of the world could simply add a third box labeled “other” for those who don’t fit neatly into the male/female binary model. Or take a tip from Facebook regarding relationships and add a box that simply reads “It’s complicated.”
As we go through life, things may indeed get more complicated when it comes to choosing how to express our gender. When we are children, we naturally express our true nature, if our parents allow it. As we grow older things are often shunned that we could “get away with” as children. I was talking with a gay man the other day about transgender, as we made plans to create a new program for an organization in which we both belong. He mentioned not wanting to turn off the “vanilla gays and lesbians,” who might not relate to the concept of gender being fluid. It made me smile a little that we now live in a world where being gay can be called “vanilla.” He was not saying he didn’t want a program that worked great for the gender fluid and trans people in our community. He is very dedicated to that mission. He was merely saying he didn’t want to exclude those who are not fluid or trans. Being gay does not necessarily mean we are “gender-fluid” people, after all, and I almost heard a tinge of “am I boring?” when he used the term vanilla.
There are many of us (gay and straight, if the term “straight” even really applies here) who may find we feel more comfortable living with a gender that does not match our biological sex, because in reality gender and sex are too very different things. Sex is just our physical body and gender is more about how we show up in the world. As Judith Butler said “Gender is performative” and is based on many complex factors. While Facebook may have taken a somewhat “easy-way-out” approach on the relationship front with the “it’s complicated” label. It has not done so with gender, and I applaud their efforts on this front!
Facebook currently offer 56 variations of gender to choose from in your profile. In case you are having trouble deciding, they allow you to pick up to 10. With so many flavors to choose from, I asked the tongue-in-cheek question in the title of this piece of “Why are you being so boring?” In reality, “vanilla” is a perfectly valid flavor, as it pairs with so many delicious other flavors after all. And while gender expression is not a fad (or for that matter a flavor,) it can be fluid in my opinion, and we may try something on for size only to discard it later for something that is a better fit. Some people know from a very early age which gender they want to express and it may be more fixed for them. For more androgynous folks like myself, we may play among the margins for awhile before we find ourselves settling there, or somewhere on either side of the imaginary gender dotted line. If it hasn’t become clear yet, like the Kinsey scale of sexual attraction, gender performance runs along a continuum.
Fifty-six may sound like a lot of options, but many actually are variations on a theme such as “cisgender woman” and “cisgender female,” as well as “cis woman” and “cis female.” In terms of broad categories, according to Peter Weber, there just under 20. Here is his high level listing of what they mean:
1. Agender/Neutrois — These terms are used by people who don’t identify with any gender at all—they tend to either feel they have no gender or a neutral gender. Some use surgery and/or hormones to make their bodies conform to this gender neutrality.
2. Androgyne/Androgynous — Androgynes have both male and female gender characteristics and identify as a separate, third gender.
3. Bigender — Someone who is bigender identifies as male and female at different times. Whereas an androgyne has a single gender blending male and female, a bigender switches between the two.
4. Cis/Cisgender — Cisgender is essentially the opposite of transgender (cis- being Latin for “on this side of” versus trans-, “on the other side”). People who identify as cisgender are males or females whose gender aligns with their birth sex.
5. Female to Male/FTM — Someone who is transitioning from female to male, either physically (transsexual) or in terms of gender identity.
6. Gender Fluid — Like bigender people, the gender-fluid feel free to express both masculine and feminine characteristics at different times.
7. Gender Nonconforming/Variant — This is a broad category for people who don’t act or behave according to the societal expectation for their sex. It includes cross-dressers and tomboys as well as the transgender.
8. Gender Questioning — This category is for people who are still trying to figure out where they fit on the axes of sex and gender.
9. Genderqueer — This is an umbrella term for all nonconforming gender identities. Most of the other identities in this list fall into the genderqueer category.
10. Intersex — This term refers to a person who was born with sexual anatomy, organs, or chromosomes that aren’t entirely male or female. Intersex has largely replaced the term “hermaphrodite” for humans.
11. Male to Female/MTF — Someone who is transitioning from male to female, either physically (transsexual) or in terms of gender identity.
12. Neither — You understand this one: “I don’t feel like I’m fully male or fully female. ‘Nuff said.”
13. Non-binary — People who identify as non-binary disregard the idea of a male and female dichotomy, or even a male-to-female continuum with androgyny in the middle. For them, gender is a complex idea that might fit better on a three-dimensional chart, or a multidimensional web.
14. Other — Like “neither,” this is pretty self-explanatory. It can cover everything from “I’d prefer not to specify how I don’t fit in the gender dichotomy” to “My gender is none of your damn business, Facebook.”
15. Pangender — Pangender is similar to androgyny, in that the person identifies as a third gender with some combination of both male and female aspects, but it’s a little more fluid. It can also be used as an inclusive term to signify “all genders.”
16. Trans/Transgender — Transgender is a broad category that encompasses people who feel their gender is different than their birth sex—sometimes known as gender dysphoria. They may or may not choose to physically transition from their birth sex to their experienced gender.
17. Transsexual — Transsexual refers to transgender people who outwardly identify as their experienced gender rather than their birth sex. Many, but not all, transsexuals are transitioning (or have transitioned) from male to female or female to male through hormone therapy and/or gender reassignment surgery.
18. Two-spirit — This term refers to gender-variant Native Americans. In more than 150 Native American tribes, people with “two spirits”—a term coined in the 1990s to replace the term “berdache”—were part of a widely accepted, often respected, category of gender-ambiguous men and women.
This is a summary by Paul Beeman of an article, “Developmental Stages of the Coming Out Process,” by Eli Coleman, Ph.D., assistant professor, University of Minnesota Medical School, from A Guide to Psychotherapy with Gay and Lesbian Clients, edited by John C. Gonsiorek, Harrington Park Press, New York, 1985.
I found it to be pretty accurate. He does not assume that all gays and lesbians go through these stages in order, nor that all complete all five stages. Some may get locked into one stage and never progress. Even at the identity integration stage, coming out is a continuing process.
But there are developmental tasks inherent in each stage which need to be completed some time, in order ultimately to become fully self-actualizing and integrated. Here are the stages.
I. Pre-Coming Out
Some studies have found that core gender and sex-role identities are formed by age 3, thus sexual object choice is part of gender identity. If that is true, then heterosexuality and homosexuality are determined primarily during late infancy and early childhood, and may be identified at a pre-conscious level, or even a conscious level.
A child may grow up learning the family’s and society’s prejudices against being gay, while the child feels different, alienated and alone. Since individuals at this stage are not consciously aware of same-sex feelings, they cannot describe what is wrong. They may hide their feelings from themselves and others, suffer low self-esteem and depression, and only communicate their conflict through behavioral problems.
II. Coming Out
Individuals move into this stage when they acknowledge their homosexual feeling, which is the first developmental task of this stage. That may mean simply acknowledging a confusing homosexual thought or fantasy, without fully understanding or labeling what that means. Some studies indicate the median age fr this experience is from 13 to 18.
Once the feelings have been identified, the next task is telling someone, a vital function in beginning one’s self-acceptance. The confidant’s reaction has a powerful impact. If negative, it can confirm old prejudices and lower self-esteem. If positive, it can counteract old prejudices and permit individuals to begin accepting their sexual feelings and increase self-esteem. “But no one can develop self-concepts such as accepted, valued or worthwhile all alone.” Acceptance by a parent is an extremely powerful force for self-acceptance.
This stage of experimenting with a new sexual identity is akin to the heterosexual adolescent’s first major experience of sexual activity with others. However, most individuals with same-sex preference do not experience adolescence in their teenage years. There is a developmental lag in their sexual adolescence, which can be confusing or even frightening to persons who have otherwise matured intellectually, vocationally and financially.
The developmental tasks are: development of interpersonal skills to meet and socialize with others who have homosexual orientation; development of a sense of personal attractiveness and sexual competence, by becoming involved in sexual relationships; seeing themselves not only in a sexual way, but recognizing other needs, like affection and support.
A major stumbling block appears in the use of alcohol and drugs to ease the pain of rejection and the ever-present lack of self-esteem.
IV. First Relationships
After a period of sexual and social experimentation, exploration can lose its intrigue, and needs for intimacy and a stable, committed relationship then become important.
The developmental task is learning to function in a same-sex relationship in a predominately heterosexual society. First serious relationships can be characterized by intensity, possessiveness and lack of trust, and therefore they are often temporary, discouraging and can end as a way to relieve the pressure.
This is an open-ended, ongoing process that will last the rest of one’s life. Such an integrated identity usually takes from 10 to 14 years after the first awareness of same-sex feelings. New feelings will emerge; new relationships will be enjoyed. This stage is characterized by non-possessiveness, mutual trust, freedom, and greater success.
Some may choose not to enter long-term relationships, others make permanent commitments such as marriage.
The gay liberation movement has facilitated the process of acquiring a positive homosexual identity by providing more social support. Yet, Dr. Coleman concludes, positive reactions by family and influential individuals may have a greater impact than all the direct and indirect reactions of society.
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The results of the Cooperative Institutional Research Program (CIRP) survey is in, and it isn’t good for Webster University. The survey was sent to freshmen students in 2009 and is designed to track trends of college students at comparable institutions. The survey addresses a range of student issues, from health and wellness to financial stability and workload. The survey shows some pretty disturbing trends. Of the freshmen, 33 percent indicated they anticipated no financial support from their family, well above the average of 18 percent at similar schools.
Eighteen percent of Webster students had “major concerns” about their ability to finance college, a trend also “much higher” than other schools, according to the survey. The Journal has expressed displeasure with the financial aid department at Webster before. A tragically understaffed and underfunded department, financial aid at Webster fails to run smoothly or fully prepare students for the cost of school. The CIRP survey highlights the growing concerns of young people everywhere: spending several years and tens of thousands of dollars may no longer be the key to a successful, comfortable life. But the Webster trends don’t end there.
Twenty-four percent of students reported using cigarettes, far above other schools, probably to ease the stress of ever-inflating tuition. The Journal also notes that 46 percent of students reported spending less than two hours on sports or exercise, substantially lower than their peers. With Delegates’ Agenda freshly in our rear-view mirror, The Journal would like to suggest that all SGA members, student organizations and administrators in student activities and residential life read the CIRP survey very carefully. Time and time again, Webster students have made clear where their concerns lie. They want easier financial aid with more opportunities for scholarships. They want access to financial aid experts who can guide them in a way understandable to a layman. They have almost no school facilities to speak of for health and fitness.
A school sports team nearly always utilizes the laughably small workout area provided by the athletic department. Ordinary students have few opportunities and even fewer resources to improve their health. With 10 percent of students reporting that they would rate their health as “low” and 15 percent reporting feeling frequently depressed (both trends much higher at Webster than other schools) it should serve as a wake-up call for student and faculty leaders. The Journal hopes administrators will explore real options to bring these trends within reason.
The well being of students is paramount to a functioning institution. Students cannot possibly get a full educational experience if their mind is constantly tied to feelings of depression, concerns about money and a lack of basic equipment for physical health. The Journal knows that Webster students don’t just want more, they need more, and they should expect more. | <urn:uuid:cd41ab87-92ea-4b93-b610-3e2aab611576> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://websterjournal.com/2011/10/13/editorial-survey-says/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571745.28/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812170436-20220812200436-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.966853 | 563 | 1.84375 | 2 |
Is Breastfeeding Good for Your Baby's Oral Health?
Posted on 6/20/2022 by Bryan Neu
There is a lot of debate surrounding the health benefits of breastfeeding. Some people swear by it, while others claim no difference between breast milk and formula. So, what is the truth? Is breastfeeding good for your baby's oral health? Read ahead to know more.
Importance of Breastfeeding
Breastfeeding offers several advantages for both moms and newborns. It helps protect babies from developing illnesses such as ear infections, respiratory tract infections, and diarrhea. Breastfed babies are less likely to develop allergies, eczema, and asthma. In addition, breastfeeding can help to improve cognitive development and reduce the risk of obesity later in life. Studies have shown that breastfed babies have a reduced risk of developing cavities later on in life. Additionally, breastfeeding can help promote proper jaw development and reduce the risk of developing malocclusion (crooked teeth).
Is There Any Negative Effects of Breastfeeding for Babies?
While breastfeeding is generally beneficial for both babies and mothers, there are some potential downsides. For example, if a mother has an infection, there is a small risk that her baby could contract the infection through her breast milk. Additionally, if a mother takes certain medications, there is a chance that her baby could be exposed to the medication through her breast milk. Additionally, some babies may have difficulty digesting breast milk, leading to gas and bloating. Finally, while it is rare, some babies may be allergic to their mother's milk. However, overall, the benefits of breastfeeding outweigh the potential risks. Breast milk is packed with nutrients and antibodies that can help to protect babies from illnesses. Additionally, breastfeeding can help to promote bonding between mother and child. As a result, most experts agree that the benefits of breastfeeding outweigh any potential risks.
If you want to learn more about the benefits of breastfeeding, be sure to talk to our experts. They would be more than happy to chat with you about the best way to feed your baby.
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Ithaca (also known as Ithaka or Ithaki) is a small Greek island located in the Ionian Sea, northeast of nearby Kefalonia. Almost completely untouched by tourism, its idyllic, unspoilt landscape is a real paradise on earth. The island has been my home for many years now and I only fall more in love with the place as time goes by.
A mountainous island, Ithaca’s rugged interior is covered with pine forests, cypresses, olive groves and vineyards. While the east coast is wild and rocky the west is verdant and soft. Winding roads lead down to white pebble beaches, enchanting coves and a shimmering turquoise sea.
Built around a natural harbour, the main town of Vathy is home to the picturesque, whitewashed Church of Saviour, Agios Sortiris. Situated opposite the port, on the tiny islet of Lazaretto, it’s a popular venue for weddings and baptisms. In the summer, countless sailing boats drift by while fishermen can be found along the shore, sorting their catch and mending their nets. Further inland, traditional mountain villages look out across the Ionian Sea.
The Island’s Rich Mythical History
As well as its wild, natural landscape, pretty coastal villages and spectacular views, the magic of Ithaca can also be attributed to its rich, mythical history. The island is the reputed home of Homeric hero Odysseus, where faithful Penelope waited 10 years for his return following the Trojan War.
Despite its mythical past, Ithaca remains something of a hidden gem, untouched by mass tourism. Instead of a bustling nightlife and crowded sandy beaches, the island is calm and beautiful, ideal for those seeking peace and relaxation, discovery and adventure, or an irresistible mixture of the two.
Places to Visit
I love helping people discover Ithaca and explore everything it has to offer. Although this is by no means an exhaustive list, here are some of the beaches, beauty spots and tavernas I recommend time and time again…
- Close to the village of Stavros, Polis Bay is made up of two beaches. One features plenty of facilities including a cantina, toilets, changing rooms, showers and sunbeds. It also benefits from the presence of Takis, the charismatic ‘beach manager’ who provides excellent service while taking care of visitors.
- Gidaki, a glorious white pebble beach with bright turquoise sea, can only be reached by boat or on foot through the mountains.
- Kaminia in the south is another quiet, secluded beach. Accessed via a winding road and surrounded by greenery, there are no facilities, just tranquil, breath-taking views.
- Visit Calypso in Kioni for an elevated Greek menu with views of the harbourside or Odysseus in Frikes for traditional Greek food. Situated off the main square in Vathy, Poseidon is great for mezze.
Ithaca doesn’t have its own airport. The nearest is Kefalonia although you can also fly into Preveza or Athens. Either way, the final leg of your journey must be completed by boat. As your wedding planner, I can arrange both individual and group transfers for you and your guests or simply advise you on the best way to reach the island.
Getting Married on Ithaca
Like travelling to a beautiful island without its own airport, nobody would describe getting married on Ithaca as straightforward, but everyone would agree it’s worth it. There are strict legal requirements, including the official verification and translation of various documents. Enlisting a local wedding planner like myself, who speaks both English and Greek, eliminates the stress associated with this process and gives you complete peace of mind.
As you’ve probably gathered by now, Ithaca is not a ‘package holiday’ destination. Instead, the island attracts independent people seeking natural, unspoilt beauty and a glimpse of the ‘real Greece’. It’s perfect for couples who dream of an intimate destination wedding in a place unlike any other. Couples who want a celebration that’s stylish and elegant with a hint of adventure.
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Understanding the School-to-Prison Pipeline
Early reading skills play an important role in later school success.
Posted September 16, 2015
When I first decided to go to graduate school and study psychology, my goal was to work with teenagers who were involved in the juvenile justice system and to prevent younger children from following that same path. It never occurred to me that I would end up focusing on pre-schoolers or early reading development, because I hadn’t thought about the fact that the experiences these adolescents had when they first began school could help explain the choices they made later in life. But as I started to work as a school psychologist and spent much of my time with elementary through high school age boys who were angry or disengaged from school, the connection between their early school experiences and later desire to escape from school started to make much more sense to me.
At first, when I would look through the school records of a troubled 15-year-old and see notes on his report cards as far back as kindergarten that said, “Please be sure to practice reading at home every night,” I would feel like a clever detective. Over time, though, I realized that almost every student I was working with had notes like that in their school files. Almost without fail, the adolescents who were cutting class and doing risky things when they should have been in school had been struggling readers since the day they first got there.
I started to find evidence, and then do research, that showed that many of those young children entered school with behavioral skills that were just fine. It was their reading skills that were low. After just a short amount of time in school, their difficulties identifying letters and words and making sense of stories led to behavioral difficulties as well. Even by kindergarten, a vicious cycle had started… kids who struggled academically started to act out, and acting out kept them from paying attention in class, which made it harder from them to catch up. When you consider the fact that reading difficulties become much harder to remediate once children enter third grade, it starts to make sense that the late elementary, middle, and high school students (mainly boys) I worked with were discouraged.
I thought again about how vitally important it is to help children develop early reading skills when looking at a new article by Ta-Nehisi Coates in The Atlantic, called “The Black Family in the Age of Mass Incarceration.” It is a really insightful and sad article that highlights how poor a job our country has done of addressing social problems, and definitely belongs in the canon of recent writing documenting how institutionalized racism affects individuals and families of color (along with books like The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander and articles like “The Case for Reparations,” also by Ta-Nehisi Coates and also published in The Atlantic). I won’t try to summarize the article here because I couldn’t do it justice, and you should read the whole thing here.
But there is one section that jumped out to me, given my own history working with kids who are victims of the school-to-prison pipeline. Amidst talking about the other risk factors for incarceration—substance abuse, mental illness, poverty—the author quotes a professor who points out that “roughly half of today’s prison inmates are functionally illiterate.” This statistic is not a new one, and there have long been reports of counties or states using the local literacy rate as a good way to forecast how many prison beds they will need in the future.
I don’t mean to suggest that learning to read is the solution to the complex problems that disenfranchised communities face, but it is certainly one piece of the puzzle. There are good programs and teachers with track records of success when it comes to ensuring that even students with a host of challenges learn to read, but ensuring that those programs and teachers end up in the schools where they are needed most is a complex problem in its own right.
I often feel frustrated that it doesn’t seem like there is more I can do to tackle this issue. However, I do think that there is a real benefit in making sure that folks making policy decisions understand how important it is for all children gets the support they need to learn to read. Connecting the dots, by pointing out that low literacy plays a role in issues like incarceration and family involvement in schools (which I discussed here last week), is hopefully one way we can draw attention to the importance of reading. | <urn:uuid:ce867bc8-cf46-4776-b3d0-ea6758c72084> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/book-smart/201509/understanding-the-school-prison-pipeline | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571284.54/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811103305-20220811133305-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.985954 | 929 | 2.59375 | 3 |
is additional than she was knighted by the queen in the United kingdom in 2000. That can make her a countrywide treasure in her homeland, but what about the rest of the globe? As you may well know, Andrews’ do the job has touched supporters .
This incorporates get the job done in classics like Carefully Modern-day Millie. The 1967 musical masterpiece starred Andrews, James Fox, and Mary Tyler Moore, according to. It even won an Oscar. Andrews remembered the movie fondly in a new job interview. One particular of her favourite recollections from the established? Bonding with her co-star, Moore.
Julie Andrews and Mary Tyler Moore labored together on ‘Thoroughly Present day Millie’
Thoroughly Modern Millie will take location in the 1920s. In it, Millie Dillmount and Miss out on Dorothy Brown are trying to make their way in flapper-era New York Town. They dwell collectively in a boarding house for women of all ages. Each women want to make it in the massive metropolis.
Pass up Dorothy aspires to act, whilst Millie needs to develop into a stenographer so she can land a wealthy partner. Even though Millie has only been dwelling in New York 3 months extended than Overlook Dorothy, she’s currently adopted a “modern” life style, with a bob haircut and risque wardrobe. On the other hand, love inevitably will get in the way of Millie’s well-laid ideas.
Millie, with Moore starring opposite as Pass up Dorothy. According to Andrews in her job interview, she “had a ball” building Extensively Fashionable Millie. The product was prime tier, and Andrews claims the “costumes were being delectable.”
Julie Andrews said she and Mary Tyler Moore “really bonded” on set
The costumes weren’tof Completely Modern-day Millie. She and Moore acquired near over the class of filming the film. They shaped a relationship that would previous a life span. According to Andrews, the two had a “very good romance. We seriously bonded.”
They had so significantly enjoyable enjoying Millie and Skip Dorothy that they utilised these nicknames for just one yet another for the relaxation of their life. Andrews stated, “My friendship with Mary was this sort of that long just after we’d concluded the movie, I was named Millie and she was named Overlook Dorothy.”
Andrews claims when the two would fulfill by chance, they’d typically shout their nicknames across the grocery keep, or wherever they happened to prospect on just one an additional. The two would “rush to satisfy and capture up on information,” according to Andrews.
Did Julie Andrews and Mary Tyler Moore function alongside one another just after ‘Thoroughly Contemporary Millie’?
Andrews and Moore never received to operate alongside one another after Carefully Contemporary Millie, whilst the two turned legends in their have appropriate. In accordance to, following Millie, Andrews went on to star in . She built Star! ideal after Comprehensively Modern day Millie, and later on, in 1982. She also proved she can do drama and comedy just as simply. In 2001, Andrews received around new lovers as the queen of Genovia in The Princess Diaries as perfectly as Netflix’s Bridgerton.
As fans of Moore will know, she made use of her fame from films to make her have sitcom, The Mary Tyler Moore Show. According to, the initially episode aired in 1970, just a few several years following Millie. The clearly show lasted 7 seasons, until eventually 1977.
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Supreme Court bars taxpayer from GST refund claim
India’s Supreme Court issued a decision on 28 October 2021 that prevents the taxpayer from requesting a large refund of goods and services tax (GST). The Supreme Court set aside a previous decision of the Delhi High Court that allowed the taxpayer to seek the refund. The court also held that the taxpayer cannot be granted permission to unilaterally amend its manually submitted GST return because that would have a cascading effect on recipients and suppliers associated with the relevant transactions and create uncertainty for tax administration.
Bharti Airtel Ltd., India’s largest wireless telecommunications company, and others (Taxpayers) claimed that they had paid excess GST of INR 9.23 billion during the period July-September 2017 due to the lack of a purchase-related tax return form (GSTR-2A); the form had not yet been released by the authorities since GST was introduced in India as from 1 January 2017. Because there was no online automated method to deal with GST input and output credits, the taxpayer paid its GST liability in cash, arguing that it was unable to ascertain the available input tax credit and, therefore, submitted details of the input credit based on estimates. The taxpayer then asked to amend its GST returns to obtain a refund of the excess GST paid.
In 2020, the divisional bench of the Delhi High court granted Bharti Airtel permission to amend its GSTR-3B returns to claim a refund of INR 9.23 billion for the period July-September 2017. The Indian tax authorities appealed the decision to the Supreme Court.
Decision of the Supreme Court
In ruling against the taxpayer, the Supreme Court noted that the taxpayer, with full knowledge and information derived from its books of accounts and records, carried out a self-assessment and assessed its output tax liability for the relevant period and elected to discharge that liability by paying cash. That being the case, the taxpayer cannot now seek to change its position. The court also noted that the taxpayer is not precluded from offsetting its excess input tax against any future output tax.
The Supreme Court decision will have a significant impact on any litigation where a taxpayer’s basic defense relates to incorrect filings/compliance issues due to glitches in the Indian GST portal. Based on the court’s rationale, as long as filing/compliance would have been possible with suitable internal processes, documentation, etc. that are fully within the taxpayer’s control, courts are not likely to adopt a lenient approach. However, the situation may be different if a taxpayer is able to substantiate that the noncompliance resulted from problems with the portal and the taxpayer took all steps that were practically possible. This decision has placed the burden on the taxpayer to ensure that its GST filings are accurate and timely.
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Seven50 Economics and Sustainable Development
Learn About the Economics of Seven50 and Sustainable Development
Seven50 is the implementation of sustainable development practices that are based on faulty economics. The economics of Seven50 will provide for the central planning of resources of homes, businesses and farms to be put to use by bureaucrats and quasi-government agencies for special interests under the guise of the public good.
Somewhere along the way, during the last 50 years, the critique of capitalism changed from condemning its failure to spread the wealth to condemning the very opposite. Suddenly the great sin of capitalism was that it was producing too much, making us all too materialistic, fueling economic growth at the expense of other values, spreading middle-class decadence, and generally causing society to be too caught up in productivity and too focused on the standard of living.
In noting this dramatic change, Murray N. Rothbard writes that the turning point might have been John Kenneth Galbraith’s 1958 work called The Affluent Society, which is one long harangue against consumerism, middle-class decadence, and the ever-increasing wealth of the average person under capitalism. Galbraith claimed that all of this was coming at the expense of public institutions and public infrastructure.
In 2006, John Bratland, an economist with the US Department of Interior, wrote in an essay that:
“the theory of intergenerational sustainability largely ignores
1. the valuations and actions of individual human beings,
2. the critical function of private property rights and
3. role of market institutions based on voluntary monetary exchange.
By ignoring these features of human life, the case for sustainable development provides no rational framework for dealing with emerging scarcities. The concepts of valuation, capital, and income only take on valid or coherent meaning in the context of individual action, private property and market exchange.” 2
Seven50 will produce an environment of economic malinvestment ending up like the recent housing bubble. Seven50 cronies will profit while South Floridians foot the bill.
Economics Supports Free Markets and Private Property Rights
- A Poverty of Reason: Sustainable Development and Economic Growth
- The “Sustainable Development” Scam
- “Sustainable Development” Privileges the Few
- How Much is Enough?
- The Decivilizing Effects of Government
- Austrians on the Environment
- Sustainability: An Assault on Economics
- Law, Property Rights and Air Pollution
- Toward An Austrian Theory Of Environmental Economics
- Toward a Calculation Theory and Policy of Intergenerational Sustainability
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Something that I am aiming to improve in my own business is my time management skills. Honestly, they suck.I have been doing some reading and researching to help me and I wanted to share some of that with ya because I totally understand the frustration of not having enough hours in the day. Truth is, a lot of us waste so much time. Yea, I sort of blame my social media habits on that. How many times a day, do you refresh Facebook, only to see the same stuff over and over again? For me, I can’t even count!
Someone once said that, “While money doesn’t buy happiness, it sure does make me giggle a lot.” Obviously, this was said by someone who not only was given money, but also had time to spend it. Because, the truth is, money alone doesn’t create joy; being able to have time to spend it and do things with those you love is what happiness and success truly is. When people want to become entrepreneurs they don’t actually think about the work; they think about the freedom.
What Is Success?
This boils down to what success really is. Success is freedom. Success means that you can take the day off to spend with your kids on a field trip. Success means that if you want to enjoy a leisurely breakfast with your spouse on Sunday morning, you can. Success means that if you want to take that trip to Nepal, you can. Yes, money does help you afford those things, but money is only the means by which you can purchase them and anyone can make money. But, not everyone who has money also has the time to actually enjoy it. Time is finite; money is not.
The Value of Time
Timothy Ferriss, in his book, The 4-Hour Work Week says, “To enjoy life, you don’t need fancy nonsense, but you do need to control your time and realize that most things just aren’t as serious as you make them out to be.”
That’s why prioritizing the things you do things based on money will often backfire. Instead, base everything you do on what kind of time it will cost you. What will it take you away from that you really would rather be doing? Some things, of course, have to be done that we don’t want to do. However, most of those things can be outsourced and worked around the most important things on your to-do list. Most things can simply wait.
People who are truly successful in life realize the truth of the limits of time and they do everything they can to make the most of the time they have. That’s why some of the most successful people you know are so productive. Successful people often live by their calendars and schedules. That might seem unromantic but the truth is, scheduling in work and fun will make your life better by leaps and bounds.
In fact, get out your calendar right now and first schedule in all the things you want to do with your family and for yourself that are not related to work. Once you’ve done that, you can fit in work around those things. That’s the entire point of becoming an entrepreneur – to have freedom, but it’s important that you remember what constitutes freedom. Not money, but time. How much is your time worth?
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OU Institute for Quality Communities (IQC) interns Kayarash Karami and James Nemeth developed conceptual layouts for a combined police and fire public safety center in response to the City of Langston’s proposal for a new building. Nemeth is a fifth-year architecture student, and Karami is a fourth-year architecture student working on his accelerate master’s degree. Professional mentors René Peralta and Sam Callahan helped guide the IQC Langston community intern team with this project.
Langston, Oklahoma, the home of Langston University, is a small town located in Logan County. To initiate this project, the interns interviewed Langston Mayor Sheila D. Stevenson and representatives of the departments to develop an understanding of the city’s needs for their joint police and fire safety center.
Nemeth and Karami began their project with a preliminary space planning report to help decide the location of the new combined police and fire station. One of their main concerns during project development was the building’s location and proximity to the surrounding community. It was important that the station should be in an area where it can effectively serve the entire town and better facilitate community interaction. The interns provided two different options for the layout of the safety center. Both of their conceptual plans focused on shared facilities to save space in the building and to integrate interactions between the police and fire departments. Their project served as a conversation starter for the city of Langston to move towards a community focused design.
“I’m hoping that the City of Langston is going to follow up with this more community focused design and distance itself from the conventional and traditional way of having a fire department or police department in the city as we know it now and kind of build a foundation for a better human experience in their future developments,” said Karami.
As a result of this project, the interns not only learned that fire and police stations can be used as community service centers, but they also got to experience collaboration in a real-world setting. Their project will hopefully aid the City of Langston in the next phase of their development of the building to allow their station to perform better and benefit the entire community.
“It was fun to collaborate with our professors and my student partner in a real-world setting. Preparing our presentation for someone else, instead of doing it like a school project just for ourselves, was neat because it gives us more precedent and purpose for what we were delivering,” said Nemeth.
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A light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) has occurred on Saturday, southeast of the Loyalty Islands (0 miles). The temblor was picked up at 19:35:06 / 7:35 pm (local time epicenter). Unique identifier: us6000djdr. Ids that are associated to the event: us6000djdr. Exact location of event, longitude 172.1279 East, latitude -22.7278 South, depth = 10 km. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 10 km (6 miles) below the earth’s surface. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 13/02/21 / 2021-02-13 19:35:06 / February 13, 2021 @ 7:35 pm.
There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been fifty-eight, in the last 10 days two hundred and eight, in the past 30 days two hundred and thirty-one and in the last 365 days two hundred and fourty-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.
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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: southeast of the Loyalty Islands. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.
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Hello, my name is Mrs. McLeod and I am the guidance counselor at Souris School. I have over 25 years experience working with students in the field of education . I have a Masters Degree in education specializing in Guidance and Counselling. I see students individually, as a group or as a classroom. You are welcome to e-mail me or phone the school with your concerns or questions.Please feel free to contact me at email@example.com or phone the school at 483-2161 Ext. 2605.
What is Counselling?
It is the chance to talk about feelings and the effect they have on you
It gives you ideas to solve a problem
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It can help you find ways to cope with various situations happening in your life
It offers you support and let's you know you aren't alone
The guidance counselor is a link to other services and agencies that may be able to help
How do I arrange to see the counselor?
You can let me know when you see me around the school
Ask your parents, your teacher, or someone you trust to let me know
Fill out a counselling slip( located on/by the counselling office door) and leave it in the mail box just inside my door
Let the secretaries know that you would like to see me
E-mail me at firstname.lastname@example.org
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It means that anything we talk about will stay between the two of us. There are a few cases in which I may need to divulge information.
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- "Are you telling me, that you built a time machine...out of a DeLorean?"
- ―Marty McFly[src]
The DeLorean Time Machine is a fictional automobile-based time travel device featured in the Back to the Future trilogy and the Steven Spielberg film, Ready Player One. In the feature film series, Dr. Emmett "Doc" Brown builds a time machine from a DeLorean DMC-12 with the intent of gaining insights into history and the future but instead winds up using it to travel across 130 years of Hill Valley history (from 1885 to 2015) undoing the negative effects of time travel. One of the cars used in filming is currently on display in the Studio Tour at Universal Studios Hollywood. In Ready Player One, Wade Watts' avatar, Parzival, used the DeLorean Time Machine (outfitted with K.I.T.T. from Knight Rider) to win the race through New York City and the Copper Key.
The DeLorean Time machine was a 1982 DeLorean DMC-12 and was used in the movie "Back to the Future" as a car that could travel through time at 88mph. the car was fitted with a "Flux Capacitor" which allowed time travel, but you would need Plutonium to make the 1.21 Gigawatts of electricity to power the flux capacitor and make time travel possible. Later the DeLorean was fitted with "Mr. Fusion" which allowed time travel without the Plutonium. The speedometer in the vehicle was modified to go up to 95 mph because the stock DeLorean DMC-12 could only go up to 85 mph to reach the top speed.
Ready Player One
Midnight Club: Los Angeles Complete Edition
The DeLorean time machine as a playable vehicle, powered by plutonium and driven by Protagonist, he turns on the time circuits, activating a unit containing multiple fourteen-and seven-segment displays that show the destination (red), present (green), and last-departed (yellow) dates and times, (much like the one as in Back to the Future) but it's the Midnight Club style. Protagonist pulls down the speed stick, floors the gas pedal, the car takes off, the cloud smoke bursts out with the Midnight Club logo on here and above the ground. After entering a target date, the operator accelerates the car to 88 miles-per-hour, which it activates the flux capacitor. As it accelerates, several coils around the body glow blue/white while a burst of light appears in front of it. Surrounded by electrical current with 1.21 gigawatts, the car seemed to explode with the bolt of lightning and electricity, the camera zooms out and leaves a fire trail behind where the vehicle's tires will pass arriving the destination time, the "OUTATIME" license plate landed upright, on its corners, spins around and falls down to the ground. In the destination time, immediately before the car’s arrival, three large and loud flashes occur at the point from which the car emerges from its time travel. After the trip, the exterior of the DeLorean is extremely cold, and frost forms from atmospheric moisture all over the car’s body. Protagonist has some starter problems of the engine, he says: "Start, start!". | <urn:uuid:664d5392-0411-4514-af58-ed4e6a9a01de> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://starcars.fandom.com/wiki/DeLorean_Time_Machine | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571745.28/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812170436-20220812200436-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.934644 | 682 | 2.65625 | 3 |
It has been said that there are only two kinds of houses in the Phoenix area, those that have termite problems and those that will. But is it inevitable that your property will be damaged by termites or that you’ll need to call for termite control in Mesa?
Homes in Mesa AZ businesses are being slowly eaten away by more than just the wind, rain and other elements. Before human settlements arrived in the Phoenix valley and Mesa, there were 1000’s of colonies of termites feasting on the Sonoran Desert floor. Give termites food, a water supply and some juicy wood to eat in a sheltered environment (your home!), and they’ll thrive. With the influx of the human population, termite infestations in Mesa are all to common. The 165,000 plus households in Mesa are more than enough food for termites to live off for years. Termite control in Mesa for homes in Mesa Arizona is our specialty.
Finding the problems early on or the high probability areas, can save you thousands of dollars. Inspections for Termite problems can give you the peace of mind knowing your home is secure to Termites. Don’t be lulled into a false sense of security, Even though, they’re tiny, termites can and do cause major structural damage. The reason termites can pose such a threat to property is largely due to their dietary habits as well as their social organization. When there is damage already caused, we can treat it, secure it, and offer an warranty on our work the damages won’t continue.
There are several thousands of species of termites, and only 10% of them are considered pests and warrant a call to your local exterminator in Mesa. In fact, in tropical areas some termites even fulfill a vital ecological purpose. Termites are detrivores, which means that they feed on debris and recycle decomposing materials as nutrients that enrich the soil. Because they clear out dying vegetation, they also create new habitats for animals. So, some termites aren’t that much of a problem if any, and are obviously not anything to be concerned about. Termites that live near human inhabited areas, however, are a source of major concern.
Let’s say your house is made of concrete, glass, and steel, so why should you worry about termites? It’s not that simple, unfortunately. In an ideal world, termites would only eat one variety of wood, and we could build our buildings appropriately. It would merely be a matter of reducing wood in building construction. However, termites also eat many other materials including: plastics, paint, silicone adhesives, paper, cloth, and carpets. While termites may or may not eat each of these materials, they have been proven to take pieces of them to build nests with. The end result of termite infestation is ultimately wood and property damage. Termites can cause entire structures to cave in. Obviously by the time this happens, it’s already too late. It is a far better idea to get on the phone to a termite exterminator in Mesa and have a termite inspection done to stop the problem before it gets worse.
Because of the level of damage that Termites in Mesa can cause, termites can be a costly and dangerous pest. For example in India, termites ate the equivalent of roughly four thousand US dollars in April of 2011. Termites, like humans, favor temperate latitudes, occurring between 50 degrees north to 50 degrees south. Termites damage approximately half a million homes in the U.S. each year, and cost anywhere from two to five billion dollars each year in either repair costs for the damage that they’ve caused or in costs to control them. Termites also produce large amounts of greenhouse gases like methane adding to other environmental issues .
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On 31 Aug 1957 the Federation of Malaya became an independent country within the Commonwealth. The Malay States and the Settlements of Penang and Malacca became States of the Federation.
On 31 Jul 1960 the Emergency was officially over and all Emergency restrictions were lifted except in the immediate area of the Thai border where remnants of the MRLA lived in the remoter regions of the jungle.
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10mm pressure testing
benchrst builds a Pressure Trace platform PART 3
1: Any attempt to duplicate / simulate, actual or otherwise, is at own risk.
2: I firmly believe this device is in compliance with ATF "can own it, can build it" guidelines.
3: I have no illusion that results will be definitive.
This project now spans four pages.
Part 1: The initial build.
Part 2: Updates and modifications.
Part 3: This page, additional updates.
Part 4: Progress
Results are here.
Continuing the discussion about glue(s)...
Strain gauge installed on the Kaw Valley barrel with RSI supplied glue.
Strain gauge installed on the Kaw Valley barrel with Loctite 401. 'User error' may have caused the voids, which could be causing lower-than-reality psi readings.
Which leads to...
200 XTP / 7.8 800X in LW barrel
Near same load in the Kaw Valley barrel (this load used Rem 9.5, LW load used Rem 2.5).
Barrel parameters are entered correctly in the Pressure Trace software, so either the modulus of elasticity is off (for one, or both barrels), or strain gauge adhesion is less than perfect.
As shown on page 2, this should answer the adhesion question.
On to 'generic' traces...
I won't have the Green Mountain barrel chambered and ready to test for at least a month, and until I have two similar results I hesitate to post specifics.
At 2 or 3 traces each the results are hardly definitive, but the exercise was an attempt to create a result that matched RSI's suggestion regarding my inquiry into low pressure readings.
Loads use new brass from same order, CCI 300 primers from same tray (seated with hand primer), powder measured on a Gem Pro 250 to within 0.02gr of intended. Brass sized on Lee die, flared to minimum required on Lee universal, seated on lee within two thousandths of intended. Crimp as specified.
Generic load "1": New Jagemann brass, Redding taper (noise at end of trace: "The dip on the trace is a momentary disconnection under recoil AFTER the bullet exited. The dip is not unusual and is often caused by vibrations transmitted through the surface of the bench to the module gage cable jack." ).
Generic load "1": New Starline, Redding taper.
Generic load "1": New Starline, FCD taper.
Generic load "2": New Jagemann, Redding taper.
Generic load "2": New Starline, Redding taper.
Generic load "2": Used Starline (case may be 1X or 8X), Redding taper.
Too tired for extrapolation :)
05.28.17 Just realized I have Winchester brass, and Sig, and Norma, and...
05.31.17 Green Mountain .40 cal barrel blank arrived, should have it on the lathe in the next week or so :)
Did a bit of testing today:
Note: Some loads may be above book max, use at own risk!
155 MG 12.8gr #7 CCI 300 1X (once fired) Norma brass, Kaw Valley barrel, strain gauge (SG) #2
155 MG 12.8 #7 CCI 300 1X Winchester brass, Kaw, SG #2
200 XTP 7.8 800X CCI 300 new Starline, Kaw, SG #2
Buffalo Bore 21B Kaw SG #2
Underwood 200 JHP (item 247) Kaw SG #2
Underwood 200 JHP (item 247) Kaw SG #1
I'm working towards an intelligently arrived at corrective PSI.
I'll get at least two chambers out of the Green Mountain barrel, so additional data points, or potentially additional confusion :)
I have three more strain gauges en route, and I'm considering alternative installation points:
1: Exactly as the others, centered over the case as it sits in the chamber.
2: Back a bit, just ahead of the case web.
3: Just forward of the case mouth, entering a zero value for case thickness in the software.
To simplify this for myself, either the modulus is off for both my barrels, or my chamber pressures are as reported. The GM barrel may, or may not, offer clarification.
06.01.17 From the Pressure Trace manual:
It does somewhat fall in line with my pressures vs published data.
For the Green Mountain barrel I may cut one chamber to whatever is 'regular', and order a custom reamer from PGT that's SAAMI minimum.
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Background: Granulomatous mastitis, a rare condition of unknown etiology, affects women of childbearing age and clinically simulates breast carcinoma.
Case: Granulomatous mastitis of the breast in a 32-year-old female was studied by fine needle aspiration cytology. Aspirated material was quite cellular and consisted of epithelioid histiocytes, lymphocytes, plasma cells, neutrophils and multinucleated Langhans-type giant cells. However, no cheesy, necrotic material in the background was noted.
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A new conjunction method (wavelet-neuro-fuzzy) for precipitation forecast is proposed in this study. The conjunction method combines two methods, discrete wavelet transform and neuro-fuzzy. The observed daily precipitations are decomposed some subseries by using discrete wavelet transform and then appropriate sub-series are used as inputs to the neuro-fuzzy models for forecasting of daily precipitations. The daily precipitation data of three stations in Turkey are used as case studies. The wavelet-neuro-fuzzy model is provided a good fit with the observed data, especially for time series which have zero precipitation in the summer months and for the peaks in the testing period. The conjunction models are compared with classical neuro-fuzzy model. The benchmark results showed that the conjunction model produced significantly better results than the tatter. (c) 2007 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. | <urn:uuid:93bfa9b2-6a8f-4b7c-b88b-0fa039aac21d> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://avesis.itu.edu.tr/yayin/f06ac045-acc7-490a-b381-f154c2162d1c/wavelet-and-neuro-fuzzy-conjunction-model-for-precipitation-forecasting | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571284.54/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811103305-20220811133305-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.918878 | 186 | 2.0625 | 2 |
Book: Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
Ebook pdf free Frankenstein by Marry Shelly is a thriller and horror novel which elaborates a tale of a scientist. The scientist uses to do different experiments that are horrible and riskier. The thing to be noted here is that the people out there get affected more and wanna get rid of the curse. Yeah, that was a curse that the scientist got due to some false experiments. He tries to give his best but all lead him to no avail. He wanted to do something extraordinary. Insanity lead him believed that one day he’ll become successful in that, too!
If you can’t achieve your goals, then change the method not the goals!
Then there does an experiment that gives rise to some fierce species. Some strange creature comes into existence and then tragic events begin to occur. These species tend to grow in a very abnormal way and are less liable to destroy. Moreover, the whole story and events are much more thriller than explanations. Mary Shelley is an English female novelist that loved writing a thriller and terrifying stories.
She explained her thoughts through the way of fictions and fantasies. She elaborated the most rapturous moments in a way that can be easily understood. Her husband was also a writer and a poet and she used to help him with the improvements his writings needed. Her work inspired his soulmate to propose her and had the privilege to get married. During her stay in Switzerland with husband, she was well-motivated to write novels that are fictional but explain reality well. She is a writer that a few literature histories own! Freebooksmania is providing her writings for free in ebook pdf form. | <urn:uuid:053034bb-b0d2-4248-a24b-8dd7e4c70f07> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://freebooksmania.com/2019/10/frankenstein-by-mary-shelley-pdf-download.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571745.28/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812170436-20220812200436-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.981897 | 338 | 1.617188 | 2 |
I brought home a stylish little Smith-Corona Clipper from Moe’s shop for a some R&R at my typewriter spa. It wasn’t too dirty. I took it outside and blew out the dust bunnies.
By serial number (4C135275), it looks like a 1946 Clipper:
In addition to the usual complaints (dry ribbon, grime, dust, sticky keys), the typewriter had some rotated keys – the worst being the letter “E” and the letter “N”.
I read on Reddit that I could rotate the key tops back into proper position by using my finger or an eraser. My finger didn’t work, but I found that by pressing down firmly with a good eraser, I was able to rotate the key tops back into position. It was slow going, but the key rotated a tiny bit at a time into place. Though my photo doesn’t show it, I supported the key top from below with my fingers.
So much better:
The typewriter also had a very strong moldy smell. Much of it came from the case which had mildew spots inside. I wiped it down with soap and water and put it outside to dry in the sun – this helped a lot.
Under the hood of the machine, I found that the typewriter ribbon itself was very fusty. Out with the old and in with the new ribbon. That made a big difference. I found that the felt insulation under the ribbon cover still had a slightly musty smell, so I sprayed a little Febreze air freshener on it. That seemed only to mask the odor. Upshot: changing the ribbon was key to a better smelling machine.
Cleaned up, this typewriter is quite a looker. This machine has beautiful Speedline curves and stylish glossy band around the base.
Look at that elegant profile:
So what is the story behind the S-C Clipper’s name? What is that plane on the front decal?
From what I’ve read, it’s a Boeing B-314 Clipper:
By Boeing Aircraft [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons
The Boeing B-314 Clipper was a long-range flying boat made between 1938 and 1941 for Pan American Airways. It was one of the largest aircraft of the time.
Pan Am’s Clippers were outfitted for luxury air travel and long transoceanic flights. In 1940, Pan Am’s flight from San Francisco to Honolulu was 19 hours. With seats that could be converted into beds, a lounge and dining area, galleys crewed by fine chefs, and service by white-coated stewards, this was the height of dee-luxe travel. A cross-section of the Clipper shows that this was no modern economy coach experience.
Traveling in this fashion wasn’t cheap. A one-way ticket circa 1940 from San Francisco to Hong Kong was listed as $760 (or $1,368 round-trip). In 2015 dollars, that’s $12,866.64 one-way and $23,159.95 round-trip (per Bureau of Labor Statistics CPI Inflation Calculator)
During World War II, the Clipper fleet was pressed into military service, transporting personnel and equipment during the war.
The last Pan Am 314 was retired in 1946, the same year that this little S-C Clipper was made.
The name Clipper brought to mind style and adventure. I don’t know whether Pan Am or Boeing had an agreement with Smith-Corona for use of the name Clipper; perhaps it was some kind of cross-promotion arrangement. It’s a little strange. It would be like having a Dell computer called the Concorde with a little Concorde jet on it.
Here’s a short Pan Am clip from the 1950s looking back on the Clipper’s history:
Here is another video which has good interior shots of the Clipper (though I find the watermark a little distracting):
I returned the beautiful little Smith-Corona Clipper to Moe’s shop with attached care and feeding instructions (don’t use WD-40 inside your typewriter, what to do about ribbons, yadda yadda yadda, and links to important places like The Classic Typewriter Page, Typosphere.net, TWDB, Typewriter Facebook group, Typewriter Talk).
At Moe’s I picked up a vintage light meter for my son who is a Camera Geek.
Moe had this wonderful bird (crow?) sculpture in the shop.
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News Oct 2014 This dictionary has been updated to work better on mobile devices - please give it a try!
The data for the common bird* and tree** names in Northern Sotho were kindly provided by Prof. L.J. Louwrens.
The reference numbers between square brackets at bird names are known as Roberts numbers; the reference numbers at tree names are taken from the national tree list of South Africa.
Scientific botanical names are shown in italics.
* Louwrens, L.J. 2004. On the generic nature of common Northern Sotho bird names: a probe into the cognitive systematization of indigenous knowledge. South African Journal of African Languages 24(2): 95–117.
** Louwrens, L.J. 2001. Reduplication in Northern Sotho plant names and the cognitive salience of life forms. South African Journal of Ethnology 24(4): 147–160. | <urn:uuid:57be7ec6-a275-46ed-8edd-b37c831ad165> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.africanlanguages.com/sdp/ff/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570879.1/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808213349-20220809003349-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.858803 | 207 | 2.71875 | 3 |
Did you know that during World War Two, German and Japanese prisoners of war were housed and interrogated at a secret POW camp in what is now the Michaux State Forest in Cumberland County?!
The Pine Grove Furnace POW Camp, as it was known at the time, was classified as “secret” and no civilians worked there or were allowed to have knowledge of the camp.
The purpose of the Pine Grove Furnace POW Camp was to interrogate German prisoners (and later Japanese prisoners as well) to glean strategic intelligence to further the American war effort in Europe and the Pacific.
Before the war, the area was used for farming and then a Civilian Conservation Corps Camp.
After the war, the area was used as a church camp (Camp Michaux), until 1972.
Today, it is a jumble of abandoned ruins from all of these different time periods, just waiting to be explored!
How to Find the Pine Grove Furnace POW Camp in Cumberland County
The ruins of the Pine Grove Furnace POW Camp are located a mile north of present-day Route 233, approximately 2 miles northwest of Pine Grove Furnace State Park.
If navigating by GPS, use coordinates 40.03717, -77.33851 to guide you to the gravel parking area at the intersection of Michaux Road and Bunker Hill Road.
Exploring the Pine Grove Furnace POW Camp Ruins
As mentioned previously, this area has been used during multiple eras for multiple purposes, so knowing what you’re looking at can be confusing.
Fortunately, the Cumberland County Historical Society has created a self-guided walking tour and accompanying map which you can pick up at the parking area.
The map corresponds to numbered posts located near ruins around the former camp, allowing you to identify what you are looking at.
There are ruins on both the east and west sides of Michaux Road, so there is really no right or wrong way to explore the site.
To me personally, the west side of the former POW camp was more interesting, and had an almost tropical jungle feel to it as I walked the trails on a steamy August morning.
There are ruins both above AND below ground.
As you’ll learn from the map, some of the ruins predate the POW camp, while others were built during the church camp era.
This CCC camp fountain is one of the best preserved ruins at the former Pine Grove Furnace POW Camp.
The remnants of a reservoir are also remarkably intact.
In one of the swampier parts of the former Pine Grove Furnace POW Camp, a boardwalk aids your hiking efforts.
A recently fallen tree reveals ruins that appear to have been covered up for decades.
On the east side of Michaux Road, the ruins of the Bunker Hill stone barn can still be seen, some of the oldest ruins at Camp Michaux.
Today, the ruins of the former Pine Grove Furnace POW Camp are literally being reabsorbed by the Earth.
My advice is to go explore this formerly secret POW camp in Cumberland County before the story and the site itself are erased by the sands of time!
The abandoned Sideling Hill POW Camp in Fulton County was used to house German prisoners of war after the Nazis surrendered in May, 1945.
Like the Pine Grove Furnace POW Camp, the Sideling Hill POW Camp started out as a CCC camp in the 1930s.
The abandoned Alvira bunkers are remnants of the American WWII war effort, as well as reminders of what lengths the federal government will go to to seize private property for “the greater good”.
Today, 149 dome-shaped concrete bunkers that once housed explosives for the US military are gradually being reclaimed by nature on State Game Lands 252 in Union County.
The abandoned nuclear jet engine testing bunkers in the Quehanna Wild Area are a fascinating Cold War-era remnant of Pennsylvania history, now slowly being reabsorbed by the surrounding forest of Cameron County.
The goal at this secretive base was to develop nuclear-powered jet engines for the United States Air Force, so that fighter planes and bombers could stay airborne indefinitely, without refueling.
Today, as with the former Pine Grove Furnace POW Camp, the Quehanna nuclear jet engine testing bunkers are slowly being swallowed up by the Earth.
If all things old and abandoned fascinate you, then you’ll want to check out my road trip to the best abandoned places in PA!
This roadtrip highlights some of the best abandoned places in PA that are LEGAL TO VISIT, including the Abandoned PA Turnpike, Concrete City, and the abandoned Cresson State Prison.
Mister Ed’s Elephant Museum and Candy Emporium just may be the best elephant-themed roadside attraction in Pennsylvania!
Located just outside of Gettysburg, Mister Ed’s features a dizzying array of elephant figurines, circus souvenirs, toys, statues, gardens, and artwork as well as over a thousand kinds of candy!
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EAST WINDSOR -- — Residents took a historical ride on the Hartford-Springfield Street Railway Wednesday, without ever leaving the comfort of the Warehouse Point Library.
William E. Wood, a vice president of the National Railroad Historical Society, lectured and presented slides depicting turn- of-the-century Connecticut in a program sponsored by the East Windsor Historical Society.
An expert on railroads and streetcar railways, Wood concentrated on the H & S Railway, which operated through several towns in north central Connecticut and southern Massachusetts.
In 1895, there were only three options for land travel: walking, horseback and trains, he told the audience. While the first two options were sometimes the most economical, the use of trains was becoming increasingly popular as the state grew in commercial size and population.
"I cannot think of a more ideal way to get around in those days," he said. "It was 50 cents to ride the streetcar from Hartford to Springfield and it usually took about 50 minutes. That must have been nice when you think about all the traffic tie-ups on I- 91."
The H & S line ran north and south between the two major cities more than a dozen times a day. Its headquarters and powerhouse were located in Warehouse Point, along the banks of the Connecticut River.
It served passengers from places such as Thompsonville, Melrose, Somers, Ellington, Hazardville, Broad Brook and Warehouse Point. H & S was one of the few streetcar lines that wasn't bought out by the powerful New Haven Line Co.
For much of the slide presentation, residents exchanged historical facts when they recognized houses and landmarks that are still standing today, such as the Opera House in Broad Brook and the Hazardville Hotel in Enfield.
The H & S was well known for its clean and timely service, however, it's name was also synonymous with one of the most famous streetcar accidents in the region's history.
On Dec. 10, 1904, the rails in Hazardville had frozen over so thickly that it derailed a streetcar from the tracks and into the first floor of a two-story colonial home.
The gap left from the streetcar extended nearly half of the house.
There was also a fatal accident one year later in Longmeadow, Mass., between a streetcar and a motor vehicle. The driver of the car was killed and many more were injured.
Yet for the entire lecture, what residents liked most was seeing the history of their own backyards.
"It brought back the old memories I have of my parents telling me about the rides they used to take on the streetcars," said Windsorville resident Mike Hunt.
After carrying thousands of passengers over a 30-year span, the H & S Railway melted away in a fiery end in Pinney Ridge, near the Scantic River in East Windsor.
The company stripped every car of its valuable metals and furnishings before being burned. According to Wood, only one piece of scrap metal has even been recovered from that incident.
What is left are the pictures, and memories that were sparked in the people who attended the lecture.
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Traditional models (presented before 1980s) which claimed to explain the reasons and process of economic growth had rarely considered improvement in quality of technology (or innovation) as the main reason for economic growth. Most of the traditional models such as Harrod-Domar, Lewis etc focused on Capital (K) as the famous factor of production that individually suffered from the diminishing marginal productivity. In fact, the famous Neoclassical model of economic growth (Solow version) assumed that both traditional factors of production such as Labor (L) and Capital (K) go through decreasing returns to scale, which means by just applying more capital, or more labor alone, the economies would experience slower rather than higher rate of growth. Therefore in that model we thought the growth is basically coming from “outside factors” such as increased international trade, lower taxation or reduced regulation. This assertion also promoted the argument that growth is “exogenous” rather than “endogenous”. The whole picture of endogenous growth was further drastically changed when Paul Romer (Nobel Prize winner of 2018) arrived on the horizon in 1990s to promote the argument that technological change as against mere Capital (K) can in fact be the prime driver of economic growth. This paper will analyze the traditional arguments of growth and compare them with what Paul Romer’s contribution is to the growth dilemma. The present paper is structured as follows: Section 1 surveys the neoclassical model that claims that growth is exogenous and Section 2 is used to make the main point that innovation, technological growth and entrepreneurship all contribute to economy in a serious way and the growth can be endogenous too. Section 3 points out the main features of this argument as applied to India’s case in a limited sense of the term.
"Role of Technology in Economic Development: with Special Reference to India,"
International Review of Business and Economics: Vol. 4:
1, Article 2.
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Green roofs have become about more than just sustainable architecture - they have become new, long-unused canvasses for artistic expression and creative design.
This collection of green roof designs shows the possibilities of not only environmental architecture but of making something beautiful out of one of the most ubiquitous bare surfaces in the world - the roof - as we move into the future of sustainable design.
We’ve always thought we had roofs covered. They had to be barren, hostile places the rain and the wildlife slid from before they could do any damage. Nature had no place on our roofs. Except…we couldn’t have been more wrong. A green roof may required a little extra engineering behind the scenes, but it’s far better than its non-living counterparts for regulating house temperature, filtering out pollutants, scrubbing the surrounding air, controlling stormwater run-off, absorbing sound and many more factors that impact our quality of life. A green roof is a healthy roof. | <urn:uuid:c33f6d97-6a72-4ba7-8794-ace218832ad4> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.neatorama.com/2009/03/18/green-roofs-style-sustainable-17-sweet-designs/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571147.84/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810040253-20220810070253-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.955693 | 200 | 1.960938 | 2 |
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Geneanet is a family-friendly website with genealogical archives to help you build your family tree. It has several tools for collaborative research, including forums. You can seek collaborative assistance, import previous GEDCOM information and upload your own photos and stories.
Whilst Geneanet doesn’t have quite as many records as other websites, it does a decent job at providing an overall genealogy package. You can perform a search through the archive or your own family tree, including a variety of information. These searches aren’t quite as in depth as we’d like, but they tend to do a decent enough job assuming the information you want isn’t too obscure or rare.
The community features are some of the most interesting elements to this site. You can join in the forums, chatting about any particular era or approach you like, or participate in projects which have been posted. If you’re in need of assistance, you can also request some help from other members. Since you can comment on files, or send and share photos, collaborative work is relatively easy.
Once you’ve started to build your family tree, the website has some idea of the possible connections between you and other members, and can recommend archival records which might be of use. You can also see links between your tree and other family trees, potentially allowing you to build the amount of information you have quite quickly.
Uploading your own resources helps to keep the site active, as well as keeping the data recent. You can import and export your GEDCOM, GeneWeb or ZIP files to make sure your data is never lost, combining it with any genealogy software you have.
A mobile app is now available, allowing you to access your account when you’re on the go. This is particularly useful if you visit a family member or location which you want to record. For example, you may visit a relative who has some family albums you’d like to take photos of. You can then instantly upload these photos to your account, logging who was in each photo, and what their relationships were.
A fun extra is the “postcards” section of the website, which provides a range of greetings cards with images. These are themed, often taking scenes and photos from older cards. For example, you could send a 1930s Christmas card, or a Valentines postcard with an image from the 1800s.
The Now and Then tool is really interesting. You can take snaps of current locations and then superimpose them onto photos of the same areas from decades before, blending recent views with older ones. This allows you to see which parts have changed and which have remained the same, in the blink of an eye.
Geneanet doesn’t set our hearts racing, but it is a solid foundation on which to start family genealogy research. Its family tree builder is simple but effective, and a few of the mobile apps available are quite innovative. A premium contract for the year is also very affordable.
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Togo has opened its first major contemporary art and culture centre. Palaise de Lomé, housed in a restored colonial-era palace, is the only contemporary art centre in Africa to be fully financed by the state.
This is not just a restored building, it’s an art centre of international standing that will bear witness to the diversity of national and pan-African cultural production Set on the seafront in the Togolese capital of Lomé the Palais de Lomé boasts several exhibition spaces, as well as an 11-hectare botanical park with ancient trees, medicinal plants, a beehive and more than 40 species of birds. Lomé is the only capital in coastal West Africa to have a public park on the seafront.
The Palais de Lomé was built over seven years, from 1898 to 1905 during German colonisation.
The building first served as the German, then French governors’ residence until the independence of Togo on 27 April 1960.
It then became the seat of the Togolese Presidency until 1970, then from 1976 to 1991; it became a residence for the guests of the Republic of Togo.
In September 1991, it served as the residence of the Prime Minister.
Following a period of social and political unrest in the ’90s, the building deteriorated significantly and then was left in ruins after two decades of abandonment.
The current renovation of the Palais de Lomé and its opening to the public is part of the programme of rehabilitation of historical heritage led by the Government.
Accompanied by our bilingual (English-French) cultural mediators, the visits provide an immersive experience that spans history and modernity and art and biodiversity. Strolls are punctuated with activities and games, to discover the exhibitions, the architecture and history of the palace, or the biodiversity of the Park.
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Louise* (*not her real name) lives in a small two bedroom property with her daughters.
Currently, only the living room and bedrooms have heating. The family are relying on fan heaters for the kitchen and outside lean-to – which contains the only toilet. This means her heating and gas bills are extraordinarily high.
She knew the property had no central heating when she viewed it, but the Council promised to repair this by the time she moved.
When you view a property you don’t have much time, so I felt pressure to accept. It took the Council 2 years to install heating after we moved, and this is still only in the living room and bedrooms.
There are lots of other problems, like damp and dust from the layers of wallpaper. One of my daughters has fractured her ankle because there is no stair-rail. I struggle to cook because there is not much kitchen space.
I don’t invite anyone to our house. I slap on a smile and keep it all in when people are around.
Mostly I don’t feel like I’m living, I’m just existing.
Louise* mentions viewing a property and the pressure she felt to accept the offer. Viewings often aren’t very long – Louise* says hers was about 10 minutes.
When people are given an offer of a property by the Council, they are advised always to accept the offer. This is because not doing so may result in them being deemed ‘intentionally homeless‘. In such a case, the Council can discharge their duty to house someone and they can be removed from the housing register.
This can put families under a lot of stress when they are offered housing that is outside of the area (it is not uncommon for housing to be over an hour away from a family’s work or school) or even the city.
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A number of social media posts and blogs have claimed that New Zealand has approved euthanasia for Covid-19 patients. We fact-checked and found the claim to be False.
“New Zealand Government Approves Euthanasia for COVID Patients” writes a blog.
“Patients admitted to hospital with COVID-19 can die by euthanasia if doctors decide they might not survive, the New Zealand government has declared. That’ll certainly increase the numbers. There’s evil afoot,” writes a social media user.
Another social media user claims, “New Zealand okays euthanasia for COVID patients. It would not be hard to envisage a situation in which a speedy COVID-19 rise could result in pressure to utilize euthanasia and assisted suicide as tools to resolve such a serious crisis. @TheConspiracyHole”.
What is euthanasia?
Euthanasia is a legal process of deliberately ending a life under the assistance of experience medical professionals. Assisted dying is a controversial moral issue that is debated in many countries and receives different considerations across various jurisdictions.
Has New Zealand approved euthanasia for Covid-19 patients?
No. The New Zealand govt. did not approve Euthanasia.
The misinformation spread after an apparent reply by the Ministry of Health on a query raised to them about whether Euthanasia is allowed for COVID-19 patients.
The ministry replied, ““Eligibility is determined on a case-by-case basis; therefore, the Ministry cannot make definitive statements about who is eligible. In some circumstances a person with COVID-19 may be eligible for assisted dying.”
The ministry clearly mentioned that definitive statements cannot be made. Yet, the article claimed that assisted dying laws can be misused “as tools to resolve such a serious crisis” like an increase in Covid-19 hospitalizations. It was a presumption based on a hypothetical statement.
What is the ‘New Zealand End of Life Choice Act 2019’?
However, the law has been misjudged by social media users. The End of Life Choice Act 2019 is not specifically introduced to euthanize people with Covid-19.The act allows euthanasia for New Zealand people who are above 18 years of age and are likely to die within six months due to a terminal illness. More information related to guidelines for euthanasia in New Zealand can be seen here, here and here.
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Today, the world of graphical processing units (GPUs) is segregated between Intel integrated graphics on the low end and dedicated GPUs from Nvidia and AMD on the high end. Intel graphics are intended for running the operating system, productivity apps, and the most casual games, while dedicated GPUs are intended for any kind of serious gaming.
So far, that segregation has worked out just fine. You can buy a notebook with longer battery life and less heat by going with a machine with Intel integrated graphics, for example, or choose one with a dedicated GPU if you want to game on the go. You can even buy a notebook that switches between them based on the task at hand. But a new rumor is swirling that perhaps Intel could be licensing AMD’s Radeon Graphics technology for use in its own GPUs, as Forbes reports.
The rumor is highly suspect at this point, coming only from Kyle Bennett, HardOCP’s MasterChief Editor, and it’s from a single sentence posted at the HardOCP forum. In response to a thread discussing Intel and anti-trust, Bennett said, “The licensing deal between AMD and Intel is signed and done for putting AMD GPU tech into Intel’s iGPU.”
As Forbes points out, that wording seems to leave little room for interpretation. There are other possibilities, though, such as the notion that Intel and AMD are entering into a licensing agreement around graphics technology in general to avoid any possible patent battles. Such an agreement already exists between Intel and Nvidia, and Intel and AMD have a licensing agreement the covers CPU technology.
However, Bennett’s verbiage is clear: the alleged license agreement would involve Intel using AMD GPU technology in its integrated graphics, and that would have a potentially significant impact on the GPU market. If Intel’s integrated graphics get too much faster — they’re already far more competitive at the low end then they were when first introduced — then suddenly the market for high-end dedicated GPUs could be impacted, particularly in notebooks.
A buyer may not be happy with the performance of Intel’s integrated GPUs, but doesn’t need all of the power — and cost in money and power draw — that dedicated GPUs represent. Such a licensing agreement with AMD could cut into the market for low-end dedicated GPUs like Nvidia’s new GeForce GTX 1050 line.
Of course, this is all pure speculation centered around a single relatively cryptic message posted by one individual, albeit an individual with some industry knowledge and connections. Until Intel and AMD make something official, we’re left wondering if one day we’ll be able to buy a notebook or PC with graphics that are just good enough without shelling out the cash for more than we need.
- AMD just gave your GPU a 92% performance boost — for free
- AMD just leaked four of its own upcoming Ryzen 7000 CPUs
- Intel just fixed a major issue with its graphics cards
- Rumors about Intel’s most powerful GPU just got squashed
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As a follow-up to the June summit meeting of the G77 + China leaders, held in Santa Cruz, the Bolivian government and the Bolivian Workers Central (COB) sponsored an “Anti-Imperialist International Trade Union Conference” in Cochabamba, June 30-July 2.
The conference was attended by representatives of unions in 22 countries, affiliated with the World Federation of Trade Unions (WFTU). Founded in 1945 as a postwar international labour organization, parallel to the United Nations, the WFTU became during the Cold War years a federation primarily of unions led by members of pro-Moscow Communist parties. Although it declined precipitously after the fall of the Soviet bloc, in recent years the WFTU has experienced a certain revival, and now claims a membership of 86 million in 120 countries. The Cochabamba conference marked the integration of Bolivia’s COB in the federation.
At its closing plenary session, the conference adopted an “Anti-Imperialist political thesis, ” published below, outlining an “anti-imperialist, anti-colonial and anti-capitalist” strategy aimed at pointing the way toward a socialist world order. It is a strong statement of solidarity with anti-imperialist liberation movements and the “process of change” in Bolivia and other Latin American countries.
Addressing the closing session, Bolivia’s President Evo Morales called on workers around the world to prepare to confront new forms of imperialist aggression and plunder in the coming years. In this connection, he identified four phases in history when the world’s empires had agreed to “carve up” the world among themselves in spheres of influence.
The first, he said, was the Treaty of Tordecillas in 1494, when Spain and Portugal had “divided Abya Yala” (the indigenous name for the western hemisphere) with a declaration that what is now Latin America belonged to them as invaders.
The second division was the Berlin Conference, meeting in 1884-85, in which the major European powers divided Africa among themselves.
The third division took the form of a secret agreement in 1916 (the Sykes-Picot Agreement) between Great Britain and France to divide the Middle East between them at the end of the First World War.
Today, said Morales, the great powers are engaged in the fourth “imperial carving up” of the world, not through treaties but through the United Nations Security Council, and using NATO to “invade and secure control of natural resources.” (Morales did not mention another division of the world: the post-WWII agreements between Stalin and his wartime allies Britain and the United States, dividing the world between imperialist and Soviet spheres of influence.)
The translation of the Cochabamba conference’s “political thesis,” which follows, was prepared by Jordan Bishop and Federico Fuentes, with some revision by me, from the Spanish text.
– Richard Fidler
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Anti-imperialist political thesis of Cochabamba
Document approved during the closing plenary session of the Anti-Imperialist International Trade Union Conference organized by the Central Obrera Boliviana [Bolivian Workers Central – COB], and the World Federation of Trade Unions [WFTU], with the support of the Government of the Plurinational State of Bolivia.
“I believe that this idea of an offensive in defense of humanity is increasingly interlocked with the reality that we are experiencing in this world.” – Hugo Chávez
“I want to propose something that concerns the social movements of this world: how can we, in a united fashion, confront capitalism? I am convinced that we must elaborate a new thesis to save the planet, a doctrine in support of life.” – Evo Morales
Introduction. The crisis of capitalism and its consequences for the working class
The peoples of the world, and especially the popular sectors, are suffering the consequences of a crisis of capitalism. This is a crisis unlike any we have seen before, a crisis that is both global and structural.
It is a global crisis because, unlike previous crises of capitalism in the 19th and 20th centuries, in this capitalist world system the resistance movements are locally-based but have yet to create a united front that could constitute an alternative to capitalism. The peoples of the world are abandoning the belief that capitalism is democratic or that there is such a thing as capitalist democracy. However, a global alternative, one as global as the crisis we are now experiencing, has not yet emerged.
This is a structural crisis because it is the combination of various crises: economic, financial, energy, climate, food, water, institutional, political, and of values. We are suffering the crisis not only of an economic system of production that is overstretched, but of a system that in order to increase profits or maintain the surplus value produced through the exploitation of peoples, workers, and nature in the South, has to convert Mother Earth and humans into an object of its merciless, predatory domination.
We wish to highlight the climate crisis as the crystallization of all these crises. The supposed alternative of a green economy as a response to the environmental disaster that we are suffering is nothing more than the privatization of nature and all other common goods. In addition, it is clear that there is no such thing as capitalism with a human face. We are in a stage of capitalism where everything is commodified, including life itself and all common goods.
All this is occurring at the same time as imperialist wars are unleashed with the aim of plundering the peoples’ natural resources, part of a vicious circle in which these natural resources serve to fuel the war industry, thereby demonstrating the voracity of imperialism. Natural resources, energy and water are objectives of imperialism that the peoples and workers must defend since they constitute the future that we shall leave as our legacy, the Mother Earth that we must look after, for it is our home.
Capitalism has therefore adopted a planetary geopolitical standard, and the crisis reveals the basic contradiction of capitalism: the contradiction between the social character of production and the capitalist form of property over the means of production and the appropriation of its results. In these crises, the whole mechanism of the capitalist mode of production is subordinated to the pressure of the productive forces created by capitalism itself.
The consequence of this is that there are a billion people who go hungry, according to the FAO [Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations], and since the crisis began the number of poor people has increased by some 100 million.
But while poverty and hunger are the most visible effects of the crisis of capitalism, all of this is linked to the peoples’ loss of social rights, especially labor rights. Capital will attempt to ride out the crisis on the backs of the workers.
The higher phase of capitalism is imperialism and neoliberalism, which involves creative destruction and anti-worker policies. In some Latin American countries, it was possible to block the Washington Consensus and the recipes of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank that attempted to impose privatization and restrictions on social policies, but there are other parts of the world where the people continue to suffer as a result of the neoliberal recipe presented as a supposed solution to the crisis. Yet unemployment rates continue to rise, and cuts to social benefits, health, and education continue, even as whole families are evicted and banks are rescued.
Nevertheless, neoliberal recipes cannot resolve even the problems of the countries at the centre of the world capitalist system. These countries at times have parallel governments in the form of transnational corporations, which are new instruments imperialism has created to be able to operate in countries that are supposedly undergoing development. The wealth of a few presupposes the misery of a good part of the planet.
This was perfectly summed up by Warren Buffet, one of the wealthiest men in the world: “Of course there is a class struggle, and our class is winning it.”
Therefore, if the class struggle is more alive than ever, the elaboration of an alternative project to confront the crisis of capitalism can only come from the popular sectors and organized labor. The struggle of organized labor therefore gains a special significance at this time.
Furthermore, the struggle of organized labor against capitalism can only have socialism as its horizon. In a globalized world in which social democracy has sold out to neoliberalism, and where 20th century socialism had serious weaknesses, the building of a socialism in the 21st century that is immune from the weaknesses and backwardness of the first attempts to implement it is an urgent and necessary task.
As the Central Obrera Boliviana explained in its Socialist Thesis of 1970, those who believe that labor organizations should limit themselves to the role of trade unions, that is to say, dedicated to purely economic struggles, are mistaken. Without abandoning the struggle to defend material conditions, workers must take part in the political life of the country in our role as a revolutionary vanguard. This is a vanguard that, in the case of Bolivia and other countries, is complemented by the political project of indigenous nations and peoples, and campesinos, fusing labor and community struggles around the goal of “communitarian socialism.”
Workers of the world have held this Anti-Imperialist International Trade Union Conference in order to recognize and learn from this Bolivia of many hues and colors, in which workers, campesinos and indigenous people have joined together in a communitarian struggle dedicated to building a socialist future.
We see in Bolivia a government of social movements, in which the direction of the process is in the hands of popular sectors, in which the state has fused with civil society. This process is based on historical struggles against colonial domination, as well as against capitalism and neoliberalism. This is a political project, uniting indigenous, worker and campesino struggles, which is still under construction but one with which the popular sectors of our countries can identify.
We recognize that in Bolivia the state has taken control of strategic sectors of the economy, hydrocarbons and energy in general, telecommunications, health and education. These now belong to the state rather than individuals, a state which is a synthesis of an epochal change in Latin America, a state that belongs to the people, because it is of the people and functions on the basis of popular needs.
In Bolivia, popular sectors and workers’ organizations are not only not repressed, but are encouraged and supported politically and materially through the establishment of a participatory democracy that incorporates workers in its decision making.
This alternative model of relationship with mobilized sectors of society is something that demonstrates to us the existence of a living, participatory, intercultural and communitarian democracy. Workers’ organizations of the world, meeting in Bolivia have been able to study the new Bolivian paradigm that proposes the idea of “Living Well” to confront the crisis that we are suffering. We strive for a development model and a political model that conceptualizes the economy from a community standpoint, looking to the emancipation of peoples and communities as a means of living in harmony with Mother Earth.
Commitment to socialist integration
The crisis of the capitalist world system and the geopolitical struggle for control of natural resources is leading the peoples and workers of the world towards a scenario in which it is necessary to choose between one of two projects in contention — socialist emancipation or neoliberal restoration.
Bolivia and the movements for change in Latin America have opted, with differing rhythms, intensities and nuances, for the emancipation of their peoples, their inhabitants, and their nature, recovering sovereignty over their natural resources in order to confront the imperialist and neo-colonial project.
Because of this today, here and now, the working peoples of the world want to build upon the thinking of our compañero President Evo Morales, and propose a thesis to save the planet, a doctrine in defense of life, as opposed to the doctrine of death embodied in capitalism. This thesis can have only one goal, that of socialism — with the contribution that we have taken on board from Bolivia, to incorporate the communitarian dimension — and must be based on three solid pillars: anti-imperialism, anti-colonialism and anti-capitalism.
An anti-imperialist, anti-colonial and anti-capitalist thesis pointing to socialism
Our national realities have different rhythms and intensities, but we should view them through the prism of Bolivia, where the people have moved from resistance to the building of a political instrument for taking power, and from the taking of power to the construction of a political project of the people and for the people.
Now we want to create a world political instrument for the construction of a global political project that can provide a response to the structural crisis of capitalism.
The aerial kidnapping of President Evo Morales a year ago, putting various European countries on their knees, revealed that imperialism will not remain quiescent in the face of projects of social transformation that implement processes of change in defense of social majorities.
A project based on anti-imperialism must therefore repudiate the armed wing of the United States called NATO, the political and military instrument of imperialism.
Our anti-imperialist project denounces the military bases that imperialism has established throughout the world as a means of intervention. In Latin America there are 77 known military bases that violate the political and territorial sovereignty of the countries of Our America.
Colombia merits special attention due to the US bases installed there, a beachhead for surrounding the Amazon, a central element in the geopolitical disputes of coming years. Peace in Colombia, to which we are deeply committed, requires the closure of these military bases, as well as ensuring that peace is accompanied by the political participation of the insurgency and the working class and popular sectors of Colombia as a means of guaranteeing social justice for the Colombian people as a whole.
Just as we condemn imperialist interference through the installation of military bases, we also denounce so-called “humanitarian wars,” “wars against terrorism,” “preventative wars” and “peacekeeping missions.” We express our solidarity with the popular sectors and working class in Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya and Syria, which have seen their countries destroyed by imperialist greed, military wars becoming economic and cultural wars against the peoples.
Similarly, we condemn any kind of interference against sovereign governments in Latin America in the 21st century, whether through espionage or coups d’état, as happened in Honduras or Paraguay in addition to the failed attempts in Venezuela, Bolivia and Ecuador that were defeated by popular mobilization.
These interventions have been accompanied by media terrorism against processes, unions and social movements, the so-called Fourth Generation War, the attempt to establish a hegemonic order of communication controlled by transnational media capital that attempts to impose their political, economic and social objectives, consistently in opposition to the interests of the working class and popular sectors.
As a means of overcoming interference against the political and economic sovereignty of our peoples, we support the abolition of the Security Council of the United Nations and the democratization of the United Nations system itself.
We believe that the model of colonization imposed by the countries of the North involved crimes against humanity, looting and the subjugation of our peoples, and that wars have been an instrument of subjugation and domination that imperialism has employed to impose its political and economic will.
The colonial order is the nucleus of the genocide, the millions of human beings exterminated, the hundreds of languages annihilated in the interests of a supposed homogenization, the subordination of systems of economic complementarity based on barter to mercantilism, the subjection of advanced civilizations to the Inquisition, and the individualist overpowering of a social order based on reciprocity.
We strive for decolonization and the destruction of the material and subjective foundations of racism, internal colonialism and the new forms of external colonialism. Decolonization means undoing the institutional, economic, political and cultural foundations of the old regime and the construction of new institutional, economic, political and cultural foundations as a new way of organizing social life.
Decolonization is a revolutionary process that struggles against financial capital and the big transnational corporations. We must extinguish the myth of a democratic capitalism or a capitalist democracy. Decolonization also implies struggling against ideological and cultural colonialism, racism and all forms of discrimination.
We should mention here the role of women in the labor struggle. We commit ourselves to the struggle against patriarchy, celebrating the process of de-patriarchalization promoted by the Bolivian government and its social movements.
Decolonization similarly implies a struggle for interculturality, for another education model dedicated to an open, humanist, scientific, technological, productive, liberating and revolutionary, critical, education within a framework of solidarity, oriented to conservation and protection of the environment, biodiversity and territorial sovereignty.
Decolonization implies confronting the neocolonial situations that our peoples still experience. In the case of Latin America we repudiate the imperialist occupation of Puerto Rico; of Guantánamo in socialist Cuba that continues to heroically resist a criminal blockade; of the Malvinas Islands by the United Kingdom and NATO. And we undertake to support Bolivia’s claim for access to the sea with sovereignty, access that was forcibly removed in an imperialist invasion promoted by Chilean economic elites to seize Bolivia’s natural resources. Real Latin American integration includes a solution to Bolivia’s just claim against Chile. Nor can we forget about other parts of the world; thus we reject the occupation of Palestine and the genocide of an entire people being committed by Israel.
Our struggle is against capitalism and all of its expressions. It is against this model that destroys all forms of life and appropriates the surplus value generated by peoples, persons and our Mother Earth.
All of this is taking place during an historical moment marked by a high intensity financial war against the processes of change. We add our voice to the statements by President Evo Morales in solidarity with Argentina and against the unjust and immoral global financial system and the so-called “vulture funds” that are out to crush the processes of change through debts contracted by military dictatorships and neoliberal governments that served the interests of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank.
This international financial system uses the IMF and the WB, as well as the ILO [International Labour Organization], to weaken the economic sovereignty of the peoples and their workers. We denounce this kind of financial neocolonialism carried out by the “Wall Street Boys”, the operators of speculative financial capital, and we strive for a new international financial architecture.
The Havana Conference on External Debt will celebrate its 29th anniversary in July this year. External debt is an illegal mechanism used under capitalism to continue the colonial exploitation of the peoples. We repudiate all of the debt of the misnamed Third World and strive for the total cancellation of this debt.
The evolution of financial capitalism has in part involved free trade agreements that actually amount to territorial control over the processes of transformation and peoples’ natural resources. We especially repudiate the sophisticated re-edition of the FTAA [Free Trade Area of the Americas] that the peoples of Latin America and progressive governments defeated in 2005 in Mar del Plata, and is now called the Pacific Alliance, an imperialist tool of the United States designed to undermine the process of regional political integration in Latin America and to recover areas lost to the advance of processes of change.
In the face of the Pacific Alliance, we propose the Alliance of the Peoples of the South and of the working class in defense of the peoples’ natural resources and Mother Earth.
It is not by chance that Venezuela, a country with the biggest oil reserves in the world, has had to confront a terrorist attack, just as Bolivia and Ecuador did previously. The sovereign recovery of natural resources is fundamental, since it constitutes the material basis for the whole process, for the possibility of wealth redistribution and the reduction of inequalities in countries that have suffered 500 years of colonization.
Just as we defend sovereignty over natural resources, we must also defend food sovereignty. We join in solidarity with the struggles of campesinos against transnational corporations, agribusiness, the use of toxic chemicals and GMOs, as well as in defense of food sovereignty.
It is on the basis of these three pillars that we propose the coordination and cooperation of the working class and of popular sectors that are struggling to build socialism at a national, regional and global level.
In order to achieve socialism we must first of all achieve the unity of all revolutionary forces in a popular anti-imperialist, anti-colonial and anti-capitalist front, based on an alliance of workers, campesinos and indigenous peoples, an alliance of popular sectors.
A socialism that can only be democratic, expanding the margins and limits of liberal democracy, an anti-imperialist and anti-colonial socialism that can overcome all forms of alienation under capitalism, that emerges from its roots in the working class and indigenous and campesino movements, from the factories, fields and communities, to create the kind of society and community to which we aspire, a society in which use-value takes priority over the exchange value imposed by the market and capital.
A socialism where the means of production are socialized through a society in which basic services, along with labor rights, are guaranteed for everyone, in which everyone enjoys all of these rights.
The crisis of capitalism brings with it the need to maintain profit rates through the exploitation of workers. In almost every country in the world, the retirement age has gone up, pensions have been reduced and health care has been privatized and commodified.
Obviously, the socialism to which we aspire recognizes the struggles and aspirations of the working class throughout history. We want a public, universal and mandatory system of social security for all countries, in addition to the lowering of the retirement age and an increase in pensions, since only in this way can the popular classes live with dignity after retirement.
Our socialist project must guarantee that water and basic services are human rights, which requires sovereignty over natural and energy resources that are vital to social and labor rights.
In order to guarantee social and labor rights, we must develop a vision that differs from capitalist development.
The socialist outlook must be internationalist, an internationalism that, as Che noted, is based on the love of the peoples. We defend an internationalist alliance of the workers’, campesino and indigenous movement together with all national liberation movements and all movements of the oppressed across the globe that struggle for a world and a future based on peace and social justice.
This class-based and socialist internationalism should be based on political education. If we want to confront capitalist hegemony in the economic, political, cultural and media sphere, we must prepare ourselves for the Battle of Ideas. A Battle of Ideas that, as Comandante Fidel Castro points out, is not only about principles, theory, knowledge, culture, arguments, responses and counter-responses, the destruction of lies and diffusion of truth; it must involve concrete actions and achievements.
We recognize the contribution of the World Federation of Trade Unions in its 69 years of existence in defense of the working class in Vietnam, Cuba, Korea, Franco’s Spain, Salazar’s Portugal, Greece during the heroic civil war, along with Guatemala, Angola, Grenada and Chile, South Africa, the Congo, Mozambique, Ethiopia, Egypt, the Golan Heights, Lebanon, Iraq, India, Indonesia, East Timor and the Western Sahara.
We also recall the legacy of all those who struggled for freedom and gave their lives for the national and social liberation of their peoples: Bolivar, Zapata, Martí, Sandino, Che, Ho Chi Minh, Sankara and Comandante Chávez, in addition to recognizing the contribution that the Cuban revolution, headed by Comandantes Fidel and Raúl Castro, has made to this present moment of history.
The period of transition we are living through demands coordination between trade unions, social movements, youth, women and committed intellectuals, so that from a position of defending these processes of change we can seek to build a political project of national and social liberation of our peoples.
But our liberation is not only the liberation of our peoples. It is at the same time the liberation of all of humanity, since we are not struggling to dominate others; we struggle in order that no one shall dominate anyone else.
And on the road to liberation, it is important to maintain the achievements already made, which is why we proclaim our solidarity with the process of change in Bolivia that we hope will be strengthened once again in the October 12 presidential elections.
Long live the Bolivian process of change!
Long live the struggles of the working class!
Against capitalist barbarism, for peace and a world without exploitation!
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How many of you out there are runners? And how many of you have run on trails at nighttime in the dark of winter, trusting your footing will hold you steady? And whether or not you run, do you know how it feels to step into the darkness of your life, not knowing where the light will come from, but trusting it will show up?
Running in the dark is a little bit like running through life. You can’t see the white snowy ground very well on the dark trails along the river at night, but you imagine you can see better than you really can in the hazy light, because you are eager to move forward. You hope your eyes will adjust to the dark, while also wishing for brighter light to help you along. You step tenderly where you think the snowy ground will be, telling yourself you see things as they really are. You hesitate when you wish you were more sure, and then move forward with confidence when you realize you should have hesitated. You feel with your heart and your senses, because your mind can’t tell you what you see. We are creatures of uncertainty, not because we don’t know what we are doing or who we are, but because we can never be sure what life is going to throw our way. Running in the dark takes courage. It takes trust. It takes faith.
Last Wednesday my running group ran along the trail by the river and through the woods. The sky was a magical grey-white with the reflection of snow, the trees were empty and quiet, and the trail was white and soft and beautiful. A natural wonder. My heart was alive! But my eyes, and my poor night vision, and my fear of not knowing whether the ground would be there steady and flat when I put my feet down–this was the learning part, the hard part. Our running coach had a headlamp, and that helped when we are all together. But there were moments where he was further ahead or behind with the others, and we were challenged to learn and anticipate and trust the trail. (Trust the trail? — yes trust the trail. A hard one for me.) A knowing beyond knowing. The hazy white snow played tricks on me. I shook my head, blinked often, and tried to visualize where my footing should be. But nothing is ever for sure. Courage, dear heart.
This week I will buy a headlamp. But I have learned something special about the courage it takes to step forward in the dark and not always be certain your foot will land squarely. Life is an adventure and sometimes a risk–we make choices, and we step the best we can, often without being able to see what comes next. But if we are not moving, nothing will come. The trail will forever be waiting. Sometimes the courage we learn from running on instinct is incredibly beautiful, and sometimes it’s just as courageous to find more light or to find someone to run with who can share their light with us.
So I will end by saying this: blessed are those who have the courage to step forward in the dark, and blessed are those who seek the light, and blessed are those who run through life sharing the darkness and light together.
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May 15, 2013
The New York World called it “the most extraordinary journey ever undertaken by a woman” and said it marked the birth of “the new woman”—independent, dynamic, and free. But for over a century, the extraordinary story of Annie “Londonderry” Kopchovsky has remained practically unknown – until now.
Gillian K. Willman’s new film The New Woman: Annie 'Londonderry' Kopchovsky, is the Grand Jury Award winner at the 4th Annual Ciclismo Classico Bike Travel Film Festival in Massachusetts on May 20th. The short film chronicles how this 23-year-old Jewish immigrant and mother of three changed the world for women by climbing aboard a 42-pound bicycle and setting off from the tenements of Boston to circle the globe. Annie’s journey was more than one of miles — she left in full skirts as a nineteenth century housewife and returned in bloomers as a celebrated (and controversial) heroine of a new era.
The New Woman: Annie 'Londonderry' Kopchovsky is just one of almost a dozen short films at the Festival, a benefit for the Massachusetts Bicycle Coalition. Housed at the historic Regent Theatre in Arlington, MA, the event includes also a social hour with a delicious Cookie Showcase from local bakeries and a Great Jersey Giveaway raffle to outfit attendees for their next ride. One lucky attendee will win a free spot on a Ciclismo Classico “more miles for less” tour, a $2,600 value! Ciclismo Classico has partnered up with Adventure Cycling Association in 2013 to feature the winning entries of the latter’s first-ever Bike Travel Video Contest.
The Festival is a production of Ciclismo Classico, a community-minded Arlington company that has been a leader in active bicycle vacations since 1988. Ciclismo Classico C.E.B. (Chief Executive Biker) Lauren Hefferon says, “Since our start 25 years ago, we’ve always been very involved with the local community. From our annual holiday ‘Jingle Ride’ to the Bike Travel Film Festival, we welcome the opportunity to promote active lifestyles and get people dreaming about their next adventure.” Through the proceeds from these events, Ciclismo Classico has donated thousands of dollars to Massbike and other local charities.
For tickets and more information, please visit http://www.ciclismoclassico.com/filmfest.
Photo by Gillian K. Willman
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A good connection to the web is no longer merely a nice-to-have feature in a hotel for business travelers. Having a reliable hotel connection is often mandatory for getting work done on the road Fortunately, a web site makes finding hotels with strong internet connectivity easier.
The hotelwifitest web site has a dynamic database that is populated by hotel guests running actual speed tests in their rooms to report Wi-Fi performance during their stay.
The procedure has two phases. The first is the collection of the connection statistics as stated. Many travelers are regularly running speed tests in hotels. This provides a solid basis for reporting the results which are continually updated yielding constantly improving accuracy.
The statistics for each hotel are more reliable than other sites that rate connection quality because they are generated by actual speed tests, and not simple ratings. Only speed tests in rooms go into the database; tests in hotel common areas are not included
The second phase comes into play when folks want to find a hotel with good connectivity. This is accomplished by using the search tool on the site's front page. The site covers thousands of hotels, both international and domestic. Simply enter in the zip code or city name of your destination and a list sorted by Wi-Fi speed is presented.
There is a check box on the left of the search screen that you don't want to overlook, which only presents hotels with free Wi-Fi. If you don't mind paying the outrageous daily fees many hotels still charge guests you can leave this box unchecked. You can also restrict the search to hotels of a certain star rating or above, those below a certain price, and a minimum Wi-Fi speed.
Over the course of your stay in any hotel, run the speed test in the upper left corner of the screen to rate the Wi-Fi performance you are receiving during your stay. This builds the statistics for the particular hotel with actual conditions observed by these tests. This will keep the statistics getting more accurate for the next traveler staying at this hotel. | <urn:uuid:99045ede-436b-491f-8dbe-9266ca2f1d3f> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.zdnet.com/article/one-thing-all-travelers-should-do-for-good-connectivity-in-the-hotel/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571147.84/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810040253-20220810070253-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.951362 | 406 | 1.5625 | 2 |
The glory days when the Philippines exported rice and taught its neighbors (Vietnam and Thailand on rice farming technologies which led them to be major exporters now) occurred when government was heavily subsidizing farm production inputs, particularly fertilizers, pesticides and seeds. Those were the Masagana 99 days.
Then foreign lenders advised the government to wean away from subsidizing farm production and introduced them the concept of grains stabilization through a combination of buying local palay and importing cheaper rice for assured stocks for the local market. This then started the propensity for importing rice.
Now, the Philippines has been expanding its import of rice by nearly 30 percent yearly to 1.887 million in the first half of 2022 because of the demand for cheaper supply.
Latest Bureau of Plant Industry (BPI) data showed that rice imports from January to June rose by 433,000 MT from 1.454 MMT recorded in the same period of last year.
Rice industry sources said the landed cost of imported rice remains cheaper than the locally- produced staple, making it more profitable for entities to import rice, said a report of Business Mirror.
“It’s always about the price. If the landed cost of imported rice plus tariff is cheaper compared to local rice, they will want to import more,” an industry source, who requested anonymity, said.
Some noted that rice prices in key Philippine suppliers, particularly Vietnam, have remained relatively stable in the past months and even lower compared to last year’s quotations.
Latest Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) global price monitoring report showed that Vietnam rice prices range from $396.5 per metric ton (5 percent broken) to $416.8 per metric ton (25 percent broken).
This translates to a rice price of P21.8 per kilogram to about P22.92 per kilogram at current exchange rates.
FAO data showed that the average price of Vietnam rice (5 percent broken) from January to May stood at $401.2 per metric ton, 19.55 percent lower than last year’s average quotation of $498.7 per metric ton.
Rice industry players have been also stockpiling rice this year amid expectations of tight domestic supply and lower local output due to a spike in production inputs, such as fertilizer
BPI data showed that Vietnam remained the country’s top rice supplier at 1.517 MMT, followed by Myanmar at 153,969.28 MT.
BPI data also showed that rice imports from Pakistan, which has been benefiting from lower tariff rates, continued to grow, reaching 111,550.675 MT in end-June.
Rice imports from Thailand reached 95,173.125 MT, while imports from China and India reached 3,591.5 MT and 5,168.385 MT, respectively.
The BPI also issued 453 sanitary and phytosanitary import clearances (SPS-ICs) for rice in June, which has a corresponding total applied import volume of 644,244 MT. The BPI, the agency mandated to oversee rice imports, only issued SPS-ICs in June, based on the agency’s data.
Agriculture officials have openly said the country would have to resort to importation to boost domestic rice supply, especially if local production continues to fall amid skyrocketing fertilizer and fuel prices.
Higher production cost
The DA has estimated that the production cost of rice has increased by P3.13 per kilogram, with total rice output projected to fall by 800,000 MT this year.
Agriculture officials noted that the country has sufficient rice stocks during the lean months of July to September. However, they cautioned that rice imports may have to breach the 2-MMT mark to ensure sufficient full-year stocks amid various global economic challenges.
Since the start of the rice trade liberalization (RTL) law or Republic Act 11203 in early 2019, the country’s annual rice imports have been above 2 MMT. Last year, total rice imports were at 2.771 MMT.
The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) had projected that the Philippines could retain its status as the world’s second largest buyer of rice for the fourth consecutive year in 2023, when total import volume is projected to reach 3 MMT. The USDA said the Philippines’s rice imports this year and next year would hit 3 MMT.
In an article dated July 20, Bloomberg said concerns are rising over the ability of Southeast Asia to retain its title as a major rice supplier to the world as countries such as Indonesia and the Philippines struggle to even produce enough for their own needs.
Current yield trends will not allow the two countries to be self-sufficient in rice, according to a study published in Nature Food journal in March. This means they will have to rely on imports to meet domestic demand for a staple crucial to food security, political stability and export potential.
“The new millennium has brought a number of challenges to rice systems in Southeast Asia,” the researchers said, citing increasing rice demand, yield stagnation and limited room for cropland expansion. “Concerns about rice shortages are back.”
The findings come at a time when worries over food security are growing around the world as Russia’s invasion of Ukraine puts one of the world’s major breadbaskets in jeopardy, further pushing up food prices that had already been on the rise. Still, rice prices have been relatively subdued due to ample production and stockpiles in top growing regions, keeping the food crisis from getting worse.
Nonetheless, the region is not immune to global price shocks. Countries with high energy and food weights within their Consumer Price Index (CPI) baskets, such as the Philippines, India, Thailand, and Vietnam, are particularly vulnerable to food and energy inflation.
Food importers’ current account balances will also deteriorate if food prices remain elevated. Net food import dependence in key cereals consumed in Asia, such as rice and wheat, is high in the Philippines as indicated by its trade deficits. China’s and India’s net agriculture trade balances in these cereal crops are not in deficit, indicating some degree of self-sufficiency.
Prospects for rice self-sufficiency vary by country. Thailand and Vietnam produce more than they consume, while Indonesia and the Philippines “have struggled consistently” to meet rice demand from their own production, relying on imports, the researchers said.
It’s particularly crucial for regions like sub-Saharan Africa and the Middle East that Southeast Asia continues to produce a large surplus of rice, the researchers added, as it can help reduce global price volatility.
Subsidize farm inputs
Some groups on Wednesday urged the government to provide fertilizer subsidies to farmers to help increase their production in the face of increasing costs in the market and the perceived food crisis.
Leonardo Montemayor (former DA Secretary), chair of the Federation of Free Farmers, stressed that the lower fertilizer usage could impact the volume of rice production in the harvest season in the last quarter of the year. He projected that the drop could be around 10 to 15 percent.
“Immediate ‘yung pagpapalawig ng fertilizer subsidy because many, if not most farmers, have really cut down in their fertilizer usage. Consequently, siyempre, ‘yung ani ng palay, ‘pag giniling ‘yan (at ginawang) bigas, magda-drop ‘yan,” said Montemayor on One News’ Agenda.
This after President Marcos, himself the concurrent DA Secretary, revealed his plan to engage in government-to-government deals to address the high cost of fertilizers. China, Malaysia, and the United Arab Emirates are some of the countries he intends to talk to.
“Gusto tayong tulungan, gusto tayong lapitan, eh ‘di take advantage naman tayo, ‘di ba?” said Marcos in a statement issued by the Malacañang. “I’m thinking would it be useful for us if I wrote a letter to all of them and I’ll say that we are in the market to buy this volume of fertilizer.”
Prices of fertilizers vary depending on the type and the area. According to the Fertilizer and Pesticide Authority, urea was sold at P2,430 to P2,814 from last February to April. Granular urea was at P2,430 to P2,826.
Montemayor noted that direct G-to- G negotiations would be helpful but it would take time. He also stressed that the retail prices must also be fixed.
“To me, the issue of the price of palay is the most critical. The market price of palay should be attractive enough to cover the basic costs of farmers in producing that. Otherwise, they are just producing to make themselves lose money,” said Montemayor.
Rosendo So, the president of Samahang Industriya ng Agrikultura, also agreed that fertilizer subsidies for farmers are crucial in the short term. He, however, noted that the cost of fertilizers increased even before Russia launched its war against Ukraine, citing the high demand from different countries.
“If we will not give subsidies to farmers, we will have a high price of palay. The price of our rice will not go down,” So told One News’ Business World Live.
Marcos promised to bring down the cost of rice to P20 per kilo during his campaign but experts doubt about the feasibility of the plan. But So has remained positive this can happen in three to four years.
“We are hoping food security will only come from local production, with ample government assistance and subsidy to the farmers,” said So.
Fertilizer import deals
Reuters reported on Wednesday that Marcos plans to reach out to China, Russia, Indonesia, United Arab Emirates and Malaysia for fertilizer supplies at favorable prices.
Marcos has vowed to boost agricultural output over the next six months, saying he wants the Southeast Asian country to reduce its reliance on food imports and avoid being hit hard by a food crisis looming over the world.
Agriculture officials have warned of higher local prices of rice, the country's staple food, in the coming months partly due to surging costs of fertilizer, supplies of which have been disrupted by the Russia-Ukraine war. The Philippines imports most of its fertilizer needs.
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Commonwealth and its partners designed a plan called Save to Win, which offered monthly cash prizes through the Michigan Credit Union League. The plan included a single big prize and a bevy of smaller ones—a jackpot and something more like the experience, Flacke says, of playing scratch tickets: a large number of small prizes, awarded more frequently and paid out quickly. Offering a large number of frequent payouts played to “hyperbolic discounting,” the tendency to value short-term possibilities disproportionately higher than long-term gains. A shot at $25 right now captures attention in a way that the promise of $100 earned through a few points of interest over a period of years does not. Throw in the slimmer possibility of a much bigger immediate payoff, and people really get interested.
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The inner world of Carl Jung was filled with shadows, daimons (demons), and the secrets of the individuation of the Self. Jung knew that people would think he was crazy for writing about such things but his conviction was so strong that he had written extensively about these subjects to the point that it became the main theme of his life’s Great Work.
Jung had said that he did not only believe, but he proclaimed that he knew our world was populated by demons and he was sure that many people were possessed by these disincarnated spirits.
“Unfortunately, it is my fate that other people, especially those who are themselves possessed by demons, think me mad because I believe in these powers. But that is their affair; I know they exist. There are demons all right, as sure as there is a Buchenwald (WWII German concentration camp).” (C.G. Jung Speaking: Interviews and Encounters pg. 155).
Carl Jung also believed that everyone had an unconscious self ie: an ego that he called a demon and also animus/anima which he equated with the self and what he sometimes said was the “Soul Image” of the person. This shadow is not something that you look for outside of yourself, it is inside of us all and that is why he once proclaimed, “Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.”
“The shadow is a moral problem that challenges the whole ego-personality, for no one can become conscious of the shadow without considerable moral effort. To become conscious of it involves recognizing the dark aspects of the personality as present and real. This act is the essential condition for any kind of self-knowledge." (Jung, 1951).
The “shadow” is a concept first coined by Swiss psychiatrist Carl Jung that describes those aspects of the personality that we choose to reject and repress. For one reason or another, we all have parts of ourselves that we don’t like—or that we think society won’t like—so we push those parts down into our unconscious psyches. It is this collection of repressed aspects of our identity that Jung referred to as our shadow self.
Carl Gustav Jung, was a Swiss psychiatrist and psychoanalyst who founded analytical psychology. Jung's work has been influential in the fields of psychiatry, anthropology, archaeology, literature, philosophy, psychology and religious studies. Jung came to the attention of Sigmund Freud, the founder of psychoanalysis. The two men collaborated on a joint vision of human psychology.
"Dealing with a narcissist is like spiritual warfare! Manipulation is like witchcraft."
The reason they look for people who have been traumatized in childhood it is easier for them to be let in by the narcissistic abuse trauma
"So narcissists are helpers for demons. Does that mean there is no hope for these people. Have these individuals have already sold there soul to Satan? Is there any hope to save them? "
Have you seen your brother, baby, standing in the shadow?
I've been wallowing in my own chaotic
Insecure delusions. Be paranoid and to
Lie, hate. Stepping through my shadow.
Aspects that may also remain hidden in one's shadow (especially in people with low self esteem, anxieties, and false beliefs).
In analytical psychology, the shadow is an unconscious aspect of the personality that does ... Jung stated the shadow to be the unknown dark side of the personality.
And if I ever lose my mouth
All my teeth, north and south
Yes, if I ever lose my mouth
Oh, if, I won't have to talk
These people are possessed by evil! Narcissism is a mental illness and affects the way they act."
Shifting responsibility for abusive behavior by blaming others or saying you caused it. https://juliebacolas.com/christopher-bacolas
"Deliberate attempt to isolate you from your friends and family!"
Copyright © 2022 Michael Bacolas Threat To Children - All Rights Reserved.
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Mishal Husain joined BBC Radio 4’s morning news programme Today in October 2013. She has extensive experience reporting live on location, including in Pakistan after the death of Osama Bin Laden and the assassination of Benazir Bhutto.
In October 2013 Mishal interviewed Malala Yusufzai exclusively for BBC News, and returned to Pakistan to retrace Malala’s campaign for girls’ education in the Swat valley. She is the voice behind the series, Her Story.
We spent 5 minutes with Mishal…
Why should people watch Her Story? What do you think will resonate most with viewers?
The series is a great combination of well-known women and intriguing unknown women doing striking things for their communities. I think it’s that juxtaposition that’s very compelling – you might know of Michele Bachelet but not know she brought in a gender balanced Cabinet in 2006 – and you’re unlikely to have heard of Balkissa Chaibou, only 19 years old and fighting child marriage in Niger.
Which women did you find most inspiring?
I was struck by how open Christine Lagarde is about the personal sacrifices she made in the time she spent away from her children, while building her career. That kind of honesty is rare from women who have risen to the top, but I think it helps younger women to know that these women aren’t superhuman, and have also had their trials and tribulations along the way.
How did you adjust to your role as narrator in this series? Did you find it as interactive as being the interviewer?
I would have loved to be the interviewer in this series and meet these extraordinary and diverse women, each with their own passions and convictions. But, I was happy to be involved in the series at a later date, to come to know these stories, and see both the difficulties and hope in the change that these women of all ages are a part of.
What are some of the things you learnt while being part of the series? Did you gain any new insights?
There were several aspects of the series that were new to me, especially the programme on religion where we see Buddhist and Orthodox Jewish women’s struggle for equality. At a time when the headlines have been so dominated by stores about extremist Islam, it’s a reminder that no religion has a monopoly on misogyny and gender-based discrimination.
What’s your personal opinion of gender equality?
Women have come such a long way and I’m heartened by the equal numbers of men and women entering universities and professions in many parts of the world. But too few are reaching leadership positions, whether in the developed or the developing world. That’s the next frontier.
Her Story airs on BBC World News, DStv channel 400, from 20 February to 12 March.
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Panama exhumes body looking for victims of 1989 US invasion
PANAMA CITY (AP) — Investigators exhumed another body from a Panama City cemetery Thursday in an attempt to identify the remains of some victims of the 1989 U.S. invasion that removed strongman Manuel Noriega from power.
Over 30 sets of remains had previously been exhumed in an an effort that began in 2020. The remains are being subjected to DNA testing in a program that has lifted the hopes of Panamanians who had relatives die or disappear and have lived with unanswered questions about their fate for 30 years.
One of the people a court has ordered investigators to search for is Carmen Díaz, a 21-year-old woman who lived in the El Chorrillo district, which was hit by bombs and fires during the invasion.
“I didn’t expect this to happen,” said Díaz’s sister, Eva Díaz. “It’s good that we achieved this, that God willing, they will find everyone, identify people.”
About 514 Panamanian soldiers and civilians are listed as having been killed in the invasion along with 23 U.S. troops. Human rights groups believe the number of Panamanian dead could be higher.
Authorities gave the approval for exhumation of the bodies after a truth commission in 2016 documented about 20 disappearances due to the U.S. military action.
Some families are not sure where their relatives were buried or whether they were buried in the right graves.
The daughter of a lieutenant in Noriega’s military said the family still has no answers about a coffin that they contend was mistakenly identified as containing his remains.
“It has been 31 years of waiting,” said Brenda Bethancourt, 60, daughter of Braulio Bethancort. “Every time we get near the end, something comes up.”
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High Resolution 1550nm Converter for CCD Cameras are a low cost alternative to expensive IR viewers. When attached to a monochrome camera with typical visible spectral response characteristics, it creates an imaging system with extended sensitivity into the NIR region. Conventional silicon based CCD cameras are predominantly sensitive around 850nm. A proprietary phosphor coating (using patented AST technology) on both the Converter's lens system and 1550nm-camera's sensor converts the 1495 - 1595nm band to Si-based CCD detectable wavelengths without fade or lag.
With an imaging lens attached to the Converter, it acts as a 1:1 relay lens for ½" sensor cameras, simultaneously relaying high resolution, low distortion, uniform NIR images while converting the images to an SI detector wavelength. A focus ring at the rear of the Converter allows adjustment for wavelength-focus variation and focus optimization onto the camera. Large Format lenses (designed for sensors >28mm) are recommended to maintain highest resolution, in order to fill the Converter’s active area and maximum light throughput.
Without an imaging lens (as shown in photo), the Converter is also useful for beam alignment as the phosphor coating allows visualization of any 1550nm beam on its input window. The Converter features a large aperture window that is anti-reflection coated to ensure maximum image resolution is transferred. Increased sensitivity for beam profiling and telecommunication applications can be obtained by utilizing the IR Converter together with the 1550nm camera. Other applications include surveillance and inspection.
Note: Phosphor coating is partially transmissive outside the optimized coating band (into the visible). For viewing objects in the visible-NIR spectrum simultaneously with 1550-NIR wavelengths, an illumination source with NIR output is recommended for use with the 1550nm camera, but especially for the Converter (since the optical system significantly reduces light throughput). | <urn:uuid:4b15c04b-81d8-4b7b-82d5-5c871a793d43> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.edmundoptics.eu/p/High-Resolution-1550nm-Converter-for-CCD-Cameras-56764/13696/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571745.28/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812170436-20220812200436-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.889577 | 390 | 2.109375 | 2 |
Disclosure: I was provided product by Around the World Games for review purposes only. All opinions are my own.
My kids love games. What kids don’t, right? It’s so great when you can find fun games that the kids not only like to play but that are educational, too. As a homeschool mom, I want to instill the love of learning in my kids. I don’t want them to hate school. If they learn to love learning, then they will continue to seek out knowledge the rest of their lives.
The Around the World board game makes learning a total blast. My kids love this game! They sat down together and all 4 of them played and had a great time.
The object of the game is to travel. Who doesn’t enjoy doing that? Because we can’t all physically travel to Rome to learn about the Colosseum, Around the World takes us there (and everywhere else) with 200 educational trivia cards based on the themes of People and Places, Geography and Language, and Culture and Customs.
Children (and adults) learn to identify different regions and places in the world, the people in those places, along with the language, culture, and customs of those people. It’s a great way to introduce your family to new geographical areas, lifestyle practices and cultural rhythms that they probably don’t know much about.
Even better, the Around the World board game provides a great visual learning tool that not only introduces exciting information in a healthy competitive atmosphere, but it also helps reiterate facts, so that we retain this new found knowledge and begin to care for the world around us. We start to realize that we all have the ability to be global citizens, investing in the world, its people and its wellbeing and fostering consideration for our local communities.
If there’s a gift for the holiday season that gives back to you, your family, and the world around you, it’s the inspirational and creative spirit in the Around the World board game.
Due to highly popular demand, Around The World Games is currently sold out of product! But they will have it back in stock with plenty of time to ship it for the holidays, so place your order here and receive free shipping this holiday season!
While you’re on the site, check out ATWG’s Learning Through the Lens program. To participate, you just have to send in a photo you cherish from one of your trips and explain what it means to you. Each month, two or three of the photos are chosen as winners and the winners get their photo and their story on the ATWG blog as well as a free board game.
Here’s more information about Around the World Games:
Global Board Game Featuring Interesting Facts
Around the World™ is our award-winning global board game that takes players on a travel adventure around the world. Includes Global Scorecards, World Wonder cards, gems, tokens and over 200 trivia questions on People & Places, Cultures & Customs, Language and Geography of the world!
Winner of the Dr. Toy Best Children’s Product award, and critically acclaimed on game websites and magazines, Around the World™ is rapidly becoming one of the hottest educational games on the market. Aside from it’s immense popularity with parents and teachers, Around the World™ trivia collector cards have been featured by many large corporations, including Starbucks and Barnes & Noble, and are currently being used by the United States Military in Africa (AFRICOM). | <urn:uuid:3729350f-2842-4a9e-a5ec-19b3b03ca80e> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://bloggingmomof4.com/around-the-world-games-review/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571147.84/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810040253-20220810070253-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.953477 | 731 | 1.664063 | 2 |
Providing faces to the invisible issue of air pollution.
We want people who worry about air pollution or are directly affected by it to feel empowered to share their stories and stand up for change. We also want the general public to be more aware of the harmful effects of air pollution and what they can do to protect themselves.
Air pollution cuts over 10,000 Londoner’s lives short every year, creates chronic lung conditions and is thought to affect every organ in the body.
Some of the most vulnerable members of our society are affected worst. Poorer communities tend to live closer to heavily polluted roads, and children and the elderly are more susceptible to air pollution-related diseases.
But ultimately air pollution affects everybody as we all need to breathe clean air to be healthy and happy.
Faces of Air Pollution is a multimedia project which provides a face to the invisible problem of air pollution.
We have collected stories from a diverse range of people across London and beyond who face the same problem: living with dirty and illegal air. We share the stories of those who have chronic lung conditions, those who care for family members with breathing difficulties, parents who are concerned about their children’s lung developments and communities which are battling to keep their air clean and fresh. We are sharing these stories via our social media pages along with calls to action which complement each personal story.
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Could body posture during sleep affect how your brain clears waste?
Sleeping in the lateral, or side position, as compared to sleeping on one's back or stomach, may more effectively remove brain waste and prove to be an important practice to help reduce the chances of developing Alzheimer's, Parkinson's and other neurological diseases, according to researchers at Stony Brook University.
By using dynamic contrast magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) to image the brain's glymphatic pathway, a complex system that clears wastes and other harmful chemical solutes from the brain, Stony Brook University researchers Hedok Lee, PhD, Helene Benveniste, MD, PhD, and colleagues, discovered that a lateral sleeping position is the best position to most efficiently remove waste from the brain. In humans and many animals the lateral sleeping position is the most common one. The buildup of brain waste chemicals may contribute to the development of Alzheimer's disease and other neurological conditions. Their finding is published in the Journal of Neuroscience.
Dr. Benveniste, Principal Investigator and a Professor in the Departments of Anesthesiology and Radiology at Stony Brook University School of Medicine, has used dynamic contrast MRI for several years to examine the glymphatic pathway in rodent models. The method enables researchers to identify and define the glymphatic pathway, where cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) filters through the brain and exchanges with interstitial fluid (ISF) to clear waste, similar to the way the body's lymphatic system clears waste from organs. It is during sleep that the glymphatic pathway is most efficient. Brain waste includes amyloid β (amyloid) and tau proteins, chemicals that negatively affect brain processes if they build up.
In the paper, "The Effect of Body Posture on Brain Glymphatic Transport," Dr. Benveniste and colleagues used a dynamic contrast MRI method along with kinetic modeling to quantify the CSF-ISF exchange rates in anesthetized rodents' brains in three positions – lateral (side), prone (down), and supine (up).
"The analysis showed us consistently that glymphatic transport was most efficient in the lateral position when compared to the supine or prone positions," said Dr. Benveniste. "Because of this finding, we propose that the body posture and sleep quality should be considered when standardizing future diagnostic imaging procedures to assess CSF-ISF transport in humans and therefore the assessment of the clearance of damaging brain proteins that may contribute to or cause brain diseases."
Dr. Benveniste and first-author Dr. Hedok Lee, Assistant Professor in the Departments of Anesthesiology and Radiology at Stony Brook developed the safe posture positions for the experiments. Their colleagues at the University of Rochester, including Lulu Xie, Rashid Deane and Maiken Nedergaard, PhD, used fluorescence microscopy and radioactive tracers to validate the MRI data and to assess the influence of body posture on the clearance of amyloid from the brains.
"It is interesting that the lateral sleep position is already the most popular in human and most animals – even in the wild – and it appears that we have adapted the lateral sleep position to most efficiently clear our brain of the metabolic waste products that built up while we are awake," says Dr. Nedergaard. "The study therefore adds further support to the concept that sleep subserves a distinct biological function of sleep and that is to 'clean up' the mess that accumulates while we are awake. Many types of dementia are linked to sleep disturbances, including difficulties in falling asleep. It is increasing acknowledged that these sleep disturbances may accelerate memory loss in Alzheimer's disease. Our finding brings new insight into this topic by showing it is also important what position you sleep in," she explained.
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People love stories. They appeal to our emotional side -- and when it comes time to make a decision (like, say, a buying decision), we tend to recall feelings and experiences more readily than we do facts and figures.
It's no secret customers feel a strong, shared identity with organizations that develop meaningful stories about their brands and businesses. Brand loyalty isn't created by a product or service; it's created by the ideas and stories told around a product or service.
But where does an organization come up with these ideas and stories? Where do they turn for the inspiration to create compelling stories that represent their brand and stand the test of time -- even when other parts of the business are inevitably changing?
For some companies, the answer could lie with cultural archetypes.
What Are Cultural Archetypes?
Many times, marketers will try to write copy, design visuals, or create a marketing campaign -- only to find that they can't get their team to agree on a look, a feel, or tone. Wouldn't it be nice to have a blueprint to turn to when creating marketing content?
That's just one example of how cultural archetypes can help build consensus on a team or in an organization.
Cultural archetypes are the recurring themes and patterns you find at your company. They're the fundamental, highly developed elements of the collective organization.
They help answer questions about your organization, such as: Who are we? What's most important to us? Why do we do what we do? And they can act as blueprints for the right words, imagery, and strategies you use in your marketing.
Archetypes can also help in a dialogue around harder questions, such as: Why are we like that? What are the cons to our archetype and identity, and how do we look out for, compensate, and plan for those?
They are the unwritten rules for how an organization operates, how employees get along with each other, and how they approach and deliver their work. These qualities are oftentimes hard to name. By looking at it from an archetypal standpoint, you can identify certain ways the people at your company behave, do the work, interact with customers, and interact with each other. With this model, you have a language for the behavior and beliefs of your organization.
Archetypes as a Framework
It would be very difficult to identify the recurring cultural patterns at your company without a framework, which is why the folks at Allegory Studios created an entire culture survey system called CultureTalk.
CultureTalk is an assessment tool that helps you measure what's going on in your company's culture, and it gives you an avenue for talking about it that can help build consensus.
Here's how it works: Employees at all levels of an organization take a survey that asks questions about their beliefs and attitudes about systems, structure, and behaviors at work. The tool evaluates these answers and identifies inherent cultural patterns.
These patterns are then aligned with one or more of the 12 cultural archetypes, which are based on those found in Carol Pearson's book, Awakening the Heroes Within: Twelve Archetypes to Help Us Find Ourselves and Transform Our World.
The 12 Cultural Archetypes
Here are descriptions and examples of the 12 cultural archetypes.
Image Credit: Allegory Studios
Example: Walt Disney World
Visionary organizations that values synchronicity, serendipity, miracles, and mind over matter. They value transformational experiences and help others turn ideas into action.
Examples: Nordstrom, Volvo, Campbell Soup
Organizations that are compassionate, loyal, generous. Passion and purpose come from service, sacrifice, and putting others first. They are consistent, trustworthy, and offer great customer service. They may also be brands that help people take care of themselves.
Take the car company Volvo, for example. "They don't talk about how fast or zippy or sexy they are," Forstmann said. "They focus on how safe they are."
Examples: FedEx, Nike
Hero organizations are competent, courageous, and responsive, inspiring others to triumph over challenge. They're direct and hard-hitting; strong, bold, and functional.
Organizations that are explorers are independent, self-directed, and active. They're on-the-go and love learning through experiences, which they cultivate to stretch and grow. They understand there are no limits to becoming -- and no end to learning. They seek out a better world and the ability to align inner needs with outer realities. They're ahead of their time and often appeal to youthfulness.
Examples: McDonald's, Coca-Cola
Innocent archetypes encourage us to get out of the fast lane and find happiness by returning to simple pleasures and basic values. They provide sanctuary, and they help us find or renew our faith. They tend to be optimistic and tranquil.
Example: Ben and Jerry's
Jester organizations are playful and spontaneous, and remind us to lighten up and live in the moment. They love bending the rules, which allows them to see things from a fresh perspective and engage in out-of-the-box thinking. Ben and Jerry's is an example of this archetype, which tends to match with brands that are playful and spontaneous. The names of its ice cream flavors match this playful vibe: Chunky Monkey, Boom Chocolatta!, Wayne'Swirled.
Examples: Apple, Harley Davidson
Revolutionary archetypes do things radically differently -- on purpose. They bring an energetic willingness to weed through clutter and challenge the status quo. Their creative breakthroughs lead to real innovation and real growth.
Examples: Budweiser, American Express
Ruler archetypes enjoy leadership roles and tend to act in a commanding, authoritative manner. They know how to get things done. Their image is well defined, solid, and polished.
Organizations that are sage are dedicated to uncovering the truth or spreading knowledge. They're thinking brands that take pride in intelligence and information. They tend to use thoughtful, sometimes challenging language. They look might be solid and grounded or historic and classic.
Examples: Martha Stewart, Crayola
Inherently non-conformist, creators are experts at seeing the big picture and rearranging pieces to craft meaning. Authenticity is important to organizations that are creators because they trust in the creative process and believe in imagination.
Examples: Hallmark, Godiva
Organizations characterized as lovers inherently understand the power of affection and emotions. They can be pleasure-seekers, and have an appreciation of real beauty and aesthetic value. Lovers are often found in cosmetics, jewelry, fashion, food, and travel.
Examples: Target, Cheers
The everyperson archetype represents the common man and woman. Think of the village green, democracy, or a comfortable group where everyone fits in. They're put off by elitism, and they tend to be authentic, honest, and hardworking.
(You can learn more about the archetypes here.)
How They Work In Organizations
Each archetype has positive attributes as well as negative attributes. Cynthia Forstmann, a partner at Allegory Studios, calls the negative attributes an archetype's "shadow side."
For example, while caregivers give great customer service and go out of their way to help people and deliver for others' needs, they can be martyrs and over-givers. While organizations that are creators are great at organizing ideas and making things beautiful, they also might be perfectionsts.
Knowing your organization's "shadow sides" can help you build on your positive attributes and manage for your negative ones. It can help you initiative dialogue around why your organization is like that. How can you compensate or plan for those negative attributes? What are the things that could happen because of them, and what should we be on the lookout for?
Meeting services company Unique Venues is a great example is one company that went through a culture audit. Their issue? They found themselves impulsively recreating their marketing year after year. The company's leaders realized they needed to redefine their brand at a foundational level.
When the employees at Unique Ventures took the CultureTalk survey, their collective responses yielded these two cultural archetypes: Everyperson and Explorer. There's a paradox here: The "everyperson" archetype is all about belonging, while the "explorer" is all about individiuality.
But they used that paradox to reinvent their brand story. Through discussion and analysis, here's what they uncovered:
- There was no common voice (everyperson) for the non-traditional niche of the meetings industry (explorer).
- Unique Venues’ staff are honest and hardworking (everyperson), and they innovate through cutting-edge technology (explorer).
- Member venues are united (everyperson) by their uniqueness (explorer).
- These venues are one-of-a kind (explorer), but not alone (everyperson).
- Meeting planners have access (everyperson) to high profile properties (explorer).
It culminated in a tagline that Unique Venues believes is at the heart of its brand: "You belong here."
Culture has become a hot topic because of technology, which has forced organizations to be much more transparent. Archetyping your organization can help you identify and build dialogue around your organization's vulnerabilities and keep you honest.
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Bitcoin has given investors whiplash yet again.
Just after hitting a new record of more than $17,000, the digital currency plummeted Friday. Its price nosedived more than $3,000, swinging wildly between a high of $17,154 and a low of $13,964, according to tracking site CoinDesk.
Bitcoin has been on a wild ride this year. Its price has soared from less than $1,000 in January -- but with occasional sudden drops along the way.
Trading has become especially frenzied in recent weeks as new investors have dived into the volatile market. Before Friday's fall, it had gained roughly $5,000 in the previous 48 hours.
Arthur Hayes, CEO of Hong Kong-based bitcoin exchange Bitmex, said he thought the sharp correction Friday was "healthy" given that the digital currency's price had jumped about 80% the past week.
He predicted more sharp moves early next week when the Chicago Board Options Exchange starts allowing investors to trade bitcoin futures.
By Friday evening in Hong Kong, bitcoin was trading at around $15,000.
Bitcoin's extraordinary boom has raised a host of questions. Here are some of the major issues:
How do you buy bitcoin?
One of our reporters used his experience of buying $250 of bitcoin recently to explore what on earth is going on with the digital currency right now.
"It's an investing frenzy, plain and simple," he wrote.
Is it safe?
The online exchanges where many people trade bitcoin and other digital currencies have a checkered history.
Some have gone bust altogether and others have suffered cyber heists in which hackers have made off with huge sums. The latest example is digital currency site NiceHash, where bitcoins worth more than $70 million were stolen this week.
What does Wall Street make of it?
One factor driving bitcoin's price higher and higher in recent weeks is the expectation that big financial players like hedge funds and asset managers are set to wade into the market. That's been supported by established exchanges in the U.S. saying they're planning to let investors trade bitcoin futures soon.
What does the future hold?
An environmental crisis is looming if bitcoin continues on its current trajectory, some experts say. The complex computer algorithms that underpin bitcoin require huge data centers that guzzle power.
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