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The work by Wesley Meuris is marked by speeches. Though his sculptures may be considered as seemingly taciturn and contemplative on the outlook, his works are ostensibly more capacious and expressive than their neutral surfaces might imply. Here one could speak of a feigned silence and neutrality, as his works are charged with ambiguity and a sense of powerplay between various actors, among institutional bodies, artists, visitors and the artworks they come to present and encounter in a readily subjective experience—so often presented as objective matters of fact. Driven by an ongoing interest in the dynamics and politics of display, among exhibition formats and institutional models, Meuris’ work is concerned with the fundamental spatial languages of displaying and exhibiting within art contexts—spatial and written languages made of objects, reference and classification systems that essentially enable and support museological knowledge production and distribution through classification and hierarchization. Here it is notable to mention his ongoing projectand organization FEAK (The Foundation for Exhibiting Art & Knowledge), which grapples with the diverse aesthetics and workings of large scale exhibition enterprises. However, rather than merely supporting, in Meuris’ work the object of display becomes both subjectmatter and subject in its own right. Making a close reading of the materiality and conceptual underpinnings of display modules, among plinths, pedestals, vitrines, cabinets, information displays and book publications, and their embedding within the exhibition, the institutional archive and library, Meuris shows us how and by what means these structures and figurations are vision-inducing and transporting devices that create environments, enable and control perceptual conditions, and provide groundings for the production of subjectivity. In other words, the context of exhibiting art becomes the content of the work, as the the vice of conceptual artist Michael Asher goes.
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The ARB is an independent, impartial group of citizens authorized to resolve disputes between taxpayers and the appraisal district.
For cost savings purposes the ARB meets at the Appraisal District office; however, it is not controlled by the appraisal district and is a separate authoritative body. The ARB has no role in the day-to-day operations of the appraisal office or in appraising the property. The ARB only has authority over protests submitted to it. Only in resolving taxpayer protests can the ARB make changes or set a value on its own. Such a change only affects the property in question and decisions are binding only for the year in question.
The ARB sits in panels of three to hear testimony and review evidence to determine property owner protests which cannot be resolved informally with the Travis Central Appraisal District. It must base its decisions on facts it hears from the property owner and from the appraisal district to decide whether the appraisal district acted appropriately in determining the value of property.
While this is a broad and significant responsibility, the ARB must be sensitive to its legal and practical limits while adhering to the Texas Property Tax Code and laws of this state. ARB members cannot discuss your case with anyone outside of the hearing; however, protest hearings are open to the public, and anyone can sit in and listen to the case.
ARB members are appointed by the Local Administrative District Judge for two-year terms. At the end of their term, an ARB member may reapply for another period of two years for a total of three consecutive two-year terms. To qualify for service on the ARB, an individual must be a resident of the Travis County for at least two years before taking office. No employees or officers of the Appraisal District or the taxing units it serves may sit on the ARB. Any person who is a former member of the governing body or officer or employee of a taxing unit, or is a former director, officer, or employee of the Appraisal District is ineligible to serve. Also, the person’s close relatives cannot work as professional tax agents or tax appraisers within the Appraisal District. ARB members also must comply with a particular conflict of interest laws.
ARB members tend to be individuals with excellent analytical and people skills needed to evaluate and make determinations based upon the evidence presented by the property owner and the appraisal district. An unexpected benefit from being an ARB member is the opportunity to meet and work with such a wide variety of interesting people who want the make a contribution to our community. | <urn:uuid:96f37920-28f1-4878-bbd6-4e5d9a3618a2> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://traviscad.org/arb | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573104.24/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817183340-20220817213340-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.971955 | 521 | 1.695313 | 2 |
Supplementary Materials1: Movie S1, related to figure 2: Representative, pseudo-colored multiphoton time-lapse live-microscopy images showing hepatic CD11c (YFP)+ cells (green) harboring (reddish) in B6. in B6 mice in at ~48h p.i. NIHMS1522937-product-4.mp4 (19M) GUID:?27DA938B-1F02-4B4C-B127-0ACABD636902 5. NIHMS1522937-product-5.pdf (4.3M) GUID:?99DA5594-FC6F-4275-9E3D-72C12005F226 6. NIHMS1522937-product-6.doc (136K) GUID:?96E9ADD4-2A5E-495A-9E78-6EF558C9B9E1 Summary sporozoites inoculated by mosquitoes migrate to the liver and infect hepatocytes prior to release of merozoites that initiate symptomatic blood-stage malaria. parasites are thought ONO-4059 to be restricted to hepatocytes throughout this obligate liver-stage of development, and how liver-stage indicated antigens perfect productive CD8 T cells reactions remain unfamiliar. We found that a subset of liver-infiltrating monocyte-derived CD11c+ cells co-expressing F4/80, CD103, CD207 and CSF1R, acquired parasites during the liver-stage of malaria, but only after initial hepatocyte infection. These CD11c+ cells found in the infected liver and liver-draining lymph nodes exhibited transcriptionally and phenotypically enhanced antigen-presentation functions; and primed protecting CD8 T cell reactions against liver-stage restricted antigens. Our findings focus on a previously unrecognized aspect of biology and uncover the fundamental mechanism by which CD8 T cell reactions are primed against liver-stage malaria antigens. Graphical Abstract There is an urgent need for effective vaccine strategies to protect against malaria. Kurup et al. describe the fundamental mechanisms by which protecting CD8 T cell reactions are elicited against the liver-stage of malaria, probably helping to refine the rational design of anti-malarial vaccines. Introduction Malaria is definitely a global health burden, with an estimated 217,000,000 infections and 435,000 fatalities in 2017 (WHO, 2018). Contaminated mosquitoes deliver sporozoites in to the epidermis, and these sporozoites travel through the blood-stream towards the liver organ where they infect specific hepatocytes. Upon hepatocyte entrance, the liver-stage of malaria ensues using the differentiation and replication of sporozoites into merozoites, which are afterwards released from hepatocytes to start the symptomatic blood-stages of malaria (Crompton et al., 2014). sporozoites shipped by mosquito bites connect to three distinct web host cell populations: Compact disc11c+ antigen-presenting cells (APC) in your skin draining lymph nodes (dLN), kupffer and hepatocytes cells. A small percentage of sporozoites inoculated in to the epidermis utilizing a ONO-4059 needle, or during mosquito bite usually do not enter the flow and are obtained and prepared by resident Compact disc11c+ APCs within your skin dLN (Chakravarty et al., 2007; Radtke et al., 2015). Acquisition of parasites by dLN Compact disc11c+ APC will not result in successful infection; however, it can help leading defensive Compact disc8 T cells against sporozoite portrayed antigens like the circumsporozoite protein (CSP). Certainly, Compact disc11c+ APC may also be required to leading defensive Compact disc8 T cell replies against rays attenuated sporozoites (RAS) shipped in to the blood-stream (Jung et al., 2002). A small percentage of skin-deposited sporozoites reach the liver organ where they infect hepatocytes, or after traversal through Kupffer cells directly. Hepatocyte infection is certainly obligatory for replication and differentiation of parasites into merozoites with the capacity of infecting crimson bloodstream cells and initiating the symptomatic blood-stages of infections (Cowman et al., 2016). Parasites go through developmental adjustments in contaminated hepatocytes leading to substantial modifications in protein appearance during liver-stage infections, producing liver-stage-specific antigens that may potentially provide as goals of defensive immune replies (Holz et al., 2016). RAS, which infect hepatocytes but cannot comprehensive differentiation to merozoites, can handle eliciting replies in both human beings and mice that avoid the parasite from completing liver-stage differentiation and Compact disc8 T cells are main ATF3 mediators of RAS-induced immunity in mouse versions (Holz et al., 2016; Seder et al., 2013). Genetically attenuated parasites (Difference), customized to arrest past due during hepatocyte infections, induce better defensive immunity and evoke bigger parasites that comprehensive complete liver-stage replication and advancement but are removed after an individual around of blood-stage infections by chloroquine pretreatment stimulate sterilizing security ONO-4059 to rechallenge (Bijker et al., 2013). Jointly, these data claim that the capability of entire parasite vaccines to handle most or most of liver-stage differentiation will end ONO-4059 up being an important quality to induce sterilizing immunity to malaria mediated with the broadest selection of defensive Compact disc8 T cells. The host-pathogen connections that help leading Compact disc8 T cell replies against antigens portrayed after hepatocyte infections remain unidentified; and present a conundrum, since appearance of liver-stage antigens is certainly expected to end up being generally constrained to developing in the hepatocytes that aren’t professional antigen delivering cells. It remains unidentified how antigens expressed by through the infection of exclusively. | <urn:uuid:47c21951-660d-4a12-a013-918f139b7157> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://bioscience2006.org/%EF%BB%BFsupplementary-materials1-movie-s1-related-to-figure-2-representative-pseudo-colored-multiphoton-time-lapse-live-microscopy-images-showing-hepatic-cd11c-yfp-cells-green-harboring-red/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572304.13/warc/CC-MAIN-20220816120802-20220816150802-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.891461 | 1,246 | 1.914063 | 2 |
Sleep Deprivation & Workplace Safety
Could Poor Sleep Be Affecting Your Safety at Work and on the Road?
Americans are not getting enough sleep. Researchers across the medical community continue to emphasize this fact in their findings. Countless studies have linked inadequate sleep with serious health consequences, and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) notes that so many Americans are getting insufficient sleep that it has become a public health epidemic.
At the National Institutes of Health (NIH), researchers have helped to shed light on a variety of health problems, from obesity to depression to heart disease, which can stem from chronic sleep problems. According to the National Sleep Foundation, sleep disorders affect 50-70 million Americans. One such disorder is Obstructive Sleep Apnea (OSA), a condition impacting millions of U.S. adults. Unfortunately, according to the NIH, up to 80% of these adults don’t know they are affected. Sleep disorders like OSA not only impact quality of sleep and overall health but also one’s safety on the roads and in the workplace.
OSA is a condition characterized by complete and partial airway obstructions, which can occur when the tongue and muscles relax during sleep, the lower jaw falls back toward the throat or the airway becomes blocked. A typical sequence of OSA occurs when a person stops snoring and is silent for seconds or minutes. The brain may cause the body to jerk in an attempt to wake the sleeper so breathing will resume. The silence may end with a loud snort, cough or gasp. This causes the sleeper to wake briefly and begin breathing. Once asleep again, the muscles relax and the airway becomes blocked again. This cycle can occur hundreds of times per night. Additional warning signs of OSA may include headaches, high blood pressure, daytime sleepiness, insomnia, diabetes, depression and more.
Symptoms such as daytime sleepiness can lead to an increased risk of vehicular crash. A 2013 study published in theJournal of Clinical Sleep Medicine found that when left untreated, OSA was linked to a rise in motor vehicle crashes and near-misses. Study participants with untreated OSA reported crashes three times more often than the general populace. Among those who drive for a living, OSA can be particularly dangerous. Unfortunately, data from the American Academy of Sleep Medicine suggests that 20 percent of commercial drivers may suffer from OSA. Because of the sedentary nature of the job, drivers are at risk for obesity, which is strongly associated with OSA. Because commercial drivers are so likely to have OSA and spend so much time driving, organizations like the American Academy of Sleep Medicine are working with Congress to develop regulations to ensure the health and safety of all drivers.
Even if you don’t drive for a living, however, the symptoms associated with OSA can negatively impact one’s work. OSA can lead to fatigue, morning headaches, difficulty concentrating and a foggy memory, all of which could affect one’s ability or desire to perform a job. Additionally, these symptoms could lead to safety errors in a number of professions. A study published in a 2011 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association, which surveyed nearly 5000 police officers in North America, estimated that 33 percent of the police officers involved in the study had sleep apnea and that the disorder was significantly associated with an increased risk of poor performance and safety errors.
The good news is that with treatment, patients may see a dramatic reduction in symptoms of OSA. If chronic poor sleep is making you sleepy on the road or at work, consider asking your physician for a sleep study, which will confirm whether or not you have sleep apnea. If you are diagnosed, there are a number of treatment options available, including lifestyle changes, surgery, Continuous Positive Airway Pressure (CPAP) and Oral Appliance Therapy. Oral Appliance Therapy works to hold the jaw in a position that allows the airway to remain as open and firm as possible during sleep, thus preventing snoring and interruptions in sleep. The appliance is similar to an athletic mouth guard but is less bulky. Additionally, it is covered by most insurance plans and Medicare. | <urn:uuid:945a46e0-b0c3-4c12-a08d-d356245bb3cc> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.koalasleepcenters.com/sleep-deprivation-workplace-safety | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573104.24/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817183340-20220817213340-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.950303 | 851 | 2.828125 | 3 |
Fall Activities and Events
Verdugo Hills Council, Fall 2021
"A Taste of Summer Camp" Camporee, 10/8 - 10/10
Camporee is a Council-wide annual event designed to emphasize the patrol method, allow Scouts to put their outdoor skills to use, and test how well patrols work together while competing against other Scout patrols. Teamwork is essential for success! “Leaf” It to Scouts!
Cub Scout Haunt On, 10/29 - 10/31
It’s Haunting time! Come join Verdugo Hills Council Cub Scouts in a ghoulishly fun weekend at Camp Verdugo Oaks. This event is open to all registered Cub Scouts (Tiger Cubs, Wolf, Bear, and Webelos) and their families. The event will kick-off at 4:00pm Friday, October 29th, and will conclude Sunday morning October 31st.
Scouting for Food, 11/6 & 11/13
This event is a VHC Scouting tradition! Scouts collect non-perishable food items from designated neighborhoods. Drop off your donation bags on 11/6 to homes and pick them up on 11/13. Ask your unit SFF Coordinator about the location of your service area donation center.
The Trainer's E.D.G.E., 9/25
The Trainer's E.D.G.E. is BSA's trainer development course designed to help Scouters put into practice the E.D.G.E. training model and gain self-confidence through hands-on training experiences. Trainer’s E.D.G.E. is required for all Wood Badge Staff and NYLT Staff, and is helpful to anyone speaking to groups!
This is Scoutmaster and ASM Position-Specific Training (course code S24), one of three courses that a Boy Scout leader needs to take in order to be considered a “trained” Scoutmaster or Assistant Scoutmaster.
BALOO, 11/6 - 11/7
Basic Adult Leader Outdoor Orientation (BALOO) is an overnight course for Cub Scout Leaders interested in adding a camping outing to their Pack activities. BALOO training consists of an online pre-requisite component in addition to an overnight hands-on practical session at Camp Verdugo Oaks. BSA’s Cub Scout level camping policies will be taught along with the discovery of the necessary tools to help Packs carry our a successful camping experience.
IOLS, 11/6 - 11/7
Introduction to Outdoor Leader Skills is a hands-on course that gives adult leaders the practical skills to lead Scouts in the out-of-doors. The skills taught will introduce the participants to most of the basic Scout outdoor skills from Tenderfoot through the First Class rank, and we teach you how to teach the Scouts what you learn in this course. Experienced campers and hikers are welcome, as are novices who are new to outdoor adventures. | <urn:uuid:cc191e3f-21b0-4ef5-97d0-064b86c40a23> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.vhcbsa.org/fallintofun | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572304.13/warc/CC-MAIN-20220816120802-20220816150802-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.931589 | 615 | 1.664063 | 2 |
Believe it or not, stock photos first came about in the 1920’s. Since their conception, stock photos can now be found in every corner of the web and on just about every site in existence. Even though they present a great opportunity for photographers across the globe, it gets a little tricky for business. Depending on your content strategy and the way you plan on using them, stock photos can either hurt your brand or help it. In this article, we’re going to discuss the pros and cons of stock photos, as well as when to use them and when to avoid them.
Stock photos are pictures taken by photographers without any specific assignment, which are then sent to a stock house to be licensed and sold. Depending on the quality and type of licensing, stock photos can go for as low as a few cents, all the way up to a couple thousand dollars for one. Because the topics of stock photos are left entirely up to the photographers themselves, they can be pictures of just about anything and suit a variety of needs.
Custom photos require you to hire a photographer, organize a photo shoot, and go through a lengthy editing process to produce a few (or maybe even one) good pictures. Stock photos eliminate the need for all of that by giving you a huge selection to choose from, available for instant download once you make the purchase.
There are hundreds of thousands of stock photos out there, and, as a result, there happens to be a ton of different ways you can use them. It’s easy to select simple pictures with broad applications or something more niche and targeted.
With stock photos, you can easily manipulate the properties and tailor them to fit your exact needs. It’s also going to differentiate the photo more so it doesn’t look as generic.
Hiring a professional photographer to take some custom photos for you can get pretty costly. Stock photos give you access to high-quality images for a fraction of the cost. The best part? They’ll look great when viewed across all platforms.
You have to be careful when using stock photos to make sure you’re not using pictures in a way that overstep the boundaries of the license. Using a stock photo for purposes not covered by the license can lead to costly repercussions.
You know when you’re looking at a stock photo. They just have a certain fakey “feel” to them that you can’t really explain. By that same token, your target audience will know when they’re looking at a real picture that was taken solely for the purpose of the content they’re reading.
Because anyone can buy stock photos, it’s not uncommon to find popular pictures floating around on other websites (maybe even your competitors). Nothing is tackier than using the same photo that several other companies used for similar purposes.
If you have a time-sensitive promotional offer or marketing campaign that needs to go out ASAP, stock photography can come to save the day. You can quickly find a beautiful stock photo that’s ready to go, ensuring your content gets published according to schedule.
With some content pieces, text is king. When the message is more important than the image that goes with it, you have more freedom to use stock photos to complement your point. They’re simply there to make it more aesthetically pleasing while keeping the focal point on the words.
When it comes to promoting your business with content, if you don’t have a library full of customized, branded pictures, stock photos are perfect. You may have to do a little more searching to ensure they have the right colors and overall feel, but it’s going to look much better than throwing in a poorly taken picture that you haven’t had the time to properly edit.
Social media is run almost entirely on visual content. As such, you need something that is going to truly stand out and be unique. When people see stock photos, their eyes tend to glaze over and all of the interest they had evaporates to the next news feed item. Take the time to create your own custom photos. They do a better job of grabbing and holding attention.
Never use stock photos to represent your culture with photos of a stock model. If you’re trying to brand your company and give it a unique flavor, you want to show visitors the real team behind the curtain. In this way, you’re able to control the energy level visitors experience and make your brand come across however you want it to.
If you’re considering using a stock photo, make sure you avoid the popular cliches that every company uses, especially if your competition is using it. The last thing you want to do is publish content, whether it be an article or an ad, with the same picture that your competitor used recently in their content.
Putting a title and logo on stock photos you use are some of the most important first steps. It’s going to brand the photo and instantly give it less of a generic feel. By that same token, never use a stock photo to create your brand’s logo!
It’s also a good idea to change the color, add filters, and even crop the photo in unique ways. Programs like Canva, Photoshop, and Gimp make all of this easier than ever.
Pictures are just as important as text when it comes to ranking in search engines. Not only are they going to help give the article some context, but because people are visual creatures, they’re more likely to click on content that’s visually appealing. Here’s how to optimize your images for search. | <urn:uuid:7aae44ea-f8ad-488d-b083-39da47584aa9> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://thrivehive.com/pros-cons-stock-photos-business/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572161.46/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815054743-20220815084743-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.947148 | 1,169 | 1.679688 | 2 |
A pinnacle of light
"If I find in myself a desire which no experience in the world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world", C.S. Lewis.
Our deepest longings for love, beauty, order, joy, satisfaction, .... are rarely fulfilled. Plato, in his quest for the divine, used the analogy of a darkened cave and our natural desire to press toward the pinnacle of light in the distance, so as to walk in the green meadow beyond. Plato's analogy serves as an image of the souls ascent into the reality of the ideal form. Yet, is it possible to prove the existence of the other from our own sensual being? Is it possible to describe God by an examination of our own character, our own inner desires and aspirations? Does our understanding of the existence of God begin with ourselves?
The Bible tells us that a knowledge of God's existence, "his eternal power and divine nature, has been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made." Yet, "although they knew God, they neither glorified him as God nor gave thanks to him." In the end, all we can know from ourselves and our environment, is that we are in a dark cave and that there is a light in the distance, but it is well beyond our reach. It is left to God to reach out to us, and even then he only reaches out to those who want his help. It is only then we come to know God and walk in the green meadow. Faith leads to knowledge, so where there is no faith there is no knowledge.
Remember back to the tragic death of Diana, the Princess of Wales. There was disbelief, grief, but above all, anger. It is true that anger is a very normal part of the grieving process. It usually precedes the soft sadness that leads to acceptance. Yet, this was unhealthy fault-finding. The media was to blame, the French, Charles, the Queen, the British secret service, the driver, women's magazines, we were to blame for buying the women's magazines..... even God was to blame (he was punishing her for going out with a Muslim). "Their thinking became futile and their foolish hearts were darkened."
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By: K. M. Waddell, R. L. Seiler, and D. K. Solomon
During 1979-84, 35 wells completed in the principal aquifer in the Salt Lake Valley, Utah, that had been sampled during 1962-67 were resampled to determine if water-quality changes had occurred. The dissolved-solids concentration of the water from 13 of the wells has increased by more than 10 percent since 1962-67.
This report, which is the second report resulting from the study, emphasizes sources of contamination of the ground water and chemical-quality changes during 1969-85: the report includes predicted effects of increased withdrawals on the chemical quality of the ground water.
Pages: 44 p.
Location: Salt Lake County
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In April the Government has introduced a new tax that applies “to plastic packaging manufactured in, or imported into the UK, that does not contain at least 30% recycled plastic”
In a nutshell, it states that it will have an impact on plastic packaging that is primarily made of plastic.
Any plastic package that comprises at least 30% recycled plastic is exempt from the levy.
However, whether the packaging is empty or packed, imported plastic packaging will be subject to the tax.
The government expects that by implementing the policy, it will provide “a clear economic incentive for businesses to employ recycled plastic in the manufacturing of plastic packaging, resulting in increased demand for this material.”
They also believe that the move will promote plastic waste recycling and collecting, diverting it from landfills and incinerators.
It is also hoped that after the tax is implemented, the use of recycled plastic in packaging will grow by roughly 40% in the future.
What does this mean for us?
Business does not seem to get easier at the moment with rising inflation and everyone’s bottom line margin getting squeezed.
The introduction of this new tax will increase our own import price and negatively affect our margins.
We will unfortunately need to increase prices to reflect this change. Please be aware that there are some slight price increases to our plastic packaging items.
Many customers have been look to swap to alternative styles of food packaging such as kraft paper or bagasse packaging.
We are actively looking to bring you more paper packaging alternatives! Hope they will be arriving very soon (in June)
These can be a great replacement for standard rectangular/bowl containers (500cc-100cc):
I hope everyone has had a good start to 2021, restaurants and catering establishments are gradually reopening and hopefully the business climate is regaining a sense of normality. It’s been a while since we communicated what’s been going on behind the scenes, so let’s discuss what’s been happening this quarter.
Let’s start with talking about some of the big challenges we have been facing this quarter.
Global shipping crisis
Suez canal accident
Rising Paper and plastic costs
With our breakup with our European neighbours, the global pandemic and rising material costs, this has had a severe impact on both shipping costs and shipping reliability. We have seen containers quoted 4x of 5x higher than what we expect in normal market conditions! As well as being unable to get confirmation on when goods will arrive in the UK.
This article from the BBC explains the issue in detail:
SHIPPING CRISIS: I’M BEING QUOTED £10,000 FOR A £1,600 CONTAINER’
You might notice pricing increases or lack of stock availability on certain products at the moment. Overall we have tried to not pass on costs too much to all our customers but we still need to protect the health of our own business.
We ask for your patience on this matter. We’re working diligently on this and we hope that global shipping issue eases in the coming months, particularly from summer onwards so that we can start to experience more regularity with stock control.
Onto some good news, our 500cc black food containers are finally back in stock! Initial demand for both our new 500cc and 650cc black range were both very positive so expect this to be a long term regular product from us.
In regards to other new products, as you are all aware COVID has had a big impact across all areas, we’ve had much difficulty in trying to source new products. One of our new products we’ve been able to get a hold of:
-No Handle paper takeaway bag. Made from Biodegradable paper materials, the material is premium grade and strong enough to carry several takeaway items.
Perfect for catering businesses such as chicken shop takeaways or sandwich shops.
We’re also looking at a greater range of paper/renewable products in 2021, with the introduction of meal/chip trays in both paper and bagasse versions very soon! These will be perfect for lockdown reopening if you are looking to use more disposable serving options to minimise hand-to-hand contact between your staff and customers.
We’ve extremely grateful to our customers for their lovely feedback. Below are some of our regular customers that have adapted their business to the new market conditions we’ve been experiencing!
If you love our products, we would REALLY appreciate it if you leave a product review on our product pages or a Google review. It really helps us out, or if you just have some feedback or suggestions for us, we are always happy to hear it.
We’ve introduced some new features to improve shopping experience, some which are more noticeable than others. Including:
5% discount on orders above £250
We used to have a 5% discount code that was eligible to be applied if your order total was over £250. We have cut out this step so that a 5% discount will be automatically applied as long as your order is over £250 on the checkout page.
If you have seen the live chat button on the bottom of our website, during normal office hours you’ll be connected with us directly within a matter of minutes to speak to us directly.
We have a full blog post explaining this feature:
We’re looking to improve this feature for existing customers in the long term, with additions such as:
Asking about additional product details
Schedule a callback/meeting
Interested in our products? Request a sample box of products or have them included with your next order.
“Different colours influence your customers in different ways, and represent your brand so it’s important to understand how your interior and exterior colours of your restaurant affect your business’s message.”
Welcome to 2021, as we said in our 2020 end of year blog (read here) we are looking to implement more features to improve your shopping experience. The first major change we would like to introduce this year is our onsite Live Chat!
You will now be able to speak to us live through the site if you want to ask us any questions like enquiring about stock whilst staying in the same internet browser.
Our customer service representatives will look to answer right away during normal office hours to assist you in your shopping journey.
Just click on the bottom right red logo on desktop/mobile:
A window will open so that you can start to have a conversation
We also offer a new customer promo code through the live chat platform which you can sign up directly without leaving your browser/window.
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What switch security configuration requires AAA to be configured on the switch?
- Private VLAN
- port security
802.1x requires AAA to be configured on the switch. 802.1x uses AAA authentication to control access to the port.
The overall steps required to configure a switch for 802.1x are:
Enable AAA on the switch.
Define the external RADIUS server(s) and the key to be used for encryption.
Define the authentication method.
Enable 802.1x on the switch.
Configure each switch port that will use 802.1x.
Optionally allow multiple hosts on the switch port.
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Carothers and de Gramont offer a meticulous and fair-minded account of the evolution of the aid business over the last 50 years. The book’s central message is captured in the title: although donors are finally taking more account of politics, technocratic approaches to development remain remarkably resilient.
Part of the story is familiar. Apolitical approaches to aid are rooted in early assumptions that economic growth could be stimulated by injections of capital and technical assistance, and that political development would follow economic development. For years, donors responded to poor aid outcomes with new policy fixes: state-led economic take-off in the 1960s; basic needs in the 1970s; ‘getting the policies right’ and shrinking the state in the 1980s; rediscovery of the need for effective public institutions in the 1990s. The end of the Cold War brought a new focus on politics and democratic governance, albeit initially through top-down, technocratic efforts to reform formal institutions.
Less familiar, but central to the book, is another recurring pattern – of persistent pushback against apolitical approaches to aid. Starting with critiques by Hirschman and others in the 1960s, a swelling chorus repeats the same message: development is a political process; donors need an excellent understanding of political context; they should build on locally rooted institutions and processes of change; they need longer-term engagement, flexible funding, and iterative approaches that encourage experiment and learning. Failure to take account of politics undermines efforts to advance socioeconomic goals and risks negative, unintended consequences. As the authors say in a departure from their normal deadpan delivery, it is hard not to slap one’s head at the obviousness of such insights, and wonder how it can have taken 50 years to get the message.
The book argues that donors have listened – but only up to a point. Most agencies now pursue political goals alongside socioeconomic ones, and some support democratic change more directly. Many are using political economy analysis to better understand context, and working with a wider range of non-government groups. This represents a significant shift, but not a sea-change. Work on governance and politics is often still a niche activity; donors remain naive about the commitment and motivation of their developing country ‘partners’; understanding of research findings is shallow or deliberately dumbed down; and there has been insufficient effort to adjust aid delivery systems to the needs of more politically savvy approaches. Technocracy has struck back in the form of a recent preoccupation with short-term, quantifiable results.
The authors do not indulge in facile donor bashing. They recognize the complexities of the aid business, the moral and practical dilemmas faced by donors, and the fact that research still provides incomplete answers to core questions about how development happens (there is a particularly good chapter on the unresolved debate about links between democratic governance and development). But they show no sympathy for donors’ instinctive retreat into technocratic comfort zones, or their failure to confront honestly a central dilemma: what to do when there is little elite commitment to change, or when more ‘developmental’ states show scant regard for basic rights.
The bibliography is comprehensive and up to date. The arguments are nuanced and clear. A particularly useful distinction is drawn between pursuing political goals (whether for their intrinsic value or for their utility in supporting socioeconomic development) and working more politically. The book makes an unanswerable case for the latter and a strong argument for more consistent promotion of democratic values, while recognizing the mixed record of much democracy assistance. It perhaps underplays the inherent tension between pursuing normative goals and the need to engage with local processes of change, allowing local actors to take the lead.
More generally the book has little to say about the role of elites in promoting or obstructing change, and is quite narrowly focused on the core aid business. Given the reduced leverage of western aid and the growing influence of global markets, a good case could be made for donors to extend politically savvy approaches and use aid strategically in a bid to influence the business, security and financial relationships that shape incentives for development in poor countries.
Perhaps that could be the next book. Meanwhile, this one is essential reading, both for newcomers to the aid business and for old hands.
Sue Unsworth is a former Chief Governance Adviser with DFID, and a principal with The Policy Practice. Email firstname.lastname@example.org
Development Aid Confronts Politics: The almost revolution
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Weightlifting: How to enhance your workout?
Whether you are a beginner or have been working out for a while, you need to understand one thing, if you want to stay in shape and be healthy you need to complete a resistance workout at least 2-3 times a week, which means you need to get on those weights and kill them, or at least make some sort of move towards it.
Professional sportsmen/women use resistance workouts for their conditioning as it is proven to increase your speed, power, agility and it helps to prevent injuries, so if professionals benefit from it, so will you!
- Weightlifting will make you bulky. This can only happen if you have a very high calorie diet and you are following a special program, which believe us is very hard and unless you choose to work towards that specific goal it is very hard to achieve.
- It is better to work out each muscle group each time you train. Again, unless you are a bodybuilder it’s better to complete a full circuit training each time. This will ensure your body will stay toned and healthy.
- Muscles will turn into fat once you stop weightlifting. This myth surely to this day motivates thousands of people around the world not to stop lifting weights. Although it is a good motivator, it is completely incorrect. Muscle and fat are two different things and one cannot turn into another. You can lose fat and replace it with muscles or your muscle mass can drop if you stop exercising, but it cannot magically turn from muscles into fat.
- Weightlifting is bad for the joints. Journal of Rheumatology published a study which shows that people with joint problems that performed weightlifting exercises have experienced a reduction in pain after a few months, improving their overall quality of life over those that didn’t work out with weights.
Weightlifting techniques that work:
- Simple but effective. The squat, deadlift, bench press, and shoulder press are the best strength-building exercises for anyone.
- Stick to free weights. They are more effective than machines in building your muscles and developing your body core.
- Record it. It is easy to forget the amount of sets or reps you did last week. This way you will know exactly how much progress you have achieved.
- Don’t overdo it. Working out too much will put unnecessary pressure on your muscles and can lead to an injury.
- Don’t add weights too soon. Make sure you go slowly; otherwise you can block your strength gain. This usually happens if you lift too much for too long. Only increase your weights limit with a maximum of up to 10 pounds a session and no more.
Weightlifting can help you increase your fitness level, lose weight, build a better body and much more. As long as you take your training seriously and lift weights responsibly you will be amazed with your progress.
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Today is the day to celebrate the ever-popular sandwich (It’s also World Cliché Day, but I won’t be able to top last year’s post on that, so I’m sticking with sandwiches). This culinary delight has been around in some form for centuries, but got its modern name in the 18th century. The credit is given to English aristocrat John Mantagu, who happened to also be the 4th Earl of Sandwich, a city in the shire of Kent in England. Legend says that he ordered his meat to be delivered between two slices of bread to avoid greasy fingers while playing cards. This became all the rage and people starting ordering food “the same as Sandwich” until it was, thankfully, shortened to just being called a sandwich. I learned this little tidbit years ago when I was performing in a strange little stage show at the local fair. In the show, we actually sang about various odd facts, which by the way, is just as ridiculous as it sounds, and this is the only one I can even remember.
But beyond singing about sandwiches, I mostly remember just how much I enjoyed eating various versions while growing up. It seems a sandwich gets far more complex as we age. When I was a little kid, I would receive a little piece of ham on a roll. Later, this would include a bit of mustard, and eventually, a slice of lettuce. By the time I was a teenager, the toppings had increased to the point it was like having all of the ingredients of a multi-course dinner shoved between two poor slices of bread. These culinary treats also increased in size. Here in America, where big is considered better, the “submarine” sandwich was born, so named for both the shape of the sandwich and the size you would become if you ate too many of them. In Philadelphia these were called Hoagies, a morphing of the original and more apt name of “Hoggies.”
Despite the attempts at sandwich innovation and gross enlargement during modern times, my favorite is still a simple grilled cheese sandwich. The day to celebrate grilled cheese always comes the day before my birthday which is perfect timing! Of course, a little bowl of tomato soup is the perfect complement to this one, which also has a delicious simplicity. So, rather than burden my bread and my palette with an unnecessary number of ingredients, I prefer to keep things simple. When in France, this shifts to tomato and mozzarella on a baguette. Just three key ingredients (with a little basil, of course) to make me happy. Apologies to subs and hoagies everywhere. But no matter how you prefer them, the sandwich is definitely the best invention ever, until of course, they finally got around to inventing sliced bread.
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2 In those days Caesar Augustusq issued a decree that a census should be taken of the entire Roman world.r 2 (This was the first census that took place whilea Quirinius was governor of Syria.)s 3 And everyone went to their own town to register.
4 So Joseph also went up from the town of Nazareth in Galilee to Judea, to Bethlehemt the town of David, because he belonged to the house and line of David. 5 He went there to register with Mary, who was pledged to be married to himu and was expecting a child. 6 While they were there, the time came for the baby to be born, 7 and she gave birth to her firstborn, a son. She wrapped him in cloths and placed him in a manger, because there was no guest room available for them.
8 And there were shepherds living out in the fields nearby, keeping watch over their flocks at night. 9 An angelv of the Lord appeared to them, and the glory of the Lord shone around them, and they were terrified. 10 But the angel said to them, “Do not be afraid.w I bring you good news that will cause great joy for all the people. 11 Today in the town of David a Saviorx has been born to you; he is the Messiah,y the Lord.z 12 This will be a signa to you: You will find a baby wrapped in cloths and lying in a manger.”
and on earth peaceb to those on whom his favor rests.”
16 So they hurried off and found Mary and Joseph, and the baby, who was lying in the manger.c 17 When they had seen him, they spread the word concerning what had been told them about this child, 18 and all who heard it were amazed at what the shepherds said to them. 19 But Mary treasured up all these things and pondered them in her heart.d 20 The shepherds returned, glorifying and praising Gode for all the things they had heard and seen, which were just as they had been told.
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Did you know the average American homeowner spends more than 40 hours a year on lawn care? Having a nice lawn is great, but it also takes a lot of energy, money and, most importantly, your precious time! Learn how much time natural grass is taking from you and then check out artificial grass as an alternative.
Lawn work is not easy. It’s not just the hard work of mowing, trimming, seeding, and fertilizing that is time-consuming. Think about all the time that is wasted by making decisions of what to do, when to do it, and how to get the job done. And don’t forget to add in all the time it takes for buying, maintaining and repairing the expensive equipment used for maintenance. And even the little time to get and store different fuels like gas and oil take up time when dealing with your equipment.
Lawn care has endless questions that will keep your wondering what you should do. Below are just a few that you may run across
– what should your mow height be in the spring and fall versus the summer?
– Should you let Mother Nature take over on the watering? –
– Should you install sprinklers yourself?
– How much fertilizer does my lawn need?
– How can I get this bare spot to disappear?
Then at the end of the year and it all dies and next year you start again with fertilizing, reseeding, and resodding. And at the end of the day, you simply don’t have the time to enjoy your lawn. Don’t you wish you had more time for the kids, pets, sports, or any other activity besides lawn work?
A synthetic grass lawn solves all of the problems and frustrations of lawn care. Not only does it cut down on all the time wasted trying to keep it looking beautiful, but artificial grass could save you money too after adding up all the items you have to buy to maintain it (plus time is money!).
Check out some of our artificial grass and learn how realistic it can actually look. It is environmentally friendly and great for pets because it drains even better than natural grass. Synthetic grass is guaranteed to be green and beautiful, and you no longer have to worry about the best formula of lawn care to keep your lawn in the best shape it can be. So, stop working your weekends away and give yourself the time and peace of mind by installing artificial grass. | <urn:uuid:55fcca1d-933b-4a45-a8d1-52e7dcb9370a> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.artificialturfexpress.com/blog/time-is-precious-dont-artificial-grass-can-help-you-save | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573104.24/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817183340-20220817213340-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.960264 | 501 | 2.03125 | 2 |
Fitzpatrick named delegate to the Congress of Future Medical Leaders
Nora Fitzpatrick, a sophomore at Portsmouth High School, has been named delegate to the Congress of Future Medical Leaders in Lowell, Mass., on June 24-26.
The Congress is an honors-only program for high school students who want to become physicians or go into medical research fields. The purpose of this event is to honor, inspire, motivate and direct the top students in the country interested in these careers, to stay true to their dream and, after the event, to provide a path, plan and resources to help them reach their goal. Nora's nomination was signed by Dr. Mario Capecchi, winner of the Nobel Prize in Medicine and the science director of the National Academy of Future Physicians and Medical Scientists to represent Portsmouth High School based on her academic achievement, leadership potential and determination to serve humanity in the field of medicine.
During the three-day Congress, Fitzpatrick will join students from across the country and hear Nobel Laureates and National Medal of Science Winners talk about leading medical research; be given advice from Ivy League and top medical school deans on what to expect in medical school; witness stories told by patients who are living medical miracles; be inspired by fellow teen medical science prodigies; and learn about cutting-edge advances and the future in medicine and medical technology. | <urn:uuid:0210d495-a02c-4d1d-85e1-2c4cee1bb775> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.newportri.com/story/news/local/2020/01/17/portsmouths-nora-fitzpatrick-named-delegate-to-congress-of-future-medical-leaders/1880104007/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571989.67/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813232744-20220814022744-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.96778 | 272 | 1.601563 | 2 |
Nepal successfully completed the by-elections on 30 November to fill 52 vacant positions at the local, provincial and federal levels. The total number of candidates who contended for the elections was 337, out of whom 34 were female.
The by-elections were completed in a manner generally accepted as peaceful, with the vote counting and the results announcement commencing immediately after polling. No disputes over the results were lodged, the voter turnout for the by-elections stood at 65.5%, and the percentage of invalid votes was 1.7%.
One of the reasons for the low rate of invalid vote was the design of the ballot structure: having individual ballot papers in most places and designing a specific ballot paper for each constituency after candidate nomination meant that all electoral symbols had candidates associated with them. This made it easier for the voters.
The Election Commission, Nepal also paid particular attention to ensure that voter and civic education reached those at the grassroots. In order to do so, it collaborated with the Ministry of Education’s Community Learning Centres to provide voter and civic education to their local communities, especially marginalized ones. In addition to this, the Commission made a conscious effort to keep the voters informed and enhanced its outreach. Based on its first social media strategy, it reached over 1 million people through Facebook and its website included a dedicated space to inform on the by-elections with regular updates.
In the lead up to the by-elections, the Electoral Support Project supported the Commission in various activities: a Building Resources in Democracy, Governance and Elections (BRIDGE) workshop on Electoral Operational Planning; a BRIDGE workshop with people with disabilities to make the electoral process more accessible for them; an event with the Government and political parties on the implementation of the code of conduct; the training of the Chief/Returning Officers, training on Electoral Dispute Resolution as well as training of journalists.
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This year’s edition of the OECD-FAO Agriculture Outlook, presented in Rome today, provides a consensus assessment of the 10-year prospects for agricultural and fish commodity markets at national, regional and global levels.
“Global agriculture has evolved into a highly diverse sector, with operations ranging from small subsistence farms to large multinational holdings,” FAO Director-General José Graziano da Silva and OECD Secretary-General Angel Gurría write in the Foreword of the report. Along with providing food, they added, today’s farmers “are important custodians of the natural environment and have become producers of renewable energy.”
The Outlook projects that yield improvements and higher production intensity, driven by technological innovation, will result in higher output even as global agricultural land use remains broadly constant. Direct greenhouse gas emissions from agriculture, meanwhile, are expected to grow by some 0.5 percent annually over the coming decade, below the 0.7 percent rate of the past 10 years, and below the projected output growth rate – indicating declining carbon intensity.
At the same time, new uncertainties are emerging on top of the usual risks facing agriculture. These include disruptions from trade tensions, the spread of crop and animal diseases, growing resistance to antimicrobial substances, regulatory responses to new plant-breeding techniques, and increasingly extreme climatic events. Uncertainties also include evolving dietary preferences in light of health and sustainability issues and policy responses to alarming worldwide trends in obesity.
Population growth, urbanization and lifestyles
Worldwide, the use of cereals for food is projected to grow by about 150 million tonnes over the outlook period – amounting to a 13 percent increase – with rice and wheat accounting for the bulk of the expansion. The most significant factor behind the projected growth in food use of staple products is population growth, which is expected to rise fastest in Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia.
“Regrettably, the most needy regions are expected to see slow income growth and hence only small improvements in their nutritional status,” warned FAO Assistant Director-General for Economic and Social Development Máximo Torero. “The findings point to an overall decline in undernourishment; however, at current rates of improvement, we would remain far off track from reaching the Zero Hunger target by 2030.”
“The Outlook makes abundantly clear that trade is critical for global food security,” said OECD Director for Trade and Agriculture Ken Ash. “Regions that are experiencing rapid population growth are not necessarily those where food production can be increased sustainably, so it is essential that all governments support open, transparent and predictable agro-food markets.”
The report finds that consumption levels of sugar and vegetable oil are projected to rise, reflecting the ongoing trend towards prepared and more processed foods, notably in many rapidly-urbanizing low and middle-income countries. Concerns about health and wellbeing, meanwhile, are likely to nudge numerous higher-income countries towards lower consumption of red meat and a shift from vegetable oils to butter.
In addition, the demand for feed crops is projected to outpace animal production growth in countries where the livestock sector is evolving from traditional to commercialised production systems, while the use of agricultural commodities as feedstock to produce biofuels is expected to grow primarily in the developing countries.
Trade in agricultural and fisheries commodities should expand over the coming decade at around 1.3 percent annually, slower than over the past decade (3.3 percent average), as growth in global import demand is expected to slow. On the export side, both Latin America and Europe are projected to increase their sales to foreign markets.
Special focus on Latin America
This year’s publication features a special chapter on Latin American and the Caribbean, a region that accounts for 14 percent of global production and 23 percent of the world’s exports of agricultural and fisheries products – a share expected to rise to 25 percent by 2028.
Despite the impressive growth, the region is facing persistent challenges in terms of food security, as many households are unable to afford the food they need. The region also faces growing natural resource challenges. Ensuring a more sustainable and inclusive pathway for future agricultural growth will depend on developments in the areas of nutrition, social and environmental protection and support for livelihoods.
There are “strong growth opportunities” in the region to produce high-value fruits and vegetables, which provide better opportunities for smallholders and healthier diets for the population. Targeted policies could help farmers and consumers reap these opportunities, while protecting the region’s natural resource base, the report notes.
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Gordon Lewis gave a most informative talk entitled “Listen To The Band” at the July meeting in the Village Hall.
“The band” being the first Salvation Army brass band, formed in the 1800s by William Charles Fry (1837-1882) a bricklayer by trade, and talented musician from Alderbury, near Salisbury in Wiltshire. Known by his middle name Charles, he played the violin, cello, piano, cornet and harmonium and led a group of musicians at the Wesleyan chapel in Alderbury.
In 1878 Salvationists in Salisbury were facing opposition when Charles Fry and his family decided to take along their brass instruments to support The Army’s open-air meetings. After initial concerns about the music being suitable for church meetings William Booth recognised that it was an effective tool that had the power to draw large audiences of potential converts and thus the tradition of the Salvation Army Band began. The Fry family accompanied William Booth on campaigns around the country and formed a band based at The Salvation Army’s headquarters in London.
The Lily of the Valley (I’ve found a friend in Jesus) was written by Charles Fry in 1881 and has become a very popular gospel hymn.
Charles Fry died in 1882 in Glasgow and was given a Salvation Army state funeral. With the Salvation Army flag draped over his coffin William Booth led the many VIPs at the funeral. A blue plaque was installed in October 2004 on the Salvation Army building in Salt Lane Salisbury and there is also a commemorative plaque in Salisbury Cathedral.
Mr Lewis was thanked for his excellent presentation which was enjoyed by all those present.
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Gastronomy of Italy
Gastronomy of Italy - the seminal work on Italian food, first published in the 1990s - is revised and updated and illustrated with new photography.
This classic book leaves no stone unturned in its exploration of Italian gastronomy. Anna Del Conte, the doyenne of Italian cooking, defines the country's regions, ingredients, dishes and techniques for a new generation in her comprehensive explanation of its culinary terms. This simple A-Z format covers all elements of Italian gastronomy from abbacchio to zuppe inglese.
There are over 200 recipes, including the great dishes from every major region of Italy. Variations on the classics - pasta, polenta, gnocchi, risotto and pizzas - sit alongside Anna's recipes for versions of Italian favourites, such as peperonata, lamb fricassee, ossobuco and less well-known regional specialities.
Specially commissioned photographs of the dishes, ingredients and techniques along with maps of the regions, makes this a truly unique and invaluable book.
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Historical records list the following tropical storms as causing significant damage in Virginia: September 1761; October 1761 ; September 1769; September 1775; October 1783; September 1785; July 1788. NINETEENTH CENTURY. 1806 August 23. Called the Great Coastal Hurricane of 1806. 1821 September 3. The Norfolk-Long Island Hurricane.
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Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen is setting off alarm bells over a looming brawl over the nation's borrowing limit that could spark a global economic crisis if Congress fails to take action.
Yellen's warning, delivered to congressional leaders on Wednesday that the country could default on its debt as soon as next month is casting new urgency on the behind-the-scenes discussions about how to raise the debt ceiling.
No clear end game is in sight.
Democrats could need 10 GOP votes to raise the debt ceiling if Republicans filibuster the measure. Democrats have only 50 votes in the Senate, and GOP leaders have indicated they will not help raise the borrowing limit.
Including a debt ceiling hike in the budget reconciliation measure that Democrats are now drafting would be one way around the GOP. The budget rules prevent a GOP filibuster.
Democratic leaders have signaled they don’t want the debt ceiling to be a part of that package.
“We won't be putting it in reconciliation,” Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) told reporters on Wednesday.
It’s also unclear whether the package will be finished in time to meet the debt deadline. Yellen on Wednesday said the limit would be breached in October.
“The time for Congress to act is now to make sure the U.S. does not come close to defaulting on some of its obligations,” said Rachel Snyderman, associate director at the Bipartisan Policy Center, a non-partisan think tank that closely tracks the debt limit. “But what's concerning right now is that there are so many important priorities at play,” she continued.
GOP lawmakers helped suspend the debt ceiling under former President Donald Trump, who added to the debt by signing a huge tax-cut bill and several major spending bills.
But the GOP has vowed not to provide votes for President Biden as Republicans fume over Democrats’ plan to pass the $3.5 trillion spending package under budget reconciliation rules.
The GOP wants to make Democrats own both the spending measures and the debt vote, with the view it will help them retake majorities in the House and Senate in next year’s midterm elections.
Senate GOP Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) jabbed last month as the fight ramped up that if Democrats were going to greenlight the spending “shouldn't Democrats be proud to own all the debt it requires?” And 46 GOP senators signed a letter vowing that they won’t support raising the debt ceiling, leaving Democrats short of the votes.
Doug Andres, a spokesman for McConnell, said on Wednesday that flirting with a debt default would be a “crisis” of Democrats “own making.”
“Democrats control Washington now. They can raise the debt limit on their own,” he said.
Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) blasted Republicans on Wednesday during a conference call with reporters, saying that opposing a debt hike would be a “horrible” and “despicable act.”
“It would be just the height of irresponsibility for Republicans to play games to take the debt limit hostage,” he said.
Allowing the nation to default would be unthinkable, but it’s not entirely clear how Biden and Democrats will deal with the issue.
The increasingly partisan fight comes as Congress deals with a full plate of legislative issues, including funding the government by month’s end and the sweeping $3.5 trillion spending package.
Yellen tried to drive home the stakes in a letter to lawmakers warning that amid a pandemic, which rocked the global economy, “it would be particularly irresponsible to put the full faith and credit of the United States at risk.”
The debt ceiling kicked back in on Aug. 1. after a suspension included in a 2019 budget deal expired without action from Congress. The Treasury Department has been using so-called “extraordinary measures” to keep the U.S. solvent since then, but that will run out next month, Yellen warned Wednesday.
“Once all available measures and cash on hand are fully exhausted, the United States of America would be unable to meet its obligations for the first time in our history,” Yellen said.
“Given this uncertainty, the Treasury Department is not able to provide a specific estimate of how long the extraordinary measures will last. However, based on our best and most recent information, the most likely outcome is that cash and extraordinary measures will be exhausted during the month of October,” she continued.
The federal debt limit is a legal cap on how much debt the U.S. can take on to pay obligations already approved by the president and Congress for several years. Raising the ceiling does not erase or create any new debt, but instead gives the federal government more room to pay off its bills.
Wall Street and the banking system have grown accustomed to high-stakes fights over the debt ceiling in Washington.
Credit ratings firm Standard & Poors downgraded the county’s credit rating during a 2011 showdown over the debt limit, and the 2013 debt limit fight likely added tens of millions of dollars to the national debt through higher borrowing costs, according to a Government Accountability Office report.
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Still, Synderman noted that yields on short-term Treasury bonds have risen in recent weeks as investors become increasingly concerned about the risk of a default, particularly as the impact of the pandemic limits the ability to nail down when it may happen.
The general dynamics of the fight have been brewing for months: Senate Republicans previously got non-binding language into their conference rules recommending that any hike in the debt ceiling is contracted by spending reforms or cuts.
And Democrats have warned that they won’t negotiate on the debt ceiling, noting that Republicans had helped put up the votes under Trump.
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We leave you a list of phrases to be happy in your general life and in love, which will help you remember what is really important. We hope they help you as a source of inspiration and to overcome difficult situations.
Being happy consists of having a life according to your values. Are you dedicating your time to what matters to you? Why do you do what you do? Do you have the life that you would like or the one that society or other people would like?
Sometimes your situation seems negative, too dark and that you cannot change or improve. However, it is important to remember that often, it is more what we think about the situation than the situation itself that triggers our emotions and feelings.
81 Quotes to Be Happy and Wake Up Our Best Version
In this article, short phrases to be happy are compiled, made to prepare us to live day to day with joy. Happy and positive phrases for all tastes, to understand yourself and others
Below you can read a selection with part of the best phrases in life. Thoughts about life that lend themselves to reflection and that can not only be used as a trigger for interesting debates, but as a tool for personal transformation.
Let’s know the best famous phrases that tell us about the feelings of happiness and joy. Are you ready?
Things are beautiful if you love them.
A clearly optimistic point of view can be seen in this phrase by
There is only one form of happiness in life: to love and be loved.
Pronounces one of the frequent phrases of happiness related to love.
Those who want to sing always find a song.
Fits perfectly among the phrases of happiness belonging to popular culture.
When you are true to yourself in what you do, fascinating things happen
Leaves us a reflection on the wonders that our daily realities hide.
Beauty is power, and a smile is its sword.
An inspirational quote from the English naturalist.
Happiness is the ultimate goal of human existence.
One of the first phrases of happiness in history, in this case attributed to the father of philosophy in Europe.
Happiness is meant to be shared.
About the brotherly part of happiness.
The purpose of our lives is to be happy.
One of his most remembered phrases, it is also one of the most popular phrases about happiness.
Life is either a great adventure or nothing.
About the nature of life as something to be lived intensely.
The secret to having happiness is having something to do.
On the simplicity with which what makes us happy can be found.
Be Happy Quote by Joel Osteen
You can be happy wherever you are.
He says there are no excuses for voluntarily keeping ourselves out of happiness
There is happiness in duty, even if it doesn’t seem like it.
He makes us see the good side of obligations and responsibilities.
Happiness is not something that is postponed, but something that is designed for the present.
Links the state of happiness with what we experience in the here and now.
Joy resides in the joy of achievement and in the excitement of creative effort.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Gives one of those that, in his opinion, is a key to happiness.
Every time one door to happiness closes, another immediately opens.
Another of the best known Hellen Keller phrases of happiness, about the opportunities that constantly arrive.
Independence is happiness.
Susan B. Anthony
Relates the ability to choose freely with happiness.
Happiness appears when what you think, what you say and what you do are in harmony.
One of Gandhi’s phrases in which he gives a very particular vision of what joy and happiness are.
The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.
Gives us an excuse to continue doing what we love.
A table, a chair, a bowl of fruit, and a violin. What else does one need to be happy?
One of the many positive phrases that he left, going beyond the realm in which he was an expert.
Be Happy Quote by Confucius
It doesn’t matter where you go: there you are.
Leaves one of the most powerful positive phrases.
Happiness is within you, not next to someone.
A movie legend, on happiness and love relationships.
Today I have nothing to do except smile.
He makes this famous happiness quote as simple as it is joyful and inspiring.
Kind words, a warm book, and an honest smile can work miracles.
In one of those reflections that relate happiness to the small pleasures of everyday life.
The smile is a good universal welcome.
Max Eastman quote
A way to see the usefulness of smiles, beyond borders.
An optimist is the human incarnation of spring.
Susan J. Bissonette
One of the most poetic phrases of happinessy.
Smile, it’s a free therapy.
May err on the side of reductionism when he compares smiles to a form of therapy, but the result is a worthwhile image.
Being optimistic doesn’t hurt anyone. You can always cry later.
Lucimar Santos de Lima
Gives one more reason to stay with a positive mentality.
Laughter is a poison for fear.
George R. R. Martin
Sees laughter from a somewhat martial point of view, but useful, in the end, to be more cheerful.
There is only one passion: the passion for happiness.
Happiness embodied in his thoughts.
Perpetual optimism is a force multiplier.
In a phrase of happiness that is also motivating.
The term «happiness» would lose all its meaning if it were not compensated for by sadness.
The referent of the psychodynamic school, about the relationship between happiness and sadness.
I enjoy my life because things are not going as planned.
Makes us see with a good face the apparent chaos of what happens in life.
Peace begins with a smile.
Teresa of Calcutta
Focuses on the individual when talking about happiness.
Astonishment awaits us at every corner.
A way of relating the exciting with what we are used to in principle.
Don’t cry because it’s over, smile because it happened.
One of the classic happy lines from the famed architect of children’s stories.
Live the life you love. Love the life you live.
A very simple maxim from a reggae legend.
To forgive yourself is to be happy.
Robert Louis Stevenson
He believes that feelings of well-being spring up when we reconcile with ourselves.
Happiness is something that is practiced, like the violin.
Leaves this reflection in which happiness is portrayed as a project that must be contributed every day.
Listen from time to time. It is fascinating what you can hear
Another of the phrases of happiness that speak of the excitement of discovery.
Love will never leave us alone.
Another of the happiness quotes pronounced by the Jamaican singe, in this case related to love.
Be Happy Quote by Mihaly Csikszentmihaly
A joyful life is a unique creation that cannot be copied from a recipe.
One of the leaders of positive psychology, proposes this reflection of happiness so that we learn to appreciate the uniqueness of our lives.
Love is that micro-moment of warmth and connection that we share with another living being.
Barbara L. Fredrickson
About the little moments of happiness that we share in the moments when we share an emotional bond with someone.
Happiness is not out there for us to find, and the reason for that is that it is within us.
One of the reflections of happiness pronounced by people who research in psychology departments.
Happiness is the only thing that multiplies when shared.
On the paradox of happiness and brotherly connections.
The difference between mystery and happiness depends on what we do with our attention.
About the relationship between the way in which attention is managed and the way in which happy moments are experienced.
A crisis is something that tastes bad to waste.
A positive reflection about the potential of crises.
Becoming is better than being.
Carol S. Beck
On the moments of enjoyment in personal growth.
No matter your age, there is always something good to overcome.
Gives one of the phrases of happiness that they touch, also the theme of challenges as something that motivates us to move forward.
If you do not know which port you are sailing to, no type of wind is favorable.
The philosopher leaves one of the most iconic reflections on the way in which the lack of happiness can be, in part, sought.
Being entirely honest with yourself is good exercise.
One of the phrases of happiness pronounced by the father of psychoanalysis.
The happiness of our lives depends on the quality of our thoughts.
A phrase attributed to Marco Aurelio
Relate the idea of happiness with the mentality with which we interpret the world.
Happiness cannot be obtained by wanting to be happy. It has to appear as an unintended consequence of pursuing a goal greater than oneself.
One of the famous quotes of Happiness by Viktor Frankl, which shows his humanistic approach.
Today is the first day of the rest of your life.
A famous quote about new beginnings.
Action is the fundamental ship of success
A quote from the painter, related to happiness but also to personal improvement.
Unhappiness is defined as being the difference between our talents and our expectations.
Edward de Bono
The psychologist talks about the nature of unhappiness, showing one of the keys to not falling into it.
Work hard, be nice, and amazing things will happen.
A recommendation from Conan O’Brien
Be Happy Quote by Eleanor Roosevelt
With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.
What is beautiful never dies
Thomas Bailey Aldrich
One of his phrases of happiness and beauty.
Flowers grow from the darkest moments.
The Artist and educator reflects on our ability to excel and resilience.
Happiness is not something that is already done, it emanates from our own actions.
Reflects on the nature of true happiness.
Many times, happiness sneaks through a door that you did not know you left open.
Points out the unexpected in some accidents that do not produce joy.
No one can hurt me without my permission.
One of his most quoted phrases.
From time to time it is good to stop the pursuit of happiness and just be happy.
Talks about the good we can find in the simplicity of the present.
If you can imagine it, you can do it.
A hopeful reflection that tells us about human potential.
Remember that the happiest people are not those who earn more, but those who give more.
- Jackson Brown Jr.
Links happiness with solidarity and empathy.
There is no one happier than someone who is truly grateful
Talks about happiness related to those lucky moments
When we are most alive is when we fall in love.
A reflection about the euphoria you feel in love.
Everything you can imagine is real.
Another phrase about the blurred limits of the potential that we carry within.
Joy is the simplest form of gratitude.
A display of happiness can be a way of reciprocating the help of others.
The therapy that cures the most is friendship and love.
The humane treatment and empathy, added to a timeshare, are basic ingredients of happiness.
Be Happy Quote by Henry van Dyke
A friend is what the heart constantly needs.
Henry van Dyke
Points out one of the primary sources of happiness and well-being.
Going forward is a simple act, what is left behind is the hard.
The Musician speaks in these terms of resilience.
Silence is a great source of strength.
This reflection points out one of the corners of our life from which we can draw energy to be happy.
Great works are not done by force but by perseverance
A phrase about what makes great projects come true.
Happiness is only real when it is shared.
A nice reflection on Christopher McCandless.
Happiness is not a matter of intensity, but of balance, order, rhythm and harmony. Thomas Merton
A way of looking at life with more pause and balance between heart and reason.
Do not allow your happiness to depend on someone, because that person will not always be as you think.
If your happiness depends on someone who is not you, it is a fleeting happiness.
Happiness is a form of courage.
Few people are willing to have this positive life attitude.
If you want to understand the word happiness, you have to understand it as a reward and not as an end.
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
It is the reward for positive processes and personal development, according to the author of The Little Prince.
All happiness depends on courage and work.
Honoré de Balzac
The necessary foundations for a full life.
If the day has not been worth it, it is because you are accumulating smiles for tomorrow.
Reflection of the popular Barcelona poet.
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Consumers tend to shift towards clay products after the plastic ban in the city
By Saloni Arora
Bengaluru, Jan. 31, 2019. After years of loss, artisans have started making a profit in pottery making – it has more than doubled since last year. Each artisan used to earn about 500-600 rupees per day. With the ban on plastic, clay artists in Pottery Town in Bangalore have started earning around 2,000 rupees daily.
The art of pottery making in Bengaluru was on the verge of dying. Only 15 shops were left, out of 45 in the famous pottery town. The business declined by 50-60 percent two years ago. However, with the recent ban on plastic in the city by the Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP), the consumers started shifting from the plastic items towards clay-made products.
According to Shodhganga, a reservoir of Indian thesis, potters’ craft is believed to be one of the oldest and most important traditional crafts of India. Pottery industry in the country brought about a few improvements in innovative techniques. It has not added features to the existing forms and various designs but perfected them in order to make them more useable.
The Karnataka State Handicrafts Development Corporation Ltd (KSHDC) was established by the Government of Karnataka in 1964 with the aim of preserving and nurturing the art and culture of the state, and improving the economic conditions of the artisans.
Bengaluru, the largest city in Karnataka State, also known as the ‘Silicon Valley of India’, has grown to be one of Asia’s fastest growing cities with the emergence of the IT industry. The Pottery Town in the city is over 100 years old, with families coming from states including Tamil Nadu and Andhra Pradesh to run their business.
Renu, a customer at the pottery town stated that buying clay products is not only cheap but also environment-friendly. Besides that, it is important to safeguard our culture in this growing technological period.
Rajashekar, a state award winner in pottery making, who runs his business in the pottery town says, “The culture of pottery is not only important because it is an old and rich tradition of India but it protects our damaged environment. The pots get mixed up with soil within a few months after discarding.”
Despite better condition in the pottery-making business, families in the pottery town are unhappy with the government as they’re not provided with space to showcase their talent. Malti, a clay artist added, “To preserve the culture of pottery the government should provide enough space for exhibitions in the city.”
Rajashekar said he did not display his products since the last three years in the Khadi festival that takes place every year in the freedom park, due to a high rent of the stall.
The Khadi Utsav 2019 started on January 2 in the city. Since the rent of the stalls is as higher as 30,000 rupees, artisans skipped out participating in the exhibition this year. Only three exhibitors displayed their products in the festival, confirmed Gopal, an exhibitor at the Freedom Park in the city.
“In order to preserve the pottery culture of the country, it is important for the authorities to take appropriate steps in order to promote, safeguard and increase tourism of the country”, says Radhika Mehta, an educator.
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No restrictionIn the case of companies that have published financial statements, the statements for the most recent fiscal year must comply with IAS/IFRS standards and have been audited by a Certified Auditor.
|Business Plan||It is drawn up if the company does not have at least two years of previous activity in the sector of economy and the area of business in which it will operate after admission of its shares in ENA.|
|Tax audit|| |
Statement submitted by the Nominated Adviser regarding the adequacy of provisions recognized in the financial statements and any tax liabilities for the unaudited fiscal years. (for the company and its subsidiaries included in the latest consolidated financial statements)
|Lock-up period|| |
|If a Business Plan is submitted||Shareholders holding greater than or equal to 5% each may transfer a maximum of 25% of the shares they held on the date of admission, during the period of implementation of the Business Plan.|
|If losses have been reported in the two fiscal years prior to admission||Shareholders holding greater than or equal to 5% each may not transfer their shares for a period of one year after admission.|
|Nominated Adviser||Appointment of a Nominated Adviser at the admission approval stage and retention of the Nominated Adviser for as long as the company remains in ENA STEP.|
|Corporate Governance||Corporate governance practices applied or reference to the corporate governance code adopted.|
Procedure for admission to ENA STEP
Appointment of Nominated Adviser
For the asmission to ENA STEP a company shares must first appoint an Adviser, selected from the list of ENA Nominated Advisers, which will coordinate and manage the admission process.
Preparation of admission file
The admission file is prepared by the Nominated Adviser in cooperation with the company.
Application for admission to ENA STEP
The Nominated Adviser and the company jointly submit the application for admission to the Athens Stock Exchange, accompanied by the necessary documentation (Resolution 2).
Presentation of the company to the ENA Εvaluation Committee
The Nominated Adviser and the company present of the company to the ENA Evaluation Committee.
If a company has been admitted to an ATHEX Acceleration Programme, evaluation by the Committee is deemed to be the company's evaluation by the relevant Selection Committee after completion of the final stage of the Acceleration Programme.
Approval of admission requirements by ATHEX
ATHEX accepts the application for admission to ΕΝΑ STEP upon the completion of the offering (if any).
Conducting of a Private Placement / Public Offering
In order to raise the desired amount of funds, the issuing company conducts a Private Placement of shares to a limited number of investors, or a Public Offering to the investing public.
Start of shares' trading on ENA STEP
The Nominated Adviser submits to ATHEX the necessary documentation relating to admission and sets the date for the commencement of trading of its shares on ENA STEP.
ENA Resolution 2 details the procedure for admission to ENA STEP.
Fund-raising on admission to ENA STEP
At the stage of admission of shares to ENA STEP, the issuing company invites interest from investors in order to raise the required capital.
Shares are offered to investors through:
- a Private Placement to a limited number of investors
- a Public Offering of shares to the investing public
- a combination of Private Placement and Public Offering
The regulatory framework consists of the following:
A. ENA Operating Rules
See the Alternative Market Operating Rules
B1. Resolutions on admission to ENA STEP
- Resolution 2 - Procedure and documentation for admission to trading of transferable securities on ENA STEP
- Resolution 3 - Content of Information Document
- Resolution 34 - Electronic Book Building (EBB) Service
B2. Resolutions on matters following admission to ENA STEP
- Resolution 4 - Procedure and documentation for corporate actions of companies admitted to the Alternative Market
- Resolution 7 - Additional information provided by companies admitted to the Alternative Market
Β3. Decisions of the Hellenic Capital Market Commission
If the company chooses to raise capital through a Public Offering of shares, of total value less than €5,000,000, it must publish an Information Document in accordance with the provisions of Decision 1/893/16.10.2020 of the Hellenic Capital Market Commission (HCMC) and submit to Athens Exchange the documentation set out in HCMC Decision 2/892/13.10.2020.
ATHEX charges for a company seeking admission to ENA STEP include:
1. Application & Registration fees
2. Annual subscrition fee
|Capitalization||Quarterly charge||Annual charge|
|Up to €20.000.000||€750||€3.000|
|From €20.000.001 - €40.000.000||€1.250||€5.000|
Minimum fee: €3,000
Maximum fee: €7,000.
See Resolution 5 of the Alternative Market for details of all charges.
3. Fees for registration of securities on ATHEXCSD
Α. Initial Recording of securities
- Application's assessment: €1,000.
- Additional fees based on the issue value of securities:
a. 0.20% for a value up to €3,000,000
b. 0.15% for a value between €3,000,000.01 and €9,000,000
c. 0.10% for a value between €9,000,000.01 and €15,000,000 and
d. 0.05% for a value exceeding €15,000,000.01
The issue value to which the scale is applied is equal to the product of the subscription price or the listing price of each stock multiplied by the number of stocks.
Β. Annual registration fees
- Minimum €600 per year and per issuer and,
- An annual scale shall be applied as a percentage to the value of the registered securities:
a. 0.0015% for a value up to €40,000,000
b. 0.0010%, for a value between €40,000,000.01 and €100,000,000
c. 0.0005%, for a value between €100,000,000.01 and €200,000,000 and
d. 0.0001%, for a value exceeding €200,000,000.01
Maximum: €2,500 per year and per issuer.
See Resolution 18 of ATHEXCSD for all charges relating to the registration of the securities.
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Strong correlations suggest the far-reaching detriments of repetitive head trauma may underlie many neurologic conditions
PROBLEM: It's becoming well-known that brain injuries, and the resultant neuron death, can cause serious problems for football players. Does this extend to them having a higher rate of mortality from neurodegenerative diseases?
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METHODOLOGY: From a previously gathered cohort of former professional football players who played at least five seasons from 1959 to 1988, researchers examined the death certificates and National Death Index data for the 334 that are now deceased. They divided the old pros into a "speed group" (everyone but linemen) and a "non-speed group" (linemen), leaving out punters and kickers. Deaths where Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, or ALS, also known as Lou Gehrig's Disease, were listed as a primary or contributing cause were compared to the general U.S. population. Since relatively recent research suggests that chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE), which can only be diagnosed via brain autopsy, may have been the actual cause of death of some of the players, the researchers also looked at overall neurodegenerative death rates.
RESULTS: While this cohort had less overall mortality than U.S. male population, its risk of death by neurodegenerative disease was three times as great. Worst among them were ALS and Alzheimers, in which related death was four times higher than the general population. (These diseases are listed as contributing rather than underlying causes of death). There was however no significant increase in their rate of Parkinson's-related deaths. In addition, the speed group was over three times more likely than the linemen to die from a neurodegenerative cause.
CONCLUSION/IMPLICATIONS: This data supports other findings that football players are at an increased risk of neurodegenerative disease. The implication is that repetitive head trauma is the cause, though other variables do exist.
LIMITATIONS: Although the authors started out with a large cohort of 3,439 NFL players, only 10 percent had passed away at the time of the study, leaving them with a small data set. They also were unable to obtain specific data on the rates or severity of injuries sustained by the players, which could have helped to elucidate their findings.
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This is the question that many may be doing. And here's a simple answer:
It is a virtual reality device that simulates immersion in a real environment, with panoramic, horizontal, vertical view and freedom of 360 degrees.
By wearing the glasses, the individual has the visual sensation of being in the situations that are presented to him. So what are the possible uses?
You can use it to enter the computer gaming scene, observe all the details of a condo plan to be released next year, see the inside of a car that has not been manufactured,ride on a roller coaster or travel through space; the possibilities are endless. All this with precision of details, rich lighting and sound quality.
Product made for the real estate industry (builders and developers and architectural firms). We develop 3D environments such as homes, apartments, condos, buildings, etc., so that the viewer can experience architectural projects that will be launched. It is a powerful tool that ensures confidence and satisfaction in the purchase of real estate.
We create simulators with physical response and response to viewer's command. Developed highly realistic scenarios for games, videos and entertainment. The viewer experiences audio visual content for all the presented situations. The glasses and headphones are integrated and wearing it, immerses the viewer in a virtual world entirely pre-developed by the Estudio Eter team. Examples of this product are piloting a virtual car, walking through a fantastic world, land a lunar module.
Can you imagine a three-dimensional, interactive infographic? You can approach the area of interest and observe the mechanics of the product in action! Or identify and describe important aspects of a project. Developed 3D gaming environments with your logo, where you can expose your product playful and realistic, creating interactivity between viewers and logo / product. The great success of this product is granted due to the increase of the "awareness" of the brand, ie, perception and brand awareness.
Located in the financial heart of Sao Paulo, the Estudio Eter works on the threshold between the real and virtual. graphic arts of the highest quality to clients from all over the world are developed. The scope of services is directed to the real estate industry (builders and developers), automotive, architecture offices and production designers. Facilities include computer graphics solutions for the presentation of projects and products with hyper-realistic 3D images, videos, 3d models, virtual reality, illustrated plans and 360 tours.
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Dog owner shocked to find her great dane had 70 teeth
A dog owner was shocked to find that the great dane she adopted had 70 teeth. Aurora Rutledge, 31, rescued her dog Loki, who is believed to be one year old, two months ago, and decided to take him to the vet to have a routine check up. When the vet looked inside Loki’s mouth earlier this week, she found that the pup’s mouth had a total of 70 teeth – which is 28 more than the average dog. After making the discovery, the vet removed 21 of the teeth – leaving the dog with a set of 49 teeth.
£600 worth of extractions later, Loki is recovering at home in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and is on a strictly soft-food diet to help his mouth heal. Aurora, a bar owner, said: ‘I had taken him to our local vet as a routine check up since he was a new rescue and mentioned to the doctor that the people we got him from mentioned that he may have retained baby teeth.
‘Loki is a giant puppy and is very energetic – so I hadn’t had a chance to look inside his mouth myself beforehand. ‘When we did get a chance to have a little look we could see he had more than normal, but we didn’t think he’d have 70 teeth in there! ‘The vet administered dental extraction onto Loki and removed 21 of his teeth, leaving him with 49 – which is still seven more than average. ‘It was something that massively shocked us, but we’re just so glad that he is home and recovering now.’ Aurora, a mother-of-three, explains that Loki suffered with hyperdontia – but vets were shocked to see it to such an extent. She said: ‘Hyperdontia is a genetic anomaly, but it is never usually seen to such an extreme as this. ‘The vet cannot rule out that he may have this as a result of poor breeding – so the rescue we got him from is working hard to track down his breeder to hopefully stop something as painful as this happening again.
‘The night of and morning after the procedure were rough – he bled all over my couches, rug, kitchen, dog bed, me. ‘We had to give him a medication to make him sleepy, so he wouldn’t be up and around. ‘Right now he’s still on soft food and transitioning him to more solid kibble slowly. ‘After this, as far as dental goes, hopefully after all is healed, he will not even notice he had so many additional teeth! ‘We will make sure he has his routine dental checks, especially since they did leave seven more teeth than average.’
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East Knoyle & Hindon from West Knoyle
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This Wiltshire walk explores an area of beautiful downland in the Wiltshire Downs AONB. The route includes interesting and picturesque villages, a windmill dating from the 17th century, some glorious views that include neighbouring Dorset. The route needs careful navigation in the initial stages, but the route finding becomes easier in the second half of the route where sections of the Wessex Ridgeway and Monarch's Way long distance paths are used.
The start is the village of West Knoyle where a small parking area by the children's playground provides space for a few cars (grid ref. ST854319). Take the waymarked path heading south east through a gate adjacent to the playground. Follow this path for about a kilometre to cross Upton Lane (grid ref. ST868312). The path initially follows the edge of Puckwell Coppice (trees to your right) and then passes through Mackintosh Davidson Wood Nature Reserve before reaching open fields and Upton Lane. Briefly bear right and then take the continuing path on your left across a field and through woodland to reach a bridleway (grid ref. ST868310) after 500 metres. Turn left along the bridleway to reach The Green (grid ref. ST871312).
Turn right along Wise Lane. After 400 metres you pass the 17th century windmill on your left. A path leads across grass for closer inspection of this historic building. Return to Wise Lane and continue to a road junction. Turn sharp right and take the signed footpath on the left (grid ref. ST873308). Descend to a lane and turn left. After 300 metres leave the road and follow the path on the left at a fingerpost (grid ref. ST875306). Continue straight along this path back onto Wise Lane. Turn right and follow the lane as it curves to the right and reaches the main road through East Knoyle (grid ref. ST881305). Bear right and follow the main road for 200 metres and turn left down Millbrook Lane (signed as a cul-de-sac) to reach the A350.
Take the signed footpath opposite and slightly to the left. This path enters a field where you go half left. Maintain the same direction across a larger field eventually bearing slightly left towards a track running in front of woodland (grid ref. ST888307). Turn right along the track (tress to your left) for 800 metres to reach a cross track (grid ref. ST896306). Turn left and join the Wessex Ridgeway. After 1.5 km you reach a junction of tracks (grid ref. ST903320). Turn right here to continue along the Wessex Ridgeway to a road. Go left along this road and keep straight ahead to reach the busy High Street in Hinton (grid ref. ST912326).
Turn left along the High Street and turn left into Angel Lane (B3089) after 300 metres. Follow the B3089 for about a kilometre ignoring the road on the left leading to East Knoyle. Turn left onto the Monarch's Way (grid ref. ST901328) and follow the clear track to reach the A350. Go straight across this road and continue on the Monarch's Way for a further kilometre or so to a lane. Turn left. Just before Upton Bottom Farm, take the clear track on the right (grid ref. ST872234). Stay on the Monarch's Way as it veers left and then right to gently descend to a road. Bear left past the church (on your right) and continue along the road back to the start after 800 metres.
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|Walk 3743||Win Green from Tollard Royal||easy/mod||5.4 miles|
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Wiltshire is a rural county characterised by its high chalk downland and wide valleys. Salisbury Plain is noted for being the location of the Stonehenge and Avebury stone circles and other ancient landmarks, and as a training area for the British Army. The highest point in the county is the Tan Hill-Milk Hill ridge in the Pewsey Vale, just to the north of Salisbury Plain, at 295 m (968 ft) above sea level. The Marlborough Downs are part of the North Wessex Downs AONB. In the southeast of the county there is a small section of the New Forest.
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The kind of head injury found in the brain of former NFL player Adrian Robinson Jr., has been found in the brains of players as young as 17 years of age.
Chris Nowinski, co-founder and executive director of the Concussion Legacy Institute at Boston University, on Wednesday explained the widespread and troubling findings of chronic traumatic encephalopathy among sports players who sustain repeated blows to the head.
CTE, he explained, a neurodegenerative disease caused by repetitive trauma, is progressive.
"We've identified it in teenagers and it appears to continue to progress after you stop being hit in the head," Nowinski said. "It's not unheard of at 25. The youngest we've found it in is seventeen. The severity of the disease is age related. Somebody who is their 70s, it would be in most parts of their brain. In their 20s, it's found in the frontal lobe but it's beginning to spread to other places."
The Robinson family on Wednesday announced the findings out of Boston University, which showed that 25-year-old Adrian Robinson Jr., was suffering from CTE.
Robinson, a standout at Harrisburg High and Temple University, played in the NFL, including with the Pittsburgh Steelers. In 2012, he was listed injured with a concussion; and again the following year while on the Washington Redskins roster.
The Steelers on Wednesday did not immediately return requests for an interview from PennLive.
Adrian Robinson Sr. said his son had begun to behave uncharacteristically prior to his suicide death in May. Adrian Jr. hanged himself May 16, just weeks before he was due to leave for Canada to play football. Robinson Sr. urged sports parents to be diligent with regards to head trauma in their children.
Nowinski said that the center's most recent football data, which looked at the brains of more than 160 football players, found that of 91 players who played pro football, 87 tested positive for the disease. At the college level, 26 of 34 players tested positive; and at the high school level, seven of 24 players tested showed positive results.
"It's still early but the data indicates a dose response relation," he said. "The more years you play, combined with more hits you take and an early start, the greater your risk may be."
He said the data did not show a correlation between player position and injuries.
"We have to remember that outside of kickers and punters, most players play multiple positions throughout their careers as well as special teams," Nowinski said.
Indeed, he said, 40 percent of the players on a team are linemen - which entails repetitive hits and tackles.
"A lineman at the college level likely can take 1,000 hits a year," he said. "For younger players the seasons are shorter but they still take hits in the hundreds when you are playing youth football."
CTE garnered national headlines in 2012 after the suicide death of former New England Patriots Junior Seau, whose post-mortem autopsy showed the degenerative disease in his brain. In the wake of his death - and amid mounting litigation brought on by former players and that of families of deceased players - the NFL has implemented a myriad changes in rules to change the culture of the physically bruising game.
The NFL this year agreed to a $5-million pay-out settlement in a class action lawsuit involving thousands of players.
The Robinson family in May donated their son's brain to Boston University, which carries out research on trauma to the brain among athletes and veterans.
Nowinski said that while it's difficult to link suicides directly to the brain disease, research has made a connection between suicide and concussion. Athletes who have had concussions face a higher risk of suicide for the rest of their lives.
"When your brain changes your personality changes and with CTE, the brain changes," he said.
Nowinski says one of the Concussion Legacy Foundation's main impetus is advocacy. He said former athletes who are struggling post career need help - and there is help out there for them, including treatment and counseling.
"Every suicide is a sad case .. we want people to live productive lives," he said. "We want that message out. You can get help. People can still live well even if they have this pathology."
Ultimately, though, the focus needs to be on limiting and preventing brain trauma in young athletes.
"While it's one thing to get hit in the head and it's your job and you have a union, it's a different situation to put a seven year old out there and hit them on head a couple of times," Nowinski said. "We encourage people not to enroll children in sports that involved repetitive brain trauma. That means no tackle football before high school, no heading in soccer, no checking high school."
Editor's Note: This story has been updated. CTE has been found in athletes as young as 17. An earlier version of this story misquoted the age.
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Ballet Philippines, the Vietnam National Symphony Orchestra, the Malaysian National Literary Laureate, the University of Culture in Yangon, the Pornography Law in Indonesia (much of which is about nudity in performance and media): as these examples indicate, culture is a beloved object of national cultural policy, not least in the Southeast Asian region. UNESCO and many non-governmental organizations are active in this field as well, not to mention the fact that the market has a serious commercial interest in certain cultural genres. The politics of culture in Southeast Asia has a double aim: to provide students with an up-to-date comparative survey of Southeast Asian national politics in the cultural realm, and on a theoretical level to examine the ways in which institutions, communities, and individuals attempt to keep in check the ways of doing and thinking that we call cultural. The course consists of two main parts. In the first and longest, on the basis of weekly readings we discuss cultural politics in the respective Southeast Asian countries. To give the discussion substance and to facilitate comparison within Southeast Asia and with other parts of the world, we focus on concrete cultural categories. In 2016/17 these will be dance, puppetry, and pop, thus covering genres that tend to be developed under state patronage as well as genres that tend to be left largely to the market, and allowing us also to examine transnational cultural connections and flows. The second (short) part takes a more theoretical turn. We will consider the workings of institutional, communal, and individual cultural control on the basis of case studies of the performance of language in Java, Indonesia.
There are two versions of this course. For one, which is worth 10 ECTS, students are expected to participate in all 12 seminar meetings. For the other version, worth 5 ECTS, active participation in the first 8 seminar meetings suffices.
Knowledge of and comparative insight into contemporary cultural politics in the Southeast Asian countries, in historical perspective;
Analytical insight into the ways in which institutions, communities, and individuals work to control culture;
Self-critical awareness, especially the ability to relativize culturally instilled attitudes.
The timetable is available on the Asianstudies website
Mode of instruction
Attendance and active participation is mandatory.
Total course load for the course: 280 hours (10 ECTS version) / 140 hours (5 ECTS version).
Hours spent on attending lectures and seminars: 24 hours (10 ECTS version) / 16 hours (5 ECTS version)
Approximate time for studying the weekly readings: 120 hours (10 ECTS version) / 80 hours (5 ECTS version)
Approximate time for writing the web-postings and preparing for presentations: 66 hours (10 ECTS version) / 44 hours (5 ECTS version)
Approximate preparation time for the written examination (including revision of readings, web-postings, and class notes, as well as in-depth study of the scholarly article on which the written examination will be based): 70 hours (10-ECTS version only)
The 10-ECTS variant of the course is assessed in two ways:
1. Active participation: quality of weekly webpostings, presentations, sustained constructive contributions to in-class discussions (40 per cent of overall mark) 2. A concluding written examination (60 per cent of overall mark). The examination (two hours) will contain essay-type questions relating to the readings as well as the contents of the seminars.
In order to pass the course, students must obtain an overall mark of “5.50” (=6) or higher. In order to be allowed to take the concluding written examination, students should have participated actively in at least 75 per cent of the seminars. An exam resit is possible only for element (2), and only if the student participated in the first written exam and received an overall mark for the course of “5.49” or lower. The concluding examination and the weekly tasks belong together and must be completed in the same academic year. No partial marks can be carried over into following years.
The 5-ECTS variant of the course is assessed by means of the student’s active participation in seminars 1–8: quality of weekly webpostings, presentations, sustained constructive contributions to in-class discussions. In order to pass the 5-ECTS-variant of the course, students should have participated actively in at least 75 per cent of seminars 1–8 and have obtained an overall mark of “5.50” (=6) or higher. No partial marks can be carried over into following years.
Students may request an oral elucidation of the assessment within 30 days after publication of the grade.
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Weekly readings to be announced via Blackboard.
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Seeking to go to the bottom of reasons for declining activities on sun, Indian scientists are currently engaged in finding out the reasons for a comparatively lower level of explosive activities on sun’s surface in the last 11-years cycle than the previous 1996-2007 cyclic period.
During their investigations, scientists have found that there has been a significant decrease in the mass, size and internal pressure of explosive phenomena of the sun. This conclusion has been arrived at on the basis of a comparative study of the 2008-2019 11-year cycle-24 of the solar activities on the sun with the previous cycle.
A team of scientists led by Wageesh Mishra of the Indian Institute of Astrophysics (IIA), Bengaluru, an autonomous institute of the Department of Science and Technology, Government of India, have shown that the average radial size of CMEs or coronal mass ejections in the last decades (during solar cycle 24 from 2008-2019) is only two-thirds of its value in the previous cycle.
Coronal Mass Ejections – or CMEs – are powerful eruptions on the sun’s surface. These eruptions are caused by instabilities in the sun’s magnetic field. These eruptions can launch a billion tons of superheated gas into space. Most drift harmlessly across the solar system, but occasionally one is aimed at Earth as well.
“This reduction in average radial size has been baffling to the scientists as, for them, reduced ambient pressure implied that CMEs were expanding into interplanetary space to a significantly larger size, expectedly giving rise to large radial size. However, they found the opposite happening,” a Ministry of Science and Technology note pointed out.
Explaining this unexpected finding Wageesh Mishra said, “The reduced pressure in the interplanetary space in cycle 24 is compensated by a reduced magnetic content inside CMEs, which did not allow the CMEs to expand enough in the later phase of their propagation”. The scientist’s explanation is further strengthened by the fact that the lack of stronger and bigger CMEs arriving at the Earth during solar cycle 24 had caused reduced geomagnetic perturbations compared to cycle 23.
The team of scientists further established that the gas pressure in the interplanetary space in cycle 24 was only 40 per cent of the pressure in cycle 23. Besides, the rate at which the Sun was losing its mass through these episodic ejections was 15 per cent less in cycle 24 than cycle 23. Besides, the rate of loss of quasi-steady matter by the Sun was also 10 per cent lower in cycle-24.
This work has been published in the Frontiers in Astronomy and Space Sciences journal and is co-authored by Professor Nandita Srivastava from Physical Research Laboratory, Udaipur, and Urmi Doshi from the M S University of Baroda, Vadodara, Gujarat. In their research, the team studied the Earth-directed CMEs and interplanetary counterparts of CMEs (ICMEs) using publicly available observations from Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) and Advanced Composition Explorer (ACE), both of the missions launched by NASA in 1995 and 1997, respectively.
The scientists maintained that the expansion history of CMEs, which is governed primarily by the difference in the total pressure between the CMEs and the ambient space around them, are difficult to understand. The study used expansion speeds of CMEs close to the Sun and at Earth.
Underlining the importance of keeping an eye on CMEs scientists say that CMEs need to be observed at different distances from the Sun to better understand the evolution of their radial sizes and expansion behaviour.
Understanding such activity of the Sun, particularly the propagation of CMEs, is important since they cause major perturbations in the Earth’s magnetosphere. They affect the near-Earth space environment disturbing the orbit of satellites in low-earth orbits, Global Positioning Signals (GPS), long-distance radio communications, and power grids.
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Have a watch of the following clips up until the selected time points:
Next, watch the pre-recorded reading of Shackleton’s journey and make notes of the main parts of the story from The Endurance leaving Plymouth to being crushed in the ice of the Weddell sea.
Create a timeline of the events of the journey. At each point note down:
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About this lesson
The X-bar and Range chart is the most commonly used variable data control chart. When discussing SPC, this is always the example. This lesson explains how the data is recorded and interpreted on the chart. The lesson describes how to create this control chart in both Microsoft Excel and using Minitab. The lesson will include practice creating the chart.
The Xbar-R chart (Subgroup Mean and Range) are the variable data control chart to be used when working with a subgroup sample of two to ten units. It can be easily created in either Microsoft Excel or Minitab.
When to use
Use the Xbar-R Chart when seeking to control a product or process variable parameter. It is the most commonly used variable data control chart. It can be used with both high volume and low volume processes. It is more sensitive to shifts in the mean than the I-MR chart. And it is quite easy to do the math associated with calculating the control limits.
The Xbar-R is comprised of a pair of control charts. These are normally aligned so that the Subgroup Mean (Xbar) chart is directly above the Range chart. This aids in the recognition of special cause occurrences. The Subgroup Mean chart plots the average value of the data points that were used to sample the subgroup. The Range chart plots the value of the difference between the largest point and the smallest point in the subgroup data points. Therefore the Range value is always a positive number – even if all the data values were negative numbers.
Xbar-R Charts can be created in Microsoft Excel or in Minitab. Within Minitab, control charts are created by using the “Stat” pull down menu, then selecting “Control Charts.” Within the Control Charts window, select “Variable Charts for Subgroups” and then finally select “Xbar-R.” In the Minitab Xbar-R Chart panel, you will need to select the data columns with your data. If all the data is in one column, you will need to tell Minitab how many data points are in each subgroup.
If creating the Xbar-R Chart in Excel:
- Measure the attribute for the first item in the subgroup sample and record the data in a column in Excel. Then measure the next item in the subgroup sample and record that in the next column. By doing this, each row in Excel represents a subgroup.
- In an adjacent column, calculate the Mean for each subgroup and then calculate the range from the smallest to the largest data point in the subgroup. These will be the values that are plotted.
- Calculate the global mean for all the data points and the mean for the Range values.
- Calculate the upper and lower control limits for the Range plot. The lower control limit is zero for this chart if the number of data points in the subgroup is seven or less.
- If the Range plot shows an out of control condition, it must be corrected before proceeding to the Subgroup Mean plot, since that plot relies on the mean of the Range in its control limit calculations.
- Now calculate the control limits for the Subgroup Mean data points.
- Plot the Subgroup mean, Range, the calculated Means and the control limits.
- Take appropriate actions to remove special causes or to center your data within the customer spec limits.
Hints & tips
- Remember you are plotting the mean of the data, not the actual data.
- Be sure to use the subgroup sample size when selecting the A2, d3 and d4 constant values.
- Don’t select arbitrary subgroups, they should relate to the physical process or calendar groupings.
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I noticed from the ESRI website that "AddToolbox also supports working with secured ArcGIS online services", and the example is as below:
tbx = "http://logistics.arcgis.com/arcgis/services;World/ServiceAreas;UseSSOIdentityIfPortalOwned" arcpy.AddToolbox(tbx)
The codes work, but my arcgis server service uses self-signed certificate. Thereby, when I run the codes, it always pops up the "security alert" window. Is there anyway to let the arcpy.AddToolbox ignore or trust the self-signed certification? Thanks
PS. I use ArcGIS Server 10.4
Thanks! I have imported the server's self signed certificate into the certificate store. But it still pops up the alert window.
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Location of Mahendragiri, Orissa
|Elevation||1,501 m (4,925 ft)|
|Coordinates||18°58′28″N 84°22′05″E / 18.97444°N 84.36806°ECoordinates: 18°58′28″N 84°22′05″E / 18.97444°N 84.36806°E|
|Location||Paralakhemundi, Orissa, India|
|Parent range||Eastern Ghats|
Mahendragiri, is a mountain peak at in the Paralakhemundi (or Parlakimidi) subdivision of the district of Gajapati, Orissa, India. It is situated amongst the Eastern Ghats at an elevation of 1,501 metres (4,925 ft).
The Mahendra mountain is associated with east direction which clearly says that it is non other than Eastern Ghats. It is associated with mythological stories from the Ramayana as Mahendra Parvata (mountain). It is a 'Kula Parvata' along with Malaya, Sahyadri, Parijatra, Shuktiman, Vindhya and Malyavaan. In the Puranas and Mahabharata [we read] that Parashurama practiced penance for a long time on the Mahendra mountain.
The epic mountain Mahendragiri is situated in Gajapati district, Orissa.Legend says that it is the place where lord Parashurama,a Chiranjeevi staying eternally and doing tapasya.Temples built by Pandavas are seen. The main festival here is Shivaratri.
Biodiversity hot spot
Mahendragiri hill and its surrounding areas are recognized as a biodiversity hot spot due to numerous medicinal plants and other species that are found here. A haven for medicinal plants, Mahendragiri Hills, which is part of the Eastern Ghats, is home to over 600 flowering plants. The faunal diversity of the region is huge and particularly known for being a herpetofaunal hotspot. The Ministry of Environment and Forests, GoI had proposed the State Government of Odhisa in 1986 to declare the Mahendragiri hill as a Biodiversity Hotspot area. An expert committee of the Forest and Environment Department has also recommended that the bio-diversity hotspot Mahendragiri Hills should be declared as a Biosphere Reserve in 2014.
The Mahendragiri Biosphere Reserve Committee, which was constituted in November, 2011, held its last meeting in December last after which it submitted its final report recommending that a Biosphere Reserve in Mahendragiri Hill Complex should be created.
As per the survey carried out by Odisha Space Application Centre, the core area could be spread over 42.54 km2 while the buffer zone will have an area of 1577.02 km2. The transitional area is estimated at 3095.76 km2. The entire biosphere reserve, proposed at 4715.32 km2 area.
- Mahendragiri: the pride of Eastern Ghats 1993, p. 1
- Mahendragiri: the pride of Eastern Ghats 1993, p. 75
- Mahendragiri: the pride of Eastern Ghats 1993, p. 77
- Mahendragiri: the pride of Eastern Ghats 1993, p. 101
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By NICK GOSNELL
HUTCHINSON, Kan. — Hutchinson Regional Medical Center’s Heart and Vascular Unit for the first time used the Impella 5.5 heart pump, the world’s smallest, to successfully treat a patient.
"When you have a heart, normally it's a V-8 engine, it's really pumping blood well and doing amazing things, then you have a heart attack, or through the process of heart disease, that normally functioning heart is reduced down to a four-cylinder engine," said Chuck Welch with Hutchinson Regional. "The Impella device would be similar to the turbo, through efficiencies and improving blood flow, the Impella can actually improve the performance of that heart."
The tiny Impella 5.5 heart pump is placed inside a catheter with an electric motor that delivers 5.5 liters of blood flow per minute to the body. This process allows the heart to rest and recover.
"Because that heart is weakened and possibly sick, it takes off the workload," Welch said. "It's able to improve functionality while letting the heart rest in between."
Many patients can undergo major heart procedures without the support of a heart pump; however, patients with critical blockage or a weak heart muscle may require additional support provided by the Impella 5.5.
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I'm assuming there is nothing in the halogen compound except the halogen and the metal?
Thallium, polonium, mercury, and lead are the metals I know have been used in poisonings. I can't find a sufficiently heavy halide for any of them, however. Cadmium and lead might be added to the list, although I don't know specifically of intentional poisonings with either of these, only accidental ones. Does this jog anybodies thought processes? | <urn:uuid:a8e31403-e6e9-4331-b7d2-f1535f6e010a> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.chemicalforums.com/index.php?topic=57472.msg207095 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573104.24/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817183340-20220817213340-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.966667 | 100 | 1.875 | 2 |
A lot of visitors to Britain are often struck by how polite the English are. If you go into a shop in Britain (particularly in a small town or village) you will often find that the shop assistant is almost excessively polite (or courteous). (It’s also possible, of course, that they will be quite brusque or even rude, especially if you are in a supermarket or large out-of-town retail park, but let’s stay with the cultural stereotype for the time being.) If you visit a small, independent shop (not part of a large chain) you will generally find that the person serving you – particularly if it’s the owner – is extremely courteous.
Making polite noises
When you are ready to pay for the goods you have chosen, the shopkeeper will probably ask you a question such as “Is that everything?” or “Have you got everything you need?” If your answer is in the affirmative (“Yes” or ideally, “Yes, thank you”) they will then tell you the total you have to pay – followed, naturally, by “Please” or “Thank you”:
“That’s £15.28 (“fifteen pounds, twenty-eight”), please / Thanks.”
You will then hand over the money. Let’s say you give the shopkeeper (or sales assistant) a twenty pound note. You could say “There you are” or “There you go” – and here most English people would add a “Thanks” or “Thank you”.
The shopkeeper takes the money: “Thank you. That’s twenty pounds.” They then calculate how much change to give you and count out the coins: “Right, that’s four (pounds) seventy-two change”. You, of course, say “Thank you” and the shopkeeper may say “Thank you” as well.
The shopkeeper may then ask you; “Would you like a bag?”. If you need one, you can say, “Yes, please”; if not, say “No thank you.” Of course, if you are not offered a bag you can ask, “Can I have a bag, please.” The shopkeeper will reply, “Certainly” or “Yes, of course.” Don’t forget to add another “thank you” when they hand you the bag or put your purchases in the bag and give it to you. They will then reply, “You’re welcome” or perhaps “Thank YOU” stressing the “you”. As you leave the shop (or move away from the counter if you are in a large store) you should say “Bye” and add a “thank you” for good measure.
Does this seem excessively (and even ridiculously) polite to you? If your answer is “Yes” then the chances are that you are not British. Conversely, British people travelling abroad often find foreigners quite rude. Another problem facing native English speakers is that when they use what for them is the “normal” level of politeness the person they are speaking to may actually think they are being (mildly) sarcastic.
Expressions of politeness are undoubtedly influenced by the culture you belong to – but British English in particular seems to be in the “Champions League” of politeness, with only some other languages, such as Japanese, perhaps, demonstrating a higher level of deference. So, if you’re going to visit Britain my advice to you is to mind your “P’s and Q’s” (i.e. (that is) make sure you say “please” and “thank you”) and if you are not sure what to say, say something polite: it will always be appreciated.
Conversation: In a Bookshop
A tourist enters a small bookshop in London, ringing the bell as they open the door. The shopkeeper appears.
Shopkeeper: Hello. How can I help you?
Customer: Oh, hello. I was wondering if you’ve got a guide to places of interest in London (please).
Shopkeeper: Yes, of course. We’ve got a couple of tourist guides in our London section. Come this way, please.
(Customer follows the shopkeeper).
The shopkeeper shows the guides to the customer, who picks one and then they move back to the counter.
Shopkeeper: Right, so that’s “Visting London in A Day” and that’s £12.20 (twelve (pounds) twenty), please OR thank you very much.
Customer: (Giving the shopkeeper a twenty pound note): Thank you.
Shopkeeper: (Taking the banknote). That’s twenty pounds thank you. Would you happen to have the twenty (pence), please?
Customer: Oh, let me see. (Looks in purse). Yes, there you are. (Gives the shopkeeper the coin). Thank you
Shopkeeper: That’s lovely, Thank you. (Gives the customer their change). And that’s four pounds. Thank you.
Customer: Thank you.
Shopkeeper: Would you like a bag?
Customer: Oh, yes, please. (Thank you.)
Shopkeeper: (Puts the book in a bag and hands it to the customer.) There you go. Thank you very much.
Customer: Thank you.
Shopkeeper: Thank YOU.
Customer: (Leaving the shop) Thanks a lot. Bye.
Shopkeeper. You’re very welcome. See you again soon.
© Robert Dennis, Big Business English, 2018
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It had been a long day on the road and we were tired, but some instinct made Ruth & me get off I-70 and head for Cisco. We were soon glad we did this because we discovered a fabulously scenic road that we had already driven once upon a time. It was a good lesson for 2 seasoned travelers. Highway 128 is far more beautiful driving from Cisco back to Moab.
Highway 128, we quickly learned, is part of the Dinosaur Diamond National Scenic Byway. It skirts a natural landscape bordering Arches National Park that has never been developed for tourism and produces almost 45 miles of continuous scenery. Even if you are tired, take Exit 204 off of I-70 and head for Cisco, but turn right on.Highway 128 instead. There’s no reason to go into Cisco because it has become a ghost town. Its population is said to be 4 but was higher when it became a set for filming the movie Thelma & Louise several years ago. The final scene that looks like the Grand Canyon is actually Dead Horse Point, a visitable Utah State Park near Moab.
The first major landmark on 128 was the old Dewey Bridge. We actually crossed it years ago when it was a one-lane wonder over the Colorado River. But it burned in a fire in 2008 and has been replaced by a sleek new 2-lane structure. Wise heads preserved Dewey because when it was built in 1916 it was Utah’s longest suspension bridge. It was a thrill to see and photograph Dewey again in the land of dinosaur footprints, fossils, archeological sites, river vistas, and always near the natural stone arches of a popular national park. There are actually far more views of the Colorado River along this road going in this direction, and the river is far more placid here going southwest than it is down in The Grand Canyon.
The 2nd landmark we saw was Fisher Towers. These red rock formations were unmistakable and beautiful, but we did not attempt the trail to them because it was so late in the day. It’s still a movie set kind of vista.
We did stop, however, at a spot where 3 travelers in an SUV almost got stuck. They had climbed up to a hole in a rock where at some point in time people attempted to settle. After they left, Ruth and I climbed up to the hole to see the settlement site.
We made it as far as Castle Valley, which is 16 miles from Moab. Far more than a ghost town, this small settlement of about 300 was full of the usual small town activities.
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Can anyone provide the link of Best Video demonstration for GeoLocation feature Power of Wkitude SDK???
I've watched many videos for GeoLocation of Wikitude on Youtube. But unfortunately nothing found what I actually want to see.
Unfortunately I do not understand which video you are referring to, since I cannot think of any video similar to your title. Maybe you can tell me what your use case is and I can further assist you.
A Video demonstration in which all the features are combined which are:
A sample use case is:
A company has 10 outlets in 4 cities. Different 3D objects and Videos are specified (to be augmented) at the ground and walls of each outlet's Conversation room. When the mobile camera enters the Conversation room, only then augmentation occurs, without any target or visual recognition. Only by using Geo, GPS, accelerometer, comass, gyro etc. Specially "Distance based scaling" that either mobile is moving forward/backward, up/down, right/left: the augmentation should stand still at its location specified and scales accordingly.
I think wikitude's Geo feature is the most powerful feature, So I also suggest/recommend to wikitude to make such kind of video demonstration by which user can understand what wikitude's Geo can do actually. And then wikitude use that video for its marketing purpose to show top-notch tech and quality in Geo-AR.
I also didn't found any video yet in which the app uses only Geo and shows "Distance Based Scaling" actually.
Everything that you would need to know regarding how to work with GeoLocation features is covered in the documentation. In addition, if you are experiencing specific issues you could also search in our forum. However, I do understand the need for having more video tutorials and not only documentation. We are working on providing our developers with more videos and we will take your comments into consideration. In the meantime, you could have a look at the following YouTube video.
Thanks for taking my comments into consideration. And also for giving the link for video. I have watched this one before.
But I am waiting specially for "Distance based scaling" video that either mobile is moving forward/backward, up/down, right/left: the augmentation should stand still at its location specified and scales accordingly. In the above video, only panning action has shown but not moving either of the six directions respectively. :) | <urn:uuid:5f7caf77-cf67-47bb-a899-4b9ff9521e21> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://support.wikitude.com/support/discussions/topics/5000086228 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572161.46/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815054743-20220815084743-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.949033 | 513 | 1.632813 | 2 |
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The moment building a doing work relationship, you will be conscious of the sort of relationship you have with your co-workers. Although personal relationships are certainly not as important as a functioning one particular, they are crucial to your work along with your mental healthiness. Whether you have a romantic or platonic romantic relationship with your co-staffs, it is important in all honesty and open minded. You can build a strong romance with your workforce users by developing a good relationship with all of them. | <urn:uuid:34bffcc6-43be-4d8c-88f5-db9088fb5b65> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://azemichi.tokyo/the-value-of-a-doing-work-relationship/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573540.20/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819005802-20220819035802-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.971087 | 925 | 1.703125 | 2 |
Do you want to learn how to earn a living from the comfort of your own home? There are lots of people who feel that way and give up before they begin. You have done the right thing by searching for this article. Keep reading for some tips you can use to make money on the Internet whenever you have free time.
Watch out for online scams. Though lots of opportunities for income are out there, you need to be wary of disreputable ones. Look for reviews of potential plans before making any agreements.
Write for revenue sharing sites like InfoBarrel or Squidoo. You can write about your passions and share their ad revenue. They also connect to the affiliate program of Amazon, so you can earn even more.
You should be ready to offer proof of your identity when pursuing online work. A lot of online money making ventures will require the same kind of documentation a physical building employer might for a job offer. The process will be much simpler if you’re prepared with your ID.
Tutoring has become very popular. If you want to work at home and use your knowledge, tutoring may be for you. If you have a solid background in a particular area, you likely have the ability to tutor for a reputable online company. If you perform well, you could open up more opportunities.
Make good use of your free time. Many online sources of income can be done without a lot of focus. Use a site like ClickWorker.com to make some money. Try doing these while watching television. You’re not going to make a whole bunch of money with these things, but it can help you to earn a little when you’re bored.
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Rubéole (Rubéole virus)
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Gigantic (GG) 40-60cm
XL (XL) 25-38cm
Original (PD) 12-20cm
Minis (MM) 5-10cm each
Keychain (KC) 5-10cm with clip
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All about Rubéole (Rubéole virus)
FACTS: A childhood encounter with “little red” (or “rubella” in Latin) was historically considered a rite of passage. Usually symptoms were limited to little red rashes on the face, arms, and torso, often accompanied by joint pains, headaches and fevers, generally lasting no more than three days. In fact, rubella is sometimes referred to as the “three day measles” though this is a colloquialism: true measles is actually caused by Rubeola, which is a completely different virus. (Rubella is also sometimes called “German measles” because the virus was first identified by German doctors in the 1880s.)
Unfortunately, while rubella normally poses only minor risks to healthy individuals, it can be very dangerous to unborn children infected in the womb. If rubella is contracted in the first 20 weeks of life, a rash of devastating consequences can occur including heart disorders, mental retardation, deafness, blindness – and even death.
However, the good news is that since 1969 a vaccine has been available which can provide protection against little red rubella. While children who get the vaccine may already be out of the woods with respect to the most dangerous phase of rubella infection, the protection conferred by the vaccine still spares them the unpleasant encounter – and of course, as community-wide infections are reduced, exposure to the virus in general is naturally more limited.
But most importantly, because the vaccine generally provides long-term immunity against infection, unborn children yet-to-be-conceived are protected as well.
All of which gives the story of little red rubella a very happy ending.
|Name||The name comes from the Latin root word, meaning “little red” to describe the red rash it causes on kids.|
|Actual Size||30 to 35 nanometers – that’s 3 million times smaller than a smart phone!|
|Where It Lives||Rubella is a highly contagious disease caused by a virus. It spreads from person to person through coughing and sneezing. It’s sometimes known as German measles, but don’t let the name and common symptoms confuse you. It’s not the same as measles!|
|Symptoms||Causes fever and rash that lasts for 2 or 3 days. Kids can sometimes experience swollen glands and aching joints. Women who catch it during pregnancy can pass it to their babies and cause birth defects or miscarriages.|
|Cure||There is no cure, but the Measles Mumps Rubella, or MMR, vaccine is recommended to prevent the spread of all three diseases.|
The disease was first discovered in 1938 by Japanese scientists, Hiro and Tosaka. The virus wasn’t identified until 1962 by Parkman and Weller.
1964: 12.5 million cases of rubella spread across the U.S. and resulting in tens of thousands of birth defects.
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You may have heard of Golf, but never played it. This article will explain what golf is, its Rules, how to play it, the best courses, and other details. You’ll also learn the hand-eye coordination required to play golf. Get ready for a challenging and fun day of golf! Here are the basics:
Rules of golf
To play the game well, you will need to be familiar with the Rules of Golf. The rules for the greens are determined by the terrain on the course. The course is marked with yellow or red stakes. The tee box should be two club lengths from the golfer’s tee. If they miss the ball by more than two club lengths, they may be disqualified. They may be disqualified if they miss by more than two club lengths.
Rule 8 covers the central principle behind golf. As soon as the ball comes to rest, the player must accept the conditions that affect the stroke. The player can take reasonable steps to improve the conditions. In certain circumstances, these conditions may be restored without penalty. Provisional balls are also covered by the Rules of Golf. These balls may be used as an emergency replacement for the original ball if it is not found. If the ball is not found in three minutes, the player can continue to play with the provisional.
The next rule is about etiquette. It is an important part of golfing. It determines how you interact and how the environment is perceived by other players. You should be considerate of others and play at the appropriate pace. You should also take care to maintain the course and repair bunkers and divots. Unnecessary damage can result in you being disqualified from playing. It is important that you remember the Rules of Golf and follow them.
Types of golf courses
There are many types of golf courses. There are links and parkland courses, as well as desert and parkland-style golf courses. Inland parks have natural vegetation, while desert and parkland-style courses have artificial turf or carpet. Although links courses are usually open to the public, some are located in urban areas. Generally speaking, a golf course can be divided into one of these categories. These are the most common types of golf courses.
You can categorize golf course access by size, type of holes, setting, design, and accessibility. There are municipal courses, daily fee courses, and public courses that are open to the public. The public courses are usually more accessible as they are often free to the public. Day-use courses, on the other hand, are privately-owned and are generally more expensive. Below is a list of some of the most popular golf courses and their characteristics.
These courses are often the most popular. Links is an Old English word that means “sandy spot” in Old English. Many golf courses claim to have links, but only a few of them are actually links. True links courses are found primarily in England, Ireland, and Scotland, regardless of their designation. Links courses must be built along the coast and must have sandy soil under. Links golf is a name for golf.
Origins of golf
It is possible that the game of golf has its roots before the 15th century. Evidence suggests that it may have evolved from medieval soccer. Many historians have challenged the authenticity of Scottish sources regarding golf’s origins. In addition, pictorial evidence suggests that the game was invented in continental Europe, as the earliest known picture of golf is found in a book of hours owned by Adelaide of Savoy, duchess of Burgundy. The book predates Scottish sources by almost 400 years.
The history of golf is rich. It can be traced back to Moses who played it in ancient times. It is mentioned in literature as being played in ancient Rome. Later, the game spread throughout Europe and was first played in Europe by shepherds. In medieval Germany, shepherds played golf by using sticks to launch stones. The Dutch are also credited with a significant contribution to the development of golf. They called the game het kolven (or kolf), which sounds similar to golf’s modern name.
There are several theories about the origins of golf. Some historians believe that the game was adapted from a national game of the Persians, chaugan. Other theories claim that it developed from a cross-country game, the chicane, which involved hitting a ball with a stick. The Chinese claim that chui wan is a form or golf that was played back in 300 BC. The French game was influenced in part by the game of golf, also known as chui wan. Emil Zola’s novel refers to it as chole.
Golf requires hand-eye coordination
Hand-eye coordination is one of the most important skills for golfers. This is the ability quickly switch between near and distant objects. You should practice near-far drills to improve your hand eye coordination. They can help you develop your golf swing, improve your reaction time, and improve your athleticism. A drill to improve hand-eye coordination is a great place to start. This simple exercise will help you develop hand-eye coordination.
Golfers have been told for decades to keep their heads down when hitting the ball, but this has caused many golfers to change their swing and suffer poor club-ball contact. It has also increased injury risk. To maintain correct posture, arm extension and wrist action during a golf swing, golfers use a 13-million-bit processor. Even though they cannot see the ball, golfers still swing correctly. This allows them hit the ball accurately.
A good player should not only have a solid swing mechanic but also have great hand-eye coordination. Golf is a sensory motor activity. Repetitive practice sessions help the brain make the right decisions about where to hit the ball. This information is sent to many parts of the body, such as the muscles, joints and ligaments. Perfect practice requires a healthy brain, good hand-eye coordination, and a healthy brain.
Common scoring methods for golf
Different types of golf have different scoring methods. Most golf games use the stroke-play method, where players count how many strokes they have made per hole. This determines who wins each hole. Match play determines who wins if the score of a player is lower than that of the other players for the round. Each hole a player ties will earn him half of a point.
Another common scoring method, the par system, rates each hole based on its difficulty. A par 3 is a difficult hole to hit, and an expert would expect to hit it in three shots. To allow players of different skill levels and abilities to compete, handicaps are used to grade the players. The par system has been in use for centuries and has helped to ensure that the game is fair and competitive. Here are some examples of common scoring methods in golf:
Scores are often expressed in percentages of a score against one par. A player with five strokes on a hole of par 4 is one over par. A player with three strokes at the same hole is considered to be one under par. On some holes, a player can concede without penalty if he scores one stroke over par. This allows players to score more points with no penalty.
Equipment needed to play Golf
If you’re planning on learning how to play golf, you’ll need the appropriate equipment. Golf clubs are the most essential piece of equipment that you’ll ever need. Every club has a unique purpose and a specific design. All golfers have a basic set. More players are choosing hybrid clubs, which combine elements from many golf clubs into one. This is a great way to learn the game while saving money.
Besides the golf bag, you’ll need to wear appropriate clothing. The clothing should fit well, and not wrinkle. The shirt should not be pulled up. You will also need to wear golf shoes. These should absorb moisture away. You can also borrow tools to repair divots from the course manager. They aren’t necessary but it is a good practice to use one. These tools can also be used to repair dents in your golf balls.
Golf is often regarded as a sport for kings but it can be enjoyed by everyone. With the right tools and basic knowledge, you’ll be able to make the most of your game. Shopping for golf gear can be overwhelming for beginners, especially if it’s your first time. There are many options on the market and it can be overwhelming to choose which items to purchase. | <urn:uuid:0a416880-f999-4409-8c4f-4cc3f36a9ca6> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.thestudioonline.org/what-does-cut-mean-in-golf/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573104.24/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817183340-20220817213340-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.971075 | 1,757 | 2.375 | 2 |
Federal Reserve leaders have been inept in preventing 8.5% inflation from developing. Fed officials helped push inflation higher in 2021 with quantitative easing. Now they are slamming on the brakes with perhaps 50 basis points of interest rate hikes in May, June and July and throwing monetary policy into reverse with quantitative tightening, likely starting in June if not sooner.
As a result, there is a wide range of possible outcomes for the U.S. economy and capital markets, including:
1) An equity market bust and 2023 recession;
2) 2023 stagflation, defined as little or no real growth but still high inflation;
3) The infamous soft-landing alternative.
How did we get here? There are two major reasons for the rapid increase in inflation: One is excessive federal government spending. The second is excessive quantitative easing (QE). Together they generated excess aggregate demand in the U.S.
Supply-chain bottlenecks are an issue but, had the U.S. economy grown at 3% in 2021 instead of the 5.7% it did grow, the supply chain issues would have been much smaller. The average growth in real GDP from 2010 through 2019 was 2.2%.
The global supply chain was designed to meet real growth in the 2% to 3% range per year. It was never designed to meet real GDP growth of nearly 6%. The combination of excessive Federal government outlays and excessive QE bumped real GDP up by at least 300 basis points in 2021 to the 6% range.
Everyone knew the global supply was never designed to cope with 6% real growth except, apparently, the several hundred economists in the Fed system.
CPI inflation would likely have been in the 2% to 3% range in 2021 had the U.S. grown in real terms by 2% to 2.5%, since the supply chain issues would have been much smaller.
Higher prices in 2021 led to even higher prices this year since the Fed continued QE through 2021. Fed leaders pushed prices higher in 2021 with QE, which generates still higher prices in 2022 due to time lags in monetary policy. Fed leaders behaved as if they wanted higher inflation in 2022.
The Fed has pumped in $4.7 trillion of QE since February 2020. Fed leaders must have known this excessive monetary stimulus in conjunction with excessive Federal outlays would create inflation.
The 2020 stimulus was likely needed but not the 2021 stimulus, as the vaccines were widely available by February-March 2021 and the U.S. economy had already started its rapid growth in the third quarter of 2020.
Neither the QE in 2021 that amounted to $1.4 trillion nor the $1.9 trillion Biden rescue plan, signed in March 2021, was needed.
Combined, these two on the back of QE in 2020 created the current high rate of inflation.
Fed Chairman Jerome Powell should have leaned against building inflation pressures all through 2021 by stopping QE but instead he fed the inflation pressures with another $1.4 trillion of QE.
CPI inflation was already at 4.9% in May 2021 year-over- year, while the Personal Consumption Expenditures deflator, the Fed’s preferred inflation gauge, was at 4% year-over-year. It is not clear why Powell didn’t lean against the mounting inflation pressures. There was no reason to expect Congress to show any discipline when it came to spending.
The job of the Fed is to show common sense and discipline and control inflation. Their task is not to be politicians and agree to monetize federal spending. Fed leaders acted as if Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen in 2021 took control of the Fed and then bought $1.4 trillion of Treasuries and mortgage-backed securities in order to keep bond yields low to help goose the economy even more after the $1.9 trillion Biden rescue plan was signed.
Now CPI inflation is 8.5% year-over-year and Fed leaders did not stop QE until March 2022. Market participants have the Fed behind the curve by 9 to 12 months, based on the two-year Treasury yield as a guidepost.
Market participants have the Fed funds rate at 2.5% by year-end. In addition, the Fed will likely start quantitative tightening (QT) in June. QT adverse effects are an unknown, meaning the Fed will likely go until something breaks, such as the equity market. That would mean the risk of a recession increases substantially in 2023.
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March 5, the head of the International monetary Fund Kristalina Georgieva said that the organization is ready to allocate $50 billion to help low-income countries and emerging markets, to combat coronavirus. As written earlier News.ru, Georgieva admitted that part of the trenches can be listed even on an interest free basis.
the First recipient of this aid package will Kyrgyzstan. The Fund believed that the epidemic of the coronavirus lowered its forecast for the country and created a balance of payments deficit of $400 million As the message of the IMF Bishkek on combating the epidemic will receive $120,9 million Of which $80,6 million will go, how the loan program for quick financial instruments, and $40.3 million for other expedited line of credit.
“Credit IMF support allows you to create a support mechanism to increase the buffer mechanisms and to build confidence in the economy of Kyrgyzstan”, — said the IMF.
As earlier reported the head of the IMF Kristalina Georgieva, who is helping the Foundation expect more than 20 countries. However, as it turned out, even in the face of a global pandemic there is a place solely for political reasons. As written earlier News.ru, Venezuela was denied even the consideration of the application. The IMF explained that the request for such assistance can only state recognized by the international community leadership. As for the leader of the Bolivarian Republic, Nicolas Maduro, “there is no clarity regarding the recognition,” said the Fund. | <urn:uuid:3b23fbdc-c5e4-4594-81a6-ae34cfcbe4c3> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.kxan36news.com/kyrgyzstan-will-receive-from-the-imf-1209-million-to-combat-coronavirus | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573104.24/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817183340-20220817213340-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.948876 | 321 | 1.5 | 2 |
The field of cryptocurrencies makes frequent use of the phrase “staking.” Staking is a method used by several cryptocurrencies to authenticate transactions and reward users for their investments in the cryptocurrency.
WHAT IS STAKING IN CRYPTO, AND HOW DOES THE PROCESS WORK?
It is possible to stake cryptocurrencies to contribute to the blockchain network and facilitate the confirmation of transactions. Proof-of-stake is a mechanism that is utilized by cryptocurrencies to process payments; as a result, you can employ it with cryptocurrencies. This new proof-of-work model, which is more energy-efficient, may now be used instead of the order form. To provide proof of work, miners need to use mining hardware that has the processing ability to solve complex mathematical problems.
It is feasible to generate money by staking your digital assets cryptocurrency, especially if the interest rate is high enough for you to make it worth your while. Before you begin, you need to have a complete understanding of how the crypto staking process works.
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WHAT IS MEANT BY THE TERM “STAKING”?
Staking your money is putting it away in a savings account that offers a high rate of return on your investment. When you put money into a savings account at the bank, the bank may decide to lend part of that money to another customer. When you deposit money in a financial institution, such as a bank, you are entitled to a small percentage of the interest that is generated by the institution.
When you stake your digital assets, they are similarly locked up to assist in the functioning of the blockchain and ensure its continued safety. The amount of a profit may also be stated as a percentage yield. These returns are often lower than the interest rates offered by banks.
Staking allows you to benefit from bitcoin without having to exchange the cryptocurrency. According to data provided by Staking Rewards, the total value of cryptocurrencies that were staked topped $280 billion in the month of April 2022.
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HOW DOES THIS CONCEPT EVEN FUNCTION?
The more the number of tokens that a miner is responsible for committing, the greater the miner’s chances are of obtaining cryptocurrency rewards. The blockchain protocol stores the tokens that you, as a miner, provide to the system to establish your position in relation to the other stakeholders in the system. At any given time, the miner is free to increase or reduce the size of their stake in the cryptocurrency.
The miner makes a commitment to oneself via the use of stakes that they will not make any mistakes while they are working. If a miner violates certain protocols in the process of mining, it is conceivable that they may lose some of the cryptocurrency they have mined. Slashing, often known as “cutting,” is a kind of corporal punishment that may be administered to dishonest or poorly performing miners.
There are several cryptocurrencies that do not provide a staking option on their platform. Proof-of-stake is a mechanism that must be implemented before this feature can be made available for use with other cryptocurrencies. The process of adding new blocks to a cryptocurrency’s blockchain is called proof-of-work, and it is employed by several cryptocurrencies. The disadvantage of using proof of work is that it calls for a substantial amount of computer processing power.
This, in turn, has resulted in a significant rise in the amount of energy that is used by cryptocurrencies that use a proof of work system. Concerns about Bitcoin (CRYPTO: BTC) have been expressed about the environment. On the other hand, establishing a stake requires a lot less time and effort. A system that is more scalable, it can manage a greater number of transactions at a cheaper cost.
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HOW TO INVEST YOUR OWN CRYPTOCURRENCY AND WIN BIG?
Staking is a notion that can only be implemented on blockchains that use the Proof-of-Stake (PoS) technology. It is not possible for a miner to suddenly put up a stake in the Bitcoin protocol since the Bitcoin protocol is constructed on the technique of proof-of-work. PoS systems that are now in the lead for popularity include Cardano cryptocurrency, Polkadot, Solana, BSC (formerly Binance Smart Chain), and Ethereum. When the Ethereum 2.0 platform is made available to the public, the PoS method will take the place of the PoW mechanism that is now in use.
Miners will need to familiarize themselves not just with the slicing rules, but also with the staking regulations that are unique to the platform that they choose to use. These should be available on the platform’s website in addition to the whitepaper.
For miners to start contributing their share, they must first acquire the necessary cryptocurrency via the use of an exchange. If there was a significant amount of mining activity in India, as they’re currently isn’t, a miner who wanted to invest in the Cardano ADA cryptocurrency network would very certainly buy Cardano on an exchange. For this to be successful, the user must first move the tokens from the exchange into their own personal wallet on their end of the transaction.
The stake is formed by moving tokens from the miner to a staking pool that is managed by a protocol. This action takes place after each block is mined. This pool contains the combined stakes of all the miners.
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The Bottom Line
Staking might be beneficial to many individuals, both within and outside of the cryptocurrency community. Not only is it feasible for shareholders to profit from the cryptocurrencies they already possess, but they can also contribute to the continued growth and vitality of the bitcoin ecosystem.
Additionally, there are positive effects on the ecosystem. It leads to a reduction in the quantity of carbon dioxide released into the atmosphere, as well as the amount of energy used, and electronic waste produced. This is a big milestone given that the carbon footprint left by Bitcoin has now reached the same level as that left by the whole country of Oman. To put it another way, staking is an investment strategy that is not only profitable but also effective and kind to the environment. | <urn:uuid:e577123f-9e66-49a2-817e-9cf1600e3fab> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://answerques.com/what-is-staking-cryptocurrency/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573104.24/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817183340-20220817213340-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.960627 | 1,277 | 2.4375 | 2 |
Being the editor
for my school's annual literary magazine, I believe that I have a decent grasp of the teenage
style of writing
. I've composed the following list of guideline
s for anyone hoping to emulate
the writing of an American teenager
- Your poem must focus on one of the following themes or phenomena: love
, or (most popular of all) angst
- Make sure to use unoriginal and basic imagery
. Remember, a kindergarten
er might want to read what you have written; make sure that nothing you write will confuse them.
- Don't stick to just one idea or theme
. Change somewhere in the middle of your poem to something unrelated
. For example, if your poem is about regret
, spend a few stanzas talking about breathing
- Don't think that just because this section is entitled "diction
" that you need to actually use a dictionary
. After all, if you spell everything
correctly, how is it art?
- Words of more than three syllables are forbidden
- All rhymes must be single-syllable
rhymes- preferably, single-syllable words. A good pair of lines might be "I got in my car
/ So then I decided to go and drive really far
- If you have any vaguely perceptable rhythm
(like, say, if you're in English class
and you're supposed to write a sonnet
), make sure that you choose words in such a way that you often place the ac-cents'
on the wrong syl-la'
, and There
are completely interchangeable.
- Use illogical words. If you are writing about a flower
that is smoothly
releasing a scent, you should use the wording "constantly
Forming The Line
- Absolutely do not
keep a consistent rhythm. Have three or four lines flow together
. Then, add a ridiculously long and tangled line that is so confusing that it will make the reader pause in order to insert a blade into his own abdomen
- Make sure that you often switch the SVO
order (Write like Yoda
you will) and/or put infinitive
phrases in random places (e.g. "I climbed the mountain a new sight
- Make sure that no two stanza
s have the same number of lines.
- Commas are evil
. As often as you can, omit
them. Do this to such a degree that the poor sap reading your poem will need to compulsively mark in at least a dozen commas.
- Use four or five lines setting up the subject
of a sentence... then play a trick on your reader by having no predicate
. Hahaha! Look at them get confused and re-read it, trying to find that missing verb! Except it doesn't exist!
- The possessive form of "it
" is "it's
do not require apostrophes
. Apostrophes are just wasted strokes of the pen. They slow you down. Dont test the muse
's patience by getting stuck in the details.
- The plural form of most nouns is denoted
by an apostrophe. For example, one eats "apple
's", not "apple
- End all questions with a period. How do you do that
, you ask. Well, can you do it
like that. Refer to the guideline
should not be marked by quotes. In fact, it's bad form to even use a comma
to distinguish spoken text from the rest of a sentence. Be direct. e.g.
Why dont you love me I said.
- Use a background
image. Just google
-search a vaguely-related graphic and plop it on, copyright
notice and all. Don't bother printing in color or making your font readable against the resulting swirls of black and grey. Art
isn't supposed to be easy to understand; make it as difficult as possible for the reader. (Unless, of course, the reader is in kindergarten.)
- When you're ready to publish your masterpiece, print the poem out in a weird font. The more it looks like indecipherable middle-english chicken-scratch, the better it is
. Express your personal creativity!
Alternatively, you could use a font that puts every character in caps (or, better yet, use a weird font and just type with caps lock on!). Just feel how your emotions flow
from that wall of capital letters! Your reader will be impressed.
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By Euro Weekly News Media • 29 March 2015 • 12:30
As the service to mark the reburial of King Richard III has taken place at Leicester Cathedral, students and staff at the King Richard III College, Mallorca, celebrated a very important day in their history.
The college was named after England’s last Plantagenet King by the school’s owner and headmaster, James Berry. As a member of the Ricardian Society, he has long been an admirer of the changes to the legal system in England that Richard III was responsible for. And today a memorial service was held in Richard’s honour.
The entire school gathered together at 10:00am where they stood witness to a reading by the Head Boy, Eugenio Isern. The passage read was a piece written by Richard III himself. Wreaths of white roses were laid below Richard’s portrait as a two minute silence was observed. Following this, an address was given by the head girl Harrie Wood, highlighting the life and times of King Richard III, culminating in three rousing cheers.
The important event was enjoyed by all, as young children waved their handmade flags, and the parents each received a white rose; the symbol of the house of York, which fell with our last Plantagenet King in 1487.
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In the BMW museum at the company’s solidly futuristic headquarters, next to the old Olympic stadium site in Munich, you can view a century of evolving mechanical desire. BMW has long prided itself in creating “ultimate driving machines” and all that Bavarian engineering pride is dramatised in the decade-by-decade progression of engines that harness ever more efficient power in steel, and car bodies that have moved with the ergonomic times. Each sequence of cars on show leaves a gap at one end, ready to showcase the next generation of technical advancement. Over the past century, innovation has smoothly followed innovation; it is likely, however, that the next stage will be a paradigm shift rather than a marginal gain. The next empty space, or the one after, is likely to be filled by the ultimate driverless machine.
The person leading BMW’s prototype efforts to make that car a reality, Michael Aeberhard, does not want to see it in those terms. As he takes me for a drive in what seems a regular 5 Series, he is at pains to suggest that the new model now in gestation is simply another improved iteration of what has gone before.
When we reach the autobahn on the way to the airport, however, and he presses a button near the gear stick, the change feels a little more revolutionary than that. Aeberhard takes his hands from the steering wheel, and, Herbie-like, the car takes on a sudden, apparently joyous, life of its own. It shifts lanes in dense traffic – a lorry slightly alarmingly close to my passenger window – and accelerates up to its optimum speed of 120kph.
Aeberhard lets it go through the gears, confident, after five years of refining this minor miracle through simulator and test track, that the car knows precisely what it is doing. And for the next half hour we sit back and enjoy the ride.
Or at least I do. Aeberhard remains alert for the unexpected: roadworks, lane alterations, emergency vehicles, whatever. When any of these are on the horizon the car signals its approaching confusion and he returns his hands to the wheel and takes over. He does this seamlessly three or four times, in a spirit that suggests his close knowledge of the limitations of what he calls the “highly automated driving project” and in a way that seems to prefigure a new kind of relationship between driver and car – one of mutual co-operation rather than continuous control.
In contrast to some other autonomous projects, the BMW car does not have conspicuous sensors and radar bolted on to its exterior. “The idea at the very beginning was that we wanted the car to look like a normal 5 Series,” Aeberhard says. “Unless you know where you are looking, it is difficult to spot the 12 sensors.” Most are repurposed versions of technology already available. The radar sensor in the front bumper is the same one that currently enables “active cruise control”. The camera system is similar to the lane departure cameras already in use (though the software allows it to recognise speed limit signs as well as lanes). Lasers are in the bodywork near road level; there are, as a result, also only four, as opposed to 64 in some versions of the roof-mounted technology, because they “see” more laterally than downward.
BMW is limiting its driverless ambitions to the autobahn (except for a valet parking innovation it recently demonstrated that will allow you to leave a car at the entrance to a car park and happily allow it to find its own space). They have, for the moment, “no real interest in junctions and turning”, Aeberhard says. The key challenge in mostly straight-line driving is simply speed. “Getting from 130kph down to zero with a good amount of braking still takes 80 to 100 metres so you have to have detection with your sensor at least to that range very reliably,” he says. “That is near the limit of what the sensors can do at this speed. But still it is quite successful… ”
I turn over that word “quite” in my head momentarily and scan the speeding traffic ahead. “How far can it ‘see’?” I wonder. “Between 150 to 200 metres to the front,” Eberhardt says, “And to the rear and the side 50 to 60 metres.” “How does that compare with human perception?”
“Oh,” he says cheerfully, “human perception is way better. We have a plan to put a black wall at that distance on the simulator 150 metres away and see how that really feels. But if there is an incident ahead the braking distance is good enough…”
“But only just?”
Aeberhard looks ahead calmly.
“Have they had any crashes?”
“None at all,” he says.
There is something appropriate in test driving this particular car on these particular roads because it was here that the idea of autonomous driving had its authentic Eureka moment. Almost 30 years ago a German engineer, Ernst Dickmanns, working out of Munich University in association with Daimler-Benz, piloted a project called the “Programme for a European Traffic of Highest Efficiency and Unprecedented Safety” (or “Prometheus”).
Dickmanns and his team incorporated several dozen “transputers” into a car, pioneering the first man-made three-dimensional mobile vision system. By 1995 they were able to have their car drive autonomously 95% of a 1,700km trip from Munich to Odense in Denmark and back. On the autobahn, the system achieved speeds of 175kph. The car was, however, perhaps 20 years ahead of its time. The level of computing power required made the prototype too expensive and cumbersome for commercial production.
Two decades and many technological advances later, and almost every large car manufacturer is pursuing a version of Dickmann’s idea. There is, Aeberhard suggests – as we bomb along the autobahn – not that much sharing of technology between manufacturers, beyond some limited European-wide initiatives. Each manufacturer is trying to find its own way of creating autonomy, while mindful of going too far too fast. Toyota, for example, has learned lessons from its experience in 2005, when it introduced the world’s first self-parking car; far from being greeted as a game-changing advance, it was mostly criticised for being over-engineered as well as expensive, and was not widely copied.
Volvo has made many advances in incorporating automated safety systems, with its stated ambition of achieving “no accidents involving Volvo cars by 2020”. But so far this is mainly with an emphasis on keeping the driver alert. For example, if a car crosses a lane line without the driver using an indicator signal, the dashboard flashes the image of a steaming coffee cup and the words “time for a break”. If it is still drivers that cause accidents, we would like to believe it is also careful drivers that prevent them.
The concept of driverless vehicles is even more complicated for companies such as Mercedes and BMW which sell cars on the basis that people will love the experience of driving them. As Aeberhard suggests, BMW has put a great deal of its design effort into making hands-free feel like a natural driving experience. “The reality of the world is that a lot of driving we do is not fun driving. It is driving to work in traffic. Even so, we want it to feel as it should feel if they were driving it themselves. Or like maybe a chauffeur is driving. A very comfortable do-not-disturb type of driving.”
This is the second time in a few months that I have experienced a version of this much advertised future. On the first occasion, near its Mountain View headquarters in California, I ventured out in one of Google’s remodelled Lexus cars, and then around a test track in its homegrown bubble car just before it was allowed on the road. The experience could hardly have been more of a contrast. Google is attempting autonomy in city driving, a challenge, as Aeberhard acknowledges, at a different order of magnitude from what BMW and most of the rest are aiming for. Never shy of hubris, Google wants not only to reinvent the car but to replace the whole idea of driving. In some ways this is primarily a mapping challenge. The BMW mapping system is comparatively basic – a mix of GPS and sensory observation of lane markings and other vehicles; the map itself of the routes it follows in Munich hasn’t been updated in two years.
“One thing we have noticed about maps,” Aeberhard says, “is that the more detailed they are, the more the world they describe is constantly changing. The sensors themselves are getting better. The better the sensors get, the less you need the map.”
Google, which of course loves its cartography skills, is trying something altogether more sophisticated. Its system, aiming at full autonomy, not only has to take account of traffic but of every eventuality on a city road.
Dmitri Dolgov is the systems engineer responsible for imagining and interpreting this landscape: “We continuously get better at classifying things and predicting how they will behave,” he explained. “If you have a cyclist coming towards you the wrong way in a cycle lane for example. Or if a car in front is about to make a U-turn as opposed to a normal turn, the system can now recognise slight changes in behaviour. We don’t have to worry about birds, they will avoid us. We do have to worry about the likelihood of people opening doors from parked cars. We can predict when someone is going to run a red light. When cyclists do it. Then there is a long tail of very weird events…”
Google has a dedicated group of employees, as part of the project, whose job is to put the bubble car into the most unusual situations it can conjure up to prove it does the right thing. They spend days tossing beach balls in front of the prototype, or letting scooters loose, and seeing what happens.
Some intuitive behaviour is still well beyond it. At four-way junctions, which in American suburban streets rely on eye contact between drivers and a system of edging forward, the car can become paralysed.
In general – in the somewhat jerky drive I enjoyed – it is exceedingly cautious, in a driving culture where excessive caution creates its own difficulties. The accidents the Google car has had have almost all been when it has been rear-ended by other vehicles when it was following the letter of highway law perhaps too closely, or stopping too abruptly. It behaves a little like a nervy learner driver. “The real problem is that the car is too safe,” Donald Norman, director of the design lab at the University of California, San Diego, who studies autonomous vehicles, has observed. “They have to learn to be aggressive in the right amount, and the right amount depends on the culture.”
There is a kind of ambitious genius in what Google is aiming for – and of course the implications, positive and negative, are debatable – but the spirit of it seems to go against the grain of what people are ready for. I asked a couple of the biggest brains at Mountain View what would happen if kids realised that a fun game would be strolling out into the road in front of Google cars, which of course have no choice but to stop in their tracks. They hadn’t apparently considered the possibility.
“We want to fundamentally change the world with this,” Sergey Brin, the co-founder of Google, likes to say, with the authority of somebody who has already achieved that particular ambition at least once. It’s likely, however, that in this instance, the world is not quite ready for that change. Certainly that would seem to be the sceptical message of the attitude survey in Tech Monthly. The wariness displayed about the new technology is the kind of understanding that the marketing people at BMW – and at Toyota and Mercedes and Volvo and the rest – know only too well. Too much revolution alienates their customers. Google’s blank sheet of paper approach betrays the advantages and disadvantages of not having made cars for 100 years already. It remains to be seen if Apple, which is reportedly also building a self-driving car and has been scouting for secure locations in the San Francisco Bay area to test it, will attempt something equally ambitious, but it would be a surprise if it did not. And as such there is a stark divergence between what the tech giants believe is possible with autonomy and what traditional car-makers think can be achieved.
Much of this comes down to a schism over understanding how people adopt the new, new thing. Google has, as a core belief, the messianic attitude that human behaviour is redeemable by the universal application of its technology.
In this sense, Chris Urmson, affable head of Google’s car project, believes that some choices are too important to be left to individuals. At Mountain View he reeled off statistics about fatalities on the roads – “worldwide 1.2 million people are killed each year. In the US alone 33,000 people are killed, the equivalent of a 737 falling out of the sky five days a week. We make incremental progress but we accept it as the status quo” – before going on to question the pitch of traditional car-makers: “Driving in adverts is made to took like fun, but really driving is actually mundane, or hoping to get to a meeting on time. Traffic is getting worse. Doing basic maths, the average commute is 50 minutes a day. That’s six billion collective minutes a day, 162 lifetimes wasted in America alone…”
As a result, Google works on the basis that an all-or-nothing solution is the only solution. People and their errors need eventually to be removed from making bad choices behind steering wheels. Cars should be another element of our lives that rely on the data.
“We don’t think it will work incrementally,” Urmson says. His reasoning is that Google has taken a step that BMW, for example, has not yet attempted. They have put real people – that is to say, general Google employees rather than people intimately involved in the driverless project – behind the wheel of their cars. In 2013, they gave 100 people driver-assisted cars – with a capability similar to the BMW 5 Series prototype - to use in this way, let them go out on the public road and drive home.
“They loved it,” Urmson says. “It was transformational. People weren’t using their energy in the car, so they had more for other activities. One woman said that when she got home, she ran every evening and unlike before – when she had been tired from the commute – she cooked every day. We had another guy who drives a Porsche normally. To begin with he thought the self-driving idea was stupid, he loves driving, but after a few days he came back and said: ‘I get it. Most of my driving sucks. It drives better than me and it certainly drives better than anyone else…’”
So far so good. But then Google set up cameras and looked at what people were actually doing in the cars while they were being driven on the freeway. Urmson was frankly alarmed; far from approaching the experiment with trepidation and due vigilance, as I had watched Aeberhard doing on the autobahn, the human drivers were almost immediately putting their faith in the robotics of the car: “We saw that despite being told this was a prototype, despite moving at high speed on the freeway, they were over-trusting it. We had a guy who was sitting in the front seat, he pulls out his phone charger from the back seat, then turns back again for his laptop sets it up on the seat, and does all this without looking out the windshield. The whole time the thing has been moving fast down the freeway. He believed in the technology enough that he just trusted it. And as these things get more capable we think that faith will only grow. That really worries us. That is why it is extremely tough to get from incremental improvement to full self-driving.”
As a result, Google does not believe the half-way house solutions of the European and Asian car manufacturers will be workable. It puts its faith in full scale revolution (which is the only way of avoiding the kinds of four-way junction paralysis that the current prototype experience; if there were only autonomous cars on the road there would be no need for a nod and a wink about right of way. The cars would “talk” to each other.) Will driving therefore become another aspect of life colonised by the ubiquitous data-collectors of Silicon Valley? For all Google’s (and Apple’s) resources, you guess, in the foreseeable future at least, it will not.
Aeberhard and his colleagues at BMW think like car salesmen, not systems engineers; he believes that incremental solutions are the only solutions, and therefore, implicitly that driver behaviour will adapt to driverless parameters in the same way as previous generations of BMW owners have taken on new technology down the years. He knocks down some of the reservations that buyers might have, the kinds of reservations explicit in our survey, one by one. “Anxieties about how people will accept this are not new in the automobile industry,” he says.
“We have always had new technology. Take the air bag, for example. They had to sell the idea that a potential explosion in front of the driver was a good thing. There are cases where an air bag can injure a driver, but such accidents are so infrequent and the safety benefits so clear that we have eventually accepted the research and the value of air bags. I think automated driving will go down a similar path. It is a step-by-step introduction. It is not going to be all of a sudden you buy an automated car.”
How about the question of insurance liability. If the car is “driving” itself, how can the driver be at fault in an accident?
“I don’t think it will be too long before we have a black box in the car like you have in planes so that if something does happen you will be able to find out from the data where the fault lay,” he says. “I think the law in Nevada already requires that data in partially automatic cars.”
And what about the worries about hacking. Couldn’t an automated highway could also be a prime target for cyberterrorism? (At one technology conference a pair of hackers made headlines by showing how, by sending commands from their laptop, they’d been able to make a Toyota Prius sound its horn, and brake abruptly at eighty miles an hour.) “Hacking is a concern for any technology company,” Aeberhard says. “In BMWs, to get access to the systems that control the steering wheel and so on, you have to have physical access to the car. You need to be physically attached to the wires and then you need to know the protocols for the system to do anything, and still then it is very hard to get the car into a state where it is responsive. In automated cars there will be further layers of security.”
Does that kind of imperative mean a culture change at the car manufacturer; are they thinking more of robotics and less of mechanics? “Yes, I suppose there is a change happening in our culture in that it is becoming more software oriented,” he says. “A lot of the people we are hiring, you are looking for a systems background rather than a mechanical engineering background.” As Aeberhard speaks – his eyes always on the road, though his hands are not on the steering wheel – the car that is driving us seems to go up a gear and finds a gap in the traffic up ahead. It feels like an instinctive move that a real driver would make. Is that actually what has happened?
“It think that is more by chance that it looks that way,” he says. “The car just wanted to get up to its speed of 120kph. The odd thing is that the car is usually doing something much simpler than the thing you think it is doing. Complex human behavioural decision making is very hard to programme into the machine. We do that manoeuvre without thinking because our brains have an insane amount of experience and knowledge that they can convert into instinctive choices. A robot is not good at this. But it has other advantages. The sensors never get tired, they never get distracted, they always work at the same level.”
How soon does he think those qualities will be available to buy from a BMW catalogue?
“We think sometime after 2020 we will be ready for the first highly automated function, which means that the driver will be actually able to do something other than monitor the system – read emails, call somebody, check the news, whatever. But even in this mode, there are situations when the car knows it will reach its limit. Then it will tell the driver, with 15 or 20 second warning: sorry you need to take over.”
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The case for ambitious and transformative environmental policy is being made with increasing fervour and a series of “Green New Deals” – a reference to Roosevelt’s economic reform programme in the 1930s – have been proposed over the past 12 months in the US, Europe, and the UK. Such policies would involve massive state investment in the development of renewable energy infrastructure, retrofitting buildings to improve energy efficiency, and efficient and high-speed public transport.
Reflecting the understanding that climate change demands deep systemic changes to the economy, the US version includes the introduction of a jobs guarantee: a public-sector job would be available to any US citizen that wants one. And in Europe, proposals call for public investment banks to invest 5% of GDP each year to “radically reduce Europe’s carbon emissions, constructing resilient and zero-emissions infrastructure”.
Serious commitments to decarbonise infrastructure at scale are no doubt essential. But climate justice theorists have long argued that technical fixes will be insufficient without a parallel transition to a global economy that does not rely on constant growth.
Addressing the climate emergency demands huge amounts of investment, but it also requires drastic changes to the forms of ownership and governance that underpin the contemporary capitalist economy. We need to move towards models of economic democracy, where everything from investment decisions to wages are decided democratically by workers and citizens.
Confronting an abstract concept such as the “global economy” can seem like a daunting challenge. But shifting our perspective to the level of our towns and cities, innovative models of economic democracy are already empowering people to deliver real solutions to the climate emergency.
With 100% of its electricity coming from renewable sources (and more to spare), the German town of Wolfhagen is particularly demonstrative of what can be achieved when municipalities adopt innovative approaches to the ownership and governance of key infrastructure. Significant lessons can be drawn from Wolfhagen’s hybrid model of ownership, which can – and must – be applied to sectors beyond energy production.
Triggered by the Fukushima disaster – and coupled with long-established social movements against fossil fuels – in 2011 the centre-right German government announced it was pursuing a national policy of Energiewende: energy transition. Yet in Wolfhagen, a town in central Germany with a population of around 14,000, this transition was already well underway.
Back in 2005, the local authority decided to take back the power. In what became the first steps to fulfilling Wolfhagen’s plan to become fully self-sufficient on renewable energy, the city government decided not to renew the private company E.ON’s licensing agreement, instead putting a public company – Stadtwerke Wolfhagen – in charge. Followed a 2008 decision that all household electricity would be provided from local renewable resources by 2015, the town committed to building a solar power park and a wind farm.
Driven partly by lack of financial resources, and partly by a vision of a co-produced and co-owned energy system, Wolfhagen decided to pursue an innovative form of “cooperative participation” that would put energy into the joint ownership of the municipality and a new citizen-led cooperative – BEG Wolfhagen. Speaking in 2011, the director of the public company Martin Rühl explained: “Through the cooperative participation we want to make the citizens not only co-owners and co-earners, but through the form of a direct participation in the Stadtwerke also co-decision-makers. For future projects, citizens and electricity customers will be at the table from the very beginning.”
Formed in 2012 by citizens who had been campaigning in favour of the wind farm development, the cooperative now owns 25% of the energy company. With more than 800 members and wealth of more than €3.9 million, the cooperative does more than just let citizens own a share in the towns energy company – it also lets them control it. The cooperative has two of the nine seats on the board of the energy company, providing citizens with voting rights on all issues concerning electricity production and supply in the region, ranging from the setting of energy prices through to reinvestment in new capacity.
The cooperative itself also has an energy-saving fund, which receives its funds directly from the profitable energy company. Governed by an Energy Advisory Board – comprised of nine cooperative members alongside one each from the local energy agency, the Stadtwerk, and the municipality – the fund is designed to support strategies and initiatives aimed at increasing energy efficiency among its members. In practice, this means citizen-led solutions to decarbonisation have now been provided with a regular and democratically controlled source of funding.
A just transition
What the experience of Wolfhagen shows is that the rapid decarbonisation of our energy supply is wholly compatible with new models of economic democracy. Strong and effective action to address the climate crisis can be met through processes of collective empowerment, without resorting to ecological authoritarianism.
Hybrid models of ownership not only have the potential to provide capital beyond that which can be provided by the state, but to do so in a way that is committed to the common interest. This flies in the face of the logic of private companies that are committed to the bottom line of delivering shareholder profits.
While national government funding is unquestionably needed, given the scale of the climate emergency, it does not have to be an absolute barrier to towns and cities taking action. Local governments shouldn’t use national government as an excuse for their own inaction.
If we’re really going to address the climate emergency, we’re going to need to drastically expand the number and diversity of spaces for meaningful democratic engagement. This doesn’t just mean engaging people in government decisions, but creating and funding spaces where citizens (along with government actors and social business intiatives) can collaborate in delivering radical alternatives across our economy.
Ultimately, the urgency and scale of transition required to meaningfully address our climate emergency demands that national governments pursue many of the ambitious plans for investment envisioned by supporters of a Green New Deal.
But Wolfhagen demonstrates that innovative approaches to the ownership and governance of utilities can not only unlock further cooperative capital investment, but also create new forms of democratic engagement in their governance. It’s precisely the creation of these democratic spaces that can enable citizens to move beyond individualistic efforts to “reduce their carbon footprint”, and instead place them at the core of innovation in delivering a just transition to a sustainable and democratic economy.
Bertie Russell: Research Associate, Urban Institute, University of Sheffield
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It's no secret that beautiful and long hair attracts admiring glances from both men and women. If you are not naturally lucky with this, it does not matter, since it is quite possible to grow long hair in a short time. You just need to really want to, get acquainted with our advice and correctly apply them. The result is not long in coming.
How to grow long hair in a short time. Care Tips
Split ends interfere with hair growth. Therefore, it is necessary to get rid of them in a timely manner. Before each wash, as well as before going to bed, you need to do a light head massage, after combing your hair with a massage brush. Washing the growing curls is recommended with warm water (in no case hot!), Using a suitable shampoo. After washing it off, it is necessary to apply conditioner to the ends, rinse the curls with warm water and moisten abundantly with nettle decoction,chamomile, burdock root or lemon balm. Without rinsing your head, wrap it briefly in a towel and let it dry naturally.
How to grow long hair. Masks to accelerate growth
This article provides some examples of fresh, natural food masks that are easy to make at home. Onion mask is very effective in accelerating hair growth, giving them shine. In addition, it has bactericidal properties, destroys pathogenic fungi and microbes, and helps get rid of dandruff. Lubricate the roots of the hair with onion juice and wrap it with plastic wrap, put on a cap on top and let it stand for an hour. Then wash your hair with water using shampoo and rinse with vinegar and water to get rid of the onion smell.
Mask of beer, bread and mustard will help prevent breakage and hair loss. Pour a few pieces of rye bread with dark beer, after an hour or two add a little dry mustard to it. Rub the finished mixture very carefully into the hair roots and wrap with a film, then with a towel, soak for about an hour. Then wash your hair well.
Mask with yeast, honey and mustard is indispensable when growing long hair. For its preparation, these components are taken in the same parts. Yeast is useful to use inside. Useful masks from beer and egg white (mix a glass of beer with two proteins) or mustard with kefir and yolk. Grind the yolk with two tablespoons of dry mustard and mix it all with kefir.
How to grow long hair in a short time with oils
Burdock and flaxseed oils contain fatty acids beneficial for hair growth. Regular rubbing them into the scalp and along the entire length of the curls will make them lush and shiny. Burdock oil will also help eliminate dandruff. An hour after rubbing the head should be washed. Flaxseed oil is useful to take orally on a spoon in the morning on an empty stomach.
How to grow long hair in a short time using tinctures
It is very effective to rub a mixture prepared from pepper tincture into the hair roots. You can buy it at a pharmacy. Dilute the tincture with kefir, linseed oil, or at least with water, rub into a small area of the head for testing. If there is no burn, apply to the entire head. Perhaps a slight pleasant burning sensation, which very soon passes. After half an hour, and even better an hour, wash your hair. Be careful not to get the tincture in your eyes.
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The most basic type of binary option is called Up/Down (High/Low), also called Call/Put options. It determines whether the price of an underlying asset will be higher or lower when the contract. This option is only profitable when the forecast is right. If the option is in cash at expiration the trader will be paid the premium plus the payout ratio. This can range between seventy and ninety percent.
The Up/Down option is one of the most well-known kinds of binary trading. This kind of trade is offered by a majority of brokers. The fundamental principle behind this kind of trading is to anticipate the price of an asset by studying the market’s trends. You’ll either earn some money or lose it, based on whether the price is rising/falling. Before you can start your trade, you’ll need to know the expiry date. Binary Option Trading Academy
Options for Up/Down can be very profitable. Traders can make money from investing based on the direction of a stock’s price. The value of the stock may rise or fall on the same day that an announcement is made. But it could also go down in value as well, making it a high-risk trade. If you’re new to binary trading, it’s possible to read the up-and-down chart on the EUR/GBP currency pair.
If you’re just beginning to learn about binary options, it’s recommended to investigate licensed brokers and licensed brokers. You should select a reputable broker first. Demo accounts are offered by all brokers to allow traders to test their trading platform. You should read reviews from others before signing up with the broker. This way, you can see if the strategy is effective or not. If you’re not sure, create an account demo to test your own experience. Binary Option Trading Academy
The High/Low option can be a good option if you wish to profit in market trends or breakout patterns. The downside to this option is that you aren’t able to choose the expiry date. However, this can be rectified by using an builder. Many traders utilize Option Builder to select their expiry date. This strategy lets you profit from multiple trading opportunities in the same asset.
Foreign exchange rate pairs
If you are thinking about investing in the forex market, then you should know that there are a variety of ways to earn money from this currency trading market. In the forex market, there are different stakeholders, including banks and retail investors. Investors can leverage leverage to boost the size of their trade. Leverage allows you to purchase more currency than you can afford to lose. For instance, you could purchase six euro bills instead of a dollar bill.
Currency pairs that are used in binary trading are typically traded on the forex market, and most online brokers will list over 80 currency pairs that are traded daily. The most commonly traded currency pairs are EUR/USD GBP/USD, USD/JPY, AUD/USD NZD/USD, USD/CHF and USD/JPY. Binary trading is dominated by USD/JPY and EUR/USD. Binary Option Trading Academy
EUR/USD is one of the most sought-after currency pair around the world and it reveals how many US dollars it will cost to buy one Euro. Unlike the AUD/JPY, which consists of the Japanese Yen The EUR/USD currency has a low correlation with other currencies. The Euro is the most stable major currency. The Japanese Yen is the second most well-known currency pair, and is often employed by financial companies as a gauge for the performance of Asian economies.
Forex is not an exception to the complexities of the market for foreign exchange. Forex trading pairs can be risky and the amount of capital invested may not be well-known. However, there are many ways to make money in the forex market. Whether you want to invest in one currency or invest in several options, forex is a good method to diversify your investment. Currency trading is not for beginners. Before making a final decision it is important to learn about the basics of forex if you aren’t well-versed in the market.
You need to know which currency pairs you are trading in forex trading to get the most effective results. Make sure to select the currency pair that will best suit your financial strategy and financial capabilities. You must be aware of the different currencies available, regardless of whether you are trading forex or stocks. Forex pairs are the most popular among binary traders, but you may be wondering how to select the best currency pair. It can be difficult to choose the right currency pair when there are so many choices. Binary Option Trading Academy
In the world of binary trading, you can choose to trade crude oil in USD or other traded currencies. There aren’t any definitive changes planned yet, but many experts believe that the USD will eventually be eliminated as the currency of choice. There are some things that you should be aware of when trading crude oil in binary form. Continue reading to learn more about trading crude oil in binary format. Here are some sources if your don’t know where to start.
The first thing investors should examine is the crude oil inventories report from the US Department of Energy. This report, which excludes the Strategic Petroleum Reserve, shows changes in the balance between supply and demand. The price fluctuates based on these numbers, however it is not the only factor that influences oil prices. To make the most accurate predictions it is necessary to utilize multiple data points and mix them with EIA statistics. The number of barrels in stock at the time of publication determines the price of oil.
The price of crude oil fluctuates widely on various markets. The price of crude oil is closely linked to natural disasters, political events, and deviations in currency markets. There are two main types for crude oil contracts: futures and spot. Spot contracts reflect current prices on the market, whereas futures contracts are the prices buyers and sellers will pay on a later date. Crude oil can be traded worldwide in both derivatives and spot markets.
Global economic conditions have a major impact on the prices of crude oil. The demand for oil triggers an increase in oil prices. Despite fluctuations in demand for energy products, the global economy is still a major exporter. Any price change in energy will have an impact on the Canadian dollar’s value. Despite the volatility of crude oil prices, there are many factors that could affect it. Particularly, the price of oil is affected by weather, and it can be a rapid change.
Crude oil, like all commodities is subject to fluctuations. It is imperative to know the price in the near term for the purpose of making profits. Charts are an instrument that traders use to predict the price of commodities. This tool lets you create a variety of trading strategies and generate a huge turnover. Trading in crude oil can assist in diversifying your portfolio similar to trading on the stock exchange. Binary Option Trading Academy
Price of stock
Binary options are something you might have heard of if you’ve ever traded stocks. These contracts let you place a bid or an offer in response to the price of the asset that is used as the basis. Profits from binary options are the difference between the value of the contract and the premium you pay. Since these contracts are worthless when the asset being traded fails to reach its exercise threshold prior to expiration date, they’re also ideal to lock in profits.
Binary options and contracts for difference are two types of binary options that the UK financial regulator regulates. Binary trading is monitored by CySEC and FCA However, the Australian Securities and Investment Commission is the one who oversees it. While the UK has recently passed legislation banning binary options, the law isn’t binding in Australia or the United States. This law is meant to protect traders, not deter them. Binary trading can be a powerful tool for both traders and investors.
Binary trading and stock trading differ in that stocks can be traded on the stock exchange. Both require you to predict price fluctuations and have a sound risk management strategy. There are many frauds in both of these areas, therefore it is crucial to choose a licensed broker to minimize your risk. This means that you’ll be able to avoid the risk of trading stocks. You will also have more options in deciding the broker you work for.
It is important to do thorough research prior to trading in binary trading. While you can employ some of the same strategies for traditional options, the best way to be certain about your predictions is to perform an analysis of markets prior to every trade. The aim is to make money by selecting the correct direction for the value of the asset in question. If the underlying asset moves in the direction you would expect then the trader gets the entire amount of the fixed payout. Binary Option Trading Academy | <urn:uuid:15719116-c502-45f8-9dd7-e6adce18dde2> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://litecoinrain.org/binary-option-trading-academy/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571989.67/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813232744-20220814022744-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.941173 | 1,934 | 1.890625 | 2 |
This study had 2 goals: (1) to identify clinical and demographic characteristics associated with sildenafil exposure for infants with bronchopulmonary dysplasia (BPD)-associated pulmonary hypertension (PH); and (2) to characterize hospital-specific treatment frequency, age at first administration, and length of sildenafil treatment.
This retrospective cohort study used data from the Pediatric Health Information System to determine variables associated with sildenafil exposure and between-hospital variations in sildenafil utilization patterns. The study included infants with BPD-PH who were discharged between January 1, 2006, and December 31, 2013.
Within 36 US pediatric hospitals, 3720 infants were diagnosed with BPD, of whom 598 (16%) also had a diagnosis of PH (BPD-PH). Among infants with BPD-PH, 104 infants (17%) received sildenafil. The odds for sildenafil treatment among infants born between 25 and 26 weeks’ gestational age (GA) and <24 weeks’ GA, respectively, were 2.26 (95% confidence interval [CI]: 1.20–4.24) and 3.21 (95% CI: 1.66–6.21) times those of infants born at 27 to 28 weeks’ GA. Severity of BPD correlated with sildenafil exposure, with adjusted odds ratios (ORs) for moderate BPD (OR: 3.03 [95% CI: 1.03–8.93]) and severe BPD (OR: 7.56 [95% CI: 2.50–22.88]), compared with mild BPD. Greater rates of sildenafil exposure were observed among small for GA neonates (OR: 2.32 [95% CI: 1.21–4.46]). The proportion of infants with BPD-PH exposed to sildenafil varied according to hospital (median: 15%; 25th–75th percentile: 0%–25%), as did the median duration of therapy (52 days; 25th–75th percentile: 28–109 days).
The odds of sildenafil treatment were greatest among the most premature infants with severe forms of BPD. The frequency and duration of sildenafil exposure varied markedly according to institution. Patient-centered trials for infants with BPD-PH are needed to develop evidence-based practices. | <urn:uuid:847943b7-b562-4c44-a0cf-c6e11cf88507> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://publications.aap.org/hospitalpediatrics/article-abstract/6/1/27/26295/Sildenafil-Treatment-of-Infants-With?redirectedFrom=fulltext | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572304.13/warc/CC-MAIN-20220816120802-20220816150802-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.951303 | 507 | 1.757813 | 2 |
A church tower, how much would insurance cover that for? The Dutch RTV Utrecht discovered they valued the church tower of Utrecht at 96 million euro. Local government owns the building and insured it recently. Not a bad idea if you know a tornado (!) destroyed half of the church itself in 1674. You never know when the next one strikes.
Dom Church of Utrecht
That tornado caused for the tower to be separated from the church itself. You can still see the previous silhouette of the church marked in the pavement between the tower and the remaining part of the church. That part is still impressive. It has some large stained glass windows, a nice organ and monumental art. The style is late Gothic, which you can see by the shape of the windows. Those are pointy and tall, thanks to pillars carrying all the weight of the vaults. The height of the church (32 meters), very high for vaulted churches, also shows the church was completed late in the Medieval times. Even though the building had begun over 250 years before in the 13th century!
They actually never really finished building the whole church. They simply lost interest in the 16th century. On one side it had already cost so much money. And protestant Christians who now ruled within northern Europe didn’t see the point of pumping all that money in it. For them a church building is all about its function, not about riches, adornments, and important people. It didn’t have to impress anyone. After the tornado blew part of the church away, money and interest lacked to rebuild it. The last rubble was not taken away from the site until about 150 years later! By the way, you can still see damages done by Protestants during their “protests” against the Catholic church. They symbolically destroyed or covered up adornments in the church. That’s the reason some sculptures are lacking their faces: they were smashed.
The church tower
The tower is a symbol of Utrecht. It’s not open for visits, but it marks you view from all perspectives in the city center. It’s about 110 meters high and with that it must have seemed a skyscraper in the pre-skyscraper world. Since the historical center of Utrecht still rocks history and barely hosts any high towers, the church tower still rules town. Around the tower there’s an abundance of stores and bars.
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A nice story posted by gbw in April 2009…
“For a number of years families of blackbirds have used the same nest in the garden. Each year I have fed them mealworms from when the young appear to the point where they have fledged. At the beginning of the season I keep the amounts relatively low and build up as the spring and summer warm up and the parent birds show signs of exhaustion as the drier, harder ground makes finding food more difficult. The norm seems to be 4 clutches of four young.
I put the food out in a plastic tray which I tie to the back rail of the garden bench and very quickly the female blackbird becomes quite tame and will tolerate me being close. I generally make sure she gets used to me because of the garden noise (mower, moving bins and so on) could be quite stressful and I wouldn’t want her to abandon the nest. She quickly realises when food is going out and is at the bench before I get there.
I was very suprised this year when I found the female waiting on the back rail of the bench when I was attaching the tray for the first time. Not only does this suggest that it is the same female from last year, but that she remembers the feeding routine and was able to anticipate it before I even came out with the white plastic pot! Good to see she survived the winter, and has what seems to be an outstanding memory.
This first batch has only been three young and they fledged this morning. Bad news for our two cats and italian spinone – they are going to be kept in for a few days until the young move away from the garden. The dog is more risk than the cats – she can sense the young and find them in the bushes.”
I think you are right about Blackbirds and their memories, we have a female bird that returns every year and we know it’s the same bird as she has a displaced wing feather which is the same every year, my office door is open to the area where the birds feed and a couple of years ago she started coming into the office looking for food and she was then given her own tray of mealworms, this year, having not really seen her since last year, she was back stamping round the office DEMANDING her tray which was, of coarse, immediately put out so she clearly remembers the routine! | <urn:uuid:16b48c44-b8e4-433f-82ac-ae57b2ec71d5> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.wormsdirectuk.co.uk/blog/blackbirds-long-memories/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573104.24/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817183340-20220817213340-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.983154 | 500 | 1.875 | 2 |
What is chiropractic?
Chiropractic is the art and science of gently moving the bones of the spinal column and extremities back into their proper bio- mechanical positions, in order to restore nerve impulses from the brain, increase flexibility, and restore spinal health and balance.
Is chiropractic safe?
Yes. Dr. Beck is careful to utilize many different chiropractic techniques, tailoring each treatment according to a particular patient’s needs. From babies to seniors to top athletes, automobile accident victims, and prenatal care, Dr. Beck chooses appropriate treatments that vary from very gentle touch to more force when necessary.
Do chiropractors “crack” bones?
No! In fact the noise that you hear is not the bones at all. It’s simply the release of gasses in the joints that are released when the chiropractic adjustment is made.
Once you go to a chiropractor, do you always have to go to a chiropractor?
After a patient’s acute condition is resolved, many choose to continue with what is known as “wellness care” in order to keep the spine and nervous system flexible, healthy, and working properly. Just as you go to your dentist for regular checkups even when your teeth do not hurt, chiropractors typically suggest that you come in for regular follow-up care of your spine. While the choice is always yours whether to continue checking in with your spinal health, most patients love to come in and feel very good when they leave. | <urn:uuid:cbd6b0dc-f04c-47b3-8511-5615ea73c679> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://beck-chiropractic.com/faqs/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573540.20/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819005802-20220819035802-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.944921 | 318 | 1.90625 | 2 |
Tankless water heater goes out, floods Children's Home
Tankless water heaters were designed for small spaces (like under a sink) and are not supposed to freeze.
The one in use at this Children's Home did freeze, and flooded the main level and basement.
SERVPRO of Wichita Falls inspected the site and immediately began extracting water and setting up containment zones to unaffected areas.
We then began removing baseboards, pulled appliances away from the walls and moved all wet items to a dry location.
Our initial estimated dry date to our customer was five days, based on our SERVPRO science of drying.
Five days later, after utilizing sixty one air movers and eight dehumidifiers, the facility was clean and dry. | <urn:uuid:d568d933-176b-4be1-a110-a553f15bd10e> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.servprowichitafalls.com/before-after-photos/photo/7053548d-ba18-47ff-a902-7e17d00a945b/water-damage-restoration/tankless-water-heater-goes-out-floods-childrens-home | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572304.13/warc/CC-MAIN-20220816120802-20220816150802-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.965895 | 152 | 2.109375 | 2 |
March 4, 2014
Though many people may not know this, fluoride is a key mineral in keeping your teeth nice and strong. Especially important in children’s dentistry, fluoride treatments can begin a healthy foundation for your smile to thrive and take life’s knocks. In case you have forgotten, or do not know, about the many benefits fluoride can give, let us inform you!
One of the benefits to fluoride is the fact that it naturally makes your teeth resistant to cavities. The mineral acts as a shield, not allowing harmful bacteria to ruin your smile. Fluoride also strengthens teeth, making them resilient to the end! Fluoride treatments are common practice in children’s dentistry, as studies show that children who receive them are 40% less likely to get cavities.
Another great way to get fluoride is through tap water, as well as certain toothpastes and mouthwashes. Fluoride is also beneficial to those who suffer from constant dry mouth, people with crowns and bridges, people with braces, gum disease, and those who have a history of having continual cavities. Everyone young and old and benefit from fluoride, and we encourage you to find a source! If you have any questions about fluoride treatments, call our office and we will be happy to help!
At Blanco Circle Dental Care, Dr. Gary Klugman and Dr. Christina Bianco provide quality general, cosmetic and sedation dentistry services. Our Salinas, CA dental office serves patients from Hollister, Monterey, Seaside, Prunedale, Marina, Greenfield, Gilroy, and King City. Call us today to schedule your next appointment. | <urn:uuid:1a4ed945-cfa3-42f7-903b-febf4ab37d14> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.salinasdental.com/blog/tag/fluoride/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572161.46/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815054743-20220815084743-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.949092 | 344 | 2.34375 | 2 |
Placement Evaluation And Diagnostic Evaluation
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The 19th-century German military theorist Carl von Clausewitz gave a classic definition of war as the "continuation of policy by other means." Considering the strategy of the West during various crises in recent years, it would seem that U.S. and European leaders have radically revised that idea and now view war not so much as a continuation of policy as they do an alternative to it.
The most recent confirmation of this observation is Washington's bombing campaign against the Islamic State. Since operations began two weeks ago, Britain has joined the campaign and France intends to do so. Officials claim that the bombing will last for many months and possibly even two or three years.
At the same time, the West has made it clear that it will not cooperate with the regime of Syrian President Bashar Assad and has expressed doubts about the effectiveness of cooperating with Russia in resolving the most acute crisis in the Middle East.
Do serious politicians and experts in the West really believe that bombing will solve the problem of Islamic extremism in the Middle East? Has Washington learned nothing from past experience using force in Iraq, Libya and Afghanistan? Does anyone really believe that war can serve as an effective substitute for diplomacy and foreign policy?
You do not have to be an expert on Islamism to understand that extremism and terrorism in the Middle East have deep socio-economic and political roots — and that Islamism stems in part from multiple instances of Western intervention in the affairs of the region.
It does not take a political clairvoyant to predict that the destructive bombing campaign will inevitably inflict "collateral damage" on civilian targets in Iraq and Syria, and just as inevitably lead to the rise of anti-U.S. and anti-Western sentiment in the Middle East — only further fueling the very Islamic extremism that the West is attempting to eliminate.
And finally, it does not take a Talleyrand or a Metternich to understand that the global community cannot achieve a lasting solution to extremism in the Middle East without the participation of Syria, Iran and Russia. It has been said, in one form or another, that "if a hammer is the only tool you have, everything around you seems to require pounding." If aerial bombing is all that the current U.S. leadership is prepared to use to address the security problems in the world, Washington will always find plenty of targets for its precision bombs.
However, such "foreign policy" will probably lead to the opposite result of the one intended. It might apply pressure to several extremist strongholds in Iraq and Syria, but it is unlikely to solve the larger problem of extremism in general.
Is there an alternative? It seems that the only viable solution is to form the broadest possible coalition of political forces interested in combating extremism together with launching consistent and concerted multilateral efforts to isolate extremists and cut them off from moderate groups of Sunni and Shiite Muslims. Among other things, politics is the art of compromise. In this case, it is important that the fundamental interests of all the responsible players — both within and beyond the Middle East — happen to coincide. That provides a basis for joint political action.
U.S. President Barack Obama came to power criticizing the unilateral use of force by his predecessor, George W. Bush. Six years ago, his team in the White House proclaimed a focus on multilateral diplomacy and inclusive political decision-making. Perhaps this the time to return to those principles.
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Explore Tibet, the spellbinding destination, where centuries-old monasteries still ring with the early morning chants of monks and prayer flags flap in the wind against a background of majestic blue skies. Tibet has become an epitome for spirituality, with Buddhism reflected in nearly every aspect of its art and culture.
In your Lhasa Explore Tour, you can traverse into Tibet’s cultural heart including Potala Palace, the traditional home of the Dalai Lama. Beyond Lhasa’s deeply spiritual and ancient culture, you can discover Tibet’s natural attraction like Namtso Lake. Redirect your Tibet Tour into the nature’s pristine refuge where travelers can have live experience of heavenly treasures.
Namtso Lake, endowed with pure water and stunning landscapes, is one of the most beautiful lakes in world. The heavenly lake attracts thousands of visitors each year. Suited at an elevation of 4,718 meters, the beautiful lake is like a bright pearl on Tibetan Plateau. Covering an area of 1,940 square kilometers, Namtso Lake ranks the second largest saltwater lake of its kind in China after Qinghai Lake. It is also one of the three most famous holy lakes in Tibet.
Namtso Lake’s crystal-clear blue water creates difficulty to distinguish the boundary between the lake and the sky. The scenic vistas of the lake touch soul of every visitor who travels there. The magnificent scenery reaches apex during the summer where wild yaks, blue sheep, Mongolian wild asses, foxes, black bears, water deer, marmot, hares and other wild animals leisurely look for food along the heavenly lake shores. Likewise, countless migratory birds fly above and around the lake; sometimes lovely fishes in the lake jump out of water to enjoy the warmth of the sunshine; sheep and cows herds are found in its vicinity grazing.
In addition to nature’s trove, the sunrise and sunset, and the night sky at the Namtso Lake are extremely amazing. The wide open spaces around the lake, dotted with the tents of local nomads are interesting to see.
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The Journey of a Girl: New report launches today.
Businesses need to focus on investing in girls’ education at early and primary years, a new report reveals. Today, as the Global Business Coalition for Education marks the International Day of the Girl Child, ‘The Journey of a Girl’ shows how businesses must invest at every stage of a girls’ education journey to overcome barriers faced by girls.
The new report, commissioned by the Global Business Coalition for Education, surveyed thirty-two companies investing in girls’ education. It found that while there is a strong focus on empowering girls in secondary years, less than 10% of their education budgets on early childhood development.
While many corporates focus on developing skills in secondary school, the report argues that investment in early and primary years would be transformative. In preschool, every $1 invested yields $7 to $17 in higher future wages.
Sarah Brown, Executive Chair of the Global Business Coalition for Education, said
“We know all too well that the economic empowerment of a woman does not start when she is an adult. It starts when she is a girl. Education is critical for her success at work and across her family life, and there is a compelling case for the private sector to consider how best to engage and make a difference.”
By mapping out the barriers that face girls and their education, from birth to adulthood, the report also identifies other areas where companies can support and invest, and puts forward key recommendations to maximise impact.
This year, over 15 million girls have been displaced from their homes due to conflict and emergencies, leaving them with a heightened risk of being forced into early marriage, and child labour. With less than 2% of humanitarian aid going to education, businesses can play a key role in large scale change by using their leadership, influence and assets. In 2015, the business community championed the creation of a humanitarian fund for education in emergencies. They must continue to support such initiatives, to ensure the world’s most vulnerable girls do not become a lost generation.
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Name:________________________________________________________ Date:___________ The Enlightenment While the scientists put forth revolutionary ideas, the philosophers and social critics had a revolution of their own. The Enlightenment of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries focused on the role of mankind in relation to government, ideas which greatly influenced people all over the world. While the Enlightenment was a broad intellectual movement, many of its leading thinkers were French. The Enlightenment thinkers are known collectively as philosophes, the French word for philosophers. They developed new ideas on government, economics and religion. The philosophes shared the Enlightenment’s faith in the supremacy of reason, believing that people, through the use of their reason, could find answers to their questions and solutions to their problems. Reason could be used to reveal the natural laws that regulated human affairs. Once these natural laws were discovered, the institutions of society could be reformed to bring them more in accordance with the natural order. Many influential writers focused on studying characteristics of society and people to help solve many world problems. 1. How did the Enlightenment change political and social thought? 2. How important is reason to the Enlightenment? Enlightenment Philosophers During the seventeenth century the idea of the social contract emerged. The social contract held that governments were not formed by divine decree, but were formed to meet the social and economic needs of the governed. Supporters of this theory reasoned that because individuals existed before governments did, governments should meet the needs of the people, not the other way around. In his work, The Leviathan (1651) Thomas Hobbes of England wrote that people were naturally cruel, greedy and selfish. He proposed the idea of government as a social contract in which people gave up their rights to a ruler in order to obtain law and order. Hobbes concluded that the best form of government was an absolute monarchy John Locke was another influential Enlightenment thinker based out of England. Locke inspired the American Revolution with his ideas. In Two Treatises on Government (1690), Locke wrote that all men are born with the natural rights of life, liberty, and property. He also stated that governments exist to protect these rights, and that governments who fail to protect these rights may be overthrown. 1. What is the social contract? 2. What was Hobbes’ main point? 3. What are Locke’s two main ideas? The French philosopher Voltaire (1694-1778) had a famous quote, “I disagree with what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.” He campaigned for freedom of religion and speech. Another French philosopher, Baron de Montesquieu advocated a government that provided for separation of powers and a system of checks and balances. Both of these concepts were written into the United States Constitution. The ideas of French philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau took the social contract theory to its furthest extreme. In his work, The Social Contract, Rousseau supported the ideas of a direct democracy. He argued that all men were equal and that society should be organized according to the majority rule of the people. Under this philosophy, the individual is protected by the society, but is also free, because freedom is the ability to obey the laws that people prescribe for themselves. His ideas inspired the French Revolution, other revolutions in European colonies and the anti-slavery movement. Virtually all of the important French philosophes, including Voltaire, Rousseau, and Montesquieu, were among the 160 contributors to the Encyclopedia, edited by Denis Diderot. The Encyclopedia was both a compendium for knowledge and a means for spreading radical ideas on government, economics, religion, philosophy, and other subjects. Despite the opposition of state and church authorities, more than twenty-eight volumes of the Encyclopedia were published. 1. What were Montesquieu’s and Voltaire’s contributions to the U.S Constitution? 2. Explain Rousseau’s social contract. The Enlightened Despots Some of Europe’s absolute monarchs embraced reforms in their respective countries. These enlightened despots as they were called, maintained that the monarch must rule with the welfare of his subjects and that state foremost in his or her policies. Frederick the II also known as Frederick the Great, was King of Prussia from 1740-1786. Frederick II exerted tight control over his subjects. Still he saw himself as the “first servant of the state”, with a duty to work for the common good. He had swamps drained and forced peasants to grow new crops. He also tolerated religious differences and welcomed victims of religious prosecution. His reforms were directed mainly at making the Prussian government more efficient which helped make him more powerful as well. Catherine the Great accepted the ideas of the Enlightenment. She was in contact with Voltaire and praised him. Catherine became empress of Russia in 1762 and she made limited reforms in law and government. She granted nobles more rights and criticized the institution of serfdom. But like Frederick she intended to give up no power. She joined with the Kings of Austria and Prussia and participated in the First Partition of Poland in 1772, in which the three countries seized a slice of Polish territory. This was followed by two more partitions and soon Poland was completely dissolved among the three empires. In the end, Catherine’s contribution to Russia was not reform but expansion. Joseph II was King of Austria and considered the most radical enlightened despot. Joseph II would disguise himself as a peasant and wonder his empire to find out about the peoples problems. For this he was known as the “peasant emperor.” He set out to reform Austria by first granting religious toleration to Jews and Protestants. He also ended censorship and gave people freedom of the press. Joseph II took Church lands and monasteries, sold them and used the profits to built hospitals. He also abolished serfdom in his empire; however these reforms were all reversed after his death. 1. Why are these rulers considered enlightened despots? 2. What were some changes made by Catherine the Great? The Separation of Powers In every government there are three sorts of power; the legislative; the executive, and the judicial. By virtue of the first, the prince or magistrate enacts temporary or perpetual laws, and amends those that have been already enacted. By the second, he makes peace or war, sends or receives embassies; establishes the public security, and provides against invasions. By the third, he punishes criminals, or determines the disputes that arise between individuals. The latter we shall call the judiciary power, and the other simply the executive power of the state. The political liberty of the subject is a tranquility of mind, arising from the opinion each person has of his safety. In order to have this liberty, it is requisite the government be so constituted as one man need not be afraid of another. When the legislative and executive powers are united in the same person, or in the same body of magistrates, there can be no liberty; because apprehensions may arise, lest the same monarch or senate should enact tyrannical laws, to execute them in a tyrannical manner. Again, there is no liberty, if the power of judging be not separated from the legislative and executive powers. 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So you want to build an Android app, but you don’t know where to begin? Here are a few tips to help you get started. MIT App Inventor, Java-Code, Drag-and-drop, and DroidDraw are all great options. Besides, these tools are free! But if you don’t have a programming background, it’s still worth checking out these programs – they can make the whole process much easier.
If you’re considering using MIT App Inventor to learn how to develop applications for Android devices, you’ve come to the right place. This integrated development environment for web applications was originally provided by Google, but it’s now maintained by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. You can download MIT App Inventor for free and begin developing apps today. Here are some benefits to using this tool for Android app programming:
MIT’s App Inventor platform is built around a block-based language, which allows developers to create and reuse code and components. The library contains basic operations for programming languages, including strings, numbers, and lists, as well as Booleans, mathematical operators, and more. These blocks allow developers to respond to system events, interact with device hardware, and customize visual aspects. As with any programming environment, it’s important to have a solid foundation in app development before moving on to other platforms.
Students have more creative freedom with App Inventor because they can create apps for mobile devices, outside of traditional computer labs. It also helps students envision themselves as digital creators and become empowered members of their communities. MIT has been working with MIT for many years and has made it easy for educators to provide students with the tools they need to succeed in their career. There’s a wide range of uses for MIT App Inventor.
For developers who want to write Android applications, DroidDraw is a great tool for this task. DroidDraw provides a graphical layout editor that allows you to drag various objects onto the application’s UI. You can even edit the properties of these objects using the property windows provided by DroidDraw. If you’re looking for a free and open-source Android app development software, DroidDraw is your best bet.
There are many advantages and disadvantages to using Java-Code for Android app programming. It limits the flexibility of the programmer, but can be useful for simple apps. If you want to customize the app, however, you will need to know some Java-Code and have some technical know-how. Often, entrepreneurs will hire specialized Android app developers to handle the project for them. Read on to learn why this approach is less flexible and what to avoid.
Java is the programming language that most Android-Apps are built on. There are many ways to learn Java, from standard books to the app-building environment, Android Studio. If you are just starting out, there is plenty of online help available. There are numerous tutorials and texts, as well as a CHIP forum where you can discuss your questions and get help from experienced programmers. The CHIP Forum is a good source for additional help as well.
Unlike the IDE for iOS, Android-App-Programmierung with Java will teach you all the components that make up a professional app. This includes the underlying framework, Android-Binding, and automated tests. Additionally, you’ll learn how to use the Android-Framework and its tools, as well as how to integrate the SQLite database into your application. With this knowledge, you can start building your own professional apps and start earning some extra money.
You can create drag-and-drop apps for Android by implementing a drag and drop framework. Drag and drop operations help you move data from one View to another. To learn more, watch the Android Animations video course. Then, create an app and test it to see if it works as expected. You’ll also learn how to create drag-and-drop UI elements. After creating the basic drag-and-drop UI elements, you can move on to more advanced drag-and-drop techniques.
Once you have created a drag event listener, you can receive data from the event. You can pass in data to be displayed to the user via metadata. The system will send the data to a callback method or listener object. If the data is invalid, the method will return 0 instead of the value passed in. If the drag event is successful, you will receive a boolean value.
To add drag functionality to your app, you need to make sure your code is compatible with the drag and drop protocol. If you don’t understand Android’s Drag and Drop API, read the documentation on the drag and drop feature on GitHub. You’ll find a comprehensive example of the drag and drop feature there. Once you’ve completed that, you can start writing your own drag-and-drop Android app.
If you’re considering making your first mobile app, you’re probably wondering how to integrate Internet-Services in your application. This article will help you get started. In this article, we’ll cover how to set up an Android app for cloud services, and give you some tips on using Internet-Services in your app. If you’re not sure where to start, we’ll cover the basics in Android app programmieren.
If you want to learn the basics of Android app programming, the MIT App Companion for AI2 is an excellent tool to learn the basics. This program allows you to create Android apps on a computer and test them on an Android device. You can connect the App Inventor to your computer using a USB connection or a WiFi connection. The program also has an emulator on your computer that simulates the user’s device.
To use the App Companion for Android, you first need to download and install the Companion app onto your device. Once you have this app, open App Inventor and click on the Project tab. Make sure that the two devices are on the same Wi-Fi network. Next, open a project in App Inventor and select “Connect to Companion” from the top menu. Once your project is open, you can start programming.
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Can I Eat It Game for Kids
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Tech juggernaut Google seems to be preparing to move away from passwords, which have long been a weak point of digital security, in favor of dedicated devices. But first it just has to convince the rest of the Internet to go along with their scheme.
Following the recent zero-day exploit, the rush is on to download the latest patch for Java. Unfortunately, some users are falling prey to malware disguised as a legitimate Java update. As always: downloader beware.
SecureIT Plus (2013) turned in excellent scores in our malware blocking and phishing prevention tests, and its parental control system sidesteps some pitfalls that snag the competition. Its malware cleanup skills have improved, but they're still not good. You'll get better protection from one of our Editors' Choice suites.
Microsoft's antivirus failed to achieve certification in the two most recent reports from AV-Test. According to Microsoft sources, the reason is customer-focused prioritization; their customers weren't affected by the samples used in testing. I'm not entirely sure I buy the explanation.
With the latest zero-day vulnerability in Oracle, the most frequent advice is to dump Java. What if you can't? There are some alternative applications, but what do you do when you don't have a choice?
U.K. regulators handed down a £100,000 fine against Playboy for "failing to protect children" from pornographic online material.
With the recent zero-day exploit for Java, we're beating the "update Java now" drum and playing the "disable Java altogether" fife in the SecurityWatch parade. If that wasn't enough, recent news that the Red October cyber-attack campaign made use of a Java exploit is just one more reason to fall in step.
The 2013 edition of SecureIT is a definite improvement over its predecessor. Its antiphishing component went from zero to hero, and it's better at malware removal now. However, it's still not great at cleaning up entrenched threats, and its firewall component is iffy. Don't install it unless you can guarantee there's no trace of malware on the system.
A U.S.-based power plant was hit with a malware attack thanks to an infected USB stick used for software updates.
AV-Test continually evaluates dozens of popular security solutions and periodically reports their results. In the latest report, Microsoft, AhnLab, and PC Tools failed to receive certification. However, the average score for all tested products is a bit higher than in the previous test.
Virtual sex is not always safe sex; you could catch a virus that shuts down your system.
Last week, Google unveiled plans to build a free wireless Internet zone in Chelsea, a New York City neighborhood. Pretty much every news report and social media conversation focused on the free WiFi, and how this would give people easy access to the Internet. There was no mention of the security issues.
Microsoft rolled out an update for Internet Explorer to close the the zero-day vulnerability which had already been used in several targeted attacks recently. Microsoft's out-of-band update addresses the critical flaw in Internet Explorer versions 6, 7, and 8, the company said in its security advisory today.
In a not-so-unexpected turn of events, the bizarre tale of anti-virus pioneer John McAfee is headed to the silver screen.
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These hackers have taken on the U.S. government, only to land in jail or incur hefty fines.
Kaspersky released the first of a two-part report on "Red October," a malware attack the company believes is infesting high-level government systems throughout Europe and could be specifically targeting classified documents. According to the report, the stolen data is on the order of "hundreds of Terabytes," and went largely undetected for about five years.
Researchers at Kaspersky Lab have uncovered an "advanced cyber espionage network" - dubbed Red October - that has been active for at least five years and is targeting diplomatic and government agencies.
Last week, Apple made a minor change which could have major consequences for scammers trying to pass off dangerous or deceitful apps in the iOS App Store. From now on, developers will only be able to change screenshots for apps when they submit an update for review with Apple.
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Color Psychology: The Logo Color Tricks Used by Top Companies—and How to Design Your Own
When you think about top brands like Facebook or Apple, you surely have a specific picture in your mind. This is how a good logo works! Being a brand representative, it holds much symbolism that represents the company’s various aspects.
The very first thing that you would notice is the logo’s color. Every single hue and tone can say a lot about the brand. Let’s try to discover the psychology behind the color for business branding purposes.
Logo Color and Brand Identity
The association between color and brand identity is strong. Similar to a carefully chosen brand name, color has an intrinsic meaning that becomes crucial to business representation in the industry. It enables the company’s better recognition by introducing the desired image to the audience.
You might have noticed that every industry has prevailing colors. For example, more than 70% of IT companies use blue color on their logos, while telecommunication companies are more into a black trend.
When you are about to choose your color palette, you should analyze your industry first. People subconsciously get some emotional responses to companies, depending on the colors they use. For consumers confronted with advertising every single day, the visual clues can bring messages about what they’re offered.
Color Psychology and Logos
When it comes to logo colors, you can hardly avoid the topic of color psychology. After all, the color choice depends on human responses to certain hues. For example, yellow is usually associated with something bright, light, and honest. However, you shouldn’t ignore the context. If you place yellow next to orange, you might trigger the opposite effect. Moreover, colors are perceived in different ways, depending on consumers’ age, social status, nationality, religion, and so on.
As you can see, color psychology isn’t all about black and white. No color can guarantee you a 100% positive result for your business brand. But it can guarantee strong associations in the mind of consumers.
Industry Design Principles
Logo design turns out to be a serious dilemma. You want a logo to stand out from the crowd. At the same time, you have to follow universal design principles. Have you ever thought that red is the most commonly used color in the food industry? That’s because it stands for passion, desire, and hunger. Thus, every logo color has a chain of associations.
In the creative process, you should use universal principles as a starting point. There is nothing bad about being different. But it shouldn’t look like an awkward accident. If you decide to break the rules, make thought-out choices that contribute to your story.
Brand Personality and Values
Judging a book by its cover is not a good idea. But it can make your creative choice easier when you are working on a business image. In the beginning, you can make up a list of features, emotions, and actions to describe your brand personality. Is your company democratic? Customer-friendly? Expensive?
Innovative? Smart? Elegant?
Take a look at the LinkedIn logo for inspiration. It combines the seriousness and confidence of black, blue, and white colors. The entire logo image looks incredibly sophisticated.
Color choices determine your position in the industry by putting it in the opposition to other brands. After all, different companies can sell similar brand products and have little to nothing in common.
Just think of the differences between the well-known facilities like Subway and Panera Bread. Their logos are designed in a green color to represent fresh food. However, the Subway logo also appeals to the brand’s fast service and cheerful promotion campaigns. When you conduct some research and analysis, you will see that Subway aims to position itself as a fun, fresh, and cheap facility. Meanwhile, the Panera Bread logo is based on a different concept. The combination of earthy colors reflects on a friendly, wholesome restaurant with house-made bread and organic ingredients.
Color Psychology by Popular Brands
The most popular brands don’t just randomly decide on a logo color they would like to use for their corporate image. When it comes to business identity, there is a reason for literally everything. They want to convey a certain message to potential customers and they know that the right colors will make this possible. Let’s take a look at some popular brands to see how they share their idea with the world.
Google happens to be a rare exception to the standard rule saying that a fortune of colors can harm your brand image and even damage brand recognition.
The Google logo features four primary colors. According to Ruth Kedar, a marketing designer, the company has made this unpopular choice on purpose to stand out from the crowd.
Coca-Cola has the reason for using predominantly red on its business logo. From the first day of the company’s operations, barrels containing Coca-Cola were painted red. This way, tax agents could distinguish them from alcohol barrels during transportation. Eventually, the popular color has become a visit card of Coca-Cola and a universal trend.
To convey its passionate spirit, Toyota chooses red color on its logo. In addition, the company uses black, white, and grey to highlight the primary color. The used combination is simple yet effective. It can create a sense of urgency when a customer is looking at Toyota’s cars.
How to Choose a Logo Color?
Your logo should become a source of inspiration for potential customers. This is why you should invest all your creativity into its visual image. Don’t be afraid to play with different logo colors before making your final decision. See what works and what doesn’t. Once you are satisfied with the result, you can share it with the world. To avoid the most common web design mistakes, we have shared some strategic steps to be taken on the way to the perfect logo.
- Clarify your brand position. What kind of message do you want to send to your customers? Does your company position itself as friendly? Informative? Provocative? These details will help you share your vision in the right way. For example, green can convey youth and freshness while blue can convey reliability and intelligence.
- Analyze your logo competition. Analyzing the color schemes can’t be effective without having a look at the industry trends. In other words, you should conduct some image research by checking your closest competitors. By knowing the current trends, you will be able to create something unique.
- Analyze your target audience. When you share brand personality with your target customer, you should realize the whole responsibility on your shoulders. Consumers consciously or subconsciously choose products that align with their personal preferences. Logo colors help consumers to differentiate products, identify the most suitable options, and choose between similar products.
- Select your logo type. Wordmarks and symbols are two major types of logos. A wordmark places the company’s name in the center of the logo. It mainly relies on a smooth typeface and strong color choice. A symbol focuses on iconography to turn the company into a well-recognizable brand.
- Translate the language of color. You should be familiar with the symbolic meanings of your logo colors. This is especially the case for international brands. For example, white is viewed as a source of purity and perfection in Western countries. However, it evokes an association with death in Eastern countries.
- Reach harmony between your logo style and overall composition. Let the style of your logo determine which and how many colors you use. Do not start messing with colors after you have already finalized a logo idea. Try to think of both the color and the design throughout the creative process. At Master Bundles, you may take the font, picture, and other elements for your logo. This website serves as a source of inspiration for many designers. By checking the latest trends, you will be able to wrap up everything into a single package.
In the business sphere, a logo and other corporate attributes are created for a long-term perspective. Being the permanent marker for your brand, your logo can’t be changed every month or every year. However, some slight updates are quite possible.
Once you know what and how you want to see your logo, you should check out the fortune of colors and identify which might help you create the proper visual content. The main point is to conduct thorough logo color research and make every single choice carefully.
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It is a remarkable story: Long-stay nursing home care by seniors enrolled in Medicaid has been plummeting for 15 years.
It is not clear exactly why, but there are probably several reasons. First, state Medicaid programs have been shifting care from nursing facilities to home and community-based settings–a step that seniors themselves favor and one that may save money in the long-run. While Medicaid still spends more total dollars on nursing home care than on home care, Don’s chart shows that nursing facility use by Medicaid-eligible seniors has fallen by nearly one-third, from 1.4 million in 1995 to just over 1 million in 2010.
The second reason, as Don notes, is that seniors’ enrollment in Medicaid is growing very slowly even though the overall older population is growing rapidly. The number of people 65 and older increased by more than 80 percent from 1975 to 2010 and the number of those over 85 (who are most likely to need long-term supports and services) has tripled. Yet, Medicaid enrollment by seniors increased by only 18 percent from 1975-2010. That’s in sharp contrast to younger Medicaid beneficiaries, who have increased by more than 200 percent.
A third reason may be that nursing homes themselves would rather provide post-acute and rehabilitation services instead of long-stay care. Why? Medicaid pays an average of only about $125 a day for a long-term care resident, while Medicare pays $500 or $600-a-day for a post-acute short-stay patient. As a result, many nursing home operators are shifting beds from long-term care to more lucrative rehab and post-acute.
There is also the question of where seniors are living, if not in nursing homes. In 2010, assisted living facilities had about 700,000 residents, and about one in five were receiving Medicaid. Take Minnesota, for instance. It has aggressively moved Medicaid long-term care residents out of nursing homes and into home and community-based settings. But nearly all care is being provided by residential care facilities, and not in private homes.
It is also important to keep in mind that while community care might be less costly for Medicaid than nursing home care, it may not be cheaper overall. For instance, families or other government programs may be providing housing, transportation, meals, and other supportive services but they, and not Medicaid, are footing the bill. As a result, while fewer seniors may be using Medicaid nursing homes, and while the share of Medicaid nursing homes dollars is shrinking, these additional services are not free. Someone is paying for them.
Still, as Don says, the trend away from Medicaid nursing home stays for seniors is a good one. It is good for seniors, good for the Medicaid program, and even good for many facilities whose real value-added may be in post-acute care in the developing new world of health care. | <urn:uuid:bfd6df6b-6f9a-4c94-b596-4b7ee176d151> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://primesourcehcs.com/nursing-home-use-medicaid-seniors-plunging/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572304.13/warc/CC-MAIN-20220816120802-20220816150802-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.971416 | 594 | 2.46875 | 2 |
High up on Apharwat Mountain, is India’s premier ski resort, Gulmarg. With over 1300 vertical metres of picturesque snow riding terrain, this resort sits on top of the world’s highest mountain range, the Himalayas. This amazing mountain is home to both incredible alpine ski runs and superb off-piste powder runs, which are all accessible from Gulmarg’s famous Gondola ski lift, which ascends to a jaw dropping elevation of almost 4000 metres above sea level, the highest ski lift in the World!
Gulmarg’s village, is actually quite small and isolated, and still largely underdeveloped. Gulmarg is part of the Indian state ‘Jammu and Kashmir’ which sits amongst the peaks of Pir Panjal, on the western side of the Himalayan Mountains.
Gulmarg’s history dates back to the 19th century, when it was just a small hill town that provide the wealthy a place to escape the heat of the summer, it wasn’t until 1927 that Gulmarg became a ski resort through the vision of two British Officers. Today Gulmarg’s close proximity to the Pakistan border makes it one of the more interesting places in the world to ski due to the tensions that exist between both India and Pakistan. Although at first you may be a little startled by the presence of Indian soldiers in and around the village, this does happen to make Gulmarg one of the more interesting destinations for the adventurous traveller.
Perhaps one of Gulmarg’s best attributes, at least for the moment, is it’s relatively few visitors, reportedly receiving only about 500 visitors a year. Riding the gondola up, you notice the untracked powder runs right underneath the lift, leaving one to wonder why they would even consider riding out of bounds. Finding your way down is incredibly fun, as so few places in the world permit such easily found powder runs. Which ever direction you choose, you come across tempting ridges, faces and bowls perfect for the adventurous advanced rider.
The weather in Winter is characterised by snow storms and relatively comfortable winter temperatures not too cold but not too warm either. The best months to come being January and February as these offer the most reliable snow coverings and freshest powder. After the snowstorms Gulmarg will usually bask in clear skies with beaming sunshine, making for very pleasant skiing conditions. In the Summer the temperatures range between 24C and 32C, perfect conditions to take part in Gulmarg’s excellent summer activities, like fishing, hiking, mountain biking and playing golf.
Accommodation in Gulmarg, is still quite undeveloped, however there are new hotels in planning. Getting Accommodation in Gulmarg is becoming more and more difficult as more people are starting to visit. So like anywhere, it is important to book in advance to get the dates you want. When searching for accommodation in Gulmarg you should always book through a reliable booking agency to ensure only pre-approved hotels are visited, and your booking is honoured. | <urn:uuid:ec6d5cfe-2c1e-41f7-b8bd-1e7fa9811eb6> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://roadadventuretravel.com/ski-resorts/gulmarg-mountain-india.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572304.13/warc/CC-MAIN-20220816120802-20220816150802-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.951891 | 629 | 1.726563 | 2 |
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The Secretary of Defense is the principal defense policy advisor to the President. Under the direction of the President, the Secretary exercises authority, direction, and control over the Department of Defense.
UM’s Institute for Research on the Labor, Employment and the Economy (IRLEE) is leading a consortium of three Midwestern universities to provide assistance to communities and to small and medium sized defense manufacturing companies in their respective geographic regions. The Defense Manufacturing Program (DMAP) is a Department of Defense (DoD) Office of Economic Adjustment initiative to assist states and communities that have been significantly impacted by reductions or cancellations in DoD spending.
The DoD press release stated that:
“The University of Michigan’s Institute for Research on Labor, Employment and the Economy, in partnership with Ohio State University and Purdue University, was awarded a $2,479,069 grant for a regional Defense Manufacturing Assistance Program. These federal funds are part of a larger $2,777,257 project that will, among other activities, assist impacted companies across Michigan, Indiana and Ohio to find new markets, support business stabilization and implement diversification strategies”.
The goal of DMAP is to provide stability, and stimulate growth, job creation and job retention in the defense supply chain resulting in keeping defense communities strong. Michigan has hundreds of companies, spread throughout the state, which could be impacted by the reduction in DoD programs and spending. IRLEE will provide the following services to these companies through DMAP: business analysis and planning assistance, project identification (core strengthening, market diversification, new technology commercialization), project development, consultant identification, new technology identification and project management and funding assistance (projects may be co-funded up to 50%).
Each of the three university partners will be responsible for their respective states, with UM coordinating the work of the consortium from Ann Arbor. Larry Molnar, Associate Director of IRLEE and Megan Reichert, Program Director for DMAP are leading the project for UM and will be the principle contacts for the Department of Defense throughout the course of the project.
Author: Michael Rein
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The platform is a great additional tool for learning football. It is important that the platform contains concise and easy-to-understand theoretical materials on a balanced diet, a healthy daily routine, the importance of sports activities in everyday life, and an exercise video library. These things should be explained to children at an early age and reminded regularly so that good habits are established on a daily basis. Today’s children are no strangers to the electronic environment, our son easily navigates the platform. On the one hand, there is a slight restriction that the information is only in English, on the other hand, it still helps to learn this language, because the son himself is looking for explanations of difficult words. Ernest loves to compete, and the scoring system is a great motivation to “log in” every day to check if the coach has posted a new task. Ernest also uses the platform to post his football videos and challenge his teammates. | <urn:uuid:9b8543b6-1aab-4c1a-b115-c5e7d6afda5c> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://minute.coach/testimonial/mark-twinns/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572304.13/warc/CC-MAIN-20220816120802-20220816150802-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.954736 | 193 | 1.835938 | 2 |
Wales Top Of Britain’s Sick List
Eight of the top 10 sickest places in Britain are in south Wales, according to a survey. Merthyr Tydfil is named as the most unhealthy place in the UK, with Rhondda Cynon Taf and Neath Port Talbot coming third and fourth. Carmarthenshire, Caerphilly, Torfaen and Bridgend also have the highest levels of serious illness and the poorest diets, the report claims.
The researchers warned the results were a “time bomb” for the health service. The health map, produced by market researchers CACI and TNS, uses a combination of official data, the census and surveys to put local authority areas into four groups.
The second “sick” group – with severely unhealthy lifestyles likely to cause serious illness – is topped by London boroughs Tower Hamlets, Hackney, Southwark and Lambeth.
Researchers named the Isles of Scilly as the healthiest place in the UK – followed by Eden in Cumbria and the Orkney Islands.
Ian Thurman, from CACI, said he was not surprised that south Wales featured so heavily in the most unhealthy group. “It’s the classic ex-mining areas, steel works, ship building – all those post-industrial areas,” he said. Mr Thurman warned the results represented a serious problem for the health service. He added: “The NHS is already overburdened, but this is nothing compared to the time bomb that is set to explode if people don’t make major changes to their current lifestyles.”
The Welsh Assembly Government said it was encouraging people to take better care of themselves and identified smoking as one of the biggest causes of chronic illness. A spokeswoman said: “Wales has a history of ill health and chronic conditions due mainly to its industrial past. Tackling poor health and health inequalities is a key priority for the assembly government.”
The spokeswoman said a number of measures were being introduced to help eradicate the “unacceptable” inequalities, including the introduction of free prescriptions in April and healthy food initiatives in schools.
Kevin Sullivan of the Welsh NHS Confederation – which represents all NHS organisations – said: “Chronic conditions have rightly been called the 21st century healthcare challenge. In Wales we have one of the highest levels in the UK, partly due to unhealthy lifestyles. Chronic conditions are also closely linked with age – we have the 3rd highest percentage of over 65s in Europe – combined with the legacy of our industrial past.” | <urn:uuid:99a8f685-7bbf-4a82-83f8-2c4095770e32> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://careappointments.com/care-news/wales/77082/wales-top-of-britains-sick-list/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572161.46/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815054743-20220815084743-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.964522 | 539 | 2.140625 | 2 |
For me, gender is over.
Not in a sad, “Game Over” way.
In a happy, “Mission accomplished” way.
Because for me gender is just a set of rules and regulations, based on someone's perception of what kind of genitals you might have. If people think that you have this or that in your pants, they'll also expect you to get a specific type of job, wear a specific amount of makup, have specific amount of body hair in specific places, wear specific clothes, behave in a specfic manner, play with specific toys...
We know it's all made up rules, for instance because it differs from culture to culture and from time to time. “Asian woman”, “Western woman”, “Medieval European woman”, etc. etc. are all made to follow different set of rules. Pink used to be a colour associated with boys not girls (because of being close to bloody red).
Dictionaries define gender as “the behavioral, cultural, or psychological traits typically associated with one sex”. But I would go one step further: it's not just the “traits” that are “associated”. It's rules that are enforced.
Be it by getting physically beaten up for “looking like a faggot”, be it by being publicly riddiculed for “being too butch”, or be it by simply being quietly frowned upon – the society has its ways to make people look and behave the way their designated box says they should.
And yes, I know, there's plenty of people being very comfortable in their box. And there's many who know they'll be happy and fitting once they transition to the other box. But wouldn't it be simpler if we just got rid of the boxes?
Just let people be people. Let us be ourselves.
Ever since I put the nonbinary label on my gender, ever since I started gender bending, ever since I started experimenting with my pansexuality, I started realising how made up gender is.
We don't choose our partners based solely on the mere existence of a penis or a vagina, right? We like them for their character, skills, sense of humour, we're physically attracted to their body type, body hair, muscles, face, hair, makeup, etc. etc.
Our appearance and behaviour, our romantic and sexual attraction – are way more complex than just those simple binary categories: man and woman, gay, straight and bi...
Sure, it's a decent approximation, and I still use them to describe myself and other people. And I'm not trying to invalidate anyone's identity.
I just wanted to share how much liberty it gave me when I started to just care about those labels less.
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The good thing about being an adult is you get to make your own decisions. The bad thing? You get to make your own decisions — and live with the consequences.
As you probably know, the World Health Organization issued a controversial report at the end of May saying that radiofrequency electromagnetic fields, which is to say cell phones, “are possibly carcinogenic to humans based on an increased risk for glioma, a malignant type of brain cancer.”
That’s scary, but “possibly” is a heck of a qualifier, and the report was not based on new research. Instead, it reflected an intensive review of existing studies, some of which appear to give cell phones a clean bill of health. One of those, a 13-country study released last year called Interphone, was the largest and longest study of the issue to date, and it concluded that “no increase in risk of glioma or meningioma was observed with use of mobile phones.” It noted, however, that there were “suggestions of an increased risk of glioma at the highest exposure levels” but that evidence was inconclusive, and some scientists felt that the amount of exposure that might be carcinogenic was improbably high.
The new report, prepared by a panel of 31 scientists from 14 countries, added cell phone use to a list of 240 substances and a few occupations that are possibly related to cancer. The “2B” classification includes a lot of chemicals that one might expect to be dangerous, but it also lists coffee and pickled vegetables, a fact that the CTIA, which represents the wireless industry, quickly seized upon.
“This IARC classification does not mean cell phones cause cancer. Under IARC rules, limited evidence from statistical studies can be found even though bias and other data flaws may be the basis for the results,” the group said in a statement posted on its Web site.
It’s pretty clear that there’s lots of room for disagreement about the safety of cell phones. On the one hand, the WHO is a large and respected international organization that is raising a caution flag. On the other hand, there are equally respected groups offering a much more benign interpretation of the evidence, which is why the question of choice is so difficult. If the evidence were as clear, say, as the evidence that smoking causes cancer, the decision about using cell phones would be simple. But because it isn’t, you have to decide for yourself.
I’m obviously not a medical professional (I don’t even play one on TV) but it seems reasonable to take some precautions on the chance that we could be damaging our health.
In 2008, someone who really is a doctor, and an eminent one at that, testified before Congress about the dangers of cell phone use and listed a number of precautions you might take. The doctor was Ronald Herberman, the founding director of the University of Pittsburg Cancer Institute. (You can read his entire testimony here.) Some of these may seem too drastic. But again, that’s a choice for you to make.
- Minimize children’s use of cell phones. The developing organs of a fetus or child are the most likely to be sensitive to any possible effects of exposure to electromagnetic fields.
- Try to keep the cell phone away from your body by using the speaker-phone mode or a Bluetooth headset. The amplitude of the electromagnetic field is one fourth the strength at a distance of two inches and fifty times lower at three feet.
- Avoid carrying your cell phone next to your body for extended periods. Do not keep it near your body at night such as under the pillow or on a bedside table, particularly if pregnant. Putting it in “airplane mode” stops electromagnetic emissions.
- If you must carry your cell phone on you, it is preferable that the keypad is positioned toward your body and the back is positioned toward the outside of your body.
- Keep calls short since the biological effects are directly related to the duration of exposure.
- Switch sides regularly while communicating on your cell phone to spread out your exposure.
- Avoid using your cell phone when the signal is weak or when moving at high speed, such as in a car or train, as this automatically increases power to a maximum as the phone repeatedly attempts to connect to a new relay antenna.
- Choose a device with the lowest SAR possible (SAR = Specific Absorption Rate, which is a measure of the strength of the magnetic field absorbed by the body). The FCC has a database with information on the SAR rating of many phones.
San Francisco journalist Bill Snyder writes frequently about business and technology. He welcomes your comments and suggestions. Reach him at firstname.lastname@example.org.
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Cornhusker Economics June 26, 2019Dealing with Control of the Farm/Ranch
As I have traveled the state presenting farm and ranch succession/transition workshops, I’ve run into several family situations where the older generation is lucky enough to have the next generation come back to the farm. The younger generation, in some instances, is not that young anymore and have formed knowledgeable opinions about how the farm or ranch should operate. I wrote this article to challenge both the younger and older generations as they move their operation forward as a family.
Long term family cohesiveness can become challenging if there are control issues within the family. The younger generation often brings this issue to my attention. They have gained experience and education and have ideas about management to improve the farm or ranch. They take their ideas to their parent, and far too often, the ideas are shot down without even due consideration. The younger generation may not feel valued or in control, and even think, “Why did I even bother to come back here if I cannot contribute to the management, not just to the labor?”
It can even go beyond that. In some cases, the younger generation wants to know where they stand with the succession or transition plan for the farm or ranch. In many cases, this is not discussed or, when it is presented to the current management, they withdraw and will not discuss it. If those in control do address it, they comment, “Someday, this will all be yours.” Often, however, there is no written plan.
I’ve also talked to some of the older generation about their thoughts on this issue. They sometimes share that they don’t completely trust the younger generation to make good decisions for the management of the operation. Sometimes I wonder if trust is even the issue. I’m wondering if they are reluctant to give up control, not because their adult children are incapable of running the operation, but because they don’t know what else they would do if they didn’t farm or ranch full time. I would bet that in all cases they love having that younger family around, but don’t think about or consider how to share management with that next generation.
Here are some suggestions:
For the younger generation:
- Remember that most conflicts relate back to poor communication. Good communication is not about speaking, it is about listening. “Seek first to understand, before you can be understood” is one of the habits in Stephen Covey’s. Seven Habits of Highly Effective People Listen to what others are saying and ask clarifying questions. Many conflicts can be avoided or resolved with an in-depth conversation that comes from good communication.
- The younger generation might need to ask the older generation how they’d like to hear about new ideas. Sometimes, older family members don’t want to be put on the spot, they want time to think about what is being proposed. Find out how the other party would like to receive the idea with the understanding that they have some time to think and ask questions about the proposal. Defining a clear process for decision making indicates that this is an important process for both generations.
For both generations:
- The management transfer plan needs to be discussed and written down. It is suggested that management transfer should be gradual and planned. For example, the older generation could identify one piece of ground, or one part of the enterprise, and give complete control to the younger generation. In the case of farmland, the management transfer should include what to plant, when to plant, how to fertilize, selecting a weed control program, and how to market the crop. In a year or two, more of the management is transferred so that in 5 to 10 years all of the management is in the hands of the younger generation.
- In a written plan, also be sure to write down and agree to an exit strategy. I hear of situations where the spouse of the younger generation has a change of heart on being a farm or ranch spouse. Or there is a health issue for either generation staying in agriculture. It is important to have a plan in place that outlines how to exit a generation if needed.
- Show appreciation. If both generations could find the ‘good’ in the other generation for the work that they have done, those positive remarks would go a long way toward all family members being satisfied with their roles.
For the older generation:
- Be careful how you respond. Too much negativity with responses to ideas you don’t like gets old. Be mindful of how you frame thoughts; if the responses are negative all the time, you might drive the younger generation away. I realize that as the older generation you paid your dues. However, the younger generation is used to more communication about the plans and about how management can be shared. Figure out how you will deal with this without losing the trust of your children and their spouses.
- In general terms, the older generation needs to think about how they communicate with the younger generations, because good communication matters. Think about how to ask clarifying questions about the new idea before just saying NO. If you are going to say no to an idea, be sure to take the time to explain why you don’t feel that the suggestion given will work in the situation.
There is never any perfect fix to family issues like this; however, there is one piece of advice that will always help. When there is trouble brewing, increase communication. Too many times both parties want to stop communicating because they don’t want to cause trouble with the family. However, the opposite will usually be true. Improving communications by listening carefully and asking lots of clarifying questions will be the best way to move the operation forward positively. | <urn:uuid:2d44fe74-e025-445c-b6b1-172da1c59db4> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://agecon.unl.edu/cornhusker-economics/2019/control-farm-ranch | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573540.20/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819005802-20220819035802-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.967122 | 1,189 | 1.757813 | 2 |
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The physical examination determines whether or not you have a physical problem and helps with the early detection of many diseases.
We take care of everyday injuries like cuts, laceration etc.
Flu, tetanus, influenza shots, and more. Remember the importance of immunization from an early age.
Diagnostic x rays are useful in detecting abnormalities within the body. They are a painless, non-invasive way to help diagnose problems such as broken bones, tumors, and the presence of foreign bodies.
Many diseases affect women differently and may even require different treatments. Women’s health problems are unique: menstrual cycles, pregnancy, birth control, menopause, among others.
As such, Rapid Test and Screening are somewhat unique in that they are performed on apparently healthy people. Screening interventions are designed to identify disease in a community early.
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Shared Vocabulary and Puppetry in Ramesh Meyyappan’s Butterfly
Theatremaker Ramesh Meyyappan has opinions about the cultural position of “deaf” or “signed” theatre and its role in his own art including his most recent work Butterfly, which ran through May 14 at 59E59 as part of the Brits Off Broadway series. The wordless one-hour piece was developed collaboratively with artists including a dramaturg, a consulting director, a choreographer, and a puppet designer to further Ramesh’s explorations of a theatre language of movement without using sign language. Ramesh and puppet director and maker Gavin Glover discussed by phone and email the background and context for Butterfly, their own backgrounds, and their hopes for a theatre of hyphenated art forms focused on telling stories in new ways.
However, if I didn’t compromise, I’d be waiting around for a role that could be signed and depending on interpreters to be my voice. The solution was to find a language, a vocabulary that was shared and understood directly and not through a third party.
Butterfly is inspired by the same John Luther Long short story used by Puccini for his opera Madame Butterfly, at the core of which is the image of the loss of a child, which first inspired Ramesh. “Butterfly first loses her partner, her love, and then there the loss of a child, a miscarriage, that cannot be fully explained in words,” summarized Ramesh. The piece uses symbols and references to butterflies and flight: the female lead creates kites; suitor Nabokov, named for the writer who was interested in butterflies, captures and studies the creatures; and movement choreographed by Darren Brownlie evokes the beauty and fragility of both butterflies and kites in flight.
Puppet maker Gavin described their storytelling choices:
In this version we left things slightly ambiguous. She is alone. You can believe that she really did have a baby, or you can believe that was a hallucination. It’s a silent piece. The audience is left to make up their own mind, which I find quite strong, quite good.
Ramesh reflected that “there needs to be a place for ‘deaf’ or ‘signed’ theatre, but I do struggle with who the audience is” beyond those who understand sign language. The question of language in art is a deeply professional and personal one for him.
While I absolutely agree that there needs to be a place for sign language, I worry that we deaf limit our audiences and perhaps our opportunities if all we can offer is sign language… I’m proud of my language, it forms who I am. However, if I didn’t compromise, I’d be waiting around for a role that could be signed and depending on interpreters to be my voice. The solution was to find a language, a vocabulary that was shared and understood directly and not through a third party.
Professionally and artistically, Ramesh defies categories—he relies on physicality and “uses a mix of visual and physical vocabularies.” “I’ve devised, I’ve developed, I’ve explored, I’ve performed, I’ve directed—all roles that enable me to create work.”
Ramesh’s visual theatrical vocabulary incorporates multiple elements: puppetry, masks, aerial skills, circus, butoh dance theatre, clowning, and more. In a solo piece Snails & Ketchup, inspired by Italo Calvino’s The Baron in the Trees, he used aerial work because the character wanted to live in the trees. For Butterfly, Ramesh worked with choreographer Darren Brownlie to explore movement and how it helps tell a story or develop character. He worked with dramaturg George Aza-Selinger to unpack the component visual parts of the story, to develop a “visual script” that would allow him to describe his director’s vision to the creative team.
The director’s perspective is a current area of exploration.
I’ve recently finished some research including a practical workshop with Graham McLaren on approaches to texts from a director’s point of view. Graham finds the intention behind the spoken word and that is communicated visually, without any dialogue, then the dialogue is added on again, with quite an interesting impact on the actor’s performances. This could be a starting point for me delving into traditional texts.
Ramesh concluded that the story comes first. “I explore a style or element that will support my storytelling; I do tend to move towards work that tells a human story.”
Gavin Glover was a natural match for Ramesh as another professional hyphenate who looks for ways to tell a theatrical story visually. Gavin came to puppetry after completing three years of a seven-year architecture program, then worked in a puppet theatre in London’s Islington neighborhood where he performed and explored visual techniques including mask, clowning, dance, and movement. He shares:
Puppetry is a serious tool that you can use to create something that’s obviously live. We can see the strings, or the guy in the back, or the actor holding onto it, but that’s the beauty about working in the theatre: you can see it’s all being made in front of you, with no edits.
Gavin described his work as generally “more weird” and “darker” than what we see in Butterfly. He formed several companies with compound names over the past few decades. First a “visual theatre” company called FaultyOptic that ceased activities in 2011, where “most of the shows were without words, more puppet shows than puppets with actors, quite dark, and Samuel Beckett-like.” His current company is PotatoRoom productions, where he creates works that combine “puppets, acting, clowning, video, movement, and dance—in fact whatever is necessary to create a highly intricate and intriguing theatre.” He’s now freelancing, and making a move to Glasgow to work on the National Theatre of Scotland’s adaptation of A Christmas Carol.
Like Ramesh, Gavin draws from multiple art forms and approaches.
Puppets are artistically-made pieces of sculpture. We inhabit this visual arts, plastic arts field, as opposed to the theatre arts field. We’re trying to bring this together, meeting in the middle. I see myself as creating these time-based performances, obviously start-middle-end, just like a theatre show. But it might not be performed in the same way that you would see a scripted play.
Gavin met Ramesh at a workshop in Glasgow, and Ramesh then contacted him about eighteen months ago to explore puppetry in the piece that became Butterfly. “He hadn’t used puppets before, but used himself as a performer. Butterfly was a bit bigger with three people on stage, so he had more space to experiment, with more people to manipulate stuff.” Puppets are not continuously present in the performance, but emerge gradually as Butterfly’s world collapses. The puppets, manipulated by the male performers, include a tiny mountaineering figurine that traverses a sleeping Butterfly and a life-sized yet not-quite-human-looking toddler. Gavin recalled Ramesh’s thoughts on the real yet not-real baby figure. “He wanted a baby that was kind of realistic and moved fairly realistically but is slightly not human. It’s blue so you know that it’s more in her mind.”
The interplay between alien and familiar in the world of the play is enchanting. Gavin noted that he likes to work on projects “where the thing doesn’t necessarily have to be beautiful and it’s the actions of the people around it and their emotions and how they treat it” that animates the scene. The mother Butterfly character has to believe in the toddler puppet. “The puppet has to perform, to be manipulated, in such a way that you believe it’s breathing, it’s looking, reacting, seeing, hearing. There are still those little things that apply to puppets that make it live, to actually get those gasps of disbelief from the audience.”
Ramesh has trained in and created deaf theatre training programs in several parts of the world. He worked with the Hi! Theatre in Singapore, earned his BA at Liverpool Institute of the Arts, and now lives in the UK where he recently was one of two deaf members on a majority hearing design team for a new BA Performance in British Sign Language at English Degree for Deaf at Royal Conservatoire of Scotland in Glasgow, Scotland. “My input was in exploring all the modules and considering potential challenges as well as developing a visual theatre module that I now teach as a core module to deaf and hearing students,” Ramesh noted. “For me it was important to have a visual module as an accessible language that is shared with both deaf and hearing.”
Gavin continues work with the National Theatre of Scotland’s A Christmas Carol, and is making plans to work again with director Graham McLaren to build a show inspired by a famous Edinburgh murder mystery involving life-sized puppets. He’s holding workshops to experiment with video cameras and miniatures. He calls it micro cinema theatre—“not using the puppets at all, using video cameras and videoing little things and then projecting it, trying to tell a story.”
If you treat everything equally in terms of what is going to make theatre that you want—something that’s really evocative, or very calming, or cruel, or grotesque, creates or shows the narrative—puppetry and film and actors and dancers are different colors on a palette that we can choose from.
Gavin’s professional evolution incorporating people with puppets resonates with Ramesh’s new use of puppets with people in Butterfly. Ramesh expanded his tools with puppetry in this piece, and sees the puppets as some of the most successful elements of the production, “using puppets to allow the audience to see the world the female character creates for herself in her darkest moments.” Gavin realized that putting people with his puppets created a new richer dynamic that broadens his aesthetic toolkit.
If you treat everything equally in terms of what is going to make theatre that you want—something that’s really evocative, or very calming, or cruel, or grotesque, that creates or shows the narrative—puppetry and film and actors and dancers are different colors on a palette that we can choose from. Now it’s thinking about choosing equally, not one above the other. | <urn:uuid:2ed0f210-8332-4093-9388-405ff3d8fddd> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://howlround.com/shared-vocabulary-and-puppetry-ramesh-meyyappans-butterfly | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572304.13/warc/CC-MAIN-20220816120802-20220816150802-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.964922 | 2,298 | 1.921875 | 2 |
Many men suffer from a condition called gynaecomastia, which means male breast enlargement. It can affect one or both breasts. Gynaecomastia affects almost half of adolescent boys due to a hormonal imbalance at puberty, but the vast majority of these grow out of it at the end of puberty. It can also occur in certain diseases and as a side effect of some medicines and drugs. Important causes can be excluded by a careful clinical examination and by blood screening tests. The condition can cause physical discomfort in addition to the increased breast tissue contributing to impaired confidence, low self-esteem and reluctance to participate in sports and lack of confidence in relationships.
There are a variety of surgical procedures to treat gynaecomastia. Most commonly it is treated by a combination of liposuction and surgical removal of the central breast mound through a scar around the lower half of the nipple. In larger breasts with excess skin, larger scars may be required.
Surgical procedures to treat gynaecomastia may be partially rebatable by all leading private health funds. It is important to obtain a referral from your family doctor to be eligible for this.
Am I suitable for Gynaecomastia correction?
Men in good general health and within a healthy weight range will be best suited to this procedure. Individual suitability is a matter for you to discuss with Dr Woods during your clinical consultation. During this consultation, Dr Woods will discuss with you the particular that will best address your concerns.
What are the benefits of Gynaecomastia correction?
This surgery flattens the chest wall area and usually allows greater definition of the underlying pectoralis muscles. The operation is very effective in improving patient confidence and allowing patients to participate in sport and wear clothes that they were reluctant to wear previously.
Where are the scars?
The scars will vary depending on the treatment approach used. Most commonly these will be along the lower curve of the nipple, which is an area that fades well. Dr Woods will discuss with you the preferred treatment option for your condition to minimise scars and provide the best end result.
Is the procedure painful?
The operation is not a particularly painful procedure, though it is not uncommon to feel some discomfort in the breast area, particularly for the first few days. Usually pain can be managed with simple analgesics like paracetamol, and stronger pain relief tablets are provided if needed.
How long does it take to recover from surgery?
After surgery, you will need to wear a firm compression garment for 6 weeks to assist in minimising swelling and help to create the best final result. You can usually return to work after two weeks, if you can restrict yourself to light duties. After 6 weeks, you will be able to return to vigorous exercise and any activities involving heavy lifting.
When will I notice the results and how long will they last?
The change in chest contour and appearance will be immediately apparent when you wake up from your procedure. A full appreciation of the changes requires bruising and swelling due to the procedure to settle and for the normal scar maturation process to occur. The final result can usually be judged at 6 months following surgery, though the scars will continue to fade until 12 months after surgery. Results of male breast reduction are long lasting.
Will I be told the risks and complications?
All operations have a risk of complications, however major complications are rare after gynaecomastia correction. During your initial consultation, Dr Woods will have a thorough discussion with you about the risks and complications of surgery. Fortunately with careful selection of the correct procedure for the specific patient's concerns, risks can be kept to a minimum. You can be reassured that Dr Woods will only recommend surgery if he feels that the benefits of the procedure substantially outweigh the risks.
Important Note when Choosing Your Surgeon
In Australia, just about anyone with a standard medical degree is allowed to perform cosmetic surgery. In fact, currently there is no legislation to stop any doctor from calling themselves a 'surgeon', even without formal surgical training.
Your only safeguard is to look for the letters FRACS under a doctor's name and check that they are affiliated with the Australian Society of Plastic Surgeons (ASPS), as only fully qualified plastic surgeons have these titles and memberships. They confirm that your doctor has completed many years (at least 10 years) of training and examinations in surgery -far beyond the medical school period. | <urn:uuid:fbf02295-9a86-43b8-8dbb-676e25a6c7ca> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.drwoods.com.au/cosmetic-surgery/breast/gynaecomastia/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573104.24/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817183340-20220817213340-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.947819 | 908 | 1.65625 | 2 |
In the history of maritime life and sailing, men seem to play the most important role. But this does not mean that women have not been part of the rich history of sailing and
Even though the life at sea is full of duties, responsibilities, dangers and adventure, a sailor`s life has room for a different type of entertainment. The popularity of gambling, a positive form of leisure,
Marine exploration is not only a prerogative of the military force, but is also developed for scientific means. It can joggle between different fields of study: biology, chemistry, ecology, geology or oceanography. Taking into
The Marines, Marine Corps or the Naval infantry are the special force the U.S. and other countries army operate on the sea. In the majority of countries, this special force is a branch of
Submarines are watercrafts that can operate totally independently underwater. The existence of the submarine goes back beyond the 19th century, but the design of these vehicles was adopted by different navies around the Globe
Ferdinand Magellan is a name all children learn at school. His noble figure transcended the time from 1500 to the present era. He was a Portuguese born into a family of nobles, around 1480s.
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Last week Adobe released new versions of its Acrobat and Reader products, to address fourteen security vulnerabilities in earlier versions.
In the Adobe product lineup, Acrobat is the commercial PDF builder, while Reader is the free PDF viewer. At one time you pretty much needed to have Reader installed to view PDF files, but these days PDF viewer functionality is increasingly built into operating systems and web browsers.
The new version of Reader — officially referred to as Acrobat Reader DC — is 2020.013.20064. Details are available in the related Adobe Security Bulletin.
All of Adobe’s Acrobat/Reader products update themselves by default, and there’s apparently no simple way to disable that feature. Still, if you have Reader installed, and you use it to view PDF files obtained from email or the web, it’s a good idea to make sure it’s up to date.
To check for updates, start Reader and navigate its menu to
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Millions of people around the world wear glasses. Glasses can be worn for several reasons: fashion, sight problems, reading, to name a few. In this article, I will provide you information about the subject for aviation purposes only. However, I will not be adding any medical advice on this matter as this is best dealt with a medical professional.
First things first, if your ambition is to become a pilot, but you wear glasses, do not rule out the possibility of achieving your goal because the truth is that you can still become a pilot. You should get rid of all pre-assumptions in your mind if you have any in this case. If you do have these doubts lingering in your thoughts and they start bothering you, a possible solution would be to go and see a doctor that specializes in the aviation profession so they can accurately assess you.
My next point is that as pilots, we have three medical classes and these are:
Class 1 – For airline pilot
Class 2 – To fly general aviation aircraft
Class 3 – For PPL.
To become an airline pilot and to get your license you must have a Class 1 certificate. With that being said, there are also many pilots who wear glasses, and they are allowed to work usually (just like a non-glasses wearing pilot) on a day-to-day basis. Some types of glasses can’t be worn while operating an aircraft and these differ from different companies regulations. Various authorities will set their own rules and standards.
Even if you don’t wear glasses but are worried about your sight, it’s always best practice to be assessed beforehand. If your vision is very good or just within the regulations, you may be allowed to obtain your Class 1, 2 or 3 medical licenses (depending on which one is relevant to your situation). For example, A Private Pilot Licence (PPL) holder may only need a Class 3, whereas, an airline pilot requires a Class 1 medical certificate.
FAA medical requirements
Distant vision minimum requirement:
The vision should be 20/20 or better in each eye (Class 1 & 2)
20/40 or better in each eye (Class 3)
Near vision requirement:
Vision in each eye must be 20/40; this applies to Class 1 & 2 only. There is no requirement for Class 3.
Pilots must be able to see the difference between colors that are similar to each other. This will allow for a much safer performance.
JAR medical requirements
Ability to read letters on a chart 6 meters away must be 6/9 in each eye and 6/6 both eyes together.
Contact lenses may be worn by a pilot (but not correct vision). If contact lenses are worn, you must have a report from an optometrist.
For Class 1: test to be done initially and then every five years (for those under 40 years old) and every two years (for those over 40 years old)
For Class 2: test to be done initially, may be reviewed when necessary.
Disclaimer: The above information is provided for reference only. Please check with your local authority in your country about the specific requirements.
Source used for FAA extract: www.leftseat.com
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HIV ‘game-changer’ now on NHS
A drug that dramatically reduces the risk of being infected with HIV will now be given to patients by the NHS in England.
The health service lost a court battle in the summer after arguing responsibility for paying for it should fall to local authorities not the NHS.
Now at least 10,000 people will be given the “Prep” drug in a three-year-long clinical trial.
NHS England says this will help them understand how to offer it more widely.
Pre-exposure prophylaxis or Prep is a daily pill that disables HIV before it gets a stranglehold in the body.
It costs £400 a month per person and trials suggest it can cut the risk of being infected by up to 86%.
NHS England, which fought not to offer the drug, said in a statement there was “strong” evidence that it was effective.
However, it said there were still questions to be answered about how it is used on a wide scale across England.
Its trial on at least 10,000 people will try to figure out how to get the drugs to the right people, how popular it would be and for how long they would take Prep.
Dr Ian Williams, chairman of NHS England’s group on HIV, said: “This announcement demonstrates NHS England’s commitment to fund Prep and provides the chance to best prepare England for optimal roll-out following this large-scale clinical trial.
“For now, the trial will provide access to Prep for thousands of people most at risk of acquiring HIV.”
Men who have sex with men are one of the groups at the highest risk of contracting HIV.
In London, one in eight gay men has HIV, while the proportion in the rest of the UK is one in 26.
Harry Dodd, 25, is one of about 500 homosexual men in England who are taking Prep as part of a trial called Proud.
He says: “I’ve seen the panic on the face of previous boyfriends when they are awaiting their [HIV test] results – it’s a huge fear and it affects everything you do.
“To be able to have sex without having that fear hanging over you all the time is huge.”
Harry says taking Prep has still not become socially acceptable.
“Too many people seem to think it will encourage a hedonistic lifestyle, but for me this is about saving lives,” he says.
“People reacted with cynicism when the contraceptive pill for women was first introduced.
“For me, taking Prep has helped me to trust again, have relationships and build bridges and that shouldn’t be taken away.”
Dr Michael Brady, medical director of the Terrence Higgins Trust, said the evidence on Prep was “overwhelming” but the new trial could help understand how it will work in real life.
He added: “However, we do still need answers to many questions about the trial, in terms of how exactly the trial will work in practice, how those at risk will be able to access Prep, no matter where they live, and what will happen after the trial.”
Deborah Gold, chief executive of the National Aids Trust, said: “We are absolutely delighted that following our wins in court, NHS England, working with Public Health England and local government, will be now making Prep available on a large scale, and quickly, to those who need it.”
The NHS in Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland have not yet made a decision on Prep.
By James Gallagher
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Configuration File Reference
The network settings of both FlowForce Server and FlowForce Web Server can be configured either from the Setup Page or by editing .ini configuration files, as described below.
There are two .ini files, one for FlowForce Server (flowforce.ini), and another one for FlowForce Web Server (flowforceweb.ini). The .ini configuration files can be found at the following path:
In the directory above, you can also can find two sample .ini files that contain comments and can be used as a template:
After editing the .ini files, remember to restart the corresponding service (FlowForce Server or FlowForce Web Server). For more information, see:
A sample flowforce.ini file looks as follows:
A sample flowforceweb.ini file looks as follows:
The .ini files are organized into sections, as described below. Differences between both files are mentioned below where applicable.
A [Listen] section defines the HTTP connection settings. It is possible to define multiple [Listen] sections. Each [Listen] section must begin with "Listen", for example [ListenSSL].
(Optional) Activates or deactivates this [Listen] section. Valid values:
For example, active=1 means that HTTP connections are enabled.
(Optional) Enables SSL support for this [Listen] section. Valid values:
To enable SSL support, set ssl=1 and also create a [SSL] section, as shown below.
Specifies the network bind address of FlowForce (Web) Server, for example, 127.0.0.1. This can be an IPv4 or IPv6 address. Use 0.0.0.0 to listen on all interfaces. For local access only, use 127.0.0.1.
Specifies the port on which FlowForce (Web) Server will listen. Make sure that this port is not already in use.
The Host name field, if non-empty, sets a fixed host name that is used for the binding. It sets the name of the machine running FlowForce Web Server that other machines on the network would use to connect to it.
Normally, FlowForce detects automatically the appropriate host name to use. If you set this field explicitly, then automatic detection will be overridden. You may need to use a value like somehost or somehost.example.org, depending on the network configuration in your organization.
The host name associated with a binding is used for SSL (see Enabling SSL for FlowForce Web Server) and by Altova Service Controller on Windows. If SSL is enabled, the host name has to match the Common Name property of the certificate.
The default, implicit limit is around 100 MB (100,000,000 bytes). You may need to set this option explicitly in the following situations:
1.If you call FlowForce Web services exposed as jobs and the HTTP request body is larger than the default limit.
2.If you deploy mappings from MapForce to FlowForce Server and the input files are larger than the default limit.
For case 1 above, the option must be set only in the flowforce.ini file. For case 2, the option must be set in both flowforce.ini and flowforceweb.ini files.
This section defines the SSL/HTTPS connection settings.
Specifies the absolute path to the certificate file in PEM format.
Specifies the absolute path to the private key file.
(optional) The path to the certificate chain file.
This section is applicable only for FlowForce Web Server (the flowforceweb.ini file). It defines the connection details between FlowForce Web Server and FlowForce Server.
(Optional) Enables SSL support for the connection between FlowForce Web Server and FlowForce Server. Valid values:
Specifies the IP address or host name of FlowForce Server.
If FlowForce Server is not bound to all interfaces, this value must be the same as the one in the “[Listen]” section of the flowforce.ini, otherwise it is 127.0.0.1.
If SSL is enabled, this value must match the "Common Name" property of the certificate configured in “[SSL]” section of the flowforce.ini.
Specifies the TCP port on which FlowForce Web Server is to connect to FlowForce Server.
This value must be the same as the one in corresponding “[Listen]” or “[ListenSSL]” section of the flowforce.ini that has the same port number.
If SSL is enabled on this port, host and hostname (or just host if hostname is not present) must match the "Common Name" property of the certificate configured in “[SSL]” section of flowforce.ini.
If non-empty, this field sets a fixed host name that is used by other machines on the network to connect to FlowForce jobs exposed as Web services (see Exposing Jobs as Web Services).
You may need to use a value like somehost or somehost.example.org, depending on the network configuration in your organization.
If SSL is enabled on that port and this value is present, this value has to match the "Common Name" property of the certificate configured in the “[SSL]” section of flowforce.ini.
The host name is also used by Altova Service Controller. If you don't set the host name, FlowForce detects automatically the first appropriate host name to be used by Altova Service Controller.
If hostname is configured, the FlowForce web interface can present clickable links to navigate to jobs exposed as Web services, including links in the Active Triggers and Services section of the home page. Also, a Call Web Service button becomes available in the "Service" section of the job configuration page that enables you to call the Web service in a new browser window.
(Optional) Defines what server certificate will be accepted by FlowForce Server. If no certificate is given, the system root CA certificates will be used to verify the server certificate. If present, this value must match the certificate that FlowForce Server is using (the one in the flowforce.ini file).
This section is applicable only for FlowForce Web Server (the flowforceweb.ini file).
Specifies the default time zone of FlowForce Web Server, for example timezone=Europe/Berlin
This section is applicable only for the flowforce.ini file. It is relevant when multiple FlowForce Server instances run in a cluster, and the current instance is the master instance, see Distributed Execution and Load Balancing.
Enables encrypted connection to this master instance. Valid values:
Specifies the binding address of the master FlowForce Server instance. Use 0.0.0.0 to listen on all interfaces.
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In the early 1960s Adel was living with her mother and younger sibling in a rural town. The family took in a couple of boarders to help make ends meet. Adel was 14 when Nat moved into the spare room. He was in his early 20s. A friendship developed between the two; over time the friendship became something more and a few months before her 16th birthday Adel discovered she was pregnant.
Adel's relationship with her mother was troubled. Too terrified to confront her with the news, Adel fled interstate with Nat. After a few days they were picked up by police. Adel was sent to a police lock-up and then a receiving home.
'I was treated like a criminal', Adel told the Commissioner. She was interviewed by child welfare officers.
'During the interrogation, 'cause that's all I can call it, they actually tried to trick me into signing some adoption forms. And it was a trick, but I was savvy. I'd read everything.'
Adel was determined to keep her baby and her boyfriend. 'We wanted to get married and start a life. He was old enough. Just because I was two months off 16 …'
Nat was sent to jail for carnal knowledge. Adel's mother refused to have her back and she was placed with foster parents in the city, Mr and Mrs Brand. Adel found Mr Brand a 'lovely man', but she disliked Mrs Brand, who was a 'forceful woman'. Adel set about washing and cleaning the house, which was a mess, and 'made the house like a home'.
She waited for Nat to get out of jail. She waited for the arrival of her child. But Adele was not left in peace. The Brands had a 16-year-old son, Ian.
'I was there only a few weeks … and young Ian started to make advances towards me. I said to him, you know, "Get lost!" And he said, "Tell you what. I can get you kicked out. I know you've got nowhere to go", and he started all this emotional blackmail. Anyway I gave in - but I never told. Even my husband went to his grave, didn't know. No one knows.'
Adel was forced to have sex with Ian regularly for months. 'The shame was overbearing. All I wanted to do was get out of there and get married.'
Adel endured, feeling trapped. She was let down by her caseworker. 'She never came, not once. And yet she puts out a report that she was visiting me and I was happy.' If the caseworker had asked Adel the right questions she would have heard that Adel was anything but happy. But Adel knew she had something to live for.
'What that Ian did to me was outrageous and disgusting. He took advantage of me at the most vulnerable time in my life, but I had a baby and I had a wonderful man waiting for me, so he became an insignificant little dirty little shit and I just blocked him out, just blocked him out.'
As soon as Nat was released from jail he came looking for Adel. 'Nat found out where I was and he came to the door … and he opened up the little box with the rings in it.' The couple petitioned the child welfare commissioner for permission to marry. They were wed just before the birth of their child.
Adel and Nat were together for over 40 years until Nat passed away. They had more children together, Adel completed her schooling and went on to university and a varied career. The sexual abuse has been a shadow on her life, but she has suppressed the memories and chosen not to tell her story until recent years.
'It would've hurt my husband, because I think he would've blamed himself… he was a very, very passionate man and he would've thought, "What else could I have done?"'
Adel never saw Ian Brand again after she walked out the door with Nat. She has learned that Ian took his own life in the 1980s.
Adel is a supporter of appropriate foster care for children, but would like the Royal Commission to drive reform. 'It's still happening now after all these years and something needs to be done. Especially Indigenous children … there's a lot that are suffering.'
'When these people are employed in these positions I think they should sit a psychological test to see if they are suitable for that job, and communication skills is number one.' Adel believes child welfare workers need advanced listening skills and need to learn to trust children. 'Don't be judgmental – number two – you don't know what that child was going through and what was in their past.'
'There is darkness lurking and the protectors need to be vigilant. So, what could have been done? The social worker: "Oh they've got a 16-year-old boy. Should we place this girl into that situation?"'
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The meaning of Phyliss is "foliage".
Phyliss is generally used as a girl's name.
It consists of 7 letters and 2 syllables and is pronounced Phy-liss.
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A bio is a book that describes the life of a person, as well as usually the focus is on one facet of that individual’s life. It typically includes the research study of multiple sources and evaluating the topic’s perspective. Simply put, it is an account of the life of an actual individual. The term biography is likewise used to describe a job of fiction, as it is the story of an imaginary character’s life.
Composing a biography about a historic figure, particularly, must be based upon factual details and also supply an appealing account of the individual’s life. Right here are some approaches that can aid you create a much more intriguing bio. You can look for instances of bios with compelling hooks. It’s additionally a good suggestion to take into consideration the person’s character in its entirety, and also what made them stick out from others. As an example, if the topic was a renowned artist, it would be a good suggestion to consist of quotes and a picture of the individual in question.
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A bio is supposed to be real, however that can suggest different points to different people. A bio must be exact and in the first-person. The writer of a biography must be impartial, and also utilize the first-person perspective when writing about the topic. The writer of a bio ought to also be a professional in the topic’s field. The author should avoid discussing his or her very own experience unless it aids the reader to comprehend the subject better.
When writing a biography, it is very important to be genuine. The topic needs to have a personal touch. A biography needs to consist of quotes from the individual and a photo of the topic. Preferably, the bio should also be short and also concise. If the subject was a famous person, after that it’s ideal to stay clear of utilizing the first-person POV in the biography. It will be simpler for readers to connect to the subject if they can see their face in the biography.
A biographer needs to create a biography in the initial person. Although the subject’s life is the subject of a bio, the writer is expected to compose from his or her own viewpoint as well as is unlikely to be unbiased. The author of a biography need to be a professional in his or her field. However, a biographer may additionally comprise details, miss out on a lot of information, or otherwise have enough information about the topic.
A biographer needs to maintain the realities of a person’s life true. The author must share valid details in a vibrant and fascinating fashion. A biography needs to additionally record the rate of interest of the reader. Normally, biographers use the third person, or the first-person viewpoint. A biography ought to have the ability to show the topic’s unique qualities. A well-written bio ought to be legible and also intriguing. A great author needs to have the ability to offer details about his/her member of the family.
A good bio ought to be understandable and well-structured. The author needs to make the topic’s life as interesting as feasible. An entertaining biography will certainly keep the viewers analysis. Furthermore, a biography must consist of quotes from the subject. Preferably, the biography should consist of an image of the subject. If the subject is famous for a particular act, she or he should state it in the bio. Then, a biographer should create a short summary concerning the case.
A biography ought to include realities concerning the individual’s birth and also childhood years. It needs to also describe just how the private match society. The author must describe the duty the subject played in society. The topic needs to be well-loved as well as valued by the readers. A biography can be written in any kind of genre, consisting of the third individual. In the case of an autobiographical text, the author ought to be sincere and also not attempt to discuss the individual’s personal history.
The primary step in writing a bio is to make a timeline of the subject’s life. You can use a member of the family as a technique subject, or pick a person of your choice. You should investigate the vital occasions in that person’s life and also write about them. Afterwards, you can include quotes right into your biography. This will certainly aid your viewers connect to the person’s life. It will help them bear in mind the essential occasions in the subject’s life.
A biography must be well-written. While there are several factors to take into consideration in composing a bio, it is essential to make certain that it is well-written. The subject of the biography should be interesting, and also the author must make it an indicate consist of appropriate details. It should be exact and concise, and the writer should be clear as well as honest in their writing. You must be careful not to exaggerate info in the biographical product, as it can skew the definition of the topic.
A bio must concentrate on the topic’s adult life. It must highlight the considerable events that formed the person’s life. For instance, an individual’s youth may have contained difficulties, however he was constantly passionate concerning his work. A well-written bio ought to include his or her life and also his tradition. A bio ought to likewise consist of important quotes that were important to the topic. A good biographer must concentrate on one of the most pertinent details in a subject’s life. Go here
Along with personal remarks, a biography ought to also consist of details regarding the author’s family members and also childhood years. Discussion and quotes are handy in this procedure. Regardless of the category, pupils should keep an eye out for concealed gems and new questions that will fuel the study procedure and shape the direction of the biography. This will certainly make the task much more pleasurable and understandable. If the author desires their visitors to appreciate their bio, they ought to be able to create a remarkable and fascinating account. | <urn:uuid:860ada1e-a9eb-4070-a1f3-32878b3dcf04> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://kawasho-homedeals.com/2022/04/05/wonderful-biography-that-you-required-to-know-currently/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573104.24/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817183340-20220817213340-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.968083 | 1,356 | 2.640625 | 3 |
In 2005, Sam Dunn released Metal: A Headbanger’s Journey which presented a fairly detailed overview of the variety of metal subgenres that have been created throughout the past several decades (granted, Dunn goes into even further detail on his later series called Metal Evolution). After positive reception of the aforementioned documentary, Dunn came to the realization that his exposé of the metal genre was far from complete, considering he had yet to expand his reach beyond North America and Europe.
Throughout Global Metal, we go on a journey to various countries to learn about their local metal scenes, sociopolitical struggles, and musical/cultural identity. Dunn interviews many artists and metal fans within these regions to get a clearer and more personal picture of the reality present. Although a majority of these artists are from from household names in America (even a decade later since the release of the film), there is also an inclusion of more Western mainstream metal acts who discuss their time touring in these regions.
The film begins in Brazil as Carlos Lopes of the Rio De Janeiro based thrash band Dorsal Atlantica tells how the country was shadowed by a dictatorship in the 60’s through mid-80’s. Rafael Bittencourt from prog/power metal group Angra As the regime came to an end in 1985, the rise of metal coincidentally rose. Both Lopes and Bittencourt infers that the fall of the dictatorship and the birth of Brazilian in metal are connected, almost as if metal music was sign of democracy. One of the main events that showcased the explosion of heavy music in Brazil was the Rock in Rio festival, which held over a million attendees and artists such as Iron Maiden, Scorpions, and Ozzy Osbourne amongst other rock and pop acts. And of course, this section of the film covered Sepultura, easily the largest metal group to come from Brazil. Frontman Max Cavalera delves into how they didn’t have much money during the beginning of the band, but regardless they found creative ways to work around financial issues such as glueing AA batteries together resemble bullet belts in their promo picture. Sepultura went on to perform at the next Rock in Rio festival and blow up in fame when fusing their metal with native instruments.
Next on the list was Japan, which Dunn introduced as “stereotyped for its obsession with Western culture” and “known for its hardworking salarymen, conformity, and extreme organization,” concluding that “none of which sounded metal to [him].” Various metal advocates discussed how heavy music made its way to the Asian island, stating that Deep Purple and Kiss where the first bands to truly make an impact. The visual aesthetic of Kiss definitely struck a chord with the country considering Kabuki theater and the development of the visual kei subgenre. Former Megadeth and now solo guitarist extraordinaire Marty Friedman praises the subgenre and overall culture difference in that Japanese are less deterred by taboo topics. Another notable aspect discussed is how the Japanese metal community is more courteous, with the scenario of the crowd being asked to sit and clap instead of mosh during a Slayer show as an example. Lastly, there’s a fairly humorous interview moment with Metallica‘s Lars Ulrich mentioning how he received many toothbrushes by fans over in Japan as a token of gratitude.
While nowadays, their scene seems to be rapidly evolving, Dunn describes India’s metal scene to be “just getting started.” The first key element that surfaces is an opposition for the country’s most popular genre, Bollywood, where Demonstealer from Demonic Resurrection, Prashant Shaw of Exhumation, and Nolan Lewis from Kryptos all discuss their distaste for the musical style. It was brought up briefly, but there was also a part where Dunn discussed a lack of venues for metal bands, which I believe is still an issue in the Indian metal scene. The notion of a succinct metal community was hinted at during the previous sections, but it was really nailed in during the Indian interviews as they explained that their music is a unified group and rebellion against parental expectations, religion, and social class discrimination.
As Dunn continues his journey across the Asian continent, he next lands in China, which is phrased as being late to absorb Western culture and is in the process of playing catch up. Yang Yu of Painkiller Magazine stated, “For twenty years, China was completely closed off culturally from the outside world. In terms of music, Western rock had a history of 50 years. We had to learn it in 10 years time.” Tang Dynasty was referenced as being the first Chinese metal band to expose the masses to heavy music when founding member Kaiser Kuo moved from New York to China and formed a band. The film then highlighted Ritual Day as a Chinese metal act who took the music to a more extreme level than the country’s predecessors.
Yet another country with the description of an oppressive dictatorship and poverty, Dunn arrives in Indonesia. Wendy Putranto of Rolling Stone Indonesia, Jason Tedasukmana from TIME Magazine Indonesia, Andre Tiranda of death metal band Siksakubar, and even Napalm Death‘s Barney Greenway ways in on the unemployment and social class disparity in the country. In addition to an unfair financial situation, the film also tells of violence at their metal concerts such as security beating fans at a Sepultura show with bamboo sticks or violently disallowing entry into a Metallica show, resulting in a ban of international rock/metal acts. Thus, a more underground scene was born with bands like Seringai, Jasad, and the controversial Tengkorak, who covers themes of “political or social commentary.” The most shocking scene was when vocalist Ombat (M. Hariadi Nasution) explained the meaning behind the song “Destroying Zionism,” claiming that Jewish individuals have created a system and a goal to “destroy Islamic people” and therefore Ombat believes that “Israel should be eliminated from the global map.”
Speaking of Israel, that was the next destination, which Dunn describes as having a “history of dealing with hatred.” Orphaned Land vocalist Kobi Farhi adds that the country’s culture is “very complicated, very ancient, and very mixed” pointing out at a Jewish cemetery, a church, and a mosque all in eyesight. Other Israeli metal artists like Eran Segal and “Evil” Haim from Whorecore and Butchered of Arallu weigh in on the rich, controversial history of the country and how it affects the heaviness of their music. A couple interesting plot points were also brought up during the Israeli chapter such as a discussion on the holocaust themed lyrical content behind Slayer‘s “Angel of Death” or an exchange in which Burzum‘s Varg Vikernes mailed a bomb to the vocalist of Israeli extreme metal group Salem.
After a visa denial to travel to Iran, Dunn instead meets Middle Eastern metal advocates at Desert Rock, a metal festival in Dubai. Of all the regions explored so far, this seemed to be the most strict towards metal music. Throughout many interview with fans and musicians, a theme of oppression against metalheads arose. There were stories of individuals being punished and assaulted for simply having metal band t-shirts or even long hair as they were “connected to Satanism.” Although there is hardly room for metal culture to bloom in countries like Iran, there was a notable performance where a cover band called SDS played Morbid Angel and Slayer songs, even if vocals were disallowed.
It has been over a decade since this documentary was released, so a sequel seems certainly warranted. Or at the very least, a Global Metal series on the BangerTV YouTube channel (also run by Sam Dunn) would be perfect. I am not certain how much these international scenes have flourished since Dunn visited, but I’d imagine more bands have popped up and there are more modern sociopolitical issues to discuss. Regardless of my desire for more, I can confidently conclude that Global Metal is a damn big deal for many reasons. Firstly, as far as I’m concerned, this was one of the first high-budget documentaries (or media coverages in general) about metal music outside the parameters of North America and Western Europe. Secondly, this film wasn’t just about metal music, but also about anthropology, focusing on the political and social climates of these countries, both good and bad. All those interviewed were humanized and defined as another individual who enjoys metal music, rather than an outsider. The film exposes the bigger picture that all metalheads across all parts of the world are attracted to heavy music for a valid reason, whether it be: oppression from their country’s government, parents, mainstream music, or a rebellion against culture. Also, in most of these regions, there was a looming influence coming from Western culture, yet each international scene added their culture and ideas into the mix.
The film perfectly concludes with Iron Maiden‘s performance in India as Dunn reads out his final thoughts on this experience stating: “although heavy metal may be part of the process of globalization, something unique is happening. Metal connects with people regardless of their cultural, political, or religious backgrounds. And these people aren’t just absorbing metal from the West, they’re transforming it, creating a new outlet they can’t find in their traditional cultures, a voice to express their discontent with the chaos and uncertainty that surrounds them in their rapidly changing societies. And for metalheads all across the globe, metal is more than music, more than an identity. Metal is freedom and together we are now a global tribe.” | <urn:uuid:fa5ac1bf-0bcc-4948-bde0-ebc49d081597> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://metalhasnoborders.com/2019/04/13/film-review-global-metal-successfully-exposes-various-international-metal-scenes-the-sociopolitical-factors-present/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573104.24/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817183340-20220817213340-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.968822 | 2,030 | 1.640625 | 2 |
CHAPTER IX.-IN WHICH IT APPEARS THAT A SENATOR IS BUT A MAN
The light of the cheerful fire shone on the rug and carpet of a cosey parlor, and glittered on the sides of the tea-cups and well-brightened tea-pot, as Senator Bird was drawing off his boots, preparatory to inserting his feet in a pair of new handsome slippers, which his wife had been working for him while away on his senatorial tour. Mrs. Bird, looking the very picture of delight, was superintending the arrangements of the table, ever and anon mingling admonitory remarks to a number of frolicsome juveniles, who were effervescing in all those modes of untold gambol and mischief that have astonished mothers ever since the flood.
"Tom, let the door-knob alone,--there's a man! Mary! Mary! don't pull the cat's tail,--poor pussy! Jim, you mustn't climb on that table,--no, no!--You don't know, my dear, what a surprise it is to us all, to see you here tonight!" said she, at last, when she found a space to say something to her husband.
"Yes, yes, I thought I'd just make a run down, spend the night, and have a little comfort at home. I'm tired to death, and my head aches!"
Mrs. Bird cast a glance at a camphor-bottle, which stood in the half-open closet, and appeared to meditate an approach to it, but her husband interposed.
"No, no, Mary, no doctoring! a cup of your good hot tea, and some of our good home living, is what I want. It's a tiresome business, this legislating!"
And the senator smiled, as if he rather liked the idea of considering himself a sacrifice to his country.
"Well," said his wife, after the business of the tea-table was getting rather slack, "and what have they been doing in the Senate?"
Now, it was a very unusual thing for gentle little Mrs. Bird ever to trouble her head with what was going on in the house of the state, very wisely considering that she had enough to do to mind her own. Mr. Bird, therefore, opened his eyes in surprise, and said,
"Not very much of importance."
"Well; but is it true that they have been passing a law forbidding people to give meat and drink to those poor colored folks that come along? I heard they were talking of some such law, but I didn't think any Christian legislature would pass it!"
"Why, Mary, you are getting to be a politician, all at once."
"No, nonsense! I wouldn't give a fip for all your politics, generally, but I think this is something downright cruel and unchristian. I hope, my dear, no such law has been passed."
"There has been a law passed forbidding people to help off the slaves that come over from Kentucky, my dear; so much of that thing has been done by these reckless Abolitionists, that our brethren in Kentucky are very strongly excited, and it seems necessary, and no more than Christian and kind, that something should be done by our state to quiet the excitement."
"And what is the law? It don't forbid us to shelter those poor creatures a night, does it, and to give 'em something comfortable to eat, and a few old clothes, and send them quietly about their business?"
"Why, yes, my dear; that would be aiding and abetting, you know."
Mrs. Bird was a timid, blushing little woman, of about four feet in height, and with mild blue eyes, and a peach-blow complexion, and the gentlest, sweetest voice in the world;--as for courage, a moderate-sized cock-turkey had been known to put her to rout at the very first gobble, and a stout house-dog, of moderate capacity, would bring her into subjection merely by a show of his teeth. Her husband and children were her entire world, and in these she ruled more by entreaty and persuasion than by command or argument. There was only one thing that was capable of arousing her, and that provocation came in on the side of her unusually gentle and sympathetic nature;--anything in the shape of cruelty would throw her into a passion, which was the more alarming and inexplicable in proportion to the general softness of her nature. Generally the most indulgent and easy to be entreated of all mothers, still her boys had a very reverent remembrance of a most vehement chastisement she once bestowed on them, because she found them leagued with several graceless boys of the neighborhood, stoning a defenceless kitten.
"I'll tell you what," Master Bill used to say, "I was scared that time. Mother came at me so that I thought she was crazy, and I was whipped and tumbled off to bed, without any supper, before I could get over wondering what had come about; and, after that, I heard mother crying outside the door, which made me feel worse than all the rest. I'll tell you what," he'd say, "we boys never stoned another kitten!"
On the present occasion, Mrs. Bird rose quickly, with very red cheeks, which quite improved her general appearance, and walked up to her husband, with quite a resolute air, and said, in a determined tone,
"Now, John, I want to know if you think such a law as that is right and Christian?"
"You won't shoot me, now, Mary, if I say I do!"
"I never could have thought it of you, John; you didn't vote for it?"
"Even so, my fair politician."
"You ought to be ashamed, John! Poor, homeless, houseless creatures! It's a shameful, wicked, abominable law, and I'll break it, for one, the first time I get a chance; and I hope I shall have a chance, I do! Things have got to a pretty pass, if a woman can't give a warm supper and a bed to poor, starving creatures, just because they are slaves, and have been abused and oppressed all their lives, poor things!"
"But, Mary, just listen to me. Your feelings are all quite right, dear, and interesting, and I love you for them; but, then, dear, we mustn't suffer our feelings to run away with our judgment; you must consider it's a matter of private feeling,--there are great public interests involved,--there is such a state of public agitation rising, that we must put aside our private feelings."
"Now, John, I don't know anything about politics, but I can read my Bible; and there I see that I must feed the hungry, clothe the naked, and comfort the desolate; and that Bible I mean to follow."
"But in cases where your doing so would involve a great public evil--"
"Obeying God never brings on public evils. I know it can't. It's always safest, all round, to do as He bids us.
"Now, listen to me, Mary, and I can state to you a very clear argument, to show--"
"O, nonsense, John! you can talk all night, but you wouldn't do it. I put it to you, John,--would you now turn away a poor, shivering, hungry creature from your door, because he was a runaway? Would you, now?"
Now, if the truth must be told, our senator had the misfortune to be a man who had a particularly humane and accessible nature, and turning away anybody that was in trouble never had been his forte; and what was worse for him in this particular pinch of the argument was, that his wife knew it, and, of course was making an assault on rather an indefensible point. So he had recourse to the usual means of gaining time for such cases made and provided; he said "ahem," and coughed several times, took out his pocket-handkerchief, and began to wipe his glasses. Mrs. Bird, seeing the defenceless condition of the enemy's territory, had no more conscience than to push her advantage.
"I should like to see you doing that, John--I really should! Turning a woman out of doors in a snowstorm, for instance; or may be you'd take her up and put her in jail, wouldn't you? You would make a great hand at that!"
"Of course, it would be a very painful duty," began Mr. Bird, in a moderate tone.
"Duty, John! don't use that word! You know it isn't a duty--it can't be a duty! If folks want to keep their slaves from running away, let 'em treat 'em well,--that's my doctrine. If I had slaves (as I hope I never shall have), I'd risk their wanting to run away from me, or you either, John. I tell you folks don't run away when they are happy; and when they do run, poor creatures! they suffer enough with cold and hunger and fear, without everybody's turning against them; and, law or no law, I never will, so help me God!"
"Mary! Mary! My dear, let me reason with you."
"I hate reasoning, John,--especially reasoning on such subjects. There's a way you political folks have of coming round and round a plain right thing; and you don't believe in it yourselves, when it comes to practice. I know you well enough, John. You don't believe it's right any more than I do; and you wouldn't do it any sooner than I."
At this critical juncture, old Cudjoe, the black man-of-all-work, put his head in at the door, and wished "Missis would come into the kitchen;" and our senator, tolerably relieved, looked after his little wife with a whimsical mixture of amusement and vexation, and, seating himself in the arm-chair, began to read the papers.
After a moment, his wife's voice was heard at the door, in a quick, earnest tone,--"John! John! I do wish you'd come here, a moment."
He laid down his paper, and went into the kitchen, and started, quite amazed at the sight that presented itself:--A young and slender woman, with garments torn and frozen, with one shoe gone, and the stocking torn away from the cut and bleeding foot, was laid back in a deadly swoon upon two chairs. There was the impress of the despised race on her face, yet none could help feeling its mournful and pathetic beauty, while its stony sharpness, its cold, fixed, deathly aspect, struck a solemn chill over him. He drew his breath short, and stood in silence. His wife, and their only colored domestic, old Aunt Dinah, were busily engaged in restorative measures; while old Cudjoe had got the boy on his knee, and was busy pulling off his shoes and stockings, and chafing his little cold feet.
"Sure, now, if she an't a sight to behold!" said old Dinah, compassionately; "'pears like 't was the heat that made her faint. She was tol'able peart when she cum in, and asked if she couldn't warm herself here a spell; and I was just a-askin' her where she cum from, and she fainted right down. Never done much hard work, guess, by the looks of her hands."
"Poor creature!" said Mrs. Bird, compassionately, as the woman slowly unclosed her large, dark eyes, and looked vacantly at her. Suddenly an expression of agony crossed her face, and she sprang up, saying, "O, my Harry! Have they got him?"
The boy, at this, jumped from Cudjoe's knee, and running to her side put up his arms. "O, he's here! he's here!" she exclaimed.
"O, ma'am!" said she, wildly, to Mrs. Bird, "do protect us! don't let them get him!"
"Nobody shall hurt you here, poor woman," said Mrs. Bird, encouragingly. "You are safe; don't be afraid."
"God bless you!" said the woman, covering her face and sobbing; while the little boy, seeing her crying, tried to get into her lap.
With many gentle and womanly offices, which none knew better how to render than Mrs. Bird, the poor woman was, in time, rendered more calm. A temporary bed was provided for her on the settle, near the fire; and, after a short time, she fell into a heavy slumber, with the child, who seemed no less weary, soundly sleeping on her arm; for the mother resisted, with nervous anxiety, the kindest attempts to take him from her; and, even in sleep, her arm encircled him with an unrelaxing clasp, as if she could not even then be beguiled of her vigilant hold.
Mr. and Mrs. Bird had gone back to the parlor, where, strange as it may appear, no reference was made, on either side, to the preceding conversation; but Mrs. Bird busied herself with her knitting-work, and Mr. Bird pretended to be reading the paper.
"I wonder who and what she is!" said Mr. Bird, at last, as he laid it down.
"When she wakes up and feels a little rested, we will see," said Mrs. Bird.
"I say, wife!" said Mr. Bird after musing in silence over his newspaper.
"She couldn't wear one of your gowns, could she, by any letting down, or such matter? She seems to be rather larger than you are."
A quite perceptible smile glimmered on Mrs. Bird's face, as she answered, "We'll see."
Another pause, and Mr. Bird again broke out,
"I say, wife!"
"Well! What now?"
"Why, there's that old bombazin cloak, that you keep on purpose to put over me when I take my afternoon's nap; you might as well give her that,--she needs clothes."
At this instant, Dinah looked in to say that the woman was awake, and wanted to see Missis.
Mr. and Mrs. Bird went into the kitchen, followed by the two eldest boys, the smaller fry having, by this time, been safely disposed of in bed.
The woman was now sitting up on the settle, by the fire. She was looking steadily into the blaze, with a calm, heart-broken expression, very different from her former agitated wildness.
"Did you want me?" said Mrs. Bird, in gentle tones. "I hope you feel better now, poor woman!"
A long-drawn, shivering sigh was the only answer; but she lifted her dark eyes, and fixed them on her with such a forlorn and imploring expression, that the tears came into the little woman's eyes.
"You needn't be afraid of anything; we are friends here, poor woman! Tell me where you came from, and what you want," said she.
"I came from Kentucky," said the woman.
"When?" said Mr. Bird, taking up the interogatory.
"How did you come?"
"I crossed on the ice."
"Crossed on the ice!" said every one present.
"Yes," said the woman, slowly, "I did. God helping me, I crossed on the ice; for they were behind me--right behind--and there was no other way!"
"Law, Missis," said Cudjoe, "the ice is all in broken-up blocks, a swinging and a tetering up and down in the water!"
"I know it was--I know it!" said she, wildly; "but I did it! I wouldn't have thought I could,--I didn't think I should get over, but I didn't care! I could but die, if I didn't. The Lord helped me; nobody knows how much the Lord can help 'em, till they try," said the woman, with a flashing eye.
"Were you a slave?" said Mr. Bird.
"Yes, sir; I belonged to a man in Kentucky."
"Was he unkind to you?"
"No, sir; he was a good master."
"And was your mistress unkind to you?"
"No, sir--no! my mistress was always good to me."
"What could induce you to leave a good home, then, and run away, and go through such dangers?"
The woman looked up at Mrs. Bird, with a keen, scrutinizing glance, and it did not escape her that she was dressed in deep mourning.
"Ma'am," she said, suddenly, "have you ever lost a child?"
The question was unexpected, and it was thrust on a new wound; for it was only a month since a darling child of the family had been laid in the grave.
Mr. Bird turned around and walked to the window, and Mrs. Bird burst into tears; but, recovering her voice, she said,
"Why do you ask that? I have lost a little one."
"Then you will feel for me. I have lost two, one after another,--left 'em buried there when I came away; and I had only this one left. I never slept a night without him; he was all I had. He was my comfort and pride, day and night; and, ma'am, they were going to take him away from me,--to sell him,--sell him down south, ma'am, to go all alone,--a baby that had never been away from his mother in his life! I couldn't stand it, ma'am. I knew I never should be good for anything, if they did; and when I knew the papers the papers were signed, and he was sold, I took him and came off in the night; and they chased me,--the man that bought him, and some of Mas'r's folks,--and they were coming down right behind me, and I heard 'em. I jumped right on to the ice; and how I got across, I don't know,--but, first I knew, a man was helping me up the bank."
The woman did not sob nor weep. She had gone to a place where tears are dry; but every one around her was, in some way characteristic of themselves, showing signs of hearty sympathy.
The two little boys, after a desperate rummaging in their pockets, in search of those pocket-handkerchiefs which mothers know are never to be found there, had thrown themselves disconsolately into the skirts of their mother's gown, where they were sobbing, and wiping their eyes and noses, to their hearts' content;--Mrs. Bird had her face fairly hidden in her pocket-handkerchief; and old Dinah, with tears streaming down her black, honest face, was ejaculating, "Lord have mercy on us!" with all the fervor of a camp-meeting;--while old Cudjoe, rubbing his eyes very hard with his cuffs, and making a most uncommon variety of wry faces, occasionally responded in the same key, with great fervor. Our senator was a statesman, and of course could not be expected to cry, like other mortals; and so he turned his back to the company, and looked out of the window, and seemed particularly busy in clearing his throat and wiping his spectacle-glasses, occasionally blowing his nose in a manner that was calculated to excite suspicion, had any one been in a state to observe critically.
"How came you to tell me you had a kind master?" he suddenly exclaimed, gulping down very resolutely some kind of rising in his throat, and turning suddenly round upon the woman.
"Because he was a kind master; I'll say that of him, any way;--and my mistress was kind; but they couldn't help themselves. They were owing money; and there was some way, I can't tell how, that a man had a hold on them, and they were obliged to give him his will. I listened, and heard him telling mistress that, and she begging and pleading for me,--and he told her he couldn't help himself, and that the papers were all drawn;--and then it was I took him and left my home, and came away. I knew 't was no use of my trying to live, if they did it; for 't 'pears like this child is all I have."
"Have you no husband?"
"Yes, but he belongs to another man. His master is real hard to him, and won't let him come to see me, hardly ever; and he's grown harder and harder upon us, and he threatens to sell him down south;--it's like I'll never see him again!"
The quiet tone in which the woman pronounced these words might have led a superficial observer to think that she was entirely apathetic; but there was a calm, settled depth of anguish in her large, dark eye, that spoke of something far otherwise.
"And where do you mean to go, my poor woman?" said Mrs. Bird.
"To Canada, if I only knew where that was. Is it very far off, is Canada?" said she, looking up, with a simple, confiding air, to Mrs. Bird's face.
"Poor thing!" said Mrs. Bird, involuntarily.
"Is 't a very great way off, think?" said the woman, earnestly.
"Much further than you think, poor child!" said Mrs. Bird; "but we will try to think what can be done for you. Here, Dinah, make her up a bed in your own room, close by the kitchen, and I'll think what to do for her in the morning. Meanwhile, never fear, poor woman; put your trust in God; he will protect you."
Mrs. Bird and her husband reentered the parlor. She sat down in her little rocking-chair before the fire, swaying thoughtfully to and fro. Mr. Bird strode up and down the room, grumbling to himself, "Pish! pshaw! confounded awkward business!" At length, striding up to his wife, he said,
"I say, wife, she'll have to get away from here, this very night. That fellow will be down on the scent bright and early tomorrow morning: if 't was only the woman, she could lie quiet till it was over; but that little chap can't be kept still by a troop of horse and foot, I'll warrant me; he'll bring it all out, popping his head out of some window or door. A pretty kettle of fish it would be for me, too, to be caught with them both here, just now! No; they'll have to be got off tonight."
"Tonight! How is it possible?--where to?"
"Well, I know pretty well where to," said the senator, beginning to put on his boots, with a reflective air; and, stopping when his leg was half in, he embraced his knee with both hands, and seemed to go off in deep meditation.
"It's a confounded awkward, ugly business," said he, at last, beginning to tug at his boot-straps again, "and that's a fact!" After one boot was fairly on, the senator sat with the other in his hand, profoundly studying the figure of the carpet. "It will have to be done, though, for aught I see,--hang it all!" and he drew the other boot anxiously on, and looked out of the window.
Now, little Mrs. Bird was a discreet woman,--a woman who never in her life said, "I told you so!" and, on the present occasion, though pretty well aware of the shape her husband's meditations were taking, she very prudently forbore to meddle with them, only sat very quietly in her chair, and looked quite ready to hear her liege lord's intentions, when he should think proper to utter them.
"You see," he said, "there's my old client, Van Trompe, has come over from Kentucky, and set all his slaves free; and he has bought a place seven miles up the creek, here, back in the woods, where nobody goes, unless they go on purpose; and it's a place that isn't found in a hurry. There she'd be safe enough; but the plague of the thing is, nobody could drive a carriage there tonight, but me."
"Why not? Cudjoe is an excellent driver."
"Ay, ay, but here it is. The creek has to be crossed twice; and the second crossing is quite dangerous, unless one knows it as I do. I have crossed it a hundred times on horseback, and know exactly the turns to take. And so, you see, there's no help for it. Cudjoe must put in the horses, as quietly as may be, about twelve o'clock, and I'll take her over; and then, to give color to the matter, he must carry me on to the next tavern to take the stage for Columbus, that comes by about three or four, and so it will look as if I had had the carriage only for that. I shall get into business bright and early in the morning. But I'm thinking I shall feel rather cheap there, after all that's been said and done; but, hang it, I can't help it!"
"Your heart is better than your head, in this case, John," said the wife, laying her little white hand on his. "Could I ever have loved you, had I not known you better than you know yourself?" And the little woman looked so handsome, with the tears sparkling in her eyes, that the senator thought he must be a decidedly clever fellow, to get such a pretty creature into such a passionate admiration of him; and so, what could he do but walk off soberly, to see about the carriage. At the door, however, he stopped a moment, and then coming back, he said, with some hesitation.
"Mary, I don't know how you'd feel about it, but there's that drawer full of things--of--of--poor little Henry's." So saying, he turned quickly on his heel, and shut the door after him.
His wife opened the little bed-room door adjoining her room and, taking the candle, set it down on the top of a bureau there; then from a small recess she took a key, and put it thoughtfully in the lock of a drawer, and made a sudden pause, while two boys, who, boy like, had followed close on her heels, stood looking, with silent, significant glances, at their mother. And oh! mother that reads this, has there never been in your house a drawer, or a closet, the opening of which has been to you like the opening again of a little grave? Ah! happy mother that you are, if it has not been so.
Mrs. Bird slowly opened the drawer. There were little coats of many a form and pattern, piles of aprons, and rows of small stockings; and even a pair of little shoes, worn and rubbed at the toes, were peeping from the folds of a paper. There was a toy horse and wagon, a top, a ball,--memorials gathered with many a tear and many a heart-break! She sat down by the drawer, and, leaning her head on her hands over it, wept till the tears fell through her fingers into the drawer; then suddenly raising her head, she began, with nervous haste, selecting the plainest and most substantial articles, and gathering them into a bundle.
"Mamma," said one of the boys, gently touching her arm, "you going to give away those things?"
"My dear boys," she said, softly and earnestly, "if our dear, loving little Henry looks down from heaven, he would be glad to have us do this. I could not find it in my heart to give them away to any common person--to anybody that was happy; but I give them to a mother more heart-broken and sorrowful than I am; and I hope God will send his blessings with them!"
There are in this world blessed souls, whose sorrows all spring up into joys for others; whose earthly hopes, laid in the grave with many tears, are the seed from which spring healing flowers and balm for the desolate and the distressed. Among such was the delicate woman who sits there by the lamp, dropping slow tears, while she prepares the memorials of her own lost one for the outcast wanderer.
After a while, Mrs. Bird opened a wardrobe, and, taking from thence a plain, serviceable dress or two, she sat down busily to her work-table, and, with needle, scissors, and thimble, at hand, quietly commenced the "letting down" process which her husband had recommended, and continued busily at it till the old clock in the corner struck twelve, and she heard the low rattling of wheels at the door.
"Mary," said her husband, coming in, with his overcoat in his hand, "you must wake her up now; we must be off."
Mrs. Bird hastily deposited the various articles she had collected in a small plain trunk, and locking it, desired her husband to see it in the carriage, and then proceeded to call the woman. Soon, arrayed in a cloak, bonnet, and shawl, that had belonged to her benefactress, she appeared at the door with her child in her arms. Mr. Bird hurried her into the carriage, and Mrs. Bird pressed on after her to the carriage steps. Eliza leaned out of the carriage, and put out her hand,--a hand as soft and beautiful as was given in return. She fixed her large, dark eyes, full of earnest meaning, on Mrs. Bird's face, and seemed going to speak. Her lips moved,--she tried once or twice, but there was no sound,--and pointing upward, with a look never to be forgotten, she fell back in the seat, and covered her face. The door was shut, and the carriage drove on.
What a situation, now, for a patriotic senator, that had been all the week before spurring up the legislature of his native state to pass more stringent resolutions against escaping fugitives, their harborers and abettors!
Our good senator in his native state had not been exceeded by any of his brethren at Washington, in the sort of eloquence which has won for them immortal renown! How sublimely he had sat with his hands in his pockets, and scouted all sentimental weakness of those who would put the welfare of a few miserable fugitives before great state interests!
He was as bold as a lion about it, and "mightily convinced" not only himself, but everybody that heard him;--but then his idea of a fugitive was only an idea of the letters that spell the word,--or at the most, the image of a little newspaper picture of a man with a stick and bundle with "Ran away from the subscriber" under it. The magic of the real presence of distress,--the imploring human eye, the frail, trembling human hand, the despairing appeal of helpless agony,--these he had never tried. He had never thought that a fugitive might be a hapless mother, a defenceless child,--like that one which was now wearing his lost boy's little well-known cap; and so, as our poor senator was not stone or steel,--as he was a man, and a downright noble-hearted one, too,--he was, as everybody must see, in a sad case for his patriotism. And you need not exult over him, good brother of the Southern States; for we have some inklings that many of you, under similar circumstances, would not do much better. We have reason to know, in Kentucky, as in Mississippi, are noble and generous hearts, to whom never was tale of suffering told in vain. Ah, good brother! is it fair for you to expect of us services which your own brave, honorable heart would not allow you to render, were you in our place?
Be that as it may, if our good senator was a political sinner, he was in a fair way to expiate it by his night's penance. There had been a long continuous period of rainy weather, and the soft, rich earth of Ohio, as every one knows, is admirably suited to the manufacture of mud--and the road was an Ohio railroad of the good old times.
"And pray, what sort of a road may that be?" says some eastern traveller, who has been accustomed to connect no ideas with a railroad, but those of smoothness or speed.
Know, then, innocent eastern friend, that in benighted regions of the west, where the mud is of unfathomable and sublime depth, roads are made of round rough logs, arranged transversely side by side, and coated over in their pristine freshness with earth, turf, and whatsoever may come to hand, and then the rejoicing native calleth it a road, and straightway essayeth to ride thereupon. In process of time, the rains wash off all the turf and grass aforesaid, move the logs hither and thither, in picturesque positions, up, down and crosswise, with divers chasms and ruts of black mud intervening.
Over such a road as this our senator went stumbling along, making moral reflections as continuously as under the circumstances could be expected,--the carriage proceeding along much as follows,--bump! bump! bump! slush! down in the mud!--the senator, woman and child, reversing their positions so suddenly as to come, without any very accurate adjustment, against the windows of the down-hill side. Carriage sticks fast, while Cudjoe on the outside is heard making a great muster among the horses. After various ineffectual pullings and twitchings, just as the senator is losing all patience, the carriage suddenly rights itself with a bounce,--two front wheels go down into another abyss, and senator, woman, and child, all tumble promiscuously on to the front seat,--senator's hat is jammed over his eyes and nose quite unceremoniously, and he considers himself fairly extinguished;--child cries, and Cudjoe on the outside delivers animated addresses to the horses, who are kicking, and floundering, and straining under repeated cracks of the whip. Carriage springs up, with another bounce,--down go the hind wheels,--senator, woman, and child, fly over on to the back seat, his elbows encountering her bonnet, and both her feet being jammed into his hat, which flies off in the concussion. After a few moments the "slough" is passed, and the horses stop, panting;--the senator finds his hat, the woman straightens her bonnet and hushes her child, and they brace themselves for what is yet to come.
For a while only the continuous bump! bump! intermingled, just by way of variety, with divers side plunges and compound shakes; and they begin to flatter themselves that they are not so badly off, after all. At last, with a square plunge, which puts all on to their feet and then down into their seats with incredible quickness, the carriage stops,--and, after much outside commotion, Cudjoe appears at the door.
"Please, sir, it's powerful bad spot, this' yer. I don't know how we's to get clar out. I'm a thinkin' we'll have to be a gettin' rails."
The senator despairingly steps out, picking gingerly for some firm foothold; down goes one foot an immeasurable depth,--he tries to pull it up, loses his balance, and tumbles over into the mud, and is fished out, in a very despairing condition, by Cudjoe.
But we forbear, out of sympathy to our readers' bones. Western travellers, who have beguiled the midnight hour in the interesting process of pulling down rail fences, to pry their carriages out of mud holes, will have a respectful and mournful sympathy with our unfortunate hero. We beg them to drop a silent tear, and pass on.
It was full late in the night when the carriage emerged, dripping and bespattered, out of the creek, and stood at the door of a large farmhouse.
It took no inconsiderable perseverance to arouse the inmates; but at last the respectable proprietor appeared, and undid the door. He was a great, tall, bristling Orson of a fellow, full six feet and some inches in his stockings, and arrayed in a red flannel hunting-shirt. A very heavy mat of sandy hair, in a decidedly tousled condition, and a beard of some days' growth, gave the worthy man an appearance, to say the least, not particularly prepossessing. He stood for a few minutes holding the candle aloft, and blinking on our travellers with a dismal and mystified expression that was truly ludicrous. It cost some effort of our senator to induce him to comprehend the case fully; and while he is doing his best at that, we shall give him a little introduction to our readers.
Honest old John Van Trompe was once quite a considerable land-owner and slave-owner in the State of Kentucky. Having "nothing of the bear about him but the skin," and being gifted by nature with a great, honest, just heart, quite equal to his gigantic frame, he had been for some years witnessing with repressed uneasiness the workings of a system equally bad for oppressor and oppressed. At last, one day, John's great heart had swelled altogether too big to wear his bonds any longer; so he just took his pocket-book out of his desk, and went over into Ohio, and bought a quarter of a township of good, rich land, made out free papers for all his people,--men, women, and children,--packed them up in wagons, and sent them off to settle down; and then honest John turned his face up the creek, and sat quietly down on a snug, retired farm, to enjoy his conscience and his reflections.
"Are you the man that will shelter a poor woman and child from slave-catchers?" said the senator, explicitly.
"I rather think I am," said honest John, with some considerable emphasis.
"I thought so,"' said the senator.
"If there's anybody comes," said the good man, stretching his tall, muscular form upward, "why here I'm ready for him: and I've got seven sons, each six foot high, and they'll be ready for 'em. Give our respects to 'em," said John; "tell 'em it's no matter how soon they call,--make no kinder difference to us," said John, running his fingers through the shock of hair that thatched his head, and bursting out into a great laugh.
Weary, jaded, and spiritless, Eliza dragged herself up to the door, with her child lying in a heavy sleep on her arm. The rough man held the candle to her face, and uttering a kind of compassionate grunt, opened the door of a small bed-room adjoining to the large kitchen where they were standing, and motioned her to go in. He took down a candle, and lighting it, set it upon the table, and then addressed himself to Eliza.
"Now, I say, gal, you needn't be a bit afeard, let who will come here. I'm up to all that sort o' thing," said he, pointing to two or three goodly rifles over the mantel-piece; "and most people that know me know that 't wouldn't be healthy to try to get anybody out o' my house when I'm agin it. So now you jist go to sleep now, as quiet as if yer mother was a rockin' ye," said he, as he shut the door.
"Why, this is an uncommon handsome un," he said to the senator. "Ah, well; handsome uns has the greatest cause to run, sometimes, if they has any kind o' feelin, such as decent women should. I know all about that."
The senator, in a few words, briefly explained Eliza's history.
"O! ou! aw! now, I want to know?" said the good man, pitifully; "sho! now sho! That's natur now, poor crittur! hunted down now like a deer,--hunted down, jest for havin' natural feelin's, and doin' what no kind o' mother could help a doin'! I tell ye what, these yer things make me come the nighest to swearin', now, o' most anything," said honest John, as he wiped his eyes with the back of a great, freckled, yellow hand. "I tell yer what, stranger, it was years and years before I'd jine the church, 'cause the ministers round in our parts used to preach that the Bible went in for these ere cuttings up,--and I couldn't be up to 'em with their Greek and Hebrew, and so I took up agin 'em, Bible and all. I never jined the church till I found a minister that was up to 'em all in Greek and all that, and he said right the contrary; and then I took right hold, and jined the church,--I did now, fact," said John, who had been all this time uncorking some very frisky bottled cider, which at this juncture he presented.
"Ye'd better jest put up here, now, till daylight," said he, heartily, "and I'll call up the old woman, and have a bed got ready for you in no time."
"Thank you, my good friend," said the senator, "I must be along, to take the night stage for Columbus."
"Ah! well, then, if you must, I'll go a piece with you, and show you a cross road that will take you there better than the road you came on. That road's mighty bad."
John equipped himself, and, with a lantern in hand, was soon seen guiding the senator's carriage towards a road that ran down in a hollow, back of his dwelling. When they parted, the senator put into his hand a ten-dollar bill.
"It's for her," he said, briefly.
"Ay, ay," said John, with equal conciseness.
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Bankruptcy is never easy to go through, no matter how prepared you are or how aware you are of the process. Knowing what your rights are in bankruptcy, a bit about the process, and what to expect can help make dealing with it easier and can help you get through the process.
There are safeguards in bankruptcy that can help protect you and your property, and those are exemptions in bankruptcy.
What is Bankruptcy?
Bankruptcy put as simply as possible, is a dissolution of debts that the debtor has no means of paying. This can apply to individuals, married couples, businesses, and business partners.
Bankruptcy has different types that correspond to the business or individual that is filing and to the circumstances that are present at the time of bankruptcy.
Bankruptcy is a reset button of sorts that allows the filer to get rid of or to dissolve debts that they are struggling to pay so that they can get back on their feet and start to recover financially.
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Types of Bankruptcy
Bankruptcy is not a one size fits all solution. There are six different types of bankruptcy and each has a different purpose and a different focus.
When you decide to file for bankruptcy, you are going to need to talk with your bankruptcy attorney to find out what sort of bankruptcy is going to work best for you and what is going to fit your particular situation best.
The first type of bankruptcy is chapter 7. This is also referred to as liquidation bankruptcy. With this type, you are going to be liquidating all, or as many as possible, of your assets to help pay off the debt that you have and then writing off the rest.
This is most common with people that own a lot of assets like cars, homes, or other property that can be sold off to pay your debt. This is also very common in businesses that are going to be going out of business and are able to liquidate the inventory and other elements that they had when the business was in operation.
Another type is chapter 13. This is also referred to as a repayment plan and is the most common for individuals. This can be used if you have a home or a car that you want to keep and that you want to keep paying on after bankruptcy.
This type of bankruptcy helps to get rid of a large portion of personal debt but does allow the debtor to reaffirm certain loans and create a repayment plan for some of the debt so that they can restructure and keep paying off some of the debt that they have.
The next type is chapter 11, or large reorganization. This is most often used by large businesses that want to stay in business but simply need to reorganize their debt in a way that they are actually going to be able to pay it.
This is something that must be approved by the court and the people holding the debt and is often used in cases where there are lots of high-value assets that need to be protected.
There is also chapter 12, this is a repayment plan for farmers and fishermen that do not want to sell off property or foreclose. This is more flexible than chapter 13 and does allow these individuals to keep the property that they need for their livelihood but still write off a good portion of debt so that they can move on and start to recover.
Chapter 15 is for international bankruptcies and chapter 9 is for towns and cities that need to file. No matter what type of debt you have, there is a bankruptcy solution that is going to fit your needs and that is going to fit your particular debt.
It is always important to take the time to speak with a bankruptcy attorney to see what is going to work best for you so that you can get your case off to a great start.
What is the Bankruptcy Process?
The first step of the bankruptcy process is to decide if bankruptcy is right for you or if you have other options that might work better. You should look at your debt to income ratio. Are you making less money than you spend each month paying off debt?
Are you struggling to stay on top of payments and are frequently falling behind? These may be early indicators that bankruptcy is a solution you may need to further investigate.
The next step is to speak with an attorney that is well versed in bankruptcy. This is going to first and foremost give you an idea about the options that you have and can start you on the road to finding the right bankruptcy for your particular needs.
Your attorney will talk to you about options, will help you decide if bankruptcy is right for you, and will help you find the right type of bankruptcy for the debts that you have. It will also help you start the process.
After you decide if bankruptcy is right for you, your attorney is going to give you a few tasks. They will have you write down all your monthly bills, the income that you make, any assets that you have, as well as any debts that you have currently outstanding.
This will help your attorney get a better idea of what they are dealing with and what they are going to need to focus on. They will then petition the court for your bankruptcy.
If the court feels that you have enough assets to repay your debt or that you do not qualify, they will deny the bankruptcy. They may also approve it.
If it is approved your attorney is going to reach out to your creditors and give them the opportunity to refute the bankruptcy or to demand that you pay back the debt.
You will then be required to finish a counseling session online about money management and then your case will go to court. Bankruptcy takes a few months to complete.
What are Bankruptcy Exemptions?
So, you have decided to file for bankruptcy and you are afraid that you are going to lose everything. This is not the case. Bankruptcy exemptions are a set of laws that are in place to protect property in the event of bankruptcy so that you do not end up homeless or destitute if you decide to file.
These laws are put in place to protect your property from creditors and to make sure that you are treated fairly through the bankruptcy process.
These exemptions are in place to make sure that creditors do not try to force the sale of your property. So that you are not going to end up without a home or a car or other property after a bankruptcy.
There are a few things that are exempt from bankruptcy that cannot be touched by a creditor in the case of bankruptcy. The first is your home or residence.
A creditor cannot force you to sell your home if it does not exceed the value that is set forth by the state where you live and where you are filing.
Creditors cannot force you to sell your life insurance policies, they cannot force you to sell your burial plot, they cannot force you to sell your clothing or jewelry as long as it does not exceed the value set forth by your state.
They also cannot take your lost earnings settlements, your disability or social security, your settlements that you may have gotten from a car accident, and more.
Creditors are not going to be able to force you to sell your car unless it exceeds the value that was set forth by your state. They cannot make you sell your tools of the trade either.
These exemptions are in place to prevent you from having everything taken away from you in the event that you are filing. It is going to help ensure that you still have the tools and the ability to live a good life, to have the ability to make money or to hold a job and that you are not going to be destitute after filing for bankruptcy.
These exemptions are different from state to state. A state where the cost of living is considerably higher is going to have greater thresholds than those states where costs are lower. A good example would be the value of a car that you can keep in a state like Kentucky versus California.
In Kentucky, the value of a car that you have free and clear and that you have paid off cannot exceed $5,000 before you have to sell it to pay off debt. In California, this number is at least double if not more. Home values are much the same.
Taking the time to talk with an attorney can help you determine what exemptions you are eligible for and what you should do moving forward.
Is Everyone Entitled to Exemptions?
Put simply, no. Not all people filing for bankruptcy are going to qualify for exemptions. A good example would be someone that owns a house that is very expensive that they have paid off.
They are not going to be able to retain this very expensive and very valuable home and still be able to file for bankruptcy. They will be required to sell their home and purchase something less valuable than using the money to help pay off debts.
Also, businesses may not be able to file for exemptions if they have assets that can be sold to pay off debts. Your bankruptcy attorney is going to be able to go over any and all exemptions that you might qualify for and is going to be able to help you determine what you can keep and what must be liquidated in your bankruptcy.
Exemptions do not apply to all bankruptcy as well. Exemptions are most often applied to chapter 7 bankruptcy and to businesses that want to reopen or stay in business despite the bankruptcy.
These exemptions also apply to chapter 13 bankruptcy, which is often an individual that is going to need a place to live and a car, and more.
If you are thinking of filing for an exemption, it is always best to be fully transparent with your attorney and to take the time to really see what is out there in terms of what you can file.
It is always best to go in with an open mind but to know that in some cases, you may be denied the ability to file for exemptions. This is a fantastic way to make sure that you are able to keep your home and that you are not going to be forced to worry about what you are doing.
When you are dealing with bankruptcy it is always best to take the time to talk with your attorney and find out what type of bankruptcy is going to be best, what exemptions you might have, and what else you can do.
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The Lorenzo doctrine was adopted by the federal courts in the Ninth Circuit for jurisdictional purposes but it has been used in the land title insurance industry for denying insurance claims.
In 1994, the State of Hawai‘i Intermediate Court of Appeals (“ICA”) heard an appeal where the defendant-appellant, Anthony Lorenzo, was seeking an appeal that the trial court committed an error when his motion to dismiss his indictment was denied, which led to his conviction. Lorenzo argued that the Hawaiian Kingdom continues to exist because the overthrow of the Hawaiian government on January 17, 1893, was illegal. And since he was a citizen of the kingdom, the trial court did not have any jurisdiction over him. The case was State of Hawai‘i v. Lorenzo.
For the first time ever regarding the United States overthrow, the ICA distinguished the government from a sovereign State—the Hawaiian Kingdom, or at least tried to. In the past, these two terms were interchangeable. In its decision, the ICA cited a 1991 appeals case that was heard by the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, Klinghoffer v. S.N.C. Achille Lauro, 937 F.2d 44, 47 (2d Cir. 1991) that quoted another case in the Second Circuit, National Petro-chemical Co. v. M/T Stolt Sheaf, 860 F.2d 551, 553 (2d Cir. 1988), as well as quoting from §201 from the Restatement (Third) of the Foreign Relations Law of the United States (1987). The Second Circuit Court stated:
The [Palestine Liberation Organization] PLO first argues that it is a sovereign state and therefore immune from suit under the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act (the “FSIA”), 28 U.S.C. § 1602 et seq. (1988). As support for this argument, it relies on its “political and governmental character and structure, its commitment to and practice of its own statehood, and its unlisted and indeterminable membership.” Brief for Appellant at 7. However, this Court has limited the definition of “state” to “‘entit[ies] that ha[ve] a defined territory and a permanent population, [that are] under the control of [their] own government, and that engage in, or ha[ve] the capacity to engage in, formal relations with other such entities.’” [citations omitted]. It is quite clear that the PLO meets none of those requirements.
The definition of a State includes a government and not that the government is synonymous with a State. Palestine has yet to be recognized by the United States as a sovereign and independent State, which prevented the PLO from claiming that Palestine is a State in U.S. federal courts. Therefore, whenever the issue of Palestine arises in federal court proceedings, the court itself or one of the parties to the lawsuit would invoke the “political question doctrine” and the case would be dismissed. Only until the United States recognizes Palestine as a State will the federal courts acknowledge Palestinian Statehood.
The Hawaiian Kingdom is different from the Palestinian situation in that the United States already recognized the Hawaiian Kingdom as a State in its treaties. In other words, the Hawaiian Kingdom did “ha[ve] a defined territory and a permanent population, [that are] under the control of [their] own government, and that engage in, or ha[ve] the capacity to engage in, formal relations with other such entities.” In fact, the Hawaiian Kingdom had an embassy in Washington, D.C., and the United States had an embassy in Honolulu.
The question that came before the ICA in the Lorenzo appeal is whether the State continues to exist despite the overthrow of its government by the United States on January 17, 1893. The ICA stated, “The essence of the lower court’s decision is that even if, as Lorenzo contends, the 1893 overthrow of the Kingdom was illegal, that would not affect the court’s jurisdiction in this case. Although the court’s rationale is open to question in light of international law, the record indicates that the decision was correct because Lorenzo did not meet his burden of proving his lack of jurisdiction.” Here, the ICA would appear to have conflated the Hawaiian State with the government of the Hawaiian Kingdom when it stated, “the 1893 overthrow of the Kingdom was illegal.”
This distinction between the State and the government was explained in the Restatement (Third) of the Foreign Relations Law of the United States that the ICA cited. In §202 is states:
Recognition of state and government distinguished. Recognition of a state is a formal acknowledgment that the entity possesses the qualifications of statehood, and implies a commitment to treat the entity as a state. Recognition of a government is formal acknowledgment that a particular regime is the effective government of a state and implies a commitment to treaty that regime as the government of that state. Ordinarily, that occurs when a state is incorporated into another state, as when Montenegro in 1919 became a part of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats, and Slovenes (later Yugoslavia).
According to Professor Oppenheim, once recognition of a State is granted, it “is incapable of withdrawal” by the recognizing State, and Professor Schwarzenberger explains that “recognition estops the State which has recognized the title from contesting its validity an any future time.” §202 goes on to say that the “duty to treat a qualified entity as a state also implies that so long as the entity continues to meet those qualifications its statehood may not be ‘derecognized.’ If the entity ceases to meet those requirements, it ceases to be a state and derecognition is not necessary.”
So because the Hawaiian State cannot be “derecognized,” it would continue to exist despite the overthrow of the government of the Hawaiian Kingdom on January 17, 1893. Evidence of “when a state is incorporated into another state” would be an international treaty, particularly a peace treaty, whereby the Hawaiian Kingdom would have ceded its territory and sovereignty to the United States. Examples of foreign States ceding sovereign territory to the United States by a peace treaty include the 1848 Treaty of Peace, Friendship, Limits, and Settlement with the Republic of Mexico that ended the Mexican-American war, and the 1898 Treaty of Peace between the United States of America and the Kingdom of Spain that ended the Spanish-American War.
The 1898 Joint Resolution To provide for annexing the Hawaiian Islands to the United States, is a municipal law of the United States without extraterritorial effect. It is not an international treaty. Under international law, to annex territory of another State is a unilateral act, as opposed to cession, which is a bilateral act between States.
In 2002, the federal court in Honolulu, in United States v. Goo, referred to the State of Hawai‘i v. Lorenzo and the Lorenzo doctrine. For 28 years both the State of Hawai‘i courts and the federal courts have been applying the Lorenzo doctrine wrong. Under international law, which the ICA in Lorenzo acknowledged may affect the rationale of the ICA in placing the burden on the defendant to prove the Hawaiian Kingdom “exists as a State,” shifts the burden on the party opposing the continued existence of the Hawaiian Kingdom that it “does not exist as a State.”
When the ICA acknowledged that Lorenzo did state in his motion to dismiss the indictment that the Hawaiian Kingdom “was recognized as an independent sovereign nation by the United States in numerous bilateral treaties,” it set the presumption to be the Hawaiian Kingdom’s existence as a State under international law and not the existence of the State of Hawai‘i as a political subdivision of the United States.
Under international law, it was not the burden of the defendant to provide evidence that the Hawaiian Kingdom “exists as a State” when the Lorenzo Court already acknowledged its existence and recognition by the United States. Rather, it was the burden of the prosecution to provide evidence that the Hawaiian Kingdom “does not exist as a State.” As a result, the Lorenzo Court’s ruling was wrong and all decisions that followed in State of Hawai‘i courts and federal courts applying the Lorenzo doctrine also were wrong.
The Lorenzo doctrine also has been used by the title insurance industry. In a denial letter to a title insurance claimant, Michael J. Moss, Senior Claims Counsel for Chicago Title Insurance Company, specifically referenced the Lorenzo doctrine applied in two State of Hawai‘i court cases and one federal court case as a basis to decline the insurance claim under an owner’s title insurance policy in the amount of $178,000.00. Moss stated:
The Hawaiian Courts have consistently found that the Kingdom of Hawai‘i is no longer recognized as a sovereign state by either the federal government or by the State of Hawai‘i. See State v. Lorenzo, 77 Hawai‘i 219, 221, 883 P.2d 641, 643 (Haw.App.1994); accord State v. French, 77 Hawai‘i 222, 228, 883 P.2d 644, 649 (Haw.App.1994); Baker v. Stehua, CIV 09-00615 ACK-BMK, 2010 WL 3528987 (D. Haw. Sept. 8, 2010).
Like the courts of the State of Hawai‘i and the federal courts, the Senior Claims Counsel incorrectly applied the Lorenzo doctrine, which should have been in favor of the title insurance claimant. The title insurance claim was that the “Owner’s deed was not lawfully executed according to Hawaiian Kingdom law [because] the notaries public and the Bureau of Conveyance weren’t part of the Hawaii[an] Kingdom, that the documents in [the claimant’s] chain of title were not lawfully executed.”
In other words, the Lorenzo doctrine, when applying international law correctly, would force the title insurance company to pay the claimant his $178,000.00 covered under the owner’s title insurance policy he had purchased to protect him in case there was a defect in the title.
All titles to property that were conveyed after January 17, 1893, are defective because the deeds were “not lawfully executed according Hawaiian Kingdom law [because] the notaries public and the Bureau fo Conveyances weren’t part of the Hawaii[an] Kingdom, [and] that the documents in [the claimant’s] chain of title were not lawfully executed.”
Defective titles to land in Hawai‘i also renders all mortgages tied to the land to be void and that title insurance also pays off the balance of the loan to the bank under the Lender’s Policy. For more information on this topic, download the Royal Commission of Inquiry’s Preliminary Report on Land Titles Throughout the Realm and its Supplemental Report on Title Insurance. | <urn:uuid:b21807be-d1cd-4cf2-bcf8-b3e6dfde745a> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://hawaiiankingdom.org/blog/the-far-reach-of-the-lorenzo-doctrine-the-title-insurance-industry/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571989.67/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813232744-20220814022744-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.961909 | 2,311 | 2.3125 | 2 |
Kate Forsyth is best known for her historical novel Bitter Greens, which interweaves a retelling of the Rapunzel fairy tale with the true life story of the woman who first told the tale, the 17th century French writer Charlotte-Rose de Caumont de La Force. Kate has continued her fascination with entwining fairy tales with historical fiction in The Wild Girl and The Beast’s Garden. Her latest novel, Beauty in Thorns, blends the Sleeping Beauty legend with the world of the Pre-Raphaelite painters.
Kate is also the author of several children’s books and has also published two heroic fantasy series, The Witches of Eileanan and Rhiannon’s Ride. She is a five-time Aurealis Award winner.
She is married with three children, and lives in Sydney. She is also a direct descendant of Charlotte Barton, the author of Australia’s earliest known children’s book.
What is the inspiration for Beauty in Thorns? Is there a particular theme you wished to explore?
Beauty in Thorns tells the story of the passions, scandals and tragedies behind the Pre-Raphaelite artist Edward Burne-Jones’s lifelong fascination with the Sleeping Beauty fairy-tale, which he painted half-a-dozen times over the course of his life. I have been interested in the Pre-Raphaelites since discovering their work as an undergraduate. My interest was reignited while I was studying my Doctorate of Creative Arts in fairy-tale studies. I wrote a thesis chapter on William Morris, who wrote the first creative response to ‘Rapunzel’ in the mid-19th century. I got interested in the Pre-Raphaelites’ use of fairy-tales, which echoed my own, and one day stumbled upon the story of Edward Burne-Jones and his famous ‘Legend of Briar Rose’ quartet of paintings, which in 1890 sold for the largest sum ever paid a British artist. It was just such an intriguing story, and contained within it all the things that interest me – art, poetry, mythology, love, death, and obsession.
What particular aspect of this period of history inspired? Why?
It is always the story that compels me to write a novel, not the setting. However, I’ve always loved the Victorian era and have read a great many books set during that period, both fiction and non-fiction. It was such a time of change and unrest, and the psychology of the time is just fascinating, with its twin obsessions with sex and death. I was really excited to have the chance to study it and bring it to life on the page.
What resources did you use to research Beauty in Thorns? How long did it take to finish the novel?
I began work on the novel in November 2014 and finished the final edit in March 2017, so it was a long and challenging project to work on. I read all the books about the Pre-Raphaelites that I could find, plus countless journal articles and blog posts. I spent a lot of time examining the art and poetry of the Pre-Raphaelites, and trying to understand the thoughts and motivations of the artists and their models.
What do you do if stuck for a word or a phrase?
Keep on writing. The perfect phrase rarely comes with the first draft anyway. Sometimes the subconscious mind needs time to dwell on something before it comes up with the answer.
Is there anything unusual or even quirky that you would like to share about your writing?
I like to start a new book when the moon is new. It means that I can try and get everything else done first and get my desk cleared, and be ready to focus all my energies on the next project. It gives me a clear start date, and feels somehow energising and inspiring. It also stops me from procrastinating or taking on too much other work.
Do you use a program like Scrivener to create your novel? Do you ever write in long hand?
I keep a notebook where I jot down ideas, questions, and lists of things to do, as well as word counts, diagrams, maps, photos and other sources of information and inspiration. I write most of my poetry long hand, as well as songs, spells, charms and incantations that I might be working into the book.
However, I type the narrative straight into Word, which I find very simple and easy to move around in. I work away steadily, usually writing in a linear fashion, though I often circle back to rewrite a scene or chapter as needed, or to add in a new scene.
Is there a particular photo or piece of art that strikes a chord with you? Why?
The key works of art that helped inspire Beauty in Thorns were ‘Proserpina’ by Dante Gabriel Rossetti, and the sequence of ‘Sleeping Beauty’ paintings by Edward Burne-Jones.
What advice would you give an aspiring author?
Read as much and as widely as you can. Make writing a natural part of your daily routine. Be steadfast and unshakeable in your faith in both yourself and your story. Have courage, in both your writing and your life.
A spellbinding reimagining of ‘Sleeping Beauty’ set amongst the wild bohemian circle of Pre-Raphaelite artists and poets. The Pre-Raphaelites were determined to liberate art and love from the shackles of convention.
Ned Burne-Jones had never had a painting lesson and his family wanted him to be a parson. Only young Georgie Macdonald – the daughter of a Methodist minister – understood. She put aside her own dreams to support him, only to be racked with grief and scandal.
Dante Gabriel Rossetti was smitten with his favourite model, Lizzie Siddal. She wanted to be an artist herself, but was seduced by the irresistible lure of laudanum.
William Morris fell head-over-heels for a ‘stunner’ from the slums, seventeen-year-old Janey Burden. Discovered by Ned, married to William, she embarked on a passionate affair with Gabriel that led inexorably to tragedy.
Meanwhile, fifteen-year-old Margot Burne-Jones was her father’s muse. He painted her as the ‘Sleeping Beauty’, a fairy-tale that had haunted him all his life. Yet Margot was growing up, and longed to be awakened to love.
Bringing to life the dramatic true story of love, obsession and heartbreak that lies behind the Victorian era’s most famous paintings, Beauty in Thorns is the story of awakenings of all kinds.
HNSA 2017 Conference
As a co founder of the Historical Novel Society Australasia (HNSA) and programme director of the 2017 HNSA Melbourne conference, I am delighted that Kate Forsyth is our patron and will be celebrating Beauty in Thorns at our History with a Twist cocktails on 8 September. There will be lots of prizes including the chance to win a 1:1 Skype session with Kate for yourself or your book club.Come and join the fun. More information is at the HNSA website.
Kate is also appearing in conversation with Deborah Challinor on 10 September, and will join Anna Campbell and Luke Devenish to read their saucier scenes in our Beyond the Comfort Zone: Writing Sex and Violence.
The HNSA 2017 Melbourne Conference is being held on 8-10 September 2017 at Swinburne University. This celebration of the historical fiction genre will showcase over 60 speakers discussing inspiration, writing craft, research, publishing pathways and personal histories in our weekend programme. Among the many acclaimed historical novelists participating are Kerry Greenwood, Kate Forsyth, Deborah Challinor, Libby Hathorn, Lucy Treloar, Sophie Masson, Sulari Gentill, Robert Gott and Arnold Zable. The HNSA’s speakers’ list is available on the HNSA website.
In addition to the two stream weekend programme, there will be ten craft based super sessions and two research masterclasses.You won’t want to miss our interactive sessions on armour and historical costumes either! Purchase a ticket and you will be entered in the draw to win a $100 Dymocks Gift Card.
Manuscript assessments will be conducted by industry experts, Alison Arnold and Irina Dunn. Our free extended academic programme is open for general admission but bookings are essential.
Our First Pages Pitch Contest offers an opportunity for submissions to be read aloud to a panel of publishers. And we are delighted to announce the introduction of our inaugural HNSA Short Story Contest with a $500 prize!
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IOP measurement results with diaton tonometer are independent of inter-examiner variability.
The results of the mutual clinical study carried by Russian and German scientists show that the inter-examiner variability doesn’t affect the results of transpalpebral transscleral diaton-tonometry.
In the study IOP measurements were carried out by 3 examiners, one of them had long-term experience with diaton tonometer, and the other two successfully completed an intensive measurement course followed with the final exam. No significant differences in tonometer’s results received by three examiners were found. The divergency of results was minimal because the special training course was passed by the new diaton tonometer users. Therefore the importance and necessity of obtaining a stable skill in working with diaton is emphasized once again.
Based on the study results it can be concluded that non-corneal diaton tonometry is a complementary reliable method of intraocular pressure measurement. In particular, diaton tonometer makes it possible to determine IOP pressure values in patients who have contraindications to standard tonometric methods (e.g., corneal ulcer, corneal pathology, “dry eye” syndrome). The handy, small diaton tonometer is also used for screening, for glaucoma control, for diagnosing and in bed rest patients.
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The Methodist Church in Shepshed, Leicestershire, is in Field Street and is the subject of an article in My Wesleyan Methodists. Until 1969 both the Wesleyan and Primitive chapels were still in use, but no war memorials or rolls of honour now survive. There is a village war memorial.
Two simple memorial plaques to a pair of brothers may still be seen in the church, and they tell a story which puts most official remembrance into context.
The Manderfields were a Methodist family in the twentieth century, but Douglas and Mary Ann Manderfield’s children were baptised in the parish church. Their son Lakin (his mother’s maiden name) was born on 7th July 1895 and baptised on 21st September 1898. In 1911 he was working as a brickmaker. According to his service record he enlisted on 31st August 1914, and served as a Private in the 7th Battalion of the Leicestershire Regiment. He went to France on 29th July 1915, and served there until he was discharged on the 27th February 1918. He was awarded the Silver War Badge on 5th March 1918, meaning that he had been wounded. After the war had ended he married twice. His daughter, Dorothy May, was baptised at Field Street Wesleyan on 18th July 1921. He died in 1923 and, as can be seen from the first plaque, his parents were in no doubt that his death was caused by shell shock.
Lakin’s younger brother, Claude Vincent, was born on 25th August 1899 and baptised in the parish church on 9th September 1903. He served with the 8th Battalion, King’s Own (Royal Lancashire Regiment), was wounded and sent back to St. Albans, where he died on 12th September 1918. He was apparently buried in Shepshed.
It is unusual to see the words “shell shock” on a memorial, and the reason we see it here is as a dignified response to official indifference. Claude Vincent Manderfield served in France for a short time, died of wounds, and is commemorated on the Shepshed war memorial and is recognised as a casualty of the war by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission. His elder brother, Lakin, enlisted in the earliest days of the war, served in France for two and a half years, was so severely wounded that he had to be discharged, and received a medal in recognition: but because he died at home, after the war, despite this being a result of his war service, all that service was not seen as worthy of a place on the war memorial, or recognition by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission.
Ironically, Lakin’s posthumous son Lakin William Vincent Manderfield is recorded on the war memorial and by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission. He was killed during an air raid on Liverpool in 1943 whist in uniform.
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