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Salah Ramallah Rahim al hamdu Lillahi Rabbil alameen wa Salatu was salam, ala Chateau filmbay were mousseline. mohammadu was a little noise on the variety he really he was, he was, doesn't even cathedra cathedra from above. My dear brothers and sisters, we are on the story of Musa Ali Salaam And Pharaoh wrong.
And as I mentioned to you before, and I remind myself, I knew that the purpose of this story, and of course, the purpose of all the stories of the Quran is only one which is to help us to learn the lessons of success in this life, painlessly.
There are two ways to learn. One is painfully by making mistakes suffering, the consequences, paying the price, and then learning from that. And the other option is to learn from the mistakes of others, to look at the stories of others, look at their mistakes, learn what not to do, see their successes, learn what to do.
And that is a painless way, because you don't pay the price for it. Somebody has paid the price, but 100 because you are intelligent enough to learn from their life, you get to learn that lesson without actually paying the price.
This is what Allah subhanaw taala gave us the opportunity of doing in the Quran, of learning from the
mistakes of others, ask Allah Subhana telogen
to enable us to learn and to practice these learnings in our life.
Now, in the case of Iran, in the last lesson, last class, we talked about Allah subhanaw taala told us about the different forms, the different punishments, the different tests, the different tribulations that were sent to Iran and to the people of Iran, which the flood, the locus, the lightest of rods, the blood,
one after the other sign after sign after sign.
And every time they had one of these
problems, they would go running to Saudi salam, they would say Musa alayhis salam make dua to your mosque you're up to,
to lift this punishment, to ask your app to save us from this difficulty. And we will become obedient and we will allow your people to go but when that man was arrested, I made the drop. And this punishment was lifted. They went back to their old ways. And this continued until Allah subhanaw taala decided to shut the door of Hidayat for them, and so on as one of the recept so we took retribution from them. We drowned them in the sea because they belied and they denied Our Ayat, our evidence, our science, louder than sisters.
This is one of the most important things to remember
that along the Rila horrible army, we need Allah Subhana Allah, Allah does not need us. Allah subhanho wa Taala is the creator, he is the Sustainer he is the maintainer, he is the owner of everything that we know and we do not know just think about that this universe itself they tell us that the visible universe right
is 21 billion light years across
I mean, you know these numbers they have really
they have really no meaning, if we look at them,
if we look at them in real terms, because what is one light here now light travels at a speed of 300,000 miles per second. So you are saying here that there is something which is traveling a particle that is traveling 300,000 miles per second,
this travel this particle travels therefore how many miles in one minute 60 seconds, then how many miles in one hour which is 60 minutes, and then how many miles in 24 hours which is one day and then how many miles in 365 days. That is one light year. Now here they're saying 21,000,021,000 million light years and Allah knows best I mean the even the these are all estimates is not exact numbers.
Now that is the visible universe, and if you that's going across the visible universe from
one side to the other, whatever that means, I mean, I will really sort of at see you when I when I talk about these things, but I'm just saying this to give us if it is possible an idea of what we are saying, when we realize the origin of everything, this visible universe, there is a very nice
video of this person trying to explain the size of the visible universe. And I'm going to ask,
as you remember to put the link to that video in the description of this video, where he does very little experiment, he said, he says, Take a grain of sand on the tip of your finger, hold this finger at an arm's length, shut one eye, and look at the finger. He says the piece of sky that that grain of sand grain of sand, the piece of sky, that that grain of sand blocks out
is the size of the visible universe. That's how big it is. And that has God, literally billions of galaxies, the size of our Milky Way, I'm not talking about the solar system, I'm talking about the galaxy itself. our Milky Way galaxy
has millions of stars like our Sun, and there are billions of galaxies of the size of the Milky Way, in this piece of sky which is blocked out by this grain of sand. Really, I mean, I think it even even trying to
under understand these figures as a no meaning but it's good hamdulillah to see the glory and magnificence of Allah subhanaw taala.
So, this is Allah subhana wa danijela Gentlemen, and when Allah subhanho wa Taala della della Lu is,
is wanting us when he is explaining something to us when he is showing us something, this is obviously for our benefit, right? But Allah does not Allah who is someone, he has no needs, he has no need for your my approval is no need for our disapproval, it doesn't make any difference to our approval, and disapproval doesn't make any difference even to this word. Right. The Take Take for example, as I'm sitting and
talking to you here, I can look out and I can see some birds outside it using that word cares about what I think using that bird cares hotel, whether I think it is beautiful or
right even even the creatures of this world beaches of this earth. They don't get they don't get it. They don't get anything at all about our approval and disapproval or but the creator of the universe and haven't been there. So it's not a question of Allah is Allah subhanaw taala is given us a way of life. Allah subhanaw taala has shown us a way of life Allah, Allah has directed us for our benefit, who benefits if we have a world which is which is which is just and fair and compassionate, which is peaceful, who who benefits
a lot rather than what are the lovers and again,
we benefit with a war in a world which is full of war and all kinds of, of problems, who feels the pain we feel the pain. The instead of that if you don't want to listen to that, if you want to if you think that you are doing if I think that I'm doing a favorite or large amount of data by obeying him that I'm fooling myself. I mean, it's that I must be the biggest fool in the world. So here what is people?
Therefore what the thing is, I'm saying all this is because when we
understand this, then what happens is that even if we make a mistake, and we will make a mistake, believe even the best of people make mistakes.
kulu bunny Adam hopped our old hydrocotyle on our bone, he said all the
sons of Adam alayhis salam, all the children of Adam all the that is all human beings are people who make mistakes. And the best of those who make mistakes are those who repent. So therefore, we all make mistakes, we will all continue to make mistakes, that is not a problem.
The issue is to stick on the mistake to insist on the mistake to insist that the mistake is not a mistake that it is my right that it is something that I will do that I refuse to change that this is a problem right? This
adamancy this stubbornness, this is the problem. If a person makes a mistake and is immediately contrite is immediately regretful is immediately sorry. If the mistake concerns the rights of others rather than this person repairs to Allah subhanho wa Taala and regrets and expresses his regret and
begs a lot of antenna for fodder. If the mistake was something which was zolo on somebody else, or a human being, if the mistake was something which denied people, their rights, then this person is regretful, goes and apologize to that person, whoever is whoever his rights were transgressed. And then this person, you know, begs their partner, this person makes amends this person compensates them for their loss. He does want that hamdulillah there's no problem. It may Allah right, I will forgive him, people will forgive him. And on the contrary, this person will be respected as someone who's fair and just and as someone who is was not adamant on his or her
you know, within course, so called right? There is no right to do wrong. I think about this, there's no right to do wrong today. This is the problem with us. We think that it's our right to make mistakes it's our right to commit crimes, it's our right to wrong, it's not we nobody has a right to do wrong, somebody may you may do wrong, because we are human beings we do wrong we forget we we mistakes, but then what is right is to
make amends is to apologize is to be is to
is to repent. So when we don't do that. And when we continue, and we move from making a mistake, too demanding that this mistake be accepted as my right now, that's a different ballgame altogether. Believe me that something else. Because making a mistake and considering considering it a mistake is one thing, but to demand that this mistake is the right thing to do. That is a different
that's a different perspective altogether. Now when that happens,
I learned that it is a load that is infinite immersive for others vitalize infinitely patients, patient but after a point, Allah subhanho wa Taala
the I don't see the patience of Allah Ron stands out because there's nothing of Allah, nothing that belongs to Allah. But the rule of Allah subhanho wa Taala is that after so many times, whatever number of times it is, Allah subhanaw taala shuts the door of repentance, Allah subhanho wa Taala
takes away that opportunity to hear you had the opportunity. It's like, you know, in baseball, three strikes and you're out. So if you say, oh my why three strikes, why can't I have three other strikes, you had three strikes your three opportunities. And that's it after that, you are out. So, this is the important thing to understand. And this is what the people are filled in to understand is what people don't seem to understand, which is that there is there comes a time when the door of Koba the door of repentance will be shut. Now, the other thing which also
fools people all the time is our so called knowledge
where we get confused between
between why and how. Now, I mentioned this before as well. Why is the reason you do something? How is the way in which that thing is done or that thing happened? So in the case of Mosul, Islam, these miracles and these tests that happened with the people of Iran, then one of the possibilities is that since these were people actually very, very knowledgeable people, there are a lot of knowledge of the time
value, I mean, people build the pyramids, for example, they were not exactly ignorant people. So one possibility and this is my my
this is my my thinking and my reasoning. One possibility is that they could have got involved into the mechanics of the thing and saying, oh, how did this happen?
And you know, this this reason, that reason without thinking of saying, but why did it happen? Now, how it happened is mechanics of it can be anything, but why it happened is because we were disobeying Allah subhanho data. So no matter how well we understand why it is happening, it will not stop and we cannot stop it until we address the why until we correct the why this is very important to to understand. For example, in one beautiful Harry's
There is a bachelor in Raja Anima
which is in India manager also mentioned five different things where he said that these five things.
And I mentioned this in detail in the living Islam lecture. So you will you will, you can listen to that there. But just one of them is also said that when
immorality increases and is done publicly and this is the the condition that immorality increases in people and is done publicly where immorality from being considered immoral starts being considered a right people said, All right, this is my right, this is my right I have a right to do it, I have a right to make these choices I have, I have a right to have these relationships.
A relationship outside of marriage is adultery, or a relationship outside of marriage is between a man and a woman it is not. It is not permissible in any religion, all religions privately, but some
of them, some people have some of these religions, they choose to turn a blind eye to this for all kinds of protects, they say well, you know, we can't get so, so hard about these things, because then people will go away from the religion and instead of going to the mosque or going to the church, they will stop coming. So let them keep coming. Let them keep coming. So we will tolerate this and we will tolerate that. Whereas Islam says No, we are not here for to get popularity ratings. We are here to establish the law of Allah subhanaw taala, which is the pitches for the benefit of all concerned. So when there is one person who is breaking the law, we will in a very
nice way I know nobody's saying we you know cut off the heads of using in a very nice way. We will tell them that they are wrong. We are not going to keep quiet about something which is wrong. We are going to tell them stop doing that. Do not do it. This is wrong. This is harmful. It's like like somebody making a hole in a boat. And we said no, no, no, we know let the person be in the boat.
Doesn't matter if they're making hole. If enough people make holes in the boat, the whole boat will sink. If there are people who can who think that there is it is their right to make holes in the boat, then really you don't need such people in the board because those people are going to sink the whole board. So what is right is right what is wrong is wrong. We cannot we cannot accept what is wrong. In the name of Muslims. In the name of diplomacy in the name or hikma in the name of wisdom in the name of you know all of these sub know what is right is right what is wrong is wrong. And Allah subhanho data made it clear on the promises made it clear result if you see something wrong,
stop it with your hand. He didn't say if you see something wrong, leave it alone doesn't matter. It's okay now he said Is it is it is not okay. It is definitely not okay. If it is wrong, it is wrong. So stop it. So this is so when people don't do that, then you establish in your society you establish evil and you establish sin and you establish wrongdoing as a right. Now this is obviously
an excuse for halakhah it's an excuse for completely destroying yourself. And this is what the people of Iran did. They destroyed themselves. And I lost right and then we drowned. Now what is the lesson we learn from this? The lesson we learn from this is we look at things which are happening to us at any time in history. Look at the thing will happen to us and don't get involved with the
in the power of it.
Ask also the question why is it happening?
So today, for example, we are living in COVID times. Let us ask why is this happening? Don't get involved in you know vaccine? Oh, actually, no.
It's a strange thing people are people don't want to take the vaccine for COVID although they've taken the vaccine for polio. Now what is it? What's the big differences?
Right? People don't want to take the COVID vaccine. The entire medical establishment is saying take the vaccine it is beneficial for you. It will you know, it will prevent you from getting the infection. It's something that is
that will that will you know
that will save you from being infected. And then there is some one guy who you never heard off right. He says I am a doctor. I have won this prize that price and all these people are saying take a vaccine recently I met medical establishment. These are a bunch of scoundrels they are thieves as you
You want to forget the old man medical establishment. And you want to believe this one guy, you don't even know who the guys, you anyone can pretend to be anybody on the on the internet, but that, you know that brain is taken away from us. God is. My point is forget about that forget everything. Forget everybody ask yourself, why is this? Why is it that we, in our lifetimes are seeing diseases that we never saw before? Why not saying how? Why? Why is it that we are seeing diseases that we never saw before, now
told us why he said when immortality increased increases in society,
and when people
consider it to be their right,
when in morality is indulgent, and it is done in public, because people consider it to be their right when that happens, then diseases will appear among them, which their predecessors never saw. Then they will get new diseases which were never there before. And he said these diseases, diseases will spread in the land.
I remember I lived in a world in which there was no AIDS. I remember the world in which there was no AIDS. I remember the first time we heard about AIDS,
once again, don't get involved in too overt, you know, this is Bill Gates and Bill Gates did that and he spread AIDS is a number of things that are ascribed to this poor man, may Allah have mercy on him.
He is the one who's supposed to have spread aids and now he's the one who is going to insert a chip through the vaccine into your blood so that he tracks you have you really think you're so interesting that somebody wants to track to track you in what what what's this?
We have it
then we are SARS.
Now we have COVID in between here and bird flu.
Now think about this.
Please think about is why are we seeing disease after disease which we which our father our parents and grandparents even we didn't see, our parents definitely didn't see and grandparents definitely did not see it.
Even we did not see
I am 65 years old, I'll be 62 if i if i 66 in October, if I lived that long.
But the point is that in my own lifetime, there are at least four or five diseases that I
did not know about.
And not because I'm not amygdala, but because they were out there.
We have to ask ourselves these questions. And that is why we have these stories in the parent.
Nothing changes in editor a couple of 1000 years between Musashi Salaam and
so Allah said, finally we shut the door, we closed the door for them. And that's it. Now, I'm not saying here, people here of course, I'm talking about, you know, global warming, and so on. And they're talking about mass extinction, all of these things, Allah knows best, what will happen. But the point is that all that doesn't have to happen, we have to look at our own self and say, mass extinction or not, one day, I am going to die.
As far as I'm concerned, that is the end of my story. Whether the world continues or doesn't continue with the human race continues or not, makes no difference to me because I will be six feet under.
And I will be answering questions to Allah subhanaw taala about what I did, or I failed to do.
And at that point in time, I can't talk either nobody's gonna ask me Tell, tell us about what's happening to the rest of the world.
I will request about myself and I will have to answer questions about myself.
And that is why it is very important to understand this and remember this and to take lessons from these beautiful stories of the horror.
Unless right write that up.
talked also about the arrogance of Pharaoh. Right.
He said, for example, that the
he's another verano in total in sort of lost rank and
one other with our no fee called me He called on me allegedly Maluku misma Why the hell and her route agreement that he felt was alone and so on. He said and Valon proclaimed among these people saying oh my people, is it not my domain? Yeah, that is not
My domain here, the dominion of Egypt and these rivers running underneath me do not see, am I not better than this one, which is Mossad is Alam, who is mine he has no honor and respect is weak, despicable, is poor and can discuss the express himself clearly. Why then, are not golden wrestlers bestowed on him or angels and along with him, thus he won't be fooled and misled his people and they obeyed him very early. They were ever people who were fast your whole first half. coma who, for alko ganhou, Coleman fastly Allah subhanaw taala say this. Now think about this. What are our standards today? Here is Iran. Iran is a very simple it is very simple. I am better than Musa. And why am I
better than Muslim? Because I have more money. I have more money and more wealth or more.
If he was good, how come he doesn't have golden bracelets? Why is he not wearing gold? Why is he not wearing jewelry? jewelry? Why are angels not walking with Him in the street? Think about this. This is what the the motion of Ito McCarthy said to Mr. seller.
What are our standards?
What we have, what we need to learn from here is what our what are our standards today about who is honorable and who is not random in our language in order to wish a boss barrage me. So what does it mean? Does it mean he's eight feet tall and four feet wide? Does it mean that he weighs 500 kilograms? No. But it means what? He mean only one thing? He's a wealthy man.
Do we even bother to think about how did he get his wealth? Now please understand, I'm not assuming and I'm not implying that every wealthy person only got wealth in a way that there is there is something intrinsically wrong with Well, no, there is nothing intrinsically wrong with wealth and there is nothing romantic about poverty.
It is how we earn and how we spend it's not how much we earn
this is what we're always trying to learn is trying to reflect a different standard. This is what Karen did as well. And Karen was born from among the people on musasa
which is how much
how much do I have the very thing well you know, I mean I'm the king
and the ruler was used to say he's got he claimed divinity and he said these rivers the rivers are flowing under me
this is like an app sitting on top of an elephant
and the elephant crosses a bridge and the bridge you know because of the weight of the elephant kind of little bit shakes a bit and the answer is wow fantastic look at this you know the bridge is shaking because I'm crossing
you forget delivered
so here is ROM saying oh these rumors he was operating under me under you
jump into the river and you see where they were destroyed
that it was a floating under me i mean i'm so powerful I'm so I own the river in alila. When and how you
and I am better than Moosa and what is the Alicia lemon? What is the scanner? Look at it is a poor man he's got one shirt he's got one toe
he's got a stick in his hand. Where's the water? Where's the jewels? Where's the well the well the weapons were the army.
Think about our standards today. What do we aspire for? How do we look up to
or we look down on I can I can I can say this give you a guarantee.
try this out, sit in any gathering
And tell the people as we will one simple question. Tell them name for me. Five great people in the world today. who are who are five great people in the world today. I will tell you that almost I can probably be absolutely certain.
They will give you the names of five billionaires. Five big businessmen Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk, Bill Gates, Warren Buffett. It was
lohana water level. Anywhere you go. You asked this question they will give you the names of five billionaires and you probably all by men.
How many people are there who will name in these five people? We will will name great scientists.
People who will name a great teacher
People who will name great scholars, not only Muslims, anybody,
people who will name the discoverers of something really valuable.
Almost no one because our whole orientation is only a one thing which is making money.
And we don't even make why. We just look up to those who make money. We are like those people who looked at car Oh, when car that last one. I mentioned this in the in the holiday, when Carl gave out
in a procession.
And he had his wealth with him and whatnot, and a lot of his best what was the possession, but he came out in this with a huge entourage. And people looked at him and there were many people who said, Oh, I wish I was like, I wish he had given me like he gave him
isn't that a state today?
Where you got somebody who has went oh, wow, man, look at his car. I wish I had a car like that. Oh, wow, look at that billion dollar house. Look at his mansion.
And we don't look at one step beyond that. Which is to say, oh, wow, look at the janaza
Look at that. Look at that, that casket there.
Look at that govern.
This is the government This is the body of this man who built his house. This is the body of this woman who owned that business, all those cars.
That is our reality. That is where we are going no matter what. As I told you, I'm not against with no, no, no, no, no way at all. I'm not allergic to money.
How we are and where we spend.
Otherwise, those are all standards.
And these are the standards of the people around.
I am a big man, I am worth of worthy of worthy of respect. I am worth something because my net worth is more than that almost Aliza.
And my submission do is Allah, Allah, Allah is telling us the stories, so that we learn from them.
So that we remind ourselves that this is the nature of,
of human of humanity and had nothing has changed.
Today also we do the same thing. Now my mind is, Allah is telling a story of people who were, who had all with a worldly wise they had it all. They had a great civilization, they a lot of well, they had a lot of knowledge and so on and so forth. But they were disobedient to Allah subhanho wa Taala. There were people who were worshipping their own King.
And the king has said he had set himself up as a,
as an icon, as a
somebody to be worshipped.
He claimed divinity
and his priests and so on and create created his elaborate mythology
to support this claim of divinity
and whose there is an argument that you are wrong, the only divine the only one who's worthy of worship is Allah subhanaw taala.
And all these oppressions are doing
is wrong. So stop oppressing people let them go.
What do you do today? What are our standards? Today we look down upon our upon our own
On what basis because they don't they don't drive your fancy cars because they don't they don't live in your big houses. You look down upon the relevant
you treat them with with with disdain.
And even when somebody might argue I never had this conversation with with someone where they wanted a anyone for their budget.
And so I recommended to them and and they asked me,
you know what would be a reasonable salary for him?
So I asked this person I said, what would be a reasonable salary for you?
He said, I don't know what I'm not doing my word. I said yeah, because what you are doing in terms of value is much less. The Imam is the leader of the community. He is reciting Quran he is going to lead your Salah and you're going to pray behind him.
You're going to say I'm praying
I got Upsala
under the SEMA tab of this email
behind this email, I'm going to be following him in the salon.
So what do you think his salary should be?
Because the tradition is to pay the Imams you know just at the poverty line. I'm talking about India
but I think the same thing applies in most places where demand the least
that you can pay him
and if somebody argues in favor in in against that says look, you have to pay the man more about why does he need it?
Why does he need it? Ask yourself why do you need it?
Why do you need it at the same time you talk about values and wishes Allah said you remar is not complete until you want for your for your brother What do you want for yourself?
So for yourself, you want the best car the best house the the best money and the best everything else? And for the lump sum piece of trash is okay.
Yet you will stand behind is when you pray your Salah
What does it tell us about ourselves as Muslims? What does it tell us about ourselves as people who claim to,
to follow the Quran, people who claim to follow us are seldom people who claim to be on right guidance, when we do not even respect our own scholars, where we treat our scholars as if they are trash.
Right? Think about that, what it is about our standards.
And that's the reason why
I lost right that shows in our own lifetime. We have our children who have no respect for us.
Children openly insert their parents, they're not just disobedient, they're they're insulting.
How does that happen?
It happens because of the standards, it happens because
of the because of what we have chosen to do
with respect to ourselves, and
the kind of standards we have
ourselves and our society.
I really think about is that
today, if you look at it and say, What is our what is the standard of our of our success? What is the standard of success that we have for ourselves? And what do we choose for ourselves, if we are given a choice, this is a sign of the corruption of people, a corrupt sign of corruption of people and a sign of corruption of the of the leadership that they choose only that which is
of this kind, they choose for themselves. things which are purely material.
ask parents to describe, you know, what do you want for your child?
The future future What do you want your child to, to be and see how many people will say I want my child to be a doctor and engineer a great business man and this and that and the other. And how many people say I want my child to be righteous. I want my child to recognize Allah subhanho wa Taala I want my child to love mohammadu analyze, analyze, and I want my child to be a kind person to be compassionate. I want my child to be honest.
I want my child to be a person of integrity.
I want my child to be a person who's faithful to his spouse.
How many people says
and then we wonder how come we have a society which is so full of all kinds of evil.
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is not even on the list.
What do we expect?
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“Reading this book is a thrilling intellectual adventure” —Karen Armstrong, author A History of God
A richly detailed, profoundly engrossing story of how religion has influenced American foreign relations, told through the stories of the men and women—from presidents to preachers—who have plotted the country’s course in the world.
Ever since John Winthrop argued that the Puritans’ new home would be “a city upon a hill,” Americans’ role in the world has been shaped by their belief that God has something special in mind for them. But this is a story that historians have mostly ignored. Now, in the first authoritative work on the subject, Andrew Preston explores the major strains of religious fervor—liberal and conservative, pacifist and militant, internationalist and isolationist—that framed American thinking on international issues from the earliest colonial wars to the twenty-first century. He arrives at some startling conclusions, among them: Abraham Lincoln’s use of religion in the Civil War became the model for subsequent wars of humanitarian intervention; nineteenth-century Protestant missionaries made up the first NGO to advance a global human rights agenda; religious liberty was the centerpiece of Franklin Roosevelt’s strategy to bring the United States into World War II.
From George Washington to George W. Bush, from the Puritans to the present, from the colonial wars to the Cold War, religion has been one of America’s most powerful sources of ideas about the wider world. When, just days after 9/11, George W. Bush described America as “a prayerful nation, a nation that prays to an almighty God for protection and for peace,” or when Barack Obama spoke of balancing the “just war and the imperatives of a just peace” in his Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech, they were echoing four hundred years of religious rhetoric. Preston traces this echo back to its source.
Sword of the Spirit, Shield of Faith is an unprecedented achievement: no one has yet attempted such a bold synthesis of American history. It is also a remarkable work of balance and fair-mindedness about one of the most fraught subjects in America.
Andrew Preston teaches American history and international relations history at Cambridge University, where he is a fellow of Clare College. Before Cambridge, he taught history and international studies at Yale University. He has also taught at universities in Canada and Switzerland, and has been a fellow at the Cold War Studies Program at the London School of Economics. He is the author of The War Council: McGeorge Bundy, the NSC, and Vietnam.
From our Q&A with the author
Q: Why did you set out to write this book?
A: My students first prompted my curiosity about the role of religion in US foreign policy. In the wake of 9/11, when George W. Bush and Osama bin Laden were using religion to explain their actions, it was impossible to ignore the role of religion in international relations. But I was startled to discover that very few historians had examined this relationship, and none had explored it over a large sweep of time. In writing this book, I hope to bring the history of US foreign policy into dialogue with the history of American religion, and to show how the two not only overlapped but intimately influenced one another.
Q: Who were the most religious presidents, and how did this shape their foreign policy decisions?
A: Some are well-known, such as William McKinley, Woodrow Wilson, Jimmy Carter, and George W. Bush. But what surprised me was how religious other presidents were, such as Abraham Lincoln during the Civil War, Franklin Roosevelt during the Depression and World War II, and Harry Truman and Dwight Eisenhower during the Cold War. In fact, to varying degrees most presidents have been religious, and most have used religion to explain and define their foreign policy.
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Bake sale fundraisers are a wonderful way to engage your local community over a common goal, all while enjoying the comradery of baking traditional and ethnic sweets. Regardless of whether you are an athletic, music, drama, academic, high school, middle school, or elementary school booster club, bake sale fundraisers can be a profitable way to raise needed funds for booster club’s enriching experiences. While bake sales have a proven track record, not everyone successfully hits their booster club fundraising goals. Often times a lack of planning, a lack of support, or poor marketing and promotion can negatively impact fundraisers. Booostr has compiled some tips that will help you ensure that your community invests the necessary time and energy needed for a successful booster club bake sale fundraiser.
Even Booster Club Bake Sales May Have Legal Guidelines
There are an infinite number of ways to raise funds for your booster club and bake sale fundraisers are just one option. Many booster clubs are creative with their fundraisers and have held everything from barbecues to bingo nights, artwork sales, 5k runs, talent shows, raffles, and many unique and successful fundraising events. This fundraising creativity is partially in response to controversies around food and health concerns, allergies, and to some extent the obesity crisis. For example, New York City’s public schools, have instituted strenuous restrictions on the operation of bake sale fundraisers. In some cases, administrators only allow homemade goods to be sold, while others only allow foods within a certain range of sodium content and calories to be sold. In other cases, states even have health codes that dictate each sold item must be individually wrapped. Because of these newer changes, it is important to check local, state, and federal laws to ensure that you are following all enforced health regulations. In the event that restrictions do not let you host a booster club bake sale fundraiser, Booostr has published an article on fundraising that explores the details of a successful fundraiser, examples of fundraising events, and stories from real booster clubs and their fundraisers for further inspiration.
How to Organize a Sweet Booster Club Bake Sale Fundraiser
Your booster club bake sale fundraiser should have a clear leader to oversee the event from start to finish. In most booster clubs, fundraisers are usually organized and led by the treasurer and the operations coordinator, if one has been appointed. No matter who your event leader is, make sure they have excellent organizational skills and are able to assign responsibilities to the most qualified booster volunteers.
Volunteers Are Critical to Your Bake Sale Fundraiser Success!
Behind every successful bake sale fundraiser is your booster club team of volunteers working together cohesively. First and foremost, you will need several people to bake and bring in goods to sell. You should also plan on assigning some volunteers a focus on the marketing and promotion of the sale. Finally you will need volunteers who will be responsible for setting up the table or booth, selling the goods, collecting money, and clean up.
A Bake Sale Sign Up Sheet Helps!
A great way to manage your team is by creating a sign-up sheet where each individual will provide their name, their contribution to the bake sale fundraiser, and a contact number or email. For the baked goods donation sign-up, be sure to provide a space where volunteers can specify what they plan on donating. You might also consider providing a list of what baked goods and baked goods categories will be needed along with instructions regarding how they should be packaged. If there are any restrictions on ingredients, make sure you provide a list that are not to be present in any donated item.
Pricing The Bake Sale Baked Goods
When it comes to sales, the rule of thumb is that no item should be sold for more than $2.00 unless you are absolutely sure that your buyers are willing to pay $5.00 for an item. If an item has to be sold for more than $2.00 to make a profit, it may be too expensive and a cheaper item should be considered.
Clearly Label Baked Goods & Consider Cross Selling Other Merch!
When you are setting out the items for sale, consider making an index card for each dish. This index card should display the dish’s name and any outstanding ingredients (such as nuts, gluten, dairy, and other common allergens) that the buyer should be aware of. Most importantly, make sure that your volunteers know when and where to bring their baked good donations and that they are clearly labeled. Even though the focus is on baked goods, you might also consider selling other items as well. If you are at a school sporting event, providing bottled water may be a good additional item. Coffee, juice, school apparel, booster club apparel, tickets to a show or another fundraiser, and anything else you think might sell are all good additions to the bake sale.
Your Booster Club Bake Sale Location Is Key to Your Success
About a month before the day of the bake sale, you must also identify a high-traffic, highly visible location and time for your event. While school events are ideal locations, some other places you should consider for your booster club bake sale are craft shows, community events, and retail stores in your area that may be happy to support your cause. The one thing to remember is that asking never hurts, and even if you end up with multiple location options, you can always host more than one bake sale around town!
Promoting Your Booster Club Bake Sale
Promotion is as important as location! We highly recommend creating flyers and posters advertising your bake sale to increase traffic. You should also consider investing in decorations and tablecloths for your booth or table, as well as catchy signage to draw attention to the booth and better showcase the baked goods. On the day of event, bring extra knives, spoons, napkins, ribbons, plastic wrap, and whatever else you may need to serve or package the items. Finally, don’t forget to create a box or have a cash box where all the money can be placed, and have 3 to 4 volunteers available to sell. If you want to get a little more advanced, consider opening a Square account for your booster club so that you can accept credit cards at your booster club bake sale as well as other fundraising events!
When undertaking a booster club bake sale, be sure to give yourself enough time to plan and execute the event. Bake sale fundraisers are not meant to be stressful or difficult. With organization, planning, and enough support, you will have surely have fun baking and selling sweets all while knowing that the money being raised is benefitting a good cause. | <urn:uuid:07e236d5-7e1e-4be9-9fef-c36c3e8d5e0b> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://booostr.co/how-to-run-a-successful-booster-club-bake-sale-fundraiser/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573540.20/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819005802-20220819035802-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.941166 | 1,352 | 2.015625 | 2 |
Golf in the Arab world dates back over 50 years to the World War I period when the British introduced the game in Egypt. Today there are some 50 courses in the Arab nations. They range from the sparse sand courses of Saudi Arabia and the Arabian Gulf, through a variety of so-so grass and sand courses along the Mediterranean littoral, to the verdant new 45-hole complex in Morocco at the Royal Golf Club Dar-es-Salam, near Rabat on the Atlantic coast.
Morocco, primarily because of King Hassan's enthusiasm for the game, leads with 13 courses, five of them 18 holes, all of them grass, nine of them public (open to tourists), in nine different cities. These include the new championship 18-hole Red Course at Dar-es-Salam and an additional 27 holes now under construction which will complete the 45 holes designed by American Robert Trent Jones, considered one of the world's leading golf course architects.
Saudi Arabia, with nine, is, deceptively, next in number, but eight are private courses built for oil company employees and eight are sand courses. Egypt has five; Lebanon and Libya have four each; and the rest are scattered among Bahrain, Kuwait, Qatar, Abu Dhabi, Dubai, South Yemen (Little Aden), Iraq, Syria, Sudan, Tunisia and Algeria.
Until Gamal Nasser's accession to power in the 1950's, Egypt, mostly because of strong British presence, was the fountainhead of golf in the Middle East. After the revolutionary government came to power (and failed to place financial support for the Egyptian Golf Federation on its list of priorities, this being before tourism was recognized as an important foreign exchange earner), golf began to wither. Until then, two famous clubs, the Gezira Sporting Club, founded in Cairo in 1882, and the Alexandria Sporting Club, which dates from 1880, constituted the heart of golf in the area. Both were established as horse racing and social clubs, with golf introduced at Gezira about the time of World War I and at Alexandria about 1920. Rough in the beginning, with little if any grass, they were refined and grassed progressively and eventually became respectable 18-hole courses.
In the early 1930's a second 18-hole course was built in Alexandria as part of the development of suburban Smouha City, named after the British entrepreneur who planned it. The golf course, built on reclaimed swampland used for many years as a garbage dump, was part of the Smouha Sports Club. And, like the Gezira and Alexandria Sporting Club courses, it was located in the racetrack infield. The reclaimed swampland nurtured lush turf which remains today the best of all golf grass in the Arab world with the possible exception of that on the new Dar-es-Salam course in Rabat. Walking on the Smouha fairways is like walking on deep-pile carpet.
Several other courses contributed to the development of golf in Egypt. These were the 18-hole course at the old Heliopolis Golf Club, in that "City of Sun" suburb of Cairo, the picturesque nine-hole grass course at the Mena House in the shadow of the pyramids of Giza and several sand courses, now abandoned. These last included the Maadi Sporting Club course outside Cairo where the famous Desert Open was played.
The Egyptian Open Championship, played for the first time in 1921 in Cairo, became an important stop on the annual international professional tournament schedule by 1954 when the great Bobby Locke of South Africa was the winner over a stellar field from home and abroad. The Open, together with the Egyptian Match-Play Championship and other special events, was organized by John Plant, a former British army officer who, as a Cairo resident married to the daughter of a wealthy Egyptian family, was dominant in Egyptian golf affairs for years.
Plant, 1946 Egyptian Open winner and nine times Egyptian amateur champion, drew an outstanding array of established and budding international tournament stars to Egypt, whose presence lent glamour and class to the Egyptian golfing scene. Until 1956, that is, when Bernard Hunt of England won the Open the last time it was an open championship in fact as well as name. After that came the war, the British exodus, and a general decline.
The decline began at the Gezira course, located on government property on Gezira Island in the Nile near downtown Cairo, when the government abruptly cropped the course to nine holes and turned the other nine over to a public sports club for athletics, gymnastics and related youth activities. From a golfer's point of view that well-intended but hasty action constituted a costly waste of well-turfed golf ground which had taken years to develop. The Alexandria Sporting Club and Smouha Sports Club courses have also suffered in recent years, and today, although Egypt has five courses, they range from mediocre to poor.
Morocco, meanwhile, with a golf history stimulated by American military personnel stationed there after World War II, has forged strongly ahead following young King Hassan's accession to the throne in 1961. His Majesty, who now plays nearly every day on one or another of four invitation-only courses within palace walls at Rabat, Skhirat, Fez and Meknes, has fathered and financed the development of first-class golf facilities.
One of them is the well-known 18-hole seaside links course of the Royal Mohammedia Golf Club on the Atlantic. Another, also 18 holes, is located just outside the colorful city of Marrakesh, 1,300 feet high, where the snowcapped Atlas Mountains overlook the city.
After Morocco comes little Lebanon. This country, smallest of the Arab states except for the shaikhdoms of the Arabian Gulf, is developing as the new golfing center of the Middle East. And this despite the fact there is not yet an 18-hole course in the country.
Before 1966 there was hardly any indigenous interest in golf. Nor, with due respect to the then-existent courses, three in number, and the dedicated handful of enthusiasts who devoted time, money and effort to their creation, was there very much in the way of golfing real estate. There was the infamous old sand course at the Beirut Sporting Club and, for employees, the Zahrani Country Club course near Sidon, operated by the Trans-Arabian Pipe Line Company (Tapline), and the Iraq Petroleum Company's private Ras El-Lados course near Tripoli. These two, though only nine holes each, had the basic attractions of grass and greens. The Zahrani course was built informally during 1956-59 near the terminus of the 1100-mile pipeline which originates in Saudi Arabia. Employees based at Sidon and Beirut, including Tapline President Bill Chandler, joined in the manual labor required to develop the course, a labor of love. Similarly, the Ras El-Lados course was built by I.P.C. in the late 1940's at the Mediterranean end of the pipeline which begins in northern Iraq.
Then, in the 1966-68 period, two new all-grass nine-hole courses were built and opened. One is operated by the Golf Club of Lebanon, successor to the Beirut Sporting Club. This course is located in Ouzai, just outside Beirut. The other is at the Delhamyeh Country Club near Damour, halfway between Beirut and Sidon. Each is open to residents and tourists on a membership or green-fee basis. Of the two, Ouzai, opened in late 1966, a year before DelhaDelhamyeh, is more refined, more easily playable, largely because the terrain is more accommodating. Delhamyeh, on the other hand, while more difficult because of the rocky hillside from which the course is carved, is more spectacular, and its clubhouse arid related facilities would do credit to Westchester County.
Developed on rolling coastal dunes a few hundred yards from the Mediterranean, the Ouzai course is on land owned by the Lebanese Government and under control of the Department of Civil Aviation because of the nearness of the airport and the low glidepath of approaching aircraft. This setting provides two distinctive features: a network of tall communications towers scattered over the course, which, under the Rules of Golf, play as immovable obstructions, and the sporadic noise of jet aircraft descending on final approach. The basic nine-hole configuration measures 3204 yards and includes a standard assortment of five par-4 holes, two par-3's and two par-5's. Alternate tees and greens provide second-nine variety and bring the 18-hole yardage to 6289, Standard Scratch Score 70, par 36-36-72.
The Delhamyeh course, designed by Hamilton Stutt of England, is 3265 yards, par-36. It is characterized by sharply-slanting Bermuda grass fairways, rockstrewn rough, and Zosia Japonica greens which break so sharply toward the sea that on some the ball turns uphill. It begins and ends at an elevation of 1000 feet, with the Mediterranean shimmering below in the distance.
Saudi Arabia has a special place in Arab world golf as the locale of the largest number of sand courses. Of the nine courses in the kingdom, eight are sand. Of these, three are 18 holes each, and one is six. Except for the six-hole course, which lies within the U.S. Embassy compound in Jiddah, all the courses in the country were built by Aramco, Tapline and the Arabian Oil Company (Japanese) for use by employees. The ninth course is the 9-hole Bedouin Hills course at Rafha, the only green course on the Arabian Peninsula. Designed by John Arnold, Tapline resident station manager, the course measures 2650 yards, par-33. With alternate tees, it is set up to play to 5700 yards, par-65, for 18 holes. Though relatively short, with the longest hole 395 yards, the existence of a grass course in this remote desert location is a tribute to Arnold and his colleagues who planned and built it. This same golfing enthusiast, incidentally, assisted in developing the Zahrani course back when he was stationed with Tapline in Lebanon.
Bahrain, with the Bahrain Petroleum Company's 18-hole Awali Golf Club course, and a 9-hole course at the Rifa'a Golf Club, and Kuwait, with the Kuwait Oil Company's 18-hole Ahmadi Golf Club course and others, add to the complex of unique desert courses in that part of the world. (See box.) So too, do Abu Dhabi, Dubai and Qatar, each with one 9-hole course. Elsewhere in the Arab Middle East, there are no courses which merit particular attention. Nor, between Egypt and Morocco, are there many worthy of note in North Africa.
The four courses in Libya are all sand, two 18 holes, two nine. The longer ones are at the Tripoli Golf Club (6224 yards) and Tajura Golf Club (5500 yards) near the former Wheelus Air Force Base at Tripoli. There is a nine-hole course at the Benghazi Golf Club, and another, built by Esso, at Brega on the Mediterranean coast halfway between Tripoli and Benghazi. Neither Tunisia nor Algeria has much to offer golfers today, but Tunisia is interested in developing golf as a tourist attraction along the pattern established by Spain and followed by Morocco.
In summary, golf facilities in the Arab countries are still scant, but generally speaking, the game is definitely on the move. Progress, though slow and uneven, is being stimulated by two groups: the local golfers, who desire better courses, and government tourist organizations, which want to attract international golfers. When properly promoted and coordinated, these interests can reap happy rewards: local golfers spur the tourist department to help build and, when new facilities become available, they not only attract the tourists, but stimulate young people in the country to learn the game.
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This dissertation explores the climate, ecology and hydrology of Chihuahuan Desert ecosystems in the context of global climate change. In coming decades, the southwestern United States is projected to experience greater temperature-driven aridity, possible small decreases in annual precipitation, and a later onset of summer monsoon rainfall. These changes may have profound consequences for ecological systems in the Chihuahuan Desert, which are intensely water-limited and respond to even small pulses of moisture availability. The first chapter (Chapter 2) compares change in the properties of monsoon season precipitation from 1910-2010 in the northern Chihuahuan Desert region to local variability in monsoon precipitation from 2001-2012 at the Deserts northern ecological boundary. From 1910-2010, monsoon precipitation events in the Chihuahuan Desert increased in frequency and decreased in magnitude, and the longest wet and dry periods increased in length. These changes may be masked locally due to high annual variation in total seasonal precipitation, however, which suggests a limited capability for small, average change in the properties of precipitation events alone to influence ecosystem processes in a changing climate. Chapter 3 explores differences in carbon exchanges between established grassland and shrubland communities at the Chihuahuan Desert's northern ecological boundary. During slightly dry years, grassland was highly sensitive to moisture limitation and was a net carbon source, while shrubland was a net carbon sink. These results support the conclusion that ecosystem carbon sequestration in the Chihuahuan Desert will increase if grassland to shrubland state transitions occur. Chapter 4 explores the importance of small rainfall events for grassland nutrient availability and aboveground net primary productivity during dry and wet monsoon seasons. In a warming environment, the residence time of small events as soil moisture will decrease, and results from this chapter show that the experimental removal of only small events during the summer monsoon in desert grassland can promote vegetation senescence and reduce soil nutrient availability, and thus inhibit grassland recovery during subsequent wet monsoons. As a whole, this dissertation research characterizes variation in monsoon season precipitation from local to regional spatial scales and from annual to inter-decadal timescales, explores the potential for greater ecosystem carbon sequestration as a consequence of grassland to shrubland state transitions, and evaluates the ecological role of very small rainfall events during the summer monsoon. While the scope of these topics is broad, this research addresses key questions regarding climate inputs and ecological processes in Chihuahuan Desert ecosystems, and also sharpens scientific understanding of how climate change may be enhanced or moderated by the sensitivity of ecological processes in aridlands to precipitation and temperature.
ecohydrology, community ecology, Chihuahuan Desert, grasslands, climate change
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UNM Biology Department
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Second Committee Member
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DNC on Anniversaries of Landmark LGBTQ Victories at the Supreme Court
June 26, 2020
DNC Chair Tom Perez and LGBTQ Caucus Chair Earl Fowlkes released the following statement on the anniversaries of the Supreme Court’s decisions in Obergefell v. Hodges, United States v. Windsor, and Lawrence v. Texas:
“Five years ago, the Supreme Court recognized the inherent dignity in every person and expanded marriage equality to all Americans. This decision joined a host of landmark victories for LGBTQ+ equality handed down during Pride Month, most recently recognizing the right to work free of harassment and discrimination. We live in a more just, equal, and fair society today thanks to the activism of LGBTQ+ people across the United States who spoke their truth, challenged the status quo, and refused to back down.
“We still have a long way to go on the path toward full equality, especially in the fight to protect and defend the most vulnerable, including trans women of color, LGBTQ+ homeless youth, and others who face discrimination and life-threatening bigotry. You don’t have to look far to see that intolerance personified at the highest levels of our government: Trump’s administration has stripped away rights for and effectively legalized discrimination against LGBTQ+ Americans in education, health care, housing, and the military. Just two weeks ago, the Republican National Committee endorsed a platform that calls for overturning gay marriage and legalizing anti-LGBTQ+ discrimination. It is impossible to imagine the same White House Donald Trump now resides in once lit up in rainbow colors to celebrate the advancement of equality for all.
“We must elect Joe Biden to restore the federal government’s moral leadership and champion LGBTQ+ rights. Vice President Biden is an unshakeable ally of the LGBTQ+ community and his call for marriage equality was historic. As president, he will expand protections from discrimination by signing the Equality Act, enforce civil rights laws, support LGBTQ+ youth, and combat violence against transgender and gender non-conforming people. He had the LGBTQ+ community’s back on marriage, and he will have their back as president.” | <urn:uuid:3dee1bce-edd1-49f7-8f09-2a931669234f> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://democrats.org/news/dnc-on-anniversaries-of-landmark-lgbtq-victories-at-the-supreme-court/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573104.24/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817183340-20220817213340-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.946999 | 441 | 2.015625 | 2 |
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What is the Zelle Facebook Marketplace Scam?
Zelle, a popular peer-to-peer money transfer service, has become one of the go-to payment methods on Facebook Marketplace, thanks to an instant transaction system. Unfortunately, these transactions are also irreversible, making them perfect for various scams.
If you’re selling something on Facebook Marketplace, beware of potential scammers acting as interested buyers. Keep reading to learn how people get scammed with Zelle so that you don’t fall victim to the same malicious activities.
Zelle Facebook Marketplace Scam
Zelle doesn’t offer a protection plan for transactions authorized by the account owner. Even if they recognize you’ve been persuaded or tricked into authorizing a payment, it’s unlikely you’ll get your money back. There are several ways in which scammers have been taking advantage of this fact.
Overpaying for an Item
In a widespread Facebook Marketplace scam, the buyer sends a fraudulent check to the seller for an amount higher than the actual sale price. The scammers typically claim this is an error or the money to cover shipping expenses.
After that, they will try to convince the seller to refund this overpayment using Zelle. If the seller falls for it, they will send the scammers money only to have the initial check bounce.
Upgrading to a Business Account
A scammer can pretend to be interested in an item you’re selling and choose to pay using Zelle. Then, they will get your email address from the posting or via messages and send you a spoof email impersonating Zelle.
The email usually states that the buyer has sent the payment using a business account. As a result, the buyer had to pay an additional fee for the payment to go through. They go on to ask you to upgrade your account and refund the buyer for the supposed upgrade fee. The impending payment incentivizes you to do this as soon as possible.
The scam email will also pressure the seller to transfer the funds quickly if they want to receive the initial payment. In the flurry of activity, many people make the mistake of not checking the authenticity of the email or the validity of its claims.
Once the seller sends the extra funds back, they realize the scammer has never sent any money. Sadly, the scammer is long gone by then.
Is Zelle Safe for Facebook Marketplace?
Zelle can be safely used on Facebook Marketplace, provided you know what the service offers and what it does not.
On Zelle, you can do the following:
- Instantly transfer funds from one account to another
- Immediately view the deposits and withdrawals through online banking
However, this money transfer system can’t do any of the following:
- Charge fees for receiving or sending funds
- Upgrade your account to a business account
In fact, Zelle doesn’t offer business accounts. Only your bank can offer various account types and decide which will be linked to your Zelle account.
If you’re still unsure, pay attention to the email you’ve supposedly received from Zelle. When the email is fake, it often contains poor grammar. Moreover, the sender’s domain name will be AOL or Gmail instead of Zelle.
So, if you stay vigilant, you’ll have no issues using Zelle to make and receive payments for items on Facebook Marketplace.
Can You Send Money Through Facebook Marketplace?
Facebook Marketplace doesn’t have a built-in payment mechanism. As a result, you have to arrange the payment using a third-party service.
Both parties should agree on which method to use. However, shady buyers often gravitate toward untraceable payment methods that allow them to get away with scamming.
Besides Zelle, scammers tend to insist on the following payment methods:
- Gift cards
- Venmo and similar apps
If you want to avoid getting scammed, we suggest going for payment processors who will investigate fraud claims on your behalf and provide transaction security. Reputable Facebook Marketplace traders often use debit cards or PayPal.
These payment services can also be used for making payments via Facebook Messenger. Although not exclusively targeted at the Marketplace, this can be a handy method of sending money as a buyer or requesting payments as a seller.
There are several requirements for using Messenger as a payment method:
- You must have an active Facebook account.
- You must be 18 or older.
- You must live in the U.S.
- The receiving party must live in the U.S.
If you meet these criteria, you can fund your payments using a U.S. bank-issued debit card or a PayPal account.
For a hassle-free process, you can use any Facebook Messenger version, including the following:
How People Get Scammed With Zelle
Most Zelle scams consist of manipulating people with false information and scare tactics. This way, scammers get them to authorize fraudulent money transfers.
Unfortunately, Zelle is well aware of these practices, but their policy dictates there’s nothing they can do if you’ve authorized a payment willingly. The service suggests contacting your bank or credit union if you believe you’ve been scammed, but there’s little even they can do about authorized payments. After all, the Electronic Funds Transfer Act protects consumers only in cases of unauthorized payments.
Although Facebook Marketplace scams have become prevalent, they aren’t the only way to get scammed with Zelle.
Confirming a Large Payment
If a scammer gets hold of your email or phone number, they can contact you pretending to be the bank. The initial contact usually comes via a text message or email asking you to confirm a large Zelle payment. Naturally, this payment is fake, so the receiver replies that they haven’t authorized any payments.
The next step is a phone call from the “bank” instructing you how to reverse these claims. Of course, this process includes transferring money directly to scammers.
This scam can be tricky, as the scammers typically spoof your bank’s phone number. Therefore, the caller ID matches the bank.
You can easily avoid this scam by checking your Zelle transaction history. Any payment made on your behalf will be shown there. If you want to be entirely sure, contact your bank directly and check the validity of these claims.
A Compromised Bank Account
Another common scam involves a message or an email stating that your bank account has been compromised and requires immediate action. If you reply, the scammers will follow up with a phone call and pretend to guide you through the process of securing your account. Again, this process will include transferring a specific amount of money directly to the fraudsters.
Unpaid Utility Bills
Banks aren’t the only institutions scammers like to imitate. Another common scam includes them masquerading as utility companies. They then proceed to inform you that you have failed to pay your utility bills and threaten to disconnect the service in question. The only way to immediately resolve this issue is to send them a Zelle payment, which, of course, turns out to be fraudulent.
Be Safe, Stay Alert
When it combines fun deals on Facebook Marketplace and the convenient payment service Zelle provides, your shopping experience can be a blast. That is, of course, if you stay aware of the tricks scammers tend to use to trick you out of money. You can always check with your bank or the Zelle app before making an irreversible decision to send money to a potential scammer.
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Reports on the basis of Function The reports are classified on the basis of function into two types. Purpose Business letters and reports can be written for a variety of purposes. Complaint Letters The words and tone you choose to use in a letter complaining to a business may be the deciding factor on whether your complaint is satisfied.
In some cases, both may be written to inform. Reports submitted by officials or committees of constituted bodies example: Business letters are often requests for a bigger salary, more resources, time off or permission to head a certain program, for instance. It is important to understand how to write both of them if you want to be a successful business person.
They are formal report and informal report.
This could be a sales department thanking a customer for an order, a businessman reviewing the outcome of a meeting or a job seeker inquiring about the status of his application.
They are statutory report and non-statutory report. Formal Report Formal report is prepared in a prescribed format and presented before the competent authority in an established procedure.
Examples for special report are opening of branch, introducing a new product, Improving the quality or changing the shape or size of the product and the like. Lateral reports, on the other hand, assist in coordination in the organization. There are many standard types of business letters, and each of them has a specific focus.
Informative Report An informative report is prepared and presented with the help of available information at the maximum with regard to an issue or situation. Hence, a reporter is asked to prepare the performance report for anyone of the reasons mentioned above.
The RFP specifies a need and potential suppliers prepare proposal reports telling how they can meet that need.
This classification refers to the direction a report travels. Short or Long Reports: Since the purpose is to get the reader to do something, these letters include strong calls to action, detail the benefit to the reader of taking the action and include information to help the reader to act, such as including a telephone number or website link.
Business letter format begins with an address, salutation and the name of the addressee. Such type of report is called Technical Report. Article shared by.
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Keep it short and simple. Use simple and succinct words instead of long-winded ones. Business letters need to be pithy; this can be achieved by making use of clear and concise words, short sentences, and crisp paragraphs. Business Letters A business letter is a professional message.
That means it follows a set format and a professional, formal tone. That means it follows a set format and a professional, formal tone. You'll use this format frequently throughout your job search, from cover letters to thank you notes.
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4/25/11 – Nawang Gombu Sherpa, who accompanied Jim Whittaker to the summit during the first American ascent of Mt. Everest, in 1963, died at home in India on April 24.Gombu was born in Tibet and was the nephew of Tenzing Norgay, one of the first two men to climb Everest; he was the youngest climbing Sherpa on that 1953 expedition, reaching the South Col. In 1965, Gombu became the first man ever to climb Everest twice, summiting with an Indian expedition.
Date: April 24, 2011
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Acute Myelogenous Leukemia—Adult
(AML—Adult; Acute Myeloid Leukemia—Adult; Acute Myeloblastic Leukemia—Adult; Acute Granulocytic Leukemia—Adult; Acute Nonlymphoblastic Leukemia—Adult)
by Amy Scholten, MPH
Acute myelogenous leukemia (AML) is a cancer of the blood and bone marrow. With AML, the bone marrow makes abnormal blood cells including:
These abnormal cells crowd out the healthy cells. AML gets worse quickly.
AML may also be the end state of chronic myelogenous leukemia (CML).
Cancer happens when cells divide without control or order. These cells grow together to form a tumor. They can invade and damage nearby tissues. They can also spread to other parts of the body.
It is not clear what causes changes in the cells. It is likely a combination of genes and environment.
AML is most common in people 65 years of age or older. Other things that may raise the risk are:
Symptoms of AML may be:
The doctor will ask about your symptoms and health history. A physical exam will be done. The doctor will check for swelling of the liver, spleen, or lymph nodes. You may be referred to a cancer doctor.
Tests will be done to look for abnormal cells. They may include:
The doctor may do more tests to learn about the leukemia. These tests will help guide treatment. Tests may include:
AML is then classified as one of 8 subtypes. This helps the doctor make a treatment plan.
Treatment of AML is usually done in two phases:
Treatment options include:
There are no current guidelines to prevent AML. Since smoking is a risk for AML, quitting smoking may help.
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It’s that time of year again for your Baltimore County, MD, business to undergo its yearly fire inspection. While this year has been challenging with Covid-19, and your business hasn’t been open as much as normally, the yearly fire inspection is still critical. Every year, your local fire department should inspect your business for fire mitigation tools and fire hazards. The local fire codes dictate exactly what your business needs to maintain fire safety and pass inspection. Do you know how to prepare your business for your fire inspection and prevent fire damage?
What fire equipment should you have installed? Each type of business and area of the county or city have codes to follow for fire safety and awareness. Businesses such as restaurants have different standards than pet supply stores because of the equipment used for operation. From these codes, you can find the specific fire alarms and fire protection tools your business needs. Do your alarms need to have lights and sounds? Does your restaurant kitchen require a sprinkler system? These are the questions the fire inspector is going to ask and expect you to know the answers.
A big part of the inspection is making sure your equipment is easily accessible. In the event of a fire, your response time needs to be as short as possible. To ensure that everyone and the building remain safe, it’s important to not only know where the fire prevention equipment is, but that it’s easily accessible. Everyone in your business should know where to find the equipment and how to safely exit the building. Even the smallest delay in response to a fire can result in significant consequences.
Make sure everyone knows what to do in the event of a fire and how to use the tools. All the employees at your Baltimore County, MD, business need to know how to use each of the fire prevention tools. Not knowing how to use the tools is the same as not having the tools to begin with, so it’s important that a fire safety training is available and can be shared with the fire inspector. Running a fire drill a couple times of year will help your employees know exactly what to do if a fire strikes. Signage for the location of the fire tools and for the external employee meeting place are essential to ensure everyone knows everything they need to keep your building and employees safe.
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Toxic invasive poison hemlock is spreading into US parks and backyard gardens
A toxic invasive species that can be deadly if eaten is spreading, wreaking havoc across parks, flower beds and backyard gardens.
Poison hemlock, which resembles Queen Anne’s Lace, can be spotted in highway right-of-ways, along fences and on the edges of farm fields. In just the last year, however, the plant that was originally brought to the U.S. from Europe has migrated near more populated areas, which has experts concerned.
“That movement is a bit scary to me because this plant is very toxic and it’s more of an opportunity for kids to play with it and pets to eat it,” said Dan Shaver with Indiana's Natural Resources Conservation Service. “It is not a plant you want around your home or in your local park.”
The toxic biennial can be found in nearly every state in the U.S., according to the National Park Service.
This is the time of year that poison hemlock spreads and grows its footprint. Each plant produces a lot of seeds — up to 30,000 — that ripen between late June and August after it flowers. Those seeds are easily scattered during late summer mowing, Shaver said.
It loves to find those little pockets that are unmanaged, whether that’s a street corner not getting mowed or a pollinator habitat growing wild in a neighborhood.
Poison hemlock also does well in moist soil conditions, Shaver said. So with the wet springs the Midwest has seen, it’s been the perfect environment for the toxic plant to explode.
“It just hit this exponential rate of spread,” Shaver said. “Poison hemlock was nowhere and all of a sudden it was everywhere.”
Kevin Tungesvick, a senior ecologist with Eco Logic, an environmental restoration company, said in Indiana, the plant has spread too broadly to be eradicated from the state.
Short of that, he said, the goal is to try to manage and control poison hemlock to the maximum extent possible — to protect both environmental and public health.
In June, Jason Hartschuh of the Ohio State University Extension said the hazardous plant was appearing "everywhere" in Ohio – more visible this year than ever before.
Here’s what you need to know about this deadly plant, including the toxic effects it can have, how to spot it and how to get rid of it.
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How poison hemlock makes you sick
Like any invasive species, poison hemlock can out-compete and displace native species, Shaver said, which certainly is of concern. But the real issue, in this case, is when it crowds into areas where people, pets or livestock could come into contact with it.
All parts of the plant are poisonous from its seeds to the sap, said Dawn Slack with The Nature Conservancy’s Indiana chapter.
If the sap from poison hemlock comes into contact with someone’s skin, it can react with the sun and cause blisters and welts, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
That’s why Slack recommends handling poison hemlock, if there’s some that needs to be removed, with gloves, long sleeves and pants as well as eye protection.
But while the sap can prove dangerous, the true threat is if any part of the plant — stalk and stems, leaves, flowers, seeds or roots — were to be ingested.
Hemlock poisoning can be fatal with no antidote. All plant parts contain toxic alkaloids that can interfere with nerve transmissions to your muscles, ultimately causing respiratory failure.
Other signs of poisoning can include trembling, salivation, pupil dilation, muscle paralysis and loss of speech.
Symptoms can show as early as just 30 minutes after ingesting it, and the severity of the poisoning depends on how much was ingested and the concentration of the hemlock was at the time. Still, even small amounts can have serious effects.
“None of this should enter your body,” Slack said.
The effects aren’t limited to humans. Poison hemlock can be mixed with harmless plants in pastures and crops where livestock may eat it, or in a garden where a dog may munch on the plant.
How to spot poison hemlock
Poison hemlock is part of the parsley and carrot family. Its leaves are easy to confuse with parsley. Its seeds look similar to those of anise and its roots resemble parsnip roots.
This mistaken identity is the main way people are exposed or accidentally poisoned. But there are ways to distinguish poison hemlock that are unique only to it.
Poison hemlock is a biennial plant. In its first year, it puts out a clump of lacy-looking leaves that grow close to the ground. But during the second year, it sends up a flowering stem that can grow as tall as 4-6 feet – and some even taller.
Once it flowers, it looks like a giant Queen Anne’s lace, Slack said, adding that it has a beautiful cluster of tiny white flowers at the top. What sets it apart, however, is that the stem is bigger and it’s dotted with purple spots all along the stalk.
It can be found along many major roadways, the edge of fields and fences, the banks of streams and in ditches. After two years, the poison hemlock plant will die, but not before it has put out thousands of seeds.
How poison hemlock spreads
Poison hemlock is native to Europe and was brought over to North America many decades ago as a garden plant, desired for its delicate white flowers. But over time, it moved out of gardens and into fields, prairies and other open areas.
Like most invasive species, poison hemlock has been around for a long time, but in small enough populations that no one really noticed. And another hallmark of invasives, poison hemlock doesn’t have native competition or predators to help control it.
When hemlock flowers, each plant can produce as many as 30,000 seeds.
With the right wet and cool conditions and a built-up seed bank, the population can proliferate and explode — past the point where it can be eliminated.
“It’s kind of a combination of things,” Slack said. “And all of a sudden we’re faced with ‘we need to do something now.’”
One of the main ways that poison hemlock has been spread is through mowing, Shaver said. The seeds will get caught in mowing equipment or they will get rustled into the air as the plants are mowed over. That’s why there is an effort to raise awareness about how to best manage the plant, he added.
One of the 'deadliest plants in the US:More to know about poison hemlock
How to manage poison hemlock
If you spot poison hemlock in a public park or along a road side, Shaver recommends reaching out to the agency in charge of that property to let them know about the plant.
But if you find it in one of your own flower beds or a shared neighborhood space, there are ways you can remove it yourself. First, and most importantly, is to make sure you are wearing protective gear — such as gloves, goggles and long sleeves — before working to control it.
Timing is everything, Tungesvick said – and the best time for management efforts is in the spring.
There are several common and effective herbicides that can be used on the plant, Shaver said. Those should be applied in the early months before the plant flowers.
The same goes for management efforts that don’t involve chemicals, such as digging up the poison hemlock. April is the prime month for control, Tungesvick said. It usually is flowering by the end of May and maturing its seeds in July. By then it’s too late and there is a greater risk for further exposure or spreading the seed.
Slack recommends going after the poison hemlock in its first year, if you are able to spot the plant when it’s still a low cluster of leaves. She said it’s best to dig up the entire thing and then set it out in the sun to dry completely. Once it’s fully dried, that’s when you can discard it.
If you aren’t able to catch the plant until its stalk bolts up in the second year, then Shaver said you can clip the flowers before it goes to seed and then bag them up.
No matter what, Shaver warns against weed-whipping or mowing the poison hemlock. Not only could that potentially spread the plant, but it can also get its seeds and sap into the air where it can get on your skin or possibly even ingest it.
“It’s important to control it,” he said, “but it’s something that requires a lot of thought and caution before doing so.”
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Contemporary art has undergone a perceptional makeover over the years—courtesy a group of socially responsible youth who felt the need to give back to their cities a sense of creativity and imagination.
It wasn't easy getting the initiative off the ground initially because the graffiti culture had a rather negative connotation attached to it.
But that did not stop the team from taking the movement ahead. They had one aim: to change the mindset of people's outlook of public spaces as being sterile or non-interactive structures.
Starting from late October, all the way up to December 30, 2017 the second edition of St+art Mumbai, which is supported by Asian Paints, will bring together over 30 Indian and international artists to paint the town red, literally.
Some of the Indian designers who will be participating in the event include Sameer Kulavoor, Shilo Shiv Suleman, and Sameep Padora, among others.
This year, the street art initiative will reflect upon the nature and DNA of Mumbai through the lens of site-specific projects at some of the city's important landmarks.
While Dharavi and Sassoon Dock will be the main focus for various art interventions—colourful murals, installations and workshops—there will also be three other special projects at Churchgate Station, Jindal Mansion, and the Western Railways.
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Last month a gang known as “5 segonn”, or “5 seconds”, took control of the Port-au-Prince Palace of Justice, the seat of the Haitian court system, dashing any remaining hope for progress in the investigation into Moise’s murder.
“One year later the investigation has not advanced,” said Samuel Madistin, a lawyer who heads the Haitian human rights group Clear Eyes Foundation.
“There are people arrested for a year who have never seen a judge.”
The office of Prime Minister Ariel Henry, who has been at the helm of government since last year, on Wednesday said July 7 would be a holiday to commemorate Moise.
Henry spoke on Thursday at a ceremony at Haiti’s national pantheon in Port-au-Prince, where a portrait of Moise was placed amid an arrangement of flowers
Colombian suspected of involvement in killing of Haiti president held in Panama
“One year later we are still in mourning,” Henry said.
“We are struggling to understand this bloody and barbaric episode in our history.”
Henry has faced accusations that he was involved in the plot, including by Moise’s widow Martine, who was wounded during the attack and was not present at Thursday’s ceremony.
“The Moise family will not participate in commemorative events supported by the Haitian state, whose head of government is the subject of grave accusations about the assassination of the president of the Republic,” read a July 1 statement issued by Martine’s communications office.
Henry denies involvement in the murder and insists his government is committed to bringing the killers to justice.
Haiti has for years struggled with gang violence, but kidnappings have spiked across the country since last year, targeting everyone from high-ranking government officials to citizens.
Turf battles in April and May between the Chen Mechan and 400 Mawozo gangs — the latter of which last year abducted 19 American and Canadian missionaries — killed 150 people and forced some 10,000 from their homes, rights activists said at the time.
That has fueled a wave of migration by Haitians seeking to reach the US, either via the land border with Mexico or by sea in rickety, overcrowded vessels.
Henry said the government plans to hold elections, but has not provided a timeline for a potential vote.
US prosecutors have charged three people with being involved in the conspiracy to kill Moise, but Haiti’s probe remains stalled.
The case has been assigned to a fifth judge, after the previous four quit amid complaints of intimidation and threats to their personal security.
In a reflection of the broader collapse of Haiti’s justice system, authorities have been unable to wrest control of the Palace of Justice back from the gangs who took it over in a shootout with police in June.
A gang leader known as Izo in a voice note circulated on WhatsApp said his group took over the Palace of Justice because he had been upset authorities were not freeing jailed gang members despite his having made payments for their release.
State prosecutor Jacques Lafontant told local media last month that the recording would be transcribed and used as evidence against Izo.
Haitian national police spokesperson Gary Desrosiers in a June 28 press conference said police were developing a plan to take back the building, but needed to obtain additional materials and equipment.
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Student profile: Lydia Michela Maireriki
Tourist resilience to natural hazards in New Zealand: combining quantitative and qualitative perspectives
I was born and raised in Maryland, USA, about an hour south of Washington, DC. I earned my Bachelor’s degree in Geography from Brigham Young University and my Master’s degree in Disaster Risk and Resilience from the University of Canterbury. I moved to New Zealand in 2017 where I met my now-husband Mahu, a very charismatic Cook Islander. We have one son and a daughter on the way. I’m a member of the Mid-Canterbury TimeBank and am part of its emergency preparedness planning team. When not studying or running our family business, I like to swim, do stained glass, and read books that help me view the world differently. My most recent read was Invisible Women on the gender data gap. I highly recommend it to everyone, particularly researchers.
As part of the Challenge’s Rural theme, I’ve just started my PhD through Lincoln University, with supervisors Jo Fountain, Stephen Espiner and Nick Cradock-Henry.
Tourism is an important part of New Zealand’s economy and international reputation. My research project is looking at what it means to be a resilient tourist in a resilient tourism system here in New Zealand. I’ll be looking at particularly vulnerable tourist groups to better understand their in situ hazard and risk awareness, preparedness level, anticipated course of action, and information-seeking processes should a disaster such as an extreme weather event or earthquake occur. My focus will be on vulnerable places (e.g. rural areas) and people (e.g. freedom campers). I will do a mix of quantitative research via surveys and qualitative research via interviews. There is currently a lack of qualitative information on tourists’ perceptions of risks and hazards, their preparedness and anticipated response.
My main research question is: What are the characteristics of tourists’ resilience to disaster within the context of New Zealand’s tourism system?
Related sub-questions are:
What are different ways of defining and conceptualizing tourist resilience to disaster?
What are key socio-demographic factors that affect risk awareness, preparedness and vulnerability?
Based on my findings, how can information providers (e.g. Department of Conservation, tourism businesses) increase tourists’ resilience in their respective areas of influence?
I have been enrolled in my PhD for only a month, so I’m at the very beginning of my project, but I am very excited about developing our understanding of tourist resilience and provide information that can be applied in real world situations. My immediate goal is to complete my research proposal before my daughter arrives in a couple of months!!! | <urn:uuid:e6689124-b96e-453d-9705-b0181a14d677> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://resiliencechallenge.nz/student-profile-lydia-michela-maireriki/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573104.24/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817183340-20220817213340-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.927858 | 570 | 1.679688 | 2 |
National Weather Service website unreliable, years after fix promised
Sept. 10 was the peak of hurricane season in the Atlantic. If you checked the forecast on Sept. 11, you likely found parts of the National Weather Service's website down. Then, on Tuesday, the website suffered another outage - the latest in a long series dating back years.
Users attempting to access National Weather Service "point and click" forecasts, discussions, watch and warning information, interactive maps, and a slew of other resources encountered "page not found" notices. Some were accompanied by a string of numbers that had nothing to do with the weather. If you had an urgent need for critical weather information, you were out of luck.
The National Weather Service released a statement saying it was "aware of recent intermittent slowness and temporary outages of some web services."
Lauren Gauches, spokeswoman for the Weather Service, explained the cause of the problems in a statement, noting that investments were being made to prevent them in the future: "Hardware and software upgrades and security patch installation have contributed to these issues, but these and other infrastructure changes will improve and protect our systems for the future. Our IT team works aggressively around the clock to trouble-shoot and fix issues as they develop."
But then the National Weather Service's information technology infrastructure cracked again Wednesday. This time "major supercomputer issues" required an "emergency switch" between computers in Virginia and Orlando, Florida, delaying the output of key weather models. The "American" Global Forecast System model lagged an hour behind in its rollout, while a special hurricane model was also 60 minutes late.
The technical issue also delayed several higher-resolution model runs, including those particularly helpful in forecasting the ongoing flooding in Texas, by several hours.
On Thursday, a different problem emerged: the National Weather Service's radar website stopped receiving data. A statement was released at 2:23 p.m. stating the agency was "actively troubleshooting an apparent hardware failure in Silver Spring," Maryland.
Meteorologists across various sectors have voiced their frustrations on social media.
"What the NWS provides is an invaluable resource," wrote Andrew Kozak, a meteorologist at Spectrum News Ohio. "The outages are concerning, especially when we head into severe weather."
"When I can't get a hold of text products at NWS, I just contend there's a problem," said Troy Kimmel, a broadcast meteorologist and lecturer at the University of Texas at Austin. "This is not rocket science. . . this is computers. We've got to find an answer to this."
Issues with the stability and reliability of the National Weather Service's information dissemination infrastructure dates back years.
In 2013, a communications outage left a National Weather Service forecast office "crippled" as it attempted to issue warnings for severe weather. In 2016, a nationwide issue prevented data from flowing into the agency, save for four weather stations nationwide; the "major network issue" also hampered efforts to disseminate severe thunderstorm warnings, at odds with the National Weather Service's mission to "protect life and property."
Three months later, the National Hurricane Center blacked out for thousands of Americans as Category 5 Hurricane Matthew was bearing down on Florida. And for two hours in February 2017, all National Weather Service products ceased transmission over the Internet thanks to a what was then described as a "catastrophic" outage. In the fall of 2016, National Weather Service director Louis Uccellini had promised the agency was making a "lot of progress," and at the time was "about a year away" from 99.9 percent reliability.
Three years later, little has changed. "I'd say [the computer infrastructure is] in worse shape today than they've ever been in the past," said Kimmel. "I can't rely on National Weather Service updates to give me text that is timely. Sometimes it times out . . . that's an issue."
Kimmel pointed to sites like AccuWeather and Weather.com, both popular vendors of National Weather Service-driven weather data. "Every day, think of all the banks, the airlines, the companies that have so much information they're passing through," said Kimmel. "Short of a problem every once in a while, there are few issues. The National Weather Service should be able to do this."
Despite the website issues, Ryan Maue, a meteorologist operating the website weathermodels.com, commended the job the Weather Service has done in keeping its forecast models operating. "They're very responsive to the needs of the community," Maue said
But Maue said the Weather Service's website is "1990s," "very dated" and in need of a makeover. "The investments in the weather models versus the website are dramatically different," Maue said.
Kimmel stressed the respect he has for Weather Service meteorologists, and laments that technical problems are getting in the way of the dedicated work they do. "This has nothing to do with meteorology. It has to do with computers, how to soak up data, and how to store it."
In the meantime, the most recent week-long partial outage seems to have resolved itself, but not before frying nerves and prompting calls for renewed efforts to confront the root of the problem.
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Lifestyle trends are always changing. And these changes are most often seen in the way we live, the sports we practice, the clothes we wear, and how we behave.
Previous generations preferred living in houses. Then it became about having an apartment. Now it is a combination of both. As for sports, the man of yesteryear loved football and basketball. He then moved into finesse activities like tennis and golf.
What your grandmother wore to the office is very different from what your mother did and what you do now. Never mind what she believed in and how she expressed it.
As people evolve and trends come and go, let us look at what is popular now in houses, sports, fashion, and culture.
Home: Seamless Blend in Spaces
One of the most fun-filled events to hold on a weekend with your friends is a barbecue. It is also an American tradition. After working hard for five days straight, families and friends get together to drink a few beers, eat some good food, and enjoy chatting away until the late hours of the night.
More often than not, the perfect barbecue is an outdoor event. Still, most of the prepping takes place inside. As a result, guests will be in and out of the house for most of the day.
This brings us to a prevalent home trend currently at the vanguard, the seamless blend in spaces. With the use of adequate lighting, retractable shades and window awnings, and proper furnishing, outdoor and indoor spaces can be combined to create a sexy and sophisticated atmosphere for you to spend quality time with colleagues and loved ones.
Sports: The Beauty of Non-Tradition
A few years ago, if you asked any man about the sports he practiced, he would probably answer football, baseball, basketball, and tennis. As for a lady, her response would most likely include jogging, swimming, hiking, and cycling.
Almost a quarter into the 21st century, things have changed. The meteoric rise of mixed martial arts promotions like One, Bellator, and the UFC has created enormous interest in combat sports like boxing, karate, wrestling, and jiu-jitsu. There has also been an increase in popularity in non-conventional athletic activities such as CrossFit, parkour, triathlons, and high-intensity interval training.
Aside from an all-encompassing workout that leaves your body looking like that of a gladiator, the modern man is also looking for excitement and skill. Hence, traditional sports are but a fraction of what people incorporate into any exercise and fitness routine.
Fashion: Always On the Go
One of the main consequences of societal development is the absence of time. People living and working in urban areas around the world are busier than ever before. Apart from having to deal with the pressures of a successful career, many men and women have to raise kids, take care of their parents, go to the gym, and build social networks.
Hence, spending too much time getting ready for work or next Friday’s birthday party is something people cannot afford. Gone are the days when a woman would take more than two hours to prepare to go to the office, or a man could indulge in a daily, traditional morning shave.
Instead, what people have to do today is mix and match, adapt, and make the best possible use of the clothing items they have.
Luckily, fashion brands, both big and small, are starting to understand the value of speed and convenience. The clothing items of today are multi-purpose pieces fit for any situation one might encounter.
Culture: Social Consciousness
Young people today are more and better informed than at any other time in history. The internet is the main reason for this, as is the proliferation of information. In the past, people used to hear about events happening halfway across the world in days. Today, it is a matter of seconds. No matter where the information comes from or how obscure it might seem, everybody finds out about it in the blink of an eye.
A positive aspect stemming from this is the degree of social consciousness found in our youth. Whether it is about issues with race, the gay movement, environmental protection, animal welfare, or access to education, more and more teens and people in their twenties are starting to get involved.
The result is real change, change that only comes through participation and having your voice heard. We live in a time when misbehavior cannot be hidden, even at the highest levels, and real pressure exists to do what is right.
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What Is Jet Lag?
Most people have heard the term, but what exactly is “jet lag”? Those who travel frequently or who’ve traveled to other countries across multiple time zones have probably experienced the condition. It’s characterized by poor sleep, trouble concentrating, difficulty completing complex tasks, mood changes, and, in some cases, digestive issues.
Jet lag typically occurs when you fly a distance that takes you two or more time zones away from your point of origin. Doing so disrupts your circadian rhythm, which is the internal clock that helps you know when to sleep and rise. The farther you travel, the more likely you are to experience symptoms and the more pronounced those symptoms are likely to be.
Jet lag is a temporary condition. But, unfortunately, it can take many days to recover from the effects of jet lag, which isn’t ideal, whether you’re traveling for business or pleasure. Fortunately, there are steps you can take to help prevent jet lag and people can also learn how to get over jet lag if it occurs.
Jet Lag Prevention Tips
With proper preparation, you can avoid jet lag or at least minimize its effects. Follow these helpful prevention tips:
Adopt the Daily Routine of Your Destination Before You Leave Home
The direction you’ll be traveling in affects how to avoid jet lag. For example, if you’re traveling west, you should shift your bedtime, wake time and meal times 30 minutes later per day starting several days before you depart. If you’re traveling east, do the opposite, shifting everything earlier by 30 minutes per day.
Continue Your Schedule Shifting Once You’re on Your Flight
Change your watch to the destination time zone as soon as you board. This will help your brain start to adjust. Try to match your sleeping/waking hours with those of your destination.
Build Buffer Time into Your Schedule
If possible, give yourself a few days to acclimate before you attend important meetings or participate in activities where you really want to be mentally present.
Stay Hydrated and Avoid Caffeine and Alcohol
Being dehydrated can intensify jet lag symptoms, so be sure to get plenty of fluids. Also, avoid caffeine and alcohol. While you may think that their effects can help you sync up with your destination time zone, they both can dehydrate you and they also have a negative impact on sleep.
How to Deal with Jet Lag
When you arrive at your destination, here’s how to get over jet lag:
Get into the Local Sleep/Wake Rhythm Immediately
If it’s daytime when you arrive, avoid sleeping even if you’re very tired. If it’s night, go to bed even if you don’t feel particularly sleepy. This is a key tactic in how to deal with jet lag.
Start Eating on the Local Schedule
The time at which you eat meals helps your body reset its circadian rhythm. Adopt the local meal times as soon as you arrive.
Use Light or the Absence of It to Signal Your Body to Adjust
Light and darkness have a strong influence on circadian rhythm and play an important role in how to recover from jet lag. Try to get plenty of morning sunlight and to gradually reduce light exposure (even from artificial sources) as the evening progresses.
How long does it take to get over jet lag? What are the best strategies for getting over jet lag? The more you travel, the better you’ll understand how to beat jet lag and which jet lag remedies work for you.
Learn More About Jet Lag from Baptist Health
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Way to go! You got this! Keep up the good work!
Those words may be encouraging, even motivating; but they’re not what is meant by motivational interviewing, says Jaclyn Boyle, Pharm.D. (’12).
During a Pathways to Pharmacy session, Dr. Boyle, College of Pharmacy assistant dean of student success and an assistant professor of pharmacy practice, showed the visiting high school sophomores, juniors and seniors the differences between traditional interviewing and motivational interviewing, and how pharmacists use it to provide more patient-centered care.
Dr. Boyle began by asking the students what major health problems plague the U.S. She received a number of correct answers, from smoking and addiction to diabetes and cardiovascular issues. She selected one condition that’s especially concerning: obesity.
Then she used the condition to explain how motivational interviewing differs from the discussions (mostly one-sided; not really an interview at all) that physicians and pharmacists have traditionally had with their patients. The provider probably would instruct their patient to eat healthy foods, take their medications routinely and exercise five times a week. End of discussion.
Answers from within
“Motivational interviewing is a new way to interact with patients to help meet their goals,” says Dr. Boyle. When conducting motivational interviews, physicians and pharmacists empower patients to better themselves, step by step. By asking the patient thoughtful questions, they guide them to find the answers themselves.
For example, a physician or pharmacist might ask an overweight patient how many days a week they feel they are capable of exercising. How do they feel when they exercise? When they don’t? It’s ok for patients to say, “I feel good when I skip exercising! I enjoy watching TV and eating pizza,” if it leads to a productive discussion. Honest answers are the goal, so that the patient addresses their own barriers to what they often know they need to do — but can’t make themselves do.
“We need to remember to tell our patients it’s ok to fail. We all do at one point or another,” says Dr. Boyle. “Asking them about times when they felt encouraged or successful will remind patients that they are not failures.”
Try, try again
When patients are in the midst of change, they go through a cycle — pre-contemplation, contemplation, preparation, action and maintenance. At any point in the cycle, patients may relapse and find themselves starting over again.
Dr. Boyle shared an example of gyms and fitness centers.
“Why are gyms never full? They’re always packed in January from New Year resolutions, but then attendance tapers off throughout the year,” she explained. “It happens to the best of us, but what’s most important is that we encourage our patients (and ourselves) to work towards getting back in that cycle.” | <urn:uuid:b7420ead-3499-4083-9ac9-bade7f0b5a82> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://thepulse.neomed.edu/articles/aspiring-pharmacists-learn-to-ask-the-right-questions/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572304.13/warc/CC-MAIN-20220816120802-20220816150802-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.952051 | 617 | 2.125 | 2 |
People may look at mathematics as a complex subject that they need to study for school and higher studies. It involves complicated formulas, theorems, and a range of calculations that may not come in handy in real-life situations. But, mathematics is a universal language that can be applied to almost every aspect of our lives. It is an important aspect of everything professional that exists in the world today. There are several applications of that that you probably did not know before. Here are some areas where math is applied for quality work and problem-solving.
Accounting is one of the most important departments that any business needs today for money management. Most of the business fail in their early years due to bad account management. Companies hire accountants and financial advisors for high salaries as they can save, invest, and distribute money according to the right priorities. All of these functions require a high level of mathematics, but even the basics can help individuals and children manage their accounts.
Architecture and construction
Every skyscraper that you see around the world is a result of high mathematic calculations and architectural designs. Math is the foundation of any construction work, starting from the distribution of land. The process involves setting targets, managing budgets, estimating costs, building effective and creative designs, all of which require a deep understanding of mathematics. Topics like trigonometry, calculus and statistics, geometry, and arithmetic calculations are important for the construction of any building.
Although a part of architecture, interior design is a special area where math plays a very important role. The designers use their best skills to manage interior space and create perfect solutions for people. It offers a more organized and healthier lifestyle to the people living in a well-designed space. The need for unique space designs and highly functional elements is what makes the interior designers earn big from their work. You, too, can realize while changing your home’s furniture layout that you are using calculations and practical ideas to make your living area more spacious and comfortable.
If you can calculate the distance from the place you are standing to the hoop and throw the ball with a calculated projectile, you can make that shot every single time without failing. It is not because you are a better sportsperson, but because you can apply math properly. While some players learn the analysis, the hard way by practicing, those who have previous knowledge in math can learn quicker in sports. Other factors in sports that math influences are probability, game theory, and logical reasoning.
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Toxic levels of air pollution are predicted to continue for at least another nine years. In this time, long-term damage will be done to millions of children's lungs. Pollution reduces children's lung growth, it irritates their airways and makes conditions like asthma worse.
At least 3,000 schools in England alone are located within unsafe levels of air pollution. In these areas, children could be growing up with smaller lungs just because of their postcode.
Children with smaller lungs are likely to face health problems in later life. Their lung capacity could affect their ability to exercise, to work or even to socialise. Do we want children growing up beside the Olympic park to one day be an Olympian themselves? Of course we do. Which is why we need to take action now. Children's opportunities and well-being should not be restricted by something which we have the power to change.
Over the last year considerable progress has been made and the government recognises the scale of the problem we face. However current plans will need to go much further to really make a difference. Air pollution has been linked to at least 40,000 early deaths a year. It increases all our risks of getting health conditions like lung cancer. And if the health costs weren't enough, latest estimates suggest that air pollution costs the Treasury £27 billion a year.
At least 37 areas across the UK have unsafe and illegal levels of air pollution. We need to urgently address this. An extensive network of clean air zones would go a huge way to helping. These zones should seek to restrict the most polluting vehicles from the most polluted places. For these zones to be successful they will need to ensure that accessible and affordable alternative transport options are available. Given that children and older people are disproportionately impacted by air pollution, solutions should be tailored to protect these groups. This is a huge opportunity to transform our urban areas from threats to sanctuaries.
Our air pollution problem largely stems from traffic emissions, particularly emissions from diesel. To tackle this we are going to need UK-wide ambition and leadership from the government. We need a new clean air act to set a framework that protects public health across the UK: it should bring together all relevant legislation and set the UK's legal limits in line with those recommended by the World Health Organisation (WHO). The Scottish Government have already amended their air pollution limits in line with the WHO, isn't it time we all had the same right to breathe safe air?
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Under the Köppen Climate Classification climate classification, "dry-summer subtropical" climates are often referred to as "Mediterranean". This climate zone has an an average temperature above 10°C (50°F) in their warmest months, and an average in the coldest between 18 to -3°C (64 to 27°F). Summers tend to be dry with less than one-third that of the wettest winter month, and with less than 30mm (1.18 in) of precipitation in a summer month. SMany of the regions with Mediterranean climates have relatively mild winters and very warm summers.
The Köppen Climate Classification subtype for this climate is "Csb". (Mediterran Climate).
The average temperature for the year in Pontevedra is 58.6°F (14.8°C). The warmest month, on average, is July with an average temperature of 68.9°F (20.5°C). The coolest month on average is January, with an average temperature of 49.1°F (9.5°C).
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1. The manufacturing sector has deep labor woes that predate the Great Resignation.
Decades of labor cost reductions rolled out in response to global trade competition have led to a challenging current climate: an aging workforce with highly specific skills that aren’t easily replaced; a shrinking pool of young people who view manufacturing as a compelling career choice; and a significant training burden as incoming employees arrive without requisite skills.
Ben Armstrong, interim executive director at MIT’s Industrial Performance Center, and a panel of manufacturing experts laid out some solutions at the recent 2022 MIT Manufacturing Conference:
- Find secondary spigots. Get creative and identify new places and programs where you can cultivate promising talent — be they high school graduates open to training or mothers returning to the workforce.
- Fast-track skills development. Borrow from boot camps that are big in software development to help employees immerse in robotics or other new technologies with a hands-on, concentrated approach that upskills more quickly.
- Embrace a “new social contract” that delivers strong return rates for investors while offering workers high-quality, well-supported jobs where they have a voice in everything from training to business strategy.
2. As jobs move from traditional roles to gig and on-demand talent, businesses must adapt to a future where automation, agility, and reinvention define the new way of working.
A new book, “Work Without Jobs,” advises companies to emphasize the work instead of the job and encourage collaboration between humans and machines. In a recent webinar hosted by MIT Sloan Management Review, the book’s co-authors shared steps for achieving what they call a “new work operating system”:
- Take apart and examine all the aspects of a “job.” Identify which elements of work need to be done at a particular place, with certain equipment, at specific times. Consider what work can be done independently and what needs collaboration.
- Detach workers from roles. Instead, view them as individuals with an array of available skills, some of which they may not even be using in their current job.
- Use talent marketplaces and platforms to match workers with tasks. This allows employees to take on projects outside their day-to-day roles and helps managers to expand the talent pool with external labor as needed.
3. As the Great Resignation continues, even top-level executives are considering a change. That movement leaves an opening for workers who’ve set their sights on a senior leadership position.
In a recent webinar hosted by MIT Sloan Executive Education, Cassandra Frangos, an executive development and C-suite succession advisor, offered several short- and long-term actions that can help you ascend the ranks. They include:
- Keep your LinkedIn current. “When people have to send over a resume, it can be a daunting task if they are five jobs behind,” Frangos said.
- Cast a wide recruiting network. Remember that executive recruitment is a relationship-based business.
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As per a statistical data, the number of smartphone users is forecast to grow from 3.6 billion in 2020 to around 4.3 billion in 2023, with a potential for smartphone penetration rates to increase as well. It is known that, 50% of all web traffic is from smartphones and tablets. One greatest leverage of the smartphones and tablets is the Augmented Reality (AR).
Augmented Reality has successfully ventured in almost all industries. Fashion and Furniture Industries have proven to have made the most out it. This compelling technology is the most sought technology of this era. Among the other industries, one which has used AR to boost its potential is remarkably the furniture Industry.
The furniture Industry is constantly evolving and getting modernized each day. The trends in furniture are never ending. And deciding on the most suitable from the comfort of the home is something that every consumer would be attracted to.
Advantages of AR in Furniture Industry:
- The engagement of your consumer will be higher multiple times and thus pays you rich profits.
- The block of how the furniture would compliment their office or personal space is overcome by trying the look even before buying. Thus, increasing the trust on the product.
- As per a statistic, the returning of a virtual tried on product is very less. It reduces the returns by 23%.
- Personalized shopping experience is a major feature.
- Proven sales conversion is a blessing of AR.
- Retaining the physical environment and adding digital content to it is surely a feel-good experience.
AR in Bussiness:
AR has already been leveraged by the major furniture companies. EQ3 – a Canadian furniture retailer has found that, the consumers who use AR are 112% likely to buy the product than the ones that don’t use it. They have used the AR to give their consumers an amazing and enriched shopping experience. Their AR solution is just a click away.
Heal’s – a British heritage retailer has always believed in giving their consumers a superior experience. E-commerce is their most significant part of business. David Kohn, Customer and E-commerce Director, Heal’s says,
“No question for me that AR will have to be web-native. Most furniture retailers will struggle to persuade enough customers to load their specific room-planning app, so they will have to rely on their web presence.”
The Tech-savvy furniture companies have made the best of the AR technology. As per the Interior Define, the consumers are 8 times likely to buy the product when the ones who have not used AR.
“We understand that our customers are busy and do a lot of their shopping while on the go. Offering web-native AR means our customers can easily visualize our products without the barrier of leaving our site to go to the App Store and download our mobile app.” – Julie Shulman, Director of Product Management, Interior Define
One of the well-known places that a common man would love to buy furniture is the IKEA. By utilizing the AR technology, IKEA is boosting its online sales. This has made the right furniture finding more flexible and accurate. Intuitive, effective, and fun furniture visualization is the major advantage. One great feature of the AR that IKEA uses is the instant and precise furniture positioning feature.
Another pioneer of AR furniture shopping apps is wayfair. The need for AR is constantly increasing among the consumers. Equally by following the rules of the real world, AR has enabled higher senses of realism with endless capabilities. Steven Conine, the co-founder of Wayfair says that, AR will be the future of every home in the United States as try-before buy has gone digital.
These are just a few samples of how AR influences the furniture world.
One important statistical data that we need to understand is that, 71% of consumers are happier to use a retail store with AR. 61% of consumers have shown more interest in the AR enables shops than conventional shops. One more interesting fact is that, 40% of the people are ready to pay more for a product if it is offered through AR.
These statistics suggest the significant impact of AR on retail. Among the plethora of product in the market, choosing the right one from the comfort of the home is the future of the furniture world. | <urn:uuid:86eba705-3731-499f-9e59-e7d97f44c7e5> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://www.coitor.com/furniture-augmented-reality/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573540.20/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819005802-20220819035802-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.962766 | 896 | 1.515625 | 2 |
Author: William Dupley
I was sent a model airplane from Air Canada as a thank you for flying over 1 million miles. It was nice, but I did not want to earn another one of these models. Flying is not that much fun after a million miles. However, I have watched over the last twenty years how well the flight crew of an Air Canada plane works to ensure that flights are run well and without incident. I learned a bit about how they operate after sitting in the aircraft for hours. I am not surprised that Air Canada is ranked the best airline in North America, according to a 2017 survey by Skytrax, an international air transport rating organization.
In a standard commercial airplane, several people ensure that service is delivered faithfully and consistently to the passengers. A flight crew consists of a Captain, First Officer, Purser, and Flight Attendants. This team has the overall responsibility to ensure the flight is delivered well and safe, however, they are not the only team members involved to ensure the trip is performed well. There is a ground crew, air traffic controllers, and a host of others that work together to assure the flight is uneventful and passengers are delivered to their destination on time.
The entire in-flight and ground crews have a shared responsibility to deliver the flight services and assure a pleasant flight experience for their passengers.
In a Hybrid IT world where cloud services, traditional services, and SaaS services are integrated into a cohesive system, one has to ask, “Who is responsible for the service delivered to the end user customer?” The reality is everyone is responsible. Unfortunately, all too often no one is responsible.
The Hybrid IT delivery model requires the transformation of the entire IT operating model to ensure clear responsibility and accountability for service delivery, service development, and service management. To address this reality, IT needs to implement a Hybrid IT Responsibly model.
The Hybrid IT Challenge
A Cloud service is rarely implemented as one service. It usually needs to be integrated into the existing IT architecture and operating model. The results of this reality are that the responsibility to manage the service level is now shared across different organizations and companies. In addition to this change, the overall service level expectation has also changed. Below is an example of a Hybrid IT application stack that includes Sales Force.com (SaaS) integrated into 15 back office systems using five integration technologies.
The expected service level of this overall architecture to a sales rep measured at their cell phone is:
- 100% available
- 100% reliable
- Always fast as per their perception on any device they are using.
- Always secure
The challenge is how do you to deliver, develop, and manage this service to achieve this service level in a Cloud/Hybrid IT environment when an application service is provided through multiple partners and technologies. As service complexity increases, with each additional component that is added to the service, the reliability of the service is more likely to decrease.
For example, assume an application service only consists of the following elements:
- Mobile application
- Mobile device
- Mobile carrier
- Mobile network
- Data Centre network
- Application Server
- Data Base Server
There are seven components in this system. Let’s assume the reliability of each element is 99.9%. 99.9% to the seventh power is 99.3% or 61 hr. & 21 min. of downtime per year. No customer would be satisfied with a service that is down 61 hours a year. To further add to this service management challenges, a service is now deemed down if it just runs slow. In a complex service like this one, there are seven possible contributors to an application running slow.
A Hybrid IT Responsibility Model is mandatory to integrate the efforts of all IT suppliers into one cohesive delivery machine. We need to become a well-integrated in-flight and ground crew. The focus must change from each group just looking after their IT service, to delivering an exceptional IT experience for their customers. The key is to implement the same thinking that guides a flight crew. In a flight crew, everyone has their unique role, but all are committed to delivering an exceptional travel experience for their customers.
In IT we also have our own unique roles, however, achieving the overall customer service expectations must be measured from the customer’s point of view must everyone’s responsibility. Service must be measured at the following three points of customer interaction:
- On the screen. This is where the customer interacts with the application services. It needs to be measured by performance, availability, and reliability.
- On the phone. This is where the customer interacts with the support organization. It needs to be measured by time to resolution, and the quality of the solution
- Face to face. This is where IT helps a customer develop new IT solutions to meet their business needs. It is measured by speed to create a new solution and the quality of the solution.
These three areas of key measures require everyone in IT operating as one integrated team.
Transformation of a Hybrid IT Operating model to a Hybrid IT Responsibility Model
At the OACA we define Hybrid IT as:
We envision that there are five views in a Hybrid IT operating model. These views are:
These five IT operating model views are further subdivided into 30 domains. (See Cloud Maturity Model Usage Manual )
Each one of these views needs to be transformed into a Hybrid IT Responsibility Model. To accomplish this, changes are required to existing roles and responsibilities, and in some cases, new roles need to be created.
Hybrid Delivery, for example, requires the creation of the Business Innovation Enabler role. Hybrid Service Management involves the transformation of a Service Manager who oversees a service as a whole and measures the service end to end. Hybrid workload requires the conversion of application developers to application assemblers that are comfortable designing new systems in days not months using functions as a service.
Over the next five blogs, I will explain the changes to each view of the Hybrid IT operating model to transform it into a Hybrid IT Responsibility Model.
Excellent airlines pay attention to every detail of a flight. Customers expect nothing less. Great air carriers have developed eyes for quality, and they know it is everyone’s job to ensure that a customer’s travel experience is a pleasant one. They know exceptional customer service depends on the in-flight and ground crews operating as a seamless machine. IT needs to develop those same skills, those same eyes for quality and passion for their customers.
About the Author:
Bill is the Digital Strategist for Liam Associates. Formerly the Cloud Chief Technologist for Hewlett-Packard Enterprise Canada, Bill has provided Hybrid IT and IoT Strategic Planning advisory and planning services to over fifty private and public sector clients to help them migrate to a Hybrid IT Operating model. These transformation plans have helped both government and industry reduce the cost of IT, re-engineer their IT governance models, and reduce the overall complexity of IT. Bill is also a member of the Open Alliance for Cloud Adoption Team and has co-authored several documents on Cloud Maturity and Hybrid IT implementation. | <urn:uuid:3030f591-6242-4212-a1c8-90c159d9203e> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.oaca-project.org/2018/11/29/who-is-responsible-for-a-service-in-a-hybrid-it-operating-model/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573104.24/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817183340-20220817213340-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.953713 | 1,470 | 1.585938 | 2 |
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Ukulele Workshop by NZ Ukulele Trust
March 31, 2016 @ 4:30 pm - 6:00 pm
Maria Winder and Mary Cornish from NZ Ukulele Trust will share successful strategies for teaching musicianship the NZ Ukulele way. This workshop is suitable for beginners and intermediate ukulele players and will cover a range of teaching routines, demonstrating a progression of skills for strumming, plucking and reading ukulele chords and TAB. The NZ Ukulele Trust Handbook for Teachers will be available at the reduced price of $30
They are down in ChCh with the NZ Ukulele Trust Development Squad for 2 days only.
Thursday, 31 March 2016 from 4:00 PM to 5:30 PM (NZDT) –
Chisnallwood Intermediate School – 76 Breezes Road Christchurch, Canterbury 8061 NZ
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OMEGA Restores 18 of its First Wrist-Chronographs
Earlier this week, Omega unveiled a very exclusive chronograph, limited to only 18 pieces that are powered by a restored 18’’’ CHRO calibre from 1913, called “First OMEGA Wrist-Chronograph Limited Edition”. Unlike the many vintage-inspired models introduced lately by several Swiss brands, powered by modern movements, inside the First Omega Wrist-Chronograph the movements are actually 105 years old.
It took the expert hands at Omega’s Atelier Tourbillon hundreds of work hours to complete a thorough refurbishing of the 18’’’ CHRO movements. Each of the 18 movements were different and the watchmakers had to perform a seprate analysis for each one of them. The mainplates and the bridges were sandblasted and smoothed with a brass brush and every steel component underwent a haute-horology finishing. Every wheel was checked to ensure that the gear system worked perfectly and new jewels were added that required adjustments to the original holes. The refurbishing process ended with an extensive testing of the movements.
In 1913, thanks to the 18”’ CHRO calibre, Omgea became one of the first manufacturers of wrist-chronographs and the “new” watches follow closely the original design that was much appretiated by the military personnel during the First World War, especially by pilots with numerous models having been delivered to the Royal Flying Corps.
For these limited edition pieces, Omega used modern materials, for example, the 47.5 mm case is made from 18K white gold and a few highlights of Sedna gold when it comes to the crown, pusher and central second hand. The hatched caseback, decorated with a historic Omega logo, can be flipped open to reveal the refurbished movement positioned behind sapphire-crystal.
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HEFEI, July 26 (Xinhua) -- Xu Zhihui, a food vlogger, went viral on China's social media recently not for his gourmet shows, but for a journey that has touched millions of Chinese -- bringing a martyr's photo back to his family.
While browsing a secondhand book store online in October, Xu, 27, came across a photo and a certificate of Chinese People's Volunteers (CPV) martyrs killed in the War to Resist U.S. Aggression and Aid Korea (1950-1953).
According to the certificate, the martyr named Tian Chunshan came from a village in central China's Hunan Province. Born in 1924, Tian joined the army in November 1949 and died in 1951.
There are two people in the photo, and one of them could be Tian, said Xu, who spent 1,500 yuan (about 222 U.S. dollars) buying the certificate and the photo.
"The moment I saw the record and the attached photo, I decided to return it to his family," said Xu, from Funan County of east China's Anhui Province.
Early in the morning on June 14, Xu embarked on a journey to Huaihua City of Hunan to look for the martyr's family, taking him more than 1,000 km away from his home.
It took Xu more than 10 hours to reach Huaihua by train. He rented a car to continue his trip in the mountainous area until he arrived at the place suggested in the certificate.
"Do you happen to know Tian Chunshan?" Xu asked an old man he bumped into near a local reservoir, showing him the photo at the same time.
Surprisingly, the elderly man in his 80s, responded with a positive answer, referring to the man on the left in the photo.
"I only saw him once when I was young. Four people from my village went to the war," said the old man surnamed Zhou.
Tian never got married, and his mother and his brother died a long time ago. Only his nephew still lives in the village, Xu found out.
Xu then managed to return the martyr certificate and the photo to the nephew after confirming the information with the local bureau of veteran affairs.
To thank Xu for what he did, the nephew offered him some money, but Xu rejected it. Instead, Xu asked to take a photo with the family before he left.
"It was such a relief when I handed the things to the martyr's family," Xu recalled. "My grandfather's elder brother died in the war at the age of 27. I heard about his stories many times when I was little, but never saw a photo of him."
His recording of the journey has earned over 220 million reads so far on Weibo, China's microblogging service. On China's short-video platform Douyin, Xu has received more than 549,000 likes so far.
"Helping a martyr return home is a journey that should be remembered forever," commented a netizen under the video.
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A look at how shame culture is still pervasive in the modern world
By Aaron Grierson
People often say “what goes around comes around” or that what was once popular will come back into style in the future. This is observably true in cases like artistic tropes or certain styles of fashion. However, for a great many other things in our societies, they may only come “back into style” as far as academics or a human interest piece in the news are concerned; but they are always there, even if we’re not consciously aware of it.
One such example recently resurfaced in the Canadian media, specifically within the Greater Toronto Area. The story, boiled down, is about Jian Ghomeshi, an employee of CBC Radio (Canadian Broadcasting Company) at the time, who, through various means over the last several years gained the reputation of a “sex god”. This may in part be due to his history as a musician, or more generally to his radio persona. Regardless, it was observed by multiple co-workers and one even noted that, “he seemed to have different tiers of girlfriends.”
As it turns out, he’s rather like Christian Grey, with the exception that he did not present his sexual partners a contractual agreement. It all started with one, but within days the number of women coming forward to support allegations of sexual assault and harassment increased. The victims were not just limited to co-workers, but extended, as it turns out, regularly to interns, especially from Carleton University in Ottawa.
This might sound like I’m stating the obvious, but it is connected to something far more pervasive than modern tastes and taboos. Shame culture is a society “in which conformity of behaviour is maintained through the individual’s fear of being shamed“. This culture stretches as far back as the ancient Greeks, where offences carried out by the major heroes resulted in their public shaming. For example: in Homer’s Iliad, Agamemnon takes Briseis, a woman who was promised to Achilles as a war prize, to compensate for having to give up his own concubine. Achilles is so put off by this public affront that he withdraws from the war to sulk in his tent.
Shame culture is rooted in the concepts of pride and honour, where keeping up appearances and maintaining it in the eyes of one’s peers is considered top priority. This is clearly demonstrated in the Iliad as the entire war is a matter of honour, and, it’s interesting to note, that the Iliad text is still one of the largest surviving from that period. While the Greeks wrote it as a tool to reign in heroes, the concept of shame can be applied to any level of society. For instance, a shameless man would have no regard for the public’s opinion on his drunk behaviour and he would be entirely apathetic to who sees him and what jeers he attracts. At least until he sobers up and comes to terms with the consequences of his actions.
In this example, we see a shift from shame culture, as the Greek heroes knew it, towards a guilt culture, as portrayed in tragic plays (Ancient and onwards, Shakespeare, and even contemporary playwrights are often concerned with the mind of the tragic ‘hero’). Be it Heracles, Othello, or Macbeth, these figures all suffer first from within their own minds, rather than because of others’ opinions. Of course, this is not strictly a Greek / Western notion.
We, and doubtlessly the generation of people that have come before us, are stuck somewhere in the middle of these cultures of guilt and shame, though we don’t always hear about it. Even amongst circles of friends in schools today, one might be shamed for not having partaken in some unwritten rite of passage. Or at least some movies would have us believe that this sort of thing actually happens. Even in the workplace, something as simple as participating in an office event, or not, can make all the difference when it comes to being ostracized.
A more prominent example of shame culture would be our ideas of the human physique, specifically weight. We are often made fun of, or expected, to be of a particular weight, less so because it is healthy, but because it is the social standard which is generally preached. Admittedly, this social phenomena primarily targets women, but men are subjected to it as well, and not just in the schoolyard where our child-selves might have thought little about poking fun at someone for their belly. I mean hey, most male underwear models I see when I force myself into a mall are typically muscularly toned, and in many cases, have freshly waxed or shaved chests. These sorts of ideals are everywhere in the public eye and are engrained in our psyches from a young age. Such passive pressure can negatively influence people about how they feel about themselves. In the same way that social media is used by companies and groups as a form of advertising, it’s also a place where people can share imagery or opinions that agree with these standards without getting paid. As an interactive tool, social media helps propagate shame culture in the modern world. From mean tweets to terrible private messages, the possibilities are both endless and subtle. Such exposure can potentially inspire adolescents, or even adults, into unhealthy eating habits and a contorted self-perception, which could lead to self-harm.
If I don’t see this kind of shaming online, all I have to do is look into a popular men’s fashion store and remind myself of how much closer I am to the classical ideal body type than what is trendy at the moment. I hold nothing against those slimmer gentlemen, but I find it downright perplexing as to how I should dress in a suit jacket that is barely broader than one of my thighs. It makes no damned sense. Setting aside these peculiar fashion choices, it’s not like I have to worry about my weight, that’s just one small example. I don’t feel the need to go to the extremes that can occur when a person is worried about their appearance. Going back to the more ideological sense of shame culture, I believe that the idea of shame is meant to help us control one another’s behaviour in the same way that the law does. I mean, it seems very handy that most (wo)men who’ve been drunk and walked the streets haven’t thought such silliness is acceptable. And it seems useful to not have people go about engaging in sex with coworkers, as it can, and I feel it very often does, disrupt the workplace.
It seems safe to say that the ego involved in Ghomeshi’s escapades ultimately came back to bite him. He’s been fired from the CBC, and will probably never work in the media or in the public eye again, even with the off chance he is acquitted of all charges. He has also been publicly shamed through various forms of media, rather than being upheld as some sort of sex icon. And so it should be with someone who oversteps the bounds of consent, especially so viciously. He may even suffer from bipolar disorder or some condition that includes sudden mood swings, which would, at the very least, help explain why his behaviour would change so dramatically. But we don’t know that, and it does not excuse such violent offences, which, unfortunately, has been somewhat glorified by the 50 Shades of Grey series. Realistically, if a person is good at their job, the exposure of their less-than-vanilla personal life should not warrant their termination, except in cases like this, where the terms of consent have been breached.
And is it really such a bad thing that some of us are a little bigger than others? Broader than others? I don’t see how attempting to streamline a world’s worth of human bodies into a couple of shapes is constructive. If anything, it would be like killing the fashion industry slowly, or at least crippling it in the same way that the global economy is currently hobbling along. You would have, and pardon the pun, a much slimmer market to target. There wouldn’t be the same diversity, the same cacophony of flavours in a balanced meal, the same humanity. I often question, and sometimes write, about the degrees to which we as a society of individuals seem to be pushed, or jump willingly into artificially enhancing ourselves. And I don’t just mean putting on an outfit that accentuates our lovely figure. I’m referring to our tendency to being pressured to the point where we’re just plastic, permanent. Where your entire being can be redone to ‘perfection’ if you’ve got the coin for it. Imagine that, a world where the word ‘human’ is seen as a limitation, not a privilege. Where synthetic is the name of the game. Such thinking might be a stretch for science fiction, but no story I’ve ever encountered has been free of social pressure. Even if we are freed of these fleshy bodies and are literally incapable of feeling shame, I don’t know if we’ll be free of negative social pressure. Then, or ever.
‘Jian Ghomeshi: 8 women accuse former CBC host of violence, sexual abuse or harassment’, Donovan, Kevin; The Star, 2014
‘Timeline: Jian Ghomeshi charged in sex assault scandal’, Tucker, Erika; Global News, 2014
See the above reference
‘Greek Civilization: From Shame to Guilt’, Bellitti, Anthony; Helicon: The Yale Undergraduate Journal of Classics, 2013
‘Shame culture’, Gill, N.S.; About.com, accessed 2015
‘Ghomeshi staff complained about ‘culture of fear”, Bradshaw, James and McArthur, Greg; The Globe and Mail, November 2014
‘Behind the CBC decision to fire Jian Ghomeshi’, Bradshaw, James and McArthur, Greg; The Globe and Mail, October, 2014
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Title: Implementation of blended learning in a higher education institution in Albania: an analysis of factors that affect students' learning experience
Authors: Rezart Prifti
Addresses: Management Department, Faculty of Economy, University of Tirana, Tirana, Albania
Abstract: All levels of education, and especially higher education institutions, are transforming their methods to follow the dynamics of technology and labour market demands. Blended learning is emerging as an effective and low-risk strategy to improve quality, as well as to make education more accessible. This research aims to discuss the introduction of blended learning in a higher education institution in Albania, and to examine the effect of the blended approach in students' learning experience, focusing on their satisfaction from both online and traditional elements of a course. The results show that satisfaction from online components has an important impact on students' learning experience in a larger proportion those classroom components.
Keywords: blended learning; learning experience; course satisfaction; learning management system; LMS; student satisfaction; higher education.
International Journal of Innovation and Learning, 2020 Vol.27 No.3, pp.233 - 253
Received: 28 Jun 2018
Accepted: 05 Mar 2019
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Contents of the audit report
Audit report format
The key deliverable from your web accessibility audit will be a report. The report should record the findings of the audit and recommend actions to improve accessibility.
There is no set format for such reports but a report should contain enough detail for your technical staff to act to improve accessibility where required.
At the same time, other sections of the report should be written for non-technical staff if they are the intended audience. (For example, required changes to content should be written for the content team.)
The report should not be any longer than it has to be to accommodate the key information:
- Background and methodology;
- Prioritised action list, with suggested fixes and timeline;
- Appendix of audit detail.
Any report longer than 15 pages should contain a table of contents.
The report summary (sometimes called an executive summary) should contain the key points of the report in very condensed form. It should contain about 400 words, summarising all sections of the report but with most emphasis on the report's findings and what should happen in response.
The summary should be written in plain, non-technical language as far as possible. Its intended audience is anyone involved in or interested in the website.
Background and methodology
The background and methodology section should contain the what, where, who detail of the audit, including:
- The goals of the site;
- The reason for the audit;
- A summary of the audit requirements;
- Who carried out the audit and when;
- What methodology the audit used;
- What the page sample was;
- The WCAG level for which the site was audited.
Each report should contain a section containing the findings of the audit. You will probably want to know straight away if your website achieves conformance rating Single-A, Double-A or Triple-A with the WCAG. It should also give a high-level description of some of the main issues. For example, it may report that the site contains a substantial number of images that did not have alternative text. It should not, however, list every image without alternative text. This information should be presented in a detailed appendix.
This section should be longer than the summary but not a page-by-page description of every accessibility check.
Prioritised action list
To help you to remedy accessibility problems uncovered in the audit, a key component of the report is an action list. This should contain enough detail to rectify the problems identified.
In some cases, this may be an exact fix. For example, where absolute font sizes are used on the site it should suggest a fix such as: "Replace absolute font size of 12pt for the body style in file mysite.CSS with a relative size of 80%." In other cases, the action may be more generic, e.g. "Ensure that all staff handling images are aware of the need for appropriate alt text and have the skills to create it."
In either event, the action should be clear and unambiguous. Carrying out the action, as described, should be enough to deal with the accessibility problem identified.
The accessibility auditors should also prioritise the actions recommended. This should be done primarily on the basis of gravity: a Level A breach is more significant than a Level Double-A breach, even if the target is to have none of either.
The prioritisation can also take account of how easy or otherwise it is to rectify a breach. "Quick wins" that improve accessibility in the short term should not be deferred just because there are more grave breaches that will take longer to rectify.
The action list should also contain a timeline or roadmap giving an outline of the timescale involved. Timescale is, of course, highly dependent on the budget and other resources available. However, it is still worthwhile to have accessibility specialists set out their view on a realistic timescale to deliver fixes.
Audit detail - appendix
There will probably be further detail arising from the audit. This might include the results from automated tools. The findings of these tools and the actions arising from those findings should be covered in the body of the report.
The results from the tools do not belong in the body of an action-oriented report but it can be included in an appendix. An example of an audit template taken from the WAI website is included for reference in the appendix of this document. Likewise, the completed audit template for each page should be included in an appendix. In this way, supporting detail is available for future reference without cluttering the main report text.
The organisation of detailed appendices may vary. The essential requirement is a full listing of:
- Audit checkpoints;
- Pages checked;
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Rivera, always known for his prodigious artistic output, produced five "portable frescoes" for the MoMA exhibit in the course of just six weeks in November, working with a team of assistants in an unheated space in the museum. (The lack of heat was to keep the plaster slabs on which the murals were painted from drying too quickly.)
Of all the panels Rivera made for The Museum of Modern Art, Indian Warrior reaches back farthest into Mexican history, to the Spanish Conquest of the early 16th century. An Aztec warrior wearing the costume of a jaguar stabs an armored conquistador in the throat with a stone knife. The Spaniard's steel blade - an emblem of European claims to superiority - lies broken nearby. Jaguar knights, members of an elite Aztec military order, were known for their fighting prowess; according to legend, their terrifying costumes enabled them to possess the power of the animal in battle. The panel's jarring vision of righteous violence offered a Mesoamerican precedent for Mexico's recent revolution, as well as its continuing struggles.
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Fossil fuel reserves are declining, sun and wind power are imperfect, and the world is looking for answers. But there's a possible solution out there: recycling energy from secondary sources.
Energy "harvesting"—where incidental energy like radio waves, heat and vibrations are harnessed for power—is not a new concept, but the technology to support the idea is getting better. Just as today the kinetic force of a swinging arm can power a wristwatch, some technologists are betting that in the future pedestrians' footsteps can light a city.
Much of energy harvesting's promise lies in manufacturing, where so much energy is lost to the heat, sound and vibrations of machinery. If even a small percentage of that could be captured and reused, then companies could realize significant cost savings—or so the theory goes.
While manufacturers in energy-hungry Europe are already looking to invest in the technology, many American firms are less quick to see the promise in harvesting, experts said.
One U.S.-based company, Echogen, which helps convert industrial waste heat into usable power, says it gets more uptake outside the United States than in it.
"We're fortunate in the U.S. here to have abundant sources of energy, and the shale gas explosion has given us some (energy security)," said Echogen CEO Philip Brennan. "What you're saving is less significant in the U.S. than elsewhere in the world."
Brennan said that Scandinavian countries are already seeking to use "every thermal unit possible," but that he expects the United States will ultimately come around to the technology. Energy costs are sure to rise over the long term, he said, and the U.S. "shield won't last forever."
This is not to say, however, that American firms are completely ignoring the potential of energy harvesting. Amazon reportedly plans to use waste power from a nearby data center to heat its new Seattle campus. It's thought to be the first project of its kind in the country, according to The Seattle Times.
Still, some warn that it's important not to overstate the benefits of energy harvesting: Vastly more significant changes to the country's energy efficiency could come from, say, retooling America's power grid, said Cheryl Martin, acting director of Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy.
ARPA-E, which invests in "disruptive ideas to create America's future energy technologies," sees a grid overhaul as one of the most significant developments that will happen in the next 25 years, Martin said. Localizing energy storage to counteract "the decapitating effect" of a downed power plant is important to securing America's infrastructure, she explained, but hyperlocalized energy harvesting is not necessarily a top priority.
"How do you harness all these small sources of energy and have them be impactful?" Martin asked. "Today I don't see anything doing that, but I would never say never."
One way to make harvesting worthwhile is to use it for low-energy devices, said Dave Freeman, chief technology officer of power management at Texas Instruments. In fact, TI—famous for, among other things, pioneering the solar calculator—is developing energy harvesting technologies with the future in mind.
The often-predicted "Internet of Things," which will supposedly connect consumer devices and appliances into a single network, will require hundreds of wireless microsensors in order to function. All of them will need to be powered somehow. Such technology could use batteries (which need periodic replacement), but it would be more cost- and time-efficient to have it generate its own energy, Freeman explained.
TI plans to power an Internet of Things with devices that can harvest heat, light and vibration energy from the environment. Those technologies are not particularly efficient now, Freeman said, but the next 10 to 15 years will see major strides in their ability to capture power from their environment.
Industry also has a need for self-powered wireless sensors, Freeman said. Such devices would be able to monitor hard-to-reach areas within machines.
Still, like ARPA-E's Martin, Freeman emphasized that the most important technological strides will come from efficient energy storage and use—not collection.
One company, though, is looking to take energy harvesting to the big leagues: Pavegen produces floor tiles that harness pedestrians' footsteps to power nearby lights, but has "grand visions" to lead the charge in collecting every kind of environmental energy, according to founder and CEO Laurence Kemball-Cook.
"We see ourselves as being what a processor was to a PC," he said.
Kemball-Cook said he hopes his technology will be helping to power cities in 25 years by harnessing the swaying of buildings and the vibrations of sound.
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According to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), nearly 50 percent of Americans are trying to lose weight at any given time. That’s not surprising given that 70 percent of us are overweight and carrying excess body fat.
Eating more vegetables and fruits is one of the top strategies for losing weight. Eating whole, minimally processed plant foods can promote satiety (feeling full and satisfied) and support your weight-loss efforts.
What Is a Whole-Food, Plant-Based Diet?
The term “plant-based diet” describes any eating styles that include mostly foods of plant origin, including beans, lentils, and peas as well as fruits, herbs, and spices. It contains olive oil and other plant oils, vegetables, and whole grains.
When following this eating style, plant foods should be whole and minimally processed — this means as close to their original form as possible. For example, you should choose a whole apple instead of apple juice, or nuts instead of nut butter with added salt and sugar.
It’s also important to note that whole foods contain fewer preservatives and artificial ingredients. So, you should be able to recognize all the ingredients on the package. In many cases, your plant-based food selections should be fresh produce — which won’t have any label at all.
Losing Weight With Plant Power
Research shows that plant-based diets may be the best route for weight loss. One study found that participants who followed a plant-based diet for one year without restricting calories reduced their body mass index (BMI), cholesterol, and other health risk factors.
Another study found that compared to other diets, eating a diet composed only of plant foods produced the most significant weight loss over 18 weeks compared to other forms of plant-based eating.
Feeling Full and Satisfied With Plants
Whole plant foods tend to have more vitamins, minerals, protein, and fiber than processed foods. Plants are also generally low in energy density, a measure of calories compared to the volume of food. Simply put, they’re low in calories but take up a lot of space. For example, apples, leafy greens, broccoli, cooked oats, and carrots are all whole plant foods. They take up a lot of space, are low in calories, and take a while to eat.
Whole plant foods also contain complex carbohydrates that are digested slowly, have fiber, provide lasting energy throughout the day, and help prevent blood sugar and insulin spikes.
Start Your Meal With Vegetables
The order of food eaten at a meal may impact how much is eaten. Studies show that starting the meal with high-fiber, non-starchy vegetables like a salad or broth-based vegetable soup can help you eat less overall.
Similarly, starting a meal with a high-fiber whole fruit such as an apple can also help reduce portions at mealtime. One study showed that starting a meal with an apple reduced total calorie intake at mealtime by 15 percent, while consuming applesauce or apple juice at the beginning of a meal did not produce the same results.
High-fiber, low-calorie foods like whole vegetables and fruits take up space in the stomach, slow down how quickly we eat, and set off satiety signals that let the brain know it’s time to stop eating.
Health Benefits Beyond Weight Loss
Research shows that plant-based diets help with weight loss and lower blood sugar, blood pressure, and cholesterol, as well as reduce the risk for chronic health conditions like cognitive decline, cancer, heart disease, and type 2 diabetes.
To reap the benefits of a plant-based diet, you don’t necessarily need to eat exclusively plant-based foods. You can consume animal foods as an occasional protein or garnish to a plant-based meal. Consider small amounts of cheese, wild-caught fish, and eggs. Just remember that plants should take up most of your plate.
Small Changes for Lasting Weight Loss
Small changes make the shift toward whole foods and plant-based eating more realistic. Small changes with a significant impact include choosing brown rice instead of white rice, popcorn instead of pretzels, salad to start a meal, and whole fruit instead of fruit juice.
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Our Sense of Smell
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The experience of smell starts when air molecules meet tiny little hairs in our nasal cavity. These hairs are called cilia, and they trap the incoming fumes so they can be processed.
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Our Divine Commission to Rule over all Living Things
The Text: 28 And God blessed them. And God said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth and subdue it, and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over every living thing that moves on the earth.” 29 And God said, “Behold, I have given you every plant yielding seed that is on the face of all the earth, and every tree with seed in its fruit. You shall have them for food. 30 And to every beast of the earth and to every bird of the heavens and to everything that creeps on the earth, everything that has the breath of life, I have given every green plant for food.” And it was so. 31 And God saw everything that he had made, and behold, it was very good. And there was evening and there was morning, the sixth day. Genesis 1:28-31.
Biblical Reasons to Rule the Living Creation
- It is a command. (Genesis 1:28-31; Psalm 8:6-8) – The Dominion Mandate
- God values it highly – God created the various kinds of plants and animals… and He said it was very good (Genesis 1:31). Plants and animals do not have to justify their existence by having some use for man to exploit.
- He made life to feed us – Plants to eat (Genesis 1:29). Animals given after the flood (Genesis 9:3). Both used for sacrifices (Leviticus).
- God wants us to maintain the created diversity. Genesis 7:2-3
- God wants us to take good care to animals under our charge. A righteous man cares for the needs of his animal, but the kindest acts of the wicked are cruel (Prov. 12:10). Know well the condition of your flocks, and give attention to your herds, for riches do not last forever; and does a crown endure to all generations? (Prov. 27:23) (Psalm 23)
- Nature declares the glory of God and proclaims his invisible attributes (Psalm 19, 104; Romans 1:20)
- Knowing about plants and animals was considered part of Solomon’s wisdom. (I Kings 4:33-34)
- Living things (not just man) bring praise to the Lord (Psalm 148)
Understanding dominion: An analogy from Ephesians 5 shows that dominion is not exploitive or oppressive. Godly headship never is.
- Christ and the Church – under Christ’s headship the church is to thrive, be fruitful, and become more lovely
- Husband and wife – under her husband’s righteous headship a wife is to thrive, be fruitful, and become more lovely
- We have been given dominion over the Creation. If we exercise godly dominion under the Lordship of Christ the living creation will thrive, be fruitful, and will become more lovely. Knowledge and appreciation of our fellow creatures is essential for good husbandry.
Disastrous Acts of Judgment in the Bible: For thus says the Lord God: How much more when I send upon Jerusalem my four disastrous acts of judgment, sword, famine, wild beasts, and pestilence, to cut off from it man and beast! (Ezekiel 14:21) Three of the four are environmental problems.
What is the cause of environmental problems? Sin (direct or indirect causality)
Hosea 4:1-3 – Hear the word of the Lord, O children of Israel,
for the Lord has a controversy with the inhabitants of the land.
There is no faithfulness or steadfast love,
and no knowledge of God in the land;
2 there is swearing, lying, murder, stealing, and committing adultery;
they break all bounds, and bloodshed follows bloodshed.
3 Therefore the land mourns,
and all who dwell in it languish,
and also the beasts of the field
and the birds of the heavens,
and even the fish of the sea are taken away.
See also Jeremiah 12:4
What is the solution to environmental problems? The Gospel
How so? Because of the Fall we have been alienated from God, from our fellow man, and from nature. Nature also has internal conflicts (all creation groans). Francis Schaeffer refers to these as divisions. When we are reconciled to God by justification that lays the groundwork to begin healing these other divisions.
How shall we then live?
- Live and proclaim the gospel with a conscious desire to heal all the dislocations caused by the fall. God to man; man to man; and man to nature, and nature to nature. Prov. 16:7; Isaiah 11:6-9
- Cultivate a love and appreciation of God’s living world…in yourself and in your children (children have an innate love of nature). Through hunting, fishing, hiking, camping, gardening, zoos, botanical gardens, arboretums, and parks.
- Have a heart of gratitude to God who made living things to meet our practical needs (food, clothing, and shelter). Thank him that they also fulfil our aesthetic and emotional longings.
- Principles for professionals that directly exercise dominion over plants or animals (zoo keepers, farmers, ranchers, foresters, soil scientists, horticulturists, vets, breeders, animal rehab, park rangers, landscape architects, wildlife managers, ecologists, developers, etc. etc.)
- Exercise good husbandry for the animals in your charge (Prov. 12:10; Prov. 27:23).
- Think biblically regarding the management of nature. Don’t be narrow-minded and disregard the diversity, balance, and interdependency of nature.
- Be humble and eager to learn of better practices from others (non-Christians and Christians alike). Look for ways to enhance your real estate. Don’t just think in terms of mitigating the negatives.
- Don’t look down your nose or be judgmental at others who are at different levels of knowledge, wisdom, and practice. Be an example of better practice.
- Developers: You have a greater capacity to do great good as well as great damage. In addition to abiding by environmental laws to avoid possible punishment (Romans 13) love God and your neighbor in how you develop. Don’t chafe under the environmental regulations, set a higher standard. We should be reformational and think generational in all things. Think how to achieve a win-win not zero-sum game. Think, innovate, and work toward a garden city. A human city or town that emulates Hobbiton and Rivendell. Keep in mind that wilderness has its place (Psalm 104:18). It is not useless.
- Don’t just think sustainability. We (along with the sea creatures and fish) were told to be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth. Mankind at present has an MO that diminishes creation; we are not enhancing the created order. Sustainability is indeed a step in the right direction but we can’t stop there. In the parable of the talents which servant got chewed out?
The earth is the Lord’s and the fullness thereof (Psalm 24:1). Since God has put us in charge, as far as it depends on us, let’s enhance its intrinsic beauty and diversity in the sphere of influence God have given us, motivated by our love of God, His creation, and our neighbor. | <urn:uuid:51e953e6-d3fc-4e19-99ac-d7cedacb6919> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.christkirk.com/sermon/and-we-shall-have-dominion/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573104.24/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817183340-20220817213340-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.935571 | 1,585 | 2.234375 | 2 |
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Spectrum Math Workbook, Grade 2 (Paperback)
2nd Grade Math Workbook for kids ages 7-8
Support your child's educational journey with the Spectrum Grade 2 Math Workbook that teaches basic math skills to second graders.
Spectrum's 2nd grade workbook is a great
way for your second grader to learn essential math skills such as fractions, metric and custom measurements, writing numbers in expanded form, and more through a variety of problem-solving activities that are both fun AND educational
Why You'll Love This Second Grade Math Book
- Engaging and educational math for second graders. "Writing equations to match illustrations", "adding and subtracting 2- and 3-digit numbers", and "skip counting with money" are a few of the fun activities that incorporate math in everyday settings to help inspire learning.
- Testing progress along the way. Pretests, posttests, a mid-test, final test, and an answer key are included in the Spectrum math grade 2 workbook to help track your child's progress along the way before moving on to new and exciting math lessons.
- Practically sized for every activity The 160-page second grade math workbook is sized at about 8.5 inches x 10.75 inches--giving your child plenty of space to complete each exercise.
For more than 20 years, Spectrum has provided solutions for parents who want to help their children get ahead, and for teachers who want their students to meet and exceed set learning goals--providing workbooks that are a great resource for both homeschooling and classroom curriculum.
The 2nd Grade Math Workbook Contains:
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- Pretests, posttests, mid-test, final test, scoring record, and answer key
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Block on Trump's Asylum Ban Upheld by Supreme Court
The battle over immigration wages on. You've probably heard some mention of President Trump and the courts struggling over what to do about the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program. In the latest chapter of the saga, the Arizona Supreme Court has ruled that DACA students -- also called Dreamers -- cannot receive in-state tuition rates to attend Arizona schools, making higher education significantly more expensive for this subset of the population.
DACA refers to the federal program which allows immigrants who were brought to the U.S. illegally as children to defer deportation for two years (at which point they can apply for renewal of their enrollment). They are not given formal legal status, but are allowed to work and study legally in the U.S.
Dreamers have been able to receive lower in-state tuition rates at University of Arizona, Arizona State, and Norther Arizona University since 2015. At UA, for example, the in-state cost is $12,228 for new students, compared to $35,658 for non-resident undergrads. The rate differences are similar for Arizona's community colleges.
The state's Supreme Court has ruled that current law does not allow Arizona colleges and universities to grant in-state tuition to students who do not have permanent legal status. For one thing, Arizona voters passed a law in 2006 which says that any person who is not a U.S. citizen or legal resident, or is "without lawful immigration status" is not eligible to receive the same tuition rate as residents.
The justices did not release a full explanation of their ruling -- we can expect that on May 14 -- but wanted to announce their decision to give affected students as much time as possible to plan around the ruling.
In the meantime, the Arizona Board of Regents has introduced a plan to offer dreamers a tuition rate equal to one-and-a-half times the in-state rate. Once the justices release their full ruling, it may shed light on whether or not this proposal is consistent with state and federal law.
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Four lawsuits filed over US alcohol shipping laws
Four lawsuits have been filed in the US in an attempt to open up restrictive interstate shipping laws following last month’s landmark Supreme Court ruling in Tennessee.
Lawyers hoping to loosen the current laws that restrict interstate booze sales have filed cases in Indiana, Kentucky, New Jersey and Texas, which currently do not allow liquor shops to ship wines out of the state, according to Wine-Searcher.com.
The legal team is also pressing a judge in Michigan, who last year issued an order to open up shipping to out-of-state stores pending guidance from the Supreme Court, to enforce his order now the Tennessee case has been determined.
One of the lawyers, Robert Epstein, told the publication his goal was to “enable free trade across the country”, in the wake of the Supreme Court decision last month. This case, which was first heard in the Supreme Court in January., overturned protectionist alcohol licensing laws in Tennessee that effectively prevented alcohol retailers not resident in the state from setting up operations.
Branding the law “unconstitutional”, it ruled that states must treat in-state and out-of-state alcohol businesses in the same way. It also called the residency rules for corporations based outside the state who wished to get a retail license “extraordinarily restrictive”.
Many hoped that if the residency requirement in the Tennessee case was overturned, this might open up the possibility of interstate wine sales across the US for the first time since Prohibition was enacted in 1920. (Although Prohibition was repealed in 1933, the 21st Amendment banned the movement of alcohol between states in the US, which effectively handed each states the right to regulate its own sales and shipment of alcohol).
Tom Wark, executive director of the National Association of Wine Retailers (NAWR) described the ruling as a historic win for both free trade and wine consumers across the country, telling Wine-Searcher that the Supreme Court decision meant that shipping laws in around 20 different states could now be considered unconstitutional and that their laws would need to be changed.
However the NAWR is said to be focussing resources on states that have the greatest chance of success, saying Michigan and Illinois were “closest” to success, but New York and Missouri were other key priorities.
Other states the NAWR intends to pursue include Massachusetts, Washington, Arizona, Ohio, Pennsylvania (where wine stores are run by the state), Maine, North Carolina and South Carolina.
However there is stiff opposition to any change in the law from local retailer and wholesaler associations, who fear large out-of-state companies coming in and taking market share.
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In the early moments of the uprising in Baltimore after police killed Freddie Gray, Baltimore city officials monitored social media. The officials labeled activists and other users, who were posting about reported rioting, protest activity, and police action, as “threats.”
The spreadsheet listing individuals deemed to have posted “threats” was released in a cache of 7,000 internal emails sent during the uprising by city officials.
It is unclear who specifically was compiling this list. No agency is listed in the spreadsheet as being responsible. However, what is apparent is officials followed hashtags and essentially criminalized certain flows of information being shared by individuals.
Officials compiled 71 “threatening” pieces of content from Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, and YouTube on April 27 [PDF].
Each threat was designated as some kind of a “violation.” These “violations” included “chatter,” “cyber threat,” “riot,” “physical threat,” “threat,” “violence,” and “rebellion.”
“All of Your Anonymity is Gone”
One of the activists singled out was @ConstantNatalie. She has the distinction of being the only user who was accused of promoting “rebellion,” which is not defined anywhere in the spreadsheet.
Remarkably, @ConstantNatalie was nowhere near Baltimore. She was in Chicago. The posting that garnered attention was not her own posting either. It was something she retweeted about providing medical attention to protesters from @brazenqueer (who was not listed as posting a “threat”).
Natalie recalled the experience of having a “beast”—the surveillance state—look at you and then later you find your name in a government document.
“It feels like all of your anonymity is gone,” she stated. “Once [the state] starts monitoring, then they start digging.” And, “Those in power want people, who are posting to social media in times of rebellion, to “be quiet and good in the face of horrific injustice.”
Other people noted in the spreadsheet were @UntoldCarlisle, a journalist, and Deray McKesson, a prominent voice in the movement for black lives.
The city tracked the following hashtags: #Baltimorecitypolice, #AmeriKKKa, #justiceforfreddie, #justiceforfreddie, #FreddieGray, #Amerikkka, #Amerikkka, #BaltimoreRiots, #BaltimoreRiots #idgt, and #mondawmin, #Baltimore, #OPFREDDIE, #blacklivesmatter, etc.
Essentially, city officials criminalized a select group of people, who engaged in freedom of expression and associated their expression of political discontent with any of these hashtags.
Examples of Posts Deemed Threatening
This tweet was a “violation,” probably because it mentioned a legendary rap artist who still is a bugaboo for the establishment.
This Instagram posting from Pharoah the rapper was seen as a “threat” because it included the words “fuck the police.”
The next posting was noted because it was construed as evidence protesters were “planning a riot in Mondawmin Mall and going downtown. Some gangs have also joined forces to take out officers…Please bring light to the stupidness our people are doing.” But nothing in the above posting mentions any “plans” for anything that concrete. It is a photograph of a protester confront riot police, which users commenting praised as beautiful art.
A user the city officials determined was an account affiliated with Anonymous was noted because it was forwarding “unrest info.”
While there are a few postings listed that seem to have been taken down by Twitter, Facebook, or Instagram, the vast majority of the content documented is information that should not be twisting into some sort of evidence that rioting or violence is going to happen.
Most of the postings were not specific. There was nothing in them to suggest that police were going to be targeted or that groups of people were going to start riots and burn buildings to the ground.
Yet, what this list did is create the pretext for deploying National Guard and other security forces in a crisis situation. It forms the basis for deploying armored police patrols, instituting curfews, and employing other measures to control populations when power is at risk of an uprising in response to something unjust—like the killing of an innocent young black man by Baltimore police officers.
The surveillance of social media was not limited to city officials collating information during the most tumultuous part of the uprising. A private company based in Baltimore, ZeroFOX, conducted surveillance [PDF] of social media activity related to the uprising.
It designated the @AnonOlympus and @OpBaltimore Twitter accounts as medium and high “threats.” Action recommended was “continuous monitoring,” “bolstering” of cyber defense, and “takedown” of “dox posts.”
McKesson and Johnetta “Netta” Elzie were marked “high” threats. They were deemed “physical” threats and further surveillance was recommended because they were considered key organizers of the protests who have “massive followings.”
An Instagram account “slandering” a Baltimore police officer named Jennifer Silver, who called protesters “animals,” was singled out as a threat. So was @KINGDACEO, who was deemed a “physical” threat solely because he was “coordinating supplies for protesters.”
The documents do not show whether the city paid ZeroFOX for its surveillance of social media during the riots. But the CEO, James C. Foster, contacted the chief of staff of the mayor early in the afternoon on April 27.
“Are you available for a quick 5 minute call on the data we just identified that affects Baltimore?” Foster asked. “Our technology was leveraged to help with the NYC PD riots and we have data showing that Baltimore is trending to be much worse and we want to help. We briefed Fort Meade earlier this morning.
“ZeroFOX is the second largest employer in South Baltimore behind Under Armour and I personally live in Federal Hill so we just want to help and be a resource however we can,” Foster shared. He was eager to talk to city officials who would help “connect the dots asap.”
Colin Tarbert, a city official, marked the message’s importance as “HIGH.” But none of the emails contain information on whether the city decided to contract ZeroFOX or share information that could be used for security.
Major Energy Company Tracked Protesters on Social Media
The major energy company, Exelon, also had their Corporate and Information Security Services (CISS) conducting surveillance of social media [PDF].
Updates were shared with city officials, including this April 30 update that shows how closely CISS was watching the actions of protesters.
Corporate and Information Security Services (CISS) continues to monitor protest activity that has the potential to impact Exelon employees or other company assets. The BGE, Constellation and Exelon buildings in downtown Baltimore remain closed today (with the exception of Spring Gardens). CISS is sharing this update to alert employees who live or perform work within Baltimore City regarding potential protest activity. This information may change rapidly and we will continue to share credible information as we learn about potential activity in the area. At the current time, CISS is aware of the following planned activities:
• Thursday, April 30th – Social media indicates a possible gathering at City Hall at 4:30 p.m.
• Thursday, April 30th – Social media and several news outlets indicate a protest scheduled for 5:00 p.m. at Bel Air High School (100 Heighe St, Bel Air, MD 21014)
• Friday, May 1st – People’s Power Assembly is organizing a day of action. There will be a protest beginning at 5 p.m. at McKeldin Square; there are currently 1,600 scheduled to attend according to Facebook (E Pratt Street and Light Street, .5 miles from Candler and Pratt Buildings)
• Friday, May 1st – “300 Men March” protesters are expected to convene at 7:30 p.m. at Park Heights and Cold Spring Lane
• Saturday, May 2nd – Youth of the DMV Peaceful Protest scheduled for 1:00 p.m. at 3400 N. Charles Street
• Saturday, May 2nd – Rally and national march planned from 2:00 p.m. – 6:00 p.m. at Baltimore City Hall. At 6 p.m. protesters are scheduled to participate in a mass march through downtown Baltimore
Previously, VICE News’ Jason Leopold reported the Homeland Security Department (DHS) had considered deploying 400 officers to secure an Exelon-owned facility in Baltimore.
The surveillance by the city, a security company, and a corporation reflects how scared everyone was of the protesting. The uneasiness was used to justify the bolstering of security, even though there was only one day in the beginning where riots occurred.
Such monitoring, much of which was aimed at protesters, fits in with DHS’s practice of tracking “Black Lives Matter” demonstrations closely since Michael Brown was gunned down by Officer Darren Wilson in Ferguson, Missouri.
The FBI has used its Joint Terrorism Task Force to provide support to the Mall of America for a Black Lives Matter protest on December 20. Mall of America security have catfished Black Lives Matter activists in order to collect intelligence against them. This spying formed the basis of charges against 10 of the protesters arrested at Mall of America and, although it has since been withdrawn, a demand that $40,000 in restitution be paid.
People engaged in assembly, who exercise their freedom of expression, should not be named in government documents unless their is specific evidence that they are engaged in criminal activity. However, under the guise of preventing domestic terrorism and violent rioting, all talk of protest became suspect and the surveillance state essentially criminalized efforts to organize in support of Freddie Gray.
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Unlike the Doobie Brothers or the Righteous Brothers, the Chambers Brothers really were male siblings, originally from Carthage, Mississippi, George (b. September 26, 1931) on bass, Lester (b. April 13, 1940) on harmonica, and Willie (b. March 3, 1938) and Joe (b. August 22, 1942) on guitars.
Like many artists of the period, they “first honed their skills as members of the choir in their Baptist church.” They eventually relocated to Los Angeles.” As a foursome, they began performing gospel and folk throughout the Southern California region in 1954, but they more or less remained unknown until appearing in New York City in 1965.” I can hear the gospel sound in the first song of theirs I ever owned, Going to the Mill.
“With the addition of Brian Keenan (b. January 28, 1943) on drums, [singer Barbara] Dane took them on tour with her and introduced them to Pete Seeger, who helped put the Chambers Brothers on the bill of the 1965 Newport Folk Festival.” Dane and the Chambers recorded a well-regarded album together.
Listen to Time Has Come Today written by Willie & Joe Chambers
1966 original version – Columbia 43816 – the original recording, 2:37 in length, which is completely different from the widely known 1968 “hit versions”.
1968 “hit version” #2 – Columbia 44414 – 4:45 edit. The label now mentions the album The Time Has Come. The single spent five weeks at No. 11 on the Billboard Hot 100 in the fall of 1968. There’s also a 3:05 edit of the LP version that does not refer to the album The Time Has Come; I’m sure it’s out there somewhere…
1968 album version – 11:06. Various effects were employed in its recording and production, including the alternate striking of two cowbells producing a “tick-tock” sound, warped throughout most of the song by reverb, echo, and changes in tempo. It also quotes several bars from “The Little Drummer Boy” at 5:40. The song blends a fusion of psychedelic rock, soul, and acid rock with its use of the guitar’s fuzz/distortion. This shows up a lot: HERE and HERE and HERE, e.g. | <urn:uuid:9407d0ef-8de5-4c4a-af06-f7f48a7fbf0e> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.rogerogreen.com/tag/time-has-come-today/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572161.46/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815054743-20220815084743-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.970512 | 502 | 1.804688 | 2 |
Understanding Workplace Mental Health
Workplaces have the opportunity to change the culture of mental health.
How common are mental health conditions?
1 in 5 Americans
suffers annually from a mental health condition such as depression or anxiety.
Up to 80% of Americans
will have a mental health condition at some point in their lives, even if it’s temporary.
More common than
cancer, heart disease, or diabetes.
What's the problem?
Stigma around mental health conditions, particularly in the workplace setting, remains a persisting factor that stifles conversation and treatment-seeking behavior.
95% of employees
who have taken off time due to stress named another reason, such as an upset stomach or headache.
69% of employees
would hide their mental health condition from coworkers.
8 in 10 employees
don’t seek treatment because of fear and shame.
What’s work got to do with it?
Most people spend a majority of their waking hours at work, and there are many factors in the workplace that have been shown to exacerbate and even cause mental health challenges, including burnout and diagnosable conditions.
What are the consequences?
Mental health is still a taboo topic, and stigma is especially prevalent in the workplace resulting in measurable consequences to organizations.
$17B is lost in the U.S.
in productivity each year.
$5.5k is lost per person
in productivity each year in the U.S. from depression alone.
217 million days of work
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Office 365 is Microsoft's latest cloud offering in the information worker productivity market space. Office 365 can provide businesses with e-mail, calendaring, conferencing and team site services, and also provides users with web-based versions of Microsoft Office applications so they can work on documents, send and receive e-mail, create presentations and perform other work even if they don't have Microsoft Office installed on their computers.
I recently had a chance to evaluate Office 365 over a period of several weeks and found it solid and impressive to work with. In this two-part article I'll give you a bird's-eye view of how you can manage and use the capabilities of this powerful set of cloud services.
Logging on as Administrator
Once you've purchased the appropriate Office 365 offering for your business, you can log on to administer Office 365 by going to https://login.microsoftonline.com and entering your credentials:
When you purchase an Office 365 plan, you get a domain name of the form .onmicrosoft.com. For testing purposes I chose "mitch" as my domain name. This means your Office 365 users, such as “Karen Berg (kberg)” shown above, all have e-mail addresses with @mitch.onmicrosoft.com in them.
Karen happens to be an administrator of our Office 365 services, so when she logs on she sees the Admin Overview page as shown below. From this page, the administrator can create new Office 365 users, add additional domains, purchase and manage licenses, view the status of services and perform various other configuration tasks.
One of the first things an administrator should do is create new Office 365 users for each employee in an organization. To do this, select Users under the Management heading in the left-hand pane of the Admin Overview page. This displays the Users page, which an administrator can use to create new users, edit the properties of existing users, reset passwords for users who have forgotten them and delete users who are no longer on the system:
For example, selecting New on the Users page opens the New User page, which allows the administrator to create a new user by specifying the user's display name and username.
Once the administrator has specified this information (and optionally, additional properties for the user), they simply walk through the remainder of the wizard to create the new user. Creating individual users like this can be tedious, so Office 365 also allows the bulk creation of multiple users at once by pre-specifying their properties in an Excel spreadsheet, which can be saved as a comma-separated file.
If a domain name like .onmicrosoft.com isn't to your liking, you can configure Office 365 to use any domain name you've purchased from a domain registrar, such as Network Solutions. To configure additional domains for your Office 365 services, simply select Domains under the Management heading in the left pane of the Admin Overview page. Then, on the Domains page shown below, click Add A Domain and follow the steps of the wizard.
An additional benefit when you purchase Office 365 is a public-facing SharePoint website that has .sharepoint.com as its domain name. If you add an additional domain, you can assign a new domain to your public-facing website. Office 365 can also be used to edit public-facing websites, so that they correctly present the message you want to communicate.
Managing Subscriptions and Licenses
Use the Subscriptions section of your Admin site to manage your Office 365 subscriptions and user licenses. When I evaluated Office 365, I chose two subscriptions:
- Microsoft Office 365 Plan P1, which provides cloud services for small businesses (fewer than 25 users) and professionals who need anywhere-access to e-mail and documents with Office Web Apps.
- Office Professional Plus, which lets my Office 365 users install the familiar Office 2001 suite on their computers so they can work with Office documents offline and utilize the more powerful capabilities of the locally installed versions of Office applications.
By selecting Licenses under the Subscriptions heading in the left pane of the Admin Overview page, you can view how many licenses are currently assigned for each of the plans purchased.
You can also purchase additional subscriptions by selecting the Purchase link if needed.
Monitoring and Troubleshooting
Many organizations still take a cautious stance toward utilizing cloud services for business-critical operations. What if the cloud becomes inaccessible or performs poorly? Microsoft guarantees 99.9 percent scheduled uptime for Office 365, and at any time you can see the status of your Office 365 services by selecting Service Health under the Support heading in the left-hand pane of the Admin Overview page. The Service Health page shown below displays the current status of all your Office 365 services, including Exchange Online, Lync Online and SharePoint Online. These various services will be examined in more detail in Part 2 of this article.
Finally, when troubles do occur — or simply when you don't know how to handle some aspect of Office 365 — you can use the various options on the Support page to find quick solutions for common problems, contact support staff concerning billing issues for your subscriptions, or engage the Microsoft Online Community to obtain peer-assisted help for your problem.
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There's a vast selection of handicapped handicap and support equipment available to help those who must manage an impairment or handicap whilst attempting to undertake their regular pursuits. Communication aids for the handicapped array from keyboards to apparatus which may synthesize address for all those who have vocal cord issues. Moreover, this can be an opportunity for you to test out the variety of accessible equipment on your own.
There's generally a vast selection of options for individuals experiencing mobility issues. It's advisable to not rush into a decision but to think about the available alternatives and decide the most appropriate. The first choice you'll want to make is if you would like a scooter or wheelchair or perhaps both to supply you with an increased choice as you go on your regular activities. Para Mobility is Australian owned and is proudly part of the DNW group whose vision is to delight customers through passion and excellence across the Property and Care sectors.
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The rising availability of handicap aids means it is easier than ever for people who undergo a disability or handicap to continue living their life to the full. It's conservative for somebody who experiences a handicap to be trapped inside the house; with the ideal support gear, it's still possible to take advantage of living.
If having looked in the assortment of handicapped aids and handicapped gear, you've determined that you want to test having a wheelchair then it might be well worth looking at different kinds available in addition to all the features and advantages in addition to the downsides of each version.
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The combination of PowerShape and PowerMill is at the centre of Autodesk’s advanced manufacturing solutions. Al Dean takes a look at what’s new and updated in the latest releases from two systems that have mastered design and manufacturing
At DEVELOP3D we’ve always been fans of the Delcam products and as we discussed last month, times are changing for the flagship solutions now under Autodesk’s advanced manufacturing banner, PowerMill and PowerShape.
If you’ve not come across these two legends, it breaks down like this.
PowerShape is the front end to the manufacturing and machining process. It combines solid and surface modelling with mesh data handling (including direct integration with scanning hardware) to provide a system that does things that many have never been able to. Why the need for such a tool?
The simple answer is that in the preparation for manufacturing process, particularly in the supply chain, you need to be able to deal with all manner of geometry from good, bad or just plain odd.
Whether that’s repairing surface models or tweaking them, incorporating intricate sculpted decorative forms into a core and cavity — PowerShape is all about getting the job done.
PowerMill on the other hand, handles the process of taking that data and preparing it for machining. Whether that’s machining from a solid billet, for trimming composite parts or machining the perfect surfaces required in the mould and die sector.
PowerMill has always focussed on the complex processes and controlling the complex machines that go with it.
With the Autodesk acquisition, things are looking interesting for this set of tools. There’s huge potential for cross pollination of both technology and business practices with Autodesk’s more traditional, mainstream products — and vice versa.
So shall we take a look at what Autodesk has in store for its first major release since the acquisition and the first under the new banner?
The PowerShape user interface remains pretty well thought out and there’s not much in the way of significant changes in the 2017 release cycle.
Perhaps the biggest change is that there’s now integration with Autodesk’s all-encompassing A360 platform.
If you’re not familiar with it, this is the core underlying service and platform that enables many of the cloud-based functions within all of Autodesk’s product offerings, whether that’s Inventor, Fusion, its PLM solutions or even into architectural applications like Revit.
A360 allows you to share data when you need to or indeed, base all of your data storage needs on it. Think of it like a service like Dropbox, but with a lot of file management tools specifically designed for a CAD centric workflow (including integrated viewing and mark-up), more user management and data sharing options. This is now available directly from within both PowerShape and PowerMill.
Whether you use it or not in the context of these systems is entirely up to you, but there’s a solid use case, particularly for sharing data between the programming or design office and the shop floor.
Other user interface updates include the introduction of the View Cube — which Inventor, Fusion (or indeed, almost every other CAD system) users will be familiar with. PowerShape’s comes directly from Inventor, as you’d expect and gives you access to quick view manipulation and standard views.
The final general update is that PowerShape is also starting to see other cross pollination from Autodesk’s other systems. For example, the existing sketching tools (which are perfectly usable) now has the constraints solver (taken from Fusion 360) and gives you all of the predictive sketching tools you’d expect.
It doesn’t replace PowerShape’s existing sketcher (it’s a toggle to switch on or off), but for those looking at the system from the perspective of using alongside another, more mainstream, design system, it’ll make you feel at home right away.
This is only currently available in the solid modelling operations — any surface modelling features will have the older PowerShape sketcher.
Other than this, things remain much the same, clean, with all of the options and operations clearly accessible once you’ve learned how to navigate it.
So let’s move onto the more productive updates for this release.
PowerShape – Diagnostic shading
This is a small update to the existing set of tools for inspecting your CAD geometry, but a significant one — and one which indicates how advanced PowerShape’s tools are at allowing you to take geometry from any source and ensure that you can manufacture it.
While PowerShape has always had a good set of tools for assessing undercuts in your parts (which is not particularly unique), the 2017 release brings a variant of this called accessibility shading. Whereas undercut shading shows you areas where there’s little or no draft according to a specified vector, accessibility extends this to show areas where a 3-axis machining operation wouldn’t typically be able to reach. The difference is subtle but key.
Accessibility shading will highlight areas where one part of the geometry can’t be reached because of obstructions from other geometry of the part. Figure 1 shows a blisk where the upper portions of each fan blade overhangs the next in the pattern (look at the red tips of each).
PowerShape – Rib capping
For those working in tooling design, this is perhaps the biggest feature you’ll have seen added to a 3D design system for a good long while — and it relates to that painful process of taking a complex part design and adding the shut-off surfaces for features like ribs or within grill like components.
For those outside of the tooling industry, this is what happens when you build a core and cavity for complex parts — the interior of each of those grill features needs to have a surface built across it, so that the core and cavity create the best possible surface finish for your part.
In other systems and within previous versions of PowerShape, creating these shut-off surfaces is typically a long, drawn out process. While simple parts can be handled by semi-automated features in some systems, when you start to work with large numbers of surfaces and more complex geometry, then it gets very manual indeed — with each needing to be created individually.
To help with this, Autodesk has introduced a new feature called Rib Capping. While it’s a very specific name, don’t get too caught up on what it’s used for — the applications for those extend way beyond ribs — it has implications for electrode design as well.
To use it, you take your part geometry, whether working on the part or the core/cavity directly, you select the top faces (as shown in Figure 2), then the Rib faces (the side geometry). This itself would typically be a complex, time consuming process, but PowerShape has some nifty group flood fill selection tools to help.
Once you’ve got those two sets selected, you choose your surface generation options (there’s control over tangency and rib width) and hit OK.
The system then will generate all of the surfaces you need. It’s lightning fast, taking a matter of seconds to generate (or maybe a minute if you’re working on a ridiculous part) but compared to manually knife and forking each of those surfaces, it’s quick. I mean, really quick.
PowerShape – Spun profile
The penultimate update we’re going to look at for PowerShape is Spun Profile.
This is tied into the updates to PowerMill that bring turning capabilities alongside the systems’ milling capabilities in the 2017 release and help you create the models you need to prepare your geometry for the process.
Spun Profile allows you to take your part model and quickly create a stock model that will encompass the whole of the part geometry. To do this, you define the central axis, then the system ‘spins’ the part and gives you the stock model you need, either for casting, for preparatory stock machining or another process.
While in the turning world, this isn’t too complex, when you start to explore the world of mill/turn machines, then it’ll come in very useful indeed.
PowerShape – Cage morphing & meshes
The last update to PowerShape we’re going to look at relates to PowerShape’s ability to work with a mix of solid, surface and mesh geometry and it’s morphing functions.
For a good many years, PowerShape has been able to work effectively with these three, very different, types of geometry (long before mesh modelling became the latest thing in CAD technology).
At the same time, the system has also had a set of morphing tools that allowed you to grab geometry and push and pull it into shape using drag handles (or indeed, more scientific methods if you’re looking for precise volume values) — but these morphing tools were typically restricted to surface geometry.
What the team has done is allowed you to do the same using a model that mixes up all three geometry types and apply a single morph operation to the whole.
That saves you a lot of time carrying out separate operations for each and also gives you a lot more power and flexibility.
Let’s be frank about PowerMill, its reputation in the machining world is one of a world leading system for the machining of complex moulds and dies.
The system has been at the forefront of developments in not only high-speed machining in 3-axis, but also complex 3+2 and simultaneous 5-axis machining. This is where its reputation has been built and still represents its core focus.
That said, there are other applications in the Autodesk advanced manufacturing solutions world that cover the less complex, but just as challenging workflows.
It’s here that systems like FeatureCAM (for turning and production machining) or PartMaker (for mill/turn or Swiss lathe type machine tools) are more appropriate as that’s where they grew up and developed prior to acquisition by Delcam and subsequently, Autodesk.
What we’re starting to see with the 2017 release is that Autodesk are looking to expand PowerMill’s remit to not only cover those advanced use cases, but also to cover the less complex tasks.
Existing PowerMill users will already know that 2.5 axis machining is starting to make its way into the application. The creation of machining operations based off of simple drawn or 2D geometry is common place and you’ll now be able to do this using tools cross pollinated from FeatureCAM directly inside PowerMill.
This is combined with a set of intelligent tools that allow you to define standard operations and features and have the system do all of the work for you.
It’s presented in a way that will be familiar to PowerMill users and makes the use of such tools quick and efficient — just as it should be.
The same is true of turning, which comes to PowerMill for the first time. Again, the core technology here is from FeatureCAM and brings you a set of tools that not only handle routine turning jobs, but also allow you to integrate those operations alongside more complex machining operations (such as 3 or 5 axis operations) and these can be run on the appropriate machine tools — whether that’s individual machine tools for each type or on a single machine capable of both.
As we’ve already discussed, PowerShape now includes the ability to create a Spun Profile and this is typically the starting point.
Once you have the stock model (and profile) in place, it’s then a case of extracting the profiles you need and applying the most appropriate set of turning operations, whether that’s profiling, grooving, bores, part cut off or whatever.
The tooling library has been expanded to include a healthy set of predefine tooling for turning, but of course, you have the ability to create your own standard set of tools as you need.
Once each operation is complete, the system also now includes a simulation capability (referred to as ViewTurn — as opposed to ViewMill) so the operations can be inspected, gauged against your stock model and tweaked as required.
Rib machining is another area that’s seen some work done in this release and this comes on two fronts.
In the PowerMill world, the term ‘rib’ refers to a deep, narrow pocket or boss that needs special attention, particularly when the pocket is very deep or similarly, the slot is tall and prone to flexing during the machining process.
The 2017 release fixes an issue where a cutter removing material from a deep, narrow pocket could drop at points of intersection (for various reasons, mostly relating to how the system interprets the geometry). This is now fixed and complex intersections will be handled more easily.
The second rib related update is that it’s possible to add greater control over how such features are machined and the order in which it’s done. Whereas previous releases would give you a brute force approach with little control, the PowerMill 2017 release lets you define how you want such features machined.
For example, to reduce the stress on the part during machining, the system will default to first creating a central pass between the two walls of the part, then take small cuts at each wall to finalise the form.
This greatly reduces the potential for breakages on the machine, as the system removes the large portion of material first (leaving more material close to each feature), then tidies things up to give you the final form.
This approach will always give you more robust operation and hopefully a better surface finish.
This is the first major release of the PowerMill and PowerShape products under the Autodesk brand name and expectations have been high.
After all, the Delcam name was legend amongst the manufacturing community and many wondered how the Autodesk acquisition would effect the future of a set of tools that are core to many organisation’s daily working practices.
The good news is that having sat down with the team in their UK headquarters, it’s pretty clear that the future looks rosy.
The team is still there, still doing its thing and developing a set of tools that advance the cutting edge of manufacturing related technology.
What’s interesting is the approach that the company is taking to the future of its products. It’s pretty clear that rationalisation is coming and the focussing and stripping back of how the products are bundled and sold is testament to that. To my mind, that’s a good thing.
Having a disparate set of software that covered all aspects of machining was good for the company to date, but the future requires that it’s more effective in how the products are developed and how they are supported.
By consolidating on a smaller number of products, development efforts can be concentrated on those and everyone benefits. The latest release is testament to that.
The introduction of both turning and 2.5 axis machining into PowerMill makes huge sense. After all, many organisations are conducting many types of machining operations and manufacturing a wide variety of parts. Traditionally that would require the purchase and licencing of multiple CAM products, which has implications for both cash flow and learning/training.
Yes, there will be some adjustment if you’re an existing user, but the good news is that your existing products are covered and will be supported while this period of transition takes place.
As an example, if you’re a FeatureCAM user, then you’ll get PartMaker bundled into your next update. If you’re a PowerMill user, then you get access to a wider range of tools, covering the basic machining tasks up to the full blow, all singing, all dancing 5-axis, as you need.
It’s also interesting to see how Autodesk is fostering an environment of greater sharing between its different groups.
PowerShape is already benefitting from this with a more powerful sketching for solid modelling operations, access to some of Autodesk’s A360 cloud-sharing platform and a few other neat bits and pieces (such as the ViewCube). I’d predict that we’ll see more of this as things progress in the coming years and everyone will benefit.
Simplified bundles & the move to subscription
As with all of Autodesk’s products, the advanced manufacturing products are in the process of moving to a subscription-based sales model and it’s worth spending a little time exploring what this means for PowerMill and PowerShape users.
There’s no perpetual licence available, everything is sold on the basis of subscription (below we’ve quoted annual prices, but there are multiyear as well as quarterly options too).
There has also been some paring back of options and both now follow Autodesk’s bundle approach, which splits each into three different categories. Let’s explore what that means for each application.
PowerShape Standard (£2,235 annually): This is the entry level surface and solid modelling tools within PowerShape, working with non-native data and standard formats (such as STEP, etc.)
PowerShape Premium (£2,985 annually): This adds the mesh-based tools, electrode design and reverse engineering (for both offline and live scan capture) as well tools to assist with conversion into surface geometry.
PowerShape Ultimate (£3,730 annually): This includes all of the above, but also adds in more specialised tools such as standard libraries and tools for mould-base design as well as electrode design and manufacture.
PowerMill Standard (£5,585 annually): This is the base level package, but even then, includes all of the tools you need for 2.5, 3 axis and 3 + 2 machining. It reflects the state of the machine tool market, with wider spread adoption of more complex 3+2 axis machines and mixed machine tools (Mill/Turn).
PowerMill Premium (£8,385 annually): This extends the Standard offering with the addition of 5-axis milling and robot programming. It also brings you support for native file formats, machine level verification, collision checking and avoidance.
PowerMill Ultimate (£10,245 annually): This is aimed directly at specific vertical market such as aerospace, blade/blisk, port machining, electrode design and machining, rib machining solutions.
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Chatbot features have evolved so much that organizations consider. it essential to their business communication strategies to enable users to have real-time responses.
Adding an AI-powered chatbot to your business is a great way to stay one step ahead of the competition.
provide better customer service, and increase engagement between your brand and customers.
Taking advantage of chatbot solutions for your business helps increase customer communication and boost engagement.
Whether you are a growing company or an established name, chatbots are always a great tool for providing value and satisfying customers on their buying journey.
The purpose of creating and building chatbots for business and incorporating chatbot features is to improve customer communication.
And help your customers get their questions answered in real-time.
Involved customers mean high perception, which means business growth.
More than 64% of business respondents believe that chatbots help them provide a more personalised customer service experience.
By deploying bots, businesses can coordinate because customers are more comfortable interacting with chatbots.
However, you need to know the AI
Customer retention and engagement are important for any business in the long run as most of the profits and revenue come from loyal customers.
However, the more important aspect here is how to retain these customers while focusing on acquiring new customers.
And, sophisticated customer journeys such as acquisitions, conversions, complaints, loyalty, and perceptions can take a toll on a company’s budget.
AI-enabled chatbots can help companies reduce marketing costs and efforts by automating inbound customer queries and frequent engagements.
These chatbots use Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Natural Language Understanding (NLU) to humanise conversations and engagements.
When creating a chatbot or virtual assistant, the quality of the conversation should be the most important consideration.
A chatbot should adopt features and attributes that provide a high-capacity chat experience.
You can find resources that describe the many benefits of using chatbots for business, but never consider the aspect of the conversation that it should take.
While all of these features are very useful and are part of what a boat can do to help a business, they are not unique to bots.
Understanding that the most effective way to communicate and accomplish things is the key to successful chatbots and virtual assistants.
The best chatbots always focus on the quality of the conversation and have features that ensure a high-powered chat experience.
Many real-life chatbot examples combine key elements of technology, flow, and design to prove effective in handling customer interactions without the need for any human assistance.
Here are some key features that make chatbots a success.
Chatbots should have the ability to understand the context so that customers feel like talking to a real person.
Taking advantage of advances in natural language processing (NLP), bots can be built to understand context without asking valid questions.
There are many benefits to chatbots when they are trained.
Regular training can help chatbots become more powerful and enable them to handle questions and conversations more efficiently.
AI chatbots should not be complicated to use otherwise they will not be able to make the conversation interactive.
The design should be simple and intuitive so that users find it easy to use them for answers.
Boats need to be smart to understand the importance of communication and the sense of complexity.
Even when a chatbot template for online ordering fails to understand the query, it can still intelligently hand over the conversation to humanitarian aid.
Bots designed using AI and machine learning can easily understand user interaction and respond in real-time.
A customer support chatbot template can adjust the tone and language to provide a personalized experience.
When they interact with brands, customers expect nothing less than great experiences.
When planning to use a chatbot to support commercial communication, you need to consider the key features of chatbot design to provide a chat experience.
Let’s take a closer look at the AI
Chatbot marketing is a marketing technique that uses computer programs to automate prospects and customer interactions for the purpose of generating sales, either on your website or in your app.
The chatbot allows marketing companies to engage with leads at all times and in any capacity and qualify regardless of whether your marketing and sales team is online or not.
Just like how you can use chatbot marketing to answer support questions, you can use a chatbot to start a conversation with website visitors, get qualified leads, and even appeal to customers.
Using chatbots for marketing can help your business achieve a wide range of marketing activities, whether it’s scheduling meetings, tracking orders, ordering updates, or sharing news.
Chatbot Features can help distribute visitors and fulfil orders without forcing users to visit the website.
They help gather data to understand audience needs and drive potential below the sales funnel.
As we know that chatbot analytics determine the success of your chatbot, they can provide valuable insights into business growth and retention strategies.
It is important to be aware of the performance of the chatbot by constantly measuring its benefits and capabilities.
This can only be done by knowing the main chatbot metrics, which is an important aspect and a crucial factor for your business’s success.
By planning a successful chatbot strategy, you can measure the performance of your bot and evaluate the growth of your business.
You can take advantage of chatbot analysis to make data-driven decisions and track relevant chatbot KPIs to better understand customer journeys.
The main indicators of the chatbot to measure the performance of the chatbot:
Creating a chatbot should be easy and hassle-free.
Visual Flow Builder makes this possible and enables zero-code bot building.
With the help of a drag-and-drop chatbot builder, the boat can be designed directly on the platform.
If your business needs are simple, you can go with Visual Flow Builder. You can manage your ideas in an intuitive interface and build a powerful bot without any coding knowledge.
With Visual Flow Builder, you automate solutions for a range of customer problems and ensure seamless communication.
It also helps to tweak your boat’s workflow and improve its performance based on customer feedback.
Customising the bot can provide a better understanding of how the bot communicates through a choice of tone, style, and language.
Your bot will become more authentic to trust the users. Widget optimization can help in two main areas:
Chatbot widget customization is essential to reflect your brand personality and win the trust of customers.
By customising the chatbot character, you can enhance the overall customer experience.
Key areas for customising your bot.
Set trigger events – Here we can select triggers for chatbots in different situations. The chatbot will start the conversation based on the selected trigger.
Chatbots are valuable to both businesses and consumers, as they reduce the barriers to data access created by everything from physical disabilities to technical intelligence,
facilitate navigation to connect users to results as quickly as possible and provide a cost-effective alternative to staffing.
Rule-based chatbots are unable to understand the context or intent of human queries.
Artificial intelligence chatbots, on the other hand, are more advanced, can handle open queries more easily, and improve their performance over time.
AI-enabled chatbots can enable dynamic and smart communication as their work depends on bot flows that communicate with each other.
These chatbots are equipped to give human-like answers as they can understand the intent and can easily understand past conversations.
Unlike basic chatbots, which are typically rules-based, AI chatbots rely on natural language processing, and natural language to understand and respond to the people with whom they are communicating.
AI chatbots use machine learning, the ability of AI to make bots smart over time and use.
Human speech can be interpreted with an NLP algorithm to give a well-adapted answer.
Consumer input can be analysed for continuous performance improvement and businesses can use this aspect to provide active customer service and a seamless customer experience.
It is possible to measure a boat’s performance over time, work on reactions and workflow, and train it for other skills.
Sentiment analysis is the process of determining whether the writing portion is positive, negative, or neutral.
A sentiment analysis system for text analysis combines natural language processing (NLP) and machine learning techniques.
Sentiment analysis is one of the advanced features of a chatbot that is based on the concept of identifying the sentiment behind a customer’s message.
To increase the value of customer communication, a bot needs to understand the customer’s mood through sentence structures and verbal cues.
Using Emotion Analytics can add value to your customer service chatbots and ensure a better experience.
AI bots can use sentiment analysis to modify responses and distribute to audiences based on satisfaction scores in line with customer sentiment.
They can help to analyse consumer data from social channels, surveys, feedback, and reviews to understand how well the products or services are perceived by the customers.
It can identify the types of emotions and analyse the emotions whether the conversation is positive, negative, neutral, or objective.
Technology can measure the intensity of emotions and score every emotion.
Emotion analysis then offers the ultimate output which helps the chatbot to run the conversation accordingly.
Chatbots are advanced and smart for handling any type of customer conversation.
However, there are situations where bots fail and human intervention is required. In such cases, a well-defined fallback chat helps the bot to transfer the right human agent.
Fallbacks need to be defined for two situations:
(i) when bot queries are complex and
(ii) when users prefer to interact with a support representative.
The main objective of Live Chat Handover is to give the customers a fallback option to exit the chatbot conversation or talk to the live agent for any urgent or complicated matters.
User: I want to talk to a man
Bot: There is a live chat agent available. Do you want me to transfer you?
User: Yes, please
Boat: Okay, I’ll transfer you now. Thanks for your patience, the agent will respond soon.
Chatbots need to find out the type of client problem and get the user to the right agent right away.
Use tags and variables to help the bot collect user input and then send data to the agent when handover.
Agents should be able to understand the context and observe the interaction between the boat and the client to offer a quick solution.
WhatsApp, Facebook, Twitter, Telegram – these have all become tools of corporate survival. Absence from social media is like turning away from 71% of your customers.
Therefore, you must deploy your chatbot across all channels.
Brands that take advantage of the all-channel strategy receive 91% more customers per year than others.
Chatbot Features that enable all-channel messaging support can help brands understand customers’ interests and preferences, and enable your agents to easily take advantage of past conversations to communicate with customers in the future.
Chatbot Features can be easily launched across all channels without the need for manual integration to ensure a consistent customer experience.
Customers do not need to repeat themselves as chatbots can provide contextual support through relevant details.
Businesses can take advantage of all-channel support to provide better solutions or feedback surveys.
A Chatbot API will ensure that your customers have the freedom and right to browse through it and find what they are looking for.
It will keep the engagement going and create a unique experience.
A chatbot API can help you move forward and get more than a chatbot builder would normally allow.
You can rely on it to extract data from other tools like CRM, databases, etc, to encourage customer interaction.
APIs are especially helpful when it comes to helping a chatbot retrieve user data from a variety of apps and sources to enhance customer engagement.
Your business can use the Chatbot API to streamline the flow of data between your CRM or any number of databases and use the information to add value to your conversations with customers.
The API integration can help increase chatbot performance and productivity as your business can then take advantage of the interconnected nature of existing data.
The Chatbot API helps you send personalized messages based on IP address or website visitor data.
Chatbots are now very popular across industries dealing with highly sensitive data and personally identifiable information. Chatbots need to collect data to function optimally and should not be vulnerable to hacking attacks.
There is no technology that completely proves hacking and chatbots are no different. They can be at risk for various reasons including poor coding, poor safeguards, or user error.
Threats are one of the two types of security risks that chatbots may face as they include malware and DDoS attacks that can hijack your system and demand ransom from you.
Hackers can also expose sensitive customer data or exploit vulnerabilities in the system to their advantage.
A bot solution with great chatbot features is essential for achieving business goals.
You can take advantage of the various features of chatbots to add unlimited value to business communication.
The best chatbots have features like no code deployment, all-channel messaging support, fallback options, emotion analysis to add value to the conversation.
Integrating chatbots into your business can help you deliver intelligent, automated responses and efficiently achieve marketing goals.
To get a return on investment and identify the true potential of your business, you should always focus on using features.
If you already have a chatbot created for your website, try to incorporate these chatbot features and measure the difference.
And if you don’t have one, you can start building your first chatbot with SocialNowa chatbot.
SocialNowa allows you to opt for a free trial for 30 days which can later be upgraded as per your business needs and requirements.
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The Scottish sea coasts contain inlets called Firths. These are similar to Scandinavian fjords and exist at the outlet of a river into the sea. Moray Firth is shown below.
As legend has it, an early king of Pictland named Cruithne (who was a son of Cinq) divided his land amongst his 7 sons, as illustrated on the map, Seven Sons of Cruithne, below. (On this map, just look at the names, because the geographic boundaries refer to a later division of lands.)
Seven Sons of Cruithne
One of those sons was named Fortriu, who received land including what would later be considered Moray. While this is difficult to date, another son, Fib, is said to have ruled between 715 and 691BC. Some variation exists because the timing for Picts is variously reported as a period starting between the Mid to Late Iron Age (400BC to 250AD) and ending in the Early Medieval period (approximately 900AD).
Kenneth MacAlpin united the Scottish kingdoms in 843AD, and over time, areas of land were re-divided, combined, and re-divided again.
Mormaers were rulers of areas smaller than all of Scotland. Moray remained a mormaerdom until 1130 or 1147, when it was annexed to Scotland, under
King David I.
Malcolm III (reigned 1058 to 1093) appears to have introduced the idea of shires, governed by shire-reeves (sheriffs) as part of a policy of replacing previous forms of government with Norman feudal structures. This policy was continued by Edgar (reigned 1097 to 1107), Alexander I (reigned 1107 to 1124), and in particular David I (reigned 1124 to 1153). For example, Stirlingshire appears in a charter of 1150 under the name Striuelinschire.
Map of Mormaerdoms
-Moray around the Moray Firth
In 1305 Edward I of England, who had deposed King of Scots John Balliol, issued an Ordinance for the Government of Scotland. This document listed the 23 shires then existing and either appointed new sheriffs or continued heritable sheriffs in office.
Counties Until 1890
Key to Counties Until 1890
14. County of Bute
In 1889, counties were created by the Local Government (Scotland) Act which replaced the ancient provinces by new Counties (shires), aligned to sheriffdom boundaries, shown on the map SHIRES from 1890 to 1975.
SHIRES from 1890 to 1975
The 1947 map below includes
-Counties and Districts,
-Large and Small Burghs
For more clarity: Try your View tab and Zoom 150%
In 1975, shires ceased to be used for local government purposes, and local government regions were developed. The area which took in Aberdeenshire, Moray, and the City of Aberdeen was called the Grampian Region. Today, local government is based upon Council Areas. The Council Areas have adopted some shire names but the boundaries are not necessarily the same as the shires were.
Council Areas and their Capitals
Present Day Moray
North East Scotland: showing:
-Old Deer and Mintlaw (bottom)
Fraserburgh to Mintlaw
is 12 miles (20.1 Km)
Location of Tullibardine, including:
-Blair Atholl (location of Blair Castle)
Tullibardine to Aberdeen
is 105 miles (169 Km)
Rathen and surroundings.
Note Redhouse and Stonehouse at southwest and southeast of townsite.
More close-up view is below.
South end of Rathen Parish.
Redhouse and Stonehouse are at southwest and southeast of townsite.
Straight north to Tonkin
MAPS of SASKATCHEWAN
The dark blue quarter section was George Murray's homestead
(SE 1/4 20 TP24 Rge 2 W of 2nd), between Saltcoats and Rokeby.
Showing, Saltcoats, Rokeby and Yorkton.
George Murray's homestead was between Saltcoats and Rokeby.
Before Saskatchewan became a province in 1905, Saltcoats was in the district of Assiniboia, in the NW Territories.
SIMMONS and RICHARDS
The Simmons family was from Monmouth, in Monmouthshire, Wales. Thornton was born there. The Richards family was from St Briavels, which is just across the Welsh border in Gloucestershire, England. Louisa was born there.
The red outline is Monmouthshire.
These places are part of the Simmons family story.
Pin shown on St Briavels, and north to Raglan, Monmouth, Symonds Yat, and Hereford.
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Born in 1940 in Tochigi prefecture Japan, Tatsuko Nishimura began her photographic career after graduating from the Nihon Shashin Eizo Gakuin in 1978. After graduation she began a mentorship under the photographer Takashi Hamaguchi. Nishimura’s_ Land of Melancholy: 1980s Manchuria _recollects images which were taken almost 30 years ago in Nahe, Inner Mongolia, Harbin and other areas which once constituted the state of Manchukuo. Joining a group of Japanese Orphans who had left China after World War II, Nishimura covered their stories as a staff member of the Hamaguchi Takashi Office, capturing the realities which they were forced to face, following their difficult path to repatriation to their homeland capturing the remnants of the past which have been engrained in both memory and place.
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Most weight loss plans focus a lot on the negative side of things—how many calories are in that blended mocha are something you don’t really want to hear (let’s just call it a sometimes treat and leave it at that). But the best way to lose weight is to focus on the positive things: what you did for yourself today.
Don’t focus on skipping the office birthday cake. Focus on how you took the stairs to the fifth floor, how you parked in the back of the parking lot, or how you has a healthy breakfast with whole grains, protein and probiotics.
If you focus on the brownies that Midge brought, not only are you torturing yourself, you’re setting yourself up for failure. But when you work to build a positive attitude, you’re ensuring that it’s not just the best way to lose weight, it’s a lifestyle change that you can take forward with you.
Here are some other ideas:
-Count calories burned, not eaten. (Use this handy calculator why don’t you:)
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-Start with a pre-planned healthy breakfast every morning. Add a healthy afternoon snack (protein will provide you with energy so that you can skip that late afternoon coffee that messes with your sleep—if you want to drink your snack, try protein powder).
-Treat yourself. Once you start eating healthy and exercising, you probably won’t be craving ice cream. Try fruit and cream, sorbet, or a bit of cheese and crackers.
There’s lots of little changes you can make to your daily routine that can help you start feeling good about your health.
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A slidable phone which also folds? That's what Samsung's latest patent envisions
The Samsung Galaxy S9
In the hope of avoiding notched displays, a number of Chinese manufacturers have turned towards slidable formats which allow front-facing cameras to be hidden behind the display. Alongside this, some companies are hard at work on foldable devices. But from the look of a new patent, Samsung could soon combine these two formats.
From the front, the device in question looks just like a traditional smartphone – it even sports Samsung’s trademark physical home button from years ago – while, over on the rear, it isn’t that different either. But when the metal frame is inspected, the differences are clear. Just like the Xiaomi Mi Mix 3, the whole rear portion of the smartphone can be slid up slightly to reveal a front-facing camera. Rather surprisingly, though, Samsung’s patent also envisions a small secondary display that could be used to show relevant information such as the time, date, and any notifications.
Also visible along the metal frame is a hinge. This allows the device to be folded over like a traditional flip phone. And, while the outer portion of the device doesn’t contain a display, the small secondary panel that’s present is visible at all times, allowing users to see notifications and other info at all times.
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At this time in Islam’s history, when the entire religion is being judged by the actions of a few, it is appropriate to step back from the glare of the media spotlight and examine the beauties that infuse the way of life known as Islam. There is greatness and splendour in Islam that is often overshadowed by actions that have no place in Islam or by people who speak about topics they only vaguely understand. Islam is a religion, a way of life that inspires Muslims to try harder, reach farther and act in a manner that is pleasing to those around them and most importantly pleasing to their Creator.
The beauties of Islam are those things that are part of the religion and make Islam stand out. Islam answers all of humankind’s eternal questions. Where did I come from? Why am I here? Is this really all there is? It answers these questions with clarity and in a beautiful way. So then, let us begin our journey and discover and ponder over the beauties of Islam.
The Quran is a book detailing the glory of God and the wonder of His creation; it is also a testament to His Mercy and Justice. It is not a history book, a storybook, or a scientific textbook, although it does contain all of those genres and more. The Quran is God’s greatest gift to humanity – it is a book like no other, for it contains the answers to the mysteries of life. It answers the questions and asks us to look beyond materialism and see that this life is little more than a transient stop on the way to everlasting life. Islam gives a clear aim and purpose to life.
“And I (God) created not the jinn and humankind, except to worship Me (Alone).” (Quran 51:56)
Thus it is the most important book and Muslims have no doubt that it is exactly the same today as it was when it was first revealed to Prophet Muhammad, may the mercy and blessings of God be upon him. When we ask those most important questions, we want to be sure that the answers we receive are the truth. Knowing that the answers are coming from a book which is the unchanged Word of God, gives comfort and solace. When God revealed the Quran, He promised to preserve it. The words we read today are the same as those memorised and written down by the companions of Prophet Muhammad.
“It is We Who have sent down the remembrance (i.e. the Quran) and surely, We will guard it from corruption.” (Quran 15:9)
Rejoice and be happy, remain positive and be at peace. This is what Islam teaches us, for all God’s commandments aim to bring happiness to the individual. The key to happiness is in understanding and worshipping God. This worship serves as a reminder of Him and keeps us always conscious of Him and hence we stay away from evil, committing injustices and oppression. It elevates us to being righteous and of good character. By following His commands, we lead a life that guides us to the best in all our affairs. When we lead such a meaningful life, then and only then are we able to see happiness all around us, at any given moment and even on the darkest of times. It is even there in the touch of a hand, in the smell of rain or newly mown grass, it is in a warm fire on a cold night or a cool breeze on a hot day. Simple pleasures can make our hearts truly happy because they are manifestations of God’s Mercy and Love.
The nature of the human condition means that amongst great sorrow can be moments of joy and sometimes in moments of despair we can find an anchor in the things that bring us happiness. Prophet Muhammad said, “Indeed amazing are the affairs of a believer! They are all for his benefit. If he is granted ease then he is thankful, and this is good for him. And if he is afflicted with a hardship, he perseveres, and this is good for him.”
Every member of the human race is born innately knowing that God is One. However those who do not know how to communicate with God or establish a relationship with Him tend to find their existence puzzling and sometimes even distressing. Learning to communicate with God and worshiping Him gives life a whole new meaning.
According to Islam, God is accessible at any time and in any place. We need only call on Him and He will answer the call. Prophet Muhammad advised us to call on God often. He told us that God said,
“I am just as My slave thinks I am, (i.e. I am able to do for him what he thinks I can do for him) and I am with him if He remembers Me. If he remembers Me in himself, I too, remember him in Myself; and if he remembers Me in a group of people, I remember him in a group that is better than they; and if he comes one span nearer to Me, I go one cubit nearer to him; and if he comes one cubit nearer to Me, I go a distance of two outstretched arms nearer to him; and if he comes to me walking, I go to him running.”
In the Quran God says, “Remember Me and I will remember you…” (Quran2:152)
Believers call on God in any language, at any time and in any place. They supplicate to Him, and give thanks. Muslims also pray in a more ritualised way five times every day and interestingly the Arabic word for prayer is ‘salah’, which means a connection. Muslims are connected to God and can communicate with Him easily. We are never alone or far from God’s Mercy, Forgiveness and Love.
Al Qarni, Aaidh Ibn Abdullah, (2003), Don’t be sad. International Islamic Publishing House, Saudi Arabia.
Saheeh Muslim
Saheeh Al-Bukhari, Saheeh Muslim
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The Yellow Wallpaper
Charlotte Perkins Gilman 1892
“The Yellow Wallpaper,” first published in 1892 in the New England Magazine, is largely considered Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s best work of short fiction. The story is a first-person account of a young mother’s mental deterioration and is based on Gilman’s own experiences with postpartum depression. Like Gilman, the unnamed protagonist of the story is advised, based on medical theories of the time, to abstain from any and all physical activity and intellectual stimulation. She is not allowed to read, write, or even see her new baby. To carry out this treatments, the woman’s husband takes her to a country house where she is kept in a former nursery decorated with yellow wallpaper.
Gilman initially had difficulties getting “The Yellow Wallpaper” published. Horace Scudder of The Atlantic refused to print it, stating “I could not forgive myself if I made others as miserable as I have made myself!” Eventually, “The Yellow Wallpaper” began to win converts, and American writer William Dean Howells included it in his The Great Modern American Stories: An Anthology in 1920. Early reviewers generally classified “The Yellow Wallpaper” as a horror story, with most commenting on Gilman’s use of Gothic conventions. It was not until Elaine R. Hedges’s afterward to a 1973 edition of the story that “The Yellow Wallpaper” began receiving scholarly attention. Most modern commentators now interpret the story as a feminist indictment of society’s subjugation of women and Page 278 | Top of Articlepraise its compelling characterization, complex symbolism, and thematic depth.
Charlotte Perkins Gilman was born in 1860 in Hartford, Connecticut, to Frederick Beecher Perkins, a noted librarian and magazine editor, and his wife, Mary Fritch Perkins. Although Gilman’s father frequently left the family for long periods during her childhood and eventually divorced his wife in 1869, he directed Gilman’s early education, emphasizing study in the sciences and history. During his absences, Perkins left his wife and children with his relatives. This brought Gilman into frequent contact with her independent and reform-minded great-aunts: Harriet Beecher Stowe, an abolitionist and author of Uncle Tom’s Cabin; Catherine Beecher, the prominent advocate of “domestic feminism”; and Isabella Beecher Hooker, an ardent suffragist. Their influence—and the example of her mother’s own self-reliance—were instrumental in developing Gilman’s feminist convictions and desire to effect social reform. Early in her life, Gilman displayed the independence she later advocated for women: she insisted on remuneration for her household chores, and later she paid her mother room and board while supporting herself as a teacher and as a commercial artist.
At twenty-four, she married Charles Walter Stetson, who was also an artist. Following the birth of their daughter in 1884, Gilman suffered a severe depression. She consulted the noted neurologist S. Weir Mitchell, who prescribed his “rest-cure”: complete bed rest and limited intellectual activity. Gilman credited this experience with driving her “near the borderline of utter mental ruin.” The rest-cure served as the basis for Gilman’s best known work, “The Yellow Wallpaper.” She removed herself from Mitchell’s care, and later, attributing her emotional problems in part to the confines of marriage, left her husband.
After her separation, Gilman moved to California, where she helped edit feminist publications, assisted in the planning of the California Women’s Congresses of 1894 and 1895, and was instrumental in founding the Women’s Peace Party. She spent several years lecturing in the United States and England on women’s rights and on labor reform, and in 1898 she published Women and Economics: A Study of the Economic Relation between Men and Women as a Factor in Social Evolution. In 1900, she married George Houghton Gilman, who was supportive of her intense involvement in social reform. From 1909 through 1916 Gilman published a monthly journal, The Forerunner, for which she wrote nearly all of the copy. In 1935, having learned that she was suffering from inoperable cancer, Gilman took her life. She wrote in a final note that “when one is assured of unavoidable and imminent death, it is the simplest of human rights to choose a quick and easy death in place of a slow and horrible one.”
“The Yellow Wallpaper” opens with the musings of an unnamed woman. She, her husband John, their newborn baby, and her sister-in-law have rented a summer house. The narrator is suffering from postpartum depression, and the summer house will function as a place for her to get better. The doctor has prescribed a rest cure of quiet and solitude, with an emphasis on avoiding any form of mental stimulation like reading or writing. The woman notes that the room in which she is staying seems to be geared more for incarceration than rehabilitation. John classifies her merely as “sick,” thereby exhibiting the prevailing attitude of the day, that mental illness in women was not real. Following the doctor’s strict orders, he forbids his wife from doing any type of work and does not allow her to see her baby. The narrator believes that work, excitement, and change would do her good, but her opinion does not matter. She would like to write, which is forbidden, and surreptiously keeping a diary exhausts her, as does trying to oppose her husband. With very little to do, the woman is left to contemplate the ugly yellow wallpaper in the nursery that is coming off the wall in great patches. She begins to trace the pattern of the wallpaper. The woman’s narration abruptly ends because her husband is coming.
The story continues two weeks later when the narrator is able to write again. Even though she feels it might help relieve some of her tension, she generally gives in to her husband’s desire that she not write. She has been feeling terribly depressed, but John says her case is not serious. He does not think her suffering amounts to anything more than “nervousness.” He laughs at her hatred for the wallpaper, and though she wants him to repaper the room, he refuses to give in to her “fancies.” When the narrator claims to have seen people walking on Page 279 | Top of Articlethe path by the house, he cautions her that giving in to her imagination will overexcite her. The woman starts to examine the wallpaper, noticing how the patterns form “eyes” that seem to be staring at her. When the sunlight shines in a certain way, she sees a figure skulking behind the pattern of the wallpaper. Again, the narrator must stop writing, for her sister-in-law, Jennie, is coming up the stairs.
Because the narrator does not seem to be getting better and spends a lot of time crying, John threatens to send her to Weir Mitchell, a doctor who believes even more strongly than himself in rest treatments. The narrator has become fond of the room, perhaps because of the wallpaper. She enjoys lying on her bed, following the patterns in the wallpaper and attempting to trace one of the strands to a conclusion. As she spends all her time in the bedroom, the wallpaper continues to captivate the narrator. She realizes that it knows things about her that no one else does. More alarmingly, the figure she sees in the wallpaper has begun to take shape— that of a woman stooping down and creeping behind the pattern.
One night the narrator tells John that she is getting no better and wants to leave the house, but he refuses, insisting the rest cure will work. She then returns to her examination of the wallpaper. Her diligent attention reveals that there is a front pattern and a back pattern and that at night the front pattern forms bars. The woman in the wallpaper is quiet during the day and more active at night, as is the narrator. The narrator has also grown fearful of John and Jennie, for they seem to be studying the wallpaper as if they want to understand its pattern before she does.
During the last week of their stay, the narrator fakes improved health and spirits when her husband is around but has become completely obsessed with the wallpaper. She constantly notices new facets of the wallpaper: the smell of yellow that creeps through the whole house; a streak along the baseboard encircling the room. She discovers that the woman in the wallpaper shakes the bars of the front pattern as she tries, unsuccessfully, to climb through them. Though she has only two days left in the house, she is determined to get the paper off and thus free the woman inside.
When John is away one evening, she locks the door, throws the keys out the window, and begins peeling the wallpaper. Despite her efforts, however, she cannot remove it all. In her desperation, she considers committing suicide but decides that this
would be “improper and might be misconstrued.” She begins circling the room, following the pattern of the wallpaper, in essence becoming the woman inside, trapped in an endless maze. John breaks open the door to see his wife creeping along the wall and faints. The narrator only laughs. His slumped body is blocking her path, and she is forced to creep over him each time she circles the room.
Jennie is the narrator’s sister-in-law. She helps to take care of the narrator and, more importantly, the narrator’s newborn baby. She is described as “a perfect and enthusiastic housekeeper.” She represents the nineteenth-century view of the role of women as housekeepers and child rearers.
The husband of the unnamed narrator, John is a doctor who believes in the “rest-cure,” a treatment developed by real-life neurologist S. Weir Mitchell, for women suffering from hysteria. Therefore, he prescribes complete bed rest, not allowing his wife
to do anything. John in many ways treats his wife like a child, calling her his “blessed little goose” and “little girl.” The character displays the nineteenth-century attitude that women were to behave demurely and remain within the domestic sphere, aspiring only to be competent mothers and charming wives.
The unnamed narrator of “The Yellow Wallpaper” is married to John, a doctor, and has just recently had a baby. She suffers from depression, or “nervous prostration,” and is confined to a room that used to be a nursery, as a “bed-rest” cure, in a country house that she and her husband are renting for a holiday. While John does not allow her to read, write, or engage in any other type of mental stimulation, she does secretly write in a journal. The story itself is a transcription of these journal entries. Bored and restless, the narrator is driven to distraction by the yellow wallpaper that decorates the room, eventually suffering a complete mental breakdown after imagining that she sees in the wallpaper’s pattern women who are trying to escape. Because the narrator is completely dependent on her husband and is allowed no other role than to be a wife and mother, she represents the secondary status of women during the nineteenth century.
“The Yellow Wallpaper” is the story of a woman who suffers from depression. Advised by her husband to rest, the woman becomes obsessed by the yellow wallpaper that decorates the room in which she has been confined.
Role of Women
“The Yellow Wallpaper” examines the role of women in nineteenth-century American society, including the relationship between husbands and wives, the economic and social dependence of women on men, and the repression of female individuality and sexuality. The Victorian Age had a profound impact on the social values in the United States. Victorian values stressed that women were to behave demurely and remain within the domestic sphere. Suffering from postpartum depression after the birth of her son, the protagonist is advised to get complete bed rest by her husband and brother, despite her suggestions that she would like to write and read. While she does secretly write in a journal, it is made clear that her husband is to be the final decision-maker and that she has no role other than to be a charming wife and a competent mother. In fact, John often treats her like a child, calling her his “little girl” and his “blessed little goose.” When the narrator has a “real earnest reasonable talk” with John during which she asks him if she can visit some relatives, he does not allow her to go.
“The Yellow Wallpaper,” because of its first-person description of mental illness, is also considered a work of psychological fiction. In the story Gilman addresses such themes as madness, depression, despair, and self-worth by presenting a realistic and shocking account of the stages of mental breakdown. Because the narrator has nothing to do to occupy herself and because she has no say in her treatment, she comes to project all of her pent up feelings onto the yellow wallpaper in her room. She eventually believes that there is a woman trapped in the wallpaper’s pattern. This trapped figure symbolizes the narrator’s emotional and intellectual confinement. Left with no real means of expression or escape, the narrator represses her anger and frustration and succumbs to insanity. Greg Johnson emphasizes this theme in an essay for Studies in Short Fiction in which he notes that the story “traces the narrator’s gradual identification with her own suppressed Page 281 | Top of Articlerage, figured as a woman grasping the bars of her prison and struggling frantically to get free.”
The story also addresses how physicians, specifically world-famous neurologist S. Weir Mitchell, viewed mental illness in female patients at the end of the nineteenth century. Psychologists frequently dismissed serious illnesses like depression as nothing more than hysteria or a “case of the nerves.” Mitchell and his proteges advised their patients get complete bed rest, believing that intellectual activity was detrimental to women’s mental health. In 1935, Gilman explained the importance of this theme in her autobiography: “The real purpose of the story was to reach Dr. S. Weir Mitchell, and convince him of the error of his ways. . . . Many years later, I met someone who said he had told them that he had changed his treatment of nervous prostration since reading ‘The Yellow Wallpaper.’ If that is a fact, I have not lived in vain.”
“The Yellow Wallpaper” tells the story of a woman’s mental breakdown. Suffering from depression following the birth of her first child, the woman is taken to the country by her physician husband, where she is kept in a room decorated with yellow wallpaper that used to be a nursery. Instructed by her husband not to engage in any intellectual activity and to get total bed rest, the narrator becomes obsessed with the wallpaper until, at the end of the story, she goes insane.
“The Yellow Wallpaper” takes place in a country house that is located about three miles from the nearest village. Although the house is large and is surrounded by hedges, a garden, and servants’ quarters, the narrator notes that the house and its grounds have fallen into a slight state of disrepair. At the beginning of the story, the narrator is interested in the surrounding scenery as well as the other rooms in the house. As the story progresses, however, she becomes fixated on the nursery and its yellow wallpaper. The setting has the appearance of tranquility but is actually a place of confinement— there are bars on the windows of the nursery, and the bed is secured to the floor. The isolated location of the house, its slight state of disrepair, and the narrator’s further isolation in the fortress-like nursery, all symbolize the narrator’s mental condition.
“The Yellow Wallpaper” is an example of a first-person narrative because it is told exclusively from the viewpoint of the unnamed protagonist, and the reader is given access only to her thoughts and emotions. Since the protagonist is suffering a mental breakdown, she is also considered an unreliable narrator because the reader cannot be certain if she is accurately relating the events of the story. This adds emotional impact to the narrative because the reader is given an intimate account of the protagonist’s growing feelings of despair and confusion.
The story itself is, in part, a transcription of a journal which the narrator secretly writes as she lays in bed. The writing style, and the way it changes as the story progresses, gives the reader clues to the protagonist’s deteriorating mental condition. For example, throughout the story the narrator’s sentences become shorter and more curt, with paragraphs consisting of only one or two sentences. This helps convey her distraught mental state and her inability to think clearly. The overall tone of the narrator’s writing also changes. At the beginning of the story, she writes with humility, stating that while she does not agree with her treatment, her husband John probably knows better than she what is good for her. By the end of the narrative, however, a tone of complaint and rebellion has entered the narrator’s account. When she locks the door of the nursery at Page 282 | Top of Articlethe end of the story, for example, she declares: “I don‘t want to go out, and I don‘t want to have anybody come in, until John comes. I want to astonish him.”
The most important symbol in the story is the yellow wallpaper. Most critics have concluded that the wallpaper represents the state of mind of the protagonist. In a more general sense, the wallpaper also symbolizes the way women were viewed in nineteenth-century society. It is described as containing “pointless patterns,” “lame uncertain curves,” and “outrageous angles” that “destroy themselves in unheard of contradictions.” Despite the narrator’s detailed description of the wallpaper, however, it remains mysterious. Elaine R. Hedges wrote in the afterword to the 1973 edition of the story that “the paper symbolizes [the narrator’s] situation as seen by the men who control her and hence her situation as seen by herself. How can she define herself?”
Other important symbols in “The Yellow Wallpaper” are the nursery, the barred windows, and the nailed-down bed. The nursery is said to represent nineteenth-century society’s tendency to view women as children, while the barred windows symbolize the emotional, social, and intellectual prison in which women of that era were kept. Finally, the bed is said by some critics to represent repressed female sexuality.
The story is considered an example of psychological realism because it attempts to accurately portray the mental deterioration of the narrator. It is also considered realistic in that it depicts life the way it was for women during the nineteenth century. Gilman deliberately tried to make the narrator typical of that time period: she is economically dependent on her husband, she is not allowed to make her own decisions, she is discouraged from engaging in intellectual activity, and she is frequently treated like a child. Gilman also did not romanticize the character of John. While she could have depicted him sympathetically, she instead painted him as controlling, inconsiderate, and emotionally inaccessible.
Gilman utilizes numerous conventions of Gothic fiction in “The Yellow Wallpaper,” including horror, dread, dreams, suspense, and the supernatural. For example, the story takes place on an estate, which has fallen into a state of disrepair, three miles from the nearest village. This sense of isolation is frequently used in Gothic stories to create a foreboding tone. The narrator is also struck with the “strangeness” and “ghostliness” of the place. E. Suzanne Owens argues in Haunting the House of Fiction that “to a reader familiar with the Gothic, the events of the story suggest possession as much as they do hallucination.”
“The Yellow Wallpaper” was written and published in 1892. The last three decades of the nineteenth century comprised a period of growth, development, and expansion for the United States. Following the Civil War, which ended in 1865, the United States entered the era of Reconstruction, which lasted until 1877. There were many social and cultural changes during this period. Charles Darwin’s The Origin of Species (1892) expounded his theory of evolution, and further incited controversy over women’s roles and issues. His theory of evolution flouted conventional wisdom, contending that women were actually the hardier and more necessary sex, the one able to preserve the species. Because women were mothers, they were vital to survival. Darwin’s theory was used to promote both sides of what came to be known as the “Woman Question.” Some scientists argued that because women were physiologically hardier, they were capable of being both mothers and professionals. Others contended that Darwin’s theory proved that motherhood was necessary to women and that it should retain a supreme priority in a woman’s life.
Throughout much of the 1800s, the common law doctrine of femme convert was prevalent in the United States. Under this law, wives were property of their husbands and had no direct legal control over their earnings, children, or belongings. Some state laws prohibited women from going into business without their husband’s consent, and some dictated that a husband could decide where the family would live. Other state laws dictated that adultery was not considered sufficient grounds for divorce if committed by a man, but it was if committed by the wife. Women also could not vote; they were not allowed to do so until 1920, when the 19th Amendment to the Constitution was adopted. In 1875, in Minor v. Happensett, the Supreme Court
ruled that states could withhold the right to vote from women as they did from criminals and the mentally insane. The rise of women’s consciousness regarding such oppression was influenced by their participation in the abolitionist movement prior to and during the Civil War. In 1869, the first organizations devoted to women’s rights were founded. By 1890, such organizations claimed a total of 500,000 members. While there were more women than men in high school by 1890, higher education was not an option for most women, and the only professions open to them were nursing and elementary education.
Gilman, as a leading feminist and social activist during the late nineteenth century, argued that women’s secondary status in society, and especially women’s economic dependence on men, was not the result of biological inferiority but rather of culturally enforced behavior. In “The Yellow Wallpaper,” which was, in part, a reaction to the oppression of women prevalent during this time, Gilman emphasized these beliefs. In 1926, she stated, regarding her work in general, “One girl reads this, and takes fire! Her life is changed. She becomes a power—a mover of others—I write for her.”
“The Yellow Wallpaper,” which was first published in the New England Magazine in 1892 after being rejected by the editor of The Atlantic, did not receive much serious attention until American writer and critic William Dean Howells published it in his The Great Modern American Stories in 1920. In that volume he wrote: “Now that I have it in my collection, I shiver over it as much as I did when I first read it in manuscript, though I agree with the editor of The Atlantic of the time that it was too terribly good to be printed.” It was not until 1973, when it was republished after being out of print for years, that the first lengthy analysis of the story was written by Elaine R. Hedges. Writing in the afterword to the volume, she stated that “The Yellow Wallpaper’ is a small literary masterpiece” and a work that “does deserve the widest possible audience.”
Since then, “The Yellow Wallpaper” has received widespread critical attention. Contemporary scholars have interpreted the story in numerous ways, with feminist readings being the most common. Reviewers focus on the relationship between the narrator and her husband John, maintaining that Page 284 | Top of ArticleJohn’s treatment of his wife represents the power-lessness and repression of women during the late nineteenth-century. Hedges concluded that the story is “one of the rare pieces of literature we have by a nineteenth-century woman which directly confronts the sexual politics of the male-female, husband-wife relationship.”
Critics have also commented on the story’s focus on psychology and its influence as an example of both psychological realism and Gothic fiction. It is often considered one of the most detailed and emotionally charged accounts of depression and despair in short fiction because it is told from the vantage point of the person actually suffering a nervous breakdown. Furthermore, Gilman does not romanticize or downplay the realities of mental suffering. In addition to being discussed as feminist literature and as an example of psychological realism, “The Yellow Wallpaper” has been lauded as a preeminent piece of Gothic fiction because of its incorporation of such Gothic literary elements as horror, suspense, and the supernatural.
“The Yellow Wallpaper,” like Gilman’s other short stories, has been faulted by some critics who claim the story is nothing more than a vehicle through which she explicated her feminist social beliefs. In fact, Gilman once stated that she wrote the story “to preach. If it is literature, that just happened.” However, most critics have acknowledged that “The Yellow Wallpaper” is realistic, accessible, and thought-provoking and have called it Gilman’s best work of fiction.
Rena Korb is a writer and editor. In the following essay, Korb discusses “The Yellow Wallpaper” as a story of female confinement and escape.
In 1913, more than twenty years after the first publication of “The Yellow Wallpaper,” Charlotte Perkins Gilman wrote that she devised the story, “to save people from being driven crazy.” Gilman had suffered a near mental breakdown herself, and had been prescribed a rest treatment very similar to that prescribed to the narrator in “The Yellow Wallpaper.” For Gilman, the act of resuming her normal life, which certainly included writing, was what restored her health. Though we don‘t know what became of Gilman’s narrator, we can chronicle Gilman’s own life after her near mental breakdown. If Gilman’s narrator in “The Yellow Wallpaper” regressed into her insanity, Gilman certainly did not; unlike the narrator she created, she made her voice heard. She pursued her career as a writer and lecturer, and she wrote works of theory and social commentary that brought her international fame. Though she concentrated on feminist issues, her influence reached beyond the woman’s sphere. She has been compared by some critics to the author George Bernard Shaw and the art critic John Ruskin, and the London Chronicle compared her book, Women and Economics, to the writings of John Stuart Mill.
“The Yellow Wallpaper” commands attention not only for the harrowing journey into madness it portrays, but also for its realism. It comes as no surprise, then, to discover that the “The Yellow Wallpaper” is autobiographical. In 1887, Charlotte Perkins Gilman placed herself under the care of Dr. S. Weir Mitchell, a well-known nerve specialist. She was suffering from depression, “nervous prostration” as diagnosed by the doctor, after the birth of her daughter. At that time, the medical profession had not yet distinguished between diseases of the mind and diseases of the brain; problems that would now be treated by psychiatrists, such as depression, were treated by neurologists such as Mitchell. The symptoms of depression—fatigue, hysteria, crying fits—were thought to stem from the body, and thus were treated through care of the body. Mitchell’s treatment for breakdowns of the nervous system, and the treatment he prescribed for Gilman, included total bed rest and isolating the patient from family and familiar surroundings. In “The Yellow Wallpaper,” Gilman demonstrates the horror that such a treatment could induce in its subject. When the narrator is threatened by her husband with being sent to Weir Mitchell if she does not get better quickly, she says: “But I don‘t want to go there at all. I had a friend who was in his hands once, and she says he is just like John and my brother, only more so!”
Gilman was sent home from Mitchell’s sanitarium after one month, having been pronounced “cured,” with the following instructions: “Live as domestic a life as possible. . . . Have but two hours’ intellectual life a day. And never touch pen, brush or pencil as long as you live.” When Gilman heeded
this advice she came, in her own words, “perilously close to losing my mind.” Mitchell’s “rest cure” had been used on other literary figures—Walt Whitman, Edith Wharton, and Virginia Woolf— and other noted persons—Jane Addams and Winifred Howells, whose father, the editor William Dean Howells, was instrumental in the publication of “The Yellow Wallpaper.” Woolf, Addams, and Howells, like Gilman, protested against the treatment (Woolf also attacked it in her novel Mrs. Dalloway). In “The Yellow Wallpaper,” Gilman chronicles what happens to a woman forced to succumb to the “rest cure” and thus, to her inflexible position in society as a prisoner of the domestic sphere.
Gilman claimed a purpose for everything she wrote. “The Yellow Wallpaper” pointed out the dangers of the medical treatment imposed by Mitchell and other doctors like him. Years later, Gilman learned that Mitchell had changed his treatment of nervous prostration after reading the story, so she won her victory. Yet, the story is far more than just a crying out for improvement in one facet of a woman’s life; it touches on many issues relevant to women of the nineteenth century, particularly that of the limited roles available to them.
Despite Gilman’s avowal that her story was not literature, it has been appreciated as such since its rediscovery in the 1960s (Gilman’s works had been out of print since the 1930s). And just as “The Yellow Wallpaper” espoused Gilman’s feminist views when she wrote it, critics have analyzed it as a feminist work—or a work that has feminist issues as its main concerns—for the past two decades. As is often the case, the critics disagree. The story has been seen as a realistic tale in its portrayal of the narrator’s descent into madness, as a feminist Gothic tale in its use of abnormal behavior and occurrences, and as one of the earliest modernist texts for its unaware narrator and its intense focus on what she is thinking and feeling. Readers and critics alike have even disagreed over the meaning of the story’s ending. Some critics see the narrator’s defeat: she has retreated into the world of childishness. Others, such as Sandra Gilbert and Susan Gubar, see in it the narrator’s triumph: by fainting, John shows he is
defeated, and the narrator has become the woman behind the wallpaper, who can creep down the road, away from the house and her husband’s authority. Even attempts to understand why the story was ignored for so long have led to dissent. Some critics argue that Gilman’s contemporaries could not understand this story of a woman’s mental breakdown because they were accustomed to “traditional” literature. Still others believe that women could accurately read the story, but they chose not to because they were afraid of what they would find.
What then are we to make of Gilman’s “The Yellow Wallpaper”? Essentially, it is a story of female confinement and escape. Gilman’s narrator is trapped in the home, in her maternal body, and in the text she has created for herself, which is the only escape she can find.
That Gilman’s narrator is physically and spiritually trapped by her husband is apparent from the beginning of the story. Though she “wanted [a room] downstairs that opened on the piazza. . . John would not hear of it.” The narrator strives for some space of her own; the room she would have chosen would not fit two beds and had no other bedroom for John nearby. Instead, John has put his wife on the top floor, away from the rest of the household (their baby, the nurse, and John’s sister) in a room she believes to have been a “nursery first and then playroom and gymnasium.” Though she recognizes her captivity—John “hardly lets me stir without special direction” —she overlooks other more ominous signs of her confinement: the bars at the window, the gate at the top of the stairs, steel rings on the wall, and the nailed-down bedstead.
This habit of the narrator of deliberately misreading her surroundings is apparent throughout the story. For instance, when John refuses to give in to her fancies about changing the wallpaper because, after that “it would be the heavy bedstead, and then the barred windows, and then that gate at the head of the stairs, and so on,” is he reminding her of her confinement? Does she recognize this subtle way of controlling her? Rather than confronting such a possibility she instead, outwardly, relies on John’s advice. “I think sometimes if I were only well enough to write a little it would relieve the press of ideas and rest me,” she muses, which she then follows with a reiteration of what John wants her to think—“But I find I get pretty tired when I try.” Such is her effort to believe in him and thus preserve her sanity (sanity as defined by John), because she knows she has not the will to resist him: “But what is one to do?” she says. In fact, she does something John doesn‘t approve of—she writes in a journal, thereby creating her own text. Unfortunately, because the text is her only place of true self-expression, it becomes as oppressive as the room, as oppressive as her husband.
Gilman’s narrator is so cruelly trapped both by the conventions of nineteenth-century American society, which says that a woman’s function is to bear and raise children, and by her husband’s inflexible belief in this code. John has attempted to take away one of the few things that bring her consistent pleasure, her writing, “He hates to have me write a word,” she says, and notes his determination to correct her “imaginative power and habit of story-making.” Unfortunately, for Gilman’s narrator, these sentiments are shared by others in society. John’s sister, a woman who occupies her proper place in the domestic sphere by being “so good with the baby” and a “perfect and enthusiastic housekeeper,” seems to believe “it is the writing which made [the narrator] sick!”
Because the narrator has no physical or spiritual escape from her husband, she must seek relief elsewhere: in the yellow wallpaper, and thus, in the text she creates as she describes her relationship with the wallpaper. Though at first she says of it, “I never saw a worse paper in my life,” as she loses her slim hold on sanity, she gets “really fond of the room in spite of the wallpaper. Perhaps because of the wallpaper.” Her initial discomfort decreases as she sees mirrored in the wallpaper her own existence. Page 287 | Top of ArticleShe realizes that the wallpaper has two patterns; the front pattern is made of bars, and in the back pattern is a woman “stooping down and creeping about,” and later shaking the bars. And the woman in the wallpaper continues to reflect the narrator: “she is all the time trying to climb through. But nobody could climb through the pattern—it strangles so.” By the end of the story, the narrator finds escape when she becomes the wallpaper woman as she “creep[s] smoothly on the floor.” With this final action she escapes those places of her confinement. Her husband, the force that keeps her in the home, has become an inanimate object, one that only gets in the way of her “path by the wall, so that [she] had to creep over him.” She releases herself from her maternal role as she occupies the role of a “madwoman.” And, by refusing to write it anymore, she has freed herself from the text that chronicles her mental breakdown.
Virginia Woolf, in her important essay A Room of One’s Own, says that in order to write a woman must have money and her own private room. Perhaps implicit in Woolf’s words is that women also need to be accepted for what they are: creative, independent, thinking creatures. For Gilman’s narrator, having money, a private room, and the necessary leisure time certainly was not enough to sustain her as a writer and as a person; she was lacking that other essential element: a family who believed in a woman’s right to creativity and self-expression.
Source: Rena Korb, for Short Stories for Students, Gale Research, 1997.
Johnson is an American critic, short fiction writer, and novelist. In the following essay, Johnson argues that the narrator’s breakdown in “The Yellow Wallpaper” can be viewed as the result of many years of suppressed rage.
In the autumn of 1830, shortly before Emily Dickinson’s birth, her mother made an unusual request. At a time when her pregnancy—or as it was then called, her “confinement” —might have been expected to absorb her attention, Mrs. Dickinson abruptly demanded new wallpaper for her bedroom. Apparently dismayed by this outburst of feminine whimsy, her stern-tempered husband refused, prompting Mrs. Dickinson to her only recorded act of wifely defiance. Though “the Hon. Edward Dickinson would not allow her to have it done,” a neighbor’s descendant recalled, “she went secretly to the paper hanger and asked him to come and paper her bedroom. This he did, while Emily was being born.”
To place this incident in context, we should be note that Mrs. Dickinson, aged twenty-six, had just moved into her father-in-law’s Amherst mansion and now faced the grim prospect of living with her husband’s unpredictable relatives, along with the even grimmer perils of early nineteenth-century childbirth. Although Mrs. Dickinson was by most accounts a submissive, self-abnegating, rather neurasthenic woman—in short, the nineteenth-century ideal—it is tempting to read the wallpaper incident as a desperate gesture of autonomy and self-assertion. Emily Dickinson’s most recent biographer, Cynthia Griffin Wolff, suggests that “The little explosion of defiance signaled fear and distress, and it was the prelude to unhappy, silent acceptance.”
Though the color of Mrs. Dickinson’s wallpaper went unrecorded, the anecdote forms a striking parallel to Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s “The Yellow Wallpaper,” first published in 1892 but, like Emily Dickinson’s work, under-appreciated until decades after her death. Both the domestic incident and the terrifying short story suggest the familiar Gothic themes of confinement and rebellion, forbidden desire and “irrational” fear. Both include such Gothic staples as the distraught heroine, the forbidding mansion, and the powerfully repressive male antagonist. If we focus on the issue of the Gothic world and its release of imaginative power, however, the stories form a dramatic contrast. A woman of ordinary abilities, the unimaginative Mrs. Dickinson would later represent the nadir of female selfhood to her brilliant, rebellious daughter. “Mother does not care for thought,” the poet remarked dryly in 1862; and by 1870, she could issue this blunt dismissal: “I never had a mother.” But Dickinson surely would have admired the unnamed heroine of “The Yellow Wallpaper,” who willingly accepts madness over repression, refusing a life of “unhappy, silent acceptance.” The poet would have especially responded to the woman’s identity as a writer, and to the way in which her story adroitly and at times parodically employs Gothic conventions to present an allegory of literary imagination unbinding the social, domestic, and psychological confinements of a nineteenth-century woman writer.
Rather than simply labeling the narrator a madwoman at the story’s close, we might view her behavior as an expression of long-suppressed rage: a rage which causes a temporary breakdown (like Page 288 | Top of Articlethose actually suffered by both Dickinson and Gilman) but which represents a prelude to psychic regeneration and artistic redemption. This reading accounts for two elements of the story usually ignored: its emphasis upon the narrator as a writer, who is keeping a journal and putting forth her own text—“The Yellow Wallpaper”— as an antithetical triumph over the actual wallpaper that had nearly been her undoing; and its brittle, macabre, relentlessly satiric humor that suggests, in the story’s earlier sections, her barely suppressed and steadily mounting anger. As in many of Poe’s tales, this seemingly incongruous humor serves only to accentuate the Gothic terror of the narrator’s situation. . . .
The narrative focus of “The Yellow Wallpaper” moves relentlessly inward, detailing the narrator’s gradual absorption into the Gothic world of psychic chaos and imaginative freedom; but Gilman controls her heroine’s deepening subjectivity through repetition, irony, parodic humor, and allegorical patterns of imagery. The two worlds of the story— the narrator’s husband and sister-in-law’s daylight world of masculine order and domestic routine, and her own subjective sphere of deepening imaginative insight—are kept clearly focused and distinct. Most important, Gilman reminds the reader frequently that her narrator is a habitual writer for whom “The Yellow Wallpaper” is a kind of diary, an accurate record of her turbulent inward journey. Drawing on Gilman’s experience of post-partum depression and breakdown, the story is far more than an indictment of nineteenth-century attitudes toward women and an account of one woman’s incipient psychosis. Gilman made her heroine a writer for purposes of art, not autobiography, and the story as a whole describes a woman attempting to save herself through her own writing, to transform what she calls “dead paper” into a vibrant Gothic world of creative dreamwork and self-revelation.
Two of the story’s major structural devices are its contrasting of the husband’s daylight world and his wife’s nocturnal fantasy, and the religious imagery by which she highlights the liberating and redemptive qualities of her experience. When the story opens, she acknowledges that the idea of their rented summer house as a Gothic setting is laughable, a romantic fancy of the kind her husband wishes to repress. The allegorical opposition is quickly established: her husband (named John, suggesting a male prototype) is a “physician of high standing,” a figure of dominance in every sense— social, domestic, intellectual, physical. He is a thoroughgoing empiricist who “scoffs openly at any talk of things not to be felt and seen and put down in figures.” Throughout the story John, along with his like-named sister and housekeeper Jane, is associated with the rigidly hierarchical and imaginatively sterile daylight world that ridicules Gothic “fancies” and represses in particular the “hysterical tendency” of women. Before the story opens, the narrator had abandoned her own social responsibility of motherhood, and the object of this summer retreat is a “rest cure” (of the kind made popular by Dr. S. Weir Mitchell, the famous Philadelphia neurologist who treated Gilman during her own depression, and against whom the story enacts a brilliant literary revenge). That her husband exerts his tyrannical control in the guise of protectiveness makes the narrator feel all the more stifled and precludes outright defiance. As she remarks sarcastically in the opening section, “He is very careful and loving, and hardly lets me stir without special direction.”
It is the daylight consciousness of late-Victorian America, of course, which has designed the flamboyantly hideous yellow wallpaper that the narrator initially finds so repulsive. Even John wants to repaper the room, but after his wife complains about the wallpaper, he benevolently changes his mind, since “nothing was worse for a nervous patient than to give way to such fancies.” Associating her nervous illness with her “imaginative power and habit of story-making,” he forces his wife into daily confinement by four walls whose paper, described as ‘debased Romanesque’, is an omnipresent figuring of the artistic degeneration and psychic chaos she fears. It is here that John makes a significant error, however, as he underestimates the very imaginative power he is seeking to repress. By placing his distraught wife in a nursery, he is merely following the nineteenth-century equation of non-maternal women—that is, spinsters and “hysterics”—with helpless children. Yet he is unthinkingly allowing her the free play of imagination and abdication of social responsibility also characteristic of children. Thus as the story progresses, the narrator follows both her childlike promptings and her artistic faith in creating a Gothic alternative to the stifling daylight world of her husband and the society at large.
The story’s terrific suspense derives from the narrator’s increasingly uncertain fate and from the considerable obstacles blocking her path from one world to the other, not the least of which is her own self-doubt and debilitating psychic exhaustion. Near the end of the next section, she glimpses a Page 289 | Top of Articlesubpattern in the wallpaper, which can be seen only “in certain lights, and not clearly then”; beneath the “silly and conspicuous front design” is a figure she describes as “strange, provoking, formless.” These three adjectives suggest a notably ambivalent attitude toward her own inchoate, slowly emerging selfhood; but significantly, she notes that she is viewing the pattern by sunlight. Near the end of the next section, at sunset, she can “almost fancy” a coherent design in the wallpaper. Yet immediately after using her husband’s forbidden word, she feels an emotional and psychological depletion that is emphasized by a series of brief, depressed paragraphs:
It makes me tired to follow [the pattern]. I will take a nap, I guess. I don‘t know why I should write this. I don‘t want to. I don‘t feel able. And I know John would think it absurd. But I must say what I feel and think in some way—it is such a relief! But the effort is getting to be greater than the relief.
This passage describes the narrator’s spiritual nadir, and may be said to represent her transition from conscious struggle against the daylight world to her immersion in the nocturnal world of the unconscious—or, in other terms, from idle fancy to empowering imagination. The nature of Gilman’s allegory becomes especially clear when, for the first time, the narrator watches the wallpaper by moonlight and reports with childlike glee: “There are things in the paper that nobody knows but me, or ever will.” Yet the transition is incomplete and puzzling. While John sleeps, she lies awake “trying to decide whether that front pattern and the back pattern really did move together or separately,” noting that “by daylight” the pattern is a constant irritant to a “normal mind.” Then comes the moment of terrified but thrilling revelation:
By moonlight—the moon shines in all night when there is a moon— I wouldn‘t know it was the same paper. At night in any kind of light, in twilight, candlelight, lamplight, and worst of all by moonlight, it becomes bars! The outside pattern, I mean, and the woman behind it is as plain as can be. . . .
As we witness the narrator in the final scene, creeping along the floor, we might recall once again that her bedroom is actually a nursery. The fact that she is crawling on all fours—as opposed to lying still and docile under her husband’s “rest cure”— suggests not only temporary derangement but also a frantic, insistent growth into a new stage of being. From the helpless infant, supine on her immovable bed, she has become a crawling, “creeping” child, insistent upon her own needs and explorations. (The parallel with Bertha Mason in Jane Eyre, who likewise crawls on all fours and exhibits similar
destructiveness, is surely deliberate.) To the daylight world, of course, this transition is terrifying; poor John, in Gilman’s witty inversion of a conventional heroine’s confrontation with Gothic terror, faints dead away. Seizing rather than surrendering to power, the narrator is thus left alone, the mad heroine of her own appalling text.
Although Gilman’s Gothic allegory so powerfully demonstrates that writing is her only salvation, the poignant facts of her own biography point to her internalization of the restrictions enforced by John in her story and by Dr. S. Weir Mitchell in her life. A compulsive writer who produced scores of volumes and earned a worldwide reputation as an eloquent advocate of women’s rights, Gilman discredited the value of her imaginative writing throughout her career; she wrote to William Dean Howells, who asked to reprint “The Yellow Wallpaper” in a collection of American masterpieces, that the story was “no more ‘literature’ than my other stuff, being definitely written ‘with a purpose’” —that purpose being to demonstrate to Dr. Mitchell the cruelty and inefficacy of the restcure. (She sent him a copy of the story upon publication, but received no response.) Patricia Meyer Spacks, in an incisive discussion of Gilman’s curiously impersonal autobiography, The Living of Charlotte Perkins Gilman, notes that although Gilman’s breakdown led her to abandon marriage and motherhood, become a professional writer, and devote herself to social causes, this self-determination was limited strictly by her Page 290 | Top of Articlecontinuing need to be “good” and necessarily precluded the acknowledged use of her own imaginative power.
Thus Gilman’s life story became, as Spacks asserts, “a paradigm of feminine anger,” what Gilman herself called “a lifetime of limitation and wretchedness.” Denied the artistic redemption that Emily Dickinson had achieved by renouncing the world, as well as the conventional satisfactions of nineteenth-century housewifery and motherhood, Gilman uneasily compensated for her denial of creative selfhood with the fulfillment of useful work. Committing suicide not because her inoperable cancer caused her pain but because she felt her “usefulness was over” —the phrase comes from her suicide note, a poignant last text of self-effacement—Gilman stayed true to her own daylight world of feminism, social commitment, and constant hard work. Still under-read, still haunting the margins of the American literary canon, Gilman and the full scope of her achievement await their due recognition. Reading “The Yellow Wallpaper” we can only guess at the furious effort, and the constant bargaining with her own demons, by which that achievement came into being.
Source: Greg Johnson, “Gilman’s Gothic Allegory: Rage and Redemption in ‘The Yellow Wallpaper’,” in Studies in Short Fiction, Vol. 26, No. 4, Fall, 1989, pp. 521-30.
In the following essay, Wagner-Martin, a noted feminist scholar and frequent essayist on women writers, takes the one-hundredth anniversary of “The Yellow Wallpaper” as an opportunity to comment on the schism in women’s lives caused by their sometimes conflicting roles of being both an individual and a mother.
It seems no accident that important recent novels have been Toni Morrison’s Beloved, about the power of a sacrificed child over her mourning mother’s life, and Marilyn French’s Her Mother’s Daughter, a major fiction about four generations of women, linked together in their martyred and futile lives through the mother-daughter bond. For at least these hundred years, since Charlotte Perkins Gilman wrote her controversial and relentlessly accurate “The Yellow Wallpaper,” women writers have confronted the basic conflicts of women’s lives: how to be both a person and a wife and mother; how to live with acceptable passivity in a patriarchal culture while yet being aggressive enough to stay alive; and how to be both “good” and sensual, supportive and necessarily selfish, and, above all, sane.
Of these many conflicts inherent in women’s trying to lead acceptable female lives, perhaps the most troublesome is that of motherhood, its attendant responsibilities, and its almost inevitable loss of self-identity. Women who care for infants are almost literally used up in the process, the twenty-four-hour-a-day surveillance subsuming their own mental and physical activities. No other human situation demands the same level of inexorable attention. Yet of the many controversies about women’s roles, that of motherhood—and, as Dorothy Dinnerstein emphasized, the care-giving during childhood as much as the actual birthing—has seldom been discussed. It is almost as if the role of mother is beyond discussion, beyond change: if one is a mother, one accepts its burdens with its joys, and does not in any way try to tailor its numerous givens. . . .
When Gilman wrote the short novella, she— married and a mother—had recently recovered from the trauma of a severe postpartum depression. And she had managed that recovery by defying the advice of one of the most respected of American physicians, S. Weir Mitchell. Mitchell was the physician of Jane Addams, Edith Wharton, and Winifred Howells, among other women who suffered from inexplicable Victorian “female” ailments such as hysteria and neurasthenia. Mitchell’s treatment was a rest cure which depended upon seclusion, massage, electricity, immobility, and overfeeding. Isolated for up to six weeks, some women gained as much as fifty pounds on a milk-based diet. As a parallel to the rest and diet, most patients were forbidden to use their minds in any way. Gilman recalled in her autobiography that, because her “cure” added the almost constant presence of her infant daughter, Katharine, she “made a rag baby, hung it on a doorknob and played with it. I would crawl into remote closets and under beds—to hide from the grinding pressure of that profound distress.“. . .
Gilman’s autobiography makes clear her years of poverty and debt, her loneliness, and her arduous life. No wonder “The Yellow Wallpaper” portrays a spent woman so accurately. But it is not so much the truth of Gilman’s presentation as the immediacy of her theme that attracts today’s readers. “The Yellow Wallpaper” gives us the young married woman as mother.
In the narrative, the protagonist’s baby appears infrequently, but at crucial times; his existence is clearly a key to his mother’s problems. Gilman underscores the identity of the protagonist as wife-mother (a bewildered wife-mother, who sometimes becomes a child) by placing her in a room that was formerly a nursery—a nursery, however, with barred windows so that she cannot escape. The conflation of the roles of child and mother occurs as the narrator keeps her focus entirely on the enclosing walls of the sinister room. An infant would not be able to leave its nursery; neither is the mother (though Gilman makes clear that the protagonist does sometimes leave the house and walks in the garden or sits downstairs). For the purposes of our involvement with this narrative, however, the story’s location is the nursery. And just as an infant would spend hours staring at walls and ceilings, kept in one place at the mercy of whatever authority was responsible for its care, so too does the protagonist. An infant would also have difficulty finding language to express its feelings. With a brilliance rare in nineteenth-century fiction, Gilman gives her suffering protagonist a restricted language that conveys her childlike frustration, even though it is not obviously childlike. For its effect, the protagonist’s language works in tandem with the narrative’s structure. . . .
Gilman’s protagonist may have found a more compatible world in her fantasy, but she still worries about her role as wife and mother. As the narrative ends—with her life as much in her own control as it has ever been—she is worried about wandering in this labyrinth, about physically losing her way. She is never to be the self-reliant, capable helpmeet of John’s dreams.
And that is one of Gilman’s points, that a woman reared to be a child, treated like a child by her husband (and, one supposes, a father) will respond in kind. No woman expects to be literally put to bed, or removed from all responsibility. Gilman’s prose tells of the greatest indignity: the mother of the child becomes the child, the “little girl” of the household (though the mention of the double bed and the husband’s presence at night suggests that a sexual role still dominates the relationship). And what is the role of the young daughter in a patriarchal household? To be Daddy’s favorite. This is the anger that Sylvia Plath’s poem “Daddy” bares—the rage that, once having been brought up to trust the father figure, in whatever guise it appears, then being abandoned by it, being misled by it, being misused by it is insufferable.
Gilman’s young unnamed wife thus shares in two kinds of anger: that at having her rightful responsibilities taken from her, and that at being misled and miscounseled by the father figures (husband as well as brother) in her life.
“The Yellow Wallpaper” shows what a frustrated woman does with anger. Repression cannot be healthful, and as the protagonist grows more and more quiet, she is becoming more and more mad. Her world has become the world of seething self-enclosure, sparked only by bright, jolting colors and the miasma of rotting odor. In the 1880s, as Carroll Smith-Rosenberg points out, a woman would probably have repressed her anger instead of showing it. If she had showed it, she might have been thought insane and institutionalized, a process which would probably have led only to deeper insanity. The ideal female would become the peaceful “good” girl, who does not cause trouble, does not want attention or help, but is content to wreak havoc in her own way—usually a silent, surreptitious, and vicious Page 292 | Top of Articleway. Gilman’s protagonist does just that. The defiance she comes to feel has finally been shed in favor of outright rebellion, yet what would have been more obvious rebellion (harming the baby or John, running away, destroying things important to the household instead of just the horrible wallpaper) does not occur. Instead, the well-behaved woman protagonist (the “good” girl even in her madness) stays within the room, although she has a house key and could easily leave, joining the imaginary women who creep through the wallpaper. (The whole tribe of rebelling women are moving as if they were infants just learning to crawl.) The pathos of the characteristically docile protagonist finally coming to rage, and action, but venting her anger in such a tentative and hidden way underscores Gilman’s irony. Even coming to anger does not mean change or improvement. It certainly does not mean victory for the protagonist of this novella. Her escape into madness may have won her continuing argument with John, though he will not recognize that it has done that, but it is only a Pyrrhic victory because her present life is valueless to anyone, particularly to herself.
The larger question, once the literary merits of Gilman’s text have been proved, is what significance does this trapped protagonist have for today’s readers? What does it mean to write about a woman caught within these circles of male authority (and cultural reification of that authority), trapped within a sickening room and made, in effect, to lose her mind because of the disgust she feels for not only her culture and the roles it mandates for women, but for herself as a sexual, procreative woman? What is the mode of literature that results from such deep anger, such unrelieved depression, that the text itself is unrelieved, pointed inevitably toward an ending that only repeats—relentlessly—the text’s theme?
In Gilman’s “The Yellow Wallpaper,” subtext becomes text, repressed discourse becomes visible. Gilman explained that in writing this novella, she had not intended “to drive people crazy, but to save people from being driven crazy.” Her didactic purpose, her intentional theme, was in some ways subverted by her own artistry. Unlike many of her shorter stories, “The Yellow Wallpaper” convinces less by its explicit content than by its metaphoric impression. As captured by the confines of the attic room as the protagonist is, the reader plots and charts, reads and worries as the story progresses. It is the Modernists’ ideal of involving the reader to the fullest possible extent. In current narratological terms, according to Fetterley, the movement of the end of the story is precise and highly directional; the reader goes where Gilman takes him or her. “Increasingly, her behavior becomes flamboyant and outrageous. Getting out through the text of the wallpaper, she not surprisingly gets in to the subtext within the text that presents the story of a woman trying to get out.” She wins back her language, and vanquishes her husband—who has neither speech nor action by the end of the story. He lies as if dead in the path of her highly functional movement, and she simply crawls over him. The wallpaper has replaced the writing paper that he would have taken from her, and she has in some ways won back her right to speech and control.
Source: Linda Wagner-Martin, “Gilman’s ‘The Yellow Wallpaper’: A Centenary,” in Charlotte Perkins Gilman, The Woman and Her Work, edited by Sheryl L. Meyering, UMI Research Press, 1989, pp. 51-64.
Gilbert, Sandra M., and Susan Gubar. “Infection in the Sentence: The Woman Writer and the Anxiety of Authorship,” in The Madwoman in the Attic: The Woman Writer and the Nineteenth-Century Literary Imagination, Yale University Press, 1979, pp. 45-92.
Hedges, Elaine R. An afterword to The Yellow Wallpaper, by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Feminist Press, 1973, pp. 37-63.
Howells, William Dean. “A Reminiscent Introduction,” in The Great Modern American Stories: An Anthology, Boni and Liveright, 1920, pp. vii-xiv.
Owens, E. Suzanne. “The Ghostly Double behind the Wallpaper in Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s ‘The Yellow Wallpaper’,” in Haunting the House of Fiction: Feminist Perspectives on Ghost Stories by American Women, University of Tennessee Press, 1991, pp. 64-79.
Golden, Catherine. “‘Overwriting’ the Rest Cure: Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s Literary Escape from S. Weir Mitchell’s Fictionalization of Women,” in Critical Essays on Charlotte Perkins Gilman, edited by Joanne B. Karpinski, G. K. Hall, 1992, pp. 144-58.
Golden examines the relationships between Mitchell’s rest cure, Gilman’s fiction and nineteenth-century women.
Hedges, Elaine R. “Out at Last?: ‘The Yellow Wallpaper’ after Two Decades of Feminist Criticism,” in Critical Essays on Charlotte Perkins Gilman, edited by Joanne B. Karpinski, G. K. Hall, 1992, pp. 222-33.
Hedges provides an overview of feminist criticism of “The Yellow Wallpaper” since the story’s rediscovery in the 1970s.
Jacobus, Mary. “An Unnecessary Maze of Sign-Readings,” in Reading Woman: Essays in Feminist Criticism, Columbia University Press, 1986, pp. 229-48.
Jacobus discusses the validity of Freudian and feminist readings of the story.
Karpinski, Joanne B. An introduction to Critical Essays on Charlotte Perkins Gilman, edited by Joanne B. Karpinski, G. K. Hall & Co., 1992, pp. 1-16.
Karpinski discusses Gilman’s life and work and provides a brief introduction to the articles included in the volume.
Lane, Ann J. To Herland and Beyond, Penguin, 1991, 413 p.
This biography of Gilman provides detailed information about the author’s life as well as her writings.
Shumaker, Conrad. “Too Terribly Good to Be Printed”: Charlotte Gilman’s “The Yellow Wallpaper,” in American Literature, Vol. 57, no. 4, 1985, pp. 588-99.
Shumaker presents a reading of “The Yellow Wallpaper” in the context of the treatment of women in the nineteenth century.
Shumaker, Conrad. “Realism, Reform, and the Audience: Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s Unreadable Wallpaper,” in Arizona Quarterly, Vol. 47, no. 1, spring, 1991, pp. 81- 93.
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AudioOrganizer is a simple script for the Ruby programming language, written to organize audio files downloaded from the eMusic digital music service. Collections of files with names matching the eMusic file naming convention, artist-album-track number-track name.mp3, are reorganized into a hierarchical folder/file structure, artist/album/track number-track name.mp3. M3U playlist files can also be generated for a file collections.
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AudioOrganizer.rb provides two top level functions for organizing files and creating M3U playlists, which are used as:
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It’s been 28 years since U.S. District Judge Malcolm F. Marsh ruled that this “situation literally cries out for a major overhaul.” NOAA’s latest science concludes that Snake River Chinook extinction is unavoidable with a changing climate and the four lower Snake dams in place, and a recent report released by the Nez Perce Tribe confirms that the house is on fire. There is no time to waste. At the Northwest Sportfishing Industry Association, we stand with the science and support the leadership of Reps. Blumenauer and Simpson and the state of Oregon. Let’s seize this opportunity together. Rest assured the fishing community and businesses will be right there with you.
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This budgeting frame is particularly appropriate when paying off ‘negative wealth’. When people have
debt negative wealth, the customary advice is ‘don’t save; throw everything to pay it off’. I happen to disagree with this and from the very first days of my financial awakening I set myself two goals: one pay negative wealth and pay it fast; and two build up an emergency fund and savings. As it turned out I am in good company and Arkad, the richest man in Babylon, also agrees with me. Arkad’s advice to people who have negative wealth and wish to become wealthy was the following:
Ten percent of all you earn should be saved and invested.
Twenty percent of all you earn should be used to pay
debts negative wealth– if the amount is insufficient one should negotiate with their creditors firmly and convince them that this all that they can afford but that they will pay diligently.
Seventy percent of all you earn should be used to cover all living expenses.
Currently we put 21% of our monthly net income to pay off negative wealth; 14% of our monthly income is saved and a proportion of this is invested; and we cover all our living expenses using the 65% of our monthly income that is left.
I have mentioned before that the real beauty of this system is that it uses percentages rather than absolute numbers. I will not change the proportions – although we observe these only when applied to our regular monthly income; any occasional earning, mainly husband’s, are thrown at the negative wealth at present. Using this budgeting frame also focuses attention on the fact that the way to increase payment(s) in absolute terms one ought to earn more. | <urn:uuid:fc1d4afd-88c7-446e-99cf-80461ad555e6> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.themoneyprinciple.com/budgeting-that-works-arkad%E2%80%99s-simple-rules/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573104.24/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817183340-20220817213340-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.964018 | 353 | 1.851563 | 2 |
In light of the COVID-19 pandemic, many firms find themselves subject to social distancing, stay-at-home, and other safety measures that make it difficult to meet the in-person needs of various notary and authentication methods. Some governments, in response, have altered certain requirements to allow parties to obtain notarization and authentication of documents even in these difficult times.
In the United States, for example, many states have responded by passing statutes or executive orders that allow for “Remote Online Notarization” (RON) which obviates the need to meet in person with a notary public. Before the COVID-19 pandemic, 23 states had had such laws in place (Arizona, Florida, Idaho, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Maryland, Michigan, Minnesota, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Vermont, Virginia, Washington and Wisconsin). However, in light of the circumstances, many states, such as New York and Illinois, have passed temporary actions which allows for RON during the pandemic.
Further, given the international nature of many transactions in the modern world, many businesses still find themselves in need of cross-border authorization of documents. While the Hague Apostille Convention (https://www.hcch.net/en/instruments/specialised-sections/apostille), created in 1961, provided a means for such international verification, many states and countries have had to alter their processing of these Apostilles requests in response to COVID-19 and parties must keep such changes in mind while conducting their business.
In order to ensure that our clients are able to stay up-to-date on current state/national practices in light of COVID-19, we have prepared a chart which shows the current status as well as altered procedures of various notary and Apostille offices throughout the world.
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The LAFIRE Archive is dedicated to the men and women who have dedicated their lives and to
those who have given their lives to build, with the help of the loyal citizens of Los
Angeles, the greatest Fire Department in America.
The Archive is also for "YOU"... the visitor. My hope is that it will increase your
knowledge of the history of Los Angeles and its Fire Department.
The purpose of the Archive is to collect and present, in a simple format, the history of
the LAFD. I want the archive to be interesting and informative. To know ones history is to
better understand the present and better prepare for the future.
The Archive includes hundreds of photos, newspaper articles, reports, records, maps,
and much more. The archive is not now and never will be complete. I have been working on
it for almost twenty years and I still have a mountain of material to enter. Many of the
files are incomplete.
REQUEST FOR MATERIAL
Please help me add material to the Archive. Relevant material; photos, articles, stories,
maps, drawings- anything relevant to the LAFD is welcome. The Archive has unlimited
storage capacity. Contact me via the contact list below.
All sources are listed where known. Please contact me to add or correct the sources.
My idea of an archive came about as a method to inventory and store dozens of photos left
me by my Grandfather, T.F. Schneider, one of the founders and also one of the original Fire Captains on the Los Angeles County Fire Department. HTML, the computer language for the internet, allowed me
to post the photos on pages and add text. It took some time but eventually the loose
collection of old photos with the scribbled notes on the back sides began to take form.
At the same time my cousin Paul, a Los Angeles County Fire Department Captain,
found a large collection of LAFD photos in a storage container in their Fire Department
Museum collection. These photos were given to the L.A. County Museum years ago by a
widow of a LAFD fireman. The collection was assembled in the early 1950's by firemen
including my Grandfather from both the City and County fire departments, the Box 15 Club
and three firemen's widows including Mrs. R. J. Scott. I reference this collection as
'THE LAFD PHOTO ALBUM
COLLECTION' and it is included in the archive in its' entirety.
My cousin Paul also introduced me to Walt Pittman, a WWII B-17 tail gunner, a Box 15
Club member and Fire Buff extraordinar. Walt spent over six years in the Los Angeles
City archives researching through LAFD journals. His work is evident throughout the
archive including several beautiful drawings. Walt's son is a mechanic at the LAFD Shops.
The Archive claims no ownership of the items presented. Permission from many of the
writers and photographers has been obtained where known. However contacting everyone has
been impossible so far. Being a Non-Profit enterprise I am hoping that the articles and
photos so far presented can remain here for the benefit of the collection as a whole
without copyright problems. There are no funds available to purchase or pay license. If
there is a problem with any item in the Archive please contact me and I will do my best to
beg your permission to keep it or the item will be removed. It is not the intent of LAFIRE
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The iconic Harley-Davidson chopper-style motorbike ridden by Peter Fonda in the 1969 classic Easy Rider was sold for $1.35 million (£840,000) at auction this weekend.
The Captain America bike, complete with authenticating documents including a letter from Fonda, was sold on Saturday (October 18) at entertainment industry auction house Profiles in History.
The red, white and blue stars-and-stripes panhead chopper was designed and built by two African-American bike builders, Cliff Vaughs and Ben Hardy, based on design suggestions from Fonda.
"After fierce bidding, we are so pleased that the buyer values this for the cultural icon that it is," said the seller, Mike Eisenberg.
There were two Captain America bikes built for Easy Rider, so shooting the film would not be disrupted if one of them broke down. The bike sold on Saturday was used in the crash scene at the conclusion of the film.
It was sold as part of a sale of Hollywood memorabilia at Profiles in History's auction rooms in Calabasas, northwest of Los Angeles. Bids were taken online and by phone, as well as in person.
Auctioneers' boss Joseph Maddalena described the chopper before the sale as "one of the most iconic images in American film." He added: "The bike evokes powerful emotions even in non-bikers.
"It personifies the Sixties, all of the good and the bad that decade brought.
"This is the only original Captain America bike in existence. This is without doubt the world's most famous motorcycle. It influenced the entire motorcycle industry – after that movie came out thousands upon thousands of people went out and bought motorbikes.
"The film sparked the whole idea of riding motorcycles. The film marked the beginning of the rebellious anti-war era. Peter Fonda's character was blazing a trail for freedom and this motorcycle was the vehicle on which he did that."
The other Captain America bike and the two bikes ridden by Dennis Hopper in Easy Rider were stolen after filming had finished. "Legend has it that the bikes were cut up into pieces and that to this day, Hell's Angels riders wear stars cut from the gas tanks on their leather vests," explained Maddalena.
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Professional movers use generous amounts of packing material because they know that proper cushioning, combined with a strong outer container, will help protect your belongings. A general rule of thumb is to use enough packing material so the items cannot move easily when you shake the box. A few inches of padding material (usually unprinted paper, like butcher paper) all the way around the inside of the box should be enough.
Packing begins with using the right boxes and packing them carefully. Start collecting boxes early. You will be surprised at how many you will need. The more free boxes you can collect, the more money you will save!
You can get recycled boxes free from local stores, but they should be clean, strong and have covers so they can be closed and sealed. Copy paper, computer and liquor boxes are excellent choices. They are sturdy, have lids and contain dividers which make them ideal for packing glasses and vases. Beware of food boxes from your neighborhood supermarket. They are not nearly as strong or padded, sometimes harbor bug eggs, and tend to come in odd sizes that makes loading more difficult.
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Many women consider surgical resizing of their breasts for improved appearance and self-esteem. Breast resizing can help you feel more confident if you’re unhappy with the size of your breasts in general or after pregnancy, weight loss or aging, or if your breasts are of different sizes and you want them to be more symmetrical.
Types of cosmetic breast surgery
When there is cause for concern about breast cancer, possibly due to a suspicious mammogram, lump in the breast or other abnormality, your doctor may order a biopsy. There are several types of breast biopsies. Having a biopsy does not mean you have cancer. In fact, most biopsies come back as normal.
Types of breast biopsies
- Fine needle, core needle and image-guided core needle breast biopsy
- Surgical breast biopsy
- Sentinel lymph node biopsy
There are different types of breast cancer surgery. Your doctor will make recommendations based on factors such as the size of your breast, the location of the tumor, and whether the cancer has spread to the under-arm lymph nodes, which are small organs in your lymphatic system that remove fluids, bacteria and cancer cells. We will also consider your personal preference.
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If you have had a mastectomy or lumpectomy due to breast cancer or another type of trauma to the breast, you may be interested in having one or both breasts reconstructed. This surgical procedure can alter the size, shape, appearance, and symmetry of the breasts, and in many cases, can help you feel more comfortable and confident after the loss of a breast or portion of the breast.
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American Association of University Women (AAUW) Flagler wishes to extend an invitation to the descendants of the women of Flagler County who were recognized and listed, by the Flagler Tribune, on October 21, 1920, as “Qualified Voters” for the November 2, 1920 General Election.
In anticipation of the 100th Anniversary of the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, AAUW is on a mission to identify, if possible, the first women to have registered to vote in Flagler County. The organization has unlocked quite a bit of this hidden history in Flagler “but,” it states in a release, “we know history and memories are passed down through the generations. We want to hear the stories of the grandmothers and great-grandmothers who voted on Nov. 2, 1920, as told by their families.”
AAUW will hold an organizational meeting on Friday, March 15 at 1 p.m. in Room 3 B, located on the 3rd floor of the Government Services Building in Bunnell.
Alice Scott Abbott proudly worked with the National Woman’s Suffrage. She delivered the first lecture in the State of Florida during the State Convention of 1893, held in St. Augustine. She fervently implored the ‘Dear Women of Flagler’ to register “in time so no one can challenge their vote in the coming election” with her letter of October 7, 1920, published by the Flagler Tribune. Sadly, she passed away, twelve days before November’s historic election.
Women’s suffrage has an undistinguished history in Florida. According to Florida Memory, the state’s archival record, “Florida was not one of the states that ratified the Nineteenth Amendment during 1919-1920. In fact, neither house of the Florida legislature had even voted on the measure. Though the legislature would pass a law in 1921 that provided the vote to all residents, it was not until 1969 that it symbolically ratified the Nineteenth Amendment.” Concurrent Resolution No. 1172 passed lorida’s Senate and House of Representatives on May 13, 1969, and was approved on May 22 without the signature of Governor Claude Kirk. | <urn:uuid:516a8d4c-6610-4940-af93-b7fbb1a1e9b4> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://flaglerlive.com/134084/1920-election/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573540.20/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819005802-20220819035802-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.964737 | 466 | 2.375 | 2 |
PepperMayo is a condiment that has a fiery history. It was created back in the 1800s by an Irishman named Jameson. He was trying to make a pepper sauce that could compete with the popular sweet and sour sauce. He mixed together vinegar, brown sugar, black pepper, and ginger, and called his creation peppermayo.
The sauce quickly became popular in America, and it was eventually exported to other countries.
Pepper mayonnaise is a condiment that originated in the United Kingdom. It was created in the 1860s by an unknown inventor who combined Worcester sauce with black pepper. The recipe was first published in 1868.
Pepper mayonnaise is a condiment that started as a way to enhance the flavor of bland food. It has a spicy history that goes back to the Middle Ages when it was used to add heat to food. In the 1800s, pepper mayonnaise was popular in America as a way to add spice to bland foods. It became popular again in the 1970s when food celebrities started using it on sandwiches.
The Weird,dirty Origins of PepperMayo
Pepper mayo is a condiment that can be found in many different forms. It can be used as a dipping sauce, on sandwiches, or as a salad dressing. But where did it come from? Pepper mayo is actually a blend of two different sauces: Dijon mustard and vinegar. The origins of this condiment are strange and dirty.
Pepper mayonnaise is a staple condiment in many American households, but its strange and dirty origins are unknown to most. Inventor C.A. Pepper created the first batch of the condiment in 1868 while working as a chemist for the Richardson-Merrell Company. The recipe for the sauce was kept secret by the company until 1914, when an employee decided to share it with a friend.
PepperMayo was born from a collaboration between two unlikely partners: Unilever, a multinational corporation, and Heinz, a small, family-owned company. The idea for the condiment came about when Unilever researchers were trying to create a sauce that would be compatible with their macaroni and cheese product. They mixed mayonnaise with chili powder, cumin, and other spices, but the results were not what they wanted.
The Unusual Flavor Combination that is PepperMayo
PepperMayo is a condiment that consists of mayonnaise and pepper. Some people find its flavor to be unusual, but others enjoy it. Its unusual flavor combination has made it a popular condiment.
No matter what you put it on, pepper mayo is a favorite condiment. But what are the hidden flavors that make it so unique? Discover the unusual ingredients and flavors that give this sauce its signature taste.
PepperMayo is a unique flavor combination that is not commonly found. It was created by combining mayonnaise and pepper together. This unusual flavor combination provides a unique taste that is not common.
How to Make Your Own PepperMayo Style DressING
Pepper mayonnaise is a delicious condiment that can be used in many different ways. This style dressING is one way to make your own pepper mayo style dressING.
PepperMayo is a condiment you may have never heard of, but it’s a major player in American cuisine. It’s made from mayonnaise, vinegar, chili powder, and pepper. It’s incredibly versatile and can be used in dressings, marinades, as a dipping sauce for fries and chicken, or as a condiment for tacos and burgers. If you want to make your own version of this popular condiment, read on for tips.
Making your own dress may seem daunting, but it’s really not that hard. You just need some fabric, a sewing machine, and a few supplies. Here are five tips on how to make your own peppermayo style dress:
- Choose a fabric that is easy to sew and has some stretch.
- Cut the fabric into a dress shape and hem the edges.
Could You Be Eating Too Much PepperMayo?
PepperMayo is a condiment that is often used on sandwiches and as a topping for salads. It is made from mayonnaise, pepper, and salt. Many people like to use it because it has a strong flavor and is easy to make. However, some people may be eating too much of it.
The Mayo Clinic warns that eating too much pepperMayo can result in stomach upset and even vomiting.
Pepper mayonnaise is a condiment that can add flavor to any meal. However, some people may be eating too much of it. The Mayo Clinic advises limiting yourself to 1 tablespoon per day. If you do eat more than that, you may experience heartburn, nausea, and vomiting.
Pepper mayo is a condiment that is made from mayonnaise and pepper. It can be found in most grocery stores and is often used as a dipping sauce or as a dressing for salads. Some people say that they can’t eat mayonnaise without also eating pepper mayo, and they believe that the amount of these ingredients in the product is too high. Others say that they only occasionally use pepper mayo and that it doesn’t affect their health. | <urn:uuid:f91543f9-f650-4a29-8007-b2fecf2c56c1> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://businesssearching.com/peppermayo/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573104.24/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817183340-20220817213340-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.970807 | 1,107 | 2.734375 | 3 |
Talking White Trash documents the complex and interwoven relationship between mediated representations and lived experiences of white working-class people—a task inspired by the author’s experiences growing up in a white working-class family and neighborhood and how she came to understand herself through watching films and television shows.
The increasing presence of white working-class people in media, particularly within the genre of reality television, and their role in fueling the unprecedented rise of Donald Trump, has made this population a central subject of U.S. cultural discourse. Rather than relying solely on analyses of mediated portrayals, Dunn makes use of personal narratives, interviews, focus groups, textual analysis, and critical autoethnography to specifically analyze how popular media articulates certain ideas about white working-class people, and how those who identify as members of this population, including herself, negotiate such articulations.
Dunn’s work provides alternative stories that are rarely, if ever, found in popular media—stories that feature the varied reactions and lived experiences of white working-class people; stories that talk to, talk with, and talk back to mediated representations and dominant cultural ideas; stories that illuminate the multidimensionality of a population that is often portrayed in one-dimensional ways; stories that move inside and outside the white working-class to better understand their role within, and influence upon, U.S. culture.
Table of Contents
Introduction. Mediated Buffoons as Political Stakeholders: Welcome to the White Working-Class
Chapter 1. Becoming "White Trash": The Formation and Historical Mediated Representations of the White Working-Class
Chapter 2. Digging in the "Trash": Contemporary Mediated Representations of White Working-Class People
Chapter 3. From Insider to Insider/Outsider: An Autoethnographic Account of Returning to My Working-Class Roots
Chapter 4. "It’s Like Watching a Car Accident": When the Lived and Mediated Experiences of White Working-Class People Intersect
Conclusion. Taking Out the "Trash": A New Beginning for the White Working-Class
About the Author
Tasha R. Dunn, Ph.D. is a scholar and professor of communication. Her research addresses the relationship between mediated representations and lived experiences, with a particular focus on qualitative inquiry, critical/cultural studies, popular culture, performance studies, whiteness, class, and gender.
"Dunn makes an important contribution to television studies, and Talking White Trash should also be useful to scholars of cultural studies, autoethnography, American studies, or any scholars studying class in the United States."
Michael Mario Albrecht, The University of South Florida
"[...] Dunn writes candidly throughout the book about the performances of middle-classness necessary to be taken seriously as an academic. Dunn’s honest reflections about these tensions extend beyond Talking White Trash, serving as a necessary reminder of how the academy is a space marked by race, class, and other aspects of identity. It is only through work like Dunn’s that we may begin to pull back the curtain to expose these divisions in higher education, in media, in politics, and in culture and, as Dunn notes, serve as “a springboard from which to jump and discover new knowledge” (141)."
Holly Willson Holladay, Assistant Professor at Missouri State University
"This book would make an excellent addition to qualitative research classes. Despite being under 160 pages, the book offers the reader an in-depth example of the ways in which researchers can and should wrestle with negotiated identities as both insiders and outsiders to the subjects they are researching. Throughout her work, Dunn is honest in the ways in which she struggled to understand her topic, participants, and perhaps most importantly, herself. Her willingness to challenge her own preconceived notions of her participants’ beliefs is a testimony to her work as a scholar. It is this type of honest assessment and critical reflection that makes this text a worthwhile choice for those pursuing autoethnography work at any level."
Michael Dieter, Lewis University and De La Salle Institute
"In sum, I highly recommend this book. If one wants to read about the effects that White trash representations have on White working-class people and the perceptions members of this group may have about such tropes, this is a fascinating book to read."
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Cancer Screening... should I get it?
- Women ages starting at age 40: annual screenings with mammography.
- If family history of a relative diagnosed with breast cancer before the age of 40, begin screenings earlier.
- Continue screening as long as woman is in good health
- Women should become familiar with how their breast look and feel, and report any changes to health care provider right away
Getting screened early can save lives!!
Almost 100% of people diagnosed with breast cancer at an early stage are alive 5 years later
A normal cell in the cervix becomes abnormal and cancerous. It usually takes 3–7 years for noticeable changes in cervical cells to become cancer.
Screening for cervical cancer in ALL women age 21 to 65 years with a Pap smear every 3 years. Or, for women age 30-65 years, the Pap smear can be combined with the HPV testing every 5 years.
Get screened early and often!
So you can catch the abnormal cells and treat them before they turn into cancer!
Signs & Symptoms of Colorectal Cancer
- Change in your bowel habits (diarrhea, constipation, or change in the consistency of stool) that lasts longer than four weeks
- Persistent abdominal discomfort (cramps, gas, or pain)
- Rectal bleeding or blood in your stool
- Unexplained weight loss
- Weakness or fatigue
- Feeling that bowel does not empty completely
- Begin screening at age 50 or for people with average risk
- Colonoscopy every 10 years
- Fecal immunochemical test (FIT) every year (Test you perform in the comfort of your home)
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Miami Rejects Hosting Cuban Consulate, But Tampa Wants It
DAVID GREENE, HOST:
When two countries haven't officially talked to each other for decades, restoring diplomatic relations involves, well, a lot of talking. Next week, a top state department official heads to Cuba to discuss how the U.S. and Cuba will restore diplomatic ties, and one thing that has to be worked out is the opening of embassies and consulates in both countries. Already one city has served notice that it would not welcome a Cuban consulate. That would be Miami, where NPR's Greg Allen reports.
GREG ALLEN, BYLINE: More than 800,000 Cuban-Americans call Miami-Dade County home. That's about 1 in every 3 residents. It's the largest Cuban-American population in the country and therefore might seem like a logical location for a Cuban consulate. But Miami Mayor Tomas Regalado doesn't think so. He says one thing Miami definitely doesn't need is a Cuban consulate.
MAYOR TOMAS REGALADO: A consulate here will create tensions in the community.
ALLEN: Regalado recalls a protest that occurred often at the Venezuelan consulate in Miami until it was shut down by Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez in 2011. He says a Cuban consulate would cause even more problems for the city and its police department.
REGALADO: It would harm the safety and the peace of the community. It would put a burden and unfounded mandate from Washington in the city of Miami, and I don't think that we want TV cameras live every day showing protests and people engaging in discussions and maybe fistfight or something like that.
ALLEN: But Miami isn't the only city in Miami-Dade County. The county mayor, Carlos Gimenez, is a bit more circumspect, saying only that it's premature at this point to discuss whether a Cuban consulate should be located in the county. The three Cuban-Americans who represent Miami-Dade County in Congress are critical of the president's Cuba proposals and have vowed to block normalization. But elsewhere in Florida, some officials see a Cuban consulate as an opportunity.
REPRESENTATIVE KATHY CASTOR: The Tampa area would welcome a consulate.
ALLEN: Congresswoman Kathy Castor represents Tampa, another city with a large Cuban-American population. It's a city with long historical ties to Cuba that go back to the 19th century when Miami was still an Indian trading post. Castor supports normalization and, along with other political and business leaders in the city, has worked to promote trade ties with Cuba.
CASTOR: In Tampa, we've been more open - our port, our airport. We've embraced the current reforms and now are looking forward to the real fall in the relationship.
ALLEN: Tampa's airport hopes to expand the number of direct flights it already offers to Cuba. The city's port recently set out a press release saying it's ready to move to, quote, "aggressively market its first-rate facilities to our Cuban neighbors." Tampa may get a boost in its bid from those most likely to use a new Cuban consulate, those who travel there or have visitors from the island. Among Cuban-Americans in Florida, a recent poll by the Miami Herald found more opposed a Cuban consulate in Miami than supported. Greg Allen, NPR News, Miami. Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR. | <urn:uuid:0123c122-2d67-40ba-8467-7d5503a02ff7> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.ksmu.org/2015-01-14/miami-rejects-hosting-cuban-consulate-but-tampa-wants-it | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572161.46/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815054743-20220815084743-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.96087 | 703 | 1.617188 | 2 |
The National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS)
The National Disability Insurance Scheme
The National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) is a new way of providing support for people with permanent and significant disability. They may pay for supports relating to healthcare, social life or employment. To participate, you need to be under 65 and meet residency requirements. You also need to meet the disability or early intervention requirements. Click here to read the requirements.
The NDIS for children
The NDIS can also help pay for services for young children who need help with their health and development. If your child gets this help while they are under six years old, it could mean they need less help later. The NDIS may pay for some children’s supports if they are under six years old and:
- they find it very hard to do everyday things like using the toilet, talking, learning or walking
- they need help from a speech pathologist, a physiotherapist, a dietitian or an occupational therapist.
Find out how we can help your child under the NDIS scheme at here.
Find out more about the NDIS
Click here to see if you are eligible for the NDIS. If you think you may be able to access supports under the NDIS, please call the NDIA on 1800 800 110 and ask for an access request form or visit the NDIS website here.
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Converting a function from 1D to ND - slice method¶
We have a function that works along the time axis, but only for 1D data. We’d like to convert it to work on a full dataset.
import numpy as np def s_kendall(data): data = data[np.isfinite(data)] s_stor = n = len(data) # Outer sum for i in np.arange(0, n - 1): # Inner sum for k in np.arange(i + 1, n): s_stor.append(np.sign(data[k] - data[i])) return np.sum(s_stor)
Unlike the example Converting a function from 1D to ND - apply_along_axis, which did a correlation along the time axis, in this case the function is just stepping along the time axis. We can modify this function so that rather than working on one point at a time it acts on an entire slice of the grid at once.
The function is computing
We can easily re-write the function to act on a Nd array by changing the indexing a little:
def s_kendall_nd(data): # data = data[np.isfinite(data)] # use nansum() instead s_stor = n = data.shape # Assume time is the first dimension # Outer sum for i in np.arange(0, n - 1): # Inner sum for k in np.arange(i + 1, n): s_stor.append(np.sign(data[k,...] - data[i,...])) # Use an ellipses when we don't know the number of remaining dimensions return np.nansum(s_stor, axis=0) # The sum, excluding any non-finte values
Now we have two versions of the function, lets test them to make sure they give the same values.
sample = np.random.random((10,10,10)) - 0.5 # Random values between -0.5 and 0.5
First the 1d function:
a = s_kendall(sample[:,0,0]) a
Then the new slice function:
b = s_kendall_nd(sample) b[0,0]
Advantages compared to apply_along_axis¶
Compared to using the apply_along_axis function rewriting to a slice function has the benefit that it’s taking advantage of numpy’s strong point - calculations on arrays.
The apply_along_axis method is basically a loop over all of the points, and loops in Python are pretty slow. Operations on whole arrays on the other hand use Numpy’s optimised code.
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BSL Sign Language Dictionary
Search and compare thousands of words and phrases in British Sign Language (BSL). The largest collection online.
How to sign: a technique used in behavior therapy; client is flooded with experiences of a particular kind until becoming either averse to them or numbed to them
Similiar / Same: implosion therapy
Categories: behavior modification, behavior therapy
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I kind of talked about this before, but it is true with technology changes and the way we engage ourselves for information. Especially with smart phones everywhere. When it comes to digital video, size doesn’t matter, but length does. In this case, shorter videos capture more of our attention and people are more likely to engage. Longer videos are now a thing of the past. Seventy-five percent of all videos published are under two minutes in length, ac That’s compared to 56% just last year. (recent report done by the company, Vidyard This same article also states that more and more small companies will be using video to get their message across to their customers, potential customers, and ongoing marketing with their brands.
The changes toward shorter videos on line can be seen in several market trends. Changing expectations from today’s audiences, which prefer shorter, more engaging content; the growing use of video on campaign landing pages and within email marketing campaigns; and the growing use of analytics.
Advanced analytics as well as viewer engagement data to measure performance is another main reason for the upswing in digital videos. Marketers who use these tools are twice as likely to report that returns on their video investments are improving. Although Vidyard does the same kind of business we here at FDMC do, they deal on a more national scale and I do enjoy their information. Even in our area of production, we are finding that the use of non-traditional distribution channels is on the rise, as well.
Videos such as product videos, demos, and explainers are the most common videos produced, with websites and social media serving as the most common distribution channels. But the number of businesses using video on other channels has also increased. For example, SMBs now use video on landing pages,
As the web grows and our way of using it changes, so will our attention span. Our need to put information in our head becomes a stress ball. We are busy and our eyes scan quickly. Digital Video is the key but you need to get all your information out there quickly. You have to do it in under 2 minutes. Can you? Sure you can with the help of a good digital video expert.
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By Tiffany Edwards
DRYDEN – Residents of the Town of Dryden moved one step closer to generating their own sustainable energy Thursday night, when the Dryden Town Board agreed on the county’s first zoning provisions for household wind and solar energy systems.
The town previously rejected requests for permits due to a lack of guidelines for installing renewable energy equipment. While the board seemed pleased to be moving forward, some in the audience felt the law needs revisions. A public hearing on the law is scheduled for 7 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 5, at the fire hall.
After complimenting the efforts of the town board and the conservation advisory board in putting the ordinance together, Ron Szymanski criticized the document for setting too many limitations.
“I believe this is a restrictive law to alternative energy. I also believe it encourages air and water pollution, and I believe that it hurts local business activity,” said Szymanski, an eight-year resident of Dryden who studied mechanical engineering and alternative energy at Brown University. “I don’t think this is a progressive law for the Town of Dryden; it is a restrictive law.”
Szymanski cited the Renewable Portfolio Standard passed by the state Assembly, which set a goal of the state’s generating 25 percent of its energy from renewable sources by 2013. Under this directive, the state supports 125 kilowatts for a farming operation. However, the Dryden Town ordinance would only approve 10 kilowatts without special review. Szymanski also deemed the $250 application fee as prohibitive.
“However you read this law, please don’t take it as we’re opposed to wind energy,” said chairman Martin Christofferson. “We’ve worked very hard to get this thing going because there are people who want to develop it.”
“This is the first step,” said Mary Ann Sumner, town board member who introduced the law. “Let’s start somewhere.”
The ordinance addresses small-scale business and residential wind and solar energy. As the law currently stands, provision will be made for wind energy systems less than 140 feet high.
Only one system per lot is permitted, unless the applicant can show outstanding need. Placement of wind towers will be dependent on proximity to adjacent property, public highways, power lines, Important Bird Areas (as identified by the N.Y. Audubon) and state wetlands.
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[aprssig] what is RELAY, WIDE, TRACE, etc?
sean at rimboy.com
Mon Aug 2 16:10:01 EDT 2004
On Mon, 2 Aug 2004, Jason Winningham wrote:
> On the other hand, I see practically no traffic from the Nashville area
> even when I drive around 840, so I wonder if it's because of terrain or
> if APRS in that area has already reached critical mass and imploded.
Couple of things:
There are terrain issues, presumably on parts of 840. However, there
should be areas of coverage. W4GGM-1 is in Columbia. NT4L-3 is a RELAY
only digi in Franklin. Those should provide some coverage in areas
close to I-65 along 840.
NT4L-1 is on Short Mountain. It's quite a distance away from 840 no
matter what but is a monster in terms of coverage. I'd like to get
something in Murfreesboro doing RELAY only for those stations needing the
extra push to Short Mountain. That said there should be some low profile
stations that should be helping out.
Helping make the jump to Huntsville will be the KF4TNP-1 digi when it goes
back on the air. You'll see more traffic from Nashville then you'll ever
want once that digi is back on the air, I know we'll see plenty from
Huntsville when it's running. I'm hesitant to see what might be available
for 840 until TNP-1 goes back on the air. From there we can figure out
what the coverage issues may be.
APRS in Nashville has hardly reached critical mass and imploded despite
the configuration issues of the W1ARN-1 digi. If we can ever get that
thing configured properly it'll be a miracle. Nothing QRM's like the
highest digi in the area with an unproto path of RELAY,WIDE (amonst others
that all begin with RELAY).
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As fast as required. A real-time system must respond to a signal, event or request fast enough to satisfy some requirement. Real time often refers to process control and embedded systems. For example, space flight computers must respond to changing conditions in order to keep the rocket ship on course. Industrial robots must respond quickly in order to keep the assembly line moving at full speed. Antilock brakes and other driving assist systems must respond to changing road conditions immediately in order to benefit the driver and vehicle. See embedded system
, real-time audio
, real-time video
and real-time search
Videoconferencing requires real-time systems that transmit video across the network and display it at the other end as quickly as the camera is capturing it. Gaming is another real-time application. The system must render video frames in immediate response to the user's inputs.
Business Systems - Not Really
The typical transaction processing system is not considered real time even though it often updates databases immediately. However, in the past, as business information systems became fast enough to respond to queries and updates in only a second or two, they were called real-time systems.
A Synonym for Now
Real time is increasingly used as a synonym for just plain "now." Real time implies an immediate response to an action. For example, "the test results are answered in real time" is correct usage meaning that the results come back immediately. However, "let's do the test in real time" as a way of saying "let's do it now," was not why the term was coined. See online | <urn:uuid:ae5cd490-89d7-4f7b-b8e1-8d8cad15999c> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.computerlanguage.com/results.php?definition=real+time | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572304.13/warc/CC-MAIN-20220816120802-20220816150802-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.969061 | 336 | 3.171875 | 3 |
Tillamook County Community Health Centers, our local public health authority, has been awarded a Sustainable Relationships for Community Health (SRCH) grant from the Oregon Health Authority (OHA). The one-year grant will provide added staff capacity and technical assistance to address chronic disease prevention and management in Tillamook County. Funds from the grant will be used to hire a coordinator who will manage the project in conjunction with the Tillamook County Wellness Health Screening committee.
The OHA SRCH initiative is very aligned to the mission of Tillamook County Wellness, a collective of community partner organizations working together to reduce chronic disease rates, especially type 2 diabetes, by addressing the Social Determinants of Health. SRCH funds are intended to foster collaboration, reduce health disparities and healthcare costs and improve population health outcomes. This includes optimization of community and clinic-based health screenings, program referrals and reimbursement pathways.
Local healthcare partners, including the Tillamook County Community Health Centers (TCCHC), Adventist Health – Tillamook, Columbia Pacific CCO and Rinehart Clinic each play a key role in the Tillamook County Wellness Health Screening committee, with representatives from each organization serving on a core leadership team charged with fulfilling the grant requirements. Additionally, several community-based organizations such as the YMCA, NCRD, OSU Extension and Northwest Senior & Disability Services, among others, will participate in the project.
Together, committee members will:
•Assess existing health screening practices in clinical as well as community-based settings, including workplaces.
•Identify current chronic disease prevention and self-management programs and services to which people are being referred.
•Co-design recommendations for ways to modify or enhance screening and referral practices.
•Generate agreements for implementing improvements to systems processes and program access.
•Track and analyze screening, referral and program participation data to determine impact on health outcomes and identify areas for improvement.
•Develop recommendations for supporting programs and processes that are most effective for reducing chronic disease rates and improving individual health.
“With 90% of all healthcare costs being spent on the treatment of chronic and mental health conditions, it is imperative that we connect people with the resources they need to get and stay healthy,” states Marlene Putman, Tillamook County Public Health Administrator and Tillamook Community Health Centers Director. “There are so many great programs already in place here – the Diabetes Prevention Program, CHIP, cooking classes and fitness programs through the YMCA, NCRD and OSU Extension. We know these programs work. We have data that shows how people who take advantage of these programs improve their health. We just need to be more intentional about how we connect people, programs and processes so that everyone wins.” Putman adds that increasing access to programs by reducing cost and transportation barriers are among the strategies being explored. One of the goals of the project is to better understand the factors that lead to increased program participation and adherence, as well as where people are experiencing barriers. These considerations can then be built into the design of community and clinic-based support networks to optimize system workflows, program delivery and population health outcomes.
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High-performance infrastructure refers to utilizing a building’s systems and energy sources to help cities reach their goals to lower carbon dioxide emissions. Carbon reduction deadlines are being taken seriously by local governments throughout the United States. As cities move toward these carbon-reducing initiatives, UA signatory contractors and journeypersons will be the skilled personnel who understand the current infrastructure opportunities. These opportunities include thermal energy networks, hydrogen generation and distribution, and switching to clean energy sources that incorporate shifting from fossil fuels to electricity and carbon capture.
The video produced by the UA demonstrates what the organization is doing in response to securing net-zero emissions by 2050. UA signatory contractors are ready to monopolize this work through the UA’s advanced training via its mobile training trailers and apprenticeship programs to grow market share throughout the country. The UA is the solution to meet the demand for an all-of-the-above energy approach with UA high-performance building initiatives through heat pump water heaters, heat transfer between buildings, and hydrogen boilers and water heaters. The UA has the most skilled workforce in the industry and will be part of the solution to take America into a bright energy future.
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"Inhale the future, exhale the past." -Unknown
Having trouble calming your mind? Maybe you are feeling a little unsettled? Here are my four favourite restorative yoga poses that you can do to calm the mind - you can either do just one of them or do all four.
They are also great to do just before bed to promote deep relaxation so you can drift off into a night of quality sleep.
1. CHILD'S POSE:
This pose is nurturing and calming. Begin sitting on your heels, leaving a gap between your thighs. Then, fold forward and extend your upper body on the floor, your midsection resting between your thighs, and your arms fully extended on the floor. Take several long, deep breaths in this position. Let gravity naturally sink the hips down closer to heels. This position can be held for up to five minutes, or longer if you wish.
2. SUPPORTED CHILD'S POSE:
A restorative version of Child's pose which is super nourishing for mind, body and spirit. Simply place a bolster or pillow in front and rest forehead/arms.
3. LEGS UP THE WALL [WALL OPTIONAL]:
You can do this pose with your legs rested against a wall, or as shown. Lie on your mat with your knees bent, feet on the floor. Lift your hips and place a bolster, or a firm cushion underneath your sacrum. Engage your core and with bent knees lift your legs up toward the ceiling, pressing your sacrum into the cushion for stability, and your shoulders into the mat.
4. SUPPORTED BRIDGE POSE:
Lie on your back with your knees bent and the soles of your feet flat on the floor. Keep your feet parallel and arms by your side. Press down into the soles of your feet to lift your hips off the floor. Slide your yoga bolster or firm cushion under your sacrum, let the cushion support you. Your arms can stay relaxed by your side. | <urn:uuid:8ae2e2cc-9c6e-4da5-8317-1ad40e039fe8> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://botanicaltrader.com/blogs/news/4-calming-yoga-poses-for-all | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573104.24/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817183340-20220817213340-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.9254 | 417 | 1.515625 | 2 |
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Most children don’t want braces because they’re not deemed very “cool.” However, braces have advanced over the years considerably.
Essentially, Invisalign is a procedure to straighten your teeth and is an alternative to traditional metal braces. It uses a series of aligners that are made especially for your teeth. These aligners are nearly invisible and are removable. Every couple of weeks, these aligners will be replaced and so your teeth will move gently into your desired final position. This gradual process minimally disrupts your life and is effective. So far it’s been utilised by over 3 million people worldwide and it’s becoming an incredibly popular treatment for misshapen teeth.
Ideally, you’ll want to consult an expert in Invisalign, someone who offers several options for types of braces and so can give you their honest option about whether Invisalign is for your child.
Finding a dentist isn’t a problem; however, finding an expert in child’s pediatric dentist who will have your kid’s best interests at heart could be more difficult. While Invisalign aligners are not the most expensive teeth straightening option on the market, they aren’t the cheapest either. You can, however, derive real benefit from them, so having a frank conversation with an excellent dentist will lay out your various choices.
How To Care For Your Child’s Aligners
Taking good care of your aligners will make sure that your treatment is as successful as it can be. The first thing to do before you even touch your child’s aligners is to wash and dry your hands thoroughly. The next step is to wash the aligners themselves. You’ve got to be really careful about washing them one at a time so you don’t damage them and you should clean both the inside and outside of the aligners with toothpaste on a soft toothbrush. Your dentist will explain how to insert your aligners when you go for your consultations and treatment.
However, it’s important to remember that you shouldn’t force them into position. A little pressure is fine but you don’t want to damage either aligner or your mouth by trying to put them in too quickly. Equally, you should remember the dos and don’ts of wearing aligners in comparison to braces in terms of food and drink. It’s fine to drink clear water without removing your aligners, but you’ll have to remove them from your child’s mouth if they want to consume anything else. This ensures no bacteria gets caught in your child’s aligners which may impede your overall dental health. Look after your aligners for the best Invisalign results.
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SAP is used by 92% of Forbes Global 2000 companies, stores 70% of all corporate data globally and touches 77% of the world’s transactional revenue so its reputation as a market leader in enterprise application software is undeniable. But its ubiquity, longevity and access to sensitive data also makes it a prime target.
SAP systems, from enterprise resource planning (ERP) and human capital management to sales, stakeholder relationship management (SRM), and customer relationship management (CRM), hold valuable digital assets – be it intellectual property, company secrets, employee data, and more. This data is used for business planning, product lifecycle management, business intelligence, or other vital operational procedures.
Unfortunately, this also makes them highly attractive targets to cybercriminals and fraudsters, leading to data theft or modification which facilitates financial fraud and attacks that aim to disable or disrupt critical operations. Several attack vectors exist in SAP. Customer and supplier portal attacks, for example, have seen the creation of backdoor users in the SAP J2EE User Management Engine that are then used to obtain access to SAP Portals and Process Integration platforms. Further, attacks through SAP proprietary protocols are executed by performing operating system commands with the privileges of the SAP administrator.
Properly protecting SAP systems against such threats is therefore vital. However, doing so effectively continues to be a significant challenge for many firms.
The divide between SAP and SIEM
Security is of course a priority for SAP. In March 2015, the company released SAP Enterprise Threat Detection (ETD), the “SAP SIEM”, to provide its customers with the ability to detect and respond to cyberattacks targeting its applications. This operates in a similar manner to any other SIEM (Security Information and Event Management) solution, leveraging log data to provide real-time insight into suspicious activity taking place in SAP systems that can be used to identify and address threats at speed before any serious damage occurs.
Over time the SAP SIEM has become more sophisticated. Today, for example, it’s able to consider contextual data including the role or location of a system where a suspected attack has occurred to make analysis more accurate, and remediation faster and easier.
Between these routine improvements, as well as the preservation of the information that SAP provides, and preventing hackers from covering their tracks effectively, SAP ETD offers several clear benefits. However, equally, there are a series of challenges associated with its deployment.
Chiefly, the platform is only able to monitor SAP security information. This means it is unable to support the correlation of SAP data and events with other data collected by central SIEM systems.
SAP systems are complex and multifaceted. From ERP Central Component (ECC) to Business Warehouse, Human Capital Management, and the many other products under the SAP umbrella, each application has its own distinct security specialisations, nomenclature and rulesets. While one SAP application uses multiple logs to capture security-relevant events, these aren’t presented in a universal standardised format or structure within the application, much less between SAP applications.
This makes it extremely difficult for SIEM systems to interpret SAP logs and data – a situation which often leaves SAP security isolated away from the central cybersecurity strategy. These siloes mean that SAP systems can’t utilise crucial, contextual security information from the surrounding IT infrastructure, as well as being unable to take advantage of competencies in the cybersecurity team.
The result is a split security structure that leaves many security teams unable to view their organisation’s security through a holistic, 360-degree lens. Not only do the resultant inefficiencies create operational challenges for already highly pressurised security teams, but equally they may leave SAP systems and the vitally important data that they store more vulnerable to cybercriminals.
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Given the growing volume and sophistication of cyberattacks today, bridging the gap between SAP systems and the central SIEMs has never been more critical. In doing so, firms will be empowered to correlate SAP data with other events to see the bigger picture, enhancing everything from automated response, case management, log storage, and event log management to assist in subsequent investigations.
Further, it also allows SAP security specialists to leverage a host of more advanced security tools deployed in SIEM platforms. This includes user and entity behaviour analytics (UEBA), capable of supplementing the standard rule-based approach (known threats) with the capability to detect unknown threats and unknown suspicious behaviour. For example, this could help flag a highly privileged SAP account executing an unusual financial transaction within permissible limits after falling victim to a phishing attack.
For this gap to be bridged, the language barriers between SAP systems and central SIEMs need to be broken down. Here, a modern Business Critical Security (BCS) solution can help translate SAP data to align with standardised security terminology before being fed into the SIEM system.
Such tools can bring critical application activity under the central security monitoring of the SIEM, continuously monitoring their business-critical data to detect and quickly respond to fraud and threats in SAP. Not only do they help to eliminate the problem of siloed SAP, but they equally improve operations by empowering security teams with easy-to-use dashboards and comprehensive reports.
For firms that are becoming increasingly reliant on SAP applications, BCS is a must to maximise security. These tools enable the clear mapping of identified threats within a single platform, helping cybersecurity analysts to understand and remediate threats quickly and easily. But when looking at complementary security technologies, it’s also worth considering their ability to support future versions of SAP.
The cloud-based offering, S/4HANA, offers numerous benefits over its on-premise predecessor, ECC, and many organisations will be looking to migrate. Therefore, any SIEM investment needs to be futureproof and be able to cater for both SAP versions.
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Forest Service crews continue daunting task of clearing avalanche carnage on Aspen-area trails
The wilderness crew for the Aspen-Sopris Ranger District cut more trees this summer than the prior six summers combined. The extra saw work was required because so many trees were flattened by avalanches in March during a historically large slide cycle. Here are the trees cut by year by the wilderness crew. The numbers don’t include work done by a separate trail crew.
Year Trees cut
Source: Tyler Lee, lead wilderness ranger
One of the biggest and most destructive avalanche cycles ever recorded in the Aspen area struck in March and created a Paul Bunyan-sized challenge this summer for the crews in charge of clearing trails.
The avalanches widened old slide paths on mountainsides and wiped out fir and spruce trees that had escaped unscathed for hundreds of years. The slides deposited thousands of trees in valley floors, creating massive piles of thick trunks, long branches, dirt, rocks and snow.
Twelve men and women working on the separate wilderness and trail crews in the Aspen-Sopris Ranger District have faced the daunting task of clearing that brush on a network featuring 346 miles of hiking trails and 175 miles of mountain biking routes.
“Obviously, nothing like this has happened in hundreds of years,” said Jerry Olp, a wilderness ranger in his fourth summer.
The crews have sawed their way through more trees in 2019 than in the prior six years combined. They continue to work their tails off so hikers, mountain bikers and equestrians can enjoy the stunning scenery surrounding Aspen.
Shelly Grail, recreation staff manager for the Aspen-Sopris Ranger District, oversees both the trail and wilderness crews. She said she’s been awestruck by their work this summer and calls them “small but mighty crews.”
The wilderness and trail crews perform independent but coordinated jobs. They met up for a rare combined workday Friday to tackle mammoth-sized avalanche debris paths on the South Fork Pass and Chapman Gulch trails, high in the Upper Fryingpan Valley.
After hiking about half a mile on the South Fork Trail, the crews were confronted with a nearly impenetrable mess of downed timber. The slide triggered high on the east wall of the valley, thundered downslope, crossed the creek and valley floor and bowled over trees on the west side of the valley. It created a 100-yard pile of pick-up sticks — tree trunks jutting out in every direction.
The members of the crews put down their heavy backpacks, removed handsaws of every size and got down to business.
“It’s probably the same as other years as far as physically demanding but I think the mental thing, … it’s kind of overwhelming when you come up to these,” trail crew foreman Seth Hannula said.
He has worked on the crew since 1999 so he’s used to challenges. But Hannula said he hasn’t seen anywhere close to the amount of downed timber as this year.
Trying to find the way
The first order of business Friday was locating the trail so the crews could cut the minimum amount of trees as necessary. Jarrod Keller picked his way to the far side of the jumble to locate the trail and give the rest of the crew a read on where to look.
Once the route was established, they started hacking away.
On most trees they used various-sized saws designed for one person. But some of the trunks were around 2 feet in diameter and required the double bucksaws also known as two-person crosscut saws.
Olp and Veronica Reardon made short work of a couple of fat tree trunks with a double bucksaw fitted with multiple sharp teeth along the length of its 5-foot blade.
Chainsaws would cut through the green timber like butter, but this trail, like many in the district, is in designated wilderness, where motorized and mechanized uses are prohibited. Removing the timber must be done with good-old muscle power.
Reardon, 24, and Anna Kistner, 23, another wilderness ranger, shrug off questions about the grueling nature of the job. They enjoy the physical labor and the opportunities for seclusion that wilderness brings.
After an hour or so of work, a path emerged through the jumble of tree trunks and branches. The trail and wilderness crews were fortified Friday by a couple of other rangers.
“When we’re 15 people strong, we can make some pretty good progress,” Hannula said.
Long winter, delayed start
Tyler Lee, lead wilderness ranger, said South Fork and the nearby Chapman trail were lower priority for clearing because of their isolation and lower level of use.
The wilderness crew faced difficulty getting into the high country because a thick layer of snow lingered for so long. Once they were able to get into the backcountry, they focused on trails in the Maroon Bells-Snowmass Wilderness, where so many hikers and backpackers set their sights.
“Our first priority was getting the Conundrum slide open, getting slides on the Four Pass Loop open and some more of those Maroon Bells-Snowmass trails,” Lee said. “And really, now, at the end of August, we’re starting to get into Hunter-Fryingpan Wilderness and some of these trails.”
The West Maroon Creek Trail is a heavily used route to hike from Aspen to Crested Butte. Lee estimated the crews cleared trees from five avalanche paths between Crater Lake and West Maroon Pass.
“It’s pretty typical this year. We’re finding five to eight slides per drainage,” he said. “Each one has been different. If the trail is more at the bottom (of the valley) where the debris is landing, it’s a lot longer (of a) day and that’s what we’re seeing today.”
Video by Tyler Lee, taken on Chapman Trail.
After working Saturday, he estimated the slide on the Chapman Trail was four times larger than that on South Fork.
Waiting out the melt
The deep snowpack delayed trail clearing in two ways.
First, access to the backcountry was limited until much later than usual. Olp was one of the first hikers to complete the Four Pass Loop from July 12 to 15. Second, it didn’t make sense to clear a bunch of trees on the surface when there were several more trees buried underneath in the snow.
The crews had to wait until some of the snow melted out. Even on Friday, the thick conifer branches and needles insulated a couple of feet of snow covering the trail.
“It’s just like an ice house,” Hannula said.
While some hikers were peeved that their favorite trails weren’t cleared sooner, most people are grateful for the work the wilderness and trails crews are performing.
“Everyone’s generally impressed,” Lee said. “They’re happy with the job we’ve been doing. We’re grateful for their support as we’re trying to clear thousands and thousands of trees.”
Hannula said the magnitude of the avalanche carnage has been awe-inspiring for many hikers.
“The biggest thing we were seeing early on was people just turning around,” he said. “They were walking up to the (debris piles) and didn’t even want to try going through them.
“It’s probably been good for the valleys, giving them back to the wildlife a little bit.”
The trail crew also had the daunting task this summer of clearing hundreds of downed trees and standing trunks charred by the Lake Christine Fire on Basalt Mountain. They cleared out two popular trails on the mountain by mid-June.
Hard to feel the progress
Hannula, 47, and Olp, 27, are the two longest-tenured members of the trail crew and wilderness crew, respectively.
Hannula is in his 20th year, while Olp is in his fourth. The veterans made similar, independent observations about the nearly overwhelming amount of downed trees to deal with this summer.
“It was actually a little demoralizing this year,” Olp said.
He felt the wilderness crews had made good progress in recent summers “logging out” the trails it is responsible for. Every winter brings additional downfall from avalanches and snowfall. But this year brought the tremendous carnage of the avalanches on top of the usual winter conditions.
“It’s hard to feel like you’re making a lot of progress,” Olp said.
Hannula said this year felt like the trail crew was battling Mother Nature herself. That crew was well-staffed the prior two summers and made good progress on the never-ending task of clearing timber.
“I was getting to a point where I was like, ‘All right, I’m finally starting to take some of these trails back,’” Hannula said. “Then she throws me a blow like this. She throws me the wildfire then the avalanches. I don’t know what to expect.”
Both crews have duties beyond clearing timber. The trail crew is responsible for preventing erosion and general maintenance of the trail tread.
The wilderness crew monitors campsites to make sure backpackers are using legal sites, are using bear canisters for food and garbage storage, and are properly burying human waste. They are also performing data collection for future implementation of a permit system for overnight use of the Four Pass Loop.
So, while they have spent a good deal of their time logging out, downed trees will remain on the trails from this winter’s avalanches. It will take years to completely clear the downfall.
“We could just do the downed timber,” Hannula said, “but it kind of breaks my heart not to get to the other stuff.”
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Interactive Measurement Activities for 5th Grade
The fifth grade year is when a child typically makes a cognitive leap into more complex ways of viewing volume and the three-dimensionality of objects. The Swiss developmental psychologist, Jean Piaget called this the concrete operations stage, when children can order objects according to increasing or decreasing length, weight and capacity. Most fifth graders are able to select appropriate units, strategies and tools for solving problems that involve estimating and measuring volume.
Activities for Geometric Measurement
Geometric solid figures explored tactilely help fifth graders gain an understanding of terms such as edge, face and vertex. Look around the immediate environment to locate examples of cubes and closed rectangular boxes. With a ruler, measure all the sides of one box and total the amount to arrive at the surface area. When your child has an understanding of outside surface area, give him an empty square container, such as a facial tissue box with the top cut open and ask him to figure out how many centimeter blocks or sugar cubes are needed to entirely fill the box. Most children figure out that they need to completely fill the box and count the cubes, but they can also calculate the total volume by filling just the length and width. They can then use multiplication or repeated addition to determine the total number of cubes.
Experimenting with liquid volume measurement using various sizes of containers gives children hands-on ways to explore capacity. Fifth grade is the right time to develop strategies for selecting appropriate units and tools for estimating and measuring volume. A good method for encouraging this experimentation is to have a child assemble a collection of open containers of various sizes. Provide an assortment of jars and jugs collected from the kitchen or recycling bin. Have the child estimate and line up the containers in the order she thinks they would take to show greatest to least volume. With water or a pourable dry substance such as sand or rice, encourage her to devise a system for comparing volumes of the containers by pouring and comparing amounts needed to fill the various sizes to see if her original predicted estimation was reasonable.
Volume Game for Two
To further explore the concept of equal volume in different shapes, play a simple game with a supply of centimeter cubes or blocks. With each child working behind a concealed area, ask them to construct a rectangular solid using a specified number of cubes -- 20 for example. One child might build a square shape 5 cubes long and 4 cubes high. The other might assemble a rectangle 2 cubes high and 10 cubes long. After each has finished, have them remove the barrier to see if their shapes match or differ. Children can play this game with various numbers of cubes and will soon discover their own formula for calculating the area of a regular solid shape.
Fifth graders need to have experience with changing between different-sized units within a given measurement system, for instance converting pints to quarts and quarts to gallons. Using multiple ways to explore concepts more firmly grasps a child's basic number and measurement sense. Assemble various empty containers from the kitchen in familiar sizes, such as milk cartons, and less-known shapes, like cylinder cans, in standard whole number units of measurement. Using water or sand, have children fill smaller containers, then see how many successive fillings are needed to equal the larger container. A visual representation of this can be be created as an art piece, with kids illustrating the letters C for cups, P for pints, Q for quarts and G for gallons. Nest or connect them in the following way -- two Cs in one P, two Ps in one Q and four Qs within one G.
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Castlevania III: Dracula's Curse (悪魔城伝説 Akumajō Densetsu?, lit. "Legend of the Evil Demon Castle [or Legend of the Devil Castle]") is the sixth installment in the Castlevania series and third to be released on the Nintendo Entertainment System. It was published by Konami in Japan in 1989, and in North America in 1990. In Europe, it was published by Palcom Software in 1992.
According to the game's instruction booklet, Dracula's Curse takes place in 1476, 215 years before the events in Castlevania and Castlevania II: Simon's Quest. Many characters and elements introduced for the first time in Castlevania III would become mainstays in the series.
The Belmont Clan of vampire hunters, once exiled from Wallachia, is beseeched by the Church for help, as their own armies have met with defeat. The people feared the Belmonts' "super-human" power and drove them out of the land, but with Dracula about to swallow Europe in darkness, they are left with no choice but to call Trevor Belmont, the current wielder of the Vampire Killer.
Trevor and his companions cross the Transylvanian countryside, defeat Dracula's minions and eventually defeat the Count himself. Once his father is defeated, Alucard goes into a self-induced slumber, unable to cope with having fought his father. Grant Danasty oversees the reconstruction of Wallachia after the battle is finished. Trevor Belmont and Sypha Belnades marry once peace is restored in the region.
The origins of Dracula and his son Alucard, along with his reasoning for declaring war against humanity given in the instruction booklet, are different than later explanations given by Castlevania: Symphony of the Night and Castlevania: Lament of Innocence, leaving some people to believe this information has been retconned.
Dracula is said to have received his powers from an evil deity, while in Lament of Innocence he got his powers by absorbing the soul of a powerful vampire with the Crimson Stone. However, evidence in the game supports that the evil deity given in Akumajō Densetsu's instruction booklet and Death are supposed to be one and the same.
The roles of the two beings are identical. When Dracula was still known by the name of Mathias Cronqvist, he found the Crimson Stone, which allowed him to gain power over Death. Being an Angel of Death, he was bound to the stone and his role was to harvest souls and grant them to his master, thus allowing that individual to absorb them. After Walter's defeat, Death was able to take his soul and granted it to Mathias, his exact words being: "This power... I offer to the king who wields the Crimson Stone!", thus implying he and the evil deity are retconned to be the same individual.
Another supposed contradiction is that the game intro states that Dracula was able to revive Dark Gods from the underworld and borrowed their powers for his evil goals, supposedly overwriting the statement previously given in the instruction booklet. The Dark Gods and the evil deity were most likely never supposed to be the same character; however, a Castlevania comic that chronicled the timespan between Dracula's Curse and Curse of Darkness once again makes references to these Dark Gods (being referred to as "The Evil Lords") and states that Dracula merely used their power to get even stronger.
Dracula's second form in the game are perhaps these individuals, and the being (which possesses multiple heads) that is fought differs greatly from other forms throughout the series and bears no resemblance to Dracula at all.
Alucard's backstory also differs somewhat and suggests that rather than inheriting his powers from Dracula because he was his son, he is mentioned to once have had a human heart but lost his soul due to a contract his father made with the Devil. This contradiction has yet to be addressed. On a similar note, the Trevor and Alucard ending implies that the defeat of both Dracula and the Evil God ultimately restored Alucard's humanity, due to him not being affected by the rising sun.
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|Trevor C. Belmont
(Ralph C. Belmondo)
|The last member of the legendary Belmont family and genuine Vampire Hunter. His Clan had been driven out of the land centuries ago, because the people feared their strong supernatural powers. ()|
|Sypha is a priestess who disguised herself as an apprentice monk and uses the power of the elements. She had been dispatched on a secret mission to infiltrate Dracula's demon castle, but failed when she got captured by a Cyclops and turned to stone. ()|
|Grant Danasty||A carefree rebel and thief from the town of Wallachia. He had been plotting to overthrow Count Dracula, but he and his comrades were no match for his army. ()|
(Adrian Fahrenheitz Tepes)
|The son of Count Dracula. He changed his name to Alucard as a sign that he opposed his father's way of life, and infiltrated the underground of Wallachia when Dracula dispatched his armies. ()|
|Dracula||The Lord of the Vampires who became a Devil worshipper after the death of his second wife. ()|
Dracula's Curse abandons the adventure game elements of its immediate predecessor and returns to the stage based action platform style of the first game. Unlike Castlevania, however, Dracula's Curse is not strictly linear. After completing the first level and at several other points throughout the game, the player is given a choice of paths to follow. The choices made by the player in these circumstances can have a profound impact on how the game unfolds. There are fifteen levels in total.
Another key feature is the option to choose other playable characters to use along with Trevor Belmont, who plays exactly as Simon Belmont does in the first game. These additional characters are found in stages after certain boss battles and have distinctive abilities that lend in, giving Dracula's Curse much more variety over the original game. With Grant, players can move quicker than Trevor, climb walls and change directions in mid-jump; Alucard has the ability to turn into a bat and fly at the cost of Hearts; and Sypha has elemental spells that can home in on enemies, freeze them or burn them with a short range flame attack. Only one additional character can be had at a time and not all of them can be found on the same path, so it is impossible to encounter all of them in one play-through.
There are four different endings to Dracula's Curse. Which one the player receives depends on which additional character they beat the game with, if any. Each of these endings is a part of the canonical end (Trevor ventured with Grant, Sypha and Alucard simultaneously, as a group).
All endings have the following lines:
Method: Do not recruit any partners.
The game is completed without having recruited any of the other playable characters. The ending will only show Trevor watching the castle crumbling from a nearby cliff.
Method: At the first crossroad, select the path for the Clock Tower of Untimely Death. Defeat the boss at the top of the clock tower. When prompted, take Grant with you and keep him as your partner until the end of the game (i.e., refuse any other characters that offer to join your party).
Trevor and Sypha's ending hits a more romantic tone. Sypha removes her hood and reveals she is actually a woman. Trevor puts his arm around her. Her name during the text scroll is written as "Syfa".
After completing the game along with Alucard, his feelings of guilt are elaborated on as both men stand on the mountain cliff. Trevor realizes this as he thinks about his friend.
The graphics adhere to the style of its predecessors. It makes noticeable leaps forward in environmental detail and introduces tons of new environmental hazards.
The music for Castlevania III: Dracula's Curse was composed by Hidenori Maezawa, Jun Funahashi and Yukie Morimoto. The original Japanese version contained a specialized sound chip, the Konami VRCVI. This chip added an extra two square waves (each with eight pulse width settings instead of the standard four) and a sawtooth wave.
The music of the game has been commercially released several times while included with single disc albums of selected arranged tracks. They are titled Akumajō Dracula Famicom Best (March 20th, 1990), Perfect Selection Dracula (1991), Perfect Selection Dracula ~New Classic~ (1992), Perfect Selection Dracula Battle (1994), Castlevania 20th Anniversary Deluxe Music Collection (2006), and Akumajō Dracula Best Music Collections BOX (2010).
Inspiration and lore
Castlevania III: Dracula's Curse is the first game in the series to lay an explicit connection with Dracula and the real life Vlad III. The game draws inspiration from Bram Stoker's novel and states that Dracula is an evil sorcerer which was also brought forward in the novel. The only difference being that in the novel he became a vampire after his death whereas in the game he got his powers from an evil deity. This is further implied by the setting which is the 15th century, implying to take place in 1476, the year that the real Țepeș supposedly died; this is also the official date given in the series' timeline which was published later.
The character of Alucard is another movie reference which once again fits with the style of the game. His name is taken from the 1943 film Son of Dracula.
Grant's Japanese name is given as Grant Dănești, a reference to the historical house who rebelled against Vlad Dracula but were later persecuted. This fits well with Grant's role in the game, but he is never mentioned to be of a noble lineage.
Castlevania III: Dracula's Curse is notorious for having one of the largest lists of localization changes in the series:
- Aesthetic changes
- The original Japanese version used the same font as Castlevania. A new font was created for the American localization.
- The Japanese version contained the specialized sound chip VRCVI, which was removed in the North American release due to lack of support for external audio on the American NES. The VRCVI added an extra two square waves (each with eight pulse width settings instead of the standard four) and a sawtooth wave.
- In the Japanese version, the main protagonist was known as "Ralph C. Belmondo". The American localization changed it to Trevor Belmont.
- Nintendo of America had very strict policies in this regard back then. Only a glinting effect was removed from the large cross Trevor prays to at the beginning of the game.
- In the Japanese version, several enemies were colored different, had original sprites, or had slightly different attack patterns. For example, the Hunchbacks that appear in the North American version, in the Japanese original they were the same hopping Gremlins later seen in Super Castlevania IV.
- The female statues in Stage 8 are partially nude in the Japanese original. Just like in Super Castlevania IV, these statues were clothed for the American release.
- Gameplay changes
- In the original Japanese version, Grant throws daggers as his main attack and can only use the Axe as a sub-weapon. In the American localization, he wields a stabbing dagger instead and can use the Axe or the throwing Dagger as sub-weapons.
- In the original Japanese game, each enemy takes a different amount of HP away from the player. In the American localization, each enemy deals the same amount of damage to the player, although this damage increases in the later stages, similar to the original Castlevania. These changes arguably make the American localized game harder.
- The final form of Dracula was made more challenging in the American release. He fires his "laser beams" more often, and they are both longer and launched in a greater variety of directions than in the Japanese version.
- In the final stage of the Japanese original, after losing to Dracula the player begins right outside of the castle keep. In the American localization, they start back at the level's second section instead. This is another factor said to make the American localization harder.
- Many of the candles that originally contained Crosses in the Japanese version drop Daggers instead in the American localization.
- In 2006, Konami released a port of Castlevania III: Dracula's Curse for cell phones and it is part of Konami Masterpiece Series. The port is faithful to the original in terms of graphics, being almost identical. The biggest difference is that the game contains an Easy mode, similar to the 1993 Japanese re-release of the original Castlevania.
- Konami Collector's Series: Castlevania & Contra, released in 2002 for the PC, is a collection of five Konami hits from the days of the Nintendo Entertainment System: Castlevania, Castlevania II: Simon's Quest, Castlevania III: Dracula's Curse, Contra and Super C. In addition, the CD contains a Dance Dance Revolution demo. This package was released in October of 2006 and re-released for the download service GameTap. All of the games are perfect emulations of their NES counterparts; the only changes of note are the text differences found in Simon's Quest and the option to perform a quicksave.
- On May 16, 2019, Castlevania III: Dracula's Curse was re-released as part of Castlevania Anniversary Collection for PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch and Steam.
- Programmer: H. Akamatsu, M. Takemoto, Y. Okuda, S. Kitamoto
- Composers: H. Maezawa, J. Funahasi, Y. Morimoto
- Planner: I. Urata
- Director: H. Akamatsu
Dracula's Curse has contributed many things to the series that have been used extensively. Examples include recurring enemies like whip-toting skeletons named Gates of Death, Owls, and Dullahans. Dracula's Curse introduces the Belnades family, which has members that appear in other Castlevania titles, and Alucard, who is the starring character of Castlevania: Symphony of the Night. Trevor Belmont plays an important role in Castlevania: Curse of Darkness and is a playable character in the extra mode, and the story of Curse of Darkness continues shortly after the events of Dracula's Curse.
Castlevania: Dawn of Sorrow's extra mode, Julius Mode, is a clear homage to Dracula's Curse, as it features a Belmont, Belnades, and Alucard teaming up to slay the Dark Lord. Castlevania: Harmony of Dissonance borrows bosses from Dracula's Curse, such as the Leviathan Gargoyle (named Pazuzu in Harmony), Skull Knight, and the Cyclops. Zombie versions of Trevor, Grant, and Sypha serve as a boss battle in Symphony of the Night and Castlevania: Portrait of Ruin. It is unclear if the ghost ships in Castlevania: Rondo of Blood and Castlevania: Legacy of Darkness are meant as an homage to Dracula's Curse, but Dracula's Curse is the first Castlevania title to feature a haunted ship stage.
- The box art of the North American version of Dracula's Curse was created by Tom duBois.
- Dracula's Curse was the first game in the Castlevania series to use the "items and grid" password system.
- Dracula's final form in this game bares a striking similarity to statues of the Sumerian demon Pazuzu. The Japanese version implies this was not Dracula transforming into the form, but rather reviving the demon in an attempt at gaining more power.
- In Castlevania: Symphony of the Night, fake zombie versions of Trevor, Sypha, and Grant fight Alucard in the Reverse Castle. They later make a reappearance in the Nest of Evil in Castlevania: Portrait of Ruin.
- Project 51 Productions obtained the rights from Konami to create movies based on Castlevania. Their first project was going to be a direct-to-DVD feature covering the events of Dracula's Curse. The script was going to be written by comic author Warren Ellis, with art direction by James Jean. Information on the project could be found at CastlevaniaDraculasCurse.com, but even though project51productions.com still states this domain contains such information, the site itself is unavailable.
- Koji Igarashi says in an interview present in Castlevania Chronicles that Dracula's Curse (Japanese version) is one of his favorite episodes in the series, along with Rondo of Blood. His signature game, Castlevania: Symphony of the Night, pays homage to both games.
- It is the first game to feature some vocalizations (as Death is heard laughing before launching an attack in the second phase of his boss battle, and the various bosses when defeated emit a low roar), aside from the small grunts heard when taking damage in previous titles.
- In the Japanese version, at the end of the intro it's mentioned that the events of this game take place 100 years before Simon Belmont; this was removed in the overseas versions.
- According to an early preview of Electronic Gaming Monthly, the original four playable characters were Simon Belmont, Igor, Count Alucard—Dracula's brother—, and "the Vampire Hunter".
- The map of the first portion of the game is labeled as "Castlevania" even in the Japanese version. This might be the first time the term "Castlevania" was used in-game in Japan.
- Castlevania: Curse of Darkness — PS2 sequel to Dracula's Curse.
- Super Castlevania IV — The next Castlevania game on a Nintendo console.
Related music CDs
- Akumajō Densetsu SOUND TRACKS — New recording original soundtrack.
- Akumajō Dracula Famicom Best — Contains the Dracula's Curse original soundtrack.
- Akumajō Dracula Best Music Collections BOX — Contains music from this game on Disc 1 and 2.
- Another Legend - From the Legend of Demon Castle — A four pages comedy manga based on Dracula's Curse.
- Tokuma Shoten Akumajō Densetsu Guide Book — Japanese guide book, contains additional possibly official artwork.
- Nintendo Power - Castlevania III: Dracula's Curse guide — Magazine guide which contains original artwork for many of the characters and creatures.
- NES Game Atlas — Contains stage maps for this game.
- The Legend of Satanic Castle: The Vampire Hunters — A choose-your-own-adventure book featuring descendants of the four playable characters in Dracula's Curse.
- Castlevania (animated series) — An original Netflix animated series retelling the events of Dracula's Curse.
- Castlevania: The Movie — Film in the works that according to an early script is based on Dracula's Curse.
- Dracula's Curse Animated Movie — Western animation in the works based on Dracula's Curse. (canceled/in hiatus - project presumed to have evolved into the Netflix animated series instead).
- Captain N: The Game Master — Has episodes featuring elements of this game (especially Return to Castlevania).
- English Castlevania III: Dracula's Curse instruction booklet at Mr. P's Castlevania Realm
- Japanese Castlevania III: Dracula's Curse instruction booklet at Mr. P's Castlevania Realm
- Castlevania III: Dracula's Curse at the Castlevania Fan Wiki
- Konami mobile (Japanese)
- Konami Wii product page (Japanese)
- Translated Akumajō Densetsu ending
- Title at MobyGames
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Dutch architecture firm MVRDV recently converted an old industrial building in Hong Kong into new office space. The overall project size is roughly 200,000 sf. What’s unique about the project is the obsessive focus on transparency and glass.
Here’s what the interior looks like:
And here’s how the architect has described the project:
“We are moving into a transparent society, businesses are becoming more open with the public, and people care more about what goes on behind closed doors. In that way, a clear workspace leaves nothing questionable, nothing hidden; it generates trust.” Tells MVRDV co-founder Winy Maas, “But also it is an opportunity for the building to become a reminder of the industrial history of the neighbourhood, monumentalised in a casing of glass.”
I have written quite a bit about how I believe we are shifting towards a more transparent world – perhaps even a radically transparent world. And so it’s interesting to see an architect pick up on this broader theme and translate it into physical space.
The floor is transparent. The partitions are transparent. The furniture is transparent. And you can clearly discern the interfaces between old and new.
Good architecture, at least in my opinion, should reflect what is happening in our broader society. That’s why I believe that studying the history of art and architecture is really like studying the history of the world.
For more photos of the project, click here.
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A labor of love: To God Through Music
Sister Mary Lourdes Mackey (RIP) understood that children thrive with music. She knew music enriches them.
Embracing that wisdom, Sister Mary Lourdes launched a project that eventually brought national acclaim to the Sisters of Providence.
The music series, “To God Through Music,” came to life in the early 1950s and even today is believed to still be used in some elementary classrooms.
The Criterion quoted Sister Mary Lourdes in a 1962 news story as saying, “Children love music. Even when they cannot perform well, they crave it. It satisfies a spiritual, physical, intellectual, artistic and emotional need.”
Sister Mary Lourdes wrote the master plan for all eight primary grade levels. It focused on ear training, theory, hymns, chants, songs, rhythm, directed listening and creative expression. Sisters Beatrice Hoberg and Brendan Harvey (RIP) were primary contributors, though several other Sisters of Providence prepared the artwork and cover designs and served on an advisory board. Versions of the series were adapted for use in Taiwan and South America. Each grade-level book contained a teacher’s manual.
Sisters Beatrice and Brendan would share ideas.
“We had a lot of fun and excitement in writing that music series and trying it out in the classroom. In those days, we were supposed to keep quiet after 8:30 at night, and here we were, trying to write that music at 11 o’clock. It was a wonderful series,” Sister Brendan said.
“That’s true. We often were up late at night,” Sister Beatrice said. In obedience to the Rule, they didn’t talk. They passed notes. “Our superior, Sister Gertrude Marian Bauer, brought us a fan on very hot nights and a pitcher of lemonade.”
Despite the sweat and turmoil of meeting publication deadlines, the series obviously was a labor of love.
“It was one of the best things that could have happened,” Sister Beatrice said. “We still have people telling us it was the best series ever created for Catholic schools.”
Ideas came from everywhere.
Sister Beatrice remembers learning that the publisher wanted a semester’s worth of music “like yesterday. We were lacking a few songs. We were at the train depot in Indianapolis. Two children walked by, a Dutch boy and a Dutch girl. I told Sister Brendan, ‘That’s our next song,’” she recalled.
“But we also had some help from heaven, I’m sure,” she said.
Sister Beatrice said the sisters involved in the project often were called upon to present workshops or seminars to teachers and music educators.
Some of the song titles that may take sisters who used the series for a waltz down musical memory lane include “Dark Pony,” “God Sees Me,” “Snowflake,” “My Snow Suit,” “Big Bass Drum” and “Pumpkin Picking.” Of course, there was the ever-popular ditty about Johnny’s little dog B-I-N-G-O.
The teamwork Sisters Beatrice and Brendan shared is evident through their respect for each other.
“Sister Brendan tested the songs in her classroom. She was one of the finest elementary teachers we had,” Sister Beatrice said.
And, returning the compliment, Sister Brendan said, “Sister Beatrice is a very good musician, and she writes music that children can sing.” | <urn:uuid:803e3f10-3309-4889-beb4-9cbd2b090053> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://spsmw.org/2009/03/12/a-labor-of-love/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572304.13/warc/CC-MAIN-20220816120802-20220816150802-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.973616 | 785 | 2.0625 | 2 |
The US has undergone substantial social and demographic changes over the last several decades, and many of the gender gaps have narrowed. This chapter reviews the theoretical, empirical, and policy-related research on gender differences in old age in the US. It summarizes two key socio-demographic trends-changes in marriage and care work-that shape gender differences in old age. It then examines gender differences in income and health, and explores the degree to which these are addressed by current old age policies in the US. Two key factors, increases in single parenting and the increasing intensity of unpaid care work, continue to shape gender inequality across the life course and well into old age. Gender differences in health, and in access to various types of health benefits, vary significantly across the life course. Finally, this chapter evaluates some policy solutions that could reduce gender inequality in old age. When analyzing gender inequality, old age scholars tend to highlight how social and economic factors constrain individual actions across the life course. Old age scholars will continue to analyze how the recent emphasis on cutting costs and on privatizing public benefits has overshadowed policy proposals that have the potential to make existing programs more responsive to changing social and demographic trends.
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|Title of host publication||Handbook of Aging and the Social Sciences|
|Number of pages||13|
|State||Published - 2011|
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During last year's end of April holiday, we hired a mini digger to build a pond and dug a rough hole.
We weren't expecting the next step to take over a year to get around to! Having decided that our rough hole in the ground wouldn't really cut it, we bit the bullet and hired 2 men who knew what they were doing with a digger, and who turned the rough hole into this:
They added a shelf along one side and a shallow area at one end which will become a bog garden. We covered the excavation with a layer of sand:
We created a wall to separate the pond from the bog garden:
My parents came over for a pond-lining party:
During the course of last Sunday we got the underlay and liner in place and began to fill the pond.
The bog garden got a filling with water to flatten the liner. This will be pumped out when we create the bog:
The other half and I still have to conclude our argument about where to build up a rockery for a waterfall that will go around/down the middle of/next to the bog garden and I think we need to increase the height of the wall and shore up a low point in the banking, but it's already been idyllic to sit on the edge of the pond in the sunshine, dangling our feet in the water and watching the sky reflected in the water's ripples, and the water reflected on the branches of the willows at the edge of the pond.
It's now payday and my fingers are itching to get out my bank card and splurge on plants! I can't wait to see it planted up and see what moves in!
A closed mouth gathers no foot.
You look as though you are off to a good start with your pond, it looks great,
sounds so relaxing by your pond, please keep us up-dated on the progress of your pond, we would love to see it as it gets established,
In reply to doggie:
Brilliant job! A really good size, too. One word of caution, however;- Waterfalls can sometimes be problematic, & a source of mysterious leaks;- If you build one up within the area of the pond liner, any leaks can only fall back into the pond. (I've gone out to half-empty ponds an embarrassing number of times...)
In reply to bruciethefish:
Thanks Brucie. The waterfall should bisect the bog garden bit so anything coming out of it should hopefully stay at least somewhere in the region of the pond. I'll put an extra bit of liner under it just in case!
In reply to Maisie:
Fantastic, that'll look amazing when its done. I witnessed 2 red damselflys mating next to my pond for the first time, it really made all my hard work worth while. You won't be dissapointed once the wildlife comes.
In reply to Wilbur:
So, a few months later and it's still not done (something that will come as no surprise to anyone who knows the usual speed of any DIY in this household). The dividing wall had to be raised by a layer to stop water passing between the 2 sections, which meant lifting the liner and re-laying it. We did try to cheat by adding a layer on top and covering it with another liner, but it wasn't waterproof. That's enabled the main section to fill all the way to the top, rather than a few inches short. I was all set to add plants and visited an aquatics nursery. The owner advised us that putting marginal plants in baskets along the shelf would look unnatural and risk taller plants falling over due to lack of support. He suggested making a row of bricks along the edge of the shelf and filling with a few inches of heavy clay soil. Naturally our wall of reclaimed paviors is unfinished and we haven't dug up any soil yet, but I did invest in some floating planters so I could have at least *some* plants!
Hosepipe and rainwater have filled the pond. The recent flooding made it one with the surrounding area for a while and actually lifted the liner even with some aerated concrete blocks on top! Since then I've made a few holes in that smaller section's liner and nearly covered the bottom with gravel, adding the first few breeze blocks that will make a stable foundation for a central section with the waterfall and wider rockery area.
I'm planning to schlep to Wickes again tomorrow lunchtime for a last few bags of gravel. Once the liner's fully covered, THEN I can start on the fun bit of building the rockery. Since the other half and I disagreed on the waterfall bit (he thinks it'll be too tall and look out of place. I disagree.) I get to build it. I've already built one rockery and look forward to the creative challenge. But not the endless barrowing of soil or lugging of really big rocks.
In the meantime the water beetles and whirligigs have already moved in and today I saw a grey wagtail (a new species for our garden!) having a drink in the shallow sloped bit. Fingers crossed for some good weather so I can get the rockery done and finish making something to hold up some cobbles for the slope.
Fabulous, Maisie! It's as good as making one ourselves, without the disadvantage of having to do all the work! Congrats on the Wagtail; really looking forward to hearing what else arrives, please.
In reply to Birdie Wild:
Hi Maisie, Your pond looks brilliant!! Should attract lots of wildlife, wonderful :)
In reply to wildlifeloversharon:
Wow that's incredible!! ok forward to seeing it mature.
'In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks' John Muir.
Excuse wobbily dyslexic spelling!
In reply to osprey:
Wonderful MAISIE - very well done indeed. Super pic of the damselflys too. I hope you post pics of the pond as it matures
In reply to Cirrus:
I know how you must feel as I had a pond dug in my garden in the Loire Valley just
under 3 years ago. lots of planting round the edge and it already looking as though
it has been there for years. I have frogs - very noisy - and fish, although I thought
I had made a mistake as they eat tadpoles, etc., but there a quite a few little froglets
around - about 1" long.
But my joy knew no bounds when I saw a kingfisher sitting on one of the plants and
then actually catch one of the small goldfish.
I posted about on rural gardens in France.
Patience is needed but you will be so rewarded with wildlife and very soon. It is
amazing how they find their way to water.
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