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As I point out in my new book, A Government of Wolves: The Emerging American Police State, there are several methods for controlling a population. You can intimidate the citizenry into obedience through force, relying on military strength and weaponry such as SWAT team raids, militarized police, and a vast array of lethal and nonlethal weapons. You can manipulate them into marching in lockstep with your dictates through the use of propaganda and carefully timed fear tactics about threats to their safety, whether through the phantom menace of terrorist attacks or shooting sprees by solitary gunmen. Or you can indoctrinate them into compliance from an early age through the schools, discouraging them from thinking for themselves while rewarding them for regurgitating whatever the government, through its so-called educational standards, dictates they should be taught.
Those who founded America believed that an educated citizenry knowledgeable about their rights was the surest means of preserving freedom. If so, then the inverse should also hold true: that the surest way for a government to maintain its power and keep the citizenry in line is by rendering them ignorant of their rights and unable to think for themselves.
When viewed in light of the government’s ongoing attempts to amass power at great cost to Americans — in terms of free speech rights, privacy, due process, etc. — the debate over Common Core State Standards, which would transform and nationalize school curriculum from kindergarten through 12th grade, becomes that much more critical.
Essentially, these standards, which were developed through a partnership between big government and corporations, in the absence of any real input from parents or educators with practical, hands-on classroom experience, and are being rolled out in 45 states and the District of Columbia, will create a generation of test-takers capable of little else, molded and shaped by the federal government and its corporate allies into what it considers to be ideal citizens.
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It is not uncommon to use courtesy in a professional or administrative email, but its use varies depending on the recipient and the context.
Sending an email is highly coded depending on the recipient or the context of the message. Whether you’re sending a CV, a cover letter, a business proposal, an order form, or just an informal message, there are often rules to follow, particularly with regard to courtesy. What courtesy formula to use in an e-mail according to the context? It is recommended touse proper polite form to avoid making a bad impression on the recipient of the email, especially if it is a hierarchical superior, for example.
What courtesy formula to choose according to the context?
Good for you
In a way, this polite formula reveals submission. It is the continuity of formulas present in letters from the 18th and 19th centuries that could include expressions such as “I am all yours” or “I belong to you”. Today it is used for be more polite than certain more common forms of courtesy such as “cordially.” It has been stripped of the somewhat erotic substance that was fashionable centuries ago.
Etymologically, the word means “with all my heart”. This is the most used formula at the end of emails, but this polite formula should not be used inappropriately. It is recommended whenan exchange between peers or between two people who know each other. Therefore, it is recommended to use it after several email exchanges where it will be possible to change from “The best for you” to “Greetings”.
You can also use “Best regards”. This formula means even more respect.
While “Greetings” can be used in some of the scenarios listed above, it is not recommendedchoose an abbreviation as “Cdt” or “well Cdt” since implicitly this means that we consider courtesy as non-essential. Writing a few more letters doesn’t take any more time and could help tip the scales in your favor.
This formula is rarely used in an email. However, she gives a certain solemnity to the exchange Allows the interlocutor feel valued. Therefore, it can be used against a hierarchical superior. On the other hand, it belongs to a supported registry and will be use sparingly when approaching a company that presents itself as “cool”.
Please accept my best regards
This polite, relatively pompous formula must use with caution in paper correspondence where it can survive in the official administrative mail. However, this polite formula has no misplaced in an email. In fact, it is too long. It is rather advisable to privilege the courtesy formulas “distinguished greetings” or “yours” to show a high level of courtesy in your electronic exchanges.
What is the role of the polite formula?
an email is a long-distance conversation between two well-identified people. Just as a speaker shakes hands with his interlocutor at the beginning and end of the exchange, the sender of an email should greet his correspondent at the beginning of his message and bid him farewell with an appropriate form of courtesy. Meanwhile, he will have explained to her the subject of her message, arguing it in clear terms. He will also have specified the type of response or action expected.
The polite formula in an email is revealer of know-how. In front of a hierarchical superior, he also acquires a character of deference that reflects the recognition of his quality and rank. In all cases, the courteous formula predisposes to a better listening and a better receptivity on the part of the addressee. Is it necessary to remember that courtesy in an email also implies quality communication : precise vocabulary, concise text, clear application, impeccable spelling?
Polite expressions should be chosen in accordance with two criteria :
- The quality of the recipient.
- The context of the exchange.
If the recipient is not identifiable (this is the case of emails sent to an administration), a mixed call formula is required: “Ma’am, sir”. And to conclude, choose a polite and laconic formula like “Respectfully”, for example.
In the professional context and when the email is addressed to superior, choose a personalized or very deferential appeal formula. Among colleagues, the use of more familiar opening formulas is essential. The choice of the final formula depends on the degree of familiarity between the two colleagues. This can range from “Saludos cordiales”, “Bien cordialmente” to “Bien à toi” or “Amicablement”.
What are the polite formulas in English?
Between friends, starting formulas like “Hello” or “Hello” are essential. In more solemn relationships, it is more advisable to start with a more polite formula such as “Dear”, for example. In any case, it is important to conclude with one of the established formulas such as “A cordial greeting” or “Cordial greetings”. | <urn:uuid:61ea9047-5773-48e8-aaf8-7eee4ef32192> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://akhbarit.com/courtesy-formula-in-an-e-mail-how-to-choose/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573540.20/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819005802-20220819035802-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.940892 | 1,079 | 1.9375 | 2 |
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Recognising the variety of knowledge that combines to enhance this practice, our Engineering portfolio offers resources on the scientific, mathematic, economic, physical and social practices of Engineering.
Publishing bestselling books and journals within the field such as Systems Design and Engineering and Introduction to Thermodynamics of Materials, now in its 6th edition, we aim to elevate the specialist body of practical and theoretical knowledge necessary to support students and professionals in applying this knowledge to invent, design and build.
Virtual and Physical Prototyping is online only. We welcome authors to submit supplementary data sets, colour images, animation and videos to publish with your articles to enhance the content experience of the journal.
Building Research and Information (BRI) focuses on the entire life cycle of buildings, from inception to designing, engineering and making, through the building in use phase, to disassembly and recovery. Unique to BRI is a holistic and interdisciplinary approach to a sustainable built environment, centered on the building and its context.
Materials and Manufacturing Processes deals with issues that result in better utilization of raw materials and energy, integration of design and manufacturing activities requiring the invention of suitable new manufacturing processes and techniques, unmanned production dependent on efficient and reliable control of various processes including intelligent processing, introduction of new materials in industrial production necessitating new manufacturing process technology, and more.
This highly successful book is now updated in line with the 18th Edition of the Wiring Regulations. Electrical Installation Work provides a topic by topic progression through the areas of electrical installations, including how and why electrical installations are designed, installed and tested.
Maintaining the substance that made Introduction to the Thermodynamic of Materials a perennial best seller for decades, this Sixth Edition is updated to reflect the broadening field of materials science and engineering.
Time-pressed, professionals looking for practical guidance to shape their current or future safety programs should use this book. Pre-Accident Investigations: An Introduction to Organizational Safety helps to identify complex potential incidents before they take place. | <urn:uuid:675dd5a9-059c-43ea-a3cf-e6365507f33d> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://taylorandfrancis.com/knowledge/engineering/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570879.37/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809003642-20220809033642-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.911995 | 417 | 2.25 | 2 |
The View From The Cheap Seats
By: Neil Gaiman
Genre: Non-fiction, Writing, Essays, Short Stories,
Rating: 3.7 rating
Publisher: William Marrow
Re-release Date: May 15, 2017
The New York Times bestselling non-fiction collection, now in paperback, from the author of American Gods, now a STARZ Original Series.
An enthralling collection of nonfiction essays on a myriad of topics—from art and artists to dreams, myths, and memories—observed in #1 New York Times bestselling author Neil Gaiman’s probing, amusing, and distinctive style.
An inquisitive observer, thoughtful commentator, and assiduous craftsman, Neil Gaiman has long been celebrated for the sharp intellect and startling imagination that informs his bestselling fiction. Now, The View from the Cheap Seats brings together for the first time ever more than sixty pieces of his outstanding nonfiction. Analytical yet playful, erudite yet accessible, this cornucopia explores a broad range of interests and topics, including (but not limited to): authors past and present; music; storytelling; comics; bookshops; travel; fairy tales; America; inspiration; libraries; ghosts; and the title piece, at turns touching and self-deprecating, which recounts the author’s experiences at the 2010 Academy Awards in Hollywood.
Insightful, incisive, witty, and wise, The View from the Cheap Seats explores the issues and subjects that matter most to Neil Gaiman—offering a glimpse into the head and heart of one of the most acclaimed, beloved, and influential artists of our time.
I enjoyed this book because the selections were so vast and progressive. Neil covers topics linked to movies, films, music, books and several other topics that range in a tone of positivity and objectivity, with an imaginative progression, even with the subjects he has less love for than others. I knew going into the book that I would read about pieces of his life and learn more about how he perceives the world, but I can honestly say that what I liked most about reading this book was the way the essays and notations were engaging, light-hearted, funny and engrossing. It was kind of inspiring, at times to read and feel his optimism.
I selected a few articles in this book that I knew I wanted to read and ended up just freely getting caught up in others. For most readers who pick up this book, whether a fan of Gaiman or not, I think this collection will have the same effect. I’d recommend this book for book enthusiast who also likes to get caught up in books that offer layered content without anything complex or overbearing. It’s a good book to have on your shelf to pick up to read at any time and it would make a great road trip book as well.
About The Author:
Neil Gaiman is the New York Times bestselling author of the novels Neverwhere, Stardust, American Gods, Coraline, Anansi Boys, The Graveyard Book, Good Omens (with Terry Pratchett), The Ocean at the End of the Lane, and The Truth Is a Cave in the Black Mountains; the Sandman series of graphic novels; and the story collections Smoke and Mirrors, Fragile Things, and Trigger Warning. He is the winner of numerous literary honors, including the Hugo, Bram Stoker, and World Fantasy awards, and the Newbery and Carnegie Medals. Originally from England, he now lives in the United States. He is Professor in the Arts at Bard College.
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Pandemic restrictions on funeral services resulted in New York Army and Air National Guard honor guard teams providing over 2,000 fewer military funeral services in 2020 than in 2019.
The honor guard soldiers and airmen expected to conduct 8,835 military honors at veteran's funerals by the end of 2020.
In 2019, the New York Army and Air National Guard provided military honors for 11,006 families.
The New York Army and Air National Guard provided military burial honors 11,326 times in 2018 and 11,170 times in 2017.
A 2000 federal law mandates former members of the U.S. military who served on active duty or the reserves and who did not receive a dishonorable discharge are eligible for military funeral honors.
All former service members' funerals must include the folding and presenting of an American flag to his or her survivors and the playing of taps. The two-person teams usually use an electronic bugle – a bugle with a sound system and speaker inside.
The New York Army National Guard provides funeral honors through a centralized program.
The New York Air National Guard maintains honor guards at its five airbases and the Eastern Air Defense Sector headquarters in Rome, New York.
Restrictions on the number of people who could be present at funerals early in the pandemic and many families deciding to not hold a formal burial, or funeral, drove the decline in numbers, said Peter Moran, the coordinator for the New York Army National Guard's military funeral honors program.
A Veterans Administration decision to discontinue graveside services and military funeral honors at national cemeteries for part of the year, also drove the decline in funeral missions, Moran said.
Air National Guard Tech Sgt. Anthony Villalon, the noncommissioned officer in charge of the honor guard for the 106th Rescue Wing at Gabreski Air National Guard Base, said his teams also were invited to fewer funerals: "We saw a significant decline in the months of March, April and May. These months are usually are busiest months, I believe the lockdowns and the overall impact of COVID risk caused the decline.”
The 106th Rescue Wing team is traditionally the busiest in the National Guard because of the two million residents of Long Island and the fact that Calverton National Cemetery is located on Long Island.
Funeral homes were conducting funerals quickly and not requesting honors, although funeral directors said they expected to request military honors at later memorial services, according to Master Sgt. Sara Pastorello, the public affairs superintendent for the 105th Airlift Wing at Stewart Air National Guard Base in the Hudson Valley.
"We just stopped receiving requests," said Master Sgt. Ryan Snyder, who heads the Niagara Falls Air Reserve Station Base Honor Guard.
While the COVID-19 pandemic played a significant part in this, Snyder said he thinks many families put off services until their loved one could be interred in a new veterans cemetery that opened on Dec. 18.
The Niagara Falls honor guard is a joint function of the Air National Guard's 107th Attack Wing and the Air Force Reserve's 914th Air Refueling Wing.
The New York Army National Guard's eight military funeral honors offices normally conduct 700 funerals each month, Moran said. In March, April and June 2020, those numbers dropped.
In March, there were 513 funeral missions, which went down to 229 in April, 337 in May and 511 in June before climbing back up to the average when restrictions on funeral attendance were loosened, Moran said.
New York, and especially New York City and its suburbs, were hit early by the COVID-19 pandemic.
The New York Army National Guard has honor guard offices in the Bronx, Queens, Long Island, Latham, Buffalo, Rochester, Syracuse and Horseheads.
As of Dec. 23, New York Army National Guard military funeral teams had provided honors for 7,005 families. It was expected the funeral teams would conduct 145 more funerals by Dec. 31, for a total of 7,190, Moran said.
The New York Army National Guard provides honors for those who served in the Army or, in the case of World War II veterans, the Army Air Forces.
The three offices covering New York City and Long Island handled 5,041 funerals in 2019, according to Moran. In 2020, that figure was 4,125.
The teams in upstate New York performed 3,415 military funeral honors in 2019. In 2020, they provided honors 2,880 times.
Families who decided to forgo military honors can apply for them to be conducted later through their funeral director, Moran said.
There are 40 soldiers who work full-time providing military funeral honors and another 50 who can be called upon on a part-time basis when required, according to Moran.
In 2020, New York Air National Guard honors teams took part in 1,639 funeral services as of Dec. 23, and expected to provide honors 46 more times before Jan. 1, for a total of 1,685.
In 2019, the New York Air National Guard conducted 2,403 military funeral honors services.
Both Army and Air Guard honor's teams had to change the way they do things to cope with the pandemic. The Army National Guard honor guard soldiers immediately began wearing masks, Moran said. They also practiced staying 6 feet away from mourners.
Air Guard honor guard teams also began wearing masks and practicing social distancing. At Niagara Falls, Snyder's wife sewed face masks for the team when the supply system could not provide white masks.
The most significant change was during the presentation of the flag to the veteran's family, Moran said.
Traditionally, the leader of the team kneels and presents the flag to a family member on "behalf of a grateful nation."
Instead, the flag was folded and placed on the coffin or behind a cremains urn and the soldier made their remarks from 6 feet away, he said.
The Air Guard made this change too and it was tough, Villalon said. "It was a learning curve not being able to be as social with the mourners as possible. It has been a unique challenge for us, because we are a people person function of the Air Force."
Funeral honors by office and Air Base for 2020 and 2019:
√ New York Army National Guard.
•Long Island: 2,219 in 2020 and 2,981 in 2019
•Bronx: 939 in 2020 and 1,088 in 2019
•Queens: 967 in 2020 and 1,045 in 2019
•Albany area: 752 in 2020 and 869 in 2019
•Buffalo: 830 in 2020 and 963 in 2019
•Rochester: 551 in 2020 and 772 in 2019
•Syracuse: 464 in 2020 and 559 in 2019
•Horseheads: 283 in 2020 and 327 in 2019
√ New York Air National Guard
•105th Airlift Wing, Stewart Air National Guard Base, Newburgh: 140 funerals in 2020 and 240 funerals in 2019
•106th Rescue Wing, F.S. Gabreski Air National Guard Base, Westhampton Beach: 624 funerals in 2020 and 1,058 in 2019
•107th Attack Wing/ 914th Airlift Wing, Niagara Falls Air Reserve Station, Niagara Falls: 361 in 2020 and 412 in 2019
•109th Airlift Wing, Stratton Air National Guard Base, Scotia: 239 in 2020 and 375 in 2019
•174th Attack Wing, Hancock Field Air National Guard Base, Syracuse: 275 in 2020 and 296 in 2019
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In late August 2020, 118 Ghanaian migrants stranded in Libya due to COVID-19 restrictions were able to go back home. The flight was the first under the International Organization for Migration’s Voluntary Humanitarian Return (VHR) programme since the outbreak of the pandemic.
Several VHR flights to different countries in Africa have since followed, providing a lifeline to migrants who were unable to leave conflict-torn Libya by themselves due to COVID-19 related travel and movement restrictions.
They were made possible through the EU-IOM Joint Initiative for Migrant Protection and Reintegration, which marks its fourth anniversary this month. The programme was launched in December 2016, under the EU Emergency Trust Fund for Africa agreed in the Valetta Summit in response to the urgent need to protect and save migrants’ lives and strengthen migration governance along Central Mediterranean migration routes. Sustained investment is needed to consolidate these results and continue providing urgent protection and critical assistance to vulnerable migrants along these routes.
Since the outbreak of COVID-19, the EU-IOM Joint Initiative has been working with governments to ensure that migrants are protected and, where necessary, supported with voluntary return home. IOM has successfully negotiated with the Nigerien government and governments of origin the opening of humanitarian corridors to allow for the voluntary return of close to 2 500 migrants to Mali, Guinea, Burkina Faso, Benin, Nigeria and Cameroon.
Six special voluntary return flights organised with support from the Government of Algeria since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic enabled 468 stranded migrants and international students to return safely from Algeria to 10 countries of origin.
As the impact of COVID-19 started to be felt in communities across the Sahel and Lake Chad, North Africa, and Horn of Africa regions, the EU-IOM Joint Initiative stepped in to empower local authorities, residents and migrants to address and mitigate the spread of the virus and prepare for the future.
In Senegal, the programme helped authorities assess the health of cross-border travellers by providing personal protective equipment, training to border agents and community engagement activities along its borders with Mali, Guinea and The Gambia.
In Mauritania, the EU-IOM Joint Initiative conducted training and donated medical and protective equipment in partnership with the World Health Organisation to strengthen the Government’s management of the pandemic.
In Burkina Faso, Chad, The Gambia, Ghana, Guinea Bissau, Mali, and Niger, the programme revised ongoing awareness raising activities to include information sessions and sensitisation on COVID-19 prevention measures.
The COVID-19 outbreak has reinforced uncertainty and anxiety among returnees, exacerbating their existing psychosocial vulnerabilities. In West Africa, the EU-IOM Joint Initiative has put in place remote psychosocial support and regular follow-up for vulnerable returnees and other migrants stranded in transit centres to facilitate their reintegration process in the pandemic context.
In the Horn of Africa, the seven Migration Response Centres (MRCs) in Djibouti, Ethiopia, Somalia, Somaliland and Puntland continued to fill a critical gap by providing direct life-saving assistance, including medical assistance and psychosocial support to vulnerable migrants.
In Sudan, the programme extended psychosocial support via tele-counselling to returnees and migrants whose situation had been worsened by the pandemic. In Bosasso, Puntland, MRC staff expanded outreach activities to informal settlements populated by migrants. A hotline enables migrants to request information, and to make appointments for medical assistance or assisted voluntary return.
In North Africa, migrants hosted in the two transit centres in Algeria’s capital Algiers benefitted from remote group and individual mental health and psychosocial support sessions (MHPSS) during their extended waiting time for departure due to COVID-19 travel restrictions. The sessions were conducted in cooperation with the Algerian Association of Psychologists. MHPSS sessions were also occasionally provided in response to urgent needs to migrants outside transit centres.
In Egypt, in response to requests for support from migrants, community leaders, partner organisations and embassies, the EU-IOM Joint Initiative distributed more than 2 500 food and hygiene kits in Alexandria, Cairo, Hurghada and Al-Fayoum, and increased COVID-19 related awareness raising activities through community leaders.
As COVID-19 restrictions are being gradually lifted across the three regions, the programme is working closely with national authorities in countries of origin, transit and destination to facilitate the voluntary return of vulnerable and stranded migrants that need protection and lifesaving assistance along key migration routes.
Upon return, migrants are eligible for reintegration assistance, including counselling, referral to existing programmes and services (training, medical and psychosocial assistance), or in-kind support. Additionally, they can join collective or community-based projects to set up a business with other returnees or community members.
Since May 2017, over 87 700 migrants were supported with voluntary return assistance, while more than 102 500 received post-arrival and reintegration support.
The EU-IOM Joint initiative provides critical support to local partners, including capacity building for migration data collection and analysis. The programme has a key role in improving coordination among countries of origin, transit, and destination.
The EU-IOM Joint Initiative for Migrant Protection and Reintegration brings together 26 African countries of the Sahel and Lake Chad region, the Horn of Africa, and North Africa, the EU and IOM around the shared goal of ensuring that migration is safer, more informed and better governed for both migrants and their communities.
The EU and its Member States have provided €450 million in funding for the EU-IOM Joint Initiative.
- Publication date
- 22 December 2020
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Some ants steal food. Some ants invade homes. There are even some ants that cause property damage. Only one ant, however, does all three. If you have never heard of carpenter ants, we have a few things you need to hear. To prevent these home-destroying pests from coming onto your College Station property, use this clever, but effective, secret.
Carpenter Ants: More Than Home Invaders
Most ants species invade homes through pre-existing cracks, gaps, or openings and build their nests inside wall voids. Carpenter ants, on the other hand, build their homes directly in the wood of a house or other wood structure. Using their strong front mandibles, these pests chew out intricate pathways that interweave themselves through a structure. The more carpenter ants that are in a home, the more extensive property damage becomes.
How To Identify A Carpenter Ant Infestation
The good news is that carpenter ants do not eat wood as termites do. Why is this good? Well, it means these pests have to show themselves in order to get a bite to eat. Most often, this involves crawling into a home and scavenging for food out in the open. Identify a carpenter ant inside your home by its one-quarter to one-half-inch long red, black, or red and black body.
If carpenter ants find food outside your house but still use it as a location to build their nest, identification can be a bit more difficult. In this situation, we recommend starting your search outside. Inspect your home’s exterior first for live carpenter ants, then for tiny entrance holes. Frass (sawdust) stuck to walls or in piles around your house is another good way to know carpenter ants are nearby.
Finally, if all else fails, let the professionals at D. Lee Pest Services take a look. We have the tools and training needed to identify carpenter ant infestations in their earliest developmental stages and would be happy to come out and take a look for you.
Prevention Tips For Carpenter Ants
When it comes to preventing carpenter ants, you can either reduce your chances of an infestation, or 100% ensure these pests stay away. The difference is whether or not you invest in professional pest control.
If you absolutely cannot afford a pest control plan for your College Station property, here are a few ways to mitigate your risk of an infestation:
- Keep your lawn cut short and your landscaping well-trimmed.
- Cut back bushes and tree branches at least five feet from your home’s exterior.
- Eliminate sources of water buildup around your property.
- Make sure your gutters are in good working order.
- Use a caulking gun to fill in holes, cracks, and gaps in your home’s exterior.
- Fix broken window or door screens, door sweeps, and weatherstripping.
- Repair or replace water-damaged, rotting, or decaying structural wood around your home.
- Keep your home as clean as possible, making sure not to neglect beneath large kitchen appliances and furniture.
- Pick up and clean out your pet’s food and water bowls after they finish each meal.
If you are looking for a simpler way to eliminate carpenter ants, let the experts at D. Lee Pest Services help. Looking for an economical option that doesn’t break your budget? We have a plan for that. Worried that your home currently has a carpenter ant infestation? We offer detailed inspections. Care about the job getting done, right? We only use industry-leading equipment and advanced pest control methods when handling carpenter ants. | <urn:uuid:5b9e51e4-eb22-4ead-adc4-e8eb2a53bc28> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.dleepestservices.com/blog/post/use-these-secrets-to-avoid-carpenter-ants-in-college-station | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573104.24/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817183340-20220817213340-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.925654 | 762 | 2.234375 | 2 |
Save On An Allinone Learning Platform That Introduces Your Kids To Raspberry Pi
Put your kid’s electronics obsession to good use by investing in the CrowPi2, an all-in-one STEM learning platform(opens in a new tab) that doubles as a portable laptop.
First things first, the CrowPi2 serves as a fully-functional Raspberry Pi laptop, with its own built-in screen, keyboard, and trackpad. It also has a number of ports that allow you to connect external devices (like a mouse or HDMI cable), and use it as a typical portable computer. It’s a bit clunky compared to modern computers, but considering it's built for kids learning STEM, its build is fine.
As far as learning goes, the self-developed software is mainly for learning Scratch, Python, AI, and Minecraft API through step-by-step engaging dialogue. All of the content is wrapped in a child-friendly package, but adults have also mentioned having a blast with this thing. Kids can also create their own DIY circuits on the breadboard, make a piano using different fruits, learn to code, play with face- and speech-recognition software, and so much more. The longer kids explore CrowPi2, the more they’ll discover.
The basic kit is meant to be a learning toolkit that comes with software and hardware to explore, but you can also connect it to the internet and use it as a regular laptop when the day is done. Your kids can even use it to watch the painfully annoying YouTube videos they love so much. EMAIL
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Unsurprisingly, the CrowPi2(opens in a new tab) is the most funded Raspberry Pi laptop on Kickstarter, raising over $644,000. It became available to the public in 2020 and is even being used in schools to teach kids STEM skills. Grab one on sale for just $319.99 for your kids (and dabble around a bit to grow your own STEM skills in the process). That’s just $10 less than MSRP, but every dollar counts. | <urn:uuid:6682c811-e9fb-4b48-a98b-9a699512be3f> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://wiki.seds.org/index.php?title=Save_On_An_Allinone_Learning_Platform_That_Introduces_Your_Kids_To_Raspberry_Pi | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572304.13/warc/CC-MAIN-20220816120802-20220816150802-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.945645 | 438 | 2.59375 | 3 |
With this Blockchain technology, it is comfortable to build applications where one to more additional parties can reserve transactions instantly without any need for a central authority to confirm that trades are confirmed.
Blockchain vs Cryptocurrency: Don’t Stay Confused
A number of individuals are just recently explored the world of blockchains. Human beings usually confused blockchains with cryptocurrencies. A few people believe that they are just identical but you can assume that they are not the same item.
So, there is a question that arises in mind what is the difference between Blockchain and Cryptocurrencies.
Here, In this article, you will comprehend every single thing about the difference between Blockchain and Cryptocurrency.
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Blockchain is a data storage technique that makes it difficult or impossible to manipulate, hack, or cheat the system.
A blockchain is a distributed digital ledger (DLT) of transactions that is duplicated and distributed across the network of computers that make up the cryptocurrency. With this technology, it is easy to make applications where one to more parties can store transactions directly without any need for a central authority to confirm that trades are confirmed.
This is done by the peer-to-peer network where every person has access to a shared ledger where all the transaction is recorded.
- A blockchain is a kind of transferred database that varies from a specific database in that way it holds informatic blockchains and holds info in the blocks that are connected with cryptography.
- As fresh info arises, it is taken up into a fresh block. Once the block is loaded with information, it is connected with another block via chain which becomes the data chained together in documented order.
A bureau of measurement, a store of worth, and a medium of exchange all are parts of cryptocurrency. A cryptocurrency is assisted presently by the blockchain protocol where it drives, that's why it is called the blockchain’s native currency.
- In numerous circumstances, cryptocurrencies are not only utilized to pay exchange fees on the network but also encourage users to hold the cryptocurrency’s network Protected.
- Cryptocurrencies generally act as the center of exchange or hold worth. A center of exchange is an asset that is used to receive goods or services.
- Digital representations of value, commonly referred to as crypto assets, are made possible by blockchain technology and Cryptography. Their original purpose was to act as a means of value transfer without the involvement of a bank or other reliable third party.
Blockchain is a type of database that is utilized for holding data on decentralized networks. A cryptocurrency is a form of the trade like the US dollar. A blockchain can be used for keeping various kinds of information far off cryptocurrency transaction records.
All cryptocurrencies carry an economic value. You must have listened of Bitcoin hitting a rise of 65,000 dollars (around 48 lac rupees) or Ether approaching around 4,000 dollars (about 3 lac rupees). A blockchain does not have any economic value.
Blockchain technology has benefits far from cryptocurrencies. Blockchain can be used for storing information in moneylending, wellness, supply chain, and retail. Cryptocurrency is virtual money, which can be used for trades, purchasing goods and services, and for investment.
The benefit of blockchain is that it is decentralized and distributed which means that all the records that are stored on the blockchain are not controlled by a single entity. however, the information on cryptocurrencies is kept in the blockchain and can be accessed by wallets. If you have a bitcoin wallet then you can trade from anywhere with that person who holds the same currency.
Blockchain provides transparency as every transaction on the blockchain can be visual publicly by all the miners or users. In other words, crypto trades are regarded as safe because cryptocurrencies do not indicate the authenticity of the owner of the crypto and make it anonymous although the origin of the transaction can be seen.
Blockchain is a type of database that holds information.
A cryptocurrency is a form of trade that which information is stored on the blockchain.
Blockchain doe not have an economic value.
Cryptocurrency carrying an economic value
Blockchain can be used for storing information in moneylending, wellness, etc.
Cryptocurrency is virtual money that is used for trades, and purchasing goods and services.
All records that are stored on the blockchain is not controlled by a single person because It is decentralized over the world.
The information on cryptocurrency is kept in the blockchain and can be accessed by wallets. If you have a bitcoin wallet then you can trade from anywhere with that person who holds the same currency.
Every transaction on the blockchain is publicly visible by the miners and users so that the blockchain provides transparency
Cryptocurrency does not show the authenticity of the owner of the crypto. It is safe and makes it anonymous although the origin of the transaction can be seen.
Final Words: Blockchain vs Cryptocurrency
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Watch this video and tell us safety isn’t important.
One ‘rogue wave’ and fisherman John, without a safety harness and PFD (Personal Flotation Device), would have been washed away, never to be seen – alive – again.
Or that is what fishing vessel owner John Clark believes, after watching last week’s incident unfold on the CCTV footage from Reliance III.
The Fraserburgh-based fisherman is a keen safety advocate for the fishing industry and has released the short clip to demonstrate how important safety equipment is onboard.
“The video shows why safety measures are lifesavers, fishing is a dangerous profession however careful you are – you are miles away at sea, often on your own, if something goes wrong, it’s going to be bad,” he said.
“There’s sometimes a bit of reluctance and crews can say things like ‘it’s because of you saying this that I have more costs and regulations to follow’, but that is the point: Look at how many fishermen don’t come home, the safety equipment and regulations are what bring those fishermen home.
“We’ve had a number of losses in this area in the last year, it’s a big problem around here.
“Fishing is the most dangerous job in the world, but it doesn’t have to be, people can be stubborn about spending the money on the safety gear, but considering what it does, that view doesn't make sense to me. You can’t put a price on a person’s life.
“The sad reality is that the message is not always getting through, and it really needs to, that’s why I published this video – I hope to help get the message through.
“The last thing I ever want to have to do is knock on a family’s door and have to be the person that gives them the worst news of their life, their loved one isn’t coming home.”
He said his crew were pulling up their nets, approximately 50 nautical miles off Scrabster, north Scotland, on Wednesday night in stormy conditions when the colossal wave completely engulfed the 20m twin-rig trawler.
When the water subsides enough to see what is left behind, it becomes clear the force of it had swept crewman John off his feet and into the heavy swell.
But rather than watching a tragedy unfold, John is not at the mercy of the wave; he is able to stay close to the central pole before eventually standing up. Other than looking understandably confused and drenched through, he is fine.
“That’s why safety is so important,” his boss John said.
“I tell the guys to ‘wear your harness and PFD, it will save your life one day’, this is exactly why I tell them that. If he hadn’t been wearing them, we would not be having this nice conversation today.
“The safety measures I have on board my vessel are there to save lives but the key thing is that he used them.”
John Clark, has fully embraced safety measures in the fishing industry, having experienced a scary moment in 2013.
The 49-year-old said he found himself in a man overboard incident and realised how easily it can happen.
“I was dragged over the side of my own vessel when we were a long way from the coast and I was very, very lucky,” he explained. "My arm got twisted in a rope and so I stayed connected to the boat. It did some damage, but it kept me alive.
“It’s very fair to say that if I hadn’t been attached, I wouldn’t be here now. It made me realise how dangerous fishing can be, and it made me very safety conscious.
“My guy just learned the same valuable lesson that I did almost 10 years ago, if he wasn’t attached to the boat, we would probably be having a very different, and difficult, conversation. He told me he knows the harness is why he wasn’t washed off the deck.”
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The Region 2 PHTC conducted comprehensive training needs assessments in New York, New Jersey, and the US Virgin Islands from September 2015 to September 2018. Select your state/territory/commonwealth to view your results.
Highest Priority Training Needs
Council on Linkages Core Competencies
- Turn data into information for action.
- Plan, implement, evaluate, and improve policies or programs.
- Understand and effectively respond to the diversity of individuals and populations in a community.
Skill Area Training Needs within the Core Competencies for Public Health Professionals
Public Health Content Areas
- Health Disparities, Health Equity, Social Determinants of Health
- Behavioral Health – Mental Health and Substance Abuse
- Health Informatics and Health Information Technology
Leadership Rating of Training Needs Among Content Focus Areas Across All Regional PHTCS
Essential Public Health Services
- Monitor health status to identify and solve community health problems
- Inform, educate, and empower people about health issues
- Mobilize community partnership and action to identify and solve health problems
Training Needs Supporting the 10 Essential Public Health Services
In New York City, Region 2 PHTC researchers collaborated with the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (DOHMH) Bureau of Public Health Training and Information Dissemination and the Bureau of Human Resources and Labor Relations to develop a standardized anonymous, online survey to assess training and professional development needs among all DOHMH staff. The survey was launched between July and September 2017 to assess importance and proficiency-level of 143 skills in 12 foundational public health domains (based on or adapted from the 2014 Core Competencies for Public Health Professionals) and six general work domains among 7,848 DOHMH employees. A total of 2,739 employees responded from 13 DOHMH Divisions.
Based on importance for NYC public health workers current position and self-rated priority for training, the overall highest-priority foundational public health domains are Cultural Competency, Program Planning, and Leadership and Systems Thinking and the overall highest-priority general work skill domains are Working Efficiently, Working with Others, and Decision Making. As a resource, the Region 2 PHTC developed an interactive, general training guide for NYCDOHMH leadership, including links to online courses addressing the specific skills in each foundational public health domain.
In New Jersey in April 2016, Region 2 PHTC researchers collaborated with the Rutgers University School of Public Health Center for Public Health Workforce Development to assess the training needs of local New Jersey Health Departments using two-pronged approach. First, New Jersey public health leadership were asked to identify the top health priorities and training needs in 10 public health content areas (e.g., behavioral health, mental health, and substance abuse) at their department. Second, management-level employees at the New Jersey health departments were asked to rate the importance and priority for training among competencies from the Council on Linkages Core Competencies for Public Health Professionals. Reports and training recommendations were written for eight New Jersey local health departments.
In Puerto Rico in 2015, Region 2 PHTC researchers collaborated with the University of Puerto Rico Graduate School of Public Health to conduct a brief training needs assessment with leadership from 13 agencies at the Puerto Rico Department of Health. The highest priority training needs areas included environmental public health, health IT and technology, and public health preparedness.
In the U.S. Virgin Islands, training needs assessments were conducted with the health department in 2016 and with the federally qualified health centers in 2018. With the health departments, two focus-group style group interviews with top leadership were conducted to discuss overall public health priorities and workforce needs. Additionally, anonymous, self-report, online surveys were completed by 62 management and front-line employees. Top training priorities included skills needed to address chronic conditions like diabetes, cardiovascular disease, obesity, and mental illness as well as skills to improve policy development, program planning, and assessment. With the federally qualified health centers, three focus groups were conducted to discuss health issues in the communities served by the FQHC, challenges for the FQHCs after the hurricanes, priority competency areas for FQHC workers, training in health equity, and training preferences. The top training priorities were in improving staff resilience and interpersonal communication skills with colleagues and patients. | <urn:uuid:d1702feb-96a6-42cd-8de1-c102728b73f3> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://region2phtc.org/needs-assessment/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570879.37/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809003642-20220809033642-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.946033 | 874 | 2.046875 | 2 |
What is Social work?
Social workers (SW) are people who like to help people and communities and empower them to find solutions to life’s problems.
What do social workers do?
They work in a number of different settings such as hospitals, schools, community organizations, rehabilitation centers, military bases and their hospitals. They also work in government agencies which includes child welfare and departments of health services.Some social workers work in community, government and advocacy groups to address and reduce problems of poverty and social injustice on a systems level by breaking down barriers and drive reform.Thus, they advocate for people who need their help. The social workers play an important role in betterment of the society
There are two types of social workers; direct SW and clinical SW. The first type works and interacts with the community, while the second type helps people in clinical settings.
They serve people of all ages. Children, older adults, people with disabilities, patients with chronic, acute or terminal diagnoses and people struggling with mental illness or addiction.
They work directly with individuals, couples, families and small groups. They are involved in different types of work as follows:
- They identify people who require help, such as children struggling with problems such as disability, educational problems, child abuse, poverty or mental illness.
- They counsel people to manage challenges in their lives such as unemployment, illness, trauma or family problems.
- They assess client’s needs and develop their strengths by planning to support the individuals and their families.
- They help them by providing government help in form of food assistance, child care and medical care.
- They define issues, collect and assess data, develop treatment plans and monitor outcomes.
To give few examples of the different work profiles
- Clinical social worker (CSW):
These professionals diagnose and treat various health conditions. They work in collaboration with doctors to provide best medical help to the needy patients. They provide individual and family therapy, couple counselling and group treatment.
- Child and Family social worker:
These workers work to support children by providing common services such as basic education, job placement, medical help, family therapy and financial support.
- Community social worker:
They work towards improving community or neighborhood by working closely with community leaders and residents to understand their problems by undertaking surveys, analyzing their neighborhoods and devise plans with an objective to solve problems and improve quality of life.
The work of social worker is varied since they serve people young and old, in a number of different settings. They help people to overcome challenges of life, strive for social justice and help them improve their lives.
Skills required in social worker
During process of education and while working as interns, they have to develop certain skills. The foremost important thing to become successful social worker is to like people and have an urge to work for their betterment. They need to be patient, show empathy and have good communication skills, good leadership qualities, be good listener. Further they need to be compassionate, resourceful, have high ethical standards and be tenacious. Many a times they need to be thick skinned while facing challenges. Besides they should be able to go through the technically and lengthy sets of regulations and paperwork. Since they have to meet many clients per day hence they should be able to manage time. Having right skill sets makes one effective worker as well as gives increased salaries and better positions.
How to become a Social worker
The required starting education is three to four year bachelor’s degree in social work (BSW) which gives an entry level in social service work positions. After BSW one can volunteer to work at different places as an intern. Getting an advanced degree such as Masters in social work (MSW) is considered important, since it offers both classroom training and field work to ensure that students are properly prepared for positions in the field. In addition, many employers prefer MSW for jobs. Generally, before taking up a job one works under a supervisor to understand social work and tactics required to handle the challenges in this field. In European and US countries,before MSW start working, they are required to be licensed or certified, hence they need to clear the state level exam. With MSW degree students can get into supervisory roles. After MSW, some even pursue PhD and perform research in a specific social service topic. These research scholars come up with theories and solutions to solve the problem for improving life of people.
Income of social workers varies depending on the nature of work, organization of employment and which place (city or countryside) they are employed. In the beginning it is important to gain experience and become skillful in problem solving. More the years of experience, there is proportional increase in the salary. Overall, they get paid well although they are not rich in salaries.
The job prospects for this field are good. Different types of social workers are required such
Clinical social worker (CSW), Psychiatric social worker, Child and Family social worker, Healthcare social worker, Medical social worker, Geriatric social worker, Substance Use social worker, Public Policy social worker, Administrative social worker, Research social worker. Due to their varied roles there is always need of social workers. Thus, there has always been growth in this field. In future too there will be increase in the job opportunities in this field.
Why become a social worker?
There are many reasons why one chooses to become a social worker. A person just likes to work and serve people and helps them solve their different problems. Some people chose this as a career since in past they have been helped by a good social worker to overcome their problems and they would like to help others too. At times the social injustice meted to a community drives a person to take up social service.
Overall this is one of the profession which offers diversity, meaning and satisfaction of work to a person who likes to work for the betterment of society.
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is a bright and breezy march which fairly bowls along. Its form is of a 4-bar introduction followed by ABACC strains. The A and B strains are each of 16 bars in the key of Bb-major whilst the C strain has 32 bars written in Eb-major. The treble voice has most of the melodic line in this recorder adaptation, whilst the tenor alternates between close harmony with the treble and supporting rhythm with the bass. A real ensemble piece!
The cover of the original sheet music depicts a complacent presumably Aunt Jane
briskly strolling decked out with parasol, holding a light suitcase and leading a diminutive be-bowed canine of unascertainable ancestry.
was published by A Hospe Co.
, Omaha, Nebraska, USA.
A tempo of 80 crotchets/min. is suggested.
There is also a quintet
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Draft Mission statement of the CEE Prevent Net project
The key objective of our CEE Prevent Net project is to safeguard young people in Central and Eastern Europe and support their development. Through CEE partners’ project work, we aim at enhancing the youngsters’ wellbeing and skills, buttressing youth welfare and helping to avert the myriad of risks which young people are facing today – violence, hatred, drugs, criminality, dependencies, self- destructiveness etc. In particular, we seek to keep the youth away from becoming extremists. Thus we intend to apply a comprehensive approach which goes beyond the Islam-heavy West European perspective and also takes account of the potentials and challenges in Central European countries.
We also care about the local communities and areas in which young people live, particularly rural and small town areas which usually hold fewer opportunities for youth. Young people should feel confident to stay in these areas and don’t move away from their country – and thus become a pivotal factor for the country’s peace and prosperity.
While implementing our CEE Prevent Net project we specifically focus on improving the youngsters’ skills of dialogue and tolerance, among similar skills – and prevent them from becoming intolerant and anxious. We regard dialogue and tolerance as key skills which are vital for young people in order to develop their full potential, be healthy and have a long and satisfying life; which is why we see dialogue and tolerance in an entirely non-partisan perspective. For, empirical research has shown that people with limited ability to dialogue with and be tolerant towards others are also less healthy and become less intelligent and productive than they could – and they do not live as long as they could.
This cannot be in anybody’s interest. It certainly is not in the interest of young people and their local communities. In fact, youngsters sometimes look at us in all our quarrels, fighting and polarization – and they lose respect and trust in us. We can do better than that!
Hence, we appeal to everybody, from all sectors, to join us in the CEE Prevent Net. As CEE region we may well work together on this. Here the CEE Prevent Net aims at overcoming all partisanship and polarization about this topic and solely focuses on safeguarding and supporting our young people – and thus also contribute to the peace and prosperity of our future societies. | <urn:uuid:d45f838e-9502-4787-ba9e-742a6bd19221> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.genocideprevention.eu/en/news/224-safeguarding-young-people-and-supporting-tomorrow-s-societies-in-central-and-eastern-europe | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570879.37/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809003642-20220809033642-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.953954 | 474 | 2.1875 | 2 |
He speaks English.
Many English words are derived from Latin.
Why is it you can write a letter in English this well, but can't speak it?
After that English exam, my brain is fried.
If you want to sound more like a native speaker of American English, watch more American TV programs and fewer British TV programs.
When speaking to an international audience, it is perhaps best to speak English a little slower than usual.
British English differs from American English in many ways.
By the way, my English is absolutely hopeless.
You have an English test tomorrow, so don't get bogged down in your math homework tonight.
Someone who knows English well must have written this.
The English language is undoubtedly the easiest and at the same time the most efficient means of international communication.
The English class system is known for its snobbery.
If you can't go to an English-speaking country to study, perhaps you can find an English native speaker living nearby that can help you learn English.
Tom likes listening to American English the most, but he also likes the sound of Irish English.
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Monarchs take flight for Hope
Placed gently in the palms of the participants hands, the butterflies slowly woke up, movement could be felt and sounds heard as they prepared to take flight.
Monarch butterflies were released taking flight giving a sense of hope for those in need of end-of life care. The release is symbolic of the circle-of-life and is a way for loved ones and friends to say goodbye.
The Ruidoso Hospice Foundation hosted the 2018 butterfly release at White Mountain Pavilion on Aug.11. A total of 192 of butterflies were released by those who have lost a love one or a friend while raising funds for end-of-life care.
The fundraiser raised over $7,142 and several anonymous contributions were made. Butterflies were distributed to those in attendance ans set free as a sign of hope. Placed gently in their palms of their hands, the butterflies slowly woke up and movement could be felt as they warmed up.
Participants were asked to hold them carefully and to watch where they walk. “Some will fly directly to the plants, others may go to the ground,” Bruce Chapman, President of the Ruidoso Hospice Foundation, said.
The butterflies were released, individually, and took first flight to plants nearby to feed. “The first thing they will, do once they wake up, is feed. If they do not feed right away, they will die,” Bruce Chapman said.
“We want to thank everyone that showed up on behalf of the Ruidoso Hospice Foundation,” Chapman said. “We want to thank all of the volunteers for helping us out this year. We look forward to next year’s release,” Chapman.
The Ruidoso Hospice Foundation helps qualified families receive financial assistance needed for care, medication, equipment, supplies and other expenditures related to end-of-life care. “Unfortunately, this is only one of two fund raisers we have now. We have a lack of volunteer,” Chapman said.
Financial assistance that the foundation provides helps end-of-life patients with everything from paying bills to medical equipment. “We do not provide the hospice care. We work with Encompass Home Health Care and provide monetary assistance that is based on the annual income of the patient,” Chapman said.
“Butterflies always return home. We do not know how they do this, they just do. They seem to know how to get back home.” Chapman said. The plants used during the releases for feeding were donated by Seasons Nursery. Their life cycle is a unique and delicate process. Quite like humans from birth to death,” Chapman said.
All butterflies were released without being harmed and somehow, they will make their way back to Florida, beginning the circle of life over once again.
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DP13865 Diffusion of Gender Norms: Evidence from Stalin's Ethnic Deportations
|Author(s):||Alexandra Jarotschkin, Antonela Miho, Ekaterina Zhuravskaya|
|Publication Date:||July 2019|
|Date Revised:||November 2020|
|Keyword(s):||Deportations, Gender norms, Horizontal cultural transmission, Stalin|
|Programme Areas:||Labour Economics, Public Economics, Development Economics, Economic History|
|Link to this Page:||cepr.org/active/publications/discussion_papers/dp.php?dpno=13865|
We study horizontal between-group cultural transmission using a unique historical setting, which combines exogenous group exposure with no control over whether and how the representatives of different groups interact. Stalin's ethnic deportations during WWII moved over 2 million people---the majority of whom were ethnic Germans and Chechens---from the Western parts of the USSR to Central Asia and Siberia. As a result, the native population of the deportation destinations was exposed to groups with drastically different gender norms. Combining historical archival data with contemporary surveys, we document that gender norms diffused from deportees to the local population, resulting in changes in attitudes and behavior. Norms of gender equality diffused more than norms of gender discrimination. Identification relies on the fact that, within subnational regions, the local population was fairly homogeneous, while deportation destinations were determined by local demands for manual labor, orthogonal to identity and skills of deportees. | <urn:uuid:128a1613-ed20-4bf5-9452-b5a6351ecbc6> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://cepr.org/active/publications/discussion_papers/dp.php?dpno=13865 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570879.37/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809003642-20220809033642-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.869424 | 331 | 2.140625 | 2 |
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Queering Racial Justice: Resisting/No More State-Sanctioned Violence
Queering Racial Justice is a day-long virtual convening on Saturday, October 10, 2020, exploring how queer and trans people of color activism is leading the resistance to state-sanctioned violence. Build your skills, broaden your understanding, and invest in community organizing strategies for collective liberation.
Plenary: Resisting/No More State-Sanctioned Violence
The last four years have brought us more state-sanctioned violence and militarization of the police than ever witnessed before. While colonialism and structural racism have been the building blocks of our economy for centuries, the current violent military force and imprisonment against BIPOC and queer communities has given rise to queer, and people of color-led resistance.
Join us for Queering Racial Justice, on Saturday, October 10, 2020, for a powerful and engaging plenary moderated by incoming Executive Director, Kierra Johnson, to hear from three tremendously courageous and strategic leaders. From Seattle to South Dakota, Nebraska, and D.C.—these leaders are working towards collective liberation for us all.
Candi Brings Plenty
Candi Brings Plenty doesn’t just embrace change. She has a history of making it happen. As the indigenous justice organizer for the ACLU of South Dakota, Candi works to build the ACLU’s public education and advocacy programs through coalition-building, leadership development, communication, and lobbying. Candi, who identifies as Two-Spirit—a modern umbrella term for indigenous people that recognizes there are multiple genders and that sexuality can be fluid – is a lifelong advocate for justice. As a Lakota cultural practitioner and through her spiritual activism, Candi works to bring her medicine to the Oyaté and advocates, especially for the empowerment and visibility of Two-Spirit warriors to reclaim their walk of life in the sacred circle.
Before joining the ACLU of South Dakota, Candi was the campaign adviser and executive proxy for the tribal president of the Oglala Sioux Tribe and the executive director of the EQUI Institute, a trans and queer health clinic, in Portland, Ore. She was also the founder of the Two-Spirit Nation and led the Two-Spirit encampment at Standing Rock for 11 months during the peaceful prayer movement against the Dakota Access Pipeline.
Candi has a bachelor’s degree in Native American studies with an emphasis on tribal laws and treaties. She completed her graduate certificate in public and nonprofit management and pursued her master’s degree in public administration from Portland State University in Portland, Ore. Candi is an Oglala Lakota Sioux tribal member and a direct descendent of Crazy Horse’s Band. She grew up in the Black Hills and on the Pine Ridge Reservation. She is deeply rooted in her Lakota culture, spirituality, and language.
Dominique Morgan (She/Her) is an award-winning artist, activist, and TEDx speaker. As the Executive Director of Black and Pink, the largest prison abolitionist organization in the United States, they work daily to dismantle the systems that perpetuate violence on LGBTQ/GNC people and individuals living with HIV/AIDS. Partnering her lived experience of being impacted by mass incarceration (which included 18 months in solitary confinement), with a decade of change-making artistry, advocacy, and background in public health, she continues to work in spaces of sex education, radical self-care, and transformative youth development with intentions of dismantling the prison industrial complex and it’s impact on our communities. Ms. Morgan is a 2020 Ten Outstanding Young Americans Award recipient, NAACP Freedom Fighter Award recipient, and 2020 JM Kaplan Innovation Prize, recipient. In addition to completing her capstone project for studies in the Georgetown University – System Involved LGBTQ Youth Scholar Program, Ms. Morgan is a member of the inaugural class of the Black Futures Lab Policy Institute, 2020 Martin Luther King “Living The Dream” Award Recipient, and 2020 Urban League of Nebraska YP of the Year. Dominique’s first book, “An Introduction to Sexuality Education: A Handbook for Youth System Facing Professionals,” will be released in 2021. Find out more about Dominique at www.dominiquemorgan.com. Check out her TEDxTalk on Resilience.
Monserrat Padilla has been organizing LGBTQ, immigrant, and communities of color on the ground for over ten years to build collective movement power. She was a co-founder of the Washington Dream Coalition and has led national & statewide campaigns, including the victory on the Washington State Dream Act to expand eligibility for state aid in higher education.
Monserrat worked as the National Program Coordinator for the Queer Undocumented Immigrant Project, a program of United We Dream, where she worked across the country building a national network of LGBTQ immigrant community leaders, advocates, and organizers to develop policies and advocate addressing the needs of LGBTQ immigrant communities.
Monserrat was born in Tonalá, Jalisco, Mexico. At the age of 2, she migrated to the U.S. with her mother and two older siblings. She grew up in East Los Angeles, CA, where she became part of the 11 million undocumented families living in the U.S. At the age of 15, she moved to Seattle, Washington, graduating from Chief Sealth International High School in 2010 and attending the University of Washington in Seattle.
The Task Force’s next Executive Director, Kierra Johnson, joined the Task Force in 2018 as Deputy Executive Director but was already engaged with the organization, previously serving on the National LGBTQ Task Force’s board of directors and its National Action Council. Johnson came to the Task Force after serving as URGE’s Executive Director with a wealth of experience in organizational leadership and management, program development, youth leadership and reproductive justice. As a bisexual Black woman, Johnson will become one of few out queer-identified women of color at the helm of a national LGBTQ organization.
She is recognized as a national expert on queer and reproductive rights issues and has testified in front of the U.S. House of Representatives and has appeared in Newsweek, The New York Times, Fox News, Feministing.com and National Public Radio. Johnson also serves on the boards of directors of the General Service Foundation, Groundswell Fund, and Guttmacher Institute.
Throughout her career, she has also served on the boards of Center for Community Change and the Women’s Information Network (WIN). Johnson has been recognized for her leadership with awards, including the Young Women of Achievement Award for WIN in 2002, the Women of Vision Award for the Ms. Foundation for Women in 2013, and Washingtonian Magazine’s Most Influential Washingtonians Under 40 in 2009.
When announced as the next Executive Director of the National LGBTQ Task Force, Kierra Johnson said, “Dignity, liberation, joy, freedom, love and resistance are just a few of the words that I associate with the National LGBTQ Task Force. As a bisexual/pansexual woman, I am no stranger to being made invisible, advised to tone down, or trained in the art of the code switch. As a queer southern mom, it is no surprise why I would be drawn to an organization that touts the tagline ‘Be You.’ In these cultural and political times, it is an act of resistance to live out loud and to lead and love with our full identities. I am excited and honored to be named the next Executive Director of the LGBTQ Task Force! I welcome the opportunity to think strategically with a powerful team of leaders and be in service to those working to ensure that LGBTQ people—especially the most targeted among us—not only survive but thrive. I can’t wait to roll up my sleeves and dive in to continue the ongoing and creative work of the Task Force to change hearts and minds, behavior and policies so that justice is no longer a vision but a reality for all!” | <urn:uuid:8ab14f5e-23c1-457f-bc2e-82e4dc1527ce> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.thetaskforce.org/queering-racial-justice-resisting-no-more-state-sanctioned-violence/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570879.37/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809003642-20220809033642-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.950884 | 1,658 | 1.710938 | 2 |
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Drawing is the best way to think and create.
In this session, you will learn about sketching (drawing) as a means to your goal.
Drawing is very useful for visualizing thoughts and understanding things. Drawing also helps to deepen your ability to think and to make a leap forward in your development. The purpose of this program is to learn how to use drawing for these purposes. Drawing skills don't matter!
Drawing and visual thinking are essential skills for understanding and creating unseen innovations, systems and products. In this day and age of the fourth industrial revolution, the need for these skills is even greater.
Lecturer Yoon Bahk (UC Berkeley) is a visual thinking specialist who has taught companies and organizations such as Microsoft, the BBC and the UK government. Before moving to the United States, she was a popular lecturer at the Royal College of Art, and she is at DLX DESIGN ACADEMY. The interpreter and sub-facilitator is Saki Coppen, who runs Studio Playfool.
December 9th (Wedenesday), 2020
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Lectures and mini workshops
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Yoon is based in California and is a Lecturer at UC Berkeley, Jacobs Institute for Design Innovation and for 7 years was Senior Tutor at the Royal College of Art’s Innovation Design Engineering programme. She also conducts visual facilitation workshops and teaches visual thinking for companies such as the BBC and Microsoft to help foster ideas around innovation within an organization.
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Russian Plant Creates a Combat Robot with a Tank Gun
OREANDA-NEWS. Uralvagonzavod is creating the first prototypes of Shturm strike robots designed for urban combat. Within the framework of the project, it is planned to create a mobile control point for combat vehicles, as well as the vehicles themselves with different combat modules. All vehicles are built on the chassis of the T-72B3 tank. a source in the military-industrial complex said.
The robots will be equipped with various weapon systems, in particular, a shortened 125-millimeter cannon. The range of its fire, of course, will decrease, but in urban conditions this is not a matter of principle, the developers say. Conversely, a short barrel will make it easier to maneuver in narrow streets.
According to the second interlocutor of the agency, other variants of the complex's combat modules will be equipped with a bumblebee jet flamethrower unit, paired 30-mm automatic cannons, and a 220-mm thermobaric unguided rockets unit.
Combat vehicles, in turn, will have a high level of protection against enemy anti-tank weapons. According to the source, the short-barreled gun is necessary for close range operations in urban combat.
The UVZ representative also added that the main purpose of the Shturm complex is to identify and suppress long-term firing points, to eliminate enemy manpower, primarily anti-tank crews.
In addition to a tank cannon, the Shturm can be equipped with jet flamethrowers or a pair of rapid-fire 30-millimeter guns, RIA Novosti reported.
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Sullivan & Cromwell’s Walter “Jay” Clayton is set on Thursday to testify in front of the Senate’s Banking Committee for a hearing on his nomination to chair the Securities and Exchange Commission.
Clayton’s ties to Wall Street — his law firm has represented numerous banks during the bailout era, and his wife works at Goldman Sachs — and his past critique of the SEC’s enforcement approach have generated controversy with left-leaning groups such as the Center for American Progress, Public Citizen and others.
Most notably, in 2011, Clayton was listed first among a dozen drafters and editors of an article that criticized the agency’s use of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act — which the SEC and Department of Justice have used to collect billions of dollars in penalties from companies caught bribing foreign governments. The article argued the statute actually “exacerbates” rather than deters overseas corruption, and discourages companies from listing on U.S. stock exchanges.
“The current anti-bribery regime — which tends to place disproportionate burdens on U.S. regulated companies ... is causing lasting harm to the competitiveness of U.S. regulated companies and the U.S. capital markets,” the article stated.
Titled, “The FCPA and Its Impact On International Business -- Should Anything Be Done to Minimize the Consequences of the U.S.’s Unique Position on Combating Offshore Corruption?” the 26-page article was published by the New York City Bar Association’s Committee on International Transactions, which Clayton chaired at the time.
If confirmed, Clayton would lead the agency as it puts two major reputation-damaging events behind it: Its failure to act on several tips that Bernie Madoff was operating a Ponzi scheme, which blew up in 2006 and caused billions of dollars in investor losses; and its inability to regulate securities markets in a way that would have stemmed the financial crisis.
For some perspective on what’s been happening at the agency, Big Law Business spoke to two former directors of enforcement about how the SEC has transformed in recent years and its impact.
William McLucas, a WilmerHale partner, joined the SEC in 1978 and served as its director of enforcement for eight years, including most of the 1990s.
[caption id="attachment_45711" align="aligncenter” width="405"][Image “William R. McLucas of Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hall and Dorr testifies at a joint meeting between the Securities and Exchange Commission and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission on harmonizing financial regulation in Washington, D.C., U.S., on Thursday, September 3, 2009. Photographer: Brendan Hoffman/Bloomberg News” (src=https://bol.bna.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/m564173-e1490203187490.jpg)]William R. McLucas of Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hall and Dorr testifies at a joint meeting between the Securities and Exchange Commission and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission on harmonizing financial regulation in Washington, D.C., U.S., on Thursday, September 3, 2009. Photographer: Brendan Hoffman/Bloomberg News[/caption]
McLucas said he believes the Madoff Scandal had the most profound effect in terms of changing how the agency pursues its mission of regulating securities markets.
“It has moved far more into a prosecutorial role than it ever has before,” he said, of the SEC. “I think it had a capacity for being more balanced and measured in its enforcement approach.”
But after the Madoff scandal, McLucas said the agency has become more aggressive in its investigations out of fear of being called in front of a congressional committee because the agency failed to follow up on a tip about an investor fraud.
“When you’re a hammer at large, the world is a nail,” he said, adding that now, “There is a much more unforgiving, unyielding approach – no violation is too small to ignore and no individual who has jaywalked is beyond being held accountable for it.”
That approach has magnified the agency’s ability to bring enforcement cases, but it comes with a cost, McLucas said. In some cases, the agency may charge individuals or companies where the evidence is strong but culpability is arguable, he said. Not bringing cases is as difficult as bringing cases, he said.
“When I was a director there wasn’t a day I walked out of the building that I didn’t say to myself, ‘I hope somebody didn’t do something hellaciously stupid or something that’s going to get the agency in trouble,’” he said.
With the change in administration, McLucas said it was difficult to predict what exactly would happen at the agency and its approach to enforcement under Clayton.He noted it’s now common for division heads to leave and find jobs in the private sector, which previously wasn’t the case.
“You have an overabundance of people moving on and a whole bunch of people moving in and the question is do you lose something in the transition? And the answer is yes, but it’s always a matter of degree,” said McLucas.
Andrew Ceresney, the outgoing director of enforcement at the SEC had held the position since 2013 and in January announced he was re-joining Debevoise & Plimpton, where the outgoing chair of the SEC, Mary Jo White, is also headed.
[caption id="attachment_37061" align="aligncenter” width="367"][Image “Andrew Ceresney, director of enforcement for the U.S. Securities & Exchange Commission (SEC), speaks during an interview in New York, U.S., on Friday, July 17, 2015. Photographer: Michael Nagle/Bloomberg " (src=https://bol.bna.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/226100004-e1481228084732.jpg)]Andrew Ceresney, director of enforcement for the U.S. Securities & Exchange Commission (SEC), speaks during an interview in New York, U.S., on Friday, July 17, 2015. Photographer: Michael Nagle/Bloomberg[/caption]
Ceresney acknowledged that both he, and his immediate predecessor as director of enforcement, Robert Khuzami, previously worked as federal prosecutors in Manhattan. As a result, they “definitely imported” some prosecutorial tactics to the agency, including structuring settlements based on the targets’ cooperation, making sweeps as opposed to one-off cases and generally importing certain trial tactics, he said.
“I really feel like the SEC has established itself as a tough but fair aggressive regulator,” said Ceresney. “A lot of what we did at the SEC has resulted in a real enhancement of its reputation.”
He rejected the criticism that the agency was overaggressive. Instead, he noted that the Dodd-Frank Act had given the SEC increased authority to investigate hedge funds and asset managers.
“We have definitely imported some of the prosecutorial tools in the SEC,” said Ceresney, “but I think a lot of what you’re seeing is increased scope of enforcement.”
Thus, the agency has also targeted new areas for increased enforcement, such as the MUNI bonds’ market, which for years had been ignored, and new types of fraud, such as that from algorithmic trading.
As far as how Clayton may change the agency, Ceresney was skeptical that the agency would rollback its enforcement of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act. He said Clayton had worked on the article in 2011, and since then many other countries have adopted and started enforcing parallel laws that prohibit foreign government officials. The article had taken issue with the fact that the U.S. took the lede on this, which had a disproportionate effect on its companies.
“I don’t think he would have the same position today,” said Ceresney.
Ceresney’s colleague, Mary Joe White, shared a similar sentiment with Big Law Business when she rejoined Debevoise.
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One of the largest container ships in the world has been partially refloated after it ran aground in the Suez canal, causing a traffic jam of vessels at both ends of this vital international trade artery.
The 400 meter long M/V EVER GIVEN, operated by Evergreen, became stuck near the southern end of the canal on Tuesday. About 12% of global trade passes through the Suez Canal, of which roughly 5% of the world’s oil is carried through daily. With this connector between the Mediterranean and Red Sea blocked, the alternative is to route via the Cape of Good Hope or wait until the situation is resolved. In this article we will focus on about 30 of these vessels that are laden and ballast tankers of more than 25kt deadweight. The map below visualizes them, heading towards Suez from both the West and the East.
We expect that most vessels in ballast will decide to wait until the situation clarifies and if fixed on a charter party, will likely get canceled by charterers through protection clauses related to missing agreed upon laycan dates. This will no doubt affect vessel supply on both sides of the canal, as well as market rates. Black Sea-Med aframax seems to be leading the charge as seen below with ws170 on subs late on Friday the 26th.
Within the next days to weeks, more vessels are expected to have to decide if they will cross through the Suez canal or will have to go through the Cape of good hope.
For reference, a vessel, at the moment, crossing the Indian Ocean, would take 14 days to reach Malta if it goes through Suez versus 33 days if it goes around the Cape of Good Hope. Something to also consider is that for an aframax for example the cost to pass through the Suez Canal is roughly $300,000 in laden condition.
The table below looks at the previous month’s canal crossings as an indicator of which vessel sizes might be more likely to be affected by delays or the need to take alternative routing.
Based on the above table the segments that could potentially see the highest impact are the Suezmaxes and the Aframaxes/ LR2s since those segments involve trading through Suez in both directions. Especially the LR2 market, being specifically thin, with a very small number of vessels both East and West can potentially see significant changes on Freight rates. The graph below shows the commercially available vessel supply in the Arabian Gulf (Jubail) within the next 15 days, the typical fixing window and it is obvious that vessel supply is already at the lowest we have experienced in the last 3 months. Freight rates have already reacted earlier this week as shown below.
A major shipping lane is clearly closed but this will most probably have a short term effect for a few charterers and owners that are trying to carry cargo through the canal at present. Most large crude tankers (VLCC) have been historically taking the route around the Cape when doing long East to West or West to East voyages. Mid sized tankers (Suez, Afra) are more likely to be affected, maybe more so on the carriage of refined products. Low levels of crude oil demand due to the 3rd wave of coronavirus across Europe and the USA are keeping oil prices in check, yet we still see a 4% rise in prices on a Friday.
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Making a format readjust in Microsoft Word frequently requires you to select the content to modify, then select the new establishing. But if you desire to make durations bigger in Microsoft Word for an existing record, then tright here is a quicker method to execute so.
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The punctuation marks that you encompass in your Microsoft Word document are a vital component in helping world check out your indevelopment in the manner that you intfinished.
But if it appears prefer the durations that you have actually supplied are also little, either on the display or as soon as you print the record, then you might be looking for a way to rise their dimension.
While you might have actually already found that you can go with the document, pick each individual duration, then change its font size, that strategy is sluggish, tedious, and also a small frustrating.
Fortunately tright here is a quicker method to easily make every one of the periods in your Microsoft Word document bigger by making use of the uncover and also relocation tool.
How to Change Period Size in Microsoft WordOpen the document.Select the Home tab.Click Replace.Type a duration into the Find what and also Replace with fields, then click More.Click Format and also select Font.Choose a font dimension and click OK.Click Rearea All.
Our guide proceeds listed below with additional information and also images of these measures.
How to Increase the Size of Periods in Microsoft Word
The actions in this post were performed in Microsoft Word 2013, but will certainly likewise job-related in the majority of other versions of Word. Note that this readjust have the right to only be done on a solitary record. It’s not possible to readjust the default dimension of durations for all future records you produce.
Tip 1: Open your document in Microsoft Word.
Tip 2: Click the Home tab at the height of the window.
Note that adjusting the font size in this manner will also increase the size of each line of message in the document. Word adjusts document spacing based on font size and also, also though the periods are most likely smaller sized than the letters, Word will still set line spacing as if every one of the message in your record uses the font size you decided for the durations.
You can usage a similar strategy for various other punctuation also. For example, if you wanted to make commas bigger, or if you wanted to make question marks bigger, you would ssuggest need to relocation the durations in the steps above through the punctuation note.
This very same technique have the right to also be supplied if you want to make periods smaller in Microsoft Word.
Does your record have most weird formatting that is taking forever before to rerelocate manually? Find out how to clear all message formatting in Word and also quickly reclaim your record text to its default state.
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There are 4 major types of solid: molecular, covalent network, ionic, and metallic. Let's dive in!
In AP Chemistry, you learn about 3 main states of matter: solids, liquids, and gasses. While liquids and gasses are certainly important, in this article we're going to be discussing the properties and classification of solids and the 4 types of solids that you will have to be able to identify on the AP Chem exam.
Metallic solids are metal atoms held together by metallic bonds.
Metallic bonding is the sharing of a bunch of delocalized valence electrons that move freely throughout the solid. (sometimes called the "sea of electron" model)
The metal atoms have a uniform distribution.
Metallic solids vary a lot when it comes to melting points. Tungsten has the highest melting point at 3422°C, whereas mercury has the lowest at -38.83°C.
They are shiny, strong, and malleable.
They can conduct electricity because of their delocalized electrons.
Adding another element to a metallic solid can form an alloy with new properties.
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Whether you have a lot of debt, live paycheck-to-paycheck, or are struggling to balance your budget, money is probably not the first thing you want to bring up to your friends and family. However, it’s important to talk about money in order to end the stigma around it and actually learn how to better manage it.
A survey commissioned by Turbo, a free app from the makers of TurboTax and Mint, featuring 3,050 U.S. adults ages 18 and older, found that nearly four in five Americans (79 percent) have individual debt — such as credit card debt, car loans, and student loans (not including a mortgage) — and nearly two-thirds (63 percent) of Americans are facing them alone. And half (51 percent) of the respondents are choosing not to talk to their friends and family about money at all. Bustle recently caught up with This Is Us' star Chrissy Metz, who is featured in Turbo's most recent campaign #RealMoneyTalk, to talk about the taboo around money, and why it’s so important that people be more open about discussing money.
Why It’s Important To Talk About Money
Metz tells Bustle that because she didn’t come from money, she felt it never defined her. “I knew I had to work hard if I wanted things to change,” she says. For 12 years, she did that while pursuing acting in Los Angeles, she says. Even on the way to her audition for This Is Us, she had just 81 cents in the bank — and had to borrow money from a friend for gas. So, Metz knows what it’s like to not have money, never mind talking about it.
When Metz started to make more money, the first thing she did was pay people back, as well as pay off debts. She also started talking to friends about money and the best way to manage it, then worked her way to getting a business manager. She encourages others to save money each week, even if you only have a little to save. For instance, you can eliminate take-out coffees from your budget.
How To Help Break The Stigma Around Money
It’s not easy to open up to people about money, especially if you’re having a hard time financially. But, it’s important to. Metz says she thinks a lot of the shame and stigma comes from how people view themselves and how their identity is attached to the number in their bank account. “We believe it equates happiness or success, which is not necessarily true,” she says. You may think everything will be fine once you have money, and if you don’t have it, you may wonder what people will think of you, she says. “So it’s scary to talk about it — ‘Oh, I should have budgeted better this month’ or ‘I wish I would have felt better about asking for a raise so I’m not struggling this next month,'” Metz says.
She also says it stems from conditioning, especially where women are concerned. “Women were growing up and feeling like they were just there to put food on the table and look pretty when their husband came home,” she says. “But times have changed and it’s hard to unravel the mentality around that.” So, the stigma continues, which is why it’s important to speak up. When Metz was married, she says she and her husband didn’t have a honeymoon due to not having the money. “I always resented the fact that I never said to him, ‘Let’s see what we can save’ — because there is always room [to do so],” Metz says. It’s necessary to have those tough conversations, she says.
Start Small — And Always Have An Intention Before You Spend Money
Metz says, over time, she started to get more educated on money and recommends starting small, even if you think you have no money to spare. She says the first step is to know where you stand financially and decide what it is you want. “They can be short-term goals, since long-term can be overwhelming,” she says. For example, you may need a new suit jacket for a work interview. Metz says to ask yourself: Am I willing to give up three coffees this week to save money toward the jacket? Or maybe you’ll work overtime or start a side hustle. “There’s a lot of different ways you can earn money, and I feel like if you really want something, you’ll figure out a way to do it,” Metz says.
She says people tend to sacrifice so much for their jobs and relationships, but they also need to make sacrifices for themselves — whether it’s getting the afternoon coffee you need to finish your work day or looking at the bigger picture and saving for the jacket that will make you feel more self-confident in your interview. “It’s about self-worth, and what happens is, every time you do something like that, you are putting a little deposit in your confidence bank,” she says. This week, you can do something for the bigger picture; next week, maybe not.
She says it’s all about retraining your thinking around money: Do you really want that something, or are you filling a void with it? She goes through a checklist, asking herself if it’ll be useful, comfortable, and if she needs it. She says your checklist may vary, but it helps to have one. “What is my intention?” she says. “That’s how I try to live my life, no matter what it is…”
Before You Talk To Others About Money, Have A Money Talk With Yourself
The more comfortable you are with yourself and your financial situation, the easier it will be for you to open up to others about money. For instance, Metz says debts can eat away at you every day, especially if you’re not paying them. “You’ve got to figure out where you’re at financially and what you can afford,” she says. She suggests doing whatever you can in the moment, even if it’s calling a collections agency and paying some of what you owe if you don’t have the entire amount. “That’s something that I never knew you could do, and they can’t deny what you can give them — it’s so freeing and you’ll feel better about it,” she says. “The positive aspect the ripple effect has on your life is, dare I say, invaluable. But you’ve got to know where you’re at to know where you want to be.”
Then, after talking to yourself about money, you can talk to others — and you’ll be more confident and comfortable doing so. Sometimes, you and friends may share your financial burdens with each other — like student loan debt — but other times, money talks may enter the picture when you and friends split something like the group dinner bill. Although it may be a touchy subject if you’re the frugal friend — speak up. “Just be honest,” Metz says. “It’s so so so so hard, but you’ve got to be.”
To avoid potential embarrassment, you can always talk about it with your friends in advance. Metz suggests a quick beforehand text. This way, you can save yourself the potential embarrassment at the dinner when you‘re having a great time, she says.
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Have suppliers begun to use PMPs in ways that could be detrimental to independent c-stores? Scottish Grocer hears the concerns of Bestway Wholesale’s Martin Race.
THE dramatic increase in the use of price-marked packs in independent and symbol group c-stores has been one of the most notable developments of the tough economic times.
Price-marked packs are often praised by suppliers, and indeed by some retailers, as a way to demonstrate value to customers, making them confident they’re getting a good deal. But they were previously used more sparingly as a promotional tool, often signalling a price reduction intended to last for a set period.
The argument was that while they often provided a lower margin, in percentage terms, than standard packs, they still provided a decent cash margin that, when the highlighted promotional price led to increased sales, would ensure it was worthwhile for the retailer.
But recently Bestway, one of the giants of the wholesale scene, has voiced concerns. The firm stresses that it sees great benefits in PMPs when used in a way that benefits all players in the chain. But it’s worried that in a number of categories some suppliers have been offering marked packs with prices that won’t necessarily be attractive to consumers while they offer non-price-marked packs at much higher wholesale prices.
“Cash margin will always be critical for retailers and we need manufacturers to offer a sensible shared margin on PMPs,” said Martin Race, the company’s group trading director. “Manufacturers are now setting retail RRPs by stealth by making price marks ubiquitous as RRP descriptors rather than a promotional tool. This means that in effect they are dictating the margins a retailer makes.
“Not all retailers want to stock PMPs across all categories. If a retailer trades in a city centre like Glasgow – which will invariably mean higher costs – or a tourist centre with little competition, he may not see the need for PMP stock.
“Suppliers will point to the fact that standard non-price-marked packs are available. The problem with this is the pricing of standard stock.
“In confectionery some cases are up to £4 cheaper for a 50p PMP. So for retailers to even make a margin of 20% on standard stock, they would need to sell at 20% above price-mark at around 60p. Considering that the multiples are selling at three for £1, it could be construed that independents are ripping shoppers off when in truth suppliers are not offering the margins to make independents competitive.
“There is also the increasing trend of suppliers asking retailers to offer discounts off of PMPs. This price spiral means that the price-mark no longer signals value but represents the highest price the retailer can charge. If suppliers can discount off the price-mark, why set such an artificially high price-mark in the first instance?
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Focus for living
One of the biggest mistakes which we make is the assumption that the most important influence in our lives is political affiliation. In most countries, the only thing which apparently fires the imagination and captivates the human spirit is the call to action by a political party. From our experience, people who have apparently been half-dead suddenly find new life. At long last, they have found a cause for which to live and sometimes a cause to which to die.
Such people often betray a deep insecurity. They have no self-confidence, little self-esteem. They often lack a sense of human dignity. They are looking for something outside of themselves to give them a sense of purpose in life, while they ignore the priceless treasure which lies in their hearts.
Many people live in a state of sadness. Some live in a condition akin to despair. They sense that life needs security and hope. Indeed, these are the very basis for a happy life, which eludes them.
Many there are who unwittingly live in a prison. No, their home is not at the Stock Farm or behind prison bars. But their locks and bars are their so-called friends, their social clubs and their social conventions. Their prisons are the corrosive desires and aspirations within which they confine themselves.
Throughout the world, there is war, there is violence, uncontrolled anger and aggressive behaviour because people have not yet found a proper focus for their lives. They look in vain and find nothing but emptiness. In their despair, they cling to straws in their adamant search for a human saviour.
Often it has been said that our people lack a work-ethic. This has been given as one of the fundamental reasons for our lack of development. Now this is not quite true. What is lacking is motivation, a sense of purpose.
Work as such has no value in itself. It is the motive that spurs man to work and drives him on to productive activity. If he perceives happy prospects from his labour, he will work. If the society in which he lives is such as to inspire him to work for the common good, he will work. If he experiences solidarity and real fellowship, he will most likely be led to work. Sometimes people are not inspired to exert themselves because they do not see themselves as part of the scheme of things.
However, there are many people in history who have laboured, not for wealth, not for power, not for worldly esteem but for the welfare of their fellow-men. The good which they promoted transcended all consideration of personal advantage. Some gave up all their wealth and power and sacrificed their lives for their brothers and sisters. These people did not seek human approval or human recognition. They served no human master. They lived on a higher plane and so were able to transcend all those self-serving drives that are usually to be found in men and women.
People need much more than material things for a happy life. They need a compassionate mind and a compassionate heart. They need a presence to comfort them. They need human solidarity without any consideration of party political affiliation or religious persuasion. They do not need paternalism. They need love.
Our education has made tremendous strides. Today our students are much more equipped for the world market than those of fifty years ago. This is a tremendous blessing. After all, we live in a global village. Our people must be prepared for employment in any part of the world.
The great problem, however, we have, not only with our philosophy of education but also with our culture, is that we have imbibed completely the mindset of those who once enslaved us or dominated our lives. The imperialist ethic hangs around our necks and threatens to strangle us. Our whole thrust is on winning, winning, winning at all costs. There are no consolation prizes. When are we going to reward those who lose when there is evidence of hard work?
What we need in our society is a new focus for living. We need a society with a culture of love, of respect, of compassion. We need a reason to exist, a sense of belonging, a sense of purpose, a reason to labour, to carry us on. Only a power beyond our limited selves, beyond our selfish pursuits, beyond our all too human dreams and aspirations, can give us a sense of well-being and a motive for human progression, and make us exclaim: "Yes, it is good to be alive!" | <urn:uuid:3c11e75d-79e0-4bf4-bd73-12c09b378ee3> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://sundominica.com/articles/focus-for-living-1140/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571150.88/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810070501-20220810100501-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.977598 | 910 | 2 | 2 |
Would you like to spend a night in the "Letto di Giulietta", Juliet's bed?
There are still a few weeks left until Valentine's Day arrives, but the Airbnb rental platform comes forward and raises a worldwide contest whose prize is to spend a night at the house that inspired the story of Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare's most popular play.
To participate in the contest, you just have to meet a series of legal requirements, register on the Airbnb page and send a letter in English to Juliet, sharing the love story of the candidates and explaining why they would be the perfect guests.
The winner of the contest will receive a one-night stay on February 14, 2020, at Juliet's house in Verona, Italy. An evening that includes a romantic dinner prepared by a Michelin star chef and other optional activities such as a tour of Verona.
In addition to the stay and the visit to Verona, the prize includes the opportunity to be a member, for a few hours, of Julieta's club, a group of volunteers that is dedicated to answering the love letters that reach Juliet. Thus, the winners of the contest can also read some of those letters that arrive daily and answer one of them.
The custom of sending love letters to Juliet began in the 1930s when Ettore Solimani, the guardian of Juliet's Tomb, began to gather the first letters that people left in the grave and, moved by this phenomenon, began to respond, thus becoming the first "Juliet's secretary".
With that beginning, the Juliet Club began in Verona in 1972 from an idea of Giulio Tamassia and a group of artists and academics united by a passion for the legend of Shakespeare. Over the years, thanks to the collaboration and help of members and institutions, this club has organized many events dedicated to the myth of Romeo and Juliet. via AirBnb. | <urn:uuid:84ffd35c-d8e4-47ca-8785-cdf55e9d4fcb> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.velvetcushion.com/other/valentines-day-romeo-and-juliets-house-verona-possible-airbnb | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570692.22/warc/CC-MAIN-20220807181008-20220807211008-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.955308 | 386 | 1.796875 | 2 |
Sports management is a billion-dollar industry. The world of athletics offers enormous career opportunities for the people who are passionate about sports. For the success of any sport, a team of professionals comprising sports managers, PR executives, trainers, facility managers, nutritionists, trainers, coaches etc. is required.
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- Sports Network companies such as ESPN, Star, Fox Sports, and Sony
- Athletic apparel companies such as Nike, Adidas, Puma, and Reebok
- Top Advertising, Marketing, and Public Relations Firms
Depending on the position and experience in the industry, the potential earning might range from $30,000 to more than $100,000 annually with an annual growth rate of 5-9 percentage.
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Competition for jobs in the sports industry is fierce. Therefore, a specialization in Sport Management during higher education will certainly be an added advantage. Some of the specialized program options which are available in the market are as follows:
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Known as the acrobats amongst the large whales, the Humpbacks have endeared themselves with their playful water antics to countless whale watchers and whale lovers the world over. These near fifty ton giants can be found in all oceans, feeding on plankton and krill. While they spend much of their time in the colder waters of the Arctic and Antarctic, they migrate to warmer regions, such as Hawaii, for breeding and calving. Their song-like sounds range from human-like utterances to high pitched squeals and rapid staccato calls. Classified as an endangered species in 1966 by the International Whaling Commission, the Humpback population is now on the rebound.
The Musical Soundscapes series features original compositions of unusual variety, from solo piano to full orchestral textures, blended with the fascinating sounds of specific natural habitats. "Songs of the Sea" continues the award winning tradition of this series, showcasing the fascinating song-like sounds of the Humpback Whale.
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Psychiatrist Recalls 'Heartbreak And Hope' On Bellevue's Prison Ward
When mentally ill inmates in New York City's Rikers Island jail become too sick, violent, delusional or suicidal for the jail to handle, they're sent to Bellevue Hospital Prison Ward for treatment.
The inmates in Bellevue are awaiting trial for a variety of offenses, ranging from sleeping on the subway to murder. But for Dr. Elizabeth Ford, a psychiatrist who treats them, the charges against her patients are secondary.
"My job is to try to look past that and ... to care for them, to be curious about them and to be non-judgmental," she says. "It is ... a daily struggle, but one that I have found over the years [to be] incredibly rewarding."
Ford began treating inmates at Bellevue in 2000 during an internship and eventually worked her way up to become director of the hospital's forensic psychiatric service. She revisits her experiences treating Rikers' inmates in her new memoir, Sometimes Amazing Things Happen.
"The type of symptoms and pathology that I saw and took care of during my time [at Bellevue] really shocked me," Ford says. "Of the patients I took care of, it was almost a universal experience that they have suffered abuse or significant neglect as children. I literally can't remember a patient for whom that didn't apply."
On hearing difficult and disturbing stories from patients
A patient talked in a group, for the first time really, about how his drinking behavior started when he was 8 years old, because he accidentally learned that if he drank when his father whipped him it didn't hurt as much. And that's where his alcohol problem started. So stories like that are really heartbreaking and gut-wrenching, and so I struggle with hearing those, but I've come to almost expect that every patient I take care of has some real abuse history. ...
I took care of many patients who had been accused of killing somebody. The most difficult ones for me were those who had been accused of killing a child, and that became particularly hard for me after I became pregnant and had my two children. But to listen to them talk — not necessarily about the crime, but about the feelings behind what led up to that, how they felt afterwards, and then the whole developmental trajectory that ... made it seem like it was inevitable it was going to happen — was very difficult.
On how many of her patients are neurodevelopmentally delayed
Increasingly I am noticing, in ways that I think I didn't appreciate early in my career, the numbers of people who are incarcerated who are neurodevelopmentally delayed and who don't have the education, or don't have the cognitive ability, to really navigate through this system.
The first thing I do — which is what I try to do for every patient, regardless of what's going on with them — is to sit, and be with them, and listen. And sometimes for patients, particularly who are neurodevelopmentally delayed, literally just being there for them, not running away, is the best thing that I can do. And then, when they settle, we can talk about how best to move forward.
On how to handle violent patients
Much of the violence was a result of patients feeling like they weren't having their needs met; they weren't being heard. Occasionally it had to do with their criminal-justice case, but there was a wide range of managing it, and we tried as best we could to start with the least forceful intervention. So talking to a patient, trying to understand — and if that didn't work, offering them medication, if that was appropriate. ...
Sometimes patients had to be locked in rooms — it's called seclusion — to keep themselves and others safe. And just like any other psychiatric hospital, for patients who were so extraordinarily violent that there was nothing else we could do, they did have to be restrained, which is not something any of us ever wanted to do, but sometimes happened. Over the course of my career I have definitely found that the first approach — listening to patients and really having patience with them — is by far the best approach. When patients are scared, they become violent. And if you can listen to them, the fear goes away.
On group therapy
One of the amazing things ... is that patients would come in and expect 'show any weakness and you'll be taken advantage of,' or 'share anything about your life and something bad will happen,' and I think what patients found, certainly what I found over the years, is that that was not always the case. In some instances you could find support where you didn't really expect it. ...
One of the biggest stressors of being in jail is that you are surrounded by people who you have not chosen to live with. You have officers telling you things that you need to be doing that you may not agree with, and you have health staff who sometimes are asking you to do things you don't want to do. But you're in an absolutely new community, and group therapy is a perfect petri dish to practice interacting and communicating with people that you don't know, some of whom you might be afraid of, some of whom you don't respect. ... I have found group therapy to be some of the best treatment in this kind of setting.
On her new job as chief of psychiatry for correctional health services for New York City
We've developed a model where patients are much safer. They take their medication much more frequently. Injury rates are down. And the officers and the health staff work very closely together. There's a very team-based approach to these units, and patients do well — as well as one can do in a jail setting. But patients do well in these units. We've reduced the need for hospitalization, and I think those things are a testament to what can be done, even in a setting that, I think, many people feel is hopeless. I don't see it that way. ...
There are ways for jails and prisons to be more rehabilitative and I think we can be all starting a conversation about that. The issue of punishment certainly comes up. From my perspective as a doctor I have found that positive reinforcement – that means praising someone or helping someone when they do good things, rather than punishing when they do bad things — is the best way to change behavior. So, I think the more that we can try to incorporate that into the mission of the work we do in the jails, the better.
Radio producers Sam Briger and Mooj Zadie and Web producers Bridget Bentz and Molly Seavy-Nesper contributed to this story.
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During the past few weeks, people all over the world have come together to participate in a global competition of athletic skill, the Olympics. One athlete, Shani Davis, is the subject of a debate over his decision not to compete with his teammates in a speed skating relay in order to preserve his chances at winning a medal in an individual race. Was he wrong to choose his own accomplishment over his team?
Each of us has faced the choice to compete in many areas of our lives including school, family, sports and business. What motivates us to participate in or lures us as spectators of competition? Is the desire to compete innate or is it learned behavior?
Some experts believe that competition is a healthy way to engage with society as it builds character, self-esteem, and helps us achieve our goals. Others argue that it is counterproductive, poisons relationships, and fosters anxiety. How does competition affect us individually and impact our overall society?
What are the rewards and consequences for engaging in competition? What happens when there is no reward for winning? Is a defined “enemy” crucial to our motivation?
Join us this week at Café Society to tell us why you are or are not interested in competition.
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Where? Southern California
Why? Sunshine, movie magic and an abundance of accessible wilderness, California’s biggest city has something for everyone
When? Year round
Many stereotypes surround LA – but many are wholly unjust. It may be a glam-n-glossy metropolis of palm-lined boulevards – and proudly so – but vacuous and superficial it’s not. This is a city that has style and substance, one that lives in the fast lane but takes time to enjoy its many blessings: the year-round sunshine, the stretches of perfect beaches, the nearby mountains and gorges laced with hiking trails.
The second-largest city in the US, LA is a collection of neighbourhoods sandwiched among valleys and canyons. Backed by the Santa Monica Mountains and lapped by the Pacific, many of its sights are spread out, with Hollywood north-west of Downtown, Santa Monica to the south-west and Beverly Hills in between. Given LA’s sprawling geography, getting around requires careful thought. Renting a car offers the greatest convenience but everyone in LA drives, causing bad jams. Public transport is not as comprehensive as it ought to be for such a world city but it has greatly improved over recent years and there are plans for further development of the Metro system.
International flights land at Los Angeles International Airport (LAX), located on the city’s western shores. It’s one of the busiest hubs in the US, and clearing immigration and customs can take time. Proof of an onward flight is sometimes requested. The busy Arrivals hall has several coffee shops, ATMs and foreign exchange booths though no tourist info stand. The most convenient branch is located across town at the Hollywood & Highland Center.
Travelling by taxi offers the easiest and most comfortable journey into the city. Traffic in LA is notorious and journey times of 90 minutes are not uncommon; arriving late or in the middle of the day will minimise travelling time. The average cost of a cab to Hollywood is US$80 (£53); to Santa Monica costs US$40 (£26). Shuttlebuses offer a cheaper alternative. A one-way fare to Hollywood with SuperShuttle costs US$26 (£17). Public transport is trickier. ‘C’ shuttlebuses run from outside Arrivals to the nearby Metro Bus Station, for other services across the city. The LAX FlyAway bus runs to Union Station in Downtown LA for US$7 (£5); note, cash is not accepted onboard.
There are five airports in the LA area. Many domestic flights arrive at Burbank’s Bob Hope Airport, in the north; others service Long Beach, to the south. Those arriving by long-distance train will pull in at Union Station, where ATMs and taxis are available. The terminus is well connected to the rest of the city by the underground LA Metro. Catch the Red Line to reach Hollywood; the Purple for Mid-Wilshire. A one-way fare costs US$1.50 (99p).
Although the city is largely safe, some places remain off-limits. Certain parts of South LA, Compton and North Hollywood should be given a wide berth after dark.
Sleep in style and explore among the stars, before delving further into California
Start with a horseride though the sandy, cacti-studded trails of Griffith Park with Sunset Ranch; you get up-close views of the Hollywood sign. Celebrating its 90th anniversary in 2013, the sign – which originally read ‘Hollywoodland’ – was placed on the hill as a real estate ad.
Next, head into central Hollywood to compare palms with Cary Grant, Arnie Schwarzenegger and the other stars whose handprints dent Hollywood Boulevard, outside Grauman’s Chinese Theatre.
Stroll along the Walk of Fame to the not-to-be-missed Hollywood Museum, which charts the transformation of Tinseltown in Max Factor’s beautifully restored Art Deco building.
Along the way, look out for the striking murals on the sidestreets and the historic Egyptian Theatre – a grand landmark that shaped celeb culture by hosting the world’s first premieres in the 1920s. From there, head west for a drive through the leafy, manicured streets of Beverly Hills and Bel Air – who knows who you might spot taking their rubbish out. Then spend a cultural afternoon at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art; built in 1965, it houses an impressive collection by international artists.
Finish the day on the beach, watching the sun set over the Pacific from Santa Monica’s lively pier.
Top end: The Spanish Colonial-style Hollywood Roosevelt is LA’s most iconic hotel. Located opposite Grauman’s Chinese Theatre, it was here that the first ever Oscars banquet was held in 1929 – though the place has undergone extensive refurbishment since. Keep your eyes peeled for Marilyn Monroe, who’s said to haunt the hotel. Doubles from US$289 (£191), room only.
Mid range: The Garden Cottage is a cosy four-room B&B on the very fringes of Beverly Hills. Family-run, it’s perfect for those seeking a more personalised touch. Doubles from US$155 (£103), including breakfast.
Budget: Rooms at the Hollywood Downtowner Inn are basic but clean and comfortable. Best of all, it’s within walking distance of many of the main attractions. Doubles from US$79 (£52), including breakfast.
Do both. Contrary to popular belief, Los Angeles is not a city from which you should rush away too hastily. Take time to see the sights and discover the overlooked corners, such as the galleries, theatres and museums in the new and improved Downtown district. While you’re at it, splurge on Rodeo Drive and go behind the scenes of the movies by taking the Warner Bros Studio Tour. Meanwhile, kids big and small won’t be able to resist a visit to Disneyland.
Recuperate on the beaches (Manhattan and Hermosa are popular) before looking further afield. Head north up the winding Pacific Coast Highway – often described as one of the world’s best drives. Perhaps hop to the beaches, wineries and oak forests of Malibu on the back of a vintage Harley with Eagle Rider.
From there, it’s more than a little tempting to continue on to Santa Barbara, Big Surf and San Francisco. Alternatively, head inland from LA for the dramatic landscapes and mysterious ‘sailing stones’ of Death Valley, near the Nevada border.
Population: 3.8 million
Timezone: GMT8 (Mar-Nov GMT7)
International dialling code: +1
Visas: UK nationals require an ESTA (Electronic System for Travel Authorization). Apply at least 72 hours before travel; ESTAs cost US$14.
Currency: US dollar (US$), currently around US$1.50 to the UK£.
Highest viewpoint: The best city views are from the hilltop Griffith Observatory.
Health issues: No major problems, but the California sun can be strong.
Recommended guidebook: Los Angeles & Southern California (Rough Guides, 2011); Los Angeles (Frommers, 2011)
Web resources: The LA Tourism Board’s website has useful info; the Los Angeles Times newspaper is unbeatable for local news.
iPhone app: Time Out Los Angeles (free) is a comprehensive guide to eating, drinking and exploring LA.
Climate: LA enjoys mild temperatures year round; spring and autumn can be particularly nice thanks to clear, crisp skies. Rainfall is lowest in summer; desert winds are strongest October-November.
Volunteers offer guided walking tours of LA’s historic El Pueblo district, detailing the city’s indigenous past and stories of the early settlers. They’re fascinating – and free! Tours run Tuesday-Saturday; elpueblo.lacity.org
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During the February 2017 school holidays, 44 girls in London and 18 girls aged 16-18 in Manchester were chosen from a number of applicants vying for a spot on the Cisco Pathway to Your Future work experience program.
It was a pilot that Cisco decided to run especially for girls to address the lack of women in IT.
Pathway to Your Future is a four day work experience program at Cisco that allows the girls to discover how the world leader in IT operates on a daily basis, meet senior Cisco executives from different departments, see demonstrations of Cisco’s leading edge technology and more importantly, learn and understand how Cisco connects what was previously unconnected. The Internet of Everything.
Helen Douglas from Manchester, Sam Moylan-Heydt and Kathryn Baddeley from London were instrumental in organising the pilot program for the girls. They also wanted to ensure that the girls not only learned about Cisco, its technology and how it works, but they also wanted the girls to learn the other skills that are not only necessary but imperative in any business environment.
Presentation and communication skills, problem solving and teamwork are skills that are often overlooked in education but are so important in the business world. These skills need to be taught to every young person to provide them with the confidence they need when entering the real world.
The girls were also tasked with working as a team to develop an IoT solution to solve a social problem and seek funding in a Dragon’s Den type pitch!
I was asked to help kick off the program by sharing my entrepreneurial journey of how I started MadeWithGlove, a Manchester based wearable tech company designing fashionable heated gloves for women. It was live streamed from Manchester to London with Cisco’s amazing technology of course!
Being the CEO of MadeWithGlove is a journey filled with achievements and challenges of being asked “how old are you?” to “are you the secretary?” and comments like “your business sounds like a hobby”. However, it was important for me to share with the girls that a woman can empower herself by responding to these comments and questions in a confident and professional manner. Because situations like these may occur during their professional life one day and giving them the tools to overcome these challenges will help them build their self esteem.
While on my 3 year journey as a sole female founder, the lack of women in wearable tech led me to starting Women of Wearables (WoW) with a fellow woman in wearable tech, Marija Butkovic, cofounder of Kisha, the smart umbrella.
Both former lawyers turned entrepreneurs, we started WoW in 2016. WoW is a community that inspires, supports and connects women in wearable tech, fashion tech, IoT, AR and VR. We organise and host events and deliver wearable tech workshops for girls in Manchester and London. The aim of our organisation is to encourage more women to participate in building hardware and software products.
WoW now has a global community of female founders, product and UX designers, consultants, engineers, smart textile experts and researchers, who are role models to women and girls who either want to enter the wearable tech and IoT industry or are already in the industry.
Because without role models, you cannot be what you cannot see.
After my quick overview of the wearable tech industry, Marija, Rachael, Annie and I taught the girls how to make their very own light up bracelets using conductive thread to build a circuit and sew the LEDs into the bracelets. While they built the tech and learnt about electronics, the best part of the workshop was decorating their bracelets to suit their own personal style. Because wearable tech should be about the fashion as much as about the tech.
Our workshop was an absolute success and all the bracelets lit up for the girls to wear and enjoy. Mission accomplished!
When I returned as a Dragon for the pitching event 3 days later, the difference in the girls’ demeanour and behaviour from the first day was clear. In 3 short days, the girls gained a sense of confidence, team camaraderie and the atmosphere in the Cisco office was electric. It was a pleasure to see the change in the girls from shy teenagers on day one to now confident and strong contenders for the Cisco apprenticeship and graduate programs.
Their pitches were of a very high standard, their presentations were impressive, the fact gathering and research conducted were of a high calibre and they successfully answered the tough questions by us Dragons. The ideas included Fight the Spike, Dia-Bling, Help and Seek refugee app, Hazard Bomber jacket, Speed Alert, Traffi Politeens App, Medigo, Speaker Verification Service, Greenhouse, Opus education solution, VMed, and Global Glasses.
There could only be one winner each in Manchester and London and they were Fight the Spike and Global Glasses!
While the winners received a prize, the real prize was the whole experience from the four days that Helen, Sam and Kathryn provided to the girls. It took a whole team at Cisco to inspire 62 girls, to build their confidence, to show them that they can be who they can see by introducing them to women holding different positions at Cisco and to show them how Cisco technology could be applied to solve real problems.
Their ideas were challenged and while they were taken out of their comfort zone, it was all within a safe environment to push those boundaries and let them shine.
And shine they did.
I am so pleased for Women of Wearables to be involved in Cisco’s Pathway to Your Future pilot program. We believe that by encouraging more girls to learn about tech will help reduce the gender gap that is apparent in the tech industry. We believe it can only be achieved by collaborations between startups, different organisations and corporates to give the girls a balanced view of the tech world.
The government also needs to be proactive by joining us in making the necessary step towards investing in our future girls in tech.
I left them with a quote I heard from another woman in tech:
“You can be a princess and you can also build your own castle”.
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Over a decade ago, when Neo returned to the Matrix after falling down the rabbit hole, he said, in that inimitable Keanu Reeves way, Everything I’ve been taught has been a lie. I suppose Neo’s mother never loved him, and he learned elgebra—not algebra—as a young Matrix-nurtured child. Everything? However unlikely it is that all facts dissipated into falsehoods for Neo, it’s true that he was struck by an unsettling phenomenon. Once Neo discovered the real state of humankind—that machines breed us and feed off our biological energy—the mediated world of the virtual was reduced to something worse than a dream: a digital simulacrum programmed to deceive us. The difference between the virtual and the real was decidedly one of evil versus good. Slavery versus freedom.
As much fun as I had watching The Matrix, or at least the first one, I was quite excited that many of 2010’s films—from Hollywood blockbusters Avatar (I know, last December; close enough), Inception, and Tron: Legacy to the indie tour de force Enter the Void—broke out of the sterile dichotomy between the virtual and the real, and started reckoning with the dynamic interactions between them.
No longer does the virtual simply enslave and deceive. Instead, it filters into the real—blurring any obvious, hierarchal distinction between the two worlds. The virtual in these films resembles more so the surreal life of our subconscious drives and desires, a mysterious source of power and revelation, than the programmed realm of illusion concocted by The Matrix. Perhaps we have come to spend more time on the computer than communicating face-to-face with other flesh-and-bone creatures, or smartphones have practically bent our bodies into question marks. But what I would argue has really shaped the virtual dimension in these films is the videogame, which has now come to nearly permeate our everyday imagination.
In the horribly addictive online role-playing game EverQuest, we used to ask each other what we did in real life. I invested thousands of hours online into developing my avatar, a wood-elf bard (don’t judge me). But as much as I wanted to be one, I was sadly not a wood-elf bard, nor even a rapper, in real life. James Cameron’s Avatar pretty much took our collective fantasy of being otherwise to its extreme. Not only does Jake Sully (Sam Worthington) possess his Na’vi avatar like a ghost, he also becomes it so thoroughly that he miraculously overturns who he is in real life, and finally shakes off his mortal coil to be reincarnated in Na’vi form. This is a true Saul-falling-off-the-horse transformation story, but told in videogame terminology. It’s no simple feat that Pandora oftentimes inspired more awe than our own charred world: Cameron’s 3D fusion camera system finally allowed the seductive quality of film art to catch up—indeed, even surpass—the immersive, hyperreal environments crafted from videogame technology.
In Enter the Void, director Gaspar Noé plays with the idea of an astral projection, an out-of-body-experience, in order to blur the lines between appearance and reality. It’s never made clear whether Oscar (Nathaniel Brown) was reincarnated through his stripper sister’s womb or whether he merely hallucinated the whole odyssey in his last dying moments, drugged out on DMT. Noé accomplishes this ambiguity through enthralling camerawork that recalls the dynamic framing of videogame environments. The camera embodies Oscar’s perspective, floating from first-person to a spectral third-person overview after Oscar is fatally shot in a botched drug bust. It eventually dissolves the audience’s own gaze into Oscar’s, inducing an uncanny experience of descending into his conscious life, quite similar to the game experience of entering the void of an avatar.
But the film becomes something of a videogame nightmare where we lose our remote control over the avatar in the throes of death. We cannot guide Oscar as if he were a videogame avatar making his way through the film’s sex-and-drug noir environment; after all, Oscar is a cinematic character, his destiny already prerecorded and predetermined. Despite being completely absorbed within Oscar’s ghost consciousness, we can only watch, without any autonomy over the course of the story, the past, present, and future movements of his life piece together on-screen according to external laws and hidden impulses beyond our determination. Our freedom as audience degenerates into the purely aesthetic form of our trying to understand what the disoriented narrative means.
Cobb (Leonardo DiCaprio) is haunted by a desire to make sense of his own life story in Christopher Nolan’s Inception. He’s thrown into the crosshairs between architected dream worlds and an elusive reality, made even more tenuous by the film’s inconclusive ending. While Nolan used the notion of incepting a belief into another person’s dreams as an allegory for film itself, inception is ultimately closer to the interactive experience of playing a real-time MMO like World of Warcraft. In a game, you are not just subtly incepted with beliefs, but also a whole world of experiences, a convincing sense of an alter-reality. Developing an avatar within a circumscribed virtual environment really does feel like your own accomplishment, even though it’s decidedly mediated by a game company’s design team and programmers. But Inception reminds us that our dreams are hardly our own: They are shared, living entities, bought and sold, refracted against others, and oftentimes penetrated by deceivers and thieves (no offense, Blizzard).
Suppose we really get lost in those dreams. Enter freshman director Joseph Kosinski’s Tron: Legacy, an alternative take on the dual-world thesis illustrated so brazenly in The Matrix. Videogame and software designer Kevin Flynn (Jeff Bridges) finds himself stuck in the digital dimension he created, a pulsating rhizome of geometric forms called the Grid, where his program alter-ego Clu has usurped power. Clu banishes Flynn outside the boundaries of the Grid and devises a strategy for infiltrating his code into the real world. In the process, Clu “purges”—commits genocide against—a new animate-digital life form, ISOs, who supposedly hold the key for emancipating the human condition. Yes, it’s another story of advanced technology forsaking its creators and setting out to pursue its own maddeningly violent destiny. Why is technology so bent on destruction without the golden heart of humankind guiding its path? Still, the virtual world in Tron does not regress completely into a Matrix-like realm of necessary enslavement. It holds out on possibilities—the elusive dream of open-source liberation—but only if we play the game right.
These films all navigate a central tension between autonomy and domination. The virtual—whether in the form of dreams, avatars, simulated environments, art, or illusions—can just as easily enslave as liberate, and typically, it does something of both. What tends to handle this tension well is the art of play. That’s perhaps why videogames have become such a fundamental trope, whether implicitly or explicitly, in recent cinema concerned with how the spectacle of film plays with audiences, and how the story’s characters play with the multidimensional virtual worlds in which they are embedded. No other model illustrates so clearly how a person can still be autonomous in navigating a code-bound virtual world, let alone the law-bound natural world. But this autonomy depends on how we choose to play. The achievement relies just as much on the player as the creator. | <urn:uuid:bb90e4bb-2e32-4438-ac0d-1d5e83cc1ae8> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://killscreen.com/previously/articles/game-film/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570879.37/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809003642-20220809033642-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.947794 | 1,637 | 1.554688 | 2 |
Study sheds new light on Australian Pacfiic community
A University of Western Sydney report has shed light on the Pacific community in Australia, a largely ignored sector of society similar to other migrant working communities around the world.
Based on census data, the report shows Pacific communities are overrepresented in low paid jobs, are less likely to go onto higher education, and many are unable to access government services as they aren't citizens.
The author of the report, Dr Jioji Ravulo, says Pacific people are a vibrant and youthful part of an ageing Australian population, but they are often unable to make long term plans to achieve their dreams.
"Many in the Pacific communities are trapped in low paid, short term jobs to support their larger families," says Dr Ravulo, from the UWS School of Social Sciences and Psychology.
"Many can't access the social security benefits or the loans they need to further their studies and build their skills to secure higher paid, more stable jobs."
"To help the Pacific community reach its potential, we must provide better access and support to vocational and career opportunities,"
Key findings of the report, Pacific Communities in Australia, include:
- Australia's Pacific population stands at 280 thousand, with the majority of residents Maori, Samoan and Tongan. It is set to triple in the coming decades
- The majority of the Pacific population range is aged under 24 years, whereas the majority of the general Australian population are aged between 25 to 49
- Pacific communities are more likely to have three or more children in their family, with the Pacific population eight times more likely to live in a dwelling with 8 or more people
- 45.8% of Pacific people residing in Australia are not citizens, which greatly impacts on access to Centrelink benefits
- Pacific people work the same amount of hours as the general Australian population but earn less as their jobs are concentrated in the construction, manufacturing and transport industries
- Almost three quarters of the Pacific population are not studying (72.7%), compared to over half of the general Australian population (54.9%)
- The general Australian population is nearly four times more likely to own a home outright at 26%, in comparison to the Australian Pacific population at 6%
- Pacific people in Australia are two times more likely to need supported accommodation
Dr Ravulo says the report will assist researchers, educators and community groups to better respond to the needs and strengths of Pacific communities in Australia, whilst working collaboratively on developing positive strategies towards solutions.
"It is hoped that we will continue to celebrate the richness that comes from understanding diverse and emerging groups in Australia, who greatly contribute to our identity as a nation," he says.
14 August 2015
Western Sydney University pathway provider The College is preparing the next generation of designers to work in Australia’s renewed creative sector through a range of courses.
The excellence of a world-leading cohort of Western Sydney University researchers was celebrated last night with the announcement of four Distinguished Professors and two Distinguished Professors, International Engagement.
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Mexico's Supreme Court has ordered the release of 12 community activists whose case had been the focus of an international campaign.
The activists were serving long prison terms for the alleged kidnapping of police officers during a protest in the town of San Salvador Atenco in 2006.
But the judges found there had been no real evidence against them.
Last week 11 Nobel peace prize winners asked President Felipe Calderon to release the activists.
Human rights groups have hailed the ruling as a victory in the fight against miscarriages of justice in Mexico.
The 12 members of the Peoples Front for the Defence of Land were serving sentences of between 31 and 112 years for their part in disturbances in San Salvador Atenco four years ago.
They had been found guilty of kidnapping six policemen during violent protests which broke out in May 2006 after the arrest of local market vendors accused of selling flowers in a neighbouring town without a permit.
But the supreme court found that - even if they had detained officials during the protest - it did not amount to kidnapping.
"The evidence was illegal and insufficient, they were not given due process, and the crime of kidnapping was never proved," the court ruled.
One judge, Juan Silva Meza, said the case appeared to have been "a disguised form of criminalising social protest" in Mexico.
A report by Mexico's national human rights commission in 2006 found police had used excessive force in putting down the protest in San Salvador Atenco, which is on the outskirts of Mexico City.
Thousands of federal and state police stormed the town and battled demonstrators, who fought back with machetes and petrol bombs.
Two protesters were killed and at least 26 women were allegedly sexually assaulted by police.
San Salvador Atenco already had a reputation for staging protests after a successful campaign in 2002 against the construction of a new airport for Mexico City on local land.
One of those released is the leader of the protests, Ignacio del Valle.
His daughter America sought asylum in the Venezuelan embassy in Mexico City last week - the first Mexican to do so in many years.
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In a July 10 MGMA Stat
poll, 69% of respondents indicated their overhead expenses had increased during the past year. Only 12% responded that it had decreased, 13% responded that it had stayed the same and the remaining 6% were unsure.
If you’ve been a practice executive for more than one day, you’ve likely had conversations regarding practice overhead. For example, perhaps one of your physicians returns from the surgery lounge asking why the practice’s overhead is 63%, while his colleague’s practice overhead is only 22%. Or maybe your partner states that he read that practice overhead should never be more than 48%.
First, it’s important to define practice overhead. It is the cost structure that supports the generation of revenue within your practice. When looking at overhead, it is critical that you compare apples to apples — what one practice included in its cost structure may be different than what another practice included. For example, one practice may include advance practitioner salaries, another may not. One may include partner auto allowance, another may not. It is important to be consistent and understand what you are comparing.
When doing overhead benchmarking, make sure you understand the definition of overhead for the normative benchmarks you are employing. Read the narrative about the survey, not just the numbers.
So how do we measure overhead? Typically, it’s done in one of two ways:
1) Overhead percentage: Expenses divided by revenue:
2) A dollar figure of expenses (costs).
Based on experience, my recommendation is to look at the percentage. Since overhead is the cost structure necessary to generate revenue, lower overhead doesn’t necessarily mean lower expenses. If your practice can generate more revenue by increasing your expenses, the higher amount of expenses will result in a lower percentage. Consider this scenario:
||Costs are 50% higher
Based on actual dollars spent, Practice Two has 50% higher overhead costs versus Practice One. Yet Practice Two brings in double the revenue of Practice One, making their overhead percentage lower (25%) than Practice One (33%). It’s about generating more
revenue per dollar spent. That’s the practice I want to work with!
To manage your overhead percentage, you must look at both costs and revenue.
Tips on managing costs:
- Understand your costs. What drives them? What causes them to increase? How can you influence them? Which ones are fixed? Which are variable?
- Measure your actual costs against a budget and benchmarks. You can’t manage what you don’t measure. If you don’t have a budget, create one now. If you don’t benchmark, and conduct time-series analysis, do it now. Leverage your resources by accessing MGMA DataDive for benchmarking.
- Get competitive bids on a regular basis for outsourced services. Review your invoices monthly to ensure there’s no cost creep – extra charges, additional fuel charges, continued charges for discontinued services. One large physician group I worked with found close to $50,000 in phone charges for discontinued lines and services, just by reviewing their monthly statements.
Tips on managing revenue:
- Maximize documentation and coding.
- Ensure that your revenue cycle team thoroughly assesses all denials and follows up in a timely manner.
- Train your staff in effective patient collection techniques and make sure they keep up on the ever changing rules.
- Evaluate new ways of generating revenue through existing costs. Leverage your space, staff and equipment.
Managing overhead requires a conscious, thoughtful and consistent approach. As a practice executive, one of your key responsibilities is to ensure the financial viability of your practice and that you have systems, policies and processes in place to protect its future.
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A showy native of the Caucasus, rather aggressively escaping from cultivation to lawns and unmowed grass. First collected in Michigan in 1978 in Kalamazoo and Washtenaw Cos., but doubtless established somewhat earlier.
The attractive blue flowers are 6.5–12.5 mm wide and on their elongate pedicels stand out above the creeping stems with their small leaves (blades less than 1 cm long). Fruit has never been seen in Michigan, and is rarely, if ever, to be found in North America, so spread is presumably entirely vegetative.
How to get rid of:
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Located at the very end of the peninsula, Fort Nepean enables you to step into the boots of the soldiers once posted there. Fort Nepean was a critical part of Victoria’s defences from the 1880s until 1945. It was the largest and most heavily armed installation in the network of fortifications around the entrance to Port Phillip, and today remains an outstanding example of the evolution of gun technology and Australia’s early defence strategies. The first shot of the British Empire in WWI and the first Australian shots of World War ll were fired from Fort Nepean, earning its entry in military history. These battlements were modified and used right up until the end of World War II.
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Allow to snap to middles of straight and curved segments in paths
So, I created a square, changed the line brush with something else, and then cut the 4 corners with scissor tool. Then, if I select the add anchor point tool, and click in the EXACT MIDDLE of the newly created line (which I cut from the square), it will not allow me to do so. It's just saying you only can add anchor point on the path line.
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Join us for a discussion of Who Gets What? The New Politics of Insecurity, with editor Margaret Weir, Wilson Professor of International and Public Affairs and Political Science at Brown University, and contributors Jacob Hacker, Stanley B. Resor Professor of Political Science, Yale University; Douglas S. Massey, Henry G. Bryant Professor of Sociology and Public Affairs, Princeton University; Kris-Stella Trump, Assistant Professor of Political Science, University of Memphis; and Andreas Wiedemann, Assistant Professor of Politics and International Affairs, Princeton University.
The authors of this timely book, Who Gets What?, harness the expertise from across the social sciences to show how skyrocketing inequality and social dislocation are fracturing the stable political identities and alliances of the postwar era across advanced democracies. The authors demonstrate how the rise of the very rich has exacerbated the existing economic divisions that separate people and places. Yet, employment, education, sex and gender, and race and ethnicity affect the way people experience and interpret inequality and economic anxieties. Instead of promoting broad and inclusive policies to address the challenges of the new economy, populist politics has deepened social and political divisions. In the United States, where the one-percent holds special political power, it has been especially difficult to devise a fairer distribution of resources and opportunities.
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Yet another problem for Japan's insurers
RISING car theft used to be Japanese property-and-casualty insurers' biggest headache. Now there is a new menace: robbers who steal construction machinery, mostly hydraulic excavators, from building sites.
Dealing with car thieves was bad enough. More than 63,000 cars were reported stolen in 2001, a record. This cost insurers some ¥60 billion ($490m), almost 50% more than the year before, and 20 times what they paid out in 1990. In response, a special task-force made up of the police, the transport ministry, customs officials, car companies and insurers was set up. Its first step was to raise public awareness. Japan is, after all, a country used to low crime levels, where many drivers still leave keys in the ignition when they park (and insurers pay out when the cars are then stolen). The insurance industry offered discounts for cars with theft-prevention devices. Although the number of car thefts fell from its peak, it has been creeping up again since November.
The task-force is now drawing up similar plans to fight construction-machinery heists, which have also become more frequent in recent years (see chart). Insurers are particularly concerned about hydraulic excavators—called “power shovels” in Japan—the most popular target for thieves. These are often used in further crimes, such as breaking open automated teller machines (ATMs) which have been stolen from outside supermarkets and banks. This became popular last year: 26 ATMs containing a total of ¥335m in cash were stolen, compared with only one in 2001.
The Marine and Fire Insurance Association of Japan estimates that the industry paid out ¥1.7 billion in claims for stolen construction machinery in the year to March 31st, almost three times the amount of three years before. But insurers also have to pay out on stolen ATMs. The actual machines are thought to cost ¥2m-3m apiece. Insurance on their contents varies widely, but is usually capped.
As with cars, the task-force is trying to persuade construction companies not to leave hydraulic excavators unattended, with the key attached, at building sites at night. Unfortunately, that might not be enough. It turns out that there are only one or two types of key for many models of hydraulic excavator. Manufacturers are making life easy for the thieves.
This article appeared in the Finance & economics section of the print edition under the headline "Bulldozed"
From the April 26th 2003 edition
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Dubai wants jobs in the metaverse; Saudi Arabia a city in the desert
Estimates of higher “natural” unemployment point to a need for more Fed tightening
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The Architecture of Filmmaking: An Interview with Amos Gitai
Modern artists have often discovered that negative publicity helps their careers by publicizing their works and winning them sympathizers as well as foes. Amos Gitai, a forty-year-old Israeli filmmaker, established a reputation with his first documentary, House (1980), in part because Israeli television, which had commissioned the fifty-minute work, refused to air it.
"Israel is a very passionate place in which the significance of an event is always exaggerated, "Gitai told me in January in Paris, where he now lives. "When the film was not broadcast, there was an hysterical reaction. And since the film is rather serene, I was always surprised at the hysteria."
A slow and detailed examination of a construction site in Jerusalem, House reveals the complacency with which some Israeli Jews have taken over buildings that once belonged to Palestinians. Interviews, rather than a voice-over commentary, shape the viewer's relationship to the story.
"When the film was shown and I saw the reactions, I realized that when you touch things in a society that are subconscious, people are much more sensitized than when you make big declarative statements which they already know how to digest, because they have heard them on television," Gitai said to me.''When a Palestinian worker uses language that is much more metaphorical and sophisticated than an Israeli professor of economics, the governor of the National Bank, they feel really threatened because the cliche of who is primitive and who is not is disintegrating."
European festivals and journalists sympathetic to the fate of Palestinians gave a good deal of play to House and Gitai's two later documentaries on the relationships of Jews and Palestinians in Israel, Wadi (1981) and Field Diary (1982). Indeed, it seems as if every sign of censorship—like the hands of Israeli soldiers that repeatedly cover the lens in Field Diary—has eventually enhanced Gitai's reputation. Wiser opponents might have made his career more rocky by giving him less to complain about. What Herbert Marcuse called "repressive tolerance " is often effective in nullifying dissent: When filmmakers get no response (or very little) to sparse screenings or off primetime airings, then their works may well be doomed to obscurity. One could argue that silence, rather than attacks, is the real bane of a director's existence.
From his experience with his trilogy on Israel, Gitai evidently learned he could handle polemics. "When people in various situations want you not to look at a certain reality, when they want to shut off the camera, then the instant reaction is to keep it on," he told me. He has gone where journalists aren't welcome: part of Pineapple (1983), a documentary about Dole, was shot in the Philippines under martial law. And he has broached subjects that are often passed over in silence: in Bangkok Bahrain (1984) he talks with Thai prostitutes about their families, from whom they hide their profession.
Yet any capsule summary of a Gitai documentary is a disservice because of the complexity of his works, which are dense with interrelated themes. By using dissonant music, associative editing and long takes, he avoids the pseudo-objectivity of television news reporting. Yet Gitai is more financially successful than many documentary filmmakers because he has managed to get the backing of European television networks for his projects. The irony of working for television against its stylistic norms is one of the subjects of this interview.
Perhaps you could explain how you came to make documentary films?
I didn't start with a very methodological attitude towards documentaries because I wasn't a cinephile as a child. I was more interested in painting or architecture than in cinema. I was a student of architecture and my title in society was "a guy who is doing his Ph.D." I managed to drag out my studies for eight years or so and made little Super 8 films. I didn't need a justification for them, which was very useful—now I know that when you make films as a full-time job, you enter a structure which pervades all you do.
And were you still working on your dissertation for the University of California at Berkeley when you made House and Wadi in Israel?
Yes. I think you need this ambiguity in a country like Israel which is almost like an extended clan, with small groups of people who know each other intimately. It has all the wonderful things we read about communities and all the repressive aspects. It doesn't like internal dissent or different ways of looking at things, because this is the family and you're not supposed to tell stories to others, etc. I think it was good to have this cover of being a student of architecture because otherwise the pressures would have been much more direct.
Is the Arab-Israeli conflict, which you treat in House, Wadi, and Field Diary, the subject of many other films by Israeli directors or is it more or less taboo?
You find more and more Israeli films that deal with the Israeli-Palestinian problem, but they are often melodramas—a love affair between a Palestinian girl and an Israeli boy, etc.—forms derived from Dallas. I don't like the idea of divorcing the cinematographic aspect from progressive claims.
House doesn't just contain talk about the relationship between Palestinians and Jews. Your interviews in the film demonstrate that communication between these groups can be possible. I as a viewer was very aware that some trust bad been established between a Jewish Israeli filmmaker and Palestinian interviewees. How do you see the function of interviews in your films? And how do you approach interviewees?
In House, when people tell you little fragments of their personal biographies, you gradually construct a concept of this house and this conflict. My films have a concrete, realistic dimension, but they are also metaphorical. The object creates a kind of spine for the film which relates all the elements to each other. Actually, this idea came out of an earlier film I wanted to do of people working in a workplace around a machine. They would have specific biographies and the machine would connect them. But I found the house more interesting because it has its own biography. The next phase was to look for a specific house. I asked several contractors in Jerusalem to show me what they were building. When I came to one house, I knew this was it because the street was named "Each Generation and Its Masters." Then we had to go to the registry of deeds, take out the certificate of sale for the house, and trace people who were dispersed all over the place. I Feel it's a dynamic, organic process.
Most of the films which are more interesting, successful or revealing are not exercises you can repeat or for which you can make a master plan. One of the reasons I left architecture and went into cinema was that I felt that, at the moment, architecture is based too much on master plans. When you look at some indigenous forms—like a Greek village or a beautiful Gothic cathedral such as Chartres—you know that they reflect a process of construction. I don't believe you can divorce the fabrication of a film or building from its conception—it's one continuous process. You have to work on the conception, modify and re-elaborate it while shooting. You can't just come to people with a piece of paper and ask them to fulfill the slot you gave them. They have to dig into themselves and bring you a definition of a situation that the media spend hours trying to elaborate. And they have to do it in a condensed and intimate way—it demands a lot of concentration. One reason I did this story and these characters is that they were people who had never been interviewed before. I think you can hear segments of what they say in the media—the problem is to relate them.
I was surprised at the way you introduced one of your favorite themes—censorship—in Bangkok Bahrain. Did you know before the interview that the middleman who ships Thai men to Saudi employers had once been involved in censorship?
No. I think that's the great fun of documentary film : when it's not scripted and you reveal things. It's striking how condensed the stories are. I think a lot is really intuitive. I asked a guy to find me an agency that exports workers and he said we can't go to this place or that but we can go here. So we came in and, while changing reels, I asked him,''What did you do before? " And he said, "I was a cinema censor."
In Bangkok Bahrain, you reveal two international exchange systems in Thailand. One, the exporting of That men as''guest workers" to Saudi Arabia, is a relatively familiar phenomenon. The other, the hiring of Thai women as prostitutes by foreign "sex tourists,"is a more taboo subject. You must spend a fair amount of time looking for topics that are not too obvious around which you can build a film.
When I do a film like Pineapple or Bangkok Bahrain, on a topic I don't know well beforehand, I like a period of just reading. I want to know where I'm moving. Then I never take these books with me. Shooting requires a lot of concentration because each little string leads you to another and another. There's a labyrinth that you have to follow without being too uptight or too strict with yourself.
For instance, when we started Pineapple, we found that Castle and Cooke were two missionaries who went to Hawaii to convert the natives, and the religious aspect became clear: before you control people physically or economically, it is important to have the missionary in the Philippines convert their perception of reality. If I were planning the film on paper, I'd say religion isn't the subject—it's the pineapple, the directors of the com pany, etc. But it's all interwoven.
How did you come to the pineapple as the focus around which a multinational system revolves?
In my Ph.D. period in the late 1970s a lot of friends talked to me about multinationals. But it seemed a kind of abstraction. I remember a precise moment: I was standing in the apartment of a friend of mine and there was a pineapple can there. I peeled off the label, which I still have, and it said: "Produced in the Philippines, packaged in Honolulu, distributed in San Francisco." And then I looked very closely and it said on the label: "Printed in Japan." So everything was there; everybody was present on this label. Later on I made a xerox of it and said to someone in Swedish television, "Here is the script. There is the story."
It seems you are increasingly interested not just in structures like the workers who have some relation to a machine, but in multinational systems of exchange. I gather you made Brand New Day because the Eurythmics asked you to make a film about the group. But were you attracted by the idea of exploring the mix of cultures when an English group, with roots in American musical traditions, visits japan?
Yes, there are some rules that I've made for myself and one is that I will not make a documentary in a country I don't know, if it's shot just in that country. I think that's much more the work of the local filmmakers. I don't like films done from an external, folkloristic point of view about a place. But I'll make a film if it's about a structure or social system which shapes the multinational world we live in today. Then I'm entitled like anyone else to do it.
I wonder if moving around gives you some freedom to violate taboos, as you do. If an independent filmmaker -or a freelance journalist, for that matter—is situated in one place and has to keep coming back to the same sources for information, he or she may well enter into a tacit agreement not to say anything unexpected. And if a filmmaker or reporter works for a large organization, he or she must be careful not to ruin contacts for the next person stationed in that location.
What you said is very interesting. Before I went to Bangkok or the Philippines, the television stations involved wanted me to meet various people—the opposition leaders in exile, etc. I said "no" because I think you have to be very careful not to be attached to anyone.
The role of a documentary film maker is very delicate and when you walk into a community or group of people who are living in a certain situation, it's not good to enter with the illusion that you are there to stay forever, because you are just passing through. You are an observer; you will not be there tomorrow. It's better to make it clear—it's easier for them—otherwise you become too important to their existence. And it's better for the filmmaker not to make bombastic declarations about the affinities he has or doesn't have.
You've talked about the difficulties filmmakers have making documentaries for television because 1V doesn't like alternative forms, but you've been very successful in getting commissions from television. Most of your recent films are co-productions between your company and various European channels. How do you explain this—by the fact that there are people in television who are sympathetic to your approach?
Yes, some people in television are open, but they are becoming more and more rare. And sometimes compromises are demanded. Pineapple wouldn't have existed if French television hadn't stepped into the project. Swedish and Finnish television were committed but I went all over Europe and people said, "It's wonderful," but didn't give me any contracts. After a year I said this was never going to happen. But the Swedes sent me to somebody here [in France] and she said, "We will do it." In exchange, they required that the film be tailored to the demands of television : [that meant] sixty minutes long and they would have the right to have their own journalist reuse the material. I signed because I knew that without them I wouldn't have a film. But I had one important condition: they would not touch the negative. So French television broadcast one version, which I edited with them, and I was left with my film which was shown elsewhere.
What were some of the differences between the versions, besides length? Did French television let you keep the dissonant soundtrack that helps make Pineapple a disquieting film?
No, that's one of the things that disturbed them in Pineapple. But Channel Four transmitted it, the Dutch transmitted it, the Swedes and everyone else.
My films are, by and large, associative, and sound is very important in supporting this kind of structure because, for me, sound is something that evokes associations. Pineapple has a kind of Rashomon structure: the story is retold and retold and maybe in the end we don't know exactly what a pineapple is but we know some other things. In Pineapple, sou nd is an element which comes and disappears and reopens the story again and again. Sometimes the sound can work in opposition to the image; sometimes it can support it. It is rich—which doesn't mean you have to have a lot of different kinds of music. You can use one theme and dislocate it so it puts a question mark over something, supports something else, and creates a certain feeling when it goes together with a sunset. In your mind a sound is associated with a certain image and when it comes in contact with another one, it reopens the story on another level: it recalls a fragment of the image you saw before and creates a friction between this memory and the new image.
Do you have problems getting television to co produce your projects because of the artistic or experimental aspects of your previous films?
Absolutely. These days the documentary belongs more and more to the current affairs department, meaning news and all the mystification that goes with journalism: that this is the truth, that we are reporters, that we have to stand with the microphone in front of the camera, that we have to cover images with text, etc.
Fiction filmmakers always complain about the effects of television, but the documentary has really suffered the most. Television created one genre, the reportage, which became so dominant that any other documentary form is almost automatically ilegitimized. But when you look at a film like The Blood of Animals (Le Sang des Betes) which [ George] Franju made in 1948, you see that he didn't have to speak about the Second World War. He just went to a slaughterhouse and filmed how you transform a cow into a sausage.
The author would like to thank Wendy Lidell of International Film Circuit in New York City, Bo Smith of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and the library of the Cinémathèque Française in Paris for their help in the preparation of this article.
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Residential Retail Products Program means more rebates for Alberta home improvements
April 20, 2017 - Residential Retail Products, a new Energy Efficiency Alberta program, says it will support homeowners and local Alberta contractors through rebates for insulation, tankless hot water heaters and windows.
April 20, 2017 By Renée Francoeur
Beginning April 28, rebates of up to $3500 will be available for eligible home improvement products, including insulation for attics, basements and above-grade walls. Tankless hot water heaters (Energy Star-certified) and triple glaze (low-e, argon) windows will also be available.
To qualify, homeowners must select from a list of Alberta-based registered contractors on efficiencyalberta.ca to install eligible products. Contractors will guide homeowners through the application and rebates will go directly to the homeowner once each project is complete.
“Energy efficiency makes life more affordable for Albertans. It also creates good jobs,” said Shannon Phillips, minister of Environment and Parks and minister responsible for the Climate Change Office. “The Home Improvement Rebate will make a practical difference for Alberta families while supporting local contractors and helping to diversify our economy.”
Contractors who wish to be added to the registry can apply at efficiencyalberta.ca. They must complete a short training course and meet the following criteria:
• be a legally registered business in Alberta,
• have current liability insurance,
• have current Workers’ Compensation coverage.
The Home Improvement Rebate is one part of Energy Efficiency Alberta’s $24-million Residential Retail Products Program. The province says more details on other products in the program will be coming soon.
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90’s kids know the worth of owning a console box and CD games. It was a time when the console industry was growing up along with the gaming industry. Many of us would have had a console with a collection of CD or DVD games. If any of you have a library of original XBOX games, you must be thinking about how to play them today.
Well, the good news is that many XBOX original games are compatible with the XBOX 360 and are playable. You may have to download one or two updates for the games to work smoothly. But it is not at all impossible. But how do we achieve that? Find out in the steps below:
1. Installing The Drive
Most of the Xbox 360 consoles come with a hard drive by default. However, some version does not have the hard drive originally which include Arcade, Core, and S versions. So, for these models, you need to install an extra hard drive that can store the Xbox original emulation software. This would also allow you to save the XBOX original game data.
One important thing to note here is that you need to have an official Microsoft hard drive for this purpose. You cannot use a third party hard drive as it won’t work.
Next thing is to use the transfer cable and CD to copy your data from Xbox 360 to the hard drive. After that, remove the side panel for the Xbox 360 and plug the hard drive into your Xbox 360.
2. Connect to the Internet
The next step is to connect your Xbox 360 to the internet. You have to do this to download updates that are required to play Xbox original games. You can connect to Xbox live from the settings menu. You need to have an Xbox live account for this process. If you don’t have one, you will be guided through the process. Just follow the steps.
3. Install the Updates
Once you have connected to the store. Find the latest available updates, download them, and install them on your system. These updates will allow you to install the emulation software required to play Xbox original games.
If you are connected to Xbox live your system will automatically download and install updates whenever they are available. You need to have a strong internet connection for that purpose. If you do not have an internet connection. You can search for a system updates disc at your nearest retail store. It is important to have the newer released update to run the games smoothly.
4. Ready to Play?
After you have successfully installed all the updates, the next step is to pick your favorite game CD from your old collection. Insert it in your Xbox 360 console and wait for the magic. Setting up the console before that is important. Make sure you use the original Xbox video cable so that you may not encounter any display problems.
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In this article, we incorporate the absolute best adolescent positions and see what makes these positions uncommon for early positions. Neighboring the typical side positions like bartending, pizza development, eatery association, or working at an unobtrusive request of things, coming up next are a few opposite side work insights for youngsters.
All through the mid year or around Christmas there are reliably rare doorways where a few young people notice sort out supporting at parties and occasions. You can assist your kid with getting another calling through searching for a task. Doing different positions can assist you with getting cash for anything you really care about. Doing these circumstances as a youth can assist you with empowering the social limits you’ll have to prepare for school or a conventional occupation later on. You can in like way get huge work comprehension to list on your resume or school application.
There are various spots that teens can fill reliant upon their program, interests and limits. A couple extremely close positions can assist you with getting client support limits, while other electronic positions can assist young people with acquiring explicit or framing limits. There are additionally ways that especially educated youngsters can utilize their electronic abilities to get positions. Work can assist youths with empowering their characters better, obtain opportunity, accomplish new achievements, gain work information, and become additional autonomous from their kin.
Right when adolescents pick an endeavor, being involved shows them responsibility and unprecedented work affinities, further makes using time really and association, and assists them with setting aside cash. This work in addition permits young people the shocking an open door to orchestrate with grown-up administrators that can fill in as a partner for what’s to come. Right when youngsters share time occupations, they find concerning their capacities, what gathers sureness and boldness.
Research shows that if all else fails, work fervently impacts the movement of an adolescent’s life. Different prepared experts, including individuals who serve on government sheets, for example, the National Youth Commission, acclaim low upkeep work and say it works with the headway from energy to adulthood. As shown by a review by the Hamilton Project and the Brookings Institution, youngsters are more against work low help during their assessments and besides less inclined to work all through the pre-summer. However working after school emits an impression of being a centuries-old custom, how much working youths has really decreased of late.
No matter what the way that adolescents can work from the age of 13, how much youngsters chipping away at Saturdays has dropped from 40% during the 1990s to 20% today (UK Employment and Skills Commission). This low interest in work among young people is a disgrace since low help work shows constant attitude and social capacities with regards to for as far back as anybody can recollect. Youths who work since from the start are luckier to land a generously reimbursed area level work or a paid temporary spot that changes into a customary occupation than youngsters with no work information.
without a doubt, any youngster can profit from working in assistant ordinary timetable they are permitted by rule. Guards and adolescents ought to surely believe fill in to be a positive extra-curricular experience, however without paltriness to the place where it prevents improvement. At long last, when young people work, it is fundamental that all included review that immaturity is a colossal heap of things and that occupation preparing, industrious demeanor movement and growing up are very critical for the end-all procedure.
Taking into account this, youngsters are in an ideal situation finding a respectable by and large arrangement between work, extracurricular exercises, and school. Near work, youngsters can battle to change scholastics and extracurricular exercises. Drained or unready for school exercises can keep working adolescents away from going to class, and work can override extracurricular exercises.
Moreover, studies have shown that working past what 20 hours can incite an increase in remedy and liquor misuse. Obviously, several educators cry that functioning adolescents contribute a wealth of energy on their work; they might come to school tired, have brief period to contribute time with their teachers after school for intriguing help, and keep away from extracurricular exercises (Bills, Helms and Ozcan, 1995). Different past assessments have suggested that work during energy upset family time.
Our outcomes show that those youths who worked the entire year for the subtly run association between the ages of 14 and 15 had the best relationship with their kin, who kept on extra making when they were 16 to 17 years of age. While a minority of youngsters give their advantage obviously to their kin, pay from high schooler low upkeep work helps different families financially to the degree that their adolescents can purchase things for themselves that their kin would somehow give. Working youngsters have cash to spend on things they don’t like, similar to liquor or tobacco.
An adolescent who gets one more calling first thing in assistant school might set aside satisfactory cash to be less requiring understudy progresses or parental assistance. Susan Zalupsky, a Northville-based psychotherapist, says a piece of the advantages of working low upkeep for adolescents join being dependable, working on using time usefully, securing instinctive limits by working with others, and figuring out some method for getting cash. Working after school can also give up created organization, particularly expecting you work longer than the customary school day. These positions can in like way permit adolescents the amazing chance to work flexible hours that fit their school and extracurricular exercises.
At any rate, low upkeep occupation can give your youngster critical work experience that they can list on future requesting for business. Tolerating that your kid can work with others without fight or disappointment, they might be prepared for low help work. In the event that you haven’t picked now, welcome your childhood regardless a pre-summer position. On the off chance that pre-summer occupations are working out emphatically, your youngster might be prepared to work during the school year.
Summer work is a psyche blowing decision as it doesn’t upset investigations and permits adolescents to utilize their extra energy advantageously. Essentially, this sort of low help work helps teenagers expecting to focus on figure out some method for working with young people, particularly in the event that they assist with schoolwork and action arranging. Different directors will work straightforwardly with youths to teach and set them up for low upkeep attempts.
As well as having the entryway and status to figure out part-opportunity work, there are several extra attributes that might show that your childhood is prepared for work.
Exactly when your young adult at first watches out for the subject of work, it’s essential for plunk down with them and review the up-sides and negatives that work can bring. Two or three teenagers need time use limits, so gatekeepers can step in with a few important treats; this will permit young people to contribute their energy considerably more productively, reducing their commitment and assisting them with feeling less overpowered by their responsibilities. | <urn:uuid:19d72b02-a4cc-41f4-b690-67b0106f76ec> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.auraltrad.com/%EC%95%8C%EB%B0%94/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570879.37/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809003642-20220809033642-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.960654 | 1,514 | 1.875 | 2 |
We’re excited to start the Sunday School year off with a new curriculum! GO!
Yes, that’s right. The name of the curriculum is GO!
THE CHRONOLOGICAL CURRICULUM THAT GETS KIDS OUT OF THEIR SEATS AND INTO THE STORYTELLING ACTION THROUGH THE BIBLE EVERY YEAR
GO! takes kids through the entire Bible once a year, but it uses different stories each time around. Kids continually get the big picture of scripture, but without unnecessary repetition. And unlike other chronological curriculum, the GO! scope and sequence lines up with the Christian calendar.
Simply put, each GO! lesson is designed to be an interactive experience that transforms kids' minds, hands and hearts.
GO! takes kids chronologically through the Bible so they can know how each story fits together to tell the Big Bible Story of God's love and redemption. More than that, GO! places God at the center of each story.
Our faith in God should be a living and active faith, one that affects how we interact with the world around us. For this reason, GO! lessons are designed to help kids apply their faith in everyday situations.
God wants more than just our minds and hands, He wants our hearts, too! Every GO! lesson gives kids an opportunity to respond to God through prayer, Bible reading, drawing, or writing.
GO! IS A CHILDREN'S MINISTRY CURRICULUM DESIGNED FOR PRESCHOOL AND ELEMENTARY KIDS. MORE THAN THAT, GO! IS...
- CHRONOLOGICAL GO! takes kids through the Bible chronologically every year and helps kids see how they too can be a part of God's story.
- GOSPEL CENTERED GO! regularly presents the Good News of Jesus and gives kids an opportunity to respond by becoming faith-filled followers of Christ.
- GOD FOCUSED GO! shows kids how God is at the center of every story in Scripture and helps them understand the character and nature of God. GO! teaches Biblical truth with real world application. But more than that, it gives direction and space to develop a personal relationship with Jesus.
- FILLED WITH FUN GO! is tons of fun! We don't want parents to drag their kids to church. We want kids to break our doors down. Metaphorically of course.
PreK - K
Preschool! 3 year old’s through Kindergarten
Meets in the theater for an opening, last door on the right in the lower level of the educational wing. After opening, the Pre-K & Kindergarten will travel to the upper level of the educational wing to their classroom. Children in Pre-K & Kindergarten will need to be picked up by a parent or other prearranged adult at 10:00 a.m.; fourth door on the left, next to the Nursery.
Welcome to Tippy’s Mouse House! Just as mice are prone to do, Tippy has tiptoed into the preschool room and scurried off with the Bible story pictures. Together, the preschoolers get to peek into Tippy’s Mouse House and search for the pictures amongst all the other doodads Tippy has collected. It’s a super sweet search that culminates in the discovery of God’s provision and perfect love.
1st - 6th
Elementary Grades 1st through 6th
Meets in the 2nd door on the left on the lower level of the educational wing for their class. Children in 1st – 6th will also need a parent to pick them up unless other arrangements are made with their teacher.
What kid doesn’t love hamming it up in front of a camera from time to time? During the “Snapshot” series, kids will be encouraged to do just that. By striking different fun and creative poses throughout the lessons, kids will help tell the stories of the Israelite's journey through the wilderness and into the Promised Land. More than that, kids will get an unforgettable snapshot of God’s enduring love and faithfulness through the deserts of life.
7th and 8th grades
Confirmation class meets in the Confirmation classroom. Lower level, 1st door to your left entering the educational wing from Fellowship Hall.
Sr. High School
This class will meet on the 1st & 3rd Sundays of each month. Classroom is on the lower level, last room on the left of the educational wing; Teachers- Sean & Jamie Smith, & Aaron Jaconis. Come see what’s new!
SIS: Sisters In Spirit:
Women meet for special events and outings throughout the year. Some of the things this group has done include: going to the theater, going out to dinner, craft events and educational events.
Friedens Pew Sisters
Meets in the blast area each Sunday at 9:00 am! Join in the fun and bring along a friend. Let’s start each Sunday with our Friedens sisters!
Mixed Adult Class
This class meets in the conference room, 1st door on the right of the upper level of the educational wing, at 9:00 a.m. This is a discussion class on current topics. Come join the conversations! Grab a mug and have a cup of coffee. Enjoy the morning with us!
Twelve More Women of the Bible
In this 12-session video Bible study, some of today’s best-loved authors and speakers look at the spiritual lessons learned from twelve biblical women and what they mean for women today. | <urn:uuid:2aaa273e-9eb5-4aa3-a23d-f49ebde1c5b5> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://friedensucc-troy.org/programs_sundayschool | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570879.37/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809003642-20220809033642-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.921901 | 1,180 | 2.140625 | 2 |
I’m not sure if Vladimir Putin has read Elias Canetti, but if he hasn’t, he’d enjoy the old Bulgarian sage’s “Crowds and Power.” As the World Cup sails forward into the next knockout stage, Putin has managed Canetti’s twin themes — the crowds in his presence and the power in his hands — so impeccably that his performance borders on genius.
Putin made a canny bet. He reckoned that once people from all over the world streamed into Russia to watch football, they would cease to look at Russia. Writing about a strongman’s use of the “arena” to divert the public gaze away from ugliness, Canetti observed that the strongman induces the spectators to “turn their backs to the city. They have been lifted out of its structure of walls and streets and, for the duration of their time in the arena, they do not care about anything which happens” outside.
The city is a metaphor for the world beyond the walls of the stadium — here, Putin’s Russia, the Russia of gagged dissent and state repression, of a mafia-style economy and barefaced corruption. Putin gambled that outsiders, beguiled by feats of great footballing skill and fueled with the kind of benign nationalism that accompanies such events, would have eyes only for the sporting and the theatrical, and space in their imaginations only for personal heartbreak and ecstasy.
Putin knows, too, that football fans are tribal, and that at tournaments they stick with their own kind both inside and outside the arena.
Everywhere, there have been solid knots of Swiss, hordes of Danes, swarms of English, cartels of Colombians, musters of Croatians, troops of Nigerians, bevies of Egyptians. Yes, they mingle with others — there is no more gregarious life-form on the planet than the football fan — but they mostly stay with their own kind. Among their own, they paint faces in the colors of their flag, drink beer and vodka, eat till they burst, and radiate cheer toward every TV cameraman they encounter, shouting slurred greetings to mom back home, or to a sweetheart left behind.
The football, here, has been Putin’s friend.
Interaction with ordinary Russians is confined to those who serve them in bars or cafés, sell them tickets on buses and trains, or who reside in the parts of town that tourists from abroad frequent. Visitors, chastened in advance by scary reports of Russian ultras and hooligans, have rarely ventured into the scruffier, unfriendlier twilight zones of Russia’s host cities. Pre-tournament worries of attacks on foreigners, of racism directed toward non-white fans, have proved entirely unfounded.
No one should be surprised by this. Violence in Russia flows from a spigot that Putin controls. The Russian state has urban thugs at its disposal, who do its bidding. One can be certain that every preemptive measure was taken to keep troublemakers on a leash. This isn’t difficult for Putin, since these groups are his extra-judicial enforcers. It would have been a wonder, in fact, if there had been trouble of this kind.
So we’ve had two weeks in which football fans — not always the most enlightened souls, not always attuned to the political nuances around them — have had the loveliest time in Russia, where the local strongman has ensured that there will be absolutely no ugliness from his own citizens that might invite reciprocal ugliness from visitors. Every moment of significance has been confined to the “arena” (to use Canetti’s word), and absent from the “city.”
Compare that with Brazil, in 2014, where we were subjected to a flaccid tournament in which the overrated hosts were humiliated, and the whole affair was overshadowed by the host nation’s hubris. Russia’s lack of football prowess has helped: Every improbable win by the home side has been treated like a party by the locals, and there has been a cheerful humility to Russian spectators that has contributed to the tournament’s success.
Add to all of that Putin’s own low profile these last two weeks. He was present at the opening ceremony, and at Russia’s first game against Saudi Arabia. He was absent at Russia’s Group of 16 knockout game against Spain, when the king of Spain was in the presidential box.
King Felipe VI was accompanied by Dmitry Medvedev, the Russian prime minister, and that can’t have been by accident. Putin isn’t a stupid man, and must have been aware that his presence alongside the Spanish king would give rise to bitter comment in the West. There was nothing to be gained by being in the box, so he stayed away. (Will he be there on Saturday, we wonder, when Russia plays Croatia in the quarter-finals?)
This is precisely what those critical of Russia’s hosting the cup had feared — an aura of success, and the apparent softening of a strongman’s reputation. These fears are coming true.
People are thinking of this as the World Cup in Russia, and not as the World Cup in Putin’s Russia. Our minds are locked inside the arena. No one cares about what’s happening outside.
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If someone arrives at your church in a wheel chair, can they get in the front door? Can they use the restroom easily?
The journey to fully including people with disabilities begins with access and leads to transformed attitudes.
If someone has hearing loss, will they be able to hear the sermon?
When a person with vision impairment comes to church, can they fully participate in the liturgy or congregational singing?
The journey to fully including people with disabilities and welcoming their gifts begins with access and leads us to examine and transform our attitudes.
An annual disability audit using one of the audit tools will help your congregation grow in awareness of the barriers that inadvertently make it hard for people with disabilities to participate fully. We all have room to grow!
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Week beginning 26.2.18
We wish we were nocturnal when the weather is like this!
In English, we are using our plans to write an information text about our chosen nocturnal animals, we have lots to write about and will be using a a range of specific topic based language. We will be linking our Science work to this, looking at food chains and where animals get their food from.
We are learning how to use a tally to construct a pictorgram in Maths. We will be answering questions about our findings.
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Austrian start-up Selectum partnered with Bühler to provide a new, healthy and CO2-neutral snack. Selectum launched Paddies, crunchy wafer pillows with a creamy dip inside at the end of 2019. Bühler contributed with induction baking technology to make their production entirely free of CO2 emissions. Selectum and Bühler ran product development trials and assessed their results in the Bühler Wafer Innovation Center’s technical laboratory.
Paddies have a 90-degree twisted bite-size shape. They are made with a combination of rice and chickpea flour. They are available in three flavors – cheese, toffee, and peanut butter, all with a dip inside. Selectum’s factory in Wolkersdorf, Austria, produces around 1.5 million 30-gram packages per month.
Selectum conducted trials and tasting sessions there for almost one year to perfect the cream and the dough and match the production requirements for this snack. Different starches were tested, including gluten-free wheat starch, rice starch, and corn starch. Flours made of rice and chickpea were also tested for their high-protein content. Camilo Wolff, CEO and founder of Selectum GmbH, envisioned a snack that is “gluten-free, palm oil-free, not fried, with 40% less fat than chips and nachos and on top of that, with a high protein content.”
Inductive technology used in Bühler’s wafer stick oven Franz Haas EWB ensured the CO2-free production of the Paddies. “The inductive heating system has a lot of benefits. The production with this new heating system is not just CO2-neutral but completely CO2-free,” said Emanuel Hoeckner, product manager at Bühler. The EWB inductive oven is 100% powered by electrical energy. It can be equipped with an optional power pack to increase its output capacity in order to adapt to specific production requirements. Bühler customized the EWB inductive heating oven by adding a special coating ring to deal with the higher salinity and lower pH-values of the wafer batter used for the Paddies.
Paddies are already available on the shelves of Billa and Spar supermarkets in Austria and are sold in Germany, Italy, Finland, Spain, Hungary, and Poland. “I am very proud of the product. We entered the market as a start-up, and we are already selling our product internationally. Two years ago, it was just an idea. Bühler has been a very supportive partner all the way.” | <urn:uuid:125b7caf-4beb-4819-9173-e3399e9a5a95> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://bakingbiscuit.com/selectum-and-buhler-create-healthy-carbon-neutral-snack/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571150.88/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810070501-20220810100501-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.948893 | 555 | 1.5 | 2 |
The Neogene and Quaternary are characterized by enormous changes in global climate and environments, including global cooling and the establishment of northern high-latitude glaciers. These changes reshaped global ecosystems, including the emergence of tropical dry forests and savannahs that are found in Africa today, which in turn may have influenced the evolution of humans and their ancestors. However, despite decades of research we lack long, continuous, well-resolved records of tropical climate, ecosystem changes, and surface processes necessary to understand their interactions and influences on evolutionary processes. Lake Tanganyika, Africa, contains the most continuous, long continental climate record from the mid-Miocene (∼ 10 Ma) to the present anywhere in the tropics and has long been recognized as a top-priority site for scientific drilling. The lake is surrounded by the Miombo woodlands, part of the largest dry tropical biome on Earth. Lake Tanganyika also harbors incredibly diverse endemic biota and an entirely unexplored deep microbial biosphere, and it provides textbook examples of rift segmentation, fault behavior, and associated surface processes. To evaluate the interdisciplinary scientific opportunities that an ICDP drilling program at Lake Tanganyika could offer, more than 70 scientists representing 12 countries and a variety of scientific disciplines met in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, in June 2019. The team developed key research objectives in basin evolution, source-to-sink sedimentology, organismal evolution, geomicrobiology, paleoclimatology, paleolimnology, terrestrial paleoecology, paleoanthropology, and geochronology to be addressed through scientific drilling on Lake Tanganyika. They also identified drilling targets and strategies, logistical challenges, and education and capacity building programs to be carried out through the project. Participants concluded that a drilling program at Lake Tanganyika would produce the first continuous Miocene-present record from the tropics, transforming our understanding of global environmental change, the environmental context of human origins in Africa, and providing a detailed window into the dynamics, tempo and mode of biological diversification and adaptive radiations.
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The John R. Van Derlip Fundexpand_more 2015.69a-d
Jesus has died, nailed to the cross, while his mother Mary and friend Saint John the Evangelist mourn below. The artist presents the scene in ways characteristic of Romanesque sculpture: the figures are massive and heavy, but the expressive lines of the draperies add a sense of lightness and abstraction. This somber group was made around 1180 for a church in northern Spain or southern France, probably along the Catholic pilgrimage route to Santiago de Compostela, in Spain. Installed above a doorway or on a decorative column, it likely stirred the hearts of thousands of religious travelers. To acquire a highly important work of Medieval art has long been identified as a primary objective in Mia’s Collections Development Plan. This work also helps build up our collection of Spanish sculptures.
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A single on line sponsorship system aims to close the pay back gap in sporting activities with one sponsored Instagram post at a time.
Parity, started in 2020, pairs feminine athletes with makes and places funds in the pockets of athletes who are often disregarded in internet marketing discussions. The corporation signed a partnership with the WNBA players affiliation in 2021 and offers almost 800 athletes from more than 70 sports activities, the women playing in major professional leagues to minor Olympic activities, working with much more than 30 corporations.
Parity is not an company or internet marketing agency. Rather it is a liaison encouraging feminine athletes capitalize on the expanding influencer economic climate.
“Our goal we set for ourselves as a firm is to place billions of dollars into the palms of girls athletes above time,” explained Alana Casner, Parity’s vice president of content material and strategy.
The lengthy-time period purpose could help shut a cavernous pay out hole among men’s and women’s sports. Today’s NBA least wage equals the overall $1.4 million income cap for a WNBA team, but even in 1973, the NBA’s 26th year, the league was outpacing the WNBA at the similar age. NBA players created an typical income of $90,000 in 1973, in accordance to the New York Instances. The equivalent of $637,000 now is still five occasions additional than the 2022 WNBA typical of $120,648.
With the WNBPA partnership, gamers can opt into Parity’s provider. Athletes fill out a thorough study, which is utilised to match them with ideal manufacturers that shell out for sponsored social media posts. Parity has also released a series of NFTs for athletes and hosts experienced vocation enhancement opportunities.
Athletes get at the very least just one cent per follower, per marketing campaign through Parity’s paid out posts. For a participant like Sparks ahead Katie Lou Samuelson, who has 131,000 followers on Instagram and a $72,141 unprotected income, just about every greenback of a $1,310 bare minimum from a Parity partnership issues.
“It gives excellent chances, especially for athletes that never always have as numerous followers,” reported Samuelson, who wore a personalized pair of footwear on the 50th anniversary of Title IX made in partnership with Parity and artist Katie Shaffstall, who is also the social media campaign supervisor at the firm. “They want to locate that equality for everybody.”
When Parity is open for all expert feminine athletes, it is not meant for the best 5% of earners, Casner acknowledged. The leading athletes who have previously built strong endorsement portfolios might could possibly not need the third-get together assistance.
It’s for “the most people else,” Casner stated.
It’s specifically helpful for quite a few WNBA players as their salaries have nonetheless to skyrocket and most marketing bucks go toward the league’s greatest stars this kind of as former No. 1 choose Sabrina Ionescu and 2020 most important participant A’ja Wilson. Function-actively playing veterans gained the least in the course of negotiations for the 2020 collective bargaining arrangement, which elevated the wage cap by 31%, but bumped prime players’ pay out by 83% and the rookie salary by 35.8%.
It is these middle-tier gamers the union retained in mind with the Parity partnership.
“We want everybody’s boat to be equipped to rise,” Sparks ahead and WNBPA president Nneka Ogwumike reported.
Casner mentioned Parity at present will work with about 50 active WNBA gamers. Makes range from significant corporations like Microsoft or Morgan Stanley that want to diversify their sponsorship shelling out to small startups focusing on feminine athletes to start their campaigns.
Through the 18 months given that Parity went to current market, the expanding quantities of makes looking to associate with gals has been incredible, Casner mentioned. It was never “cool” to be a lover of women’s sports activities, she additional, until finally a short while ago, when WNBA players led the way in 2020 both on the court docket with increasing tv ratings and off the court by starting to be leaders for social justice.
Though several firms are only starting off to take note, the current achievements has solidified what Casner and other longtime admirers have by now recognized.
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Educating for the Design Economy
Educating for the Design Economy
Last year I spoke to a crowd of about 1400 instructional technologists from the greater Shelby County area schools during a tech conference in Memphis. The topic was: “Educating for the Design Economy.” This is a recap of some of those ideas.
What is the Design Economy?
We are already through the Information Age and in the uncomfortable beginnings of what has been called the Age of Design. It’s the same sort of turmoil of previous transition ages. There are many smart thinkers in Universities and Colleges around the world discussing this.
Education, still largely stuck in a 19th Century structural delivery model, has the opportunity right now to change to fit not only the Information Age but leapfrog the last 50 years, and cater to the Age of Design. Why? So that kids graduate with the skills needed to fit in to the new Design Economy.
In the Age of Design we have a Design Economy.
The Age of Design encompasses the earlier ages and organizes them. It has begun creating its own, superseding, economy. It is above and around the things and technology we make, working to make anything better, simpler, and more humanly-appealing. It is the intelligence of how a thing is, the aesthetic.
The Age of Design is most simplistically understood as a greater utility to things . Any process can have functional or financial improvement. Someone smart thought up the take-a-picture-of-a-check-with-your-cell-phone to deposit it in the bank idea, for example, saving you the time of driving there to deposit it.
The new form and function of the iPad, which has beat up on a lot of computer companies seemingly overnight is another example. Its aesthetic is universally appealing. Yet the iPad is not only a thing that brought new form to play and work via computing, it is also a social thing, giving lifestyle improvement. Again, the “design” of something is beyond science and into the appeal, bringing more of the arts and humanities into everything. The Lesson: the Design Economy rewards creativity.
You can also see that our communication lines have been re-designed some time back. Our major forums used to be just one-way broadcasts of television and radio. In the design economy two-way communication channels with thousands of social media sites and digital feedback offer the average person and enterprises constant interaction. The Lesson: the Design Economy rewards socializing.
In order to create new things with appeal, companies build small groups made up of the idea generator, the facilitator, the designer, the developer, the builder, the sourcing manager, etc. This is true of the car manufacturing business, hardware and software, fashion and more. It’s also true that further and further specialization in fields like medicine, aerospace, and others is happening. In short, a new form is superceding old pyramid-style bureaucracies – the cellular form. Sometimes a single cell, a “free agent” specialist of some sort is operating in this new economy, without a group. The Lesson: the Design Economy is a new form – cellular.
Millions of people were employed throughout the ‘70s, ‘80s, and ‘90s for information processing work. A lot of data entry, document scanning and paper printing went on. In the late ‘90s to date more jobs and more attention has turned to active knowledge building rather than just information processing. A hot trend is “Big Data,” or synthesizing the meaning behind what has been gathered digitally. The Lesson: the Design Economy rewards knowledge as opposed to just information.
The Age of Design also distinguishes amongst things and is exact. With the ability to precisely locate an object of interest even though far away via the internet, consumer behavior has changed. The internet de-generalizes consumption. You can find the love of your life via Match.com when you may have never met otherwise. You can buy a custom pair of boots built by Paul Bond to fit your feet exactly. This is helping revive artisans as a part of the economy and micro-manufacturing. This characteristic is the key to the growth of this next economy. The Lesson: the Design Economy rewards customization.
The authors, Raymond e. Miles, Charles C. Snow, John A. Mathews, Grant Miles and Henry J. Coleman, Jr., from their work in the Academy of Management Executive, 1997 Vol. 11 No. 4, “Organizing in the knowledge age: Anticipating the cellular form,” said it this way:
“The continued pull of market forces, and the push of ever-increasing know-how honed through network partnering, is already moving some industries and companies toward what amounts to a continuous process of innovation. Beyond the customization of existing designs, product and service invention is becoming the centerpiece of value-adding activity in an increasing number of firms. So-called knowledge businesses – such as design and engineering services, advanced electronics and biotechnology, computer software design, health care, and consulting – not only feed the process of innovation but feed upon it in a continuous cycle that creates more, and more complex, markets and environments. “
The Age of Design is current. The internet is faster than TV. It is provisioning up-to-the-minuteness for weather, art, just about anything. Its way past the Age of Knowledge as some people have been calling this new Age we are now in, because it uses knowledge. This is one of the reasons the 5-to-7 year lifecycle of textbooks has become uncomfortable for schools. With biotechnology fields and others leaping ahead constantly, the data was always out of date in textbooks. The Lesson: the Design Economy requires of-the-moment information.
The Age of Design monetizes the “back-story” of things, and actually makes just about anyone in any sphere an approachable celebrity. The source of the design, the who, the where, the how -- all matter. The Kardashians were not famous for anything except the notoriety of the Gold-Medal winning father, Bruce Jenner. Virtually overnight they were made famous, and rich. Subway used the story of a patron who lost a lot of weight eating their sandwiches to win market share. This is using a created celebrity for gain. There are a dozen empires of food design: Giada at Home on the Food Network; Martha Stewart; Guy Fieri with “Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives;” Emeril Lagasse and more. Minor celebrity is built by bloggers and by executives in many fields. The Lesson: the Design Economy rewards good public relations story-telling.
The Age of Design completes the flattening of bureaucracy globally. Collaboration and communication tools make this possible. Collaboration and communication tools are everything in the Design Age. In addition, the internet makes everything seem warp speed -- so bureaucracy of any kind is increasingly a self-imposed handicap for organizations. The Lesson: the Design Economy penalizes bureaucracy.
Joe Costello at SmashWords echoes this same idea with: “We need to evolve our institutions, organizations, and individual roles to understand that design is increasingly the primary value of political economy, ultimately creating a value shift from industrialization's quantitative value of infinite growth based on unlimited production and consumption to design's more qualitative values of participation, efficiency, elegance, and enough. “
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Getting a good amount of sleep is incredibly important for your overall health. Sleep helps your body and brain function properly.
Sleep does serve many functions, and these range from tissue restoration to brain metabolite clearance and cognitive function. A good night’s sleep can also help improve your learning, memory, decision-making, and even your creativity. Sleep loss has long been recognized to impair performance on attention and executive control tasks. Along with that it can also increase health risks such as; heart disease, diabetes, and obesity.
Most adults need about 8 hours of sleep per night. About 4 in 10 Australians don’t get enough sleep and they feel tired as a result. For some people this is because of a sleep disorder like insomnia, but for many people, poor sleep habits or choices are the cause.
Keep in mind that good sleep often starts with good sleep practices and habits. However, for some, that’s not enough. If you require a little extra help to get a good night’s sleep, you can turn to Sleep Aids to assist in ensuring you get good quantity and quality sleep.
What are Sleep Aids?
Sleep Aids are supplements that have been formulated to combat sleep disorders, hyperactive minds, individuals that undergo high stress work or physical loads. Sleep aids are regulated by TGA (Therapeutic Goods Association), meaning that only active ingredients that are approved and designed to help with sleep regulation are used. Anything pharmaceutical such as melatonin or Phenylbutanoic Acid (Phenylbut) require prescriptions and are only available from chemists.
Sleep aids are not designed to cure or heal any ongoing disorders or genetic conditions.
How do Sleep Aids work?
Sleep Aids contain key minerals such as Magnesium and Zinc who help in the regulation of sleep and rhythmic cycles but also assist in the absorption of the active ingredients such as:
GABA (Gamma-Aminobutyric Acid ) is a naturally occurring amino acid that works as a neurotransmitter in your brain.
Mucuna Pruriens Extract Known as the dopa bean, Mucuna Pruriens is a natural herbal supplement used in Ayurvedic medicine, an ancient practice from India, that lowers stress, reduces anxiety, improves focus, boosts the libido, and elevates mood.
Valerian Root is a herb. It is native to Europe and parts of Asia but also grows in North America. Medicine is made from the root. Valerian is most commonly used for sleep disorders, especially the inability to sleep.
L-Theanine is an amino acid found most commonly in tea leaves and in small amounts in Bay Bolete mushrooms. L-Theanine promotes relaxation without drowsiness. Many people take L-Theanine to help ease stress and unwind.
5-HTP (5-Hydroxytryptophan) also known as oxitriptan, is a naturally occurring amino acid and chemical precursor as well as a metabolic intermediate in the biosynthesis of the neurotransmitter serotonin.
How to use Sleep Aids?
It is always advised to use sleep aids as a last resort in an attempt to fix any sleep issues. Sleep aids may be used on the rare chance of your mind not shutting off and you need it for that one night. We recommend trying to work with a health professional to look over your current health status from blood sugar levels, cortisol levels, hormone levels, as well as a general vitamin and organ function. Focus on correcting sleep hygiene, which includes; allowing enough time before bed to be free from blue lights, no caffeine within 4 hours of bed and being well hydrated. If no improvements are noted then we recommend applying a sleep aid in to ensure you reach a deep REM Sleep.
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Job openings for florists exist in floral shops, wholesale businesses, grocery stores, and internet floral companies. Floral designers may also open their own shop.
Traditionally, flower arrangements are an important aspect of weddings and funerals. Because flowers enhance the décor of special events and meetings, floral opportunities also exist in the corporate and social event sector. In addition, flowers are traditionally used in church settings, with arrangements often done by skilled church volunteers.
Independent florists may also consider training in event management; more floral shops are offering event coordination services to compete with the lower prices offered by floral wholesale businesses.
This certificate program will offer you in-depth, comprehensive training that is designed to prepare you for direct employment in the floral industry.
The program is practical and current, in terms of course content and relevancy to the field. Emphasis is on mastering the correct mechanics and basic shapes of floral design using fresh, treated, and dried floral products. You also get to learn some advanced techniques.
The program consists of six modules:
Each module has 10 sessions — two evening sessions per week for five weeks. Floral Design 1, Floral Design 2, and Floral Design Christmas are offered from September to December. Special Occasion, Sympathy and Church, and Weddings are offered between February and June.
You need to purchase two textbooks available at the book store. All other materials costs are included in your tuition cost. You must have Floral Design Basics I & II, or extensive floral design experience if you wish to take any of the other modules.
Students who complete the Floral Design Certificate program are eligible to participate in the annual UFV convocation ceremonies.
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If you use Selenium for testing web interfaces, you'll probably want to create a custom Firefox profile for use by Selenium. To me, the main reasons for this are to provide more screen real estate (remove toolbars etc.) and to speed up browser loading.
But it's a little tricky to get Selenium to find your saved profile.
Here's a great link for this :
Here are the highlights, for a Linux/Ubuntu user :
Start Firefox from the command line and create and save your custom profile :
- $ firefox.exe -ProfileManager
Your start-selenium-rc.bash script (or however you start Se-RC server) should look like this :
java -jar /opt/selenium/selenium-server-1.0.1/selenium-server.jar -firefoxProfileTemplate /home/you/.mozilla/firefox/SeleniumProfile
SeleniumProfile is the directory you created when you created your custom profile.
Important! You may get a warning about new extensions that Selenium "injects" into Firefox. Enter this FF config option to get rid of this :
From address bar, enter "about:config" and add the following by right-click anywhere on the page and selecting "new"
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Stone Lutheran Cemetery, North Dakota
Stone Lutheran Cemetery is a cemetery located in Morton County, ND at N46.66708° W101.10979° (NAD83) and at an elevation of 1932 ft MSL.
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What is Childhood Apraxia of Speech?
Childhood Apraxia of Speech or CAS is when there is an interruption in messaging of the brain to the mouth and lips to receive a clear signal to plan movements. This means that the mouth, lips and teeth have the ability to move but they are not getting the correct instruction from the brain to move. It can appear the child is frozen in response.
An example is one morning you might ask your child what do they want for breakfast, and they will give you a quick response however maybe the next day they won’t. You may be asking yourself “I don’t understand why they are not responding to me they just responded to me yesterday?!” That’s the complexity of CAS.
CAS is a motor based neurologic speech disorder. In short it is involved with the ability to plan and execute the movement of the facial structures for speech production. There are different motor speech therapy methods we use for CAS, including PROMPT therapy, Dynamic Temporal and Tactile Cueing (DTTC), Metrical Pacing Treatment (MPT), and others.
Cause of Childhood Apraxia of Speech
Because Childhood Apraxia of Speech is known as a motor speech disorder, most of the time the cause is unknown. An MRI or CT scan would allow a look into your child’s brain to expose a genetic disorder, syndrome, stroke or brain injury that may have maybe seen alongside Childhood Apraxia of Speech.
What are the signs of Childhood Apraxia of Speech via American Speech-Language-Hearing Association?
- Younger than 3
- Does not coo or babble as an infant.
- Says her first words later than you think she should.
- Says only a few different sounds.
- Has problems putting sounds together.
- Puts long pauses between sounds she says.
- Does not always say a word the same way.
- Has some problems eating.
- Older than 3
- Does not always say words the same way each time he says them.
- Can understand what others say to him better than he can talk.
- Has problems imitating what others say. If he can imitate, those words will sound better than words he says on his own.
- Seems like he has to move his lips, tongue, or jaw a few times to make sounds. This is called groping.
- Has more trouble saying longer words clearly than shorter ones.
- Seems to have more trouble talking when he is nervous.
- Is hard to understand, especially for someone who doesn’t know him well.
- Sounds choppy or flat. He may put the stress on the wrong syllable or word.
Treatment in general is focused on the movement versus the sound that is actually produced. Differences in therapy include more frequent sessions and motor learning.
The types of treatment we use in our practice are:
- Oral Motor activities: Though weakness of the lip, tongue, jaw are usually not accompanied with CAS, an SLP will evaluate them by having the child complete different speech motor tasks and might even use a lollipop!
- Speech Melody: Often children with CAS have a disconnect in the use of stress and tone and pauses in sentences, an SLP will evaluate this by asking them questions that allow for the productions of key words.
- Dynamic Temporal and Tactile Cueing (DTTC) was designed specifically for children with CAS. A primary difference is that the focus of treatment is on the movement, rather than an individual sound. A sound is never worked on in isolation. There is a hierarchy which we follow and model for the child and caregiver for carryover.
- PROMPTS for Restructuring Oral Muscular Phonetic Targets (PROMPT) is a multidimensional approach to speech production disorders has come to embrace not only the well-known physical-sensory aspects of motor performance, but also its cognitive-linguistic and social-emotional aspects.
- Metrical Pacing Treatment (MPT) a type of pacing technique that uses rhythmical sequences of tones that provide metrical templates to guide production of target sounds to simulate the natural stress patterns of speech.
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In order to connect to OVPN - you will first need to disable IPv6.
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Mama Bears is dedicated to supporting, educating and empowering moms of LGBTQ kids and the LGBTQ community. The organization offers a whole network of private Facebook groups, special projects, resources and websites.
Presently we have more than 7,500 moms of LGBTQ kids in the Mama Bear private Facebook groups.
Jaron Terry, one of the Mama Bears, shares some tips on how to turn our holiday jitters into holiday joy.
Jaron is a public relations professional, Mama Bear and VP of the board of PFLAG Columbus.
Click here for more info on the Mama Bears organization.
If you’re cringing at the thought of listening to Uncle Joe praise the election outcome while he carves the Thanksgiving turkey, or you’re already shaking with anger knowing in advance just what kind of homophobic jokes, racist slurs, and woman-bashing BS will mingle with the aroma of pine needles and cinnamon, then you might want to arm yourself with an iron-clad plan for surviving the upcoming holidays – especially if that carving knife is sharp.
Here are 8 tips to help ensure your gatherings with family and friends are infused with the musical strains of “Noel” instead of heated shouts of “Hell No!”
1. Just stay home. Determine whether or not to go: Do you really need to attend that family dinner, head to your hometown or show up at that church event? This might just be the year to gracefully bow out. If you, like me and some of my Mama Bear friends – mothers who love and affirm their LGBTQ (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer or Questioning) children – woke up November 9 worried that your child’s civil rights, as well as their physical safety, mental wellness, and spiritual health, are in danger, perhaps you don’t need to be with people who are telling you you’re just overreacting or being melodramatic.
2. Go it alone. If you do decide to risk what you think might turn ugly, consider your child. If your LGBTQ offspring is an adult, allow them to make their own decision. Don’t “guilt” them into coming with you or show disappointment if they stay home. A holiday is just that: one day. Your queer teen should also be given the opportunity to choose. If their friend with an affirming family has invited them, think how much they will enjoy a warm, loving, accepting atmosphere. However, if your child is young, why would you risk their overhearing negative comments about Marriage Equality or dreadful discussions about where transgender people can pee? I encourage you to take another look at Tip #1.
3. Choose your method. Before you put together your famous cranberry mold (that nobody eats, anyway) or stick a single bow on a package, start thinking now about what you will or won’t say and do in response to an ugly situation. You know your family members better than anyone and should consider in advance whether there is an opportunity to educate, if it’s better to just change the subject, or if you should simply walk away.
4. Educate. Perhaps you’ve been blessed with an unusually calm demeanor and a polite family. Perhaps you family is open to hearing how your understanding of long-held, church-taught beliefs has changed through your direct personal experience and the opportunities you’ve had to be with people some consider “other.” That’s wonderful! Do some homework: read up on blogs like Serendipitydodah or Stuff That Needs to be Said. Attend your local PFLAG meeting or visit PFLAG.org. Keep current on the news, and be sure you’re quoting actual news outlets and not bogus sites. If your family loves the Bible, invite them to read Torn: Rescuing the Gospel from the Gays-vs.-Christians Debate by Justin Lee; God and the Gay Christian by Matthew Vines; or Changing Our Minds by David Gushee. You can find a whole list of helpful resources here. I’ve found that people who are willing to open their minds generally open their hearts, too.
5. Speak up. Just as every family has its own traditions, they generally have their own sense of what they call humor. Anticipate in advance what kind of comments you can expect to hear. Yes, it’s hard to make space in your head for ugly remarks like the ones we heard during and after the campaign. And, it’s even harder to consider the horrifying actions recently reported, demonstrating the level of vitriol some in our country feel toward persons of color, immigrants, women and LGBTQ people. However, doing so will not only toughen you against the sting, but more importantly, give you time to formulate your response. It may be as simple as, “I respectfully ask that we not discuss the election results, because we all know we don’t agree.” Or, when inappropriate things are said, “I prefer not to hear such comments, Uncle Joe, and ask that you not make them when I’m here.”
6. Fight Fire with Fire. Or, maybe you’re the kind that relishes the opportunity to “go there” and shout them down – slashing and burning with words that cut as sharp as the ones they throw at your child. Again, from my own experience of going that route with now former friends, you might first ask yourself how important keeping family relationships intact is to you. If the answer is “very,” then I refer you back to Tip #1 – perhaps it’s better to sit this year out. Send your excuses in a letter that is explicit about why you’re not coming (assuming you’ve already unfriended them on Facebook). If you or your child does not think its safe to be open with them, don’t hesitate to make up an excuse (the dog ate the tree!).
7. Have an Exit Plan. If you’ve decided to attend the festivities, make an exit plan before you head to the airport or pack the trunk of your car. One thing I don’t want you to do is to sit silent and “take it” as hateful words and messages swirl around you and your child. That’s not healthy for you and certainly not for your child – especially if they are not yet out. The level of self-harm, including suicide, is unacceptably high among children and teens who do not feel supported by their families. Your child needs to know that they are your first priority and that you can be counted on in any situation. Predetermine a “safe word” with your spouse or travelling companion. Be sure you both agree that the moment either of you – or your child – utters the word, an exit is made. It can be as simple as “gingerbread!” or a phrase such as “Did you turn the oven off?” Be prepared to just walk away.
8. Enjoy! If you’re among the increasing number of people whose extended family members completely accept – and affirm – your child’s sexual orientation and gender identity, that wonderful. In that case, I invite you to find every opportunity to make your views known, through speaking, writing and taking action by standing up against homophobia, transphobia, racism, xenophobia, misogyny and anything that seeks to “other” those who should be treated as a neighbor. Hug your child, hug yourself, and enjoy the holidays!
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“Of all the books on the War in Vietnam, none comes closer to the madness, heroics, and incomprehensibility of The First Door is the Final Exit. As an author and veteran, I was completely blown away with this book. It is absolutely sensational. For WW2, there was Heller-and for Vietnam, Timothy Kenneth O’Neil now occupies center stage. After my final deployment, I swore I would never go back- and yet, the dark truth and darker humor of this work positioned me back in Vietnam. At both the 30,000 foot view and the on-the-ground reality, this book informs, questions, and reminds us what was lost, and what can be learned from this war. Prepare yourself for satire and the reality and vocabulary of combat and death. Truly, a great piece of writing, story-telling, and history all rolled into one."
Andrew Popper is a Professor of Law at American University and award winning author of Rediscovering Lonesome Pine, Sunrise at the American Market and a number of other books and law-related scholarship.
The First Door is the Final Exit is the story of two lovers, separated by 8000 miles and one year, and their individual odysseys through 1969. For Winston it was evolving from a naive college kid to a soldier in Vietnam, and for Veronica, a student nurse, it was the perpetual war with men as they struggled to get through the year. 1969 was a seminal year in modern history: the birth of a massive protest movement, Woodstock, Nixon, a man walking on the moon, Charles Manson & Helter Skelter, the advent of “the Pill” which would forever empower women, Altamont, and 33 young Americans went home in a body bag every day.
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By Stan Lee and Steve Ditko Foreword by Jason Reynolds Introduction by Ben Saunders Series edited by Ben Saunders
The Penguin Classics Marvel Collection presents the origin stories, seminal tales, and characters of the Marvel Universe to explore Marvel’s transformative and timeless influence on an entire genre of fantasy.
A Penguin Classics Marvel Collection Edition
Collects “Spider-Man!” fromAmazing Fantasy#15 (1962);The Amazing Spider-Man#1-4, #9, #10, #13, #14, #17-19 (1963-1964); “Goodbye to Linda Brown” fromStrange Tales#97 (1962); “How Stan Lee and Steve Ditko Create Spider-Man!” fromThe Amazing Spider-Man Annual#1 (1964). It is impossible to imagine American popular culture without Marvel Comics. For decades, Marvel has published groundbreaking visual narratives that sustain attention on multiple levels: as metaphors for the experience of difference and otherness; as meditations on the fluid nature of identity; and as high-water marks in the artistic tradition of American cartooning, to name a few.
This anthology contains twelve key stories from the first two years of Spider-Man’s publication history (from 1962 to 1964). These influential adventures not only transformed the super hero fantasy into an allegory for the pain of adolescence but also brought a new ethical complexity to the genre—by insisting that with great power there must also come great responsibility.
A foreword by Jason Reynolds and scholarly introductions and apparatus by Ben Saunders offer further insight into the enduring significance of The Amazing Spider-Man and classic Marvel comics.
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If your current kitchen is too small, old, or outdated, you need to remodel it. Some homeowners begin remodeling their kitchens by collecting inspiration photos. Others start by shopping for appliances. And still, others begin by hiring experts. We at Palm Beach Premier Remodeling advise that homeowners should not start any activity in the kitchen until they develop an action plan.
According to the experts, if you plan well, you reduce the amount of time that construction would take. At the same time, you increase your chances of staying on budget. So, planning is the best way to remodel your kitchen with ease and affordability. If you want to save your limited resources, here are the best ways to plan before you begin remodeling a kitchen.
Do Adequate Research, Learn From Kitchen Remodeling Pros
The best kitchen should reflect the homeowner’s lifestyle. Think about what you need the kitchen to help you achieve. Also, you need to find other valuable sources of information to help you make an informed decision. You can get remodeling styles, sources of quality and affordable materials, and useful remodeling ideas by visiting various home stores and kitchen showrooms. You can also attend a neighborhood home tour to connect with other homeowners as you observe their kitchen renovations and layouts.
Set Your Budget
After gathering adequate information, set aside the amount of money that you plan to spend on remodeling the kitchen. Use the hard data and facts you gathered during your homework to create a realistic budget. The best kitchen remodelers advise homeowners to aim for conservative budgets that are below their maximum budgets. This method is particularly helpful if you have a large remodeling project. From experience, these projects can end up consuming more of your money and time than you planned for, and you need to mitigate the risk by following this piece of advice.
The basic rule is to add between 10 and 20% of the total budget for unplanned expenses. By following this tip, you will not start scrambling for costly loans to complete the work.
Set Your Remodel Timeline
Don’t leave room for anyone to dictate how long the remodeling should take. You need to recommend a reasonable timeline to get enough time to focus on other essential things as well. To set the appropriate time frame, consider the scope and size of your particular project.
If you have no idea how long your experts can take to remodel a kitchen, you can allocate nine months. This is a lot of time, and if you make the best use of it, you are able to stay on budget and achieve your desired goal. Out of this available time, set aside six months for proper planning and getting everything ready. The three months are enough for your remodeling experts to handle the rest of the work.
Many homeowners finish their kitchen remodeling projects much faster. You can do the same if you already know the required products, vendors, and contractors to work with from the beginning to the end of your project.
Kitchen Remodeling Checklist, Everything You Need To Cover
Now that we’ve gone beyond the basics like budget and timeline for your kitchen remodel, it’s time to think about design and products.
You have the responsibility to map out your kitchen space for convenience. It’s easier if you have a kitchen design showroom like Palm Beach Premier Remodeling but it is the homeowners responsibility to highlight what they want to be changed. The main things you should think about when planning your kitchen space are the following items:
Thirty-six inches of counter space is ideal for food preparation. For a positive experience, one side of the sink should be 18 inches and the other 24 inches. Increasing the space of your countertops is always a great luxury and you can choose between quartz, granite and many other designs.
Choosing the right kitchen cabinets is crucial in any remodeling project. Cabinets are usually the focal point of any kitchen. We produced a comprehensive kitchen cabinet guide that will help guide you.
Whenever you open the doors of your appliances, there should be adequate walking space in front of them. Leave a floor space that measures between 30 and 48 inches or more. Besides, think about the safety and usability of your appliances, particularly the refrigerator. If you want to station your fridge adjacent to the walls, ensure its doors swing in the opposite direction.
Think about the traffic flow as well. You should plan for at least 42 inches between the island and the counters. With the spacious sidewalks, other people can walk with ease through without interfering with those who are working at the counters.
Map Your Kitchen Layout
Before experts start remodeling a kitchen, they ask whether the homeowner has the overall kitchen layout. Unlike other rooms, kitchens need to be functional and practical, and that makes the layout a vital thing to think about in advance. For you to identify your layout priorities, reevaluate how you have been using your existing kitchen. Also, think about the new advancements that you need to incorporate in the new one.
Consider whether the classic work triangle is the best for you. This layout involves arranging the refrigerator, the stove, and the sink to form a triangular pattern.
If more than one person is working in the kitchen, you need to consider incorporating more workstations. Where applicable, you can buy a mobile cart that one can put away whenever it is not in use.
Choose Quality Materials
You should shop for quality products and remodeling materials. For the safety of your kitchen, you need quality countertops, appliances, and cabinets. You should also give careful thought to the materials you want to use for flooring. The floors should be durable and attractive.
If you cannot purchase new materials due to budgetary issues, you can explore quality used materials.
When you aim for quality, you reduce the chances of having to repeat the kitchen remodeling process.
Final Consideration Before Remodeling a Kitchen
Remodeling a kitchen can take weeks or months to complete. It starts with proper planning.
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‘Why is such a divisive day celebrated?’
January 26, 2016 11:56am
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AS Australians celebrated nationhood, indigenous Tasmanians have spoken of the sadness the date bestows on their people.
For many Aboriginals January 26 isn’t a date for rejoicing but one signifying
“rape, murder and the taking of our children”.
More than 300 people yesterday marched through Hobart in solidarity with the message that the date for Australia Day must change.
On parliament’s lawns a series of Aboriginal activists implored Australians to tackle “the moral question” ...
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Some people think that there should be some strict controls about noise – IELTS Writing Task 2 Discursive Essays
Some people think that there should be some strict controls about noise. Others think that they could just make as much noise as they want. Discuss both views and give your opinion.
People have different views about whether noise should be limited. While some individuals believe the level of noise being created should be strictly controlled, I would argue that people should have the right to produce noise if they want to.
On the one hand, there are several reasons why the government should control the amount of noise produced. The first reason is that too much noise can significantly affect people’s health. Living in a place that is too noisy can cause problems such as headaches, which can decrease the health levels of people, especially old ones. Additionally, noise can disturb people’s work or study. For example, a university student will not be able to concentrate on his preparation for exams if his neighbours keep singing too loud.
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However, I believe people should be allowed to make as much noise as they want because of some reasons. Firstly, producing noise is sometimes considered a type of recreational activities. For instance, singing or cheering for a football club can be relaxing, and everyone has the right to do those things. Secondly, as the world is becoming more modern, people have found ways to deal with the problem of noise. Scientists have invented walls and windows that can block out the noise, which allows individuals to focus on their work without being disturbed. Therefore, the problem of noise can be reduced, and there is no need for people to be quiet.
In conclusion, while many people believe there should be controls about noise, I believe we have the right to create noise when we want to.
Useful Vocabulary & Expressions
- disturb: to interrupt somebody when they are trying to work, sleep, etc
==>If you get up early, try not to disturb everyone else.
- concentrate: to give all your attention to something and not think about anything else
==>We’re concentrating even harder on giving quality service this year.
- recreational: connected with activities that people do for enjoyment when they are not working ==>recreational activities/facilities
People hold different views about whether people should have the freedom to produce noise or comply with some regulations of it. In my view, it is important that noise making be put under control.
On the one hand, it is understandable why some people believe in their rights to generate noise freely. As people these days often have to suffer from considerable stress at work or school, they tend to find an effective way to relieve it. In some cases, recreational activities such as karaoke singing or party holding can bring a certain amount of relaxation, mitigating stressful situations for everyone. If too strictly imposed, any restriction of noise may deter people from gaining access to one of the useful methods of relaxing.
However, I can understand the arguments against noise makers. Firstly, excessive levels of noise can cause serious disturbance to the nearby residents who also have the rights to take a proper rest after a tiring day. Those who are affected by the loud sounds from their neighbours may not only be unable to relax but also have their levels of discomfort increased. In the long term, this will definitely have a negative impact on their quality of life. Another reason for this opinion is that too much noise can exert detrimental effects on the health of the unintentional hearers. For example, constant exposure to high pitch noise can result in auditory problems, for example hearing loss. Hearing-impaired individuals are very likely to experience difficulty in their daily life.
In conclusion, although there are good reasons why people should be allowed to make as much noise as they wish, in my opinion some appropriate controls are necessary.
Useful Vocabulary & Expressions:
- To comply with sth (verb phrase): to act according to an order, set of rules, regulations or request.
==>There should be serious penalties for failure to comply with the regulations of treating hazardous waste.
- To put sth under control/ To be put under control (prep phrase): to be deal with or limit sth successfully
==>The effort of reducing overpopulation in urban cities such as Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh would require the migration of people from other areas to be put under control.
- Recreational (adj.): connected with activities that people do for enjoyment when they are not working
==>The large cities in Vietnam are widely perceived to offer a range of recreational activities and facilities which draw a number of domestic holiday makers from the neighbouring regions to relax during holiday periods.
- To impose sth on sth (verb phrase): to officially force a rule, law or something to be obeyed and received.
==>One methods to deter alcohol consumption is imposing very high taxes on any purchases and heavy fines for illegal trades of alcohol.
- To deter sth from sth (v): to prevent someone from doing something or to make them less enthusiastic about doing it by making it more difficult for them to do it or threatening bad results if they do it.
==>Teenage gang members can be deterred from committing crimes by means of strict punishments for all young delinquents to make an example of them.
- To gain access to sth (verb phrase): to have the right or opportunity to use something
==>The concentration of prestigious universities and colleges in a few metropolises is responsible for the mass annual migration of students from rural areas and smaller cities who seek access to more quality education and more widely recognised degrees.
- Excessive (adj.): too much
==>The excessive consumption of fast food with a view to saving the cooking time is prone to chronic health conditions such as obesity, diabetes, heart disease and cancer.
- Detrimental (adj.): causing harm and damage
==>Prolonged lack of sleep due to an overly busy timetable is known to have harmful side-effects apart from difficulty in concentration and temporary loss of memory.
- Unintentional (adj.): not planned or intended
==>Some harmful habits of parents such as reckless driving and smoking, although (they are) unintentional, can lead the children to adopt these habits when they become adults.
- Exposure to sth (noun phrase)/ To be exposed to sth (adjective phrase): the fact of experiencing sth or being affected by it
==>The residents who live permanently in urban cities usually suffer from continuous exposure to polluted air caused by vehicle emissions; as a result, they are prone to respiratory diseases such as asthma.
The level of noise around us is constantly increasing and is affecting the quality of our lives. What causes the noise? What should be done about it?
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The house dust mite allergen Der p 1 is the most immunodominant allergen involved in the expression of dust miteCspecific immunoglobulin (Ig)ECmediated hypersensitivity. expression of dust miteCspecific IgECmediated hypersensitivity 2. The reason for this potent IgE-eliciting property of Der p 1 remains unknown, but there is mounting evidence linking the allergenicity of Der p 1 to its cysteine protease activity 3. Recent in vitro work has established that Der p 1 selectively cleaves human CD25, the 55-kD subunit of the T cell IL-2 receptor (the high-affinity form of which consists of , , and subunits) 4. As a result of cleavage of surface CD25, peripheral blood T cells show markedly diminished proliferation and IFN- secretion in response to stimulation by anti-CD3 antibody. SU6668 It is known that CD4 Th cells undergo a cytokine-driven process of polarization and that IL-2, along with IFN-, and IL-4 are considered to be autocrine growth factors for the Th1 and Th2 subsets, respectively 5. The Th1 and Th2 cell populations promote the development of cells of the same subset while suppressing the propagation of those of the other subset. Therefore, Der p 1Cinduced cleavage of CD25 is likely to lead to impaired growth of cells of the Th1 subset and consequent augmentation of those of the Th2 subset. These observations raise the question of whether the cysteine protease activity of Der p 1 would bias the immune response in favor of IgE. In this paper, we demonstrate that immunization of mice with proteolytically active Der p 1 results in a significant enhancement in total IgE and Der p 1Cspecific IgE synthesis compared with animals immunized with Der p 1 that was irreversibly blocked with the cysteine protease inhibitor E-64. Materials and Methods Der p 1 Preparation. Der p 1 was isolated from house dust mite fecal pellets (Allergon) by a multistep procedure 6 involving immunoaffinity chromatography on immobilized antiCDer p 1 mAb (clone 4C1; Indoor Biotechnologies), removal of contaminating serine proteases on immobilized soybean trypsin inhibitor (Sigma Chemical Co.), and finally fast protein liquid chromatography (FPLC) to remove low-molecular-mass contaminants. The purity of the preparation was confirmed by NH2-terminal sequencing on an automatic amino acid sequencer (Applied Biosystems, Inc.), SDS-PAGE analysis (15% gel), and demonstration that enzymatic activity was completely dependent on preactivation with cysteine and totally inhibited by E-64 (l-trans-epoxysuccinyl-leucylamido [4-guanidino]butane). SU6668 Protein concentration was decided using a bicinchoninic acid (BCA) microtiter plate assay and confirmed spectrophotometrically using the empirical absorption coefficient value for Der p 1 of E1% (280 nm) = 16.4. Before use, Der p 1 was preactivated with 5 mM cysteine (Sigma Chemical Co.) to regenerate its thiol group, which becomes oxidized during purification. The catalytic activity of Der p 1 was ascertained in a continuous rate (kinetic) assay using the fluorogenic peptide substrate test was used to compare levels of antibody responses between the different immunization groups; < 0.05 was considered significant. Results and Discussion Der p 1 is usually a SU6668 25-kD cysteine protease whose structure has been modeled 7 around the crystal structure of papain, with which it shows considerable sequence similarities, most notably for residues involved in the enzyme active site 8. The proteolytic activity of Der p 1 can be inhibited by E-64, the class-specific inhibitor of microbial origin 9. This inhibition is usually brought about when cysteine within the Der p 1 active site forms a thioether covalent bond with the epoxy group of E-64. This is an irreversible process that does not lead to significant structural changes, as evidenced by crystallographic studies of a papainCE-64 complex 10. We have purified Der p 1 from fecal pellets using a multistep procedure and confirmed its purity by NH2-terminal sequencing, SDS-PAGE analysis, and demonstration that enzymatic activity was completely reliant on preactivation with cysteine and inhibited by E-64 and iodoacetamide (Fig. 1). We've recently proven that Der p 1 selectively cleaves individual Compact disc25 through the areas of peripheral bloodstream T cells 4. Right here we demonstrate that Der p 1 also selectively cleaves Compact disc25 from cultured mouse spleen T cells (Fig. 2), which isn't surprising provided the high amount of series homology that is RAC3 available between individual 11 and mouse 12 Compact disc25. This observation provides therefore supplied the justification for applying this pet species for tests our hypothesis, specifically the fact that proteolytic activity of Der p 1 is certainly a significant contributor to its allergenicity. Body 1 Assessment from the purity from the Der p 1 planning. NH2-terminal sequencing demonstrated that the series obtained (TNACSINGNA) fits the published series of Der p 1 8. 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Action Sports at The University of Waikato
Action sports like surfing, skateboarding, snowboarding and BMX have grown from do-it-yourself activities to a sporting mega-trend. University of Waikato researchers are focusing on action sport cultures, lifestyles, media, industry, events, and connections with broader popular culture.
Over the past forty years, action sports (e.g. surfing, skateboarding, snowboarding, BMX) have grown from local grassroots, do-it-yourself activities to a global phenomenon that is increasingly garnering the attention of mainstream society, the mass media, transnational corporations and traditional sports organisations. The Australian Sport Commission (2013) described the rise of lifestyle and action sports as one of the five “mega trends” in the way sport participation is changing in the of the 21st Century. Other nations and organisations around the world are also recognising the growing importance of action sports in (re)defining the sporting landscape.
University of Waikato staff are at the forefront of the research that is mapping these important trends. Our research focuses on action sport cultures and lifestyles, as well as action sport media, industry, events, and connections with broader popular culture. Our staff and students engage with the latest theories and methods to explore the social, economic and cultural significance of action sports in global and local contexts. Some of our staff have worked with the International Olympic Committee with their research informing the recent Olympic inclusion of surfing, skateboarding and sport climbing into the Tokyo 2020, and the possible inclusion of other action sports into future Olympics. Others are focused on working with local groups and organisations in New Zealand and around the world to create inclusive sporting spaces with benefits to communities. In doing so, our staff and students are driven to do research with real social impact.
- World leading postgraduate research opportunities
- Action sport research and consultancy services
- Opportunities for student engagement from undergraduate to doctoral level
- We have hosted visiting researchers and PhD students, recently from Brazil, the UK, and Ireland.
Collectively we have published over 70 articles, chapters and books that define the field over the past decade
To the Extreme: Alternative sports, inside and out. (2003)
Understanding Lifestyle sports: Consumption, identity and difference (2004)
Berkshire Encyclopaedia of Extreme Sport (2007)
Snowboarding Bodies in theory and practice (2011)
The consumption and representation of lifestyle sports (2012)
The Cultural Politics of Lifestyle Sports (2013)
Transnational mobilities in action sport cultures (2014)
Women in action sport cultures: Identity, politics and experience (2016)
Who are we?
PhD and masters students
- Nida Ahmad
- Damion Puddle
- John Macfarlane
- Neftalie Williams
Current Projects and Events
Action Sport in the Red Zone Funded by Marsden
Action sport and the Olympic movement Funded by an International Olympic Committee (IOC) Advanced Research Programme Grant:
The social benefits of informal and lifestyle sports: a research agenda. Funded by the ESRC [UK]
Action Sports and the Olympic Games Symposium (16 October, 2018)
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Often I get asked, “Oi, mister! How do I stop people falling asleep when they’re reading my writing?”
And I reply, “My name’s not Oi Mister.” Then I tell them about Writing Tricks. I’m going to introduce a few of them here.
1) Onomatopoeia. Onomatopoeia is the sound things make. It’s how a writer lets reader know what a sound is exactly like. Common ones are things like: crash! bang! wallop!
But the real fun happens when you make some up of your own, such as Splurrgting!
That’s not all. You can play around with how they look on the page and so how the sound was made:
Here the sound is going from quiet to loud as if someone is getting more and more annoyed
and here it is like they were being noisy and were then told to quieten down. Both great fun and when a writer is having fun so is their reader.
2) Simile. Similes help a writer describe what something is like to a reader by describing something it is similar to with regards shape, colour, smell, size, behaviour, texture…Basically saying one thing is like something else.
You use the word like or as in a simile.
The best similes often match the genre or book type you are writing in. For example, these wouldn’t be out of place in a horror:
the ghost was as white as a bag of bones
the spirit’s face was pale like bone
Although you can have fun writing unexpected similes:
The princess flicked her golden hair around her face as beautiful as a slug.
3) Metaphors. Metaphors are very similar to similes in that they help a writer decribe something to make it clearer to the reader. The key difference here is you are not saying something is like something else but it is something else.
A simple example is this:
the man ate like a pig (Simile)
the man was a pig eating (Metaphor)
his eyes burned like flame (Simile)
his grin with eyes of flame (Metaphor)
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It is said that "patience is a virtue", and patience will be needed when planning plant tissue sampling after the recent wet, cold start to the cotton season.
Cold shock days have set crops back by 50 to 100 DD for time to first flowers, and waterlogging will have taken its toll on root development.
While general instruction for early plant tissue samples refers to standard timings, seasonal adjustments taking into account current conditions is required.
Making sure that the sample plants are actively growing is of prime importance.
Sampling too early after a waterlogging event can make interpretation of plant nutrient concentration difficult, particularly if root activity is still compromised.
Signs that growth conditions are appropriate for sampling include
• New white roots visible in the surface soil layers
• Active leaf emergence in the terminal bud
• Internode elongation
• Soil moisture probe data indicating crop water use is accelerating
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What is Arthritis?
The term “arthritis” literally means inflammation of a joint, but is generally used to describe any condition in which there is damage to the cartilage. Inflammation is the body’s natural response to injury. The warning signs that inflammation presents are redness, swelling, heat and pain.
The cartilage is a padding that absorbs stress. The proportion of cartilage damage and synovial inflammation varies with the type and stage of arthritis. Usually the pain early on is due to inflammation. In the later stages, when the cartilage is worn away, most of the pain comes from the mechanical friction of raw bones rubbing on each other.
What are the different types of arthritis?
There are over 100 different types of rheumatic diseases. The most common are:
Osteoarthritis. Also called degenerative joint disease, this is the most common type of arthritis, which occurs most often in older people. This disease affects cartilage, the tissue that cushions and protects the ends of bones in a joint. With osteoarthritis, the cartilage starts to wear away over time. In extreme cases, the cartilage can completely wear away, leaving nothing to protect the bones in a joint, causing bone-on-bone contact.
Rheumatoid Arthritis. This is an auto-immune disease in which the body’s immune system (the body’s way of fighting infection) attacks healthy joints, tissues, and organs. Occurring most often in women of childbearing age (15-44), this disease inflames the lining (or synovium) of joints. It can cause pain, stiffness, swelling, and loss of function in joints. When severe, rheumatoid arthritis can deform, or change, a joint
Fibromyalgia. This chronic disorder causes pain throughout the tissues that support and move the bones and joints. Pain, stiffness, and localized tender points occur in the muscles and tendons, particularly those of the neck, spine, shoulders, and hips. Fatigue and sleep disturbances may also occur.
Gout. When a person has gout, they have higher than normal levels of uric acid in the blood. The body makes uric acid from many of the foods we eat. Too much uric acid causes deposits, called uric acid crystals, to form in the fluid and lining of the joints. The result is an extremely painful attack of arthritis. The most common joint gout affects is the big toe. This disease is more common in men than in women.
Infection Arthritis. This arthritis can be caused by an infection, either bacterial or viral, such as Lyme disease. When this disease is caused by bacteria, early treatment with antibiotics can ease symptoms and cure the disease.
Reactive Arthritis. This is arthritis that develops after a person has an infection in the urinary tract, bowel, or other organs. People who have this disease often have eye problems, skin rashes, and mouth sores.
Psoriatic Arthritis. Some people who have psoriasis, a common skin problem that causes scaling and rashes, also have arthritis. This disease often affects the joints at the ends of the fingers and can cause changes in the fingernails and toenails. Sometimes the spine can also be affected.
Systemic Lupus Erythematosus. Also called lupus or SLE, this is an auto-immune disease. When a person has an auto-immune disease, the immune system attacks itself, killing healthy cells and tissue, rather than doing its job to protect the body from disease and infection. Lupus can inflame and damage a person’s joints, skin, kidneys, lungs, blood vessels, heart, and brain. African American women are three times more likely to get lupus than Caucasian women. It is also more common in Hispanic, Asian, and American Indian women.
Ankylosing Spondylitis. This disease most often affects the spine, causing pain and stiffness. It can also cause arthritis in the hips, shoulders, and knees. It affects mostly men in their late teenage and early adult years.
Juvenile Rheumatoid Arthritis. The most common type of arthritis in children, this disease causes pain, stiffness, swelling, and loss of function in the joints. A young person can also have rashes and fevers with this disease.
Polymyalgia Rheumatica. Because this disease involves tendons, muscles, ligaments, and tissues around the joint, symptoms often include pain, aching, and morning stiffness in the shoulders, hips, neck, and lower back. It is sometimes the first sign of giant cell arteritis, a disease of the arteries characterized by inflammation, weakness, weight loss, and fever.
Polymyositis. Causing inflammation and weakness in the muscles, this disease can affect the whole body and cause disability.
Bursitis. This condition involves inflammation of the bursa, small, fluid-filled sacs that help reduce friction between bones and other moving structures in the joints. The inflammation may result from arthritis in the joint or injury or infection of the bursa. Bursitis produces pain and tenderness and may limit the movement of nearby joints.
Tendinitis. Also called tendinitis, this condition refers to inflammation of tendons (tough cords of tissue that connect muscle to bone) caused by overuse, injury, or a rheumatic condition. Tendinitis produces pain and tenderness and may restrict movement of nearby joints.
What causes Osteoarthritis?
Osteoarthritis is caused by the wearing out of the cartilage covering the bone ends in a joint. This may be due to excessive strain over prolonged periods of time, or due to other joint diseases, injury or deformity. Primary osteoarthritis is commonly associated with ageing and general degeneration of joints.
Secondary osteoarthritis is generally the consequence of another disease or condition, such as repeated trauma or surgery to the affected joint or abnormal joint structures from birth.
Uric acid crystal build-up is the cause of gout, and long-term crystal build-up in the joints may cause deformity.
Some people may have congenital abnormalities of the joints (for example, Perthes’ disease of the hips) that cause early degeneration and subsequently cause osteoarthritis.
Predisposing factors to Osteoarthritis of Hip.
Some conditions may predispose the hip to osteoarthritis. It tends to affect people as they get older and particularly affects joints that have to take a lot of stresses and strains.
Predisposing factors to Osteoarthritis of Knee.
Abnormalities of knee joint function resulting from fractures of the knee, torn cartilage and torn ligaments can lead to degeneration many years after the injury. The mechanical abnormality leads to excessive wear and tear – just like the out-of-balance tire that wears out too soon on your car.
What are the symptoms of arthritis?
There are more than 150 different forms of arthritis. Symptoms vary according to the form of arthritis. Each form affects the body differently. Arthritic symptoms generally include swelling and pain or tenderness in one or more joints for more than two weeks, redness or heat in a joint, limitation of motion of a joint, early morning stiffness, and skin changes, including rashes.
How can a doctor diagnose arthritis?
Doctors diagnose arthritis with a medical history, physical exam and x-rays of the Hip. There is no blood test for osteoarthritis.
What you can do?
What your doctor can do for you?
There is no cure for arthritis, so beware of ‘miracle cures.’ Your doctor may prescribe anti-inflammatory medicine. They may recommend occupational therapy or physiotherapy, which includes exercises and heat treatment. In severe cases, surgery may be suggested, such as a hip or knee replacement. The type of surgery will depend on your age and severity of the disease. In the elderly with severe arthritis, joint replacement can give good results.
Initial treatment for osteoarthritis of the hip or knee is conservative, consisting of rest, avoidance of vigorous weight-bearing activities, and the use of non-narcotic analgesic and or anti-inflammatory medications. With worsening symptoms, a cane or a knee brace may be helpful. For more severe symptoms, an injection of cortisone into the joint is frequently advised and can be quite helpful. When conservative measures have been exhausted and are no longer helpful, and the arthritis has become disabling, surgery may be recommended.
Does exercise really help those who have Arthritis?
Exercise is very important, because it increases lubrication of the joints and strengthens the surrounding muscles, putting less stress on joints. Exercise in heated swimming pools (hydrotherapy) can bring enormous relief from pain and stiffness. Also, studies have shown that exercise helps people with arthritis by reducing joint pain and stiffness and increasing flexibility, muscle strength and energy. It also helps with weight reduction and offers an improved sense of well-being.
Can special diets treat Arthritis?
What if you already have arthritis? — Are diet and nutrition still such a simple matter? Can what you eat cure your arthritis? Can certain foods prevent it from occurring? Are there foods that can cause your arthritis to ‘flare’ or go into remission? What role do vitamins and nutritional supplements play in the treatment of arthritis? Will losing (or gaining) weight help ease your symptoms? Will taking powerful anti-arthritic medications affect your appetite or your ability to eat certain foods?
These are the sorts of questions that people with arthritis often ask, and they are valid questions. Some questions like, “Can what you eat cure your arthritis?” have simple answers– “No.” questions like, “Are there foods that can cause your arthritis to ‘flare’ or go into remission?” aren’t so straightforward – “Perhaps.”
Most of what you need to know about diet and nutrition is common sense. Healthy eating is most often the same for everyone whether you have arthritis or not. But there are exceptions.
From learning about the importance of exercising regularly to fully understanding your arthritis medications, the information contained in this section is meant to provide you with insights, information and tips that can be used by you to help make living with arthritis a little bit more manageable.
Living with arthritis can be difficult, but learning as much as you can about your particular type of arthritis and actively working with your treatment team are two very effective ways to regain control over your life. There is plenty of information, some specific to arthritis and some not, that can be very helpful to someone facing the challenges associated with having a chronic or lifelong disease.
Take control of your arthritis by arming yourself with as much information as possible. Learn from the experiences of others in similar circumstances. We are presenting a virtual toolbox for living well with arthritis. There are plenty of tools or tips here. Refer to them when you need them. Call upon them when you require help.
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Ever Imagined! How wonderful to operate YouTube platform is, whether you want to watch the movie, news, latest movie trailers, series, shows, listen to music, informative videos, educational videos, in shorts YouTube library is a never ending process which can provide you content of your choice. Earlier YouTube viewing was restricted to smartphones, laptops and computers. Ever Since the internet enabled smart TV, YouTube has increased its family.
Introduction of Smart TV has become an easy task to Operate YouTube to your Smart TV. Youtube can be operated on other devices like Xbox One, Roku, PS3, Xbox, Kodi and many more other devices too. Before enjoying YouTube on any device you will need to sign in and activate your YouTube on the particular device before you begin to start your enjoyment. To assist you in understanding the sign in and activation process of YouTube underneath are the steps to access YouTube on different devices like Apple TV and Roku.
Play YouTube on Apple TV
It’s a piece of cake to activate YouTube on any device, steps may differ from device to device.
- Go to Home Screen.
- Go to the App Store.
- Type “YouTube” in the search bar.
Note: For distribution and playback of 4k videos, YouTube relies on VP9, which is the industry-leading open-source code. VP9 allows in less buffering, faster start up, and superior video quality. As the Apple TV 4K model (5th generation) is not compatible with support VP9 at present, there is no availability of 4K resolution on this device.
Follow the given steps to access YouTube on your Apple TV.
Sign In to YouTube on Apple TV
Follow these steps to operate Youtube using your Google Account on Apple TV from 3rd to 5th generation.
Sign In Via Your Mobile Device
- Ensure that you have proper internet connection.
- Download the “YouTube App ” from App Store or if you already have then start by signing in to the YouTube App.
- Go to the Sign In screen in the YouTube App.
- It will automatically start searching for your device, once the device gets paired you will receive a notification on your screen displaying “Tap to begin TV Sign In”, you need to tap on the profile picture and then on the “Continue as <Your Name>”.
- After that tap on the “Allow” button once you are on the “Allow Account Access” screen.
- Then you will get a notification displaying “You are signing in to your TV”, meanwhile you will receive another notification displaying “You’re now signed in to the TV”.
Now follow these steps given underneath to Sign in Your TV
Look for the Activate Code and Sign In
- Go to the Sign in screen of the YouTube App, complete the rest of the steps.
- Now visit the youtube.com/activate on your devices like computer or smartphones.
- Once you have signed in, log in your YouTube account. Select your google account to log in.
Choose your Channel
- List of Google Identities will display on your screen associated with your YouTube Channel.
End the Activation Process
- Once you have selected your account, put an activation code shown in the Youtube App on your Apple TV.
- Click the “Allow Access” option and wait for the confirmation screen to display.
Play YouTube on Roku
YouTube is available on the Roku Streaming device. So you can log in with your YouTube Account to view all of your subscriptions and playlists. You can make use of your smart devices like Tablets, Smartphones and computers to find and play YouTube videos on Roku instead of making use of Roku Remote.
- Installing YouTube Channel
Check whether your Roku model Supports YouTube
- Recent update of Roku has enabled all the Current Generation Roku Devices to access Youtube Channel. In short it means that except the original Roku launched in 2010 all other Roku devices can now add the YouTube Channel effortlessly.
Note: For some, the naming machine of the Roku model may be very complicated. In 2010, the unique Roku was launched, and in 2011, the Roku 2 model was launched. After the discharge of Roku 2, in 2013, the employer launched a new Roku 1 and Roku 2 tool. This means that the Roku 1 and the unique Roku are surely two completely special models of the device.
- So, in case you are having an original Roku from 2010, the most effective way you can get YouTube movies is with the aid of installing the Twonky channel, which calls for you to buy a subscription.
- Now, you may need to open the Channel Store section on your Roku interface. If you’re unable to look at the Channel Store alternative or if it isn’t always to be had on it, you will need to press the Home button in your Roku faraway.
- Next, you will need to choose the “Top Free” choice from the display. By doing so you will be able to see the YouTube channel on the right-hand facet of your screen.
- Then, you may need to pick out the YouTube channel.
- After that, you may want to select the “Add channel” option located subsequent to the Roku app. As you will press the Add channel alternative, Roku will start downloading the YouTube channel and upload it to the channel listing of your Roku device. You may have to wait a chunk to complete the process.
- Finally, you may want to pick out the “Go to channel” option so as to open the YouTube app straight away for your tool. If you want you could also get lower back in your Roku home screen and choose the YouTube app from the “My Channels” listing.
Also Visit: Download Free Roku Mobile App
- Pairing your Smartphone or Tablet
- Start by opening the Settings menu of the YouTube channel. You can get to the Settings menu via deciding on the Gear icon located on the left-hand aspect of the YouTube menu in your Roku tool.
- Next, you may want to pick out the “Sign In” option and log in using your YouTube account login credentials. As you observe this step, you’ll be prompted to visit to the youtube.com/activate page on the web browser. Once you are at the internet site, you may need to sign up to use the login credentials of your Google account. And then, you’ll need to enter the activation code inside the supplied field at the TV show to sign-in on the Roku device. After that, you’ll want to click on the “Allow get admission to” button to complete the signal-in system.
- Then, you may need to pick the “Pair Device” choice. Selecting the “Pair Device” choice will permit you to use your phone or tablet to find and play videos of your preference. This method is a good deal extra efficient than using the built-in Search characteristic of the YouTube channel.
- If you need, you may also pair your computer or laptop with your Roku tool and use the YouTube internet site.
- After that, you may need to visit the website displayed on your smartphone or tablet. The website you’ll want to visit is youtube.com/pair. Alternatively, you may also use a barcode scanner to test the QR code on your screen to finish the pairing technique.
- Once you’re on the activation page, you may want to go into the activation code displayed for your TV inside the furnished fields. Doing so will pair your phone or pill with your Roku YouTube channel. On the other hand, if you experiment with the QR code in this manner it gets completed mechanically.
- Watching Videos
- Now to discover a video using the YouTube app in your cell tool, you may first need to ensure that you have connected your phone or pill. And then, you can use your related tool to find and play films for your Roku tool.
- Next, you will want to tap on the “Cast” button. The “Cast” button is commonly placed on the pinnacle of the YouTube app on your mobile device. The button looks as if it is a TV show with a small sign icon in the nook.
- Then, you will want to choose your Roku device. For this, you may need to faucet the “Cast” button. This will display a listing of all of the devices to which you may ship films. Here, you’ll want to pick out your Roku tool from the given list.
- After that, you may begin playing the video on your mobile tool effortlessly. For this, first, you’ll want to make certain which you have decided on the Roku tool. Once you have decided on Roku, you can start watching motion pictures and can see it playing on your TV. To manage playback or discover other movies at the same time as playing one, you will need to apply the YouTube app to your cell tool.
Smart Devices to Operate YouTube
You can now operate YouTube on other devices too apart from Apple TV and Roku, other devices includes the following;
- Amazon Fire TV
- Xbox One
- Samsung TV
- Amazon Fire Stick
- Sony PlayStation
Following the above stated steps, you can operate YouTube on these devices too. Just go to the application store of your smart device, search for YouTube in the search bar and get the app on it. Sign In to the YouTube App on your device once you have downloaded it, make sure to copy the Activation Code. Put the activation code in the provided field on the youtube.com/activate page and you are done.
Note: You can operate YouTube directly in case of some media players.
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CRED10106 Week 8 Discussion | Mohawk College
DISCUSSION 3: Personality Assessment
a) Take the Personality Assessment here (also attached). This is a REQUIRED first step before you move on.
b) In your dedicated discussion group, identify your strongest personality type in the subject line of your posting – (example: your top one will be either organizer, adventurer, giver or thinker)
FIRST POST (DUE BY Oct 29) - Post a response to each question below
– What are the positives of your preferred personality style?
– What challenges does this personality style bring with it?
– Does your preferred personality style align with any of your top 5 Strengths from your StrengthsQuest Assessment. If so, which ones?
– What similarities do you find between your preferred personality style and your strengths?
– What types of personalities do you think would be the ideal study partner for you? Why?
– What type of bosses and co-workers would you be least suited to work with? Why?
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This year will roll in like a lamb and out like a lion. It will be a year of major social, economic and technological leaps. Don’t be pounced on, rather stay one step ahead of the change.
Here, let’s review some of the key themes, trends and expectations of 2013 by way of retail… Yes, RETAIL. For several years now I’ve found that the holiday windows of the Bergdorf Goodman department store in New York City can be used as metaphors for key themes and predictors in the coming year. They tend to point out important trends in America. So, here’s your window into 2013 via the windows of Bergdorf Goodman…
overall theme: the folly of men
The overall theme for the décor of the window display this season, entitled “BG Follies”, was the entertainment of the “Roaring 1920s”. The French called the period “années folles” (“Crazy Years”). This is fitting because I foresee that the next year will be “roaring” (i.e., active, rumbling, noisy, crashing, resounding) on many levels. Further, this year’s holiday windows showcased lavish scenes from, opulent revues of Ziegfield Follies and Follies Berger, which is also poignant. The “follie” (or “folly”) perfectly characterizes culture, fashion and consumer behavior in America right now: foolish, silly, imprudent and irrational. Before I parse each window for symbolism and meaning, here’s some background context…
happy scary New Year
We begin a new year with the US drowning in a tsunami of debt and signs of the unraveling of social safety nets. The county has a declining birthrate, dismal economic growth (2012 GDP average ≈2% ), retail sales rose only 0.1% in December attributed to stagnating disposable personal income (+1.2%) and alarming unemployment (≈8%). The US dropped 3 places in 2012 to rank #10 in the world in terms of innovation. It’s estimated that >60% of the nation is on some mood-enhancing drugs, a panacea to an epidemic of depression and mental illness.
History shows again and again how nature points out the folly of men – BOC
Simmering social unrest (due to plutocracy and a vast ideological divide) is exacerbated by a broken education system (US dropped 14th place amongst OECD and G20 countries in 2012 in terms of educated citizens). This is set against the backdrop of looming European crises and Wall Street hedging that China is going to crash, taking the US down with it, and models predicting a stock market correction in 2013. Meanwhile, the nation has dire energy issues (oil dependency, fracking) and the ecosystem is broken: melting ice caps, droughts, superstorms, megafloods, and 99% of all species that once lived are now extinct (13% of birds, 25% of mammals and 41% of amphibians are currently on the “Red List”). This is not pessimism. This is startling reality.
I’m reading too many analyses from people much smarter than me that predict seismic, catalytic events (economic, social, environmental) in the latter part of 2013. Unfortunately folks, the long-term outlook for the year doesn’t look so great.
some FUNdamentals are off
And yet, despite all this, Americans just wanna have FUN:
- one-fith of Americans believe that making it in society is to play the lottery (National Journal)
- 52% agree “I know how to have fun” (US Monitor).
- 53% say “I enjoy and celebrate life despite its many challenges and obstacles” (US Monitor).
- 72% feel “it’s important to try things I’ve never done, even if not a successful outcome” (Yankelovich).
- The US Luxury Market is expected to report 5-7% growth in 2012 (Bain)
Many Americans think they’ve dodged a bullet and have come out of the past decade OK (not great, but OK). They think they’ve “course corrected” and traded-up/down/off. To wit, 56% say “they have reprioritized their lives” (Monitor). Americans feel they’re now on track; 84% say “they will keep doing cost cutting strategies they’ve adopted” (Yankelovich). But, I wonder is it good enough?
I’d wager money that one of the ruling emotions of 2013 is “guilt”. Paradoxically, Americans deep down seem to know their behavior is frivolous and wanton because they recognize the signs, for example:
- 65% feel we are at a turning point in history: “land of opportunity” becoming the “land of disappointment.” (US Monitor)
- 57% think “America is on the decline as a civilization (Fox News)
- 31% say “the challenges facing the country are so serious that America might not be able to overcome them (Allstate/National Journal)
- Only 42% say the “country is heading in the right direction (ABC News/Washington Post)
- 65% believe another 9/11-style attack is likely in the next decade. (Rasmussen)
- Only 36% believe “they will become rich in my lifetime” (Yankelovich)
- Only 40% agree “I will be happier if less well off in the future” (Monitor)
Meanwhile, superficial marketers and trend reports herald “fun” and “play” and the “pursuit of happiness” to be the theme d’annee in 2013. Indeed, isn’t it folly when fashion and lifestyle trends are focused on indulgence and evoking decadence, when in reality there is a need for asceticism and humility?
2013: a party like it’s 1929?
So, perhaps a little madness right now is simply keeping the nation sane temporatily. Americans, weary of the stressors of the past decade, are today “partying like it’s 1929” [with a nod to Prince’s 1999]. Consumer behavior now is much like that in the Roaring 20s, which was then a backlash to austerity of the WWI years. I feel as if the energy and discontinuity of an entire decade (the 1920s) will be compressed into one year: 2013.
An affinity for the gaiety of the 20s is especially noticeable amongst nostalgic Millennials, driving trends in fringed frocks, zoot suits, bobbed hairdos and pointed half-moon manicures. The popularity of Boardwalk Empire and burlesque shows can be traced to “20s idolization”, as well as a renewed interest in Art Deco décor, artwork and jewelry. Even the wildly popular Hunger Games movie took cinematic cues from the 1920s. A spectacular Hollywood screen version of The Great Gatsby – the ultimate celebration of the Roaring 20s – is hitting theatres in 2013.
Ironic Parallels Between 2013 and 1929
It’s no wonder that 2013 resembles 1929, because there are several parallels between the two eras, for example:
Relaxed Prohibitions: Then, there was the repeal of prohibition (drinking was legalized). Today, marijuana has just been legalized in some states, with growing support for national legalization; 58% of Americans support national legalization of marijuana (Public Policy Poling).
New Technology & Networks: Then, the automobile was the new invention that connected and dispersed people, and the social emphasis was on road networks. Today, the smartphone is connecting people and giving people the freedom to disperse, with the emphasis on information traffic and social networks.
Rise of Anarchists: Then, a movement of anarchists surfaced and formed the socialist and fascist movements directed at destabilizing governments. Today, the anarchists have re-emerged but now direct their wrath at institutions and businesses rather than government (think: Occupy Wall Street and the guy who conspired to blow up the Federal Reserve).
Shifting Gender Roles & New Sexual Freedom: Then, Flapper women shorn their hair, shortened their skirts and bared their limbs to outwardly celebrate their sexuality and signal independence. Today’s “Flappers” are homosexuals; America has made great leaps in tolerance. 91% of homosexuals report that their communities have become more accepting of their sexual orientation in recent years (USE Today/Gallup).
Celebrated Exploration: Then, the great expeditions were Lindberg and Earhart’s crossing of oceans by airplane, affording new perspectives on the world from aerial views. Today, our exploration triumph is crossing time and space to land the Curiosity vehicle on Mars, while we navigate aerial views of earth and sky on Google Earth.
Paradigm-Shifting Communications: Then, communications can be characterized as the “age of audio”, with society embracing telephones, radio, phonographs and talkie movies. Today, can be called the “age of video” with society focused on screens (3-screens: phone, laptop, TV) ,video-calls (Face Time, Skype) and YouTube.
Reinvented Metropolises: Then, cities were being re-imagined and re-engineered as futuristic spaces run by machinery; the modern kitchen was invented in the 20s. Today, cities are undergoing step-changes with the introduction of intuitive technologies, robotics and smart homes and appliances.
Fixation on Criminals: Then, there was public fascination and mass media attention given to crime sprees and violence by gangers like Bugsy Malone and the G-Men. Today, society and the media are captivated by violence by individuals (Aurora, The Mall Killings, Newtown).
Mass Appeal Celebrities: Then, new urban sports stadiums and entertainment outlets (radio and movies) created personalities (celebrities) for the first time with mass appeal. Today, the masses create celebrities and athletic heroes, voting through entertainment on The Voice, DWTS, American Idol and the X Factor.
What can we learn from the past? Well, 1929 was the last year of hey-day before the Great Depression. It was a happy “blip” on the radar before a protracted “dip”. No one in 1929 predicted the stock market crash or WWII. Will America be surprised again?
windows as metaphor & allegory for 2013
This year there were five distinctive window treatments at Bergdorf Goodman’s, loaded with symbolism about major themes/trends in America. Each window was titled an “Act”. An “Act” implies play-acting (i.e., pretending, insincerity), reinforcing the point raised above about Americans feigning that everything is OK, when it isn’t.
Window 1 – ACT I: “By Request” (Unity)
The window was an aerial perspective on an all-girl orchestra, which was popular in the 20s. This symbolizes the rising numbers and power (influence and spending) of women in America. The window, with its unusual perspective, is a metaphor for American culture that has come to expect “zoom in” and “zoom out”, and unusual angles (think: the trend in Go Pro cameras). But, most importantly this window features a group. A band. A community. While so much attention is paid to online communities, 49% of Americans say they “don’t feel as close to the people in their local community as they used to” (Yankelovich); digital relationships are overpowering analog relationships. And, perhaps unity online an off line is being dismantled by another trend – self-expression – as 55% of Americans agree that it “is OK to speak my mind, even if others are offended”(Yankelovich). The paradox is that Americans crave “friends” and behave in unfriendly manner. Anticipate the dynamic of attracting and repelling people will be studied and discussed in 2013.
Window 2 – ACTII: “Naughty and Nice” (Dreams)
The window depicted a mannequin dressed as a burlesque fan dancer who peeked over her shoulder, while set against a fantastical white-on-white feather dreamscape. This window symbolizes dreams – or parodies the lack of dreams and/or dashed dreams. For today in America, 67% agree “If I had a chance to start over in my life, I would do things much differently” (US Monitor). Sadly, 50% feel “my dreams are out of reach” (Yankelovich). America is experiencing a “dream deficit”. Having dreams and realizing dreams is the foundation of the country, and will be a focal point of discussion in 2013 (along with the related topics of “entrepreneurship”).
Window 3 – ACT III: “A Cast of Thousands” (Inequity)
This window featured wo dozen showgirl mannequins ranging in height from 1ft to 6ft which stood poised for their curtain call. This window is a nod to our society consumed with social media and crowd sourcing, with its cast of thousands (and arguably performers and voices). But, most importantly, the disparity in the sizes of the mannequins represents the great social and economic divide in America. Presently, 70% feel that “economic well-being is unfairly distributed” (Yankelovich). Further, 78% agree “there is one set of rules for the rich, another for everyone else” (Monitor). Equality and democracy are tenants of America under threat and will be a theme of 2013.
Window 4 – ACT IV: “Daredevil” (Skill)
This window presented a glamorous dog trainer who directed a circus of 30 stylized dogs interacting with kluge-like mechanisms. On one hand this is a window about “control”, as Americans are seeking increasingly more control over their “have it my way” worlds. On the other hand, this display symbolizes “skill”, or lack there of. Only 39% of Americans believe they “could easily find a job if they lost their current job” (Yankelovich). While 69% feel “it’s important to be honest with yourself about strengths and weaknesses” (Yankelovich), 57% believe “it’s important to recognize when to let go and cut losses” (Yankelovich). As the world becomes more competitive, Americans will focus more on personal skill assessment and development, and the “generalist” vs. ”specialist” human resource debate will thrive in 2013.
Window 5 – ACT V: “Finale” (Engagement)
This window depicted two showgirls standing in front of a colossal distracting hypnotic rotating vortex which looked like a kaleidoscope made of blinding mirrors. Viewers had no choice but to look away or become absorbed. The window symbolizes the challenges of “attention” and “engagement” a key leitmotif of the smartphone era. Today, 50% of Americans say they “own a smartphone”, and 58% of this group say they check it every hour (Nielsen). 30% say they’ve used their phone “during a meal with others”, 39% “while in the bathroom”, and 9% “while in a religious service” (Harris Interactive). The smartphone is a great engagement tool, but there’s a risk of over-engagement in today’s society. Conversations in 2013 will swirl around connectivity and disconnectivity and the presence of mind while being connected.
additional conclusion, implications & predictions
- Americans with lower self-esteem will have more interest in projecting status. Brace yourself for increased interest in status labels/brands and designer icons in 2013.
- Americans will manifest their disappointment via criticism. Expect Americans to be more critical, demanding and discerning: “quality” and “craftsmanship” will be key themes in 2013. Also, social media will garner favor with the critic; expect more reviews and shared POVs.
- Americans feeling (or opting to be) disconnected and anti-social will reject “community” and display more ego-centrism. Micro-targeting and hyper-personalization will likely flourish in 2013.
- Future-cynical Americans will seek immediate gratification to make the most of the moment. In 2013 anticipate an emphasis on “experiences” and “thrill seeking.”
- Americans with lack of faith in “the system” will adopt pragmatic behaviors. Expect a surge in 2013 in products that enable resourcefulness and self-sufficiency.
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THE GOLDEN RETRIEVER BREED STANDARD
The Breed Standard is a guideline which puts into words the ideal characteristics, temperament and appearance of a Golden Retriever and ensures that the breed is fit for function. Soundness is essential. Breeders and judges should at all times avoid obvious conditions or exaggerations which would be detrimental to the health, welfare or soundness of the breed. From time to time certain conditions or exaggerations may be considered to have the potential to affect the breed adversely. Judges and breeders should check the Breed Watch below for details of any current issues.
BREED WATCH: Excess length of body, short legs, harsh expression.
In Australia, the Golden Retriever is bred and judged according to the Breed Standard of The Kennel Club (UK).
Symmetrical, balanced, active, powerful, level mover, sound with kindly expression.
Biddable, intelligent and possessing natural working ability.
Kindly, friendly and confident
HEAD AND SKULL:
Balanced and well chiselled, skull broad without coarseness; well set on neck, muzzle powerful, wide and deep. Length of foreface approximately equals length from well defined stop to occiput. Nose preferably black.
Dark brown, set well apart, dark rims.
Moderate size, set on approximate level with eyes.
Jaws strong, with a perfect, regular and complete scissor bite, ie upper teeth closely overlapping lower teeth and set square to the jaws.
Good length, clean and muscular.
Forelegs straight with good bone, shoulders well laid back, long in blade with upper arms of equal length placing legs well under body. Elbows close fitting.
Balanced, short coupled, deep through heart. Ribs deep, well sprung.
Loin and legs strong and muscular, good second thighs, well bent stifles. Hocks well let down, straight when viewed from rear, neither turning in nor out. Cowhocks highly undesirable.
Round and cat-like.
Set on and carried level with back, reaching to hocks, without curl at tip.
Powerful and good drive. Straight and true in front and rear. Stride long and fee with no sign of hackney action in front.
Flat or wavy with good feathering, dense, water-resisting undercoat.
Any shade of cream or gold but neither red or mahogany.
Height at withers: Dogs: 56-61 cms (22-24 inches)
Bitches 51-56 cms (20-22 inches)
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Quantum information theory
Open quantum systems
This group led by Daniel Braun conducts research in the theory of quantum metrology, quantum information theory, and open quantum systems. Our work stretches all the way from rather mathematical, notably in the theory of quantum information (quantification of quantum resources, such as non-classicality and entanglement, development of quantum algorithms, geometry of quantum maps, recent forays into quantum causal inference) and quantum metrology (ultimate limits of sensitivity for the measurement of a given physical quantity imposed by the laws of quantum mechanics, development of new measurement principles that can achieve this sensitivity), to down-to-Earth simulations of real-life systems (bose-laser, SERF-magnetometers).
The physical systems we consider are typically from quantum optics. Starting a few years ago, we are also venturing into general relativistic quantum optics, where now we apply our knowledge of quantum metrology to find out whether new experiments can be proposed through which we might learn more about one of the major lasting riddles in physics, the relation between quantum mechanics and general relativity.
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The Hunchback of Notre Dame is one of the most famous characters in French literature. But how did he get the unusual name of Quasimodo?
For centuries, French law strictly limited the names that families could give their babies. They had to come from an approved list made up mostly of Catholic saints. The laws started to loosen up in the 1960s and now you can name your baby just about anything, although the courts have occasionally rejected names like Nutella.
Why was the Hunchback of Notre Dame Named Quasimodo?
For many years, one of the main sources of baby names was the Postal Almanac, a calendar that showed the saints associated with each day. If a name was on the Almanac, you were good to go. Here’s one from 1952.
Let’s take a closer look at February 14—yes, there’s our old friend Saint Valentine, along with less well-known saints like Ignace and Romuald.
Yes, the first Sunday after Easter is called Quasimodo Sunday because there is a special ceremony for the newly baptized on that day. They are greeted in Latin with a prayer that begins Quasi modo gentiti infants… (“As newborn babes…”)
As an infant, the child who grew up to become The Hunchback of Notre Dame was so deformed that he was abandoned by his mother and left at that famous cathedral. He was then adopted by the archdeacon, who decided to name him for the day he was found. This being the first Sunday after Easter, he was known forever after as the one and only Quasimodo.
**Fun fact: The French expression “Faire Pâques avant les Rameaux” (to celebrate Easter before Palm Sunday) means to be pregnant before getting married.
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The hair follicles go through different phases of growth. At any one time, most of the follicles are in the active growth phase known as the anagen phase. Majority of the remaining follicles are in a resting phase known as telogen, where there is no growth but rather preparation for future growth or shedding. A small portion of the follicles is in a transition between anagen and telogen phases known as catagen. On any given day, about 100 strands of hair are shed from the scalp (exogen) but with over 100,000 follicle on the scalp, this loss is usually not significant or noticeable. Since different follicles are in different growth phases at any one time, it ensures that not all the strands of hair are growing, resting or falling at the same time.
Hair loss or balding occurs for various reasons ranging from hormonal influences, to genetic predisposition or even mechanical and chemical trauma to the follicles. The term alopecia is used to describe partial or complete loss of hair on any site of the body and there are various different types of alopecia. One of these types is telogen effluvium and is the second most common type of hair loss. It is a non-scarring type of alopecia meaning that hair follicles are not damaged or destroyed but rather in a prolonged and unusual resting phase for some reason or the other.
What is telogen effluvium?
Telogen effluvium (TE) is type of diffuse hair loss that arises when many follicles enter into the resting phase of growth (telogen) simultaneously. In the normal growth cycle, the follicle spends most of its time in the active phase (anagen) followed by short period in the transition phase (catagen) and then another short period of rest (telogen). The process is such that only 10% to 15% of follicles at any given site are in this telogen phase at any one time. However, with telogen effluvium, more follicles than would normally be the case enter this phase, often earlier than it should and persists for longer than normal. The normal cycle is explained in detail under hair growth phases.
Telogen effluvium is not a clearly defined clinical condition. Simply it may be defined as the loss of more than 100 hairs per day spread out over a site and not localized to a confined area. The exact reason why so many more follicles shift into the telogen phase is not clear but often follows emotional or physiological stress. This may be in the form of grief or depression in terms of emotional stresses or severe and debilitating disease or surgery in physiological disturbances. The mechanism appears to be either metabolic and/or hormonal in nature. Once the disturbance resolves, hair growth returns within a few months.
When telogen ends, anagen usually commences. However, at the end of telogen the hair can easily fall off or be pulled. In fact it is often pushed out and shed by the newly growing shaft that arises once anagen commences. The telogen hair that is shed has its thickened keratinized bulb at the end. Another type of effluvium known as anagen effluvium occurs when hair falls while in the anagen phase. These strands do not have the enlarged bulb that starts to develop in catagen and proceeds through to telogen. Instead the end of the strand is tapered or split like it has been ‘cut’ or ‘snapped’. Anagen effluvium is seen with more severe insults on the system, like the use of cancer drugs (chemotherapy), poisoning or radiation exposure.
Types of Telogen Effluvium
Although there has been five subtypes of telogen effluvium outlined according to the phase of the hair growth cycle that is interrupted, the difficulty in clinically identifying these subtypes make it somewhat redundant. Instead telogen effluvium is considered to be either acute or chronic.
With regards to the scalp, the anagen phase (active growth) lasts between 3 to 5 years while telogen lasts only 3 months. In acute telogen effluvium the extended telogen phase usually does not pass the 6 month mark, whereas chronic telogen effluvium it extends beyond 6 months. Acute forms are sudden in onset, whereas the chronic form is gradual and may go unnoticed for a period of time.
Hair loss, especially in the acute form where it is sudden and more noticeable, occurs between 1 to 3 months after a stress. Sometimes this can be as late as 6 months afterwards and a person may not associate the hair loss with the past event.
Causes of Telogen Effluvium
The causes and trigger factors are varied and countless. While there are many common trigger factors, at times an event that would otherwise seem insignificant can be a trigger in a person with a more sensitive disposition.
Some of the triggers include :
- Severe trauma, including a fall, assault, motor vehicle accident.
- Pregnancy and childbirth.
- Significant change in normal dietary habits, including strict dieting, anorexia and excessive fasting.
- Nutritional deficiency
- Febrile illnesses
- Severe infections and septicemia.
- Major surgery
- Medication particularly beta blockers, anti-clotting drugs, anti-epileptics, retinoids and vaccines.
- Discontinuing certain medication particularly estrogen-based drugs.
- Heavy metal toxicity including selenium, thallium and arsenic poisoning.
- Chronic diseases like end-stage renal disease, liver failure, systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) and cancer.
Signs and Symptoms of Telogen Effluvium
Thinning of the hair is most commonly noticed, rather than balding at a specific area. In acute telogen effluvium, patients may report seeing more strands of hair on the pillow after sleeping and will notice that a few strands will easily detach with just a moderate amount of force. In chronic telogen effluvium this is not as obvious and instead thinning hair becomes noticeable after a prolonged period of time.
There are a few clinical features that will not be present and which can be used to differentiate telogen effluvium from other types of hair loss. This includes :
- Absence of patches of complete balding (alopecia).
- No skin rash, itching or any other form of skin lesion.
- Hair loss almost never seen on any part of the body other than the scalp.
One clinical feature that may sometimes be seen with telogen effluvium or reported by the patient although it may have passed is a type of fingernail ridge known as Beau’s line. As with telogen effluvium, this transverse groove in the fingernail or toe nail, arises with a severe systemic disturbance and grows out over months. It may be used as a crude indicator of when the trigger illness or event occurred. This is not always seen in every person with telogen effluvium. | <urn:uuid:70fe43f3-f9a9-49af-bcef-5f3b47fe356d> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.healthhype.com/shedding-hair-loss-telogen-effluvium-types-and-causes.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570692.22/warc/CC-MAIN-20220807181008-20220807211008-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.928421 | 1,478 | 3.5 | 4 |
Geylang Methodist School (Secondary), or GMSS, believes that strong families build strong schools, and ultimately, a strong society.
At the same time, the school makes a concerted effort to partner parents and involve their own students in family education programmes as it recognises that strong families do not happen by chance.
GMSS does not merely focus on the academic development of their students, they also emphasise character and values, and focus on the holistic well-being of every child.
This is why they believe in their students carrying the responsibility to champion family for the next generation through Family Service Projects.
The school has partnered Focus on the Family across a variety of youth and parenting programmes, such as FamChamps, Love Literate Parent-Child Workshop, and Parent-Coach Dialogues. Just recently, it also organised FamQuest, a simulated family life game for the entire Secondary 1 cohort.
One of its students, Lua Rong Yi, who went through the FamChamps programme in 2018, shared that his main takeaway was realising that family relationships can actually improve with intentional effort. He said, “It helped me believe that even as a child, I have the power to change our family relationships; it doesn't always have to be the adults taking the first step. After FamChamps, I have taken the time to understand my parents and communicate with them better.”
GMSS also has an active Parent Support Group, so that parents can be engaged with the school in its multi-faceted activities and programmes, as well as connected with one another.
Mr Wee Tat Chuen, Principal of Geylang Methodist School (Secondary), shared his philosophy behind the school’s approach, “In the school context, discipline is key for teenagers. I try to help students see that when they are disciplined, they are able to go further, and when they are able to go further, they can become a blessing to others. As a Christian school, we are also able to encourage our students with real-life examples of how God provides strength and grace in our lives. I think this faith helps our teens as they go through their various struggles in this period of their lives.”
Mrs Joanna Koh-Hoe, CEO of Focus on the Family Singapore, said, “GMSS is indeed a forerunner in building fruitful partnerships with parents for the well-being of students. I wish the school and its students well as they continue to do their part in building up strong families and communities in Singapore.”
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8 surprising things you can recycle
Aluminum cans, printer paper, 20-ounce beverage bottles—everyone knows these are recyclable. But did you know empty toothpaste tubes are too? It’s true. While you can’t just toss the tubes in the blue bin for curbside pickup, with a little effort, you can ensure they get recycled instead of lurking in the landfill. Here are eight unexpected household items that you can actually recycle. | <urn:uuid:bbeb9c5a-db07-43cb-9fb9-2722cc49821b> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.deliciousliving.com/display-gallery/?id=18231&im=1 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572304.13/warc/CC-MAIN-20220816120802-20220816150802-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.919643 | 95 | 1.570313 | 2 |
Our Civic Engagement Call2Action! Programs teach participants how to use collaborative problem-solving to address issues of public concern for service learning, community design, community organizing, and community building for an inclusive and deliberative democracy.
Civic Engagement Fellowship
The Civic Engagement Fellowship was an academic and paraprofessional fellowship for undergraduate and graduate students interested in education, non-profit management, public policy, applied anthropology and human development wishing to advance their training through field-based learning and professional mentorship. The purpose of the Fellowship was to develop skilled, ethical and sensitive organic intellectuals of diverse backgrounds to be premier community leaders. Our fellows developed Service Learning Programs, Relational and Civic Trainings, and provided on-site program development to school-communities. | <urn:uuid:d35ecff5-f753-4055-ae62-98cd2d3f6ade> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.tools4democracy.org/civic-engagement/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570692.22/warc/CC-MAIN-20220807181008-20220807211008-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.932957 | 160 | 1.78125 | 2 |
3 Methods to Repair Broken or Missing AVI Index
You may see an error message, “The AVI file index is broken or missing”, while trying to play AVI files on the VLC media player. This indicates that your AVI file index is broken or corrupted. This post leads you through solutions that will help you fix broken or missing AVI index.
Symptoms and Reasons of Corruption in AVI Files
AVI is an abbreviation of Audio Video Interleave, which is a common file format used for playing audios and videos on your Windows system. This format requires less compression in comparison to other file formats, which is one of the primary reasons for its popularity. The AVI files are denoted by the file extension .avi.
The AVI file index refers to the set of rules that define the video performance. These rules apply when you pause, rewind, or forward videos. A corrupted AVI file index makes the videos unplayable and may display the following symptoms.
- The video stutters while playing
- The video and audio isn’t in sync
- You can hear only the audio and there is no video
- The video is blurry, pixelated, and grainy throughout
- You can only see the video and there is no audio
- The video is not playing after some time
Following are some major causes of AVI file index corruption or damage.
- There are bad sectors on your hard drive, which may corrupt the AVI file index and prohibit it from playing properly.
- You are using incompatible tools for AVI format conversion.
- Power failure, abrupt system shutdown, and poor internet connection may also cause corruption in AVI file index.
- Using the wrong editing tool can cause AVI file index damage. The tool may induce many errors or viruses, which may corrupt the file.
- The AVI file index may get corrupted while downloading the file from an online source.
- The AVI file index may get damaged while sharing on the network.
- It may get corrupted or damaged, if videos are not properly copied while transferring between storage devices.
- You are using an incompatible media player to play the video.
How to Fix AVI Index Permanently?
You can easily fix or repair the AVI index using the solutions discussed below.
- Use “System File Checker”
You can easily repair damaged or corrupted AVI file index using system file checker. Follow these steps:
- Type cmd in the search bar.
- Select Run as administrator.
- In the command prompt page, type SFC/scannow.
This command will check and repair all corrupted files on the system and the AVI file will be repaired in the process.
- Use VLC Media Player to Fix AVI Index
VLC media player is a free media player that is available for Mac and Windows. You can try to fix the AVI index using VLC media player. Follow these steps:
- Download and install VLC Media Player.
- Choose Preferences from the Tool tab.
- Choose the Input/Codecs tab in the files section, select the damaged or incomplete AVI file >> Always Fix, and click on Save.
This media player repairs the AVI file index. However, this solution is temporary. You can repair it permanently using a video repair software.
- Use a Reliable Video Repair Software to Fix AVI Index
There are several software available that can help you repair videos easily. Recoverit, Remo Video Repair, and Stellar Repair for Video are a few popular tools in this category. Stellar Repair for Video can repair more than 17 video formats, including MOV, MP4, MKV, and AVI. It can repair multiple 8k, 4k, VR, and 360-degree videos simultaneously. It can fix flickering, stuttering, blurry, and other video problems. You can preview repaired videos before saving them. Here are the steps to download and use any of these tools on your system.
- Visit the official website and launch the free version of the tool (if available).
- Add the files to be repaired to the interface and click on the repair process. Some tools can repair only one video at a time, however, the Stellar Repair for Video can repair multiple videos simultaneously.
- You will get a message of completion once the repair process is completed. You can preview the videos that are repaired by the software before saving them.
How to Avoid Corruption of AVI File Index?
Following are some steps you can take to avoid damage or corruption of the AVI files.
- Download the video files from only trusted websites.
- Choose the right media player to support the AVI file index.
- Do not share AVI files on the internet randomly to avoid possibilities of corruption.
- Avoid scenarios where video transfer process may be interrupted, such as weak internet, low battery power, and so on.
- Use only trusted tools to edit the AVI files.
- Create copies of AVI files before sharing it online or before transferring it between systems.
- Install an anti-virus or anti-malware program to avoid infections in AVI files.
AVI file index can be easily repaired using system file checker, VLC Media Player, and video repair software. Of these, the software option is the most effective and the easiest one. You can download Stellar Repair for Video to fix damaged or corrupted AVI videos. In addition to this, you can follow the tips mentioned in the post to avoid corruption in the AVI file index. | <urn:uuid:d7c975b3-e525-4e00-aa08-94e6f8891cfe> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://technonguide.com/3-methods-to-repair-broken-or-missing-avi-index/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570879.37/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809003642-20220809033642-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.877673 | 1,161 | 1.648438 | 2 |
MHA 680-3 (Capstone Project) TERM 5
Using the feedback from your instructor on your Draft Capstone Research Project Paper, students during Term 5 will complete the following Assignments:
3.1 Finalize the Capstone Research Project Paper (75 Points) AND
Write a summary of the PowerPoint presentation to organizational leadership/management (10 Points)
3.2 Develop a PowerPoint presentation and present it to organizational leadership/management. The PowerPoint is a summary of the Capstone Research Project Paper (15 Points)
The Final Capstone Research Project Paper will be 30-50 pages in length, using APA format and reference citations.
The PowerPoint Presentation (approximately 20 slides), is a summary of the Project Paper, as presented to a selected group of organizational leaders/managers.The intent of the presentation is to alert this group of your perceptions and data formulated from the Capstone Research Project Paper.
The written Presentation Summary (2-3 paragraphs, no longer than 1 page), includes your analysis of the impact of your PowerPoint Presentation on organizational leadership/management, attendee’s positions in the organization, questions asked, how you, the student responded to these questions/comments, and your self-evaluation of the presentation. Following the Reference List in your Capstone Project Paper, using a page break, title the page PowerPoint Presentation Summary, write your summary of the PowerPoint presentation to leadership/management.
Because your Presentation Summary is based upon your actual PowerPoint presentation to leadership/management in your organization, you must plan ahead to schedule this presentation prior to when the 3.1 and 3.2 Assignments are due in Term 5. In addition, in order to present the PowerPoint, which is based on your findings in your Capstone Project Research Paper, your Paper will need to be prepared prior to the PowerPoint Presentation. Please make sure you have planned ahead, so you are able to present your PowerPoint and write your Presentation Summary, prior to the due date for the 3.1 assignment.
You will post your 3.1 Capstone Research Project Paper and the PowerPoint Presentation Summary (on a separate page following the Reference List at the end of the Paper) Assignment to the 3.1 Capstone Research Project Paper section in the MHA 680-3 Term 5 Assignment Section. It will appear in the Grade Center where only your instructor will view it. It is due by the last day of Term 5, the same date as the end of your MHA 665 course. REMINDER: Your instructor though, may designate a due date which may be prior to the end of Term 5. Please be aware of this possible designated earlier deadline date for submission.
You will post your 3.2 PowerPoint Presentation Assignment on the MHA 680-3 Term 5 Discussion Board forum, by the last day of Term 5, the same date as the end of your MHA 665 course. REMINDER: Your instructor though, may designate a due date which may be prior to the end of Term 5. Please be aware of this possible designated earlier deadline date for submission.
Your grade for this MHA 680-3 (1 credit) in Term 5, will be a letter grade based on assessment of your MHA 680-3 assignments.
Assignment Grade Points
A total of 100 points will be assigned to MHA 680-3 as follows:
• 3.1 Final Capstone Research Project Paper – Total 75 points
Title page, Abstract, Intro./Organizational Review = 10 points
Problem/Issue/ Data & Analysis = 20 points
Proposed Solutions/Outcomes = 20 points
Integration of research and in-text citations = 10 points
Reference List = 15 points
• 3.1 PowerPoint Presentation Summary – 10 points
• 3.2 PowerPoint Presentation – 15 points
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A business is all about taking financial decisions and engaging in monetary transactions. Of course, all businesses have to deal with their finances and have a separate team to take care of that. These finances include several unpaid receivables, overdue invoices, and sometimes even payment reversal after charging. Finance departmentsin the businesses work towards retrieving these, however, in case receivables increase and shoot beyond a few thousand dollars, the assistance of a third party is considered.
The main reason behind using an external agency is to make sure that the unpaid receivables are retrieved at the earliest possible time. Taking the help of a business collection agency in New Jersey helps businesses to ease the financial process. However, from the business perspective, taking help of such external agencies might be good in the long run. At the same time, this also means that the business isputting its clients in the hands of a third party agency. So, care needs to be taken to choose the right business collection agency that can take care of the clients in the right way and get the work done at the same time. Apart from this reason, there are several other factors why organizations fall back on these agencies. Let us find out these factors:
Expert Tools – Business collection agencies have special tools that companies lack. These tools could be anything from workflow managers to software that provides the follow-up promises. The range of tools also includes the power dialer that helps in efficient dialing to get in touch with the clients quickly. The scope to report debts to the credit bureaus also becomes easier with the help of such tools.
Professional Skill Set – The professional skill set that collection agencies must have when it comes to dealing with clients is people management. Understanding human psychology, negotiating and taking the help of technology are what these agencies must do.
Better Brand Perception – A third party collection agency plays an important role in representing a business in front of its clients. It is the agency’s responsibility to uphold the brand perception of the company in the eyes of its clients while retrieving unpaid receivables. It is, therefore, essential to choose third party agencies who keep customer retention in mind.
Articulate Customer Care Reps – Customer Care Representatives should be well trained and should possess the right communication skills. Care needs to be taken that people belonging to these agencies are articulate enough to handle the clients properly.
In case your business has several outstanding invoices, then it makes sense to take the help of a business collection agency. They have the right expertise to bail you out of this situation and make sure that the monetary transactions are smooth sailing. Handling such clients can get difficult for organizations and regularly following up with them is also a tough task. | <urn:uuid:74b899ec-9b2c-4f21-8072-9294b4faad83> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.copicola.com/why-companies-need-business-collection-agencies/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570879.37/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809003642-20220809033642-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.965044 | 550 | 1.515625 | 2 |
The Faceoff—One member from each team lines up in the center of the field to win possession of the ball. A faceoff occurs at the beginning of each quarter and after every goal.
Substitution—Substitutions are made freely during the game, but players must switch through the substitution box.
Game Length—There are 4 quarters with a halftime break after the second quarter. The clock runs unless there is a timeout, or the referee signals for the time to stop.
Stick Checking—It is legal to check an opponent’s stick on the head or shaft.
Penalties/Man Down—If a player commits a penalty, he must kneel in the substitution box. Penalties can be 30 seconds, 1 minute, or longer. The team plays one man down for the duration of the penalty.
Play On—Similar to hockey, a penalty is delayed until the team committing the offense gains possession of the ball, the ball goes out of bounds, or a goal is scored.
Technical Fouls—Technical fouls are minor infractions resulting in a 30-second trip to the penalty box or a change of possession. Fouls include, crease violations, offsides, holding, and ward.
- Crease Violation—An offensive player cannot touch or enter the circle around the goal. If a player is shooting and steps in the crease, the goal will not count.
- Offsides—Offsides occurs when there are too many offensive or defensive players on a particular side of the field. There should never be more than six offensive players or seven defensive players (including the goalie) on the same half of the field.
- Holding—Holding is when one player keeps another player from getting to where he wants to go by using their arms, stick, or feet.
- Warding—An offense by using your arms to push another player away while in possession of the ball. However, a player may use their arm to shield the ball if he keeps it still.
Personal Fouls—Personal fouls are major infractions resulting in 1-3 minute trips to the penalty box. Violations can include illegal cross-check, slash, push, and illegal body check.
- Illegal Cross-Check—Contact made when a player has his hands spread apart on his stick and uses his shaft to push another player instead of using his hands.
- Slashing—Slashing occurs when a player swings his stick too violently and contacts his opponent. Any stick contact to the helmet, legs, or back is considered a slash.
- Push—A push with possession occurs when a player pushes a ball-carrying opponent in the back.
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The great thing about the internet is that there are plenty of opportunities for everyone. And, most of us have skills that can be put to good use online. So if you are looking for a way to make extra income there, here are some great ideas for you.
Small Business Social Media
Many small businesses often need someone to help run their social media. Although everyone could benefit from a professional, not everyone knows what to look for. Many small business owners don’t have the budget or the expertise, and their social media can often get left by the wayside. Offer your services at a great rate, and that can help you with the income and them with their business.
Fiverr is a great place to buy and sell skills. You can create a range of ‘gigs’ that people can browse. So if you are deeply skilled in editing photos, you can have a package that offers that skill for a set amount. It is easy to set up, and you can browse for jobs at your leisure.
This might not be a get rich quick scheme, but you can make money from blogging. Of course, you want content that delivers value to readers, but you can use those readers are to hook up affiliate links and adverts. This could give you a significant amount of passive income. It’s super easy to build, and with just a few hours of work for a week, you can start a slow and steady stream.
You don’t need to have a lot of money to be able to trade on stocks, share CFDs, peer-to-peer lending, and more. Spend some time researching platforms that can help you make smart trading decisions. Of course, you should never put in more than you can afford to lose, but in general, almost anyone can now make some income with stocks, shares, and investments.
The passive income from creating an e-book is not all that hard to come by. The commitment here is the time it takes you to make that e-book, But once you’ve got it written you can go ahead and self publish. There are a few platforms that you can self publish on, and every time it sells, you’ll earn some cash.
Much like Fivver, are you selling your skills online and pitch for work. You can create some quick by gigs, but the starting price for this is $50, and typically you’ll see people offering a lot less. You are competing with thousands of others, but you get a set amount of bid credits per month, and it doesn’t take long to find your first assignment.
If you enjoy writing, and you have something to say, you can help out other bloggers, become a ghostwriter, and even write for some well-known media outlets. You can check out platforms like Upwork, Fiverr, Freelancer, and even check out content provider services for work.
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BENEFITS OF POWDER COATING
Powder coating is a dry finishing process that has become extremely popular since its introduction to North America over 40 years ago. More and more companies specify powder coatings for a high-quality, durable finish, allowing for maximized production, improved efficiencies, and simplified environmental compliance.
Powder coatings are based on polymer resin systems, combined with curatives, pigments, leveling agents, flow modifiers, and other additives. These ingredients are melted, mixed, cooled, and ground into a uniform powder. A process called electrostatic spray deposition (ESD) is used at AP Coating to achieve the application of the powder coating to a metal substrate. This application method uses a spray gun, which applies an electrostatic charge to the powder particles, which are then attracted to the grounded part. After application of the powder coating, the parts enter a curing oven where, with the addition of heat, the coating chemically reacts to produce long molecular chains, resulting in high cross-link density. These molecular chains are very resistant to breakdown.
In addition to finishes, the powders are available in a variety of chemistries to maximize flexibility, improve edge coverage, affect material thickness or reduce the Faraday cage effect of using a static charge in the application. We work with our customers to identify the best powder for their product.
In order to guarantee the quality of our finishes, there are certain Quality Control methods we use to check the deliverable.
The thickness for the coating maintained is approximately from 50 to 100 microns or as per product requirement. (Digital Coating thickness measurement instrument used)
By adding weight to the coated object, it should withstand 3000 to 4000 grams. (1 to 5 kg. Pin type testing.) Adhesion test
Cross Cut hatch & Tape used.
Epoxy powder coatings exhibit inherent toughness, corrosion resistance, chemical resistance, flexibility, adhesion and abrasion resistance. For the most part, epoxy coatings are used as functional coatings for substrate protection where corrosion resistance, impact resistance, and adhesion are essential. The primary limitation of epoxy-based coatings is poor weather ability. Typical applications include industrial equipment, automotive underbody components, metal furniture and appliances.
Urethane powder coatings feature characteristics of excellent gloss retention and long-term resistance to humidity and corrosion in thin film applications.
Epoxy-Polyester hybrid powders are a widely used class of thermosetting powders in which the epoxy resin acts as a curing agent for the polyester resin. Depending on the choice of resins and their relative proportions, the properties of the hybrid will lie between those of the pure epoxy and the pure polyester. The presence of the epoxy resin leaves this type of resin susceptible to chalking on exterior exposure.
Polyester powder coatings feature characteristics of long-term exterior durability, high performance mechanical properties and overbake resistance. Polyester powder is widely used for decorative components where good resistance to the ultraviolet rays from sunlight is important. Many automotive trim components and other exterior components are coated with polyester powders.
This thermoplastic powder is amongst the most versatile and durable coatings available on the market today. This coating has superior resistance to sun, salt and sea water. Excellent impact and sand abrasion resistance and premium gloss appearance. Has a low temperature performance to -70°C, no requirement for a primer. Extensive Plascoat lab tests and real world use indicate working life of over 70 years.
Acrylic resins are typically used in the automotive industry as a clear coat on materials. Acrylic creates a smooth clear coat with very good clarity and provides a hard surface that is highly chip-resistant. Acrylic resins are used as additives to promote improved flow and leveling as well as enhanced stain and chemical resistance in polyester hybrid, polyester TGIC, and polyurethane powder coatings.
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FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
Is powder coating durable?
Yes. Powder coating is generally more durable than any other paint application. It provides better protection against rust, corrosion and resistance against the toughest conditions, keeping its original polished look. This is why powder coating is the main choice in the aerospace and marine industry.
There are many types of powder, each with its own strengths and weaknesses. Outdoor powders are meant to withstand rain, snow, heat, cold and ultraviolet rays. They can also provide enduring rust inhibiting qualities, thus protecting the parts intended look and feel. Indoor powders cater more to the conditions relating to indoor use. Chipping, scratching and every day wear and tear are no threat to indoor powders. They come in a variety of special mixtures, providing a custom balance between maximum durability and many unique textures looks. When deciding which powder is right for you, we take into account what we are powder coating and how it will be used.
What is your turnaround time?
This depends mostly on the size of the job but two weeks is our average turn around time. We generally don't do rush jobs since our emphasis is long-lasting quality, not speed. All orders are completed in the order they are received.
Does new steel need to be sandblasted?
We highly recommend sandblasting for any parts that will be exposed to the elements; that is any project that will have outdoor use. Otherwise, it will go through a thorough preparation process before it is coated.
Can you powder coat parts that have been previously treated? What about galvanized parts?
Yes. We can remove any old finish, dirt, rust and anything else that might be on the surface of the part until it is ready to re-coat. Once we sandblast the previous coating to bare metal, it becomes an excellent candidate for powder coating. Galvanized steel parts can be powder coated as well, at AP Coating we have completed a couple architectural projects with this process several years back, which remain in excellent conditions today.
Should I have my parts sandblasted before bringing them to you?
Although you can have your part sandblasted before you bring it to us, we do not recommend it. After a part is sandblasted it is bare and exposed to the elements. Any moisture in the air will cause your part to begin surface rusting. This may not be very noticeable to the naked eye, but the presence of this microscopic surface rust will compromise the adhesion of the powder. As a complimentary part of our service, we provide pick up and drop off service from our associated sandblasting vendors. This usually minimizes the time your bare part is exposed to the elements, and guarantees the best possible adhesion of the powder.
What about holes with threads and other areas that need to stay coating free?
We can mask/plug off areas that do not need to be powdered. We can also apply high temperature masking to special surfaces such as threads or high tolerance areas to keep them from being coated.
Can you do textures?
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An Afghan woman gave birth aboard an American evacuation plane moments after it landed at Ramstein Air Base in Germany, the U.S. Air Force said.
- The pilot‘s decision making helped the woman give birth
- The baby was born in the hold of the plane
- Mother and baby were in good condition
The woman gave birth to a baby girl in the hold of an Air Force C-17 plane on Saturday local time after giving birth and experiencing complications during the flight, the U.S. Air Mobility Command said on Twitter .
“The commander of the plane decided to descend to altitude to increase the atmospheric pressure in the plane, which helped stabilize and save the mother’s life,” the tweet said.
The woman was part of a group fleeing the Taliban in Afghanistan and was part of the second leg of an evacuation flight that took off from a base in the Middle East.
Both mother and baby were taken to a medical facility and were in good condition, according to the tweet.
Images released by the US military showed the mother lying on a stretcher being removed from the plane by US soldiers at the base in southwest Germany.
A week after the Taliban seized power in Afghanistan, operations to evacuate foreign countries continue under extreme conditions marked by scenes of panic and despair at Kabul airport.
Since August 14, about 17,000 people have been evacuated by the United States, including 2,500 Americans, the US government said.
A NATO official said at least 20 people had died in the past seven days in and around the airport. Some were shot and others died in stampede, witnesses said.
The United States has obtained the green light from Berlin for some of the evacuees to be directed to Germany, where they have a number of bases.
About 1,150 people landed at the base in Ramstein on Saturday, from where they are expected to depart for the United States in a few days, a spokesperson for the base said.
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At some point during your time in school, you sat in math class wondering, “when in real life will I ever need this information?”
If you have ever taken calculus, you probably don’t know how you will use these skills in the real world when you get older. However, studying calculus provides you with invaluable knowledge that you will need in many situations.
Keep reading to learn more about what is calculus and calculus benefits.
What Is Calculus?
Calculus is a type of mathematics. It focuses on rates of change.
Before it was invented, math was static. It could only be used for calculating objects that were completely still. However, since the universe constantly changes and moves, this wasn’t extremely accurate.
No objects are always in a state of rest.
The invention of calculus helped show how stars, matter, and particles change and move in real-time.
Increase Your Knowledge
One of the biggest calculus advantages seen when you learn this type of math is that you increase your knowledge. In fact, IQ tests have shown that learning calculus may be an extremely smart move to make.
In fact, studying calculus will help increase your math abilities more than any other mathematics course you may take.
While taking beginning calculus is a good start, you can enroll in courses that go up to advanced calculus. This is a good use of your time.
Improve Your Abilities in Physics and Engineering
Are you planning to study physics or engineering? If so, calculus is a subject you need to learn.
It will provide you with the mathematical foundation needed to understand and apply principles in these areas of study.
Learning this will also help you gain the needed skills for problem-solving and be beneficial for learning scientific concepts.
Grow Your Ability to Learn
When you start studying calculus, the lessons and application of this type of math will improve your overall learning abilities. Besides providing you with a strong mathematical foundation, it also sharpens your logical thinking skills.
Another benefit of learning calculus is that you will develop the ability to learn new principles and concepts efficiently and quickly.
Learn the Art of Persistence
There’s no question that calculus is perhaps the most challenging subject in the mathematics field. It requires hard work, time, and dedication to master.
Because of this, calculus will help you become a more persistent person. If you make it through and learn calculus, you will be able to make it through almost anything.
Now You Know the Importance of Calculus
As you can see from the information above, learning calculus provides more benefits than just a helpful math skill. As you learn this subject, you can find all types of calculus tips that will help you develop a deeper understanding of the subject.
If you have ever wondered – what is calculus – now you know. You also know why you should study it in school.
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There are increasing concerns retirees are not making informed decisions when choosing drawdown funds and could have high exposure to sequence risk, writes Stephanie Baxter.
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What 2 specific pieces of information did you gain from the O*NET site
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Explain how this assignment has assisted you in your future job search
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Give a description of the career (ex. This area of psychology is concerned with the scientific study of human learning. The study of learning processes etc………. Within this field and educational psychologist will examine behavior, performance and mental operations. It also refers to etc…….)
Where will you be able to be employed (ex. Schools, Training facilities, etc.) (1-3 should have solid depth to fully describe the intended career)
What education is required? (degree type, any continuing education, academies, training specifics, courses, pre-requisites etc…. solid depth to describe what type of education will be needed)
Identify a specific graduate school if your intended career needs graduate school and why you selected that school to further examine for attendance. If your career does not need graduate school explain how you will go about adjusting to intended career with regards to any stress for first time “real world job.”
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What is the growth outlook?
What would a day in the life of whatever career be like?
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Last year, I found out how fun it is to grow those weird, “ugly” varieties of gourds and pumpkins.
You know what I’m talking about – covered with weird colors, bumps, grooves and indentations.
I had a blast experimenting with different shapes, sizes, colors and textures.
However, if you’ve planted pumpkins and are expecting a more uniform harvest of round, orange fruits, you may be a little disappointed if your crop is riddled with imperfections like the ones described above.
Why does this happen?
Sure, your seed order may be mixed—and you may get warty “super freaks” instead of your traditional Connecticut field pumpkin.
If you notice that other telltale symptoms accompany these strange appearances, however, you may be dealing with an outbreak of pumpkin mosaic virus.
This is a disease that can devastate all types of cucumber plants, including cucumbers, squash and pumpkins. Here’s what you need to know about how to recognize, prevent, and treat it in your pumpkin patch.
What is Pumpkin Mosaic Virus?
There are a variety of pathogens that can cause mosaic virus in pumpkin plants, as is the case with other types of plants. Mosaic viruses are usually named after the plant in which they were first identified, but they are not specific to those plants.
For example, zucchini mosaic virus, also known as ZYMV, was first discovered in zucchini, but it can affect plants other than zucchini.
Mosaic viruses can affect all types of plants, including weeds. In fact, this is often how viruses make the leap to more desirable plants like pumpkins—they ride on the weeds in your garden first.
The only way to be sure if it’s pumpkin mosaic virus or another type of mosaic virus (or a different virus entirely) that’s affecting your crop is to send a sample to a lab for testing. However, this is not necessary, as the steps for treating a viral infection are the same regardless of which virus is affecting your plants.
Pumpkin mosaic virus is sometimes referred to as cucumber mosaic virus. It can also affect squash, melons, nightshade plants (such as tomatoes, eggplants, and potatoes), and leafy greens.
symptoms and signs
Pumpkin mosaic virus will cause many telltale symptoms in your plants. Most of these are apparent after your pumpkin is formed, but some symptoms can actually appear at any time.
The most obvious sign is pumpkins that are striped with yellow or green. They may be spotty or have areas that are discolored, bumpy, or warty. Pumpkins are sometimes stunted or never develop. You may also see a little rot.
Overall, plants affected by pumpkin mosaic virus have a very low yield. Plant growth often stops and flowers may be unusually shaped. Often, some leaves are puckered, twisted or shriveled. They may also have speckled colors.
It may actually be the most telling symptom of mosaic virus in many cases. The leaves will develop a color that resembles “mosaic,” alternating shades of yellow and green.
Finally, you may notice that the symptoms are more pronounced when there is a period of warm weather after the summer solstice. Some insects, such as aphids, can also accelerate the spread of pumpkin mosaic virus, so you may also notice these on or near your plants during an outbreak.
How to Prevent Pumpkin Mosaic Virus
Here are some tips for preventing pumpkin mosaic virus in your pumpkin patch. Although most of these are most effective when they are done before this Infections, they can also help reduce the rate of transmission once you have noticed the problem, too.
1. Reduce Aphids
Although pumpkin mosaic virus can spread in your patch in a number of ways, one of the most common vectors for this disease is aphids.
So, if you want to stop the virus, you have to get rid of the aphids. There are a few ways to keep aphids away from your plants.
One of the easiest, if you only have a few, is to blast them as you water your plants with a hose. You can drop them in a bucket of soapy water to kill them.
2. Rotate Crops
You probably already know that pumpkins and related plants, such as squash, grow best on sandy loam or silt loam soil with a pH of about 6-7. This can limit where you grow these crops in your garden, allowing you to choose the same planting site for your pumpkins from year to year.
However, it is important that you do not plant pumpkins and related plants, including cucumbers and squash, in the same location every year. This will reduce the chances of diseases such as pumpkin mosaic virus as well as various pests that target pumpkins by overwintering and repeatedly striking in the soil.
If you can, try a 3-4 year rotation.
Wait several years before returning to a given location. Ideally, if you’ve had a problem with pumpkin mosaic virus before, you should wait longer.
3. Weed regularly
Controlling weeds is essential to preventing pumpkin mosaic virus. Many types of weeds act as hosts for the disease.
Also, when aphids and other insects eat these plants, they will spread the virus to other plants in your garden.
So, mosaic virus can affect many plants besides just pumpkin. Because of this, it is important to control the spread of this disease before it becomes a major issue.
4. Keep the Garden Clean
To prevent the spread of disease (and limit your garden’s ability to attract pests), clean the garden during the growing season.
It is also important that you do this at the end of the growing season. Get rid of any plant matter or leftover fruit. Throw any diseased plants in the trash instead of composting them.
Keep your tools clean too. At all times, but especially if you are handling diseased plants, be sure to wear gloves or diligently wash your hands between tasks.
To make sure you are not inadvertently spreading pumpkin mosaic virus from one plant to another, disinfect your equipment with a sterile bleach solution.
5. Buy Clean Seeds
This virus can also spread through seeds. Buy clean seeds only from a reputable supplier. If you save your own seeds for use next year, do not collect or save seeds from infected plants.
If you’re not sure of the quality of the seeds you buy, soak them in a 10% bleach solution before planting. This will help rid the seeds of any potential pathogens before they go into the ground.
6. Plant resistant cultivation
Not all types of plants have varieties that are resistant to mosaic virus. For example, tomatoes are not very resistant to this disease.
However, if you are growing pumpkins you are in luck because many types of pumpkin have good natural resistance to this disease. Some of the best to consider are the Wizard, Corvette and Orange Bulldog.
Pumpkin mosaic virus treatment
There are not many treatments that can reliably get rid of pumpkin mosaic virus. There are no insecticides or other treatments that can reverse the symptoms of a viral infection, so making sure you have a good prevention system in place is the best way to control the disease.
If you see plants with pumpkin mosaic virus, remove them from the garden and destroy them. This can be hard to do, especially when you consider how much work you put into growing them, but it is necessary to prevent spread to other plants.
Do not fertilize these infected plants. Viruses can live for a long time even in warm compost. Burn the plants or throw them in the dustbin.
Keep a close eye on the rest of your plants, especially those that were growing close to infected plants. With any luck, the virus may have only affected a few plants – and you can continue with the growing season as usual.
In the future, be sure to take steps to prevent pumpkin mosaic virus and similar diseases. Although eradicating this disease can be difficult, it is quite easy to prevent it completely!
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In just four days of July, cities in Alagoas have already reached the average rainfall for the whole month. “It was 300 millimeters, it’s impressive,” said Climatempo meteorologist Maria Clara Sassaki to CNN Radio.
At the same two people died in the state until last Sunday (3) as a result of strong storms. Nearly 40,000 people are homeless or displaced.
“In the coming days, the main highlight is for Alagoas, Pernambuco, Paraíba and Rio Grande do Norte, these are the regions that most worry, because the rain will be persistent”, explained the meteorologist.
According to her, this is the wettest period for the Northeast, however, “the phenomenon that makes the instabilities stronger is more accentuated, it has caused more rains because of the warmer waters of the ocean.”
Maria Clara said that the rains should persist until August: “For the next 30 days it should fluctuate between strong and weak on the northeast coast, from the Bahian Recôncavo to Rio Grande do Norte.”
Rio Grande do Sul will also have rain, as of Thursday (7): “Overall, it is a moderate intensity rain, which ends up worrying producers, a wheat producing region in the planting phase.”
Other areas of Brazil should have drier weather, such as the Midwest, Southeast, interior of the Northeast, with “firmer weather and low relative humidity”, which is typical for winter.
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