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Ten million people — more than a quarter of the population — have fled their homes in Ukraine due to Russia’s “devastating” war, says the United Nations refugees chief.
“Among the responsibilities of those who wage war, everywhere in the world, is the suffering inflicted on civilians who are forced to flee their homes,” says UNHCR chief Filippo Grandi. “The war in Ukraine is so devastating that 10 million have fled either displaced inside the country, or as refugees abroad.”
UNHCR, the UN refugee agency, says that 3,389,044 Ukrainians had left the country since the Russian invasion began on February 24, with another 60,352 joining the exodus since Saturday’s update — a flow roughly the same as the day before.
Some 90% of those who have fled are women and children. Ukrainian men aged 18 to 60 are eligible for military call-up and cannot leave. | <urn:uuid:fe9a15ff-1426-4903-9ca6-b25d672355d6> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry/un-says-10-million-people-have-fled-their-homes-in-ukraine-since-wars-start/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570879.37/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809003642-20220809033642-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.971066 | 195 | 2.328125 | 2 |
Mark your calendar for our summer playdates to welcome rising Kindergarteners to Innovation! Held at our school playground, these playdates are a casual opportunity to meet fellow classmates and parents before school begins.
APS’s Department of Teaching and Learning has compiled summer resources for families to access so children can continue learning during the summer months.
To order school supplies for the 2022-23 school year, Innovation offers the EduKit program as a convenient option for families.
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Monsanto and Sapphire Energy to collaborate to advance yield and stress research; Monsanto taking equity stake in Sapphire
Monsanto Company and Sapphire Energy, Inc., which applies synthetic biology to produce drop-in replacement fuels such as gasoline, diesel, and jet fuel from algae, will enter a multi-year collaboration that will leverage Sapphire’s algae-based research platform to discover genes that could be applied to agriculture, particularly in the field of yield and stress.
Under the agreement, Monsanto and Sapphire will collaborate on algae-based research projects, and Monsanto will make an equity investment in Sapphire. Other terms of the agreement were not disclosed.
The collaboration will enable Monsanto to tap Sapphire’s algal expertise and research tools, which can be used to screen for promising traits in algae that might have applicability in modern agriculture. For Sapphire, this collaboration will push the known boundaries of algal science to search not only for traits that will impact traditional agricultural crops, but will also accelerate Sapphire’s road to commercializing algae as a renewable energy crop.
The collaboration will focus on identifying genes that positively affect growth in algae, a target for Sapphire, which might increase crop yields as well.
Sapphire’s expertise in algal research offers a novel platform that will allow us to screen and identify promising genes faster. We face a common goal in looking for ways to improve upon an organism’s ability to achieve greater productivity under optimal and sub-optimal environmental conditions. Together with Sapphire, we can identify genes affecting such traits in algae that might also be applied to corn, cotton, soybeans and other crops.—Robb Fraley, Monsanto’s chief technology officer
Algae are an excellent discovery tool because they have a similar photosynthetic process to other plants but are simple and efficient to work with, Fraley said. Algae also can be grown, screened, tested and selected with high throughput tools, which enables a relatively fast process for researchers. | <urn:uuid:2eec838e-fae5-4256-bcb4-9ce6b1320c3e> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.greencarcongress.com/2011/03/monsanto-20110308.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570692.22/warc/CC-MAIN-20220807181008-20220807211008-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.921981 | 402 | 2.15625 | 2 |
The space around ADS-B antenna contain not only 1090 MHz signals, but also lot of other signals at different frequencies. The closer the frequency of a signal to 1090 MHz, your ADS-B antenna picks it stronger. For example if there are three signals of equal strength, one at 144 MHz, 2nd at 850 MHz and 3rd at 950 MHz, the ADS-B antenna will pick 950 MHz one the strongest, 850 MHz one a bit less stronger, and 144 MHz one much fainter.
As the Cell/Mobile/Pager signals exist in the range 850 MHz to 1200 MHz, these are picked strongly by ADS-B antenna and this mixture is fed to the receiver, overloading its front end tuner. To overcome this situation, a hardware called “Filter” is used. As its name shows, it filters out unwanted signals and passes a narrow band of frequency say 1075 MHz to 1150 MHz, blocking most Cell/Mobile/Pager signals from reaching the receiver.
In order to determine if a filter is needed or not, it is necessary to scan frequencies in the range 800 MHz to 1200 MHz. If the scan shows very few and weak interfering signals, adding a filter will not give any appreciable improvement. On the other hand if the scan shows a lot of strong interfering frequencies, adding a filter will give substantial improvement in ADS-B 1090 MHz reception.
Software developers have developed softwares which use (DVB-T+ADS-B Antenna) to perform this scan. There are following two ways it can be done. Please click the options below to see the details.
DVB-T is plugged into Raspberry Pi (or is plugged into a Desktop/Laptop running Linux Debian/Ubuntu)
DVB-T is plugged into a Windows Computer. Using GUI software rtlplan.exe
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Premia, the last town in the Antigorio Valley, near the Formazza Valley, today is famous for its modern and highly-regarded spa, inaugurated in 2008 at Cadarese.
The waters of the PremiaTerme gush out of the spring at 44°C and are classed as calcic sulphate hyperthermal: the spa establishment is an authentic jewel in the crown of the Ossola Valley, for a revitalising and absolutely relaxing holiday. Premia Terme offers a range of facilities from thermal baths to a wellness centre, beauty treatments and specific medical care for particular diseases.
Yet Premia, besides hosting the fascinating Mineralogical Museum, is also linked to highly-prized pottery that still today is made using centuries-old original designs. The first records of this craft tradition date from 1808, when the parish priest of Premia founded the Antica Fabbrica di Ceramica. The material was extracted along the River Alfenza, in the nearby hamlet of Viceno, in the municipality of Crodo. The unmistakable style of this pottery, made in the factory in Premia up to the end of 1862, is now protected and promoted by a small craft production in operation since 1978, which preserves all its beauty and simplicity.
The two highest hamlets of Premia are well worth visiting. These are two jewels of typical Walser architecture, the villages of Salecchio Inferiore (1320 m) and Salecchio Superiore (1509 m): they are ancient colonies founded in the 13th century by German people who arrived from the Canton of Valais in Switzerland. Isolation and territorial marginality led the population to leave the village in 1966: a fact which has allowed the total preservation of the original settlements, so that these two hamlets remain as two of the most delightful architectural pearls in the whole alpine chain. | <urn:uuid:402f4038-5b4c-4386-b2f3-5a98d94a06f8> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.visitossola.it/en/poi/premia/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573104.24/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817183340-20220817213340-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.948899 | 393 | 1.59375 | 2 |
The report presents a model to calculate the costs for two medical conditions: hypertension and prenatal care. FRA applied the model to three EU Member States: Germany, Greece and Sweden. Although results must be interpreted with caution, the testing shows that providing access to regular preventive healthcare for migrants in an irregular situation would be cost-saving for healthcare systems. Treating a condition only when it becomes an emergency not only endangers the health of a patient, but also results in a greater economic burden to healthcare systems. See the report (pdf)
The right to health is a basic social right. However, its understanding and application differs across the European Union (EU) Member States, which results in different healthcare services being offered to migrants in an irregular situation. This summary looks into the potential costs of providing migrants in an irregular situation with timely access to health screening and treatment, compared to providing medical treatment only in emergency cases. | <urn:uuid:c3b6dd53-9624-455a-8637-fe750d8b7345> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://kisa.org.cy/cost-of-exclusion-from-healthcare-the-case-of-migrants-in-an-irregular-situation/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571150.88/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810070501-20220810100501-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.957835 | 183 | 2.359375 | 2 |
Join us and our Feed the Planet partners for a 10-day digital Food Heroes Challenge to inspire a more sustainable lifestyle. We’re kicking off with a LIVE World’s Largest Lesson, Friday July 17th! Are you in?
Start the Challenge with a Food Heroes virtual lesson!
The curriculum covers:
- Food choices and environmental impact
- Reducing carbon footprint
- Food waste management
- Planetary Diet
Register for a session at aies.ec/wll2020.
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Join us and #feedtheplanet partners for a LIVE World’s Largest Lesson! Starting this Friday the 17th of July, we will be kicking off a 10 days Food Heroes Challenge to inspire a more sustainable lifestyle. Are you in? Link in bio 💚 #foodheroes #feedtheplanet #electroluxfoodfoundation
The Food Heroes Challenge a Feed the Planet program. Feed the Planet is an initiative to inspire sustainable food consumption among communities and professionals, and to support people in need through emergency relief, food poverty alleviation, and education. Founded by Worldchefs, it is run in partnership with Electrolux Food Foudnation and AIESEC.
In 2016 our three partners joined forces and expertise to make a change for the better. Since then, AIESEC, Electrolux Food Foundation and Worldchefs have been working to make people aware and engaged on sustainable eating habits.
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The current exhibition ‘While I Sleep‘ of Shilpa Gupta, a young indian artist known for her multi-layered works, seems to draw from an interesting field and ambitious sources.
Shilpta Gupta generally is know for her open minded usage of media, which attempts to put the content into a relevant relation. Gupta not only targets traditional net art audiences with works like blessed-bandwidth.net (texts about this work also here and here), Sentiment-Express.com (2001) and Diamonds and You.com (2000), but rather is interested to attract a larger audience.
For her latest project regarding our perception and conciousness about it she got interested into the research work of Mahzarin Banaji – Psychologist and Professor at Harvard University. To get an idea about the research side of the work it might be interesting to look up the following link of the implicit project: Exploring the Unconcious (start the demo page).
|“While I Sleep is an about the multi-layered alterations that take place in human perception when there is a drop in consciousness of ones self, or our collective vision. As Prof Banaji says, ‘There is a fundamental fracture between what is in our heads and what we know about it’.|
|Having always been concerned with ‘what we see’ and ‘how we see’ am also interested in misunderstandings and structures via which information gets transacted – especially in a highly mediated landscape as the world today, especially in an atmosphere where at one hand we seek to collapse distances rapidly, where as the other, there has been a simultaneous rise of suspicion and heightened security.
A large part of the human action operates via the sub conscious, some physiologists claim up to 90%! And so in a seemingly largely seemingly democratic world where nation states have set progressive constitutions in place, pledging equality to all irrespective of gender, race and religion, people continue to harbor values of difference governed by deep rooted prejudices which dangerously be in fact be quite invisible even to ourselves (Banaji)
The exhibition explores these gaps in consciousness be it in the individual or the nation state where desire blinds itself metamorphosing into desperate greed, curtailing the natural movement of people socially, politically and economically.” | <urn:uuid:f760ff13-78e0-4050-8995-700d2159a685> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.mindgap.org/2009/02/while-i-sleep/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570879.37/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809003642-20220809033642-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.936097 | 479 | 1.875 | 2 |
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Visa Inc and MasterCard Inc, the world's two largest payment networks, have formed a new cross-industry group to improve payment system security following a number of high-profile data breaches.
The new group, which will include banks, credit unions, retailers and industry trade groups, will initially focus on the adoption of the safer 'EMV' chip technology in the United States, MasterCard and Visa said on Friday.
EMV chip technology, already used in Europe and Asia, stores information on computer chips rather than on traditional magnetic strips. EMV stands for Europay, MasterCard and Visa, the companies that launched the technology.
The move follows several data breaches at U.S. retailers, including one at Target Corp late last year involving the theft of about 40 million credit and debit card records.
"We remain insistent that U.S. retailers' customers be given the same protections as consumers in more than 80 countries who have both a chip and a PIN securing their credit and debit cards," National Retail Federation General Counsel Mallory Duncan said in a statement.
MasterCard and Visa had already set a deadline of October 2015 for U.S. retailers to adopt the new payment technology.
But banks and retailers have been dragging their feet over the required upgrade, at odds over who should bear the cost, which experts say could be as much as $10 billion.
Target said last month it was accelerating a $100 million program to implement the use of chip-enabled smart cards to protect against cyber threat, with a goal to have the technology in place by early 2015.
EMV cards are harder to counterfeit and better protect sensitive data through encryption.
They can also require users to enter a personal identification number, or PIN, to make purchases, adding an extra layer of security.
"The recent high-profile breaches have served as a catalyst for much needed collaboration between the retail and financial services industry on the issue of payment security," Visa President Ryan McInerney said in the statement. | <urn:uuid:ab8c8c99-c44e-4906-b057-c4647db7a1c4> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.thegazette.com/2014/03/07/mastercard-visa-form-group-to-enhance-payment-security/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570879.37/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809003642-20220809033642-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.958723 | 427 | 1.71875 | 2 |
“Sometimes, you just have to clear your head and get out to see other things. It is very important to be nourished. I love to go to museums and galleries – anything creative. It doesn’t promise you inspiration, but it nourishes your creative soul”
– Marc Jacobs
Chronicling our History
Come on down to the Lewis County Historical Museum, located in the historic 1912 Northern Pacific Railway depot. We offer exciting hands-on displays depicting the early settlements and pioneer life in Lewis County, the oldest county in Washington State. Explore exhibits reflecting the area’s logging and rail history as well as a children’s hands-on area. Come see our rotating display’s every quarter that feature a unique aspect of Lewis County history! | <urn:uuid:c3cb5546-c4d7-44ee-a42e-c68550802658> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.lewiscountymuseum.org/exhibits/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570879.37/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809003642-20220809033642-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.939946 | 163 | 1.617188 | 2 |
It’s often said that Fantasy abounds with unrealistically heroic heroes and that it overstates the capacity for the individual to shape History.
If that were true, I’m not sure it would be a Bad Thing, as long as victory is properly earned, since you can read the stories as allegory for more mundane real life and since the main function of most speculative fiction is escapism, anyway.
However, I would argue that the Fantasy heroes are in fact realistic, both in their powers and their influence, as long as we bear in mind that the protagonists of Fiction, like Biography, do not have to be statistically representative and that narrative favors the survivors.
For a start, it is very easy to underestimate the disproportionate capacity for violence shared by some individuals.
Studies suggest that something like 95% of pre-modern combatants have a sort of safety catch preventing them from specifically setting out to kill an individual. Something biological seems to translate war into primal dominance displays. We feel happy blazing away in the general direction of the enemy, or shouting and shoving in a phalanx fight — the equivalent of monkeys throwing poo — but not walking up to a person and putting a blade through their face.
In the 1400s, marooned on the prow of a Moorish vessel due to an elastic collision (See? I could write Hard SF!), Don Pero Nino simply fought on until his own ship battled free and came to his rescue. The life of Sir William the Marshal, who flourished either side of 1200, is littered with one-against-many battles, including an episode in his 50s when he single-handedly stormed a castle, took out six spearmen, and felled the much younger castellan, who thought himself a contender. And modern warfare is full of gunners who stay at their posts and account for tank after tank or small groups of men who hold out against greater numbers, if not the odds.
Do these men shape history with their deeds, or are their sagas merely sterile tales of glamorized murder?
At the Siege of Lincoln, the aged Marshal led from the front and carved his way to the French commander. It’s arguable that the old guy’s prowess alone turned the battle and that even if it didn’t, then his example certainly did. The battle decided the fate of the Plantagenet dynasty and turned back French influence. So in this case at least, a Great Man shaped history by the strength of his right hand.
King Richard III famously tried to end Bosworth by decapitating — literally — the Tudor forces. Bodyguard streaming behind him, he thundered down Albion Hill to strike the enemy flank, hacking down named individuals, including the standard bearer, and was slain just short of his target, so failing to displace Robert Bruce from the position of Striker of the Coolest Axe Blow in History. That battle determined dynasty, religion, and ultimately political culture for the next few hundred years. Then there’s King Robert de Bruce and his deeds of chivalry….
People really did this stuff.
Stepping away from men of the sword, we have the real world analogue of the magicians: the intellectuals, the inventors, and the campaigners. I suspect that, like killers, these people are in the minority. They shape History by determining its cultural and physical context. You can argue that the Adams, the Telfords, and the Nightingales were men and women of their time, but — ultimately — they were still men and women. If they relied on other people to do much of the work, they still led them.
Of course, when you shape history, the results may vary. Alfred Nobel…
….expressed his wish to produce material or a machine which would have such a devastating effect that war from then on, would be impossible…. “Perhaps my factories will put an end to war….: on the day that two army corps can mutually annihilate each other in a second, all civilised nations will surely recoil with horror and disband their troops.” (source)
But then we’re still here now. When one Great Person saws too much off History’s table leg, there are always more people ready to step up with saws and beer mats…
M Harold Page (www.mharoldpage.com) is a Scottish-based writer and swordsman. His debut novel The Sword is Mightier came out last month. His Foreworld SideQuest, Marshal versus The Assassins is available on Amazon for preorder. | <urn:uuid:1c171958-ccff-4b91-ac38-d08738aad2ae> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://blackgate.com/2013/10/16/in-defense-of-fantasy-heroes/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571150.88/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810070501-20220810100501-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.96566 | 945 | 2.046875 | 2 |
LITTLE ROCK — In the digital age, navigating online dating websites and apps can feel like a minefield, especially as romance scams have become more prevalent.
According to the Federal Trade Commission, people have reported losing more than $1 billion to romance scams in the last five years. These scams occur when a criminal uses a fake online identity to gain a victim’s affection, then uses this trust to defraud the victim.
Brittney Schrick, extension assistant professor and family life specialist for the University of Arkansas System Division of Agriculture, said going into online dating “with your eyes open” is key to avoiding falling victim to one of these hoaxes.
“There are people who do this with nefarious intent, they go into it with a purpose of hurting others,” Schrick said. “Regardless of what your intentions are, you can’t always assume that others’ intentions are true.”
As a rule, people using dating websites, such as Match.com, or one of the many dating apps available, as well as other social media platforms, should never wire money to a person they’ve only recently met on the service.
Schrick said it’s important to beware of early requests to meet or quickly escalating feelings, such as starting the conversation with talk of love or marriage. This can often lead to requests for money or support, such as “I’d really love to come see you, but I’m broke. Could you buy my plane ticket?”
“Quick escalation tends to be a huge red flag,” Schrick said. “People don’t want to waste a lot of time with someone who’s not an easy mark, so they’re not going to stay in a conversation.”
If the person gets quickly irritated or asks the same question repeatedly in search of a different answer, that would “typically be a sign of somebody who does not have a real relationship in mind,” Schrick said.
Other red flags include messages riddled with spelling or grammar errors, as well as unsolicited intimate pictures. Schrick also recommended searching a person’s name on Facebook or Google and doing a reverse Google image search using a picture from the account a user is interacting with.
“If the account is who they say they are, it should just go to search results that feature their name,” Schrick said. “But maybe they’ve cloned a profile of someone else, or they just found a random picture on Instagram or Google and created a profile. If the image shows up all over the place with lots of different names and locations, you should be able to figure out, ‘oh, this is not who I thought it was.’”
Getting to know you, safely
While it’s necessary to use caution when interacting with people on dating platforms, it’s also important to be aware of one’s own expectations and desired outcomes.
“I think it’s important to ask yourself: are you looking for a life partner? Or are you lonely and looking for someone to go to dinner with sometimes?” Schrick said. “Are you open to dating someone who is younger than you, or older than you? Are you open to dating someone who is divorced, or who has children? Because you’re going to go into interactions with somebody differently based on what you’re really looking for.”
Avoid sharing personal details while online dating, such as place of employment, neighborhood, number of children or their school and other identifying information. Schrick said that “keeping it broad” while discussing hobbies, interests and life structure can help determine compatibility.
“If you have a hobby that’s really important to you, maybe casually mention ‘I can’t wait to see the basketball game,’ or ‘it’s getting to be that time to start my garden and I can’t wait,’” Schrick said. “Mentioning that you have grandchildren or that you have children in a broader sense might be a good early conversation to have, because if you’re talking to someone who has no interest in being around children or grandchildren, you probably ought to find that out early on.”
Ready to meet in person?
When it comes to meeting in person, Schrick said to prioritize safety:
- Meet in a neutral location. Rather than meeting at someone’s home, a public, well-lit meeting place is best.
- Tell someone about the date and its location. Schrick recommended enabling the “share my location” feature on a smartphone and sharing that with a trusted friend or family member or telling them where the date is taking place.
- Don’t rely on someone else for transportation. “If you can get there yourself, rather than being picked up, that’s obviously a better plan because then you can leave whenever you feel compelled to leave, as opposed to being at the mercy of the other person,” Schrick said.
- Avoid becoming intoxicated. Early in a relationship, it’s a good idea to avoid getting intoxicated with “somebody you don’t have a reason to trust yet,” Schrick said. “And if you ever feel like you’re more intoxicated than you should be, based on how much you’ve taken in, contact someone and let them know that something’s wrong, even if it’s a bartender or waiter.”
- Plan to pay for yourself. “As ridiculous as it is, especially for women, there is often an expectation of reciprocation, if your date paid for you,” Schrick said. “If someone insists on paying for drinks, or dinner, or an outing, keep in mind, how did they insist? If you tried to pay and they got really irritated, that might be a red flag.”
- Start with a short meeting. To put less pressure on the interaction, it can help to start with lunch or day-time date where both parties have something to do afterward, rather than “going straight for an evening date where you’re expected to spend hours together,” Schrick said.
- Have an escape plan. Schrick said this could be the “super sitcom-y and old fashioned” way of having a friend call halfway through the date with an emergency, or “just be super honest and say, ‘you know what, I don’t see this going anywhere, and I really appreciate you meeting me, but I think we probably ought to just call it a night.’”
Take a break
For people who have spent many months – or years – online dating to no avail, their efforts can feel fruitless and exhausting.
“Taking a break is honestly the best thing you could do for yourself,” Schrick said. Deleting the apps or taking time away from dating websites can be refreshing and relieve both self-inflicted and cultural pressures to “find the one.”
Schrick also said that for young women, this pressure can feel particularly acute, especially when compounded by one’s family environment and life goals.
“To some degree, especially for younger women, I think it can feel very urgent. And it’s not,” Schrick said. “Going into any of these online dating conversations from a place of ‘all these people are terrible, so I guess I’ll just pick the least terrible one,’ that’s going to get you in a potential for a really damaging relationship.”
After taking a break from online dating, Schrick said she recommends trying to meet someone the old-fashioned way: in person.
“If you’re still really interested in trying to date, especially now that COVID restrictions have been largely lifted, try to get back out there in person,” Schrick said. “Go somewhere new. Try a different restaurant or try a new hobby, do something more in the old-fashioned vein to give yourself more of a break.”
Pew Research Center 2019 survey on online dating: https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2020/02/06/10-facts-about-americans-and-online-dating/
Federal Trade Commission data spotlight on romance scams: https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/data-visualizations/data-spotlight/2022/02/reports-romance-scams-hit-record-highs-2021 Federal Trade Commission guide to romance scams: https://consumer.ftc.gov/articles/what-you-need-know-about-romance-scams | <urn:uuid:3d580a85-9f98-4123-ba41-4304adaee643> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://newsbadshah.com/how-to-avoid-romance-scams-while-online-dating/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570879.37/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809003642-20220809033642-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.952306 | 1,873 | 2.09375 | 2 |
Paper No. 13-1
Presentation Time: 8:05 AM
COMPRESSION IN MULTIPLE REGIMES: STUDIES OF COPPER AND MGO (Invited Presentation)
Geoscience problems, from meteorite impacts to exoplanet interiors, require study of timescales that span orders of magnitude. However, the shock and static experiments required to examine these processes occur over limited timescales, strain-rates, and temperatures compared to natural systems. The effects of kinetics and strain-rate are relatively unconstrained. It is therefore important to understand their effects during the experiments used to determine phase diagrams and equation of state models. For exoplanetary systems and the deep Earth, temperature, kinetics and strain-rate studies are important because rheological properties, such as viscosity, are dependent on phase identities and deformation mechanisms. In this presentation, I will discuss high pressure deformation and phase relations in copper and MgO across compression regimes. In copper, we study the face-centered cubic (fcc) to body centered cubic (bcc) phase transition using two techniques, computational modeling and through in situ X-ray diffraction during shock experiments. Two types of thermodynamic integration models are utilized. We completed the series of laser shock experiments using the Dynamic Compression Sector at Argonne National Laboratory. Using texture analysis, the orientation relationship between the fcc and bcc phases is analyzed and found to be indicative a martensitic phase transition via the Pitsch distortion. To examine MgO, we completed ramp compression experiments with in situ X-ray diffraction at the OMEGA Laser Facility at University of Rochester Laboratory for Laser Energetics. We study the effect of temperature on the B1-B2 transition. We compare our ramp experiments to shock data collected along the Hugoniot and find differences in texture. These studies allow us to more accurately examine geological events with timescales from microseconds to billions of years. | <urn:uuid:642541c5-ea40-4f37-819e-d9ee304155fd> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://gsa.confex.com/gsa/2021AM/webprogram/Paper371253.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570692.22/warc/CC-MAIN-20220807181008-20220807211008-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.908526 | 406 | 1.710938 | 2 |
2nd World Bank President, March 17, 1947 - June 30, 1949
During his tenure, the Bank started to borrow in the capital market; it defined its basic policies and operational procedures; made its first loans for reconstruction and for development; filled out its management team; and doubled its staff to 400. Most importantly, it settled the issue of the division of responsibilities between the president and the board of executive directors - an issue that had plagued the presidency of Eugene Meyer.
John Jay McCloy was born in 1895 in Philadelphia. He attended Harvard University (interrupted by a two year stint in the army), and practiced law in New York and Europe for the next twenty years. McCloy was a conservative Republican, but affiliated with the internationalist wing of the party, which was more interested in foreign affairs and focused primarily on the U.S. role in the international order.
Immediately preceding the U.S. entry into World War II, McCloy moved to Washington to work with Henry L. Stimson, the U.S. Secretary of War. McCloy was soon appointed Assistant Secretary of War. McCloy played a key role in mobilizing the U.S. economy for war. He was involved and participated in most of the key decisions of the war, including the development and use of the atom bomb and occupation policy in Europe and Japan. By the time McCloy came to the World Bank, he had already acquired an immense reputation as a lawyer, wartime manager, and adviser, with close ties to many of the most powerful men in the country.
In 1947 McCloy accepted President Truman's offer to be high commissioner for occupied Germany. However, he insisted that the Bank have a capable leader before he left, and suggested that his close friend and associate Eugene Black succeed him. In his pre-Bank career McCloy had been a key decision maker in the shaping of many of the country's foreign and military decisions. In fact, McCloy's time at the Bank was only a small part of an important and illustrious career in public service.
Selection as President
The Truman administration had difficulty finding a suitable successor to Eugene Meyer. The Bank at that time was viewed with skepticism, if not outright hostility, by the conservative banking and insurance communities, which regarded it as a product of liberal, financially unsound, welfare thinking. In addition, the Bank's executive directors were becoming increasingly uneasy over the fact that the Bank presidency and vice presidency had been vacant for a number of months.
McCloy was probably first approached by Eugene Meyer and Chester McLain (the Bank's general counsel), and by Eugene Black (then vice president of the Chase National Bank, and soon to become the U.S. executive director for the Bank, and then Bank president). All three urged that he insist on appropriate executive authority before accepting the position. McCloy met with the executive directors and presented a list of conditions that would have to be in place before he accepted the position. After a series of meetings, the executive directors voted to approve McCloy's nomination. Eugene Black was appointed U.S. executive director, and Robert L. Garner was appointed vice president of the Bank on the same day, March 17, 1947.
Decision on Executive Authority
One of McCloy's chief contributions to the Bank was his settlement of the question of whether executive authority would be in the hands of the president or the executive directors. Based on McCloy's negotiations with the board of executive directors, the Board's Committee on Organization formalized the division of responsibility between president and board of executive directors in June 1947. The executive directors were responsible for policy decisions; however, the recommendations for the policy must come from the management. The Board was to be kept generally informed of the progress of the Bank's operational work; management would decide whether a loan application was to be pursued and would determine the framework for negotiations.
Defining Loan Policies
There was some public perception of the inaction of the Bank at the time McCloy was appointed. The Bank had received a number of loan applications from European and developing countries, and McCloy's arrival gave the necessary momentum to the negotiations. Thus on May 7, 1947 - six weeks after McCloy's arrival - the Bank's first loan was made to the Credit National, a semipublic French corporation, for postwar reconstruction. This loan, the very first, deviated from what was to be the standard pattern for loans: it was not for a specific project, but rather a general purpose loan, covering almost every sphere of activity in industrial life.
The first loan helped establish some of the Bank's most important policies, including the interest rate to be charged, the security the Bank might require, and the Bank's control over the use of the funds it provided. After much discussion it was decided that the same interest rate would apply to all loans granted at any given time, because it would be difficult and inappropriate to have different conditions for different countries. It was realized that real collateral could not be obtained due to the nature of the borrowing countries' assets. Instead, the security sought by the Bank was the pledge of the member country's full faith and credit and the promise that no future creditor would take precedence in repayment over Bank loans. This was the so-called negative pledge. And finally, rigorous supervision and careful control over the disbursement of funds and the verification of their actual use for the agreed purposes became standard procedure for Bank loans.
He felt strongly that the views of the U.S. investor must be considered, and that the Bank must conduct its business in a manner that would be considered a sound business risk; that earning the trust of the financial community took precedence over meeting the wishes of the member governments.
McCloy knew that demonstrating the soundness of the Bank's performance would provide the best assurance for investors. Determining the creditworthiness of the Bank's borrowers was thus a primary concern. The earliest determination on creditworthiness came down to a country's behavioral characteristics, reputation, and its demonstrated willingness to settle outstanding claims. McCloy used the latter argument to persuade borrowing countries to make arrangements to settle their outstanding debts so that they would become eligible to borrow money from the Bank. Despite objections from debtor countries and the U.S. administration, McCloy was adamant, and the principle that the Bank would not lend to any country which had defaulted on its debts without at least a bona fide effort to settle became firmly established.
The Bank's first bond issue occurred early in McCloy's tenure. McCloy spent much time and effort, calling on his extensive networks of contacts in the financial community. The bonds, issued in July 1947, were heavily oversubscribed and were a complete success. The financial press commented in admiring terms on the shrewd judgment reflected in this efficient operation.
McCloy (and Black) wanted to demonstrate that the Bank was autonomous, free from political interference, and run according to sound financial and organizational principles. The establishment of the executive autonomy of the president, the emphasis that investment decisions would be made on economic rather than political grounds, and the close link between the president and the U.S. executive director were important factors in bolstering the confidence of the U.S. securities market.
From Reconstruction Loans to Development Loans
During McCloy's tenure, the Bank loaned about $650 million, the bulk of which were for postwar reconstruction in Europe. McCloy was aware that the Bank was required to distribute its lending equitably between reconstruction and development, and he faced pressure from executive directors and from developing countries to extend lending into the development field. Also some critics felt that the Bank was lending too little and too slowly.
The first development loan was made to Chile in March, 1948. By the time McCloy left, the Bank had made five development loans (Mexico electric power, Chile agricultural machinery, Chile power and irrigation, Brazil power and telephone) and five more were signed within six months of his departure.
Political and Economic Factors in the Bank's Decisions
From the outset there was much concern about the role of political considerations in the Bank's lending decisions. The discussions at Bretton Woods had dwelt on the importance of insulating the lending decisions of the Bank from politics and ideology. McCloy realized that the Bank did not operate in a political vacuum and that the line between politics and economics was not sharply delineated. His philosophy was that the Bank would not make loans to accomplish political objectives, but it could refuse to make loans where the political uncertainties were so great as to make the loan economically unsound.
However, the Bank's largest shareholder - the U.S. - held considerable influence, and political considerations were a factor in the Bank's handling of a loan application from Poland. McCloy agonized over whether to lend to a country behind the Iron Curtain, and he sought advice from Wall Street. The recommendations said that while it was important to consider how loans to Poland or Czechoslovakia could affect the credit of the Bank, it would be disastrous if McCloy were to consider the Iron Curtain an impenetrable barrier. The Bank subsequently entered into negotiations with Poland. It soon became obvious that the U.S. would not support the loan proposal. McCloy and Vice President Garner, in effect, withdrew the loan offer. Poland protested and ultimately withdrew its membership from the Bank, claiming that the Bank was favoring western governments over Eastern Europe. In this instance, the Bank's lending was clearly influenced by the international tensions between east and west.
Relations with the United Nations
The United Nations sent a letter to the Inaugural Meeting of the Bank in Savannah, proposing a cooperative agreement between the United Nations and the Bank. But the president and executive directors of the Bank agreed that the confidence of the Bank's investors depended upon the Bank's arms-length relationship with governments and political bodies in general. Any suggestion that the Bank's decisions were subject to the influence of outside interests would be detrimental. President Meyer had postponed the issue of a formal arrangement between the two institutions, saying that the Bank was in such an early stage of operations that a formal agreement was premature.
McCloy himself was a firm supporter of the United Nations, but he was reluctant to do anything which would compromise the Bank's autonomy. After protracted negotiations, an agreement was reached in November 1947 which declared that the Bank was a specialized agency of the United Nations, but was to function as an independent international organization. Within the Bank this agreement was referred to as the Bank's "declaration of independence." The agreement strained relations between the UN and the Bank, and they remained distant and tense until George Woods sought a more constructive approach during his presidency in the mid 1960s. | <urn:uuid:20fb684a-3e61-4a31-95a6-a3c9ee4e064b> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.worldbank.org/en/archive/history/past-presidents/john-jay-mccloy | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570879.37/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809003642-20220809033642-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.982225 | 2,179 | 3 | 3 |
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Digital Transformation has led to concerns about online privacy and security. For instance, over half of the people in the UK are more concerned about online privacy now than they were a year ago. As a result, the use of VPN is increasing. In fact, 41% of people now use a personal or business VPN
VPNs hide your online identity, so it’s harder for people to steal your data and track your activity. This makes them especially attractive to businesses looking to secure their network.
Let's take a look at top 10 reasons people use a VPN according to the latest report:
But there are many technical issues a VPN user can encounter. We’ll look at yop 4 common VPN issues and what you can do about them
Many communication tools for business rely on the internet, so a VPN is a great way to ensure privacy. Sometimes, though, your VPN can’t connect to the internet. There are many reasons this can happen, such as:
The simplest explanation is that you don't have internet access. So try these steps first:
VPN software can crash or experience glitches, especially if it's outdated. So make sure you're using the latest version of your VPN app for business. Misconfigured VPN settings are another software issue. In this case, try restoring the VPN to its default settings.
Sometimes, your VPN can't connect because of your router’s Passthrough feature. IP Passthrough is when the router bridges all traffic through to a routing device. If Passthrough isn't enabled for VPN protocols, VPN traffic won’t be able to go through your router.
You need to log into your router’s admin account and check the Passthrough settings. Also, you need to ensure you forwarded and opened the right ports so your VPN connections can run. But bear in mind not all routers have this feature.
You can run VPN software directly on your router. To do this, you have to enter your router’s credentials (username and password) during setup. If these are incorrect, you can’t connect to a VPN server. So check you entered the right credentials.
Ports are virtual locations that internet traffic has to pass through. Each port handles a specific type of traffic, such as emails or web pages. VPNs usually work with port 1194 TCP/UDP and port 443 TCP. But, sometimes, your ISP blocks traffic on the ports you need for your VPN.
You could try changing your default port settings to one of the common VPN ports. But it’s usually best to contact your ISP or VPN provider to see if they can fix the issue.
Often, connection problems are caused by your firewall blocking the VPN. Try opening your firewall’s settings and adding the VPN to the list of allowed apps (read howto) Then see if your VPN can connect.
Businesses can use VPNs to improve network efficiency and so improve customer experience. But this relies on a fast VPN connection. Free VPNs are particularly prone to slow speeds as they have fewer servers and lower data limits. In fact, two out of three free VPN users report technical issues, and slow internet speed is the top issue.
If too many people use the same server, it results in server congestion. Server congestion is particularly common at peak times and with free VPNs. Try connecting to different servers to see if one has less traffic and a higher speed.
The further you are from a server, the longer it takes data packets to travel between the server and your device. So it’s best to choose a local server. Of course, if you’re using your VPN to access content in a different country, this isn't possible. In that case, it’s crucial to find a server without much traffic.
There are two types of data transfer protocol:
TCP (Transmission Control Protocol) and UDP (User Datagram Protocol)
The speed of your VPN connection depends on which network protocol you’re using. If your VPN is slow, you could try using a UDP protocol like Wireguard (it's the fastest VPN protocol) or IKEv2. You can usually change protocols by following the manuals. But bear in mind not all VPNs offer the same protocols.
Slow internet speed is a common problem. In fact, it's affected 86% of remote workers. So, you should run a VPN speed test to see if the problem is your VPN or your internet connection. If it’s your internet connection, there are several ways you can resolve it:
Reduce your internet load
57% of remote workers say their internet is slower due to other people using the network at the same time. If you’re watching mobile app testing tutorials while your kids are on Netflix, your speed is bound to suffer. So, try reducing your internet load by:
Reboot your router
Sometimes, your router can malfunction and slow down your data transfer. Rebooting your router should solve this issue.
Use a different DNS server
Your ISP’s DNS (Domain Name System) servers might be congested or experiencing issues. You can solve this by using a different DNS server, but how easy it is to change servers depends on your VPN provider. Some providers also route your DNS translation requests through their own servers. Keep in mind that the best VPN services have their own DNS servers
Contact your ISP
If all else fails, you should contact your ISP. After all, the problem could be on their end.
Emails are a vital part of a company's marketing strategy. But some VPN users find they’re unable to send or receive emails. There are two main causes for this:
Sometimes, your email provider blocks a VPN’s IP address for security reasons. After all, an unknown IP address could be a hacker trying to steal your information. Some email services also block known VPN servers.
One solution is to switch to a different VPN server. Another is to get a dedicated IP address with your VPN provider or contact support
The problem may be that your VPN is blocking your email service’s port. Some VPN providers block insecure ports like TCP port 25 to protect you from spam. If your provider is blocking your emails, try contacting them or switching to a more secure port like 587 or 465.
As a last resort, you may need to use split tunneling. This lets you choose which apps are protected by VPN encryption and which aren’t. Exempting your email service will allow you to use it, although your connection will be less safe.
Many VPNs either don’t work or don't work well with streaming services. If you encounter streaming issues, you could try the following:
Many streaming services block VPNs, although there are VPNs for online streaming. So you should first check that your VPN service actually works with the site you’re trying to stream from.
Videos use lots of bandwidth, so any reduction in bandwidth affects streaming performance. You should check streaming security and performance with and without your VPN. If you have slow speeds without the VPN, the problem is your internet. If you only have slow speeds with your VPN, try reducing the number of apps you’re running or contact your VPN provider.
Streaming services are constantly blocking VPN servers. If you’re having trouble streaming, you could try changing to a different server. Your VPN provider might be able to recommend a server that isn’t blocked, or you could look online.
We covered the most common VPN issues people encounter. But you may encounter a different technical problem that doesn’t fit into any of the categories. If that happens, your best bet is reading official Faq or contacting your VPN provider’s customer service team. They’ll be happy to help.
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Transformation of primary schools of Vadodara district
Renovation of an entire school and construction of 32 rooms, 58 schools have been made more convenient through necessary repairs
As part of the celebration of five years of Gujarat government, Gyan Shakti Day is to be celebrated in Vadodara city and district on Sunday. The state government has given priority to increase facilities in primary schools.
Following this, District Primary Education Officer Archana Chaudhary said that last year one school in the district was rebuilt and 32 new rooms have been constructed in the primary schools.
A total of 119 toilets have been constructed in primary schools for maintaining hygiene and child health, including 28 for girls, 21 for boys and 70 for disabled children.
In addition, 58 schools have been repaired to make them more convenient and safe. While 5 new sheds have been constructed for mid-day meal scheme and necessary repairs of existing 51 sheds have been done.
While in two phases under Gyankunj project 140 schools have been equipped with technologically advanced facilities of education.
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On his sixth birthday, Totyoalli’s parents took him to the holy city to see the Emperor Cuauhtemoc, but the plane ride proved the most exciting part. He kept his nose to the window, taking in the vast lands of the One World, from the snow-capped mountains of his home in the northern provinces to the open plains of Teotihuacan. He marveled at the miniature cities and cars passing below. All his life he’d dreamt of flying, ever since the first time he’d seen a bird gliding through the air.
From the airport, they took a cab to the royal palace on Lake Texcoco. Tenochtitlan, the single largest city in the world, sprawled around it for miles. The cab buzzed across one of the royal causeways, the water blue and shimmering in the hot sun. Inside the walled royal complex stood the Great Temple, meticulously maintained by a crew of thousands, its sacred Sun Stone keeping watch over the visiting crowds. | <urn:uuid:1249e24e-6990-4a94-8395-ba07d13b347c> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.aliettedebodard.com/2009/05/08/shameless-plugging/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571150.88/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810070501-20220810100501-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.960488 | 215 | 1.5 | 2 |
Based on our culture, there are loads of unhealthy foods that are very popular. But beneath the sugary drinks and salty snacks lies some foods that are healthy for our heart and are very tasty as well.
Far Rockaway Center for Rehabilitation and Nursing would like to shine the spotlight on five of those foods.
Salmon is one of the best sources of omega-3 fatty acids, which are great for heart health. Choose wild salmon where you can because salmon get many of their nutrients from eating plankton. Farmed salmon eats food pellets and receive an artificial source of these nutrients, which aren’t as effective.
Avocados are high in calories, but luckily, it doesn’t take much to enjoy the health benefits of this fatty fruit. It only takes around one-quarter of an avocado to give you a boost from their monounsaturated and polyunsaturated fats. The chief benefit of avocados is that they lower LDL (bad cholesterol) levels in the blood.
Strawberries, raspberries, and blueberries are rich in antioxidants, which help reduce the risk of both heart disease and some types of cancer. Other benefits: they are an excellent source of fiber and they are low-glycemic, which means that they won’t produce blood sugar spikes like other fruits do; these spikes can be dangerous for people with high or low glucose levels.
- Whole Grains
Whole grains have not gone through processes that strip them of things like the bran and germ, which give whole grains their nutritional benefits. The extra protein, vitamins and dietary fiber in whole grains will leave you feeling fuller than if you use two pieces of white bread on that sandwich.
You can’t go wrong by starting your day with a bowl of oatmeal (especially if you top it with berries!). Oatmeal reduces LDL along with apolipoprotein B, which carries LDL through the body. Oatmeal is also high in fiber, so it should leave you feeling satisfied until lunchtime.
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In the field of science and technology, there have been numerous breakthroughs since the ancient times that have benefited mankind in more ways than one that have made the world a much better place to live in despite its many imperfections and shortcomings.
Over the years, these discoveries have provided us with both things to be proud of and that have caused significant financial, social and cultural losses, which is why they are held with contempt by the common people.
There is the underlining thought process that scientists have to be complimented for giving us many things to cherish for but at the same time they also had an ulterior motive of their own and simply wanted to get rich.
Leaving that argument aside, we are going to talk about an important technique that is concerned with electricity and filters which is a breakthrough to be studied and analyzed to its last detail.
Transparent coatings are the topic of discussion for today and they are also known by their broader term, which is Transparent Conducting Film (TCF) and it is a sectional part of transparent thin film covers that are useful for making electronic conductive material.
These coatings emit a very high transmission of combustible materials whose resistance is very low and sometimes downright negligible where they are of no use in various matters.
What makes it unique is that it is a part of band pass filters that assists it in handling of many electronic devices that are being tested officially by scientists because they want to ascertain further hidden components in their invention that can prove to be intellectual breakthroughs like their original counterparts.
However, for any component to be classified as a transparent filter in electrical terminology has to prove itself a worthy competitor in this field by excelling at the norms and processes that the term signifies.
It means that they have to have a great deal of power in them so as to repel electricity backwards. In other words, they have to be resistive to current and it is this resistance technique that makes them stand out.
The resistance of electricity is quite similar to electronic conduction as both are essential properties of an electronic material that has the ability to quantify the strength of resistance towards electric currents of various degrees, both high and low.
If the resistance is low then it means that the material in question is ready to allow the electric current to surge through and if the resistance is high then the electric current cannot come anywhere near to the source.
Electric conduction is inversely proportional to electrical resistance as it determines the capability of a random material to conduct electronic processes, which in turn leads to newer discoveries in transparent coatings.
Uses of TCF
Transparent Conductive Coatings are many used as electrodes whenever there is a demand for lower resistance of electronic contact between two materials and it has to be done without blocking any light whether it is photovoltaic or light emitting diodes.
The materials in question possess a wide area of energy gaps and they are named so because their value of energy is far superior to the light that emanates from its different properties.
Due to this reason, the photons that have energy level lower than the energy gap value cannot be absorbed by these materials and as a result, the light visible to the naked eye easily passes through the barrier and emanates stronger than ever.
The coatings are used for fabrication purposes where the conduction layers are used for voltaic devices and can only be grown on a substrate piece of glass and that too only if it can provide a layered support that will allow oxide to grow on its surface.
The conductivity of transparent coatings has a low absorption level on any spectrum that gives them the technique to be a visible conductor on different devices that pertain to it but that does not mean that they cannot absorb a small part of the spectrum, which is why the efficiency level of voltaic devices is negligible.
Important points on applications:
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- Poly PSS is around 4500 sq cm
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In a seismic shift that will send shock waves through many areas of SA’s wildlife industry, the Cabinet has endorsed a report calling for the end of lion farming, captive lion hunting, cub-petting and the commercial farming of rhinos.
In an unprecedented move to reposition South Africa as a world leader in wildlife conservation, the Department of Environment, Forestry and Fisheries has called for the protection of iconic wild animals to be prioritised over the cruelty of commercial exploitation.
The 580-page High-Level Panel (HLP) report is the result of nearly two years of often heated discussion and research by a panel of specialists assembled by Minister Barbara Creecy, with more than 70 written submissions from individuals and organisations.
The minister accepted a panel majority finding that the treatment of, particularly, lions and rhinos was unacceptable and detrimental to the image of South Africa as a prime tourist destination. The report now awaits endorsement by Parliament.
The report will be applauded by a tourism industry battered by Covid-19 and worldwide criticism of canned hunting, and will be hotly contested by those involved in the exploitation of wildlife for reasons other than conservation.
There will be disappointment from NGOs and questions asked about the report’s endorsement of what it calls “responsible and authentic hunting” and the leveraging of the added-value benefit of hunting leopards. In order to get consensus on most issues studied by the panel, it’s clear that concessions had to be made. NGO opposition to trophy hunting will therefore continue.
The appointment of the panel was triggered by a Colloquium on Captive Lion Breeding in 2018 by the Portfolio Committee on Environmental Affairs in which a range of national and international organisations gave evidence.
According to that report, which was later adopted by Parliament in a resolution calling for the introduction of legislation to end captive lion breeding, there was a predominant view that the captive lion breeding industry did not contribute to conservation and was doing damage to South Africa’s conservation and tourism reputation.
The final report of her panel, Creecy said, offers “a reconceptualised wildlife sector that will provide a new deal for people and wildlife in the country”.
The report found that the captive lion industry “posed risks to the sustainability of wild lion conservation resulting from the negative impact on ecotourism which funds lion conservation and conservation more broadly”. The trade in lion parts was also stimulating poaching and illegal trade.
The majority of the panel recommended that South Africa should not breed or keep lions in captivity or use captive lions or their derivatives commercially. It said the government should put in place processes to halt:
- The hunting of captive bred lions;
- The sale of captive lion derivatives; and
- All tourist interactions with captive lions, including “volun-tourism” and cub-petting.
The report said the wildlife sector would be required to meet “the minimum acceptable standards for animal welfare and well-being”.
The chairperson of the panel noted that there would be discussions with the United States Fish and Wildlife Service regarding the hunting of “ranched lions”, which is a uniquely SA definition not accepted by the rest of the world.
With the emphasis on “authentic hunting”, for which there is no definition by the minister, there is concern that the cessation of hunting of captive bred lions may simply be replaced by the hunting of “ranched lions”.
On elephants, the report took the position that South Africa should not submit a proposal to the international wildlife trade body Cites to trade in ivory “as long as current specified circumstances prevail” and that alternative income streams be sought to support elephant management and communities living with elephants.
On rhinos the report was more ambivalent. It would await the implementation of the findings of the Rhino Committee of Inquiry which was tasked to create a Rhino Action Plan, which is yet to be made public. The HLP report recommends that the current trend of increasing intensive management and registration of rhino captive breeding operations be reversed and that a sustainable conservation outcome be sought over a period in which captive rhino breeding is phased out.
Until a Rhino Action Plan is implemented, which will require extensive negotiations internally and with all neighbouring states – which could take many years – the report says trade in captive rhino horn would not be supported, approved or taken to Cites. It is, anyhow, not sanctioned by the United Nations body. Meanwhile, “benefit streams” alternative to attempts to market rhino horn internationally will be developed and implemented.
Creecy announced that work has already begun on a draft Policy Position on implications of the report’s recommendations and her department will initiate a process to develop a draft White Paper on Biodiversity Conservation and Sustainable Use for consultation.
As there is no official definition of sustainable use – as Creecy admitted in the press conference – this would be the first hurdle to overcome.
Creecy said a draft statement on the definition would be released shortly and opened for public consultation. The report provides specific direction, she said, on “how my department can support the Department of Agriculture, Land Reform and Rural Development in ensuring the welfare and well-being of wildlife”.
On trophy hunting, the report said there was “a need for South Africa to be repositioned and promoted as a destination of choice for legal, regulated and responsible hunting of the five iconic species, recognising that this supports and promotes conservation and rural livelihoods”.
Though this may have been a concession to those hunters not part of the canned hunting industry, it’s guaranteed to invoke pushback from local and international NGOs which have been fighting trophy hunting for years.
At question time, the minister said the report opposed the shooting of lions after being taken out of a cage, but seemed unsure about what would constitute a legitimate area for “authentic” lion hunting.
Response from the NGO sector, which has had its campaigns sidelined for years, was guardedly enthusiastic.
“The report is a significant shift,” said the director of Blood Lions, Ian Michler, who has been campaigning to shut down canned hunting for more than two decades.
“I hope it indicates that science, ecological thinking, expert opinion and responsible tourism will replace the commercial lobby that has been brutally exploiting lions and other predators for decades.
“Given all the setbacks of the past, well done to the minister and her department. All those in support should now back the ministry to get the legislative work done and to rid South Africa of this industry.”
Smaragda Louw, the director of Ban Animal Trading, applauded the HLP on its recommendation to ban the breeding, hunting and sale of body parts of captive bred lions.
“The recommendation that the sale of the Big Five into captivity in other countries will be strictly monitored, is encouraging,” she said, and congratulated Creecy on immediately actioning an Implementation Plan on captive lion breeding.
“We are, however, extremely disappointed in the South African government’s decision to grow the hunting industry, which it now refers to as ‘authentic hunting’ – whatever that may mean. Doing this, increasing the number of leopard to be hunted and ignoring the benefits of destroying ivory and rhino horn stockpiles, will never be in keeping with government’s attempts to position the country as an international leader in conservation. One battle down! Many more to fight.”
Michele Pickover, who heads the EMS Foundation, said her organisation cautiously welcomed the minister’s statement on captive lion breeding.
“But what we want to see is action. The government has been saying it does not want this industry since 2018 when Parliament endorsed the portfolio committee’s report. We are therefore urging the minister to take swift corrective and practical steps so that this abhorrent industry is closed down once and for all and with no loopholes.
“If this is not done as soon as possible it may have massive welfare implications for the many thousands of lions held in captivity in South Africa which could, in the interim, be inhumanely treated and killed for their bones. It could also mean a rise in the illegal bone trade.”
“Minister Creecy has made some brave decisions,” said Will Travers, Born Free’s executive president, “but it is important that she is not alone. We and many others, with decades of experience in captive animal care and international wildlife trade, stand ready to engage with her directly to offer advice and insights as to how to take matters forward, and in particular, bring the dreadful canned lion hunting industry to a compassionate and humane end. South Africa may be standing on the verge of a new, more wildlife-friendly future.”
In launching the report on Sunday, Creecy called it a new deal for people and wildlife in South Africa. Its implementation, she said, “will greatly transform the practices within the wildlife industry, enhance conservation of our environment and these species, invigorate the rural economies where the species occur or can be introduced and empower traditional practices, leadership, and healers”.
Communities living with wildlife, she said, were central to the report’s thinking, with recommendations on improving human-wildlife coexistence and “mechanisms for leveraging their economic, social, and cultural benefits through transformative approaches to access and benefit sharing”.
Implementing these recommendations, she said, will result in protection and enhancement of South Africa’s international reputation, repositioning the country as a competitive destination of choice for ecotourism and responsible hunting.
The report, she said, is evidence of a remarkable accord in a field that has been mined with distrust, anger and name-calling in the past.
“It is hoped that what follows will not reignite old animosities, but issue in a new era of consensus-building.” DM
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One of the major workforce trends significantly impacting organizations today is the fact that women are leaving the workforce in droves. Studies show that more than half of women who start out in Fortune 500s have left before they reach the executive level. Where do they go and why does it matter?
Women Who Leave Your Organization Become Your Competition
Women who leave your organization either join your competitors or become your competitors by launching their own businesses. In fact, as of 2010, there were more than 8 million woman-owned businesses in the U.S. and their numbers are growing 50% faster than start-ups headed by men.
One reason this matters to your organization is purely economical. Two recent, high profile studies have found that having even one woman on a company’s board correlates with significantly better performance:
Credit Suisse looked at 2,400 global corporations over eight years and found that large-cap companies with at least one woman on their boards outperformed comparable companies with all-male boards by 26 percent. Catalyst found that Fortune 500 companies with women on their boards had significantly higher returns on equity (53%), better sales (42%), and a two-thirds greater ROI than companies with all-male boards.
So clearly, female leadership is not a “nice-to-have.” It’s a must-have for companies to survive and thrive. And yet very few companies have been able to move that bar.
There are many factors that contribute to women leaving organizations. And your good intentions aren’t enough. You need an action plan to bring women into the top ranks of your company and keep them there.
The Attract, Develop and Retain Female Talent keynote focuses on:
- The business case for women in the workforce;
- What women bring to the workplace;
- Factors that signal second-generation bias at the company level and six ways to fight it;
- An action plan for developing and retaining women leaders;
- How you can help your company succeed by making it a great place for women to succeed.
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The world is currently battling the third wave of the global epidemic, in which experts have made a major revelation about the dangerous epidemic.
The United Nations says that over time, the corona virus will become a seasonal disease, like the common cold, but caution should not be taken as a seasonal disease.
Experts believe that masks and precautions must be followed even after the arrival of the vaccine.
Health experts say Corona will stay here for a long time and it is virtually impossible to eradicate the new strain of the global epidemic.
According to experts, many people will experience it in their childhood in the coming decades, which will give them immunity to fight against coronavirus, which will protect them from serious diseases in the future.
Also read: Thousands of viruses like corona hidden in animals, threat of new global epidemic?
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The National Weather Service is forecasting a return of rainy weather to the Bay Area next week for the first time in a while, but exactly how much and when it will fall is still uncertain.
The weather service is tracking storms in the North Pacific that are expected to come down toward the Bay Area and bring light to moderate rain as early as late Tuesday night, but the heaviest showers are expected sometime next weekend.
Because of the long period since the last rain in the region, the weather service is warning that roads may be especially slippery in the Bay Area once it starts raining due to a buildup of oil, and that there may be possible threats of flooding in areas burned by recent wildfires.
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Different entities in a supply chain network operate in a highly interdependent environment when it comes to improving performance of the network in terms of objectives such as delivery performance, quality assurance and cost minimization, etc. In this research, an attempt has been made to evaluate the supplier performance by adopting evolutionary fuzzy system owing to the linguistic nature of the attributes associated with the suppliers and manufacturing units. The proposed methodology offers consistently good performance when applied to a variety of standard problems related to evaluation of supplier's performance available in the literatures.
Jain, V., Tiwari, M.K. and Chan, F.T.S. (2004), "Evaluation of the supplier performance using an evolutionary fuzzy‐based approach", Journal of Manufacturing Technology Management, Vol. 15 No. 8, pp. 735-744. https://doi.org/10.1108/17410380410565320
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Fast and selective erasures of specific types of memories in the mind would be attractive under certain scientific circumstances. an instant reconstructive process regarding a recapitulation from the discovered details (Sara, 2000; Eichenbaum and Hasselmo, 2005; Schacter and Kensinger, 2005). Pioneering research have got reported that storage retrieval could be enhanced with the activation of -adrenergic receptors (Sara and Devauges, 1988; Sara and Devauges, 1991). It’s been lengthy wished that, under specific circumstances, some thoughts (e.g., distressing war thoughts and unwanted dread or painful thoughts) could be selectively erased while departing other thoughts unchanged (Sutherland and Bryant, 2005). Such managed erasure of a particular set of thoughts in the mind may very well be quite distinctive from the organic and often gradual forgetting process and could need an unnatural and speedy manipulation that may invert the molecular and synaptic procedure mixed up in formation of thoughts in the neural circuits (Keep and Malenka, 1994). It really is generally decided that storage can be sectioned off into four distinctive temporal levels: specifically, acquisition, consolidation, storage space, and retrieval. It’s been confirmed that storage acquisition needs the activation from the NMDA receptor (Tsien et al., 1996; Tang et al., 1999; Cao et al., 2007; Rampon et al., 2000) and its own downstream signaling substances, like the CaMKII (Ouyang et al., 1997; Silva et al., 1992; Elgersma et al., 2002; Giese et al., 1998; Mayford et al., 1995; Silva et al., 1992), BDNF, integrins, and tPA (Chan et al., 2003; Zibotentan And Lu Hempstead, 2004; Pang et al., 2004). Some inducible hereditary knockout tests also shows that the storage consolidation needs the postlearning reactivations from the NMDA receptor to get over the Rabbit Polyclonal to MOV10L1. continuous draft in synaptic efficiency caused by the regular metabolic turnovers of synaptic proteins (Shimizu et al., 2000; Tsien and Wittenberg, 2002; Cui et al., 2005). Furthermore, inducible NR1 gene knockout in the mouse cortex through the storage space phase has been proven to impair Zibotentan the storage space of remote thoughts (Cui et al., 2004). Furthermore, several experiments have got reported that reconsolidation of lately retrieved thoughts seems to need proteins synthesis (Nader et al., 2000; Rudy and Biedenkapp, 2004; Alberini, 2005; Torras-Garcia et al., 2005; Rudy et al., 2006; Sara, 2000) and synaptic proteins degradation (Lee et al., 2008). Finally, storage retrieval could be also inspired by activation of -adrenergic receptors (Sara and Devauges, 1988; Devauges and Sara, 1991; Murchison et al., 2004; Sara, 2000) or program of proteins kinase M zeta inhibitor (Shema et al., 2007). As a result, the emerging view is that storage traces are active at the many stages from the storage process highly. Here, we explain the use of our lately developed chemical substance genetic strategy that may combine the molecular and tissues/area specificity of genetics using the high time-resolution of regular pharmacological inhibitions (Wang et al., 2003; Cho et al., 2007). This technique is dependant on the process of convergent proteins anatomist and organic chemical substance synthesis of its sensitized inhibitor for Zibotentan producing highly specific book inhibition user interface (Liu et al., 1999; Bishop et al., Zibotentan 2000), and we’ve subsequently presented this sensitized proteins/inhibitor system in to the genetically customized mice (Wang et al., 2003). With a genetically sensitized inhibitor (NM-PP1), we’ve quickly manipulated the enzymatic activity of transgenically portrayed CaMKII solely in the retrieval procedure. The effect is certainly defined by us from the chemical substance hereditary manipulation of transgenic CaMKII activity in the retrieval of one-hour, short-term fear thoughts and book object recognition storage, aswell as one-month, long-term dread thoughts. RESULTS Rapid.
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Blast From the Past: Sew A 1930s Dress From Scratch
The 1930s brought about some weird times; some women dressed in clothes made out of sacks, yet some dressed extravagantly. Regardless of class, one thing in common was that skirts were a big trend. The 1930s dress pattern was a slim-waist and cut on the bias. I love this classic, clean-cut style and in this DIY tutorial, I will show you how to sew a vintage 1930s dress! Let’s get to it.
Tools and materials:
- Fabric for mockup
- Fabric for dress
- Sewing machine
- Fabric scissors
- 1930’s slim waistline dress pattern
Start with a mockup
A mockup is a rough copy of what you will be sewing. It will ensure that they are correct before you cut out ( and possibly waste) your fabric. Place your patterns on the fabric, pin them to the fabric, and cut around.
See if the mockup fits & measure accordingly
In my video, you will see that this mockup was actually too big for me and I had only realized this once I had sewn the fabric pieces together. The waistline was not slim, either. So I went back to the drawing board, measured my waist, got all the necessary measurements, and cut the dress again using a different fabric. Remember, a 1930s style dress needs to sit tight on your body.
Cut out the fabric
Once you have measured your waistline and hips, pin the pattern to the fabric and cut it out. Since the skirt is on the bias, and not on the straight grain, make sure to cut it diagonally.
Iron your fabric pieces
Have all your pieces ready, including sleeves, front and back pieces, and so forth. Before you jump to the sewing part, make sure to iron out all your fabric pieces. Ironing will ensure that the measurements stay true to your body.
Sew your fabric pieces
Focus on the skirt piece first. Hem the edges and stitch. My fabric was not versatile and kept on fraying, so I did a zig-zag stitch, which also did not help the fraying. In the end, I resorted to rolling the hem and sewed it by hand. If your fabric does the same, know that there’s a way around this, and sewing by hand would be your best bet.
Measure the skirt
Once you have sewed your skirt, wear it and see how it fits. If it’s still too big, take it in and keep doing this until you have your desired, slim- waist look. Mine was an inch too wide, and as you can see, I had to take it in.
Connect the bodice to the skirt
Pin your skirt piece to your bodice and sew them together.
Install an invisible zipper
This process looks hard and tedious, and you probably want to get the project done so that you can flaunt your newly sewn 1930s day dress, but it has to be done! Carefully pin the zipper inside the hem of the back part, pin it, and sew it together.
Attach the sleeve to the bodice
Yes, one more step before you have yourself a lovely vintage 1930s dress. The last piece you need to attach is the sleeve to the bodice and now your dress is complete!
Wow, would you look at that! I am so happy with the way it turned out. Even if there were a few sewing mishaps along the way ( it happens to everyone, as you can see). It’s chic, stylish, and screams 1930s glamour! The slim waist, sweetheart neckline, and pattern of the fabric just look amazing. I hope I inspired you with this vintage 1930s dress tutorial, it was great fun.
- Sewing machine
- Fabric scissors
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A pollution alert was in effect Tuesday along a North County waterway due to a spill of an estimated 154,000 gallons of treated sewage.
The overflow near the 3500 block of Hacienda Drive in Oceanside began about 5:30 p.m. Sunday, when a pressurized sanitation pipeline developed a leak, according to the county Department of Environmental Health.
Until city crews got the problem under control about 15 hours later, effluent flowed into a drainage channel that discharges into the San Luis Rey River.
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Artificial Intelligence (AI) is getting utilized in each and every aspect of life/ work, in the present technological era.
We all know that employees are an integral part of organizational and According to WorkPlace Trends more than 75 percent of the task in the organization is conducted by employees. If you want to automate your work environment and outstrip your present employee performance, AI will definitely prove to be your best companion.
AI acts as a real game-changer for gearing up performance management system. Below are a few ways by which Artificial Intelligence affects employee & the entire organization performance.
- 1 Higher Quality Recruitment
- 2 Improved Allocation of Responsibilities
- 3 Worthier Training
- 4 Continuous Monitoring Of Employees
- 5 Superior Communication
- 6 Finer Performer of the Monotonous Task
- 7 Complex Activities Intelligently Handled
- 8 Reckon-up Real-time Approach
- 9 Desirable Security to Employees
- 10 Wrapping it up!
Higher Quality Recruitment
Any organization can flourish only when the righteous persons are appointed onboard. AI helps you recruit better. It helps you fetch the right person for the right job.
It helps you save time in the recruitment process, improve the quality of hire, remove biases, and so on.
Check out CVViZ, an AI recruiting software to improve your quality of hiring.
Improved Allocation of Responsibilities
After the recruitment is done AI will help you allocate responsibilities in the best possible manner to increase the efficiency of employees. Many a time it does happens that the managers fail to allocate responsibilities correctly. These decisions can be biased based on the personal feelings and knowledge of the manager.
The manager sometimes provides further responsibility based on the performance of the employees in the last few days or a month, he does not evaluate the employee on his working for the last many months. It is also seen that few employees will always try to impress managers by praising them, although they lack the ability to perform the task better. This sometimes gives them an upper hand on the more capable employees. AI in work environment helps to totally eliminate and /or cut down human bias based on gender, race and other such factors.
The working capacity of employees definitely depends on the training provided to them. AI provides you with a new horizon to discover new forms of technology for better training. For instance, you can use AI powered gadgets that provide practical knowledge to your employees. A simple example of using AI for training is utilizing high-quality audios and videos. You can utilize AI to make the training process more impactful and enjoyable. This will help in faster learning and retention of knowledge for a longer period.
Continuous Monitoring Of Employees
By putting AI to work you can keep track of your employee performance throughout the year. Whereas, in the traditional method the employee performance tracking is done only at the end of the financial year.
Moreover, the reports of performance cannot be based on human feeling and emotions. This helps to prepare the most accurate report thus providing you the accurate idea of the performance of each employee. Helping you evaluate everything better for your performance management system on the part of your firm. And on the other hand, looking from employee’s view it helps to appreciate their deeds without any partiality thus boosting their morale.
For any organization to work efficiently a smooth communication is required among managers, employees, clients, and other related identities. There are various AI tools available in the market such as virtual phone systems, programmed chatbots, and so on. These which helps to provide uninterrupted and unmatched communication. This, in turn, will help to boost the performance of employees.
Finer Performer of the Monotonous Task
There is a various monotonous task which does not require human intelligence and has become a burden on the humans to perform it. These tasks may include tasks related to manufacturing/ assembling processes at the factory, certain tasks at the customer care center, task related to documentation, and so on. These processes do not require any special changes in the flow of action, and so can be performed by the AI effectively and efficiently.
Complex Activities Intelligently Handled
AI can handle the activities smartly which seem to be complex to the humans. For instance, in the booking of tickets for rail or air travel, there are several tasks that have to be performed. You need to provide you’re starting point and the destination point and the AI will automatically provide you with a list of all the suitable routes and timing within seconds. Whereas this will be a complex task for any human to remember all the routes and timing and provide you a list so accurate and quick.
Reckon-up Real-time Approach
Using AI the employees can make use of real-time data to keep yourself updated in every aspect of performance management. These real-time data can be used to prepare accurate real-time reports, identify any loophole and make take necessary action for its correction, evaluate the performance of employees more efficiently, provide incentives on time, and much more.
The real-time approach helps to evaluate everything based on the current data and not on the old data that has been entered before. Thus adding an advanced updated touch to all the processes.
Desirable Security to Employees
Nowadays taking care of employee’s emotions and security has become obligatory for all the organizations. This helps you to gain employees confidence and retain them for a longer time period. AI helps you provide a platform to the employees to report their grievances or misconduct by any colleague. This helps to provide them a feeling that they are secured working in your organization and also helps to manage the grievances before it becomes too big to handle.
You have many AI devices available in the market such as radio-frequency identification badges/ sensors, etc. which helps you provide a secure environment to employees.
Wrapping it up!
Many organizations have switched to the AI technology for better performance management system of employees. If you have not done yet, hope the above points will definitely convince you to do so. It will help you become faster, accurate, reliable and cheaper. So, think no further, bring a positive change, adopt the new technology of automation and leverage all the profitableness of AI. It will definitely empower your employees to perform better!!
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Website Development and the business issues related to it.
Straight Path Solutions is the web design Company in Melbourne and we strive hard to give the best advice with respect to website development, E-commerce development, Search Engine Optimization, Mobile App Development.
Website development is one of the process in which a website is developed for the internet or an intranet. It can range from developing the simplest static single page to the most complex web-based internet applications and social network services. There are number of things that website development requires that are web content development, web design, server-side scripting, network security configuration as well as e-commerce development .
This is the post for the web developers in which it is to be discussed about the most common mistakes which are usually a web developer make in developing a website.
- Lack of self confidence: Most of the time it is seen that new web developers melbourne feel too nervous in writing perfect codes and thinking too much about it is a mistake that can become a big issue later on. In start coding language are complex but once you get the hang of it, it will become easily and seems like a game of logics. A web developer should never put a stop to their coding. Fear of writing code can stop go further into the career.
- Ignoring technical SEO: Some web developers have thoughts that SEO is something best left to the marketers or content developers. While SEO is something that must be embraced from the beginning for it to be effective. SEO is not just about content or backlinks. It is a technical side which requires optimization as well which can be executed by a web developer melbourne.
- Ignoring web standards: Web standards are there to unify code and that helps to create device independent apps. Sometimes the web developer make the mistake of using inappropriate DOCTYPES which includes transitional DOCTYPES using HTML that doesn’t apply anymore like canter elements not validating code or ignoring the results. It is always needed to pay attention to web standards and work around them to avoid mistakes and create a clean and error free-code.
- Test on major browsers: One of the most common mistakes done by web developers Melbourne these days is testing the program out in just one or two of the favourite browsers through the development process. To avoid surprises, it is always necessary to test the program out in all major browsers like Firefox, Chrome, or Internet Explorer 7. Bugs can be found in any browser so it is always necessary to test them.
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Go Strong into the Desert
Go Strong into the Desert
The Mahdist Uprising in Sudan 1881-85
A Military History and Uniform Guide
216 pages packed full of contemporary images both colour and black and white.
By Lt. Col. Mike Snook
with Colour Plates by Michael Perry
Following the string of disasters which befell the Egyptian military in the Sudan from 1881-1884, the Mahdist Uprising obliged a reluctant London government to deploy an array of distinguished officers and regiments. The ensuing string of battles proved to be hercule struggles encompassing some of the most fascinating episodes in nineteenth century military history. Amongst many other incidents Go Strong into the Desert recalls gallant but reckless cavalry charges, the breaking of a British square, the epic struggle to reach Khartoum in time and the heroic death of General Gordon. Throughout it all the courage displayed by both the Sudanese ansari and the British 'Tommy' was never less than astonishing. From the beginning of Muhammad Ahmad's struggle at Aba Island to the repulse of the Mahdist invasion of southern Egypt in December 1885, Colonel Mike Snook offers his readers comprehensive yet fast paced coverage of a brutal and bloody war.On 11 August 1881 two companies of Egyptian infantry landed on an island in the White Nile to arrest a remarkable imam by the name of Muhammad Ahmad ibn al-Saiyid 'Abd Allah, who called himself the Mahdi. Within the hour most of the soldiers concerned were dead – routed by a poorly armed and numerically inferior band of disciples. The subsequent dramatic rise of the Mahdist movement, culminating in the siege of the Sudanese capital, the death of General Gordon and a serious fundamentalist threat to Egypt, is told in Go Strong into the Desert, an original and authoritative military history of events in Kordofan, Khartoum and the Red Sea Littoral between 1881 and 1885.
Known for the quality and depth of his research, and extensive fieldwork on the battlefields he writes about, soldier-historian and leading subject matter expert Mike Snook has recently returned from serving in the Sudan and has once again approached the old interpretations of Victorian military history with a fresh eye, an enquiring mind and his reader's enjoyment at heart. Go Strong into the Desert focuses in close detail on the combat waged across the Sudan, and is characterized by absorbing blow by blow narratives of what actually happened during such dramatic actions as:
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The Pitch: Myriam Francois (03:47)
Success is currently measured within capitalistic ideas. The feminist struggle is part of a wider quest for equality. The #MeToo movement is a good example of how feminism principles could be co-opted.
The Pitch: Rowan Pelling (03:43)
Women need to support others even if it is "feminism light;" the two are not incompatible. Stormy Daniels is the person most likely to bring down an anti-feminist.
The Pitch: Emma Sulkowicz (05:13)
People will try to co-opt the feminist movement to make money. Sulkowicz describes creating a viral performance piece after a man who raped her went free. Careerism as an accusation against a woman stems from societal expectations.
Do Social Movements Have to Be Pragmatic to Be Successful?: Francois (05:11)
Not all feminists are moving towards the same goal. Not all visible events usher in change; women are not allowed to be angry. Within the movement, some individuals do not understand how their campaign affects other agendas.
Do Social Movements Have to Be Pragmatic to Be Successful?: Pelling (03:04)
Pelling describes how Margaret Thatcher becoming prime minister was a great success for the women's movement. Feminism should not aim to replicate male patterns of success.
Do Social Movements Have to Be Pragmatic to Be Successful?: Sulkowicz (05:35)
It is important to abstain from moral judgment and support those who are new to the movement. Sulkowicz describes trying to follow the rules after being raped.
Do Social Movements Have to Be Pragmatic to Be Successful?: Men (02:05)
Panelists discuss the differences between male and female paradigms. Men are not allowed to express their feelings.
Are Feminism and Capitalism Incompatible? (06:45)
Everything is commercialized but there is no viable alternative. Family is more important than market-driven success. Feminists should raise questions about the methods and goals of those women in leadership.
Gender Fluidity (02:54)
Sulkowicz identifies as transgender and uses the pronoun "they." Share on an individual level. Listen in the same proportion as you speak.
What Will an Equal World Look Like (03:43)
Panelists discuss their vision of gender equality. Women should not live in fear of rape, violence, or domestic abuse. Instill patience and persistence.
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Stressed, anxious or worried about submitting your projects to a high quality ON TIME?
Let’s learn the BIGGEST productivity hacks for students.
On today’s episode, I run through 5 time management tips to boost your productivity as an Archi student. Especially in your first years, it’s difficult to understand why you have so much work to do and so little time to complete it. Trust me, it doesn’t get easier, you just have to get better, and, you will over time. But, you need to practice these 5 time management tips if you want to see improvement in your time management, organisation and productivity.
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• Removing distractions
• Organising your work space to be clean
• Organising your files and folders – online and offline
• Creating systems
• Setting goals and reviewing your time using a diary
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Bruce Thomas wrenched his back on the job and, within four months, got evicted from the home where he, his wife and four children had lived for 13 years.
"First, we went to my sister's for a few months. And when we left her house, we went to Delaware, where my wife stayed with her family and I moved back to Philadelphia and stayed in my car," Thomas said.
Thomas never lived in the street and didn't use the shelter system because the family would have been split up. But he considered himself and his family homeless.
Jason Miller of the Family Service Provider Network says families like the Thomases - that are couch surfing or living in cars - don't get counted, which means many of them don't get services.
"The FSPN believes it's vital to shine a light on the hidden nature of family homelessness, since the Point-in-Time Count is being used to define the unmet need and shape our city's response," Miller said.
Office of Homeless Services director Liz Hersh agreed.
"Street homelessness is just the tip of the iceberg," she added.
Last year's Point-in-Time Count found some 1,500 homeless children under 18 in Philadelphia; 17 actually sleeping on the street and more than 1,400 in the shelter system.
But Miller says the school district reported 7,000 students who lacked a fixed, regular, adequate nighttime residence.
"Those are children living in our community without the security of knowing where they'll sleep tonight, if they will be safe or whether they'll have a hot meal or dinner," he said.
Hersh says the city does use other data, but the federal government recognizes only street homelessness and shelter residents for its programs.
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This course “Section 12 In the Airport Version 2018” is the updates in Version 2018. I am preparing Updates Version 2020 now, will update in Udemy course in One Month time. This is lifetime access, I will keep updating once have new videos.
Enjoy your study!
Many people think Chinese language is difficult to learn. In our past 25 years of teaching Chinese as second language oversea we create this course to answer zero beginner question:
– How do I begin to learn Chinese?
– How long it takes for me to begin speak Chinese?
-In there any alphabet in Chinese language?.
In short, we create this 10 hour course, our video length is about 7 hours and it will take you around 10 hours or longer to finished it. We gave Essential Sentences, , 600 hundred vocabulary, covering 11 topics:
Know Chinese language structure, why there are many callings.
Know the basic grammars (Chinese language is straight forward, you can see there are minimum rules of grammar or NO grammar in Certain Senses)
Know basic rules of how the Characters are created
Know basic 7 rules of how the Characters are written
Speak out 300 sentences covering 10 topics, your survival guidance in China.
600 most important vocabularies, which you can expand into 600 sentences!
20 most common sentence pattern.
Know the right path for your further study, better with us, of course
Know the Pinyin (Pronunciation System, Spell Sound literally)
It is the prefect start point for ZERO beginners.
The following updates added into Version 2018
-Your time to Speak and Listening Practice
-Update the English translation to possibly the best
-Using Flash to illustrate the writing of the most common Characters
-More details in explanation, the video length almost doubled.
-More vocabularies (1000 )
At the end of my course, students will be able to…
Start with a verb. Include details on specific skills students will learn and where students can apply them.
-At the end of this course, you’ll be able to talk confidently 300 basic 300 sentences, which cover greetings, date and time, feelings differentiation, etc. 11 topics.
Know the big picture of Chinese language
You will know Chines is such an easy and amazing language!
-Boost up your confidence and take action to start: Just do it with David!
Know the Pinyin (Pronunciation System, borrowed from Western language)
Know the basic method how the Chinese characters were created
Know the basic Grammar ( need no Grammar in certain senses)
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Stephen Goh 12 October 2015
This man’s video is absolutely brilliant and even though he doesn’t always get the, lets say perhaps the correct word, he still makes himself very clear and one can easily interpret what he means.
For example at the start when it says “What’s the callings for Chinese or Mandarine” and one things to oneself “hmmm, callings now what does he mean. Ah, the name.
What are [not is] the names [many names] for Chinese or Mandarin” of which I’ve learnt many. There are so many rubbish teaching resources on Youtube but this video is one of the very few that are any good or worthwhile bookmarking to use as a major resource for learning Madarin [because there are some very useful Youtube vids also]. He’s very to the point just what the learning doctor ordered. I’m going to search the rest of his series as this is one of 76 so 75 to go hopefully they can be found via Youtube or may be one has to subscribe to his website. Love Chinese and am so going to conquer it.
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“Smelling the fragrance of Rama and Lakshmana, like a dog smelling a tiger, certainly you will not be able to stand.” (Sita Devi speaking to Ravana, Valmiki Ramayana, Sundara Kand, 21.31-32)
In the days of the VHS tape, with every copy of a recording made the quality of the subsequent version would diminish. There was something known as a “highly generated” copy, which meant that it was a copy of a copy of a copy, and so forth, many generations removed from the original.
A similar tendency is there when original historical accounts described in the Vedas are translated, reinterpreted and presented in different languages throughout the course of time. Add the increased tendency towards sense gratification and sinful life in future generations and it is not surprising to come across commentaries such as these:
“Ravana wasn’t so bad of a guy. He was simply defending his sister. He stood up for her. Rama was really at fault for Sita’s plight in Lanka. Ravana fought against Him valiantly, eventually succumbing to the might of Rama’s mantra-enhanced arrows. The mean Rama then made His blameless wife ascend a fire pit to prove her purity. Ravana would never have done something like that.”
Yes, turn the villain into the hero and try to denigrate the character of the person who is piety personified. Yet from a single incident we get several obvious indications of Ravana’s affinity towards adharma.
1. Stealing another man’s wife
Adharma is not sustainable. At its root, it is simply the wrong way to do something. For instance, if the objective is to loosen the screw, turning to the right is adharma. This is tightening the screw, which is the opposite of the desired condition. Other basic examples are eating soup with a fork, driving on the left side of the road in America, and consuming a massive feast in order to lose weight.
The original accounts of the story of Shri Rama are found in the Ramayana. Not surprisingly, the epic Sanskrit work is named after the main character, who is an incarnation of God. No one would know Sita, Rama’s wife, or Ravana, the king of Lanka, without the existence of this work. There are other descriptions of the historical events found in Puranas and similar literature of the Vedic category, but the most authoritative work, the final word, so to speak, is Valmiki’s Ramayana.
From there we learn that Ravana’s sister first attempted to attack Sita in the forest of Dandaka. It was in Sita’s defense that Lakshmana, Rama’s younger brother, disfigured Shurpanakha. There was some playful joking and perhaps a misunderstanding in intent, but the threat to Sita was real. Ravana’s sister returned to her family and explained what had happened, actually blaming Sita for the entire incident. Then a massive army came and attacked Rama. How massive? Fourteen-thousand fighters, up against one man. Rama defeated them. He defended His wife, which was the dharma for both the warrior order and a capable husband.
Ravana then hatched a plan to steal Sita. This is quintessential adharma since a man should be satisfied with what he has. If he desires something, stealing is not the best option. Would Ravana like it if others stole from him? Killing is wrong precisely because the killers expect to have their lives protected. Why not offer the same respect to others?
2. Using underhanded tactics
Ravana was angry. He wanted revenge. In truth, he wanted to satisfy his senses, as he heard from Shurpanakha just how beautiful Sita was. In his era, it would have been dharma, or pious, to fight with Rama openly. Challenge a rival warrior and let the best man win.
That was not the chosen approach. In fact, Ravana’s advisor Maricha cautioned against that plan. Rama already beat fourteen-thousand, so why wouldn’t He wipe the floor with one? Ravana resorted to deception. He used underhanded methods to get his so-called revenge. No respectable king would boast after the fact of having used a false guise and a distraction from his advisor.
3. Running away in fear
Theft and deception. Add cowardly flight into the mix and you have Ravana’s plan perfectly understood. He was a proud ruler, boasting of his accomplishments to any who would listen. Yet in this plan he ran away like a coward. Sita Devi would later dig the knife in by reminding the king of how low he was. She compared him to a dog and Rama to a tiger. Just by smelling Rama, Ravana would run away in fear.
Ravana could have waited around in Dandaka for Rama to return. He could have informed the victim about the crime after the fact. Rather, he stayed in Lanka, hoping that no one would ever find out. The Supreme Lord is not so weak. Though He is kind to His devotees, to the point of abandoning the kingdom of Ayodhya to maintain their honor, He does not tolerate a wrong committed against them. He would show Ravana the gruesome face of time, arriving in the form of swiftly-coursing arrows penetrating the body that previously seemed impenetrable to injury.
Body strong seeming impenetrable,
With fighting ability demonstrable.
Yet still to trickery resorting,
Sita by force escorting.
To world a valiant king perception,
But in practice cowardly deception.
Signs of adharma from single act,
Lord personally justice to enact.
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THE DEADLINE for Ukraine’s $1.95bn (£1.15bn) gas bill falls today, after talks that were due to continue yesterday were unexpectedly stalled.
The Ukrainian government’s debts to Gazprom, the energy giant in which the Russian government holds a majority stake, were due to be paid this morning. Talks mediated by European Union energy commissioner Gunther Oettinger were rearranged to yesterday on Saturday, but never started.
The country was once offered gas at rates cheaper than those paid by Gazprom’s EU buyers, but privileges have been withdrawn from the new government.
Earlier in the year, Gazprom hiked Ukraine’s price to $485.50 for 1,000 cubic metres of gas, up from $268.50 previously. Ukraine’s oil and gas company Naftogaz had said it would pay $326 per 1,000 cubic metres for its legacy debts, against a Russian counter-offer of $385.
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International Journal of Home Science
2016, VOL. 2 ISSUE 2, PART D
Fathering preschoolers and adolescents: A comparative analysis of father-child relationship
Author(s): Dr. Sarika Manhas, Pooja Devi
Parent-child relationship is the most unique and strongest of all the human relationship. Children require the care and involvement of both the mothers as well as the fathers in order to develop a wholistic personality. The present research assesses the role of fathers in the parenting process. The father-child relationship is also analyzed according the age of the children. A comparative analysis of father-preschooler and father-adolescent relationship was carried out. The total sample for the present study consisted of 100 fathers, out of these 50 fathers were those who had at least one preschooler and rest 50 fathers were those who had at least one adolescent child. The entire sample was selected through random sampling technique. A standardized Parent Child Relationship questionnaire was used for data collection. The results reveal that most fathers shared average to below average attachment, average discipline practices and relation frustration, average to below average involvement, average parenting confidence with reference to their children. The sample fathers scored moderate or average score on most dimensions of parent-child relationship, indicating that the relationship was reasonably stable and regular in quality. Statistically significant differences were noted in parenting of fathers of preschoolers and fathers of adolescents on four dimensions namely, attachment, involvement, parenting confidence and relation frustration. The results highlight that the age of children in one determining factor affecting the father-child relationship.
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In recent years, manifestation has been a practice that people adopt in their daily life. What exactly is manifesting, and why do people do it? Is manifesting a sin? Well, let’s find out!
What is Manifestation
In the Merriam Webster’s dictionary, Manifestation’s definition is
manifested; manifesting; manifests
: to make evident or certain by showing or displaying
From this definition, it seems that manifestation is something very harmless and not likely to be associated with sin, but manifestation is also largely connected to the Law of Attraction.
What is the Law of Attraction?
The Law of Attraction is simply put as the capacity to have the power to attract whatever you are honing your attention to. It suggests that negative thoughts bring negative things to your life, and positive thoughts bring positive outcomes. The Law of Attraction is a pseudoscience-based belief and is part of the New Age Movement.
What is the Difference between Manifestation and the Law of Attraction?
In Manifestation, you are familiar with certain thoughts that you need to have to attract a certain power or event to happen in your life, and you purposely harness it. Here, you intentionally and consciously harness a mindset through you your thoughts, beliefs and feelings to attain whatever it is that you are desiring.
The Law of Attraction is based on your energy and vibrations in life. Unlike manifestation, you don’t necessarily have to purposely practice or harness your desire here. The Law of Attraction believes in your own personal vibrations, whether it’s positive or negative.
Is Manifestation the same as Praying?
As we mentioned, Manifesting is a way to purposely harness something for yourself, in other words, it is a way to get something for yourself. Some may confuse that manifesting can be the same as praying because of asking for something materialistic to happen in your life but do know that it is entirely different.
Praying is a conversation with God, it is the time that you spend with Him and talk to Him. Oftentimes, you ask God during your prayer time for things that you need or want, both material and spiritual.
Manifesting on the other hand is an intense self-belief and faith that you will attain whatever it is that you are thinking of that you want or need.
These two practices are entirely different. To simply answer the question, No. Manifestation is not the same as Praying.
Is Manifestation a Sin?
There are different interpretations out there if Manifestation is a sin, some people think that it is harmless as it is mostly done with good intentions to attain things in life that won’t do harm to a person, like getting a good job, being successful in a business, passing an exam, etc. Manifestation also coincides with work, meaning people know that they have to manifest and work hard to attain whatever it is that they are desiring to have, they know that manifestation does not work like magic.
However, manifestation is seen as something connected and rooted to the Law of Attraction, which is one of the spiritual movements that is deeply connected to witchcraft, magic, or divination, which is regarded as a sin.
Manifestation is tricky and can definitely backfire if not done right. If you are manifesting something for others that will cause them great harm and danger, that will also be categorized as sin. It’s also seen as a sin if you are manifesting something for yourself that you know will hurt others. Remember wishing anything ill to others will always be a sin.
Is reading books about the Law of Attraction and Manifestation a Sin?
It is well known that the best way for us not to commit a sin is to eliminate temptation. Engaging in books and materials that talk about the Law of Attraction and Manifestation can be treading into dangerous waters. For anyone’s benefit, is always best to stay away from risky circumstances.
What Can I do as a Catholic to stay away from Manifestation?
If you want to stay away from Manifestation and the Law of Attraction, the best thing to do is to set a good amount of prayer time with God, and our Blessed Mother. You may seek support from Our Lady to pray for you, and you may ask God to help you accept and live a life that is dedicated to His will. | <urn:uuid:660a44dd-0972-4bb7-adba-591d66f62037> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://www.aboutcatholics.com/beliefs/is-manifestation-a-sin/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570879.37/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809003642-20220809033642-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.967624 | 925 | 2.015625 | 2 |
Madison Square Garden is known as the world’s most famous arena. The midtown Manhattan home of the New York Knicks and New York Rangers, the Garden has sold out thousands of basketball, hockey, and other sporting events since opening in 1968, along with concerts, circuses, dog shows, political conventions, and even a papal Mass. Yet a pair of back-to-back sellouts in October 2016 heralded not just an entertainment bonanza for the Garden but also a burgeoning global sports phenomenon.
The occasion was the semifinals of the League of Legends World Championship, a multiplayer online battle arena (MOBA) video game. LoL, for short, is the most popular title in competitive video gaming, or e-sports, as it’s known among the nearly 220 million players around the world. It’s one thing to play a video game for hours on end, and quite another to pay to watch people playing video games. On those two nights, 15,000 fans, most of them millennials and younger, packed the Garden — paying upward of US$75 per ticket — and went crazy as they followed the blazing action at center court and on the jumbotron overhead.
The final two teams, both from South Korea, duked it out a week later at a standing-room-only Staples Center in Los Angeles, with the winners splitting the $1 million grand prize. That five-game playoff wrapped up LoL’s monthlong, four-city, $6.7 million total purse tournament, which the company said was live-streamed to an estimated global audience of nearly 400 million. (For comparison, about 1 billion people tuned in to the 2014 World Cup soccer final between Argentina and Germany.)
E-sports has emerged as a force on the entertainment and media landscape slowly — and all at once. As video games evolved from a leisurely pursuit to a full-blown craze, the business model first centered on game publishers, such as Nintendo, Atari, and Electronic Arts, and PCs and gaming consoles. Then, over the past decade or so, gaming innovations, the spread of broadband Internet, and changing consumer habits have seen gaming morph into a vibrant and viable industry of its own. And as a media business, e-sports has a compelling set of attributes. In an era of distraction and short attention spans, e-sports commands the focus of young people who are otherwise shifting away from established modes of media consumption.
The rapid growth and high level of engagement are translating into real money. According to the PwC Global Entertainment & Media Outlook 2018–2022, a comprehensive source of advertising and consumer spending data available on June 6, 2018, total e-sports revenues across 20 countries — comprising sponsorships, media rights, streaming advertising, the consumer contribution to prize pots, and ticket sales — was estimated at $620 million in 2017, up 43.7 percent from $432 million in 2016. That total is forecast to reach $1.6 billion in 2022, rising at a 20.6 percent compound annual growth rate (see “E-Sports Reach Critical Mass”). Newzoo, an Amsterdam-based market research firm, estimates that the worldwide e-sports viewing audience grew in 2017 to 385 million, up nearly 20 percent from 326 million in 2016, and has a projected fan base of nearly 900 million by 2020.
Those revenue and viewership numbers are among the fundamental building blocks in the business model of e-sports as it sidles up alongside America’s Mount Rushmore of sports leagues — the National Football League, the National Basketball Association, Major League Baseball, and the National Hockey League. Although it still has a long way to go to fully join, and compete for revenues with, those big leagues, e-sports is emulating the same growth patterns they experienced on the way to success. “The evidence is there,” contends Rick Burton, the David Falk Professor of Sport Management at Syracuse University. “Every metric shows that the growth of e-sports is going straight up.”
E-sports leagues are forming around professional franchises, teams, and players, and aligning with brand-name video game titles such as LoL, as well as the NBA and FIFA, the international soccer federation. Expanding television and Internet viewership is leading to major media-rights deals, which are convincing more advertisers and sponsors to hop on the bandwagon. The demand for live events is spurring construction of dedicated e-sports venues. And, feeling e-sports nipping at their heels — and not wanting to be left out — traditional sports leagues, teams, owners, and athletes are investing in the industry. “It’s high-level competition that’s wildly entertaining and sells out arenas,” says Darin Kwilinski, senior editor for ESPN’s e-sports group. (Yes, the “worldwide leader in sports” now recognizes and covers the category.)
Evolution of a Sport
Historically, sports have evolved from games and hobbies into organized competition — and then into businesses. Baseball emerged in the 1840s from an earlier bat-and-ball pastime called rounders, and basketball from James Naismith’s notion in 1891 to shoot a soccer ball up and through a peach basket. E-sports is following a similar pattern. It evolved from video games such as Pong and Donkey Kong, rudimentary titles hatched in 1972 and 1981, respectively. The original business model for the game developers was to sell the games and the devices they were played on as consumer products through the electronics and toys retail channel.
Moore’s Law and sequential advances in computing power and graphics unleashed myriad video games enhanced with 3D animation that brought phantasmagorical characters, creatures, and worlds to movie-quality life. They were played on souped-up computers and gaming consoles, mostly Sony’s PlayStation and, later, Microsoft’s Xbox, and increasingly on mobile devices. Gamers played alone or against multiple players anywhere in the world via the Internet. The business evolved to more closely resemble software publishing, with new releases every year.
Next, competitions started to form organically. Competitive video gaming actually dates back to 1972, when Stanford University students staged a team tournament on campus based on the game Spacewar. From there the Internet spread the joy(stick) farther with the expansion of broadband service to carry gaming’s heavy data loads. By the year 2000, online amateur and professional players from all corners of the globe were simultaneously vying to win increasingly sophisticated games. Some games were sports-oriented, starring avatars of popular real-world athletes and teams. Others were so-called shooter games with hordes of fantastical virtual characters fighting hand-to-hand or with gigantic guns and other lethal weaponry, acquiring increased skills as they advanced through levels.
Then, in a step that few predicted, people began to watch others play games. The term e-sports entered the lexicon around the turn of the millennium, along with an even glossier generation of games. Organically, and not as a result of any master business model, fans flocked to organized competitions among professional teams of well-paid players, not only in person but online. Twitch, a video-streaming platform that launched in 2011, was likely the first media business built around gaming. Before Amazon bought it for an eye-catching $970 million in 2014, Twitch had amassed a worldwide audience of more than 55 million viewers, who were glued to 15 billion-plus minutes of content.
Twitch, a video-streaming platform that launched in 2011, was likely the first media business built around gaming.
In 2017, according to esportsearnings.com, the most popular e-sports titles, after LoL, were Call of Duty, Defense of the Ancients 2 (popularly known as Dota 2), Overwatch, and StarCraft — all in the MOBA genre. MOBAs are complex, real-time strategy games, with human players assuming virtual characters, each armed and possessing abilities accumulated during intense battles. Opponents attack one another’s bases, looking to blast their enemies and their home bases into cyber oblivion.
During typical tournament play, five-person teams of gamers, donning headsets and sitting in front of PC keyboards and monitors, compete head-to-head, with play-by-play “casters” calling the live action. Fans, in attendance or online, listen in as teammates continuously communicate with one another, and chat with the players as well. Separately, on social media, star players stream on Twitch and interact with fans. There are also apps that let people create chat rooms where teams or players interact.
Several publicly traded companies develop and publish e-sports titles and other video games. The largest is Tencent Holdings, whose Riot Games division is behind LoL. Activision Blizzard owns Call of Duty, Overwatch, and StarCraft. Take-Two Interactive publishes Grand Theft Auto and the basketball title NBA 2K. Electronic Arts, founded in 1982, has thrived with annually updated sports titles, including Madden NFL and FIFA, both of which are entering the e-sports arena. Smaller, independent publishers are joining the fray, too, such as PUBG Corp., whose PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds became an overnight sensation when it was released in late 2017.
The popularity of Twitch and live e-sports streamed on YouTube and broadcast on TBS highlighted the meteoric rise in fan viewership and the particular demographic characteristics of those fans. About 70 percent of the predominantly millennial-aged audience is male, according to Nielsen Esports, a recently created division of the media measurement and analysis firm. They thrive on social media, are avid ad blockers, and don’t watch traditional TV or respond to conventional advertising nearly as much as older generations — which puts them outside the reach of traditional media. Although they are passionate, e-sports fans spend only 17 percent of their leisure time and money on gaming.
By attracting a disproportionate share of the attention of young, predominantly male viewers, e-sports solves one problem for media. Another factor is working in the new industry’s favor: The social and cultural context is changing to make e-sports appealing for participants. Historically, parents have feared the latest teen craze — comic books, rock and roll, TV, smartphones — as the end of civilization. But part of the acceptance of gaming is its relative safety and the availability of parental control. “Over the past several years, there’s been a pronounced discussion about the dangers of playing American football,” says Syracuse’s Burton. Indeed, participation in football nationally among kids ages 6 to 12 fell by nearly 30 percent between 2008 and 2016, according to data from the Sports & Fitness Industry Association. “Throw into that a media and parental orientation that allowing my child to go outside alone or to play unsupervised with friends is a dangerous thing,” Burton says. Now, as millennials — many of whom grew up on video games themselves — start to become parents, e-sports could become a family activity.
In the past few years, e-sports has leveled up toward professionalization. A series of coincident developments is helping to build the talent, infrastructure, and business models that put the sports in e-sports.
Legitimate leagues, franchises, and pro player development have risen up from the grassroots fan base. Video gamers are engaged in season-long, rules-based competitions that culminate in championship tournaments. Publisher-organized leagues have formed around LoL, Counter-Strike: Global Offensive, and Dota 2, whose 2016 international tournament awarded more than $20.7 million in winnings — roughly double the total payout of the Professional Golfers’ Association’s Masters tournament.
In an innovative twist on that model, Activision Blizzard created the first-person shooter game Overwatch, released two years ago, from the ground up as the basis of an e-sports league. Even as it cultivated 35 million global players, the company was selling a dozen franchises, in cities including New York, Dallas, Los Angeles, London, and Seoul, at a reported $20 million each. Investors include New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft, a New York team led by New York Mets COO Jeff Wilpon, a Los Angeles team owned by Denver Nuggets co-owner Stan Kroenke and his son, Josh, and a San Francisco team led by Andy Miller and Mark Mastrov, co-owners of the Sacramento Kings.
The Overwatch League debuted in January, live-streamed on Twitch as part of an exclusive two-year, $90 million media rights deal with Blizzard. The online audience peaked at more than 415,000 viewers on opening night, and rarely dipped below 150,000 at any point during the first week. The first season is being played at Blizzard Arena in Burbank, Calif. — where all 450 seats sold out for the inaugural tourney. But Blizzard anticipates a more traditional sports league model, with in-season games and playoffs rotating among franchise cities.
The number of pro e-sports players is modest compared with those in the big four leagues. But many of the same enticements that spur young people to practice hard and pursue their dreams are there, including six-figure salaries, housing and transportation, coaches, nutritionists, and sports psychologists. According to the latest data from esportsearnings.com, 46 of the top 100 highest-paid e-sports players have accumulated more than $1 million in prize earnings — led by Germany’s 25-year-old Kuro “KuroKy” Takhasomi (every pro has a nickname), at more than $3.5 million. The 100th-highest-earning player has earned at least $575,000, which tops the minimum salary in Major League Baseball ($545,000). (Of course, with the salaries and the fan adulation come some of the downsides of professional sports. Some e-sports players are suffering from carpal tunnel syndrome, and others have abused Adderall.)
Just as with professional sports, talent pipelines are being developed. E-sports has entered the college ranks; more than 50 schools are affiliated with the National Association of Collegiate Esports, some with varsity teams offering scholarships and playing in on-campus e-sports venues. Last year, several members of the Big Ten Conference, which includes Michigan, Maryland, and Rutgers, broadcast a LoL conference tournament on its TV network, reaching a potential 60 million households nationally.
Fields of Dreams
The next leap in legitimizing e-sports has been the development of physical infrastructure for events. In that sense, e-sports is turning the “if you build it, they will come” strategy on its head. Fans are already attending e-sports in droves, but they’re mostly doing so online. Building venues for gaming is a way to make a deeper consumer connection that engenders loyalty in local communities, fuels another layer of intercity sports rivalries, and provides a new platform for sponsorship and advertising. NBA teams are retrofitting their arenas to accommodate the NBA 2K league events. The Milwaukee Bucks are erecting a brand-new “smart” complex to host both their NBA and NBA 2K teams. “We are creating a venue that will have e-sports lounges to play in, and we obviously want our arena to be a destination for tournaments,” says Bucks president Peter Feigin, referring to the $524 million Wisconsin Entertainment and Sports Center, which opens in the fall of 2018.
Allied Esports, a network of e-sports content producers and properties, has redone the Luxor Hotel and Casino nightclub in Las Vegas to create the Esports Arena, the Strip’s first such dedicated venue, which opened in March 2018. Allied already had an Esports Arena in Santa Ana, Calif., in a renovated three-story, 95-year-old historic brick building in the city’s downtown. Inside, players are flanked on three sides by bleachers filled with a couple hundred fans, with play-by-play casters nearby. A French startup, Meltdown, has sold franchises for e-sports bars in Europe and Canada, and has plans to expand into the United States.
Advertising dollars tend to follow eyeballs — albeit with a lag of several years. And the millions of online viewers are finally starting to attract millions of advertising dollars. “This year, the biggest revenue stream in e-sports, about $360 million, will come from sponsorships,” says Jurre Pannekeet, a senior market analyst at Newzoo. Advertising will add another $170 million. Investing marketing dollars on e-sports leagues, teams, tournaments, individual players, streaming services, and TV broadcasts remains much cheaper on a per-viewer basis than traditional sports, and offers a more cost-effective way to reach the millennial market and its attractive digital generation.
Selling ads and striking sponsorship deals makes perfect sense for video game publishers seeking revenues beyond sales of their titles, and now non-endemic brands are lining up. More than 600 e-sports sponsorship deals have been sealed since the beginning of 2016, highlighted by such names as Coca-Cola, Intel, Bud Light, and Mercedes-Benz. The North American League of Legends Championship Series (NA LCS) is partnering with Acer and American Express. Toyota, Sour Patch Kids, and T-Mobile have deals with the Overwatch League. “As brands learn more about e-sports, its participants, its viewers, and the technology that underpins it, expect to see ever more sophisticated activations and integration leading to greater return on investment,” says Nicole Pike, managing director of Nielsen Esports.
Some of the sports leagues that have proven their marketing savvy are now viewing e-sports as the next frontier. “We saw an opportunity to create a league with our partner Take-Two around our NBA 2K game, using a new set of competitors who are professional gamers,” NBA commissioner Adam Silver told strategy+business (see “NBA Commissioner Adam Silver Has a Game Plan”). Qualifying matches got under way in January 2018, with 17 teams fielding squads of amateur and pro gamers, in advance of league competition running from May through August. The NBA will allow its 2K League teams to sell the naming rights and signage on their virtual stadiums within the video game, as well as on logo patches on players’ virtual jerseys.
Furthering its maturation, e-sports is now seeing innovation in business models and an influx of major capital commitments. Riot Games, for example, spun 10 permanent franchises off from LoL, each ponying up a minimum of $10 million, to launch the NA LCS last year. The league is bolstered by a $300 million, seven-year deal with BAMTech, the streaming company formed by Major League Baseball in which Walt Disney Company has a stake. That may be a pittance compared with the $1 billion a year the NCAA is getting from CBS/Turner to broadcast college basketball’s March Madness tournament. But it certainly indicates an upward trend.
E-sports may be a disruptor to the traditional sports and entertainment industry; however, its embrace by the NBA and other leagues has the hallmarks of classic line extensions and new revenue streams. Team owners believe their investment in e-sports will entice a new generation of fans who will attend an additional slate of games at their arenas; watch teams play, at home and away, on TV or online; and buy merchandise. Silver of the NBA says, “We think there’s an opportunity to capture a new kind of fan, one who currently isn’t necessarily watching NBA games on television, but is more of a gamer.”
ROI, as usual, is top of mind among the various entities and individuals investing in the future of e-sports as a sustainable industry. It’s too soon to know if the increasing number of traditional sports team owners who’ve purchased franchises in embryonic e-sports leagues will see them increase in value over time as their NFL and NBA teams have. Some owners are taking different approaches — by investing in products and services surrounding e-sports. Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban has a $7 million stake in Unikrn, a startup that lets consumers bet real money and crypto-currency on live e-sports competition. “E-sports is a real industry,” he told the website alistdaily.com. “The participation and online viewership numbers speak for themselves. What matters is that people who love e-sports really get into it.”
An expanding roster of retired sports stars, including Shaquille O’Neal, Magic Johnson, Alex Rodriguez, Rick Fox, and Michael Strahan, have invested as well. “They’re all looking at the data and seeing a massively popular spectator-sport industry that is growing at an alarming rate and has barely scratched the surface in terms of monetization,” says Bryce Blum, executive vice president of Catalyst Sports & Media’s e-sports division. Not surprisingly, there are millions of venture capital dollars in e-sports, too. Last November, VentureBeat tallied “388 VCs, angels, accelerators, or companies (strategics) that had invested in esports startups.”
Rather quickly, and against all expectations, the fundamentals of e-sports becoming a bona fide sport have fallen in place. And the momentum shows no signs of stopping. E-sports has been designated as a medal event for the 2022 Asian Games. There’s already talk of having e-sports included in the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris.
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St. Martin of Tours is the Saint after whom St. Martin CSA was named. The life of this saint seemed to relate so well to the work of the organisation that it became an obvious choice.
Martin of Tours was a soldier. After his conversion when he was called up, he refused to go into the battle. He was challenged by Julius Caesar and accused of cowardice, but Martin replied that he was ready to go to the frontline, only armed with the cross of Christ. During his whole lifetime, Martin remained a great promoter of peace and a non-violent lifestyle. Even after he had become Bishop he was called all over Europe to reconcile warring parties and to build peace. His actions remain an inspiration to our work in the field of Active Non-Violence and Human Rights.
The event in Martin's life that is most famous is his encounter with the poor man during a very cold day in the wintertime. The man was almost naked and was begging along the road. Martin was struck by the suffering of this poor man and on the spot cut his long mantle into two pieces and gave one half to the beggar to cover him. That same night, Martin saw in his dream Jesus, now dressed in the part of the mantel, which he had given to the poor man. This dream became a turning point in the life of Martin. He came to the understanding that he could meet Jesus in his needy brothers and sisters. From that time onwards Martin dedicated his life to the poor and neglected people.
Many paintings have been made of Saint Martin of Tours. Many depict the most famous event in Martin's life, the encounter with the poor man, with whom he shared his mantel. In these paintings, Martin is usually portrayed sitting on his horse and handing over the piece of his mantle to the beggar. The painting hanging in St. Martin's hall shows the same event, but with some differences that represent the spirit of St. Martin.
When looking closely at the painting, one will notice some writings. These writings are quotations in English and Kiswahili from the bible, which are part of the biblical basis of St. Martin. For example: "Freely you received, freely give" and "Anything you did to the least of my brothers, you did it to me". These writings were engraved on the first coat the artist painted on the canvas. For him they were like a prayer; he wanted to be inspired by the writings while creating this piece of art. In the same way, we can be inspired by the gospel of service while doing our work for the poor.
Contrary to many paintings of Saint Martin of Tours, in this picture Martin does not sit on his horse: he kneels down to share his mantle with the poor man. Both sit at the same level; they are equals and they look in each other's eyes with love. The sharing of the mantle is not an act of charity only; it is an act of love. When we work with the poor we should lower ourselves to their level and first and foremost love them for whom they are.
The most striking thing on the painting is the way the poor man is portrayed. He does not look miserable, thin and dirty. Instead, he looks healthy and strong; he is a smart young man. He is even the most central figure in the picture: we can see his face clearly. This is to visualise the idea that we need to see the poor and the weak differently. The poor and the weak are not only a problem; they are not only miserable; they have their own dignity and can be a resource as well. It is the poor who can help us change our hearts: to increase in love, to grow in solidarity. Martin helped the poor man with his mantle, but in the process, the poor man did something even greater to Martin: he helped him to change; he helped in his conversion.
The change in Martin can be seen in the dark and light side of the painting. On the left we still see part of his horse, standing in the shade, representing his past, the way he used to live. He used to consider himself an important and respected person; He was mainly concerned about himself. But the encounter with the poor man became a humbling experience for him; He turned into a different person who could share in love his life with those who were less fortunate. This is visualised by the bright side of the picture, the side that Martin is facing towards.
Looking carefully at the faces of Martin and the poor man, we will notice that they have the same face. They look alike. This visualises that we are neither entirely strong not entirely weak. We could identify ourselves with both persons, with Martin when we desire to share our mantle with the poor man. But we could also identify ourselves with the poor man which at times is more difficult for us to imagine. We come to realise that we are unable; that we have weaknesses and that we need to be helped. That our love is insufficient, that we are not able to open ourselves and our hearts to others, that we fear to be hurt or to lose and build all kinds of defence mechanisms to avoid this.
Martin has put his sword, his weapon of defence, aside. He does not need it anymore in his new way of living. The weapon that he needs is love. In the painting the weapon becomes a cross (the shadow on the ground) meaning that we are called to implement the gospel of service, to follow the path of Jesus who was full of God's love for mankind.
The face of Martin and the face of the poor man is a self-portrait of the artist. In this way he made himself part of this special encounter of Martin with the beggar, taking part in this moment of sharing. We could all place our faces in the picture, becoming part of such an encounter, experiencing the love between the two.
The painting does not show the environment in which the encounter took place: it is a timeless event; the same can happen again in any place and under different circumstances. In meeting the poor, we have a chance every day again to make a change in our lives, to grow in love and to grow solidarity.
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Bed Crow - Editor's Pre-amble
It is only natural for us to try to think and reason our way to enlightenment or emptiness, believing that only through some intellectual understanding can our fears of the unknown be laid to rest, but words and theories can never be the final answer. For that we have to be silent and surrender. Indeed, the more we think we know, the greater the disappointment we invite when faced with the question ‘What do we really know?’. There is only one antidote to playing with the mind, and that is not to play! Nevertheless, for those of us whose whole concept of life, existence and knowledge is usually based on thought and feeling, this is much more easily said than done! Yet, there are many souls throughout human history who have broken free, for whom all doubts have been laid to rest and the one Reality of all is clearly seen, and that as in the metaphor of water being of one single essence alone - whether there exist the multitudinous forms of waves or not - there is in fact, only water.
One such soul, my teacher, Sri Tirtha Lal Mahanandhar from Kathmandu, Nepal, wrote this book in English called ‘Bed Crow’ - which, literally interpreted, denotes an utter cry of joy from the bottom of the heart. In it, he gives one message and one alone - ‘Be Empty’.
Far from matching the stereotype of a great master dressed in flowing robes, exuding peace and love and understanding all around, Tirtha Lal was a father and husband who did his best to provide for his family through the usual ups and downs of normal life. Nevertheless, mornings and evenings would inevitably find him teaching and sharing his spiritual experience with a small group of followers and friends, including during the 1970s and early 1980s, three westerners - myself, Bud and David - fresh from the hippie trail and eagerly striving for the great goal of enlightenment.
Who indeed can recognise a realized man or woman? Surely only another who has attained that 'state'. We mere mortals, once familiar with the concept and terminology of enlightenment, may indeed recognise the synchronicity between the words of so many great souls, and, pushing our reason and intellect to their limit, marvel at the mystery they attempt to explain, yet it remains for us alone to discover their authenticity, putting our faith and trust to the test in the practicing of what they teach.
Such is my excuse for attempting to render ‘Bed Crow’ in a slightly more digestible form for readers who, like myself, might find the somewhat quaint and occasionally grammatically incorrect English of the original script a bit difficult to absorb. It is also, I have to say, a task that gives me much personal enjoyment, and in sharing this and his other teachings via this website, I would like to think that rather than simply remaining in obscurity, there is the chance that this 'utter cry of joy' from Sri Tirtha Lal may yet find a welcome echo in the heart, mind and soul of others too.
It is a daunting task, not least because I am all too aware of how the original meaning and intent of great souls can be missed or misinterpreted by lesser mortals, and I have to ask myself if I am qualified to try. Being as impartial as I may, the answer is ‘Who else is there to do it?’ My contact with Bud and David, the only other native English speaking followers from that time, has long been lost as we went our separate ways, and the only one who really knows, the author TL himself, passed away some 20 years ago. Now I miss him dearly. Indeed, how many times I wish I could sit with him and enjoy his company again, and with an understanding that has perhaps matured somewhat over the intervening years.
To you, my great enigma, father of my soul, as I eagerly set about this work, may it be a worthy offering to you as my ‘diksha’, or guru’s fee - but most of all, please take this heart in your hands, now and for as long as any sense of separation remains. OM Jai Guru Dev.
I have decided to present the text of ‘Bed Crow’ with the lightest of edits, perhaps adding a comment of my own now and then if it seems appropriate. In this way readers can still enjoy the wonderful dialogue and poems of the original with little alteration, not to mention his lovely drawings. Where possible I will add explanations if they seem necessary, and footnotes giving the dictionary definition of obscure words so that your reading may flow more easily. In fact, in this work, Sri Tirtha Lal, 'Bed Crow', uses very few names and other words that would be unfamiliar to those who may have had little exposure to the philosophical or spiritual terminology of India and Nepal. Rather, he speaks of the human condition that is common to all.
Perhaps I should note that where capital letters are used for 'Me, My, Mine etc.', the 'I' being referred to in that context is of course the Supreme Being - in accordance with the Vedic pronouncement 'Tattvamasi' meaning 'Thou art That', or in this instance, 'I am That'. However, although I have tried to use the capital whenever it seems appropriate, Sri Tirtha Lal or the printers have hardly been consistent on this point. Nevertheless, I don't believe the distinction is so important when all is one and this one chooses to speak, either as this, or That.
By the same token, some readers may also perhaps take umbrage at the designation of God or the Supreme Being as 'He, Him, His etc' - as can be found here and there in Bed Crow and in so many other scriptures, including the Bible etc. Wondering what to do about this, I feel that to use 'She' would be just as one-sided, whereas 'It' takes away a certain sense of personal connection or identity with the idea of a Supreme or Higher Self. Those familiar with the Hindu or other more ancient spiritual traditions, of course, would have no difficulty in understanding That as being male or female, as a divine combination or unity of both, or indeed transcending any appellation or designation at all. In view of all this, in most cases I have left the wording unaltered and trust to the reader's comprehensive understanding.
It must be noted that Sri Tirtha Lal was university educated and for many years practiced as a doctor - indeed we used to refer to him as ‘the Doctor’. As far as communication and conversation are concerned, his English was excellent, however in written form it tended to be, dare I say, a bit Dickensian, and he would often find strange words and epithets with which to sprinkle his prose. Most of these can be found in a dictionary, though hardly in general usage today. Some indeed appear to be the product of his quirky imagination. Nevertheless, I must say that should you have no difficulty in understanding and following the thread of his words, then it is somewhat to my shame that I should even think of improving on them.
Again, I am always very interested to hear your comments here.
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Science and technology have advanced and progresses a lot in the past few years. Some of the inventions that were only found in sci-fi fiction movies have now become part of the real world. But all this has been possible after years of efforts and continuous hard work by scientists and technology experts in various fields. One such very common and popular invention is the cellular phone.
Even two decades ago people could not think of using cell phones so commonly and frequently but today the world has become much addicted to this device that living without it seems impossible to some people. With the evolution of the cell phone into a smartphone, this usability has increased manifolds. Now the cell phone fulfills a lot more needs and requirements than just being a model for communicating with people.
Now that the cell phone has become an unavoidable device, it sometimes acts as a menace for people as well. Especially when attending meetings and conferences when a cell phone rings it can create a lot of disturbance. For this reason, many organizations paste a cell phone reminder flyer outside so that people turn off their mobile phones before entering.
There is a large number of meetings and conferences held in organizations on a routine basis. Sometimes these meetings are very formal and include participants from senior management who do not want any disturbances during their presentations and discussions. For this reason, there is a cell phone reminder flyer used to help people not to forget this issue.
Just like so many other professional flyer templates on this website, you can find this Turn off Cell phone Reminder Flyer template fully customizable and editable using MS Word.
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Different types of festivals and occasions are celebrated all over the world. The basis for celebrating these occasions is also different. Some are based on religious factors; some may be geographic while others may be ethnic. The ways and methods of celebrating these occasions are also different in different parts of the world. One such occasion that is celebrated on a National Level in the United States of America is Memorial Day.
This is a special day that is celebrated to remember the brave men and women who sacrificed their lives while serving the nation and the armed forces. Memorial Day is a federal holiday in the entire United States and is celebrated with great enthusiasm by everyone. There is no specific date for this day, rather it is held on the last Monday in May every year. Initially, the day was devised to pay tribute to those soldiers who died in the American Civil war. But later on, this day was extended to military men and women who died in the line of fire for the Country.
Different people have different styles of celebrating the Memorial Day holiday. One favorite event on this day that many Americans cherish is a BBQ lunch or dinner. They give out the Memorial Day BBQ Flyers to family and friends and enjoy their company with a scrumptious BBQ lunch. The Memorial Day BBQ flyer will contain all the relevant details of the event.
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World Toilet Day: a toilet for every RISE informal settlement household in Suva, Fiji
19 November 2020
By Dr Michaela Prescott, Research Fellow, Monash University Informal Cities Lab
RISE’s interventions in informal settlements aim to reduce community exposure to contamination as a result of poor sanitation management. Making sure all households have access to a toilet, and connecting all toilets to a wastewater treatment system, is key to ensuring safe and healthy living environments for all.
Existing wastewater management in communities is largely managed by individual households. Typically toilet facilities range from pit toilets to flush or pour flush toilets. The sewage from these is discharged into covered pits or ad-hoc tanks made from 44 gallon drums, car tyres, or repurposed white-goods. Wastewater from laundry and kitchen areas is typically discharged into open unlined drains. Without containment and treatment this wastewater contributes to environmental contamination, and has a range of associated health and well-being impacts for communities.
Over the past three years, the RISE program has been undertaking participatory design activities with communities to co-design approaches for improving sanitation management in settlements. These have included a series of community design workshops based on participatory design principles with Makassar and Suva informal settlement communities to co-design a water sensitive neighbourhood upgrade. The workshops include a range of activities across different stakeholder groups, including: focus group discussions with men, women and youth about existing neighbourhood characteristics; capacity-building around contamination pathways, and alternative water supply and wastewater treatment infrastructure; and co-design of infrastructure to improve the health of the community and the environment.
New toilets with attached water tanks under construction at RISE Fiji demonstration site, Tamavua-i-Wai.
To ensure that all households have access to a toilet, and all toilets are connected to a wastewater treatment system, RISE will implement a gradient of approaches within settlements. These include: providing support to build a private toilet facility where a household does not have one, renovating toilet facilities that are in poor condition, and connecting all toilets to a sealed septic tank and constructed wetland system that provide primary and secondary treatment before discharging effluent into the environment.
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- Pakistan logs 2,799 new COVID-19 infections in final 24 hours.
- Coronavirus positivity ratio drops as little as 5.34%, lowest since January 12.
- Nation’s lively case rely shrinks to 87,168 as 4,786 contaminated folks recuperate.
Pakistan’s COVID-19 positivity rate dropped to the lowest in nearly a month as a lesser variety of recent coronavirus circumstances surfaced in a single day, the Nationwide Command and Operation Centre’s (NCOC) information confirmed Tuesday morning.
As we speak’s COVID-19 stats advised that solely, 2,799 folks had been discovered contaminated with the virus when 52,327 diagnostic checks had been carried out throughout the nation over the past 24 hours. The brand new infections pushed the positivity ratio as little as 5.34%, the lowest since January 12, when it was recorded at 6.12%.
The brand new circumstances positioned Pakistan’s complete coronavirus circumstances at 1,465,910, whereas 4,786 folks affected by the illness recuperated in a single day, after which the nation’s lively case rely shrunk to 87,168.
In the meantime, the hike in nation’s coronavirus demise toll persevered as 37 new deaths had been reported in a single day.
Pakistan registers new coronavirus vaccination document
In the meantime, Pakistan registered a new coronavirus vaccination document as extra folks comply with the recommendation of Pakistan’s Particular Assistant to the Prime Minister on Well being, Dr. Faisal Sultan, who requested the Pakistanis to get vaccinated.
The NCOC chief Asad Umar on Sunday mentioned that Pakistan has been setting the very best day by day vaccination information for 3 consecutive days.
Umar, who additionally holds the portfolio for the planning ministry, shared that the nationwide cell vaccination marketing campaign, designed by the NCOC and being “carried out with the assistance of provinces is producing excellent outcomes”.
“Target is to reach all citizens to allow us to finally end all COVID-19 related restrictions,” defined Umar.“Highest daily vaccination records set three days in a row,” tweeted Umar.
Dr Faisal Sultan has requested the general public to cease being lazy and get their booster photographs in the event that they have not already. As Pakistan fights the fifth COVID-19 wave led by the Omicron, Dr. Faisal Sultan had urged folks to get their photographs.
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How to Mitigate Money Laundering Risks?
Terrorists and criminals utilize the way of money laundering to hide their illegally obtained money. The money-laundering system exploits the financial system and businesses for its benefit. It also focuses and targets those companies and financial institutions involved in this practice. The FATF (Financial Action Task Force) has successfully revised several changes to make it difficult for the culprits. Want to know how to mitigate money laundering risks? Read on to learn some useful ways that can reduce the risk of money laundering.
Identify the Risks:
First of all, you need to evaluate the outcomes of money laundering. There are countless risks associated with this illegal activity. You try to must the following factors in mind,
- It is really difficult for any person to understand the business structure of a foundation, trust, or company due to its complex system. That’s why these companies or trusts utilized money laundering methods in order to hide the source of illicitly obtained money and protect the identity of their owners.
- They show their assets from a country in developed or developing countries.
- Recent transactions are completed by a trust or foundation that highlights participation in fraudulent or illegal activities.
In order to keep your firm away from money laundering, you should follow anti-money laundering laws and regulations imposed by your country. It is also crucial to make effective policies that can help to identify the potential outcomes of corruption.
Follow a Safety List:
It is imperative to contact the owners and contracting parties to monitor whether they can be trusted or not. This step is referred to as screening or monitoring.
Before doing business with other parties, confirm their verified contact information. If they seem slightly suspicious, then conduct annual meetings, reassess their information, and make regular contact to identify their authenticity.
- Virtual Assets:
You must check your partner’s technical means if they are using virtual assets or wallets. You should also check their profile and transaction history if they cross any limits.
Anti-Money Laundering Program:
In order to mitigate the risks of money laundering, you can utilize the expertise of financial professionals. There are numerous anti-money laundering programs that you can use to monitor your business and financial dealings. Make sure that your business operations should be aligned with the anti-corruption program.
Risk-based Due Diligence:
If you are sensing some kind of risk, then conducting risk-based due diligence is important. It encompasses associates, clients, and third parties. On the other hand, you must monitor new laws and regulations and ensure that your business activities comply with these laws or regulations.
Nowadays, the way of doing business has changed completely with the adoption of new technology. But, it also increases the risk of online fraud and cybercrime. That’s why you must have the latest technological tools to revoke any kind of financial risk. According to NICE Actimize, you must invest in a robust and proper system that can monitor anti-money laundering activities on various scales. Some useful tools can monitor trends, transactions, and behaviors.
Online frauds and cybercrime are complicated to understand due to their complex nature. It would help inform your workers or employees about how your company can be misused for illegal activities, including money laundering. You should give them proper training so that they can tackle any risk or danger if they find something suspicious. Taking immediate action can be helpful in this regard.
Organizing Internal Assessments:
Many anti-money laundering laws and regulations suggest conducting internal assessments more often. If you are using an anti-corruption program, then it should highlight potential risks or outcomes. But, if your data is too huge, it is hard to mitigate risk easily. Conducting a complete reassessment is critical in this situation. To cope with these issues, you must build a qualified financial crime team. This team can evaluate potential risks and collect data by using available tools and resources. You can’t mitigate the risk of money laundering without the help of a financial crime team.
It is crucial to document every transaction to avoid the risk of any financial problem in the future. For this purpose, you need to identify every transaction made through your account. If you found something dubious in payments, then you should conduct a risk assessment ASAP.
If you have recognized a company with a high anti-money laundering risk, you must have enough suitable tools to minimize the risks. For this reason, you can conduct a matter risk assessment with the client to highlight the potential frauds. After this, you have to confirm their funding resources with enough research and documentation.
Staying In Contact:
You can contact your client through video calls or in-person meetings. If you do not contact your clients, then it can amplify the risk of fraud. So, staying in contact with the client is really important.
Promoting Anti-Money Laundering Culture:
It is the responsibility of managers and workers to promote an anti-money laundering culture and awareness. The workers or managers of an organization can identify the risk of fraudulent activities better. They can monitor potential risks better and provide good solutions to mitigate them. They can also help implement effective solutions to minimize the risk.
Revising Your Policy:
International and national laws and regulations must be revised every year because money launders can easily find loopholes in the financial system. They use better techniques to launder money. By changing the regulations, you can increase trouble for them. On the other hand, you must revise your anti-money laundering policy to comply with the revised laws or regulations.
The effect of corruption on the economy has devastating consequences. It strengthens corruption and weakens the financial system. Millions and billions are laundered every year. Policymakers and governments are revising anti-corruption programs and regulations to mitigate this. Investors and financial players like to invest in businesses in a robust anti-corruption laundering ecosystem.
This is our detailed guide on how to mitigate the risk of money laundering. There are many other ways to control money laundering, but the above methods are also very helpful. You must do proper research and analysis to identify online crimes and fraudulent practices.
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NOTE:The video above is not mine.
I am inclined to disagree with a good chunk of the content since it is somewhat of an apples to oranges comparison the video narrator is making.
For the uninitiated, a submachine gun (“subgun” for short) can be defined as a fully automatic carbine designed to fire pistol cartridges. Semi-automatic only variants are readily available on the US market as pistol caliber carbines.
I would say that a high quality semiautomatic shotgun (like a Benelli M2 Tactical) can, depending on the circumstances, fill the CQB niche of the submachine gun (such as the MP5) simply by virtue of being able to put out a large volume of pistol caliber bullets in a very short amount of time.
- Reloads are much slower.
- Magazine changes on a carbine are much faster than tube feeding a shotgun.
- The overall shot capacity (number of times you can pull the trigger) is going to be lower than a submachine gun or pistol caliber carbine.
- A shotgun is less precise than a submachine gun or pistol caliber carbine.
- A shotgun is generally heavier than than a submachine gun or pistol caliber carbine.
- A shotgun is generally longer than a submachine gun or pistol caliber carbine.
- A shotgun is more difficult for smaller statured persons to use and practice with than a submachine gun or pistol caliber carbine.
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It does seem, at first, a huge contradiction. On the one hand, what we know so far of China’s 14th 5-year plan apparently will lean heavily on new technologies not-yet invented to rescue the country’s economy from the pit of de-globalization the eurodollar system had thrown it into years ago. If the global economy isn’t going to recover, and there’s absolutely no sign that it will, then the one seemingly logical (though far-fetched) way forward would be if the Chinese economy converted itself into an enormous self-sustaining island.
Geopolitical pressures related to COVID and what that did so far as getting global companies to rethink their supply chain weaknesses was simply the last straw (on both sides, apparently).
But to create a such an independent economy from scratch, the Communist Chinese will have to do what no true communist would ever think of trying. Thus, it would stand to reason that China’s high-flying tech sector, while behind the West in most ways, would be the necessary ingredient behind thinking up all these “unheard of” technologies so that this transformation has even the smallest chance of working out (not incidentally, thus why this next 5-year plan is really a 15-year pro forma for the first time).
Yet, Emperor Xi has unleashed his army of bureaucrats onto the tech sector anyway. This is how, short of actual guns, purges are conducted in the modern Socialist manner. You get accused of first being a corrupting influence before then eventually charges of “corruption” finish you off. Only now has this metaphorical authoritarian fist been extended in this conspicuous direction:
While Xi’s government has been steadily tightening its grip on the world’s second-largest economy, it has until recently taken a relatively hands off approach toward businesses that dominate China’s burgeoning internet, e-commerce and digital finance industries. Authorities are concerned the companies have become too powerful, according to Ma Chen, a Beijing-based partner at Han Kun Law Offices.
We can’t ever know for certain, but we might begin to suspect the Chinese tech sector (especially so-called fintec) may not be so enthusiastic about “unheard of” technologies and the new China being planned for in its 14th. Rather, existing successful companies (and their easy targets of billionaires in leadership roles) might be understandably reluctant to just climb aboard Xi’s preferred way forward, preferring instead to thrive alone as they can, as they have, in the broken, de-globalizing economy even if that can’t ever recover.
That’s the thing about the Communists and their “solidarity.” Collectivism requires that everyone share equally of what mostly works out to pain. When the eurodollar system was working and China was riding high on it, that rising monetary tide lifted everyone allowing for authorities to tolerate the widening inequality bottom to top. There’s not any room for such disparity anymore.
It’s Xi’s way or the highway (a very wide road leading straight to “corruption” trials), because even in the Communists’ China it remains today the eurodollar’s world.
Late in 2020, while a mystery to most in the West who continue to think of China’s economy as a source for global strength – the same mistake they made in 2017 – Xi’s actions – like his in 2017 – suggest the opposite for which there is growing evidence he, not they, has got it right about where China stands and what that really means globally.
Not just the lack of sufficient rebound of already-insufficient global trade, internally there’s all sorts of continuing negative indications about demand at home. Consumer prices, China’s CPI, increased by only 0.5% year-over-year in October 2020. That was the lowest rate in eleven years, since October 2009.
As the Chinese pork problem comes under control, and food prices stop skyrocketing like they had last year, what that has revealed since the contraction hit in 2020 is just how sluggish the rebound from it has been. Like Europe, not just external demand problems, here in consumer prices is more evidence internal demand isn’t coming back far or fast enough, either (see: retail sales).
Since the 14th 5-year plan is also the first to codify “dual circulation”, which (like “rebalancing” had already tried to without achieving much of it) prioritizes this internal growth over the previous economic paradigm which depended upon mostly external means for progress, it’s not off to a good start (thus, the latest escalating crackdowns?)
On the external side, again prices, there are rampant indications of continuing overcapacities. Having shown up last year under Euro$ #4’s globally synchronized downturn, producer prices have kept falling throughout 2020’s initial contraction right through also the rebound from it.
Producer and factory gate prices establish that even at lower levels of output (or growth in output) it’s still too much despite what should have been, if this global recession was entirely virus-related and non-economic in nature, a thorough and unambiguous upside showing up certainly before October 2020.
And while compelling in their own right, China’s PPI changes, along with those in factory gate prices, are unusually strong indications for how the Chinese economy overall will fare (below). While their next 5-year plan aims to rely more heavily on the internal piece of its “dual circulation” model, the system remains more so attached to external demand right now (again, “rebalancing” since 2012 didn’t achieve the separation).
Production is still China’s main engine, and producer prices keep saying it’s not coming back near fast enough; serious price discounting the result. Thus, both sides of “dual circulation” at the moment are projecting only the same sluggishness (in reality, as opposed to Western mainstream characterizations and colored interpretations) already presented across the broader, Big 3 economic accounts.
In other words, if it doesn’t seem like Xi is expecting big things from his economy this year and next, maybe even up to 2025, that’s why more and more we should expect it will become “his” economy. Despise the man and his system, but you absolutely have to pay attention to what he’s (still) doing – not what everyone else is saying about the situation.
Not just to put together a coherent and honest sense of what’s happening in China, but also what that means about what must really be happening in the rest of the global system. Doing so in 2017 would have had you prepared for what actually happened in 2018 and 2019 (not inflationary recovery and acceleration, in other words), and there’s little to suggest anything has changed since.
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David Burlinson, Kalpathi Subramanian, Paula Goolkasian; Open vs Closed Shapes: A Dimension of Perceptual Awareness?. Journal of Vision 2017;17(10):1381. doi: https://doi.org/10.1167/17.10.1381.
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Effective communication using visualization relies in part on the use of viable visual encoding strategies. For example, a viewer's ability to rapidly and accurately discern between two or more categorical variables in a chart or figure is contingent upon the distinctiveness of the encodings applied to each variable. Research in perception suggests that color is a more salient visual feature when compared to shape and, although that finding is confirmed by visualization studies, their data suggest characteristics of shape also yield meaningful differences in distinctiveness. We propose that open or closed shapes (that is, whether it is composed of line segments that are bounded across a region of space or not) represent a salient characteristic that influences perceptual awareness. Two experiments were designed to test the reliability of the open/closed dimension. In the first, a flanker paradigm was used to test whether perceptual load and open/closed feature dimension would modulate the effect of the flanker on target processing. Results showed an influence of both variables. The second experiment used a Same/Different RT task to replicate and extend those findings. Results from both show that responses are faster and more accurate when closed rather than open shapes are processed as targets; and there is more processing interference when two competing shapes come from the same rather than different open/closed feature dimensions. Our results bear implications for the visualization community and can inform recommendations in automated charting software.
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Welfare & Management
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Demands for animal and poultry welfare continue to grow around the world. Poultry welfare receives attention from interest groups, multinational poultry companies, local consumers, commercial retailers, food chain companies, restaurants, and governments.
In the past two years, South American and Asian countries have either implemented regulations or set plans for adopting international standards of animal welfare
Layer production receives a lot of consideration by groups interested in animal welfare due to the cage systems, the high productivity of these birds, and other management practices not well understood and consequently not accepted.
It is expected to observe a greater standardization of those Certifications and Auditing process in the years to come.
Solutions are already under implementation:
Several companies are developing in ovo sexing technologies around the world. The approaches vary in the methodology to obtain the data necessary to sort the eggs by sex. Some technologies require to open a hole in the egg, while others don’t, and some can differentiate the gender earlier than others. The detection can be done by spectroscopy.
Based on this accuracy, performance, the acceptable size of prototypes, and many companies providing innovations, it could be expected that this welfare issue has been solved.
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1. Which of the following reports is an example of an informational report?
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C) A report showing how a company has complied with Canada Revenue Agency regulation
D) A report that presents several alternative for handling an international problem, including recommendations for the best solutions
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A) a report giving the details about a conference attended
B) a report showing the a public company is in compliance with provincial securities
C) a report describing new company policy
D) a recommends one of three security systems
3. In which of the following situations is the indirect pattern of organization most appropriate for a business report?
A) When readers are familiar with the topic
B) When reader must be educated about the topic
C) When readers are supportive of the topics
D) When the reader has commissioned the report and is eager to receive the recommendations
4. Which of the following describes memo reports rather than letter reports.
A) The begin with the heading tom from date, and subject
B) The show careful organization
C) The include headings in the body of the report
D) They are usually longer
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Andrew: There we go. All right.
Jennifer: There we go.
Andrew: It’s Halloween.
Jennifer: It is.
Andrew: It’s holiday time. Happy Halloween everybody.
Jennifer: Happy Halloween.
Andrew: Today we have a special topic to talk about, which is sort of Halloween laws.
Jennifer: Right. The weird ones.
Andrew: Yes. Virginia has a lot of very odd laws.
Andrew: But a lot of them relate to sort of like stuff that people are commonly charged with one night, such as Halloween. In addition to sort of just like state or, like city or other local ordinances that specifically target shenanigans that might happen on this spooky, spooky night.
Jennifer: On Halloween, yes.
Andrew: So that’s sort of like the broad topic that we’re going to talk about today, are like what are things that you should probably not do on Halloween to like [crosstalk 00:00:54]-
Jennifer: Or ever.
Andrew: … or ever I guess. Please don’t go like poking around in cemeteries in the middle of the night. That’s not a good idea. So what do you think is a good place to start like there’s so many laws that get broken or bent.
Jennifer: I mean you can start with like you’re regular one. The first thing that comes to mind when you’re walking about Halloween is Trick or Treating, right?
Jennifer: So Virginia has local ordinances in different cities. So these are city specific ordinances that talk about Trick or Treating. And most of them have the same language which is if you’re, I think is it 12 years-
Jennifer: … you’ve over 12 years old, you can’t Trick or Treat essentially.
Andrew: And you can’t Trick or Treat before 9:00AM or 9:00PM. It’s the other one which is really weird.
Jennifer: Right, right. Yes, it’s very specific. I saw that it has to be from dusk and then parenthesis, some of the ordinances have this 6:35PM if you didn’t know, up until 8:00 or 8:30. So I was trying to figure out whether this is something you know that’s enforced. It’s just weird that you would like, cut out the fun from [crosstalk 00:02:08].
Andrew: I hope not. Yeah.
Jennifer: Yeah. Yeah. No, I mean basically what I read was cops aren’t out there trying to like target 13 year olds. It’s like sending them to jail or-
Andrew: They’re not going to target some like little kid dressed as a ghost who’s out like a minute after the curfew.
Jennifer: Exactly. Yeah, I … No … I mean, most of the police departments that were not going to be asking you for IDs. We’re not going to be stopping the fun for Halloween but that could … the cops would have a legitimate reason to stop you if that were the case. But so, we’re just throwing that out there, so you know. It’s a possibility. Cops say that they won’t really be pursuing that, but you should still be aware of that.
Andrew: It also opens up a broader conversation about like having such a large portion of the population just going out and wandering around the streets in costumes wearing masks.
Andrew: Which like, when you really think about what’s going on, it’s very odd and like it’s somewhat reasonable to see, for example, local ordinances where it’s like, “Hey, here are like certain guide lines you need to follow to keep people safe.”
Jennifer: Absolutely. I mean, the idea is we want to keep the people who are giving out candy safe, right, because you have strangers going up to your home, you open the door, sometimes you’re just like leave the door completely open so that could … that has a lot of things could come from that in terms of safety. So it does make sense. They’re just strange.
Andrew: Trick or Treating itself, is basically like a threat, right? Like give me candy or I’ll like-
Andrew: … commit a crime against your house or something.
Jennifer: Exactly. Exactly.
Andrew: It’s actually I think a really good transition point into sort of like this trick sort of thing.
Andrew: We’re like what are … You always see things about people who are like, TP someone’s house or their trees or something. Or like do other like minor things of vandalism but that’s really what it is, like it is vandalism.
Jennifer: It is vandalism, yes.
Andrew: So you may want to speak a little bit to that, what vandalism is and how it relates to the trick side of trick-or-treats.
Jennifer: Yeah, so vandalism is, you know, defacing or damaging in some way a property whether it is public or private that is not your own. Or if you’re interfering with the rights of the owner, that could also be considered vandalism. Don’t egg someone’s home if you believe that they will, you know, if it’s a prank to your friend’s house.
Andrew: It’s a prank.
Jennifer: Right. You know your friend probably doesn’t own that home, his or her parents do. So there’s a possibility that you will be reported for this prank. Just don’t do it in generally, but be specially aware that you could be charged with a crime by doing that.
Andrew: And never egg cars.
Jennifer: Yes, yes.
Andrew: Because the egg shells horribly scratch the paint. We’ve talked before about civil damages when you have to pay when you damage someone else’s property. That’s something that people don’t seem to realize. It’s very easy to chip paint.
Jennifer: Yes, it really is.
Andrew: That’s something people need to think about in relation to vandalism. There are better tricks you can do on people that don’t damage their property or do that other kind of stuff. It’s something that comes up, for example, in TV shows all the time. I know a silly example of this is the toilet paper example I used earlier because does that count as vandalism? Because you’re not actually damaging anything.
Jennifer: Right, but you’re still kind of … I guess that would probably fall … I don’t know how the police would charge that, but I’m guessing it would probably be vandalism and then you could count that as interfering with an owner’s-
Andrew: Being a nuasance bascially.
Jennifer: Right, exactly. So just don’t do it.
Andrew: If you’re gonna do a trick on someone, make it so it’s not a big-
Jennifer: Actually an offense. Yeah.
Andrew: Alright. So what are some other things that commonly happen during Halloween. I know one example I thought I was like trespassing. Just because like I … When I was growing up I lived out in middle of nowhere. Whenever I thought of trick or treating I was like, I don’t know walk a mile down this person’s driveway to knock on their door and asked for candy. That seems a bit like guilty.
Jennifer: Right, right. And I mean part of the something like we were talking about earlier about the ordinances they also have like, city have guidance documents for people who want to provide candy to trick or treaters. So, generally you can look at science as to whether they’ll be giving you candy or not, which is having all the lights on that generally suggest that yes you can come up to my driveway. If the trespass was on Halloween night even if you had your lights off. Maybe that’s an argument that you weren’t invited.
Jennifer: But probably anything after 8, then maybe just don’t do it. Don’t go up to someone’s home if you haven’t been invited, because that could qualify as trespass.
Andrew: I mean, it’s follow the golden rule. Treat others how you’d like to be treated. Do you want person in a mask knocking on your door at 11pm? Probably not.
Jennifer: Right. And I mean, it’s not just homes, right? Most of the Halloween movies that I watched growing up dealt with kids for some reason, going to a cemetery.
Andrew: This is like one of my favorite laws in Virginia. It’s actually in the code where I think it’s like class three or four misdemeanor to like be in a cemetery after it’s closed or something like that.
Jennifer: Yeah. Yeah, it’s a class for misdemeanor. You can go and it’s very specific. It has to be at night. You can’t go to the cemetery unless you are you have been invited by the custodian, or one of the families who have loved ones buried there. And so, yes, that is a class for misdemeanor and the penalty is I think, not more than $250, but it’s still an offense and it’s still a misdemeanor. So it will be a criminal a convictions.
Andrew: You don’t have to explain that to your college or your potential future employers like, “Hey, I was like poking around a cemetery on Halloween a couple years ago.”
Jennifer: Right, right. And I mean, it’s also disrespectful. I know like it’s part of the whole tradition. But when you put when you put it in context, like that’s why the law is there. Because it’s disrespectful to the family members of those who are resting there.
Andrew: Because I mean that particular law is often grouped with things like don’t do the exact same thing with a church like don’t break into a church on Halloween. It’s I think, like the one directly before or after it.
Andrew: It’s just generally like there are laws that basically tell you like, don’t trust pass on properties. Specifically property like related to those sort of like religious side of things because it is disrespectful.
Jennifer: Yeah, yeah. Yeah. But I mean, though, that is like the culture. What is that movie? Oh my god. Hallow town or Halloween town.
Andrew: Halloween town was … I don’t remember. It’s a lot of Halloween movies.
Jennifer: Yeah, there’s a lot of movies like generally you end up at a cemetery at some point in movie. So, I can see the appeal and why it will be interesting to go. But I just know that that is a criminal offense if you do decide to do it, and you will have to face the consequences of your accord.
Jennifer: Yeah. But other just talking more generally addressing adults, I guess there’s a lot of Halloween parties and that involves a lot of drinking. So those are also common crimes that people get charged with during Halloween is like, public intoxication, DUI’s.
Andrew: I was about to say yes. But so for example, I go to UVA and one of the biggest nights of the year is the weekend either before or after Halloween.
Andrew: Because there’s essentially just a giant block party where people are just walking around with like alcohol and stuff. And it’s a problem because like technically it is against the law because of like public intoxication. And have we mentioned the mass claw yet?
Jennifer: We haven’t.
Andrew: [crosstalk 00:10:55] real quick because that’s something that I see a lot [crosstalk 00:10:58].
Jennifer: So, in Virginia, obviously you’re going to dress up for Halloween. And that may or may not involve masks, but in Virginia, it is unlawful for someone over the age of 16 to wear masks, obviously for obvious reasons. I mean, you have people covering up their faces to commit crime. But there is an exception, though, so Halloween would be considered a holiday. So within the code, that code section there, the exception is that if it’s a holiday then it’s okay because it’s part of your custom. But you still probably if you’ve been drinking and you’re just like going about just walking, doing shenanigans in the middle of the street and your face is covered that may cause you some problems.
Andrew: Another thing I saw related to that it’s there’s a lot of local ordinances similar to the trick or treating loss I talked about earlier that sort of like contradict that part of the Virginia code. Where it’s like, well yeah, we’re gonna charge you like a local crime if you’re out in the middle of the street wearing a full mask, like scaring people.
Jennifer: Yes. Yes. And again, according to what the various news articles that I read, different police departments I think it was the ones that were specifically mentioned were Hampton Roads, [inaudible 00:12:24] news, Virginia Beach. They all said that they understand the-
Andrew: Holiday appeal.
Jennifer: … the whole the whole holiday. Right. But that doesn’t mean that they won’t be able to pursue it. If they have an ordinance like that one then they do have the ability to stop you and question you or press charges against you depending on what your conduct was. Yeah.
Andrew: And I feel like that brings us back to one of our original points of like that an officer is not going to go out of his way to arrest you because you’re walking down the street with a werewolf mask on. But if you’re doing it and disturbing the peace is a term that’s thrown around the line. If you’re being a nuisance about it then they do have the legal right to stop you, to question you, to do whatever.
Andrew: So it’s definitely something you want to keep in mind of don’t go around bugging people, especially if you’re doing certain things that we’ve talked about so far.
Jennifer: Yes, yes definitely.
Andrew: Sort of to bring it back to our point of drinking, though. That’s something that I know is a huge problem, especially on holidays like Halloween.
Andrew: Because there’s this huge uptick in like public intoxication, underage drinking, drunk driving. So do you want to sort of speak to that and like … Yeah.
Jennifer: Yeah. I mean that that’s something that those are charges that you could get any night raid. Obviously because of the parties that we mentioned like, especially colleges like, for example, UVA. [inaudible 00:13:53] I know I got several invites to Halloween parties and that it just keep in mind that if you’re going to be drinking, you shouldn’t be driving. You could also get a charge of public intoxication of you are visibly drunk. You can barely walk and you are out and about in the street, just like walking that could be a public intoxication charge. And the problem with that is that not only do you have … It fits like in a college campus, if not only are you going to have criminal convictions, you’re also going to have to report that to the school and then face whatever consequences the school has within their student code.
Jennifer: If you do end up racking up those charges, then you should probably speak with an attorney. It might have been the case that you had a few drinks and it’s been several hours but for some reason, when you had the breathalyzer test that it came up as being above the legal limit, so above 0.8. There might be ways that you could challenge that or we could figure out a way if it’s possible to bring down the charge or just reach an agreement because it could impact your DUI conviction is, is a very serious crime. Public intoxication as well, could have a lot of consequences now and in your future. So you want to avoid those types of charges if possible.
Andrew: Yeah, I know we talked about collateral consequences recently, but like really any criminal conviction is going to result in consequences.
Jennifer: Right, right.
Andrew: Whether it’s the loss of your license or more serious things like, if you commit a felony for example, like loss of gun rights, voting rights, all that kind of stuff.
Andrew: So it’s definitely something you want to … When these things are at stake, even if its on over Halloween, it’s still a serious crime that you need to treat very seriously.
Jennifer: Right, right. And I mean, I know tonight is going to be fun for a lot of people. It’s just to be and that legal consequences are going to be in the background of your mind, or they might not even be on your mind. So we just try to before you start drinking, or before you start celebrating however you may want to celebrate just keep in mind to do it responsibly, to not disturb anyone that could lead to you being charged with anything So just have fun.
Andrew: Yeah, and I mean, we’ve talked a lot about like the legal side of things, but just in general, be responsible, be safe. Don’t put yourself into a situation where these things might arise.
Andrew: Police officers don’t want to ruin everyone’s Halloween night. But if you’re actively disturbing people for any reason, or are a threat to other people such as drunk driving, they’re going to pull you over for your own safety if not for like others.
Jennifer: Absolutely. Absolutely. Yes.
Andrew: Alright. So Was there anything else specifically you wanted to chat about for, like Halloween stuff? Like, it’s such a broad thing because-
Jennifer: it is.
Andrew: … there’s so many laws that people can break. It’s just they become more commonly broken on things like Halloween.
Jennifer: No, just … Oh, if you’re going to be giving out candy, don’t be weird to kids, because certain conduct on the part of the person giving out candy could raise parents suspicions and it could lead to maybe some complaints to the police officers and then that might lead to the police officers coming up to your house. So just be nice, but not overly friendly with children.
Andrew: Yeah, and also don’t try and scare them too much. Please don’t give five year olds heart attacks when they’re trying to ask for candy.
Jennifer: Yes, yes. Please don’t. But do have a lot of fun. Just make sure that you’re doing it responsibly and respectfully.
Andrew: All right.
Jennifer: That’s about it.
Andrew: Awesome. So that’s really fun.
Andrew: As one final note, yeah, everyone, just be safe tonight. Be responsible but have fun.
Andrew: So we’ll see everybody next Wednesday, same time, same place. And I hope everyone has a great time tonight.
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Area-I has released flight test footage of the PTERA (Prototype Technology Evaluation Research Aircraft), which integrates the XSens MTi-G-700 GPS/INS Inertial Navigation System. Area-I’s used the technology to record a wide array of position and velocity data during flight testing.
The GPS-aided, IMU-enhanced Inertial Navigation System outputs a wide range of data, such as drift free 3D orientation data, 3D position and velocity data, 3D calibrated acceleration, rate of turn, magnetic field data and pressure data.
Area-I specializes in advanced aerodynamic technologies and optimization, aircraft design and analysis, advanced guidance, navigation, control systems, unmanned aircraft design, analysis, and optimization flight test related products and services. Area-I has developed systems for detecting and measuring small-scale airmass motion (i.e. gusts) with a multi-objective guidance strategy that allows UAS to extract energy from that airmass motion, thus improving UAS endurance, and range.
The Area-I PTERA research aircraft provides a bridge between wind tunnel testing and manned flight by providing a low-risk, low-cost platform to flight test high-risk technologies such as advanced aerodynamic treatments, GNC systems, acoustic research , sensor and health management systems, etc. The 200 lb aircraft has a 50lb payload capacity. In 2012 Area-I completed a series of NASA-funded flight tests which Xsens help sponsor.
“Area-I’s experience with Xsens has been phenomenal. The quality of their technical support and the quality of their products has never left us wanting. Our line of work requires the use of high-fidelity sensor systems to collect highly accurate flight data regarding the unmanned aircraft that we operate; we found the Xsens MTi-G to be just such a system”, says Nicholas Alley, CEO at Area-I.
Area-I personnel have led the design of fourteen unmanned aircraft and one manned aircraft. This experience is augmented by a suite of proprietary software that facilitates the entire UAS design process. From conceptual to detailed design, on through to fabrication and flight testing, this software allows Area-I to provide accurate assessments of aircraft stability and performance. In early 2012 Area-I approached Xsens for a solution that would provide the orientation and position data needed for their project (MTI-G), as well as integrate easily with their existing technology.
Marcel van Hak, Product Manager at Xsens adds: “The payload of these platforms is typically limited and therefore the Inertial Navigation System must be small and light-weight, though accurate as well. The MTi-G is specifically designed to balance accuracy and size. It is therefore not a surprise that Xsens’ MTi-Gs are used as a replacement for optical gyroscopes“. | <urn:uuid:efa33903-240b-4f52-a1c6-27b031229b8e> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.unmannedsystemstechnology.com/2012/12/xsens-inertial-navigation-system-used-on-area-i-unmanned-aircraft/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570879.37/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809003642-20220809033642-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.935328 | 597 | 2.078125 | 2 |
Gender Gap Manifesto
This manifesto reflects our mission, goals, and hopes for the Gender Gap group. Discussion amongst group participants is governed by a code of conduct.
Our Culture: The Gender Gap group aims to foster an environment where people can express their thoughts, feelings, and solutions regarding the gender gap on Wikipedia. The goal is to collaboratively find solutions to improve the presence of women on Wikipedia and its sister projects.
As this group touches upon complex problems that have existed throughout human history, it is essential that we are both patient with and tolerant of each other. Let's try to help each other express both frustrations and solutions in a constructive way.
- Create an editing environment in which women in all the different language Wikipedias feel safe and valued as equal participants. Additionally, explore the ways in which editors who are women might have a different perspective or different needs, and find ways to ensure that these are expressed and valued.
- Encourage more women to become editors through outreach, as well as encourage more women to stand for positions of responsibility (e.g., adminship, bureaucratship, mediation committee, arbitration committee, board of trustees).
- Encourage the Foundation to support or engage in research into the editing experiences of women on Wikipedia, including research to determine what percentage of editors are women, rather than relying on women self-identifying in their preferences.
- Improve article-space coverage of women, women's issues and perspectives, and women's history.
- Provide a space where women can empower each other and find support. This includes helping women feel more comfortable sharing their voice online.
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The case studies presented by UK’s Business in the Community showcase the possibility of achieving carbon reduction and waste minimization targets using procurement. The Facilities & Building Management sector is a large contributor to landfill waste and carbon emissions. Using circular procurement creates opportunities for the sector to revolutionize standard building practices. Some examples reference the creation of a socially inclusive and productive office space, as well as using carbon sequestering material sources such as hemp.
Advancing Circular Construction in the United Kingdom
Business in the Community
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Everyone has heard the various life-threatening dangers smoking poses, and even smoking often can nonetheless put you at risk for illnesses like lung most cancers, coronary heart illness and emphysema. For those seeking to stop, check out your student well being center for packages to help you. Sleep apnea occurs when the airways are repeatedly blocked during sleep.
The well being of the following generation
Bulk on pasta, dried fruits, nuts, and so forth. Track your day by day caloric consumption for proof. Spend the next week logging every little thing you eat in an app like myfitnesspal.
At the core of a balanced diet are meals which might be low in pointless fats and sugars and high in nutritional vitamins, minerals, and different vitamins. The following food teams are essential parts of a balanced diet.
Conditions & Treatments
Their physique shops the extra energy as fat, usually around their stomach. You want to go from skinny to muscular, not chubby. Vegetables are wholesome but don’t have many energy. 100g salad only has 25kcal while 100g pasta has 380kcal – 15x more. It’s easier to gain weight should you eat meals that comprise extra energy per serving.
Even when prepared in a wholesome method, potatoes can present health problems to people with weight problems or diabetes. They are excessive in easy carbohydrates, which might lead to weight acquire. Jarzabkowski likened the vegetables in this method to white bread. Processed pastriesLong shelf life and a long list of components is a positive wager that you should place that package again on the shelf.
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Mangaluru: Media Cradle Institute – Training in filmmaking with a hands-on approach
Daijiworld Media Network – Mangaluru (ANK)
Mangaluru, September 21: Mangaluru is known to produce talent looking to get into the film industry. The city will now have its film school, the Media Cradle Institute, across from Canara College on MG Road.
Media Cradle Institute, a pioneer in the global media and entertainment education industry, offers powerful courses that help shape one’s creative career. At the Media Cradle Institute, students will be trained in industry standard skills using the most advanced tools and technologies with hands-on industry-level exposure and assistance from expert faculty.
The people of Mangaluru can make the most of the institute where they can take various courses leading to the film industry and pursue a successful career. At one time, the Mangalureen either went to different cities or states to train in different fields related to movies, which was awkward. Now, the Media Cradle Institute offers the best courses for a creative career.
The institute offers several courses at affordable costs and more relevant to a career in the film industry.
Students can practically learn industry projects with professional equipment with guidance from experienced mentors and guest speakers from various media fields. They can take creative courses such as film making, photography, acting, film editing, color grading, directing, screenplay, graphic and web design and many more. .
Students can seek advice from renowned and experienced mentors and guest speakers, namely Joseph Ninasam, Mime Ramesh Rangayana, Ashwin GP, ââRavi Raj, Rudhik Vishnu, Manjunath BV, Pushpa VS, Sandeep Udupi, Prashanth Agari, Karthik V, Roshan Serrao and Sakshi.
The Media Cradle Institute offers courses that can help develop one’s creative career. With qualified faculty, Media Cradle Institute trains students in industry standard skills using the most advanced tools and technology with hands-on industry-level exposure.
The Media Cradle Institute is a training and media production house of Vizva Untied Company, an India-wide based company that owns brands like Grizzly Nutrition, Aello Prime, Medvero, and more.
The courses and their duration
Graphic design : 3 months + 1 month internship
Photography: 3 months + 1 month internship
Writing stories and storyboards: 3 months + 2 months internship
Cinematographic videography / Cameramen / Director of photography: 1 year including internship
Cinematography / Film making: 1 year
Sound engineering and audio editing: 6 months
Cinematographic actor game / Modeling: 1 year, including internship
Video editing and color grading: 6 months including internship
Web design is missing from the list of courses: 4 months + 2 internship
Production of advertising films: 1 year course.
The institution also offers web design courses in various terms.
Media Cradle Institute
First floor, Divya Enclave
Opposite Canara College, MG Road
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Translation by:Nabeelah Shabbir
Whilst Dutch 'Party for Animals' may have seen its first representative enter parliament last June, other European politicians resist making animals their leitmotif
Small victories sometimes grow into grand ambitions. 'We believe that it's possible to create a pan-European coalition in the defence of animals,' says Niko Koffeman, the 'Party for Animals' (PvdD) MP most recently elected to Dutch parliament. 'The opportunity to achieve this together exists in Europe.' Without being extraordinary, the votes that the PvdD gained are significant in the eyes of many Dutch citizens.
'A movement like this could never lead the country, of course,' admits Evertjan, a student in Amsterdam. 'But the political world needs to know that the destiny of animals is not regarded with indifference by the Dutch.' But are other European countries prepared to follow the Dutch example?
Fly versus Wolf
Animals aren't completely absent from national programmes in the 27-state European Union. The Green party often come forward as the principal defender of the animal species. With 42 seats in the European parliament, the Green/ European Free Alliance (EFA) is the fifth biggest party in the parliament in Strasbourg – a position held almost constantly since 1989. The action they take for animals has become part of a bigger political 'manifesto for the living conditions of animals'. But is hideen behind a cloud of fog?
Strangely, those parties which explicitly refer to animals are usually those which least support the furry cause. For example, the French leisure hunting party 'Hunt, Fishing, Nature and Tradition' (CPNT) opposes industrial cruelty to geese, but raise no eyebrows at sampling their foie gras (literally the 'fat liver' of both duck and geese). They are against slaughterhouses, but feed the rural hunt with their horns and a flower in their rifles. The main problem with the idea of a political mobilisation for the animal cause is the one-sided directions of many parties. Their strategy is limited to the animal world, and sadly isn't enough to evoke the voter's interest.
In France or Italy, people show a strong tendency to highlight only very general political subjects. 'The big parties monopolise society's biggest questions,' agrees Michèle André, vice president of the senate. Niko Koffeman confirms this vision. 'The majority of European citizens hesitate when they have to choose political representatives from smaller groups, be it on a national or European level.'
City rat, country rat
It's not that Europeans aren't interested in the animal cause. Instead, many usually try to make the distinction between pure political issues and the battles of the associative world. An association like 'People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals' (PETA) is one of the most powerful in the world, which provides an effective voice for animals. Without a doubt, the presence of PETA ambassadors from the most 'beautiful species' explains this success: be it Grace Slick, lead singer of American late sixties rock band Jefferson Airplane, or Zara Whites, a former Dutch porn actress. The militant vegetarian made a half-naked appearance at the last 'Salon International de l'Agriculture', an annual international agricultural fair in Paris, covered in fake blood and wrapped in cellophane packaging.
If defending the cause means rejecting the violence and suffering inflicted on a fellow human, its political implication remains difficult and ideologically debatable. In the words of French historian Jean-Pierre Arthur Bernard, this principle of 'equality at every price' can be extended 'to vegetables and minerals, in the name of a fully democratic planet.'
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Diffraction Limited Photoactivation of GFP with TIRF
This Mosaic video by Andor Technology shows the photoactivation of GFP (green fluorescent protein) in multiple regions of interests at the diffraction limit.
The images were acquired using a real-time Nikon TIRF (total internal reflection fluorescence) system. The Mosaic is capable of simultaneous illumination and imaging.
Run Time – 0:20sec
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- 1 What is the meaning of municipal election?
- 2 How often are municipal elections held in Canada?
- 3 How is the mayor elected?
- 4 How often are mayors elected?
- 5 What is the difference between municipalities and municipal corporation?
- 6 Who is first citizen of city?
- 7 How often do Canadian elections happen?
- 8 How often are local government elections held?
- 9 What is the role of municipal mayor?
- 10 Who is the boss of a city mayor?
- 11 What does a mayor do in a small town?
- 12 What education do you need to be a mayor?
- 13 How many years does a mayor serve?
- 14 How many terms can a senator serve?
What is the meaning of municipal election?
In many parts of the world, local elections take place to select office-holders in local government, such as mayors and councillors. Elections to positions within a city or town are often known as “municipal elections”. Their form and conduct vary widely across jurisdictions.
How often are municipal elections held in Canada?
Municipal elections in Canada fall within the jurisdiction of the various provinces and territories, who usually hold their municipal elections on the same date every two, three or four years, depending on the location.
How is the mayor elected?
The tenure of the Mayor and Deputy Mayor is five years. However, in seven states; Bihar, Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand, Madhya Pradesh, Odisha, Uttar Pradesh and Uttarakhand; Mayors are directly elected by the people and thus hold the executive powers of the municipal corporations.
How often are mayors elected?
A mayor is elected every four years by direct popular votes held separately from the assembly.
What is the difference between municipalities and municipal corporation?
The difference between Municipal corporation and Municipality: Municipal corporation: The municipality is formed for the administration of smaller towns and cities which have a smaller number of population between 25000 – 100000 people. The municipality is set up by the process of state legislatures.
Who is first citizen of city?
Notes: In India, Mayors are directly elected by the people through municipal elections. He has a number of roles, both legislative and functional. He is also considered as the first citizen of a city.
How often do Canadian elections happen?
In Canada, the federal government and most provinces and territories have passed legislation setting fixed election dates so that elections occur on a more regular cycle (usually every four years) and the date of a forthcoming election is publicly known.
How often are local government elections held?
Local government elections are held every two years. Councillors, and mayors or presidents elected by electors, are elected for four-year terms.
What is the role of municipal mayor?
1. The municipal mayor, as the chief executive of the municipal government, shall exercise such powers and perform such duties and functions as provided by this Code and other laws. Exercise such other powers and perform such other duties and functions as may be prescribed by law or ordinance.
Who is the boss of a city mayor?
The mayor is the chief executive officer, centralizing executive power. The mayor directs the administrative structure, appointing and removing of department heads. While the council has legislative power, the mayor has veto power.
What does a mayor do in a small town?
In most small towns, the mayor’s job is not a full-time staff position. A small town mayor’s role is typically to lead city council meetings and oversee the business of the city, which does not require a full-time commitment.
What education do you need to be a mayor?
Although no specific training is required to serve as mayor, obtaining a Bachelor’s Degree in Political Science, Business, or Law would provide a good foundation for someone aspiring to a political office.
How many years does a mayor serve?
The mayor is elected to a four-year term, with a limit of two consecutive terms. Council members are elected for a 4-year term and may serve up to two consecutive terms.
How many terms can a senator serve?
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When you look around the room, you don’t know what those people’s pasts consists of or the things they’ve experienced — yet many seemingly innocent expressions have the tendency to give you clues.The other night my friend said she wished someone would shoot her, a phrase most of us have used many times. This time, however, was shortly after the Virginia Tech shooting. I bit my tongue, not wanting to point it out, but she called herself on it.
I was happy she recognized her poor choice of words, because not many of us do when it comes to expressions.
The phrase I cannot stand is comparing something to a seizure, whether the person is dancing or doing whatever. My dad had epilepsy, I know what a seizure looks like and I also know that anyone who has witnessed a seizure would never use that expression. Sure we all have slips of the tongue, but at what expense?
Every time I hear this expression, even though it has been five years since he died, I remember all too well what it looks like when someone has a seizure. No it’s not a pretty sight, but someone with bad dancing moves can never compare to the horror of actually witnessing a seizure.
And how is it that a one-syllable word meaning happy has come to be so resentful and negative? Gay should be used to refer to its original meaning or the population of homosexuals; yet, every day it can be heard referring to something a person deems lame. Do people realize with one word how many people they are belittling?
Even the mental illness of mental retardation has become overused and given a negative connotation to the point that health officials are thinking about changing the name of the illness so those associations will not label a child who does in fact suffer from mental retardation. Calling another person a retard is more offensive than to the person it is directed because it targets all those who have the illness and bashes them.
Language is a form of communication, so why do we manipulate it to be so hurtful and cruel?
Even something as simple as people wishing each other a happy holiday on April 20 angers and hurts people. It no longer just stands for a day to go smoke pot (you do it anyway why do you need a day to celebrate the disgusting habit?), but as a day that Columbine was infiltrated and people died. This past Friday was a national day of mourning for those who died in the Virginia Tech shooting, yet here are many students calling across yards to each other to light up. Even if they are not mourning, it’s a lack of respect for those who are mourning.
Then there are those who mention death such as “I’m going to kill myself” or “He should go kill himself.” If anyone who has known someone who committed suicide hears these phrases, the guilt comes flooding back. It’s hard enough to get over when it first happens, but over and over it is thrown in their face as their peers continue to speak without really thinking.
Maybe it’s because they don’t actually think about what these expressions mean and they repeat them like robots.
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You might want to start a new business, but you’re afraid of major startup costs. The best way to start a business without risking all your money and time is a nice, low-cost business idea.
The good news is that there are 582 million entrepreneurs worldwide and 78% are turning a profit. The even better news is there are plenty of ideas that don’t require a lot of capital.
In this article, you will find a list of business ideas that you could one day turn into a lucrative business. These 20 low-cost business ideas are great for new entrepreneurs, side hustlers, or anyone looking to start a new business with little money and with high profit.
20 Best Low Cost Business Ideas for Small Businesses & Startups
Blogging is still very popular today. All you need to get started is a computer, website, and blog idea. Find something you’re passionate about to write or vlog about. To earn some money you could advertise on your site, optimize the SEO, or use platforms like Patreon. Even further, if you narrow the niche properly you could make a breakthrough in little time.
Graphic designer services are needed in a lot of businesses. To start you’ll need a computer, a program such as Adobe Illustrator or Photoshop, and a portfolio for applying to jobs. The best thing about graphic design is that it’s a broad discipline so you could choose your niche. These jobs could include making a logo, brand identity, infographics, social media images…
Since today’s most popular media is video, you shouldn’t have any problem finding a job as a video producer. You could work in the movie industry, as a producer of popular youtube videos, or even as a video producer for some influencer. Your experience could be of great value for them, and in most cases, they would provide the equipment.
Just like graphic design, photography is a pretty versatile discipline. You could photograph weddings, events, products…the possibilities are endless. However, this type of business does require not-so-everyday equipment like a professional camera and editing software. But, if you already engage in photography amateurishly you probably have all of these and could easily make it a full-time job.
Podcasts have experienced a boom ever the last decade. There are podcasts about everything. If you are particularly interested and knowledgeable in the topic(s) and have a good voice, you would make an excellent podcast host. For starters, there are plenty of good value-for-money microphones out there. Once you start earning money with the help of affiliate marketing programs and sponsors you can get a piece of more expensive equipment.
Social Media Consultant
Big companies like Apple and Twitter have a whole team to run their social media, but small business owners will gladly use your social media consulting services. It’s also not unusual for popular influencers to have somebody help them with their overwhelming social media account. Your job would be to create content for a target audience, as well as choose the best tactics and posting schedules.
If you know your way around words and your grammar is on point (with a little help from those grammar apps) you should consider becoming a freelance writer. This is one of the cheapest low-cost business ideas as all you need is a computer and internet connection. Networking is the key to being a successful freelance writer. As your business opportunities and client list grow you can turn this into a full-time job.
Everyone needs cleaning services. Big businesses, small homes, and everyone in between. A cleaning business is a great idea because it’s a service-based business, the supplies are cheap and you can start on your own than expand later. You can even ask your clients to use their cleaning supplies. There’s also no office space cost because you’re a mobile business.
Dropshipping business can quickly turn from a small side income to a full-time job. As a drop shipper, you’ll need to find a supplier and make a business e-commerce website. Once you set all this up, there’s not much to do anymore. Your supplier will take care of the orders. Furthermore, you don’t need any warehouse space for items since they are shipped directly from the supplier.
If you’re that person that always loved throwing Halloween, Christmas office parties, and celebrates birthdays for at least a week, you should get into the event planning business. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the field of event planning is projected to grow at a faster-than-average rate of 7% until 2028. In the beginning, make a few pro bono events for your portfolio. Connect with multiple vendors and party supply stores to create a database ready for any event.
When it comes to events, a wedding is the most important one. So important that there is a whole specialized type of event planner for it, a wedding planner. The responsibility of a wedding planner is to organize the whole event, from the flowers, bend to the location. As in every event planning, networking and communication are the keys.
Contrary to popular belief, personal trainers don’t have to work exclusively in the gym. There is also a high demand for clients who want to work out in their house or even remotely, via Zoom/Skype. The best thing is that you have to own little to no equipment personally. You can also expand your business by offering your services as a meal planner or holistic health coach.
In case you’re not the jack of many trades, but rather a master of the one you should consider making your online course. People love learning new skills in the comfort of their homes and there are many successful online learning platforms to prove that. Make a series of educational videos and/or Skype lessons with your clients.
Pet Business – if you haven’t noticed, pet owners love spending money on their favorites. It’s an industry worth nearly $100 billion so it’s very much a demanding business. This can be a service-based business like walking, grooming, or training. Or, it can be a product-based business and you can sell a physical product like toys, accessories, and food.
Online Dating Consultant
Connecting potential matches has always existed as a job, just now it’s moved to an online domain. Nowadays, there are multiple dating apps on the market and one of the reasons is that they are easy to build with a dating app builder. It’s become a full-time job to manage profiles and meet people. An online dating consultant helps with managing multiple profiles, writes an interesting profile, and filtrates unwanted messages.
Love nature and an eye-catching design? Try starting a landscaping business. The job of a landscape artist is to maintain and arrange the elements of the land to look beautiful. Depending on the client’s demand you can get creative with different styles and plants. While this may be a profitable business idea, there’s some competition so be sure to stand out somehow.
Tour Guide Business
Tour guide business can be an especially profitable business idea if you live in a touristy area. All you need to start is knowledge of English, or even better, multiple languages and a gift for storytelling. It’s advisable to market your tours somehow, although most of the tour guides became successful by mouth marketing. So, the marketing efforts and costs are minimal.
One of the common online businesses. Businesses no longer want to pay for unnecessary office space so everything is transferred online. As a virtual assistant, you only need a computer, internet connection, and good organizational skills. The main job of a virtual assistant is to deal with clerical work, keeping track of clients’ upcoming obligations and events.
If you love cooking daily and you’re very good at it, maybe a personal chef is a career for you. There are practically no costs for starting this business. The clients pay for the groceries and you use their kitchen utensils and tools. What you do have to own are good organizational skills, the ability to multitask, and knowledge of nutrition and diets.
While this is a cheap and easy business, to begin with, it takes a lot of dedication and planning to make some serious money out of it. Affiliate marketing is promoting other’s products and services while earning commission out of it. To do it, you’ll need a blog, website, video…some sort of media. When people click on the link you provide and buy the product or service you promote, you’ll earn a commission. The idea is to attract as many people as possible.
How to Start Successful Low-Cost Business Idea in 3 Easy Steps
Being a business owner is never easy. Even when it is a low-cost business model. Before you engage in any business, there are three crucial things you must take into account.
Pick strong and reliable niches
In most businesses, it is all about a good marketing plan. Reaching the target audience is always the goal. The marketing efforts become much easier if you have a smaller niche you’re focused on.
Once you decide on your niche (vegan meal planner, pet grooming in your area, a podcast about a specific subject…) build social media content that will attract your audience.
Once you get to know your audience you’ll have an even better insight on topics you should focus on. Your business will soon expand to a like-minded audience.
Pick a couple of pricing methods & strategies to win marketing
Several pricing strategies resonate with the audience. You just have to find the right one for you and your target audience.
Try to find that sweet spot between too low and too high price. If you sell products don’t forget to calculate the shipping cost that varies depending on the country.
Some sellers decide on selling the products for a higher price with shipping included while others embolden their customers to hit a certain price threshold to achieve free shipping. It’s up to you.
Seek feedback in order to generate desirable growth
Remember, the products/services you offer in the beginning don’t have to be the ones you offer all the time. You can easily replace the products/services that don’t seem to be selling and put in new ones.
As time passes you’ll learn more about the business and your customers. You can make a better website and store. You can find a more suitable supplier.
Be bold. Try different approaches, follow the traffic and purchases, adapt to the market.
Frequently Asked Questions About Low Cost Business Ideas
Which business is best for a low budget?
There are plenty of types of businesses that are great for low budget:
- Freelance writer
- Graphic designer
- Podcast host
- Pet business
- Personal Cher
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How do you teach your kids important money values? It’s a tricky question. The very subject strikes fear into the hearts of moms and dads everywhere.
There’s not a lot of straightforward guidance out there on how to teach your kids about saving and investing – or about what investment options exist for your kids. On this page, I’ll give you a summary of resources you can use to find out how to teach your kids about saving – and what options you have.
Teaching Kids Money Values
Teaching kids about saving money isn’t really about teaching them to set aside a part of what they make – although that is important. First and foremost, though, it’s about teaching a savings mindset. That means teaching them:
Teaching Kids Delayed Gratification
When my oldest son was small, he desperately wanted a Lego Death Star. He saved, and saved, and saved some more and finally achieved his goal. Now, about a decade later, this is the only toy from his childhood he still uses on a regular basis.
Teaching your kids about delayed gratification, and saving their money for things they really want, is important for their financial success in the long run.
Setting aside a portion of everything – The earlier you introduce this concept, the more likely your kids will consider saving to be a natural part of what you do. In addition to the Lego Death Star lessons, I had my oldest son read The Richest Man in Babylon when he was 10 or 11. He still remembers it today.
Teaching Kids Hard Money Lessons – And Advertising Awareness
Teaching kids about delayed gratification, smart shopping, and the evils of advertising is not easy. I find very few financial books cover this, even though these are the kinds of financial lessons kids will need through their entire lifetimes.
Evils Of Advertising And Your Kids
Advertisers target kids for a reason – they haven’t yet learned that advertisements aren’t real. Constant exposure to advertising creates a desire in kids for stuff they never would have known existed otherwise, and an increase in commercialism. Ads are pushed on television, on the internet, on YouTube, in magazines, and even in schools. Research has shows that ads have a substantial impact on childrens product preferences. As the parent, you need to teach them to be a critical consumer, questioning everything they’re told (or sold).
Teaching Kids Some Things Are More Important Than Money
When my great-grandfathers watch stopped working, my teenager was devestated. His great-grandpa had passed away when he was little, and although my son didn’t remember much about him, he was very attached to the watch. His great-grandpa loved him, and had big hopes and dreams to do things together. Even though those dreams didn’t come true, the watch bound them together.
Deliberate Deprivation, Increased Appreciation
“Deliberate deprivation” sounds depressing – but it’s actually liberating. One of the reasons kids (and adults!) end up feeling like they need more, more, more to be happy is because they get used to a specific level of consumption. More things don’t make us happy. We get used to the higher level of consumption quickly, and feel like that next thing will make us happy.
One way to help increase your happiness with what you already have is to deliberately deprive yourself of that item for some time. This works with both kids and adults. Find out more about how to use deliberate deprivation to increase appreciation here.
Economic Outpatient Care
“Economic outpatient care” is a concept I first read about in The Millionaire Next Door. It’s essentially the idea of paying for your kids once they’re grown, enabling them to live a lifestyle way outside their own means. It disables your kids, makes them dependent upon you, and can destroy your own financial future.
Instead of disabling our children, lets enable them to grow up with strong money values, and stand on their own two (financial) feet. Read more about avoiding economic outpatient care with your kids.
More Resources To Teach Kids Money Values
So how exactly do you teach your kids these lessons? My favorite way, honestly, is using ordinary everyday events to impart valuable financial lessons. Check out my Frugal Family Fun page for more stories about how we do this – I bet you’ll get a lot of ideas on how you can do the same thing with your own family.
For younger kids, I highly recommend watching Warren Buffett’s Secret Millionaires Club webisodes together and talking about them.
I’d also recommend reading this Arthur book about when Arthur wants to buy a new treat dispenser for his dog. It’s a great example for kids about not believing everything you see on TV. (note – the book link is an affiliate link. If you buy it I get a small commission at no cost to you – or you can always get it from the library).
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Each school year, we encourage and invite rising sophomores, juniors, and seniors to apply to be a Safe2Tell student ambassador. Our ambassadors provide insight and feedback on the Safe2Tell program and ensure that our work stays youth-centered. The application is open in the springtime of each school year. The program will begin with selected students in the summer and continue through the end of the school year.
If you are interested in making a difference in the lives of Colorado students and meet the qualifications below, becoming a student ambassador may be a great opportunity for you.
Qualifications to become a student ambassador:
- A rising sophomore, junior, or senior
- A creative, solution based, problem solver
- Socially conscious
- Empathetic about mental health and other issues facing teens and youth
- A self-starter eager to engage in projects outside of the meeting time
- Experience with either side of bullying and a commitment to ending bullying at your school
- A humble desire to lead your peers
- Interest in school safety, leadership development, marketing, community service, and public policy
- Availability for monthly meetings, either virtual or in person
- School staff/leadership that is willing to support you and your project(s)
- Make an impact within your community through Safe2Tell
- Meet and greet with the Colorado Attorney General
- Safe2Tell swag for each ambassador
- Network with Safe2Tell staff and other students from across Colorado
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CAMERON COUNTY, Texas — UPDATE 3: For reasons yet unknown, SpaceX's Starship exploded on the landing pad minutes after a successful high-altitude flight test and landing.
UPDATE 2: SpaceX's latest Starship high-altitude flight test proved to be a success. SN10 is the company's third prototype after two previous attempts to have the spacecraft hover above the ground before reorienting itself to land ended in fiery explosions.
All-in-all the liftoff attempt spanned just shy of seven minutes. Space lovers watched the Raptor engines fire and lift SN10 approximately six miles into the air before it began to hover.
Next came the horizontal shift of the spacecraft as it began its descent back to the pad in Boca Chica. Typically, SpaceX's downfall was the flip sequence which reorients Starship ahead of touchdown.
March 3 changed all that as SN10 landed as it was programmed to and a cloud of dust spanned the launch site. Once cleared, the prototype stood tall, marking a victory for the future of "fully reuseable" space transportation.
SpaceX said the soft landing allowed the private space company to collect data on controlling the vehicle.
Watch a recap of the moment below.
UPDATE: SpaceX aborted today's SN10 high-altitude flight test with 0.1 left on the clock. Viewers got to see the abort first-hand as the Raptor engines fired, but the latest prototype never left the ground.
Company founder and CEO, Elon Musk said the launch was aborted due to a conservative high thrust limit for the spacecraft.
Given the hours remaining in SpaceX's 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. test window, another flight attempt is projected to be made two hours after the abort.
To do so, Musk says the team will increase the "thrust limit & recycle propellant."
The original story is below.
SpaceX could attempt another high-altitude flight test of its Starship prototype Wednesday. SN10 would mark the company's third test of the prototype.
The launch window for SN10 has been cleared to take place at the company's Cameron County, Texas site anytime between 9 a.m. and 6 p.m.
The latest launch follows the explosive landings of the SN8 prototype last December and the SN9 prototype earlier this year. Both attempts were considered successful by the company due to the data it collected.
SpaceX's latest model will attempt to lift off the pad, hover above the ground for several minutes and then cut off its Raptor engines for descent. The goal is for SN10 to then reignite its engines and successfully reorient itself to attempt a vertical landing.
Wednesday's test will see Starship reach approximately 6 miles in altitude.
"A controlled aerodynamic descent with body flaps and vertical landing capability, combined with in-space refilling, are critical to landing Starship at destinations across the solar system where prepared surfaces or runways do not exist, and returning to Earth," SpaceX wrote.
Once perfected Starship is slated to be capable of providing a "fully reuseable" transportation system that aims to carry both crew and cargo to the Moon, Mars and beyond, according to SpaceX.
You can catch the flight test live here.
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As a fun project I thought I’d put Google’s Inception-v3 neural network on a Raspberry Pi to see how well it does at recognizing objects first hand. It turned out to be not only fun to implement, but also the way I’d implemented it ended up making for loads of fun for everyone I showed it to, mostly folks at hackerspaces and such gatherings. And yes, some of it bordering on pornographic — cheeky hackers.
An added bonus many pointed out is that, once installed, no internet access is required. This is state-of-the-art, standalone object recognition with no big brother knowing what you’ve been up to, unlike with that nosey Alexa.
But will it lead to widespread useful AI? If a neural network can recognize every object around it, will that lead to human-like skills? Read on.
How To Do Object Recognition
The implementation consists of:
- Raspberry Pi 3 Model B
- amplifier and speaker
- momentary swtich
- cellphone charger battery for the Pi
The heart of the necessary software is Google’s Inception neural network which is implemented using their TensorFlow framework. You can download it by following the TensorFlow tutorial for image recognition. The tutorial doesn’t involve any programing so don’t worry if you don’t know Python or TensorFlow. That is, unless you’re going to modify their sample code as I did.
The sample code takes a fixed named file containing a picture of a panda and does object recognition on it. It gives the result by printing out that it saw a panda. But that wasn’t enough fun.
I hunted around for some text-to-speech software and found Festival. Now when it wants to say it saw a panda, I modified the sample code to run Festival in a linux shell and tell it to actually say “I saw a panda” to the speaker.
But that still wasn’t fun enough. I connected a PiCamera to the Raspberry Pi, and had that take a photo and give it to the TensorFlow code to do object recognition. In the vernacular, it now ran inference on my photo.
And lastly, to make it all real easy I connected a momemtary switch to one of the Pi’s GPIO pins and took the photo when the momentary switch was pressed.
Here’s the Python program’s
main() function before…
def main(_): maybe_download_and_extract() image = (FLAGS.image_file if FLAGS.image_file else os.path.join(FLAGS.model_dir, 'cropped_panda.jpg')) run_inference_on_image(image)
… and after.
def main(_): os.system("echo %s | festival --tts" % "Wait while I prepare my brain...") maybe_download_and_extract() # Creates graph from saved GraphDef. create_graph() # preparing for the switch GPIO.setmode(GPIO.BCM) GPIO.setup(17, GPIO.IN) camera = PiCamera() os.system("echo %s | festival --tts" % "I am ready to see things.") while True: # loop for the switch while (GPIO.input(17) == GPIO.LOW): time.sleep(0.01) # take and write a snapshot to a file image = os.path.join(FLAGS.model_dir, 'seeing_eye_image.jpg') camera.capture(image) os.system("echo %s | festival --tts" % "I am thinking about what you showed me...") human_string = run_inference_on_image(image) os.system("echo I saw a %s | festival --tts" % human_string)
The calls to
os.system() are where I run the Festival text-to-speech program to make it say something to the speaker.
maybe_download_and_extract() is where Google’s Inception neural network would be downloaded from the Internet, if it’s not already present. By default, it downloads it to
/tmp/imagenet which is on a RAM disk. The first time it did this, I copied it from
/home/inception on the SD card and now run the program using a command line that includes where to find the Inception network.
The call to
create_graph() was moved from inside the
create_graph() sets up the neural network, which you need do only once. Previously the program was a one-shot deal, but now it has an infinite while loop which calls
run_inference_on_image() each time through the loop. Obviously, setting up the neural network is something you do only once (see our introduction to TensorFlow for more about graphs) so it had to be moved above the loop.
run_inference_on_image() function is where the image is given to the neural network to do the object recognition. It used to just print out whatever it thought was in the image, but I modified it to instead return the text string containing what it thinks the object is, “coffee mug” for example. So the last line is where it would say “I saw a coffee mug” to the amplifier and speaker.
Boxing all that up gave me a small, standalone package that could be carried around and tried out by anyone. Here’s a video of it in action.
An improvement would be to add a small screen so that the user could see what the camera sees, but the PiCamera has a wide viewing angle and a screen turns out to be not necessary.
How Good Is Its Object Recognition
Showing it a cell phone often results in it saying it saw a cell phone, but sometimes an iPod. However, so far it has gotten water bottles and coffee mugs correct every time.
However, it doesn’t do well with people. Pointing it at me in my office causes it to say it saw a “tobacco shop, tobacconist shop, tobacconist”, probably due to the shelves of equipment and parts directly behind me. However, standing against a blank wall it said it saw a sweatshirt, removing that it saw a tee shirt, removing that, it said “bathing trunks, swim trunks”, despite seeing only my bare upper torso and head. (I’ll spare you the photo.)
The neural network is trained on a dataset called ImageNet, the version from the Large Visual Recognition Challenge of 2012. That dataset consists of a huge collection of images divided up into 1000 classes, each class containing images of a particular object. As you can see from this small sample from the cell phone class, some of the phone images are a little dated. However, objects such as coffee mugs don’t change over time.
But that didn’t stop everyone who played with it from having fun, walking around testing it on everything in sight, like finding a magic wand for the first time and waving it around to see what it could conjure.
Is That The Best You Can Do?
Well, first off, each recognition takes around 10 seconds on a Raspberry Pi 3 so either that has to be sped up or a faster processor used, preferably one with a CUDA-enabled Nvidia GPU since that’s the only type of GPU TensorFlow currently supports.
The Inception neural net is only as good as the data it’s trained on. The flaws I pointed out above regarding recognizing cell phones and people are issues with the ImageNet dataset. Only 3.46% of the time are all 5 of its best guesses wrong, whereas humans doing the same test are wrong in their 5 best guesses 5% of the time. Not bad.
As we pointed out in our article about the freaky stuff neural networks do today, Long Short Term Memory (LSTM) neural networks can examine what they see in a single frame of a video, while taking into account what came before in the video. For example, it has more confidence that it saw a beach ball instead of a basket ball if the preceeding scene was that of a beach party. That differs from the Inception neural network in that Inception has only the image you show it to go on.
Where Does This Get Us?
Will improved object recognition lead to widespread useful AI with human-like skills? The evolution of the eye is often cited as a major cause of the explosion in lifeforms known as the Cambrian explosion around 541 million years ago, though there is much debate about that being that cause.
When those eyes evolved, however, there was already some form of brain to use them. That brain already handled the senses of touch, vibration and smell. So improved object recognition alone wouldn’t cause a revolution. For human-like skills our AIs would need more intelligence. We currently have only bits and pieces of ideas of what we need for that.
What many agree on is that our AI would need to make predictions so that it could plan. For that it could have an internal model, or understanding, of the world to use as a basis for those predictions. For the human skill of applying a soldering tip to a wire, an internal model would predict what would happen when the tip made contact and then plan based on that. When the tip contacts the wire, if things don’t go as predicted then the AI would react.
Recent work from Facebook with Generative Adverserial Networks (GANs) may hint at a starting point here that contains such a model and predictive capability (if you’re not familiar with GANs, we again refer you to our article about the freaky stuff neural networks do today). The “generative” part of the name means that they generate images. But more specifically, these are deeply convoluted GANs, meaning that they contain an understanding of what they’ve seen in the images they’ve been trained on. For example, they know about windows, doors and TVs and where they go in rooms.
What about making predictions? More work from Facebook involves video generation. Using Adversarial Gradient Difference Loss Predictors (AGDL) they predict what the next two frames of a video should be. In the photo of a billiards game you can see the ground truth, i.e. what really happened, and what the AGDL network predicted. It’s not very far into the future but it’s a start.
Those are at least small steps on the path from a naive object recognizer to one with human-like skills.
Where might you have seen the Inception neural network recognizing objects before? We’ve covered [Lukas Biewald] using it on an RC car to recognize objects in his garage/workshop.
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Calligraphy could be easily mentioned in the fountain pen section, but we want to emphasise this special form of writing. That’s not only because people still asking for it. It’s because we love writing with expression.
The real big difference between a normal fountain pen and a writing instrument for calligraphy lies in the nip. A feather for calligraphy has no iridium corn at the end of the nip. It is mostly cut off straight at the end. That’s the reason for the varying caption of the line-width, when writing on the paper. The vertical lines are quite broad and the horizontal lines are fine.
Who are looking for a feather like that on a regular fountain pen will have difficulties to find a model with such a nip. If you find one it will have probably a gold-nip and is party of the more expensive collections. Only a few producers, like Lamy and KaWeCo, offer special fountain pens for calligraphy. You get them mostly as a set with multiple nips, so you can change between different nip-sizes.
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State legislative sessions are coming to an end. Legislators in at least 25 states have gone home and returned to their full-time jobs. Some may be called back to deal with pending state budgetary concerns or controversial issues. Within the past week, we’ve seen Illinois, Minnesota, and Texas adjourn their regular session. Here is a summary of legislation that passed in these states.
The General Assembly adjourned without a budget deal May 31. For legislation affecting community associations, HB 189 dramatically amends the Common Interest Community and Condominium Acts. It has yet to be delivered to Governor Bruce Rauner (R). Once he receives it, he will have 60 days to act or it will become law.
The bill provides:
- That if the community instruments require approval of any mortgagee or lienholder of record and the mortgagee or lienholder of record receives a request to approve or consent to the amendment to the community instruments, the mortgagee or lienholder of record is deemed to have approved or consented to the request unless the mortgagee or lienholder of record delivers a negative response to the requesting party within 60 days after the mailing of the request.
- That a request to approve or consent to an amendment to the community instruments that is required to be sent to a mortgagee or lienholder of record shall be sent by certified mail.
- That an association subject to the Act that consists of 100 or more units shall use generally accepted accounting principles in fulfilling any accounting obligations under the Act.
- Changes in provisions governing: sharing of expenses; sale of property; contents of bylaws; powers and duties of the board of managers; records of the association; availability of records for examination; amendments to the condominium instruments or bylaws; and subdivision or combination of units.
More information on HB 189 may be found by clicking here. CAI Illinois members can look for more information from its Legislative Action Committee on the status of legislation soon. Any bill that did not pass this year will be eligible for consideration in 2018.
Like Illinois, the Legislature adjourned its regular session May 22 without a budget, but convened in a 3-day special session and passed a budget deal. For legislation affecting community associations, HF 1538 was signed into law by Governor Mark Dayton (D) and addresses construction defect claims.
The bill provides:
- The definitions of a “construction defect claim” and “development party.”
- Associations must do the following prior to, or within 90 days of, instituting litigation or arbitration involving construction defect claims:
- Provide written notice to owners, and specifications of the notice; and
- Receive a majority approval by owners, and specifications of voting methods.
- All associations must prepare and approve written preventative maintenance plan, schedule and budget and must follow the plan. The plan must be provided in the disclosure statement. The development party will not have liability if the damages are caused by failing to comply with the maintenance plan.
- Parties must first submit the matter to mediation prior to commencement of a construction defect claim unless they completed the home warranty dispute resolution.
More information on HF1538 may be found here. CAI Minnesota members can look for more information from its Legislative Action Committee on the status of legislation soon. Any bill that did not pass this year will be eligible for consideration in 2018.
The Legislature adjourned May 29. It may reconvene in a special session to address controversial legislation. For legislation affecting community associations, SB 873 relates to the authority and liability of owners and managers of apartment houses, manufactured home rental communities, condominiums, and multiple use facilities in charging tenants for submetered and non-submetered master metered water and wastewater services. The legislation will go into effect immediately if Governor Greg Abbott (R) signs the legislation.
The bill allows a person to file a complaint with the Public Utility Commission (PUC) if an apartment owner, condominium manager, manufactured home rental community owner, or other multiple use facility owner violated certain utility cost rules. PUC would have exclusive jurisdiction for these violations. If PUC found that a tenant had been overcharged, the commission would require an owner or condominium manager to repay the tenant the amount overcharged for submetered or non-submetered water or wastewater services.
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The island was inhabited in the Neolithic period although little remains of this culture.
In the 16th century BCE, the Minoans came to Rhodes. Later Greek mythology recalled a Rhodian race called the Telchines and associated the island of Rhodes with Danaus; it was sometimes nicknamed Telchinis.
In the 15th century BCE, Mycenaean Greeks invaded. After the Bronze Age collapse, the first renewed outside contacts were with Cyprus. Homer mentions that Rhodes participated in the Trojan War under the leadership of Tlepolemus.
In the 8th century BCE, the island’s settlements started to form, with the coming of the Dorians, who built the three important cities of Lindos, Ialyssos and Kameiros, which together with Kos, Cnidus and Halicarnassus (on the mainland) made up the so-called Dorian Hexapolis (Greek for six cities).
In Pindar’s ode, the island was said to be born of the union of Helios the sun god and the nymph Rhodos, and the cities were named for their three sons. The rhoda is a pink hibiscus, native to the island. Diodorus Siculus added that Actis, one of the sons of Helios and Rhode, travelled to Egypt. He built the city of Heliopolis and taught the Egyptians astrology.
In the second half of the 8th century, the sanctuary of Athena received votive gifts that are markers for cultural contacts: small ivories from the Near East and bronze objects from Syria. At Kameiros on the northwest coast, a former Bronze Age site, where the temple was founded in the 8th century, there is another notable contemporaneous sequence of carved ivory figurines. The cemeteries of Kameiros and Ialyssos yielded several exquisite exemplars of the Orientalizing Rhodian jewelry, dated in the 7th and early 6th centuries BC.Phoenician presence on the island at Ialyssos is attested in traditions recorded much later by Rhodian historians.
The Persians invaded and overran the island, but they were in turn defeated by forces from Athens in 478 BC. The Rhodian cities joined the Athenian League. When the Peloponnesian War broke out in 431 BC, Rhodes remained largely neutral, although it remained a member of the League. The war lasted until 404 BC, but by this time Rhodes had withdrawn entirely from the conflict and decided to go her own way.
In 408 BC, the cities united to form one territory. They built the city of Rhodes, a new capital on the northern end of the island. Its regular plan was, according to Strabo, superintended by the Athenian architect Hippodamus.
In 357 BC, the island was conquered by the king Mausolus of Caria, then it fell again to the Persians in 340 BC. Their rule was also short.
Rhodes then became a part of the growing empire of Alexander the Great in 332 BC, after he defeated the Persians. Following the death of Alexander, his generals vied for control of the kingdom. Three – Ptolemy, Seleucus, and Antigonus – succeeded in dividing the kingdom among themselves. Rhodes formed strong commercial and cultural ties] with the Ptolemies in Alexandria, and together formed the Rhodo-Egyptian alliance that controlled trade throughout the Aegean in the 3rd century BC.
The city developed into a maritime, commercial and cultural center; its coins circulated nearly everywhere in the Mediterranean. Its famous schools of philosophy, science, literature and rhetoric shared masters with Alexandria: the Athenian rhetorician Aeschines, who formed a school at Rhodes; Apollonius of Rhodes; the observations and works of the astronomers Hipparchus and Geminus, the rhetorician Dionysius Thrax. Its school of sculptors developed, under Pergamese influence, a rich, dramatic style that can be characterized as “Hellenistic Baroque”.
Agesander, with two other Rhodian sculptors, carved the famous Laocoon group, now in the Vatican Museum, and the large sculptures rediscovered at Sperlonga in the villa of Tiberius, probably in the early Imperial period.
In 305 BC, Antigonus directed his son, Demetrius, to besiege Rhodes in an attempt to break its alliance with Egypt. Demetrius created huge siege engines, including a 180 ft (55 m) battering ram and a siege tower called Helepolis that weighed 360,000 pounds (163,293 kg).
Despite this engagement, in 304 BC after only one year, he relented and signed a peace agreement, leaving behind a huge store of military equipment. The Rhodians sold the equipment and used the money to erect a statue of their sun god, Helios, the statue since called the Colossus of Rhodes.
Throughout the 3rd century BC, Rhodes attempted to secure her independence and her commerce, most especially her virtual control over the grain trade in the eastern Mediterranean. Both of these goals were dependent upon no one of the three great Hellenistic states achieving dominance, and consequently the Rhodians pursued a policy of maintaining a balance of power among the Antigonids, Seleucids and Ptolemies, even if that meant going to war with her traditional ally, Egypt. To this end they employed as leverage their economy and their excellent navy, which was manned by proverbially the finest sailors in the Mediterranean world: “If we have ten Rhodians, we have ten ships.”
The Rhodians also established their dominance on the shores of Caria across from their island, which became known as the “Rhodian Peraia”. It extended roughly from the modern city of Mugla (ancient Mobolla) in the north and Kaunos bordering Lycia in the south, near the present-day Dalyan, Turkey.
Rhodes successfully carried on this policy through the course of the third century BC, an impressive achievement for what was essentially a democratic state. By the end of that period, however, the balance of power was crumbling, as declining Ptolemaic power made Egypt an attractive target for Seleucid ambitions.
In 203/2 BC the young and dynamic kings of Antigonid Macedon and Seleucid Asia, Philip V and Antiochus III, agreed to accept—at least temporarily—their respective military ambitions, Philip’s campaign in the Aegean and western Anatolia and Antiochus’ final solution of the Egyptian question. Heading a coalition of small states, the Rhodians checked Philip’s navy, but not his superior army. Without a third power to which to turn, the Rhodians appealed in 201 BC to the Roman Republic.
Despite being exhausted by the titanic struggle against Hannibal (218–201 BC) the Romans agreed to intervene, having already been stabbed in the back by Philip during the war against Carthage. The Senate saw the appeal from Rhodes and her allies as the opportunity to pressure Philip. The result was the Second Macedonia War (200–196 BC), which ended Macedon’s role as a major player and preserved Rhodian independence. Rhodian influence in the Aegean was cemented through the organization of the Cyclades into the Second Nesiotic League under Rhodian leadership.
The Romans actually withdrew from Greece after the end of the conflict, but the resulting power vacuum quickly drew in Antiochus and subsequently the Romans, who defeated (192–188 BC) the last Mediterranean power that might even vaguely threaten their predominance. Having provided Rome with valuable naval help in her first foray into Asia, the Rhodians were rewarded with territory and enhanced status. The Romans once again evacuated the east – the Senate preferred clients to provinces – but it was clear that Rome now ruled the world and Rhodian autonomy was ultimately dependent upon good relations with them.
And those good graces soon evaporated in the wake of the Third Macedonia War (171–168 BC). In 169 BC, during the war against Perseus, Rhodes sent Agepolis as ambassador to the consul Quintus Marcius Philippus, and then to Rome in the following year, hoping to turn the Senate against the war. Rhodes remained scrupulously neutral during the war, but in the view of hostile elements in the Senate she had been a bit too friendly with the defeated King Perseus.
Some actually proposed declaring war on the island republic, but this was averted. In 164, Rhodes became a permanent ally of Rome, ending an independence that no longer had any meaning. It was said that the Romans ultimately turned against the Rhodians because the islanders were the only people they had encountered who were more arrogant than themselves.
After surrendering its independence Rhodes became a cultural and educational center for Roman noble families and was especially noted for its teachers of rhetoric, such as Hermagoras and the unknown author of Rhetorica ad Herennium. At first, the state was an important ally of Rome and enjoyed numerous privileges, but these were later lost in various machinations of Roman politics. Cassius eventually invaded the island and sacked the city. In the early Imperial period Rhodes became a favorite place for political exiles.
In the 1st century AD, the Emperor Tiberius spent a brief term of exile on Rhodes. Saint Paul brought Christianity to people on the island. Rhodes reached her zenith in the 3rd century.
In ancient times there was a Roman saying: “hic Rhodus, hic salta!”—”Here is Rhodes, jump here”, an admonition to prove one’s idle boasts by deed rather than talk. It comes from an Aesop’s fable called “The Boastful Athlete” and was cited by Hegel, Marx, and Kierkgaard.
In 395 with the division of the Roman Empire, the long Byzantine period began for Rhodes. In Late Antiquity, the island was the capital of the Roman province of the Islands, headed by a praeses (hegemon in Greek), and encompassing most of the Aegean islands, with twenty cities. Correspondingly, the island was also the metropolis of the ecclesiastical province of Cyclades, with eleven sees.
Beginning from ca. 600 AD, its influence in maritime issues was manifested in the collection of maritime laws known as “Rhodian Sea Law” (Nomos Rhodion Nautikos), accepted throughout the Mediterranean and in use throughout Byzantine times (and influencing the development of admiralty law up to the present). In 622/3, during the climactic Byzantine – Sasanian War of 602 – 628, Rhodes was captured by the Sasanian navy.
Rhodes was occupied by the Islamic Umayyad forces of Caliph Muawiyah I in 654, who carried off the remains of the Colossus of Rhodes. The island was again captured by the Arabs in 673 as part of their first attack on Constatinople. When their fleet was destroyed by Greek fire before Constantinople and by storms on its return trip, however, the island was evacuated in 679/80 as part of the Byzantine–Umayyad peace treaty. In 715 the Byzantine fleet dispatched against the Arabs launched a rebellion at Rhodes, which led to the installation of Theodosios III on the Byzantine throne.
From the early 8th to the 12th centuries, Rhodes belonged to the Cibyrrhaeot Theme of the Byzantine Empire, and was a centre for shipbuilding and commerce. In c. 1090, it was occupied by the forces of the Seljuk Turks, after the long period of chaos resulting from the Battle of Manzikert. Rhodes was recaptured by the Emperor Alexios I Kommenos during the First Crusade.
As Byzantine central power weakened under the Angeloi emperors (1185–1204), in the first half of the 13th century, Rhodes became the centre of an independent domain under Leo Gabalas and his brother John, until it was occupied by the Genoese in 1248–1250. The Genoese were evicted by the Empire of Nicaea, after which the island became a regular province of the Nicaean state (and after 1261 of the restored Byzantine Empire). In 1305, the island was given as a fief to Andrea Morisco, a Genoese adventurer who had entered Byzantine service. Between 1300 and 1314, however, Rhodes was controlled by Mentese, an Anatolian beylik.
Crusader and Ottoman Rule
In 1306–1310, the Byzantine era of the island’s history came to an end when the island was occupied by the Knights Hospitaller. Under the rule of the newly named “Knights of Rhodes”, the city was rebuilt into a model of the European medieval ideal. Many of the city’s famous monuments, including the Palace of the Grand Master, were built during this period.
The strong walls which the knights had built withstood the attacks of the Sultan og Egypt in 1444, and a siege by the Ottomans under Mehmed II in 1480. Eventually, however, Rhodes fell to the large army of Suleiman the Magnificent in December 1522. The Sultan deployed 400 ships delivering 100,000 men to the island (200,000 in other sources). Against this force the Knights, under Grand Master Philippe Villiers de L’Isle-Adam, had about 7,000 men-at-arms and their fortifications.
The siege lasted six months, at the end of which the surviving defeated Hospitallers were allowed to withdraw to the Kingdom of Sicily. Despite the defeat, both Christians and Muslims seem to have regarded the conduct of Villiers de L’Isle-Adam as extremely valiant, and the Grand Master was proclaimed a Defender of the Faith by Pope Adrian VI. The knights would later move their base of operations to Malta.
Rhodes was thereafter a possession of the Ottoman Empire for nearly four centuries.
In the XIX century the island was populated by ethnic groups from the surrounding nations, including Jews. Under Ottoman rule, they generally did fairly well, but discrimination and bigotry occasionally arose. In February 1840, the Jews of Rhodes were falsely accused by the Greek Orthodox community of ritually murdering a Christian boy. This became known as the Rhodes blood libel.
Austria opened a post-office at RHODUS (Venetian name) before 1864, as witnessed by stamps with Franz-Josef head.
In 1912, Italy seized Rhodes from the Ottomans during the Italo-Turkish War. The island’s population was spared the “exchange of the minorities” between Greece and Turkey. Rhodes and the rest of the Dodecanese Islands were assigned to Italy in the Treaty of Ouchy. Turkey ceded them officially to Italy with the 1923 Treaty of Lausanne. It then became the core of their possession of the Isole Italiane dell’Egeo. The island was greatly improved (mainly the capital called “Rodi” in Italian) under the more than thirty years of the Kingdom of Italy’s rule.
Thousands of Italian colonists settled in the island, mainly in the capital “Rodi”, while some of them founded farm villages (like “Peveragno Rodio” (1929), “Campochiaro” (1935), “San Marco” (1936) and “Savona” (1938): in the Dodecanese islands was officially proposed the creation in 1940 of the “Provincia italiana di Rodi”.
In the late 1930s, Mussolini embarked on a program of Italianization, hoping to make the island of Rhodes a modern transportation hub that would serve as a focal point for the spread of Italian culture in Greece and the Levant. The Fascist program did have some positive effects in its attempts to modernize the island, resulting in the eradication of malaria, the construction of hospitals, aqueducts, a power plant to provide Rhodes’ capital with electric lighting and the establishment of the Dodecanese Cadastre.
Following the Italian Armistice of 8 September 1943, the British attempted to get the Italian garrison on Rhodes to change sides. This was anticipated by the German Army, which succeeded in occupying the island with the Battle of Rhodes. In great measure, the German occupation caused the British failure in the subsequent Dodecanese Campaign.
After September 1943 the Jews -who had been protected by the Italian government- were persecuted by the nazi Germans and sent to concentration camps. However, the Turkish Consul Selahattin Ulkumen succeeded, at considerable risk to himself and his family, in saving 42 Jewish families, about 200 persons in total, who had Turkish citizenship or were members of Turkish citizens’ families.
On 8 May 1945 the Germans under Otto Wagener surrendered Rhodes as well as the Dodecanese as a whole to the British, who soon after then occupied the islands as a military protectorate.
In the WW2 Peace Treaty, Rhodes, together with the other islands of the Dodecanese, was united with Greece in February 1947. 6000 Italian colonists were forced to abandon the island and returned to Italy.
In 1949, Rhodes was the venue for negotiations between Israel and Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon and Syria, and, concluding with the 1949 Armistice Agreements.
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Roseanna and Skate Her are committed to the Skateistan association to promote access to education and sport for vulnerable children.
The ready-to-wear house Roseanna, Skate Her and the Skateistan association have joined forces to create a T-shirt, all proceeds from the sale of which will be donated to Skateistan.
In this way, donations will enable the association to create safe spaces around the world where children can play, learn and dream. It is a unisex garment priced between €80 (adults) and €45 (children).
This project is the story of a meeting between three personalities: Anne-Fleur Broudehoux, artistic director of Roseanna; James Green, head of development at Skateistan; and Lucie Curutchet, founder of SkateHer. They all share the same thought: skateboarding is a vehicle through which children can deal with trauma and learn resilience. It also engages them in a process that is both social and fun, and can be used to connect children to educational activities.
Roseanna‘s know-how and SkateHer‘s skateboarding knowledge combine to create a unique and meaningful piece. The T-shirt will be offered for sale to encourage donations and contribute to the education of vulnerable children.
“We discovered this association in August 2021 and were very touched by their mission to make skateboarding accessible to young girls. When we heard about Skateistan’s actions, they were working in Afghanistan, where girls were forbidden to ride bicycles, but could skateboard! That’s what made us want to carry out this charitable collaboration and support the project all over the world,” says Anne-Fleur Broudehoux.
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Work in Early Years through our FREE Pan London Early Years Sector Skills training programme!
Written on 21st, September 2021
Are you are aged between 16-69? Living in London? Currently unemployed?
If yes, our Early Years training programme is the perfect way to kickstart a new career in the Early Years sector! Starting a career in Early Years opens many career opportunities, from apprenticeship opportunities to being your own boss! Working in a childcare role will give you the chance to support children as they learn, develop, and prepare for school.
What are the early years?
Children aged 0-5 are known as the early year’s group. This stage of a child life is crucial. They need to be ready for school and have developed the necessary skills to process forward. Individuals who work in Early Years play an important role in helping children from birth to school age reach their full potential.
There are a variety of roles within Early Years and whichever one you chose, you will have a rewarding career, where you can work with children of all backgrounds. You will play a key part in helping them develop skills that they’ll use throughout their life. It’s a career that brings fun, enjoyment and job satisfaction. You will see first-hand the impact your support has on a child, giving you the satisfaction that you’re giving them the best possible start in life.
Benefits of the programme:
- Our programme* can be tailored to meet your needs.
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SpaceX launched 50 Starlink internet satellites and landed the returning rocket on a ship at sea today (Feb. 25).
A little less than nine minutes later, the Falcon 9’s first stage came back down to Earth for a vertical touchdown on Of Course I Still Love You, a SpaceX droneship that was stationed several hundred miles off the California coast.
The second stage, meanwhile, continued carrying the 50 satellites to orbit. The spacecraft deployed as planned about an hour after liftoff, SpaceX confirmed via Twitter today.
It was the fourth launch and landing for this particular booster. The first stage also helped launch the Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich Earth-observation satellite for NASA and the European Organization for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites in November 2020, as well as 60 Starlink satellites in May 2021 and NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test spacecraft in November 2021, SpaceX representatives said.
Such reuse is a priority for SpaceX and its founder and CEO, Elon Musk. Musk aims to help humanity colonize Mars, and the billionaire entrepreneur believes that fully and rapidly reusable rockets are the key breakthrough needed to make that happen.
Today’s launch was the third Starlink mission of February for SpaceX, after a 49-satellite launch on Feb. 3 and a 46-satellite liftoff on Monday (Feb. 21). The Feb. 21 mission marked the 100th landing of a Falcon 9 first stage during an orbital flight.
The Feb. 3 mission was also notable, but for a very different reason. Shortly after liftoff, a solar eruption triggered a geomagnetic storm on Earth, which increased the density of our atmosphere enough to bring down most of the newly launched satellites via drag. SpaceX has said that it will launch Starlink spacecraft to slightly higher initial altitudes in the future to protect against such storms.
SpaceX has launched more than 2,000 Starlink satellites to date, and many more are slated to go up. The company has permission to loft 12,000 of the broadband spacecraft, and it has applied for approval to launch up to 30,000 more.
Editor’s note: This story was updated at 12:30 p.m. EST with news of the successful launch and rocket landing, then again at 1:20 p.m. EST with news of satellite deployment.
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There’s no better way to explore Corriganville Park in Simi Valley than to get out of your vehicle and hike the trails!
- Hiking Trails
If you’re looking for a hike that will give you plenty of exercise and scenic beauty, Corriganville Park is the perfect place for you. The park has many trails that will take you on a journey through forests, meadows, and streams. Whether you’re planning to hike for a few hours or all day, there’s sure to be a trail that’s perfect for you.
There are plenty of reasons to hike. For some, hiking is a form of mental and physical exercise that can be enjoyed solo or in a group. Others find peace and serenity in nature’s beauty, while others enjoy the challenge of conquering a new hike. Whatever your reason for hiking, the Corriganville Park has plenty of trails to choose from.
The trail system at Corriganville Park offers hikers of all levels of experience something to explore. The easiest trails are rated for families with small children, and there are plenty of options for those wishing to venture further afield. For experienced hikers, there are also challenging trails that offer great views and solitude. Whatever your level of fitness or experience, you’re sure to find a trail within the park that fits your needs.
How to Hike?
Hiking trails in Corriganville Park are perfect for beginners and experienced hikers alike. The park’s trails offer a variety of terrain, including wooded areas, rolling hills, and beautiful vistas. To help you plan your hike, we’ve outlined the most popular trails in the park below.
The Easy Trail is a short walk that takes you through a forest of oak and maple trees. This trail is perfect for families with small children or those who are new to hiking. The Moderate Trail is a longer trek that leads you to different scenic overlooks along the way. If you enjoy strenuous hikes, the Advanced Trail is the route for you! It features steep climbs and descents, making it one of the most challenging trails in the park.
No matter which trail you choose, be sure to take plenty of water with you – especially during hot weather months – and wear sunscreen to protect your skin from the sun’s intense rays. And don’t forget your camera! You might just be able to capture some amazing photos while hiking in Corriganville Park!
Safety and Precautions when Hiking
When hiking in Corriganville Park, it is important to take safety precautions. Make sure to wear sturdy shoes, bring a first aid kit, and know the signs of hypothermia. If you are feeling dizzy or lightheaded, stop hiking and rest until you feel better. Finally, be sure to stay on the trails and avoid going off-trail.
What to Pack for a Hike
When hiking in Corriganville Park in Simi Valley, you’ll want to be prepared for a variety of conditions. Make sure to pack plenty of water, snacks, sunscreen, and a first-aid kit. Here are some other items you may want to bring along: a hat or sunglasses for protection from the sun, insect repellent, a flashlight if you’re going on an evening hike, and sturdy shoes that can handle rough terrain.
If you’re new to hiking, be sure to check out the park’s trails map before heading out. The map will give you an overview of the different trails in the park and suggest which paths are most suited for different levels of experience.
Areas to Visit in Corriganville Park
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Names of Christ: Who do you say that I am?
12 Therefore, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us also lay aside every weight and the sin that clings so closely,[a] and let us run with perseverance the race that is set before us, 2 looking to Jesus the pioneer and perfecter of our faith, who for the sake of[b] the joy that was set before him endured the cross, disregarding its shame, and has taken his seat at the right hand of the throne of God.
3 Consider him who endured such hostility against himself from sinners,[c] so that you may not grow weary or lose heart. 4 In your struggle against sin you have not yet resisted to the point of shedding your blood.
My elementary school years were spent in a small town in Southern Illinois. The state motto for Illinois is “The Land of Lincoln.” As you can imagine, Lincoln lore was a big part of our training in civics and civil behavior, because Abraham Lincoln was a “pioneer” of sorts. He blazed the trails and paved the way for a state and nation.
My elementary Sunday School years were spent in a small Presbyterian Church in Southern Illinois. In many of those classes we learned stories about Jesus. He was THE pioneer and perfecter of our faith. He gave His life for us as He endured the cross. He showed us that glory often follows obedient sacrifice. And as we run with perseverance the race of faith that is set before us, we need to shed the sin (even if it means shedding a little blood) so that we can share in the glory of life in the kingdom.
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Snow is precipitation in the form of ice crystals.
Water vapor travels from the ground to the level of the atmosphere to form clouds all throughout the year no matter what the temperature is.
Snow forms when water vapor in the atmosphere freezes into ice crystals. These tiny ice crystals collect on tiny pieces of dirt in the atmosphere. Sometimes there are as many as 200 ice crystals clumped together to make a single snowflake.
Snow forms when the atmospheric temperature is at or below freezing (0 degrees Celsius or 32 degrees Fahrenheit) and there is a minimum amount of moisture in the air. If the ground temperature is at or below freezing, of course the snow will reach the ground.
There are so many ways that ice crystals can grow that some people say that no two snowflakes are alike. Probably no two snowflakes have exactly the same arrangement of molecules, but they can look alike.
Snow comes in different crystal shapes. Often depicted as stellar dentrites, snow can fall in a variety of shapes, such as simple prisms, hollow columns, fernlike stellar dentrites and triangular crystals. The shape of the snow is often too small to see with the naked eye, so researchers use a snowflake photomicroscope to document the different shapes and types of snowflakes.
Snow is actually colorless. Visible sunlight is white. Most natural materials absorb some sunlight which gives them their color. Snow, however, reflects most of the sunlight. The complex structure of snow crystals results in countless tiny surfaces from which visible light is efficiently reflected. What little sunlight is absorbed by snow is absorbed uniformly over the wavelengths of visible light thus giving snow its white appearance.
The average snowflake is made up of 180 billion molecules of water and falls at a speed of 5 kilometer per hour (3.1 miles per hour).
The average snowflake ranges from a size slightly smaller than a penny to the width of a human hair.
Every winter, at least one septillion (that’s 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000—24 zeros!) snowflakes fall from the sky.
Guinness World Records lists the largest snowflakes as having fallen during a storm in January 1887 at Fort Keogh, in Montana. A rancher nearby, the book says, called them “larger than milk pans” and measured one at 38 centimeters (15 inches) wide.
The exact amount of water contained in snow can vary quite significantly depending on how the snow formed, but as a general average, every 12 centimeters (4.7 inches) of snow would provide 1 centimeter (0.4 inch) of water.
On March 5, 2015, some 2.56 meters (101 inches) of snow fell in 24 hours in Capracotta, Italy, setting a new world record, which is recognized by Guinness World Record. The record previously belonged to Silver Lake, Colorado, USA with 1.93 meters (75.8 inches).
By far the snowiest city on Earth is Aomori City in Aomori Prefecture, Japan. This location averages a whopping 8 meters (26 feet) of snow per year, a 2.5 meters (100 inches) more than Sapporo, the next snowiest city.
Residents of Bethel, Maine, USA, and surrounding towns, built the world’s tallest snowman, which is actually a snowwoman measuring 37.21 meters (122 ft 1 in) tall, over a period of one month, completing her on 26 February 2008. She was only a few feet shorter than the Statue of Liberty.
The most snowmen built in one hour is 2,036 and was achieved by Drama 24 Unhandy Handyman (Japan) at Zuriyama Observation Field, in Akabira, Hokkaido, Japan, on 28 February 2015.
The record for the most people making snow angels simultaneously is 8,962 at the State Capitol Grounds in Bismarck, North Dakota for an event organized by the State Historical Society of North Dakota on 17 February 2007.
The largest snowball fight consisted of 7,681 participants and was achieved at an event organized by the City of Saskatoon, PotashCorp Wintershines Festival, and Yukigassen Team Canada (all Canada), in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada, on 31 January 2016.
Carved out of snow and ice, Iglu-Dorf in the town of Zermatt (Switzerland) at the base of the Matterhorn is the world’s largest snow igloo, measuring an impressive 10.5 meters (34 feet 4 inches) tall, with a vast internal diameter of 12.9 meters (42 feet 4 inches). The Guinness Book of World Records confirmed it as the largest in 2016, after construction was completed in January.
Vermont farmer Wilson A. Bentley was known as Snowflake Bentley for being the first person to successfully photograph a snowflake. After years of experimenting with connecting microscopes to a bellows camera, in 1885 Wilson Bentley succeeding in capturing the first ever snowflake photograph. He became famous for photographing more than 5,000 jewel-like snowflakes.
Anthropologist Franz Boas mentioning his observations in the introduction to his 1911 book “Handbook of American Indian Languages,” he ignited the claim that Eskimos have dozens, or even hundreds, of words for snow. Although the idea continues to capture public imagination, most linguists considered it an urban legend, born of sloppy scholarship and journalistic exaggeration. Some have even gone as far as to name it the Great Eskimo Vocabulary Hoax. The latest evidence, however, suggests that Boas was right all along.
Chionophobia is the extreme dislike or fear of snow. The word originates from Greek chion meaning snow and phobos meaning fear, aversion or dread. People with Chionophobia often understand that their fear is unfounded and weird. However, they are unable to control it.
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Text: Bartosz Sztybor
Illustrations: Piotr Nowacki, Łukasz Mazur
23,7 x 17,2 cm
Spanish working translation available
The first Polish comics prepared for the younger readers, engaging their minds and explaining the world of democracy, how majority works, why voting is so important to keep your identity.
VOL. I – There is no place like “Oak”
There is no smoke without a fire, a rose without thorns and a tortoise without a shell. Are we sure? After all, Tudo the tortoise just lost his one. Ah, you do not know who Tudo is yet, right? Tudo is a turtle, young, eager to see the world and independent. And … without a shell. But you have to find out on Your own why he lost it and how it can be handle, taking him to his new
VOL. II – There is a “forest” to rest
Tudo found a new home where he can enjoy the freedom and support of his friends. But a new home also means new responsibilities, especially when you’re The President. Will Tudo handle everything and will it help him with in …. voting? And what will he do when unannounced guests appear on subsequent branches of the oak? And how the raise of the opposition, surprising migrations and a whole lot of extraordinary adventures will develop him as a new democratic, true leader of their small home called the Oak. | <urn:uuid:9811fbe4-b6d4-47bd-93a6-aae76f54bea5> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://ka-books.com/2019/08/02/in-the-tree-crown/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570879.37/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809003642-20220809033642-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.945067 | 327 | 2.546875 | 3 |
“Every success story has its tenacious flow and this year, we want to honour their flow.”TEDxBangsar 2019
On 1 June, TEDxBangsar launched their first event with its theme ‘Flow’ which features a diverse range of speakers sharing their stories about building their flow through connections.
Here’s are 7 lessons from 7 change-makers, who shared how they keep up their success when it comes to dealing with people.
1. Start with perceptions.
CEO and founder of kaodim, Chong Fui-yu explained that labourers’ (recognised by them as craftsmen) work in the same essence as professionals such as lawyers, doctors and engineers.
“Both are exercising their skills and honing their crafts,” he said. “Most importantly, they are both adding value that has great importance to each of us.”
“We failed to recognise it because of how society dictates where and what we should place value on.”
Changing the perspectives not just improve the lives of these craftsmen but also raise the industry standard as a whole.
At kaodim, their mission is to empower the craftsmen through technology. First, they considered the challenges that the craftsmen face in their work.
Thus kaodim devised an algorithm that routes jobs which are closest to the labourers, based on their availability. This cuts down their travel time and maximises the number of jobs they can do in a day.
They also provide financing schemes for contractors to pick up the materials at much better prices.
“By living a day in their lives, by understanding and solving their painpoints, we were able to fundamentally improve the quality of their work so that they can contribute to their communities.”
He encouraged trying different approaches, for different results.
“It starts with our perceptions. Their work need to be understood just a little bit better.”
2. Find ways to unlock potential.
Education activist Kush Linfield talked about how to change the atmosphere in classrooms.
Kidocode, a learning centre for kids, teaches coding, math, and marketing.
To make the classes fun, Kidocode uses a personalised learning system where kids have a choice to learn a particular subject. Through adaptive learning, the kids learn through video tutorials and are guided by trainers.
“Every child has a chance to be fearless in education.”
“It is up to us as educators, as parents and as spectators to identify those fears and remove them entirely.”
3. Put yourself in their shoes.
Restaurateur and social entrepreneur Lyn Siew’s responsibility is to provide an enjoyable environment where customers can have a good time.
RUYI is her first restaurant that she conceptualised. Her grand ambition is building a modern Chinese restaurant that everybody can enjoy.
“I believe that good food is meant to be enjoyed,” she added.
“Food is a universal language. There is no discrimination. If the food is good, everyone enjoys it.”
She talked with the chef to come up with RUYI’s signature dish—something different and accessible for Malaysians. Their discussion led to the birth of the nasi lemak sushi.
The investors and partners said that it was going to be a disaster but she went ahead in putting this dish into the menu. After the restaurant’s opening, people love the signature dish and it went viral on social media.
Lyn and her team put in several thought processes on how the customers will take the initiative to order, experience and take action.
“What is important for our relationship with eating is we need to slow down and ask ourselves about it,” she said. “If we are eating three times a day, we might as well make it a great time—every meal, every day.”
4. Fill in the middle ground.
To make sustainability a norm, co-founder of Unplug, Attiya Zulkarnain asked herself how the message appeals to the audience.
She launched two test campaigns in different target groups:
- Only hard and technical facts – Low response rate and lack of appeal, passive in decision-making and short-lived
- Making a “cool and fashionable” message – Great response but difficult to retain the customers’ attention
“Where we need to sit is in the middle ground between advocate and green trend, where our growth is not pressured by the disadvantages of neither extreme,” she added.
She suggested three simple concepts to fill in the middle ground.
- Intention: Leave room for customers to gain curiosity without being too directive
- Openness: Observe and listen. It is alright to try something different. Don’t be too quick to conclude and assume.
- Transcending labels: Be mindful with heavy terms such as eco-friendly and zero waste
“We believe that real growth occurs in the middle ground where your emotions are kept in check. There is room to listen to your mind and intuition.”
5. Understand the importance of connecting.
Customer loyalty expert Khairul Nisa Ismail came up with a game plan to unlock 75% of 2 million members who are “sleeping”, which means that there is no interaction with the customers.
“We collect particular data—25–35 years old in different interest levels and social interaction,” she added. “I asked the team when the last time they interacted with these members was.”
They found out that these members want lifestyle activities, something that they can earn from shopping and dining. So they created a simple 6–12-month campaign, exclusively for sleeping members, leading a shift, activating 45% of the sleeping members.
“It is a different approach from the time gap of the last interaction with customers and winning them back,” she commented. “Because customers’ behavior changes rapidly.”
She suggested to do research about the customers’ purchasing pattern followed by approaching them with sweet gestures in their interactions.
“At the end of the day, it is a win-win relationship.”
6. Be ready to learn from everyone.
Creative hub builder Jasmine Chou curates art projects at Songshan Cultural and Creative Park, which used to be a tobacco factory back in the late 1930s. Her mission is to bring the space to life with creative content.
“It is a gift from our past generations. We can learn from that and cherish that,” she said. “We can honour by embracing that.”
She was also thinking about the struggling young creators making their presence in society.
This led her to establish The People’s Gallery, where they select the topics on local perspectives and transform into artist content.
One of her successful projects, Original Festival 2018, invited three local artists to visit the farms (wheat, soy bean and cocoa) and participate in the production. They applied the experience into their artworks, interpreting the local produce’s physical phenomena and process.
She believed that the whole society creates an environment in which everyone can be inspired by the beauty of story.
“There is so much value that a creative person provides to the work.”
7. Help others be their best selves.
These days, there is a lot of confusion about the meaningful relationships with key opinion leaders (KOLs) and masses. Young people look up to the KOLs on a daily basis but not all the KOLs provide positive impact to the world.
Actor and model Godfrey Gao has 495 thousand followers on Instagram alone, and he is deeply aware of the impact he could have on his followers.
“Our millennials have become overly obsessed with the latest trends,” said Godfrey Gao, “What is dangerous is how they blend these beliefs and alter their perceptions.”
Together with his best friend, Darren Jiang, they set up Personal Best (PB) in 2012. They reach out to the young generations through basketball and organise basketball camps across China to build up the youth.
“We realise it is equally important for us to truly inspire the youth while paving the way in creating a better version of themselves,” they said.
As KOLs, they want to set a good example to youths so that they can be inspired to achieve a better life path. They go in as regular campers to be closer to the kids.
“By creating these advocates and opportunities, our kids have shifted their perspectives, from mindlessly following the KOLs’s appearances and lifestyle to proactively practicing their work ethic and persistence,” said Darren.
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- by Angel Nunez - The island of Ambergris Caye was auctioned on the 13th of September 1869 and the successful bidder at $625.00 was James Hume Blake, a British magistrate of the Corozal District. The only land exempted from the sale was a lot given for the purpose of building a Roman Catholic Church in the village of San Pedro. At this time the village was inhabited by several Mestizo families who had fled from the Caste War in Yucatan and settled in the village which they named San Pedro.
The property given to the Catholic Church was left unoccupied for many years until early in the 1900's some village men began this labor of love and unity. It is known that in 1905 James Howell Blake II built his mansion that lived to be over 100 years old and popularly known as Blake House (The site is now occupied by Heritage Bank).
Who built the first church is unknown, but shortly after the Blake House it is said that the villagers did so. The Blake's helped with its construction since they were a very fervent Catholic family. It was a concrete building, beautiful and outstanding among the thatch houses in the village. The Roman Catholic Church had an uninterrupted view o f the Caribbean Sea and was the pride of San Pedro. It was this same Caribbean Sea that destroyed the church in the 1942 Hurricane.
In1985 Mayor Gilberto Gomez and the Town Council Council decided to preserve the memory of this church by erecting a lovely water fountain depicting the history of the Mayas and Mestizos who built the first church in San Pedro. It was a magnificent piece of concrete sculpture carved out by famous local artist, Edwardo “Papo” Alamilla. Unfortunately it was removed to make way for the present day Central Park plans.
There is a big looming question still. Who does that vacated church property belong to? The R.C. Church or The Town Council? However the villagers of San Pedro would not have it without a church and by 1949, or thereabout, they had built with the help of Papa Blake and is lovely wife Elena Blake Alamilla a brand new church.
This one was built on a lot also owned by the Blake's. It was an all wooden structure with verandah all around. Because Papa Bake had a daughter who was a nun, he also added a U-shaped building which served for the nuns' vacation home on the island complete with dormitory, kitchen and dining room. Even though it was a property for the nuns and the Catholic Church, it was also used by the Belize Scout during their summer vacations and in time it was popularly known as the Scout Room.
This new parish was visited by Father Franco, a Mexican/Belizean and by Father Robert Raszkowski (pictured left) who gave his life of service to this Catholic community for over 50 years. Hundreds of baptisms, confirmations, weddings and even funerals were officiated in this church. The San Pedro Musical Band played their hearts out on the verandah for the Good Friday rituals and mass.
Then came Hurricane Hattie in 1961 and demolished the entire beach of San Pedro. The church and nuns' quarters were saved but damaged badly. For two long years the building served as the Catholic school. At this point Father Raszkowski commenced with his dream of a new concrete church. Plans were drawn and the community began with fund raising - fairs, food sales, carnival dances - everyone wanted to contribute because it was Father's wish that no money be accepted from foreigners.
After the ground-breaking, it took many years and the construction advanced very slowly, sometimes disappointingly slow. It was not until 1977 that our majestic and pride of San Pedro was completed. San Pedro was joyful that Father Raszkowski was alive to see its completion and be able to enjoy it for many years. After his passing changes, additions and improvements have been brought about by Father Jesus Riverol, Father Jim, Father Paul, Father Dan Nunez, Father Anonuevo and Fathers Scott and David. This helps to prove that San Pedro has always been considered a Catholic community as it still is. | <urn:uuid:914504fa-1bdb-44ce-ab0f-83dd5bfb5abe> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.ambergristoday.com/chronicles-san-pedro/2019/10/03/roman-catholic-church-ambergris-caye | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571150.88/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810070501-20220810100501-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.988789 | 851 | 2.546875 | 3 |
You may not even realize that you come across foam tape in your everyday life. It could have even been this morning when you opened your front door! Whenever there is a need to keep out water, dust, or to protect from UV exposure, foam tape can really come in handy. It’s so easy to apply that anyone can do it, which makes it even more likely that you’ve seen it today and may not have even known! CGR makes our product by laminating a tape to the foam with adhesive on one side. A customer can then peel the liner off and stick the foam tape where they want weather stripping. Super easy, super effective.
These insulating tapes are made with closed cell foam and can be found in a long list of applications ranging from acoustical insulation to medical devices to tractors to HVAC equipment. They can form a tighter seal to keep out wind, cold, dust, dirt, water, and UV rays from sensitive equipment and areas. We can make foam tapes as narrow as 1/8” wide and then create long, vulcanized rolls to accommodate virtually any length. CGR can also make tapes in a variety of thicknesses with clean, accurate, and consistent cuts to meet your specific needs. So the next time you open your screen door or roll down your car window remember to take a look at the insulating foam tape!
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Last July, I gave a talk at History Camp America entitled, "Boston’s Green Dragon Tavern: The Headquarters of the Revolution." Because it was a private event, the recorded talks were accessible only to the event's ticket holders for one year. Well, it's been one year, and the talks are available!
In a letter to Thomas Jefferson in 1815, John Adams wrote, “The Revolution was in the minds of the people, and this was effected, from 1760 to 1775, in the course of fifteen years before a drop of blood was drawn at Lexington.”
Long before the famed “shot heard round the world,” a revolution was taking place in the hearts and minds of the colonists as they wrestled with their place in the British empire.
At the center of it all? Boston, the “Cradle of Liberty.”
And tucked away in the North End of that peninsular city, right on the edge of Mill Pond, stood a two-story Georgian with a metal dragon hung above the door: the Green Dragon Tavern. Former Secretary of State Daniel Webster claimed the Green Dragon Tavern was the “Headquarters of the Revolution.”
How did a local bar with very little to do with the colonies’ efforts during wartime earn such an esteemed title?
Let’s find out…
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Dogs can be beloved companions. To many people, they are just as important and special as any family member. Most dogs are friendly and well-trained, but they are still animals. Like any animal, they can inflict serious damage. When dogs attack, the injuries that result can be life-altering and even fatal.
Dog bites are very common, with nearly five million people attacked by dogs every year in the United States. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), one out of every five bites becomes infected. Tragically, a large number of dog bite victims are children, who are especially vulnerable to serious injuries.
Dog Owners Are Responsible for Their Dogs
Owning a dog means important legal obligations. In New Jersey, dog owners are required by law to care for their animals in a humane and responsible manner.
They are also required to ensure their pets don’t harm people or property. When a dog bites someone or damages property, the dog’s owner is liable for any injuries or damages that result.
Strict Liability for Dog Bites in New Jersey
New Jersey imposes strict liability on dog owners. This means dog owners are legally responsible for injuries caused by their dogs, regardless of whether the dog is a so-called “vicious dog” or has been known to act viciously in the past.
Dog owners must pay for the injuries their dogs inflict, whether the injury happened at a public park or even in the dog owner’s home.
Insurance Coverage for Dog Bites
If you, your child, or another loved one has been bitten by a dog in New Jersey, it’s important to contact a personal injury lawyer right away. One of the first steps your lawyer will take is to determine whether the dog’s owner has any insurance coverage available to pay for your damages. Possible sources of insurance coverage include:
- Homeowner’s insurance
- Renter’s insurance
- Commercial general liability insurance
- Umbrella insurance policies
- Auto insurance
- Mobile home owner’s insurance
- Landlord’s insurance
- Condominium owner’s insurance
Even if the dog’s owner doesn’t have insurance, you are still entitled to file a claim against the owner for your injuries. In some cases, dog bite victims are reluctant to file a claim because the dog’s owner is a friend, neighbor, or family member. In these situations, it’s important to remember just how costly a dog bite can be.
Many dog bite victims require physical therapy and cosmetic surgery to fully reclaim their mobility and their lives. You shouldn’t have to pay for the medical bills, lost wages, and other damages associated with a dog bite.
New Jersey Dog Bite Lawyer Ready to Help
If you have been attacked by a dog, you may be able to received compensation for your injuries, emotional distress, lost wages, and hospital and medical costs. You are not in this alone. Call our New Jersey dog bite lawyer today to discuss your case. | <urn:uuid:00bddbbc-eff5-48e5-805c-4fdef29789cb> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://schibelllaw.com/new-jersey-dog-bite-lawyer/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571150.88/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810070501-20220810100501-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.960254 | 654 | 1.609375 | 2 |
Dress Code for Secondary School Students
Policy FNCA [Local] of the Brownsville Independent School District provides general guidelines and a listing of appropriate dress and grooming for students on BISD campuses and at school‐sponsored events. Violations of the dress code can have disciplinary consequences ranging from in‐school suspension for a single violation to more serious disciplinary action for repeated violations. This list is not exclusive, but it is adopted to address specific issues, which have been determined by the 16 administrators to be disruptive to the instructional environment, and to provide guidance as to the type of dress and/or grooming, which will be considered to be a violation of the BISD Student Dress Code.
DRESS, GROOMING, AND ACCESSORIES
Parents and students are expected to use good judgment in selecting appropriate clothing for students to wear at school. Each student shall wear clothing that is neat, appropriate, fitting, and not so revealing as to cause a distraction. Girls’ apparel must not be above the knee to the point of being a distraction. Muscle shirts, see‐through shirts or blouses, bare midriffs, strapless and/or backless outfits, and beachwear are prohibited. Clothing displaying obscenities, suggestive slogans nudity, and crime/violence, drugs, beer, or alcohol designs also is prohibited. State law requires shoes to be worn at all times. No article of clothing or other accessories shall be worn in such a way as to advertise, promote, or be associated with gang activities. Other specific criteria and guidelines regarding student attire are shared with parents on the first day of school. Schools may develop additional and more specific dress code guidelines with the approval of the respective Area Assistant Superintendent.
NOTE: Beginning with the 2014‐2015 school year, all elementary and middle schools implemented a standardized attire requirement as designated by the respective campus administration. All elementary campus dress codes will include a white polo style (collar) shirt, which may also include the BISD official logo.
1. Dresses, shorts, and skirts shall not be so short as to cause a distraction. Anything shorter than the end of the student’s fingertips when the student arms are held extended to his/her sides shall be conclusively deemed to be too short. Longer lengths may be determined by the administrator to be inappropriate in individual cases. Dresses or skirts with slits above the level permitted for shorts and skirts shall not be permitted.
2. No baggy pants or shorts are allowed. All pants must be worn with the top around the wearer’s waist and must be covering undergarments. The waist size of pants must be an appropriate size for the wearer. No oversized or baggy clothing is allowed. No exposed undergarments are allowed.
3. No tight or transparent clothing are allowed.
4. No torn jeans or other garments are allowed.
5. No sleeveless shirts, which expose undergarments, are allowed
6. No tank tops, halter tops, bare midriffs or chest, see‐through outfits, backless, spaghetti straps, strapless, or beachwear are allowed.
7. No low‐cut shirts or blouses are allowed.
8. Shirts which extend below the rear pocket are to be worn inside the waist of pants or skirts; trench coats are not permitted.
9. State law requires that appropriate shoes be worn at all times. Thongs, shoes without heel straps and steel‐toed boots/shoes are inappropriate. No shoes with metal taps or noisemakers are allowed.
10. No hairnets, bandanas, or similar scarves may be worn on the head.
11. Sunglasses will not be worn inside the school building other than prescription dark glasses.
12. Articles of clothing which display gang symbols, obscenities, suggestive slogans, nudity, crime, violence, death imagery, drugs, alcohol, or which promote the use of tobacco are prohibited.
13. No article of clothing or other accessories shall be worn in a way determined by the campus administrator to advertise, promote, or be associated with gang activities. Upon the campus administration in determining that a particular style of dress or accessory should be prohibited under this section, the student body on that campusshall be so advised, and thereafter, anyone participating in such activity shall be in violation of this code.
14. All students are prohibited from wearing clothing or grooming that, in the administrator’s judgment, may reasonably be expected to cause disruption of or interference with normal school operations.
15. Jewelry and accessories shall not be excessive or distracting, and shall not be worn in such a way as to promote violence, crime, gang activity, or drug, alcohol, or tobacco use. The following items are specifically prohibited, and shall not be worn or brought onto school property: metal chains, pet collars, and religioussymbols which have been altered with the intent of causing offense or inciting or promoting gang activity, violence, or other prohibited behaviors.
16. On days specified by principals, designated attire will be treated as appropriate dress not withstanding anything to the contrary elsewhere in this code.
17. Students are required to use well‐fitted masks consistently and correctly while in school. If a medical need arises from the use of a mask, and it's documented by a licensed physician in the United States, the respective committee will review and include any modifications in the ARD/Section 504 committee minutes. Administration will adhere to the Student Code of Conduct Discipline Management Techniques when a student does not wear a mask (pages 5‐6).
1. Hair and facial hair will be properly groomed. Distracting hairstyles and/or hair colors, as determined by the campus administration on a case‐by‐case basis, will not be permitted. Examples of the type of hairstyles, which have been determined by the administration to be unacceptable, are Mohawks, spiked hair, and the like.
2. If makeup is used, it must be discreet. Makeup shall not be worn in such a way as to be distracting as determined by the campus administration.
3. No exposed tattoos that display gang symbols, obscenities, suggestive slogans, nudity, crime, violence, death imagery, drugs, alcohol, or which promote the use of tobacco are allowed. No body piercing will be permitted, other than pierced earrings of a reasonable size and number [Revised 9‐16‐15].
As stated previously, this list is not exclusive. Campus administration may at any time make reasonable determination that an item of clothing, style or manner of dress or grooming, or accessory poses an unacceptable risk of disruption to the instructional environment because it is inappropriately distracting, is intended or likely to cause offense or incite conflict among the campus population, is unacceptably, conducive to the concealment of weapons or other contraband, or on any other reasonable grounds. In that case, the campus administration shall be entitled to use the provisions of this code and the BISD Policy FNCA [Local] to address the matter. | <urn:uuid:32f6d42f-91aa-4e15-b859-0687bf8378a2> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.bisd.us/students-and-parents/dress-code-for-secondary-school-students | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571150.88/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810070501-20220810100501-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.924522 | 1,452 | 2.046875 | 2 |
Somatic mutations passed to the offspring
The authors of this study
Mitchell B. Cruzan, Matthew A. Streisfeld, and Jaime A. Schwoch
support the still unique idea that somatic mutations can be passed to the offspring. In Mimulus guttatus mutations accumulated during vegetative growth are being passed to the next generation, they stated.
• They, expect a nonrandom subset of the accumulated mutations.
• The authors exclude the involvement of epigenetic mechanisms.
• Mutations are filtered by the different forms of intra-generation selection - ?
We also have observed similar effects in Diplacus (former Mimulus) aurantiacus during the transition from australis to puniceus morphs. A good example is depicted below:
Fig: Variance of the offspring of two long-lived plants in transition in the field (T27 & T30).
Roughly speaking, the offspring of the same long-lived plant of originally yellow color will first assume the characteristics of F1, then be F2, then F1xR, and finally red. The speed of conversion can vary greatly depending on the location. Here's an example of an unusually slow transition. (Alienated original drawing)
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Do you want to learn How To Grow A Lemon Tree From Seed? In this article, we will see how to grow and sow a lemon tree. We will also learn how to take care of our lemon tree, we will see how to avoid and cure the possible pests that attack it. How to sow lemon trees from seeds and how to make grafts.
How To Grow A Lemon Tree From Seed
The lemon tree (Citrus Limon) is a fruit tree whose appearance has led it to position itself among the most desired trees for any playground or children’s area. In fact, it is a citrus fruit used as an ornamental tree in many cities in Spain, just like the orange tree. Let’s see How To Grow A Lemon Tree From Seed & Take care of them.
When to Plant The Lemon Tree?
It is best to grow the lemon tree in spring to make sure its roots are well established before the onset of winter. On the other hand, the soil and the hole should be prepared in the fall.
What To Do Before Planting The Lemon Tree? (To Grow A Lemon Tree From Seed)
You should start by digging the ground to remove all the roots, stones, and weeds that could prevent the development of the tree. As the lemon tree is quite demanding, you also have to pay attention to the nature of the soil. Indeed, it appreciates deep and rich soils, sandy and well aerated. You should avoid clay soils that do not provide drainage and are therefore not very suitable for growing lemons. If this is the case, add a good layer of gravel to the bottom of the hole or a drain to prevent water stagnation.
If your soil is too light or poor, add manure, topsoil, green manure or compost, and a base dressing like phosphorous and potash.
To have a soil ideally ready to receive your lemon tree, here is its composition: 20% silt, 5 to 10% clay, 50% coarse sand, and 20% fine sand.
How to Transplant A Lemon Tree?
Plant a lemon tree in the ground:
- Dig a hole deep enough, at least one meter. Mix the compost and sand with the soil, and place a bed of gravel to ensure proper drainage.
- Introduce it into the soil at the same level as it was in the pot. Put the modified soil back in place without burying the graft site. Water copiously and compact the soil well.
Planting a potted lemon tree:
- Choose a very deep and large enough pot, the more soil, the more the roots of the lemon tree will be protected from the cold.
- Place in the bottom of the pot a slippery 20 cm mixture: clay balls and gravel.
- Fill the pot with citrus compost with 5-10% clay. Then place your bush and compact the soil slightly. Water but being careful not to use too much water.
Grow A Lemon Tree From Seed
Lemon seeds are cheaper and can even be obtained from a lemon. It is then necessary to choose fruits adapted to the region, more or less resistant to cold. To test them, soak the seeds in water overnight and discard any that surface or are too small.
Dry the ones you are going to store, put them in a paper envelope and put them in the fridge for three weeks. The lemon seed will be stimulated by this passage of cold.
Plant each seed in an individual pot, containing a well-draining, lightweight soil mix. Germination usually occurs within three weeks.
You can then transplant it into the ground when the bush is a bit vigorous or put it in a larger, deeper pot.
After that, a lot of patience will be needed, as the lemon tree only bears fruit after a few years.
Multiplying A Lemon Tree By Grafting
When we talk about grafting, we think directly about creating a new variety of plants. In fact, this type of technique has long been used by gardening enthusiasts to obtain new species.
- The ideal season to graft a lemon tree is in late spring as the climate is ideal to ensure the success of the process.
- To start grafting, you must prepare the stock. To do this, you must remove the leaves. For practical reasons, grafting at the base of a rootstock for at least 1-year-old is recommended.
- Then you must cut the graft. Choose a healthy branch and reserve it in a glass of water to prevent it from drying out after you have stripped it of its leaves and left the peduncles.
- Next, cut the rootstock into a T shape with a grafting tool. It is removed without removing the skin and a bulb of the graft is placed. The graft should be pruned into the bark to facilitate its placement on the rootstock. Then it will only be necessary to slide it into the T-slot and tie it with a string or fine fabric. Care must be taken to cover the entire length of the graft to ensure adhesion to the rootstock.
- After these steps, it is best to place the tree in full light and water it regularly. For its maintenance, you will have to remove the head of the rootstock and the shoots. This will make the tree sturdier.
Before finishing, it is important to note that the graft does not tolerate the sun. Therefore, you should choose a good location that has light but not direct sun.
Where To Plant A Lemon Tree?
It is necessary to choose the varieties that best withstand temperatures below 0 ° C. You also need to carefully monitor your watering.
It is recommended to place them in a sunny place, protected from frost and prevailing winds.
How To Maintain It?
Fertilize the lemon tree:
In open ground: consists of the addition of nitrogen 3 times a year. In early spring, late summer, and then in autumn. Use a mixture with manure enriched in phosphate and potassium that will increase the flavor of the fruit and the fruiting. The fertilizer is applied directly to the soil where the roots are located.
In pots: the lemon trees are fertilized in spring. With a nitrogen fertilizer that is mixed with the water used to water the bush, adding a fertilizer based on potassium and phosphorus during the summer. You can also fertilize them with complete granulated compost.
Repotting the lemon tree:
- It will be done when the roots cover the bottom of the pot or root ball. You have to be careful and choose a pot that is not much larger than the previous one, at most twice its volume. Otherwise, its fruiting will be delayed. Citrus fruits tend to colonize the container before flowering and fruiting.
- In the case of lemon trees grown in a container and whose replanting is impossible, it is enough to put the substrate in the upper layer, taking care not to damage the roots. It is recommended to use quality hummus.
- If the temperature ever exceeds 13 ° C, the tree does not enter a vegetative rest period. So it must continue to be watered once a week and fertilized once a month.
- The place where it is located should be very bright, but avoid proximity to a heating system.
- If you grow your lemon tree in the ground, double-veil it in winter to cover the branches in case of prolonged and severe cold. If you can’t get your pot inside, isolate it from the ground with a polyethylene sheet and surround the pot with bubble wrap.
How to Water The Lemon Tree?
- It is important to know that the lemon tree must be watered correctly throughout the summer to prevent it from entering a dormant period. This would then be detrimental to the fruiting process.
- During the first two years of cultivation, it is recommended to make a basin around the tree, near the tree. Which will then be enlarged by placing it in line with the foliage.
- Some rootstocks don’t tolerate chlorine well. So it’s best to water them with rainwater or let the tap water sit for a few hours before watering.
Harvesting Lemons: When And How?
The lemons will be picked when they are ripe. It is the cold that is responsible for its coloration. For example, in the tropics, they retain a green color even when ripe.
Follow this method:
- Lemons are picked by hand, with gloves, or with special tweezers with the tips turned upside down.
- Cut the stem flush with the calyx, being very careful not to damage the fruit.
- You also have to be careful not to damage those left on the tree, they should not be subjected to blows.
How to Store Lemons?
It is a difficult fruit to preserve and it is better to eat it quickly. Meanwhile, it can be kept for a few days in the fridge drawer.
Lemon Tree Pests (Tips To Grow A Lemon Tree From Seed)
Mealybugs – Potted and indoor crops can be particularly susceptible to invasion.
To avoid this, the underside of leaves and twigs should be regularly observed.
Pinch the twigs and spray them with a neem oil that has the effect of suffocating these insects.
These attacks tend to occur after the appearance of sooty mold, a secondary fungus that can be found on blackened foliage as it hinders photosynthesis. As soon as you see it, clean your lemon tree with soapy water.
The bud mite: it deforms the buds and causes them to fall off. There are ways to avoid it: Avoid all treatments that are not absolutely necessary and above all avoid excess nitrogen. Apply neem oil when the lemons reach the size of a hazelnut.
Aphids: They tend to grow slowly and can be seen on curly leaves. To control them, spray a solution of water and black soap.
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- Cloud Telephone Systems (Cloud Calling).
- Exactly how does cloud telephone systems work?
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- Cloud telephony vs VoIP.
- Exactly how to Choose a Cloud Telephony Service Provider (5 Things to take into consideration).
- 3CX’s Cloud Telephone systems.
What are the Pros and Cons of a Cloud-Based Phone System?
Cloud-based phone systems use Voice over Net Method (VoIP) technology to link telephone call. What it does not utilize is legacy innovation like analog telephone lines or any on-premises hardware. All you require is a high-speed internet link.
Running your phone service in the cloud has numerous advantages, like lowering your monthly company phone prices as well as boosted flexibility for remote workforces.
From local business on-the-go to big ventures that operate call centers, countless organizations delight in the flexibility and scalability that only a cloud-based phone system can deliver. Are they actually for everybody?
Our thorough failure of the pros and cons of cloud-based phone systems should assist you make the very best decision for your organization.
- Pros of a Cloud-Based Phone System
- Cons of a Cloud-Based Phone System
- Tips for Relocating Your Phone System to the Cloud
Cloud-Based Phone System Pros
We’ll first start with the benefits of running your business’s phone system in the cloud.
Cloud-based phone systems are much cheaper than traditional, on-premises telephone systems. This is a piece of cake if you’re looking to streamline your interactions costs.
Why are the expenses so much lower? Because cloud phone systems count on your web link while conventional phone lines include costs such as:
- Upfront investment right into an on-premises PBX.
- Repeating maintenance costs.
- Attachments for features like car attendants, voicemail transcription, call queueing, as well as extra.
A contemporary VoIP solution can really lower your phone expense by approximately 60%.
Reduced rates are feasible as a result of complimentary regional numbers, toll-free numbers, and also inexpensive worldwide calls. A traditional landline will certainly never ever offer you the same value.
Better integrity and performance
Did you recognize that a cloud-based phone system will assist you keep your organization up and running even when a catastrophe strikes?
Think about some things that might go wrong for your business that are outside of your control, like natural catastrophes, cybersecurity attacks, as well as also human mistakes.
Can your service manage these dangers? Exactly how would certainly your consumers be affected? Would their info be safeguarded? The downside of an on-premises PBX system is that it depends on that single place. That’s even more threat than many businesses can afford.
Alternatively, a hosted PBX option relies on remote information centers and also utilizes redundancy. This implies if one information facility decreases, others will choose it up as well as your service will continue functioning continuous.
Faster application and also configuration
Your phone system should not hinder of expanding your business.
With a standard phone system, growth can be costly and taxing. To provide each new staff member their phone number, you would certainly require to add brand-new phone lines as well as ports, which can take weeks. That’s a lot of performance shed.
With a cloud-based phone system, you can broaden your service at any factor. It keeps all your organization communications running, despite how promptly your business is changing.
As soon as you set up a virtual phone system, your employees will significantly increase their collaboration and productivity throughout the day.
Much less upkeep
Standard PBXs aren’t simply costly to establish, however they need tons of effort and also investment to preserve.
Heritage phone systems require at least several people devoted to taking care of it regularly. That burden either falls on your busy IT personnel or needs you to hire outdoors professionals. Repair services as well as malfunctions can make this much more difficult.
A cloud PBX system is far more affordable, as your VoIP service provider deals with all the small details. They manage it entirely off-site and also it’s their priority. They’ll handle any type of concerns that show up and respond to any concerns you have.
The top cloud service phone company carriers stand behind their solution by providing exceptional customer service. Seek ones that offer real-time assistance all the time. Even if you don’t need it, you’ll appreciate they are waiting ready to help.
This will certainly free up your IT team to concentrate on more vital work.
Accessibility to robust call features
A cloud-based phone system will certainly supply you with access to essentially any VoIP features you may need. Some examples consist of:
- Advanced call forwarding
- Automatic call recording
- Voicemail to email or text
- Call lines with on-hold songs
- Customized customer ID
- One-click conference calls
- Multi-level vehicle assistants
- Call logs as well as analytics
This suggests you can preserve high quality client service even during hectic periods. You can run it with confidence if you have a call facility.
You can additionally incorporate your phone system with third-party tools like CRM or bookkeeping software. This will aid you build a solitary room for running your company procedures.
The best component? A terrific service provider will let you add brand-new features without hardware updates, made complex demands, or complex lingo. You’ll be able to tailor your cloud phone system on the fly to fit any of your business needs.
Enhanced client experience
Your consumers no longer want products at the most affordable rates. They yearn for outstanding customer experience whenever they talk with your team.
Current customer care statistics verify this:
- 70% of customers state they have actually currently selected to support a company that delivers excellent customer service.
- People will pay 17% more to do company with companies with credibilities for impressive client service.
- 52% of customers claim they have made an added purchase from a business after a favorable client service experience.
Your innovation shouldn’t hinder of offering an exceptional consumer experience. A cloud-based phone system with efficient call transmitting, high uptime, and mobility options for remote work limits modern technology imperfections.
Easily supports remote work
As working from house comes to be increasingly pertinent today, several services have made plans to construct a remote workforce. Standard phone systems with outdated PBX systems and also clunky wiring simply can not meet today’s demands.
Remote work features are offered out of the box without a difficult arrangement. Your team can utilize VoIP desk phones if they want, or avoid them entirely. Or you can let them download a company phone app to rise and also running. It’s all up to you.
Regardless of their scenario, everyone on your team can:
- Maintain the exact same phone number as well as stay easily accessible to colleagues as well as clients.
- Make and receive phone calls with a VoIP softphone application.
- Gain from innovative features like call forwarding, virtual voicemail, as well as call recording.
- Interact plainly with substantially far better call quality thanks to HD Voice.
When your phone system persuades the web, it’s very easy to centralize all of your organization interactions in a single platform without horning in the facilities as well as telecommuting modern technology.
This solution, referred to as Unified Communications as a Solution (UCaaS), incorporates call, video conferencing, immediate messaging, teleconference, and data sharing.
UCaaS enhances performance as well as collaboration between remote groups as well as on-site staff members. Everybody has access to the relevant communication devices they require for their day-to-day.
A cloud-based phone system makes worker onboarding quicker and meetings much more reliable. It removes the obstacles and silos that included older communication systems– and you reach be in the vehicle driver’s seat.
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Cloud-Based Phone System Cons
It’s difficult to reject the advantages of a cloud-based phone system, however there are a few prospective downsides that come with running your service phone system totally over the internet.
Faster networking devices is needed
One potential downside of a cloud-based phone system is the demand for high-performance networking tools like switches as well as routers.
The work of a router is to sector networks, appoint IP addresses, and also shape network transmission capacity. Older routers may be inappropriate with large VoIP implementations.
Wi-Fi doesn’t work well through wall surfaces, and also as even more staff members utilize softphones and also laptops, they’ll likely make use of a cordless connection. If your office hasn’t carried out a cordless site audit, you could have some dead spots.
There are a couple of solutions that are very easy and also budget friendly to carry out.
Make the effort to update the firmware of your router for extra features and also repairs. If you await an upgrade, take a look at our suggested routers that are enhanced for VoIP. Consider including a mesh Wi-Fi network for optimal speed and also coverage if you have a big workplace.
Steady internet connection is called for
If your internet connection falls short, all of the advantages of relocating your phone system to the cloud will be for absolutely nothing.
The good information is that a dependable net link is the only system requirement that uses. This can sustain more than 1,000 VoIP calls at once!
The good news is, your cloud phone company doesn’t use substantial quantities of transmission capacity. Every one of your phone lines need to contend the very least 100 kbps of upload rate readily available.
If you’re unsure exactly how trusted your web connection is, you can take our complimentary VoIP speed examination to see if your network is ready for VoIP.
As well as if your ISP drops, you can quickly log into your dashboard as well as straight contact us to cellular phone with advanced call forwarding. Call our support team as well as we can take treatment of these immediate requests if you don’t have an additional internet connection readily available.
Make certain to check your network usage. It will take in beneficial information from your net link if your team watches Netflix while functioning. Consider applying Quality of Service (QoS) policies to focus on VoIP traffic over video streaming. Doing so enhances your caller’s experience, particularly if you have a call center or various other large-scale SIP applications.
Latency as well as jitter might occur
Jitter as well as latency are other call high quality concerns you may experience with your cloud-based phone calls It’s just an all-natural feature of wireless networks.
Right here’s how a call collaborates with VoIP. Call are converted to information packets and sent over the internet to the network of the various other party. Then, it’s transformed back into audio that the individual on the various other end listens to.
In between your internal network, ISP, and VoIP service provider, there are numerous servers in between. Network jitter as well as package latency are 2 typical VoIP concerns.
- Jitter can cause rough sound or calls that are postponed or dropped. The difference in ping responses that gauges jitter.
- Latency can lead to callers experiencing a short delay or echo in a discussion. It’s not visible, yet in serious circumstances, it can be problematic.
Here are a couple of solutions that you can try to troubleshoot these problems.
- Examine your net connection and test your transmission capacity.
- Utilize an Ethernet connection for your phones as well as computer systems whenever feasible.
- Consider making it possible for jitter buffering, which lots of 3CX devices have pre-enabled.
Place details is limited for emergency phone calls.
For most people, this won’t be a concern. When calling 911, phone calls made over the net don’t necessarily have exact place information attached.
When phone calls are directed to an emergency situation call facility (referred to as a PSAP), drivers may not know of your place and even your contact number. By default, calls reach the nearby PSAP based on the account holder’s address.
To overcome this, update the dealt with address designated to each organization phone line in your cloud phone system. This setting is referred to as E911 as well as is something you must come to be familiar with. When employees work from house or away from the workplace, you should upgrade it without delay.
We recommend you recommend to your team that people ought to use their smart devices because GPS information and mobile triangulation passes this information promptly to nearby PSAPs.
Tips for Moving Your Phone Company to the Cloud
When firms upgrade to the cloud, we’ve seen our fair share of successes. It can be a little bit intimidating, yet with a little preparation, you will be very successful.
Moving your office phone system to the cloud will certainly bring you benefits that a traditional landline can never ever match. The pros simply exceed the disadvantages.
Right here are a couple of activity items to make your movement to the cloud go smoothly.
- Strategy ahead – Projection your business’s development, network needs, ISP data transfer, team process. You’ll find that the barriers have much less to do with VoIP and also even more to do with internet service providers and also their linked networks.
- Leverage powerful VoIP features – Benefit from the lots of integrated VoIP features to address service troubles. For instance, automobile attendants, call routing, and also cloud-based call recording. Obtain your team’s wishlist with each other of what they desire, as well as you can possibly provide their desires with a cloud phone system.
- Follow suggestions from your VoIP company – Not all cloud phone systems are alike, so you’ll desire to ask plenty of inquiries. Embrace their suggestions to attain optimum call quality.
The versatility of a cloud-based phone system implies that it can adapt to the growth of your service. All you require is the right partner to support you on that particular journey.
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Cloud Telephone Systems (Cloud Calling).
What is cloud telephone systems?
Cloud telephone is a sort of unified communications as a solution (UCaaS), basically making it possible for organizations to run an organization phone system via their net connection.
Also frequently referred to as cloud calling, cloud telephony uses business voice solutions, run and taken care of by a third-party driver or host. A cloud phone system, frequently in the form of a VoIP- based hosted PBX system (voice over web procedure), brings voice calls as well as messaging, video phone calls as well as file sharing all under one merged system by means of your business net connectivity.
Unified communications remedies bring all these communications as well as collaboration devices together to make sure that your groups can take advantage of several various features all under one roofing. UCaaS likewise suggests you can integrate your CRM system and also other everyday devices such as Microsoft office 365 or your Google collection, making your teams much more effective and enhancing your client experience for the longer term.
Relocating your company phone system to the cloud features lots of advantages, but most widespread is the capacity to simplify your service communications on a wider scale fully. Whether you’re wanting to expand y.
our team, employ remote staff member, or move offices, changing to the cloud is a shrewd, affordable move for any type of service searching for scalability and to improve their team’s dexterity.
Exactly how does cloud telephone systems work?
On an useful level, cloud telephony works in similarly as any other VoIP service, by converting analogue voice signals into data packets and also sending them over a web connection. In the case of cloud telephone, when a user dials a phone number making use of a VoIP desk phone or softphone, the call is directed by a third-party VoIP service provider.
Cloud telephony eliminates the need to run on-premises, conventional PBX systems. You won’t require to manage your own PBX (exclusive branch exchange), however rather, your cloud system can be web-based or as an application.
Cloud telephony works by using the internet connection to allow users to make as well as take calls from their desktop or mobile handsets. Adopting cloud telephone systems means businesses appoint a supplier to build, run, and also maintain their servers’ telephone platform.
These companies normally provide a multi-tenant gain access to model which means business users can subscribe to the provider’s series of resources, usually on a month-by-month basis. Company customers essentially subscribe or ‘lease’ remote accessibility to the service through the web, indicating they outsource the management of any complicated technology as well as get rid of the need to house large physical equipment in-house.
Applying this kind of version suggests that organizations can likewise eliminate the costs of running an on-premises system such as physical PBXs which can be costly to maintain and also provision.
Outsourcing your telephony system’s maintenance doesn’t suggest you have to give up all control over your phone system. As your new cloud system is handled in the cloud, your IT teams or team leaders can still manage as well as administer basic system adjustments and also edits using an on-line control panel, enabling complete control over your phone number, extensions and also call forwarding.
Secret benefits of a cloud telephony solution.
There are numerous benefits of cloud telephone systems. In other words, cloud modern technology helps organizations bring their telephony framework into the electronic age; simplifying and integrating their business systems to enhance total effectiveness. Breaking it down, here are a few of our leading lasting advantages for contemporary services thinking about carrying out a cloud telephone systems solution.
- Easy execution.
As it does not need on-site hardware, purchasing cloud telephone implies you can hit the ground running pretty swiftly (typically within the area of a couple of days tops). Getting rid of the requirement to wait on professionals and also extensive phone line instillation, your picked VoIP carrier takes care of the application and configuration of your new system throughout, suggesting less problem for your teams, and less downtime.
Not just is your cloud system very easy and quick to carry out, yet it’s also straightforward to make use of. A cloud communications system allows you to shop and accessibility files, make as well as get calls, conduct video conferencing, and message team participants using one simple interface.
- Expense efficiency.
Cloud telephone systems assists you to save money on your company communications. Reducing the need to purchase numerous various tools and also solutions such as service SMS, video documents, conferencing and also fax storage space, and cloud communications combine numerous platforms’ costs into one single cost. What’s more, with cloud telephony, you won’t experience ‘bill shock’ because of unexpected maintenance payments. Rather, you’ll take advantage of predictable, manageable monthly pricing. Services aiming to get going without a first substantial expense on equipment (such as VoIP phones) can utilize a softphone app with a headset, or mobile applications which permit callers to use the system at a low cost, with far better versatility.
- Wheelchair and adaptability.
With a cloud telephone system, staff members can access phone lines from wherever they could be working at the time (as long as they have access to the internet). The agility paid for by a cloud system means it is the ideal solution for groups that on a regular basis work off-site, organisations that enable remote working, or any organization looking to grow their team as well as range up in an increasingly virtual functioning setting.
- Advanced call features.
Businesses that select to invest in cloud telephone likewise take advantage of substantial improvements in their calling features. With cloud telephony, you have access to a dashboard, allowing you to manage the following features:.
Auto-attendant – assisting your clients to link to the suitable individual or team.
IVR (Interactive Voice Action) – allowing callers to ‘self-service’ and also fix their own question via conversational but computerized call management courses.
Call recording assists teams preserve a high quality of service or help you maintain a log of your phone calls, video meetings, as well as conferences.
Call forwarding – enabling your groups to reduce the variety of missed phone calls.
Video conferencing as well as screen sharing – to aid staff member attach in person and also perform a lot more efficient conferences.
- Enhanced productivity.
The integrated features of a cloud interactions system are made to motivate much better efficiency in the work environment. Advanced call managing features, along with video conferencing, instantaneous messaging, data sharing and instinctive ‘off the shelf’ or custom-made combinations, allow your staff members to absolutely concentrate on their vital day-to-day jobs without wasting time switching between a jumble of platforms. Benefitting from several functions in one system aids to genuinely settle and streamline daily processes, implying happier, much more involved staff members and better-satisfied consumers.
- Reliability as well as security.
Companies that pick a respectable cloud telephone service provider will certainly take advantage of enhanced integrity. Leading suppliers such as 3CX will vouch for a 99.999% uptime SLA, meaning you can rest in the knowledge that you’ll be getting the very best level of company connection possible, and also you considerably decrease your chances of missing out on a call. Picking a supplier that prioritises your security is similarly vital, yet partnering with a credible distributor indicates your clients, phone calls and your data will certainly be secure as well as shielded from cybercrime.
Cloud telephony vs VoIP.
While there is little difference between a cloud telephony system as well as company VoIP, there is a distinction. Almost all cloud telephone remedies use VoIP modern technology, yet a cloud system is simply one kind of platform that could use VoIP.
Essentially, not all VoIP systems will be run in the cloud. VoIP implies that calling information and various other interactions packages will traverse the web. Companies can embrace VoIP technology by deciding to host their system using an on-premises PBX or outsource to a cloud provider.
Exactly how to Choose a Cloud Telephony Service Provider (5 Things to take into consideration).
With lots of suppliers using cloud telephone solutions, it is essential to develop a strategy to help you shortlist those that fit with your company objectives and also provide the best degree of continuous support for you as well as your team.
Below are a few of our leading ideas for choose, as well as selecting a cloud telephony service provider:
Service top quality as well as SLA’s.
Look meticulously at the SHANTY TOWN (service level contract) of your company. A SHANTY TOWN must describe solution degree exemptions, goals as well as cautions and remediation policies and also penalties related to the purposes. You’ll wish to search for providers with a SLA that is plainly detailed, distinct and also concrete, so you know who is accountable for which facets of your system upkeep.
If a provider’s SLA looks too excellent to be true, ask around; request proof or study to offer instances of your service provider solving any kind of concerns swiftly and also in accordance with their SLA, to ensure that you know they can be depended provide. In essence, to obtain the best level of integrity from your cloud provider, you’ll wish to look for a SLA that guarantees 99.999% uptime.
Innovation integrations, requirements and also features.
It’s important to analyze the essential demands of your team. Develop which capabilities are non-negotiable, starting with the extremely fundamentals before delving into the more advances features of unified interactions.
You’ll wish to ensure your system has the standard calling functionality needed for day-to-day assimilations to work well. Examine whether your teams make more telephone calls or receive more inbound require example, and also does your cloud system require to extend several workplace locations? Does it require to account for a worldwide consumer base of callers? Consider your customers and your staff members’ prompt impact and develop clear objectives on any everyday difficulties your cloud telephone systems system will certainly reduce to make certain these keep front of mind.
Ensure your brand-new system will conveniently incorporate with your CRM, project management devices and also systems such as any Microsoft Workplace or G-Suite systems that are used company-wide. You could after that want to dig deeper to develop whether your cloud system provides assimilations details to your teams, such as advertising and marketing automation systems.
Protection and conformity.
Prior to you dedicate to any type of specific supplier, you’ll want to ensure they value protection as much as you do. Examine that your vendor provides call file encryption, enabling you to use transportation layer protection (TLS) and also safe and secure real-time transportation method (SRTP) to ensure you’ll obtain enterprise-grade safety throughout your agreement.
Do your study to check how any kind of information will certainly be stored, and also check any specific conformity requires following your organization demands. You’ll want to check that your vendor meets the international standard for safety and security danger feedbacks: ISO/IEC 20071.
Vendor lock-in and also movement support.
While the credentials of your new carrier may bowl you over, there will likely come a time when you might, for whatever reason, intend to part ways. You’ll want to make sure that procedure will certainly be as simple for you as possible, to prevent future complications worrying moving to a brand-new system or supplier. Take a look at any type of lock-in conditions and details of before you dedicate to a provider.
Online reputation as well as economic wellness.
In this digital age, it’s simple and easy to look into the track record of a potential companion. Instead of merely taking qualifications and also distinctions at face value, look around for unbiased client evaluations, study as well as endorsements to ensure you have actually chosen a respectable vendor. It’s likewise essential to ensure your recognize a little concerning your possible provider’s monetary health and wellness to ensure that they have a sound, secure foundation you can rely upon for the long term.
3CX’s Cloud Telephone systems.
Picking a cloud partner, you can depend on is especially crucial if you’re buying cloud telephony. Contracting out upkeep and also maintenance of your phone system to an external service provider can be challenging, so taking the time to investigate your possible vendors is essential.
3CX’s cloud PBX service provides enterprise-grade security, an industry-leading 99.999% uptime RUN-DOWN NEIGHBORHOOD. The solution is likewise offered in over 40 nations with worldwide phone numbers offered in over 100 nations, permitting international businesses enough resources to grow, and also conserve money on expensive IT expenses.
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7 November 2012
Pole dancing: Earth’s polar shifts explained
By Lucie Bradley
Processes that have, in the Earth’s distant past, enabled Antarctica to ‘slip’ to the equator and back again have been explained by new research.
Two mechanisms have been proposed to explain dramatic shifts in the Earth’s surface, called true polar wander, which can move Antarctica to the equator and back again. Credit: Reto Stöckli, Nazmi El Saleous, and Marit Jentoft-Nilsen, NASA GSFC
SYDNEY: Processes that have, in the Earth’s distant past, enabled Antarctica to ‘slip’ to the equator and back again have been explained by new research.
Scientists have long known that the Earth’s surface is constantly moving, independent of its daily rotation. The mechanisms for this gradual movement are understood, but the reason that the Earth’s crust returns to where it began – called ‘true polar wander’ – was, until now, a mystery.
New research published in British journal Nature proposes two mechanisms that explain how this happens.
The first is caused by the Earth’s excess bulge – which exists around the equator, making the Earth resemble a slightly squashed sphere – acting like a stabilising weight to return the surface to its original orientation. The second mechanism occurs because these movements deform the Earth’s tectonic plates, which, like elastic bands, return to their original position to relieve this strain.
Extra-terrestrials would see the Earth ‘wobble’
“We call it ‘true polar wandering’ because if you could paint a square where the rotation axis comes out it would be moving around,” said geophysicist Jerry Mitrovica, from the University of Harvard, Massachusetts, who co-authored the study.
However, “if you were an extra-terrestrial you wouldn’t see the rotational axis move, you’d see the Earth ‘wobbling’ – it would slip over and then come back,” he said.
Metal deposits in the ground line up with the Earth’s magnetic field as rocks form. By analysing ancient rock formations, scientists can see historic changes in the orientation of the Earth’s magnetic field. Doing so, they have found that the characteristic rate of true polar wander is about one degree every million years. However, they also show that there have been several large and rapid events of true polar wander, where the Earth has tilted up to 60 degrees in just 30 million years.
An unbalanced Earth
“The Earth is made up of a rocky mantle, which sits on top of the Earth’s core and extends up to the crust. This mantle may be rocky, but on long time scales it flows and moves in a process called mantle convection,” said Mitrovica. This is the same process that causes the continents to slowly migrate, although in true polar wander all the plates move together and so it is not the same as continental drift where they move independently.
The initial ‘tip’ of true polar wander happens when the distribution of mass around the Earth becomes unbalanced, for example if a vast icesheet melts or a very large volcano forms far from the Earth’s equator. This redistribution of mass will unbalance the Earth, which is already uneven as it is not a true sphere, and cause the mantle of the Earth to slip in an effort to correct this. The movement will settle the heavier areas on the equator.
“At some level it was puzzling why the Earth would tip over but it’s doubly puzzling why it would return,” said Mitrovica, who said he was originally sceptical about the theory. “The Earth tips over because of this mass change, but why does it come back? What allows the pole to know where it came from? This was the source of my scepticism, and a lot of people shared my scepticism.”
Excess bulge stabilises rotation
The researchers answered these questions using detailed modelling and extensive computer simulations to come up with two separate mechanisms.
The Earth has an equatorial bulge, making it a slightly flattened sphere that is largest around the equator. This unevenness works like a self-stabilising heavy weight and forces the Earth to come back to the position of its natural equilibrium. This is mechanism one.
Additionally, as the mantle and crust rotate around the Earth, the tectonic plates are placed under tension: some are squashed whilst others are stretched. This elasticity stores a lot of potential energy that then releases – in mechanism two – and brings the plates back to their original location.
Dramatic changes to a planet’s evolution
The researchers found that in modelling experiments these two mechanisms proved very effective at bringing the pole back to its original position and at doing so very quickly. The data from their simulations matched the geological data from the study of ancient rock formations and showed that these large true polar wander events happen within 20 or 30 million years.
True polar wander causes a site to change latitude, greatly altering its climate, and it does this to every site on Earth simultaneously. Archaeological records show that this can cause dramatic changes to the carbon cycle, climate, and can in fact be extended to every aspect of the evolution of a planet.
According to Mitrovica, however, there’s no need for immediate concern as over the past 200 million years the Earth has only rotated 30 degrees – that’s just 0.2 degrees every one million years.
More information: An explanation of true polar wander, complete with cartoon Abstract of the paper, “Mechanisms for oscillatory true polar wander” published in Nature
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Global Twitter activity
In this video we present the worldwide Twitter activity during an arbitrary week. We plot all geolocated tweets as white dots in the map. It can be noticed that there is a wave of activity from the east to the west side of the globe as days evolve. Also, it is noticeable that the activity decreases to its minimum levels during early mornings.
Global Twitter communication network
In this video we present the global Twitter communication network. Each traveling dot represents a tweet traveling from its source towards its destination. Edges are based on mentions.
Spatio-temporal dynamics of Twitter activity in urban areas
Activity during an average day according to UTC is shown for specified cities. Colors indicate the normalized excess of activity from the average value at that location.
Calls network evolution in Ivory Coast
In this video, we present the dynamical growth of the calls network during a period of 12 hours at an arbitrary day. Dots represent calls, traveling from one antenna to the other at each hour. The edge color is related to the network community where the target node belongs to. It can be noticed that there is an explosion of calls after 6am, showing the dense structure of the network.
Human trajectories network evolution in Ivory Coast.
In this video, we present the dynamical growth of the human trajectories network during an arbitrary day. Dots represent users moving across the country from antenna to antenna. The edge color is related to the network community where the target node belongs to. It can be noticed that the network grows in a sparse way, mostly connecting nodes that are geographically close to each other. Other regions like the capital city (right bottom) concentrate most of the long distance edges.
Floods through mobile phone data
Time-lapse of the Tabasco impact map. The video displays the absolute value of the antenna variation metric from Oct, 2009 to Jan, 2010 as in the temporal series. Each antenna is represented by a circle with color and size proportional to the daily metric value. The segmented flooded area has been colored in light blue. It can be noticed that the antennas near the flooding area dramatically increased their variation during the floods. This effect is noticeable during Christmas and New Years Eve, where all antennas present extremely large variation.
Worldwide Twitter reaction to the announcement of Hugo Ch\’avez decease.
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Traders or investors are obligated under the income tax regulations to file their returns in right manner and pay taxes on their trading profits. So, it becomes important for any trader to understand the taxation treatment of trading business in India so that they can plan their trading activity accordingly and achieve their goals.
The first and foremost decision that any market participant has to make before starting filling Income tax is to declare whether he / she is an investor or a trader? Income tax regulations in India treats the activity of a trader and investor in different ways and have in-turn different taxation treatment and obligations.
We hereby in this article are outlining the benefits and implications for declaring self as a trader under the Income tax regulations. This is in-turn in continuation to our complete tax guide article Part VIII – Getting Started With Trading – Tax Guide for Traders in India for traders to understand the taxation treatment of trading business in India and Q&A : Tax Guide for Traders in India to answer many why`s and how`s of taxation for traders in India.
Who is a Trader?
A trader is someone who actively trades in the stocks, future & options, currency and commodities market. So, if you day trade or BTST in stocks (without taking delivery in your dmat), or trade in F&O segment (whether positional or intraday), then you have to declare self as a trader and not an investor.
If you are trading futures & options or day trading stocks on a recognized stock exchange, then you have to declare yourself as a Trader. So, equity trading for short term or long term will be considered as Business Trading and will be taxed just similar to taxation of ‘Futures & Options’.
Profits arising out from selling a stock after holding it for 12 months or less than 12 months or from trading derivatives will be treated as a Business Income and added to your total income and taxed according to your new respective tax slab.
Tax Benefits for a Trader
#1. Low Income Tax
If you are a trader, the total Income from trading and any other income is less than 2.5 Lacs then all the income will be tax free. This works in benefit for the full-time traders doing short term trading as they need not to incur the 15% tax on short term capital gain or those falling below the minimum tax bracket. While on the other hand, if you are an investor then even if your total income is less than the minimum tax bracket of Rs. 2.5 Lacs, you are mandated to pay 15% tax on short term trading gains.
#2. Set-off Losses with Other Income / Gains
Any loss arising from trading activity will be considered as a Business Loss and same can be offset against any other business income except salary.
Income from Rent, interest from saving bank account can be offset against the losses from trading.
For Example, In the year 2013-14, Mr. Shrinivasan has a annual salary of Rs. 6 lacs and he has incurred a total loss from derivatives of Rs. 1 lac and his income from other sources (rent, interest and other income apart from salary) is Rs. 1.5 lacs then his taxable income will be Rs. 6.5 Lacs (6 lacs + 1.5 lacs – 1 lac) and will be taxed according to his tax slab of 20% on 6.5 Lacs.
#3. Set-off Trading Expenses to reduce Taxable Income
For an active trader, all the income from trading is considered to be a business income so you can offset that trading income with the business expenses you incur to earn it.
Business expenses including STT, Rent, Brokerage Charges, Internet Charges, Advisory Fees, Computer Depreciation, Electricity Bill, Telephone Bills, Research Reports, Newspaper, Books, Software and Data Feed Charges etc can be used to reduce the taxable income from Speculative/Business Income. You can mention any other expenses that is incurred for undertaking your trading activity under the section “Other Expenses”.
In case of depreciation of assets, the purchase cost of assets cannot be treated as business expense as they are an asset and not an expense. But you can claim depreciation for assets (computer, laptop) during a course of time and offset it against the business income or profits to reduce your tax liability.
There are no limits for the business expense that can be claimed but any amount that is claimed need to be justified and supporting proofs must be presented and justified that they are incurred for conducting the trading activity, if asked by the Income Tax department. So, for any expenses you mention maintain the supporting documents for any future reference.
While in case of a capital gain (Short term or long term), only charges in contract notes other than STT and these business expenses cannot be claimed as an expense to reduce your taxable income.
#4. Carry forwarding the Business Losses & Speculative Business Losses in Subsequent Years
Any loss arising from the non speculative trading activity (Trading F&O`s) will be considered as Business Loss and can be offset against any other business income except salary. The balance, if any, can be carried forward and set off against business income within eight assessment years immediately succeeding the assessment year in which the loss was first computed.
For Example, In the year 2013-14, Mr. Shrinivasan has a annual salary of Rs. 6 lacs and he has incurred a total loss from derivatives of Rs. 1 lac and his income from other sources (rent, interest and other income apart from salary) is Rs. 50,000 then he can offset his loss against Rs. 50,000 income and can carry forward the remaining loss of Rs. 50,000 for the next year.
While any loss from the day trading will be considered as a Speculative Business Loss and can be carried forward against only speculative profit within the period of next 4 years.
Suppose, Mr. Srinivasan had incurred a day trading loss of 1 lac and booked a short term profit of 2 lacs during the same year, then the 1 lac loss cannot be netted off against 2 lacs profit. So, he has to pay short term tax on 2 lacs profit and 1 lac loss can offset against any speculative profits within next four years.
To get the benefit of carry forwarding the losses, it has to be filed in your income tax before the due dates for the financial year to get any benefit. Otherwise, you cannot claim the benefit.
Implication for a Trader
#1. High Taxes
Traders who fall under the higher tax bracket of 20% or 30% has this implication of paying more taxes on their trading profits as they don`t get the benefit of the tax free return on Long term capital gains on stocks or 15% on Short Term Capital Gains on Stocks.
Traders with higher trading volumes are obligated under tax laws to undergo the audit of accounts if the Turnover for the financial year is greater than Rs. 1 crore and if your profit are less than 8% of your turnover.
#3. Implications of Filling Tax
Traders under the income tax laws are required to file their tax returns under forms ITR 4 or ITR4(S) which will require the need of a chartered account to file while the filling is more easy for investors to file via ITR forms ITR1 & ITR2.
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You might think that compared to writing an entire book, selecting a title would be easy. In reality, however, crafting an effective title is a finely-tuned art that usually requires a great deal of analysis and strategy on the part of the author and publishing team.
How did you like the book Trimalchio in West Egg? Or The Last Man in Europe? Classics, right? Perhaps you’re more familiar with their final titles, The Great Gatsby and 1984, respectively. Even legendary authors like Fitzgerald and Orwell had to revise their original book titles at publisher request. Changing titles after a manuscript’s completion is common; here at Ooligan, for instance, both our most recent release and our latest acquisition underwent title changes after their first drafts. Here are some basics we recommend keeping in mind:
Do make it appropriate length. Shorter titles are helpful for many purposes, including marketing, ease of reference for word-of-mouth publicity, and memorability. Generally, five or fewer words is ideal, but this suggestion isn’t set in stone. Many times, the reader will be unable to get an accurate sense of the book from a short title, and in such cases, a subtitle is needed. If you employ the use of a subtitle, however, make sure it is necessary. Tucker Max offers some good examples on this topic. Anthony Bourdain’s Kitchen Confidential originally had the subtitle, “Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly.” Yet the primary title and Bourdain’s chef apparel on the cover rendered this superfluous information for final printing. Lawrence’s Wright’s The Looming Tower, on the other hand, wouldn’t clearly reveal its subject matter without its subtitle, Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11.
Don’t make it comparable to existing titles, especially classics. Book titles cannot be copyrighted (the effects of which the author of Fire And Fury: The Allied Bombing Of Germany 1942-1945 certainly became familiar with this year), so there’s a lot of overlap on library shelves. Although many publishers find success with somewhat formulaic titles, you want your book to stand out, provided it’s not eccentric for the mere sake of being unique. Many writers recommend Googling proposed titles and going through several pages of search results to see what turns up. This also helps prevent choosing a title with unintended connotations or references.
Do make it memorable. You want your work to stick in the brains of readers and grab their attention as they walk by in the store or glance at titles while browsing online retailers. Avoid generic, space-filler titles. Think about a reader suggesting the book to a friend—you wouldn’t want them grasping at straws to think of the title so their companion could follow up on the recommendation.
Don’t mislead readers about the book’s content. The title should give some indication of genre and what potential readers can expect, and you want to appeal to the right audience. An element of intrigue is certainly important—you don’t want to give too much away before the reader even opens the book—but avoid trying so hard to be different that your title is confusing. If you told someone the title of your book and they couldn’t narrow down its subject matter at all, some revising might be in order.
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It arrived from the furthest reaches of the universe. It was also rather little.
In March 2021, astrophysicists announced that the IceCube Neutrino Observatory, a detector buried near the South Pole, had picked up an anomalous signal in 2016, after years of analyzing and confirming data. It was believed that an antineutrino particle had traveled through space and time, beginning far beyond our galaxy, before crashing into Antarctica and causing a particle shower in the ice.
Every known kind of particle has an antimatter counterpart, according to the Standard Model of particle physics (albeit antimatter isn’t seen in the universe today). Sheldon Glashow, a future Nobel winner, predicted that if an antineutrino, the antimatter counterpart of the virtually massless neutrino, collided with an electron, it would unleash a cascade of other particles more than 60 years ago. The “Glashow resonance” phenomenon is difficult to observe, in part because the antineutrino requires 1,000 times the energy generated by the world’s most powerful colliders.
The discovery of IceCube, on the other hand, shows that cosmic accelerators in space might easily push high-energy particles. “It’s only feasible with a natural accelerator, not ground-based accelerators,” says University of Wisconsin-Madison physicist Lu Lu, who led the investigation and helped corroborate data from the 2016 event. “No one had ever seen the resonance up close before.”
According to her, the discovery is interesting for at least two reasons. For starters, it backs up predictions made by the Standard Model of physics. Second, it demonstrates that researchers may use IceCube to use the universe as a natural, high-energy laboratory in which to test novel physics. She describes it as “opening a fresh window into neutrino astronomy.” | <urn:uuid:5d5fe66f-4491-4b4d-bf11-2dbaedb62da6> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://neutrino-science.com/antimatter-from-another-world-collides-with-earth/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571150.88/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810070501-20220810100501-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.936861 | 394 | 3.515625 | 4 |
We all have hopes and dreams. Some come true, some don’t. What happens when our wishes don’t come true, when we have to accept a loss or when we are disappointed in love or friendship? Jot down some of your hopes and dreams. Have any of them come true yet? What do these hopes and dreams tell you about yourself?
Determining Character Traits: Got to Be Me
When characters tell their own stories, they also tell you a lot about their character traits—their personalities, values, likes, and dislikes. In “Helen on Eighty-sixth Street,” the narrator, Vita, announces right off the bat, “I hate Helen. That’s all I can say.” While this statement reveals that Vita and Helen are not friends, Vita’s forceful way of talking also tells you that she is outspoken and that she has strong feelings. As you read Vita’s narration, determine more of her character traits, both from what she says and from the way she says it.
Allusions are references to features of a culture—for example, to literature and history—that writers expect their readers to recognize. The writer of this story frequently alludes to Greek mythology. You may have already read some myths; in this textbook you’ll find stories from the Greek epic the Odyssey (page 650). For more help with allusions, you can consult these resources in our text book:
• A Closer Look, page 107
• the story’s footnotes, pages 106–111
Don’t get bogged down identifying allusions. Sometimes you can just guess what a name or event refers to by looking at the context clues.
The Beautiful Helen
According to Greek mythology, the god Zeus fell in love with Leda, a mortal woman, and visited her in the form of a swan. Their daughter Helen grew up to be the most beautiful woman on earth. Helen married Menelaus, king of Sparta, but Paris, a handsome young prince, fell in love with her and ran away with her to Troy, his kingdom in Asia Minor. Helen’s husband, Menelaus, banded together with other Greek kings and warriors under the leadership of his brother, Agamemnon. They sailed to Troy in a thousand ships to fetch Helen home.
For ten long years the Greeks camped outside the walls of Troy, but they were unable to break down the thick walls of the city. Finally the Greeks tricked the Trojans. They built a huge wooden horse with a hollow belly and hid some soldiers in it. They left the horse on the beach at Troy and pretended to sail away. The Trojans thought that the Greeks had at last retreated and had left the horse as a gift. They wheeled the huge horse into their city. That night the Greeks crept out of the horse, opened the city gate to their comrades, and slaughtered the Trojans. The old king, Priam, was killed. The Trojan women, including Queen Hecuba and her daughter Cassandra, were dragged into slavery. The queen of Troy had already seen her beloved son Hector killed by Achilles, his bleeding body dragged three times in the dust around the walls of the city.
In “Helen on Eighty-sixth Street,” a class reenacts the tale of the beautiful Helen of Troy.
Helen on Eighty-sixth Street
I hate Helen. That’s all I can say. I hate her. Helen McGuire is playing Helen, so Mr. Dodd says, because, out of the entire sixth grade, she most embodies Helen of Troy. Great. Helen McGuire had no idea who Helen of Troy even was! When she found out, well, you should have seen her—flirting with all the boys, really acting the part. And me? Well, I know who Helen was. I am unhappy.
My mother doesn’t understand. Not that I expected she would. When I told her the news, all she said was “Ah, the face that launched a thousand ships.” She didn’t even look up from her book. Later, at dinner, she apologized for quoting Marlowe 1. Marlowe is our cat. 1. The cat is named after Christopher Marlowe, a dramatist of the English Renaissance. “The face that launched a thousand ships” is from one of Marlowe’s plays and alludes to the Greek army’s pursuit of Helen of Troy.
At bedtime I told my mother, “You should have seen the way Helen acted at school. It was disgusting, flirting with the boys.”
Mom tucked the sheets up close around my chin, so that only my head was showing, my body covered mummy style. “Vita,” she said, “it sounds like she’s perfect for the part.”
So, I can’t play Helen. But, to make it worse, Mr. Dodd said I have to be in the horse. I can’t believe it. The horse! I wanted to be one of the Trojan women—Andromache, Cassandra, or even Hecuba. I know all their names. I told Mr. Dodd this, and then I showed him I could act. I got really sad and cried out about the thought of the body of my husband, Hector, being dragged around the walls of my city. I wailed and beat my fist against my chest. “A regular Sarah Heartburn”2 was all he said. 2. Sarah Heartburn is a humorous reference to Sarah Berhardt (1844-1923) a French actress known for her emotional style.
“Well, at least you get to be on the winning team,” my mother said when I told her about the horse. This didn’t make me feel any better. “It’s better than being Helen. It’s better than being blamed for the war,” she told me.
Mom was helping me make a shield for my costume. She said every soldier had a shield that was big enough to carry his body off the field. I told her I wasn’t going to be a body on the field, that I was going to survive, return home.
“Bring the shield, just in case,” she said. “It never hurts to have a little help.”
Mom and I live on West Eighty-sixth Street. We have lived in the same building, in the same apartment, my entire life. My father has been gone for almost three years. The truth is that he got struck with the wanderlust—emphasis on “lust,” my mother says—and we haven’t heard from him since.
“Your father’s on his own odyssey,” my mother said. And now it’s just me and Mom and Marlowe and the Keatses, John and John,3 our parakeets, or “pair of Keats,” as Mom says. When I was younger, when Dad first left and I still believed he was coming back, it made me happy that we still lived in the same building. I was happy because he would always know where to find us. Now that I am older, I know the city is not that big. It is easy to be found and easy to stay lost. 3. The parakeets are named after the English poet John Keats (1795-1821).
And I also know not to ask about him. Sometimes Mom hears things through old friends—that he has traveled across the ocean, that he is living on an island in a commune with some people she called “the lotus-eaters,”4 that he misses us. 4. In the Odyssey, people who eat the fruit of the lotus tree, a sort of drug, which causes them to forget their homes and families. The Greek soldier Odysseus enters the land of the Lotus Eaters on his journey home form the Trojan War.
Once I heard Mr. Farfel, the man who’s hanging around Mom now, ask why she stayed in this apartment after my father left. “The rent’s stabilized,”5 she told him, “even if the relationship wasn’t.” 5. In New York City, the government can control rent regulation. Rent stabilized apartments are less expensive than others and are therefore very desirable.
At school, Helen McGuire was acting weird because I’m going to be in the horse with Tommy Aldridge. She wanted to know what it’s like: “Is it really cramped in there? Do you have to sit real close together?”
I told her it’s dark, and we must hold each other around the waist and walk to make the horse move forward. Her eyes grew wide at this description. “Lucky you,” she said.
Lucky me? She gets to stand in the center of the stage alone, her white sheet barely reaching the middle of her thighs, and say lines like “This destruction is all my fault” and “Paris, I do love you.” She gets to cry. Why would she think I’m lucky? The other day at rehearsal, she was standing onstage waiting for her cue, and I heard Mrs. Reardon, the stage manager, whisper, “That Helen is as beautiful as a statue.”
At home Old Farfel is visiting again. He has a chair in Mom’s department.6 The way she describes it, a chair is a very good thing. Mom translates old books written in Greek and Latin. She is working on the longest graduate degree in the history of Columbia University. “I’ll be dead before I finish,” she always says. 6. A chair is an important teaching position at a university.
Old Farfel has been coming around a lot lately, taking Mom and me to dinner at Italian places downtown. I don’t like to be around when he’s over.
“I’m going to Agamemnon’s apartment to rehearse,” I told Mom.
Old Farfel made a small laugh, one that gets caught in the back of the throat and never really makes it out whole. I want to tell him to relax, to let it out. He smells like those dark cough drops, the kind that make your eyes tear and your head feel like it’s expanding. I don’t know how she can stand him.
“Well, the play’s the thing,” Old Farfel said. “We’re all just players strutting and fretting our hour on the stage.”7 Mom smiled at this, and it made me wish Old Farfel would strut his hours at his apartment and not at our place. I hate the way he’s beginning to come around all the time. 7. References to lines in Shakespeare’s plays Hamlet and Macbeth.
When I get back from rehearsal, Mom is spinning Argus.8 It’s what she does when she gets into one of her moods. Argus, our dog, died last summer when I was away at camp. My mother can’t stand to part with anything, so she keeps Argus, at least his ashes, in a blue-and-white vase that sits on our mantel. 8. Argus was Odysseus’ old dog. When Odysseus returns form the war twenty years later, Argus is the only one who recognizes him.
Once I looked into the vase. I’d expected to see gray stuff, like the ash at the end of a cigarette. Instead, there was black sand and big chunks of pink like shells, just like at the beach.
My mother had the vase down from the mantel and was twirling it in her hands. I watched the white figures on it turn, following each other, running in a race that never ends.
“Life is a cycle,” my mother said. The spinning made me dizzy. I didn’t want to talk about life. I wanted to talk about Helen.
“Helen, again with Helen. Always Helen,” my mother said. “You want to know about Helen?”
I nod my head.
“Well, her father was a swan and her mother was too young to have children. You don’t want to be Helen. Be lucky you’re a warrior. You’re too smart to be ruled by your heart.”
“And what about beauty? Wasn’t she the most beautiful woman in the world?” I asked.
Mom looked at the Greek vase. “Beauty is truth, truth beauty—that is all ye need to know.”9 9. Part of the last two lines of Keats’s poem “Ode on a Grecian Urn”.
She is not always helpful.
“Manhattan is a rocky island,” Mom said at dinner. “There is no proper beach, no shore.” My mother grew up in the South, near the ocean, and there are times when she still misses the beach. Jones, Brighton, or even Coney Island beaches don’t come close for her. I know when she starts talking about the water that she’s getting restless. I hope this means that Old Farfel won’t be hanging around too long.
Every night I write a letter to my father. I don’t send them—I don’t know where to send them—but, still, I write them. I keep the letters at the back of my closet in old shoe boxes. I am on my third box. It’s getting so full that I have to keep the lid tied down with rubber bands.
I want to write “Mom is talking about the water again. I think this means she is thinking of you. We are both thinking of you, though we don’t mention your name. Are you thinking of us? Do you ever sit on the shore at night and wonder what we’re doing, what we’re thinking? Do you miss us as much as we miss you?”
But instead I write, “I am in a play about the Trojan War. I get to wear a short white tunic, and I ambush people from inside a big fake horse. Even though we win the war, it will be many, many years before I return home. Until I see my family again. In this way, we are the same. I will have many adventures. I will meet giants and witches and see strange lands. Is that what you are doing? I wish you could come to the play.”
Old Farfel is going to a convention in Atlanta. He wants Mom to go with him. From my bed, I can hear them talking about it in the living room. It would be good for her, he says. I know that Mom doesn’t like to travel. She can’t even go to school and back without worrying about the apartment—if she turned the gas off, if she fed the cat, if she left me enough money. She tells him that she’ll think about it.
“You have to move on, Victoria,” he tells her. “Let yourself go to new places.”
“I’m still exploring the old places,” she says.
He lets the conversation drop.
Mom said once that she traveled inside herself when Dad left. I didn’t really understand, but it was one of the few times I saw her upset. She was sitting in her chair, at her desk, looking tired. “Mom, are you in there?” I waved my hand by her face.
“I’m not,” she said. “I’m on new ground. It’s a very different place.”
“Are you thinking about Dad?”
“I was thinking how we all travel differently, Vita. Some of us don’t even have to leave the house.”
“Dad left the house.”
“Sometimes it’s easier to look outside than in,” she said.
That night I dreamed about a swan. A swan that flies in circles over the ocean. This is not the dark water that snakes along the West Side Highway and slaps against the banks of New Jersey but the real ocean. Open water. Salty, like tears.
At play practice, I watch the other girls dress up as goddesses and Trojan women. They wear gold scarves wound tight around their necks and foreheads. They all wear flowers in their hair and flat pink ballet slippers. I wear a white sheet taken from my bed. It is tied around the middle with plain white rope. I also wear white sneakers. I don’t get to wear a gold scarf or flowers. Mr. Dodd wrote this play himself and is very picky about details. Tommy Aldridge, my partner in the horse, was sent home because his sheet had Ninja Turtles on it. “They did not have Ninja Turtles in ancient Greece,” Mr. Dodd said.
Mr. Dodd helps Helen McGuire with her role. “You must understand,” he tells her, “Helen is the star of the show. Men have traveled great distances just to fight for her. At the end, when you come onstage and look at all the damage you’ve caused, we must believe you’re really upset by the thought that this is all your fault.”
Helen nods and looks at him blankly.
“Well, at least try to think of something really sad.”
Old Farfel is taking Mom out to dinner again. It’s the third time this week. Mom says it is a very important dinner, and I am not invited. Not that I would want to go, but I wasn’t even asked. Mom brought in takeout, some soup and a cheese sandwich, from the coffee shop on the corner.
I eat my soup, alone in the kitchen, from a blue-and-white paper cup. I remember once at a coffee shop Mom held the same type of cup out in front of me.
“See this building, Vita?” she said. She pointed to some columns that were drawn on the front of her cup. It wasn’t really a building—more like a cartoon drawing. “It’s the Parthenon,”10 she said. “It’s where the Greeks made sacrifices to Athena.” 10. The temple of Athena, the Greek goddess of wisdom and warfare, who sided with the Greeks during the war (built in the fifth century B.C.).
“How did they make sacrifices?” I asked.
“They burned offerings on an altar. They believed this would bring them what they wanted. Good things. Luck.”
I finish my soup and look at the tiny building on the cup. In between the columns are the words “Our Pleasure to Serve You.” I run my fingers across the flat lines of the Parthenon and trace the roof. I can almost imagine a tiny altar and the ceremonies that were performed there.
It is then that I get an idea. I find a pair of scissors on Mom’s desk and cut through the thick white lip of the cup toward the lines of the little temple. I cut around the words “Our Pleasure to Serve You.” Then I take the temple and the words and glue them to the back of my notebook. The blue-and-white lines show clearly against the cardboard backing. I get Argus’s big metal water bowl from the kitchen and find some matches from a restaurant Old Farfel took us to for dinner.
In my room I put on my white sheet costume and get all my letters to Dad out from the back of the closet. I know that I must say something, to make this more like a ceremony. I think of any Greek words I know: spanakopita, moussaka, gyro. They’re only food words, but it doesn’t matter. I decide to say them anyway. I say them over and over out loud until they blur into a litany, my own incantation: “Spanakopitamoussakaandgyro, Spanakopitamoussakaandgyro, Spanakopitamoussakaandgyro.”
As I say this, I burn handfuls of letters in the bowl. I think about what I want: to be Helen, to have my father come back. Everything I have ever heard says that wishes are granted in threes, so I throw in the hope of Old Farfel’s leaving.
I watch as the words burn. Three years of letters go up in smoke and flame. I see blue-lined paper turn to black ashes; I see pages and pages, months and years, burn, crumble, and then disappear. The front of my white sheet has turned black from soot, and my eyes water and burn.
When I am done, I take the full bowl of ashes and hide it in the vase on the mantel, joining it with Argus. My black hands smudge the white figures on the vase until their tunics become as sooty as my own. I change my clothes and open all the windows, but still Mom asks, when she comes home, about the burning smell. I told her I was cooking.
She looked surprised. Neither of us cooks much. “No more burnt offerings when I’m not home,” she said. She looked upset and distracted, and Old Farfel didn’t give that stifled laugh of his.
It’s all my fault. Helen McGuire got chicken pox. Bad. She has been out of school for almost two weeks. I know my burning ceremony did this. “The show must go on,” Mr. Dodd said when Achilles threw up the Tater Tots or when Priam’s beard got caught in Athena’s hair, but this is different. This is Helen. And it’s my fault.
I know all her lines. Know them backward and forward. I have stood in our living room, towel tied around my body, and acted out the entire play, saying every line for my mother. When Mr. Dodd made the announcement about Helen at dress rehearsal, I stood up, white bedsheet slipping from my shoulders, and said in a loud, clear voice, “The gods must have envied me my beauty, for now my name is a curse. I have become hated Helen, the scourge of Troy.”
Mr. Dodd shook his head and looked very sad. “We’ll see, Vita. She might still get better,” he said.
Helen McGuire recovered, but she didn’t want to do the part because of all the pockmarks that were left. Besides, she wanted to be inside the horse with Tommy Aldridge. Mr. Dodd insisted that she still be Helen until her parents wrote that they didn’t want her to be pressured, they didn’t want to do any further damage, whatever that means. After that, the part was mine.
Tonight is the opening, and I am so excited. Mom is coming without Old Farfel. “He wasn’t what I wanted,” she said. I don’t think she’ll be seeing him anymore.
“What is beautiful?” I ask Mom before the play begins.
“Why are you so worried all the time about beauty? Don’t you know how beautiful you are to me?”
“Would Daddy think I was beautiful?”
“Oh, Vita, he always thought you were beautiful.”
“Would he think I was like Helen?”
She looked me up and down, from the gold lanyard11 snaked through my thick hair to my too tight pink ballet slippers. 11. A decorative cord.
“He would think you’re more beautiful than Helen. I’m almost sorry he won’t be here to see it.”
“Almost. At moments like this—you look so good those ancient gods are going to come alive again with envy.”
“What do you mean, come alive again? What are you saying about the gods?”
“Vita, Greek polytheism is an extinct belief,” she said, and laughed. And then she stopped and looked at me strangely. “When people stopped believing in the gods, they no longer had power. They don’t exist anymore. You must have known that.”
Didn’t I get the part of Helen? Didn’t Old Farfel leave? I made all these things happen with my offering. I know I did. I don’t believe these gods disappeared. At least not Athena.
“I don’t believe you.”
She looked at me, confused.
“You can’t know for sure about the gods. And who knows? Maybe Daddy will even be here to see it.”
“Sure,” she said. “And maybe this time the Trojans will win the war.”
I stand offstage with Mr. Dodd and wait for my final cue. The dry-ice machine has been turned on full blast and an incredible amount of fake smoke is making its way toward the painted backdrop of Troy. Hector’s papier-mâché head has accidentally slipped from Achilles’ hand and is now making a hollow sound as it rolls across the stage.
I peek around the thick red curtain, trying to see into the audience. The auditorium is packed, filled with parents and camcorders. I spot my mom sitting in the front row, alone. I try to scan the back wall, looking for a sign of him, a familiar shadow. Nothing.
Soon I will walk out on the ramparts, put my hand to my forehead, and give my last speech. “Are you sure you’re ready?” Mr. Dodd asks. I think he’s more nervous than I am. “Remember,” he tells me, “this is Helen’s big moment. Think loss.” I nod, thinking nothing.
“Break a leg,” he says, giving me a little push toward the stage. “And try not to trip over the head.”
The lights are much brighter than I had expected, making me squint. I walk through the smoky fog toward center stage.
“It is I, the hated Helen, scourge of Troy.”
With the light on me, the audience is in shadow, like a big pit, dark and endless. I bow before the altar, feeling my tunic rise. “Hear my supplication,” I say, pulling down a bit on the back of my tunic.
“Do not envy me such beauty—it has wrought only pain and despair.”
I can hear Mr. Dodd, offstage, loudly whispering each line along with me.
“For this destruction, I know I will be blamed.”
I begin to recite Helen’s wrongs—beauty, pride, the abdication of Sparta—careful to enunciate clearly. “Troy, I have come to ask you to forgive me.”
I’m supposed to hit my fist against my chest, draw a hand across my forehead, and cry loudly. Mr. Dodd has shown me this gesture, practiced it with me in rehearsal a dozen times—the last line, my big finish. The audience is very quiet. In the stillness there is a hole, an empty pocket, an absence. Instead of kneeling, I stand up, straighten my tunic, look toward the audience, and speak the line softly: “And to say goodbye.”
There is a prickly feeling up the back of my neck. And then applause. The noise surrounds me, filling me. I look into the darkened house and, for a second, I can hear the beating of a swan’s wings, and, then, nothing at all.▪
“Is Vita Based on Me?”
Wendi Kaufman (1964– ) lives in Virginia, but her written “voice” was shaped by her childhood experiences—growing up in a small town in upstate New York. Kaufman is a graduate of George Mason University’s master-of-fine-arts program. She is currently a correspondent for National Public Radio. Here is what she says about “Helen on Eighty-sixth Street”:
“I was reading the Odyssey and thought the stage production of a mythic tale would make a good backdrop for a short story. The Odyssey was originally an oral tale, an epic poem recited for hundreds of years before it was finally written down. I wanted to somehow incorporate that incantatory tone, to have my story sound like it was being spoken out loud—that’s where the voice of Vita, the narrator, comes from.
Vita is twelve years old. I remember that as a hard age, a time on the cusp, when you’re stuck in that middle ground between child and teen, and it’s difficult to know where you belong, to find your own place. Vita wants to be Helen of Troy because she wants everything that Helen represents: beauty, popularity, adoration. I think these are things that many of us have desired at one time or another. The truth about Vita is that she is beautiful. She is warm, funny, knows her own mind, and is capable of great love—what could be more beautiful than that? She just doesn’t know it yet.
I grew up in a sleepy town in the Hudson River Valley, about an hour from New York City, the kind of place Washington Irving wrote about. I always felt it was a boring town, a place where nothing ever happened. What I didn’t realize was that the most important things were happening around me every day, the drama of daily life. As an adult, I have lived all over the country and have had many different experiences, but it is those childhood years, those early memories and discoveries, that I return to and write about most often.
Is Vita based on me? Not really. But as a young girl, I did love reading mythology. Myths are great stories for young writers. The plot twists, the drama—it’s all there. Myths run the gamut of human emotion and experience. Love, loss, deceit, regret, betrayal, there’s something in there for everybody. I would recommend them to any young writer—and to a few old ones.
For me, writing is an experience of the imagination, that chance to take a kernel of an idea or experience and explore it by becoming anyone or saying anything. That’s what I love about writing. As for advice for young writers? Simple: Read, read, read. And, of course, keep writing. There are things that come out on the page, when pen hits paper, that you weren’t expecting, that you didn’t plan for. Those are the moments we all strive for.
Writing is about possibilities, about the freedom of the blank page. I can remember reading Little Women in the fourth grade and crying my eyes out. That was the first time I realized the power of literature. Never underestimate that power.” | <urn:uuid:0278bd45-4709-4d10-a044-15aba952213f> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://ininet.org/helen-on-eighty-sixth-street-make-the-connection.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571150.88/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810070501-20220810100501-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.972737 | 6,851 | 2.546875 | 3 |
For as long as anyone could remember, a car was a car was a car. And then, one day, it wasn’t.
Which is to say the notion of an automobile going back a hundred years—a multi-box design on four tires, with a wheel and pedals, aimed by people and powered by orderly little explosions—has been upended by a maelstrom of globalization, technological revolution, environmental reckoning and a wholesale assault on the ownership model. Such extreme disruption has unleashed a rapid evolution of the automotive species, with strange creatures now roaming the roads: Rolls-Royce SUVs and silent, battery-powered Croatian hypercars; Cybertrucks and fin-shaped hatchbacks with gullwings and brains big enough to take the wheel for a spell. It’s like looking around one day and realizing some dogs are now the size of horses and quack, while others have opposable thumbs, sonar and definite opinions on Brexit.
Take the luxury car. Not long ago the term meant something fairly specific: a large, imperious saloon with a respectably immoderate gas-burning engine and a leathered and carpeted backseat with ample space for raising a family. Now it’s as formless and atomized as the rest of the sprawling luxury universe, which includes collectible sneakers and stiff, terrifying plastic Japanese teddy bears and feeling very ashamed of your jet. Tesla’s austere, vegan-friendly robots are the must-have choice for the Silicon Valley set even as six-figure SUVs proliferate like 5,000-pound bunnies in the exurbs. Meanwhile, a younger generation of buyers appreciates zero-emissions vehicles but would really rather the automobile had the good sense to go away entirely, like voice mail.
Yet there are signs the automotive industry is finally coalescing around an idea of what a car will be in the future, and down that road lies an interesting potential detour: The luxury car, instead of simply representing a pricier version of whatever the car du jour is, branches off into something else entirely. For the first time ever a difference not just of degree but of kind, transformed by three interconnected forces: artificial intelligence, the rise of niche manufacturing and increasing rarity.
Two major technological revolutions are shaping the car of the future: electrification and autonomy. Electric vehicles (EVs) will eventually win out not simply because of an increased focus on sustainability, or because Tesla made them sexy, but because they provide undeniable benefits for an industry that’s become overwhelmingly consolidated, inextricably globalized and massively regulated—and because EVs ultimately pair better with self-driving technology.
Wide-scale EV adoption not only alleviates regulatory headaches over what’s being spewed from the tailpipe—EVs have no spew, and no tailpipes—but the cars are also simpler to manufacture and suited to the type of modular architecture now favored by the world’s largest automakers, in which a few platforms underpin a wide variety of vehicles. (The Volkswagen Group, which owns 12 brands across seven countries, produces more than 30 different models on its MQB platform alone, from sports cars to minivans.) Plus, the world’s largest car market, China, is pushing a blistering rate of battery-powered EV adoption—more than a million electric and hybrid-electric cars sold in 2018—with Europe, the third-largest market, attempting to keep pace. Regardless of whether the US intends to continue its retrograde love affair with fossil fuels, an increasingly climate-minded global market will ensure the automobile’s plugged-in future.
As for self-driving technology, it’s anyone’s guess when it becomes a widespread consumer reality; it’s not just a question of technological capability but a complex matrix involving legislation, infrastructure and liability. Meanwhile, everyone from Samsung to Softbank to Uber is spending astonishing amounts of money to ensure a front-row seat whenever the show starts.
“Without a doubt, on our road map is to have privately owned vehicles enabled with our technology,” says Adam Frost, chief automotive and corporate development officer at Waymo, formerly the Google Self-Driving Car Project, now its own entity within Google’s parent company, Alphabet. “And our partners are obviously very interested in that. We’re in discussions with them around, ‘What is that product?’”
But the day when you can Netflix and chill in your Level 4 autonomous ride is years, if not decades, away. For now, companies like Waymo, Cruise and Argo AI have partnered with (or been bought by) automakers to develop fleets of L4-equipped taxis that operate within the confines of certain test cities: Waymo runs autonomous Chrysler Pacifica minivans in parts of Phoenix, while Argo has AI-equipped Fords operating in Palo Alto, Detroit and Pittsburgh. These vehicles rely on information from onboard hardware such as cameras, sensors, radar and a laser-based system called LIDAR, plus incredibly detailed 3-D maps.
“We make a Waymo-specific map,” Frost says. “It’s a very deep understanding of the physical environment. It uses a high-definition mapping system that understands where hills are. It can see stop signs, it knows where the traffic lights are, where the lane markings are. It even has the curb edge captured.”
According to Alex Roy, a journalist for The Drive who writes frequently about automation and is an investor in the AV space, the industry’s “geofenced” operating areas and automotive-technological partnerships hint at how the technology could roll out for personally owned autonomous vehicles.
“The artificial intelligence stack has to be taught anew in each city,” Roy says. “You start with one city, then you add more cities, and then, eventually, those cities can be connected. It’s service coverage, like a cell-phone map.” At some point, Roy says, AV companies will have to compete for personal-vehicle customers in overlapping markets. That could mean choosing a Ford over an Audi based partly on the brand, specifications and range of its autonomous technology, like choosing a mobile phone based not just on features like screen size and operating system but service area and call quality. A vehicle’s tech capabilities (autonomous and otherwise) will increasingly become distinct vehicle features, like the engine or stereo system, upgradable for those who want the latest and best—and not just the tech itself, but how it’s deployed.
Consider that, by design, autonomous vehicles are unlikely to ever truly flaunt the speed limit like a human would, no matter how much open road lies ahead. That means, during the period when roads are shared by both human-driven and autonomous machines, getting anywhere faster than the posted limit in an AV might require the opening of a wallet instead of a throttle.
“Luxury cars that have been upgraded in the system as ‘priority vehicles’ could be allowed to travel much faster and overtake nonpriority cars,” Roy says. “For a price.”
And that’s to say nothing of in-cockpit technology. The crazed rush to develop self-driving capability kicked open the auto industry’s door to Big Data. Now comfortably inside, Amazon, Apple and Google have no intention of ceding a massive captive audience—more than 80 million new vehicles were sold worldwide in 2018 alone—that will soon have to figure out what to pay attention to inside a car once driving has been scratched off the list. Ordering the luxury vehicle of the future might entail ticking boxes for gaming and entertainment packages that include the latest Fortnite release and an Amazon Prime video subscription, or a health package with integrated real-time biometric monitoring.
If that sounds far away, that’s because it is. But Big Data is changing the possibilities around the luxury car in more tangible ways, and some of the most incredible are happening right now.
“To create a vehicle at the moment, whether it’s a run of one or a hundred or a hundred thousand, the investment needed in tooling and man-hours is astronomical,” says Felix Holst, chief product officer and founding partner of Hackrod, a start-up that explores radical new manufacturing applications in the automotive space. “As 3-D printing and robotic metal forming and all sorts of other advanced, automated manufacturing techniques come online, it has the power to put the consumer in touch with manufacturing—in effect, mass manufacturing in the quantity of one.”
This is the bleeding edge of automotive production. Even Tesla’s heavily automated Fremont factory, a vast California facility where whirring robots press and laser and lift car bodies 15 feet onto a rail system with the ease of placing a can of soup on a shelf, relies on an essentially traditional manufacturing process: Designers sketch cars, engineers model and refine the design, and people and machines assemble the parts. But Holst and Hackrod cofounder Mouse McCoy saw that a convergence of advanced technologies—artificial intelligence, virtual reality, algorithmic design, 3-D printing—could flatten the process in the same way that music software like GarageBand turned the labor-intensive process of making an album into something replicable by a bored teenager in his bedroom. Holst, a former vice president for design at Hot Wheels, says the goal was to imagine “whether three kids in their garage could start a car company.”
The result was Hackrod’s La Bandita roadster, built on a chassis conceived not by engineers but by a machine-learning algorithm and brought to life by advanced manufacturing processes.
“It’s generative design,” says Holst. “Which is basically, set your needs and parameters for what you’re trying to achieve and allow cloud processing to give you an optimized structure that solves for those needs.” This type of algorithmic software can already tackle complex engineering problems, such as an engine swap. When staggeringly powerful quantum computers become widely available (as of this writing, there are reportedly only 11 examples online around the world), such calculations could be computed across infinite parallel universes just for fun.
The implications for vehicle customization are astounding, especially in a future of simplified electric vehicles. A customer could buy a modular EV “skateboard”—a flat row of batteries on motorized running gear—then commission a boutique manufacturer to algorithmically generate a body design to exact performance and safety specifications, crash-tested in virtual reality and printed over the course of days or even hours, and entirely unconstrained by needs like a driver’s seat or a windshield you can see out of.
“We build the entire automotive experience around a steering wheel and pedals, so all cars have a similarity to them,” says Frost. “When you think 30 years down the track, and the Waymo [autonomous] driver being an enabler, it becomes a blank sheet.”
And creativity need not stop at the vehicle manufacturing. The interior and exterior could be painstakingly hand-finished using a combination of high-tech and old-school techniques, like contemporary resto-modifiers do today with classic cars. That could mean everything from 3-D-printed seats, designed using personalized body mapping and upholstered by hand, to a carbon-fiber rear wing re-created to the exact, laser-scanned dimensions of the ’95 Le Mans–winning McLaren F1 GTR.
“We really are on the cusp of some very dramatic shifts,” says Holst. “There is a view of the future that is very like the golden age of coachbuilding.”
To make such bespoke vehicles self-driving, imagine AI software and sensor hardware bundled together as an off-the-shelf automotive component the same way you can buy a Ford crate engine or parking sensors from Amazon. Waymo already sells its LIDAR scanning tech to nonautomotive customers, while San Diego-based Comma.AI offers a $599 device called the Eon DevKit, which uses a camera and the brand’s open-source software to enhance the driver-assistance systems of numerous vehicles across brands, like an aftermarket Tesla Autopilot.
Such bespoke and well-equipped machines will not come cheap; they will be the wild exceptions among a herd of increasingly homogenized commuter shuttles—until, of course, they’re not. Citing huge demand for mass-market but customizable 3-D-printed gear from Nike and Adidas, Holst suggests such cars “will very quickly be for the everyman.”
And when such dream machines become available to the masses, where will the luxury car go from there?
There is a future—far away and hardly guaranteed, but possible—in which your average car is nothing but a whizzing electric box powered through inductive charging by the very roads on which it expertly drives itself. A luxury version of such a car is easy to imagine: Just make the box bigger and more sumptuous, an autonomous transport the size of a rock band’s touring bus lavishly appointed by the great interior designers of the time, hung with art and plied with every amenity from sleeping quarters and a gym to climate-controlled wine storage.
But in this same obscure tomorrow there’s another version of the luxury car, one which is considered an astonishing oddity to behold—outlandish, anachronistic, perhaps even deliberately provocative. That car will look, nearly exactly, like the car of today: an utterly servile box and tires, with a steering wheel and pedals, powered by the crude liquefied remains of dinosaurs.
The automobile may be rolling toward an electrified, customizable, self-driving future, but technology trends toward the efficient and the democratic—two qualities the luxury market can’t abide. Just consider the story of the “quartz crisis,” which almost killed off the luxury watchmaking industry as we know it.
In the waning days of the 1970s, the entire horological industry decided it had seen the future, and that future ran on batteries. Quartz-powered watches were more accurate, more reliable and far cheaper to produce than complex mechanical movements. Everyone from Rolex to Patek Philippe embraced the brave new world; brands across Switzerland destroyed their watchmaking machinery, the old ways unceremoniously discarded in heaps of suddenly obsolete tooling.
Then, eventually, the fever waned. Luxury buyers were no longer enamored of simplicity and efficiency. They wanted instead to absorb themselves in the complex, inefficient, labor-intensive products of human industry, as they did with their architecture and wines and bespoke suits. Powered once again by intricate mechanical movements, the luxury watchmaking industry eventually regrew itself into a multibillion-dollar industry that shows no signs of slowing.
There is no such mass-market future for the loud, brainless, gas-powered automobile, especially when fossil fuel may cost as much as gold and legislation and liability have driven human-powered cars from the road in the name of safety. And as congestion pricing and subscription-based automotive services conspire to hollow out the middle-class ownership model, “the luxury of private ownership is about to become far more rare, especially in cities,” says Alex Roy, with future roads populated by vehicles paid for “by the minute or mile.”
But for those collectors who can afford to house and feed and maintain a fussy, demanding, extravagant curiosity, the reward will be a direct link to one of humankind’s greatest achievements, a remarkably robust and sometimes dazzling beast of burden on whose back we built the modern world.
One will need more than access to gasoline and a dying breed of knowledgeable mechanics. An archaic automobile kept alive in a distant future will require space to roam. And in a world of whizzing boxes depositing us like pre-sorted mail, what savage freedom it will be to take off toward nowhere and let the thing bellow and belch and run where you tell it, as fast as you dare. They’ll call it senselessly dangerous and heretically backward—the kind of outmoded, mostly illegal fun available only to historical reenactors and the very rich.
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Seoul, Jul 8 (efe-epa).- The leader of North Korea has paid tribute to his grandfather by visiting the mausoleum where his embalmed remains lie in Pyongyang at a time marked by few public appearances and the current tension with Seoul and Washington.
Kim Jong-un visited Kumsusan Palace of the Sun on the occasion of the anniversary of the death of his grandfather, Kim Il-sung, the country’s founder who died on July 8, 1994, according to the state KCNA news outlet.
The visit possibly took place on early Wednesday morning, although KCNA as usual did not specify when the event happened.
Kim was accompanied by Choe Ryong-hae, the second most powerful figure in the regime and member of the Presidium of the Political Bureau of the Workers’ Party of Korea’s Central Committee, Premier Kim Jae-ryong, and his predecessor Pak Pong-ju, current vice-chairman of the State Affairs Commission, according to KCNA, which also published a photo.
The image also shows Kim Yo-jong, the leader’s younger sister, located in the third row of officers who formed the main party along with Kim Jong-un.
The visit to Kamsusan, where the embalmed body of Kim’s father Kim Jong-il also lies, was one of the rare public appearances for the leader in the last few months.
Kim did not visit Kumsusan on Apr. 15, the date of his grandfather’s birthday, known as the Day of the Sun.
These prolonged absences, which occur in a year marked by the COVID-19 pandemic, have sparked rumors and speculation about his health.
Kim’s last public appearance took place on July 2 during a Politburo meeting where he asked for a review of prevention measures against the novel coronavirus. He made only seven public appearances, published by state media, in the second quarter of the year, marking a record low since he came to power.
The leader’s visit to the mausoleum comes at a time of renewed tension with Seoul, with which Pyongyang recently cut all communication and blew up the inter-Korean liaison office on its territory after accusing the South of allowing activists to send balloons with anti-regime propaganda across the border.
North Korea has also said that it feels no need to resume denuclearization talks with the United States.
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BETH. Wherewith shall a young man cleanse his way?
&c.] Some think David means himself, and that he was a young man when he wrote this psalm; and which they think is confirmed by ( Psalms 119:100 ) ; but neither of them seem conclusive; rather any young man is meant, and who is particularly mentioned, because young men are liable to sins and snares, to carnal lusts and sensual pleasures, which are of a defiling nature. Some are of opinion that a young man, or babe in Christ, is intended, that needs direction in his way, and instruction about the manner of cleansing it. But the former sense seems best, and expresses the concern of the psalmist for the education and right information of youth; which is a matter of great moment and advantage to families, neighbourhoods, and commonwealths. The question supposes the young man to be impure, as every man is by birth, being conceived in sin, and shapen in iniquity; is a transgressor from the womb, and his heart, ways, and actions, evil from his youth: and the difficulty is, how he shall be cleansed; how one so impure in his nature, heart, and ways, can be just with God, or become undefiled in the way, as in ( Psalms 119:1 ) ; to which some reference may be had: or how he can have his heart made pure, or a clean one be created in him; or how his way, life, and conversation, may be corrected, reformed, and amended. The answer is,
by taking heed [thereto] according to thy word;
that is, to his way and course of life, and steering it according to the direction of the word of God. But I think the words may be better rendered and supplied thus, "by observing [what is] according to thy word" F16; which shows how a sinner is to be cleansed from his sins by the blood of Christ, and justified by his righteousness, and be clean through his word; and also how and by whom the work of sanctification is wrought in the heart, even by the Spirit of God, by means of the word; and what is the rule of a man's walk and conversation: he will find the word of God to be profitable, to inform in the doctrines of justification and pardon, to acquaint him with the nature of regeneration and sanctification; and for the correction and amendment of his life and manners, and for his instruction in every branch of righteousness, ( 2 Timothy 3:16 ) . | <urn:uuid:7369caad-bf7a-4228-936a-ccb47f815ced> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.biblestudytools.com/nlt/psalms/119-9.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571150.88/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810070501-20220810100501-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.985088 | 550 | 1.859375 | 2 |
What is physiotherapy?
Physiotherapy is a science-based profession focused on maintaining or improving mobility, physical abilities, fitness and quality of life. Physiotherapists use their knowledge of anatomy and physiology to employ movement, exercise therapy and other physical methods. Some countries refer to physiotherapy as 'physical therapy'.
Physiotherapists work with people of all ages who are affected by injury, illness or disability. They are a key member of the multidisciplinary healthcare team and play an important role in preventive health and maximising function.
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We are not aware of any academic requirements for this programme.
- Applicants must present a minimum of six subjects [2 x A-Level subjects (Grade C) and four passes (Grade C or above at GCSE level or Grade E or above at A-Level)], to include a minimum Grade C in GCSE English, Mathematics, a laboratory science and a second language.
- If you are an EU International Baccalaureate (IB) applicant, you must present three subjects at Higher Level (minimum Grade 5) and three subjects at Standard Level (minimum Grade 4), to include English, Mathematics, a laboratory science and a second language.
- Meet the minimum entry (matriculation) and specific subject requirements.
- Meet the minimum Irish Leaving Certificate (ILC) points or equivalent.
International18415 EUR/yearTuition FeeBased on the tuition of 18415 EUR per year during 36 months.
EU/EEA3890 EUR/yearTuition FeeBased on the tuition of 3890 EUR per year during 36 months.
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April in Thailand sees the country in the middle of summer with hot weather wherever you go. Although temperatures are high, Thailand is well-adapted to deal with the heat and visitors will be thankful for air-conditioning in hotel rooms, taxis and shopping malls. April also brings the perfect way to cool down thanks to the Songkran Thai New Year Water Festival. The biggest holiday of the year in Thailand is celebrated with great enthusiasm as people pour water over each other as a way of wishing good luck for the year ahead.
celebrating Songkran in Chiang Mai
Thailand weather in April
April can bring extremely high temperatures throughout Thailand, particularly in the north and north-east of the country. With summer temperatures often nudging 40°C (104°F) it makes sense to try to plan any activities and sightseeing for the morning or late afternoon wherever possible. The April heat and humidity in Thailand can be draining and visitors should drink plenty of bottled water to keep hydrated.
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Some provinces in the north of Thailand can see localised haze and smog in early April although the worst is usually over in March.
Which is the best Thai island or beach resort to visit in April?
With April being hot season in Thailand, whichever beach resort or island you choose you can expect plenty of blue skies and sunshine. Showers and summer storms can occur anywhere in Thailand during April, but they tend to be over quickly. Prolonged periods of rainfall and rough seas aren’t the norm in April and boat services run as usual throughout the month. There is no major difference in weather from one coast to the other so choose whichever island or beach takes your fancy. Although average rainfall during April is slightly higher on Thailand’s Andaman Coast (e.g. Krabi, Phuket) compared to the Gulf Coast and the Eastern Seaboard, the amounts are still low.
April events & festivals
Thailand commemorates the founding of the royal Chakri dynasty with Chakri Day on April 6 a public holiday. The biggest and most widely anticipated holiday of the year is the Songkran Thai New Year Water Festival. Official dates of the holiday are from April 13-15, but water throwing often starts a day or two earlier in a number of locations. There are also some regional variations (such as Chonburi) which sees events such as the Wan Lai Festival celebrated on different dates.
Many Thai people working in Bangkok return home for the extended Songkran holiday. Buses, trains and planes heading out of Bangkok to the north and north-east of Thailand tend to be extra busy for Songkran. There are also some destinations such as Chiang Mai which are extremely popular with overseas and Thai tourists heading to the city to celebrate the Thai New Year Water Festival. It’s advisable to book Songkran transport and accommodation well in advance, especially if you are heading from Bangkok to the north or north-east of Thailand.
Poy Sang Long is a colourful festival celebrated by the Shan (Tai Yai) people in north and north-west Thailand. Young boys being prepared to be ordained as Buddhist monks are dressed like princes just as the Buddha was in his youth and carried on the shoulders of older relatives. Poy Sang Long takes place in various locations around northern Thailand during March and April. The most famous place to witness Poy Sang Long in Thailand is in Mae Hong Son with the event celebrated over a three-day period on the first weekend in April. | <urn:uuid:d468e742-2dda-4407-8576-140ddf362c8f> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.thaizer.com/visiting-thailand-april/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573104.24/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817183340-20220817213340-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.943757 | 847 | 1.9375 | 2 |
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