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When Fred H. Wells opened a milk route in Le Mars, Iowa, in 1913, little did he know the iconic globally renowned landmark his humble enterprise would spawn.
Wells bought a horse, delivery wagon and a few cans and jars for $250 from a local dairy farmer and launched his dairy delivery service. The business grew, and in 1925 Wells and his sons began manufacturing ice cream and marketing it in nearby towns, including Sioux City, 25 miles to the southwest.
Three years later another company purchased Wells’ Sioux City distribution system and the right to use Wells’ name.
In 1935 the Wells family decided to resurrect their ice cream sales efforts in Sioux City again but lacked a company name.
So they held a “name that ice cream” contest in the Sioux City Journal. One resident submitted the winning entry after noticing how much his son enjoyed an Easter display in a department store window.
Thus Blue Bunny — and the “Ice Cream Capital of the World” — were born.
Dominating the Le Mars skyline, Blue Bunny’s 900,000-square-foot ice cream plant boasts a 12-story refrigeration tower. The block-long unit can chill more than 50,000 pallets of ice cream at 20 degrees below zero.
Le Mars’ largest employer, the company staffs more than 1,000 workers and produces 150 million gallons of frozen goodies every year, including dozens of flavors of ice cream, tri-colored Bomb Pops, ice cream sandwiches and other novelties.
According to the “Hacks ‘n Facts” page on www.bluebunny.com, the company annually uses:
- 8 million pounds of chocolate coating
- 865,000 pounds of strawberries
- 396,000 pounds of pecans
- 150 million chocolate bunnies for its Bunny Tracks ice cream
- 130 million sticks for handheld treats
The manufacturing facility has been hailed as the largest single-location producer of ice cream novelties in the world. The company is also thought to be the world’s largest family-owned and managed dairy processor.
The town of just under 10,000 was designated “Ice Cream Capital of the World” in 1994 by the state’s general assembly — and Le Mars will not let anyone forget it.
The Blue Bunny Ice Cream Parlor and Museum features an old-fashioned parlor with an antique soda fountain and souvenir shop. The museum on the second floor details the history of the ice cream industry in Le Mars.
The parlor and museum, located at 115 Central Ave. NW, is open from 9 a.m. to 10 p.m. Monday through Saturday and noon to 10 p.m. Sunday. Hours are somewhat seasonal, so call (712) 546-4522 to verify the business hours before visiting.
More than 50 colorful 6-foot ice cream cone statues dot the city. Murals and alley art harken to the halcyon days of romantic strolls, unspoiled greenery, carefree living — and, of course, the simple pleasure of enjoying ice cream.
The annual four-day Ice Cream Days festival includes 10,000 free servings of ice cream to the thousands of revelers who descend on the town every June.
Festival activities include a parade; outdoor movie; classic automobile cruise-in; historical and preservation tours; rubber cow races; arts exhibits; grill and barbecue competitions; toy show and auctions; live entertainment; fishing derby; and a downtown scavenger hunt.
The 2017 festival is slated for Wednesday, June 14, through Saturday, June 17. For information, visit www.lemarsiowa.com.
The whole town gets into the act, according to Brad Pick, a member of the Ice Cream Days organizing committee and president of the local chamber of commerce.
“There are so many groups of people that are sponsoring events, putting them together and organizing activities,” he said. “The entire community goes out to make it a great event.”
He also noted the festival is designed to highlight the town’s attractions other than ice cream.
“Ice Cream Days is a festival when we celebrate ice cream but also our community and what we offer here,” he said.
Those attractions include a host of restaurants, taverns, bakeries and drive-ins; convention center and banquet hall; barn quilts and public art; playhouses and movie theaters; a 27-hole golf course; more than a dozen parks featuring ball diamonds, disc golf courses and swimming pools; miles of hiking and biking trails; and the Plymouth County Fair.
Not content to rest on its laurels, Le Mars this year adopted a 139-page comprehensive plan detailing implementation of its vision statement:
“Le Mars, the Ice Cream Capital of the World, is a thriving community of choice with opportunity for everyone. It is a community that:
- embraces growth and development to increase opportunity for present and future residents
- is a place of choice for people of all ages and backgrounds and a destination for visitors
- promotes a high quality of life with excellent educational, recreational, and health services
- supports its downtown as the economic and social hub of the community
- maintains Midwest values by being welcoming to all people, progressive, hardworking and family-friendly
- encourages sustainability
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Green Mountain Adaptive Sports is a chapter of Move United, an American non-profit organization devoted to the promotion of para sports among youths and adults with physical disabilities. The organization operates community para sports programs via over 150 local chapters across the country.
Move United offers a wealth of resources for anyone interested in participating, volunteering, or coaching adaptive sports.
If you are a coach or an instructor, or interested in adaptive sports in general, we suggest that you visit their website to get valuable resources, included how to get started, how to find a local program, equipment and adaptations, and tips to learn to teach the sport.
The organization recently created the “Move United’s Inclusive Playbook” to educate kids on disability awareness through the lens of adaptive sport. The Inclusive Playbook is a free, 24 page, interactive workbook created for children in pre-K through 6th grade and focuses on disability awareness and adaptive sport. It is accompanied by a two page interactive Inclusive Playmat for early understanding and learning. We encourage teachers, coaches, youth leaders, after-school caretakers, parks & recreation professionals, families and other disability advocates to use the Inclusive Playbook to bridge the gap between individuals with and without disabilities.
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The conventional wisdom says that the United States is more divided than ever.
At least, that’s according to network number crunchers and political pundits armed with snazzy, interactive maps. They tell the perennially sad story of the United States’ deep divisions in distinct juxtapositions of red and blue. But the simple, mathematical fact is that these stark divides of party, race, gender and religion belie the obvious truth that the overwhelming majority of Americans are more united than ever.
They are united in a state of indebtedness to the tune of $11.86 trillion worth of mortgages, credit card bills, consumer debt and student loans.
A recent New York Times/CBS poll shows they are also united in their concerns over the widening gap between those at the top of the United States’ pyramid and them. Only 35 percent of Americans believe “anyone” regardless of their station in life can “get ahead” in the post-crash economy. A full 66 percent think wealth should be more evenly distributed, and another 57 percent believe government should do something about it.
This emerging consensus on inequality might have something to do with a stunning 36 percent drop in net household worth in just 10 years. No doubt it also accounts for their overwhelming support for big changes on a variety of economic issues – from expanding paid family leave to increasing the minimum wage to raising taxes on those earning $1 million or more per year.
Simply put, they want government action to preserve the American dream.
Yet, only 33 percent of Americans favored additional taxes on financial transactions. Strangely, Americans see the need for government intervention on a host of issues, but they prefer to keep financial markets unfettered by taxes. This is odd because there is a direct link between the relentless swirl of financial transactions, the unremitting financialization of the economy and the epic loss of wealth troubling a large majority of Americans. This is also why so many Americans live in states of indebtedness.
The Drawbacks of Financialization
So, what is “financialization,” anyway?
Financialization refers to the growing importance of financial institutions relative to industry, agriculture or other “hard” sectors of the economy. In other words, it is the relative value of the economy of “financial services” vis-à-vis the economy of actual “things.”
Financialization transforms squishy things like leverage, risk, debt, derivatives, insurance and, in the final analysis, financial speculation itself into tradable “financial instruments” they can buy, sell, repackage, hedge and short. In the case of the subprime mortgage market at the molten core of the financial crisis, think of an “exotic financial instrument” like a “credit default swap” as a way to place a new bet (by buying and selling exotic forms of insurance) on a growing pool of risky, existing bets placed by unfettered financial institutions on incredibly risky borrowers. In essence, it’s the commoditization of betting on multiple levels.
According to a 2013 article by two Harvard economists, this highly profitable version of the “service economy” rose from 2.8 percent of GDP in 1950 to 4.9 percent in 1980, and then grew to a stunning 8.3 percent of GDP on the eve of the crash of 2008. That’s when financial wizards were packaging subprime mortgages into securities (another tradable product), thus turning growing risk and potential liabilities into huge profits by selling them as assets. The beauty of this system is that regardless of the market’s vicissitudes or the viability of the exotic instrument, the financial institutions always collect their transaction fees.
Yet, most Americans surveyed are not interested in raising taxes on financial transactions.
Of course, that’s in spite of mounting evidence that a risk-embracing, debt-repacking, hyper-financialized economy overwhelmingly benefits “the few” at the cost of “the many.” And it ignores the inexorable link between Americans’ declining fortunes, their increasing household debt and the recurring pain of financially driven boom-and-bust cycles that disproportionately hit those who can least afford it.
Even worse, it might just be bad economics.
Too Much Finance
In a starkly worded report released on June 11, 2015, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) determined that “too much finance may hamper economic growth and worsen income inequality.”
Well, is there “too much” finance?
The OECD tracked the 50-year spike in financialization and found that credit floated “by banks and other intermediaries to households and businesses has grown three times as fast as economic activity.”
Yes, three times.
Not coincidentally, that’s the ratio of all the debt in the world relative to the world’s total GDP. The McKinsey Global Institute found that total global debt hit a mindboggling $199 trillion in 2014. That’s up $57 trillion since the crash. Surprisingly, government debt only makes up $58 trillion of the $199 trillion. The rest is a mountain of interest-addled household, financial and corporate debt. And the grand total represents 286 percent of GDP, meaning all the world’s debts are nearly three times the size of the world’s economic output.
According to the OECD’s report, the size of a debt ratio really does matter.
In fact, for every 10 percent rise in bank-issued credit, financialized economies see a 0.3 percent decline in GDP growth. Additionally, the OECD regards the staggering rise in credit as a troubling “misallocation” of capital that “magnifies” the cost of “implicit guarantees” to too-big-to-fail banks. And it also “generates boom-bust cycles” that ultimately force taxpayers to pay out on those “implicit guarantees,” according to the report.
But wait, there’s more.
The report’s authors warn that further expansion of credit “is likely to slow rather than boost growth.”
Well, that certainly seems important.
According to the OECD, more credit equals less growth. It’s worth repeating because lackluster growth has bedeviled central bankers since the crash of 2008, even as the rising stock market has exceeded Wall Street’s loftiest dreams of avarice.
So, how are these two trends possible?
The OECD believes steadily increasing private sector credit not only “slows growth in most OECD countries,” but it also has the opposite effect on stock markets. In other words, there is a direct, inverse relationship between the rise of the financialized economy and the decline of something recognizable as a “real” economy of production and growth. Simply put, a growing flood of credit is decoupling the health of the “widget-making” economy from the ever more vigorous “deal-making” economy.
More troubling is that the deal-making economy is a self-reinforcing system. The recent trend in stock buybacks is a perfect example.
How Corporations Cook the Books
Companies with sagging profits and low “earnings per share” have found a novel way to spike their profitability. Instead of earning more profits, they just reduce the number of shares. To do this they’ve been buying back their own shares on the open market. This raises “earnings per share,” thus masking flat or declining profits. It’s an easy way to alter a basic market benchmark in quarterly reports.
But it is much more than that.
Much of the money for these buybacks doesn’t come from surplus cash from rising profits because their profits are not rising. With interest rates so darn low and Wall Street increasingly indifferent to fundamentals like profits, corporate book cookers are leveraging debt into the illusion of profitability. They just borrow the money, buy back their own stock and profit off the difference between the minuscule interest rate on the debt and the sudden rise in stock prices from the debt-fueled buyback.
This also means corporations and financiers are not leveraging the Federal Reserve’s policy of cheap money into “hard” investments in new, improved widget-factories that employ actual people. Instead, they are leveraging their exclusive access to cheap money into short-term spikes in stock valuations and bigger compensation packages for executives. That’s not credit in the service of a “real” economy. That’s financialization.
Compounding the financialized problem of credit misallocation, according to the OECD, is the fact that the biggest drag on growth occurs when credit floods into “households rather than businesses.” Most households simply cannot use debt like financiers use it. They don’t get to enjoy the unbearable lightness of being highly leveraged in an artificially rising stock market. Ironically, many households rely on the flood of credit just to keep from going underwater.
Meanwhile, the OECD sees high-powered wheelers and dealers stoking “greater income inequality because higher income people can benefit more from the greater availability of credit and because the [financial] sector pays high wages.” The trick is that they can easily afford to place their bets, service their debts and live well … all at the same time.
So, why haven’t debt-plagued, wage-challenged Americans connected the dots (and the bottom lines) between the rising world of finance and their deepening world of hurt?
Perhaps it’s the byzantine, almost impenetrable and “exotic” nature of its jargon-encoded financial instruments. There also may be a little bit of Stockholm syndrome and a touch of Horatio Alger-ism contributing to this disconnection. As John Steinbeck pointed out, impoverished Americans do like to think of themselves as “temporarily embarrassed millionaires.” This is the United States, after all.
Unfortunately, the captains of finance exhibited little embarrassment as they floated the whole economy on a sea of red ink. Unlike their fellow Americans, they’ve enjoyed a unique ability to socialize the risk of their private borrowing through well-paid political influence and with government-sponsored bailouts. Their nearly exclusive access to liquidity empowers them to use credit as a tool of wealth reallocation … and it’s sinking the American dream.
Understanding the Debt Tsunami
Since deregulatory floodgates were first opened by the Supreme Court in 1978, the United States has been drowning in a wave of consumer credit. The wave swelled as globalization and wage stagnation transformed the United States into a debt-driven economic system. Debt really is the fuel that propels contemporary capitalism. Debt blows bubbles on Wall Street that pop all over Main Street. Debt leads governments to socialize risk and externalize financial pain. And debt is a dangerous trap for the poor, a powerful drain on the dwindling middle class and a reliable revenue stream for the unfettered financiers of Wall Street.
Of course, debt in the abstract is not necessarily a problem. Collateralized debt (meaning it is tied to a hard asset like a house) has long been a reliable path to the American dream. Governments can use debt to build socioeconomic “goods” like roads, schools and power grids that contribute to economic productivity and growth. And debt is crucial to businesses quickly scaling up production or expanding into new markets.
However, household debt, which has skyrocketed over the last three-plus decades, is mostly non-collateralized or “unsecured” debt. A vast amount of the debt load carried by US households – including credit cards, medical bills and student loans – is not tied to a hard asset. Automobile loans are tied to cars. And some household debt is leveraged against an actual asset, like a line of credit attached to home equity. But much of the United States’ household debt is not tied to an asset that can be quickly and easily liquidated to settle outstanding accounts.
Since the early 1980s, more and more Americans filled their household troughs of red ink with general consumer debt – accumulating loans and charges and fees through the simple act of buying stuff. For instance, over the last two decades a lot of televisions and plastic tchotchkes have been converted into profitable, revenue-bearing debts managed by credit card companies. Those debts are often serviced by US households long after the plastic tchotchke breaks or the television becomes obsolete.
The key is that the asset acquired rarely holds any liquid value once the purchase is made. This lack of liquidity is a serious problem because any asset not convertible to cash is just a financial liability. And long-term servicing of that liability only compounds the loss.
More pernicious, though, are debts accrued to bridge the gap on basics like food, shelter, health care, education, taxes and utilities. These purchases are services that also lack liquidity, so there is no easy way out of those debts. There is no appreciation of those “assets” and no chance to convert them into cash when the going gets tough. The interest is often inescapable. And income spent or wealth reallocated toward that interest is lost forever.
The upshot is that people who really couldn’t afford the widget or the medical care are forced to redirect much needed income to service interest payments on those debts. In terms of opportunity cost, that’s also income that doesn’t generate more wealth. It doesn’t get invested in a rising stock market or help households keep pace with inflation. This debt acts like a wealth removal machine.
The Trickle-Up Economy
With wages also persistently flat – or worse – the two factors (debt and income) swirl into a perfect storm of wealth reallocation. That debt tsunami is also fed by an increasingly financialized, post-industrial economy that rewards those with liquidity and/or with specialized access to ultra-cheap money doled out by Federal Reserve policy makers.
And that’s the maelstrom that transformed the United States into a “trickle-up” economy. No, this economy is not a drip system. It is a percolator.
As bubbles rise and pop, this recurring action presents profitable opportunities to those with either the liquidity or the leverage to exploit the crash. Each new boom-and-bust cycle compounds this effect as financial elites concentrate more wealth into their coffers as it drains out of the middle and working classes. When bubbles pop and assets drop in value – stocks, real estate, whole companies and industries – those armed with cash or easy, exclusive access to politically greased financial leverage (like a taxpayer-funded bailout or the perpetually low Fed lending rate) simply hoard those assets for pennies on the dollar.
On the other hand, those outside the walnut-burled boardrooms of the financial system – but ever more beholden to it – must return to square one. They lack the protective armor of corporate personhood or the expertise of high-priced lawyers needed to escape pre-crash purchases. Some debts that don’t “disappear” must be serviced during a prolonged period of recessionary pressure. That pressure means new debts are likely to accumulate until another bubble starts to pop out of Wall Street’s financialized factory. This cyclical process drains off middle- and working-class wealth at rates higher than it can be replaced, while those at the top flourish.
For recent evidence of the growing divide, look no further than the last five years of income growth for CEOs versus income stagnation for their employees. Since the crash, CEO compensation in the biggest corporations spiked 54.3 percent, outpacing both the epic rise in the stock market and the lagging wage growth for their employees.
In fact, “top” CEOs of “leading firms” now earn 300 times these firms’ “average” employees, according to the Economic Policy Institute. And a new International Monetary Fund study found that the top 1% in developed nations like the United States now take home 10 percent of the income, even as poverty has risen in those nations. Add the fact that the middle class has been waiting 15 years for a raise, and the picture is quite clear: The people who have liquidity are swimming in a wider and deeper ocean while the pool for everyone else is drying up.
Frankly, it’s a zero-sum game.
The way the game is currently rigged, income rewards those playing financial games while debt compounds the loss of wealth for those being played by financial gamers. And if the OECD is right and credit hampers growth, the future looks fairly grim. With slow growth comes slow recovery. With slow recovery and stagnant wages comes the need to use widely available credit – both by financial speculators looking for bigger yields and by consumers looking to make ends meet. And debt that is not leveraged into hard assets or wealth generation soaks household debtors in a rising sea of red ink.
Return on Investment
In The Washington Times, an analyst at Bankrate.com explained the slow bleed of credit card debt: “If you owed $2,000 on a credit card with a 15.76 percent rate, it would take more than 10 years to pay off that card if you only made the minimum payment each month, and you’d pay an extra $1,330 in total interest.”
That $1,330 is significant in two ways.
It’s significant to the household trying to make ends meet during a slow “recovery.” But it’s also significant to a bank or financial company looking for reliable revenue. Even better, it is revenue that can be tallied on its quarterly reports during a period of otherwise hollow, financialized growth. The stock market likes any signs of “growth.” And personal credit card debt becomes corporate balance sheet “revenue” that can be used to leverage the acquisition of more assets.
But it’s worse than that.
As the OECD points out, debt leads to “low and slow” growth in the “hard” economy of wages and things. To counter “low and slow,” the Federal Reserve handed out money through “quantitative easing” and continues to pass out nearly free money to Wall Street in the form of a low benchmark lending rate. So, the Fed’s policy of lending and spending not only reinforced the financialized economy right after the crash, but it also rewarded it by doubling down after it lost all its bets. And the Fed’s easy money not only made the stock market high and mighty, but it also discouraged personal savings while also making the margins on consumer debt incredibly rewarding.
The Fed’s financial-friendly policy is, in fact, an engine of wealth reallocation.
A study by MagnifyMoney.com illustrates how the perpetual profit machine is fueled by the 75.7 percent of Americans who pay credit card interest of 15 percent or higher with an average monthly payment of $408. As Brian O’Connell of MainStreet.com starkly explains, just nudging that up to a “not-uncommon 18 percent” turns that debt into $1,707 of interest paid in just one year. That’s a serious opportunity cost for many Americans. But, as the researchers at MagnifyMoney.com point out, “Banks will pay 0.01 percent for money [for savings account deposits]. So for $10,902 a bank would pay about $1 in interest. Then they turn around and charge the average American $1,707 in interest.”
And those interest rate numbers may be conservative.
Many people wield plastic issued by margin-hungry retailers. The average APR on those “Do you want 15 percent off today’s purchase?” cards is a painfully high 23 percent, while some top out as high as 28 percent. The equation of 15 percent off this one balance plus 23 percent added to everything you ever buy equals ka-ching for retailers.
And if you avoid those bait-and-switch tactics by sticking with bank-issued cards?
There is (of course) the dreaded “fine print” that can spike credit card interest as high as 36 percent by tripping up consumers in a tangled obstacle course of clauses and penalties. Most deadly are the sky-high fees on cash advances. It is part of the “complex web of fees and charges” that allowed Capital One to generate a “net revenue margin of 17.29 percent during the last three months of 2014,” according to Forbes.
Talk about a return on investment! But it’s actually a double whammy.
The same low Fed lending rate that makes consumer lending so profitable also translates into sparse returns on the simple savings accounts once used by average Americans as a slow, steady way to accumulate wealth. But savings accounts have slowly become worthless to ordinary Americans. That worthlessness stoked middle-income earners to engage in a risky “reach for yield” (meaning risk-taking in a low-income environment) as they tried to keep pace with the well-heeled Joneses playing Fed-sanctioned Monopoly on Wall Street.
In the 1990s, yield-hungry baby boomers turned to the stock market. The rise of 401ks and tech-fueled day trading gave Wall Street access to a pool of wealth that’d long been held in banks and other less-risky investments. Expanding 401ks stoked dreams of a lively retirement filled with Viagra, golf and Caribbean cruises. It also stoked the dotcom bubble. Those dreams quickly disappeared when the bubble popped. And just a few years later, that wealth-removing cycle was repeated again as Americans gambled on a superheated housing bubble stoked by yet another risky reach for yield.
It’s all about the yield … or lack thereof.
By the start of 2015, “the 10 best” savings accounts had annual percentage yields ranging from .95 percent (APY) to 1.05 percent (APY), but the average is 0.1 percent (APY). By comparison, savings accounts paid around 3 percent in the mid-1950s and 5.75 percent in the mid-1980s. This miniscule, “downside-free” return for the 99% is all upside for financially minded money managers.
Really, it’s a no-brainer.
Just take a chunk of the $2 trillion worth of capital that Americans deposited into savings accounts and lend it back to them in the form of credit cards they probably need to get by because they are getting little or no yield from their savings accounts. The kicker is that the Fed’s low rate also makes it profitable for financial elites to borrow money at the institutional level and, among other speculative ventures, turn it into unsecured loans like credit cards.
Facing Debt Collection
Simply put, household debt is money in the bank for the United States’ financial industry. But it’s also the cost of doing business for the majority of “average” Americans. As of June 2015, figures compiled by Nerdwallet detailed the overall debt load for the “average” US household – with an “average” credit card debt at $15,706, an “average” mortgage at $156,333 and an “average” load of student loans at $32,953.
And the iron law of averages is catching up with more people.
In 2014, an Urban Institute study titled “Delinquent Debt in America” estimated that 35 percent of adults with a credit file have a delinquent account “in collections.” That’s roughly 77 million Americans who cannot service their non-mortgage debts, including credit cards, medical or utility bills that are more than 180 days past due. When debts go into collections, an individual’s earnings are an easy target for creditors endowed with the legal resources needed to seek recourse in lieu of liquid assets. Unlike cunning “corporate persons” who are “too big to fail,” these “economically fragile” folks get trapped in a Charybdis of non-collateralized debt.
In its recently issued “Report on the Economic Well-Being of US Households in 2014,” the Federal Reserve shows the extent of the “economic fragility” crippling nearly half of all Americans. Their survey of 50,000 Americans found that just 53 percent could “easily” absorb an unexpected “financial disruption” costing a paltry $400 by turning to savings or a credit card. As for the other 47 percent, they said a $400 surprise would be a serious financial curveball. But that’s just the tip of the iceberg:
- 76 percent of respondents have at least one credit card
- 56 percent said they “always” paid credit card bills “in-full” (the other 44 percent doesn’t)
- 31 percent passed on medical care during 2014 because they could not afford it
- 37 percent said they saved no money in 2014
- 31 percent have no retirement savings or pensions
- 45 percent of future retirees expect to continue working during retirement to cover expenses
Not a True Economic Recovery
And as for those consistent reports of the United States’ “recovery”?
In October 2012, The New York Times heralded the United States’ mounting “recovery” from the debt-fueled, mortgage-driven disaster of 2008 with the following headline: “Rise in Household Debt Might Be Sign of a Strengthening Recovery.” Obviously, it is an oddity of highly financialized capitalism that this headline makes any sense at all. Isn’t it strange that rising household debt is even seen as a viable measuring stick for the “recovery”?
There’s no doubt consumer spending is important. And Americans are spending. They’re just not spending on widgets or buttressing retirement savings or buying big-ticket items that, truth be told, would’ve been made by workers in overseas factories, anyway.
Instead, Gallup reported in May 2015 that 55 percent of Americans are “spending more” on groceries, with utilities, gasoline, cable/satellite and rent or mortgage rounding out the top five expenses. It’s not quite the kind of consumer spending that fuels “hard” economic growth. And Gallup’s tracking poll for July 2015 showed consumer spending was “flat” – much like the wages many people need to service debts or to actually accumulate real wealth. It’s no wonder that many Americans rely on the once-yearly “windfall” from a tax refund to help close the widening gap so many Americans desperately paper over with bank-issued plastic.
Still, the White House and the mainstream media consistently talk about “the recovery” as if it’s a thing, even though the economy is still heavily stained with red ink. Nearly seven years after the crash, some 4 million US homeowners still find themselves “drowning” in mortgage debt that exceeds the value of the home by 20 percent. According to MarketWatch, that’s $579 billion “negative equity” still floating around in the housing market. Yes, it is a far cry from the 15 million homes that went underwater after the crash. But that number dropped in no so small part because the rate of homeownership keeps on dropping to new record lows as former homeowners flood the rental market.
But the “trickle-up” percolator economy kept on working.
After the bust, big financial players like Blackstone and Carrington Investments were well positioned to gobble up suddenly dirt-cheap foreclosures. Then they exploited readymade demand for their growing inventory of rentals, which of course was stoked by people losing their homes to foreclosure. Many of those were liquidated and purchased by future landlords like Blackstone and Kentucky billionaire B. Wayne Hughes.
It seems that a rising tide of debt does not lift all boats, only the yachts.
While much of the United States is drowning in debt, many of these luxurious yachts are buoyed on a sea of liquidity. Those at the very top – Blackstone, Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan Chase and other titans of financialization – are not in the same boat as those who went inexorably underwater, or the growing number of economically fragile Americans. Unlike the 99% of Americans who cannot seem to get ahead on the economic treadmill of constant borrowing, stagnant wages and persistent underemployment, the well-heeled 1% has stoked a renaissance in luxury goods, high-priced mansions and high-rise condos.
In the post-crash United States, liquidity is the true measure of wealth. Financialization has turned leveraged assets into the measure of economic “growth.” Debt is the United States’ leading product. And the debt-driven system became a wealth reallocation machine that reordered the red and blue political map into a red and black economic imbalance sheet. Now, a majority of Americans find themselves united below the bottom line in a sea of red ink. | <urn:uuid:c5c2fb74-8ebf-4d51-aae7-a369a92ac4d8> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://truthout.org/articles/our-united-states-of-indebtedness/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571150.88/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810070501-20220810100501-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.947742 | 6,168 | 2.21875 | 2 |
ASTM International - ASTM F2505-06
Standard Practice for Application of Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) Federal Aviation Regulations Part 21 Requirements to Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS)
|Publication Date:||1 October 2006|
|ICS Code (Aircraft and space vehicles in general):||49.020|
1.1 In this practice, certification procedures are provided for Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) in the Light UAS Class and in the Remotely Operated Aircraft (ROA) UAS Classes. Unmanned Aircraft Systems in the Mini UAS and Micro UAS Classes are not considered in this practice, since they do not undergo airworthiness certification.
1.2 Citations of Federal Aviation RegulationsWhen citing U.S. Federal Aviation Regulations in this practice, the citation references are based on the following Federal Aviation Regulation structure:
1.2.1 The Code of Federal Regulations, Title 14 (14 CFR) comprises Aeronautics and Space Regulations. Chapter 1 of 14 CFR contains the regulations of the Federal Aviation Administration and is subdivided into subchapters and parts:
The Parts are further subdivided into Subparts and sections.
1.2.2 This practice uses Part 21 as a template. Within the text of the practice:
14 CFR Chapter 1 means the whole of Chapter 1 of 14 CFR; and
Subchapter C means all of the Parts of Subchapter C of 14 CFR.
1.2.3 In compact notation, citation of section 1309 of Part 23, for example, may be designated as "section 23.1309."
1.3 Unmanned Aircraft SystemsAn Unmanned Aircraft System (UAS) comprises an unmanned air vehicle, the remote control ground station that provides for the mission management and piloting of the air vehicle, data-links for the exchange of control and sensor payload data and all related interfaces. Any part of the overall system that could affect the airworthiness and safety of the aircraft is subject to the requirements of Part 21.
1.4 The values stated in inch-pound units are to be regarded as standard. The values given in parentheses are mathematical conversions to SI units that are provided for information only and are not considered standard.
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What Does the Infrastructure Bill Mean to the Steel Industry? Here’s What You Need to Know
Despite a lot of back and forth and partisan discussion, Biden’s infrastructure bill was signed into law in November of 2021. Arguments for the bill insisted that it was the best way to invest in the nation’s collapsing infrastructure while arguments against it claimed that it was far too much federal spending that should not be done and/or should be relegated to the local level.
So what does the infrastructure bill have to do with the steel industry?
Let’s look at the specifics.
Steel Infrastructure in 21st Century America
While we have little control over party politics here at Steel Specialties, we know that laws dealing with infrastructure will ultimately have an impact on the larger metals or steel industries. The U.S. Federal Highway Administration rated about 200,000 bridges in the nation as structurally deficient. One-fourth of all bridges are more than 50 years old, which is the estimated lifespan of some materials.
How Many Steel Bridges are There in the U.S.?
Thousands of commuters drive through a bridge during their morning commute. In today’s world, they are ubiquitous and most drivers don’t give that bridge a second thought. According to the Highway Administration (quoted above), there were 607, 380 bridges in the country in 2013. Out of that number, 200,000 are steel bridges and 235,000 are reinforced concrete.
So what is the lifespan of a bridge and what does it depend on? The longevity of a bridge will hinge upon many different factors. These factors include:
- The specific design of the bridge
- How it was constructed
- Materials used
- Damage from accidents
- External factors such as weather or wear and tear
Why Steel Structures are Reliable
Steel is not only durable, but it is flexible and withstands a lot of pressure and wear and tear. Structural steel is a reliable material around the world because it is recyclable/reusable and maintains its strength and integrity. The steel industry is a central component of the building of this nation.
The benefits of steel production include:
- Its extreme durability. Steel is a heavy-duty metal and when combined with concrete, the structure is dependable and long-lasting. A steel structure will stand tall against winds, high temperatures, earthquakes, moisture, and other harsh environments.
- Architecturally flexible and attractive. In addition to lasting for a long time (with an estimated lifespan of at least 100 years), steel is a flexible material that can be manipulated for various functions and applications. At the same time, it is an aesthetically pleasing material that emanates a timelessness and class unlike any other.
- Cost-effectiveness. Using steel can be cost-effective, particularly against using other materials such as wood or brick.
How Does Biden’s Infrastructure Bill Impact the Steel Industry
So now that we know how much the nation relies on steel and metal fabrication for its infrastructure, bridges, and other structures, here’s what we know about this infrastructure bill.
This bill maxed out at $1.2 trillion in infrastructure spending. A big chunk of that is designated primarily for bridges and highways. This sector will receive the biggest portion, at $110 billion within the next 10 years. As the White House declared, this is the biggest chunk of federal spending since the Eisenhower Administration. This will add up to an incremental steel demand of 75 metric tons over the decade.
According to the president and CEO of American Iron and Steel Institute, Peter Dempsey, the bill would prioritize American-made steel to replace the roads and bridges that are slowly deteriorating and corroding.
Dempsey expressed his optimism with the bill’s dedication to American steel. He said, “We also applaud the bill’s provisions to ensure that the steel products purchased through the EPAs State Revolving Fund programs for wastewater and drinking water projects be made in the United States. American-made steel is the cleanest in the world.”
Other prominent players in the steel industry have claimed that the bill is an assurance that American manufacturing is about to see a resurgence. And with support in steel fabrication, metal fabrication, mining, and other manufacturing processes, the industry will only further its role in the production of important materials across the country.
The entire steel industry might be well-positioned to become even more prominent because of the infrastructure bill. The hope is that this will help bring back America as a builder and maker of things!
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The Pros and Cons of Remote Working As an App Tester
Remote work as an app tester can be a very lucrative job. This position requires you to work remotely from your home. You will work according to a defined scenario and provide feedback as well as images of any issues you encounter. You will have to use a laptop or a mobile phone to complete the testing tasks. A connection to the internet is required. There are many remote testing jobs that are available online which means you can select from a range of industries.
Communication is a major obstacle when working remotely as an app tester. No matter what the issue is, whether it’s an obstacle to communication in a language or a religious principle remote work can be challenging. The same goes for project managers. Remote teams must tackle communications issues, and also recognize and resolve any obstacles and issues. While working from home could pose some challenges but it can be beneficial for companies too. Here are some ways to get over these hurdles.
Lack of communication. Remote work can make communication difficult, and it is sometimes difficult to convey the message you want to convey. Slack and Hangouts are excellent communication tools however text messages lack urgency or tone. If you’re working in a team that is spread across different time zones, asynchronous communication can cause a negative impact on the efficiency of the entire team. It can also be difficult to share news and updates to colleagues because they are not all in the same place.
Collaboration is the heartbeat of any remote team. Collaboration is the vitality of a remote group. Remote working tools allow teammates to collaborate. Slack for example, allows two users to view the same screen simultaneously. Slack offers a fantastic team collaboration feature called Screenhero which allows two users to work together and see the same screen simultaneously. If your team is spread out across different locations, you require an application that allows everyone to work on the same screen at once.
You must be capable of managing projects and work effectively to allow your remote team to thrive. Project management is a complex process that involves many moving parts. A well-designed tool can assist in improving communication and task assignments. Asana, a task-management tool can assist you in collaborating and work more efficiently. Asana helps teams to share tasks and work more efficiently by putting them on task boards. This allows testers to evaluate the ways they can work together to improve an app.
Remote work as an app tester can bring many benefits. Businesses often struggle to find a dedicated testing team, or to invest in recruiting. Companies are often pressured to rush their products available for sale and may be unable to find the right people. Remote testing can be a cost-effective option for companies who don’t need an entire team of testers. They also come with the same quality assurance as local teams.
Remote workers are more productive and are more energetic as they are not able to take as many days off. Remote workers can also work more efficiently because they aren’t subject to the same strains and stress as office workers. They also recover faster from sickness. Because they don’t work in an office which means they have less days off because of stress, exhaustion or social isolation. This can lead to lower productivity and less motivation. If you are determined to be more efficient, it will pay off.
If you’re considering becoming a remote app tester, you need a bachelor’s degree or a similar qualification and a demonstrable track record in testing software. Employers will consider years of experience testing software instead of an undergraduate degree of four years. You must be proficient in web-based programs and have strong communication and interpersonal abilities. You should also be proficient with the development of software and have a solid understanding of data security. Remote testing requires a fast internet connection and time management skills and a security clearance.
Most of the top firms require an undergraduate degree in computer science or other related fields. Additionally, you must be comfortable working with most recent technologies and tools for testing. You must also be able to communicate with others and establish connections. You can also work in a management or quality assurance position, depending on your interests. Companies who are hiring remote QA specialists include Salesforce and SAP.
Work from home
You can work from your home as an app tester. You’ll be required to follow a certain procedure and note any issues that you encounter. As part of the test procedure, you’ll be asked to take screenshots of your screen in order to provide feedback and explain what went wrong. You’ll require a computer or mobile phone, along with an internet connection. You’ll earn an excellent living in return. Here are a few advantages of working from home.
First, you’ll need a smartphone and a reliable internet connection. You will also need to know how apps are installed on various devices. You will need to be independent and follow the steps carefully. While this position will take only a tiny amount of your time, you will be paid between $5 and $90 for each test. You can also work from home and set your own hours. Work from home as an app tester is a great method to supplement your existing job or pursue a new career in a completely new field. | <urn:uuid:a0a9576a-ef8e-4577-8a5a-81de26fac223> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.mahiyuro.net/will-imw725-remote-work-with-im600/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571150.88/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810070501-20220810100501-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.956689 | 1,086 | 1.671875 | 2 |
Explore these Mainstream Voucher Spotlights to learn how Public Housing Agencies (PHAs) are assisting families who meet the targeted preference criteria in the Fiscal Year (FY) 2019 Mainstream Voucher Program Notice of Funding Availability (NOFA): those who are 1) homeless or 2) formerly homelessness and now a participant in a rapid rehousing or permanent supportive housing program or transitioning out of an institutional setting.
In these Spotlights, hear from three PHAs:
Each Spotlight includes an interview with a resident as well as PHA staff and provides information on the targeted population the PHAs focused on, partners they worked with, and program features that the PHAs and partners utilized to help residents identify and obtain suitable housing.
Initially facing difficulty in housing those referred from the local homeless agency, HACSA recognized that its ability to serve the hardest to house required engaging a greater number of landlords and developing strategic alliances with service providers.
NHHFA found a great response to its initial award of 20 vouchers. Encouraged by the response and high range (60-70 percent) of voucher holders with qualifying disabilities, subsequent awards enabled the agency to receive a total of 340 Mainstream vouchers: an equivalent to 20 percent of the estimated homeless population.
DCHA participation in the Mainstream voucher program realized achievements that include meeting its leasing goal of 50 percent of the 90 awarded vouchers by mid-year of the 2020-2021 fiscal year. | <urn:uuid:ae5ebb2e-7c85-415d-9a04-725b0c1a633e> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.hudexchange.info/programs/public-housing/mainstream-voucher-spotlights/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571150.88/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810070501-20220810100501-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.942993 | 293 | 1.640625 | 2 |
"He entered Jericho and was passing through. 2 And behold, there was a man named Zacchaeus. He was a chief tax collector and was rich. 3 And he was seeking to see who Jesus was, but on account of the crowd he could not, because he was small in stature. 4 So he ran on ahead and climbed up into a sycamore tree to see him, for he was about to pass that way. 5 And when Jesus came to the place, he looked up and said to him, 'Zacchaeus, hurry and come down, for I must stay at your house today.' 6 So he hurried and came down and received him joyfully. 7 And when they saw it, they all grumbled, 'He has gone in to be the guest of a man who is a sinner.' 8 And Zacchaeus stood and said to the Lord, 'Behold, Lord, the half of my goods I give to the poor. And if I have defrauded anyone of anything, I restore it fourfold.' 9 And Jesus said to him, 'Today salvation has come to this house, since he also is a son of Abraham. 10 For the Son of Man came to seek and to save the lost.'" Luke 19:1-10
1. WHY WAS ZACCHAEUS SEEKING TO SEE WHO JESUS WAS?
(Answer) The pain and horror of a guilty conscience
So I will bless you as long as I live; in your name I will lift up my hands. 5 My soul will be satisfied as with fat and rich food, and my mouth will praise you with joyful lips, 6 when I remember you upon my bed, and meditate on you in the watches of the night; Psalm 63:4-6
I have set the Lord always before me; because he is at my right hand, I shall not be shaken. Psalm 16:8
(Answer) The prospect of hope (Luke 5:27-32)
And Jesus answered them, “Those who are well have no need of a physician, but those who are sick. 32 I have not come to call the righteous but sinners to repentance.” Luke 5:31-32
2. WHY DID ZACCHAEUS RECEIVE JESUS JOYFULLY?
Effective calling is an act of God the Father, speaking through the human proclamation of the gospel, in which He summons people to Himself in such a way that they respond in saving faith. Wayne Grudem Systematic Theology, pg 693
3. WHY DID THE ACCOMPANYING CROWD GRUMBLE AT THE FRIENDSHIP EXTENDED BY JESUS TO ZACCHAEUS?
(Answer) People involved in “works” righteousness (self made efforts to be right with God) do not understand the gospel of grace extended to the marginalized.
To understand the gospel of grace we must:
1. Understand the nature of sin
2. Realize that sin leads to death and separation from God forever
3. God in the flesh, Jesus Christ, has paid the penalty for our sin
4. There is a call for personal response
4. WHY DID JESUS SAY, “SALVATION HAS COME TO THIS HOUSE?”
(Answer) There was an observable change of behavior in the life of Zacchaeus (1 John 3:19, 3, 4, 5:18)
1. Why did Zacchaeus want to see Jesus? What had happened in his circle of friends that would cause him to have hope?
2. What are some “unlikely things” that Zaccahaeus did to see Jesus?
3. Why did the crowds grumble? How does Luke 19:10 answer their concerns?
4. Do you agree with the following quote, “Any genuine gospel proclamation must include an invitation to make a conscious decision to forsake one’s sins and come to Christ in faith, asking Christ for forgiveness of sins. If either the need to repent of sins or the need to trust in Christ for forgiveness is neglected, there is not a full and true proclamation of the gospel.”
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Greek yogurt is everywhere these days! Read all about Greek yogurt nutrition, including why it's so popular and if it really is healthier than its traditional counterpart. Plus, get tasty recipe ideas so you can incorporate Greek yogurt into your diet.
You may have noticed that Greek yogurt is everywhere these days. I even wrote a cookbook about it! Greek yogurt, which is a staple in other parts of the world such as Europe and the Middle East, is richer and creamier than traditional yogurt. Now it's popularity has spread to the US and sales of Greek yogurt have skyrocketed in this country.
Multiple brands are popping up in grocery stores and many major yogurt manufacturers are introducing lines of Greek yogurt to get in on the competition. You may have even seen many other new products using Greek yogurt, including frozen yogurt and granola bars.
Is Greek yogurt healthier than regular yogurt?
Both types of yogurt are made with milk that has had live bacterial cultures added to it, causing it to ferment. The fermentation process thickens the yogurt and gives it a tangy flavor. The yogurt is then strained to remove the liquid whey.
The difference between the two types of yogurt is that Greek yogurt is strained much more extensively to remove most of its whey. Because it is strained so much, it takes a lot more milk (up to 4 times as much) to make the same amount of Greek yogurt than regular yogurt. The result is a thicker, creamier texture similar to sour cream.
Greek yogurt nutrition vs regular yogurt:
- Protein- Greek has more protein than regular yogurt- almost double the amount. The high protein content helps keep you feeling full longer. It’s a great option for breakfast to give you long-lasting energy throughout the morning. It can also be a good source of protein for vegetarians.
- Carbohydrates- Greek has less (roughly half) carbohydrates than regular yogurt because a lot of it is lost during the extensive straining process. This makes it a great option for anyone watching their carbs, including diabetics. But be careful because the carbs can add up if you add a lot of sweeteners to your yogurt.
- Fat- Greek actually has more saturated fat than traditional yogurt. Saturated fats in your diet should be limited because they raise cholesterol levels and increase your risk of heart disease. So, if you’re going Greek, choose the fat-free or low-fat varieties instead of full-fat. The good news is that the lower fat versions are so creamy and thick, you won’t miss it.
- Sodium- Greek has less sodium than traditional yogurt because a lot of it is lost in the straining process. This makes it a great option for anyone watching their sodium intake.
- Calcium- Greek yogurt has less calcium than regular yogurt because once again, some of it is lost through the straining process. Although Greek yogurt still contains a good amount of calcium, if you are worried about your calcium intake, make sure you get adequate amounts from other sources.
So what’s the final verdict?
With more protein combined with less sugar and sodium, Greek yogurt does have a nutritional edge over regular yogurt. But with this said, keep in mind that both types of yogurt are good for you and provide probiotics that are beneficial for digestive health- just make sure the label states that it contains live, active bacterial cultures.
How can you incorporate greek yogurt into your diet?
If you like the natural tangy flavor, you can eat it plain or if you prefer a little sweetness, try adding a bit of fresh fruit or honey. It makes a great breakfast layered simply with fresh berries and granola.
Although some people might find Greek yogurt a little too tangy, keep in mind that every brand is different in taste and texture. The specific types of bacterial cultures that are used are what determine the flavor and texture of the yogurt.
Greek yogurt is very versatile and can be used in so many different applications, both savory and sweet. It makes a great, healthy substitute for calorie- and fat-laden condiments like mayonnaise and sour cream.
- Use it as a topping on tacos or nachos instead of sour cream
- Stir some fresh herbs or caramelized onions into it and use it as a dip for vegetables
- Try substituting half the mayonnaise with Greek yogurt in dishes like chicken salad, potato salad or Ranch dressing
- Use it as a marinade for meats to tenderize them and add flavor
- Blend it with fresh fruit and flaxseed to make an energizing smoothie
- Use it to add moisture and a boost of protein to baked goods like muffins, cookies or banana bread
More recipes with Greek yogurt
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The Member of the Wedding by Carson McCullers is the story of an adolescent girl who triumphs over loneliness and gains maturity through an identity that she creates for herself in her mind.
It is with this guise that twelve year old Frankie Addams begins to feel confident about herself and life. The author seems to indicate that one can feel good about oneself through positive thinking regardless of reality. The novel teaches that one’s destiny is a self-fulfilled prophesy, seeing one’s self in a certain light oftentimes creates an environment where one might become that which one would like to be. The world begins to look new and beautiful to Frankie when her older brother Jarvis returns from Alaska with his bride-to-be, Janice.
The once clumsy Frankie, forlorn and lonely, feeling that she “was a member of nothing in the world” now decides that she is going to be “the member of the wedding.” Frankie truly believes that she is going to be an integral part of her brother’s new family and becomes infatuated with the idea that she will leave Georgia and live with Jarvis and Janice in Winter Hill. In her scheme to be part of this new unit, she dubs herself F. Jasmine so that she and the wedding couple will all have names beginning with the letters J and a. Her positive thinking induces a euphoria which contributes to a rejection of the old feeling that “the old Frankie had no we to claim…. Now all this was suddenly over with and changed.
There was her brother and the bride, and it was as though when first she saw them something she had known inside of her: They are the we of me.” Being a member of the wedding will, she feels, connect her irrevocably to her brother and his wife. Typical of many teenagers, she felt that in order to be someone she has to be a part of an intact, existing group, that is, Jarvis and Janice. The teen years are known as a time of soul-searching for a new and grown up identity. In an effort to find this identity teens seek to join a group. Frankie, too, is deperate for Jarvis and Janice’s adult acceptance.
Frankie is forced to spend the summer with John Henry, her six year old cousin, and Berenice Brown, her black cook. It is through her interactions with these two characters that the reader perceives Frankie’s ascent from childhood. Before Jarvis and Janice arrive, Frankie is content to play with John Henry. When she becomes F. Jasmine and an imagined “we” of the couple, she feels too mature to have John Henry sleep over, preferring, instead, to occupy her time explaining her wedding plans to strangers in bars, a behavior she would not have considered doing before gaining this new confidence. When F.
Jasmine tells her plans to Berenice, the cook immediately warns her that Jarvis and Janice will not want her to live with them. F. Jasmine smugly ignores the cook’s warning that “you just laying yourself this fancy trap to catch yourself in trouble.” The adolescent feels confident and cocky, refusing to believe that her plot is preposterous. After the wedding and the shattering reality that Frances (as she is now known) faces, it is evident, from the fact that their refusal doesn’t crush her, that she has truly turned herself around, and that her maturity is an authentic and abiding one. At the conclusion of the story, the now confident Frances is able to plan a future for herself, by herself, which includes becoming a great writer. She, further, finds a sympathetic friend who becomes the other half of her new “we.” Carson McCullers brilliantly portrays a teenage girl’s maturation through a fabricated feeling of belonging, which ultimately leads to a true belonging.
The reader sees how the girl grows from a childish “Frankie,” to a disillusioned “F. Jasmine,” and eventually to a matured Frances. When F. Jasmine questions Berenice as to why it is illegal to change one’s name without consent of the court, the cook insightfully responds, “You have a name and one thing after another happens to you, and you behave in various ways and do various things, so that soon the name begins to have a meaning.” No matter how we might change externals, it is only when our innermost feelings are altered that we truly change and grow.
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Djokovic extended his unbeaten run at the grass-court Grand Slam tournament to 28 matches and raised his career haul to 21 major trophies.
Imagine this happening in your line of work.
The tennis star has won 20 Grand Slam singles titles but was making news for his refusal to get vaccinated against COVID-19.
Howard Stern called Novak Djokovic “selfish” for refusing the coronavirus vaccine.
The Serbian tennis star's unvaccinated status led to his January deportation from Australia, where he lost his bid to defend his Australian Open title.
"A few months ago we were joking about both being on crutches," Federer wrote.
The BBC reports that an earlier positive COVID test, which the tennis star used for visa exemption to enter Australia, appears to be more recent than claimed.
A new French law says anyone with proof they tested positive within the previous six months is exempt from having to show a vaccine pass.
The Serbian tennis star was this week deported from Australia, thwarting his defense of the Australian Open title.
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How to Price a Property so it Sellsby Renee Helten Founder and President of HIRED Schools
As a realtor, you know that property price determines the level of interest in a property you’re selling. From the number of showings to the number and quality of offers, to the way clients rate your services, the price is key. Unfortunately, it is also something about which clients have very strong opinions—understandably so. They want a price that nets them the right amount of money, reflects improvements they’ve made, and captures some of their nostalgia for the home. It is incumbent on you as the real estate agent to walk the difficult line between pleasing the seller and setting a price that reflects true market conditions. This article teaches you how to set a price that reflects real-time, location-specific market realities while still catering to your clients, using Keller Williams real estate agent and ActiveRain owner Ben Kinney’s pricing strategy.*
The Problem: Inconsistent pricing strategies
Implementing a fact-based pricing strategy addresses several challenges that realtors face:
Realtors list a property at the highest price possible to please the seller
Sellers argue that the price is too low (or doesn’t reflect the amenities and features)
Banks won’t loan on a price set higher than the appraised value
The Solution: Ben Kinney’s 5-5-5 strategy
A successful pricing strategy is Ben Kinney’s 5-5-5. By identifying 5 comparable active properties, 5 comparable pending properties, and 5 comparable sold properties, the pricing will be accurate.
Step One: Pick comparables
Be sure to pick comparable properties that have the same features, lot size, and square footage, that are located in the same area:
Step Two: Bracket the price
Find comps that match the lower price
Find comps that match the higher price
Pick a range inside which you’re willing to list the home
Pick a goal price you feel is appropriate
Pick a price that you wouldn’t go above
Show sellers the bracket during the listings presentation (but not the actual price)
Put the comparable properties in front of the sellers and let them pick the price.
Brivity CMA automates the 5-5-5 strategy, setting up bracketed pricing based on actual active, pending and sold properties, rather than a pre-written price.
If you show them the facts, they can’t argue. Facts take emotion out of the discussion. This puts the responsibility on the seller to identify the price.
Why the 5-5-5? What to say to sellers about pricing
Remember, the goal here isn’t to tell sellers their home is worth the highest price possible. It’s to tell them the truth.
Ben Kinney’s Pricing Script
To the seller:
“I’d like to share a strategy that allows both you and me to figure out how to price the property because I need to sell the property three times. Number 1 – I have to sell it once to an agent so they’ll show it to their buyers, because 86% of sellers are represented by real estate agents. Number 2 – I have to sell it to the buyer to get them to write an offer. Number 3 – I need to sell it to the bank, and the bank’s appraisers to get them to give a loan on the property.
Since it has to be sold so many times to so many people, you have to use the same data that all those people use when getting a home price. And the appraisers, the banks, the agents, and the buyers use active home listings, pending home listings, sold home listings. This is why we developed the ‘555’ that allows us to accurately price a property by picking out 5 comparable active properties, 5 comparable pending properties, and 5 comparable sold properties.
These properties together create a bracket. The bracket is the highest price you’d consider selling your home for and how many days on market that that will take. You might be able to price your property 5% higher, but it could then take you a year to do it. Or, the lowest possible price for your home might sell in a day. We need to pick where in the range you’d like your home sold. Does this sound like a good way to price your home?”
By using the 5-5-5 strategy, you use the data to tell the price, which takes the emotion out of the equation and keeps potential sellers from being offended. With 5-5-5, you’re using the same method as successful ActiveRain Owner and real estate agent Ben Kinney. This will get you more offers and ultimately allow you to sell more properties.
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Quinnipiac Law School professor William Dunlap said Trump’s statements were ironic as a result of they go against the pattern of the Republican Party for many years. In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, Western Michigan University Cooley Law School has established a student reduction fund. The WMU-Cooley Student Relief Fund has been developed to supply monetary assist to current college students who are going through an array of challenges in the course of the current crisis.
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Public health agencies, policymakers and lawmakers, and others will need to have access to science-based mostly data about efficient public health laws. Public well being is inspecting legislation-based mostly countermeasures to using smallpox virus and other infectious pathogens as biologic weapons. State and native partners are also strengthening public health legal preparedness.
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Other Schools of Legal Thought
This chapter excavates these key tensions and identifies directions for additional research and reflection. Gary Kaufman has been training within the area of Criminal Defense since graduating from the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law in 2006.
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The use of “uniform modern legislation” was an instrument to realize social change, and precedence to the role of the state within the economy and the development of internal markets. The second second arose through the 1980s and Nineties, with a focus on the significance of the rule of law to a market economic system and for attaining development in beforehand closed economies within the ex-Soviet republics and Latin American, Asia and Africa. The focus was on strengthening legislation and establishments associated with business, foreign funding and the private sector. Whereas the third second broadly supported a neoliberal framework it also promoted a notion of rule of regulation that would function a pillar for the promotion of human rights and democracy, in addition to of the market (Garcia 2016). Today, the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) strongly emphasize the significance of the rule of legislation as a basis for growth (SDSN 2015).
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Single-parent homes are one of the fastest-growing demographics in Canada.
In Canada, the number of single-parent families has increased by 160,000 homes, from 1.62 million in 2015 to 1.78 million in 2020. As per the 2016 census, 19.2% of children aged 0-14 in Canada live with a lone parent.
Parenting isn’t easy. But financial stress is one of the most pressing concerns cited by single moms and dads.
Fortunately, there are a number of single parent tax benefits in Canada to provide financial assistance for single moms and dads.
Many single parents may not be aware of the support from the government available to them. However, the Federal Government does have a handy benefits calculator to determine what kind of benefits, credits or programs you qualify for.
Single parent benefits include:
Canadian Child Benefit (CCB)
The Canadian Child Benefit (CCB) is available to parents of one or more children under 18. It provides a tax-free cash benefit based on income, number of children, ages, and marital status.
Canadian Education Savings Grant (CESG) for Registered Education Savings Plan (RESP)
Worried about how you’ll pay for your child’s higher education? Start saving now and get added contributions from the government.
Registered Education Savings Plans (RESP) allows parents and relatives to contribute money towards a child’s future educational needs, up to a total of $50,000 per child. The income generated on the savings is tax-free.
In addition, The Canadian Education Savings Grant offers either a 10% or 20% match to money you contribute up to $500 per child per year.
Canada Learning Bond (CLB)
Low-income families can still benefit from government support for RESPs, even if they don’t make any investments themselves.
The Canada Learning Bond deposits $500 into your child’s RESP, without any contribution requirements.
Each year after that, it provides an additional $100 deposit, up to age 15.
Family Supplement to Employment Insurance (EI)
If you lose your job through no fault of your own, EI can provide supplemental income until you find your next role.
If you qualify for EI and your net income is below a certain amount for the year, you can also be eligible for additional EI amounts through the Family Supplement. The Family Supplement can increase the amount of your EI payments by as much as 80%.
Want to learn more about the types of financial assistance available to single parents? iCASH offers great financial education resources online.
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The research was conducted to investigate sex difference in students’ academic performance in chemistry in Kwara State College of Education, Ilorin. The sample comprises of the results of students of Colleges of Education Ilorin from 2004 – 2009 academic session. These results were used to find the percentages differences in their distinction, credit, merit, pass.
It was observed that the male students performed better in the first two academic sessions while the female students performed better in the third academic session.
The shows that male students performed slightly better than their females counterparts.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Title page i
CHAPTER ONE: INTRODUCTION
Background to the Study 1
Statement of the Problem 5
Purpose of the Study 6
Research Question 7
Research Hypothesis 7
Scope and Limitation of the Study 8
Significant of Study 8
Definition of Variable and Terms 9
CHAPTER TWO: LITERATURE REVIEW
Science and its Achievements 11
Chemistry Education and Teaching Profession 14
Gender Difference and Chemistry Class 17
Rational for Education by Gender 20
Educational Aspiration and Expectation 22
Motivation, An significant tool to Bridges the gap 25
Appraisal of Related Literature 28
CHAPTER THREE: RESEARCH METHODOLOGY
Research Type 30
Sample and sampling techniques 31
Research instrument 31
Validation of Instrument 32
Procedure of Data Collection 32
Data Analysis Technique 33
CHAPTER FOUR: DATA ANALYSIS
Data Analysis and Findings 36
Summary of Findings 36
CHAPTER FIVE: Discussion, Conclusion,
Suggestion for further research 47
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It’s September, and that means it’s time to get real about what you’re going to be putting in your child’s lunchbox.
Back-to-school time can be both exciting and anxiety-producing for kids as they anticipate new teachers, new classmates and new routines. And it can be the same for parents, with the excitement of shifting from summer’s patchwork of camps and vacation trips (with all their pros and cons) to the more settled routines of fall – and the anxiety of having to get absolutely everything ready in advance, from bus schedules and carpools to classroom supplies, fall clothes and sports gear.
One of the most anxiety-producing (and ongoing) back-to-school challenges for me when I had young kids and for all my friends and clients with school-age children is what I call the tyranny of the lunchbox.
Every day, rain or shine, five days a week, you’re faced with providing some kind of lunchtime meal for your kid – and if you’re reading this, chances are you care very much about making that lunch as nutritious as possible. Lunch is in fact crucial to your child’s ability to focus and learn during the second half of the school day – but knowing these high stakes doesn’t really help bring down anxiety.
Neither do the multitude of blog posts and articles laying out the “perfect” lunch for your child, from precise food group serving sizes to time-consuming tips like the suggestion that you cut your kid’s sandwiches in the shape of hearts with little raisin eyes. Let’s get real: in the morning, most of us have a hard enough time just getting our kids fed, dressed and out the door with all relevant homework assignments in tow. We don’t have many extra seconds to spare for sandwich origami; and those articles that suggest laying everything out the night before (while this is an admirable strategy) aren’t necessarily taking into account just how exhausted most of us are with our overloaded work and childrearing schedules by the time we put the kids to bed.
So here are my lunchbox guidelines – not “rules,” because the last thing you need to stress about is more “do’s” and “don’ts” in life – but simple guidelines you can remember and try to incorporate every day.
You don’t have to be (and probably won’t be) perfect – and even if you packed the “perfect” lunch, chances are you might open your kid’s lunchbox at the end of the day to find half of it lying there uneaten. But these guidelines will help you do the most you can to give your child what he or she needs to have enough energy, clarity and concentration to rock the second half of the school day.
1. PACK IN THE HEALTHY FATS AND PROTEIN
2. PACK IN THE WHOLE GRAINS
3. PACK IN A FEW VEGGIES AND FRUITS
Here are some tips for making this work:
1. PACK IN THE HEALTHY FATS AND PROTEIN:
Believe it or not, 60% of our brains are made of fat, and to reach and maintain peak performance and communication between brain cells, you need to replenish certain fats (particularly omega-3s) through your diet.
Protein is another key brain food: the neurotransmitters that send signals between brain cells are made of amino acids, the building blocks of proteins, and these also need to be replenished through the diet for peak performance.
The good news is that the best proteins tend to be naturally combined with the best fats: nuts and seeds, for instance, are jam-packed with both, and also contain other great nutrients like vitamin E, magnesium, zinc and B vitamins. There are hundreds of prepackaged nut and seed mixes out there, or feel free to toss some together yourself (add raisins, dried cranberries and even chocolate chips for flavor if that will help ensure it gets eaten). Aim for variety throughout the week, as each nut and seed has its own unique benefits. For those with nut allergies, pumpkin and sunflower seeds are great nutrient-dense choices.
You can also choose nut butters (almond or peanut butter) as sandwich spreads, or for those with nut allergies, Sunbutter (made from sunflower seeds, which are terrific sources of vitamin E, B vitamins and selenium) or tahini (made from sesame seeds, which are surprisingly great sources of calcium and other minerals). Use tahini just like you would peanut butter on a sandwich, combined with your child’s favorite jelly or jam.
Other excellent lunchbox choices that combine protein with fats and nutrients include cheese, milk and yogurt (organic and grass-fed when you can). If your child has a dairy allergy, there are many terrific almond, soy and coconut-based substitutes out there, including soy-based yogurt from Stonyfield Farm, almond-based yogurt from Silk and Almond Dream, and coconut-based yogurt from SO Delicious. Dairy-free cheeses like Daiya and Follow Your Heart are relatively easy to find, though these are often best served in sandwiches and salads rather than as solo slices on the side (as their textures don’t quite match that of dairy-based cheese).
You can also get creative with your proteins and fats, in ways that don’t have to take much time: we’re all concerned about mercury in tuna fish these days, so mix it up by trying a salmon-fish sandwich instead (1 can of salmon, preferably Wild Alaskan, drained; a few tablespoons of vegan mayo; and some chopped onions, celery or scallions for texture), or my chickpea-based mock-tuna sandwich (I promise it’s easy to make, and you absolutely do not have to cut the bread into a heart or smiley-face!).
Remember that lunch doesn’t always have to include a sandwich: don’t be afraid, for instance, to think “out of the box” by incorporating leftovers from last night’s dinner. Spaghetti and meatballs was always a big hit with my sons, and so was pasta and pesto with chicken; there are plenty of gluten-free options for both meals. The same goes for mac and cheese (see my gluten-free, dairy-free recipe if your child has allergy issues), turkey and stuffing (see my gluten-free gravy and stuffing recipes for those with allergies), chicken, steak or even hotdogs. (In fact, the only leftover I’d avoid is non-canned fish, as even with an insulated lunchbox, fish can spoil quickly.)
And though many of us are concerned about nitrates in deli meats, there are some excellent nitrate and nitrite-free options (including anything from Applegate farms, and Boar’s Head’s “Simplicity All Natural” meats). If your child has a gluten allergy or intolerance, or a dairy allergy, be sure to look for “gluten-free” and “dairy-free” labels on your deli meats, as some contain gluten and dairy products as fillers (Applegate and Boar’s Head products are free of these). You can pair these deli meats with gluten-free breads and wraps (see my section on “whole grains” below); and you can also try a lettuce wrap, using two romaine leaves (or collard green leaves, which hold together very well) in place of bread. Use healthy sandwich spreads rich in omega-3s like Veganaise; or try mashing an avocado and using that as spread.
And don’t forget beans: it’s hard to imagine any kid eating a straight-up half-cup serving of black beans or chickpeas, but there are super-easy ways to make beans a treat, like prepackaged hummus or black bean spread, and lentil or black bean soup. Taco salad is another great (and very easy) way to work in beans: put a layer of shredded lettuce, a layer of taco chips and a layer of beans in a container or mason jar, alongside a separate container of salsa or any favorite dressing (Catalina, Ranch or Russian all work well), and let your child add the dressing and shake it up at lunchtime.
Edamame (soybeans) is one final great lunchtime protein that contains healthy fats along with other key nutrients like iron and vitamins A and C.
2. PACK IN THE GRAINS:
Whole grains are rich in B vitamins, amino acids and antioxidants, all of which boost brain function. And they’re also a key source of fiber, which helps to regulate blood sugar and keeps your child’s body and brain going at an even keel all day (no sudden crashes), helping with mental calm and focus.
Grains have gotten a bad rap lately because many (though not all) contain gluten, a mixture of two proteins found in the starch of certain grass-based grains that’s problematic for people with gluten intolerances or celiac disease. If your child does have issues with gluten, don’t sweat it, there are still plenty of gluten-free whole grains you can easily work into his or her diet (I’ll give you a quick primer on this below).
Whole wheat, buckwheat, oats, barley, brown rice and quinoa are some of my favorite grains: many prepared breads, wraps and crackers contain these grains (just be sure that “100% Whole Grain” is the first ingredient – this will keep you from falling into the food industry trap of items labeled as “containing whole grains” that are in fact loaded with sugar, corn syrup and artificial colors you definitely don’t want if your goal is mental clarity). Pastas are also a good lunchbox bet: add any favorite topping.
If your child has gluten issues, there are many delicious gluten-free-labeled products out there (just be sure to look for the gluten-free or GF label, because “gluten” doesn’t have to appear on the ingredients list of packaged foods). Quinoa and brown rice are naturally gluten-free. Gluten-free rice or flaxseed crackers are great picks, and there are many healthy packaged whole grain breads you won’t notice are gluten-free: Udi is my favorite brand (its main grain is brown rice), though Food For Life (which also makes GF tortillas and English muffins) and Schar (which makes the best gluten, dairy and egg-free bread) are other favorites. (If you’re still feeling overwhelmed about looking for gluten-free foods for your child, please see my blog on how to shop with a gluten allergy or gluten intolerance.)
Quinoa tabouli salad is a tasty gluten-free choice that can double as both a dinner side and a lunchbox staple. And be sure to try a brown rice stir-fry at least once, adding the veggies and proteins of your choice – it travels well in the lunchbox, and offers countless health benefits (particularly if you cook with a healthy oil).
3. PACK IN A FEW VEGGIES AND FRUITS:
This is the lunchbox compartment that stresses some parents out the most – but it doesn’t have to. Vegetables and fruits are a crucial piece of brain and body health for your child: they’re naturally packed with vitamins, minerals, antioxidants and phytochemicals that do all kinds of crazy-great things scientists are only just starting to understand, like flavonoids which increase blood flow to the brain. But figuring out which veggies and fruits to put in your child’s lunchbox (ones they might actually eat) doesn’t have to be a stress-fest.
Keep it simple. If you happen to be blessed with a child who will go for classics, more power to you: baby carrots or carrot sticks, cherry tomatoes, green beans, celery sticks, and cucumber slices or cucumber sticks are great choices. (If your kid happens to love peas or lima beans, there’s no rule against serving them up cold in the lunchbox; the same goes for steamed broccoli or cauliflower.) If a creamy salad dressing (preferably organic), hummus spread or guacamole will inspire the non-veggie-lover to chow down, add a generous serving as a side dip. Baked or oven-fried white or sweet potatoes (with a dipping sauce if needed) and avocado are other quick and easy options. Avocado is the brain food of champions with its high omega-3 count; though if you’re slicing it up for the lunchbox, be sure to spritz with lemon juice to keep it from browning.
Vegetable-based soups are relatively easy to make, and a great way to sneak in leafy greens: this will depend on your child’s taste buds, but you can experiment with a simple creamy spinach or carrot soup, and if you happen to have success, go from there (see my recipes for more quick veggie soups).
Fruits are an easier sell for most kids: cantaloupe, pineapple, apples (if you’re slicing them first, spritz with lemon juice), strawberries and blueberries (look for organic versions of these whenever possible, as they top the Environmental Working Group’s list of high-pesticide-residue foods), grapes, tangerines, mango – start out with what you know your kid will eat, experiment with different options and follow his or her lead.
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The Brazilian government has unveiled its ambitious plans for the UN climate talks, with the goal of slowing global warming to 2C – 2C is a critical threshold which scientists say will lead to major global impacts such as flooding, heatwaves and droughts.
Brazil is making a splash at the UN conference in Poland. The Brazilian government wants to be recognised as a global leader in fighting climate change, and is planning to introduce a new law in congress in January for controlling greenhouse gas emissions.
Brazil has already set a target of reducing emissions by 40% to 45% below 2005 levels by 2025 and is also exploring clean energy technology, including methane, CFCs and methane from forest fires. The bill, if passed, would establish national regulations to create low-carbon energy for 2030.
The proposed bill comes amid sharp cuts to the country’s public spending, prompted by an ongoing corruption investigation that has ensnared scores of politicians and executives at its state-run energy company.
These measures, the president, Michel Temer, said, would help Brazil achieve its 2C target within the framework of the UN’s Paris agreement and secure climate leadership.
In 2015, Brazil decided to meet the Paris agreement by reducing emissions, on both the industrial and agricultural side, by at least 40% by 2030.
Temer said that Brazil would be in compliance with the commitment even if it was not followed by the domestic law.
In addition to building on the successful cut in emissions over the last 15 years, the country intends to cut emissions in the energy sector by 50% by 2030.
Brazil aims to reduce energy consumption by 60% and build 2,500MW of renewable energy capacity within this period. One measure under discussion is the introduction of thermoelectric energy units, which allow the purchase of electricity from wood and other biomass.
Brazil’s global ranking in global carbon emissions fell from ninth to 15th last year, from 27 to 31st in 2015, and its contribution to the growth of global emissions is declining.
The country contributed just over half of the total global growth in carbon emissions in 1990, but was next to last in 2007. Between 2009 and 2013, it fell by about a third – the largest decrease among the largest ten emitters.
However, Brazil still has some way to go. Climate scientists estimate that deforestation in the Amazon is responsible for about 20% of greenhouse gas emissions.
The $4.7bn (£3.7bn) investment in the five-year environment protection plan – known as the Plan Espirito Santo – announced at the conference in Katowice comes on top of about $11bn allocated for other aspects of the plan.
Temer said the investment will target 17 of the most productive and environmentally damaging sections of the forest in 13 states.
Funding will be provided for community protected areas, forest health programmes, patrols, protection of local communities’ territories and infrastructure and construction of fishponds to control forest fires, among other projects.
A new law will also be introduced in congress to allow the state to establish territorial grids, which would allow the authorities to monitor and control forest expansion in a cost-effective manner.
Energy minister Ricardo Cabral said the network would cover more than 1m hectares in the Amazon and surpass the projected need of a similar grid by an order of magnitude.
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The following question was posed to me in the ‘Ask the Experts’ section of AuKids magazine (http://www.aukids.co.uk/) in their Spring edition, 2014:
‘How and when would you recommend I tell my child about their diagnosis? I am nervous about discussing it.’
This was my response (with some additions):
As is so often the case in the autism world there is no simple ‘one size fits all’ answer to this issue – and yet it is such an important one! I tend to suggest that there are three aspects that need consideration which will help decide the ‘when’ of broaching the subject, and these are:
- intellectual ability
- cognitive and communicative ability
Simply, unless the individual has sufficient skills in the first two and a certain level in the third, it is unlikely that any discussion will be beneficial. However, with the right mix of these three, I would think that you are good to go.
It is always a good idea to think long term – so, from the earliest possible age, start to identify concepts such as ‘difference’ – this can be a daily game and should always be based on the philosophy that a) yes, the world is full of difference, but b) being different is not a bad thing. One such game (and use your imaginations to create others) is what I like to call the bowl of fruit game. Have your pre-prepared bowl full of oranges, with the one solitary apple. Questions – are there loads more oranges than apples? [Yes]. Do you like apples? [Yes]. Are apples different to oranges? [Yes]. Does this make apples any less worthy? [No]. does the fact that apples fit different ‘criteria (colour, taste, etc.) make them somehow inferior? [No]. These sorts of questions/games can develop a child’s conceptual understanding of difference, and how difference does not mean anything negative. In a similar vein, diversity and individuality can be notions that are developed in a simple, but positive manner. Then, when it is crunch time, the individual should have an array of ideas and terms than are actually applicable, as opposed to a confusing new set of communications that may muddy the waters.
The individual may also ‘tell’ you when s/he is ready. Questions such as ‘why can’t I do that as well as her?’, or any questions relating to difference are indicators that the individual may well benefit from having a better understanding of self.
I am beginning to reject the term ‘diagnosis’ – one gets diagnosed when there is something wrong with you in medical terms, and this should perhaps not be applied to autism. I far prefer the term ‘identification’ and the connotations with ‘identity’ – to discover that one has a new identity that explains so much can be a wonderful thing – as opposed to the doom and gloom so often associated with a diagnosis. So, please be careful how you choose the terms you use, as the longer term impact can be considerable. If it is feasible bring the individual’s interest into the equation – there are many famous real life and fictional autistic people that you can refer to if applicable. What is also crucial is to ensure the individual understands that just because they are autistic it does not mean s/he will be the same as others with the same identification – there may well be some similarities, but everyone’s strengths and weaknesses are their own. It’s important to make this clear to avoid potential issues with poor self esteem.
As much as possible make the news positive – this is an explanation of who a person is, not a dire foreboding of dreadful times to come! I like the Tony Attwood style of ‘congratulations’ when it comes to understanding one is autistic. However, do also be honest, as the individual is likely to store what has been said and revisit it often. Make the person feel exactly as they should – i.e. as a wonderful, interesting, different to the majority, unique person who has a fantastically interesting brain, and whose future could be anything they choose. Being autistic does not preclude anything at all, apart from not being autistic! | <urn:uuid:ae24ffb9-6898-4038-9601-41e6f5460022> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://blogs.shu.ac.uk/autism/2015/08/28/telling-a-child-about-being-autistic/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571150.88/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810070501-20220810100501-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.970344 | 893 | 2.796875 | 3 |
Where you are already using PPE, such as face masks, in your work activity to protect against non-COVID-19 risks, you should continue to do so.
Workplaces should not encourage the precautionary use of extra PPE to protect against COVID-19 outside clinical settings or when responding to a suspected or confirmed case of COVID-19.
An alternative to a face mask is a face covering. A face covering can be very simple and may be worn in enclosed spaces where social distancing isn’t possible, it is not a replacement for other ways of managing risk. It just needs to cover your mouth and nose. Face coverings are not the same as the PPE used to manage risks like dust and spray in an industrial context, or by health and care workers. Supplies of PPE, including face masks, must continue to be reserved for those who need them to protect against risks in their workplace.
The English and Welsh Governments have taken different approaches as to whether face coverings should be compulsory and in what circumstances.
Requirements to wear face coverings by the public and staff in public facing areas in shops and on public transport were lifted from 27 January 2022.
Businesses will need to make their own decisions following risk assessments as to whether they will require their staff, customers or visitors to wear a face covering within the work place. Where a business is bound by obligatory face coverings or chooses to have its own requirements, they must continue to take account of any reasonable excuses for not wearing a face covering such as disability or risk of causing severe distress.
See the government guidance on when to consider wearing a face covering or face mask.
Face coverings are a legal requirement in Wales only in health and care settings.
The requirement to wear face coverings in most indoor public places was removed from 28 February 2022.
The government strongly recommend that face coverings are still worn. Full details are on the Face coverings: guidance for public | GOV.WALES page.
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Smoke & Carbon Monoxide Detectors
Your smoke and carbon monoxide detectors are two of the most commonly overlooked safety devices in your home, yet they are two of the most important. These devices are mostly ignored until they start chirping to remind you to change the battery, but they save countless lives every year. Fire, smoke, and carbon monoxide gas are common household tragedies that can easily be prevented if your safety equipment is up-to-date and in working order. Because we care about the safety of your family, we’re here to properly install smoke and carbon monoxide detectors and share some preventative measures to protect your home (and everything in it).
It is highly recommended to have both smoke detectors and carbon monoxide detectors, though only the former is required in every home or apartment. It only takes a few seconds for a smoke detector to warn your family that something is wrong, giving you ample time to escape and prevent further tragedy. Every second matters in emergency situations like this.
According to the National Fire Protection Agency, you should replace your smoke detector every five years to make sure that it meets updated safety requirements. As technology gets better with time, the efficiency of these devices also improves – and you’ll want only the best for your family and home. While smoke detectors are hardwired, you’ll want to make sure you have replacement batteries on hand in the event of a power outage. Our electricians can help guide you to choose the best device, as well as schedule visits for regular maintenance and replacements as needed.
When smoke detectors need new batteries or some other type of fix, they make chirping sounds that aren’t very loud, but frequent and annoying enough to prevent you from falling asleep (or get on your last nerve). It may be tempting to disable it altogether, but we highly advise against this – by the time morning comes, you may forget to replace it. Call us instead – we’ll promptly head out to you and make sure it’s in working order.
Carbon Monoxide Detectors
Carbon monoxide is extremely dangerous, if not fatal. It’s the most common form of poisoning death in the United States. What makes it so sneaky is that this gas is odorless and colorless, so it may be your carbon monoxide detector that ends up saving you and your family. Undetected, it only takes a few minutes, or an hour at most, to kill entire families. The most common carbon monoxide leaks come from kitchen stoves, water heaters, furnaces, fireplaces, gas-operated clothes dryers, space heaters, charcoal grills, chimney clogs, and motor vehicle exhaust fumes.
You can prevent this tragedy by making sure you have a functional carbon monoxide detector. When we say it’s a matter of life and death, we’re not kidding. We recommend installing them on every floor of your house, as well as in every bedroom. If you should hear your carbon monoxide detector beeping, don’t wait – leave your home immediately, and call 911.
Smoke & Carbon Monoxide Detector Installation In Coral Springs
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AgEng2021 was held between 4th and 8th July 2021 in a virtual mode due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The online conference included scientifically-significant invited speakers, oral and poster presentations, special sessions, workshops, industry exhibition and real time discussions. Oral presentations were pre-recorded is available via live-streaming. In each session, following the presentations, there was a period in real time for questions, answers and discussion.
AgEng Conference Series is officially supported by the European Society for Agricultural Engineers (EurAgEng) and cover all aspects of Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering. The pandemic situation brought the world into an unusual, unexpected situation, that showed the importance of health systems, but also of science, technology and agriculture. Agricultural engineers, scientists, technicians, academics and industry has the obligation to continue contributing to improve food and feed production systems as also the distribution channels in sustainable and safety conditions. AgEng2021 gave to its participants the opportunity to exchange knowledge and ideas, present innovations and discuss the state of the art and future perspectives for agricultural engineering as a motor for the sustainable future of agriculture. More than ever the AgEng2021 conference focused on New Challenges for Agricultural Engineering towards a Digital World. | <urn:uuid:85533587-8835-40ee-a8ad-137eaaf0d58c> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.agrofossilfree.eu/2021/07/19/agrofossilfree-presented-in-ageng-2021-conference/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570879.37/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809003642-20220809033642-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.956915 | 252 | 1.585938 | 2 |
Every year, James Stimson, a political science professor at the University of North Carolina, updates his public mood index. It’s getting a lot of attention this year because it shows that the public mood is the most liberal it’s been in the entire postwar era:
I’ve added markers to all the midterm election years just before a presidential election where an incumbent was running for reelection. The power of incumbency is strong enough that there’s no clear trend to pick out here, but you can kinda sorta say that Democrats win when the index is above the dashed line and Republicans win when it’s below. But we’re in uncharted territory now. No Republican has ever run for reelection against a public mood this liberal. The two Bushes come the closest, and one lost while the other won (barely).
In other words, this obviously looks promising for a Democratic challenger, but it’s hardly open-and-shut.
That said, I have a couple of questions about this mood index. First, I’m curious about which components of the index are currently trending the most liberal and the most conservative. That data is easily available:
I’m not entirely sure how to interpret all of this. For example, what is a “liberal” mood on the deficit? That it doesn’t matter much? And what’s a “conservative” mood on inflation? That it’s too high? That doesn’t make much sense given the current low inflation rate.
Some of the others are easier to interpret. People are feeling pretty liberal about taxes, which presumably means they’d be OK with raising them, especially on the rich. They’re also feeling pretty liberal about helping schools and ensuring equality of opportunity for all. On the flip side, people are feeling pretty conservative about cutting welfare and cutting the size of government.
Unfortunately, this doesn’t make a lot of sense. People want to raise taxes on the rich but cut the size of government? They want to ensure equality of opportunity but slash the welfare state? The overall index might be trending historically liberal, but Americans, as usual, are confused and disoriented by the standards of political junkies.
The second question I have is whether this liberal trend is driven by liberals moving to the left or by conservatives (and independents) moving away from the right. Unfortunately, this demographic data isn’t available, which is too bad since it’s an important question. If this mood shift is driven mostly by liberals, it will likely lead to the nomination of a Democrat who is farther to the left than usual and thus farther away from the mainstream (since it hasn’t moved much). If it’s driven by non-liberals, Democrats are likely to nominate an ordinary candidate who will be closer to the mainstream (since it’s moved to the left). The former is obviously good for Donald Trump while the latter is good for liberals. But which is it? | <urn:uuid:2e2967c5-2dd7-4f90-abd8-c406d759b5ca> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://develop.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2019/06/the-public-mood-is-very-liberal-but-why/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570879.37/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809003642-20220809033642-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.9479 | 630 | 1.570313 | 2 |
The Nebraska Veterinary Diagnostic Center has received a $25,000 gift from the Cuming County Livestock Feeders Association.
The gift, made to the University of Nebraska Foundation, supports plans to replace the aging Veterinary Diagnostic Center that no longer meets modern laboratory standards. The center provides veterinary testing services to professionals and organizations across the nation. It is considered a national center of excellence for testing of certain diseases in livestock.
The new facility will allow UNL to better serve veterinarians, livestock producers, public health officials and others in Nebraska and around the country who depend on the lab’s services.
Recognizing the state’s need for a new center, the Nebraska Legislature committed to provide $41.5 million in funding through the Building a Healthier Nebraska initiative once $4.15 million is first raised from private sources. To date more than $3 million of private and other support has been raised. University officials hope to launch the project before the conclusion of 2014.
Ron Coufal, president of the Cuming County Livestock Feeders Association, said the organization is proud to invest in a new veterinary diagnostic facility for the state.
“Cuming County is the largest agriculture producing county and helps Nebraska continue its number one status in the beef industry,” Coufal said. “It is only fitting that our association help Nebraska continue that ranking in all areas of livestock production, as 86 percent of agriculture revenue in the county comes from livestock with beef being the largest contributor.”
Built in 1975, the Veterinary Diagnostic Center on UNL’s East Campus has become outdated. According to an accreditation review last year by the American Association of Veterinary Laboratory Diagnosticians, there is a need for facility upgrades and additional space to continue its responsiveness in the development and implementation of new technologies and to address biosafety and biosecurity concerns, or the center may face loss of accreditation.
In addition to serving livestock producers, the Veterinary Diagnostic Center provides training for large animal veterinarians, a profession currently in demand in Nebraska. The center provides these future doctors with hands-on experience by studying specimens from current, real life animal cases. University faculty instructors and researchers conduct tests and perform research in the center that impacts agriculture across the country.
The center is also a diagnostic resource for most small animal veterinarians in Nebraska who use the laboratory’s services for quick turnaround and accurate testing of diseases specific to family pets.
Public health officials in Nebraska even rely on the Veterinary Diagnostic Center to help protect the health of humans through diagnostic testing of certain diseases that can transfer from animals to humans, such as rabies, West Nile, H1N1 and others. The center provides disease surveillance, develops new diagnostic testing methods, conducts infectious disease research and supports continuing education programs.
Support for the Veterinary Diagnostic Center initiative has also been received by numerous other generous organizations and associations including the Nebraska Cattlemen, Boone Nance Cattleman, South Central Cattlemen, Exeter Feeders and Breeders, Thayer County Livestock Feeders, Saunders County Livestock Association, Morrill County Cattlemen and Bridgeport Affiliate. | <urn:uuid:30b11a25-8e37-4c78-835b-c5a2988d7021> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://news.unl.edu/newsrooms/today/article/cuming-county-group-gives-donation-to-vet-diagnostic-center/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571150.88/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810070501-20220810100501-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.930289 | 651 | 1.75 | 2 |
Use your skills and interests to help out an anti-trafficking organization
The Pastoral Land Commission (CPT) was established in June 1975 during the Pastoral Meeting of the Amazon convened by the National Conference of Bishops of Brazil (CNBB) in Goiânia (GO). Deep in the rural areas, and in the mountains, there were people enslaving others to farm, to work and to perform other types of labor. However, at the time, the Brazilian government did not recognize slavery nor were they concerned about the issue. The CPT continued to work in the capacities it could, until the Brazilian government formally recognized the problem of modern-day slavery in 1995. Two years later, the CPT began a National Campaign Against Slave Labor.
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Long Term Courses
BACHELOR OF SCIENCE IN MARKETING
Aim of the Programme
The main aim of Bachelor of Science in Marketing is to provide students with an understanding of the theoretical issues involved in the field of marketing whilst helping them to develop a range of practical skills which will enhance their market value and academic worth.
Programme Learning Outcomes
The programme provides opportunities for learners to achieve the following outcomes:
- Demonstrate the use of needs and accountabilities of different stakeholders in a business and how their behaviour affects the business.
- Demonstrate understanding of different sectors of the economy
- Solve LPP to maximize the profit and to minimize the cost.
- Demonstrate appropriate interview and presentation skills
- Apply moral philosophies to Business Ethics
- Assess the relevance of strategic architecture and configuration to implementing strategies.
- Build communication and teamwork skills through the group project
- Demonstrate how as marketers, they can use their knowledge of consumer behaviour in order to develop better marketing programmes and strategies to influence consumer and buyer behaviour
The programme run for a period of 4 years (normal entry) and 2 OR 3 years (Mature entry). This programme is delivered on full time, block release and weekend basis.
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- Normal Entry 1: Malawi School Certificate of Education (MSCE) or its equivalent with at least 6 credit passes including English and Mathematics.
- Mature Entry 2: MSCE or its equivalent with credits in 4 subjects including English language and a Diploma (Level 5 OR its equivalent) from a recognised Institution.
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Based on the composition of your skin type, you can use the right cleanser. These can be soaps, scrubs, cleansers designed specifically for your skin type or acne products. This is the best way to wash the skin on your face. This hyaluronic acid cleanser will help you get rid of excess oil and shine in the T-zone area (forehead, nose and chin). You should also not forget a soft sponge or tampon to help you get rid of dead cells without irritation. You can choose from the best organic 100% natural products without chemical compounds. They are kind to nature and also to your skin.
Depending on your skin type, use water-based cosmetics, serum, lotion, cream or oil to help your skin be smooth and hydrated. Hydrated skin will reward you with a healthy skin tone, less maintenance, and a youthful appearance with minimal wrinkles. For oily skin, water-based serums are more suitable. For dry skin, a more nourishing cream containing fatty acids is recommended. The best cream helps prevent wrinkles and has an amazing anti-aging effect. A great cream and daily care are better than cosmetic surgery.
Brush set and sponges are the most versatile tool that everyone needs for. They’re excellent at helping you apply liquid and powder products to smaller areas on your face. Also, they can clean up any tiny mistake you made while doing your look. With this brush set with practical case, you don’t need brush holder.
Makeup Primer or Foundation is, well, the foundation for perfect look —basic or elaborate. It will solve uneven skin tone or discoloration. If you don’t need as much coverage use primer if you need to solve uneven skin tone or discoloration, use foundation. It also helps your makeup wear more evenly throughout the day. The best foundation adapts to your skin color.
The best quick first aid for dark circles or redness If you have dark circles under your eyes or redness you want to hide, it’s time to use a colour corrector. One of the best helpers in the fight against under eye circles and red spots on the face, including skin imperfections.
The best concealers cover discolorations, lighten dark areas, disguise blemishes, and work in tandem with your foundation to achieve the appearance of an even skin tone, use one of light Concealer’s second dark Concealer third middle Concealer. Your looks will be perfect.
Mascara, There’s no better way for shining eyes, wake them up and define those eyes than by enhancing your lashes—and a good mascara is all you need. Stick with basic black mascara (or dark brown if you have light hair and lashes).
A cut crease really helps to make your eyes nicely stand out (especially if you don’t have naturally defined eyelids). Simply take a dark shadow and apply it really well along the upper crease of your eyelid, connecting the end of the line with the outer corner of your eye. | <urn:uuid:d8e77fb3-65ca-423f-b968-0e4c4e150e04> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://naturecosmopolitan.com/makeupbag/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571150.88/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810070501-20220810100501-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.914918 | 635 | 1.5 | 2 |
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System Management Guide: Operating System and Devices
This section provides steps for unconfiguring SCSI, SSA, and Fibre Channel
Before you can remove or replace a storage adapter, you must unconfigure
that adapter. Unconfiguring a storage adapter involves the following
- Closing all applications that are using the adapter you are removing,
replacing, or moving
- Unmounting file systems
- Ensuring that all devices connected to the adapter are identified and
- Listing all slots that are currently in use or a slot that is occupied by
a specific adapter
- Identifying the adapter's slot location
- Making parent and child devices unavailable
- Making the adapter unavailable
To perform these tasks, you must log in as root user.
For additional information, see PCI Hot Plug
Management in the AIX 5L Version 5.1 System Management
Concepts: Operating System and Devices.
Storage adapters are generally parent devices to media devices, such as
disk or tape drives. Removing the parent requires that all attached
child devices either be removed or placed in the define state.
To unconfigure SCSI, SSA, and Fibre Channel Adapters:
- Close all applications that are using the adapter you are
- Type lsslot-c pci to list all the hot plug
slots in the system unit and display their characteristics.
- Type lsdev -C to list the current state of all the devices in the system unit.
- Type umount to unmount previously mounted
file systems, directories, or files using this adapter. For additional
information, see Mounting or Unmounting a File System in the AIX 5L Version 5.1 System Management
Guide: Operating System and Devices.
- Type rmdev -l adapter -R to make the
Attention: Do not use the -d flag with
the rmdev command for hot plug operations because this will cause
your configuration to be removed.
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There is no climate emergency. Even if AGW is tangible, predicting what will happen to CO2 in the next century is a rather uncertain matter. We’re already used to it. Our CO2 projections assume more fossil fuels consumed than exist on our planet today. Observation-based studies indicate a lower sensitivity, which means we’d have more time to prepare. The impact of AGW is also rather uncertain; silly mitigation policies may lead to suboptimal results. AGW is rather good, a net benefit in the short run. After all, all life is carbon-based, CO2 is not a pollutant and more CO2 will benefit the world. Economic models tell us very little: ad hoc input choices, void of theorical foundation, may contain Gremlins. Saying that AGW is “bad” or “alarming” leads us outside science, for science is value-neutral. Beware stealth issue advocacy. The issue is what shows up in summaries and press releases: it’s not science, but it’s important. We need to reframe AGW as a wicked problem. Meanwhile, cool it and don’t panic. | <urn:uuid:0a0e598b-b634-4b15-ae1a-b2abe5a37990> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://contrarianmatrix.wordpress.com/do-not-panic/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571150.88/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810070501-20220810100501-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.921091 | 246 | 2.265625 | 2 |
You’ve been there. Indeed, we have all been there. You know that on your home computer you have a specific site bookmarked. However, you’re not at your home computer and your brain can’t quite come up with the site’s URL.
To answer this problem, Google gives us Google Bookmarks. I’ve been using Google Bookmarks for quite some time, but if you’re not familiar with the service, here’s the quick and dirty version:
The concept is simple – you bookmark a site, that mark is saved via your Google account and it is available to you anywhere. How you go about bookmarking the site is a bit different than you’re used to, however.
For instance, doing a search for The Next Web, we see these results –
Clicking on the star to the right of the result will add the site to your Google Bookmarks. Users of Chrome and the Google Toolbar should be very familiar with this star method, and it is an easy adaptation for others as well. There is also a Bookmarklet available, for those who want a button to press while you’re on a site. As an aside, I recommend using the Google Toolbar, as it adds many more features and has increased accessibility.
So now that you have your list of bookmarks going, let’s do the fun stuff. Keep using Google Bookmarks just as you have been using your regular bookmarks since you first used the Internet. But what we’ll do next puts the social spin onto an otherwise mundane collection.
Google’s newest feature for Bookmarks are Lists. Lists are exactly what you’d think – collections of bookmarks that relate to a subject. For me, I have a collection of bookmarks related to Drum & Bass music. I wanted to make this list available to anyone interested in the music so I made the list public. If you go into your Google Bookmarks, and search for drum & bass, you will likely find my list. I can also share this list with people by going to the Public button and then inviting them via email.
The feature that I’ve grown to love is the user interface of the Bookmarks page. The “+Add Stuff” button lets you begin typing in a URL or search, and Google will provide relevant results that you can add in whole or one by one.
So How Are Lists Going To Rock Your world?
Google suggests that Bookmark Lists would be valuable for researching purchases, organizing events or even planning trips. Lists will generally lift the most important content of a site to the forefront (maps to a local store, reviews of a product, etc). so once you’ve made your list, all of your information is not only in one place, it’s likely already showing you what you want to see.
Writing for The Next Web, I tend to follow quite a few different stories on any given day. Another way that I have found to use lists is to collect the sites that I use on any given day, and create a list of them. Once I have those lists, I can use search terms on them for reference at a later date. I can also add a list to another, making a master list for a specific subject.
How Do You Lists?
Google Bookmarks, and Lists. Use them, love them, then tell us how you’re using and loving them. Have an idea that you think would make Bookmarks or Lists better? Google wants to hear from you. Make sure you use the Send Feedback link at the top of your Bookmarks page. | <urn:uuid:006ab389-8f99-41fb-8797-18e41480cded> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://thenextweb.com/news/google-bookmarks-lists-main-bookmarking-tool | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573540.20/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819005802-20220819035802-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.934736 | 768 | 1.523438 | 2 |
The sieve theory offers tools for selecting subsequences of particular interest from a larger sequence which is typically more accessible by other means. For example in the recent developments prime numbers were captured in polynomial values of degree four. The proposal goes further to solve problems not only concerning prime numbers but also for solving some diophantine equations and estimating the rational points on some cubic surfaces. In more theoretical aspects of sieve theory the goal of the Proposal is to investigate the intrinsic limitations of the methods (parity barrier of sieve) and to find ways to break these limits. Sieve ideas when enhanced with arguments of harmonic analysis (spectral methods) become powerful and versatile tools which can even exceed the capability of the Grand Riemann Hypothesis. The Proposal makes a few suggestions in this direction.Sieve methods turned out to be very attractive for researchers working in cryptography. Although this project does not address such applications directly, it seems likely that advances in the theory of sieves will open new possibilities. The implementation of Fourier analysis to sieve methods creates a lot of demand in modern harmonic analysis and will certainly have valuable impact on shaping the latter. These developments in the interface of combinatorial ideas and analysis will be quite inspiring for graduate students.
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- National Science Foundation (National Science Foundation (NSF))
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New Delhi: As India awaits the delivery of the first batch of Rafale fighter jets, which are likely to be deployed near the Line of Actual Control with China, the Navy may be sending its MiG-29K multirole fighters to the Northern sector too including on deployment near Eastern Ladakh.
According to government sources, there are plans to deploy the MiG-29K at an Indian Air Force base in the northern sector, where they may be used for “carrying out operational flying” in the Eastern Ladakh sector along the Line of Actual Control (LAC).
India has deployed MiG-29s, Su-30MKIs and Apache attack helicopters near the border with China, after additional Chinese fighter jets, bombers and attack helicopters were noticed at four Chinese bases near the LAC. The MiG-29Ks won’t be the first time the Navy’s air wing is involved in the mountainous regions of Ladakh: The Navy’s P-8I surveillance aircraft have also been spotted in the region.
The Indian Air Force was the first non-Warsaw Pact nation to receive the MiG-29 in 1986. The MiG-29 was designed as a short-range air superiority fighter, meant to shoot down enemy aircraft at both short-range and beyond-visual range. It is significantly lighter and smaller than the Sukhoi Su-30MKI. The Navy also acquired 45 MiG-29K fighters, which are upgraded naval versions of the MiG-29M, and are meant to serve onboard INS Vikramaditya, India’s only active carrier in service.
The Indian Air Force purchased 78 MiG-29 fighters since the 1980s and the fleet currently totals over 60 aircraft. Three squadrons operate the MiG-29. In 2009, the Indian Air Force began an upgrade of its MiG-29 fleet to equip it with new electronics, radar and the capability to fire air-to-ground weapons. The upgraded MiG-29, referred to as the MiG-29UPG, also has a distinctive ‘hump’ behind the cockpit for a large fuel tank to boost its range. | <urn:uuid:2ff6dea1-6791-46af-bccb-9a4998b3c0f0> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://newsnext.live/indian-navy-to-move-mig-29k-fighter-jets-to-north-amid-border-row-with-china/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571150.88/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810070501-20220810100501-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.959689 | 451 | 1.742188 | 2 |
SOLE invites you to join the ACT GREEN campaign to reduce energy waste
The SOLE project supports the environmental sustainability also by encouraging behavioural change in people with a wide-scale awareness campaign containing simple but very relevant measures for the reduction of energy waste.
As explained in a previous article, the Italian partner Agenzia Regionale Recupero Risorse (ARRR) developed a Capacity Building pack to be applied by SOLE partners and useful to launch the SOLE Campaign “Act Green” in their territories, but goes even further, sharing guidance and tools to anyone who wants to implement the campaign at their workplace and in their everyday private life.
This package (to be increased with some documents under preparation) includes:
- Guidelines for externals (EN - IT - AR) => for a detailed description of every step to be follow for the Act Green campaign to be a success
- N. 10 Posters Act Green (EN – IT – FR – AR) => the main tools to realize the campaign
- Poster to introduce the campaign (EN - IT) => to be attached at the entry of the workplace to draw attention to Act Green
- You tube video (EN - EN (SUB ITA) - EN short- EN short (SUB ITA) - AR) => a catchy video to involve as many people as possible in the campaign
- N. 10 Squared images Act Green for Instagram (1080*1080) (EN – IT – FR – AR) => social media are a fundamental means of communication, it is important to act also through this channel to spread the campaign
- Guidelines for social media dissemination (EN - IT) => some tips to make the campaign popular on social media
For further information please contact Susanna Ceccanti (ARRR - email@example.com).
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Hidden within the South Island sections of the Te Araroa Trail are some stunning river valleys and alpine tracks that allow dogs, discovers Sarah Fyfe
The 110km section of the Te Araroa Trail that runs beside the Pelorus River, over the Richmond Range to St Arnaud is special to me.
I have twice been able to walk my dog Pippin over this track and with landscapes that run from lush river valleys to rugged alpine grasslands and end in the geologically fascinating Red Hills, that is something special.
Pip is a small, white, furry thing of indeterminate breed, a true bitser.
Weighing just 5kg, most people struggle to believe this piece of fluff could ever scale the mountains she loves, let alone carry her dinner on her back.
I picked Pippin the pup up from the Sunday Market and a new horizon appeared: my new hiking buddy. Tramping with a dog is a truly symbiotic experience. Pip gets to go into wild and smelly places and I get to be entertained by her antics. Experiencing her joy makes downhill struggles on old knees a much less onerous ordeal.
Pippin’s early stomping ground was the Hacket Hut circuit in Mt Richmond Forest Park. She quickly found her feet on the tracks and trails in this easily accessible part of the Richmond Range. Her first overnight tramp was a three-hour walk to Browning Hut. It poured, but we were both in heaven.
Pippin was euphoric when we arrived at the delicious smelling (for her) hut. I tucked her into my thermal sleeping bag liner and made a fire.
In preparing for our tramps, Pippin has undertaken avian aversion training. This teaches dogs to avoid ground-dwelling birds such as kiwi, blue penguins and weka.
DOC organises this, it’s free and available a couple of times a year in conservation areas all over the country. I wanted to deter Pip from bothering the many families of weka whose home is this part of Te Araroa.
Fitted with an electric collar, she was led along a track and exposed to a dead weka. When she sniffed the bird, she was given a small but surprising electric shock. Reinforced with verbal warnings from me, Pip steered clear of other dead birds and nesting materials put in her way. She passed with flying colours. We participate in a refresher course each year, managing now without the electric collar.
Other trampers love meeting Pip on the trail – she seems to alleviate their fatigue and lighten the mood. Ascending 1731m Mt Rintoul recently, we came upon a nervous womanwho was being buffeted by powerful winds on the steep, boulder-strewn ridge. She was panicking and had ‘frozen’.
Instinctively, Pip moved beside the woman, her warm soft body providing comfort and easing her anxiety. Grounded on her four paws, Pip provided steady support as the tramper leaned on her and began to slowly clamber over the alpine rocks. That evening, while sipping our soup at Rintoul Hut, the woman told me how comforted she had been by Pippin’s warmth and the way she had tucked in close to her legs.
While Pip is strong and steady on land, crossing swollen rivers can be a challenge. Being so light, she flounders in swift currents and her wet coat is like a heavy woollen jersey, dragging her down.
The first few days we spent on the Pelorus Track went without a hitch. Walking on a well-formed track on the true left of the river, we breathed in the pure beauty of this pristine valley.
While there are excellent swimming holes all along the river, we first walked this section in August and were both grateful to arrive at Captain Creek Hut dry-footed. From there, two solid suspension bridges lead over the Pelorus and on to Middy Creek Hut. We climbed up to the fabulous Rocks Hut and then down to Browning Hut, where our river crossing adventures began in earnest.
In wet weather, the Browning rises rapidly and without bridges, I knew Pip could get swept away. Dropping my pack and sternly instructing Pippin to stay, I slowly forded the thigh-deep river. Confident it was possible, I returned for Pip, who knew instinctively to snuggle in close. Finally, I returned for my pack. It sounds clumsy but travelling solo I had little choice.
Reaching the Hacket Hut junction, a sign warned of the multiple river crossings ahead and the potential danger these can create. Sodden and a bit shaky, we elected to rest up and wait for the water to recede. I was relieved we did as the next day we crossed Hacket Creek eight times. Despite my fears, the river had dropped and we had fun rock-hopping along this pretty, moss-clad valley before climbing to Starveall Hut.
The alpine tops of the Richmond Ranges are my favourite section of this route. The grand view from Starveall Hut encompasses Tasman and Golden Bay, reaching as far as Farewell Spit. The stunted lichen-cloaked beech forest always feels enchanted. Pippin and I have played on this stretch in all seasons, escaping the heat in the height of summer and revelling in the glistening snow in the depths of winter. We have heard the autumn mist whispering through the mountain beech and the wind singing on a gusty spring day. Always, I feel that Pip and I have stumbled on heaven.
Curling past Hunters Hut, the headwaters of the Motueka River entail further doggy-dodgy river crossings. This time, I decided I was steadier with my pack on and with Pip tucked in tightly.
Our last gnarly river crossing occurred on our final day, just before the climb through the Martian-like landscape to Red Hills Hut. With a lighter pack now and stronger legs, this time it was no problem carrying my cuddly companion to dry shores.
Food for Pip is an ongoing consideration. In cooler weather, she sports a Swanndri jacket that has large oil skin pockets on each side for her dry biscuits and a couple of tins of sardines. Unlike me, Pip doesn’t eat much when we tramp. I have learnt to feed her up before we go on a multi-day outing and trust her judgement. She sometimes eats sardines, but what a curse to open a tin and watch her merely sniff it and turn away. Wasting precious water on cleaning the tin, I can never really eliminate the oily fishy smell and the empty tins stink out my pack for the remainder of the trip.
Next on our agenda is the St James section of Te Araroa, where dogs are allowed on the eastern side of the Waiau River. Other dog-friendly places we are yet to explore include the tramping tracks around Lake Ohau.
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Nine tips to keep your mobile device secure
Securing information transferred over the Internet has become a difficult task. In the past year, 368 major data breaches exposed more than 10 million records. In April, experts discovered Heartbleed, an error in security software that some have called the biggest flaw in Internet history. It left millions of people’s passwords and personal information open to the public. Researchers have even identified vulnerability in Paypal’s two-step security system for mobile users, widely believed to be untouchable.
Fortunately, Lewis & Clark faculty and staff can find expert guidance right on campus. In her eight years in the field, Information Security Officer Jessica Odom has served as a resource for the security community and developed tools to secure devices for Lewis & Clark faculty and staff. At the last two Secure World Portland conferences, she led industry expert panels on mobile device security.
The Source asked for her best advice for keeping mobile devices secure.
- Never share your password, not even with your spouse, friends, or coworkers. If you lose or forget your password, set a new one. Use a password safe like KneePass to keep track of sensitive account information.
- Never click an email link to your bank or any other site with sensitive information. Some fake sites look like the real thing, but they steal the information you type in. Use your trusted bookmarks instead.
- Only download apps from trusted marketplaces, and make sure they come from reliable developers.
- Keep your phone updated by always choosing to apply software updates. Always update operating systems and antivirus or antimalware software.
- Learn how to disable all geotagging, location information embedded in photos and other multimedia content. Click on this guide for steps to disable geotagging on a number of devices.
- Enable tracking to find your lost phone. Click here for instructions on how to track iPhones. Android users can download the SeekDroid app.
- Avoid sensitive business when your device is connected to a Wi-Fi hotspot.
- When banking and shopping, look for a secure web URL, marked by https:// or shttp://.
- Report unsolicited texts, telemarketing, or spam to the Federal Trade Commission.
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The COVID-19 pandemic has cast a spotlight on public health officials around the world. But few are facing the intense scrutiny that’s been aimed at Sweden’s State Epidemiologist Anders Tegnell.
Dr. Tegnell has attracted international attention for his hands off approach to the pandemic and his resolute defence of the Swedish model. There’s no lockdown in the country and most schools, pubs, restaurants and stores remain open. The few measures that have been introduced – social distancing in eateries, no gatherings of more than 50 people and a request that everyone work from home – are largely voluntarily and there are no fines or police checks to ensure compliance.
The strategy has made Dr. Tegnell a target of praise and ridicule. Critics accuse him of gambling with people’s lives and pursuing a dangerous “herd immunity” strategy that has resulted in a soaring mortality rate. Others see him as a hero who has pursued a sensible policy and spared Sweden from economic catastrophe. The 64-year old bureaucrat has become such a polarizing figure that while 2,000 Swedish scientists have signed a petition denouncing his strategy, more than 100,000 people have joined Anders Tegnell fan clubs. He’s even had his face plastered on T-shirts and inked on tattoos across Stockholm.
“It’s all absurd I must say,” Dr. Tegnell said in a recent interview, using the matter-of-fact tone that has become a hallmark of his daily news conferences. “The media attention is something completely different, that’s for sure. I have not been called by Canadian newspapers very often over the years in spite of working with a lot more dangerous things than this.”
The blunt-talking physician who favours brightly-coloured pullovers has spent nearly 30 years in public health, working mainly on vaccine programs and pandemic preparedness before becoming state epidemiologist in 2013. He’s also worked with the World Health Organization in Asia and Africa where he spent time in Zaire during the Ebola outbreak in 1995.
Dr. Tegnell insisted that his go-slow approach to the coronavirus pandemic is working. His objective has always been to pursue measures that were sustainable and that would keep hospitals from becoming overwhelmed. It didn’t hurt that the Swedes have an inherent trust in government agencies and a willingness to take direction. “There is a big part of trust in the population that this is the right thing to do,” he said.
He pointed out that although the number of new cases has been growing, and is now above 20,000, one third of the country’s intensive care beds remain empty. “There is quite a lot of excess capacity at this stage,” he said. “Our health care service is still functioning.” If anything, he’s feeling vindicated as he watches officials in other countries, including Canada, grapple with how to ease restrictive lockdowns. “To me it looks like a lot of the exit strategies that are being discussed look very much like what Sweden is already doing,” he said.
Dr. Tegnell got a boost this week from Michael Ryan, the WHO’s executive director, who praised the Swedish method of voluntary compliance and said the country was an example for a way out of lockdowns. “I think there may be lessons to be learned from our colleagues in Sweden,” Dr. Ryan told a news conference.
The strategy has not been entirely successful and there have been some serious failings which Dr. Tegnell acknowledged. Sweden’s death toll has topped 2,500 or roughly 22 for every 100,000 inhabitants. That’s higher than neighbouring Norway, Finland and Denmark which have imposed strict lockdowns. Norway and Finland have less than four deaths per 100,000, while in Denmark it is 7.3, according to Johns Hopkins University.
Dr. Tegnell said the difference is largely due to seniors’ homes where Sweden has not contained the outbreak. “Something like 50 per cent of our death toll comes from the rather small population living in care homes,” he said. “We know that we have had a problem with the elderly homes, this has been a discussion for years.”
Sweden has no tradition of multi-generational households and seniors typically live in state subsidized nursing homes. Years of budget cuts and privatization have raised questions about the standard of care in many homes. “We hope that [the COVID-19 outbreak] can trigger a discussion on resources and competence and how those institutions can deliver better quality of care than they do today,” Dr. Tegnell said.
Critics say there’s something else going on and that Sweden’s high mortality rate is tied to what they believe was Dr. Tegnell’s disastrous pursuit of herd immunity. That immunity occurs when a sufficient number of people have been infected with a virus and become resistant, which slows or stops the spread of the disease. In order to achieve herd immunity, health officials have to let the outbreak essentially run its course. It’s a strategy the British government considered but quickly dropped in March after researchers at London’s Imperial College said up to 250,000 people could die. Dr. Tegnell said that while he didn’t set out with a herd immunity strategy, the number of people infected by COVID-19 in Stockholm is approaching levels that will have the same effect. “We do believe that we have a certain affect of [herd immunity] already,” he said.
That infuriates researchers like Dr. Stefan Hanson, a Swedish infectious disease expert who was one of 22 scientists who recently wrote an article in a Swedish newspaper criticizing "officials without talent” who were in charge of the COVID-19 strategy. “I think it’s a risky business and we don’t know anything about herd immunity,” Dr. Hanson said from a Stockholm suburb where he was leading an antibody testing program. “The only thing we know is that a lot of people have died. These are human beings, not just figures. And if we would have chosen another approach, this number would have been much smaller.”
Dr. Hanson believes Dr. Tegnell deliberately pushed herd immunity and he should have followed the Norwegian, Danish and Finnish approach and introduced a lockdown. “You cannot take risks with people’s lives if you don’t know what risks you are taking," he said.
There are other challenges, too. Dr. Tegnell and the government have insisted that by not shutting down the country, the economy will revive faster once the pandemic is over. But Finance Minister Magdalena Andersson recently estimated that even with the looser measures, Sweden’s economy could shrink by as much as 10 per cent this year and unemployment could jump to 13.5 per cent. That’s comparable to estimates for Norway.
Dr. Tegnell has faced criticism over a pandemic strategy before. During the 2009 swine flu outbreak, he advocated widespread use of a vaccine from GlaxoSmithKline called Pandemrix even though it had been rushed into service. Eventually more than 400 Swedish children who had been inoculated developed narcolepsy, a rare sleep disorder, and the drug was taken off the market. Several other European countries also used Pandemrix and reported cases of narcolepsy, but Sweden was among the largest users of the drug. The government later apologized and provided compensation to those affected. Dr. Tegnell has defended its use and said at the time that it was hard to balance “400 children with narcolepsy against about 100 deaths.”
Those who know Dr. Tegnell dismiss the critics and say he has shown nothing but integrity and commitment during the COVID-19 crisis. “He has done admirably well,” said Johan Giesecke the former chief scientist at the European Centre for Disease Control who hired Dr. Tegnell as the state epidemiologist. “Sweden is doing it right. Everyone else is wrong.”
Paul Franks, an epidemiologist at Lund University in Malmo, said it’s too early to judge Dr. Tegnell. “I think you can question strategically why care homes and hospitals weren’t more closely protected from coronavirus,” he said. “I think that’s a strategic failure and has cost lives. But other than that, nobody knows if it’s the right strategy.” Dr. Franks gives Dr. Tegnell high marks for being straight with Swedes. “He’s been quite honest that they’ve clearly chosen a path and they are sticking to it.”
Polls show that the vast majority of Swedes back Dr. Tegnell and believe in what he’s doing. “We are kind of a science-trusting people here in Sweden,” said Christine Tidasen a university lecturer in Stockholm who started one of the Anders Tegnell fan clubs. “We are letting him know that there are people who believe in making decisions that are really thought about very carefully,” she added. “The virus will not go away and we have to learn how to live with it."
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Indian Journal of Science and Technology
Year: 2015, Volume: 8, Issue: Supplementary 8, Pages: 1-5
Hamidreza Golkar Hamzee Yazd*, Javad Basirat, Mojtaba Tavousi and Abbas Alvani
Department of Water Engineering, Ferdows Branch, Islamic Azad University, Ferdows, Iran; [email protected]
In the current research, SEBAL1 method has been used in order to find a quick way with a desirable accuracy for measuring the real evapotranspiration in farming areas of Maiamei rural district in Mashhad. Therefore, satellite images from Landsat and the meteorological information of the region for 29 April 2002 (9 Ordibehesht 1381) were provided and the SEBAL calculations were applied on the images with the help of the software ILWIS. Then the relation between the surface parameters (temperature and the vegetation) with the energy components resulted from this method was studied. By conducting research on the treatment of this method on different vegetations, it was concluded that the regions with a wider range of vegetation and a more various density, had less evapotranspiration while by reducing the range and increasing the density of vegetation in this area, the amount of evapotranspiration experiences a stepped rise. Also, the results of this research showed that there is a linear relation with a high accuracy (R2 = 0.96) between the surface temperature and the instantaneous latent heat flux which could be used to reduce the calculation steps of SEBAL model for the studied area and calculate the amount of evapotranspiration in a quicker and easier way by using a modified model.
Keywords: Energy Components, Evapotranspiration, Satellite Imagery, Surface Temperature, Vegetation
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So you think you have a gas fireplace? It is fairly simple to figure out whether your fireplace burns gas or not. First, there is not an empty space for logs and fire-building in your firebox. Instead, you’ll find logs—usually ceramic. Your system will be connected to a gas line of some kind and will have an ignitor and pilot light. This is a gas fireplace. What type of gas fireplace you have can be slightly more difficult to figure out. If you don’t have your owner’s manual, it is important to determine what type of system you have. Using the system according to its design is important for safety and efficiency as well as convenience.
Types of Gas Appliances
Gas is a fuel type that is always growing in popularity due to its convenience and versatility as well as efficiency and cost. You may be able to use gas in any room in your house, but your venting and your space will determine what type of appliance is best for you.
- Gas Stoves – Like all other types of stoves, a gas stove can be freestanding anywhere in a room. It can fit into a corner, in an existing firebox, on any story, and in any sized home or apartment. A professional can install a gas stove anywhere using appropriate refractory materials.
- Gas Fireplaces – A gas fireplace can be accomplished by installing a gas log set into an existing firebox, or installing a manufactured insert into a wall or firebox. Your professional chimney sweep can help you determine which type of gas fireplace is best for your home, your style, and your need.
Gas Inserts V. Gas Logs
Perhaps you don’t have the space for a gas stove or you simply like the appeal of a fireplace more, you can get the same benefits from a gas log set or insert. If your gas fireplace is set into a wall or hearth, it is likely one or the other. If it has glass doors, ceramic logs, and no visible ash or creosote residue, you’re looking at a gas insert or gas log set—not a wood-burning fireplace.
Identifying a Gas Insert
A gas insert is a closed unit, like a stove, but looks like a fireplace. It is retrofitted into an existing firebox or installed directly into a wall. A gas insert may have ventilation that is hidden. It may vent through the ceiling or wall and many draw air the same way, leaving the air in your home undisturbed. A direct vent insert, for instance, has a pipe that draws air in from the outside to help the fire burn. Inside this pipe is the actual flue that vents the toxins from the fire. This allows there to be only on vent and means the air inside the home is continuously cycled and heated and deposited back into the home.
- A gas insert is retrofitted into a traditional masonry fireplace
- A gas insert produces radiant heat and warm air
- A gas insert will often have doors or a closed glass front
- Logs in a gas insert are sometimes rearrangeable (for aesthetics)
- Gas inserts are made with a metal firebox
Identifying a Gas Log Set
A gas log set is convenient for people who would like a fireplace but don’t need it to produce a lot of heat. Gas logs use gas for fuel, but don’t cycle air from the room and continuously heat it. Some gas log sets feature detailed ceramic logs and others are very simple. Some require a vent and others do not. Gas log sets are cheaper than inserts and ideal for converting from a wood-burning fireplace without a lot of costs.
- A gas log set will sometimes have a blue flame
- Gas logs are removable (for cleaning) but have a specific order for optimal use
- Gas logs require an existing fireplace
- Gas logs are usually installed in a masonry fireplace with no special wall or floors
Know Your System for Safety
Part of knowing your system is identifying what type you have but also locating the model number so that you can use it properly. Generally, gas appliance work in the same way—using gas and an ignitor the fire lights, and continuous fuel and airflow allows it to maintain a flame. The toxins produced by the fire are then vented out a flue or if it is a vent-free log set or insert it will require no ventilation and all the heat and moisture from the fire comes into the living space. Using a vented fireplace with no vent is dangerous and can cause permanent injury or death.
If you’re not sure whether your fireplace should be vented or not, it is imperative that you locate the model number and user guide before lighting it. If you cannot locate your model number or user manual, a professional can do this during a standard gas service appointment.
Schedule a fireplace maintenance appointment with Billy Sweet Chimney Sweep and we can help you identify your fireplace. When one of our fireplace experts complete the job, you can rest assured you’re using your fireplace properly and safely.
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The IRIS Launch event will be organised virtually by ECSO in the presence of the European Institutions and key stakeholders on 5th July 2022 at 9:30 – 12:30 (CET) to give high visibility to the IRIS project, raise awareness of the project priorities and start engaging with key experts.
The IRIS project aims to help European CERTs/CSIRTs minimise the impact of cybersecurity and privacy risks as well as threats introduced by cyber-physical vulnerabilities in IoT platforms and adversarial attacks on AI provisions and their learning/decision-making algorithms. The project extends from September 2021 until August 2024 led by a consortium of 19 European Partners that include public organizations, SMEs with cutting-edge cyber technologies, large industries as service providers, and research and academic partners with significant achievements in cybersecurity and privacy technologies.
This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement no 101021727.
IRIS’s vision is to integrate and demonstrate a single platform addressed to CERTs/CSIRTs for assessing, detecting, responding to and sharing information regarding threats & vulnerabilities of IoT and AI-driven ICT systems.
Agenda of the IRIS Launch event:
- Overview of the IRIS Project: Ambitions and Goals
- Presentation of the IRIS Baseline Architecture
- Presentation of 3 use cases (Helsinki, Tallin, Barcelona)
- Panel – Threat intelligence and information sharing: technical and policy perspective
Register here now!
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Posted: June 24, 2022
Ben Wirtz Siegel
The iconic buildings of Ohio’s oldest university are an essential part of every Bobcat’s experience. For this reason, Ohio University has been dedicated over the decades, and particularly in the 2000s, to preserving the buildings and spaces where students learn, live, and play, especially in neighborhoods such as College Green, The Ridges and South Court Street.
The University has launched a new website that shares improvements and investments in the historic character. Our goal is to preserve buildings suitable for academic or administrative use and enhance them for the modern era.
This work happens on every green, from the massive renovations of the buildings of the former asylum in Athens to The crests to the repurposing of iconic spaces such as the former Baker University Center – now Schoonover Center – and the upgrading of century-old buildings like Ellis Hall to suit modern educational purposes.
“The sense of community we have here is so important to us and to our students and alumni. We want to do everything we can to protect that,” Associate Vice President for University Planning Shawna Wolfe said. “Our campus is one of the most beautiful in the country, with iconic landmarks and special places everywhere you look or engage. Preserving this character and the integrity of our setting while aligning with current and future needs is one of our top priorities.
The new website documents just a few of the improvements to each of the greens, including the new Union Green, home to the new Heritage Hall and the future home of the Russ Research Opportunity Center, currently under renovation. | <urn:uuid:105f52f5-05b6-4a9c-a588-85b996884c42> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://nashermuseumblogs.org/ohio-promotes-long-history-of-preserving-historic-buildings-with-new-website/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571150.88/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810070501-20220810100501-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.959109 | 331 | 1.6875 | 2 |
A bio is a detailed account of an individual’s life. Bios are greater than just truths – they include the experience of the individual at specific life events. It is an important part of the background of individuals we love. So how can we write a biography that will influence others? Here are some useful tips. Keep reading to find out more. Biographies may be used as inspiration or for school jobs. Yet do not fail to remember to include your individuality. Biographies can be fun as well!
While composing a biography, keep in mind to consider the function for which you are creating the bio. Who is the target market for your job? How much information is very important to share? For instance, a company-wide email bio ought to focus on the work history as well as experience of the individual, as well as not individual information. If your audience is a general target market, focus on the realities that will certainly make the reader want to learn more regarding you. In this manner, the reader will certainly really feel much more connected with the individual you’re writing about.
Biography is one of the earliest kinds of literary works. Writing about a famous person’s life can be as ancient as 44 B.C. Biographies were typically created by monks and also priests, as well as the early forms of biography were commonly religiously-themed. The Roman biographer Cornelius Nepos’ Excellentium Imperatorum Vitae was one of the earliest instances of bio. Greek chronicler Plutarch was renowned for his biographies. Giorgio Vasari’s Lives of the Artists is another very early instance of a bio.
One more kind of bio is the cumulative biography of a team of individuals. Captain Charles Johnson created a biography of the pirates in 1724 and helped to establish the popular image of pirates. Smaller sized teams can additionally be the subject of collective bios. Positively 4th Road is an example of this. The folk scene in New york city City has actually been the subject of a cumulative biography. Nonetheless, it is unlikely that the more comprehensive group will be the emphasis of a biographer’s work.
A bio is a thorough account of an individual’s life, created by somebody apart from the subject. It consists of details of one of the most crucial facets of a person’s life and also what they experienced. Biographies are an excellent source of motivation, however they additionally require to be careful not to spurt about information. Regardless of the format of a bio, the information it contains will certainly inspire the visitor to get more information concerning a person’s life.
Biographies are a preferred form of literature. They make up a substantial part of literary publications, and some have been transformed into plays. Among one of the most popular biographies of the 20th century is Hiroshima by John Hersey, which was right away hailed as one of the very best World War II biographies ever before written. Other bios have even been adapted into movies, such as Unbroken (2014 ).
A bio is a story of an additional person’s life, usually in third-person. The story may be of a well-known living person, somebody that passed away centuries back, a lower well-known unhonored hero, or an one-of-a-kind group of individuals. In a bio, the author associates the realities of a person’s life from birth to death, highlighting the considerable minutes as well as experiences throughout their life. Biographies might additionally discover an individual’s emotions, spirituality, as well as intellectual life.
Biographies and also memoirs vary in style. A bio is an account of another person’s life, while a memoir is a narrative of the writer. Autobiographies are generally created chronologically, and focus on the major occasions of an individual’s life. The first-person point of view of an autobiography makes it subjective, as well as the narrator often writes it late in life. When it comes to writing a biography, it is necessary to have a clear idea of what you want to accomplish with guide.
A biography is a thorough account of a person’s life. It includes greater than just standard realities, yet additionally their personal experiences and also thoughts about life events. It is often an engaging read for any person with a rate of interest in history, national politics, or culture. While it is challenging to produce a bio for each person, there are some basic principles to follow when creating your very own. Keep reading to learn more. (And also don’t fail to remember to provide the person debt for their success.).
The style of bio is typically identified as nonfiction. Because the author isn’t a subject, their writing may have factual errors and also noninclusions. Biography is likewise composed from the viewpoint of the author as well as might not be true to the topic’s life. Shakespeare’s historic plays profess to be accounts of the lives of British kings, however it is clear that his representation of each king is affected by his very own viewpoint, literary creativity, and also recognition of his audience.
A biographer can likewise select to create a collective bio, like the life of Captain Charles Johnson. His significant A General Background of the Pirates (1724) cataloged the lives of well-known pirates and established the image of pirates in popular culture. Bios can additionally concentrate on smaller teams, like the folk scene in New york city. A collective biography can be as long as a couple of thousand web pages. If the subject is known and also loved, it is likely that they would delight in reading a biography. Browse this site
The style of fiction is likewise common in biographies. These are often fictionalized variations of real life events, based upon historic records. Some of the best examples of this category include Grey Gardens (the imaginary bio of Jacqueline Kennedy’s once-wealthy relatives), Malcom X (the biopic of the same-named civil rights leader), and also The King’s Speech, a drama of Royal prince Albert’s struggle to conquer his stutter. | <urn:uuid:785d6b6b-8f7f-456a-bc1d-b279c17246de> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.mainriversafari.com/2022/07/15/amazing-realities-regarding-biography/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571150.88/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810070501-20220810100501-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.967929 | 1,270 | 2.578125 | 3 |
Birds are way cool. In this podcast from The American Physiological Society, Dr. John West at the University of California in San Diego discusses the unique adaptations of the avian respiratory system. In mammals, the movement of air in and out of the lungs in a bidirectional fashion is called ventilation. This air fills the small air sacs (alveoli) which are surrounded by capillaries to aid in gas exchange between the blood and air. In birds, ventilation (controlled by air sacs) is unidirectional and occurs separately from gas exchange, which takes place in the air capillaries of the parabronchi. The pulmonary blood capillaries are quite rigid because they are surrounded by air capillaries. Dr. West is currently examining whether this capillary morphology has an impact on the pressure of the pulmonary arteries during flight. Click here to to listen to the interview. | <urn:uuid:71ae995e-8bb2-4c08-9daf-e1ec5e46c47c> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.scienceblogs.com/lifelines/2010/09/15/bird-breath | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573104.24/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817183340-20220817213340-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.943288 | 184 | 3.03125 | 3 |
Votes of “no confidence” by faculty members in their president receive media coverage and attract unfavorable attention to the institution (and its president!). Yet, often more quietly, presidencies are more likely to succeed or fail due to the relationship between the president and the board of trustees. At orientation sessions conducted for new presidents, I am often asked what I most wish I had understood about boards when I became a president twenty years ago. The answer is easy: the complexity of the president’s role.
Presidents serve “at the pleasure of the board.” Boards hire, fire, and replace us; evaluate us annually; and monitor our performance regularly. We also staff the board—especially the board chair—even if assistants help with this role. Ensuring our chair is well-prepared for meetings is essential for a high-functioning board. Yet with due respect for the board’s fiduciary responsibilities and the board chair’s pivotal role, presidents must lead our boards if we are to effectively lead our institutions. Besides ensuring generous trustee philanthropy, we need to cultivate our boards by building relationships with all trustees and ensuring each member’s talent and time are used well. Most importantly, the nature of leadership in shared governance requires us to collaborate with our board.
Managing these complex roles and integrating them effortlessly is far more art than science. Presidents need humility as well as confidence, deference as well as assertiveness. We need board chairs willing and eager to develop a seamless partnership. And as with any successful relationship, the effort is rewarding and fun. | <urn:uuid:9c3ac3f2-c601-4f39-beb1-d0ed8bd7b299> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://agb.org/blog-post/presidents-boards-cultivating-a-seamless-partnership/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571150.88/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810070501-20220810100501-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.967734 | 327 | 2.09375 | 2 |
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is there a safe way to grill meats and reduce or avoid PAHs?
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Before we continue, let's discuss what PAHs are for the general audience. Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) are chemicals formed when meat from muscle, including beef, pork, fish, and poultry, is cooked using high-temperature, direct-heat methods, such as grilling directly over an open flame. The formation of PAHs are influenced by the type of meat, the cooking time, the cooking temperature, and the cooking method. Exposure to PAHs can cause cancer in animals; however, whether such exposure causes cancer in humans is unclear. However, ongoing studies are being investigated to determine if any associations exist between meat intake, meet cooking methods, and cancer risk. Also, there are no Federal guidelines addressing consumption levels of PAHs formed in meat.
PAHs have been found to be mutagenic in animals—that is, they cause changes in DNA that may increase the risk of cancer. PAHs are formed when fat and juices from meat grilled directly over an open fire drip onto the fire, causing flames. These flames contain PAHs that then adhere to the surface of the meat. PAHs can also be formed during other food preparation processes, such as smoking of meats.
The formation of PAHs vary by meat type, cooking method, and "doneness" level (rare, medium, or well done). Whatever the type of meat, however, meats cooked at high temperatures, especially above 300ºF (as in grilling), or that are cooked for a long time tend to form more HCAs. For example, well done, grilled, or barbecued chicken and steak all have high concentrations of HCAs.
Despite the current evidence not substantiating any concern for PAH consumption and increased health issues, a few things you can do to reduce PAH levels in food include:
- precooking (such as boiling) your meats partially (to 85-100 degrees) before smoking or grilling.
- place meat in aluminum foil in order to reduce direct heat exposure
- continuously turn meat while grilling to prevent charring
- grilling at a lower heat so the meat takes longer to produce grill marks and cooks more evenly inside and out (this will prevent charring as well)
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Tyndall Officials Move Ahead With Design Plans After Promise Of New Jets
After Hurricane Michael ripped through the panhandle last year it left much of the area battered and beaten. One of the most impacted counties is Bay, where Tyndall Air Force Base is located. The base suffered nearly $5 billion in damage. But officials at the base used the disaster as a chance to rebuild for the future. Their hope was that the Air Force would bring in F35 fighter jets and that plan has now paid off.
Officials at Tyndall Air Force Base started working toward recovery right away. Most of the early stages involved demolishing or repairing damaged buildings. Executive Director of the base’s reconstruction program, Brigadier General Patrice Melancon, says there’s still more to be done.
"So we do have some demolition that is still is ongoing, and still needs to be done," says Melancon. "We’ve moved forward we’re partnering with the Core of Engineers for the military construction work and have actually got design firms on board to start doing design work on those military construction projects."
In April, Brigadier General Melancon said they had already spent $300 million on demolition and repairs. They had run out of money and had to wait for supplemental funding. That eventually came in June in the form of a disaster relief bill which included $1.67 billion in funding for the Air Force, but not all of it was for Tyndall.
"Unfortunately Tyndall was not the only base that was affected by natural disasters," explained Melancon. "So we got about I think it was $550 million roughly what we’re going to get from the FY19 [fiscal year 2019] supplemental."
That $550 million helps out but Melancon says the project will definitely need more.
"We’ve got like I said $2.8 billion worth of military construction that’s identified," said Melancon.
One of the reasons for the high costs is that Tyndall isn’t just rebuilding but redesigning the layout of the base. Officials decided to go with a design that would work for the future. The hope was that in doing so the Air Force would move F35 jets to the base. And this week that happened. Tuesday the Interim Secretary for the Air Force announced he is committed to bringing three F35 jets to Tyndall by 2023.
"Certainly having the F35s there is going to enhance the overall training that’s able to be done for the Air Force as a whole, not just for Tyndall," said Melancon.
Melancon says the news isn’t only great for what the future holds but also for the sake of the rebuild.
"We will continue going full speed down the path that we have been going down already. The good news is that we didn’t have to go potentially rework some things if the decision had come out otherwise," said Melancon.
Meanwhile, Melancon says base officials are holding another Industry Day September 12 in an effort to secure the needed workers for the project and make sure the surrounding community is on board.
"That particular Industry Day is going to focus on construction and construction logistics.as you can probably imagine doing that much construction work in one area and also having construction work going on downtown," said Melancon. "We’re a little worried about being able to effectively find the labor force that we need to do all that construction and not compete and prevent downtown from being able to come back with their construction."
As for funding the rest of the project Melancon says the base will have to wait until Congress and the Air Force decide how much Tyndall will get in fiscal year 2020. | <urn:uuid:a630a1bb-8460-4dc6-9aa0-18eaebf573b5> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://news.wfsu.org/state-news/2019-08-08/tyndall-officials-move-ahead-with-design-plans-after-promise-of-new-jets | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571150.88/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810070501-20220810100501-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.977071 | 785 | 1.632813 | 2 |
Whether it’s your college studies or Higher Education, getting an online education benefits you in both aspects of your student life. Even though online education has played a very important role in every institute of education worldwide due to pandemic situations, if you’re a student like me, you have continuously experienced online education for the past two years.
However, due to Covid-19, the value of online education has been increased more than ever. Now, as it vastly spread worldwide, the majority has become part of online education. So the many educational institutes have decided to give students various opportunities worldwide to get online degree programs in their institutes.
They have given golden opportunities to students, especially those who cannot pay high fees or have other responsibilities to fulfill. Likewise, you can get a degree in Psychology program from the top best universities in the world.
The days are gone when you dreamed of studying in the world’s best universities, and that had remained just a dream, but now it’s time to change your dream into a very successful reality. For that reason, we’ve gathered some valuable benefits of getting an online Psychology degree program.
Obtaining an online degree benefits you in many ways. You can get flexibility in your carrier and personal life. When you are the person who supports the entire family, and in that case, people usually don’t have a chance to study in their dream universities. So here comes the opportunity that online education provides you without sacrificing your other responsibilities; still, you can obtain your dream education by just living at your own pace. Also, it’s a cost-effective way of getting an education with low-cost tuition fees.
Getting an online degree in psychology provides you with lots of opportunities in your career. While earning an online degree program, you can get job opportunities in advance from the world’s best companies or organizations. So what is better than that when you get the chance to experience your field during your studies. Also, while studying as an international student, you get many bright, life-changing prospects like scholarships, strong networking with the world’s top-class companies, and much more.
Variety of Programs Available
There are various benefits of obtaining online degree programs. This is one of my favorite benefits of online education: you have a variety of programs that various universities are offering to their students all around the globe. You can enroll in many or any program which suits your passion and interests without getting worried that you couldn’t find your dream program.
Several top universities are offering a variety of degree programs for Bachelors, Masters, and Ph.D. holders. For example, Christian University offers various options that range from undergraduate to doctoral programs; Grand Canyon University may be a smart option. Grand Canyon University certificate can help you take the next steps in your career by learning in-demand techniques that will help you excel in your field.
All national and international universities communicate through email. Most institutes don’t answer your questions when you approach them via different platforms, like social media, phone numbers, etc.
So, avoid these mistakes and approach them through email as it’s a most professional way of communication, and It has a 95% chance that your queries will be responded to Asap. However, choose the right way to approach online institutes and earn more chances to enroll in your dream program at your favorite university.
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Now you’ve become more aware of the benefits of online education and getting an online degree in psychology. It is most suitable because psychology is a field where you get even more successful opportunities while studying in international universities. That is the only way to speak and share your ideas with the world’s top professors, business tycoons, etc.
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Ryan Braun, one of Major League Baseball’s brightest young stars, has recently won his appeal on his drug test, making him the sport’s first player to win an appeal after a positive drug test. Braun who plays for the Milwaukee Brewers and the 2011 most valuable player of the National League now escapes a 50-game suspension.
In addition to being a first-round draft pick in 2005, Braun was rookie of the year in 2007. He has made the All-Star team four times and has helped guide the Brewers to the playoffs twice.
Not too long ago, the case against Lance Armstrong has also been closed by U.S. federal prosecutors, thus ensuring the American cyclist’s legacy as a seven-time Tour de France champion. Armstrong has steadfastly denied doping during his unparalleled career, but the possibility of criminal charges threatened to stain not only his accomplishments as the world’s most famous cyclist, but his cancer charity work as well.
|Steroids and Athletes. Photo courtesy of Livusafe.|
The redemption of these two sports superstars from some of the world’s comprehensive systems of monitoring performance-enhancing drugs reveals either that the system is still nowhere to perfection it has claimed or the prospect of enhancing humans, particularly in the field of sports, is improving and making the future look even more daunting.
It’s in sports that record-breaking performance of athletes is being heavily screened, and so far, this is the only human activity open to testing for use of performance enhancing drugs. Of course, we have heard of experimentation on animals but the haste in transferring success from laboratories to human applications can be very intimidating. From the genetically-modified mighty mice, we now have athletes built like bulls with huge haunches and necks wider than their heads. To clone a gene appears easier now that all the biology is here and it’s no longer a mystery that all the performance characteristics of the muscle could be changed or modulated.
This kind of development becomes scarier if we juxtapose the advances in the enhancement of human capability with the military. Who would believe that the supernatural powers of comic-book superheroes of the past like Superman and Wonder Woman could exist or are in the process of engineering?
Melding man and machine
Joel Garreau, a former reporter and editor at the Washington Post, wrote in his book Radical Evolution that the U.S. Army, together with the University of California at Berkeley, has developed a prototype exoskeleton suit that allows a soldier to carry 180 pounds as if it were only 4.4 pounds. Imagine this exoskeleton suit enabling soldiers to leap tall buildings in a single jump.
The U.S. Department of Defence is known to have a program under its Defence Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) that would create a “metabolically-dominant soldier” using technology and biology to meld man and machine and transcend the limits of the human body. DARPA is in the business of creating better humans. It has a track record – pioneering the Internet and e-mail and funding the computer mouse. Who would doubt if DARPA could eventually create human beings who are unstoppable, soldiers who can’t be slowed down in combat by pain, wounds or bleeding? Or the kind of “24/7” soldier who can easily navigate, communicate and make good decisions for a week without sleep? Perhaps there are American prototype soldiers already in combat who are being tested for their enhanced endurance and capabilities.
|Supersoldiers of the 2020s will be a little bit Iron Man with HULC and XOS|
exoskeletons. They will have some wall crawling (Spiderman-like) capability
from the Z-Man program (attachable pads with magnets and microsplines).
Photo courtesy of the NextBigFuture. Click link to view "How to Build the
Perfect Soldier," http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wuOnJWA3v44
The boundary between fantasy and reality is being shattered by technology’s horrendous evolution. There are no limits to what science can break ground. Whereas before the aim of technologies was outward – toward controlling our environment – now the whole technology is aimed towards ourselves. In merging technology with “our own minds, our memories, our metabolisms, our progeny and perhaps our souls,” Garreau says, technology has focused in changing humans in what could be a kind of engineered evolution – “one that we direct for ourselves.”
The technological changes before us could be the biggest thing since the discovery of how to make fire, yet society is not minding them at all. They haven’t inspired a social upheaval of some kind like the Arab Spring that has been ousting despotic leaders one after another through people uprising with the help of social media. The media are not even reporting these changes with alarming disbelief. People are instead glued on the GOP presidential primaries, Republican Party loyalists figuring out the most electable wannabe between Romney and Santorum.
Or in a laid-back society like the Philippines with an advanced technology but with a backward culture and values system, people would rather follow the impeachment trial of the Chief Justice of the Philippine Supreme Court and the dating pattern of President Noynoy Aquino. No upheaval of seismic proportion over there, too.
“We’re gonna need a bigger boat”
Garreau argues in his book that history seems to react always late, that change in culture and social values doesn’t arrive as rapidly as innovation. Through several decades of technological upheaval from nuclear warheads to mainframe computers, from synthetic psychedelics to birth control pills, from automobiles to the Internet and cell phones, culture and values have lagged technology. And now that the cultural revolution which has been long overdue is about to emerge, Garreau likens this awakening to a scene in the movie Jaws where Roy Scheider finally saw the shark in the water and exclaimed, “We’re gonna need a bigger boat.”
According to Garreau, we need to adjust our attitudes toward this great human transformation in our midst, as astounding that might seem.
Garreau writes: “It’s about what parents will do when offered ways to increase their child’s SAT score by 200 points. It’s about what athletes will do when encouraged by big-buck leagues to put together medical pit crews. What fat people will do when offered a gadget that will monitor and alter their metabolisms. What the aging will do when offered memory enhancers. What fading baby boomers will do when it becomes obvious that Viagra and Botox are just the beginning of the sex-appeal industry. Imagine that technology allows us to transcend seemingly impossible physical and mental barriers, not only for ourselves but, exponentially for our clients, for our children. What happens as we muck around with the most fundamental aspects of our identity? What if the only thing that is truly irreversible is taxes? This is the transcendence of human nature we’re talking about here. What wisdom does transhuman power demand?”
Perhaps we are already witnessing the evolution of a brave new world as parodied by Aldous Huxley in his novel of the same title which he wrote in 1931. In his novel, Huxley anticipated developments in reproductive technology and sleep-learning that combined to change society. It was a utopian vision of a future society which became the basis of futurology.
Partly, the technologies today could also remind us of the dystopian novel and science fiction, We, by the Russian author, Yevgeny Zamyatin, published in English in 1924.We is set in the future where the main character, D-503 lives in the One State, an urban nation constructed almost entirely of glass allowing the secret police to inform on and supervise the public more easily, almost like the Panopticon, a prison design concept developed by Jeremy Bentham.
D-503 at the end of the novel is subjected to the “Great Operation,” similar to a lobotomy that was mandated for the whole population of the One State. The operation involves the removal of the imagination by striking a region of the brain with x-rays.
False symbols for human happiness
Both novels, Brave New World and We, represent false symbols for any regime of universal happiness, where society and its inhabitants are the creations of some sort of paradise-engineering. Both were satirical pieces of fiction, but have been criticized as ill-conceived futurology. In the Brave New World in particular, Huxley conceived of transhumans being able to get rid of mental pain through biotechnology, through a drug-assisted biological paradise.
Who would think that the science fiction we were reading a century ago could be much closer to reality even before the 21st century hardly begun? Can this Cambrian explosion of intelligence which Garreau ascribed to today’s technologies represent the coming of post-humanity? What and where could be the social impact of all the changes brought about by this upheaval?
If people are capable of being enhanced, the ultimate question is whether those or the rest of us who fell farther behind could still hold a common human nature with them. Or is this just the way the history of human evolution unfolds?
In Beyond Therapy: Biotechnology and the Pursuit of Happiness, the President’s Council on Bioethics has raised several questions about the use of drugs and techniques such as anabolic steroids and antidepressant as enhancement technologies in making ourselves better than well, to put it in psychiatrist Peter Kramer’s memorable phrase. Which of the biomedical interventions for the sake of superior performance, for example, are consistent with our full development as human beings? Or in a philosophical way, what do these interventions tell us about the nature of human activity and the meaning of human identity?
Virtually every question raised by new medical technologies opens a Pandora’s Box of bioethical dilemmas.
Bill McKibben in Enough: Staying Human in an Engineered Age cautions that we have reached a point of diminishing returns on new developments, which means that it’s time to say “Enough.” It’s bringing us to “the moment when we stand precariously on the sharp ridge between the human past and the post human future.”
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In his first three months in office, Biden has proposed more spending than any other President in history in the same term of office. That money has to come from somewhere.
In his proposed ‘infrastructure plan’, roughly a third of which actually has to do with infrastructure, President Biden is proposing permanent monthly checks for each child in a household regardless of income and regardless of the number of children. Biden says that his goal is to get five million children out of poverty. Yet the monthly checks will be going to thirty-nine million households. Why the other thirty-four million if they are not part of what you are trying to achieve?
Shortly after coming to office, President Biden proposed a third “Pandemic Relief Bill”, two months after the last one had passed. The law passed and included more stimulus checks sent out to individual taxpayers along with money for children in the household. The money was not targeted to those who had been impacted by the pandemic, but sent out whether they had lost their jobs, even temporarily, or not.
Biden has also taken a number of other, seemingly non-targeted measures to give away government funds. For example, he raised the income level to get a subsidy for health insurance to $60,000, making it possible for even middle income people to get government assistance.
It seems clear that the money transfers are not for pandemic relief, or those impacted by unemployment. One can’t help but wonder the reason for the consistent, broad brush and imprecise nature of the sending on money. Either Biden has changed from his long, relative moderate career as a Senator to a much more leftist and even socialist President whose goal is massive income redistribution or he and Democrats are planning ahead to the 2022 elections and hoping that giveaways will motivate voters to keep them in power and allow them to retain the thin margins they have in Congress.. Yes, the latter explanation is a bit cynical but the economics behind it all make little sense, unless you are actually looking to redistribute income as one of your primary goals. | <urn:uuid:740d5656-375c-4be8-9bda-20c2c8753174> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://thinkingmanspolitics.com/2021/05/24/bidens-economic-plans-have-little-to-do-with-economic-recovery/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570879.37/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809003642-20220809033642-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.982301 | 420 | 1.835938 | 2 |
A key clause in a U.S. military agreement creating a no-fly zone over Iraq is set to run out at the end of the year. The clause, inserted in the agreement following Iranian pressure on Iraq's Shi'ite prime minister, Nouri al-Maliki, was apparently a way to thwart an Israeli air attack on Iran.
The agreement between the United States and Iraq, signed in November 2008, is due to run out at the end of this year when U.S. forces withdraw from Iraq under the timetable set by President Barack Obama (although thousands of advisers will remain ).
Clause 27 of the agreement states that, if asked, the United States must thwart threats to Iraq's sovereignty and not let its land, territorial waters or airspace be used for attacks on other countries.
The clause has special significance considering the increased speculation in recent days that Israel might attack Iran's nuclear sites. It is unclear to what extent the United States will be obligated under the clause after its forces leave Iraq. In any case, the obligation will certainly not be as binding as it is now.
The shortest air route from Israel to Iran is over Iraq.
In September 2007, when, according to foreign sources, the Israel Air Force attacked nuclear sites in northern Syria, the planes reportedly jettisoned detachable fuel tanks over Turkey on their way back.
The reports embarrassed Ankara, which asked Israel for clarifications.
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Over and over again, attendees of the 2016 Energy by Rail Conference heard that “LNG by rail is ready to go!”
LNG, or liquefied natural gas, is methane that has been cooled to the point of being a liquid. So, how do we know that shipping this hazardous flammable material on America’s aging rail infrastructure is “ready to go”?
When trains carrying Bakken oil started derailing and exploding, there was a lot of head scratching about how this could happen since “crude oil doesn’t explode like that.” But a lack of research beforehand resulted in industry loading up unsafe rail cars with highly volatile oil in unit trains of 100 tank cars or more, stacking up the risk factors and increasing the likelihood of the accidents that followed.
With that knowledge in hand, will the burgeoning LNG-by-rail industry receive more scrutiny prior to being approved?
Not if the industry has anything to say about it. And it does.
Robert Fronczak, Assistant Vice President, Environment & Hazmat at the Association of American Railroads, a railroad industry group, explained the industry position to conference attendees in October.
While the Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) is researching the risks of LNG by rail, according to Fronczak, “That could take several years to do and we don’t think it’s necessary to wait all that long … We think they should allow it immediately.”
Fronczak included a slide in his presentation with a summary of the planned FRA research that he doesn’t think is worth the wait before proceeding with launching LNG by rail.
And he may have a point.
It appears the FRA is planning only a “simplified engineering analysis” of shipping LNG by rail, with a “detailed engineering analysis” merely something being “considered.”
Launching a whole new industry of hazmat transport by rail without a detailed engineering analysis — what could possibly go wrong?
DeSmog asked the Federal Railroad Administration about the planned testing, but the response provided few details:
“The testing is still ongoing … there’s no prediction yet on a completion date.”
And when asked whether transporting LNG-by-rail could receive approval before the the FRA had done things like “analyze crashworthiness performance,” the answer was, “There is no determination yet.”
While federal regulators may not have a clear vision for moving forward, Fronczak of the Association of American Railroads had no problem delving into the details. Fronczak explained precisely what the industry wanted from federal regulators, starting with approval for LNG to be moved in large tank cars like Bakken oil is, with a weight limit of 286,000 pounds.
Additionally, the industry group will petition for the allowance of LNG unit trains. Unit trains are those that would only carry one type of cargo, in this case, LNG, and would have no regulation regarding train length, or the number of cars on a single train.
Other than LNG requiring a different type of tank car than Bakken oil (in order to keep the natural gas cooled to liquid form), this would essentially push the limits on several risk factors, such as train weight and train length, which may increase the rates of derailment.
Fracked Gas Surplus Needs To Go Somewhere
Just as the fracked oil revolution in the Bakken Formation led to the meteoric rise of oil trains, fracking is at the heart of the issue with LNG-by-rail as well.
The fracking boom brought us the dangers of explosive oil trains when Bakken oil production overwhelmed pipeline capacity and required producers to either cut production or put the highly volatile oil in the unsafe rail tank cars that were available at the time. There were no regulations regarding the length of these trains, which meant they were much longer than the average freight trains. Longer trains make more money for the railroads.
And the same thing is happening with fracked gas as it takes liquid form.
There is too much LNG and too many places the industry wants to move it to for pipelines to handle the current supply of LNG. As a result, the rail industry and tank car manufacturers are asking federal regulators to allow LNG transportation by rail — as soon as possible.
“LNG Doesn’t Explode”
At the Energy by Rail Conference, Robert Fronczac was followed on the LNG-by-rail panel by Scott Nason, a product manager for the rail products group at Chart Industries — makers of pretty much anything that has to do with LNG processing and storage, including rail tank cars.
Nason, whose employer is heavily invested in the success of LNG transport by rail, not only assured the audience that LNG by rail was ready to go but also made the claims that “LNG doesn’t explode” and that a train carrying the product “is not a bomb on wheels.”
Technically the first statement is true. Liquid natural gas does not explode. Just like liquid gasoline does not explode. Or liquid Bakken oil.
But when an LNG storage container is compromised, and the liquid leaves cryogenic storage and hits the atmosphere, is does not remain a liquid. And there is no doubt that at the right concentration with atmospheric conditions, natural gas — in vapor form — will explode when ignited.
Then, Nason is making a similar argument to the one the oil industry has made in the past about Bakken oil. If the trains stay on the tracks and the oil stays in the tank cars — there is no risk of explosion.
However, when there is a derailment and a tank car is punctured, there is considerable risk.
In 2014 there was an explosion at an LNG facility in Washington state. Risks of a second larger explosion resulted in authorities evacuating everyone within a two mile radius. Reuters reported, “A county fire department spokesman said authorities were concerned a second blast could level a 0.75 mile ‘lethal zone’ around the plant.”
The Sightline Institute reported on the explosion two years later with an article titled, “How Industry and Regulators Kept Public in the Dark After 2014 Explosion in Washington,” which detailed slow and incomplete reporting on the accident.
A 2009 report by the U.S. Congressional Research Service warned that LNG spills can unleash explosive vapor clouds. A 2004 blast at an Algerian LNG facility killed 27 workers and injured many more.
Lethal zones, a public kept in the dark, explosive vapor clouds, deadly explosions: LNG‘s history to date seems to call for careful and cautious oversight, yet federal regulators are only planning a simplified engineering analysis of LNG rail transport.
After Bakken oil trains started derailing and blowing up with an uncomfortable frequency, the head of the National Transportation Safety Board asked a simple question:
“How did it get missed for the last ten years?”
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Ameriikan Poijat (Boys of America), Finnish American Brass Septet, was founded in 1990. They’ve been asked to play performances in some rather unusual settings, such as in an ice arena, in fishing boats on the Perhojoki river, on a raft in an abandoned mine, at Finnish border defense installations, at a McDonnell-Douglas military aircraft plant, in a Wisconsin cow pasture, on a Florida beach, at an instrument museum, in a barn, and in a one room school house. It’s not that they have exclusively sought out bizarre venues, but the a seven-piece group is very mobile, and the Finnish brass music we celebrate seems to have drawn us off the beaten path. Made up of Midwestern musicians, some of Finnish descent, we have been sharing the charm of the old Finnish brass band music and have also performed the newer compositions for septet that have proliferated recently. Our main inspiration has been from our brass playing colleagues and friends in Finland who have also been keeping the tradition alive and generously sharing their experience with us about this music. The Finnish brass septet repertoire is meaningful ethnic art, and also has an inherent musicality that is attractive to many listeners.
More recently Poijat has played in Philadelphia, Delaware, Texas, and Canada. We have also made regular appearances in Minnesota and Wisconsin. During this time a new repertoire has developed. With the passage of more than a decade since Ameriikan Poijat began to play together, the musical inflections and nuances that create their style have continued to change and develop. They have been presenting music in concerts, at ethnic festivals, in regional tours, at music conferences, recreating authentic social dance music along with concert repertoire from a bygone era. “Poijat” was formed in Northfield, Minnesota by Paul Niemistö and made its first concert tour to a Finnish ethnic festival in Florida the next spring, and then made its first trip to Finland in 1992 for the Finnish 75 anniversary. Poijat has returned Finland several time since, most recently help celebrate the Finnish Centennial in 2017.
During the 1980’s, Paul Niemistö made contact with many Finnish brass players, thereby discovering this relatively unknown musical tradition. Members of Ameriikan poijat are musicians and teachers are from greater Minnesota, a region where many Nordic settlers arrived, Finns especially in the north. Ameriikan poijat has developed programming around beautiful old concert music and dance arrangements, and has enjoyed wide popularity among Finnish American music lovers and festival goers, and to an increasingly wider audience.
They have released five CDs and also have published their sheet music for other bands to play.
The History of Ameriikan Poijat
The brass septet “Ameriikan Poijat” (Boys of America) has been appearing at ethnic festivals, regional tours, and music conferences, presenting authentic social dance music and concert repertoire. During the 1980’s, Paul Niemistö, the group’s founder, made contact with many Finnish brass players and discovering this relatively unknown musical tradition. In 1990 the group was formed, made up primarily of Midwestern musicians of Finnish descent. Ameriikan Poijat has evolved around the beautiful charm of the old music and dance arrangements, and has enjoyed popularity among Finnish American festival-goers. Although the septet had a limited existence among Finnish communities in the U.S., the music played by Ameriikan Poijat is quite familiar, being many of the same pieces heard played by accordion or salon orchestra. These brass players find the septet repertoire to be both meaningful ethnic art, as well as having a musicality attractive to all listeners. Members of Ameriikan Poijat are Finnish American musicians and teachers in the north central states of Minnesota and Michigan – a region were many Nordic settlers arrived.
The repertoire of Ameriikan Poijat
The repertoire of Ameriikan Poijat is derived directly from original hand manuscript sources to be found among Finnish bands and archives. Waltzes, schottisches, polkas, mazurkas, polonaises, and other social dances are well represented in the old books. Distinctly Finnish dances included are the jenkka, humppa, and the Finnish version of “tango.” As a part of the amateur brass band movement in Finland, such prominent composers as Sibelius and Madetoja contributed concert repertoire, and numerous transcriptions were made of standard orchestral music. Many of the concert pieces for brass septet were commissioned to be performed at large national music festivals. During the past decade, when the Finnish septet has been enjoying a revival, modern Finnish composers and arrangers have contributed many new works to the septet.
Although Finnish brass septet music bears the shadows of Russian, Swedish, and German influences, its Finnish sound is unmistakable. Through contact with septet players in Finland, we realize that our playing style may differ a bit from native performers, but their enthusiasm for our renditions has been gratifying. We play with a “foreign accent.” The more we interact with our Finnish musical colleagues, the more authentic we sound! The septet repertoire is colorful, well crafted, full of history, and a very satisfying medium for learning about an ethnic and musical heritage.
The “Early Years” of Ameriikan Poijat
In 1992, during Finland’s 75th Anniversary celebration, Ameriikan Poijat toured Finland, appearing at the Kaustinen Folk Festival, Lieksa International Brass Week, The “Roots in Finland” Family Fair in Turku, the Valkeakoski Music Festival and the Finland Society Grand Festival in Helsinki. During the Grand Festival, Ameriikan Poijat played an entry march for Finnish President Mauno Koivisto before an audience of five thousand, plus an international television broadcast audience.
In 1993 Ameriikan Poijat traveled through Northern Minnesota, Wisconsin, and Michigan. In 1994 they toured through southern Wisconsin and appeared at the 1994 Finnfest Midwest in the Chicago area. Subsequently, Ameriikan poijat has performed regularly at FinnFest and at the Finnish Canadian Grand Festival. In 2004, Poijat was invited to perform at the International Sibelius Symposium in Denton, Texas.
The founding members of Ameriikan Poijat from 1990 included some American born descendants of Finnish immigrants, and musicians and teachers from Minnesota and Michigan: Paul Niemisto (Professor of Music at St. Olaf College, Northfield. Minnesota) was the group’s founder and euphonium player, Russell Pesola (Professor of Music, Concordia College, Moorhead. Minnesota), E-flat cornetist, Don Hakala (Bloomington Symphony, Minnesota), cornet, Karl Hill Kortesmäki (Grand Rapids, Michigan, horn player and instrument builder), alto horn, Brian Borovsky (Sheldon Theater Brass Band), alto horn, Denise Pesola (Fargo-Moorhead Symphony, Minnesota), cornet, Eric Kiltinen (now residing in Washington D.C.), tenor horn, and Eric Peterson (Bloomington Symphony, Minnesota), Tuba. (Please check our current players’ list.)
In summer 1995, Ameriikan Poijat returned to Finland for a three week tour. The itinerary included appearances at the Kaustinen Folk Music Festival, the Kuhmo Chamber Music Festival, the Lieksa International Brass Week, the Bomba Festival, and concerts in the Finnish cities of Jyvskyla, Kuopio and Kokkola. Arts International, a division of the Institute of International Education, awarded a travel grant to assist with participation in the Finnish festivals during summer 1995. Arts International is funded in part by the U.S. Information Agency, the National Endowment for the Arts, and by the Rockefeller Foundation and Pew Charitable Trusts. It is a public-private partnership established to help ensure the excellence, diversity, and vitality of the arts in the U.S. are represented at international festivals. In addition, The Finlandia Foundation, an endowment to promoting Finnish American culture,awarded Ameriikan Poijat a grant to assist with publicity and program expenses connected with the 1995 tour.
In 2000, Ameriikan Poijat celebrated its 10th Anniversary season with a musical tour to Finland that including appearances as far west as the Kaustinen Folk Music Festival, and as far east at the Lieksa International Brass week, held near the Russian border. Other appearances were at the Johann Willgren Festival in Orivesi, and the Hamina Military Music Tattoo.
In recent years Ameriikan Poijat have traveled widely in the U.S. and Canada, and have appeared at several events, such as Finnfest USA several times. In 1997, has received an invitation to perform at the Great American Brass Band Festival in Danville, Kentucky. This festival is the largest gathering of brass band performers and enthusiasts in the country, with over 60,000 in attendance. Ameriikan Poijat’s visit to the GABBF was the first by a Finnish-style brass septet.
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Tip and Tricks to Learn Homophones
English is a global language of business. Since over a decade there has been a push for this language in schools resulting in the rise of English medium schools. English seems to close the skill gap and offer employment opportunities. If your job requires you to be technically sound, your communication skills are also stressed upon in organizations with a global presence. If a language other than English is spoken at home, learning English in schools can be the best option. Switching to a secondary language can be challenging without adequate support. To ease the process, schools need to be equipped with multilingual teachers who can do more than just read from a textbook, especially since English is a tricky language.
What are ?homophones??
Homophones are words that sound the same, but have different meanings and different spellings. The root of the word, homo means ?same? and the root of phone means ?sound.? Homophones are an important topic in both vocabulary study and spelling units, especially for younger students.
For example, the words ?their?, ?there? and ?they?re? are homophones.
They are pronounced in the same way, have different meanings and have different spellings.
?They kept their side of the bargain.?
?There are ten apples in the basket.?
?They?re ambitious enough to take risks.?
Unlike most words, simply listening to homophones makes it is difficult to understand the actual meaning. It is easily understood when used in a sentence.
List of homophones:
|Aloud ? allowed||Idol ? idle||Sent ? scent ? cent|
|Banned ? band||Isle ? aisle ? I?ll||Sink ? sync|
|Buoy ? boy||Knead ? kneed ? need||Son ? sun|
|Cache ? cash||Knows ? nose||Suite ? sweet|
|Coarse ? course||Hymn ? him||Tow ? toe|
|Compliment ? Complement||Loan ? lone||Through ? threw|
|Father ? farther||Profit ? Prophet||Tier ? tear|
|Grease ? Greece||Reign ? rein ? rain||Tide ? tied|
|Herd ? heard||Route ? root||Waste ? waist|
|Heir ? air||Sees ? seas ? seize||Weight ? wait|
Homophone games, activities and exercises
While getting a hang of homophones takes practice, they are often included in the list of confusing words. Games and activities help children to learn and practice while having fun. Some of the homophone activities are as follows:
? Match the sounds: Make two columns of homophones. Then match each sound on the right to those on the left.
? Guess the homophone: Form two teams and one representative from each team will write a word (with a homophone) on the board. The other team can reply with its homophone. The team that guesses the word earns a point. In this way, the team with the maximum points wins.
? Fill in the blanks: Make a list of sentences and leave blank spaces to fill the homophones.
Then make a list of homophones on the right side on the right side. The student can pick the appropriate homophone and fill in the blanks.
? Match the word with the picture: On the left side there is a picture and on the right side there are two homophones. You have to match the correct word with the picture. You can have a list of pictures and match the appropriate word. This will help the student to visualize an image with the word.
? Word search: Cut out 26 small squares of a paper/cardboard and write the alphabets on only one side of the square and color the other side of the square. Now add the squares to a bag and shake well to mix them. Empty the bag on the table. Some letters will be facing up and some will be turned down. Do not turn them back up. Set the timer to 2 minutes. You will need a paper and pen. From the letters facing up you can form words which have a homophone. Write as many homophones as possible within 2 minutes. The person with the most words wins.
This game can be played in two ways:
? Either you write only one word that has a homophone. For example, you can write red (although red has a homophone read which cannot be formed from the upward facing squares).
? Or you can write the word and its homophone. For example, you can write red and read which are easily formed from the tiles facing upwards.
? Use in a sentence: Make chits with homophone words mentioned on it. Form two teams for this game. One member from Team A has to pick a chit and form a sentence. Then this is followed by Team B. Use a timer of 10-15 seconds within which the participant has to form a sentence. The team with the maximum words wins.
Some useful tips to learn homophones
? Read books with homophones.
? ?How Much Can A Bare Bear Bear?? by Brian P. Cleary
? ?Dear Deer: A Book of Homophones? by Gene Barretta
? Keep a list of homophones when you learn them.
? Draw a mental image of the word.
? Use substitute words to make sense of the word. For instance, when using words such as ?buy? you can replace it with ?purchase.?
Difference between Homographs, Homophones and Homonyms
A homograph is a word that has the same spelling as another word but has a different meaning and sometimes a different sound.
For example, lead (to go in front of) ? lead (a metal)
A homophone is a word that has the same sound as another word but is spelled differently and has a different meaning:
For example, pray ? prey
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According to the World Health Organization, depression is a major cause of disease burden worldwide, affecting an estimated 350 million people.
According to the National Institutes of Mental Health, in 2014, an estimated 15.7 million adults aged 18 or older in the United States had at least one major depressive episode in the past year.
A new meta-analysis published in Translational Psychiatry supports the link between intake of EPA and DHA omega-3 fatty acids, the kind found in fish, and reduction in major depressive disorder (MDD).
The meta-analysis includes 13 studies with 1233 participants and, according to the authors, showed a benefit for EPA and DHA comparable to effects reported in meta-analyses of antidepressants.
The effect was greater in studies supplementing higher doses of EPA and performed in patients already on antidepressants.
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An Elephant is Not a Cat: 10/20/19
What is it about cats and elephants? What is it about comparing one to the other? Or pretending that one is the other? Recent examples of this picture book phenomena are My Cat, the Silliest Cat in the World and When the Silliest Cat Was Small both by Gilles Bachelet.
But forty-four years before the latest Bachelet book there was An Elephant is Not a Cat by Alvin Tresselt, written for Parents Magazine. It's set in the Netherlands at a wind mill that specializes in corn meal. I frankly have never heard of the Dutch growing corn, but it's apparently one of their top crops along with barley, potatoes, surgar beets, and wheat (Nation's Encyclopedia, (accessed June 15, 2017)
The gist of the plot is that a mouse has gotten into the mill and is seen helping itself to the corn kernels. So the husband is sent off to get a cat and comes back with an elephant.
The elephant besides being too big and completely ineffectual at hunting mice, ends up eating through most of their clients' corn. Again, while reading this book, I was having trouble imagining an elephant in a wind mill eating corn by the ton, but apparently they can eat corn. They prefer grass, fruit, bamboo, and bananas. But if corn is what is available, they will eat it. An elephant can eat between 330 to 660 pounds of food every day. ("What do Elephants Eat", Macroevolution. Accessed June 15, 2017) So yeah, an elephant would be a bad idea.
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This is my tiny wrap up of uxcamplondon talk that I held at the Ebay Headquarters down in Richmond. My talk had the inspiring title “designing for the difficult – because some things just aren’t simple”. Before I had my talk I had only a vague understanding of the concept. But I think I understand it a bit better now, so i decided to give you a rough outline of the concept.
The problem is quite clear, many applications (be it software such as word, excel, be it web-apps such as Ebay or Facebook) are quite well designed to get beginners up to steam, and also have some advanced features for the top of the end users. How someone goes from beginner to advanced users is still an hardly explored terrain, leading to many people stuck in the middle. To use a graph to explain the problem: If a new product arrives on the market some people will quickly ‘get it’ and become an advanced user, most people will slowly grown in to the functionality they need and become moderate users, and also a fairly large chunk will never grow out of the beginner state and or give up, or only use the very basic of functionality of the software. The challenge therefore is: how can we get as many users from beginners to moderate and from moderate to advanced in a way is most natural to the user.
Old answer – the manuals
Rtfm Write lengthy manuals, hundreds of frequently asked questions, and many pages on help. Although this is not a bad thing to do, it’s also not the best for two reasons:
- Users don’t read for various reasons, but mainly because reading requires true effort
- Developers and designers don’t like to write manuals (no statistics for this claim, so I’m happy to be proven wrong)
So the reading coin doesn’t work out for two reasons, no-one likes to read and no-one (almost no-one) loves to write help texts, faq and manuals when they know they won’t be read.
Old answer – the course, seminar, workshop
Sent the users of your software so lengthy and expensive help courses, where they will burn away their valuable hours and burn away valuable company’s cash. Although this method works, it comes with the down down sides, that it requires even more effort than reading and most times courses are more expensive than the software itself.
I believe there are better methods to educate the user and there are several fields of which ux-designers can borrow inspiration and information.
- Game design – is already working for decades on how to get users through their levels with giving them the right challenges at the right time.
- Marketing – also has a long track record in how to get users to do something /anything
- Education – Just as the classic examples of the book and the classroom, there should be a lot of information there on how to motivate people to learn new tasks.
Together with the fields above there are also two scientific areas that give a lot of ‘new’ answers: sociology and psychology both studying human behaviours and trying to come up more answers on how to keep the change > effect train running. Recently this whole field has got an incredible boost by both the further development of neuro research and the incredible rise of data mining
To me it seems no more than logic that ux field should learn as much as they can from those three fields of work, two fields of science and two incredible methods. Luckily this is already happening, but as far as I can see not in a very structured way.
To give you some links to sources where you can read more on this subject:
- Neuro web design – what makes them click (read my review)
- What video games have to teach us about learning and literacy
- Making meaning – (still have to read this, thanks for the tip Alfred)
I’ve gathered quite a series of examples, but at the moment I feel it’s to early yet to state that it is anything beyond incidental anecdotes, but for those interested; have a look at my presentation: | <urn:uuid:e24a6bd5-086e-48ee-80c9-9d244eac6763> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://notura.com/2009/08/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571472.69/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811133823-20220811163823-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.96775 | 871 | 1.695313 | 2 |
An ELI Member Seminar
Aerial drones are emerging as an effective tool for environmental monitoring and enforcement because of their ability to reach areas that would be otherwise inaccessible or cost-prohibitive. However, a regulatory framework has not developed as fast as the technology, raising concerns about privacy, evidentiary standards, and other issues. While the Federal Aviation Administration has started approving commercial drone applications, the use of drones by government agencies, private entities, and non-profit organizations is much more disordered. What are the liability risks? What are the privacy law implications? What is the regulatory purview and enforcement capability of the FAA?
EPA has historically flown over farmland in private aircraft looking for violations of the Clean Water Act—a less expensive way to perform inspections than on-site visits. As EPA and other agencies consider using drones to monitor industrial sites and farmland, many landowners claim it would be an invasion of privacy. Using drones for inspections also raises legal questions about information obtained from drone flyovers and the associated evidentiary requirements. As of July 2016, 32 states have enacted laws addressing unmanned aircraft systems and five states have adopted resolutions.
Fraught with legal uncertainty and the potential for significant public interest, the debate over the use of drones for environmental monitoring and enforcement raises important questions for many stakeholders. Our panel discussed the current debates regarding drone use and regulation.
Joanna Simon, Associate, Morrison & Foerster LLP (moderator)
Amanda Essex, Attorney/Policy Associate, National Conference of State Legislatures
Joseph Muhlhausen, Co-founder, CielMap
Jeramie Scott, National Security Counsel, Electronic Privacy Information Center – Georgetown Law
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Making the choice to move into an assisted living facility can certainly be a difficult one. After all, many people, even if they would benefit from living in assisted living apartments, do not feel that they are ready to give up independent living. But the majority of elderly people over the age of sixty five fear more than anything else that they might someday become a burden to the loved ones in charge of their care. And moving into an assisted living facility can provide the solution to this – especially in cases of Alzheimer’s disease or other types of dementia.
And Alzheimer’s disease is all too common, one of the top ten leading causes of death in the United States alone at number six. And of all the top leading causes of death in the United States, Alzheimer’s disease is the only one that can’t be cured or prevented – or even slowed down. It is so prevalent among the elderly population that out of every three senior citizens that pass away, one dies from either Alzheimer’s or another form of dementia. As Alzheimer’s progresses in stages, even those who have had early detection of dementia are likely to advance throughout the disease relatively rapidly. And as they progress, they tend to become less and less able to take care of themselves.
This is where assisted living facilities can play a huge and important role in the lives of not only dementia patients, but their families. Assisted living facilities such as Alzheimer care homes can provide the support and attention that many family members, though loving, are simply not able to give, due to time constraints and a lack of training in the field of dementia care. In fact, nearly half of all patients living in such a place get help with day to day activities, most commonly those of bathing and dressing. Assistance with moving around, eating, and using the bathroom are also available, if need be.
Residents of such assisted living facilities or senior living homes are able to lead full and enriching lives as well. Because they become part of the community of the retirement home, many people find that they are actually busier once they move into a retirement home or community than they were when they were living on their own. Such facilities will also provide adequate nutrition in the form of three full meals a day in addition to snacks. With services such as laundry, maintenance, and transportation frequently provided at such assisted living facilities, many find that their quality of life significantly improves when they move to one. For those who are struggling to manage a chronic conditions – and many elderly people are managing more than one such condition – having access to medical counseling, medication management services, and the treatments they need can lift a huge weight for their shoulder. If an assisted living community provides anything at all it provides the support that the residents of such a community are in need of.
Though many people are initially hesitant to consider a retirement or assisted living community as a viable option for their golden years, many find that they enjoy living in such a place immensely once they finally move there. Such communities can be hugely enriching, and the support and care that they provide can actually increase the independence of those who live there instead of letting it diminish. From patients struggling with dementia to those with physical ailments, an assisted living community can give them back a good deal of their quality of life. | <urn:uuid:f5089f16-9daf-40cd-a7a1-bd9a55d6de88> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://everlastingmemoriesweddings.com/2018/06/09/the-benefits-of-living-in-an-assisted-living-facility/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570879.37/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809003642-20220809033642-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.974718 | 671 | 1.945313 | 2 |
Hard to believe today, but in the early 1990’s most of the wines drunk in Israel were white. Then a few things happened to change the masses to red. Firstly there was the American TV program, Sixty Minutes, which highlighted the ‘French Paradox’. This proved that even with a bad diet, those who drank red wine could be healthier. It did wonders for red wine sales around the world.
At around this time, wineries also learnt to make some entry level red wines in similar style to white wines. That is simple, fruity, easy drinking, refreshing and not astringent. So newcomers to wine, who wanted to show they were amongst those that ‘understood’, could drink a young fruity red wine, lightly chilled and enjoy it, basically like a white wine.
Furthermore, those keen on matching food and wine realized that it was okay to drink red wine with fish and to hell with the rules. Finally a new drinking public decided that quality wines were red wines. So today, for all these reasons and more, over sixty per cent of the wine we drink in Israel is red. However there are trends that indicate a return of interest in white wines.
The reasons are that white wines are far more versatile to match with food than reds. Furthermore, white wines are far more suitable for our hot climate than red wines.
As we approach Shavuot, people begin to think of cheese and wine. In western culture, cheese is normally part of a meal and there is usually a whole course devoted to cheese. The English will normally enjoy cheeses at the end of the meal, after the dessert. This would traditionally be accompanied by a glass of Port, the famous fortified wine from Portugal. The French will serve their cheeses after the main course and before the desserts. This enables the red wine served with the main course to be continued with the cheeses.
In countries like Switzerland and the Netherlands, cheese is often served at breakfast. This would also be true of Israel. The famed Israeli breakfast covers a large range of dairy products, where there are no problems of kashrut, (mixing milk and meat.) In countries like Greece & Spain, cheese will often be served as part of the mezze or tapas at the beginning of the meal.
In Jewish culture though, we have the traditional of serving dairy products at the Festival of Shavuot. This gives the perfect opportunity to hold a cheese and wine party. The phrase, ‘cheese and wine’ rolls off the tongue. They are natural partners like Ginger Rodgers and Fred Astaire. There is a famous saying in the English wine trade: “Buy on an apple, sell on cheese.” This does not mean that every wine goes with every cheese. For instance, there is regular misconception that red wine is the most natural partner to cheese, but there can be some awful clashes. Funnily enough, white wines can often go better and be more versatile.
There is something satisfyingly rustic with having a meal of freshly baked, crusty bread, with a variety of cheeses and a carafe of wine. Have you ever enjoyed the experience of ordering what is called a Ploughman’s Lunch in an English pub
The wine world is complicated enough. Well the cheese world is if anything even more complicated. There is such variety. Cheese may be strong flavored, fat, acidic or salty. It can be hard, soft, creamy or crumbly. It can be matured, pasteurized or unpasteurized; made from goat’s milk, cow, or sheep. President Charles de Gaulle once said: “How can anyone govern a nation that has two hundred and forty-six different kinds of cheese And he was talking only about France!
However to prepare a cheese and wine party is relatively easy to do. You will need to decide if you want to go international or Israeli. There are plenty of good quality options here too. As a simple guide, I suggest you choose at least four different types of cheese as a minimum. These could be a hard cheese, a soft cheese, a goat’s cheese and a blue cheese. This is enough to give the necessary variety.
The hard cheese may be something like Emmental or Gruyère. A good white wine match would be a Chardonnay. The Teperberg Impression Chardonnay 2016 is recommended and great value. A good semi dry alternative would be the innovative Carmel 2 Vats, a grapey, aromatic wine blend made from Muscat, Gewurztraminer, Colombard and Riesling.
An aged hard cheese, like Parmesan or Cheddar, would be better with a red wine. I recommend the Chateau Golan Merlot 2014 (not kosher) or the Gross Shoham Onyx 2014. Both show complexity and have the fruit, richness and structure to be a good match. In the same way the English add milk to lessen the tannin of the strong tea they drink, the cheese will soften the tannin of the wine. Remember an older, matured cheese will be tangier with a more pronounced acidity. Note cheeses start bland and become stronger as they age. With wine it is the opposite. Older wines are less tannic and astringent.
The goat’s cheese could be a Chèvre. The options are endless because Israel excels in this category. There some wonderful Israeli goat’s cheeses from boutique dairies. They tend to have a strong goaty character, but can go with either white or red wines. However, the classic combination for a young goat’s cheese is a varietal Sauvignon Blanc, which is very aromatic, totally dry and with a sharp, refreshing acidity. The Tabor Adama Sauvignon Blanc 2016 is one of the best Sauvignon Blancs in the country.
The soft cheese, may be a Brie or Camembert. If this style of cheese is too young, it will be virtually tasteless, and your guest will wonder what all the fuss was about. However if it is older, and runny, it can be so pungent as to be too strong for any wine. A balance between the creaminess and the flavor is what is desired. This is the hardest category to find a match. A creamy, fatty cheese will make most reds seem like water. The fat in the cheese will neutralize the tannin, but an oaky and tannic red wine will taste slightly metallic when these cheeses are ripe and runny.
A Brie or Camembert would best be served alongside a light red wine with lots of fruit, good acidity and no tannin. Any red from the good value Dalton Kna’an range would be ideal.
The classic blue cheeses are Stilton and Roquefort. The match made in heaven is to drink them with sweet wine because the saltiness of the cheese and sweetness play a concerto of matching flavors in your mouth. Opposites attract. The Binyamina Late Harvest Gewurztraminer 2015 is an international quality dessert wine, rich and complex, yet not cloying. Salt accentuates tannin so the myth that red wine goes with all cheeses is shown to be most false when a red wine is matched with a blue cheese.
That only leaves us with the dessert to eat after the cheeses. Obviously this is likely to be …a cheesecake! No surprises there. The best wine to enjoy with the classic New York style of cheesecake is a fortified Muscat.
Serve the cheeses at room temperature, so take them out of the fridge in advance. Decorate the cheese platter with grapes, served cold from the fridge, chutney, with some walnuts and finally a few cut vegetables, like carrots and peppers of different colors. Celery also provides a crisp, refreshing partner to cheeses. Buy some crusty baguettes, which you can cut just before people arrive, and have some healthy crackers available too.
As for wines, we have to be practical. You can’t have available every option I have mentioned. However, for the absolute minimum, you need a white wine, a red wine and a dessert wine. Provide one glass for everyone and you will have prepared the easiest party you have ever hosted.
Israeli cheeses are so good and have gone through a similar quality revolution to Israeli wines. We all love cheeses, but sometimes worry about eating too much for health reasons. How lucky we are that the Jewish faith has catered for us a festival, where we can make the most of the opportunity with a smile! | <urn:uuid:ec95ddff-46d5-4c76-8bec-9b6dccc5a64b> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://adammontefiore.com/he/2017/05 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571472.69/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811133823-20220811163823-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.955583 | 1,816 | 1.921875 | 2 |
Myanmar’s historic 1 February military coup has been criticised by many countries, including the US, which has publicly decried the military’s detention of Myanmar’s rightful civilian leaders. At this, China appears to have been relatively muted in its criticism. In fact, commentators debate whether Beijing sees the coup as a “nightmare” scenario or a beneficial turn of events. While the certainty provided by Suu Kyi’s National League for Democracy was likely preferable, Chinese leaders nevertheless refused to use the term “coup”, instead opting for the eyebrow-raising alternative of “major cabinet reshuffle”.
As it turns out, China has since doubled down on a “business-as-usual” approach and has, slowly but surely, edged toward recognising the military junta styled as the State Administration Council (SAC). Chinese state-affiliated news and the Chinese embassy in Myanmar have referred to Senior General Min Aung Hlaing as the “leader of Myanmar” without reservation. On 10 June, 426 Myanmar civil society groups issued a public statement rejecting this designation. They demanded that China cease to “interfere in Myanmar’s domestic politics”.
It is worth noting here that China does not deal with Myanmar in isolation. China’s engagement with Myanmar’s junta is consistent with its goal of ensuring the peripheral stability necessary to realise its geopolitical ambitions. Most high profile of these are the many infrastructural investments grouped together under the banner of the China-Myanmar Economic Corridor (CMEC), which is central to the global reach of the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI). From the perspective of high-level diplomats, such large-scale investments promise to expand and deepen the countries’ “pauk-phaw” (fraternal or sibling) relationship. Coined in the 1950s, the term aims to capture the sentiments emergent from a long history of cooperation.
For many in Myanmar, “pauk-phaw” is little more than a cliché that obscures an enduring but unequal relationship.
An enduring but unequal relationship
While relations between China and Myanmar have expanded and contracted through history in line with strategic and economic priorities, the coup has created significant challenges, including demonstrations outside China’s embassy in Yangon, boycotts of Chinese goods, and threats against Chinese-owned enterprises. Commentators often characterise these as linked to an anti-Chinese sentiment borne out of Myanmar’s post-coup landscape. The fact is that collective efforts to thwart Chinese involvement in Myanmar draw on longstanding concerns voiced across sectors of Myanmar society.
For many in Myanmar, “pauk-phaw” is little more than a cliché that obscures an enduring but unequal relationship. This is a perspective that was most recently made clear in the aftermath of President Xi Jinping’s historic visit to Myanmar in early 2020 when he signed 33 project agreements, memorandums, and protocols for infrastructural investment across Myanmar. Despite development and investment deals likely to be worth billions, many people in Myanmar are clear-eyed about the relationship. As Kyaw Zwa Moe, the editor of The Irrawaddy, put it: “The peoples of Myanmar and China are under no illusions.” He explains that “China is perceived as constantly trying to exploit the [pauk-phaw] relationship for its own benefit”. For good measure, he refers to a viral cartoon from the time of Xi’s visit — that of the Chinese leader getting off his aeroplane with a shopping cart.
Particularly controversial was a stipulation that 90% of dam-produced energy would flow back to China.
The fear that China might advance infrastructure projects in Myanmar with concern only for its own benefit is amplified by longstanding grassroots organising efforts. Perhaps the most famous is the anti-Myitsone movement, sparked by local Kachin communities objecting to the Myitsone Dam. This is a massive infrastructure project initiated by China Power Investment and the State Peace and Development Council in 2001 (the latter is the official name of the military government that seized power in 1988). Outrage over the project’s negative impact on the environment and on affected Kachin communities intensified and, by 2008, activists had effectively organised numerous large-scale protests that highlighted concerns over the dam’s uneven effects. Particularly controversial was a stipulation that 90% of dam-produced energy would flow back to China. Following Myanmar’s partial democratisation in 2010, these protest efforts worked to pressure the nominally civilian government to reject the project.
The efforts bore fruit. By September 2011, President Thein Sein announced the suspension of the Myitsone Dam, a decision later upheld by the NLD — and to the frustration of Suu Kyi’s Chinese counterparts. Similar advocacy efforts have surfaced since the 2018 signing of the CMEC agreement, with Myanmar analysts arguing against hurried deals that will significantly benefit China while leaving Myanmar worse-off. Drawing on cases from nearby Sri Lanka and Malaysia, activists, politicians, and investigative journalists have so effectively sounded the “debt trap alert” in Myanmar. They borrowed the English-language term —“debt trap” — which has since entered common usage in civil society and in local project-affected communities.
These concerns have only intensified since the coup, given the fear that Myanmar’s military may consider trading large-scale infrastructure agreements for Chinese support for their regime, which remains deeply unpopular domestically. Senior General Min Aung Hlaing himself recently noted his planned resumption of unnamed hydropower projects, which, in turn, spurred May protests against Chinese involvement in Myitsone-affected communities. China is not the only target of such concerns. The Thailand-backed Hat Gyi Dam project has also come under fire since the head of the military junta announced the resumption of the Dam’s long-stalled construction earlier this month. These are only two examples: together with other disputed projects, they demonstrate the extent to which new battles over foreign-backed infrastructure projects are only the latest in a long-fought war over who will benefit from Myanmar’s resources. Equally, they lay the groundwork for the current debate over what Chinese involvement or “intervention” in Myanmar means, and whether an imbalanced “pauk-phaw” relationship will ever again be tolerable for grassroots activists and the wider anti-coup movement.
This article was first published by ISEAS – Yusof Ishak Institute as a Fulcrum commentary.
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July 31, 2022
In 2012, YouTube was banned in Pakistan because of a foreign-made blasphemous video published on the platform. Many other videos were also found to be deeply hurtful to the religious sentiments of Muslims, the majority faith in Pakistan. The ban was a huge deal because of the popularity of the platform that served countless positive and constructive purposes, besides music and videos. Despite the uproar and condemnation of the ban, it lasted for years, and was finally lifted in 2016.
Years later, the question is still troubling: can the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority, on its own or on the order of government of Pakistan, do the same thing again in this era where access to information is unstoppable and millions of people make all kinds of content for digital platforms for entertainment and financial reasons?
The importance of digital platforms and information has changed a great deal in the last decade with people opting for social media podia for a number of reasons, some professional, some personal. Social media is also used to share feelings and emotions, to vent, to enjoy, and for entertainment. These platforms have been very useful for many people who started their careers online, and for those who wish to strengthen their careers in the entertainment or other industries, some even reaping great monetary dividends.
USERS IN PAKISTAN:
Instagram 10 million
TikTok 24.1 million
Facebook 49.2 million
Snapchat 22.25 million
In Pakistan, even in this age of 24/7 media, social media apps are often banned, for one reason or the other. But despite restrictions and fear of bans, social media influencers continue to create content and educate the masses in many fields—finance, technology, science, religion, make-up, fashion, lifestyle—content choices are endless. “Platforms are neutral, and the main purpose is to give information to the audience, be it through a 60-second TikTok video or a long form video. The principal aim remains the same. It’s just a negative assumption regarding TikTok video makers that their content is not up to the mark,” says Shehzad Ghias, a social media content maker.
In the age of viral content, another false common assumption is that TikTok, SnackVideo or similar short-form video platforms have changed the dynamics and tastes of the audience; people have always been consuming all kinds of content and genres they find appealing. “All kinds of content sell. There is an audience that enjoys podcasts, and even with short-form videos one can deliver information. These videos are also very catchy,” adds Ghias.
If the dynamics of technology are to be scrutinized in Pakistan in the last one decade, things have changed with everything coming under a digital umbrella—from news to entertainment, from banking to travel. That has also changed time limitations of content. “Things have changed and continue to change very rapidly. The same effect is impacting people’s attention span; it is a worldwide phenomenon that people are more interested in short-form videos, short films, and explainers,” says, Akbar Chaudhry, a digital content creator.
With all the evolution around the content being created in today’s world, one thing is still commendable: aura of live performances and contemporary art is not dead. “Regardless of what the digital space has brought to the market, the importance and need for live performance and space for content is still there,” Chaudhry says. He adds that as human nature has shifted to shorter content, it is also human nature to commend good content, and there will always be a certain understanding of different genres of content.
Content creation and changes in trends can be overwhelming sometimes, but that is how markets and societies evolve. Some platforms that once had a negative image worked hard to create smart, informative, and good content. “In the last few years, the market didn’t understand the boom of digital spaces. TikTok has gotten a bad name, but with time things changed and many aspects were adapted to make content for their targeted audience,” Chaudhry said. He also shared that there are several academic, finance, technology, and travel based TikTok influencers, and their content is beneficial for their audiences. However, longer versions of these topics can only be done on YouTube. Every platform that is in the market has its value and space because each one offers something different from the other. “Each brand has its position, and that is why audiences stick to it, ban or no ban.,” he adds.
In the last few years, people’s tastes have changed when it comes to digital content. If someone has been creative for a while, they have to keep changing their content to evolve. “Market has become bigger, and there is space for both genres—long and short form. One can earn from either of them, as long there is realization of the importance to change the content according to the latest trends. Be open to trying new ventures,” says Ali Gul Pir, rapper and comedian.
To survive in the market and not get affected by the changing trends, one has to be smart and adapt to new dimensions. “Why stick to one platform when you can use different platforms at the same time and create content accordingly? YouTube is a longer form platform, but other platforms can incorporate short teasers and short-form videos from where the audience can be drawn towards your main platform, which can generate revenue for you. Unfortunately, right now only YouTube is paying creators; all other platforms are just collaborations with sponsors or brand endorsements, and that is not a long-term plan of revenue,” says Pir, adding how along with his podcast, he has also been making other content. His initial work was around songs, but since the songs are not gaining many views, he is also creating content on other platforms.
Talking about how rapidly things have changed, Pir said that ten years ago there was only one platform and three-four creators; competition was not there. But now you can’t stop anything, information will go out, and one has to follow trends to be in the market. “Now the market is bigger, and trends define the market. It’s not that people aren’t watching longer videos or listening to podcasts, but they are also consuming shorter videos, which means we have to work both ways,” the comedian said, adding that with a fast-paced life, old ideas are getting pushed away, and everyone has to evolve with the current demands. But we can always come back to explore what we love. Keep your options open when it comes to content creation—be it songs, podcast, sketch comedy or anything.
Be it old school content creators or new short form reel makers, they have to be consistent in what they do when it comes to digital presence, and that is the only thing that can take their work a long way. “My work didn’t get affected at all in terms of money or audience because my genre until now has been different. Mostly, budding influencers who are making money and have more followers than I do are more inclined toward fashion and personal stories,” says content creator Irfan Junejo. In the coming years, no one can predict how digital space will adjust everything around it.
“We can’t comment on the future, but currently, TikTok with its active users is the most downloaded app on the planet, and it is not going anywhere soon. Like many others, I have also evolved and have started making short-form videos so that viewers can see our work, and from there, our reach can be increased,” Junejo said, adding that he is more inclined towards photography on Instagram and YouTube videos, so from short-form videos, he can divert his audience to his work on other platforms. “I mould myself in my content, but I won’t be changing myself and will be getting more audience by trying new platforms.”
Globally, lifestyle, fashion trends and other such genres use short form videos, and it is fun. But when it comes to long-form, everyone goes to YouTube, and it will stay this way as it is the only long-form videos platform that we have right now. “TikTok app helps influencers as to how its algorithm works; for example, one video that I have uploaded has reached 37,000 followers, and from that even if 0.001 percent is coming to my YouTube, its helping me build an audience on my main platform,” Junejo explains. Many TikTok users, with millions of followers, are building their audience, are also using other platforms, and within months they get a million subscribers. “There is no competition among platforms as each has its own way for long and short forms; consumption is the key here. Market is getting strong, and digital space is building up in the country,” he said. “You can work on your originality, and you can get followers easily despite just following trends; consistency in the work is the key, and it is what matters too.”
Market has not just changed for content creators but consumption during the lockdown has also favoured online content. “During the last two years, especially in the COVID-19 time, the overall digital market was in favour of short video spans. Here TikTok plays a vital role and captures most of the audience. Influencers are also successful in capturing user attention. This is because during the COVID-19 outbreak, people mostly entertain themselves watching content on these platforms,” says Emmad Ishaq, Executive Director, Synite Digital.
With changing trends and attention spans shrinking across the world, the digital boom is making a mark. “All over the world, investors and think tankers are testing these short videos because if you check the stats of TikTok globally, the pool of its audience is increased by 1.02 billion, whereas the active users all over the world are around one billion, which is almost the highest active users compared to any other social platform. That’s why YouTube and Instagram are also introducing their reels to attract more audiences through short videos,” says the digital marketing executive.
In the last few years, the number of users has increased, and they have started using different platforms as a career path with opportunities to make money. However, market has not shrunken with several platforms coming in; it has, in fact, increased in the recent years. “YouTube has its flavour and an audience pool as it is the number one platform in terms of long-length video format. I don’t think TikTok slashed YouTube’s market in any manner. What I believe is if the reels work well, it will be reversed, meaning YouTube slashed the TikTok market,” Ishaq says.
With new ways of branding and marketing taking over, special meetups and events take place where only influencers are invited to promote different brands. Market is changing advertisement trends as well. “In Pakistan, it’s unthinkable that marketing will shift to platforms like TikTok, but globally, many brands try TikTok to capture younger audiences. In Pakistan, brands are still active on YouTube and Facebook, but they are also introducing short videos that show the potential of this format,” Ishaq says. He adds that most brands acquire TikTok due to its active user data; TikTok has a huge young audience, and that is what is attractive to brands. Artists who believe that younger audiences with active numbers are available on TikTok are also moving there.
Keeping in view how the last few years have been so important for digital content creators, market still holds the potential to expand. “Pakistan is an important market for us and we are excited about the potential it holds. Globally, TikTok has become the go-to platform in the smartphone era, and the gateway to the mobile-first audience. Even in Pakistan, people are spending more time watching videos on their smartphones, resulting in a shift of consumer time spent towards short-form videos. Powered by cutting-edge technology, TikTok lowers boundaries for discovering, sharing, and creating videos, all made easy on mobile phones,” said a TikTok spokesperson, adding that the platform offers a personalized viewing experience, and encourages creativity through the easy-to-use video capturing and editing tools, empowering everyone to be a creator directly from their smartphones. This is the reason why thousands of creators have now joined TikTok and are using the platform for creating content for their brand collaborations. | <urn:uuid:fb4622bc-fa24-45ab-8886-8a99cd8ce5ab> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://jrtpost.com/banking-on-clout/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573104.24/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817183340-20220817213340-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.965878 | 2,631 | 2.171875 | 2 |
Management of Advanced Disease – Lung Metastases
plain language summary
Bowel cancer is the fourth most common cancer in the UK. At diagnosis, around 20% of patients (which subsequently increases to 50% of patients) with bowel cancer are told that their cancer has metastasised. This means that the cancer has spread to another part of the body. One place that the cancer often spreads is to the lungs. It is uncommon for the cancer to spread only to the lungs in patients with bowel cancer, with over 80-85% of patients also having metastases in other areas, most commonly the liver.
There are a number of recommendations on what surgical practice should be taken in the NHS when dealing with bowel cancer lung metastases. One such recommendation is a pulmonary metastasectomy which is the surgical removal of tumours in the lungs. Despite this being a recommendation, there does not appear to be any large scale trials looking into the practice of pulmonary metastasectomy.
This study aims to investigate the use of pulmonary metastasectomy in the bowel cancer population across the English NHS and to find the extent of any differences in practice amongst NHS hospitals and differences in outcomes for patients.
What did we do?
All patients with a primary bowel cancer (this means that the cancer originated in the bowel) and who had received surgery to remove the tumour at an NHS hospital between 1 January 2005 and 31 December 2013 were identified. From here, all patients who had then undergone a pulmonary metastasectomy within three years of the original cancer surgery were identified.
What did we find?
2% of patients who had surgery to remove a tumour in the bowel went on to have a pulmonary metastasectomy within three years. The number of patients receiving a pulmonary metastasectomy varied significantly between hospital trusts.
- Publication: Fenton HM, Finan PJ, Milton R, Shackcloth M, Taylor JC, Treasure T, Morris EJA. National variation in pulmonary metastasectomy for colorectal cancer. Colorect Dis 2020
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How many times have you been vaccinated in your life? Most people I know have been vaccinated for measles, flu, polio, tetanus, cholera, smallpox and so on … why have people become suddenly so concerned about vaccination? Are people afraid that the testing for Covid-19 vaccines was not thorough enough?”
I received this reply from one of WBT’s readers: People are concerned about genetic manipulation masquerading as vaccines. People are concerned that these gene therapy drugs are neither safe nor effective. They will NOT protect against infection by a disease and will NOT prevent the vaccinated from transmitting it to other people. In what sense can anyone call them “vaccines”?
In response to these claims, I know a little about the Oxford vaccine later called AstraZeneca (and know perhaps a little more than most).
Firstly the Australian regulator, Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA), says: “The AstraZeneca vaccine uses a harmless, weakened animal virus (called a viral vector) that contains the genetic code for the coronavirus spike protein. Once this enters the body, it tells your cells to make copies of the spike protein. Your immune cells then recognise the spike protein as a threat and begin building an immune response against it.”
This fits the definition of a vaccine where a protein that resembles the virus (called an antigen) is injected into the muscle of the person and this stimulates an immune response which helps prepare the person for the real virus (SARS-CoV-2).
An immune response is not just about the molecules in question it is a highly sophisticated combination of millions of defences including cells (macrophages) antibodies, filters (lymphatic system). All these involve millions of ‘switches’.
I have conducted hundreds of immune response experiments on animals (whilst employed as a laboratory cadet in the Department of Parasitology, University of Queensland, St. Lucia, Brisbane, Qld, Australia in 1967-68 under Dr Colin Dobson) … some animals died but not because of the protein I introduced. Most died because of the way I administered the anaesthetic when I took blood directly from guinea pigs’ hearts. Dobson was studying the nature of protective immunity against gastrointestinal nematodes, genetic control of immunity and immunosuppression. Later he looked at practical control of metazoan parasites by vaccination.
The risks with anaesthesia are many and varied but that is another story.
The main problem with Oxford AstraZeneca is that in rare cases it may produce thrombosis particularly in younger patients. Scientists do not fully understand why this happens but it is not a genetic response … it may be to do with how platelets work in the blood stream. That is why people with a low platelet blood count do not get Astrazeneca prescribed by their doctors.
Now for the bit that a lot of people do not know about the vaccine.
Let’s look at how the company Astra came to have the Oxford vaccine.
AstraZeneca is a Scandinavian company. The Oxford vaccine team is headed up by a woman who is bit of a vaccine genius who told the UK Government, ‘I could do that’, meaning make an effective vaccine against SARS-CoV-2. This Oxford don had already made a vaccine against Ebola. Clearly, as an academic department, the scientists at Oxford needed to get into bed with a company that could manufacture the vaccines at scale. This woman (the vaccine genius) wanted to give her creation to humanity, she demanded that the deal over the production of the drug had to have ‘no profiteering for the duration of the pandemic‘.
So the government held a beauty parade … the government’s first choice refused her altruistic demands, they wanted to make money from the get go.
So AstraZeneca, their second choice, got the deal because it promised not to make a profit in the first six months.
I heard this story from someone inside medico industrial complex.
To explain … I asked my source if the rumours spread in mainstream media about Astrazeneca causing widespread thrombosis could have been a ‘black ops’ operation by its (then) chief competitor Pfizer. Bearing in mind, both are profit making companies. That said, these big pharmaceutical companies would be mad to put something out that is really harmful…..i.e to half the population of the world.
At the time the reported rates of thrombosis were a huge beat-up in the mainstream press because the early data showing thrombosis fell within the range of statistical error.
Please Note that I have not checked the story and may have some of the details wrong. For this reason I have not published it before. My source, being an insider in the medico-industrial complex, is likely to be correct … it sounds plausible to me … my source is concerned about connection between government ministers and the drug companies producing vaccines. But the source says which vaccines are the best will all probably come out in the end because so many people have been vaccinated … over 90% of adults in Australia are likely to be vaccinated, so there will no lack of data about the efficacy of the vaccine.
One problem with this is that with scientific research now you can virtually never get the original data. For example if you read cancer drug studies for instance, it can be hard to figure out how well the drugs work for different endpoints.
People were sceptical of other ways of controlling disease … eg smallpox .. originally this involved a scratch of material from the smallpox sores (pustules). People usually developed the symptoms associated with smallpox, such as fever and a rash. However, fewer people died from variolation than if they had acquired smallpox naturally.
“The basis for vaccination began in 1796 when the English doctor Edward Jenner noticed that milkmaids who had gotten cowpox were protected from smallpox. Jenner also knew about variolation and guessed that exposure to cowpox could be used to protect against smallpox. To test his theory, Dr. Jenner took material from a cowpox sore on milkmaid Sarah Nelmes’ hand and inoculated it into the arm of James Phipps, the 9-year-old son of Jenner’s gardener. Months later, Jenner exposed Phipps several times to variola virus, but Phipps never developed smallpox. More experiments followed, and, in 1801, Jenner published his treatise “On the Origin of the Vaccine Inoculation.” In this work, he summarized his discoveries and expressed hope that “the annihilation of the smallpox, the most dreadful scourge of the human species, must be the final result of this practice.” – See https://www.cdc.gov/smallpox/history/history.html
This is indeed what happened, smallpox was defeated. Sadly Australian first nations people were so isolated from the rest of the world that they did not benefit from these discoveries and were wiped out even more by smallpox than the bullets of the British settlers who stole their land.
What concerns me is the moral outrage behind the anti-vaxx postion.
So, even when the data is available to challenge what the anti-vaxxers are saying, this does not undermine the correctness of their moral position.
I think their position is based on idealism (ignoring the flow of human history in general and the confusion produced by the current crisis). Specifically they are likely to ignore how the various vaccines actually work.
In contrast, a position based on materialism would attempt learning from past and present pandemics and how to deal with the mistakes that are made along the way.
I strongly recommend that people see their doctor and get vaccinated. But I do not support what the current leader of Greece has decreed, mandating vaccination for people over 60 years of age. It is a failure of government to be unable to convince its people that vaccination is essential for public health (e.g. the United States).
You probably won’t get anyone more sceptical of the medical industrial complex than me. However, at this stage I am basically placing my trust in the Australian Technical Advisory Group on Immunisation (ATAGI). This is because groups like ATAGI have people expert in the area who understand experimental design and the limitations and strengths of this type or research … these people are put together in groups …. to talk and nut out the solutions ….. this really encourages moderation and getting to the best possible truth, a synthesis of available findings.
Currently ATAGI recommends the COVID-19 Pfizer vaccine (Comirnaty) as the preferred vaccine for those aged 16 to under 60 years. This updates the previous preferential recommendation for Comirnaty over COVID-19 Vaccine AstraZeneca in those aged 16 to under 50 years. The recommendation is revised due to a higher risk and observed severity of thrombosis and thrombocytopenia syndrome (TTS) related to the use of AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine observed in Australia in the 50-59 year old age group than reported internationally and initially estimated in Australia.
For those aged 60 years and above, the individual benefits of receiving a COVID-19 vaccine are greater than in younger people. The risks of severe outcomes with COVID-19 increase with age and are particularly high in older unvaccinated individuals. The benefit of vaccination in preventing COVID-19 with COVID-19 Vaccine AstraZeneca outweighs the risk of TTS in this age group and underpins its ongoing use in this age group.
People of any age without contraindications who have had their first dose of COVID-19 Vaccine AstraZeneca without any serious adverse events should receive a second dose of the same vaccine. This is supported by data indicating a substantially lower rate of TTS following a second COVID-19 Vaccine AstraZeneca dose in the United Kingdom (UK). | <urn:uuid:e7fb59e6-9d47-4405-970a-055447741dde> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://workersbushtelegraph.com.au/2021/12/01/on-continuing-scepticism-about-covid-vaccination/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571150.88/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810070501-20220810100501-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.959428 | 2,089 | 2.546875 | 3 |
Quem for por estes dias a Madrid tem a rara oportunidade de ver uma exposição do Hopper no Museu Thyssen-Bornemisza. A exposição está em exibição até 16 de Setembro. A não perder de maneira nenhuma.
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Tsunami 1.26 is a gigantic arerial net installation that combines ancient craft practice with cutting-edge technology to create a sculpture choreographed by the wind.
Netted with a high tensile rope, 15 times stronger than steel in weight, and lit by changing colored lights, Tsunami was inspired by the events that unfolded following the 2010 Chile earthquake using a 3D model of the 2010 tsunami.
Are you ready for US Gymnast Jake Dalton? Because he is so ready for the Olympics.
Before we all fly to London in spirit, let me give you 20 year old Gymnast Jake Dalton representing the United States. He was a member of the USA team that won the Bronze medal in the 2011 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships in Tokyo, Japan. It was announced on July 1, 2012 that Dalton would be a member of the 2012 Olympic team.
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Some of the rewards of carrying out yoga are stated to be delayed ageing, much more power, and an improved top quality of existence. By detoxing the entire body, yoga workout routines will extend your muscle groups and therapeutic massage various organs.
Yoga is also a very good exercising exercise to lose bodyweight. Yoga will help you burn off excess fat by raising your coronary heart fee, which will then cause an increase in your fat burning capacity. Any individual fascinated in losing fat must know that a higher fat burning capacity performs a huge part in bodyweight reduction.
Study has shown that people who shed at least 11% of their entire body bodyweight will decrease their probabilities of a coronary heart attack, high cholesterol, and of program make them appear far more eye-catching. These benefits ought to have you determined to get rid of weight, and learning how to employ yoga will assist. Consider a look at some yoga ideas to shed bodyweight in a extremely efficient fashion.
Most likely the most important tip is to understand how to correctly complete respiratory exercise routines and entire body postures. Yoga requires a certain willpower in respiration which is required to operate the inner and outer muscle tissue and organs in the entire body.
Another idea for making use of yoga to burn excess fat is to include at minimum ten yoga sessions into your regular monthly work out routine. Yoga gurus state that at minimum 10 yoga classes a thirty day period will allow you to fall some significant lbs . quickly.
A single of the most advantageous yoga suggestions to lose fat is to carry out electricity yoga exercise. When you apply power yoga you will enhance the depth of yoga.
https://courses.onlineyoga.school/courses/ryt-200-online demands you to perform a assortment of tough poses at a fast tempo, which will keep your coronary heart price in a body fat burning method. If practiced appropriately, electricity yoga will melt away about three hundred energy every hour. Nevertheless, this sort of exercising needs a wonderful offer of adaptability.
Yoga is an historical exercising regime that anybody can get associated in. Not only does yoga assist you drop fat, but it will also assist tone your human body, boost your flexibility, and get in contact with your non secular side.
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Data Science Virtual Machines are now available on Azure Government Cloud
This post was co-authored by: Gopi Kumar, Principal Program Manager, AI and Research
For any questions, feel free to contact Gopi on Twitter: @zenlytix
We are happy to announce the availability of the Data Science Virtual Machine on Microsoft Azure Government Cloud.
Microsoft’s Data Science Virtual Machine (DSVM) is a family of popular VM images published on Azure with a broad choice of machine learning, AI and data science tools. All the tools are pre-configured giving you a ready-to-use, on-demand, elastic environment in the cloud to help you perform data analytics and AI development productively. You focus less on IT administrative tasks and more on your data science with the DSVM.
The DSVM is offered on the Azure Government Cloud in both Windows Server 2016 as well as Linux (Ubuntu) edition. They can be deployed on either CPU based VM instances or on the Azure NC-Series VMs with Nvidia GPUs (Graphical Processing Units) to help rapidly train deep learning models on very large datasets. The DSVM has pre-installed GPU drivers, CUDA toolkit and several popular deep learning frameworks like TensorFlow, Microsoft Cognitive toolkit, Keras, Caffe2, mxnet, Chainer you can use to productively build AI applications. There is a rich set of tools and libraries for Machine learning, data ingestion and exploration, connectivity to various Azure data services, Jupyter notebooks for browser based experimentation, development environment for languages like Python, R, C#, Java, nodejs. A full list of tools available on the DSVM can be found here.
We invite you to try out the Data Science VM on Azure for your next ML or AI project and training/education. You can engage with the development team and the growing DSVM user community on our forums.
DSVM Overview: http://aka.ms/dsvm/overview
Community Forum: http://aka.ms/dsvm/forum
Windows Server 2016 Edition
Tutorial – Ten things you can do on the DSVM: http://aka.ms/dsvmtenthings
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Game of the Year winner at the 2009 International Toy Fair, Bananagrams is the international phenomenon that started with a simple idea: "An anagram game that is so fast it will drive you bananas!" Doing for letters what Sudoku did for numbers, it's the obsessive new puzzle craze that starts with 144 letter tiles in a banana-shaped bag and captures all the fun of crosswords and word games like Scrabble and Boggle.
Now comes Bananagrams! The Official Book, which translates the brain-twisting word fun of the game onto the page, and adds much, much more. Even if you've never dipped your hand into the Bananagrams pouch, the book stands on its own with hours of challenging play. Written by the only three-time National Scrabble Champion, Joe Edley, Bananagrams! offers sixteen clever puzzle types, including Banana Trees, where the object is to build word grids based on a theme; Banana Splits, a collection of four quick anagram puzzles to be solved in rapid-fire style; Banana Leaves, with its four-, five-, six- and seven-letter words; Banana Filling—what happens when you add a "K"?; and more. The puzzles have four levels of difficulty, from one banana to four bananas. Plus, there are glossaries; special strategies for Bananagrams: The Game; a list of "Weords"—weird words that are cool to play; two- and three-letter words to take your game to the next level; fun banana facts; and, of course, an answer key.
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Yesterday, May 23rd, the referendum result for the proposal to legalise same-sex marriage in Ireland was announced.
As people gathered in different locations across the country, notably in the courtyard of Dublin Castle where the result was being broadcasted, the Irish created a day to go down in history as they became the first country in the world to legalise equal marriage through popular vote.
The country flooded with pride as they celebrated their long fight for equality in the months leading up to the referendum. Saluted by blatant emotions – tears were shed, horns were beeped, songs were sang and strangers were hugged – the streets of Dublin won’t see a day as proud as this for a very long time.
The YES vote passed by 62.1% to 37.9% – a margin which was above and beyond what was anticipated, both by Ireland and the rest of the world.
The result has been described as a social revolution, and holds the largest turnout figure of voters since the foundation of the State.
Since the announcement yesterday evening, the world has been congratulating Ireland on the major achievement. For a country known as very traditionally catholic and conservative to be the first to stand up and vote for marriage equality marks a massive statement on an international scale.
Welcome to a progressive, new, and equal Ireland.
“Ireland is a small country with a big message”
– Enda Kenny, Taoiseach
“Together the people of Ireland have struck a massive blow against discrimination.”
– Joan Burton, Tánaiste
“This referendum was a moment where Irish people expressed their decency and their generosity”.
– Eamon Gilmore, Labour Party Leader
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Economic theories are often accused of being shrouded in unrealistic assumptions and convoluted math, seldom grounded in reality. Witnessing a set of real-world events that aptly illustrate an important economic theorem is a rare occurrence indeed. The recent market turmoil in China provides precisely this opportunity.
We will not diagnose the root causes of China’s economic woes or claim knowledge of some cure-all to its present troubles – there are already far too many economists, politicians, and academics on that bandwagon. Rather, let us focus on a principle of international economics known as the Monetary Policy Trilemma, also referred to as the Impossible Trinity, Unholy Trinity, and probably a dozen other catchy names. The theory states that, although the following three policy objectives are all desirable, only two are achievable at any one time:
1. Stable currency (e.g. via a fixed foreign exchange rate)
2. Freedom of capital flows
3. Ability to pursue independent monetary policy (i.e. set interest rates)
In other words, you cannot have your cake and eat it, too.
There is no agreement as to which two constitute the optimal combination, because each country faces a unique set of policy goals and constraints. The vast majority of “Western” developed economies have opted for #2 and #3, allowing their currencies to fluctuate freely. Hong Kong is a rather special case of #1 and #2. Our currency is pegged to the U.S. Dollar and the Hong Kong Monetary Authority thus follows the U.S. Federal Reserve closely in its interest rate policy. The stability of the Hong Kong Dollar is sometimes lauded as one of the pillars of the territory’s strong economic development over the years, but having to “copy” American monetary policy has also led to a decade of artificially cheap borrowing, which has fueled our astronomical property prices.
China is an example of the third possible combination, #1 and #3. It is the natural policy choice for an authoritarian regime – by definition, a control freak. It controls the exchange rate, exercises its own domestic monetary policy, and imposes tight controls on money entering and leaving the country. Like the Communist Party’s fear of free elections, Big Brother leaves nothing to chance or the whims of global markets.
China’s macroeconomic problems began to manifest earlier this year, with a slowdown in economic activity and a stock market rally that was losing steam if not bursting outright. A cooling down of the economy was probably unavoidable regardless of which two policy options China adopted; years of feverish growth spurred in no small part by monetary imbalances, inefficient lending, and overinvestment had to end. Had China swapped policy #1 for #2, however (thereby fully opening its capital markets to the world), the stock bubble may have been mitigated. Of Chinese stocks, foreign investors and media had been screaming “irrational exuberance” for many months, pointing to absurd company valuations and a complete misalignment with the state of the Chinese economy.
If foreign investors could have participated in the Chinese market, perhaps their profit-taking could have stemmed the runaway rally somewhat. At the same time, freedom of capital flows means that domestic Chinese investors could have shifted some of their assets overseas, in search of alternative investments and diversification. In this way, dampened local demand could also have curtailed the stock bubble and subsequent fall. For many years, Chinese residents, disenchanted with lackluster stock market performance, had nowhere else to park their newfound savings except real estate. Unaffordable Chinese home prices, therefore, can also be attributed in some part to lack of capital mobility in and out of the mainland.
At this point, the game has become largely political and Chinese policymakers have little choice but to stay the course. Whatever little legitimacy the Party has hinges on its ability to keep the economic engine oiled and to avoid further slowdown. Speaking at the World Economic Forum in Dalian on Thursday, Li Keqiang told world business leaders that China still had ample tools in its war chest to keep the Chinese economy afloat. The CCP is powerful, with all its Great Firewalls and aircraft carriers, but it cannot defy the Impossible Trinity. | <urn:uuid:eaec544f-ff57-4a03-a62d-27f72ed97a2b> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://hongkongfp.com/2015/09/11/china-the-monetary-control-freak/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570692.22/warc/CC-MAIN-20220807181008-20220807211008-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.962126 | 869 | 1.992188 | 2 |
Our optical measurement systems are very accurate and are integrated by our medtech customers into their application specific systems when the surgeon operates with rigid instruments. Markers are attached to these instruments which are detected by the camera through their reflection. The position of the instrument is illustrated on a medical image. This enables the surgeon to navigate the instrument in real time and to reach the required location. Due mainly to its easy integration, this measurement system has been established on the market for years and is used by many medtech companies.
Principle of Operation
- Optical markers are affixed to rigid objects (3 markers for spatial position determination)
- The cameras of the 3D measurement system specify a measurement range and capture the marker positions within this range
- The system transmits the position and orientation data to the application software, which processes it according to the application requirement, e.g. for visualization
- Real-time 3D measurement (position and orientation)
- High accuracy of the optical measurement systems
- Larger measurement range than EM systems
- Easy setup in practice
- No radiation risk from the measurement system because infrared measurement technology does not pose a health risk
- Different product variants allow for an application matchd approach (video camera, higher measurement rate and specific camera for radiotherapy)
- NDI’s Polaris Vicra® is a perfect fit when it comes to interventions which need a smaller measurement volume. This camera can be easily integrated into the OR/ treatment room and contributes to the confidence of the surgeon with its high accuracy.
Our customers’ fields of application for optical measurement systems
Reaching the tumor safely and quickly: by position determination of neurosurgical tools with reference to pre-operative brain images.
Achieving optimal prosthetic fit: by position determination of orthopedic tools, including robot arm in knee endoprosthetics.
Positioning spinal implants accurately: by position determination of surgical tools.
Avoiding damage to healthy tissue during radiation: by pre-positioning the patient in a linear accelerator and detecting their motions.
Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation
Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation more effectively: through the navigation of the magnetic coil better outcomes can be achieved in applications like depression treatment.
Polaris Vega® and Vicra® compared
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|Max. number of markers||25 tools, up to 6 markers per tool||15 tools, up to 6 markers per tool|
|Max. measurement rate||60 Hz / 250 Hz||20 Hz|
|Optional||Standard, Video camera||--|
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be their sheltero from the destroyer.”
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and destruction will cease;q
the aggressor will vanish from the land.
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When Gambling Is Not Appropriate
The earliest known evidence of gambling can be found in Paleolithic times, before the dawn of written history. The first six-sided dice were discovered in Mesopotamia around 3000 BC, based on the astragali. Later, gambling was documented in Japan as early as the 14th century. But when is gambling not appropriate? How does one manage to keep control of their gambling? Here are some tips. Here are some of the most common forms of gambling:
The most common forms of gambling for children are card games, lottery tickets, scratchy cards, and lottery tickets. Some children even progress to more serious gambling in adolescence. Many children are influenced by gambling advertisements on television and online, and they can access thousands of gambling websites at any time. Even children without money can gamble using their smartphones and tablets. While the odds are always against them, this shouldn’t discourage young people from trying their luck.
In some cases, gambling becomes a self-soothing mechanism. Some people Togel Hongkong feel relieved from boredom by gambling, and it may help to get out of a rut. But if the gambling is affecting your relationships, your family, and your finances, seeking professional help may be a better option. You can try family therapy and marriage counseling to cope with your gambling problem. In addition, try to spend time with friends who don’t gamble, and practice relaxation techniques.
In the United States, the legal gambling industry is a billion-dollar business, but it has been severely limited by government legislation for centuries. Atlantic City, New Jersey, and Las Vegas, Nevada were once the gambling capitals of the world. Today, more states are allowing various forms of gambling. In the United States, state-licensed lotteries and poker rooms have been legalized, and organized football pools are available in almost every European country, some South American nations, and even in a handful of African and Asian nations.
Gambling is an age-old activity that involves betting on uncertain events. In the case of sports betting, the results can be decided by chance, or they may be unexpected due to a bettor’s miscalculation. In general, though, the game is considered illegal when done improperly. If you want to avoid getting into trouble, don’t engage in gambling. There are many reasons for this, and most people simply enjoy it for fun.
Legalized gambling increases local crime rates, and is dangerous for both people and businesses. There are many ramifications of gambling, which include increasing crime and destroying families. In addition to local costs, gambling can be addictive. As a result, many people who engage in it become compulsive gamblers. In Iowa, compulsive gambling increased from 1.7 percent to 5.4 percent of the population after gambling was legalized there.
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The photographs and anecdotes within this collection have been very kindly supplied by Vivienne Dees whose father served as a gunner on HMS Ausonia between September 1939 and March 1942.
All photographs are copyrighted by Vivienne Dees unless otherwise stated.
Norman Gordon Calvert
Born Newcastle upon Tyne, 15th March 1916.
Died Morpeth, Northumberland, 28th February 2006.
Norman Calvert, RNVR, started his naval career before the war on the training ship HMS Calliope, a handsome Calypso class sail and steam corvette, which was used as a Royal Naval Reserve drill ship on the Tyne, for nearly 50 years.
One of nine children, he grew up, like so many at that time in poverty and only received a scant education. He joined the RNVR and trained in the evenings and at the weekends, enjoying the camaraderie and the food. In the summer of 1939 he went on an unpaid “Battleship” holiday, completing a gunnery course and then, with the declaration of war in September 1939, he signed up for the Royal Navy and was assigned to the Ausonia. Before joining the ship, he was sent to Chatham to complete his training and attend gunnery school, passing out as a gunner on both main guns and anti-aircraft weapons.
Ausonia had recently been requisitioned from Cunard and had just completed fitting out as an Armed Merchant Cruiser (AMC). The main armament of HMS Ausonia was eight, World War I era, 6 inch guns, which each used a 100lb shell and Norman joined one of her gun crews. He was to serve on her for the next two years while HMS Ausonia performed the role of an AMC escorting convoys across the Atlantic (under Captain Pizey who commanded the Ausonia from 1939 until 1942).
Each convoy would consist of over 100 vessels and usually took 6-7 weeks, the shortest time being just 3 weeks. Norman recalled that the convoys were attacked by U-boats even when empty and that the Germans often “hid” in Irish waters until the convoy appeared. On one occasion they took German prisoners aboard and he was shocked at their arrogance (the crew wanted to throw them overboard he remembered!)
HMS Ausonia had many memorable voyages during this time, on one convoy she was part of the escort force for the convoy which transported British gold to Halifax, Nova Scotia and in addition to the Atlantic Convoys she also went to Iceland and Bermuda. When travelling down the eastern seaboard of the United States, Norman couldn’t believe how brightly lit the shoreline was. In the early years of the war, German U-boats lurked in the safety of these neutral waters and then gave chase out at sea.
On one occasion in Bermuda, Norman and his pal, James Palmer Fairhurst were so hungry that they went to the “poshest” restaurant that they could find and had a slap up meal. Knowing that they did not have enough money to pay for the meal, they had to escape through the toilet window! Fortunately, they were not apprehended. In early 1942, the Ausonia was ear marked to become a Fleet Repair Ship and Norman left the ship at Tiger Bay, Cardiff and was sent to a rest camp in Kent where he spent 2 weeks whitewashing coal houses!
In March 1942, Norman joined the advance party for HMS Bleasdale, a new Hunt class destroyer being built on the Tyne. These destroyers were all named after British fox hunts and HMS Bleasdale was the first Royal Navy warship with this name. The sea trials were performed off the Northumberland coast and once commissioned, the ship served in the English Channel, being based at Pompey.
In July 1942 HMS Bleasdale was allocated as part of the naval escort force for the unsuccessful Dieppe raid. Norman had a narrow escape as a young Canadian soldier who was standing next to him at the ship’s rail suddenly fell. He had been fatally shot through the forehead by a German marksman.
Norman’s service on HMS Bleasdale included Gibraltar, Malta, Bay of Biscay, the English Channel (E boat alley) and the Scheldt River in Belgium, where they ran ashore on a sandbank. On D Day, HMS Bleasdale was the first destroyer “to go in”, carrying Canadian troops to Juno beach where she also provided gunfire support. Norman said this was the most frightening day of his life. The sea was red with blood and they had to blow up a damaged British ship with many crew on board as it was impeding them.
HMS Bleasdale went on to have a very active career, surviving hitting a mine and having the bows blown off in the English Channel. By this time, Norman was a Gunner’s Yeoman and he had been down below checking for leaks. The hatch above him was closed and then orders were piped to abandon ship, fortunately for Norman, this did not happen and he survived the experience going on to serve in HMS Bleasdale until the end of the war.
Like most of his generation, Norman would not speak of his experiences until 2002, when, with the encouragement of a bottle of Grouse, his daughter, Vivienne, managed to extract this information from him. His hatred of all things German lasted for a long time. Vivienne remembers that she was forbidden to learn German at Grammar school and had to choose Latin instead. In 2004, when a German moved into the cottage next door, Norman took a massive step forward and shook hands with them, phoning Vivienne to tell her that “I’ve shaken hands with a Gerry”. His mantra was, “You can forgive, but NEVER forget”.
Norman attended many reunions in Portsmouth from the late 1970s until around 2004, and also made a trip to France with his reunion group, to commemorate the Dieppe raid.
Norman’s collection of wartime memorabilia also contained this interesting “ACTION RATION” tin. On the lid of the tin Norman had written “June 6th1944 – INVASION”. The tin contains 4 Pascall Barley Sugar sweets, 3 pieces of chewing gum & 6 small brown hard tablets, which are wrapped in greaseproof paper. Norman’s daughter Vivienne recalls opening the tin when she was around 8 years old and trying to steal one of the sweets (sweets were still rationed then) and getting her first and only smack from her father. The tin was obviously very precious to him and a souvenir from this great day in history.
Norman attended the Dedication Service of the Allied Naval Force Memorial Plaque at Dieppe on 19th August 1986 and the following photographs show the Order of Service front cover and a newspaper article on the service.
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Lord Of The Flies Ralph Showing Leadership Quotes Chapter 1
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When we buy fruits, the first thing we do before eating them is to wash them. This healthy approach is common to many and not just with fruits but other food items. But when it comes to the regular pattern of washing fruits before consumption, did you know that there is a plus side to not just washing but soaking your fruits in water? Let us make a quick dive to discover why this is.
Most fruits and vegetables have thermogenic properties that help in the increase of metabolism and burning calories to utilise the ingested fruits by converting the calories to heat. As a result, these thermogenic elements in fruits affect the way the body functions.
Now when fruits are soaked in water, this helps to reduce the heating element in them which is called “taasir”. When this is done, it helps to reduce side effects like constipation and skin problems, headaches, and diarrhea.
Unfortunately, from the first stage, everything is contaminated with the intention to protect insects from raiding through the use of pesticides. The use of pesticides can harm the pest and worse off, can harm humans. According to experts, this exposure results in complications like nausea, respiratory irritation, skin, and eye allergy, and more. They believe that washing these fruits under running water is not sufficient and should be soaked for 3-4 hours before consumption.
A nutritionist, Zubeda Tumbi, says that soaking fruits in water before eating them will assist the sulphites used during the preservation to be removed from their surface; some even suggest soaking them overnight.
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Numerous fruits produce heat in the body. Health experts note that fruits like watermelon, papaya and mango produce heat in the body. This heat will intensify the presence of “taasir” in fruits. Thus, experts say that heat created may affect the digestive system making reactions like skin infections and diarrhoea plausible.
Moreso, soaking the fruits in water reduces “taasir” which then makes it safe for the body.
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Ghana yesterday joined 2.4 million people in 53 countries to commemorate the 70th anniversary of the formation of the Commonwealth Day in Accra.
Marked with a flag raising ceremony, the event was centred on the theme ‘Connected Commonwealth’.
The Commonwealth is a unique association of 54 independent states consulting and co-operating in the common interests of their peoples and in the promotion of international understanding.
It comprises countries from all major continents of the world, rich and poor, small and large.
The day being celebrated annually on the second Monday in March since 1977, the association seeks to offer opportunities for the people, governments and institutions of member nations to connect and cooperate at many levels through far-reaching and deep-rooted networks of friendship and goodwill.
The Foreign Affairs Minister, Ms Shirley Ayorkor Botchwey, said, the organisation had provided a platform for a diverse group of countries to work together at many levels through far-reaching and deep-rooted networks.
She stated that the network of intergovernmental, civil society, cultural and professional organisations work together to grow economies and boost trade and investment.
The Minister said through the Commonwealth, member states collaborate to protect natural resources and the environment and work towards inclusive economic empowerment.
She said it was unfortunate that despite the enormous collective resources, a number of Commonwealth member countries were still saddled with poverty and marginalisation.
Ms Botchwey said African countries had not been spared the devastating effects of climate change, environmental degradation, social deprivation, as well as terrorism which continue to present serious challenges to international peace and security.
The sector Minister indicated that some African countries were still struggling in their efforts to reduce poverty and attain the sustainable development objectives.
“This state of affairs presents a sense of hopelessness and despair across societies within the commonwealth and constitutes an effort to our common sense of humanity and increasingly poses a threat to social cohesion and progress,” she added.
Ms Botchwey reaffirmed the commitment of the Government of Ghana to the fundamental political values of the Commonwealth and reiterated Ghana’s desire to support the efforts of the organisation in promoting international rules-based order, economic growth and development.
The Africa head of Royal Commonwealth Society, Mr John Apea in a speech said, he looked to the future with greater confidence and optimism.
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Automate human interactions using software robots to make things easier by simulating human activities with digital technologies.
Robotic process automation (RPA) is a software approach for creating, deploying, and managing software robots that imitate human actions while working with digital systems and software. Software robots, like people, can interpret what’s on a screen, type the correct keystrokes, navigate systems, detect and retrieve data, and do a variety of predefined activities Software robots, on the other hand, can do it faster and more consistently than humans, without having to stand up and stretch or take a break for coffee.
Robotic Process Automation (RPA) is non-intrusive and may be swiftly used to accelerate digital transformation. It’s also useful for automating activities with old systems that don’t have APIs, VDIs, or database access. Below are some benefits of RPA:-
The above guidelines will assist you in narrowing down the prospective process candidates for automation. The next natural step in narrowing down your options is to think about:
Support initiatives must be in place to awaken passion and encourage your workers toward success in their new responsibilities. Employees should feel free to ask questions and be encouraged to share ideas on how they might effectively collaborate with robotic workers to achieve common goals. Investing in your staff reaffirms their importance to the company and the business process.
RPA, whether used alone or in conjunction with BPM, will not be able to take over all human roles in the workplace. Employees will have more time (and possibly greater passion) for initiatives that demand creativity, sensitivity, and critical thinking without the burden of monotonous jobs. Take the time to identify new human roles in your business process, and be ready to stress the importance of these new positions
RPA should be offered as a work supplier when introducing the concept of robotic automation to your staff. In order to achieve the shared aim, all suppliers have a part to play and a duty to do.
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From Moses to Marlee: Celebrating Jews with Disabilities and Diverse Identities through Conversation, Creativity, and Music
February 11, 2021 @ 7:30 pm - 8:30 pm
- Music by Aaron Seglin, born and raised in NJ, who will talk about his life as a Black and blind Jewish musician
- Guided conversation celebrating Jewish disability by Matan Koch, national-renowned disability advocate
- Discussion by Eric Ascher about the intersectionality between autism and sexual orientation
- Storytelling by Jen Fink about her journey following acquired disabilities, and living with mental health challenges
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Looking for Quillbot Grammarly?…
Grammarly is a platform that is being offered by a small company called Intersect. It is a type of software application that uses Natural Language Processing innovations (NLP) to assist enhance grammar and spelling skills. It is one of numerous NLP-based systems that have been developed over the last couple of years. You can get a free demo at their website.
Grammarly offers you with an English grammar and spelling checker, composing design checker, writing sample, and a grammar and spelling checker. With these 4 tools, you can quickly and quickly solve possible concerns in your English composing and improve your grammar and spelling. The reason why this writing app has such an important function for a lot of authors is due to the fact that it enables you to quickly deal with concerns in your writing and ensures that your sentences are free from grammar and spelling errors.
Unlike other NLP-based systems, Grammarly takes a far more in-depth approach to spotting grammar and spelling mistakes. Their technology is comprised of a variety of different systems that use Natural Language Processing (NLP) techniques to suggest originalities to users about spelling and grammar. If you have grammar and spelling issues in a document, the Grammarly software will suggest possible repairs by recommending alternative words and phrases.
Some of the recommended fixes in the Grammarly application include changing prepositions and names to fit a more standard English sentence structure. The main downside to Grammarly however, is that it just works for English sentences.
By buying the premium version of the Grammarly editor, you can right away download the whole suite of desktop apps in one go. This makes the whole procedure of finding out how to remedy your grammar and spelling a lot more structured. The majority of the functions within the Grammarly editor also come built-in within the desktop app, consisting of the tip facility discussed above. You can even import files from your word processing file or thesaurus, which will permit you to bring in extra examples and referral guides from in other places.
In general, the Grammarly desktop app is truly beneficial for improving your grammar and spelling abilities when you write on the internet or when composing basic files or e-mails. However, like all language software application, it only deals with English, which is the most typical spoken language worldwide today. You require to invest in a language discovering software application that provides you a wider range of language options if you desire to be effective at composing in any other language. I’m glad that Grammarly comes with the additional functions mentioned above, due to the fact that it really made a huge difference to me as I had a hard time to find out how to write in French. Grammarly might save you great deals of energy and time, specifically if you’re composing a document or email on the fly! Quillbot Grammarly | <urn:uuid:bd3ec008-48cd-4922-98a0-b45af054e21f> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.smartcontentfilter.com/quillbot-grammarly/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571150.88/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810070501-20220810100501-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.931455 | 599 | 1.6875 | 2 |
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Greetings Enchanted Nature Community
Welcome To The Enchanted Nature Newsletter
The Summer Star(t)s
On June 21, the northern hemisphere experienced the summer solstice, also known as the estival solstice. In the northern hemisphere, we experience the "longest day of the year".
Every six months, when one of the Earth's poles has its maximal tilt toward the sun, we experience the longest or shortest amount of daylight per day, in the year.
Throughout history, earlier civilizations celebrated the summer solstice. Celtic, Slavic and and Germanic peoples often marked the solstice by lighting large bonfires. It was believed that this would boost the strength of the sun for the remainder of the crop season and ensure a good harvest. Neolithic Europeans also constructed several stone circles that appear to have been built to align with the movements of the sun at the summer and winter solstices. A well-known example of this is Stonehenge, located in southwestern England.
In The United States, we don't often hear about celebrations or ceremonies based on the astronomical movements of celestial bodies. For many, if I asked, "When does a man turn into a werewolf?", most would know that happens when it's a full moon.
When can a vampire come out?. If you're in the know regarding these infamous fictitious characters, you would answer only after sundown. It would not pay to be a vampire in Alaska on the summer solstice. But seriously, our society has lost its interest in astronomy. With smartphones and tablets, it is easier than ever to learn about the constellations and what stars are in the sky you're standing under. There are many free apps that will allow you to just point your phone at the sky and it will tell you which star you're looking at and what constellation that star is part of.
The night sky and the entire universe is part of our collective world experience. As far as humans know, the universe is INFINITE! Infinity is an exceptionally hard concept to grasp even though it is above our heads every day and night to experience.
In the illustration above, we can see why there may be a waning interest in the night sky. It no longer exists for many people. If you're living in an urban or suburban area, we encourage you to visit a nearby rural region to look at and appreciate the heavens that appear at night.
We would also like to encourage you to protect the remaining dark areas of the country. In many cases, it's simply a matter of installing lights that aim down. Yes, it's that simple. We want to light the roads and sidewalks not the night sky.
Preventing urban sprawl is another simple answer to letting future generations see the stars at night. We need to ask our state and municipal governments to create and maintain rational zoning ordinances like requiring building lights and street lamps to aim down. As equipment finishes its life expectancy, we can replace it with energy efficient lighting that shines the light toward the area that we need lit up.
The heavens make their own light without any human assistance. As mushroom fans and hikers, we spend much of our time scanning the planet below our feet so that we don't trip or miss a mycological treasure. Don't forget to look up, especially when you're out after sundown...just watch out for the vampires : )
PICS FROM OUR READERS
It seems that everyone was too busy (or too hot) this month to take some nature snapshots and share them. We thought that we might repost a few of our past shots. May your days be filled with time being enchanted by nature.
Joseph Andrews of California sent us a fun picture from Woodley Park in Van Nuys near the Sepulveda Dam. Seeing how the mushroom broke through soil and the soil still on top of the cap/pileus is beautiful. Thanks for the pic Joseph!
Nancy Sorrells, an amazing local historian and naturalist of Churchville, Virginia sent us these pics of Skunk Cabbage blooms (Symplocarpus foetidus) from the snowy ground. These flowers have to emit their own heat to melt the snow so that their blooms can be pollinated. The flowers appear before the leaves and are characterized by a spotted protective leaf called a spathe. The spathe surrounds a knob-like structure called a spadix (not seen in the photo). The spadix is actually a fleshy spike of many petal-less flowers. As the actual flowers mature, the spathe opens more to allow pollinators such as flies and beetles to enter and pollinate the spadix. Thank you again for the great pic Nancy!
Kathy Kelly from Massachusetts provided this stunning photo of Hydnellum peckii. Some of the common names for it are strawberries and cream, bleeding tooth, devil's tooth, and bleeding Hydnellum. One of the interesting characteristic of this mushroom is that it is growing "around" that leaf. If it continues to grow, it will completely engulf the tip of that leaf. Many mushrooms do not have that ability. Thank you again for sharing Kathy!
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We've had some interesting and perseverant visitors over the past couple of weeks. We love wildlife, but when they do not show fear of humans, it's something to be concerned about. It's imperative that we don't habituate wildlife to human-provided food; not only for our safety but mostly for theirs. Problem animals often have to be trapped, euthanized, or relocated to unfamiliar areas where they may be killed by the dominant animal in that area.
Our security camera picked up this Black Bear (Ursus americanus). Too bad he wasn't willing to pull some weeds and lay down a little mulch in our garden beds.
The bear decided to become a regular visitor twice a day looking for an easy snack. We removed the bird feeder in hopes that (s)he would go back to a diet provided by Mother Nature.
These pics are a little blurry because they were taken from the safety of inside of the house over the course of several days.
"No bear here...I'm invisible!
"I wonder if they have anything tasty inside of that house. Let's check it out."
After the feeder was taken down, the little rascal discovered where we stash the mother-load. It's not surprising that the bear tried to open the metal trashcan where we store the bird seed. The area inside a black bear's nose, known as the nasal mucosa, is 100 times greater than a human's. This large nose results in a superior sense of smell. Even bloodhounds don't smell as keenly a black bear. It is estimated that a black bear's sense of smell is about seven times greater than a bloodhound's. Conservative estimates of a black bear's sense of smell state that a black bear can smell a food source from over a mile away, while other sources claim a black bear can smell food from over two miles away.
Funny enough, on the last day that we saw this cute little rascal, the bear was trying to reach on its hind legs for our suet feeder. The feeder was hung high enough on a small tree limb so that it was out of reach for the bear. Once the bear left, along comes this big masked bandit.
After running off the bear earlier that morning, a raccoon seemed like it should be an easy adversary...NOPE! Ready to leave for work, I walked out clapping and speaking in a loud, authoritative tone. This little devil was not going to give up the suet until it was empty. Rather than getting into an altercation with a hungry raccoon, I just waited it out and enjoyed the show. After s(he) finished eating and left, down came the suet feeder too.
We've had reports from our neighbors that the bear is moving throughout the area looking for an easy meal. Hopefully everyone will do the right thing and take down their feeders until the bear moves on.
The day after the bear and raccoon episodes, another little fearless visitor decided to say hello while working in the vegetable garden.
We believe that this is an Appalachian Cottontail rabbit (Sylvilagus obscurus) but it is difficult to distinguish it from the common Eastern Cottontail rabbit (Sylvilagus floridanus).
The local fauna is not the only entertainment these days. The flora is showing off as well.
This allium bloom has the Silver-Spotted Skipper Butterflies (Epargyreus clarus) interested:
Our wildflower meadow has a variety of Foxglove and Hairy Beartongue blooming:
Some beautiful Cosmos are blooming as well:
Berries, Snakes, and Bears
by Victoria Vacher
Berry picking plays a vivid roll in my childhood memories. Time spent with my Mom, Grandmother or various family members picking what I knew was going to be turned into wonderful treats like pie, ice cream and jam! I actually remember the very first day I picked blackberries with my mother. It was exhilarating! Picking and eating berries that grew wild and wouldn’t make us sick! Obtaining what seemed an endless source of delicious food for free (one berry in the bucket and two in our tummies) and laughing as our hands, mouths and tongues turned purple from the juice. I looked forward to those summers when we could pick berries together and I hold very happy memories of them.
Blackberries (and all berries for that matter) are remarkable! They have served as both food and medicine for humans and animals since the beginning of time. In herbal medicine, the leaves are used to make a fever-reducing tea. Blackberries belong to the rose family (Rosaceae) genus Rubus. They are composed of many tiny drupelets forming an aggregate fruit. High in antioxidants and filled with nutrients like manganese (important for bone development) and copper (necessary for the production of red and white blood cells), blackberries provide many of our daily-recommended nutrients. They contain vitamins B – C – A - E and K not to mention fiber. In addition to the antioxidant qualities there are more anti’s…anti-viral, anti-bacterial and anti-cancer due to the high levels of Ellagic acid in the berries. Abundant in early summer but actually delivering fruit through September they provide an important source of nourishment for not only humans but also animals.
Brambles (another name for blackberries due to the prickly thickets they grow in) are especially abundant throughout northeastern North America and the Pacific Northwest. However, some type of blackberry species can be found growing in every one of the fifty states. The United States is the world’s leader in blackberry production. They are known by various names in different regions. In addition to brambles, some are called dewberries, thimbleberries and in the west referred to as caneberries. Reiterating the need for botanical names… Rubus.
Flash back to my childhood memories…
One particularly nice day at my Aunt’s house my Mother and I set out to pick blackberries at the request of my Grandmother. Equipped with baskets we set off to forage Nature's gifts. I was as excited as a youngster can be to be, going on an adventure with her Mom to do something she had grown to love when out of the back door my Grandfathers voice boomed out…”Watch out for Rattlesnakes and Bears!!!”
I stopped dead in my tracks! What?!?!? Mom replied, “ We will” and walked on. Catching up with her I asked her what he was talking about. I was thoroughly familiar with the pain the thorny bushes could cause if you ‘horsed around’, but what was this new bit of information? She informed me that snakes loved the protection the thickets provided and the bears simply loved the blackberries!!! Fascinated with this new knowledge about snakes, bears and blackberries I decided to investigate to find out if it was true. Sure enough, snakes like thickets and berries make up a substantial portion of bears' diets. The brambles and berries are crucial to their survival. The bears are also important to the proliferation of berries as they consume the berries then disperse the seeds as they "answer the call of nature" meandering through the forests.
Throughout my life we continued to enjoy berry picking (now stomping and yelling first) but somehow, needless to say, the youthful innocence of picking berries was never quite the same!
Interesting fact: When you pick a blackberry the stem stays with the berry. When you pick a raspberry the stem stays with the plant leaving a hollow core in the fruit.
Please be safe!
Be kind to nature and one another.
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Take time to smell the Roses. We have all heard it. Time is often hard to manage when you're trying to earn a living, meet obligations to family and friends, and maintain a home. Take a couple of minutes to enjoy a walk in a wildflower meadow. Breathe deep and know that despite the unrest, suffering, and ignorance amongst humans right now,
there is still beauty on the planet waiting for you to enjoy.
FEELING RELAXED? IF NOT, BACK UP AND TRY AGAIN.
NATURE IS CALLING, WILL YOU ANSWER
There are many proven health benefits to spending time in nature. It has also been proven that just looking at images of nature can provide multiple health benefits including: reducing depression, speeding healing, improving your immune system, preventing dementia, improving your mood, and increasing happiness. We end each newsletter with a short video of a natural scene.
Hopefully the videos will provide you with some of the benefits listed above.
Findings reported in the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, suggest that keeping a few snapshots of greenery around yourself might be beneficial. When participants viewed the natural images in the experiment, their stress levels lowered, thanks to the activation of their parasympathetic nervous system – which controls certain rest functions. "Viewing green scenes may thus be particularly effective in supporting relaxation and recovery after experiencing a stressful period and thereby could serve as an opportunity for micro-restorative experiences and a promising tool in preventing chronic stress and stress-related diseases."
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Rita has just returned from visiting the border of Greece and Macedonia where she was able to see first hand the situation of the refugees. As a result of her visit, SCM will be redirecting some of our efforts from coordinating medical missions to providing temporary housing for pregnant women and their new babies.
One thing many people find incredible about the refugee experience is how many women are making the journey while very pregnant. We have heard stories of the women arriving on Lesbos either about to give birth or they do give birth almost on arrival. Women walking for miles and miles while 8.5 months along. Women at the border camp giving birth in a small tent then having to wash the baby over a puddle outside with bottled (not warm!) water. So many women have risked EVERYTHING to find safety for themselves and their families and are giving birth in deplorable conditions.
To help alleviate this crisis, SCM has worked with local officials to find several condo units that we can rent for a nominal cost to house the women and their immediate family while they give birth and then give them some recuperation time before they have to leave. They will be visited by doctors and nurses on a regular basis.
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For international students, getting into a good American college with significant financial aid is not an easy task. You need every single application part to shine, and college interviews are a great way to add to your application and to show the colleges that you are interested in them.
Let’s learn more about college interviews now. Some colleges take them into consideration, and some do not. Many colleges state whether they will consider them in the application process at the CollegeBoard website.
To find whether Colleges will consider College Interviews in their application process:
- Go to Collegeboard.org.
- At the upper-right corner of the website, click on the search button and type the name of the college.
- Click on the link to the college in the search results.
- On the left-hand sidebar, there will be many choices (At a Glance, Deadlines, Majors, Campus Life, Applying, Paying). Click on “Applying”.
- After you have clicked on that link, scroll to the bottom of the page to find what factors are very important, important, and considered in the admission process for that particular college.
- If college interviews are in the very important, important, or considered lists, they are taken into consideration; if not, interviews are not evaluative and are not considered in the admissions process.
Why is College Interviews Important?
- College interviews are important to show demonstrated interest at a college. This is important to colleges to protect their yield (ratio of students admitted to students actually enrolling). Yield is an important part of the college ranking because it is an indicator of the college’s reputation. Higher the yield, the higher the rankings. To protect their yield, colleges want to admit students who actually are interested in them rather than admitting students that applied randomly at different colleges.
- They are especially important to international students because the colleges want to know your level of English proficiency.
- They are great places to ask questions about the college to an alumni or college representative.
Prestigious Universities place less weight on interviews because they will know that students will likely attend their universities if admitted. However, smaller and less prestigious universities place much importance on interviews to protect their yield. If the interviews are listed as very important or important, it is a good idea to request an interview because that will greatly affect your admission results.
Check Also: Available Programs for International Students
Types of College Interviews
This is the most recommended type of interview. Many colleges will let you visit campus and interview with their admissions representative. This is most recommended if you have the money and the time to visit the campus.
The most college will offer an alumni interview. After you have requested an alumni interview, and alumni living in your area will contact you to interview at a public place (Starbucks, Panera Bread, etc). To request an alumni interview, fill the alumni interview form on the college’s website. Keep in mind that some colleges do not have an option of interviewing with alumni.
Skype is a video calling application owned by Microsoft. Some colleges will offer a Skype interview if there are no alumni living in your area and if you can’t visit the campus. If you can’t do an alumni interview or campus interview, ask for a Skype interview.
Some colleges offer phone interviews with an admissions representative. If no options are available, ask the college if they offer phone interviews.
The information about interviews is posted on each college’s website, each offering different options. I highly recommend your taking advantage of this opportunity to interview.
Frequently Asked Questions in College Interviews
Why this College?
This was the most asked question when I interviewed. I think that I was asked this question ten out of the twelve college interviews that I’ve done. In order to answer this question, you will have to do thorough research on the college. You’ll need to research their website, look at college confidential posts, and look into other sources for information. I would strongly suggest your preparing one or more reasons why this college specifically appeals to you. To find specific places to research colleges, please read this article.
How did you find about this College?
Answer truthfully and prepare your answers beforehand. If you found out about the college from an advertisement that was sent to your home, tell them so. If you heard it from a friend, tell them so. It is always good, to tell the truth.
What subjects most interested you in high school?
Think of subjects that you are interested in and the reason behind your interest. My answer to this question was chemistry because there are many mysteries yet to be discovered and I also like learning about invisible things that have a profound effect on humans. Also, I mentioned scientists who have completed the periodic table and are continuing to research elements beyond the periodic table. If they do find elements beyond the completed periodic table, however, scientists have to formulate new equations about the path of the electron because the existing Schrodinger’s equations would not work. Because of great discoveries and new problems such as these to be solved, my answer to this question was chemistry.
What activities did you do outside of school? Did you work?
This is another common type of question. Think of extracurricular activities (activities outside of school work such as sports, instruments, hobbies, etc.) and the impact that that particular activity had on you as a person. My answer to that question was cross country, track, and tutoring. From cross-country and track, I learned the importance of teamwork because you needed every team member to do their best in order to place high as a team, and I also learned perseverance because running in the scorching heat of Florida during the summer was very difficult. In tutoring, I learned to see from other people’s perspectives. It is a good idea to prepare brief lessons that you have learned from each extracurricular activity.
How would you contribute to the college?
For me, this question was the most difficult one. To answer this question, you need to know what aspects make you special. My answer was the experience of meeting with a variety of people from all over the world. Living in a dormitory, I have a chance to meet so many different types of people and learn to be accepting of different types of people. Also, I mentioned the many years of tutoring experiences to both domestic and international students, and I would love to continue to tutor and help international students to be adjusted to the foreign atmosphere.
Any other information you want to share with us?
Some interviewers ask this question after they have asked all other questions. Make sure to prepare additional information that will strengthen your application such as family situations, financial situations, and work schedule. For this question, I stated that I have helped many international students that have come to our school as boarding students. Many international students did not know how to speak English and needed help communicating. I have helped them by translating and tutoring them to help them to be adjusted to the foreign atmosphere.
Try to think of anything that will strengthen your application that the admission officers will not know by reading your application. Preparing your answers beforehand will help you to answer this somewhat difficult question with confidence.
Scheduling College Interviews
It is a good idea to schedule campus interviews right after school starts in August or during fall breaks if you have one. For alumni interviews, September is a good time to start filing the request forms so that colleges will have time to schedule an available time and location for you and the alumni. If you can’t do either type of interview, contact the college for Skype Interviews. If that’s not possible, you should ask for phone interviews. Keep in mind that it is not rude to be asking for different interview options; actually, colleges like students are persistent and show demonstrated interest.
College Interviews Tips
- Prepare the answers for the frequently asked questions in college interviews.
- Smile and be friendly to the interviewer.
- Talk slowly to communicate your thoughts well and to pronounce correctly.
- After the interview, ask questions that you cannot find on the college’s website.
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On 23 June, 2020, a magnitude 7.4 subduction earthquake struck western Mexico and let the earthquake early warning sirens sound in the capital. Reportedly, ten people lost their lives and thousands of houses were damaged in Oaxaca. Our colleagues Magda Velázquez-Bucio, Sabina Porfido, and Alessandro Michetti have put together a report on the Earthquake Environmental Effects of this event in English and Spanish:more
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2020-06-27 | in Uncategorized
3He dating of rockfalls helps to distinguish between proximal and distal paleo-earthquakes in Christchurch, NZ2014-10-13 | in Earthquake
The 2011 Christchurch earthquake series had severe consequences and surprised scientists for many reasons. Ground motions were extremely strong despite the relative moderate magnitudes of the quakes (MW 5.3-7.1). The events happened on a system of hitherto unknown faults, some of which are located directly below Christchurch. Earthquake environmental effects (EEE), especially liquefaction, were intense and widespread. It turned out that subsequent quakes reactivated the same feeder dikes of sand blows, showing that saturated sediments are susceptible of liquefaction no matter if they had been liquefied recently (also see the paper of Quigley et al. (2013) on the liquefaction effects). Another stunning lesson was the occurrence of intense rockfall in the vicinity of Christchurch. In a recently published study, Mackey and Quigley (2014) dated rockfall boulders with 3He and show that they allow to estimate the recurrence intervall of local seismic events like the 2011 series. This works is a very interesting way to use EEE for paleo-earthquake studies. more
2013-02-25 | in Earthquake | one response
Today’s post of the Landslide Blog about a rockfall caused by a volcanic earthquake reminds me about something that’s in my mind for years already. Could we use dust deposits as a paleoseismological archive? Dust clouds of all sizes, ranging from tiny to huge, can be associated with seismic shaking, especially in arid and mountainous regions. Here I have collected a few videos I found on YouTube. When large amounts of dust settle they should form a distinctive layer recognizable in the sedimentary record, comparable to volcanic ash deposits. Of course they will be harder to be identified, since the material is the local one. I guess this could be done, similar to turbidites in marine paleoseismology. There are papers that describe changes in the aerosol content in the atmosphere after earthquakes, so why not look for them on earth? more
2012-10-29 | in Paper
Let’s see, this is my 1st post here, thanks again for the invitation. Today, an interesting story circulated through mass and science media. The article by Kremer et al. published yesterday in Nature Geoscience presents geophysical and sedimentological evidence of potential tsunamis in the rather exotic environment of Lake Geneva. This phenomenon is not new at all and has been investigated by others before, but I pretty much share the authors conclusion, that the hazard of tsunami-like events in continental lakes deserves higher attention in the future.
2012-06-15 | in The Friday Links | one response
The Gulf Stream is ensuring the mild climate in Europe, everyone knows that. But does it really? Read Chris Rowan’s article on climate, Gulf Stream, heat capacity and atmospheric circulations.
Ritz et al. published a paper on the paleoseismicity of the North Tehran Fault, Iran. From trenching studies they claim at least 6 surface-rupturing events during the last 30 ka. Read the paper here at JGR-Solid Earth. Ritz, J.-F., H. Nazari, S. Balescu, M. Lamothe, R. Salamati, A. Ghassemi, A. Shafei, M. Ghorashi, and A. Saidi, 2012: Paleoearthquakes of the past 30,000 years along the North Tehran Fault (Iran), J. Geophys. Res., 117, B06305, doi:10.1029/2012JB009147. more | <urn:uuid:9f65da2b-8256-4240-8cd2-72c1c370fbe8> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://paleoseismicity.org/tag/rockfall/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571150.88/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810070501-20220810100501-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.923127 | 904 | 3.515625 | 4 |
An 11-degree muzzle crown is the most accurate option for range shooters. The angle provides just enough room for a bullet to leave the barrel with an even amount of force. However, you need to be extra careful, as it requires more care than other types of crowns.
This article explores the top three muzzle crowns to help you decide what’s best for your needs. I’ll also touch on the benefits and drawbacks of each option.
What Is a Muzzle Crown and Why Is It Important for Accuracy?
A muzzle crown is the very end of the barrel where the bullet exits. It makes sure the round leaves the barrel with even pressure. The slightest unevenness in force can cause the shot to veer off course.
Here’s the thing: All muzzle crowns are not created equal. Some are more accurate than others. Yet that doesn’t mean the most precise muzzle crown will work for your situation.
For example, a precision shooter may want something different from what a soldier would prefer. Most people aren’t as careful in battle and might not take the time to clean their weapons as often. For this reason, a soldier might want a recessed muzzle crown to help protect it from damage if the user bashes it on a hard surface.
Is a recessed muzzle the most accurate crown out there? No. But it’s more durable, and that’s what counts in a war or training situation.
The Three Most Common Types of Muzzle Crowns
There are three types of muzzle crowns: target, recessed, and hybrid. All options have benefits, drawbacks, and use cases. The best choice for you depends on you’re intended use of the firearm.
Let’s take a closer look:
A target crown is the most common type of muzzle crown because it provides a stable platform for the bullet to leave the barrel. The result is consistent accuracy.
The 11-degree muzzle crown is the best option in the target crown family. It’s proven to be the most accurate by competitive shooters, but you can also find other variations available.
The downside to a target crown is that it’s delicate. The slightest damage can cause inaccuracy, which is why it’s not used in battle. It’s for range shooters who can take the time to be careful with their weapons.
You might also see target crowns with rounded edges. However, this doesn’t necessarily improve accuracy – it’s more for looks.
A recessed crown isn’t as accurate as a target crown. But, it’s more durable. That’s because the edges of the muzzle are set back from the edge of the barrel. This helps protect the crown from damage when cleaning the bore.
I have seen recessed crowns with different angles. The most common are 45-degree and 90-degree. However, I haven’t seen objective evidence that one is more accurate than the other. Still, you get a damage-proof crown with either option.
In case you’re wondering, a recessed crown won’t hurt the resale value of your gun and has never been an issue. Anybody with the right tools can easily convert a recessed crown to an 11-degree crown.
A hybrid crown is a combination of a target and a recessed crown. The accuracy isn’t as good as a pure 11-degree crown, but it’s more durable than a standard target crown.
The most common hybrid crown has an 11-degree angle with a small recess at the edge. This gives you some added protection without sacrificing too much accuracy.
Which Muzzle Crown Is Best for You?
An accurate 11-degree target muzzle crown is best for range shooters. In contrast, a recessed crown is likely a better option for milliary and law enforcement because, while not as accurate, it’s more durable. Ultimately, the best muzzle for you depends on your needs.
You can also get a hybrid muzzle crown if you want the best of both worlds. These have an 11-degree angle with a small recess at the edge. This gives you some added protection without sacrificing too much accuracy. It’s excellent for self-defense shooters.
I use my target crown for range work, and I have a recessed crown on my Glock for concealed carry. This combination gives me the accuracy and durability that I need. I’ve also seen people with hybrid crowns on their competition guns. So, it’s really up to you and what you need from your firearm.
How To Take Care of Your Muzzle Crown
Taking care of your muzzle crown starts with proper cleaning. You also want to be careful when handling your firearm because the crown is the most delicate part of the barrel. Luckily, re-crowning isn’t that difficult, yet it’s an avoidable added expense by taking care of your gun.
When cleaning your firearm, be careful not to damage the crown. I like to use a bore guide to prevent the rod from touching the crown when cleaning my barrels. A toothbrush also works well to get into the small crevices of the hybrid crown.
You also want to use quality cleaning solutions to help remove all the grime and carbon buildup without harming the metal. I like using copper solvent and bore cleaner on my muzzle crowns, but many quality cleaners are on the market.
Taking care of your muzzle crown is crucial for accuracy. However, it’s also vital for the resale value of your firearm. Cutting your barrel decreases the resale value of your gun, so it’s essential to take care of your crown.
How To Tell if a Muzzle Crown Is Damaged?
The easiest way to tell if a muzzle crown is damaged is to look closely at it. If you see any nicks or dents, the crown is damaged. You also want to check for cracks. These can be hard to see with the naked eye but will show up under magnification.
I like to use a 10x magnifying glass to inspect my muzzle crowns. It exposes any nicks or dents that I might have missed. If you don’t have a magnifying glass, use the camera on your phone.
You also want to check the inside of the barrel. If the crown is damaged, you’ll see rifling marks on the inside of the barrel. These are also hard to see unless magnified.
If you see any damage to the muzzle crown, you need to fix it, be it by a gunsmith or yourself (if you have the tools and experience). Replacing the crown isn’t that difficult, but it’s an added expense that you can avoid by taking care of your firearm.
Is It Safe to Recrown at Home?
It is safe to recrown a barrel at home, yet it’s not a task for most people. While DIY friendly, recrowning at home requires special tools and equipment to do it right. You risk damaging your gun if you get this wrong.
I have seen people damage expensive firearms by putting the muzzle at a slight angle and having trouble lining it up, while others messed up the grinding part. For these reasons, I recommend taking your firearm to a gunsmith.
The muzzle crown ensures accuracy and thus is an essential part of the barrel. It’s important to take care of it, including proper cleaning and inspection, and be careful when handling your firearm.
I also recommend taking your firearm to a gunsmith if you think the muzzle crown is damaged because trying to fix it yourself can result in further damage.
For more, check out Bullet Grain Chart By Caliber.
11 degree target crown photo courtesy of mr.smashy on flickr.com
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God, Sex, & Babies: What the Church Really Teaches about Responsible Parenthood
In my experience sharing Catholic teaching on marital love and sexuality around the world, one thing is certain: confusion reigns regarding Church teaching on responsible parenthood.
Perhaps the main problem is failure to grasp the profound distinction between contraception and periodic abstinence or "natural family planning" (NFP). While contraception is never compatible with an authentic vision of responsible parenthood, the Church teaches that NFP given the proper disposition of the spouses can be.
As is always the case, erroneous thinking comes from both ends of the spectrum. Failure to distinguish between contraception and NFP occurs not only among those bent on justifying contraception. It also occurs among those who think any attempt to avoid or space children is a sign of "weak faith" or "lack of trust in God." Then there is another group of people who accept the licitness of NFP but argue about what constitutes a serious enough reason for using it.
A large book would be needed to spell out all the valid points and counter-points necessary for an exhaustive treatment of the issues. The goal of this article is simply to outline some of the common questions pertaining to responsible parenthood with the hope of bringing some balance to the discussion. We'll begin by outlining the inner-logic of the Church's sexual ethic.
John Paul wrote in Familiaris Consortio that "the difference, both anthropological and moral, between contraception and recourse to the rhythm of the cycle ...is much wider and deeper than is usually thought, one which involves in the final analysis two irreconcilable concepts of the human person and of human sexuality."1 In brief, these "two irreconcilable concepts" revolve around an "incarnate" versus a "dis-incarnate" view of love.
"Love one another as I have loved you" (Jn 15:12). These words of Christ sum up the meaning of life. Yet how did Christ love us? "This is my body which is given for you" (Lk 22:19). God's love an eternal, spiritual reality is made flesh in Jesus Christ. In other words, Christ's love is an incarnate reality and we're called to love in the very same way with the unreserved gift of our bodies.
In fact, the spiritual call to love as Christ loves is stamped right in our bodies as male and female, in what John Paul II calls "the nuptial meaning of the body." The nuptial meaning of the body is the body's "capacity of expressing love: that love precisely in which the person becomes a gift and by means of this gift fulfills the very meaning of his being and existence."2
Man and woman express this bodily gift in numerous ways. But, as the Holy Father states, this gift "becomes most evident when spouses ...bring about that encounter which makes them 'one flesh.'"3 And St. Paul describes this union in "one flesh" as "a great mystery" that in some way images, proclaims, and foreshadows the union of Christ and the Church (see Eph 5:31-32).
No higher dignity and honor could be bestowed on our sexuality. God created us male and female and called us to "be fruitful and multiply" as a sign of his own mystery of life-giving love in the world. Yet, if we are to embrace this grand, sacramental vision of our sexuality, we must also embrace the responsibility that comes with it.
Ethics of the Sign
John Paul II says that we "can speak of moral good and evil" in the sexual relationship "according to whether ...or not it has the character of the truthful sign."4 In short, we only need ask the following question: Is this given behavior an authentic sign of divine love or is it not? Sexual union has a "prophetic language" because it proclaims God's own mystery. But, the Pope adds, we must be careful to distinguish between true and false prophets.5 If we can speak the truth with the body, we can also speak against this truth.
In order to be "true to the sign," spouses must speak as Christ speaks. Christ gives his body freely ("No one takes my life from me, I lay it down of my own accord," Jn 10:18). He gives his body without reservation ("he loved them to the last," Jn 13:1). He gives his body faithfully ("I am with you always," Mt 28:20). And he gives his body fruitfully ("I came that they may have life," Jn 10:10).
This is the love a couple commits to in marriage. Standing at the altar, the priest or deacon asks them: "Have you come here freely and without reservation to give yourselves to each other in marriage? Do you promise to be faithful until death? Do you promise to receive children lovingly from God?" Then, having committed to loving as Christ loves, the couple is meant to incarnate that love in sexual intercourse. In other words, sexual union is meant to be where the words of the wedding vows "become flesh."
How healthy would a marriage be if spouses, rather than incarnating their vows, were regularly unfaithful to them, regularly speaking against them? Herein lies the essential evil of contracepted intercourse. The desire to avoid a pregnancy (when there is sufficient reason to do so) is not what vitiates the spouses' behavior. What vitiates contracepted sex is the specific choice to render sterile a potentially fertile union. This changes the sign of divine love into a "counter-sign."
Divine love is generous; it generates. And, to put it plainly, this is why God gave us genitals to enable spouses to image in their bodies (to "incarnate") an earthly version of his own free, total, faithful, fruitful love. When spouses contracept that is, when they willfully defraud their union of its procreative potential they become "false prophets." Their sexual act still "speaks," but it denies the life-giving love of God.
"To think that constraining the free flow of body fluids impedes me from loving my wife is ludicrous." This sentiment once angrily expressed in a letter I received typifies the "dis-incarnate" view of love used to justify contraception. For this man, love is not revealed in the body (and its fluids), but is something purely spiritual.
St. John's admonition comes to mind: Beware of those "false prophets" who deny the incarnation (see 1 Jn 4:1-3). Make no mistake taken to its logical conclusions, contraception implies the acceptance of a world-view antithetical to the mystery of Incarnate Love, that is, to the mystery of Christ.
Applying the same "dis-incarnate" view of love to Christ, what are we to make of Christ's blood shed for us on the cross and given as drink in the Eucharist? Is this "free flowing body fluid" not the definitive accomplishment of Christ's spiritual love for his Bride? If Christ had withheld his blood in a mock crucifixion, would this have sufficed? "Without the shedding of blood there is no forgiveness of sins" (Hb 9:22). Similarly, without the giving of the seed, there is no conjugal act. The spirit is expressed in and through the body (and, yes, the body's fluids). It can be no other way for us as incarnate persons. John Paul II explains: "As an incarnate spirit, that is a soul which expresses itself in a body and a body informed by an immortal spirit, man is called to love in his unified totality. Love includes the human body, and the body is made a sharer in spiritual love."6
If contracepted intercourse claims to express love for the other person, it can only be a dis-embodied person. It is not a love for the other person in the God-ordained unity of body and soul. In this way, by attacking the procreative potential of the sexual act, contracepted intercourse "ceases also to be an act of love."7
Maintaining Respect for Incarnate Love
So, does respect for "incarnate love" imply that couples are to leave the number of children they have entirely to "chance"? No. In calling couples to a responsible love, the Church calls them also to a responsible parenthood.
Pope Paul VI stated clearly that those are considered "to exercise responsible parenthood who prudently and generously decide to have a large family, or who, for serious reasons and with due respect to the moral law, choose to have no more children for the time being or even for an indeterminate period."8 Notice that large families should result from prudent reflection, not "chance." Notice that a couple must have serious reasons to avoid pregnancy and must respect the moral law.
Assuming a couple has a serious reason to avoid a child, what could they do that would not violate the "ethics of the sign"? In other words, what could they do to avoid a child that would not render them unfaithful to their wedding vows? I'm sure everyone reading this article is doing it right now. They could abstain from sex. The Church has always taught, teaches now, and always will teach that the only method of "birth control" that respects the language of divine love is "self-control."
A further question arises: Would a couple be doing anything to falsify their sexual union if they embraced knowing they were naturally infertile? Take a couple past childbearing years. They know their union will not result in a child. Are they violating "the sign" if they engage in intercourse with this knowledge? Are they contracepting? No. Neither are couples who use NFP to avoid a child. They track their fertility, abstain when they are fertile and, if they so desire, embrace when they are naturally infertile. (For uneducated readers, I should add that modern methods of NFP are 98-99% effective at avoiding pregnancy when used properly. This is not your grandmother's "rhythm method.")
People will often retort, "C'mon! That's splitting hairs! What's the big difference between rendering the union sterile yourself and just waiting until it's naturally infertile? End result's the same thing." To which I respond, what's the big difference between a miscarriage and an abortion? End result's the same thing. One, however, is an "act of God." In the other man takes the powers of life into his own hands and makes himself like God (see Gn 3:5).
The difference, as we've already quoted John Paul saying, "is much wider and deeper than is usually thought." Indeed, the difference is cosmic. NFP enables a couple to maintain respect for incarnate love. Such respect is the very raison d'etre of NFP. Contraception "dis-incarnates" love and, by doing so, "strikes at God's creation itself at the level of the deepest interaction of nature and person."9
Trusting in Providence
So what constitutes a "serious reason" for avoiding a child? Here's where the discussion typically gets heated. Correct thinking (ortho-doxy) on the issue of responsible parenthood, like all issues, is a matter of maintaining important distinctions and carefully balancing various truths. Failure to do so leads to errors on both extremes.
An example of one such error is the "hyper-pious" notion that if couples really trusted in providence, they would never seek to avoid a child. This simply is not the teaching of the Church. As Karol Wojtyla (John Paul II's pre-papal name) observed, in some cases "increase in the size of the family would be incompatible with parental duty."10 Therefore, as he also affirmed, avoiding children "in certain circumstances may be permissible or even obligatory."11
We are certainly to trust in God's providence. But this important truth must be balanced with another important truth if we are to avoid the error of a certain "providentialism." When the devil tempted Christ to jump from the temple, he was correct to say that God would provide for him. The devil was even quoting Scripture! But Christ responded with another truth from Scripture: "You shall not put the Lord your God to the test" (see Lk 4:9-12).
A couple struggling to provide for their existing children should likewise not put God to the test. Today, knowledge of the fertility cycle is part of God's providence. Thus, couples who make responsible use of that knowledge to avoid pregnancy are trusting in God's providence. They, no less than a couple "who prudently and generously decide to have a large family,"12 are practicing responsible parenthood.
Selfishness: the Enemy of Responsible Parenthood
It's certainly true that, like all good things, NFP can be abused. Selfishness, as the enemy of love, is also the enemy of responsible parenthood. It's clear from the Church's teaching that frivolous reasons for avoiding children will not do. Nor are spouses required to have a "life and death" situation before they make use of NFP.
In determining family size, Vatican II teaches that parents must "thoughtfully take into account both their own welfare and that of their children, those already born and those which the future may bring." They must "reckon with both the material and spiritual conditions of the times as well as of their state in life. Finally, they should consult the interests of the family group, of temporal society, and of the Church herself."13 In terms of limiting family size, Humanae Vitae teaches that "reasonable grounds for spacing births" might arise "from the physical or psychological condition of husband or wife, or from external circumstances."14
The Church's guidance is purposefully broad. Following the Church's lead, I don't intend to spell things out much further than this. It's the duty of each and every couple to apply these basic principles to their own particular situations. Moral dilemmas are much "easier" when others draw the line for us, but, as Vatican II says, "The parents themselves and no one else should ultimately make this judgement in sight of God."15 John Paul II adds that this point is "of particular importance to determine ...the moral character of 'responsible parenthood.'"16
Therefore, the surprisingly widespread idea that a couple must obtain "permission" from a priest to avoid pregnancy is not only false, but betrays serious confusion about the nature of moral responsibility. If a couple is uncertain of their motivations, it's certainly advisable to seek wise counsel. But the Church places responsibility for the decision squarely on the couple's shoulders. If spouses choose to limit family size, the Catechism only teaches that it "is their duty to make certain that their desire is not motivated by selfishness but is in conformity with the generosity appropriate to responsible parenthood."17
On this point, there is another more subtle and little discussed form of selfishness that conflicts with responsible parenthood. I once counseled a couple that had several children very close together. The parents rightly recognized each child as a divine blessing and did all they could to love and care for them. However, the mother, emotionally drained since the third child, had been desiring a larger space between babies ever since. It came to light that the reason they didn't space their children was because the husband selfishly wouldn't (or couldn't) abstain.
Here, what on the surface might pass as a generous response to Church teaching, when looked at more closely, actually demonstrates a failure to live Church teaching. The point is that in order for parenthood to be "responsible," the decision to avoid sexual union during the fertile time or the decision to engage in sexual union during the fertile time must not be motivated by selfishness.
Killing versus Dying: An Analogy
The following analogy may help to summarize not only the important moral distinction between contraception and NFP, but also the necessary moral attitude that must accompany the responsible use of NFP.
Our natural attitude towards others should be one that desires their life and good health. Circumstances, however, could lead us to have a righteous desire for God to call someone to the next life. Suppose an elderly relative was suffering greatly with age and disease. You could have a noble desire for his passing. Similarly, a couple's natural attitude should be one of desiring children. Circumstances, however, could lead a couple to have a noble desire to avoid a pregnancy.
In the case of the elderly relative, it's one thing to suffer with him while waiting patiently for his natural death. In this situation there would be nothing blameworthy even to be grateful for his death when it occurred. But it would be quite another thing to take the powers of life into your own hands and kill him because you cannot bear his sufferings.
Similarly, for the couple with a noble desire to avoid pregnancy, there is nothing blameworthy in waiting patiently for the natural time of infertility, and even rejoicing that God has granted a time of infertility. But it would be quite another thing for the couple to take the powers of life into their own hands and render themselves sterile because they cannot bear the suffering of abstinence.
With regard to attitude, it's also possible that your desire for your relative's death might be unrighteous. You may have some sort of hatred toward him that would lead you to wish him dead. You may not kill him yourself, indeed he may die of a natural cause. Nonetheless your rejoicing in his death would be blameworthy. This is akin to a couple who uses NFP with an unrighteous desire to avoid a pregnancy. Their rejoicing in the infertile time would also be blameworthy because it is motivated by a selfish, anti-child mentality.
In this short article, I've outlined the basic logic of the Catholic sexual ethic with the hope of bringing some balance to the discussion of responsible parenthood.
In contrast to the world's "disincarnate" view of love, the Church teaches that matter matters. What we do with our bodies expresses our deepest held convictions about ourselves, God, the meaning of love, and the ordering of the universe. When the Church's sacramental view of the body is taken seriously, we understand that sexual union is not only a biological process, but a profound theological process "a great mystery that refers to Christ and the Church" (Eph 5:31-32).
The Church's well-balanced teaching on responsible parenthood is a divine gift given to protect the supreme value of this sign. Imbalances on both extremes must be avoided if we are to ensure fidelity to the sign of marital love and an ever-clearer proclamation of the divine mystery in the world.
Christopher West "God, Sex, & Babies: What the Church Really Teaches about Responsible Parenthood."
Reprinted with permission of Christopher West.
Christopher West teaches the theology of the body at St. John Vianney Theological Seminary in Denver and at the John Paul II Institute for Studies on Marriage and Family in Melbourne, Australia. He also serves as the Theology of the Body Staff Advisor for the GIFT Foundation. He is the author of Theology of the Body for Beginners: A Basic Introduction to Pope John Paul II's Sexual Revolution, Good News about Sex and Marriage: Answers to Your Honest Questions about Catholic Teaching and Theology of the Body Explained: A Commentary on John Paul II's "Gospel of the Body". Christopher West is married to Wendy and has three children. For other resources, books, CDs, DVDs, and Videos, click here. Visit his web site here.
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When in Rome…eat all the food!
With its history dating back to 753 B.C., Rome has had plenty of time to develop a rich food culture. And it certainly has done, with its cuisine steeped in Italian traditions that are the basis for a wide variety of mouthwatering dishes. While food from all around Italy has a well-deserved reputation for being some of the best in the world, Rome has some truly special delicacies that you can’t miss eating while in the Eternal City.
Make sure you’ve packed a healthy appetite for your trip – there’s so much fantastic eating to be done in Rome! Discover the foods you have to eat when you’re in Rome.
1. Pasta with one of Rome’s signature sauces
If you’re traveling nearly anywhere in Italy, you’ve got to have at least one heaping plate of pasta. When in Rome, you should try one of the city’s famous sauces, like creamy carbonara, cheesy cacio e pepe, or rich amatriciana. The most common pasta eaten here is spaghetti, but you’ll see lots of different shapes on the menu.
Though technically not pasta but often categorized as one outside of Italy, gnocchi are also popular in Rome, and are traditionally eaten on Thursdays.
If you’re a real fan of pasta, make sure to stop by the National Museum of Pasta (Museo Nazionale della Paste Alimentari).
Enjoy learning how to make your own homemade pasta with Gabriella and Simona, two friends who will teach you the secret to making true Italian pasta.
2. Carciofi alla giudia
This dish translates to “Jewish style artichokes”, and it’s one of the most popular dishes from Rome’s Jewish cuisine. Today, the best places to find carciofi is still in the city’s old Jewish quarter. You’ll eaten them fried in generous amount of olive oil and served when they’re still warm.
If you like this dish, you’ll probably also enjoy fried zucchini blossoms or pumpkin flowers, both of which also come from Jewish cuisine. Sometimes, you’ll see them on menus served stuffed with anchovies and mozzarella cheese.
Enjoy Roman specialties, including artichokes or zucchini flowers, on Daniela’s waling tour of the city’s best food hotspots. She’ll take you around and share tidbits about the city’s history, too!
You may also see this spelled as porketta, but no matter how it’s spelled you’ll enjoy this dish if you’re a meat eater. It’s a pork roast that’s stuffed with herbs, including garlic, rosemary, fennel, and more before being roasted slowly over wood for hours. You’ll often find it served as a street food sandwiched between crispy slices of pizza bianca.
Want to try porchetta in the most authentic way? Host Simona serves it at her Imperial Rome Experience, along with plenty of other dishes you won’t want to miss.
4. Roman-style pizza
Like pasta, pizza is another Italian staple that gets its own unique twist here in Rome. Here, locals like it served with a crispy thin crust and baked until it’s nearly charred, though you’ll be able to find just about any style of pizza you want. You’ll also be able to find served many different ways, from rectangular pieces eaten as snacks from tiny hole in the wall joints to elegant pizzas topped with seasonal ingredients at sit-down restaurants.
You can also try pizza bianca, similar to focaccia and sprinkled with salt, or pizza rossa, baked and spread with tomato sauce. Both are made of the same dough and both make delicious snacks.
Sandra will teach you how to make your own delicious pizza with her class in her home in Rome. Wouldn’t you love to know how?
The name comes from an Italian take on the word “surprise” in French (spelled the same as in English but pronounced differently). Fittingly, you may be surprised at how tasty these are! Suppli are small croquettes made out of rice, mozzarella cheese, and often tomato-based ragu sauce, though the fillings may vary a bit from place to place.
You’ll find them at most pizza places, and they’re one of the most popular snacks amongst locals.
Take on happy hour like a true Roman with our host David’s cooking class and happy hour combination, where you’ll get to try lots of local snacks and a few drinks while you learn some fantastic recipes.
6. Coda alla vaccinara
Oxtail stew may not be the first thing that jumps out on a menu to you, but this modern Roman dish is definitely worth a try. Its star ingredients are tender oxtail, pancetta, tomato sauce, celery, cloves and cinnamon, and sometimes…chocolate! Yes, bitter chocolate may be grated in in small amounts, giving the stew a sweet and sour taste that will have you craving more.
Feel the pull of Rome’s history with a dinner in an old Roman patio. Bastià offers a three-course meal with all sorts of wonderful traditional dishes to sample.
This dish’s name translates to “jumps in mouth” for a reason; it’s extremely tasty! Though many different countries have their own versions of the dish, including Spain, Greece, and Switzerland, the Roman version is particularly good. It’s veal topped with prosciutto and sage, which is then rolled up and cooked in a sauce of butter and white wine.
Saltimbocca is eaten as an entree, and if you order this you’ll want to savor every bite of it. If you enjoy veal, you may also like scaloppine alla romana, which is thinly-sliced veal dredged in flour and sautéed and served with baby artichokes.
Enjoy Roman food with Roman friends with Débora, who serves saltimbocca as part of her meal at her gorgeous home at the top of the Gianicolo with views of the Piazza Venezia. It’s all made with the very best local ingredients.
8. Crostata di Ricotta
The list of foods in Rome wouldn’t be complete without including something sweet! While we highly recommend a scoop or two (or more) of gelato, Rome has a dessert that’s party of the city’s history. “Crostata” means “tart”, and the version filled with ricotta and baked with a touch of citrus and Marsala wine. It’s a bit like a Roman version of a cheesecake, and the perfect way to finish off a great meal in Rome.
Try sisters Benny and Bula’s Midnight in Rome experience, with a special homemade dessert at the end to make your night one to remember.
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Future Meteorological Drought Rrends on Global Land Are Likely to Intensify Further
With global changes and continuous economic and social development, the intensity and duration of drought and the production, living and ecological problems that may be caused by drought will become more prominent, which has become a hot topic of concern for the international community and many scholars.
Researchers from Xinjiang Institute of Ecology and Geography, Chinese Academy of Sciences, systematically analyzed the future meteorological drought trends, drought event durations, and changes in drought frequency and intensity in the global and Asian dry lands under shared socio-economic pathways (SSPs) with the support of global climate model data from CMIP6.
The results of the study show that under different shared socio-economic pathways, the global terrestrial future is likely to show an increasing trend of drought, with the proportion of drought increasing in the three pathways of SSP126, SSP245 and SSP585 being 36.2%, 53.3% and 68.3%, respectively. Moreover, the duration of drought events becomes longer, with global drought event durations of 4.4 months, 5.7 months, and 8.6 months in the historical period (1961-2000), near future (2021-2060) and far future (2061-2100) time periods, respectively.
Among these, more severe droughts are likely to occur in the future in already dry regions such as Australia, the Middle East, South Africa, North Africa, and Central Asia. Under the SSP126, SSP245 and SSP585 scenarios, the dry regions of Asia along the core of the Silk Road Economic Belt will be at risk of increased drought in the future, with the proportion of drought-intensified areas at 65.1%, 89.9% and 99.8% respectively. At the same time, the intensity and duration of droughts show an increasing trend. In particular, the drought situation in southern Xinjiang, Uzbekistan and western Kazakhstan will be more severe in the future.
The results are presented as "Drylands face potential threat of robust drought in the CMIP6 SSPs scenarios" and "Projected Meteorological Drought over Asian Drylands under Different CMIP6 Scenarios", respectively were published in Environmental Research Letters (https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/ac2bce) and Remote Sensing (https://www.mdpi.com/2072-4292/13/21/4409/htm).
Fig. 1 Spatial distribution of SPEI Sen's slope for the historical period (a) and three future shared socioeconomic pathways for SSP126 (b), SSP245 (c) and SSP585 (d). Dots indicate that the area passed the Mann-Kendall test of significance (p=0.05).
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2019, VOLUME 6 ISSUE 3Pages: 424-432
Effect of fertigation of primary nutrients on pomegranate (Punica granatum L.) fruit productivity and quality
Nekha Tanari, Suma Ramegowda*, Anusree Thottan and Manjunatha Girigowda
*Zonal Agricultural Research Station, V.C.Farm, Mandya, Karnataka, India
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The present research work was conducted in 5year-old pomegranate orchard cultivating Bhagwa variety to evaluate the effect of fertigation and soil application of primary nutrient on its fruit yield and quality parameters. The experiment comprised of six treatments with four replications that included application of 100% recommended dose of fertilizer (RDF) through soil application (SA) (T1) and fertigation (F) (T6), supplementing 50% (T2 and T3) and 75% (T4 and T5) of RDF through fertigation following two different nutrient application schedules. In schedule-1, nutrient application rate and time was retained closer to existing soil application recommendation i.e., percent RD N: P2O5: K2O at the rate of 20:20:20 as basal, 50:50:50 at active growth stage and 30:30:30 at rest period. But in schedule-2 nutrient rate at basal and rest application was reduced to 5:15:15 and 20:10:10 percent respectively and relatively higher nutrient rate (75:75:75) was applied during active growth. The result indicated that 75% supplementation of nutrient through fertigation (T5-25% SA + 75% F) following schedule-2 has produce highest fruit yield (18.49 kg plant-1), number of fruits per plant (67.25) and hermaphrodite flowers (128). The fruit quality parameters viz., fruit weight (288.50 g), fruit size, peel weight (98.3 g), aril to peel ration (1.87), aril weight (183.4 g) and aril size and juice quality parameter viz., titrable acidity, ascorbic acid, phenolic content and antioxidant activity in peel and juice was found highest in 100%fertigation (T6). The mineral content of pomegranate juice was in the order of K>N>P>S>Ca>Mg and seed was in the order of N>K>P>Ca>S>Mg and was found in higher concentration in T6 (100% F) than T1 (100% SA). The fertigation schedule-2 was found superior in enhancing pomegranate fruit yield and quality as compared to schedule-1. | <urn:uuid:ab990aa7-ccc2-4959-bfc5-73cef4ff968f> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.tropicalplantresearch.com/archives/?year=2019&vol=6&issue=3&ArticleId=349 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570692.22/warc/CC-MAIN-20220807181008-20220807211008-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.918289 | 579 | 1.851563 | 2 |
Microsoft finally makes something I'll use
Microsoft released a very nifty toys recently, the Xbox Kinect. It's basically a depth-sensing camera- each pixel has an RGB value as well as a depth value, which opens enormous possibilities in what you can do with it.
The most famous example would be the one from Minority Report, where human gestures were the mouse for the screen. The Kinect allows you to sense the location and depth of a human hand, making this type of input possible. As you can see in the image below, the Kinect is able to produce an image of what it sees, as well as an image that records how far away everything in the image is.
(above: glview, part of the libfreenect open source library)
Interfacing the Kinect
The Kinect outputs via USB, so it can be connected to any computer. To use the Kinect, there is a wonderful driver, despite the considerable amount of work that still needs to be done on it, called libfreenect. It is open source and has wrappers to Java, C++, C#, and other languages. My particular interest is in the Java wrapper, but libfreenect really makes it open game for anyone.
What I plan to do (and ideas for you to do)
The Kinect opens huge possibilities, and I'm only just beginning to explore them. Right now, I'm working on using the java.awt.robot class to use my kinect to control the mouse on my computer (like in Minority Report). Right now, its in the tweaking phase, as I'm trying to find the best way to process the RGB and depth images simultaneously to find my hand. I'm thinking of buying a glove and coloring the fingers, which would allow me to make use of my Mac's multitouch feature (the glove would let me find finger coordinates in the RGB image and use the depth coordinates to confirm them). Right now, its a bit shaky, but I'll definitely have an update on this up in the next few days.
What I really want to see done with the Kinect is 3D imaging, which I plan to do eventually with all my Lego robotics equipment that sits in a bin in my room. My plan is to build a rotating arm that can swivel around an arbitrary object and generate a 3D map of it. Normally, creating 3D models requires expensive hardware and software, but for $150 the Kinect makes it accessible to pretty much anyone.
Remember the Wii?
The excitement of hacking the Kinect gives me nostalgia. I remember a few years back, it was all about hacking the Wii remote. Out came GlovePIE, DarwiinRemote, and various open-source software that allowed anyone to take advantage of the Wii remote's accelerometer and control buttons. I can't wait for the Kinect to become the same way. Already, there is an open source driver, and every day more new stuff happens with the Kinect. Hacking a Wii remote was one of the first experiences I had with real-life programming, so I strongly encourage anyone looking for this experience to check out the Kinect.
For all those willing to give the Kinect a shot, its a sizeable investment, but will definitely pay off in the long run. It's an amazing device, a great tool for teaching programming (provided the driver and wrapper is installed), and a fun thing to mess around with. If you're not going to hack it, it can still be used with an Xbox and with all the Kinect games that are coming out. It's certainly a revolutionary device, and I can't wait to see what people are going to do with it. | <urn:uuid:df01ebad-32fd-46f2-a840-12dde1ad8dd0> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://keshav.is/building/kinect/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571150.88/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810070501-20220810100501-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.962499 | 752 | 2.015625 | 2 |
1366 – The parliament, alarmed at the apparent undermining by native influences of the settler population’s Englishness, passed the ‘Statutes of Kilkenny’.
1608 – O’Doherty’s Rebellion was launched by the Burning of Derry.
1780 – Henry Grattan moves resolutions in favour of legislative independence in the Irish House of Commons.
1798 – The Earl of Clare began a 3-day visit to Trinity College, Dublin to purge United Irishmen; Nineteen were expelled.
1873 – Birth of rugby player and a doctor, Thomas Crean, in Dublin. During the Second Boer War, he was awarded the Victoria Cross. In 1894, he was a member of the first Ireland team to win both a Home Nations Championship and a Triple Crown. Then in 1896 he helped Ireland win their second Home Nations title. His VC medal is displayed at the Army Medical Services Museum. On 1 August 2001 the South African Post Office issued a stamp featuring Crean as part of their commemorations for the Second Boer War.
1875 – Charles Stewart Parnell was elected MP for Co Meath.
1909 – Conel Hugh O’Donel Alexander, master mathematician, expert on codes, and chess champion, was born in Cork; he learned chess at the age of 8. From a Derry college he went to King Edward’s School, Birmingham, where as a schoolboy he won the Birmingham Post cup, which carried with it the unofficial championship of Staffordshire, Warwickshire and Worcestershire. Going on to Cambridge, he not only won the University championship four years in succession, but picked up first-class honours. He won the British championship in 1938.
1912 – The Titanic Inquiry Opened, four days after sinking.
1922 – In Belfast, four people were shot dead and many others injured.
1923 – Two Anti-Treaty fighters were killed in action at Kealkil, West Cork.
1958 – Birth of Denis O’Brien in Co Cork. He is a billionaire who was listed among the World’s Top 200 Billionaires in 2015 and is also Ireland’s richest native-born citizen. O’Brien owns Communicorp, a media holding company which operates across Europe, but particularly in Ireland where it dominates national radio (apart from RTÉ) via stations like Newstalk and Today FM.
1969 – There was serious rioting in the Bogside area of Derry following clashes between Northern Ireland Civil Rights Association marchers, and Loyalists and members of the RUC. A number of RUC officers entered the house of Samuel Devenny, who had not been involved in the disturbances, and severely beat him with batons causing internal injuries and a heart attack. A number of other people in the house were also beaten by the police, including Devenny’s 16-and 18-year-old daughters. Samuel Devenny died on 17 July 1969 as a result of his injuries.
1972 – British Prime Minister Edward Heath, confirmed that the plan to conduct an arrest operation, in the event of a riot during the march on 30 January 1972, was known to British government Ministers in advance.
1972 – Lord Widgery’s report exonerating “Bloody Sunday” troops was issued. The report said that the British troops had only returned fire after coming under attack themselves. The marchers claimed that no one was armed and the British troops opened fire without cause.
1975 – Birth of actor, Hugh Charles O’Conor, in Dublin. He started his acting career when he was ten. His first film appearance was opposite Liam Neeson in the 1985 movie, Lamb. He won Young Artist Awards of 1990 for his role in the film, My Left Foot, in which he portrayed the childhood days of Christy Brown, an Irishman born with cerebral palsy, who could control only his left foot. It was his biggest hit to date. Currently, he has two upcoming projects: Finding Fate and Operation H²O. In 2012 he appeared in the docudrama Saving The Titanic as the ship’s 2nd Engineer Jonathan Shepherd.
1978 – British Prime Minister, James Callaghan, announced that legislation would be brought forward to increase the number of Members of Parliament (MPs) who represented Northern Ireland at Westminster from 12 to between 16 and 18. A Bill was passed at parliament on 28 November 1978 which increased the representation to 17 seats.
1979 – A Prison Officer, Agnes Wallace (40), was shot dead and three of her colleagues injured when the IRA carried out a gun and grenade attack outside Armagh women’s prison.
1981 – James Brown (18) and Gary English (19), both Catholic civilians, were killed when a British Army vehicle drove into a crowd of people on Creggan Road, Derry. There had been rioting in the area but local people stated that the vehicle was driven deliberately at the crowd.
1982 – Stephen McConomy, an 11-year-old Catholic boy, died as a result of the injuries he received when he was hit on the head by a plastic bullet in Fahan Street, Derry. His death called for the weapon to be banned. On 13 May 1982 the European Parliament called on member states not to use plastic bullets.
1993 – Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, Patrick Mayhew, held a meeting with John Alderdice, leader of the Alliance Party of Northern Ireland (APNI), at the start of a new round of bilateral talks with the main political parties.
1997 – US Navy commissions The Sullivans, the second ship to be named after the five Sullivan brothers who perished on the USS Juneau, November 1942 during the Battle of Guadalcanal. The Sullivans were descendants of Irish immigrants.
1998 – Key members of the 32 County Sovereignty Committee, led by the sister of H-Block hunger striker, Bobby Sands, met to draft an outright condemnation of the Good Friday peace deal.
1999 – British Prime Minister, Tony Blair and Taoiseach, Bertie Ahern, held an intensive round of negotiations in Downing Street with the Ulster Unionist Party (UUP), Sinn Féin (SF), and the Social Democratic and Labour Party (SDLP). The talks failed to achieve a breakthrough on decommissioning and the implementation of the Executive. The British government ruled out any suggestion of ‘parking’ the political negotiations.
1999 – A campaign for an independent international investigation and a judicial inquiry into the killing of the Rosemary Nelson was opened in Belfast.
2001 – Jenny Hegarty, a 72-year-old Dublin grandmother, took on a host of international players and won £10,000 at the Irish and European Open Poker Championship.
2001 – EU restrictions on farm exports due to foot and mouth were lifted one month after the Republic’s only outbreak.
2001 – The Kansai International Airport in Japan was one of ten structures given the ‘Civil Engineering Monument of the Millennium’ award by the American Society of Civil Engineers. On 17 January 1995, Japan was struck by the Kobe earthquake, the epicenter of which was about 20 km away from KIX and killed 6,434 people on Japan’s main island of Honshu. Due to its earthquake engineering, the airport emerged unscathed, mostly due to the use of sliding joints. Even the glass in the windows remained intact. In 1998, the airport survived a typhoon with wind speeds of up to 200 km/h. Peter Rice was a structural engineer, who was born in Dublin, and raised in Dundalk, Co Louth. Among the notable buildings on whose design he worked are the Centre Pompidou, the Sydney Opera House, Lloyd’s of London, the Louvre Pyramid, the Mound Stand at Lord’s Cricket Ground, Kansai International Airport and Stansted Airport.
2002 – Ireland’s first cash-free petrol station, Carrigdhoun Service Station, near Ballygarvan, Co Cork, opened with all business being transacted by credit card or petrol card.
2003 – The British army was called in to deal with rioting in North Belfast where up to 200 people were involved in disturbances at the junction of Limestone and Halliday Roads.
2003 – Bono surpassed competition from British Prime Minister Tony Blair and French President Jacques Chirac to become Europe’s greatest hero. The U2 lead singer was picked by online voters from a list of 36 other Europeans compiled by Time magazine.
2005 – Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger was elected the 265th Pope of the Catholic Church following the death of Pope John Paul II. The new Pope took on the regnal name Benedict XVI.
Image | Coumeenole Beach, Dunquin, Co Kerry | Photo credit: Michael Corcoran
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This tutorial will introduce you to game development on Windows 8 by using the MonoGame open source library, and Visual Studio 2012.
During the course of this tutorial, you will build a 2D game by using MonoGame while becoming familiar with the key concepts of game development.
The focus of this tutorial is writing a game that has multiple elements on screen at the same time. Since the game must keep track of the elements by rendering them, updating them and tracking the ways in which they interact with each other, this will present a challenge from both a logical and performance perspective.
This tutorial is an adaptation of the Honecomb Rush Hands-On-Lab originally published on the Xna Creators Club (located at http://xbox.create.msdn.com/en-US/education/catalog/lab/honeycomb_rush). Tara Walker (http://tarathegeekgirl.net) and I have taken the original lab and code and updated it to work with MonoGame instead of XNA Game Studio, and Windows 8 for this tutorial. Additional platforms like Windows Phone 8, Mac OSX, iPhone, iPad and Android Phones and Tablets will be covered in additional series.
As an added bonus, we will use the Buddy API (http://buddy.com) to implement the high scores screen. By using the Buddy API, you can enable your games to be more social and drive interest in your game.
By the end of this tutorial you will have:
· A high-level understanding of the MonoGame application model within the Windows 8 operating system
· Learned how to use resources (images, fonts, et cetera) in your game
· Learned how to add game logic
· Learned about 2D rendering in MonoGame
· Learned how to use touch and gesture input to control your game
· Learned how to write a performance intensive game
· Learned how to call an external web api to save and load information
The following is required to complete this tutorial:
· Microsoft Visual Studio 2012 and the Windows Phone 8 SDK, which will be used to compile the game assets.
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· Microsoft Visual C# Express 2012 for Windows 8 and the Windows Phone Developer Tools, which will be used to compile the game assets
MonoGame : http://monogame.net
This tutorial includes two exercises built from the following tasks:
1. Create game project
2. Basic game rendering
3. Game logic
4. Polishing the game - sound and animation
5. Additional screens and menus
Estimated total time to complete this tutorial: 90 minutes.
The delivery of this tutorial is broken down into smaller bite-sized chunks that can be completed in a short period of time. At the end of each chapter you will have added more functionality to your game. The following table lists all of the chapters in this series with links to them for easier access.
Table of Contents
Exercise 1: Basic MonoGame Framework Game
Task 1 - Basic Game Project
Task 4 - Adding Helper Classes
Task 5 - Base Classes
Task 6 - Beehive Component
Task 7 - Bee Component
Task 8 - Worker and Soldier Bee Components
Task 9 - BeeKeeper Component
Task 10 - ScoreBar Component
Task 10 - HoneyJar Component
Task 12 - Vat Component
Task 13 - SmokePuff Component
Exercise 2: Game Polish and Menus
Task 1 - Background Screen
Task 2 - Main Menu Screen
Task 3 - Loading and Instructions Screen
Task 4 - Pause Screen
Task 5 - LevelOverScreen
Task 6 - Putting It Together
Task 7 - Adding Sounds
Task 8 - Integrating Components with Countdown Stage
Task 9 - HighScoreScreen and Logic
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How were the New England colonies and southern colonies similar?
The colonies of the south and the New England had one similarity; there relationship with the natives. Both of the colonies had very bad relations with the natives. The south needed the native land for tobacco plantations, which caused a lot of conflict between the two groups.
How were the southern and northern colonies similar?
In terms of similarities, the northern and southern colonies shared some basic structural and social institutions that were in place for much of British North America. They each would have a colonial legislature, though the details for each one would vary.
What are the similarities between New England and Middle Colonies?
Similar to New England colonies, the Middle colonies also flourished in trade of major items like iron and furs. When comparing both New England and Middle Colonies, both utilized forms of self-government. Differences between these colonial governments are that in new England only male church members could vote.
How were the economies of the southern Middle and New England colonies similar?
The middles colonies had rich farmland and a moderate climate. This made it a more suitable place to grow grain and livestock than New England. The Southern colonies had fertile farmlands which contributed to the rise of cash crops such as rice, tobacco, and indigo.
What did the New England colonies have in common?
The New England colonies were flat along the rocky coastline, which made good harbors. It became hilly and mountainous further inland. The land was covered in dense forests. The soil was rocky, which made farming difficult.
How are the New England and southern colonies different?
New England had skilled craftsmen in the industry of shipbuilding. The Mid-Atlantic presented a diverse workforce of farmers, fisherman, and merchants. The Southern Colonies were primarily agricultural with few cities and limited schools. … This made it a more suitable place to grow grain and livestock than New England.
What were the physical and geographical similarities and differences between the northern and southern English colonies?
The Northern Colonies were mostly mountains with a colder climate and a thin layer of soil only for subsistence farming. The Southern Colonies were mostly plains with warmer climate and rich fertile soil suitable for cash crop farming. … The Southern Colonies were settled mainly for economic gain(commercial gain).
What were the major differences between the New England colonies southern colonies and middle colonies?
The southern colonists had recourses including good farmland and lumber. the major difference between new england and middle colonies was the quality of land. the middle colonies had rich farmland and a moderate climate, which made farming easier than it was in New England.
How were the Southern colonies and Middle colonies similar?
The middles colonies had rich farmland and a moderate climate. This made it a more suitable place to grow grain and livestock than New England. … The Southern colonies had fertile farmlands which contributed to the rise of cash crops such as rice, tobacco, and indigo.
How were the three colonial regions similar and different?
The three British colonial regions in North America, which were the Northern, Middle, and Southern, were all very similar in their reasons for colonizing land and creating the same goals. The three different regions had different religious influences, but it was still one of the core parts of the colonization.
How are the New England and Middle Colonies different?
The New England colonies had rocky soil, which was not suited to plantation farming, so the New England colonies depended on fishing, lumbering, and subsistence farming. The Middle colonies also featured mixed economies, including farming and merchant shipping.
How did the New England and Middle Colonies economies differ from the economy of the South what may have contributed to this difference?
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Beware of Morse code! Already observed in the UK, the Netherlands, Denmark and Sweden, a 600kg female elephant named Freya chose to spend part of the summer in Norway, where she first gained notoriety for first hoisting on pleasure boats in Kragiro, an idyllic southern coastal village, before doing the same In the waters of the capital since July 17. The presence of mammals that naturally inhabit the northern latitudes of the Arctic aroused the curiosity of the local population and made headlines.
In this country that adores “slow TV”, the Verdens Gang newspaper decided for a moment to broadcast live on its website its simplest actions and gestures. Between two large walruses – a walrus can sleep for up to 20 hours a day – Freya has been photographed hunting a duck, handling a swan, or more often falling asleep Boats sway under their own weight.
An official from the Directorate of Fisheries, Rolf Harald Jensen, explained to TV2 that “physical damage is unfortunate, but that’s what happens when you have wild animals in the wild” under the weight of the animal.
After considering relocating Freya for some time, or even euthanizing her if she would pose a danger to the population, the Norwegian authorities decided to let nature take its course.
“She is in good health, is eating and resting and appears to be doing well,” the Directorate of Fisheries said in a statement on Monday.
Freya, whose name refers to a goddess associated with love and beauty in Norse mythology, is not unanimous. “Cut down Freya,” biologist Per Espen Fjeld launched in a column published by public radio and television NRK on Monday. Freya costs (to Norwegian society, editor’s note) more than most of the other animals we slaughter because it does more harm, but Freya has made a name for herself, he noted, lamenting the “pure Bambi effect.”
The authorities, for their part, are demanding the need to keep away from the person and strongly advise against going swimming or kayaking near Freya “which is not necessarily as lazy and disorienting as one might think when you are resting”. “A walrus is not usually a danger to humans as long as we keep a safe distance. But if a human disturbs it and cannot rest enough, it may feel threatened and attacked.”
A protected species, walruses feed mainly on invertebrates such as mollusks, shrimp, crabs, and small fish. Its average weight in adulthood is about a ton for a male and 700 kg for a female.
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- 1 What can rabbit hide be used for?
- 2 Can rabbits be tamed in Minecraft?
- 3 What do you get when you kill a rabbit in Minecraft?
- 4 How rare is a rabbit’s foot in Minecraft?
- 5 Can you make books out of rabbit hide?
- 6 Do rabbits need a hideaway?
- 7 How do I get rabbit hide?
- 8 How do you tan a rabbit hide with brains?
- 9 Can you tame a Ravager in Minecraft?
- 10 What is the rarest rabbit in Minecraft?
- 11 How do you hatch a ender dragon egg?
- 12 Can rabbits drown Minecraft?
What can rabbit hide be used for?
Usage. Rabbit hide can be used to be crafted into leather, or into bundles to store stacks of items.
Can rabbits be tamed in Minecraft?
Rabbits can no longer be tamed and do not flee from players. Rabbits now follow players holding dandelions or golden carrots.
What do you get when you kill a rabbit in Minecraft?
When you kill a rabbit in Minecraft, it will drop raw rabbit, rabbit hide, or if you are very lucky, a rabbit’s foot. Make sure you pick up any dropped items before they disappear.
How rare is a rabbit’s foot in Minecraft?
When a rabbit is killed by a player, there’s a one in ten chance that a rabbit’s foot will drop – a chance increased by three percent per level of the looting enchantment on your sword.
Can you make books out of rabbit hide?
In Minecraft survival worlds, rabbit hide is one of the main mob drops that seem to pile up in chests without a use. Unlike regular leather — used to make books, armor, and bookcases — rabbit hide has barely any use in modern-day vanilla Minecraft.
Do rabbits need a hideaway?
Hides/Shelters for rabbits. In their natural habitat rabbit’s protect themselves from predators by having underground tunnels they can run into and hide. Having somewhere to hide will make your rabbit more relaxed in their home, even if they do not actually need to hide very often.
How do I get rabbit hide?
You can add rabbit hide to your inventory in Survival mode by killing a rabbit. If you are having trouble finding a rabbit, you can summon a rabbit using a cheat or you can use a spawn egg. Once you find a rabbit, you need to attack it. When you attack the rabbit, it will turn pink as it takes damage.
How do you tan a rabbit hide with brains?
Every critter has enough brains to tan it’s own hide, except buffaloes (and some people I know). Remove the brain from the raccoon’s skull and mix with about 1-1/2 cups of water. Cook this mixture for about 10 minutes. Then mash, mix or blend into an oily liquid.
Can you tame a Ravager in Minecraft?
Although ravagers are equipped with saddles, they cannot be ridden by the player.
What is the rarest rabbit in Minecraft?
The Killer Bunny is a type of Rabbit that is hostile to all players it encounters. The fur is pure white and its eyes are red and horizontal, unlike other rabbits.
How do you hatch a ender dragon egg?
To hatch a Dragon egg, players have to find one. To access the egg, the player must defeat the Ender Dragon in Minecraft. While the player is preparing to slay the dragon, carry a few blocks for building, a piston, and a lever. The egg will present itself on a stack of bedrock in the middle of the end portal.
Can rabbits drown Minecraft?
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Since 2017, we have donated countless bags filled with essential items directly to the women saved from trafficking. We have continued to grow year over year, with fundraisers, awareness programs, and informational sessions with churches, youth groups, and special interest clubs in Ontario.
As we continue our calling in earnest, we welcome new partners and patrons that are passionate about these issues. Please reach out for partnership opportunities, if you have questions, or would like education on human trafficking.
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If you’re expecting a small bundle in the near future, you likely know by now that creating a new tiny human can be both exciting and exhausting. While you’re dreaming of the very moment when you’ll finally meet your sweet little one, you’re probably also looking forward to relief from the common symptoms of pregnancy (restless legs, anyone?).
Pelvic pain is arguably one of the worst of the many less than favorable side effects that moms-to-be often experience. Not to worry, though; 8 Sheep Organics is here to the rescue!
In this article, we’re exploring common causes of pelvic pain to uncover why it’s so common during pregnancy and how to remedy it safely. So if you’re hoping to make the next nine months a little less nerve-wracking — keep reading.
What Should I Know About Pelvic Pain During Pregnancy?
Believe it or not, approximately 72 percent of all pregnant women experience pain in the pelvic area at some point or another. Yup, it’s true — as organs make room for the growing uterus, your hormones drastically change and ligaments stretch, which can cause quite a bit of pain “down there.”
While no two pregnancies are exactly alike, this notorious pregnancy symptom typically makes its debut during the first trimester and can continue through the second trimester until the end of the third trimester.
In other words, some soon-to-be moms may experience pelvic pain in early pregnancy, only to find pain relief following the birth of their little one (aka, nine months later).
With this in mind, some of the most common culprits behind pelvic pain — or “pelvic girdle pain” — during pregnancy include:
- Symphysis pubis dysfunction (SPD) — inflammation and discomfort caused by the movement of joints and ligaments
- Growth spurts of the fetus
- Pressure from the developing baby’s weight
- The secretion of relaxin (a hormone produced by the ovary and placenta) — allows tendons and ligaments to soften and stretch in preparation for labor
- Pelvic pressure and cramping
What Does Pelvic Pain Feel Like?
The side effects of pelvic pain tend to be… well… pain in your pelvic region. We know, we know —probably not the answer you were looking for, but the truth is that pelvic pain can feel different from person to person, with the severity ranging from barely noticeable to unbelievably severe.
Simply put, pelvic pain can be characterized by discomfort around the pelvis.
That said, while pain in the pubic area and groin are the most common symptoms associated with pelvic pain, you may also notice:
- Pain that becomes worse at night, ultimately making it difficult to get a good night’s rest
- Lower back pain
- Heavy pressure
- Sharp, stabbing pains in the vagina, perineum, or rectum
- Radiating pain
- Muscle spasms
- General soreness
- Pain that’s made worse with movement
- A clicking sound or grinding sensation
Since so many different factors can contribute to pelvic pain, it’s always a good idea to check with your OBGYN if you feel any discomfort, especially if you have severe pain. Get with your doctor sooner rather than later if your pain is accompanied by any bleeding, swelling, nausea, vomiting, a severe headache, or fever.
In general, whenever you feel something isn’t right, you should call your healthcare provider immediately.
How Is Pelvic Pain Treated?
Unfortunately, there’s not too much that you can do about pelvic pain — but there are a few natural remedies that you can try to help make it a little less unbearable:
#1. Get a Prenatal Massage
If you ask us, there’s just about nothing better than a gentle rub down to calm the mind and soothe stress — but did you know that a prenatal massage can help ease pelvic pain, too?
A prenatal massage (performed by an experienced prenatal massage therapist) aims to relax tense muscles, ease sore spots, improve circulation, and just make you feel good — aka, it’s perfect for pelvic and abdominal pain (and a backache, too).
#2. Take a Warm Bath
In addition to prenatal massage, a warm (not hot!) bath can be oh-so soothing, helping your body to relax while loosening tense muscles and ligaments. We recommend tossing in a few sprinkles of our Therapeutic Bath Salts for an extra healing boost.
Made with 100 percent clean, natural ingredients like Epsom salts and Himalayan pink salts, this unbelievably therapeutic blend can do wonders to ease muscle aches, pains, and tension.
Complete your indulgent bath with an Aromatherapy Candle to help you unwind and support deep relaxation.
Note: To take a bath safely, it’s of the utmost importance that you ensure the water temperature does not exceed 100 degrees. An elevated body temp can be dangerous for your growing baby, so if you’re soaking in the tub to alleviate pelvic pain, do so in H2O that’s lukewarm — not hot.
#3. Use 8 Sheep Organics’ Sleepy Body Lotion
If pelvic pain is putting a damper on your beauty rest, we suggest using 8 Sheep Organics’ Sleepy Body Lotion. This gentle, pregnancy-safe formula is rich in organic ingredients like natural magnesium and works like magic to kick discomfort to the curb.
Simply apply two to three teaspoons of lotion onto areas of pain or tension after a warm bath and enjoy a deep, restful snooze — pain-free.
Pelvic pain is a common pregnancy symptom that affects more than 70 percent of pregnant women. There are a number of things that can cause it, but more often than not, fluctuating hormones are to blame. Although there’s no cure to treat pelvic pain, there are many natural remedies that you can try to help ease your discomfort.
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Israel Butler / Dec 2015
Viktor Orbán, prime minister of Hungary. Photo: Wikimedia Commons
Hungary’s Orbán administration has spent its five years in office eroding the constitution, undermining the independence of the judiciary, taking control over the media, attacking civil society and reforming electoral rules in its favour. Since 2012, Rajoy has carried out draconian reforms to Spain’s justice system. Now, Poland’s newly elected PiS government looks set to take the country in a similar direction. Other members of the EU club are slowly waking up to the fact that they cannot take adherence to the EU’s fundamental values for granted.
On 17 November, EU governments held their first ‘dialogue’ on the rule of law in the Union’s Council, under the Luxembourg presidency. The Treaty on European Union declares that the EU is ‘founded on’ the values of the rule of law, democracy and human rights. So it may come as a surprise that EU countries had never before sat around a table in Brussels and talked to each other about the state of human rights, democracy and the rule of law in their own countries.
It’s true that European governments talk to each other about human rights in other settings, for example, the Council of Europe and the UN. Sadly these bodies do not have the power to enforce their decisions, so countries often ignore what they say – which is probably the main reason governments don’t really mind talking about human rights in those organisations.
The same is not true of the EU, which has real powers that reach into national law and can even hit the public purse. And this is what makes it important that countries start talking about human rights in Brussels; because if the EU decides one of its members has a problem, that country will have to make things right.
It has taken sixty years for the EU’s member countries to take their first precarious baby step on human rights. European leaders are happy to go through each other’s budgets, scrutinise public spending and tell each other how their national economies should be structured. Why is it that governments are fine with involving each other in matters of such national importance, and yet talks on their rights records have been forbidden?
At the risk of sounding optimistic, it is because human rights still matter to European governments – especially to those who most fear criticism. Governments opposed to EU scrutiny recognise that being branded a rights violator is fatal to their reputation in a club that is ‘founded on’ these values. Although they do not believe that human rights of themselves are important, they believe that their rights reputation is. This is why Hungary’s Orbán has stepped back from some of his damaging reforms after warnings from the EU’s Commission – even though the latter has been too timid and unambitious. It is also why other countries, like Spain, have tried to keep their regressive reforms out of the media and largely off the EU’s radar.
For the Council’s first rule of law dialogue, the Luxembourg presidency tried to create a safe, non-judgemental environment where governments felt comfortable opening up to each other. Each country presented (on any aspect of the rule of law they chose) one example of where they are doing well, and one issue where they felt they are having problems, as well as how they planned to address that problem.
Insiders say talks went relatively well because governments were open and self-reflective. But member states did not go so far as to comment on each other’s rights records – the meeting was more a series of monologues than a true dialogue. And the range of issues governments raised was so broad (including migration, privacy, hate speech and terrorism) that there was little chance to get into detail.
The Luxembourg presidency may have gone as far as it could: it had the delicate task of loosening up the Council and breaking an old taboo. The 2016 Dutch presidency can capitalise on a comfortable first dialogue to take things further. First, it should make more time available for talks, otherwise discussions will remain superficial. Second, the presidency should avoid a succession of monologues and encourage governments to comment on each other’s problems. Third, governments should not be totally free to pick which topics to speak about. The presidency should set a theme and use the recommendations the UN and Council of Europe have already made to member states as a starting point for discussions. This would prevent governments picking easy issues to avoid criticism and allow talks to get into more detail. Fourth, governments should be prepared to accept recommendations from their peers and report back to the Council on progress.
These steps could turn the dialogue into a process that shores up EU values by inducing governments to call each other to account for rights violations. If the Council doesn’t put a break on rights-flouting governments, they will inspire followers. The European Commission’s failure to use its rule of law ‘framework’ to call Hungary’s government to account is likely to have emboldened Poland’s Orbán-admiring new PiS government to celebrate their election victory with attacks on the constitutional tribunal. If the trend towards ‘illiberal democracy’ is allowed to gain momentum it will become too difficult to halt. | <urn:uuid:7cb240a8-5833-44d0-88aa-85c0fc82f29c> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://encompass-europe.com/comment/wary-eu-governments-hold-first-rights-talk | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571150.88/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810070501-20220810100501-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.964974 | 1,091 | 2.34375 | 2 |
By emulating the eyes of mantis shrimp ― which are naturally tuned to see different polarizations of light ― scientists may be able to improve the performance of man-made polarization optics. A study into the eyes of mantis shrimp, published online this week in Nature Photonics, provides a starting ground for such designs and in principle could benefit future data storage systems, such as CDs and DVDs, and data projectors.
Wave plates are important optical components that are used to change the polarization of light and exploited in many forms of optical equipment. The problem is that designing wave plates to work for many different colours of light ― which correlate to different wavelengths ― rather than for a single colour is exceptionally difficult.
Nicholas Roberts and colleagues discovered that the wave plate in the mantis shrimp's eye has an elegant design which includes an incredible level of achromaticity, meaning that it performs well at all visible wavelengths, ranging from blue to red ― a task that has eluded man-made designs. ?The wave plate is formed in the photoreceptors in the mantis shrimp's eye, which contain a densely packed bundle of specially designed tubes. The study reveals that it is this specific geometry and material of the tubes that lead to the incredible performance of the wave plate.
The researchers hope that optical designers will now be able to copy the design to create man-made wave plates with much better performance than currently available.
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