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|A brief history of the
Cyril Franklin Hemminger enlisted in the Navy May 26, 1920. Working his way up through the ranks, he was appointed Boatswain April 3, 1942 and reported to cruiser Astoria for duty in the Pacific 8 days later. Hemminger was commissioned Ensign June 15, 1942 and in the early stages of the Guadalcanal Campaign, was killed during the battle of Savo Island.
Hemminger (DE-746) was launched September 12, 1943 by Western Pipe and Steel Co., San Francisco: sponsored by Mrs. Sue Frances Hemminger, widow; and commissioned May 30, 1944, Lt. Comdr. J.R. Bodler, USNR in command.
Shakedown completed, Hemminger reached Pearl Harbor in August 1944 to train submarines for war patrols. She also patrolled between Pearl and Eniwetok and worked in hunter-killer antisubmarine operations. On February 28, 1945 while on a HUK mission with USS Corregidor and CortDiv 53, the destroyer escort was diverted to participate in the fruitless search for Lieutenant General M.F. Harmon, Commander Army Air Forces Pacific, whose plane had disappeared. After patrol duty in the Marshall Islands, Hemminger sailed April 30, to escort a resupply convoy to Okinawa, where battle still raged. From May16 to June 20, she acted as a screen for a carrier group engaged in neutralization of Sakishima Gunto and supported ground forces on Okinawa as well as the air attack on Kyushu.
Hemminger joined CortDiv 53 and the Kasaan Bay for further hunter-killer patrol around Guam and Eniwetok until sailing for the Philippines September 27th. Detached from the Pacific Fleet, Hemminger reached Norfolk December 2nd via Saipan, Pearl Harbor, San Diego, and the Panama Canal. Training out of Green Cove Springs, Fla., occupied Hemminger until she decommissioned there on June 17, 1946 and went into reserve.
After a period of duty with the reserve training program, Hemminger recommissioned at Norfolk December 1, 1950. In the following years her career assumed a pattern of local operations along the coast punctuated by reserve training cruses to Canada and the Caribbean. One reserve cruise in June 1952 took Hemminger to Lisbon while others saw her at Rouen, France; Barranquilla, Colombia; Cadiz and New Orleans.
Hemminger also participated in several fleet exercises and worked with the Turkish submarine Gur in August 1954. Departing Little Creek, VA November 23, 1957 she reported to New York Naval Shipyard for inactivation. Hemminger decommissioned there February 21, 1958 and joined the Atlantic Reserve Fleet. She was loaned to Thailand July 22, 1959 under the Military Assistance Program and serves the Royal Thai Navy as Pinklao.*
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Whats A Watering Hole
The watering hole is a slang term used to describe your favorite hangout. It derives from an actual watering hole that animals use to drink from. Predators will lay in wait for their prey to come to the watering hole, then pounce on them! So a watering hole is a place that you frequent often and in some instances are places you go to everyday. So your watering hole could be your favorite restaurant, club, bar or virtual places such as websites. So how can that be used against you?
Watering Hole Attack: Here’s How It Works
During a watering hole attack, your favorite sites are used against you. An attacker does some information gathering on their potential victims. This reconnaissance may take days, weeks, or even years depending on the target. Hackers gather as much intel as possible about a victim’s browsing habits. This information gathering can be extremely sophisticated or extremely simple. attack or Once they know your favorite websites, they launch their attack! This can be done by placing viruses on the website you frequent, or by creating similar to lure you in. Once the potential target reaches the website the main objective is to obtain as much confidential information as possible.
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The First Step – A Youth Leader Taking Teens to the March for Life
Take the first step in faith. You don’t have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step. –Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Why am I doing this? I thought to myself. Why am I driving through the night to Washington, D.C in a van full of high school girls—and in January of all months?! As the hours passed, the answer I kept returning to was, This is the next step.
I first attended a March for Life three years ago in Chicago. I was nervous, wary of participating in a culture war fraught with complexity. But my bishop challenged our congregation to go and so I went—in a step of obedience more than conviction. What I discovered on that cold January day was not a culture war but a celebration: boom boxes blaring, students dancing—a diverse crowd of Anglos, African Americans, Latinos, and Filipinos—balloons everywhere. I was surprised at how much I enjoyed myself.
The following year, the next clear step was to attend the central March for Life in Washington DC with hundreds of thousands of others from around the country. How did I know that was the next step? Well, to put it plainly, because someone paid for me to go! They wanted to see if it’d be worth bringing Anglican students. So I went, saw what it could look like, and this year’s next obvious step was to invite my students to come along. Five junior and senior girls signed up, and with two other leaders, we were wheels-up after school on a Thursday afternoon.
The girls will tell you that their experience was life-changing. Here’s what one said: “This trip strengthened my belief in the pro-life cause and helped me take that belief as my own. I now firmly believe in the sanctity of every human life, no matter how small.”
Another: “I entered into this trip filled with fear and doubt, unsure where I stood in the spectrum of the pro-life movement, wondering if abortion should even be completely illegal. But when I attended the March, and then the Students for Life Conference afterwards, I found my misgivings challenged to a degree I never thought possible. I now know, with utter certainty, that abortion must be abolished, and I hold this belief with total conviction.”
This same student discovered the abortion debate “is so much more than a political issue, and the pro-life stance does not need to belong to any one political party.” She loved hearing from Louisiana State Representative Katrina Jackson, who spoke prior to the March: “People ask me all the time, “You are a black, female Democrat. Why are you pro-life?” I say, “’Because I am a Christian first.’”
After the March for Life on Friday—and a much-needed nap—we returned to the Washington Mall to see our nation’s memorials. We were inspired by these words:
From Lincoln’s Second Inaugural: “[W]ith firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in.”
And from Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.: “I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. This is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant.”
On Saturday we attended the Students for Life Conference, the world’s largest gathering of its kind for high school and college students. We heard from speakers like Stephanie Gray, who recently visited Church of the Rez. That evening the girls prayed and journaled about what the Lord was stirring in them. One student felt a renewed calling to honor the dignity of mothers and fathers who have had, or are considering, abortion:
I heard a speaker say that “a human’s greatest fear is to not feel loved.” When we are talking to these women, we have to act “with all humility and gentleness, with patience, bearing with one another in love” (Ephesians 4:2)…We need to remember that we are not trying to win a debate; we are trying to win a person.
After each shared, we thanked God and laid hands on them in prayer.
Sunday was packed. We worshipped at an African-American Baptist church, then arrived at the Roman Catholic Basilica just in time to hear the choir. After a quick lunch, we toured the Museum of the Bible where we saw an exhibit about “Slave Bibles.” These Bibles were intentionally mutilated to silence any parts of the Word of God that referenced liberation or the dignity of slaves’ lives. We sensed a clear thread throughout the entire weekend: our nation’s greatest injustices have come from the denial of human dignity. On the other hand, our national heroes have been those who saw prophetically in their generation what ought to have been intuitive to all: every human life has infinite value and worth.
These five girls took a step of faith to come on this trip, and their lives were changed. Now they’re asking the Lord to show them their next step. They can’t see the whole staircase, but they don’t have to. God is going to abolish abortion. That is what’s waiting for us at the top of the staircase. And He just might use our generation to do it!
Lord, make it so!
But our responsibility is not to see the entire staircase and climb every step in our own strength. Our job is simply to take the next step in faith.
By Will Chester, Youth Director at Church of the Resurrection in Wheaton, Illinois
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Menachem Kaiser is visiting Northeastern University on December 1 as part of the Fall ’21 Open Classroom. He will be discussing Plunder, Reparations, and Restorative Justice with University Distinguished Professor Margaret Burnham, calling upon his experiences while writing his book Plunder: A Memoir of Family Property and Nazi Treasure. Cayle White, a Northeastern parent, brought Kaiser to the attention of the Holocaust and Genocide Awareness Committee at Northeastern, which is co-sponsoring his visit. Below she shares some thoughts about the book.
By Cayle White.
Since I am subscribed to seemingly millions of different Jewish websites I don’t remember exactly where and when I learned about the book Plunder, but I know it impacted me sufficiently to contact the author Menachem Kaiser immediately to ask him if he would like to be the subject of an event featuring his book.
Menachem and I led parallel lives, growing up near each other in Toronto, Canada, although a few years apart. We are both grandchildren of Holocaust survivors whose families originate from the same area of Southwestern Poland, yet we had never met. This is not uncommon in Toronto which is a city of 165,000 Jews, many of whom have connections to the Holocaust.
Plunder is unique to the Holocaust genre because it is written by a 3G, a grandchild rather than a child of survivors, or a survivor themselves. I personally don’t know of too many 3G’s who are pursuing reparations or trying to recover their family’s property in Europe. Why exactly, I can’t say for certain. Maybe it was watching our grandparents endure the humiliation and disappointment of applying to foreign governments for reparations and their subsequent rejection amid impossible hurdles that left a bitter taste in our mouths. Or maybe it is simply that we are waiting for the time when we will have the bandwidth to properly investigate the issue. For whatever reason, Menachem does feel compelled to “go there” and credit goes to him for having the chutzpah and persistence to see it through.
Plunder begins as a story of one person’s journey to recover their family’s stolen property and develops into a mystery, a history lesson, a travelogue and a commentary on modern life in a former communist country. And above all, it’s funny. Stereotypes of Eastern Europeans in kitschy tracksuits with little self-awareness and zero filters are affirmed along with systemic corruption and bureaucratic quicksand. Typically, Holocaust material and hilarity don’t mix so well, but in this instance the humor is welcome, and I think my grandparents would have laughed along.
Once senses that Menachem gains a genuine awe and admiration for the treasure hunters who have amplified this legend into an industry and a raison d’etre. Eventually it dawns on him that the bizarre crossroads of historic enquiry and conspiracy theories can traced back to one motivation – anti-Semitism and the desire to erase the truths of the Holocaust.
This past summer, the appalling legal amendments in Poland effectively rendered impossible the ability of descendants of Holocaust survivors to file claims to recover their family’s confiscated property, at least for the time being.
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The Jordan Peterson Self Authoring program is one of the most monumental self-improvement experiences I’ve ever had.
Jordan Peterson is a Canadian clinical psychologist who burst into the forefront of the collective online consciousness within the last year or so when he started publishing a whole bunch of lectures and videos on YouTube.
I can say in all honesty that his lectures, his messages, and his obvious passion are beyond inspiring. The man is an erudite genius who understands a tremendous amount about how to live a good life.
One the Self Authoring website, it states:
People who spend time writing carefully about themselves become happier, less anxious and depressed and physically healthier. They become more productive, persistent and engaged in life. This is because thinking about where you came from, who you are and where you are going helps you chart a simpler and more rewarding path through life.
So while the actual Self Authoring program is a reasonably priced writing course, the ideas that make it valuable are free.
Social psychologist James M. Pennebaker greatly influenced the Jordan Peterson Self Authoring program with his work on expressive writing.
(Listen to Peterson and Pennebaker in conversation here.)
Jordan Peterson was asked on Quora what he believes are the most thought-provoking question anyone can ask themselves.
His response consisted of the seven questions below.
Whether you have completed or haven’t even started the Jordan Peterson Self Authoring program yet, a great place to start would be to spend 5 minutes journalling about each of the questions below.
Start the Jordan Peterson Self Authoring Process by Answering The Following 7 Questions
How can I consistently act to minimize the evil done in the world?
How can I continually improve the quality of the actions that I repeat every day (as those make up almost all of my life)?
What would happen if I only said things I deeply believed to be true?
What makes me interested in some things and not others (since it doesn’t seem to be a voluntary choice)?
Why has science taught us virtually nothing about consciousness?
How can I become strong enough to be useful in a crisis?
What do I currently do that adds the most quality and meaning to my life? How can I do more of that (and less of what detracts from that quality)?
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We are surrounded by the wonders of Allah’s creation, and are witness to the everyday miracles of life on this planet. It is no surprise, therefore, that contemplation is a much-emphasized theme in the Quran. Allah repeatedly exhorts us to reflect, ponder, give thought, reason, consider, and discern. The Quran, however, does not require us to adopt an ascetic lifestyle or engage in mystic practices; the type of contemplation enjoined by the Quran is something anyone can practice at any time. It simply consists of thinking about our present world and beyond, and striving to attain deeper faith and self-improvement through it. In fact, Allah encourages us to frequently engage in this type of contemplation; He states that the intelligent people are those “who remember Allah while standing or sitting or [lying] on their sides and give thought to the creation of the heavens and the earth, [saying], ‘Our Lord, You did not create this aimlessly…’” (Quran 3:190-191)
What to Contemplate and Ponder
What exactly is it that merits our contemplation? The Quran points to various aspects of our creation and the wider universe that are especially worth reflecting upon. Let us discuss seven of these themes in the light of the Quranic verses.
1) The Wider Universe
“Do they not contemplate the realm of the heavens and earth and all that Allah has created…?” (Quran 7:185)
Think about how the rotation of the earth on its axis causes the night and the day; how the sun keeps us warm and provides daylight; how the stars help us navigate the earth; and how the moon enables us to track the passage of time, and keeps the earth’s climate stable. Moreover, the precision of the distance between the sun and the earth, in order to sustain life on the latter, is astonishing! Think about the number and sheer size of the planets, the stars, the solar systems, and the galaxies that we know so little about. It is only Allah who has designed all of this and who regulates the continuous functioning of the universe. Reflecting on the outer space reveals not only the majesty of Allah but also His perfect creative ability.
2) The Water Cycle
“And have you seen the water that you drink? Is it you who brought it down from the clouds, or is it We who bring it down? If We willed, We could make it bitter, so why are you not grateful?” (Quran 56:68-70)
The water cycle is another amazing phenomenon that reveals the flawless functioning of nature by Allah’s command. Think about how the rainwater washes the surface of the earth and gathers in lakes and rivers to enhance our fresh water supply. Then some of this water evaporates into vapor form. In the atmosphere, the vapor then condenses to form clouds. And these clouds are finally driven to distant places by the winds where they cause rainfall. This complex system is critical to supporting life on our planet; fresh water is not only directly necessary for survival but it is critical for our crops and vegetation.
Also Read: 10 Ways to Show Gratitude to Allah
3) Crop Cultivation
“And have you seen that [seed] which you sow? Is it you who makes it grow, or are We the grower?” (Quran 56:63-64)
Take another example: the growing and harvesting of crops, some of which are edible when cooked while others provide us commercial value. What is worth pondering is the fact that we merely plant the seed – it is Allah who causes the seed to emerge from the ground in the form of a plant overtime. Think about how these crops flourish into something so valuable – and how a tiny seed sprouts into a lofty fruit-bearing tree despite minimal human effort involved: “He causes to grow for you thereby the crops, olives, palm trees, grapevines, and from all the fruits. Indeed in that is a sign for a people who give thought.” (Quran 16:11) Moreover, the diversity of plants and animals – with their millions of species, and varying colors and characteristics – points to a grand order in nature that only Allah is capable of evolving.
4) Our Progression in Life
“Do they not contemplate concerning themselves?” (Quran 30:8)
Think about how a single cell develops overtime into a fully-grown human. The Quran talks in detail about the various stages of embryonic development: from a “sperm-drop” to a “clinging clot” to a “lump”; and the lump is then covered with bones and flesh, eventually turning the organism into a “new creation” (Quran 23:13-14).
What happens after birth? The baby gradually adapts to the new atmosphere, learning to eat, interact with others, and use his or her senses to get a feel of this world. In the following years, there is a progression from childhood to youth to middle ages. The person gathers strength, encounters unfamiliar circumstances, and establishes new relationships, until after reaching the pinnacle of life, the person’s physical strength begins to decline once more with the onset of the old age. “And he to whom We grant long life We reverse in creation; so will they not understand?” (Quran 36:68) Finally, death approaches, causing the deceased to leave everything behind other than their deeds. This should remind us to use our time efficiently and strive to perform the best deeds.
5) Diversity of Humankind
“Had Allah willed, He would have made you one nation, but [He intended] to test you in what He has given you; so race to [all that is] good.” (Quran 5:48)
In addition to the contrast in our laws and social norms, the human diversity is very much evident in our different colors, languages, and ethnicities: “And of His signs is the creation of the heavens and the earth and the diversity of your languages and your colors. Indeed in that are signs for those of knowledge.” (Quran 30:22) It is also worth reflecting upon how each person is different from another. Each one of us has a unique personality, and no two humans are alike. Moreover, no two fingerprints are the same, even on the same individual! How is it that out of the billions of humans that inhabit the earth, no two persons are completely alike? This is again a manifestation of Allah’s ultimate wisdom and inventiveness.
6) The Verses of the Quran
“Then do they not reflect upon the Qur’an?” (Quran 4:82)
Another sign of Allah is the Quran itself – free of ambiguity or discrepancy. It contains the Word of Allah revealed in portions to Muhammad ﷺ, and preserved in its original form. Hence, we must carefully consider the teachings, injunctions, examples, arguments, and dialogues presented in the Quran. Never be in a hurry to finish the Quran, but pause frequently to reflect on its verses, especially those detailing righteous conduct. Focus on quality rather than quantity; pondering over a short passage of the Quran may be better than reading all of it without understanding. Allah clarifies the purpose of the revelation of the Quran as follows: “[This is] a blessed Book which We have revealed to you that they might reflect upon its verses and that those of understanding would be reminded.” (Quran 38:29)
7) Historical Narrations
“So relate the stories that perhaps they will give thought.” (Quran 7:176)
History teaches us about civilizations, human progress, and the impact of human choices and actions. The Quran gives certain accounts of previous nations for us to reflect on and learn lessons from. The communities that disregarded Allah and indulged in corruption perished, while the righteous and just nations earned His favor. The Quran also details the challenges faced by the prophets and their followers, and how they sought to overcome them. These narrations inspire us to adopt good conduct, stay resolute in the face of hardships, and embrace the temporary nature of this life. Reflect on each story and personality mentioned in the Quran, and derive practical lessons from it: “There was certainly in their stories a lesson for those of understanding.” (Quran 12:111)
Warning against Not Using Reason
“He brings disgrace on those who do not use their reason.” (Quran 10:100)
Allah has blessed humanity with a high intellect, and this is what makes the human superior to even the angels. Hence, neglecting the use of the intellect is not only a folly, but sheer ungratefulness to Allah. He chastises those who do not ponder or use their intellect – comparing them to “livestock” (Quran 25:44) – and especially those who blindly follow others without thinking on their own. Rejecting reason and taking this life for granted is a characteristic of the disbelievers in Allah, whereas, the prophets would always urge people to think critically to arrive at the truth. Allah has a stern warning for those who do not contemplate: “Indeed, the worst of living creatures in the sight of Allah are the deaf and dumb who do not use reason.” (Quran 8:22)
Benefits of Contemplation
“Thus Allah makes clear to you the signs that you might give thought.” (Quran 2:219)
Let us conclude by summarizing some of the benefits of contemplation and purposeful reflection as prescribed in the Quran:
- Contemplation makes us attain greater wisdom and mindfulness, allowing us to be at peace with our surroundings.
- Reflecting on the sheer size of the universe helps us recognize Allah, appreciate His creative ability, and better comprehend His dominance over all that exists.
- Thinking deeply about nature causes us to appreciate our own insignificance, leading to humility and gratitude.
- Contemplating our progression through life makes us question the purpose of our creation, channeling us towards a more meaningful life.
- Reflecting on the Quran improves our conduct, enabling us to better empathize with others and maintain a more positive demeanor.
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Bids are one of the most important variables when it comes to optimizing budgets, setting target values, and getting the most value of your Facebook campaigns.
Automatic bidding strategy (known as Lowest cost) implies that Facebook algorithms will manage the bids for you and determine which auctions to get in and try to maximize the results for your budget while with Cost and Bid control strategies you can take much more control over your costs and overall efficiency of your campaigns.
And although it's great to have the option to control the bidding, it's not always necessary and won't guarantee better ads performance in some of the cases. As Facebook says, the more control you have, the more constraints you place on Facebook to find lower-cost opportunities for your desired outcomes. So choose wisely 😉
There are 3 types of Bidding strategies on Facebook allowing to control bids and costs per optimization events. What is the difference and how each one works?
Target cost. After creating an ad and entering the auction you define the average cost you're ready to pay per optimization event and you always stay within a tight window of your average cost (the cost may be 10% higher or lower than your average cost), but you never go into auctions with the cost outside of this window.
Note, not all optimization goals are available for target cost.
Bid cap. In this case, you set the hard cap on the cost per optimization event and your ad won't enter any auction which costs more than X per purchase. With a bid cap, Facebook starts from the lowest price auctions and goes up when low price auctions are depleted, but it will not go for any purchase with the price higher than your determined cost.
Note, you may not spend your entire budget once you hit the cap, as others would be winning the auctions while your bid is too low.
Cost cap. This bidding strategy allows setting your desired cost per auction with no hard caps on bids. Similar to a bid cap, Facebook also starts seeking low-cost conversions and keeps increasing bids when there are no auctions at low prices available, but unlike the bid cap strategy, it will go over your bid cap when Facebook thinks there is a good likelihood of conversions. So this strategy is supposed to keep your average cost within a specific threshold to bring the most efficient results.
Example: If you set a cost cap of $5 and an optimization event becomes available for a $5.30 bid, Facebook will likely go after this conversion. But first, it's going to pick up anything that is much cheaper, cost-wise. If there are enough optimization events at, say, $2 cost, that's where the bid would stay until all the cheap options are depleted.
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Sex of mind |
Sex of the body |
Sexuality you like |
Human beings are composed of four sexualities, and there are 100 ways of representing sexualities if there are 100 people.
Sexuality to express |
There are four sexualities "Sexuality of mind" "Physical sexuality" "Sexuality of who you like" "Sexuality of expression".
Let's see more in details !
The sex of how you think about your sex
・Who thinks they are woman
・Who thinks they are man
・Who thinks they have both sex
・Who thinks they don't want to have sex
・Who changes according to the time
There are many different types of people such as above
Sex determined from the appearance and shape of the body when they were born
Even for the same sex, each body is different
※Sometimes the sex of the body is judged not only from appearance and form but also from the state of sex chromosome and sex hormone
Gender sex of your love affair
・People who like men
・People who like women
・People who like men and women
・People who like people regardless of gender
・People who do not like people of any gender
There are various sex such as above.
How to express yourself to others
・Wear pants or skirts
・Shorten or lengthen your hair
・How to call yourself
・Do you act fretful or behave brave
You can express your sex with various words such as above.
Only you can decide your sexuallties and you should express yourself that you feel right now!
Instead of LGBT, the word "SOGIE" has also come to be used.
This word was born from the idea that "People who are sexual minorities and who aren't has different feelings such as sexuality you like and sex of mind, and also what you can express yourself with clothes and behavior is various."
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
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Tailwind CSS Letter Spacing
This class accepts lots of value in tailwind CSS in which all the properties are covered as in class form. It is the alternative to the CSS letter-spacing property. This class is used to set the spacing behavior between text characters i.e, increasing or decreasing the space between characters in a text.
Letter Spacing classes:
- tracking-tighter: The tracking-tighter letter spacing for the zero space between characters, the value will be -0.05em.
- tracking-tight: The tracking-tight letter spacing for the little space between characters, the value will be -0.025em.
- tracking-normal: The tracking-normal letter spacing for the current font i.e no extra space between characters. This is the default value.
- tracking-wide: The tracking-wide letter spacing for a little more space between characters compared to normal, the value will be 0.025em.
- tracking-wider: The tracking-wider letter spacing for a little more space between characters compared to wide, the value will be 0.05em.
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The Penny Press
‘Penny Press’ was the name of a style of newspaper first created in New York by Benjamin Day in the 1830’s. Penny press newspapers have long been credited with the creation of modern journalism (Brazeal, 2005, Pauly, 1987). Although there is some contention as to the cumulative impact of the penny press style on society, it has been recognized as providing mass accessibility, innovations in content, and a focus on timely reporting. Penny newspapers have also been linked to progressive technologies in printing presses and telegraph machines.
Before the innovation of the penny press, there were several varieties of newspapers including both weekly and daily papers (Nerone, 1987). In this discussion, I will concentrate on comparisons between the daily papers. Prior to the penny press, urban daily newspapers had low circulation and didn’t generate a great deal of revenue. In fact, even in New York, the largest daily newspaper had a circulation of about 4,500 a day (Brazeal, 2005). This was due to several aspects. Daily newspapers were expensive, averaging six cents a copy. This expense meant that people had to be moderately wealthy in order to afford this luxury (Straubhaar, LaRose & Davenport, 2009). Since only the elite bought them, the tone and information covered in the papers tended to reflect the ideals and sensibilities of the upper class (Straubhaar et al, 2009). They also tended to promote the views of a specific political party or commercial interest (Williams, 1993). Therefore, for middle and lower class people, daily newspapers were uninteresting and boring (Brazeal, 2005).
However, shifts in the social and cultural consciousness of the time resulted in the world being ready for changes in the presentation and format of newspapers (Nerone, 1987). The rise of the printed textbook set the scene for more widespread educational opportunities and caused an increase in the amount of literate and partly literate people in the general population. Many factors such as technological advances in the printing press making printing papers cheaper, social changes bringing more people into the cities and cultural changes leading to the ideals of free speech and freedom of the press set the tone for a shift in the focus and content of newspapers. These changes would enhance the newspaper industry and attract a wider readership.
The First Penny Newspaper
When Benjamin Day started his newspaper, he wasn’t looking to revolutionize the genre, he just wanted to ensure the successful future of his business. Many of the innovations that his paper achieved were unintentional and based on trial and error (Williams, 1993, Nerone, 1987), but they did result in changes to the industry and a significant increase in daily newspaper readership (Brazeal, 2005, Williams, 1993). Day’s penny paper, The Sun, began on September 3, 1833 in New York City. The first copies were unglamorous, with news stories and even advertisements copied from other, more expensive newspapers. The printing press used to produce the paper was crude, hand operated model that was time consuming and technologically outdated (Brazeal, 2005, Nerone, 1987). The instant success of the newspaper came from its low cost, one cent per paper, and was heightened when, after a week in operation, Day hired a talented reporter to write the police reports (Brazeal, 2005). Although other dailies had covered police incidents before (Williams, 1993), this reporter, George w. Wisner, had a knack for turning the police and courtroom situations into interesting and sensationalized stories that read almost like fiction. This innovative style of writing was more interesting for readers and caused sharp increases in the readership of The Sun, allowing the paper to sell in excess of five thousand copies in only a few months (Brazeal, 2005, Williams, 1993). The change in writing style was one of several innovations which initiated a change in the definition of what news is and how it was presented to the public.
Another innovation was a change in the content of the newspaper. Previous six cent dailies contained articles consisting of static political commentary with no expiration date and news from other cities that was old before it was published (Brazeal, 2005). This type of information didn’t become outdated as fast so readers didn’t have to purchase a new paper every day to keep up. The penny papers presented news as dynamic, something that becomes outdated and needs replacing each day. As The Sun expanded in content and readership, news was made immediate, with an emphasis on local stories which were changed each day (Williams, 1993). Since more news was always forthcoming, people wanted to buy the new copy in order to be updated about the gossip and current events of the community. Day wasn’t the creator of timely news but his use of it encouraged the general public to change their thinking about what constituted news and how long it remains current (Brazeal, 2005, Williams, 1993). Day’s definition of what news is continues to be the norm to this day.
Use of Technology
Innovations in technology and the creative use of technology go hand in hand. As new inventions are created, people develop ways to use them advantageously. Likewise, as a need arises, there is a demand for a new technological innovation to fill this gap. The development and growth of the penny newspaper demonstrates both of these scenarios. The invention of the printing press eventually led to its application as a tool to get news to more people in the form of the penny newspaper. Once people embraced this form of communication, the increased demand for papers resulted in the requirement for faster printing presses.
Although Benjamin Day started his paper with an outdated printing press, he soon needed to upgrade in order for production to keep up with the demand for his papers. Over the years that he owned The Sun, he consistently upgraded his presses to the cutting edge technology of the time (Brazeal, 2005). The Sun began on Sept. 3, 1833 and in on December 17, 1833, it reported to its readers that the paper had acquired a machine press that could make one thousand impressions in an hour. In August, 1835, the sun again reported a change in printing presses to its readers. It reported that it was having trouble meeting the demands of printing, even thought it was using a “double cylinder Napier machine”, printing 2000-2200 sheets an hour. It also reported that it was in the process of upgrading again to a new steam engine press that printed 3000 sheets per hour (Brazeal, 2005). This innitiative to print papers fast enough to meet the demand of the high readership added to the mounting pressure applied by the newspaper industry to create new innovations in the printing press (Nerone, 1987).
The perishability of the news relied on high speed technology that could generate new stories each day (Brazeal, 2005). Since newspapers now required new content each day, there was pressure to get the news to the newsroom faster. After its invention in the late 1830’s the electric telegraph became an important way of exchanging information quickly. As both penny press and conventional newspapers needed sppedy access to information, both groups provided funds to promote early telegraph line construction (Nerone, 1987).
Implications for Literacy, Communication, and Public Opinion
The innovations of Benjamin Day and others who followed his example by continuing to refine the penny press had great implications for mass literacy. In 1935, The Sun itself stated that it had the greatest circulation of any newspaper in the world. Using innovations in content, technological enhancements, and social elements of the time, it had managed to transform the daily newspaper from an expensive, elitist luxury to a form of writing that was interesting and accessible to all classes (Wilson, 1993). This expansion of newspaper readership to include all people has led many to conclude that it was the first true form of mass media (Brazeal, 2005). The expansion of sales resulted in the newspaper having greater power to shape public opinion. The penny newspaper both shaped and reflected the cultural ideals of big city life at the time (Pauly, 1987).
An example of the impact that The Sun had on public opinion in the city of New York can be seen through changes to the running of the fire department. The fire department in New York in the 1830’s was completely volunteer. When a fire occurred, volunteers would fight to be the first on the scene and for these people, being there first took precedence over actually fighting the fires. The Sun advocated for the idea of a paid fire department using horse drawn fire engines and the people responded. This resulted in a shift to a paid fire fighting force in New York (Lee, 1917 p.206).
Another example of the rise in popularity of newspapers can be seen in this film taken in 1899. People flock to the news wagon and even fight to get to the newspapers.
Brazeal, D. (2005) Precursor to Modern Media Hype: The 1830’s Penny Press. The Journal of American Culture 28(4) 405-414
Nerone, J. (1987) The Mythology of the Penny Press. Critical Studies in Mass Communication 4(1) 376-404
Pauly, J. (1987) Critical Response: The Rest of the Story. Critical Studies in Mass Communication 4(1) 415-419
Straubhaar J., LaRose, R., & Davenport (2009) Media Now: Understanding Media, Culture, and Technology Wadsworth, Cengage Learning Inc.
Williams, J. (1993) The Founding of the Penny Press: Nothing New Under “The Sun”, “The Herald”, or “The Tribune”. Retrieved Oct. 18 from http://www.eric.ed.gov/ERICWebPortal/search/detailmini.jsp?_nfpb=true&_&ERICExtSearch_SearchValue_0=ED360650&ERICExtSearch_SearchType_0=no&accno=ED360650
Lee, J.(1917) History of American Journalism Cambridge. The Riverside Press. Retrieved from Kobo http://kobobooks.com/ebook/History-of-American-journalism/book-wqEjk_Wzt0Cyf2iL4Q9TUw/page1.html | <urn:uuid:ccf1dbf5-b7f3-40e3-af49-d07edce52c78> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://wiki.ubc.ca/Course:ETEC540/2010WT1/Assignments/ResearchProject/PennyPress | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571198.57/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810161541-20220810191541-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.956557 | 2,164 | 3.65625 | 4 |
|GB Font Maker||UtilMike||Allows you to draw a tile and then tells you the hex as it would apear in a rom. Useful for development work and what not.||Miscellaneous Graphics Tools||GB||N/A||Win||1.0||11 Mar 2003|
|GBADecmp||Parasyte||This program can extract LZ77,RLE and HUFFMAN and can insert LZ77 and RLE.||Miscellaneous Graphics Tools||GBA||N/A||Win||1.0||20 Nov 2004|
|GByeBye||Odin||GBB or GByeBye is a program that allows you to decompress Gameboy Advance LZ77(for a moment). Specifically, data called from the GBA BIOS routines.
It comes configured to uncompress some graphical data from [GBA]Advance Wars 1.1 as an example.
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|Graphic Converter||Charles Doty||Allows for the conversion of graphics between BMP and Sega Saturn formats including bitmap variants and textures.
Bitmap, Texture, and Character time are supported.
It also supports Binary and ASCII formats with Pallet and LZSS Compression.
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|Graphics Extractor||Jair||Allows for the extraction of NES graphics to a Bitmap file.||Miscellaneous Graphics Tools||NES||N/A||Win||1.1||15 Oct 1998|
|Graphics Inserter||Jair||Allows for the insertion of NES graphics from a Bitmap file.||Miscellaneous Graphics Tools||NES||N/A||Win||1.1||15 Oct 1998|
|GraphiX 3||ElixirNova||This program expands the MegaMan X3 ROM in a not so efficient manner and allows you to easily import/export compressed graphics and it takes care of the rest! So now all the graphics in MegaMan X 3 can be edited! This specific program will probably b….||Miscellaneous Graphics Tools||SNES||Mega Man X3||Win||0.8||20 Jul 2008|
|GraveyardDuck||D||GraveyardDuck is a Python program which will decompress and extract, and compress and insert graphics from several 8-bit Konami games. All you need to do to use it is find where the compression starts. It has been confirmed to work on the RLE in Cast….||Miscellaneous Graphics Tools||N/A||N/A||Indep||1.3||17 Dec 2013|
|grit||Coranac||Grit and its GUI version Wingrit are main image converters for the GBA (and NDS I guess). They can do most of the simple things like reading an image (pretty much any type of bitmap thanks to FreeImage) and converting it to binary data of various bit….||Miscellaneous Graphics Tools||GBA||N/A||Win||0.7.1||None|
|HPTimRip||HPMAN||Seeks and extracts TIM files from PSX cds.||Miscellaneous Graphics Tools||PSX||N/A||DOS||1.00||01 May 2000|
|Lemmsprite||Lab 313||SPR to BMP converter for Lemmings and Oh No! More Lemmings games.||Miscellaneous Graphics Tools||PSX||Lemmings & Oh No! More Lemmings||Win||0.1 beta||12 Nov 2011|
|LZToshio (Toshio Toyota Compressor)||Lab 313||Info: This console tool allows you to compress and decompress all of graphics archives in few games by Toshio Toyota.
USAGE FOR DECOMPRESSION:
LZToshio.exe -d [Filename] [HexOffset]
USAGE FOR COMPRESSION:
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|Map Image||Djinn||This program converts Map, Tiles and Palette to BMP file and vice versa.
Supports NES, GBA and Genesis maps and tile formats.||Miscellaneous Graphics Tools||Multiple||N/A||Win||188.8.131.52||19 Apr 2008|
|mdl2obj||blank||A tool to convert Luigi’s Mansion type 3D Model MDL files to OBJ files and associated texture files.||Miscellaneous Graphics Tools||GC||Luigi's Mansion||Indep||0.1||06 Nov 2012|
|Mr. Huber’s GB to NES GFX Converter||Mr. Huber||Converts between GB and NES format.||Miscellaneous Graphics Tools||Multiple||N/A||Win||1.00||24 Dec 2001|
|N64GFX||EAR CLOCK, cesarB, and Hyllian||Extracts and Inserts N64 graphics from ROM files for editing.||Miscellaneous Graphics Tools||N64||N/A||Win||1.0||18 Feb 2001|
|NeoFixFormat||freem||NeoFixFormat is a YY-CHR.NET plugin for reading/writing Neo-Geo fix layer tiles (”S” ROMs). According to the NeoGeoDev Wiki, “the cart and CD systems use the same format” for the fix tiles, so this should work for both Neo-Geo (MV….||Miscellaneous Graphics Tools||Multiple||N/A||Win||1.0||21 Apr 2014|
|NES Screen Arranger||SnowBro||A little developers tool for designing title screens. Can be quite handy for redesigning them too.||Miscellaneous Graphics Tools||NES||N/A||DOS||1.0||31 Dec 1998|
|NES Screen Tool||Shiru||NES Screen Tool is very useful utility for designing screens for NES/Famicom games. You load pre-designed character ROM banks of a certain size and use them to build a screen, palettes and attribute tables. You can also do edits to the character ROM ….||Miscellaneous Graphics Tools||NES||N/A||Win||2.4||16 Nov 2018|
|NFTR2BMP||CUE||NFTR2BMP - Copyright (C) CUE 2012
Generate an 8-bits BMP file from a Nintendo DS Nitro font.
- Usage: nftr2bmp fontname bmpname horizontal_tiles [tile_rotation]
- ‘fontname’ must be a valid NFTR….
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Social Needs are the basic needs of humans that prove that they are social beings. The need for love, companionship, friendship and belonging are among the major social needs. These needs inspire people to interact with each other and create community and comradery.
These basic needs are to be fulfilled for a healthy mind and peaceful life. Otherwise, unsatisfaction and despair settle in to make life miserable.
American Psychologist, Abraham Maslow had theorized the psychological Hierarchy of Needs, and the social needs or the need for love and belonging is on the third tier of the hierarchy. According to Maslow, it expands to friendship, family and sexual intimacy.
Bases Covered by Social Needs
The social needs in community settings cover at least one of the four bases and they are -
For example, by covering one or more of the above 4 C’s, the social needs are met. Friendship covers “communicate” and “connect” where romantic love covers “communicate,” “connect” and “(pro)create”.
Use of the Term in Sentences
- Social needs are among the most important basic needs of humans after psychological and biological needs.
- Governments should invest heavily in meeting the social needs of humans while taking care of public policymaking.
- Social needs often prove to be more critical to meet than other needs in Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs.
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Want to see an actual picture of a biblical character? It’s engraved on the Black Obelisk at London’s British Museum. The portrait is of Jehu, who was anointed King of Israel at the direction of the prophet Elijah. In 1 Kings 19:16, the Lord told Elijah, “Anoint Jehu son of Nimshi king over Israel.” In 2 Kings 9, Elijah sent his associate to fulfill the command.
It didn’t take long for the newly-crowned King Jehu to start killing people, including wicked Queen Jezebel (2 Kings 9:30-37). But in 841 B.C., Jehu surrendered himself as a vassal to Assyrian King Shalmaneser III. King Shalmaneser commemorated his victory by directing that a small monument be carved out of black limestone. This Black Obelisk was discovered in 1845 and taken to the British Museum where it’s now displayed in Room 6. The Black Obelisk shows rulers in their national dress bringing tribute to the victorious Assyrian ruler. The kneeling figure is Jehu – an actual engraved picture of a biblical character, an old testament king with ties back to the propht Elijah. | <urn:uuid:84bd6f1d-f8a8-4949-93ac-c2056b1e896d> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.robertjmorgan.com/devotional/in-the-british-museum-portrait-of-a-biblical-figure/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571909.51/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813051311-20220813081311-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.909318 | 258 | 3.828125 | 4 |
Orders such as the Sisters of Life seem to be doing well. And more women who have a vocation are drawn to the more traditional orders.
A new study of Roman Catholic nuns and priests in the United States shows that an aging, predominantly white generation is being succeeded by a smaller group of more racially and ethnically diverse recruits who are attracted to the religious orders that practice traditional prayer rituals and wear habits.
The study found that the graying of American nuns and priests was even more pronounced than many Catholics had realized. Ninety-one percent of nuns and 75 percent of priests are 60 or older, and most of the rest are at least 50.
They are the generation defined by the Second Vatican Council, of the 1960s, which modernized the church and many of its religious orders. Many nuns gave up their habits, moved out of convents, earned higher educational degrees and went to work in the professions and in community service. The study confirms what has long been suspected: that these more modern religious orders are attracting the fewest new members.
The study was already well under way when the Vatican announced this year that it was conducting two investigations of American nuns. One, taking up many of the same questions as the new report, is an “apostolic visitation” of all women’s religious orders in the United States. The other is a doctrinal investigation of the umbrella group that represents a majority of American nuns, the Leadership Conference of Women Religious.
The new study, being released on Tuesday, was conducted by the Center for Applied Research in the Apostolate at Georgetown University, for the National Religious Vocation Conference, which is looking for ways for the church to attract and retain new nuns and priests. It was financed by an anonymous donor.
“We’ve heard anecdotally that the youngest people coming to religious life are distinctive, and they really are,” said Sister Mary Bendyna, executive director of the Center for Applied Research in the Apostolate. “They’re more attracted to a traditional style of religious life, where there is community living, common prayer, having Mass together, praying the Liturgy of the Hours together. They are much more likely to say fidelity to the church is important to them. And they really are looking for communities where members wear habits.”
Of the new priests and nuns who recently joined religious orders, two-thirds chose orders that wear a habit all the time or regularly during prayer or ministry, the study found.
New Nuns and Priests Seen Opting for Tradition, New York Times
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I believe women have a tremendous amount of influence in our society. It is women who usually teach their children responsible behavior. (I know there are more "stay-at-home" dads than ever before, but I believe women are still the majority in this role.) When I was a young child, I was taught more by Catholic sisters than priests or men. I can only imagine how our society will be affected if we have more Catholic sisters who return to the traditions of the Church. It will certainly be interesting to watch. It does seem as though we're witnessing a change in the tide. | <urn:uuid:9774a75e-2af2-40d2-b523-d3add632db85> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://catholicprodigaldaughter.blogspot.com/2009/11/vatican-visitation-of-women-religious.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572033.91/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814113403-20220814143403-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.979495 | 657 | 2.0625 | 2 |
Today President Donald J. Trump through the “deal” or “agreement” made between the Kingdom of Morocco and Israel. Have ensured that the Kingdom can annex the “Southern” provinces or Western Sahara or the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic. Because of the support of the Polisario Front, the government in-exile have claimed the independence and own state. However, the Kingdom of Morocco have claimed it after Mauritania “left it”.
This is why it’s really unfortunate that the Trump Administration in its final stages are arranging a “legal annexation” of Western Sahara. This will further escalate the “cold-war” between the neighbours of Algeria and Morocco. Who already fought the Sand Wars over the same territory. As the Algerian government is supporting the Polisario Front. While Morocco wants to keep a bigger territory. Where they can also enforce its control, extract its resources and sell the fish abroad. Which it does and have done.
This Israel-Morocco deal is surely to give another “victory” in the supposed legacy of Trump. However, this might be remembered for further escalation and cause more problems for the UN Mission in Western Sahara (MINUSRO). A UN Mission which will in trouble and cause issues about brokered peace deal of 1991. This will most likely hurt these endeavourers and cause more harm.
The Government-in-Exile will surely be hit by this and the Algerian allies will react to this. The support from all across the continent will react too. As there been a long history of solidarity across the African liberation movements in support of the independence of SADR. Therefore, today’s actions thwart that.
It is a sad day. As this is throwing a Molotov cocktail into the conflict and probably causing more frictions, tensions and escalations between Algeria-Morocco. Since both parties are invested in it and has their pride in this.
The United Nations needs to mediate. The African Union needs to get active before Algeria, Polisario Front or Morocco annexes it officially. Not only “holding” the territory, but taking full ownership. That would cause such harm and we would have a cross border battle. Also, possibly involve more Republics. As the surge for support of the cause and secure its benefactors.
The Kingdom of Morocco might cheer today. However, that is all false celebrations. As they are colonizing an area, which isn’t their to have. It is the SADR and not “Southern provinces”. Let’s that be clear.
There is a need for solidarity on this and the people of SADR. The Sahrawi deserves recognition. It is their birthright. It is not for Morocco too take. Trump is an erratic bullshitter and ego-maniac. That man doesn’t care about the consequences as long as he gets a cut or pay-off. We can wonder what that is here, but with time the price will eventually leak.
The SADR isn’t something you bargain for cheap. It isn’t a commodity you sell. It is a Republic that shouldn’t be for sale. However, Trump easily sold the Kurds out too. So, this follows a pattern. Peace.
Earlier report on the matter:
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The Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) Psychopharmacologic Drugs Advisory Committee voted 3 “yes” and 9 “no” on whether the available evidence supports the conclusion that pimavanserin is effective for the treatment of hallucinations and delusions associated with Alzheimer disease (AD) psychosis.
Pimavanserin, an atypical antipsychotic, is currently marketed under the brand name Nuplazid® and is approved for the treatment of hallucinations and delusions associated with Parkinson disease psychosis (PDD). The supplemental New Drug Application (sNDA) for Alzheimer disease psychosis included data from the phase 3 HARMONY (ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT03325556) and phase 2 Study-019 (ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT02035553) trials.
In the HARMONY study, the FDA panel noted that the primary endpoint (effect of pimavanserin on time to relapse of psychosis) appeared to be driven primarily by results in the PDD subgroup, though the AD subgroup was the largest in the study. It was unclear whether concomitant use of dopaminergic medication explained the difference between groups. Mixed results and study limitations were also revealed in the post hoc analyses.
Though pimavanserin demonstrated a statistically significant treatment effect vs placebo in Study-019, the FDA panel questioned the clinical meaningfulness of the primary endpoint (change from baseline to day 43 in the Neuropsychiatric Inventory-Nursing Home Version psychosis score) treatment difference (<2 points on a 24-point scale). According to the panel, “the lack of support from the secondary efficacy endpoints and the exploratory analyses that do not show discernable differences at [day 64] or [day 85] raise the question of whether the treatment difference at [day 43] is a chance finding (eg, sudden one-time worsening in the placebo group) and/or about the durability of the effect.”
Although not bound by the committee’s recommendations, the Agency does take them into consideration when making decisions on approval. The FDA’s target action date is August 4, 2022 for this application.
- Acadia Pharmaceuticals announces outcome of FDA advisory committee for Nuplazid® (pimavanserin) for the treatment of Alzheimer’s disease psychosis. News release. Acadia Pharmaceuticals Inc. Accessed June 17, 2022. https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20220617005539/en/Acadia-Pharmaceuticals-Announces-Outcome-of-FDA-Advisory-Committee-for-NUPLAZID%C2%AE-pimavanserin-for-the-Treatment-of-Alzheimer%E2%80%99s-Disease-Psychosis
- FDA Briefing Document: Psychopharmacologic Drugs Advisory Committee (PDAC) June 17, 2022. Pimavanserin for the treatment of hallucinations and delusions associated with Alzheimer’s disease psychosis. https://www.fda.gov/media/159249/download
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Social Inclusion Community Activation Programme (2018-2022)
What is the Social Inclusion and Community Activation Programme (SICAP)?
The Social Inclusion and Community Activation Programme (SICAP) 2018 – 2022 provides funding to tackle poverty and social exclusion at a local level through local engagement and partnerships between disadvantaged individuals, community organisations and public sector agencies. SICAP 2018 – 2022 is the successor programme to SICAP 2015 – 2017.
SICAP is a social inclusion programme which assists both individuals and groups through a two-pronged approach; supporting communities and supporting individuals. The task of Programme Implementers (PIs) is to reflect the broad scope of the programme in their actions and use programme funding to strengthen communities and improve people’s lives.
SICAP aims to address high and persistent levels of deprivation through targeted and innovative, locally led approaches. It targets and supports those who are disadvantaged in Irish society and less likely to use mainstream services.
PIs engage with marginalised communities and service providers using a community development approach to address issues relating to social exclusion and inequality. It enables bottom-up approaches within the framework of a national programme which provides targets, performance indicators and requirements.
SICAP is funded by the Department of Rural and Community Development with co-funding from the European Social Fund (ESF) as part of the ESF Programme for Employability, Inclusion and Learning 2014-2020.
European Social Fund (ESF)
The ESF Programme for Employability, Inclusion and Learning (PEIL) 2014-2020 is co-financing SICAP in the years 2018-2020. PEIL’s priority areas for investment revolve around the activation of the unemployed, social and labour market inclusion, education and youth employment. Under PEIL 2014- 2020 Priority 2, the allocation for SICAP is €60m.
Goal 1: Supporting Communities
To support communities and target groups to engage with relevant stakeholders in identifying and addressing social exclusion and equality issues, developing the capacity of Local Community Groups, and creating more sustainable communities.
Goal 2: Supporting Individuals
To support disadvantaged individuals to improve the quality of their lives through the provision of lifelong learning and labour market supports.
SICAP Case Study 2018 – West Limerick Resources
The Case study is a Goal 2 Collaboration theme on supports to residents in a Direct Provision Centre. It gives examples of collaboration with private and public organisations responding to isolation and lack of integration. The project brought together local people with people of different backgrounds and cultures to do up a recreation amenity, culminating in a cricket match. Please see link below to case study.
SICAP Case Study 2019 – West Limerick Resources
Cairde Project – Cairde meaning ‘friends’ is one of the themes that underpins our SICAP case study for 2019. It particularly focused on our work in supporting people with disabilities in the West Limerick area. We were delighted to work with the residents of Rathfredagh Cheshire Home in Newcastle West. We worked under the thematic area of ‘promoting community engagement and stronger communities‘ by addressing barriers, that present for this group and contribute to their social exclusion. We worked collaboratively with a number of community based supports and services on developing and strengthening people with disabilities connection to local groups, supporting greater social inclusion and opening up opportunities for full participation within the community.
SICAP Case Study 2020 – West Limerick Resources
The Covid19 West Limerick Fabric Mask Making Initiative, highlights the primary theme of Collaboration. While this initiative is found in Goal 1 under action 5 Community Networks and Strategic Collaborations, it begins in Goal 2, due to a SICAP client involvement and connection and the supports received under our action 8 Lifelong Learning Pathways and action 9 Rural Employment Service.
SICAP Case Study 2021 – West Limerick Resources
Signs of Positivity Project
Within this case study we will demonstrate our engagement strategies with our Target Group, and our Community Groups and how we created a project that was mutually beneficial to all. It is the story of our efforts to design and deliver a project that would enable us as a staff to stay connected with our community and its members at the height of a pandemic, using new and creative methods of engagement.
This project cross cuts Goal 1 and Goal 2. As a team we work to create opportunities, areas of complementarity and synergies across the goals. This enables us to be efficient in our work while maximizing outputs for individuals and LCGs and broader community. This project was crafted with this in mind.
For more information contact the SICAP Programme Co-ordinator Dearbhla Conlon Ahern
Tel: 069 66293 Email: email@example.com
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With regulatory changes in the world of Legal Education, BPP University Law School is currently redesigning all its programmes. These new programmes take a blended approach to learning, with Learning Technologies playing an increasingly important role. This ambitious project and its use of Learning Technologies to facilitate learning activities will generate huge amounts of data. A supporting project at BPP is commoditising this data generation developing Learning Analytics. The Law School is using these Learning Analytics to create an Intervention Toolkit that supports the academic success and wellbeing of our Learners.
In broad terms, Learning Analytics is ‘the measurement, collection, analysis and reporting of data about Learners and their contexts, for purposes of understanding and optimising learning and the environments in which it occurs’ (Siemens & Gasevic, 2012). With some analytics-based interventions reportedly unsuccessful (Sønderlund, Hughes & Smith, 2019), and with this wealth of data at our disposal, what actions should we take to ensure effective support our Learners? For example, when and how should we intervene? Effective interventions are a priority, but to develop these we need to explore what data to collect, how it should be analysed and by whom should it be reported?
The Higher Education Commission (2016) reported on the benefits of Learning Analytics to improve Student Experience but recognised there are still ‘a number of issues and challenges facing the sector’. BPP University occupies a unique position among Higher Education Institutions. The focus on professional education means that a significant proportion of our Learners are sponsored by their Employers, our Clients. The commercial relationship with our Clients raises additional considerations around reporting and the extent of disclosure. These Learner concerns impact on the role of the Personal Tutor to the detriment of student wellbeing. Ahern (2018) recognises the key role of the Personal Tutor in the student experience. How will the Personal Tutor role develop with the introduction of Learning Analytics with approaches that are both effective and ethical?
This reflective session will explore the ethical and safety considerations around Learner data capture and Learner interventions. We’ll share the results of our Project Pilot and ask participants to contribute their perspectives on data driven learner interventions in Higher Education. Through open discussion, polls and opportunity for anonymous comment we’ll get a snapshot of participant views on the following questions:
- Data Security – who should have access, why, when and how?
- What ethical implications should we consider in the collection of learner data and sharing with sponsors, employers and others?
- There are hidden dangers when coupling Learner interventions and data, but what unintended consequences should we consider?
- What is the impact of Learning Analytics on the role of the Personal Tutor? What additional support will Personal Tutors need?
- How, with ever increasing pressure on time and resources, we can avoid ‘intervening by numbers’ and promote effective, ethical Learner Interventions?
Participants will reflect on their own views on Learning Analytics and Learner Interventions and debate those views with colleagues with consideration for the impact on their own practice.
The session will open with a brief description of the BPP University Law School redesign project, the approaches and technologies involved and an overview of the approach to Learning Analytics at BPP to introduce the results of the Project Pilot from May 2020.
Participants will be surveyed through their own devices, enabling them to share their headline views on Learning Analytics and Learner Interventions. This serves the purpose of providing a platform to explore the collective views on ethical and safety considerations in the use of Learning Analytics, Learner Interventions and the impact of data. The survey will seek to provide a general quantitative perspective on the views of the use of data in supporting and/or driving interventions.
The results of this live survey will be openly broadcast and available for all participants, enabling individuals and groups to identify areas of agreement and disagreement. These areas will be opened for further participant debate. The areas chosen will be on the themes of learning, wellbeing and ethics. To promote debate, areas will be chosen where there is a broader range in perspectives across the group. The debate will ask individuals to promote their personal views, the findings of their own informal and formal research as well as the output of projects they have worked on individually or as part of their involvement in initiatives at their own institutions.
This live session will look to culminate in key statements that focus on the aforementioned themes, highlighting key areas of broad agreement as well as stressing the importance of transparency in disagreement to explore opposing views in more detail. These key outputs will move beyond the live session, written up into an open blog where we will invite participants of the session, and the wider community, to contribute further views and wider reading. This post will again focus on the key themes identified and look to promote a further session in the ALT Winter Conference in the form of a Tweet Chat, or similar, to follow up on the lessons learnt from the initial rollout of the new BPP Law School programmes and Intervention Toolkit, and to reflect on our earlier views on Learner Interventions and data.
Sønderlund, A., Hughes, E. & Smith, J., 2018. The efficacy of learning analytics interventions in higher education: A systematic review. British Journal of Educational Technology, 50(5), pp. 2594-2618.
Ahern, S., 2018. The potential and pitfalls of learning analytics as a tool for supporting student wellbeing. The Journal of Learning and Teaching in Higher Education, 1(2), pp. 165-172.
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Network and IT security plays a major role in organizational structure nowadays as data has become so valuable.
Security objectives are goals an organization strives to achieve through its security efforts.
Any organization has major 7 primary security objectives. Let's understand them one by one.
Confidentiality is the protection against unauthorized access, while providing authorized users access to resources without obstruction.
Integrity is the protection against unauthorized changes, while allowing for authorized changes performed by authorized users.
Availability is the protection against downtime, loss of data, and blocked access, while providing consistent uptime, protecting data, and supporting authorized access to resources.
Authentication is the proof or verification of a user's identity before granting access to a secured area.
Authorization is controlling what users are allowed and not allowed to do.
Authorization is dictated by the organization's security structure, which may focus on
discretionary access control (DAC),
mandatory access control (MAC), or
role-based access control (RBAC).
Authorization is also known as access control.
Nonrepudiation is the assurance that someone cannot deny something.
Typically, nonrepudiation refers to the ability to ensure that a party to a contract or a communication cannot deny the authenticity of their signature on a document or the sending of a message that they originated.
To repudiate means to deny.
Auditing and public-key cryptography commonly provide non-repudiation services.
Privacy protects the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of personally identifiable or sensitive data.
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Since ancient times, people have had a strong interest in the body and have created various pictures and iconography to expand their image.
This exhibition focuses on materials from the collection of the International Research Center for Japanese Studies (IRJC) and is divided into four sections: “Epidemics and Medicine,” “Understanding the Body,” “Interest in the Body,” and “The Body Today and in the Future. The exhibition is divided into four themes: “Epidemics and Medicine,” “Understanding the Body,” “The Body in the Present and Future,” and “The Body in the Future. We will trace various images of the body in a wide range of fields, including folklore, medicine, and art. The exhibition will explore hints for living in the future in this age of contemporary infection.
Dates: January 17 (Monday) – February 12 (Saturday), 2022
Hours: 10:30 a.m. – 4:30 p.m. (Admission until 4:00 p.m.)
Closed on Sundays and national holidays
Venue: Taikaneyama Museum of History, Osaka University *Free admission
Organizers: Osaka University Museum of Arts / International Research Center for Japanese Studies
Zone 1: Epidemics and Medicine
Infectious Diseases and Modern Medicine: “COVID-19: Vaccine Development at Osaka University
Epidemic: “Varicella Doctor’s License
Spell to ward off plague: “Measles Spell Teaching Treasure
Varicella: Jenner’s Studies on the Causes and Effects of Cowpox
Prevention of Plague: “Illustrated Guide to Preventing Tiger Stinging Disease”.
Zone2 Understanding the body
Internal Structure of the Body: “Five Organs and Six Fungus Diagram
Reading the face: “Guanxiang
Reading the body: “Acupuncture and Moxibustion Copper Doll
Copying anatomical texts: “Illustrations of the internal and external parts of the body”.
Zone3 Interest in the body
Expressions of various parts of the body: “Hunmeng Zuoji”.
Exaggeration of body parts: “Shinpan Bakkesha Jin”.
Expansion of the body: “MIKAGYO NOSHO HIKIFUDA
The body in the other world: “Jigoku-e
Spreading knowledge: “Eiri niyou onna jyuhouki
Zone4 The body of today and the future
Expanding the “eyes” of medicine: Visualizing the fetus: Ultrasound diagnostic equipment
Expanding the “Eye” of Medicine: Quantifying Symptoms: “Dementia Diagnostic Imaging Sample
Rethinking Gender Differences: 29 Gender Symbols
Expanding Recognition: The Possibility of Cognition: Pareidolia
Extension as Resistance: Infectious Diseases and Contemporary Art: “Document Version: Isolated Intensive Contact Room
Extension of the Body – Robots (Medical): “Surgical Support Robot
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There's a malicious messaging app that claims to be secure, yet spies on users and makes off with their data, security researchers warn.
According to cybersecurity firm ESET (opens in new tab), Welcome Chat is a fully-working messaging service that lets its developers spy on users' personal information and is connected to a Middle Eastern cyberespionage campaign.
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Lukas Stefanko, a malware researcher at ESET, wrote in a blog post for WeLiveSecurity.com (opens in new tab): “Targeting Android users via the malicious Welcome Chat app, the operation appears to have links to the malware named BadPatch, which MITRE links (opens in new tab) to the Gaza Hackers threat actor group known also as Molerats.
“Our analysis shows that the Welcome Chat app allows spying upon its victims. However, it is not simple spyware. Welcome Chat is a functioning chat app that delivers the promised functionality along with its hidden espionage capacity.”
The messaging app, targeted at residents of Middle Eastern countries in which many better-known chat apps may be banned, is advertised via a website that claims the app can be downloaded via the Google Play Store and that it’s secure.
But ESET warned that this “couldn’t be further from the truth.” The app is actually an espionage tool that harvests personal data, leaves the data it collects freely available online and isn’t available on the Play Store.
The Gaza Hackers group, also known as the Gaza Cybergang, is a politically motivated espionage group thought to operate out of the Gaza Strip. Its primary targets are the Palestinian territories, Israel and Jordan, followed by other Middle Eastern countries.
When users install the app, they’re asked to allow installing apps from unknown sources, so that the app can be downloaded from a third-party source.
Once the app is up and running, it then requests permissions to access text messages, files, device location, audio recordings and contacts.
“Such an extensive list of intrusive permissions might normally make the victims suspicious – but with a messaging app, it’s natural they are needed for the app to deliver the promised functionality,” explained Stefanko.
However, what users don’t realise is that they’re actually allowing criminals to snoop on their personal data.
Stefanko said: "Immediately after receiving these permissions, Welcome Chat sends information about the device to its C&C [command-and-control server] and is ready to receive commands. It is designed to contact the C&C server every five minutes.
“On top of its core espionage functionality – monitoring the chat communications of its users – the Welcome Chat app can perform the following malicious actions: exfiltrating sent and received SMS messages, call log history, contact list, user photos, recorded phone calls, the GPS location of the device, and device info.”
Designed by hackers
During their investigation, ESET researchers came to the conclusion that the hackers deploying Welcome Chat developed the app themselves.
Stefanko added: “Creating a chat app for Android is not difficult; there are many detailed tutorials on the internet. With this approach, the attackers have better control over the compatibility of the app’s malicious functionality with its legitimate functions, so they can ensure that the chat app will work.”
Android users are often targeted by malicious apps that go on to steal their data. To mitigate this risk, you should only download reputable apps from the Google Play Store, read online reviews, create unique passwords and check app permissions.
It would also be a good idea to install and use one of the best Android antivirus apps to block infections and remove any malware that might already be installed.
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Signs of Deterioration Are:
- Bulging Windows
- Unattached Reinforcement Bars
- Broken Solder Joints
- Water, Light or Air Leaks
- Glass Breakage
Windows between 60-100 years old show damage due to lead oxidation, putty decay and general weakening of the window due to expansion and contraction. If your windows are exhibiting any of these problems inspection and maintenance is needed.
Types of Maintenance:
- Minor Repairs
- Weather Proofing
Re-leading/Restoring the stained glass
panel to original strength and condition. This is a long term and cost effective option.
Exterior Storm Protection:
Healthy exterior glazing is a definite plus. Protect your stained glass with attractive 1/4” clear glass covering, ventilation needs to be considered. Protecting your stained glass from the elements and vandalism is highly recommended. | <urn:uuid:937ddd25-cf0a-49ab-86f6-512f7b76cd46> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://bstudios.net/signs-of-deterioration/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572033.91/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814113403-20220814143403-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.887965 | 197 | 2 | 2 |
A bridge operator is a person who is responsible for the management of a bridge. The most common kind of bridge that requires an operator is a drawbridge, a bridge that lifts up and away from the water in order to let ships and boats pass through. A bridge operator also oversees repairs and electrical work that the bridge requires.
Some drawbridges are rather small and need to be lifted even to left sailboats pass through. Others are quite large and are lifted only to allow large sea-faring vessels to pass. Large or small, drawbridges require operators to make sure that everything happens in a smooth and safe manner.
In addition to making sure that boats can pass through, a bridge operator must also make sure that there are no people, vehicles, or equipment on the bridge before it begins to lift. Even small drawbridges that are only intended for the passage of pedestrians must be lifted with care. All pedestrians must first leave the bridge. Then, it must be made clear that no new pedestrians can begin to cross until the bridge has been lifted, allowed the vessel to pass, and returned to its lowered position.
This process is a bit more complicated with bridges that are designed for the passage of vehicles. Before the drawbridge is lifted, the bridge operator must ensure that all traffic has been cleared from the bridge. Then, all new traffic directed toward the bridge must be halted. The bridge operator must make sure that no new traffic is entering the bridge from any direction and that there isn’t a single vehicle or pedestrian on the bridge before lifting it for ship or boat passage.
There are usually gates that are used in order to keep a bridge clear of pedestrians or vehicles prior to lifting. A bridge operator is responsible for making sure that these gates are in working order and that they are used properly when the bridge is being lifted. He or she may also be responsible for taking care of necessary repairs to the gates.
In the cases of larger bridges, the operator may have a staff to help with all of the duties related to managing the bridge. The size of the staff usually relates directly to the size of the bridge. The staff will assist the bridge operator in maintaining the safety and functionality of the bridge. | <urn:uuid:ab29fd67-8246-42a4-9cc9-8c0e422794d6> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.wise-geek.com/what-does-a-bridge-operator-do.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571909.51/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813051311-20220813081311-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.974402 | 450 | 3.34375 | 3 |
A site in Gloucestershire is under consideration as a possible location for a new prototype nuclear power plant.
Severn Edge has been shortlisted as a potential home for a new fusion energy plant, as part of the Spherical Tokamak for Energy Production (STEP) programme.
The location is one of five sites across the UK chosen by the Department of Business, Energy and Industry Strategy (BEIS).
The Department and the UK Atomic Energy Authority (UKAEA) believes fusion is a "potentially world changing energy source" which could "help sustain the low carbon economies of the future".
It says fusion plants would be able to provide a "virtually limitless supply of low-carbon energy".
The new fusion plant would also "support thousands of highly skilled jobs" and "stimulate" the beginnings of fusion industry in the UK, according to the two authorities.
What is a fusion plant?
A fusion plant would copy the processes which power the sun and the stars, where atoms are fused to release energy. Atomic fusion produces nearly four times more energy for every kilogram of fuel than coal, oil or gas.
STEP is a government-backed programme which supports building fusion plants. It aims to generate net electricity, demonstrate how a fusion plant would be maintained and how it would produce its own fuel.
The programme also hopes to pave the way for the commercialisation of fusion and the potential development of a fleet of future plants around the world.
'A truly revolutionary and inexhaustible energy source'
The UKAEA says it hopes to see a working fusion plant operating in the early 2040s.
George Freeman, the Minister for Science, Research and Innovation, believes building the country's first prototype fusion power plant would "position the UK as a global leader in this safe and sustainable power source."
He said: "Fusion energy has the potential to be a truly revolutionary and inexhaustible energy source that can help us reduce our dependence on unreliable fossil fuels and tackle climate change."
The director of STEP at UKAEA, Paul Methven, said the shortlist is a "significant step" for the programme, as it "helps bring this challenging, long-term endeavour to life in the here and now.
He added: "It also increases our focus as we push on with design and delivery of what we hope is the world’s first fusion power plant prototype."
'Gloucestershire at the forefront of the green industrial revolution'
Gloucestershire County Council says the plant could have a massive impact on economic regeneration across a vast area - stretching from Cornwall to the West Midlands and Wales. This would include priority areas in the government’s Levelling Up Fund agenda, such as Gloucester, the Forest of Dean and Stroud.
Cllr Mark Hawthorne, leader of Gloucestershire County Council, said: “It’s fantastic news that the Severn Edge nomination has made the shortlist, which has put us a step closer to being at the forefront of the green industrial revolution.
In South Gloucestershire, the leader of the council, Toby Savage, said he is "delighted" to see Severn Edge shortlisted.
He added he hopes the strength of the region's supply chains, and its proximity to the Culham Centre for Fusion Technology, in Oxfordshire, will lead to "a long-term investment in safe, renewable energy in South Gloucestershire.”
When might Severn Edge be selected?
Fifteen sites were long-listed following an open call for locations between December 2020 and March 2021.
In the next assessment phase, the UKAEA will work with the five shortlisted sites and local communities to gain a more in-depth understanding of the socio-economic, commercial and technical conditions at each location.
The winning location will be chosen by the BEIS Secretary of State at the end of 2022.
The four other sites being considered are:
Ardeer (North Ayrshire)
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Authors: Acharyulu, P.S.N., Prasad, K.V.S.R, Vignudelli S., Rashmi, S., Venkata, R.
Journal: Acta Scientific Microbiology
Satellite altimetry provides precise measurements of wind speed and significant wave height. They have been validated and widely used over open ocean, however, when they come closer to the coast, there is still a need to assess their accuracy and potential usage. This is especially true along Indian coasts, which experience quite opposite northeast and southwest monsoons and a calm period in between them. In this paper, Study on coastal wave heights using JASON-2 tracks in and around Visakhapatnam was carried out, on the east coast of India where the in situ measurements are available to us. Of the new additional three re-trackers available with the PISTACH coastal products, the results show that the RED3 re-tracker performs well with the coastal buoy. The coastal buoy as well as the altimeter capture all the oceanographic signals. The results from comparisons suggest that there is a significant improvement in the significant wave height (SWH) altimeter observations in terms of noise and accuracy after processing. In particular, it was observed that RED3 re-tracker shows better matching with the moderate wave height ranges and better results in proximity of the coast where as OCE3 re-tracker captures all the signals especially during severe weather conditions with less error and better results at intermediate and open waters. The wave height measurements obtained from Jason-2 PISTACH products in the coastal regions are substantially in good agreement with the coastal buoy measurement. There is a need to improve better detection of outliers, which were present even after processing. Also, there is a need to enhance or modify the collocation criteria for coastal regions otherwise the wave which was observed by the altimeter and the buoy will not be the same. These results shows that the Jason-2 PISTACH data able to extend the altimeter data up to ~10 km proximity to the coast and the potential use of RED3 re-tracker in the coastal zone and the use of both the re-trackers in understanding the wave climate in the coastal zone on the east coast of India especially where in-situ observations were scarce. This data will be useful to study the spatial variability and better understanding of coastal dynamics in these limited areas. The results were quite encouraging to use the altimetry data in the coastal regions on the east coast of India.
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In our Jewish communities, everybody should feel like they belong.
LGBTQ individuals, partners, and families are an important and sacred part of our Jewish communities. We deserve to gather, to pray, to act, and to simply exist as ourselves in our organizations, our synagogues, community centers, and our institutions as a whole. And while so many of our institutions consider themselves to be warm and welcoming, many LGBTQ Jews find themselves unintentionally ignored, left out, or even directly discriminated against.
We love our communities and we know that our communities are at their strongest when everyone can show up with joy and dignity. This is why we’ve launched the Keshet Leadership Project: a year-long cohort-based program that gathers, trains, and supports Jewish organizations to move towards LGBTQ equality and belonging.
Cohorts currently accepting applications:
Apply Here and select your desired cohort from the drop-down menu.
The Leadership Project is designed for organizations that are committed to LGBTQ inclusion and belonging and can dedicate substantial staff time and resources to a year of action planning and institutional change.
In over a decade of training and supporting Jewish institutions, Keshet has found that lasting change takes place in 4 phases, each of which is critical for achieving impact:
All participants will complete an institutional self-assessment that evaluates their current policies, programs, and organizational culture. This step allows leaders to determine their institution’s areas of strengths and areas for further growth, and prepares them to create informed and clear action plans.
These action plans will be shared and discussed during the kickoff Keshet Leadership Summit, a full day (two half-days, if online) of experiential learning and action planning that is attended by 2-4 stakeholders, including at least one decision-maker, from each participating organization.
At the Summit, participants will engage in deep learning to connect LGBTQ belonging to their own story and values, identify key LGBTQ terminology and concepts, explore the ways that homophobia and gender-based discrimination impact all people, contextualize this work within the broader diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) landscape, and workshop common scenarios.
With the support of Keshet staff, each organization will draft a customized action plan with concrete objectives and a timetable for implementation. These action plans are an essential part of the learning and skill-building that the Leadership Summit offers.
Organizations will receive up to 5 coaching calls over the course of a year to help them carry out their action plans. Keshet coaches help fine-tune their plans, identify resources and strategies for carrying them out, and provide ongoing support for the work of LGBTQ equality within their institutions.
The year concludes with a closing gathering, during which participants will share their learnings and successes and identify resources for ongoing learning.
When your organization participates in the Leadership Project, not only will you and your staff have a better understanding of LGBTQ issues as they relate to – and outside of – your community, you will also have concrete action plans to make your organization as dynamically and radically inclusive as possible. Your organization will have taken the first few important steps in being a place of true equality and belonging for everyone who is and wants to be a part of it.
The Leadership Project was inspiring, well led, and interactive. Most importantly, it gave us things that we could really do – the action plans felt truly customized to us and achievable! Now, people at all levels of the congregation are voicing the understanding that everyone who comes in feels affirmed.
—President of a congregation
Our staff has experienced various forms of DEI training, but it was not until we began to audit our school community with the tools provided by Keshet that we were able to identify actionable steps…From the moment we first engaged with Keshet this year, we sensed a true partnership and understanding of how complex these decisions and changes can be.
We really enjoy the new relationships we have formed with the Keshet staff and connecting with other schools across the country who are engaging in similar work. It’s really exciting to think of what’s possible knowing we have the support of Keshet by our side.
—Leader at a Midwestern day school
This program is priced on a sliding scale, with a commitment to being financially accessible to a wide range of organizations. Additional subsidies may be available. Please visit our application page and select your cohort from the drop-down menu to see pricing for that cohort.
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Unit IV Case Study
The relationship between an agency and the media is important to ensure that a strong flow of information is maintained
during a crisis. However, an agency must maintain control over the information released and the methods used to provide
a consistent and effective message. This is important in ensuring that the public maintains their trust and faith in the
agency. One of the best ways to make sure this occurs is through a strong standard operating procedure that focuses on
information release and media relations.
Develop a two- to three-page standard operating procedure regarding media interaction and information sharing. At a
minimum, ensure that the following items are addressed in a professional manner (not just bulleted items):
1. Who will serve as the public information officer? Address any secondary points of contact.
2. What information can and cannot be released? Consider the implications of HIPAA and potential ongoing
3. What methods of media will be used? If social media is used, what information will be shared and who is
responsible for the content?
Information about accessing the Blackboard Grading Rubric for this assignment is provided below.
2 Please ensure the following textbook is used in the answer:
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Confronted with the economic upheavals of recent years (digital transformation, unbridled globalization, energy crisis, etc.), company employees were already before Covid19 in a crisis of work relationships and disengagement fuelled in particular by a new quest for meaning.
The Covid19 pandemic has exacerbated the problem by placing half of humanity in barely three months in an unprecedented situation of loss of social ties. Confined for long weeks, employees have undergone radical changes that will have shaken up beliefs, methods and certainties about work.
The « business as usual » is more than compromised to the point that in France, the largest companies have together called for an economic revolution.
The return to work is already announced as being anything but a simple return to the previous model.
Adjustments will be imperative, errors inevitable especially without effort on the part of the management of organizations on adapting to new expectations to regain operational efficiency and ultimately sustain the business.
In what state of mind will managers find their teams?
What state of mind will they be in?
The deconfinement confirms the trend and all surveys indicate that employees do not intend to forget this forced period of introspection. Something happened.
A crucial point to attack as a new avenue are the managerial decision-making processes.
If the examples of success of over-motivated teams are numerous, there are unfortunately many more cases where the demotivation of employees leads to disengaged teams creating stressful situations (burn-out, born-out …) for the teams and the managers themselves.
Understanding the fundamental nature of best management practices on the one hand and proscribing the worst approaches on the other must serve as a basis for better supporting the immense majority of employees lost between extremes (good / bad) and who suffer situations without have the feeling of being able to influence their own work context.
The mission of the training is to:
- Suggest the most recent possible reading of coaching and training approaches
- Analyze the missing elements in the managerial equation
- Propose a new approach to decision-making processes
- Rediscover the commitment and the collective spirit necessary for operational success.
- Get the extra soul of each employee and gain creativity and innovation
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You typed the site name grants.gov incorrectly and entered grants.gov in the address bar instead.
You may have forgotten to change the keyboard layout to English prior to entering the site address, which is why you ended up with grants.gov instead of grants.gov.
Switch the keyboard layout to English, and type grants.gov, http://grants.gov, www.grants.gov or click here: grants.gov
What is grants.gov?
The word grants.gov is the same as grants.gov but typed with a keyboard layout different from English.
How did I manage to enter grants.gov instead of grants.gov?
How did you manage to enter grants.gov? It's very simple!
- You forgot to switch the keyboard layout to the Latin alphabet.
- You started typing grants.gov without looking at what you are entering in the address bar, so you entered grants.gov instead.
- So since the browser did not understand your grants.gov, it redirected you to the default search system which started trying to find out what this "grants.gov" is.
- This is the path that led you here instead of to http://grants.gov.
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Lifestyles to die for
News from the USA has revealed the majority of Covid hospital admissions are deemed obese and 40 per cent of Covid mortalities are diabetic, with associated health issues.
While Covid-19 commands our attention, vaccination fortunately offers a lifeline; not so obesity with all its ramifications which will remain our greatest health risk long after Covid is tamed.
Health services struggle to cope with medical conditions stemming from obesity and diabetes, the mounting costs are insurmountable. To combat this silent killer, personal responsibility and greater participation in our own healthcare are vital if we are to avoid this next pandemic.
P. J. Edmondson, Tauranga.
So many people are demanding that MIQ be scrapped overnight to let families reunite for Christmas.
Does it sound as if these double-vaxed returnees, some of whom will likely have Covid, would be in self-isolation over the Christmas/New Year season?
And do we expect our exhausted Government and medical teams to be implementing, on an overnight basis, new home-isolation Covid systems?
The Government has already signalled major changes in early 2022.
Our summer has just begun - time aplenty for reunions.
In the meantime, we are tracking towards one of the better global Covid responses.
Let us be thankful.
Angela Yatri, Oratia.
The Japan Times is reporting (NZ Herald, November 24) that in the opinion of leading epidemiologists, the Delta strain of the virus has mutated itself out of existence. Japan [population 120 million] has had no deaths this week and almost no cases reported.
Having spent more than 40 years travelling in Japan, I am not surprised.
Japan is, without doubt, the most hygienic country in the world. Couple this with, no handshaking, no hugging, shoes off at the door, habitual mask-wearing in public with any symptom of a cold or flu, and a highly disciplined population, and the result becomes clear.
Rob Elliott, Kohimarama.
Those who insist that the number of Covid-related deaths determines the success of management of the pandemic are not looking at the whole picture.
Many countries now accept that we have to live with Covid because lockdowns incur a range of huge costs. Police report increased calls for help from people facing family violence and mental health issues. Thousands of New Zealanders cannot access MIQ to return home. Children have missed months of schooling, many businesses will not survive, thousands of Aucklanders have had their medical treatment postponed.
New Zealand is borrowing almost $1 billion per week while tax income has not grown anywhere near the same rate. In the meantime, money is urgently needed for infrastructure, housing, education and upgrading our health system. Worse, this lockdown was preventable with an earlier vaccine rollout and a proper plan for the arrival of Delta. That is why there is increasing concern for the Government's handling of Covid.
Janie Weir, Newmarket.
Life, as we know it
Sadly we are starting to witness our own demise.
So-called influencers taking over our daily lives; lobbyists promoting their paymasters' self-serving views; and advertisers constantly delivering their cliché-ridden rhetoric.
We are saturated with banal entertainment on our screens in the name of escapism.
So what are we hiding from? For many it would seem to be the drug of life itself.
We cannot keep spiralling downwards; official action should be taken immediately.
A "think tank" of 10 right-minded people chosen and headed by Simon Wilson would be a great start.
John Norris, Whangamatā.
In response to letters supporting Jacinda Ardern, I believe New Zealand has split into two factions.
The productive sector that is concerned at the failure of a timely vaccination programme, poor planning, horrendous borrowing and debt with nothing to show for it.
And the sector on Government support and not suffering the financial and emotional stress or consequences.
In 2020, the Government performed, but has failed in 2021 at enormous cost for our future.
Mike Single, Bayswater.
Businesses south of Taupō complain of reduced tourism, or customer number restrictions, while often their counterparts in Auckland have been closed completely for nearly 100 days, and many will never open again.
As well as their lack of unruly locks, I would wager that no Wellington bureaucrat has acquired the scary bank overdraft common among many Auckland business operators.
Allow us our brief dance of haircut joy, but understand that our hurt is serious.
Josephine Ellis, Meadowbank.
Jeff Hayward (NZ Herald, November 22) questions the validity of farmer protests and asks what they intend to do about methane emissions and pollution of waterways.
Farmers have invested heavily, and continue to invest, in riparian fencing and planting to protect waterways and are levied to cover the cost of research into methane mitigation measures.
There is wide acknowledgement of the plight of Auckland businesses and the crippling of the tourism sector means our primary industries will play a vital role in the recovery of our economy. That is the reality.
George Williams, Whangamatā.
Cheek by jowl
Aucklanders need not worry about the rules changing to allow more infill housing (NZ Herald, November 23).
Our beautiful city is already fast becoming a slum, full of infill housing with no respect for design or planning. No garages or off-street parking.
Many areas are already looking poor with their large homes, no section and owners that care little about city pride. It's time this Government was told to stop.
Linda Beck, West Harbour.
Just when I was worried about the old, ceramic, combined sewer and stormwater pipes, just 150mm in diameter, servicing my area and a huge new apartment block being developed further up the road, I had to gasp at the article (NZ Herald, November 23) adding another dimension of worries should Kāinga Ora be allowed to randomly plonk three-storey homes wherever under the Housing Enabling Bill.
My sympathies to the elderly couple, cowering in their home as a result of gang member tenants of Kāinga Ora partying out of control, despite a police presence. Clever positioning printing articles about the gang party and the select committee hearing submissions on the Bill on the same page.
As I write, Watercare have just departed after nearly two hours clearing the sewer line through an access pit on my property again. They said to expect them back soon and they did not know how much worse the problem would get when the development up the road is tenanted.
An unholy alliance between National and Labour dreaming up this Bill demonstrates stupidity is not limited to either party.
Coralie van Camp, Remuera.
The opposition to the Housing Enabling Bill is so overwhelming, the Government must be scrambling to find a way out of the mess it created.
The range of submitters against it are so diverse - from developers to tree-huggers; iwi groups to architects, Auckland Council, urban planners, heritage and resident groups - all saying the Bill is so badly thought-out it will result in poor housing for the poorest communities.
The Government's intention was to attack nimbys who live in houses in nice suburbs by allowing intensive housing to crowd them out. However, it's now repeatedly being told it will accelerate cheap housing in outer suburbs and hand city planning to developers.
They can't write all the submitters off as nimbys. They simply care about how our cities look and function and believe no one in this country deserves to live in substandard conditions.
The Government wants to blame the housing crisis on councils, planning restrictions and nimbys. The real reasons are so much more complicated and require a clever and nuanced approach. Not an unintelligent piece of legislation that will make the situation worse.
Margot McRae, Devonport.
In his piece "New Zealand billions in debt - and with nothing to show for it" (NZ Herald, November 22), Bruce Cotterill illustrates what a huge number a billion is by stating that a billion seconds ago it was 1959.
Bruce discovered this by reading a verse circulated on social media by a mate of his. Given that a billion seconds ago it was 1990, not 1959, one wonders how he came up with his other figures and guesses.
Phil Haynes, Forrest Hill.
Short & sweet
In response to Kanwal Grewal, Hamilton (NZ Herald, November 23), who writes we owe PM a debt of gratitude: Sure do! Her legacy will be bankrupting the country. Dennis Knill, Parnell.
Now that the rest of NZ are welcoming Aucklanders and their money, will we see an end to the name-calling and derogatory comments? Beth Graham, Mangawhai Heads.
The German Health Minister has it sussed: By the end of the (northern) winter, everybody will either be vaccinated, recovered or dead. That applies to us too. K H Peter Kammler, Warkworth.
We need carefully considered planning to concentrate our communities around key transport nodes - not a haphazard, build-anywhere approach that will embed and worsen the effects of the existing urban sprawl. David Hopkins, Remuera.
How many of these self-appointed critics actually know much about the game? Have they played, coached or refereed? A record of 15 internationals won, and three lost, isn't bad.
David Andrews, Tauranga.
If I were superstitious, I could believe that the All Blacks' recent humiliations are due to the wrath of the environmental gods - disappointed in the Rugby Union for accepting the sponsorship of INEOS. Geoff Barlow, Remuera.
On Expo 2020
Is anyone left in New Zealand, or are they all in Dubai? Bruce Tubb, Belmont.
The Premium Debate
Why the lack of urgency or decision on rapid testing/home/self-testing that is available the world over? This is available, legitimate and could be used to a show negative result - so people can go to church, work etc. Monique T.
That these laws are now required to be passed under urgency is just the reality of this pandemic. One way to eventually allow for a prudent and time-honoured process of debate and submissions to occur is to give these new laws, rushed under urgency, an expiry date, say, in 12 months' time. Carl R.
I agree this should have been dealt with earlier but, on the other hand, the vast amount of the population would agree with this law. The issue for me is that it has been given due diligence and scrutiny by the justice department and legal groups, the law society, etc. Ross W.
Government for the people by the people needs to be adhered to, regardless of the circumstances. Vaccine mandate may be a tool, but what about our human rights? Vick S.
When the health of the entire country depends on the legality of the process to protect the citizens, then passing the required law is not only the smart thing to do - it is the only thing to do. The people need protection, the lawyers need their laws and their incomes, and would mindlessly argue either side of the case, depending on who the client is. The media need their feeding frenzy. But, fortunately, common sense requires immediate action and that is what the Government has done, for once, correctly and immediately. Roger H.
This Government has forgotten (or perhaps were never taught) some of the important maxims in life. Such as, "a stitch in time saves nine" and "failing to plan is planning to fail". I guess they have been too busy making rules about how we all need to live to read the nursery rhymes. Well, they seem to know more about that than we do, don't they? Rowan K. | <urn:uuid:ac078622-497f-4ef5-8850-8f5d8ef44b83> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/letters-obesity-family-reunions-japan-and-gvt-response-to-covid/MAI7KCDHYNYVMUJHXVXEXDS34Y/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571536.89/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811224716-20220812014716-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.95319 | 2,547 | 1.679688 | 2 |
Lunar Eclipse in Taurus
Eclipses are portals of intersecting pathways, signaling an upswing of new relational developments entering our life while older storylines end in release or fade from focalization. Lunar eclipses occur when a Full Moon occurs near the intersection between the Moon’s orbit and the ecliptic, the apparent pathway of the Sun from our perspective on Earth. As the crossroads of the Sun and Moon becomes illuminated, so does our sense of soulful direction and destiny. Since the Lunar Eclipse in Taurus on November 19, 2021 is the first eclipse to occur in Taurus and is co-present with an activated Uranus in Taurus, there is greater likelihood for new attractions, revelations, disruptions, challenges, and opportunities to emerge in the surrounding time period. There may be a need to create time and space for restorative rest and resourcing to help digest what needs to be integrated into one’s life and understanding.
The Taurus Lunar Eclipse is the first eclipse of the series that will be going back and forth between the fixed signs of Taurus and Scorpio, initiating new narratives involving the signs of Scorpio and Taurus that will last until the final eclipse in the series occurs on October 28, 2023 in Taurus. In addition to activating a new zodiacal sign polarity, it is also the first eclipse to occur in the same sign as Uranus since Uranus entered Taurus in 2018. Later eclipses in the series will be exactly aligned with Uranus and more potent in their promethean expression, and so the Taurus Lunar Eclipse will bring an initial sense for how the combination of eclipses occurring in the same sign as Uranus will be accelerating change and inspiring breakthroughs in the next couple of years.
The Taurus Lunar Eclipse will catalyze the recent release of tension and dynamism created by Mars in Scorpio forming an exact opposition with Uranus in Taurus on November 17, after Mars previously formed a square aspect with Saturn in Aquarius on November 10. The ongoing square aspect between Saturn and Uranus has been underlying all of the radical structural changes that have been rippling across 2021, as it has been bringing the consolidating contraction of Saturn that builds enduring structures into conflict with the accelerated vision of Uranus that resists restrictions and insists on making innovative changes to the status quo. Though dramatic external changes that have correlated with Mars in Scorpio igniting the friction between Saturn and Uranus may already be obvious, the Moon being eclipsed only a couple of days after the exact opposition between Mars and Uranus will bring a stronger sense for how inner processes are being transmuted in correlation. Since Venus in Capricorn rules the eclipse and is forming a trine aspect with Uranus and a sextile aspect with Mars, we will be able to attune to deep changes within our inner realm while we simultaneously receive a felt sense for how our interpersonal relationships are likewise shifting in correlation with the larger changes at work.
The Taurus Lunar Eclipse is separating from a sextile aspect with Pluto in Capricorn and a propulsive square aspect with Jupiter in Aquarius, bringing vital insight into whatever goals and projects connected with our core purpose and values we have been contemplating and developing. As the Moon becomes eclipsed while inhabiting her sign of exaltation, there may be old idealizations that will be brought down from their formerly lofty heights as we realize what their exalted light has been obscuring within shadow. It will be necessary to become clear about the challenges we are facing, while also kindling visions of vivifying growth and creative expression that can emerge within the dismantling and regeneration underway.
The Taurus Lunar Eclipse will be partial, meaning that while the shadow cast across the face of the Moon will become ruddy in color, it will not become the more vibrant blood red color that occurs during a total lunar eclipse. The lunar eclipse will be unusually long, in fact the longest partial lunar eclipse since 1440, and visible across North and South America, Asia, and Australia. The Taurus Lunar Eclipse is also a member of an eclipse family associated with the saros series 126, and is the first partial lunar eclipse following a long sequence of total lunar eclipses. The last lunar eclipse in the series was total and took place on 9 November 2003, with the previous total lunar eclipses in the series occurring on 28 October 1985 and 18 October 1967. You may notice some strange recurrences or replicating patterns associated with events that took place during previous lunar eclipses in the series.
Astrological tradition imagines eclipses as a great dragon or serpent consuming the light of our Sun and Moon, with the North Node of the Moon symbolizing its head and the South Node its tail. The Lunar Eclipse at 27º14’ Taurus will be aligned with the head of the dragon, as the North Node of the Moon will be at 1º47’ Gemini, introducing a symbolic dragon with a head in Taurus and tail in Scorpio that will take much stronger form over the course of 2022. The dragon symbolism further links eclipses with ouroboros imagery of a dragon consuming its own tail that has been used in Hermetic arts for ages. The dragon devouring itself mirrors the dissolution of nature that leads to the arising of new forms. In alchemical work the arts of separation and union tied to this imagery reflect our capacity for purifying material attachments. The inner and outer changes we experience in correlation with eclipses can facilitate a letting go of fixation to enable release, while a burgeoning sense of new forms coming together to emerge can be felt.
Since the meaning of a lunar eclipse is rooted in the phenomenon of the Sun casting the Earth’s shadow onto the face of the Moon, Dane Rudhyar interpreted the solar shadow as symbolizing the present overcoming the past as shadows veil the lunar impact of past conditioning and attachments on our present consciousness. Since the Taurus Lunar Eclipse is aligned with the North Node of the Moon while the Sun is illuminating the side of the South Node of the Moon, growth will come from the resolution and release of old issues, emotional material, and familial conditioning that have shaped our actions and relationships. Engaging whatever insights may be excavated or new growth nurtured from the putrefaction of the past will continue to be important as we traverse the strange vortex of time that occurs in between eclipses, as the Taurus Lunar Eclipse will be followed by a Total Solar Eclipse in Sagittarius on December 4 that will be aligned with the South Node of the Moon. The intersection of the past into the coming eclipse portal brings a dragon’s pearl to the surface that has been born from the darkness of the beast’s belly, a natural gem purified across time that now opens awareness to future potential and growth that may emerge from decomposition of the past.
The Taurus Lunar Eclipse occurs near the fixed star Algol, known as the severed head of Medusa in some traditions and the head of the demon in others. Algol fits well with eclipses due to it being a three star system containing an eclipsing binary which causes Algol to blink in the night sky, as it contains stars that are constantly eclipsing themselves. Just like astrologers have long feared the volatile impact of eclipses within mundane events, so have they also feared Algol. However, although Diana Rosenberg wrote that Algol has been correlated with horrific events in human history, in natal charts “it is not necessarily malevolent and may, in fact, bestow considerable benefits, including intellectual brilliance, creativity and originality.” Rosenberg wrote that having Algol strongly connected to a nativity “does not necessarily mean one will commit or experience violence; it is, rather, that one will not be able to remain aloof from the awareness of that level of human experience, and will be led to come to terms with it in some manner.” Rosenberg gave the examples of a journalist covering tragedies or those called to comfort or assist victims of disaster or those recovering from trauma.
Yet Rosenberg also warned of the potential for one to “lose one’s head” under the influence of Algol, going against better judgement through “dictatorial” and “absolutist” tendencies with an “unwillingness to see any humanity in their opponents,” leading to “wanton aggressiveness,” “criminal intolerance,” and using “religion or intense patriotism to justify violence against others.” Similarly, Bernadette Brady wrote that “Algol represents a strong consuming passion that may devour you with anger and rage.” Yet Brady also wrote that if “one can contain an unconscious compulsion to take revenge, and focus that passion into a more productive outcome, Algol is one of the most powerful stars in the sky.” Along these lines Rosenberg wrote that there is a strong artistic and intellectual side to Algol that can lead to great ambition and accomplishment.
As a result, the eclipse occurring near Algol may bring increased awareness of the ways systemic oppression has been causing devastation within the natural environment and landscape of human relationships. There may be increased waves of anger and rage unleashed in retribution, as well as polarized conflicts within politics continuing with each side locked in projecting back and forth without listening to one another or reflecting on how one’s own shadow may be influencing their behavior. Yet within our personal experience we may gain a deeper sense for how some of our own wounds and frustrating patterns are connected to must vaster ancestral patterns underlying the present conflicts within surrounding culture. Turning within to explore one’s shadow when needed, making effort to pull back one’s projections when possible, and deeply listening to internal processes and the messages received within relationship can help in finding creative ways to engage with whatever material becomes stirred up by the eclipse.
Venus in Capricorn rules the eclipse while shining brightly as an evening star following sunset. Venus is out of bounds in southern declination, and so is appearing low in the sky in the northern hemisphere. The freedom oriented nature of Venus being out of bounds is further amplified due to Venus actively engaging and mediating the recent opposition between Mars in Scorpio and Uranus in Taurus that has dislodged and jarred loose stuck material and issues. Venus is separating from a trine aspect with Uranus and applying to a sextile aspect with Mars in Scorpio, both aspects that suggest opportunities being available to become creatively activated. Moreover, there is reception involved in the aspects Venus is making with both Uranus and Mars, as Venus is receiving Uranus within her earthy home of Taurus and Mars is receiving Venus through Venus being in the exaltation of Mars. Venus in Capricorn is capable of enforcing boundaries and cultivating containers within which shared intimacy and creativity may flourish, and her supportive aspects with Mars and Uranus suggest opportunities for deepening our engagement with whatever relational processes and revelations become activated while also having the courage to embrace the depths of our experience.
Yet Venus is also beginning to approach another significant aspect with Pluto in Capricorn that will become stronger as we approach the upcoming Total Solar Eclipse in Sagittarius on December 4. Venus will be within three degrees of a conjunction with Pluto during the upcoming solar eclipse, eventually forming a conjunction with Pluto on December 11 the first time and then again on December 25 after stationing retrograde on December 19. Venus will then remain within three degrees of Pluto until January 1, 2022. Although Venus is twelve degrees away from Pluto during the Taurus Lunar Eclipse, during the waning half of the lunar cycle we will be gaining a stronger sense of whatever deep material that Venus and Pluto will be bringing to the surface for an extended process of engagement.
The approaching confrontation between Venus and Pluto conjures the myth of Persephone aka Proserpina and her mother Demeter aka Ceres. During the Taurus Lunar Eclipse, Ceres is retrograde in Gemini near the north node of the Moon, with the eclipsed Moon applying toward a conjunction with Ceres. There is a fascinating link between the Taurus Lunar Eclipse and the present period of Ceres retrograde: the degree of the lunar eclipse at 27º14′ Taurus is the same degree where Ceres will eventually station direct on January 14, 2022 at 27º58′ Taurus. Thus whatever material emerges from shadows in connection with the lunar eclipse may have an important relationship with whatever material that Ceres is leading us to remember and integrate during the course of her present retrograde. Ceres previously stationed retrograde on October 8, 2021 at 12º08′ Gemini, creating a region from twelve degrees of Gemini to twenty-seven degrees of Taurus to pay attention to in your natal chart. An incredible additional synchronicity is that the Persephone asteroid stationed retrograde at the same time as Ceres, within a few degrees, and so is also on a simultaneous retrograde journey nearby Ceres.
Ceres produces the resources needed for vitality as well as bears the seeds of renewal. Yet the swing of her scythe that brings the harvest necessitates loss as much as it brings forth gain, and her retrograde passage can correlate with her passage of grief following the loss of her daughter to the underworld. Just as the Taurus Moon will be eclipsed by shadow, so was Ceres eclipsed by pain and rage over her own personal tragedy. In an element of her myth that parallels the story of Isis and Osiris, Ceres was willing to incarnate into human form as part of fully embodying her grief. Ceres reveals the importance of taking time and space away from production in order to grieve and tend to inner darkness, while also illuminating the resolve necessary to return to the world of suffering in order to bolster strength in others. Just as the myth of Ceres/Demeter tells the story of how the mystery initiations were brought to humanity, so does the connection of the dwarf planet Ceres with the Taurus Lunar Eclipse suggest paying mindful attention to the deeper mystery of your experiences and what important aspects of soul are emerging within your interactions with others that contain a wealth of insight to reflect upon and slowly integrate across the course of Ceres being retrograde.
Taurus 3 Decan
The Moon will be eclipsed in the third decan of Taurus associated with the Seven of Pentacles card illustrated above by Pamela Colman Smith. An image of a farmer or gardener carefully watching over the growth of green foliage he hopes will ultimately ripen into a bountiful harvest, it is a card of delayed gratification that necessitates patiently cultivating the process at work so that a savory climax of fulfilling ripeness can later be enjoyed. Fittingly, Saturn rules the third face of Taurus as it is zodiacal terrain where the calm, prudent, and attentive countenance of the farmer in the image of the Seven of Pentacles is needed to make sure all of the necessary planning and responsibilities will be completed even when facing adversity. Similarly, we will need to mediate whatever blessings or burdens emerge with the Taurus Lunar Eclipse while maintaining a long range perspective that will allow for carefully tending to and nurturing the needs of our relationships and endeavors so that they may ultimately bloom in healthy wholeness.
The destabilizing nature of eclipses aligns well with the meaning that Austin Coppock gave to the third face of Taurus in his book 36 Faces. Coppock ascribed the image of “A String of Prayer Beads” to this face, stating that it “represents a confrontation with destructive factors which impede completion,” as well as the need to enact remediation and “make plans to accommodate the unforeseen.” While Coppock acknowledged that we must face toil and difficulty at times in this decan due to everything that can go wrong in between the germination of a seed and its ultimate flowering and fruiting, he also listed virtues such as “wisdom, patience, humility, and foresight” as being “the unexpected fruits of the destructive forces which prowl this face.” Indeed, Coppock concluded that while this face may make us confront potential disaster, it is also a place from which we can call for support from higher powers and worthy allies while developing the remedies needed to overcome threats.
T. Susan Chang in her book 36 Secrets made the astute observation that it is important to “consider the nature of boundaries” in all of the decans ruled by Saturn, as “freedom depends on its limits.” Chang also noted that the image of the farmer staring into space in the Seven of Pentacles image suggests “a sort of timelessness” inherent in the card’s meaning, not unlike the role Saturn plays in astrology as the threshold guardian between time and timelessness. To Chang there is a lesson in this face found within the relationship between our finite perception of time and the truly infinite nature of time. Indeed, by patiently attending to what needs to be completed or cared for in accordance with the finiteness of time, we may also gain wisdom from and find strength within the infiniteness of time in ways that can help us withstand hardship and toil.
Since the Taurus Lunar Eclipse will be followed by a Total Solar Eclipse in Sagittarius on December 4, we have forewarning that significant changes will be occurring, especially for those whose natal charts have natal placements impacted by the eclipses. The wisdom of the third decan of Taurus suggests we may prepare through patient attention to whatever needs attending to, as well as by reaching out for support from those who will be able to assist us through whatever transitions we will be moving through. Choose rest and personal nurturance rather than burning yourself out through overproduction, as there will be much to gain through focusing on mutually supportive relationships and taking the time to attend to foundational elements of life that will bolster your long-term health and prosperity.
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Fast electrons from the incident electron beam are inelastically scattered by atomic electrons, collective oscillations of free electrons and vibrational excitation modes between atomic groups. Classical dielectric theory accurately predicts the total inelastic scattering probability i.e. the ratio of the number of electrons that scatter inelastically to the total number of electrons in the beam, by these mechanisms. Therefore, it helps predict the EELS spectrum when an electron transmits through the bulk or aloofly passes through vacuum near a surface of the material of interest.
In this theory, the interaction of a transmitted electron with the entire solid is described in terms of a dielectric response function ε (q, ω). In 1957, Ritchie derived an expression for the electron scattering power of an infinite medium. The stopping power (dE/dz) is equal to the backward force on the transmitted electron in the direction of motion and is also the electronic charge multiplied by the potential gradient in the z-direction. Using Fourier transforms, Ritchie showed that
where the angular frequency ω is equivalent to E/ℏ, a0 is the first Bohr radius, m0 is the mass of the electron and qy is the component of the scattering vector in a direction perpendicular to velocity v. The imaginary part of [−1/ε (q, ω)] is known as the energy-loss function and provides a complete description of the response of the medium through which the fast electron is traveling. The stopping power can be related to the double-differential cross section (per atom) for inelastic scattering by
where na represents the number of atoms per unit volume of the medium. For small scattering angles, dqy ≈ k0θ and dΩ ≈ 2πθdθ, so,
where θE = E/(γm0v2), γ = √(1-v2/c2), is the characteristic angle for a particular energy loss E. In the small-angle dipole region, ε (q, E) varies little with q and can be replaced by the optical value ε (0, E), which is the relative permittivity of the specimen at an angular frequency ω = E/ℏ. An energy-loss spectrum that has been recorded using a reasonably small collection angle can, therefore, be compared directly with optical data. Such a comparison involves a Kramers–Kronig transformation to obtain Re [1/ε (0, E)], leading to the energy dependence of the real and imaginary parts (ε1 and ε2) of ε (0, E). At large energy loss, ε2 is small and ε1 close to 1, so that Im(−1/ε) = ε2/(ε12 + ε22) becomes proportional to ε2 and (apart from a factor of E−3) the energy-loss spectrum is proportional to the x-ray absorption spectrum.
The optical permittivity is a transverse property of the medium, in the sense that the electric field of an electromagnetic wave displaces electrons in a direction perpendicular to the direction of propagation, the electron density remaining unchanged. On the other hand, an incident electron produces a longitudinal displacement and a local variation of electron density. The transverse and longitudinal dielectric functions are precisely equal only in the random-phase approximation at sufficiently small q (Nozieres and Pines, 1959); nevertheless, there is no evidence for a significant difference between them, as indicated by the close similarity of Im(−1/ε) obtained from both optical and energy-loss measurements on a variety of materials (Daniels et al., 1970).
– R.F. Egerton, Electron Energy-Loss Spectroscopy in the Electron Microscope, 2nd ed. (New York: Plenum/Springer, 1996). | <urn:uuid:07bd029d-a71a-40ec-a8d3-49286451236a> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://crozier.engineering.asu.edu/research/modeling-and-simulation/dielectric-theory/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572033.91/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814113403-20220814143403-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.878055 | 811 | 2.84375 | 3 |
Kirk, C. C.
Student file of Andrew Paisano, a member of the Pueblo Nation, who entered the school on August 29, 1897, and departed on September 16, 1902. The file contains a student information card, a report after leaving, a trade/position record card, and a returned student survey that indicates Paisano...
Student information card of Juan Vavages, a member of the Pima Nation, who entered the school on February 25, 1895 and departed on July 3, 1902.
Note: There is another student name Juan B. Vavages.
Student file of Pedro Bernardino, a member of the Pit River, who entered the school on September 9, 1901 and departed on July 29, 1904. The file contains a student information card. | <urn:uuid:d67d25a2-22c6-4e3a-9e51-1b729ab807ab> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://carlisleindian.dickinson.edu/people/kirk-c-c | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572033.91/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814113403-20220814143403-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.950737 | 166 | 1.679688 | 2 |
The Federal Reserve signaled Wednesday that it plans to begin raising its benchmark interest rate as soon as March, a key step in reversing its pandemic-era low-rate policies that have fueled hiring and growth but also escalated inflation.
With high inflation squeezing consumers and businesses and unemployment falling steadily, the Fed also said it would phase out its monthly bond purchases, which have been intended to lower longer-term rates, in March.
The central bank’s actions are sure to make a wide range of borrowing — from mortgages and credit cards to auto loans and corporate credit — costlier over time. Those higher borrowing costs, in turn, could slow consumer spending and hiring. The gravest risk is that the Fed’s abandonment of low rates could trigger another recession.
In a statement issued after its latest policy meeting, the Fed it “expects it will soon be appropriate” to raise rates.
Though the statement didn’t specifically mention March, half the Fed’s policymakers have expressed a willingness to raise rates by then, including some members who have long favored low rates to support hiring. | <urn:uuid:54d23aea-28de-4e06-9ed2-c0f22dbf252a> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://todayminutes.com/fed-plans-to-raise-rates-as-soon-as-march-to-cool-inflation/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571198.57/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810161541-20220810191541-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.965403 | 226 | 1.78125 | 2 |
Upon successful completion of the Administrative Office Assistant II certificate, the student demonstrates intermediate skills, knowledge, and training for office support positions similar to: Administrative Executive Assistant, Executive Assistant, Administrative Office Professional, and Executive Office Assistant job titles. The student demonstrates his or her ability to perform a broad range of intermediate clerical and office support tasks requiring knowledge and skills involving some degree of independent judgement and business communication skills. The student will develop critical thinking and problem-solving skills for a business environment that build upon the Administrative Office Assistant I Certificate of Achievement training and skills. This certificate is level 2 of 4 in the Administrative Executive Professional/Office Manager Career Pathway.
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Upon successful completion of this program, students will be able to:
Demonstrate the ability to use entry level to advanced Microsoft Office software application skills in a business environment.
Define and explain basic accounting and/or bookkeeping skills in business.
This certificate provides a foundation for the Administrative Office Executive Professional/Office Manager pathway, and represents Level 2 of 4 in the Administrative Office Executive Professional/Office Manager, Associate in Science Degree pathway.
Complete all courses with a grade of “C” or better. | <urn:uuid:228252f9-a8e5-4e40-b95d-11111b00f124> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://catalog.deltacollege.edu/preview_program.php?catoid=6&poid=1355&returnto=388 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572033.91/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814113403-20220814143403-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.920203 | 242 | 1.757813 | 2 |
'The general interest' in law? Jonge NJV Seminar 12 December 2012
This Wednesday the Leiden Law School will host the third annual Jonge NJV Seminar. The Jonge NJV invites legal scholars and practitioners, young or not so young, to join us at the Law Faculty for an interesting debate on ‘the general interest’ in law.
We all come across it from time to time: the ‘general interest’. We balance the general interest against other (individual) interests. In the adjudicative process, when involved in making laws, policy or regulations. But also when we reflect upon prior judgments or measures taken. But do we actually know what ‘the general interest’ is, and how much weight it should be given? Looking at politics we must conclude that the general interest sometimes is nothing more than an instrument that helps in reaching a preferred solution. A ‘rhetorical trick’ to avoid complex discussions and to find the necessary consensus.
On Wednesday 12 December Leiden Law School will host the third annual Jonge NJV Seminar. Dutch jurists will gather to discuss ‘the general interest’ and the role it plays in law and legal reasoning. To kick off the debate three essays have been written by young jurists working in different fields of law. Anita van den Berg will present her ideas on the balance between the general interest and the individual interest when it comes to various integrity assessments (e.g. on the basis of the Bibob Act). She argues that the general interest that is served with these assessments is formulated in a vague manner. Individuals concerned are confronted with legal insecurity and Van den Berg gives suggestions for securing their interests in a more appropriate manner. Pim Geelhoed discusses the general interest in the context of criminal law, and moreover with a view to the multi-level character of our legal order. The Dutch ‘expediency principle’ (opportuniteitsbeginsel) refers to the ‘general interest’, but to what extent is this criterion coloured by European Union law? Geelhoed thinks the influence of the European Union is significant. Accordingly, decision makers should have enough room to take European requirements into account. Walter Dijkshoorn, finally, discusses the role of liability law when it comes to the promotion and protection of the general interest. Discussing the problem of ‘law enforcement gaps’, he stresses that it is not the task of liability law to step in and solve this.
The discussion will be led by Prof. Carel Stolker, who will not only give those who dissent with the essayists the opportunity to present their views, but will also address some more fundamental, underlying questions. Is it important to always know what the general interest in a concrete situation is? Or should we not problematize this notion too much so that we, jurists, can also benefit from its vagueness?
It is still possible to register for the Jonge NJV Seminar (which will be in Dutch). See www.jnjv.nl. | <urn:uuid:19b650f6-99ca-459c-b070-acd230c2f741> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.leidenlawblog.nl/articles/the-general-interest-in-law-jonge-njv-seminar-12-december-2012 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571198.57/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810161541-20220810191541-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.933306 | 636 | 1.632813 | 2 |
Antioch was a province of some renown to the Protoss Empire, housing the Citadel of the Executor. The Road of Remembrance ran several kilometers out from Antioch toward a xel'naga temple, and was a site of great cultural significance, as honored fallen protoss are brought down the road.
The zerg invasion of Aiur devastated the planet and Antioch was no exception, experiencing numerous zerg attacks. Two days after the invasion's conclusion proper (the manifestation of the Overmind), the outpost, under the command of Praetor Fenix, was on the edge of the abyss in terms of manpower and resources. As such, the Conclave ordered that Antioch be reinforced, as the first priority of the protoss forces was to strengthen their defenses.
First Battle of Antioch
Reinforcements under the leadership of Executor Artanis arrived at Antioch, having successfully engaged numerous zerg patrols in the lands surrounding it. Fortifying the base, the protoss then launched a successful counterattack against the zerg Tiamat Brood forces which occupied the ridge to the north.
Second Battle of Antioch
While the main protoss strike force carried out an attack on the zerg-held province of Scion, Antioch fell under attack by overwhelming zerg forces. The defense was not nearly as successful as the first battle, and Fenix was mortally wounded.
By the end of the war, Antioch had been reduced to a wasteland.
The area was colonized by the Shel'na Kryhas, protoss refugees stranded after the evacuation of Aiur. They settled the area, eliminating the flying zerg in the area around Antioch, though fighting running battles with the large number of ground zerg in the region. In 2503, the group was largely wiped out.
Antioch shares the name with an ancient Greek city.
The province appears as a contestable territory in RISK: StarCraft, though its geography differs from its portrayal in the novel StarCraft: The Dark Templar Saga: Shadow Hunters. In the novel, the Citadel of the Executor is located in the province. In RISK: StarCraft however, the two locations are in completely different locations, Antioch located in Aiur's south-eastern hemisphere, the citadel in its northwestern. The mission "Templar's Return" in Legacy of the Void mentions the citadel is in Antioch. | <urn:uuid:38f7c4fd-5b06-40a5-ae14-2931008d55a9> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://starcraft.fandom.com/wiki/Antioch | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571536.89/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811224716-20220812014716-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.956775 | 533 | 2.078125 | 2 |
BLOG — Kossoye gets a veggie lecture
- Published: September 22, 2010
Ever since I was old enough to understand the news that was always blaring on TV at our house, all I knew about Ethiopia was that a lot of hungry people lived there. When I learned it was the source of the Nile, I thought it couldn’t be all bad. But I later found out that Ethiopia is one of just two African countries that was never fully colonized, and I guessed that it couldn’t have very many valuable resources.
Then I tasted injera, and I knew that Ethiopia was the source of some kind of brilliance.
Injera is a spongy, stretchy, sour crepe made from teff, the tiny grain of a highland grass native to Ethiopia. It is made by fermenting teff flour with water and yeast for several days, and then cooking the batter until it’s a huge, pock-marked pancake. Injera is a staple of the Ethiopian diet, and it is served underneath, beside, on top of, and occasionally instead of every other dish in the diet. Ethiopians eat injera as the French eat baguettes, the Mexicans eat tortillas, and the Indians eat naan. And though I’ve made all the others, injera is still a conceptual culinary project to me.
Apparently the fermenting thing seems daunting to others as well. When Krista Magaw and Andy Carlson hosted an Ethiopian gathering at their home in the church two weeks ago, they picked up their injera from the Blue Nile, one of three Ethiopian restaurants in Columbus (it’s a great restaurant with traditional low chairs and wicker basket tables). But Krista made all the rest of the dishes, featuring many seasonal vegetables in spicy sauces and the popular doro wat, spicy chicken stew with hard boiled eggs. The dinner was finger-licking good, literally, as we ate with our hands. I always marveled at the neatness of the Cameroonians I knew who ate with their hands from one common bowl. They couldn’t afford plates, and there were no napkins, so they got very skilled at shaping a bite-sized ball of food in their right hand and escorting it from the bowl to their mouths without losing a wayward kernel. With me, as at the local dinner, there was grease running down to my elbow, crumbs littering the floor around me, as well as spillage around my mouth and chin.
Well the dinner was a fundraiser for a local food project in the northern highlands of Ethiopia’s Amhara region, where Andy’s father Dennis Carlson has conducted community health research for the past 40 years, specifically around the village of Kossoye. Over time, the Carlsons have seen the health of the Kossoye community plummet due to lack of proper nutrition. Stunting in particular is a major problem, but infant mortality, infection and HIV are other health issues that keep the community from thriving.
In 2005 the Carlsons began The Kossoye Project, a health and family planning initiative and two years later also began a household vegetable gardening campaign. They created a health and gardening manual in Amharan, a native written and spoken language that Dennis speaks, and have led students and researchers from Capital University where Andy currently teaches, to help implement the project. The manual includes recipes using the garden vegetables, which came from the winners of a local cooking contest held in Kossoye in 2009.
Krista served these dishes with the doors and windows open and Amharic music playing in the background, and it felt like being in an African café.
Vegetable stew: Fry onions and garlic in oil with cumin, berbere spice mixture, and salt, then add chopped potatoes, cabbage, carrots and chard until tender. Add water as necessary.
Beet stirfry: Cut and boil beet roots in salted water. Fry chopped beet greens in oil with onions, garlic and salt.
Doro wat: (Krista served her own version not included in the cookbook, so this version is adapted from betumiblog.)
A berbere spice mix version: roast the following, 1 t ginger, ½ t each coriander, cardamom, fenugreek, nutmeg, and ¼ t cinnamon until fragrant. Add 2 T salt, ¼ t each cloves and allspice, ½ C cayenne, 1 t black pepper, ½ cup paprika and roast on low another 10 minutes until various shades darker.
- Cut a whole chicken into eight pieces and sprinkle with juice of one lemon and 1 t salt. Let rest.
- Fry in 4 T oil 2 C chopped onions, 1 T garlic, 1 t fresh ginger until translucent. Add 1/2 t crushed fenugreek, 1/2 t ground cardamom, 1/8 t nutmeg, 4 T berbere, 2 T paprika, 2 T tomato paste, and 1 C water (or more, as needed).
- Bring all ingredients to a boil and cook slowly, stirring often, for about 45 minutes. The sauce should be the consistency of heavy cream.
- Add the chicken pieces to the sauce. Add 2 T butter (or Ethiopian spiced ghee). Lower the heat and cook chicken for about an hour, turning the ofte.
- Prepare 1 hard-boiled egg for each person. Peel and cut about 5 shallow slits in the eggs and add to the sauce the last 10 minutes of cooking time.
For more information on the Kossoye Project, visit http://www.kossoyeproject.org. Donations to support the effort are welcome. | <urn:uuid:2f30d10c-65be-4b2b-b961-9cb9707d0483> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://ysnews.com/news/2010/09/blog-%E2%80%94-kossoye-gets-a-veggie-lecture | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570921.9/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809094531-20220809124531-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.954677 | 1,192 | 1.921875 | 2 |
With 205 km of lines, 303 stations and over 1.5 billion passengers carried each year, the Paris metro is one of the world’s most practical. But its current appearance is the result of a long history, and that of a man: Fulgence Bienvenue.
During the industrial revolution, the Second Empire tries to modernize the capital by building railways. The “ring road“, a double track surrounding Paris built in 1852, does not solve the problem of inner Paris transport.
In 1863, London opens the world’s first underground railway. New York followed in 1868, Chicago in 1892, Budapest in 1896. At least, After several years of discussions between the State and the City of Paris, it was decided in 1895 to build an urban network in Paris, which goal is first to open for the 1900 World Fair, then to build 6 lines until 1911.
The project is assigned to a Bretonengineer: Fulgence Bienvenue. Born in 1852, he lost his left arm in 1881 in a work accident. What didnt’t put a stop to climb one by one the ranks until becoming Technician Chief of the Metropolitan in 1898.
This project is one of the most important of the 20th century, one that will definitely bring Paris in the industrial era, lagging behind London and New York. But the works, which cause huge changes in the city, also stirred up parisians anger.
On April 14, 1900, the goal is almost reached, but the World Fair opens without subway. Line 1, which connects Porte Maillot and Porte de Vincennes, will be operational on July 19, 1900. The start of a long history… And an immediate success : in five months, 4 million passengers use the Paris metro.
Follow the lines 2, 3, 5, 4 … In 1910, the 6 lines planned in 1898 are done.
Fulgence Bienvenue directed until 1932 works of new lines. He only didn’t oversee 2 lines (plus some extensions of existing lines): the 11 (1935) and the 14 (1998).
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Depending on how you intend to use PTFE tubing, you have different options available. In cases where you will be using it as a protective covering over wiring, used in healthcare devices, you can purchase the tubing already applied to medical wires. You can also obtain this type of tubing available in different size guide wire assemblies. By purchasing the tubing already in place, it helps save you time and allows you to keep up with your production schedules.
The Wall Size of PTFE Tubing Refers to the Thickness of the Teflon
PTFE tubing is available in different wall sizes for your various applications and processes. The thing to remember when selecting the wall size you require, is that the nominal inner diameter will be the same for each type of wall. For example, the nominal inner diameter of AWG size 24 is 0.022 inches. This measurement will be the same for standard wall, thin wall and light wall tubing. The difference in the wall size has to do with the actual thickness of the Teflon. | <urn:uuid:644d5b9d-8e08-4c6f-a186-3ff217fa3944> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://componentsupplycompany.com/blog/ptfe-tubing-can-be-purchased-by-itself-or-already-assembled-with-other-materials/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571909.51/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813051311-20220813081311-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.894964 | 210 | 2.046875 | 2 |
Unknown Factual Statements About Credit Card Manufacture Unveiled By The Authorities
Now, the question is that when do you have to go for capital raising. All the time start the method of capital elevating earlier than the actual want arises. It’s because you always want the money sooner than you suppose you need it. It is no use making an attempt to douse the fireplace after the whole home has crumbled down to debris. You need to be always proactive. If you’re planning to take a bank loan, start financial planning three-4 months upfront. For angel investment or enterprise capital, at least count on 3-12 months. It’s essential to all the time be ready for a long haul. Also ensure that you’ve got a strong banking relationship in order that, just in case there’s a gap between the capital you expected to raise and the capital you actually raised, you’ll be able to bridge the hole with the help of a bank loan.
A variety of actual property enterprise corporations are current available in the market. But all of them do not render good services. Solely these firms that have legal registration are real. The federal government certifies the legally registered corporations, so they are reliable. Information about the development plan and used instruments are needful to gather. It is necessary as a big quantity is spent to construct a building. The goal of spending so much money is to construct a perfect constructing, and the target must be fulfilled with a very good plan along with skilled instruments.
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Invoice factoring allows enterprise, reminiscent of oilfield service firms, to seize revenues that would have been locked up in gradual fee of invoices. Factoring reduces the time it takes your corporation to receives a commission, so you’ll be able to stay present on payroll and payables.
What’s Peter educating right here? Securing the Loan.
Not knowing how a lot you’re spending every month: In case you are not keeping observe, it is easy for spending to get out of control. You have to create a finances and adhere to that funds as closely as you possibly can. Monitor your spending and evaluate it to your budget.
There are quite a variety of instruments that analyze stock and enable you to discover the ideal firm to spend money on. One such evaluation is the technical analysis that utilizes charts like determine charts, point charts, logarithmic charts, Japanese candlesticks and many others to see how the stock prices of a particular firm are shifting. The actions of the initial couple of months will suffice for some individuals to find out whether they need to invest their money or not. | <urn:uuid:8a3bb93a-eaa3-4d31-87f6-a34ec02eb67c> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://www.footesteel.com/unknown-factual-statements-about-credit-card-manufacture-unveiled-by-the-authorities | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571909.51/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813051311-20220813081311-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.938008 | 562 | 1.578125 | 2 |
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DBAN, also called Darik’s Boot and Nuke, is a free and open-source data eraser. This software was designed to securely erase all data including programs, personal files, recovery partition, and OS on a hard drive in Windows. However, DBAN can’t work with SSDs.
DBAN comes with a self-contained boot image that can be used to create a bootable drive. This tool is suitable for emergency or bulk data destruction. If you want to recycle for personal use or sell laptop for cash, the DBAN data eraser can help you wipe hard drive.
Now, you may have an overall understanding of DBAN. Please keep reading to learn how to use DBAN.
How to Use DBAN
Since DBAN can only run while the operating system isn’t in use, you need to create a bootable drive using its ISO image. So, you should prepare a USB flash drive or CD/DVD to burn the boot image. Here we will show you how to create a DBAN USB and use it to wipe hard drive.
In order to create a DBAN USB successfully, make sure your USB flash drive meets the following requirements:
- Capacity: 32MB free space at least
- File system: formatted with FAT32
Part 1. Create a Bootable DBAN USB
The first thing you should do is to create a bootable DBAN USB. Now, you can follow the full guide below:
Step 1. Download and Save the DBAN ISO image.
- Click here to visit its official website, and click on the Download button to start downloading DBAN.
- Once the ISO image is downloaded successfully, save it to somewhere that you can easily access.
Step 2. Burn the DBAN ISO image to the USB flash drive.
- Connect the USB that you just prepared for your computer.
- To burn ISO image to the USB, click here to download and install Universal USB Inst
- Run Universal USB Installer, and then select the DBAN ISO image from the drop-down menu and follow the on-screen prompts to create a DBAN USB.
Once the bootable USB is created, you can restart your computer from the drive.
Part 2. Run DBAN from the Bootable USB
This part will show you how to run DBAN from USB.
Step 1. Boot into the DBAN USB flash drive.
- Turn off your computer completely and insert the DBAN USB that you just burned into your computer.
- Press the F2 and Delete keys before the computer is rebooted and then you will enter the BIOS You can read this post “How to Enter BIOS Windows 10/8/7” to learn more details.
- In the BIOS Settings window, navigate to the Boot tab and put the DBAN USB to the first boot order by pressing the arrow keys. Then click on Enter and your computer will immediately restart from the bootable USB.
Step 2. Enter the main interface of DBAN.
1. Once you boot the computer from DBAN USB successfully, you will enter the Darik’s Boot and Nuke main menu.
2. In the displayed screen, you will see many Function keys that guide you to make operations. Press the F3 key to open a list of quick commands that enables you to wipe all disks on your computer based on your needs.
Part 3. Wipe Hard Drive Using DBAN
Since this tool won’t remind you which hard drive to wipe nor prompt you with any confirmations, it will automatically erase all files on all connected drives if you don’t choose a certain hard drive. The following guide will show you how to wipe a certain hard drive.
Step 1. In the main interface of DBAN, press the Enter key to open the Interactive mode. In this mode, you can erase files as well as a hard drive.
Step 2. Move up and down the hard drive that you want to erase by pressing the J and K keys. If you want to wipe a hard drive, move it to first place on the list.
Step 3. Press the Space key to select the drive and you will see the word Wipe appears next to the drive.
Step 4. Once you confirm all the settings, press the F10 key to start wiping the selected hard drive. After that, DBAN will immediately operate and you can’t stop nor pause the process.
Step 5. Wait for DBAN to wipe the hard drive. You will see the DBAN succeeded message when the selected drive is erased completely.
What is DBAN? How to use DBAN on Windows? Now, I believe that you already have a clear understanding. Although DBAN can securely erase all data on a hard drive, the process is relatively time-consuming and complex.
You have to prepare a bootable USB drive and use a keyboard during the entire process. Besides, this utility won’t be able to wipe an SSD. Are there any DBAN alternatives? Please keep reading the following part.
Top 3 Free DBAN Alternatives
Since DBAN has many limitations when wiping hard drives, it’s highly recommended that you use a more effective data eraser. This section will introduce the top 3 free DBAN alternatives to you.
#Option 1. MiniTool Partition Wizard
Now, we will introduce the first simple DBAN alternative – MiniTool Partition Wizard. It is an all-in-one partition manager that boasts many powerful features such as resize partition, align partition, convert MBR to GPT, convert NTFS to FAT32 without data loss, migrate OS to SSD, etc.
With this powerful tool, you can wipe all the data on your hard drive permanently. It is very easy to operate just with a few clicks. Click on the following buttons to download this tool and install it on your computer.
Step 1. Run this program to enter its main interface, and then select the hard drive that you want to erase and click on Wipe Disk from the left action panel.
Step 2. Select a wiping method from the given options listed in the pop-up window and click OK to go on. There are 5 wiping levels. The more time the process takes, the higher the security level it has.
Step 3. Now, you can review the wiping result in the main interface. Click on the Apply button to execute this wiping operation.
#Option 2. Disk Management Utility
This part will show you another DBAN alternative – Disk Management. It is a Windows built-in tool that can be used to manage partitions on a hard drive including format/extend/delete/shrink volumes.
In order to wipe a hard drive, you need to perform a full format in Disk Management. Here’s how to do that:
Step 1. Press the Win + R to open the Run dialog box, and then type diskmgmt.msc in the box and hit Enter.
Step 2. In the Disk Management window, right-click the volume on the hard drive that you want to wipe and select Format from the context menu.
Step 3. In the pop-up window, make sure that you uncheck the box Perform a quick format and click OK to perform a full format.
Step 4. You will receive a warning message prompting you to format the volume will erase all data on it. Click on OK to go on. Then this volume will be fully formatted.
Step 5. Repeat Step 2 to Step 4 until you format all volumes on the hard drive. This process may take you some time depending on the used space on the hard drive.
You may think this formatting process is relatively time-consuming. Is there another simple DBAN alternative? Let’s keep exploring.
#Option 3. Diskpart Utility
Apart from Disk Management, Diskpart is another simple tool that can help you wipe a hard drive more quickly. To do so, follow the steps below:
Step 1. Press Win + R keys to open the Run dialog box, and then type cmd in the box and hit Ctrl + Shift + Enter to open the elevated Command Prompt window.
Step 2. In the elevated window, type diskpart and hit Enter to use the Diskpart utility.
Step 3. Now, you can type the following command lines in the window and press Enter after typing each command.
- list disk
- select disk * (* replace the disk number with the one that you want to wipe)
- clean all
In the above part, we mainly focus on 3 free DBAN alternatives to wipe hard drive. As far as we can see, MiniTool Partition Wizard is more convenient and easier than the other 2 utilities.
I want to wipe my hard drive on Windows 10 using DBAN. However, this hard drive eraser tool requires to create a bootable USB. It is so complex and time-consuming. Fortunately, I found 3 free DBAN alternatives from this post. Perhaps you are also looking for such a tool! Click to Tweet
What’s Your Opinion
What is DBAN? How to wipe a hard drive using DBAN? After reading the above information, I believe that you already have known the answers. If you think the DBAN is not convenient, you can utilize the other 3 simple DBAN alternatives.
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The MTV Shuga “Down South series” was broadcasted on TV in South Africa and other countries on the African continent in 2017 and 2019.
Young people in South Africa changed their attitudes significantly and adopted safer sexual behaviour, after watching a TV show called Down South – which the UN initiative behind it describes as a tribute to the power of “edutainment”.
A new report, conducted by the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, indicates that, after watching the episodes, young people were twice as likely to get tested for HIV.
They were also twice as likely to know their status and to be aware of oral pre-exposure prophylaxis, known as PrEP, a drug taken by HIV-negative people before sex, that reduces the risk of getting HIV.
A scene on the season 2 of the series, that follows young people in the country, by MTV Staying Alive Foundation / Unitaid
The Down South series is part of the multimedia campaign MTV Shuga, a long-running initiative that follows the lives of young people on the African continent.
Starting in Kenya in 2009 as a TV show, the campaign has now expanded to feature radio dramas, social media engagement during and after shows, graphic novels and peer education programmes.
Globally, the initiative has reached young people in 72 countries, broadcasting to an estimated 720 million homes.
The Down South series analysed in the study includes two seasons and was broadcasted in South Africa in 2017 and 2019.
It was funded by Unitaid, a global health initiative that partners with the United Nations, and produced by the MTV Staying Alive Foundation.
For Hervé Verhoosel, spokesperson for Unitaid, the results “are fantastic news and further evidence that edutainment is driving real impact in familiarizing young people with different tools for HIV prevention, including self-tests and PrEP.”
The need for reliable information and services is vital for young people everywhere, but more acute in countries with high HIV prevalence, such as South Africa, where 7.8 million people are living with the virus.
According to WHO, around 19% of people living with HIV in Africa do not know their status.
For Mr. Verhoosel, a campaign like this “is providing invaluable support in promoting HIV self-testing and prevention” in the continent.
The study found that the effects increased with greater exposure to the series, were equally high for males and females, and stronger among adolescents (15-19-year olds) than adults aged 20-24 years.
Among the 3,414 online survey participants, knowledge of HIV status was higher among those exposed to the second season, about 58%, compared to the 35% who were not.
Watching the second season is also associated with increased awareness of HIV self-testing, going from 28 per cent to 60 per cent, and increased use of HIV self-testing, increasing from 10 per cent to 29 per cent.
During the pandemic, the show adapted its new content to focus on COVID-19 through the Alone Together series, also part of the MTV Shuga stable of shows.
Aired on MTV channels around the world, the content is also offered rights-free to third party broadcasters and platforms, and used by educators, healthcare workers and grassroots HIV/AIDS organisations around the world.
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Ticks and diseases
Why ticks can be dangerous?
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What are ticks?
Most people think ticks are a kind of insect. They’re not! Technically, they’re classified as arthropods and, more specifically, as acarines, which place them in the same group of “bugs” as spiders and mites. Practically, however, what really defines ticks is that they are obligate blood feeders (blood is all they feed on). A rather special feature of most ticks is that they typically stay attached to their host for days or a week to complete feeding (in contrast, mosquitoes are quick-in, quick-out blood feeders). Ticks also carry a wide variety of disease-causing germs, and they transmit these agents while blood feeding.
Typically, different species of human-biting ticks are associated with specific disease-causing pathogens. Relatively recent environmental changes, especially expansion of deer populations, have dramatically affected tick ecology and impacted public health in many parts of the United States. To stay disease-free, it’s important for families and individuals to clearly understand their tick-encounter risks and the best practices for preventive solutions.
What diseases do ticks carry?
As the tick population continues to grow and as the tick range expands, scientists are also finding a growing list of disease-causing microbes transmitted by these ticks. The most well-known is certainly Lyme disease bacteria.
Babesia protoza, Anaplesma, Ehrlichia (and other rickettsia), encephalitis – causing viruses and Bartonella bacteria.
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Janus doesn’t belong to the American Federation of State County and Municipal Employees but must pay about $500 of the $70,000 he earns a year to the union in what are called “agency” or “fair share” fees. On Feb. 26 the United States Supreme Court will hear his case. At stake is whether government workers should, as a condition of employment, be compelled to pay money to a union.
“I would say this case has the potential to be a landmark case,” Harvard University Law Professor Benjamin Sachs told Illinois Times. “Essentially, if the court rules in Mr. Janus’ favor, it would put every government worker in the United States under a right-to-work regime.”... Read more about Local landmark
"The deal may presage the growing desire among millennials for a better work-life balance, and a readiness to mute wage demands in exchange for a shorter work week and more time for family, children, and care-giving," Brookings' Mark Muro tells Axios. "In that sense, this is consistent with trends in prosperous countries towards reduced hours, in the midst of plenty."
"but ... don't look for such concessions to reach the U.S. any time soon, suggests Sharon Block, who runs the Labor and Worklife Program at Harvard Law School. "It shows a growing divide between what is going on here and the rest of the industrialized world," she told Axios.
How Does the Gig Economy Fit into Labor Law? New technology. Old questions. That’s the perspective of former National Labor Relations Board general counsel Richard Griffin Jr., who was among the panelists this week at a forum on labor law. Griffin, now counsel to Bredhoff & Kaiser in Washington, says there’s nothing new in one of the central questions of the gig economy: Are workers employees or independent contractors? Some of the first major labor cases before the Supreme Court focused on that issue—such as whether newspaper delivery people were considered contractors or employees.
Sharon Block, a former NLRB member and now executive director of Harvard Law School’s Labor and Worklife Program, had this to say: “I think there is a tendency to get distracted by the bright, shiny object of technology. To assume that because technology is involved doesn’t mean that standards don’t apply. The standards of the relationship isn’t changed.”... Read more about Labor of Law: Driving Labor Law Into the Gig Economy
The very fact that Trump’s NLRB is inviting public comment indicates that it is considering reversing a much older precedent: the 52-year-old Excelsior rule that employers should provide a list of names and addresses of eligible voters in an upcoming union certification election. Sharon Block, a former member of the NLRB and current Executive Director of the Labor and Worklife Program at Harvard Law School, has argued that the slew of hastily-decided reversals of second-term Obama precedents "seemed to be a rush to set the clock back on workers' rights as much as possible."
The Department of Labor has proposed a new regulation that would allow businesses to collect tips earned by their employees and either redistribute them to non-tipped workers or keep them as part of their own profits.
Critics say that there is nothing in the regulation that would stop business owners from simply seizing their employees' tips and using the extra income to line their own pockets or make capital investments — a practice they call "tip stealing," or wage theft.
Women and people of color are both more likely to be tipped employees and to earn lower wages than white men, so critics say the law would have a disproportionate adverse impact on both, and particularly women.
"What is at stake is the ability of women to support themselves and their families," Sharon Block, executive director of the Labor and Worklife program at Harvard Law School and a former DOL official under the Obama administration, told Business Insider. "People often overlook that minimum wage workers are disproportionately women."
The outcome of the major U.S. Supreme Court case over whether companies can ban class actions in employment agreements holds new importance as women join together to speak out against sexual misconduct in the workplace, former National Labor Relations Board general counsel Richard Griffin said Wednesday.
Sharon Block, executive director of Harvard Law School’s Labor and Worklife Program, said forcing workers to bring claims as individuals could have the effect of taking away the rights outlined in Section 7 of the National Labor Relations Act, which protects concerted speech.
“It can eliminate protections for workers who need that protection the most,” Block said. “I think this is a tremendously important case. The consequences of it, if it comes out the wrong way, could be significant.”
Business advocates who have been pressing the federal government for years to increase its regulation of worker centers like Fight for $15 are more hopeful than ever that they'll get their way after a string of reversals of Obama-era National Labor Relations Board precedent.
"There's been a continuity to this issue across different administrations,” said Harvard Law School Labor and Worklife Program Executive Director Sharon Block, who was a DOL policy official in the Obama administration. "[Acosta] injected this uncertainty into what I think had no uncertainty."
William Emanuel has recused himself from ruling on disputes involving his former law firm’s clients — but then used unrelated cases as vehicles to help Republican colleagues accomplish the same thing.
Former Obama NLRB member Sharon Block agreed. “Deciding a case in a way the parties didn’t ask you to decide it seems to me inevitably to raise the question: Why are you doing this?” said Block, who now heads the Labor and Worklife Program at Harvard Law School. “Emanuel having clients that actually had made that request — at the very least that creates a huge appearance problem.”
Labor unions in America are in crisis. In the mid-1950s, a third of Americans belonged to a labor union. Today only 10.7 percent do, including a minuscule 6.4 percent of private sector workers. The decline of union membership explains as much as a third of the increase in inequality in the US, caused voter turnout among low-income workers to crater, and weakened labor’s ability to check corporate influence in Washington, DC, and state capitals.
The future for traditional unions looks so bleak that a growing number of labor scholars and activists are coming to the conclusion that the US approach is dead and can’t be revived.
Benjamin Sachs, a professor at Harvard Law School and former practicing labor lawyer, says, “The way I would think about it is that there’s an existential panic about what will happen to the labor movement. That’s not new, it’s just getting worse. … If we need unions for economic and political equality as I think we do, we have to do something to stop that downward spiral.”
THE AMERICAN LABOR movement, over the past four decades, has had two golden opportunities to shift the balance of power between workers and bosses — first in 1978, with unified Democratic control of Washington, and again in 2009. Both times, the unions came close and fell short, leading, in no small part, to the precarious situation labor finds itself in today.
[Sharon] Block, the former lawyer to Kennedy in the Senate [current Executive Director, LPW], doesn’t think Obama’s lackluster advocacy really made much of a difference. In fact, she said, some version of EFCA probably would have gotten through, but the final blow came when Senate Democrats lost 60 votes following Kennedy’s death. When the Massachusetts Democrat died of brain cancer in August 2009, he was succeeded by Republican Sen. Scott Brown, and the filibuster majority was no more, and EFCA never came up for a vote again.
Thirty-six distinguished economists and professors of law and economics including three Nobel laureates, two recipients of the American Economic Association’s prestigious John Bates Clark Medal, and two past presidents of the American Economic Association filed an amici curiae brief to assist the Supreme Court in understanding the free-rider problem at issue in Janus v. AFSCME.
Richard B. Freeman, who holds the Herbert Ascherman Chair in Economics at Harvard University, and is currently serving as Faculty co-Director of the Labor and Worklife Program at the Harvard Law School, was on of the 36 signers.
In November, Labor Secretary Alex Acosta said ominously that he was “looking at” the possibility of imposing new regulations on worker centers that could hobble their ability to get funding and operate freely. This would be the regulatory equivalent of a sniper taking pot shots at the medic who has rushed onto the battlefield to tend to a dying soldier. It is a remarkably bold threat. To see what is at stake, I traveled to frozen Minneapolis, home to one of the most effective worker centers anywhere in America.
[Sharon Block, who served as a Labor Department official in the Obama administration and is now the director Harvard Law School’s Labor and Worklife Program] points out that the George W. Bush administration already scrutinized worker centers on the same basis—and the Bush Labor Department sided with the worker centers, twice. “Who am I to argue with the Bush administration?” she laughs.
The Trump administration is moving to undo the actions of former President Obama on almost every front, and now it's happening with breathtaking speed at an agency charged with protecting worker rights.
Now, it appears Robb may also back off what has become one of the most expensive and staff intensive cases in the board's history: A complaint filed against McDonald's in 2014 that claims the company should be held liable for alleged retaliatory actions by its franchisees against workers who participated in daylong strikes as part of the Fight for $15 movement, a union-backed campaign to raise wages.
"I think that's a bellwether issue as to whether this leadership cares about these statutes making sense and applying today," said Sharon Block, executive director of the Labor and Worklife Program at Harvard Law School, who served as head of policy at the Department of Labor until President Trump took office. "Or is this just a way of letting everybody fend for themselves, without the protections that they were supposed to have?"
The Trump administration is proposing to let small firms act more like big corporations to buy cheaper health insurance, a measure that would get around some of Obamacare’s requirements.
The rule would broaden the availability of less-regulated health insurance coverage to more small employers, and to self-employed people. The rule does so by letting many more small firms band together under “association health plans,” or AHPs. Those plans would be exempt from many of the Affordable Care Act’s rules on what benefits have to be covered.
“This rule seems to err on the side of making AHPs broadly available without making any effort to embed the protections that people get from ACA-covered plans,” said Sharon Block, a former senior Obama administration Labor Department official who now runs the Labor and Worklife Program at Harvard Law School. “You’re moving people towards less-quality plans and potentially doing harm to the people who stay in the ACA-covered plans.”
The National Labor Relations Board has overturned a 2015 law that made it easier for contractors and workers at franchised businesses to form unions and collectively bargain with big corporations.
The 2015 NLRB ruling said contract workers at a recycling center were jointly employed by a third party staffing firm and the business they worked for. Sharon Block was a member of President Obama's NLRB. She's now executive director of the labor and worklife program at Harvard Law School.
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Every time you praise something, every time you appreciate something, every time you feel good about something, you are aligning with the source of life and telling the universe, ‘More of this please, more of this please.’ – Abraham Hicks
Pic: Madeline McQueen
There are many ways we can learn to align, flow, and be at ease with life, but the best way to describe ‘alignment’ is by how we feel. Of course, our state of alignment changes each day and with every new experience, but the secret is being alert and aware of the moments when we feel uneasy, or against the flow of life.
There will always be experiences we do not want or wish to feel in life and unfortunately, as we all know, we have no control over this part.
However, what we can do when this occurs is to choose whether we spend our energy and time complaining and resisting this experience or, find ways to allow this experience in and shift our perspective onto a new platform
This has really helped me.
When I am resisting life and what is, I am tense and uptight, and in this state, I block the natural flow and support that the universe wants to give me. Instead, I give space to my feelings and allow time to nurture and relax my body and mind.
No matter what state of alignment I am in, I find ways to be grateful. The more grateful I am each day, the more I am open to the fullness and abundance in every moment.
Creativity and Movement:
When I feel stuck and I cant see a way through, I use movement to shift my blocked energy. This can be exercise, yoga, walking, and sitting in nature. It can be painting, drawing, or creating something new. It might be planting a tree, or building a herb garden.
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Who can resist a book that provides a paper doll of Saul Bass?
Jam-packed, whirlwind, and charming are the three best words to describe_ A History of Graphic Design for Rainy Days_ from Gestalten Press.
Prepare for this review to become rather meta. Gestalten’s Fully Booked: Cover Art and Design for Booksis a design book about book design also containing six essays, three apiece by Katherine Gillieson and Maria Fusco, one of which is an essay about the difficulty of producing a book on books.
[Naïve - Modernism and Folklore in Contemporary Graphic Design (Amazon: US|CA|UK|DE) is a recent release from Gestalten, edited by Robert Klanten and Hendrik Hellige. It explores the “extraordinary renaissance of Classic Modernism, from the 1940s to 1960s, in contemporary graphic design” and collects together the work of many of the contemporary designers working in this style today.
“Remember the small, cheeky, hand-scribbled notes that were reproduced on a photo or poster design? Those with the simple message: “I was here!” Indicating that someone actually worked with the photo and that these are their thoughts.
Books on colour must be the new black. We were sent two in a row recently – Kelvin: Colour Todayand An Eye for Color. We decided to do a series over the next month or two and include Victoria Finlay’s Color: A Natural History of the Palette.
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When you see the ″Send Noods″ sign, you know it’s an obvious riff on the notion of ″sending nudes,″ or nude photographs to one another through the internet and text messaging, which has become a popular joke meme format on the internet.
- 1 What does a noodle mean in slang?
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- 4 What does pushing a noodle mean?
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- 6 What does don’t noodles mean?
- 7 What does Noob stand for?
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- 9 Where does the saying use your noodle come from?
- 10 What is the history of noodles?
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- 13 What does 50 lashes with a wet noodle mean?
What does a noodle mean in slang?
Noodles are defined as follows: (Entry 1 of 3) simpleton is a slang term for someone who is unintelligent. 2: the head, the noggin.
What does send me Noods mean?
The #SendNoods initiative, launched by Kraft in the first week of October, allowed fans to send a free box of mac and cheese (or a ticket to redeem a free box) to a friend or family member.
What does it mean to use your noodle?
In other words, use your intellect, you moron. While you may believe that noodles do not resemble heads, they do resemble brains to a certain extent. In the beginning, the phrase ″using your noodle″ was meant to be an insult, since it contrasted a simpleton moving his head around while thinking with a wet, squishy noodle.
What does pushing a noodle mean?
The use of a sarcastic term to describe a flogging mechanism that is impractical and has no harmful consequences, or to describe someone who is either uninteresting or unproductive. Because pushing a wet noodle, as opposed to pulling it, accomplishes nothing, it is used as a metaphor for fruitless behavior. Theodore S. George S.
Does noodle mean thinking?
Idleness refers to the act of speculating on something, whether by talking or thinking about it in an aimless or completely hypothetical manner. (The term ‘noodle’ refers to the head or the brain in this context.)
What does don’t noodles mean?
I don’t want you to quit, Oogway. Noodles, don’t you mean noodles? You are far too preoccupied with what has been and what will be. In Chinese, there is a proverb that says: ″Yesterday was history; future will be mystery,″ however. jjzhong
What does Noob stand for?
|NOOB||Newbie (a new person; often used pejoratively)|
|NOOB||None of Our Business|
What is the meaning of noob in Marathi?
It is important to note that the following is not an exhaustive list of all possible combinations of words and phrases. If you are a newbie, you should read this. A newbie is a person who does not know what they are doing.
Where does the saying use your noodle come from?
While it does make use of the noodle (head), the expression ″to noodle about on anything″ may stem from the regional German nudeln, which means ″to improvise a song,″ or from the late nineteenth-century Scottish connotation of noodling as ″to sing a tune to oneself.″ The term ″noodle″ came into use in 1937 to describe the act of playing with notes to make music.
What is the history of noodles?
Origin. Chinese noodles were first recorded in writing during the Eastern Han dynasty (25–220 CE), in a book dated to that period. For the inhabitants of the Han period, noodles produced from wheat dough quickly rose to prominence as a staple dish. 4,000 years ago, in China, archaeologists discovered the earliest trace of noodles.
What does being a wet blanket mean?
A person or thing that dampens or quenches excitement or joy Examples of Synonyms and Sentences More Information on wet blanket may be found here.
What does 30 lashes with a wet noodle mean?
In fact, it’s a decades-old proverb and a joke that’s supposed to be amusing because a wet noodle plainly won’t damage you. A phrase used when someone expresses regret for anything they have done or when they say ″mea culpa,″ which is Latin for ″I am guilty.″
What does 50 lashes with a wet noodle mean?
The phrase ″forty lashes with a wet noodle″ was another well-known Ann Landers expression. This is what she would say if she felt someone had done something harsh, dishonest, or just foolish to provoke her. | <urn:uuid:db0a07e2-0bd6-4c0c-a091-84c9399c4ac8> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://goszechuanhouse.com/noodles/what-does-send-noodles-mean.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571909.51/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813051311-20220813081311-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.943403 | 1,099 | 1.75 | 2 |
Adaptive sync technology was first released in 2014 and has come a long way since its introduction. Both AMD and NVIDIA are in the market. Those who are into PC gaming will want to learn as much as they can about these two options to determine which one will be more intuitive and able to provide a seamless feel.
What Is Adaptive Sync?
The vertical refresh rate of a monitor can have a big impact on how well it is able to play a game. If the vertical refresh rate is too slow, there will be subtle lines running through the screen, causing interference.
While your graphics card is an important part of your gaming experience, it can only move images so fast. A traditional monitor is going to have a slow refresh rate. For instance, a 60Hz monitor will refresh every 1/60th of a second. Unfortunately, your graphics card may not be on the same rate which could end up causing multiple frames to be in the same window for a brief second or so. This is called screen tearing and it is something every PC gamer wants to avoid.
Both FreeSync and G-Sync eliminate tearing and stuttering, making your graphics flow like melted butter. Adaptive sync monitors make a huge difference in your gaming experience on the PC. It is amazing to put a traditional monitor and an adaptive sync monitor side-by-side and see how they perform.
Without adaptive sync monitors, there will be stuttering and tearing which can destroy your image play quality and lead to games being less enjoyable. Today’s gaming monitors must include adaptive sync to be labeled as a gaming monitor. There are two main types of adaptive sync technology and this guide will break them both down and help you understand how they are similar and how they are different. You will also learn how they are both used for gaming.
How Does FreeSync and G-Sync Work Monitors Work?
As mentioned above, sometimes your graphics card and monitor refresh rate are not perfectly synchronized which is when you start getting stuttering and tearing. Both FreeSync and G-Sync work with your graphics card to synchronize the refresh rate so there is no tearing or stuttering when your game is graphically intense. Whatever rate your graphics card is generating images at, the monitor will refresh at the exact same rate for a seamless play.
FreeSync Vs. G-Sync: Application
Although FreeSync and G-Sync perform much the same, there are some major differences. Application is one of the areas where these two differ greatly.
Out of the two, FreeSync is the one that is most easily used by monitors. It affixes over the VESA adaptive sync standard which is placed on DisplayPort 1.2a. Because AMD does not charge any royalties or fees for use, there is very little cost for manufacturers to include FreeSync with their monitors. If you are looking for a gaming monitor, you are likely to find this technology in a variety of models and brands, even those on the low end of the cost spectrum.
G-Sync, on the other hand, requires manufacturers to use Nvidia hardware modules and they remain in full control of quality, making it more expensive for manufacturers to use this technology in the production of their gaming monitors. Because of the added cost for manufacturers, you will likely never find a low-cost monitor that features G-Sync. Most manufacturers consider this to be a premium add-on and they charge more for it.
Everything You Need to Know About AMD FreeSync
Before you decide on any adaptive sync monitor, you need to know the pros and cons of each type. Being fully informed on the pros and cons of each type will help you to choose the one that will best meet your gaming needs and stop the screen tearing and stuttering that make you crazy.
Although AMD is not the first to develop a product that addresses screen tearing and stuttering, they are currently the most widely used by gamers and that could be due to cost and availability. As stated before, AMD does not charge royalties, leading to lower costs for manufacturers.
Pros of AMD FreeSync
One of the biggest things AMD Freesync has going for it is the cost. Monitors that feature AMD FreeSync are much more affordable than those with NVIDIA G-Sync technology. The lowered cost means this type of monitor is more widely available to gamers with a range of budgets.
Because it is a software solution, it is easier to obtain and does not cost a tremendous amount of money. You will find AMD FreeSync is available on budget monitors as well as high-end models.
Connectivity is another pro of AMD FreeSync. Monitors that feature FreeSync typically have more ports available. AMD has introduced its FreeSync in HDMI which allows this technology to be used by many more monitors than NVIDIA G-Sync.
Cons of AMD FreeSync
Although it would certainly seem AMD FreeSync is the perfect choice because of its performance and price, there is a con to consider. Unfortunately, AMD FreeSync only works with AMD graphics cards. If your computer has an NVIDIA graphics card, FreeSync will not be able to synchronize the refresh rate.
AMD also has less strict standards which could result in inconsistent experiences with different monitors. AMD does not retain control over their technology which means manufacturers can take liberty in creating their monitors with AMD FreeSync. If choosing a gaming monitor with FreeSync, it is wise to carefully research the manufacturer and read reviews to ensure the right sync level is achieved.
If you are searching for a monitor with AMD FreeSync, make sure you carefully check the specs. AMD has released a Low Framerate Compensation addition to FreeSync that allows it to run smoother when it is being run in monitors with lower than the minimum supported refresh rate.
Pros and Cons: Everything You Need to Know About NVIDIA G-Sync
Having balanced information about both types of adaptive sync manufacturers will help you to make the right decision. Both top manufacturers have their pros and cons, so it is not always easy to make a choice.
Pros of NVIDIA G-Sync
The biggest benefit of using NVIDIA G-Sync is consistent performance. Unlike AMD, NVIDIA retains complete control over quality. Every single monitor must pass NVIDIA’s stringent guidelines for extreme quality and performance. The certification process is so strict, NVIDIA has turned down many monitors.
As mentioned above, AMD has come out with their Low Framerate Compensation, but every single NVIDIA monitor offers the equivalent. Any monitors with G-Sync will also offer frequency dependent variable overdrive. This simply means these monitors will not experience ghosting. Ghosting is what occurs as the frame slowly changes, leaving behind a slightly blurred image that fades as the new frame comes in.
When you purchase an NVIDIA G-Sync monitor, you can rest assured the quality and performance will be consistent among different manufacturers because NVIDIA ensures it will. It does not matter which monitor you purchase, if it includes NVIDIA technology, it will have met the stringent certification standards of NVIDIA before being put on the market.
Cons of NVIDIA G-Sync
As with any product, there are some cons to consider with NVIDIA G-Sync. One of the biggest cons is the expense. On average, you are going to spend much more on an NVIDIA G-Sync monitor than an AMD FreeSync. This limits NVIDIA technology to mostly high-end gamers. NVIDIA requires all manufactures to use proprietary hardware modules, adding to the expense for manufacturers.
There is also the problem with limited ports available. If you have a lot of gaming gear to connect, you may not be happy with the limited ports that are offered. In addition to this problem, just like with AMD, NVIDIA G-Sync does not work with AMD graphics cards. If your computer uses an AMD card, you will be stuck with using AMD FreeSync.
AMD FreeSync Vs. NVIDIA G-Sync: Laptops
If you are looking for a gaming laptop, both AMD and NVIDIA have models that make gaming graphics smoother and more consistent than ever before. For the most part, AMD has been out of the mobile technology industry, so NVIDIA has the market when it comes to laptop availability.
You will be able to find NVIDIA G-Sync laptops from almost every major manufacturer. The new laptops can now handle framerates at close to 120Hz, where they were once limited to 75Hz or lower. This has made laptop gaming much more attractive to gamers who play high graphic-demanding PC games.
Although AMD is a little late to the party, ASUS recently released their ROG Strix GL702ZC which includes an AMD FreeSync display. It will be interesting to see how the competitive landscape changes as AMD FreeSync laptops begin being released in greater abundance.
AMD FreeSync Vs. NVIDIA G-Sync: What About HDR Monitors?
The demand for high-definition is increasing and manufacturers are taking note. With ultra-high-resolution now growing in depth, both AMD and NVIDIA seem to be responding. There are now new gaming monitors hitting retailers and they are bringing the highest resolution that has ever been seen with laptop gaming.
While this is exciting for gamers, it is likely going to be pricey. AMD has always remained rather lax about the use of their technology, but with AMD FreeSync 2, they are committed to remaining more in control. AMD will not give manufacturers the okay unless their monitors include Low Frame Rate Compensation. They have also put in certain standards for low latency and dynamic color displays which produce a double brightness and color richness than the standard sRGB. One of the coolest things about these AMD displays is they automatically switch over to FreeSync as long as it is supported by the game you are playing.
There are announced versions of NVIDIA G-Sync monitors in 4k and ultrawide models that rise as high as 200Hz. These displays offer amazing fluidity which cannot be matched by AMD, even though FreeSync is certainly at the precipice of greatness. Playing a game on one of these models will amaze you because it offers the highest level of brightness, color richness, and crispness of any gaming display you have ever seen.
It is clear these two are at in a battle for gamers’ loyalty. For most people, AMD FreeSync products are a more affordable option, but can they measure up if cost is not involved?
Here’s the Bottom Line
It is clear that screen tearing, ghosting, and stuttering are the biggest irritations for PC gamers. Playing PC games like Mass Effect can quickly send you over the edge if screen tearing is constantly occurring. Screen tearing takes a beautifully exquisite game and turns it into a boxed mess that does not flow as it should. If you’ve experienced this, you know how annoying it can be. Sometimes, the tearing is so consistent it makes the game unplayable. Many people think it is their graphics card alone that is to blame, but this is not always so.
Both AMD and NVIDIA have the same potential, but it seems NVIDIA, in most cases, holds to a higher standard with manufacturers using their technology. Now that AMD has created FreeSync 2, they may be giving NVIDIA more of a run for their money.
AMD FreeSync is featured in many more gaming displays than G-Sync simply because of availability and price. When manufacturers are not held to stringent certifications, they are able to produce more affordable products. With this freedom comes the price of inconsistency.
If you can afford it, NVIDIA G-Sync is likely going to be your best bet. Although it is not superior in concept, NVIDIA keeping close reigns on their products means consistency across the board with all manufacturers.
Just make sure to remember that the type of graphics card you have will determine which will work. Neither AMD nor NVIDIA allow their adaptive sync hardware or applications to work with competitors’ graphics cards. There are some reported workarounds with this problem, but they are not widely recommended. In the end, only you can make the choice based on your budget and needs. | <urn:uuid:20dc528d-ff2d-41b5-bd4a-e24722598146> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.gaminghelix.com/freesync-2-monitor-vs-g-sync-monitor-information-on-similarities/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571536.89/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811224716-20220812014716-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.95331 | 2,445 | 2.3125 | 2 |
Total Nitrogen Analysis in Liquid Hydrocarbons Compliant to ASTM D5762
ASTM D5762 covers the determination of Total Nitrogen in liquid petroleum products and lubricants in concentrations ranging from about 40 to 10,000 mg/ kg.
Nitrogen compounds can have detrimental effects on many environmental and industrial processes and are undesirable in finished products. Nitrogen containing hydrocarbons seem to be the hardest to hydrotreat, meaning that the nitrogen content in the product of the hydrotreater is a measure of the effectiveness of the hydrotreating process.
This supports the need and importance to monitor trace level nitrogen concentration of various type of automotive fuels and related products. This Application Note shows the Total Nitrogen analysis performance of a set of liquid hydrocarbon samples, by the EST NEXIS model Total Nitrogen analyzer.
EST Analytical has been helping labs achieve their analytical goals for over 30 years. Our vision is to engineer reliable laboratory instruments that enable partners to make the world a better place.
To help labs excel we offer Application Notes across our entire product line. They are a resource that explains the technology, performance, and abilities of our products as used against certain methodologies and or applications.
Whether your needs center around a USEPA method, an ASTM Standard, or a sample matrix-based outcome EST has you covered. If you don’t see the technical direction you need, simply contact us. We also offer sample analysis in our onsite Applications Lab. | <urn:uuid:94c2748f-cf17-4674-9ab7-d06eac17cf36> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://estanalytical.com/industries/petrochemical/total-nitrogen-analysis-in-liquid-hydrocarbons-compliant-to-astm-d5762/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572033.91/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814113403-20220814143403-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.925183 | 307 | 1.796875 | 2 |
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Having to wait in a long line can be frustrating – especially if you have somewhere else you need to go.
Just remember that everyone else feels the same way.
If you don't have time to wait, get out of line and return later, either when you have more time or after the crowd thins out. Not following common social etiquette can cause people's tempers to flare.
Here are some basic guidelines for etiquette while waiting in line:
• Find out where the back of the line is and take your place.
• Don't cut in line, unless everyone between the back of the line and the new position agrees that it is okay.
• Don't save a place for a large crowd in line. By the same token, if you're with a group, don't take turns holding a place for everyone.
• Keep your hands to yourself and give the people on both sides of you plenty of personal space.
• If you have children with you, make sure they behave. Never let them out of your sight.
Even better, if you know you'll be standing in line, leave the children at home with someone you trust.
They'll have a much better time, and you'll worry less about their impatience prompting bad behavior.
• Don't start ranting or griping about the long wait. Everyone else in line is well aware, and there is no point in making things worse by complaining. Trust me when I say that everyone already feels the pain. Very few people enjoy having to wait.
• It's fine to chat with others while standing in line, but don't discuss anything private. Even if you don't care that others know some of the intimate details of your life, you may make someone else very uncomfortable. | <urn:uuid:186fd128-e19f-4586-adee-cb0569eb7277> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://goldfm.lk/life/ethics/134/queue-etiquette | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571909.51/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813051311-20220813081311-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.95977 | 381 | 1.804688 | 2 |
DC Voltage Drop
For Solar PV installations, the standard to follow would be from Australia called AS/NZS 5033:2014. It states, “For LV PV arrays under maximum load conditions (Imp), the voltage drop from the most remote module in the array to the input of the inverter should not exceed 3% of the Vmp voltage (at STC)“. In simple terms, the allowed DC voltage drop limit is 3%.
AC Voltage Drop
The standard to follow would again be from Australia called AS/NZS 4777.1:2016. It states, “The overall voltage rise from the point of supply to the inverter AC terminals shall not exceed 2% of the nominal voltage at the point of supply”. In simple terms, the allowed AC voltage drop limit is 2%.
AC voltage drop/rise [i.e. between the inverter and the switchboard] should be kept as low as possible. The purpose of this is to keep the voltage rise to a minimum – this is to prevent voltage rise in the local grid. High levels of voltage in sections of the grid may lead to over-voltage tripping in grid connected inverters. This will avoid problems with inverter disconnection at times of peak generation, especially where the supply voltage in the area is high.
Of course the best way to minimize voltage drops in your solar system is to use cables that are as short and as thick as practicably possible. The thicker the cable, the lower the voltage drop across the cable. So if you absolutely need a long run of cable – you can usually compensate with thicker wire.
Have a maximum system level voltage drop of 3% (including DC and AC). It is recommended to have up to 2% voltage drop at the DC side while only 1% is accepted at the AC side of the system for a total of 3% in voltage drop for the entire system.
The recommendation depends on the type of system (Enphase, SolarEdge) and capacity as well. So for Enphase systems (where there is no DC cable as such) and SolarEdge (where there is no DC voltage drop upto 300m), we can take 2% as the permissible AC voltage drop. Similarly for smaller systems where there are only 3-4 panels in a string and hence lower DC voltage, we can take 1% as the max permissible DC voltage drop. | <urn:uuid:adc673f9-6763-49c9-ae32-edaa35256566> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.ecosoch.com/dc-and-ac-voltage-drop-standards/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571198.57/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810161541-20220810191541-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.919305 | 496 | 2.765625 | 3 |
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Immersive art experiences are pouring into Vegas these days, from Omega Mart and Van Gogh to Area15 to Arcadia Earth on the Strip.
Perception, the new freestanding digital art museum on the boulevard just north of Circus Circus, bills itself as the first permanent attraction of its kind in Las Vegas, and it certainly stands out in its own way.
The 17,000 square foot site launched earlier this month with Leonardo: the universal man, which recounts the life and work of Leonardo da Vinci. Perception will rotate exhibits from there, with tickets ranging from $19 to $35. A free parking is available.
The hour-long, three-gallery experience begins with “The Gallery: The Mona Lisa Perception,” featuring six digital versions of the “Mona Lisa,” hung in one room. At first they appear to be replicas of the famous painting, but when you stand in front of them they come to life, displaying living LED art. On the back wall, facts about da Vinci’s life are displayed while Debussy’s “Clair de Lune” plays over the speakers.
The second room “Painting with Light: The Last Supper” is a visual expedition of light and sound. The room is rather dark, with dim but colorful lighting projected onto the walls and ceiling, accompanied by an original score. This all leads to a grand finale, the unveiling of “The Last Supper,” da Vinci’s famous depiction of Jesus and the 12 Apostles. Younger audiences will likely enjoy the Vegas-esque, rave-y experience.
The third and final chapter of Perception, “Grand Salon: Chapters in the Life of Genius,” takes place in a 28-foot-tall four-wall theater. Here, a 35-minute film is shown, showcasing the achievements of Leonardo da Vinci. Spectators will see cathedrals take shape and his ornithopter flying machine take flight. It provides a soothing feeling after the excitement of the first two rooms.
The perception comes from the imagination of nightlife pioneer Robert Frey and entrepreneur Ned Collett. Dutch multidisciplinary creative agency TWOFIFTYK, which has created digital entertainment like the Electric Daisy Carnival, has been recruited to help bring the artwork to life.
Debuting with a da Vinci exhibit was a no-brainer for Frey, a big fan of the Italian polymath. “I think there are so many things you can address. Besides his paintings, he was a scientist – studying the architecture of the body – and he was a phenomenal set designer for the theatre,” explains Frey. “He was a mathematician… his mind was amazing. He was 200 or 300 years away from everyone. Everything he has done is simply remarkable.
Sometimes these immersive experiences can feel somewhat overwhelming, a bit of sensory overload for the unprepared. But while serious art lovers might balk, a place like Perception can bring a new perspective to more casual viewers open to absorbing art in a more modern way. After all, what if Leonardo da Vinci never brought his unconventional ideas to art, anatomy, or engineering?
PERCEPTION 2780 Las Vegas Blvd. S., 702-476-9069, perceptionlasvegas.com. Daily, 11 a.m. to 8 p.m., $19 to $35.
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After spending Billions of dollars, Elon musk is finally ready to launch the first-ever privately owned, crewed spacecraft.
After a long struggle to give himself a try to explore space for the common good of mankind, Elon Musk is finally ready to send humans into space. The rocketship is scheduled to launch its spaceflight on Wednesday and if it goes as well as planned, it will be the first time after NASA’s space shuttle program Mission in 2011, that humans have taken off for space from the soil of United States of America. What makes this ride more interesting and intrigued is that this will also be the first crewed spaceflight from a private company, ever.
The stakes are also high because if this mission goes successful, this will begin a new era of space exploration, more importantly, the subject matter would probably come out of the hands of the government and public sector, and enter into the playing field of private giants.
But if Dragon Demo 2 gets failed, its gonna take much time for crewed spaceflights to return to America again.
The SpaceX story
Elon started SpaceX using the $100 million payouts of his company Paypal. SpaceX was founded in 2002. Musk’s mission was to put plants on mars, but it was quite expensive to acquire rockets to do that, so he started his own company SpaceX. In its early stage, the venture Spacex seemed to be a failure. Also the first three launches of Falcon failed during 2006-2008. But the fourth SpaceX got to succeed in 2008, and we all know the fifth one carried a satellite into the orbit in 2009.
After that success, NASA also helped in funding, and SpaceX accelerated the development of Falcon 9, which took its first flight in 2010. Since then the two-staged rocket has launched 83 times, carrying cargos including satellites into orbit, and supplies to the international space station.
But the company’s most ambitious project is SpaceX Starship is currently underway. The starship is expected to go to the moon, Mars, and beyond.
The Crewed spaceflight which is scheduled to take off on Wednesday is one step towards the bigger goal of SpaceX. The launch site is set to be Florida’s Kennedy Space Center. The spaceflight will be launched at 4:33 pm precisely.
The Elon factor
Any discussion on SpaceX would go incomplete without mentioning some writings about its founder & CEO Elon Musk.
Recently the controversial CEO drew some criticism when he suggested that COVID – 19 is fake. But no doubt, he the man of the hour.
Elon has 34.5 million followers on Twitter but his writings on the microblogging website fall between a self-promotional businessman and a disquiet Teenager. For his tweets alone, Musk has got sued many times, sometimes costing him too much money in terms of fines, and once the chairmanship of Tesla too.
Recently the Billionaire also vowed in a tweet to sell most of his possession. He didn’t even shut Tesla and forced its employees to work through it, downplaying the Coronavirus pandemic.
But even after Elon’s controversial public image, SpaceX and Tesla make its investors enough money and achieving one milestone after the other.
After saying all that, SpaceX is undeniably an accomplishment for everyone and the launch on Wednesday will prove to be an essential step towards Musk’s vision to explore space and at this point it’s hard to imagine the future of SpaceX and Tesla without ELON MUSK.
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UN political engagement in Nepal between 2002 and 2018 has long been considered a successful example of sustained and innovative support to a critical peace process. Many governments in the broader region, however, have largely eschewed international assistance in resolving conflicts, perceiving it as an unnecessary infringement on state sovereignty or a threat to regional balances of power. Thus, examining how the UN established a political presence in Nepal, and how that presence eventually concluded, has important lessons for the UN more broadly.
The UN’s political engagement in Nepal can be divided into four phases. First, from 2002 to 2005, the UN began fostering relationships with the parties to the conflict and other actors in the region. Second, from 2005 to 2006, the UN leveraged human rights to increase accountability and begin moving the parties toward a negotiated solution. Third, the UN Mission in Nepal (UNMIN) was deployed in 2007 and remained in the country until 2011 to support the implementation of the 2006 Comprehensive Peace Agreement.
Finally, a UN political liaison office remained engaged in Nepal following the mission’s departure through 2018.
UN actors have been heralded for a range of best practices during these sixteen years of political engagement. The UN effectively used its good offices to engage early in the conflict and used a human rights mission to lay and then maintain the groundwork for peace talks. UNMIN used innovative approaches to monitor arms and armies while deploying rapidly. It also reached out to Nepalis across the country and collaborated with the wider UN system to ensure the sustainability of its efforts.
At the same time, the UN’s ability to contribute to peace in Nepal was limited by several challenges.
Over time, UNMIN lost support among an influential portion of Nepal’s traditional political elite.
Rapid turnover made it difficult for the UN to engage with the Nepali government. Both India and China opposed efforts to enhance the role of the mission. There was a mismatch between Nepalis’ expectations about what the UN, and UNMIN in particular, could and could not do. Finally, the UN was faced with the constant challenge of maintaining impartiality, both real and perceived.
Taking the story of the UN’s sixteen years of political engagement in Nepal, its innovative practices, and the challenging environment into consideration, this paper offers eight lessons:
Foster relationships with key conflict parties before there is a need for an active UN political role;
Use indirect means to keep the regional players positively engaged, when direct means fail;
Draw on or generate high-quality, fast, actionable and representative conflict information;
Design UN missions according to context;
Manage a mission’s (perceived or real) footprint in order to maximize leverage;
Build a dedicated communications strategy to help set and manage expectations regarding what a mission can and cannot do;
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These weeks I have been asked many times about which “older” articles from the blog are the most famous and/or useful ones, which I recommend for reading “first”? So let’s have a look at the archive. Which depends a bit on the topic…
Following previous publications of the annually updated graph, I gave the map overlaying the German purchasing power map with the German airports it’s own page. I use that graph frequently to visualize the impact of airports to regional commerce.
If you’re in “online” marketing, I’ve paid a fortune to get myself up-to-speed on “online marketing” and the buzzwords SEO, SEM, SEA., unhyping them.
The other static pages are compiled from blog-series, the one being personal with my friend Saphire on philosophical issues, we called SapPhilosophy. The other being the posts during the start and first peak of the Corona pandemic. I keep this, as I happen to refer to this, both as a proof of early sound assessments, but also of mistaken interpretation of the developments.
The First Post
Taken over from the predecessor of this blog, I’ve used the first-ever post in honor of one of the best YouTube-videos of all times: Shift Happens (Narrated) is based on a presentation Karl Fisch, a U.S. teacher gave to parents to emphasize the impact of the world wide web and digital world to global change and to the future of his students. While there were others that copied the idea years after, trying to update it, nothing I’ve seen so far matches the original. Still having it’s justification and value.
Frequently Referenced and Visited Posts
There are some posts, I keep very frequently referring to, they are also the most visited posts.
Corona – the New Measles? Or more like the Flu? Recently virologists question that there will ever be a super-vaccine and that the antibodies disappear within three to four months after the infection. And previously infected people reinfect on minor variants of the “Coronavirus”. So there is not “the” Coronavirus… And we know SARS since 2003 – Corona being a variant of a virus we know for many years?
Evolution … or why should we save the Dinosaurs? Why should we bail-out the large players that show neither interest in sustainable aviation (beyond greenwashing), nor social responsibility? Lufthansa Group received € 9 billion bail-out by the German government, more by Swiss and Austrian government. Germany has a short work system that allows them to register and send their staff home at 70% pay until business recovers. That was just extended from one to two years. Nevertheless, instantly after they got the bail-out confirmed, they announced to fire 11,000 of their staff. Sure not on the senior management levels. Socially responsible? Or abusing “shareholder value” for “maximizing profits”?
Developing Kolibri.aero we learned that the development of sustainability and social responsibility done right will contribute to the profits.
In December, I published two of my better articles it seems:
Why Do Airlines Keep Failing was based on my experiencing working on the due diligence of airline startups. The reasons why I call all the cheap “virtual airlines” one-day-flies. They fly one summer, maybe two. Then “winter” hits so surprisingly and they go bust. Or they have high cost but sell cheap. The failure to understand their cost and optimistically compete with the mega-carriers, both classic and low-cost, with a far lower cost base…? Or when an airline CEO on the question “What’s your USP” tells me “We’re local”. While they compete with three low-cost mega-carriers at their home-base?
And The Financial Impact of Air Travel was based on a presentation by Ged Brown of LowSeasonTraveller on why airports need to focus on incoming traffic. Their job is to bring money and value to the region. Holiday flights leak money to the destinations. While they have some value, they can’t, they must not be used to justify the airport operations.
2017 … 2016
On The Bias of Route Viability Analyses, I expressed the shortcoming of most of those fancy “route viability analyses”, being data-driven, based on existing statistical data. But failing miserably when looking at routes that have not been served before. On regional routes. Recently (2020), I registered for a webinar by famous ASM, about their catchment area analyses on route-level. Kicked-out on last minute confirms to me, that they work on more biased data without sound source. As there simply are no sound data on a city to city level, not even region to region. Best commonly available is region (NUTS-3) to country. Northern Italy or South? Rich or poor? South or North-East Germany? What a difference!
The other noteworthy article was on Delay and Disruption Management as the most neglected and undervalued cost factor!
In 2016 with The Numbers Game, I addressed the lousy data quality with what we deal with in aviation. In 2020, the analysts in September base their analyses on data from March! And while the industry celebrates flight services quickly recovering back to normal, they fail to address the plummeting load factors and ticket prices. The few “full” flights have abysmal ticket revenues. Even inside the airline, access to accurate, real-time data is something most airline managers can only dream about. For the industry that once was global leader in cloud computing when there was no world-wide-web, it is simply an embarrassment. And hey, yes you big ol’ IT dinos, I urge you to tear down the walls! But most of them still create more data-silos! Something I also addressed in my more recent post on cloud, COTS or tailormade. Nothing new, we have this problem for years. Also simply embarrassing. Which reminds me of that article Not Invented Here, posted right after The Numbers Game…
And in line with The Numbers Game and Delay and Disruption Management was my post about On-Time Performance and Punctuality League. With quite controversial data from the big players, they simply disqualify each other, don’t they? And c’mon, give me a break. The best ones operating at 85% on-time flights – in aviation +/- 15 minutes? That is again embarrassing. And it did not improve ever since, every year, I keep posting the article when they publish their statistics – still way off each other! It’s the article about KPIs I published the same year and how managers don’t use them to improve, but to threaten. Or justify or cover up for their own shortcomings.
2015 … 2014
There was an SITA enforced outage in 2015, disallowing personal blogs by their employees. Instead, they require access to their employees social network profiles to feed their marketing messages to the followers of their staff. Ever since, I’m afraid I have still friends in SITA but I take their posts as what they are: SITA Marketing. And as they fire large parts of their workforce every year, they have to learn a lot about “social responsibility”. I’ve seen too many excellent people – not just myself – made redundant by their “HR Managers”. In my case, I was told by a VP who wanted to hire me that that is impossible as long as their Senior HR manager doesn’t make himself redundant.
2014 I wrote another article on data silos and silo thinking addressing APOC, OCC, NMOC and A-CDM – a Bigger Picture. The other still valid article addresses the shifting global economic center of gravity. Small, conservative thinking in Europe can’t stand up to developments in other regions of the world.
2013 … 2012 … 2011
In October that year, mighty American Airlines, the company where I started in aviation decades ago was acquired by US Airways, dropping their AA-brand in the process. It might be noteworthy that many ideas we had for Kolibri.aero resemble things I learned to value back in those days. Including to value staff and despise the use of “HR” (see SITA above), showing disrespect for people. People ain’t resources but we have a corporate social responsibility!
The other article from that year I keep to date referring to is about Big Data.
In 2012 I had some personal or also biased articles, but I also did address a core question. Ethics in our industry. If you wonder about my recent articles, the topics are not new.
And in 2011, I addressed the UAE in a still fitting analysis. Today the A380s are a burden, but given the UAE’s rulers different priorities, I expect them to turn that back into an advantage once we recover from Corona. I expect Emirates to become the global long-haul carrier operating the high-density routes like Pan Am back in the days flew around the world.
2010 … 2009
Being Head of Marketing & Communications at state-owned airport Erfurt-Weimar, blogging was forbidden to me, I had to stick to the airport official publications. The airport at the time operated mostly offline and that came from the IT experts at the airport and resulted in one of my last posts in that time period: The Threat of IT and the Internet. As most airports today still try to use social networks and other activities as a “push medium”, just like SITA 2015. No, it did not change much. Most my LinkedIn and other airport contacts still tell me they are not allowed to publish anything on LinkedIn. Living in the past.
The other article will likely explain, why I believe if you want to make money in aviation, you got to change the game. The article is called The Power of Bureaucrats…
There are other articles, older than 10 years I still refer to, but that might do for a starter to give you
Food for Thought
As usual, I appreciate your interest a lot, but I take it with my friend and early mentor Richard:
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This post is the second installment in the series that describe the main characteristics, major benefits, design considerations, and practices and challenges of implementing an ungrading approach. This second blog presents the types of ungrading practices, challenges to implementation, and main takeaways derived from the book chapters and discussion with my colleagues in the Ungrading book club.
Types of Ungrading Practices
To begin, it is important to recap that the underlying concept supporting ungrading is deep, extensive, and formative feedback. This means that instructors are expected to design low-stakes formative assessments and devote substantial time and effort to craft feedback that students can use to revise their work. This section summarizes several contributions the book chapters authors made in regards to pedagogical practices, strategies, tips, and resources to adopt ungrading. Instructors can combine the ungrading practices or use them as stand-alone activities.
Approaches to Assignments
- Portfolios: Students can build their portfolios with different digital tools that allow them to create personal or professional materials that are useful beyond the class (e.g., website, content curation). The critical element in a portfolio assignment is that there needs to be space for critical thinking and metacognitive work that can be shared with others. An additional element can include portfolio conferences. For these conferences, students meet with their instructors to review their course work and make annotations about their learning journey (they can also discuss their final grade).
- Project-based Learning, Problem-based Learning, Inquiry-based Learning: Students work on activities that relate to their own experiences, real-life applications, and ill-structured scenarios. These activities encourage students to work with others, find solutions, investigate deeper, and apply concepts studied in the course to realistic situations.
- Staged Assignments: Students work on reviewing/redoing assignments to allow them to learn from the feedback they received from their peers and/or instructor.
- Minimal Grading: Use of a holistic or simplified grading schema (e.g., pass/fail, strong/satisfactory/weak).
- Contract Grading: Students can be graded over the labor completed. Students are responsible for reviewing their workload in the class and determining how they will accomplish it. Students will be in a process of understanding why grades matter to them and that the grade they give themselves will be attached to the amount of work they complete. Students sign a contract that clearly specifies the assignments and student responsibilities to achieve an A-C letter grade in the course. This grading system can allow students to negotiate their contracts with instructors.
- Process Letters: An activity where students describe their learning process and how they evolve in their work in the class. This can be multimodal (e.g., presentations, reflections that combine audio, video, and text) and/or accompany major assignments.
- Student-made Rubrics: Students can develop their own rubrics, which can become a learning activity in itself.
- Participatory Voices: Students can contribute to course content by creating content, adding items to the syllabus, selecting the type/format of feedback they want to receive, evaluating peers, and developing an intellectual voice. Through self-evaluation and peer evaluation, students can reflect on their learning, understand the process of evaluating others, and focus on excellence and building confidence. Students are given a set of guiding questions to engage in self-and peer evaluation. At the end of the project or term, they recommend a grade for themselves and their peers.
- Declaration Quiz: A quiz that asks students to select a checklist of the assignment requirements that they have completed. This can be a low-stakes assignment that helps students reflect on how they accomplished the task. Instructors can create declaration quizzes for each assignment and associate the number of points to the letter-based system.
- Peer Assessment: When students work in groups, they can evaluate each other. Students can write about their contributions to the group projects as well as their experiences with the team. This can give instructors a view of the team dynamics and activities that are not usually visible.
- Grade-Free Zones: This involves reviewing major assignments and/or providing a sandbox space for students to experiment before they engage in completing formal assignments. Students can submit early assignments or portions of them for peer comments or the instructor’s early feedback.
- Mastery Learning Artifacts: Students collect learning artifacts that they have developed to demonstrate their mastery of the learning concepts based on the exemplary work and expectations provided by the instructor. Students submit these artifacts at the end of the term. In addition, students describe the areas of growth based on the instructor’s feedback (e.g., revisions).
- Single-point Rubrics: This type of rubric includes criteria and fixed binary points (done = 1; not done =0). Comments can be added to either point to note the improvements to be made (in case it is not done) and to highlight the aspects that go beyond expectations. A benefit of this type of rubric is that it encourages mastery of content and keeps students’ focus away from the grade itself.
- Feedback Logs: Students collect feedback and identify the areas in which they received more feedback, work out strategies to improve those areas, and reflect on the ways they are learning.
- Feedback and Revisions: Students work on a series of drafts, and the instructor provides comments that students are expected to incorporate in the next revised draft. A grade can be added to the final draft.
- Self-Assessment: Consider metacognitive activities that engage students in their own evaluation of learning and in dialogue with the instructor. Encourage students to develop their own standards and self-scrutiny practices.
- Student Individual Plan: Students articulate goals and values for themselves about a class or a project. The instructor can help students by providing reflection guidelines and templates for developing their own goals.
Challenges to Implementation
While ungrading encourages a shift from a focus on grades to a focus on feedback and metacognitive activities for student learning and success, its implementation is not without challenges. The challenges range from local critiques to structural and how-tos.
- One of the biggest challenges is the misunderstanding of what ungrading involves –an active activity that engages students and instructors with grades as a system, which is different from not grading. Without having a clear understanding of the concept itself, the rationale behind it, and how it will benefit students more than a grade-based system, using alternative means for grading may jeopardize the student learning experience.
- A second challenge is the structural system of grades that prioritizes performance over learning. If the focus continues to be on how students perform in a class rather than on their learning, Kohn and Stommel argue that using an ungrading system that gets rid of grades will not be sufficient to push toward a system that creates learning spaces for critical thinking, reflection, and metacognition.
- A third challenge involves the redefinition of the curriculum, innovative pedagogy, and how to assess learning. If the idea of content coverage and memorization of facts prevails, learning is treated more as information transfer –from the instructor or textbook to the students. In this transfer, students may not necessarily own their learning. Along with this is the way assessments are designed to emphasize judgment of students’ performance. If the teaching method does not allow room for real learning, ungrading will not make a difference. Thus, the convergence of changes to the curriculum, pedagogy, and assessment methods is of utmost importance.
- A fourth challenge is more systemic and structural. Kohn argues that control, in many educational cases, prevents students’ choice and voice in their learning journeys. If ungrading is to have a way in educational contexts, instructors, and even administrators, will be invited to relinquish some of the control they exert over students’ performance to welcome students’ decisions related to their learning needs and interests.
- A fifth challenge is a deep and widespread belief that grades reflect learning and action. There is a great concern that if grades are to be eliminated, students will not complete their assignments, need to do more work, or even skip classes. Also, instructors will have to “grade” more and be overburdened.
- A final challenge is the over-reliance on rubrics that, according to Khon (foreword, p.xvii), is a system for “judging students…They offer umpteen different axes along which to make students think about their performance— often at the cost of becoming less immersed in what they’re doing.” It is not that ungrading does not provide guidance but it is important to avoid overcontrol evaluation practices. Instructors will need to analyze when and how rubrics help students focus on the learning process (and not solely on the points they get).
The book offered clear rationales, experiences, and strategies that instructors could consider if they feel they want to move away from the grade-focused system. In addition, as a designer, I have a better understanding and collection of resources to use during my consultations with faculty who might be looking into authentic and alternative means for assessment and grading.
Ungrading requires a reconceptualization of the curriculum, pedagogical, and assessment practices. If an alternative means of assessing student learning is to be implemented, the content, activities, and assignments need to open opportunities for students to engage in their own process of learning, reflection, and feedback. If we don’t level the playing field for students, no grading (or ungrading) system would be worth trying.
Grades are considered to be problematic because they contribute to widening the educational equity gaps. Ungrading, as a student-centered approach, can help mitigate some of the inequalities that students experience for access to successful learning. Since not all students come with the same knowledge and skills, ungrading, as a system that personalizes learning and assessments, will orient each student to focus on the feedback that they need.
Ungrading does not mean that instructors do not grade or that students have a free pass. Ungrading requires a deeper understanding of what learning means and how to design learning activities and contexts in which it can be evidenced. There is no universal magic approach to do it. If you are seriously considering moving to ungrading practices, start small, one step at a time.
Have you ventured into ungrading? If so, how did it go? What works and what does not? If not, what are your thoughts about ungrading? I’d like to invite you to share comments or experiences.
Blum, S. D. (2020). Ungrading: Why Rating Students Undermines Learning (and What to Do Instead). West Virginia University Press.
Stommel, J. (June 3, 2022). The word “ungrading. [Twitter post]. https://twitter.com/Jessifer/status/1532921663980986369
Warner, J. (January 4, 2016). I Have Seen the Glories of the Grading Contract…and I’m not going back. Inside Higher Ed. [Blog post]. https://www.insidehighered.com/blogs/just-visiting/i-have-seen-glories-grading-contract | <urn:uuid:2be2ed95-dfd9-4e0e-8824-79b881cf6da3> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://blogs.oregonstate.edu/inspire/tag/course-design/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571909.51/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813051311-20220813081311-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.93867 | 2,353 | 2.828125 | 3 |
OTTAWA - The Honourable Dr. Hedy Fry, Member of Parliament for Vancouver Centre and Federal Liberal Health Critic, introduced Bill C-594, An Act Respecting a National Metastatic Breast Cancer Day. She was joined by Ms. Niya Chari, Government Relations Manager with the Canadian Breast Cancer Network and Ms. Laurie Kingston, a representative of the metastatic breast cancer community.
"It is my hope that this Bill, marking October 13th of each year as National Metastatic Breast Cancer day in Canada, will bring much needed awareness surrounding this disease," said Fry. "Twenty four thousand Canadians will be diagnosed with breast cancer each year and approximately five thousand will die from the disease. Ten percent of those will have an initial diagnosis of metastatic breast cancer and thirty percent of those diagnosed with earlier stages of breast cancer will go on to develop metastatic breast cancer. We need to ensure there is greater access to information and supports about this disease to both patients and their families."
"Those of us living with metastatic breast cancer do not see our issues reflected in Breast Cancer Awareness month, yet metastatic breast cancer is what ends women's lives. We're asking for just one day every year to talk about our issues and to focus on finally finding a cure", states Laurie Kingston.
"This initiative is a bold, first-step towards combating the circle of silence that surrounds the issue of metastatic breast cancer," said Cathy Ammendolea, Chair of the Canadian Breast Cancer Network. "We hope that this Bill will provide a timely opportunity for government officials, healthcare providers and the general public to gain valuable insights into the challenges facing Canadians living with metastatic breast cancer."
October 13th is recognized in other countries around the world as Metastatic Breast Cancer Awareness Day. By marking such a day in Canada we recognize the complexities of breast cancer and the need to support patients and families with the information they need.
The Hon. Hedy Fry proposed this Bill in the House of Commons on April 30, 2014 stating, "Mr. Speaker, I rise to propose and introduce an act respecting a national metastatic breast cancer day to be designed on October 13. This particular date is recognized by many countries in the world as metastatic breast cancer day. I want to thank the Canadian Breast Cancer Network for its support and encouragement for bringing in this bill."
View the bill online HERE.
Office of Hon. Hedy Fry, P.C., M.P.
The Canadian Breast Cancer Network
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There are lots of different elements to consider when it comes to getting a hot tub, including where you’re going to place it to enjoy the best views and what kind of accessories you need to really get the most from it. Care and maintenance of your hot tub are topics that tend to get less attention but which are equally important. This is our basic guide to care and maintenance of hot tubs for beginners.
Choose your sanitiser
Any hot tub owner knows that it’s essential to treat a hot tub regularly with a sanitiser so that it’s a healthy environment, free from bacteria. Any warm place can be a hotbed of bacteria so it’s essential that you treat your hot tub with sanitiser to keep it clean, fresh and bacteria-free. You can choose from a number of different sanitisers, the main two being bromine or chlorine. If you’re looking for a faster acting sanitiser that leaves the water clear then chlorine tablets or granules are the best choice. For a sanitiser with a slightly softer smell, opt for bromine. You’ll need to regularly test the levels of sanitiser in your hot tub - you can do this every few days if the hot tub is getting frequent use.
Check the PH regularly
PH testing will show you whether the water in the hot tub is alkaline or acidic. If the PH is too low you may find you have problems with corrosion and the water could irritate your eyes and skin. If it’s too high then you may get cloudy water, irritation issues and a scale build up. PH levels should ideally be kept within 7.2 and 7.4.
Weekly shock treatments
Use a non-chlorine treatment in your hot tub once a week to “shock” clean it. This will remove the organic compounds that can be left in the water by humans, such as dead skin cells and oils. It will also break down chloramines and help to kill bacteria.
Change the water frequently
You will need to completely change the water in your hot tub from time to time to keep it fresh. How often you need to do this will depend on how much use the hot tub is getting but for most people it’s every three or four months. Before you refill the tub it’s a good idea to clean down the surfaces to remove any substances that might be lurking there.
Clearing the filters
The last key area for beginners is the filters - this is also one of the most important maintenance jobs because if filters aren’t clean they can restrict water flow and the hot tub will shut down completely. There are a number of different ways you can clean filters, from using a spray to soaking them in a bucket overnight with a cleaning solution.
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While women are slowly gaining power in the workplace, they can only do so much in advancing themselves. Gender bias should be eliminated. Instead, leaders can focus on empowering their female employees.
From hiring all the way to mentorship, leaders have myriad of ways to implement support and empowerment for women. Women who feel empowered in the workplace have strong job performance and satisfaction and display heathy levels of commitment to the organization they belong.
Challenges that business owners have to work on when it comes to supporting women include:
- Equal representation – Women continues to be underrepresented at every level.
- Pay Gap – A study made in 2018 reported that salary of women is about 22% lower than the salary of men.
- Sexual Harassment – Women with full-time jobs in the corporate setting experience sexual harassment.
- Unemployment Penalty – When women take longer leaves, they have a more difficult time getting rehired.
Women Perform Better than Men
Women have skills to perform well like their male counterparts and they can succeed in all endeavors engaged in by men, according to the women movement organization Change for Equality. This includes areas such as employment, politics, academics and athletics.
Research has shown women can perform better than men in the workplace. In an article published by bbc.com, it was reported that when women make up more than one in three executive roles, profits are higher. The article referred to London-listed companies as subjects in the study.
In these companies, the profit is higher by 10% compared to the profit made by companies where women bosses are less than one-third.
This observation is upheld by the findings of Pipeline in a study they conducted in 2020. The study found that companies with no women with executive roles in their workforce generated only 1.5% profit. In comparison, companies with more than one in three positions in the executive level generated15.2% net profit margin.
And who works harder?
Women are more industrious and work harder than men. According to an article published by weforum, women work harder by about 10% compared to men although both genders accomplish 66% of the tasks assigned to them.
These data suggest that both men and women have the same accomplishment rate, but it is just that women are assigned more tasks and are more industrious than their male counterparts.
Gender Diversification Leads to Better Business Performance
Evidence shows that men and women complement each other in the production process and bringing in more women to the workforce produces larger economic gains. This is evident in every level – macroeconomic, sectoral and firm-level.
There are key benefits to narrowing gender gap including:
- Bigger boost to growth
- Higher productivity
- Bigger payoff to reducing gender barriers in the context of development paths
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Promoting diversity in business has good consequences but mainly as a safety net against downturns in a single industry. Diversification also promotes financial stability. Adding a new product line to your existing base is one great way to diversify your business.
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BOULDER, CO (May 28, 2015) – A recent report from the Center for American Progress (CAP) claims that the quality of education for students with disabilities has improved and that stringent accountability measures are somehow behind those improvements. Yet a review published today explains that, while some student outcomes have improved, the report’s data and analyses are far too weak to provide any causal evidence.
Edward G. Fierros and Katherine Cosner of Villanova University reviewed ESEA Reauthorization: How We Can Build Upon No Child Left Behind’s Progress for Students with Disabilities in a Reauthorized ESEA for the Think Twice think tank review project. The CAP report was authored by Chelsea Straus. The review is published by the National Education Policy Center, housed at the University of Colorado Boulder School of Education.
Dr. Fierros is an Associate Professor and Chairperson in the Department of Education and Counseling at Villanova University. Katherine Cosner is a graduate assistant at Villanova.
As Congress considers the reauthorization of the ESEA, the new CAP report tries to convince legislators that they must continue a test-based system designed to hold students with disabilities to high standards. The argument is based on superficial comparisons—the year 2000 versus the year 2013—of NAEP performance outcomes (average NAEP scale scores), graduation rates, and dropout rates for students with disabilities.
While the report correctly states, “We cannot demonstrate causality” (p. 2), it then proceeds to strongly imply causality (i.e., that NCLB-like policies must be continued in order to sustain increases in educational outcomes for students with disabilities). Professor Fierros explains, “This report tries to have it both ways. Its entire reason for existence is to convince readers of a causal link between these policies and the improved outcomes. But it carefully includes a statement saying that it can’t do just that.”
The reviewers point out that aggregating national data over a 14-year period obscures a number of possible other interpretations and variations. Large across-state differences were not investigated nor were differences by category of disability. Education Week’s Diploma Counts 2015 Report, for example, finds a great deal of state variation in the percentage of students with disabilities graduating with a standard diploma. Moreover, states use a variety of ways to determine what constitutes “graduating” for students with disabilities. While a vast research literature is available, there was “not a single reference to a peer reviewed or generally accepted research report” that would have provided a more complete picture of the performance of students with disabilities.
Because of the failure to use all available data, consider intervening variables, or utilize a more focused research approach, the report’s interpretations and conclusions are unjustified and cannot be used to advance public policy.
Find ESEA Reauthorization: How We Can Build Upon No Child Left Behind’s Progress for Students with Disabilities in a Reauthorized ESEA by Chelsea Straus on the web at:
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TECHNOCompétences is organizing the Quebec component of the National ICT Career Week, in collaboration with the Canadian Coalition for a New Generation of ICT (CCTIC). The activities of the Week, which will be held in October in the greater Montreal area, aim to concretely discover the great diversity of careers in information and communications technologies (ICT) to young people in secondary 3 to 5.
Montreal, April 6, 2011 - A veritable whirlwind of scientific and social activities in a festive and family atmosphere, the Super Expo-sciences Hydro-Québec, Quebec final, will bring together the 100 best projects led by high school and college students (12 at 20), after selection during the 12 regional finals held in February and March.
Québec, March 30, 2011 - On April 14, 620 young people from the Capitale-Nationale region will be leaving school to get a taste of the job market thanks to the Young Explorers for a Day Day. The program is again available in the region to provide the experience to as many young people as possible. This very special day is of particular importance for Secondary IV and V students, as well as for CEGEP students, because for many of them, it will be the unique opportunity to discover the profession to which they aspire.
MONTREAL, April 7 / CNW Telbec / - “Three years after the unveiling of a first survey on cyberbullying, the CSQ is able to confirm today that the phenomenon is growing and that the action plan to counter violence in schools has not produced the expected results, ”said Réjean Parent, president of the Centrale des unions du Québec (CSQ), on the occasion of the unveiling of the results of a major CROP poll on the phenomenon of cyberbullying carried out for the CSQ.
The information and communications technologies (ICT) situation is improving in Quebec public schools. However, many computers are not suitable for efficient use of multimedia and the pedagogical integration of ICT remains a major challenge for teachers. This is what emerges from a report published by the Ministry of Education, Leisure and Sports (MELS) last November.
The educational tools allowing elementary and secondary school teachers to use the Apprentice Engineering Challenge (DAG) or Inventive Engineering Challenge (DGI) as a classroom learning situation are available on the website of the Scientific Leisure Development Council (CDLS). ). By starting the project now, teachers have plenty of time to complete the project in their class.
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Schools can book onto one of several workshops for Key Stages 1 and 2 at Newcastle Castle.
Itinerary: Full day visit
Provider: Newcastle Castle, Newcastle
Subjects: Local History, Geography, Art and Design, English/Literacy, Homes in the Past, Famous Figures
KS: 1, 2, 3 & 4
Newcastle Castle was built on the ruins of a Roman Fort called Pons Aelius in around 122AD and has since been home to rich history, going on to become a home to Anglo-Saxons, Normans and even Tudors.
Schools can book onto one of several workshops for Key Stages 1 and 2, or alternatively, can simply take a guided tour around the castle and the castle keep.
School Travel Organiser takes a look at what a typical day might consist of when a school visits Newcastle Castle for Key Stage 2 learners.
10am: Meet and greet by the castle’s learning team outside the entrance to the Black Gate. Pupils will be taken inside to put away their packed lunch, then will return to the entrance to begin their tour.
10:15am: The Our Castle Life workshop will feature a full tour of the castle, starting outside where pupils begin by looking at the evidence for the defensive features of the castle – which made it impregnable to enemies. The learning team will explain what life was like living in the castle and how the industrial heritage of Newcastle eventually impacted on and threatened to destroy the Medieval buildings.
10:45am: The tour will continue inside the castle keep. Here pupils will have the chance to practice their Medieval dance moves in the Great Hall, look down a Medieval latrine and climb to the top of the keep to view the city 85 feet above the ground.
12:00pm: Next is a break for lunch in the new Learning Room, Harbottle Suite. The class can also visit the gift shop during this time.
12:45pm: The class stays put in the Harbottle Suite for an afternoon workshop. One particularly popular choice is the Medieval Feast, where groups are given the challenge of designing a feast fit for a Medieval king. The groups will be divided into the roles of servants, guards, musicians, lords and ladies at the feast, and will act out the stages of the meal.
Other options include workshops on the development of the town of Newcastle, Tudor Crime and Punishment, and Knights and Local Legends among others.
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The Great Indian Attrition
Recently, New Jersey-based Cognizant Technology Solutions Corp., which has more than two-thirds of its overall employees in India, was in news for a steep quarterly annualized voluntary attrition rate of 33% during the September quarter, the highest among peers in the industry. The high attrition rate is not just limited to Cognizant or the IT sector. The trend of voluntary attrition is on the rise in India as well as worldwide.
Commonly referred to as a ‘churn rate,’ a company’s attrition rate is the rate at which people leave. It is the number of people who have left the company, divided by the average number of employees over a period of time. Typically, it is expressed as a percentage (%). Ideally, your attrition rate should be below 10%.
|Type Of Attrition||What It Means|
|Voluntary Attrition||When an employee chooses to leave|
|Involuntary Attrition||When an employee is dismissed|
|Internal Attrition||When employees move internally|
|Demographic-specific Attrition||When a specific group (age, gender, ethnicity) leaves|
Why does it matter?
Exiting employees can cost your business. The first impact can be felt in hiring cost. Given that you invested resources into hiring, training, and certifying highly-trained employees in the course of their employment, replacing a highly-trained employee can vary between 120% of their annual salary to more than 200%, according to some sources. Those investments immediately vanish into thin air once an employee resigns.
Unfortunately, your company’s turnover woes don’t stop there. When good employees quit and less experienced workers are retained, overall business conditions might be put at risk due to the negative reputation owing to the high attrition rate. Your clients and employees won’t trust you as much as you would want them to and might consider looking for more reliable companies. Whenever someone leaves it definitely changes the dynamics of a team and can even hurt the company’s employer brand and even employer value proposition (EVP).
Usually it starts at the reputation and ends with poor quality and quantity of work. The truth is experienced, put simply, gives you an edge. Experienced workers bring a level of experience, critical thinking and sheer knowledge that cannot be taught.
Moreover, the new employee has to go through a period of adjustment in the workplace, which means tasks may take longer to finish as far as the new hire is concerned. Consequently, there might also be delays within teams who are relying on their newbie members to help them get things done.
Calculate Your Company’s Attrition Rate
Hence, keeping a check on the attrition rate is indispensable to ensure a great business. Once you know your turnover or churn rate, you’ll be able to find out why people are leaving and develop relevant and effective retention strategies to keep your employees happy and loyal.
A simple formula for figuring out your employee attrition rate is dividing the number of full-time employees who have left per month (called “separations”) by the average number of employees, and then multiplying that figure by 100.
Attrition rate = (No. of separations / Avg. No. of employees) x 100
You can also calculate year-to-date and annual attrition rates by adding all 12 months together.
Tips to increase employee retention
Create a happy, productive, inclusive culture. Forget micromanagement. Modern employees expect nothing less than an inclusive, tech-savvy environment, where collaboration is encouraged, autonomy is allowed, and innovation is celebrated.
To achieve this, it’s important to focus on every aspect of the employee lifecycle – from attracting the right talent, and integrating them into the fiber of your organization, to nurturing their growth and giving them opportunities to advance within your organization – and ensuring that performance is well managed throughout.
Provide opportunities to advance. Employees need to know that they will have the opportunity to advance at your company. You can make this clear, and help them reach their aims by assisting them in drawing up a career map.It need not be a five- or 10-year plan but it should give employees the chance to focus on the skills they’d like to develop.
Developing a culture of continuous learning and giving your employees the opportunity to develop their careers through training is a valuable retention strategy, which can be achieved via microlearning.
Recognize and reward employees. It plays a vital role in employee retention and job satisfaction. A simple act of appreciation shows employees that they matter, and that their thoughts, ideas, input and work are valued. And, when people feel valued, they stay longer and perform better.
While the IT Firms are squabbling to retain employees, Tata remains a leader with the lowest attrition rate in the country. However, it is still quite high as per desired below 10% rate.
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Your level of preparation before a hurricane can determine how well you weather the storm and how quickly you recover from it. You should start preparing your home, inside and out, long before a storm is in the forecast. In the end, you can never be too prepared when it comes to protecting your loved ones and your property from extreme weather events such as hurricanes.
Know the Forecast
You may hear the terms “hurricane watch” and “hurricane warning” in your local forecast. Understanding the difference between them is essential to helping you prepare for a hurricane. As soon as a hurricane watch or warning is forecast for your area, it is important, depending on the type of alert, to immediately begin or complete your preparations.
A watch means hurricane conditions are possible within 48 hours. You should begin to stock up on emergency supplies in the event a warning is issued. If you live in a coastal area, you also should be prepared to evacuate.
A warning is more serious. Hurricane-force winds (74 mph or higher) are expected to hit your area within 36 hours. You should seek shelter or evacuate, if notified to do so.
General Hurricane Preparation Tips
- Prepare a survival kit that includes items such as water and non-perishable food for everyone, including your pets; medications; a portable radio; flashlights; batteries; and battery chargers for your cell phones and other portable electronic devices, which can be powered by your car.
- Plan your evacuation route and leave as soon as an evacuation order is issued. Also, fuel up your car before you leave.
- Build a content inventory of the items in your home or at your business.
- Secure all outdoor objects or move them inside. Close your home’s storm shutters and board up windows and glass doors as appropriate.
- If possible, bring in gas or charcoal grills, but do not use them indoors. Also, do not store propane tanks inside the house or garage. Chain propane tanks in an upright position to a secure object away from your home.
- Secure your boat or move it to a safer place.
- Fill your emergency generatorfuel tank, if you have one, and have spare fuel on hand. Store generator fuel in an approved container in a garage or shed, away from open flames, heat sources and appliances such as natural gas appliances.
Five Tips to Help Prepare Your Home for a Hurricane
- Help Avoid Water Damage
Heavy rains have the potential to cause significant water damage. These tips can help you prepare your home.
- Closing and locking all windows and doors and removing any window air conditioners.
- Removing valuable items from your basement or elevating them off of the floor.
- Clearing debris from exterior drains and gutters.
- Repairing damaged gutters and downspouts to make sure water can drain away from your foundation.
- Checking your sump pump and the battery backup to confirm they are working properly.
- Monitor Your Trees
In a powerful windstorm, trees can be a hazard. Broken limbs or fallen trees — even uprooted shrubbery — could damage your home and fences, or your neighbor’s property.
Routinely maintain the trees around your home:
- Prune tree limbs within 10 feet of your home.
- Check for cracking or splitting in trees.
- Remove dead limbs and weakened trees.
- Roofs, Doors, Windows and Skylights
It is important to keep wall openings, such as doors, windows and skylights protected. The roof, doors and windows of your house are especially vulnerable to wind damage. When houses are exposed to hurricane force winds, roofs are most susceptible to damage, followed by walls and openings such as skylights.
Strengthen doors and windows by:
- Installing reinforcing bolt kits at the top and bottom of doors.
- Reinforcing garage doors.
- Installing storm shutters over windows.
- Secure Outdoor Items
If you live in an area that experiences high winds, outdoor items around your property that are not properly anchored can become airborne and cause damage.
- If high winds are expected in your area, move as many outdoor items indoors well before the high winds arrive. As mentioned earlier, do not store propane tanks in your home or garage.
- Adequately secure any remaining outdoor items that cannot be safely moved to protected areas.
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World Horse Welfare launched a campaign to make CCTV or other recording technology a legal requirement in all of the UK’s equine slaughterhouses after it found almost three quarters of over 900 horse owners asked would not have confidence that horse welfare would be protected throughout the slaughter process.
In 2014, 4,515 of the UK’s horses ended their lives in a slaughterhouse and with no legal requirement for recording equipment, the process – if not witnessed first-hand by the enforcement authorities – is effectively ‘invisible’.
An undercover expose of inhumane slaughter practices at one UK abattoir in 2013 revealed a complete lack of regard for animal welfare and has severely rocked public confidence in slaughterhouses. More than 90% of horse owners asked would not use a slaughterhouse to end their horse’s life, while almost half of them would consider it an acceptable option if measures were in place such as CCTV which is constantly in operation and available to the relevant authorities for monitoring at any time.
Whilst sending a horse to slaughter may not be the preferred choice for most horse owners, World Horse Welfare believes it is essential this remains an available option, as other methods of ending a horse’s life can prove to be prohibitively expensive for some owners and the consequences of leaving a horse to deteriorate presenting a much more inhumane alternative. More than 40% of horse owners asked agreed that the costs of euthanasia are so high that the slaughterhouse must remain an option and nearly two thirds agreed that sending a horse to a slaughterhouse is better than letting them suffer.
Faye is a horse owner who has used a slaughterhouse as a method to end the lives of several horses. She said:
“Slaughter is a service which needs to be available. I have taken horses to a slaughterhouse both on behalf of friends and of my own accord and consider it an acceptable option, where the welfare of the animals was treated as a priority. We have had ponies that are completely un-rideable and so it is much better their lives are ended at a slaughterhouse rather than being sold on to have an uncertain future. There are horses and ponies that get passed from market to market, home to home for years because no one wants them or wants to make the decision to end their life and in my opinion this is a much worse alternative.
“I do understand that slaughter will not be the preferred choice for everyone and even have two horses of my own that I would not send to slaughter because I want to be with them at the end of their lives but nevertheless it needs to be available as an option. I feel that mandatory CCTV in all equine slaughterhouses would go a long way to putting peoples’ minds at rest that what goes on there is humane and has the best interests of the horse at heart.”
World Horse Welfare Chief Executive, Roly Owers, said:
“We fully understand this is a very difficult subject many owners will prefer not to consider but we firmly believe, like our founder, that it must remain an option. There is very good regulation for protecting animal welfare at slaughterhouses s but there is little transparency in the process from the point a horse or pony arrives at the slaughterhouse. If CCTV or other recording technology is made a legal requirement in all equine slaughterhouses now and in the future, we can remove some of the ‘taboo’ around the subject and restore public confidence in slaughter as a humane and viable option.
“Recording could also provide a basis for training slaughterhouse staff, further improving their competence and the process to ensure horse welfare is considered throughout.
“We need as many people to add their support to this campaign and help us show the Government that this is an issue which cannot be ignored, is not costly to implement and helps owners meet their final responsibility to their horses to give them a good death.”
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Page ContentAboutThe ICAO Knowledge Sharing Platform (KSP) compiles and disseminates a wide range of informative materials and best practice examples relevant to low emission aviation measures. Specifically, the aim is to strengthen national capacities, processes and mechanisms to reduce CO2 emissions from international aviation, particularly in developing states and small island developing states (SIDS). The platform is a key component of the joint UNDP/ICAO assistance project "Transforming the global aviation sector: emissions reductions from international aviation", financed by the Global Environment Facility (GEF). The information used to populate the KSP database was drawn from a variety of ICAO internal as well publicly available third party sources. At the time of publication, the platform comprised nearly 2,000 examples of low emission aviation measures from different States across all ICAO regions. These measures were subsequently classified according to the seven main categories of the ICAO Basket of Measures (as described in Appendix A of ICAO Doc. 9988), namely: i) Aircraft-related technology development; ii) Alternative fuels; iii) Improved air traffic management and infrastructure use; iv) More efficient operations; v) Economic/market-based measures; vi) Regulatory measures/other; and vii) Airport Improvements. The KSP database further distinguishes five formats to group the identified measures: policies and regulations, web portals and publications, energy and technology products, advisory, research and support tools, and best practice examples. Other relevant descriptors used within the database include the name, type and location of the entity from which the example was taken, the relevant ICAO Region, as well as, in some cases, the year in which the specific measure was implemented. Information presented in the platform's search results looks as follows: Abu Dhabi International AirportThe programme independently certifies aiport's effort to manage and reduce carbon emissions through four increasing levels of certification: mapping, reduction, optimization and neutralityAirport improvements | Best practice examples | Industry | UAE | Middle East (MID) In addition to the searchable database, the KSP website contains specific sections with selected videos on aviation and environment, materials and tutorials, as well as a document library where users can access relevant ICAO guidance materials. Finally, the platform introduces an interactive "Expert Community" where stakeholders and interested parties can submit specific questions regarding the various aspects surrounding the use and implementation of low emission aviation measures. Questions will be addressed by relevant experts within the ICAO Secretariat and their responses, together with the original questions, will be shared online for everyone's benefit. | <urn:uuid:0a3035eb-2896-4f13-b0ca-928eebf8e4b4> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.icao.int/environmental-protection/knowledge-sharing/Pages/about.aspx | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571909.51/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813051311-20220813081311-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.910047 | 523 | 2.875 | 3 |
The “Floating Island of Flowers,” or Rebun Island, is the northernmost island of Japan. As its nickname suggests, there are over 300 varieties of flowers, many of which grow exclusively on the island itself. Rebun lady’s slipper and Rebun primrose are just two of the many unique variations that can be found upon the island’s verdant hills. Rebun Island is located at a high latitude, making it possible for the alpine flowers to bloom even at sea level. For visitors that want to enjoy a leisurely stroll, the alpine plants are all accessible without having to hike Mt. Rebun to see. Between June and August is the perfect time to visit and catch these beautiful flowers in all of their natural glory. | <urn:uuid:d63c40ce-1bf6-4caf-904a-bcf0aa187f29> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://en.visit-hokkaido.jp/destinations/rebun-island-an-island-of-unique-flowers-and-alpine-beauty | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571909.51/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813051311-20220813081311-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.951684 | 185 | 2.1875 | 2 |
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When you think of tube, normally you think of it as a fluid carrier – a water pipe, a gas line or a fuel line. You don’t think of a tube as a structural element, even if we see several examples of tube being used as a structural element in our daily lives.
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Structures and frames made of metal tubes have long since become widespread in all industrial sectors. Their presence and complexity have gone hand in hand with the availability of tools and technologies capable of designing and implementing them in a way that makes them functional but also, and above all, cost-effective. | <urn:uuid:cfe7f6e7-bca6-4825-b4cf-c0006db5be72> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://blog.blmgroup.com/tag/tubular-frame | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572033.91/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814113403-20220814143403-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.951044 | 132 | 2.34375 | 2 |
The modern world is concerned about energy consumption. Everyone is attempting to save energy. This is because energy is the key factor in the environment. You can use outdoor solar light to preserve energy. The entire world is paying attention to this factor. You need to join the movement to save nature.
There are many paths of protecting the earth. You can install eco-friendly windows and doors. However, solar lights are the best way to offer protection to nature. You will be delighted to know the benefits of these lightings. It is not only the environment which will say thank you for this. You will feel grateful as well.
Outdoor Solar Light – Types Of Lights
These lights come in abundance. You will find a plethora of choices in the market. Path lights are the most famous ones. You will see that people are installing these lights to beautify their outdoor paths. They adorn their driveways with the modern lighting systems. You too can give it a try.
Decorative Outdoor Solar Lights
This is another type of light that you can install. These can adorn your garden or walkway with splendor as well. The lights come with modern designs. You will be awestricken to see the glassworks of the systems. These can easily turn your pathway or walkway into a high-class setting. The best thing about the lights is its flexibility. Therefore, give your creativity a go with these lightings.
Outdoor Solar Light – Benefits
There are various benefits of the lights. You will be delighted once you find them all. People are turning towards these wonders due to these advantages. Your life will not be the same after you have installed these lightings. Moreover, the environment will be grateful to you for making the choice.
These Are Eco-Friendly
These lights are the gifts from the divine. Non-renewable lights create carbon footprints. This originates solemn impairment to the earth. Those who use these lights diminish the creation of carbon footprint. You will contribute to nature in a better way with these lights.
These Are Cost-Effective
The solar lightings come at a high price. At the initial stage, you may find the cost a little higher than normal. However, in the long run, you will be able to save a lot on electricity bills. These lights are pocket-friendly. You will not have to worry about the bill every month. People pay a lesser price after installing these lights.
These Offer Unlimited Rays
The sunlight would never go out of supply. Likewise, these lights would not go out of use. You will be able to use these every day. Moreover, you can use the lights as long as you want. These would last for a long time.
Outdoor Solar Light – Last Words
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This week, Alex Deaton is back with another incredible breakdown.
But I'm not sharing this just because it's a mesmerizing animation of a snake. The real gold is in the rest of the thread, where he breaks down his problem-solving process step by step to end up with this animation.
Alex had an issue that every animator runs into - a really cool design that you have no idea how to animate.
Something that separates pro animators from amateur animators is ability to stay on model when you're animating. A large part of the process is figure out ways to keep the integrity of the designs or styleframes in your animation.
Check out the rest of the thread to see how Alex did it.
Then you can check out Grumshow's tweet where he managed to recreate the effect using createPath() and round corners.
And then another follow up from Daan Dirk de Jonge
Always multiple ways to do everything :)
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To get the day of the week of a date variable in a SAS data step, the easiest way is to use the SAS weekday() function.
data data_with_weekday; set data_with_dates; day = weekday(d); run;
When working with data, many times we are working with dates and need to make adjustments to our data depending on which day of the week something occurred.
We can find the day of the week of a date in SAS very easily. With the SAS weekday() function, we can get the day of the week of a date variable.
The SAS weekday() function returns a number between 1 and 7, inclusively, where 1 is Sunday, 2 is Monday, etc., and 7 is Saturday.
Let’s say we have the following SAS dataset.
data data_with_dates; input d date9.; format d date9.; datalines; 31DEC2021 24OCT2020 12DEC2019 07JUN2019 17FEB2021 12JAN2021 03MAR2020 ; run;
We can get the day of the week from a date variable with the SAS weekday() function. Below is SAS code with a data step getting the day of the week from the variable “d”.
data data_with_weekday; set data_with_dates; wd = weekday(d); run;
The resulting dataset with the week day of the date variable is as follows.
d wd 1 31DEC2021 6 2 24OCT2020 7 3 12DEC2019 5 4 07JUN2019 6 5 17FEB2021 4 6 12JAN2021 3 7 03MAR2020 3
Getting the Day of Week Name in SAS from Date Variable
When working with dates, sometimes having the day number can be useful, but it’s possible we want to work with the day name instead.
Getting the name of a day of the week in SAS from a date variable takes a little more work, but it’s easy to do.
There are two ways we can get the name of a week day in SAS. One with PROC Format, and the other with an if/else statement. Depending on style, either will be useful.
Let’s say with the PROC format way of getting the name from a week day number. Below is the SAS code with the PROC Format giving us the week day names.
proc format; value dayname 1 = 'Sunday' 2 = 'Monday' 3 = 'Tuesday' 4 = 'Wednesday' 5 = 'Thursday' 6 = 'Friday' 7 = 'Saturday' other = 'N/A' ; run;
This new ‘dayname’ format will give us the day of the week name from a day of the week number. Using it in a data step, we can get the week day names from our date variable.
data data_with_weekday; format dayname dayname.; set data_with_dates; wd = weekday(d); dayname = wd; run;
The resulting data set with month names is as shown below:
dayname d wd 1 Friday 31DEC2021 6 2 Saturday 24OCT2020 7 3 Thursday 12DEC2019 5 4 Friday 07JUN2019 6 5 Wednesday 17FEB2021 4 6 Tuesday 12JAN2021 3 7 Tuesday 03MAR2020 3
You can also get the day of the week names using if/else if/else statements in a SAS data step. Below is the code to get the name of a day from a date in SAS.
data data_with_weekday; length dayname $ 12.; set data_with_dates; wd = month(d); if wd = 1 then dayname = "Sunday"; else if wd = 2 then dayname = "Monday"; else if wd = 3 then dayname = "Tuesday"; else if wd = 4 then dayname = "Wednesday"; else if wd = 5 then dayname = "Thursday"; else if wd = 6 then dayname = "Friday"; else if wd = 7 then dayname = "Saturday"; else dayname = "N/A"; run;
Personally, I like the PROC format way as it is much cleaner and easier to re-use.
One other way to get the name of the week day is to use the built-in SAS WEEKDATEw. format. While this will work, I like the custom PROC format that I have for you above.
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M.A.I. came into existence as a result sincere endeavors of visionaries and devoted people of kathor and its founders of kathor and South Africa.
In the beginning they made arrangement for income so that M.A.I. could stand on its own foot. They constructed the house for M.A.I. Trust and then the boarding.
The name of M.A.I. was well known not only in Gujarat but throughout the country. In those days the fragrance of Deeni education had spread far and wide.
This fame was a matter of great pride for the institution. Due to the need of circumstances the institutions started talking interest in imparting worldly education.
For this purpose we got a house in Kathradawadi in 1981 and foundation of the first school was laid by Marhoom Dr. A.M. Moolla Saheb.
Thus, a beginning in imparting worldly education was made gradually the institution started making progress.
The undaunted efforts of our enthusiastic founder trustees and whole heated support and co-operation of our generous donors and well wishers we have today before us
this gigantic M.A.I. Educational Campus which is a great pride for Kathor village.
In the event of unforeseen happening, riots and natural climates the trustees of our institutions have always come forward on humanitarian aspect and provided all types of
assistance and selfless services to the needy and affected unfortunate people without any feeling of difference of caste, creed or religion. They have even taken pains to
collect information from various sources about the extent of damage caused and the number of families affected by it. Accordingly they have consulted their well wishers and
supporters send their donations to help these affected people the Trustees on this institutions and noble charity on such occasions.
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Edwards serves as a National Advisor to ASCEND: A Humanitarian Alliance. This non-profit organization plans expeditions to African and South American countries to provide life skills mentoring with sustainable solutions in education, enterprise, health and simple technology.
The stadium opened on the north end of campus in 1964 as Cougar Stadium, replacing a smaller, 5,000-seat stadium of the same name. The capacity of the facility was just under 30,000 with stands on both sides of the playing field. Seating was soon added to make room for 35,000 fans. Temporary bleachers placed at the back of the end zones raised the capacity to 45,000. The stadium was expanded in 1982 to accommodate more than 65,000; permanent concrete stands in the end zones, separated by entryways from the east and west grandstands, were put in place of the temporary bleachers. The playing field was lowered eight feet (2.4 m), and the running track was removed to make room for six additional rows. Following the retirement of legendary head coach LaVell Edwards after the 2000 football season, the stadium was renamed in his honor.
Edwards Stadium has hosted eight NCAA championship meets, a National AAU Championship, and the 1971 and '78 USA vs. USSR dual-meets, amongst others. There have been 12 world records (including records by Dutch Warmerdam, Jim Ryun and Henry Rono), 26 American records and 24 collegiate records set at Edwards.
Courtesy photoAn artist rendering of ChampionsTerrace in the northeast corner of LaVell Edwards Stadium, which was announced on Thursday, August 11, 2022 ...Demand for club-level hospitality has increased, and that capacity has been very limited at LaVell Edwards Stadium.
Brigham Young defensive lineman Pepe Tanuvasa (45) and linebacker Payton Wilgar (49) celebrates a touchdown during an NCAA college football game at LaVell Edwards Stadium in Provo on Saturday, Sept. 18, 2021. Shafkat Anowar, Deseret News... He led the Cougars in tackles with 102 takedowns, 34 more than fellow linebacker Max Tooley ... Related ... .
10 Wisconsin rolled up 491 yards, including 235 on the ground, on BYU in a 40-6 romp over the Cougars at LaVell Edwards Stadium in 2017, BYU defensive coordinator Ilaisa Tuiaki didn’t panic or make any wholesale changes to his schemes when the Cougars traveled to Madison the following year.
An aerial shot of the LaVell Edwards Stadium at BYU in Provo... More upgrades are coming to BYU’s LaVell Edwards Stadium to enhance the game day experience for the football program’s corporate partners, athletic director Tom Holmoe announced Thursday ... at LaVell Edwards Stadium.
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Related... With Manning and McMahon both sitting inside LaVell Edwards Stadium — about seven seconds into the video — Manning points to a headband that says ESPN+ and says, “Pretty good?” McMahon, who was known for wearing headbands in his day, said, “Don’t let the man keep you down, Eli.” “Eli’s Places” can be streamed on both ESPN+ and Hulu . .
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BYU junior defensive lineman Earl Tuioti-Mariner celebrates after his team recovered a fumble during the 66-49 Cougar win over Virginia at LaVell Edwards Stadium in Provo on Saturday, Oct. 30, 2021. (Courtesy BYU Photo). Football can be defined by many numbers, but here’s one that is a difference maker for BYU in 2022. 326 ... . | <urn:uuid:03da1517-fe92-4c5d-8368-55b8505374f7> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://wn.com/LaVell_Edwards_Stadium | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571909.51/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813051311-20220813081311-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.958836 | 1,104 | 1.578125 | 2 |
Preparing for Unexpected Injuries with a Workplace First Aid Kit
No matter what specific enterprise or business you are engaged in, workplace safety is important. Every industry has its own risks and concerns. While some businesses carry high risks for injury, others may seem very harmless. Regardless of the risks associated with a job, a Workplace First Aid Kit is important for protecting and helping any employee in the event of an injury.
In a company or job that involves little physical activity or contact with dangerous products, the potential for injury is much less significant. Nevertheless, there are occasional instances that arise on the safest of sites that can become serious. A simple cut can prove serious if not treated right away, and having a Workplace First Aid Kit handy allows for basic treatment of such simple issues so that they don’t become more severe.
Industries that pose physical risk to workers are also expected to provide a workplace first aid kit for the benefit of those that may be injured on the job. Whether you are dealing with serious cuts from tools or materials or whether you encounter a dangerous and harmful substance, immediate treatment is important. Emergency training is also essential, and individuals employed in risky positions should maintain CPR and first aid certifications in order to appropriately deal with serious injuries. A properly stocked workplace first aid kit enables trained individuals to act quickly.
Some jobs are located in remote areas where insects and animals pose risks. In such cases, a Workplace First Aid Kit should include such elements as a tick removal kit, and snakebite kit, and an emergency treatment kit for bee stings and ant bites. It’s important that workers facing these types of hazards be educated in how to avoid such animals and injuries, but it is equally important that these workers be trained in how to use their emergency materials to attend to such injuries. Something else to consider is to make sure everyone knows how to properly handle an allergic reaction to any type of insect sting.
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Sicignano degli Alburni
Sicignano degli Alburni is a hilltop aerie crowned with a castle, set in the middle of the Cilento National Park. The town is said to date back to 450 BC when a Roman soldier was granted the land for his service against the Sabines. From Siccio came the name of the town. The first written citation using its current name was in 1086 in reference to a Norman Count Asclettino "di Sicignano, lord of Polla" who donated land and materials to the monastery in Cava dei Tirreni.
Sicignano degli Alburni rests in the rural, rugged Alburni mountains, composed of dolomitic rock and sliced with rivers. The town sits between the Tanagro, Calore and Sele Rivers and offers an abundance of trails and outdoors activities. Many enjoy the hikes to the summits, where views extend all along the Cilento and Amalfi coasts and inland to neighboring Basilicata region. There are grottos, or caverns; the most famous in the zone are Castelcivita and Grotta dell'Angelo (also known as the Grotta di Pertosa). But closer by are less-known caves to explore, like Grotta di Fra Gentile and Grotta d'Auso. The wooded hills and rivers protect a large variety of flora and fauna. Between Sicignano and Petina you will find many enjoyable hikes.
In town, the main monument is the dominating castle, called Castello di Giusso. Built around 1000 AD it belonged to the Princes of Salerno then passed to the Normans. It was revised in the 1300s to add three watch towers and the castle and surrounding borgo were walled for protection. It's a quaint tangle of lanes with beautiful views over the countryside, and there are shops and services for daily needs, including a grocery, pharmacy, coffee bars, pastry shop and restaurants.
The town hosts a series of sagras throughout autumn to celebrate the woodlands harvests (especially chestnuts and mushrooms!) in the various hamlets that are part of Sicignano. There are churches with art, and the eerily lovely Convento of Frati Cappuccini in the frazione Grottapagano. Built in 1572, it has long been abandoned but provides one of those strangely beautiful ghostly places.
Sicignano degli Alburni is not far off the highway that takes you to the coast or into the heart of the Cilento National Park. Nearby is the spa resort of Contursi Terme, known for its curative naturally springly mineral waters. Most people come here for the natural setting and outdoors activities.
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Castelcivita is a small medieval village, nestled at 600 meters (1940 feet) above the sea on the slopes of the Alburni mountains, in the Cilento National Park.
The ancient Volcei tribe left one of the most important archaeological sites in the province of Salerno, part of Cilento National Park.
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So, you are going on holiday? How many days to go? We know you’ve got a countdown somewhere.
Are you prepared? Swimming attire, new outfits, Sun Cream, Bucket and Spade…
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How about your Cybersecurity? Here are top tips for you to consider. But, firstly, stop working and go on holiday, you deserve it!
Why do you need to connect?
Is anyone really interested in seeing your summer holiday pictures? Why not just relax, unwind, and leave the internet behind you. Go old school and drop that device, you don’t need to be digital for the next week or two. Let your mind get a break and just let the calm wash over you.
A week or two break from Social Media will boost you. It could lower your anxiety and depression, use the time to connect with family, make new friends and soak up life. The Internet will still be there when you get back and so will work.
If you’re stuck, then go for a stroll, check out the sights and scenery or simply listen to a piece of music – download what you need before you go. Read a book, you know you’ve put it off. Draw, paint or create. Play with your kids. Make some new special memories, whilst you top up on some Vitamin D.
If you are going digital and can’t take a break, then follow these pieces of advice;
Download or complete the following on the devices you will be taking:
- Update all devices to the latest version
- Download Anti Virus
- Get a Firewall application
- Download a trusted VPN service
- Be familiar with it – use it before you leave
- Switch on auto connect so you are protected at all times
- Disable trackers and ads
- Enable, or hit the Kill switch if the VPN drops
- Get a password manager and populate it – this is just good practice
- Look at a Mobile Hotspot
- Set-up a holiday, or temporary email account to safeguard you from spam and unwanted emails
- Back up your devices before you go
- Turn off remember my connection in your WiFi settings
The proliferation of Free WiFi means that you cannot be sure what you are connecting to. You don’t know what you are connecting too. It is trivial to advertise a Free WiFi and these connections are sometimes used to harvest details and accounts.
Likewise, don’t trust the hotel WiFi it could be compromised, with a Man-in-the-Middle attack. A hacker could pose as the hotel WiFi and pass your details on, whilst collecting your important details.
Use that VPN, create a bypass for the local WiFi and keep that Firewall on.
Mobile phone advice
- Ensure you have a six digit PIN or longer (don’t use the same digits such as 999999 and the like) if you can remember it.
- Don’t use the shape unlock from Android if it’s available, it’s not as secure due to the visibility of the pattern from a distance
- Insure your device, make sure that if lost you can replace it
- Record the IMEI, Service Providers contact details and serial number of the phone
- Ensure your phone has a remote wipe feature if stolen
- If you have maps enabled, make sure that they are protected and needed
- Don’t forget your Strava/Fitness apps too, don’t give away your location
There is a myriad of things you can do to protect yourself whilst on holiday. But the best one is to take a break; you deserve some down time.
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What has been the ongoing toll of service in Vietnam?
Introduction: With each war come changes to the military, some of which find their way into civilian life. The ongoing toll of service in Vietnam that continues to affect veterans—Agent Orange exposure, PTSD, homelessness—has, through citizens’ advocacy, ushered in greater federal benefits and care for veterans than had been in the case in the past.
This lesson plan will involve a review of the different issues that have impacted Vietnam veterans and veterans of more recent conflicts after their periods of service have ended. Students will debate the obligation of the government to provide care for such issues, and reach out to policymakers in their communities to advocate for what care they think should be provided for veterans. Pre-visit activity
Ask students to read the following 1984 New York Times article titled “Veterans Speak Out Against Agent Orange”: http://www.nytimes.com/1984/08/09/nyregion/veterans-speak-out-on-agent-orange.html. Then ask students to consider the following questions, either through class discussion or in writing:
What does the article, and what do the quoted veterans, state as the longstanding impacts of the herbicide Agent Orange?
What additional problems or issues do you think veterans might face upon completing service and returning to life at home?
Veteran Bobby Seal is quoted in the article as referring to the “military-industrial complex.” What does this term refer to, and has its influence changed since the Vietnam era?
If you were the judge overseeing the case, how do you think you would rule? Why?
In the classroom
Begin by asking students: What obligation do you think the government has to its veterans after their period of service has ended? Why? Though individual periods of deployment may be short, the effects of service may stay with veterans for the rest of their lives.
Perhaps the most publicized cause of ongoing health issues in Vietnam veterans is exposure to Agent Orange, which resulted in myriad diseases and birth defects that are carried forward in the children of those exposed. Agent Orange was a chemical compound developed by Dow Chemical to serve as a defoliant—meaning it would kill crops and other vegetation in the areas where sprayed (see slide 1)—that would aid in rapidly and effectively clearing areas of the Vietnamese countryside that might provide cover to enemy troops and feed the people. In spite of some initial research that suggested the use of the chemical compound could create health problems for those exposed, the defoliant was used widely in Vietnam. Those who were exposed to Agent Orange may end up developing a range of health problems, including Parkinson’s disease, Hodgkin’s disease, prostate cancer, respiratory cancer, and more. In 1979, President Jimmy Carter authorized the first Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) study of Agent Orange, to evaluate the effects of the chemical compound on the pilots who sprayed it. After a decade of lawsuits filed by veterans for compensation to cover medical treatment needed as a result of Agent Orange exposure, the Agent Orange Act was established in 1991 to allow the VA to declare a range of diseases as probable effects of Agent Orange exposure, and thus veterans could pursue services in relation to those diseases.
Watch the news report included on slide 2, which features veterans speaking to the long-term effects of their exposure to Agent Orange. What additional effects does Agent Orange exposure have, beyond the diseases and cancers that directly impact veterans? Do you think the government has an obligation to provide compensation for the children of Vietnam veterans who may suffer medical problems that are passed along genetically? Why or why not? Do you think a defoliant such as Agent Orange is a legitimate weapon to use in war? In addition to affecting the children of Vietnam veterans, Agent Orange exposure has had widespread effects on generations of Vietnamese, both those living on land that still contains Agent Orange, and those who are children of people originally exposed during the war (see slides 3 and 4). Many Vietnamese children have been born with irreversible birth defects that can be traced to Agent Orange. What obligation does the United States have to help these people?
There are other effects of service that continue when veterans have returned home. Some veterans may have trouble finding work due to physical or mental health problems, which can ultimately lead some to become homeless. Ask students to look at the infographic on slide 5, which shows the number of homeless veterans in each state. How many homeless veterans are there in your state? What percentage of the national total does your state represent? What message does the political cartoon on slide 6 send? War impacts nearly all veterans, even some of those who return home.
In addition to possible health problems resulting from Agent Orange exposure, some Vietnam veterans, as well as veterans of other wars, suffer from post-traumatic stress syndrome (PTSD). In 1970 Dr. James Lifton, a famous psychiatrist at the time, first testified to Congress about the effects of “Post-Vietnam Syndrome,” a condition he was seeing among patients who were veterans of the war. Eventually this syndrome as coined by Lifton came to be known as PTSD. Ask students to look at the image on slide 7, which shows an item from the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Collection (http://www.vvmf.org/items/). What obstacles do you think PTSD might create for a veteran looking to return to civilian life? What obligation do you think the government has to respond to veterans with PTSD? Ask students to observe the chart on slide 8, which shows the rise in PTSD. What does the chart tell us about PTSD across different eras of service? The National Center for PTSD estimates that 30% of Vietnam veterans have PTSD, and 10-20% of veterans of more recent wars suffer from PTSD.
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Here is the first chapter of the book After the Terror , published in September 2002 by Edinburgh University Press in Britain and by way of Columbia University Press in America. The book has to do with terrorism, not only the terrorism of September 11 but also other possible and conceivable terrorism as well as state-terrorism. It has as much to do with ourselves, those of us in America, Britain and like places who live well and enjoy the great goods. In particular it has to do with our omissions. It has to do too with our counter-attack after September 11 in Afghanistan and elsewhere, and with what is to be done now. It is moral philosophy opposed to what can seem to be self-serving distinctions. This first chapter is called `Good Lives, Bad Lives'. Those that follow are `Natural and Other Morality', which has to do with the ordinary fact and practice of morality and philosophers' worked-out moralities, `Did We Wrong Them? Do We Wrong Them?', which compares our omissions to a certain terrible act, 'The Twin Towers, and Democracy', partly about why September 11 was wrong and definitions of terrorism, and 'Our Responsibility, and What To Do', about our own moral standing and the augmenting of our hierarchic democracy. The last chapter also touches on a commission as against our omissions, the prolonged violation of the existence of the Palestinians.
CHAPTER 1: GOOD LIVES, BAD LIVES
What is a good life? For a start, a good life is one that goes on long enough. A short life may be good while it lasts, may be a sweet thing in the memory of others. But if it is only half the length it should have been, if it is cut down to that, it is not a good life. A good life might be as long as one you know that comes back to mind, maybe like the life of my father, who departed during his afternoon nap. It might be 75 years.
Lasting 75 years, of course, cannot by itself make a life a good one. If it was filled with disappointments, let alone dragged down by sorrows or defeats, it would not be a good life. You can do more than wonder if some lives would have been better if they had been shorter, not prolonged. Some are rightly shortened by their owners. Each of us ought in the end to have the right in morality and law of ending our existence.
So how long a life goes on does not by itself make it a good one. But is there a mistake in saying that living long enough is one part of a good life? No, living longer is a good thing for almost everyone. This is shown by the fact that a life may not be a good one at all but very likely will be better than nothing to its owner. Whatever thought an aged aunt reveals, maybe that she's had a full life and a good time and doesn't mind departing, almost all of us want to go on in a life. This is, isn't it, our first and then our constant and then our last desire? Some call it the instinct of self-preservation. Few of us are so unfortunate as ever really to prefer not being alive. Almost all of us want to go on even if things are bad, even terrible. Hardly anyone chooses to be missing .
Can we then say that living longer is an intrinsic good for almost everyone -- that is, something good in itself rather than as a means to something else? So it seems, certainly if we take living in our ordinary way. It is not just being alive, as a plant is alive. Nor is it just the idea of being conscious, of there being a personal world, although that is essential and important. Rather, the idea we have of living includes some elementary satisfaction having to do with existing rather than just being conscious, maybe the satisfaction of taking things in and watching them change, and conducting small matters of daily life, and having the hope of going on in this way for a while.
This is not the different and more ambitious thing we have in mind in ordinarily speaking of wanting the quality of our lives to be good, wanting a better quality of life. Maybe that has to do with getting a summer cottage, or one on a better lake. But just going on living, living longer, is certainly more than desirable. If it does need to be distinguished from much else that we also want, it is indeed for almost all of us an intrinsic good. We want it for itself, whether or not it is a means to anything else. The ancient Greek philosopher Epicurus tells us not to worry about death, because it itself isn't experienced -- where you are, your death isn't, and where it is, you aren't. Only impressionable logicians are consoled.
Living longer isn't a small or smaller intrinsic good idea either, like feeling the warm sun on your shoulders or a happy conversation or having something off your mind after a couple of years. It's a very large thing, so large that you can say this elementary living-of-a-life, in the absence of anything else, can fill a mind, fill a life. We want it a lot. We fight for it, usually quietly. It is not only an intrinsic but a great good .
Being rational, at least in this matter, we in a way want something else as much. This is the means to the end, the means to living longer. The means to living longer are shelter, satisfactory food and drink, health, safety and the like, not too much real stress and strain. Part of their importance, if not all, is that they are necessary means if I am to avoid that alternative to living that is nothing at all. But it is not only that my own living longer is a large intrinsic good or satisfaction to me, and that therefore I greatly value the means to the end.
Here is another fact. Someone else's living longer may be the same to me. It may even be more to me. It is our ordinary nature to want our children to live longer, and of course to want them to have the means to that end. Do I not know a lot of people who give up a lot in their lives for their children, perhaps for their long-term lovers? To stick to exactly the subject, do I not know a lot of people who would secure more living-time for their children at the cost of shorter lives for themselves? They want more of existence for their children more than they want more of it for themselves. You can think this is something to give us some pride in humankind.
Are there counter-examples to these propositions about the great good of living longer? The killers who flew the airliners into the Twin Towers may come to mind. They chose not only to destroy the lives of so many others, but also to shorten their own. They did the mediaevally awful thing that they did, we are told, in religious confidence of a life to come, in confidence of immortality. If that is really true, whatever else is to be said of them, they of course were choosing not to shorten their existence, but rather to prolong it indefinitely. Their terrible acts, whatever else is to be said of them, do not count against the proposition that living longer is a great good to which we want the means.
Shall we think instead, as I am at least half-inclined to, that the killers of September 11 were not likely to have been certain in an ordinary sense of having lives after death? That they were not likely to have had a literal belief in a personal life after death? Such a literal belief is not common, even among the religious. Asserting such a belief it is perhaps as likely to be a matter of hope, or of stiffening one's resolve, or of moral and political self-proclamation. But put September 11 aside for a while.
It certainly is a fact that some men and women throughout history have given up their lives for a great or anyway a necessary cause, the cause of their people, a cause that we can take to be have been great or necessary. Many hunger strikers have carried on to the end, and at least some of them did so without any belief in immortality. This fact goes together with more ordinary but relevant facts of serious risk-taking, say in war or in the protection of others in accidents or in rescue attempts. Some of us DO sacrifice our lives. Captain Oates walked out into Antarctica saying he would be gone for some time.
Come to think of it, I daresay quite a few Americans, and not all of them related to the victims, would have given up their lives, committed suicide, to prevent what happened at the Twin Towers. There isn't much doubt about that. There are ordinary suicides too, quite a lot of them.
All these facts need to be granted, but they are consistent with the truth that living longer, going on existing, is a great thing wanted for itself by almost all of us, and that we also want the means to it.
There is a second truth, of the same size. It is that living longer is not only an end or intrinsic good, and a great good, but also itself a means to other things -- to things that make for a good life. Certainly we do not only want to live longer. A good life is also one that has in it what living longer gives us more of -- well-being, happiness, fulfillment, contentment, or something on the way to these. A good life involves, more particularly, great goods in addition to living longer. For you, these are things possessed by yourself and those who are close to you. They are satisfactions different from the elementary one of existing. These too are intrinsic goods, whatever further use they also are.
One is a quality of life in something like the sense put aside in passing above. This is a general quality of life that can be secured by, and more or less defined by, the possession of familiar material means. It is physical well-being tied to certain material goods. Some of these means are nearly as old as our kind, say a private place to live, and more and different food than is necessary to sustain life. A place to sit, maybe a cushion. Something to drink other than water. Other things that make for a decent quality of life in this sense are means of alleviating pain, or some of it, and help in dealing with disability, and protection from common dangers, and maybe the means of travelling a bit. There are also the well-advertised means that now have the name of being consumer-goods. They can come to seem to be necessities. They are easier to be superior about if you have a lot of them.
In addition to this physical well-being based on certain material goods, there are four other great goods to which living longer is also a means -- at any rate by my way of counting. One, whether or not more important than the others to follow, or more important than physical well-being, has to do with freedom and power of various kinds, to which can be added safety. There is also respect and self-respect, and private and public relationships with others, and the satisfactions of culture, including religion and diversion. This is one way of getting much of a good life into focus. More of these five great goods is better than fewer of them, and more of each one is better than less. That is so, at any rate, for the overwhelming majority of us who have not reached real satiety.
As you have heard, living longer is a means to these other parts of a good life, a necessary condition. It is necessary for you to live longer in order to have a goodly amount. That amount, I guess, is one familiar in a kind of life known to me and many others, in apartments and houses in places like London, New Haven, Brooklyn, Toronto and Somerset. You can end up with a swimming pool.
So much for the great good that is living longer oneself, and one's family or close person also living longer, say to about 75. So much too for this being a means to the other great goods. So much for those other goods themselves, beginning with physical well-being tied to having certain material things. Let us now look at the extent to which these human desires are realized, some details, both in the apartments and houses we know about and also elsewhere.
Half-Lives and Under-Fives
Some people, because of their societies, have average lifetimes of about 78 years. Some other people, because of their different societies, live on average about 40 years. That is to say that the first group have lives of very different lengths, of which the average is about 78. Some individuals bring the average up, some bring it down. So with the second group -- they have different lengths of life, averaging about 40.
It is of course necessary not to drift towards thinking instead of two groups of people, one with all its members dying at 78 and one with all its members dying at 40. The two groups defined by the averages can have in them people dying at every age. What it comes to, you can say, is that fewer members of the second group get through each stage of life, say boyhood, young womanhood, parenthood, working life, early retirement.
What the thing comes to, you can also say, more to the point, is that many people in the second group, those people who pull its average down to 40 rather than lift it up to that, have half-lives at best . That is a proper summary of their difference from the first group.
The distance between the two averages is great, and conveys a great deal about living-time. The average lifetimes of 78 and 40 could suggest to someone overhearing this talk of lifetimes, but not knowing exactly our subject, that we are concerned with two different species. The elephant and the horse, if you know about that sort of thing. The numbers of people involved are also very large. About 44 million in the unlucky group that includes half-lives. About 736 million in the first group.
The first group are in fact the populations of the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Denmark and Japan. The second group are the populations of the African countries of Malawi, Mozambique, Zambia and Sierra Leone.
A certain statistic about a first stage of life is sometimes given attention. It is taken to be a large or very significant part of the explanation of the averages of 78 and 40 years for the two groups. Sometimes it is taken to be more of the explanation than it is. In any case, you may think this fact is of significance for itself. It is a difference having to do with children.
With respect to the first group of people, the Americans and the rest of us, the number of children who die under the age of five, for each 1,000 live births, is only about five or six . Another good thing in itself, you might say. With respect to the second group of people, those in Malawi, Mozambique, Zambia, and Sierra Leone, things are different. Have a look at the table of figures. For every 1,000 children born alive, no less than about 200 die under the age of five. A dark fact. An evil, to make less contentious use of a term than some do.
The dark fact and the half-lives should move you, and so it is not too soon, reader, to say what is being asked of you now. Whatever our eventual conclusions, it is not that you should already be contemplating certain judgements having to do with the dying children and the low average lifetimes. You are not being prompted or elbowed towards or into moral judgements, reflections or feelings, let alone moralizing.
That is, whatever our eventual conclusions, you are not being prompted by me to be on the way to judging seemingly relevant actions -- actions, practices, ways of running things, policies and institutions of those of us in the first group as against the second. You are not being asked to judge that what we and our governments and corporations have done or not done with respect to the short lifetimes and the dying children is wrong -- that our actions and the like ought to have been different, that we could reasonably expect bad effects.
Nor are you asked to make connected but different judgements, not on exactly our actions and the like but on us. One of these would take us as responsible for the dying children and the short lifetimes. That is, it would take us to be causes of those facts -- trace them back at least partly to us, regard us as human causes of them.
There is an ambiguity there that is worth getting into focus in anticipation of things to come. You can take someone as responsible for something before you have any idea as to the goodness or badness of the thing -- all you believe is that it was owed to him and his intention. But you can also take someone as responsible for an action or its effect and mean not only that they intentionally initiated it. You also mean either that it was a bad thing and they are therefore to be disapproved of or worse for it, or it was a good thing and they are to be approved of for it -- they are to be held responsible or credited with responsibility. As a result of these attitudes, they may be blamed, condemned or punished, or praised and rewarded.
As I say, it is too soon to be judging actions or judging persons for them with respect to the dying children and the short lives. It is also too soon for another sort of thing that moral philosophers have distinguished, often speaking here the good man , to which we now need to add the good woman. This is judging us not with respect to particular actions, practices and so on, but judging our general worth as persons, our general moral standing. You are not asked to judge that our whole lives and natures, to which all our actions and activities are relevant, have been selfish and low or human or decent or whatever.
It may be, for all I intend to convey by the figures, that all our lives in both groups are as they have to be. In particular, that we and our politicians and boards of directors and international finance couldn't be or do otherwise. That it actually is true, as the 17th Century philosopher and metaphysician Leibniz bravely supposed, that of all the possible worlds that there might have been, this is the best one -- our world is the best possible world. That the many shorter lives are not the avoidable little upshots of our chosen foreign policies and our economic organizing. There is a long tradition of political thought, incidentally, a kind of conservatism, that includes and rests on just those thoughts.
This book is an inquiry in which you are asked to participate. It is an inquiry into terrorism and ourselves, although one brought on by the shock of September 11, 2001, when all with television sets were present for the killing. An evil of another kind -- some say moral rather than natural. Also the aftershocks of September 11. One was that the thing seen on the screen was possible, the mediaeval horror without any of the respectability we attach to our wars, or our side in our wars. Also, even more of the same was possible, since some restraining god was dead.
Another aftershock was hearing what was said quietly around the world, despite the horror and the automatism of our leaders. It was said, not just in cosmopolitan London but in Somerset too, that the Americans had it coming, that they were getting some of their own back. They would have to learn and change, grow up. It was said that it was the treatment of the Palestinians by the Jews in Palestine and also the ones in New York and Washington that was the cause. It would have been better to mention more of us than Americans and Jews.
Inquiry is needed, moral inquiry, near to moral philosophy. This is not the only kind of slow and careful thinking about terrorism that is needed. Such books of relevant politics and economics are needed, and of the records of governments, and of history and international relations, and books by good journalists. But arguably general moral inquiry is the main kind of inquiry that is needed, anyway one main kind. Other kinds lead towards it, or presuppose it, or bluff about it, or take it to be easy, or try to do it on the wing.
It is true on this day, as these words are written, that the ending of this book is unknown to me. Something has happened that calls for new reflection on the decency and indecency of human lives, ours as well as theirs, and makes it harder. This doubt is not just a minority's. It cannot be concealed by our brave leaders in their seeming single-mindedness and uprightness and our kinds and degrees of compliance with them. It lingers in their sentences and in our newspapers and on our screens, in and between and under the lines. It is still the state of mind, as it seems to me, of most of us who were present for the killing at the Twin Towers and have followed what has come after.
Let us make our inquiry as real as we can. As I say, let us not rush to take any of us in the well-heeled world as having done wrong with respect to the low average lifetimes and the dying children, been responsible, been inhuman in our lives. There are great tragedies that at least seem to be without wrong actions, culpably responsible agents, bad or awful characters. Some are the natural disasters, say floods and fires. They are things of which all of us know, nonetheless, that it is bad or worse that they happen.
It is bad in this way that many people live less long than they could, that so many of their children die. These, to say the least, are bad lives. There is no point in trying to put aside feeling about that. We are not the one or two dessicated calculating machines that the feelingful Aneurin Bevan thought he noticed among his fellow members in England's old Labour Party back in about 1950. That was the one, by the way, that founded the National Health Service, because it could do more than count. Still, our object now is to come to have a grip on facts of several kinds, for the first time in the case of some of us, once again in the case of others. The facts must be all the relevant facts. Of necessity, then, they must include what is said by those who are against us.
But one more word first on the nature of this moral inquiry. It was indeed brought on by feelings about September 11 and the days afterward in Afghanistan. But it will be more general than other investigations, as philosophy and near-philosophy by their nature are. It will not get nearly so far into history, politics and economics as other investigations -- not so far into propositions taken by some of us as being of deniable kinds. It can have its essential basis, if certainly not its only basis, in well-established general facts, those in the table .
It will also be more general not only in considering general moralities and in spending some time on the general definition of terrorism and on other large things, but also in having to do not only with actual terrorism but also with some possible and some conceivable terrorism against us -- and of course having to do with us, things we can learn about ourselves. You can find out about yourself not only from what people do to you, but also from what somebody might have the idea of doing to you, with some kind of reason, whether or not they bring themselves to do it.
To think of some different terrorism, and different judgements about us that it may bring to mind, is not just to have the recommendation of a broader view. It is, for a start, to have something of more practical use, about the possible future, not just the past. You can't be sure about the future. As we know, it can be a lot different from the past. There is also another recommendation of generality. It will tell us more about precisely September 11 and what followed it, by putting this in a context or range of comparisons. Also, in the same way, the generality will tell us more about precisely our own moral situation with respect to September 11. You do not know a thing's nature without having a grip on similar, related and different things.
The general and larger aim of this moral inquiry of ours, with its particular recommendations, is another reason for not rushing.
Less than Half-Lives, and a Reason
To the figures so far given can be added some related ones that tell more of the same story. They have to do with years of life that are not healthy -- calculated years resulting from counting or weighing actual years differently on account of more or less serious malady or disability. Someone's healthy years of life so conceived, then, may be fewer than their actual years of life. The count of healthy years is the result of cancer, heart disease, mental illness, emaciation by hunger, AIDs, river blindness, malaria and so on. It may also be the result of 10 or 20 years of civil war, whatever its immediate and earlier causes.
The average healthy lifetime of our group, the one with the United States in it, is about 72 years. The average healthy lifetime of the other group, with Malawi in it, is about 30 years. At each stage of life, so many fewer in that group were healthy, so many more of them sick or worse. To go back to ordinary life-expectancies, as you heard, many in the African countries in question have half-lives at best. They are the individuals who bring the average down. In terms of healthy life -- decent life -- many have less than half-lives at best . Some of these lives that bring the average years down to 30 must be lives that we for our part would be inclined to take as not worth living.
You will have noticed that most of the countries of the world have been left out of the story here and earlier, the chosen groups. There are countries that come close enough in the rankings to those of the first group, say the countries Australia, Ireland and Portugal. So too are there countries fairly close to the African group, say Chad. What has been and will be said about the chosen two groups of countries applies with amendment to some others. It seems to me a good idea, in order to have things clearer, to focus more closely -- to start with, on us in the United States and so on and on the African group at the other end of the scale. But we and they are not all of the story. No one in Chad will think so.
Let us go on. It was said at the beginning that it is because of their societies that people in the two groups have the average lifetimes they do. I had in mind that the immediate or proximate cause was the state of each society, whatever causes further back there may be of that immediate or proximate cause. It has sometimes been half-supposed that short lives are all about climate or race or something as natural. It has sometimes been forgotten that money can buy ways of dealing with heat and even with the destroyer AIDs. That is true of famine or starvation too.
No one half-informed and in a state of calm will be surprised at a connection between general conditions of wealth and poverty, the things you can buy with what money you have, and the differences so far glanced at in average lengths of life and in childhood mortality. Still, to make any judgements, we need more than an impression of what gives rise to the lifetimes we have been contemplating -- the half-lives, those of the dying children and their parents, those of the sick.
The United States, however it shares out its money among its citizens, of which you will hear something in a moment, has had $29,240 per citizen each year. Sierra Leone, translating into the same currency, has had $140. The average for the whole group with the United States in it is about $24,000 a year. The average for the African group is about $220 a year. The cost of a special lunch for me and my publisher. The people to think of first, again, are those who bring the annual average down to $220.
There is an immense difference, then, in means to well-being, a difference that explains half-lives, dying children, sick lives.
There is something else that has to do with wealth or poverty. In a way, you may say, it can give us a better conscience. The United States comes at the head of a list again, in this case the mentioned wealthy countries listed in terms of the distribution of things within each of them. The worst-off tenth of Americans has had 1.8% of the country's total income or consumption. Not a lot. The richest tenth of the population has had 30.5%. The sharing-out in the other wealthy countries is similar. But to turn to the African group, the figures for the bottom and the top tenths in Sierra Leone are 0.5% and 43.6%. The inequalities in this group are a little greater than the inequalities in ours.
You may therefore note that Sierra Leone, to the extent that it makes sense to speak of it as an entity after prolonged civil war, is not doing well for the bottom tenth of its own people. If the World Bank has something to do with their state, so does its capital of Freetown or maybe its generals. So with the other African countries. There may be an occasion later for the thought that the conditions of social altruism, according to the figures, are a little better in Canada -- that the African countries are not so concerned with their own impoverished as they might be. This may also be the occasion for the thought that all of us under the sun, all humankind, Canada or Sierra Leone, have something in common.
If you are uneasily preparing yourself for moral argument, preparing to defend yourself against what may be coming, another contrast can be noticed by you. We have it so far that the four African countries have average lifetimes of about 40 years, and related average healthy lifetimes, and deaths of children at the rate of 200 per every 1000 children born, and are so poor as to have an average of merely about $220 per person a year as against $24,000 for us.
The situation of the four African countries is therefore worse than that of a group of Islamic countries save for Afghanistan -- Afghanistan before the war on the Taliban and Osama bin Laden and his followers by the United States and its allies and what came after. For these Islamic countries of Turkmenistan, Pakistan, Iraq, Iran, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, the average lifetime is about 68 years. The deaths of children before five are about 67 per 1000. The income or consumption is an average of something over $4,000.
So if anyone should wish to throw a tolerant light on terrorism by citing lifetime-related facts, and in particular a tolerant light on Islamic terrorism, can they not rightly be given pause by the African facts and the absence of African terrorists? Can they not have it conveyed to them that it seems not to be actual deprivation or suffering that gives rise to killing, but something else less understandable, less easy to sympathize with? Religion in at least its outward form? Pride? Racial pride? The kind of pride that allows Lebanese businessmen to mistreat their black servant girls from Sierra Leone?
Another contrast, another possibility of reassurance for us, is akin to what was remarked a moment ago about the best-off tenths within the African populations and their very limited altruism with respect to their less fortunate fellows in the worst-off tenths. Things are in a way similar in the Islamic world. The circumstances of Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates are significantly different from those of the other Islamic countries, say Pakistan and Turkmenistan. See the figures. The two oil-rich states seem not to be doing a great deal to alleviate the harder conditions of life among other Moslems.
But let us return to brute facts about lifetimes, some different ones. They have a different tendency, the same as before, not reassuring.
In the United States or Britain or Spain or Japan, does the the financially best-off tenth of population live longer than any other tenth? The American and British figures for these tenths of population seem not to be collected, anyway according to the governmental statistics people. But there can be no doubt, whatever little qualifications there are of the fact, that the best-off tenth in our group of countries does live longer than most of the other tenths and of course the bottom one. It has more children making it through to the age of five too.
We will be noticing some nearby national statistics later about blacks and whites and social classes (p. 00) that confirm the fact about the best-off tenth, but we all know without the aid of statistics about the connection between really good medical attention, to say nothing of food, and living longer. We know about poverty and poor health too. There are many other relevant facts, including one noticed a little way back, that people in general live a lot longer in well-off countries than in poor ones.
So if the average life expectancy for one of our countries as a whole is about 78 years, what is the average life expectancy of the best-off tenth?
The same question arises about a lot of other people -- the bottom tenth of people in Malawi, Mozambique, Zambia and Sierra Leone. If the average lifetimes for all taken together in those places are about 40, how long do the bottom tenth live?
Well, I have to leave you to find your own answers, not easy to come by, or to speculate with me. Is it not very probable that the top tenth in the United States and like places lives for about 80 years on average? Do the bottom tenth in Sierra Leone and the like places have average lifetimes of about 30 years? On the basis of the very great inequality of income or consumption between bottom and top tenths -- 0.5% and 43.6% -- and various other comparions and considerations, some mentioned above in connection with the United States or the like, it is a safe conjecture, to my mind a certainty.
It was noted at the start, about the two groups of societies taken as wholes, that the average lifetimes of 78 and 40 years meant that many people in the second group, those that bring its average down, have half-lives at best. In terms of healthy years, many had considerably less than half-lives at best. What is to be said about our comparison now, between the best-off tenth among us and the worst-off tenth among them? One thing is that many people in the latter tenth, those that pull its average down to 30, have quarter-lives at best , somewhere around 20 years.
It is easily said. But the disparity in living-time between these two well-defined sets of human beings is not something we see clearly. We are not faced with it. We do not see it as we saw the awful killing at the Twin Towers. By way of our screens, we were there, and we brought our own experience and knowledge with us. It was people like us on the planes. Seeing an emaciated child on television is not the same. Another world. We will come back to the subject, or near to it. But it is useful to keep in mind now, about those four million whose lives averaged 30 years, and those among them with the quarter-lives at best, that each of them had a name and hopes.
Is there a reason, from the point of view of moral inquiry, to restrain my own feelings in what follows? Well, it is not as if openness about them will deprive you of yours. Nor must the best policy always be what seems to be moderation, or even what really is moderation. Also, some openness will let you know the nature of your guide. More books should be explicit about their authors, as more politicians, notably more American politicians, should be explicit about their dual allegiances.
And, finally, actual attitudes, as distinct from what can seem to be said for or against them at first, are as proper a part of an inquiry at the beginning as at any other time. Somebody's firmness of feeling on a subject can give rise to more reflection on the part of somebody else. It will do no harm to your understanding, either, to reflect that some feelings you encounter in these pages may be had by very many more people than your own.
A final reflection about living-time may not be popular. It may strike some as contentious, distasteful or worse. Contentious, they will say, because what it comes to is somewhat unclear. Distasteful because it may be taken to imply an equivalence between dyings and killings. Something will be said of that too, when we are more concerned with interpretations of facts. For the moment, remember that popularity is not the aim of an inquiry worth the name, as it is not the aim of a court worth the name.
The worst-off tenth of population in the four African countries, to repeat, have average lifetimes of about 30 years. Thus they live for an average of something like 50 years less than the average of the best-off tenth in the wealthy countries. The exact facts do not matter for a certain question. If things had been different for a good while, would they have lived as long as the best-off tenth in those very different places? Or something like that?
Suppose we in the United States, the United Kingdom and so on had put in something equivalent to a war-effort on their behalf, or just really worked at it. The Prime Minister Mr. Blair in one or two of his speeches might have been taken almost to speak of such a thing for the future. People were moved. If we had really worked at it, would the worst-off tenth have gained 50 years of life on average?
Do you say instead, for whatever reason, perhaps a superiority to utopian speculation, that the best that could have been done by our human exertions to improve the conditions of the worst-off tenth would have resulted in their gaining only 30 years of living-time on average? Or do you say, out of more caution, or an assumption about our common human nature or whatever, that even if we had tried, the African tenths would have gained only 15 years on average? Or only 10? Or only five?
Do you say that it is irrelevant that between 1920 and 1940, American whites came to live longer lives by about 10 years? And in the next two decades by another six years? And between 1960 and 1980 by about four years, and between 1980 and 1998 by another three years?
It actually does not matter a lot to the argument whether you say the African tenth could have gained 50 years of life on average or only five. In the African tenth of population, you need to remember, there are over four million people. It does not matter a lot to the argument how few more years of life they would have been had on average if we had tried. The loss of living-time because we did not try is still immense. To shorten lives or leave lives short is not the same as to kill. It is not like killing. We know that before we begin to think more about it. It is still true that the living-time lost to the people under consideration is such as to make all deaths by terrorism, considered only in terms of living-time lost, insignificant. This is not a congenial idea, but it is an idea that some parties to a real inquiry will take to be relevant. They may take it to be more relevant than anything else. They will say they are not flies.
They will say it too when someone on their side gets more particular and argues, rightly, that there is solid evidence to show we could have lengthened the lives in question by just five years -- and draws the conclusion that there was a loss of living-time of 20 million years . Do you say that this is unreal? Crazy stuff? It would be good to know what you mean. Certainly the conclusion is hard to face. But how could it be mistaken to think of it?
They will also say they are not flies when they remind us that we are dealing with a sample, only a bottom tenth of population of four countries. They will say they are not flies when someone proposes going on to other simple calculations, including one having to do with the figure mentioned at the start, that 40 years is the average lifetime for the entire populations of the four African countries. They may say that the main thing about killing is the shortening of life, and that there is something akin to intentionality on our part, anyway akin to responsibility, in the loss of living-time in the African countries.
We will be looking at that large matter in due course. But now let us turn from this first part of a good life if you have one -- living long enough -- to the second part. This, as remarked earlier, has to do with what can be given the name of well-being and can be conceived in terms of the satisfactions of the five great desires other than the desire for a decent length of life. These are for a quality of life resting on and defined by certain material goods, and for freedom and power, respect and self-respect, relationships both private and public, and the satisfactions of a culture.
Great Goods Again
All this can be put differently, in terms of what have already been in view, and can again mildly be called bad lives . You can have a life that is bad because it is short -- a half-life or a quarter-life. This has been our concern so far. But you can have a life that is bad not because it is short but because of others facts -- your being deprived of some or all of the other great goods just mentioned. Reflection on the exact definition of a bad life will come later. (p. 58) Our present subject is to get some kind of knowledge of lives that are recognizably bad for reasons other than shortness.
We have a start on this subject in the short lives. It is not only that living longer is a necessary means to other parts of a good life. Living longer is also something different, a pretty good indicator of having the five other things or anyway some of them. A short life is a pretty good indicator of not having the five other things or all of them, first of all a quality of life connected with certain material goods. But we can come to see more than this grim generalization about some of the bad lives in question.
To glance again across the table, the differences in the figures between the second and third columns, about lifetimes and healthy lifetimes, give you the average years of bad health for a country. In terms of Zambia, the average years of bad health are about ten. If you are a Zambian man or woman who pulls the average down to ten -- perhaps someone with 20 years of severe debility -- the question barely arises of your doing tolerably in your life in terms of the mentioned great goods. You will do badly, of course, in terms of quality of life having to do with certain material goods, since they include medical means you lack. You will not have much energy to indulge in self-respect either, or in relationships with a chosen person or a wider community.
Still thinking of relationships, there is another kind of hurt that comes to mind in connection with the dying children in the fourth column -- the hurt, say, of a mother in Malawi that helps to bring the number of children dying under five up to an average of 213 for every 1000 live births. I suppose the human experience of seeing your four-year-old die is different if a lot of four-year-olds are dying? Or if a child of yours has died before, maybe two? Is the experience of seeing your four-year-old die very much different? There is one more question, though. Is it proper for us, in our thinking, to take the difference into account?
As we know, there is a strong connection between income or consumption and the great goods that are our subject now. You cannot live as a scavenger on a refuse dump outside a South American capital and have any of these great goods. Very likely the same is to be said of all of the bottom tenths in Brazil and Mexico, who have only 0.9% and 1.4% of the total income or consumption of the countries. Certainly the great goods are not had by the many individuals who bring the averages down to 0.9 and 1.4%. As against what the best-off tenths get of what is going, which is 47.6% and 42.8%.
Things are worse with respect to great goods for the worst-off tenths in the Islamic countries, perhaps including the oil states who keep their figures to themselves. They are still worse for the bottom tenths in the African countries. If, as in Zambia, the average share of GNP is $330 and the bottom tenth has 1.6% of income and consumption, then the bottom tenth has no goods worth mentioning in terms of well-being.
Despite cultural differences and lower expectations, there is a true proposition that they want the kinds of things we want. They have hardly anything. A detail may be useful. It is that the only easy place they have to defecate in may pollute the only water they have to drink. Do you say that surely they could walk further? That they are ignorant? Yes, they are ignorant. Did they need to be ignorant? Did God arrange that?
Other hopeful remarks can be made, some by economists. Will someone remark that the equivalent of a dollar goes further in Zambia than it does in Canada? True enough, but not so true as to take the sharp edges off the things we have been contemplating. Will someone say that some of the poor are happier than some of the rich? No doubt. I myself am among the rich, by a reasonable definition, and not quite so happy as a dancing lad I can imagine with nothing much, maybe a dancing Afghan lad with a kite.
But will the happy poor not be a small fraction of those mothers, say, whose children are very thin, like the ones in the Oxfam photos? Will the happy poor be numerous among those people who know the stigma that they are under, their being beneath the awareness of the people in the cars? Will there be many happy poor among those who especially would like to be able to read the printed words they look at every day? Or among those dying with AIDs?
Some last reflections on the table. It is true that several of the best-off tenths have extraordinary shares of what is available in their societies -- look at Brazil and Mexico, and also Sierra Leone. Still, there is a considerable likeness between all the listed countries in this respect -- all the groups in the table, us and all of them. Each of the best-off tenths has very roughly 30% of what there is, and each of the worst-off tenths has something like 2% or 3%.
It would be misleading to use these figures casually with the matter of physical well-being tied to certain material goods. This is so since the worst-off tenth in Australia, say, has 2% or 3% of a large total for the society, and the worst-off tenth in Mozambique has that share of a very small total. But think instead of the good of freedom and power, and the good of respect and self-respect. These are by their nature relative goods -- how much I have of freedom in our society depends on how much you have. So too, roughly, with respect and self-respect.
Could this turn out to be a source of comfort to us? Shall we be able to say that there is a good reason for supposing that the very poor in the four African countries and others are no more short on freedom and power within their societies, and also on respect and self-respect, than the very poor in the United States and the like? It is worth thinking about. So is something else.
As remarked, all of the best-off tenths in all the countries in the table -- those where the figures are available and published -- have very roughly about 30% of what is going. This is as true of the four African countries and some of the Islamic countries as it is of our own group of countries with the United States at its head. It is true of the three South American countries, and India and Australia, and also the ex-Communist states of Russia, Poland and China. Is this a law of nature, anyway a law of human nature? Is it something that it is or would be futile to protest about or fight against?
What would this law of human nature come to? Well, all of the best-off tenths, wherever they are, have a lot in common and also, you might think, a common interest. Such a common interest is different from the common interest of each best-off tenth with the rest of the people of its own country. Take the interest of a Mexican executive of a transnational corporation setting up a further low-wage assembly plant in Mexico across the border from America. Is his interest not an interest that conflicts with the interests of the Mexican women in the plant? And coincides with the interest of his American colleagues?
So is the law of nature just an ordinary fact? Is it the ordinary fact, about which something might be done, that people make profitable agreements that have a dark side? You do not need an ideology in order to come to a tentative answer.
It is clear, anyway, that the inequalities in the table are not all between whole populations or groups of whole populations. Not all disparities are between us, all of us, in the United States, the United Kingdom and so on, and all of them in the four African countries or the Islamic countries. Some inequalities are between (1) just some of us in each of the fortunate countries together with just some of them in the African and Islamic countries on the one hand, and, on the other hand, (2) others of us in the fortunate countries and others of them in the African and Islamic countries. Natural alliances, not limited to only the very top tenths, could enter into explanations of the fact of very many bad lives.
Like it or not, an inquiry into us with respect to terrorism will have to be an inquiry especially into some of us, won't it? Maybe including me, and you.
Not An Omission
All of what has been noticed so far, about lives that are bad because they are short, and lives that are bad because of deprivation, and of course lives that are bad for both reasons, raises a question about us and some of us especially and the leaders we have. The question comes up even if we take things slowly. It has to do with the rightness of our not changing things, leaving the world as it is. It has to do, that is, largely or anyway primarily, with the rightness of what are called our omissions -- and with our responsibility in them and the decency of our lives.
But it is not only a question of our omissions that is raised by our critics. Our critics say more, that we do not merely leave things wrong, but also put them wrong. They say positive actions of ours, our commissions, are as relevant to bad lives as our omissions. They make particular accusations about our positive actions and so on, past and present. There are positive actions of the United States with respect to South America, into which it has intruded many times. A good record has been kept by able judges. There are positive actions of Britain too, with respect to colonies and ex-colonies. There are also the actions of our transnational corporations, now as important in some ways as our governments and administrations.
As remarked earlier (p. 11) our inquiry will have its essential basis in certain well-established general facts, those in the table. They bring to mind our possible omissions before our positive actions. But our inquiry will indeed need to give some attention to another possible basis for judgement -- our positive actions. These, the main or only concern of other strong lines of inquiry, have to be kept in mind. If we do not have to take up this agenda of our critics, we cannot ignore it.
Let us attend to it a little. It would be at least difficult, and probably not enlightening, to try to proceed in a general way about our commissions. The charges against us are more particular than in the case of our omissions. Instead of trying to assemble a table of figures, it will be better to look at a particular case. There is the additional reason that it has been taken, wrongly or rightly, as the outstanding cause of the terrorism that seized our concentration on September 11 and subsequently gave rise to our counter-attack on Islamic terror. The case is that of Palestine, and thus of Israel and the United States.
Here it will not be possible to avoid moving closer to moral judgement on groups and individuals and on their acts. Still, our business now is mainly or in the first instance factual. As for the facts, maybe there is a little more room for mistake and self-deception here than in this inquiry up until now. I shall take care to limit myself to propositions that seem to me more or less indisputable. As for the choice of propositions, choosing what to leave out, this cannot be easy. Still, you can try to put in what each side takes to be of greatest relevance. Despite the chance of mistake and self-deception, impartiality and independence of mind are possible. It is usually a piece of strategy on one side or the other to deny this.
The region that includes what is now Palestine, despite the contribution of the Bible to misconceptions, was a land of Semites from the Arabian peninsula in the beginning -- Semites being speakers of a certain family of languages -- and except for a longer and a shorter interlude, brief in terms of its long history, it remained such a land until very recently. That is, it was settled around 4,000 BC. and remained Semitic rather than Hebrew in particular except for a few centuries around 700 BC and a shorter time around the birth of Christ. It was such despite Egyptian, Roman and other empires having sway over it. It was consecrated for Judaism and Christianity, so to speak, by the history of the Old Testament and the birth and death of Christ. It was consecrated for Islam by Muhammad's veneration of it as a result of his embracing of the other two religions in his own.
What is the relevance of this ancient past? Are we conceivably to decide great matters of living space and homelands now by ancient religion and its myths? Shall we start up all the world again by studying holy books? Do right and wrong now depend at all on what happened back then? Morality is about the living and those to come, isn't it? Is the remote past what the living really care about? They may say so, but is it really?
In 1900 there were 500,000 Arabs and 50,000 Jews in Palestine. Many of the latter had arrived as a result of the Zionist struggle for a homeland begun shortly before. This movement was the result of anti-Semitism, hostility to and prejudice against Jews, a unique history of contempt, envy, and persecution. The culture of the Arabs in 1900, judged from a Western point of view, was rudimentary. So too was their commercial activity. They could be and were spoken of as peasants. Their traditions of governing or social cooperation did not amount to a modern state. In 1917 Britain's foreign minister, Arthur Balfour, declared support for a national homeland for the Jews in Palestine, without prejudice to the rights of the overwhelmingly larger non-Jewish population. Arab opposition to further Jewish immigration, including violence and a general strike in 1936, was disregarded. What is the relevance of this closer past?
The destruction of European Jews by Hitler and the Germans during the Second World War did not issue, as in justice it ought to have, in a Jewish state carved out of Germany. It eventually issued, rather, in the United Nations resolving on a certain partition of Palestine. There were 749,000 Arabs and 9,250 Jews in what would become the Arab state if the partition went ahead. There were 497,000 Arabs and 498,000 Jews in what would be the Jewish state.*
What happened instead of the agreed partition was partly the result of actions by Jewish terrorists, partly the result of international politics and familiarity with it, partly of sympathy, and partly of finance mainly from American and other Jews. What happened was Israel's humanly understandable proclamation of itself as an independent country in 1948, and its prompt recognition as such by us.
This was followed by its use of force and of terrorism, including the massacre of an entire village, led by Menachem Begin, subsequently prime minister of Israel. In the ensuing 1948 war begun by Arab countries, in which they sought to reclaim land, Israel took more land, nearly half as much again as resolved by the United Nations. The Palestinians remained stateless.
In the 6-day war of 1967, which followed actions by Arab terrorists, the Jewish state seized the whole of Palestine. It did so with the use of American arms, and has since depended on America. By this time more than half of the Palestinians had been driven out of their homes or abandoned them in fear. They went to refugee camps, pens where they remained. The United Nations resolution calling Israel to withdraw from the occupied territories was ignored, by way of the argument that it needed secure borders, and with the necessary compliance of the United States and other powers.
Following Israel's 'Operation Peace for Galilea' in 1982, which was an invasion of Lebanon, appalling massacres of Arab civilians were instigated in refugee camps. For this terrorism another subsequent Prime Minister of Israel, Ariel Sharon, was held personally responsible by an inquiry forced on the Israeli governments and conducted by it. In 1987 persistent terrorism by Arabs against Israelis was begun, part of the intifada or uprising. With interludes of negotiation and hope, there was small-scale conflict thereafter between the Israeli army and Palestinian civilians and armed organizations. The casualties were overwhelmingly on the Arab side. There was protest by a number of Israelis against their country.
Except for one period, the building of settlements on Arab land in the occupied territories continued, which policy was officially condemned by the United Nations but not prevented. Between 250,000 and 400,000 Soviet Jews were resettled on Arab land between 1989 and 1991. A third of the Palestinians in the occupied territories were living in refugee camps. To the Jewish diaspora had been added a Palestinian diaspora. Of about seven million Palestinians, about half were now outside of Palestine.
Official aid from the United States to Israel from 1949 had reached $40 billion in 1967, this being 21.5% of all American foreign aid. By 1991, also according to American figures, the amount reached £53 billion. United Nations resolutions against Israel have come to nothing because of the American veto in the Security Council. The Palestinian resistance, by comparison, has had to rely not on tanks and planes but mainly on stones, snipers and suicide bombers.
In the spring of 2002, as a result of provocation by Prime Minister Sharon and then renewed suicide killings by Palestinians, and with the terrorism of September 11 as a further cause or pretext, Israel again made use of its army and airforce. Tanks encircled villages, the leader of the Palestinians was humiliated, rockets and armoured bulldozers wrecked homes, Red Cross ambulances trying to get to wounded and dying Palestinians were stopped, bodies of victims were disposed of by those who killed them, uncounted by their own side. It horrified the world, save for many Americans left uninformed by their media.
This was said to be Israel's war on terrorism. Was it terrorism itself? Would calling it terrorism be loose talk? A kind of exaggeration? Emotional? Like the Palestinian diplomat's remembering the Holocaust on the television news and saying his people were now the Jews of the Jews? That question will have to wait a while.
History is a proof that peoples demand the freedom that is their running of their own lives in a place to which their history and culture attaches them. It is a freedom for which oppressed people have always fought. It is a freedom such that a threat against it in 1939 united almost all of us against Germany. It has been denied to the Palestinians. Their bitterness is owed not only to bare fact of the loss of their homeland, so to speak, but to their having had it taken from them.
Palestinians have been denied by their enemy exactly the right of a people that has been secured and defended by that enemy for itself. No fear or half-fear or pretended fear on the part of the Israelis, who are a nuclear power, let alone talk of terrorism against democracy, can touch the enormity of this moral inconsistency. The essential American part in it is not lessened by its having been played, by most non-Jewish Americans, in a kind of absent-mindedness, sometimes wilful.
The terrible inconsistency is plain to all who are unblinded, plain to very many Jews in and out of Israel. No hair-splitting will help. It is as plain to those of us who also see that it was a moral necessity after the second world war that the Jews come to have a homeland, in Palestine if not elsewhere. Add in about the inconsistency, if you want, that it is not the first one in the existence of a people or a person. Say there are inconsistencies in my existence, and in yours, and on the Arab side. No doubt. But some consistencies matter more. To mention another one, being consistent about saving lives is different from being consistent about saving Jewish lives.
It is not only the freedom of a people that has been denied to the Palestinians. Another thing, which can indeed be distinguished, is respect and self-respect. Having been among the principal victims of racism in history, Jews now seem to have learned from their abusers. Zionism as it is has rightly been condemned as racist by the United Nations, whatever further analysis of the fact is attempted. As for the material goods that serve to provide a quality of life, they are in short supply in a refugee camp. So too is the culture of a people. With respect to the good of human relationships, no more needs to be remarked on than large numbers of wrecked families. These things are insults, too, indeed injuries, to the rest of the Arab world.
The bottom fact of it all, if not the only fact, is that the lives of several million people have been made what we are calling bad by wrongful actions of people who suffered uniquely before them and of their supporters elsewhere, mainly in America. It is inconceivable that the experience of the Palestinians does not open questions about the ensuing terrible actions by them and on their behalf, and about what we are to think and do. As much as what we were thinking about before, lengths of lifetimes in different places, Palestine opens questions about right and wrong in general, about our responsibility for what has gone wrong, about what really can be said in condemnation of the terrorism of September 11, and about our own moral relationship to that day and afterwards and what is to be done now. | <urn:uuid:1c05d930-6908-4143-aa09-f9065bccde64> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.ucl.ac.uk/~uctytho/ATT1.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573163.7/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818033705-20220818063705-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.978104 | 13,247 | 1.875 | 2 |
The Gold Ring Burmese Danio is a very attractive fish that is sure to add personality to any community freshwater aquarium. Boasting a silver-gold body and spotted pattern that stretches from the gill to the end of the tail.
Gold Ring Burmese Danios are found in a variety of habitats, ranging from fast-moving streams to slow-moving, nearly stagnant ponds. In the home aquarium, this member of the Cyprinidae family prefers a well-planted aquarium with large, open areas for swimming. House the Gold Ring Burmese Danio in an aquarium of at least 10 gallons or larger aquascaped with live plants, rocks and driftwood. Darker substrate will help bring out best coloration.
For best care, keep this peaceful fish in small schools with equally non-aggressive fish. The Gold Ring Burmese Danio is a highly active swimmer, especially when kept in small schools, so additional water flow provided by a powerhead will be greatly appreciated.
Male Danios are generally more torpedo shaped, while females tend to have a larger belly. A breeding pair should be placed in a breeding aquarium with fine-leaved plants for them to spawn over and scatter the eggs. The fry should be fed small pieces of live foods, such as brine shrimp.
Gold Ring Burmese Danios are omnivores and should be fed a diet of flake foods with plenty of vegetable matter, as well as freeze-dried bloodworms and tubifex.
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The Power of Visual Information
Dashboarding and the concepts of real-time, easily accessible information for the purposes of decision making, are not new concepts. In fact, some might be surprised to learn that origins of digital dashboarding for decision support systems stem back as far as the 1970s. Even with this great heritage, it is still evident that for many organizations, the dashboard is a highly misunderstood, poorly constructed infographic that looks better as part of a software demo than a day-to-day management tool.
A dashboard in its simplest form is intended to present a collection of complex and relevant data through a series of visuals. The most familiar dashboard is the automobile instrument cluster. The purpose of the instrument cluster is to give the driver updates on various conditions: speed, direction of travel, remaining fuel, time of day, vehicle mileage, etc. By glancing at this information display, the driver can make quick, effortless decisions to stop for fuel, increase or decrease speed, or consider upcoming preventative maintenance requirements and needs. Similarly, a business dashboard — especially one tuned for a technology environment — should allow information to be digested as quickly as possible so that effective decisions can be made.
The key difference in an effective dashboard system is the ability to reduce the complexity of the information being presented, and allow the human mind to subconsciously take over and accurately compute — recognizing right, wrong, good, or bad conditions instantly so that appropriate action can be taken.
The Power of Visualization
Figure 1a depicts a series of books out of order. Assume these books are manuals, and part of a set of commonly used reference materials. If individuals simply take a book, and return it ad-hoc, a simple question such as “Which book is missing?”, or “Where is the system diagram manual?” can actually become a small challenge. Don’t get me wrong, it’s not taxing. However, it does require conscious effort and brain cycles to answer.
Figure 1 — The Power of Visual Information
In order to overcome situations like these, most people number or alphabetize a series of manuals in a set, as in Figure 1b. The system depicted in 1b seems simple, easy-to-use, and it reduces complexity. In many organizations, a numbered or alphabetized system is thought to be best-practice, and so it remains for an organization. Similar to most dashboards, this system can still be improved but most don’t take the effort to do so because they already believe that further optimization is not necessary. A good dashboard should be optimized for ultimate simplicity. If we were to return to the images in Figure 1, Figure 1c would represent a successful book ordering method that reduced complexity. The simple technique of drawing a line across the spines of the book is simple, yet it allows the brain to take over subconsciously, allowing one to immediately understand which book is missing — if any — and where it should be located, in order. This is the true power of visual information.
Step 1: Develop Objectives — Use Organizational Needs to Drive Information Collection, Not the Other Way Around
When working with organizational dashboards, understanding the purpose and starting design from the ground-up is critical. The business must take appropriate time to ensure that the questions being answered by the dashboard are relevant, and relate to a well thought out series of objectives. We start the process by asking questions based on KT’s Decision Analysis methodology and listing responses:
- “What’s important to our organization/department/group/product?”
- “What would we like to minimize or maximize?”
- “What are the keys to success in our environment?”
When responses have been generated, it is best to take a second look and arrange them in the categories or the natural groupings they represent. This way, when a discussion is complete, it is easier for everyone involved to step back and ensure that the objectives are appropriate and balanced for the business needs.
Table 1 — Sample Categories and Objectives Table
Step 2: Identify Your Audience – Avoiding Information Overload
Not everyone requires the same amount of visibility into an end process. The CIO of an organization, for instance, might be interested in how Service Level Agreements (SLAs) are being met, and what the current cost of service is, whereas an application administrator might be more interested in the free disk space percentages on each of their servers, and the current uptime of critical assets. Common pitfalls at this stage include trying to design a single catch-all metric; including too much information; and wishing information to be a part of the dashboard simply because “we have the data.” The design of a dashboard should be focused around an individual, or a group of users that are empowered to make decisions and act upon the information that is being presented.
The goal of Step 2 is to prioritize and connect the objectives gathered in Step 1 for each group or individual that has been identified. Ideally, this step should be done with the members of the group for whom you are designing the dashboard, so that they may identify gaps and be able to share their needs with the designer.
This step should also include a rigorous clearing-out of unnecessary metrics. A recent CIO customer of KT inherited a metric pack of 192 indicators of business success. When the CIO asked the questions, “What do I do if this goes up?” and “What do I do if this goes down?”, those metrics were reduced to less than six.
Step 3: Create Metrics, Not Mess!
Designing and selecting appropriate metrics is a task that must be embarked on with great care. It is listed as Step 3 for good reason; too many organizations select metrics, and then build a process around them – leading to frustration and poor business results. Table 2, as shown below, details the questions required (based on KT’s Decision Analysis methodology) to create effective metrics.
Table 2 — Steps for Effective Metric Creation
The most important thing to remember in this step is that although a wide-variety of metrics may be available to measure best-in-class service, not all of them may be appropriate or tell the complete story of your organization/department/group/product. Consider the value to both the customer and the business of a given metric.
A common pitfall in metric design is viewing metrics in isolation. Viewing metrics in isolation can lead to incorrect conclusions and drastic decision making, as you are relying on only one metric to tell a story. Although some metrics have been researched and have been shown to be quite accurate in depicting a story, such as Net Promoter Score (NPS) or more recently its successor, the Customer Effort Score (CES), these have been the exception, and not the rule. The best practice in metric design is to layer a series of metrics, thus using multiple sources of inputs to create a picture to aid in decision making rather than relying on a single metric and making incorrect assumptions. Table 3, shown below, depicts a series of metrics: a particular condition one might observe; the common thinking most would jump to after viewing the metric in its condition; and a sample reality that shows just how poorly the metric told the complete story.
Table 3 — The Folly of Relying on Metrics in Isolation
Another common pitfall in metric design is not spending enough time in Step 2, that is getting to know your audience. By doing this, a designer might choose a metric that they don’t realize is easy to “game.” When a metric is “gamed”, inputs into the metric are purposefully manipulated to distort the picture, thus making an organization/department/group/product seem better than it is. Table 4 is a list of examples of metrics that are well intentioned, but upon closer inspection, easy to “game”.
Table 4 — Common Metrics and Examples of System “Gaming”
Metric design requires careful consideration and resolution of all challenges before proceeding to Step 4 and creating a dashboard. Issues to consider include:
- Direct connection to business objectives
- A layered approach
- The ability to accurately collect & verify data to prevent gaming
- Ensuring that appropriate individuals receive the data needed to perform corrective action
Step 4: Storyboard Presentation – Pretty vs. Functional
The next step in the dashboard creation process is to actually start to visually organize and display data. In order to do this well, it should be designed to tell a well-connected, and easy to follow story. The dashboard should contain graphs, charts, and visuals that have meaning when viewed in close proximity. The visual should allow for the least amount of conscious thinking required to understand and then take action on the data it represents.
To ensure that charts are quickly actionable, it is helpful to perform some thinking in advance to determine triggers and control limits. Triggers are a threshold value that automatically begins a pre-defined action if a limit is reached, or allow anyone viewing the dashboard to manually make a decision and begin pre-determined next steps to resolve the condition. Control limits are minimum and maximum allowable values of a metric for it to be considered “in-control.” A value that is outside these pre-determined limits is therefore considered “out-of-control” and by making the condition visible it is easy to determine that action must be taken to resolve the condition.
Figure 2 — Risk Management as Viewed with Different Visual Techniques
It is important when selecting a chart design to understand the level of detail required for effective decision making based on the intended audience. Figure 2 shows a series of different charts all depicting the same risk conditions. Consider the popular “traffic-light” chart, depicting Red, Yellow, or Green, depending on the status of the metric it is linked to. This type of chart has two built-in pitfalls. Firstly, most will only take action on items that are in the red zone, incorrectly suggesting that non-red items are not critical and therefore do not require effective action. Secondly, the chart does not show trend information. In reality, the underlying data could predict that something today in yellow will turn red tomorrow. Care must be taken in selecting chart type so that a balance between visually pleasing and functional information can be displayed.
Step 5: Design for Digging, not for NASA.
A difficulty often seen when designers are completing Step 4 is that it contains so many graphs and visual displays that it begins to resemble something you would expect to see at NASA’s mission control.
Step 5, which I jokingly call “Designing for Digging,” is about prioritizing the information developed in Step 4. The key here is to design a dashboard that is layered. The top layer could contain the most high-level information, and by drilling down, or selecting a group or chart, one could uncover the source of the data, related graphs, or other layered metrics to assist in performing effective actions.
Figure 3 — Priority “First- Tier” Metric, and Drill Down “Second-Tier” Metrics
An anecdotal best-practice is that a dashboard layer should have no more than six (6) important pieces of data displayed at any one time; this stems from research on how many discrete channels of data the mind can keep track of at any one time. It may seem like a limited approach, but if designed for digging, a dashboard should provide the user with the ability to get to the most useful data quickly when required. An example of drilling is shown in figure 3, illustrating how additional information can quickly be digested if required. The drill down approach to dashboard design allows one to balance the abilities of layered metrics to tell a story, quickly aiding an under-pressure decision maker to control the situation effectively.
A Quest for Balance
Recognize the dashboard as a tool to help aid in the decision making process. This is simply modeling the business, removing distraction, and focusing on key data to facilitate accurate and timely decision making — which may need to be made in a time critical setting. Without taking a step back before developing a dashboard and recognizing the system for what it is, and what it is not, one could easily fall into the trap of thinking that quantitative data will always trump qualitative data. Good decision makers should always use all the tools available to them, not just be transfixed by a single tool, and expect it to do all the work for them. The allure of a pretty dashboard can trick people into forgetting that some of the data could still be erroneous, either due to collection error, “gaming of the system, or an assumption in metric design being broken due to a changing environment. Whatever the case may be, the dashboard system and design, like other processes, must be regularly reviewed for accuracy, relevance, and alignment to business objectives.
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One of the enduring myths about electric vehicles is that they’re totally impractical for your average family. But the Union of Concerned Scientists did a little bit of figuring and found that, for a surprising number of households, that’s just not true. A quarter of U.S. households would do just fine with a full-on battery-powered EV. And more than 40 percent could start driving a plug-in hybrid, like the Chevy Volt, without changing their routine at all.
UCS looked at three main criteria that could prevent people from using plug-in hybrids for practical reasons:
- Does the household have access to charging?
- Are there generally four or fewer passengers in the car?
- Do they haul stuff?
The vast majority (95 percent) of drivers in this country are not driving around the Brady Bunch and do have four or fewer passengers. A good majority (79 percent) of U.S. drivers are not hauling stuff behind their car, whatever SUV owners tell themselves. And most people have access to a parking spot and an outlet.
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- The primary functions of an operations department include the design and management of products, services and processes. In addition, the operations department evaluates and allocates resources to effectively deliver products and services. Management of supply chains is also an essential function of an operations department.
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The Department of Defense (DoD) announced it is expanding its “Hack the Pentagon” program to include all publicly accessible DoD information systems.
The program – launched in 2016 and overseen by the DoD’s Cyber Crime Center – offers bug bounties to ethical hackers for discovering vulnerabilities in DoD systems.
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The 2016 election, Cambridge Analytica scandal, and GDPR represent a tidal shift in how the ad tech and digital media industry will monetize their audience moving forward. And it’s overdue. Demographic data doesn’t define a person’s identity. People define themselves by what matters to them, by their interests, hobbies, and values, and they show this in what they read about online.
As we talk about technology in the publishing industry, we should consider what kind of tech will move us towards monetization through context-based advertising. This protects data privacy, and has the potential to finally gain an advantage over the platforms where many digital advertising dollars have shifted.
Consumer mistrust of platforms
When consumers found out that Russia played a role in the 2016 election via bots on Twitter, propaganda on Facebook, and even local events in the U.S., we were forced rethink the role social media played in our community. Were they purely a platform? If so, to what degree did they need to police the content and users? Further, if they had so much knowledge about their users, why couldn’t they prevent a malicious influence like Russia from infiltrating their platform?
The Cambridge Analytica scandal certainly didn’t help this cause, and weekly stories break about Facebook continuing to acknowledge privacy and data issues. This has planted the seed of doubt about whether these platforms and the underlying data could be trusted—not just by the general public, but by the marketers who provide the revenue stream for Facebook.
New privacy-conscious controls for consumers
GDPR was borne out of a general concern that consumers had a lack of control and transparency around their digital data—data that bore the monetary fruits of now enormous companies like Facebook, Google, and Twitter. That data also created the massive ad tech industry that developed complex methods to personalize and optimize ad targeting to the point where most experts in the industry still don’t quite know how the ecosystem works.
GDPR, in some ways, marks a boon for platforms and the end of an era for the ad tech industry. Any platform that collects its own massive amount of first party data (like Facebook, Google, Twitter), can relatively easily get the consent of the population. Ad tech, though, faces the burden of getting consent through 3rd parties, where the value of giving consent was not only unclear but potentially non-existent. The type of re-targeting and personalization that was prevalent before will start to change under GDPR as publisher-direct relationships with consumers become increasingly important.
So where does this all lead, in terms of current industry trends? There’s no lack of interest in moving from a programmatic model to more of a subscription-based model. But most of the innovation and investment in digital tech has been focused on ad-tech, data collection. We need to simply “do better” from an advertiser and consumer perspective given these trends.
From the advertiser side, the credibility of their 3rd party data is eroding with GDPR. There are some publishers that are large enough (or are building collectives) to create their own first party pools of data. However, none of them can reach the scale or targeting capabilities of companies like Facebook and Google. Marketers know this, and if they want the best targeting they’ll still go to the duopoly.
That said, because consumer privacy is becoming top of mind for more and more people, marketers are also worried about the experience around ad campaigns they run. They want to create an experience that doesn’t creep people out (for lack of a better term). Interest- or context-based advertising, as a result is coming back into favor for the privacy-conscious brands and marketers.
Targeting ads based on consumers’ interests or the context of what they’re reading instead of their personal data benefits everyone involved. Consumers maintain their privacy and build trust publishers. Publishers can then pass on this trust to brands who want their consumers to know that they care about their privacy. And, publishers who are armed with the right contextual data can still provide an advertising experience that’s targeted, but doesn’t violate consumers’ concerns.
Not only does data around interests protect anonymity, but it speaks to the core of who people are. Marketers who try to understand what matters to their audience through attention data—the topics and stories they pay attention to online—will have a leg-up on connecting that audience with content and products that they want.
Sachin Kamdar, Co-Founder and CEO—Parse.ly
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Ever dreamed of being Indiana Jones and investigating ancient churches, discovering unknown secret messages and meanings behind the artworks in grand churches? Is that just us? While we can’t promise the excitement and mystery of an Indiana Jones movie, and whether or not you are religious, there is still something so special and enticing about a church… so here we have a list of our top churches, besides the classic and famous Duomo and why.
Also, before we get started, an interesting fact… In Italy, every day of the year has a Saint and it is common practise to name your child after a saint, so that they have a saint day, hence why in Italy, you always seem to hear the same names: Carlo, Francesco, Alice (ali-che), Sofia… they all have a saint day. In the south, the towns the saints came from have a huge celebrations for them- a rather lovely and beautiful tradition and part of the culture.
Santa Maria del Carmine Church is a church tucked into the beautiful area that is Brera. Nestled at the back of a large piazza with hipster restaurants, and modern art, this church is stunning to look at, to say the least, both inside and out. It’s worth getting up close to admire the decoration on the doorframe.
Basilica San Lorenzo Maggiore is located right next to the famous Colonne di San Lorenzo and if you’ve gone to see the Colonne, don’t forget the Basilica! This church was designed with a rather unusual layout and to this day it strikes an interesting resemblance to the Hagia Sofia in Turkey.
Church of San Fedele is tucked away in the twisting streets behind the Duomo, shining out onto Piazza San Fedele. In the hustle and bustle in the centre city, this piazza and church is a secret haven to take some time to yourself, to admire the architecture and the artwork inside the church.
Santa Maria delle Grazie is the church that holds the famous ‘The Last Supper’ by Leonardo da Vinci and is placed in a very special and beautiful area of Milan. As mentioned in our previous article aboutLeonardo da Vinci, it is near this church that the vineyard of Leonardo is located, it would have been in this area that Leonardo spent much time, while he worked, and struggled, on his masterpiece.
Basilica di Sant'Ambrogio is the church of the Milan’s beloved Saint Ambrogio, bishop of the city, and if you enter this church, you can admire and feel the importance of him, as the church itself is a grand design, both the inside and outside space, and you can often hear singing as you wander through and around it. Here in the church you can find the crypt of the saint.
It is impossible not to mention San Maurizio at the Monastero Maggiore, also known as the Milanese Sistine Chapel. Rich in decorations and frescoes that will leave you speechless.
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Song of the Day: João Gilberto (1931-2019) “Chega De Saudade”
It is with the greatest of affection that today we remember João Gilberto, one of the very greats of bossa nova, who sadly passed away over the weekend at the age of 88. Gilberto was one of the pioneers of bossa nova, that quintessentially Brazilian blend of samba and jazz with his gorgeous guitar playing and voice like a soothing evening breeze serving as the gold standard for the genre. Gilberto was also a close friend, confident and the primary interpreter of the music of composer, Antônio Carlos Jobim. Indeed, it was through Gilberto‘s beautiful interpretations that Jobim (who had previously been a little-known composer in his native Brazil) was put on the world musical map.
Finally, it was João Gilberto, through his collaboration with the American jazz saxophonist, Stan Getz, who helped popularize bossa nova in the West, with their 1964 album Getz/Gilberto album (which featured Jobim composition and also included the vocal duets with Gilberto‘s then wife Astrud, who would go on to a musical career of her own) remaining most American’s introduction to bossa nova and the rich musical tradition of Brazil as a whole.
João Gilberto was born João Gilberto Prado Pereira de Oliveira in 1931 in Juazeiro, Bahia. He was the son of a wealthy Merchant who took an interest in music from an early age. While his father disapproved of Gilberto‘s musical proclivities, wanting him to take-up the family business, Gilberto was encouraged by his grandfather who bought him his first guitar at the age of 14. In 1942, he moved to Aracaju in order to study, but returned to Juazeiro in 1946. There he started his first band, Enamorados do Ritmo. This combo proved to be short lived as he moved to Salvador, Bahia, in 1947 for further schooling at his father’s behest. Left to his own devices, Gilberto would eventually drop-out and dedicate himself full-time to music. By the time he was 18, he had begun his musical career as a resident singer at the Rádio Sociedade da Bahia. He also developed a unique style of guitar playing to accompnay himself during this period which would become the basis for bossa nova guitar.
Gilberto first recordings were released in Brazil as 4-song singles in 1951 and 1959. He moved to Rio in 1956 where he struck up a friendship with Antônio Carlos Jobim, who was then working as a composer, producer and arranger for Odeon Records. Jobim was impressed with Gilberto‘s style of guitar playing and helped to pitch him to Odeon. Gilberto never forgot the favor, forging a close working relationship with Jobim and championing his songs. Together, the pair would become the joint architects of bossa nova music, which swept Brazil throughout the late ’50s and began to be exported to Europe and North America by the early ’60s.
Central to the success of bossa nova was Gilberto‘s use of dynamics. The juxtaposition of the gently pulsing beat of his guitar, the breathy softness of his delivery and the rhythmic sophistication of the accompaniment proved to be something genuinely magical indeed. In Jobim, he also found a perfect composer and arranger, someone who possessed a deep understanding of precisely the musical feel of Gilberto and could deliver songs that were ideal for his unique interpretive talents. In other words, Jobim really got that Gilberto was a one-of-a-kind talent who seemed to create new musical idioms purely on instinct.
Gilberto was also notably a meticulous performer, both live and in-studio, caring deeply about the sonic qualities of what he was producing. Every note and the pronunciation of every word was of the utmost of importance to him, and as a result, he increasingly developed a reputation as a difficult performer, notoriously arguing with sound engineers in clubs all over the world and requiring endless sound checks until everything was ‘just right’. Given the delicacy and intimacy of the music that he was performing, this attention to detail was entirely understandable. It also shone through on his records, which always sounded immaculate – frequently like Gilberto was right in the room with you. He was a perfectionist who cared not just deeply about his craft, but also about the auditory experience of his listeners.
The song that seems to most capture Gilberto, to me, will always be “Chega De Saudade”. It was written by, (who else?) Antonio Carlos Jobim (with lyrics by Vinícius de Moraes) and is often considered to be the very first recorded bossa nova song. The song has been recorded by virtually everyone over the years (including under its English title, “No More Blues”) but Gilberto‘s version remains the most famous and likely definitive take.
The English version of the title always struck me as a bit off though. The Portuguese word “saudade” is one of those unique idiomatic terms that doesn’t really have a clear English equivalent. “Saudade” is probably best translated as being a “sense of longing, perhaps for something that never even existed in the first place”. The word can imply an intensity of heartfelt connection that is yearned for passionately – almost like withdrawal from a drug. Another good analogy might be an intense homesickness, but that home may exist purely in the mind. In a lot of ways, this perfectly summarizes the emotion runs though bossa nova and through all of Gilberto‘s music. It is no wonder that the song became, in many ways, his signature song.
João Gilberto was a singular talent who helped to forge a musical genre that remains deeply enduring in its appeal. Everything about his playing, to his voice, to his approach to music can be best summarized in a word as ‘wonderful’. While he had numerous imitators, no one could quite capture lightning in a bottle the same way Glberto did. His music will continue to be listened to and loved by generations to come.
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Hoards of Celtic coins were concealed in the ground either for safe-keeping or as a gift to the gods. Trying to interpret hoards – how, when and why they were buried – is one of the most fascinating aspects of iron age coin studies.
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When important iron age hoards are found we tell you about them as soon as possible. In 2004 we received an award for the ‘Best coin article’ from the Numismatic Literary Guild for our report on the Hallaton hoards in World Coin News. To view a few of the many hoard reports we’ve written click on the CR buttons. | <urn:uuid:44b7c8c1-6574-49d2-93ce-dccb2ac62a62> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://celticcoins.com/liz-loves-celtic-coins/hoary-hoards/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571909.51/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813051311-20220813081311-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.972782 | 143 | 2.421875 | 2 |
Have you personally felt lonely recently, or had an older family member express feelings of loneliness? Unfortunately, these days loneliness is quite common in our country, affecting one in four Australians who report feeling lonely for three or more days per week. It’s tempting to just hope the feelings are temporary and not really affecting someone. However, with research revealing the detrimental health impacts of loneliness, socialising and companionship for seniors is more important than many people realise.
A vast majority of seniors and retirees prefer to live in the home the know and love, rather than moving into an aged care facility for extra support. While this is understandable, the elderly community (especially those who live alone) are vulnerable to feelings of loneliness and social isolation as they become less mobile, and therefore they have increasing difficulty joining in community activities that require the ability to travel.
Considerable Health Benefits
Mental health combines our psychological, social and emotional well-being and impacts our everyday ability to make choices, handle stress and interact with those around us. Research shows that loneliness greatly affects our state of mental and physical health to the extent that it has become a global health epidemic, increasing the risk of early death more than smoking or obesity. On the other hand, people who have strong social relationships have a 50 per cent increased likelihood of living longer than those who are feeling lonely. Therefore, companionship is vital for maintaining a healthy lifestyle.
An Opportunity to Learn New Skills
When we interact with others, we learn more about ourselves and each other. It’s also an opportunity to develop and swap skills such as cooking, music and using the latest technology. Research shows that learning throughout our adult lives can improve our self-esteem, sense of satisfaction and self-confidence. According to the National Institute on Aging, you can even reduce the chances of getting Alzheimer’s disease by keeping your brain active in old age through learning new things such as a language or musical instrument.
Getting Out in the Community
A big part of socialising is spent out and about in the community or outdoors, such as at events, taking part in hobbies or activities such as painting, gardening or at a café. Getting outdoors also increases our sunlight exposure, and research demonstrates that sunlight exposure can be linked to the level of serotonin in our bodies. Serotonin is a chemical produced by our nerve cells and higher levels of serotonin is believed to improve mood, sleep, memory, appetite and even digestion!
With Australia’s ageing population and the rising levels of loneliness in our community, innovation in care services for the elderly living at home is needed. That’s where we come in. Like Family is on a activity to end social isolation and loneliness due to any reason, such as disability, illness and ageing. If you are feeling lonely or have an older relative who you feel would benefit from companionship, give Like Family a call on 02 8310 7531 or sign up online.
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