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Do you remember having to read all those classic novels in your high school English class? Well, I do! I remember feeling stressed out that I had to read three chapters of some classic novel in addition to all the other schoolwork I had at the time. But after reading these specific stories, I was so amazed at what each one taught me: significant life lessons that have stuck with me into my college days and even to this day. I am rereading three of my favorites this summer. I hope my blog gives you some insight into these books, and maybe, just maybe, I can get you to read even just one of them if you never got a chance to do it in high school or re-read them all these years later.
To Kill a Mockingbird
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee was first published in 1960. This is truly an unforgettable novel. The story takes place in 1930 in Maycomb, Alabama, where racism was an unfortunate part of Southern life. The main character, Scout Finch, lives with her brother Jem and their father, Atticus. Maycomb is a tiny town, and every family has a social position depending on where they live and who their parents are. It doesn’t seem too much different than today in certain ways, right? Atticus raises both his children by himself with the help of his Black housekeeper Calpurnia. Both Scout and Jem discover that their father will represent Tom Robinson, a Black man, who is accused of raping a White woman. Atticus takes this case knowing he will most likely not win. Why does Atticus do this? Because he has courage and morality. Scout and Jem are subjected to racial slurs and insults at school because of Atticus’s role in the trial. Within the novel, Lee addresses the impact of racism in America from a young girl’s point of view.
What have I learned and have taken away from this novel? First, the “mockingbird” represents the idea of innocence. Therefore, to kill a mockingbird is to destroy one’s innocence just as Scout and Jem had their innocence stolen from them at a very young age due to societal injustices. Second, as you grow up and reflect on your past, you realize certain events in your life — good or bad — change who you are as individuals in some way, shape, or form.
Many other events occur during the three years the story takes place that you will have to find out for yourself and enjoy reading.
Read more classics from the 1960s, click here.
The Great Gatsby
F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald was published in 1925. Many of you may have seen this in the movie theater. I have re-watched the film and reread this book several times. Let me tell you about this astonishing story for those of you who have not read the book. The Great Gatsby is set in New York during the Roaring Twenties, also called the “Jazz Age.” The book is narrated by Nick Carraway, a young man from Minnesota and a graduate of Yale University. He moves to New York to pursue a career in bonds. He not only narrates the story but casts himself as the book’s author. He centers his story around the life of Jay Gatsby, his “hero” in other words. He states that Gatsby represented everything he disliked in a person but for some reason excludes him from his usual judgments.
Gatsby is a self-made millionaire from the bootlegging business during the prohibition. Above all, The Great Gatsby is a representation of the “American Dream.” It takes a boy, Jay Gatsby, who is dirt poor and builds himself up to wealth. However, his whole life is based around courting a woman from his youth, Daisy Buchanan, who is married to Tom Buchanan. Even with the most extravagant parties that Gatsby throws, he still cannot win over the love of his life, Daisy.
The contrast between “new money” and “old money” is illustrated throughout the book by the difference between West Egg and East Egg. The West Egg is portrayed as cheap, full of people who have made their money in a time of unprecedented times like Jay Gatsby, illegally selling alcohol during the Prohibition. The East Egg is illustrated by those who have inherited their wealth and look down upon the West Egg. This novel is so interesting to me because there is someone who has it all, Jay Gatsby. Yet, he is so unhappy and is always striving for more satisfaction in his life, which gets him in trouble. This novel dives deep into the horror of a life of greediness; however, Gatsby reintroduces the reader’s capacity to dream.
Read more classics from the 1920s, click here.
Lord of the Flies
Lord of the Flies by William Golding was first published in 1954. A group of English schoolboys crash-landed onto an island after their plane is shot down during the war. The boys must fend for themselves and try to survive without proper food, water, and shelter. This novel explores the idea that humans are born evil or innocent until outside forces turn them evil. Most of the plot is based on Golding’s experience with real-life violence from World War II. The boys free from society’s rules and structure become savages, reflecting Golding’s experience during World War II.
Although the novel is set on a small island, Golding creates a big picture of human struggles. Such as the impulse to obey rules and behave morally. On the other hand, the savage instinct, the urge to seek power over others, disobey morals, and act violently, is portrayed through many different characters in Lord of the Flies. Overall, the island symbolizes society, politics, and human psychology.
Read more classics from the 1950s, click here.
There is a reason why these books have been a fundamental part of English literature for many years now. These books have profound themes that readers are constantly connecting to, despite the different time periods. I hope this blog has inspired you to either reread these classics or pick one up for the first time with the hope that you will enjoy it (because I can almost guarantee that you will). Discoverbooks.com has all these and more in stock starting at $3.85 with free shipping on orders of $9 or more in the United States! | <urn:uuid:dd847257-30f6-4ed2-8f15-d2a29a268503> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://discoverbooks.blog/high-school-classics-worth-reading/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572033.91/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814113403-20220814143403-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.977968 | 1,361 | 3.109375 | 3 |
How to choose led strip light power supply?
5 easy steps to finding your correct power supply
LED power supply is an essential part for LED strip light working. A power supply is a device that provides power to electronic equipment. The choice of power supply depends on your LED strip light.
When you are choosing correct power supply, there are some factors you need to consider. This article will help you to choose the right power supply for your LED strip lights.
Before choosing a power supply, it is necessary to understand the knowledge about the LED power supply. Next, we will provide you with the basic knowledge of different types of LED power supplies for your reference.
Alternating current power supply VS direct current power supply
What is AC power supply?
Alternating current is also known as high-voltage electricity, which is provided by the generator of the power plant and output from the outlets to home or industry use.
The direction of AC current movement will change over time, sometimes from positive to negative, sometimes from negative to positive, forming a wavy curve, so it can be transported over long distances.
Different countries have different AC voltages. The Americas generally use 110V and Europe uses 220V.
Alternating current is not suitable for precision electronic equipment, because large changes in current will damage its internal parts.
An AC to DC power supply is composed of a transformer, a rectifier, and a filter. In order to reduce the line loss, the electricity from the power plant must first be boosted to tens of thousands of volts, and then lowered when it reaches the destination.
A transformer is needed to reduce the voltage. The rectifier converts the alternating current whose direction and magnitude are constantly changing into unidirectional pulsating electricity whose direction and magnitude are changing. Then through the filter circuit and the voltage stabilizing circuit, the pulsating electricity is changed into a constant-size direct current.
The filter is a frequency selection device that can pass specific frequency components in the signal while greatly attenuating other frequency components.
High-voltage led light strips are powered by AC power supply.
What is DC power supply?
The DC power supply uses low voltage, mainly for power supply, such as storage batteries. The DC power supply voltage is stable and reliable, and it is used in mobile phones, computers and other electronic equipment.
The direction of direct current flows in a straight line from the positive pole to the negative pole, so it is also called a linear power supply and is suitable for short-distance transportation. Direct current converts other forms of energy into electrical energy.
What is the difference between the AC and DC power supply?
The most obvious difference between AC and DC is the level of voltage, AC uses high voltage, and DC uses low voltage. This is also the point that you should focus on when choosing an LED power supply for your led light strip.
High voltage led strips to choose AC power supply, and low voltage led strip lights like 12V led strip light to choose DC power supply. Choosing the corresponding product is the most important.
Constant Current VS Constant Voltage
Most led power supplies are constant voltage power supplies. It is more efficient and lasting. And most led strip lights are constant voltage too. These types of LED power supplies convert AC voltage to a lower DC voltage, and the voltage will always remain the same.
But constant voltage led strips have voltage drop. And this is the reason why there are constant current led strip lights.
The following is the voltage drop phenomenon of the LED lighting strip.
High-power and high-brightness led strip lights, such as the constant current led strip lights, it means that there is no voltage drop in the light strip, so that the light strip maintains the same brightness and color no matter how long it is.
However, if the constant current does not have a current limiting device, it is easy to cause excessive current to cause heating or damage to the light strip, which will reduce the life of the light strip.
Constant voltage led strip lights and constant current led strip lights should both choose the constant voltage power supply.
How to choose the best led power supply for your led strip light?
Step 1. Led lighting power supply or led light adapter? Small or large led lighting drivers?
The difference between choosing an LED power supply or an LED power adapter lies in the power of your LED strip lights. The power of the LED power adapter is lower than LED switching power supply.
An LED strip light is 5 meters/16.4 feet in roll. One or two strip LED lights are available for a power adapter. However, multiple LED strip lights should choose an LED power supply. And if you want a simple wiring and installation, the power adapter is an excellent choice.
If you need to install more LED light strips with longer running time, it is best to choose a switching power supply, because in general, the power output of a switching power supply is relatively large. And it can provide sufficient power for multiple or long-running LED strip lights.
If you want a beautiful layout and hide the power supply, choose the mini power supply.
When you need a light strip temporarily and you are afraid that it will not be easy to carry, choose a lithium battery. It is convenient.
Distribution box CCTV power supply is the control center that commands the reasonable distribution of electrical energy in various components in the power supply line, suitable for schools, hospitals, factories, workshops, homes, etc.
Step 2. Choose the correct voltage, wattage, and current.
Wattage size and whether the current and voltage are stable will directly affect the performance and service life of the power supply.
LED strip lights have a working output voltage of 5V, 12V, and 24V. If your strip light is 5V, you need to choose 5V power supply. 12V strip lights choose 12V power supply, and 24V strip lights choose 24V power supply.
Calculator the wattage of your LED strip lights with the rule 80%. This means the total power of your LED strip lights is 80% of the power supply. The advantage of this is to increase the service life of the power supply. If your LED strip light is 100W, you need a 125W power supply. Remember the rule 80% when you choose power supply.
If the current is not adjusted, there will be more and more current consumption. And the current consumption too high will cause the internal heat of the power supply to be too high, so as to damage the power supply and cause malfunctions.
*Calculating the power you need for your LED strip lighting step by step: How to calculate power for led strip lights?
Step 3. A dimmable power supply or non-dimmable power supply?
If your strip light is triac dimmerable, you should choose triac dimmable power supply. The dimming led light strip is generally controlled by touching the wall panel function button to control the brightness of the light strip, but there is also a remote control to adjust the light.
There are many types of led strip light dimmers, 0/1-10V dimmer, triac dimmer, DALI dimming system, and DMX512 system.
0/1-10V dimming application is simple and the dimming effect is good.
DALI dimming system has strong anti-interference ability, can feedback faults, and single light control makes the control more flexible.
The powerful control function of DMX512 brings rich lighting effects to architectural lighting, night lighting, studios and variety stages. And DMX512 requires special wiring layout and certain programming ability in order to set basic colors and scenes.
Choose the corresponding dimming power supply for your dimming light strip.
Step 4. Do you need waterproof or rainproof power supply?
Your installation place influences whether you choose waterproof or rainproof power supply. If you want to install LED strip lights outdoor or in a wet environment, you need pay attention to the waterproof problem, and it is best to choose waterproof or rainproof power supply. But if your power supply is installed in indoor or a dry environment, you can choose non-waterproof power supply.
Step 5. Your led strip light is what type? RGB or RGBW?
If your LED strip is RGB or RGBW color changing lights, the light strip must equip an corresponding RGB or RGBW LED light controller, in this case, the LED power supply should provide power to the LED controller and the color changing LED strip lights.
Put an RGB LED light strip wiring diagram to help you understand better.
However, single color LED strip lights can directly connect to the LED power supply when you don't plan to install an LED dimmer. And you can connect multiple LED light strips in one power source like the following wiring diagram. You only need to make sure the power of the LED driver can run the multiple single color LED strip lights.
The quality of products on the market varies. In this case, in order to choose a good product, what you need to do is to look for UL listed power supply. Improper use of the power supply or other reasons may cause problems such as overheating, short circuit, etc. For safety reasons, please ensure that the power supply you purchase has these protection functions. Choose the right power supply for your project according to the above steps. A right power supply not only can the LED strip lights be used well, but also decrease the risk of use and improve using safety.
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The application is a module to improve the relationships between food delivery service and sustainability. Moreover, the core functions of the application assist the users by informing, educating, facilitating, entertaining, and emphasising the value of the eco-friendly system.
What is GrabGreen?
GrabGreen is the application that could be the answer to city users, because apart from the app itself, it also provides the convenience of ordering food through simple yet understandable colour or info-graphic which stands out from other competitors.
Final application wireframes to introduce the touchpoint of the service. By the core idea of the app is to help offering and providing the opportunities for the users to get into sustainability.
GrabGreen developed application
To firstly proof concept testing by explaining and collecting the data through the physical testing.
I tested the prototype to gain more feedbacks and insights to develop each interfaces to be more functional for the next testing session.
Defining and Developing process is the session to understand and improve ideas from the insights throughout interviews and co-design session.
It aims to help people get educating about wastes and the importances of managing the waste.
Online Ideation Platform
This is the online platform to understand the users' opinion and problem that customers of food delivery service is currently finding. Besides, online co-creation template gives space and comfortable atmosphere during the session elevates the participants' quality of their answers.
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A couple months ago, the East Coast was really cold. Some people considered this to be proof that global warming is a hoax. Others took this to mean that we were undergoing a yearly phenomenon known as “winter.”
Around 97% of climate scientists express a belief that global warming is real. I’ve never understood the argument that this was all a conspiracy.
How would a conspiracy that large even work? Why would thousands of PhD students – many making under minimum wage – dedicate their careers to some elaborate conspiracy? [Note: most scientists can make a LOT more money if they leave academia and work for industry, so “for the money” doesn’t make sense. Also, “for the lulz” doesn’t make sense either, as scientists typically don’t have a sense of humor.]
Until recently, if you had asked me to explain global warming, I would have responded with something like “as atmospheric levels of CO2 rise, more heat is trapped in the atmosphere.”
But if you asked me “how?” my response would have probably been this:
I decided that both as a scientist and also as a member of humanity who currently resides on Earth, I owed it to myself to actually understand the “how?” in how global warming works.
Turns out, the science is actually pretty simple.
Since the energy that heats the Earth comes from photons created in the sun, we’ll start there:
How Global Warming Works
Let’s say hello to our friend, the good ‘ol electromagnetic wave.
Light’s had a pretty interesting life. He was born in the sun, in a magical scientific process known as nuclear fusion. After leaving the sun, Light begins his travel through outer space.
The overwhelming likelihood is that Light will leave the solar system without setting foot on any planet.
But Light might get lucky and stumble into a planet. He might even reach our planet.
Before Light can reach the surface of Earth, he has to make it past the atmosphere. You see, Light was born rich – with lots and lots of energy. And the atmosphere is made up of a bunch of greedy molecules that want to steal Light’s energy.
For instance, nitrogen (N2):
And Argon (Ar):
Two of the meanest and greediest molecules in the atmosphere are H2O and CO2 (water vapor and carbon dioxide).
H2O and CO2 really want energy. But these two molecules are reverse-Robin-hood-ers – they usually steal from the poor, not the rich. Because of this, Light can usually pass right by H2O and CO2 without being disturbed.
[Clarification for the scientifically inclined: Atoms within molecules oscillate in a process known as molecular vibration. Molecules with at least 3 atoms allow for multiple types of molecular vibration, known as different vibrational modes. Each mode corresponds to vibration at a specific vibrational frequency (determined primarily by the atoms involved and the bond between them). Electromagnetic radiation (light) also has a characteristic frequency – the frequency of oscillation of the electric and magnetic fields that comprise the light. When light with a particular frequency hits molecules that possess vibrational modes of a similar frequency, the light is often absorbed (the energy of the light is transferred to the atoms in the molecule). This typically does NOT happen to sunlight hitting CO2 and H2O, since the frequency of oscillation of sunlight is generally higher than the frequency of most vibrational modes of CO2 and H2O. Therefore, sunlight can usually pass by CO2 and H2O, undisturbed.]
Once Light passes through the atmosphere, he’ll generally run into the surface of Earth. Here, a few things can happen:
Light might “bounce off” of the Earth via reflection. If he hits a peaceful lake then this reflection will send Light in a predictable direction (as if he hit a mirror). If he hits a mountain then the reflection will be in a random direction.
After Light is reflected, he leaves the surface of Earth with similar energy as when he appeared. After a short trip through the atmosphere, he’ll be on his way to space.
Alternatively, the molecules in the Earth’s surface might absorb Light, killing him and stealing his energy.
The Earth will use some of this energy to warm itself up. But it might use the rest of the energy to create another electromagnetic wave: Light Jr.
Light Jr. will therefore begin his trek with much less energy than Light had.
And low-energy Light Jr. will have a hard time leaving the atmosphere. CO2 and H2O will ambush him and have a good chance of stealing some of his energy. [In science-speak: the frequency of oscillation of low-energy infrared light (aka “Light Jr.”) is similar to the frequency of vibration of many of the vibrational modes of CO2 and H2O. Therefore, energy will transfer from the light to the molecules.]
After the attack, Light Jr. will be confused and head in a random direction. While before he was heading toward space, after he might head back to Earth. If Light Jr. is killed at the surface of Earth, even more energy will be taken. At this point Light III might try to leave Earth, but with even less energy than Light Jr. had.
If the Earth is healthy, Light Jr. will still stand a good chance of escaping to space. But that all changes if there’s more CO2 in the atmosphere.
Humans like to use electricity and to be warm. Electricity and warmth both require energy. The major way humans create this energy is by burning fossil fuels.
Unfortunately, when fossil fuels are burned, CO2 is created. This process is called combustion.
In fact, humans like burning fossil fuels so much, that the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere has increased by about 50% since the Industrial Revolution started.
And that means that it’s harder for Light Jr. to escape from Earth than it would have been a couple hundred years ago (or even a couple of decades ago). As the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere has increased, more and more energy has been kept inside our atmosphere.
Predictably, this increase in CO2 has been matched with an increase in temperature of the Earth.
And that’s more or less how global warming works. Sunlight is largely in the visible or near-infrared range – so it can generally pass through the CO2 and H2O in the atmosphere. The Earth absorbs sunlight and radiates lower energy infrared light. The lower energy infrared light is often absorbed by CO2 and H2O. As the level of CO2 rises, this lower energy infrared light has a harder time escaping the Earth, and the amount of energy trapped by our atmosphere increases, warming the planet.
Current scientific models predict that if emissions continue to rise, Earth will warm by between 1.5°C to 4.5°C (2.7°F to 8.1°F) by 2100 (though many negative effects could be strongly felt far before then – perhaps as early as 2050).
Such warming would lead to many problems, including:
More Extreme Weather
The most obvious negative effect of global warming will be more frequent and more extreme heat waves. Even moderate changes in the average temperature can lead to very large changes in the frequency of extreme temperature. This effect can be visualized in the following fancy gif from Climate Central:
In addition to heat waves, global warming will also exacerbate other extreme weather – including hurricanes.
Last year, several subsequent, intense hurricanes pummeled the Eastern US. Global warming may or may not have increased the destructiveness of these specific hurricanes (it’s unclear). But as global warming intensifies, hurricanes are expected to increase in their power (though the frequency of hurricanes won’t necessarily increase).
There are a couple reasons that global warming tends to make hurricanes worse. First, warm ocean water is required to fuel hurricanes (hence why hurricanes tend to form in the tropics and break up over cooler water or land). As global warming increases the temperature of the ocean, the most powerful hurricanes will get even more powerful.
Second, global warming will increase the sea level. As Earth’s temperature increases, the ice caps melt. When ice that’s on land or touching the bottom of the ocean melts, the sea level rises (this applies to much of the ice on Earth). [On the other hand, when ice that’s floating melts, the sea level doesn’t change.] This is all very simple physics that you can test at home with a glass of water and some ice cubes.
Additionally, as water heat up, it expands (very slightly) – further raising sea level.
As the sea level rises, hurricanes can make it further inland before reducing in power.
Flooding of Coastal Cities
Remember what I just said about sea levels rising? That will flood coastal cities.
Most current models predict that sea levels will rise around 0.3 to 2.5 meters (1 to 8 feet) by 2100.
Which doesn’t sound like a lot. But many cities are on coasts, near sea level. This makes sense, since coastal cities traditionally have operated as ports and also because people like to live near the ocean.
Such sea level rise would flood ports and destroy portions of many cities. For instance, here’s what Boston would look like with just 2 meters of sea level rise (the blue areas are below water level at high tide):
Threats to Food Security (supply of food and individuals’ access to it)
The Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations (FAO, or as I like to call them, FaAOotUN) has defined four aspects of food security: food availability, food accessibility, food utilization, and food systems stability. FaAOotUN has also concluded that global warming will impact all four of these dimensions:
- The effects on food availability will likely be mixed. Yields will probably increase in more temperate regions, while decreasing in more tropical regions (plants like to be hot, but not too hot). It’s unclear if global yields will increase or decrease, but this uncertainty adds risk (which is bad).
- The effects on food accessibility, utilization, and systems stability will likely all be negative. Regional changes in yield could turn our food supply network on its head. Additionally, higher temperatures, more extreme weather, and flooding will likely harm these three factors.
I’m a numbers guy, so I really looked for numbers on global warming’s expected impact on food security. Unfortunately, I wasn’t able to find anything reliable. Unlike climate models (for which we have millions of years of data and a general good sense of what’s going on), we really don’t seem to have a good idea about the magnitude of the effects global warming will have on food security.
But our uncertainty with regards to magnitude here doesn’t mean there is nothing to worry about. Food security is important – that’s why FaAOotUN was created. It’s a really bad idea to take an important system like our food system and shake it up, simply hoping for the best.
The above negative effects will likely cause a lot of people to migrate. Hurricanes could destroy communities. Oceanfront communities could be completely flooded. Farmers may need to move from the tropics to more temperate regions to find work. And no one wants to live in a place that has become too damn hot.
So how many people will migrate in response to global warming? Estimates vary, with forecasts ranging from 25 million to 1 billion people displaced globally by 2050 (with 200 million being the most commonly cited figure). Note that those estimates are for displaced people, not for the number of migrants. Many would undoubtedly resettle within the same country and wouldn’t be forced to migrate, so the number of migrants would be lower.
For comparison, there are 66 million people displaced today (to be consistent, again we’re talking about the total number displaced – the majority of these people are displaced within their home countries). Considering a particularly politically salient crisis, there are 13 million Syrians displaced by the current civil war in Syria – one million of which have migrated to Europe.
Let’s examine these statistics graphically:
The dark blue is the total number of displaced people in the world today. The red is the amount displaced from Syria. I’ve heard a lot about Syrian refugees in Europe – the debate about how many refugees to let in seems to be giving Europe an existential crisis. The number of these refugees is represented by the green, which hardly registers on the graph.
Okay, now let’s move on to the projections for global warming in 2050. The purple is the low estimate. The light blue (cyan?) is the mode estimate (I swear that’s the only time I’ve ever used that word since learning it in middle school pre-algebra). And the orange is the high estimate.
Looking at this graph, I find it hard to remind myself that the red represents one of the worst humanitarian disasters in the world right now. Hopefully we get “lucky” and wind up in the purple situation with “only” 25 million people displaced by global warming. Of course, that’s still a catastrophe representing significant human suffering.
But global warming might decide to be a jerk and give us the cyan or orange situation with 200 million or a billion people displaced. That would imply mass migrations on a scale we’ve never seen before. What effects would that have on institutions, economies, the spread of disease, and violence of all kinds – from territorial disputes to terrorism? In a word: bad. That’s why the US military (not generally regarded as a bunch of tree hugging hippies) considers global warming to be a serious “threat multiplier” with the potential to jeopardize our national security.
Remember also, these estimates are for 2050. By 2100, the situation could deteriorate further.
From what I can tell, mass migrations represent the most likely way global warming could threaten global stability.
But There Is Hope
Our best bet for avoiding the worst of global warming is to transition away from fossil fuels and toward other energy sources. Nuclear, wind, and solar are the most cited possibilities. Most experts agree that for economic, scientific, and political reasons, solar holds the most promise.
And we’ve seen tremendous growth in solar energy:
Which begs the question: can this growth continue? And if so, what happens?
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The Russian parliament's upper chamber, the Federation Council, has rejected a bill that would prohibit the establishment of hotels, hostels, and home-sharing activities in residential buildings.
At a March 13 session, 151 lawmakers voted against the bill, while two supported it and four abstained.
Federation Council speaker Valentina Matviyenko said that most members of the chamber support the idea but want its endorsement to be postponed until January 1, 2020.
According to Matviyenko, businesses involved in hospitality services and home-sharing in residential buildings need time to prepare "to implement the law properly."
The parliament's lower chamber, the State Duma, adopted the bill last week. The proposed legislation says that problems related to registration and taxation require a ban on the establishment of hotels, hostels, and home-sharing activities in residential buildings.
The chairwoman of a Duma committee that handles issues related to residential buildings, Galina Khovanskaya, told journalists that the lower chamber would continue to work on the legislation.
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Our makerspace is taking a break for the next 2 months while we work on our student book budget project. We wrapped up November with a makerspace inspired by the book Doll-E 1.0 by Shanda Mcloskey. This book is about a girl who receives a doll that only says “mama”. She tries lots of ways to play with the doll but just can’t get past the fact that it only says one thing. Then, she figures out that she can hack the toy using her computer programming skills and a Makey Makey. As soon as I read this book last year, I wanted to do a makerspace with it. Then, the amazing Colleen Graves put together an instructables with step-by-step instructions on how to create a toy programmed with Scratch and controlled by Makey Makey. While we didn’t really follow all of Colleen’s instructions, we did have fun creating our own variations. Here’s a look at what we did.
For context, this took place during our open makerspace time on Tuesdays/Thursdays. Students sign up through their teacher via a Google Doc. We have four 30-minute segments which allows students from grades 1-5 to try out our month-long theme. Students from Gretchen Thomas’s maker class at UGA help facilitate each of the segments alongside me.
Session 1: Tinkering
Since students have a variety of experiences with Scratch and Makey Makey, we wanted all students to have some time to tinker with both tools. Our UGA students made some example toys out of toilet paper rolls, aluminum foil, copper tape, and a variety of other objects. We stationed these at tables with Makey Makey piano and Makey Makey kits. Students had an opportunity to tinker with how to hook up the Makey Makey as well as how to use the toy to play the piano on the computer. In another area, students practiced creating blocks of code in Scratch with events and sounds.
Session 2 & 3: Coding
In these sessions, students considered the sounds they would like their toy to make. They could record their own sounds or use the gallery of sounds located in Scratch. Each student made an account in Scratch and worked to code all four arrow keys and the space bar to correspond with the front of the Makey Makey. More advanced students could try out some of the extra pieces of code from Colleen’s instructions, but most students simply used an event block “when key is pressed” and a sound block “play sound until done”.
This was one of the most frustrating pieces of our project because with such as short time segment and students who couldn’t remember their email addresses and passwords, it took a long time to get accounts setup. Once we got through the initial setup, the coding wasn’t too bad, especially if students took the simple route.
Session 4: Toy Creation
In this session, students used toilet paper and paper towel tubes to create toys. We asked them to think about making up to 5 points of contact to connect their Makey Makey to. This was their first focus before adding details to give their toy character. Students used clothes pins, copper tape, brads, paper clips, aluminum foil, and other miscellaneous conductors.
We had a hot glue gun station with 5 glue guns to attach pieces. A UGA student stayed with the glue guns to facilitate safety.
Then, students used a variety of craft supplies to give their toy character: sequins, googly eyes, pom poms, feathers, etc.
I won’t lie. This was extremely messy and no matter how many hands I had helping or how many ways I tried to keep us organized, we ended up with supplies all over the tables, chairs, and floor.
As students finished their segment, we stored the toys in cardboard boxes by grade level.
This was the session to bring it all together. If students needed to finish coding or their toy, this was the session to do it. Then, their final goal was to hook up their toy to Makey Makey and see if their code worked. Many students realized that they had not created 5 separate contact points but had instead created contact points that touched one another. This resulted in 2-3 different sounds going off at one time. This was a good learning experience because they had to figure out a way to revise their design. If we had additional sessions this could have been expanded on but most just got to the beginnings of revision.
Our youngest makers in 1st grade didn’t quite make it through all of the steps since they had so much to explore and learn. In this final session, we hooked up the UGA student toys to the 1st graders’ code and also had a computer with pre-made code where they could try out the toys they had made. This was also true for students who had missed one or more sessions. We just couldn’t get through all the steps.
There were a lot of moments during this month where I wanted to pull my hair out and moments where I had to stop and take deep breaths. I had to remind students that I didn’t hold all the answers and I couldn’t show them every step to do. I find that this is a constant struggle. Students can figure things out if they just have the space and encouragement. Many of them stepped up, persevered through frustration, and helped their peers when they figured things out.
In the end, I learned a lot about what this might look like as a class or grade level curriculum based project. We could do so much with storytelling and writing with this project in addition to the science standards involved. The purpose of our makerspace wasn’t to have a polished product at the end. We wanted to have fun, problem solve, and invent while learning a lot about coding and circuits. I think we accomplished that, even if there were moments that felt messy and chaotic. I would do it again and try to do a bit more to keep us organized and moving forward. More days would definitely have been beneficial. | <urn:uuid:9111c739-b755-4c2d-8191-090975693c59> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://expectmiraculous.com/tag/makey-makey/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571536.89/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811224716-20220812014716-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.978057 | 1,290 | 2.8125 | 3 |
SINGLE MOM AND THE CITY by Takiyah Smith
SINGLE MOM AND THE CITY – Create Time, Money, and a Rich Life
A guide for successful single motherhood by Takiyah Smith
Single Mom And The City is a complete guide that lays the foundation for successful single motherhood. Transformative advice, compiled with data-driven facts, specifically for moms, like you’ve never seen before. The Perfect Mommy Bible.
Every mom does not have a bank account with thousands of dollars, a support system they can rely on, or a sane sounding board to get quality advice from. Whether you are a student or professional this book is an educational tool that will help all moms.
Practical tips and solutions to thrive at Motherhood and Life:
- Mommy success secrets, unlocked.
- Rock Star parenting tips.
- Simple methods to increase income.
- How to ask for what you want – And get it!
- Financial makeover. Easy as 1,2,3.
- Doable ways to create more time.
- Make way for ME time! Self-care is essential.
- Be a proud roll model and your children’s #1 fan!
Create the life you want, and envision. Single Mom And The City, create time, money and a rich life, contains life-changing information, for every Mom.
Children are often a mirror image of parents, they follow some of what we say, but most of what we do. This book is for the mom that is motivated to become the best version of herself and live a happy, fulfilled, successful life, while growing children into happy, healthy, fabulous little beings.
There are over 10 million single Mom’s in the United States alone. This book is made especially for you. Single Mom And The City, is jam packed with beneficial knowledge gained over the years through education, research, and life’s lessons compiled throughout the pages of this book.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
Takiyah Smith is a native San Franciscan. She studied business and merchandise product development at The Fashion Institute of Design and Merchandising (commonly known as FIDM). Girl power and women empowerment has long since been a passion for Takiyah.
There are approximately 10 million moms parenting alone, according to the Census Bureau. Today 1 in 4 children under the age of 18 are being raised without a father.
Parenting information is available in a ton of different locations from books, blogs, websites, articles, YouTube videos, workshops, and conferences to name a few. But, what single mom really has time for that? It’s on the job training time! Takiyah felt it would be so much easier if women could find information, community and inspiration all in one trusted location. That’s when Takiyah founded, Single Mom and the City, an exclusive resource for single moms.
Takiyah is grateful for the knowledge that has been imparted through thousands of hours of research and reading, family and friends, colleagues and strangers alike, that have been ever so gracious to share their parenting secrets, life experiences and wisdom. Takiyah wants to share this information with the world. | <urn:uuid:4ddec37a-437d-46c7-a2d4-a21a3d001cdc> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://readersentertainment.com/2022/07/25/single-mom-and-the-city-by-takiyah-smith/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572033.91/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814113403-20220814143403-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.936994 | 663 | 1.632813 | 2 |
Stress and anxiety significantly affect our health and well being. Complementary health treatments and meditation can help to combat the negative effects that stress can have. Complete the following tests to access your stress levels
There are 3 steps in our stress test to get a good idea of your overall stress levels.
STEP 1: HOLMES-RAHE STRESS RATING QUESTIONNAIRE*
The Holmes-Rahe Stress Rating Scale is about choices – areas of your life which are in your control, providing an objective idea of the amount of stress that faces you and which you can alter, for weaker or stronger
STEP 2: THE HANSON SCALE – WEAK CHOICES
STEP 3: THE HANSON SCALE – STRONG CHOICES
The Hanson Scale of Life Stress Resistance is about choices – areas of your life which are in your control, and which you can alter, for weaker or stronger.
When you have completed the steps, the Grand Total of your stress points will shown at the bottom of the page.
These tests are totally confidential: no information is sent from you to any other party, so no-one can find out how you have rated yourself.
You now probably have a minus score total. The best score total is zero; anything worse than -10 should be improved. Now you’re ready to start calculating your positive responses to stress, so go on to Step 3.
*Holmes-Rahe: Social Readjustment Rating Scale reprinted with permission from Journal of Psychosomatic Research, Vol 11, no 2, copyright 1967 Pergamon Journals Ltd. All information provided without Legal Responsibility | <urn:uuid:40e8c7ea-761a-43d3-9b04-ab3e79cefa16> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.helenjarvis-aromatherapy.co.uk/stress-tests/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570921.9/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809094531-20220809124531-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.902972 | 335 | 2.28125 | 2 |
Learn how to draw a simple elephant clip art and then see how playing with proportions can help you create new versions of the same character! Drawing this enormous cartoon animal can be quite challenging, especially when it comes to creating a balanced and visually appealing version of an elephant. So many possibilities, so many choices ...
For this lesson, let's draw a basic character filled with plain colors and mostly made from long curved lines. However, the first step should be to study this animal carefully to understand exactly what we need to do to succeed! :)
Excellent! Let's begin this tutorial by drawing the simple elephant clip art without adding complex digital effects or shadows. Then, I will show you how to play with proportions to create more cool animals like this one!
Adding a basic template to set up the character inside the working area is always a good idea. First, you can draw a large circle to form the head. The body is also made from a large circular shape. Both ears are represented by rectangles. Finally, you can also draw four long legs using more rectangles.
It's now time to sketch the animal using mostly long curved lines. Don't forget to draw irregular lines for the ears, large circles for the body and head as well as rectangles made from round corners to illustrate the legs. When you are done, you can erase the orange shapes created earlier.
Inside the head of our simple elephant clip art, draw the eyes and the pupils using small circles and dots. The trunk is made from long curved lines as shown in the illustration below. Finally, you can draw the leg on the back of the character using a small broken line.
Inside the ears, draw long curved lines to form both patches. Above the eyes, draw some eyebrows using small curved lines. More lines are needed on top of the trunk and nails on the feet are made from tiny curved lines.
You can now bring this character to life with the addition of simple colors. The body and the head of the elephant are filled with a solid grey color. Both patches found inside the ears are brighter, just like the nails located on the bottom of all feet. The leg drawn behind the character can be darker and the pupils are black while the eyes can be white.
These are all steps required to draw a simple and adorable elephant like this one. Now that we are more comfortable illustrating this cute animal, let's play with proportions to see how modifying a simple aspect of the character can create something completely different!
Do you want to create a cute baby elephant? One simple technique would be to draw a very large head. That's the only thing that was modified in this illustration and yet, the character seems completely different. You don't need to change a lot of things to end up with a new animal!
For this second example, the head is now much smaller than it was compared to the original character from the step-by-step lesson. The elephant does seem bigger and larger now that the head is tiny next to the body. Other body parts (like the legs) would need some adjustments to make this cartoon illustration more believable.
Not all changes are welcomed. Making the body narrower is certainly not the most appealing modification we could make on this elephant clip art. It's not necessarily a bad alternative, it's just not as convincing as it should be.
For this fourth example, ears are larger than what we have done previously. Fortunately, this single modification works perfectly. This cartoon elephant is still appealing and visually fun to look at. Do you like larger ears? How large can we make them without creating a weird character?
Larger eyes can add more "cuteness" to an illustration. Once again, we could go a little bit further and draw eyes much bigger than the ones found below, but you don't need to go to extremes to make changes that are interesting and worth looking at.
This animal can be quite heavy. That's why we can expect to see an elephant clip art with large and strong legs. This is the case for this sixth example. Legs are enormous and once matched with a large head and a heavy body like this one, it all makes sense!
In this final example, the trunk of the cartoon elephant is larger than anything we have seen so far. Once again, this simple modification does work properly since we don't feel like the whole thing is forced or unnatural. Don't forget that we are drawing cartoon characters here! ;)
I hope you had fun sketching this cute animal and playing with all its various body parts. Don't hesitate to try more versions and change anything from proportions, textures, colors or even the style of the illustration. You can also try more animals from the same series here and learn to draw more similar cartoon animals. Have fun drawing and don't forget to try more elephants below! ;) | <urn:uuid:89258160-e475-47c2-8d6b-9bead97d0a89> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.how-to-draw-funny-cartoons.com/elephant-clip-art.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570921.9/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809094531-20220809124531-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.96012 | 984 | 3.46875 | 3 |
If we asked someone what types of birds he thinks will be the next star for Instagram, few of us have definitely thought of the common owl bird, whose color is easily similar to tree feathers in tree forests. However, science has made a clear decision. Swallows are the most attractive birds.
Posted last week The study shows German researchers analyzed nearly 30,000 bird photos from the Instagram accounts of nine popular bird photographers, using an algorithm that recorded the photos most popular with users.
The aim of the study was very simple: to find out what makes a great bird photograph.
Surprisingly, the algorithm used in the study resulted in an angry-looking and angry little boy from his home country of Australia and Southeast Asia as the absolute winner, who then won
The prestigious title “The most beautiful birds on Instagram”.
Swallowing owl, despite its name, is not really a true owl, as it belongs to the rank of flounder, but its torture and lifestyle makes it similar to its name in many ways.
Its base color is usually silvery gray, interspersed with a number of dark red spots, spots and streaks. Its beak is dark, olive green in color, and its feathers evoke the pattern of tree trunks, so it blends in perfectly with its surroundings – camouflaging only by the big yellow eyes.
Instagram Evolution Filter: This type of bird seduces females with clever tricks
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Cover photo: Profimedia
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عنوان مقاله [English]
نویسنده [English]چکیده [English]
The statute of International Criminal Court came into force on July 1st 2002. For the first time this document established a permanent institution in international sphere which can try some international crimes of individuals. Some are very optimistic that such a tribunal could as an independent and neutral court safeguard peace and justice for the International Community, but some doubt about it. | <urn:uuid:46efd633-2f98-493f-abf6-cc9142300ee5> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://jlr.sdil.ac.ir/article_44899.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571909.51/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813051311-20220813081311-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.879998 | 136 | 2.359375 | 2 |
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One hundred and five years ago, Douglas Mawson set off on an expedition that would write his name in the history books and earn him a knighthood in the process. But what happened on this trek that would mean his story would stick around for more than a century.
On the 2nd of December 1911 Douglas Mawson set sail for Antarctica on what would become one of the most courageous expeditions in Australia's history. At the time Antarctica had not been properly mapped. So after visiting the continent once before with British explorer Ernest Shackleton, Mawson decided to lead his own expedition, the Australasian Antarctic Expedition, to map the coastal area of Antarctica closest to Australia.
First, he set up a research base on Macquarie Island. That would give his team a line of communication between Australia and Antarctica. That in itself was a big first because no one had sent wireless signals to and from Antarctica before. But it was just the start of Mawson's big achievements on this epic adventure. When Mawson and his crew finally arrived in Antarctica they were met with winds of up to 240km an hour that could literally blow you off your feet. In those winds they somehow managed to build a hut to live and work in and amazingly it can still be found there today.
Once that was done Mawson decided it was time to hit the road. He headed out with Swiss Scientist Dr Xavier Mertz, Lieutenant Belgrave Ninnis and a team of huskies to pull their sleds. Together they travelled one thousand kilometres east collecting geological samples and mapping their surroundings along the way. But the weather and the terrain only got worse.
The three explorers had to drag themselves and their supplies over crevasses and slippery rocks to keep exploring. Then, just over a month into their journey, tragedy struck. Ninnis fell and disappeared down a deep crevasse along with many of their supplies. Mawson and Mertz realising they were in trouble decided to head back to base. But soon they ran out of food. It got so bad the two men had to eat their huskies to survive. But what they didn't know at the time is that husky livers are poisonous to humans. So both became really sick and Mertz died.
Mawson carried on sick and all by himself. Battling the ice and snow and nearly falling into a crevasse himself. But somehow he made it more than 160 kilometres to the safety of the hut. But there was still one last piece of bad news for Mawson to deal with. The ship back to Australia had just set sail that morning. So he was forced to stay on Antarctica with the small crew stationed there for a whole year until it was safe to be taken home.
A year later Mawson arrived back in Australia where he was knighted for his bravery and for helping everyone to understand Antarctica better. Today Mawson's journals, filled with his many discoveries, are still used by researchers hoping to learn more about this icy continent. And his epic adventure still remains one of the greatest survival stories in polar history. | <urn:uuid:d3e6c8f7-d6f6-4fed-b794-c40c50119902> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.abc.net.au/btn/classroom/mawson-expedition/10523694 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571909.51/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813051311-20220813081311-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.984823 | 665 | 3.3125 | 3 |
The magnificent voice of G.A. Henty in Under Drake’s Flag
Born in England in October of 1936, actor Brian Blessed is widely known for his artistic talents in both film and television. He is often described as “larger than life” – and his unique personal character has often carried over into his professional work, where he has portrayed everything from regal kings in Shakespearean plays to Long John Silver, Jean Valjean, and most recently, G.A. Henty in Under Drake’s Flag. His booming, operatic voice is one-of-a-kind and easily recognizable.
Brian Blessed was the perfect choice to play G.A. Henty in Under Drake’s Flag – Brian has led a fun, exciting, and adventuresome life much like the late G.A. Henty himself.
Some interesting facts about the magnificent life of Brian Blessed…
- Brian grew up in a mining village. Three of his uncles died in the pit, and his father was seriously injured when Brian was only 15, forcing Brian to lay aside his academic studies for a time.
- Before he was an actor, Brian held several blue-collar jobs. He was once an undertaker’s assistant.
- When he was just 14 years old, he met Pablo Picasso at the Second World Peace Congress. The artist drew a rendition of the dove of peace for Brian, and he in turn sketched a similar bird and presented it back to Picasso. Picasso found this quite entertaining.
- Brian was a parachutist in the Royal Air Force.
- He loves boxing, and once sparred with the Dalai Lama. The two have remained friends throughout their lives.
- He is an avid mountain climber. Brian has attempted to climb Mount Everest three times – and while he has not reached the peak (yet) he has come very close. He is the oldest person to have reached both the geographical North Pole and the magnetic North Pole. He has reached the tops of Mt. Acongagua in Argentina and Mount Kilimanjaro in Tanzania.
- Blessed has had several close calls with death. He was nearly killed when filming, quite ironically, his death scene in Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves. He also survived a plane crash in the jungle of Venezuela.
- Brian’s voice is so appealing and unique that satellite navigation manufacturer TomTom recorded Blessed’s voice for use in its products. His voice has been one of the voice command options since 2010.
- Brian has actually completed Cosmonaut training and hopes to travel to the International Space Station in the near future. (One thing is for sure – if anyone can do it, Brian Blessed can!) | <urn:uuid:a240cf89-311b-4df8-8388-eebddd4d3148> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.livetheadventureletter.com/parents-resources/heirloom-audio/get-to-know-brian-blessed/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571536.89/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811224716-20220812014716-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.982214 | 563 | 1.601563 | 2 |
Environmental discounting and sustainable land management by smallholder farmers in Chibombo district, central Zambia
Mubanga, Chisanga Fiona
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Poor soil fertility management practices coupled with climate variability are among factors negatively impacting crop productivity in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). Promotion of Sustainable Land Management (SLM) practices among farmers has been one of the measures taken to improve and maintain crop productivity. Among SLM practices promoted are agroforestry and soil conservation. Despite extensive promotion of SLM practices among smallholder farmers in SSA and benefits that farmers can reap from them, adoption of SLM remains low. Continued low adoption of SLM can potentially result in irreversible soil degradation which can ultimately impact food security among the poor. One of the reasons for low adoption of SLM practices such as agroforestry has been the long time it takes for benefits to accrue. Preference for soon rather than later benefits could indicate discounting behaviour among farmers. The aim of this study was to investigate environmental discounting behaviour among smallholder farmers in Chibombo District. Objectives were to determine SLM practices implemented by farmers; why these practices are preferred; and to what extent farmers demonstrate environmental discounting in their SLM choices. The data were collected from Kalola Agricultural Camp in Chibombo District through semi-structured interviews with 158 randomly sampled farmers, three Focus Group Discussions, key informant interviews, and field observations. The data were analysed using content analysis and Z-proportional test at 95 percent confidence level. Results showed that practices commonly adopted by farmers were crop rotation (84.3 percent), planting of legume to fix nitrogen (57.4 percent), and mixed cropping (56.9 percent). Over 50 percent of farmers would continue using mineral fertiliser, herbicides and pesticides regardless of when soil infertility would occur; and that up to 53.7 percent of farmers would plant fertiliser trees if benefits would accrue to them within twenty years. It was concluded that crop rotation, mixed cropping, and planting of legumes were widely practiced because they are perceived easier to implement, yield fast results and provide food variety. Farmers demonstrated discounting behaviour in their choices to continue using mineral fertiliser and in planting fertiliser trees. Recommendations: investigating discounting behaviour by assessing if farmers would be willing to implement SLM practices given the time taken for benefits to accrue. Other aspect of discounting such as opportunity cost should be investigated to establish how they impact adoption. Materials for SLM implementation such as fertiliser trees should be ready available at district agricultural offices for access to those who want to plant fertiliser trees. Key words: Sustainable agriculture, Conventional agriculture, Agroforestry, Soil conservation, Environment.
The University of Zambia
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- The boy had a lot of pocket money.
- He met with many a setback in his lifetime.
- They eat a great deal of fruit in addition.
- Large numbers of birds migrate south every winter.
- I saw a crowd of magazines and papers on her desk.
- There were piles of litter on the streets.
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In a new study assessing the potential of a single-dose, intranasal COVID-19 vaccine, a team from the University of Iowa and the University of Georgia found that the vaccine fully protects mice against lethal COVID-19 infection. The vaccine also blocks animal-to-animal transmission of the virus. The findings were published July 2 in the journal Science Advances.
“The currently available vaccines against COVID-19 are very successful, but the majority of the world’s population is still unvaccinated and there is a critical need for more vaccines that are easy to use and effective at stopping disease and transmission,” says Paul McCray, MD, professor of pediatrics-pulmonary medicine, and microbiology and immunology at the UI Carver College of Medicine, and co-leader of the study. “If this new COVID-19 vaccine proves effective in people, it may help block SARS-CoV-2 transmission and help control the COVID-19 pandemic.”
Unlike traditional vaccines that require an injection, this vaccine is administered through a nasal spray similar to those commonly used to vaccinate against influenza. The vaccine used in the study only requires a single dose and it may be stored at normal refrigerator temperatures for up to at least three months. Because it is given intranasally, the vaccine may also be easier to administer, especially for those who have a fear of needles.
“We have been developing this vaccine platform for more than 20 years, and we began working on new vaccine formulations to combat COVID-19 during the early days of the pandemic,” says Biao He, Ph.D., a professor in the University of Georgia’s Department of Infectious Diseases in the College of Veterinary Medicine and co-leader of the study. “Our preclinical data show that this vaccine not only protects against infection, but also significantly reduces the chances of transmission.”
The experimental vaccine uses a harmless parainfluenza virus 5 (PIV5) to deliver the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein into cells where it prompts an immune response that protects against COVID-19 infection. PIV5 is related to common cold viruses and easily infects different mammals, including humans, without causing significant disease. The research team has previously shown that this vaccine platform can completely protect experimental animals from another dangerous coronavirus disease called Middle Eastern Respiratory Syndrome (MERS).
The inhaled PIV5 vaccine developed by the team targets mucosal cells that line the nasal passages and airways. These cells are the main entry point for most SARS-CoV-2 infections and the site of early virus replication. Virus produced in these cells can invade deeper into the lungs and other organs in the body, which can lead to more severe disease. In addition, virus made in these cells can be easily shed through exhalation allowing transmission from one infected person to others.
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Ableton Live is a high-end software for musicians and DJs. It involves editing videos and compositions. A pleasant surprise for each user will be an immense set of virtual instruments and other effects. What’s more, with this multi-functional program, you can mix songs in real time.
Features of Ableton Live
- Arrangement provides full-fledged studio work,
- Session – creating compositions in real time,
- supports the following instruments: ASIO, Core Audio, VST, Audio Units (Mac) and Rewire,
- editing and processing of video files, as well as audio recordings,
- Ableton includes synthesizers, a sampler, electric and acoustic drums, and numerous sampling instruments. In total, you will find 10 great virtual instruments.
- Simple and clear interface,
- works great in all kinds of operating systems: Windows 7, 8, Mac OS and others,
- really high-quality program for creating musical compositions,
- a rather large set of musical instruments,
- audio editing in real time.
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It looks to me as if this car has left the road and come to a sudden halt against the building, with the result that both have been somewhat damaged. But why did it happen? Was there a mechanical failure such as brakes or tyres? Did the driver fall asleep at the wheel or something distract him? Was he drunk? Or did he swerve to avoid a child on a cycle? Perhaps there's a more unlikely reason - perhaps there was no driver in the car, but it was left stopped on a slope and ran away, or it fell off the back of a lorry.
When presented with a web site that's been compromised - with new files created, databases and their records changed, or data injected into existing files, it can be rather hard to work out what has happened - rather like trying to find what caused a motor accident. And one photograph is going to give clues, but no more - the picture above is from a page of public domain images, and I know no more than that. So "educated guess" is my best hope.
If I'm going to be looking at a system that's been compromised, I'm going to look not only at the content of the file(s) and database(s) that are infected, but also for certain other tell-tale files that might have been added to the system - especially at around the same time. And I'm also going to take a very careful look at who is allowed to do what to which resources. In other words, file permissions, and user and group ownerships.
Here's an answer, just written, concerning infected files...
If you have infected files, have a look at the write permissions on the infected files .... who can write to them? If they're writeable by the web server user, then is that just yourself, or is this a shared hosting machine? If the scripts are PHP and it's a shared server, then the start of the hole may not be in your area, but the write permissions being wrong in your area have let the sh*t land on you.
What causes such scripts to allow files to be written? Typically scripts written with the best intent, but in which the file name can be taken from the user / seeded by a form. John can create a file called "John.html", perhaps. And Harry a file called Harry.html ... all perfectly good names in a directory called "users". Then along comes someone called ../index.html ... and he overrides the home page at the top of the site. Be aware, too, off the cross-site scripting possibilities of Mr "http://www.sheepbingo.co.uk/" who might find one of your scripts that he can pull his code into and have it run on your system. And these concerns apply not only to the scripts you have written yourself, but also those which you have sourced from elsewhere.
With Perl, the script may be run as the user (via setuid) or as the web server, and you should take a look at which of the two your setup uses in order to help you with the analysis. (written 2009-02-24)
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Twisting and spraining your ankle is a very common injury. Even a minor sprain can cause swelling and may be very painful due to all the nerves and other sensitive components that make up the feet and ankles.
The Achilles tendon is the largest tendon that you have in your body. It connects from the heel bone to the calf muscle and makes it possible to stand, walk, and exercise. While runners and athletes are more susceptible to experiencing the inflammation and pain of Achilles tendonitis, it can also happen to people who have been sedentary for a long period.
Suddenly starting an exercise program without proper warm up and training can cause considerable tendon pressure. Wearing high heeled shoes can cause the calf muscle to shorten which also stresses the Achilles tendon.
Symptoms of Achilles tendonitis
Whenever you experience the following symptoms, stop what you are doing and investigate before continuing to avoid causing more damage to the tendon:
Pain, swelling, and stiffness in the back of the heel that continues even after resting
Pain and swelling in the heel and calf that gets worse with even minor exercise
If you continue stressing the tendon, it can tear or even completely break, requiring surgery to reattach.
Treatment for Achilles tendonitis includes the following:
Resting—Stop performing any activities that are making your symptoms worsen.
Icing—Pain and inflammation can be greatly reduced by applying ice to the heel area and calf for ten minutes, several times a day.
Physical therapy exercises—Stretching exercises for the calf muscle can help ease Achilles tendon problems.
Wear properly-fitted shoes with custom orthotics—Your podiatrist can do a computerized gait analysis to make sure you are wearing properly-fitted shoes with the correct orthotic inserts.
If you are suffering from Achilles tendon problems, consult with the foot doctors at Foot and Ankle Center of Fort Lee, LLC. Our team of board-certified podiatrists includes Greg Khaimov, DPM, FACFAS, Daniel Pollack, DPM, FACFAS, Walter Majdanski, DPM, AACFAS, Yakov Haimof, DPM, Mathew Yagudayev, DPM, AACFAS, and Kevin Jeong, DPM. The center offers convenient locations in Fort Lee NJ, Ringwood NJ, Flushing Queens NY, Woodhaven NY, Brooklyn NY, and Forest Hills NY. Contact us at (201) 363-9844 and schedule an appointment today!
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Egg prices are set for an uptick in the coming months owing to climate related disasters affecting production, says Daybreak Farms, northwest B.C.’s biggest egg producers.
Kieran Christison, manager of Daybreak Farms, said while the price will go up by 10 cents for a dozen eggs early next year, the price of eggs will continue to escalate owing to increased feed and packaging (egg carton) prices.
The increase follows two recent hikes of 14 cents and 7 cents. The cost of egg cartons went up 50 per cent, due to difficulty in procuring material like pulp to make these, she said.
The egg industry is a supply-managed industry regulated by the BC Egg Marketing Board which is in turn regulated by the Egg Farmers of Canada. These boards set a price on how much it costs to produce a dozen eggs to ensure that each farmer is getting a fair amount. The feed costs are incorporated in to the cost of production.
“So the farmers will always get a fair market price and if the feed prices go up, then the egg prices go up as well,” she explained.
This year following the summer heat wave, feed prices went up by $200 t0 $250 per tonne. Daybreak Farms typically uses 36 tonnes of feed per month for their poultry, making it a “significant” increase in cost for a small scale producer.
“If you don’t have good feed, you don’t have happy chickens and they’re not going to be laying good eggs. So it definitely starts with the feed,” said Christison.
Daybreak Farms procures its grains from a granary in Prince Rupert which was also affected by the supply shortage owing to the lower harvest volumes in the Prairies.
The heat wave, drought, and wildfires affected the crop production in Alberta and Saskatchewan from where most granaries get their supply.
With lower volumes of harvest and a consistently high demand, the price of grain shot up significantly, she said.
“So we’ve had to switch up some ingredients in the feed because of this drought,” she said, adding Daybreak Farms pivoted to feeding the birds corn instead of wheat.
To add to it, Daybreak also lost two per cent of their total production during the heat wave.
“We have about 40,000 birds, so any loss is never good.”
“While the weather is hot people think about hitting the beach but we don’t really think about what kind of impact it has on our food production,” she said.
Then came the floods that isolated the Lower Mainland from the rest of the province. For over two weeks grocery stores in northern B.C. reported low stock with panic-buying further exacerbating the issue.
With nearly 80 per cent of the egg industry based out of Abbotsford and Chilliwack, egg supply was also disrupted.
“A lot of of eggs that usually would be going out to the rest of the province are now either underwater or they are surrounded by water,” Christison said.
And while the big producers pivoted to getting in egg supplies for the province from their sister companies in Calgary during this time, that was still limited to certain areas.
For instance, in the northwest, the supply came as far as Prince George and eggs weren’t getting supplied west of Prince George, she said.
“We kind of took it upon ourselves to contact stores along Highway 16, just to get eggs on to the shelf and to get some food into the stores,” Christison said.
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- According to a recent International Labour Organization report titled “World Social Protection Report 2020–22,” 4.1 billion people worldwide live without any type of social safety net.
- The pandemic response was unequal and insufficient, according to the report. As a result, Covid-19 has emphasised the significance of establishing universal social protection.
- The International Labour Organization (ILO) is a United Nations specialized agency. It is the only UN agency that is divided into three parts. It brings together 187 member states’ governments, companies, and employees to define labour standards, develop laws, and implement programs that promote decent work for all women and men.
- Covid-19 has worsened pervasive issues like high levels of economic instability, chronic poverty, rising inequality, widespread informality, and a shaky social compact.
- In the framework of COVID-19, the World Social Protection Report presents a worldwide review of progress made around the world in extending social protection and creating rights-based social protection systems during the last decade.
- Access to health care and economic security measures, particularly in relation to old age, unemployment, sickness, disability, job injury, maternity, or the loss of a family’s primary earner, as well as additional help for families with children.
- The International Labour Organization has released the World Social Protection Report (ILO).
- The pandemic is thought to have raised the number of children living in low-income families by more than 142 million, increasing the total to about 725 million.
- A billion people were living in poverty, with no social safety net in place.
Only 46.9% of the global population received at least one form of social protection in 2020.
- Only 26.4 percent of youngsters in the world receive social assistance.
In other regions, effective social protection is very low: 18 percent in Asia and the Pacific, 15.4% in the Arab States, and 12.6% in Africa.
- National spending on social protection for children is only 1.1 percent of GDP on average, compared to 7% of GDP on pensions.
- Steps Taken by Indian Government to Provide Social Security Benefits:
- Pradhan Mantri Jan Aarogya Yojana (PM-JAY)
- National Health Policy 2017
- Social Security Code 2020
- Pradhan Mantri Shram Yogi Maan-dhan (PM-SYM)
- Atmanirbhar Bharat Abhiyan
- PM Garib Kalyan Ann Yojana (PMGKAY)
- One Nation One Ration Card
- Atmanirbhar Bharat Rozgar Yojana
- Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA)
- Increased population coverage has made significant progress. However, there are still impediments to healthcare access in the form of: out-of-pocket costs for health services, and lack of insurance coverage. Physical distance, health-care quality and acceptability, long wait times, opportunity costs such as lost work time, and so on.
- The cornerstone of a human-centered approach to achieving social justice is establishing universal social protection and attaining the human right to social security for all.
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“[September 19, 2016] is the first time the United Nations General Assembly has called for a summit at the Heads of State and Government level on large movements of refugees and migrants and it is a historic opportunity to come up with a blueprint for a better international response. It is a watershed moment to strengthen governance of international migration and a unique opportunity for creating a more responsible, predictable system for responding to large movements of refugees and migrants.”
I recently read the New York Times article by Nicholas Kristof entitled, “Would you Save a Jew From the Nazis?”
This question challenged me in terms of what it takes to face such a crisis.
Would I save a Jew from the Nazis—or, for example, would I go out of my way to save anyone?
In my younger days, I wouldn’t have hesitated. Having read many memoirs of those who are today revered in Israel as Righteous Among the Nations, I was familiar with the efforts of many in the Nazi era who saved Jews and I would easily consider myself among the righteous.
Today however, I’m more realistic about who I am and truth be told, even though we are facing an astronomical refugee crisis of our own, I can’t answer whether I would save a Jew—or a Syrian Refugee, or an illegal Mexican or a Muslim. Or anyone—from anybody, including from our own government.
Today I am able to admit to myself that I really don’t know what I would do if I were faced with the moral question of whether I would save someone.
Many of those who did save Jews from the Nazis lost their own lives for their decisions. Would I run the risk of being killed myself? It’s easy to say yes, after all, I’m old, I’m going to die anyway. But I have never been faced with such a decision and really don’t know how my morals or character or ethics—or even my fears—would play out in extremis.
I only know what I have done in the past and I only know what I “say” I would do under such circumstances in the future—not what I would actually do.
However, with the world currently facing the largest immigrant/migrant crisis of modern times, maybe we will all be faced with this question soon.
What would you do?
Would you open up a bedroom and let an entire family of four move in?
Would you pay for everything. Everything?
Would you struggle with learning another language so that you could talk to those you are trying to help or would you expect them to learn yours?
Would you do their laundry, give them more clothes and prepare their meals?
Would you trust them to be in your house while you were gone at work all day?
Would you disapprove of how they talked to or how they disciplined—or didn’t discipline—their children?
Would you be offended by how they smelled, walked or behaved?
Would you be unable to accept the fact that your experience didn’t match your expectations?
Would you be uncomfortable knowing that what you ended up with was a bunch of people in your house who were too traumatized to feel anything, let alone feeling grateful?
Would you even think about all of these variables?
Or would you leave it all to the United Nations Commission of Refugees placement that is meeting today.
“On September 19, 2016 the United Nations General Assembly will conduct a day-long summit discussing “large movement of refugees and migrants” and the opportunity to develop a plan for a better international response.”
The truth is, more people will wait for the government to do something than will do something themselves.
Maybe this is a thought that we should reflect upon as world leaders gather in New York to discuss the current refugee crisis:
“In the last great refugee crisis, in the 1930s and ’40s, the United States denied visas to most Jews. We feared the economic burden and worried that their ranks might include spies. It was the Nazis who committed genocide, but the U.S. and other countries also bear moral responsibility for refusing to help desperate people.”
Maybe I should rethink the crowded bedroom, foreign language and foreign food issues I have raised.
Maybe I should make my decision about whether I would save a refugee based on one simple thing.
Would I be able to look at myself in the mirror if I waited for a governmental behemoth to make a decision about those in need while I failed to do, what I knew in my heart, needed to be done?
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Terrorism: The Ultimate in Insider Trading
A Charles Sturt University (CSU) researcher says that what happens to financial markets after a terrorist attack, and how terrorists make money from these market movements, is illustrated by the suspicious trading that occurred immediately before the successful attacks on New York, Madrid and London.
Dr Hugh McDermott, senior lecturer in law enforcement at the CSU Australian Graduate School of Policing in Manly, says terrorists make money by speculating on the markets.
“When terrorists have ‘inside information’ about an imminent attack, they purchase financial derivatives before the attack and make millions from the subsequent market movements.
“Global financial markets reacted swiftly to the news of the terrorist attacks on New York (2001), Madrid (2004) and London (2005), with a general flight to quality. Gold, bonds and defence stock strengthened and investors flocked to highly liquid, developed markets.
“In contrast, less mature markets suffer as do stocks such as reinsurance and aviation. American Airlines’ share price dropped 39 per cent after the 9/11 attacks and United Airlines dropped 42 per cent. Even a novice trader can see the windfall that could be achieved in shorting these stocks before a terrorist attack.”
Dr McDermott, a former senior manager (Major Fraud and International Enforcement) with the Australian Securities and Investment Commission (ASIC), notes that the German Stock Market Commission reported that in the days before 9/11, derivatives traded on underwriter Munchener Ruck were twice normal volumes. Munchener Ruck’s share price dropped 22 per cent after the attacks.
On 7 September 2001, the number of ‘put options’* on British Airways was four times normal volumes. British Airways shares dropped 42 per cent over the following week.
Between 6-7 September, 4 744 put options were bought on United Airlines, six times the normal volumes. Assuming that 4 000 of these options were bought by terrorists with advance knowledge of the imminent attacks, these ‘insiders’ would have profited by almost $5 million.
On 10 September, 4 516 put options were bought on American Airlines, 285 times normal volumes. Assuming that 4 000 of these options were purchased by ‘terrorist insiders’, they would have netted a gain of about $4 million.
“Financial stocks also declined after the attacks due to the disruption to trading and the operation of the financial system. The World Trade Centre was the nerve centre of the global financial system, so the attacks were a major disruption to business. Seventy four per cent of the civilian deaths in the attacks were people employed in the financial industry, and many investment banks had head offices in or around the World Trade Centre.”
Morgan Stanley occupied 22 floors of the World Trade Centre and was severely affected by the attacks. Trading of put options on Morgan Stanley stock averaged 27 contracts per day before 6 September, but from 6 – 10 September, 2 157 ‘October $45 put options’ were purchased. Morgan Stanley’s share price fell from US$48.90 to US$42.50 in the aftermath of the attacks. Assuming that 2 000 of these contracts were bought with knowledge of the approaching attacks, these purchasers could have profited by at least $1.2 million.
Merrill Lynch had headquarters near the Twin Towers and averaged 252 contracts per day before 6 September. The period 5-10 September saw 12 215 ‘October $45 put options’ bought. When trading resumed after the attacks, Merrill Lynch’s shares fell from US$46.88 to US$41.50. Assuming that 11 000 option contracts were bought by ‘terrorist insiders’ their profit would have been about $5.5 million.
The Most Important Insider Trading Crime Ever
The International Organisation of Securities Commissions has stated that the financial manoeuvres that had taken place in the days prior to 9/11 amounted to several hundred million dollars, constituting
“…the most important crime of insider trading ever committed”.
Massive market irregularities in the days preceding the attacks delivered huge profits to ‘someone, somewhere’. However, tracing these profits to terrorist insiders has allegedly proved futile.
The US government’s 9/11 Commission Report stated that the
“…investigation has found no evidence that anyone with advance knowledge of the terrorist attacks profited through securities transactions”.
The report puts the irregularities down to a general downturn in the airline industry and the release of a newsletter from a broker the weekend before the attacks which downgraded airline stock.
Dr McDermott strongly disagrees with this finding:
“This seems implausible, and this explanation overlooks some important facts. Short selling was up 11 per cent on airlines due to the global downturn following the ‘dot com bust’, but it was up around 40 per cent on United and American Airlines. Surges in call options on gold and oil were also not explained.
“The 9/11 Commission Report has been widely criticised, and academic quantitative studies have confirmed that there is evidence of unusual option market activity in the days leading up to 9/11 that is consistent with investors trading on advance knowledge of the attacks.”
New protective collaborations
Dr McDermott argues that while ‘terrorist insiders’ may be elusive after the fact, law enforcement can take advantage of market movements as a source of financial intelligence to track terrorists and forecast attacks.
“When it comes to assessing risk, the markets never lie. Spikes in the trading of put options on infrastructure stocks could indicate a heightened risk of a terrorist attack on critical infrastructure. Unexplained spikes in trading on commodities could indicate a heightened risk of a bio-terrorist attack.
“While this information in isolation isn’t sufficient to counter an attack, it could add a critical piece to the intelligence puzzle about the imminence of planned terrorist violence.”
Dr McDermott notes that in its new market supervision role, ASIC monitors for unusual trading patterns to detect insider trading offences under the Corporations Act 2001, but these capabilities could be leveraged to detect potential terrorist insiders.
“These types of irregular trading patterns could be used as a ‘seismograph’ to indicate that a terrorist attack may be about to occur. By working with Australia’s counter-terrorism agencies, ASIC could provide critical information to law enforcement teams charged with fighting extremists.
“Combining the specialist skill of market operators with that of law enforcement will provide another element to protect our society.”
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What Are the Myths Concerning Website Design?
Are you currently having a business? Planning to designing a web site for this? It’s true, you have taken the ideal decision. A business is incomplete without the web site. In the current world designing a website has gotten simpler. It seems that designing a website is quite straightforward, but it is not the truth actually. The designers that are working must understand various abilities and skill to excel in the industry of web designing and development.
However there’s been some myths related to website design. Let’s get through a number of them so that you can undergo the website as fast as possible.
Everyone Can Design a Website
Together with the widespread use of WordPress, things have become simpler and at the grasp of every alternate person. Now anyone can make a website. There are lots of tools that help to achieve that. To make the website efficient one needs to understand the right abilities to design a website. If that’s the case, you can hire a web site design company because your insufficient ideas wouldn’t help in producing a website. However, as I told earlier, everyone can’t design the website. With just the usage of WordPress, it is not feasible to get an attractive website for your small business.
Designers Can Be Obliged to Assist
The majority of the folks have the view that if a corporate Website Design company takes the job they should necessarily offer work. They’re also eligible to keep the customers informed every moment and every moment. Where that is clear that the customers are spending their hard earned money, it is also true that the designers want time to make something fascinating. Yes, you can hire the committed website designers, but they are not always obliged to help you.
Programs and Responsiveness Is Much Much
Another wrong notion is that cellular and responsiveness is the same. The fact is very opposite. Responsiveness is the ability of the website to be managed by any device and any platform whereas programs are specifically made for the tablets and cellular devices. Thus, it is clear that program designing and responsive website designing is not the same.
Don’t Keep Space
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“If Picasso were alive today,” Marc Blondeau, a well-known art dealer and former head of Sotheby’s France, told Vanity Fair in 2016, “he would be one of the ten wealthiest men in the world.” No other artist in the world has the type of cache and head-turning energy as Pablo Picasso. Which is why when news broke that a new museum will house the world's largest Picasso collection, people immediately took notice. It was recently reported in The Art Newspaper that Picasso’s stepdaughter, Catherine Hutin-Blay, is planning to open a museum dedicated to Picasso and his second (and final) wife, Jacqueline Roque. Aptly named Musée Jacqueline et Pablo Picasso, the venue will house over 1,000 paintings (in addition to drawings, sculptures, ceramics, painted plates, and photographs) that are dated between 1952 and 1973—the years the couple were together, until Picasso's death in April 1973.
Hutin-Blay, who was the only child the couple had, inherited over 2,000 works by the titan of 20th-century art, after her mother's death in 1986. For years, Picasso's stepdaughter had intentions to build a museum to house the great artist's work. Yet, much like the tumultuous life Picasso led, the deed to his art and legal battles that ensued after his death have caused serious issues and schisms within the family (Picasso left no will). Finally, however, it appears Hutin-Blay will follow through on her dreams of exhibiting the work Picasso made while living and married to her mother. The location of the museum will be in an old château in Aix-en-Provence, not far from where her parents are buried.
It's not merely that this will be the largest Picasso collection in the world that makes this news so exciting, but that many of the works have never been on public display before. Not only was Picasso a well-documented hoarder, but he despised departing with his paintings, as he felt a work of art was never complete. At the turn of the century, when Picasso was a rising star in the Parisian avant-garde scene but struggling to make ends meet, he would often be forced to sell his work for several hundred francs, pennies to the value they eventually amassed. Selling his work, during any time of his career, was by far his least favorite aspect of art. The art critic Miles J. Unger explained this in his forthcoming book, Picasso and the Painting That Shocked the World (Simon & Schuster, March 2018), through the experience of Fernande Olivier, Picasso's girlfriend from 1905 through 1912. "'Pablo can't bear to sell works he considers unfinished,' Fernande noted, going on to reveal that, according to him, 'a painting is never finished, something could always be added. He resigns himself to parting with his pictures because he's forced to, as he wouldn't have the materials to work with, but he always complains about it and feels resentful for days afterwards.'" As a result, when the artist gained fame and wealth, and money no longer became a concern, he simply would not relinquish some of his work. It is because of this fact that many of the pieces set to be displayed have never been viewed by the public. As Janie Cohen, a Picasso expert and director of the Fleming Museum of Art at the University of Vermont, explained to The Art Newspaper, "Most of the works have been neither previously exhibited nor published. These are works that remained with the artist throughout his life."
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Back in 2014 we were fortunate in securing a National Heritage Lottery Fund award as part of their Collecting Cultures project. This gave us funding to connect and support museum collections throughout the county of Wiltshire in a variety of ways. We could add to collections, perhaps filling gaps where creativity was unrepresented, provide conservation, training and support for museum staff and volunteers and generally connect with our museum network in a way that would build strong links for the future. We hoped to create a legacy that would reflect the creative influence of our county.
The journey has taken five years to complete and we have recently submitted our final evaluation and report to mark the journey’s end. And what a journey it has been; we have learnt so much and connected with so many different people and organisations along the way, it has been an absolute pleasure to be part of it.
Our focus has been primarily on the creators who have associations with our county and the chart below will give an indication of the mediums represented and objects subsequently purchased.
It would have been easy to concentrate on fine artists alone, but we quickly realised that there were many different creative industries within the county, so we tried to represent as many as possible. Generally, the work purchased reflected the twentieth century and mid-century design in particular. It was a time of great change as WWII ended and new ideas about art and design began to emerge, some of our objects purchased certainly reflect those changes. The whole project has been supported by accredited Wiltshire museums and we need to especially thank Salisbury Museum, Swindon Museum and Art Gallery, and Chippenham Museum, all supported by a range of organisations and individuals associated with the creative industries and museum service.
Many of our purchases were made direct from the makers and this has led to detailed background knowledge and provenance to accompany the objects, as well as developing strong ongoing relationships that will lead, in some instances, to the deposit of an artist’s archive at the Wiltshire and Swindon History Centre. These archives will be available to all for further study. For some more expensive items, the purchase became a joint effort as partners applied for matched funding from larger organisations, making such additions to collections possible.
Inspired by and supporting this project a wide range of activities and events have been delivered increasing access to, knowledge of and participation in heritage. These have been enjoyed by over 47,000 participants. A mapping project was produced to help museums work together, supporting purchases and collecting policies so there is less overlap and more efficient working. 105 individuals have attended a series of training courses for museum staff and volunteers, covering a variety of topics that will help make their own museums and heritage organisations as sustainable as possible. Exhibitions have been held across the county highlighting newly acquired material and encouraging responses from the audiences and other artists and creators.
This wide-ranging project created the landscape for other activities to grow, raising the profile of creatives across the county and it has been wonderful to focus on this type of contemporary art and give it recognition. Many makers enjoyed the new-found connection with heritage and were inspired to create new works.
Please allow me an indulgence to choose my favourite object purchased during the project; this is a painting by Wilfred Gabriel de Glehn of the countryside surrounding Stratford Tony, where he lived. He was a painter previously unrepresented in a main collection in Wiltshire and his impressionistic work is an important addition. His association and friendship with John Singer Sargent resulted in many painting trips abroad, especially to France and Italy, where they were also accompanied by de Glehn’s wife, Jane Emmet. The painting is now part of the collection at Salisbury Museum and I hope that we can add more works in the future by this accomplished artist.
We are fortunate to have had such a unique opportunity to connect with each other in this way and are so pleased that we have been able to put new collecting practices in place to reflect the legacy of the project. The work does not stop here, it is the start of so much more and we look forward to showing you future collections and acquisitions that reflect the creativity of the county and its people.
(*or what was held to be The Truth in the Middle Ages)
At the summer solstice, Stonehenge falls under the spotlight: in the solar sense and in the cultural sense. People all over the world find it fascinating and are reminded to ponder it when the sun is at its highest. Much of the appeal of Stonehenge may be attributed to its encompassing aura of mystery, its air of mind-bending antiquity. There is much about it we don’t understand, despite the advances made by ingenious researchers, but we are not the first generations to try to account for Stonehenge. So what did our forebears believe?
According to a twelfth-century author called Geoffrey of Monmouth, the ancient stone circle now known as Stonehenge was originally brought to mount Killarus in Ireland from Africa by a group of giants. It was known then as the Giants’ Dance and had healing properties. The stones came to Wiltshire with the help of a very young Merlin, at the behest of King Arthur’s uncle, Aurelius Ambrosius, to be reconstructed as a memorial to a group of Britons massacred during the reign of the malicious usurper, Vortigern. Some decades later the structure renamed Stonehenge becomes the final resting place of Uther Pendragon.
I studied this story while writing my PhD about an illustrated medieval manuscript containing an abridged version of Wace’s Anglo-Norman French translation of Geoffrey’s history: La Roman de Brut. Even in its shortened form, the episode in which the child Merlin guides the reconstruction of Stonehenge celebrates brains over brawn, great power despite littleness of stature:
“They grasped the stones behind, in front and sideways: they pushed and thrust them hard and shook them hard, but however much force they used, they could not find a solution. ‘Rise’ said Merlin, ‘you will so no more by force. Now you shall see how knowledge and skill are better than bodily strength.’ Then he stepped forward and stopped. He looked around, his lips moving like a man saying his prayers. I do not know if he said a prayer or not. Then he called the Britons back. ‘Come here,’ he said, ‘come! Now you can handle the stones and carry them into your ships.’ As Merlin instructed, as he devised and told them, the Britons took the stones, carried them to the ships and placed them inside. They brought them to England and carried them to Amesbury, into the fields nearby.” – Based on Judith Weiss’ 2002 translation of Wace’s Roman de Brut
To the medieval mind, the stone circle was a monument to human mastery of nature, as well as to the fallen Britons. Still today we measure ourselves by the power of our prehistoric ancestors to have created it. I recently created a linocut of the child Merlin guiding the reconstruction of Stonehenge. Both Geoffrey of Monmouth and Wace focus on the dismantling of the stones in Ireland, which is also the moment illustrated in the manuscript I worked on for my PhD. Instead, I depicted the moment when that iconic plain was undergoing its momentous transformation.
Museum and archive collections are, in their very nature, eclectic. They often have roots in one person’s fascination with the past and they develop and grow much like a tree putting out roots. They are often dependent on donations, and collecting policies within museums are developed to provide some structure to this form of collecting, making sure that very valuable storage space is used to advantage and the best are represented. It is not that often that choices can be made by museum and archive staff about what to purchase, what gaps to fill and who to represent.
The Heritage Lottery Funded Creative Wiltshire project has aimed to facilitate just that. With a carefully prepared bid back in 2014 we were successful in achieving funding to add to some of our Wiltshire collections and with careful consideration we have purchased items that aim to fill gaps, often representing a new creator with a strong Wiltshire connection. We are now reaching the end of this project and our final exhibition at Salisbury Museum will show off some of our recent purchases.
This project is not just about the purchases, it is also about offering training and development to volunteers and staff associated with museums within the county, as well as education workshops, a tool kit for teachers and other events in the wider community. The exhibition at Salisbury Museum has provided a perfect opportunity to put an ‘Exhibitions Assistant Trainee’ in place, to plan, oversee and install the final exhibition with the support of the Salisbury Museum Director, Adrian Green and his team. Thank you to Emily Smith, our successful applicant, who has been able to gain great ‘hands on’ experience of all aspects of exhibition work within a museum context. We gave her a tough brief; expecting planning, curation, exhibition design, mounting of work, co-ordinating staff, borrowing and transferring of objects required from around the county and she has had a busy four months putting this in place. We thank you for your enthusiasm and we are thrilled with the results. The exhibition at Salisbury Museum has now been extended to 29th September 2019; why not pop in and see what you think? You will find work by Rex and Laurence Whistler, Howard Phipps, Nancy Nicholson, Nick Andrew, Jonathan Wylder and Wilfred Gabriel de Glehn, amongst others.
During the course of the project other exhibitions have been held at Swindon Museum and Art Gallery and Chippenham Museum and both have focused on recent acquisitions to their collections. Sophie Cummings of Swindon Museum and Art Gallery says the project has exceeded her expectations and allowed them to purchase pieces by Ken White, previously un-represented in their collection, as well as fine art by Joe Tilson, Harold Dearden, David Bent and Janet Boulton and ceramics by Katherine Pleydell-Bouverie, Patricia Volk and Sasha Wardell.
The current exhibitions at Swindon Museum and Art Gallery are well worth a visit.
An Art of the People – Ramsbury & Cricklade Potteries features work by Ivan and Kay Martin of Cricklade, and Peter Holdsworth of Ramsbury.
Out of the Box: An exhibition of paintings by David Bent
An exhibition of work by David Bent which includes geometric landscapes, intricate photographic collages and paintings as well as his aviation art and “Movement 2000” series. Stunning and inspiring work by this Swindon based artist.
Walk into the search room at the History Centre and you will notice a couple of objects not normally associated with archives – a bodice made out of maps and a bathtub.
A closer inspection reveals they are two of 17 pieces of artwork produced by students from Wiltshire College’s Chippenham campus who explored the archive and various aspects of the county’s heritage.
The exhibition of 2D and 3D work – on display in the foyer as well as the search room – is already prompting questions from visitors and is encouraging people to engage creatively with our collections.
The project came about when art and design course tutor Alyson Minkley popped into the History Centre to see whether her students could use the archive as a stimulus to creating artwork. She wanted the class to explore the concept of archiving and create pieces that reflected aspects of Wiltshire’s heritage.
We were delighted to be involved in the project as it was another way of encouraging young people to engage creatively with archives. People often think that being the heritage education officer means that my work begins and ends with helping deliver the history curriculum in schools. But archives offer so much more.
For this project I delivered a facilitated session at Wiltshire College where the students were introduced to the concept of collecting and archiving with the help of a handling collection. This was followed by a tour of the History Centre and an opportunity to see behind the scenes as well as explore the practicalities of accessing the archives.
The afternoon generated a huge range of questions and it was clear the students went away inspired. We were delighted to see many of them return to the History Centre in their own time to request documents and carry out detailed research. The result of those visits is the thought-provoking artwork on display in the foyer and search room.
The individual pieces of work explore a wide range of topics including family history, Wiltshire’s asylums and how patients with mental health problems were “treated” in the 19th century, the county’s role as a training ground for the army and its iconic chalk figures – all of which are represented in our archives and local studies collections.
Wilfrid Gabriel de Glehn has often been described as “one of England’s leading Impressionists” due to his ability to capture variations in sunlight and shadow as well as a painterly style and a feel for colour that perfectly captured his subject. He has been highlighted while researching for Creative Wiltshire, a Heritage Lottery Funded project and we discovered that we hold one of his pieces within the county; a portrait of Dr. Edwin Sloper Beaven dated 1939 and held at Dewey Museum in Warminster. (Ref. WAMDM:D4414)
However, while he was known for his portraits and received regular commissions, it is perhaps his landscapes that inform us of the man; often capturing a sense of place with huge accomplishment and care. He worked in oils or watercolours and travelled widely, so his subject matter is hugely varied and genuinely reflects his love of people and places.
In 1891 he was invited to assist in the murals for Boston library by Edwin Austin Abbey and so began his long association with America, leading to his marriage in 1904 to Jane Erin Emmet, cousin of the novelist Henry James. He also began a lifelong friendship with John Singer Sargent and the three often travelled together, painting side by side as they visited wonderful locations such as Venice, Rome, Corfu, Granada, St. Tropez and areas in the south of France along with locations closer to home, such as Hampshire, Wiltshire and Cornwall. Wilfrid and Jane settled in London, in Cheyne Walk, close to Sargent’s studio, and Wilfrid began to establish himself as a portrait painter, exhibiting at the Royal Academy and other private galleries in the early part of the 20th century.
His painting was interrupted by the First World War when he and his wife worked as orderlies in a French field hospital and this contrast with his earlier pre-war life had an impact on them both. He took time to return to painting after the war but had produced watercolour sketches during his experiences depicting patients resting in the landscape, playing cards and recuperating, and these demonstrate his eye for figures and a wonderful ability to capture a sense of place and nature.
Visits to France became part of the couple’s lifestyle; both had studied in Paris and they regularly returned to the city as well as favouring the area around Chartes, the Seine valley and Provence. Wilfrid’s portraiture work funded these summer trips to Europe and in turn fuelled his interest and love of landscape painting. Both he and Jane travelled with their artist’s tools and regularly set up their easels together to enjoy their painting. A love of the English countryside grew and Cornwall became a firm favourite, as well as Hampshire and the River Avon. A theme of castles brought de Glehn to Wardour Castle in the south of the county, and a visit to Downton led to them renting the rectory at Wilton during the 1920s and 1930s, introducing them both to the Wiltshire countryside. The rectory backed onto Wilton Park which provided de Glehn with more subject matter, and he became fascinated with the Palladian bridge spanning the River Nadder. He also painted Heale, a seventeenth century house owned by a friend and many of these paintings were shown at Wilfrid de Glehn’s exhibition at Knoedlers in 1935.
By 1941 the couple were searching for a new home, having lost Cheyne Walk, London in the Blitz and it was at this point that they bought the Manor House in Stratford Tony where they settled for the remainder of his life while still returning regularly to Provence.
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The five year Creative Wiltshire & Swindon Heritage Lottery Funded project has now been running for just over 6 months, and we’ve been thoroughly enjoying researching (with the help of volunteers) creative people who have been, and who still are, working in and being inspired by the county of Wiltshire.
We have now identified over 400 individuals, many of whom can be included in the project, and are busy actively acquiring items on behalf of the Wiltshire & Swindon History Centre, Swindon Museum & Art Gallery, and some of Wiltshire’s museums (a full list can be found under About on our Creative Wiltshire site).
Some highlights so far have been…
A set of 1930s ceramics by Katharine Pleydell-Bouverie. Katharine, of Coleshill House near Swindon and Kilmington, Warminster, was one of the founder members of the Craftsman Potters Association. She was also instrumental in setting up the Crafts Study Centre at Holbourne Museum, Bath. Her glazes are very well documented and have been a source of inspiration and study for many potters ever since.
An etching by Robin Tanner of Kington Langley, 1930. Robin was not only a unique etcher; he was also influential in bringing art and creativity to the school curriculum and environment with his pioneering work at Ivy Lane School, Chippenham, in the 1930s and later as HM Inspector of schools. | <urn:uuid:597ae670-e4ef-46d8-9503-acebcfdd0553> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://wshc.org.uk/blog/tag/Art.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571536.89/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811224716-20220812014716-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.977338 | 3,764 | 1.75 | 2 |
Guest Post by: Colibri Trader
The Commodity Channel Index (CCI), developed by Donald Lambert in the eighties, is an oscillating indicator which measures the deviation of the security’s price against its moving average (MA) and the normal deviation of the moving average. Despite the name, the CCI indicator can successfully be used with various security types like stocks, currencies and indices. As it measures the current price relative to the moving average of the price, CCI increases in value when the price is far above the its average, and decreases in value when the price is far below its average. That’s why CCI can also be used for identifying overbought and oversold conditions.
The chart above shows the CCI indicator plotted below the GBP/USD daily chart. It uses a 20-day period which a common period used with the CCI. This means that each new calculation is based on the 20 most recent days for calculating the average price of the pair. Other common periods used in conjunction with CCI are 30 and 40, which generate a less volatile indicator to price changes. The longer the periods, the less often the value of CCI will move outside -100 and +100.
Notice how the CCI remains for most of the time inside the -100 and +100 range in the chart. Lambert used a constant of 0.015 in the CCI calculation to ensure the indicator falls between this range 75% of the time. Values higher than +100 and lower than -100 are showing extreme strength or weakness in the market. The snap election announcement in the UK moved the CCI to 395, a multi-month high of the indicator for the GBP/USD chart.
The Momentum indicator is a simple technical indicator of the oscillator family, which compares the most recent closing price to a single previous closing price. It shows where the present trading price is in relation to a price in previous sessions.
The previous closing price is determined by the indicator’s setting, for example a 10-period Momentum indicator compares the present closing price with the closing price 10 periods ago.Hence, if the closing price of the most recent period is higher than n-periods ago, the value of the indicator will be positive. If the most recent closing price is lower, the Momentum indicator will be negative.
The chart above shows the Momentum indicator on the same GBP/USD pair used for previous examples, so traders can compare the difference in indicator values. The used setting is a 10-period indicator, which in this case means the recent closing price is compared to the closing price 10 days ago.
Usually, much of the price move will already happen when the indicator crosses the zero-line. False signals also appear often with the Momentum indicator. To prevent these drawbacks, it is possible to add a moving average of the indicator and to buy when the indicator crosses the MA from below, and sell when it crosses from above.
Like the CCI indicator, the Average True Range(Check out the full article on ATR) was originally developed for commodities, but is also widely used for stocks, currencies, ETFs and other securities. The ATR indicator measures the price volatility of previous highs and lows in absolute terms. The recommended ATR setting is 14-periods on a daily time-frame. Generally, the ATR will have higher values for more volatile instruments with broader price movements. Contrary, a lower ATR value means the price is moving mostly sideways. The ATR can also be used as a confirmation for bullish or bearish reversals. A growing ATR value in the beginning of a reversal might be used as a confirmation signal, as it shows rising momentum of long or short positions.
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Canada will receive more than two million doses of Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine each week until the end of August.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau confirmed Friday that that Canada will receive more than 2 million doses of Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine every week until the end of August.
“Following our shipments this month, that means we’ll have more than 9 million doses arriving in July, and another 9.1 million doses arriving in August,” Trudeau said
He also added that negotiations have also taken place for another 3 million doses of Pfizer’s vaccine to be delivered in September.
“We’ll keep working to secure shipments until everyone can get their shots. Right now, among G20 countries, Canada has the highest percentage of the population with a first shot.” he said, adding that “That’s right where we want to be – because the more people who are vaccinated, the safer we all are and the closer we all get to being through this crisis.”
This comes as Canada received its largest single shipment of Pfizer – 2.5 million doses of vaccine on Thursday.
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Cybersecurity is a major point of anxiety for any business. Data breaches can be extremely costly, not only in terms of the data compromised but also in the damage to the organization's reputation following an attack. This issue is all the more important for small to midsize businesses (SMBs) that may lack the capital to bounce back from an attack as easily as large enterprises. If you find yourself among the many professionals worried about your security, then fret not. You have many tools at your disposal and, if you know what to look out for, you can protect yourself from all sorts of malicious activity.
We recently spoke with Dr. Eric Cole, founder and CEO of cybersecurity consulting firm Secure Anchor Consulting(Opens in a new window), about cyber attacks and steps you can take to keep your SMB safe. Dr. Cole has worked in the cybersecurity industry for more than 20 years. He once was Chief Technology Officer (CTO) at security firm McAfee, and Chief Scientist and Senior Fellow for American global aerospace, defense, and security firm Lockheed Martin. Dr. Cole was also a member of the Commission on Cyber Security for the 44th President, Barack Obama. He has an upcoming book entitled, Online Danger: How to Protect Yourself and Your Loved Ones From the Evil Side of the Internet(Opens in a new window).
"SMB attacks are very widespread. The reason we don't hear about them as much is that our 'pain tolerance' has gotten so high for data breaches that smaller attacks don't make the news," Dr. Cole explained. "Imagine 10 years ago if you found out that your bank had 5,000 records stolen, you'd be freaking out. Today, if a million records get stolen, it's not newsworthy. A lot of SMBs say 'We are a smaller company, nobody's going to try to attack us' and that's just not true. Fortunately, there are still a lot of things you can do to protect yourself."
A Data-Centric View
One of the biggest takeaways from our conversation with Dr. Cole was that many breaches, even to large companies, are caused by little more than carelessness. "When you look at data breaches, the ones in news are caused because they are sloppy. Take Equifax, for example. They had a server that was accessible from the internet. They used the word 'admin' as credentials. They were behind on patches. These are all things that anyone, regardless of budget, can take care of."
Dr. Cole implores SMBs to take a data-centric view to their security. "Ask yourself, 'Why is our server accessible on the internet and why is that data so accessible?'" Businesses might not even need every one of their servers to be connected to the internet, especially if they contain information that hackers would want to sell or hold hostage.
The Power of the Individual
You can purchase and deploy as many security solutions as you want, but the truth of the matter is, the most important line of defense between your company and malicious attackers is your employees. "The adversary just needs an entry point. In most organizations, the biggest target is the individual," said Dr. Cole.
To access sensitive data, hackers will often target employees with phishing emails, making themselves appear as a manager or executive requesting information. The emails may be linked to forms that look official on the surface but are really sent back to criminals. "Criminals are operating on a much higher level these days than the 'Nigerian Prince' scam. Today, you're going to get a legitimate-looking email from your boss or co-workers that looks just like they sent it. Most users are going to click on that without thinking and that's extremely dangerous."
Training users on how to identify these attacks is crucial to minimizing them. If an executive contacts them and asks them to make a transaction that seems out of the ordinary, then check with them in person or over the phone first. "It all comes down to the message of 'think before you click.' Trusting emails at face value is about the worst thing you can do these days."
Consider Outside Help
Like any other business, the bottom line is of the utmost importance to an SMB. Unlike larger companies, however, SMBs have fewer resources so they need to focus on maximizing profits. As a result, focusing on cybersecurity often just isn't a priority. Many SMBs try to do everything in-house, often at the expense of effective security measures.
During our conversation, Dr. Cole made an analogy that summarized the unique problem that SMBs have. "A lot of us may have locks or some sort of security system in our home. Very few people, on the other hand, have their own security team. That's usually reserved for the richest among us," he said. "When something goes wrong, we usually have a third party handle it on our behalf. We call the police or some other emergency service. Many SMBs try to maintain their security operations all by themselves, and that's a problem."
Dr. Cole recommends that SMBs see themselves in the same light. Cloud services may be better equipped to handle customer information. Cloud services such as IBM/Softlayer ($9,100.00 at IBM)(Opens in a new window) offer secure data center services and may be a better choice for SMB customers than trying to do everything themselves.
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Caerphilly cheese – made in Somerset and sold in Caerphilly!
According to newspaper reports farmhouse cheese had been made in Caerphilly since the 16th century. This was made by traditional methods and eaten by the family and farm hands with any surplus being sold at market. At some stage this production seems to have largely died out possibly because, with industrialisation, and particularly the development of the coal mines, many people left the land. It is certainly true that by the late 19th century, a considerable amount of Caerphilly cheese was being produced in Somerset, Gloucester and even Glamorgan, much to the annoyance of Caerphilly residents. It was quick to mature and was, therefore, a good cheese for people to make in their villages and it was clearly in great demand and therefore fetched a good price in south Wales. It is said that it became a staple food for miners who used to take it down the mines wrapped in a cabbage leaf, and it was thought that it was a good source, not only of protein, but also helped to replace the salt and other minerals that they lost during their times underground.
Despite the concern about Caerphilly cheese being produced outside of the town, it was certainly still being produced until the second world war in various Somerset villages such as Allerton, Wedmore, Mark and Cheddar, sold at Highbridge market and then taken to be sold in South Wales. Recalling her life in Chapel Allerton, the late Mrs Sully said that “in summer cheese and butter were made every day up to the end of September. If we made Caerphilly it would go to Highbridge market. In 1928, 9p per pound was a good price for the cheese.”
When the Milk Marketing Board was set up in 1933 much of this local cheese production stopped and in 1941 when cheese rationing was introduced, Caerphilly was one of the cheeses that were no longer made, apparently, causing outrage amongst the Welsh miners who were clearly a discerning lot. In 1949 it was said that “there is a consistent demand for Caerphilly cheese. The Welsh miner was not that disposed to processed cheese in his sandwiches.” (Western Daily Mail 30 Sept. 1949) | <urn:uuid:d1c52e5e-76ac-4f80-b6a9-ef95a0eb957b> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.aalhs.co.uk/2020/11/03/caerphilly-cheese-made-in-somerset-and-sold-in-caerphilly-2/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571909.51/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813051311-20220813081311-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.99157 | 476 | 2.828125 | 3 |
- Russia’s March 2018 election will mark the arrival of the post-Putin era in Russian domestic politics.
- Following the vote, Vladimir Putin will focus on shaping the new era, in a process he views not as a search for a successor but as a transfer of power from his generation to the “Putin generation” (comprising politicians who came of age during, and have been shaped by, his rule).
- Meanwhile, the behaviour of Russia’s major political and economic players will be defined not by the president’s presence in the system but by the expectation of his departure.
- Despite widespread expectations that the regime will undergo a major transformation, it is unlikely that post-Putin Russia will be an anti-Putin Russia.
- Moscow will likely maintain its current foreign policy objectives even after Putin’s exit from the Kremlin, but without him Russia will probably be a weak international player.
When George Kennan wrote his famous “Long Telegram”, the 1946 dispatch to US secretary of state James Byrnes that laid the foundation of America’s containment policy on the Soviet Union, he mentioned Josef Stalin just three times. This was despite the fact that, at the time, the Soviet leader ran his domain like an emperor. At the height of Stalin’s power, Kennan succeeded in imagining the political behaviour of the post-Stalin Soviet Union while having no idea when the Soviet leader would leave office or who would succeed him. Can we envision Russia after the departure of Vladimir Putin with equal clarity – given that we do not know when or how he will leave, who will replace him, or in what kind of international environment the transition will take place?
This is a risky exercise at a time when Putin is set to begin another term as president, but we want to try nonetheless. While he will comfortably win the March 2018 election, his victory will mark the arrival of the post-Putin era in Russia’s domestic politics – even if, as is almost certain, he remains the supreme decision-maker in Russian foreign policy.
The paradox of 2018
The paradox of 2018 can be summarised as follows: Russia is in deep social, political, and economic crisis. In the words of Russian political scientist Yekaterina Schulmann, “today’s political machine is in a low-resources state, operating in calorie-conservation mode, preoccupied with survival rather than expansion.” But, while Russians are aware of this state of affairs, regime change is highly unlikely. There is no critical mass of people demanding radical change and, contrary to Western fantasies, Russians under the age of 25 are among the most conservative and pro-Putin groups in society. It is symptomatic of the times that, according to a recent survey, 50 percent of school-age Russian boys dream of working for the security services.
But while Russia is not on the edge of regime change, the regime is changing. The coming presidential election will mark the arrival of post-Putin Russia regardless of whether Putin remains the head of state for the next six or 16 years. This is because, following the vote, the behaviour of Russia’s major political and economic players will be defined not by Putin’s presence in the system but by the expectation of his departure.
Most Western analysts fail to see the pending arrival of the new era primarily because they assume that post-Putin Russia will be an anti-Putin Russia. It is their belief that when the refrigerator wins its war with the TV set – when the dismay caused by deteriorating living standards negates the appeal of government propaganda – the majority of the population will turn against Putin and his legacy.
Many Western observers find it difficult to understand that, for most Russians, Putin is not simply a president but the true founder of the post-Soviet Russian state. Since Russia’s annexation of Crimea in 2014, opinion polls have indicated that Russians view Putin as a historic figure rather than an elected official. His role in the public imagination is similar to that of the national liberation leaders of the 1960s and the 1970s. Therefore, his successor – whoever he or she is – will claim to defend Putin’s legacy even while intending to break from it. Reflecting on the results of a survey conducted last summer by the independent Levada Center, Andrei Kolesnikov and Denis Volkov concluded that within the Russian public, “there is no debate about Putin. Almost no one questions his legitimacy as President. He is a constant, the portrait on the wall that can no longer be taken down.”
In the 2018 election, Putin is not so much a candidate as a “prize”: the real suspense is in which of the Kremlin’s competing elite groups will be able to credibly claim to have achieved victory for him.
Shaping post-Putin Russia
Members of the Russian elite now know that the president is focused on designing post-Putin Russia – even if they have no power to influence his choices. Putin is doubtlessly aware that the absence of any vision of the country’s future without him could dramatically weaken his standing in the eyes of ordinary Russians. In our view, four factors will shape this vision.
The first of these is Putin’s belief that the country will face a hostile international environment and that its rivals will use all means at their disposal to weaken and fragment it. Therefore, he sees post-Putin Russia as Fortress Russia. To sustain its power, the Kremlin will likely maintain control of the country’s strategic industries and remain very selective in accepting inflows of foreign capital, judging the merits of large foreign investments mostly from a security perspective. The president sees post-Putin Russia as comprising a mobilisation society and a mobilisation economy in which even private companies – if they are large enough to matter – defer to the interests of the state. But Putin is also aware that the “Crimea effect” cannot be replicated, and that the legitimacy of the government and the survival of the regime will depend on its ability to satisfy the basic material needs of the population.
The second factor is Putin’s conviction that Russia has nothing to gain from imitating Western-style institutions – or, put differently, Russia should imitate what the West is doing (interfering in domestic politics) and not what it is preaching. Although many Westerners see General Valery Gerasimov’s “hybrid war” strategy as an aggressive rejection of Western-style foreign policy, Moscow regards it as merely Russia’s way of adopting Western strategies. The only difference is that, because Russia struggles to foment protest in enemy territory, it instead mobilises angry internet trolls on virtual terrain.
The third factor is that, while members of the Russian elite once perceived modernisation as centred on Western-style institutional reform, they now view it as an attempt to maintain Russia’s competitiveness in the development of new technology. As Putin stated in September 2017, “artificial intelligence is the future, not only for Russia, but for all humankind. Whoever becomes the leader in this sphere will become the ruler of the world.”
For different reasons, both liberals such as Sberbank President Herman Gref and siloviki (“men of force” from the military, security, and intelligence services) such as Sergei Chemezov, head of Rostec, subscribe to the technological turn in Russia’s view on modernisation. For liberals, technological innovation is the only way to reduce corruption and increase the efficiency of public services while avoiding an open clash with the all-powerful siloviki. For siloviki, new technologies promise not only larger military budgets but also new opportunities to exercise control over society.
Russian leaders tend to believe that they can turn Russia’s absence from the previous round of technological investment (there is no Russian analogue to Google or Alibaba) to its strategic advantage in developing the next generation of technologies – echoing the Soviet-era popular conviction that there are some advantages to backwardness. In this sense, current Russian decision-makers think and act in the best tradition of Soviet progressivist thinking of the 1920s and the 1960s.
The fourth factor is Putin’s conviction that Russia needs not a single successor – as it did under Boris Yeltsin – but a successor generation. He sees the coming transition as a transfer of power from his generation to the “Putin generation”, comprising politicians who came of age during, and have been shaped by, Putin’s rule.
Vladimir Putin participates in the 2017 Direct Line TV programme (Kremlin, http://bit.ly/2rl9FDE, Attribution 4.0 International, http://bit.ly/1GZ2EOO)
According to a study Russkii Reporter conducted in late 2011, Putin recruited the Russian elite from a tiny pool of candidates in the first decade of his rule. The majority of these figures graduated from either of just two universities, while none of the occupants of the top 300 government positions came from Russia’s far east. The most important predictor of membership of this elite circle is to have known Putin before he became president. In short, a circle of friends has governed Russia for the last 18 years. This is not a meritocratic system in any sense: most of these people did not have careers that would have prepared them for their current roles, but have simply ended up in the ruling group because of their personal loyalty to the leader. While there are no signs that the president is planning to disempower his circle of friends, he intends to open the system to increase its chances of survival. In this, the regime needs a group of professional loyalists and a system that can train and promote them.
The fast promotion of the sons and daughters of senior figures in the elite is critical to the president’s plans for post-Putin Russia. There has been a major change in the behaviour and career trajectories of leaders-in-waiting in the last few years: if the sons and daughters of the Yeltsin-era elite tended to study and work abroad, those of the current elite often study in the West but usually work in Russia – many of them for the state. Western sanctions on Russia appear to have accelerated rather than initiated this shift.
The relatives of the leading Putin-era siloviki are extending their influence primarily in the financial sphere. For example, Dmitry Patrushev – son of Nikolai Patrushev, secretary of the Security Council of Russia and former head of the Federal Security Service (FSB) – is in charge of Russian Agricultural Bank, Russia’s sixth-largest bank (he is also rumoured to be joining the board of the Russian Railroad Company). Denis Bortnikov, son of FSB head Alexander Bortnikov, is a member of the board of VTB Bank North-West. Pyotr Fradkov – son of Mikhail Fradkov, a former prime minister and head of Russia’s foreign intelligence service – is director general of the Russian Export Centre. Sergei Ivanov Jr, son of a former head of the presidential administration, is prewsident of Arosa. Stanislav Chemezov, son of Sergei Chemezov, is the head of the powerful Interbusiness Group. The rise to power of Andrei Turchak, the new general secretary of United Russia, also fits with this trend.
At the same time, Putin is attempting to open the system to leaders who have excelled in a more meritocratic environment. Shaping the new generation of loyal technocrats appears to be the primary task of the new deputy head of the presidential administration, Sergei Kiriyenko. Putin’s strategy is to meet the expectations of political change among the Russian middle class by empowering a new generation of leaders. In the last two months, the Russian government has appointed nine young politicians as regional governors. The defining characteristic of a member of Putin’s successor generation is a resemblance to Austrian writer Robert Musil’s “man without qualities”. He or she is best described as an expert in logistics with no identifiable political convictions or loyalty to a constituency. Under its emerging system, Russia would be a country governed by McKinsey consultants who are loyal to Putin and will preserve his policies once he is gone.
Post-Putin Russia has begun to arrive not only because the president is preoccupied with his vision for it; some key members of the Russian elite have also started preparing for the realities of this new era. They have begun to transform the access to the president that is their major source of power into a political currency that will retain its value after Putin leaves the Kremlin. Some of the most high-profile scandals of recent times seem to have been designed with post-Putin Russia in mind. These include the trial of former economy minister Alexei Ulyukaev – engineered by Igor Sechin, the powerful head of Rosneft – and Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov’s feuerwerk of unconventional political activity. Members of the elite are vying with one another to show how they might wield power in the new era. Sechin demonstrated his influence on the security agencies and the judicial system by punishing Ulyukaev for his opposition to Rosneft’s takeover of Bashneft. Kadyrov displayed his capacity to mobilise Muslims in Russia by organising a spontaneous protest in Moscow against the persecution of Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar (he likely chose this case to show his political relevance because the persecutors in question are Buddhists, not Christians).
When members of the Yeltsin-era elite were preparing for an era under a new president, they preferred to look for guarantees of influence outside Russia, mainly in the West – selling shares to major Western companies and developing personal relationships with influential Western politicians. In their view, this was the best insurance against instability at home. Current members of the elite are different. Looking for guarantees abroad could prove valuable once Putin has left the presidency, but while he is still around it is seen as disloyal. As such, members of the elite focus on efforts to build or reinforce domestic political constituencies and coalitions. The shift in opposition leader Alexei Navalny’s political strategy is one more demonstration of the arrival of post-Putin Russia. Rather than simply expose the corruption of the regime – as he has done with popular videos targeting Vladimir Yakunin, Dmitry Medvedev, and, more recently, Sergei Prikhodko – Navalny is now working to show the public that Putin’s expected successors are unfit to govern the country. By taking the considerable personal risk of opposing Putin, Navalny wants to make clear to voters that only he has the profile of a national leader and is capable of serving as the next president. In short, after the 2018 election, Russians will already be living in the post-Putin era.
Continuity in Russian foreign policy
Despite these significant domestic changes, Putin’s position as the ultimate decision-maker on foreign policy will ensure that Russia continues its aggressive efforts to secure a role as a global power. In this, a perceived need to counter American influence will be the dominant rationale of Russian foreign policy.
There will be no decisive breakthrough in the negotiations on the conflict in Ukraine’s Donbas region under Putin – even if Moscow allows the talks to make some progress between the election and the football World Cup, scheduled to take place in Russia in summer 2018. Moscow is intent on holding a well-organised World Cup that no country sees fit to boycott, partly because the International Olympic Committee’s decision to exclude the Russian flag from the Winter Games emphasised the risk of international isolation Russia faces. As a consequence, in the first half of 2018 Russia will try to avoid any actions that could provoke a hostile international response.
But Russian forces will remain active in Syria despite Putin’s December 2017 announcement of their partial withdrawal from the country. Russia’s influence in the Middle East will continue to increase – at the expense of the United States. Moscow will also try to use the crisis in relations between Turkey and the West to ensure that the country becomes “NINO” (NATO in name only).
US-Russia relations will remain frosty. The Kremlin will continue to be openly hostile to the US while being respectful and constrained in its criticism of Donald Trump. Moscow fears further US sanctions, but also hopes that some international actors will see Congress’s latest round of sanctions as having gone too far, pushing them to limit their exposure to the volatility of American politics. (They may do so by creating parallel institutions that could reduce the West’s control of global financial infrastructure, as China did with its establishment of the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank.)
In attempting to lift at least some of the sanctions imposed in response to its annexation of Crimea in 2014, Moscow will shift its focus from the US to Europe. Rightly perceiving the rise to power of Russia-friendly parties in some European countries, the growing tensions between some European Union member states, and Britain’s exit from the EU as providing an opportunity, Russia will try to split the EU from the US and EU countries from one another. Russia’s chances of securing changes to the sanctions regime in 2018 should not be underestimated, particularly if Moscow makes concessions on the conflict in eastern Ukraine.
The emerging Moscow-Beijing strategic alliance is the most significant outcome of the current crisis of the relationship between Russia and the West. Events in 2018 will demonstrate the Kremlin’s commitment to linking its economic future to China and trying to manage the power imbalance in the partnership by investing in military capabilities and maintaining a high international profile. In the words of analyst Artyom Lukin, “Russia aspires to be the main security and diplomatic broker in Eurasia while leaving China with the role of the economic leader”. Russians sometimes draw parallels between the Russia-China relationship and the Franco-German alliance, claiming that Russia, like France, is a security-minded global power while China, like Germany, is an economic superpower reluctant to engage in military operations. There are evident flaws in this analogy, but Russians prefer to ignore them. Putin has chosen to view China as geopolitical ally rather than a competitor. Russians are generally clear-sighted about the far-reaching ambitions reflected in China’s Belt and Road Initiative, but do not wish to resist it.
In the coming years, the major challenge in policymaking on Russia will be that, while the arrival of the post-Putin era will reshape Russia’s domestic politics, it will do little to curb the country’s aggressive behaviour as an international actor. Moscow will likely maintain its current foreign policy objectives even after Putin’s eventual exit from the Kremlin. But without him Russia will probably be a weak international player: it is Putin rather than the Russian state that has regained the status of a great power.
About the authors
Ivan Krastev is chairman of the Centre for Liberal Strategies, permanent fellow at IWM Vienna, and a founding board member of ECFR. Gleb Pavlovsky is president of the Russia Institute.
The publication was made possible with funding from the Robert Bosch Stiftung.
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Staff Working Paper No. 759
By James Brugler, Oliver Linton, Joseph Noss and Lucas Pedace
This paper uses transaction data to estimate how single stock circuit breakers on the London Stock Exchange affect other stocks that remain in continuous trading. This ‘spillover’ effect is estimated by calculating the effect of a trading halt on the market quality of stocks that remain in continuous trading and comparing this with the effect of a stock whose absolute returns are of a magnitude nearly sufficient to trigger a trading halt but do not do so. Market quality is measured using a combination of trading costs, volatility and volume. We find that circuit breakers lead to a significant improvement in the liquidity, and reduction in the volatility, of stocks that remain in continuous trading. This might suggest that - at least over the period covered by our data - single stock circuit breakers play an important role in reducing the spillover of poor market quality across stocks. | <urn:uuid:e51c01c1-33b3-4f42-b226-3ce771272c65> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.bankofengland.co.uk/working-paper/2018/the-cross-sectional-spillovers-of-single-stock-circuit-breakers | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571536.89/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811224716-20220812014716-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.930387 | 192 | 2.203125 | 2 |
Is the coronavirus an act of God? Faith leaders debate tough questions amid pandemic
Omar Ricci knew the title of his khutbah, or sermon, at the Islamic Center of Southern California would catch some people off guard. “Thank God for the coronavirus,” read the headline, which made more than one Muslim in the audience do a double-take.
When he spoke, Ricci explained what he meant: Thank God for this reminder that we are not in control and must always be dependent on God. Thank God for this reminder that we should be grateful for all things – for groceries, toilet paper, good health. Thank God for reminding us life is fragile, and “we had best appreciate the miracle and blessing that God has given us in creating us as souls.”
As a spokesperson for the ICSC, home to one of the oldest and most prominent mosques in the USA, Ricci is one of many faith leaders around the world helping their congregations navigate the uncertainty surrounding coronavirus, which has killed more than 66,000 worldwide, infected more than 1.2 million and crippled the global economy.
As church services go viral and newsletters promising of God’s goodness throughout this tragedy populate inboxes, questions about whether God created coronavirus – or if it’s God’s will for the virus to flourish or if it was sent as some sort of punishment – abound. Many faith leaders say this is not a punishment, and they challenge their followers to find God even in suffering.
From Ricci’s perspective, coronavirus is not only a test of faith but a “solidifying agent of faith,” he says. “When you’re in difficult times, that’s when you actually get to practice faith.”
He points to the 67th chapter of the Quran, verse 2: “He who created death and life – to test you – as to which of you is better in conduct. He is the Almighty, the Forgiving.”
From an Islamic standpoint, Ricci says, part of that test includes how Muslims react in difficult times.
“The Quran says trials will come and to be prepared for them,” Ricci says. “So how do we react – do we go off and hoard toilet paper? Or do we take care of others? If we know trials are coming, that’s where faith is supposed to kick in.”
The coronavirus has robbed us all: Let yourself mourn the loss, experts say.
Rabbi Chaim Bruk, co-CEO of Chabad Lubavitch, a Hasidic Jewish community in Bozeman, Montana, says it's normal in times of heartache and fear to wonder, "How do I get through this and maintain my faith in God?"
For Bruk, it's personal: In Brooklyn, where Bruk grew up, his father and three uncles have all tested positive for the virus (one uncle is in ICU at New York University's hospital in New York City.) Ages 52 to 77, the four brothers are experiencing various levels of illness.
Overwhelmed by the situation, Bruk opened the book of Psalms last week and took a minute to pray. His 10-year-old daughter found it odd, because typically Bruk prays at particular times, as mandated by his religion. She asked what was going on and was everything OK.
“Probably for the first time in my life, I wasn’t praying because that was the order of the day or there was a particular holiday,” Bruk says. “I told her, ‘I need to have this moment with God. I need to talk to him a little bit.’ ”
He had an epiphany then, he says, a startling realization that all he could do, all he could control, were his prayers. He knows that for many, the virus and the accompanying havoc across the globe will result in doubts. That's normal, he says. It's more about what someone does with those doubts.
“I don’t care if you’re the greatest atheist in the world, something of this magnitude requires introspection on some level, and there will be a spiritual component to that,” Bruk says.
“We’ve always said that for every breath we take, we should thank God. I always thought of that as a cute concept, but in the last few weeks, it’s become very real,” he says.
Suffering, he points out, has been experienced for centuries, by people of all faiths, as all religious texts document. If there’s comfort in suffering, Bruk says, it comes from the knowledge that God suffers with you. Although Bruk doesn’t know the why behind this particular suffering – which includes terribly sick people on the brink of death as well as those who have lost their jobs and aren’t sure how they’ll feed their family – he does believe there’s a reason for it. He just doesn’t understand it. He might never get to, either.
“It’s not my job to be God’s lawyer,” Bruk says. “I’m his salesman. I do believe he’s the greatest thing that ever existed, and I encourage people to get to know him without trying to explain what he’s doing or why.”
Why something is happening, and whether it's God's will, is a topic Thomas Jay Oord thinks about a lot.
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A Christian theologian, author and teacher at Northwest Nazarene University in Nampa, Idaho, Oord has been busy the past few weeks giving guest sermons via the videoconferencing app Zoom as he tries to answer the question “If God is good, then why does the coronavirus exist?”
There are, he says, a lot of bad answers to that question. When he preaches, Oord explains that there are two types of evils: moral evils, such as murder, and natural evils, such as hurricanes, tornadoes or in this case, the coronavirus. People often respond in one of three ways.
First, there’s the group that says God is “angry about sin or gays and lesbians or whatever,” Oord says, and he’s using a natural evil to punish the world. Oord rejects that view because “God is a god of love, he’s not in the business of doing evil.”
Next comes the group that says God hasn’t caused a natural evil but allows it. If you buy into the theory that God is a god of love, Oord says, that doesn’t make any logical sense. Letting something horrible happen goes against God's nature.
Then there are the people who chalk it up to a mystery.
Oord doesn’t buy any of those. In his teachings, he presents a fourth option: God can’t simply prevent the coronavirus – or any other natural evils – singlehandedly but requires “our participation and cooperation” to fight it, he says. In keeping with his foundation that God is a god of love, Oord says, “I don’t think God is in the business of punishing and harming the most vulnerable, the people on the margins.”
Oord does believe God is omnipotent but not in what he calls "the classical view." God can't make a square round, Oord says, just like he can't contradict his nature, which is good and loving.
That was the message Oord brought to Clackamas United Church of Christ in Milwaukie, Oregon, a Portland suburb. The Rev. Adam Ericksen, who had Oord speak, has been thinking a lot about people on the margins, too. He’s adamant that no matter your belief in the meaning (if one exists) behind coronavirus, “the role of the church in this moment is to make sure no one, including people on the margins, falls through the cracks," Ericksen says.
It’s not lost on Ericksen that this pandemic is spreading and halting normal life as major religious holidays such as Passover and Easter approach.
In Judaism, Passover commemorates the liberation of Israelites, who were led out of Egypt by Moses after God sent 10 plagues to the Egyptians. In Christianity, Easter celebrates the resurrection of Jesus. The joyous holidays acknowledge the deep suffering that preceded them.
“I think the big question here is, how do you give a sense of hope in the midst of this,” Ericksen said. “How do you make sure that coronavirus, and death, doesn’t have the last word? That’s what the resurrection is all about. And now we’re being asked to enact that.”
That some people are so quick to compare the current world to Passover is a bridge too far for Danya Ruttenberg.
Affectionately known as “the Twitter rabbi,” Ruttenberg has been answering questions on social media since coronavirus blew up, often beating back the idea that God is somehow punishing the world by unleashing a plague for the new millennium.
“People want to make meaning in a time of fear, uncertainty and suffering, and that’s totally understandable and natural,” she says. “And Passover is coming up, so people are making those comparisons. But no, I do not think God is smiting us. My theology does not involve a man in the sky with a pair of dice saying, ‘It’s smite-the-people o’clock.' That’s not how I understand what God is.”
Ruttenberg is quick to point out that people have agency and free will, a concept often referenced in the Judeo-Christian creation story about Adam and Eve. People have choices today, too, she says – whether they’re going to self-isolate and practice social distancing or if they’re going to be reckless and let the virus spread.
She finds comfort in a passage from the Talmud, the two-part Jewish text that contains centuries of thought, debate and discussion. In Talmud Brachot 32b, Rabbi Elazar said, “Since the day the Temple was destroyed the gates of prayer were locked … though the gates of prayer were locked, the gates of tears were not locked.” The idea, Ruttenberg explains, is that we are always able to cry out to God and that in times of heartbreak, there are still powerful ways to connect spiritually.
Although uncertainty abounds, she can find hope, too.
“I don’t think God caused the coronavirus, but I see God’s work everywhere,” she says. “In every single person who makes the decision to love their neighbor as themselves, in every person who’s staying home even though it’s not convenient, in every doctor and nurse and health care worker who are putting themselves at risk, in every grocery store worker.
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Unconstrained by bureaucracy, economic interests or schedules, Africa Streets is being launched as a wide open international platform for critical discussion and diverse forms of cross-border collaboration on the challenging, necessarily conflicted topic of “sustainable transportation and social justice”.
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The following statement appeared in January as part of our 2010 work plan for World Streets. It is to be edited and presented here as useful:
In a fair world it should be impossible to ignore close to one billion of the poorest people on the earth living in its second-largest and second most-populous continent. With already one-third living in cities, most of whom in slums, with the flow of people from the country side continuing at record rates.
The transportation arrangements in most people’s daily life in Africa come in several flavors: ranging from world-class traffic jams making it close to impossible to negotiate the streets of the larger cities for hour each day, to at the other extreme no provision for vital survival transport (water, wood for fires, food) for the remainder of the continent.
Now the fact is that most of transport policy and investments on the continent are aimed at the creation and extension of motorized transport infrastructure. And it is precisely this strategy that had led to the present imbalance.
The key to unlocking the African Streets challenge can be summed up in a single phrase: Fair transport for women and children. What works well about this, is that when women and children are fairly served everybody ends up being better off. This can and should be our central theme
Share Transport in Africa: Another international project for 2010 that is already getting interest in a number of African counties (Nigeria, Senegal, Tanzania, Namibia and South Africa among them) – is the World Share/Transport Forum. Shared transport is a long and honorable African tradition and for many often the only way of getting around longer distances. That said, it has not been favored or understood really by policy makers in the field. Our collaborative international program is intended to address this gap. Reference: www.COST.ShareTransport.org
Here is our Africa challenge in a visual nutshell. This map records the geographic distribution of people who checked into World Streets this morning:
At this point we are not sure of how to best make our contribution. Certainly it will be important (a) to have more feature articles on “African Streets”, in the hope of creating higher quality information and a stronger network of people and groups who can help African cities and rural areas move toward world-level sustainable transport policies and practices. And no less important (b) to see if we can find ways to get copies of Streets and its messages onto the desks of planners, decision-makers, operators, citizens and national and local government officials.
As we look at the overall situation of transport in Africa, we can see at least one “huge shortcoming” in terms of 20th century “modern” transport that, with a bit of strategy, one might well turn into an asset. And this is the enormous variations in terms of ownership, which vary from OECD range levels (anywhere from 300 – 500 per 1000 capita) in the more prosperous cities all the way down to barely one or two in the bottom range running from Rwanda to Malawi.
And since the motor vehicle has turned out to be both a solution for some and a problem for all, this gives the policy makers an interesting window to come up with something better than the old private car solution. An important part of that is of course going to involve sharing.
As a first step in this direction we have started to organize in an informal task force of people working in place on these issues who have a wider outlook on what is going on and what could be done better. We presently have participants from South Africa, Tanzania, Kenya. Uganda. Namibia, Nigeria, and Egypt, and are in contact with the GATNET network for transport and gender which has a strong African orientation, as well as several UN programs. It’s a start.
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Seeds and Bulbs
Growing plants from seed is not a difficult thing to do. To start seeds indoors all you need are containers of your choice, some seed-starting mix, a light source and water. And, of course, seeds. Many seed packets will tell you when to start your seeds indoors or if your seeds can just be planted directly into the garden.
Nothing says spring like a field of naturalized daffodils or a flower bed of brightly colored tulips. Flower bulbs are perfectly packaged for easy planting. Just dig a hole and drop in the bulb.
Seed Packets & Growing Supplies
Our large selection of seeds includes many favorite vegetables, herbs, blooming annuals and perennials. We also have organic vegetable seeds and Value Paks.
We also have all the supplies you will need to start the seeds indoors.
For Spring planting - we offer a nice selection of bulbs to include Begonia, Calla Lily, Dahlia, Gladiola and many more!
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Supplements Manufacturers must be held to strict FDA and Food and Drug Administration safety guidelines in order to be sold in the US. The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) establish regulations and requirements for dietary supplements, including those that are sold over the counter or by prescription. Some dietary supplements are over-the-counter and others are prescribed. Both contain ingredients that may not be regulated by the FDA.
The FDA periodically reassures manufacturers about the manufacturing of their products. The FDA sends warning letters to manufacturers or send them samples to be analyzed. If the company does not comply with the FDA’s requirements, the FDA will close the facility. FDA will also fine a firm if they fail to inform the agency about the events that led to the drug’s failure.
FDA regulates dietary ingredients that are used in these products manufactured by companies outside the US. Supplements containing all natural herbs or botanicals are not subject to the FDA’s requirements as those containing artificial ingredients are. Companies can still produce the supplements containing botanicals and herbs that have been proven safe for human consumption. This does not mean that FDA cannot inspect dietary supplement facilities.
Supplements manufactured by the US manufacturers are required to comply with the CFSAN database. The CFSAN is a compilation of all dietary supplements on the market. Supplements are required to meet a standard of safety in manufacturing, packaging, and handling dietary supplements. The CFSAN database provides manufacturers with data on the nature of ingredients, quantity in tablets or capsules, and the drug information that accompanies the products. Supplements manufacturers need to confirm that the source of the dietary supplement is reliable and consistent.
Dietary supplements are classified as drugs if the manufacturer intends to sell them as medicines. A health claim must accompany any dietary ingredient. Some manufacturers combine a health claim with other dietary ingredients so that when they are sold together the claim makes more sense. For example, it is common for a sports nutrition manufacturer to include an anti-oxidant in its product along with an energy supplement.
A dietary supplement can be considered a drug if it has a recognized medical purpose. However, dietary supplements are not considered drugs when they are sold as over-the-counter or OTC products. This is because they are considered dietary supplements and not drugs. Because of this fact many consumers feel that products sold in stores are less safe than those sold online. The FDA has received reports of tainted products and individuals who have died due to contaminated dietary supplements but it is difficult to prove that a death was caused by an adulterated supplement. | <urn:uuid:75825c25-3f6b-4a3d-8fff-1d081acb7171> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://nutrition-health-supplements.com/is-dietary-supplements-real/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572033.91/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814113403-20220814143403-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.964956 | 526 | 3.03125 | 3 |
Prai Power Station
Working with the National Electricity Board of Malaysia, we worked on the administration building, turbine blocks, power house and boiler plinths of this single-shaft power plant – making the Prai Power Plant the first of its kind in Southeast Asia at the time.
Our proven track record in designing and constructing dam and water treatment plants locally was instrumental to our appointment as the Main Contractor for the proposed development of Sungai Rasau Water Supply Scheme (Stage 1) by Pengurusan Air Selangor Sdn. Bhd. The RM1,968 million contract is for Package 1: Design and Build of proposed Rasau Intake, Raw Water Pumping Mains, Water Treatment Plant and Associated Works.
The scope of work includes:
- An intake structure of a 1400 million-litre-a-day (Mld) capacity to draw augmented raw water from the ex-mining ponds at Taman Putra Permai, Puchong
- A 700 Mld of water treatment plant near Tanjung Dua Belas including civil, structural and building, process plant mechanical works, electrical, instrumentation, SCADA, building services and associated external works
- 2.4m diameter twin-pipe connecting the Intake structure and the water treatment plant
- Two overhead bridges crossing Elite Highway and SKVE Highway
The development of this water supply scheme is crucial as Sungai Selangor Scheme is currently the only source of raw water supply to the Klang region.
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The Skirball’s 1000 Journals exhibit featured the story of artist Brian Singer’s global art project. The exhibit showcased one thousand journals that were distributed in various locations throughout the world and sent back to Los Angeles after a ten-year period, brimming with artwork and ideas from people who chanced upon the journals. Ms. Dori Kulwin, visual arts department chair, had been looking for an “out of the box” project for her Drawing II class, and was inspired upon seeing Singer’s project.
Similarly, Milken’s campus is now scattered with blank journals in unexpected places, courtesy of Kulwin and her class. The empty white pages beckon creativity – whether in the form of a pencil sketch, poem, song lyric, sticker collage, or magazine cutouts. After adding their own artistry, students and faculty are encouraged to continue the chain by hiding the journals in new places or passing them on to others.
“I love the surprise element,” Kulwin said. “I love the sense of discovering something unexpectedly, and then adding your own creativity to that of someone else’s.”
Kulwin hoped this project would engage students who are not currently involved in the art department’s formal classes, in addition to acting as a wonderful learning experience for her current students.
“My drawing class learns all styles of drawing and interpretive drawings. They keep sketchbooks on their own, so it becomes almost an extension of that, but we’re opening it up for a collaborative type of creative experience,” Kulwin said.
Just as Kulwin and her class have enjoyed hiding the journals around campus, students and faculty who have randomly encountered the journals have emitted overwhelmingly positive feedback.
“It’s exciting and thrilling to have a simple token like a book of art to connect the whole Milken community. It’s like a big secret mystery party, hiding and discovering not only the journals, but all of these creative minds and talents from people who are anonymous, yet among you,” Emma Peretz ’14 said.
On the inside flap of the journals, a letter explaining the project requested whoever possessed a journal by early May to return it to Kulwin so that they could be displayed at the art show, May 16 and 17 2011.
As of now only one journal has been returned, but as Kulwin said, “The point of the project is to share creativity and to connect the school though this creativity, so really, whether or not the journals are returned is besides the point,” Kulwin
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Riparian Forest Buffer Protection for Waterways Tax Credit
Individuals, trusts and corporations may qualify for an income tax credit of 25% of the value of the timber on land designated as a riparian buffer for a waterway. The credit may not exceed $17,500 or the total amount of tax, whichever is less. To apply for this credit, file Department of Forestry (DOF) Form 18.8 with DOF or apply online at www.dof.virginia.gov. A riparian buffer is a wooded area of land adjacent to a waterway on which timber may be harvested. In order to receive the credit, the owner of the land must refrain from harvesting more than 50% of the timber from tracts designated as riparian buffers. The buffer must be at least 35 feet wide and no more than 300 feet. There must also be a Forest Stewardship Plan and annual certification of compliance for each tract. The buffer must remain in place for at least 15 years. The land that is the subject of this credit cannot be the subject of this credit again for 15 years after it was first taken. The credit may be carried over for the succeeding 5 taxable years. For more information, contact: Virginia Department of Forestry, 900 Natural Resources Dr., Suite 800, Charlottesville, VA 22903, or call (434) 977-6555. | <urn:uuid:fa80c39a-8919-4b11-a5ff-9ca4898602e7> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://supportsystem.livehelpnow.net/article/17366/60145/riparian-forest-buffer-protection-for-waterways-tax-credit | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571909.51/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813051311-20220813081311-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.941884 | 279 | 1.585938 | 2 |
Mercury and Venus were bright in the evening sky during the first week of 2015. This International Year of Light 2015 (Light2015.org) has continued to offer spectacular astronomy events, including aurora displays and a solar eclipse in March; a supermoon lunar Eclipse in September; and Jupiter, Venus and Mars lined up for the December morning skies, and, for Christmas day, a full moon.
The year of light has not only celebrated the night sky, but also all the technology made possible by using light and photonics. Some examples were presented in connection with the opening ceremonies in Paris in January, as discussed in an earlier post.
As one of the Swedish National contact points for the year of light, I have tried to include all the light-related activities in the calendar,from small gatherings and workshops for teachers, to Optopubs for the photonics industry, advanced research seminars and symposia, light shows for children and students, inspirational lectures for teachers experiments in science centers, large events for the publics and much more. I also collected light-related playlists in a YouTube channel Ljus2015
My personal involvement has included a photonics breakfast and tea together with Sheila Galt at Chalmers and Petra Hardtke from Thorlabs, workshop during the teacher conferences, “NO-biennaler” i Stockholm and Falun, a presentation together with LJUSLAB in a Forum for Light during the large electric trade show ELFACK, and an invitation to a Light2015 event in Nykarleby in Finland on “Light – more than meets the eye”. The National resource centre for physics education has become a local associated partner for the Photonics Explorer kits, and will run workshops for teachers during 2016 on using these kits.
The International Year of Light draws to a close – but we look forward to continued work with light in education and wish you all the best for a
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Washington, Oct 8, 2017: Hurricane Nate has brought strong winds, torrential rain and a threat of storm surges to the US Gulf Coast.
The storm, with maximum sustained winds of 137 kmph, made landfall near the mouth of the Mississippi river in Louisiana, late on Saturday, BBC reported on Sunday. Moving north, it made a second landfall at Biloxi, Mississippi.
Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama and parts of Florida earlier issued warnings and evacuation orders amid fears of rapidly rising sea waters.
Nate killed 13 people in Nicaragua, eight in Costa Rica, three in Honduras and one in El Salvador.
The tropical storm then strengthened to a Category One hurricane on the Saffir-Simpson scale as it headed towards the US.
Although not as strong as last month’s Maria and Irma, officials had warned Nate was a fast-moving storm that could bring flooding to low-lying areas.
US President Donald Trump on Saturday issued an emergency declaration for Louisiana, allowing the state to seek federal help with preparation and possible relief efforts.
Five ports along the Gulf Coast were closed to shipping as a precaution. Evacuation orders were put in place for some low-lying areas.
A tropical storm warning is currently in effect for New Orleans.
Nate caused heavy rains, landslides and floods which blocked roads, destroyed bridges and damaged houses as it tore through central America.
The tail of the storm is still causing problems in the region, where thousands have been forced to sleep in shelters and some 400,000 people in Costa Rica were reported to be without running water.
UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres, visiting Antigua and Barbuda which were badly damaged by Hurricane Irma in September, said the international community needed to do more to help Caribbean countries hit by a series of powerful hurricanes.
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So this here is Pep the dog.
In 1924 Pep was arrested and sentenced to life in prison without parole for killing the governor of Pennsylvania’s wife’s cat. Governor Gifford Pinchot sent the pooch to Eastern State Penitentiary to serve out his sentence. Pep was given a DC number and even had his mug shot taken. The story made national news and before long “Pep The Cat-Murdering Dog” was known far and wide.
A few years later, Cornelia, the governor’s wife, decided to come clean and tell the truth. There had never been any dead cat, Pep was a good boy! The Pinchot household already had way too many pets, and they just couldn’t take another in. There were already so many unloved and unwanted dogs in their area that they just couldn’t stand the thought of taking him to the pound so the Governor decided that the pup should be sent to prison instead. Pep would give the inmates something to love and nurture, and the dog would be treated like a king.
Pep lived a fantastic life, he had free range of the prison and he loved to keep the inmates company; it’s safe to say that this was a good experience for everyone involved. Well, everyone but the prison warden as Pep was known to chew up his couch cushions!
When the beloved pooch passed away the inmates buried him on the prison grounds. Today it’s not at all uncommon to see a pet in prison, especially a dog, but back in 1924 it was unheard of – it’s believed that Pep was the first one. Maybe he started a trend.
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How Would We Know If Aliens Have Souls? Would We Care?
In place of any reading for today’s Philosophy of Human Nature class we were to write a reflection on those questions. In the process of determining what our souls may be reflecting on how we’d know if aliens had souls is an interesting way to go about synthesizing all of the ideas the authors we read from for this unit presented to us. You can also easily replace aliens for any Earthly species (save humans, of course) to use the same deductions to see if they have souls or not. Any comments, questions, concerns, or general discussion is, as always, welcome in the comments here. | <urn:uuid:183eef5f-e4c6-40ec-b7de-79a44b2b22d2> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://alex.clst.org/blog/2013/04/16/how-would-we-know-if-aliens-have-souls-would-we-care/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572033.91/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814113403-20220814143403-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.928158 | 139 | 1.953125 | 2 |
On Friday the 25th January Samworth Academy are running a ‘Year 10 employability, skills and career ambitions’ whole day event called ‘New Year New Me’.
It’s going to look at extracting the existing skillset that the students already have but might not realise they have.
It will also be an opportunity for students to start thinking about the ways they can capture any new skills they will acquire over their academic and professional careers, and personal lives. We are inviting in employers and providers to drive some of these workshops and encourage students to think about the transferability and applicability of their existing skills to different careers and vocations.
They have asked if any 2020 members would be able to support the ‘New Year New Me’ event? They are looking for support for 5 x 1 hour workshops starting at 0820 and finishing at 1430, with a reach to approximately 200 students.
It only just under two weeks away but if any one can help to support the event they would be extremely grateful.
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About this session
Across the country, students, their families, and teachers have shown up or logged into a new school year. The standardized practices and structures of their new classrooms are still-recognizable versions of pre-pandemic schooling that have been flattened, twisted, and forced to fit into new, socially-distanced, and on-screen classes. Even under “normal” circumstances, many of these familiar school practices have been historically inadequate for ensuring the success of all students.
Especially now, the particular challenges involve engaging students in developmentally appropriate practices: building interpersonal relationships, and providing mental and behavioral health supports are more acute. And, it’s not just students needing care and support. Teachers increasingly work in greater isolation from their students and their colleagues.
What do our students and teachers need to thrive at school, at work, and at home? How can school and district leaders support and care for their school communities? Join us for a conversation exploring these questions and more.
Steve Amstutz, Director of Measuring What Matters at the Institute for Research and Reform in Education
Wednesday, Sept. 23, 2020
12:00 PM CT
Presented By Steve Amstutz
Steve Amstutz began his career serving children in education as a 5th grade teacher in Houston, Texas. He served as a principal for 20 years at both elementary and secondary schools. During those years, he founded Liberty High School an alternative school designed specifically to meet the challenges faced by older, immigrant students, and DiscoverU, a non-profit providing novel learning experiences beyond the high school classroom that expand students’ aspirations and develop the confidence and skills essential for college success. Since 2013, Steve has worked as Director of Measuring What Matters at the Institute for Research and Reform in Education supporting school improvement initiatives in urban and rural school districts across the country. He is a lecturer in the educational leadership program at Rice University. | <urn:uuid:56566fdd-2e9b-4ed0-aad9-2940034578bf> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://openrice.rice.edu/session/what-do-our-students-and-teachers-need-to-succeed | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571909.51/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813051311-20220813081311-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.963942 | 401 | 2.34375 | 2 |
In backgammon the doubling dice is utilized to boost the stakes in the video game. The doubling cube is a relatively new addition to backgammon but it surely elevates the game to a new degree when it comes to method. It can be crucial that you know the notion and approach factors connected with the doubling dice since it might be your critical to great achievements.
You Ordinarily Perform backgammon in Match Enjoy, i.e. the winner would be the player who to start with reaches a predetermined number of factors. Just about every game is value just one issue to start with of the game, so in a standard gain the winner gets 1 position.
To start with Just about every recreation is well worth just one issue. On his flip prior to a participant rolls the dice he may possibly choose to provide the doubling dice on the opponent. In the event the opponent accepts the cube it is turned with amount two experiencing up and also the opponent can take the cube into possession, meaning that only he can initiate another doubling. But given that the doubling cube has been applied at 롤대리 the time the game is value two details. Ought to the doubling dice used a next time and also the opponent would settle for the game would now be value four factors.
If a player to whom the doubling was available doesn’t want to accept the doubling he can resign. In that circumstance the game is finished and also the winner gets as numerous points as the sport was well worth ahead of the doubling was presented.
The doubling cube is a standard die While using the figures 2, four, 8, 16, 32 and sixty four on it. Each and every variety signifies a multiplier, which may alwas be doubled. Therefore, Should the doubling dice continues to be used four occasions a single straight get can be truly worth 16 details. Theoretically doubling can go on eternally but The truth is the doubling doesn’t transcend 4.
Optional doubling cube similar regulations
Beavering is frequently accustomed to hold gamers on their toes when doubling. If a player beavers, it implies that he was presented the doubling dice but merely accepting it he re-doubles to another quantity! Moreover he also retains Charge of the doubling cube. So, In the event the participant initiating the doubling misjudged the game the opponent may possibly seize the problem and by beavering produce a nasty situation for him by beavering and a little later when he is in clear direct most likely again doubling and forcing the opponent to resign.
The Crawford rule continues to be released to limit using the doubling cube in vital predicaments. It's an optional rule but a smart one. It states that if one particular player has occur within just one particular position of profitable the match, the game that follows is played without the doubling cube. In case the player who is losing wins this match the doubling cube is all over again getting used. Visualize a scenario 4-3 in a 5 level recreation. Without the Crawford rule the shedding participant could blindly double on his first convert becuase he has very little to unfastened anyway. The Crawford rule ensures that no weird doubling cube action is occurring in backgammon.
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The SA Prison Papestraße tells of the Nazi's earliest victims and puts faces to the names of those people imprisoned here between March and December 1933.
The SA prison on Papestraße remembers the earliest victims of the Nazi regime. This is a unique memorial with well-preserved cells. Behind thick walls, you get a vivid insight of the events in 1933. During that period, the Sturmabteilung (SA), the Nazi paramilitary wing, uses these barracks as a concentration camp. Between March and December 1933, the SA imprisons Jews and people opposing the regime. In these dark cellars in the Tempelhof-Schöneberg area of Berlin, you truly feel the suffering of the detainees.
1933 - A year of mass arrests in Berlin
Hitler sweeps to power in January 1933, and the SA soon begin to raid, making many arrests. A temporary prison is established in a former railway barracks. By December of that year, thousands are in prison, some of them for months. Figures show that around 30 of them die after ill-treatment. Some of them are high ranking members of socialist and communist parties such as Fritz Fränkel, Franz Czeminski and Erich Gentsch. In 2011, a memorial opens with plans to create a comprehensive exhibition. In 2013, the first permanent exhibition and visitor archive to document the building opens. Step back into 1933. As you enter the 19th century brick building and make your way down into the gloomy cellars, you'll see cold corridors with heavy wooden doors, all lit by flickering lights. On the walls there are panels documenting the history of the Nazi party, along with drawings and graffiti created by prisoners – still visible today. In one of the rooms at the rear of the barracks you'll discover the fates of people imprisoned there; their names are projected in the dark room as a light installation. The archive room gives an insight into the prisoner's lives with their biographies. The exhibition also details the history of the National Socialist justice system, the Sturmabteilung and the creation of the SA Prison Papestraße.
Top things to see
- The well-preserved cells from 1933.
- Archive room with information and documents related to prisoners.
- Information and photographs about the role of the Sturmabteilung.
- Memorial room with light installation.
- Original boilers from the 1920s.
Urban history in this area of Berlin
Papestraße is not only home to the SA prison, it is also where you will find the history of Tempelhof. Follow the signposted trail over the former military area and stop at a total of 14 points of interest. Among other things, these tell the story of the building of the railway by troops during the Franco-Prussian War. You also pass a huge concrete cylinder which dates from 1942. The cylinder was designed to test the weight-bearing qualities of the ground with the aim of later constructing a mysterious "Building T" (a triumphal arch for the fallen soldiers of the First World War). This was never to be, and the large cylinder is all that is left of the Nazi plan to build the world capital of Germania. Views over the area are best from the adjacent lookout tower.
Our tips for your visit
The SA-Gefängnis Papestraße is open from Tuesday to Thursday, Saturday and Sunday from 13-18 hours. The entrance is free of charge. Individual dates can be arranged for group tours. Every Sunday there are free public guided tours. These start at 13 o'clock.To get there, take the S-Bahn to Südkreuz Station, leave by the General-Pape-Straße/Werner-Voß-Damm exit and walk five minutes to the museum. Alternatively, take bus 184 or 248 To Gontermannstraße or the M46 to Südkreuz. Drivers can park at Conti-Parkhaus next to Südkreuz station, on Werner-Voß-Straße or on the memorial grounds. | <urn:uuid:34b12d89-5a25-4f62-9fa0-1ad3560dca58> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.visitberlin.de/en/sa-gefangnis-papestrasse-sa-prison-papestrasse | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571502.25/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811194507-20220811224507-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.936622 | 852 | 3.171875 | 3 |
5 Feelings that Seem to Be Love but Aren't
Feelings aren’t completely precise. In fact, human beings are known for their ambiguities, contradictions, and inaccuracies. That’s why it isn’t uncommon for us to experience feelings that seem to be love but actually aren’t.
Love has an inherent downside. In all types of love, there’s often lack of affection and even hatred. No one loves another person perfectly. However, what does happen is that love can be the main emotion that unites us to another person or group of people.
Sometimes, we’re convinced of the love we feel for other people, even though this isn’t really the predominant feeling. This happens because many feelings seem to be love but aren’t. Below, we explain them.
Feelings that seem to be love but aren’t
There’s an element of love in gratitude but it isn’t love as such. Some people do very significant things for you. Sometimes, they’re there for you and stand by you when others don’t care about you at all.
On other occasions, they simply give you time and affection, without asking for anything in return. This can have a big impact on your inner world.
This can make you feel special gratitude towards them. You can have the desire to do the same for them and to make sure that they’re okay. This feeling can easily be mistaken for love. However, deep down, you don’t love someone for what they give you but for who they are.
Compassion is another feeling that seems to be love but isn’t. It’s defined as the ability to identify with, understand, and even feel another person’s pain.
Although it’s a form of love, it isn’t love as such. Sometimes, the desire to help that person, and to free them from their pain, makes you feel as if it’s true love. However, this isn’t the case. What if the person overcomes the suffering that afflicted them? Now, there’s no need for compassion.
Routines have enormous power in the lives of human beings. In fact, we become so used to something or someone that we can develop really strong attachments to them. Thus, we experience great pain at the possibility of losing that person or thing.
It’s easy to become so used to a person that you believe that you love them, simply because you find it very difficult to cope with the idea of them no longer being in your life. There can be such a strong resistance to change that it prevents you from understanding the real feelings behind the attachment.
Admiration is another feeling that comes close to but isn’t love. This feeling has a strong rational and mental element. We appreciate someone because they have a certain virtue or talent. There’s some outstanding or striking aspect in that person, and that creates a desire to be close to them or to be involved with those characteristics in some way.
When you love someone, you don’t just love them for a specific reason. You love them despite of their faults. In other words, when you truly love, you love in a comprehensive way. In fact, you often tend to be particularly moved by that person’s weaknesses or shortcomings, rather than by the display of great virtues.
This is another feeling that can seem to be love. Dependence can make someone feel that the other person is indispensable, either specifically or generally. Thus, they feel that they aren’t capable of living without the other person in their life. This intense feeling makes them think that they really love the other person.
It’s true that, in love, one feels a need for the other person’s company. However, this need isn’t the cause of the bond but rather the consequence of it. This means that you feel good when the person isn’t there but you feel much better if they’re with you. As you can see, there’s a big difference between this reality and feeling that you can’t live without the other person.
In short, many feelings are related to love but aren’t. Sometimes, the lines between one and the other seem to blur. That’s why it’s relatively easy for people to confuse different feelings with true love. Therefore, sometimes, it’s a healthy exercise to rethink what you’re feeling and give your emotions more accurate names.It might interest you... | <urn:uuid:6effb3aa-fcdc-4bce-9188-4498a40c2485> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://exploringyourmind.com/5-feelings-that-seem-to-be-love-but-arent/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572033.91/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814113403-20220814143403-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.956309 | 997 | 2.09375 | 2 |
Truly wireless headphones are the holy grail for Bluetooth headphone companies, but with the exception of a couple of models — like Apple’s AirPods — it seems like most of the industry is still trying to figure out how to get them to work.
Qualcomm is trying to fix that with an update to the TrueWireless Stereo technology that the company employs on its Bluetooth chips for headphones, like the recently announced QCC5100 series. This could solve some of the issues that have plagued truly wireless headphones for a while now.
The updated TrueWireless Stereo adds a few small but crucial updates to how headphones that ship with Qualcomm’s latest chips handle Bluetooth audio.
The new TrueWireless technology allows earbuds to switch automatically between primary (receiving data from the phone and transmitting to the other bud) and secondary (receiving data from the other bud) roles in order to balance power consumption and increase battery life.
Additionally, Qualcomm is announcing a new TrueWireless Stereo Plus mode, which allows phones to connect directly to both earbuds. This would replace the odd daisy chain of connectivity where a single earbud connects to the phone and then uses a separate, simultaneous connection to connect to the other earbud.
Qualcomm says that TrueWireless Stereo Plus should also offer simpler pairing and reduce latency by eliminating the current system, which requires a separate headphone-to-headphone connection.
Additionally, Qualcomm has announced a separate Broadcast Audio feature coming to its Snapdragon 845 chipset, which is designed to allow for multiple Bluetooth audio connections in perfect sync. The feature is for playing audio to multiple pairs of headphones or speakers, but it likely will facilitate the direct connection technology used in TrueWireless Stereo Plus, too.
Right now, the new features are only available on Qualcomm’s latest QCC5100 series chips, and, of course, it's up to device manufacturers to actually build headphones that use the chip and take advantage of these features. For its part, Qualcomm says to expect devices that will feature the updated TrueWireless Stereo tech sometime in the second half of the year. | <urn:uuid:6adfdc51-30a2-453d-856d-dccca0866177> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.theverge.com/circuitbreaker/2018/2/21/17035502/qualcomm-truewireless-stereo-plus-tech-bluetooth-truly-wireless-headphones-mwc-2018 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571198.57/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810161541-20220810191541-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.947878 | 444 | 1.554688 | 2 |
The role of dietary protein source on growth performance and lipid metabolism in European sea bass (Dicentrarchus labrax) was investigated, by the evaluation of fat content in different tissues, plasma metabolites, liver lipogenic activity and fatty acid composition of dorsal muscle tissue.Five isonitrogenous (490gkg-1crude protein dry-matter basis) and isolipidic (170gkg-1lipid dry-matter basis) diets with graded levels of wheat gluten, soybean and pea meal in substitution of fish meal were evaluated in European sea bass (initial body weight 23.9±0.1) for 96days. There was a significant difference (p<0.05) in dorsal muscle and liver lipid contents. Plasma glucose and cholesterol levels decreased significantly (p<0.05) as diet included soybean and wheat gluten meal (p<0.05). The composition of fatty acids in muscle triacylglycerols and phospholipids was affected by vegetable sources as n-6 PUFA percentage was significantly increased and n-3 PUFA percentage was significantly decreased (p<0.05), without modifying EPA/DHA ratio, when wheat gluten and pea meal were included in the diet. The results confirm that the quality and quantity of vegetable protein source could affect lipid metabolism and lipid content in the dorsal muscle of the European sea bass and suggest the possibility of manipulation of the diet for commercial purpose.
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So here are 107 songs that are age appropriate for kids to sing. I have categorised them but remember they can be changed to make it your own.
Don’t limit yourself…just because the original sounds a certain way doesn’t mean you have to disregard the song.
Be creative and change it to suit YOU! Maybe you have to change the key or the feel of the song. Here are some examples of what you can do:
- Girls can sing boys songs and boys can sing girls songs just change some lyrics if need be
- Make a fast song slow
- Make a slow song fast
- Change the feel of the song e.g Pop song have an RnB feel or an old song more modern
- Make a solo song a group song or as a duet
- Mash up song songs!
I haven’t listed any adult songs or adult themed songs however please don’t limit yourself to singing songs even if they have adult words in them – perhaps ask a parent to help you change the lyrics of the song so that you can eliminate the inappropriate words. For example part of the Price Tag song you can change the word Video hoe to Video Girl.
These are just some ideas, if you have any other song ideas or arrangement ideas for our readers please comment below. We would love to hear from you!
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In 2002, after a 60 Minutes investigation, people in Anniston suddenly learned they were in one of the most toxic cities in the country. Thousands of people flocked to the city to learn about the new Anniston Army Depot, built in 1941 on the outskirts of the city to store ammunition, operated by Chrysler Corporation from 1943 to 1945. In the early 1970 "s, a civil rights movement against the federal government and the auto industry erupted after it learned that hundreds of thousands of Americans were living there infected with coronavirus and other infectious diseases.
Most of the residents were recruited from Alabama and Georgia, and a number of skilled craftsmen were recruited from England, Sweden and Poland. Most of the black and white residents lived in Anniston, either in one of the many production companies or in the many hotels, restaurants, hotels and hotels in the city. In 1879, the Tyler family founded a cotton mill in this town. The Anniston Manufacturing Company - which employed more than 1,000 people, most of them black. The Confederate States of America ran a large cotton factory on the outskirts of the city, which was finally destroyed in early 1865 by an attack by the Union Cavalry.
After Fort McClellan was closed in 1999, the Joint Powers Authority and the City of Anniston began refurbishing the facility for civilian use.
The preservation effort includes the preservation of the historic Calhoun County Courthouse, located at the corner of 12th and Noble Streets in the heart of Anniston. The courthouse is located at the intersection of 10th Street and 12th Avenue, and the other administrative offices in the District are located at 1st Avenue South, 2nd Street South and 3rd Street North. All schools in Anniston are part of the city's school system, but the city has its own public school system with a high school, middle school and elementary school.
The town is home to seven golf courses, including Anniston Country Club, a 1,000-acre lakeside golf course. Other outdoor recreation options include a 33-mile railroad track that connects Anniston to the cities of Piedmont, Jacksonville and Weaver.
The Community Actors Studio Theater offers a wide variety of theater performances throughout the year. The Knox Concert Series, held at Anniston Performing Arts Center, features musical performances including classic and Broadway musicals and popular performers, and produces world-renowned musical and dance productions. Since 2004, the Alabama Symphony Orchestra has performed at the former Fort McClellan. A series of plays and musical revues will be performed, featuring local performers, actors and musicians.
Anniston is located in the heart of Anniston, Alabama, south of Birmingham and west of Huntsville and east of Montgomery. It is a small town with a population of about 2,000 people and an average income of $35,500 per year.
Anniston is served by two newspapers, the Anniston Daily News and the Montgomery Advertiser, as well as a television station. The ad-funded newspaper is operated and operated by Consolidated Publishing Co., based in Annston, Alabama.
Anniston is a market area for broadcasting markets defined by Arbitron. Radio stations are divided into three sub-markets, and Anniston operates two radio stations, AM / FM and FM radio.
US Highway 431 runs north to south through downtown, and Forsyth & Son Grocery is located at the intersection of I-20 and UN Street, just north of downtown Anniston. Atlanta is 146 miles away To the east, Birmingham is 65 miles west (via I / 20) and Huntsville, Alabama, is 65 miles east. The Solutia, Inc., plant is also located on the south side of Interstate 20, about 2 miles south-west of downtown, and includes a 3,000-acre facility.
Anniston has 16 properties on the Alabama Register of Landmarks and Heritage, including the former Solutia Plant, City Hall and several other historic buildings. The Freedom Rider Mural in Anniston had several relatives with founder Samuel Noble, including a statue of him and a mural of his wife Mary Ann Noble outside City Hall. In and around Annistown in Calhoun County, Alabama, there are a number of residential, commercial and public properties that contain or may contain hazardous substances, including polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) and affected media. It consists of approximately 1,000 hectares of residential, commercial and public property containing or could contain a variety of hazardous materials, such as hazardous chemicals, toxic chemicals and toxic media, as well as toxic metals, pesticides and other toxic substances. Annison has a history of historic buildings, many of which are associated with founders Samuel and Noble.
Centennial Memorial Park is the official state veterans memorial and honors Alabamians killed in the service of their country. It commemorates the service and sacrifice of Alabamians killed during the wars in Iraq, Afghanistan, Iraq and Afghanistan during the Second World War.
Several of the city's churches are architecturally significant and historic, including Zion Hill Community Church, known as the oldest church in the state and the first of its kind in Alabama. In Anniston, the Woodstock Company built its first kiln, a 400-metre kiln, in 1887. That year, another small village, also called Woodstock, was built around the new kiln and in Calhoun County. City officials changed the name to Anniston because there was already a village in central Alabama called Woodstock, but not in that part of the city. | <urn:uuid:35961a58-2ec2-4f37-aea8-fdf35f51e2ba> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.helloanniston.com:443/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571909.51/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813051311-20220813081311-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.975998 | 1,133 | 2.1875 | 2 |
Can you become a physical therapist without a degree? If you’re asking this question, we have some bad news for you—but some good news too.
This applies to both physical therapy and physiotherapy, as both require the same education and licensure. You can read our explanation here if you’re curious about the difference between physical therapy and physiotherapy.
No, you can’t become a physical therapist without a degree. Physical therapists in the United States usually spend eight years in college and PT school.
However, you can definitely work in physical therapy settings with less education than that, and physical training is another career you could consider.
Can You Become a Physical Therapist Without a Degree?
As we shared earlier, the answer is a clear no. You can, however, become a physical therapist assistant with an associate’s degree (two years).
However, even this opportunity is phasing out, as many colleges are offering four-year bachelor’s programs for physical therapist assistants. Ouch.
As we wrote in this article, that’s not a great deal for the salary. Physical therapist assistants are also having some trouble finding jobs, even though the Bureau of Labor Statistics estimated a 32% job growth rate over the next decade (source).
If college isn’t an option, you can also become a physical therapy tech (or aide) without a college degree! These jobs are also in high demand. In fact, physical therapy techs are one reason why physical therapist assistants are having more trouble finding jobs.
If you really want to work in physical therapy without a degree, becoming a tech or aide is the best option.
How Long Does It Take to Become a Physical Therapist?
Physical therapists must earn a doctor of physical therapy degree, which usually requires an undergraduate degree and then four years of physical therapy school. Ouch.
This is a fairly recent change, as physical therapists used to just have master’s degrees.
If you’re interested in becoming a physical therapist but eight years sounds daunting, you can also look into accelerated programs where you can combine the bachelor’s degree and doctoral degree into a 7-year program.
What Degree Do You Need to Be a Physical Therapist?
To become a physical therapist, you have to earn a Doctor of Physical Therapy degree. As we mentioned, these are four-year programs after you earn a bachelor’s degree.
To become a physical therapist assistant, you can complete a 2-year associate’s degree that leads to certification. Be aware that many of these programs are transitioning to four-year bachelor’s degrees now.
There’s also lots of healthcare jobs you can get without a degree, so let’s take a look at those.
Healthcare Jobs You Can Get Without a Degree
This great article by Monster provides a great list of healthcare jobs that you can get without a bachelor’s degree, and we’ll just highlight some of the options you can get without even earning an associate’s degree.
Massage therapists, occupational therapy aides, and physical therapist aides don’t require an associate’s degree, and OT and PT aides don’t even require a certificate.
There are several other jobs in categories like laboratory services, medical devices, and patient care that only require a certificate. If you’re interested, we’d recommend checking out the charts in Monster’s article.
In summary, no, you definitely can’t become a physical therapist without a degree, but there are a lot of related jobs you can get with an associate’s degree, or even straight out of high school.
The most closely-related of these jobs is to become a physical therapist tech or aide. These entry-level jobs usually don’t require any higher education.
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A legitimate name must not be rejected merely because it, or its epithet, is inappropriate or disagreeable, or because another is preferable or better known (but see Art. 56.1), or because it has lost its original meaning.
Watznaueria angustoralis Reinhardt, 1964 not be rejected in favour of invalid but better known Tremalithus barnesiae Black, 1959 [Invalid ICN, Art. 35.1]
An illegitimate name is one that is designated as such in Art. 18.3, 19.6, or 52–54 (see also Art. 21 Note 1 and Art. 24 Note 2). A name that according to this Code was illegitimate when published cannot become legitimate later unless Art. 18.3 or 19.6 so provide or unless it is conserved or sanctioned.
A name has no priority outside the rank in which it is published (but see Art. 53.4).
Species Cyclococcolithus astroporus Stradner, 1963 has priority over the subspecies Cyclococcolithus leptoporus inversus Deflandre in Deflandre &Fert, 1954
Species Helicosphaera truncata Bramlette & Wilcoxon, 1967 has priority over the subspecies Helicosphaera seminulum recta Haq, 1966 [if considered synonyms]
Because Cyclococcolithus astroporus and Helicosphaera truncata were published before the above subspecies were amended into species ranks
A name of a taxon has no status under this Code unless it is validly published (see Art. 6.3, but see Art. 14.15).
If the species is invalid when published can not be amended because the invalid species has no statute under ICN.
Loeblich & Tappan (1966) states, "According to ICZN, an available name satisfies the rule; the valid name of a taxon is the oldest available name applied to it. The equivalent terms in the ICBN (=ICN) are legitimate and correct, respectively."
Article 9.1. A holotype of a name of a species or infraspecific taxon is the one specimen or illustration (but see Art. 40.4) used by the author, or designated by the author as the nomenclatural type. As long as the holotype is extant, it fixes the application of the name concerned (but see Art. 9.15).
Note 1: If the author used only one element, it must be accepted as the holotype.
Article 40.1. Publication on or after 1 January 1958 of the name of a new taxon of the rank of genus or below is valid only when the type of the name is indicated (see Art. 7-10; but see Art. H9 Note 1for the names of certain hybrids).
Article 9.2. A lectotype is a specimen or illustration designated from the original material as the nomenclatural type, in conformity with Art. 9.11 and 9.12, if no holotype was indicated at the time of publication, or if the holotype is missing, or if a type is found to belong to more than one taxon (see also Art. 9.14). For sanctioned names, a lectotype may be selected from among elements associated with either or both the protologue and the sanctioning treatment (Art. 9.10).
Conditions for the designation of lectotype can be summarised as below:
1. illustration from the original material as the nomenclatural type
Only original slide or sample is acceptable for "original material". The type area or the type section can not be satisfactory for "original material" designation. They may contain multiple stratigraphic levels / different nannofossil assemblages.
2. if no holotype was indicated at the time of publication
The lectotype can only be designated for the species published before 1 January 1958 if no holotype was indicated at the original publication.
After 1 January 1958, if no holotype was indicated at the original publication, that species is invalid and has no place in ICN (Art. 12.1).
Example: Cribrosphaerella danica Brotzen, 1959
3. if the holotype is missing
This is not applicable for nannofossils because the holotypes photos of all the nannofossils published are publicly available.
4. if a type is found to belong to more than one taxon
This is the only genuine reason for the designation of a lectotype for post 1 January 1958 publications.
Definition of Terms in ICN
Diagnosis: A statement of that which in the opinion of its author distinguishes a taxon from other taxa (Art. 38.2); a diagnosis (or a description) is required for valid publication of a name (Art.38.1(a)).
Designation: [Not defined] – the term used for what appears to be a name but that (1) has not been validly published and hence is not a name in the sense of the Code (Art. 6.3 and 46.4) or (2) is not to be regarded as a name (Art. 20.4, 23.4, and 23.6).
Final epithet: The last epithet in sequence in any particular combination, whether in the rank of a subdivision of a genus, or of a species, or of an infraspecific taxon (Art. 11.4 footnotes).
Holotype: The one specimen or illustration used by the author, or designated by the author as the nomenclatural type (Art. 9.1).
Lectotype: A specimen or illustration designated from the original material as the nomenclatural type if no holotype was indicated at the time of publication, or if the holotype is missing, or if a type is found to belong to more than one taxon (Art.9.2).
Name: A name that has been validly published, whether it is legitimate or illegitimate (Art. 6.3) (see also designation).
Specimen: A gathering, or part of a gathering, of a single species or infraspecific taxon made at one time, disregarding admixtures, mounted either as a single preparation or as more than one preparation with the parts clearly labelled as being part of the same specimen (Art. 8.2 and 8.3).
Taxon (Taxa): A taxonomic group at any rank (Art. 1.1).
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What are the characteristics of a successful marital life? Usually, a healthy romantic relationship is seen as a commitment and avoidance of infidelity. Cheating destroys trust as well as the meaning of the monogamous romantic relationship, while commitment and understanding make the romance work. Inevitably, determination and appreciate are the best elements for a good relationship. However how can a small number of achieve this kind of high requirements? Here are some recommendations. First, consider if the relationship is really meant for love or money.
One of the most important characteristics of a healthy marital life is forgiveness. Couples exactly who are willing to forgive one another will be closer than those who do not. Partnerships based on trust are more likely to last the entire life than ones based on too little of trust. To produce trust in your romantic relationship, both associates must be affected individual and show common admiration. It takes both equally partners’ dedication and willingness to forgive to make a stable matrimony.
Liability is another significant characteristic of a successful marital life. Both associates should take responsibility for their activities and jobs in the romance. This does not mean alike responsibility. However , if an individual partner is the sole responsibility of a household, that may lead to the other turning into underappreciated and overworked. In addition , it is vital to remember that each spouse needs the other to be able to thrive. In the long run, this makes every partner truly feel more appreciative of each various other.
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You remember the popular Clairol “Loving Care” television commercial…
Only your hairdresser knows for sure
Everything we believe is based on our personal assumptions about reality. When Chicken Little got clunked on the head by an acorn, his perception was “The sky is falling!” Just like Chicken Little, our perception is our reality—even if it doesn’t line up with everyone else’s.
Our minds have models of what they feel represents reality. Everything we think we know is based on implied assumptions we’ve embraced about how reality works. These assumptions are known as “constructs.”
In science there’s a principle known as Occam’s Razor—this concept states that the simplest explanation is usually the correct one. Using Occam’s Razor we understand that the more constructs we need to have for a belief to be true, the more likely it’s not.
Some beliefs require an awful lot of constructs…the belief that we’ll always be alone, the belief that we’re not smart enough, the belief that we’re not creative, the belief that no one cares. These types of beliefs require thousands of constructs about reality in order to be accurate—there’s a much greater chance they’re not.
It ain’t what you don’t know that gets you into trouble.
It’s what you know for sure that just ain’t so.
— Mark Twain
What do you know for sure—for absolutely certain?
“Whatever you are not changing, you are choosing.”
— Laurie Buchanan
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Linda Sarhan has been a freelance writer and researcher for 20+ years and has a B.A. in English and creative writing.
Lightning is the most powerful electrical force on planet earth. Striking around 80 million times a day worldwide, lightning is the most dangerous occurrence on the face of the planet. It is said that more people die from lightning strikes than from hurricanes and tornadoes each year. Summer months create ripe conditions for more frequent lightning strikes. But how exactly does lightning form?
When the sun heats the land and the air above it warm, damp air rises. As it rises, the warm air cools causing it to condense and form clouds. Clouds collide and merge into other clouds forming bigger clouds. The clouds continue to rise and spread out into the stratosphere forming an anvil-shaped cloud. These anvil-shaped clouds are cumulonimbus clouds, which are the largest clouds that produce lightning.
As the cloud cools, tiny particles of ice form and fall down through the cloud. Larger ice particles fall to earth as hail stones. The falling ice particles cause friction against rising particles. This friction creates electrical charges within the cloud. Positive electrical charges build toward the top of the cloud and negative electrical charges build toward the lower parts of the cloud.
The opposite electrical charges jump from one area to another trying to seek a state of balance. The energy that builds from this process comes in the form of lightning. Most lightning strikes occur between clouds. Some lightning isn't even visible to the naked eye.
Until recently scientists barely knew anything about how lightning forms and what path it takes. Although there is still much to learn about lightning, the breakthroughs that have been made are due to modern advances in photography. Through photography and video, scientists have been able to slow down and freeze the footage of a lightning strike to get a glimpse into the formation of a cloud-to-ground lightning bolt. So what really does happen from the time the electrical charge leaves the cloud to when it hits the ground?
As the electrical charge leaves the bottom of a negatively charged cloud, it is searching for a positively charged target, and just not any positively charged target. Lightning appears to the naked eye as just a bolt of electricity going from the cloud to the ground but there is more to it than meets the eye when comes to lightning. The anatomy of lightning is more complex than one might think.
First Stage of Lightning
The first stage of lightning is when a negative electrical charge darts out of the cloud in fifty-yard segments. This stage of lightning is called step leaders. The step leaders are like feelers darting and dividing out in various directions looking for a target. As these step leaders get closer to the ground, something quite extraordinary occurs.
Second Stage of Lightning
The second stage is when positive electrical charges from the ground react to the electrical charge in the atmosphere coming from the step leaders. Positively charged streamers reach up from the ground and objects on the ground searching to connect with the negatively charged step leaders. These positive streamers can stretch up anywhere from a few feet to a few hundred feet until it connects with the step leaders.
Third Stage of Lightning
The third and final stage is when the step leaders connect with the positive streamers. In a flash, the electrical charge drains from the cloud to the earth. This is what most people see in lightning storms. A bolt of lightning takes less than 0.5 seconds to drain the electrical charge and most bolts of lightning are less than 2 inches in diameter.
As most people know, where there is thunder there is lightning. Thunder occurs when lightning causes the sudden heating of the atmosphere. Lightning is actually a hotter temperature than the surface of the sun. This sudden heating of the atmosphere causes the air to expand rapidly, creating an explosion of atoms and molecules. The sound heard from this is what we know as thunder.
Most people were told growing up to count the seconds between lightning and thunder to determine how fast the storm is moving. However, this may not be entirely accurate. Lightning can travel and strike up to 10 miles from the storm.
But have you ever wondered why there seems to be a pause between a lightning strike and thunder? This is because light travels faster than sound. In fact, light can travel a mile in .00000538 seconds but it takes 5 seconds for sound to travel a mile. So ultimately, the best prediction one can make by counting between lightning and thunder is how close the lightning strike was.
There is still so much that scientists still do not know about lightning. Only recently have scientists been able to understand the basics of how lightning forms, yet there is still so much we don't know. In fact, we understand more about how a star in space explodes compared to why lightning occurs and predicting lightning strikes. Luckily, with the advancement of technology, scientists are unlocking the many secrets behind how lightning forms and predicting where it will strike.
This content is accurate and true to the best of the author’s knowledge and is not meant to substitute for formal and individualized advice from a qualified professional.
© 2014 Linda Sarhan
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Sea turtle nesting season officially ended on October 31, however our biologists are still out on the beach every morning to conduct nesting surveys on Jupiter beach and to monitor the remaining sea turtle nests on Juno, Jupiter and Tequesta beaches.
We have not recorded any new sea turtle crawls since October 18, when a green turtle nest was documented on Tequesta beach. In general, sea turtles have a two week internesting interval (the time between depositing a nest and re-emerging to nest again) Therefore, the nest we documented on October 18 was likely the final nest for the season.
In preparation for two upcoming nourishment projects on Jupiter beach, our research team will be conducting daily surveys on Jupiter beach until November 30. Any late season nests will be relocated to an area outside of the project area. So far, our team has safely relocated 6 sea turtle nests (1 loggerhead and 5 green turtle). The first relocated nest hatched on November 6 and will be excavated on November 9.
As of November 6, there are 23 marked sea turtle nests remaining in our survey area. This season, our research crew recorded over 11,000 nests and marked about 1,300 of those nests for evaluation. A sample of the nests are marked and evaluated, to be representative of the beach as a whole. If we were to mark every single nest, there would be a wooden nest stake about every 4 feet!
LMC biologists will continue to monitor the remaining marked nests until they have hatched, and then excavate the nests to calculate the emergence success (percentage of hatchlings that successfully hatched and got out of the nest). The excavation data are used to evaluate how many hatchlings were produced along our survey area. Last season, we estimated that 1,122,129 hatchlings were produced along Juno, Jupiter and Tequesta beaches! | <urn:uuid:9b4dd978-d5ed-4e2c-b94e-04ba45c721dd> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://marinelife.org/2014/11/13/research-update-2/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571909.51/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813051311-20220813081311-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.969951 | 374 | 2.34375 | 2 |
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For some people, it’s an ongoing, even lifelong, struggle to lose weight and keep it off. You can easily get discouraged if you try diets, over-the-counter supplements or one exercise program after another without positive results.
It may be time to seek help from your health care provider – especially if you need to lose weight because of certain medical conditions. Excessive weight gain or obesity is associated with a higher risk of type 2 diabetes, hypertension, dyslipidemia, and coronary heart disease.
Your physician will recommend the best treatment for you based on the following factors:
- Your age, medical history, overall health and physical abilities
- How overweight you are
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Robert E. Sheriff1
Search and Discovery Article #40132 (2004)
*Adapted from the Geophysical Corner column in AAPG Explorer, April, 2004, entitled “A Demystifying of Deconvolution” and prepared by the author. Appreciation is expressed to the author, to Alistar R. Brown, editor of Geophysical Corner, and to Larry Nation, AAPG Communications Director, for their support of this online version.
1Professor, University of Houston ([email protected])
Deconvolution is a process universally applied to seismic data, but is one that is mysterious to many geoscientists. Deconvolution compresses the basic wavelet in the recorded seismogram and attenuates reverberations and short-period multiples. Hence, it increases resolution and yields a more interpretable seismic section.
Note the differences in the Figure 1. The quality of modern seismic data owes a great deal to the success of deconvolution. Seismic processing often involves several stages of deconvolution, each of a different type and with a different objective.
Deconvolution usually involves convolution with an inverse filter. The idea is that this will undo the effects of a previous filter, such as the earth or the recording system. The difficulty in designing an inverse filter is that we hardly ever know the properties of the filter whose effects we are trying to remove.
Deterministic deconvolution can be used to remove the effects of the recording system, if the system characteristics are known. This type also can be used to remove the ringing that results from waves undergoing multiple bounces in the water layer, if the travel time in the water layer and the reflectivity of the seafloor are known.
In the case of the earth, the previous filtering that was applied is not known, and thus the deconvolution takes on a statistical nature. In this situation the needed information comes from an autocorrelation of the seismic trace. Because the embedded wavelet from the source is repeated at each reflecting interface, this repetition is captured by the autocorrelation and used to design the inverse filter.
The embedded wavelet ordinarily dominates the early part of an autocorrelation, whereas multiples dominate the later part. Hence different parts of the autocorrelation are used to determine different filters for different types of deconvolution. The embedded wavelet then can be recovered from the early part of the autocorrelation, but, because the autocorrelation contains amplitude information only, an assumption about phase is required. Minimum phase in the recorded data is usually assumed, and normally this is a good assumption. The output of the deconvolution, however, is normally zero phase. The enormous interpretive benefits of zero phase data have been discussed in previous Geophysical Corner columns ("Seismic/Geology Links Critical," AAPG Explorer November 1996, also Search and Discovery Article #40130 (2004), and "Zero Phase Can Aid Interpretation," AAPG Explorer April 1997, also in “Understanding the Seismic Wavelet,” by Steven G. Henry, Search and Discovery Article #40028 (2001)).
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OLED In AR (Augmented Reality) Application
The beginnings of Head-Mounted Displays (HMDs) date back to the 1960s. In the 1990s further developed data glasses, which are initially associated with the entertainment/gaming sector, were mainly used in professional scenarios, such as pilot training or robot programming. Today, data glasses and HMDs have become indispensable in the age of industry 4.0 for production, maintenance and medical applications.
For more than 10 years, many big displays manufactures have been developing applications and display solutions based on the OLED-on-silicon technology that are predestined for the use in data glasses and HMDs. In the meantime, a whole series of OLED microdisplays has been developed and their parameters are being continuously improved. Each display is designed application-specific, because parameters such as brightness, resolution, power consumption, screen size and complexity of the electronics play a major role in the increasingly professional and demanding requirements.
Panox Display’s small, high-resolution OLED Microdisplay advances Augmented Reality applications with excellent image quality and fast response times.
OLED Microdisplays are commonly found in a lot of today’s augmented reality (AR) applications, thanks to their benefits such as contrast, size and low consumption.
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3.Superior moving picture quality with extremely
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8.Easy integration into OEM devices
ADVANTAGES OF OLED MICRODISPLAYS
The OLED Microdisplays have numerous advantages compared to other display types. In addition to the picture quality, their material flexibility and module composition makes them a best-in-class candidate for easy integration into embedded vision projects. Compared to other small OLED displays on the market, Panox Display delivers excellent contrast ratio of 100,000:1.
(LCD(left) vs Micro-OLED(right) AR performance)
SPECIFIC ADVANTAGES FOR WEARABLES
OLED technology demonstrates specific advantages for integration into head-mounted displays and wearables for Augmented Reality (AR) applications. The high contrast provided by OLED Microdisplays allows the additional information layer to appear seamlessly, and not as an overlay; this information is simply added to the background for a “real AR” experience. Microdisplays, with no color breakup, produces very high visibility of the additional layer with crisp, clear images, without blurring. The
small package footprint allows wearables to be produced more compactly and lighter for increased usability and wearing convenience. With its small packaging, effective and bright technology, OLED technology is suitable for
many more potential applications using microsized displays in both industrial and consumer electronics to provide a very high picture quality.
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Traditionally, physicians are trained to diagnose and treat anaphylaxis as an acute emergency in a health care setting. In addition to this crucial and time-honored role, we should be cognizant of our wider responsibility to (1) provide a risk assessment for individuals with anaphylaxis, (2) prevent future anaphylaxis episodes by developing long-term personalized risk reduction strategies for affected individuals, and (3) emphasize anaphylaxis education. Risk assessment should include verification of the trigger factor or factors for the anaphylaxis episode by obtaining a comprehensive history and performing relevant investigations, including allergen skin tests and measurement of allergen-specific IgE in serum. In addition, the potential effect of comorbidities and concurrently administered medications on the recognition and emergency treatment of subsequent episodes should be determined. Risk reduction strategies should be personalized to include information about avoidance of specific triggers and initiation of relevant specific preventive treatment (eg, venom immunotherapy). At-risk individuals should be coached in the use of self-injectable epinephrine and equipped with an anaphylaxis emergency action plan and with accurate medical identification. Anaphylaxis education should be provided for these individuals, their families and caregivers, health care professionals, and the general public. Further development of an optimal diagnostic test for anaphylaxis and of tests and algorithms to predict future risk and prevent fatality are urgently needed. | <urn:uuid:4f584279-095a-4129-b96a-3dc36163ba47> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/16461138/?dopt=Abstract | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572033.91/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814113403-20220814143403-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.918396 | 291 | 2.578125 | 3 |
Popped fuses, smoked relays and melted wires are telltale signs of big current draws. Electric cooling fans have traditionally been the biggest current hogs on any electrical device on an automotive application. Huge startup currents and high continuous currents can often cause fuses to blow, relays to fail and wires to melt in the cooling fan circuit. While undersized relays and wires are often to blame, it is the nature of a brushed motor that creates the issue.
Text by Michael Ferrara // Photos by Cameron ParsonsDSPORT Issue #183
Brush, Brush, Brush
If you have ever pushed a car from a dead stop up to a rolling speed, then you have a sense of the current demand curve for a brushed motor. When the motor is completely stopped, a great deal of inrush current is needed to put it into motion and to overcome the inertia of the system. Once the inrush current is supplied, the motor begins to turn. As it gains speed, the amount of current drawn begins to fall. Once the motor reaches operating speed, the current demand reaches its minimal amount.
New cars are moving away from brushed motors for many systems. Part of the move to brushless motors is the desire to increase fuel mileage. Brushless motors will often use only 50-to-60 percent of the energy as a brushed motor when operating at peak motor speed and even less when the speed is reduced. Since all brushless motors require a speed controller to create the moving magnetic field that makes the motor rotate, there is already an efficient means of reducing motor speeds when peak speeds are not needed. This can be used to reduce the energy consumption of a fuel pump during idle and cruising or it can be used to reduce the speed of an electric cooling fan when the vehicle is at speed. In addition, brushless motors have no wearable parts, so service life is greatly improved. A brushless motor will also not make sparks and it generally produces less electrical noise while providing higher output for its size compared to a brushed motor.
Real Life Testing
Understanding in theory is great, but proof in application is a must at DSPORT. While we have already tested brushless fuel pumps and seen the superiority over brushed fuel pumps, this would be the first time we tested electric fans with both a brushed and brushless motor.
For years, we’ve relied upon a 385mm (a.k.a. 16”), 12V high-performance puller fan from SPAL (p/n 30102082 or VA33-AP71/LL-65A) to keep the cooling system at temp on our Project RH8 GT-R. On the vehicle, this fan is wired up with a 10-gauge wire, a 40A fuse and a high-current 80A relay. With the fan mounted to the radiator to simulate operating conditions, we recorded the startup and running current demands of this electric fan. Once the fan reached its peak continuous speed, it pulled an average of 22.0 amps of current at a supplied voltage of 13.5 volts. This equates to an operating energy of about 300 watts. We also started the fan from a dead stop and recorded the peak inrush current. This was as high as 89 amps and averaged over 80 amps. It’s these short but strong current pulls that tend to wear out under-rated fuses and relays and get your supply wires hot.
For comparison, we selected a 385mm, 12V high-performance brushless puller fan (p/n 30107072 or VA91-ABL326P/N-65A) to run against our brushed fan baseline. This fan is essentially the brushless twin. The only dimension difference is that this fan is even slimmer (81mm thick versus 95mm thick). The brushless variant is also a pound lighter (5.25 pounds versus 6.25 pounds). Of course, the newer technology brushless is more expensive with a street price of around $360 versus $165 for the brushed fan. Over the life of ownership, the difference in price will be made up in the savings in fuel.
With the brushless fan mounted to the radiator to simulate operating conditions, we also recorded the current demands. Since brushless fans require a PWM signal to set their speed, we used a signal generator to simulate a general purpose output from an aftermarket ECU (SPAL also offers a number of other solutions to control the fan for applications where a PWM signal cannot be supplied by the ECU). Once the fan reached its peak continuous speed, it pulled an average of 11 amps of current at a supplied voltage of 13.5 volts. This equates to an operating energy of about 150 watts, half of the brushed motor fan. By manipulating the PWM signal, the fan speed could be reduced from 2,500RPM, down to about 850RPM. At the slowest speed, current draw is just under 4.0 amps. In this state, the fan is only using a little over 50 watts. However, what was truly impressive was the starting current. While the brushed motor fan pulled a mountain of current on startup, the brushed motor was the exact opposite. Instead, the speed control circuitry in the fan allowed for a soft start that slowly ramped up the current from 3.0 amps to 11.0 amps over a period of about 15 seconds. This soft-start strategy and the PWM-regulated speed control reduces wear on relays and keeps fuses happy. With a capable aftermarket ECU, the tuner has the ability to control fan speed based on many inputs (engine coolant temperature, vehicle speed, throttle position). Fan speed can be increased as engine coolant temp rises, it can be reduced as vehicle speed is increased and it can be reduced or shut off during full-throttle acceleration for peak performance.
If you do not have an aftermarket ECU with a spare PWM output, SPAL offers solutions that allow the system to utilize a temperature sensor to trigger the fan and control the speed.
Watts it All Mean?
When an upgrade is made from a brushed-motor to a brushless-motor electric cooling fan and the average energy consumption drops from 300 watts to 100 watts, fuel economy will increase on the order of 1 mile per gallon. Hence, if you drive 15,000 miles per year in a vehicle that normally gets 25MPG (but now delivers 26MPG after the brushless fan), you’ll save 23 gallons of gas per year. Depending on where you live and the price of gas, the additional cost of the brushless fan (about $200) would be offset in two or three years. You would also have about a half horsepower advantage at the wheels by reducing the draw on the charging system by 200 watts (15 amps).
The Bottom Line
Brushless electric motors are becoming more and more common in automotive applications. In addition to brushless motors being used in engine cooling fans, we are also seeing brushless motors used in fuel pumps, power-assisted steering systems, ABS braking systems and even the climate control system. While OEMs have embraced brushless technology, it’s been relatively slow to catch on in the performance aftermarket. However, those that take the time to understand the advantages can reap the benefits of brushless motor fans and fuel pumps for increased performance, efficiency and reliability. | <urn:uuid:52e535a0-5efd-4721-85aa-9840630738fd> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://dsportmag.com/the-tech/education/quick-tech-the-ultimate-electric-fan-solution/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572033.91/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814113403-20220814143403-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.940982 | 1,524 | 2.796875 | 3 |
Sea Us Rise Site Founder Michael Kingsford shared inspiration from Holly Thorpe’s school project. Her mission to show the dangerous levels of CO2 emissions given off by the classic yellow school bus changed things in a big way for students in Miami.
Sea Us Rise was inspired to see how Holly’s mission is affecting positive change for future generations in the Miami-Dade County Public Schools.
The Journey of a 6th Grader to
Turn the Yellow School Bus Green
By Holly Thorpe
Have you ever wanted to make a change in the world?
Well for as long as I can remember I have.
When I was in 6th grade, I had the opportunity to start my journey on making a change in
the world. It all started with my 6th grade science project. I guess it was destiny because my
teacher said to choose a topic from our Science book and I decided that whatever page I turned
to would be my topic.
The page was about CO2 in the atmosphere. Now, I had to come up with a science project based on CO2. I live in Florida so global warming takes a huge effect on my life. My home could be flooded in just a few years if we do not make a change.
I learned that the primary source of global warming is co2 and the #1 contributor of CO2 is transportation. So, I knew CO2 is causing climate change and I knew that transportation was one of the main issues creating an excessive amount of CO2 in our atmosphere.
From there I knew I was going to focus on CO2 emissions from transport and I chose to focus on the school buses because I ride the school bus and I can see the dirty exhaust pollution, I can smell it, I can feel it, and I knew that this yellow school bus had to be one of the worst forms of transportation running on our streets today.
That’s how I decided to do my science project on the amount of co2 produced from my own schools’ school buses.
The first thing I had to do was decide where to measure the co2 levels. I decided that the bus loading zone (a place right next to the buses where the students wait for their bus) and inside the bus would be perfect comparisons. Of course, my hypothesis was that the air outside the school bus where you can see this black smoke would have the worse CO2 levels, I had no doubt I would be able to prove this.
So, for days I would take a huge syringe (100cc) and my CO2 detecting test tubes to my school and take air samples from outside the bus and then again inside the bus to measure the levels of CO2 pollution.
This was a little scary and embarrassing. Imagine a student holding a huge syringe, cutting glass tubes, and then extracting air and pushing it through this long tubing for over 2 minutes for each air sample.
Next came the big surprise
My research found that outside the buses it was around 1000 ppm which I expected. This is 2x the recommended healthy amount but inside the bus, whoa….I was completely shocked because it was 5000 ppm and five times higher than outside! It was also the highest level of my gas detection tubes!
How can this be? I must have done something wrong, this can’t be. So, I repeated the test three more times and three different days and it was the same. This toxic CO2 pollution is getting trapped inside the buses and we are breathing it while we go to and from school! How can this be? This can’t be safe? No wonder my head always hurts when I ride the bus.
I was just completely shocked after getting these results because not only can this negatively affect the environment, but it also affects the students, drivers, and well anyone inside the bus. During my research I had to investigate if there was information showing my results and yes, I found studies confirming that CO2 and other toxic fumes get trapped inside the bus. It can cause headaches, nausea, asthma, and even cancer which is very dangerous.
It can also affect student grades and absences. I’m sure the school bus must be responsible for students being sick or not being able to focus after such a dirty polluted ride. That is when I decided we really needed to make a change. Living in this toxic environment was not okay.
I decided to go speak to the school board because they are the ones that make the decision to change to electric school buses. I had heard that they were looking into buying CNG (compressed natural gas) buses and I wanted them to stop thinking about that and actually make the only change that would make a real difference.
Switch to Electric
No other alternative is better. Before I spoke during the school board meeting one of the school board members asked my mom for a meeting because my science report and the data I found were sent to the school board.
We thought, this is great, but when my mom arrived they didn’t want to speak about my project… they brought in the transportation supervisors, who brought big black binders filled with reports showing how great their old yellow diesel schools were being maintained and that they met all regulations.
My mom told them to close the binders and that she wasn’t there to sue but to share information that I had discovered so that they can work together to provide good, clean transportation for the
students, the drivers, and the planet. My mom says they were trying to CYA (you probably
know what that means).
Then came the day that I was going to speak directly during the public comments of the school board meeting. I got all the needed information and even information about the Volkswagen funding available for them. They put me last, I was tired, cold, and nervous.
While I waited during the break, the Superintendent came by and asked me why I was there. Well that made even a little more nervous. My time came to stand up and go to the microphone. You are timed for a maximum of 3 minutes and you can’t go over or they stop you.
I walked up to the microphone and I was extremely nervous. I was not sure if they would agree
to get the buses or even listen to my statements or how they would react to hearing my say that
the school buses are bad for the students and the environment but very much to my delight the
Superintendent made a commitment.
He publicly stated that when they did move forward with buying new buses they would go straight to electric. At least, CNG buses were out of the way. It was a step in the right direction but I knew my work wasn’t done yet. I had to make sure that our school district would actually apply for the funds available to them for electric school buses and that they would actually begin to phase out the dirty, noisy, polluting, unhealthy yellow school bus sooner rather than later.
And then a little set back…
COVID came came to town and everything seemed less important than it was just the day before. Things got pushed back. The Florida Dept of Environmental Protection that is awarding the Volkswagen funds to school districts postponed the application and award process.
Now, we have a bigger problem in the world. What’s happening to our planet? Life changing virus and a global threat of not having a livable world when I’m older?
So time went by, but I kept speaking on different platforms like Zoom meetings. Lion Electric
heard about my project and I spoke with them. They loved to see a kid doing what I was doing.
I spoke to bus drivers, to other climate leaders, and we kept the momentum for making the
change to electric school buses. Then the Florida Dept of Environmental Protection announced
that the school districts would have to reapply.
Fast forward to January of this year
It’s my turn again to go make sure the district will apply before the deadline. I have to go speak
to the School Board again. This time it was going to be different. This time I was going to thank
them for making change, for their commitment, and their time.
I was also coming with a few friends; Lion Electric would speak; Bus Driver would speak; Bus Union leader would speak; parents would speak; teachers would speak; and me – a student would once again speak to make sure that they secured funds for the transition and phasing out of the dirty old yellow school bus to the greener, healthier, quieter, safer, and electric version.
Lion Electric even brought an electric school bus to Miami and offered free rides (wearing a mask) around the block to anyone that wanted to ride and for all the school board members, bus drivers, and even the media.
The Miami Herald came on board with me and they did an article which made this go almost viral and get more momentum. This was so exciting. The electric school buses are amazing! Quiet, Clean, Smell good, no engine noise, no dirty black exhaust emissions, and safe. After my ride it was time again to head to the district office for the School Board meeting and to address them once again during public comments.
Again, I was nervous because you never know how they will respond but even before we spoke,
The Superintendent stood up and announced to all the school board members and the public,
that what the next speakers were going to speak about was already DONE!
Success, the application was submitted, the school board is committed, and now we await the first of many electric school buses in Miami Dade County Schools. This made me so happy because me, the Green Champions (this a group I’m part of at my school who really pushed me and supported me to make this happen and work very hard at ensuring our schools will be carbon neutral by 2030) and my school district would now be taking action to ensure the our planet will be a liveable world for me and future generations.
I hope all school districts follow in taking the same action and that by 2030 there will be not one single dirty polluting school bus on the streets transporting students. That by 2030 all students will have access to electric school buses and that many of the cars on the streets will also be electric because it’s not only school buses creating this heavy blanket of CO2 that is warming our planet and destroying our future, but all transport.
Right now, I’m just overjoyed that I was able to achieve my mission of turning the yellow school buses green but we must continue to become carbon neutral and sustainable in all things we do because there is still a lot more work to ensure we can protect our planet.
There is no planet B.
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A Nepalese Sherpa guide has once again broken his own record, scaling Mount Everest for the 19th time, mountaineering officials said Thursday.
Appa, who like most Sherpas goes by one name, reached the 29,035-foot peak early Thursday, guiding foreign clients and accompanied by several other fellow guides, said Ang Tshering of the Nepal Mountaineering Association.
Tshering said Appa and members of the team are safe and returning to lower camps after spending a few minutes on top of the world.
Appa, 48, first climbed Everest in 1989 and has done so almost every year since. His closest rival is fellow Sherpa guide Chhewang Nima, who has made 15 trips.
Appa now lives in the United States, having settled in the Salt Lake City suburb of Draper in 2006.
Scores of climbers are also reported to have scaled Everest on Thursday, Tshering said.
Dozens of climbers have reached the summit in the past three days after weather conditions on the mountain improved. Snow and high winds in the past few weeks had prevented climbers from making their way up the slopes of Everest.
May is considered the best time to climb the mountain. The harsh weather on Everest allows only about two windows — anywhere from a couple of days to a week — in May when conditions are favorable enough for the push to the summit.
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Seeking appropriate woodworking strategies that can subsequently aid you to achieve perfect woodworking jobs can be a time-consuming task.
In this blog post, we will certainly recognize a lot more about Woodworking Plans For A Workbench as well as elements to consider when picking a woodworking strategy.
Woodworking Plan Sypnosis
A Woodworking plan refers to the blueprint for building woodworks which can include drafts prepared with pencils or pen as well as paper.
It likewise includes more detailed drawings in the kind of scaled layouts called patterns with dimensions required for making joints like mortise & tenon joints.
Woodworking plans usually include instructions of what timber to buy for the task, along with device listings and reducing representations. Woodworkers can function from a Woodworking plan by reading it in order to identify their next stage of action or they may pick not to get in touch with the Woodworking strategy whatsoever.
These woodworking plans consist of photos highlighting exactly how each piece should look throughout the assembly process which enables customers to see if they have the woodworking abilities essential for completing a task successfully.
Woodworkers can likewise make use of woodworking Plans as recommendation factors as well as change them to fit their needs, or they might browse online databases of woodworking plans that are used by seasoned craftsmen in numerous places.
Truth About Woodworking Plan
Woodworking is the activity of cutting, shaping, and also setting up wood. Woodworkers are commonly carpenters, cupboard makers, shipwrights, and other individuals who deal with timber as their main material or item.
Woodworking has been going on for a very long time. It is among the earliest crafts around – excavators have actually discovered proof that people were making hand tools out of timber concerning two million years earlier.
By discovering woodworking you can utilize your hands and also creative thinking to create something gorgeous. Woodworking is not just about making things for other individuals, you can make special jobs or gifts for yourself, as well!
Woodwork includes the creation of furnishings, cupboards, floor covering, and far more. Woodworkers commonly deal with wood alone however also include metal such as nails and screws in their work.
Learning Woodworking Woodworking Plans For A Workbench
To find out Woodworking you require to start with the essentials to obtain a feel of just how Woodworking works. Woodworkers can construct every little thing from furniture, cupboards, and also doors to toys like shaking steeds or wood trains.
Novices can think about taking woodwork courses in order to learn the standard devices such as hammers, screwdrivers, as well as saws – both handsaws and also power round saws called scroll or reciprocating saws.
Various other woodworking tools that are important are timber chisels, planes, clamps for holding boards together while they are being serviced, bench dogs that keep things lined up during intending operations, steel shaping tools called bending irons utilized for making curved surfaces along a side.
Picking Woodworking Projects
Choosing the ideal woodworking job is vital taking into consideration getting into the craft. Woodworking projects can range from straightforward to extremely intricate, yet, they all have one point in common, you will require timber for them.
Recognizing what type of job is the best match for your skill level and available resources are key when it involves picking a job.
If you are rather proficient with tools however do not desire anything also complicated, then a little side table would be perfect.
Similarly, if you just know the fundamentals of utilizing power devices and also can use more methods prior to taking on something larger like an end-table or shelf, then beginning with a birdhouse could be right up your alley.
Despite which kind of woodworking job attract you, it is crucial to make certain that you have the correct woodworking plan that shows you properly to deal with your task.
Woodworking plans are offered online, in publications and books, or from other woodworkers that have experience with the kind of woodworking project, you wish to carry out.
Types of Timber For Woodworking
The quality of wood is the most vital element when choosing the wood that will be used for your woodworking project.
Wood high quality describes exactly how dense as well as difficult the grain of the timber is, which determines what sort of surface can be related to it. For example, high-quality timber like oak can have multiple layers of polyurethane.
Woods with good natural toughness are generally harder woods such as mahogany or walnut while softer woods consist of pine, cedar, poplar, or fir.
Plywood originates from slim sheets of fairly affordable as well as consistent product commonly made from softwood veneers pressed along with adhesive in between layers so they adhere well without making use of nails or screws. Given that it is low cost and available in great sizes.
Creating woodworks at home is a suggestion that has always been popular and connected with a feeling of self-reliance. Woodworking is not only for people that have experience or ever done it as a job.
With the appropriate woodworking plan, timber products, tools, and also the determination to put in time and also initiative by themselves home jobs, every person can do it on their own as well as build a furniture piece, made especially for their house.
Woodworking skills are easily available to anyone with the best attitude as well as inspiration, and much of these craftsmen have great creations that you can make in the house.
The sort of woodworking jobs that can do at home are infinite, they can include tiny tasks such as a cutting board, birdhouse, or plaything box huge items of furnishings consisting of tables and chairs.
Woodworking is an art that always has time for newbies that have never ever done it before and also the more seasoned woodworkers also.
A few examples of home Do It Yourself woodworking:
– A cradle for your newborn baby constructed of timber from lumber trees in your backyard.
– An outside bench utilized by good friends during an evening barbecue event.
Conclusion Woodworking Plans For A Workbench
It’s true that woodworking can seem complicated and also difficult. But, with the ideal Woodworking Plans For A Workbench, products, and devices in position, it does not have to be.
You don’t need any experience or understanding in carpentry whatsoever before you begin a woodworking project. You feel in one’s bones what your abilities are and also how much time you intend to devote to this new pastime.
If you’re somebody that’s looking for a very easy Do It Yourself woodworking job, yet, wants something more than painting furniture or structure flatpacks from scratch, we suggest either beginning little.
You can select standard woodworking projects like cutting boards out of plywood or tackling one of our intermediate plans such as making a potting bench.
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Cybercrime investigator salary [Updated 2021]
Cybercrime investigators play an exciting and valuable role in solving crimes perpetrated online.
If it involves fraud, identity theft, money laundering or cyber-harassment, there’s a team of cybercrime investigators working behind the scenes to recover evidence and bring it to court. These versatile individuals have a highly technical skill set in digital forensics in addition to a strong knowledge of traditional investigation techniques and legal issues.
Cybercrime investigators can have a variety of job titles: digital forensics analyst, incident responder and computer forensics technician are just a few. Professionals in these roles often have a bachelor’s degree, although it may be possible to get started with the right combination of certifications and work experience — especially in the law enforcement arena.
Job titles differ based on a few key factors like day-to-day responsibilities, area of specialization and seniority. As you might have already guessed, that also impacts how much you can expect to make at each role.
In this article, we’ll do a deep dive into salary data for each of the job titles mentioned above. Having a clear understanding of salary expectations is especially helpful if you’re contemplating a career in cybercrime investigation or considering a promotion.
What factors determine cybercrime investigator salary?
According to ZipRecruiter, cybercrime investigators in the U.S. make an average of $99,958 per year. However, many factors come into play when determining your compensation. The major ones include:
- Bachelor’s degree or master’s degree
- Professional experience
- Specific job title/level of seniority
Degrees and certifications represent the mastery of skills related to cybercrime investigation and digital forensics. Having a degree and relevant certifications will grant you access to higher income thresholds. Likewise, you’ll earn more money as you gain more years of experience in the field.
Location is a factor that is sometimes overlooked. The city you live in influences how much you can expect to make as a cybersecurity investigator. As a rule of thumb, cities with a higher cost of living produce higher salaries. Earning a higher salary is nice, but keep in mind that expenses are also higher in those areas!
Lastly, the industry you work in also impacts your salary expectations. Cybercrime Investigators can work for law enforcement agencies, corporations, and consulting firms. Working for a consulting firm gives you the most earning potential because you can work for both law enforcement agencies and private companies simultaneously.
We’ll explore salaries for some of the most common job titles in the cybercrime investigation field, using data from ZipRecruiter and the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.
How much does a cybercrime investigator make?
Cybercrime investigators usually begin their careers in one of two fields: traditional law enforcement or information technology. At some point along the way, they receive specialized training in the investigation of online crimes, which opens the doorway to cybercrime investigation. The field you work in — IT or law enforcement — will be the main factor determining how much you make as a cybercrime investigator.
Here’s what you can expect to make working for a company or consulting firm:
- National average: $100,000
- New York: $109,400
- Washington DC: $105,738
- Chicago: $102,318
- San Francisco: $117,006
- Seattle: $108,490
Cybercrime investigators working in law enforcement have a slightly lower baseline salary. According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, police officers and detectives who investigate cybercrimes make an average of $63,380, while private detectives can expect to make $50,090.
Computer forensics analyst
Entry-level analysts typically have one to two years of work experience or internship experience in a role related to computer forensics. It’s common to have a bachelor’s degree and relevant certifications, especially for analysts working at private firms. Law enforcement bodies may have their own specific training programs that analysts undergo.
Most computer forensics analysts can expect to make between $73,699 (25th percentile) to $129,997 (75th percentile), according to ZipRecruiter.
- Nationwide: $100,063
- New York: $108,280
- Washington DC: $104,656
- Chicago: $101,270
- San Francisco: $115,809
- Seattle: $107,380
Cyber incident responder
To become an incident responder, most candidates have two to three years of relevant security experience and a bachelor’s degree in a field like computer science, information technology or computer forensics. The cyber incident responder salary can fall anywhere between $92,124 (25th percentile) and $140,233 (75th percentile).
- Nationwide: $112,000
- New York: $122,583
- Washington DC: $118,480
- Chicago: $114,648
- San Francisco: $131,106
- Seattle: $121,564
Computer forensics technician
Computer forensics analysts often start out as computer forensics technicians before they move up in the ranks. This is an entry-level role that only requires a four-year degree and knowledge of programming languages like Java, Python and C#.
ZipRecruiter reports a salary range of $37,500 (25th percentile) to $124,000 (75th percentile).
- Nationwide: $89,027
- New York: $90,202
- Washington DC: $87,183
- Chicago: $84,363
- San Francisco: $96,474
- Seattle: $89,452
A career in cybercrime investigation has solid salary prospects, although certain job titles will net you a higher income than others.
Keep in mind that salary is only one factor to consider when choosing your career. After all, having a job that you excel at and enjoy doing doesn’t have a monetary value attached to it! However, if you are considering a career in cybercrime investigation, this article will help you calibrate your salary expectations for the specific roles you can choose from.
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Sarah Azzara’s time was precious, but she was genial nonetheless.
She laughed as she held up a large folder thick with students’ work, work that would take her hours to correct. Her new office, where she plans to meet with students in one of her writing classes, is the first one she has had in several years of teaching.
“It’s exciting,” Azzara said. “It’s the first time I’ve really had an office, even though it’s shared.”
She pulled up a spreadsheet with a group of highlighted names, saying, “I’m giving 30 minutes of help to each of these students.”
“Giving” would be an odd semantic choice for regular professors to use, but in the case of adjunct instructors like Azzara, the part-time nature of their work has them often performing, willingly, more than is technically required by their pay.
Adjuncts are part-time professors who work at the college level. They are non-tenured, have little to no job security, and get paid a couple thousand dollars per class taught. Their income, when calculated, equals a rather low-paying job or even one close to minimum wage. They are labeled differently depending on the academic subject and department. They are called adjuncts, associates and contingents. In essence, those words are semantics describing the same job.
But semantics rule the conversation around part-time professors. The word “contingent” is the best way to describe adjuncts, as their pay, the number and type of classes they teach, and even whether they will have work in the next semester is contingent on factors they can’t control.
Many adjuncts in the English Department were graduate students who turned to part-time teaching when their graduate stipends ran out. Some earned their Ph.D.’s but never managed to gain a full-time position and have stayed in the same department that granted their degree.
“Particularly in humanities, the job market is really, really, really tough,” said Jessica Curran, an adjunct professor in the English department. “There could be 700 applicants for one tenure-track position.”
Once a graduate student at Stony Brook, Curran was hired as an adjunct to cover the costs of her degree after her stipend for the graduate program ran out. She received her doctorate in 2012 and stayed on. While some of her classmates have left New York looking for jobs at other universities, Curran has stayed at Stony Brook for her own reasons. “I’m local,” she said. ‘My life has been here, and I’ve been here a long time.”
According to the American Association of University Professors, more than 50-percent of faculty in higher education hold part-time appointments. 70-percent of all appointments are of non-tenure track positions.
At Stony Brook, the gap between the number of full-time and part-time instructors has tightened. In 2002, Stony Brook employed 487 adjuncts who made up 36-percent of overall faculty. By 2013, that number had jumped to 712, comprising 41-percent of all faculty.
Douglas Silverman is the general manager of human resources at Nikon and teaches as an adjunct in the College of Business. Like other adjunct professors’ classes, base level classes taught by adjuncts for years have transformed into online classes. Silverman said he struggles to create a learning environment like that of a regular classroom.
“In a regular classroom, you can tell if they’re not getting it,” he said. “It’s much harder online. Sometimes, it’s like pulling teeth.”
Adjuncts are required to join United University Professions, the faculty union at Stony Brook. Many adjuncts laud the union’s success in providing one key piece of representation: Adjuncts who teach two or more classes receive health, dental and vision insurance.
Yet this victory occurred a while ago, or at least so long ago that the exact date of this deal’s signing has been lost to memory. Warren Randall, the part-time concerns officer at Stony Brook’s UUP chapter, said it could have been around 20 years ago.
A 2000 article by The New York Times gave the average wage for adjuncts as $2,500 to $5,000. That does not appear to have changed in 15 years.
Arthur Shertzer, president of the UUP chapter, called the situation for adjuncts “very difficult.”
“There isn’t a lot of leverage,” Shertzer said. “They are at-will employees.”
Shertzer blamed New York State and SUNYs for the lack of change on adjuncts’ position among New York colleges. “If the state would do what it’s supposed to do, if they were truly committed to an affordable and accessible SUNY, they would fund us at a sufficient level to care for patients and educate students,” he said. “It’s really that simple.”
Kevin Moriarity, the UUP chapter’s academic contingents executive, said that he has never seen a full-time adjunct come to the union office to speak about his or her problems, and he has yet to see the effects of any union campaigns for contingents’ rights.
“To be an adjunct only working at Stony Brook University, you could not sustain a lifestyle on Long Island,” he said.
While the administration establishes a minimum for how much adjuncts are paid, individual academic departments are in charge of hiring, paying and evaluating their adjuncts and giving out teaching assignments.
Not all adjuncts are created equal. Celia Marshik, chair of the English department, and other adjuncts quoted said that part-timers in English get $4,000 to $5,000 per class. Meanwhile, adjuncts in the College of Business reported earning $2,500 to $3,500 per class.
The discrepancy could reflect how many classes an adjunct teaches each semester. The College of Business website shows that its 35 adjuncts listed make up 40 per cent of the overall business faculty. Many work full-time at jobs in business and teach only one or two classes per semester. Kristina Lucenko, associate director of the Program of Writing and Rhetoric, said that the program has 20 adjuncts. Most are postdoctoral students. A few are advanced graduate students.
Some adjuncts teach at multiple colleges, and the differences between colleges can be striking. Speaking of campus officials at Suffolk County Community College, Matthew Miranda, an adjunct in writing at both Stony Brook and Suffolk, said, “You can run a meth lab in their classrooms and they wouldn’t even know it.” At Stony Brook, he said, there’s more personal attention to adjuncts’ work.
While departments use a variety of job titles to describe their adjuncts, some, such as the writing program and the English department, do not list their adjuncts on the department websites at all. Marshik said this isn’t a sign of disrespect. The problem is that the list of adjuncts changes semester to semester, and keeping the website current is difficult.
Other than the UUP, the other possible path toward change would be to bring concerns to the university’s administration via the University Senate, a faculty-run organization. Historically, and based on protocol, adjuncts can’t vote or run for office in the senate, and only full-time faculty and staff may participate at meetings.
Astronomy professor Frederick Walter was president of the University Senate from 2010 through 2014. While Walter said the senate does consider issues of interest to adjuncts, most adjunct issues are labor issues, which fall outside the senate’s purview. While expressing compassion for adjuncts’ difficulties, Walter said they are not part of the academic community. Tenured and tenure-track professors’ work includes not only teaching but also service, such as serving on academic committees, taking on responsibilities within their departments and research. Of adjuncts, Walter said, “You can’t ask them to engage in service. The University benefits from full-time professors, not only in the classroom.”
Semantics shape context. As more than a simple example, the word “university” shapes the conventions of the professors who work at such an institution. When instructors do not fit that mold created by that word, even if not by choice, they have less power. “We are not a teaching school,” Shertzer said. “At a research institution, research is an enormous component in evaluating and promoting faculty.”
“They say it is practically the only component,” he added.
Adjuncts have a harder time accomplishing the same level of college participation as a full-time professor. But for many adjuncts, that doesn’t stop them from trying. Curran has done writing workshops, taught yoga classes and held conferences with students. She lets students revise their papers, even though it means double the amount of work for a teacher already stretched for time.
Despite the seven years she spent getting her Ph.D., Curran said she still understands her situation is voluntary. “I knew it going in,” she said. Her spouse provides some security should she lose her job, but it is not necessarily the case with other adjuncts, and Curran knows this.
She doesn’t blame the departments. In fact, she believes the English Department is doing the best it can, but she has become disillusioned. Despite her strong standing, there is no guarantee that she will even have classes to teach next semester.
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It is also one of the most endangered species in the Amazon because hunters nearly exterminated it to get its pelts.
Rainforest animals list amazon. One in ten known species in the world lives in the Amazon rainforest. Some of these amazing animals include monkeys piranhas anacondas tapirs jaguars and iguanas. Other Creatures on the List of Animals in the Amazon Rainforest.
To explore some of the incredible life threatened by these fires Stacker used 2020 data from the International Union for Conservation of Nature IUCN Red List to identify 50 endangered animal and plant species that live only in the Amazon rainforest and the surrounding Amazon basin. The giant river otters up to seven feet 2½ meters in length have been seen or captured in the past. Still More Amazon Rainforest Reptile Species.
Some of the animals that live in the amazon rainforest include jaguars sloths river dolphins macaws anacondas glass frogs and poison dart frogs. Insects - the Smallest of the Amazon Rainforest Animals. Here are 11 amazing rainforest species we are helping to protect with our innovative approach to conservation.
There is a huge range of Amazon Rainforest animals and plants living together to make a beautiful ecology at the rainforest. Here you can find out a list of animals and plants maintaining proper balance in the Amazon Rainforest ecosystem. Spangled Cotinga male by Mathias Appel used under CC0 10 compressed from original.
Thus visitors to the Amazon are advised to be cautious and well aware of their surroundings at. This massive carnivore can grow up to 5 m in length and is the Amazon Rivers largest predator. Mammals such as Orangutans in Asia Gorillas Africa Jaguars South America and sloths Central and South America all call the rainforest home.
The Amazonian giant centipede. The Rainforest Alliance works hard to protect rainforests and the biodiversity within them through the sustainable management of tropical forests restoring degraded land surrounding forests and protecting rivers and streams. A black caiman resting on a log.
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There were two reasons to be interested in variable message signs in the 1960s: traffic control and emergency warnings. While Bergo were attempting to find solutions for traffic control, the Ministry was actually more interested in finding ways that electronic signs could be used to make motorways safer.
Elsewhere in Europe, development work was already taking place on technology that would allow signs to display multiple messages. Not all of this was for road signs: Solari S.p.A were an Italian company who manufactured departure boards for airports and railway stations, of the type that use motorised flip-over panels to display their message and make a noisy clattering sound as the panels change over. Initially the Ministry of Transport approached them to see whether motorway signs could be made the same way, but this idea came to nothing.
A more promising idea came from another Italian firm, Sipra S.p.A, who sent technical drawings of a series of signs that had been supplied for use on Italian Autostrade in 1962 and were already in use. This unusual design had a large two-panel sign, the top panel being a window through which one of a number of slides were visible, and the bottom being a static sign that served to hide the slides that were not in use. Multiple sign faces were stored one behind the other, and motorised rollers could move the panels in and out of view, much like a window blind. When there were no messages to display the top panel contained a slide showing the distance to the next city.
Five emergency messages could be displayed — accident, fog, ice, road works and snow plough, all in Italian, English and German — and two flashing lights on the front of the sign were used to draw special attention to accidents and snow ploughs.
The Ministry of Transport's search for a way to warn drivers about motorway conditions up ahead had the potential to deliver a very lucrative contract for signal equipment, and one company, AEI, not only came up with an entirely new solution but also published lavish, glossy brochures titled "What's Ahead?" in order to sell the idea — perhaps a strange thing to do as there would only ever be one buyer in the market.
AEI's experience was in railway signalling and they adapted a system where a single circuit connected all the signs along a road, and mechanically tuned reeds in each sign would each respond to different sonic frequencies, enabling one pair of cables to send all manner of signals and instructions to signalling equipment along many miles of motorway.
Their proposed signs were, however, much less clever. A large hooded box was proposed, with a warning triangle on top, and inside three panels on vertical spindles that could be rotated to present a blank face or a warning sign to traffic. The three warnings they proposed were letters: A for accident, I for ice, F for fog.
The design was meant to allow the signs to be used in remote areas where no power supply was available: the signs had no illumination and the motors were to be battery-driven. When it came to installing permanent signs for real a few years later, the Ministry of Transport got around this problem in a different way by just installing a power supply.
This system was not perfect, and was never tried out for real (though AEI had a hand in the communications system eventually developed for a permanent signalling system in the late 1960s), but AEI's engineers had at least spotted and avoided some problems that would come to plague systems that did get trialled on the roads. They suggested that the idea of manual control, meaning operation of the sign by a police officer parking his car and walking over to it, was not efficient and would not allow the sign to respond very quickly to changing conditions. They also recognised that maintaining accurate warnings about fog patches would be almost impossible. This is a problem we still have today.
Rotating panels had also been trialled in the USA in a different form, with a system of signs that had various legends printed onto the faces of rotating boxes, rather like a tombola drum with writing on the sides (shown left; click to enlarge). Multiple boxes, for different parts of the warning message, were contained within a metal cabinet with windows in the front — a heavy duty solution to the problem.
The device, produced by the United Sign Company in New Jersey, was widely used in the north-eastern United States, particularly on the New Jersey Turnpike. Their product line also included some very inelegant neon signs that made no attempt at all to hide their message when not in use, and which were fitted with a bell that would ring when one of its messages was illuminated.
The Ministry of Transport had brochures from this company, and many others, on their files, but in the end they decided to come up with their own design.
Accident, Skid Risk, Fog
Ultimately, the idea that gained traction was for signs with panels that could be illuminated to show a range of messages, in the belief that mechanical signs would not be "sufficiently reliable on so big a scale". The intention was that new signs might help during the winter when terrible accidents seemed almost guaranteed on a fog-bound motorway. A trial was to be run on part of the M5 in Worcestershire, where a system of remotely-operated signs would be installed every mile or two at the side of the motorway, linked to a central Police command post. They would be switched on to warn motorists of hazards further up the road.
Design work started in 1962, a time at which this sort of technology was still very expensive and when there wasn't very much experience with the best ways to communicate messages to fast-moving vehicles. The Ministry settled on the concept of written warnings to make the installation as economical as possible.
The method of control was a lot like AEI's proposal a couple of years before: to link the signs to a control centre, the Ministry rented spare wires in the telephone cables that had been laid down the verges of the M5 by the Post Office, who at that time maintained the emergency telephones. The original proposal had been to run the trial on the M1, which suffered from the worst fog-related accidents, but the telephone system on the M1 didn't have spare wires and the system on the M5 did.
Different sonic frequencies were transmitted down the telephone cables to trigger different signs. With a range of 18 frequencies available, a single pair of cables could control 15 signs, with 15 of the available frequencies used to identify the location of the sign to be activated, and the remaining three to select one of three messages. In this way any number of signs could be illuminated at any one time, but the control system only allowed one sign to be switched on or off at any given moment.
In February 1964, one experimental sign was installed on the northbound side of the M5, two miles north of what is now junction 6. It had three messages — Accident, Skid Risk and Fog — and was manually controlled. The word "Slow" would be illuminated at the top of the sign whenever any of the three messages was lit. Every letter of every word had its own lamp, with the letter cut out of a mask, and a lens in front of that.
This first trial was only meant to test how visible and legible the sign was in different light conditions, and the Ministry's press release warned that:
"To gain the maximum experience in the shortest time, the warning may appear even when no special hazard exists."
Some might say that electronic signs on motorways have been giving false alarms ever since.
In July 1964, work started on fitting out the remote control system using the GPO's telephone cables, and soon afterwards another 21 signs were installed at two-mile intervals on both sides of the M5, all remotely controlled from Hindlip Hall, the headquarters of Worcestershire County Police Force. Now a 35 km (22 mile) section of motorway was equipped with signs that could instantly be used to warn motorists of upcoming hazards, and the future had arrived on an unlikely section of motorway near Droitwich.
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Mega-brands and climate change
Climate Change Booklet shows how big business is changing
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Published: 20 May 2015
This Article was Written by: Katie Hill - My Green Pod
The Consumer Goods Forum (CGF) today published its first Climate Change Booklet, which details the new business practices employed by members in order to address climate change.
The CGF hopes the booklet – which covers companies such as Danone, Nestlé, Marks & Spencer and Unilever – will help inspire others to take up the baton.
Buying power – how global super-brands could change the planet
‘The time for talk is over’
Each of the 18 real-life examples includes insight from the respective company’s CEO, as well as details about their business actions and the key figures that support their progress.
‘The climate challenge is one we all need to take up. The time for talk is over. If global temperatures increase more than 2°C, the consumer industry – like everyone else – will face increased business risks, disruption of supply chains, volatility of commodity prices and increased operational costs.
‘Our retailer and manufacturer members know this, and this booklet showcases how some of them are working individually and collectively to drive positive change globally.’
Peter Freedman, Managing Director of The Consumer Goods Forum
In its Nature 2020 plan, Danone set ambitious targets to fight climate change by reducing Danone’s footprint and helping nature sequester more carbon.
Danone committed to reducing its GHG emissions by 50% between 2008 and 2020. So far, Danone has reduced its emissions by 42% since 2008 (organic reduction) and has successfully ‘decoupled’ its carbon emissions and the volume growth.
Through its forest footprint policy, Danone has engaged in a journey to eliminate deforestation from its supply chain by 2020.
To help Nature capture more carbon, Danone set up the Livelihoods Carbon Fund, which should sequester 8 million tons of carbon over 20 years.
‘At Danone, because we believe that healthy food can only come from healthy nature and that the energy and raw materials that we consume change the nature of our planet, we continue our efforts to reduce our environmental footprint. We believe in the power of the solutions that arise from co-creation processes with the communities that surround us.’
Emmanuel Faber, Danone’s Chief Executive Officer
Nestlé committed to reducing its direct greenhouse gas emissions per tonne of product by 35% (since 2005) by 2015. The company has smashed its target and reduced direct greenhouse gas emissions per tonne of product by 40% since 2005, achieving an absolute reduction of 11.4%.
By the end of 2014, Nestlé had phased out 92% of the industrial refrigerants in its industrial refrigeration systems, replacing them with natural refrigerants which don’t harm the ozone layer and have a negligible impact on climate change.
‘We commit to set science-based GHG emissions reduction targets and to focus on climate change adaptation because this is fully aligned with our own explicit commitments, which reflect our respect for society in which we operate, respect for the environment and respect for future generations.’
Paul Bulcke, Nestlé’s Chief Executive Officer
Marks & Spencer
As part of its ‘Plan A’, over the last eight years Marks & Spencer has reduced its operational carbon footprint by 24% and improved in-store energy efficiency by 34% per square foot, which in turn has helped the company cut its energy bill by £22m. Greenhouse gas emissions from its refrigeration units have also been cut by 73%.
All the electricity purchased by M&S in the UK & Republic of Ireland is from green tariff renewable sources, with 28% coming from small scale de-centralised sources. The company has also invested in the UK’s largest solar roof at its Castle Donington distribution centre.
Operations have been made carbon neutral to help accelerate investment in renewables and programmes to prevent deforestation in the developing world. In a further bid to curb deforestation, 96% of M&S’s wood comes from responsible sources (with a target to achieve 100%) and 100% of its palm oil is RSPO certified.
‘At Marks and Spencer we’re committed to playing a leading role in tackling climate change. It’s what our 34 million customers expect of us. We also know that unchecked climate change will have major implications for our operations and supply chains.’
Marc Bolland, Marks & Spencer’s CEO
Unilever has committed to sourcing 100% of its agricultural raw materials sustainably by 2020, and help end deforestation linked to commodity supply chains. It also pledged to accelerate the roll-out of HFC-free freezer cabinets – purchasing a total of 1,500,000 units by 2015.
By 2020, the CO2 emissions from Unilever’s factories will be at or below 2008 levels, despite the fact that significantly higher volumes of production. That represents a reduction of around 40% per tonne of production.
Unilever has also pledged to more than double its use of renewable energy to 40% of total
energy requirements by 2020. This is a first step towards a long-term goal of 100% renewable energy.
‘At Unilever, we work for a limitation of global warming at 2°C because it’s imperative to sustainable and inclusive development. That’s why Unilever is committed to 100% sustainable sourcing, zero net deforestation, HFC-free ice cream freezers and moving to renewable
Paul Polman, Unilever’s Chief Executive Officer
As well as providing the only international, collaborative platform for consumer goods retailers and manufacturers, the CGF helps member companies to amplify the impact of their solutions.
Its Sustainability Pillar has eight dedicated working groups focused on addressing some of the industry’s key climate change challenges, like the sustainable sourcing of key commodities (palm oil, soy, beef and paper and pulp), refrigeration and solid and food waste.
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Sammamish Youth Board released a letter on July 5 calling for the removal of four dams on the lower Snake River in order to save the iconic Chinook salmon that spawns on the river.
The youth board is an official commission of the City of Sammamish, with members selected from the student body of local middle and high schools. As an official city entity, they required city council approval to publish an official stance on the dams, which they received after a council vote on July 5.
Their statement was then submitted as public comment to inform Sen. Patty Murray and Gov. Jay Inslee’s official recommendation on whether the dams should be removed. Murray and Inslee have so far released a draft report on the issue, and opened public comment until July 11.
The four dams were constructed in the early 1970s, with the goal of generating clean, hydroelectric energy for the Pacific Northwest. According to Walla Walla’s division of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, they were built to support wind energy, help meet peak power loads, and contribute to transmission grid reliability.
However, the youth board argues that the lower Snake River dams have had a disastrous impact on the Chinook salmon population native to the Pacific Northwest.
These dams block the Columbia Basin Chinook salmon’s migratory paths, decreasing not only the salmon population, but other species that rely on salmon for food, such as orcas.
“The lower Snake River dams do not meet our standards for a clean energy future,” said the youth board in their statement. “Energy that comes at the cost of a keystone species is not ‘clean’ by any reasonable standard.”
They further contend that the Snake River watershed supports 70% of the habitat available for Chinook populations in the Columbia basin, and the removal of these dams would help recover much of this habitat and restore a healthy regional ecosystem.
Although the dams are not located within the borders of Sammamish, the youth board felt it was crucial to draw attention to this issue, which impacts the entire ecosystem of the Pacific Northwest, and impacts the endangered Southern Resident orcas that rely on Chinook salmon as their food source.
“As youth representatives of the City of Sammamish, when it comes to issues that affect this entire region, we have a responsibility to call for action,” said Maanit Goel, board chair, in an email to the Sammamish Independent. “We are urging our political representatives to set a state-wide precedent for clean energy that ensures no keystone species is affected by new renewable infrastructure.”
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A petition which calls for Welsh pupils to be taught about black history has gained more than 23,000 signatures.
The petition, started by postgraduate history student Angharad Owen, comes amid worldwide protests after the death of George Floyd in US police custody.
A former teacher from Newport said black history had been “whitewashed” from the curricula in Wales and the UK.
Pupils should learn about Wales’ role in the slave trade and colonialism, the Welsh Government said in a statement.
The petition, which had gained more than 23,000 signatures by Friday morning, calls for more recognition of Britain’s colonial past in the Welsh curriculum, and will now be debated in the Senedd.
The threshold for a petition to be debated in the Senedd – Welsh Parliament is 5,000 signatures.
“The British Empire has often been glamorised and the global impact of Britain’s colonialism downplayed. This has been reflected in the content taught,” it reads.
Speaking to the BBC, petitioner Ms Owen said: “This immense period of change and upheaval is an opportunity for the Senedd and Welsh Government to act upon the necessity of including BAME [black and minority ethnic] history and culture in the education of young people across the country.
Hadassah Radway, a former teacher from Newport, welcomed the petition “because black history is Welsh history”.
“Black history and our contribution has been whitewashed from our curriculum and it is time for it to come back,” she said.
Ms Radwin said this meant children were not being taught accurate history.
“Then it is hardly a surprise that they will come out feeling that white is right and black is wrong, and that black people have never contributed to our development and always rely on handouts.”
Angel, 15, won plaudits for her speech in the Youth Parliament about the importance of challenging negative stereotypes of black people in the media and education.
Speaking to Radio Wales, she said seeing the issue of racism come to the fore following the death of Mr Floyd was “very emotional”.
“I think now it has turned around and that emotional response has turned into something more powerful that we can turn into action and see the end result for,” she said.
Angel, from Cardiff, agreed there needed to be change in the education system in Wales.
“There is quite an apparent lack of education when it comes to black history,” she explained.
“I think there is a need to tackle more issues within the topic of racism such as privilege, colonialism.
“With world wars, we can talk about how the Windrush generation helped to rebuild the country – but things like this aren’t in the national curriculum.”
Angel added: “There are so many other parts of our culture that we don’t learn about which explores black heritage, that we’ve been deprived from learning about.”
Nicole Ready, 21, from Cardiff, said a change to the curriculum could lead to a generational shift in attitudes to racial issues.
“If you can start with a whole generation not having to learn at some point – just it always being a thing they know – I think that would be amazing,” added Nicole.
A Welsh Government spokesman said: “The [education] minister has spoken about how linking the local, national and international will mean examining Wales’s role in the slave trade and our contribution to building the empire.
“It means we examine different perspectives on the Welsh experience through the works of Eric Ngalle Charles, or the social history of sport such as the many Welsh Black players who ‘went North’ to play rugby league.
“History is not only a matter for one lesson and one subject.”
Young black people say they have faced racism in Wales as Black Lives Matter protests take place across the country.
The protests were sparked after the death of George Floyd in police custody in the US.
Nicole, 21, Marwah, 18, and Angel, 15, describe the “everyday” racism they have faced.
“It’s the monkey noises, or just being in class and when the slavery topic comes up, everyone expects me to be an expert on it,” said Angel.
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Uh, I think the thing that probably irritated me the most is when we were doing due diligence, there was a resident who was a relative to the old owner and his rent was 250 bucks a week. And everything was included, water, gas, cable, internet, electricity. And I asked the broker, I was like, what do you want me to do with this?
It’s like, how can I make this work economically? And so the guy paid rent for three months and then he didn’t pay rent for the next three. And he didn’t turn in his key. So we had to use it.
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Hey, what’s going on with trap? This is James Bryant from better U for you. I’m here with my main man, Jerome Meyers, Jerome. Have we decided what we’re going to call this episode that comes out. We have no clue, random ramblings, durations, random ramblings. So last week we talked about, um, you know, some of the obstacles that people face when getting into multi-family investing.
One obstacle we talked about was, um, education. The other obstacle that we really kind of honed into, uh, was people saying that they don’t have enough money. Um, or don’t have the money to invest in multi-family properties. And, you know, one of the big takeaways is that, you know, really when it comes to investment, um, regardless if it’s education, uh, whether it’s, uh, a real estate investment, we really are investing in ourselves as much as we are in that project.
And so, regardless of what you’re doing, you have to really be ready and willing to invest in yourself. Um, investing in yourself, getting the education that you need, transforming your mindset so that you can be the investor that you need to be. One of the things that you really need to focus on. So, you know, today, you know, we were trying to figure out what we’re going to talk about.
And, you know, one of the thoughts was, you know, we do our separate underwriting for these deals. So Jerome will do. His underwriting with his assumptions, I’ll do some underwriting and assumptions, and then we’ll kind of get together like a mastermind and bring those things together and talk through what the different things are that we saw.
And then we eventually come up with a model that we can both agree on and be able to explain what our assumptions are and why. Uh, coming from a couple of different perspectives, but sometimes, you know, no matter how well you plan, no matter how well you think it out, when you actually get the property in, you’re executing the plan things don’t always go according to plan.
Um, and so we’re going to talk a little bit about that today and just see where this conversation goes. So, you know, Jerome, has this ever happened to you? Kind of what we’re talking about, where you did your underwriting, you have your numbers, you go into it and an executes exactly. As you laid it out.
Every time. I mean, I’m perfect. I know exactly what’s going to happen before I close every single time. I know who’s going to move out in the middle of the night. I know who has bed bugs and fleas. And I know, I know everything before we even get there. HPAC units are going to clock out in the middle of the summer without question.
Okay. All right. Great. And anybody who tells you that nonsense run run fast because the fact that the matter is nobody knows, nobody knows these apartments, a wild ride with man. And so, you know, trying to underwrite to a 10th of whatever percent is. Just absolutely ridiculous, man. You got to have some fat in there.
You don’t know what’s going to happen. I mean, let’s look at Greenbrier, right? So that was our entry into the Greensboro market. Uh, we thought we were going to rehab four units. At 15 right now. Yeah. That was amazing for our top line revenue, but it definitely hurt our capital reserves and, uh, uh, you know, what do you do with that?
How do you plan for that? How do we know that in the first year you’re going to have 15 journals. We had four vacancies. When we took the property over, within a month, we had seven and then we continued to cycle people out because we realized that they weren’t the type of people that we wanted to live in our community, or because we raised rents, they moved away.
And I absolutely knew none of that before we went in, but I did decide that we were going to do a 35% vacancy for the first year. Um, and I was right on that. Yeah. But we also made sure we had some additional contingencies as well in reserves, uh, in that particular one. Yeah, go ahead. We did. No, I mean, we did in that’s your genius, right?
You’re super conservative. And you wanted to make sure that if something happened, I didn’t have to call anybody and say it. I need you guys to send me a check. It’s called a capital call, but this is how it manifests. Hey, I need to send me a check we’re out of money. Can you fix this for me? Nope. Daddy wants no operator wants to call the investors for another capital call.
Nobody. That’s like a call of last resort. Make sure you use the proper terminology, your partners. Ah, this is true JV deal. That is true. That is true. So you don’t want to call your partners asking for additional resources. Um, that’s something you really don’t want to do. So you want to take care of a lot of that upfront, but there are things that you can not plan.
And so it’s not about preventing those things because those things are going to happen. It’s about having some type of a plan and having a cushion in place to be able to absorb it, fix it and move on. So you were talking about Greenbriar, you know, there were four vacant units when, you know, we S we took the property over.
I think you said within the first month they were, what? Seven vacancies. So three, two people moved down in the middle of the night. One person just decided they weren’t going to pay rent. And so we ended up evicting them. But yeah. And then the other piece too, is when you start transforming a property that has been neglected, there are going to be some deferred maintenance issues, but they’re going to be some tenants that don’t want to pay for the additional services that you’re providing.
Um, in that particular one, um, you know, I recall when we did the inspections, talking to people who were saying they had maintenance tickets that were several years in waiting for action, whether it’s, uh, having windows repair, whether it’s, you know, doing something with railings, um, people were really. In a batch in bad shape in terms of getting a response to their maintenance issues.
So we come in, we have the list, we start making repairs while those repairs costs money, and it actually costs money to run these properties properly and to invest in them. And then when you start doing that, you know, uh, some of the tenants don’t want to pay the. Rent this require in order to provide the level of service other tenants, uh, liked it the way that it was so that they could do some other activities.
Um, they are in those units. And so we’ve spent the better part of a year transforming that property and continuing to just change the face and the atmosphere in, uh, just the whole vibe of that committee. Yeah. I mean the one thing, kind of a trick of the trade insider tip for you guys. When you look at the parking lot, you can tell what type of property you have based on the cars is in the park.
It’s sad, but true and not so much like the make and model, but the year of the vehicle matters, um, newer cars mean a little more disposable income, um, broken down cars or vans or cars that look like they’re being worked on in the parking lot is a pretty good indicator of some other things. So, you know, One of the ways that we measure is when you drive by what is parking lot look like, and is that parking lot full in the middle of the day,
having a full parking lot in the middle of the day. So something to watch out, a lot of people working, you gotta have a lot of people working at home. Is that what it is? Uh, uh, Not in the price range that we are maybe for this stuff, that’s, you know, a thousand dollars a month. But, you know, I mean, in that, in that five to $800 range, most people aren’t working from home.
Okay. All right. So what are some other things that you’ve learned, um, or based on your experience at Greenbriar? What were some of the things that you did differently in a deal that you’ve purchased after we purchased green buyer? Um, all the utilities on every time that we do due diligence. Now that’s a non-negotiable and I think that’s the biggest one, because there were just so many surprises in that transaction at the same time that we did.
At the same time that we did the Greenbrae transaction, we bought two quads that were one bedroom, one bath, and. The owner, I don’t want to say he misled me, but he wanted to sweep some stuff under the rug that was ended up being pretty big issues. And one of them was, and I don’t know if I’ve talked about this before or not, but there was a raccoon that climbed into the duct work, fell down into the indoor know.
Oh, wow. And was seared on the heating strips for the form. And so when we were walking through the unit, the resident had all of the ducts or vents taped off and we’re like, this is weird. And then they had window units going. Cause it was summertime. And I was like, this is kind of silly here, but anyway, we ended up in that space outside.
There’s something going on here. I don’t know what it is, but there’s something wrong. Long story short. I told you guys the end of the story, before we got started, the raccoon got into the attic, fell down into the condenser and winter. He was seeking heat. Right? And so this was in, this was in June when we were doing this wall.
So for the six months give or take a little bit, there was a raccoon melted on the HPAC. Wow. Right. So I mean, and he was like it. So we turned on the unit and we got this awful smell that came out and then it tripped off and he was like, oh yeah, I don’t know. It’s just still air. Don’t worry about it.
And so, yeah, we, at the end of the day, we did get a closing concession with them that allowed us to replace a unit if we needed to, because we didn’t know how bad the issue was, but anytime somebody says, Hey, don’t worry about it. You probably won’t you about it. Yes. Yes. You absolutely want to worry about it.
Absolutely. Even if you don’t do anything with the pricing, if you don’t retrade, as some people say is kind of a bad thing to do, uh, you at least want to go in eyes wide open because the worst thing you can do is just accept that there’s nothing wrong. Go into the new deal. And then you’ve got this unexpected expense because nobody likes the surprise.
Like, no, I don’t know anybody that likes a prize bills. They might like to try finding surprise money, but nobody likes whereas bills. Yeah. Like Owen surprise money. We’d like surprise income, not surprise bills. And so, you know, for, so for that property, the one that you P w that we purchased after Greenbrier, which was towns at Lindley park, you know, one of the challenges, uh, on that property.
Is that the former owners ran it as student housing. And so they were renting out the property by the bedroom, but not all of the units had both bedrooms occupied. So there were some that would have, you know, there were a couple of townhome units where there were people paying for the quote unquote bedroom of one year, but they had full access to the whole town.
Because the other bedroom wasn’t rented in within it’s also, since it was set up a student housing, that also meant that all of the utilities were being paid by the owner. And so we’ve had to really go in and transform that property from student housing into a workforce housing model, a soldier role.
What are some of the challenges that we faced in doing that train?
Where to begin my friend where to begin. Uh, so I guess it’s important to say one thing here and I don’t know. It’s it’s painful for me. Right? Cause you go to these places is where the area’s better, but you still see the same issues. You still see bugs, you still see people using drugs. You still see all these things that are traditionally undesirable.
And it’s like, okay, well, All right. We crossed over the street. So things are supposed to be different now, but the fact of the matter is it seems like all these problems are pretty persistent. And for those of you that don’t know Jerome talking about the demographic, look around the locations of the two different complexes that we’re talking about, um, which is, you know, Greenbriar, which is kind of on, in an in-between area.
I mean, right behind where Greenbrier is at is a sweater. Class a, you know, apartment complex that really a butts to our property, but with, on the particular road that our property is on, there are some undesirable elements, one, the extreme ends of the street, and there are some things that were going on on that property that we had to go in and make sure that we took care of, um, the other property Townsend, a, the park is not too far from the university of North Carolina at Greensboro.
And compare to where Greenbrier is at the era as a whole, as much more fluent, but we still ran into the same human condition issues in both places. Yep. And so it’s interesting though, when you look at this, I don’t know if it’s sensitive data census data, or I don’t know who the other reporting body is that some people use, but when you look at that data, The Greenbrier area is ranked a B, and this rain garden properties ranked to see believe it or not.
So, you know, I don’t know what determines the fluence and this particular software product that we were using to look at the different areas, but I just thought that was interesting. Um, but. There there’s so much there. Right? We came in, we knew. So our business plan was, this was a paper. Um, Improvement. We were doing, basically, we were changed in a way that the leases were rented or written.
And by changing the way the leases were written, we thought that we were going to be able to reduce some expenses. And we, in our proforma, we dropped down what we thought our rent, our income was going to be for the sake of. Given us some of that cushion. And so what happened is we re we were able to exceed or meet.
We were able to exceed our rent projections. Um, and actually they, what we’re able to collect today is consistent with what our aggressive proformance said. But we didn’t share that with anybody that joined us on the deal. But, you know, we, I thought we were going to be able to come in and just consolidate units where people were just one person in a unit and that didn’t work.
It still hasn’t worked. Um, people who didn’t have roommates. Didn’t want roommates and they made it pretty clear. Uh, I think the thing that probably irritated me the most is when we were doing due diligence, there was a resident who was a relative to the old owner and his rent was 250 bucks a week. And everything was included, water, gas, cable, internet, electricity.
And I asked the broker, I was like, what do you want me to do with it? It’s like, how can I make this work economically? And so the guy paid rent for three months and then he didn’t pay rent for the next three. And he didn’t turn in his key. So we had to use it. And this is like we have a Hey guys, back in 2016, me and the team decided to formalized dream catchers as an organization to help people achieve their wildest dreams.
If this is you, please visit our email@example.com in order to find out the details of our services and how we can help you become a dream. Talk to you. So I won’t call it dad. We have one person and then the unit and then another person who wasn’t paying. And so we decided before we went into the properties, Hey, we’re going to get everybody on one lease.
Right? So everybody’s responsible for the whole amount of the unit. And that way we don’t have to worry about these issues where one person moves out, one person gets evicted, whatever, uh, that actually is working out really well. And so. We’re we’re walking down the path of the business plan. And as usual, when we get into a project, we get asked the question, are you sure you want to do it this way?
Um, And every time we’ve told him. Yeah. And them is whoever the property management company is. We want to try the business plan that we put together before we bought the property. Well, it might create some issues. Yeah, we understand. But we want to try to do the business plan that we said we were going to do.
It made sense before we bought the property. We don’t see anything that makes it not make sense now. So let’s do, and it seems like we’re getting rewarded for that stuff. Yeah. You know, but I mean, you know, this is a little thing. So when you talk about, you know, level of service and some other stuff, you know, we walked in to that property.
The old property management company cuts the power off the day before we closed, they cut the gas off it’s February three, by the way, they cut the gas off. So people don’t have heat. They don’t have electricity. Fortunately we were onsite when the water company came out to turn the water off. Because that was next.
And so, yeah, there’s some common decency, some common courtesy that we kind of expect when a property changes hands, but we didn’t get much of that there. And, you know, there’s nothing that we can really do, but we do have to suffer the. Brunt of the blow back from people who are upset and frustrated because well, they can turn on their heat.
I would say it’s just like when we talked about Greenbriar and the issue that we had with making sure that the utilities were owned when we did our due diligence, I think, um, as the case study here is making sure that we have a utility transition plan in place. Uh, w when we closed, when we’re closing on the price, And that the people that we’re purchasing from and the property management firm, um, you know, everybody’s on the same page as we’re moving forward with that, because that’s the, you know, it, it reflected bad on us, um, as the new owners to, oh man, as soon as this property has changed hands, now that utilities are off and people couldn’t do that.
Cause it was still in wintertime. Um, And so it made for a difficult week, you know, they’re on property. Yeah. More like nine days on the gas. It was, it was bad. Nobody wanted me to come out and I mean, but those perfect example, right. Those residents have been mistreated for a while. Um, and there was a young couple there who.
Man. I don’t know. They decided that they just weren’t going to pay rent. So from January to may, they didn’t pay rent. Then they got evicted. We put a judgment on, you know, their social security number or whatever. And so in July they came back and paid everything that they were, they owed it. And so, you know, it, you can pay us while you’re there or you can pay us after you leave, but you are going to pay us.
Yeah. That’s kind of long and the short of it, I mean, or are you going to have a really hard time finding someplace to live with your name being on the lease? And there’s a lot of folks out there that try to practice this cash for keys thing, where they pay somebody to move out so that they can rewrite the year.
I think that’s a bad practice. Because all you do is pass tennis around a residence around who aren’t going to pay their rent. And then nobody can, nobody’s being warned after the bad experience. And I feel like owners, we need to align. I think we need to protect each other because I mean, who wants to get a resident?
Who’s not going to pay.
I deeply desire for there to be some honor and integrity in the game. And it, I don’t think it’s appropriate for me to make that resident. Who’s not, uh, I don’t want to say behaving, but I don’t want to have another word that comes to mind. Have them go be somebody else’s problem. It’s like when you’re at a job and you have someone maybe working on a team, that’s not pulling their weight, but then you give them a glowing recommendation too.
So they can go and work for another unit because then they can be somebody else’s problem. Yeah. Yeah. Nobody wants to do, you know, because you don’t want your name associated with. That person and what they’re doing. And she’s like, you don’t want to be passing around tenants that are not living up to their end of the bargain.
You know, a lot of times we’ll hear and you’ll see the stories about the landlords that are not really holding up their end of the bargain. Um, but there is part of that bargain that that tenant, um, is, is coming to the table to hold as well. So it is a partnership between us as owners and the tenant. Um, and we really want to make sure that we’re continuing to do our part in that partnership because we really do believe in doing well while doing good.
Um, you know, we believe in that we can continue to be profitable while providing a great level of service. In the units that we own express that to all of our partners. We talk about that with our property management firm. And we want to make sure that everybody understands where we are and where we’re coming from so that there can be no misunderstandings about what we’re talking.
None whatsoever. I think we’re very clear on that. Yeah. I mean, if we, if we don’t improve the community, then I think all this is for not right. So back to the challenges there. So. The the outside HPAC units fell in one after another, after another, after another, and after being stressed tests by the may and June heat, it was just all right.
Another service call. Another service call. Oh, this condensers failed. Oh. Let’s get a new unit and let’s get a used unit and let’s solve these issues, but you know, it just, it continues, you know, once you get things in shape and you figure out what the true deferred maintenance is, then you can get a game plan together and execute on it.
But. Until you actually get in there. You don’t know, you can guess, but you don’t know. And I mean, I I’m troubled because I was looking at a deal today for somebody in there, buying it with interest only on Heartland. And that interest only is for three years. And the deal only works because they have the interest only dollars.
And if they ever have to do principal pay down, then the cashflow goes,
is that a sound strategy, I guess, for some. But for me, I mean, I want the deal to work. If you know, you’re actually paying down the debt and you’ve got a home sold it for more than three to five years. Yeah. For that one, I’m not familiar with that deal, but it really depends on the property, the operational plan, what kind of, you know, the turnaround that they have in, uh, getting the forced depreciation?
Um, I would be, uh, a little bit. Concern just with the general investment environment that we have in with the, you know, with the mortgage rates and the different discussions on Fannie and Freddie. And there’s a lot of different headwinds that we’re facing, um, that I would really be concerned if I had a three year interest only.
Um, and then that fourth year I had to refinance or do something because I don’t know, I don’t think anybody knows where the economy is going. Right. But it seems that the headwinds are there, that I would be pretty careful in terms of making that kind of investment in that kind of, yeah. I mean, this was huge.
There’s not all a lot of people that can, that can buy it. I mean, it’s 50 million, so, you know, I just, I always want to be in a place where if I have to buy it and hold it. I want to be able to hold it because the underwriting is solid and I didn’t used to call it underwriting. I used to call it something else, but somebody said underwriting along the way.
And I just adopted it. But you know, doing your actual financial model and making sure that you’ve got some conservative assumptions in there is the only way from my perspective to make sure. That if something terrible happens and like, you have to keep the property that you can actually keep the property without being in dire straits.
And that’s the difference. Yeah. And it’s finding that balance. You know, you’re much more aggressive than I am. I’m much more conservative. So we find that balance in how much reserves need to be there. What’s the actual timeframe for the transition of a property. And as time goes on, our numbers may get closer and closer initially, but it’s that, you know, we’re just coming at it from two different perspectives.
Um, and I think that works and that, that helps. Get us to where we need to go. Yeah, I know. That’s funny that you said, um, what’s more aggressive than you because everybody, I talk to says you’re the most conservative, right. I’ve ever talked to you.
So I think it’s all in the assumptions. It’s all in the assumptions that we make. And I think what you’re more aggressive on and I think it’s, you’ve been proven, right. Is the ability to grow rents. I think that’s one of the things that I’ve been like, are we really going to be able to work that fast? And you’re like, yeah, well, this is what we’re going to, this is the plan and what we’re going to do.
And you’ve absolutely been proven right on that. Uh, for me, I’m always making sure that we have a slightly extra cushion on expenses or that if we’re going to transition from paying utilities to. The tenant paying utilities that we have a reasonable transition. Like it doesn’t go from, we’re paying a hundred percent of the utilities in month one to them paying a hundred percent in utilities a month, three.
It’s not going to work that fast. Unfortunately, no, nothing. It works as fast as I want. So I mean, you know, like, We’re just, we get on here on these midweek talks and we’re talking about the deals that we’ve done. We’re talking about random thoughts and things that we have. And if you have any, if any of the listeners want to connect with us and maybe share some thoughts on this podcast or any of the other sessions you’re on, what’s the best way for them.
To connect and even ask them questions. And Hey, if we get your questions, we’ll, we’ll ask the questions and we will answer the questions, uh, when we do our next session next week. Oh, cool. That now we’re, now we’ve got a Q and a show. Oh man, we’re going to start having people call into the show next, this egg.
Okay. Have him pop in. Oh man. That’s that’s sophisticated. I don’t even know how to do that, but yeah, we’ll call the tax guys. I mean, we got them on call, right. Anyway. Um, yeah. So I’m on LinkedIn, right? So Jerome Myers, M Y E R S. I’m the only one in Greensboro, North Carolina. And I’m the only one that says I buy and fix broken apartment businesses.
So, you know, you can reach out to me there, or you can hit the developing west site stuff, the EAs three, so D three V3, lop I N g.com and hit us on the contact us form. Yeah. So we would love to hear anything. Suggestions for topics for us to talk about on these rambling midweek sessions, uh, some topics or questions that you want us to answer the next time that we do this podcast.
I think that would be great. We’re absolutely looking forward to connecting with you. Yeah, man. And if you are interested in getting, you know, that inside access close Facebook group is growing every single day and. You know, we’re starting to curate the content in there. And I mean, I like it. People introducing themselves from all over the country it’s is it’s pretty exciting, man.
Um, but that’s a way to connect and get more frequent interaction and actually have two way communication instead of just checking us out via the podcast. And so how are they going to find out about that? Oh, so there’s a website called Meyers methods. M Y E R. M E T H O D s.com. And you can register there for that.
And, um, there’s a bunch of other stuff that’s coming. We’re doing a, uh, a beta test on our multi-family investing course. And so we’re going to select a few people to help us go through that. And I’ve actually have five people that want to sign up today. So that was pretty cool considering I just flipped the message out there.
That’s cool. Um, so let’s, uh, Yeah. I mean, Myers method is developing with the easiest threes are LinkedIn and you know, we’ll go from there, man. All right. And anybody that wants to connect with me to talk about, uh, coaching, you know, breaking through your limiting beliefs, getting you to the position where you’re ready from a mindset perspective to move forward with your investing activities, you can reach me at better at betteryou4u.com.
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March 18, 2005 – The tight-knit community of Frydenhoj has rallied around the survivors of Wednesday's trailer home fire that killed three.
"The first thing I realized is that this is an insular community," said Bill Young, director of Emergency Services for the American Red Cross. The agency responded after 19-year-old Shatia Ridley, 2-year-old Lashawn Donovan, and 63-year-old Dorothy Donovan died trying to escape a burning trailer home. (See "Three Dead in Frydenhoj Fire").
Young says his team is working in particular with three survivors who are children and teens, but wouldn't share the nature of their relationship with the victims.
"That community took them in to their homes. They didn't ask–they just took them in, wrapped their arms around them," said Young. "That's going to be their saving grace. They have someone to lean on, cry with, scream to."
The first objective of the Red Cross is to take care of the humanitarian needs of the survivors, providing them with food, clothing and long term recovery goals. From there, they will follow the grieving process of the survivors.
"It's sensitive. It's not going to get better anytime soon," he said. "You have good days and bad days. Days when a scent or a sound from down the street will evoke a memory and [you're] ready to be in tears."
Normally, as the director of Emergency Services, Young would take the lead role in handling the situation, but because of the sensitivity of this case, the Red Cross will follow the lead of its mental health professional who is known in the community.
"Our mental health lead and the family services lead spent hours there Wednesday and Thursday making sure the needs of the survivors are met."
Young stresses that this is different than a fire where survivors will move on and recover after a few weeks.
"These people are going to have a hard, emotional road ahead," said Young. "This is an ongoing thing, there's not a template for dealing with it. The needs are addressed as people face them. Everyone is different in their grieving, and in this case, the survivors are very young."
In addition to offering counseling and aid to the survivors, the caseworkers have counseled people in the community who witnessed the fire.
For community members wishing to lend their support, Young offers this piece of advice, "Give the family the space they need, be there for them when they need a shoulder. They need to go through what they're going through. Think about if this happened in your family how you would want to handle it."
The American Red Cross of the Virgin Islands runs on tight funds, and relies largely on the support of the community.
"This is exactly the type of service we do. We won't stop doing it. We do fires, we work with families of military–those are the untold stories that need to be funded every day," said Young. "We are part of the community. We hope people will support us."
Donations to support the local chapter of the American Red Cross can be sent to Nisky Center, Suite 222, St. Thomas, VI 00802.
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Which synchronous motor will be smallest in size ? (D) 10 HP, 375 rpm. Explanation: Q15.
What is floating synchronous motor?
A synchronous motor is said to be ‘floating’ when it operates on no load and without loss. When a synchronous machine operates at no load, armature current will be zero; Therefore MMF due to armature current is zero.
Which of the following losses in a synchronous motor does not vary with load?
Friction and windage losses do not depend upon the load condition of the machine; They are the function of the speed only, thus for the most synchronous machine they are constant.
What are the two types of synchronous motor?
There are two major types of synchronous motors depending on how the rotor is magnetized: non-excited and direct-current excited.
- Non-excited motors.
- DC-excited motors.
- Use as synchronous condenser.
- Steady state stability limit.
When a synchronous motor is on no load the torque angle is?
At full-load, the rotor poles of a synchronous motor are displaced by a mechanical angle of 1° from their no load position.
Which motor is used in compressor?
The most common electric motor is a three-phase squirrel cage induction motor. This type of motor is used in all types of industries. It is silent and reliable, and is therefore a part of most systems, including compressors.
What is the V curve of synchronous motor show relationship between?
Detailed Solution. Synchronous motor: V curves for synchronous motor give the relation between armature current and DC field current.
Which of the following loss in synchronous machine is higher?
Iron losses have a high proportion of losses occurring in the synchronous machine.
What are the losses occur in synchronous motor?
In the synchronous motor, there are two types of mechanical losses viz. friction losses and windage losses. The friction losses occur due to the friction in the moving parts such as bearings etc.
What is the speed of synchronous motor?
The synchronous speed is the speed of the revolution of the magnetic field in the stator winding of the motor. It is the speed at which the electromotive force is produced by the alternating machine.
|Number of Poles||Synchronous Speed NS in r.p.m|
What are the types of 3 phase synchronous motor?
This type of synchronous motor is divided into three categories and is available in three designs, each of which has unique features:
- Hysteresis Synchronous Motors.
- Reluctance Synchronous Motors.
- Permanent Magnet Synchronous Motors.
What is synchronous motor?
A synchronous motor is one in which the rotor normally rotates at the same speed as the revolving field in the machine. The stator is similar to that of an induction machine consisting of a cylindrical iron frame with windings, usually three-phase, located in slots around the inner periphery.
Which type of motor is used in synchronous motor?
Principle of Operation Synchronous Motor
Synchronous motors are a doubly excited machine, i.e., two electrical inputs are provided to it. Its stator winding which consists of a We provide three-phase supply to three-phase stator winding, and DC to the rotor winding.
What is the starting torque of synchronous motor?
A synchronous motor has no starting torque but when started it always runs at a fixed speed. 2. A single-phase reluctance motor is not self-starting even if path for eddy currents are provided in the rotor.
Why a synchronous motor is named so?
Definition: The motor which runs at synchronous speed is known as the synchronous motor. The synchronous speed is the constant speed at which the motor generates the electromotive force. The synchronous motor is used for converting the electrical energy into mechanical energy.
What is torque angle in synchronous motor?
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Start-ups’ sticky problem
Red tape has been a perennial bugbear of small businesses. Start-ups are often unprepared for the blizzard of regulations they have to deal with once they launch, with compliance not high up the priority list for budding entrepreneurs.
Politicians on both sides have recently talked tough about reducing red tape and October’s tax summit has raised hopes that the issue will finally be addressed by Canberra.
But has the burden really got worse in recent years? And what can start-ups do to cut down the amount of time spent filling out forms?
The Henry Review identified a tax system that was cumbersome. A PwC survey shows that small companies are grappling with 53 different state and Federal taxes.
There are 32 state, territory and local government taxes that raise 9% of business tax revenue across Australia. The remaining 91% is raised by 21 Federal taxes.
According to PwC, 63% of business tax revenue is raised by income tax, comparing unfavourably with a global average of 38%.
The burden is not only in tax paid but in time and resources spent on compliance. It takes time away from running their business. And it also means many lines of reporting, often conveying the same sort of information.
As David Pring, a Deloitte Private tax partner says, it’s not just the number of taxes, it’s also those multiple reporting lines.
“Companies are doing their monthly or quarterly BAS reports, they are reporting all their income, their GST, their wages information,” he says.
“Then they have to provide an annual report which covers the same sort of stuff. Then they do their personal returns all of which have been generally previously reported to the Tax Office anyway.”
Red tape everywhere
For taxation purposes, companies need to keep sales records including invoices, credit card statements, bank deposit books and cash register tapes.
There are purchase and expense records, year-end income tax records, records relating to payment of employees including tax file number declarations, withholding declarations, PAYG payment summaries, salary sacrifice and superannuation records and records of any fringe benefits tax (FBT).
FBT declarations cover such areas as air fares, cars, expense payments, living away from home declarations, property benefit declarations, remote area holiday transport declarations, temporary accommodation declarations.
In addition, there are state payroll taxes, fire service levies and stamp duties. The kind of red tape will vary from sector to sector.
Retailers, for example, have to deal with: textile care labelling, safety standards, leather labelling standards, flammability labelling of fabrics, country of origin labelling, business name registration, ASIC compliance records, tax records, industrial relations laws, superannuation requirements, occupational health and safety regulations, poison register compliance, dangerous good compliance, heavy vehicle license matters where necessary and forklift drivers license.
Whether or not they need all of these will depend on the business. Retailers also need to be aware of such legislation as the Victorian Fair Trading Act, the Trade Practices Act and the Retail Leases Act.
With a large business, getting all this done is hard enough. For a small business, it’s next to physically impossible.
Too much, too young?
Critics say the Government needs to ask itself a simple question: does it want small business operators who are compliant, or does it want them to be profitable?
“Small businesses have to comply with the same Income Tax Act as companies like BHP and then they have additional sections in the tax act that apply to private companies,’’ Pring says.
“It’s a lot for them to get their heads around.”
Andrew Barrenger, who runs two hairdressing salons in Tasmania with his wife, says the tax rules are hard enough but what has made it even more difficult is the changes to the awards.
It basically meant that employers now need to manage and implement a completely different pay structure. This is a problem for businesses employing many people on different levels and awards.
“When they change the tax system, at least the Federal Government spoke to the likes of MYOB and they send you a patch,’’ Barrenger says.
“But when they change the award system, everything has to be done manually and there are so many different awards out there.”
Regulation bun fight
He says he has spent his time at workshops and he has talked to a number of people, and he was still no clearer on how to comply with the new rules.
“I still don’t know if I have it right. When you have to go to workshops and hold meetings just to comply and then still not be 100% confident you are complying, that’s just wrong,’’ he says.
He says the different pieces of red tape for small businesses and start-ups are quite small. But they all add up.
“You add it all together and you have this unwieldy beast where you are trying to comply with all the different regulations and paper work.”
The Coalition has seized on the red tape issue, and has condemned the Government for directing the Productivity Commission to look at the impact of regulation on small business, saying the Government is clueless on how to handle the problem.
Shadow Small Business Minister Bruce Billson says 12,000 regulations have been introduced since the last Federal election. Federal small business minister Nick Sherry has hit back, saying the Coalition had imposed the biggest red tape impost of all with the GST.
Barrenger says both sides of politics have failed to do anything about the problem. Politicians, he says, simply don’t get it. They deliberately keep things vague and nothing happens.
“Name me one of them who has actually stuck their hand in the air and said, ‘This is the red tape I am going to target’,’’ he says.
Council of Small Business of Australia (COSBOA) general manager Robert Mallett says there is a new addition to the growing pile of red tape for start-ups: paid parental leave.
Fully funded by the Federal Government, the Family Assistance Office pays the money to the employer who passes that on to the employee on leave, effectively turning the company into a payroll clerk and adding another administrative layer.
“We were asking the Government why they needed to introduce new red tape but they absolutely didn’t want to listen to us,’’ Mallett says.
“It means business owners have to spend more time managing this payment that should never have been touched in the first place.”
He says the changes to the awards are particularly complex, forcing employers to spend hours working it out.
“Working out how to pay someone is the least productive thing you can do,” Mallett says.
He says the amount of red tape has increased over the years. “At the end of the day, what you are trying to do is comply with the regulation, whether that’s state, Federal or local and they just keep adding to the problem,’’ he says.
Pring questions whether the amount of red tape has increased but insists that the Government certainly has not got rid of any.
He does not believe the amount of red tape discourages people from setting up businesses but entrepreneurs are not prepared for it.
“People have other reasons for entering business and I am not sure the compliance load would discourage, but once they have made a decision to enter a small business, they would certainly find themselves spending more time complying than they would otherwise expect to spend,’’ Pring says.
“They would be spending more time on paperwork than core business.”
He says the biggest red tape load would be the multiple reporting lines for tax, something he hopes will be addressed in the October tax summit.
To reduce the amount of red tape, he suggests business owners look at their structure.
“For a very small business, the partnership approach works well with top marginal tax rate not cutting in until $180,000 so for a husband and wife partnership, it could do it until their income exceeds $360,000,’’ he says. “Partnerships are a very effective structure.”
Apart from that, he says, there is little else businesses can do.
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General Building Questions
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What are permits and why do I need one?
Permits are the way Richland County regulates construction. This is designed to ensure that all construction in the county is safe. The safety of the occupants of buildings is the primary reason for having construction codes. Richland County has adopted several building codes along with what the State of Montana uses which can be found under the building code information tab.
There are several different types of permits based on the type of construction - structural, plumbing, mechanical, and electrical. Most home owner projects require more than 1 type of permit. Richland County can provide building permits but the others are provided by Montana.
Obtaining a building permit is just the first step in the process. In this step you may need to create plans to submit to the building department, make a plot plan of your property showing the improvements, and show the type of construction you'll be using.
Once the plans are approved you're required to build the project to those plans. If any changes are made to the plans they must be made with the Building Department's approval.
How do permits protect a home?
Permits ensure that a certified inspector will inspect the construction project or installation. Inspections make sure work is done safely and to code. When a city or county inspector approves work, a homeowner can get questions answered and know that the work has been checked for any safety violations. This is of particular value to the do-it-yourselfer who doesn't make installations every day. Incorrect installations can result in house fires, flood damage, and/or structural problems.
Where do I get a permit?
Building permits are issued by Building Inspector Alton Hillesland at 115 2nd Street SE. The Building Office is open from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. on Tuesdays and Thursdays. Or you can find the permit application online at www.richland.org. This application will still need to be taken to the Building Inspector for approval
For electrical, mechanical, or plumbing permits you will have to contact the state. A good starting point is visiting their website.
When do I need a construction permit?
A construction permit is needed for all new construction. In many cases a permit is needed for repair or replacement of existing fixtures. A plumbing, electrical, or mechanical permit is needed for any addition or changes to a building's existing system and new construction. If you are unsure whether or not your project needs a permit please call the Building Inspector at (406) 433-2809 or the State of Montana Building Division at (406) 841-2056.
When don't I need a permit?
A permit is not needed for items such as wallpapering, painting, or similar finish work. Plumbing, mechanical, and electric work replacing or repairing fixtures (such as changing water faucets) do not normally require a permit. A permit is also not required for certain agriculture structures to find out whether or not your project requires a permit please contact the Building Inspector at (406) 433-2809 or the State of Montana Building Division at (406) 841-2056.
What if I don't get a permit?
If a permit, when needed, is not obtained before construction, you will have violated County codes and regulations. You then can be subject to fines and penalties. You'll then be required to obtain permits for the work and it must pass inspection, or you will have to return the structure or site to its previous condition. Remember construction codes were created for safety reasons. Work built without a permit can be unsafe, no matter how good it looks.
Who should obtain the permit?
Contractors, architects, engineers, or your agent can obtain permits. The homeowner can also obtain the permits.
What about inspections?
It is your responsibility to call us for inspections at specific times during construction. You may have your contractor make the call, but it is still your responsibility, as the property owner, to make sure the inspections are made. Inspections are made during certain points in the project depending on the work that is being performed. To see when inspections are required please go to the inspections page.
What is a Certificate of Occupancy?
A Certificate of Occupancy is a document that notifies owners, buyers, or other interested parties that required inspections have been performed and the structure is in compliance with the adopted building codes. While inspections and the issuance of a Certificate of Occupancy do not guarantee the structure is defect-free, it does provide a level of safety to occupants, as well as property protection that would that would not otherwise exist. In lieu of a Certificate of Occupancy on remodels and small additions, a Certificate of Final Inspection may be issued as confirmation that all the inspections have been completed.
When is a Certificate Necessary?
When a building is constructed or remodeled, permits are required. The permit process provides oversight by an unbiased, third party professional that includes inspection and plan review for code compliance.
A Certificate of Occupancy is issued after the builder has requested a series of inspections and has corrected any deficiencies discovered during the construction process. The oversight helps to ensure that minimum life-safety and protection features have been properly addressed. This adds to the long term value of the property.
How is this all funded?
Inspections and plan reviews are funded through the purchase of a building permit by the builder or applicant. In turn, this cost is passed on to the consumer.
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Happy school for tomorrow’s leaders
According to a popular Harvard Business School course called Leadership and Happiness, you have to learn to be happy yourself to lead a happy, effective team. And a central belief of the course is that happiness isn’t about the luck of the draw. It’s very much a learned attribute.
Dr. Arthur Brooks, who teaches the course, argues in a recent Wall Street Journal article, that happiness is a product of regularly nurturing four key areas of life – family, friends, meaningful work, and faith or life philosophy. He says that being happy and fulfilled puts people in a strong position to compete in the work market and cultivate the happiness of other members of their teams. Everyone wins.
Part of the learning process includes a self-assessment about students’ relationships, materialistic values and other emotional metrics. Dr. Brooks says that while some high achievers rank highly on finding meaning and accomplishments, they score lower on positive emotions. They defer gratification constantly which, he believes, can lead to burnout.
The advice is logical – cultivate positive emotions and live in the present. If something goes wrong, try to fix it, then move on and don’t be overwhelmed by the things you can’t change. People don’t fear failure itself, Dr. Brooks tells students, but how failure will make them feel.
The overwhelming popularity of this course reflects a wider trend among business schools to treat emotional awareness, relationships, communication and balance as seriously as more traditional business subjects. Move over financial modelling; it’s time to embrace the rise of soft skills and an increased appetite for more balanced lives. Are you ready?
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News, May 2006, To see today's News, click here: www.aljazeerah.info
Bush Supports Israeli Unilateral Plan, Inviting a Prolonged Conflict
By Hassan El-Najjar
Al-Jazeerah, May 24, 2004
This is a sad day in the history of humanity. The president of the perceived world superpower has announced his support for Israeli aggressors against their Palestinian victims.
He approved the Israeli unilateral plan to impose an unjust solution on the Palestinian people. It allows Israeli aggressors to keep a lot of the lands they occupied by force and stole from the Palestinian people. Palestinians will not accept injustice, as they have demonstrated so far, which means that the conflict will continue for decades to come.
After only six hours of talks between the US President, George Bush, and Israeli Prime Minister, Ehud Olmert, Bush praised Olmert's unilateral plan to deal with the Palestinian people.
The Olmert plan imposes a one-sided Israeli solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Basically, it grabs major area of land from the West Bank that no Palestinian government would accept. The Apartheid, Land-Grab Wall becomes the border. This is unacceptable to Palestinians as it is built deep inside the Palestinian territory, not on the 1967 borderline.
With the executive branch of the US government following the legislative branch (Yesterday's anti-Palestinian House Vote), America confirms its status once again as an Israeli colony. American leaders in both branches of the government have put interests of Israel, as defined by Israeli leaders, ahead of the national interests of the United States.
What does a US support for an Israeli unilateral solution mean?
For Palestinians, it means more strangling, more starvation, and probably a lot of bloodshed.
For Arabs and Muslims, it means more invasions, more death, and more destruction.
For the American people, it means deeper national debt, more wars, probably a draft, and sky-rocketing oil and gas prices.
This is a sad day, indeed.
AP Headline: U.S. Praises Israeli West Bank Plan
By AMY TEIBEL Associated Press Writer
May 24, 2006, 6:49 AM EDT
WASHINGTON (AP) --
In a policy shift, the White House is praising Israel's plan to set its borders with the Palestinians and is convinced those boundaries could create side-by-side states if a negotiated solution proves elusive.
Yet the course that Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert outlined to President Bush is detested by the Palestinians and avoids the contentious issues that have made peace and establishment of a Palestinian state unrealized goals.
Olmert, continuing his rounds in Washington with a speech Wednesday to a joint meeting of Congress, pronounced himself "very, very pleased" with both the atmosphere and the content of his talks with U.S. officials.
Likewise, the president said in a news conference after his White House meeting with Olmert that the Israeli leader had "bold ideas" for unilateral action should talks founder on the internationally backed "road map" peace plan.
Before Olmert arrived Sunday, the Bush administration had urged him to negotiate with the moderate Palestinian President, Mahmoud Abbas, and bypass the new Hamas leadership.
A negotiated solution is the preferred route both for Bush and Olmert, though the president found merit to the prime minister's alternative approach.
"These ideas could lead to a two-state solution if a pathway to progress on the road map is not opened in the period ahead," Bush said.
Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erekat, an Abbas ally, welcomed Bush's call for negotiations. But he rejected the notion of an imposed solution.
"President Bush said the first option is negotiation," Erekat told The Associated Press. "There is no other option."
Olmert, making his first visit to the U.S. since winning election in March, said he intended to "exhaust every possibility to promote peace with the Palestinians according to the road map."
"I extend my hand in peace to Mahmoud Abbas, the elected president of the Palestinian Authority. I hope he will take the necessary steps which he committed to in order to move forward," Olmert said. (This is the Sharon condition on Abbas, i.e. fighting a civil war against all Palestinian resistance organizations before negotiations can start - Al-Jazeerah).
But, he warned, "We cannot wait indefinitely for the Palestinians to change. ... If we come to the conclusion that no progress is possible, we will be compelled to try a different route."
In Jerusalem, a senior Cabinet member close to Olmert said if Hamas does not recognize Israel and renounce violence (declare an end to resistance while the Israeli occupation continues) within six months Israel will move ahead with plans to unilaterally draw its final borders by 2010.
"If these things don't happen, we won't wait for years, but rather we will wait until the end of this year," Haim Ramon told Israel Radio. "This will be a year of diplomacy."
"First negotiations, and after the negotiations, if it doesn't succeed and it becomes clear that there is no (Palestinian) partner, we will move ahead with the consolidation plan," Ramon said.
Olmert gave Abbas a tall order, saying after six hours of meetings and dinner with Bush that Abbas would have to disarm Palestinian militant groups (i.e. Palestinian organizations resisting the Israeli occupation); the Palestinian government would have to recognize Israel; and previous agreements would have to be fully put in place.
Olmert told reporters he would meet with Abbas, but did not say when.
In his appearance with Bush, Olmert reaffirmed his ideas for Israel's final borders: The major illegal Israeli Jewish settlement blocs on the West Bank where most of the 250,000 illegal Israeli settlers live would become part of Israel, with most other settlements dismantled.
A senior U.S. official said the administration became more comfortable with the unilateral alternative because it grew convinced Olmert was serious about trying to negotiate with Abbas. It also thinks that if efforts to negotiate fail, then Olmert's ideas could be compatible with the ultimate goal of a viable Palestinian state, even if the Palestinians had little hand in creating it, said the official, speaking on condition of anonymity because he was describing private talks.
The Palestinians are pressing for a full withdrawal from the West Bank and east Jerusalem.
In addition, Olmert's plan does not begin to tackle the complex issues that have doomed peace talks before, including the status of Jerusalem. Israel claims it as its capital; the Palestinians mark its eastern sector as the capital of their future state.
(Pledging allegiance to Israel and slavishly welcoming Master Olmert), the US House of Representatives voted Tuesday to ban U.S. aid to the Palestinian Authority and to bar diplomatic contacts with Hamas. The Senate is considering a less restrictive bill. Bush opposes the legislation on the ground that it goes too far.
AP Diplomatic Correspondent Anne Gearan contributed to this report.
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Date: January 26, 2021
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Mark Hyman, M.D.: "Food is medicine. It's not just calories—it's information.”
Hyman, a functional medicine doctor and New York Times bestselling author, joins mbg co-CEO, Jason Wachob, to discuss the food rules you need to know, plus:
*Why you can have “normal” blood sugar & still have an insulin issue*
*What healthcare will look like one year from now*
*The most underrated phytochemicals & where to find them*
*Why you should treat sugar "like a recreational drug"*
*How vegans and carnivores alike can get adequate omega-3's*
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Referenced in the episode:
-Hyman's book, The Pegan Diet.
-Hyman's mbg articles explaining the pegan diet and exactly what to eat.
-Hyman's interview at mbg's revitalize in 2014.
-Jeffrey Bland, Ph.D.'s mbg article on the connection between tartary buckwheat & immunity.
-Hyman's blog post about approaching COVID-19 with a functional medicine lens.
-Geisinger study showing how offering free food to people with diabetes lowered financial costs overall.
-Hyman's article in the Boston Globe.
-Network Medicine textbook.
-Hyman's TED Talk.
-mbg Podcast episode #193, with Hyman.
-mbg Podcast episode #45, with Hyman.
-mbg Podcast episode #22, with Hyman.
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This article originally appeared on the old bioephemera September 9, 2007.
Syphilitic skull with three trephine holes and osteomyelitic lesions
One of my favorite London experiences was my visit to the Hunterian museum. If only I had more time there! I liked it so much, I returned on my last day, procrastinating my departure for Heathrow as long as possible.
The Hunterian is tucked away inside the Royal College of Surgeons of England, on Lincoln's Inn Fields. In its Victorian incarnation, it was a wonderful multi-tiered gallery with railings, balconies, and suspended skeletons:
Illustrated London News, 1845
The Hunterian Gallery before the wars (source)
So I was shocked when I entered the grey, columned Royal College, climbed a graciously curving stairway, and found this extremely modern, two-story crystal-and-glass atrium:
The Crystal Gallery at the Hunterian Museum, Royal College of Surgeons
Definitely not what I was expecting! But it grew on me. I love ornate curiosity cabinets, but there is something very elegant about unadorned bones, and simple glass jars. Biological structures are so rich with intrinsic beauty, there's no real need to gild the lily (that means you, Damien Hirst).
Though the new Hunterian galleries are peaceful and refined, I felt a slight pang of regret for the railings and wood cabinetry Darwin would have touched, when he studied here in the 1830s and 40s. Unfortunately, many of the specimens Darwin saw were destroyed when the Royal College of Surgeons was bombed in 1941. Like the gallery housing it, John Hunter's collection is no longer what it once was. But what remains is still pretty darn amazing.
Hunter, a renowned surgeon and fellow of the Royal Society, worked tirelessly to collect medical anomalies like the 7'7" skeleton of the Irish Giant, Charles Byrne (for which Hunter paid 130 pounds). He also amassed thousands of less exotic teaching specimens: though he did not have access to formaldehyde, he took wet preservation in alcohol to its highest level. After Hunter's death in 1793, his ~13,000 specimens were purchased by the British state. The collection would be maintained (and enlarged) by the Royal College of Surgeons for the next two hundred years.
Hunter's collection is organized according to some rather unusual curatorial precepts. As a physician and early experimentalist, Hunter was less interested in taxonomy than in physiology. He grouped specimens not by family or type, but as exemplars of processes - mouthparts and digestion, reproduction, etc. From the Victorian perspective,
The design of Mr. Hunter, in making this collection, was to exhibit the gradations of nature, from the most simple state in which life is found to exist, up to the most perfect and most complex of the animal creation, man himself. By his art, he was able to expose and preserve in a dried state, or in spirits, the corresponding parts of animal bodies; so that the various links in the chain of a perfect being may be readily followed and clearly understood. (Mogg's New Picture of London and Visitor's Guide to its Sights, 1844)
But Hunter's collection does not exemplify linear progression, so much as ramification: the incredible diversity of ways that animal forms have evolved to accomplish given functions. Most of the specimens displayed here are not human; the Hunterian is a shrine not to Man, but to our entire extended family.
I first heard of the Hunterian through the delightful book Stuffed Animals and Pickled Heads: The Culture of Natural History Museums, by Stephen Asma at Columbia College, Chicago. (I highly recommend this book, if you don't own it already). Asma's first impression of the Hunterian was similar to my own:
Without a grasp of Hunter's underlying principles, the cases seemed slightly irrational. In one case, marked "Digestion," I found various dissections of mammals, parasitic worms, a cicada, a locust, slugs, a squid, a vulture, a woodpecker, and a puffin. This hodgepodge arrangement follows no taxonomic grouping. . . Individual species, genera, and even families are displayed together to illustrate the unique ways that their structures fit the functions of digestion, circulation, respiration, and so forth. (Stuffed Animals and Pickled Heads, 63)
My copy of Pickled Heads has been with in storage with the rest of my belongings for months, so I'd forgotten Asma's words. But when I walked up to the first case of Hunter's jars (mouthparts of squid, beaks, teeth, mouthparts of bees and cicadas), I immediately remembered Asma's description, and recognized what he meant. The intestines of fish were right next to the stomachs of mammals, including a rat which substantially outweighed the tiny human fetus next to it. There is no mistaking the idiosyncratic style of this little museum, so different from the aggressively educational dioramas of the London Natural History Museum or the Smithsonian Natural History Museum. Modern biology museums are full-color, multimedia entertainment factories - it's a way to engage the audience, true, but it sometimes teeters toward the tawdry and didactic. Asma expresses the difference far better than I could:
Perhaps the most notable aspect of the Hunterian Museum--besides the bleached and bloated "monsters"--is that it's not intended for a lay audience. The Hunterian doesn't really care whether the average person is "getting it." This is unexpectedly unnerving, since most other museum encounters come complete with torrents of helpful information. Almost every museum specimen that you have ever encountered, be it a fossil, a jar, or a mount, is accompanied by a plaque, a chart, or a recording that announces to you--even before a question has been formulated in your head-"what you are seeing is so and so. . . ." What was Hunter trying to communicate when he grouped his specimens? This question alone gives one a more interactive relationship with the museum than any computer gadgetry could. (Stuffed Animals and Pickled Heads, 78-79)
It's a little unfair to say the Hunterian doesn't care if visitors "get it." I saw a class of kids around twelve years old when I was there, moving in and out of a room set aside for teaching purposes, and they seemed to be "getting it" pretty well. The point is, they were being allowed to draw their own conclusions, and with a little guidance, to simply wander and wonder. Refreshing indeed.
What do I do when confronted with a mute collection of natural wonders? Why, break out the sketchbook. But I didn't have one! It's been so long since I felt peaceful enough to sketch in a museum - I'm normally buffeted by thousands of obnoxious children, and worse, tourists who act like children. I wasn't prepared. I had to buy a little 5"x8" Moleskine at a nearby bookshop, and sketch with a mechanical pencil while sitting on the floor. Since the museum does not allow photography, not even for earnest, sincere bloggers, these little doodles are all I have to represent Hunter's myriad curiosities. I can't believe I didn't even get to the bound foot, or the lion with rickets, or the male and female ivory anatomical models. Argh.
Sepia officinalis (preparation showing the mouthparts of a cuttlefish)
If you are active in the biomedical professions (and yes, they will ask for proof of this, like an ID card) you may also visit the Wellcome Anatomy and Pathology Museum upstairs.
At first glance, the Wellcome collection seems like the neglected younger sibling of the Hunterian prodigal son (or, if you prefer, the Harry-under-the-stairs to the spoiled Hunterian Dudley Dursley). It's one outdated, drab room, filled with hundreds of specimen jars. No sexy lighting or pedagogical dioramas here - to figure out what you're viewing you have to thumb through well-used, slightly sticky binders of notes. These binders are tucked in shelves or tables, wherever the last user left them; I couldn't find one of the binders at all, so I'm still in the dark about some of the skeletal abnormalities I saw.
But the biggest difference is that the Wellcome specimens are all Homo sapiens, representing a variety of obscure, rare, or dramatic medical conditions - conditions, like keratin horns, that I never expected to personally see in the flesh! And they're generally in better condition than the Hunterian specimens (most date from the 20th century). I could have spent five to ten minutes examining a single specimen, and there are hundreds of prosections in the Museum. I was completely overwhelmed, and didn't sketch a single thing (sorry).
I wondered why the Hunterian and Wellcome collections were spatially isolated in this way, and the Wellcome closed to the public. It couldn't be about shock value - some of the Hunterian exhibits were pretty gruesome. So I asked the head of conservation, who told me that it has to do with the legal status of the collection.
The UK has a long history of scandalous "body-snatching" (see this Curious Expeditions post for more on that nefarious activity). Since the 1832 Anatomy Act, enacted to discourage the illicit sale of body parts, specimens like those in the Wellcome collection have been more and more tightly restricted. Since 2006, the Human Tissues Authority has regulated the donation, disposal, and use of medical specimens and cadavers, and requires special licesning for the public display of remains from persons who died since 1906 (according to their FAQ, they also require licenses of plastination exhibits, such as Body Worlds). But since John Hunter lived, collected, and died years before the Anatomy Act, his collection can be displayed without the restrictions that impact the pathology collection.
Skull of 25-year-old man showing enlargement due to hydrocephalus
Liston collection at Hunterian Museum
I highly recommend both the Hunterian and Wellcome collections to any biologist, artist, kunstkammer fan, or interested layperson visiting London. The Hunterian is perfectly suitable for older children, and surprisingly peaceful for a (free!) museum so close to both the British Library and Inns of Court. There were tourists everywhere, but only a handful stopping by to see John Hunter's life's work. You might make a day of it and also visit the Wellcome Collection, around the corner near UCL, or Sir John Soanes Museum, which is literally across the street. So much to see, so much to blog, so little time. What a wonderful world.
You might want to check out Teylers Museum in Haarlem, The Netherlands. The museum itself is a museum, so a lot of it is still more or less like it was when the museum opened in 1794. Lots of wood cabinets. Here are some pictures.
There is also a Hunterian museum at the University of Glasgow, not too far from where I am. I gather that its anatomy collections are not open to the public though (at least, they weren't when I was last there many moons ago). Glad to see that it ranks higher in Google than the one in London... hehe.
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Welcome to Locked in Solidarity.
Since 2014, we have been setting aside time the second week of February for Locked in Solidarity, as CCDA’s National Awareness & Action week on Mass Incarceration. Locked in Solidarity creates the space needed to listen to stories of people in our communities who are directly impacted, to learn about the greater impact of mass incarceration, to pray, and to engage public sector officials who have the power and position to impact change.
We invite you to join us by learning more and loving those affected by incarceration in your community. Then, we encourage you to courageously take a step to host awareness events and advocate for them in your spheres of influence.
Why Should We Care?
CCDA communities know firsthand the impacts of mass incarceration and are working to develop a strategic, sustainable advocacy to influence systemic change. We are actively engaging people in our association and the broader community through spiritual formation, education, leadership development and bringing our experiences and understanding to public square.
While it is essential to look at the systemic injustices and work to ensure that there are just public policies in place at federal, state and local levels when engaging mass incarceration, people can also engage the issue with solutions beyond a legislative response.
Churches and community-based programs that work with prevention, intervention, support for families separated by incarceration, and re-entry are all essential to providing support to those impacted by this growing phenomenon. We, as faith communities, need to look for opportunities to serve those affected with support services. Read more on our white paper here.
Start here to help educate and strengthen your community’s collective understanding of the issues around mass incarceration and how to get involved in collaborative change.
A Glimpse: Facts around Mass Incarceration
Prison Policy Initiative is a great resource for learning more about mass incarceration. Take a look at:
- Mass Incarceration: The Whole Pie 2020
- COVID-19 & the Criminal Justice System
- Winnable criminal justice reforms in 2022
Resources from Practitioners
Raising Awareness in your Community
There is opportunity to make each day’s action and/or event unique to your community, and as such, we encourage you to follow these general guidelines:
- Register your event online so we can support you from the national office as well as share the collective work we are doing throughout the country.
- Host your event in a church, public venue or community center some time during the second week of February
- Have people directly impacted by incarceration share their stories and experiences
- Invite important community leaders to share this opportunity: police officers, school leadership, elected officials at local, state and federal levels
- Make it an open event so that community members and media will be able to attend
- Use and encourage the use of #lockedinsolidarity for all your social media surrounding the event
- Utilize the Locked in Solidarity graphic to promote your event – flyers and Facebook events
- Collect names and contact information of individuals who are wanting to more deeply engage a movement to overturn mass incarceration
- Register an articulate community member/leader to be the media contact for your site
- Share at least three names and contact information of local individuals with the CCDA National office who are willing to speak to media if asked.
Utilizing LIS as a Media Tool
Sharing how mass incarceration impacts our CCDA communities is essential. Utilizing media is an important way to raise awareness and take action. Some of us live in communities impacted by mass incarceration or have attended a CCDA conference to learn more about the broken system. Others must be made aware of the far-reaching impacts of mass incarceration so they can join us in the collective effort to dismantle this injustice.
Media is a great way to get people interested in your community’s LIS event, and can be used to share information we learn while there. Sharing photos, videos, or thoughts is an accessible way to inspire, train, and connect your community to take action.
Utilizing LIS as an Advocacy Tool
Locked in Solidarity is our national week of awareness and ACTION around mass incarceration. We recognize that while it is good to be aware of an issue that is impacting our communities and support those voices impacted, we want to take what we have heard and learned and move into a direct action response.
One of the primary purposes of LIS is to create an opportunity to do direct advocacy. Public sector officials need to know that there are leaders in their community who want to work together to impact change on this issue. Those officials can be, but are not limited to: police officers, sheriffs, ICE detention officers, school & community officers, public defenders, prosecutors, the mayor or city manager, local school board & council members, state level and federal elected officials, state and county department heads and staff who work under the judicial branch.
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Immune Cell Therapy Shows Early Promise for Patients With Pancreatic Cancer
SAN FRANCISCO – A nonengineered, multiantigen-specific T-cell therapy was safe, tolerable, and showed signs of clinical activity in patients who had pancreatic adenocarcinoma, according to preliminary results from a phase I clinical trial presented at the AACR special conference on Immune Cell Therapies for Cancer, held July 19-22.
”Pancreatic adenocarcinoma is extremely hard to treat,” said Brandon G. Smaglo, MD, assistant professor of internal medicine and medical director of hematology/oncology at the Dan L Duncan Comprehensive Cancer Center of Baylor College of Medicine in Houston. “Most patients have intense chemotherapy, which often has severe adverse effects, and we urgently need alternative approaches to treatment.
“We are encouraged by the early results suggesting that the T-cell therapy we are testing is a feasible approach to pancreatic adenocarcinoma treatment that is tolerable and shows signs of clinical activity,” continued Smaglo. “We look forward to treating more patients and continuing to follow those whose responses are ongoing.”
Smaglo explained that certain proteins are specific to cancer cells and that these proteins are referred to as tumor-associated antigens. He and his colleagues set out to investigate whether it is possible to use a patient’s blood to generate large numbers of T cells that recognize tumor-associated antigens, and that target and kill cancer cells once they are infused back into the patient.
To create each patient’s customized treatment, the researchers start by harvesting immune cells from the patient’s blood. T cells in the immune cell mixture that can recognize any of five tumor-associated antigens (PRAME, SSX2, MAGEA4, NY-ESO-1, and Survivin) are expanded in number in the laboratory under conditions that promote cancer-killing functionality and infused back into the patient.
As of July 5, 2019, 18 patients had been treated with up to six infusions of customized, nonengineered, multiantigen-specific T cells. Nine of the patients had unresectable or metastatic pancreatic adenocarcinoma that was responding to initial treatment with chemotherapy, and six had pancreatic adenocarcinoma that had progressed despite initial treatment with chemotherapy. The final three patients had pancreatic adenocarcinoma that could be removed by surgery. These patients received one T-cell therapy infusion before surgery and continued to receive T-cell therapy infusions after surgery; they are being followed for surveillance.
Seven of the nine patients who received the T-cell therapy alongside chemotherapy were evaluable for response. Five of those seven have had responses for longer than six months from the time of starting the T-cell therapy. The responses for these five patients are all ongoing. One of these responses is a radiographic complete response, two are partial responses, and four are stable disease.
One of the patients who had pancreatic adenocarcinoma that had progressed despite initial treatment with chemotherapy has stable disease that has been ongoing for more than six months since starting the T-cell therapy. Smaglo explained that while the others had progression of their disease, two had a clinical benefit with stabilization of their symptoms.
“We are excited that not only have we seen some clinical activity with our T-cell therapy, but we have seen no serious adverse effects, including no infusion-related systemic toxicity or neurotoxicity,” said Smaglo. “The tolerability of the treatment is very important because other treatments for pancreatic adenocarcinoma can cause severe adverse effects.”
According to Smaglo, the main limitation of the study is that only a small number of patients have been treated to date, so many more need to be treated to fully determine the effectiveness of the T-cell therapy. Smaglo also noted that generating the customized treatment is time and labor intensive for patients and health care providers, which may limit scalability of the T-cell therapy in the future.
This study was supported by funds from the V Foundation and the Pancreatic Cancer Action Network. Smaglo has participated in a speaker’s bureau for Taiho Oncology.
View the full abstract here. | <urn:uuid:0378bcc3-257d-4c95-9c22-e27c16c8b20c> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.aacr.org/about-the-aacr/newsroom/news-releases/immune-cell-therapy-shows-early-promise-for-patients-with-pancreatic-cancer-2/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572033.91/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814113403-20220814143403-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.965813 | 910 | 1.914063 | 2 |
Onion with an original elongated shape of the bulb.
Seeds are sown in open ground in early spring to a depth of 2-3 cm. Harvest in July-August.
1 gram = 250 seeds.
The stimulating and tonic effect of onions has long been known:
* It is believed that when consumed as food, onions have a stimulating effect due to their strong effect on the mucous membranes.
* Onion not only increases potency in men, but also sexuality in women, so it is mutually good to take it for partners
(the only problem is its specific odor, which can be eliminated by simply rinsing the mouth with water,
and then - a short chewing of parsley leaves).
* Onions are also useful for men because they help prevent prostate cancer:
Employees of the American National Cancer Institute came to the conclusion that taking 10 grams per day of this vegetable reduces the risk of prostate tumors by half.
* Turkish doctors, for example, came to the conclusion that onions and extracts from it can seriously compete with Viagra
(especially since onion-based preparations do not give any complications).
* Bulgarian scientists recommend eating a small head of onion with bread and salt at night for adenoma and prostate hypertrophy,
or drinking juice from one head of onion with honey.
* Indian doctors suggest the following recipe for general health: cut four medium onions and put them in a cup of hot water for 2-3 hours.
Strain and drink 2-3 times a day before meals.
There are few contraindications for taking onions: onions are not recommended for kidney stones, diseases of the stomach and intestines. | <urn:uuid:d66d76da-1bc5-4bc4-bdc8-44bf84d20401> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://seemnemaailm.ee/en/long-onion-from-florence.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572033.91/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814113403-20220814143403-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.952509 | 346 | 2.15625 | 2 |
Indian Journal of Science and Technology
Year: 2016, Volume: 9, Issue: 10, Pages: 1-5
P. Tirumala Rao1*, S. Koteswarao Rao2 , G. Manikanta1 and S. Ravi Kumar1
1Department of ECE, Vignan's Institute of Information Technology, Visakhapatnam - 530049, Andhra Pradesh, India; [email protected], [email protected], [email protected] 2Department of ECE, K L University, Vaddeswaram, Guntur District - 522502, Andhra Pradesh, India; [email protected]
*Author for Correspondence
P. Tirumala Rao Department of ECE, Vignan's Institute of Information Technology, Visakhapatnam - 530049, Andhra Pradesh, India; [email protected]
The problem of the heart are normally monitored by ECG. ECG waveform comes in the slope of P-Q-R-Spattern. Q-R-S is the most critical part of the waveform. In this study of ECG signals and examination of different conditions, two must required parameters are Q-R-S duration and heart rate. Abnormal condition results in artificial arrhythmia in which there will be a remarkable change in these parameters. The aim of this work is to determine whether arrhythmia exist are not. Extraction of Q-R-S complex is done by Pan–Tompkins algorithm. ECG signal is made to pass through a LPF and HPF filters. There the signal is made to pass through derivation squaring, integration to compare it with a set of slopes case of abnormality are studied. Thus, the method serves as easy technique for studying cardiac abnormality.
Keywords: Abnormal, ECG Signals, High Pass Filter, Low Pass Filter, R-R Intervals, Q-R-S Pattern
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Children who showed high levels of hyperactivity and inattentiveness as kindergartners were much more likely to buy lotto tickets, bet on sports, and play video poker in the sixth grade than were less impulsive students. This suggests that impulsivity is a “developmentally continuous” trait that can lead to a lifetime of risky behavior. And since youthful wagering often precedes compulsive gambling—which leads to poor health, criminality, and substance abuse—it could “easily unravel into a public health issue.”
—“Predicting Gambling Behavior in Sixth Grade From Kindergarten Impulsivity,” Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine
—“iTunes University and the Classroom: Can Podcasts Replace Professors?,” Computers & Education
Nerds never win—in fact, they make significantly less money as adults than their cooler classmates. Men who’d been popular as high-school seniors were making more money, 35 years later, than their less popular peers, even after controlling for family background and intelligence. Just one additional high-school friendship resulted in roughly half the income gain from an extra year of education, and “turning a social reject into a star” would “yield him a 10 percent wage advantage.”
—“Popularity,” Institute for Social & Economic Research
How do our minds differentiate between a novel’s heroes and its villains? Evolutionary psychology suggests one answer. When asked to consider characters in 19th-century British novels, readers consistently identified as protagonists those who were more conscientious and likely to form alliances—behavior that fulfills “an adaptive social function.” Those they labeled antagonists were status-seeking, power-hungry, and selfish—all traits that work against the “egalitarian social dynamic” that our ancestors valued. Novels may allow us to live vicariously in idealized societies, or they may encourage us to acquire socially beneficial traits.
—“Hierarchy in the Library: Egalitarian Dynamics in Victorian Novels,” Evolutionary Psychology
The bonuses bankers have handed themselves in recent years aren’t just excessive—they may have hastened Wall Street’s collapse. Although cash incentives tend to make people work harder, expending too much effort can actually hinder tasks that require creativity, problem solving, and concentration. Anticipating large bonuses can lead to excessive self-consciousness and a focus so narrow that it warps perspective by blocking important outside information—like, say, common sense.
—“Large Stakes and Big Mistakes,” Review of Economic Studies
—“The Lessons of Mumbai,” Rand Corporation | <urn:uuid:36296cb9-0518-4c13-9c28-a70220e051c8> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2009/05/quick-study/307388/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571198.57/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810161541-20220810191541-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.960559 | 565 | 2.953125 | 3 |
In sentence processing, storage and ordering of the verb and its arguments (subject and object) are core tasks. Their cortical representation is a matter of ongoing debate, and it is unclear whether prefrontal activations in neuroimaging studies on sentence processing reflect the storage of arguments or their ordering. Moreover, it is unclear how storage during sentence processing relates to the neuroanatomy of storage outside the sentence processing domain. To tackle these questions, we crossed the factor "ordering" (subject-first vs. object-first German sentences) with the factor "storage" (one vs. four phrases intervene between the critical argument and the verb) in an auditory fMRI study. Ordering focally activated the left pars opercularis in Broca's area, while storage activated deep left temporo-parietal (TP) regions. Notably, left TP activation correlated with listener's digit span, while Broca's area activation did not. Furthermore, fractional anisotropy of listeners' left arcuate fasciculus/superior longitudinal fasciculus (AF/SLF) is shown to covary with the functional effect of increased storage demands at sites along the tract. Functionally, the results suggest that storage during sentence processing relies on TP regions, likely shared between sentence processing and other working memory-related tasks, while Broca's area appears as a distinct neural correlate of ordering. We conclude that the abstract notion of sentence processing can be captured by the interplay of concrete cognitive concepts such as ordering and storage.
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