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Every business needs an action plan to achieve its objectives. Typically, companies have multiple action plans to achieve the overall organizational goal. An action plan for a business, project, or team is critical to set the right tone and keep everything moving in the right direction.
An ineffective action plan creates disorder and inefficiency, leading to dissatisfied team members & clients. The trick is to ensure that your strategy is simple enough to execute but elaborate to meet the strategic objectives. You can follow some guidelines to check that your action plan is effective and will not lead to chaos during its implementation.
Essential tips to follow for an effective plan include:
- Involve Your Team
Involving team members before, during, and post-implementation is a critical success factor of an action plan. At the planning stage, seek the feedback of your teams on the plan structure. During implementation, you should involve the relevant parties and ask them about the improvement plans.
Team involvement conveys that you value your team’s opinion and offers you a perspective you may not have considered. There is always value gained through a third opinion and, a strategy is better when it is a collaborative effort.
- Address Problems
Challenges are almost always present during an implementation process. Address any issues with the team or aspects that could be disrupting the action plan. Before continuing with implementation, the challenges need resolution. It is sometimes tempting to sweep cropping issues under the carpet, but this compromises the project outcome.
To limit or reduce the severity of unexpected issues, you can do a risk assessment to anticipate specific challenges. You must do your best to forecast and anticipate any potential problems in a plan and address them from the start.
- Automate Processes
Manual processes are typically susceptible to inefficiencies and also error-prone. To pre-empt such anomalies, you should automate processes and make them as adaptable and lean as possible. An action plan will be more effective when the workflows are organized and simplistic.
There are several technological tools you can take advantage of to automate your processes. Project management tools can help assign tasks, set due dates, and track the progression of a project from one easy-to-use platform or app. Such tools create seamless workflows and ease the supervision burden.
- Set Clear Goals
The need for setting clear goals for action plans cannot be over-emphasized. Without clear goals, there will be disarray during implementation and the project outcomes will fall apart. Be sure your team has clear goals and expectations for the plan in place.
List all desired outcomes and how to achieve them. Team members should be assigned particular activities and a timeline to achieve them. You must allocate responsibility for critical tasks and goals to one person to ensure accountability and have someone follow up with all the involved parties.
- Create Realistic Timelines
Setting a realistic timeline enables you to plan better. A timeline should not be too narrow, demotivating the team members or too wide, allowing for laxity. A timeline should be realistic to set your team up for success. You will also do better when managing teams who are not too stressed or in their comfort zones.
If there are unknown or uncertain factors involved in the project, the plan should accommodate them. You should create opportunities to adjust the timeline once there is clarity in the unknowns. For long, complex timelines, consider developing a road map – you can utilize a Gantt chart or PERT chart.
- Offer Training and Support
In many action plans, you find some team members who are weak links and do not measure up to the project demands. Sometimes, your team needs help to make an action plan more effective. You should assess and identify the weaknesses and provide solutions.
To control such issues, be sure everyone has the skills necessary to execute the action plan before starting the implementation process. Create regular opportunities to check up on the action plan and ask your team if they need any support. In this way, you avoid discovering lapses when the damage is irreparable.
- Make It Flexible
Flexibility makes your action plan adaptable to unforeseen changes. An action plan is best when it is flexible and can accommodate changes effectively. Sometimes, even the most effective risk assessment procedures can fail to identify extraneous issues.
No action plan should be finite. The strategy should be adaptable and malleable to fit the needs of your team and project as circumstances change. Business can be chaotic at times, so always be prepared to flow as best you can.
Perfect your Action Plan
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The beauty of a woman is only skin-deep. If men could only see what is beneath the flesh and penetrate below the surface with eyes like the Boetian lynx, they would be nauseated just to look at women, for all this feminine charm is nothing but phlegm, blood, humours, gall. Just imagine all that is hidden in nostrils, throat and stomach… We are all repelled to touch vomit and ordure even with our fingertips. How then can we ever want to embrace what is merely a sack of rottenness?
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Blockchain has become synonymous with “hype”, “crypto craze”, “Bitcoin” and “trust”. The digital ledger technology that’s sweeping the world of entrepreneurship is unifying technologists and thinkers across the globe in an unprecedented vision of connectivity that both mirrors and eclipses the internet. It’s creating a towering cryptocurrency marketplace that is redefining the double-entry bookkeeping system first used by Italian merchants and bankers during the Renaissance to track transactions. It promises its own unique Age of Technological Enlightenment, a new dawn of humanism for a much greater degree of certainty and transparency among parties. But, it’s not a magic wand.
Unlike fiat currencies and paper documents, digital currencies and smart contracts built on the blockchain can foster trust, minimize fraud and shrink the human hand of manipulation. But can smart contracts deal with people being human? Can they handle the amendments, updates, adjustments and revisions that are often necessary to do business?
“Code is static but people and situations are not. People don’t always know what clarifications they should have put into their smart contract. Inevitably, some contracts need to be changed or modified to truly reflect the intent of the parties,” says Amy Wan, Co-Founder and CEO of Sagewise.
To gain real traction, smart contracts will need to be flexible while staying secure, and they’ll need to be open to certain contractual modifications, according to Wan.
As the ecosystem grows and as more businesses start to use enterprise tools to roll out blockchain projects with smart contracts, Sagewise aims to be the safety net to resolve disputes.
Co-Founder and CTO Dan Rice believes that governance is key. The arbitration system can be detailed, with terms that are clearly defined up front, prior to the execution of a smart contract.
At the same time, smart contracts are designed to be more efficient than paper contracts with a better mechanism for tracking how parties execute the terms. By providing for all kinds of contingencies, with human intervention, would their very basis and strength become undone?
Says Rice, “There are absolutely intermediaries that make smart contracts not trusted, and it’s a dangerous precedent to give control over to machines. The idea of creating flawless code with everybody’s money on it – I’m never going to sleep again.”
Rice explains how smart contracts have flipped the status quo on its head, transforming expectations and behaviors. “Even paper contracts, even after they’re signed, it’s like, ‘Oh, can we make a change here?’ In Western contracts, we don’t read our contracts to figure out what to do. What’s guiding us everyday is what we discussed on the phone or in person. Smart contracts are changing this. Now it’s the contract that determines what to do, not humans and our conversations.”
“We’re very bullish on blockchain and Bitcoin technology,” adds Wan, “and we’re trying to bridge the real world with the blockchain world so people can feel confident about the contracts they’re doing. As an infrastructure project, we’re completely dispute resolution process agnostic, since different parties will have different needs. Instead, we’re building the tech tools that allow people to freeze a smart contract and initiate a dispute resolution process in the first place. Our mission is to allow for that process.”
Sagewise is riding a fine line – upholding the strength of blockchain-based contracts and supporting the goals of decentralized networks while also remaining critical of a contract’s ability to deliver a flawless performance. In the world of cryptocurrencies, breaches and hacks tell the story of smart contracts as much as astronomical gains and the many flash crashes that have led to substantial losses.
A recent report by five researchers from the UK and Singapore, entitled “Finding The Greedy, Prodigal, and Suicidal Contracts at Scale,” identify three main areas of vulnerability for smart contracts that make them susceptible to hacks:
Greedy: Contracts that lock funds indefinitely
Prodigal: Contracts that leak funds to arbitrary users
Suicidal: Contracts that can be killed by any user
Estimates vary regarding how much has actually been lost due to smart contract vulnerabilities. In last year’s scathing takedown of Ethereum, Bloomberg writer Elaine Cho called out some of the worst-case scenarios:
“Last week, more than $150 million worth of ether, the platform’s currency, ended up stuck in the wallets – forever – after a botched hacking attempt. Only a few months earlier, a bug in an earlier version of the same wallet allowed hackers to run off with $32 million. Shortly before that, a Canadian exchange accidentally trapped $13 million in its own broken smart contract.
Such issues are difficult to resolve thanks to a fundamental feature of the blockchain: All changes are immutable, which makes them tamper-resistant but also means that they can’t be reversed if something goes awry. Although there’s an ongoing proposal to recompense users who lost money through self-inflicted error, it has remained open for more than a year because people keep chiming in with new stories of how they lost money in yet another unanticipated way.”
Sagewise is a call to action to try to correct the imperfections of the immutable. And while the Sagewise software development kit (SDK) provides customizable tools to build an arbitration system and a safety net directly into the framework of a smart contract, it aims to do so without breaking the immutability of the blockchain history.
The first prototype of the Sagewise infrastructure is planned for a beta launch this fall. It’s core goal is to inject the human hand into a space that has become highly technical. If blockchain represents the building blocks for a renaissance that can transform a list of industries, it will require multiple layers and plug-ins to make it elastic enough to trust and to use. To build this new, dynamic and sprawling interconnected web of trusted transactions, interoperability of different blockchain languages talking to each other isn’t enough.
When smart contracts are the answering machines of transactions, we’ll need more than code or robotic voices on the other line. Despite the computational lag of our modern brains that can’t match the raw power of a computer crunching numbers, we’re still superior at sorting information, parallel processing and analyzing context in order to resolve conflicts. But the challenge of making smart contracts even smarter is a paradox: When dialing in a smart contract, designed to increase efficiency and transparency, and to root out tampering and manipulation, human intervention could become the new standard for making smart contracts even smarter.Don't Miss a Beat – Subscribe to get crypto email alerts delivered directly to your inbox
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The CM&BHC is actively involved in activities that foster community-based innovation in behavioral health through a number of USC collaboratives. We also provide mentoring to faculty, trainees, and organizations affiliated with the following entities:
- The USC SMART-VR Center is a multidisciplinary center that brings together world-class investigators across movement science, engineering, neuroscience, and rehabilitation to study and develop virtual reality interventions for neurorehabilitation.
- The Community Health Equity Solutions (CHES) is composed of group of faculty members, staff, students, and community leaders to find new solutions to reduce the persistent health disparities and improve health outcomes in our surrounding communities and beyond.
- The USC Metaplasticity and Megaplasticity: Changing the Brain from Synapse to Community collaboratory aims to gain novel perspectives towards understanding both the parameters of lifestyle as well as investigating underlying mechanisms of neuroplasticity critical for developing brain resilience in aging and disease.
- The USC mHealth Collaboratory brings together researchers and partners from across USC and beyond to lead advances in research, well-being, and health care through mobile strategies.
- The USC Institute for Integrative Health whose mission is to improve the quality of life for individuals and society by promoting the health and wellness of the whole human being—body, mind, and spirit.
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We conclude our tour of getting to know OneDrive this week. Here’s the intro from last week if you want to catch up. This week, we’ll look at how to upload pictures and documents, share from OneDrive on the web and on your desktop and more.
OneDrive has a great user experience. When you log in, you’re presented with tiles of your photos (I think this is the default, but you can click over to the upper right with the window icon and choose the ’tiles’ option. Here’s what mine looks like…
This 3″ video will give you a tour and show you what you can do with your OneDrive.
Things You Can Do With OneDrive
Now that you’ve signed into your OneDrive account, it’s time to add some photos and documents. In this video, I show you how to:
- upload from your desktop to the web using drag & drop
- upload folders, not just single files
- how to move things from one part of OneDrive to another
- how to make new folders and show you the Office Web Apps, where you can use Word, Excel PowerPoint and more for free – no desktop Office needed
- how to share your photos or documents – both from the web and desktop
- how to check your Shared items – who you are sharing with and who is sharing with you-below is a look at the Sharing tab
Drag and Drop Files From Windows Explorer To OneDrive
You can add files, photos, etc. to your OneDrive right from Windows Explorer on your desktop. You don’t have to do this on the web. You’d handle it just like you’d move things from one folder to another – nothing special!
Now that you know the basics, sign into your OneDrive and start adding files, photos, videos, pdfs and more. Then when you go to visit relatives or friends, you can log in and show them your photos. If you need to access a document and you’re not at home, access it securely from any web browser.
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Summary: Many people think about negative screening when it comes to the use of ethics in investment. There are now many more subtle ways to deselect potential companies from a fund.
A rather blunt but often effective tool in ethical investment is the use of negative screening. The first ethical and socially responsible investment funds used this method to help guide their decision making.
Essentially, negative screening is a process which excludes companies as potential investments by takng into account their corporate involvement in unsuitable industries. As time has passed and the ethical investment world has evolved, these criteria have been expanded to include other areas such as the environment.
Of course, even this method has it's faults. There are many
companies that fail when using negative criteria. This is despite the
fact that their main business model is acceptable, but an offshoot or
subsidiary, is breaking the rules of this test. If so, how small a
subsidiary is a small subsidiary? How bad is bad if mostly the company
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Some examples of business areas which are generally excluded by negative screening include:
- arms makers and sellers
- breaches in the human rights of employees or local residents
- nuclear power
- supporters of oppressive regimes
- pornography and adult entertainment
- users of pesticides in farming
Needless to say, these criteria can leave a lot to be desired. Some people will be against pollution and weapons makers - quite reasonably - but have no moral or ethical issue with a firm involved with gambling. To many investors, investing in the stock market is little more than a gamble!
Within the investment industry there is occassional discussion about the use of such criteria. Many professionals believe that excluding companies in this way achieves little, other than restricting the choice of a fund manager and providing a marketing opportunity by differentiating a fund by it's ethical position. Of course, over time, many funds are created with almost identical marketing and ethical positions meaning that even this possible advantage is eroded.
It is also worth pointing out that some of the most profitable sectors for investment (historically) have been the sin stocks. These include gambling, alcohol and tobacco. By excluding some of the best opportunities in the stock market, many professionals feel that long term underperformance is very likely.
In contrast, your author and some friends in the investment world have often joked that if we were to ever launch our own fund (which is highly unlikely), we would call it the 'Mafia Fund' and specifically invest in casinos, racehorces, poker rooms and nightclubs and the fund would outperform most of the market most of the time!
This, as ever, highlights the dilemma involved in ethical investment - are you investing for mental or monetary reasons?
To see other pages which discuss other areas of ethical investment, please visit:
What Is Ethical Investment?
The Ethical Investment Dilemma
What Are The Main Ethical Investment Strategies?
How And Why Does Positive Engagement Work?
Are Ethical Investment Funds Higher Risk Than Other Similar Funds?
What Is Positive Screening?
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Alexey V. Danilov, MD, PhD, discusses the potential for combining venetoclax with novel BTK inhibitors in chronic lymphocytic leukemia.
Alexey V. Danilov, MD, PhD, associate professor of medicine, Program in Molecular and Cellular Biology, Cancer Biology Graduate Program, Oregon Health & Science University School of Medicine, discusses the potential for combining venetoclax (Venclexta) with novel BTK inhibitors in chronic lymphocytic leukemia.
Multiple studies presented at the 2019 ASH Annual Meeting explored venetoclax in combination with novel BTK inhibitors, says Danilov. As the field enters a new era where chemoimmunotherapy is fading out, investigators are hoping to determine whether deep responses can be achieved with fixed-duration regimens for patients with CLL.
A few studies are examining venetoclax in combination with ibrutinib (Imbruvica) or venetoclax plus acalabrutinib (Calquence) with or without a CD20-directed antibody, adds Danilov.
For example, a phase II study showed high efficacy with the combination of acalabrutinib, venetoclax, and obinutuzumab (Gazyva), with 60% bone marrow measurable residual disease negativity after 6 months, says Danilov. Additionally, the response rates with the regimen appear to be very durable, concludes Danilov. | <urn:uuid:7a991f97-72ee-4705-a7f4-6e1d4e9cf103> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.onclive.com/view/dr-danilov-on-venetoclax-plus-btk-inhibitors-in-cll | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572033.91/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814113403-20220814143403-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.855511 | 348 | 1.53125 | 2 |
I’ve been thinking a lot about the phrase “media circus” lately. I’ve heard it applied to all sorts of crime-related stories I’ve covered during my decades as a reporter.
Lately, the expression cropped up during the near wall-to-wall coverage of the Gabby Petito missing persons/homicide case. I also heard it applied recently to the widespread reportage on pop star Britney Spears’ fight against her father’s court-sanctioned control over her life.
When uttered, those two words – “media circus” – are usually accompanied with a dramatic eye roll and a sarcastic sneer. Slapping that label on a story is akin to giving the public permission to ignore the core importance of the case at hand.
That’s a shame.
Take the case of Petito, whose body was ultimately found in a national forest in Wyoming where she had been traveling with her boyfriend, Brian Laundrie. The medical examiner determined Gabby’s cause of death was strangulation and, as every detective will tell you, that is a common denominator in violent domestic abuse cases.
There is a lesson to be learned there. Think about it. Anyone – a female or a male – who is firmly caught by the throat is immediately disabled. It is the ultimate way to exert power and control over someone. Research into domestic abuse has found that angry, but non-lethal, asphyxiation is often practiced first, and fatal strangulation frequently follows. In fact, studies show that victims of attempted strangulation are seven times more likely to then become a homicide-by-strangulation statistic.
Had Gabby been threatened like that previously? We will likely never know since Brian Laundrie was found dead of a suspected suicide last month.
Gabby’s cause of death is such an important fact to understand for all those caught up in a violence-prone relationship. Yet, within the massive number of print and broadcast stories about the Petito case, there was next to nothing mentioned about domestic violence red-flag indicators that victims should look out for.
In the saga surrounding Britney Spears, the public heard or read reams of information about her specific conservatorship battle, called guardianship in most states, that centered on the question: If she was so mentally incapacitated, how was she able to earn multiple millions and bankroll so many employees and lawyers for 13 years? We heard about Britney’s forced isolation, her father’s control over nearly every aspect of her professional and personal life, including whether she could marry or have more children.
Could one accurately call the Spears’ coverage a “media circus?” I suppose so, but that is beside my point. It was, for the most part, shallow reporting that overlooked the bigger picture.
There are at least 1.3 million Americans currently caught up in court-ordered conservatorship or guardianship arrangements. Judges summarily stripped these citizens of their constitutionally protected civil rights and subjected a substantial number of them to victimization by dishonest court appointees. Billions of dollars are siphoned off guardianized individuals every single year. That is the bigger, often untold, story.
The media industry is a flawed enterprise, but it remains the best bet we have to learn about the criminal element and other hidden corners of our society that we otherwise would not know about. The sometimes carnival-like coverage of certain stories shouldn’t stop us from asking important questions and challenging our own assumptions.
If you think domestic abuse happens mostly in low-income households or to those plagued with drug or alcohol problems, the Petito case should be an eye-opener. These were two seemingly average, fresh-faced kids who both wound up dead and alone in remote areas of our nation.
If you think your civil rights are permanent and absolute, think again. The Spears case was a jarring wake-up call if one read between the lines. For many, it was a first indication there is a corrupt and blatantly negligent area within the American justice system that can literally imprison someone, and take away their freedoms, money and dignity.
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Audi has just introduced an advanced diesel V-8 engine complete with electric compressor technology in its SQ7 TDI performance SUV.
But the engine, which will also have a gasoline counterpart, may end up being the automaker’s last V-8.
The information was revealed to Autocar by a source at Audi.
The source explained that the Volkswagen Group’s focus on vehicle electrification means most powertrain investments will be spent in the area of electric motors and batteries.
2017 Audi SQ7 TDI
“It would be very difficult to justify the huge investment in another new V-8 because of the cost of developing electric drivetrains and battery packs,” the source said. “You have to ask what is the best use of investment money.”
The VW Group is committed to having at least 25 percent of its sales being electric cars by 2025, and according to the source Audi is targeting an even higher percentage.
Couple this increased focus on electric cars with stricter vehicle emissions regulations and it’s easy to see why car companies such as Audi will want to move away from big engines. We’ve even heard Fiat Chrysler Automobiles [NYSE:FCAU] plans to phase out V-8s in its performance offerings.
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- 1 What is the first thing to teach in kindergarten?
- 2 Is kindergarten hard to teach?
- 3 What are the disadvantages of being a kindergarten teacher?
- 4 What are the 5 methods of teaching?
- 5 What is the best way to teach kindergarten?
- 6 What should a 5 year old know academically?
- 7 What are the kindergarten sight words?
- 8 What are the qualities of a good kindergarten teacher?
- 9 Are kindergarten teachers happy?
- 10 Can you make a living as a kindergarten teacher?
- 11 What should I major in if I want to be a teacher?
- 12 Are preschool teachers happy?
What is the first thing to teach in kindergarten?
In kindergarten, your student will practice basic concepts of math, reading, writing, shapes, and time. Learn more about the typical kindergarten curriculum, and find out how to help your child reach important learning milestones at home. It’s your child’s first official year of school!
Is kindergarten hard to teach?
Teaching kindergarten can be simultaneously one of the most rewarding and challenging jobs in a school. It requires patience and a love of children.
What are the disadvantages of being a kindergarten teacher?
Salaries for kindergarten teachers are often low because school districts are strapped for cash. Budget cuts, lack of supplies, reductions in benefits and increased class sizes can make teaching a less attractive career choice. There also may be time spent at home preparing your lesson plans without additional pay.
What are the 5 methods of teaching?
Teacher-Centered Methods of Instruction
- Direct Instruction (Low Tech)
- Flipped Classrooms (High Tech)
- Kinesthetic Learning (Low Tech)
- Differentiated Instruction (Low Tech)
- Inquiry-based Learning (High Tech)
- Expeditionary Learning (High Tech)
- Personalized Learning (High Tech)
- Game-based Learning (High Tech)
What is the best way to teach kindergarten?
Getting Your Classroom Ready
- Prepare yourself for kids with a wide range of skills.
- Create an inviting classroom.
- Gather all the supplies.
- Plan your circle time well.
- Get a jump start on lessons.
- Put together an irresistible classroom reading nook.
- Fill your classroom library with these classic kindergarten books.
What should a 5 year old know academically?
Correctly name at least four colors and three shapes. Recognize some letters and possibly write their name. Better understand the concept of time and the order of daily activities, like breakfast in the morning, lunch in the afternoon, and dinner at night.
What are the kindergarten sight words?
The Kindergarten Sight Words are: all, am, are, at, ate, be, black, brown, but, came, did, do, eat, four, get, good, have, he, into, like, must, new, no, now, on, our, out, please, pretty, ran, ride, saw, say, she, so, soon, that, there, they, this, too, under, want, was, well, went, what, white, who, will, with, yes.
What are the qualities of a good kindergarten teacher?
Here are six must-have qualities of a good kindergarten teacher:
- Passion In Their Work. Like other professions, passion is crucial when it comes to the early childhood development job.
- Flexibility. To be an effective kindergarten teacher, one has to be flexible.
- Sense of Humor.
Are kindergarten teachers happy?
Kindergarten teachers are below average when it comes to happiness. As it turns out, kindergarten teachers rate their career happiness 3.0 out of 5 stars which puts them in the bottom 36% of careers.
Can you make a living as a kindergarten teacher?
How much do kindergarten teachers earn? According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, kindergarten teachers earned a median annual income of $55,470 in 2018. The job website Salary.com reports a median income of $58,455 for kindergarten teachers, with salaries ranging from below $38,000 to above $79,000.
What should I major in if I want to be a teacher?
Every aspiring K-12 educator can enroll in a 4-year bachelor’s degree program in education to become a teacher. Individuals who are interested in teaching in middle or secondary school typically also major in the subject that they wish to eventually teach, such as music, mathematics, history, biology, or English.
Are preschool teachers happy?
Preschool teachers are about average in terms of happiness. At CareerExplorer, we conduct an ongoing survey with millions of people and ask them how satisfied they are with their careers. As it turns out, preschool teachers rate their career happiness 3.2 out of 5 stars which puts them in the bottom 47% of careers. | <urn:uuid:60e350f3-a509-45cb-b7ba-1735de3b1a1c> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://tumblebearmobile.com/useful-for-parents/readers-ask-teaching-kindergarten-what-do-i-need-to-qualiy.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572198.93/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815175725-20220815205725-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.929289 | 1,038 | 3.109375 | 3 |
When it comes to choosing the best equipment for your outdoor adventure there are a variety of elements to take into account. The most crucial decision to make is whether or not you wish to go with all-terrain vehicle (ATVs), or tracked vehicles. We’ll look at the benefits of tracks for ATVs and their advantages, as well as why they’re more suitable than other types of vehicles.
ATV tracks provide a variety of benefits for ATVs. Compared to other surfaces such as mud, gravel or asphalt, they are less likely to slip. They’re less likely to cause an ATV to become stuck in the mud or lose traction on slippery surfaces. ATV suspension and tires are less likely to get damaged through tracks. In addition, using tracks instead of traditional methods of transportation is more efficient on fuel.
People utilize all-terrain vehicles (ATV) to travel through areas of snow. These multipurpose vehicles are used for transport as well as recreation and work but they’re not free of challenges. One of the greatest problems with ATVs is that they tend to get stuck in soft snow or mud. This can lead to an extremely dangerous and stressful situation. It is often difficult to free the ATV from the deep snow, mud or other muck. There is, however, an alternative: ATV tracks.
ATV tracks have specially designed wheels that offer better traction than regular ATV tires. This helps you avoid getting stuck , and also get out of tricky places. Furthermore, ATV tracks are less likely to harm fragile ecosystems, such as delicate grasslands or delicate sand dunes. If you are a frequent user of your ATV in snow or off-road conditions, purchasing an additional set of tracks might be a smart idea. They can be bought as individual wheels or as part of a complete SxS gear kit.
ATV tracks offer better traction over tires, which makes them suitable for off-roading. The tracks distribute the weight of an ATV over more of a surface, meaning that they are less likely to sink into the soft ground. Additionally, the array of treads that are small on the tracks of ATVs provide better grip than traditional tires, making it much easier to navigate slippery or uneven terrain. ATV tracks offer a significant advantage in off-road driving conditions.
The tracks on the ATV provide greater safety when driving on uneven or unstable terrain. The large treads offer a wide space for gripping, and the tracks themselves are designed to flex and adjust to the contours of the ground beneath them. This helps to decrease the risk of your ATV being thrown off or stuck in sand or mud. ATV tracks are also much easier to utilize for steep hills or rough terrain. The added stability they provide can give drivers the confidence they need to handle tough driving conditions. Whether you’re an experienced ATV enthusiast or just a novice ATV tracks offer an advantage in tackling tough terrain.
When driving on soft ground or on water, such as snow, ATV tracks provide better flotation than the wheels. This is due to the fact that tracks distribute the weight of the ATV more evenly over a larger area, which prevents the ATV from sinking too deep into the earth. ATVs with tracks are able to travel further and faster than their wheels due to the fact that they have more traction. ATVs equipped with tracks traverse more smoothly when driving on soft or slippery surfaces. Tracks cost more than ATVs that do not have wheels, however they are essential for those who regularly encounter difficult driving conditions.
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ATAR & UNIVERSITY
Lakes Entrance Secondary College is consistently the best performing State college and often the best performing college of any stripe in the region when it comes to ATAR scores and Study Scores over 40. Routinely, all Lakes Entrance senior students are accepted into their first preference of university course - and rates of university completion are higher amongst Lakes Entrance graduates.
EMPLOYMENT & APPRENTICE
Many Lakes Entrance Secondary College VCAL students are unable to complete the VCAL program simply because they have secured apprenticeships or ongoing fulltime employment before the end of their senior studies. It is rare that less than 100% of VCAL graduates are not gainfully employed before the beginning of the next calendar year.
Lakes Entrance Secondary College expects, supports and celebrates effort and achievement across all areas of study - a policy that is reflected in the results and outcomes that our students enjoy.
LITERACY & NUMERACY
Students who come into Lakes Entrance at Year 7 performing below the median in Literacy or Numeracy will have caught up by Year 9 – a feat so remarkable that, in the case of Numeracy, it became the focus of a Department of Education study.
Along with boasting one of the most comprehensive school sporting programs in Victorian Government Secondary Education, Lakes Entrance Secondary College can also boast about its many sporting successes! Lakes Entrance competes in a full range of winter and summer sports – a range only limited, in fact, by student interest – and has been successful at a state level across numerous disciplines, including Swimming, Tennis, Table Tennis, Squash, Athletics, Cross Country, Lawn Bowls, Volley Ball and Hockey. There must be something in the water . . .
The Student Leadership Council at Lakes Entrance Secondary College ensures that students have a formal avenue through which they can enact real change at the school, for the benefit of all students. Student representatives meet regularly to articulate issues and concerns, and to organise events such as School Socials and Student Reward Days. The SLC can also, via a structured, real-world process, submit researched and costed proposals to the School Council for endorsement and funding. During Years 11 & 12, senior students are elected as School Captains, the principal representatives and ambassadors of the college. Their duties range from public speaking at school events to active involvement in school activities, and encouraging the involvement of other students.
RECOGNITION & AWARDS
Lakes Entrance Secondary College recognizes and celebrates achievement and effort. It does so during the year through its Positive Recognition Awards, a program that rewards positive student behaviour, input and effort with both written recognition and exclusive Reward Day activities. The college also recognizes Academic Achievement, Persistence, Community Involvement and Sporting Excellence at its annual Awards Evening. | <urn:uuid:b2107c45-22fc-42f4-9e5b-4e7ed2e32e38> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.lakessc.vic.edu.au/home-2-1-1 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571536.89/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811224716-20220812014716-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.951301 | 600 | 1.5 | 2 |
The metaverse is very much a work in progress, but the fundamental principles are operational today.
The following is a review of the metaverse in practice right now and examples of the core technologies being used to create it.
Many of these will be familiar to even casual metaverse followers, but the clarity and authority that futurist Bernard Marr brings to bear is well worth acknowledging.
What Web3 Looks Like Today
Although exactly what defines a Web3 site, service or application is still the subject of some debate, it’s generally agreed that it will be decentralized, with infrastructure that is owned by the users and creators. It will also be deeply linked to the real world due to being built on Internet of Things (IoT) technology and to the concept of immersive, connected environments (aka the metaverse).
The blockchain network that powers Ether, the world’s second most popular cryptocurrency (after Bitcoin). It works as a platform for many of the decentralized applications (dapps) that make up today’s iteration of Web3.
As cryptocurrencies and blockchain tokens are themselves decentralized, Web3 apps, it makes sense that users would want to trade them over networks that are decentralized themselves. Pancakeswap is an example of an exchange for trading and investing in cryptocurrencies and other decentralized tokens.
A decentralized messaging app aiming to become the Web3 version of WhatsApp or WeChat. According to Marr, Secretum aims to prioritize privacy and security by allowing users to connect without an email address or phone number, “both of which can generally be traced back to individuals due to the centralized nature of the service providers which host them.” It also has built-in trading functionality for secure trading of cryptocurrencies and blockchain tokens such as NFTs.
A decentralized YouTube-style video streaming platform that attempts to put power in the hands of its users, with all decisions on video visibility governed by views, shares, and likes. That is pointedly contrary to the YouTube of Web2, which is a centralized corporation (owned by Alphabet) that controls which videos can be seen, when they appear in users’ feeds, and which users can earn money (and how much). DTube has no “owners,” in the traditional sense, who can censor uploaded content by simply removing it from their servers.
Does web3 offer the promise of a truly decentralized internet, or is it just another way for Big Tech to maintain its stranglehold on our personal data? Hand-picked from the NAB Amplify archives, here are the expert insights you need to understand web3’s potential and stay ahead of the curve on the information superhighway:
- Magnificent Obsession: Why Are We in Love With Web3?
- Web3 and the Battle For the Soul of the Internet
- Web 2.5 Is Just… Awkward
- Avatar to Web3: An A-Z Compendium of the Metaverse
- Brave New World? Sure, Just Click Here
A decentralized cloud storage for personal files — like a decentralized Google Drive or OneDrive. It is fully open source, so anyone can examine the source code to determine that it is actually doing what it says it is doing and that there are no potential security holes that attackers could use to get at the data being stored. Users can offer up their own spare storage space to the network and get paid for doing so in the service’s own cryptocurrency.
A decentralized social blogging site, similar to Reddit, where users can get paid for their content based on community voting.
A private, centralized company that offers a number of decentralized solutions operating on private blockchains. It is somewhat different from other examples of Web3 applications in that it is built on Hyperledger Fabric, originally developed by IBM, and its focus is on creating proprietary, industry-specific solutions. Marr says, “this demonstrates the fact that there are many different views on what constitutes Web3 and where the future of the decentralized internet is heading.”
What the Metaverse Looks Like Today
The baseline that Marr uses for being part of the metaverse is a “persistent, connected digital environment which focus on providing immersive experiences for users”.
Nonetheless, he acknowledges that he can find no examples that tick all the boxes of what many consider to be a thoroughbred metaverse. Instead, he has chosen platforms that do one or more of the core elements particularly well.
Meta Horizons (Facebook)
Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg has bet the farm on the importance of the metaverse to the future of digital communications, socializing, and living. So far, the result has been several projects, including Horizon Worlds (a virtual worlds platform), Horizon Venues (events platform), and Horizon Workrooms (virtual office). All of these platforms are interconnected and allow users to create avatars that represent them as they explore and interact with other users.
Marr says, “One interesting aspect that arises from the existence of Horizon is that it forces us to confront questions about whether we want a metaverse where ownership is centralized under a corporate owner or a more distributed, decentralized model of ownership and governance.”
Epic Games’ online multiplayer game Fortnite is “potentially game-changing.” Two main strands that are being followed in order to turn the world of Fortnite into a proper metaverse: live music concerts from global superstars such as Ariana Grande, and Billie Eilish; and brands including UK broadcaster ITV and supermarket Carrefour have used Fortnite to take their first steps into the metaverse.
NVIDIA’s attempt to build a creative metaverse platform for 3D design professionals. It builds on technology developed by Pixar, which created the Universal Scene Description (USD) language that enables 3D objects and environments to become portable across different toolsets. This allows, for example, characters to be designed collaboratively, with facial animators, clothing designers, and other creatives all using tools that they are familiar with.
“As 3D environments become increasingly more detailed and immersive and require more work to build, this kind of creative framework will become an essential tool for studios creating metaverse content.”
Another hugely popular online gaming platform. It lets anyone create and even monetize their own game worlds, which all exist within an interconnected metaverse and share aspects like avatars and currency. Brands including Nike, Forever 21, NASCAR and Vans have all used the platform to set up virtual worlds where users can interact with their brands.
“While anyone can create their own game within Roblox, it’s designed, so they will all have a similar look and feel, meaning that once a player has logged in and experienced one of them, they will feel comfortable in any of them.”
The metaverse may be a wild frontier, but here at NAB Amplify we’ve got you covered! Hand-selected from our archives, here are some of the essential insights you’ll need to expand your knowledge base and confidently explore the new horizons ahead:
- What Is the Metaverse and Why Should You Care?
- Avatar to Web3: An A-Z Compendium of the Metaverse
- The Metaverse is Coming To Get You. Is That a Bad Thing?
- Don’t Expect the Metaverse to Happen Overnight
- A Framework for the Metaverse from Hardware to Hollywood and Everything in Between
Something of a cross between a game, a marketing channel, and an experiment in creating a digital, decentralized democracy, Decentraland is deemed by Marr as a true Web3 platform. It’s governed by a Decentralized Autonomous Organization (DAO) which implements rules and regulations via a democratic process and comes with its own cryptocurrency, known as MANA. Using these, users can buy or rent plots of virtual land using the platform’s own cryptocurrency, called MANA. Many brands (and celebrity brands) have already done this including Coca-Cola, Adidas, Samsung, and Snoop Dogg. A ‘plot’ of land currently goes for anywhere from $10,000 to well over $1 million.
This mobile game was ported to the Ethereum blockchain in 2018, “becoming one of the first truly decentralized metaverse platforms”. It includes its own object creation tools that allow anyone to build 3D items, characters, vehicles, or anything else they can think of, which are then minted as NFTs, and can be imported into other Sandbox worlds. These NFTs can also be traded and sold via the platform’s built-in marketplace. Sandbox is another platform that has proven popular with brands wanting to establish their metaverse presence — “landowners” include HSBC, Warner Music, PwC, and Paris Hilton.
The go-to “killer app” for augmented reality (AR), which is predicted to be one of the cornerstone technologies that the metaverse will be built around. “It’s one of the best examples of how metaverse will involve the merging of the real and digital worlds,” says Marr. Creator Nintendo further blurred the boundaries by allowing real-world businesses to establish a digital presence within the poke-verse by launching advertising and promotional campaigns.
One to watch: Otherside
This one has only just been announced, but since it launched by Yuga Labs — creators of the immensely successful Bored Ape Yacht Club series of NFTs — this is deemed a project to keep an eye on. Its developers state, “think of it as a metaRPG (role-playing game) where the players own the world, your NFTs can become playable characters, and thousands can play together in real-time.”
Are NFTs just more hype, or are they actually the building blocks of the creator economy? Understanding blockchain technology can seem like a lot, but NAB Amplify has the expert knowledge and insights you need to remain at the top of the intersection of art and technology:
- NAB Amplify’s NFT Primer
- What’s the Real Future of the NFT Crypto Art Market?
- Weird Science: The Connection Between NFTs and… Human Nature?
- What Is the Value of an NFT?
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EDSA is the term we use to signify the People’s Power Revolution that brought down the Marcos dictatorial regime in 22-25 February 1986. EDSA, or Efipanio Delos Santos Avenue, was the place where millions of people gathered together that led to the dismantling of the violent and murderous Marcos Martial Rule. This week, the government of the Philippines is officially celebrating the EDSA, but Duterte is not scheduled to attend any EDSA Revolution commemorative activity. Each year, I go on a retreat to personally celebrate and remember my fallen colleagues as part of my personal healing. Here is my journal this year.
I was there. I still remember the smell of tear gas. I still remember having wet face-towel in my pocket — to cover my mouth and nose to survive against the poisonous, nauseating stench of tear gas (which to me is the stench of Martial Law). I still hear my colleagues teasing me: “Na-jingle ka ba sa pants mo? (Did you just pee in your pants?)”
I still remember the taste of sandwiches freely distributed by the residents of Cubao.
I still dream about, and hear, the helicopters descending, and still waking up shaken by the fear that those chopper pilots might fire at us; and also immediately feel the relief, when I’m completely awake, remembering the military chopper pilots landing, giving the “L” hand sign for “Laban (Fight).” They were with us!
I still feel the touch of a young seminarian, holding my hands — perhaps my fear was so obvious from his perspective.
I still feel the pain of my feet as we walked and ran through EDSA from Cubao to Ortigas to help support the human barricade against the coming tanks. I still feel sorry for the middle aged man whose toes I stepped on; and still hear him saying, “Walang hiya naman. Kung hindi lang sa sitwasyon natin ngayon, sinapak na kita. (Shame on you. If not for our mutual situation right now, I would have punched your face.)” After I apologized, he continued, “Sige na. Bilisan mo! (Go on. Faster!)”
I still feel the callous hand of a soldier, shaking my hands in gratitude for the sandwich and some flowers which I simply passed on to him, from the nuns and other courageous women with us, in our line in front of the tanks.
(Here are some popular photos from those days that became part of the online memory of this People Power Revolution. Credit to the owners.)
To me, remembering is the psychosocial re-experiencing of liberation from those traumatic years of Marcos’ dark years of Martial Law.
The words of my good friend, Gat Augusto Gus Miclat, resonate deeply in my being:
“Remembering is a very healthy act. It is good for the mind, a balm to the heart and fodder for one’s soul. It is also oftentimes necessary in sustaining one’s balance. For not only does remembering put us in touch with our memories and the lessons that we gain from them, it also provides us a framework for moving on and a perspective to focus on to.”
Never tell me that Marcos rule was “golden”—you might experience my “fright-fight” mode before my “flight” mode.
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With the global climate crisis getting worse every day, it’s now more important than ever for large companies that contribute to global pollution and carbon emissions to take responsibility for their carbon footprints. But even beyond the biggest offenders, any business or collective can do its part to alleviate the worsening environmental situation.
With all the moving parts that work to keep your business running, it can sometimes feel overwhelming to determine which aspects of your business model could be modified to be more environmentally friendly. After all, so many things your company does daily are likely to contribute negatively to your carbon footprint.
But don’t give up hope! Once you can identify your business’ problem areas, it’s just a matter of making some simple changes to your everyday operations. So, without further ado, here are 11 ways to reduce your business carbon footprint.
1. Rethink Your Office Lighting Strategy
If your business has many employees doing indoor office work for long periods every day, you’re probably wasting more energy than you’d like to on illumination. Incandescent light bulbs are notorious for being inefficient and wasteful sources of light. By switching to LED lights, you could reduce your energy usage by 75% or more. And better yet, the bulbs will last much longer than their incandescent counterparts.
If you’re looking for additional ways to reduce your business carbon footprint, you can include natural light in your office illumination strategy. Keep the overhead lights off when the sun is shining through the windows, and you’ll minimize your business’s negative impact on the environment.
2. Consider Renewable Energy
Another excellent way to reduce your business carbon footprint is to take advantage of renewable energy sources. The options available to you will largely depend on your location. But if you can find a dependable source of renewable energy, making the switch will let you make tremendous progress toward your eco-friendly goals.
To ensure that you’re getting the real deal, ensure that your chosen renewable energy source comes with a REGO certificate. “REGO” stands for “Renewable Energy Guarantees of Origin,” and it’s the only way to be certain that your energy comes from a completely renewable source.
3. Increase Energy Efficiency in Your Data Center
Your business’s data center is one of the most important places in your office building, and it’s often one of the most wasteful when it comes to energy consumption. Because workers have to keep some pieces of IT equipment at specific temperatures, your data center’s heating and cooling systems can easily get a bit out of hand.
When it comes to determining ways to reduce your business carbon footprint, you can use some simple organizational techniques to improve energy efficiency in this space. First, make sure that your team groups all the IT equipment together based on each piece’s temperature requirements. This way, you can have a hot aisle and a cool aisle rather than having all the equipment compete for the perfect climate. Furthermore, you can use plastic curtains to separate the warm areas so that the hot and cold air don’t mix.
4. Be Mindful of Emissions When Traveling By Car
If your company uses its own fleet of vehicles, this is certainly a red flag for carbon emissions. Gasoline-powered vehicles are a huge contributor to the climate crisis, which is why so many alternatives are cropping up these days. So, assess the vehicles that are currently in your company’s care. You should document any fuel efficiencies and view them as an opportunity to make some changes and reduce your business carbon footprint.
Instead of relying on traditional gasoline-powered transport, consider switching to a fleet of electric cars or vehicles that run on alternative fuels. These changes would make a huge difference in your business’ overall carbon emissions, and it would be the right choice for the sake of the planet.
5. Rethink the Way You Fly
Air travel is another major contributing factor to global carbon emissions. Making strategic changes to the way your business interacts with this mode of transit is a good idea if you’re interested in ways to reduce your business carbon footprint.
If at all possible, you can use alternative communication tools to eliminate the need for air travel. Programs like Skype and Zoom are excellent business solutions that can help you facilitate across-the-globe conversations. If physical travel is a must, consider taking a train if the circumstances allow it.
If you or your employees absolutely must travel by plane, flying in economy class is a nifty trick for reducing the number of carbon emissions that you as individuals are responsible for.
6. Implement Green Solutions for Food Production and Disposal
If your business has a cafeteria that serves food to employees, there are several factors involved with food production and food waste that can reflect poorly on your level of carbon emissions. Luckily, there are some simple ways to reduce your business carbon footprint in the kitchen.
Consider incorporating an environmentally friendly food waste disposal system, such as composting, into your cafeteria area. Make sure the kitchen staff has sufficient training to maintain and operate it properly.
Furthermore, it can be helpful to incorporate more vegan and vegetarian options into your cafeteria’s menu. The production of these foods has fewer associated environmental risks than that of meat and dairy products, so you should encourage these entrées as eco-friendly options.
7. Keep an Eye on Your Central Air Conditioning and Heating
Heating and cooling systems are major contributors to energy consumption for any residence, business, or public building. Making sure your company uses your A.C. in an environmentally friendly manner takes a bit of effort. Maintaining consistent internal temperatures, avoiding dramatic temperature fluctuations, and keeping the unit in harmony with the external climate are all ways to reduce energy consumption with your HVAC systems.
Additionally, you should ensure there are no leaks in the sealant around windows and doors that could let the air out, as this will also negatively affect the building’s energy consumption. If you’re looking for even more ways to reduce your business carbon footprint, you can try implementing some of the renewable space cooling techniques that the Environmental Protection Agency recommends.
8. Go Paperless
Excessive printing and paper use can be detrimental to your company’s environmentally friendly status. Thankfully, in the modern age, it’s quite easy to reduce paper use. Make sure all of your company’s paperwork, data, and communications are digitized and online if they aren’t already. Use electronic contracts for new employee onboarding and business deals instead of physical contracts, and avoid printing out documents that you can forward via email or edit digitally.
9. Say Goodbye to Disposable Plastics
The prolific nature of single-use plastic is a major contributor to the current climate crisis. As plastic is not a biodegradable material, this huge amount of waste sits in landfills for years, all the while releasing harmful carbon emissions into the atmosphere.
Purging these products from your office area is an easy way to reduce your business carbon footprint. Just identify the single-use plastics your employees use and switch them out for more sustainable or permanent and reusable products.
10. Encourage Recycling Initiatives in the Workplace
Recycling is our first defense as individuals against global warming, pollution, and excess carbon emissions. Make sure that everyone in your office knows how to properly recycle different goods. But don’t stop there. Ensure that the appropriate receptacles for recyclables are available and accessible throughout the entire office building. Simply knowing that recycling is the right thing to do isn’t much help to a well-meaning employee if there’s nowhere for them to dispose of their waste responsibly.
11. Engage in Eco-Friendly Philanthropy
Finally, when you’ve run out of ways to reduce your business carbon footprint, why not make a charitable contribution to a green charity or environmental research project? If your business is equipped for this sort of philanthropic work, your contribution could make a huge difference when it comes to finding new ways to save the planet from impending doom. Plus, it will certainly reflect well on your company’s public image.
It might seem like a daunting task to operate your business in the most environmentally friendly way possible. But with these 11 ways to reduce your business carbon footprint, you’ll be a step ahead of the competition when it comes to green business practices. Once you’ve gotten used to these small changes, you’ll wonder why you never worked like this in the first place! | <urn:uuid:8b1749f2-1f8e-4f9f-ab00-0993fba2793a> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://justoneearth.co.uk/businesses/11-ways-to-reduce-your-business-carbon-footprint/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571536.89/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811224716-20220812014716-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.922618 | 1,781 | 2.125 | 2 |
|email - December 2014|
|by Do-While Jones|
His religion has nothing to do with it.
This email comes from someone who is not a Christian, Jew, or Moslem, so he does not reject evolution because he believes the creation account in the book of Genesis. He is a Hindu scientist who called himself, “Guru.” His objection to the theory of evolution is based on science, not religion.
Dear Do-while Jones,
I came across your wonderful website sometime back and thoroughly enjoyed reading all the articles. I always had a difficult time believing in evolution through random variations.
I also like the website of the month feature that introduces new websites.
I don't have words to appreciate your patience and hard work over these many years.
Your site is remarkably different in that it does not impose upon the reader, an alternative theory. I work in the information technology field and am a Hindu in belief. There are no detailed descriptions about the process of creation of life and various creatures in various Hindu mythologies. So most educated Hindus unquestioningly believe Darwinian evolution to be true.
The ape to human transformation needs a lot of incredible "feature additions". But I don't understand why scientists or others do not raise questions. In evolution, a genetic beneficial mutation in a single sperm/egg in a single organism creates a new feature which confers some survival edge to the organism. Theoretically this should lead to relatively more offsprings of this mutated entity to be produced.
1. As population of mutated organisms there will be competition among those organisms.
2. Every mating choice in favour of original population would dilute the mutated stock.
3. At some point the DNA of the two populations are too different that the two populations drift apart without possibility of mating. In case of humans, we have 23 pairs and apes have 24 paris of chromosomes. At some point some intermediate form of ape-man suddenly should have 23 pairs while the rest of the population had 24. Now I don't know what this means morphologically for the mutated ape-man. Even if this mutant succeeds in mating with the 24 paired individuals, how does reproduction happen?
4. If we go by similarity of DNA as evidence for evolution, an alien concluding GMO food as evolved cousins of natural specie would be a absurd conclusion isn't it? So similarity definitely does not imply common ancestor after just a few decades of mucking with DNA.
His email boils down to, “Why don’t scientists ask the obvious questions?” Our answer is that they don’t want to hear the obvious answers.
Our feature essay this month made the observation that scientists recognize purpose and conscious intent immediately—as long as it doesn’t conflict with their world view.
The theory of evolution is full of flaws that should be obvious to any scientist—but these flaws go unrecognized by many.
Guru recognizes these flaws, and can examine the scientific evidence without being prejudiced by his religious beliefs. His faith is not threatened by scientific reality. There is no conflict between evolution and the Hindu faith—but there is no conflict between Intelligent Design and the Hindu faith, either. This leaves him free to pursue science without restrictions.
Although there is definitely a conflict between Christianity and evolution, there is no conflict between Christianity and science because evolution is unscientific.
There is no conflict between science and any religion (Christianity, Islam, Judaism, Hinduism, or Buddhism, etc.) except atheism. Atheism is the only religion that is in conflict with science because the creation myth of atheism is unscientific.
Atheists cling to evolution because they fear that rejection of Darwinian evolution will force them to believe in the God of Abraham. Clearly, this isn’t true in Guru’s case.
Guru can’t understand why scientists or others do not raise the obvious questions about evolution. That’s because he doesn’t understand that atheists cannot separate science from religion.
Guru says educated Hindus unquestionably believe Darwinian evolution to be true. That’s because there is a fine line between education and indoctrination. Hindus have been indoctrinated to believe evolution is true, and because it does not conflict with their religious beliefs, they are not likely to question it.
Guru has been trained in information technology. He naturally thinks about DNA as just another information system. He is used to thinking in terms of encoding and decoding information, processing and transmitting information. He understands the fundamental concepts in information processing because the scientific method can be used to verify data-processing techniques. Facts learned through the scientific method can be trusted to be true. When these facts contradict theories which rely on nothing more than speculation and wishful thinking, those fanciful theories are correctly rejected.
It is true that Christians, Jews, and Moslems are more likely to question evolution than other people because evolution is inconsistent with their faith; but faith just raises the question. It is science, not religion, which supplies the answer.
Let’s look at Guru’s four doubts to see if they are reasonable.
|1. As population of mutated organisms there will be competition among those organisms.|
Obviously, every organism capable of reproducing is capable of surviving. If it can’t survive, it can’t reproduce. So every organism is “good enough” to live. The chance that a mutation will provide a significant survival advantage is unlikely—mutations tend to make things worse.
Randomly changing any word in this newsletter is likely to obscure the message, not make it clearer. But each one of our newsletters goes through a thorough review process, in which many words are changed to remove ambiguity. Conscious design improvements tend to make things better, but random changes don’t. Random mutations won’t help mutated organisms compete in the struggle for survival, as Guru correctly observes.
|2. Every mating choice in favour of original population would dilute the mutated stock.|
Yes, if an organism does get a random mutation, and that organism reproduces sexually, only half of its children will inherit the mutation. Half of its children’s children will inherit the mutation. So, with each subsequent generation, the unique mutation will naturally become less prevalent. Since the mutation probably won’t confer any survival advantage, it will likely become more and more diluted, until it dies out.
Natural selection is actually a conservative force—not an innovative force. Natural selection is chlorine for the gene pool. It tends to keep the half of the generation that inherits the unique, bad mutation from surviving long enough to pass it on.
|3. At some point the DNA of the two populations are too different …|
That’s the problem with the origin of sexual species—the male and female versions have to evolve at the same time, in the same geographic location. Otherwise, they won’t find a mate, and the new species dies out in the first generation.
There are lots of jokes like, “What do you get when you cross an alligator with a chicken?” The serious answer is, “You don’t get anything because you can’t cross an alligator with a chicken.” The DNA of the two individuals is “too different,” as Guru recognizes. The DNA has to have the same number of genes, and they have to be in the right place on the DNA to match up. Trying to mate different species is like trying to zip up a jacket that has a zipper on the left side, but buttons on the right side.
|4. If we go by similarity of DNA as evidence for evolution …|
As we have written many times over the past 19 years, similarity could just as easily be the result of common design as common descent. There is no definitive test to determine the difference. Carts, trains, and automobiles all have wheels because designers recognized the usefulness of wheels for moving things.
We find it more than a little bit amusing that evolutionists cite similarity as proof of evolution (“similarity is the result of a common ancestor”) and then cite difference as proof of evolution (“the difference is the result of evolution”). When two opposite things prove the same conclusion, it’s hard to argue with “logic” like that.
Evolutionists have traditionally based their Tree of Life on physical similarity. If two creatures look a lot alike, they must have a close common ancestor. They expected DNA analysis to confirm their suspicions—but it hasn’t. One doesn’t have to look very hard in the technical literature to find examples of species evolutionists have traditionally considered to be closely related which have very different DNA, and “unrelated” species which have similar unique DNA features.
You can trust science—but you can’t trust scientists. Scientists often have an agenda, and they try to advance that agenda by making it appear to be scientific. Often that agenda is to give atheism credibility by associating the creation myth of atheism (evolution) with science. But science is against evolution, and scientists without a religious axe to grind recognize that fact.
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The US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and several US states have launched an investigation into Meta Platforms’ Oculus for allegedly violating antitrust laws. Bloomberg sources said this on condition of anonymity.
Although the market for VR devices and applications is still small, Meta Platforms, which has bet on the Metaverse, is already suspected of monopolizing it. The agency interviewed several virtual reality application developers to uncover evidence of discrimination in the implementation of software whose functions matched Meta’s own applications. Questions were also raised about the pricing policy and sales strategy of headsets: the cost of Oculus Quest 2 is $ 299, similar devices from HTC and other brands are more expensive.
The antitrust investigation could become an obstacle to the implementation of plans by Meta boss Mark Zuckerberg (Mark Zuckerberg) to build the so-called Metaverse – a digital space with access via virtual and augmented reality devices. He is confident that such devices will become people’s main means of communication, replacing cell phones and likely even partially replacing some forms of face-to-face communication.
Some developers have reported that Meta is using its power to oppose developers of games and services for Oculus. Accordingly, the company copies the most promising projects and makes some applications more difficult. Yur shared how in 2019 it released an application that acts as a fitness tracker for Oculus that stopped working properly with a software platform update; The Oculus Move app was later released with similar features, original product developer Cix Liv said.
Developer Guy Godin released an app for streaming content from a PC desktop to a headset, and when he added the ability to stream PC games to Oculus Quest in 2019, the platform threatened to remove his app if the feature would continue. Shortly after, a similar feature appeared in the platform’s own Oculus Link app.
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Tuwairqi Steel Mills Limited has approached National Tariff Commission (NTC) for imposition of 10 percent customs duty on Direct Reduced Iron (DRI) to protect the local industry. An official of NTC said that application was filed by the Tuwariqi Steel Mills a week ago for imposition of 10 percent duty on the DRI.
The applicant contended that DRI is a new product for Pakistani market and at the moment melters in Pakistan are totally reliant on re-meltable scrap, which is of inferior quality compared to DRI. The DRI produced by TSML fully meets International Standard Specifications and the mill has enough capacity to meet the entire domestic demand of iron easily.
The applicant further contended that the production process employed by TSML for producing DRI made the most efficient use of energy. Natural Gas in production of DRI is used as feedstock. Therefore, natural gas should be provided to TSML at concessional rate. The DRI manufacturing industry is in infancy and need protection for certain period of time.
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OBSERVATIONS FROM THE FINTECH SNARK TANK
Ask 5 folks in banking what “banking as a service” (BaaS) is, and also you’re more likely to get 5 totally different solutions—which isn’t as unhealthy as if all of them replied “huh?”
A brand new report from Cornerstone Advisors, commissioned by Synctera, defines banking as a service and forecasts the long run income alternative for banks to understand from this rising development.
What’s Banking as as Service?
Cornerstone defines banking as a service is:
“A method the place a monetary establishment companions with a fintech or different non-financial establishment model to supply monetary providers to the companion’s buyer base, leveraging the establishment’s constitution and capabilities like account administration, compliance, fraud administration, cost, and/or lending providers.”
For all of the dialogue and confusion surrounding the idea, BaaS actually comes right down to being a distribution channel play. Based on consultancy Oliver Wyman:
“For a monetary establishment, BaaS is a chance to succeed in a larger variety of clients at a decrease price. For the distributor, providing monetary merchandise opens up new income strains at enticing margins and may deepen its relationships with clients, and may then capitalize on cross-selling alternatives.”
Embedded Finance is Driving Banking as a Service
The rise of curiosity in banking as a service is the results of the rising embedded finance development. There are totally different views of what embedded finance is. My definition:
“The mixing of economic providers into non-financial web sites, cellular apps, and enterprise processes.”
An excellent instance of that is the debit card Lyft gives its drivers. Product options like a robust rewards program and immediate funds are coupled with buyer expertise enhancements like seamless account opening and integration into Lyft’s driver app gives a compelling supply for Lyft drivers.
Behind Lyft’s debit card providing is a financial institution that: 1) gives the debit card, 2) manages the motion of cash out and in of the accounts, and three) handles the regulatory compliance necessities for offering the product.
Throughout a spread of economic providers—together with funds, lending, and insurance coverage—embedded finance will generate $230 billion in income by 2025, a 10x enhance from $22.5 billion in 2020.
Banking as a Service: A $25 Billion Alternative for Banks
Cornerstone’s survey of economic establishments discovered that 11% of banks have already got a BaaS technique, 8% are within the means of growing one, and 20% are contemplating it.
Why the curiosity? Development alternatives. On common, banks that at the moment supply BaaS have six companions and assist almost 1.3 million accountholders.
Total, a sponsor financial institution supporting a million client accounts and 300,000 industrial accounts may generate greater than $40 million in income yearly—roughly $15 per client account and $71 per industrial account.
Business-wide, Cornerstone estimates that the BaaS market may develop to greater than $25 billion in annual income in 2026. This may go an extended strategy to changing the inevitable lack of overdraft charges the banking trade will face over the subsequent 5 years.
The Rise of BaaS Platform Suppliers
A financial institution may develop a BaaS platform itself from scratch, and a lot of the early entrants within the area did simply that as a result of alternate options didn’t exist on the time.
For many banks getting into the BaaS area at the moment or within the close to future, nevertheless, this gained’t be a viable choice due to the time and price necessities. In reality, even the early entrants are discovering that the technical and operational challenges are daunting.
That is giving rise to banking as a service platform suppliers that productize providers like funds, lending fraud administration, compliance, and account administration which can be sometimes buried in banks’ core programs.
The time and price benefits of going the platform supplier route are important for fintechs, as nicely.
Based on BaaS platform supplier Unit, working straight with a financial institution sometimes requires 15 to 18 months and roughly $2 million to launch, with ongoing annual prices of about $2.5 million. Working with BaaS platform suppliers may also help fintechs scale back implementation time to lower than two months and preliminary prices to $50,000, with ongoing annual bills round $50,000, as nicely.
What Makes Embedded Finance and BaaS So Necessary?
Vertical integration isn’t a brand new idea. However, traditionally, firms built-in parts of the provision chain from inside their trade.
What’s necessary about embedded finance is that the digitization of banking has enabled banking to be built-in into different industries.
That’s what embedded finance is. It’s the “embedding” of banking software program right into a non-banking firm’s operations. And that’s new. And what makes this much more fascinating is that it advantages each the non-financial establishment and monetary establishments.
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Since its introduction on February 7, 2019, United States House of Representatives Resolution 109 - Recognizing the duty of the Federal Government to create a Green New Deal has become the focus of a nationwide—and international—campaign to advance climate justice. Recognizing the United States’ historical responsibility for a “disproportionate amount of greenhouse gas emissions,” the resolution links the unfolding climate emergency to a series of related social and environmental issues, including income inequality underpinned by racial and gender discrimination, and a host of interconnected public health concerns. Although not mentioned in detail in the resolution, the built environment is at the center of many of these matters.
Beginning with infrastructure and moving inward and outward from there, the Buell Center seeks to provide a forum for engaged, critical discussion on the role of the built environment in the Green New Deal (GND) and related proposals. Inclusive as it is, the resolution is not without contradictions. Planetary warming does not respect national borders; climate justice in one country is not climate justice for all, and the explosive force of capital remains. Nonetheless, the GND has gained significant traction as a serious, thoughtful, and informed starting point for linking decarbonization with just transition. Toward this end, the Center has begun to gather knowledge, materials, and perspectives that center on three related areas:
Too often, policy proposals pay little heed to the political struggles that underlie them. Climate justice is not simply a matter of expert-driven, technical proposals for decarbonization, “managed retreat,” or infrastructural “resilience.” Recognizing the conflicting interests inherent to such proposals—from the bottom up—should be an essential part of GND-related debate.
The climate question is a universal question, not in the sense that it affects everyone equally, but in the sense that it affects everyone unequally. To grasp this fact and to address its injustice requires thinking and acting at a number of interrelated scales, simultaneously.
Ecological thought has long stressed relational approaches, such as the regionalism that was central to New Deal planning. Too often, however, such thinking homogenizes, compartmentalizes, and divides. Rural, suburban, and urban systems interlock, unequally and unevenly; so too, the lifeworlds of different social strata. The GND implies their connection.
Climate change is not an ahistorical problem; it is a project to further empower the powerful—whether through denial or expropriation—at the expense first of those frontline communities already in its crosshairs, and then the rest. The Green New Deal is therefore not a solution. It is a beginning, a means of changing both elite and popular imaginations, such that meaningful, collective action might follow.
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There are many vendors offering typical ad-serving solutions for display, with few options to remedy the disappearing and ever-shifting cookie pool. One solution is to move away from the traditional third-party ad server that delivers ads from outside of the site domain. A first-party ad-serving solution, which displays placements from the content domain server, is recognized as part of the hosting site's content and provides some advantages for data retention and persistence.
The inevitable move away from third-party cookies
This is an ongoing issue, and as the years go by, the public reputation of third-party cookie continues to worsen. There are privacy advocates pressuring the government to enforce policies to protect the average Internet user from negative data collection practices. Vendors that supply major potential inventory are also on the evil third-party cookie bandwagon. IO devices and browsers like Mozilla and Firefox block third-party cookies automatically, which is worse than deletion because it prohibits any data collection. Virus scanners offer blocking and automatic deletion. All of this chatter is alerting the general public of the negative impact of third-party cookies, which resonates much more that the positive functional purposes, and causes more awareness to the general practice of third-party cookie deletion, even if it's not fully informed.
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First-party cookies deliver behind a firewall and integrate with the CRM database, so they are seen as functional and necessary. The customer can understand the need for these cookies when they see information collected for their own benefit with a trusted site. There is also increased reliability and accuracy based on the fact that the data comes directly from user submissions or interaction. First-party cookies are stored differently in a browser to avoid automatic blocking or deletion, which in turn delivers more persistent and consistent data. The data is then owned and managed by the site, which can create a shift in the thought processes of businesses and help them better understand their current and potential customers.
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August 14, 1945 Japanese accepted US terms of surrender, that of the Potsdam Declaration of July 26, 1945. The official day of surrender is imminent. All POW‘s and civilians in Japanese concentration camps will have liberation delayed by days and weeks, some as late as September 12, 1945 (in Borneo).
An anonymous survivor left a poem sixty-two years later, which I and others were able to find. It became a message to me, and I hope all of us, about the resilience of the human spirit, and the wonder of grandchildren in bridging survivors back to a sense of hope, family, faith and love.
I visited my home country The Netherlands (Holland) in 2007, including the war memorial monument in Den Haag (The Hague). There I found the anonymous poem. The words to a grandson were carefully encased in plastic and sharing space with a sea of flowers and wreaths. I left the poem there, but carefully copied it down. Thank you, anonymous writer, survivor.
By coincidence, it was August 17, 2007, two days after the sixty-second anniversary of the liberation of the camps. I want to thank my co-translators: Fred Wilson, a camp survivor, and Boukje de Vries Jobsis, my mother for their help with this poem. I dedicate the privilege of finding this poem to my father, now deceased, A.C. “Kees” Jobsis, the grandfather I never knew, Gerrit Jobsis, and all survivors and their families.
The Healing Bridge (originally untitled)
Since God sent you into my life
Sinds God jou in mijn leven heef gezonden
I have experienced so many good things
Heb ik zoveel goede dingen ondervonden
that I always again find joy
Dat ik het altijd weer een vreugde vind te mogen weten
God wished to entrust me with you lief dear grandchild,
God heef jou dit kind als een lief kleinkind willen te vertrouwen,
“Show him your love, in order to build a bridge
toon hem jou liefde, om een brug te bouwen
from him to Me
van hem naar God,
because he is also My child.”
want hij is ook Zijn kind
I want you to understand — whoever loves God may always find shelter with Him.
Ik wil dat hij beseft: wie Hem bemint die mag voor altijd bij hem schuilen
God will never leave you alone
Hij laat hem nooit alleen
and when you must cry about all which is incomprehensible,
En moet hij huilen om alles wat er onbegrijpelijk is,
I will tell you again, that every great loss and yearning
vertel hem dan, dat ieder groot gemis
makes it possible for God
het voor God’s liefde mogelijk kan maken
to touch every place in your heart
om ieder plekje van je hart te raken
“War may sometimes be a necessary evil. But no matter how necessary, it is always an evil, never a good. We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other’s children.” — Jimmy Carter (1924-), thirty-ninth President of the United States, awarded the 2002 Nobel Peace Prize, extract from his Nobel Lecture, Oslo, December 10, 2002, Copyright The Nobel Foundation 2002 | <urn:uuid:5ae58217-2946-4d11-b25f-20ccfaaeb6b1> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://jobsisbrown.com/4-august-14-1945-liberation-a-bridge-to-peace/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572198.93/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815175725-20220815205725-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.692723 | 780 | 2.265625 | 2 |
Evonik has succeeded in developing a cost-effective biotechnological production process, so that biosurfactants are now available on a large scale for the usage in detergents and home care cleaning products. Evonik offers a range of biosurfactants for the use in cleaning product formulations and the first household cleaners containing REWOFERM® Biosurfactants are already on supermarket shelves. This new generation of biosurfactants will convince formulators and consumers that environmental compatibility and cleaning power need not be contradictory. According to currently available knowledge, REWOFERM® Biosurfactants are the most environmentally compatible surfactants on the market. It satisfies the requirements of OECD 301 F and EN ISO 11734 for rapid biodegradability under both aerobic and anaerobic conditions. The products have an outstanding Renewable Carbon Index (RCI) of 100 percent. In water toxicity tests (OECD 211 and 202) REWOFERM® biosurfactants again performed significantly better than all conventional reference surfactants products.
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Photos: Terrifying Texas Wildfire Burns 14,000 Acres of Stonewall County
A wildfire just outside of Aspermont, Texas created big problems for Stonewall County citizens in the area on May 2nd, 2022. The wind picked up and the fire quickly grew in size to the point of becoming an emergency situation for the rural community.
The fire began near the airport and was caused by lightning. Over the next few hours, it moved rapidly and dangerously toward residents living on the outskirts of town. Stonewall County Judge Ronnie Moorhead and his family are incredibly lucky to not have lost their home in the fire. They fought the flames with water hoses in an effort to keep the fire from burning structures and their home while the Texas Forestry Service, the Stonewall County Volunteer Fire Department, and the Hamlin Volunteer Fire Department battled the fire in multiple other locations.
As of today, Wednesday, May 4th, 2022, the fire is 80 percent contained and has burned more than 14,000 acres.
Here are photos of the progression of the fire and the aftermath:
Stonewall County Wildfire
Judge Moorehead's stepson, Aspermont Mayor Steven Ellis, told 94.5 FMX:
“You could see the smoke building to the northeast of town all afternoon. The wind was blowing in that direction until just before dark when it turned and began blowing to the southwest. As night fell, you could see the glowing flames from miles away. My parent’s house a few miles outside of town was almost directly in its path so we went there to try and wet everything down on the property in hopes of saving it. The fire ended up burning the northwest corner of the property narrowly missing multiple structures including the house. I’ll be honest with you, it was pretty harrowing that night, seeing flames that large and smoke that thick getting closer and closer was really frightening. We were very fortunate.”
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Notecards, Outlining, Mindmaps, and Going Back to the Writing Process
One of the final steps of the research process before moving to your writing process, and returning to various strategies outlined in Chapters 3 and 4, is to begin connecting the ideas of various authors. You now have a summary of each of your sources, along with the MLA citation. You may also want to collect some key quotes after looking back over your annotations of a particular source, and decide which may be potential quotes for your essay—to provide evidence for your thesis and main subtopics of your body paragraphs.
There are various strategies for finding connections among authors. Two main strategies for finding connections and organizing your growing body of evidence, which we’ve already introduced, are Mind mapping and outlining. A nice in-between step that bridges the research process with the Mind map/outline process is the use of notecards or sticky notes.
Using Notecards or Sticky notes to Organize your Research
- Print and lay out your annotated bibliographies on a table in front of you; alternatively open all the documents on your home screen, and reread what you have written.
- Starting with one of your sources, use notecards or sticky notes to write out ONE idea or major claim from your summary. Bonus points if you can connect a quote or note a page number where the author discussed this idea or claim.
- Write at least 2 to 3 main claims per source, and attach or cluster the notecards to the annotated bibliography; you may color code the cards or sticky notes, or code them by number, letter, or symbol, to keep track of each authors’ claims.
- Once you have multiple notecards or sticky notes per source, you can start to move the notecards or sticky notes around on your desk, to cluster different authors or sources together based on similar ideas or claims, or similar categories of ideas.
- The authors do not have to agree on a certain claim, necessarily, to be clustered together in the same category of ideas. What you are starting to do here is introduce your various authors to each other, to bring them into the “same room,” to meet each other and have ‘a conversation’ that will eventually show up in your essay.
- When you have at least two authors in each cluster of notecards or sticky notes, you can start to see connections with which you can draft a “good ol’ outline” as Jolie introduced in Chapter 3. In the outline, you can plan to organize your body paragraph topics based on the similar categories of ideas and claims that come from various authors.
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Lately, Rogers customers have been complaining about the quality of Rogers internet services. The issue may be something you can’t influence, such as overcrowding the network. But, in most cases, this problem can easily be fixed in just a few simple steps. So, today, we’re presenting you with the possible reasons why your Rogers internet is bad and how to properly address the situation.
Is There an Outage in Your Area?
Internet providers frequently face various kinds of malfunction, especially when there are too many users in one area. Thus, you could check whether that’s the case with you. To do that, you could find the Outages section on the official Rogers website to get info on what is happening around you. Alternatively, you can contact Rogers customer support and check with them.
You could also ask around your neighborhood to see if your neighbors are experiencing the same issue. If they do, you can file a collective complaint. That way, they’ll take the problem more seriously.
Should You Address Possible Issues with the Modem?
Rogers may not be at fault for your poor internet connection. As a matter of fact, in most cases, your modem (or router) will be to blame for the bad signal and unreliable internet. Luckily, you should be able to fix those issues in just a few simple steps.
1. Restart Your Device
A simple restart of your modem should solve most of the internet problems you have. It’s an easy and quick fix, which is why we recommend that you do it first. To restart your modem, you can simply unplug it from the electricity source.
Then, give the device a couple of minutes to rest, and plug it back in. If your modem has a Power button, you can use that instead of unplugging it from the power source.
Alternatively, users who have the Ignite Wi-Fi Hub app can go through the restart process via the application. You should open the app and find the Overview section.
In that section, you’ll see the Restart option at the bottom right corner. Once you tap it, the app will ask you whether you want to restart your device. You can click on Restart once again and the process will begin.
What If You Have an Older Modem/Gateway
For older gateways, you’ll probably need to go to the gateway’s admin page to restart them. In most cases, the default IP address for Rogers gateways is 10.0.0.1. If not, you can Google your model and see what page you’ll need to visit to access its configuration settings.
Once you do, you should find Advanced settings. Your browser may warn you about the safety of the website. You’ll need to click on Proceed or Continue to access it.
Next, you’ll need to log in to your account using your credentials. When you do, you should go to Troubleshooting and then choose Reset/Restore Gateway. You will see a couple of options you can choose from. The Restart one restarts the modem. The Reset Wi-Fi Module only restarts the module while the Restart Wi-Fi Router option restarts both the router and Wi-Fi modules.
The Restore Wi-Fi Settings option removes all of the previous Wi-Fi settings, while the Restore Factory Settings one will revert your modem back to its original configuration. You can proceed to the option that you want and wait for your device to restart properly.
2. Move Your Modem Around
The location of your modem is essential for a strong connection. Therefore, it’s smart to make a few adjustments to your device’s location and ensure the best signal possible.
First of all, your modem should always be at the center of the house. That way, it will be able to emit a strong signal to almost every room. So, if you have a two-story house, the router can be near the ceiling of the first floor or close to the floor of the second. In addition, you should remove any bigger furniture and appliances away from the modem.
The space between you and your internet source needs to be as clear as possible so the signals don’t bounce off. While on the topic of signals bouncing off, it’s also good to avoid corners when placing your modem for the same reason.
The device should always be on some kind of a stand, as it’s not smart to keep it on the floor. If you’re open to making these adjustments, your signal will be so much better!
3. Secure All of the Cables
Another common culprit of a poor connection is loose or damaged cords. As your cables get older, they’ll experience the usual wear-and-tear. Therefore, you’ll need to examine them from time to time to check their state. In case you suspect that a cord is too old and not working as effectively, you can replace it. You’ll be surprised at how much of a difference one new Ethernet cable or coaxial cable can make!
Is Your Internet Plan to Blame?
Your internet package may be too weak for the needs of your household or the size of your home. You should think about upgrading your plan to the one that’s better suited for your needs. The easiest way to check whether the size of your household is the issue is to try various data-heavy activities when nobody is at home. If your connection is better, you will probably need to upgrade your plan.
In case you suspect that your home is too big for your modem to handle, you should consider purchasing a wireless signal extender. You can look for them on the Rogers website or do some research online to find a good deal for a high-quality device.
There you have it – all of the possible culprits for your bad Rogers internet. We hope you were able to fix your problem and that you now have a strong connection in your home. If not, you should contact Rogers customer support and explain your situation to them.
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Wandering through the city’s bookshops yesterday I came across this: Is Capitalism Obsolete? with the subtitle, “A Journey through Alternative Economic Systems”. I live in hope that there will be at least one volume somewhere that has no for an answer. Haven’t seen anything in years. The above is my picture of the back cover. If you read how they advertise the book, you will find the least unexpected turn in the history of modern publishing.
After communism collapsed in the former Soviet Union, capitalism seemed to many observers like the only game in town, and questioning it became taboo for academic economists. But the financial crisis, chronic unemployment, and the inexorable rise of inequality have resurrected the question of whether there is a feasible and desirable alternative to capitalism. Against this backdrop of growing disenchantment, Giacomo Corneo presents a refreshingly antidogmatic review of economic systems, taking as his launching point a fictional argument between a daughter indignant about economic injustice and her father, a professor of economics.
Is Capitalism Obsolete? begins when the daughter’s angry complaints prompt her father to reply that capitalism cannot responsibly be abolished without an alternative in mind. He invites her on a tour of tried and proposed economic systems in which production and consumption obey noncapitalistic rules. These range from Plato’s Republic to diverse modern models, including anarchic communism, central planning, and a stakeholder society. Some of these alternatives have considerable strengths. But daunting problems arise when the basic institutions of capitalism—markets and private property—are suppressed. Ultimately, the father argues, all serious counterproposals to capitalism fail to pass the test of economic feasibility. Then the story takes an unexpected turn. Father and daughter jointly come up with a proposal to gradually transform the current economic system so as to share prosperity and foster democratic participation.
Capitalism means a system of production in which the ownership of firms is in the hands of private individuals who use the capital they buy, rent or own, while directing the employees they hire, to produce goods and services in a lawful way to sell what they have produced to others in order to earn a profit for themselves. There are lots of variations on the theme but that is essentially it. Nothing else has ever worked, nothing else will ever work, however many fools and their fictional daughters there may be who think they have come up with something else. | <urn:uuid:409756cb-ed74-4f96-8897-310c827455a4> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://lawofmarkets.com/2018/01/08/socialism-has-been-obsolete-since-the-day-it-was-first-conceived/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571198.57/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810161541-20220810191541-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.95594 | 491 | 1.835938 | 2 |
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It has been decided and laid down that socialism cannot be introduced in Russia. This was proved, in near-Marxist fashion, by Mr. Milyukov at a meeting of the June 3 diehards, following the ministerial Menshevik Rabochaya Gazeta.And it was subscribed to by the largest party in Russia in general and in the Congress of Soviets in particular, the Socialist-Revolutionary Party, which, besides being the largest party, is also the party with the greatest ideological (disinterested) fear of seeing the revolution develop towards socialism.
Strictly speaking, a mere glance at the resolution passed by the Bolshevik Conference held from April 24 to 29, 1917, reveals that the Bolsheviks, too, recognise the impossibility of immediately “introducing” socialism in Russia.
What is the argument about, then? Why the fuss?
By the hue and cry against the “introduction” of socialism in Russia, some people are sustaining (many of them unwittingly) the efforts of those who are opposed to the exposure of plunder of the state.
Let us not quibble over words, citizens! It is unworthy of "revolutionary democrats" and, indeed, of grown-ups in general. Let’s not talk about the “introduction” of socialism, which “everybody” rejects. Let’s talk about the exposure of plunder.
When capitalists work for defence. i.e., for the state, it is obviously no longer “pure” capitalism but a special form of national economy. Pure capitalism means commodity production. And commodity production means work for an unknownand free market. But the capitalist “working” for defence does not “work” for the market at all—he works on government orders,very often with money loaned by the state.
We believe that to conceal the amount of profit made on this peculiar operation and to appropriate the profit in excess of what is necessary to cover the living expenses of a person actually participating in production is embezzlement.
If you disagree, then you are clearly out of step with the overwhelming majority of the population. There is no shadow of doubt that by far most of the workers and peasants of Russia agree with us and would say so in plain language were the question put to them without evasions, excuses or diplomatic tricks.
But if you do agree, then let us fight together against excuses and tricks.
To make the greatest possible concessions on a common undertaking such as this fight and to show a maximum of tractability, we are proposing the following draft resolution to the Congress of Soviets:
“The first step towards any regulation of, or even simple control over, production and distribution [note that does not belong to the text of the draft: even Minister Peshekhonov promised to strive to ensure "that all we have is divided equitably"], the first step in any serious struggle against economic dislocation and the catastrophe threatening the country, must be a decree abolishing commercial (including banking) secrecy in all transactions arising from supplies to the state or for defence in general. Such a decree should be supplemented immediately by a law treating as criminal offences all direct or indirect attempts to conceal pertinent documents or facts from persons or groups who have mandates from:
“(a) any Soviet of Workers’ or Soldiers’ or Peasants’ Deputies;
“(b) any trade union of industrial workers or office employees, etc.;
“(c) any major political party (the idea of ’major’ should be defined specifically, at least on the basis of votes received).”
Everybody agrees that the immediate introduction of socialism in Russia is impossible.
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The International Council for Machinery Lubrication (ICML) recently announced two new management-level offerings. First is the ICML 55 standard, which defines the optimized management of lubricated mechanical assets. Second is the Machinery Lubrication Engineer (MLE) certification aimed at individuals responsible for designing, implementing and managing lubrication programs.
The ICML 55 requirements publication ICML 55.1, which defines 12 interrelated areas of sustainable lubrication program plans, will be released for purchase on April 16 at the Reliable Plant Conference & Exhibition in Cleveland, Ohio. The conference, which is organized by Noria Corporation, will also serve as the host site for the very first public MLE certification exam on April 17. ICML personnel will conduct introductory presentations and maintain an exhibit at booth #144.
"The MLE and ICML 55 offerings together represent the culmination of many years of work on the part of many, many technical experts in the fields of machinery lubrication, oil analysis and asset reliability," says Leslie Fish, ICML executive director. "In response to market demand from practitioners worldwide, our comprehensive MLE certification builds on the groundwork laid by our Machine Lubricant Analyst (MLA) and Machinery Lubrication Technician (MLT) certifications. Furthermore, the ICML 55 standards now provide a framework for companies to achieve systematic progress toward their broader organizational asset management strategies and goals. We believe these two complementary offerings will open up new doors of opportunity and success for participating companies and professionals."
ICML began developing ICML 55 following the International Organization for Standardization's publication of the ISO 55000 asset management standard in 2014. ICML saw the need for a highly tactical, lubrication-specific standard that would supplement the more general ISO document.
With technical contributions from a team of more than 40 experts, ICML 55 fills that gap with specific requirements and guidelines to establish, implement, maintain and improve consistent lubrication management systems and activities.
"ICML 55 is a fantastic way to merge best practices globally into one readable document," says Rendela Wenzel, an associate senior consultant engineer at Eli Lilly and Company who also serves on the ICML board as director of the ICML 55 initiative. "This standard provides a 'how-to' guide for lubrication excellence and represents best practices by subject-matter experts from all over the world."
The first part of the standard is ICML 55.1, "Requirements for the Optimized Lubrication of Mechanical Physical Assets," which describes and defines 12 interrelated areas to be incorporated into any sustainable lubrication program plan.
However, ICML 55.1 does not replace, compete with or technically conflict with ISO 55001 requirements. It is merely an enabling standard, so users will find that each section of ICML 55.1 aligns with a corresponding section of ISO 55001:
ICML 55.1 is intended to be a companion document in association with ICML 55.2, "Guideline for the Optimized Lubrication of Mechanical Physical Assets," and ICML 55.3, "Auditors' Standard Practice and Policies Manual." These two documents are targeted for publication by year-end 2019 and 2020, respectively.
Eventually, an organization will be able to arrange for a qualified ICML 55 auditor to certify its compliance across all 12 areas, thus publicly validating that its lubricated asset management program has achieved optimum performance at the highest levels of machinery reliability.
"We look forward to the enormous but exciting challenge of launching this new standard into the global lubrication and reliability community," says ICML board member Jim Fitch, who is also the CEO and co-founder of Noria Corporation. "This is a monumental event that will change the face of lubrication in the context of reliability and asset management forever."
The ICML 55.1 Standard is now available for purchase here.
MLE targets reliability and asset leaders with a strong emphasis in lubrication and oil analysis. The 150-question exam evaluates an individual's knowledge, understanding and ability to provide engineering support at a typical industrial plant, whether serving on staff or as a contractor/consultant.
"Plant lubrication management professionals have needed a signature certification as a validation of their skills and experience for a long time now," says ICML technical contributor Mike Johnson. "The MLE should be that certification."
ICML strategically mapped the MLE body of knowledge to ICML 55, which makes MLE certification ideal for those leading institutional compliance with ICML 55.1 requirements as a tactical step toward ISO 55001 certification. Plants that choose to certify or hire MLE personnel can expect them to comprehend ICML 55's framework and ensure that all relevant factors impacting lubricated asset decision-making are adequately considered by key stakeholders.
"Ensuring the competency of those empowered to develop lubrication programs that conform to ICML 55.1 through MLE certification is the first step in creating long overdue consistency around lubrication practices in our industry," notes Mark Barnes, who serves on ICML's MLE development committee.
While there is no MLE prerequisite to hold a professional engineering degree or any other ICML certification, candidates likely will find that MLA and MLT training and certifications can be helpful as they prepare for the MLE.
Registration for the April 17 MLE exam is currently open. Interested parties can review the body of knowledge and arrange for this or other MLE exam sessions through ICML's website at www.lubecouncil.org. To purchase copies of the ICML 55.1 requirements publication, contact the ICML office at email@example.com. | <urn:uuid:91894e47-e4ca-4851-89ce-dd53ad19ccd4> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.machinerylubrication.com/Read/31503/icml-asset-management-standards | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571198.57/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810161541-20220810191541-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.934635 | 1,187 | 1.601563 | 2 |
SITKA – Recently, SouthEast Alaska Regional Health Consortium (SEARHC) welcomed sixteen Alaska Native/American Indian high school students to learn about health careers. The students participated in the 2016 Ethel Lund Village Health Occupations Program (VHOP) that took place from April 18 – 21 in Sitka.
Each year, the Southeast-area Native students selected by SEARHC for VHOP spend nearly a week at the SEARHC Mt. Edgecumbe Hospital learning about different health careers and educational opportunities in healthcare. This year’s group is one of the largest to date and included one student from as far away as Shawnee, Kansas; a suburb in the Greater Kansas City area. Other students represented Angoon, Craig, Juneau, Klawock, and Sitka.
The students job shadowed in various departments, and also spent some time with the UAS-Sitka Nursing program. The program closed with each student delivering a speech about what they learned and what they especially enjoyed while participating in the VHOP program. Students received certificates showing their successful completion of the program during a “graduation” event on Thursday, April 21.
“It has been a pleasure to have these students shadow our providers and show so much interest in healthcare as a possible career choice,” said SEARHC Tribal Recruiter, Freddie Olin. “These young men and women energize our staff by wanting to learn about the work they do.”
The health field is growing, which means plenty of job opportunities for those with the right training. Health-related careers usually offer good pay and employee benefits, as well as the satisfaction of helping others. The goal of VHOP is to cultivate and encourage an interest in healthcare, and the hope is for future health careers to grow from those efforts.
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It’s not directly CAD related, but it says 3D and has ‘Graphics‘ is the headline, so it’s gotta be kinda interesting. It’s the History of 3D Graphics from MaximumPC and it’s 10 pages choke full of specs and insight to the GPU evolution.
Have you ever wondered how much graphics cards have change over the past few years? How much clockspeed has jumped? If they’re getting any smaller? Check out the differences from 1995 to 2009 of that things putting pretty 3D graphics all over your monitor.
15 years makes a difference
Take a look at what a difference 15 years can make. Did you use any of the mentioned card for CAD in the early days? Do you still have old cards piled in the back room by the dog crate? I look at this and imagine what it will be in another 15 years.
Date Released: 1995
Shader Model: N/A
Manufacturing Process: 0.35 micron
Core Clockspeed: 66MHz
Memory Bus: 64-bit
Model: GeForce GTX 285
Date Released: 2009
Shader Model: 4.0
Manufacturing Process: 55nm
Core Clockspeed: 648MHz
Memory Clockspeed: 2484MHz
Memory Bus: 512-bit
Transistors: 1400 million
Check out the Fun Facts as you go through the article. Here are some of my favorites:
“Following disappointing sales, ATI added the word ‘Turbo’ to the card’s moniker and released new drivers that were supposed to increase performance. In reality, the drivers only helped when benchmarking.”
“Nvidia hailed the GeForce 256 as “the world’s first GPU,” a claim made possible by being the first to integrate a geometry transform engine, a dynamic lighting engine, a 4-pixel rendering pipeline, and DirectX 7 features onto the graphics chip.”
“The FX5800’s two-slot cooling solution drew heavy criticism over its excessive noise. It was so loud, many likened it to a dustbuster, and it didn’t help that it looked a little bit like one.”
Read the entire article at MaximumPC
What about GPU’s for CAD?
If you’re interested on the transition that happened to make GPU’s more suitable for CAD apps, check out this paper on GPU for CAD (PDF link! – Right-click to download and save).
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The scope of the textile and professional clothing industry means that the issue of sustainability has long been a problem with a dire need for a solution. As one of the largest industries in the world, the professional clothing trade body has a responsibility to practice sustainability wherever possible.
Using sustainable practices means that businesses in the workwear, corporate clothing, PPE and many more, can have a substantial effect on the world environmentally, economically and socially. The benefits aren’t only outside of the businesses as sustainable practices also usually mean reduced costs.
The PCIAW® considered it vital to have an expert on the issue of sustainability presenting at the PCIAW® Summit on the 18th June 2019, at the Montcalm Marble Arch, London. We are therefore delighted to announce Cyndi Rhoades, CEO of Worn Again Technologies, will be presenting on ‘A circular future for the Professional Clothing Supply Chain is on the horizon’.
With Cyndi and her team’s intense determination to find a solution to the problem of textile waste, Cyndi’s presentation will raise awareness of the issue of sustainability within the planet and how professional clothing businesses can make the change to more sustainable practices.
- What drove Cyndi to seek improvement in regards to textile waste through the supply chain of the industry?
Cyndi began her career as a filmmaker in music videos and documentaries which over time evolved into a deep interest in the impacts of commerce and global economics on society and the environment. These interests led to the formation of Worn Again Technologies which she has been driving forward ever since. From its early beginnings in upcycling to its current polymer recycling technology, the innovative process will revolutionise the way we recycle raw materials. With backing from of a team of world-class scientists, investors such as H&M, Sulzer Chemtech and Kering, as well as partners including Ellen McArthur Foundation and Cradle 2 Cradle, Cyndi’s vision is becoming a reality.
- What, in Cyndi’s opinion, is the most startling statistic about textile waste that the industry should be more aware of?
The statistics that often shock people the most is that in 2017 apparel consumption stood at 62 million tons annually, but this is set to rise by 63% to 102 million tons by 2030. When we couple this with the evidence that less than 1% of material used to produce clothing is recycled into new clothing, it truly encourages the industry to sit up and take notice.
- How important is the acceleration and innovation of new technology in terms of recycling and reusing textiles?
Given that the world’s apparel consumption is due to rise so rapidly in the next decade and that the majority of this apparel is currently going to landfill, it’s vital that the industry make changes quickly in order to see a positive impact on the issue of waste and the circularity of raw materials.
- Could she give us a hint to what her presentation at the Summit will include?
Cyndi will be discussing the emerging solutions that will provide the professional clothing industry with new raw materials that are able to re-enter the supply chain as part of the continuous loop.
- Why is it important to give a platform to the discussion of the issue of textile waste and recycling?
We have seen awareness growing about the problems surrounding textile waste over recent years among both brands and consumers. However, there is a lack of awareness when it comes to the emerging solutions that will be able to create the seismic shift needed to offer real global change.
Cyndi’s presentation will be a vital education in the growing issue of textile waste and what your businesses can do to incorporate sustainable practices. Here at the PCIAW® we are deeply excited to hear Cyndi’s presentation on this vital issue within the Professional Clothing industry.
If you are interested in hearing Cyndi give her presentation on Logistics, then please visit https://pciaw.org/pciaw-summit-2019/buy-tickets/https://pciaw.org for more information on how to book your ticket to the Summit or call one of the team at +44 (0)1908 411 415. | <urn:uuid:0e0d2651-4220-404d-9edd-8340b5d9c688> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://pciaw.org/3462-2/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571909.51/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813051311-20220813081311-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.946542 | 870 | 1.953125 | 2 |
What is it?
This is the European version of what you get if you order an online cab from Los Angeles airport. The Toyota Camry is the most successful big saloon car in the world, and it was a nameplate you could get in the UK until 2004, when it was canned because the European big saloon market was going big on diesel and the Camry didn’t offer one.
Now? The big saloon market is going nowhere particularly fast, and it's particularly ordinary for the Avensis. So, the Avensis is being dropped and the Camry, available in Europe only with a hybrid powertrain, is being reintroduced.
The internal combustion component of its powertrain is a 2.5-litre four-cylinder unit with some fancy straight inlet ports (making the fuel swirl and therefore burn more efficiently) and both port and direct injection – each has different advantages at different revs and throttle openings. The overall thermal efficiency is 41%, says Toyota, which is rubbish compared to an electric motor’s 90-odd per cent but good for a petrol unit.
It drives the front wheels through Toyota’s hybrid system, which uses the drive engine, a starter motor and a drive motor (motor generators 1 and 2 in Toyota speak) with a planetary gearset linking them. This allows the drive motor and engine to run at any speed, regardless of the wheel speed, because the starter-generator will be there to make up the difference.
It’s a brilliantly simple concept with, presumably, brilliantly complicated control software, which is why Toyota engineers get the hump if someone calls it a continuously variable transmission. Combined, maximum power is 215bhp, with fuel consumption likely to be confirmed at an official 61mpg (although we saw 40+ mpg on the trip computer).
All of those drive shenanigans aside, it’d also be slightly disingenuous to say Camry replaces Avensis, because, as befits a car they sell more than 400,000 of per year in the US alone, it's bigger. At 4.89m long, it’s between Ford Mondeo and BMW 5 Series in length, while at 1840mm wide across the doors, it's just narrower than a Mondeo, but at the top end of the D-segment either way.
It's based on Toyota’s recently introduced TNGA (Toyota New Global Architecture) platform, whose advantages, Toyota says, include a low engine location, which allows a low dashboard, thus lowering (improving) the centre of gravity. There’s also lots of high-strength steel in the body, apparently meaning the A-pillars are thin and the body stiff, while the battery for the hybrid system fits beneath the back seats, as does the fuel tank. And the rear suspension is by fancy double wishbones, doncha know.
Not that it’ll matter, because big saloons are big and boring to drive. But hark! Here’s Masato Katsumata, Toyota’s global chief engineer for the Camry. His first gig in the company was as a handling engineer, while he’s also been senior vice president for R&D in Europe. And he owns an early Celica.
“We want to create emotion in a hybrid system,” he says. The rigid body, particularly where the steering is mounted, “contributes to realising dynamic performance”. This, it’s fair to say, would be a bit of a departure for the Camry, no? But European models get different dampers from US cars, plus bespoke tuning of damping, springing, anti-roll bars and steering. So let’s see. | <urn:uuid:06dfeb1f-cab1-4db6-bfea-83592a4599ba> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.autocar.co.uk/car-review/toyota/camry/first-drives/toyota-camry-2018-review | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571909.51/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813051311-20220813081311-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.943456 | 782 | 1.609375 | 2 |
Coping with going into work during coronavirus
This page gives tips for taking care of your mental health and wellbeing, help with understanding difficult feelings, and ways to find support if you are going into work during the coronavirus outbreak.
If you have to leave your house to go into work during the coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak, it might feel like a difficult and stressful time. Knowing how to look after your mental health during the crisis will help you cope with the situation and keep your moods positive where possible.
This page from Mind gives tips for taking care of your mental health and wellbeing, help with understanding difficult feelings, and ways to find support.
It explores emotions you might be experiencing, such as guilt, anger or anxiety, and offers advice on coping with these. It also covers dealing with traumatic situations such as the loss of a loved one or ongoing uncertainty about the future. It also outlines some practical advice, such as understanding your legal rights as a worker and how to follow social distancing guidelines where possible.
Below you’ll find some other resources that relate to people working during the pandemic. You can also use your browser’s Back button to return to the selection you were just looking at, or click here to browse our list of curated toolkits to see if there’s one for you that relates to your sector. | <urn:uuid:7efb1888-5e71-4e6a-934f-08433e8239c4> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.mentalhealthatwork.org.uk/resource/coping-with-going-into-work-during-coronavirus/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571909.51/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813051311-20220813081311-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.968607 | 287 | 1.976563 | 2 |
The music of pianist, improvisor and composer Anthony Davis eludes easy categorization. Active in a variety of media, including operatic, symphonic, choral, chamber, dance, theater, and improvised musics, Davis has focused upon the integration of improvised and notated expressive resources. His work embodies an intercultural approach, drawing not only upon traditional and current African-American sources, but upon the Javanese gamelan, American Minimalism, and the European and Euro-American avant-garde.
His fourth and most recent opera, AMISTAD, based on the slave ship uprising of 1839 and the subsequent trial, premiered at the Lyric Opera of Chicago in November of 1997, with libretto by Thulani Davis and direction by New York Public Theater artistic director George C. Wolfe. His first and best-known opera, X: THE LIFE AND TIMES OF MALCOLM X, with libretto by Thulani Davis, premiered at the New York City Opera in 1986.
Davis's recent orchestral works include NOTES FROM THE UNDERGROUND, premiered in 1988 at Carnegie Hall with the American Composers' Orchestra; ESU VARIATIONS, commissioned by the Cultural Olympiad for the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra and premiered in Atlanta in May, 1995; and JACOB'S LADDER, dedicated to the composer Jacob Druckman, premiered in October, 1997 by the Kansas City Symphony. His work HEMISPHERES, a collaboration with choreographer Molissa Fenley, was awarded the first Bessie Award for Music for Dance. Davis also composed the incidental music for the Broadway production of Tony Kushner's ANGELS IN AMERICA: MILLENNIUM APPROACHES--PART ONE which premiered in May, 1993 and PART TWO--PERESTROIKA, which debuted in November of 1993. Most recently, Davis completed a work for the Jose Limon Dancers entitled DANCE, a collaboration with choreographer Ralph Lemon.
As a pianist, Davis has collaborated extensively with musical artists working in experimental forms whose work challenges traditional boundaries between composition and improvisation. His own performance ensemble, Episteme, combines disciplined interpretation with provocative real-time music-making. His latest work for improvisors, HAPPY VALLEY BLUES (SOUNDS WITHOUT NOUNS), composed for the String Trio of New York, recently toured throughout the United States and Europe with the composer at the piano. Davis has performed with a number of improvisors associated with the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians, including Wadada Leo Smith's ensemble, New Dalta Ahkri, as well as with the ensembles of Anthony Braxton, Leroy Jenkins, and Roscoe Mitchell. He has also performed and recorded with such improvisors as David Murray, Abdul Wadud, James Newton, Ray Anderson, Barry Altschul, and Marion Brown, among many others. | <urn:uuid:3abf39de-f0bf-409b-ba5b-3c6a32ffe19d> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.allaboutjazz.com/musicians/anthony-davis | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572198.93/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815175725-20220815205725-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.931215 | 610 | 1.84375 | 2 |
Data Lake vs Data Warehouse: Understanding the Differences
Although data lakes and warehouses commonly store large amounts of data, the phrases are not equivalent. Understanding the differences between data lake vs data warehouse is beneficial in today’s data-driven world.
The two methods of data storing are sometimes mistaken, yet they are vastly different. In reality, they have only in common that they both store information. A data lake is a store of unstructured data with no specific objective. A data warehouse is where organized, screened information previously handled for a particular function can be stored.
Since they serve various objectives and demand multiple sets of vision be effectively tuned, differentiation is critical. A data lake will be helpful in one organization, but a data warehouse will be valid for another.
On this page:
What is a Data Lake?
Data lakes are a centralized repository for enormous amounts of native, unstructured data. A data lake stores data using a flat design and object storage. Object storage saves data with metadata tags and a unique identifier, which increases efficiency and makes it easier to identify and retrieve data across locations. Using affordable object storage and open formats, data lakes allow other applications to utilize the data.
Data lakes are frequently used to store an organization’s data in a single, centralized location without imposing a schema (i.e., a formal structure for how the data is structured) in advance, as a data warehouse does.
Raw data can be ingested and stored alongside an organization’s structured, tabular data sources (such as database tables) and intermediate data tables developed during the refining process of raw data.
Benefits of a Data Lake
- At the time of intake, a data lake removes the requirement for data modeling. Instead, data modeling can be done when analyzing data for analytics. This approach provides unrivaled versatility in asking and receiving answers to any business or domain issue
- When scalability is factored into the equation, a data lake is affordable compared to a data warehouse
- A data lake can contain data that is multi-structured and comes from a variety of resources. A data lake can have logs, XML, video, location information, binaries, engagement metrics, conversation, and individuals’ data, to name a few things
- Conventional data warehouse infrastructure mainly handles SQL, which is acceptable for basic analysis, but we need other ways to examine data for sophisticated applications. For analytics, a data lake gives various tools and language support
- In contrast to a data warehouse, a data lake combines massive amounts of consistent content with deep learning techniques. It aids in the analysis of real-time decisions
What is a Data Warehouse?
A Data Warehousing (DW) is a method for collecting and organizing data from diverse sources to offer insightful business intelligence. Typically, a data warehouse is used to connect and analyze corporate data from disparate sources.
The data warehouse is the heart of the business intelligence system, which is designed for data processing and reporting.
It is a combination of technology and components that facilitate the strategic utilization of data. It is the electronic storing of voluminous amounts of data by a business that focuses its activities on query and analysis as opposed to transaction processing. To make an impact, data must be transformed into information and made available to consumers on time.
Benefits of a Data Warehouse
- Decision-makers will no longer have to depend on restricted data or their intuition because they will have accessibility to data from multiple resources from a unified interface
- Because all users can access crucial data, they can make informed judgments on essential issues
- A data warehouse transforms data from several resources into a standardized structure. This will result in more precise data, serving as the foundation for informed choices
- Organizations that have invested in a data warehouse see more profits and cost reductions than those that have not
- Data warehouses assist firms in gaining a complete perspective of their current position and evaluating possibilities and challenges, giving them a competitive edge
Data Lake vs Data Warehouse: What are the key differences?
The development of data lakes was a response to the constraints of data warehouses. While data warehouses provide businesses with highly performant and scalable analytics, they are costly, proprietary, and incapable of handling most modern use cases.
Unlike most databases and data warehouses, data lakes can process all data kinds, including unstructured and semi-structured data such as photos, video, audio, and documents, which are essential for machine learning and advanced analytics use cases in the present day.
Before data is recorded and maintained, it is organized, categorized, and provided metadata in a data warehouse. This method is known as ‘schema on write.’
A data lake absorbs all data types, even those unsuitable for a data warehouse. Data is maintained in its raw state; content is stored in the schema as data is taken from the data source rather than transferred to memory. This is referred to as a “schema on read.”
An organization’s information is stored in a crude, disorganized pattern in a data lake, which can store the data for an indefinite period for instant or prospective usage.
A data warehouse stores structured information that has been checked and analyzed and is fully prepared for competitive strategy depending on predetermined business requirements.
Data scientists and engineers who want to analyze data in its native format to acquire fresh, innovative business perspectives generally use data from a data lake containing a massive quantity of unprocessed information.
Managers and business-end users who want to understand business KPIs generally use data from a data warehouse because the data has already been prepared to offer responses to predetermined queries for examination.
The information is retrieved from its origin for placement in the data lake and only organized when required in the data lake process.
Data is retrieved from its source(s), cleansed, and then formatted in the data warehouse procedure for business-end analysis.
Compared to a data warehouse, storage expenses in a data lake are pretty low. Data lakes are also easier to administer, resulting in lower operational costs.
Data warehouses are costlier than data lakes, and managing them takes more work, resulting in higher operational costs.
Storage and Retention of Data
Data engineers spend a lot of time analyzing data and figuring out how to use it for strategic planning before storing it in a data warehouse. They create modifications to synthesize and change data to extract valuable insights.
Data that doesn’t answer specific market queries are excluded from the data warehouse to save storage capacity and enhance efficiency. A traditional data warehouse is a costly and precious corporate commodity.
Data retention is more straightforward in a data lake because it saves unprocessed, organized, and unclassified information. Data is never erased, allowing for studying past, present, and prospective data. Data lakes are simple to develop and grow up to Petabytes in size.
They run on low-cost storage devices and commodity servers, easing storage constraints.
Historical data is stored in data warehouses. The format of incoming information is predetermined. This comes in handy when dealing with particular business questions.
On the other hand, data warehouses are insufficient if business questions change or the company wants to keep all data for in-depth analysis. Adapting the data warehouse and ETL process to new business issues is a significant development endeavor.
A data lake stores the data in its original format and makes it immediately accessible for analysis. It may be retrieved and reused using a structured schema, storing and exchanging data. The copy can be destroyed without harming the data lake if the data is no longer required. All of this is achieved without any effort from the developer.
Security, Usage, and Maturity
Data warehouses are a safe, enterprise-ready solution operating for decades. In contrast, Data lakes are still a relatively new concept, but they’re fresher and have a smaller proven record in the industry.
A large company can’t just buy and install a data lake as it can a data warehouse; it has to think about which technologies to use, whether free software or proprietary and how to put them together to satisfy demands.
Data Lake vs Data Warehouse: Which One Should You choose?
A data warehouse will integrate nicely into your corporate setting if you employ SQL databases, CRM, ERP, or HRM applications. A data warehouse is ideal for firms that cope with well-organized or organized data.
If your information comes from a variety of origins (e.g., IoT logs including telemetry, executable code, analysis), data lakes are likely to be a preferable option, as the ETL (extract, transform, and load) process in a data warehouse will end in considerable information degradation.
A data warehouse will undoubtedly work if you can cope with statistics produced by performing a preset set of information on the table(s) that is routinely maintained.
Depending on your company’s demands, establishing the correct data lake or data warehouse will be critical to its development. Choosing which one should be preferred depends upon your organization, and each comes with its own benefits.
- Healthcare: The healthcare industry has utilized data warehouses for years, but they’ve never proven profitable. Data warehouses aren’t appropriate for healthcare because of the unstructured nature of much of the data (physician notes, clinical data, etc.) and the necessity for real-time insights.
Data lakes let healthcare companies combine structured and unstructured data.
- Education: Big data’s relevance in educational reform has grown recently. Grades, attendance, and other data can assist failed students in getting back on track and forecasting possible concerns. Big data has helped schools streamline billing, enhance fundraising, and more.
Because much of this data is enormous and raw, educational institutions benefit from data lakes’ versatility.
- Finance: In banking and other business environments, a data warehouse is often the optimal storage option because the entire firm can access it.
Data warehouses have helped the financial services industry progress considerably. A financial services organization may avoid this strategy because it’s more cost-efficient but less effective overall.
- Transportation: In the transportation industry, primarily supply chain management, flexible data in a data lake can have tremendous benefits, namely cost-cutting gains from reviewing transport pipeline form data.
Frequently, organizations require both. Data lakes arose from the need to leverage big data and benefit from the raw, granular organized, and unstructured data for machine learning. Yet, business customers still require data warehouses for analytics.
Summary: Data Lake vs Data Warehouse
We can identify numerous differences when comparing data lakes vs data warehouses. The primary differentiators are data structure, desired consumers, processing methods, and the ultimate purpose of the data.
- Data Lakes store all data, regardless of its source or format, whereas the Data Warehouse maintains quantitative metrics alongside their properties.
- Data Lakes are a repository for storing massive amounts of structured, semi-structured, and unstructured data. In contrast, Data Warehouse is a combination of technologies and components that enables the strategic use of data.
- Data Warehouses define the schema before data storage, whereas Data Lake defines the schema after data storage.
- Data Lakes employ the ELT (Extract Load Transform) process, whereas the Data Warehouse uses the ETL (Extract Load Transform) approach.
- Data Lakes are great for people who desire in-depth analysis, while Data Warehouse is ideal for operational users.
If you’re engaging with more exploratory situations, such as machine learning, IoT, or prescriptive modeling, it’s best to keep raw data in its original format in the data lake.
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Kit Paulson shapes thin strands of heat-resistant glass with a torch to create intricate sculptures. Lungs draws comparison to the structuring of veins and lacework. The artist transformed the alveoli, the tiny air sacs on the lungs, into flowers. Paulson finished this work just weeks before the pandemic of COVID-19, a disease that causes numerous complications in the lungs.
This Present Moment: Crafting a Better World, 2022
This delicate glass sculpture forms the shape of the human respiratory system. The lungs are a foot tall and nine inches wide with a depth of approximately four inches. The windpipe, which extends upward from the center of the sculpture, is a fleshy pink tube with a ribbed texture. At center, the windpipe splits into two thinner bronchial tubes that mirror each other, forming a wide wishbone shape. From each of these smaller tubes sprout numerous thin, colorless glass branches, which in turn sprout others. This creates a radiating network of stems and tiny buds that mimics the overall shape of a pair of lungs. Enclosed within this network are bouquets of tiny delicate glass flowers that blossom from the bronchial tubes like alveoli. The foundational bright pink windpipe and bronchial tubes stand out through the maze of clear glass.
- 12 3⁄4 × 9 1⁄2 × 3 3⁄8 in. (32.4 × 24.1 × 8.6 cm)
© 2020, Kit Paulson
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Smithsonian American Art Museum
Museum purchase through the Kenneth R. Trapp Acquisition Fund
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Until recently, carceral and penal logics have proliferated the global scene unabated. The coronavirus pandemic not only ushered a moment of pause for the world, but in some areas, even a reversal in carceral trends. In many countries, some sectors experienced unprecedented reductions in imprisonment and migrant detention. Even where the pandemic advanced more invasive carceral controls, such as with policing through health checks and issuing tickets, it also fuelled global resistance through the Black Lives Matter movement. In the wake of the pandemic, an uprising of activists, advocates and supporters captured the public imagination with anti-racist and abolition uprisings and advances in community care. In the lands now known as Australia and Canada, where the criminalisation and incarceration of Indigenous people has been increasing, this mobilising has resulted in important alliances and advancements to challenge these carceral and penal trajectories. In this article, we trace several abolitionist initiatives to show how the convergence of COVID-19 and anti-racist and anti-colonial movements catalysed an important moment for abolitionist organising. | <urn:uuid:0fe41267-5269-42f7-a684-99838117eba3> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://bristoluniversitypressdigital.com/search?f_0=author&q_0=Thalia+Anthony | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571909.51/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813051311-20220813081311-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.937494 | 215 | 2.609375 | 3 |
With the arrival of October a major shift in the weather pattern will take place over the Western United States and that includes Star Valley and Western Wyoming. The 3 months of exceptionally dry and warm weather will be replaced by a more typical fall pattern as a series of wet and steadily cooler systems move through the area.
The following upper air charts illustrates these changes.
The large scale flow for this weekend shows low pressure along the Oregon coast with a very large high over Alaska. Additionally Hurricane Rosa west of Baja California is heading north.
By Monday afternoon the remnants of Hurricane Rosa will be spreading tropical moisture and precipitation northward into the southwest deserts while a strong upper trough develops just off the California coast.
By next weekend a deep trough of low pressure will be centered over the western states.
The results of these dramatic changes will initially bring moisture from the remnants of Hurricane Rosa northward through Utah into Western Wyoming. Precipitation will likely increase by Tuesday across our area. Then as the major trough shifts inland later in the week, showers will continue to occur with the snow level lowering in the mountains toward the weekend.
Following is a forecast of total precipitation for the coming week. The area of very heavy precipitation associated with the remnants of Hurricane Rosa spread northward through Arizona into Utah and to a lessor extent western Wyoming. Forecast amounts upwards to 2 inches in Southwest Arizona would be more than half what would be expected in an entire year!
The longer range temperature forecast which includes next weekend is calling for dramatically cooler weather and support the snow levels lowering in the mountains.
With considerably higher chances of precipitation for the same period over much of the mountain west.
There is some uncertainty as to the details how much precipitation will occur and what areas will receive the greatest benefit. However confidence in the change of pattern is high, bringing an end to the extended dry weather of the past summer. | <urn:uuid:4dba05a5-eeee-48f4-94e8-fc3e697fe9c0> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://blog.starvalleyweather.com/2018/09/30/cooler-and-wetter-weather-ahead-as-october-begins/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573163.7/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818033705-20220818063705-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.940049 | 380 | 2.234375 | 2 |
William McClain was an African-American acrobat, actor, and comedian. He is well-known for his appearances in minstrel shows before World War I. He also wrote, produced, and directed major stage and outdoor extravaganzas. However, despite his great ability, he was handicapped by prejudice against African-Americans during his time.
McClain was born in Indianapolis, Indiana, in 1866. As a young boy, he played the cornet in Bell’s Band. His first public appearance was in 1881, and he later joined The Adam Forepaugh and Sells Brothers Circus in 1886 for a tour of the Hawaiian Islands. McClain is noted as being the first black player with the circus during its time.
In 1887, he moved on to work with the Gigantic Comedy Company. In 1895, McClain was hired by Nate Salsbury to produce a show called Black America. The show was performed outdoors in various cities including New York City, Boston, Philadelphia, and Washington, DC. McClain later moved to Paris, France from 1906 to 1913. He played in London and Paris with Fred Karno’s comedy troupe.
By 1931, McClain had moved to Los Angeles, California and landed a job with the Pasadena police department as a physical trainer. In August 1931, he appeared on stage for the first time in 21 years in a benefit performance, playing the two leading roles from Uncle Tom: Uncle Tom himself, and the slave owner Simon Legree.
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Stone quarrying is the largest Palestinian export, but it is choked by various Israeli restrictions, including the Israeli Civil Administrations failure to renew or grant new permits for Palestinian quarries in Area C since 1994. On the other hand, Israeli and international corporations, operate thriving quarrying businesses in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (OPT). Cemex, a Mexican corporation, has wholly owned Israeli Readymix Industries since 2005. Until June 2015, Readymix owned 50% of the shares in Yatir Quarry, located in the occupied West Bank. Cemex has profited from the exploitation of stone resources in the OPT. On 10 June 2015, the Israeli Antitrust Authority approved a request for a merger between Kfar Giladi Quarries and Yatir Quarry and less than a week later Lime & Stone was no longer listed as one of the owners of Yatir Quarry on the Israeli Registrar of Companies. Additionally, through its ownership of Readymix Industries, Cemex supplies building materials for construction of settlements, checkpoints (e.g. Hawara and Azzun-Atma) and for the Annexation Wall (along the Gilo Bridge). Readymix operates three aggregate factories in the illegal Israeli settlements of Mevo Horon, Mishor Adumim, and Atarot. HeidelbergCement, one of the largest construction materials companies in the world, owns three cement plants and one quarry in the occupied West Bank through its subsidiary Hanson Israel, which it acquired in 2007.
In June 2015, Norwegian pension fund KLP excluded Cemex and HeidelbergCement from its investment portfolio. The decision was taken due to their operations in the occupied West Bank. The largest private pension and insurance fund in Denmark also divested from Heidelberg in December 2015, qualifying HeidelbergCement’s activities as a “violation of basic human rights.” In a letter to the Business and Human Rights Resource Centre dated 9 September 2015, Cemex has confirmed its presence in settlements. and announced that it had sold its holdings in the Yatir quarry, a mining site located south of the Palestinian city of Dhahiriya in the West Bank yet it continues to operate four factories on occupied land through Readymix Industries. Several court cases have been filed regarding this conflict. In December 2011, the Israeli human rights group Yesh Din, claimed that Israeli quarrying in the OPT was illegal under international law because it exploited the natural resources of the occupied territory for the benefit of the occupying power. However the court ruled that in a prolonged occupation the economic development of the occupied territory could not be frozen indefinitely and held that existing Israeli-owned quarries should be allowed to continue operating, but no new ones should open.
According to Human Rights Watch military authorities closed down about 35 Palestinian quarries in the West Bank in late March 2016 and confiscated millions of dollars’ worth of equipment. In a letter to Human Rights Watch, Israel’s Civil Administration said that it shut down the quarries because they were operating without licenses and created safety and environmental hazards. The closures puts the livelihoods of up to 3,500 workers at risk and highlights the difficulty Palestinian quarries have in obtaining new licenses over the past 20 years. In 2016, The High Court of Justice in Israel rejected a petition by the Forum for a Green Israel against the continued operation of Palestinian quarries in the West Bank, which accused them of causing serious environmental pollution. The nonprofit organization was ordered to pay the quarries and the state 5,000 shekels ($1,300) each in legal costs. In December 2015, the United Nations adopted a resolution demanding that Israel cease the exploitation, damage, depletion and endangerment of Palestinian natural resources, and recognize the right of Palestinians under military occupation to claim restitution. | <urn:uuid:44901add-e857-4744-bfb5-61efdefc1d98> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://ejatlas.org/print/israeli-stone-quarrying-in-the-occupied-palestinian-territory | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572033.91/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814113403-20220814143403-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.961709 | 781 | 1.59375 | 2 |
For the under-twenty-fives who haven’t received their letter yet; people with tests booked who are nervous; non-cervix owning curious souls; and folks who are just plain clueless about it all. Don’t you worry, this post is for you.
What is a smear test actually like? Well, it’s kind of like Hogwarts. You know, when you turn eleven, a letter pops through your letterbox inviting you to Hogwarts School of Witchcraft & Wizardry. With a smear test, when you turn twenty-five, you get a magical letter landing on your doormat from the NHS inviting you for a cervical screening. Same difference, no?
Alright, I am very aware that I am exaggerating quite a bit. But I’m just trying to go straight into this discourse with a sense of lightness. So often in discussion of smear tests, it’s approached with hushed tones or via a quick talk in private when in fact, it’s nothing to worry about! Let me tell you why.
The big question – what on earth is a smear test? If we look to the official term for a smear test, a cervical screening, the clue is in the name. A smear test is a check up of the cervix for those people who have one! Your cervix is the bit that goes from the vagina and leads to the womb. The test or screening is to check if you have HPV in the cervix. HPV is a very common group of viruses – so common that around 80% of people will have it in their lifetime! Normally, it is absolutely fine to have HPV and it causes no issues at all. But sometimes, HPV can cause changes to the cells in the cervix which could lead to cancer. So a smear test is essentially a check in with the cervix, a little ‘how you doing bud?’ and ultimately, the best act of prevention against cervical cancer.
So why do so many people hate talking about smear tests? Why do we think it’s ‘awkward’ to share that we’ve booked it? Why aren’t more people talking about smear tests?! Because of outdated social stigma and misinformation, that’s why.
Even now, in the glorious twenty-first century, there’s still a social barrier that goes up when you talk about women* and sex. Even though smear tests are fully health related (not a sexual act at all), because it involves a vagina, that’s ‘too much’ and ‘too inappropriate’ for people to talk about. This stigma is carried on through generations and through families, schooling, and even through medical professionals themselves.
(* Not all women have smear tests and not all people who have smear tests are women! But the stigma started from the way society views women and sex.)
Now, I do not value social stigma as a reason to not discuss smear tests. Ain’t not ‘shh shh shh keep your voice down’ or ‘maybe this isn’t a conversation to have around the boys, hmm?’ will shut me up.
But there are fears and misunderstandings that come with the idea of a smear test that I do understand. Firstly, pulling your pants down around a stranger sounds like the least appealing thing in the world. Unless you are into that, then more power to you – but to most people, that’s a no-no. Secondly, there’s a rumour that we’ve all heard – that your mum’s friends’ cousin’s son’s wife’s smear test was painful, SO painful. Thirdly, (and sorry to get a little bit psychoanalytical) but there’s also the fear of the unknown. This is totally understandable – if you’ve never experienced a smear test before, you don’t know what to expect. But this is where I come in. In true big sister, fun aunt, loud-mouth friend style, let me tell you about my smear test experience, so you know what to expect, how to prepare, and what really happens at a smear test.
My smear test took place at my normal doctor’s surgery. If I timed from when I walked into the nurse’s room to when I left, I reckon my appointment would have taken six minutes overall. Now don’t worry – you don’t walk in and immediately whip your pants down and present yourself for prodding and cell collection. I sat down, introduced myself to the nurse, and we confirmed that I was here for a smear test. Then came the important part – she checked in with me. “Would you like me to explain the procedure and why we are doing this?” I said no, I’ve had a smear before. “So you know what to expect?” Yes, I do. “Excellent. Would you like me to call a chaperone to be in the room whilst I do the screening?” No, I’ll be fine! “Great. Are you okay for us to start?” Absolutely!
She showed me to the medical bed that every medical office has (you know, the one that goes up and down and has the crackling tissue paper) and asked me to lie on the bed once I was undressed – not before handing me a large square modesty tissue. As soon as she had pulled the privacy curtain around, off came the jeans and pants, and my be-socked and half naked body laid down on the crinkly paper. So there I was, a white ceiling above me, a bright light shining on my face, and a blue curtain all around. Cardigan on top, modesty tissue in the middle, hairy legs with odd socks sticking out to the world. I know this is another issue that can freak people out about smear tests. “Do I have to shave?” Simply put, no. There’s no need. The people who do these screenings do these day in, day out. They’ve seen it all before, I promise you.
The people who do these screenings do these day in, day out. They’ve seen it all before, I promise you.
I gave a quick shout to say I was ready, and the blue curtain peeked open to allow the nurse and her trolley in. She checked I was comfortable, asked again if she could begin, and so, we began.
“Alright Rosie. Shuffle your feet back to your bum, so your heels touch your bum. Great, pop those heels together for me. Annnnd keep those heels together and relax the knees down. Great!”
My nurse walked me through every step of the way. As I stared at the ceiling, my hands resting on my chest, she warned me that “this may feel a little chilly” and she popped the speculum in the cervix. Now, this is one of the scarier aspects if you’ve never had a smear test before. In images alone, a speculum looks uninviting, concerning and positively Victorian. But in reality, it’s just a plastic device that is gently popped into the cervix and allows the cervix to be opened just a smidgen more. Both times I have had a smear test, this has not hurt. As in, it didn’t hurt at all. However, it was ruddy cold! Both times I have had a smear, I’ve loudly shouted “OOH it’s cold!” when they’ve used the speculum. But that’s it. Obviously it’s not as comfortable as falling asleep in a king size bed whilst wearing silk pyjamas, but it’s not horrible.
To put the feeling of a speculum being put into the cervix into words, I would say it felt like a reverse period. Yes, I know that sounds weird but let me explain. You know how sometimes you can feel your period start, as it goes down from your womb to the vagina? It’s a very specific feeling. Well, it felt like that but in reverse! And if you haven’t got periods, well – just imagine it feels a little odd.
With the speculum in, it’s time to collect the cells. This is where the nurse pops a long, thin, cotton bud looking brush into the speculum and cervix to take a collection of cells. In all honesty, I was still mid- ‘OOH it’s cold!’ to even notice the brush going in. When the brush collected the cells, I did feel it. But just like with the speculum, it didn’t hurt; it just felt like one of those odd period feelings like a clot or the egg just ~doing~ something. Before my brain had a chance to go “wait, this feels weird”, the brush was out, followed by the speculum, and I was ready to get changed in privacy.
I feel like it is worth mentioning at this point that whilst a smear test should not hurt, all bodies are different. Some people are like me and only feel a bit of discomfort, others say they feel a slight pinch, an ache, or a fleeting moment of pain. But if it hurts, it could be a sign of a condition that needs to be explored such as vaginismus or endometriosis. Any pain at all, make sure to tell the person doing the procedure.
Whilst I was changing, the nurse took the brush and got it ready to be sent off for testing. I didn’t see any of the equipment this time around, but when I went for my first smear test during my PCOS diagnosis journey, I saw it all. And I saw blood on the brush. This is completely normal. It’s just been inside your body, that could be period blood or other bodily junk! Once I was changed, we chatted about what the next steps were. I would receive a letter in the post telling me of my results and if I need to take any further steps, it would all be clearly outlined. And with that, I was out and walking back home.
Out of all the medical procedures, appointments, and check ups I’ve had over the last two years, the smear test has been the easiest and quickest. And this is why I am writing this post – I want to show you that a smear test is nothing to be afraid of, and more people need to talk openly about their experiences to bat away the stigma!
If you are scared about the idea of a smear test, that’s okay. With all of the misinformation that has been spread, coupled with the fear of the unknown, it’s completely understandable to be nervous. Just know that you are fully in control. Tell the doctor or nurse doing the procedure that you are stressed or anxious, and they will support you. Bring a friend or a loved one if you need a hand to hold, or make the most of the chaperone service (COVID permitting, of course). If you feel any major discomfort or any pain, speak up immediately.
“If you are scared about the idea of a smear test, that’s okay. With all of the misinformation that has been spread, coupled with the fear of the unknown, it’s completely understandable to be nervous. Just know that you are fully in control.”
If you are still looking for some more reassurance or information, I would thoroughly suggest watching internet icon Zoe Sugg’s video on getting a smear test! She talks to a nurse before the screening and they go through so many important questions. Then, she actually has the screening in the video! It’s a wonderful resource to find out the realities of a smear test.
Remember, you are doing this for you and your body. The reality should be that it’s ten-minutes of mild-discomfort for what could be a life-saving check up. If you ask me, booking a smear test is one of the biggest acts of self-care you can ever do for yourself. If you are age twenty-five and over and have a cervix, book you smear test now. | <urn:uuid:2a2819a8-e0fa-493b-8d2e-0b94a573173a> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://rosieabigail.com/2022/03/23/what-is-a-smear-test-actually-like/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572198.93/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815175725-20220815205725-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.96441 | 2,603 | 2.421875 | 2 |
Clerics are servants in the cause of faith and may serve many functions in furtherance of their cause. Clerics can be healers, protectors, monster hunters, guardians, teachers, statesmen or diplomats. Clerics can likewise be oppressors, liars, reavers, slavers, spies or tyrants. How a cleric behaves is typified by the demands of his or her faith.
Clerics come from all races and from all walks of life. Some are ordained into established churches that act internationally and have giant cathedrals and thousands of followers. Some are passionate devotees to a deity who operate as part of a small congregation. Others are true believers of a specific religious doctrine, but operate independently of a church hierarchy. Still others don’t ascribe to a god at all and live their life by a personal philosophy instead of an outside religion. The one thing that all clerics share is a tangible and potent faith. Whether it be the existence of a deity or a force such as nature or an established order to the universe or an idea of oneness of spirit among sentient minds, every cleric believes in some force larger than themselves, and it is from their unwavering faith in this force that they draw their power.
At the end of the day, all clerics do what they do to fulfill one of two primary goals.
1: Win converts to the cause of their faith.
The more believers who follow a faith, the more accepted that faith becomes. Converting is usually accomplished by spreading dogma teaching the fundamental tenets of a faith. Sometimes this is enough on its own, but conversion is often aided by performing good works that prove the power of faith. Clerics often perform great tasks like public healing or undergo great quests to bring positive attention to their faith.
2: Bring glory to the object of their faith.
Living virtuously is often its own reward, but when one’s virtue triumphs over opposition, it brings glory to one’s ideals, church or deity. If a cleric who espouses health and longevity successfully eradicates a plague, for example, that shows the superiority of his faith over sickness. Bringing glory in this way is often done as a means of making converts (the aforementioned good works), but is also reward enough on its own, especially to faiths that don’t require masses of converts and worshipers.
It is difficult to pin down the average life of a cleric because there are so many potential cults that he could be a member of. Some are educated from a young age and groomed for a position in a church hierarchy while others are converts that adopt the faith later in life. The one thing that is true of all clerics is that they act according to the demands of their faith. A good cleric dedicated to a church of healing doesn’t go smiting everyone who doesn’t follow the smallest rule of her church’s dogma. Her faith requires that she show compassion and understanding, so she might verbally correct someone’s mistake before moving on. An evil cleric dedicated to a god of plague doesn’t go around stabbing everyone he sees just because he’s evil. His faith demands that sickness run rampant, which it can’t do if everyone has been stabbed to death, or if he can’t introduce it into the town well because he’s been arrested.
A cleric associated with a particular faith chooses two domains from the list associated with that faith. A cleric not associated with one of the major faiths may choose any two domains. As per PHB page 32, a cleric may only select an alignment domain (chaos, evil, good or law) if his or her alignment corresponds to that domain. A cleric may not cast spells of an alignment opposed to his or her own alignment. Good clerics channel positive energy and therefore turn or destroy the undead and evil clerics channel negative energy and therefore rebuke or command the undead. Clerics with a neutral alignment choose whether to turn or rebuke the undead at character creation; once made, this choice may not be changed. | <urn:uuid:a132b501-e903-4248-9291-b5b7646c03f2> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.dndarchive.com/setting-basics-what-is-eckor/faith/clerics/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572198.93/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815175725-20220815205725-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.957223 | 838 | 2.328125 | 2 |
For a long time considered as boring and vertical, internal communication is today reinventing itself. With the pinnacle of new technologies, digital transformation and disruption in terms of management and human resources in business in 2019, internal communication is now a major part of the development of a company and its employees.
So, what are the issues of internal communication in companies today?
Before entering the heart of the issues of internal communication, the concept should be understood. What is internal communication?
According to definitions-marketing.com, internal communication includes “all the communication actions carried out within a company or organization for its employees. The goal is in general to promote the information, integration and the involvement of the company employees”.
Among classic levers of internal communication, we find:
• Company letters
• The Intranet
• Employee’s welcome booklets
• The display
• Internal events
Originally, in the corporate world, before the advent of the new technologies, internal communication vas very poor. It was mainly represented by telephone exchanges, emails, meetings, team points…
Accessibility to technology was much more limited and paper printing was relatively expensive.
From the 2000s, technological growth has become exponential.
It is really around the 90s that we are witnessing a real evolution of corporate internal communication. We begin to organize seminars, to do internal reviews, to create newsletters….
Thus, according to definitions-marketing.com, “internal communication is increasingly inspired by marketing and advertising communication techniques used in the field of digital marketing”.
After internal newsletters, we see the development of the use of corporate social networks.
Indeed, companies having understood the importance of committing and motivating their employees, start creating real communities, teams.
Internal communication therefore extends to team events, corporate challenges, internal or external events.
For example, through team buildings, escape games…The goal is to gather people around new games, new technologies, to strengthen team cohesion and communicate better later. Digital strongly contributes to commitment and a corporate spirit.
In addition, with the arrival of the video, internal communication is no longer just “direct”, it extends over the time…
According to filmcorporate.fr, marketers “therefore increasingly use video to deliver their message and their offer […] the expansion of social networks and new technologies development makes it possible to have videos accessible to all”.
And all these events, these attractive videos, with the resulting globalization, now need to be translated. This includes subtitling and transcription techniques such as the Authôt’s solution.
This leads us to the video format that transforms internal communication into a business. The creation of corporate videos translated or not, with or without subtitling is a real trend in 2019.
Why is the video making a big comeback?
Its advantages are multiple. It is less expensive, and more dynamic, adaptable and customizable for any industry. It addresses globalization, has better SEO and is more accessible in order to reach a wider audience.
Thus, companies understand the value of creating video content, even internally. Especially when we know that today video gives better results than written communication…
According to hubinstitute.com: technology “reinvents video marketing. Cisco considers that video will account for 82% of global internet traffic by 2020. A picture is better than a long speech. The lazy internet user does not like reading long, complicated text… moving, it consumes shorter messages, accompanied by powerful images”.
In addition, video is the most consumed format in France. It is therefore logics that companies surf on this format for their internal and external communication.
According to socialmediapro.fr, when you use a video on “social networks, the engagement rate of your audience is usually ten times higher”.
In addition, 59% of executives “prefer to watch a video than to read a text”.
Finally, for SEO, the probability of being “first page on Google is 53 times higher if you used a video”.
Authôt helps you to create your subtitles for your videos and thus strengthen your internal professional communication, whatever your activity sector is.
Previously considered boring or not very dynamic and codified, the companies internal communication has evolved exponentially and unexpectedly since the emergence of new technologies, social networks and much more affordable video production costs…Today it is multi-support, geared towards the well-being of employees and their commitment.
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Arguments Against Cryonics
Biostasis aka cryonics may change our relationship with life and death forever. If revival works, we will face a groundbreaking discovery. Since time will cease to be an issue, society as a whole will have to change and adapt to a new way of living. Yet, as with every groundbreaking discovery, there have been several attempts in the last decades to prove that it will not work. For now, there is no actual scientific reason proving that it won’t work. However, let’s have a look at and analyze the main arguments against cryonics.
Many arguments against cryonics can be placed in the category of scientific (and often semi-scientific) arguments. These refer mostly to cryonics’ current technical and medical limitations.
Revival will never work
Very often we hear people saying that cryonics will never work because science might not advance enough to ever permit revival.
But what is “ever”, when time is not an issue? Cryopreserved patients can be stored for an indefinite amount of time. We don’t know when medical technology will be able to achieve revival. We can’t predict how long it will take. Surely, cryopreservation is quite a complex procedure and will therefore need a complex solution. Yet organ transplantation and flying to another continent (or to the moon) is also a very complex procedure. Still, we found a way to do it. And its procedures and capabilities are improving year after year.
Let’s get our attention back to Biostasis. If we look from a purely biological point of view, there are chances that revival will eventually work. We can’t extrapolate more specific success or failure rates without entering the field of speculation. So we can’t say exactly what the chance of success of Biostasis is.
In any case, looking at the unbelievable accomplishments of medical technology year after year, it should seem more obvious to be optimistic about the future than pessimistic. We are living in the most advanced society that has ever existed. There is no reason to believe that in the future, medical technology will not be able to achieve what today is considered “impossible”.
We won’t be able to revive patients with the current cryopreservation procedure
What if revival will eventually work, but the way we are cryopreserving patients today is not the right one? This could be seen as a more valid argument, compared to the previous one. Let’s then have a look at the current state of cryopreservation.
The procedures that we are using at the moment at Tomorrow Biostasis, and in other Biostasis companies, for whole-body cryopreservation are the result of several years of Biostasis R&D. Fundamentally, the main goal is to preserve as much as possible of the patient. To have a high quality cryopreservation, it is extremely important to start the procedure as quickly as possible after the patient is declared legally dead. The faster we act, the lower the degradation, the more of the patient we preserve. We do expect that, even though there will be damage, future technology will be able to fix it.
Finally, there are two reasons why we preserve as much of the patient as possible:
- We don’t know yet what exactly revival technology will need to be able to revive the patient. It may be that in the future we will be able to recreate a whole person from just one string of DNA. However, since we don’t know yet, we store everything at the very best of our capabilities.
- It is very likely that revival will be easier and faster when medical technology will not have to rebuild an entire body from scratch (as it would be in case of neuro cryopreservation).
Revival may work — but we will not bring back the “real you”
What is the “real you’’? Are you the sum of all the little electrical impulses between your neurons? Or of memories and life experiences that you’ve had? Or maybe there is a “soul”, an “inner flame” or something else that we haven’t discovered yet that makes you who you actually are?
The whole science behind cryonics is based on the idea that your “real you” is stored in your brain. This idea comes from the current state of scientific knowledge. From what we know now, if your brain is preserved intact, we will be able to bring back the real you.
To explain this concept even better, Biostasis utilizes the concept of information-theoretic death or info-death. Info-death occurs when the structures that encode memory and personality have been so disrupted that it is no longer possible in principle to recover them. Basically in most cases, once you are declared legally dead, your brain is still intact. Subsequently, as a result of the lack of oxygen to the brain, your neurons begin a process of degradation that will eventually lead to info-death. Once you reach info-death, all information stored in your brain is gone and revival becomes impossible. Through cryopreservation, we pause the degradation process and avoid info-death. According to the knowledge we have now, through Biostasis we store the “real you”.
Economical and Societal Arguments
These arguments against cryonics focus on its costs for society and for the environment. Are the resources we need to invest in this science worth the results and knowledge we may obtain out of it?
It’s too expensive
This argument could be divided into two:
- It’s too expensive — so only very rich people can do it
- It’s too expensive — society should invest in other fields
Assumption 1. Cryopreservation is an advanced medical procedure. Its current price covers not only the surgical open-heart procedure but also transportation, standby teams, long term storage and possible future revival. Consequently, it is expensive. At Tomorrow Biostasis, all costs associated with a whole body cryopreservation lead to a price of 200.000€ (or 300.000€ with a Platinum plan). Other Biostasis companies have similar or lower prices. But still, few organizations can currently offer this service at a lower price.
We hope that, with the growth of our community, Biostasis will finally reach an economy of scale and become more and more affordable per capita. Since this hasn’t happened yet, we have found a way to break down the price in affordable monthly payments (starting from 40€ per month), using term life insurance. With this method, not only rich people can choose to be cryopreserved.
Assumption 2. Since the technology needed for revival is quite advanced, we may need a good amount of money to invest in the research. Money that, according to some, could be better invested in other fields. This is true from a short term point of view. From a more long term perspective, Biostasis may in fact save more lives. Even if revival doesn’t work, along the way we could be able to make huge steps in the field of cryopreservation of organs for transplant, to name just one possible benefit.
It’s bad for the environment
Biostasis companies have been trying to debunk this myth for decades. Despite this, people still believe that you need electricity for long term storage. If this were true, the environmental costs would indeed be high. But cryopreserved patients are stored in cryogenic storage dewars containing liquid nitrogen. No electricity is needed to keep the dewars working. To produce liquid nitrogen, however, some electricity is needed — still less than the amount needed for mechanical cooling. So, at the current state, liquid nitrogen, produced through renewable resources, is the best and cleanest way to store cryopreserved patients. Furthermore, we do CO2 offsets for everything. Sustainability is in fact an important aspect for people who want to live a “second life” in a greater future.
Finally, many people are worried about the effect of Biostasis on overpopulation. As we covered thoroughly in this article, studies show that overpopulation will very likely decrease and eventually stop in the future. In some parts of the world we are already experiencing population decline. We expect that future technology will solve today’s environmental and societal issues, find increasingly better ways to use clean resources, and meet the needs of the population through technological improvements. Therefore, there will be space and resources for revived people.
Future society will not revive you
Some people wonder: “Why would future societies ever want to revive cryopreserved patients?”. One answer could be: “Why wouldn’t they?”.
There are two options here. Option 1: the future will be a better place than today. This option is very likely since, from a long term perspective, humanity has always progressed and improved itself. In this better future, where resources will be abundant and technology will improve human life… Why would a wealthy society decide against revival? It is more likely to think that the population of the future will look with interest at cryonics. Revived people will pave the way for several unimaginable new possibilities. Furthermore, a future (better than today) society might see a moral obligation to revive people who wanted to be revived.
Let’s now imagine option 2: the future is awful. Even if this possibility is less likely, it is still a possibility. In this case, there is an actual chance that future society, deprived of resources and wealth, will not revive cryopreserved patients. We can’t predict what will happen in this situation. It is very likely to think that, if the future will be such a terrible place, cryopreserved people would be happy not to experience it.
Finally, there are ethical arguments. Ethics is very complex, shaped by cultural background, religion and personal beliefs. Something that is considered as unethical today may be completely normal in tomorrow’s world. So how do we deal with arguments that are relative to the time and society we live in?
It disrupts the natural life-death order
Death is a natural process. It’s part of life. According to some, it is what gives life a meaning. Without death, they say, we wouldn’t appreciate life.
We can break this argument down into three different parts.
- Throughout history, we have come up with different ways to extend our lifespan. We have invented antibiotics and created vaccines. We have transplanted organs from one person to another, in order to allow the recipient to live some years longer. These procedures were considered unnatural at the beginning. Yet, looking at how many lives they saved, we have finally embraced them. Biostasis is based on the same idea, simply more long-term.
- Death is a natural part of life as we perceive it today. In the future, the way we live may be different. Immortality may be achieved by medical technology even without the use of cryonics. Imagine a day in which we will actually win over death. Will society after that day be against nature or will our perception of what is natural simply switch?
- One of the main reasons why people join the Biostasis community is because they love life. They love it so much that they are willing to invest in an experimental technology that may give them the chance to live longer. Will a “second life” in the future have the effect of making people who love life become bored of being alive? Or maybe the love for life that many of us feel is not linked to our mortality?
You won’t be able to adapt to the future
Many people don’t want to be cryopreserved because they are scared of the future. In fact, the future will be different from what we are used to and we don’t know how much different it will be. The economy will very likely be different. Will currencies still exist? And language as well, since it develops constantly. Relationships between humans could change as well.
Imagine if someone who lived 100 years ago, in the 1920’s, would wake up in today’s world… they would probably need some time to adapt. Society now is way faster. Technology is everywhere. Imagine your grand grand grandma learning how to use a smartphone. It could be complicated, sure. But impossible?
Cryopreserved people will not be left alone just after revival. Most cryopreserved patients will have family in the future. And their family will very likely be excited about the opportunity to revive them and help them adapt to the new society. Society as well would probably be interested in connecting with revived people. To discover first hand about the past. And finally, Biostasis companies will do their best to help patients reintegrate.
It’s a selfish choice
Finally, one of the most debated arguments against cryonics. Is the desire to live longer truly selfish? Sure, if by living longer we would take someone else’s living space, then we would have to face an ethical issue. But reviving patients will very likely not take anything away from other people’s lives.
At the Biostasis2021 Conference we listened to a very interesting talk by David Wood about future scenarios of Biostasis. At the end of the talk, Wood covers this specific topic: cryonics as a selfish choice and the need for a philosophical breakthrough. The reason why it is so hard to talk openly about Biostasis is because many people look at it as something egotistical and negative. But wanting to live longer is not egoistical. None of us wants to die. We all want to have more time to experience more things. Meet the children of our great-grandchildren. Go to places we haven’t had time to visit. Try new jobs. Find out if we’ll ever be able to live on Mars.
For these reasons, we are doing our best to make Biostasis possible for everyone. Our society as a whole should be able to benefit from it. It is not anymore a “choice only few people may gain from”. Every person interested in living longer should be able to make this choice.
And finally, as we said before, imagine immortality will become reality in the future. Wanting to live longer will not just cease to be seen as selfish. There will not be the need anymore for this desire at all.
There are several arguments against cryonics. Even more than the ones we listed here. Many times, behind these arguments there are people who haven’t researched the topic properly and therefore have a wrong understanding. Or people that may be scared of the possible effects of revival for our society.
Whatever the argument is, we have to keep some things in mind. First of all, there is no proven biological evidence that revival will not work. Secondly, no matter the outcome, investment and research in this field will provide society with significant discoveries. Thirdly, our society is in continuous change. The way we perceive life now is different from the way we perceived it in the past. And it will be different in the future. Concepts like “ethical” and “natural” vary as well. It’s our choice to move with them, or even help them change for the better, or to close our mind instead. | <urn:uuid:3cf7f021-c233-4b8d-a69c-9371f492b1af> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://tomorrowbio.medium.com/arguments-against-cryonics-7cb886a2b245 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571909.51/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813051311-20220813081311-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.951542 | 3,235 | 1.945313 | 2 |
It's one thing to stuff a lot of facts into your brain. Marking them as important is a whole other talent.
Yet this predictive ability is a key to having a good memory, a new brain-imaging study suggests.
While one part of the brain was very active when study subjects were memorizing something, a separate area lit up when they were predicting if they'd need to recall the information later, the images revealed.
Predicting is an important part of successful learning because it allows us to judge whether we've studied enough or need to review more, explained lead researcher John Gabrieli of MIT.
"We've known through psychological studies that the brain performs these two functions, encoding the memory and predicting whether the information will be later recalled,"Gabrieli said. "This is our first insight into the different brain mechanisms for memory and prediction, what psychologists call judgments of learning."
The memory encoding region lies in the medial temporal lobe (MTL) near the ear. The predicting region lies in the ventromedial prefrontal cortex (VMPFC) above the eyes. The two regions communicate with each other, the researchers say.
Room for improvement
In essence, Gabrieli and his colleagues say, the mind seems to monitor the brain, telling you if you need to review some information again or if you know it cold.
Writing in the December issue of the journal Nature Neuroscience, Gabrieli and colleagues conclude that people who make more accurate prediction are better learners. Some people can intuitively judge their own memory, the scientists say, while others must learn the skill.
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SACRAMENTO, CA – On the afternoon of September 30, Governor Newsom signed Assemblymember Lisa Calderon’s (D – Whittier) air quality and lung health bill, Assembly Bill 619, taking an important step to protect those with chronic lung health issues from the adverse effects of wildfire smoke.
“As wildfire season becomes hotter, drier, and longer due to the ongoing climate crisis, wildfire smoke will continue to pose an increasingly dire risk to the lung health of Californians,” Assemblymember Calderon states. “Assembly Bill 619 is an important step forward to ensuring that individuals with lung issues are adequately protected from this growing threat.”
Assembly Bill (AB) 619 requires the California Department of Public Health (DPH) to develop recommendations and guidelines for counties to use during a significant air quality event that increases the presence of harmful particulate matter, such as a wildfire. It also requires counties to incorporate these DPH guidelines in their next emergency plan and provide lung health-related information to the public.
Today, Californians are facing a diverse threat to respiratory health. Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) is the fifth-leading cause of death in California and is projected to be the third-leading cause of death nationally by 2030. Close to 50% of those in California with COPD belong to minority populations and one-third live below the 130% federal poverty level.
Moreover, in the last few years, the state has experienced several of the largest wildfires in California history, with 2020’s August Complex Fire regarded as the largest ever. The California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection reports that in the last 2 years the state experienced thousands of fires that burned more than 6 million acres of land. Not only are these wildfires changing the physical landscapes of California, but also the air we breathe.
Wildfire smoke constitutes nearly half the fine particle pollution in the western part of the US, with recent research revealing it contains harmful fungi and bacteria. This smoke is not isolated to the region the fire is taking place, as reports from Los Angeles City officials in late September indicated that local air quality was being effected by Northern and Central Californian wildfires.
“Air quality, among other factors, contributes to poor lung health and our state has a duty to provide the public with crucial resources to protect themselves from developing respiratory diseases,” added Assemblymember Calderon. “AB 619 will not only improve health outcomes for vulnerable populations, but also reduce healthcare costs to the state by reducing the frequency of emergency room visits related to respiratory health.”
For full text of this bill, visit: http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov
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thus exists between accent and emphasis, different exertions are employed in producing them; emphasis being performed by the lungs, accent by the contraction or dilatation of the glottis.
The operation of emphasis, by quantity, has place principally in monosyllables ending with vowels; and even there it is, in English speech, always combined with operation by accent. Monosyllables obviously can neither require nor admit distinction of accent within themselves. They receive, therefore, according to their greater or less occasional importance among other words, precisely such accent only as emphasis assigns them. When monosyllables ending with a vowel require emphasis, extension of quantity is commonly added to height of tone and force of utterance, for increase of effect. Thus the pronouns, and some other familiar words, as he, she, me, wł, do, so, are acute and long, or grave and short, as emphasis may for the occasion demand.
Extension of quantity has sometimes place in polysyllables, for the purpose of emphasis. In few instances however only, and under particular circumstances, which evade rule, but may be illustrated by familiar examples. If one, simply commanding another, says, go directly, he speaks the first syllable, di, with a grave accent and a short quantity ; expressing the i by the sound of that letter as in the first syllable of the words, direct and divide, as by e in the first syllable of detect and deride. But if, impatient of delay, he would urge haste, he will add emphasis to the word directly, by substituting in the first syllable, for the short, the long sound of i as in final, the predominating accent being still preserved, on its proper syllable, the second; though a change of tone ensues both in the first and second, as go directly.
All variations of the voice, indicating affirmation, interrogation, admiration, surprise, indignation, complaint, or any other intention or affection of the mind, are modes of emphasis, or pointing out ; operating either by accent, or quantity, or both; and, therefore very important to harmony.
From this general idea of emphasis, it will readily appear of how much consequence it is to readers and speakers not to be mistaken in it ; the necessity of distinguishing the emphatical words from the rest, has made writers on this subject extremely solicitous to give such rules for placing the emphasis, as may, in some measure, facilitate this difficult part of elocution, but few have gone further than to tell us, that we must place the emphasis on that word, in reading, which we would make emphatical in speaking; and though the importance of emphasis is insisted on with the utmost force and elegance of language, no assistance is given us to determine, which is the emphatic word, where several appear equally emphatical, which is frequently the case, nor have we any rule to distinguish between those words which have a greater and those which have a less degree of stress; the sense of the author is the whole direction we are referred to, and consequently all is left to the taste and understanding of the reader.
In the midst of this uncertainty, Mr. Walker appears to have suggested a good criterion.
“ The principal circumstance,” says he, “that distinguishes emphatical words from others, seems to be a meaning which points out, or distinguishes something as distinct or opposite to some other thing. When this opposition is expressed in words, it forms an antithesis, the opposite parts of which are always emphatical. Thus in the following couplet from Pope:
'Tis hard to say, if greater want of skill
The words writing and judging are opposed to each other, and are, therefore, the emphatical words: where we may likewise observe, that the disjunctive conjunction, or, by which the antithesis is connected, means one of the things exclusively of the other. The same may be observed in another couplet from the same author, where one branch of the antithesis is not expressed but understood :
Get wealth and place, if possible, with grace :
Here it appears evidently, that the words any means, which are the most emphatical, are directly opposed to the means understood by the word grace, and the last line is perfectly equivalent to this: If not by these means, by any other means, get wealth and place. Hence, to convey their right meaning, the words, any means, are evidently to be pronounced louder and fuller than the others.
In these instances the opposition suggested by the emphatical word is evident, at first sight: in other cases, perhaps, the antithesis is not quite so obvious: but, if an emphasis can be laid on any word, we may be assured that word is in antithesis with some meaning agreeable to the general sense of the passage.
To illustrate this, if we pronounce a line of Marcus in Cato, where, expressing his indignation at the behaviour of Caesar, he says,
I'm tortur'd e'en to madness, when I think
we shall find the greatest stress fall naturally on that word, which
seems opposed to some common or general meaning: for the
young hero does not say, in the common and unemphatic sense of the word think, that he is tortured even to madness when he thinks of Caesar; but in the strong and emphatic sense of this word, which implies, not only when I hear or discourse of him, but even when I think of him, I am tortured even to madness. As the word think, therefore, rises above the common level of signification, it is pronounced above the common level of sound : and as this signification is opposed to a signification less forcible, the word may properly be said to be emphatical.
This more than ordinary meaning, or a meaning opposed to some other meaning, seems to be the principal sour
urce of emphasis ; for if, as in the last'instance, we find the words will bear this opposition to their common signification, we may be sure they are emphatical ; this may be still more evident from another example:
“ By the faculty of a lively and picturesque imagination, a man in a dun. geon is capable of entertaining himself with scenes and landscapes, more beautiful than any that can be found in the whole compass of nature.”
Spectator, No. 411.
If we read this passage without that emphasis which the word dungeon requires, we enervate the meaning, and scarcely give the sense of the author: for the import plainly is, that a lively imagination, not merely absent from beautiful scenes, but even in a dungeon, can form scenes more beautiful than any in nature.
This plenitude of meaning in a particular word, is not always so prominent as to be discernible by a common reader; but wherever it really exists, the general meaning of the author is greatly enforced by emphatically pointing it out. Wherever the contrariety or opposition is expressed, we are at no loss for the emphatical words, as,
I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him:
The greatest difficulty in reading lies in a discovery of those words which are in opposition to something not expressed but understood : and if emphasis does not improve it always vitiates the sense ; and, therefore, should be always avoided where the use of it is not evident: this will always appear by placing an emphasis on a word in a sentence which does not require it.
It frequently happens that two or more emphatic words are opposed to others in the same sentence: as,
He raised a mortal to the skies,
The influence of false emphasis in perverting the sense of a passage might be illustaated:by a variety of examples, among which the following are at present suggested :
A clergyman having occasion to read in the church our Saviour's reproach. to his disciples (Luke 24 c. 25 v.) “O fools, and slow of heart to believe all that the prophets have spoken, concerning me,” placed the emphasis upon the word believe, as if Christ had called them fools for believing. Upon the rector's finding fault; when he read it next, he placed the emphasis upon all. as if it had been foolish in the disciples to believe all. The rector again blaming this manner of placing the emphasis, the good curate accented the word prophets, as if the prophets had been persons in no respect worthy of belief. A correct reader would place the emphasis upon slow of heart.
In the following words of our Saviour, the meaning may be placed in a variety of lights according to the manner in which the emphasis is placed, “Judas, betrayest thou the son of man with a kiss ?" If the emphasis be placed upon betrayest thou, it makes the reproach turn upon the infamy of treachery. If upon thou, (betrayest thou,) it makes it rest upon Judas's connexion with his master. If upon the son of man (betrayest thou the son of man) it rests upon- our Saviour's personal character and eminence. If upon the words with a kiss, it turns upon his prostituting the signal of peace and friend. ship to the purpose of a mark of treachery and destruction.
Emphasis is of two kinds, simple and complex: simple, when it merely serves to point out the plain meaning of any proposition, as, “ Nathan said unto David, thou art the man.' Here the emphasis on thou serves only to point out the meaning of the speaker.
Complex emphasis, besides the meaning, conveys also some emotion of the mind: as, in the following apostrophe of Adam in Milton's Paradise Lost:
"O Goodness infinite! Goodness immense!
There is a striking exemplification of multiplied emphasis in the dialogue between Sampson and Dalila in Milton's Sampson Agonistes :
Dal. In argument with men, a woman ever
Goes by the worst, whatever be her cause.
Witness when I was worried with thy peals.
" It is not virtue, wisdom, valour, wit,
Multiplied emphasis and emotion, are exemplified in this passage from Dr. Young's Night Thoughts:
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For a start, the plugin currently does not fully support Java 8. On Android, it uses retrolambda to handle Java 8 Lambda Expressions & Method References. Additional dependencies make it such that you can use Java 8.
This will be necessary for the compilation of the openJDK and the development of the iOS build. What makes the smartphone different from feature phone is its huge apps. But what, if you get the best of Apps on your feature phone?
Results of styling the color to red To build a native app we can select the appropriate target such as Androidbuild, iOS, Mac Windows etc. This sends a build to Codename One servers which have all the tools installed and let you build iOS apps without a Mac. You can also generate a local build which I’ll below. Notice I’m simplifying a bit, since you also need a certificate. Codename One makes that relatively simple with wizards etc. but that’s a bit of a big subject. The compilation process for iOS is very resource-heavy, as the plugin will compile the entire openJDK and other libraries twice to create a fat JAR that it will use to build your application.
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Notice that in /bin there are scripts to execute the application. These scripts rely on preserving the current folder structure. Also notice that is not necessary for you to have tree installed. It is used here simply for illustrative purposes. Everything I wrote about is open source in our GitHub project where we discuss a lot more.
ArrayList in Java – ArrayList is a part of the collection framework and is present in the java.util package. Exceptions in Java – An exception is an unwanted or unexpected event that occurs during the execution of a program i.e at run time. Object class in Java – Object class is present in the java.lang package.
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They are classified based on the functionality they provide. You will find three executables in build/javafxports/ios. You will find two APKs in build/javafxports/android. Keep in mind that although you can share source code, you should include custom edits in each copy of the source, should you want to make device specific changes. Take careful notice that the SDK and API version we have specified in gradle.build correspond to the version we have specified in this command. Should this be misaligned, the build will not succeed.
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We can now open the app in any IDE, I used IntelliJ/IDEA but you can use Eclipse, NetBeans, or even VSCode. Most of the important code in the project is under the common directory. You can download a zip file of 100+ free java-based games. Difference between Abstract Class and Interface in Java – Get to know the differences between the interfaces and abstract classes. Access specifier of methods in interfaces – All methods in an interface are public, even if we do not specify public with method names. Also, data fields are public static final even if we do not mention them in field names.
For iOS you can open the web URL which will work well on device. New open-source tooling makes iOS (iPhone/iPad), Android, Desktop development trivial. This tutorial walks you through the steps of building a hello world app. Java is one of the most widely used languages around. You don’t always need to have access to a desktop computer or laptop to compile and run Java Code. Here are 4 Java IDEs for iPhone that let you compile code on your mobile device.
Default theme looks nice even on our iPhone and iPad devices. This step, however, is subject to your judgement of your machine’s capabilities. For context, the macOS machine that I used to compile my iOS app has 4GB of DDR2 RAM. I decided to make an 8GB RAM disk.
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It would be great if we could use same Swing UI that was already tested and used for several years. These build.gradle settings configure our gradle project to use the javafxmobile plugin, which is the work horse of our project. You can learn more about the plugin here and here.
Java is one of the powerful general-purpose programming languages, created in 1995 by Sun Microsystems . However, it is not considered as pure object-oriented as it provides support for primitive data types . But Java does not provide low-level programming functionalities like pointers.
- You can learn more about the plugin here and here.
- This will be necessary for the compilation of the openJDK and the development of the iOS build.
- If one is coming from a traditional programming background like C, C++, Java is easy to learn.
- These build.gradle settings configure our gradle project to use the javafxmobile plugin, which is the work horse of our project.
- Your Notes, A simple text editor with touchscreen support, save, edit, text files on your phone with font size setting.
- You will find two APKs in build/javafxports/android.
You can, however, provide the appropriate accommodations to produce signed apps. Hopefully Earth, Wind, & Fire can help you get groovy! Power up your favorite text editor, and edit your build.gradle located in your project’s root directory and replace the contents with the contents of the following GitHub gist. Device Builds section of Codename One Settings AKA Control Center There’s also a native Android app which you can use to track builds and install them.
However, the process is straightforward, the builds work as expected, and the compilation time is not too long. Also note that the underlying compiler (MobiDevelop’s fork of RoboVM) does not fully support all Java 8 APIs. Create a new file in the project’s root directory called gradle.properties and add the following content to the file. Lastly, I will not demonstrate the production of signed executables in this tutorial. For this reason, iOSSkipSigning is set to true and we do not make use of the releaseAndroid gradle task.
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Therefore, you should preemptively create a RAM disk to accommodate for the memory requirements. Notice that we created directories for embedded and desktop. We will produce a desktop build, because it takes no additional work to do so. However, we will not produce any builds for embedded devices. Second, run gradle init in the project’s root directory to initialize the gradle repository. You will need to meet the subsequent requirements to be able to build an application for both Android and iOS.
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But still, there is a beauty of basic apps for your basic old phones. Some peoples, still use the basic feature phone. Data types in Java – Get to know what types of data types are supported by the Java programming language. AjaxSwing seems to be a mature product with first version dating back to jawa mobile app November 1999. The home page is showing a number of prominent clients including Symantec, Nokia and Bertelsmann. If you are a company or a developer, having Swing application, and willing to release it for iPhone and iPad, you should try AjaxSwing as an alternative to rebuilding your application.
If you think we did a good job we could use your help in sharing and promoting our work here. We add a button called “sayHi” and add a listener to an event. Annotations in Java – Annotations are used to provide supplemental information about a program. Java Naming Conventions – Naming conventions must be followed while developing software in Java for good maintenance and readability of code.
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Save the file as mkpdir.bat or mkpdir.sh and execute the file from the project’s root directory as root . Only move on to this step if Homebrew has successfully installed. If you do not have a Mac and are not intending to produce an iOS build, feel free to skip this step.
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Every class in Java is directly or indirectly derived from the Object class. ‘this’ reference in Java – ‘this’ is a reference variable that refers to the current object. Encapsulation in Java – Encapsulation is defined as the wrapping up of data under a single unit. Inheritance in Java – It is the mechanism in Java by which one class is allowed to inherit the features of another class. Different ways to create objects in Java – Get to know the various ways of creating objects in Java.
Among many things, the javafxmobile plugin automates the process of downloading and adding the iOS and Android SDKs to your application’s classpath. If you have a decent size codebase, rewriting application can be a very big and expensive undertaking. If you already spent years developing your application, would you want https://globalcloudteam.com/ spending them again, getting new bugs and all this just to support new platform? Obviously that doesn’t sound like the best solution, so let’s try to find a way to run Java on iPad with minimal effort. Running in browser seems like a good option, but it would be nice to be able to leverage the existing Swing codebase.
If you are at an office or shared network, you can ask the network administrator to run a scan across the network looking for misconfigured or infected devices. In total, the process consumed about over 6GB of RAM on my machine. A company called Gluon has developed a high performance, fully modular custom JVM fully supporting Java 9, that you can read more about here. | <urn:uuid:e3e6cd5b-9101-49c1-b663-9eb284e7b296> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://hickorywindranch.com/software-development-2/best-apps-for-java-mobile/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572198.93/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815175725-20220815205725-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.916987 | 2,633 | 1.804688 | 2 |
Bin Muhammed, A. and Stratling, R. and Salama, A. (2014) 'The impact of government investment organisations in Malaysia on the performance of their portfolio companies.', Annals of public and cooperative economics., 85 (3). pp. 453-473.
Research into the impact of government ownership on the financial performance of listed companies typically assumes the government to be a monolithic entity and fails to consider that government ownership rights are administered by different types of government organisations. Exploring the financial performance of government controlled listed companies we find that in Malaysia the impact of government ownership varies depending on the type of organisation, which manages the government’s ownership stakes. Taking into account golden share provisions as well as the presence of senior civil servants and of politicians on boards of directors, we find that firms controlled by investment organisations under federal government control tend to outperform firms controlled by regional governments’ investment organisations.
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Fort Massachusetts was located in what was once called East Hoosac; now the city of North Adams, Massachusetts. The site is in the area bounded by Route 2/State Road, Demond Avenue, Massachusetts Avenue, and Roberts Drive––in the back portion of the former Price Chopper Supermarket parking lot.
The Westernmost Bastion in the Line of Forts
The fort was built during King George's War (1744–1748), in 1745, against the French and their Indian allies. It was also built to prevent Dutch settlers in New York from encroaching upon Massachusetts territory from the west. Fort Massachusetts was the westernmost in a northern line of colonial forts extending from the Connecticut River, over the Hoosac Mountain, to this western frontier. And it remained active throughout much of the French and Indian War (1754–1763), until 1759, when it was decommissioned following the Battle of Quebec.
The outcome of the French and Indian War established British control of North America and gave birth to the British Empire. And it also triggered the movement towards independence for the British colonists in America.
Fort Massachusetts Helped to Clear the Way for Further European Settlement in This Region.
Among the first British Settlers in this area were the soldiers and their families from Fort Massachusetts. In fact, in the spring of 1746, one of the soldiers, John Perry––a carpenter by trade from Falltown (now Bernardston), and who helped construct this and other nearby forts––picked himself out a plot of land west of the fort, further along the Indian trail, and built a house on it for he and his wife.
The soldiers at Fort Massachusetts had all been brought up on farms and were all looking forward to their discharge from military service to farm life on lands of their own. As an inducement to buyers and settlers, the committee of the General Court of Massachusetts granted 200 acres of land to Captain Ephraim Williams, Junior, in East Hoosac––now North Adams––on condition that he reserve ten acres of the meadow around Fort Massachusetts for the use of that fort, and also build a grist-mill and a sawmill on one of the branches of the Hoosac River near their junction for the use of the settlers in the two townships of East Hoosac and West Hoosac. Some of the original proprietors of the entire township of West Hoosac––now Williamstown––were soldiers of the fort, with the land there being more conducive to farming.
River Gods, Indian Ledge, Captivity, Cannibalism, Griping and Flux, Bloody Skirmishes, Fleeing from the Tomahawk and Scalping-knife, Hideous War-whoops, and the Perpetual Dread of a Midnight Surprise and Massacre.
Every historical site has an important story to tell. The story of Fort Massachusetts is a compelling, suspenseful, and inspiring story. It speaks of hope, and courage, and maintaining one's integrity in the face of adversity. It's a story of life and death and the human spirit. And it was a safe haven for the early settlers of East and West Hoosac. Despite the sickness, skirmishes, and the siege, capture and, ultimately, destruction of the first fort, they did not give up. They rebuilt. And they settled the land.
Saving This Historic Site
With the closing of the former Price Chopper in February of 2016, there had been some concern as to the fate of the site. A few members of the community formed a group to advocate for the preservation of this historic site, called the Friends of Fort Massachusetts. Their vision was to preserve the site as a public park––Fort Massachusetts Memorial Park. The group would later evolve, under new direction, into Save Fort Massachusetts Memorial, Inc., under the umbrella of the North Adams Historical Society.
Then, in 2017, with the joint efforts of all parties, the Golub Corporation donated the site to the City of North Adams. And now that this historic site is back in public hands, it can be revitalized and a renewed interest developed. However, it will take the community, working along with the City, to give the site the attention and care that it deserves.
Origin of Our Community
European settlement in the northern Berkshires––the western frontier––was inevitable. Where Fort Massachusetts was built is where it all began for us. The communities of Williamstown, North Adams, and Adams owe their origin to the erection of this fort. We must strive to preserve our historic sites, for they are some of our most tangible, authentic links to our past. And there is no other historic site in this region more worthy of preservation than that of the site of Fort Massachusetts––the origin of our community. | <urn:uuid:8640e143-0540-459c-ada5-2d0090e26c2d> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://sites.google.com/site/friendsoffortmassachusetts/home | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571909.51/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813051311-20220813081311-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.96869 | 986 | 3.21875 | 3 |
Sustainability by Design: How One Building in China Could Change the World
Since the new millennium, the Shenzhen Institute of Building Research (IBR) has been committed to promoting sustainable building design and urban development in China. When the Institute decided to build its new headquarters, they wanted the building to be a living laboratory that could showcase green technology. Today, the Shenzhen IBR Building is steadily gaining recognition as a showcase of sustainable design. The building is open to anyone interested in green building technologies — and to date, it has received more than 30,000 visitors.
On closer inspection, this pioneering building reveals an abundance of carefully designed features that are making it a model for green architecture not just in China, but throughout the world as well. These features include:
- More than 40 sustainable technologies that were incorporated into a low-cost, low-energy building through the use of integrated design principles.
- A design focus on daylighting and natural ventilation, which greatly reduced the energy loads for lighting and air conditioning.
- Workspaces designed to emphasize communication and a people-friendly environment. (As a result, workers in the building report high levels of satisfaction with their workspaces.)
- Integrating nature with the workplace to provide an environment that is both stimulating and restorative. Innovations included generously landscaped areas, such as the novel Sky Garden on the sixth floor, and elevations designed to capture the benefits of the wind and sun.
Unlike green showcases that achieved low-energy performance at a high-cost premium, the Shenzhen IBR Building was built at a lower cost than that of new commercial structures in Shenzhen. The architects kept the total per-square-meter construction cost in 2009 to RMB 4300 Yuan/m2 ($70/ft2), which is a remarkably low number considering all of the sustainable measures included in the project. Part of the reason for this low cost of construction was that the design team pursued a strategy of integrated design, finding the optimal combination of systems that could reduce construction costs. The IBR managed the entire building's design, construction, and operation stages through this integrated approach. | <urn:uuid:6bf0b7e0-a173-4173-9917-33e6b5d95124> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://buildings.lbl.gov/publications/sustainability-design-how-one | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571909.51/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813051311-20220813081311-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.961659 | 446 | 2.546875 | 3 |
This information describes the basic golfing machines wanted for enjoying an average round of golf. It truly is intended to assist the rookie golfer by educating them about suitable golfing devices so that they might enter into a round of golfing with self confidence from being aware of they’re thoroughly geared up to play the sport. Lets begin with the greater noticeable golf products. You can see https://edmontonsun.com/2016/05/10/go-golfing-in-kauai/wcm/3bf46815-80c5-4337-818e-fea9a68b3af6/amp/ for more information.
You’re not likely to do considerably golfing with out a established of golf clubs. Rookie golfers should really commence having a established of golfing clubs for beginners or starter golfing golf equipment. These golfing club sets contain a person driver and fairway wooden, 7 by way of 9 irons, a pitching wedge, sand wedge and putter. This down sized established is all of the newbie golfer desires. As your ability develops after a while, so will the necessity for better golf products. In regards to golf golf equipment for newbies, continue to be absent within the video game advancement golf equipment. This is certainly wonderful technological innovation and is particularly tested to work, even so when you tend not to understand how to hit the ball sq. and execute correct golf swing mechanics, you are going to only turn out to be depending on this technological know-how. Keep it basic and preserve it simple when it comes to golf clubs and golf equipment, in particular if you find yourself just setting up out.
This may be difficult for many golfers and the way to select the best golfing balls is dependent partly from experience. You can find several different kinds of golf balls available on the market all possessing their particular one of a kind features to improve ball flight. Do not get hung up on this, obtain the least highly-priced golf balls and buy in bulk or by the dozen. There’s no this sort of factor as a golfing ball that will make it easier to understand ways to adequately swing a golfing club and right until you receive that suitable you might be most likely going to be dropping lots of golf balls. Do you a favor, buy in bulk and buy low cost, you’ll conserve cash while in the long run.
The identical applies for golfing tees, get low-priced and also the finest strategy to do this is in bulk.
Actively playing a 18 gap spherical of golfing is the same as walking five – seven mile’s. Whether or not you happen to be arranging on renting a golf cart you continue to will need a fantastic pair of golfing footwear to deliver the right traction and guidance necessary to strike the ball nicely. Golf shoes are typical golf equipment on the training course lately and you will not be taken severely when you are wearing a pair of sneakers.
You under no circumstances begin to see the execs playing and not using a glove and there’s a explanation for this. It’s important for retaining a great grip on the club. Devoid of donning a glove you operate the risk of acquiring the club slip from your hands, not merely is always that embarrassing, but could be harmful as well. Just try out swinging the club devoid of one particular and you may see what I am speaking about. A golfing glove is inexpensive and essential. Be sure to obtain geared up using a golfing glove.
You might assume this can be a little bit of an expenditure and never important, even so the sport of golfing is a gentleman’s match, so lets continue to keep using the tradition and dress with the event. You should seem good about the course and also when you are not taking part in similar to a pro nevertheless, you’ll get respect and acceptance from a fellow golfers by sporting right apparel. It demonstrates other golfers that you are taking the game seriously. Having said that the real gain is inside the design. Made particularly for golfers to maximise versatility and comfort by not restraining the movement that is definitely demanded when swinging a golfing club
The identical could be said for golf shirts as described earlier mentioned for trousers, glance good, unfastened fitting and comfy.
Know lets go above the a lot less evident golf equipment that you may not have viewed as.
Golfing Hat or Visor
Golfing is usually a outside sport and also you are probably gonna be inside the sunshine for just a handful of hrs or more, so guarding oneself from heat and harmful sun rays is actually a must. Also take into account sunscreen. An excellent strategy is always to carry some inside your golf bag.
Pencil and Scorecard
Have a pencil and scorecard in the golf bag. You’re answerable for holding observe within your personal score so be prepared to accomplish that. Most programs supply scorecards.
You’ll require a golfing towel for wiping the sweet from your arms, cleaning the golf club experience or for drying your ball off following a washing. Your ball can get soiled or perhaps muddy and can need washing. Most classes provide a simple ball washing machine that you choose to can use and so are located at distinct areas all-around the golf course.
Some thing to mark the ball situation to the greens whenever your ball is in yet another golfers line towards the pin. Spare modify just like a dime or nickel can be used otherwise you might get the real issue.
That concludes this information on golfing newbie principles. You now really know what appropriate golf machines try to be bringing along with you when entering in to a round of golfing. | <urn:uuid:7c631457-69ca-497c-9ece-3ad7b604022f> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://www.australiantrademarkslawblog.com/tag/golfing-in-kauai-hawaii/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571909.51/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813051311-20220813081311-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.934493 | 1,229 | 1.507813 | 2 |
How Christmas is made at Berrington Hall
Each year at Berrington Christmas can only be done with the help of our volunteers. They work tirelessly to ensure that we are ready for the season. We want to share with you what they get up to.
The volunteers here at Berrington work tirelessly to make sure that Berrington is looking its best for the festive season.
We wanted to share with you some of this work. We asked Amanda Sanders to tell us about how the Christmas Puddings are made for the yew ball path and she gave us a very creative answer.
If you look below Amanda has written a ‘recipe’ describing how the puddings are made, we hope you enjoy:
Recipe created by Amanda and Margaret, following a light-bulb idea moment from Nick Winney, Head Gardener. Amanda and Margaret are now hoping that he has no more such bright ideas….
64 metres of heavy-duty white horticultural fleece
Approx 240 little tape loops
Approx 240 little pieces of green wire
5ft-wide roll of green sticky-backed plastic
Approx 20 metres stiff wire
57 metres of florists’ tape
32 red baubles
Reels and reels of duct tape
8 bamboo canes
About ten clothes pegs
1 tallish person
Note: puddings can be pre-prepared during early autumn, then are best served mid-November, usually when the weather is particularly cold, wet and windy.
Make the brandy sauce with the horticultural fleece. To avoid drowning in it, try to pass some of this work off onto another volunteer (thank you, Sue!).
Iron the brandy sauce.
Sew 240 little tape loops to the brandy sauce, then add the 240 little bits of wire.
Model festive leaf-shapes out of wire and sticky-backed plastic, and edge with the 57 metres of florists’ tape. Then retire to a dark corner to mutter to oneself until sanity is restored.
Mix together one bamboo cane, three leaves, three baubles and duct tape until they look right. Repeat a further seven times.
Assembling the puddings:
Wear warm, weather-proof clothes. Take one decorated cane and a generous helping of brandy sauce, and with the aid of tall person + clothes pegs, and all those wired loops, affix to a pre-pruned round yew bush. After finishing four of these, retire to thaw frozen fingers around mug of something very warming, then finish the other four.
The puddings have a shelf life of about three years, and are best served in the open air. They are, actually, totally inedible. But they look quite good… | <urn:uuid:a3f25e54-7c37-459b-bd6c-2f76773cf3c2> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/berrington-hall/features/berrington-brown-and-the-future | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571536.89/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811224716-20220812014716-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.935019 | 590 | 1.703125 | 2 |
This study makes a first effort to understand the factors affecting customers’ decisions to invoke warranties, and to distinguish this behavior from the factors affecting customer perceptions of service quality. The study context is GTE's introduction of a warranty program as part of a telecommunications repair service for small business customers. The results suggest that customer perceptions of the service and the decision to invoke the service warranty depend on customers’ attributions about the service failure and their perceived control of the service process—as represented by specific service attributes. For repair service, the customer's decision to invoke the warranty is strongly influenced by the severity of the service failure, the amount of time that elapsed between when the failure was reported and when it was resolved, and his/her causal attributions about the failure. Although these variables do not have a similar effect on the overall perceived quality of repair service, they are related to two underlying dimensions of service quality: reliability and responsiveness. For example, customer perceptions of responsiveness are influenced by the amount of time between when the problem was reported and when the first repair attempt was made. More extreme service attributes are required to result in warranty invocation rather than more negative perceptions of the service.
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Mesa Occupational, Environmental Health & Safety
Occupational Hygiene And Safety
Foundations of Chemical Hygiene
Hygiene is defined as conditions or practices conducive to maintaining health and preventing disease. Therefore Chemical Hygiene relates to the maintaining of health and the prevention of disease by establishing practices and polices within a "laboratory" environment that will minimize employee and student exposure to harmful chemicals.
The foundations for proper chemical hygiene are established in CAL-OSHA Title 8, section 5191, "Occupational Exposures to Hazardous Chemicals in Laboratories
This regulation mandates that a written plan be developed to protect employees from health hazards of hazardous chemicals. This Plan is required for areas that are engaged it the laboratory use of hazardous chemicals on a "laboratory scale".
So how do I know if I am to follow the policies set forth in the written Chemical Hygiene Plan? Lets look at some of the definitions of the 5191 regulation:
- Laboratory- "A facility where the 'laboratory use of hazardous chemicals' occurs. It is a workplace where relatively small quantity of hazardous chemicals are used on a non-production basis."
- Laboratory use of hazardous chemicals- “Handling or use of chemicals in which all of the following are met:
- Chemical manipulations are carried out on a ‘laboratory scale’;
- Multiple chemical procedures or chemicals are used;
- The procedures involved are not part of a production process, nor in any way simulate; and
- ‘Protective laboratory practices and equipment’ are available and in common use industry-wide to minimize the potential for employee exposure to hazardous chemicals.”
- Laboratory scale-“Work with substances in which the containers used for reaction, transfers, and other handling of substances are designed to be easily and safety manipulated by one person. ‘Laboratory scale’ excludes those workplaces whose function is to produce commercial quantities of material.”
THE BOTTOM LINE: If you are in a work area that requires individuals to uses multiple small quantities of hazardous chemicals or procedures, and have programs, policies, or equipment in place to minimize chemical exposure, you MUST follow the policies within the Chemical Hygiene Plan!
Chemical Hygiene Plan
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Fun video for the ABC, doing my best to explain what light is – but in a single elevator ride.
As a side note, this is a textbook example of an insufficient explanation for the particle nature of light! (But how to do it in just a fraction of an elevator ride!!!???) As my quantum photonics friends keep telling me, I am cheating by assuming I know the answer. For anyone interested in this fascinating topic, I recommend getting your hands on first few chapters of this wonderful book: | <urn:uuid:df2076c5-c3f4-41fc-a57f-796570a6d49c> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://atuniz.com/2022/02/22/abc-elevator-pitch-what-is-light/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572198.93/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815175725-20220815205725-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.920532 | 103 | 1.554688 | 2 |
Application of integration in case of velocity:
While calculating velocity of a moving body we divide displacement by total time and get velocity. This velocity is nothing but average velocity. Because, while moving at one time motion of the body is uniform and in other time it is non-uniform. So, if the moving path is divided into innumerable width or elements and each of these elements dx is divided by the time dt taken to travel this distance (element), then we can determine velocity for this element. Then if we integrate this velocity dv for the entire path we get actual velocity. It is shown below by integration;
For the element dx, velocity = dv = dx/dt.
Again for the entire path, velocity = v∫0 dv = v + c … … … (1)
If the magnitude of the velocity is definite, then by solving the above integration within that limit we get actual velocity. For example, if the magnitude of velocity is v = v from v = 0, then by integrating equation (1) total velocity is obtained.
In this case, total velocity = v∫0 dv = [v]v0 = (v – 0) = v
So, it can be said that summation of very small elements is integration. By a real example we can get the idea. For example, a person when reads news in front of the camera of the TV studio, then his picture is divided into innumerable elements, again when it reaches on the screen then those elements of the picture get united and transforms into full picture. In this case, formation of very small elements of the picture is differentiation and the process of unification of these small elements on the TV screen is integration. | <urn:uuid:f546d0cd-abf8-4127-97de-9d1a2ee90f27> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://qsstudy.com/application-integration-case-velocity/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572198.93/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815175725-20220815205725-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.912709 | 351 | 3.703125 | 4 |
Brexit: ‘Economic consequences of no-deal Brexit cannot be ignored’-Elisha McCallion
15 Jan 2019 4:53 PM
With around two hours to go before the crucial debate on Theresa May’s Brexit deal, the Sinn Fein MP for Foyle has said that the latest warning from the business community about the devastating economic consequences of a no-deal Brexit cannot be ignored. Mrs McCallion was commenting after the Ibec/CBI Joint Business Council warned that a no deal would jeopardise jobs and the all-island economy. She said: “In the latest stark warning from the business community, Ibec and CBI have predicted that a no deal would do significant harm to jobs, investment, living standards and the all-Ireland economy,” Elisha McCallion said. “In particular Angela McGowan CBI CEO said that ‘the assurances that business have been crying out for are broadly provided for in the Withdrawal Agreement – ignoring that in pursuit of no-deal isn't just economic recklessness, it's an affront to rational thinking.’ Elisha McCallion added: “However, the DUP continues to do precisely that by pursuing a reckless agenda leading towards a no-deal Brexit which will have devastating consequences for the entire island of Ireland. “They cannot be allowed to succeed. The DUP position on Brexit is reckless and ideological. It certainly is not in the interests of the people of the north of Ireland.”
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Intermittent fasting is getting very popular these days. Some people think it is a great way to get fit and healthy and some of them think that it may be hazardous for our health. In this blog, Rubina Ratnakar lists some pros and cons of fasting so that everyone can make the right choice.
One key benefit of fasting is that a person will lose weight if he or she practices intermittent fasting. The obvious reason behind it is the regulated and decreased intake of calories. It will act as an overall way of losing weight.
Insulin regulation is another benefit of fasting. If you start eating a relatively lesser amount of food, the sensitivity of insulin will improve which will lead to a better rate of metabolism.
If you have been diagnosed with high cholesterol, intermittent fasting may be the perfect way to deal with it. Instead of fasting, you can also indulge in modifying your diet and lifestyle to regulate cholesterol levels.
Intermittent fasting can have a good impact on the health of your heart as well. Deeper impacts on the heart of the health are reduction of blood pressure, lowering cholesterol level, and lowering blood lipids. Modify your diet and include all nutritious foods like whole grains, fruits, and vegetables.
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In the beginning, when you start intermittent fasting, you may experience some kind of headaches and dizziness. This may be due to the altered intake of calories.
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(Uploaded as: Sclerocactus whipplei)
Photographer: Jane Hendrix
Note: Whipple's Fishhook Cactus; 12 inches tall; pink.
Photo taken at about 5,000 feet in Rabbit Valley, Mesa County, Colorado on May 10.
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- Identification: Dorde Woodruff (2010-12-03) =Sclerocactus parviflorus
- Nice photo but S whipplei grows ony in Navajo Rez and thereabouts, has yellow flowers. Sclerocacti are widey mis- identified.
- Identification: Jane Hendrix (2010-12-03) =Sclerocactus whipplei var. intermedius
- add \"var. intermedius\" to \"Sclerocactus whipplei\" (source: Colorado Flora - Western Slope, by William A. Weber), synonym of S. parviflorus ssp. intermedius.
- Note: Eric Gouda (2010-12-06) - If some body can confirm the name Sclerocactus parviflorus, please add your identification note (Sent: firstname.lastname@example.org)
- Identification: Panayoti Kelaidis (2010-12-06) =Sclerocactus parviflorus
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Rapa Nui National Park and its stone sculptures are testimony to an isolated cultural evolution.
Rapa Nui is the indigenous name of Easter Island. It's a volcanic island, with still two large craters: Rano Kau and Rano Raraku.
The most characteristic cultural feature of Rapa Nui are the huge moai, found all over the island. These figures were created to represent the important ancestors of each clan. As time went by, their forms became more stylized and they increased in size.
Map of Rapa NuiLoad map
Rapa Nui. Easter Island. The name evokes adventure, and it was my main reason for choosing Chile as my country to visit for Leap Day 2020. I lived in Hawaii for a few years, and had visited New Zealand about ten years ago, so I was looking forward to seeing the third corner of the Polynesian Triangle -- the region of the Pacific where ancient Polynesians took to rafts and settled, forming related cultures that slowly evolved over the centuries. I pictured Rapa Nui as a Pacific paradise, a chance to once again enjoy sunsets over the Pacific while admiring artifacts of an ancient culture. My arrival was somewhat different -- three days of storms gave me clouds and wind and rough waves, but I would not have traded the experience for anything!
The moai are the main reason anyone thinks of Easter Island, and the rows of large stoic heads placed on altars known as ahus were as impressive as I'd hoped. I took a tour the first day, and the guide explained the belief that the moai represented ancestral spirits who would protect villages, which is why most moai faced inland. The old villages themselves were interesting to see, particularly the chicken coops built inside rock walls. I was interested to learn that unlike other Polynesian ancestors, those who landed on Rapa Nui did not bring pigs. What I didn't realize before arrival was that all of the moai standing upright on the island have been reconstructed, since all moai on the island were toppled over during infighting between villages in the 18th and 19th centuries. The coral eyes and headgear of the moai were also knocked off during this time, although one full reconstruction can be seen near the town of Hanga Roa. The moai are treated with great respect, which is why a local resident faced legal charges after his car accidentally ran into an ahu and knocked one over shortly before I arrived.
The other reviews have mentioned the highlights of the island. For me, the quarry at Rano Raraku was the most fascinating place I saw during my three days. Here you can see how the moai were carved out of the rock, and see where many moai were abandoned on the hillsides, not having made it to ahus near the coast. The only significant area I was not able to visit because of a weather closure was Orongo, where the Birdman cult took hold; I will have to return one day to see it. I did enjoy seeing the Birdman paintings in a cave near the sea at the bottom of the mountain below Orongo.
Rapa Nui is absolutely worth the visit. I was heartily amused to find a Polynesian culture using the Spanish language, since I so rarely had the opportunity to use Spanish in Hawaii. The town of Hanga Roa is very walkable, and I enjoyed the food and markets there. Although the weather was not great, my house on the beach also afforded great views of the angry Pacific. Like others mentioned below, I attended a cultural dinner and show, which was in many ways similar to others I have seen in Hawaii and New Zealand. I would love to return.
Logistics: There are regular daily flights between Santiago and Rapa Nui. Please note that as of 2020, all visitors must have secured lodging and a return trip prior to flights to Rapa Nui. In addition, visitors must fill out forms at https://ingresorapanui.interior.gob.cl/# in order to get an entry invitation that must be shown to the airline when checking in at the airport in Santiago. There are regular guided tours of Rapa Nui from the main town of Hanga Roa, although both cars and bicycles may be rented in town to tour the island. An entry pass to Rapa Nui National Park must also be purchased.
Like many of the people I talked to there, getting to Easter Island and seeing its Moai was something I've wanted to do since I was a child. It totally lived up to my high expectations and I had a blast.
The big question everyone asks when planning a trip: How long should you stay there. I stayed 3 nights. For me that was about perfect. I saw all the major sites and most of the lesser ones. 4 days would have been good if I'd had the time. (Keep in mind, I was *really* into it.) A week would have been too much. I was traveling solo, so that gave me the advantage to travel around pretty quickly, not having to coordinate schedules with anyone else. Here's a summary of what I was able to see and do.
After landing, I got a quick drive through Hanga Roa by my airbnb host. I eventually rented a bicycle for the afternoon and visited my first moai, hitting close sites like Ahu Tahai. I rode the bike over the deeply rutted and eroded dirt road north to a couple of small lava tube caves, Ana Kakenga and Ana Te Pora, and a smaller ahu, Ahu Te Peu. It was a pretty nice day, but the wind was strong, which, combined with the horrible road, made riding pretty tough. While a bike was perfect for these spots, it isn't how I'd choose to tour the rest of the island. The main paved roads are in good shape, but I saw some other visitors riding in the wind and rain and it just didn't look fun. If I had to do it over again, I would have been more organized, and perhaps pre-arranged for some guided tour on my first afternoon there.
On my first full day, I joined a group guided tour (booked the day before). I would really recommend this as my guide was very informative and offered great insights into the history and culture of the island.
The next day, I rented a car and visited the sites that the tour did not cover, and also returned to a couple of the sites we had hit because it was raining when our tour visited them and I wanted a longer, drier look. I kept the car for part of the fourth day, since I had lots of time to do more touring before my plane in the afternoon.
Here are the main sites I saw on the tour and on my own:
Rano Raraku: This volcano is the quarry whence the moai were cut out. Definitely my favorite place on the island, and really fabulous to see them in various states of construction. (Visited on tour and on my own.) The "route of the moai" also starts here and I walked along it for a little ways. This is the route the moai were transported along, and there are several moai along the route which were abandoned where they tipped over during the process.
Ahu Tongariki: With 15, it's the largest set of moai standing. It's definitely a can't miss. There are also some petroglyphs here.
Anakena Beach and its Ahu Nau Nau: The second most scenic set of moai on the island. I visited on my own and also came back a second time when it wasn't raining. I also checked out the Papa Vaka petroglyphs and other more minor sites which are just up the road from Anakena
Orongo: The site of the bird man cult village, along with the overlook into the crater of Rano Kau, now a nature preserve off-limits to tourists. Orongo was great and I met one of the rangers there with whom I arranged a private tour later that day to Ana Te Pahu.
Ana Te Pahu: This is a really large lava tube cave. The ones I'd visited by bike on day 1 were comparatively small. This one went for hundreds of meters, was much bigger around (inside), and you had to wade through water much of the time. It was really cool to visit it, and I wouldn't have been brave enough to explore it without a guide, just for not knowing what I was getting into. Most tourists don't get here, which also made it fun to visit.
Evening cultural show: Not really part of the UNESCO site, I guess, but I attended the Kari Kari Cultural Ballet. The dinner was actually pretty good and a fair value, and the dance and music show was really great. I almost didn't go because I'd seen similar dance shows in French Polynesia. But in the end, I was really glad I attended.
Ahu along the southeast coast: Most of these were on my guided tour: Vinapu with it's "Inca-fit" stones, Vaihu, and the toppled moai of Akahanga, and a natural blowhole along the coast.
Interior ahu: Including such as Ahu Huri a Urenga with its double hands and evidence of being an astronomical observatory, and Ahu Akivi with the moai that are uniquely facing toward the ocean.
Puna Pau: The quarry where the red top-knot stones were cut.
Ana Kai Tangata: a coastal cave near Hanga Roa airport that really wasn't that impressive to me. Its Bird Man Cult era best colorful drawings are nearly gone.
Some of the other reviews here made it sound like the island is being overtaken by giant hotels. It didn't give that impression to me. Much of the lodging is still in airbnb kinds of places. There are no mega high-rise resorts, but the hotels there are fairly expensive. It seemed a decent balance. I found a couple of okay places to eat for a reasonable price, as well as trying out some higher priced tourist places and it was all good.
When I was not with a group tour, with the exception of the Big 3 (Ranu Raraku, Anakena, Tongariki), or places right in Hanga Roa (Tahai), for the most part I had each place to myself, and even Anakena and Tongariki were not busy unless a group was there. I visited in November, which probably isn't peak season, but was a pretty good time to visit. It didn't feel overrun with tourists. To me, it is one of the most interesting UNESCO sites in the world.
I visited Rapa Nui in 2007.
The moai of Easter Island are some of the most famous and iconic sculptures on Earth.
In the ten years since I visited I have been told tourism has increased dramatically. There were no proper hotels on the island when I visited. Now there are several.
There are still only two ways to get to the island: fly from Santiago, Chile, or fly from Tahiti. There are a small number of cruise ships which stop each year, but given its remote location, few bother to make the voyage.
Read more about Rapa Nui on my website.
Oh, the costs. And the time. And the detour. And haven’t I already seen all there is via documentaries and photos? … These were my thoughts when I planned my trip to Chile and had to make up my mind if I wanted to go to the Easter Island.
But I kept looking at the whs map and this spot in the middle of the Pacific Ocean just kept on smiling at me. With some additional nudging from our community in the forum (thanks Els!), I went ahead and booked the flights. And, boy, am I glad I did, because without a doubt this is one of the great sites of mankind.
It’s not just the Moai that seem to be fallen out of time. The Moais are embedded into stunning scenery that I got to take in mostly by myself. So, if you happen to be in Santiago, hop on a plane and go.
A key question for me was to figure out how long I wanted to stay. If you go, you want to hit the main sites and not miss out. Who knows if you ever make it back ;)
I think you need at least 2,5 days (two nights, two full days) to fully appreciate the island. My itinerary looked like this:
- Arrival afternoon: Hike to Orongo.
- 1 Day – Small circle: Hike / Cycle North of Hanga Roa to Ahu Tepeu and then hike up Maunga Terevaka.
- 1 Day – Big circle: Tour / Rental Car / Cycle to the East part of the island, Anakena, Ahu Tongariki and Rano Raraku.
But this itinerary hinges on the weather being okay. In my case the very second I came back from the big circle on my last day on the island, all hell broke loose rainwise.
Obviously, you can stay longer to enjoy the scenery, the beach, do some other hikes or go diving. But as much as I was enthralled by the island, I was wondering what I would have done had I stayed a full week, let alone lived there.
There are multiple daily flights from Santiago. And a weekly one from Tahiti. In high season there may be even more. In any case, competition on the route is limited and prices rather high. I flew in from Santiago and paid 450€ and that was at the lower end of the price range. Some considerations to save a bit:
- It seems going over the weekend is more expensive than during the week.
- Also, the afternoon flight back to Santiago may be more expensive than the midnight, red eyes included one.
I think cycling and hiking are the best way to experience the island. It’s not that big and you get to take in more of the nature this way. However, be warned that the big circle is really big (45km), contains several steep climbs and the wind is constant. Personally, I wouldn’t have done this by bicycle and was already about to book a tour. But then I found a place near the harbor that rented ebikes (easybici.cl) for 20-25k Pesos and that was a perfect solution for me.
- Food is pricey compared to the mainland. I paid around 40€ to 50€ for dinner. And the quality was rather varied. Te Moanu near the harbor comes highly recommended and has a nice view. Kanahau does not: The quality was not in line with the price.
- If you take the midnight flight back, you can head to Valparaiso in the morning and then catch the next flight out of Santiago in the evening. I wish I would have, instead I stayed another night in Santiago which I found rather dull.
- The default sunset picture can be taken at Ahu Tahai. You will have plenty of company.
- You need to buy a park ticket which is valid for 5 days. Pick it up when you arrive. You need 30k Pesos or 60 USD in cash. Pesos was cheaper.
- There are very few shops or cafes on the island as soon as you leave Hanga Rau. So pack everything you need before you head out of town.
- The limited travel options to the island imply that there are rarely more than 2.000 tourists on the island (4 planes * 500 people in/out per day) and you have great parts often to yourself. However, it also means that the tourist infrastructure is not very mature. E.g. no Irish Pub.
- Internet is terrible, probably because the connection is made via satellite. Many guest houses and restaurants don’t even offer it.
- If you get a SIM in Chile, pick Entel as they offer coverage on the island. Movistar may, too.
- You can get a stamp for your passport at the post office while you buy stamps for those very exotic postcards (600).
I have just returned from Rapanui..what an awesome experience. Their second language is Spanish. My command of the Spanish language is minimal to zero, however, I spoke Maori to the locals at the church and they were so excited as they could understand me. I said "Kia ora" One elder replied, "He Maori keo no Aotearoa?" I said "ae" I said Kei hea ta kotou Museum? the elder said "Haere koe i runga i te ara...ka huri pera, 'Indicating with his hand. "a ka Huri pera" On his instructions I found their museum.
Love their history.
It is an unfortunate fact that long-anticipated visits to “iconic” WHS can often disappoint, but ours to Rapa Nui (Easter Island) most certainly did not! This, despite the fact that we had but a mere 7 hours ashore during a trans-Pacific cruise which took us on the “Heyerdal” sea route from the Peruvian coast taking 5 days on our cruise ship and then onward into “Polynesia proper”.
However you get there, Easter Island is an expensive and logistically awkward destination – most visitors will either fly through Papeete or do Santiago return. It certainly justifies more than the short day we gave it, but we were able to take in the main sites with reasonable free time. It would of course have been nice to return at different times of day for optimal photographic conditions and to have explored the less famous locations. On arrival you have the choice of minibus tours, private taxi, rent-a-car, bicycle or walking. We took the former in the morning and then a taxi in the afternoon. As regards walking and bicycle – well, it may look a mere “speck” on the World map, but it is a bit bigger “on the ground”! The main “town” of Hanga Roa is actually a very spread out village now full of restaurants, guest houses and the accoutrements of a tourist centre – just walking around it from your guest house could take a while but there are nearby walkable sites which could be very pleasant to reach along cliff paths. The other main sites are across the island and you would need to be prepared for a reasonable all day cycle ride to reach them.
So what did we see?
a. Ahu Tahai. Walkable just north of Hanga Roa so no problem to take in. It actually covers 3 different Ahu and Tahai is in the middle with its “restored” coral eyes.
b. Ahu Tongariku. 15 moai restored by anastylosis from both their late-moai cult destruction and by a major tsunami in 1960. Yes, it is almost entirely a reconstruction (it isn’t even known which moai were originally placed where), but its location in front of surf and cliffs is stunning, as is its size and scope
c. Rano Raraku. The quarry from which the moai were cut. A number remain still only half-formed in the living rock but all around are part buried (from forehead to waist) and toppled examples of fully formed ones at all sorts of angles to the ground, looking as enigmatic as you always expected them to be! If you were to cycle out from Hanga Roa you would have to be prepared to cover at least the 18kms to here – but the road follows the coast and you would pass 10 or more Ahu in various states of destruction some of which at least which would be interesting to stop at and explore (in our tour mini-bus we were unable to!) including examples of face-down and face-up topplings (a potentially historically significant difference apparently!). The site also provides fine distant views of Tongariku a bit further on. You will have to show (or obtain if you haven’t already done so) your National Park ticket (US $60 pp) here in order to get in.
d. Orongo. A ceremonial “village” used by the Bird-man cult of 18th and 19th Centuries which, at least partly, superseded the older moai cult. It is situated around 3kms SW of Hanga Roa along a dirt road – a foot path following the cliffs looked more interesting. The site is stunningly situated on a rocky promentary, high above the sea with a spectacular deep circular volcanic caldera on the other side. A series of dry stone constructed cult houses leads to a “high place” of rocks covered with “birdmen” petroglyphs. Far below lie the islands which the birdmen had to reach to collect the Sooty Tern egg before returning to the cliff top with it! WMF have just constructed a small visitor centre and exhibit here and again you will need a ticket to enter. Another “do not miss” site in my view.
It might have been nice to visit Anakena with its group of restored moai. It lies beyond Tongariki and also has a beach – but we are not “beach people” and made the decision (rightly I think) that we didn’t really “need” more moai but that Orongo was absolutely “necessary” to provide a rounded picture of Easter Island culture.
I visited Easter Island in April 2009 and although several of the previous writers have decried the "development for rich American tourists" (actually I heard more Spanish, understandable, and Italian) the island is still relatively undeveloped and not the golf course self contained hotel disasters one sees elsewhere. In fact the only town is Honga Roa and it retains a somewhat down at the heels but charming quality. Sure there are T-shirt shops but there are grocery stores and hardware shops too. Don't expect beautiful beaches and lush landscapes either but there are those statues.
The chief attraction are the statues or moai. I found the sites where the moai have not been re-erected to be the most interesting as one can get a better sense of the past and paradoxically what they might have looked like when standing. There is a haunting sadness to the site of a toppled, broken moai that affected me more than the standing statues, those those are certainly dramatic and not to be dismissed. Getting around requires either a tour, a four wheel drive (many of the roads are not just unpaved but little better than dirt paths) or a car with driver though I did see lots of bikes. Prices were not exorbitant. Four days at a minimum are necessary to really get a sense of the island and there are many interesting hikes and some caving. I spent one day hiking the northern coast (about six hours) where there are no roads but some of the most spectacular sites. Getting lost is impossible--keep the ocean on your left.
Most of the literature talks about "the collapse" or the ecological disaster leading to civil war but much of that is under dispute, so go with a skeptical approach to most of the theories. The museum is small but provides a good foundation for the visit.
I think that Easter Island is about the most intriguing place on earth. I lived on Oahu for 3 years, and the only thing that disappointed me was how it catered to American life. I would change my life in a second to live in a place that people know that money doesn't bring happiness. That you could enjoy every day you're alive because you are with your friends and family, living in the best place on earth.
I spent 5 days on Easter Island - making a dream come true. Reading the books by Thor Heyerdahl as a child, I never imagined I would set foot on this remote island. But times have changed in the last 15 years: travelling around the globe has become much easier and cheaper.
As has to be expected, I didn't find a lost paradise here. It's quite an expensive destination, geared to the wealthy western traveller. But I had a fine time here. I walked, cycled and drove around the island. From ahu with or without moai to petroglyph to vulcano. Rapa Nui is an open-air museum in the best sense of the word.
The sight I probably liked best is Tongariki, the ahu with 15 moai in a row. Maybe that's because this was my reward after cycling 2,5 hours on Easter Island's roads that know no shade.
Okay, so I didn't really read your site. But I didn't actually have to, I mean my dad is from Easter Island (believe it or not). So as you can probably guess I have pretty strong ways of juding someone who talks about the Island. I in no means am trying to be mean, but put yourself in my shoes. I've visited there only twice, but have had Rapa Nui in my blood all my life. You all can go to visit,and judge it the way you would like, but by all means you really have no idea what life is really like for these people. My Grandma had 17 children, most of which still remain at home on the island. I have seen so much life through these people's eyes, and they get so much pride out of so little. So when you visit and say that it seems kind of expensive, look at how the people actually live. In shacks! If this was your only way of making money was toursits, then you would do it. So before you judge these people imagine picking corn, running a bussines for very few people, or raising horses just to feed your family. You wouldn't make it one day, while these people have made it a lifetime. So don't judge, look deep in the souls of the people there. In all honesty they can teach us Americans a way of life we would never want to live or could live. But you know what, they are the most happiest people alive, beause in there eyes they are rich because they have family, friends, and all the essential's of life. So take time to get to know the Island before you judge it, because believe it or not it can teach you a life lesson, even if you just speak English. Oh yeah believe it or not my Uncle is the Mayor of the Island Julio Araki. Look up the Araki's if you ever visit they will treat you just like family, they are mine!
I spent 2 weeks in Rapa Nui last year. the plan was to bring a tent and sleepingbag, to keep the costs down on accommodation, but amazingly it turned out cheeper to rent a room in a lady's house than to pitch my tent up on one of the camingsites.
The island is truly beautiful. The atmosphere and the hospitality amazing. The family I stayed with did their very best to look after me, show me their island and include me in their everyday activities. I couldn't have wished for anything better.
Now, the only thing that spoiled this little paradise, was the way it has been exploited to the American tourists. There is this massive hotel which has been built, where the prices are sky-high of course, and designed to cater for the "rich and comfortable". It is such a shame. Thelocals, of course, are happy for the money they can make, but it makes you wonder what the travelagents who exploit places like this think of?! The whole charm, the exotic feeling this island gives you will disappear if they try and change Rapa Nui to yet another tourist-trap.
None the less, I will definetely return to this little paradise. Just as much for the amazing scenery and magic nature as for the kind people and their culture.
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COLUMBUS – Ohio Governor Mike DeWine and Lt. Governor Jon Husted announcedWednesday that 40 Ohio livestock and poultry producers will receive grants totaling $10 million to help them expand capacity and meet the growing demand for meat processing services. Two of those producers receiving grants are in Crawford County.
“The supply chain issues that our country is facing have put increased pressure on our meat processors, and they can’t keep up with the demand,” said Governor DeWine. “By awarding this money, we can help these Ohio businesses enhance their operations to strengthen the local meat supply chain and reduce reliance on out-of-state processors.”
Each company will receive a grant of up to $250,000, with half of the funds disbursed before projects are started and the other half awarded after the companies show that the initial funds were spent on eligible costs. In total, the businesses receiving awards have estimated that the funds will help them create up to 830 jobs.
In Crawford County, grant recipients include Link’s Country Meats, which received $245,810; and Glenville Packing LLC, which received $233,538.
“These grants will not only benefit consumers, but they will also help sustain these businesses and bring new job opportunities to Ohioans,” said Lt. Governor Husted. “In addition to new jobs, this funding will help businesses retain 300 jobs and nearly $30 million in payroll.”
The DeWine-Husted Administration prioritized the creation of the Ohio Meat Processing Grant Program in the state’s 2022-2023 operating budget, which was passed by the Ohio General Assembly last year. Grant funding will be used to implement processing efficiencies, expand or construct facilities at existing sites, assist in training and certification, and improve harvest services.
The $10 million grant program, administered by the Ohio Department of Development in collaboration with the Ohio Department of Agriculture, generated tremendous interest from the meat processing industry. A total of 143 applications requesting more than $28 million were submitted. Grants were awarded on a first-come, first-served basis to eligible businesses.
“The interest in this program shows that this industry is ready to improve its processes and increase its efficiency,” said Ohio Department of Development Director Lydia Mihalik. “We are prepared to get these funds into the hands of operators quickly so that they can begin to implement their plans.”
“Ohio’s meat processing industry is incredibly important to our food supply chain,” said Ohio Department of Agriculture Director Dorothy Pelanda. “These grants will provide some much-needed help to facilities that are critical to maintaining an abundant food supply.”
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The proliferation of wind ensembles in our own day has
produced a substantial amount of basically light music specially written
for them by contemporary composers. We have previously mentioned a few
of them. GORDON LEWIN, IAN HAROLD, NORMAN HALLAM, JOHN CAMERON, MARTIN
ELLERBY - and many more. One other name to add to these is CHARLES STAINER
(no relation, as far as I am aware, to the composer of The Crucifixion),
whose works for wind quintet include a Scherzo and other pieces,
still another is KEITH AMOS, composer of orchestral, chamber and choral
music and - on the lighter side - composer for brass band and for wind
ensemble, in which latter genre Animal Friends enjoys popularity.
The light music composers
of the inter-war years are in many cases completely
forgotten. There are of course the Eric Coateses,
Haydn Woods and Montague Phillipses, which
- the first especially - have survived better
than most. In the case of others their memory
is kept alive by just one work. An example
is ALBERT E. MATT, his work the march Fame
and Glory. This is invariably played on
Armistice Sunday as the first march accompanying
the march past of veterans past the Cenotaph.
Unfortunately unless one is luckily enough
to be actually present one hears just a few
bars the BBC coverage "cuts" to see how the
Armistice is being remembered in place like
Singapore or the Falkland Islands or wherever.
Fame and Glory is a raising piece and
its use in the Remembrance ceremony seems
to add a kind of moving distinction to it.
For me it is as Matt's Opus 21, one of the
finest of all British marches.
However it is not by any
means Matt's only composition. His "floreat"
period appears to have been primarily the
two decades between the wars and the list
of orchestral compositions I append hereto
seems very much of the period. There were
the suites An Evening Ramble and Norwegian
Scenes and a number of single genre movements.
Two of these, a reverie, Angelus and
the "capriccietto, Carnival, were grouped
with the title Two Pieces as his Opus
17. Others include the entr'acte Coquetterie,
an intermezzo, Farewell and Devotion
Rustique. But their "fame and glory" appear
to have faded now.
Brass band composers are legion; one present day practitioner
is D. LANCASTER, whose piece, Bridge on the River Wharfe has
been recorded by the Wetherby & District Silver Band.
GUY DAGUL's parents are the piano duettists Harvey
Dagul and Isabel Beyer, who have made many recordings though four of
them have been of music by British composers. Guy however produced a
number of compositions including an attractive score written for the
latest series of Delia Smith's cookery presentation on TV.
CARL KIEFORT, by his name, was German by birth, but
he settled in England in the 1880s and for upwards of a quarter of a
century he made a busy career for himself as a conductor on the London
light musical stage up to around the time of the Great War. He composed,
too, A Village Venus (1895), A Merry Mad Cap (1896), The
Gay Grisette (1898), Hidenseek (1901), Zuiyder Zee (1907)
and, most notably, for The Ballet Girl (1897). Usually his compositional
contributions were jointly with other writers but The Gay Grisette
and The Ballet Girl were entirely his. He was always regarded
as a conductor, most notably of operettas by Osmond Carr, Sidney Jones,
Leslie Stuart and Lionel Monckton; his skill as an orchestrator was
much in demand.
© Philip L. Scowcroft
Philip's book 'British Light Music Composers' (ISBN 0903413 88 4) is
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Name: Instructor: Course: Date: Health and longevity secrets of the Abkasia According to Abkhazia, growth only stops when people are already old. These are secrets to longevity according to this group of people. This community of South Russia had many centenarians and hence referred to as the world’s longevity capital. Shirali Muslimov was a 161-years-old man, which proves the longevity in Abkhasia. Osteoporosis is absent in the community. Moreover, they lack fractures among the elderly in the society. The members of this community use natural resources in their purest forms, (Robbins, 7). For example, it is impossible to compare someone who drinks and showers with river water to one who drinks and showers with processed water. Processed items remove several natural minerals that are useful in their bodies. It is seen that the old men in Abkhazia stay physically fit by being active. For example, the old man, Markhti climbed down and up a slope with the researchers. Being physically active is instrumental in staying healthy and strong at all times. Another secret of a long health lies in the diet. People who eat natural food in their purest of forms have fewer risks of eating contaminated foods. Processed foods have the disadvantages of not having enough minerals that are usefulfor the body. It is a very important secret in staying healthy and countering diseases. For example, matzoni is a fermented beverage made of the milk of various domestic animals such as goats and sheep and is taken regularly, (Robbins, 18). Lacto-vegetarian is also another regular diet of these people. Foods that do not have excess fats are not a part of the servings for these people. | <urn:uuid:c9a15cc5-c3d8-4d2c-a422-714ed12ba4ed> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://topicsessay.com/discuss-health-and-longevity-secrets-of-the-abkasia/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572198.93/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815175725-20220815205725-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.96976 | 380 | 2.4375 | 2 |
The Modern Mexican Essay
Published: December 1965© 1965
540 Pages, 6.00 x 9.00 x 1.00 in
Although the more superficial features of the Latin-American countries are becoming better known to North Americans as a result of improved travel facilities, their cultural and economic problems still remain largely unappreciated. The Rockefeller foundation, aware of this fact, has provided grants, administered by the Association of American University presses, in support of the translation into English of the more significant Latin-American scholarly and literary works. This collection, edited by Jose Luis Martinez, the eminent Mexican scholar and critic who has written widely on the subject of Mexican literature, was originally published as El ensayo mexicano moderno. In selecting the essay to be included in this translation, Professor Hilborn has aimed primarily at presenting a Mexican national outlook, in the hope that more people may be led to interest themselves in the psychological and spiritual aspects (as well as the economic and practical considerations) of Mexican culture. It would be difficult to discover any problem confront the modern Mexican, or almost any member of the Latin-American community of nations, that does not receive attention in this anthology. The essays translated by Professor Hilborn are, almost without exception, of high literary quality, and they will make a profound impression on the English-speaking reader.
Martinez prefaces the anthology with a detailed and illuminating study of the essay as an art form. The essayists are ten presented in roughly chronological order, giving the reader a sense of Mexico’s growing national consciousness. The first of the essays date from the last decade of the nineteenth century, the point at which Martinez perceives the first flowering of Mexico’s literary and intellectual modernity, marked by a decided break with the romanticism which had lingered in Spanish America long after its decline in Europe. Other essays deal with Mexico’s cultural past and the literary figures who contributed most significantly to it, with the period preceding the Mexican Revolution of 1910 and the struggles which followed this upheaval, while others are on purely literary and philosophical themes. The depressing realities of social conditions in Mexico are not ignored but the contrast of opulence and misery is not regarded as permanent, and, without exception, the writers presented to us through Martinez have something vital to say about their nation.
For Canadians this anthology provides an excellent basis for a comparative study of Canada and Mexico. For Americans, it could be a startling revelation of the image their country presents to their southern neighbours. In international relations, knowledge of the points of view presented in this anthology is of incalculable value for any project aimed at strengthening the solidarity of our continent. | <urn:uuid:0c019698-06bf-45db-82e7-d58192b19b88> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://utorontopress.com/9781487578664/the-modern-mexican-essay/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572198.93/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815175725-20220815205725-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.952622 | 563 | 2.71875 | 3 |
Upper School photography students recently had the opportunity to channel famous Memphis photographer William Eggleston in a project that challenged their creative abilities.
Students explored the photographer's technique before heading outdoors for "photo walks" to take photos of what inspired them, using the methods they learned.
"The goal for students was to capture photographs that used their knowledge of the artist but also connected them to their own life experiences, value system and memories," said Upper School Visual Design teacher Michael Naya.
Once the students captured a photo that exhibited naturalistic contrast, various color schemes and formulas, they uploaded their work to a self-designed magazine or blog article.
Upper Schoolers wrapped up the project by playing the role of "Art Critic" while writing and designing art critique articles about their own work done in the tradition of the local artist.
"This project allowed them to critique their skills the way an artist would in the real world by examining, describing and analyzing their work," Naya said. "Assignments like this really push their creative boundaries and help sharpen their photography skills. | <urn:uuid:504116a8-bad2-40c8-8858-31ee2faff10e> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.lausanneschool.com/news/posts/upper-schoolers-channel-memphis-photographer- | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572033.91/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814113403-20220814143403-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.975505 | 227 | 2.484375 | 2 |
Responsible Fishing in Istanbul
Istanbul’s geography and in specific the salinity and temperature differences between the Mediterranean and the Black Sea allows for an abundant amount of fish around the city’s waterways. Fisherman are spoiled for choice even though pollution has reduced fish at the Golden Horn, while other fishing is done at one of the stretches along the Black Sea, Marmara Sea and Bosphorus.
When you take a walk from Eminonu to Karakoy across the Galata Bridge and you will always see fishermen on the pedestrian walkway as this is one of the city’s best known fishing spots where locals love catching daily. It is a famous spot where visitors will find educational information as well as pictures of local fish for those who have not yet visited the local restaurants. Some of the most famous fish species many are familiar with eaten in restaurants and around dinner tables in Istanbul homes include horse mackerel, sardines and anchovy.
A campaign Seninki Kac Santim via Greenpeace now provide a ruler to anglers to guide sizes of fish like the kalkan, palamum levrek, lufer, mezgit, barbunya, istavrit, tekir and hamsi. These are all local species in Istanbul which are in danger of becoming extinct if rules and regulations are not followed.
If you are an Istanbul stranger you will find that fishing is a top priority among the locals with friendly camaraderie among the local fishermen. Even though friendly you will find little advice or help though and being prepared with gear and bait is what anyone would recommend. An abundance of shops selling everything from fishing rods, sinkers, hooks and bait are along the Yeralti Cami, Karakoy, and Tahtakale. | <urn:uuid:ad20a24b-40c3-43f3-9b72-1595fa3ebd12> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://fishistanbul.com/responsible-fishing-in-istanbul/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572198.93/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815175725-20220815205725-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.938492 | 369 | 2.171875 | 2 |
The Box Box
Arrow Keys W A S D Movement R Restart existing stage ENTER Go to next phase after stage total ● You can only press one box at a time. Tornado ● It pulls things on top of itself and can be used to move boxes in an instructions that was formerly not possible. ● As with the Box, the key must be masterfully pressed to the wanted place. ● Blocks are useful to cover other objects in the scene such as tornadoes and holes, hence assisting in the motion of the gamer and boxes. Portal ● The portal is a magical things capable of teleporting the player and other items from one position to another.
Press the boxes into the right place and discover the option to more than 70 difficulties in scenarios filled with interactive objects like twisters, websites, one-way passages, locks and secrets, blocks and barriers that make the puzzles a lot more tough. Box is a puzzle solving game, influenced by the classics Sokoban and Box World, with stages made up of various mechanics and interactions between objects that will press your brain to the limit to resolve issues while having a good time and exercising your reasoning sensible. The video game mechanics go far beyond pushing boxes, requiring interaction with the circumstance to get rid of barriers, open a path and find new methods to reach the preferred location, even if there is no obvious way, creating surprising characteristics and significantly tough phases. The video game has a progression of trouble that gradually needs increasingly more thinking skills, logic and puzzle fixing skills. Interactions available in the circumstance: 1. Boxes ● Ought to be pushed to the suggested area. ● You can only push one box at a time. 2. Tornado ● It pulls objects on top of itself and can be used to move boxes in a direction that was previously not possible. 3. One method passage ● Enables the gamer and other objects to be moved only in the instructions shown by the arrow. ● One-way pass has a version that changes the allowable direction of motion whenever the gamer goes through it. 4. Lock/padlock ● Avoids the passage of the player and any other item in the scene up until it is opened utilizing the secret. 5. Secret ● Enables you to open the lock/padlock, breaking the ice to other parts of the scene. ● Just like the Box, the key should be skillfully pressed to the wanted area. 6. Hole ● The holes act as barriers in the situation that avoid the gamer from passing up until they are covered by another item. ● Attention! If you press a box into a hole, you can no longer retrieve it. 7. Blocks ● Blocks have an extremely box-like habits and can be utilized by the gamer to help solve puzzles. ● Blocks are useful to cover other items in the scene such as twisters and holes, therefore helping with the motion of the player and boxes. 8. Portal ● The website is a wonderful things capable of teleporting the gamer and other objects from one position to another. ● Websites are always linked, so there is constantly a round-trip through them. ● Portals are essential for fixing puzzles where there is no direct path in the scene, but the service is possible by teleporting to another place. As a player, your objective is to fix all the puzzles and push packages to the marked areas, gradually advancing to the most challenging stages. All set to have a good time, exercise your brain and resolve puzzles? Let's play! If you enjoy solving puzzles, this game is certainly for you!
Release Date: 5 August 2022 , Platform: Web browser, Category: Adventure
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Serious pedestrian accidents in Chicago and the suburbs continue to be a problem for a number of reasons: more people walking to work, an increase in traffic on the roads, and drivers failing to look out for pedestrians. Increasing cell phone usage and distracted driving are also putting pedestrians at risk. Tragically, two pedestrians in Naperville and St. Charles have been seriously injured and pedestrians in Bloomington, Morton Grove, and Chicago have died after being struck by cars recently. Municipalities need to address this problem by analyzing where and why pedestrian accidents happen and taking measures to prevent these tragedies from occurring.
In the meantime, how can victims and families be compensated for these terrible accidents? If a pedestrian is hit by a car, the driver is usually –but not always—found to be at fault and his or her insurance compensates the pedestrian. That is because most states have laws requiring drivers to be alert to their surroundings and to hazards in the road, which would include pedestrians. If the pedestrian is following the rules of the road and is struck by a motorist who is speeding, fails to yield, is disobeying traffic signals, or is otherwise impaired or distracted, the driver is at fault and their policy must compensate the victim. Even pedestrians who are not in the crosswalk may get compensation from the driver’s insurance if they were paying attention, did not act irresponsibly, and did not run into the road to try to beat traffic.
But what happens if the responsible driver is not insured? If the at-fault driver has no insurance or very little insurance, then the pedestrian’s own uninsured and underinsured coverage in their auto policy can compensate them for injuries sustained even if they were not driving at the time. Most people are not aware of this. | <urn:uuid:b630ba22-5fd9-4dce-aca9-9edc192d5891> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.collinslaw.com/blog/tag/pedestrian-accidents/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572033.91/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814113403-20220814143403-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.980593 | 359 | 2.109375 | 2 |
Wastewater treatment plants are important reservoirs and sources for the dissemination of antibiotic resistance into the environment. Here, two different groups of carbapenem resistant bacteria—the potentially environmental and the potentially pathogenic—were isolated from both the wastewater influent and discharged effluent of a full-scale wastewater treatment plant and characterized by whole genome sequencing and antibiotic susceptibility testing. Among the potentially environmental isolates, there was no detection of any acquired antibiotic resistance genes, which supports the idea that their resistance mechanisms are mainly intrinsic. On the contrary, the potentially pathogenic isolates presented a broad diversity of acquired antibiotic resistance genes towards different antibiotic classes, especially β-lactams, aminoglycosides, and fluoroquinolones. All these bacteria showed multiple β-lactamase-encoding genes, some with carbapenemase activity, such as the blaKPC-type genes found in the Enterobacteriaceae isolates. The antibiotic susceptibility testing assays performed on these isolates also revealed that all had a multi-resistance phenotype, which indicates that the acquired resistance is their major antibiotic resistance mechanism. In conclusion, the two bacterial groups have distinct resistance mechanisms, which suggest that the antibiotic resistance in the environment can be a more complex problematic than that generally assumed.
- Antibiotic resistance
- Discharged effluents
- Environmental and pathogenic carbapenem resistant bacteria
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This may be old news to some, but Collective Evolution recently came across it. A news broadcast from Zimbabwe aired the story, one of Africa’s news leaders SABC Digital News.
You would think that an electric car that does not require a charge, and can basically run indefinitely (as long as the parts stay intact) would be huge news. But, it’s not, and it seems such technologies never are.
So what’s happening now? According to the Zambian Observer,
“The United States government has given Zimbabwe’s prolific inventor Maxwell Chikumbutso a new home in its populous state of California. Chikumbutso is the founder of Saith Holdings Inc. under which he made headlines for his serial innovations which include the world’s first ever green power generator which can produce electricity using radio frequencies, an electric powered car which doesn’t consume fuel, a fuelled helicopter and many more.”
Right now, he is residing in California. Why did they do this? Was it because they came across a revolutionary with the power to change the world, or is it because they want to keep that which threatens their entire geo-political framework close to home so they can keep an eye on it, and control it? Who knows. But it’s always important to question the intentions of our government.
When I read the article in the Zambian Observer , coupled with the fact that the United States government instantaneously showed interest on a story that hasn’t received any publicity, I thought of Stan Meyer, another person who actually invented a water powered car, which also received very little attention when it came to making the news available to the masses. Today, it’s a fairly well known story due to the mass awareness that has been created around the story. Stan’s invention was picked up very briefly by a local news station in Ohio. You can view his patent HERE, it also describes the whole process.
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The Supreme Court of the United States is set to hear a case that will affect over 4 million immigrants in the United States. President Obama’s Executive Orders expanding Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) and Deferred Action for Parents of Americans and Lawful Permanent Residents (DAPA), were introduced in 2014 and would grant lawful presence to certain types of undocumented immigrants. Ever since these program were proposed, Texas and 25 other states have adamantly tried to block these initiatives, challenging that Obama does not have the authority to implement such extensive changes to immigration enforcement.
In 2015, a Texas federal court upheld the injunction which propelled the case to the Supreme Court. The Court has until the end of June to announce their ruling on whether or not Obama’s program is constitutional. On April 18, the Court heard oral arguments regarding the case and it still appears that the justices may be evenly split along ideological lines.
There are two outcomes that seem most likely: deadlock or “standing” ruling. As a result of Justice Scalia’s death, the Court is now split evenly between four liberal and four conservative judges. If the Court rules a deadlocked 4-4 decision on this case, the Texas federal court ruling will be upheld and the program will remain blocked. A standing decision refers to the idea that states do not have legal standing to bring this case, which would allow the expanded DACA and DAPA programs to proceed to implementation.
Goldstein & Associates will continue to follow the case, which is to be decided by June. For those interested in more information on the matter, please do not hesitate to contact our firm online or at (412) 258-8080 for a free consultation. | <urn:uuid:5e9ac66b-cc83-4344-af25-d2b8a47ee014> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://mglaw.com/uncategorized/texas-v-scotus/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571198.57/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810161541-20220810191541-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.958071 | 350 | 1.796875 | 2 |
|William Blake, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell.|
William Blake (1757–1827) (Fig 1) was and still is an enigma. He was born on November 28, 1757, one of seven children to James, a hosier, and Catherine Wright Blake at 28 Broad Street in London.1 He once remarked: “Thank God I never was sent to school / To be Flogd into following the Style of a Fool.” He was by trade an engraver but when not scraping together a meager living, he was one of the most original, fertile, and mystically creative geniuses of any age.2 The art critic Jonathan Jones regarded him as, by far, the greatest artist Britain has ever produced. This brief synopsis concentrates more on his anti-authoritarian ideology than on his art.3
|Figure 1. William Blake|
He was born into a household of Dissenters. As a boy, he studied art at a drawing academy and served a long apprenticeship with the engraver James Basire before entering the Royal Academy Schools.3 In 1782, he married Catherine Boucher in her family’s church, Saint Mary’s, Battersea. Illiterate, she signed the marriage register with an X. He taught her to read, write, and assist him in his printmaking. Much of their lives was spent in poverty and they had no children. Except for a brief period in Felpham, he spent his life in London.
A profound scholar, his philosophy was influenced by Emmanuel Swedenborg (1688–1772), the Christian theologian, scientist, philosopher, and mystic best known for his book on the afterlife, Heaven and Hell, though Blake later refuted some of Swedenborg’s conceits. Other important influences were Paracelsus, the poet Milton, and the mystic Lutheran, Jacob Boehme (1575–1624).
Blake produced many beautifully illuminated works of poetry, revered after his death, most famously the Songs of Innocence and of Experience, Jerusalem, and Milton.4 But during his lifetime they secured little praise.
It was not until Alexander Gilchrist’s painstaking biography in 1863 (with its subtitle Pictor Ignotus—The Unknown Painter) (Fig 2), published forty years after Blake’s death, that his reputation was finally established,5 promoting a huge literature of biographical,6,7 artistic, religious, and philosophical comment.2,8
Blake’s was a time of great social and political upheaval: the rapid growth of industrialization, didactic science, and new styles of art. The rich were very rich and lived in a different world from the cruelly exploited poor. Blake’s work explores the tensions between human passions, deprivations, and the repressive nature of social and political conventions, which appalled him. He saw himself as a national prophet who strived to change both the social order and the minds of men by promoting his unique brand of spiritual, imaginative life. He had a sense of the spiritually transcendent, evoking a heightened sense of the mystical and sublime.
The Aristotelian “philosophy of the five senses” espoused by scientists and philosophers argued that both the world and the mind operated by fixed laws, which failed to include imagination, creativity, or a spiritual life. Blake vehemently decried this materialistic view, typified by Bacon, Locke, and Newton. His Newton (1795) demonstrates his opposition to the “single-vision” of science and his quest for harmonious, free spirituality. In Jerusalem, In Deadly Fear, he epitomizes his philosophy:
|Figure 2. Alexander Gilchrist’s biography (1863)|
I see the Four-fold Man, The Humanity in deadly sleep
And its fallen Emanation, The Spectre and its cruel Shadow.
I see the Past, Present and Future existing all at once
Before me. O Divine Spirit, sustain me on thy wings,
That I may awake Albion from his long and cold repose;
For Bacon and Newton, sheathed in dismal steel, their terrors hang
Like iron scourges over Albion: Reasonings like vast Serpents
Infold around my limbs, bruising my minute articulations.
I turn my eyes to the Schools and Universities of Europe
And there behold the Loom of Locke, whose Woof rages dire,
Washed by the Water-wheels of Newton: black the cloth
In heavy wreathes folds over every Nation: cruel Works
Of many Wheels I view, wheel without wheel, with cogs tyrannic
Moving by compulsion each other, not as those in Eden, which,
Wheel within Wheel, in freedom revolve in harmony and peace.
In 1800, Blake left London to live in Felpham, Sussex. He was arrested there, having ejected from his garden a soldier, who claimed Blake had said “Damn the King” and other seditious words. Blake stood trial but was acquitted.
He then started work on Milton, whom he regarded as a true poet, but one misled by Puritanical dogma. The preface includes the poem beginning “And did those feet in ancient time,” which founded the stirring but rebellious anthem Jerusalem that protested: “And was Jerusalem builded here, Among these dark Satanic Mills?”
|Figure 3. Songs of Innocence and of Experience
Songs of Innocence and of Experience
In Songs of Innocence and of Experience, (Fig 3) perhaps his best-known collection of poems, he exposes, as the subtitle indicates, two contrary states of the human soul.
The superficially benign and gentle Songs of Innocence contrast sharply with darker, corrupt sins of adulthood in the Songs of Experience. At first glance, his poems seem childlike with simple rhymes often picturing children, animals, and flowers. The tiger, a contemporary symbol of the French Revolution, surfaces in his famous but strident, political poem “Tyger tyger burning bright…” In it, he asks how could one God have created both the Tyger of cruelty and the Jesuitical Lamb of love and imagination: “Did he who made the Lamb make thee?”
At a deeper level, the songs hint strongly of satirical, vehement distaste for exploitation, authority, and the political manacles2,9 of his day:
In every cry of every man,
In every infant’s cry of fear,
In every voice, in every ban,
The mind-forged manacles I hear
This protest echoes in George Orwell’s 1984.10 Songs of Innocence and of Experience combines both his remarkably vivid art from etched copperplates, intaglio engraving, and painting3,8 with his satirically critical poems influenced by the rhymes and ballads of his childhood.1 At the time of his death, however, fewer than twenty copies had been sold in thirty years.
His several Prophetic Books portray his complicated personal visions and mythology, in which he formulated his spiritual and political ideas into a prophecy for a better world. His brother Robert’s death, aged twenty, deeply affected Blake, who saw his brother’s soul ascend heavenward clapping its hands for joy. His eclectic, mysterious stories were populated both by characters from the scriptures and those of his own numinous, imaginative invention—far beyond the awareness or imagination of ordinary people. Some such expressions were of beguiling simplicity:
To see a World in a Grain of Sand
And a Heaven in a Wild Flower,
Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand
And Eternity in an hour.
His tales tell of struggles between enlightenment and free love with man-imposed manacles of freedom, education, and morality. Many of his images hark back to Biblical, Greek, and Norse mythology. When he died, his Prophetic Books containing his ideas disappeared almost without trace. The fanciful imagery and notions, so real, joyous, and vivid to him, are often difficult to understand. But ultimately, redemption is the liberation or freedom of man by his own efforts—the reconciliation of his Albion and Jerusalem.
|Figure 4. The Four Zoas: Urthona, Urizen, Luvah, and Tharmas. From Milton: A Poem. William Blake Archive via Wikimedia.|
The Four Zoas
Urizen is one of The Four Zoas: The Torments of Love & Jealousy in The Death and Judgment of Albion the Ancient Man that result from the spiritual decline, the fallen Albion, emblem of the primordial spiritual Britain (Fig 4). Albion is divided into four Zoas, who have varying complex roles in Blake’s stories (Fig 5):
Tharmas: represents sensation and instinct
Urizen: a symbol of tyrannical reason and willful convention
Luvah: symbol of love and passion whose fallen form is Orc the rebel, opposed to Urizen
Urthona: the imagination, whose fallen form is Los, father of Orc.
Jerusalem was Blake’s final epic poem (c. 1818), a tale that explores the fall of Albion, who is Blake’s vision of Man through Jesus, and his ultimate redemption. Albion rejects Jerusalem, his female counterpart or Emanation. The labors of the prophet Los spare him from further spiritual decline. For he is ultimately reunited with Jerusalem, the divinity within him, and only then achieves spiritual freedom.
Blake was a radical luminary, much moved by the ideals and damages of the French and American Revolutions. His passionate invective repeatedly denounced poverty, child labor, political authority, industrialization, and the abuses of “every black’ning church.” A devout Christian, he believed in the messages of the Bible, but perhaps not in a traditional, celestial deity, for he remarked that all deities reside in the human breast as the power of imagination. He poured contempt on didactic, organized religion, which he saw as betraying the true Christian faith. Proverbs of Hell rebels against a Church viewed as oppressive, yet powerless to remedy the decadent prisons and brothels. He challenges the commonplace values of good and evil:
Prisons are built with stones of Law,
Brothels with bricks of Religion.
The pride of the peacock is the glory of God.
|Figure 5. Urizen, the Ancient of Days, in Europe, a Prophecy. British Museum via Wikimedia.|
The lust of the goat is the bounty of God.
The wrath of the lion is the wisdom of God.
The nakedness of woman is the work of God.
Whereas contemporary artists Turner and John Constable painted rural landscapes and seascapes, Blake painted the spiritual landscapes of his fervid imagination. He frequently experienced ecstatic and joyful visions and therefore was often thought of as mad.11 His wife Catherine once complained: “I have very little of Mr. Blake’s company. He is always in Paradise.”
Revealingly, he wrote: “I am more famed in Heaven for my works than I could well conceive. In my Brain are studies & Chambers filled with books & pictures of old, which I wrote & painted in ages of Eternity before my mortal life; & those works are the delight & Study of Archangels.”
The Poet Laureate Robert Southey dismissed him as “a man of great, but undoubtedly insane genius.” Gilchrist carefully defined the “special faculty” of his imagination, and vindicated the profound spiritual sanity of the “gentle yet fiery-hearted mystic… His playthings were sun, moon, and stars, the heavens and the earth.”12 Peter Ackroyd commented that he might have been “some star-child, or changeling, who withdrew into himself and into his own myth because he could not deal directly or painlessly even with the human beings closest to him.”
The visionary Blake was also down-to-earth. He strived to make his writings understandable, to illustrate and remedy commonplace daily events and lives at a time of social unrest. His implacable purpose in life was redemption: “To open the Eternal Worlds, to open the immortal Eyes of man …” He also realized that some of his conceits were, of necessity, obscure.8 Bronowski shrewdly observed that when we have learnt Blake’s language, we have still to judge what he said with it.
Blake was undoubtedly a vexing, confrontational character, who received much criticism. His strange isolation and exultant, supernatural visions caused many in his own time to deride him. His unique poetry and visual art were thus ignored or traduced. He understood the society that had unkindly rejected him, yet he showed compassion for the suffering and injustice he daily witnessed in London’s streets.5
|Fig 6. Blake’s gravestone at Bunhill|
It is impossible to condense adequately the vagaries of Blake’s imagery, transcendent beliefs, and social remedies. He advocated gender equality and sexual freedom: the pleasures of sexual union he celebrated as an entrance to a spiritual state. He opposed all repressive authority, marriage laws, and slavery.
In Jerusalem, he foresaw redemption based on forgiveness and self-sacrifice. He was solitary rather than arrogant in beliefs bred of his extraordinary prophetic phantasms and imagination. Apart from Swedenborg, in these he stands almost alone. Not surprisingly, in his lifetime, his works were doomed to obscurity.13
His many biographers remain perplexed by the strange, mystical forms of his characters, specters, and pictures. Modern scientists and physicians would disparage his drastic opposition to the single vision of scientific materialism. But it appears this opposition was based more on the danger he perceived of science’s rejection of a spiritual world than a denial of a coexisting science. Ordinary human perceptions are pale imitations of his numinous senses, the reality of his private eternity. His legacy perhaps was anticipated by the great Bard:
Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve
And, like this insubstantial pageant faded,
Leave not a rack behind. We are such stuff
As dreams are made on…
Blake influenced the artist Samuel Palmer and the Pre-Raphaelites Morris, Rossetti, and Swinburne; he was admired by WB Yeats, Allen Ginsberg, Bob Dylan, and Aldous Huxley. Many other-worldly notions in Philip Pullman’s trilogy His Dark Materials echo Blake’s The Marriage of Heaven and Hell. His legacy lies in his selfless, down-to-earth devotion to suffering humanity and his attempts to vanquish injustice, especially in what he saw as the “Thou shall not” manacles of Church and State.
After several attacks of abdominal pains, shivering, jaundice, and probable cholangitis (attributed by Keynes to “gallstones and inflammation of the gallbladder”), he died in Fountain Court, the Strand. His friend George Richmond wrote: “He died on Sunday night [August 12 1827] at 6 o’clock in a most glorious manner… Just before he died: His Countenance became fair—His eyes brighten’d and He burst out in Singing of the things he Saw in Heaven.”
He was buried next to Catherine at Bunhill Fields, Finsbury, notably a cemetery for non-conformists. (Fig 6)
- William Blake. Poetry Foundation. http://www.blakearchive.org/blake.
- Bentley G.E. The Stranger from Paradise: A Biography of William Blake. New Haven and London: Yale University Press for the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, 2001.
- Keynes G. William Blake: Poet Printer Prophet. London. Methuen 1965.
- Keynes, Geoffrey. The Writings of William Blake: Edited in Three Volumes. London: Nonesuch Press, 1925.
- Ackroyd Peter, Blake. London: Sinclair-Stevenson, 1995.
- Erdman David V., ed. The Complete Poetry & Prose of William Blake, with a commentary by Harold Bloom. New York: Anchor/Doubleday, 1982.
- Gillham D.G. William Blake. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1973. 40-54.
- Keynes Geoffrey, editor 2nd ed. Blake Complete Writings. Oxford University Press 1969.
- Bronowski Jacob (1972). William Blake and the Age of Revolution. Routledge & K. Paul.
- Michael Ferber, The Social Vision of William Blake. Princeton University Press, Princeton, 1985.
- Andrew M. Cooper. Blake and Madness: The World Turned Inside Out. Johns Hopkins University Press 1990; 57:585-642.
- Gilchrist Alexander. Life of William Blake (1863).
- Delphi Complete Works of William Blake (Illustrated) Delphi Classics; 2nd edition (14 Sept 2012).
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Many broadcasters have viewed the development of mobile TV with a combination of interest and caution. Early deployments, large-scale trials and industry events such as the IBC Mobile Zone have hinted at the potential of mobile TV. However, many broadcasters aren't yet convinced.
Broadcast mobile TV is certainly of interest to European broadcasters, despite the relatively slow take-up seen to date. Broadcasters are very aware that the opportunity to open up content delivery to mobile devices is a powerful tool in the constant battle to retain viewers and drive revenues through either subscription- or advertising-based business models. However, many are unsure how much priority to place on this delivery medium. (See Figure 1.)
This uncertainty is not fundamentally because of technology concerns. Today, the DVB-H standard is the clear choice, and the close similarity to the terrestrial DVB-T standard enables a very efficient reuse of architectures and networks. (See Figure 2 below.) Moreover, a series of launches and technology trials have proven the capabilities of a DVB-H-based transmission network. Despite this, there remains uncertainty over the viable business models and public interest levels. (See Figure 3 below.)
Mobile network operators
One major issue is that delivering TV to the mobile adds a formidable new player in the shape of mobile network operators (MNOs). The cellular operators hold the keys to the end viewers because of their existing connection and billing relationships with their customers.
Every mobile phone connected to the network is a two-way channel, and that is something that's been nirvana for broadcasters. It enables MNOs to provide personalized content and advertising to drive revenues, and cellular operators are developing products and services in order to hit home this advantage.
Nonetheless, looking at the bigger picture, the traditional broadcast network operators have key strengths of their own, rooted in their existing infrastructure and relationships with content owners and aggregators. This gives them an advantage over the mobile phone operators who today have neither the technology nor the content to make broadcast mobile TV truly commercially successful.
Broadcasters also have another advantage through their work with an understanding of conditional-access solutions. Mobile TV will succeed or fail through the quality of the experience for the user. And we can see from other areas of the video content delivery market that content providers are protective of their high-quality offering, going so far as to specify a mandatory baseline level of security.
Different screen sizes
On the technical side, there are a number of key areas that broadcasters need to address in order to make mobile TV a success. One of the issues that is currently a hot topic is how to address variations in screen size and type.
There is a school of thought regarding content, which states that broadcasters should simulcast existing broadcast content for DVB-H (with automatic reformatting to the resolution and screen refresh rate of mobile display devices). This is driven by research by Informa, which has shown that in order to help with the early adoption of this “third screen” by users, familiarity with the broadcast content is critical.
This simulcast methodology is beneficial in a number of areas, including cross-platform familiarity for users. The technology that performs this mobile TV encoding is now widely available, and the accepted codec formats are now clear as H.264 for video and High Efficiency AAC (HE-AAC) v2 for audio. Integrated silicon and handset devices that support these codecs are becoming widely available.
Infrastructure is another important consideration in rolling out a mobile TV network. The apparent consensus is that there will be a shared network approach to supporting broadcast mobile services as the economics and bandwidth do not seem to stack up for multiple overlapping competitive broadcast networks.
One of the opportunities for organizations with existing high-powered transmitters is to supply the infrastructure for broadcast mobile services as part of a national infrastructure. In some cases, the broadcasters own the existing transmission networks, although in many countries this is managed by a broadcast network operator. These infrastructure companies now have a huge opportunity to become the carrier for the new broadcast mobile services. Sites and planning for transmitters is becoming an ever increasing issue, especially in the developed world. There will be a land grab in order to secure enough locations to build these new transmission networks, but the traditional broadcasters have a huge headstart in this area.
Watching the trials
When reviewing the importance of mobile TV for broadcasters, it is also important to consider the different business drivers that exist in diverse territories across the globe. Increasing numbers are opting to purchase the mobile phone as their primary communications device. Consequently, the delivery of TV to mobile could be the best way for broadcasters to reach many of these new potential customers and thus drive market penetration. Results from recent DVB-H trials, which Nokia has announced in countries such as Indonesia and India, will be watched closely to see how these and other regional factors influence the take-up rate for mobile TV services.
Overall, broadcasters and broadcast network operators are in a prime position to use their existing infrastructure and relationships with content providers and their knowledge of digital headends and conditional access to extract the maximum benefit from the opportunity that mobile TV presents. However, to maximize the opportunity, there is a strong need for collaboration with the MNOs. Together, the content owners, the infrastructure providers and the MNOs can offer a convincing proposition to subscribers. This partnership can present the compelling content, the efficient distribution chain and the end customer relationship/ownership — the three essential elements needed to succeed. A proposition that excludes any one element of this offer is likely to be unsuccessful.
The time for broadcasters to commit to broadcast mobile TV is now to ensure that they can build and maintain market share in both existing and emerging markets.
Tim Sheppard is market manager for broadcast at Cisco's Service Provider Video Technology Group (formally Scientific Atlanta).
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“They’re just not my type” can be a blanket statement that covers a whole range of problematic judgements. Yes, it’s impossible to respond to every message, engage in every interaction, and go on every date to be socially sensitive (doing so might arguably be counterproductive and patronising), but is there a blurring between preference and prejudice?
Discrimination in the queer dating scene can rear its head in many ways. From random slurs being hurled on Grindr, to dodgy comments said in the face of rejection, outdated misconceptions of people from different ‘leagues’ (or demographics) dating each other, or presumptions about how someone masturbates.
Dating and Disability (an article I wrote for the December 2021 edition of GCN) explored this from my perspective of having a physical disability and how it has impacted my dating life thus far. It provoked some conversations between myself and others on their complicated routes through the dating world. This emphasised to me the many forms of queer intersectionality that exist and how they might impact on personal dating experiences. There are many ways of feeling othered, even in a minority group. My own experiences focused on how I can be seen. But what about those who feel othered for less visible reasons?
Neurodivergence (ND) is the term for people whose brains function differently in one or more ways than is considered standard or (neuro)typical (NT). Several recognised types of neurodivergence include; autism, anxiety disorder, depression, dyslexia, dyspraxia, attention deficit disorder (ADD), and obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD). I interviewed three people from the queer and neurodivergent community about their dating experiences. This selection of personal stories is just that and is not fully representative of the entire community -a community which is extremely varied.
With that, please meet Denise, Haris, and Charley:
WHEN DO YOU USUALLY TELL A DATE ABOUT BEING NEURODIVERGENT?
Denise Donnelly (They/Them), 31, Belfast: Usually I’ll tell them on the first date. Especially if my attention wanders, I’m struggling to make eye contact or lose my train of thought. I apologise for myself constantly, though I try not to do that as much anymore, but I’ll often explain that I have ADHD and it allows me to relax and be myself without having to explain some of my behaviours.
Haris Karakonstantakis (He/Him), 29, Dublin: It depends on how we met. I am quite clear about it on my online dating profile and most of my social media. But I am not always sure whether they have actually read it and/or understood what it means. I usually have no problem bringing it up anyway, but I will wait for the right opportunity rather than go “Hi, I’m Haris, Greek, screenwriter, autistic”.
Charley Utting (They/She), 30, Leitrim: It varies. As I have multiple neurodivergencies, dyslexia is easy to bring up early on as people are more familiar with it. Dyspraxia usually takes more explaining, so I tend to wait until that comes up naturally as it’s a lot more effort. As for my other probable neurodivergenices (Autistic Spectrum, OCD, ADD) they sort of come up a bit at a time due to my “kooky” personality, often I don’t get that far as folk might not like the personality traits I have because of them.
WHAT SORT OF REACTIONS DO YOU USUALLY GET?
Denise: I don’t think I’ve had a negative reaction and actually more often the other person will either have a current diagnosis or be pre-diagnosis and questioning their own neurodiverse identity. I’m bisexual and though I haven’t dated a cis-gendered man for many years, I have this feeling that I would have to consistently educate them on my gender identity and neurodiverse experience and I really don’t have the bandwidth to do that anymore. Whereas the queer people I have dated are much more self-educated and experienced with neurodiversity in themselves and/or others. Haris: Mixed. Some people dismiss it. Whether it’s because they have no idea what I just said or they get too awkward to address it, I don’t know. Some (probably most, but I guess that speaks more about my taste in men rather than what most people would do) ask why I feel the need to bring it up. I generally don’t know how to respond to that. I usually try to hide my frustration and just say something along the lines of “I am just trying to help you understand why I might be awkward/odd/whatever,” which I absolutely hate. But how do you even answer such a question? Mind you, I don’t think it always comes from a bad place. A good parallel would be when gay people are asked why they exhibit their sexuality and not keep it private. Yet, even gay people fail to understand that being autistic isn’t separate to my personality. Lastly, there are those that ask questions. I am completely open to that. I am a firm believer that education on such issues should come from within the community, at least to those that are open to it.
Charley: Varying, from people with very sympathetic looks (you’d think I’d told them I was terminally ill), to people who want to “save” me, to people who completely dismiss my neurodivergence, to people who think that I am looking for attention or handouts… to people who say they wish they were like me, as if I’m superhuman. I still don’t know how to respond to some of these, especially the people who seem to think I have some sort of super power. It’s not all bad though, there are the people who just get it. They usually just create a space where I feel supported, respected and comfortable telling them if something is an issue. They often do so with a bit of humour sometimes too. “So no scrabble in a noisy bar followed by ice-skating in asymmetric patterns for the second date then?” These are the best people, but they are so rare.
HOW DOES BEING NEURODIVERGENT AFFECT YOUR APPROACH TO DATING?
Denise: I try to suss people’s understanding and compassion levels as I’m speaking to them online and offline. I am probably far too hyper-vigilant but I find that if someone is flippant or dismissive of things like gender and sexuality it indicates to me that they are probably not going to be as understanding of neurodiversity either. I think I spend a lot of my time assessing whether the person I’m speaking to is “safe” to be myself around which makes me quite guarded and critical in my dating approach.
Haris: Being autistic is an integral part of my personality, I don’t know which parts of myself stem directly from it. I guess I struggle quite a lot with reading and understanding people, which is crucial during first dates. People have ghosted me and I never understood why (though isn’t that really a sign of our times?) and I can never ever tell whether someone likes me or not, which leaves me riddled with trust issues and potentially make me slightly more insecure and obsessive than I should be after a first date. I also feel quite comfortable expressing myself after a first date, discussing what I liked about the date and what I didn’t, which I have noticed that most neurotypicals interpret as me moving too fast. Or maybe it’s Irish men.
Charley: Honestly it makes me avoid it. Having to explain it all to someone (who probably won’t get it) is exhausting!
I don’t want a saviour or carer. I also don’t want to be called a liar, attention seeker or superhuman. I’ve taken to just socialising in spaces that are for NDs or Disabled LGBTQ+ folk (like Neuro Pride Ireland or Full Spectrum Ireland). Not that they are dating spaces, but at least if I do by chance meet someone through those spaces I know they’ll more than likely understand.
HAVE YOU EXPERIENCED DISCRIMINATION IN THE QUEER DATING SCENE? IF SO, HOW?
Denise: Since I have become very open on dating profiles about my gender and sexuality I don’t get as many matches. I’m okay with that though, it helps potentially weed out people who aren’t as understanding. Because I don’t tend to go on physical dates with people unless I feel they are relatively “safe” in terms of their values around gender/ sexuality/neurodiversity I don’t tend to witness it on a faceto-face basis. But I know being open on social media about my neurodiversity can sometimes put people off.
Haris: Some people won’t date me because I have long hair! Seriously though, not really. However, I think it’s because I am “lucky”. My autistic traits are mostly internal as far as I have discovered. “I don’t look autistic” as I often hear and want to pluck my eyes out with a pitchfork. I do believe that my behaviour scares guys away because of those autistic traits (I can be “too much” or “too awkward”), which I wouldn’t call discrimination per se. But most decide they don’t wanna wait around and discover what I have to offer past that.
Charley: I’ve been told I’m “too awkward to date” or I need to “compromise more” which makes me feel like I’m to blame and other people don’t need to work on their understanding. This hasn’t been said by prospective partners, but by others in the community when dating is brought up in conversation. You’re supposed to be honest and open in a relationship, to me masking my neurodivergence feels like a form of lying.
HOW DO YOU THINK NEURODIVERGENCY IS PERCEIVED BY THE WIDER QUEER COMMUNITY?
Denise: As someone who used to think they were neurotypical for most of their life; I think large parts of the queer community consciously and subconsciously “other” ND people and feel entitled to do so as they have experience “othering” themselves. It’s like “we are weird but they are weirder”. I definitely don’t think that is 100 percent the case though because I have been lucky enough to build a community of queer and some non-queer friends who acknowledge and value my identity and the identity of others. We are collectively trying to build and contribute to more inclusive spaces.
Haris: Unfortunately, awareness around neurodivergence, until very recently, wasn’t seen as hip or woke enough to be educated on, and the queer community was no exception. Thankfully though, adult neurodivergence is finally talked about. And it is crucial to be aware of it in the queer commmunity. Autistic people are around three times more likely to identify as bisexual. Studies have shown that around one to five percent of the general population is autistic. But if we focus on gender-diverse people that rises to around 25 percent.
Charley: We can be swept under the rug and treated like a nuisance if we don’t stay out of sight. Often we can be treated like children, not adults who have desires and wants.
It is still often assumed that if you’re ND you’re probably asexual (which is fine if you are) but I’d feel confident saying most of us aren’t, we can be very sexual, and that needs understanding. Honestly it results in a lot of people being in the closet, we’re out as LGBTQ+ but then hiding our ND side.
ARE THERE ANY BENEFITS OF BEING NEURODIVERGENT WHEN IT COMES TO DATING?
Denise: Now that I am educated on myself, needs, traits and triggers I can be more discerning and have better boundaries. I notice things emotionally and physically that others don’t and make connections that not everyone else sees. If I really like someone my hyper focus will have me planning and dreaming up ways to create something they like or facilitate an event that would make them happy. I have a really childlike awe of so much of the world and when I enjoy something I really enjoy it and I think that gives others permission to connect with that part of themselves too.
Haris: “Lol, no” would be the easy answer. But, I don’t really know. Or care. My neurodivergence is part of who I am and I wouldn’t change it for anything.
Charley: Because I’ve had to learn to read people, I find it fairly easy to tell when people are being less than fully honest, so it does help filter out the wheat from the chaff.
Not sure there’s many benefits to walking into stuff... though sometimes it can make for a funny story.
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The delicate flower hovering over the leaves like a flock of butterflies was just the start. Everything about this dainty plant drew me in: the slender and graceful stems, the heart shaped foliage, the lovely tracery of silver veins and variegations on the leaves.
There were flowers in candy pink, scarlet red, coral pink, violet-purple, pale pink kissed with darker pink, and pristine white. Could they possibly be fragrant, too? Faint aromas of lemon drifted up in affirmation. And that was the start of my love affair with florist’s cyclamen (Cyclamen persicum).
It looked like a fussy houseplant with its orchid-like refinement and elegance. I took one home to try it out and discovered that, for the most part, cyclamen are easy to grow. Here in NC, we mostly enjoy them as winter companions bringing blooms into the house when there are few to be had outdoors. They have a long bloom time, typically flowering through winter and into mid-spring.
If you observe two key cultural habits, you’ll be growing cyclamen like nobody’s business. The first is to put the plant’s pot into a deep saucer and water it by pouring water into the saucer instead of watering the crown of the plant. Cyclamen don’t like to be over watered, or under watered for that matter, and don’t do well when the crown stays wet.
I know; that does make them sound fussy when I said they weren’t, but it’s simpler than it sounds. Just water into the saucer when the soil surface feels dry, and then pour off any excess water after 10 minutes.
The second key to success with cyclamen is cool temperature. Next to the heater vent is not the place for them. Ideal temperatures are between 40°F and 50°F at night and less than 68°F during the day. If you keep them above 70°F inside a humidity-deficient home, they will decline over time. I find that a north or east-facing windowsill away from heater vents is a great spot for cyclamen. They like the cooler temps and bright, indirect light near the window. If you don’t have a cool window, you can chill things out by putting ice cubes in the saucer or on top of the soil instead of watering.
Conventional practices tell you to fertilize cyclamen every 3 or 4 weeks with a half-strength solution of water soluble fertilizer labeled for indoor plants. No doubt this is correct and proper, and will result in floriferous plants. That said, I have a confession to make: I never do that. A few times a season, I remember to add some Neptune’s Harvest kelp/fish fertilizer to the plant’s water and the plants do fine. Overfeeding usually stimulates an abundance of leaves at the expense of flowers, anyway.
Florist’s cyclamen are not generally meant to be a year-round plant. At least not here in Raleigh. When spring returns and temperatures rise, be prepared to see the plant stop flowering and the leaves start to yellow. At that point you can choose between composting or letting it go dormant. If you opt for the latter, gradually cease watering in spring as the plant goes dormant. If you keep them indoors, watering very sparingly, or place them outside in a shady spot. In fall, they may resume growth at which point you can bring them back inside and begin regularly watering and feeding them again.
Hardy cyclamen (Cyclamen hederifolium) are a species grown outdoors, different from the florist’s cyclamen houseplant. Their flowers on stems 2 to 4 inches tall begin appearing during the months of September, October and November, with the foliage continuing through winter into spring.
This Mediterranean native need shade, well-drained soil and protection from the excessive moisture of Triangle summers. Try planting them under trees, where few other plants will grow. The trees will suck up the excess moisture. They also are a good addition to the rock garden.
The best time to plant or transplant hardy cyclamen is during their dormant season, after they have finished flowering. Garden centers often carry the corms or tubers in the bulb department.
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Korea, or 한국, is a territory located on a peninsula in East Asia. From 1897 until 1910, the peninsula was under the rule of the Korean Empire, which had replaced the centuries-old Joseon Kingdom. The Korean Empire aligned with Russia in the Russo-Japanese War, which ended with Japanese victory in 1905. This badly damaged relations between Korea and Japan, and in 1910 Japan invaded the Korean Peninsula, defeating and abolishing the Korean Empire. Korean resistance fighters fled the country in the face of the brutal oppression of the population, and during World War II they aligned themselves with the Allied Forces against Japan.
In 1945, the Soviet Union and the United States agreed on the surrender of Japanese forces in Korea in the aftermath of World War II, leaving Korea partitioned along the 38th parallel, with the north under Soviet occupation and the south under U.S. occupation. In 1948, as a consequence of the breakdown of relations between the USSR and the USA, two separate Korean governments were founded: the Republic of Korea, or South Korea, on the southern half of the peninsula, based nominally on the democratic republican model of the USA, and the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, or North Korea, on the northern half, based on the Stalinist system of the USSR.
From 1950 to 1953, the two Koreas, each with powerful international supporters, fought an inconclusive but costly war, which ended in a ceasefire and a slight adjustment of the border with a 2-km demilitarized zone providing a buffer on either side. The military situation on the peninsula has been tense ever since.
In the immediate aftermath of the war both countries endured severe poverty as well as political repression. Into the early 1960s, the North's socialist economy grew at a faster rate than its Southern counterpart, which was hampered by a vicious cycle of military dictatorship and political instability. The North's economic growth stagnated from the 1960s to the mid-1980s, and was sent into a severe tailspin by widespread crop failures in 1986. The Southern economy, meanwhile, gradually improved thanks in large part to integration into the global trade network existing among the US and its Cold War allies. As of 2014, nearly 97% of the peninsula's GDP is generated in South Korea.
Democracy in South Korea has grown steadily stronger since the Sixth Republic was established in 1987. Meanwhile, in the North the Korean Workers' Party and in particular its hereditary dictators, the Kims, have held to power by increasingly draconian methods, particularly since the early- to mid-1990s when many other communist governments fell to internal pressure for political reforms. In 2014 a report by Amnesty International concluded that human rights violations in North Korea are so severe and so widespread that a new category had to be created to categorize its dismal record.
South Korea has cultivated strong diplomatic relations with many countries around the world, and has come to be widely seen as a responsible diplomatic partner, as evidenced by the 2007 election of South Korean foreign minister Ban Ki-Moon as Secretary-General of the United Nations. However, the United States remains the Republic's most important trading partner and military ally. Meanwhile, North Korea has grown diplomatically isolated since the break-up of the Communist Bloc in the early 1990s. The People's Republic of China has stepped into the void left by the dissolution of the USSR and become North Korea's main supporter in the international arena. However, the PRC also opened diplomatic relations with South Korea in 1992, and has maintained cordial if not always warm relations with Seoul ever since.
Korea had been ruled by Japanese for three decades by the time of their entry into World War II. The Japanese contemptuously viewed Koreans as being nothing than "hewers of wood and drawers of water." Many Koreans also lived in Hawaii, and up until the invasion, they made no secret of being glad they weren't part of the Empire to the Japanese residents of the islands. Some were police officers, a sight which many of the invading Japanese found disturbing and confirmed for them their belief that Americans were foolish.
Korea was rivaled only by Japan as an exporter of military electronics in the 22nd century. Korean technicians hired themselves out in a mercenary fashion to secret police forces across the world. One Korean technician helped the Palestinian security police in their vain attempt to capture four members of the Second Irgun.
The reference to "Korea" implies that North and South Korea have been unified as one country, but the story does not pursue the matter.
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If I could go ANYWHERE in the world, then where would I go? That's the question posed for our first writing assignment. Students utilize the Step-Up to Writing technigue. This incorporates colors for types of sentences. Green is the topic sentence. Yellow are the transition sentences....first, next, finally. Reds are the examples, explanations, or ellaboration that enhance the yellows. And finally another green to conclude their paragraphs.
Look carefully at their rough draft papers and you'll "get it".
Paragraphs are due this Friday, September 13th
Included is the Grading rubric and pictures of quality paragraphs.
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Chlamydia is a bacterial infection that can only be passed on through sexual contact with an infected individual. It rarely causes symptoms, but can be passed on months and sometimes years after the person was initially infected, which further aides its spread.
Despite its prevalence and contagious nature chlamydia is not considered a serious condition and can be treated early with a special course of antibiotics. However, if the condition is left untreated it can cause a range of complications including infertility or pelvic inflammatory disease. For this reason it’s important to get tested regularly.
If you’ve had unprotected sex with someone who has chlamydia then the chances are that you have it to. If you have it then you’ll pass it on to any future sexual partners that you have.
Most people have no symptoms of chlamydia and completing an STD test is often the first indication that they have of the condition. However, some people develop symptoms which include:-
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Located on the docks of the port of Marseille, Villa La Mediterranee incorporates the sea and surrounding landscape into a dynamic architectural design.
The iconic public building which houses research, documentation and projects that concern the contemporary Mediterranean, represents the idea of space and water to reflect the geographical makeup of Marseille.
Through the development of intricate spaces and paths created from a mixture of concrete and steel, the structure is divided by the overlap of the three parallel levels and a horizontal level which develop above and below sea level respectively.
The project was designed to give back to the sea, which is represented through placing the sea at the heart of the design. The square of water, connected to the dock, is the focus of the project; with a large exhibition hall suspended 14 metres above to perfectly frame the water. While, for theatrical events and conferences, a 2500 square meter space resides under the sea level.
Although the sea is a pivotal element in the design, it is not reserved as a decorative element, in fact, the body of water becomes a useful space for docking and navigation, entertaining, and showcasing a range of public events. A truly pioneering concept.
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A survey done by the National Statistical Office (NSO) shows a fall in consumer spending in 2017-18 for the first time in four decades.
The survey was conducted by the NSO for the period between July 2017 and June 2018, i.e. partly after demonetisation and the period of implementation of the Goods and Service Tax law. The survey has found that consumer spending fell by 8.8% in rural areas in 2017-18. However, consumer spending in cities rose by 2% over six years. The fall in consumer spending is due to slack rural demand.
As reported by Business Standard, one of the key indicators of the survey is the household consumer expenditure in India. The survey reveals that the average amount of money spent by a person in a month fell by 3.7% to Rs 1,446 in 2017-18 from Rs 1,501 in 2011-12. The figures for monthly per capita consumption expenditure (MPCE) are in real terms, meaning these have been adjusted for inflation, keeping 2009-10 as the base year. In 2011-12, the real MPCE had risen 13% over a period of two years.
According to Himanshu, an Associate Professor at Jawaharlal Nehru University’s Centre for Economic Studies and Planning, the last time the NSO showed a fall in consumption in real terms was in 1972-73, due to global oil crisis. Prior to that, in the mid-1960s, consumption fell due to a domestic food crisis.
The survey shows a decline in food consumption which implies malnutrition. On average, rural people spent Rs 580 on a monthly basis on food in 2017-18, almost a 10% fall from Rs 643 in 2011-12 (both in real terms). Urban people spent Rs 946 every month in 2017-18, compared to Rs 943 in 2011-12, reflecting muted growth.
The spending on non-food items, such as durable goods, clothing, education, and rent, saw a decline by 7.6% in 2017-18 in rural parts and a hike by 3.8% in urban areas as compared to 2011-12.
Economic commentators and industry watchers have been attributing the fall in economic growth to a lack of demand. India’s gross domestic product (GDP) growth fell to 6.8% in 2018-19 compared to 7.2% in 2017-18 and 6.8% in 2016-17. In the April-June quarter for FY 2019-20, the GDP growth stood at a six-year low of 5%. For the July-September quarter, the GDP growth is likely to be around 4%.
Sources say that the government has appointed a committee to look into the data and also claimed that there was no defect in the report published by NSO.
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In every country, power and water are vital to economic development – the pillars, in fact, of such progress-and in this respect Saudi Arabia is no different from the rest. Where it does differ, however, is in the difficulties involved in providing enough of both to meet its rapidly rising requirements.
With an average rainfall of between 30 to 100 millimeters a year, for example (one to four inches), Saudi Arabia is one of the most arid countries on earth; as a result, people unable to survive in the desert have often had to migrate. Now, however, and for the first time, the country, despite limited water resources, must cope with an influx of hundreds of thousands of people-from Yemeni laborers to American business executives - drawn by the kingdom's economic boom.
The problems are compounded, furthermore, by the uneven geographic distribution of rainfall. The southwest mountain region of'Asir, for example - the region known as "Felix," or "Fortunate," Arabia -receives about 508 millimeters (20 inches) of rain a year from the monsoons that blow off the Indian Ocean. This area, consequently, is relatively green and fertile, while the southern deserts - the "Empty Quarter" - may receive no rain at all for up to 10 years.
But although it is predominantly dry on the surface - it has no perennial lakes, rivers or streams - the Arabian Peninsula has lots of water stored in enormous underground aquifers - geological strata of permeable rock and sand - located between 90 and 425 meters (300 and 1,400 feet) below ground.
Some of this - called "fossil" water because of its age - emerges on the surface through natural springs, and where it does - for example, at al-Hasa and Qatif in the Eastern Province - rich oases are to be found. But most of the water remains locked underground as it has been for thousands of years and will most probably stay there for some time to come; for although modern drilling techniques can now reach deep into the earth to get it, Saudi authorities are controlling the extraction of this water cautiously. Since this fossil water is irreplaceable, the government is going slowly until studies can determine just how much is there.
It is true that some wells have been drilled: 450 during the first four years of the second Five Year Development Plan, to supply 280 water projects in various parts of the kingdom. But for the time being, Saudi Arabia is concentrating on optimizing use of its renewable natural water resources —i.e., rain. This, however, means overcoming yet another problem: what little rain does fall tends to do so in sudden, torrential downpours that turn into flash floods and wash away topsoil, uproot trees, drown livestock and damage homes, then evaporate or disappear in the desert sands just as quickly as they came.
To hold back these flash floods and store water for limited periods, the Saudi Arab government has built more than 50 dams all over the kingdom; the largest are the Wadi Najran Dam, with a storage capacity of 85 billion liters (22.45 billion gallons) and the Jizan Dam, with a capacity of 51 billion liters (13.47 billion gallons) both in the southwest of the Peninsula.
These dams, in the words of one Saudi water official, have "reduced the risk to farmers' livelihoods [from flooding] by 100 per cent, and increased the certainty of them getting water to 90 per cent." In fact, farmers in 'Asir can now irrigate their lands five and even six times a year; whereas in the past they had no more than a few chances to harness a tiny fraction of the seasonal rains.
In addition, traditional dirt ditch irrigation methods - which lost 30 per cent of water through seepage and evaporation -are being replaced by elaborate networks of underground pipes and sprinklers and concrete-lined canals, reducing still further rain water wastage.
The lack of water is also a factor in the kingdom's need for electricity - and in its provision of electricity too. Lacking rivers and permanent lakes - even the dammed-up lakes dry up quickly after the rains -Saudi Arabia has no way to generate hydro-electric power. Yet, in solving its water problem, the kingdom also helps solve its power problem in a way uniquely practical on the Arabian Peninsula: because it is surrounded by seas, Saudi Arabia can produce both fresh water and electric power by de-salting seawater.
Desalination, as this process is known, did not begin in Saudi Arabia until 1969, but has been expanded considerably since. Today 11 plants are in operation: eight on the western Red Sea shore, and three on the eastern Gulf coast - including the largest desalination complex in the world, near Jubail.
At this complex - in an area called al-Wusta - some 832 million liters (220 million gallons) of water will be produced by 46 giant evaporators every day, and over half of it pumped by twin 152-centimeter diameter pipelines (60 inches) to Riyadh, 500 kilometers (310 miles) away, where a city feeder system - three 203-centimeter pipelines (80 inches) - will circulate it through Riyadh. Combined with water from the recently commissioned 197 million liter-a-day (52 million gallons) Wasia groundwater scheme, this should meet the capital's needs well into the future.
To meet future demand for water elsewhere, work is also underway on expanding existing desalination plants and constructing new ones. Already the kingdom's total production from these plants is more than 1.9 billion liters a day (500 million gallons)—releasing considerable quantities of natural water, now being consumed by the cities, for agricultural use.
The water itself, obviously, is vital, but the desalination process offers a bonus; these plants will also generate electricity from the waste heat. Already, in fact, they produce more than 4,000 megawatts of by-product electrical power, and are helping fulfill the late King Faisal's promise to his people that electricity would reach every house and every village in the kingdom.
In the West, where consumers now take electricity for granted, this might not seem worthy of note, but considering the size of Saudi Arabia and the fact that its first public power generating station was opened in Taif in the late 1940s, electrification is one of the kingdom's biggest success stories of the past decade. With power lines extended thousands of miles to outlying settlements, the supply has increased to meet the spiraling demands of new factories, hospitals, hotels and schools, as well as the millions of modern appliances installed in Saudi homes.
Initially, faced with steeply rising urban demand, private city-based power companies instituted huge expansion programs - funded mainly by interest-free government loans. In addition, the government itself implemented numerous projects to provide electricity to rural and remote areas not covered by the power companies.
Two government projects alone, in Asir and in the southwest, have electrified some 900 villages - while others in Ha'il, Najran and Namas bring power to 600 more.
But the biggest, boldest steps in the power picture have been the ones taken by the government in creating regional public utility companies by consolidating private firms. Such government-subsidized organizations are now providing power in the Eastern, Central, Western and Southern provinces of the kingdom — with a public utility for the Northern area on the drawing boards.
Beginning in 1977 with the establishment of the fust Saudi Consolidated Electric Company (SCECO) in the Eastern Province, massive electricity generation and supply programs are being tackled on a regional basis with the infusion of government funds to construct modern facilities and meet modern power demands head on.
Aramco provided assistance in the establishment of the original SCECO, which involved the consolidation of 26 private power companies in the Eastern Province and Aramco's own high voltage network and the bulk of its generating facilities into a single, efficient unit. In 1982, only a few villages in the 285,000-square-kilometer Eastern Province (110,000 square miles) remain without electricity.
During its first five years of operation, this utility boosted total generating capacity from 1,100 to 3,140 megawatts - with an additional 1,300 megawatts under construction - and more than doubled the number of customers from 90,000 to 195,000, many in remote villages which previously had no power.
One of the consolidated electric company's key payoffs can be seen in improved service. Today, when 100 per cent nighttime humidity and sand-laden high winds cause power outages, local maintenance crews set out, regardless of time and weather, to quickly locate and repair the fault; dispatchers in computerized control rooms watch remotely relayed weather data and, as temperatures climb, bring additional generators into service to meet anticipated increased consumption by air conditioners and water pumps - before it occurs; and tool-girded linemen proudly report to a district office that they have successfully installed a new section of feeder line over what has been called "impossible terrain."
SCECO in the Eastern Province, the oil-heart of the kingdom, must meet power demands both from that industry and a host of others - and their populations - exemplified by the industrial metropolis building at Jubail. Along with some 60 gas turbines and 25 diesel generators, SCECO East employs four giant 400-megawatt steam turbines at the kingdom's largest steam generation plant at Ghazlan on the Gulf coast. The latter is the hub of the province's 4,766 circuit-kilometers of transmission lines.
SCECO in the Central Province, founded in 1979, is built around the hub furnished by the Riyadh Electric Company and serves the kingdom's capital and a number of growing towns and villages. SCECO Central will be able to draw up to 200 megawatts from SCECO East in 1984 via a 230-kilovolt circuit which will be completed from Wasia to Riyadh - Saudi Arabia's first inter-regional circuit and the first step toward a national power grid.
In the Southern Province SCECO was established in 1980 - to oversee the electrification of numerous small villages in a predominantly agricultural area - and in the Western Province SCECO assumed responsibility for supplying power to the key port of Jiddah, the religious centers of Makkah and Medina (which see their population soar to 3,000,000 for two weeks every year at the time of the Hajj or Pilgrimage), the summer government headquarters of Taif and outlying villages. It was established in 1981.
Meanwhile, with an eye on the more distant future, the Saudi Arab government is investing vast sums of money in the development of solar power, including installation of a $16.5-million experimental solar energy system to electrify two villages north of Riyadh.
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Sometimes we hurt (suffer) in our hearts or bodies, but we don’t know why this is happening. Although we may never know the answers until Jesus comes, but God does offer comfort for our trials and sufferings now. Let’s see what the Bible says.
First of all, remember that no one is alone in going through tough times. Jesus is with us in our suffering. Look at, Hebrews 2:18, TLB. "For since He Himself has now been through suffering and temptation, He knows what it is like when we suffer and are tempted, and He is wonderfully able to help us."
Do people suffer because they have been bad? Not necessarily, as we can see from what Jesus said in John 9:2-3, TLB. "’Master, His disciples asked Him, ‘why was this man born blind? Was it a result of his own sins or those of his parents?’ “Neither,” Jesus answered. ‘But to demonstrate the power of God.’"
Did Jesus promise His followers would never suffer? It’s in the Bible, "And everyone will hate you because you are Mine and are called by My name. But not a hair of your head will perish! For if you stand firm, you will win your souls"(Luke 21:17-19, TLB).
Why does God allow good people to suffer? Doesn’t God care? Of course God cares! When we suffer, God Himself is the one who helps us through. It’s in the Bible, He heals the brokenhearted and binds up their wounds. (Psalm 147:3)
I think that it’s unfair that good people should have to suffer. We think so too, but it’s not God who is unfair. Sin is unfair. We live in a sinful world. Remember that when Jesus was on earth, He was good, kind, and perfect to everyone. But sinful people put Him on the cross, even you and me. It’s in the Bible, 1 Peter 2:24, NKJV, "who Himself bore our sins in His own body on the tree, that we having died to sins, might live for righteousness – by whose stripes you were healed." You can read more about how Jesus suffered for you and me, because He loves us so! Isaiah 53:3-5.
Can any good come out of something that hurts so much? As surprising as it may be, we are told in the Bible, yes. "Beloved, do not think it strange concerning the fiery trial which is to try you, as though some strange thing happened to you; but rejoice to the extent that you partake of Christ’s sufferings, that when His glory is revealed, you may also be glad with exceeding joy” (1Peter 4:12, 13, NKJV). That means, not only that we shouldn’t be surprised, but we should be glad because we get an idea of how Christ suffered for you and me!
Suffering can be a time to grow closer to God – maybe even making us happier because of it. See for yourself in James 1:2-3, NIV, "Consider it pure joy, my brothers and sisters, whenever you face trials of many kinds, because you know that the testing of your faith produces perseverance."
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Eating from a smaller plate can actually cause you less likely to overeat. There have been studies that show that people will most likely eat what is on the plate no matter how big or small the portions are.
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Some people prefer not to use less butter or replace it with a butter substitute. Some people enjoy authentic butter. You don’t have to stop using butter from your diet if you want to lose weight. All you need to do is use whipped butter instead.Whipped butter contains half the calories of regular butter.
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Hang out with your active friends more to lose weight more quickly. When we hang around people who enjoy being active, it’s likely to rub off on us. A constant television watcher is not going to encourage you to be active.
Try eating a larger meals at home prior to heading off to a party so that you can avoid temptation. This will prevent you from cracking when you see the food that is bad for you at the party. You can also try sipping wine instead of mixed drinks or beer.
Group exercise adds a social element to the activity that makes it more fun and motivating way to lose weight. Walk around with some friends.Go out and play some basketball or softball with your friends. There are many fun activities available that will help you lose weight.
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From teenage rebel to elder stateswoman, Dorothy Hewett's life as a poet and dramatist has followed the steps of Sally Banner, her iconic heroine in The Chapel Perilous doing battle on behalf of the forces of life. In turn she has shocked, outraged and seduced her public.
The Chapel Perilous
The painful and sometimes farcical life of a defiant young poet, Sally Banner, as she attempts—through her school days, lovers, marriage and politics—to extract meaning from her environment. Music by Frank Arndt.
Also published as a single edition and available in Australian Women's Drama
This Old Man Comes Rolling Home
A play centred on family life in working-class Redfern in the 1950s which captures the colour, spirit and political character of the inner-city suburb. Hewett who lived in Redfern during the Cold War, wrote that her aim was 'to write of a self-contained world ... with its own language, its own folklore, its own values, its own ethos, to write of it with both realism and poetry'.
Mrs Porter and the Angel
An exploration of the frustrations of domesticity and marriage in the lives of academic women.
The Tatty Hallow Story
No two versions of Tatty are alike in this conjuring of fantasies about an enigmatic, ageless blonde. A black comedy about ageing, faded beauty and accepting eccentricity.
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Mon Aug 4 14:17:33 UTC 2008
Debarshi Ray wrote:
> The raw data can be easily arranged for. Off the top of my head, I
> know atleast 4 GSoCers from India who have worked with Fedora and most
> of them should be on this list. Thanks to the search engines, the rest
> can be easily arranged.
Yay !! For human memory :)
> Do you want the data to be dumped somewhere?
I do. Along with details/link of their projects
http://www.gutenberg.net - Fine literature digitally re-published
http://www.plos.org - Public Library of Science
http://www.creativecommons.org - Flexible copyright for creative work
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i. IN TWELVER SHIʿISM.
On the question of free will, the whole view of the Imams amounts to a famous saying by Imam Jaʿfar al-Ṣādeq (d. 148/765): lā jabr wa lā tafwīż wa lāken amr bayn amrayn “neither complete constraint nor complete freedom but something in between” (Kolaynī I, p. 160, Hadith no.13; Ebn Bābawayh, 1387, p. 362 sec. 8 , Madelung, 1970, p. 18, footnote 1). The saying could be interpreted in different ways. It could be read in a way conforming to the Muʿtazilite thesis that human beings have real freedom to act (lā jabr) but this does not, morally speaking, give them a license to do as they please (la tafwīzµ); for God has fixed rules and allowed certain things and forbidden others. This was the position adopted by Shaikh Mofīd (Šarhá, pp. 201 ff.), and before him, according to Moḥammad-Bāqer Majlesī (V, pp. 23.6 ff., 72.17 ff.), by Imam Abū Moḥammad Ḥasan b. ʿAlī ʿAskarī (q.v.). This appears to be Jaʿfar al-Ṣādeq’s own preferred gloss on his comment, for when he was asked what the “something in between” was, he replied, “Suppose you come across a man about to commit a crime, you try to dissuade him but he does not desist. You let him do it, and he commits the crime. Now it is not because he did not listen to you and you did not manage to dissuade him that you are the person who ordered him to commit the crime” (Ebn Bābaway, tr. Fyzee, p. 33). As quoted in another Hadith, Jaʿfar al-Ṣādeq appears even more explicit: “If God had granted full authority to mankind (law fawważa elayhem), he would not have bridled them with commands and interdictions” (Kolaynī, I, p. 159, sec. 11). It would seem implausible, however, that this would have been, at the beginning, the intended sense of the dictum in question; for, as Ašʿarī explained (p. 41.4-5), the real intention of the supporters of this formula was to range themselves against both the Muʿtazilites (regarded as followers of the doctrine of tafwīzµ) and the Jahmites (advocates of jabr). It was a matter of defining a doctrine of the golden mean between these two contradictory views, not a simple and self-evident proposition. According to some accounts, when asked to elucidate the problem, Jaʿfar al-Ṣādeq would resort to evasive answers (Kolaynī, I, p. 159, sections 8-11) going as far as saying to his interlocutor, with a wave of his hand indicating his perplexity, “Were I to answer that question, I might commit a blasphemy,”(Ebn Bābawayh, 1387, p. 363, sec. 11). It would be true to say that the very manner in which Jaʿfar al-Ṣādeq enunciated these two conflicting theses lacked clarity. At times, he apparently took jabr to mean that God could “compel mankind to trespass” and yet punish them afterwards for it (Kolaynī, I, p. 159, secs. 8-9, 11; Ebn Bābawayh, 1387, p. 360, secs. 5-6), and at other times that God “was capable of imposing upon them things beyond their capability” (Kolaynī, I, p. 160, sec. 14; cf. also Ebn Bābawayh, 1387, p. 362, sec. 9) both instances negating divine justice. As for tafwīż, that would imply either that things could happen here on earth without His wish (Kolaynī, I, p. 158, sec. 6; p. 159, sec. 9; p.160, sec. 14) or that the transgressions of mankind did not depend on His might (al-maʿāṣī be-ḡayre qowwate’llāh, ibid., p. 158, sec. 6) both cases denying or limiting His absolute sovereignty (solṭān).
It will be noted that in the terminology used by Jaʿfar al-Ṣādeq and others of the same view, the essential question of knowing if, given the preceding account, human actions are or are not created by God, was not posed (cf. Ašʿarī, p. 41, sec.6). The theologian who did confront this problem was Jaʿfar al-Ṣādeq’s contemporary Hešām b. Ḥakam. Hešām, too, acknowledged an “intermediary doctrine” in this matter. According to him, although human acts are created by God, they could be said to be both free and compulsory at the same time: free, because they depend on human volition and compulsory, because they proceed from a cause (sabab) produced by God (Ašʿarī, p. 40, 12 ff. and p. 43, 1-4).
Based on the sayings of the Imams (Jaʿfar al-Ṣādeq, and also ʿAlī al-Reżā,) the doctrine of lā jabr wa lā tafwīż, in the anti-Muʿtazilite sense of the expression, has remained in force in traditionist Imamism, for which Qom became, in the 3rd/9th and 4th/10th centuries, the principal center. The doctrine was expounded by Kolaynī and, chiefly, Ebn Bābawayh (q.v.). In his Eʿteqādāt, Ebn Bābawayh also strove to define this middle position advocated by his predecessors. On the one hand, he upheld the principle that God wills whatever exists, making use of the saying“what God wills, exists, what he does not will does not exist” (p. 71, sec.1). On the other hand, he interpreted that as simply meaning that God “has willed it so that nothing happens without His knowledge (p. 69, sec. 12). Ebn Bābawayh did not, anymore than Jaʿfar al-Ṣādeq, clearly state that God willed the transgressions of mankind. In this respect he used somewhat convoluted formulae reminiscent of those used by the sunni theologian Ašʿārī (p. 70.8-14; cf. Gimaret, p. 306 ff). Like Hešām, he maintained that human deeds are created by God, but not to the extent that God makes them happen (ḵalq takwīn) but only to the extent that He predetermines (ḵalq taqdīr) them, i.e., to the extent that, in all eternity, He knows how they will be.
A major change took place at the end of the 4th/10th century. The Imamite theologians of the School of Baghdad, following the Muʿtazilite theses in this respect, managed to impose their views against those of the traditionists of Qom. In his Šarḥ ʿaqāʾed al-Ṣadūq, Shaikh Mofīd completely rejected Ebn Bābawayh’s position. In his view, following Muʿtazilite doctrine, God does not will in any way the sins of mankind (Šarḥ, pp. 202-7), and he is in no sense the creator of their actions (pp. 197-201). The term lā tafwīż, as said above, simply meant, according to him, that God had imposed a law on mankind (pp. 201 ff.).
This became accepted, from this juncture, as the established position in Twelver Shiʿism, as adopted by Šarīf Mortażā, Abū Jaʿfar Ṭūsī, later by ʿAllāma Ḥellī, and later still by Majlesī. From then on, the Imamite theologians differed only on points of detail, depending which Muʿtazilite school they followed. Thus Shaikh Mofīd, a disciple of the Muʿtazilites of Baghdad, denied that mankind could be qualified as ḵāleq (Awāʾel, pp. 64, 13 ff.) while, as disciples of the Basran Muʿtazilites, Šarīf Mortażā and later Shaikh Ṭūsī thought otherwise (cf. Ṭūsī, VI, pp. 234-35, 369-70). On the question of the way human action was produced, ʿAllāma Ḥellī, like his teacher Naṣīr-al-Dīn Ṭūsī, followed the doctrine of Abu’l-Ḥosayn Baṣrī (Schmidtke pp. 125-35).
In Zaydī Shiʿism. Zaydī Shiʿism on the whole went through the same evolution as Twelver Shiʿism but from an earlier date. On the question of the status of human actions, the earliest Zaydī authors, notably Abū Ḵāled Wāseṭī, were very clearly anti-Muʿtazilite (Madelung, l965, pp. 53-69; Sezgin, GAS I p. 557). But from the 3rd/9th century, with the imam Qāsem Rassī (Madelung 1965, pp. 117-29) and later specially with the imams Ḥasan b. Zayd and Yaḥyā b. Ḥosayn al-Hādī ela’l-Ḥaqq, it was the Muʿtazilite point of view which definitely carried the day (ibid, pp. 153 ff.).
Abu’l-Ḥasan ʿAlī b. ʿEsmāʿīl Ašʿarī, Maqālāt al-eslāmīyīn, ed. H. Ritter, 2nd. ed. Wiesbaden, l963.
Shaikh Ṣadūq Abū Jaʿfar Mohammad Ebn Bābawayh (Bābūya), Resālat al-eʿteqādāt, Tehran, 1370 Š./1992; tr. A. A. A. Fyzee as A Shīʿite Creed, rev. ed., Tehran, 1982.
Idem, Ketāb al-tawḥīd, ed. H. Ḥosaynī Tehrānī, Tehran, 1387/1967.
D. Gimaret, La doctrine d’al-Ashʿarī, Paris, 1990.
Moḥammad b. Yaʿqūb Kolaynī, al-Oṣūl men al-Kāfī, 2 vols., ed. ʿA.-A. Ḡaffārī, Tehran, 1375/1955; repr. Beirut, 1405/1985.
M. J. McDermott, The Theology of al-Shaikh al-Mufīd, Beirut, l978.
W. Madelung, Der Imam al-Qasim ibn Ibrāhīm und die Glaubenslehre der Zaiditen, Berlin, l965.
Idem, “Imamism and Muʿtazilite Theology,” in T. Fahd, ed., Le Shīʿīsme imāmite, Paris, l970, pp. 13-30.
Moḥammad-Bāqer Majlesī, Beḥār al-anwār, 110 vols., Tehran, l956-72.
Moḥammad b. Moḥammad Shaikh Mofīd, Awāʾel al-maqālāt fi’l-maḏāheb wa’l-moḵtārāt, ed. F. Zanjānī, Najaf, 1393/1973.
Idem, Šarḥ ʿaqāʾed al-Ṣadūq, ed. H. Šahrastānī, Najaf, 1393/1973 (published as part of the preceding volume).
S. Schmidtke, The Theology of al-ʿAllāma al-Ḥillī, Berlin, 1991.
Abū Jaʿfar Ṭūsī, al-Tebyān fī tafsīr al-Qorʾān, Najaf, 1376/1957.
ii. IN ISMAʿILI SHIʿISM
Free will versus predestination was an important theological debate, with political implications, in Muslim society dating back to Omayyad times. The Ismaʿilis adopted an intermediate position in this debate and eventually accommodated the relevant issues within their theological doctrines. At one extreme, a variety of Islamic movements and schools of thought espoused the predestinarian view, initially designated as Jabrīya, holding that man’s deeds as well as good and evil resulted from God’s decrees and pre-ordination. At the other extreme, there were those, originally designated as Qadarīya by their opponents, who recognized the freedom of human will and the individual’s moral responsibility for his deeds. Both the Jabrīya and the Qadarīya based their arguments on verses from the Koran that supported their views. By early ʿAbbasid times, the Moʿtazilites took over the Qadarite belief in human free will and argued that man can establish the truths of religion on the basis of reason, without any need of divine guidance. In other words, they held that God in the Islamic revelation had shown the believers the “right path” for attaining salvation and reward in paradise, and had then left it to man to determine rationally what was good or evil. Thus, man’s ultimate destiny as a rational and free agent depended on himself. However, the majority of Sunni traditionalists, representing the mainstream of Muslim thought, eventually rejected Qadarism and adopted a form of predestinarianism as propounded by Ashʿarism.
The classical Ismaʿili view in this theological debate dates to the 4th/10th century, the early Fatimid period of Ismaʿili history. The earliest evidence for the “intermediate” Ismaʿili position may be found in the numerous extant works of the dāʿī Abū Yaʿqūb Sejestānī (see Walker, 1993, pp. 107-42). Similar “intermediate” views, rejecting both jabr and qadar, were expounded by the foremost Fatimid jurist Qāżī Noʿmān (Majāles, pp. 377-82), and the dāʿī Ḥamīd-al-Dīn Kermānī (fols. 151-52), culminating in the writings of Nāṣer-e Ḵosrow (died after 465/1072). These Ismaʿili authors drew on their earlier Imami Shiʿite heritage, especially the doctrine of the imamate which articulated the permanent need of mankind in all spiritual matters for divine guidance. Indeed, it was the standard view of the early Imami Shiʿites that God does determine the course of events at any time, but He has not pre-ordained it, and that He has not created man either as an infidel or a believer without responsibility for making choices. The Imami position itself, representing an intermediate position between constraint (jabr) and empowerment (qadar), is attested to by a Hadith reported from Imam Jaʿfar-al-Ṣādeq (d. 148/765). Concerning human free will versus predestination, the Imam had said “lā jabr wa lā tafwīż [qadar] wa lāken amr bayn amrayn” (see Kolaynī, I, pp. 159-60). Nāṣer-e Ḵosrow refers to this very Hadith in elaborating his own “intermediate” stance in this debate (1998, text, pp. 74-75, tr., pp. 113-14).
The Ismaʿili dāʿīs and authors of the Fatimid period further elaborated the earlier Imami views on the debate in question in their complex metaphysical systems of thought, holding that both the Jabrite and the Qadarite positions were rooted in a misunderstanding of the Koran and, indeed, the immutable spiritual truths (ḥaqāʾeq) of religion. By emphasizing a fundamental distinction between the exoteric (ẓāher) and the hidden esoteric (bāṭen) dimensions of religion, the Ismaʿilis from early on argued that these religious truths, concealed in the bāṭen, transcend human reason. As a result, man solely by his own efforts could never comprehend these truths and rationally choose the “right path” to salvation, even though he is endowed with the gift of the intellect and is free to make certain choices. According to Ismaʿili Shiʿite theology, the knowledge of the religious truths (ḥaqāʾeq) is available only to those infallible (maʿṣūm) authorities who are “firmly versed in knowledge” (al-rāseḵūn fi’l-ʿelm); they alone truly understand the real meaning of the Koran and the commandments and prohibitions of the sacred law of Islam (šarīʿa) and can, thus, act as trustworthy guides, interpreting through taʾwīl or esoteric exegesis the true spiritual message of the Islamic revelation (Qāżī Noʿmān, Daʿāʾem, I, pp. 22-24; Kermānī, fols. 134, 144-45; Moʾayyad fi’l-Dīn Šīrāzī, I, pp. 276, 452-53; Nāṣer-e Ḵosrow, Wajh-e dīn, pp. 11-14; Walker, 1996, pp. 26-83; de Smet, pp. 350-77).
In the era of Islam, the required authoritative guidance in religion would be provided initially by the Prophet Moḥammad, and then by his waṣī, or legatee, ʿAlī b. Abī Ṭāleb, and subsequently, until the end of time, by the rightful imams in ʿAlī’s progeny—the imams acknowledged by the Ismaʿilis. More than any of his Ismaʿili predecessors, Nāṣer-e Ḵosrow dealt with this theological issue (see also his Dīwān, pp. 21-22; Jāmeʿ al-ḥekmatayn, pp. 135-44; Zād al-mosāferīn, especially pp. 430-86). All the major Ismaʿili authors of the Fatimid period held that man’s destiny is not predestined as, in a sense, he is responsible for choosing between good and evil. However, they also refuted the Qadarite position by believing that man by himself is not capable of making the right choices rationally for moving along the spiritual ladder of salvation towards knowing God and his own origins in the universe because he lacks the required knowledge. In every age or dawr (q.v.), therefore, man is in need of the guidance of a divinely-appointed and protected hierarchy of authoritative teachers—the prophet and after him the rightful imam of the time. In its classical statement, Ismaʾili theology, thus, remained essentially revelational rather than rational, despite its promotion of a personal quest for knowledge and the importance attached to philosophical inquiry by many learned Ismaʿili theologians.
Later, the inadequacy of human intellect (ʿaql) in knowing God and the necessity at all times of an authoritative teacher (moʿallem-e ṣādeq) for the spiritual guidance of men were restated by Ḥasan-e Ṣabbāḥ in terms of the doctrine of taʿlīm, or authoritative teaching, which provided the basis for all the Nezārī Ismaʿili teachings of the Alamūt (483-654/1090-1256) period and subsequent times. Similar views, always pointing to an “intermediate” solution, were later expressed by Naṣīr-al-Dīn Ṭūsī (d. 672/1274) in his spiritual autobiography, Sayr wa solūk (text, pp. 4-5, 17-19, tr. pp. 27-29, 47-50), written while he was in the fortress communities of the Nezārī Ismaʿilis of Persia.
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Originally Published: December 15, 2000
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