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Continuing from the Step/Skip worksheet in Part 1, this next worksheet focuses on Skips (3rd). Students will learn to identify musical alphabets (both skipping up and down the stairs) as well as identifying skipped notes (line to line or space to space).
Note reading is important but what can get my students to read even quicker? It's the recognition of intervals - especially the steps and skips for beginners. In order for them to quickly identify those intervals, I have created additional worksheets just for them! This part 1 focus on steps (2nd). Hope you will find it useful for your students as well. Enjoy!
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Welcome to the blog! Whether you're a teacher or a parent, you'll find additional resources here to supplement topics you're teaching for free! If you're looking for something specific and I don't have it here, feel free to drop me a note and I'll add to my "to create" list :) | <urn:uuid:c3895e72-679b-426c-b36f-b76280ccdbce> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.junebongespianostudio.com/blog/category/theory-worksheets-intervals | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572198.93/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815175725-20220815205725-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.956917 | 219 | 4.3125 | 4 |
The meeting between the Prime Minister and the Leader of the Opposition was one of the more hopeful signs witnessed in our country for some time. It was a ‘mustard seed’ event which, if nurtured, has the potential to bring forth great things and transform relationships for the good of the national community. That the meeting was, reportedly, cordial and constructive was also good.
What was not good was the disagreement on how to proceed with the 53 part-heard matters left behind by the former Chief Magistrate and which, because there are multiple accused in some matters, are said to involve almost 100 persons. While most of the debate on the actions and omissions of the Judicial and Legal Service Commission has centred on the roles of the Chief Justice and the former Chief Magistrate, the result of the matter has been that a large number of persons have been seriously prejudiced by the outcome of the conflict which arose between the JLSC and the former Chief Magistrate.
Arguably, these accused have already been prejudiced by a criminal justice system that has left some of them on remand for many years in conditions which are overcrowded and inhumane. These accused now face the prospect of their matters having to be restarted afresh and, therefore, face continued prejudice and suffering without determination of their guilt or innocence.
It is the responsibility of those who are in positions of leadership to discern what is truly important in a given situation and focus their resources, time and talent on resolving those problems. The priority in this situation is the prejudice visited upon the accused in those part-heard matters.
Who is telling the truth between the JLSC and the Chief Magistrate or whether the JLSC conducted due diligence or was misled cannot at this juncture be the priority problem and should not be the main preoccupations of our leaders in the face of the suffering of the accused in the 53 part-heard matters.
Here is a situation where we have to allow the weeds, as noxious and disturbing as they might be, to grow with the corn until harvest time. The accused in the 53 part-heard matters are the corn here. If legislation is not the solution because retrospectivity would be unconstitutional, we then have to move beyond mere law to doing justice.
We may have to look at each case and craft solutions based on what is just and reasonable. Persons on remand whose likely sentences if they were in fact guilty would approximate their time already spent in prison should be released by the DPP immediately stopping prosecution. Others might have their matters proceed immediately to trial in the High Court. Those that were only recently started by the former Chief Magistrate could be restarted de novo if they would not be prejudiced.
All responsible parties, the Chief Justice, the Attorney General, the DPP and the Acting Chief Magistrate, should give the resolution of these matters their highest priority. There will be no costless solutions in any of these matters, but we must do what is just.
As a society we should not allow doing justice to these accused to be caught up in either the exoneration or condemnation of the former Chief Magistrate, or the determination of the limits of the responsibility or the extent of the irresponsibility of the JLSC. It would be even worse if the cries for the impeachment of the Chief Justice, whereby the role of the Chief Justice as jurist is confused with his administrative role as chairman of the JLSC, become yet another occasion for the expression of partisan politics. Let us first harvest the corn, then destroy the weeds. | <urn:uuid:77ff0844-7238-472d-a1a1-ace38612d6c3> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://catholictt.org/2017/07/27/let-justice-be-done/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572833.78/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817001643-20220817031643-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.977901 | 727 | 1.5 | 2 |
Just four years ago, 30 Rock joked that making a Harriet Tubman biopic was the riskiest script a movie executive could possibly greenlight. An expensive period piece? Starring a middle-aged woman? The very idea was ludicrous. And yet, here we are in 2017 with not just one but two Tubman biopics now in the works. An HBO movie starring Viola Davis was announced back in 2015, and Deadline revealed Wednesday that Tony award–winning actress Cynthia Erivo has been cast in another upcoming film about the Underground Railroad conductor, titled Harriet.
Harriet Tubman escaped slavery to become a leading abolitionist. She led hundreds of enslaved people to freedom along the route of the Underground Railroad.
Harriet Tubman escaped from slavery in the South to become a leading abolitionist before the American Civil War. She was born into slavery in Maryland in 1820, and successfully escaped in 1849. Yet she risked her life and freedom and returned many times to rescue both family members and other slaves from the plantation system. Tubman led hundreds to freedom in the North as the most famous “conductor” on the Underground Railroad, an elaborate secret network of safe houses organized for that purpose. She also helped the Union Army during the war, working as a spy among other roles. After the Civil War ended, Tubman dedicated her life to helping impoverished former slaves and the elderly, establishing her own Home for the Aged. In honor of her life and by popular demand via an online poll, in 2016, the U.S. Treasury Department announced that Harriet Tubman will replace Andrew Jackson on the center of a new $20 bill. (Biography.com). | <urn:uuid:827f8e10-6c6c-4e90-8afd-be5ccda63d27> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://www.kolumnmagazine.com/2017/02/08/color-purple-star-cynthia-erivo-will-play-harriet-tubman-upcoming-biopic-slate/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572198.93/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815175725-20220815205725-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.972786 | 342 | 2.125 | 2 |
“Might makes right until they’ve seen the light.”
“Send The Marines” Tom Lehrer
Be it in Afghanistan or Vietnam, Cambodia or Panama, Iraq or Kosovo, Libya, the Sudan or elsewhere, US-led bombing is always in some way associated with the word light:
Like a skilled surgeon avoiding arteries, “surgical” US bombing scrupulously avoids civilian casualties, so that the civilian death-toll is light, or as light as can be expected.
When these surgical bombs do hit a civilian artery (so to speak), American “investigators” will make light of victims’ claims, saying things like “Where are the bodies?” or “There should be more blood.” [The Guardian.] You could say that here, “Might makes light.”
When US bombing is at its most indiscriminate, as in the practise of “carpet bombing” or the use of “daisy cutters” and “cluster bombs”, it is given lighter coverage in the mainstream US media. In comparison to their laser-guided cousins, the effects of these far more numerous and destructive bombs barely see the light of day. This is presumably because masonry being expertly pulverized makes for light viewing, while humans suffering the same fate do not.
At any rate, it’s a safe guess that most US-led bombing transforms the young, the old, the tired, the poor and huddled masses at the receiving end into light sleepers.
To allay any misgivings, such bombing is always pursued from a very high moral ground, ensuring that its overall impact on the American psyche is light. (What this high moral ground is, no one can explain, but it can be assumed to be related to and approximately as substantial as a thousand points of light.)
The bombing is almost as invariably performed from a very high altitude, so that American bomber casualties are as light as air supremacy allows (although you might be pulled off the air for pointing this out; political incorrectness has its limits, after all).
Performed in a timely manner, it permits politicians facing uncomfortable domestic scrutiny to get off lightly by providing searing prime-time distractions and a convincing illusion that the country is in a shooting war. Indeed it seems that the latest, Afghan bombing campaign has cast the current light-headed, light-touch, lightweight US President in an entirely new light (apparently, just nodding at a handful of advisors is no longer regarded as light work).
It sets light to the paper on which the Geneva Conventions are written, such as the onerous provisions that would prohibit the US and its allies from performing massacre by aerial bombardment of mutinous (but completely trapped) POWs.
It lightens the workload of diplomacy, as a President who carries (and wields) this big stick can speak unintelligible nonsense and still be clearly understood in every corner of the planet.
However despite these advantages US bombing is never undertaken lightly (although that may depend on what your definition of “is” is). Instead it is always conducted in the guiding light of reason. (Or more accurately, “reasons”; reasons which may be fully revealed later but are rarely admitted. Usually these can be traced to eyes lighting up with dollar signs.)
Finally, it must always be remembered that American bombing is the greatest hope for the forces of light against the forces of darkness, in so far as US bombs flash more brightly and widely and often than any others. In this sense American bombing is truly a light unto the world.
And what a miraculous light that is: so supremely illuminating when unleashed in its ultimate form, that a blind girl many miles from the epicentre of a nuclear blast was reported to have seen it. No rapture can do such wonders justice, for in the words of its first witnesses,
“No man-made phenomenon of such tremendous power had ever occurred before. The lighting effects beggared description. The whole country was lighted by a searing light with the intensity many times that of the midday sun. It was golden, purple, violet, gray and blue. It lighted every peak, crevasse and ridge of the nearby mountain range with a clarity and beauty that cannot be described but must be seen to be imagined.” [http://nuketesting.enviroweb.org/trinity/wd_press.txt]
Who knows? Perhaps the day will soon arrive when such sights will be glimpsed again, albeit all too briefly, by those fortunate enough to be there. [http://www.psr.org/NPRfactsheet.html]
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"Since I am an immature and wicked man, war and unrest appeal to me more than good bourgeois order. Brutality is respected, the people need wholesome fear. They want to fear someone. They want someone to frighten them and make them shudderingly submissive."
(1887-1934) German military officer, co-founder and commander of the Sturmabteilung (SA, "Storm Battalion" aka "Brown Shirts"), the Nazi Party's militia, execuiond ordered by Hitler during the Night of the Long Knives
Cited in "The Nazis: A Warning from History", Disc 1, 10:48. Also quoted in "The Face of the Third Reich: Portraits of the Nazi Leadership" - Page 139 by Joachim C. Fest - History - 1999 | <urn:uuid:a751c026-962f-4958-9b2e-039424b337b3> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quotes.nsf/Send_Quote/857c4660c46c1b9b8525860e0011dc32 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572198.93/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815175725-20220815205725-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.918028 | 187 | 1.9375 | 2 |
BEIJING (AFP) – China said Friday it would no longer recognize a British overseas passport as a valid travel document or identity card, amid a bitter dispute with London over a plan to give millions of Hong Kong residents a potential path to residency and citizenship.
Friday’s announcement by US State Department Spokesperson Zhao Legian sparked uncertainty about the plan just hours after the UK announced that it would begin receiving applications for BNO visas from late Sunday.
Under the plan, up to 5.4 million Hong Kong residents could be eligible to live and work in the UK for five years and then apply for citizenship. Demand rose after Beijing imposed a comprehensive national security law on the former British colony last year after months of pro-democracy protests.
“The British side’s attempt to convert a large number of Hong Kong residents into second-class British citizens has completely changed the nature of the understanding of the two original sides of the BNO,” Zhao told reporters in a daily briefing.
“This move is a serious violation of China’s sovereignty, and flagrantly interferes in Hong Kong affairs and China’s internal affairs, and seriously violates international law and basic standards of international relations,” he said. China will no longer recognize the so-called BNO passport as a travel document and an identity document as of 31 January and reserves the right to take further action. ”
Many Hong Kong residents hold multiple passports and it is not clear whether the Chinese government can do anything to prevent people from entering the UK through the BNO visa system. As an added protection for privacy, the mobile application allows applicants to download their basic information without having to go to the UK visa office.
The BNO passport was originally a disappointment to Hong Kong residents when it was first introduced prior to the handover of Hong Kong to Chinese rule in 1997. At that time, the passport was granted the right to visit for a period of six months without the right to work or acquire a full citizen. Applicants must be born prior to the transfer date.
However, pressure to expand such concessions increased as China acted increasingly harshly on civil and political life in Hong Kong in what critics say is inconsistent with China’s commitment to give the city a separate lifestyle after 50 years of handover. China first declared in 1984 the Sino-British declaration that the transportation arrangements were invalid despite recognition by the United Nations, then imposed a national security law on the territory after the city’s legislature was unable to implement it on its own.
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said in a statement, “I am extremely proud that we have introduced this new pathway for BNOs in Hong Kong to live, work and establish their homes in our country.”
“In doing so, we have honored our deep history and friendship with the people of Hong Kong, and we have favored freedom and independence – values dear to both the UK and Hong Kong.” | <urn:uuid:c977091c-806f-46f9-bdca-15329cc2bd1e> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://dividendwealth.co.uk/china-withdraws-its-recognition-of-the-british-national-passport/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572833.78/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817001643-20220817031643-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.948379 | 608 | 1.835938 | 2 |
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The actual story of Hanukkah has its roots in the years 200 – 166 B.C. The Greeks and Syrians had effectively taken control of Judea (the Land of Israel) and King Antiochus III of Syria originally permitted Jews to continue practicing their own religion.
Alas, his son Antiochus IV Epiphanes took the opposite approach. In 168 B.C., the Second Temple of Jerusalem was taken over and statues of Greek gods – including Zeus – were erected.
Judah Maccabee led a rebellion and in 166 B.C., ran the Syrians out of town, cleansed the Second Temple, and rededicated the temple using a menorah. The seven branches in this candlelabrum represented knowledge and creation, and were supposed to be lit each and every night — and left burning throughout the night.
But there was a problem, because there was only one day’s worth of oil to burn and it would take a full eight days before more oil could reach the Temple. The Jews lit the menorah anyway, yet it burned for eight consecutive days. This is regarded as a miracle.
How can modern-day Jews or, for that matter, individuals of any faith (or even atheists) find relevance in this story? As with many biblical stories, there are so many rich interpretations and symbols to anchor ourselves to and enhance our daily lives.
Have you ever been entranced while watching a candle or a fire in your fireplace? Just stared at them for a few moments? What you are looking at is, in one way, a miracle of its own. “And God said, ‘Let there by light.’”
The flickering flames are a direct link to the birth of the universe. Whether conducted by a divine force or just the right combination of physics and energy, the universe gave birth to light.
We use the words “enlightenment” and “illumination” and “inspiration,” all of which derive from words linked to light or divine guidance. So when you light the Hanukkah candles — or when atheists light regular candles from time to time — take a few moments. Turn out any other lights in the room and ponder what you see. Reflect upon yourself and in those moments, seek out inspiration and illumination.
What problem troubles you? Seek an answer in that moment. Is there something you’ve always wanted to try, but for whatever reason, never actually set in motion? Take these moments and think about how you would take the first step towards that goal.
Ask yourself in that moment: Who do you love, and have you told them what they mean to you? Think about what they have brought to your life, and what words you would share with them.
One of the greatest gifts we can give someone is telling them how they have impacted our lives.
Artists and other creatives might use these moments to turn their imagination loose. Reach into that divine space inside and seek a challenge that will push you beyond what you’ve done to date.
Sometimes, though, just letting your mind free-associate will lead you to unexpected places. What images come to your mind? What places? What times? Which people? Rest in those images and let yourself feel something. God granted us feelings, yet our culture teaches us to suppress them. Let them come to life.
Finally, remember that a menorah not only holds light, it spreads it to others. Take whatever wisdom you find and share it with others. Let your shining character on the inside be reflected in your actions in the outside world.
Just as the arms of the menorah stretch forth from the center, let your illumination carry to others, and let theirs carry to you. | <urn:uuid:0aa87bc6-02eb-48e3-b860-a24f71010a5a> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.lifezette.com/2016/12/hanukkah-inspirational-light/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572198.93/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815175725-20220815205725-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.961565 | 795 | 2.6875 | 3 |
Before one can fully appreciate the major antisemitic themes in the hadith, it is critical to understand the antecedent Koranic motifs of Jew hatred which these hadith “complete and explain.” The Koran’s central anti-Semitic motif decrees an eternal curse upon the Jews (Koran 2:61/ reiterated at 3:112) for slaying the prophets and transgressing against the will of Allah (It should be noted that Koran 3:112 is featured just before the pre-amble to Hamas’ foundational Covenant). This central motif is coupled with Koranic verses 5:60, and 5:78, which describe the Jews transformation into apes and swine (5:60)—as invoked by Egyptian Prime Minister Morsi—or simply apes, (i.e. verses 2:65 and 7:166), having been “…cursed by the tongue of David and Jesus, Mary’s son” (5:78). Muhammad himself repeats this Koranic curse in a canonical hadith (Sunan Abu Dawoud, Book 37, Number 4322),
“He [Muhammad] then recited the verse [5:78]: ‘…curses were pronounced on those among the children of Israel who rejected Faith, by the tongue of David and of Jesus the son of Mary.’”
And the related verse, 5:64, accuses the Jews—as Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas did in a January 2007 speech, citing Koran 5:64—of being “spreaders of war and corruption,” a sort of ancient Koranic antecedent of The Protocols of the Elders of Zion.
The centrality of the Jews’ permanent “abasement and humiliation,” and being “laden with God’s anger” is clearly enunciated in the most authoritative Muslim exegetic literature on Koran 2:61/3:112, both ancient and contemporary. By nature deceitful and treacherous, the Jews rejected Allah’s signs and prophets, including Isa, the Muslim Jesus. Classical and modern Koranic commentators, when discussing Koran 5:82, which includes the statement, “Thou wilt surely find the most hostile of men to the believers are the Jews,” also concur on the unique animus of the Jews towards the Muslims, which is repeatedly linked to the curse of Koran 2:61/3:112. For example, in his commentary on 5:82, the great Muslim historian and renowned Koranic exegete al-Tabari (d. 923) writes,
In my opinion, [the Christians] are not like the Jews who always scheme in order to murder the emissaries and the prophets, and who oppose God in his positive and negative commandments, and who corrupt His scripture which He revealed in His books.
Tabari’s classical interpretations of Koran 5:82 and 2:61, as well as his discussion of the related verse 9:29 –a jihad war proclamation—mandating the Jews (and Christians) payment of the jizya (Koranic poll-tax), represent both anti-Semitic and more general anti-dhimmi (i.e., non-Muslims subjugated by jihad) views that became, and remain, intrinsic to Islam to this day. Here is Tabari’s discussion of 2:61 and its relationship to verse 9:29, which emphasizes the purposely debasing nature of the Koranic poll tax:
“[A]basement and poverty were imposed and laid down upon them”, as when someone says “the imam imposed the poll tax (jizya)on free non-Muslim subjects,” or “The man imposed land tax on his slave,” meaning thereby that he obliged him [to pay ] it, or, “The commander imposed a sortie on his troops,” meaning he made it their duty.…God commanded His believing servants not to give them [i.e., the non-Muslim people of the scripture] security—as long as they continued to disbelieve in Him and his Messenger—unless they paid the poll tax to them; God said: “Fight those who believe not in God and the Last Day and do not forbid what God and His Messenger have forbidden—such men as practice not the religion of truth [Islam], being of those who have been given the Book [Bible]—until they pay the poll tax, being humble” (Koran 9:29).
The dhimmis [non-Muslim tributary’s] posture during the collection of the jizya- “[should be lowering themselves] by walking on their hands, …reluctantly
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EU youth employment and up-skilling is essential to transform Europe
Update of EU skills agenda must support industrial change
Today, the European Commission published a communication to update the EU skills agenda and issued a draft Council recommendation on vocational education and training, paving the way for discussions between EU member states and social partners towards a 2030 European policy framework on vocational training. It also published measures to further support youth employment.
BusinessEurope Director General Markus J. Beyrer said: "We're in the midst of industrial change and matching the changing jobs and skills needs will be decisive to stay competitive at EU and global level. The renewed EU skills agenda rightly focusses on up-skilling and re-skilling the workforce, it can help improving our creativity, innovation and competitiveness. Well-designed incentives are important to make progress by encouraging more employers to train their workforce, and more workers to participate in training activities. Europe must invest in people and modernise its education and training systems to achieve a better match between learning outcomes and labour market needs. There is a way to make this a win-win situation for workers and employers. This would reinforce the European social model and social partnership in Europe. The Covid-19 crisis clearly shows that a focus on e-learning is necessary, as in-person training is limited due to social distancing. And we should give all support to young people now entering the labour market, and help those without employment, education or training - NEETs. Europe should also become more strategic to support individual sectors coming up with their own approach to improve training provision for a successful economic transformation of sectors throughout the economy. The proposed Pact for Skills can be helpful. An effective partnership between social partners and public authorities at all levels is essential, leaving room for industry-led solutions. BusinessEurope is willing to help the Commission to achieve this." | <urn:uuid:6f80e4a8-0683-4306-8342-c8f12b297f5b> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.businesseurope.eu/publications/eu-youth-employment-and-skilling-essential-transform-europe | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572198.93/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815175725-20220815205725-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.954789 | 375 | 1.960938 | 2 |
Constant progress of scientific technology has led modern society to be closely associated with electronic technology. Rigorous requirement has been laid to miniaturization and light weight of electronics products like cell phones, portable computers, storage, hardware drivers, CD-ROM drive, high-resolution TVs etc. To obtain such targets, study has to be implemented in terms of manufacturing technology and components. SMT (surface mount technology) conforms to such trend, laying solid foundation for miniaturization of electronic products.
1990s has seen SMT stepping into a mature phase. However, higher requirement has been laid to electronics assembly technology with electronic products quickly developing towards portability, miniaturization, networking and multimedia among which BGA (ball grid array) package is a type of high-density assembly technology stepping into a pragmatic phase. Solder joint quality plays such a key role in determining reliability and performance of SMT assembly that BGA solder joint quality should be focused. Thus, this article will provide some effective measures to guarantee the quality of solder joint of BGA components based on which final reliability of SMT assembly can be fulfilled.
BGA packaging technology started as early as 1960s and was first applied by IBM Company. Nevertheless, BGA packaging technology didn't enter a pragmatic phase until the beginning of 1990s.
As early as 1980s, people laid higher requirement for electronics miniaturization and I/O pin number. In spite of miniaturization characteristic held by SMT, more rigorous requirement has been set on high I/O pin count and fine pitch components and lead coplanarity. Due to limitations in terms of manufacturing accuracy, manufacturability, cost and assembly technology, however, limit pitch of QFP (quad flat package) components is 0.3mm, restricting the development of high-density assembly. Moreover, because fine-pitch QFP components call for strict demands on assembly technology, which makes their applications confronted with limitations, component manufacturers switch to R&D on BGA components that are more advantageous than QFP components.
Limitations of fine-pitch components lie in their leads that are easy to be bent and to be broken and suffer from fragility, laying high requirement for lead coplanarity and mounting accuracy. BGA packaging technology takes advantage of a new design thinking mode, that is, circular or column-shaped solder balls are hidden below package so that lead spacing is large with leads being short. As a result, BGA packaging technology is capable of defeating the issue deriving from coplanarity and warpage that usually take place on fine-pitch components.
Therefore, BGA components perform better in reliability and SMT assembly than ordinary SMDs (surface mount devices). The only problem of BGA components lies in their difficulty in terms of solder joint test, difficulty to guarantee quality and reliability.
Up to now, reliable electronic assemblers, PCBCart for example, BGA component soldering defects are exposed through electronic tests. Other methods to control technical process quality of assembly and determine defects during BGA component assembly include sample test on paste screening, AXI and result analysis on electronic testing.
Meeting quality assessment requirement is a challenging technology because it's difficult to pick up test points under packages. When it comes to BGA component defect inspection and identification, electronic test is usually incapable, which to some extent adds cost for defect elimination and rework.
During the process of BGA component defect inspection, electronic testing is only able to judge whether current is on or off once BGA components are connected. If non-physical solder joint test is implemented as assistance, it's beneficial for technical process of assembly and SPC (statistical process control) improvement.
BGA component assembly is a type of basic physical connection technical process. To be able to confirm and control the quality of technical process, physical elements have to be known and tested affecting their long-term reliability such as solder paste volume, alignment of leads and pad and wettability. Otherwise, it's worrying to make modifications just based on the result generated by electronic testing. | <urn:uuid:8a2e00f0-6645-41a3-8bea-3e1719d6161e> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.pcbdoing.com/wiki/some-engineer-friendly-methods-to-achieve-optimal-solder-joints-in-bga-smt-assembly-process.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572198.93/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815175725-20220815205725-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.951829 | 826 | 2.765625 | 3 |
Definition and Anatomy
Rhinoplasty, or surgery to re-shape the nose, is one of the most commonly performed plastic surgery procedures. It doesn’t take long for one to recognize that noses come in all shapes and forms. There are ethnic differences as well. As with any cosmetic procedures, the surgical goal should be for realistic improvements that are balanced, given the limitations of a patient’s anatomy.
The nose has very unique and specialized anatomy. For sake of clarity, there are two main divisions or parts – the internal and external nose. The external nose is the visible portion and is composed of the overlying skin and fat as well as the underlying structural framework. The root of the nose (the top) is supported by bone while the tip of the nose contains cartilage. The bone is rigid, while the tip is more flexible and “spongy.” The transition is generally located in the middle of the nose. The internal nose consists of the nasal passages and the central “septum” which divides the two.
Surgery of the nose can be classified as either functional or cosmetic. Generally, surgery to improve nasal function involves correcting any nasal airway obstruction, either from a deviated septum, excessive size of the internal bones (turbinates), or collapsed nasal passages. Cosmetic improvements are often performed to reshape or refine the tip, straighten the dorsum (the length of the nose), to augment the dorsum (increase the bridge), to reduce or remove a hump, or to narrow the width of the nose. Specific treatment plans depend greatly upon the existing anatomy, patient desires, and surgical ability.
Surgical Approaches to Rhinoplasty
Rhinoplasty can be performed either through an “Open” or “Closed” approach. This refers to whether an external incision is used or not. The open approach involves an incision through the columella (the column of tissue dividing the nostrils). This incision heals well and is usually imperceptible. The closed approach involves internal nostril incisions only. The open approach offers the benefit of improved visibility of the anatomy, and thus, easier correction of asymmetries and more accurate tip refinements. For most major re-shaping of the nose, Dr. Ha prefers the open technique because of superior control of the tissues and highly predictable and consistent results.
Differences in Noses between Ethnic Groups
Asian noses have typical features that separate them from Caucasian or African-American noses. They tend to be shorter noses with a low or recessed dorsum (bridge). The tip tends to bulky and bulbous and often lacks projection. The base of the tip can be wide and bulky as well. Asian skin is typically thick and oily. Rhinoplasty for Asians usually involves dorsal augmentation (increasing the size of the bridge), increasing tip projection and refinement, and/or narrowing the nose. This often requires the use of cartilage grafts (harvested from a patient’s own septum or rib) or synthetic materials like silicone or Gortex. Refinement or re-shaping of the tip can be difficult, because whatever work is done to the structural support (cartilage) is often obscured by the thick and oily skin. Asians also tend to have a limited amount of cartilage graft available from the septum due to smaller size.
A typical rhinoplasty will take approximately 3 hours. An overnight stay is recommended for more extensive procedures for improved comfort and early swelling control. Post-operatively, swelling of the nose and bruising around the eyes may occur, but will gradually decrease over several weeks following surgery. Splints are often placed external to and internal to the nose. These, along with sutures, are typically removed one week after surgery. Cold compresses are encouraged for 24 to 48 hours after surgery to help minimize swelling and discomfort. Activities that may cause injury to the nose are avoided for 6 weeks post-op. Though most swelling resolves after about 8 weeks, there is residual swelling (primarily at the tip) that takes up to a full year to completely subside – this is when the final result of the nasal reshaping can be seen and assessed. Smokers must cease all nicotine use 4 weeks prior to and after surgery to prevent devastating wound healing complications including necrosis. | <urn:uuid:ede4bd9a-6960-485d-80fc-f3afc6594810> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.haplasticsurgery.com/facial-rejuvenation/asian-nasal-reshaping/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572198.93/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815175725-20220815205725-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.94253 | 899 | 3.171875 | 3 |
Harnessing religions to promote justice, peace
Q&A with Dr Chandra Muzaffar
By YONG HUEY JIUN
Religion can be a powerful force in the pursuit of justice and peace. Dr
Chandra Muzaffar will be a speaker at a conference organised by Universiti Sains
Malaysia next week. Its Noordin Sopiee Professor of Global Studies tells YONG
HUEY JIUN why, as diverse as we are in our beliefs, we have more in common than
we think Q: How do you feel about the progress (or lack thereof) of
interfaith dialogues since you first began promoting it in 1980?
It's not quite right to say we've not had such mechanisms in the country. There have been such mechanisms. The Malayan Inter-Religious Organisation, was set up in 1956. We've had the Interfaith Spiritual Fellowship. All the religions are there, in a sense. At the level of civil society, there have been initiatives of that sort but it is the state which has not been directly involved. There are certain sensitivities about the state being involved in an endeavour of this sort.
This is part of the problem that confronts us. There's no reason why a Muslim-majority government should not be involved in interfaith dialogues. There's no reason to fear interaction and dialogue. Dialogue is integral to Muslim history because it was a part of Islam right from the beginning. The Prophet himself was actively involved in dialogues with the Christians and the Jews.
Q: Would bringing religion into the quest for peace be
The teachings of a religion do not promote violence. It's the individuals -- the people who manipulate a particular religion -- who are responsible for the distortion of the essential message of the religion. The essential message of religion is very clear: it promotes peace.
Q: Religion can be a uniting or dividing force. Unfortunately, as
history has shown, it's been more of the latter and has come to be known as the
source of numerous conflicts. Your comments.
Secondly, when religion is seen as a source of conflict, more often than not, it is not religion per se. It could be politics, the economy or other forces at work that lead to conflicts. Religion is drawn into the situation. For instance, the Maluku conflict in Indonesia. It was linked to the collapse of the Suharto regime and, to a certain extent, migration. It wasn't the fact that you have Christians and Muslims.
Q: Why is religion often drawn into conflicts?
There are individuals and groups in all religions who consciously distort religion for whatever purpose, but bigotry in the name of religion has existed for a long time. However, there are spiritual, moral and intellectual resources in all religions that can be harnessed to promote justice and peace. If you look at recent years, quite a bit of that has been happening except that we have not taken notice of people of different religions coming together to fight for global justice. For example, the campaign against the war in Iraq and the campaign to promote environmental ethics.
Q: But could it be that their common goal is what fosters that
cohesion? What happens when they are no longer fighting for the same cause?
Today, more than ever, one has to do this because if you look at every one of the major crises that confronts us, you'll find that what is really needed is perhaps a spiritual and moral transformation. If you look at it from various perspectives, you will be able to see the connections between what's happening today and the need for some sort of spiritual and moral ethics. Some people would even say this is what is really needed -- a spiritual and moral revolution.
Q: Every religion has its own set of tenets and beliefs. Given that,
how do you make people see that acceptance of another's faith need not mean an
abandonment or alienation of one's own faith?
Once you begin with that understanding, it becomes easier to move on to accepting diversity. It says in the Quran that that is part of the divine plan -- to learn to appreciate and celebrate that diversity.
In spite of this diversity, I know that there are common values and principles all of us subscribe to. These are common to all of us regardless of our faith or whether we believe in God or not.
Q: Do you think it's crucial to maintain secularism in a
The term "secular", unfortunately, has a certain connotation from the perspective of certain religious groups. People say secular as divorced from religious values. There are different types of secularism. French secularism is, in some ways, antagonistic towards religion. Indian secularism accommodates different religions. Globally, humankind is evolving into a situation where some sort of integration -- a more universal notion of the divine, spiritual and moral values, and the positive aspects of secularism -- is going to take place in the future.
The "Religion in the Quest for Global Justice and Peace" conference will be held in Kuala Lumpur from July 24-26. For registration, please call 04-653 4491 or email firstname.lastname@example.org
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Program Leader: Paul King III, South Fork Natural History Museum (SOFO) Environmental Educator
In this hands-on program, children will discover the tiny secrets that inhabit a pond and help our friends (the turtles, frogs, ducks, and fish) to not just survive but thrive. We will use magnifiers and microscopes to view the secrets that are too small for our unaided eye to see. We’ll discover the strange ways pond secrets breathe, catch their food, and hide from danger as we look for dragonfly young, cousins of crabs, bubble-carrying beetles, and, with luck, tadpoles. Please dress to get wet or muddy! This program is for children age 8 and older
There is a $10 fee for Adults and $7 fee for children for this program. Members are free.
Please note that, as mandated by the latest State Executive Order regarding COVID-19 safety precautions, our outdoor nature walks and programs will at all times follow stringent six-feet distancing separation protocols required by the Department of Health for the safety of our participants and environmental educators. We will provide masks and gloves for all attendees.
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24 September 2018
[Image source: Source: https://medium.com/disruptive-design/tools-for-systems-thinkers-the-6-fundamental-concepts-of-systems-thinking-379cdac3dc6a
Most of us recognize the insurmountable challenges that are facing human civilisation. We also recognize that there is a need to (rapidly) transition to sustainable, resilient societies. The prospect of this is daunting - mostly because some of us feel helpless to change the system, much like a person running after a barrel rolling down a hill. It is daunting because it requires new ways of thinking about and addressing complex problems. We have been trained - both formally and informally - to think in silos. However, widespread adoption of systems thinking represents one of society's best bets for making a rapid transition to a world that we all want.
There was a recent article in the Solutions Journal
that gives a nice introduction on what systems thinking means, and why it is important. I summarise a few points here, but encourage you all to read it.
Systems thinking is concerned with us seeing the relationships between parts and wholes rather than looking at the discrete, isolated parts. It means looking at the bigger picture, examining how things relate, looking for root causes and improvements. Those of us who do systems dynamics modeling, are then actually able to find the leverage points in the system where things could actually change for the better.
Dana Meadows, one of the great systems thinkers (and modelers) of our time, some years ago now, wrote an article called 'Leverage Points: Places to intervene in the system
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Mapping the Brain: The Human Connectome Project
[Image Source : MGH Human Connectome Project Team]
Having first begun in July 2009, the Human Connectome Project (HCP) is a joint undertaking by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) as well as four universities and one hospital. Their goal is to create a complete map of brain connectivity (both structural and functional), otherwise known as a connectome. The project integrates the fields of psychology, computer science, mathematics, and brain imaging. HCP is amassing a very large collection of data gathered from imaging the brains of thousands of healthy individuals.Using a variety of imaging techniques, researchers are able to create a blueprint of the different types of neural connectivity within the brain.
Many of these techniques use diffusion Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) which tracks the movement of water molecules from one area of the brain to another in response to interactions with other brain matter such as fibers or membranes. As the project develops, so does the technology. New imaging techniques such as high-angular diffusion (HARDI) are developed and refined to produce better resolution of the neural connections. The brain houses an estimated 10,000 connections among 100 billion neurons.
A recent publication in the journal, Science, by HCP researchers stated that the “wires” within the brain are not a tangled bunch but rather a well-laid out road map with logic and order. NIH Director, Dr. Francis Collins, calls the connectome a “symphony.” Thousands of tracts of tissue within the brain integrate to produce a complete functioning brain much like dozens of musicians come together to play a single piece of music. Through the compilation and analyzation of data, researchers will be able to better understand the changes in the brain due to diseases such as Alzheimer’s disease. | <urn:uuid:5c396d5f-016d-4898-8700-dce8ae9869bb> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://interestingengineering.com/innovation/mapping-the-brain-the-human-connectome-project | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571198.57/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810161541-20220810191541-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.926123 | 374 | 3.625 | 4 |
Politicians pledge to clean up Brent’s filthy air
- Credit: Archant
You wait ages for a bus and then three come along at once.
That’s no longer just an idiom: according to anti-pollution campaigners, it’s a real problem for Brent’s air quality.
Students at Imperial College who were commissioned to carry out the biggest ever pollution study of Harlesden High Street and Chamberlayne Road counted three number 18 buses in a line earlier this year, when they’re meant to arrive several minutes apart.
And they said it wasn’t a one-off, with buses that were meant to turn up every eight to 10 minutes arriving just every one or two minutes.
Their report reveals that air pollution, which breaches EU limits in Harlesden and Kensal Green, is caused by rat-run traffic and diesel buses.
Sorting out the timetables is one of the recommendations made in the paper, published this week. It also says shops should trial greener delivery methods while Brent’s buses should be refitted to meet lower emissions targets.
Now senior Brent politicians have vowed to use all their powers to clean up the problem.
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- 3 'Predator' acted as masseur to assault women
- 4 Man shot in his heart outside Queen's Park flats named
- 5 Brent tenant 'distressed' at housing waiting list change
- 6 Product sold at Tesco recalled due to risk of disease-causing bacteria
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MPs Barry Gardiner and Dawn Butler joined Brent councillors to sign a clean-air pledge at the Clean Air Day event on Thursday, organised by campaigning group Clear Air for Brent, Friends of the Earth and the council.
The campaigners are calling for the council and TfL to urgently improve the air being breathed by pupils at John Keble in Harlesden and Ark Franklin in Kensal Rise. Both schools were included in the mayor’s recent Air Quality School Audit as two of the 50 most polluted primary schools in London.
Chair of Clean Air for Brent Fiona Mulaisho said: “Children are the most vulnerable; air pollution causes asthma and problems with lung development.
“It is a silent killer – these costs will have to be born in the very near future.”
In Brent it is estimated 200 premature deaths occur each year that are directly attributable to air pollution.
Dawn Butler, MP for Brent Central, said: “We have some of the most polluted roads in Europe running through Brent. This is completely unacceptable.
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In 1985 the Polish journalist Teresa Toraska published a book of interviews with people who had been members of the PPR(Polska Partia Robotnicza, Polish Workers Party, led by Wadysaw Gomuka) right after WWII. She called the book Them (Oni), because she was a member of the anticommunist opposition and viewed the subjects of her book as the enemy. Her style of interviewing is not unusual in Poland, though it strikes many American readers as startlingly aggressive. Here is one passage, from an interview with the head of the security services during the Stalinist era, Jakub Berman:
- Toraska: You communists brought yet another disaster upon this nation [after WWII].
- Berman: Thats not true. We brought it liberation.
- Toraska: Did you?
- Berman: Yes, we did. We didnt come to this country as its occupiers, and we never even imagined ourselves in that role.We wanted to get this country moving, to breathe life into it; all our hopes were tied up with the new model of Poland.Was it plausible at any moment to imagine that Poland would be again the country it had been between the wars? In this configuration? With this distribution of forces? Surely thats inconceivable. You have to be deaf and blind not to see that we, the Polish communists, rescued Poland from the worst.The world has changed, cant you see that? There arent any sovereign states any more, only semi-sovereign ones. The degree of dependence can be lesser or greater, but its always there.
What do you think about Bermans argument? What other justifications do you think the members of the PPR might have offered for their activities in the 1940s and 1950s, including their social and economic policies, their ruthless seizure of power, and the authoritarian regime they established afterwards?
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WASHINGTON – Following a request from U.S. Senator Maggie Hassan, a member of the committee that oversees the United States Postal Service (USPS), the nonpartisan Government Accountability Office (GAO) released a comprehensive report detailing how USPS handles customer complaints. The report found that despite implementing a new online system to track customer complaints, the Postal Service is still not meeting its performance goals for customer service – which includes timeliness in responding to customer complaints.
To read the full report requested by Senator Hassan detailing how USPS collects and tracks customer complaints, click here.
“The COVID-19 pandemic furthered underscored our reliance on mail delivery for everything from food to medication, and I know how problematic it can be when those important packages arrive late or don’t arrive at all,” Senator Hassan said. “When these delays do occur, Granite Staters deserve to have their complaints resolved quickly and efficiently. This report shows that the Postal Service still has a ways to go to improve its response time to customer complaints, as well address ongoing mail delays. I will keep pushing the Postal Service to improve its operations so that Granite Staters can receive the consistent and quality service that they expect and deserve.”
The GAO report found that in Fiscal Year 2020, Americans made 10.7 million customer complaints to the Postal Service, the majority of which were related to late or missing packages. The report also noted that USPS installed a new software system in 2019 to better collect and track customer service and complaint information, which USPS officials say may help the Postal Service better identify service issues and analyze issues resulting in complaints.
Senator Hassan is working to improve the Postal Service, which is especially vital for rural communities in New Hampshire, and recently joined in introducing bipartisan legislation to strengthen the Postal Service and improve the agency’s long-term financial stability. Additionally, last year, Senator Hassan led negotiations to include $10 billion for USPS in the COVID-19 relief and government funding package that was signed into law in December to help the agency address pandemic-related mail delays. Furthermore, following a request from Senator Hassan, the Postal Service Inspector General issued a report that found that the main cause of postal delays and poor service in New Hampshire was due to a lack of permanent staff. Since the report came out in December 2020, the Postal Service has hired more than 150 new permanent employees in New Hampshire. | <urn:uuid:9924bb8d-6729-47a9-b46b-bb9b8d3deda6> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.hsgac.senate.gov/subcommittees/etso/media/following-request-by-senator-hassan-gao-releases-comprehensive-report-detailing-how-postal-service-handles-complaints | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571198.57/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810161541-20220810191541-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.95824 | 491 | 1.59375 | 2 |
Boy Scout High Adventure Canoe Trips into the Boundary Waters have been a specialty of North Country Canoe Outfitters for over 30 years. A Boy Scout High Adventure is a challenging outdoor experience. Each summer hundreds of Boy Scouts and Venture Crewmembers enjoy unique border lake country experience in northern Minnesota. We individually and uniquely customize each Boy Scout canoe trip to your High Adventure expectations. We plan detailed routes through the wilderness lakes. This ensures your group is able to accomplish all the intended goals. A true five to twelve day adventure is the best way to explore areas of the Boundary Waters Wilderness seldom seen by most canoe country travelers, getting deeper into the Boundary Waters.
Boy Scouts have been venturing into the Boundary Waters and Quetico wilderness areas for nearly a century. Where else can the words Be Prepared be put into action in such an incredible fashion? The Canoe Country is what Scouting is all about. Months of planning, and years of preparation are now rewarded with High Adventure. Consequently, you have the rare opportunity to experience camping and outdoor life just as it was experienced by the early native Americans and the Voyageurs. The outdoor skills that Boy Scouts have mastered are put to the test here. Here it is real; not just a troop meeting exercise.
A day of High Adventure for Boy Scout trips through the Boundary Waters
A typical Boy Scout High Adventure Trip through the Boundary Waters includes daily travel of six to ten miles per day depending on the groups abilities and canoe route chosen. As a result, a seven day trip might include five days of travel with two days used to maximize fishing time, or for exploring the lakes surrounding your campsite.
Picture a day in the canoe country: waking up to the call of a loon; sitting by a lake of glass eating fresh-picked blueberries in your pancakes; traveling close to the shoreline and spotting mink and beavers in their home environment; portaging your gear to the next lake and seeing footprints of a wolf; fishing for the cunning smallmouth bass or walleye; watching the sun set over the far side of the lake; recounting adventures of the day and planning for tomorrow, while sitting around the campfire; listening to the wind in the trees as you drift off to sleep .
About the Boundary Waters / Quetico Wilderness
Established in 1978, the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness (BWCA) has changed little since the glaciers melted. As a result, over 1,500 miles of canoe routes, nearly 2,200 designated campsites, and more than 1,000 lakes and streams are waiting for you.
North of Lake Superior, the Boundary Waters encompasses the northern third of the Superior National Forest in northeastern Minnesota extending nearly 150 miles along the border with Canada. The BWCAW contains 1 million acres of woodlands, with over 1200 miles of canoe routes, 12 hiking trails and over 2000 designated campsites. Most importantly, this area preserves its primitive character. Therefore, it allows visitors to canoe, portage and camp in the spirit of the French Voyageurs of 200 years ago.
QUETICO PROVINCIAL PARK
Covering over 4,800 square kilometers is the Canadian half of our wilderness . Quetico Park is the second largest Provincial Park in Northwestern Ontario. First set aside 1913, it was not, however, a protected area. Subsequently, logging, mining, commercial fishing, and trapping still continued into the 1960s.
To sum it up
A Boy Scout High Adventure canoe trip into the Boundary Waters offers troop members more wilderness camping (3 million acres) than any other area in the country. The canoe trails leading from our White Iron Lake base are so remote that nesting bald eagles abound, the portages between our lakes are moose trails, and your Scouts are just visitors. Early Native Americans paddled these same lakes. Consequently, your crew has the opportunity to still see the ancient Indian pictographs on the sheer rock faces. This is also the land where the French-Canadian voyageurs traded for beaver pelts with the native populations, treking with their canoes heavily laden with furs.
North Country Canoe Outfitters is here to facilitate your troop’s High Adventure experience in the Boundary Waters. Though we must adhere to all US Forest Service and Ontartio Ministry of Natural Resources rules and guidelines, as well as our own safety procedures, we give you, the unit leadership, as much flexibility as possible.
- You determine your starting dates.
- You determine how many days are right for your group and your travel plans.
- You determine what your group’s interests are:
50-miles, fishing, advancement, etc.
- You determine what requirements you want your participants to have:
age, health, Scouting skill levels, and social maturity.
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Scott Morrison’s brutality the year’s defining story
This week The Saturday Paper celebrates its first anniversary. A year ago it launched with a page one story about the death on Manus Island of a 23-year-old Iranian asylum seeker named Reza Barati.
At the time, then immigration minister Scott Morrison was refusing to answer most questions about the murder. Secrecy was the great constant of his time in the portfolio.
Initially, Morrison claimed Barati had been killed after escaping the detention centre, although this proved to be false. It took Morrison three days to correct the record.
The morning after Barati was beaten to death, Morrison was still defiant: “On this occasion the centre has not been destroyed, the centre will be able to resume operations as it has this morning. Breakfast has been served.”
A senate committee report found Morrison had been “selective with the facts” regarding Barati’s death and that the riot on Manus Island had been “eminently foreseeable”. Barati’s father said he blamed Morrison for his son’s murder and would seek compensation: “He was sent to the PNG camp under this man’s supervision.”
In the year since, The Saturday Paper has reported on the torture of an asylum seeker forced back to Afghanistan by Morrison’s department. It has revealed the responsibility Morrison’s office had for a teen who was raped by the Taliban before fleeing to Australia, her brother and father murdered while she waited alone for their asylum claims to be processed.
Elsewhere, the paper has traced the failures of offshore processing and the hard-hearted responses of Morrison and his office to the people caught in this system. Morrison’s brutality has been a defining story of The Saturday Paper’s first year. He made war with asylum seekers.
Scott Morrison is no longer the minister for immigration. He was rewarded in a reshuffle with the social services portfolio. At the National Press Club this week, he made his first significant statements about his plans for the welfare system. Already, he is readying for conflict.
“My concern is that right now there seems to be no appetite for the change that is necessary – whether that’s in the community, the parliament, the opposition, some members of the crossbench even,” he said.
“But unless this does change, unless we are able to move to a better system that better reflects the needs of the next generation and even this one, then change – even incremental change – will not be possible.”
Morrison is considering the wide-ranging recommendations of a review conducted by former Mission Australia head Patrick McClure. In a radical simplification of the welfare system, the report recommends rolling the country’s 20 current primary welfare payments into five. They would cover the age pension, child and youth payment, carer payments, working age payments and a support pension for people with disabilities. The 55 payment supplements in the current system would be reduced to four categories.
That the welfare system needs reform is no secret. Simplification has many benefits, including better access. But the important factor for a report such as this is that its recommendations cannot be cherry-picked. The government cannot take the savings without adopting associated expenditure. The report cannot be used as a front to eat away government assistance to the needy.
Morrison is an interesting choice for the portfolio. His defining characteristic is his toughness. He comes from a government that just this week was linking dole recipients to terrorism. Compassion is not a strong suit.
There are trapped in our immigration system a few thousand lives Morrison has perhaps irreparably damaged, cannon fodder to his war on boats. In this country’s welfare system there are many more lives still, many of them vulnerable, many of them in need. Australia must ask how such people should be treated and whether Morrison has the compassion to treat them this way.
The Saturday Paper will continue to help answer these questions – to interrogate where this country is headed and never shy from exposing its governments’ intentions.
This article was first published in the print edition of The Saturday Paper on February 28, 2015 as "Scott’s single fault risky".
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There are two ways to delete a record in Salesforce. One way is to click the trash can icon, which is located on the upper right-hand side of the screen. The other way is to open the “Records” tab and then select “Delete.
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Deleting a single Salesforce record is easy to do. Just navigate to the Record you want deleted and look for the ‘Delete’ button, then click on it. This will move that Record into your Recycle Bin. Note: if you don’t see this button then you may need to edit your Page Layout
The records that are deleted in Salesforce Lightning are not really deleted, but rather they are archived. They can be accessed by going to the Setup tab and clicking on Data Management > Archived Objects.
To delete an item from a list in Salesforce, you can select the item and click on the trash icon.
The simplest way to delete an object in Salesforce is to use the Delete button on the right side of the page. The Delete button is only present on pages where you can create, edit, or view an object.
To delete a page from your site, go to Setup > Build > Pages and select the page from the list. Click on “Delete” at the top of the screen and then click “Yes” to confirm that you want to delete it.
To delete a record in Salesforce Developer Console, you will need to find the object that you want to delete. Once you have found it, click on the object and then click Delete. This will take you to a confirmation page where you can either confirm the deletion or cancel it.
You can delete records from Apex Salesforce by using the following steps:
Log into your Salesforce account and go to the desired list or object.
Click on the “Delete” button at the top of the page.
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Essential Needs of Orphans
Our country, Yemen, is in humanitarian conditions that have reached extremely dangerous levels, especially in recent months. A report released by the UN stated that half of the Yemeni population is faced with the risk of starvation. Authorities warned the world against starvation in Yemen. The report reveals the human tragedy facing 14 million people in a country experiencing the worst humanitarian crisis in the world. The number of children at risk of starvation reached 5.2 million, and the number of children at risk of death from starvation reached 400,000. Orphans suffer the greatest pain and difficulty in society. In addition to the bad economic conditions in the country, the absence of anyone to provide a livelihood for the family further increases the suffering and trouble of orphans.Orphans need care and meeting their needs. Our Prophet (PBUH) advises taking care of orphans, protect them, and give importance to them. | <urn:uuid:5f66e156-0ad9-41c4-881f-9b13451dc02e> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://guzelder.org/en/essential-needs-of-orphans/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572033.91/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814113403-20220814143403-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.953635 | 183 | 2.421875 | 2 |
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Creating a sculpture doesn't have to require a trip to the art store for sculpting materials and tools. Did you know that you can use packing tape to make sculpture casts of objects such as toys, household appliances, or even yourself? Tape casting is a "dry" and quick process and a good alternative to paper mache. Follow these steps to create your own tape sculpture!
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1Choose a valueless object with a simple surface area such as a toy doll or a ball.
2Wrap the object completely in clingwrap. If you do not have this or do not want to use it, you can wrap it sticky-side up first. This method also allows you to stick things on it before doing a layer of tape sticky-side down.Advertisement
3Tape over it with packing tape.
4Using a pair of scissors (or a razor knife), make an incision in the tape cast and cut a seam to allow for the original object's release.
5Once the cast has been removed, remove any excess cling wrap from inside.
6Reseal the cast with packing tape.
QuestionHow much tape (how many rolls) does it take to create a full body sculpture? I'm trying to figure out how much I need for a class project.Top AnswererFor a full body sculpture, look for an industrial packing stretch wrap. Uline has a variety of wraps in colors, as well as a guide to the quality and strengths of the wrap. Regular cling wrap will not necessarily hold up well for the full body size. Stretch wrap should be available with warehouse supplies and may be more practical than household cling wrap.
QuestionCan I use a lacquer sealant on the tape figures to make them last longer, or will the chemical just destroy the adhesive causing the work to fall?Top AnswererYour initial conclusion is correct in that the chemical content will dissolve the sculpture. Sobo craft glue dries clear and could be used over the plastic to which a lacquer can then be applied. It would probably be best to apply at least 2 coats of glue and let each layer dry before adding the next layer.
- If making a self cast, the casting will work best if it's done in three parts:
- A: Legs and torso
- B: Mid-section
- C: Arms
- Do NOT attempt to make the head of your self cast without making it possible to breathe! When you make the head, you must leave a hole or two under your nose.
- Make sure all of the surfaces of the object you are making a cast of are covered with plastic wrap. Packing tape is very adhesive, hard to see, and hard to remove.
- When you reseal the cast in step 6, be gentle and don't press the "inner layers" of tape together. Remember that the stick side of the packing tape is on the inside. If you get them stuck together, all your hard work is wasted. So BE CAREFUL! (Same goes for when you add more layers of packing tape.)
- Don't wrap the tape too tight or it will be hard to cut away and will also cut off circulation causing numbness.
- When releasing yourself from the cast use scissors (not an exacto knife). Bandage scissors which can be purchased at any drugstore for a few dollars work great to protect your skin from being cut/nicked while cutting.
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- Cling film (plastic wrap)
- Packing tape
- Scissors (or razor knife)
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Miracle Abbott got pregnant during her freshman year at the University of South Carolina in upstate.
She was working a low-wage job and mounting student debt, so the 19-year-old turned to the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants and Children, known as WIC, to getting formula and food. But after giving birth, her baby had painful colic and reflux, and her pediatrician recommended a special formula not available through the program.
It took four months, three pediatrician appointments and two meetings at her local WIC office before the program provided her with a formula that worked for her daughter. She spent hundreds of dollars on the formula in the process. That was in 2020, years before an Abbott manufacturing plant in Michigan closed due to concerns about bacterial contamination. February shutdown and simultaneous recall catalyzed massive infant formula shortages in the United States
The continued shortage of infant formula has caused enormous stress for families across the country, especially those dependent on WIC. The federally funded subsidy program, administered by nearly 90 state, territorial and tribal governments, accounts for up to two-thirds of all formula purchases in the United States, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, who manages the WIC.
For nearly 50 years, WIC has provided food assistance to low-income mothers and children. About half of babies in the United States – 1.5 million – received WIC benefits in 2021. This purchasing power has resulted in significant savings on infant formula for the federal and state governments that run the program. . But the program’s massive purchases also limit choices for families and can make it difficult for mothers like Abbott to get a formula that’s right for their infants.
These limitations began in 1989 after WIC administrators opted for a policy in which formula preparation companies bid to become the sole supplier in each state. States then offer a limited assortment of formulas from the winning manufacturer.
Under the deal, the companies give state WIC programs deep discounts for the formula they buy. For every dollar WIC pays formula companies, it recoups up to 93 cents in rebates, said David Betson, an associate professor of economics and public policy at the University of Notre Dame who has studied the WIC program.
Rebate savings reduced annual program costs by $1.6 billion last year, according to the USDA. In a statement to KHN, he said the reimbursement system allows states to use their food subsidies more efficiently and offsets the cost of the formula so more participants can be served without increasing federal funding.
And because of WIC’s bidding policies, nearly half of all WIC-supported infants receive formula from just one brand: Similac, which is made by Abbott. As a result, more than half a million babies may have had to switch formulas after the February recall and plant shutdown.
Many babies do well with just about any formula, but some parents find that their baby seems to do better with a specific brand and type.
“Parents often have to experiment a bit and often end up trying three or more formulas to find the formula that keeps their baby comfortable,” said Bridget Young, an assistant professor who studies infant nutrition at the University of Rochester Medical Center.
When Jenny Murray, a mother of three in Florida, started on WIC benefits, the formula her baby was using was not among the WIC-approved options in her state. The formula WIC chose for her baby made her gassy. Officials at her WIC office told her she needed a doctor’s note to get a different formula, but her doctor said it was not medically necessary to change. She therefore remained with this formula. Now, amid the shortage, she’s struggling because WIC only allows attendees to buy small boxes of formula, and she said those are the hardest to find. (Some state WIC programs are temporarily changing policies due to the shortage.)
“I didn’t even cook dinner tonight because I knew we were going to spend the rest of the evening going from store to store to store to store hoping to find some. [formula]”, Murray said. On a few occasions, she had to pay around $40 out of pocket for a large box of formula because that was all that was available.
Each state’s decision to compete with formula makers to serve the WIC program has driven prices up, Betson said. It found that wholesale formula prices in all areas had nearly doubled since WIC implemented its bidding process from 1989 to 2002. Another study found that formula prices had increased an additional 30% from 2006 to 2015. Betson said formula companies take a hit on the formula they sell through WIC and compensate by charging higher prices to non-WIC customers.
Other economists, however, argue that formula companies instead benefit from increased sales after winning a WIC contract, and that prices for non-WIC customers have not been affected. (Store brand formulas, which are made by Perrigo Nutrition, a company that does not participate in WIC contracts, are about 40% less expensive than formula brands that participate in WIC and have nearly identical ingredients.)
And WIC spends more on formula than any other food because the majority of infants supported by WIC, about 88 percent, receive at least formula through the program. Low-income families are more likely to use formula because these mothers often face more barriers to breastfeeding. For example, about 25% of low-income people have to return to work about two weeks after giving birth, said Ifeyinwa Asiodu, an assistant professor at the University of California, San Francisco, whose research focuses on disparities in infant feeding. Those same parents may also work in jobs that don’t have breastfeeding accommodations, and they may be afraid to jeopardize their jobs to ask for them, she said.
Due to high rates of formula-fed infants from the federal program, WIC administrators have tried to encourage breastfeeding by giving more food to nursing mothers, and some states have tried to limit access to formula for mothers who start breastfeeding. Emeline Pratt, a mother of two who lives in Vermont, said her WIC office required her to meet with a lactation consultant to get formula, even though she explained she had already given up breastfeeding. The uncomfortable date left Pratt in tears.
Asiodu, who said she would like more policies that support breastfeeding and allow better access to breastmilk from milk banks, also sees a need for more flexibility in the WIC.
“I think it’s really important that we allow families to make the decisions that best suit their needs, and that we also provide resources along the way,” regardless of the feeding option that they choose, she said.
Miracle Abbott said she also wishes WIC had more options for formula-feeding moms. Despite having a colicky baby, going to school and coping with the issues of the pandemic, she said, “WIC is probably the most frustrating thing we’ve ever had to deal with. to face.
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Usually the police are the ones getting others in trouble for drunk driving, not the ones committing the crime. That wasn’t the case for two Seattle police officers, Officer Marie Gochnour and Officer Sean Moore. The two have been charged with drunk driving. They were not on duty when they were pulled over late last year, but were severely intoxicated. Gouchnour was found to have blood-alcohol levels of .234 and .247, roughly three times the legal limit, while Moore’s were measured at .161 and .149, also above the limit of .08.
A call was made to authorities, alerting them that a vehicle had run into a pole. The vehicle turned out to be Gouchner’s, and both her and Moore were found inside. Since the incident, the two officers have been on desk duty for the department.
Both Gochnour and Moore’s blood-alcohol levels were extremely dangerous, and potentially fatal for driving. The following are the effects that alcohol has on the body at the levels that the two officers were at when they were found according to Clemson University’s Redfern Health Center:
Moore’s blood-alcohol level: .161, .149
• Difficulty talking
• Difficulty walking
• Potential difficulty standing
• Judgment impaired severely
• Perception impaired severely
• Increased chances of you causing injury to yourself or others
• Blackout possible
Gochnour’s blood-alcohol level: .234, .237
• Cannot stand up or walk alone
• Inability to feel pain
• Vomiting possible
It’s clear that neither officer should have been behind the wheel in the state that they were in. If you are unsure whether you should drive or not after drinking, it’s almost a guarantee that you shouldn’t. Use more discretion than these officers and save yourself and everyone else around you a whole lot of trouble. | <urn:uuid:37c0c697-69b2-4e0d-a885-f2a4bcba3864> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://plg-pllc.com/seattle-cops-found-driving-drunk-seattle-auto-accident-attorney/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572198.93/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815175725-20220815205725-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.972684 | 419 | 1.96875 | 2 |
Leo, the sign that is
As the fifth sign of the Zodiac, Leo represents gracious majesty.
For Leo, Power is the keyword, Confidence, their quality and Leadership is their identity. The Latin word Leo means the Lion, happens to be their symbol. The lion represents energetic action. The Sun is their key planet, denoting will. Fire is their element, which points to energy and warmth.
Leo is warm spirited, action oriented, ambitious, power loving and gracious. But they do remain proud and egoistic.
A Leo woman is a strong personality, who has an aura of magnetism around her. She is confident and can even be somewhat aggressive. Her self-assurance can be so contagious that it can make even the weaklings around her, feel strong. She is a lioness, and there will be an element of unmistakable regality surrounding her. She may not have any authority in reality or wield any power worth its name; and there may not be any army for her to command, but still she looks a leader and sounds queenly. She is strong, fearless, charismatic, warm and generous, and comes across as someone dying to take charge and thus, worthy of serious attention.
Their ruler is the all-powerful Sun, which provides infinite energy to the universe and virtually sustains it. Leos too are high energy individuals, whose power and positive vibes can be felt all around. Their in-born confidence manifests itself in many ways, and optimism is perhaps the chief among them. They may be down, but never really be out. They may taste reverses, but will never really give up. Undaunted and shaking off the disappointments that result due to setbacks, they rise again with determination to reclaim their exalted positions, whatever these are and whichever fields these are in. For, they genuinely believe that those are rightfully theirs.
Strong and clever she is, but she is also extremely affectionate and even sentimental at times. Her kindness may manifest as unbelievable generosity, and often result as tangible benefits to the needy, at the most appropriate times. Leo women are warm, who can spread their cheer across and bring sunshine to the lives of others. They are ambitious but remain dignified. They have their own self-esteem and a set of values, loyalty being important among them. They remain true, loyal and trustworthy, and definitely expect the same from others too. She is also graceful, refined and well groomed with good manners. These are the qualities which make her a memorable person, and an object of awe and admiration.
She is definitely confident and also looks so, but there is a delicately sensitive personal inside her. Her feelings are quite fragile and she may get hurt easily. Leo women often need good words of appreciation to keep up their spirit. This is the reason they can be found dramatizing things at times, for remaining the focus of attention.
But there are strong shades of negativity to the Leo women character, and ego occupies an important place in that. They are egoistic, dominating and stubborn. They also have immense pride and value it all the more. Beneath her placid exterior, there may be a wild and turbulent interior and even a perceived slight to her self-esteem can make her erupt wildly in anger. Quite demanding and intolerant, they may get ruffled easily, pickup arguments and fights, and can even resort to temper tantrums and violent outbursts. They are idealists to some extent, have unreasonable expectations for others, and when disappointed, may get irritated, but they don’t hold any grudge. Many of them turn out to be spendthrifts, who are indiscriminate with their spending for buying expensive items.
A Leo woman is a passionate romantic and a sensual lover. As a wife, she can envelope her entire family with her grace and affection. She will also be an adorable mother.
But she can be a tempest waiting to unleash. Rub her on the wrong side, knowingly or otherwise, and there she becomes too much for any earthly force to handle.
If only they can manage to dwell only on their celebrated strengths of confidence, dignity and generosity, and have a conscious check on their pride and ego, Leo women can become individuals worthy of intense admiration, and can remain as good examples, whom others would like to emulate and follow.
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In this guide, you will learn how to check the game version and force update the PC. There are two methods to check the game version in Steam.
Check the Version of Any Steam Game
You will need to open the library.
After that, right-click your game and then click on properties.
You have to tap on the open local files section.
And then click on “browse local files”.
The next thing you will need to do is search for the .exe file (launcher).
Right-click on the game’s executable and open properties.
After that, navigate to the Details tab.
You will see your game version there.
You will need to go to “This PC” and open the C drive.
Open the “program files (x86)” folder
And then click on the “steam” folder.
After that, you have to open “steamapps”.
Click on “common.”
Open your game’s folder and right-click on the launcher.
After that, select “properties”, then navigate to the “details” tab, and you will see your version there.
Force Steam Game Update
The first thing you will need to do is open the library.
After that, right-click the game and open properties.
Next, you have to select the “local files” tab.
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If your dog doesn’t recognize your voice, they will probably show no interest at all. This has more to do with the fact that the range of the speaker is limited to accommodate only the human hearing range, and most often, this range is narrowed down to save bandwidth, so your phone voice has a much lower quality.
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Why does my dog not recognize my voice on the phone?
So if you call your dog on the phone, remember to use a calm, positive voice. However, as with images on a smartphone or tablet, sound through these devices is compressed. Also, dogs’ brains don’t work the way ours do; sometimes, they can’t connect the face and voice on screen with the flesh and blood human they love.
Can dogs hear your voice through the phone?
The sound frequency of a cell phone falls between the 6,000-20,000 Hz range. This is smack dab in the center of a dog’s ability to hear. With that, yes, your dog can hear you. Your dog can also recognize you.
Can dogs recognize me on FaceTime?
The researchers found that certain words sparked activity in different hemispheres of the brain. But while evidence shows dogs can register and understand audio recordings, experts say pet owners should expect their four-legged friends to blatantly ignore them during video chats through FaceTime or Skype.
Do dogs get jealous of phones?
The video is further proof that dogs can actually get jealous – and not just of you and your mobile phone. … It’s the same when they start pushing another dog out of the way when you give them attention – jealousy.
Can dogs Recognise their own voice?
Of course a dog can recognize it’s own barks. They can also recognize the sounds it pack mates produce, and this includes us lucky humans, and understand the general meaning of said noises.
What do dogs hear when we talk?
Dogs hear nearly twice as many frequencies as humans. … Your dog might not understand everything you say, but he listens and pays attention similar to the way humans do. The researchers discovered that dogs — like humans — respond not only to the words we say to them, but also to the emotional tone of our voices.
Do dogs recognize themselves in the mirror?
Dogs do not have the ability to recognize their own reflection in a mirror the way humans and some other animals are able to. … They will always treat their reflection like another dog or just simply ignore it.
Do dogs understand kisses?
When you kiss your dog, you may notice signs that indicate they know that the kiss is a gesture of affection. As puppies, this is not something that dogs would recognize, although they would feel you doing it. … Of course, dogs don’t know what kisses actually are, but they learn to realize that they are good.
Do dogs recognize themselves in videos?
If so, you may have wondered what they might be thinking, or if they are even seeing the same things that we are, or in the same way that we are. As it turns out, dogs do in fact notice and understand pictures that they see on the television screen, as well as the sounds that accompany them.
Do dogs remember people?
Dogs don’t really think that way— research shows, in fact, that they have very little direct recall. Instead, dogs have an associative memory. Dogs remember people, places, and experiences based on associations they have with them. … You can change your dog’s associative memories over time.
Can dogs see in the dark?
In the anatomical structure of the eye, the retina has light-sensitive cells, called rods, which help an animal or human see in low light. Dogs have more of these rods than we do. … So, dogs can see in the dark, and other low-light situations, better than humans.
Do dogs dream?
If you’ve ever watched your dog twitching, chattering or moving their paws while sleeping, you may have wondered if they are dreaming. The answer is yes. Dogs do dream. … In fact it’s likely that all mammals dream.
What is the most jealous dog breed?
10 Most Jealous Dog Breeds
- French Bulldog. If you have ever owned a Frenchie before, you know this dog clinches the title of the most jealous dog. …
- Australian shepherd. …
- Labrador Retriever. …
- American Pit Bull Terrier. …
- Cocker Spaniel. …
- German Short-haired pointer. …
- Golden retriever. …
- Border Collie.
Do dogs get jealous of spouses?
Dogs can act jealous or protective over items or people. It can become a big problem when the object of the jealousy is a spouse. This type of jealousy is damaging to the bonds between both people and dogs. … Some have said that jealousy is too intricate for dogs to feel, but most dog lovers would disagree.
Why does my dog cry when I’m on the phone?
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Strawberries “Mice Schindler”, or “Frau Mieze Schindler”, belong to time-tested varieties. The variety was obtained by German breeders a little less than a century ago. Famous and popular varieties of garden strawberries “Lucida Perfect” and “Johann Muller” were involved as a parental pair when crossing. As a result, a medium-late ripening variety was created, which has good frost resistance and drought resistance.
Description and characteristic
Garden strawberry “Mice Schindler” forms low, slightly leafy bushes. Relatively high peduncles are located slightly above the leaves. The plant is characterized by the formation of a sufficiently large number of whiskers. Small leaflets, smooth and dense. Leatheriness and dark green coloring of the upper leaf plate are characteristic. The bottom of the sheet has a silver tint. On individual bushes, mustache remodeling may occur.
Flowering same-sex. Successful pollination requires planting late-ripening pollinators next to the Frau Mieze Schindler. Berries of medium size, round or flattened, dark cherry in color. The pulp of the berry has a light raspberry color, friable consistency. The first crop is formed from berries weighing up to 18-20 g. In subsequent years, the average weight of the berry is about 5-6 g.
How to care for wild strawberries
Before planting, a thorough inspection of the seedlings should be carried out. Plants should be completely healthy, without dried roots or diseased leaves. It is recommended to process planting strawberry bushes with Fitosporin solution.
Garden strawberries of this variety require planting in well-lit sunlight, not waterlogged areas. The soil must be fertile, breathable and light. Landing is carried out in the spring or in the autumn period. The standard nutritional area for one plant is 50 x 20 cm or 60 x 15 cm. This scheme of planting allows you to get the maximum yield from each square meter of area.
It is advisable to plant prepared strawberry bushes in the evening or in cool, sunny weather. The depth of the hole should correspond to the size of the root system of the strawberry bush. When planting, it is recommended to add humus with wood ash to the planting pits. After planting, plants need abundant watering with warm water with root and growth stimulants, as well as shading and mulching of the soil around the bushes.
The German strawberry variety called “Mice Schindler” is not very demanding and shows a high yield when carrying out standard care:
- watering is carried out in the morning or evening hours with warm water;
- as fertilizers, it is allowed to use mullein, rotted litter manure, bird droppings, nettle infusion, as well as complex fertilizers for berry crops;
- strawberry ridges need to be weeded regularly, and then the soil is loosened;
- To protect the ridges from the formation of soil crust after irrigation measures or rain, shallow loosening of the soil is also carried out;
- the use of organic or inorganic mulch reduces the need for weed removal and cultivation;
- Harvesting is done as the berries ripen.
The variety is quite winter-hardy, but when cultivated in the northern regions, as well as under the condition of a snowy winter, freezing of plants can be observed. Therefore, it should be in the autumn to carry out the shelter of the plant.
You may also be interested in an article in which we explain why strawberries bloom, but there are no berries on it.
Despite average yields, Mice Schindler is highly regarded by gardeners for their excellent taste and appearance. The ripe berry looks like raspberries, and the taste and aroma combine shades of mulberry, raspberry and wild strawberry. Strawberries of the Mitsa Schindler variety have a rare taste with a very bright strawberry aftertaste. It differs from the taste of classic garden strawberries and is easily recognizable. Berries are recommended to be consumed fresh. The harvested crop is unsuitable for canning, juice preparation and freezing.
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Arbitrary-Oriented Scene Text Detection via Rotation Proposals
This paper introduces a novel rotation-based framework for arbitrary-oriented text detection in natural scene images. We present the Rotation Region Proposal Networks (RRPN), which is designed to generate inclined proposals with text orientation angle information. The angle information is then adapted for bounding box regression to make the proposals more accurately fit into the text region in orientation. The Rotation Region-of-Interest (RRoI) pooling layer is proposed to project arbitrary-oriented proposals to the feature map for a text region classifier. The whole framework is built upon region proposal based architecture, which ensures the computational efficiency of the arbitrary-oriented text detection comparing with previous text detection systems. We conduct experiments using the rotation-based framework on three real-world scene text detection datasets, and demonstrate its superiority in terms of effectiveness and efficiency over previous approaches.
Text detection is an important prerequisite for many computer vision and document analysis problems, which aims to identify text regions of the given images. Although there are a few commercial OCR systems for documental texts or internet contents, detect text in natural scene image is challenge due to hard situations such as uneven lighting, burring, perspective distortion, orientation, and \etc.
In the past years there have been many attentions in the text detection task [3, 22, 7, 35, 23, 1, 15, 12, 31]. Although these approaches have shown promising results, most of them rely on horizontal or nearly-horizontal annotations and return the detection of horizontal regions. However, in real-world applications, a great number of the text regions are not horizontal, and even applying the non-horizontal aligned text lines as the axis-aligned proposals may not be accurate, so the horizontal-specific methods cannot be widely applied in practice.
Recently, a few works have been proposed to address the arbitrary-oriented text detection [44, 39, 10]. In general, there are mainly two steps included in the task of these methods, \ie, segmentation networks such as Fully Convolutional Network (FCN) to generate the text prediction maps and geometric approaches for inclined proposals. However, prerequisite segmentation is usually time-consuming. Besides, some systems need several post-processing steps to generate final text region proposal with orientation, which are not as efficient as those based on detection network directly.
In this paper, we come up with a rotation-based approach and an end-to-end text detection system for arbitrary-oriented text detection. Particularly, orientations are incorporated so that the detection system can generate proposals for arbitrary orientation. Comparison between the previous horizontal-based approach and ours are illustrated in Figure 1. We present the Rotation Region Proposal Networks (RRPN), which is designed to generate inclined proposals with text orientation angle information. The angle information are then adapted for bounding box regression to make the proposals more accurately fit the text region. The Rotation Region-of-Interest (RRoI) pooling layer is proposed to project arbitrary-oriented proposals to the feature map. Finally, a two-layer network is deployed to classify the regions as text or background. The main contributions of this paper include:
Different from previous segmentation-based framework, ours has ability to predict the orientation of a text line using region proposal based approach, so that the proposals can better fit the text region and the ranged text region can be easily rectified and more convenient for text reading.
The framework incorporates new components into region proposal based architecture , which ensures the computational efficiency for text detection comparing with segmentation-based text detection systems.
We also proposed novel strategies for select region proposals with arbitrary orientation to improve the performance on arbitrary-oriented text detection.
2 Related Work
Reading text in the wild has been studied during the last few decades and the comprehensive surveys can be found at [2, 16, 33, 40]. Methods based on the sliding window, connected component and bottom-up strategy are designed to handle the horizontal-based text detection. Sliding window-based methods [20, 4, 35, 24, 15] tend to use a sliding window of a fixed size to slide the text area and find the region most likely to be the presence of text. In order to take more presence styles of text into account, [15, 36] applies multi-scale and multi-ratio to the sliding window methods. However, the process of sliding window leads to a large computational cost and leads to inefficiency. Representative approaches of connected component-based like Stroke Width Transform (SWT) and Maximally Stable Extremal Regions (MSER) were with leading performance in ICDAR 2011 and ICDAR 2013 robust text detection competitions. They mainly focus on the edge and pixel point of the image by detecting the character by edge detection or extreme region extraction and then combining the sub MSER components into a word or text-line region. The efforts of these methods are limited in some hard situations such as multiple connected characters, segmented stroke characters and non-uniform illumination .
Scene text in the wild is usually aligned from any orientation in real-world applications and approaches for arbitrary orientation are needed. For example, use Mutual Magnitude Symmetry and Gradient Vector Symmetry to identify text pixel candidates regardless of any orientation including curves from natural scene image, and design the Canny Text Detector by taking the similarity between image edge and text to detect text edge pixels and text localization. Recently, convolution network based approaches are proposed to perform text detection, \eg, Text-CNN by first using optimized MSER detector to find the approximate region of the text and then sending region features into a character-based horizontal text CNN classifier to further recognize the character region. And the orientation factor is adopted in segmentation models by Yao et al. . Their model tries to predict more accurate orientation with an explicit manner of text segmentation, and performs outstanding results on ICDAR2013 , ICDAR2015 and MSRA-TD500 benchmarks.
A technique similar to text detection is generic object detection. The detection process can be faster if the number of proposals is largely reduced. There is a wide variety of region proposal methods such as Edge Boxes , Selective Search , and Region Proposal Network (RPN) . For example, Jaderberg \etal extend the region proposal method and apply the Edge Boxes method to perform text detection. Their text spotting system achieves outstanding result on several text detection benchmarks. The Connectionist Text Proposal Network (CTPN) is also a detection based framework for scene text detection by employing the image feature from CNN network in LSTM to predict the text region and generate robust proposals.
This work is inspired by the Fast-RCNN and RPN detection pipeline. The RPN can be combined with Fast-RCNN framework to further accelerate the proposal process and achieve the state-of-the-art detection performance on competitions such as ImageNet . The idea is also inspired by Spatial Transformer Networks (STN) , which suggests a neural network model can learn to transform an image with an angle degree; here we try to add angle information into the model for multi-oriented text detection. Perhaps the work most related to ours is , where the authors proposed Inception-RPN and made further text detection-specific optimization to adapt the text detection. Comparing with previous works, we incorporate the rotation factor into the region proposal network so that it is able to generate arbitrary-oriented proposals. We also extend the RoI pooling layer into the Rotation RoI (RRoI) pooling layer and apply angle regression in our framework to perform the rectification process and finally achieve a very good result.
We now elaborate the construction of the rotation-based framework. The architecture is illustrated in Figure 2; details of each phase will be described in the following parts.
3.1 Horizontal Region Proposal
As mentioned in previous section, RPN is able to further accelerate the process of proposal generation. Part of VGG-16 is employed as sharable layers, and the horizontal region proposals are generated by sliding over the feature map of the last convolutional layer. The feature extracted from each sliding window are fed into two sibling layers (a box-regression (reg) layer and a box-classification (cls) layer), where there are 4 (4 coordinates per proposal) outputs from reg layer representing coordinates and 2 (2 scores per proposal) scores from cls layer for anchors of each sliding position.
To fit the objects in different sizes, RPN uses two parameters to control the size and shape of anchors, \ie, scale and aspect ratio. Scale parameter decides the size of the anchor, and aspect ratio controls the ratio of width and height for anchor box. In , the authors set the scale as 8, 16 and 32 and the ratio as 1:1, 1:2 and 2:1 for generic object detection task. This anchor selection strategy can cover almost shapes of all natural objects and keep the total proposals at a small number. However, in the text detection task, especially with the scene images, texts are usually presented in an unnatural shape with different orientations; axis-aligned proposals generated by RPN are not robust for scene text detection. To make the network more robust for text detection and keep its efficiency, we think that it is necessary to build a detection framework, which encodes the rotation information with the region proposals.
3.2 Proposed Architecture
As shown in Figure 2, we employ the convolutional layers of VGG16 in the front of the framework, which are shared by two sibling branches, \ie, the RRPN and a clone of feature map of last convolutional layer. RRPN generates arbitrary-oriented proposals for text instances and further performs bounding box regression for proposals to better fit the text instances. The sibling layers branched from the RRPN are the classification layer (cls) and regression layer (reg) of RRPN, respectively. Outputs from these two layers are the scores from cls and proposal information from reg and their losses are computed and summed to form multi-task loss. Then RRoI pooling layer acts as a max pooling layer by projecting arbitrary-oriented text proposals from RRPN onto the feature map. Finally, a classifier formed by two fully-connected layers is used and the region with the RRoI features is classified as text or background.
3.3 Data Preprocessing
In the training stage, the ground truth of a text region is represented as a rotated bounding box with 5 tuples . The coordinate represents geometric center of the bounding box. The height is set as short side of bounding box and the width as the long side. The orientation is the orientation of long side. We fix the range to by shifting to the opposite direction if the angle is out of this range.
3.4 Rotation Anchors
Traditional anchors using scale and aspect ratio parameters are not enough for in-the-wild text detection, therefore we design the rotation anchors (R-anchors) with several adjustments. First, orientation parameter is added to control the orientation of a proposal. Six different orientations, \ie, , 0, , , and , are used, which are trade-off between orientation coverage and computational efficiency. Second, as text regions are usually with special shapes, the aspect ratio is changed to 1:2, 1:5 and 1:8 to cover a wide range of text line. Besides, the scale of 8, 16 and 32 are kept. Summary of the anchor strategy is in Figure 3. Following our data preprocess step, a proposal is generated from the R-anchors with 5 variables (, , , , ). For each point on feature map, 54 R-anchors (633) are generated, and respectively 270 outputs (554) for reg layer and 108 scores output (254) for cls layer on each sliding position. Then, we slide the feature map with RRPN and generates anchors in total for the feature map with width and height .
3.5 Learning of Rotated Proposal
As the R-anchors are generated, the sampling strategy for R-anchors is needed for network learning. We first define the Intersection-over-Union (IoU) overlap as the overlap between the skew rectangles of ground truth and R-anchor. Then Positive R-anchors are featured with: (i) the highest IoU overlap or IoU larger than 0.7 with ground truth, and (ii) intersection angle with the ground truth less than . Negative R-anchors are defined as: (i) IoU lower than 0.3, or (ii) IoU larger than 0.7 but the intersection angle with ground truth larger than . Regions which are not positive or negative are not used during training.
Our loss function for the proposal uses the form of multi-task loss , which is defined as:
where is the indicator of the class label ( for text and for background, no regression for background), the parameter is the probability over classes computed by the softmax function, denote as the predicted tuple for the text label, and denote as ground truth. The trade-off between two terms are controlled by the balancing parameter . We define the classification loss for class as:
For the bounding box regression, the background RoIs are ignored and we adopt smooth- loss for the text RoIs:
The scale-invariant parameterizations tuple and are calculated as follows:
where , and are for the predicted box, anchor and ground-truth box; and it is the same for , , and . The operation , where to ensure .
As we describe in the prior section, we give R-anchors fixed orientations within the range and each of the 6 orientations can fit the ground truth that has an intersection angle less than , so that every R-anchor has its fitting range, which we call it fit domain. When orientation of a ground truth box is in the fit domain of an R-anchor, this R-anchor is most likely to be a positive sample of the ground truth box, As a result, the fit domains of 6 orientations divide the angle range into 6 equal parts. Thus ground truth in any orientation can be fitted with an R-anchor of appropriate fit domain. Figure 5 shows a comparison of the utility of regression term. We can observe that the orientations of the regions are similar in a neighborhood region.
In order to verify the ability of the network for learning text region orientation, we visualize the intermediate results in Figure 4. For an input image, the feature maps of RRPN training after different iterations are visualized. The short white line on feature map represents the R-anchor with the highest response to the text instance. The orientation of short line is orientation of this R-anchor, while short line length indicates the level of response. We can observe that brighter field of feature map focuses on the text region and other region becomes darker after 150,000 iterations. Moreover, the orientations of the regions become closer to the orientation of text instance as the iteration increases.
3.6 Accurate Proposal Refinement
Skew IoU Computation The rotation proposals can be generated in any orientations, so IoU computation on axis-aligned proposals may lead to an inaccurate IoU of skew interactive proposals and further ruin the proposal learning. As shown in Algorithm 1, we design an implementation111Here we use GPU to accelerate the computation speed. for Skew IoU computation with thought of triangulation and Figure 6 shows the geometric principles.
Skew Non-Maximum Suppression (Skew-NMS) Traditional NMS only takes the IoU factor into consideration (\egIoU threshold is ), but it is insufficient for arbitrary-oriented proposals. For instance, anchor with ratio 1:8 and angle difference of are with the IoU of 0.31, which are less than 0.7; however, it may be annotated as positive samples. Therefore, the Skew-NMS consists of 2 phases: (i) keep the max IoU for proposals with IoU larger than ; (ii) if all proposals with an IoU in range , keep the proposal with minimum angle difference with ground truth (the angle difference shall be less than ).
3.7 RRoI Pooling Layer
As presented in Fast-RCNN , RoI pooling layer extracts a fixed-length feature vector from the feature map for each proposal. Each feature vector is feed into fully-connected layers that finally branch in to the sibling cls and reg layers and the outputs are predicted localization and class of an object in an input image. As the feature map of image only needs to be computed once per image rather than computed every generated proposal, the object detection framework is accelerated. The RoI pooling layer uses max pooling to convert the feature inside any valid RoI into a small feature map with a fixed spatial extent of , where and are layer hyper-parameters that are independent of any RoI.
For the arbitrary-oriented text detection task, the traditional RoI pooling layer can only handle axis-aligned proposals, thus we present the Rotation RoI (RRoI) pooling layer to adjust arbitrary-oriented proposals generated by RRPN. We first set the RRoI layer hyper-parameters to and for the RRoIs, the rotated proposal region can be divided into subregions of size for a proposal with height and width (as shown in Figure 7(a)); each subregions have the same orientation as the proposal. Figure 7(b) displays an example with 4 vertices (A, B, C, and D) of the subregion on the feature map. The 4 vertices are calculated using affine transformation and grouped to range the border of subregion. Then max pooling is performed in every subregion and max-pooled values are saved in the matrix of each RRoI; the pseudo-code for RRoI pooling is shown in Algorithm 2. Comparing with RoI pooling, RRoI Pooling can pool any regions with various angle, aspect ratio, or scale, into a fix size feature map. Finally, the proposals are transferred into RRoIs and sent to the classifiers to give the result of text or background.
We perform the rotation-based framework on three popular text detection benchmarks: MSRA-TD500 , ICDAR2015 and ICDAR2013 ; we follow the evaluation protocol of these benchmarks. MSRA-TD500 dataset contains 300 training images and 200 testing images. Annotations of the images consist of both position and orientation of each text instance, and the benchmark can be used to evaluate text detection performance over the multi-oriented text instance. As the dataset of MSRA-TD500 is relatively smaller, its experiments are designed for exploiting alternative settings. ICDAR 2015 is released for the text localization of incidental scene text challenge (Task 4.1) in ICDAR 2015 Robust Reading Competition, which has 1500 images in total. Different from previous ICDAR Robust Reading Competition, the text instance annotations are with four vertices, which form an irregular quadrilateral bounding box with orientation information. We roughly generate an inclined rectangle to fit the quadrangle and its orientation. The ICDAR 2013 dataset is from the ICDAR 2013 Robust Reading Competition. There are 229 natural images for training and 233 natural images for testing. All the text instances in this dataset are horizontally aligned, and we conduct experiments on this horizontal benchmark to see the adaptability of our approach on specific orientation.
Implementation Details. Our network is initialized by pre-training of a model for ImageNet classification . The weights of the network are updated by using a learning rate of for the first 200,000 iterations and for next 100,000 iterations, weight decay of and a momentum of 0.9.
Due to our different R-anchor strategy, the total number of proposals for each image is nearly 6 times of that in previous approaches such as Faster-RCNN. In order to make the efficient detection, we filter R-anchors of breaking the border of image. Therefore, the speed of our system is similar with previous works in both training and testing stage.
We train the baseline system with 300 images from MSRA-TD500 training set; the input image patch is resized with long side of 1000 pixels. The evaluation result is precision of , recall of , and F-measure of , which are much better performance than original Faster-RCNN with P, R and F of , and . We make the comparison between rotation and horizontal region proposal and some detection results are illustrated in Figure 8. The rotation based approach is able to have accurate detection with less background area, which indicates the effectiveness of incorporation the rotation strategy.
Further analysis on the baseline results give us the following insights: (i) the hard situations (\eg, blur and uneven lighting) in the image can hardly be detected; (ii) some text instances in extremely small size cannot properly be detected, and this issue result in a large recall loss of the performance; (iii) the extremely long text line,\ie, height-width ratio of the bounding box larger than 1:10, cannot be correctly detected, often split in several shorter proposals, so that all the proposals become false detection according to the evaluation of MSRA-TD500 (some failed detection are shown in Figure 9). A few alternative strategies and settings from the baseline approach are tested and the summary is listed in Table 1.
Context of Text Region. Incorporating the contextual information is proved to be useful for the general object detection task (\eg, ) and we wonder whether it can promote a text detection system. We keep the center of the rotated bounding box and orientation, and enlarge both width and height by a factor of on the data preprocess step. During testing phase, we divide the enlargement for every proposal. As shown in Table 2, all the experiments are with obvious increase in F-measure. The reason may probably be that as the bounding box become larger, more context information of text instance is grasped and the information of orientation can be better captured, so that the orientation of the proposals can be more precisely predicted.
Training Dataset Enlargement. we adopt HUST-TR400 (contains 400 images with text instance annotated with the same parameters as MSRA-TD500) as an additional dataset and form the training set of 700 images from both datasets. There is a significant improvement of all the measurements and the F-measure is , showing that the network is better trained and more robust when handling noisy inputs.
Border Padding. With our filtering strategy, most of the breaking bound R-anchors are eliminated. However, as the bounding box is rotated with angles, it may still exceed the image border, especially when we enlarge the text region for the contextual information. Thus we set a border padding of 0.25 times of each side to reserve more positive proposals. Experiment shows that adding border padding to the image improves the detection results. Besides, combining border padding with enlargement of text region and training dataset makes a further improvement with F-measure of .
Scale Jittering. There are still a number of small text regions in both training dataset, and we add the scale jittering for the robustness of our system. The image patch is re-scaled with long side of a random size less than 1300 pixels and then sent into the network. The F-measure based on scale jittering is 69.3%, which has 6% improvement over the experiment without jittering.
Post Processing. The annotation of MSRA-TD500 prefers to label the region of a whole text line. Thus, the length of text line is not with a fixed range, sometimes to be very long. However, the ratios for the R-anchor are fixed and may not be large enough to cover all the length, which leads to several short bounding box results for a single text region. To handle this extremely long text line issue, a post-processing step is incorporated by combine multiple short detection boxes in the neighborhood area to one proposal. With the post-processing, the performance further boost to F-measure of 74.2%.
4.2 ICDAR Benchmarks
ICDAR 2015. Following the strategies and parameters on MSRA-TD500 evaluation, we train the baseline system with the training dataset of ICDAR2015 containing 1000 images with 10886 text instances. The evaluation result is precision 45.42%, recall 72.56%, and F-measure 55.87%.
As MSRA-TD500 tends to provide text line ground truth and ICDAR is word level annotations, the precision of our approach is lower than other methods that reach the same magnitude of F-measure. We analysis the text detection results and find three reasons. First, even we resize the images using the scale jittering strategy, some of the incidental text regions are still too small. Second, there exist some small unreadable text instances (labeled with ‘###’) in ICDAR2015 training set (some are shown in Figure 10), which may lead to some false detection results of text-like instance. Finally, our training dataset is much smaller than previous approaches such as [39, 32, 44].
To handle the small text region issue, we make a larger scale by jittering the image patch with long side in a random size less than 1700 pixels before sending into the network. We also check the impact of small unreadable text instances by randomly removing these instances from training set. Figure 11 displays the curves of the measurements. The recall rate remains the same level around - unless we remove all the unreadable instances, while precision significantly increases with the proportion. Therefore, we randomly remove 80% unreadable text instances on training set and keep the whole testing set. To further improve our detection system, we incorporate a few text datasets for training, \ie, ICDAR2013 , ICDAR2003 and SVT . As listed in Table 3, the training images for different approaches are in the same order of magnitude and ours achieve better performance.
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|Yao \etal||64||62||61||7.2s||CTPN ||74||52||61||Faster-RCNN ||75||71||73|
|Yin \etal||71||61||65||0.8s||Yao \etal||72||59||65||Gupta \etal||92||76||83|
|Kang \etal||71||62||66||-||SCUT_DMP_v2||77||77||77||Yao \etal||89||80||84|
|Yin \etal||81||63||71||1.4s||MSRA-v1||85||74||79||DeepText ||85||81||85|
|Zhang \etal||83||67%||74||2.1s||SRC-B||84||80||82||CTPN ||93||83||88|
ICDAR 2013. In order to examine the adaptability of our approach, we also conduct experiments on horizontal-based ICDAR2013 benchmark. We reuse the model trained for ICDAR2015 and the 5-tuple rotation proposals are fit into horizontal-aligned rectangles. The result is Precision 90.22%, Recall 71.89%, and F-measure 80.02% under ICDAR 2013 evaluation protocol. As shown in Table 4, there are 7% improvement comparing with Faster-RCNN, which confirms the robustness of our detection framework with rotation factor.
4.3 Comparisons with State-of-the-art
The experimental results of our method compared with state-of-the-art approaches are given in Table 4. As the RRPN models are trained separately for MSRA-TD500 and ICDAR, we also train an unified model (RRPN*) trained on all of the training sets for the generalization issue. For MSRA-TD500 dataset, the performance of our RRPN reaches the same magnitude of start-of-the-art approaches, such as and . As our system make the end-to-end text detection, it is more efficient than others with only 0.3s processing time per testing image. For ICDAR benchmarks, the substantial performance gains over the published works confirm the effectiveness of using rotation region proposal and rotation RoI for text detection task. The recent work DeepText is also detection based approach, but is based on the Inception structure. We believe that our rotation-based framework is also complementary to Inception since they focus on different levels of information. Some detection results on the benchmarks are illustrated in Figure 12.
In this paper, we have introduced a rotation based detection framework for arbitrary-oriented text detection. Inclined rectangle proposals are generated with the text region orientation angle information from higher convolutional layer of network, which is able to detect text in multi-orientation. A novel RRoI pooling layer is also designed and adapted to the rotated RoIs. Experimental comparisons with state-of-the-arts on MSRA-TD500, ICDAR2013 and ICDAR2015 show the effectiveness and efficiency of proposed RRPN and RRoI on text detection task.
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With: Carrie Figdor, PhD Philosophy Iowa Neuroscience Institute
Animal models have long been used to investigate human mental disorders, including depression, anorexia, and autism spectrum disorders. This practice is usually justified consequentially in terms of the benefits (to humans) outweighing the costs (to the animals). Critics have argued that for various reasons the results from experiments with animals don’t translate reliably to the human case, so it seems to follow that the animals are suffering and dying in vain. I’ll consider a number of these criticisms, raise a few of my own, and consider whether severe restrictions on the use of animal models in neuropsychiatry, and medical research generally, might be better for the humans and the animals alike.
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Y2 Reading Revision
Date(s) - 05 Feb 20
9:15 am - 3:30 pm
Cheshire View Hotel
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Course description: This new reading course will address the expectations for reading in the Year 2 reading test and clarity of end of KS1 teacher assessment. Teachers will be guided through a revision unit for reading based around high quality texts. Key reading strategies will be investigated.
Outcomes: Teachers will:
• Gain a clear understanding of the expectations for the Y2 reading test
• Be equipped to teach focused, shared reading lessons using appropriate resources and texts
• Develop an understanding of key reading strategies that will support pupils’ reading progress
Audience: Year 2 teachers, subject leaders, teaching assistants
Cost: £175 +vat per delegate
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Deadline: 17 January 2016
Registrations are open for the Youth for Gender Equality Forum under Step it up for Gender Equality initiative that is an interactive and inspiring initiative to promote dialogue, exchange, learning and networking for people engaged in promoting gender equality in their daily lives.
The forum will be held from 2 to 4 March 2016 at European Parliament in Brussels.
The initiative has been organized by the Group of the Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats(S&D) in the European Parliament, in collaboration with the Foundation for European Progressive Studies, PES Women, Young European Socialists, Rainbow Rose and the Global Progressive Forum.
The S&D Group stands for an inclusive European society based on principles of freedom, equality, solidarity, diversity and fairness with its MEPs committed to fighting for social justice, jobs and growth, consumer rights, sustainable development, financial market reform and human rights to create a stronger and more democratic Europe and a better future for everyone.
As part of this unique event, youths will also have the chance to build a wide network of contacts and share their experience of gender equality projects. They will have the opportunity to interact with S&D Members of the European Parliament, professionals and experts while engaging in intercultural exchanges with the participants.
- The 2016 Forum is looking for 25 young motivated individuals, 20 EU nationals and 5 from neighboring countries, aged 18 to 25.
- The ideal candidate will be motivated, proactive and engaged in gender equality/women’s rights activism, with good communication skills, and will share the core values of the Socialists and Democrats.
- A good knowledge of English is a must as there will be no interpretation during the forum.
- The S&D Group will consider gender balance in the selection process.
How to Apply
Interested applicants can register for the forum via given website.
Note: Interested candidates are advised to apply as soon as possible, as for practical reasons the organizers can only take into consideration the first 250 applications. The top 25 of these will be selected for the Youth for Gender Equality Forum and will be contacted by January 31st 2016 by the organizers.
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The Fed, the FDIC and the OCC have announced they are seeking comment on a notice of proposed rulemaking, or NPR, that would amend an earlier NPR announced in December 2010. The initial NPR proposed modifications to the agencies’ market risk capital rules for banking organizations with significant trading activities.
The amended NPR includes alternative standards of creditworthiness to be used in place of credit ratings to determine the capital requirements for certain debt and securitization positions covered by the market risk capital rules. The proposed creditworthiness standards include the use of country risk classifications published by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development for sovereign positions, company-specific financial information and stock market volatility for corporate debt positions, and a supervisory formula for securitization positions.
The earlier NPR was based largely on the revisions to the market risk framework published by the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision since 2005. However, it did not include aspects of the Basel Committee revisions that rely on credit ratings. Under the Dodd-Frank Act, all federal agencies must remove references to, and requirements of, reliance on credit ratings from their regulations and replace them with appropriate alternatives for evaluating creditworthiness. The agencies believe that the capital requirements resulting from the implementation of these alternative standards would be generally consistent with the standards in the Basel Committee’s revisions.
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Our ‘Local Offer’ for Special Educational Needs and Disability (SEND)
At Polperro School we embrace the fact that every child is different and, therefore, the educational needs of every child are different. For some children this may mean that they have Special Educational Needs. In terms of what we offer children with Special Educational Needs and/or Disabilities, it is important to emphasise that, as much as possible, this provision is designed by the relevant staff members working alongside the child, the child’s family and, where necessary, outside agencies* (e.g. a Speech and Language Therapist or an Educational Psychologist). All children are set targets and encouraged to set their own personal goals. Pupils' targets will be connected to learning and will often be specifically to do with English and maths. For other children, they may be to do with social interaction, communicating with children and adults, emotional difficulties, overcoming physical issues (for example problems to do with fine motor control) … the list is endless! The most important point is this: the targets depend on the needs of the child.
The school offers many different forms of additional provision. This can include: additional in-class support; additional out-of-class support; one-to-one support; flexible groupings (including small group work); access to specific resources; and access to a wide range of outside agencies*. Additional provision and intervention programmes are monitored and discussed regularly to ensure that the pupil is making expected or better than expected progress and whether the provision is successful or needs changing. The staff in Polperro School are kept up to date with training and the latest developments in SEN education and how to ensure excellent rates of progress for the pupils.
We ensure that all our extra-curricular activities, including residential trips, are adapted for children’s specific needs.
We are delighted that our pupils with Special Educational Needs are confident and happy to participate fully in school trips, residentials, extra-curricular clubs, creative and performance events, sports teams and school committees.
If you have any queries about our local offer please contact the school. Our Special Educational Needs and Disability Coordinator is Tina Wright and our SEND Governor is Helen Casson.
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In terms of behaviors with dangerous health outcomes, smoking is public enemy number one. It’s drilled into kids’ heads from an early age, as anti-smoking campaigns and vigilant parents harp on the dangers of “cancer sticks.” But a new global study published in The Lancet finds that poor diet is responsible for more worldwide deaths from non-communicable diseases than smoking.
The study, funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, examined health data from adults in 195 countries from 1990 to 2017, examining their consumption of 15 dietary components. The researchers concluded “the leading dietary risk factors for mortality are diets high in sodium, low in whole grains, low in fruit, low in nuts and seeds, low in vegetables, and low in omega-3 fatty acids.” Each of those factors alone is responsible for 2% of global deaths. Dietary risks accounted for 11 million deaths worldwide in 2017, the study found, with cardiovascular disease ranking as the leading cause of diet-related mortality. Egypt had the highest rate of diet-related mortality, while Japan had the lowest.
So, what’s to be done? The researchers note existing campaigns to inform the public of the risks of high-sodium foods as well as country-wide bans on trans fats haven’t had a global impact on the number of deaths related to suboptimal diets. Given the high human cost of poor diets, the study calls for “extensive changes in various sectors of the food system at the global, regional, and national levels.” Or, put in more pedestrian language, telling people not to eat salty foods and to include more whole grains on their plates isn’t sufficient. Systemic changes in global agriculture and food production will be required to have any sizable effect on these 11 million annual deaths. Researchers hope the wide scope of the study will help spark further ideas for large-scale nutrition and dietary improvements.
“We simply can’t all adopt a healthy diet under the current global agriculture system,” co-author Evan Fraser, director of the Arrell Food Institute at the University Of Guelph, tells NPR’s The Salt. “At a global level, we have a mismatch between what we should be eating, and what we’re producing.” | <urn:uuid:9ccdd74b-0052-49d0-a41e-403f7c523b5c> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://thetakeout.com/unhealthy-poor-diet-global-deaths-study-smoking-1833809686 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572033.91/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814113403-20220814143403-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.938713 | 475 | 3.171875 | 3 |
I was reading Forbes recently and saw an article that echoed what we’ve been saying and experiencing for a couple of years now. Having grown up the heart of the Silicon Valley, and witnessing the birth and explosion of the tech industry there, we are familiar with the stages of the growth process. When we were looking for places to relocate, we looked for cities that had a lot of the same characteristics, but were further back in its growth timeline and thus more affordable. Austin was starting to show signs the the tech industry was getting ready to explode and honestly, that’s a lot of why we chose Austin. Though at its infancy when we first relocated to Austin, the tech industry has grown significantly and is expected to continue.
Government Jobs Are No Longer the Driver of Austin’s Economy
The Austin economy is no longer fueled by government jobs and the university. Though those industries are still a big part of our economy, Austin’s tech industry is one of the fastest growing in the US. Not only are we seeing larger technology companies expand their world presence to Austin, we’re also starting to see startups, which is a sign our technology industry is poised for take off.
The Silicon Valley Real Estate Market is Not Ideal for Investors or Buyers
One of the reasons companies are expanding to cities like Austin is because of housing affordability for their workforce. Los Altos, one of the cities in the heart of the Silicon Valley, recently reported a median price of $2.3 million citywide. And, Silicon Valley rents are about as high as you can get at nearly $2,000 for a basic one bedroom apartment. If you are an investor looking to purchase homes to rent, or a tech company employee looking to purchase a home to live, Silicon Valley is not the ideal market. But, Austin might be.
Austin is Poised to be the Next Silicon Valley
Forbes looked at the following characteristics to come up with their list of cities poised to be the next Silicon Valley:
- Relatively low housing costs
- Low unemployment rates
- Median Tech salaries higher than median salary for the city’s total workforce
- The presence of major Tech companies
- Venture capital funding to spawn new business
Austin came out at the top of their list because of its young population, large venture capitalist presence, up and coming restaurant scene and music hub. This year, Austin was named #2 on Forbes’ Best U.S. Cities for Future Job Growth, #1 City in the US to Invest by Forbes, #2 city to invest by PricewaterhouseCoopers, the #10 Richest City in the US (and also most affordable on that list) and the best U.S. city for Millennials to buy a home in 2015. Notwithstanding all of those accolades, quality of life in Austin is much higher and our tech clients tell us Austin offices offer more of a work-life balance than they had in Silicon Valley.
Austin’s Affordability Attracts Home Buyers and Investors
Unlike Silicon Valley’s real estate market, the majority of tech employees and investors can compete in the Austin real estate market. Though our real estate market is strong, it is nothing compared to the real estate market in the Silicon Valley. Having worked in real estate in both cities, I can make that comparison with knowledge of both markets during their peak seasons.
What Other Cities Made the List?
Forbes named five to their list of cities poised to be the next Silicon Valley. Here is the rest of the list.
- Austin, TX
- Dallas, TX
- Seattle, WA
- Chicago, IL
- Miami, FL
You can read the rest of the article here.
Austin is Still the Best
All of these other cities are great, but we still think Austin is the best! We might be biased, but as the #2 fastest growing city in the US (recently dethroned from the #1 spot it held for years), it seems many people agree with us.
Considering Relocating to Austin from Silicon Valley?
We relocated to Austin from Silicon Valley about five years ago now and it was the best decision we made. We have a much higher quality of life, enjoy great weather 75% of the year and aren’t burdened with all of the fees and taxes we had in Silicon Valley. If you are thinking about a move and you are in the tech industry, I would highly encourage you to visit Austin. If you’ve already decided Austin is place, check out our Guide to Relocating to Austin and our Austin Relocation Blog for more tips.
Relocating to Austin from Silicon Valley and Need to Buy a Home?
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A Troubleshooting Guide for a Peerless Cast-Iron Boiler
The National Board of Boiler and Pressure Vessel Inspectors reports that cast-iron boilers experience few problems. The Peerless Company makes cast-iron boilers that have a stellar industry reputation, according to eLocalPlumbersBlog.com.
Although problems may be infrequent, troubleshooting cast-iron boilers considers three common problems: cracking, leaking and faulty pilot lights.
In a hydronic heating system, cast-iron boilers use water or steam to produce heat instead of warmed air. Heat is not forced through ducts, which eliminates the need for blowers and fans, but is moved through sealed pipes by radiation or convection, according to Peerless. When working properly, boilers rely on pilot lights that remain lit to ignite burners, which supply heat to the unit. Because hydronic heating systems are sealed, moisture should not leak from the system.
The National Board of Boiler and Pressure Vessel Inspectors reports that the primary problem of cast-iron boilers is cracking. When a boiler becomes dirty, sludge can accumulate in the bottom and can hinder circulation within the system. This can cause the boiler to overheat, which can cause it to crack. If the water level in a boiler becomes low, this can also cause it to overheat. In an attempt to raise the water level and cool the water in an overheated boiler, some people add cold water; however, this can also cause the boiler to crack.
Cast-iron boilers have relief valves that open to release water from the system. One reason for leaking water is an undersized expansion tank that is insufficient to control water pressure. At the expansion tank, the cold-water supply line is connected. Leaks can also occur if the supply line is connected improperly or in the wrong place, according to Peerless. When cast-iron boilers are assembled, sections are sealed together. Using chemical treatments in your boiler will deteriorate these seals and cause leaks, according to FacilitiesNet.com.
Peerless offers troubleshooting tips for why pilot lights do not remain lit. Drafts near boilers from windows or doors (even garage doors opening and closing) can extinguish the pilot light. If your boiler is near your clothes dryer, the dryer vent could leak air that is directed toward the pilot light. If you have other gas appliances with pilot lights that also go out, it could point to a system problem with obstructed gas flow or improper piping. If all these areas are problem-free, check the thermocouple or the gas valve for malfunction.
Victoria Lee Blackstone is a horticulturist and a professional writer who has authored research-based scientific/technical papers, horticultural articles, and magazine and newspaper articles. After studying botany and microbiology at Clemson University, Blackstone was hired as a University of Georgia Master Gardener Coordinator. She is also a former mortgage acquisition specialist for Freddie Mac in Atlanta, GA.
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Just talking to your lawyer is not enough to constitute attorney-client privilege
Believe it or not, I actually like being an attorney. Granted, some days I like it a lot more than others, but I think is that probably true with any profession.
I get to interact with people — help them solve problems and see a little justice served. And, I get to say things like, “I object” in open court, just like they do on TV.
With all that said, there are a couple of ways surefire ways for attorneys to find themselves disbarred. One of those is to violate attorney-client privilege.
For those keeping score at home, attorney-client privilege (A/C privilege, for short) ensures the confidentiality of communications between a client and his or her attorney. In the broadest possible terms that means that, for the most part, what you tell your attorney is confidential. The concepts date back to the days of Queen Elizabeth and English common law. A/C privilege was first recognized by the U.S. Supreme Court in 1906.
In a 1998 U.S. Supreme Court case addressing A/C privilege, Chief Justice William Rehnquist summed up the importance of that privilege by stating that A/C privilege is “intended to encourage full and frank communication between attorneys and their clients, and thereby promote broader public interest in the observance of the law and the administration of justice.”
That seems logical and, to be honest, pretty straightforward. But the facts are what make this particular case interesting.
This case involved the investigation of President Bill Clinton, and it involved notes taken by a lawyer for White House aide Vincent Foster regarding the Whitewater real estate deal. Special prosecutor Ken Starr was seeking access to the notes through a grand jury. To make matters interesting, Foster died just nine days after the conversation in question, of an apparent suicide. Part of the question was whether A/C privilege survives the death of the client. In this case, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in a 6-3 decision that A/C privilege does indeed survive the death of the client.
So, we know that the privilege can survive death but what makes a conversation qualify for this protection? Simply talking to a lawyer is not enough.
Generally, A/C privilege applies only if (1) the holder of the privilege is a client or is trying to become a client; (2) the person to whom the communication was made is a member of the bar of a court or a subordinate; (3) the encounter occurs only when the lawyer is acting in a legal capacity and the disclosure is not for the purpose of committing a crime; and (4) the privilege has been asserted.
To paraphrase the above, the general requirements for the privilege to apply are:
1. You are a client;
2. I am a lawyer;
3. The disclosure is not related to a crime; and
4. You claim the privilege.
Of course, over time, the courts have carved out exceptions to A/C privilege. It is what they do, and it keeps lawyers employed.
The biggest exception — and the most cited — is the crime/fraud exception. The other exceptions involve a fiduciary exception (think trust and estate cases) and the “on the advice of counsel” exception, which is used as a defense. The last two exceptions are not that much fun to talk about, so I will briefly mention the first.
The crime-fraud exception arose in a U.S. Supreme Court case more than 100 years ago. The exception basically covers communications that further a crime, tort or fraud. In other words, if you are silly enough to discuss your future crime spree with your attorney, the conversation is not privileged.
Needless to say, there are lots of issues we could discuss regarding A/C privilege and its application; however, I am running out of space — and I am confident your eyes have already glazed over.
In closing, the thing to understand is this: Not every conversation is protected. If you have questions or concerns, ask your attorney.
Brad Klepper, Esq. is President of Interstate Trucker Ltd., a law firm entirely dedicated to legal defense of the nation's commercial drivers. Interstate Trucker represents truck drivers throughout the forty-eight (48) states on both moving and non-moving violations. Brad is also Executive Vice President & General Counsel of Drivers Legal Plan, which allows member drivers access to his firm’s services at greatly discounted rates. Brad spent almost a decade with the largest law firm in Oklahoma where his practice included extensive experience in transactional law, business defense litigation, and intellectual property. In addition, Brad is a licensed architect and serves as General Counsel to the Oklahoma Board of Architects, Landscape Architects and Interior Designers. Brad has dedicated much of his time to DataQs challenges, which are challenges posed to the FMCSA for CSA incidents, to examine data and reports filed by law enforcement.
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Prevention is the key to a healthy smile!
The placement of preventative fillings can treat tooth decay at the earliest stage. This new form of preventative treatment is internationally proven to be one of the most effective methods of teeth preservation. Let our dentist assess if this treatment is right for you and you’ll be well on your way to maintaining a beautiful and healthy smile.
When you go for a dental exam, your dentist checks your fillings and may suggest that you replace any loose or broken ones. Your dentist also looks for signs of decay, such as brown or black spots and may want to use X-rays to take a closer look at problem spots.
If you have a cavity, your dentist may keep an eye on it (if it's small) or fill it right away. If a large cavity is not filled, it can get bigger and cause pain. The tooth may even have to be removed and replaced with a false (or artificial) tooth.
Composite fillings are also called plastic or white fillings. Getting this kind of filling depends on where the tooth is in your mouth. We bite down hard on our back teeth (molars), so a plastic filling may not be a good choice. Talk to your dentist about other options.
To place this filling, your dentist cleans all decay from the tooth and puts a glue (or bonding material) on the inside of the hole. Composite resin is put into the hole in thin layers. Each layer gets hard with the help of a special light that your dentist holds over the tooth. When the last layer of the filling is hard, your dentist shapes the filling so it looks and feels natural.
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(Vienna, 10 December 2020) Patients with myeloproliferative neoplasm (MPN), a group of malignant diseases of the bone marrow, often have a carcinogenic mutated form of the calreticulin gene (CALR). Scientists of the research group of Robert Kralovics, Adjunct Principal Investigator at the CeMM Research Center for Molecular Medicine of the Austrian Academy of Sciences and research group leader at MedUni Vienna, have now identified hematoxylin as a novel CALR inhibitor. The study, published in the renowned journal Blood, shows how hematoxylin compounds affect a specific domain of CALR and selectively kill those CALR mutant cells that have been identified as the cause of disease in MPN patients. The discovery has enormous therapeutic potential and gives hope for new treatment options.
In medicine, a group of malignant diseases of the bone marrow is known as myeloproliferative neoplasms. This special type of blood cancer is characterised by increased formation of blood cells, vulnerability to thrombosis and frequent transformation to acute leukaemia. In the laboratory of Robert Kralovics it was discovered as early as 2013 that carcinogenic mutations of the gene calreticulin (CALR) were frequently found in affected patients and are now used clinically as diagnostic and prognostic markers. The mechanism by which the mutated CALR functions as an oncogene, which can lead to myeloid leukaemia, has also been scientifically identified since then. The carcinogenic effect of CALR mutations is based on the interaction of the N-glycan binding domain (GBD) of CALR with the thrombopoietin receptor. Ruochen Jia from the research group of Robert Kralovics at CeMM was looking for a way to stop this interaction and prevent one of the growth advantages of CALR mutated cells. It became evident that a group of chemicals, most notably hematoxylin, can selectively kill mutated CALR cells. The results thus provide extremely valuable information for potential treatment approaches for myeloproliferative neoplasms.
Hematoxylin compounds kill CALR mutated cells
Robert Kralovics, head of the study, explains: “In our study we tried to identify small molecules that might block the interaction between the mutated CALR and the receptor.” The scientists used so-called in-silico docking studies for this purpose. “Basically, these are computer-based simulations of biochemical processes – virtual ‘screenings’ that enable increasingly accurate predictions,” says study first author Ruochen Jia. The results showed a group of chemicals as binders for a specific domain of calreticulin, which selectively kill the mutated CALR cells. “Our data suggest that small molecules targeting the N-glycan binding domain of CALR can selectively kill CALR-mutated cells by disrupting the interaction between CALR and the thrombopoietin receptor and inhibiting oncogenic signal transmission,” said the study authors. A hematoxylin compound proved to be particularly efficient. So far, hematoxylin has been used as a dye especially in histological staining processes.
Ray of hope for primary myelofibrosis therapy
“Our study demonstrates the enormous therapeutic potential of CALR inhibitor therapy,” says Kralovics. “The treatment of patients with primary myelofibrosis (PMF) continues to produce poor clinical outcomes. They have the clearest tendency to develop acute myeloid leukaemia. Since about one third of PMF patients have a CALR mutation, they could particularly benefit from the new therapeutic approach.”
„Hematoxylin binds to mutant calreticulin and disrupts its abnormal interaction with thrombopoietin receptor“
Ruochen Jia, Thomas Balligand, Vasyl Atamanyuk, Harini Nivarthi, Erica Xu, Leon Kutzner, Jakob Weinzierl, Audrey Nedelec, Stefan Kubicek, Roman Lesyk, Oleh Zagrijtschuk, Stefan N Constantinescu, Robert Kralovics; published in "Blood".
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A House Destroyed by the Berlin Wall and Other Things to See at the Berlin Wall Memorial
When visiting the Berlin Wall Memorial during my time in Berlin, the thing that stuck out most to me wasn’t in fact the remains of the wall, but a home. An apartment building in fact. Apartment Bernauer Straße 10a.
While walking around the Berlin Wall Memorial, you’ll read numerous accounts of escape. So quickly was the Berlin Wall set up that the government didn’t even have time to clear out the houses that were right on the street of Bernauer Straße, which ran right next to the border. Bernauer Straße 10a was one such residential building and you can see the remains of it today when touring the Berlin Wall Memorial.
You’ll read about how the residents of Bernauer Straße had the best chance for escape in the beginning after they were moved into upper levels of the buildings while the doors and windows down below were blockaded.
Forced evacuations started once the SED (the Socialist Unity Party of Germany) realized residents were jumping from their upper level windows to escape into West Berlin. After the residents were forced to move those windows were also closed up. In the remains you’ll come across while visiting the Berlin Wall Memorial, you can still see remnants of the lower window openings that were bricked up in 1961.
As I stared at the remains of Bernauer Straße 10a, the residential building that has come to signify all the buildings that were forced to be evacuated along Bernauer Straße, I tried to imagine suddenly being told to leave my home, a home that straddled two worlds with friends and family in both. If I still had the time before the force evacuations and boarded up windows and doors were implemented, did I flee to the west and leave behind any hope of returning to my home (a hope that would prove to be a futile one for those that lived on Bernauer Straße) and losing contact with those I loved in the east? Or did I stay in the east, technically my home even though I had crossed the border swiftly and frequently just days earlier, and hope for fast peace?
As is well known, peace and unity didn’t come to Berlin for a long time. Not until November 9, 1989 when the wall came down. A day so profound that I still remember it despite being barely eight years old.
For former residents of Bernauer Straße, the downfall of the wall didn’t mean they could return home though, for their former border home was part of the wall now. In 1965, most of the apartments were torn down except for the basement level and wall strip was laid over the top. Some building fronts remained, standing in front of the wall like a sad attempt at a mask of what was going on in East Berlin. These remaining hollow facades were torn down in 1980, making way for a new, more fortified wall.
Walking around these remains gives levity to the history of the city. Berlin is now so vibrant and cosmopolitan, with new skyscrapers and apartment buildings, that it’s almost easy to forget about the destruction and the divide that once dominated the city. Lost homes, but a hopeful future.
Visiting the Berlin Wall Memorial
The Berlin Wall Memorial is a large public area that has a walking path leading you through the area where the Berlin Wall stood and has different learning stations that tell the moving stories of families separated by the Wall, tragic and successful escape attempts, and the details of when and how the Berlin Wall came to be. Remnants of the Wall can still be seen and even touched. In addition to learning more about the buildings of Bernauer Straße, you can also learn about the tunnels dug underneath the wall from East Berlin in an attempt to escape to West Berlin plus visit the Berlin Wall Documentation Center.
The Berlin Wall Documentation Center is a monumental building that has multiple levels and a viewing platform on top to see the remains of the Wall stretching down Bernauer Straße. In the Berlin Wall Documentation Center, you’ll tour multiple levels of the structure, one of which has a museum which details out what it was like to live in East Berlin during the time of the Berlin Wall.
Berlin Wall Memorial Quick Tips
Address: Bernauer Straße 111
Metro Stop: U Bernauer Str.
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This mini exhibit gathers together a selection of materials from our Distinctive Collections celebrating the season of spring. Many different cultures celebrate spring as a time of growth and renewal after the dreary days of winter, a time when the days start growing longer, gardens burst into life again, and many animals give birth. Here are items from our collections that reflect the joys of spring.
"While we look forward from Easter we may also look back at the festival itself as it has come to us from a time so far distant that nobody can put down a date and say, “Here Easter began.” Indeed, this day is a great mixture of pagan, Jewish and Christian ideas, tho it stands out to us as a church festival to commemorate the resurrection of Christ. Mythology tells us about Ostera, the goddess of spring; the Jewish race looks back to a deliverance that has been commemorated by the Passover feast for centuries, and the records of the early Christian church tell us how the date for Easter was regulated by a council, and how other festivals were reckoned from it.
"This is the time when life shows itself in the seed. [...] Freezing would destroy them, so we keep them safely thru the winter, knowing all the while that the seed germ is inside, and that it will do just what we expect of it in the proper time—Easter time—the rising time."
—Excerpt from "Easter Time" in Chicago Ledger, v. XLIV, no. 17, Saturday, April 22, 1916, p. 22.
Three floral paintings from the Coad Family Scrapbook.
Curated by Laura Bang (Distinctive Collections Librarian), April 2020.
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Small cells, femtocells and Distributed Antenna Systems
With all of the talk surrounding small cell technology, Crown Castle and The DAS Forum presented at TIA's Inside the Network show earlier this week in Dallas. Distributed antenna systems (or DAS) technology is a small-cell technology, along with everything from microcells, metrocells, picocells and femtocells. Each technology has separate purposes and all make up the HetNet network. Click here to see our presentation. And a special thanks to Bo Piekarski from Crown for putting together the bulk of this information. | <urn:uuid:ba054730-f2ea-4174-afac-a3c045236937> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://hetnetforum.com/blog/entry/small-cells-femtocells-and-distributed-antenna-systems | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572833.78/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817001643-20220817031643-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.886387 | 123 | 2.171875 | 2 |
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Times are getting tougher in Alberta, and no one knows it better than Alberta’s food banks. Although the growth in people utilizing food banks has been steady since last year, both the Edmonton Food Bank and the University of Alberta’s Campus Food Bank have reported significant increases in demand for assistance. NAITSA’s own Food Centre has only started this year, but already it has seen a consistent growth in use this term.
NAITSA’s Food Centre has seen success since starting up, pulling in a whopping 1,264 pounds of food during its first Trick-or-Eat fundraising over Halloween. Over 30 volunteers assisted in gathering food donations from nearby neighbourhoods.
“The NAIT community in general has also been incredibly supportive, be it departments wishing to host food drives, challenge other departments or individuals bringing items by,” said Matthew Pecore, NAITSA’s Food Centre Co-ordinator.
“The Centre has only been open since Sept. 1, so it is a bit difficult to assess growth at this point. We have, however, seen a month-to-month increase in hampers provided and are expecting that number to continue to rise,” Pecore said.
A typical hamper would include canned beans, meat, vegetables, fruit and soup, with mac ’n’ cheese, rice, pasta and sauce and evaporated milk powder, plus any other items that have been donated, such as bottled water, he said.
In addition, there is a box of individual items in the NAITSA reception area for occasional use.
The centre, which has space in the basement of the Business Tower, is well placed to serve the NAIT community. However, it still runs out of the NAITSA office in Room E-131, so any inquiries about assistance should be directed there.
Food donations are especially needed due to the continued economic downturn. Many food banks are reporting increased demand for services, both in Edmonton and across the country. Food Banks Canada’s newest report, HungerCount 2015, shows that food bank use across Canada has increased 1.3 per cent since 2014 and more than 26 per cent since 2008. Alberta’s overall usage rate increased 23 per cent last year alone.
Caitlin Phare, Executive Director for the U of A’s Campus Food Bank, has noticed that increase at her facility.
“Absolutely, we’ve very definitely seen an increase in our usage and our new registrations this semester specifically and right now we’re on track to assist over 2,000 individuals by the end of the calendar year,” Phare said.
The U of A’s Campus Food Bank frequently works with university departments to increase support on campus.
“We’ve also started working closely with Meal Exchange Canada to help alleviate the issue on a larger scale, at the national level,” she said.
“Over the past 14 months we’ve been seeing steady increases but most notably in the last three months.” The Edmonton Food Bank is taking the biggest hit, as the demand for their services continues to grow.
“It’s a challenging situation right now for us here in Edmonton. In October alone we served 17,722 people through our hamper program. That’s up 21.5 per cent in one year,” said the Edmonton Food Bank’s Tamisan Bencz-Knight.
“Food donations are coming in, however food is going out faster than donations are coming in at this point.”
NAITSA’s Food Centre hasn’t been around long enough to compare years but the trend is obvious.
The centre does offer referrals to the Edmonton Food Bank and discussions with the food banks at the University of Alberta and MacEwan University regarding programming and best practices are ongoing.
As for helping the less fortunate, Bencz-Knight summed it up best: “This is the time of year, of course, when we encourage people to please think about those in need, some people are doing better than others and we encourage people to give what they can – food donation, monetary donation or their time to support our work.” | <urn:uuid:faafb10a-62d0-465e-8ee6-a2e1a375db79> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://thenuggetonline.com/naitsa-nourishes/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572198.93/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815175725-20220815205725-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.960434 | 895 | 1.984375 | 2 |
Scenario: You’ve taken over a system admin position, with little documentation and you are locked out of a pre-configured iLO port and the default username and password has been changed!
Let’s say you have a handful of ESXi hypervisors. Sweet, but what are they running on? A couple of G7 servers… They may not be G8’s but hey, can’t have everything.
Sweet part is most of these big servers have remote management capabilities. HP offers iLO, this sweet little separate attached hardware can do many remote tasks, such as, but not limited to: hard resets/power cycle, send SNMP Traps, and a couple of other things.
Now you’ve found the iLO host name, you send and receive ICMP requests (Pings) and sure enough you can access the web interface; fantastic!
Now you attempt to log on and realize every attempt fails. A couple question might start to arise, does this accept domain credentials (directory based authentication)? Is there a default User name and password?
Which of course by reading the user guide you discover it does, with one exception… Directory-based authentication requires an iLO license…
Now unless you’re in a big corporate environment running a decent sized datacenter chances are you don’t have directory based access on your iLO port.
Now you take the default admin account; Administrator, and type in the password as indicated on the info tab on the server… no luck…
as the guide suggests it has been changed… now comes all the fun stuff.. Bringing iLO up to date..
Now if you’re lucky the iLO drivers and tools for the ESXi host is already installed in which case you won’t even need to reboot your hypervisor to get into iLO.
However, if you don’t, make sure you migrate any active production VM’s to another host, or schedule a maintenance window.
At this point I’m assuming you have access to the host directly, admin access if not by directory services then a local root account.
SSH into the host directly, if you have /opt/hp/tools directory chances are you have the required iLO drivers and tools.
Otherwise ensure you follow these steps:
1) Log into vCenter (If managing a Cluster) and migrate/shutdown active VM’s.
2) Right click the host about to get iLO drivers installed on, Maintenance mode.
3) SCP hp-HPUtil-esxi5.0-bundle-1.4-15.zip to /tmp (to host)
4) In the SSH session (as admin/root) enter |esxcli software vib install -d “/tmp/hp-HPUtil-esxi5.0-bundle-1.4-15.zip”|
5) Let the server reboot
6) Wait for ICMP response, after a couple min of response you can take out of Maintenance Mode in vCenter
Congrats you can now manage the iLO port without needing to reboot the server ever again! Let’s get into that web interface!
You have a couple options at this point, reset the settings to factory defaults, or reset the admin password. Since we don’t have to reconfigure everything let’s reset that password.
There’s a good chance the previous admin changed the name and password or the default admin so how do we figure what that account is?
All one has to do is export the existing configuration and display it.
On the SSH session on the ESXi host type: “/opt/hp/tools/hponcfg -w /tmp/ilo-config.txt | cat /tmp/ilo-config.txt”
This will spit out an XML looking set of config options, at the bottom one should see a ADD USER class, with a USER_LOGIN field.
Now you build an XML file, if you’re puttying into the ESXi host just use vim to paste and edit this:
<login USER_LOGIN=”USER_LOGIN” PASSWORD=”NewPassword”>
Just put < and > around them cause apparently you can’t simply display XML code in HTML… opps
Save the file to /tmp/reset_admin_pw.xml and run “/opt/hp/tools/hponcfg -f /tmp/reset_admin_pw.xml”
It should reply complete, now just log into the web interface with the USER_LOGIN ID and NewPassword. While finally in there, create a new default admin and password and document it.
Create your own account with a private password, as the default account should only be used in an emergency.
Also update the firmware to the latest and renew your certs!
Jan 2018 Update
Updated one source link on the drivers source, as HP for some reason didn’t have a redirect to hpe since dividing their company. Again Well done. | <urn:uuid:08202878-c50d-4cad-be53-bec2afb30010> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://zewwy.ca/index.php/2014/10/14/locked-out-of-ilo-on-esxi-hosts/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572033.91/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814113403-20220814143403-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.841982 | 1,173 | 1.609375 | 2 |
In the hot summer, swimming is a very good exercise.Now that the epidemic is not over, how can we do a good job of personal health protection?
First of all, the safety of the swimming pool is very important, we must choose a formal swimming place. When we choose a swimming pool, we must check the qualification of the swimming pool.First, the pool water must meet the national sanitary standards for drinking water, and the pool water must be purified and disinfected regularly; second, public supplies and public facilities, such as towels and fitness equipment used in swimming places, must be cleaned regularly, especially Supplies and utensils should be "one customer, one use, one disinfection"; the third is to pay attention to the ventilation of the public area of the swimming pool.
What should we pay attention to when entering the swimming pool?
First, cooperate with the management of the operator before entering the swimming pool, such as taking body temperature and showing the health code;
Second, you should rinse your body before swimming, wear a swimming cap and goggles when swimming, and try to avoid rubbing your eyes with your hands;
Third, do not share public items such as towels and bath towels with others;
Fourth, the user should wash his face, bath, eyes, and swimming cap with running water in time.
Finally, people with eye diseases are not suitable for swimming.In public areas, everyone should maintain a safe social distance of 1.5 meters. After swimming, take a proper rest, wear a flat mask and leave the swimming pool.
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On behalf of the Society of Addiction Psychology (Division 50) and with the full support of its Executive Committee, we, the members of the Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) Committee, affirm the following.
We stand with the Black and African American community in the fight against systemic racial injustice and police brutality. We condemn the oppression of Black communities. We fully support structural and policy changes that will decrease and eliminate the incidence of police brutality and state-sanctioned violence against communities of color.
We recognize that all lives do not matter until Black lives matter.
As substance use researchers and treatment professionals, we acknowledge the institutional and structural racism that is inherent in the US drug policy and the disproportionate harm inflicted onto the Black and other minoritized and marginalized communities. Through our roles and work within interlocking institutions of oppression (e.g., academic, research and treatment systems), we acknowledge that we can be complicit in systemic oppression. We are committed to using our platforms to pursue justice and equity in substance use research and treatment.
We also acknowledge that while some of us, as individuals, have sought to be allies for Black, Indigenous, and other People of Color (BIPOC) and LGBTQIA communities, we have not done enough as a Division and thus must continue to fight for equity. We must confront White supremacy, anti-Blackness, and systemic racism in ourselves and our institutions to more fully align and ally with communities of color. As members of Division 50, we commit to examining our own relationship to anti-Blackness and systemic racism and to continually work toward being an anti-racist organization.
Over the past year, the DEI Committee has identified three priority areas and have been working toward fostering a more diverse, equitable and inclusive environment in Division 50:
- Embed DEI focused policies into all aspects of Division 50;
- Increase the Division’s profile of research on diversity, inclusion, equity and social justice causes and honor the contributions of scientists from underrepresented minority backgrounds, through diversity-themed research programming and awards; and
- Work closely with the Division 50 Membership Committee on recruitment and retention of underrepresented minority groups.
The DEI Committee priority areas received support from the Division 50 Executive Committee. In the past year, we engaged in actions to support these goals:
- Challenge the existing APA programming review criteria and ensure DEI-focused criteria are built into the convention programming review process;
- Secure DEI committee representation at Executive Council meetings;
- Establish diversity-themed awards to ensure members from underrepresented minority groups are honored for their work;
- Make changes to existing grants for students to ensure dedicated line of grant funding for research on issues of diversity, health equity, and disparities in addiction;
- Create a mentorship program for BIPOC students and early career professionals; and,
- Increase outreach to BIPOC students and members through social media, cross-division collaboration and podcasts that are inclusive and representative.
In addition to these efforts, a Conference Diversity Committee at the Collaborative Perspectives on Addiction (CPA) was established in 2019 to ensure that the conference fosters an inclusive and supportive environment for attendees from underrepresented minority groups, and welcomes representations from diverse backgrounds. The CPA 2019 Program Committee established new diversity travel awards for graduate students and postdoctoral researchers. The Division 50 DEI Committee will continue to coordinate with the CPA Program Committee in the future.
We have made solid strides toward these priority areas over the past year, and we vow to continue building on the current momentum toward pursuing justice and equity, promoting representation of underrepresented minority groups, and amplifying BIPOC voices in addiction psychology.
The Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Committee
With the full support of the Division 50 Executive Committee
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After fives years of planning, legal challenges and protests from conservationists, the operation began shortly after sunset.
At 5.21pm, a cacophony of percussion noises could be heard from within the gardens, which were closed to the public.
A mix of industrial noises, whistles and what sounded like the banging of saucepans was relayed from speakers on mobile buggies.
Within five minutes of the wake-up call, hundreds of bats were circling above the gardens.
''Normally you get a stream flying to the south and one to the east but they are not doing that,'' said Storm Stanford of Bat Watch Australia. ''You can see how confused their flight is and they are making a lot of noise. Normally it is silent.''
The hope is that the grey-headed flying fox will disappear into the Sydney night skies and never return.
The biggest unknown, however, is exactly where the Pteropus Poliocephalus will choose for their new hang out. There are concerns that the bats, carriers of the Hendra virus, may add to the numbers at Centennial Park, close to Randwick racecourse.
''We will have a better idea how it has gone after a few days, it may even take a fortnight,'' the Royal Botanic Gardens and Domain director, Mark Savio, said. ''I think it may need to be a little bit louder. The idea is that you don't let them get used to a noise pattern.''
He said there was a small window of opportunity to act while the colony was at a seasonal low of about 5000.
The recorded noise is played for up to 45 minutes before dawn and 30 minutes around sunset.
The noise disturbance will be focused in the centre of the garden, near the Palm Grove.
Their roosting is blamed for the loss of 28 trees and 30 palms, including some irreplaceable heritage species. A further 60 plants are on the critical list.
''Strict approval conditions require that the flying foxes relocate to suitable locations away from homes,'' Mr Savio said. ''If they settle in unsuitable locations, we're committed to moving them on from there.''
In accordance with NSW and federal government approvals, an extensive monitoring and tracking study is supporting the relocation. The dispersal can occur only from May 1 to July 31 to ensure the flying foxes, which are classified as vulnerable, are not disturbed during later pregnancy, when the young are being born and when mothers are carrying young.
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Description : The myth of Drishadvati appears in the Mahabharata as the ‘story of the salvation of kings by a maiden.’ While tales of surrogacy abound in the Indian epics, this is the first known example of a womb-on-rent. This strange story of a girl whose fertility was bartered repeatedly in exchange for priceless horses has intrigued modern scholars, playwrights and authors for its cultural significance. While earlier adaptations have cast its theme as the exploitation of a helpless woman, Bride of the Forest presents it as the story of girl who is surprisingly radical in her ultimate rejection of patriarchy. Staying true to the original myths and springing entirely from the world of the Mahabharata, the novel brings to life several other characters: Garuda, the divine bird who flies Lord Vishnu around the world; the proud kings of Ayodhya, Pratisthan and Kashi; the arrogant queen, Devayani, and her duplicitous maid—whose stories reveal an intricate tapestry of human and divine relationships. Intertwined in the tales of traditional rivalries is the age-old war between the asuras and the devas that gave rise to the perennial male quest for immortality, transmuted into the human desire for sons that lies at the root of commercial surrogacy even today. However, it is the story of Drishadvati, her sacrifice and her nobility, that will enchant the reader.
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Big News From Esri
The annual Esri Users Conference (UC) took place this year in San Diego July 8-12, and is the largest Geographic Information Systems (GIS) conference in the world. And Xentity’s client, the Colorado Department of Transportation (CDOT), was one of 179 organizations recognized to receive ESRI’s Special Achievement in GIS (SAG) Award.
A Well Deserved Award
Founded in 1969, Esri is one of the global market leaders of GIS software solutions. The SAG Award is presented to organizations from around the world. The intent being to show appreciation for their use of spatial technology to solve some of the world’s toughest challenges. Out of over 100,000 nominations received worldwide, Esri presents it to but a handful of organizations. The award is presented in recognition of their innovative use of GIS to collect data, extrapolate it, make informed decisions, and effect change.
CDOT received their SAG award in recognition of their implementation of their Esri System of Engagement (SoE). In the 21st century, US Departments of Transportation (DOTs) have been operating in an increasingly growing & complex data landscape. Advanced technologies are changing the way data is accessed, utilized, & analyzed. The ESRI SoE is driving change & innovation in the DOT space, supporting the goal of integrating business needs with technology. Hence at CDOT, the goals of the SoE are aligned with the mission & strategic objectives of the CDOT Chief Data Office (CDO) to create an end state that:
- Advances data discovery, access, analytics & utilization.
- Facilitates reusable & repeatable exchange of data between systems.
- Fosters interoperability; breaking down data silos.
- Inspires innovation, creative & cooperative problem solving.
- Maximizes business insight & data driven decisions.
How CDOT Did It
Working across all CDOT divisions & regions, the SoE is expanding the use of data & geo-spatial tools across the agency, and integrating data from siloed systems to create purpose-built applications used by the entire organization. The transportation network facilitates the movement of people and goods, and impacts sustainability, safety, economic vitality, environment, mobility, and more. And most significantly, it utilizes the common language of location which inextricably links the network, communities, and us all.
Take for example the smartphone and our 240 character society where information is on 24/7 demand. The delivery of information is no longer a passive event, and the community at large has become active participants. CDOT recognizes that the abundance of data, and the explosive amount of related content generated daily. They also demand new ways to use location intelligence to turn data into actionable knowledge. Also, to inspire new, creative, and cooperative problem solving.
Hence, location intelligence is integral to a holistic understanding of the transportation network. Safety, congestion, mobility, & infrastructure are key performance objectives of CDOT. Utilizing location data, the SoE targeted apps are enhancing operations for field mobility, situational awareness, data management, & more.
For example, a Traffic Operations Dashboard combines diverse data sources: real-time traffic, weather, road conditions, alerts, etc. onto a single interface.
An Asset Condition & Inventory App provides, for the first time, a single view of conditions of various roadway assets. An interactive Statewide Transportation Improvement Program (STIP) viewer allows users to explore project funding & related information. An unprecedented number in Colorado in 2019, an Avalanche Dashboard provides key personnel metrics & an integrated view of snow events, snowfall, road closures, avalanche mitigation activity, time frames & locations.
A Night Inspection App eliminates paper & digitally collects data on the reflectivity of signs and roadway markings.
The Outcome of it All
At Xentity, we can strongly believe in the importance of Data Quality, Utilization, Access, Analysis, Discovery,as does CDOT. Aligned with the roadmap of the CDOT CDO, the SoE also enriches raw content with context to provide the diverse community of users with the greatest possible understanding of data maximizing quality, utilization, access, analysis & discovery. Context is critical to inform decisions and analyses based upon the data.
Enhancing context, location data helps inform us of our surroundings with unprecedented accuracy. The SoE targeted, fit for purpose apps – dashboards, viewers, collectors are allowing for the direct interaction with data in new, dynamic & engaging ways. Also, the variety of apps are capturing data from the field and/or ingesting data from disparate data silos – synthesizing and standardizing it. Furthermore, the apps are helping identify trends, distilling increasing amounts of information, enhancing workflows, and transforming raw data into actionable insight. The SoE is providing CDOT with new resources to optimize operations and data quality.
How Did Xentity Help?
Xentity can not only help provide an understanding of those five important pieces to the proverbial puzzle. We are also proud to have not only attended this year’s ESRI. Furthermore, we came away with so much new knowledge. And to have also worked with CDOT in past projects. Helping provide context to better understand data maximizing quality, utilization, access, analysis and discovery is something both CDOT and Xentity take pride in, especially in this data-driven age. So congratulations to CDOT for a well-deserved award for their efforts with SoE. Also, we at Xentity look forward to what SoE will accomplish next, along with whatever will be the main topics of conversation at next year’s ESRI conference. | <urn:uuid:7227bb49-f884-4204-983a-4c7dd026f017> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.xentity.com/putting-data-first-colorado-department-of-transportation-cdot-receives-esri-special-achievement-in-gis-sag-award/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572198.93/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815175725-20220815205725-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.918108 | 1,175 | 1.632813 | 2 |
The principles of learning and teaching in traffic safety education
Submission Date: 2005
Learning and teaching are complex, multifaceted and highly interconnected activities. There is a renewed focus within education on how students learn, and the implications of this for pedagogy. The first part of this paper describes the elements of the recently developed Principles of Learning and Teaching P-12 in Victoria. The Principles support schools to:
- “build consistent, comprehensive and improved pedagogical approaches, while still allowing flexibility, innovation and local decision making at the school level
- focus teaching to meet the diverse needs of students
- strengthen learning communities within and beyond the school.”
The second part of the paper argues that, while the Principles are applicable across all key learning areas and all stages of learning, Traffic Safety Education activities exemplify the Principles extremely well. The paper illustrates how Traffic Safety Education activities align with the different elements of the Principles. The paper shows that Traffic Safety Education activities, such as assessing risks and defining safety for self and others, emphasise the building of rich meanings and deep thinking rather than completing tasks. Students in Traffic Safety Education classrooms are seen to be intellectually engaged by real experiences; they feel a sense of empowerment and collaboration with their peers, their teachers and their whole school community. Schools that tackle the harm minimization and prevention approaches embedded in effective Traffic Safety Education activities are characterized in this paper as rewarding and reality-based ?learning communities?. | <urn:uuid:1d5ccfcb-0012-4bae-9f04-a187ebe5e945> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://acrs.org.au/article/the-principles-of-learning-and-teaching-in-traffic-safety-education/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572833.78/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817001643-20220817031643-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.948313 | 306 | 3.296875 | 3 |
6 Creepy Science Experiments That Actually Happened
For every amazing scientific advancement and breakthrough, there are a lot of things that happened in the shadows.
And sometimes those things are even worse than you could possibly imagine.
Here are 6 creepy experiments that are stains on human history.
6. South Africa had a program to turn gay soldiers straight – and that’s not the worst of it.
They sat gay soldiers in front of gay p**n and accompanied the viewings with electric shocks.
As if trying to change their minds with pain wasn’t enough, some 900 people also underwent forced s*x change surgeries.
At one point they were executing around 50 a day, and many of them were not done well enough to leave the soldiers with much quality of life.
I think I’m going to be sick.
5. When a female scientist got into a relationship with a dolphin in order to study their behavior.
Dolphins are very s*xual creatures, and they’re also one of the only species on earth that forms attachments and relationships with creatures not like themselves.
This dolphin became attracted to the scientists who cared for and studied him.
He tried to coerce her into a s*xual relationship the way he would a female dolphin, by biting and bruising her.
In order to get him to continue with her studies, which were later deemed a success, she consented to rubbing his p*nis with her hand and foot.
4. The U.S. government hosed down San Francisco with hard-to-treat bacteria to see how we would handle a biological attack.
People began showing up at hospitals within days, sick with strange, rare, and hard-to-treat contagions.
No doctors or hospitals were informed ahead of time so that they could be sure to have the proper treatments on hand, and of course, no consent was gotten from the residents.
The city was doused with enough Serratia marcescens and Bacillus globigii bacteria to expose all 800,000 of the city’s residents in September 1950, and a handful of people died after failing to fight off the unfamiliar contagion.
The Bay Area has continued to see sporadic resurgences of these infections in the years since.
3. That time scientists conditioned a bunch of kids to beat up a clown.
Grown people who dress like that and spend their time goofing off with kids have always seemed a little suspect, but experiments done on children are always a little creepy, don’t you think?
Like this one from the 1960s, where children were shown a video of a clown being eaten before a real clown waltzed through the door.
They beat the sh%t out of him, proving not only that children imitate the aggression they see on television, but also that they have a limited grasp on the concept of consequences.
I’d like to see how these kids all turned out, because yeesh.
2. The military released nearly a million mosquitoes in Georgia and Florida – on purpose.
They wanted to see how many mosquitoes it would possibly take to infect an enemy squadron with, say, yellow fever.
The bugs they dropped (yes, dropped, like from the air) weren’t infected with any known contagions, at least, but it wasn’t like the American South had any shortage of bugs to begin with.
F*ck this noise.
1. America tested mustard gas on its own (African American) troops.
Science has a long history of mistreating those who are viewed as other or less than human, and I could fill an entire list of wrongs done specifically to African American people in the name of scientific advancement.
This one feels particularly heinous because these were men who had signed up to fight for America in WWII, only to get treated like lab rats by their own government.
It wasn’t until after the tests were declassified in the early 1990s that the Department of Veterans Affairs created guidelines for caring for the 60,000 soldiers. | <urn:uuid:b08af9d2-2032-45b4-9ec9-60881f1c4fd5> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://twistedsifter.com/2022/07/6-creepy-science-experiments-that-actually-happened/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572033.91/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814113403-20220814143403-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.979713 | 845 | 2.28125 | 2 |
Flagstaff Convention and Visitors Bureau: The Official Host of Flagstaff
The Flagstaff Convention and Visitors Bureau is the official host of Flagstaff. Located in the high country mountains of northern Arizona, Flagstaff is not the Arizona experience you may expect. At 7,000 feet elevation, temperatures rarely exceed 90 degrees in the summer, fall brings a brilliant change of color, winter snowfall averages 108 inches and spring bursts with blossoms.
The Flagstaff area got its start in 1876 with a pioneer legacy that centers on ranching, lumber mills and the railroad. Many of the buildings in Flagstaff’s historic downtown area date to the early 1900’s and are used today as stores, galleries, hotels and restaurants.
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Spirometry is a test used to assess how well your lungs are working, measuring how much air the patient can inhale and exhale and how quickly they can do so. A spirometry assessment can help diagnose symptoms such as asthma, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), chronic bronchitis, emphysema and pulmonary fibrosis.
Although generally a safe test, some patients may experience shortness of breath and or dizziness momentarily during assessment.
For any patient enquiries please speak to your cardiologist or contact Mildura Cardiology by phone (03) 5023 8111.
+ Any concession cards including Medicare and private heath fund cards.
+ All current medication in its original packaging.
No special preparation is needed to undertake an spirometry assessment
+ You will be seated during the test.
+ A clip will be placed on your nose to keep your nostrils closed.
+ You will take a deep breath and breathe out as hard as you can for several seconds into the tube.
+ You’ll repeat the test at least three times to ensure your results are consistent.
+ Too much variation among the three outcomes may result in repeating the test again. The highest value among three close test results determine the final result.
+ The entire process usually takes less than 10 minutes.
+ You will then be given an inhaled medication (bronchodilator) after the initial round of tests.
+ You’ll need to wait 10 minutes and then do another set of measurements. Our reporting doctor then can compare the results of the two measurements to see whether the bronchodilator improved your airflow and produces the final report.
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Steering & Suspension Repairs – 0402 674 179 or 0410 400 845
You should have your Steering & Suspension regularly checked
Worn steering, suspension and drive line components can cause noise, vibration, premature tyre wear and misalignment. That’s why we perform a complete steering and suspension system inspection with every alignment. By replacing worn parts you regain steering control and handling which will return your vehicle to its original operating performance.
If you are having steering or suspension problems or if you hear unusual noises when driving over bumps or dips in the road, see us for a comprehensive steering and suspension inspection.
A Steering & Suspension Inspection includes:
- Inspection of steering and suspension system
- Road test to determine steering & suspension performance
- A report and evaluation complete with our recommendations
- An estimate for labor and parts requiring repair or replacement
Power Steering Fluid Check & Flush
Power steering fluid not only helps transfer pressure from the steering wheel to the tyres, it also lubricates the steering system. But like all fluids in your vehicle, power steering fluid wears out over time and must be replaced in order to ensure proper vehicle control and the longevity of steering components.
This service removes harmful contaminants and helps prevent premature wear of steering components, and maintains oil seal condition to help eliminate leaks and ensure appropriate fluid viscosity for maximum power steering performance. Your power steering fluid should be checked with every engine oil change or logbook service.
CV Joint and Boot Service
Each vehicle has so called Constant Velocity (CV) axle, which consists of two Constant Velocity joints. The main task of this CV axle is to transfer the torque from the engine to the wheels of your vehicle.
During its work, the engine of your car produces a lot of energy and the special mechanism is needed to deliver all this torque to your car’s wheels. CV joints allow all the power that engine gives to be transferred very smoothly.
The most common problem that causes Constant Velocity joints failure is crack in the boot. When the boot is cracked it can no longer protect the mechanism from the moisture and dirt. Dirt gets into the unit which increases the wear of its parts. You can even hear a noise (a clicking noise) during its work. So when you hear that clicking sound in your car’s CV joints that can only mean the crack in the boot. | <urn:uuid:76d19787-fdb7-4f1b-aecc-d80ec291298c> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://easternsuburbsautocare.com.au/steering-suspension/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571909.51/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813051311-20220813081311-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.907485 | 487 | 1.742188 | 2 |
Little Star Center and Behavioral Clinic serves a dual-function as both a private school and a behavior therapy center. We are known as the “ABA School” of Jacksonville. We provide comprehensive, affordable, individual education and behavioral services for children between the ages of 2-12 years who struggle with Autism Spectrum Disorders and other developmental delays. We offer full time (5 days/wk) and part time (1-4 days/wk) school following the requirements of the Florida Department of Education, with the option of a 41-week school year or 49-week school year (to include the eight weeks of summer).
Our school program is offered in a 1:1, 2:1, or a 6:2 setting. We place a strong emphasis on academics, behavior, and communication. Our primary mode of instruction is Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA) – a scientifically-based, systematic method of improving socially significant behavior. It is used to address behavioral excesses and deficits across multiple domains. So, for instance, that could include increasing the acquisition of academic targets and communication skills and/or decreasing the occurrence of undesirable behaviors. All students receive ABA therapy throughout the entire school day rather than only receiving brief “ABA pull-out” services. We utilize individual instruction, group instruction, and social skills training.
Our ultimate goal is to prepare children with Autism and other developmental delays for a typical educational setting through intense training and small group sessions. Our school staff consists of Certified Teachers, Registered Behavior Technicians (RBT), Board Certified Assistant Behavior Analysts (BCaBA), and Board Certified Behavior Analysts (BCBA). All staff members hold a Bachelor’s Degree or higher and/or have completed specialized training in ABA therapy. Ongoing training and supervision is provided by a Master’s level BCBA.
A Brief History
The Little Star School (now the Little Star Center) opened its doors in 2003 and is thriving today with two locations in Indianapolis and West Lafayette. Shortly after Little Star opened, the Gudal family moved to Jacksonville Beach, FL, and again were faced with similar challenges seeking an education for Gentry. Gentry did ABA in a home they rented in Neptune Beach, and the Gudals asked other families doing home programs to join them. Not much later, these families and therapists had a desire to grow into a more formal setting. Steele and Amy held meetings with this eager group, coached them through the steps for starting a school, and helped them secure a location for the school on San Pablo Road. Once that was done they were off and running on their own as Little Star Center of Jacksonville! | <urn:uuid:c2f77547-b84c-494f-8482-5b3f9881d8c7> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://littlestarjax.com/sample-page/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572033.91/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814113403-20220814143403-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.964268 | 545 | 1.632813 | 2 |
In this article, we will discuss an overview on RabbitMQ Alternatives. RabbitMQ has a flexible messaging system and functions as a multipurpose broker. But it often stops working, because of its high latency and very slow while doing so. The deployment & management of RabbitMQ is a too dull procedure. It can not be installed as modules, it can be installed only on machines then it is carried out into the live environment. The message shipment is not guaranteed, it leads to information loss. The relation in between each devices must be handled efficiently.
Top 15 Alternatives to RabbitMQ In 2021
In this article, you can know about alternative to rabbitmq here are the details below;
Many people are watching for alternatives to RabbitMQ because of its couple of constraints. People need a message line but they are discovering it hard to select. Many of the software are placed below as an alternative for RabbitMQ.
1. Google Cloud Pub
It is a scalable, simple and reputable structure for analytics functions with direct computer systems. There are a many of sophisticated features that are tough to discover in other applications. It has better support and more valuable than RabbitMQ.
2. Amazon MQ
It is a managed information broker for Apache ActiveMQ which has simple installation and it runs message broker in cloud. It doesn’t need any special look after regular management and maintenance of the message system. It is utilized to send bulk message services.
3. IBM MQ
IBM MQ is an official message middleware which shortens the integration of varied applications and data spread throughout numerous platforms. It employs a message queue to share the info and offers a distinct messaging service for cloud systems, IoT gadgets, and mobile environments. By linking every element virtually from modest device to most complicated industrial applications. It increases the responsiveness and real times circumstances and reduces threat and control expense. It is provided in the innovative and basic variations.
4. Mulesoft Anypoint Platform
It is a detailed stage that enables businesses to comprehend business transformation through Application Program Interface and light emitter diode connection. This is a united, adaptable integration platform that addresses the most tough connectivity glitches across software application as a service, service-oriented architecture and Application Program Interface.
5. Apache Active MQ
It is a popular and influential open-source messaging service and Integration Patterns server. It provides better support and more useful however is extremely expensive for meeting the business requirements.
6. Apache Kafka
It is offered as an open-source platform executed by the Apache Software Foundation that is scripted in Java and Scala.
7. No MQ
It provides piece de resistance in the asynchronous messaging pool, focused to use in dispersed or parallel applications. It likewise offers a message line flexible services and can run without any broker element. It supports shows languages such as C#, Python, C, and Java. It serves lots of network infrastructures that have low dependences that fit android applications. It is extremely quick to carry out and equivalent to other rapid middleware such as RabbitMQ. It can be begun with an easy code and can be executed without a broker.
8. Azure Scheduler
It permit the user to explain duties to be carried out in the cloud and schedules the functions automatically. It enables the user to develop tasks in the cloud environment and carry out the services inside and external policies of Azure such as HTTP endpoints, Azure storage queues, message sharing, & service bus lines.
9. Apache Qpid
It is offered as an open-source messaging system developed to release by Advanced Message Queueing Protocol. It stays high volumes of messaging services transacted online. It provides a web platform as a messaging tool that is easy to use and works without any disruption. A great deal of functions are allowed to handle the messaging nodes. It is possible to achieve the virtual node quickly.
10. TIBCO Enterprise Message Service
Based on the requirements of Java Messaging service, the broker quickly permits and support all kind of applications. It is developed to quickly share the messages by JMS versions 1.1 and 2.0 calibrations to inspect the compatibility of other applications and also rarely linked for least time, overhead and cost. The TIBCO messaging queue supports the constant integrations for different type of platform that lowers the procedure bottlenecks which in turn improves the scalability and supports the user to respond faster to that occurring modifications. The messaging system is trustworthy and offers simple setup and administration over the network or property. Because of its fault-tolerant characteristic, it draws in individuals and marks it as highly offered.
11. Solace Pubsub+.
It is a message broker that allows the user to establish instant-driven interaction in between the microservices of the heterogeneous cloud and application by making use of open source Application Programming Interface and its associated procedures.
12. Azure Queue Storage.
This messaging system provides the interaction in between queue storage & components of cloud app which gives the user asynchronous message queuing for interactions in between the installed and linked elements running in the cloud context, running on the desktop and mobile app. It supplies an unique function for back up storage systems.
13. IBM MQ on the Cloud.
This is a business messaging system that offers a secure and reliable messaging service throughout several cloud platforms. It is user-friendly and readily available with a kit of combination tools.
14. Iron MQ.
The messaging system supplies a constant way to engages between the part and service applications. This is highly available, insistent by its strategy, on-time shipment, no hold-up in latency prepared with best shots. It is the most fancied by industrial people which uses cloud-native solutions for trending application infrastructure.
15. Alibaba Cloud Message Queue.
This is created as a dispersed message line that services with no dependences and completely hosted on Alibaba cloud platform. It is established by Alibaba. This messaging system post consistent services on message based asynchronous communication of microservices, serverless applications and dispersed systems with scarce coupling and increased accessibility. It is an outstanding middleware queue which has high scalability and transfers information with absolutely no loss. The application is basic and has high profitability.
There is several software application offered in the market as an alternative to RabbitMQ. It depends on the client to select his software application according to his business needs. The software application must be reliable and constant and should likewise supply quick communication. | <urn:uuid:00fd5538-75d6-433c-96c9-6cfb56dcf9bf> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://gokicker.com/alternative-to-rabbitmq/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572833.78/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817001643-20220817031643-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.927442 | 1,319 | 1.59375 | 2 |
To deliver transformative business value, IT teams need to modernize their approach to infrastructure, storage and data. The goal, as discussed throughout this special section, is to evolve to a model where data is delivered as a service—wherever, whenever and however it is needed. If you can maximize the value of data from the data center to the edge to any cloud, you can create long-term business value and leverage intelligence and analytics across the entire enterprise.
From a technology standpoint, specific features and functions are foundational to this new model. They are:
- A common data architecture that enables consistent management of data whether it is in the data center, in the cloud or at the edge. This eliminates silos, simplifies management for IT and enables the business to maximize the value of its data regardless of where it physically resides.
- A hybrid/multicloud model that supports seamless integration with all of the major public cloud services, including Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud. We are in a hybrid, multicloud world where 92% of enterprises have multiple clouds and 82% have a hybrid cloud strategy, per the Flexera 2021 State of the Cloud Report.1
- Software-defined infrastructure that leverages a unified data services management platform with the ability to move data seamlessly between the data center, public cloud and edge. This hybrid cloud model should enable nondisruptive operations and infrastructure upgrades, while simplifying backup and recovery.
- Flexible deployment and consumption models that enable data-as-a-service delivery, on-demand self-service where the business needs it, elastic scalability and flexibility to meet the performance requirements of any workload.
- Support for modern cloud-native development techniques and orchestration tools such as microservices and Kubernetes, plus persistent data for containerized applications, infrastructure as code, autoscaling, cloud optimization services and more.
With a modern hybrid/multicloud platform and architecture in place, the business can focus on the organizational and operational steps it can take to achieve transformative business value. These include:
- As a first step, align technologies, architecture and infrastructure solutions to the applications and services the business needs. This requires the ability to easily and seamlessly deliver data services on premises, at the edge or in the public cloud.
- As a second step, use the new platform and architecture to augment and improve business processes the organization has already implemented by unlocking the power of its data.
- As a third step, embed any newly developed thinking, catalogues or capabilities in existing functions and processes. This will unlock new business outcomes that are possible only when they are combined with existing institutional knowledge.
- As part of this overall process of transformation, focus on specific and measurable progress that can be tied to business outcomes and revenue-generating KPIs. This will not only transform the business; it will also transform the perceived and actual value delivered by the IT organization.
Taking the Next Step
In today’s environment, every organization is looking at data as the key to unlocking unique customer experiences, differentiation of products and services, as well as business transformation and innovation. The question is not just about what your data can do for you; it’s about how you can truly maximize the value of your data.
Managing storage as infrastructure is no longer the defining model. Today, it is all about delivering data and storage management as a service. NetApp is the company that has been ahead of the curve in pioneering this new model and is the company best positioned with its products, services and ecosystem to help enterprises evolve quickly and easily to the as-a-service approach.
Are you ready to deliver transformative business value to your organization? Please visit NetApp to learn more about data and storage as a service in a hybrid/multicloud environment: www.netapp.com/data-management-solutions
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SYNOPSIS[-bBcdehKkmnsStV ] [-I path ] [-[i]D sym [= val ] ] [-[i]U sym ] ... [-f defile ] [-x Bro 012 Brc ] [-M backext ] [-o outfile ] [infile ... ]
unifdefall [-I path ] ... file
DESCRIPTIONThe utility selectively processes conditional cpp(1) directives. It removes from a file both the directives and any additional text that they specify should be removed, while otherwise leaving the file alone.
The utility acts on #if , #ifdef , #ifndef #elif , #else and #endif lines, using macros specified in -D and -U command line options or in -f definitions files. A directive is processed if the macro specifications are sufficient to provide a definite value for its control expression. If the result is false, the directive and the following lines under its control are removed. If the result is true, only the directive is removed. An #ifdef or #ifndef directive is passed through unchanged if its controlling macro is not specified. Any #if or #elif control expression that has an unknown value or that cannot parse is passed through unchanged. By default, ignores #if and #elif lines with constant expressions; it can be told to process them by specifying the -k flag on the command line.
It understands a commonly-used subset of the expression syntax for #if and #elif lines: integer constants, integer values of macros defined on the command line, the Fn defined operator, the operators ! , < , > <= , >= , == , != && , || and parenthesized expressions. A kind of ``short circuit'' evaluation is used for the && operator: if either operand is definitely false then the result is false, even if the value of the other operand is unknown. Similarly, if either operand of || is definitely true then the result is true.
When evaluating an expression, does not expand macros first. The value of a macro must be a simple number, not an expression. A limited form of indirection is allowed, where one macro's value is the name of another.
In most cases, does not distinguish between object-like macros (without arguments) and function-like macros (with arguments). A function-like macro invocation can appear in #if and #elif control expressions. If the macro is not explicitly defined, or is defined with the -D flag on the command-line, or with #define in a -f definitions file, its arguments are ignored. If a macro is explicitly undefined on the command line with the -U flag, or with #undef in a -f definitions file, it may not have any arguments since this leads to a syntax error.
The utility understands just enough about C to know when one of the directives is inactive because it is inside a comment, or affected by a backslash-continued line. It spots unusually-formatted preprocessor directives and knows when the layout is too odd for it to handle.
A script called unifdefall can be used to remove all conditional cpp(1) directives from a file. It uses -s and cpp -dM to get lists of all the controlling macros and their definitions (or lack thereof), then invokes with appropriate arguments to process the file.
- -D sym = val
Specify that a macro is defined to a given value.
- -D sym
Specify that a macro is defined to the value 1.
- -U sym
Specify that a macro is undefined.
If the same macro appears in more than one argument, the last occurrence dominates.
- -iD sym [= val ]
- -iU sym
C strings, comments,
and line continuations
are ignored within
controlled by macros
specified with these options.
- -f defile
which have the same effect as the corresponding
You can have multiple
arguments and mix them with
later options override earlier ones.
Each directive must be on a single line. Object-like macro definitions (without arguments) are set to the given value. Function-like macro definitions (with arguments) are treated as if they are set to 1.
Replace removed lines with blank lines
instead of deleting them.
Mutually exclusive with the
Compress blank lines around a deleted section.
Mutually exclusive with the
i.e., lines that would have been removed or blanked
are retained and vice versa.
Turn on printing of debugging messages.
will report an error if it needs to remove
a preprocessor directive that spans more than one line,
for example, if it has a multi-line
comment hanging off its right hand end.
flag makes it ignore the line instead.
- -I path
an additional place to look for
This option is ignored by
for compatibility with
and to simplify the implementation of
Always treat the result of
operators as unknown if either operand is unknown,
instead of short-circuiting when unknown operands can't affect the result.
This option is for compatibility with older versions of
lines with constant expressions.
By default, sections controlled by such lines are passed through unchanged
because they typically start
and are used as a kind of comment to sketch out future or past development.
It would be rude to strip them out, just as it would be for normal comments.
Modify one or more input files in place.
- -M backext
Modify input files in place, and keep backups of the original files by
to the input filenames.
directives to the output following any deleted lines,
so that errors produced when compiling the output file correspond to
line numbers in the input file.
- -o outfile
Write output to the file
instead of the standard output when processing a single file.
Instead of processing an input file as usual,
this option causes
to produce a list of macros that are used in
preprocessor directive controlling expressions.
option, but the nesting depth of each macro is also printed.
This is useful for working out the number of possible combinations
of interdependent defined/undefined macros.
Disables parsing for C strings, comments,
and line continuations,
which is useful
for plain text.
This is a blanket version of the
Print version details.
- -x Bro 012 Brc
- Set exit status mode to zero, one, or two. See the Sx EXIT STATUS section below for details.
The utility takes its input from stdin if there are no file arguments. You must use the -m or -M options if there are multiple input files. You can specify inut from stdin or output to stdout with `-'
The utility works nicely with the -D sym option of diff(1).
EXIT STATUSIn normal usage the utility's exit status depends on the mode set using the -x option.
If the exit mode is zero (the default) then exits with status 0 if the output is an exact copy of the input, or with status 1 if the output differs.
If the exit mode is one, exits with status 1 if the output is unmodified or 0 if it differs.
If the exit mode is two, exits with status zero in both cases.
In all exit modes, exits with status 2 if there is an error.
The exit status is 0 if the -h or -V command line options are given.
- Too many levels of nesting.
- #elif #else or #endif
- Obfuscated preprocessor control line.
- EOF (with the line number of the most recent unterminated #if )
- in comment.
HISTORYThe command appeared in BSD 2.9 ANSI~C support was added in Fx 4.7 .
AUTHORSThe original implementation was written by An Dave Yost Aq [email protected] . An Tony Finch Aq [email protected] rewrote it to support ANSI~C
BUGSExpression evaluation is very limited.
Handling one line at a time means preprocessor directives split across more than one physical line (because of comments or backslash-newline) cannot be handled in every situation.
Trigraphs are not recognized.
There is no support for macros with different definitions at different points in the source file.
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Absurdly Driven looks at the world of business with a skeptical eye and a firmly rooted tongue in cheek.
Let talk bathrooms.
American Airlines' new, effortlessly cramped affairs, that is.
First inserted into the new Boeing 737 MAX and currently being shoved into most of the 737-800 fleet, these bathrooms have been described as "the most miserable experience in the world."
By an American Airlines pilot, that is.
American isn't alone in having these things. It has, though, become the symbol for them, as it seems to delight in customer discomfort. Sample: even First Class passengers enjoy reduced legroom in this new configuration, one that American has dubbed, irony cast aside, Project Oasis.
It seems, though, that not all passengers can deal with the new bathrooms.
The Chicago Business Journal's Lewis Lazare quoted one American Airlines Flight Attendant as saying of passengers:
Truthfully, I believe many hold it until they land because they know they can't fit.
What a frightful predicament.
The mere idea that you know you can't go because you might not get in -- or, worse, get out -- is torrid.
Worse, what happens if the plane suddenly has to circle for, say, another 30 minutes before landing at some busy airport?
Naturally, I asked American for its view and the airline declined to comment.
Recently I tried very similar bathrooms on a United 737 MAX flight. I found them mordantly humorous in their disregard for passenger comfort.
I didn't, however, get stuck.
Still, American is managing to deal with another problem concerning these tiny lavatories.
When there were two bathrooms facing each other in Economy Class, if their doors are open simultaneously, they actually hit each other.
So American is changing one of those doors into a folding door. Which opens inwards.
Why only one? Because larger people and those with disabilities appear to be, yes, struggling with getting inside a folding door 737 MAX-style toilet.
Now there's a surprise.
Indeed, I've heard stories of Flight Attendants struggling to help disabled people get into one of the toilets supposedly good for disabled people, so much so that on a United flight not so long ago, it took two Flight Attendants to help a disabled man into the toilet.
The next time he needed to go, the Flight Attendants took him to one of the folding-door toilets, left the door open and stood holding a curtain covering the toilet opening.
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The last case of Turkey's longest railway tunnel excavation work: Planning expected to be completed by the end of 2017 the project will cost 193 million 253 thousand pounds. 7 foreign, 20 technical personnel and 200 workers are working in the project.
Turkey's longest railway projects planned to be a couple thousand in the 200-meter tunnel was achieved progress.
Garden Osmaniye and Gaziantep will connect the district Nurdağı 10 meters long and 200 thousand were provided with Turkey's longest railway tunnel is projected to be double-thousand 200-meter project in progress.
The Republic of Turkey State Railways (TCDD) by the Adana-Gaziantep-Malatya conventional line on the garden-Nurdağı total 8 meters in diameter for double tube tunnel will be built between county-meter tunnel dug 20 400 thousand.
The contractor's tunnel group coordinator, geological engineer Barış Duman, told AA correspondent that they started to open the tunnel from the exit point of Gökçedere location in Nurdağı district in September last year and said that two 200 meters were achieved in two tunnels.
Emphasizing that it will shorten the existing railway line by 17 kilometers with the completion of the tunnel, Duman said, “We have used the classical excavation method in tunneling works until now. In the next part, we will move on to the TBM (Tunnel Boring Machine) system, which is the most used in the world simultaneously in the double tunnel. TBM machines arrived, the installation phase continues. The machines will be activated in a short time and the excavation works will accelerate ”.
From regional, geological aspects of Turkey's most challenging sector "
Duman, who pointed out that they have completed the works of bridges, culverts and underpasses, which are called "artistic structures", on the 7-kilometer route in the Nurdağı section of the tunnel, said:
“When the tunnel is completed, it will connect Çukurova and the Southeastern Anatolia Region. Garden with Nurdağı districts geographically and geologically among the most challenging part of Turkey. Railway, highway, highway and oil pipelines pass through the region, residential and industrial facilities are intertwined. The Eastern Anatolian fault zone also passes here. Considering these conditions, we see how difficult the route is, requiring serious engineering and planning. " | <urn:uuid:846375b2-edca-4c19-92c0-6b72554f8144> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://raillynews.com/2015/10/turkiyenin-longest-railway-tunnel-in-the-latest-case-studies-to-scrape/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572198.93/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815175725-20220815205725-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.947743 | 503 | 2.0625 | 2 |
Fragile ice – a dog in the water
First spring flowers appear, we go for walks more often to admire the awakening nature. Treacherous weather and jumps in temperature do not always go hand in hand with our predictions. Many of the bodies of water are still frozen and covered with ice, but it is no longer as thick and hard as people imagine.
A young golden retriever running on a walk in the woods found this out. His love of water could have been the cause of tragedy when he ran into the middle of an ice covered river and the weak ice broke under him. For a few moments the dog disappeared under the ice to its owners.
Panic began to rise as it became apparent that the dog could not be pulled out because it was impossible to get on the ice. The dog miraculously made it above the surface of the water, only to then struggle, crushing the ice piece by piece, to try to climb back onto the spool and to shore.
The help of the owners was necessary. Wet and freezing, he ended up on the shore. He was so happy and joyful, so his owners decided that probably nothing happened to him and calmly went home to dry him off. On the second day, the dog began to cough and a large amount of purulent discharge from the nose appeared. He became lethargic and didn’t even want to get up to eat, which was rare in his case. In such a state he came to our office. During the clinical examination it became clear that he must have choked on ice-cold river water, which led to a choking pneumonia.
Antibiotic therapy and supportive medication were administered. During the first three days there was a slight improvement, but the dog did not want to start eating at all. On the basis of the bacteriological tests obtained, it was decided to replace the antibiotic with a stronger one, as the previous one had proved too weak for such a severe condition. The treatment originally lasted over 2 weeks and due to continued sporadic coughing the antibiotic therapy was extended for another two weeks.
The dog is back to his old condition and temperamental life. Many people and animals die every year because of thoughtlessness on the ice. Are their lives really worth so little? | <urn:uuid:c2bf18ba-7aee-46cd-9f9d-58d51af1827b> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://adogbreeds.com/brittle-ice-a-dog-in-the-water/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572833.78/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817001643-20220817031643-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.990403 | 460 | 2.4375 | 2 |
A pallet is the structural foundation of a unit load which allows handling and storage efficiencies. Pallet is the most widely spread pallet Storage System on the market, it is widely specified in virtually every Industry and easily adapts to the vast and complete range products need to be stored. It is a most popular form of storage for palletized goods. Goods or shipping containers are often placed on a pallet secured with strapping, stretch wrap or shrink wrap and shipped. Pallets make it easier to move heavy stacks. Loads with pallets under them can be hauled by forklift trucks of different sizes, or even by hand-pumped and hand-drawn pallet jacks. Pallets should be seen as reusable packaging items as a pallet can potentially be used multiple times over the course its lifetime. | <urn:uuid:456f78b4-4de0-42d7-9800-4302ba5a9b2a> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.samrudhiengg.com/project-type/m-s-steel-pallets/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572198.93/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815175725-20220815205725-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.947131 | 165 | 2.453125 | 2 |
Bees, Bud And Business: Top Projects Surfing on the WAVES Platform
Show me the honey.
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Waves swept onto the shores of the blockchain scene back in 2016, thanks to a group of Russian developers who became disillusioned with NXT. They decided to launch their own platform, aiming to make it quick and easy for anyone to issue their own token.
Waves quickly became the first platform to market with its own decentralized exchange. At the end of 2018, the project raised $120 million from investors to develop a private version of its Vostok platform, which is designed to deploy Waves in commercial and government IT systems. However, recent reports suggest that the Waves founder sold his stake in Vostok to focus on developing out the Waves platform.
Nevertheless, Waves still has plenty of activity, with over thirty projects listed on the WavesDapp website. Here are a few of the most unique use cases.
Apis mellifera is the Latin name for the western honey bee, and now also the name of a Waves project aiming to help the declining honey bee population.
The plight of the bees is real, y’all. Bees pollinate 70% of the crops that feed 90% of the world. Without honey bees, the global agricultural sector would be $30 billion poorer each year. But intensive farming, mono-cropping, and climate change mean that the bee population has declined by up to 45% in some parts of the western world.
By participating in the Apismellifera project, you can use Waves-based Beehive tokens to purchase a bee adoption plan. Participation entitles you to a portion of the honey produced by your very own adopted bee colony.
Tokens are locked up for a fixed period of time, and the project will establish more hives each year. Therefore, the number of hives your tokens are sponsoring increases each year that you participate. Adoption plans are available for individuals and businesses, with the higher-level plans even including a visit to the bee family in the hives.
It’d be worth a mention for the pun-tastic name alone, but the Tokes (TKS) project has far more to offer than just humorous wordplay. It started life on the Waves platform as a tokenized payment solution for the legal cannabis industry.
Despite being legal in many states, cannabis remains outlawed at the federal level. Much like crypto companies, the cannabis industry has faced problems in gaining access to traditional banking services, forcing businesses to accept only cash payments.
Along with the payment solution, Tokes also developed consumer mobile apps, merchant point-of-sale software, and e-commerce modules to transact in the token. However, Tokes also recognized that blockchain has broader applications in the cannabis sector. It now provides “track-and-trace” solutions that can be deployed in the cannabis supply chain, as well as other verticals.
RentApp uses the Waves platform to provide a P2P sharing marketplace, where anyone can rent anything to anyone else. Services like Airbnb have evolved to an “own-to-rent” model that doesn’t exactly fulfill the original spirit of the sharing economy. RentApp aims to restore that intent by allowing people to rent out unused resources like a lawnmower, or let someone try-before-they-buy through renting.
Unlike many blockchain-based sharing economy initiatives, RentApp doesn’t force you to use the native RENT token. You can agree to pay via PayPal, wire transfer, or other digital currencies. Funds are held in escrow by the Waves blockchain until both parties agree that the transaction is complete.
However, if you do opt to use the RENT token, then you get to participate in additional benefits, like discounts and a loyalty and referral program.
Wearable fitness trackers and apps are contributing to an explosion of healthcare data. So much so, that the growth of big data in healthcare is soon expected to outpace other sectors including manufacturing, financial services, or even media. Boltt aims to capitalize on this trend by developing the biggest health data network in the world.
With Boltt, users can monetize the health data in return for Boltt tokens. That data can be accessed in aggregate by organizations willing to stake Boltt tokens on the platform. There are also a host of other features, including user contests, and a portal where you can view your own health data from a variety of sources including health apps, pharmacies, labs, or anywhere else it’s stored.
Boltt has already been making waves (cough cough) in the dApps world, having clocked more than 10,000 daily active users in March this year. It’s also among the top dApps on the Waves blockchain, and was included in the Waves Labs accelerator program. The token is actually issued as a hybrid on the Waves and Ethereum blockchain, with the project having opted for Waves due to its higher transaction speed.
Kolin is developing a decentralized, international translation and information exchange service on the Waves platform. The name is an acronym of “Konscienco Lingvo” means “Conscious Language” in Esperanto. It’s designed to reflect the mission of Kolin to bridge language boundaries – not just between different spoken languages, but also between technical and non-technical language.
The application operates around the Kolin token and operates as a kind of dual marketplace for translation services. The private marketplace enables anyone to request a translation by a professional translator., for which they’ll pay in Kolin tokens On the private platform, prices are fixed based on word count and the transaction complexity.
The social marketplace operates in a similar way, except volunteers perform the translations. Those who volunteer are proportionately rewarded for their accuracy, simplicity, and word count.
Waves Platform – Riding the Market Currents
These are just a select few of the projects currently riding on Waves. Others include various DeFi initiatives, organic food, and coffee supply chain trackers, and loyalty programs. Although the Waves coin itself currently has a bearish outlook, the Waves blockchain still has a lot to offer the broader ecosystem. | <urn:uuid:6dbd7c11-84fd-4e41-973e-252e15c9c09c> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://cryptobriefing.com/bees-bud-business-surfing-waves-platform/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572833.78/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817001643-20220817031643-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.949178 | 1,303 | 1.554688 | 2 |
Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) legislator from Assam’s Hojai constituency Shiladitya Dev came down heavily on the Election Commission of India (ECI) for allegedly marking people ‘D’ voters in the electoral rolls.
Dev said, “The ‘D’ marking against the voters in the electoral rolls is of no use. The ECI cannot decide the citizenship status of any individual. The power has been vested upon the Foreigners’ Tribunals to decide whether a person is a citizen or a foreigner. If a citizen is ‘Doubtful’, his or her name should be omitted from the electoral rolls”.
The lawmaker also mentioned about filing a petition appealing the ECI to stop “harassing people” by marking them as ‘Doubtful’. “What is ‘Doubtful’? The entire system including the ECI is doubtful,” he added while addressing a press meet on August 18th, 2019.
D voter, sometimes also referred to as Dubious voter or Doubtful voter is a category of voters in Assam who are disenfranchised by the government on the account of their alleged lack of proper citizenship credentials.
Dev further alleged that the inclusion and exclusion of names in the National Register of Citizens is done based on the surnames. “Only the economically backward section of the people are being targetted and marked ‘Doubtful,” Dev claimed.
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Groups Call on NYS Assembly to Pass "Timeout" for Fracking for Natural Gas
State Leaders Must Put Safe Drinking Water Ahead of Gas Industry Profits
ALBANY, NY (11/29/2010)(readMedia)-- With the New York State Legislature scheduled to return to the Capitol to participate in a special Legislative Session today, organizations are demanding action on a critical bill that would enact a timeout on hydraulic fracturing, often called "fracking," for natural gas.
"The time is now for the Assembly to choose clean water over dirty drilling. The New York State Senate has taken a stand to protect our drinking water from the environmental dangers of fracking for natural gas," said Katherine Nadeau, Water & Natural Resources Program Director, Environmental Advocates of New York. "Now it's time for the Assembly to show whose side they are on and put New Yorkers ahead of the gas industry."
The bill, A.11443B, sponsored by Assemblyman Robert Sweeney (D-Lindenhurst), would suspend the issuance of permits to hydraulically fracture wells in New York State until May 15, 2011. In addition to providing the incoming governor and his administration with an opportunity for a fresh look at the issues surrounding gas development, this suspension would also provide the State Legislature with the chance to make necessary changes to the state's oil and gas permitting program.
"New York should set the standard with its drilling regulations-not play catch-up. We've seen far too much drilling-related contamination right next door in Pennsylvania-and elsewhere in the country-where regulatory programs are plainly inadequate to prevent sometimes irreversible environmental and public health catastrophes," said Earthjustice attorney Deborah Goldberg. "Before the rigs move in from Texas, we need time to make sure our air, water, and health will be protected."
"As it stands today we have completely inadequate and outdated regulations for gas drilling in New York State. This time out will give the Governor and the legislature time to look deeper into the issue; we should not go forward with gas development unless it is safe. It will be too late too late to go back and change regulations after our groundwater is contaminated," said Wes Gillingham, Program Director for Catskill Mountainkeeper.
"Drilling for natural gas in New York anytime soon would be a disaster," stated Paul Gallay, Executive Director and Hudson Riverkeeper. "New York's environment needs this moratorium to ensure that the tragic effects drilling has had in other states do not happen here."
"New York still has a chance to stand up to the big oil and gas corporations knocking on our door," said Kate Sinding, Deputy Director of the New York Program at the Natural Resources Defense Council. "We must send a message to these powerful outsiders: No new drilling unless they can show us it's safe for our health and communities. New Yorkers overwhelmingly support taking stand for these common sense safeguards-our representatives in Albany must heed our call."
"The New York State Assembly can protect us all by passing a moratorium on fracking gas in New York State," said Dereth Glance, Executive Program Director for Citizens Campaign for the Environment. "The 'fracking time-out' protects taxpayers and the environment by providing time for the Legislature and the new Governor to ensure industrial gas drilling does not foul the air that we breathe and the water we drink," Glance added.
"It's imperative to take the time to put strong regulations and safeguards for health and the environment in place before permitting 'extreme energy' development like deep shale gas extraction," said Nadia Steinzor, Marcellus Regional Organizer for EARTHWORKS Oil & Gas Accountability Project. "Problems associated with hydraulic fracturing are occurring nationwide, and the Legislature has a responsibility to all New Yorkers to slow down the rush to drill."
"The Legislature has a key role to play in protecting New York from drilling's dangers and an Assembly vote today will give us more time to fix holes in the DEC permitting program," said Roger Downs, Conservation Program Manager for the Sierra Club Atlantic Chapter. "Currently the DEC can not regulate the water withdrawals from drilling, ban toxic chemicals used in fracking, or control the numbers of their rapidly shrinking inspection staff. The Assembly must answer the call for help."
The State Senate recognized the potential dangers of fracking by passing the measure by a wide margin earlier this year. In an interview with WAMC Public Radio last week, Governor David Paterson said that New York State should put public safety and water quality concerns ahead of the potential profits to be made by natural gas exploration.
New York is a battleground in the national debate about natural gas drilling and fracking, an environmentally dangerous technique for extracting gas from underground shale deposits. Fracking-related accidents across the country have contaminated drinking water, created air quality hazards and violations, and polluted streams.
The groups calling on the Assembly to pass the timeout for fracking include Citizens Campaign for the Environment, Catskill Mountainkeeper, EARTHWORKS Oil & Gas Accountability Project, Earthjustice, Environmental Advocates of New York, Natural Resources Defense Council, Riverkeeper, and Sierra Club-Atlantic Chapter.
For more information:
Erica Ringewald (518) 210-9903 or email@example.com, Environmental Advocates of New York
Daniella Nordin (518) 462-5526 x239, Environmental Advocates of New York
Roger Downs (518) 944-0992, Sierra Club-Atlantic Chapter
Deborah Goldberg (212) 791-1881x227, Earthjustice
Kate Slusark (212) 727-4592 or firstname.lastname@example.org, NRDC
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An individual’s h-index corresponds to the number h of his/her papers that each has at least h citations. When the citation count of an article exceeds h, however, as is the case for the hundreds or even thousands of citations that accompany the most highly cited papers, no
additional credit is given (these citations falling outside the so-called “Durfee square”). We propose a new bibliometric
index, the “tapered h-index” (hT), that positively enumerates all citations, yet scoring them on an equitable basis with h.
The career progression of hT and h are compared for six eminent scientists in contrasting fields. Calculated hT for year 2006 ranged between 44.32 and 72.03, with a corresponding range in h of 26 to 44. We argue that the hT-index is superior to h, both theoretically (it scores all citations), and because it shows smooth increases from year to year as compared with the
irregular jumps seen in h. Conversely, the original h-index has the benefit of being conceptually easy to visualise. Qualitatively, the two indices show remarkable similarity
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Written By Manvi Agarwal (Grade 12)
“Bad luck either destroys you or makes you the man or woman you really are.” – Amitabh Bachchan
Amitabh Bachchan is recognized as a one-man industry and is today the face of Indian cinema worldwide. His film career of becoming the Shahenshah of Bollywood was not a cakewalk. He had to face multiple rejections at the onset of his career, after which he established himself as a promising actor and what followed next was a period of superstardom. In the span of five decades, he has appeared in more than 200 movies and has received several awards, including the Padma Shri, the Padma Bhushan and the Padma Vibhushan.
The megastar’s career had a rocky start and by his early thirties, he was declared a failed newcomer. His tall frame and heavy voice did not complement the image of a Hindi movie hero and thus were not welcomed by the film industry. He got his breakthrough with Prakash Mehra’s iconic movie ‘Zanjeer’ which gave birth to Bollywood’s Angry Young Man. At a time when “romantic heroes” were ruling the industry, the intense action script of the film was turned down by many actors. But, it became the turning point of Big B’s career and earned him his first Filmfare nomination.
1975 to 1982 was his period of fame and mega stardom. During the filming of the movie ‘Coolie’, he suffered from a severe injury. The fan-following of Mr Bachchan was so huge, that during the period of his recovery, his fans walked barefoot to temples and pilgrimage sites to pray for his well-being. Despite recovering from his injuries, his illness made him vulnerable and he decided to quit movies. After his comeback in 1988, his movies failed at the box office and thus he went into a semi-retirement of five years. During this period of retirement, he decided to try his hand at entrepreneurship, so he started his own entertainment company – ‘Amitabh Bachchan Corporation Ltd’.
The company had early success, but its association with the Miss World beauty pageant, in 1996 proved to be a questionable decision. To fund it, the company undertook multiple loans which ultimately led to the burden of more than Rs. 100 crore debt. Due to back to back failures, the company collapsed and Amitabh Bachchan became bankrupt. At this time of crisis, ‘Kaun Banega Crorepati’, brought about a three-sixty degree change in his career graph. KBC along with the movie ‘Mohabbatein’ led to the end of his troubles and miseries.
Amitabh Bachchan started a new phase in his career by hosting the pop quiz show ‘Kaun Banega Crorepati’ in the year 2000. The Bollywood superstar who was famous in the 80s and 90s for his powerful dialogues “Aaj khush toh bahut honge tum?”, “Rishte me to hum tumhare baap hote hai, naam hai Shahenshah” and many more, was replaced by the humble host with iconic phrases like “Deviyo aur sajjano”, “computerji iss jawab ko lock kiya jay”, “are you sure?” which reminds the young generation of a gentle Amitabh Bachchan who graces their television screens at 9 pm with his wit and set of anecdotes. Apart from the incentive of earning money, what drove people towards this show was the singular popularity of Mr Bachchan.
When the show had been pitched to him, he was not keen on being a part of it. His family and relatives advised him to not host the first season as it would dilute his position and status as the Star of the Millennium. Besides, no superstar had ever hosted a show on the small screen before Mr Bachchan himself. Despite the uncertainty and scepticism about entering the television industry, he flew to London with the show’s team to view a taping of the original ‘Who Wants To Be A Millionaire’. He was finally convinced to host the show which eventually resurrected his career. His decision turned out to be game-changing, as the popularity of the show was unmatched and its first season garnered a frenzied response from captivated audiences all across India.
‘Kaun Banega Crorepati’, with its high viewership and rising TRP ratings, made the audience realize that Bachchan could not only rule the big screen but also the small screen. At its premiere, the show had created such a rage among the viewers, that irrespective of what they were doing, it was mandatory for everyone to watch KBC at 9 pm sharp. The roads would be empty and the shops that would have KBC being showcased would have massive crowds gathered around them. Mr Bachchan himself is a man of few words and while presenting the first season, it took him a while to break the ice and get personal with the contestants. Slowly, he learned how to open up to them and now we see him as a reinvented man, who with his magnetic aura, warmly greats the nervous contestants on the “hot seat”, and regales them with his collection of stories and experiences. He adopts an altogether different persona while hosting this blockbuster show that has been airing for two decades now. Be it the sentimental and emotional contestant or the eager and passionate fan, he knows how to make them feel at home. With the magic and charm of Amitabh Bachchan, KBC became a huge success.
In the third season, due to the actor’s ill health, Shah Rukh Khan was approached to host it. Despite SRK’s wit and amiable personality, he could not fill in the shoes of the megastar. The strong baritone and the magic of Amitabh Bachchan were unbeatable. KBC brought him closer to his fans and audiences. With the income that he earned from KBC, he was able to pay off a majority of his debt. There was no scope of looking back for him, for what lay ahead for the veteran actor, were only super-hit movies like – ‘Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham’ and ‘Baghban’. ‘Kaun Banega Crorepati’ was a stepping stone that had helped Amitabh Bachchan rise to superstardom once again, just like a phoenix rises from its ashes. KBC has indeed mellowed down Indian Cinema’s Angry Young Man, and now the audience ardently waits for Mr Bachchan’s thick baritone to deliver “Chaliye aap aur hum khelte hain Kaun Banega Crorepati”. The tension, the moments of joy, the charisma of Amitabh Bachchan, and the enthusiasm of the audience are what make KBC a run-away hit!
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Schools mull outdoor classes amid virus, ventilation worries
It has been seven years since the central air conditioning system worked at the New York City middle school where Lisa Fitzgerald O’Connor teaches. As a new school year approaches amid the coronavirus pandemic, she and her colleagues are threatening not to return unless it’s repaired.
Her classroom has a window air conditioning unit, but she fears the stagnant air will increase the chances that an infected student could spread the virus.
“Window units just aren’t going to cut it. We don’t want to stay cool, we just want the air to flow properly,” said O’Connor, a science teacher who has worked at the Patria Mirabal School in Manhattan since 2009. “We are really super stressed out about it.”
Schools around the country are facing similar problems as they plan or contemplate reopening this fall, dealing with aging air conditioning, heating and circulation systems that don’t work well or at all because maintenance and replacement were deferred due to tight budgets. Concerns about school infrastructure are adding momentum to plans in some districts, even in colder climates, to take classes outdoors for the sake of student and teacher health.
Nationwide, an estimated 41% of school districts need to update or replace their heating, ventilation and cooling systems in at least half their schools, according to a federal report issued in June.
Rep. Bobby Scott, D-Va., chairman of the House Education committee, called on the federal government to help districts improve their systems, saying the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention calling ventilation an important part of coronavirus spread at schools.
“Ventilation is key and you don’t fix that for free,″ Scott said.
There is no evidence that the disease can spread through ventilation systems from one classroom to the next, according to Dr. Edward Nardell, a Harvard Medical School professor who specializes in airborne diseases. The danger, Nardell said, is from ineffective systems that don’t remove floating viruses and let them linger in classrooms after they are expelled in an infected person’s breath, sneeze or cough.
“Most schools are designed for comfort, not for infection control. So there is a danger that if you put 20 kids in a room, that if one of them has asymptomatic COVID and is infectious, you now have 19 more kids who are exposed,” Nardell said. Healthy children almost always recover from COVID, if they become ill at all, but they can pass the disease to teachers, parents and other adults.
Nardell believes schools should consider installing ultraviolet lights along classroom ceilings, a technology some used in the 1950s and earlier to combat measles, tuberculosis and other airborne diseases and that is still used in hospitals and homeless shelters. Viruses and bacteria are destroyed using a spectrum of UV light that is safe for humans. Manufacturers say the devices would cost $3,000 per classroom.
Some, including Education Secretary Betsy DeVos, say one solution to air circulation problems may be teaching classes outdoors, which was done during tuberculosis and influenza outbreaks in the early 1900s, even in cold weather. The coronavirus spreads less efficiently outdoors and students could more easily sit 6 feet (2 meters) apart.
Having classes outdoors has other benefits, said Sharon Danks, CEO of Green Schoolyards America, a Berkeley, California, nonprofit that advocates for outdoor education. Children actually are less distracted and feel better emotionally when taught outdoors, she said.
“Nature has been shown to restore the ability to pay attention,” she said.
Several schools in the Northeast have bought large event tents like those used at outdoor weddings and plan to use them to teach outside through November.
The White River Valley Middle School in Bethel, Vermont, is spending about $10,000 on tents and other equipment. While some schools have equipped tents with propane heaters, White River Valley Principal Owen Bradley said his students can handle the expected November daytime temperatures in the 30s (about 0 Celsius) without them.
Bradley said one upside will be an opportunity to help students better understand and appreciate nature.
“We hope they value it forever and help us save the planet,” he said.
Schools bringing students back this fall will require or at least strongly suggest masks, but officials say they can only be so effective during six-hour school days indoors. Air circulation is needed.
Stephen Murley, the school superintendent in Green Bay, Wisconsin, said most of his district’s 42 campuses have older air systems. When there is high humidity, they are set to recirculate drier indoor air to prevent unhealthy black mold from growing on the walls — but battling the coronavirus requires fresh air.
“We have two things working at odds with each other,” Murley said.
Janet Robinson, the superintendent in Stratford, Connecticut, said some of her district’s 13 schools were built between 80 and 100 years ago and aren’t capable of handling modern air systems — “they are a challenge.” There are also crowding issues — one has classrooms built for 15 students but that typically have 25, making social distancing impossible.
“It is kind of naive for politicians and whoever to say, ‘Just bring (the students) in and keep them at 6 feet (2 meter) distance,’” she said.
Brian Toth, superintendent of the Saint Marys Area School District in northern Pennsylvania, said his district’s five schools’ air systems have no exit vents to circulate fresh air in and the virus out. He estimates it would cost at least $600,000 per school to replace the systems. When his schools reopen Aug. 31, students will be asked to wear masks, but Pennsylvania law exempts children whose parents claim they have a physical or mental condition.
“You look at the way schools were built, nobody expected to have a classroom with a 6-foot radius around a student,” Toth said. Instead, classrooms “pack them in like sardines and now we are facing the consequences.”
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“With bus services being reduced more passengers will inevitably opt to make journeys by car, which is bad for the environment, increasing pollution and congestion and adding to climate change.”
By John Murphy, Unite the Union
London is currently facing the biggest bus cuts in decades. Transport for London (TfL) is consulting on plans to cut 16 bus routes, while dozens of others will be re-routed or shortened.
If the plans are enacted then four per cent of London’s bus capacity will be cut, with the loss of 800 driving roles.
Four per cent does not seem like a huge amount but for passengers in the capital the changes will be brutal.
Journeys will become longer. A trip that can currently be made by catching a single bus will instead have to be made by catching two or three buses. This will result in far longer waits at bus stops and if the trip takes longer than an hour a much more expensive journey.
Cutting buses services will result in an increase in overcrowded buses resulting in those required to use them being forced to endure a miserable journey. Equally, with bus services being reduced more passengers will inevitably opt to make journeys by car, which is bad for the environment, increasing pollution and congestion and adding to climate change.
The first question people usually ask is why on earth are TfL planning on making such regressive cuts? The answer is that they are being forced to by the government.
Prior to the pandemic, London was unique among major capital cities with its public transport system being self-funding.
The collapse in revenue as a result of Covid-19 and the resulting lockdowns has resulted in Sadiq Khan being forced to seek several bailouts from the government. The government in the form of the Department for Transport has been willing to provide some funding but has attached huge strings to these payments.
One of these strings is a demand for a reduction in bus services in London on the grounds that ridership has not returned to pre-pandemic levels. This will undoubtedly be self-fulfilling as a cut in bus services will do entirely the opposite of encouraging passengers back onto buses. With the Covid-19 virus not eradicated and with cases rising it is far too early to make any long-term decisions about London’s bus routes, especially as tourist numbers have certainly not yet recovered.
What is beyond doubt is that Londoners should not be being forced to pay for the pandemic.
The proposed cuts in service levels and routes will most adversely affect the poorest and most vulnerable in society. Bus services are by far the cheapest method of public transport in London. If you are working in a minimum wage role such as a cleaner or in hospitality, being forced to use tubes or the trains takes a huge chunk out of what are already meagre wages. Equally buses in London run 24 hours a day, which you can’t say about other forms of public transport, making them a vital lifeline for workers who work unsocial hours – for example workers in the NHS.
It is of course not just workers who will suffer but pensioners and schoolchildren who rely on buses to attend school or to get to the shops and will also find their journey’s much more difficult.
At the peak of the first Covid-19 wave, London bus drivers paid a terrible toil for their dedication in keeping London functioning, far too many of them died. In return for that commitment the planned cuts in bus services serves as a huge kick in the teeth.
Even if workers don’t lose their jobs, opportunities for overtime are set to disappear. Bus drivers like everyone else are suffering in the cost of living crisis, they certainly don’t earn a fortune and any loss of take home pay is likely to be the difference between keeping their heads above water or going under.
The key question is what can be done. The first thing is for everyone to complete TfL’s consultation which is very short and more like a survey, it can be found here.
Unhelpfully TfL has opted for the shortest possible consultation period of just six weeks and this ends on Tuesday 12 July. So time is short.
Secondly contact your MP, council leader and you cabinet member for transport/highways and make sure that they have all publicly opposed TfL’s plans.
Together we can force TfL to think again and force them stand up to the government and refuse to do their dirty work for them.
- John Murphy is the Lead London bus officer for Unite.
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Professional development is not something that can be checked off a list.
Development is more like a journey, one without a goal, target, or end result. It’s a continuous process, during which you can seek feedback to grow and improve, even change course in your career.
There are many ways to receive feedback; a valuable source is through mentorship. Mentors are people who’ve experienced and faced similar situations, and have learned valuable lessons which they can pass onto you. To learn more about mentorship, we asked two experts to share their insights: Mika Trottier, a program manager leading the Partner Education Team at Shopify; and Eric McRae, the founder of My ByWard Office, a co-working space that helps entrepreneurs grow their business.
They shared how to find a mentor, who to look for, and how to build a successful relationship. It’s important to remember that there is no single formula, and that mentorship varies from person-to-person.
For Harley Finkelstein, Shopify’s COO, a successful mentor relationship means real commitment.
You may have advisors or people you look up to like role models but to me a mentor is something very different. Mentors are people who are committed to spending dedicated time with you over the long term and engaging in your personal growth. Essentially your mentors need to be invested in you and your success.
“You may have advisors or people you look up to like role models but to me a mentor is something very different. Mentors are people who are committed to spending dedicated time with you over the long term and engaging in your personal growth. Essentially your mentors need to be invested in you and your success," Harley explains.
Ultimately, you’ll need to find a method that works best for you.
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How to find a mentor
Connections can be made with people from all around the world, however, it’s easier to start with proximity.
Within your organization
Don’t overlook your peers. Organizations are filled with talented people in different disciplines and at different levels. Their unbiased feedback on your projects or performance can help you gain more self-awareness. You’re then better able to identify your strengths and weaknesses, as well as the areas in need of improvement.
Within your city
Scope out your city for companies and employees who are in positions or fields you’re interested in. LinkedIn is a great tool that helps you narrow down your search based on the filters you select. When you’re ready to reach out, aim for a coffee chat since in-person connections are more powerful than calls.
At conferences and meetups
Conferences are opportunities to network with speakers and industry leaders who you would not otherwise run into. Listening to talks gives you a good sense of a speaker’s background and perspective. When a talk resonates with you, find the speaker and ask them follow-up questions. Showing genuine interest is key to having organic conversations.
After the conference, make sure to follow-up with them and let them know how much you enjoyed your conversation. Include follow-up questions and when the time feels right, ask to set up a call where you can dive deeper, get to know them better, and ask for their advice.
Conferences also offer workshops or one-on-one sessions with coaches. By signing up, you’re guaranteeing uninterrupted time with someone. Again, ask lots of questions, and come prepared if you can in order to make the most out of your time together.
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Through formal programs
Programs like Everwise connect you with mentors, peer groups, advisors, and community members. A more formal process like this one has many benefits, for example, expectations between the mentee and mentor are made clear from the get-go.
Now that we’ve explored where to find mentors, let’s dive into what to look for.
What to look for in a mentor
To know what to look for in a mentor, start by being clear on what you want. Evaluate yourself and start understanding your strengths, weaknesses, and domain. Evaluation helps you build a picture of where you stand currently, and where you want to go — in other words, your goals. Mentors can help you close the gap between you and your goals, but only if you can clearly articulate them.
“Mentors are busy, so you need to be focused and get to the point,” Eric says.
Once you have a better understanding of yourself, start looking for people with:
1. Domain expertise
When exploring a domain, Eric McRae suggests creating a list of questions you’re looking to have answered. Look for subject-matter experts who can answer and fast-track your development since their years of experience empowers them to make connections in your work that you can’t see yet.
For example, if you’re a founder hiring a team for the first time, it might be a good idea to seek someone who has years of experience in talent acquisition.
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2. Career trajectory
One of the principles of mentorship is seeking a mentor who hasn’t forgotten what it was like to be in your shoes. For example, someone who is ten years ahead in their career might not be as valuable as a mentor whose only five years ahead and remembers how they learned.
The reason being, someone who remembers how they learned can more easily share tactical advice. “There is something to be said about someone who is at the next step of where you want to get,” Mika says.
Finally, compatibility and rapport with your mentor is very important. It’s not just about the position, it’s about the person. Anyone can be a mentor, even people outside of your profession, simply because you get along well and learn a lot from how they frame their thinking.
As we wrap up this section, keep in mind that a mentor’s job is not to solve all of your problems. Their job is to be a guiding voice.
How to set up for success
As you go through all these steps, work to shift your mindset from “I need something” to “I want to learn.” A learner’s mindset pushes you to ask more questions and show genuine interest.
Don’t approach someone expecting them to become your mentor, finding a mentor is a little bit like dating.
If you think you’re setting up your wedding from your first date, you’re coming at it the wrong way.
“If you think you’re setting up your wedding from your first date, you’re coming at it the wrong way,” Mika says .
A first encounter or meeting with someone is similar. Don’t go into it expecting a sure thing, treat it as a time of discovery. You might need to meet five to six different people, before deciding to follow-up with someone.
Set clear expectations
If you’ve been setting up recurring calls with someone, it might be time to let them know what you’re looking for by being upfront. Articulating your situation helps the other person know what kind of advice to give. Otherwise, if you keep communicating vaguely, you will keep receiving vague advice.
Set clear expectations around the frequency of your calls and the format which they will follow.
You might also like: 8 Time Management Tips for Freelancers.
Give and take
A relationship is built on give and take. A mentor might ask you to do some research or read a book, it’s important for you to do the work on your side. You can create reciprocity by sending them links to articles they might find helpful as well.
Don’t expect miracles, do the work to show you’re eager and willing to learn.
Seeking diversity of thought through mentorship helps you gain unbiased perspective on your work and development. There’s no limit on the number of mentors that you can have. Different people can help you grow in different aspects of your life, whether it’s project management, confidence, or any other area you seek to improve.
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Stories about "Nathan Lundblad"
A science first: Bates physicist Nathan Lundblad leads research to create ultracold atomic bubbles in space
Wednesday, May 25, 2022 1:45 pm
The prestigious journal Nature has published research by Lundblad, a professor of physics, and his coauthors on their history-making research aboard the International Space Station.
Thursday, June 28, 2018 2:38 pm
Netflix options an alumna’s book, a professor explains Trump’s victory, and an alumnus argues that tech and humanities can save each other.
Friday, May 18, 2018 8:43 am
Monday's launch takes a Bates physics experiment to the International Space Station. For one alumnus, it's "all about the power of science at Bates."
Friday, September 15, 2017 11:00 am
Items include a Washington Post op-ed by Chris Petrella '06, who says we shouldn't be shocked that white supremacists can also be well-educated.
Friday, August 25, 2017 12:35 pm
“Excuse me,” Sylvia Deschaine told the surprised Admission gathering. “The eclipse is starting, and it’s a once-in-a-lifetime event."
Friday, March 11, 2016 1:16 pm
The grant from the Sherman Fairchild Foundation will fund 15 new student research positions in STEM fields while improving the overall summer research experience.
Friday, February 26, 2016 10:00 am
The new DCS Program's goal is squarely in the liberal arts wheelhouse: To give Bates graduates "the capacity to claim the world," in the words of one professor.
Thursday, August 27, 2015 3:24 pm
Recent faculty promotions at Bates include four professors earning tenure and three being named full professor.
Friday, April 13, 2012 3:18 pm
Triple major in physics, math and Japanese receives a prestigious award.
Thursday, November 19, 2009 12:19 pm
Assistant Professor of Physics Nathan Lundblad is the first member of the Bates College faculty to receive a Defense Experimental Program to Stimulate Competitive Research (DEPSCoR) grant from the U.S. Department of Defense. Sponsored by the Air Force Office of Scientific Research, the grant is for $388,088 over three years. It will fund Lundblad's research into atomic activity at ultralow temperatures. | <urn:uuid:174b8501-9059-40bb-86d4-34f0e3598669> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.bates.edu/news/tag/nathan-lundblad/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570921.9/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809094531-20220809124531-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.921954 | 501 | 1.601563 | 2 |
Wheel of Fortune- Harry Potter
Harry Potter Trivia. Enjoy!
Hunger Games Characters
The characters from Chapters 1-7 of The Hunger Games
Broadway Ball Park: Theatre Review
Theatre review chapter 9
Match the instruments to their correct instrument family.
This game will review common Italian musical terms such as the ones found in the song, "Pardon the Expression"
Character House Entertainment: The Moana Character Expansion
Sound Off (Instruments)
Identify the instrument and its group
Ukulele Chord Fret Numbers
The ukulele has four strings. Memorize the fret numbers you need to press and learn the code to play the ukulele.
Predznaci (Signs - Croatian)
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Established in 1853, Washington remained a Territory for 36 years, until admitted into the Union in 1889. Only three other Territories created in the American West after 1850 languished longer in dependent status. Because of a dividing geographical barrier (the Cascade Range) and the lack of adequate internal transportation and communication systems, Washington Territory made no practical sense as a political and economic entity. Western Washington was actually a satellite of San Francisco and Eastern Washington of Portland, until railroads finally were completed along the Columbia River and across the Cascades in the mid 1880s. Essentially, Washington was not “eligible” for statehood until very late in its Territorial period when railways unified the region.
Though modern scholars have produced worthy biographies and specialized studies for this intriguing period, until now only one previous attempt at a comprehensive history has appeared—H.H. Bancroft’s imperfect all-in-one volume, History of Washington, Idaho and Montana (1890). Robert E. Ficken’s Washington Territory will long serve as the definitive economic and political history of territorial Washington.
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What is the Clean Waterways Act?
On June 30, the Clean Waterways Act, Senate Bill (SB) 712, was signed into law. The intention of this act is to aid in water conservation and protect water quality in Florida. This act will lead to some changes ... READ MORE
From freshwater lakes to vast underground aquifers, central Florida has a wealth of water resources. Water sources can be split into groundwater and surface water.
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the Certificate of Origin (CO) is a document to certify the place of growth, production or manufacture of goods. It is required when exporting to specific countries, when requested by the consignee for customs clearance, or when it’s stipulated in a letter of credit.
The CO identifies goods and contains a certification by a government authority, or other empowered body, that the goods in question originate from a specific country. Certificates of Origin can be broadly classified into types, namely Preferential Certificates of Origin and Non-Preferential Certificates of Origin.
The issuance and acceptance of Certificates of Origin is governed by the International Convention on the Simplification and Harmonisation of Customs Procedures.
The Malay Chamber of Commerce Malaysia (MCCM) is authorised by the Ministry of International Trade & Industry (MITI) to issue Certificates of Origin for goods exported to any country in the world. They can be applied for at our main office or at any of MICCI regional offices in Malaysia. Certificates of Origin issued by MICCI are referred to as Non-Preferential Certificate of Origin.
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By Alan Caruba
The news from Sydney, Australia was of another incident in which a lone Islamic fascist took civilians hostage to fulfill a demented notion of a “holy war” on non-believers. After a siege by police two of the hostages he had taken were dead along with the gunman.
These attacks are becoming more frequent, referred to as “lone wolf” events, but in a larger context, they represent an effort by al Qaeda and the Islamic State, ISIS, to recruit individuals to wage a war of terror everywhere.
Looking back over the year, in May Mehdi Nemmouche who had returned to France after fighting for ISIS, entered the Jewish museum in Brussels and killed four people. In October Martin Couture Rouleau ran down two Canadian soldiers in Quebec, killing one of them. The same month, Michael Zehaf-Bibeau killed a soldier at the Canadian parliament in Ottawa. Also in October, Zale Thompson attacked four New York police officers with an axe, injuring two in an incident that was deemed to be an Islamist attack.
In the wake of these attacks police everywhere are grappling with what they can do to anticipate and respond. In the attacks that have occurred, the perpetrators were all known to law enforcement authorities for their extremist views. In September, the Department of Homeland Security and the FBI put out a joint intelligence bulletin that the Islamic State has the capacity to mount attacks on U.S. targets overseas with little or no warning. Presumably the warning also included domestic attacks as well.
At a time when the threat is real and growing, there are forces in America that have deliberately sought to undermine public support and trust in the Central Intelligence Agency and National Security Agency, both on the front line of defense against the Islamist menace. The release of a report by Sen. Diane Feinstein (D-CA), Senate Intelligence Committee chair, was widely denounced for its evident failure to interview those named as engaging in “torture” to deter further attacks. This 20-20 hindsight and reinterpretation of events is an offense on many levels.
One has to ask why it is always liberals who are unable to acknowledge an actual threat and defame those charged with preventing them. It is as if they live in a parallel universe, a make-believe world where our enemies do not exist.
This is the mind-set that led the President to remove our troops from Iraq, creating a vacuum that ISIS filled. He is now lowering our role in Afghanistan and the news of the day is a barbaric attack by the Taliban in Pakistan that has killed 130, mostly school children. Can liberals grasp the barbarity of the Islamist enemies of our nation and the whole of humanity?
Most serious, though, are the negotiations with Iran, led by the Obama administration, that are sure to permit a leading sponsor of terrorism to acquire its own nuclear weapons.
This is why many cringed when the anticipated Democratic Party candidate for President, Hillary Clinton, a former Secretary of State, recently touted an approach she calls “smart power,” urging America to use “every possible tool and partner” to advance peace. This, she said, includes “leaving no one on the sidelines, showing respect even for one’s enemies, trying to understand and insofar as psychologically possible, empathize with their perspective and point of view.”
This is the classic liberal excuse and attitude for not taking our enemies seriously when they say they want to destroy America. There isn’t a single justification for empathizing with people who want to kill you!
I frankly find the outcry against the nation’s police corps curious and outrageous. In the Ferguson incident, it was a case of self-defense that got Michael Brown killed. In Staten Island, it was the unanticipated death of Erik Garner who had resisted arrest and had a long record of similar offenses. The police did not set out to kill him, but a combination of his ill health and the takedown triggered his death.
The response of the communist Mayor of New York, Bill de Blasio, was not to defend his police force, but to join in the condemnation. Around the nation thousands marched, repeating the lies about Brown’s innocence and the claims about Garner’s death. The marches, held in a number of U.S. cities, were organized by groups with an agenda and it was aimed at undermining public support and trust in our police corps.
Remember, too, liberals are also opposed to the Second Amendment which empowers Americans to “keep and bear arms.” There is no way to misinterpret or not understand the limit this puts on government from the federal to the local level. Even so, the calls for such limits are constant.
Reportedly, “according to the Geneva-based Small Arms Survey – the leading source of international public information about firearms – the U.S. has the best-armed civilian population in the world, with an estimated 270 million total guns. That’s an average of 89 firearms for every 100 residents.” Liberals translate this as an invitation to mass murder in the streets and homes of America, but the reality is that gun ownership prevents criminal mayhem and protects lives. In states that permit concealed carry, the crime rate is less than in those that do not.
Liberals, though, would have you fear your local police force and those agencies that are tasked with protecting the nation, the CIA and the NSA. And, yes, the FBI too.
If not resisted, liberals would cause us all to be killed by our nation’s very real foreign enemies and the domestic perpetrators and criminals who prey on our society. Next time you see a police man or woman, take a moment to tell them how much you appreciate their service.
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Early Faith in the Dales
In the 16th Century the Church of England had become the established church in England, but there were those who didn’t conform. This included the Catholics who in many areas were driven underground seeing some revival with initial changes in the monarchy. Other ‘Non-Conformists’ included the Quakers, Baptists and the Congregationalists.
The Quakers were established during the 17th Century. Through their leader, George Fox, they rejected the rule of the bishops and liturgies set by law. George Fox visited Wensleydale several times and he famously preached to around 1000 people at the place known as ‘Fox’s Pulpit’ (Grid reference SD 619937) on Firbank fell near Sebergh in 1652
They believed in divine guidance that they called the ‘inner light’. They objected to paying tithes and the church rate and consequently found themselves in conflict with the authorities. Meetings were held in private houses and did at times result in the householders being fined £20 and individual participants being fined 5 or 10 shillings each. They became a people set apart because of their puritanical strict disciplines.
Significant local families were the Robinsons of Countersett, and the Rouths of Appersett and Hawes. Well to do families which gave them some credibility include the Hillary’s of Burtersett and Fothergills of Carr End
The Conventicle Act 1664 and Five Mile Act 1665 were passed to restrict activities of groups like the Quakers. These acts of parliament were designed to prevent religious assemblies of more than 5 people meeting outside the auspices of the Church of England and to prevent a minister expelled from the church living within 5 miles of the place he used to preside over, unless he swore again to obey the 1662 prayer book. During the reign of William and Mary, the Act of toleration was passed in 1689 which gave the right to worship and build meeting houses.
In Bainbridge a cottage that had been bought earlier was now freely used from 1689 Onwards. The present meeting House was built in 1836 and is still being used today.
In Hawes and Appersett early meetings took place in the Routh’s home. (Oswald Routh left land for a burial ground in Hawes at Town Foot, opposite the playground) By early 1700 a cottage was purchased for a meeting house in Hawes and continued to be used until 1920. In 1955 the property was demolished for road widening. The graveyard remains, but is unused though it is open as a ‘quiet space’ for people to use. Thomas Fawcett, a quaker in Hawes, is reputed to have built a cottage in 1668 – now Cocketts restaurant with an inscription above door which reads ‘God being with us – who can be against us’ – words taken from Romans chapter 8.
In Appersett a property on left as you enter from Hawes was possibly a meeting house with its burial ground on the corner opposite. (It was a custom for every meeting house to have a graveyard). This may have been used by Sandemanians as some of the Willans family in Appersett were Sandemanian and they were buried in Gayle. The cottage was later used by the Methodists
The Quakers grew in numbers during 18th Century but decline into the 19th as a result of growth of other non-conformists and significant emigration to America. Some found the strict discipline and some of the marriage rules hard – you could only marry within the sect.
During the 18th century several revivalist movements developed and among them were significant evangelists including John Wesley, Benjamin Ingham and George Whitfield. Benjamin Ingham traveled widely in the Dales and Westmorland and he establish several societies and chapels. The Batty Brothers and James Allen built an Inghamite chapel in Gayle during the 1750’s with a Sunday School later being established in Dyers Garth, in Hawes. Not long after the establishment of this chapel they became followers of Robert Sandeman and the building became a Sandemanian Chapel.
The sect of Sandemanians originated in Scotland. John Glas was a Presbyterian Minister and he was unhappy with the national church whose organization, he claimed, found no support in the new testament. He established his own church and they were called ‘the Glasites’. His son in law Robert Sandeman became a leader in the church and brought the church to London England and America. The Sandemanians where very strict in the observances and quite exclusive. Their first developments outside London occurred in Yorkshire, when James Allen and Willian Batty were encouraged by Benjamin Ingham to go to Glasgow to observe the Glasites in 1761. They were so impressed with what they saw, returned and established a Sandemanian meeting houses in the Gayle chapel as well as Kirby Stephen, Newby and Kirkby Lonsdale. By 1768 James Allen had helped establish church congregations in York, Norfolk and Colne.
In Gayle, two services were held each Sunday with the Lord’s Supper being administrated to the faithful in the morning and a Gospel service in the afternoon. In between they had a common meal at the Old Hall, the home of the Allen family. Services ceased towards the end of the 19th Century and in 1929 the chapel became the village institute. The graveyard is next to it.
For a fuller account of Benjamin Ingham’s life and witness in the Dales and his links with John Wesley and James Allen, as well as the Moravian Church, visit the Website of Salem Congregational Church, Martin Top. https://www.martintop.org.uk/content/benjamin-ingham
See also: ‘Fine Gold from Yorkshire’ Chapter 9 Benjamin Ingham (Author Faith Cook EP Books)
Reference to the Sandemanian Chapel, Gayle http://www.outofoblivion.org.uk/record.asp?id=428
Photograph of Gayle Sandemanian Chapel and Graveyard – David Pickersgill
Congregationalists are another group of Protestant Separatists who advocated separation from the Church of England rather than further reform. Their church structure emphasised the right and responsibility of each congregation to manage its own affairs. In many ways, structurally and theologically they are similar to the Baptist church. Their roots lie in the 16th Century, but they became more prominent during the 17th century. Separatists experienced mixed fortunes in the early years, suffering persecution during the reign of Elizabeth I, receiving greater support with Oliver Cromwell, increasingly difficult times following the Act of Uniformity of 1662, support at the time of the Toleration act of 1689 during the reign of William and Mary, problems during the reign of Queen Anne when the schism Act threatened the survival of the Congregational schools, and a final period of stability when George I came to the throne (1714). At the start of the 18th Century the rise of Methodism and later the Evangelical Revival (1750 – 1815) had a significant impact on Congregationalism. George Whitefield had close relations with the Congregationalists.
Chapels in the Dales
Early Congregational chapels were built in Ravenstonedale (1662) and Low Row (1691) at a time when persecution was rife. 18th Century chapels were built at Reeth (1783), Keld (1789) and Leyburn (1793) and in the 19th century chapels were built in Dent, Sedbergh, Thwaite, Hawes (1851), Burtersett (1876), Bainbridge (1865) and West Burton. There was a shared chapel built in Widdale (1863).
Hawes Congregationalists began in 1843 with Rev W Palmer becoming the first Minister and he was succeeded by Rev J W Rolls in 1846. They took over Dyers Garth Sunday School from the Sandemanians and during these early years numbers grew rapidly from 11 to 76 so that by 1849 they decided to buy land to build their chapel. The chapel was completed in 1851 (the same year as the new parish church). It was known as Bethel meaning ‘House of God’ and became the centre of Evangelistic activity with services being held in many surrounding villages. The centenary celebrations were held in 1943. The Bethel Church in Hawes became part of the United reform Church when the Congregation Churches in Britain merged with the Presbyterian church in 1972. The chapel is now closed and has been used as a Gallery for some time.
The Baptists developed out of 17th Century puritanism and trace their roots to the Anabaptist movement (Mennonite) in Amsterdam. Their theology was Calvanistic and the church structure was akin to the Congregationalists. Particular Baptists (as opposed to General Baptists) were non separatist in that they didn’t totally deny the position of the established Church of England, though felt the need to be independents.
There is no evidence of a Baptist Church in the Dale beyond Snape near the entrance to Wensleydale. In developing their churches, the Baptists bypassed the dales and developed their congregations in the Northallerton gap and northwards into county Durham.
However in 1840’s Robert Capstick of Burtersett was described as a Baptist minister. He ran the shop and probably held services in his home. They were known as Particular Baptists and conducted baptisms by total immersion in the river Ure.
John Wesley was born in 1703 – the 15th child of Samuel Wesley an Anglican Minister at Epworth in Lincolnshire. John himself became an Anglican priest in 1728. Ten years later, he and his brother Charles had what they described as a ‘spiritual awakening’ at a Moravian meeting in Aldersgate, London on 24th May 1738. He described this evangelical conversion as ‘his heart being strangely warmed’ and he gained an assurance of his salvation. With the encouragement of George Whitfield, he began his ministry as a travelling evangelist, mainly preaching outdoors. He never intended to establish a separate church. Early followers were expected to go to parish church for communion, but later, societies were formed with afternoon and evening meetings arranged. Eventually, Wesley ordained his own ministers and began to build chapels. By 1791 when Wesley died – separation was complete and the Methodist church had been established.
John Wesley visited Wensleydale in 1743, 1744 and 1774 and preached at Wensley, Redmire and Castle Bolton. In 1765 a minister was appointed in Middleham and by the end of the century a circuit was established in the Middleham area extending west as far as Bainbridge.
Methodism came to the upper dale from Kendal and Sedbergh (Wesley had visited Kendal several times) and an early society was formed in Garsdale. Between 1825 – 35 Garsdale miners came to Gayle to work at Storth pits and the Methodists among them began meetings. The chapel in Gayle was built in 1833 and was part of the Kendal circuit. When a Sunday School was built in 1855 it is recorded that there were 16 teachers and 50 scholars with 54 church members. In 1879 the chapel was extended with a new front and gallery. Gayle chapel was noted for evangelistic missions, their band of hope, class meetings and open air meetings.
Hawes chapel was built on land given by William Whaley in 1856. It had a similar plan to the ‘Bethel’ Congregational church. Problems with damp in the lower ground area resulted in it being demolished and rebuilt in 1913. The first organ installed was a memorial to the first world war.
In 1871 Hawes became an independent circuit and included Bainbridge, Askrigg and Marsett. It later amalgamated with Middleham and Leyburn in 1901 becoming the Wensleydale Circuit with 3 ministers. Cottage meetings were taking place at Birkrigg, Lunds, Worton and Appersett (in the Quaker meeting house). Burtersett chapel had been built in 1874 and was enlarged in 1904 as the local quarries expanded. The Methodists were worshiping in Widdale for some time during the last century using the congregational chapel. Having stood empty for a long time, this is now being converted into housing.
In 1810 revival meetings at Mow Cop in Staffordshire resulted in the establishment of the Primitive Methodists who in part were attempting to get back to the simplicity of the early Methodists and maintain the evangelistic traditions and focus.
Hugh Bourne and William Clowes were prominent leaders in this movement. The ‘prims’ attracted working class adherents with their simple, plain design of their chapels and their direct, spontaneous and passionate worship. They were often called ‘Ranters’ due to their more charismatic style. They were keen temperance advocates and involved in social reform programmes.
Primitive Methodists created their own circuits and built chapels. In 1822 a Middleham circuit was established with 12 Sunday Schools and 20 meetings in cottages. The first chapel was built in Cotterdale by 1836. By 1870 a Primitive Methodist Society existed in Hawes and chapels were built in Askrigg (1869), Sedbusk (1875), Bowbridge and the ‘Prims’ were using the Quaker meeting house at Countersett. The Methodist Union of 1932 saw the two circuits joined, though in some parts of the country, including East Yorkshire, a small number of Primitive Methodists ‘continued’ in their own right.
Acknowledgements to James Alderson ‘Under Wetherfell’
Some Key Dates
12th C Aysgarth and Askrigg churches built
1145 Jervaulx abbey established first at Fors, Bowbridge near Askrigg. 10 years later moved to present site near East Witton
1483 First priest appointed in Hawes (Roman Catholic)
1517 Luther posts 95 Thesis on church door in Wittenberg – ‘start’ of the protestant reformation
1534 Henry VIII ‘established’ Church of England and started the dissolution of the monasteries
1620 Probable existence of original ‘chapel’ in Hawes (on site of present Parish Church)
1652 George Fox (Quakers) preached near Sedbergh
1662 ‘final revision’ of Church of England Prayer Book
Congregational church built in Ravenstonedale
1689 Toleration Act passed in parliament giving freedom of worship (to independants)
Quakers meeting ‘freely’ in Bainbridge
18th C Early Congregational churches built in the dales
1738 Methodist movement begins – John Wesley at Aldersgate
1750’s Inghamite Chapel built in Gayle (became Sandemanian Chapel shortly afterwards)
1765 Methodist minister appointed in Middleham
1833 Gayle Methodist Chapel Built
1836 Primitive Methodist Chapel built in Cotterdale
1851 Hawes Congregational chapel built (Bethel)
Hawes New Parish Church built (St Margaret’s)
1856 Hawes Methodist Chapel Built (rebuilt 1913)
1874 Primitive Methodist Chapel built in Sedbusk
1932 Methodist Union – Wesleyan and Primitive Methodists United
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A Kentucky lawmaker who proposed a statewide law to end "no-knock" search warrants was arrested during rioting in Louisville on Thursday night, WLKY reports.
State Representative Attica Scott was booked Thursday evening on one count of unlawful assembly, one count of failure to disperse and one count of riot in the first degree. According to an arrest report, Scott was part of a large group that was told to disperse but failed to do so. The arrest report alleges that she "caused damage at multiple locations, including setting fire to the Louisville Public Library."
Scott was released Friday morning. She told WLKY that she's ready to fight the "frivolous" and "trumped up" charges.
"They (LMPD) claimed we were trying to burn down library which doesn't make sense because I've been fighting for more funding for the libraries and the library is in my district. So, why would I try to burn it down? Makes no sense," she told WLKY News outside the jail Friday morning.
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A biography is a tale discussed a person’s life. Examples include a book concerning Head of state Obama. Bios can instruct us many aspects of human habits and their lives. Writing about somebody’s life is an outstanding method to exercise our analysis and writing skills. It can additionally assist us learn more about the people we appreciate a lot of. They’ll be inspired to do something remarkable. So, attempt reading as well as composing a biography today. You’ll be impressed at how much more intriguing it is than ever before!BIOS
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Public-Private Partnership Aids Irrigation Project in Armenia
During a recent visit to Armenia, Susan Kutor, Europe and Eurasia Country Affairs Director of USAID and other USAID officials, visited Hayanist village in the Ararat region of Armenia to observe the irrigation system rehabilitation project implemented by the USAID-funded ASPIRED project in partnership with Coca-Cola Hellenic Armenia, the UNDP-GEF Small Grants Program, and the local community. The project is aimed at achieving a more rational exploitation of the groundwater resources by utilizing innovative approaches to water use and encouraging public-private partnerships.
The outlet water from the private fishery is used to irrigate nearly 40 hectares of community land owned by the residents of Hayanist. Savings of strategic groundwater resources are estimated to be more than a million cubic meters per year.
During the visit, ME&A’s ASPIRED team demonstrated the newly built pumping station at the fishery, which will pump water to the community during the irrigation season and explained the benefits and innovative nature of the project for Armenia.
ME&A currently implements the Advanced Science & Partnerships for Integrated Resource Development (ASPIRED) Project for the USAID Mission in Armenia.
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You probably know the metronome, this small instrument invented in 1812 by a German watchmaker by the sweet name of Dietrich Nikolaus Winkel, which allows you to obtain a tempo when you play music? The metronome provides you with the ideal speed to play a song and allows you to stick to the right timing during your performance. Useful and easy to use, the metronome is however not always used by all musicians who often wish to make room for improvisation and remain in control of their time.
Why should you use a metronome?
Whether mechanical or electronic, the metronome is essential for mastering the rhythm of a piece of music and getting your ear used to the right tempo. When you’re new to music, it’s not uncommon to get the beat wrong or not know when the next beat will fall. Result: you lose the rhythm of the song and just have to start over or try to approximately hold on as best as you can. Under these conditions, a metronome is very useful for locating you and guaranteeing you a flawless rhythmic placement throughout your piece. The ultimate goal when using a metronome is to be able to play in rhythm and as smoothly as possible.
What are the benefits of using a metronome?
- Keeping up at the right tempo : with regular beeps, the metronome tells you each beat at a speed you set beforehand. It helps you know when and when to place your notes. If you’ve never used a metronome before, this sound may distract you at first, but persevere! Once used to it, you won’t be able to do without it…
- Correcting your rhythmic errors: the metronome forces you to respect a regular rhythm throughout your piece. Thanks to it, you know if you are in the right tempo or, conversely, too fast or too slow.
- Developing your confidence to play at the right tempo: working with a metronome for a while will give you freedom of rhythm in the future!
- Becoming a better musician who is not afraid of discipline and work!
How should you work with this tool?
For example, a piece at 84 in the quarter note:
1) start by playing this piece at 60 in the quarter note, then increase of 2 in 2 (62, 64, 66,..). Take advantage of this slowness to seek relaxation in your movements (wrists, forearms, shoulder, etc.)
2) Don’t stop at 84, go up to 94 (for example). When you play again at 84, it will feel much easier.
3) If you stop at a lower tempo than the studied piece, take a break and note this tempo in order to exceed it the next day. (Warning: do not pick up where you got stuck, go back down to avoid tendinitis because your muscles and tendons will not have had time to heat up).
How much does it cost?
At FHK Music we recommend the use of a mechanical metronome because electronic metronomes never have a battery when needed (and they wear out very quickly)! In addition, visualizing the beeps through the movement of the pendulum helps beginner musicians to acquire a sense of rhythm more easily.
Music stores in Hong Kong offer metronomes which seemed to us to be way too expensive (420 HKD in average)… For this reason we bought a stock of metronomes, directly sourced in China, in 4 colors (black , white, pink and blue) that we resell to anyone who wishes at their purchase price, delivery included: 90 HKD. We highly recommend every musician to have a metronome at home! Send a whatsapp to Domitille if you are interested. Please note that stock is limited!
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How is Standard English determined?
Is Standard English determined by speeches made by reporters, writers, politicians, preachers, and teachers? Is it based on the usage of magazine writers, or of the Congressional Record, or of local newspapers?
Considering the various forms of English that is spoken in North America alone, just whose standard is the standard? Just what authority makes it standard, and where does that authority come from?
Some scholars define Standard English as the “prestige dialect” of our language. A Mark Twain or a Will Rogers can achieve humorous effects by the deliberate use of nonstandard idioms; however, radio and television news is usually delivered in a formal, generalized Standard English with little or no distinctive regional content.
Business letters, legal arguments, scientific descriptions, magazine articles, and ceremonial speeches are also normally written in Standard English. Mastery of this "prestige dialect" is a key to success in most of the recognized global activities.
An unofficial acceptance exists that recognizes some idioms as standard and others as definitely nonstandard, but it leaves others as uncertain or debatable. Is it standard to split an infinitive, to write different than or the reason is because? Is flaunt misused for flout, or infer for imply? Are the words hopefully and finalize acceptable? Does disinterested mean “not interested” or “not motivated by self-interest”?
These questions remain because Standard English is not defined or fixed by any official authority. It emerges from a common acceptance that leaves plenty of room for disagreement and a variety of choices for changes. It does not exist in a vacuum; however, it is part of the huge pattern of usages that make up the English language on a global scale.
The true basis of determining usage is to look at what the language itself is doing; that is, at how people are in fact using it. Some applications are "better" than others, better because they are clearer, more effective, more pleasing, more sensitive; or sometimes, better merely because a consensus of influential people prefers them.
Some issues are "head-on collisions", with admired writers and speakers irreconcilably opposed on both sides. Other language elements turn out to be so complicated that few people, if any, dare take a strong position on how they should be utilized.
Beware of heard, a dreadful word
That looks like beard and sounds like bird.
And dread: it’s said like bed, not
For goodness’ sake don’t call it “deed”!
Watch out for meat and great and threat.
(They rhyme with suite and straight and
A moth is not a moth in mother,
Nor both in bother, broth in brother,
And here is not a match for there,
Nor dear and fear for bear and pear,
And then there’s dose and rose and
Just look them up—and goose and choose,
And cork and work and card and ward,
And font and front and word and
And do and go and thwart and
Come, come, I’ve hardly made a start!
A dreadful language? Man alive!
I’d mastered it when I was five.
And yet to write it, the more I tried,
I hadn’t learned at fifty five.
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Every day we see people all around us. We see people in our neighborhoods, at the store, in the workplace, at restaurants, and a plethora of other places. If you were asked to describe someone that you saw yesterday, how would you respond? “He was about 6 feet tall and skinny. Maybe 160 pounds. He had dark hair and a beard. I would guess he was 35 years old. He was wearing jeans, brown shoes, and a grey jacket.” “The elderly woman was about 80 years old and she had “white” hair. She wore glasses and her fingernails were painted red.” “The blonde-headed little boy had lots of energy. He was trying to grab several things and put them in the grocery cart. He was wearing a football jersey with sweatpants.” All of these descriptions provide physical characteristics of the people we saw.
But what if we started looking at people the way Paul saw them? In 1 Thessalonians 2:7-12, he gives us a different description of people. He says, “But we were gentle among you, like a nursing mother taking care of her own children…For you know how, like a father with his children, we exhorted each one of you and encouraged you and charged you to walk in a manner worthy of God…” Paul was not necessarily concerned with physical appearances, but he saw people as needing discipleship – they needed to be loved and led.
The people around you need to be loved and led as well! Picture a mom holding her infant child. The baby is clothed in an adorable outfit and wrapped carefully in a blanket. The mom holds the baby close to her as she rocks him to sleep. This mom cares deeply for this child. She wants to protect him and nurture him. She also just wants to be close to him. Although she could lay him in the crib for a nap, there is something precious about just holding him.
With those around us we may not be able to hold them and rock them to sleep, but they should know we want to be close to them and care for them. Paul genuinely cared for and loved the Thessalonians. “So, being affectionately desirous of you, we were ready to share with you not only the gospel of God but also our own selves, because you had become very dear to us.” (1 Thessalonians 2:8) Sharing the gospel was not a task to be completed, but Paul wanted the people to know and understand his love for them because God first loved them. Paul didn’t just “love in word or talk but in deed and in truth.” (1 John 3:18) He shared his life with the Thessalonians. Are we truly sharing our lives with those around us? Do we love people because they are created in God’s image? Do we want them to know the love that God has for them? Timothy was genuinely concerned for those at Philippi (Philippians 2:20). Do we genuinely love those that God has placed around us?
Love is a big component of discipleship, but it is not the only component. As we love others, we should also lead them to “walk in a manner worthy of God.” This takes effort. I remember when my dad tried to teach me to drive a car with a manual transmission. It didn’t come “automatically” to me (I couldn’t resist an attempt at a little humor). He had to explain about the clutch and shifting gears. He had to encourage me to not quit when the car kept stalling out. It was a process, but I finally got the hang of it.
We need to exhort, encourage and charge people to walk with God, too. They need to be led in what this looks like. Discipleship is taking what you have learned and teaching it to someone else so they can in turn teach another person. Those around you may not know as much about God as you do, or they may not understand how to apply biblical principles to their lives. That is where you explain, encourage, and challenge them. Just as a father leads a child in learning something new, we should provide the example for others in following Jesus.
Each believer is called to “make disciples” (Matthew 28:19). There are opportunities all around us. So as you go through your week see the opportunities before you. See the numerous people that need to be loved and led. And then disciple them by loving and leading them to walk in a manner worthy of God.”
Transforming Discipleship by Greg Ogden
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Braeburn apple takes its name from Braeburn Hill in New Zealand, where it was born in 1950. In France, this apple is the fourth most consumed apple after the Golden, Gala and Granny Smith varieties. It is a subtle blend of flavors and scents that makes it yummy and refreshing. Its pulp is tender, juicy and fairly sweet.
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Vedic astrologers usually lump the third house into younger siblings, artistic expression, and communication, but it has deeper spiritual and psychological depths that are not discussed enough. John Frawley writes of the 3rd house:
“Of all the houses of the astrological chart, it is probably the third house that arouses the least interest. In most birth-chart readings it will be quietly skated over, as the astrologer can usually find nothing there that warrants closer examination.”
Yet the third house is very profound. It is mostly connected to Mars and it is where we find our courage to express our self-willed interests and move toward our individuality. It is a kama house, a house of desire, where we sometimes exert our raucous sexual energies and fight with our siblings to exert our Martian prowess and exert our ego. It helps us develop and establish our integrity and personal strength. The 3rd house enables us to exert our will to shape our world, to move forth, and to conquer while exerting our ingenuity. It supports us with the courage to go forth in the world, to communicate, be curious, and to dance in the complex world of human development. It is a place where we learn to live in the world.
The karaka for the third house is Mars, which is connected to courage, siblings, and adventure. It is through sibling rivalry and fighting with our brothers and sisters that we learn to exert our individuality, individuate our egos, and become who we are. The third house is a growth house because it tests our drive to fight for who we are and what we believe; to stand up for ourselves – to move forth in the world.
The third house is also connected to kama, desire, and fun hence it is connected to casinos, boudoirs, bars, workshops and includes the athletic playing field where we go to have a good time.
It is a place of raw energy where “boys will be boys.” It is a place where we love games, the joy of writing, celebrate learning, finding new interests, and expanding our Martian search for adventure and recreation. It is a place of adolescent fun and youthful folly wherein we may get into trouble while satisfying our momentary desires. In a sense, it is a very immature place, but it forces us to test who we are and to find our place in the world. When it is afflicted, it can bring out selfishness, lust, and aggression – the dark side of Mars.
The third house has an important Mercurial component where we love to debate and get into arguments. It also hosts our expression and individuality in writing. It is a place of creativity where we can explore the beauty of language and the wonder of making words and acquire new mastery of expression.
In the third house, self-expression and excellent mastery may manifest through singing, dancing, painting, playing of instruments, the domains of performance, and fine arts and so the 3rd house is also celebrated as a house of creativity and the artist.
The 3rd-house is a place of neighbors and the neighborhood. Sometimes we have to fight for our territory and our rights as I remember all too well when I lived in Sedona and the neighbors would report us if we left our garbage can on the curb an extra day or had too many friends over in the house and created parking problems. With a positive 3rd house, we learn and grow from our neighbors and they contribute much to our life by sharing their gifts with us providing friendship, and being there for us in times of need. Mastering the 3rd house of neighbors means turning our enemies into our friends.
Planets in the 3rd house:
- The Sun in the 3rd house loves sports and competition and derives great satisfaction by doing and achieving.
- The Moon in the 3rd house brings emotional restlessness if afflicted and an inability to focus on action as the fickle mind wanders.
- Mars can be too strong in the 3rd house and may create major problems with siblings and ruthlessness. 3rd house Mars may instill a love of sports and competition while leading to major clashes of ego.
- Mercury in the 3rd house brings greatness with communication, great intelligence, but the inability to focus, as one flits from problem to problem.
- Jupiter in the 3rd house loses its spiritual and religious imperative and gets lost at the party.
- Venus in the third house shows interest in art, dance, creativity, relationships, and beauty. With the 3rd house being a desire house and a place of sexual expression, Venus can also get lost here in too much recreation and sexual self-indulgence. Venus may create people who are too nice and unable to stand up and fight for themselves or hold their ground.
- Saturn in the 3rd house may create people who are too practical and conservative and not able to venture forth with Martian adventure – fearing conflict and embarrassment.
- Rahu does well in the third house where it enhances creativity and gusto for life through play and experimentation.
- Ketu in the 3rd house brings an urge to present ideas to others in ways that fascinate and creates great influence around them. Politicians often have this placement like Bill Clinton.
The cure for problems with the 3rd house is that we have to nourish it regularly, clean and refresh it, block the chatter and gossip of neighbors, exert our power, and rediscover our sense of adventure.
The third house teaches us to fight, stand up for what is right and move with the courage to learn, to grow, and to experience personal joy. There is a great celebration of adolescent youth here when Mars expresses itself into the world, which leads to a trajectory of adventure and pleasure.
It reminds me of one of my favorite novels by Saul Bellow, Henderson the Rain King. In the novel, a Connecticut millionaire realized the fruitlessness of his life and collecting material things and goes off on a quest to discover himself. He helps a tribe in Africa and becomes “lionized” and when he returns he feels like a changed man. As he lands in Newfoundland at the airport, he proclaims – “I felt like running, running, leaping through cool arctic airs of silence.” This is the kind of joy that 3rd house adventure can bring – a sense of bravo, gusto, and joy in living if we complete our quests.
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A work that projects text passages from a novel onto the Geo-Cosmos to fully capture narrative scenes in the same way that 360° imagery, such as VR, achieves full capture of surrounding views. Book pages here take on the form of “layers,” like those of an onion, with the peeling off of one layer revealing the story’s continuation. Those who are reading are offered views from a choice of different locations. These include the 1st floor directly beneath the globe, the 3rd and 5th floors facing the atrium with lateral views, and the Oval Bridge encircling the sides of the Geo-Cosmos. Each page contains a number of different events, all occurring simultaneously. Readers can each continue through the story from the position of their choice. Unable to get a complete view of the text displayed on the massive sphere, though, they are denied access to the novel’s full contents. Gazing at the sphere from their respective standpoints, multiple readers can together share in the experience of the same story at the same time, even while imagining differing scenes.
A sphere literary expression research team comprised of YOSHIDA Yuki, HAGIWARA Shuya, and OYAIZU Saori.
All entries received were of high quality, making for an exceedingly difficult jury process. The concept statement for the category this year included discussion on freedom from the “limitations of twodimensional planes” to “grasp the new visual expression of spheres (three-dimensional space).” In keeping with this, we made our consideration with an emphasis on the significance of employing spherical representation, and the degree of effort put toward a new mode of expression. Accordingly, we selected Sphere Novel. Overcoming the challenge of presenting the contents of a novel in spherical form opens the possibilities of expression beyond the longstanding media form of text. This piqued our jury’s interest and anticipation. Furthermore, the descriptions of the reading process, “not to be flipped through like the pages of a rectangular book, but to be peeled like the skin of an onion,” and of readers sharing “an experience of the same story at the same time, even while imagining differing scenes,” are quite revolutionary. They suggest a worldview oriented toward making beneficial use of the unique characteristics of the sphere. This unified concept and message made us want to see even more of the work. Its projection generates a great deal of anticipation of witnessing how the image of the world depicted in this spherically-represented novel may evolve. (MIZUTANI Hitomi)
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It's easy to forget that we are all perfect in our own design. Sometimes we muck it up with habits and choices that do not serve us.
When are you?
There’s a profound and miraculous mystery right under our noses: this instant of now has no duration at all, yet somehow it contains all the causes from the past that are creating the future. Everything arising to become this moment vanishes beneath our feet as the next moment wells up. Since it’s always now, now is eternal.
The nature of now is not New Age or esoteric. It is plain to see. It is apparent both in the material universe and in our own experiencing. Simply recognizing the nature of now can fill you with wonder, gratitude, and perhaps a sense of something sacred.
Further, by coming home to now, you immediately stop regretting or resenting the past and worrying about or driving toward the future. In your brain, this rumbling and grumbling – called rumination – is based in networks along the midline of the top of your head; while this helped our ancestors survive, today, most of us go way overboard, and rumination is a big risk factor for mental health problems.
Additionally, through an intimacy with the present, moment after moment, you develop a growing sense – visceral, in your belly and bones – of:
For most people, the subjective present is an interval one or two seconds long. It contains the last second or so of the immediate past as well as the emerging present often infused with expectations about the immediate future. It’s OK, therefore, if your sense of the present usually has a kind of temporal “thickness” to it. You will probably also have flashes of intuitive recognition of the infinitely thin duration of now that boggle and sometimes stop the mind.
The present moment is continually passing away, so if you try to hold onto it in any way – such as by remembering it or forming ideas about it – you are no longer in the present. Therefore, relax. Open to this moment. Not planning, not worrying, not lost in thought.
Instead of seeing yourself moving through time, explore the sense of being an ongoing presence, an awareness, through which time moves. Let the world come to you. Recognize that sights and sounds and all other mental phenomena appear without effort. You don’t have to do anything to be here now; you’re already here now. Let go some more.
Be aware of a single inhalation. Don’t try to sense or understand it as a whole. Allow yourself to be with this moment of sensation without remembering what was or wondering what will be. The same with a single exhalation, and then with breathing altogether.
Letting go, letting go.
Be particularly aware of endings, of sounds changing and thus disappearing in the instant of hearing, of each moment of consciousness-altering and thus ending to be replaced by another one. (If you get frightened or disoriented by a growing sense of the vanishingness of each appearance of reality, focus on something concretely pleasurable and reassuring, like the sensation of flannel against your cheek or the touch of someone who loves you.)
Then be particularly aware of emergings, of the arising of matter and energy in the world and the arising of appearances – perceptions, thoughts, longings, etc. – in the inner one. Let go into feeling buoyed by the uprising swelling of this moment congealing into existence, endlessly renewed by the next emerging. Open to trusting in this process, like a wave continually carrying you even as it continually breaks into foam.
Above all, open to the enjoyments available in this moment, even if it is a hard one. No matter how bad it is, it is nurturing remarkable that it is at all. I don’t mean this in any kind of sentimental, rose-colored-glasses kind of way. Sometimes what the moment holds is awful. But the nature of the moment – its transience, its interconnectedness with moments before and to come, it’s simultaneous emptying out and filling up – and the awareness of it and its contents is never awful itself and is in fact always unsullied and beautiful.
And much of the time, the moment will be filled with rewards overlooked in preoccupations with past or future, such as a dense incoming stream of sights and sounds, tastes and touches – even a sense of beautiful qualities of heart like warmth, compassion, sweetness, friendliness, and love.
So nourished, so full with the riches of now, who would want to be anywhere else?
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I recently said, on Twitter:
If you wish to understand how society always organizes itself:
Equals can get along if they have nothing to do with each other or both are generous to each other.
Superior/sub-ordinate can get along if both will be merely just to each other.
There was some interest in this so I’ll explain what I mean and why it is the case.
There are and have been many forms of social organization—democracy, republics monarchies, dictatorships, bureaucracies, clubs, churches, friends, families, neighbors, villages, cities, etc.—but they all share some basic traits because they are organizations of human beings and human nature imposes restrictions upon how human beings can be organized.
In a fallen world, one of the biggest problems which needs to be handled in human relationships is how to handle when two people’s wills diverge. There are only three possible outcomes: both get their way, one gets their way and the other doesn’t, and neither gets their way. I’m going to count compromise as a sub-set of both getting their way so we can disregard the last outcome—neither gets their way—because a situation in which no one ever gets what he wants will not last long.
There are a very limited number of ways in which society can be organized such two people with divergent desires can both have their way. The simplest is for the people to have nothing to do with each other. Neighbors can both do whatever they want in their own homes since it doesn’t get in the way of the other. This is the “good fences make good neighbors” organization of society.
If separation is not possible then the only alternative is for some form of compromise to occur. This requires one or both to give up something for the sake of the other. That is, this requires generosity.
(There is also the case of bargaining but bargaining is only possible where the wills of the two mostly align. The merchant is willing to sell the item for its value plus a profit, the buyer is willing to buy the item for its value plus a profit; the only divergence is on the the size of the profit and possibly their evaluations of the value. This is very different from the buyer being willing to buy the item but his wife wanting him to buy something quite different instead.)
Where there is not separation or generosity, the only possibility left is for one to force their will on the other. This may be done through warfare or through a proxy for warfare such as lawsuits. That is, it will be done by appealing to someone who is superior within the social hierarchy (the court) or to the superior force of arms. If we leave off warfare as being not a social order but the breakdown of social order, this leaves us only with hierarchy.
The court system, however, is very inefficient. Suing or being sued consumes a lot of time and money. If people can’t leave each other alone and people can’t be generous to each other, then sooner or later they will embed hierarchies into social organization for the sake of efficiency.
Social equalities which do not consist of people leaving each other alone, as neighbors mostly do, are themselves quite a lot of work. It is not easy for fallen humanity to be generous to each other indefinitely. This is why modern marriages so often break up. It’s also why high school is so often remembered as hellish.
Hierarchies may not be perfect but they’re vastly less work because they contain within them the mechanism for resolving the conflicts of will which so often come up between fallen creatures. A feature of living within a hierarchy that’s often missed by those who deride hierarchies is that people naturally adapt to reasonable hierarchies. That a reasonable boss imposes limits may be inconvenient but not particularly more so than that the walls impose limits. One may not do what the boss does not permit; one may not walk through the walls. So long as the boss is as predictable as the wall, the human psyche eventually thinks of the limitations of both in roughly the same way—merely part of reality. Even the boss operates in a manner heavily constrained by limits, if merely different limits than the subordinate.
(Where people really come to hate their bosses is when their bosses are unreasonable. An unreasonable boss is unpredictable; one can’t conform to him and get along because he has no definite shape. What he approves of one minute he disapproves of the next, and one must take constant notice of him. They would have the same frustration at walls that reshuffled themselves three times a day.)
But this is also true of social clubs. Clubs which must carry on some definite business will form hierarchies with elected offices because the alternative is so much more work. Even large groups of friends will form hierarchies because group decisions are so painful to accomplish. Where four or five regularly gather together just to enjoy each other’s company you will still see one or two becoming the leaders of the group and carrying out most of the decision making process while two or three simply go along and one or two are more active but willing to defer.
Monasteries which are founded on the principle that all of the monks are brothers will elect a Father Prior or Father Abbot to lead them and make decisions which the rest obey. Nunneries will elect a Mother Abbess or Mother Prioress. If all the farm animals are equal, some animals will become more equal than others. The alternative is just too much work.
You can even see this in YouTube communities which form; it’s not hard to pick out the leaders who set the tone for their respective communities. They change over time, of course, because nothing in a fallen world is stable. But communities of equal are vastly less stable than are hierarchies.
Human beings are made for more than mere justice, so we have a natural distaste for hierarchies. We chafe under them. And yet, we tend to be happier within a hierarchy because all that’s required of us is mere justice. Our superiors have certain rights over us, so if we discharge our duties to them we need do no more and all is well. We have certain obligations to our inferiors but if we discharge them we need do no more and all is well. Our inferiors owe us certain obligations, but as long as they discharge those obligations to us we are satisfied and all is well. It may not be perfect, but it’s easy.
Unlike electricity human beings do not always take the path of least resistance. We just mostly take the path of least resistance. This is why you will find hierarchies developing everywhere and why social organizations which purport to finally achieve equality are guaranteed to fail.
Now, it should be noted that it’s not necessarily a problem that something is guaranteed to fail. Everything in a fallen world is. The real question that needs to be asked is whether it’s going to fail gracefully or spectacularly. When the social order fails, will it result only in somewhat elevated levels of injustice or will it end in mass executions?
Because nothing in a fallen world ends well.
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|The Self and the Other: Sustainability and Self-Empowerment (WB, 1996, 76 p.)|
|Development and the self|
Betty Reardon, Columbia University
On September 10,1813, during the Battle of Lake Erie, U.S. Naval Officer Oliver Hazard Perry reported, "We have met the enemy, and they are ours." The adaptation of this quote by the cartoon character Pogo during the Vietnam War sums up the purpose and goals of peace education: "We have met the enemy, and he is us." The application of this interpretation of the quote to peace education is: "We have encountered the others, and we are they." In other words we seek to promote an understanding and appreciation of the universal elements of the human family.
Through peace education we are trying to demonstrate the positive, necessary relationship between the self- whether it refers to the individual, the ethnic group, or the nation-and the other. Peace education is an attempt to prepare people to function constructively in a rapidly changing, highly conflictual, inordinately violent world.
Peace is characterized by positive relations with others. In peace research we talk about negative peace and positive peace. Negative peace is essentially the overcoming of violence, and positive peace is the creation of mutually enhancing relationships with others. A central purpose of peace education is to enable people to imbue change with humane values, to conduct conflict con structively, and to devise alternatives to violence, thus renouncing it as a means of achieving personal and social goals.
As a peace educator I would argue that formal education needs to be drastically overhauled and that education for sustainable humane development is especially in need of such an overhaul. We must realize that the focus of education today is on the process of instructing, rather than on the process of learning. Instead of discovering a person's capacities and applying them to social purposes, we are still filling learners' minds with our own predetermined purposes, which in itself is a form of violence, as is the restrictive predetermination of gender roles.
Learning should be interactive. It is not a one-way process, just as development is not a one-way process. Learning is essentially a social process. It might be received, reflected, and experienced through the individual, but the individual learns only in association with others. The essence of learning is developing the capacities to interpret, relate to, and interact with all of our environments-the natural, social, and personal. It is paradigmatic of self-other processes. Learning is life-long and continuous and for this reason social processes, especially parenting or the provision of child care, have to be integrated to a greater extent into formal education. Formal education is increasingly having to provide the kind of care we expect from families.
The tragedy is that many children go without parenting, even though some are cared for. Thus their learning of ways to relate to others is limited. This factor has to be taken into consideration in incorporating the issues we are talking about today into our ideas about development and into education for develop meet. Failure to relate to the humanity of the other is one source of violence.
The core problem in peace education is confronting violence in various forms. To a large extent violence is an attempt to control, change, or do away with the other. If we cannot achieve this goal, we make the other resemble us. This is very much the way we educate our children. We make them resemble us rather than letting them become themselves. Our attempt to do this has resulted in a terrible distortion of the nature of conflict. Peace education is concerned not only with conflict resolution but also with managing the conflict process so that it can be a means to constructive change rather than a means to destruction. For my purposes as an educator I have found the conceptual apparatus concerning aggression put forward here today to be very useful.
In educating, we have to prepare people to deal with conflict and to be able to differ with the other without denying the value of the other. Violence has been possible because we have tended to separate and differentiate on the basis of different worth, starting with males being more valuable than females. This transposes to race and nation and other human identities.
How many of you remember the old days of the "backward" nations? In elementary school I was taught that there was an innate barrier to progress in certain countries. We have used this concept as an excuse to control the other because of our perception that the other has less worth. One goal of peace education is to help people understand that, although we are distinct and different, these differences can enrich us, and there is a common human value. Its purpose is to build mutually enhancing reciprocal relationships both on an intimate, personal level and on the level of the relationship between the human species and the environment.
The quality of parenting we receive is important because it is our introduction to learning about interdependence, relating to others in a constructive way, adjusting to schooling, and dealing with our associates in a social and political context. There are specific realms of learning that we need to focus on. One is what I would call perspective-sensitive communication, that is, being sensitive to the fact that such influences as our experience, gender, and religious backgrounds are going to give us certain perspectives and that there are many perspectives in any conversation or interaction. We have to integrate the capacity to discern and respect varying perspectives into formal education. It is a capacity that is essential for the development of positive relationships.
Our goal in education should be to promote the full development of the self to enhance the relationship between the self and the other. Thus we have to educate people to understand that appropriate limits should be applied to certain types of behavior. One way of accomplishing this is to incorporate the concept of human rights into peace education because establishing human rights involves setting certain limits on negative behavior of the state or other entities toward others.
Finally, we need to develop "ecological thinking" in learning objectives. In my first conversation with Afaf Mahfouz about this seminar we talked about the need for an integrative, holistic approach to the kinds of changes in thought that we must pursue. Developments in environmental education that have brought forth thinking about ecology and living systems are a very important part of peace education, and they have helped illuminate the nature of this approach. It is through this kind of thinking that we begin to understand the relationship between individuals and larger living systems, both natural and devised, and to realize that we are part of a whole, that "we" are "they."
To a large extent violence is an attempt to control, change, or do away with the other. If we cannot achieve this goal, we make the other resemble us. This is very much the way we educate our children - Betty Reardon
The quality of parenting we receive is our introduction to interdependence, relating to others, adjusting to schooling, and dealing with our associates in a social end political contex - Betty Reardon
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COVID-19 has already wreaked havoc with the nation’s economy, but a Los Angeles attorney says a flood of pandemic-related bankruptcies will eventually be headed our way to make things even worse.
Howard Ehrenberg, a managing partner with SulmeyerKupetz and a member of the Chapter 7 Bankruptcy Panel of Trustees, said stimulus money, moratoriums on evictions and enhanced unemployment benefits have managed to prevent many from resorting to bankruptcy.
More stimulus is coming
After months of legislative gridlock, President Trump signed a $900 billion pandemic relief package Sunday that will deliver much need cash to businesses and others who have been financially impacted by COVID-19.
In signing the bill, Trump called again for the $600 stimulus checks to be boosted to $2,000 per person. But that prospect appears dim, as Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has lobbied to include the higher payments in a new bill that would include other items on the president’s wish list.
The bill also provides $600 checks for dependent children, up from $500 that was provided in the CARES Act.
Regardless of the outcome, scores of mom-and-pop businesses will be facing a financial brick wall once the stimulus program and other financial perks wind down.
“People aren’t yet in a desperate spot where bankruptcy is something that has to happen,” Ehrenberg said. “But once those programs end we expect to see a large number of individual filings.”
Ehrenberg’s expertise in the field runs deep. With 33 years in bankruptcy law, he has represented bankruptcy trustees, receivers, businesses, creditors, government entities, purchasers and sellers of assets, and litigants throughout California.
“There is only so much the government can do,” he said. “They can give money to people who need it … but that money is borrowed and will have to be repaid.”
Money that isn’t repaid often has to be recouped through tax increases or cuts to government spending programs, Ehrenberg said, which creates yet another ripple effect.
“It’s hard to say how it will play out,” he said. “I’m afraid 2021 will be a very difficult year.”
Projections indicate that this year individual bankruptcies will be the lowest since 1985 — about 560,000. But that number could soar to over 1 million in 2021 once relief options expire, the Wall Street Journal reported.
John Gomez, Bank of America’s small business regional executive for greater Los Angeles, said BofA’s business bankers have been working closely with clients to help them weather the financial difficulties they’re facing as a result of COVID-19 restrictions.
“Small business owners are still showing resiliency and flexibility,” he said.
A recent BofA survey of small business owners in Southern California reveals that 59% feel economic conditions will return to normal in two years.
“More and more of our clients are accessing the capital they need to reinvent themselves,” Gomez said. “We have a business owner who sell tools to contractors. Before COVID-19 hit he was already transitioning to selling tool online from a digital perspective, and now he’s doing better than before.”
Earlier this month, Bank of America had funded nearly 32,000 PPP loans to small businesses in Southern California, Gomez said, most of which have 10 or fewer employees.
“The average loan amount is $69,000,” he said. “Our bankers are helping clients go through the process to see if they have to pay the entire loan bank, a portion, or whether the whole loan is forgiven.”
Things will change
Ehrenberg said there will be long lasting effects in the wake of COVID-19.
“There will be some permanent changes in the way people act,” he said. “After nine months of this many people have found that they can do most of their shopping electronically. And businesses are realizing they can use ZOOM, so people won’t have to go flying to get to meetings.”
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Photography has always been a powerful art tool; it allows us to capture moments that fly by us. One way that photography has been used, and continues to be used, is to record history. There are many historical photographs, in my opinion, that help us better understand the brutality that people have gone through. I found interesting photographs done by Seth Taras for the History Channel that combines historical event photos with modern day photos of daily life in certain areas. This is called “Know Where You Stand.”
I think these photographs show us that what may seen like one place to us, such a beach, may have been where someone died, a crazy dictator visited, and/or where many were involved in war. Photography was and is able to capture historical facts, and maybe the photos we have now will one day be used by generations ahead of us to try and understand the world we live in.
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A frequently cited side effect of using Medical Cannabis is a racing heart. The side effect is pretty normal and, in most cases, nothing to worry about. Cannabis consumers with no history of heart disease are unlikely to experience anything more than an uncomfortable sensation for five or ten minutes.
That being said, what causes the racing heart? Research seems to suggest it is the THC. But as with all things relating to cannabis, people react differently. The way THC affects the heart is influenced by everything from frequency of use to individual metabolism.
If you experience a racing heart when you take your medicine, and it bothers you, do not be afraid to talk to your Qualified Medical Provider (QMP) or Pharmacy Medical Provider (PMP) about it. Either one should be able to answer your questions and offer you sound advice.
The ways in which cannabis affects the body is directly related to how it interacts with the endocannabinoid system. As the cannabinoids found in cannabis – like THC and CBD – bind to cannabinoid receptors throughout the central nervous system, they encourage the body to do certain things. In relation to a racing heart, it is believed that THC causes the blood vessels to dilate, increasing both blood flow and heart rate.
A number of studies over the years indicate that cannabis consumption can lead to something known as tachycardia. In plain language, tachycardia is an irregular heart rate that is too fast.
It is believed that smoking cannabis can increase heart rate by as little as 20% or as much is 100%. Science isn't quite sure if dry heating or vaping produces the same kind of effect. However, data does suggest that consuming higher doses of THC can have the opposite effect: a drop in blood pressure that leaves a user feeling lightheaded or dizzy.
The good news in all of this is that cannabis-related tachycardia is not a serious concern. It is uncomfortable, but it's not dangerous to most people. Medical Cannabis users don't need to be concerned about it unless there is a history of cardiovascular disease.
If you are a patient and concerned about it, you have options. You might want to talk to a PMP about different products with varying THC levels. You also have the option of looking for medicines that combine lower doses of THC with moderate levels of CBD. Why? Because there is emerging evidence suggesting that CBD can counteract some of the uncomfortable side effects caused by THC.
If science eventually proves this to be the case, it could be because CBD interferes with how THC binds to cannabinoid receptors. It is just a hunch at this point, but it is being investigated. At any rate, choosing a product with both THC and CBD could alleviate the unpleasant sensation of a racing heart.
The point of bringing all this up is to let you know that the sensation of a racing heart is normal when you consume Medical Cannabis. We want you to be aware ahead of time so that you aren't caught off guard. Please do not let a racing heart scare you away from the plant. It is a normal reaction to THC.
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How to Create a 3D model from a 2D DXF
Download powerful DXF/DWG editor and 2D/3D CAD software:
CAD Schroer, long in the business of simplifying the route from 2D to 3D, provides the free MEDUSA4 Personal 2D/3D CAD software for non-commercial use. One of the benefits of this fully-fledged design engineering tool is its excellent DXF/DWG interface, which enables users to easily edit existing drawings. It’s also ideal for those who want to dip their toes into the world of 3D modelling.
From 2D DXF/DWG to 3D
MEDUSA4 Personal’s “sheet-based modelling” approach lets designers easily turn a drawing into a 3D model. “People who are used to working in a 2D environment really like this approach,” says CAD Schroer Technical Support Consultant Alan Liddle. “You need to have a concept of height and depth, but you don’t need any expert modelling skills or the same spatial awareness as with complex 3D modelling tools - and there isn’t a steep learning curve. Our DWG/DXF interface is very accurate, so that you start off with an intelligent bit of geometry which you can then edit and model.”
Watch a DXF to 3D model demo video:
In a demo video just released, users can see this approach in action: A DXF of a centrifuge pump with electric motor and gear box is opened in MEDUSA4 Personal, and edited on a 3D sheet, displaying plan, front and side views. “We utilise the profile of the components we wish to model in plan view, defining the X and Y coordinates,” Alan explains. “A link line to one of the other views is used to define the Z dimension. The part is then sent to the software’s modeller, which creates a solid model users can view and manipulate. We use solid sweeps to define the flanges, feet and legs of the assembly. For the pump body and motor we define a volume of revolution by rotating the profile around the centre line. Finally, Boolean operations are used to join together the defined 3D components into a single unit.”
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