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French director Alain Resnais has died at the age 91.
His film career spanned more than 60 years
Alain Resnais’ producer, Jean-Louis Livi, confirmed the director died in Paris on Saturday.
He was often associated with French New Wave cinema but he also embraced modernism and surrealism.
Alain Resnais’ last film, The Life of Riley – based on an Alan Ayckbourn play – premiered at the Berlin Film Festival in February 2014.
It was his third film based on Alan Ayckbourn’s work, and reflected the direction his interests took in using theatre as a basis for his films.
French President Francois Hollande said France had lost “one of its greatest filmmakers”.
Alain Resnais first drew attention with his documentary Night and Fog (1955), which focused on Nazi concentration camps.
His first feature film would also draw on the horrors of conflict, this time the Hiroshima atomic bomb for Hiroshima Mon Amour (1959).
In devising the film with novelist Marguerite Duras, he deduced that the sheer devastation caused by the attack could not be dramatized, so he used the theme of the impossibility of speaking about the event.
The film was nominated for a best-screenwriting Oscar and won a number of critics’ awards for best foreign film.
The film was brought under the umbrella of the emerging French New Wave, which also included directors Francois Truffaut and Jean-Luc Godard, although Alain Resnais said he did not consider himself completely a part of the movement.
Alain Resnais won a number of awards at major film festivals.
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Catcher In The Rye
The story begins with a seventeen year-old Holden Caulfield’s description of his encounters with the students and the faculty of Pencey Prep, Agerstown in Pennsylvania. Holden criticizes them of being phony or superficial. Because of his poor performance academically, Holden is expelled from the school. He then packs and leaves the school after a physical clash with the roommate in the middle of the night. Holden boards a train to New York; however, he doesn’t want to return to the family and therefore checks into a hotel. In the Hotel, he dances with three tourist girls in the evening and gets into an awkward encounter with Sunny, a young prostitute who seems to be of his age. As the prostitute enters the room, Holden’s attitude changes and he becomes very uncomfortable with his situation. The prostitute becomes annoyed and leaves when Holden tells her that they need to talk, however, he pays for her time. Later, the prostitute and her pimp, Maurice, return to Holden’s room and demand for more pay than what was initially agreed on. Sunny goes ahead and takes five dollars from the wallet of Holden, and not to be enough, Holden is punched in the stomach by Maurice.
Holden invites Sally Hayes, his old girlfriend, to see a musical. Sally agrees very excitedly and both of them meet for the play. They go skating after the play, and Holden hastily invites her to run away with him. However, Sally declines. Holden’s mood is then deflated by Sally’s response. She walks away as Holden pleads with her to accept the apology; however, he gives up and retreats. Holden stays in the city for three days, characterized by loneliness and drunkenness. He finds himself in a museum at one point and there, he compares his life to the statues of Eskimos that were on display, which had not been changing for as long as he could remember. He eventually sneaks into the apartment of his parents when the parents are away. His sister, Phoebe, is the only person he can communicate with. Phoebe views him as a hero as she is unaware that Holden views her in a virtually identical manner. Holden shares his fantasy: he looks at himself as a guardian of children playing in the rye field on a cliff’s edge, and his job as a guardian is to catch the children shall they wander near the brink. He misinterprets “catcher in the rye” to mean “saving children from losing their innocence.”
In the middle of the night, Holden leaves the parent’s apartment and visits Mr. Antolini, a former English teacher. He is advised on life and offered a place to sleep. The advice from Mr. Antolini is at odds with his intentions of becoming “catcher in the rye.” When he wakes up in the night and finds Mr. Antolini patting his head in a flitty way, he is very much upset. He then leaves and spends the last afternoon roving the city, and questioning his interpretation of the actions of Mr. Antolini.
Holden decides to head out west and his little sister, Phoebe decides to go with him. However, he refuses to have the company of the sister. The sister is upset and Holden cancels his plan. He then takes her to Central Park Zoo. As Phoebe rides the carousel, he realizes his mistake as he comes to the reality that he is not the “Catcher in the Rye” and he needs help. The story concludes without much mention of the present day. However, Holden alludes to being in a mental hospital after getting sick and states that in September, he shall be attending another school. | <urn:uuid:3fc122f8-7141-4664-a0c4-997d1bf25a8f> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.writemypapers.org/examples-and-samples/summary-of-the-novel-catcher-in-the-rye.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572198.93/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815175725-20220815205725-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.98715 | 781 | 3.03125 | 3 |
WASHINGTON (CNN) -- The power of women hit the State Department on Wednesday when first lady Michelle Obama joined Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to celebrate champions of women's rights around the world.
Michelle Obama and Hillary Clinton present the State Department Women of Courage Awards.
The event was to celebrate the State Department Women of Courage Awards, but highlighted how both the current and former first ladies have made women's rights a signature issue.
Since calling women's rights a human rights issue at a women's conference in Beijing in 1995, Clinton has made it a personal mission to champion the rights of women. Her first two trips as secretary of state have been packed with events promoting the importance of women's rights.
"These personal experiences have informed my work, and I will continue to fight for human rights as secretary of state in traditional and especially nontraditional ways and venues," Clinton told the audience.
You "can't solve problems of financial crisis, climate change, disease and poverty if half of the population is left behind," Clinton said. The rights of women will "always be central to our foreign policy."
In a commentary published Monday in honor of International Women's Day, Clinton warned that "women still comprise the majority of the world's poor, unfed and unschooled."
"Global problems are too big and too complex to be solved without the full participation of women," she wrote in the article, which ran in more than 50 newspapers around the world.
"Strengthening women's rights is not only a continuing moral obligation -- it is also a necessity as we face a global economic crisis, the spread of terrorism and nuclear weapons, regional conflicts that threaten families and communities, and climate change and the dangers it presents to the world's health and security."
Ambiga Sreenevasan, a Malaysian lawyer who won an award Wednesday for her work on behalf of justice for women, called Clinton "a woman of courage who has encouraged woman around the world."
Clinton's speech declaring that women's rights are human rights, Sreenevasan said, has "resonated with a lot of us here."
Clinton also heaped praise on the current first lady, saying that in a very short time, Michelle Obama "through her grace and her wisdom [has] become an inspiration to women and girls, not only in the United States, but around the world."
Obama spoke about the importance of proper health care, education and justice for women in ensuring strong families and communities.
"The difference between a broken community and a thriving one is the presence of women who are valued, where relationships among women and between women and men are based upon mutual respect," Obama said.
Obama said the work done by the honorees has not just changed their own circumstances, but by inspiring hope and motivating others to act, that work also has changed women's lives around the world.
"This is how real change occurs, one determined woman at a time. And change is coming," she said. "The women we honor today teach us three very important lessons. One, that as women, we must stand up for ourselves. The second, as women we must stand up for each other. And finally, as women we must stand up for justice for all."
On Wednesday, President Obama created a White House Council on Women and Girls, charged with devising a coordinated federal response to various challenges faced by American women.
The council, which will be led by senior presidential adviser Valerie Jarrett and which will include most members of the president's Cabinet, will be charged with ensuring that all governmental agencies take the needs of women into account.
The president said the council will also help ensure a more coordinated federal response on a range of issues, including equal pay, family leave and child care.
He also nominated Melanne Verveer, Clinton's chief of staff when she was first lady, as ambassador-at-large for global women's issues.
In addition to Sreenevasan, the Women of Courage honorees make up an impressive list of advocates on behalf of women under difficult and often dangerous circumstances.
Hadizatou Mani escaped caste-based slavery in Niger to help fight for rights of other people still enslaved in the country. Veronika Marchenko was honored for her activism on behalf of slain soldiers' families in Russia.
Suaad Allami won an award for running a nongovernmental organization on behalf of women in Sadr City, Iraq, that is considered a "one-stop shop" for legal, educational and domestic violence counseling for women.
Mutabar Tadjibayeva is one of the most vocal activists in Uzbekistan fighting on behalf of women's rights, despite being arrested and beaten by police.
In Guatemala, where an average of two women each day die a violent death, Norma Cruz provides support to families of women who are murdered.
One honoree, 12-year-old Reem al-Numery of Yemen, was unable to attend because she is in court fighting her forced marriage to a 30-year-old cousin who allegedly raped and beat her. Her battle in the courts to divorce her husband has sparked an avalanche of activism on behalf of Yemeni preteens sold into wedlock. | <urn:uuid:4a6ecc0f-3ad9-4956-8576-b8c70143086a> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/03/11/womens.rights/index.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572033.91/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814113403-20220814143403-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.972195 | 1,073 | 2.328125 | 2 |
Manila Trading and Supply Co. (MANTRASCO) had an authorized capital stock of P2.5 million divided into 25,000 common shares: 24,700 were owned by Reese and the rest at 100 shares each by the Respondents. Reese entered into a trust agreement whereby it is stated that upon Reese’s death, the company would purchase back all of its shares. Reese died. MANTRASCO repurchased the 24,700 shares. Thereafter, a resolution was passed authorizing that the 24,700 shares be declared as stock dividends to be distributed to the stockholders. The BIR ordered an examination of MANTRASCO’s books and discovered that the 24,700 shares declared as dividends were not disclosed by respondents as part of their taxable income for the year 1958. Hence, the CIR issued notices of assessment for deficiency income taxes to respondents. Respondents protested but the CIR denied. Respondents appealed to the CTA. The CTA ruled in their favor. Hence, this petition by the CIR
Whether the respondents are liable for deficiency income taxes on the stock dividends?
HELD: Dividends means any distribution made by a corporation to its shareholders out of its earnings or profits. Stock dividends which represent transfer of surplus to capital account is not subject to income tax. But if a corporation redeems stock issued so as to make a distribution, this is essentially equivalent to the distribution of a taxable dividend the amount so distributed in the redemption considered as taxable income.
The distinctions between a stock dividend which does not and one which does constitute taxable income to the shareholders is that a stock dividend constitutes income if its gives the shareholder an interest different from that which his former stockholdings represented. On the other hand, it does constitute income if the new shares confer no different rights or interests than did the old shares. Therefore, whenever the companies involved parted with a portion of their earnings to bnuy the corporate holdings of Reese, they were making a distribution of such earnings to respondents. These amounts are thus subject to income tax as a flow of cash benefits to respondents. Hence, respondents are liable for deficiency income taxes. | <urn:uuid:bc8e9c60-0d32-4395-927e-e7f70242e9b9> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.pinayjurist.com/commissioner-vs-manning-g-r-no-l-28398-august-6-1975-income-tax-on-stock-dividends/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572033.91/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814113403-20220814143403-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.971233 | 447 | 1.695313 | 2 |
How old do you have to be to open a bank account?
You can have your own bank account from the age of 18. After coming of age, the person can submit documents and open their own account. But more and more people now believe that younger children should be taught how to handle money. Therefore, before the age of 18, a parent or guardian can open a joint account for a kid. The account will be the property of the child, but the management will be with the responsible adult. In this case, the child can independently use this account, and the parent can set limits or other conditions of their choice. This is a good way to teach your child the right use of money, which will be good for their future.
How to unfreeze bank accounts?
Perhaps the most unpleasant case is the situation when the bank account is frozen. Unfortunately, this phenomenon is frequent, and usually, the bank freezes the account if you do not pay debts or taxes. A frozen account means one thing - you will no longer be able to use the card, pay for goods and services, or transfer money to another account. However, there are several ways to unfreeze a bank account. Firstly, make sure that the bank did not freeze the account by mistake. If, however, the bank has frozen the account accidentally, contact the support service and request that the account be unfrozen. The second method is to delete the judgment within ten days. You must submit an application stating the reasons why the account may be unfrozen. Also, filing for bankruptcy is another solution for unfreezing an account, and, as a rule, it may negatively affect your reputation. Finally, such issues must be resolved through the bank and preferably as soon as possible.
How to open an online bank account?
Luckily, modern technologies allow people to open accounts in the banks without leaving their houses. This is a convenient and smart solution that is now widely used by the majority of users. To open an account in some bank online, you are supposed to perform several steps.
Firstly, choose the bank and download its application on your smartphone.
Secondly, go into the app and look for the button that will have a meaning similar to "create a bank account."
Thirdly, you are expected to make a choice considering the account type you have an interest in. Then, you can fill in the empty spaces with the personal information needed for the identification. The last step is to deposit a certain sum of money on the newly created account (this is an official requirement for some of the banks).
What is an offshore bank account?
Most people associate offshore with the mafia and something illegal. In fact, there is nothing illegal here. They are simply accounts set up with banks in another country. And everything is legal as long as the owner of the accounts pays taxes on them.
Many create such accounts because they often have to send money abroad or because they own real estate or other property in that country. In this case, the presence of such an account greatly facilitates the processes and reduces the time of operations.
Illegal offshore companies are only if they are created to reduce taxes. Remember, you still have to pay taxes on time.
How much are bank accounts insured for?
Usually, the insurance is paid to the clients of the bank when it is getting closed or can no longer provide previous services to its depositors. The standard insurance of a bank account is 250 thousand dollars. There are different categories of bank accounts for which the insurance amount may change. 250.000 is only the starting price of the coverage. In joint accounts, for example, the cost of the insurance is 250 thousand dollars for each of the owners.
How to open a bank account for a minor?
As a rule, banks do not allow minors to create a bank account without an adult’s involvement. In most cases, a joint owner is represented by the child’s parent or guardian. Once you have decided to develop the kid’s financial habits, specify the exact procedure you need to go through. Some banks will require visiting a local branch in person; others (modern ones) will ask you to install their app and fill out an online application form. You will have to prepare a documentation package including your SSN, driver’s license (or passport), your child’s birth certificate, or school ID (contact a bank representative over the phone for more precise information). In most cases, after you complete the application process, you have to deposit a certain amount of money into the new account. If it is not a custodial account and the kid has access to it, the bank will issue a card that the child can use to make purchases and manage funds at an ATM.
How to find an old bank account?
This is an often case when people lose their bank accounts and forget about them. However, it does not necessarily mean these accounts are empty. If you think that you have a bank account with money, but you do not have any information about it, it is no longer a problem nowadays.
Luckily, there are sites where you can search for lost bank accounts. They work based on the following principle: you go to the site, you enter every detail about yourself and your account to which you have access. Then, you wait. The search will be going in multiple banks through multiple requests, so be ready to wait sometime before you get the result. But, when eventually you realize that there is indeed a lost account with the saved money, you understand it was worth it.
How to check a bank account number?
You can contact your bank and, having provided documents confirming your identity, ask them for the data you are interested in. What to do if you need the data urgently or if you don't want to go anywhere or can't. You can practice a much simpler and faster way and check everything in the online banking or bank's app. To do this, start the app and go to your account. Then open the extended details of your account. All the key info is lying there.
How to send money to someone without a bank account?
Transferring money is possible nowadays even without bank accounts because there is still a massive group of people who do not have them. You can choose traditional ways of sending money through the post office using money orders. The fee for such transfers is smaller than 2$, and this way is much safer than sending cash. Also, several online platforms allow you to transfer money. However, you need to have a debit or credit card for some of them.
How to close a bank account?
You can do it even without leaving your house. Often this can be done online or by calling the bank; only in some cases, your personal presence at the branch is required.
Nevertheless, be sure to prepare your account for closure. Create a new one and connect all automatic payments to it. Move the remaining funds to a new account or take cash. It is also worth remembering that the bank will not close an account that has even the slightest debt.
What is an escrow account in banking?
An escrow account is a comprehensive tool for those who own real property and who are constantly making payments on it. This is an easy means to manage insurance fees and estate taxes for your house. You do not have to save for them separately.
The process is as follows: you carry the total set monthly fee, and part of it goes into your escrow account to pay homeowners insurance, taxes, and other expenses related to owning a house. Another part is going toward your title to pay your interest and principal. When the time comes, the bank will use the money to pay your bills.
The main advantage of this method is the regularly saving of money. That is, you do not require to try to find the entire amount at a time, but there is time to prepare for payments.
How many bank accounts should i have?
It always depends on your goals and preferences, but four would be enough for an average person. The first one would be for paying taxes and other bills, the second - for your usual spendings of money, the last two are for saving up the money. One for "black" days or emergencies, and another for any other reason. This could be your kids’ education or buying a new house. You never know what would happen tomorrow, and some basic savings together with good financial literacy can rescue you from an unpredictable situation. | <urn:uuid:65e095cd-c410-404e-9c55-e9d78835e7f4> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://bnine.com/account-2/bank-of-ny-mellon-account/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572198.93/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815175725-20220815205725-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.957095 | 1,736 | 2.34375 | 2 |
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Artificial gravity is the creation of an inertial force that mimics the effects of a gravitational force, usually by rotation. Artificial gravity, or rotational gravity, is thus the appearance of a centrifugal force in a rotating frame of reference (the transmission of centripetal acceleration via normal force in the non-rotating frame of reference), as opposed to the force experienced in linear acceleration, which by the equivalence principle is indistinguishable from gravity. In a more general sense, "artificial gravity" may also refer to the effect of linear acceleration, e.g. by means of a rocket engine.
Rotational simulated gravity has been used in simulations to help astronauts train for extreme conditions. Rotational simulated gravity has been proposed as a solution in human spaceflight to the adverse health effects caused by prolonged weightlessness. However, there are no current practical outer space applications of artificial gravity for humans due to concerns about the size and cost of a spacecraft necessary to produce a useful centripetal force comparable to the gravitational field strength on Earth (g). Scientists are concerned about the effect of such a system on the inner ear of the occupants. The concern is that using centripetal force to create artificial gravity will cause disturbances in the inner ear leading to nausea and disorientation. The adverse effects may prove intolerable for the occupants.
In the context of a rotating space station it is the radial force provided by the spacecraft's hull that acts as centripetal force. Thus, the "gravity" force felt by an object is the centrifugal force perceived in the rotating frame of reference as pointing "downwards" towards the hull.
Differences from normal gravityEdit
From the perspective of people rotating with the habitat, artificial gravity by rotation behaves similarly to normal gravity but with the following differences, which can be mitigated by increasing the radius of a space station.
- Centrifugal force varies with distance: Unlike real gravity, the apparent centrifugal force felt by observers in the habitat pushes radially outward from the axis, and the centrifugal force is directly proportional to the distance from the axis of the habitat. With a small radius of rotation, a standing person's head would feel significantly less gravity than their feet. Likewise, passengers who move in a space station experience changes in apparent weight in different parts of the body.
- The Coriolis effect gives an apparent force that acts on objects that are moving relative to a rotating reference frame. This apparent force acts at right angles to the motion and the rotation axis and tends to curve the motion in the opposite sense to the habitat's spin. If an astronaut inside a rotating artificial gravity environment moves towards or away from the axis of rotation, they will feel a force pushing them in or against the direction of spin. These forces act on the semicircular canals of the inner ear and can cause dizziness. Lengthening the period of rotation (lower spin rate) reduces the Coriolis force and its effects. It is generally believed that at 2 rpm or less, no adverse effects from the Coriolis forces will occur, although humans have been shown to adapt to rates as high as 23 rpm.
- Changes in the rotation axis or rate of a spin would cause a disturbance in the artificial gravity field and stimulate the semicircular canals. Thus, the rotation of a space station would need to be adequately stabilized, and any operations to deliberately change the rotation would need to be done slowly enough as to be imperceptible.
The Gemini 11 mission attempted to produce artificial gravity by rotating the capsule around the Agena Target Vehicle to which it was attached by a 36-meter tether. They were able to generate a small amount of artificial gravity, about 0.00015 g, by firing their side thrusters to slowly rotate the combined craft like a slow-motion pair of bolas. The resultant force was too small to be felt by either astronaut, but objects were observed moving towards the "floor" of the capsule.
Artificial gravity has been suggested as a solution to various health risks associated with spaceflight. In 1964, the Soviet space program believed that a human could not survive more than 14 days in space for fear that the heart and blood vessels would be unable to adapt to the weightless conditions. This fear was eventually discovered to be unfounded as spaceflights have now lasted up to 437 consecutive days, with missions aboard the International Space Station commonly lasting 6 months. However, the question of human safety in space did launch an investigation into the physical effects of prolonged exposure to weightlessness. In June 1991, a Spacelab Life Sciences 1 flight performed 18 experiments on two men and two women over a period of nine days. In an environment without gravity, it was concluded that the response of white blood cells and muscle mass decreased. Additionally, within the first 24 hours spent in a weightless environment, blood volume decreased by 10%. Long weightless periods can cause brain swelling and eyesight problems. Upon return to earth, the effects of prolonged weightlessness continue to affect the human body as fluids pool back to the lower body, the heart rate rises, a drop in blood pressure occurs and there is a reduced tolerance for exercise.
Artificial gravity, for its ability to mimic the behavior of gravity on the human body, has been suggested as one of the most encompassing manners of combating the physical effects inherent with weightless environments. Other measures that have been suggested as symptomatic treatments include exercise, diet and penguin suits. However, criticism of those methods lies in the fact that they do not fully eliminate the health problems and require a variety of solutions to address all issues. Artificial gravity, in contrast, would remove the weightlessness inherent with space travel. By implementing artificial gravity, space travelers would never have to experience weightlessness or the associated side effects. Especially in a modern-day six-month journey to Mars, exposure to artificial gravity is suggested in either a continuous or intermittent form to prevent extreme debilitation to the astronauts during travel.
A number of proposals have incorporated artificial gravity into their design:
- Discovery II: a 2005 vehicle proposal capable of delivering a 172-metric-ton crew to Jupiter's orbit in 118 days. A very small portion of the 1,690-metric-ton craft would incorporate a centrifugal crew station.
- Multi-Mission Space Exploration Vehicle (MMSEV): a 2011 NASA proposal for a long-duration crewed space transport vehicle; it included a rotational artificial gravity space habitat intended to promote crew health for a crew of up to six persons on missions of up to two years in duration. The torus-ring centrifuge would utilize both standard metal-frame and inflatable spacecraft structures and would provide 0.11 to 0.69 g if built with the 40 feet (12 m) diameter option.
- ISS Centrifuge Demo: a 2011 NASA proposal for a demonstration project preparatory to the final design of the larger torus centrifuge space habitat for the Multi-Mission Space Exploration Vehicle. The structure would have an outside diameter of 30 feet (9.1 m) with a ring interior cross-section diameter of 30 inches (760 mm). It would provide 0.08 to 0.51 g partial gravity. This test and evaluation centrifuge would have the capability to become a Sleep Module for ISS crew.
- Mars Direct: A plan for a crewed Mars mission created by NASA engineers Robert Zubrin and David Baker in 1990, later expanded upon in Zubrin's 1996 book The Case for Mars. The "Mars Habitat Unit", which would carry astronauts to Mars to join the previously launched "Earth Return Vehicle", would have had artificial gravity generated during flight by tying the spent upper stage of the booster to the Habitat Unit, and setting them both rotating about a common axis.
- The proposed Tempo3 mission rotates two halves of a spacecraft connected by a tether to test the feasibility of simulating gravity on a crewed mission to Mars.
- The Mars Gravity Biosatellite was a proposed mission meant to study the effect of artificial gravity on mammals. An artificial gravity field of 0.38 g (equivalent to Mars's surface gravity) was to be produced by rotation (32 rpm, radius of ca. 30 cm). Fifteen mice would have orbited Earth (Low Earth orbit) for five weeks and then land alive. However, the program was canceled on 24 June 2009, due to lack of funding and shifting priorities at NASA.
Issues with implementationEdit
Some of the reasons that artificial gravity remains unused today in spaceflight trace back to the problems inherent in implementation. One of the realistic methods of creating artificial gravity is the centrifugal effect caused by the centripetal force of the floor of a rotating structure pushing up on the person. In that model, however, issues arise in the size of the spacecraft. As expressed by John Page and Matthew Francis, the smaller a spacecraft (the shorter the radius of rotation), the more rapid the rotation that is required. As such, to simulate gravity, it would be better to utilize a larger spacecraft that rotates slowly. The requirements on size with regard to rotation are due to the differing forces on parts of the body at different distances from the axis of rotation. If parts of the body closer to the rotational axis experience a force that is significantly different from parts farther from the axis, then this could have adverse effects. Additionally, questions remain as to what the best way is to initially set the rotating motion in place without disturbing the stability of the whole spacecraft's orbit. At the moment, there is not a ship massive enough to meet the rotation requirements, and the costs associated with building, maintaining, and launching such a craft are extensive.
In science fictionEdit
Several science fiction novels, films and series have featured artificial gravity production. In the movie 2001: A Space Odyssey, a rotating centrifuge in the Discovery spacecraft provides artificial gravity. In the novel The Martian, the Hermes spacecraft achieves artificial gravity by design; it employs a ringed structure, at whose periphery forces around 40% of Earth's gravity are experienced, similar to Mars' gravity. The movie Interstellar features a spacecraft called the Endurance that can rotate on its central axis to create artificial gravity, controlled by retro thrusters on the ship. The 2021 film Stowaway features the upper stage of a launch vehicle connected by 450-meter long tethers to the ship's main hull, acting as a counterweight for inertia-based artificial gravity.
Linear acceleration is another method of generating artificial gravity, by using the thrust from a spacecraft's engines to create the illusion of being under a gravitational pull. A spacecraft under constant acceleration in a straight line would have the appearance of a gravitational pull in the direction opposite of the acceleration, as the thrust from the engines would cause the spacecraft to "push" itself up into the objects and persons inside of the vessel, thus creating the feeling of weight. This is because of Newton's third law: the weight that one would feel standing in a linearly accelerating spacecraft would not be a true gravitational pull, but simply the reaction of oneself pushing against the craft's hull as it pushes back. Similarly, objects that would otherwise be free-floating within the spacecraft if it were not accelerating would "fall" towards the engines when it started accelerating, as a consequence of Newton's first law: the floating object would remain at rest, while the spacecraft would accelerate towards it, and appear to an observer within that the object was "falling".
To emulate artificial gravity on Earth, spacecraft using linear acceleration gravity may be built similar to a skyscraper, with its engines as the bottom "floor". If the spacecraft were to accelerate at the rate of 1 g—Earth's gravitational pull—the individuals inside would be pressed into the hull at the same force, and thus be able to walk and behave as if they were on Earth.
This form of artificial gravity is desirable because it could functionally create the illusion of a gravity field that is uniform and unidirectional throughout a spacecraft, without the need for large, spinning rings, whose fields may not be uniform, not unidirectional with respect to the spacecraft, and require constant rotation. This would also have the advantage of relatively high speed: a spaceship accelerating at 1 g, 9.8 m/s2, for the first half of the journey, and then decelerating for the other half, could reach Mars within a few days. Similarly, a hypothetical space travel using constant acceleration of 1 g for one year would reach relativistic speeds and allow for a round trip to the nearest star, Proxima Centauri. As such, low-impulse but long-term linear acceleration has been proposed for various interplanetary missions. For example, even heavy (100 ton) cargo payloads to Mars could be transported to Mars in 27 months and retain approximately 55 percent of the LEO vehicle mass upon arrival into a Mars orbit, providing a low-gravity gradient to the spacecraft during the entire journey.
This form of gravity is not without challenges, however. At present, the only practical engines that could propel a vessel fast enough to reach speeds comparable to Earth's gravitational pull require chemical reaction rockets, which expel reaction mass to achieve thrust, and thus the acceleration could only last for as long as a vessel had fuel. The vessel would also need to be constantly accelerating and at a constant speed to maintain the gravitational effect, and thus would not have gravity while stationary, and could experience significant swings in g-forces if the vessel were to accelerate above or below 1 g. Further, for point-to-point journeys, such as Earth-Mars transits, vessels would need to constantly accelerate for half the journey, turn off their engines, perform a 180° flip, reactivate their engines, and then begin decelerating towards the target destination, requiring everything inside the vessel to experience weightlessness and possibly be secured down for the duration of the flip.
A propulsion system with a very high specific impulse (that is, good efficiency in the use of reaction mass that must be carried along and used for propulsion on the journey) could accelerate more slowly producing useful levels of artificial gravity for long periods of time. A variety of electric propulsion systems provide examples. Two examples of this long-duration, low-thrust, high-impulse propulsion that have either been practically used on spacecraft or are planned in for near-term in-space use are Hall effect thrusters and Variable Specific Impulse Magnetoplasma Rockets (VASIMR). Both provide very high specific impulse but relatively low thrust, compared to the more typical chemical reaction rockets. They are thus ideally suited for long-duration firings which would provide limited amounts of, but long-term, milli-g levels of artificial gravity in spacecraft.
Roller coasters, especially launched roller coasters or those that rely on electromagnetic propulsion, can provide linear acceleration "gravity", and so can relatively high acceleration vehicles, such as sports cars. Linear acceleration can be used to provide air-time on roller coasters and other thrill rides.
Simulating lunar gravityEdit
In January 2022 China was reported by the South China Morning Post to have built a small (60 centimetres (24 in) diameter) research facility to simulate low lunar gravity with the help of magnets. The facility was reportedly partly inspired by the work of Andre Geim (who later shared the 2010 Nobel Prize in Physics for his research on graphene) and Michael Berry, who both shared the Ig Nobel Prize in Physics in 2000 for the magnetic levitation of a frog.
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Weightless Wonder is the nickname for the NASA aircraft that flies parabolic trajectories and briefly provides a nearly weightless environment in which to train astronauts, conduct research, and film motion pictures. The parabolic trajectory creates a vertical linear acceleration which matches that of gravity, giving zero-g for a short time, usually 20–30 seconds, followed by approximately 1.8g for a similar period. The nickname Vomit Comet is also used to refer to motion sickness that is often experienced by the aircraft passengers during these parabolic trajectories. Such reduced gravity aircraft are nowadays operated by several organizations worldwide.
The Neutral Buoyancy Laboratory (NBL) is an astronaut training facility at the Sonny Carter Training Facility at the NASA Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas. The NBL is a large indoor pool of water, the largest in the world, in which astronauts may perform simulated EVA tasks in preparation for space missions. The NBL contains full-sized mock-ups of the Space Shuttle cargo bay, flight payloads, and the International Space Station (ISS).
The principle of neutral buoyancy is used to simulate the weightless environment of space. The suited astronauts are lowered into the pool using an overhead crane and their weight is adjusted by support divers so that they experience no buoyant force and no rotational moment about their center of mass. The suits worn in the NBL are down-rated from fully flight-rated EMU suits like those in use on the space shuttle and International Space Station.
The NBL tank is 202 feet (62 m) in length, 102 feet (31 m) wide, and 40 feet 6 inches (12.34 m) deep, and contains 6.2 million gallons (23.5 million litres) of water. Divers breathe nitrox while working in the tank.
Neutral buoyancy in a pool is not weightlessness, since the balance organs in the inner ear still sense the up-down direction of gravity. Also, there is a significant amount of drag presented by water. Generally, drag effects are minimized by doing tasks slowly in the water. Another difference between neutral buoyancy simulation in a pool and actual EVA during spaceflight is that the temperature of the pool and the lighting conditions are maintained constant.
Speculative or fictional mechanismsEdit
In science fiction, artificial gravity (or cancellation of gravity) or "paragravity" is sometimes present in spacecraft that are neither rotating nor accelerating. At present, there is no confirmed technique that can simulate gravity other than actual mass or acceleration. There have been many claims over the years of such a device. Eugene Podkletnov, a Russian engineer, has claimed since the early 1990s to have made such a device consisting of a spinning superconductor producing a powerful "gravitomagnetic field", but there has been no verification or even negative results from third parties. In 2006, a research group funded by ESA claimed to have created a similar device that demonstrated positive results for the production of gravitomagnetism, although it produced only 0.0001 g. This result has not been replicated.
- Non-inertial reference frame – Reference frame that undergoes acceleration with respect to an inertial frame
- Anti-gravity – Idea of creating a place or object that is free from the force of gravity
- Gravitational shielding – Hypothetical shielding of an object from gravity
- Coriolis effect
- Centrifuge Accommodations Module – Cancelled element of the International Space Station
- Fictitious force – Force on objects moving within a reference frame that rotates with respect to an inertial frame.
- Rotating wheel space station
- Space habitat – Type of space station, intended as a permanent settlement
- Stanford torus – Proposed NASA design for space habitat
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It is said to be the first of its kind and could play a key role in the country’s future lunar missions. Landscape is supported by a magnetic field and was inspired by experiments to levitate a frog.
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People who have a very rare form of autism may benefit from treatment with a common nutritional supplement, a new study suggests.
The results show some people who have symptoms of both autism and epilepsy have a rare genetic mutation that causes them to have abnormally low levels of essential nutrients called branched-chain amino acids (BCAAs).
When the researchers fed a diet enriched with BCAAs to mice that were engineered to have that same genetic mutation, the diet completely reversed the symptoms, the researchers said. The mice not fed the enriched diet showed the symptoms of epilepsy and other neurological problems.
However, it's not clear whether the findings will translate to people. Because the mutation is so rare, the researchers have not yet studied the effects of adding BCAA supplements to the diet of people with this particular form of autism, and it's possible a change in diet may only be beneficial if started early in life (the patients currently known to have the mutation are no longer young children).
Still, the findings suggest there may be other forms of autism with genetic causes that can be treated, "and we need to find them," said study researcher Gaia Novarino, a staff scientist at the University of California, San Diego.
Patients could also be screened for the new genetic mutation, or related mutations, to predict whether they will develop the disease, the researchers said.
The study is published online today (Sept. 6) in the journal Science.
The researchers analyzed genetic information from individuals in three families of Turkish, Egyptian or Libyan descent, all of whom had children with autism, intellectual disability, and either seizures or abnormal brain wave activity. The families were consanguineous, meaning the parents were closely related by blood. (Children of closely related individuals are known to be at increased risk for genetic disorders.)
Six of the children had mutations in a gene called BCKDK. In contrast, none of the 200 healthy people tested for the study had the mutation.
The result of this mutation is that the body breaks down BCAAs more rapidly than normal. Indeed, the children in the study with the mutation all had below-normal BCAA levels. Their BCAA levels could be increased without ill effects by providing them with BCAA supplements bought from a health food store, the researchers said.
The researchers next need to study whether the patients' seizures and autism symptoms improve with the nutritional supplement, a process that could take some time. They will need to find more people with this mutation in order for their study to have scientifically meaningful results.
"It's really encouraging from the point of view of treatment," said Valerie Hu, a professor of biochemistry and molecular biology at George Washington University, who researches the genetics of autism and was not involved in the study. "It shows that some forms of autism ... [are] a result of some metabolic dysfunction," Hu said.
Hu said that, as a mother of a child with autism, the search for a cure often can seem hopeless. "When you think that this disorder is a result of faulty brain development, what are you going to do about that?" Hu said.
But if studies show that some types of autism are due to metabolic abnormities, it makes sense that correcting such abnormities could improve symptoms, Hu said.
The UC San Diego researchers suspect the BCKDK mutation causes both seizures and neurological problems. It's possible that because levels of BCAAs are low, a higher concentration of other amino acids find their way into the brain and cause problems, the researchers said.
Finding that a mental condition is caused by a metabolic problem is not unprecedented. The condition phenylketonuria, or PKU, occurs when the body cannot properly break down the amino acid phenylalanine. Levels of this amino acid can build up and cause brain damage — leading to symptoms such as seizures and mental retardation, according to the National Institutes of Health. The condition is treatable if children follow a strict diet with low levels of phenylalanine.
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Scientists conducting experiments at the Large Hadron Collider imminently ‘hope to connect with a Parallel Universe outside of our own’, according to excited headlines doing the rounds in recent weeks.
While I find it highly questionable whether any of the actual ‘scientists’ actually made that claim in quite those terms, the LHC ‘atom smasher’ at CERN in Geneva is being set to its highest energy levels to date in an apparent attempt to detect (or according to some, even to create) miniature black holes.
If successful, apparently a ‘completely new universe’ will be revealed, rewriting – according to some of the commentary – not only the physics books but the philosophy books too.
Or… everything gets sucked into this prospective mini black hole, never to be seen again.
But let’s give our scientists and physicists the benefit of the doubt and assume the possibilities of that happening are extremely low.
While all the ideas, implications and language spiralling out from this story are fascinating, it’s difficult for someone like myself to really tell how much of it is overly imaginative sensationalism from people trying to get hits on their videos or views on their articles, how much of it is exaggerated hyperbole to generate continuing interest in the LHC, and how much the experiments at CERN are genuinely on the verge of extraordinary breakthroughs in our understanding of the universe and reality… or days away from apocalyptic collapses of reality, multi-versal cave-ins and possible swarm-invasions of Interdimensional aliens into our world via Switzerland.
You know, whichever you prefer.
But who doesn’t get some level of perverse pleasure in watching newspapers and TV news reports (not to mention all the apocalypse enthusiasts and Rapture-philes) panicking with overwrought warnings about an impending apocalypse, as so many did when the LHC was first put into operation? Seriously, the one thing I would look forward to in any prospective End-of-the-world scenario is to see how the news channels cover it. Just imagine the rolling coverage when it emerges that a ‘black hole’ has manifested in Geneva. Or the radio call-ins that will follow; “Well, I blame it all on the liberals and their soft stance on immigration…” Or how Fox News is going to handle the Interdimensional invasion from demonic, Babylon 5 like Shadow entities as the news is breaking. You know, Walter Kronkite’s long gone, so who’s going to keep everybody calm when the War of the Worlds style mass panic, rioting and looting begins?
Actually, I’m being facetious, but I do have a predilection for this sort of stuff, no doubt in large part inherited from many years of enthusiasm for comic-books, science-fiction, and for various scientific or perhaps quasi-scientific literature (all otherwise known as Not Having a Girlfriend). Concepts of ‘Multi-Verses’, alternate realities, ‘Mirror Universes’, parallel dimensions, etc, are so embedded into the mindscape and lexicon of people like myself that we often forget just how extraordinary these things are when taken out of the realm of comic-books and science fiction and brought into real-world scientific experiments with potentially real-world effects and consequences.
“Unpredictable” would be an understatement.
The possibility of some kind of Iconian-type portal opening up at CERN and someone stepping through and ending up in an alternate-earth where the Roman Empire never fell and Centurions are riding around on motorbikes and eating Big-Macs is, we must imagine, very low; the best we might hope for is for discoveries to be made that would *theoretically* demonstrate the possibility, or even the probability, of the Many-Worlds Hypothesis being true.
Less exciting, but no less significant.
Some scientists, however, even consider it questionable whether any contemporary scientific experimentation is capable of measuring or revealing anything as extraordinary as the Many Worlds Hypothesis or telling us whether parallel worlds exist. According to Professor Mir Faizal from the University of Waterloo, “Normally, when people think of the multi-verse, they think of the many-worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics, where every possibility is actualized,” he said to Phys.org. “This cannot be tested and so it is philosophy and not science.”
As I see it (admittedly from a scientifically limited perspective), there’s another issue too; our perception of anything, and of reality itself, is subject to how our brains decode the information. For example, science informs us that the material world as we perceive it doesn’t actually exist; the way we perceive it is essentially a halfway-point or ‘compromise’ between our senses, our brains, and the actual reality itself, enabling us to function in the way that (presumably) best suits our needs or nature.
So how much of our perception of physics, space, the universe, etc, is subject to the limitations of our perception? That would also include our ability to measure things, to conduct or process scientific experiments and to decode all related information.
There have also, believe it or not, been some extraordinary observations made by quantum physicists in the past that nature at the atomic and quantum levels were found to *behave differently depending on whether they were being observed or not*; which is an extraordinary notion, bringing to mind the Toy Story gag of the child’s toys only ever doing their thing when the child is out of the room.
The ‘Many Worlds theory’ is also referred to as MWI, or the Relative State Formulation, the Everett Interpretation, the Theory of the Universal Wavefunction, Many-Universes Interpretation or just Many-Worlds. The original Relative State Formulation emerged via Hugh Everett in 1957. Not many ideas in theoretical physics capture the imagination as much as the many-worlds hypothesis, which proposes an infinite number of universes that differ from our own in ways both large and small; the concept has provided endless material for SF or comic-book writers for decades.
In fiction, the exploration of parallel world concepts is often tied up with that other prevailing (or cliched) trope of popular sci-fi: time travel. As Einstein would say, however, space, time and reality are inter-connected entities, each bound up in the other. However, where most interpretations have it that when you go back in time and alter something in the past you change the course of history and create an ‘altered timeline’, proponents of parallel-reality theories might argue that those ‘altered timelines’ in fact already exist anyway: that multiple, or even infinite, realities already exist side-by-side with our own and in which any or all variations of our existing history are already playing out.
There are some who argue that the Multi-Verse Theory, or at least the popular interpretation of it, is nonsense. The counter-argument is that none of us would exist in any parallel universe.
Not only would none of us exist, all things that we understand would not exist, as any parallel universe would have its own history, completely different from our history. For example, the asteroid that killed off the dinosaurs 65 million years ago would’ve never arrived. The history of our planet as we know it would not have transpired. More than that, the forces that allowed our planet to form would not exist because you would have to go all the way back to the formation of the universe to find the divergent point from this universe to any optional universe.
So if we did find an alternate universe, we wouldn’t be able to recognize it.
The most famous contemporary (ish) depiction of an alternate reality is Star Trek’s ‘Mirror Universe’ (with the famous goatee-sporting alternate Spock), appearing initially in the TOS episode ‘Mirror, Mirror’ and later more frequently explored in Deep Space Nine; but fanciful science fiction aside, many experts, including theoretical physicists, would refute that anything like that exists and would further argue that in any such ‘parallel universe’, there wouldn’t be a darker, goatee-wearing Spock, but in fact wouldn’t be any Spock at all – in a parallel world, the circumstances wouldn’t have unfolded to allow ‘Spock’ to even be born. In fact, Spock’s entire race might not have existed.
There is perhaps a degree of naivety (or wistfulness) in the kind of parallel worlds we find in comics, where although some things may be very different, people still have the same name, have the same people in their lives, etc. A parallel dimension could just as easily be one where the Universe as we know it didn’t form or develop in the same way, or where the conditions didn’t come together in the precise way necessary for life on Earth, for example.
Even so, the Many-Worlds Hypothesis or general notions of parallel worlds have an almost romantic hold on the imagination.
For those uninitiated into the theories or ideas (or, like myself, only cognisant at the elementary level), I would refer you this piece by Josh Clark, outlining Everett’s thoughts; ‘The universe is literally duplicated, splitting into one universe for each possible outcome from the measurement. For example, say an object’s wave function is both a particle and a wave. When a physicist measures the particle, there are two possible outcomes: It will either be measured as a particle or a wave. This distinction makes Everett’s Many-Worlds theory a competitor of the Copenhagen interpretation as an explanation for quantum mechanics. When a physicist measures the object, the universe splits into two distinct universes to accommodate each of the possible outcomes. So a scientist in one universe finds that the object has been measured in wave form. The same scientist in the other universe measures the object as a particle. This also explains how one particle can be measured in more than one state.’
Everett’s Many-Worlds interpretation holds implications beyond the quantum level. The idea is that any action that has more than one possible outcome means that the universe splits when that action is taken (even when a person chooses not to take the action); in other words, if you’re trying to decide whether to order the cheese burger or the vegetarian option, whichever you decide on, both scenarios will play out in different worlds. This also means that if you have ever found yourself in a situation where death was a possible outcome, then in a universe parallel to ours, you are quite, quite dead; “dead as a door-knob,” to quote Ebeneezer Scrooge.
This is perhaps one reason some people find the Many-Worlds interpretation disturbing.
I’m not sure I find it so disturbing, however; I’ve always found the MWH more comforting, in fact. The idea that there could be multiple, other me’s out there following through on things I never did, exploring paths I never or might never go down, is somehow instinctively comforting.
There might be a world out there where I did end up with that particular girl, or where I succeeded at something I’ve failed at in his life. A world where The Phantom Menace was a universally celebrated masterpiece, or where you (yes, you) and I are right now sharing a drink while sat on a balcony of a vast Sky-City held aloft by anti-gravity technology and overlooking the Amalfi Coast.
Another disturbing (to some) aspect of the Many-Worlds interpretation is that it is seen to undermine our more comfortable concept of time as a linear construct. Imagine a timeline chart delineating the history of the English Civil War, for example. A linear model of time would give us a straight line showing us relevant events in the chronology; whereas a timeline based on the Many-Worlds Interpretation would show each possible outcome of each action taken. From there, each possible outcome of the actions taken (as a result of the original outcome) would be further delineated, branching out expansively and more resembling a genealogical family-tree chart than an easy-to-process chronology of events.
It would be considerably more complicated, but perhaps substantially more interesting.
So how could we ever know if the Many-Worlds theory is correct? At present, we can’t. But assurance that the interpretation is theoretically possible came in the late 1990s from a thought experiment called ‘Quantum Suicide’. You can learn more here about How Quantum Suicide Works; but it might blow your mind a little, so don a crash helmet. Quantum Suicide, as a thought experiment, was published by Hans Moravec in 1987 and Bruno Marchal in 1988 and was independently developed further by Max Tegmark in 1998. It attempts to distinguish between the Copenhagen interpretation of quantum mechanics and the Everett many-worlds interpretation by pursuing a variation of the famous Schrödinger’s Cat thought-experiment, but from the cat’s point of view.
“Quantum Immortality” refers to the subjective experience of surviving quantum suicide regardless of the odds. I like the sound of that; though in truth I might not have fully understood it (not to self: commit Quantum Suicide, it sounds intriguing).
Quantum mechanics, which govern the tiny world of subatomic particles, suggest ‘Daughter Universes’ as the way multiple realities might arise. For example, imagine you’re in the ‘Neo scenario’ as laid out in The Matrix; Morpheus gives you the choice of taking either the blue pill or the red pill. The universe as we currently understand it in the standard model (if there is such a thing) allows you two ‘daughter universes’; one in which you take the blue pill and one in which you go for the red.
As quantum mechanics sees the world in terms of probabilities rather than definite outcomes, the mathematics of this theory (which I’m not going to pretend to entirely understand) might suggest that all possible outcomes of a situation do occur — in their own separate universes. And in each universe there’s a version of you experiencing one or the other outcome (thinking all the while that yours is the only ‘reality’).
It might help to imagine you’re a novelist and instead of writing one definitive story, you write out a whole separate novel for every possible direction your story could go in (I’ve been floundering in the writing of my novels for a number of years now and the thought of doing that makes me physically ill).
The fact is also that different things operate at different ‘levels’ of existence. There are things that vibrate at different rates, things that exist in different frequency ranges and resonances; things we can perceive and measure and thing we can’t. In that context, the possible existence of different dimensions or parallel worlds seems perfectly possible, even logical.
That doesn’t mean, however, that we can detect or perceive them; not any more than someone whose television is tuned to the BBC can also watch CNN at the same time.
The possibility of multiple worlds co-existing but being outside of our perception range isn’t something that bothers or confounds me; you need to look at it like, again, television signals. There may be numerous television ‘channels’ or broadcast signals being picked up or decoded through your TV, but it can’t display all of them to you at once: it’s one or the other. However, all those other signals/frequencies aren’t ceasing to exist just because you’re not watching them – they’re still there and are still just as ‘real’ and just as rich-with-information as whatever the channel is you happen to be watching.
In other words, these multiple, separate streams of data or transmissions are coexisting with each other, not interfering with another; and may therefore be a fitting analogy for how the Many-World Hypothesis may work.
These kinds of ideas and possibilities have been thoroughly explored for decades of course in novels, novellas, comic-books and films, with everyone from the late Terry Pratchett to televisual Star Trek exploring parallel world or alt-reality concepts; such ideas have in fact been the basis for some of the most memorable or best-loved stories over the years.
Edwin A. Abbot’s seminal 1884 novel Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions explores a world of two dimensions inhabited by living squares, triangles and circles, called Flatland, with Pointland (no dimensions), Lineland (one dimension) and Spaceland (three dimensions). Isaac Asimov described Flatland as “the best introduction one can find into the manner of perceiving dimensions.” Asimov included, some of the greatest SF writers and pioneers were enamoured with the subject of parallel worlds. In his 1941 novelette Elsewhen, Robert A. Heinlein writes of a professor who trains his mind to move his body across timelines. He then hypnotizes his students so they can explore more of them together. Eventually each settles in the reality most suitable for him or her. Some of the worlds they visit are mundane, some very odd, and others follow science fiction or fantasy conventions.
Philip K. Dick’s 1962 book, The Man in the High Castle, explores an alternate history in which Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan won World War II. This book contained an example of “alternate-alternate” history, in that one of its characters is the author of a book depicting a reality in which the Allies won the war, itself divergent from real-world history in several aspects. While Isaac Asimov’s short story What If is about a couple who can explore alternate realities by means of a television-like device; a take on this same idea is also found in Asimov’s 1955 novel The End of Eternity. In that novel the “Eternals” can change the realities of the world, without people being aware of it.
The idea of a parallel world was famously first introduced in comic books with the publication of Flash #123 and the famous “Flash of Two Worlds”. It has subsequently been a common, largely used trope in the medium. Probably the medium to explore ideas of parallel universe and alternate realities the most has been comic-books. The absolutely classic Alan Moore graphic-novel Watchmen was set in an alternative history, in a 1985 where superheroes exist, the Vietnam War was won by the United States and Richard Nixon is in his fifth term as President.
Parallel universes in modern comics have become particularly convoluted and frequently visited, in part due to continuity problems faced by the biggest two publishers, Marvel and DC Comics. Both publishers have employed multi-verse and alternate reality/time-line concepts to fix various problems, as well as to refresh fictional chronologies and continuities that have been running for many decades, breathe new life into canons and introduce new characters or alternate-version characters. DC in particular periodically revisits the idea in major crossover storylines, such as Crisis on Infinite Earths and Infinite Crisis.
Marvel had a long-running popular series called What If that was devoted to exploring alternative realities in which famous Marvel stories play out differently to how they did in ‘our’ reality (I used to love that series). Marvel has also had many large crossover events which depicted an alternative universe, many springing from events in the X-Men books, such as Days of Future Past, the seminal Age Of Apocalypse storyline or 2006’s House Of M. This toying with multi-verses and alt-realities is so common now as to be something of a cliche, in fact.
The X-Men: Days of Future Past movie in fact deals with the creation of an altered timeline too; a new ‘reality’ created by interference with the past. Indeed, the very premise of the current Star Trek film franchise (from 2009 onward) is that it exists *in a parallel universe* or ‘daughter universe’: the stories we see in this new franchise exist as an alternate/parallel reality to the one we know from the previous Star Trek franchise. On television, Star Trek of course has a long history of toying with parallel worlds, mirror universes and multi-verses. Bread and Circuses, The Omega Glory, and the famous Mirror Mirror were some of the Star Trek: Original Series’ best known explorations of parallel universes or ‘convergent evolution’, but similar themes were played out in pretty much every subsequent incarnation of the Star Trek franchise.
Elsewhere, among many other examples of these ideas being explored, the cult British sci-fi/comedy series Red Dwarf had an episode in which the characters accidentally prevented the assassination of John F. Kennedy and caused an alternate reality to play out in which JFK survived (curiously, it wasn’t a very nice alternate world that was created), while The Simpsons, South Park, Family Guy and others have also had fun with the concepts; for example, the South Park episode where a nice Eric Cartman arrives from a parallel universe (complete with Spock-like goatee) is hilarious, while Family Guy in particular has toyed with time-travel, parallel worlds and alternate timelines at great length, spawning some of the show’s best loved episodes.
These contemporary pop-culture dalliances with parallel world concepts ensure in fact that the ideas and even terminologies enter into the language of a next generation and among people who generally don’t follow science or even necessarily read sci-fi or comic books.
The ‘genre’ in fact can be said to go much further back than even the pioneering SF writers. For example, the Roman writer Livy contemplated an alternative 4th century BC in which Alexander the Great expanded his empire westward instead of eastward. In it, he asks “What would have been the results for Rome if she had been engaged in war with Alexander?”
Livy concluded that the Romans would likely have defeated Alexander (of course). Livy’s musings demonstrate that the notion (to varying extents) of ‘parallel worlds’ or alternate realities have perhaps been part of our psyche for a long, long time.
It may be that this interest in these kinds of ideas is deeply housed in our collective psyche, either because it represents some sort of intuitive or subconscious ‘knowing’ on our part or because the possibility speaks to something deep in our nature or psychology.
Perhaps a desire to believe that however badly we screw up in this life, there might be another version of us out there (or many) getting it right. Or that there may be better worlds, better societies out there. Or much worse ones too – either could in some way be a comforting thought. When we consider that one of the great hang-ups of life, both on our specific, individual levels and on the broader societal levels, is that we often lament all the wasted potentiality, missed opportunity or lost possibilities that exist in the world, perhaps we would take some solace in the idea that every potentiality, every opportunity, every possibility is being played out somewhere.
It remains unlikely that any definitive ‘proof’ of parallel universes or worlds will emerge any time soon from CERN, but any discoveries that can further legitimize the idea on a theoretical level *would* represent a big shift in thinking and would, by necessity, encourage further study and experimentation in this area, which over time may provide more revelatory answers. | <urn:uuid:d2a6619c-bd4a-4f56-9163-53da0c407034> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://burningblogger.com/2015/04/17/on-parallel-worlds-multi-verses-quantum-suicide-and-the-lhc/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571536.89/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811224716-20220812014716-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.952255 | 4,975 | 1.734375 | 2 |
On 20 August 2007, at Frankfurt, while a Boeing 767-300 was taxiing to its parking position, thick smoke developed in the passenger cabin. All passengers and the crew were able to leave the aircraft at the gate without further incident.
The official Report of the Serious Incident by BFU Germany states:
"Five and a half hours after departure, while still in flight, the electronic monitoring system (EICAS) indicated AFT CARGO OVHT. […]
[…] After recycling AFT CARGO HEAT switch in accordance with the Check List, warning message remained.
The aircraft landed at its destination without further incident at 11:21. While taxing to the allocated parking position (gate) the pilot started the gas turbine auxiliary power unit (APU). Shortly afterwards, he received a report of smoke and smell arising in the passenger cabin. The cabin crew reported that the smoke continued to increase rapidly until the aircraft arrived at the gate."
After the crew and passengers disembarked the aircraft, fire fighters with the help of a thermal imaging device located smoldering fire in the insulation material in the freight hold.
An Investigation into the occurrence was carried out by BFU, who determined that:
"The smoldering fire in the insulation material was located below defective strap of molten cables."
The Primary cause of this incident was motion between the wire loom and strap (relative motion), resulting in wear to the insulation material on both parts (electrical cable/strap). The abrasion, and the fact that that this was repeated incident, could be taken as an indication that the cable straps were unsuitable for cable straps routeing in this area. The consequences arising from wear could be avoided by limiting strap service life, by periodic inspections, or fitting a plastic strap. The preferred solution would be a design change. In this aircraft, it would be sufficient to replace the existing cable straps at this location with plastic fittings.
The immediate causes of this serious incident were identified as:
- "A short-circuit caused by the circuit breakers to trip in the rear freight hold temperature monitoring circuit, and the electrical power supply circuit to the APU gas turbine.
- An electrical short-circuit took place between cables, cause by abraded insulation on a wire loom strap. This was located behind the cladding on the rear freight hold forward bulkhead and resulted in fire.
- Following the landing, further electrical systems were activated automatically, resulting in a second short-circuit fire.
- This-short circuit fire started a smouldering fire in the insulation mats behind the freight hold cladding, generating a lot of smoke.
The systematic causes of the incident were identified as:
- Since the protection of the electrical system was suboptimal a short-circuit was the result, allowing cables to melt and catch fire, resulting in damage to the electrical system and a smouldering fire in the insulation mat.
- The aircraft maintenance schedule did not specify regular inspections or a maximum service life for the insulated cable straps.
The BFU Report produces the following recommendation:
"The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) should instruct the aircraft manufacturer Boeing to conduct the following on all Boeing B767 models:
- Assess the protection of the electrical system (circuit breakers) which run through the area in front of the aft freight hold and make any necessary changes.
- Exchange the existing insulated cable straps with plastic straps in the area in front of the rear freight hold." | <urn:uuid:c98e3aea-56a3-4d69-b37e-9f7ffd33024f> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://skybrary.aero/accidents-and-incidents/b763-frankfurt-germany-2007 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572833.78/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817001643-20220817031643-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.947289 | 738 | 2.125 | 2 |
Predicting the transfer of contaminants in ruminants by models : potentials and challenges
Certain undesirable substances in feed can transfer into foods of animal origin after ingestion by livestock animals. They become contaminants in food that may threaten the consumers' health. Commonly, feeding trials with animals are conducted to assess the transfer of undesirable substances into animal tissues or milk. Such feeding trials explore the effects on transfer of the various physiological systems (e.g. ruminant and non-ruminant gastro-intestinal tracts) as well as different livestock production intensities. Using alternative methods to mimic the complex physiological processes of several organs is highly challenging. This review proposes a potential cascade of in vitro and ex vivo models to investigate the transfer of contaminants from feed into foods of animal origin. One distinct challenge regarding the models for ruminants is the simulation of the forestomach system, with the rumen as anaerobic fermentation chamber and its epithelial surfaces for absorption. Therefore, emphasis was given to in vitro systems simulating the rumen with its microbial ecosystem as well as ex vivo systems to replicate epithelial absorption. Ruminants contribute significantly to the food sector, not only through meat but also through milk production. The transfer from blood into milk has to be evaluated by employing a suitable model. At the end, in silico approaches are introduced that can fill the gaps or substitute in vitro and ex vivo models. The integratory in silico method of physiologically-based toxicokinetics puts together the information gained from all alternative methods to simulate the transfer of ingested undesirable substances into foods of animal origin. | <urn:uuid:bc83ee1a-4a30-4f87-a974-36bd12de1ef0> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://elib.tiho-hannover.de/receive/tiho_mods_00004481 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572833.78/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817001643-20220817031643-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.93962 | 321 | 2.390625 | 2 |
I layout my circuits on Veroboard and I am currently using Vutrax because it has the capability to layout a Veroboard style track in it's PCB designer.
I would like to switch to an open source package like gEDA or Kicad, and after reading through the Kicad documentation, I don't see any similar functionality present, but it's possible that I may have missed it. The way that Vutrax works is that it has the ability to execute a script file and the Vutrax owners have implemented a script that draws a series of tracks, 0.1 inch apart, with through holes in each track at 0.1 inch distances. The script places the generated tracks on it's own layer (in this case, layer 10) and the through holes connect them to the rest of the circuit. The Vutrax advice note can be found here: http://www.vutrax.co.uk/san206.htm Have you any ideas about how I can achieve this (or the equivalent) within Kicad's pcbnew program ? Thanks for any ideas, Simon. | <urn:uuid:66ff7f2f-a781-4176-9262-2cf0fae725ba> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.mail-archive.com/kicad-users@yahoogroups.com/msg02718.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572198.93/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815175725-20220815205725-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.942417 | 230 | 2.390625 | 2 |
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But when a serial sex predator is playing fanboy, the gag reflex kicks in.Sleazy Billionaire’s Double Life Featured Beach Parties With Stephen Hawking|M.L. Nestel|January 8, 2015|DAILY BEAST
Worry has become as automatic a reflex as breathing in your sleep.The Israeli App Red Alert Saves Lives—but It Just Might Drive You Nuts|Itay Hod|July 15, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Then came the moment when a reflex born of a lifetime with a badge caused him to check the door window at the end of the car.
He is quite a bundle of stimulus and reflex, with no reflection.The Real Wolf of Wall Street: Jordan Belfort’s Vulgar Memoirs|Jimmy So|December 20, 2013|DAILY BEAST
The term Affluenza caused a national gag reflex—and as a doctor I can assure you that, no, Affluenza is not a real affliction.
Even if I were to be shot, the reflex action of my fingers would pull the trigger of this revolver and McGinty will die.
The reflex excitability is lowered and the sensibility diminished.A Statistical Inquiry Into the Nature and Treatment of Epilepsy|Alexander Hughes Bennett
Vomiting is rare, is never serious and ceases spontaneously when the stomach is empty of the drug.The Treatment of Hay Fever|George Frederick Laidlaw
It came, I think, out of just such an automatic reflex as causes an "opening" in conversation to call forth its own obvious reply.In Accordance with the Evidence|Oliver Onions
Vomiting flames and sparks, it trailed a cloud in the air and snow upon the water.The Relief of Mafeking|Filson Young | <urn:uuid:3e587a74-ae32-44a3-8cea-077f4f8c3ea3> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.dictionary.com/browse/vomiting-reflex | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570765.6/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808031623-20220808061623-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.875478 | 387 | 2.078125 | 2 |
During the last election campaign and even prior to that, dog owners repeatedly approached me with one wish: to please allow them to walk their pets on leashes in public parks.
When Mayor Mitchell Brownstein once again assigned me the Animal Protection portfolio, I immediately set the wheels in motion to establish the city’s first ever Dog Owners Committee. Our first meeting was held in January and over the past six months membership has grown. I wish to thank Interim Chairman Jonathan Goldman, committee members and in particular Councillors Mitch Kujavsky and Oren Sebag (both dog owners) for their support. From a staff point of view, Public Safety Director Jordy Reichson (also a dog owner) has gone the extra mile to draft a brand new updated by-law25609 to regulate dogs in the city. Chiefly our work has focused on finding some middle ground to allow dogs on leashes in parks Last summer we did a trial at a few very small parks and it went well.
Click here to see the beginnings of the new section on the Côte Saint-Luc website dedicated to dogs.
On Monday night, June 11 (7:30 pm) we will hold a public consultation meeting on the by-law, following which it will be on the regular council agenda that evening for passage. The majority of council is in favor of this long overdue adjustment. Part of the mandate of our Dog Owners Committee is to empower members to ensure that anyone they see walking a dog picks up after dog with a plastic bag on hand. We are also making sure the two Dog Runs, so well looked after by our Public Works Department, remain in a good state.
Here are some of the pertinent articles of the by-law that will be presented on Monday. Pay special attention to Article 4.4 Parks and Public Spaces.
Article 2.1 – Obligation
Every Guardian of a Dog must purchase a License issued by the City annually, indicating the breed, gender, colour and name of the Dog, the address where it resides and provide a copy of the veterinary records as stipulated below. For more details click here.
Article 2.3 – Veterinary records
The Guardian of a Dog must provide proof that the Dog has been inoculated against rabies issued by a Veterinarian and that the effectiveness of the said inoculation covers the reference year.
For the purpose of obtaining a discount on the cost of the License as set out in Annex A of the present By-law, the Guardian must also provide a confirmation that a Dog has been spayed or neutered.
If a Dog cannot be inoculated for whatever reason, a note so indicating issued by a Veterinarian must be presented by the Guardian of a Dog for the purpose of obtaining a License.
Article 2.3 – Validity
All Dogs must have a License valid for each Reference Year, which begins on May 1 of each calendar year and ends on April 30 of the following calendar year.
Article 3.2 – Leaving a Dog unattended
It shall be unlawful to leave a Dog unattended, for example tied to a post or other street furniture on the Public Domain, for more than fifteen (15) minutes.
Article 3.4 – Number of Dogs per dwelling unit
It shall be unlawful to keep more than four (4) Dogs in the same dwelling unit, including its adjacent structures.
Article 3.5 – Litters
Notwithstanding the preceding article, in the event that a female Dog gives birth to a litter, the Guardian may keep the puppies for a period not to exceed six (6) months.
Article 4.1 – Leash
The Guardian of a Dog must affix a Leash to every Dog that is on the Public Domain or on the private domain of another Person. The Leash must be held at all times in the control of a Person capable of restraining the Dog.
Article 4.2 – Excrement
The Guardian of a Dog is required to pick up all excrement emitted by the Dog, collect it in an appropriate compostable receptacle and dispose of it in accordance with the law.
Article 4.4 – Parks and Public Spaces
Dogs on a Leash are permitted in City parks and public spaces, unless indicated by a Sign, with the exception of:
- Playgrounds and within nine (9) meters thereof;
- Public swimming pools and wading pools and within the enclosures that surround them;
- Splash pads and within nine (9) meters thereof;
- On a sports field (e.g. baseball diamond, soccer pitch, tennis court, skate park, skating rink, etc.);
- In a Park where a special event organized or sanctioned by the City is being held (e.g. Canada Day).
Article 4.8 – Dog Run
It shall be unlawful to enter a Dog Run outside of the posted hours.
Article 4.1 requiring a Leash shall not apply inside of a Dog Run.
Where the Dog Run is separated into separate sections for large Dogs and small Dogs, the Guardian of the Dog shall keep the Dog in the appropriate section.
Article 5.1 – Definition
For the purpose of the application of the present By-law, a Dog can be declared dangerous if the Dog:
- has a propensity, potential or disposition to attack, bite, threaten, chase, or injure, with or without provocation, any Persons, property or other animals; or
- with or without provocation or physical injury, attacks, bites, threatens, chases, or injures a Person, property, or other animal; or
- has been trained for dog fighting or to attack upon a command.
Article 5.2 – Designation
A Designated Authority may declare a Dangerous Dog and issue a Muzzle order, in writing and delivered by the City or by certified mail or by bailiff to the Guardian of the Dog. Said Muzzle order takes effect within five (5) days of its delivery to the Guardian.
Article 5.3 – Muzzle order
In addition to a Leash, the Guardian of a Dangerous Dog must securely attach a Muzzle to the Dangerous Dog when on the Public Domain or on the private domain of a Person that is not the Guardian of the Dangerous Dog.
Article 5.4 – Lifting of a Muzzle order
The Guardian of a Dog may request in writing that the City lift an issued Muzzle order, upon presentation of an attestation by a Veterinarian that the Dangerous Dog has undergone training or procedure and no longer meets the definitions of the present By-law. The City will examine the documentation provided and render its decision in writing to the Guardian within 90 days.
I hope to see Dog Owners out on Monday! | <urn:uuid:21b1b14c-6974-40e0-9615-d09ed468d8ab> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.mikecohen.ca/mikecohen/dogs/page/2/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572198.93/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815175725-20220815205725-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.93179 | 1,385 | 1.570313 | 2 |
Conference and film series organized by the Concrete Narrative Society e.V., Verzio International Human Rights
Documentary Film Festival and Blinken Open Society Archives (OSA)
Curated by Gusztáv Hámos, Katja Pratschke and Thomas Tode
November 16-19, 2017
The venue, Blinken OSA Archives, is not only a repository of important collections, primarily related to the history of the Cold War and grave international human rights violations, but also a laboratory of archival experiments on new ways of assessing, contextualizing, presenting, and making use of archival documents.
Reinterpretation work with an archive is based on the experience of memory, because we can reach the origin of a fact or circumstance by means of 'documents.' An encounter with the archaic is also an archaeological activity. The personal unearthing of various material at an official place of authority consists of recollection work (the search for the lost time). It is concerned here with the personal, subversive reinterpretation of official documents from the archeion (ancient Greek for magistrates' archive building) and questioning the official writing of history. And it is concerned with the emergence of memories that result from the programmatic processing of photographic archival material, as well as the archaeological excavation of previously stored 'impressions,' and the personal decoding of registering and reading records and documents. Or in other words, it is about the communicating and processing of archives. | <urn:uuid:abfdaf47-da85-45b3-a871-b43b8b89529c> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://tomoveornot.de/symposia/symposia.php?syID=2 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572198.93/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815175725-20220815205725-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.899657 | 302 | 1.734375 | 2 |
New Generation Business Process in Life Sciences
New Generation Business Process in Life Sciences
“Paper on Glass” terminology has been a focus in last decade for information technology to convert all physically signed forms into software content, adhering to compliance guide lines. This decade is all about Digital. When I refer to “Digital,” I mean storing historic business data about objects of interest, capturing sensor data to reduce human intervention, tapping into events relevant for decision-making and building on these existing investments. Now we are adding machine intelligence, based on learnings to automate entire business processes. The Life Sciences industry is evolving with rise of New Generation Business Process (NGBP) with a vision to equip an enterprise to compete and prosper in the Digital Age. In Life Sciences, I would like to share two such NGBP; one is the Circular Economy and other is Pay-by-Outcome.
Traditional Supply Chain processes in Life Sciences are linear in nature starting with Active Pharmaceutical Ingredient suppliers, and contract manufacturers participating in inbound logistics. Then manufacturing sites are involved for production and outbound logistics consisting of a 3rd party logistics provider network through wholesalers, retail pharmacy and hospitals. However, new business models for biologics are evolving where manufacturers dispatch drug and devices directly to hospitals, large companies have in-licensing and out-licensing agreements with research firms, suppliers and distributers that are involved in selling and shipping goods directly to end customer locations. Also, reverse logistics is very critical in the Life Science industry with returns, recalls having regulatory and brand implications, along with chargebacks and rebates that have huge business impact.
So, the Circular Economy where transparency, such as knowing the provenance and traceability of material batches that can be tracked and traced right from ingredient suppliers to the consumption of finished products, with various value chain entities involved is becoming increasingly important especially with scenarios like cold chain.
In the medical device sector, the recycling of waste is equally important where environmental and eco-friendly guideline adherence can help improve brand image of the company. By enabling supply chain managers to make the right decision at the right time would help to optimize supply chain costs, improve efficiency and gain some market share for the drug and device sectors.
Customer service is the new way of marketing, and at times service sales of medical devices can outperform equipment sales. Products are becoming intelligent and connected whereas maintenance is a shifting paradigm from preventive to predictive, leveraging machine learning algorithms. Similarly, service contracts are also undergoing a change with performance and outcome-based billing. The support involved with field reps servicing equipment and providing spare part replacement as cost of service, along with service efficiency impacts profitability. Servicing equipment and machines helps the manufacturer increase its share of medical device life-cycle spend. The Life Sciences industry is shifting its focus from products to services for closer proximity and intermittent communication with end consumer.
Pay-by-outcome business processes are critical in today’s era of providing value-added services where new entrants like Google, Amazon, and Apple are penetrating further into Health Sciences domain areas, even with Gamification technology. Health insurance companies are aligning with drug and device manufacturers to measure improvement in patient outcomes, so they can adjust their business model with a carrot and stick approach, implementing rewards and minor penalties where merited. Even regulatory agencies are getting aligned with technology like artificial intelligence and improving their guidelines for software vendors as their goal remains to ensure patient safety. To monitor after sales service, the “Equipment as a Service” concept is evolving rapidly with dashboards and cockpits to monitor, and provide alerts based on machine intelligence.
NGBP is critical for advancement and gaining competitive differentiation to boost market share. However, a system of record capturing a single source of truth needs to be in place first with a digital core for supply chain, manufacturing or the service line of business with trust and transparency across the enterprise. Then only, companies will be able to innovate based on insights and collaboration outside their four walls, to deliver incremental value for business milestones, making change management effective.
SAP Leonardo brings new technologies and services together leveraging a cloud platform to help fast track these new generation business process and power their digital transformation journey. SAP’s innovation services can offer accelerators tailored to the Life Sciences industry, providing fast prototypes to address predefined uses that use like the Internet of Things (IoT), Machine learning and design thinking methodology that enables infusing ideas into such new generation business process. For more information, visit- https://www.sap.com/services/leonardo-innovation.html
SAP Life Sciences also has a strong partner ecosystem that can foster innovation leveraging SAP technology for relevant sub-segments like animal health, generics, diagnostics but in the end, adoption of such new generation business process like the Circular Economy and Pay-By-Outcome with be determined by customers willing to co-innovate with SAP sooner than later. I am looking forward to crafting additional such NGBP in Life Sciences, working together with our customers and partners to bring creative and innovative ideas to Life. | <urn:uuid:7cbbedae-1541-4895-a8d9-8109065216f4> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://blogs.sap.com/2018/04/03/new-generation-business-process-in-life-sciences/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572198.93/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815175725-20220815205725-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.939975 | 1,047 | 1.8125 | 2 |
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What is Market Capitalization and how is it calculated?
Market Capitalization is one way to rank the relative size of a cryptocurrency. It's calculated by multiplying the Price by the Circulating Supply.
Market Cap = Price X Circulating Supply.
What is the difference between Circulating Supply, Total Supply and Max Supply?
Circulating Supply is the best approximation of the number of coins that are circulating in the market and in the general public's hands. Total Supply is the total amount of coins in existence right now (minus any coins that have been verifiably burned). Max Supply the best approximation of the maximum amount of coins that will ever exist in the lifetime of the cryptocurrency.
Why is the Circulating Supply used in determining the market capitalization instead of Total Supply?
Circulating Supply is a much better metric for determining the market capitalization. Coins that are locked, reserved, or not able to be sold on the public market are coins that can't affect the price and thus should not be allowed to affect the market capitalization as well. The method of using the Circulating Supply is analogous to the method of using public float for determining the market capitalization of companies in traditional investing. | <urn:uuid:f4c3f484-7c67-484f-92c6-b35a4769bc26> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.altcoinss.com/page/faq/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572833.78/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817001643-20220817031643-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.941901 | 275 | 2.578125 | 3 |
Could cutting meat from our diets bridge a post-Paris ’emissions gap’?
A dietary change that relieves the demand for animal protein could play an instrumental role in plugging the post-Paris emissions gap, according to a new report from independent policy institute Chatham House.
The ‘Changing Climate, Changing Diets: Pathways to Lower Meat Consumption’ report highlights that the livestock sector is currently accountable for around 15% of the global carbon emissions –equivalent to worldwide tailpipe emissions from cars. Yet the report argues that a switch in dietary behaviour could create yearly emissions savings of six gigatonnes of CO2e.
The report states: “Strategies to effect dietary change and to address unsustainable meat production and consumption could form a core component of the post-2015 development agenda.
“As the international community moves to realize the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), policy-makers should capitalize on this moment of change and emphasize the importance of a global reduction in meat consumption to fostering sustainable, equitable resource use across all sectors.”
The report, which surveyed public attitudes in 12 countries including the UK, forecasts a 76% increase in the global consumption of meat by 2050. Currently a ‘protein transition’ is playing out across countries with improving economies.
The trajectory of meat and dairy consumption will lead to the agricultural sector supplying 20 of the 23 gigatonne (Gt) annual limit for emission in 2050, leaving just 3 GtCO2e for the rest of the global economy.
According to the report, a switch away from meat and dairy intensive eating habits could halt the current 7.1 gigatonnes of GHG emissions that arise from the livestock sector annually, while also reducing alarming long-term ramifications.
Before and after
The report recommends using governments as catalysts to bring about a global, societal behaviour change in how we consume food. Without government intervention the report suggests that there is little incentive for businesses to reduce supply despite the fact that global overconsumption will create increasing costs for society and the environment.
The report argues an increased understanding of the link between livestock and climate change by both government and consumers will create a willingness to reduce consumption. This is already a complex area due to pasture-fed beef creating more emissions than the harsher livestock standards from intensively reared beef.
Another recommendation is the implementation of government policies that place carbon taxes on livestock, while also placing an emissions responsibility on an entire supply chain rather than just operations inside national borders. Plant base alternatives and lab grown meat are also being developed.
The report suggests that plant-based alternatives are needed to change purchasing behaviour with possible taxes on carbon heavy foods and collaborations with food distributors needed to create a behavioural change.
In the light of the World Resources Institute (WRI) proclamation that around five billion people are expected to be subjected to water stress by 2050, the fact that indirectly the production of animals accounts for around 27% of global consumption and pollution of freshwater resources, may be enough evidence to bring about a behavioural change; one which is already being introduced through ‘Climatarians’.
Last week, conservation charity WWF has teamed up with food services provider Sodexo to launch a new range of 10 ‘sustainable’ meals that are designed to be nutritious and low-carbon with responsibly sourced ingredients.
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The Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) is a foundational component of the modern Internet, providing a mechanism by which carriers can share routing information for Internet traffic. As it turns out, BGP is at risk of manipulation by hackers, which is a topic that will be explored at the Black Hat USA security conference in Las Vegas this week.
Among the scheduled talks on BGP is one by OpenDNS Chief Technology Officer Dan Hubbard on Aug. 6. Hubbard’s talk is titled “BGP Stream,” which is the name of a new tool that he plans on publicly releasing this week.
“BGP is an old protocol, but it’s a key way that we all get to where we want to go on the Internet,” Hubbard told eWEEK.
OpenDNS, which itself is in the process of being acquired by Cisco Systems in a deal valued at $635 million, acquired a company called BGPmon in March. BPGmon’s mission, Hubbard explained, is to monitor the Internet for BGP hijacking. BPGmon does this by placing sensors across approximately 100 strategic peering points around the world to collect information on BGP routing tables. Then, an analytics engine looks at differences in the routing tables to see what’s going on and if there is a security risk.
With the commercial BGPmon service, OpenDNS enables an organization to monitor its own autonomous system (AS) numbers that are in BGP routing tables, providing alerts if those tables are being changed somewhere on the Internet. Hubbard said that until now, there has been no freely available central location where anyone could go to look at large-scale BGP hijacks or outages.
“So we’re releasing a new service called BGP Stream which is a stream of all the big BGP table changes on the Internet, with some insight into why a given change is important,” he said.
BGP Stream information will be publicly disseminated via a Twitter account (@BGPstream), which will programmatically tweet BGP changes. The tweets will include a link for more information on the given event. Hubbard added that an organization can also get access to the BGP Stream information via the Twitter API to be integrated into a dashboard.
BGP security monitoring is now a particularly interesting topic because of information contained in the recently leaked documents from Italian security firm Hacking Team, according to Hubbard.
“What Hacking Team did is they had a problem where some entity took over their IP space, which was used for their remote access Trojans,” he said. “So they couldn’t control their bots, so they used BGP to announce the address space back to key providers within a particular region.”
The provider did not have any specific form of BGP filtering and took the routes announced by Hacking Team as being authoritative for how to get to the IP space, where the remote access Trojans were located, Hubbard said.
“So even though Hacking Team didn’t have the transit rights to those IPs and the IPs were supposed to be going to another location, the Hacking Team-specified routes became the location where all the users were going,” he said.
Hubbard emphasized that BGP is critically important because it can be used to manipulate entire routes of where people go on the Internet. Among the key challenges with BGP is the simple fact that it doesn’t have a formalized approach for a fully encrypted and authenticated system to verify BGP information. In the DNS world, there is a technology known as DNSsec which does provide cryptographic integrity checking, but there isn’t yet an equivalent for BGP.
“The latest version of BGP that the Internet runs on is BGP version 4, and it’s over 10 years old and has changed little over the years,” Hubbard said.
While there are risks, Hubbard noted that there are ways to protect against potential BGP hijacks, including filtering techniques, though in general, organizations listen to the routes that are broadcast from their upstream providers.
“There isn’t a central authority for BGP information,” he said. “So when an organization connects to its upstream provider, it’s up to the organization to filter the information to understand who exactly the information is coming from and who is announcing the information.”
The BGP Stream information isn’t just about potential security events; Hubbard said it could also be used to track potential outages on the Internet. He noted that often whenever there is an outage on the Internet, the knee-jerk reaction from the media is that something was hacked.
“Knowing that there is a security incident is important, and also knowing when something is not a security incident is equally important,” Hubbard said.
While BGP Stream will be a free public service, OpenDNS is still selling the commercial BGPmon service for those looking to monitor specific systems and get a higher level of real-time detail.
“BGP Stream provides free access to large-scale events, but we only have 142 characters on Twitter, so we’re somewhat limited,” Hubbard said.
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This Victorian Gothic mansion was built in 1875 for John D. Runkle, the second President of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), after William Barton Rogers. He served as acting president of MIT from 1868–70 and president between 1870 and 1878, building this home half-way through his role there. After serving as President of MIT, he served on Brookline’s School Board, which led to the Runkle School in Brookline taking his name. The house was designed by George D. Rand and shows a careful balancing of horizontal and vertical features. The steep slate roof and prominent vertical chimneys work surprisingly well with the horizontal belt courses. Delicate stickwork at the entrance and dormers add a great Victorian flair. Sadly, the home is partially obscured by an ugly wood fence. | <urn:uuid:0ffee5f7-159f-4bce-85ed-e259afd332da> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://buildingsofnewengland.com/2020/10/23/john-d-runkle-house-1875/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572833.78/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817001643-20220817031643-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.977135 | 165 | 2.234375 | 2 |
The cytologic diagnosis of pulmonary aspergillosis infection is typically made on a presumptive basis and later confirmed by fungal culture, which may take up to one week to complete. An in situ hybridization (ISH) probe specific for Aspergillus for use in surgical pathology specimens has been developed which has not been used on cytology preparations. We describe a supra-threshold adapted testing (STAT) in situ hybridization test for cytology specimens, which takes less than one hour to finish. We performed ISH on three cases of culture-proven pulmonary aspergillosis and one case with Aspergillus fungal forms but negative cultures to test the feasibility of using this same Aspergillus probe on cytology specimens. Four patients with pulmonary aspergillosis were initially diagnosed by cytologic examination of their respective specimens. The presumptive diagnosis was confirmed by culture to be Aspergillus fumigatus on three cases. ISH on both cytology cytospin and Thin-Prep specimens was performed using an rRNA Aspergillus specific probe. All four cytology specimens exhibited positive staining with the Aspergillus probe. Most, but not all, fungal hyphae were stained with the probe. Even though ISH is more expensive than culture, in situ hybridization can be performed in less than one hour on cytology specimens and may be beneficial for patients in selected clinical circumstances. | <urn:uuid:9d7849c0-dd3c-427e-8900-38612853d446> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/10719062/?dopt=Abstract | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572833.78/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817001643-20220817031643-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.950882 | 291 | 1.757813 | 2 |
The more you get into fashion, the more details you discover. There are small things that you have never even thought about – they have always been there, but you have never paid attention to them. Imagine having to buy a new shirt – you get online, browse by category and find some more subcategories.
At some point, you run into button up vs button down shirts. You might have seen these options before, but you have never wondered what they are about.
Go see some products in each category and you will be surprised to find out that there are no visible differences. It feels like one of those games – spot a few differences. At a quick glance, both button down shirts and button up shirts look identical. It is not a matter of style or design. So, what is the difference between button up and down shirts?
The difference between button up shirts and button down shirts
The collar is what makes the difference in the process – more precisely, the buttons on the collar. To most men, a shirt is a shirt – no one really cares about button ups or other categories. To someone who is into fashion, small details will inevitably draw some attention. Before digging into smaller details, you should know that all button down shirts are button up shirts, but the same rule does not apply vice versa.
Both button up shirts and button down shirts have buttons running up. They are located at the front – different spacing standards between them that make no difference. On the other hand, a button down shirt features the same design, but it comes with a few extra buttons on the collar. This is the main difference in the process.
Understanding the button up shirt
According to TheLittleGiggler.com, A Button-up shirts are simple to identify. In fact, if you look in your wardrobe right now, you will notice that most of your shirts are in this category. It is the more popular one. There are buttons all the way up, as well as a button at the top.
Understanding the button down shirt
The button down shirt is a bit more complicated, but not by much. Apart from the main buttons (including the one at the top), you will also find a couple of buttons on the collar. Their main role is pretty simple – fastening it down to the shirt. In fact, the button down design is about fastening the collar down.
Button downs have a rich history. Back in the 19th century, polo collar shirts gained notoriety in the English team. Practically, players were running around a field on horses. Given the riding experience, their collars were moving up and down in the wind. They would face all kinds of problems trying to see what is going on in front of them. To make things easy, they came up with a bunch of extra buttons. They were installed on the polo shirts – by the collars – to keep them down.
Back then, no one imagined that such polo shirts would become a fashion statement. The polo collar was a matter of practicability. John E. Brooks had a different idea though. He watched a game in England before going back to the USA. He fell in love with the style and started manufacturing it – this is how the polo collar shirts came out.
During their first decades on the market, these polo collar shirts were popular among sports people only. People not involved in sports disliked them in the first phase. Athletes involved in all kinds of competitions went for these shirts for their practical purpose – collars would not flap around, so they were extremely handy.
With time, the design was implemented into the fashion industry as well. These days, they are available in most stores. They are just as handy in sports – watch athletes on a tennis court, but you can also find formal designs and styles.
Bottom up vs button down – What to know about wearing shirts
Whether you are into small details or you simply want to make a statement, most people will not really make the difference when you show up at a casual dinner or a formal meeting at work. However, there are a few unwritten rules you should pay attention to.
A button down shirt is considered to be smarter than a button up alternative. Mix it with a nice tie and a slim fit sweater and you will achieve a fashionable smart outfit. The button down shirt is simply made to look great with a tie, so make sure you match them accordingly.
On the other hand, button up shirts are more casual and general. They can be worn anywhere, anytime. Sure, you can match such a shirt with a tie. Throw in a fashionable suit and you will look great. But on the same note, you can also match a button up shirt with a pair of jeans for a casual meal out. Other than that, chinos make a great choice for button up shits too – smart casual outfit.
The shirt itself is not the most important thing to consider when you are after an interesting outfit. Instead, you have to consider every element related to the outfit and make sure you come up with a unitary style. It makes more sense to assort colors by the book, jackets and so on. To keep things simple and get ready for any situation, it pays off having shirts in both styles – at least one of them. This way, you will be prepared for any type of situation and you will know exactly why some shirts come with extra buttons on the collar.
There are no rules when it comes to buttoning the collar. While it may look a bit unusual, you can leave the buttons out if you want to achieve a chilled and casual style. You might as well adopt this look for a casual day at the beach or in a park. Everyone has a different style. For instance, Gianni Agnelli – a fashion icon and the main shareholder of Fiat – used to leave the collar free in the wind.
Frequently asked questions
Still unsure about button up vs button down rules?
What is the difference between a dress shirt and a button down?
Generally speaking, a dress shirt is usually a button up shirt. It comes in all kinds of fabrics and colors. From this point of view, the difference between a dress shirt and a button down is the same as the difference between buttons up vs button down shirts.
What does button down mean?
Button down means the collar can be kept in place by buttoning it. The collar features a couple of buttons – one on each side, as well as button holes. You can keep the sides of the collar in place – great for windy days or certain types of outfits.
What is a button up shirt called?
Button shirts can be found by more names in commerce. As a general rule of thumb, a dress shirt is also a button up shirt. You can also find it as a button or button front shirt. Different stores use different definitions for this style, but in theory, they all refer to the same type of garment.
Is button-down hyphenated?
Not always. The word can be hyphenated, but it is not a general rule.
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Jesus Presented in the Temple
Open Your Bible
Luke 2:21-40, Leviticus 12:6-8
BY Abby Flynn
Section 3: The Light Dawns
Scripture Reading: Luke 2:21-40, Leviticus 12:6-8
I sometimes feel like we’ve gotten so comfortable with Advent and the Christmas story that we forget how absolutely not normal every part of it is.
From prophecies of Jesus’s coming, to a virgin birth, to being placed in a manger and drawing the attention of wise men and shepherds from afar, none of this was normal.
Mary and Joseph weren’t superhuman people chosen by God to be Jesus’s mom and dad. In fact, stories like Jesus being presented in the temple remind us that they were just young, inexperienced parents. They followed tradition and did what they knew best to do while also knowing their son was actually the Son of God. So Jesus was brought to the temple and presented to the Lord, just like all the other young boys (Luke 2:23).
Now if you’re like me, you may remember hearing Simeon’s name, but have never really focused on his story. Simeon was a godly man. A man who the Holy Spirit had promised would not die until he saw Jesus with His own eyes. Then the Spirit guided him into the temple the day Jesus was there, and that promise was fulfilled (vv.29–30).
“For my eyes have seen your salvation. You have prepared it in the presence of all peoples—a light for revelation to the Gentiles and glory to your people Israel.” —Luke 2:30–32
The prayer Simeon gives is full of so much revelation and perspective. He declares that Jesus will be not only glory to Israel, but a light for the Gentiles and other nations. Not only was He coming for God’s people, He was coming for the rest of us, too.
Simeon mentions that Jesus’s coming will mean death to some, and life to others who believe in Him (v.34–35). He hints at pain that is to come because Jesus would bring both light and revelation (v.32). The Bible says that Mary and Joseph marveled at his words. How could they not?
Then we meet the prophet Anna who also testifies about Jesus. She speaks specifically about the redemption He would bring to Jerusalem. Can you imagine what it was like for Mary and Joseph to hear all this? Jesus’s birth not only fulfilled prophecy after years of waiting, He also came to redeem what was lost and to bring hope to those who didn’t deserve it.
And today we praise Him. We trust Him. We believe in Him because everything the prophets said about Him is true. This is our King. This is our Light of the World.
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The Three Trillion Dollar War
|Author||Joseph E. Stiglitz|
|Publisher||W. W. Norton|
|Media type||Print (Hardback)|
|LC Class||DS79.76 .S698 2008|
The book examines the full cost of the Iraq War, including many hidden costs. The book also discusses the extent to which these costs will be imposed for many years to come, paying special attention to the expenditures that will be required to care for wounded veterans. The authors conclude by illustrating the opportunity cost of the resources spent on waging the war. The book was a New York Times and international best-seller and has been translated into 22 languages.
The total cost of $3 trillion is comparable to that found in other studies. The Joint Economic Committee of Congress estimated that the war would cost $3.5 trillion, while the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office projected that the total cost will reach between $1.4 and $2.2 trillion. The Stiglitz-Bilmes work builds on an earlier study by Yale economist William Nordhaus, who predicted in 2002 that the war could reach $2 trillion if it went badly. Numerous economists, including James K. Galbraith of the University of Texas and Nobel Laureate Lawrence Klein have supported the methodology in the book. Economist Fred Foldvary also wrote a positive review of the book in Econ Journal Watch in 2008. He believes better knowledge of both the budgeted and implicit costs of the war as spelled out in the book will further a more coherent dialogue on present and future related policy matters. The Costs of War Project at Brown University has estimated the costs at that time as being even higher. [].
In a 2006 review, economist Alan Krueger argued the estimate was too high for three reasons. First, it counts future interest payments on the debt created by military spending as well as the direct expenditures, which is double counting. Second, it counts increased military recruitment costs that incorporate a premium for higher risk of death or injury and the direct cost of the deaths and injuries, which is also double counting. Third, it attributes a global increase in the price of oil entirely to the Iraq War.
Other academics, including John Lott, Richard Zerbe, and Edgar Browing, echoed those criticisms, and in addition challenged the Lancet surveys of Iraq War casualties to determine the number of Iraqi deaths.
- Edemariam, Aida (February 28, 2008). "Aida Edemariam talks to author Joseph Stiglitz about the true cost of the Iraq war". The Guardian – via www.theguardian.com.
- War at any Price? The Total Economic Costs of the War Beyond the Federal Budget (PDF). United States Joint Economic Committee (Report). November 2007 – via www.jec.senate.gov.
- "New Joint Economic Committee Report Reveals Total Economic Costs of War Could Exceed $3.5 Trillion If U.S. Stays the Course". Joint Economic Committee Democrats (Press release). November 13, 2007.
- "Congressional Budget Office Testimony on the Cost of the Iraq War" (PDF).
- War in Iraq: Costs, Consequences and Alternatives Archived February 2, 2007, at the Wayback Machine
- Foldvary, Fred E. (September 2008). "Uncovering the Costs of the Iraq War". Econ Journal Watch. 5 (3): 373–379.
- Krueger, Alan B. (March 30, 2006). "The Cost of Invading Iraq: Imponderables Meet Uncertainties". The New York Times.
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I. CITY LAWSUITS AGAINST THE GUN INDUSTRY WILL PRESSURE FIREARM MANUFACTURERS TO DESIGN SAFER WEAPONS AND SELL GUNS RESPONSIBLY
Guns are the cause of a tragic and avoidable public health crisis in the United States.Shooting deaths and injuries of children have reached epidemic proportions. No other industrialized country in the world approaches the number of firearm-related deaths that occur in the United States. Death among American children under 15 years old is 12 times higher than the combined death rate for 25 other industrialized countries. Between 1993 and 1995, firearms were the number two cause of death for children aged 10-14 in the nation. They are currently the leading cause of death in California, Alaska, Louisiana, Maryland, Nevada and Virginia. These alarming statistics are caused, in part, by the irresponsible and deliberate actions of firearm manufacturers (hereinafter collectively referred to as "manufacturers" or "industry").
Firearm manufacturers are directly responsible for a substantial number of unintentional shooting deaths and injuries because they have chosen not to incorporate feasible safety features into the design of their weapons. Despite their ability to decrease the incidences of unintentional discharge, manufacturers have consciously decided not to make guns safer.
Firearm manufacturers cause many intentional shooting deaths and injuries by selling firearms irresponsibly so that guns are available to criminals, juveniles and other unauthorized users. The industry has increased the ability of unauthorized persons to have access to firearms through their marketing, distribution and sales of guns. Unlike manufacturers of other dangerous products, they place few controls on the sale of guns. As a result of easy access and widespread misuse of weapons, local governments and individual tax payers have borne the fiscal responsibility for firearm-related health care costs in the amount of $4 billion per year.
Municipality and private lawsuits against gun makers are one way to force change upon an industry that refuses to act responsibly. Lawsuits have the potential for pressuring firearm manufacturers to make safer weapons and to sell guns responsibly by restricting unauthorized persons' access to firearms. The city lawsuits are based on well-established legal grounds traditionally relied upon by plaintiff attorneys in individual personal injury lawsuits. The local governments' actions seek to improve public safety, health and welfare and, once again, make our streets and schoolyards safe from gun violence.
A. THE FIREARM INDUSTRY CAN PREVENT UNINTENTIONAL SHOOTINGS BY INCORPORATING FEASIBLE AND EXISTING SAFETY DESIGNS INTO THEIR GUNS.
Gun shot wounds account for over 32,000 deaths and an estimated 100,000 injuries requiring hospital treatment every year. Many of these deaths and injuries are caused by accidental firings. In 1994 over 1,400 deaths and 18,000 injuries requiring treatment in hospital emergency rooms occurred as the result of unintentional discharges. Approximately 35 % of all unintentional firearm deaths involve users of guns who were between the ages of 13 and 16. The General Accounting Office concluded in a 1991 study that weapon design was a contributing factor in one-third of all unintentional gun shot deaths and injuries. The study also concluded that about one out of every three deaths from accidental firings could be prevented by design changes or the implementation of firearm safety devices. Despite knowing that death and injury can be minimized, firearm manufacturers callously refuse to implement feasible and existing safety devices into the design of handguns.
For instance, hundreds of unintentional killings occur because the user of a pistol does not know that there was a round in the chamber. The General Accounting Office estimated that 23% of unintentional firearm-related deaths occur each year because the user of the gun is not aware that a round of ammunition had been loaded into the gun's firing chamber. Unintentional shootings caused by the user not knowing that a bullet is in the chamber can be prevented, in many instances, by implementing a simple device called a chamber-loaded indicator. One type of chamber-loaded indicator is a small colored dot that appears either on the top or side of the gun to alert the user when there is a bullet in the firing chamber. The chamber loaded indicator has been installed in only a few pistols despite the fact that it is available on the market and is easily incorporated into a firearm.
Another safety device called a magazine disconnect safety prevents a handgun from being fired when the magazine is removed even if there is a bullet in the chamber. This often occurs when the firearm user takes the magazine out of the gun. The user believes that the firearm is inoperable when, in fact, the gun can be fired without a magazine being inserted in it. The magazine disconnect safety has also been on the market for years and is easy to incorporate into a firearm. If incorporated into pistols, safety devices, such as the chamber loaded indicator and magazine disconnect safety, could prevent thousands of injuries and deaths each year. These safety features would reduce medical expenses and other economic costs borne by our cities and counties in excess of $170 million per year.
With no regulatory agency overseeing its products, the industry is permitted to place low quality, deadly products that lack safety features into the marketplace causing thousands of deaths and injuries every year. Gunshot harm could be greatly reduced if firearm manufacturers are pressured through litigation to provide adequate warnings and incorporate safety devices into the design of their firearms. Lawsuits can be brought against the gun industry for neglecting to install feasible safety features into the weapon. Absent legislation that prohibits this type of case, such failure renders a pistol defective in design under traditional product liability law in every jurisdiction. Thirteen cities and counties have sued the firearm industry under either negligence or strict liability theories for failure to install safety features and for failure to warn. Those cities include: Atlanta, Georgia; Boston, Massachusetts; Bridgeport, Connecticut; Camden County, New Jersey; Camden, New Jersey; Cincinnati, Ohio; Cleveland, Ohio; Gary, Indiana; Miami-Dade County, Florida; Newark, New Jersey; New Orleans, Louisiana; St. Louis, Missouri; and Wilmington, Delaware.
Similarly, 12 cities and counties in Northern and Southern California, including, Los Angeles and San Francisco, have sued the firearm industry under a sweeping state consumer protection statute that allows both an individual and a governmental entity to sue a businesses for unfair, illegal or fraudulent business practices. Bus. & Prof. Code ' 17200. Other states have similar consumer protection statutes that are not being effectively utilized for this type of lawsuit.
B. MUNICIPAL AND INDIVIDUAL LAWSUITS WILL PRESSURE THE FIREARM INDUSTRY TO DEVELOP PERSONALIZED GUN TECHNOLOGY SO THAT UNATHORIZED USERS CANNOT ACCESS A FIREARM.
A major problem with firearms is that anyone can use them. There are over 13,000 homicides and 17,000 suicides every year, many of which are committed by juveniles or other individuals that should not have access to a weapon.
Adolescent homicides and suicides are usually committed with firearms that the adolescent has taken from his or her home. In the United States, the rate at which youths aged 10-19 years commit suicide with firearms is once every six hours. In fact, the odds that a potentially suicidal minor will kill themselves doubles when a gun is stored in the home.
Access to guns by unauthorized users can be restricted by designing guns that incorporate personalized gun or smart gun technology that allows only an authorized user of the gun to have access to it. This technology is feasible today and many patents have been granted for this type of technology over the last twenty years. In April 1994 the National Institute of Justice (NIJ) funded the Smart Gun Technology Project (hereinafter referred to as the "Project") to determine the feasibility of firearms implementing smart gun technology. The Project identified three categories of technologically feasible personalized safety systems: automated identification technologies; biometric technologies; and miscellaneous technologies.
Despite the ability to make a smart gun, no firearm manufacturer has designed and sold a personalized gun even though there is strong public support for childproofing of firearms. In a recent national survey 88% of the respondents supported childproofing weapons and 71 % of the respondents favored the implementation of personalized gun technology.
Lawyers should consider bringing a lawsuit against a manufacturer for failing to incorporate personalized gun technology into a firearm when presented with a situation in which a death or injury results from a pistol being shot by someone who should not have had access to it. This type of case can be brought under negligence and strict products liability law. With the exception of the Chicago and Michigan lawsuits, all of the city lawsuits have been premised on the smart gun theory and several individual lawsuits have also been brought against firearm manufacturers for failure to personalize guns. To date, the only case to go to trial on this issue was Dix v. Beretta. The threat of this type of liability will put more pressure on manufacturers to develop a personalized gun and to help save lives.
C. THE FIREARM INDUSTRY HAS CREATED AN ILLEGITIMATE SECONDARY MARKET THAT ALLOWS CRIMINALS AND JUVENILES TO HAVE ACCESS TO FIREARMS.
Thousands of deaths every year are caused by persons who use guns despite being legally prohibited from purchasing them. A recent report showed that 18% of highschool students reported that they had carried a weapon. Another survey showed that 70% of all prisoners felt that they could easily obtain a firearm upon their release from prison. The firearm industry knows that weapons are easily available to persons prohibited by law from purchasing them. Rather than making it more difficult for illegal users to obtain guns, the industry facilitates the problem by failing to implement reasonable controls for the distribution and sale of weapons.
There are about 65 million handguns and 250 million other firearms owned by the public.Each year the industry adds an additional 2.5 million handguns to the market. The industry knows that there are more handguns being sold to purchasers than can reasonably be expected to be sold to the legitimate legal market and, yet, it continues to saturate the market in order to profit from sales to illegal buyers. As a result, the firearm industry's annual sales have skyrocketed to $2.5 billion a year at the expense of the public.
Firearm manufacturers, unlike responsible manufacturers of other potentially harmful products, fail to take reasonable steps to curb the incidences of misuse. In fact, the firearm manufacturer.s failure to act responsibly is a conscious decision by the industry in order to insulate themselves from liability for the foreseeable misuse of their products. Manufacturers of consumer goods that know their products have a high likelihood of being abused have a duty to reduce the product's potential for misuse by employing methods to selectively distribute the product. These methods often include carefully monitoring, training and screening distributors and retailers, using only authorized dealers to distribute the product, and electronically tracking the distribution of products.
Despite their duty to responsibly sell and distribute weapons, firearm manufacturers have failed to employ effective distribution methods such as those used by manufacturers of other dangerous consumer goods. The industry's failure to act responsibly is a conscious attempt to shield themselves from liability by distancing themselves from the end user or abuser of the product. Instead of employing responsible and effective distribution tactics to decrease the ready access that criminals have to firearms, they point the finger at the abuser of the product. The firearm industry maintains that they are not responsible for the criminal misuse of their lawfully sold product. Contrary to their position, failure on the part of gun makers to act responsibly and use effective distribution procedures when they have a duty to act is negligent.
Negligent distribution cases are viable lawsuits against the industry. The first lawsuit that was heard by a jury alleging that marketing and distribution practices of gun manufacturers foreseeably fostered illegal gun trafficking that resulted in gun-related deaths and injuries was Hamilton v. Accu-tek.. This action resulted in a Plaintiff verdict. Following the verdict, the trial judge, Judge Weinstein, ruled against Defendants' Motion for Judgement as a Matter of Law. In a lengthy opinion, Judge Weinstein found as follows:
To the extent manufacturers' negligent marketing or distribution practices allow them to profit from the acquisition of handguns by those likely to misuse them, they must be deemed to have benefited wrongfully at the expense of those injured or killed. Fairness mandates restoration of the balance through the imposition of a duty to market and distribute handguns responsibly. Id. at 55.
Every municipality that is currently suing the firearm industry has alleged either that the distribution and marketing practices of defendants have created a public nuisance, were negligent or were unfair, illegal or fraudulent. For instance, Chicago has alleged that defendants created a public nuisance by intentionally marketing, distributing and selling handguns to persons in Chicago even though the City banned handguns. The California lawsuits have similarly maintained that the firearm industry's conduct has created a public nuisance and that the industry has engaged in unlawful, unfair and/or fraudulent business practices in connection with the manufacture, sale or marketing of firearms.
II. THE IMPACT OF MUNICPALITY LAWSUITS ON INDIVIDUAL LITIGATION
The growing number of municipalities involved in litigation against the firearm industry will impact individual litigation in a positive way. The city cases and plaintiff attorneys representing injured persons have opened the doors for creative and novel legal theories to be used against the gun industry. Where once there was an air of animosity towards lawsuits brought against he firearm industry, the current trend is to permit these lawsuits to reach a jury. For example, in Merrill v. Navegar, the California appellate court found that the trial judge erred in granting defendant's summary judgment and dismissing the case. This case was brought against Navegar, Inc., the manufacturer of an assault weapon, used by Gian Luigi Ferri in the 1993 shooting rampage at a law firm in San Francisco that left 9 people dead and 6 others injured. The court in Merrill held that Navegar owed a duty to exercise reasonable care not to create risks above and beyond those inherent in the presence of firearms in our society. The current political and social climate against gun makers is ripe for litigation in many jurisdictions.
Gun manufacturers have the ability to design guns so that children and other unauthorized users cannot use them. The threat of civil liability by individuals and municipalities will create a greater incentive for manufacturers to design and incorporate safety devices into their firearms and to sell guns responsibly. Municipal and individual lawsuits have the collective capacity to force change upon an industry that refuses to be accountable for the death and destruction it has cost.
***Republished with permission from the Association of Trial Lawyers of America, Winter Convention 2000 materials.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, 1997: 46:101-105.
CDC, National Center for Injury Prevention and Control, Ten Leading Causes of Death, United States, 1993-1995. Rev. 7/7/98; CDC/National Center for Health Statistics, 1997; State of California, Department of Health Services, Death Records, Table 02 Death By Age 1-19, Sex and Cause of Death (1996).
Kizer KW, Vassar MJ, Harry RL, Layton KD, Hospitalization charges, costs and income for firearm-related injuries at university trauma center, Journal of the American Medical Association 1995: 273(22): 1768-1773. (Estimated costs for 1995).
Annest JL, Mercy JA, Gibson, DR, Ryan GW, National Estimates of nonfatal firearm-related injuries. Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA). 1995; 273:1749-1754; Witkin, Gordon, Another Gun Control Plan, The Wild Idea: Treat Guns like other Consumer Items; Make Them Safer, U.S. News and World Report, May 13, 1991 at 37; National Center for Health Statistics, unpublished data from the Vital Statistics System, 1997 Firearm Deaths.
General Accounting Office (GAO), Accidental Shootings, Many Deaths and Injuries Caused by Firearms Could be Prevented, March 1991.
GAO Report at 20.
15 U.S.C. 2052(a) (1) (E) (1994). The Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) is the only federal agency with authority to promulgate safety standards for consumer products except for those products that are exempt from the CPSC's jurisdiction as set forth in the Consumer Product Safety Act of 1972. Firearms are one of the products that are exempt from CPSC regulation.
Some of the chamber loaded indicators currently on the market are ineffective and do not adequately perform the function for which they are intended . to alert the user that a round is in the chamber. A potential product liability case may be a possibility for an unintentional gun shot case if the chamber loaded indicator is deficient and failed to warn the user that gun was loaded. See Dix v. Beretta, infra.
GAO Report at. 4.
Immunity legislation precluding either lawsuits by municipalities or individuals against the gun industry has been passed in the following states: Alaska; Arkansas; Arizona; Georgia; Louisiana; Maine; Montana; Nevada; Oklahoma; South Dakota; Texas; and Tennessee. Immunity legislation is pending in the following states: Kansas; Kentucky; Iowa; Massachusetts; Minnesota; Michigan; North Carolina; Pennsylvania; South Carolina; Vermont; and Wisconsin. Contact Joshua Horwitz at (202) 530-5888 ext. 28 for further information about immunity legislation.
Atlanta successfully overcame defendants' Motion to Dismiss on October 27, 1999.
Interpreting Ohio law, which differs from the law of many states, a court dismissed the Cincinnati lawsuit on October 7, 1999.
National Center for Health Statistics, Unpublished data from the Vital Statistics System, 1997 Firearm Deaths.
National Center for Health Statistics (1995).
Journal of the American Medical Association, 266: 2989-2995 (1991).
Robinson, Teret, Vernick, Webster, et al. Personalized Guns: Reducing Gun Deaths Through Design Changes, A publication of the Johns Hopkin Center of Gun Policy and Research, 2d. Ed. at pp.6-7 (May 1998).
D.R. Weiss, Power Electronics and Custom Controllers Department, Sandia National Laboratories, Smart Gun Technology Final Report, Albuquerque, New Mexico, 87185-0537, at 1 and 81-109 (April 1994). Automated identification technologies electronically detect and measure a unique characteristic of an item, i.e. radio frequency identification or transponders, bar code identification and touch memory; biometric technologies measure a person's unique physical characteristics to identify the person, i.e. fingerprint, voice, hand shape, signature or facial feature recognition; and miscellaneous technologies include internal and external locking devices, i.e. magnetic encoding devices that lock the trigger to prevent shooting unless the magnets are aligned, capacitating sensors are sensors with the capacity to determine when an object is nearby.
In fact, in 1996 Colt Manufacturing Company announced that it designed a prototype for a personalized gun for use by law enforcement agencies. The prototype has still not been marketed or sold. J. Taylor Buckley, Smart Guns: A Safe Alternative?, USA Today, Sept. 18, 1996, at 5B.
Teret S, et al. Support for new policies to regulate firearms: Result of two national surveys, New England Journal of Medicine 1998:Volume 339 (12):813-818.
Alameda County Superior Court Case No. 750681-9. This case involved the tragic shooting death of a fifteen year old boy, Kenzo Griffin Dix, by his fourteen year old best friend. The two boys had been playing in the friend's bedroom when the friend brought his father's gun into the room to show Kenzo. The youth inserted an unloaded magazine into the grip of the firearm. Not knowing that a round remained in the chamber of the pistol, he pointed and fired at Kenzo Dix, killing him. The action alleged, among other causes of action, defective design, failure to warn and failure to incorporate a "personalization" device which would prevent the pistol from being fired by an unauthorized user. The case resulted in a defense verdict. For further information about this lawsuit contact the author of this article, Ingrid Evans (415) 554-3884, or Jonathan Lowy at the Center to Prevent Handgun Violence in Washington, D.C (202) 289-7319.
The 1968 Gun Control Act prohibits felons, juveniles, insane persons, substance abusers, illegal aliens, inter alia, from purchasing a firearm from a federal firearms' licensee. 18 U.S.C. '922, et seq.
Department of Education, Annual Report on School Safety, at 3 of 5, (Oct. 1998), www.ed.gov/pubs/annschoolrept98/stloc.html.
Sheley, Joseph F, Wright, James D., National Institute Institute of Justice, Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, Gun Acquisition and Possession In Selected Juvenile Samples at 5 (Dec. 1993).
Kleck, Gary. (1991); NERA Report in Hamilton v. Accu-tek case.
Weaver, Jay, County Targets Handgun Industry: Shooting Spur Lawsuit Proposal, South Florida Sun-Sentinel, Dec. 27, 1998, at 1B.
Declaration of David Stewart, PhD, July 6, 1998 in Hamilton v. Accu-tek case at paragraphs 9 and 11.
Id. at paragraphs 9 and 11.
This case was filed in January 1995 in U.S. District Court for the Eastern District o f New York case no. CV-95-0049. The action was brought on behalf of seven plaintiffs against twenty five handgun manufacturers for negligent distribution/marketing of handguns. The lawsuit resulted in a successful verdict for one of the plaintiffs. Elisa Barnes and Denise Dunleavy were the trial attorneys for the plaintiffs. Judge Weinstein issued a well-supported decision for this case which is available for review on the internet at www.firearmslitigation.org.
Chicago's First Amended Complaint at para. 1.
People of the State of California, et al. v. Arcadia Machine & Tool, Inc., et al. San Francisco Superior Court case no. 303753 at para. 87 of Plaintiffs' First Amended Complaint.
Merrill v. Navegar (1999) First Appellate District, 89 Cal.Rptr.2d 146 (Division 2 of the State of California case no. A079863).
Id. at 2.
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Ayudha Pooja is on 7th October 2019 Monday, and it’s an important festival in Tamil Nadu. This day is also called “Astra Puja,” which means “Worship of Instruments.” This day is celebrated throughout Tamil Nadu for worshipping their profession. Offices are closed traditionally on this day. It is a part of the Navratri festival, which is usually celebrated in India. People worship goddesses Sakthi, Saraswati, Lakshmi, and Parvathi on this auspicious occasion with various equipment. This day is also celebrated as Saraswathi Pooja worshipping Goddess Saraswathi. It’s celebrated on the 9th Day of Dussera or Navarathiri. Here is how the festival is celebrated in different parts of India:
- It is celebrated in Tamil Nadu as Ayudha Pujai (Tamil: ஆயுத பூஜை),
- It is celebrated in Telangana and Andhra Pradesh as Aayudha Pooja (Telugu: ఆయుధ పూజ)
- It is celebrated in Kerala as Ayudha Puja (Malayalam: ആയുധ പൂജ)
- It is celebrated in Odisha as Astra Puja (Odia: ଅସ୍ତ୍ର ପୂଜା) or “Ayudha Puja”
- It is celebrated in Marathi as Shastra Puja (Marathi: आयुध पूजा/ खंडे नवमी)
- It is celebrated in Maharashtra as Ayudha Puja/ Khande Navami.”
- It is celebrated in Karnataka as “Ayudha Puje” (Kannada: ಆಯುಧ ಪೂಜೆ).
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Although he’s been busy with some other matters, Sen. Barack Obama found time this week to introduce legislation that would expand the amount of information made available to the public on federal procurement contracts. The measure was introduced with Sen. Tom Coburn (R-Okla.), who had joined Obama in a previous bipartisan initiative that resulted in the 2006 passage of legislation creating the USA Spending database. The original co-sponsors of the new bill (S.3077) are Senators John McCain (R-Ariz.) and Tom Carper (D-Del.).
S.3077 calls for an expansion of the data provided via USA Spending, the creation of which also needs to be credited to OMB Watch, which built its own contract database, FedSpending, on which the federal resource ended up being based.
As summarized by Obama’s office, the bill would add to USA Spending:
– A copy of each Federal contract in both PDF and searchable text format.
– Details about competitive bidding, the range of technically acceptable bids or proposals, and the profit incentives offered for each contract.
– The complete amount of money awarded, including any options to expand or extend under a contract.
– An indication if the Federal award is the result of an earmark.
– Information about government lease agreements and assignments in the same manner that information is reported for contracts, grants, and other assistance.
– An assessment of the quality of work performed on Federal awards.
– Information about Federal audit disputes and resolutions, terminations of Federal awards, suspensions and debarments, and administrative agreements involving Federal award recipients.
– Information about any civil, criminal, or administrative actions taken against Federal award recipients, including for violations related to the workplace, environmental protection, fraud, securities, and consumer protections.
– Information about Federal tax compliance by Federal award recipients.
– Information about parent company ownership that will be made accessible, along with other data on USASpending.GOV, through application programming interfaces.
– Links to publicly available Government reports.
Legislation covering the bullet point about disclosure of the legal track record of contractors—along the lines of the Project On Government Oversight’s Federal Contractor Misconduct Database—has already passed the House.
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Jan-27 23:37 WORLD
Xi's speech on multilateralism lauded overseas
Emphasis on commitment to support joint response to challenges earns praise
President Xi Jinping's speech at the World Economic Forum Virtual Event of the Davos Agenda on Monday has made clear China's commitment to upholding multilateralism and injected impetus into the world's joint response to challenges, global experts said.
In his special address, Xi said the problems facing the world are intricate and complex and that the way out of them is "through upholding multilateralism and building a community with a shared future for mankind".
He also expressed opposition to the building of "small circles" and starting a new Cold War, because these acts, as well as efforts to "reject, threaten or intimidate others, to willfully impose decoupling, supply disruption or sanctions, and to create isolation or estrangement will only push the world into division and even confrontation".
There have been more voices in the US academic community calling for an end to the attempt to decouple the two countries, either in trade or technology, experts said.
David Dollar and Ryan Hass, two senior fellows at the John L. Thornton China Center of the Brookings Institution, said in an article on Monday that while it will be "tempting" to try to decouple from China, "decoupling is a losing strategy down the road since America's partners would not follow suit, and the US would end up isolated".
Robert Lawrence Kuhn, a China expert and chairman of The Kuhn Foundation, said that multilateralism is not optional in today's tightly wired world£from controlling the pandemic to macroeconomic interconnectedness£and international coordination and common prosperity have long been recurrent themes for Xi. The challenge for the world, and for China, is to prevent issues of contention from disrupting optimum actions.
Led by Xi, China continues to extol and promote international coordination, starting with macroeconomic policy coordination, he said.
"China has been the country most committed to globalization, and even though China is now adopting a 'dual circulation' strategy that enhances the importance of its domestic market during our volatile times, this in no way reduces China commitment to global engagement," Kuhn said.
Bernard Dewit, chairman of the Belgian-Chinese Chamber of Commerce, said that Xi's speech "clearly and rightly describes the major tasks the world is facing with the COVID-19 pandemic and its consequences".
Dewit said he appreciated that Xi declared that the global community cannot tackle common challenges in a divided world and advocated the building of an open world economy.
"It is important for Europe and the rest of the world to note that Chinese President Xi confirms that his country will continue to implement a strategy of opening-up and promote sustainable development," he said.
Evgeny Zagrebnov, a Russian expert on Sino-Russian relations, said Xi's speech showed China's commitment to free trade and investment. China is calling for the international community to get rid of economic barriers and jointly find a solution to challenges brought by economic globalization.
The reform of global economic structures allows China and other developing countries to play a more balanced role on the world stage. It also makes the global economy stronger, more regulated and more resilient, which fits the concept of the China-proposed Belt and Road Initiative, Zagrebnov said.
Yuzo Tanaka, a professor of economics at Ryukoku University in Kyoto, said that China's contribution to the world economy is the "light shining out of the darkness" after a crippling pandemic plunged major world economies into recession, and Xi's stand on inclusive growth, green development, global governance and consensus-building fit the goal of this year's Davos, which is "a historic opportunity for collaboration".
Nawazish Mirza, an associate professor of finance at Excelia Business School in France, said that Xi's speech was "a reiteration of China's commitment to cooperation, development and collective growth".
Mirza said that Chinese policy has always opposed conflict in international relations, and Xi's speech maintained that stance.
"China has been the only economy that has reported robust growth during the pandemic, and meaningful cooperation could yield significant prospects for the US. The lowering of sanctions, minimizing supply disruptions, strategic communication and technology sharing could not only benefit both the world powers but also contribute to global growth, something that is much needed in a post-pandemic world."
Mirza said: "Xi also pointed out the importance of closing the divide between developed and developing countries aligned with the Chinese view of shared prosperity."
Dennis Munene, executive director of the China-Africa Center at the Africa Policy Institute, said that Xi's speech comes at a time when the global community is looking for sustainable economic policies to revive its struggling economy.
"In reviving the global economy, President Xi advocates the shunning of ideological prejudice such as unilateralism and isolationism and instead promotes multilateralism and building a community with a shared future for mankind," he said.
Munene said he appreciates that Xi advocates the strengthening of equal opportunities, equal rights and equal rules so that all countries will benefit from the fruits of development.
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A Tested Relationship - The U.S. and Mexico: Great Decisions 2019 Series
Catalogue Number: SCTV07
Producer: Scorpion TV
Subject: Business Studies, Canadian World Studies, Criminal Justice & Law, Current Events, Documentary, Economics, Global Issues, Global Studies, Politics, Social Sciences, Social Studies
Grade Level: 9 - 12, Post Secondary, Adult
Country Of Origin: UK
Copyright Year: 2019
Running Time: 26:00
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Renowned art historian, author, academic administrator and curator Dame Professor Jessica Rawson will be awarded the Charles Lang Freer Medal for her lifetime work in Chinese art and archeology. The medal will be presented to the noted British scholar in a private ceremony in Washington, D.C., Saturday, Oct. 28.
The Freer Medal honors individuals who in the course of a career have contributed in a substantial way to the understanding of the arts of Asia. Named after the museum’s founder, Charles Lang Freer, the medal has been awarded 13 times since its inception in 1956.
“Jessica Rawson joins an extraordinarily distinguished group of recipients of the Freer Medal, and she fully merits her inclusion in this Olympian gathering, for she has made outstanding contributions to the field of Asian art as an academic and a museum professional,” said Julian Raby, the Dame Jillian Sackler Director of the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery and the Freer Gallery of Art. “Her research has been pioneering and rigorous. Grounded in material culture, Jessica’s scholarship has shed light on the uses and significance of ancient objects and on the transmission of objects and ideas across cultures. As a museum professional her work has been consummate.”
Throughout her career, Rawson, former keeper of the Department of Oriental Antiquities at the British Museum and currently professor of Chinese art and archaeology at the University of Oxford, has advanced the understanding of these areas including the relationship between people of China and Inner Asia. Her publications have covered extensive topics and time periods, including the Bronze Age and the Han, Tang and Qing dynasties.
She is the author of numerous books, including Ancient China: Art & Archaeology (1980), Chinese Ornament: The Lotus and the Dragon (1984), Chinese Bronzes: Art and Ritual (1987), Western Zhou Ritual Bronzes from the Arthur M. Sackler Collections (1990), Chinese Jade from the Neolithic to the Qing (1995), British Museum Book of Mysteries of Ancient China (1996) and with Evelyn Rawski (eds.) China: The Three Emperors, 1662–1795 (2005) and numerous articles and book chapters, including “The Han Empire and Its Northern Neighbors: The Fascinations with the Exotic” and in James Lin (ed.) “The Search for Immortality: Tomb Treasures of Han China.”
During the course of her career, Rawson has been involved in a number of prominent exhibitions, including the British Museum’s “Mysteries of Ancient China”in 1996, and she was lead curator on theexhibition and catalog “China: The Three Emperors 1662–1795,” a Royal Academy of Arts exhibition presented in 2005–6.
In addition to her research, Rawson has taken leadership roles at museums and universities. Following studies at the University of Cambridge, she embarked on a promising career in the British civil service, which she left to pursue her long-standing passion for Chinese art. Between 1976 and 1994, she served as deputy keeper and then keeper of the Department of Oriental Antiquities at the British Museum, before being appointed warden of Merton College, University of Oxford. She served as the university’s pro-vice-chancellor from 2006 to 2011.
Rawson’s career has been marked by honors and recognition from her peers and government. She is a Fellow of the British Academy and a member of the Scholars’ Council of the Kluge Center at the Library of Congress and the Art Fund’s Advisory Council. She was made a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 2002 for services to oriental studies. In 2012, she was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences as a Foreign Honorary Member.
The Freer Medal was last awarded in 2012 to John Rosenfield, the Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Professor of East Asian Art, Emeritus at Harvard University. Previous recipients are James Cahill (2010), Oleg Graber (2001), Sherman E. Lee (1998), Alexander Soper (1990), Stella Kramrisch (1985), Max Loehr (1983), Roman Ghirshman (1974), Tanakka Ichimatsu (1973), Laurence Sickman (1973), Yashiro Yukio (1975), Ernst Kühnel (1960) and Osvald Sirén (1956.)
ABOUT THE FREER AND SACKLER GALLERIES
The Smithsonian’s Freer Gallery of Art and the adjacent Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, located on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., together comprise the nation’s museums of Asian art. They contain one of the most important collections of Asian art in the world, featuring more than 40,000 objects ranging in time from the Neolithic to the present day, with especially fine groupings of Islamic art, Chinese jades, bronzes and paintings and the art of the ancient Near East. The galleries also contain important masterworks from Japan, ancient Egypt, South and Southeast Asia and Korea, as well as the Freer’s noted collection of works by American artist James McNeill Whistler.
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Report – The Future of Freight Part A: Understanding the System
CESAR Scenarios: Volume 4 – Issue 1
By Jessica Lof, M.Sc. and
David B. Layzell, PhD, FRSC
This report was first published by Canadian Energy Systems Analysis Research (CESAR) at the University of Calgary.
This study is the first in our Future of Freight Series of reports in which we use the methodology of the Transition Accelerator to identify and implement credible and compelling transition pathways that are capable to moving Canada to a vibrant and sustainable, low carbon future.
The first stage in the Accelerator’s four stage methodology (Understand, Codevelop, Analyze and Advance) is to understand the sector that needs to be transformed, including its strengths and weaknesses, and the nature of the technology, business model, policy and social innovations that have the potential to transform the sector. Such forces need to be harnessed if the sector is to change in a way that meets societal needs, including – but not limited to – addressing the challenge of climate change.
The report makes a case that the freight transport sector is on the cusp of major changes driven by improvements in efficiency and competitiveness. The possible shift to zero-emission or very low carbon fuels is entirely consistent with such a transformational change. Future reports will explore how to make that happen.
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Maybe you’re a graphic designer. Or you’re part of the creative workforce. Or perhaps you simply create on the side. Either way, if you find yourself producing innovative work on the regular, then you’ve definitely come face to face with the dreaded creative block.
So what do you do when you’re hard pressed to come up with anything clever and a deadline is looming? You might squirm, distract yourself with email, or drink an entire bottle of chardonnay hoping for divine inspiration (à la Michelangelo) but that won’t solve the problem. Better to learn some strategies that will help you over the hurdle and get your creative juices flowing again.
1. Nature nurtures (your creative side)
Many of us live in cities and suburbs where it might be unrealistic to visit the “great outdoors” on a regular basis. But even if you can’t get to the beach, or the lake, or the mountains it still helps to get out to a park—or out for a walk for some fresh air, and a fresh change of perspective. Evidence points to nature being exceptionally helpful in freeing your creative mind. Green space has a calming effect on your brain, and this helps encourage creative ideas because your brain isn’t distracted by the fast pace of city life. In fact, the effect is increased when you avoid distractions like your smart phone and text messages. Which leads me to topic #2…
2. Kill the Internet!… If only for a few hours.
Increasing evidence points to how smartphones, social media, and the internet have created more distractions in our lives, making it harder to concentrate on one task at a time and “killing our creativity.”
Filling your idle time with work emails and getting caught up on texts may feel productive, but the loss of free time can be detrimental to your imagination. Your brain needs time to unwind and be absent-minded in order to formulate fresh ideas. So, if you’re finding it difficult to follow through on the task at hand, do your best to avoid filling that time with status updates, or seeing what new Instagram posts are in your feed. Letting a wandering mind ruminate over an idea is key to sparking the creativity you seek.
3. Lie down. And try not to fall asleep.
The creative workforce does a lot of their work while sitting. Or increasingly at standing desks— or even while pedaling! But one doctor’s study has shown that many of our creative ideas actually come to us when we’re lying down. The study tested subject’s abilities to solve anagrams, those tricky word puzzles whose answer usually “reveals” itself to the observer in an “an ‘A-ha!’ or Eureka moment.” This notion may resonate with you, too, if you’ve ever come up with the solution to a tricky creative problem while in bed.
So, you may want to try lying down for a change in perspective when dealing with a creative block. Or, if you don’t want to be the oddball at the office lying under your desk, I suggest keeping your journal, drawing pad, Wacom tablet, musical instrument, or other preferred creative idea generator by your bed, ready for when creativity strikes!
4. Be a kid again!
I know you have a job, and deadlines, and a hectic be-everywhere-all-at-once schedule, but it truly helps to turn off the logic of day-to-day thinking once in awhile and play! Playing helps free your creative mind from the reason and rigor of right-brain thought. When you play you’re often suspending critical judgement, and you’re able to approach ideas from a new, novel perspective. In fact, companies like Google and 3M have also embraced the idea of whimsy in the workplace by creating offices that resemble classrooms and game rooms. So what things can you do to let your inner kid out? Get out your old legos, or sit on the floor (for a childlike perspective) and doodle. Try learning a new instrument. Or a new language! Join an intramural sports team… Whatever it is, remember that the pleasure of the experience is important. So really, do what’s fun!
5. Free your mind, man…
However you choose to label it (mindfulness, attention, zoning out…) meditation can have numerous benefits to creativity. Studies have shown that meditation helps dismantle “cognitive rigidity,” or the inability to see ideas from different perspectives. And the attention necessary for meditation helps foster a mind that is more flexible when approaching new ideas. Studies also show that a little goes a long way. The effects of 10 minutes of meditation can last for hours. Additionally, meditation can boost mood, and reduce stress! A UCLA study even found that the brains of meditators showed less age-related atrophy (or wasting away) than non-meditators.
Finding your stressed out mind going blank lately? Maybe it’s time to step away and take 10.
The pressure to be perfect can be huge, especially when you have clients to please. And the feeling can constrict your creative flow. So it’s important to remember to give yourself the freedom to create for the sake of creating.
Remind yourself why you love doing what you do by creating work for no one in particular, and with no set goal in mind! Allowing your brain to create freely and without criticism can foster your imagination, similar to play-time and meditation.
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by James Bovard
After former President George H.W. Bush died late last year, he was widely hailed as a great leader and patriot. At the National Cathedral funeral service, biographer Jon Meachan declared that Bush was a “twentieth-century Founding Father.” The minister of Bush’s church in Houston compared him to Jesus. Bush’s gentlemanly manners were lauded by many people outraged by President Trump’s behavior. But there was far more Trump-like demagoguery and conniving during Bush’s presidency than most Americans remember.
Bush was the most protectionist president since Herbert Hoover. Like Trump, he spoke of the need for “level playing fields” and “fair trade.” But Bush-style fairness gave federal bureaucrats practically endless vetoes over Americans’ freedom to choose foreign goods. Bush’s Commerce Department ravaged importers with one bureaucratic scam after another, using the anti-dumping law to convict 97 percent of imports investigated, claiming that their prices were unfairly low to American producers (not consumers). Japanese auto makers were convicted after Commerce bureaucrats compared the price of used cars sold in Japan with the price of new cars sold by the Japanese companies in America. Used cars were cheaper, so the Japanese were guilty of dumping. The Commerce Department compared the price of small kiwis from New Zealand sold abroad with the price of imported large kiwis sold here. The smaller kiwis were cheaper and that proved the foreigners were dastards, with no thought for American consumers.
Bush also ordered the U.S. International Trade Commission to investigate after ice cream imports threatened to exceed 1 percent of the U.S. market. (American companies realize that foreign names have more cachet, which is why New Jersey-based Häagen-Dazs did not name its product after Newark.) Bush also perpetuated import quotas on steel and machine tools, undermining the competitiveness of American manufacturers who needed access to the best building materials in the world.
While Bush declared that trade was the key to spreading prosperity to poorer nations, he slapped new textile import quotas on Nigeria, Indonesia, Egypt, the Philippines, Burma, Costa Rica, Panama, Pakistan, and many other nations. Mexico was allowed to sell Americans only 35,292 bras in 1989 — part of a byzantine regime that also restricted imports of tampons, typing ribbons, tarps, twine, table linen, tapestries, ties, and thousands of other products. A 1989 White House report concluded that the trade restrictions added 50 percent to the price of imported clothing.
Though Bush called for a “kinder, gentler” nation while campaigning for the presidency in 1988, he turned federal drug policy into a holy war, demonizing drug users while hailing DEA agents as America’s “greatest freedom fighters.” Thanks in part to Bush’s tub-thumping, drug arrests surged by 200,000 in the first year of his presidency. His choice for drug czar, Bill Bennett, had no problem with beheading drug dealers, while his administration began deluging law enforcement with surplus military equipment that would lead to no-knock-raid and wrongful-killing disasters around the nation in the following decades.
The Bush administration turbo-charged asset forfeiture, spurring seizures of private property on the slightest pretexts from individuals who were never convicted of crimes. Federal seizures of private property rose 300 percent during the Bush presidency. Abuses became so widespread that a September 1992 Justice Department internal newsletter lamented, “Like children in a candy shop, the law enforcement community chose all manner and method of seizing and forfeiting property, gorging ourselves in an effort which soon came to resemble one designed to raise revenues.” Despite media exposés of gross injustices, the forfeiture juggernaut continues ravaging the rights of innocent Americans decades later and spurring delusions of absolute power in law enforcement. At a recent Supreme Court hearing, Indiana Solicitor General Thomas Fisher even asserted that forfeiture laws entitle police to confiscate any car going more than five miles over the speed limit.
Bush was posthumously praised for his “inclusive rhetoric” but his drug war converted low-income Americans into third-class citizens. In a Supreme Court case, Bush’s Solicitor General Ken Starr effectively championed police sweeps and warrantless searches of interstate bus passengers for illicit drugs. Police would order a bus driver to lock down a bus and then go down the aisle demanding that passengers open their bags for inspection. The Florida Supreme Court had compared such sweeps to Nazi and Soviet abuses but the Bush administration swayed the Supreme Court to define down the freedom of Americans who could afford nothing better than a Trailways ticket.
Bush pushed into law one of the most intrusive and self-defeating paternalist laws of modern times. Bush said the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 “calls upon the best in the American people.” The badly written ADA — also known as Attorneys’ Dreams Answered — proved a disaster at helping the disabled find work. It converted disabilities into legal assets, thus spurring the proliferation of disability claims on college campuses by students seeking special treatments or waivers (25 percent of students at some schools now claim some type of disability) and the profusion of therapy animals on airplanes and elsewhere. Many ADA edicts defy common sense, such as the ban on a Los Angeles strip joint from having a shower stall on its stage. Because the stall was not wheelchair-accessible, the business supposedly discriminated against disabled women — even though no wheelchair-bound strippers applied for work.
Bush promised “kinder, gentler” policies but his administration chose bragging over benevolence. The Job Training Partnership Act (co-authored in 1982 by Sen. Dan Quayle) was a favorite applause line for administration officials, supposedly proving their concern for youth, low-income households, and minorities. But the Labor Department covered up the law’s dismal failure, long delaying release of a report revealing that the JTPA was such a boondoggle that it actually decreased the earnings of male trainees. But the program was a windfall for businesses that received lavish subsidies to train employees they would have trained regardless, so corporate America continued cheering.
Bush’s contempt for property rights spawned legal brawls that continue to our time. In 1988, presidential candidate Bush declared that “all existing wetlands, no matter how small, should be preserved” and promised “no net loss” of wetlands if elected president. After he took office, federal bureaucrats unveiled a new definition of wetlands that swept nearly 100 million acres of additional private land under federal control. Bad faith permeated enforcement: bureaucrats relied on “the glancing geese” standard — if migrating birds glanced down and considered stopping at a water hole, then that land became involved in interstate commerce and thus fell under federal jurisdiction. Since many landowners could not afford to fight the world’s largest law firm — the U.S. Justice Department — that type of bunkum sufficed to make people submit. The Justice Department and private landowners are still squabbling almost 30 years later, thanks in part to Bush’s grandstanding on the issue.
After he died, Bush was portrayed as a responsible, judicious ruler. But that hagiography ignores his de facto demolition of the work of Special Counsel Lawrence Walsh. On Christmas Eve 1992, Bush pardoned six Reagan administration officials for their roles in the Iran-Contra Affair, the illegal arms-for-hostage deal that blighted the final years of the Reagan presidency. Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger was scheduled to go on trial two weeks later on charges of lying to Congress.
Walsh denounced the pardons as part of a “cover-up” and said that they undermined his investigation of possible criminal conduct by Bush himself. Walsh also reported that Bush’s pardons prevented Bush from having to testify in court and face “searching questions” on his own conduct. Bush’s pardons greatly reduced the likelihood that his co-conspirators would ever turn state’s evidence against him. If Walsh’s investigation had led to Bush’s conviction, the Bush brand name might have been sufficiently damaged that his son would not have captured the presidency in 2000.
The Iraq War
Probably Bush’s biggest folly was the Gulf War against Iraq. Bush said that that America had to restore Kuwait’s “rightful leaders to their place.” Why should Americans care which Arab dictators control which patches of sand? The United States had previously been arming and bankrolling Saddam Hussein — so he was probably surprised when the United States flipped on him. The Bush administration pushed bushels of falsehoods to spur public support for the war.
At Bush’s funeral, eulogists heaped praise on his supposedly lofty character. But nobody mentioned how he betrayed the Kurds in 1991, encouraging them to revolt and then abandoning them to Saddam’s brutal crackdown. New York Times columnist William Safire scoffed, “When our troops come home to a ticker-tape parade, perhaps room can be found for a small float carrying maimed Kurdish refugees.”
After the Gulf War ended, Bush decided that the U.S. government and its allies had the right to permanently blockade Iraq — putting a stranglehold on their imports of food, medicine, and other items. Since the Iraqi people failed to overthrow Saddam, they did not deserve to eat, right? Vast numbers of Iraqis died as a result — but none of their survivors attended or spoke at Bush’s funeral service.
Bush’s postwar dictates on Iraq helped sow perpetual conflict and paved the way to his son’s 2003 invasion of Iraq. That part of the world has been an even bigger mess since then. Plenty of Washington whiz kids are now claiming the United States must intervene to take down Iran. But Iraq was containing Iran just fine before the U.S. government pulverized that nation.
Given this disastrous record, why was the older Bush idolized after his death? One clue came from the funeral tribute from the former senator Alan Simpson. Simpson portrayed Bush as a hero for betraying his most important campaign pledge in the 1988 presidential race — his “read my lips — no new taxes” promise. The Washington establishment loved that riff — since that tax hike helped shore up Leviathan and signaled the end of Reagan-era anti-government rhetoric.
Bush’s son George, the 43rd president, also spoke at the funeral service and declared that his father was “no cynic.” But George Herbert Walker Bush’s betrayals on his tax pledge and his debacles at home and abroad turned millions of other Americans into cynics. Perhaps that is the most positive legacy of his one-term presidency.
Democracy cannot afford to deify deceased presidents whose precedents pose continuing perils.
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Spectacle took part in the Nine Elms architectural walk – part of the World Monuments Fund Watch day 2014. Here is a short edit of the event.
The watch day was launched by World Monuments Fund in 2012 to provide an opportunity for people to engage with their local communities and deepen their knowledge of local historic sites. The walk itinerary included Vauxhall and Nine Elms areas looking at sites such as the listed Brunswick House, Convent Garden Flower Market, Tideway Village riverboat community, Battersea Power Station, Battersea Dogs Home, the gas holder site and Battersea Park railway station. The walk was lead by Colin Thom of the Survey of London and had contributions from David Waterhouse (Tideway Village riverboat community), Stuart Tappin (Structural engineer), Brian Barnes (artist and founder member of Battersea Power Station Community group) and Keith Garner (architect). | <urn:uuid:9d116ee4-f5a4-48b4-8910-746e66c31b69> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.spectacle.co.uk/spectacleblog/tag/vauxhal/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571909.51/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813051311-20220813081311-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.946967 | 186 | 1.726563 | 2 |
EUTHANASIA: AN ETHICAL DILEMMA
The debate over the ethicality of mercy killing became alive in 2011 in India when a women activist filed a petition seeking mercy killing of Aruna shanbaug ,a rape victim, who had been on permanent vegitative state for last 39 years.Before going in to ethicality of Euthanasia we should understand the concept.
WHAT IS EUTHANASIA
Euthanasia also called “Mercy Killing” is the practice of intentionally ending a life in order to relieve pain and suffering. This assumes that a patient is aware that they are going to die, and in some cases, they must administer the poison themselves. This is also called assisted suicide.There are two types of euthanasia -Active Euthanasia and Passive euthanasia.
Active euthanasia contemplates putting individuals to painless death for merciful reasons, as when a doctor administers a lethal dose of medication to a patient, while passive euthanasia involves not doing something to prevent death, as when doctors refrain from using devices necessary to keep alive a terminally ill patient or a patient in a persistent vegetative state.
EUTHANASIA : ETHICAL CONCERN
Euthanasia raises a number of agonising Ethical dilemmas:
- is it ever right to end the life of a terminally ill patient who is undergoing severe pain and suffering?
- under what circumstances can euthanasia be justifiable, if at all?
- is there a moral difference between killing someone and letting them die?
At the heart of these arguments are the different ideas that people have about the meaning and value of human existence.Should human beings have the right to decide on issues of life and death?There are also a number of arguments based on practical issues.
Some people think that euthanasia shouldn’t be allowed, even if it was morally right, because it could be abused and used as a cover for murder. Arguments supporting euthanasia usually present the fact that the patient would have no cure, no way of contributing to society in the state that they are in. They claim that society cannot help such individuals either: all that can be done is prolonging their agony in the case of suffering from terminal diseases, or letting them live with a defective life in the case of suffering from serious mental deviations. However, the very thought of killing people due to their disabilities seems unnatural; besides, who is competent and authorized enough to decide whom to kill and whom to let live?
EUTHANASIA IN INDIA
In India, the discussion over Euthanasia is centered around the famous judgement of Supreme court in Aruna Shanbaug case.The Supreme Court in that case allowed passive mercy killing of a patient in a permanent vegetative state (PVS) by withdrawing the life support system with the approval of a medical board and on the directions of the High Court concerned. A Bench of Justices Markandey Katju and Gyan Sudha Misra, however, did not accept the plea of Pinky Viranai seeking permission to withdraw life support to her friend, Aruna Ramachandra Shanbaug, who has been lying in a PVS in the KEM hospital Mumbai for 37 years. Though it dismissed the petition filed by Ms. Pinky Virani of Bombay on the ground that she did not have the locus standi and that only the hospital could make such a request, the Bench allowed passive euthanasia and laid down guidelines.The Bench, however, held illegal active mercy killing of a patient suffering acute ailment with a poisonous injection or by other means.
Writing the judgment, Justice Katju said: “There is no statutory provision in our country as to the legal procedure for withdrawing life support to a person in PVS or who is otherwise incompetent to take a decision. We agree with [senior counsel] Mr. T.R. Andhyarujina that passive euthanasia should be permitted in our country in certain situations, and we disagree with the learned Attorney General [G.E. Vahanvati] that it should never be permitted.”
The Bench pointed out that in the absence of a law against sexual harassment at work places, the Supreme Court in the Visakha case had laid down guidelines. Similarly, “we are laying down the law in this connection which will continue to be the law until Parliament makes a law on the subject. A decision has to be taken to discontinue life support [to a patient in PVS] either by the parents or the spouse or other close relatives, or in the absence of any of them, such a decision can be taken even by a person or a body of persons acting as a next friend. It can also be taken by the doctors attending the patient. However, the decision should be taken bona fide in the best interest of the patient.”
The Bench said: “If we leave it solely to the patient’s relatives or to the doctors or the next friend to decide whether to withdraw life support to an incompetent person, there is always a risk in our country that this may be misused by some unscrupulous persons who wish to inherit or otherwise grab the property of the patient. Considering the low ethical levels prevailing in our society today and the rampant commercialisation and corruption, we cannot rule out the possibility that unscrupulous persons with the help of some unscrupulous doctors may fabricate material to show that it is a terminal case with no chance of recovery.”
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Stepping Stone Patio Ideas. Stepping stones in a garden can create a path, walkway or patio, or simply point the way on a visual trail through your garden. Concrete stepping stones leading to a small stained concrete patio with a small fire pit and outdoor seating.
Surrounded by flowers and built using stones and marbles, this design will make create a path towards the stone patio and add a realistic touch to it by making steps of marble or concrete and shoving pebbles and. See more ideas about garden walkway, garden stepping stones, backyard landscaping. The stone pathway leads its visitors to a water feature of bamboo and stone.
Surrounded By Flowers And Built Using Stones And Marbles, This Design Will Make Create A Path Towards The Stone Patio And Add A Realistic Touch To It By Making Steps Of Marble Or Concrete And Shoving Pebbles And.
Select stones that measure 2 to 2 1/2 inches thick because thinner stones can crack over time. The most conspicuous thing is the garden arch over the pathway. Concrete stepping stones leading to a small stained concrete patio with a small fire pit and outdoor seating.
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Concrete paving block walkway leading through garden pergola with creeping vines. We dumped in about 8 cups of water at a time and mixed by hand with a large shovel. Narrow spaces are popular places to add designed walkways.
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Learn how to diy large custom made, natural looking, stepping stones your way! Perfect patio paver design ideas. Stepping stones in a garden can create a path, walkway or patio, or simply point the way on a visual trail through your garden.
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Your pool is a big investment, and like all investments, it needs to be properly cared for to maintain its value. A well-maintained pool will last longer, look better, and require fewer repairs than one that is neglected. Furthermore, keeping your pool clean and well-maintained will ensure safety for you and your family to use.
Steps For Pool Cleaning
There are several different aspects to pool maintenance, all of which are important. Let’s look at some of the most important things you need to do to keep your pool in top condition.
1. Test The Water Quality
One of the most important aspects of pool maintenance is testing the water quality regularly. This will ensure that the pH levels are balanced and that no dangerous bacteria are present. There are several different ways to test your water quality, so you’ll need to find the method that works best for you.
2. Clean The Pool Filter
Another important aspect of pool maintenance is cleaning the pool filter regularly. A clean filter will help keep your water clean and clear, and it will also prolong the life of your filter. You can clean most pool filters with a hose and some common household cleaners.
3. Vacuum The Pool
It’s also important to vacuum your pool regularly to remove any dirt, debris, or leaves that have fallen into the water. This will help keep your water clean and clear, and it will also prevent your pool from becoming clogged.
4. Shock The Pool
If you notice that your water is starting to look cloudy or dirty, it’s time to shock the pool. This process involves adding a high concentration of chlorine to the water to kill any bacteria present. After shocking the pool, it’s important to vacuum it again to remove any dead bacteria.
5. Balance The Chemicals
Another important aspect of pool maintenance is balancing the chemicals in the water. This includes maintaining the pH levels and ensuring enough chlorine is present. There are several different ways to balance the chemicals in your pool, so you’ll need to find the best method.
Get Pool Maintenance Services
Pool maintenance is a lot of work, but it’s worth it when you see how great your pool looks. Bluewater Pro Pool Service has the experience and expertise to properly care for your pool. If you don’t have the time or the knowledge to properly maintain your pool, you can always hire our professional pool cleaning service. You can rest assured that it will be in good hands. | <urn:uuid:75a7c12b-8204-445e-808e-4dbb9faa832b> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://bluepoolwater.com/a-simple-guide-to-pool-maintenance/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572833.78/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817001643-20220817031643-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.945641 | 518 | 1.640625 | 2 |
The PACSystems RX3i CPU320 incorporates the Intel 1 GHz processor to provide unprecedented speed and performance, says the vendor. The CPU320 is well-suited for applications where the processing power of the current controller has been pushed to the limit. In addition to the increased performance, the CPU320 has 64Mbytes of user memory available. Key features of the RX3i CPU320 include two built-in communication ports, configurable data and program memory. The CPU320 can be programmed in Ladder Diagram, Structured Text, Function Block Diagram, and C. The CPU supports Symbolic Variables addressing and more than 32K of discrete and analog I/O. The processor supports up to 512 program blocks with a maximum size for a block is 128KB.
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You remembered to pack your toothbrush. The in-laws are taking care of the dog. You double checked the oven. It’s off. You triple checked the doors. They’re locked. Your list is total, as well as you prepare to leave for your long-awaited holiday. Did you forget anything? What concerning the water?
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Several property owners do not include water shut-off as part of their trip prep list, yet they should. It holds true, the water system needs to be great while you are away; however, “need to” and “will” are two various points. Because no person will utilize the faucets while you’re gone does not suggest pipelines won’t leakage or burst.
Take into consideration the consequences. While you’re away, even a tiny leak or other problems such as pipes troubles from water supporting can prove devastating. Left unattended, these problems will continue to pour water into your residence for days/weeks, relying on for how long you are away. You don’t wish to receive a call from your next-door neighbors that a river is flowing into your driveway while you’re lying on the coastline numerous miles from house.
To avoid these kinds of circumstances, shut off the water to your home before you leave. This will restrict the quantity of damages any kind of significant pipes troubles can cause while you are gone. This action isn’t a should to enjoy your vacation, but it will give added satisfaction, as well as could conserve your residence from a flooding.
Where Is My Main Water Shut-Off Valve?
If you’ve never shut down the water to your house, you most likely don’t understand where to locate your primary water shut-off valve. This piece of info is important to have, considering that you may need to shut down your water quickly during an emergency.
If you experience a burst pipeline or require to make repairs to a leakage, shutting down the water to your home may be the initial rational action. If you are most likely to run out town, it’s a great suggestion to shut down the water to guarantee your home is flood-free when you return.
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The oil journal African Energy published in its latest issue a large story about Kosmos Energy’s oil programme in Western Sahara. Kosmos defends its operations.
The news service African Energy,
published in its latest issue 7 November 2013, a story on the Kosmos Energy's plans for oil exploration offshore Western Sahara, and their new partnership with Cairn Energy. Kosmos plans to speed up the oil exploration in Western Sahara even though the UN questions the legality of such operations. The part of Western Sahara where Kosmos is planning to drill has been occupied by Morocco since 1975.
“It’s not up to Morocco or the oil companies to decide the territory’s status, it needs the referendum,” said one regional analyst interviewed in the article.
Kosmos senior vice-president William Hayes told African Energy, that exploration was in its early stages and, if a commercial discovery is made, any production was a long way off.
Hayes insisted to African Energy that “Not only is exploration legal, but responsible resource development has the potential to create significant long-term social and economic benefits for the people of Western Sahara”.
There were no indications in the article whether Kosmos has taken any steps to seek the consent of the people of Western Sahara. Taking the Saharawi people's wishes into account is a prerequisite for it being in line with international law, according to the UN. To the contrary, African Energy interviewed a representative of the liberation movement Frente Polisario, stating that Kosmos’ plans are in violation of the wishes of the people of the territory.
Read the UN legal opinion from 2002 here
outlining how further oil exploration would be in violation of international law if it follows the track that Kosmos is now taking. Kosmos is carrying out the exploration in partnership with Morocco. No states in the world recognise Moroccan sovereignty over the territory, and the International Court of Justice has stated that Morocco's and Mauritania's claims to the territory are groundless.
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It’s become second nature to most of us these days: when in doubt, ask your smartphone.
But reliance on the supercomputer in your back pocket isn’t always the safest bet, as hikers in Scotland have been finding out recently.
"For those new to hill walking, it would seem perfectly logical to check out Google Maps for information on how to get to your chosen mountain,” Heather Morning, mountain safety adviser for Mountaineering Scotland, told the BBC. "But when you input Ben Nevis … Even the most experienced mountaineer would have difficulty following this route."
Ben Nevis, at 1,345 meters (4,413 feet), is the highest mountain in the UK. In worldwide terms, that makes it a teeny thing, but hikers shouldn’t underestimate the pint-sized peak.
“'The Ben' as it is affectionately known, can experience extremes of conditions that make it a far more serious proposition than its modest altitude would suggest,” warns the British Mountaineering Council. “Many people have died on the Ben and many more have been rescued from its slopes.”
Many Scottish mountaineering organizations have criticized Google’s recommended route up “the Ben” this past week, with one, the John Muir Trust, reporting that their attempts to contact the tech giant directly have so far been “met with silence”.
Hopeful mountaineers searching Google Maps for routes to the top of Ben Nevis had been directed to the nearby Upper Falls car park, local experts explained, probably because it is the closest parking lot to the summit. But the walking route from Upper Falls is dangerous even for seasoned hikers.
"[U]p pops a map of your route, taking you to the car park at the head of Glen Nevis, followed by a dotted line appearing to show a route to the summit," Morning explained. "[But] the line goes through very steep, rocky, and pathless terrain where even in good visibility it would be challenging to find a safe line.”
"Add in low cloud and rain and the suggested Google line is potentially fatal," she added.
Ben Nevis isn’t the only mountain where Google Maps isn’t your friend. An Teallach, a mountain in the northern area of Scotland known as the “great wilderness”, has also been hit by Google’s concerning misdirections.
"For An Teallach … a 'walking' route was input into the search engine and the line offered would take people over a cliff," Morning told CNN. "Sadly… there have been a number of incidents recently where following routes downloaded off the internet have resulted in injury or worse."
In response to the complaints, Google has released a statement saying they are looking into the problem.
"We built Google Maps with safety and reliability in mind, and are working quickly to investigate the routing issue on Ben Nevis and surrounding areas," a spokesperson for the company told CNN.
"In addition to using authoritative data and high definition imagery to update the map, we encourage local organizations to provide geographic information about roads and routes through our Geo Data Upload tool."
In the meantime, local organizations are recommending that tourists cross-check potential routes against a map – and when in doubt, ask a local.
Since the time of writing, Google has updated the Ben Nevis route according to the BBC.
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The Creative Integration of Arts and Sciences Program at South Avondale School
At South Avondale School, students learn how to design and engineer a dynamic future through the new Creative Integration of Arts and Sciences (CIAS) program. The program provides a positive platform to collectively engage students and families in all aspects of the learning process. The school will be infused with STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts and Math) concepts for students to engage with. Classrooms and public areas are transformed into galleries and performance spaces where the arts and sciences come alive.
What Does This Mean for Students?
Introduced for the 2017-18 school year for students in grades K-6, South Avondale’s interdisciplinary CIAS curriculum helps students build critical thinking skills through artistic expression. As students create, perform, respond to and connect with new materials, they will transform their gifts into strengths that are essential to the 21st-century workforce.
South Avondale School students will benefit from:
- Integrated field studies at major academic and artistic institutions throughout Cincinnati
- Arts and Sciences expositions in the fall and spring, featuring student presentations, performances and products
- Integrated arts and sciences curriculum, emphasizing all stages of the student creation process
- State-of-the-art creation stations and learning labs
- An after-school program in which students use the arts and science lens for various inquiry and design projects
- After-school care provided by the Hirsch Community Recreation Center with the Boys & Girls Clubs of Greater Cincinnati
- Various extracurricular activities, such as Young Distinguished Gentleman Step Club, band, choir and the Avondale Youth Orchestra
- A full-time resource coordinator who secures partners that provide mental, cognitive and character supports to help students succeed
- School-based health center provided through Children’s Hospital
- Therapeutic experiences provided by Children’s Home of Cincinnati
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Gaining independence from the Soviet Union in 1991, the Republic of Armenia fell into severe economic and social crisis caused by triple shocks: earthquake of 1988 which killed more than 25,000 people and left tens of thousands without shelter; collapse of market economy due to separation from Soviet centrally-planned economic system and the Nagorno-Karabakh war which overall resulted an influx of about 350,000 ethnic Armenian refugees from rural areas of Azerbaijan. Lacking personal resources due to the devaluation of the currency, loss of employment and opportunities for new employment, the majority of the population faced poverty almost overnight. Though more than two decades have passed since establishing independence, Armenia is still suffering from the social-economic crisis.
In response to the acute needs of children and their families, in late 1993 Save the Children established its presence in Armenia. Since then Save the Children has evolved from umbrella grants manager into an implementing and enabling agency supporting most vulnerable population. We have partnered with state- and local governments, NGOs and communities to design, implement and monitor development programs. Save the Children’s projects combine our expertise in child rights governance and protection, health and education, humanitarian relief and community development, economic opportunities and livelihood development. We strive for creating lasting positive change in the lives of children and youth, providing opportunities for their participation and development, applying right-based approach in all our programs and raising children’s awareness about their rights. | <urn:uuid:1c25b98f-74fc-4adf-a668-cccba7adb2c4> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://armenia.savethechildren.net/about-us/our-history | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572033.91/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814113403-20220814143403-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.943116 | 286 | 2.640625 | 3 |
Fishing Summertime Crappies
While bass are the nation’s most popular fish species, panfish, and crappies in particular, also find themselves high on the priority level for many anglers – and for good reason. Not only do they make great table fare, they also provide fast paced action. Crappies are found across the United States and inhabit a variety of water body types – including lakes, rivers, and flowages.
In the Midwest, crappies are popular targets during certain times of the year, but for many anglers these fish are the king of the spring. Springtime crappies pile into the shallows with intentions of creating the future generations. These mass schools of fish are followed closely by schools of fishermen with intentions of obtaining a few meals of fish.
As the season progresses and game fish seasons open, the drones of crappie fisherman quickly transition their efforts towards the toothier varieties of fish species – which can be viewed as a big mistake. Productive days during the summer months can often yield much higher catch rates than those in the spring. The challenges of mid-summer crappies can be a lot more rewarding than one might think.
Location, Location, Location
Anglers often question where crappies move to after they wrap things up in the shallows. In all honestly, they likely didn’t move that far. Start the search near the areas they were located during the spawn – which includes shallow, warmwater bays, often with some sort of vegetation. Day in and day out, lush, healthy vegetation adjacent to those spawning areas will typically have the highest productivity.
If you have no idea where they spawned, begin your search at the nearest healthy weed line. Not all weeds are created equal, but in general all weeds can hold fish. Depending on the body of water, certain vegetation types will be more productive than others.
In this part of the country, coontail and cabbage are the ideal weed types, but there’s plenty of bodies of water where these aren’t found in high concentrations. In these types of situations, look to vegetation types like lily pads or anything that provides a sense of security.
Throughout the summer months, schools of crappies typically concentrate themselves along weed edges, as well as pockets and holes in the weedy cover. In certain situations, fish will push further into the weeds and in others, push out away from the edges, but still remain in close proximity to the weeds. Focus your efforts on these keys areas.
As the season progresses, crappies will also inhabit other areas, often in slightly deeper water. Woody cover – such as man-made cribs or submerged timber – act as crappie magnet regardless of the time of year, but they tend to concentrate fish towards the tail end of the summer.
In addition to woody cover, crappies will often roam open water later in the season. In both scenarios finding the fish can be more of a challenge, but they are a schooling fish by nature, so if you find one, you’ll likely find many.
Electronics are invaluable for tracking down summer crappies, especially when they push into deeper water. MarCum’s MX-7 GPS is an excellent tool for tracking down roaming schools in open water or fish that relate to woody cover. Using electronics allow an angler to quickly eliminate unproductive water and focus efforts on areas that actually have fish.
Rods, Reels, & Gear
There’s an old rule of thumb when it comes to the use of live bait – if your hands get cold dipping them into the bait bucket, then it’s a good time for using live bait.
Well, your hands aren’t going to get too cold during the summer months, so leave the live bait at home. During this warmwater period, artificial lures will outproduce live bait in almost every scenario. Fish are often at peak activity levels, so artificial presentations are the way to go – including both soft lures and hard baits.
Paddletails, grubs, and tubes are among the top choices for summertime slabs. If an angler was forced to rely on just one lure, a 2-inch swimbait, like the Eurotackle B-Vibe, would be hard to beat – simply because of their versatility.
These small swimbaits can be casted, vertically jigged, and fished anywhere in the water column simply by adjusting retrieval speed or weight. Rigging plastics on a 1/32 to 1/8 oz jig head will cover almost all fishing conditions, with jigs in 1/16 oz class being the most versatile. Opt for lighter options in shallower situations or if there’s the likelihood to encounter thick weeds.
Hardbaits also have their place during the summer months. A less common, but ultra-effective presentation for weed oriented fish involves micro jerkbaits, like the Eurotackle Z-Spender. This bait category is growing in popularity during the pre-spawn period, but it shouldn’t be forgotten in the summer months.
Most small jerkbaits are designed to dive just a few feet, so they perfect for working over the tops of weed flats. Remember to pause on the retrieve — that’s usually when those fish will bite. Micro crankbaits are also a great choice for covering water, especially when trolling on weed edges.
When it comes to panfish rods, the choices are plentiful. Gone are the days of whippy, noodle-like panfish rods. Many companies have developed high end panfish rods with fast to extra fast action rods which allow anglers to precisely work light lures, make quick hook sets, and feel the lightest of bites.
The Panfish Series and Legend Elite Panfish Series from St. Croix Rod are finely tuned panfish catching sticks designed to function at the highest level. For most scenarios a Midwestern crappie angler will encounter, a 7-foot, Light Power, Extra Fast Action rod is hard to beat.
The versatility of this type of rod allows an angler to fish lures from 1/64 to 1/8 oz via a wide spectrum of techniques including casting, trolling, and jigging. The overall length is advantageous for making long casts, as well as for fighting fish.
Rods of this type should be paired up with an appropriately sized reel, which in most situations is a 1000-2000 series reel. Lines in the four-to-six-pound class are preferred depending on the specific application. High visibility microbraids are advantageous for summertime crappies. They increase the overall sensitivity of the setup and allow anglers to watch line movements to detect fish before a bite is even felt. Braid presentations are best paired with a light fluorocarbon leader.
Cast, Troll, Jig
Summertime slabs are best located via a few key techniques – casting, trolling, and vertical jigging. Each technique excels in different situations.
For casting scenarios, soft plastic swimbaits and grubs are preferred. Slowly roll tover tops and edges of the weeds. On the initial casts, start reeling as soon as the lure hits the water. After a few casts let the lure sink a little before reeling. This method can help pinpoint the depths at which the fish are located. If you start getting bit, anchor up or spot lock, as there are likely more fish nearby. If you aren’t finding fish, keep moving.
Trolling patterns are most efficient for locating scattered fish – and work well for weedline oriented fish, as well as suspended fish. Trolling speeds vary depending on the situation and conditions, but typically occur between 0.75 to 2.0 mph. Micro crankbaits, lipless crankbaits, and soft plastics can be used via this method.
For weed oriented fish, do you best to follow the edges of the weeds. It’s sometimes necessary to move on top of the weeds, so pay attention to which speeds keep your lure just out of the weeds. Making sure you have enough distance between the boat and lure is imperative —sometimes being too close results in far less fish.
Vertical jigging is optimal occurs when fish push to deeper water or are located near woody cover. Because these fish often hold tight to woody cover, a vertical technique is sometimes the only way to effectively target them. Smaller open water plastics and ice plastics are ideal presentations for these situations.
Regardless of how you target summertime crappies, don’t be surprised if you find a rogue largemouth, pike, or walleye in your ventures, as they also tend to roam these same areas. They are plentiful, provide fast paced action, and are found across a wide variety of water types. | <urn:uuid:556da4e3-79df-459b-80a4-d4c625cedf35> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://marcumtech.com/blog/fishing-summertime-crappies/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572198.93/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815175725-20220815205725-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.95127 | 1,835 | 1.921875 | 2 |
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Another report from the Kaiser Family Foundation (KFF) found the pandemic also created new barriers to help for people who currently dealt with drug abuse or other mental health concerns At the same time, resources for in person psychological health services weren’t readily available due to public health concerns. As a result, many individuals experiencing mental health problems turned to online therapy platforms
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At the same time, resources for face-to-face mental health services weren’t readily available due to public health concerns. As a result, lots of individuals experiencing mental health concerns turned to online treatment platforms
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Guitar Synthesizers have been around for years. I remember seeing a picture of Pete Townsend of The Who back in the early/mid-seventies with an ARP.
Since then it has come a long way and still needs tweaking but it is usable.
The technology is there. Use it. If you do not, you are missing a lot.
Checkout Pat Metheny and others.
You can’t just plug your guitar’s output into a box and get great synth sounds. You need a 13-pin connection. This is achieved by using a specially designed hex pickup that attaches to your guitar (Roland, Axon) or use a guitar that has it built -in already. The guitar option also comes in two versions-Hex pickups or piezo. The hex pickup is the same as the external pickups. The piezo version has piezo transducers in the bridge. The piezo built -in version is better, more accurate. It will also gives you an acoustic sound via the piezo transducers. This is a great option to have because you can have an acoustic sound through an amp without bringing an extra guitar to the gig or rehearsal and you can combine this sound with the electric tones and synth sounds. This is huge sound on stage!
Coming from the pickup is a 13-pin din cable that plugs into a converter box. Again, Roland and Axon are the main companies with Axon being on the cutting edge for midi conversion
Depending on the box, you can get some with sounds, without sounds or USB connection for computer recording.
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Not Your Parents’ Retirement
The world has changed significantly in the past few decades. Thirty years ago, there weren’t cell phones. Computers weren’t widely owned. There was no Uber or Airbnb. Social media was unheard of and virtual reality was the stuff of science fiction.
The world changes quickly, and not just in terms of technology. Retirement has changed significantly in the past few decades as well. The next generation of retirees will face challenges that previous generations didn’t face.
The good news is that you can overcome these potential challenges if you plan ahead. Below are a few ways in which retirement has changed over time. Do you have a strategy to address these challenges? If not, now may be the time to develop one. A financial professional can help you get started.
People are living longer than ever. Usually, that’s a good thing, but a long lifespan can create financial challenges. According to the Society of Actuaries, today’s retirees can plan on a long lifespan. They estimate that a 65-year-old couple has a 50 percent chance of one spouse living to age 94 and a 25 percent chance of one spouse living to 98.1
If you retire in your mid-60s, there’s a chance your retirement could last 30 years. That means you’ll need your assets and your income to last that long. That could be difficult, especially if you overspend in the early years of retirement.
There was a time when retirees could count on income from Social Security and an employer defined benefit pension to fund their retirement. Those days are long gone. Defined benefit pensions are quickly disappearing from employer benefit options. In fact, the percentage of Fortune 500 companies that offer defined benefit pensions has dropped from 59 percent in 1998 to 16 percent in 2017.2
While you can likely count on Social Security income, it may not be enough to fund a full retirement. That means you may need to take withdrawals from your savings and investments to generate income. You’ll likely need an income strategy to make sure you savings lasts through a long, fulfilling retirement.
Health care costs have risen dramatically in recent decades. Medicare helps cover some of those costs, but it doesn’t cover everything. In fact, Fidelity estimates that the average retiree will spend $285,000 out-of-pocket on healthcare.3 That figure is above and beyond what is covered by Medicare, and includes things like premiums, deductibles, copays and more.
How do you plan for high out-of-pocket healthcare costs? One effective strategy is to budget for them. You also may want to consider an investment strategy that generates enough income to cover potential health care costs.
Retirement income. Healthcare costs. Budgeting. Longevity. How do you plan a retirement strategy that considers all these potential challenges and more? For many retirees, the complexity of managing these issues is the real challenge.
Fortunately, you can address retirement issues head-on by developing a personalized retirement income plan. A retirement plan can help you project your income, budget your spending, and make sure that your assets last as long as you need them to.
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A shiny green billboard shouts its message down at passersby on the dirt road that snakes along the Dulcepampa River: “Clean energy for everyone! San Jose del Tambo hydroelectric Project.” Campesinos from the nearby town of two hundred people have come to scoff at the billboard’s deceiving message when they pass by.
On the banks of the Dulcepampa River and its tributaries in Ecuador’s Bolívar province, dozens of communities have for generations made their living on the green western slopes of the Andes mountains. Using gravity-based irrigation systems, farmers grow corn, beans, peas, wheat, cane sugar, tree tomatoes, and blackberries. Downstream, where mixed crops are intermingled with the forest in a complex agro-ecosystem, farmers cultivate organic cacao, coffee, oranges, bananas, and market vegetables. It is a traditional mixed economy of small, local producers. Cattle, pigs, chickens, and ducks roam freely in the fields; fish from the river provide a further source of protein for rural families.
The bountiful waters that nourish the basin’s communities have in recent years attracted nonlocals with different ideas about how the river ought to be used. A little over a decade ago, while in pursuit of business opportunities that might be supported by the burgeoning global market in carbon offsets, a little-known Ecuadoran energy research firm called the Corporation for Energy Research (CIE) formed a partnership with Canadian, Ecuadoran, and Spanish Investors to form Hidrotambo, S.A. The dam that is now under construction as a result of the partnership threatens the livelihoods of those who live in the Dulcepampa River basin.
With the purpose of generating clean energy that could serve the Ecuadoran grid and in turn generate saleable pollution credits to be sold in European carbon markets, Hidrotambo in 2003 quietly petitioned the Ecuadoran water authority (now called SENAGUA) for a license to harness the river’s flow. The Dulcepampa would power what is called a “run of the river” dam, as opposed to “storage” dams that are known for their obstructive infrastructure. Absent the greenhouse gas emitting reservoir associated with conventional storage dams, the project was touted as a low-impact project: waters conveyed through a narrow concrete chute would move turbine-generators arrayed at the bottom of a steep mountain slope, and then be returned to the river.
What no one bothered to explain to the 72 communities upstream of the dam was that with a stroke of the pen, Hidrotambo’s water concessions vaporized the rights of thousands of local water users. Though Hidrotambo claimed otherwise when seeking the concession, a flow of the magnitude that Hidrotambo sought and obtained the rights to—6.50 cubic meters per second in the rainy season, and 1.96 in the dry season—would mean upstream farmers would have to cease diverting water to their crops, livestocks, and homesteads during certain parts of the dry season, just when they need water the most.
Hidrotambo embodies some of the worst unintended contradictions of global carbon markets. The dam was built in part to generate energy for sale to clients in Ecuador, and also to profit from the sale of so-called “carbon offsets,” or pollution credits generated under the United Nations Clean Development Mechanism (CDM). This program, linked to carbon markets in the European Trading System, was designed pursuant to the 1997 Kyoto Accords, and was meant to assist polluters in reducing their greenhouse gas emissions while simultaneously enabling developing countries to leap-frog wealthier countries in the development of alternative energies and sustainable forests. In theory, it would do so by enabling antiquated industries in the world’s wealthy countries to purchase pollution credits from clean energy and reforestation projects in the global South.
In the case of the Dulcepampa River, however, a project lauded by the United Nations as part of the solution to our global climate crisis instead threatens to eliminate small-scale, largely pesticide-free production in one of Ecuador’s richest food-producing regions while failing to assist Ecuador in any meaningful way in severing its reliance on fossil fuels.
In a rush to turn water into gold, it appears that Hidrotambo underestimated the resistance it would encounter from communities facing displacement from the project. As the project moved through the licensing process with ease in 2003, community leaders charged that government agencies were failing to enforce citizens’ rights to water as documented in the 1972 Water Law. The statute in place established priority of human consumption over all other claims to water, including hydropower generation. Under this law, communities pointed out, the government had legal basis to grant rights to Hidrotambo for only the quantity of water that reached the base of the watershed after all upstream users had satisfied their water needs. Therefore, they argued, Hidrotambo’s concession had no legal basis.
Activists further complained that Hidrotambo’s officials were criminally liable. The company, for example, produced documents certifying that it had completed the constitutionally required process of prior informed consultation with affected communities, when, according to an Ecuadoran human rights commission’s report on the issue, no such consultation had occurred. In addition, the company did not obtain lands legally at fair market value through an eminent domain process, but instead offered bribes to dozens of farmers to hand over their properties and/or to remain passive as bulldozers stripped their lands, also according to the commission’s report.
The region moved toward open conflict as many residents rejected bribes and began mobilizing against Hidrotambo. Community leaders from San Pablo de Amalí, the town located next to the dam site, called on farmers from the basin’s 72 communities to support them in non-violent resistance. The company in return convinced its allies in the national government to dispatch the National Police and the Armed Forces on their behalf. By 2005, soldiers routinely harassed farmers opposing the dam, and leaders faced multiple forms of repression.
One example of state targeting of activists is Don Manuel Trujillo, a community leader of San Pablo de Amalí, who now faces over four-dozen criminal charges for his actions opposing the dam project. He and another community activist, Manuela Pacheco, have lost thousands of dollars in legal fees and lost income for the time and resources spent traveling to the county seat, where they must register weekly as accused terrorists. They have received death threats, and their houses are crumbling from the dynamite explosions used to build the dam. Don Manuel told me that his family has fallen into deep poverty as a result, and some days they can only afford to eat the oranges and plantains that they grow.
In 2006, a ray of hope appeared for community activists fighting Hidrotambo. Conflict had escalated in December of that year when 1,500 farmers from affected communities clashed with some 300 soldiers stationed near San Pablo de Amalí. This episode appeared to slow the project’s implementation. Later, Hidrotambo’s government-approved construction and operation permit seemed in jeopardy when then-presidential candidate Rafael Correa visited San Pablo de Amalí and spoke to assembled campesinos, emphasizing their decision-making role in the dam’s construction:
“I just want to say to you all one final thing about this Hidrotambo issue. About the problem of water concessions….We believe, ladies and gentlemen, that those who should approve these kinds of projects are you, the affected communities. Because it is you who have the right to approve a hydroelectric plant, on your land, affecting your environment. If you say no to this project, the project will not be built!”
Once elected, however, President Correa failed to keep his campaign promise to the communities in the Dulcepamba watershed. He directed no review of the concession or revision of the hydropower permits. Rather, despite his public discourse on environmental conservation, including a new constitution that enshrined for the first time in history a human right to water, the rights of nature, and communal rights to Sumak Kawsay, or The Good Way of Living, President Correa has become an avid proponent of hydroelectric dams as well as mining, oil, and gas exports.
Many basin residents believed for some time that the 2008 constitutional guarantees, drafted five years after the dam was first licensed, would stop the project. It seems, however, that company officials at Hidrotambo, who had greater proximity to government officials, were confident that the Constitutional guarantees would be trumped by the government’s prioritization of hydroelectric development. The project was still very much in play. In a slightly new tack, Hidrotambo and its allies in government began to claim that farmers denouncing the project were mere opportunists who lacked legal paper titles to river flows—when, in fact, Ecuador’s constitutional clause on the “human right to water” should have prevented Hidrotambo from adjudicating water that rightfully belongs to farmers.
In the face of heavy repression and criminalization of protest, local activists realized that they would have to find a new mode of resistance. They began to unite on an unlikely issue: the technical data that was used to establish Hidrotambo’s water concession at the outset. In clear violation of professional standards and the law, neither the SENAGUA, nor the Ministry of the Environment, nor Hidrotambo had determined how much water basin communities were using, nor had they ever determined how much water actually flows through the river and its tributaries. In fact, Hidrotambo’s own Environmental Impact Study (EIS) indicated that its technicians traveled to the river above the dam site on only one day, in the wet season, and they did not even carry out a discharge measurement. In the document, authors commented that it was “not possible to realize the discharge calculation for the Dulcepamba River in the site where the barrier will be constructed, nor in any location upriver or downriver, due to the following difficulties: a torrential flow due to the river’s approximately 6% gradient, [the river’s] depth, and inaccessibility to the site, etc.” The discharge was, therefore, only “visually estimated,” with little to no actual data collected. The estimated discharge on the day of inspection was “between 16 and/or 18 cubic meters per second, more or less.”
This astounding pseudo science became the basis for a new round of opposition. In 2013, distrusting the paltry hydrological data presented by Hidrotambo, basin communities vowed to carry out their own studies of river flows and impacts of the dam.
Since August of 2013, a study team composed of local farmers, an interdisciplinary team from the University of Maryland (UMD), and a stream of temporary volunteers have begun to document the river’s seasonal flows and its user demands. To understand the Dulcepampa water supply, the team has made periodic volumetric flow rate measurements, and continues to monitor river levels on a weekly basis. Preliminary results from their hydrological analysis indicate that the EIS overestimated water availability in the watershed, making it appear that there was ample water for all of the Dulcepampa’s water users. But in reality, it appears that Hidrotambo will have to block the water access of upstream users in times of water scarcity, if it is to receive its conceded amount.
To understand local water demand, the team has calculated crop water needs throughout the affected watershed. Four Internet-enabled weather stations have been located strategically to capture weather data for the four principal microclimates of the watershed. Using the FAO Penman-Monteith approach, the team uses this weather station data to estimate the total water needs of the 10 most common irrigated crops in the watershed, on a weekly basis, for all 52 weeks of the year. The team is scaling up the data to understand water needs for the total acreage of crops in the watershed, using crop distribution maps generated by aerial and satellite imagery and handheld GPS equipment.
With data that outpaces the government’s, communities have enlisted two dedicated local attorneys to apply for their water rights en masse. This challenge to the government’s lax licensing procedure will be watched carefully by communities who face similar water grabs in Ecuador and beyond. Farmers plan to use the study to present a case against the Hidrotambo dam in Ecuadoran courts, to the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, and to the Special Rapporteur on the Right to Water for the United Nations. “If God is willing,” said Doña Manuela, “someone will listen to us, and those damn hidros will get what’s coming to them.”
While presented to investors in global carbon markets as a clean, green solution to energy needs and development, the hydroelectric industry in Ecuador and around the world poses threats to thousands of rural communities, and to national food sovereignty. Energy production from hydroelectric dams such as Hidrotambo, meanwhile, principally benefits large industries and overseas investors. If projects like the San José del Tambo are to be avoided in the future throughout Ecuador and Latin America, the struggle for prior rights of communities, and for the use of sound data in the granting of concessions, must be a routine part of water governance.
Rachel Conrad is an environmental analyst, Fulbright Scholar, and activist. Since graduating from Pitzer College, she has worked to support farming communities in the Dulcepamba watershed in Ecuador in their struggle for water justice, and is a part of the team collecting data on the Dulcepampa water supply and demand. Learn more about the Dulcepamba Project at www.waterjusticedulcepamba.com.
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Formas plurais, e algo mais...em inglês
The Most Common Irregular Plurals
Nouns ending in -f and -fe
To make a plural of a word ending in -f, change the f to a v and add es. Similarly, if a word ends in -fe, change the f to a v and add an s. The result for both types is a plural that ends in -ves. This spelling arose because of the difficulty of pronouncing f and s together in English (an attempt to do this will produce a v sound).
Singular (-f, -fe) Plural (-ves)
Exceptions: roofs and proofs (among others).
Nouns Ending in -o
Plurals of words ending in -o are usually made by adding -es.
Singular (-o) Plural (-oes)
But of course, there are exceptions. (Aren’t there always?) Some words ending in -o that are borrowed from other languages take only an s to make a plural, such as pianos, cantos, photos, and zeros. Cello, which is an abbreviation of the Italian word violoncello, can be written the traditional way, celli, or the commonly accepted anglicized way, cellos.
Nouns That Change Vowels
Many English words become plural by changing their vowels, such as oo to ee or an to en.
Singular Plural (vowel change)
Fun fact: The eighteenth-century American dictionary reformer Noah Webster preferred spellings that were closer to their most common pronunciations. Thus, he advocated for the return of the Old English plural wimmen. Wouldn’t that have been convenient?
Irregular Nouns That Change Substantially
For a variety of historical reasons, some words change in spelling substantially when made plural.
penny pence (in British usage)
Irregular Nouns That Do Not Change At All When Made Plural
Some English nouns are identical in both the singular and the plural forms. Many of these are names for animals.
Singular/ Plural (no change)
I have seen several deer when walking in the woods near here.
How many shrimp did you catch?
Aircraft, watercraft, hovercraft, and spacecraft are all the same whether singular or plural.
NASA has made several different types of spacecraft in their fifty-nine-year history.
Plurals of Latin and Greek Words
There are certain words we use on a regular basis, especially in mathematical and scientific contexts, that are borrowed from Latin or Greek. Many of these words retain their Latin or Greek plurals in math and science settings. Some of them also have anglicized plural forms that have come into common use.
Nouns Ending in -us
To make a word ending in -us plural, change -us to -i. Many plurals of words ending in -us have anglicized versions, formed by simply adding -es. The latter method sounds more natural in informal settings. If there is an anglicized version that is well accepted, this will be noted in the dictionary entry for the word you are using.
Singular (-us) Plural (-i)
focus foci (also focuses)
radius radii (also radiuses)
octopus octopuses (or octopi)
hippopotamus hippopotami (or hippopotamuses)
With the double i, radii (pronounced RAY-dee-i) sounds unwieldy, but if you are a mathematician, you probably use it every day. If you are a zoologist, you might say, “Hey, did you see those hippopotami?” but it would sound silly on a casual visit to the zoo. Many people resist the spelling octopuses, but it is perfectly acceptable. In fact, if you put a fine point on it, since octopus is of Greek origin rather than from Latin, theoretically the spelling should be octopodes, not octopi.
Irregular Formation of Nouns Ending in -is
Nouns with an -is ending can be made plural by changing -is to -es. Some people have a hard time remembering that the plural of crisis is crises and the plural of axis is axes, but crisises and axises are incorrect.
Singular (-is) Plural (-es)
axis axes (this is also the plural of ax and axe)
Irregular Formation of Nouns Ending in -on
These Greek words change their -on ending to -a.
Singular (-on) Plural (-a)
Irregular Formation of Nouns Ending in -um
Words ending in -um shed their -um and replace it with -a to form a plural. The plurals of some of these words are far better known than their singular counterparts.
Singular (-um)Plural (-a)
curriculum curricula (also curriculums)
Irregular Formation of Nouns Ending in -ix
Nouns ending in -ix are changed to -ices in formal settings, but sometimes -xes is perfectly acceptable.
Singular (-ix) Plural (-ces, -xes)
index indices (or indexes)
appendix appendices (or appendixes, in a medical context)
vortex vortices (or vortexes)
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Due to the advent of AI, Marketers may now obtain data-driven insights and feedback from AI technologies, which will help them develop content more successfully. Businesses may improve their marketing efforts and deliver higher marketing success by developing a continuous loop of ideas for improving the quality of their work between content creators and artificial intelligence. For instance, Artificial intelligence will have a significant influence on marketing in the future when it comes to developing content. Instead of manually creating blogs, social media postings, and other sorts of material for their customers, AI can automate the process in a fraction of time. It will assist marketers in gaining business insights, refining rankings, and conducting effective keyword research.
Artificial intelligence has a greater insight into what customers want, which means it can easily uncover trends and customer insights to enhance advertising efforts. Artificial intelligence is a fascinating new tool that is revolutionizing the way advertisers create content and tailor messages for their audiences. Artificial intelligence tools are proving to be the key to personalized advertisement production. These AI can change parts of advertising according to different types of audiences being catered to, from music tastes and interests. It does this by including unique ideas, music, text, images which vary depending on what appeal they want from an audience. Artificial intelligence can help businesses to anticipate what their customers’ needs are. This allows retailers and companies to better tailor ads that will be more appealing and attractive, saving time in the process of trying out several different campaigns until they discover one that works best for the company’s objectives.
As the cost of email marketing continues to rise, businesses are becoming more interested in discovering ways to save money. Researchers using artificial intelligence have devised a method for improving emails and reducing the quantity of spam delivered. Email optimization using Artificial Intelligence has been a high priority as marketers seek methods to decrease costs while also increasing campaign open rates. Artificial intelligence (AI) has made email marketing more effective. AI-powered email marketing tools, like dynamic content and live chat agents, can help to boost your campaign’s open and click rates significantly. This means that each campaign will provide a better return on investment, making it a profitable proposition to integrate this technology in your marketing planning and strategies.
ADVANCEMENT IN AR & VR
Technological advancements in artificial intelligence have led to the development of augmented reality and virtual reality. The ever-evolving tech industry has introduced new ways for people to interact with digital information through software, robotics, or other electronics such as AR/VR headsets. Marketing teams have experienced exponential growth in the use of augmented and virtual reality. Virtual reality (VR) enables immersive experiences that may be used to imitate real-life scenarios, whilst augmented reality (AR) assists with a variety of activities such as accessing the information on the internet. The use of AI in augmented and virtual reality is becoming more common for marketing purposes. Virtual advertising has existed since 2000, but with the introduction of Augmented Reality (AR) and Virtual Reality (VR), it has become more specialized in developing and optimizing marketing strategies. Digital marketers may now create a human-like avatar that can be used as an avatar on several social media platforms such as websites, social media platforms, etc. Marketers have discovered that this new means of reaching customers is more engaging than conventional kinds of advertising such as television ads or billboard adverts because it is interactive, immersive, and personal.
EFFICIENT CUSTOMER SERVICE WITH AI
As Artificial Intelligence advances in the field of Customer Service, we may anticipate AI technologies making customer service more efficient and cost-effective for both enterprises and customers. This could lead to a better quality of experience when it comes to resolving any problems that arise from the businesses because automated chatbots and virtual assistants VAs allows quick responses within the system running on the behalf of the businesses 24/7. Chatbots can now provide information on company offerings and services. These chatbots have the potential to not only save time but also human resources by streamlining communications with customers that are looking for assistance via phone calls, emails, or conversations at retail locations. It may also help businesses cut costs, generate revenues, and, most crucially, deliver high-quality services with tailored interactions that could not be replicated by humans alone. Hence, the AI chatbot is quickly becoming an asset for customer service as it has paved new avenues of opportunity in organizations and industries.
AI will continue to have a major impact on the world of marketing in near future. Marketers who employ AI technology will outperform those who do not, since they will be able to compete more effectively with competing brands and companies for their target audience’s attention by advertising at times when consumers are most receptive.
It’s no secret that marketing is a growing field. In fact, it may be the most competitive industry out there right now. That said, with so many different channels to choose from when it comes to digital marketing, it can be tough to know which one will work best for your business. The following article takes a look at 4 digital marketing channels that are evoking emotions and how they could benefit your company. So whether you’re looking for ways to improve customer engagement or new avenues of advertising revenue (or both!),
If you’re interested in learning more about the world of digital marketing, check out our blog.
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Piezoresponse Force Microscopy (PFM) phase image of a molecular ferroelectric material. Ferroelectrics are attractive for temperature sensing, data storage, mechanical actuation, and energy harvesting applications. The molecular ferroelectric materials are known for their environmentally friendly processing, light weight, and mechanical flexibility. Imaged on a MFP-3D Origin AFM. Scan size 20 µm.
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Back in 2019, the Fiat-Chrysler group agreed upon a deal with Tesla to help it offset its emissions and allow it to dodge billions in fines imposed by the European Union. In case you don’t know, the EU wants all manufacturers who sell cars in Europe to have an average CO2 emissions rating of 95 g/km or less for their entire range, otherwise they are severely fined for each gram over on each car they sell.
But there is a loophole in the law which allows manufacturers with high overall emissions (that exceed the accepted limit) to pool their cars together with manufacturers whose rating is below the threshold. And this is what Fiat-Chrysler did last year - it pooled its cars together with Tesla’s in order to avoid the aforementioned fines.
Naturally, Tesla had a lot to gain from this, although we don’t exactly know many millions it received for helping FCA. What’s clear is that it can still sell its range of inefficient and polluting models, and car enthusiasts can rejoice because that includes the current crop of very enjoyable Alfa Romeo models (none of which are electric or even electrified, for that matter).
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A new national tracking tool is highlighting the care factors that boost educational progress. This new tool is being developed by the National Consortium for Examination Results (NCER), the National Association of Virtual School Heads (NAVSH) and the Association of Directors of Children’s Services (ADCS), to track the progress of children in care at school and identify what works to support them.
The tool will link social care data held about children in each local authority in England with each child’s educational outcomes on an annual basis. Cohort or group data from each council area will then be combined into a national dataset which, it’s hoped, will provide useful information about what initiatives and support offered to children in care help them do better in the classroom.
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The stilbite minerals are tectosilicates (framework silicates) and members of the zeolite group, being:
Stilbite-Ca: NaCa4(Si27Al9)O72 .28H2O
Stilbite-Na: Na9(Si27Al9)O 72.28H2O
Specific gravity: (both) 2.1 to 2.2,
Hardness: (both) 3½ to 4
Streak: (both) White
Colour: (both) White, Red, Yellow, Brown, Cream
Solubility: Moderately soluble in hydrochloric acid
Stilbite is found in cavities in basalt and related rocks, associated with
heulandite, chabazite and other
zeolites and calcite.
Geothermal wells have been drilled through a thick series of basalt flows in western Iceland, where it was found that stilbite crystallised at temperatures from 75oC to 200oC at depths between 45m and 1200m (ZW).
Stilbite is relatively frequent in crevices in metamorphic rocks, sometimes associated with quartz, epidote, prehnite and K-feldspar variety adularia.
At High Force Quarry, Forest and Frith, County Durham, England, UK, crystals of stilbite line closely spaced open fissures up to 3 mm wide in chloritised dolerite pegmatite. The stilbite is accompanied by small crystals of analcime and chabazite (JRS 21.14).
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Answer the following questions:
1. Where do you live? Describe your flat (house).
2. Is there a lift in your block of flats?
3. Which floor is your flat on?
4. What modem conveniences are there in your flat (house)?
5. How many rooms are there in your flat?
6. Which room is the largest one? Describe it.
7. What furniture is there in your living-room?
8. How long have you lived in your house?
9. How many storeys are there in your house?
10. Is there a yard or a park near your house?
11. When did you move into your flat?
12. Do you have a room for yourself?
13. How is your kitchen furnished?
14. Do you like your flat (house)?
(based on the topic "My Home»).
Fill in the missing words:
1. Kyiv is one of the most ancient _____ located on the _____ banks of the Dnieper River.
2. Our family lives in a new flat in one of the _____ newly built _____ areas.
3. Our flat has all modern _____ : central _____ , running cold and hot water, electricity, _____ and gas.
4. The _____ is very good in our building.
5. In my opinion, it’s quite a modem- _____ flat.
6. My parents don’t like much furniture in the house, so in the living-room there are two armchairs and a sofa, coffee table and a nic _____ carpet on the floor.
7. Opposite the window there is a _____ , but it doesn’t take much _____ in the room.
8. A nice _____ is hanging from the ceiling and there is a _____ lamp to the left of the sofa.
9. We like to _____ our guests in this room.
10. I am very glad to have a room for _____, that’s why I always try to keep it _____ and cosy.
11. I like to listen to the _____ in the evening.
12. In the _____ I keep clean linen and handkerchiefs and in the wardrobe I keep my _____ which I hang on the
13. We are not big-eaters, but we use our kitchen as a _____ where we can have a _____ bout our problems and life.
14. It is important that our house is rather _____ to the underground station and we can _____ get to any place we like.
(based on the text "The Priestley’s House»).
In the spaces provided, mark each true statement T and each false one F:
□ 1. Mr. Priestley lives in a very nice house which is called «The Pines».
□ 2. There is a smooth lawn in front of the house with beds of tulips in it.
□ 3. They sat down in armchairs before the fire, for it was a rather hot and sunny day.
□ 4. Their sitting-room is quite a big room, about 25 feet long by 15 feet wide.
□ 5. There were two comfortable armchairs, a radio and one book case filled with books.
□ 6. They went to the kitchen for dinner.
□ 7. After dinner they went to the garden.
□ 8. Upstairs there were two bedrooms, a bathroom and a lavatory.
□ 9. There are sheets and three blankets on the bed.
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Beginner outdoor gardeners should learn how to use a grow cannabis calendar right away. Your cannabis harvests are dependent on environmental factors you have little control over when you use nature as your grow room.
As a farmer, it is essential to be aware of general trends to reap large harvests. For instance, do you have outdoor cannabis grow calendar? When do you need to start germinating your seeds? When do you convert from nitrogen-rich vegging solutions to phosphorus-rich blooming solutions, and when are your plants ready for harvest?
Unfortunately, nature isn’t always predictable. When it comes to cultivating cannabis outdoors, there is no one-size-fits-all schedule. Even if you don’t know the specifics, you may understand the broad principles and put them into action, giving you more influence over the whole process. Having a growing cannabis outdoor calendar can come in handy.
What is the purpose of the cannabis grow calendar?
Cannabis is a perennial plant that repeats itself year after year. The cannabis grow calendar outlines what to anticipate each month in the United States.
Despite its size, the United States of America has a wide range of climates. The best time to grow cannabis outside depends on several factors, including weather, soil conditions, and other environmental factors. The key to a successful growing endeavor is knowing your location inside and out.
We have chosen to divide our growing season into two separate calendars. The northern US states are the focus of one, while the southern states focus on the other.
Cannabis cultivation takes up just about half of the year on a calendar basis. A typical cannabis growing season would begin in April and conclude in October when you harvest your colas and call it a day.
As early as January and February, there is a lot of preparatory work that you can do. Before the soil freezes, the cooler months of the year are great for cleaning your garden of excess material and maintaining it.
It’s important to note that these guidelines aren’t universal. You will have to think about the demands of various cannabis strains and the requirements of different cannabis families. Consider these recommendations using data from the northern and southern United States and the typical characteristics of an ordinary cannabis plant.
Outdoor grow cannabis calendar for the northern USA
In the northern hemisphere, the optimal period to sow cannabis outdoors isn’t until April (or mid-May in some cases). There is a lot of work to be done in advance to ensure that the harvest is a success. Remember, the outdoor grow calendar can only cover so much.
The best time of year to plant cannabis in the northern United States
What is the best time of year to grow cannabis in the garden? You should be able to produce your seeds outdoors in April if you are using CFL lights to sprout them under regulated circumstances. Temperatures have risen to the mid-50s throughout the day as the days become longer.
Outdoor flowering time in northern states
When does flowering start outdoor in California? June and July are the optimum months for new plants in the North to mature, depending on the strain. Autoflowering plants begin producing pistils sooner than photoperiod plants, which do so in July.
So, how long is flowering stage outdoors? Autoflowers’ blossoming period is relatively short, lasting just a few weeks in the open air. But, when do outdoor plants flower? August is a good time to anticipate your non-photoperiod herbs to be fully bud-filled.
When grown outdoors, photoperiods take a little longer to produce completely mature colas and coat them in sticky resin than indoor plants do. During the three months from July to October, they bloom. In late September and early October, specific cultivars are suitable for harvest. A September outdoor grow guide should help you approach the harvesting period like an expert.
How long does it take for northern states to harvest outdoor cannabis?
Only a portion of the decision-making process is based on the cannabis grow calendar. To minimize cold stress, budding, and a general decrease in quality, don’t wait until mid-October, but consider these three factors:
- Is the weather still pleasant? Flowering crops can tolerate temperatures as low as 50 degrees Fahrenheit for a limited period.
- Have you considered the timing of the blossoming season in your area? The maturation period for most varieties ranges from six to twelve weeks. Even if it’s freezing outside, try to get them to the lowest temperature.
- Have you seen how the colas are shaping up? Gather them if they’ve become too large and sticky.
The Southern United States outdoor grow calendar
Southern US growers, when is the most fantastic time of year to produce cannabis in the region? How big of a difference is there between the two climates? Hawaii and the southern United States are much warmer than the northern United States. The days are longer, the temperatures are more significant, and the humidity is lower.
When is the best time of year to plant cannabis in the southern states?
Unless you are growing autoflower seeds, it’s best to start your seeds indoors in March in the southern US. If so, you will have to wait until April. This is when a cannabis growing calendar comes to your rescue.
When is the best time of year to cultivate cannabis outside in the South? Moving your seedling pots to windowsills or your patio during April, when there are 13 hours of daylight per day, is excellent. Wait until April’s end in Hawaii and the Southwest if you want to do this early. Growing cannabis outdoors in April has always been an excellent idea.
Flowering season in the southern United States
In late June and early July, your plants stop growing and concentrate on producing colas instead of flowering. So, when does flowering start outdoor in Oregon? End-of-June is the time of year when photoperiod and non-photoperiod cannabis begin to show signs of developing pistils.
Due to the earlier initiation of the flowering process, outdoor cannabis flowering takes a little longer in the South. Although you will be able to harvest plants with shorter lifecycles sooner, some take up to four months to bloom.
Your autoflowering plants, on the other hand, will be bursting with buds by the end of July. Around the middle of August, they are ready for picking. An outdoor Michigan grow journal should give you all the flowering information you need.
When to harvest outdoor cannabis in southern states
To have a good crop, knowing when to sow outdoor cannabis is critical in the North; however, this is less of a concern in the South. As late as the end of October, harvesting is possible. It is a little more humid, but the temperature is still warm enough to keep your crops from suffering.
Ensuring successful cultivation all year
You now know how the climate differs from the North to the South of the United States. You are also well-versed in the effects of these alterations on your cannabis. Congratulations, you have a good information base for your outdoor cultivating endeavor.
It is important to note that this cannabis growing calendar is relatively broad. It’s still a matter of personal preference for when to grow cannabis and when to harvest it from the garden, and it’s all dependent on where you live. Also, how long does pre-flowering last outdoors? All these are aspects you have to consider.
For the most part, the timeframe will be the same whether you’re growing sativa, indica or ruderalis, however, these different species will suit different climates better.
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At the end of communism in the 1990s, the citizens of Eastern and Central Europe began to make up for lost time. They shrugged off the structures of the planned economy, carried out extensive privatisations and joined the global economy. Double-digit growth and newfound spending power made it one of the world’s boom regions. Now the global economic downturn has brought that to a halt.
However, many observers believe that the region’s long-term business potential remains and that when the global economy gets back on track the region will be well placed to thrive again, fuelled by investments in infrastructure and a rapidly growing automotive industry.
The automotive market
While the automotive industry worldwide has had a torrid time over 2009, Eastern and Central European car factories have fared better than most. While production volumes for cars fell by about 30% in Western Europe between 2007 and 2009, the drop in Eastern and Central Europe was 20%.
“European original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) have factories across this region mainly producing small cars,” says Didier Burger, Sales Director Europe for Trelleborg Automotive AVS. “The only cars selling currently are small cars. This means Eastern and Central European car production is supported by government actions in Western Europe such as the ‘scrapping bonuses’ where consumers are paid a cash bonus for scrapping their old cars and buying new ones.”
Expectations are that the automotive sector in Eastern and Central Europe will experience major growth driven largely by domestic demand. The single market with the greatest individual potential is Russia.
“Russia is one of Europe’s two largest car markets, and all major manufacturers are represented here,” says Roman Antipov, who is responsible for sales for Trelleborg Automotive in Russia. “The future also looks bright for countries such as Slovakia and Romania, where they have local production of good-quality, low-cost small vehicles.”
Trelleborg produces parts for the automotive sector across the whole of the region, from Poland to Turkey, and will begin manufacturing in Russia when the opportunity arises.
“There will be a clear move to Eastern and Central Europe by the OEMs when the market restarts,” says Burger.
Some nations in the region, among them Romania and Bulgaria, are attempting to invest their way out of the crisis by pouring money into infrastructure, education and environmental-protection schemes.
“Right now, also this part of the world is affected,” says Keith Croysdale, Sales and Marketing Manager for Trelleborg Industrial AVS, which has healthy sales of antivibration systems for trains in the region. “But the governments are trying to keep spending on the essential ingredients for increased growth, and certainly infrastructure is a big part of that.”
Trelleborg has been involved in several prestigious projects in the region, including the St. Petersburg flood-barrier project and the massive refurbishment of the Bolshoi Theatre, and Croysdale sees a wealth of new opportunities.
“Many cities in the region have road transport infrastructure issues, and the pressure is on to come up with mass-transit solutions,” he says. “They are planning for new buses, coaches, trains, underground systems and bridges over the next 25 years.”
The improvements in living standards in Central and Eastern Europe that give rise to developments in agriculture, the food industry, infrastructure and general industry will provide considerable market opportunities for us,” says Peter Nilsson, Trelleborg’s President and CEO.
"An ever-growing portion of our plants are located in the Eastern regions of Europe," says Nilsson. "This is largely because we want to establish a local presence in these emerging markets. It has also been easy to find competent personnel there – individuals with high ambitions and immense commitment. The time when plants were established in this region purely because of lower costs has passed.”
The major Russian market – in which Trelleborg has been active for more than 15 years – has been somewhat of a special case and has taken a longer time to fully understand than its neighbours. The reason is the enormous geographic distances within the country, which impose special demands on distribution and presence.
“For some time now, we have been active in construction-related projects and infrastructure developments in Russia," says Nilsson. "We have also completed project-oriented ventures in the oil and gas industry, while our protective suits have been a real success story in Russia. We can also see how the major automotive manufacturers are establishing a presence in the country and how the market is adapting to prevailing international standards. We shall certainly play a part in the Russian automotive industry of the future.”
Trelleborg now also has its own market representation in Russia in its Automotive business area. The automotive component plants in Poland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia and the most recent addition in the east – Romania – together with an expansion in Turkey, provides a firm foundation for growth in the east.
Similar to the bordering countries of Ukraine and Kazakhstan, Russia is a large food producer. In pace with the modernisation of agriculture in these countries, the need for modern agricultural tyres is growing. Distribution is also part of the challenge in this area.
According to Peter Nilsson, the process industry is expanding too, creating a large market for Trelleborg’s Sealing Solutions: “We have a presence all over Eastern and Central Europe, and have recently opened a market company in Russia to deal directly with our customers there.”
Recently Russia has been a particular focus area for Trelleborg Sealing Solutions. At first customers were served through the Bulgarian marketing company, but now a fully operational marketing company has been created.
“Customers in Russia really appreciate dealing directly with us rather than through a distributor,” says Yordan Vassilev, Business Development Director for the region. “From our base in Moscow we provide specialised support through a fully trained staff and a local stock of seals.”
The Russian marketing company has been particularly successful in the aerospace industry, supplying a wide range of seals for Russian Regional Jet engines. It is also a supplier to the booming oil and gas industry. In the automotive industry, the company is supplying seals for the pistons of car shock absorbers. At the same time it is building on Trelleborg Sealing Solutions expertise elsewhere, including in the fluid power segment, where seals are used in off-road and agricultural equipment.
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For centuries, more than can be counted on the fingers of both hands, the maidens and mothers of Friesland have worn a helmet of gold covering the crown and back of their heads, and with golden rosettes at each ear.
It marks the Frisian girl or woman.
She is thus known by this head-dress as belonging to a glorious country, that has never been conquered and is proudly called Free Frisia. It is a relic of the age of gold, when this precious metal was used in a thousand forms, not seen to-day.
Of how and why the golden helmet is worn, this is the story:
In days gone by, when forests covered the land and bears and wolves were plentiful, there were no churches in Friesland. The people were pagans and all worshipped Woden, whom the Frisians called Fos-i-te’. Certain trees were sacred to him. When a baby was ill, or grown people had a disease, which medicine could not help, they laid the sick one at the foot of the holy tree, hoping for health soon to come. But, should the patient die under the tree, then the sorrowful friends were made glad, if the leaves of the tree fell upon the corpse. It was death to any person who touched the sacred tree with an axe, or made kindling wood, even of its branches.
Now among the wild people of the north, who ate acorns and were clothed in the skins of animals, there came, from the Christian lands of the south, a singer with his harp. Invited to the royal court, he sang sweet songs. To these the king’s daughter listened with delight, until the tears, first of sorrow and then of joy, rolled down her lovely cheeks.
This maiden was the pride of her father, because of her sweet temper and willing spirit, while all the people boasted of her beauty. Her eyes were of the color of a sky without clouds. No spring flower could equal the pink and rose in her cheeks. Her lips were like the red coral, which the ship men brought from distant shores. Her long tresses rivalled gold in their glory. And, because her father worshipped Fos-i-té’, the god of justice, and his daughter was always so fair to all her playmates, he, in his pride of her, gave her the name Fos-te-dí’-na, that is, the darling of Fos-i-té’, or the Lady of Justice.
[Illustration: WHICH WAS THE MORE GLORIOUS, HER LONG TRESSES OR THE
SHINING CROWN ABOVE.]
The singer from the south sang a new song, and when he played upon his harp his music was apt to be soft and low; sometimes sad, even, and often appealing. It was so much finer, and oh! so different, from what the glee men and harpers in the king’s court usually rendered for the listening warriors. Instead of being about fighting and battle, or the hunting of wolves and bears, of stags and the aurochs, it was of healing the sick and helping the weak. In place of battles and the exploits of war lords, in fighting and killing Danes, the harper’s whole story was of other things and about gentle people. He sang neither of war, nor of the chase, nor of fighting gods, nor of the storm maidens, that carry up to the sky, and into the hall of Woden, the souls of the slain on the battlefield.
The singer sang of the loving Father in Heaven, who sent his dear Son to earth to live and die, that men might be saved. He made music with voice and instrument about love, and hope, and kindness to the sick and poor, of charity to widows and to orphans, and about the delights of doing good. He closed by telling the story of the crown of thorns, how wicked men nailed this good prophet to a cross, and how, when tender-hearted women wept, the Holy Teacher told them not to weep for him, but for themselves and their children. This mighty lord of noble thoughts and words lived what he taught. He showed greatness in the hour of death, by first remembering his mother, and then by forgiving his enemies.
“What! forgive an enemy? Forgive even the Danes? What horrible doctrine do we hear!” cried the men of war. “Let us kill this singer from the south.” And they beat their swords on their metal shields, till the clangor was deafening. The great hall rang with echoes of the din, as if for battle. The Druids, or pagan priests, even more angry, applauded the action of the fighting men.
But Fos-te-dí-na rushed forward to shield the harper, and her long golden hair covered him.
“No!” said the king to his warriors. “This man is my guest. I invited him and he shall be safe here.”
Sullen and bitter in their hearts, both priests and war men left the hall, breathing out revenge and feeling bound to kill the singer. Soon all were quiet in slumber, for the hour was late.
Why were the pagan followers of the king so angry with the singer?
The answer to this question is a story in itself.
Only three days before, a party of Christian Danes had been taken prisoners in the forest. They had come, peaceably and without arms, into the country; for they wanted to tell the Frisians about the new religion, which they had themselves received. In the cold night air, they had, unwittingly, cut off some of the dead branches of a tree sacred to the god Fos-i-té to kindle a fire.
A spy, who had closely watched them, ran and told his chief. Now, the Christian Danes were prisoners and would be given to the hungry wolves to be torn to pieces. That was the law concerning sacrilege against the trees of the gods.
Some of the Frisians had been to Rome, the Eternal City, and had there learned, from the cruel Romans, how to build great enclosures, not of stone but of wood. Here, on holidays, they gave their prisoners of war to the wild beasts, for the amusement of thousands of the people. The Frisians could get no lions or tigers, for these fierce brutes live in hot countries; but they sent hundreds of hunters into the woods for many miles around. These bold fellows drove the deer, bears, wolves, and the aurochs within an ever narrowing circle towards the pits. Into these, dug deep in the ground and covered with branches and leaves, the animals fell down and were hauled out with ropes. The deer were kept for their meat, but the bears and wolves were shut up, in pens, facing the great enclosure. When maddened with hunger, these ravenous beasts of prey were to be let loose on the Christian Danes. Several aurochs, made furious by being goaded with pointed sticks, or pricked by spears, were to rush out and trample the poor victims to death.
The heart of the beautiful Fos-te-dí-na, who had heard the songs of the singer of faith in the one God and love for his creatures, was deeply touched. She resolved to set the captives free. Being a king’s daughter, she was brave as a man. So, at midnight, calling a trusty maid-servant, she, with a horn lantern, went out secretly to the prison pen. She unbolted the door, and, in the name of their God and hers, she bade the prisoners return to their native land.
How the wolves in their pen did roar, when, on the night breeze, they sniffed the presence of a newcomer! They hoped for food, but got none.
The next morning, when the crowd assembled, but found that they were to be cheated of their bloody sport, they raged and howled. Coming to the king, they demanded his daughter’s punishment. The pagan priests declared that the gods had been insulted, and that their anger would fall on the whole tribe, because of the injury done to their sacred tree. The hunters swore they would invade the Danes’ land and burn all their churches.
Fos-te-dí-na was summoned before the council of the priests, who were to decide on the punishment due her. Being a king’s daughter, they could not put her to death by throwing her to the wolves.
Even as the white-bearded high priest spoke, the beautiful girl heard the fierce creatures howling, until her blood curdled, but she was brave and would not recant.
In vain they threatened the maiden, and invoked the wrath of the gods upon her. Bravely she declared that she would suffer, as her Lord did, rather than deny him.
“So be it,” cried the high priest. “Your own words are your sentence.
You shall wear a crown of thorns.”
Fos-te-di’-na was dismissed. Then the old men sat long, in brooding over what should be done. They feared the gods, but were afraid, also, to provoke their ruler to wrath. They finally decided that the maiden’s life should be spared, but that for a whole day, from sunrise to sunset, she should stand in the market-place, with a crown of sharp thorns pressed down hard upon her head. The crowd should be allowed to revile her for being a Christian and none be punished; but no vile language was to be allowed, or stones or sticks were to be thrown at her.
Fos-te-di’-na refused to beg for mercy and bravely faced the ordeal. She dressed herself in white garments, made from the does and fawns—free creatures of the forest—and unbound her golden tresses. Then she walked with a firm step to the centre of the market-place.
“Bring the thorn-crown for the blasphemer of Fos-i-té,” cried the high priest.
This given to him, the king’s daughter kneeled, and the angry old man, his eyes blazing like fire, pressed the sharp thorns slowly, down and hard, upon the maiden’s brow. Quickly the red blood trickled down over her golden hair and face. Then in long, narrow lines of red, the drops fell, until the crimson stains were seen over the back, front, and sides of her white garments.
But without wincing, the brave girl stood up, and all day long, while the crowd howled, in honor of their gods, and rough fellows jeered at her, Fos-te-dí-na was silent and patient, like her Great Example. Inwardly, she prayed the Father of all to pardon and forgive. There were not a few who pitied the bleeding maiden wearing the cruel crown, that drew the blood that stained her shining hair and once white clothing.
Years passed by and a great change came over land and people. The very scars on Fos-te-dí-na’s forehead softened the hearts of the people. Thousands of them heard the words of the good missionaries. Churches arose, on which was seen the shining cross. Idols were abolished and the trees, once sacred to the old gods, were cut down. Meadows, rich with cows, smiled where wolves had roamed. The changes, even in ten years, were like those in a fairy tale. Best of all, a Christian prince from the south, grandson of Charlemagne, fell in love with Fos-te-dí-na, now queen of the country. He sought her hand, and won her heart, and the date for the marriage was fixed. It was a great day for Free Frisia. The wedding was to be in a new church, built on the very spot where Fos-te-dí-na had stood, in pain and sorrow, when the crown of thorns was pressed upon her brow.
On that morning, a bevy of pretty maidens, all dressed in white, came in procession to the palace. One of them bore in her hands a golden crown, with plates coming down over the forehead and temples. It was made in such a way that, like a helmet, it completely covered and concealed the scars of the sovereign lady. So Fos-te-dí-na was married, with the golden helmet on her head. “But which,” asked some, “was the more glorious, her long tresses, floating down her back, or the shining crown above it?” Few could be sure in making answer.
Instead of a choir singing hymns, the harper, who had once played in the king’s hall, now an older man, had been summoned, with his harp, to sing in solo. In joyous spirits, he rendered into the sweet Frisian tongue, two tributes in song to the crowned and glorified Lord of all.
One praised the young guest at the wedding at Cana, Friend of man, who turned water into wine; the other, “The Great Captain of our Salvation,” who, in full manly strength, suffered, thorn-crowned, for us all.
Then the solemn silence, that followed the song, was broken by the bride’s coming out of the church. Though by herself alone, without adornment, Fos-te-dí-na was a vision of beauty. Her head-covering looked so pretty, and the golden helmet was so becoming, that other maidens, also, when betrothed, wished to wear it. It became the fashion-for Christian brides, on their wedding days, to put on this glorified crown of thorns.
All the jewelers approved of the new bridal head-dress, and in time this golden ornament was worn in Friesland every day. Thus it has come to pass that the Frisian helmet, which is the glorified crown of thorns, is, in one form or another, worn even in our day. When Fos-te-dí-na’s first child, a boy, was born, the happy parents named him William, which is only another word for Gild Helm. Out from this northern region, and into all the seventeen provinces of the Netherlands, the custom spread. In one way or another, one can discern, in the headdresses or costumes of the Dutch and Flemish women, the relics of ancient history.
When Her Majesty, the Dutch Queen, visits the Frisians, in the old land of the north, which her fathers held so dear, she, out of compliment to Free Frisia, wears the ancient costume, surmounted by the golden helm. Those who know the origin of the name Wilhelmina read in it the true meaning, which is,
“The Sovereign Lady of the Golden Helm.”
DUTCH FAIRY TALES FOR
WILLIAM ELLIOT GRIFFIS
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One Killed, Two Injured in Peru Mining Clashes
May 6, 2015 By Staff
Top Story — One person was killed and two were injured in Peru on Tuesday, as protesters clashed with police during demonstrations against a $1.4 billion copper mining project.
The fatality is the second in two weeks in the region of Arequipa over the Tía María project. The venture by the Mexican-owned Southern Copper Corporation has been on hold since 2011 when three protesters were killed, Reuters reported. Protesters, the news service reported, have expressed concerns about the project’s impact on local water supplies, a concern which has persisted despite the firm’s agreement last year to build a desalination plant.
After a protester died of a bullet wound on April 22, Peru’s interior minister José Luis Peréz Guadalupe replaced a local police chief, ordering his replacement not to use deadly force against demonstrators, according to Reuters. According to El Comercio, the police announced that the protester killed on Tuesday had a wound from a shotgun. A local mayor, who has spoken out against the project, told Reuters the death could escalate tensions and galvanize opposition.
The economy of Peru, the world’s 3rd-largest exporter of copper, depends heavily on mining, its main overall export.
Headlines from the Western Hemisphere
- An accident on an oil rig from Mexican state oil company Pemex killed two workers and injured 10 on Tuesday, after one of the rig’s legs collapsed, according to officials.
- Hillary Rodham Clinton said she would prioritize immigration reform and create a clear path to citizenship for undocumented immigrants during a roundtable discussion Tuesday, setting herself apart from potential Republican rivals.
- The U.S. Treasury Department issued licenses Tuesday to at least two ferry companies to offer travel services between Miami and Havana within the coming months.
- Cuban President Raúl Castro and Pope Francis will meet in the Vatican on Sunday for “strictly private talks,” according to a spokesman, ahead of the Pope’s visit to Cuba in September.
- Cuban gay rights activists are planning a mass wedding in Havana as part of the country’s annual gay pride parade, a symbolic event in a country where gay marrige is not yet legal to be lead by President Raúl Castro’s daughter, herself a prominent gay and transgender right’s activist.
- Further details regarding Puerto Rico’s medical marijuana law have been announced, with government officials clarifying that smoking marijuana for medicinal purposes will remain prohibited, although cannabis derivatives, such as potions or pills, would be permitted.
- The so-called “Queen of the South,” a Guatemalan woman described as “one of the most prolific narcotics traffickers in Central America”, was secretly sentenced in the United States after agreeing to offer information and plead guilty in exchange for a temporarily undisclosed sentence and release date.
- Importers in Venezuela have taken advantage of the country’s currency system for years by charging inflated prices for goods brought into the country or even faking shipments altogether, and pocketing the difference, adding up to tens of billions of dollars, reports the New York Times.
- The sale of domestic rum in Venezuela has recently gone up, owing to the economic crisis and the inflation which has caused the price of luxury imported whiskey to spike.
- Meanwhile, Colombian immigrants who moved to Venezuela in the last several decades to make a living during that country’s oil boom are now returning en masse to their country of origin, as the decline in global oil prices has strained Venezuela’s economy over the last year.
- Three Brazilian aviation workers charged with “endangering air transportation safety” have been acquitted over the 2007 crash of a TAM Airlines jetliner at São Paulo’s Congonhas airport which killed 199 people.
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1. I found articles and information pertaining to Invisible Children and Kony 2012.
2. I converted each article to a pdf using online-convert (thanks to Richard Byrne!). I uploaded each document to Crocodoc (thanks to Jeff Layman!) so that my pairs could analyze the article together.
3. Students took this survey before class.
4. I paired students and assigned them articles based on who they did (or did not) want to work with, how much they knew about the issues and their strengths and weaknesses as students. Each pair received a different article.
5. I created a google doc with the instructions for day 1. I made a copy for each pair and shared it with only those 2 students. The only thing that changed between each document was the link to their article (HERE).
6. I gave students one 45 minute period to work with their partner and get ready for the discussion that will take place tomorrow. More info on those details coming soon!
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.... ... 288
On Paith, Reason, and Sight, considered as the For the due Improvement of a funeral Solem-
of Essex to the Earl of Southampton 272 the beginning was the Word. Johu i. 1. ... ib.
Life and Death, when applied to Men ib. An Expostulation with a zealous Sectarist 296
ib. sioned by reading the rev. Mr. Hervey's
ib. On the Nature of free Grace, and the Claim
Fragment of an Hymn on the Goodness of God ib. A Soliloquy, on reading a Dispute about Faith
On the Meaning of the word Wrath, as ap-
On the Nature and Reason of all outward Law. ib. tongues.” 1 Corinth. 14.
An Hymn on Simplicity. From the German. ib.
A Prayer, from Mr. Law's Spirit of Prayer'... 288 On Preaching. An Epigram
T'he Footman, an Epistle to my Friend, Mr.
II. The imaginary Kiss
Rex et Pontifex, being an Attempt to intro- Song.-Man's a poor deluded bubble
An Epistle to Mr. Pope, occasioned by his The Kings of Europe. A Jest
b. Prior;" in the second Volume of Bishop
Fragment, by John, seconde Abbatte of Acrostic on Miss Hoyland. 1768
The Freere of Ordery's Whyte
ib. To Miss Hoyland. 1768. With a Present... ib.
Songe of Seyncte Baldywynne ................. 402 Sentiment. 1769
Unknown Knight, or the Tournament ib. The Methodist. May 1770
To Johne Ladgate, sent with the following The Resignation .....
Fragment.---Far from the critics and reviews.. ib.
Narva and Mored. An African Eclogue...... 451 The Revenge. A Burletta
Elegy.--Haste, haste, ye solemn messengers
The Virgin's Choice
To Mr. Holland, the Tragedian
On Miss B-sh, of Bristol
Epistles to his Friends in Town, from Aristip-
and the imitative Arts
Epistle 1. The Retreat of Aristippus...... 509 A Father's Advice to bis Sop : an Elegy 526
The Author's Life, by Mr. Chalmers.......... 541 | The Tears of Scoiland
Song from the same.- Let the nymph still Burlesque Ode....
The Author's Life, by Mr. Chalmers 596 | Upon hearing his Picture was in a Lady's
To a young Lady with the following Poem ... ib. dressed to a young Lady who had just fin-
To a Lady, on her, taking Something ill the The Risone and the Arar
On a Summer-House in my own Garden 620 | Horace, Book i. Ode xxiii. To Miss D. 657
ib. Horace, Book i, Ode xxiv. To a young Lady
ner of the French dramatic Rlyme of Racine. ib. Horace, Book i. Ode xxxiji. To a Gentle-
621 Horace, Book ii. Ode iv. To the Earl Mar-
Psalın lxv. Imitated......
ib. Horace, Book i. Epistle xviii.
The Flower of Yarrow. To Lady Mary Mont- On Mrs. Hepburn
ib. Could this marble to the world impart.. ib.
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I was reading part of Luke chapter 1, and was struck by the fact that Luke tells us that it was the angel Gabriel who visits Zechariah and Mary. Why did that strike me? Well, lots of angels appear in the birth narratives, and we’re not given their names. So why name this angel?
Compare the following:
- An angel persuades Joseph to proceed with his planned marriage to Mary: “But after he had considered this, an angel of the Lord appeared to him in a dream.” (Matthew 1:20)
- The shepherds see a great company of the heavenly host, but first a single angel: “An angel of the Lord appeared to them, and the glory of the Lord shone around them, and they were terrified.” (Luke 2:9)
- After the flight to Egypt, Joseph needs to know when it’s safe to return to Galilee: “After Herod died, an angel of the Lord appeared in a dream to Joseph in Egypt.” (Matthew 2:19)
None of those angels are given names, not by the biblical narrators.
Which means these two are a notable contrast.
- He, too, has a nameless angel appear: “Then an angel of the Lord appeared to him, standing at the right side of the altar of incense.” (Luke 1:11).
- Zechariah has some trouble believing that he and his aged wife will have a son: “How can I be sure of this? I am an old man and my wife is well on in years.“ (Luke 1:18).
- So the angel reassures him: ”The angel said to him, ‘I am Gabriel. I stand in the presence of God, and I have been sent to speak to you and to tell you this good news. And now you will be silent and not able to speak until the day this happens, because you did not believe my words, which will come true at their appointed time.” (Luke 1:19-20)
- “In the sixth month of Elizabeth’s pregnancy, God sent the angel Gabriel to Nazareth, a town in Galilee, to a virgin pledged to be married to a man named Joseph, a descendant of David. The virgin’s name was Mary.” (Luke 1:26-27).
- Her response was different to Zechariah. She sought understanding (Luke 1:34), but then simply took the angel at his word: “I am the Lord’s servant, may your word to me be fulfilled.” (Luke 1:38)
Why tell us his name?
Partly, Luke is comparing and contrasting Zechariah and Elizabeth. One found it hard to believe, the other simply took God at his word. (In case you think Mary, probably a teenager, wouldn’t have the same problems conceiving as Zechariah’s elderly wife, pause and think. There is another reason why Mary would have had great trouble conceiving.) Luke stresses that the same angel visited both, to help us see the parallels.
But the parallels between these two angelic visitations are already very strong; the angel doesn’t need to have a name in order to create the parallel. So why the name?
There are only two angels in the New Testament with names: Gabriel and Michael. Both occur in the Old Testament in the book of Daniel. Both occur in the New Testament — Gabriel in Luke 1, and Michael in Jude 1 and Revelation 12.
We need to know the Old Testament in order to understand much of the New Testament properly. God did not send Jesus into a vacuum; he came in fulfilment of many centuries of action and prediction by God. Concepts such as Christ / Messiah, Lord, saviour, son of David, son of man, and so on all come from the Old Testament. In particular, Luke 1 and 2 are steeped in Old Testament imagery, with echoes of many characters from Samuel to Samson.
So when we find, in contrast to the way angels are usually introduced, that we’re told this angel’s name, and when that name is one of the two angels we’ve heard of before, we should sit up and pay attention. Luke is specifically telling us that the angel that appeared to Zechariah and Mary is the same one who appeared in Daniel 8:16 and Daniel 9:21.
In Daniel 8, Daniel has a vision of a two-horned ram, and a goat with many horns, representing the empires of Media-Persia and Greece. The focus is on a small horn that appears on the goat, representing the Greek king Antiochus IV (reigned 175-164
In Daniel 9, Daniel sets himself to pray to God for forgiveness, and to ask for God to restore the nation of Israel. She needs restoring both to her land, and to a right relationship with her God. His prayers are interrupted by the arrival of the same Gabriel, who reassures him. Daniel is deeply loved. The moment he began to pray, Gabriel was dispatched to tell him he had been heard. However, whilst there will be some movement on God’s promises in the short-term, God does not operate on our timescales. There will be a long wait before the fullness of all God has promised.
This is the Gabriel who appears to Zechariah and Mary. They meet the Gabriel who had a particular role in the past, explaining what God was going to do. More precisely, they meet the Gabriel who helped Daniel understand visions. Daniel’s visions concerned the 2nd century
For Zechariah and Mary, the message is clear: Gabriel is back. God is going to resume his promised purposes, picking up where the visions of Daniel left off. The hope that God gave to his exiled people is going to come true. That means that everything God promised his people of old, interrupted by the exile, is now going to happen.
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Growing and harvesting cannabis is a complex process with many variables that need to be considered ahead of time and monitored in an ongoing way. How the plants are harvested and cured is just as crucial as handling and caring for while growing. Improper harvesting methods can lead to quite a few problems with the product.
Using a drying rack in Canada for storing freshly harvested weed is the best way to ensure quality retention. The benefits of properly dried weed include a proper breakdown of the chlorophyll, improved texture, higher potency, and reduced chances of paranoia and anxiety. Here are some tips and tricks for avoiding pitfalls when harvesting your cannabis.
Harvesting Buds that are Still Wet
Trichomes are the tiny resin glands that develop on the surface of the leaves. Trichomes have the appearance of sparkling and are often referred to as crystals.
Choosing the right time to harvest depends almost entirely on the maturity of the trichomes. When approximately 20% of these crystals develop an amber or milky color, it is time to harvest.
Directly after watering is the worst time to harvest. What the plant is growing out of, or the substrate should be completely dry so that the water content of the plant is at its minimum before cutting.
Temperature and Humidity
After placing the cannabis on its drying rack or in cannabis drying trays, it is crucial to consider the humidity level of the drying room. The room’s humidity will determine the drying speed and the quality of the result.
The ideal humidity level for drying cannabis on racks in Canada is between 50% and 60%. Likewise, the temperature is just as important and should remain between 17 and 20 degrees Celsius (or 64 and 68 Fahrenheit). Light levels and temperature should be lower to preserve product potency.
Proper ventilation is critical whether you are using a growing tent or a small fan. All plants on their cannabis drying racks could be lost to fungus without adequate airflow. Like the rest of the drying process, the ventilation process has to be slow and uniform. The suitable drying racks in Canada will preserve the potency, fend off fungus and bacteria and keep the quality high.
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Financial fraud can empty your life savings. Here are 10 steps suggested by best-selling author Charles Murray.
- Every deal is a potential scam: Recognize that fraud is an act of deceit by one party intended to induce another to part with something of value.
- Map out your goals before shopping or investing: There’s a difference between “buying” and “being sold.”
- Avoid mixing business with pleasure: According to the National Institute of Justice, the attempt to defraud is more successful if a person knows or knows of the offender.
- Don’t get greedy: Remain calm and dispassionate.
- Be suspicious of “inside information,” “hot tips” and “one-time offers”: Why you instead of Tom-Dick-and-Harry?
- Educate yourself: Beware of getting all your information from the seller.
- Double check all facts: A cheat doesn’t want himself or his deal scrutinized.
- Don’t wilt when the heat is turned up: It takes a secure person to say “no” to pressure and manipulation.
- A promise is only as good as the person behind it.
- Scams copy the same methods used in legitimate business dealings: Spotting the difference can be difficult. Five tell-tale signs:
• Something is promised that borders between reasonable and “too good to be true”;
• Victims typically know or know of the swindler;
• A sense of urgency exists;
• A cheat doesn’t want himself or the deal scrutinized;
• High-pressure sales tactics are used.
There are many investment instruments including your own UTUIA annuities that are available in which to place retirement funds that can provide the necessary security and still provide a cash stream in retirement years.
In speaking with a financial adviser, find out what their experience has been. Check their credentials and demand other client references. And never write a check directly to an individual. Your payment should be to the investment firm or to the investment fund itself. A request for direct payment to an individual is a big red flag!
Remember, your retirement funds represent a lifetime of savings, and there is no “do-over.”
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This product ships directly from supplier. Due to Covid-19, the delivery time can be slightly longer and up to 8 days.
When you buy a spindle from Asia as an example, they come completely without instructions. We always include instructions and how to connect your spindle. We also have instructions on how to connect the spindle directly to the Mach3 software.
Note that this spindle has a Huanyang inverter or similar and not the inferior ones commonly sold with these spindles. With a Huanyang inverter you can connect Mach3 and other software to control your inverter. The appearance of the Inverter varies depending on availability, some inverters come with regulator wheel but not all times. The important thing is that it is a Huanyang type inverter.
2.2 kW AIR COOLED motor spindle and matching inverter with ER20 collets / sleeves which means you can use milling steel between 1-13mm.
A spindle suitable for all kinds of work. The spindle also comes with an inverter. These may be difficult to wire, but support and instructions are included when purchasing.
To wire the spindle, you need about 4-6m 4-wire, double-shielded cable (available as product), 4m between spindle and inverter and about 1-2m from inverter to wall
Please note that electrical plugg and cables are not included as most countries have different standards. Don’t forget to ground the spider, Grounding is not mandatory in Asia so most spiders will go ungrounded.
The package includes:
- 1 x 2.2KW ER20 Air cooled spindle motor (4 bearings, 220V, 400Hz, 24000 rpm)
- 1 x 2.2KW inverter VFD
- 1 x 80 mm spindle bracket
- 1Set ER2o collets (13 pcs).
- Spec: 80 * 230 mm (diameter: 80mm x Length: 230 mm)
- Power: 2.2 KW
- Voltage: 220V
- Frequency: 400 Hz
- Speed: 0-24000 R / min
- Air cooled
- For Er20 collets
- PASS ISO9001 and CE quality CERTIFICATION
- Input voltage: 220V (+/- 15%)
- Output voltage: 220V (+/- 15%)
- Input frequency: 48-63 Hz
- Output frequency: 0-400 Hz
- Input phase: 1 or 3 phase
- Initial phase: 3 phase
Air or water cooled spindle?
The advantage of air-cooled spindle is that no pump and water bucket are needed to start the spindle. Air and water cool just as well except when you have to cut at low speeds. An air-cooled spindle must be run above 10000rpm to allow it to cool itself while a water-cooled spindle can be run at any speed you want. The sound level and durability are the same. It is very rare to cut at low speeds, below you will see approximate speeds for different materials that we cut ourselves.
Plastic, Acrylic, Pom = about 11,000rpm
Aluminum = about 12,000rpm
Oak or other hardwood = 16,000rpm
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Canada’s pandemic hotspots are taking diverging approaches to handling the COVID-19 crisis, as Ontario prepares to trigger new lockdown measures in two public health units and Quebec enters a week of spring break.
Ontario passed the 300,000 case mark today, as the province prepares to hit a so-called ‘emergency brake’ in the Thunder Bay and Simcoe-Muskoka District health units on Monday in order interrupt transmission of COVID-19 at a time when new variants are gaining steam.
The province has also pushed back its spring break until April in an effort to limit community spread.
Prince Edward Island also implemented tighter health measures, barring indoor dining and halving retail and gym capacity as part of “circuit breaker” measures meant to stop a new outbreak in its tracks.
Quebec, meanwhile, has allowed movie theatres, pools and arenas to open with restrictions in place to give families something to do as the traditional winter break kicks off, even as most other health rules remain in place.
Premier Francois Legault has said he’s worried about the week off and the threat posed by new more contagious variants, but says he’s optimistic about the province’s mass vaccination campaign which will begin inoculating older members of the general public on Monday.
Ontario reported 1,062 new infections linked to the pandemic today to push it over the 300,000 mark, while Quebec’s health minister said the situation in the province is stable with 737 new cases and nine additional deaths.
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I have spent half my life in very poor countries, and I too have been poor for long periods of time.
Fortunately, I was also rich, too, for many years. Now I am somewhere in the middle. But having spent 15 years in poor countries living with very little, I have learned how to be happy regardless of circumstances, and this is largely because of the art of happiness I learned from the most impoverished places I have lived.
Nepal is always ranked within the top 10 poorest countries. The per capita income is about $300. I lived there for 13 years. I lived about five years in India, including a six-month stint on the streets of Calcutta. Poverty generates resourcefulness, and there is a good deal of satisfaction in being resourceful.
Poverty also generates generosity, and it is rare to see a stingy poor person. Having suffered many trials, the poor are patient, tolerant, and accepting of others. You seldom see an arrogant poor person or a conceited one. Necessity demands the poor look after each other—and care for one another.
If you walk about the poorest areas of Kathmandu, Nepal, or New Delhi, India, you will find them buzzing with life—but not so in the richer areas. Being self-sufficient and a person of means can come at the cost of becoming disconnected from our basic human values, while poverty fosters them. When you literally can’t survive on your own, you naturally value others, but when we don’t need others, we tend to isolate ourselves, even in the company of others. Poor people don’t have a shell around them; pretense is too easily seen through in poor communities.
No doubt one of the greatest strengths of the poor is their ability to share without counting the cost. When a new family wanders into an impoverished shanti town, some family will offer them food and shelter or help them to settle. They will give half their own plate of food to someone who asks. The reason there is so much joy in the ghetto is because they don’t hoard, but openly give what they can. If they only have three potatoes for dinner, they will offer one to you, maybe two! (My actual experience.)
People accustomed to waiting hours to get even a bucket of water learn patience well. They are tolerant and quietly put up with occasional rude behavior. People from all sectors of society and locations join poor communities. There is no room for biases or prejudice in the vastly diverse communities of the poor; it’s about all surviving, not killing each other. Impoverished villages are caring for others; they are not shy to ask when in need or provide when asked.
In the United States and Europe, the highest suicide rate is among the well-to-do, while the lowest rate is from the poor community. If our society is to survive, there should be an exchange of resources wherein the well off uplift the poor materially and take to heart and learn the lessons poverty has imposed on the poor to bring out their basic humaneness.
The lessons of the poor are not restricted to the poor. If we are to learn these lessons and are currently living a comfortable lifestyle, we—unlike the poor, whose circumstances impose upon them so many valuable lessons of life—must take the initiative ourselves. I became a millionaire after half a life of poverty, because I inherited a bunch of money. But, fortunately a combination of Buddhist training and lessons from living with the poor allowed me to realize that I can still live frugally and humbly as a wealthy person.
One of the most valuable restraints a person of means can place on herself is not only not living beyond her means, or even within them, but living below them. While the challenge may be an imaginary one, it works. But, it does require discipline. There is something wonderful about living within a familiar context, drinking from the same cup every morning, using a set of plates you purchased upon the birth of your children who are now past 30, using a bike your kids left in the garage when they went to college, keeping in touch with old friends, and never losing the warmhearted feeling toward anyone.
Despite having the wherewithal to isolate ourselves in an ivory castle, we should never allow ourselves to do so. Instead, like the poor, we should be vulnerable, open, and available to others who may need our assistance. Our means should never be a source of pride or arrogance. Our means should be viewed as something to share with others or to create, to express kindness and generosity when we are asked, or see an opportunity to do so,
By putting restraints on ourselves, we create the conditions to be truly happy. This, of course is no secret, but something that virtually all religious traditions advise. When we come to regard our good fortune as public property and our free time likewise, we do more to create happiness and joy than we could upgrading our house or buying a new car. We are individuals, and there is a natural limit on how much a single person can enjoy, but there are many other people out there, and if we bring a little light into their eyes, we increase our own capacity to be happy exponentially.
A good exercise is to imagine our lives without the resources we have and seeing how having less would affect our character. Habituating ourselves to this kind of reflection will instill in us a more humble and humane attitude, and we will naturally feel more warmth toward others. It will help us to see the value in simplicity and the hollowness of seeking gratification in acquisitions.
Just because we can afford it, doesn’t mean we need it. Like the poor, we should give when asked, and not count the cost. If we do this, we will always have something to give. The real treasures in our lives are the people that populate it, and we will be far happier if we can deepen our friendships and make them genuine and heartfelt.
The poor offer a wealth of lessons for those of us who are well off and comfortable, and those of us who are not can benefit equally. The great yogi, Paramahansa Yogananda observed, “While the East could benefit from the wealth of Western countries, Western countries could benefit from the spirituality of the East.” Poor countries have every bit as much to offer us as we do them. If we pay attention and mine out what is of true value, it will be a source happiness.
Experiencing the richness of life is not the domain of the rich or the poor, but the poor don’t have wealth, which often instills arrogance and conceit which isolates us from each other and obstructs the emergence of our better qualities. Jesus Christ alluded to this when he said, “It is harder for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven, than a camel to pass through the eye of a needle.” While we don’t have to abandon our wealth, we should be aware of its dangers (which often appear as its benefits) and act accordingly to avoid its pitfalls.
Taking a cue from the ways of the poor—humility, humbleness, generosity, tolerance, patience, caring, sympathy, kindness, and such qualities of character poverty often engenders—we will enjoy what we have been blessed to have more by realizing that the poor have something more valuable than wealth to offer.
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Calf vein imaging for the newer techs – you got this
- Don’t panic – they are only veins – you’ve been looking at them for years.
- To begin, place your probe in the transverse position at the base of the gastrocnemius muscle medially – this is usually the best view of the four vessels.The posterior tibial veins are nestled near the tibia bone and are more anterior than the peroneal veins.The peroneal veins lie posterior to the posterior tibial veins somewhere between the tibia and fibula.
- Once you’ve identified the vessels, perform compressions to the knee and again from the base of the gastrocnemius muscle to the ankle.Obtain the best compression image of all four vessels – this can be accomplished with one image usually.
- If the peroneal veins are difficult to image from the medial calf, have the patient rotate their leg in the opposite direction and place the probe on the distal lateral calf – the peroneal veins will now be more anterior than the posterior tibial veins and will be more easily imaged.If you use this approach be sure to annotate the vessels properly.Use the terms “lateral view” or “posterior view”.
- Once you’ve obtained compression images, place the probe medially at the base of the gastrocnemius muscle in the longitudinal position.Turn the color on and obtain color filling images.Ideally, you want one image of all four vessels.Rotate the probe around the calf while compressing distally until you see the four vessels and obtain the best image.Ideally doesn’t always happen however -if you see the vessels on different planes take more representative images, labeling “PTV #1” or “PTV#2” as needed.
- Some patients are just difficult to image in the calf secondary to body habitus, edema, cellulitis , etc. – in those instances just get what you can and write in your report “Limited calf vein visualization – vessels patent where seen” and move on.
- If the calf veins are positive, it will be very obvious to you, and with practice the calf veins will be very easy to image and will elongate your study only briefly.
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In this paper, we introduce a key technology, polarization modulation (PM), which should be taken into account when standardizing outdoor optical wireless communications (OWC), also known as free-space optical communications (FSO). We analyze the distortion of the polarization state when a laser beam propagates through the atmospheric channel. The floating range of the optical polarization was estimated and the necessity of researching the proposed technology was discussed. Moreover, we conducted a comparison between the PM-based FSO system and intensity modulation-based FSO system. The conclusions will be helpful in establishing the FSO standard architectures.
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Stepping into the new decade, the world is confronted with a multitude of crises. COVID-19 has continuously exposed and exacerbated existing societal ills across the world: from the overall poor public health systems that are ill-equipped to contain health crises; the failure of the prevailing neoliberal economic framework in providing to those who most need health and vital social services; and the opportunistic maneuvers of imperialist countries, authoritarian governments, and profit-driven businesses to sustain their dominance in the global economy. Marginalized sectors across the world, especially in Southeast Asia, carry on amid these challenges and harness their strength into bringing genuine change and development in these pressing times.
Civil society organizations (CSOs), people’s organizations, and grassroots sectors in Southeast Asia have long engaged in policy-making arenas to raise their demands and hold governments, businesses, and intergovernmental institutions accountable to the people. These platforms, however, continue to be bureaucratic and out-of-touch with realities on the ground and thus limit the democratic, civic space for people’s engagement.
The 2020 ASEAN People’s Forum (APF) and ASEAN Civil Society Conference (ACSC) takes its annual event online with the theme “Southeast Asian People Solidarity for an Inclusive, Cohesive, and Responsive Community”. To enjoin various sectors across the region, the forum integrated convergence spaces spearheaded by CSOs, people’s organizations, and grassroots sectors which aims to discuss pressing issues affecting Southeast Asia namely: Peace and Security; Human Rights and Access to Justice; Ecological Sustainability; Labour and Migration; Alternative Regionalism; Transformative and Solidarity Economy; Trade, Investment, and Corporate Power; Life with Dignity; Culture and the Arts; Innovation, New and Emerging Technology, Digital Rights; to Racial Discrimination and Religious Extremism. These convergence spaces seek to bring together stories of resistance and struggles for change in the region, enhance CSOs, people’s organizations, and grassroots sectors’ participation in policy advocacy, and promote solidarity amongst different sectors.
We call on the APF/ACSC to anchor the three-day event to its goal of being inclusive, cohesive, and responsive to the people of Southeast Asia. Its mechanism and mode of engagement should not be the opposite — exclusive, disjointed, and indifferent to the plight of CSOs, people’s organizations, and grassroots sectors. We stress the importance for the APF/ACSC to engage people’s movements for it to not fall short in maximizing its platform to advance people-to-people solidarity, hold state and corporate actors accountable, and assert the critical role they play in policy development processes that can potentially pave the way to transformative development the region badly needs. Addressing language barriers is one of the ways to understand each other, and communicate our urgent policy recommendations and call for decisive action. Unfortunately, the Webex platform aside from being complicated does not provide language translations. Congruence on the information regarding the event is likewise lacking.
We call on CSOs, people’s movements, and grassroots sectors across the region to continue strengthening solidarity with the vulnerable sectors, amplify their demands and reclaim civic spaces amid government and institutional restrictions, and address the worsening health and human rights crisis.
We, as ASEAN nations, will continue to stand our ground in the face of these attacks on our fundamental freedoms. We renew our commitment to dismantling the prevailing neoliberal framework that only serves corporate interests. We will work collectively to create an ASEAN that is truly inclusive, cohesive, and responsive to the needs of its people.
Power to the people!
Defend peoples’ rights!
Stop the attacks!
Resist fascist attacks and corporate plunder!
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5 edition of Changing the terms found in the catalog.
Includes bibliographical references
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The Smart Tissue Autonomous Robot (STAR) has it all; a catchy backstory, a legitimate purpose, and some impressive real-world results. The brainchild of Dr. Peter Kim, STAR has been in development for years. Recently, a team of researchers led by Kim oversaw the robot perform successful open-bowel surgery on pigs. None of the patients suffered any complications and all remained in excellent health following the procedures.
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Newsweek reported, “The motivation behind STAR began years ago, on top of a skiing hill in Canada. Back then, Kim was a pediatric reconstructive surgeon, an expert in performing airway reconstructive surgeries on tiny babies. While skiing with his son one winter, he received a call about a baby across the country needing immediate surgery. Rushing down the hill, he had a realization: ‘I didn’t get down safely,’ he says, ‘it wasn’t good for me, and it wasn’t good for the patient.’”
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Workers at Marin General Hospital testify about unfair and unsafe working conditions
In May, on a sunny day in San Rafael, Teamsters 856 members bravely shed light on unfair and unsafe practices at Marin General Hospital (MGH). During a Workers’ Rights Board Hearing held by North Bay Jobs With Justice, members testified that their working conditions negatively impact their ability to care for their patients.
“It’s important for our members to speak out,” said Teamsters 856 Secretary-Treasurer Peter Finn. “They are not just standing up for their own working conditions. They are standing up for the members of the Marin County community who expect and deserve a high level of care from the Hospital.”
Alongside registered nurses, radiology technologists, and other Hospital employees, Teamsters 856 members testified about management’s decision to understaff vital units such as the ICU, the CSU (cardiac), and surgical.
“I’ve seen first-hand how inadequate staffing impacts patient safety and care,” wrote one CNA at MGH, in testimony he submitted to the Board. “With increased patient census, we are sometimes caring for as many as 15 patients at one time. This makes it very difficult to complete our rounds, answer call lights in a timely fashion, and respond to patient needs.”
Members alleged that MGH management’s shift in priorities – placing the bottom line above patient care was harmful to both patients and staff. For example, decisions, such as automating work that is currently done by qualified, trained employees reduces the number of workers in units that are already short staffed, and can decrease patient safety precautions.
“The Hospital stated to us that it wants to implement the kiosks and Kiosk Coordinators to save time and allow patients to register more quickly,” said one Teamsters 856 member who works as a patient admitting representative. “The reduction in Union benefitted staff members will actually increase wait times for patients, as those patients will still need to see a patient admitting representative to obtain the wrist band.”
According to the member, she and her colleagues currently verify patient demographic information and that the patient is there for the correct procedure, before providing them with a wristband – ensuring the patient’s safety.
Teamsters 856 Rep. Matthew Mullany has represented workers at MGH for over 10 years. He’s also represented other health care workers in his time as a Teamster, and testified that the situation at Marin is unlike any he’s ever encountered. “I’ve never seen workers with such low morale and management that acts with such disregard for our contract and with such disregard for the employees,” he said.
Another Teamsters 856 Rep., Tim Jenkins, provided his strategic research on MGH. He stated that the number of deficiencies and penalties at MGH has increased since leadership changed hands from Sutter to Marin General’s current management.
The Workers’ Rights Board, which included elected, faith, and community leaders heard all of the testimony, including employee’s first-hand accounts and union staff research, and returned with their preliminary findings. The findings, which were also sent to Marin General CEO Lee Domanico for his response, encouraged MGH management to take action and work with staff to recreate and foster a hospital environment that’s good for both employees and patients. Read more about the preliminary findings here.
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The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) announced the establishment of the Local Food Purchase Assistance Cooperative Agreement Program (LFPA) that will award up to $400 million to support food purchases, emphasizing doing business with underserved farmers and ranchers.
The awards will be made through non-competitive cooperative agreements with state and tribal governments, said the USDA. At www.grants.gov, eligible state and tribal governments can apply until April 5, 2022.
Also, as part of the Build Back Better Food System Transformation Initiative, USDA’s Food and Nutrition Service is announcing the availability of up to $50 million in funds to state agencies to expand program access in rural, tribal, and other currently underserved areas.
These grants and the LFPA are part of USDA’s support for food banks and the broader emergency food system.
The investments are part of USDA’s Build Back Better Food System Transformation initiative authorized by the American Rescue Plan. The funds are among the programs derived from a $1 billion investment announced earlier this year to bridge the immediate need to support producers via the Pandemic Assistance Initiative to longer-term investments in food system transformation.
The USDA said one of the lessons from COVID-19 is that the current food system is too rigid, consolidated, and fragile. These cooperative agreements will help state, tribal, and local entities purchase food more efficiently from local producers and invest in infrastructure that enables partner organizations to reach underserved communities more effectively.
“As we build back better than we were before, we will strengthen our efforts to provide emergency food assistance and expand economic opportunity for historically underserved producers by allowing state and tribal governments to buy and distribute local and regional foods and beverages that are healthy, nutritious and unique to their geographic area,” Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack said.
“This program will help get local and regional agricultural products into schools, food banks and other nutritional assistance programs, and organizations that reach underserved communities. It also advances our efforts to ensure that historically underserved populations gain equal access to USDA resources through a combination of grants, loans, pilot programs, technical assistance, cooperative agreements, and more,” added Vilsack.
USDA’s Agricultural Marketing Service manages the cooperative agreements. The agreements will provide organizations the flexibility to design food purchasing programs and establish partnerships with farmers and ranchers within the state or within 400 miles of the delivery destination that best suit their local needs, accommodates environmental and climate conditions, accounts for seasonal harvests, and meet the needs of the population within their service area.
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Coaches must equip clients for the Big Society
Most people don't play to their strengths at work because they don't know what they are or because of their work culture.
Instead, people tend to become proficient at what they are rewarded for, said Professor Alex Linley.
"The single biggest reason why people don't do what they like is work culture and what we get rewarded for doing. The second reason is that people don't know."
Linley identified three pillars of responsibility for people: personal responsibility - realising our own strengths; collective responsibility - creating the conditions to realise strengths in others; and social...
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Five points to make your child go to school after the holidays
Many people remember that when they were children, it was hard to go to school after the summer vacation. Even for adults, going to work after the New Year's holiday or Bon holiday is a big deal. Christine Grove and Kelly Ann Allen, developmental psychology specialists at Monash University in Australia, are teaching the “5 Points for Moderating Children from Holidays to School”.
5 tips to help ease your child back into school mode after the holidays
◆ 1: Schedule preparations every morning
After a large vacation, such as a summer vacation, there are often major changes, such as a new semester. In such a period, it is important to support children especially well. Specifically, check the following points again and create a checklist and action schedule.
・ What kind of preparations are needed from getting up in the morning to going to school, such as getting up, breakfast and changing clothes?
・ What can children do on their own in preparation for the morning?
・ What needs to be supported because children cannot do it alone?
Waking up may seem too commonplace, but if you try to get up early in the morning from the sleep cycle in the holiday mode, you may get sick, so make a habit of healthy sleep, exercise, and eating The thing is that you must not neglect. According to Queensland Australian
It is also important to provide a sufficient run-in period. According to the National Sleep Foundation of the United States, 'It is a good idea to use a wake-up alarm or other means to get up early and get up early two weeks before the first day of school.'
◆ 2: Discuss school
Many children have anxiety and stress about school. Therefore, it is important to listen to worries by discussing school life. Grove further recommends three levels of conversation and support depending on age:
・ Child going to nursery school or school for the first time: Write together the meaning of going to nursery school or school on paper
・ First-year elementary school students: Support for making friends with children, such as meeting face-to-face children who go to and from school together
・ After the second grade: Decide policies on how to interact with electronic devices such as PCs and smartphones, sleep habits, and homework and other academic studies, and establish healthy habits for the whole family.
◆ 3: Develop awareness of being a member of school
Past studies have suggested that the sense of belonging to a school is closely related to a child's performance and well-being. Therefore, he encourages children in conversation and encourages schools to think positively.
In another study , asking parents who have children the causes of child stress, more than half said that schools and homework are the biggest stressors for children. Therefore, it is important for the family to actively help the children with their homework and study, as well as to cultivate a positive attitude toward school.
◆ 4: Beware of signs of stress
If the following behaviors are seen in school life or at home, the child is likely to be under great stress.
・ Is unusually sticky or trying to escape from the classroom
・ Being calm and whimsical
・ Negotiate or deal with adults to avoid school activities
・ I do not want to go to school
Shows a tendency for infants to regress, such as sucking thumbs, using baby words, or showing obsession with favorite stuffed animals
If this trend continues for about six months, regardless of temporary status, there is a possibility that serious stress such as bullying may be faced. In that case, you need to work with your school teacher or counselor to see what's happening at school.
◆ 5: Ask more and more questions
According to Grove, children should be asked more and more questions about school life from the new semester, and the questions should be resolved. When talking about school, parents may not be able to understand, so if you are not satisfied with the answer, you need to check the information provided by the school or contact the school and share the information.
Grove said, 'The most important thing is to tell your children that you can talk to them. For example, if you decide to talk during the day and have a habit of talking about school, It will help your children to ease their anxiety when returning to school. '
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To investigate associations of children׳s active travel (i.e. walking, cycling) to school and non-school destinations with time spent in sedentary behavior and physical activity at different intensities, and associations stratified by sex.
Between 2011 and 2012, 375 Australian school children aged 8–13 years (61% female) were recruited into a cross-sectional study. Children׳s travel modes to school and non-school destinations, and socio-demographic information were assessed through child and parent surveys. Daily time spent in sedentary behavior and physical activity intensities was measured objectively through accelerometer counts from an Actiheart monitor worn on four consecutive days. Associations of active travel with sedentary behavior and physical activity variables were determined using linear mixed models while accounting for clustered sampling and covariates (age, sex, socio-economic factors, Actiheart wear time). Multiple imputation (MissForest method) was used to handle missing at random survey and accelerometer data in 104 (28%) children.
Active travel modes to non-school destinations were positively associated with children׳s moderate-to-vigorous physical activity (b=0.18, p=0.01) but not with their sedentary behavior, light or total physical activity. Active travel modes to school were not associated with children׳s sedentary behavior or physical activity across intensities. No statistically significant differences by sex were detected in the observed associations. However, the positive association between active travel modes to non-school destinations and moderate-to-vigorous physical activity neared statistical significance in boys (b=0.15, p=0.07) but not in girls.
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Here’s a program that should be emulated in cities across the country and around the world.
On February 20, 2019, the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission (SFPUC) has launched a new grant program to fund green infrastructure projects on public and private properties throughout the city of San Francisco, California.
The initial funding component will include $6.4 million over the next two years to encourage owners of large, impervious parcels to apply for grants to fund green infrastructure projects that manage stormwater and improve the City’s collection system performance during wet weather.
“San Francisco residents want our City to be as green and clean as possible, and this grant program empowers them to pursue those goals,” said SFPUC General Manager Harlan L. Kelly, Jr.
“This unique new initiative will improve stormwater efficiencies on both public and private sites and help the City meet our ambitious long-term sustainability goals,” he added.
Property owners that may be eligible include schools, parks, community centers, faith-based centers, large box retail stores and multi-family housing projects.
The grant will cover the costs of design and construction of approved stormwater management features, such as rain gardens, permeable pavement, cisterns, and vegetated roofs.
Grantees will be eligible to receive $765,000 per acre of impervious surface managed, up to $2 million per project.Green infrastructure projects funded through the grant program are an important component of the SFPUC’s long-term sustainability goal of capturing one billion gallons of stormwater using green infrastructure by 2050.
“Public and private parcels account for the majority of impervious surface within our city,” said SFPUC Assistant General Manager of Wastewater Greg Norby. “We see incentive programs like this one as a strategic way to transform these surfaces into innovative landscapes that manage stormwater.”
The grant program utilized key lessons learned from the program’s pilot project, the Stormwater Schoolyard at Robert Louis Stevenson Elementary School, which completed construction last fall.
“We are so excited that our schoolyard can contribute to the health of San Francisco watersheds while creating an interactive play space that encourages our students to learn about the water cycle,” said Diane Lau-Yee, principal at Robert Louis Stevenson Elementary School.
Grant workshops were held on March 7 and March 14 where potential applicants and those interested in the grant learned about the program, eligibility requirements and how to apply.The Green Infrastructure Grant Program is part of the SFPUC’s Sewer System Improvement Program (SSIP), a multibillion project to improve, upgrade and replace the City’s 100-year-old underground sewer system.
The program is open year-round and applications can be submitted any time. A technical assistance team is available to assist applicants with the application process.
SFPUC is a department of the City and County of San Francisco. It delivers drinking water to 2.7 million people in the San Francisco Bay Area, collects and treats wastewater for the City and County of San Francisco, and generates clean power for municipal buildings, residents, and businesses.
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Starting a Family
Starting a family is a major step forward for every adult and completely changes how you spend your money. It is essential to have a solid grip on your finances and to follow best practices to ensure a comfortable and financially secure life for your family.
Family life can be expensive: minding your child's needs, possibly losing one income if one parent stays at home to care and you'll need constant new clothes, activities, babysitters and a whole lot more. Fusion Finance will discuss this in detail and put a plan in place to help you prepare for this wonderful experience.
Starting a Family Family & Children Protection
Did you know when you take out life cover with Irish Life, Irish Life automatically cover each of your children up to age 25 for €7000 life cover as long as you are covered.
When you take out specified illness cover your children up to age 25 are covered for up to €25000 or half your illness cover amount whichever is lower for as long as you are covered.
How can I cover the cost of my children's education? Watch our short video.
Starting a Family Children's Education Plans
We all want to give our children the best possible start in life and a good education is a top priority. However, this can be more costly than you might realise. The cost of putting one child through school and university can easily run into tens of thousands of euro. If you have two or more children, then you’re going to have to dig even deeper to keep the educational roadshow up and running. | <urn:uuid:be42a255-8d46-4a51-baf4-e959bf91f6ec> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.fusion-finance.com/service/starting-a-family/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572198.93/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815175725-20220815205725-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.955402 | 315 | 1.8125 | 2 |
Things change . . . we need to adapt.
This isn’t always so easy. Sometimes it is, and other times we may feel a bit stuck.
This has been more challenging lately.
Are our lives complete? Do we have everything that we need available?
The thing that stays the same, though, is that we can support ourselves by holding our collarbones. This area of the body supports us as we try to adapt – it has specific energetic vibrations that help us on all levels. It helps us to adapt to new situations, circumstances, and environments.
There are times when life makes it seem almost impossible to settle. When these external events occur –
- moving to a new city or town
- being made redundant or starting a new job
- divorcing or losing a spouse
- or even travelling to a new time zone or altitude.
These events challenge us. We can ease this transition by holding our 22s.
We adapt to our environments and bring different views, traditions, and experiences. In some cases, these adaptations merge cultures as in the Japanese Gardens case here in Ireland. In other cases, these adaptations are more subtle as in the ways that we interact with other people and with our internal dialogues.
Safety energy locks 22 (SEL 22) are located below the collarbones or clavicle – one on the right and one on the left. To harmonize SEL 22, we can:
- hold our index finger, or
- place our hands on the SEL 22 (right and left), or
- hold our left upper arm with our right hand, and hold our right inner thigh with our left hand, or
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WHAT TO EXPECT
Ron uses his extraordinary experiences and knowledge to teach his audiences the special skills and techniques of emotional relearning through pure determination, honesty and integrity, and how these establishing new habits creates the change we are looking for.
Ron presents a new way of relearning and self-acceptance through developing certain mind skills and spiritual habits. Ron encourages his viewers to take his teachings to heart in order to fully impact their lives in a positive mindset.
-A 30 Min Sermon-
A FEW EXAMPLE TOPICS
-Destressing yourself (MindSkills)
-What is your Ministry Profile?
-What is your Spiritual Gift
-5 Signs of a Healthy Christian
As a professional speaker, Ron provides a comfortable private setting, whether before a classroom or on-stage in front of thousands.
His teachings, which are full of vivid images and real-life stories, inspire, connect, and give eye-opening self revelations.
It’s time to make a change!
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KEY NOTE SPEECHES
Looking for some quick information on Ron's most popular speeches?
Well look no further! Take a look at some of the most inspirational topics and life changing speeches that Ron has in store for you.
Some things can’t change. You cannot do the impossible, but you can change more than you think!
This Keynote will help your audience discover their limiting thoughts, define their WHAT? define their WHY, and understand their HOW.
You Can Change
More Than You Think
This keynote talk will take the audience through Ron Ovitt’s Habit Change Blueprint.
The change is within you!
Define your goal, Get a team, Manage Your Triggers, Get the right tools, if needed; solicit help.
- BYOCA –
Be You Own Change Agent
This is based on one of the most significant elements of emotional control.
The overactivation of the amygdala lies behind much of our negative behavior. It sends an alarm to fight, flight, or freeze. It is always a shrill alarm. BUT THE FACT IS IT IS FAULTY WIRING.
We don’t have to listen. We are not going to die! I use various stories to illustrate and share how we can use our brain, mind and body to overcome this false alarm.
I'm Not Going
This is one of the hardest parts of habit change...
Ron’s keynote includes topics like, Change your environment, Change your team, Change your appearance, Change your brain!
PTSD, anxiety, addictions, depression – at the root of some of the most difficult psychological issues are the negative lies that we believe about ourselves.
It is one thing to know what the lies are and even intellectually know what the truth is, but the lies were often emotionally learned. The new truth needs to be emotionally relearned in its place.
This information will give your audience a fresh perspective on why thinking up to this point has been so hard to change.
The Power of
We encourage people to pick what would be a successful habit for their success.
We list some of the common ones and share the principles of change to overcome them.
To this day and age, it is easy to be involved in church and Christian radio and yet not be spiritually healthy. Why is this and how can we change?
This is a positive keynote speech that will motivate the audience to become healthier in five key areas of their Christian life.
How to be a
This keynote will expose the audience of the different elements that make them uniquely qualified for ministry.
They will be challenged to think about their own Spiritual Gifts, Skills, Ministry Drive and Ministry preferences.
Are You Wired For Ministry?
Are you needing recovery from your PTSD?
There is hope today!
Our past does not have to define us.
This keynote will go over some of the latest research into overcoming the negative emotional effects of trauma.
Building resilience in children is key to overcome a trauma and move from victim to survivor. It is also a way to bully proof our children.
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Many Americans are facing tough choices with regard to their retirement plans. The average life expectancy is increasing, and the cost of essentials like food and health care is rising. Many Americans are understandably concerned about outliving their money, and the solution is often to retire later than originally expected.
If you’re thinking of working past age 65, this plan can indeed help you to build a bigger retirement savings, pay down debt, and claim a larger Social Security benefits check. But you should definitely watch out for three potential problems if you decide upon a later retirement.
Social Security may be withheld. If you decide to keep working beyond your full retirement age (between 65 and 67, depending upon your year of birth), your future benefits checks can increase by about 8 percent for each year that you continue working. But you can run into a potential problem if you decide to claim your benefits while you’re still working, and before you reach full retirement age. Depending upon your income, Social Security may withhold part or all of your payments for as long as you work. Each situation is different, but it may be best to wait on claiming your Social Security benefits until after you reach your full retirement age.
Your Medicare premiums may increase. If you have employer-provided health insurance, you may think you don’t need to sign up for Medicare as long as you’re still working. But if you wait beyond your intitial enrollment period, you could face a 10 percent increase in Part B premiums for each year that you are eligible but don’t claim benefits.
You can apply for Medicare benefits during the three months prior to your 65th birthday, and for four months afterward. Remember to enroll in Medicare, even if you don’t think you need it.
Watch out for penalties. You’re required to begin taking minimum distributions from your retirement account by age 70 ½. Otherwise you could face steep tax penalties to the tune of 50 percent. Speaking of retirement plans, eligibility for tax deductions on contributions ends at age 70 ½.
This information has been provided by a Licensed Insurance Professional and is not sponsored or endorsed by the Social Security Administration or any government agency.
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Early Math Skills Help Improve the Learning Outcomes in Kidsby Amit Gupta Education Blogger
Mathematics is an indissociable aspect of life. It starts from the very beginning when the little ones start taking their first tiny steps and parents happily use numerals (one, two, three, four, etc.) to count each of those precious footsteps towards them. It thereby goes on to remain intertwined in our day-to-day life in one form or the other.
Is there really any need then to feel afraid of the subject? Actually no! But still, a lot of children feel scared of math and try escaping the same as much as possible. So, what is the way out? Isn’t there any solution to ease off the unnecessary pressure of their young minds and make them fall in love with numbers?
Yes, of course, there is a solution, and that lies in imparting the kids the necessary math skills at an early age. Studies have revealed that providing the kids with early math skills not only helps them get rid of any kind of math anxiety but improves their learning outcomes. And on that note, we, at Gurukul The School, one of the top five schools in Ghaziabad, would like to share with you all today some of the most effective ways to build early math skills in your little ones.
- Help them recognize and connect with mathematics in everyday life
Math is everywhere. It is right there in the simplest of things we deal with every day. Hence, try to help your kids recognize math in whatever they do. While using the staircases in your home, ask them to count the stairs they’re on. Give them the task to count how many windows you have in your house or ask them how many clothes they’re wearing. This will help them realize the importance of the subject and also help to relieve their fear of math.
- Encourage self-learning
It is possible to enhance your child’s basic math skills in the middle of an outdoor walk too. Take your kids to the playground and ask questions like how many dogs are around or the number of birds flying in the sky. The best way to let them know is to let them discover. Self-learning will allow your kid to grow into a more responsible and dedicated human being in the future.
- Introduce them to the world of shapes
It’s greatly needed to make your child familiar with different kinds of 2D and 3D shapes. For instance, you can use football to give them the knowledge of sphere shape, pick a block and point it out as a cube; a water bottle could be an example of a cylinder, etc. For the 2D shapes, draw different captivating and colorful pictures in their notebooks. This is the fundamental geometry you can teach your children through simple everyday things.
- Take help of games and puzzles
Choose the toys like Counting bears, Abacus, Magnetic frames, Pattern blocks, Math link cubes, etc., that work wonders in enabling kids to understand math. Designed with simplicity, these kinds of games and puzzles help to easily catch the attention of young kids and deliver them with a basic understanding of the math concepts in a fun manner. It has been seen that including simple mathematical problems in your child’s daily life help to enhance their math skills and improve their learning outcomes. It helps them easily comprehend the concept of identification, comparison, coordination, and recognition. All these lessons that they learn at an early age help bestow them with strong math skills that will come to their aid all along in life ahead.
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Bees in Spaces in High Places
No bee removal is too difficult… when you call the right company.
We were recently commissioned to perform bee removal at a commercial building. It was the Macy’s department store at the Phoenix Metrocenter Mall — a super-regional shopping mall in northwest Phoenix, Arizona. The bees were 45 feet from the ground behind a concrete wall. This was no easy task.
When the Metrocenter mall opened in 1973, many looked at it as “the place” to go hang out in Phoenix. Today, few stores remain, and attendance is not what it used to be. However, a bee swarm still felt like it was the place to go and decided to set up a home in Macy’s roof.
Problem Solving from On High
Our AZ Beehive bee removal experts first used a ladder to access this upper area of the now-closed Macy’s store, so we could exterminate the bees. There was a four-foot long gap between two walls. This was where the bees entered. Then we had to go into the building and take stairs to access the roof. Once on the roof, we cut a 2×5’ hole in the roof to access the bees’ home. We removed about 100 pounds of honey comb, cleaned out the area, and then resealed the roof.
You may wonder if 100 pounds of honey comb is a lot of honey comb. The answer is “yes!” The reason there was so much was because the bees had been there 3-4 years. (That’s a lot of free rent!)
You may also wonder why we would remove the honey comb once the bees are gone. Because the honey comb will melt down and leave an odor. And the presence of vacated honey comb can very easily attract more bees.
As bee removal pros, we love the problem, difficult jobs. This was certainly what we’d call “something out of the ordinary.”
Difficult Bee Removal Job?
There are many bee removal companies that won’t do the difficult, hard-to-reach bee removal jobs. The Beehive specializes in difficult bee removal, commercial and residential. We’ll find them a new home where their colony can continue to thrive. If bees swarm to your yard to establish their new home in your attic or under your roof, or if you find them in your place of business, they can do damage and should be removed as soon as possible. | <urn:uuid:2a6ef26b-bf65-4cf3-98f7-4cbb7b9094d8> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://theazbeehive.com/bees-in-spaces-in-high-places/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571198.57/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810161541-20220810191541-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.97338 | 519 | 1.867188 | 2 |
The pandemic has had a dramatic impact on business operations. With a rapid shift to remote work and increasing reliance on digital channels, IT is at the center of this new world. Consider an IT admin that previously supported one office with 50 employees. Today, that admin is supporting the same 50 employees spread across as many locations, using different networks and a wide variety of (mostly unsecured) devices. Troubleshooting is infinitely more challenging in this paradigm and, while the volume of IT work has exploded, the size of most teams remains unchanged.
Technology as a universal challenge and solution
For some organizations, new IT challenges go well beyond supporting traditional office workers from home. Higher education is a great example. When universities made the decision to send students home, they had to agilely shift IT processes from maintaining classroom environments to supporting online learning. Historically, higher-ed IT teams have focused on a few core tasks, such as providing network access on campus, making sure users can login to university systems, provisioning servers, and setting up and supporting technology inside physical classrooms. Now their workload includes making sure every instructor and student has remote access to an array of digital learning tools and new applications, as well as the training to effectively use them.
In our new world of remote work and learning, every employee has essentially become an extension of the IT team. Self-service has become critical for organizations to effectively operate today. Individuals must take an active role in troubleshooting their own issues, whether that’s successfully joining a videoconference call or connecting to a VPN, regardless of their level of technical expertise. Meanwhile, everyone is under pressure to adapt quickly.
Adapting to the technology is both part of the challenge and the solution. Many companies are looking to implement self-service options and accelerate deployment of chatbots that can empower employees to address problems on their own. With the right technology, help desks can quickly convert existing applications like Slack and Microsoft Teams into self-service solutions that leverage AI to perform natural language processing and walk end users through automation-powered decision trees to complete common tasks independently (such as password resets), and perform troubleshooting on their own. This frees up the core IT team for tasks that require a higher-level skill set and more hands-on support.
Without a clear end in sight to the pandemic and the ongoing difficulties of remote work and school, technology itself is increasingly being embraced to reduce the burden on overtaxed IT teams, facilitate and improve the digital experience of end users, and streamline efficiency across organizations.
Purse strings have tightened while IT teams battle burnout
Beyond the logistic and technical hurdles that IT departments face, organizations are also navigating financial setbacks. In many cases, IT departments have seen their budgets shrink, putting additional pressure on already strained IT teams to do more with less. Gartner anticipates worldwide spending on IT products and third-party services will decline 7.3% in 2020; however, that spending is expected to recover faster and smoother than the economy.
For internal IT employees, this means that their jobs have never been more secure, but at the same time, they are more at risk of burnout than ever before. CIOs aren’t putting everything on hold; instead, they are quickly and continually reevaluating which projects get postponed and which ones to pursue. Initiatives that deliver IT agility, improved digital experiences, infrastructure resilience, efficiency, and cost reduction are being accelerated -- without adding headcount in most cases.
Over the next several months, CIOs will continue looking for new ways to future-proof and flexibly scale their IT operations to address the digital demands created by the pandemic while trying to prevent burnout. Gartner’s 2020 CIO Agenda Survey estimates that by 2023, 40% of infrastructure and operations will use AI-augmented automation in large enterprises, resulting in higher IT productivity with greater agility and scalability.
A silver lining for CIOs
While the pandemic has created many unwelcome challenges for IT leaders, it has also presented new opportunities. As we increasingly rely on technology for every aspect of our lives, people have a better appreciation of the value that IT brings to the business world and our daily lives, as well as for the overworked teams that make digital life possible.
CIOs have a unique opportunity to drive business outcomes at a pivotal time for their organizations. They also have a unique opportunity to recognize the value of their IT workers, recreate their operating models and reprioritize around initiatives to meet changing needs. There’s no playbook, opening up opportunities to do things in a new way. IT success in “The New Normal” is being defined in real time, and we won’t go back to doing things the old way. As IT leaders decide where to focus precious resources and how best to support their IT teams, technology can provide a powerful engine to help prevent burnout and weather the pandemic now, and then steer operations toward a successful future, one full of self-service options and improved digital experiences for everyone.
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A “Barefoot Abbey” and the Brilliant Spanish Composer Thomas Luis de Victoria.
Music at Messiah’s Classical Concert next concert will be Saturday evening, November 1st starting at 7:30 pm. It will feature Huntsville Collegium Musicum’s performance of Thomas Luis de Victoria’s Officium Defunctorm.
Researching Victoria’s “Requiem” for relevant visuals for the poster and program artwork was an interesting journey.
The spanish composer was born in 1548, and evidence suggests he grew up a choir boy in the Cathedral in Avila. The Catholic Counter- Reformation that nearly paralled his years provide a historical backdrop for this young Catholic man with outstanding musical gifts. So promising were his talents that Philip II provided him a grant to travel to Italy in 1567.
Victoria lived in Italy for the next twenty years; he canted, attended seminary, taught at the German College and was very well respected, holding a number of succeedingly impressive posts as a chapelmaster and organist. By 1587 Victoria desired to return to Spain, and once again, Philip II responded, posting him to be the personal Chaplain of the Dowager Empress Maria.
The music itself is a funeral mass written for Empress María’s death in 1603. She lived in retirement with her daughter Princess Margarita at the royal monestary The Monasterio de las Descalzas Reales, literally the “Monastery of Barefoot Royals.” Upon entry to the convent, these well heeled women would donate their dowry to the convent and vow to go shoeless. (Could it be expensive women’s shoes have always been horribly uncomfortable?) The convent was tremendously well off and the Monastery allowed Victoria to produce gloriously rich and spiritual compositions until his death in 1611.
The Counter Reformation fueled a revived spritualism in Catholic religious arts, and this is also evidenced by Victoria’s contemporary, El Greco, whose Crucificion also appears on the poster artwork. The intensity and palette of tones are emotional, and one cannot listen to Victoria’s Requiem without feeling that same sense of spiritual awakening that is ever present in El Greco’s work.
If you are intrigued by this, you’ll really enjoy this Sacred Music program on Victoria produced recently by BBC on Victoria’s music, featuring the choral group “The Sixteen.” It’s lengthy, but well worth an extended listening. I hope this article, as well as the video pique your curiousity and compel you to attend the November 1st presentation of Victoria’s Officium Defunctorium.
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The Full form of PGDCA is Post Graduate Diploma in Computer Application. PGDCA is a 1-year post-graduate diploma in the field of computer science. The course is usually comprised of two semesters, each of six months duration. This course is offered by various UGC recognized colleges and universities in India. The course covers the basic fundamentals of computer science. It comprises programming languages like C++, Java, and packages like web designing, system analysis, Tally, Oracle-VB, data processing, Ms-Dos, and Windows OS, etc.
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Do you think that your needs are being taken care of despite of sitting alone? If yes, then you have witnessed the magic of Artificial Intelligence (A.I). For a rookie, A.I is simply making human like software programmed to make human-like decisions. A.I depicts and acts on the behavioral response to cognitions and emotions of its creators; humans. In other words, the programmed machine assist its’s creators in achieving the best decision-making abilities with minimum losses. Therefore, 83% of businesses overall have declared to make AI marketing their topmost priority.
What is Artificial Intelligence Marketing(AI marketing)?
AI Marketing is an amalgamation of various AI technologies to assist in making mechanized decisions based on raw data. Customer relation management software, enterprise resource planning software and alike are used to provide relevant data. Thus, the scattered data cannot be utilized to make any potent decision about sales, customer or the market in aggregate until the use of AI makes it simple by its automated predictive analytical models. AI converts the data into meaningful information based on what decision makers decide their next step. Thus, AI Marketing enables the marketers to make informed decisions with providing insight of the outcomes associated with each decisions. AI, therefore, not only provide the confidence in decisions, but also, saves marketers from unforeseen hazards. Assisting firms to make decisions based on automated data collections and converting it into meaningful content saves time, expenses and aids in predicting future of their actions.
5 Reasons to adore AI Marketing and Ways to Implement it
AI marketing automates and improves the time-consuming tasks of collecting customer data, initiating marketing campaigns, implementing, measuring and rectifying the human errors. All this to enable you to spend time in the most important service as a marketer – satisfy your customers. To help you ,I have listed five ways and reasons in which you can implement and convince others to incorporate AI marketing.
1-Reduce Marketing Cost for Maximum Return on Investment through AI Marketing
Every customer is unique with different psychological mechanisms and habits. Varied emotional, cognitive, and behavior patterns often make marketers land in deep waters for unsuccessful sales. Sending the same message to every customer not only wastes time but also requires extra effort and cost. Further increasing the threat of unsuccessful sales because 76% of more than 2200 customers want distinctiveness while 75% buyers want the firm to be prepared about their preferences even before they demand them.
AI with its A(i)LIVE by Hall & Partners collects data from Dynata and augments the segmentation process. Aiding businesses to adapt to the changed needs, varied preferences and get trendy in advance. Hence, the software inaugurated using machine learning and artificial intelligence converts the inaccurate segmentation into personalized and accurate segmentation. Thus, AI marketing aids firms to have a better insights into customer portfolios and predicting their next move accurately.
Adoption of AI technology requires aligning your current and previous marketing efforts. Hence, google analytics and behavior analytic tools are capitalized upon to automate customer behavior analysis. These cost marketers less as compared to the traditional manner. Thereby, saving marketing cost and attaining maximum return from the one time investment.
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2- Stop Wasting Time Tracking Marketing Campaign by Incorporating AI Marketing.
Marketers are working endlessly, that is, 16 hours of the week in trivial tasks such as pondering over existing and next marketing campaigns and their impact. In taking this unnecessary pressure, the employees deviate from their main duty- strong customer and team relationship. This exacerbates mental and physical stress as they waste time in guessing the pros and cons of their efforts. Being clueless about the impact of their campaign and the exact campaign is a traumatic with brand image and reputation at risk. National Geographic’s Einstein bots has gathered world’s fame by creating awareness excitement and market for their Genius show . The Einstein programmed bot not only talks like him but also answers to any of the questions the users once dreamed of asking Einstein. AI has made this marketing campaign and revival of Einstein possible.
Therefore, 85% of the companies have made use of AI to gain competitive advantage with respective to being a trend setters in campaigns while 75% of the marketing companies have noted a 10 % rise in customer satisfaction.
The use of AI advertisement-related software such as Adobe advertising cloud, Albert, Sizmek and many more can help you to flourish. A.I helps marketing firms to know the 5 dimensions of their predictive marketing. With Pathmatics software, you can even have details about your competitor’s next big move by gaining industrial insights. In a nutshell, A.I enables your firm to select the best marketing campaigns with no guess work on its impacts. Furthermore, by revealing the competitor’s efforts, it highlights your USP over the industry enabling you to surpass the industry in an efficient manner.
3-Optimize your Sale Force through Digitalization.
Is your Sales teams often unsatisfied or clueless? It is because they are either assigned banal work with no possible outcome or not timely informed about their prospects. With progress in AI, the possibility of predicting sales force requirements become utmost easy. Furthermore, AI marketing enables employees to know their next task automatically making it easier to stay aligned and retained. Moreover, the hassle of monitoring individual employee saves time, effort and provides a sense of autonomy to the employee.
Automation has led to a 15% increase in sales productivity. Thus, you should forecast the key KPI’s such as conversion rate, cost per acquisition, retention rate to have a better know-how about the sales force and avoid the lengthy process of documenting the task and performance on registers.
4-Enrich your Customer’s Experience.
Are you there for your customers every time they wish to talk to you? Are your customers complaining that your company slacks in responding? Well, you are not alone in this important dilemma. About 93% customer make repeated purchase when good customer service is provided. Therefore, AI Chatbots are the answer to the dilemma. AI chatbots not only are swift to respond but also answer in the same manner like a sales person would. This makes it appear as if the customer is talking to actual sales representative at any time of any day. Replying via AI to your customers as soon as they message would not only surprise them of the speedy reply but also, strengthen your relation with them into a loyal one!
To start with, use a customized version of the chatbots and modify them by incorporating the key phrases your firm uses. In fact, tailor them in performing demos along with providing links and forms to the customer. In addition, alter the chatbot to guide on the similar product attributes, that the customer might want, already depicted by the AI in the system.
5- Get the Best Content Marketing Experience.
With the creation of 2.5 quintillion bytes worth data annually, the content writing industry will reach 500 marks in 5 years. The content creators, thus, not only have to be creative but also produce engaging content. The game doesn’t ends at just writing engaging content. If the audience has no clue of your best article or website, the weeks are waisted! AI jumps in to protect the firms and content creators again. Platforms like HubSpot, Concurred, BrightEdge and Software like CRM has removed the threat of outdated topic selection along with tedious content is removed. With AI’s SEO tools, not only your efforts will be ranked on the best sites but also the target market will multiply. Thus, With AI Content Generator , the trouble and painstaking task of writing an appealing content is removed altogether with Zyro AI Content Generator writing your content for you.
Yahoo, fox and Washington post are gaining momentum partly via the bots for content creation. AI is the secret ingredient to speedy and accurate update along with acquiring latest information. Alone Washington post incorporated AI bots for automated content creation in 2016 and was able to publish 850 article the same year with accuracy and winning content .
Why go though all the trouble of spending weeks in selecting the right words or an attractive tagline when AI can do this in minutes? Thus, AI enables you to save money, time, effort and produce an enrich content to win your visitors. Won’t you like clicks on your website and 5 star rating as compared to your competitor’s? AI has made it possible.
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In a nutshell..
Your foremost obligation is to serve the customer with minimum unsuccessful sales and budget to get the maximum return. “The Best Marketer” is the label nearly every marketer dream for. Well, digitalization is the name of the growth ladder towards that label. Whoever understands the bridge between AI marketing and endless opportunities and growth is safe and will excel. Though having AI marketing is expensive but being a onetime purchase would reduce the overall recurring expenses. Alongside AI services like that offered by Spectre management would help marketers gain optimum efficiency, faster and accurate data analysis, best decision-making ability along with allowing your employees and you to excel in an area AI lacks- being creative. So, isn’t it worth relying on? | <urn:uuid:2648ce93-c937-4d29-b30c-a7795410ee52> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://shobisolutions.com/2021/08/30/five-reasons-for-falling-in-love-with-ai-marketing-and-how-to-use-it/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572833.78/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817001643-20220817031643-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.942307 | 1,915 | 1.742188 | 2 |
For Halloween, most kids dress up as their favorite superheroes, “Star Wars” characters, Disney princesses, witches, movie slashers, or an animal, like a dinosaur. One girl in Central New York chose something different.
Kennedy Lisi, a 3-year-old from Cicero, wanted to be a water tower.
Her mom, Justine Lisi, told syracuse.com | The Post-Standard that Kennedy has been “obsessed” with the North Syracuse OCWA (Onondaga County Water Authority) tower for about a year. The family sees it every time they come over the bridge to Justine’s husband Darick Lisi’s business, the Lisi’s Barbershop on South Bay Road in Cicero.
“She just loves it, and she actually knows how to spell OCWA,” Justine Lisi said in a phone interview.
“We asked her what she wanted to be for Halloween and she said a water tower, and my husband was so excited because this was right up his alley.”
Darick Lisi had a “vision,” using some poster board and duct tape to create the unique costume for Kennedy. She loved it.
While they were out trick-or-treating in North Syracuse on Sunday, recent Syracuse University graduate Grace Krichbaum filmed Kennedy excitedly running up to houses in her water tower costume. She posted the video on TikTok, where it went viral.
“This child is obsessed with water towers,” Krichbaum wrote “She asked to be a water tower for Halloween. She was so happy with her costume.”
As of Tuesday afternoon, the video has more than 925,000 views on TikTok and over 135,000 “likes” — well beyond the reach of Krichbaum’s 539 followers.
OCWA, Central New York’s Water Authority, also saw a photo of Kennedy and shared it on Facebook: “Kennedy Lisi of Cicero is 3 years old and she’s a big fan of water towers!”
Justine Lisi, a former syracuse.com | The Post-Standard employee in marketing, said she was shocked at how popular the clip became, but she knew there were at least some local fans.
“We thought a lot of people would love the idea because of the reactions we were getting from a lot of people as we were walking around,” she said. “It shows how creative kids can really be.”
But what about next year? Could a Halloween sequel be just as popular?
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Anthracnose fruit rot plagues blueberries, especially in Florida. In fact, it’s among the fruit’s most damaging diseases.
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When the light goes on, it’s lights out for a ruinous strawberry pathogen.
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Beep. Beep. Beep. That’s the sound of the alert, telling a citrus grower it’s time to spray fungicide to help prevent fruit from falling off the tree.
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Federal Judge Refuses to Block Religious Accommodations Act
A federal judge has decided not to block Mississippi’s controversial Religious Accommodations Act. News 25’s Kendra Turley gives us a look at how both the ACLU and members of the LGBT community are handling the news.
Nkyolas Alford and Stephan Thomas, a gay couple from Meridian, Mississippi, have been engaged for nearly two years. The couple teamed up with the American Civil Liberties Union to file the very first lawsuit against House Bill 1523, calling it a “slap in the face.” Zakiya Summers with the ACLU said, “This law is harmful, not just for them, not just for them, but for all Mississippians. I think that’s one of the things that we miss is that HB 1523 puts everyone at risk.”
The statewide law is expected to take effect July 1st. Those in favor of the bill say it protects religious views. Those against is say it is unconstitutional and discriminates. Circuit Clerk Zack Wallace said, “We don’t look at it as a same-sex marriage license. We look at it as a marriage license.”
United States District Judge Carlton Reeves denied the ACLU’s motion for a preliminary injunction essentially because the couple plans on applying for a marriage license sometime within the next three years, proving HB 1523 as no “real and immediate” threat. President of the Mississippi Rainbow Center Molly Kester said, “I think the biggest thing, especially for the LGBT people, is don’t take it as a setback. This is just part of the whole legal process.”
The ACLU has filed a motion to reconsider and is hopeful the court will take another look. “We’re going to do all that we can. The ACLU Mississippi will continue our efforts to make sure that HB 1523 is struck down or repealed,” said Summers.
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Ian Portsmouth: Welcome to the Business Coach Podcast, an advice-oriented series that tackles the top issues and opportunities facing Canada’s small businesses. I’m your host, Ian Portsmouth, the Editor of PROFIT Magazine. We’ve developed this podcast in cooperation with BMO Bank of Montreal.
Well, the federal budget dropped a couple of weeks ago and as expected, it was a stay-the-course document bearing few surprises. But it did offer a few new goodies for business and like any federal budget, it will affect our economic fortunes to some degree in the coming years. Joining me to discuss the budget and share what’s in the economic crystal ball is Doug Porter, Deputy Chief Economist at BMO Capital Markets. He is on the line from his office in Toronto. Doug, welcome to the Business Coach Podcast.
Doug Porter: Thank you for having me.
Ian Portsmouth: So, very quick synopsis, budget 2010, good, bad or ugly on the whole?
Doug Porter: I would say overall slightly good. It was a bit of an unusual budget in that the Government was really trying to accomplish two things at once. First, it was trying to finish off the stimulus package that was first introduced a little bit more than a year ago and that really will run the course right up until March 2011. But at the same time, they were also trying to lay out a very specific framework for how they are going to reduce the budget deficit which will be about $50 billion both this year and next, quite sharply over the medium term to the point where we will be almost balanced 5 years out. And they did detail some fairly specific spending restraint measures over the next few years. But I would say, at least over the short term, the budget will continue to add a little bit of growth and government policy overall will still be on the simulative side through the course of 2010.
Ian Portsmouth: Still we have a huge deficit. So, is it something that we need to be concerned about over the mid to long term?
Doug Porter: Well, I think we need to be vigilant and somewhat concerned about it but I think it is important to point out that Canada stands in very stead compared against almost all other major industrialized economies. Our budget offset is smaller than any of the other G7 economies, as a share of the economy. And certainly, our total debt load is well below that of almost every other major industrialized economy. Really, the only country that comes close to us on either measure is Germany but, you know, say, compared to Britain or the U.S. where budgetary situation is much much more manageable. And that goes even when you include some of the provinces that have fairly large budget deficits on their own, Canada’s situation is still quite manageable.
Ian Portsmouth: So, let’s talk about the specifics of the budget. One significant change is the removal of tariffs on some imported manufacturing and puts. What exactly is covered and how is this going to help manufacturers?
Doug Porter: Some people refer to this has being the real gem and the surprise in the budget and I would say that it involves the new measures and probably was, you know in terms of dollars cost, probably was the most significant. Effectively, any kind of machine and equipment expenses that a manufacturer undertakes, and almost any input that they use in production of goods will now be care free. It isn’t a huge dollar cost, the government estimated that it does cost them about $200 to $300 millions a year. You know, it’s significant. But I would see really what the Government was trying to do, was trying to find low cost ways to help over the sector that probably has to this day, is still coming under the most strain, given the economic backdrop we’re facing. And you know, I think it was a imaginative and it was helpful. So I think it probably was the most positive aspect in the new budget.
Ian Portsmouth: Now, this isn’t news but the Government has extended its promise to reduce the corporate tax rate to 15% in 2012. Did that come as any surprise?
Doug Porter: Well, to some people it did. I mean, personally, I didn’t find that surprising. I think that that was a key plank of the Government’ strategy. But there had been a lot of talk that the corporate income tax cuts, and there will be more in a couple of years, could be sacrificed on the alter of budget restraint. But I think improving the corporate competitiveness and doing it by cutting corporate income taxes is one of the key strategies that this Government has and in fact the prior Government had it as well. To me, it would almost be a last ditch effort for the Government to go back on those plain corporate tax cuts. As I said to someone, it was a bit of a mild pleasant surprise. I think they are likely to carry through with the further cuts they have planned on that front.
Ian Portsmouth: That said, the tax rate cut could be replaced by an increase in employment insurance premiums. So what is going on there and how much will this affect employer bottom lines if the rates do go up?
Doug Porter: You know for years, there was quite a complaint that Ottawa is running these huge surpluses on the employment insurance side because the revenues were flowing in and year after year, they were cutting the employment insurance premiums quite aggressively. Over the last couple of years, as unemployment has backed up quite rapidly, they’ve decided to freeze those premiums even though they are now running large deficits on the employment insurance front. I suspect that what we are going to see is a relatively large increase in the employment insurance premiums next year, in 2011. Now they do have caps on how much those employment insurance premiums can rise in a single year, 15 cents. But I suspect we are going to hit the maximum, how we are going to hit that cap probably for the next few years as they try to address this deficit in the employment insurance account. And realistically, a) this is a tax increase and b) this is one way that they can address the broader budget deficit, you know, almost without making a policy decision.
Ian Portsmouth: So Doug, where do you see interest rates moving?
Doug Porter: Well the Bank of Canada made a commitment a year ago when they cut interest rates to 0.25% on their overnight rate that they were going to keep them there until the middle part of 2010. It does look like they are going to stick to that commitment unless we get a big shock in inflation over the next little while. But our view is that, given that the housing market has almost completely rebounded to where it was in free recession levels, given that consumer spending is coming back and given that inflation is basically back to the Bank of Canada’s 2% target, I think the Bank is actually quite uncomfortable with how low interest rates are and that they will start raising interest rates at the first decision date after their so-called conditional commitment is up. In other words, interest rates will begin to go up in July. They have 4 more decisions in the second half of the year. We think at the least, they will raise interest rates by a quarter in each of these four moves. So we think that by the end of the year, their overnight target will be 1.4%, and we think it will continue to rise over the course of 2011 as the recovery becomes more well entrenched. We think the Bank of Canada’s overnight interest rate will be all the way up to 3.25% by the end of 2011. Now, you know, on a historical basis, that’s still a relatively low interest rate, as the Bank of Canada, I believe, would call a normal rate or a neutral level of rates for their overnight interest rate to be a little bit above 4%. So, you know, in the longer scheme of things, our rate of 3 or 3.5% or somewhere in between would still be relatively low. But certainly, it is a long way from today’s quarter per cent rate for that overnight target rate.
Ian Portsmouth: Now, anything thing tied to the stimulus is inflation and there has been a little bit of talk the last little while about Government’s lifting their inflation expectations and for instance, instead of trying to keep inflation at around 2%, they might be happy with something at 3 or 4%. Where do you see inflation going over the mid to long term?
Doug Porter: There is a couple of points to be made there. First of all, that talk about possibility lifting the inflation target, that is not coming from the Bank of Canada, that’s a former Chief Economist of the IMF has been talking about, how 4% inflation might make things easy to deal with. The Bank of Canada, I think, is not in that frame of mind at all. In fact, of anything, you know, the debate there has been whether to actually lower the inflation target from its current 2% rate. I actually don’t think there is a lot of appetite for that either. I think the Bank will continue to target 2% inflation over the medium term. And by the way, they do have to come up with a new inflation target before the end of 2011 and those targets tend to last 5 years. We are at the risk line over the near term. I actually think the risk is a little bit to the high side of that 2% inflation target, despite the fact we have just been through a very serious recession, I think one of the big surprises is that, you know, even with that serious recession we’ve just been through, the headline inflation rate right now is almost exactly 2% and that’s also despite the fact that we’ve had the helping hand of a very strong Canadian dollar which acted to help dampened price increases. And you know, despite all that, we still are stuck with an inflation rate pretty close to 2%. You know, if anything, we could get inflation drifting a little bit above that over the next couple of years especially when you take into account the fact that Ontario and British Columbia will both be introducing the harmonized sales tax in the middle part of 2010. And what that means is the provincial sales tax will now apply to a lot of goods and services especially that it didn’t apply to before when they blend their provincial sales tax with the GST. And over the short period of time, that will actually give a little bit of a bump to headline inflation. We could see headline inflation drift up above 2.5% even possibility close to 3% for a while in the second half of this year before it comes back down later in 2011. But overall, I think if anything the surprise has been over the last few months or so, how sticky or high inflation has remained and the rift as the economy recovers more fully, that inflation could bump up a little bit higher than 2%
Ian Portsmouth: Now the dollar continues to fluctuate quite significantly. Where do you see it going over the next year?
Doug Porter: Well I think, you’re right, we’re seeing just tremendous moves in the exchange rate over the last couple of years. For instance, there was one month alone back in late 2008 where the currency dropped by 20 cents in the space of 4 short weeks. But of course, it has recouped all of that and now we’re back close to parity, as we speak. We tend to believe that the odds are more that the currency is likely to strengthen further from current levels over the next couple of years rather than weaken. We do think the currency will push above parity through the second half of this year and generally stay above that through 2011. The main reasons why we believe the currency will tend to strengthen is that as commodity prices continue to recover, that will tend to benefit the Canadian dollar. We simply believe that there are more fundamental positives for the Canadian economy versus most other economies that will support the Canadian dollar. And finally we do believe that the Bank of Canada will be a little bit more aggressive and early in raising interest rates than other major central banks. And that too will tend to support the Canadian dollar. So for all these factors, we do think that overall, the Canadian dollar is more likely to strengthen rather than weaken over the next year and half.
Ian Portsmouth: The federal government is counting on pretty good economic growth to help eliminate the deficit. So where do you see GDP growth going over the next little while?
Doug Porter: Well if anything, we’re actually a little more up beat than what was projected in the budget. This year’s budget was based on estimated GDP growth of 2.6% this year. We actually think it will be close to the 3%. We saw the economy end in 2009 with a bit of a flourish and that actually added in the 2010 with quite a bit of momentum and we think that some of that will carry through this year. Admittedly, a lot of that momentum is being driven here at home by the incredible rebounding in the Canadian housing and also by a nice come back in Canadian consumer spending. To really maintain that growth, we need the rest of the world and the US economy in particular to show a bit more room. But we think the recovery will expand and take firmer root as we go through 2010. I frankly believe that the budget’s forecast, if anything, will prove a bit cautious this year and next. To me the bigger question is, you know, what happens after 2011, does that recovery really continue to expand and take a firmer route. And to me, that’s still a little bit of an opened question whether the US economy can really see a healthy recovery than what we are seeing at this point.
Ian Portsmouth: Well entrepreneurs will be watching closely. So Doug, thank you for joining the Business Coach Podcast.
Doug Porter: Thank you for inviting me.
Ian Portsmouth: Doug Porter is Deputy Chief Economist at BMO Capital Markets in Toronto.
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Nigeria is blessed with many brilliant and hard working women who are worth their weight. Many of these women have headed into the finance world and they have made an achievement out of it.
Taking charge of top positions, they also manage to run their different homes smoothly without any hassle.
Below are a brief profile on some women in finance:
1. Kemi Adeosun
Kemi Adeosun, 48, holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Economics from the University of East London and a Postgraduate Diploma in Public Financial Management from the University of London.
She worked as Accounting assistant at British Telecom Company, London, from 1989 – 1990 and Senior audit officer at Goodman Jones, London, from 1990- 1993. Her more senior career saw her as Manager, Internal Audit at London Underground Limited, London, 1994 – 1995 and Manager Internal Audit, Prism Consulting from 1996 – 2000.
She was appointed the Commissioner of Finance in Ogun state, from 2011 – 2015. Adeosun is a member of the Institutes of Chartered Accountants, England and Wales, as well as Nigeria. She is currently the minister of finance of federal republic of Nigeria, from 2015 till date.
2. Ibikun Awosika
A fellow of the African Leadership Initiative and Aspen Global Leadership Network, Ibukun Awosika is a member of the Nigerian Economic Summit Group, member of the board of Nigerian Sovereign Wealth Fund and former Chairperson, Board of Trustees of Women in Management, Business and Public Service.
In 2011, she co-founded the Afterschool Graduate Development Centre, a career centre established in order to checkmate the high rate of unemployment in Nigeria.
On September 7, 2015, Ibukun became the first woman to be appointed Chairman of First Bank of Nigeria following the resignation of Prince Ajibola Afonja.
3. Nimi Akinkugbe
Nimi Akinkugbe is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Bestman Games Ltd, the African distributor of customized editions of Monopoly, Hasbro’s world famous game.
Nimi contributes articles to several leading publications including Genevieve Magazine, a leading Nigerian women’s lifestyle magazine, Business Day, the Punch Newspapers, and the Guardian Newspapers. Her articles are also featured in a host of other publications, websites and blogs including, Bella Naija, Lagos Mums, Eden Lifestyle and The Edition, a Kenyan publication.
Nimi is a member of the Board of Trustees of the Ajumogobia Science Foundation, which seeks to support the teaching and learning of science, and a member of the Board of Trustees of The Play Pen, Child Development Centre and the Artistes Committee of the Musical Society of Nigeria (MUSON). She is also on the Selection Committee of the Tony Elumelu Entrepreneurship Programme (TEEP).
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Aishah graduated from the University of Abuja, after which she bagged an MSc in finance and management from the Cranfield School of Management in the UK, as well as an MBA with a specialisation in finance from the University of Lagos, Nigeria.
The delectable Aisha is the chairperson of the executive council of Women in Management, Business and Public Service (WIMBIZ), a Nigerian non-profit organisation, established in 2001.
The Presidency in October 2017 announced the nomination of Aisha Ahmad, to take over as Deputy Governor Central Bank of Nigeria in charge of economic policy from Sarah Alade who retired in March.
5. Onikepo Akande OON,CON
Dr. Onikepo Olufunmike Akande, OON was a director of both the National Insurance Corporation of Nigeria, (NICON), and Nigeria Industrial Development Bank (NIDB),now Nigeria Bank of Industry.
Dr. Akande is an accomplished economist as well as a successful industrialist and seasoned administrator and Accountant by training.
She was the first woman honourable minister of industry in the Federal Government of Nigeria in December, 1997.
She currently serves as the President of the Lagos Chamber of Commerce and Industry and honorary life Vice-President of the Nigerian Association of Chambers of Commerce, Industry, Mines and Agriculture.
5. Ngozi Okonjo Iweala
Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala (born 13 June 1954) is a Nigerian economist and its first female minister of Finance.
She served two terms as Finance Minister of Nigeria (2003-2006, 2011-2015) and was previously Managing Director of the World Bank (2007-2011). She currently chairs the Board of the Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunization ) and the African Risk Capacity.
In July 2017, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, was named an independent non-executive director at Standard Chartered Plc in the United Kingdom. She is also a Senior Adviser at Lazard.
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