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Some Bentley applications, such as ProjectWise, are hosted on a server. A user then connects to the server with her machine to use that application. The user will need an access key (a.k.a server key) for those server products. Entitlement Management allows Administrators or Co-Administrators to generate and delete Server Access Keys.
Navigate to Access Keys for Server Products.
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Exposure to Chickenpox or Rubella During Pregnancy
During pregnancy, chickenpox can lead to pneumonia, and rubella can cause miscarriage or serious problems for your baby. Find out how to avoid contracting these infections and when to contact your doctor.
Exposure to chickenpox or rubella
Chickenpox in pregnancy can cause problems for the baby and can be severe in a pregnant woman, possibly leading to pneumonia. If you contract rubella for the first time in early pregnancy, it can cause miscarriage or severe problems in the fetus.
- If you encounter chickenpox, contact your doctor who can check your immunity. If you aren't immune, your doctor may advise an injection to protect you from severe chickenpox.
- Your rubella status is checked at the start of pregnancy. If you aren't immune, you can be vaccinated after the birth. Meanwhile you need to be extra careful.
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BY BLESSED MHLANGA
GOVERNMENT has announced a three-phased plan for the reopening of schools, with the last group — ECD, grades 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and forms 1 and 2 — resuming classes on November 9 after an almost six-month-long COVID-19-induced break.
In a post-Cabinet media briefing yesterday, Information minister Monica Mutsvangwa said the decision to reopen schools was informed by the drop in COVID-19 cases.
“Cabinet is pleased to announce that Cambridge examination centres reopened successfully on September 14, and no health incidents were reported. In light of the high level of preparedness in the education sector, schools will be reopened in a phased manner. Phase 1 will open on September 28, this will entail Grade 7, forms 4 and 6. Phase 2 will open on October 26 and will involve Grade 6, forms 3 and 5, and Phase 3 will open on November 9, 2020 covering the rest of the learners,” she said.
Government said it would limit the number of learners to 30 per class in line with global COVID-19 containment regulations.
Primary and Secondary Education minister Cain Mathema said pupils would also have to take turns to go to school so as to keep their numbers manageable.
Government also moved to increase the number of congregants from 30 to 100 per sitting.
“Taking into cognisance that Zimbabwe is largely a religious nation, Cabinet has revised upwards the gatherings for churches from 50 to 100. Government nonetheless appeals to churches to ensure that congregants continue to observe COVID-19 containment measures by enforcing the compulsory proper wearing of masks, practising social distancing and washing hands,” Mutsvangwa said.
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How To Influence Others? Part 1
My summary of the first part of Dale Carnegie’s How To Win Friends and Influence Others
The first part of Dale Carnegie’s famous book was amazing. It taught me how to think about other people, talk, and build genuine relationships with people around me!
Here are the three core lessons of the first part;
Don’t criticize, complain, or condemn
Dale Carnegie did a brilliant job explaining this. He gave the deserved importance to justice while also conveying to the readers, how criticizing, complaining, and condemning another person can have its problems.
Firstly, to influence people, we must have a deep relationship with them. Without such a foundation it is not possible to have such power. Having influence over someone is a strong thing but it does not have to be bad. People often correlate them both but they are not the same at all. Carnegie does an excellent job explaining that!
Carnegie conveys that criticizing someone is in no way good for them. This does not mean that if someone does something wrong it should be ignored. It should be communicated to them but in an effective and mutually beneficial manner. When you criticize someone to prove a point, the other person has to become defensive, and then it becomes infinitely harder to communicate reason and logic. When someone does something you think is worthy of criticism, communicate that in a dignifying and effective manner and withhold words that can be perceived as getting the other person defensive.
We as humans do not like being shown disapproval as we are social creatures. Condemning someone is worse than that. It completely destroys the relationship we are trying to develop. The reason condemning is harmful in communication is that it is primarily done to ignite a flame rather than blow it out. Condemning someone does him more harm than good. It is not helping with anything.
Whilst complaining all many people want to do is to state their case. It represents an underlying motive regardless of whether or not it exists. This creates distrust at the very least and no one likes being around a complainer either. If you complain a lot it is easy for people to lose respect for you and they won’t take you seriously either.
Affirm what is good and not sell out to flattery
Affirming what is good in someone can go a long way to developing a strong relationship with them. When you affirm what is positive in someone it results in a genuine connection.
Dale Carnegie gave an example of the movie The King’s Speech portraying the Duke of York, Prince Albert. Prince Albert had a stammering problem. To cure this problem, Lionel Logue was hired as a speech therapist. Logue used unorthodox methods for his patients as he knew that the problem stemmed from his childhood.
When Prince Albert is about to be crowned king at his coronation, fear starts to loom over his head and he starts thinking about how he would become a failure of a king and a laughing stock for the whole world. It is at this moment that Logue says, “Bertie,” as he is known to his family members, “you’re the bravest person that I know.” These simple words bear massive weight and result in a life-changing impact for him!
Carnegie then goes on to explain the difference between affirmation and flattery. The difference is simple, affirmation is genuine. Meaningless encounters like, ‘Hello, it’s nice to see you’ are so common nowadays. How is it nice to see someone you aren’t even making eye contact with? These words have lost meaning nowadays and they make for nonsensical small talk.
When affirming what is good in someone you have to make an effort to spot it. That is what makes it genuine. Flattery knows no limits. It is easy to say random positive things. The ease results in the lack of effort and abundance of availability. This results in its meaninglessness.
Igniting an eager want
In order to influence someone, we must connect with a core desire within them. Influencing someone is not a matter of outsmarting them but rather seeing what they want and offering it with mutual benefit. You can not influence someone you don’t have a deep connection with, you have to make that foundation to connect at an intellectual and meaningful level. This can be achieved by educating oneself about the goals and perspectives other people hold. | <urn:uuid:8c5efe15-84de-4779-a204-b86e24f09380> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://rhiraj.medium.com/how-to-influence-others-part-1-f7377de29fb6?source=read_next_recirc---------0---------------------f25a22fa_08cc_456d_94ed_51733497f82d------- | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572833.78/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817001643-20220817031643-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.975101 | 914 | 2.484375 | 2 |
The statistics are heartbreaking. In Kansas, over 6,500 children are in out-of-home care. But the state has just 2,000 foster homes. Nebraska has 3,000 foster homes for about 4,000 children. The shortage of fosters means many of the children who can’t stay with their parents have to be placed far from home. In one swift move, they lose everything they know — their familiar neighborhood, their teachers and coaches and their friends. Visits with family members are difficult, if not impossible. Can you help by becoming a foster parent? Do you have room in your heart and home for a child or sibling pair in a community near you? They’re in urgent need. They need you.
Chances Are You Qualify
You don’t need to be wealthy or have a huge home to become a foster parent. You don’t even have to be married! Many agencies are willing to place children with people who are single.
Although requirements vary slightly from state to state, these are generally the requirements for becoming a foster parent.
- You’ll need a big heart, open arms and patience. Going to a foster home is traumatic for any child, and most experienced trauma before entering the foster system. If your foster child arrives with behavior issues, dealing with them will require patience and love.
- Before you foster, you’ll have to attend a 30-hour training course.
- Prospective foster parents must pass complete background checks and be willing to be fingerprinted under the federal Adam Walsh Act. Crimes against children and conviction of a sexual offense are disqualifiers.
- You must be at least 21 years old.
- Foster parents need to be in good enough health to care for and supervise an active child or teenager.
- You’ll need enough income to cover all of your expenses without help from public assistance, like Section 8 Housing, food stamps or Medicaid.
- You’ll need reliable transportation and a working phone (a cell phone is fine), too.
- Foster children don’t have to have their own rooms, but they must have their own beds and enough space to study and play. It doesn’t matter whether you rent or own your home, as long as it meets fire and other local codes.
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INTRODUCTION: UNDERSTANDING CALLS TO DEFUND THE POLICE
During the summer of 2020, the police killings of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and others created a movement that unearthed a reality that Black people in the United States have always been aware of: systemic racism, in the form of police brutality, is alive and well. While the blatant brutality of George Floyd's murder at the hands of police is the flame, (1) the spark was ignited long ago. One need only review the record of recent years--the killings of Eric Garner, Michael Brown, Tamir Rice, Antwon Rose, Alton Sterling, Philando Castile, Breonna Taylor, and countless other souls have led to this particular season of widespread protests and organized demands for change. (2) This is a historical moment of tremendous civil unrest, deemed by many as a revived Civil Rights Movement. (3)
While various reform-seeking legislative measures have been in process for the past several years, this particular moment is different and calls for a different response. Protests and demonstrations erupted on stages large and small, drawing attention to social justice issues. (4) From schools to small businesses to large corporations, institutions across the country issued statements pledging themselves and their finances to antiracism work. (5) As the focus turns from necessary protest to tangible progress, what remains unanswered is how best to proceed. Professor Ibram X. Kendi described antiracism as "a radical choice in the face of this history, requiring a radical reorientation of our consciousness." (6) One such "radical choice" is defunding the police.
Police defunding can follow many models, but two have emerged most prominently among activists and scholars. Under one, jurisdictions completely disband entire police departments, offering leaders the opportunity to begin afresh and draft community-led public safety prototypes that do not include police at all. (7) Under the other, police departments' coffers are divested, to varying degrees, and funds are reallocated to... | <urn:uuid:a83f5db5-6e64-4020-a559-ba497e40a242> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://go.gale.com/ps/retrieve.do?tabID=T002&resultListType=RESULT_LIST&searchResultsType=SingleTab&hitCount=2&searchType=AdvancedSearchForm¤tPosition=2&docId=GALE%7CA659648076&docType=Article&sort=Relevance&contentSegment=ZEAI-MOD1&prodId=EAIM&pageNum=1&contentSet=GALE%7CA659648076&searchId=R1&userGroupName=anon~questia&inPS=true | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573172.64/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818063910-20220818093910-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.945577 | 417 | 3.34375 | 3 |
Sundus Saleh, an Iraqi woman, first filed her lawsuit against George W. Bush, Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, Condoleezza Rice and Paul Wolfowitz in September 2013. Alleging that the Iraq War constituted an illegal crime of aggression, Saleh filed the suit on behalf of herself and other Iraqis in the US District Court for the Northern District of California.
The district court dismissed Saleh’s lawsuit in December 2014, saying the defendants acted within the scope of their employment when they planned and carried out the Iraq War. Saleh then appealed to the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.
In her appeal, Saleh is arguing that the Bush officials were acting from personally held convictions that the US should invade Iraq, regardless of any legitimate policy reasons, and that they knowingly lied to the public when they fraudulently tied Saddam Hussein to al-Qaeda and the threat of weapons of mass destruction.
Inder Comar, Saleh’s lawyer, explained, “Nuremberg held that domestic immunity was not a defense to allegations of international aggression. Everything the Germans did was legal under the law. We are asking the Ninth Circuit to reject the application of domestic immunity in this case, in line with the holdings of Nuremberg.”
On July 22, Saleh urged the Ninth Circuit to take judicial notice of portions of the Chilcot Report, which makes factual conclusions about the run-up to the Iraq War. A court can take judicial notice of a fact that is not subject to reasonable dispute and can be accurately and readily determined from sources whose accuracy cannot be reasonably questioned. That includes public records, such as reports issued by a commission of inquiry.
The report was published by the Iraq Inquiry Committee, an independent committee established by the British government, on July 6, 2016, after six years of investigation, research and drafting.
Here are four of the excerpts from the report that Saleh has submitted to the court for judicial notice:
- –President Bush decided at the end of 2001 to pursue a policy of regime change in Iraq.
–On 26 February, 2002, Sir Richard Dearlove, the Chief of the Secret Intelligence Service, advised that the US Administration had concluded that containment would not work, was drawing up plans for a military campaign later in the year, and was considering presenting Saddam Hussein with an ultimatum for the return of inspectors while setting the bar “so high that Saddam Hussein would be unable to comply.”
–Mr. [UK Foreign Secretary Jack] Straw’s advice of 25 March proposed that the US and UK should seek an ultimatum to Saddam Hussein to re-admit weapons inspectors. That would provide a route for the UK to align itself with the US without adopting the US objective regime change. This reflected advice that regime change would be unlawful.
–Sir Richard Dearlove reported that he had been told that the US had already taken a decision on action – “the question was only how and when;” and that he had been told it intended to set the threshold on weapons inspections so high that Iraq would not be able to hold up US policy.
The report includes copies of notes between Bush and former British Prime Minister Tony Blair, in which they discussed the invasion of Iraq as early as October 2001.
Eight months before the invasion of Iraq, Blair wrote to Bush, saying “I will be with you, whatever.” In July 2002, Blair had told Bush that removing Hussein from power would “free up the region” even though Iraqis might “feel ambivalent about being invaded.”
The report concluded that Hussein posed no imminent threat on March 20, 2003, the date the US and the UK invaded Iraq. It also noted that a majority of the United Nations Security Council favored continuing UN monitoring and inspections.
Legal Experts Conclude War was Illegal
The committee also published submissions by legal experts who concluded the war was illegal and constituted aggression against Iraq.
Philippe Sands said, “Distinguished members of the legal community in the United Kingdom have also concluded without ambiguity that the war was unlawful.”
Sir Michael Wood stated, “the use of force against Iraq in March 2003 was contrary to international law,” in that it “had not been authorized by the Security Council, and had no other legal basis in international law.”
Elizabeth Wilmshurst concurred, noting, “the facts did not justify the use of force in self-defence. Existing Security Council resolutions did not authorize the use of force. There was no other legal justification. A desire to change the regime did not give a legal basis for military action,” adding, “I regarded the invasion of Iraq as illegal.”
An international group of lawyers (including former US Attorney General Ramsey Clark and I) filed an amicus brief supporting Saleh’s legal claims. Clark told Truthout at the time, “In this case, as many as 3.5 million people have lost their lives as a consequence of the crime of aggression — the illegal use of force perpetrated against the people of Iraq — and the country’s development has been set back countless years.”
Allegations Against Team Bush
The UN Charter, which was created by the countries of the world in 1945 to “save succeeding generations from the scourge of war,” prohibits the use of military force except in self-defense or with Security Council approval. Neither of these two conditions was present before the US-UK invasion of Iraq. Iraq did not pose an imminent military threat to any UN member country on March 19, 2003, and the Security Council did not approve the invasion.
A “crime against peace” is defined by the Nuremberg Charter as “planning, preparation, initiation or waging a war of aggression, or a war in violation of international treaties, agreements or assurances, or participation in a common plan or conspiracy for the accomplishment of any of the foregoing.” The US-UK war against Iraq was a war of aggression.
The International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg held, “To initiate a war of aggression, therefore, is not only an international crime; it is the supreme international crime differing only from other war crimes in that it contains within itself the accumulated evil of the whole.”
In his opening statement as chief US prosecutor at Nuremberg, US Supreme Court Justice Robert Jackson said, “No political, military, economic, or other considerations shall serve as an excuse or justification” for a war of aggression. He added, “If certain acts in violation of treaties are crimes, they are crimes whether the United States does them or whether Germany does them.”
Saleh’s complaint cites statements made by the defendants as early as 1998 which indicate their intention to change Iraq’s regime. For example, in his testimony before the House National Security Committee on Iraq, Wolfowitz advocated the removal of Hussein and the formation of a provisional government that would “control the largest oil field in Iraq.”
On September 12, 2001, Rumsfeld complained that there were no decent targets for bombing Afghanistan so the United States should consider bombing Iraq, which had better targets. Bush said at the time that the US should change Iraq’s government.
In July 2002, Dearlove, reporting on recent meetings in the US, said, “the intelligence and facts were being fixed around the policy.”
Bush, Cheney and Rice used faulty intelligence in order to better market a war with Iraq to the American people.
The defendants engaged in a pattern and practice of deceiving the American public into believing that a link between al-Qaeda and Iraq existed in order to win approval for the crime of aggression against Iraq.
On September 14, 2004, UN Secretary General Kofi Annan stated, “I have indicated that [the invasion of Iraq] was not in conformity with the UN Charter. From our point of view and from the Charter’s point of view it was illegal.”
Justice Jackson called the crime of aggression “the greatest menace of our times.” More than 70 years later, his words continue to ring true.
“The invasion [of Iraq] resulted in the total destruction of a beautiful, peaceful country,” Saleh told Truthout in 2015. “The invasion didn’t destroy only the country’s infrastructure, buildings and heritage; it destroyed millions of families and their dreams.”
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The Peltier Click is a Click board™ which utilizes the SPV1050, an ultralow power energy harvester and battery charger from STMicroelectronics. The Peltier Click can charge lithium battery using thermoelectric energy harvesting device (TEG). A TEG converts heat directly into electrical energy according to the Seebeck effect. It can be used for a variety of applications such as WSN, HVAC, building and home automation, industrial control, remote metering, lighting, security, surveillance, wearable and biomedical sensors and fitness.
The Peltier Click is supported by a mikroSDK compliant library, which includes functions that simplify software development.
The Peltier element is not included in the Click board package, if you want to buy one please the hookup accessories section below.
The Peltier Click is based on the SPV1050, an ultralow power energy harvester and battery charger from STMicroelectronics that can charge lithium based batteries. A thermoelectric harvester produces green energy for energy harvesting with a multitude of advantages: maintenance-free, because of the use of highly reliable and compact solid-state device; silent and quiet; highly efficient in environmental terms because the heat is harvested from waste heat sources and converted into electricity. Because of this feature, the Peltier Click can be used for a variety of applications such as WSN, HVAC, building and home automation, industrial control, remote metering, lighting, security, surveillance, wearable and biomedical sensors and fitness.
The SPV1050 is an ultralow power and highefficiency energy harvester and battery charger, which implements the MPPT function and integrates the switching elements of a buck-boost converter. The SPV1050 device allows the charge of lithium battery, by tightly monitoring the end-of-charge and the minimum battery voltage in order to avoid the overdischarge and to preserve the battery life. The power manager is suitable for TEG harvesting sources, as it covers the input voltage range from 75 mV up to 18 V and guarantees high efficiency in both buck-boost and boost configuration.
Furthermore the SPV1050 device shows very high flexibility thanks also to the trimming capability of the end-of-charge and undervoltage protection voltages. In such way any source and battery is matched. The MPPT is programmable by a resistor input divider and allows maximizing the source power under any temperature and irradiance condition.
Some of the key features of the SPV1050 are its transformerless thermoelectric generators and PV modules energy harvester, high efficiency for any harvesting source and it has up to 70 mA maximum battery charging current. It is fully integrated buck-boost DC-DC converter with a programmable MPPT by external resistors, 2.6 V to 5.3 V trimmable battery charge voltage level (± 1% accuracy), 2.2 V to 3.6 V trimmable battery discharge voltage level (± 1% accuracy) with two fully independent LDOs (1.8 V and 3.3 V output). The SPV1050 can enable/disable LDO control pins and it has a battery disconnect function for battery protection, and while the battery is connected and ongoing charge logic open drain indication pins.
The SPV1050 is basically an ultralow power energy harvester with an embedded MPPT algorithm, a battery charger and power manager designed for applications up to about 400 mW.
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Project Archive: Cats, Cat Owners & Wildlife
About the project
Find a PDF project summary here.
Domestic cats have rich historical and cultural associations with human societies, and today they are second only to dogs as the UK’s most popular pet. They provide millions of people with companionship and are also kept for their skills as pest-controllers. However, the same hunting prowess that makes cats helpful allies can also be a problem, and owned, ‘outdoor’ cats kill many wild animals every year. Many cat owners are uncomfortable with their cats’ predatory behaviour, and some conservation and wildlife organisations are concerned that a large cat population may be contributing to national declines of birds and small mammals. Although previous, national-scale studies have produced large estimates of numbers killed, these numbers do not equate with population- level impacts on birds or mammals, nor do they take into account the cat’s role as a pest controller. Furthermore, these findings have had little influence on policy, practice, or public attitudes, and campaigns aiming to convince people that their pets’ hunting behaviour may be problematic are generally not well-received.
Our proposition is that the relationship between domestic cats, people, and wildlife is a complex, shared problem. Cat owners are a key interest group who will be central to any effort to minimise cat predation on vulnerable wildlife, but their views are often overlooked.
We have been tackling this issue through engagement and collaboration with cat owners. This project works with cat owners to identify effective, practical means of reducing cat predation on wildlife, without compromising (and potentially enhancing) cat welfare.
The project has both social and ecological research components. This means that we are interested in both (a) identifying factors and management options that influence hunting behaviour, and (b) investigating cat owner’s views on hunting and roaming behaviour and management techniques. See below for key findings and publications.
We have also established a Project Advisory Group (see below), who provide guidance on the suitability of the methods and any ethical considerations, enabling us to learn from experts and interested organisations.
Project Advisory Group
Dr John Bradshaw (Chair)
Keith Cowieson (Songbird Survival)
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What did Frederick the Great do for his country?
Frederick II (1712-1786) ruled Prussia from 1740 until his death, leading his nation through multiple wars with Austria and its allies. His daring military tactics expanded and consolidated Prussian lands, while his domestic policies transformed his kingdom into a modern state and formidable European power.
Did Prussia have the best army?
From 1525 to 1740, Prussia did not have any specific military reputation. From 1740 to 1786, Prussia had a superb army led by Frederic the Great, its king. As Seamus O Broin explained, the Prussian army of that time was the best in Europe.
Did Frederick the Great fund education?
Frederick laid the basic foundations of what would eventually became a Prussian primary education system. Prussia was among the first countries in the world to introduce tax-funded and generally compulsory primary education , although it took several decades before universal education was successfully enacted.
Was Frederick the Great married?
Елизавета Кристина Брауншвейгская в браке с 1733 г. до 1786 г.
Is Prussia Russian or German?
Prussia , German Preussen, Polish Prusy, in European history, any of certain areas of eastern and central Europe, respectively (1) the land of the Prussians on the southeastern coast of the Baltic Sea, which came under Polish and German rule in the Middle Ages, (2) the kingdom ruled from 1701 by the German Hohenzollern
Was Frederick the Great successful?
Silesia was a valuable acquisition, being more developed economically than any other major part of the Hohenzollern dominions. Moreover, military victory had now made Prussia at least a semigreat power and marked Frederick as the most successful ruler in Europe.
What country is Prussia known as today?
|Prussia Preußen ( German ) Prūsija (Prussian)|
|Currency||Reichsthaler (until 1750) Prussian thaler (1750–1857) Vereinsthaler (1857–1873) German gold mark (1873–1914) German Papiermark (1914–1923) Reichsmark (1924–1947)|
|Today part of||Belgium Czech Republic Denmark Germany Lithuania Netherlands Poland Russia Switzerland|
Why was Prussia so powerful?
Prussia became strong due to Frederick william the 1st and Frederick the great , these 2 men put a huge emphasis in the prussian army so much that it became known as the Sparta of the north, Frederick the great eventually used his army and proved it’s efficiency in wars like the austrian succesion war and the 7 years
What was the best army in history?
Here are some of the most powerful armies in history. The Roman Army: The Roman Army famously conquered the Western world over a period of a few hundred years. The Mongol Army. Ottoman Army . Nazi German Army . The Soviet Army . United States.
Was Frederick the Great a good ruler?
However, historians in the 21st century now again view Frederick as one of the finest generals of the 18th century, one of the most enlightened monarchs of his age and a highly successful and capable leader who built the foundation for the Kingdom of Prussia to become a great power that would contest the Austrian
How tall was Frederick the Great?
The king was about 1.60 m (5 ft 3 in) tall himself. He tried to obtain them by any means, including recruiting them from the armies of other countries.
What did Frederick the Great do for the enlightenment?
Domestically, Frederick’s Enlightenment influence was more evident. He reformed the military and government, established religious tolerance and granted a basic form of freedom of the press. He bolstered the legal system and established the first German code of law.
Did Frederick the Great abolish serfdom?
In 1763, Frederick II of Prussia abolished the serfdom on all Crown lands. As part of these reforms, serfdom was legally abolished throughout the kingdom. The peasant was allowed to become a free proprietor of land, if only he could buy it.
Where is Frederick the Great from?
Where is Frederick the Great buried?
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“One Driver, One License, One Record” is the motto of an agreement between 45 states (including the District of Columbia) who are mandated to report convictions for traffic tickets, license suspensions and other serious driving offenses to the other states in the program. This agreement is known as the Driver License Compact (DLC).
As an example, if you live in Washington and receive a speeding ticket in California and you’re found guilty, then California is required to report that information to Washington, which will affect your driving record.
The five states not in the DLC are: Georgia, Massachusetts, Tennessee, Michigan, and Wisconsin. However, the 45 states that are members are free to take actionon violations reported from a non-member state, if that non-member chooses to do so.
The following states below have an agreement with Canada to report out-of-country violations:
Your traffic citation comes with instructions on how to pay it or how to fight it if that is what you decide to do. However, whichever way you go, you will have to take care of the matter in the issuing county’s court.
Contesting your ticket can be done on your own, but hiring a traffic lawyer can help you navigate the confusing and often intimidating legal system. Even if the ticket is not dropped completely, your lawyer may be able to get the charges reduced. This means that not only will your fine be less, but so will the number of points added to your license.
Some states, such as Colorado, Maryland, Nevada, New York, and Pennsylvania, do not assess points for minor offenses and apply the DLC for only major violations. As an example, Pennsylvania will not transfer points to your home state within the agreement if you’ve been convicted of a speeding ticket less than 20 mph.
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Education is one of our priorities which is important not only for the individual, but also for the advancement of the whole society, and the care for all stakeholders in this process is our obligation, says VMRO-DPMNE leader Hristijan Mickoski, adding that unfortunately, the government does not made an effort to organize and adjust the appropriate educational system so that it functions during COVID-19.
“More and more often we get the news that whole groups in kindergarten or whole classed must go into isolation due to a Covid-19 positive test. For that reason, I propose free tests once a month for all caregivers, educators, teachers in kindergartens and schools. Safe kindergartens and schools for safe education, where the educational process of children will take place without delay,” said Mickoski.
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Editor’s Note: On the first Thursday of each month, the eNews feature article highlights the mission focus for the month. In August we’re lifting up Education of Children. You can find the current month’s mission focus in the Joys & Concerns section of the weekly eNews.
The Harrisburg School District Reading Mentor Program was developed during the height of the pandemic last fall, so that relatable and familiar mentors, educators, parents, and members of the local community could collaborate to provide reading and learning opportunities for children in Harrisburg. The goal was to keep students engaged in learning during the 2020-21 school year while they were virtual due to COVID-19. To this end, local community leaders were invited to read books that inspired them and reference their personal growth story while recording a video to support the academic, social, and emotional growth of Harrisburg’s students.
Derry Church provided funding for the pilot program that was conducted at Foose School. Leaders from the community — a State Representative, teacher, librarian, doctor, and several health administrators — submitted videos to YouTube. The videos have received hundreds of views over the last six months and are educational, creative, thoughtful, and heartwarming.
Thanks to the success of the pilot program, the Harrisburg Public Schools Foundation (HPSF) awarded $2,000 to Ben Franklin, Downey, Melrose and Scott Elementary Schools in Harrisburg for the purchase of culturally appropriate books to be shared on YouTube.
Coronavirus highlighted the growing need for creativity in learning, especially in particular communities where access and resource availability is limited. The program provided Harrisburg School District students with the flexibility to read and learn on their own schedule, thereby improving literacy, maximizing potential, and shaping a brighter future.
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And then one May day, it’s 90 degrees in the shade and spiking toward a hundred with a southwesterly blast furnace wind scouring the landscape with grit that brings tears to our eyes.
And, might know, tears are salt water, which has no good effect on what is becoming perpetual drought conditions in the Great Plains.
On May 12, Ibrahim Thiaw noted in the foreword to the report for the United Nations Convention to Combat desertification that, “Throughout the world, people are feeling the impacts of the climate and environmental crises most strongly through water: the land is drying up, fertile grounds are turning to dust and drought is prevailing. In fact, since 1970, weather, climate and water hazards accounted for 50 percent of all disasters and 45 percent of all reported deaths.”
Calling droughts “among the greatest threats to sustainable development,” Thiaw wrote, “The number and duration of droughts has increased by 29 percent since 2000, as compared to the two previous decades (WMO, 2021). When more than 2.3 billion people already face water stress, this is a huge problem. More and more of us will be living in areas with extreme water shortages, including an estimated one in four children by 2040 (UNICEF). No country is immune to drought (UN-Water 2021).”
“No country is immune to drought?” Prosperity doesn’t matter. In fact, it often exacerbates the problem.
Late last month Huffington Post reported: “Millions ordered to cut water use in drought-stricken California.”
A few days later CNN pinpointed a source of the problem: “Why the Great American Lawn is terrible for the West’s water crisis.”
Rachel Ramirez explained, “The Great American Lawn has historically been a status symbol and portrayed as a place of leisure and comfort. But they require exorbitant amounts of water to maintain — water that is rapidly running out.”
(Golf courses in the deserts? Don’t get me started.)
And, on the last day of April the Associated Press located the source of Southern California’s troubles: “A massive drought-starved reservoir on the Colorado River has become so depleted that Las Vegas now is pumping water from deeper within Lake Mead where other states downstream don’t have access.”
They are using the deeper pumps because the higher intakes placed are now high and dry.
(This lowering of Lake Mead has already revealed two bodies that wise speculation attributes to old Las Vegas wise guys.)
In mid-April, the conservation group American Rivers deemed the Colorado River the most endangered river in the country, citing climate change and “outdated water management” as a factor.
Waiting until the taps are turned off to enact water-saving measures might be part of that outdated planning.
Also in late April, the Idaho Statesman announced “The Idaho Department of Water Resources on Friday issued an emergency drought declaration for all but 10 of the state’s 44 counties.”
Nicole Blanchard reported, “According to the U.S. Drought Monitor, all of Idaho south of the Salmon River is in moderate to severe drought, with some small areas experiencing extreme drought.”
A May 4 report from Sioux Falls, SD’s KELO-TV cited the increasing population in Rapid City as impetus for local water authorities seeking additional water from Lake Oahe on the Missouri River.
While that growth creates water problems in the Black Hills, it is negligible compared to the projection that the Fort Worth/Dallas metro area (6,397,000 people and rising) will double in population by 2050. And the water hustlers down there are on the prowl.
From the South Plains of Texas through the Oklahoma Panhandle, western Kansas, most of Nebraska and into neighboring states, The Ogallala Aquifer has been the key to the economic development of the land above it.
David Condos, writing for the Topeka Capital-Journal reported last month that:
“Aquifer water levels across western and central Kansas dropped by more than a foot on average this past year. That’s the biggest single-year decrease since 2015, according to the Kansas Geological Survey’s annual report.
“And while the aquifer is losing that foot of water, it’s barely being refilled. In most of western Kansas, less than one inch of water seeps underground to recharge the aquifer each year.”
But, American myopia skews our view of the world. Many of us just won’t look toward the future.
Condos reported: ” Recent legislation proposed in the Kansas House would have created a new cabinet-level department overseeing the state’s water issues and forced aquifer management districts in western and central Kansas to place stricter limits on water usage to curb the depletion rate.
“But those sections of the bill were removed during committee discussions, leaving some legislators frustrated with how the agriculture industry’s influence continues to thwart water conservation measures. It appears unlikely that even a slimmed down version of that bill will be passed this year.”
Somehow the notions of thrift and conservation have become reviled as infringements on someone’s right to use our limited resources until they are all used up.
And, if weather reports are accurate, this warning will appear locally during a rainy interval after my grass has already gone dormant from lack of moisture. Just a convenient excuse to ignore inconvenient truths.
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We conducted a radiotelemetry evaluation to determine if strobe lights could be used to decrease turbine entrainment of juvenile steelhead (Oncorhynchus mykiss) at Cowlitz Falls Dam, Washington. We found that radio-tagged juvenile steelhead approached and entered two spillbays (one lighted, one unlighted) in equal proportions. However, the presence of strobe lights was associated with decreased spillbay residence time of juvenile steelhead and increased passage through induction slots (secondary turbine intakes located upstream of the ogee on the spillway). Mean residence time of tagged fish inside the lighted spillbay was 14 min compared to 62 min inside the unlighted spillbay. Radio-tagged steelhead passed through induction slots at a higher proportion in the lighted spillbay (55%) than in the unlighted spillbay (26%). Recent studies have suggested that strobe lights can induce torpor in juvenile salmonids. We believe that strobe light exposure affected fish in our study at a location where they were susceptible to high flows thereby reducing mean residence time and increasing the proportion of tagged fish entering induction slots in the lighted spillbay. Our results suggest that factors such as deployment location, exposure, and flow are important variables that should be considered when evaluating strobe lights as a potential fish-deterring management tool.
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“Rommel, you magnificent b*****d, I read your book,” exclaimed George Patton on seeing German tanks retreating in North Africa in 1943. This depiction in the block-buster movie Patton points to the fact that it is the knowledge that is important, not its source. Successful leaders are not shy of imbibing it from anywhere, even an adversary.
The Indian armed forces have evolved from the British military and certain legacies and traditions emanate from there. War fighting doctrines and strategies have drawn heavily from the colonial era but, as technology has advanced, the Indian military has imbibed expertise from the forces of other countries with whom they have regularly interacted. Our training academies, too, have reformed, with professional military education (PME) getting a look-over every few years. This may not be happening, though, with the regularity and rigour necessary vis-à-vis the rapid advances in technology, especially those related to cyberspace.
The bedrock of PME is military doctrine. In simple words, a doctrine is the best way of doing a task. It is the source from which objectives, strategy, training and tactics flow; the results are fed back as inputs for it to be modified if required. Doctrine will ossify, with unfavourable results on the battlefield, if not put through a review process. In light of this, Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s address at the Commanders’ Conference on March 6 gains significance. The PM, as per the official press release, “stressed the importance of enhancing indigenisation in the national security system, not just in sourcing equipment and weapons but also in the doctrines, procedures and customs practised in the armed forces.” This, quite rightly, would have triggered a spate of activities in diverse areas, including in PME. The danger is that while encouraging indigenous strategic thought, inputs from “foreign” writings could get short shrift due the “more-loyal-than-the-king” syndrome. This is a slippery path.
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Knowledge is not the preserve of a person, a group, or a nation. It is also not bound by a period, a civilisational expanse, or religious or social ideology. If the Chinese strategist Sun Tzu or the German thinker Clausewitz said something timeless, then it needs to be imbibed as much as what Kautilya wrote in the Arthshastra and Thiruvalluvar in his Kurals. It is true that indigenous teachings have not got their due in the Indian military thought. But it would be illogical if doctrines are re-written, to the exclusion of learnings from foreign strategists. One is sure that was not what the PM meant when he referred to indigenisation. There needs to be a conscious effort to ensure that the fundamental thought process is not affected by triumphalism with regard to history.
The caution is all the more necessary since the higher defence organisation is in a state of churn with the creation of the new Department of Military Affairs, the post of CDS, and forthcoming upheavals in the fundamentals of how India would be fighting its wars — the creation of theatre commands. If doctrines get written concurrently, premised primarily on “indigenous” thought, then with this cocktail of all-around changes we could be sailing into choppy waters.
The 2014 UK Joint Doctrine 0-01 starts with a Sun Tzu quote: “Thus it is that in war the victorious strategist only seeks battle after the victory is won, whereas he who is destined to defeat first fights and then looks for victory”. This is timeless and not country-specific. Similarly, the US Army ADP1-01 Doctrine Primer commences with a quote of J F C Fuller, the British military historian. Red flags must go up if a “feeling” starts swirling that Indian strategic thought, born out of a centuries-old civilisation, is superior to the teachings of other wise men. Let’s learn from the Chinese who have assimilated the best practices from other countries in all fields, including in the realm of military strategy, to reach the developmental stage they are in. Let’s continue to learn from American, UK and other war colleges where the works of Clausewitz, Sun Tzu and others are discussed, debated and assimilated in their doctrinal thought. For sure, Kautilya et al must also be brought into the mainstream. However, let us not forget that of the four wars we have fought since Independence, we were victorious in three – surely, there are some good fundamentals on which Indian military and strategic thought have evolved.
This article first appeared in the print edition on June 14, 2021 under the title ‘Sun Tzu and Kautilya’. The writer is a retired Air Vice Marshal
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The Data pipeline simplified: TensorFlow2.0 has a separate module TensorFlow DataSets that can be used to operate with the model in more elegant way. Not only it has a large range of existing datasets, making your job of experimenting with a new architecture easier – it also has well defined way to add your data to it.
In TensorFlow 1.x for building a model we would first need to declare placeholders. These were the dummy variables which will later (in the session) used to feed data to the model. There were many built-in APIs for building the layers like tf.contrib, tf.layers and tf.keras, one could also build layers by defining the actual mathematical operations.
TensorFlow 2.0 you can build your model defining your own mathematical operations, as before you can use math module (tf.math) and linear algebra (tf.linalg) module. However, you can take advantage of the high level Keras API and tf.layers module. The important part is we do not need to define placeholders any more.
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Explore the Lares Trek to Machu Picchu 3 Days
The Lares Trek to Machu Picchu combines high Andean treks with an opportunity for genuine interaction with the locals in the most remote villages of Cusco. This is a unique itinerary to the Lares Trek Valley, designed by Inca Trail Expeditions that includes Machu Picchu.
Two days of trekking, away from the crowds and deep into the Andean nature. A guided tour through Machu Picchu at dawn, the best time to see the Lost City of the Incas. During the Lares Trek, you will enjoy the train ride to Machu Picchu. This is one of the most impressive train journeys in the world, giving you the opportunity to enjoy all the magnificent Andean landscapes of Cusco.
- Take the ultimate cultural vacation to ancient and mystical sacred citadel of Machu Picchu.
- Gain an intimate understanding of centuries-old customs and traditions with expert local tour guides
- Visit historic sites in the Sacred Valley of the Incas
- Discover the rich artistry of the Lares region’s weavings
- Visit rural communities preserved in rich Incan culture
- Learn more about the Inca’s religion and ceremonies with coca leaves.
- Enjoy a train ride, with rapid changes of landscapes from the sacred valley to the cloud forest.
Inclusions of this tour
LARES TREK : CUSCO - PISAC - HUARAN - CANCHA CANCHA
Today we are going to pick you up early from your hotel in Cusco at 5:00 am, then we will go to the Sacred Valley of the Incas, during the trip you will enjoy a beautiful sunrise and the majestic view of the Vilcanota River. The first place to visit is the archaeological center of Unu Urqo, which in Inca times was one of the most revered religious sanctuaries, since it is believed that the rituals of the cult of water and Pachamama (Mother Earth) were performed there.
Nearby is the town of Huaran where we meet the muleteers and their horses, who accompany us both days. The ascent is made through a fertile valley surrounded by trees and the river that descends from the Pitusiray glaciers, Sawasiray. At noon we will have our lunch in the middle of nature, prepared by our cooks. One more hour of ascent we will arrive at the town of Cancha Cancha (3,900 m/12,800 ft), this is one of the communities, whose inhabitants are dedicated to grazing alpacas, llamas, and sheep. They also grow the most delicious potatoes in Cusco, some families with the help of NGOs lagoons have developed trout fish farming. Together with your guide you will be able to visit one of the local houses. You will learn all about life in a traditional Andean village, with your guide as interpreter. After dinner, your guide will show you the Inca constellations that they relied on for their agricultural guidance and still do to this day.
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LARES TREK: PACHACUTEQ PASS - QUISWARANI - OLLANTAYTAMBO - AGUAS CALIENTES
After our delicious breakfast, we begin our 7-hour trek to the highest point of our trek, Pachacuteq Pass (4,500m/14,800ft). This is where you will have to do your best to overcome this great challenge in the Andes, a good element to help you overcome the height is to drink coca tea, and also be very well motivated. Before noon, we crown the highest pass of the Lares Trek, from where you can see the most important snow-capped peaks of the Vilcanota mountain range. After some photos we must descend to the community of Quiswarani (3,700m/12,139ft), this trek will take an average of 3 hours, traversing remote lakes, herds of alpacas, steep valleys and spectacular mountain views.
We also meet its inhabitants, who wear their colorful ponchos, in their daily work, with whom you can interact in the Quechua language (language of the Incas). Your guide will act as your interpreter to translate and teach you some of the Quechua language.
After lunch, our private transport will take us to the town of Ollantaytambo, where we will have to take the train to the site of Aguas Calientes, which is the closest city to the wonder of the world Machu Picchu, which you will visit on the third day.
Retama Machu Picchu
LARES TREK: GUIDED TOUR IN MACHU PICCHU - CUSCO
This day the tour in Machu Picchu will take place early in the morning, after getting ready at the hotel, we will take the bus at 5:30 am. After a trip along the road surrounded by vegetation and impressive views of the Putukusi mountain, we will arrive at the access point for the sacred sanctuary of Machu Picchu.
First before passing the control, those who wish to use the hygienic services will be able to do so. Since there are no bathrooms inside Machu Picchu, if you are going to go outside once inside, unfortunately you will not be able to re-enter.
Our visit to the wonder of Machu Picchu will be through circuit number 2, since it is one of the most complete. In this tour you will be able to go up to the famous guardian’s house from where the postcard photo of Machu Picchu will be taken, then you will pass through the main door, the ceremonial plaza, the Inca’s house, the ceremonial fountains, you will be able to see the temple of the sun but not up close; You can also access the pyramid where the sundial is located.
Continuing with the circuit you will arrive at the sector of the sacred rock, and finally you will visit the urban area where the royal houses of the Inca nobles were, and also the hall of mirrors. After 3 hours of travel we will retire with our guide, and once outside you can consume a drink or food. Because inside the complex is prohibited.
Then you can take the bus down to the town of Aguas Calientes, where you will have enough time to have your lunch. At 2:30 p.m. it will be the time of the return train to the Ollantaytambo station, where your return transportation to Cusco awaits you, arriving at approximately 7:00 p.m.
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This chapter brings MML into focus through the work of the eXploring the Future of Innovative Learning Environments (X-FILEs) project spanning a series of focus groups, 3-day in-person workshop, and further investigation through a team of researchers, industry partners, and faculty brainstorming on how this democratic pedagogy can shape (a) course content presentation, (b) interactions and discussions within a course, (c) learner activities, (d) assessment and evaluation, and (e) co-curricular aspects of education. Each section outlines opportunities for using MML as a framework, implementation strategies, and key questions that have been answered or left open in the literature.
2.1 Content Presentation
Content presentation has progressed from an educational format in which the instructor is charged with passing on his/her information to students via lecture, recitation, and associated activities into an experience in which information is presented to learners in many ways. While lecture is still used, it is frequently supplemented with additional educational content in additional formats, both in class and away from the classroom.
exist in providing multimodal course content, chief among them being the self-directed nature of students selecting content delivered in the most familiar or comfortable mode, which is when the deepest learning occurs (Bezemer and Kress 2016; Moreno and Mayer 2007). Moreover, traditional classroom lectures can be augmented by multimodal content and delivery in the learning management system or can provide the opportunity for classroom time to be used for group- or project-based learning. Augmenting content in a learning management system or the traditional classroom lecture can create an active learning space where students are focused on discovery, rather than consumption of information. Discussed in the X-FILEs workshop, this content created by faculty could be commoditized, whereby students could subscribe to certain modes based on their individual preferences for a small fee, rather than relying on traditional per-credit tuition models. In an online course, MML course content
could also spark faculty and course designers to create and curate content in new and innovative ways. Additionally, the multimodal nature of virtual environments such as lab simulations, virtual reality, and augmented reality provide experiential opportunities that would otherwise be very difficult to provide in “real life.”
Another opportunity exists to deliver MML course content to those who require assistive technologies. Assistive technology (AT)
can be defined as any item, piece of equipment, software program, or product that increases, maintains, or improves the functional capabilities of people with disabilities (Assistive Technology Industry Association 2019). The number of people who could benefit from AT is not insignificant. Currently, 15% of the world’s population has some form of disability, and 20% of those people experience significant disabilities. As the world’s population continues to grow, so too will the total population of those that experience disabilities; furthermore, this population is aging, and there is an increase in chronic health conditions (World Health Organization 2011).
In addition to reaching individuals who would normally have difficulties accessing education, using these technologies can help educators stay compliant with the law. The Rehabilitation Act of 1973 and the Americans with Disabilities Act addressed workplace support for people with disabilities and were later adapted for use in educational situations (U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission n.d.; U.S. General Services Administration 2018). Providing individuals with disabilities with the opportunity to the same education and in the same time frame as students without disabilities
will benefit the education provider by staying compliant with laws and regulations.
participants agreed that chief challenges in designing courses and delivering them to incorporate MML are cost and speed of design. It may be cost- and time-prohibitive to create content in all learning modes. For example, one course module on calculating averages in a statistics class could contain the following content items:
A word document with the problem completed by the professor (text-based)
A video of the problem being completed as students watch and observe on a virtual whiteboard (gestures, video, and auditory)
An interactive, adaptive instructional module where a student answers a series of prompts to solve the problem, with dynamic instruction provided if a wrong answer is inputted or the student indicates they have a question
In addition to the time and cost of curating MML content, faculty may find it difficult to switch between modes while in the “live” classroom environment, suggesting more of a need to augment the lecture through MML content in a learning management system as well. Faculty and instructional designers may also find it difficult to find or create content in several modes, especially if they fall outside of their individually preferred modes.
Another challenge of using MML
in course content is relying on a student’s self-awareness and self-direction to explore and represent content in their preferred mode or combination of modes. Accessing all course content in one mode, even if preferred, might not be the most effective approach as combining modes may serve as reinforcement and encourage connections. There may also be implications with respect to accessibility where some modes might be richer than others. For example, a student who only accesses materials in a preferred mode
may not benefit from deeper learning utilizing content presented in different modes or ones that incorporate many modes such as virtual reality.
2.1.3 Implementation Strategies
Incorporating MML in course content and delivery of this type of instruction in “real time” by a faculty member requires a symbiotic relationship with the student so that the faculty member can match instruction to the learning needs of their students. In thinking through online courses, curating content requires examining instructional design frameworks that guide the thoughtful assembly of course content. The seminal and informative ADDIE model of design, which includes the elements of analysis, design, development, implementation, and evaluation (Molenda 2003), can still be used, perhaps with iterations derived from rapid prototyping.
2.1.4 Research Questions
Literature on MML clearly answers the research questions
set forth by the X-FILEs team in this area of how to choose the best mode for a subject or student group. Through its very nature, MML provides content that addresses all modes regardless of subject matter or student group characteristics.
As Juan accesses his online class for his Introduction to the Fundamentals of Science, he is faced with many choices that he will navigate throughout the term. He has a selection of content available to him to support his first week of learning, including chapters from an online textbook, a series of videos and podcasts, and a set of keywords he can use to locate his own or additional content—he is also asked to register for his asynchronous virtual reality classroom where he can access his book, the videos, and podcasts and perform and post his research. His university has obtained a grant to fund the augmented course design, and Juan has a low-cost technology fee that he pays each term to offset the cost of the virtual classroom licensing, hosting, and support to the institution. The virtual classroom is where the majority of his course will actually take place throughout the week, though he will have several opportunities to participate in the learning “live” or through other modes as well. To provide the students with a sense of familiarity, the virtual classroom is designed just as a school is; each room corresponds to a different subject or module. Juan navigates his avatar into each room to view content and participate in class as though he was sitting in a physical classroom.
2.2 Interactions and Communications
Interactions and discussions around academic coursework have evolved from episodic, in-class lectures and peer dialog to full-scale, immersive, and 24/7 opportunities for dialog and deep learning. While in-class lecture
and dialog remain central ways to build foundational learning, the co-curricular opportunities for interactions and discussions serve as a platform for more immersive learning.
Using the principles
of UDL (Gordon et al. 2014) and frameworks that encourage the wide use of MML, students, peers, faculty, staff, and community/business stakeholders can engage in open and flexible and dialogic interactions
and discussions. Dialogic interactions
create space for shared leadership in learning in which learners and instructors become co-inquirers; in this way, a more egalitarian classroom environment can emerge, devoid of traditional teacher/student power dynamics. Together, they collaboratively engage in creating and evaluating new interpretations in order to gain insight into the world, themselves, and each other (Reznitskaya 2012). Learners
can and should be viewed as active drivers of their own learning (Bezemer and Kress 2016; Sankey et al. 2010). In this way, students can choose multiple modes within which to engage in learning and receive just-in-time or real-time information to help contextualize their learning. Providing an opportunity for multidirectional modes of communication enables students to be resourceful and frees up faculty time as well.
shift from consuming knowledge to actively driving and constructing it, they can enhance their understanding by using different modes to represent their understanding. Interacting across modes frees students to think more creatively and integrate knowledge faster. By opening up meaning-making (Postman and Weingartner 1969), the process by which people interpret situations, events, objects, or discourses, to expand communication, MML may also empower students to generate meaning and make sense of themselves, their experiences, and their relationships through their learning. Moreover, MML affords students who may have trouble communicating in a particular mode with the opportunity to express themselves in another. In this more flexible and dynamic environment, students with disabilities can freely operate within their most capable mode. MML also provides new avenues for student collaboration, beyond the confines of the traditional classroom or learning management system.
Despite the benefits and possibilities that MML can make possible, there are also challenges
introduced. For example, the use of images to convey meaning requires faculty to develop visual literacies required to infer how others may interpret their creations. Not all viewers walk away with the same meaning from visuals, and thus other modes may need to be integrated to convey a common meaning. Identified in the workshop, another challenge may be introduced
when initializing interactions exclusively via technology among learners who come from different cultural backgrounds. In the absence of context clues that come from facial expressions, body language, and gestures, miscommunications may occur. Pairing MML strategies with opportunities to connect through two-way videoconference technologies and to openly dialog about different communication norms across cultural groups may support overcoming these challenges. A final challenge with MML identified in the workshop centers around limiting opportunities for face-to-face communication due to technological dependency. Relying solely on technologies for bridging distances between learners may in fact create more distance and feelings of isolation. MML is intended to provide options for learning and instruction and does not intentionally aim to create distance-only options. Discussing ideas face-to-face, in combination with the use of different modes of meaning-making, can provide flexible options for learning engagement
. We aim to support educators in their implementation of MML in support of designing learning interactions of all kinds, including face-to-face.
Another challenge in the use of MML in discussions and interactions is the level of ability in technology use among faculty, staff, and students. The challenge stems from the concept that today’s students are digital natives, while most of today’s teachers are digital immigrants (Bezemer and Kress 2016; Blum and Barger 2018; Kirschner and De Bruyckere 2017; Lambert and Cuper 2008; Moreno and Mayer 2007; Phuong et al. 2017; Picciano 2009; Prensky 2001; Sankey et al. 2010; Wang et al. 2014). A less rigid definition of the digital natives/immigrant is now used in which the technology exposure is more a factor of a variety of reasons, such as demographics, opportunity, social influence, cognitive knowledge, and socioeconomic status (Kesharwani 2020). A key concept to take from these studies on digital natives/immigrants is that a primary focus should be placed on reaching across the technological divide between varying technology levels when designing course content. Relatedly, it is important to think through access to technology among different members of the population and how this relates to the value of MML to discussions and interactions.
Lastly, as technology evolves, communication channels must be evaluated for privacy and security. Workshop attendees stressed that it is critically important for faculty and students to know what modes and channels may be open for public viewing. In fact, faculty professional development on tool privacy and accessibility will be important and ever-changing year to year or perhaps term to term as the speed of technological advances and tool creation continues to increase. At the same time, students need orientation to tool privacy and accessibility and experience with the types of tools the university provides, as opposed to ones they are not. There may be tools that do not meet privacy or accessibility standards that the university would not support. The choice of tools and the benefits and drawbacks, should be communicated clearly to students.
2.2.3 Implementation Strategies
To motivate students to interact
beyond the traditional faculty-student relationship, faculty can provide for multimodal communication either in advance, while a course is in progress, or following learning activities to promote reflection (Dewsbury 2019). For example, a classroom meeting or online discussion question could have a companion virtual world classroom where students interact in real time through avatars or a backchannel for a face-to-face meeting where students
can contextualize the lecture with peers or other educational stakeholders. Course participation could also be linked to time-limited assignments in the workplace or community in person, through videoconference, or virtual networking to encourage idea-sharing and real-world application of learned content.
2.2.4 Research Questions
While research in MML
is not entirely new, research that addresses challenges identified in the workshop concerning second language learners are an important direction to pursue. Offering multimodal texts is often beneficial for second language (L2) learners as multiple modes can scaffold understanding (Plass et al. 1998; Royce 2002). This is because, as Farias and Abraham (2017) state:
multimodal texts more effectively support second language reading by providing input that caters to different learning styles and that they are familiar, authentic, and contextualized to the learners’ lives. Moreover, these texts facilitate learners’ meaningful interaction not only intratextually, by exploring the text/image semiosis, but also intertextually, by allowing readers to become literate in the different genres that are constructed multimodally.
Thus, while L2 learning is supported by the use of multimodal texts, it can also develop learners’ broader understanding of concepts. Examining identity and literacy development surrounding the creation of multimodal texts both within and beyond course objectives is an fruitful area in need of additional research. These directions can further support MML for L2 learners across fields. While MML seems to indicate there are benefits associated with the use of multiple modes of communication for students, less is understood about
the benefits of students’ choices; research into this area is still needed.
In the virtual classroom, Juan can engage through phone, text, email, instant messaging, or other means with his professor, a group of scientists in industry and other colleges, as well as all his peers and advisors. Professor Aranda also actively engages in the virtual classroom and spends time cultivating personalized relationships with each student—in addition to maintaining the relationship with the community of scientists and supporting the classroom. During the Tuesday evening session, she carefully plans a short didactic lecture that is then supplemented with a series of small group virtual breakout rooms facilitated by other scientists where students and scientists work through the theory and discuss ways to demonstrate mastery of the learning objectives for the week.
2.3 Learner Activities
Learner activities can take many shapes and forms and may connect resources available through coursework to online and community resources
. The choices faculty make include multimodal options that build toward applying what is learned within and beyond the classroom. However, choices often depend on individual faculty and the pedagogical disposition of a department, college, or university. In this way, learner activities can be varied and may involve multiple formats and response options that call for different ways to illustrate learning.
MML calls for educators to shift their role from lecturer to learning facilitator
(Bezemer and Kress 2016; Tonsing-Meyer 2013). MML encourages fluidity between accessing information using multiple modes and representing knowledge through the integration of multiple modes. This approach encourages personalization as well as creativity and calls for a co-construction of knowledge between faculty and students (Bezemer and Kress 2016). In an MML environment, learner activities can be more collaborative, designed to require real-world problem-solving, and created to apply knowledge based on a compelling purpose for learning.
In shifting the focus
from lecturer to learning designer or facilitator, faculty are free to work with individual students to understand their current state of learning and to work collaboratively on learner activities that will enhance their mastery. Students are thus empowered to find the best ways to integrate the subject matter alongside faculty. Faculty can also learn from student-designed learner activities when they use modes and tools unfamiliar to the faculty.
drive their own learning, they are able to benefit from the multiple modes that are available to them. Working between and across modes may serve to support deeper learning and improve retention of key concepts. MML requires a high degree of agency, and provides opportunities for learners to select a focus or direction for themselves. This requires that learners develop the metacognition necessary to understand how they learn and also when to challenge themselves (Bezemer and Kress 2016; Moreno and Mayer 2007; Phuong et al. 2017; Sankey et al. 2010). The time needed for faculty to engage with students on learner activity design may be prohibitive in larger courses. It also may be difficult to objectively assess learning when activities are varied across a student group.
2.3.3 Implementation Strategies
Learner activities in an MML
environment are student-driven, based on preferred modes. Still, faculty could develop a range of learner activities, mapped to course learning objectives, that can be completed in several modes to enable students to select an appropriate activity. These activities may be experiential
and hands-on or operate in a virtual environment. For example, an assignment either could be open-ended in terms of how the learning is demonstrated such as a document, a presentation, or a video or could have a range of possible formats the students could choose from.
2.3.4 Research Questions
in this area rest on the opportunity that exists to operationalize MML-based learner activities to promote student engagement. The MML literature clearly supports the shift from subject matter delivery to that of engagement, as well as the positive benefits of this. Workshop participants aptly pointed out that it will also be important to compare MML-based learner activities to other types of pedagogical frameworks for efficacy.
All of Juan’s learning activities are “hands-on” in the virtual classroom and include a series of science experiments that he can perform in the virtual space, at home (where he can record and post in the virtual classroom), or at a series of physical labs his university has partnered with. Throughout the course, Professor Aranda is working to ensure that the course content, learning activities, and support from other scientists and peers all work together to further his individual learning. Professor Aranda is aware that Juan’s preferred modes of learning are in visual and auditory realms so she takes time to ensure that he is challenged to incorporate writing and presentation skills, as well as to spend time in the virtual space
to drive the intersectionality of multimodal learning and to create more strength in other modes of learning and information consumption.
Traditional means of assessment and evaluation have often revolved around tests and written assignments. Over time, educators have embraced new ways of assessing competency through action projects, multimedia presentations, and other types of practical application strategies. MML can be a helpful framework in the assessment strategy in a course or classroom environment
that frees up the faculty and students for more creative ways to show mastery. No matter the type of assessment, formative, summative, or performance-based, designing assessments that invite different response options may free students from a specific way of illustrating their knowledge. In this way, through MML options, learners are encouraged to produce demonstrations of their learning in modes that they have an affinity for. Moreover, providing suggestions for multiple ways to illustrate learning may open the doors to creativity and deeper levels of learning (William and Flora Hewlett Foundation 2016).
assessments so that they can be completed in multiple modes, students can draw from their modally-driven learning to produce artifacts in the mode that they are most comfortable and familiar with. By reducing the cognitive load associated with using an unfamiliar or uncomfortable mode, learning and mastery can be more easily conveyed. Students could avail themselves of technological advancements to capture their learning as it evolves, ostensibly faster than higher education curricular design cycles. In addition, by opening up the classroom co-curricularly as discussed in section 2.5, assessments can be conducted by stakeholders outside of the classroom walls, providing helpful feedback from employers, community partners, and others that can help shape the student’s learning in ways that may not be within the scope of what a faculty member knows or has experienced, personally. Ultimately, the opportunity to have multiple stakeholders providing evaluation and feedback affords faculty with more data to gauge learning and to plan to reduce gaps and increase levels of mastery. With more and consistent data streams through multimodal
evaluation, the possibility for machine learning to aid in faster and more efficient grading also presents itself.
might not choose a mode that effectively demonstrates their learning, or they may select a mode that the faculty member is not familiar with. Diverse outputs may challenge the use of rubrics or programmatic assessment plans that rely upon standardized artifacts or other uniform, objective measures given to students. Moreover, it may be very time-consuming for a faculty member to grade assessments produced in many modes because mastery may “look” different based on the mode in which it was produced. Students may also choose to demonstrate their learning in a mode that lacks adequate privacy or accommodations for students with disabilities—presenting concerns around assisting their selection of modal delivery as part of the assessment directions.
2.4.3 Implementation Strategies
In higher education, a culminating
project or final assignment often requires learners to synthesize, analyze, and create content using a variety of modalities. Such projects, when closely aligned with learning outcomes, support relevant and authentic assessment that leverages digital communication strategies. An emerging practical model designed specifically for multimedia instructional strategies, CASPA, contains five components: consume, analyze, scaffold, produce, and assess. This model can be used to promote curriculum-based integration of multimodal projects for assessment in higher education courses. The CASPA framework for assignment design asks students to iteratively attempt and create culminating assessments throughout a course (Blum and Barger 2018). The framework allows students to experiment with different modes as they complete a culminating assignment. Faculty feedback and direction throughout the term could be used to enable learners to choose the best modal demonstration of their learning by the time the end product is due. Faculty will design assessment artifacts that are open-ended and driven by course learning objectives. No formal description of the end products or artifacts is provided to the student, though it may be appropriate to provide options to help students choose effective outputs
or ones that protect the student’s privacy and that are accessible to all students, regardless of their abilities. Faculty may also consider creating standardized metrics that would allow for cross-modal comparisons of learning products illustrating that there are multiple ways to achieve course aims.
2.4.4 Research Questions
in this area center on the affordances of some modes over others, and this remains an area for further research as identified by workshop participants; perhaps some modes are more effective than others in the demonstration of learning. Furthermore, faculty modal preference is rarely discussed in the literature. Faculty who are evaluating artifacts outside their modal preference may not be able to objectively assess them due to the cognitive load required to adapt to new or unfamiliar modes.
Juan and his peers are encouraged to locate and post content that aligns to each week’s learning objective through a framework of information validation provided by the university. Students are encouraged to comment on these new content postings as a way of sensemaking and co-construction of knowledge. Experiments are the main source of assessment and evaluation in his course, but Juan also has several opportunities to identify and capture scientific theories in his everyday life through a system of digital storytelling. This can include taking a picture and posting about an experiment, recording audio or video about seeing science in nature, or providing a summary of a scientific experience through video or a text-based summary. Professor Aranda awards points to every learning capture that he is willing to submit in the course; in fact, all of the assessments in the course are documented as merely a list of learning objectives so that each student can demonstrate mastery
through modes that they have an affinity for or modes that lend themselves to the objective being assessed.
2.5 Co-curricular Activities
While the idea that learning does not always take place in the traditional classroom setting has been accepted for many years (Dewey 1997), educators and students are now embracing the concept. Co-curricular learning refers to activities, programs, and learning experiences that complement, in some way, what students are learning in formal classes
, but also serve to expand the relevancy and contextualization of that learning in the real world. Co-curricular contexts enable the learner to interact with material outside the classroom in such a way that they acquire new knowledge or apply a skill from one area to a new area. Increasingly, institutions of higher education are embracing co-curricular learning and its benefits to their students (Stirling and Kerr 2015; Turrentine et al. 2012).
learning to extend beyond the academy, students can build professional networks, enhance their learning through multiple perspectives, and more quickly build workforce-ready skills. Through co-curricular access to other educational stakeholders, students can engage and consume new learning in the mode they most prefer. Students could also participate and drive change in their community by working directly with business and community leaders to couple their learning with practical applications.
These co-curricular activities could take many forms, and in one scenario, educational stakeholders such as a venerable scientist or engineer would be purposefully contracted by the institution to participate in the virtual world associated with the course to:
Host weekly informational sessions via web conferences, virtual world environments, or even via chat
Make himself/herself available for text- or video-based question/answer sessions on the week’s subject matter from the classroom
Use virtualized laboratories for student observation
Provide feedback and insight into informal or formal assessment of the subject matter
Each scenario further extends
the student’s learning, infused with the relevancy and currency of a working professional in their field of study.
of higher education do not have formal connections with the private sector that underrepresented students’ need to benefit from co-curricular learning. Faculty may also be challenged with assessing which learning should happen outside the classroom and what should be inside the classroom (face to face or online), may struggle with how to integrate or sequence this type of learning with classroom-based learning. Federal credit hour definitions may also limit co-curricular learning or make it difficult to “count” it, so it would be additive, perhaps contributing to cognitive overload for students. Validation of co-curricular learning may be difficult to assess as well.
2.5.3 Implementation Strategies
Faculty can design course
learning objectives tied to business and community interaction, where the choice of modalities would be driven by a student’s individual preferences. For example, a course learning objective could read “Students will consult with a scientist to discuss what types of careers a science graduate can pursue upon graduation
.” Faculty could design course content and set the stage for interactions and discussions that engage educational stakeholders from outside the walls of the classroom.
2.5.4 Research Questions
in this area center on the benefits and consequences of students’ learning outside of the classroom. MML literature is seemingly quiet in this area, though it was a theme discussed in the workshop. There does remain a risk to the fidelity, meaning the degree to which application of MML can be replicated, across iterations of co-curricular learning programming. As co-curricular learning increases, capturing the outcomes and related learning that stems from MML will need to be developed and well understood by faculty and students as well.
Each Tuesday night, Juan’s whole class, his professor, and a group of scientists from all over the world gather to sit in the virtual classroom to discuss vital scientific theory that will enable him to be more successful when he is attempting his experiments. These same scientists are working with Juan and Professor Aranda throughout the term to customize the learning and to be sure Juan is engaged in the most up-to-date practice. Juan is developing a strong network of future colleagues as he interacts with these external educational stakeholders. | <urn:uuid:a274a566-766a-46b1-b649-37645b5491c4> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-030-58948-6_3 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572033.91/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814113403-20220814143403-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.948794 | 6,247 | 3.140625 | 3 |
Injury is widespread in nature and animals possess varied mechanisms to cope with damage or the loss of body parts. One of the most dramatic injury responses known is regeneration, the regrowing of a body part that has been lost. Although this ability is quite limited in some animals, such as mammals, many others are able to regenerate extensive parts of their body. Technical challenges have severely limited the study of the genes involved in regeneration in some of the most highly regenerative animals. Annelids, or segmented worms, include numerous highly regenerative species but there are no robust approaches for studying the genetic basis of regeneration in this group. The team of investigators of this project develop new approaches for testing the function of genes during regeneration in three highly regenerative annelid species. This work will open up the possibility of identifying the genes and molecular pathways responsible for the remarkable regenerative abilities of annelid worms, and is expected to help catalyze research in other groups of animals. Technical advances are shared broadly with relevant research communities through roundtable discussions at scientific conferences, a laboratory-based hands-on workshop, a project blog, and other online forums. The team of investigators also develop and disseminate general educational resources about regeneration and its study, including an educational comic book and teaching materials for high school science teachers and students.
This project addresses a central technical challenge for studying regeneration in many animal groups: manipulating gene function in post-embryonic life-history stages. The project is executed by a close-knit team of researchers and focuses on developing functional approaches to interrogate the genotype-phenotype relationship in three focal annelid species with distinct life histories and adult growth patterns: Platynereis, Capitella, and Pristina. In Aim 1, post-embryonic delivery techniques are optimized using a combination of injection and electroporation. In Aim 2, knock-down approaches using morpholinos and siRNAs in post-embryonic stages are developed, and in Aim 3, gene knock-ins and knock-outs in post-embryonic stages using CRSPR/Cas9 are developed. The work is expected to have a strong catalyzing effect on research, with an increase in the power of inquiry in these other soft-bodied and vermiform animals for existing research labs, an increase in the number of research labs utilizing such organisms and tools.
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(1.5 CEUs) Foam-board insulation comes in different products that have different R-values and other varying characteristics. This course explains how to identify foam board insulation and how to use it. You’ll learn the following.
- How to select and install the common foam-board types.
- How foam board types compare to one another.
- How to recognize when fire, moisture, or temperature conditions may be a durability threat to foam-board installation. | <urn:uuid:947f6916-2e1b-4672-9de6-b5c87e8763e1> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://srmi.biz/courses/foam-board-insulation-ceu/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572833.78/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817001643-20220817031643-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.890966 | 99 | 2.25 | 2 |
Dr. Ethel Percy Andrus, the first woman high school principal in the state of California, knew that retired teachers were living on incredibly small pensions, often without any health insurance. In 1947, she founded the National Retired Teachers Association (NRTA). But it wasn’t until 1956, after approaching more than 30 companies to offer health insurance to retired teachers, that she found one willing to take a chance on NRTA members. The organization then expanded its membership to all retirees and became AARP in 1958.
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Previously, I discussed fixing clinical trial challenges with robotic process automation. This blog analyses site monitoring, and how robotic process automation (RPA) can enhance it.
While sponsors, CROs, and sites all acknowledge that site monitoring is a necessary part of ensuring clinical trials are run in compliance with governing regulations and protocols, it can be a rather burdensome process, both for monitors and for sites.
Monitors struggle with scheduling the visits, having access to everything they need during the visits, completing their reports, getting those reports reviewed and approved, and ensuring sites address any outstanding issues they identify.
Sites struggle with taking the time to prepare for and host the visits, as well as to address the follow-up issues, on top of the burden of running the trial and handling their regular patient load.
These struggles – on both sides – can be reduced by:
- Adopting a risk-based monitoring (RBM) approach, so that sites are only monitored when necessary
- Automating preparation and follow-up notifications
- Providing monitors with convenient tools that facilitate the monitoring process
- Streamlining report creation, review, and approval
- Automatically sharing relevant parts of approved reports with site personnel
This guide analyzes how artificial intelligence – including machine learning – can be used by pharmaceutical and medical device companies to improve the clinical data review and cleansing process.
One of the more thoughtful solutions to this issue works as follows:
Based on predefined clinical data and milestones, a site monitor receives a notification that one of her sites requires a site monitoring visit. She works with the site to schedule the visit, and both she and the site receive automated confirmation emails.
The day of the visit, the monitor arrives at the site with her iPad, which contains a proprietary site monitoring mobile app. She finds that the site’s wireless internet is down for the day, so she uses the app in offline mode.
Throughout the visit, she uses the interactive, decision tree-based user interface to address all of the topics, ask all of the questions, and record all of the answers. She even uses the iPad camera to take photos and attach them to the report.
After the visit, when she gets back online, the app syncs with the system, and she is able to issue the report for review. After receiving her manager’s feedback and making the adjustments, she routes the report for approval. The app allows her and her manager to apply 21 CFR Part 11-compliant digital signatures, and also maintains a complete audit trail of the report’s review and approval history.
Once approved, the details from the report that are relevant to the site are automatically shared with the site in a read-only capacity, and follow-up emails that include action items and due dates are automatically sent to all parties.
Combining risk-based monitoring with convenient and effective RPA technology can significantly improve the site monitoring experience, both for monitors and site personnel. The ideal approach minimizes the burden on all parties without compromising the quality of the monitoring process, which this solution accomplishes beautifully. And the collaborative and transparent nature of the process inherently boosts the monitor-site relationship.
To learn more about specific clinical trial challenges concerning the pharma-investigator relationship and potential solutions using robotic process automation, you can download the guide here, or fill out the form below. | <urn:uuid:9b8511e3-105d-479f-a9f2-191a42891b4d> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://blogs.perficient.com/2019/10/15/life-sciences-site-monitoring-with-robotic-process-automation/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572198.93/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815175725-20220815205725-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.934167 | 689 | 1.710938 | 2 |
50 Salads Activity recognition research has shifted focus from distinguishing full-body motion patterns to recognizing complex interactions of multiple entities. Manipulative gestures - characterized by interactions between hands, tools, and manipulable objects - frequently occur in food preparation, manufacturing, and assembly tasks, and have a variety of applications including situational support, automated supervision, and skill assessment. With the aim to stimulate research on recognizing manipulative gestures we introduce the 50 Salads dataset. It captures 25 people preparing 2 mixed salads each and contains over 4h of annotated accelerometer and RGB-D video data. Including detailed annotations, multiple sensor types, and two sequences per participant, the 50 Salads dataset may be used for research in areas such as activity recognition, activity spotting, sequence analysis, progress tracking, sensor fusion, transfer learning, and user-adaptation.
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Effective writing: Defining this is one of the most important issues in my book. Unfortunately, many people are vague about what they consider to be good writing, and define it in subjective terms: 'I know it when I see it. It sort of flows. And it’s elegant'.
I favour a more practical definition: effective writing achieves the purpose we set it. Effective writing does not set out to be obscure and misunderstood (see political writing), nor is it written to satisfy some urge within the writer (see great writers). It is not an art form but a tool, and the way to measure it is to set out in advance what you want to do. This then becomes the standard you can measure it against.
For instance, you can consider an article a ‘good’ one when it is accepted for publication in your target journal (waiting for praise is likely to disappoint).
Consider a report successful when your preferred recommendations get accepted. Be satisfied with a letter if the recipient comes back for more information, or (under different circumstances) does not come back for more information. A leaflet appealing for blood donors can be considered a success when the target number of donors appears.
The principle is that writing is your servant, not your master. If you define in advance what you want your writing to do, you can also define in advance how to measure it. Failure to do this can lead to confusion and depression as you start to believe those who tell you, for all kinds of reasons and with no real evidence, that your writing is poor (see PIANO, above).
This passage comes from from A-Z of Medical Writing, by Tim Albert, BMJ Books, 2000
Evidence based writing: Instead of arguing endlessly whether to use jargon, or pompous initial capitals, or split infinitives, or the passive voice, look at the evidence of what your target audience prefers. This approach will save hours of argument and stress.
First six words test: This test involves reading out loud the first six words, and asking the question: 'Could I persuade more people to start reading if I were to use different words?'
Law of late literals: At least one mistake in a piece of writing will be discovered once it is too late to do anything about it. The only consolation is to think of all the things you did get right.
PIANO: My very own acronym. And it provides a vital principle for effective writing: Put It Across Not Out. Actually it’s quite hard to do.
Polyfontophilia: The love of many typefaces. Modern programs allow us to use a wide range of them nowadays but this does not mean that you have to use all of them at the same time.
Post spelling bee traumatic disorder: The surprisingly common fear that, unless we can trot out long and obscure words – and spell them correctly – we will be judged as dunces. This tends to demotivate otherwise good writers.
Premature expostulation: Some people start writing as soon as they have an idea – and before they have done any thinking about that idea. This can be deeply unsatisfying.
Pub test: Whenever you come across a particularly impenetrable piece of prose that you have written, ask: ‘How would I have explained this to my target reader, face to face?' This invariably produces a sentence that is simpler and easier to understand.
Putting on the posh overcoat: We can go to enormous lengths to make an understandable spoken sentence, “Please turn off the light” into gobbledegook: 'It is recommended that the overhead illumination be forthwith terminated' On some occasions (such as writing for people who believe that writing is only of value when they have to struggle over the meaning) you may have to write to impress, but do not expect readers to act on what you have written.
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University of Oxford launches response centre to prepare for future pandemics
28 May 2021, 18:46
The University of Oxford has launched a special research centre to help prepare the world for future pandemic threats.
The Pandemic Sciences Centre will aim to provide science-driven solutions to complex problems, responding to potential outbreaks as soon as possible.
It will build on the strong rapport developed globally between academia, industry and public health bodies during the Coronavirus pandemic.
Within Oxford, academics and experts across the research community - including those from infectious diseases, vaccinology, immunology, and clinical trials - will be coming together.
The inaugural director of the centre is Peter Horby, professor of emerging infectious diseases at Oxford, who previously worked on global health threats such as SARS-1 and Ebola.
The new Pandemic Sciences Centre will focus on three core themes:— University of Oxford (@UniofOxford) May 28, 2021
1. Accelerating understanding and insights:
2. Translating research into real-world solutions
3. Enhancing confidence, trust and impact
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Sir John Bell, regius professor of medicine at Oxford University, said: "It would be easy to ignore just how much more serious a pandemic could have been this time around - other highly pathogenic viruses carry mortalities of 35-50% - imagine if we had a pandemic where one in three infected people died.
"The University of Oxford is uniquely capable of leading a global step change in how we respond to the threat of emerging infections."
He added: "By investing in sound science now, we can help to safeguard our resilience, global economic stability and health security for generations to come.
"We are ready to take our vision to build on these foundations to ensure society is better prepared and agile in its response to future threats."
The university's vice-chancellor, Louise Richardson, explained how the new centre can help prepare the world for what is to come.
"The recent pandemic has demonstrated the unique contributions research universities like Oxford can make to pandemic preparedness," she said.
"We are building on decades of medical research on infectious disease and data science, we have long-standing international partnerships and we have the ability to act and to adapt quickly.
"When aligned with industry and with public health bodies we can ensure that the world is never caught unprepared again." | <urn:uuid:35f415f2-a361-4c08-8e97-54b16d59e6a9> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.lbc.co.uk/news/university-of-oxford-launches-response-centre-to-prepare-for-future-pandemics/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572198.93/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815175725-20220815205725-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.934256 | 509 | 2.1875 | 2 |
Veganuary has come and gone but there might be a new excuse to stay away from animal products according to a new study.
If there are ways to prevent serious illnesses or diseases, we're all about trying them out for later in life.
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And a new study by Tzu Chi University in Taiwan has shown that vegetarians have a significantly lower risk of having a stroke than people who eat meat.
After a study of two different Buddhist communities who base their diets on a vegetarian one, it was found that veggies were at less of a risk.
The first group of over 5,000 people were monitored for six years, with 30 per cent of those being vegetarian while the second group of over 8,000 people was followed for nine years.
In the first group, those who didn't eat meat were at a 74 per cent lower risk of suffering an ischemic stroke and in the second group found that vegetarians were 48 per cent less at risk of a regular stroke.
In further research, the second group showed a 65 per cent less of a risk of a hemorrhagic stroke for non-meat eaters, while there was a 60 per cent less risk for an ischemic stroke among vegetarians.
Dr Chin-Lon Lin, of Tzu Chi University in Taiwan, said: 'Stroke is the second most common cause of death worldwide and a leading cause of disability.
'Our study found that a vegetarian diet was beneficial and reduced the risk of ischemic stroke even after adjusting for known risk factors like blood pressure, blood glucose levels and fats in the blood.
'This could mean that perhaps there is some other protective mechanism that may be protecting those who eat a vegetarian diet from stroke.'
Among those in the first group, three of the 1,424 vegetarians suffered strokes while 28 of the 3,626 non-veggies suffered strokes.
The second group showed that 24 of the 2,719 vegetarians had strokes compared to 97 among 5,583 non-vegetarians.
There are also other factors to be included like fitness and lifestyle, but increasing vegetables in your diet can reduce the risks by some amount. | <urn:uuid:18af1308-0154-4aab-bea6-7b8a89ed1d55> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://evoke.ie/2020/02/27/wellness/vegetarianism-reduce-stroke | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573172.64/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818063910-20220818093910-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.979158 | 447 | 2.578125 | 3 |
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- Meta said it removed more than 600 accounts in connection with a mass disinformation campaign.
- Meta said it removed 524 Facebook and 86 Instagram accounts linked to the campaign.
- The company also said it found links between these accounts and a Chinese tech firm, Sichuan Silence Information Technology.
Meta, the recently-rebranded organization behind Facebook and Instagram, revealed in a new report on Wednesday that it had taken down hundreds of Facebook and Instagram pages linked to a mass, China-based COVID-19 disinformation campaign.
Meta's "Adversarial Threat Report" said that the company removed 524 Facebook accounts, 86 Instagram accounts, 20 Facebook pages, and four Facebook groups linked to this disinformation campaign in November. The company added that this network of disinformation was China-based, with some accounts having links to people employed at Chinese IT firm Sichuan Silence Information Technology, as well as people linked to Chinese state infrastructure firms.
"This network originated primarily in China and targeted global English-speaking audiences in the US and the UK, and also Chinese-speaking audiences in Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Tibet," wrote Meta executives Nathaniel Gleicher, Ben Nimmo, David Agranovich, and Mike Dvilyanski in the report.
This particular COVID-19 disinformation campaign that Meta busted revolved around a fake Swiss biologist, "Wilson Edwards." "Edwards" spread a conspiracy theory that the US was attempting to place the blame for the COVID-19 pandemic squarely on China, per Meta's report. The false claim circulated unchecked for weeks until it was revealed in August that "Wilson Edwards" did not exist.
Meta stopped short of accusing the Chinese government of wrongdoing. Still, it noted that its investigation also found that Chinese officials appeared to be interacting with the content at least 12 hours before it trended on social media and within an hour of many of the posts going up.
An Associated Press investigation previously revealed that there have been coordinated, China-based attempts to push a theory that the COVID-19 virus originated in a US bioweapons lab. The campaign involved millions of social media posts circulating on platforms including Telegram, Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube, as well as mainland Chinese social networking apps like Weibo and WeChat.
In its report on Wednesday, Meta said it also deleted accounts linked to other disinformation networks. This included a network of 141 Facebook accounts and 21 Instagram accounts linked to the militant group Hamas. In addition, a smaller network connected to the Belarusian KGB that involved 41 Facebook accounts and four Instagram accounts was also removed in November. | <urn:uuid:d15c86ec-7e8b-43c8-a5b3-7203c67ac336> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://static-ssl.insider.com/meta-removed-facebook-instagram-accounts-china-based-covid19-disinformation-campaign-2021-12 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573172.64/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818063910-20220818093910-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.954755 | 526 | 1.90625 | 2 |
You want the best for your teenager, and to ensure this, you try to be an active participant in their life. Honestly, that’s great! As an involved parent, you can play a vital role in your teen’s academic success by lending them your support and guidance.
Some parents, however, end up taking their parental involvement a little too far. This can put a lot of unnecessary pressure on teens to succeed, which ultimately has a negative impact on their happiness and future careers.
We all want our teens to get good grades and to choose a career path that propels them to future success. But how much is too much? To avoid pushing your teen too hard, here are seven common mistakes to watch out for.
Mistake #1: Overloading Your Teen’s Schedule
Homework. Soccer practice. Debate team. These days, it’s not uncommon for teens to have schedules that are nearly as jam-packed as a CEO’s. Many parents are guilty of pushing their teens to get involved in a variety of clubs, sports, and activities in the hopes of beefing up their college application. While your intentions may be good, be careful. Too many extracurriculars can result in exhaustion and academic burnout.
If your teen begins showing warning signs of burnout (lack of sleep, a change of eating habits, mood shifts, etc.), it may be time to sit down with your teen and have a frank discussion about their schedule. The solution could be to either reduce your teen’s schedule or find better ways to cope with their stress.
Mistake #2: Nagging Them Too Much
Many parents can’t help but nag their teenagers. After all, how else can you be sure that their homework will be done unless you say something?
But the truth is, nagging doesn’t work. In fact, nagging does the opposite! Research has shown that certain parts of a teenager’s brain literally shut down upon hearing a controlling tone of voice from a parent.
Rather than nag your teen, listen first. Figure out why they’re dragging their feet on certain tasks in the first place. Is the assignment too hard? Are they distracted by something else? You’ll make far more headway by coming from a place of understanding rather than criticism.
Mistake #3: Not Making Any Room for Failure
As parents, we all want to protect our kids and keep them from going through unnecessary hardship. We don’t want to see them fail.
But they’re going to fail at certain things anyway. And you know what? That’s perfectly okay. There are valuable lessons to be learned through failure. But if you’re constantly shielding them from failure and hardship, they won’t learn those lessons in a safe space where you can help pick up their pieces.
So, let them fail and encourage them to try again. Praise the effort, not the outcome, and you’ll raise a determined teen who knows how to persevere.
Mistake #4: Giving Them Narrow Career Options
It’s fine to have big dreams for your teen. Just remember that your dreams are not their dreams. Instead of making important career decisions for your teen, show them how to choose a career they love. Then comes the hard part: being supportive of their career choice, even if you don’t necessarily agree with it!
Try to keep an open mind. Not all careers begin with a traditional four-year college. Many lucrative career paths begin with vocational school, community college, or apprenticeships. Let your teen explore them all and make the choice that’s right for them.
Mistake #5: Ignoring Your Teen’s Passions and Interests
Don’t be so quick to dismiss their hobbies as just another distraction from homework. Is your teen obsessed with drawing? Do they love taking pictures on their phone? Special interests and hobbies look great on a college application and could potentially lead to an extremely rewarding career.
Instead of shrugging off your teen’s hobbies, encourage them to think about how they might turn them into a future career. For example, maybe your teen’s love of doodling could lead to them drawing cartoons for the school paper. Help them explore career possibilities that are fueled by their passions and they’ll be a lot more excited about their future.
Mistake #6: Setting Expectations Too High
Expectations are good things. They can help give people (in this case, your teen) a sense of direction and motivation to achieve their goals.
On the other hand, placing high expectations on your teen can put unnecessary pressure on them. This can lead to severe anxiety and, eventually, disappointment when expectations aren’t met.
Perhaps you don’t expect your teen to be an all-star athlete with a 4.0 GPA. That doesn’t mean your expectations aren’t unrealistic. For instance, maybe you were good at math as a student and unknowingly expect your teen to excel in that subject, too. Think carefully about the expectations you’re placing on your teen and ask yourself if they’re truly realistic.
Mistake #7: Using Critical Language
Given how often your teen may roll their eyes at the things you say, you might not think that your words have much power. But that’s simply not true. The words you say can have a huge impact on your teen, for better or for worse.
To avoid derailing your teenager’s success, take care with your words. Avoid being overly critical, especially with little jokes. Saying things like, “If only Joe were as good at math as he is at baseball” in the presence of your son may seem innocent, but these backhanded compliments can make your teen feel awful about themselves. The last thing you want to do is cause your teen to develop a harsh inner critic.
Finding the Right Balance Is Key
Pushing your teen can give them the motivation they need to achieve their goals, while pushing your teen too hard can do the opposite. If you don’t want to end up with an anxious and overwhelmed teen, it’s important to take a step back and ask yourself whether you’re helping or hurting the situation. Remember to keep open lines of communication with your teen and you can provide the right balance of motivation, love, and support. | <urn:uuid:654ba581-ecf6-462c-bf77-c72d24743ed3> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://sguru.org/teenager-parenting-7-common-mistakes-to-avoid/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572833.78/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817001643-20220817031643-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.956993 | 1,352 | 2.21875 | 2 |
I want to share with your readers about my dissatisfaction with learning driving at Singapore Safety Driving Centre (SSDC) with the hope that future learners will decide whether the school is suitable for them.
Unlike the other two driving schools – Bukit Batok Driving Centre (BBDC) and ComfortDelgro Driving Centre (CDC) – SSDC has three different circuits but only the one at level 1 is used for the Traffic Police Driving Test.
Students at the other two schools have the advantage of familiarizing themselves with their own test circuit as they keep using that same circuit throughout their lessons, which averaged about 15 – 25. SSDC, on the other hand, at least in my experience, rarely lets students use their test circuit since I was told that students on test have priorities. I managed to use it one third of the time only.
As the circuit is significantly different from those at level 3 and 5, this means that students who are unfamiliar with level 1’s circuit are put at a disadvantage. This is very important because apart from the need to familiarize with each circuit station’s location – in order to know where to stop and wait – there is a road marking that caught me by surprised. As a result, I made a wrong turn, which would result in an immediate failure if made during the test.
I do not know whether it is the centre’s policy or just that some of the instructors that I had could not be bothered with the hassle since they would have to pay more attention to their surroundings.
Considering that I enrolled in a school in order to have access to the actual test circuit, it seems that it would have been cheaper and better off learning with a Private Driving Instructor.
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Oggi parliamo della differenza fra due verbi simili, ma diversi, che possono creare confusione quando tradotti letteralmente dall’italiano. Parecchia confusione.
Pensare, credere, ritenere, supporre
Questa parola si usa per esprimere una tua opinione, oppure per dire qualcosa che pensi che sia un fatto/dato certo.
? My boss thinks that it’s okay to send me 50 emails after work every evening and that I’m expected to respond!
? She thinks that it’s better to raise her children in the suburbs, so they are moving out of the city next year.
? I think that the concert starts at 9:00pm tonight.
? They think that they are going to win the game, but I think they’re wrong.
Indovinare, ipotizzare, immaginare
La parola ‘guess’ ha il significato, semplicemente, di ‘provare a indovinare’. PERÒ, quando vogliamo esprimere il nostro “Immagino che…”, questa è la parola giusta.
A: “Guess how many pieces of candy are in this jar.”
B: “If I had to guess, I would say there are about 50 pieces.”
A: “Our trip back from NY was awful; our flight was delayed five hours and then we had two layovers before we arrived in Milan.”
B: “I guess you’re probably exhausted.”
?I guess working as a teacher nowadays is a really hard job; teachers are accountable for the success of their students and students aren’t as diligent or well-behaved as they used to be.
?NB: Per dire “Immagino!” come risposta a un commento o un racconto, la traduzione giusta sarebbe “I bet!” oppure “I’m sure!”.
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Too Big a Nightcap May Not Help Sleep
It may seem that throwing back extra drinks would help folks fall asleep faster and sleep better overall. But that may not be true for those having more than four drinks at a time.
Nightcap May Not Help All Night Long
There is no doubt that drinking a lot of alcohol can make a person sleepy or pass out. But alcohol can affect how a person sleeps in more complex ways as well.
Sleep and Overeating While Pregnant
Pregnancy is notorious for causing women difficulty with sleeping — though not as notorious as the months after the baby arrives. Having an eating disorder can worsen the problem. | <urn:uuid:cdede27e-34e5-4f38-9678-16a51ba83395> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://rxwiki.com/articles/news_story/field_conditions/addictions-45/field_conditions/sleep-apnea-insomnia-600 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573172.64/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818063910-20220818093910-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.954327 | 136 | 1.65625 | 2 |
The Pull, a unique tug-of-war contest, is one of America’s oldest standing college traditions: on Saturday, Hope College will experience the Pull for the 120th time. Each year, freshman and sophomore teams face each other from each bank of Black River, attempting to claim the rope for themselves.
Each team is comprised of 18 Pullers and 18 Moralers, who direct and support the Pullers for three rigorous hours. Even Year teams stick together while those of Odd Year form their own unity. Every year, the coaches pass down traditions to the current teams, and seniors coach the sophomore team while the junior coach is responsible for the freshmen. After having participated in the Pull as a team member, students have the opportunity to be selected as the next coach by the current ones.
This year, Allison Tooley ’18 is a coach for the ’20 Pull team after having been a ’18 Moraler for two years. By working with her fellow coaches to prepare the sophomores for this year’s competition, she has become familiar with the traditions and strategies unique to the Even Year teams. Allison has been practicing intensively for the past three weeks and promoting Hope’s significant tradition by dressing in the traditional colors of red and white for the first five weeks of the semester.
Allison learned about the Pull already in her childhood, as her parents participated in the event when they were students at Hope College. Her father, Eric Tooley, was a Puller on the ’87 Pull Team and her mother, Anne Hathaway Tooley, participated as a Morale Girl on the ’88 Pull Team. For both Eric and Anne, the Pull was one of the first events that shaped their experience at Hope College, where a shared purpose and commitment to hard work instantly brought their respective teams together. As the Tooley Family exemplifies, the Pull connects students in marvelous ways and creates meaningful, lifelong friendships.
In addition to the Pull, the Tooley Family also upholds the tradition of the college’s Greek Life: Both Allison and her sister, Katelyn, are Sigmas, while Anne is a Delphi and Eric a Frater. In 2015, Katelyn graduated with a dual major in Business and Political Science, and Allison is a senior majoring in Business.
This weekend, the Tooley Family will be cheering for the ’20 Pull Team at the Rope Run on Friday and at the Pull on Saturday. To them, the Pull is an incredibly meaningful tradition, and so much more than a game of tug-of-war. | <urn:uuid:a9c21577-7545-4e24-bcde-ab783109b699> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://blogs.hope.edu/families/alumni/the-pull-the-tooley-family/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573172.64/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818063910-20220818093910-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.964399 | 532 | 1.554688 | 2 |
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The Guardian reports on new research regarding the death of former UN secretary general Dag Hammarskjöld in 1961, which suggests his “plane was shot down over Northern Rhodesia (now Zambia) 50 years ago, and the murder covered up by the British colonial authorities.” Among the new pieces of evidence are telegrams from the days before Hammarskjöld’s death “which illustrate US and British anger at an abortive UN military operation that the secretary-general ordered on behalf of the Congolese government against a rebellion backed by western mining companies and mercenaries in the mineral-rich Katanga region” and interviews with eyewitnesses describing a second plane firing on the ill-fated UN one. “Suddenly we saw another aircraft approach the bigger aircraft at greater speed and release fire which appeared as a bright light,” one man recounted and another said: “There were some who witnessed the crash and they were taken away and imprisoned.”
Some of the biggest British banks – the Royal Bank of Scotland, Lloyds TSB, Barclays and HSBC – are investing hundreds of millions in companies that produce cluster bombs, despite the UK’s obligation under an international treaty banning the devices. According to the Convention on Cluster Munitions which came into effect in the UK last year, ratifying countries must not assist or encourage the production of such weapons. But the Independent’s Jerome Taylor writes that a loophole allows for investment in companies such as Alliant Techsystems and Lockheed Martin as long as the financial backing does not go directly towards manufacturing the bombs: “None of these investments is illegal. But they will lead to further concerns about the moral behaviour of the banking industry at a time of public anger over its role in the credit crisis and bankers’ bonuses.” Only Belgium, Ireland, Luxemburg and New Zealand have implemented legislation forbidding direct or indirect financing of cluster munitions.
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has announced plans to nationalize the country’s gold industry in order to retain control over the increasingly valuable resource. “We have close to 12 or 13 billion of dollars in gold reserves,” according to Chavez. “We can’t allow it to continue to be taken away.” In a less radical move, the Tanzanian government is trying to increase its share of mining profits by collecting four-percent royalties on exports, up from the current three.
Chatham House has just released a European Parliament-commissioned report entitled “The Effects of Oil Companies’ Activities on the Environment, Health and Development in sub-Saharan Africa.” The study concentrates on the region’s top two producers, Nigeria and Angola, and rattles off a list of the industry’s negative environment and social impacts.“While oil companies are implementing certain measures to address these impacts, corporate social responsibility activities largely remain piecemeal and short-term, community engagement is inadequate and requirements for accountability and transparency are either insufficient or not enforced.” Moreover, over the last decade in Nigeria, “the way that oil corporations chose to engage with local communities through development projects caused inter-community conflicts in the Delta between communities participating in such projects and those that did not.”
The Canadian government is threatening legal action against Michaela Keyserlingk, the widow of a man who died of asbestos-related cancer, because she is using the ruling Conservative Party of Canada’s logo in an online campaign against her country’s “hypocrisy in exporting chrysotile asbestos to the developing world, while guarding against its use at home.” The offending, logo-appropriating banner ad, designed by her son, reads: “Canada is the only western country that still exports deadly asbestos!’’ Keyserlingk says she will take the ad down if she can meet with a senior member of the government to discuss the asbestos export policy. In June, Canada sided with Vietnam, Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan to prevent chrysotile asbestos from being added to the UN’s Rotterdam Convention’s list of hazardous materials, a measure that would have required exporting countries to warn buyers of potential health risks.
The Canada-Colombia bilateral free trade agreement which came into effect this week “is a global precedent and will be closely watched,” according to the Canadian Council for International Co-operation Gauri Sreenivasan. What makes the treaty unique is the provision that both parties must produce annual parliamentary reports on the human rights impacts of the deal in both countries. But Sreenivasan worries the absence to this point of specific details on how the governments will live up to their duties may justify fears the reports, the first of which are due in May 2012, will be “mere public relations exercises.” Nevertheless, she concludes: “The opportunity is there to ensure the reports can be a tool for greater accountability, highlighting that states have obligations not just to international trade rules, but to international human rights law.”
University of Virginia historian and former US Department of State staffer Philip Zelikow argues “the domestic-foreign dichotomy is anachronistic” and “foreign policies should focus on how to harmonise “domestic” policies.” He says the failure of the Copenhagen climate talks is an example of how “a traditionally conceived foreign policy negotiation founders on the inability to reconcile domestic policies.” Zelikow has little patience for high-profile summits that give pride of place to heads of state and foreign ministry officials, envisioning instead “a model of distributed foreign policymaking, in which many ministries and non-governmental organisations will move into the foreground of diplomacy.”
The Overseas Development Institute’s Jonathan Glennie argues the “widespread public revulsion” caused by a video in which a bloodied Malaysian student was mugged during the London riots suggests “the British want to see decency and ethics at the core of national policy and community strategy.” This observation leads him to ask: “Why not, then, on the international stage? Should we not be equally ashamed when our government or companies act unethically in foreign countries? Or do our ethics stop at the border?” He has concerns about promoting international cooperation using national self-interest arguments, such as increased trade or greater security, because “appealing to self-interest entrenches the traditional position that national interests should generally predominate over ethical conduct.” Instead, he calls for ethics-based arguments supported by tangible evidence in order to “make the case that a country should never act unethically, any more than a person should.”
As for why people do evil things, the University of Exeter’s Alex Haslam writes in the Guardian that the classic Milgram experiments which took place 50 years ago this month remain important not so much for highlighting the “banality of evil” but for raising the question of “why participants identify with the authority rather than with the victim, and hence are willing to follow him down the destructive path he sketches out.” Haslam believes ordinary people commit organized, terrible acts “not because they were blindly obeying orders but because they were working creatively towards the goals of a leadership with which they identified.” In other words, atrocities “involve not just passive obedience but also dynamic followership.”
In yet another round of the “aid vs. foreign direct investment” debate, Christian Aid’s Dereje Alemayehu writes: “Can we realistically rely on foreign investors to deliver development? The amount they steal through aggressive tax evasion is at least fourfold what comes in as aid. I can’t see how ending aid would make them change their behaviour. I have nothing against Foreign Direct Investment (FDI), but let us make a distinction between scavengers and investors. And in Africa, we have more of the former.” | <urn:uuid:170e1d53-49aa-47ff-94e9-40a816775952> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://beyondaid.com/tag/foreign-policy/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573172.64/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818063910-20220818093910-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.950297 | 1,667 | 1.859375 | 2 |
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Obese individuals suffer an increased risk of cancer, and an increase in cancer mortality compared to non-obese Americans. Now a large population-based study confirms that cancer incidence drops dramatically after metabolic surgery.
Numerous cohort studies have shown metabolic surgery decreases cancer risk. A previous large-scale prospectively matched 10-year surgical intervention trial identified that patients undergoing bariatric surgery had a significantly reduced risk of developing cancer (HR 0.67; 95% CI 0.53–0.85; p = 0.0009). The Swedish Obese Subjects study reinforced those findings. But the recent Wiggins meta-analysis paper involving over 635,000 patients represents the most conclusive analysis using population-based cohort studies. Among individual cancer types, breast cancer reduction was significant and pronounced as depicted below.
Obesity-related cancer is often defined as cancer of the breast, prostate, colorectum, endometrium, ovary, kidney, esophagus (adenocarcinoma only), liver, pancreas, gallbladder, non-Hodgkin lymphoma, leukemia, and thyroid. There is cohort data supporting this list but cohort, mechanism, and now population studies demonstrate breast cancer reduction from metabolic surgery and aggregate all cancer.
The mechanisms responsible for the reduction in cancer incidence associated with bariatric surgery are believed to be multifactoral. This effect is believed to be related to reduced systemic inflammation and oxidative stress, as well as the influence of surgery upon insulin resistance, sex steroids, gut hormones, and adipokines.
Metabolic surgery today consists of a 45-minute procedure with 4 Band-aids that is safer than Caesarian section and most routine operations, and it is safer than pharmaceutical management of type 2 diabetes in several large cohort papers.
Sjöström, L., Gummesson, A., Sjöström, C.D., Narbro, K., Peltonen, M., Wedel, H., Bengtsson, C., Bouchard, C., Carlsson, B., Dahlgren, S. and Jacobson, P., 2009. Effects of bariatric surgery on cancer incidence in obese patients in Sweden (Swedish Obese Subjects Study): a prospective, controlled intervention trial. The lancet oncology, 10(7), pp.653-662.
Wiggins, T., Antonowicz, S.S. and Markar, S.R., 2019. Cancer Risk Following Bariatric Surgery—Systematic Review and Meta-analysis of National Population-Based Cohort Studies. Obesity surgery, 29(3), pp.1031-1039. | <urn:uuid:0d34efe9-56a3-4289-a654-67d9b7c5f6a5> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://nevadasurgical.com/blog/new-population-study-confirms-cancer-risk-reduction-with-metabolic-surgery/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573172.64/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818063910-20220818093910-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.877103 | 546 | 2.296875 | 2 |
About 3 years ago I watched a documentary on the research that
was conducted on some of the frozen bodies of sailors from the
Franklin ships in the artic. Among other things, such as the findings
indicating lead poisoning may have been a factor in the deaths of
sailors (from seal in seams of canned foods), the scientists involved
also took samples of intestine contents, etc...
About one year later, in early 1990, I read in a short note in
the Toronto's Globe and Mail, that bacteria from the intestines of
those sailors showed resistance to present day's antibiotics. That
was taken as a new element to be considered in the theory of the
origins of antibiotic resistance (exposure and induction, transfer
horizontally from producer streptomyces strain in nature, etc, etc).
I happened to mention that to a friend who is now very much
interested in putting his hands on a real paper about that. He says
he could'nt dig anything on Franklin Expedition in Biological
Abstracts from 5 years back.
Does anybody knows the reference for the paper (if there was one)
or the names for some of the microbiologists involved?
Thank you in advance... L Malburg
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Credit Card Fraud Introduction
Credit Card Fraud are Identification Information and property offences. The way in which credit card Identification Information is dealt with can impact on the severity of the crime and any terms of imprisonment. If you are charged with these offences we highly recommend hiring a criminal lawyer to represent you.
Section 192I of the Crimes Act 1900 (NSW) (the act) states that ‘identification information’ may include information relating to a person or company that is capable of being used to identify them. The act then specifies the following as identification information:
(a) a name or address,
(b) a date or place of birth, marital status, relative’s identity or similar information,
(c) a driver licence or driver licence number,
(d) a passport or passport number,
(e) biometric data,
(f) a voice print,
(g) a credit or debit card, its number or data stored or encrypted on it,
(h) a financial account number, user name or password,
(i) a digital signature,
(j) a series of numbers or letters (or both) intended for use as a means of personal identification, and
(k) an ABN.
Dealing with Identification Information
Section 192J of the act states that it is an offence to deal ‘…in identification information with the intention of committing, or of facilitating the commission of, an indictable offence…’ This carries a maximum penalty of 10 years imprisonment.
According to section 192I dealing with identification information includes making, supplying and using the information. Dealing may include the following acts:
- Using another’s credit card details,
- Duplicating another person’s driver’s license,
- Using somebody else’s digital signature without their consent, or
- Other acts which involve the making, supplying and usage of identification information.
It is not enough to deal with financial information. You must also have intended to commit or facilitated the commission of an indictable offence to be found guilty of this offence. Indictable offences are criminal offences of a more serious nature and may include terms of imprisonment. We are able to provide you with specific advice as to whether an offence is indictable.
Possession of identification information
According to section 192K of the act it is also an offence to possess Identification Information with the intention to commit or facilitate an indictable offence. This offence carries a maximum 7 year prison term.
Unlike the dealing with identification offence this offence merely requires you to possess the information. This offence may include circumstances where you have purchased or been given the information from another person.
You must also be found to have intended or facilitated the commission of an indictable offence to be found guilty of this offence. Merely possessing the information without this intention is not a breach of section 192K.
Possession of equipment
Section 192L of the act states that possession of equipment capable of being used to make anything containing identification may also be an offence. In these circumstances it is only an offence if you intended the thing containing the identification information to be made to commit or facilitate an indictable offence. This offence carries a maximum prison term of up to 3 years.
Unlike the other offences no possession or dealing with identification information is required. Instead the offence refers to whether an item is capable of making the information. This may include equipment such as credit card skimmers or hacking devices. Despite this there is still a requirement that you intend to use the manufactured information to commit or facilitate an indictable offence.
Common Indictable Offences linked with credit card fraud
According to Schedule 1 of the Criminal Procedure Act 1986 (NSW) deception and obtaining a financial advantage or causing financial disadvantage are indictable offences where the value of the offence exceeds $5,000.
According to section 192B of the act deception includes any intentional or reckless deception by words or conduct. This includes conduct that causes a computer, machine or electronic device to provide a response that it is not authorised to make.
Identification Information may be used to commit this offence. Where you skim another person’s credit card or savings account and use that information to withdraw money from an ATM, or make purchases online, it may be considered deception. This is because you are not authorised to cause a computer or machine to use somebody else’s money in place of your own.
In these instances a bank account or credit card number is likely to be considered Identification Information. A person engaging in this conduct is likely to be charged with dealing with Identification Information and deception.
Obtaining a financial advantage or causing financial disadvantage
Section 192D of the act stipulates that it is an offence to obtain a financial advantage or cause financial disadvantage. To be guilty of an offence you are required to induce a third person to provide a financial advantage to you or another or cause financial disadvantage to another. Where you have obtained a financial advantage it is an offence to keep that advantage.
This may occur where a person manufactures a fraudulent credit card. Where a person uses such a card in store they are obtaining a financial advantage by failing to use their funds. By providing the card to a retail worker to process the payment you are also inducing them to complete the transaction. Likely charges for this conduct include dealing with identification information and obtaining a financial advantage.
Credit Card fraud and Identity Information offences may carry serious criminal repercussions including a term of imprisonment. George Sten & Co Criminal Lawyers has over 50 years experience in vigorously defending your rights for a successful outcome. Talk to our Credit Card Fraud Lawyers today.
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The International Day of Mathematics (IDM) is a worldwide celebration, proclaimed by UNESCO. Each year on March 14 all countries will be invited to participate through activities for both students and the general public in schools, museums, libraries and other spaces. March 14 was chosen as the date for the IDM because it was already celebrated in many...Devamını oku
Best of IMAGINARY – all in one box! (German edition)
Just in time for Christmas, IMAGINARY is proud to present our latest product, the IMAGINARY-Entdeckerbox – a box that contains a fine selection of all things IMAGINARY (in German). It is a mix of both physical and electronic materials – 3D sculptures, posters, craft supplies, a Live-DVD with a cocktail of software and films, 3D-glasses … even a book with previously unedited material by Russian problem-solving superstar Vladimir Arnold! It contains all ingredients to make eyes and minds sparkle in Mathematics classes, friends of IMAGINARY or anyone interested to set up their own mini-IMAGINARY exhibition!
The Mathematics behind the different elements of the Entdeckerbox can be discovered playfully and interactively. They are designed with the intention to provide scope for experimentation and extension. All contents are, in the usual IMAGINARY tradition, open source and can be freely copied and passed on.
The Entdeckerbox can be ordered here. The no-profit price of 99 Euros includes shipment (in Germany). The 3d prints are supported by our partner trinckle.com. The Entdeckerbox project is made possible through support by the Klaus Tschira Stiftung in collaboration with the Mathematisches Forschungsinstitut Oberwolfach. All printed and electronic materials are also freely accessible for download.
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May 27, 2020
Is there anything a dog can’t do?
Emotional support animals, medical support animals, drug sniffing dogs, bed bug sniffing dogs…and soon Coronavirus sniffing dogs!
A new program at the University of Pennsylvania’s School of Veterinary Medicine (Penn Vet) has scientests and researchers working with dogs to see if their noses can help with early detection of COVID-19 in humans.
In this program happening right now, 8 dogs are being trained in a laboratory setting. Over three weeks, they will first learn to recognize the smell of COVID-19 in saliva and urine samples from infected patients (through an imprinting technique) and will then be tested to see if they can detect the infected samples from the non-infected samples.
Cynthia Otto, a Vet and director of Penn Vet’s Working Dog Center says:
“The potential impact of these dogs and their capacity to detect COVID-19 could be substantial. This study will harness the dog’s extraordinary ability to support the nation’s COVID-19 surveillance systems, with the goal of reducing community spread.”
So when could we start seeing COVID-19 sniffing dogs? These trained dogs could be ready to start sniffing humans by July. | <urn:uuid:44b08383-eeaf-4232-aa99-af6729f50b1f> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://workingdogtimes.com/sniffing-dogs/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572833.78/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817001643-20220817031643-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.924323 | 280 | 3.015625 | 3 |
Preparing the site for seeding is the most important step to ensure healthy wildflower establishment.
Select Your Site
- When selecting a site for your wildflowers, pay close attention to existing vegetation. This is a good indicator of the site’s fertility.
- Your site should receive at least 6 hours of sunshine a day.
- Wet or low areas tend to accumulate weed seed, so avoid them if possible. These areas will promote weed growth that may compete with your flowers. | <urn:uuid:f0a6ec1a-14c0-4aa8-b19c-3d05e34f2d63> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://johnhutchingsmuseum.org/how-to-grow-wild-flowers/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573172.64/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818063910-20220818093910-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.887457 | 105 | 1.96875 | 2 |
and calculation commands can provide information about objects in
your drawing and do useful calculations.
obtain information about the relation between two specified points
or multiple points; for example, the distance between points or
their angle in the XY plane.
You can obtain the area,
perimeter, and mass properties defined by selected objects or a
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In modern America, we typically think of discriminatory laws as being a thing of the past. We lament the evils of the past such as slavery and segregation and celebrate the abolition of those institutions and the laws, which allowed them to flourish. When the U.S. government recently implemented changes to its immigration policies which appear to discriminate against people based on their ethnicity or national origin, such as the recent travel ban which effects travelers from seven different countries, or the policy of separating families who attempt to cross the U.S. – Mexico border, many Americans reacted with shock and revulsion. The protests which greeted these policy changes indicate that the American people have a commendable commitment to the principle that laws, including immigration laws, should apply to all people in the same way. Unfortunately, for most of the history of the United States, immigration laws were unapologetically discriminatory, often with the intent of keeping people from “undesirable” ethnic groups out of the country. Here’s a brief look at the development of United States immigration laws in the 18th and 19th centuries.
The Naturalization Act of 1790
In 1790, two years after the ratification of the U.S. Constitution, Congress passed the first law governing who was allowed to become a citizen of the United States. Naturalization was restricted to “free white person[s], who shall have resided within the limits and under the jurisdiction of the United States for the term of two years,” and who also possessed “good moral character.” Restricting citizenship to white people was not simply an attempt to keep other ethnic groups out of the United States; it was also intended to disenfranchise certain groups living within the U.S., particularly Native Americans and African Americans. The lack of a path to citizenship meant that people who didn’t qualify as white could be denied the ability to vote or own real property. The very first American law regarding immigration and naturalization established a system in which citizenship and full civic participation was primarily restricted to the white population.
Several additional naturalization acts were passed over the next decade, often changing the residency requirement for would-be citizens. Between 1790 and 1802, the requirement was extended from two years to five years, then fourteen years, before finally being restored to five years in 1802; the five year residency requirement remains in effect today for most people who wish to become naturalized citizens.
The Naturalization Act of 1870
While Congress may have been willing to repeatedly change the residency requirements set forth in the Naturalization Act of 1790, there was one aspect of the Act it proved uninterested in changing: for 80 years, the ability to become a naturalized citizen was limited to white people. It was only after the devastation of the Civil War, the abolition of slavery, and the adoption of the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution (which granted citizenship to all persons born in the United States, including African Americans) that Congress passed the Naturalization Act of 1870, which permitted the naturalization of “aliens of African nativity and to persons of African descent.”
The Page Act of 1875
Anti-Chinese xenophobia led Congress to pass the Page Act, which was the first law to explicitly restrict certain classes of people from immigrating to the United States. In addition to setting some regulations regarding the transportation of laborers from Asia to the United States, the act forbid the immigration of felons and prostitutes to the United States. Even though on its face the act was intended to prevent criminal behavior, in practice the law was intensely discriminatory. American authorities acted with the presumption that Chinese women who sought to immigrate to the United States were prostitutes unless they were able to prove otherwise, with the result that the immigration of Chinese women to the U.S. ceased almost entirely. Perhaps not coincidentally, this also meant that Chinese laborers in the United States were generally unable to marry or start a family in the U.S.
The Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882
Legalized discrimination against Chinese immigrants reached new heights with the Chinese Exclusion Act. The act established a ten year ban on Chinese laborers entering the United States, and required Chinese people leaving the United States to obtain a certification which would allow them to re-enter the country. The Act also prevented State and Federal courts from granting citizenship to Chinese residents. The act was amended in 1884 to apply to all people of Chinese descent, regardless of their actual nationality. Less than 20 years after abolishing slavery and granting citizenship to former slaves, Congress had established a new legal regime which discriminated against a large population of American residents based on their race and national origin.
The 1891 Immigration Act
The 1891 Immigration Act is perhaps most significant for establishing the office of Superintendent of Immigration, the nation’s first dedicated immigration service and the precursor to today’s alphabet soup of immigration agencies. The Act also forbid the immigration of “all idiots, insane persons, paupers or persons likely to become a public charge, persons suffering from a loathsome or dangerous contagious disease,” as well as felons and certain other criminals, polygamists, and certain classes of people whose passage had been paid for by someone else. Many of these restrictions, particularly the restrictions on people likely to become a public charge, people suffering from contagious disease, and people intending to practice polygamy, are still enshrined in today’s immigration laws.
It is worth noting that, as was the case with the Page Act’s provisions regarding prostitution, many of these criteria were targeted at particular ethnic or religious groups, despite being apparently nondiscriminatory. For example, the restrictions on people who had not paid their own passage were intended to prevent Chinese contract laborers out of the United States, while the restriction on polygamy was primarily intended to prevent Mormons from immigrating.
The Geary Act of 1892
Congress passed the Geary Act to replace the Chinese Exclusion Act, which expired after ten years. The Geary Act extended the exclusion of Chinese laborers from the U.S. for another ten years, and required Chinese people in the U.S. to obtain certificates to prove they had entered the U.S. legally; these can be seen as a precursor to the “green card” which lawful permanent residents are required to carry today. Any people of Chinese descent who did not have a residency certificate could be sentenced to up to a year of hard labor and subsequently deported; they could avoid this punishment if they could demonstrate that they had been unable to obtain a certificate due to an accident, illness, or “other unavoidable cause” and could also produce “at least one credible white witness” to testify they had been residents of the United States when the act went into effect.
The Geary Act proved to be difficult to enforce; only 14 percent of the Chinese laborers required to register under the law actually did so. Furthermore, the act as written did not provide any funding for deportations; the government sought to make Chinese laborers pay for their own deportations. Not surprisingly, many of those facing deportation prepared to pay for lawyers instead, leading to a legal controversy that went all the way to the Supreme Court, which eventually upheld the Geary Act in the case of Fong Yue Ting v. United States.
It is estimated that about 85,000 Chinese people living in the United States refused to register under the act, and deporting them would have cost about $7 million. Instead, Congress authorized $60,000 for the enforcement of the Geary Act. This was emblematic of yet another ongoing theme in American immigration law: It’s easy for politicians to appeal to nativist prejudices by indulging in anti-immigrant rhetoric and proposing anti-immigrant legislation. It’s expensive to actually enforce that legislation. And oddly enough, trying to push the costs onto people who don’t want to pay them, whether it’s by trying to force people in the U.S. to pay for their own deportations, or trying to convince foreign citizens to pay for a wall, isn’t a very effective way to fund immigration enforcement.
Ellis Island and Angel Island
In 1892, the same year that the Geary Act was passed, Ellis Island opened as an immigration station, becoming the largest point of entry for immigrants on the East Coast. The experience of immigrants seeking entry through Ellis Island presents a striking contrast to the experience of those immigrants seeking entry through its West Coast equivalent, Angel Island, which opened in 1910. Over the years that Ellis Island was operational, about 1% of immigrants seeking admission there were turned away, often for health reasons. At Angel Island, where Chinese and other Asian immigrants were subjected to extensive cross-examination and thorough physical examinations, the rejection rate was 18%. According to historian Roger Daniels in his book Guarding the Golden Door, “Most [immigration officials] concluded that Chinese were ‘born liars’ and could not be trusted under any circumstances. As a result they tended to treat all Chinese entrants as if they were criminals. It was relatively easy for these attitudes to shift from Chinese to other immigrants, particularly since a whole series of immigration commissioners drawn from the ranks of trade unions came to their posts with built-in prejudices against immigrants and persistently urged Congress to enact further restrictions.”
In light of the differences in the historical treatment of European immigrants at Ellis Island versus Asian immigrants at Angel Island, it’s interesting to compare the upbeat website of the Statue of Liberty-Ellis Island Foundation with the more nuanced website of the Angel Island Immigration Station Foundation.
Immigration Law as Social Engineering
Even though the foregoing discussion doesn’t touch on the development of U.S. immigration law in the 20th century, it should make clear that from the very beginning, American immigration laws have often been constructed to reinforce particular racial, ethnic, or religious qualifications which determine who is allowed to be an American citizen or resident. The very first naturalization law passed by the United States Congress restricted naturalization to people who qualified as “white,” granting them political and civic privileges that were denied to other groups such as Native Americans and African Americans. After the Civil War, when African Americans who had previously been denied citizenship received it under the Fourteenth Amendment, nativist activists and politicians targeted other groups for exclusion, with Chinese immigrants being a particular target. Even facially neutral laws, such as those against prostitution and polygamy, were used to disproportionately target certain nationalities and religions. Finally, in the early 20th century, the massive difference in the rejection rate between the mostly European immigrants seeking entry through Ellis Island and the mostly Asian immigrants seeking entry through Angel Islands demonstrate the disparity of outcomes that can arise if immigration laws are enforced more stringently against certain groups.
As brief and simplified as this overview of early immigration laws has been, it’s helpful to keep this history in mind whenever you listen to modern debates about immigration law. Throughout American history, immigration laws have never been entirely neutral and nondiscriminatory; they’ve always favored some groups over others, whether explicitly or implicitly. Historically, they have represented an attempt to impose a certain demographic order upon the population of the U.S. by favoring racial, ethnic, religious, or political groups that are considered to have the potential to become “good Americans,” and by keeping out other groups that are considered “undesirable.” Even today, when politicians or pundits propose a change to U.S. immigration laws, it’s worthwhile to ask ourselves which group or groups that change is intended to favor, and what kind of order that change would impose upon the United States and its population. | <urn:uuid:586ed520-89a7-46e5-bc3e-cde3cb7e5284> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://lia-michigan.org/immigration-as-social-engineering-a-brief-history/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572833.78/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817001643-20220817031643-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.974417 | 2,398 | 4.40625 | 4 |
Money is a tool of exchange, which can’t exist unless there are goods produced and men able to produce them. Money is the material shape of the principle that men who wish to deal with one another must deal by trade and give value for value. Money is not the tool of the moochers, who claim your product by tears, or of the looters, who take it from you by force. Money is made possible only by the men who produce!
Wealth is the product of man’s capacity to think. To trade by means of money is the code of the men of good will. Money rests on the axiom that every man is the owner of his mind and his effort. Money allows no power to prescribe the value of your effort except the voluntary choice of the man who is willing to trade you his effort in return. Money permits you to obtain for your goods and your labor that which they are worth to the men who buy them, but no more. Money permits no deals except those to mutual benefit by the unforced judgement of the traders. Money demands of you the recognition that men must work for their own benefit, not for their own injury, for their gain, not their loss. That the common bond among men is not the exchange of suffering, but the exchange of goods.
Money demands that you sell, not your weakness to men’s stupidity, but your talent to their reason; It demands that you buy, not the saddest they offer, but the best that your money can find. And when men live by trade - with reason, not force, as their final arbiter - it is the best product that wins, the best performance, the man of the best judgment and highest ability - and the degree of a man’s productiveness is the degree of his reward. This is the code of existence whose tool and symbol is money.
Let me give you a tip on a clue to men’s character: the man who damns money has obtained it dishonourably; the man who respects it has earned it.
But money demands of you the highest virtues, if you wish to make it or keep it. Men who have no courage, pride or self-esteem, men who have no moral sense of their right to their money and are not willing to defend it as they defend their life, men who apologise for being rich - will not remain rich for long.
To love money is to know and love the fact that money is the creation of the best power within you, and your passkey to trade your effort for the effort of the best among men. The lovers of money are willing to work for it. They know they are able to deserve it. | <urn:uuid:eeeef021-0312-4c46-929b-79d8b9baea55> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.ragnargalt.net/money | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572833.78/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817001643-20220817031643-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.979791 | 557 | 2.421875 | 2 |
Army Ranks – Enlisted and Officer, from Lowest to Highest
|O-2||First Lieutenant||Commissioned Officer|
|O-5||Lieutenant Colonel||Field Officer|
- 1 What rank is an officer in the Military?
- 2 What rank does an officer start at?
- 3 What are the army ranks in order?
- 4 What is a general officer in the Army?
- 5 How many officers are in the military?
- 6 Who is the highest-ranking military officer?
- 7 How do you become an officer in the Army?
- 8 Is corporal higher than officer?
- 9 What is a military officer called?
- 10 Who is the only 6 star general?
- 11 Is Captain a rank in the army?
- 12 What do you call a female soldier?
- 13 Is Captain higher than Commander?
What rank is an officer in the Military?
Officer Military Ranks Army, Air Force, Marine Corps and Space Corps officers are called company grade officers in the pay grades of O-1 to O-3, field grade officers in pay grades O-4 to O-6 and general officers in pay grades O-7 and higher.
What rank does an officer start at?
When you join the Military, you will be commissioned as an officer. If you enter as a licensed physician, your rank will typically begin at captain or major (Army/Air Force) or lieutenant or lieutenant commander (Navy), but it may be higher depending on where you are in your career.
What are the army ranks in order?
They plan missions, give orders and assign Soldiers tasks.
- Second Lieutenant. Typically the entry-level rank for most commissioned officers.
- First Lieutenant. A seasoned lieutenant with 18 to 24 months of service.
- Lieutenant Colonel.
- Brigadier General.
- Major General.
What is a general officer in the Army?
general, title and rank of a senior army officer, usually one who commands units larger than a regiment or its equivalent or units consisting of more than one arm of the service. Frequently, however, a general is a staff officer who does not command troops but who plans their operations in the field.
How many officers are in the military?
The total number of active-duty general or flag officers is capped at 231 for the Army, 162 for the Navy, 198 for the Air Force, and 62 for the Marine Corps. From December 31, 2022, the cap will be reduced further to 220 for the Army, 151 for the Navy, 187 for the Air Force, and 62 for the Marine Corps.
Who is the highest-ranking military officer?
Milley. General Mark A. Milley is the 20th Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the nation’s highest-ranking military officer, and the principal military advisor to the President, Secretary of Defense, and National Security Council.
How do you become an officer in the Army?
The Paths to Becoming an Officer
- Attend a senior military college or service academy.
- Enroll at a traditional college or university with a Reserve Officers’ Training Corps (ROTC) program.
- Attend Officer Candidate School (OCS) after graduating from college.
- Receive a direct commission after earning a professional degree.
Is corporal higher than officer?
Corporal can be defined as “a noncommissioned officer ranking above a private first class in the U.S. Army or lance corporal in the Marines and below a sergeant.” It can also refer to a similar rank in other countries’ armed services as well as a U.S. surface-to-surface, single-stage ballistic missile.
What is a military officer called?
Army officer ranks are in three tiers: company grade, field grade and general. Army officers in the ranks of O-1 to O-3 are called company grade officers; those in the pay grades O-4 to O-6 are known as field grade officers, and those in pay grades O-7 and above are known as general officers.
Who is the only 6 star general?
George Washington, History’s Only Six-Star General ( … Sort Of) The rank of five-star general is an honor bestowed upon very few. In fact, you can name them on one hand: George C.
Is Captain a rank in the army?
In the United States Army (USA), U.S. Marine Corps (USMC), U.S. Air Force (USAF), and U.S. Space Force (USSF), captain (abbreviated “CPT” in the USA and “Capt” in the USMC, USAF, and USSF) is a company-grade officer rank, with the pay grade of O-3. It ranks above first lieutenant and below major.
What do you call a female soldier?
Female members of the United States Army are referred to simply as “females” when being addressed by gender. If not, they are soldiers…. same as the males. ** Female soldiers. Female members of the United States Army are referred to simply as “females” when being addressed by gender.
Is Captain higher than Commander?
A commander is the third-highest rank in the force, above the rank of captain and below deputy chief. Higher than captain and below deputy chief, the rank is achieved by appointment. Commander is the rank held by the two patrol division heads and other commanders fill various administrative roles. | <urn:uuid:48139d80-7167-4512-ac12-2d824a89c9d2> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.nnoa-camppendleton.org/officer/what-rank-is-an-officer-in-the-army-solution.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572033.91/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814113403-20220814143403-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.955127 | 1,209 | 2.765625 | 3 |
In Canet the weekly market is held every Wednesday of the year in the morning from 9 a.m. to 2:30 p.m., and is located on the dry river of the shopping area in the centre of the town, along the Riera del Pinar, from the Market Square to carrer Ravalet.
It includes around 40 stalls and takes up 300 linear metres with a wide range of products from household linen, men’s and women’s clothing, children’s clothes, footwear, household material, large size garments, cosmetics and perfumery, articles for pets, hats and baskets, fashion jewellery, herbs, sweets and spices, fruit and vegetables, organic products from the garden, cod, olives and delicatessen, roast chickens, and many other things.
The market has a free car park for vehicles very nearby in Passeig Misericòrdia.
Day: every Wednesday
Times: from 9 a.m. to 2:30 p.m.
No. stalls: 40
Type of stalls: multi-sector
Site: Riera del Pinar
A little history
It is difficult to find the beginnings of the weekly market, a travelling market which set up in different towns on different days of the week... in Canet, every Wednesday.
However, all markets started in the street, even those we have later come to know as the Market Square, a permanent and covered market which opens every day.
In the 1920s, the local market set up along the carrer Ample, which was then called the Constitution Square and the market was therefore known as the Constitution Market, but it did not remain there for long. The market sold meat and vegetables, the cured meat stalls faced the Pedracastell and the peasants were turned towards the sea. In 1922 the market was moved to Plaça Macià once it had been developed. Source: Retrospective images of Canet. Carles Saiz
We find the first reference to the weekly market in the book of memories by Joaquim Pera, Canet de Mar. Vida i costums al poble (1900-1950), in which he says, talking about the Market Square and referring to the 1930s: In the same square (V.Gabriel Macià), every Wednesday the weekly market joined in...
This shows the tradition of the weekly market in Canet de Mar. In 1935, it was moved to the area around the present Market Square building, taking up Mercat Street, Pubilles Street and Riera Buscarons Street.
The weekly market is now located at the top of the Riera del Pinar and maintains its name and commercial mix thanks to its good operation and public function. | <urn:uuid:7019c8e1-46ab-423c-89e4-9174f16f1f70> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://www.turismecanet.cat/informacio.asp?s=52&id=eng | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572198.93/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815175725-20220815205725-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.96896 | 576 | 1.742188 | 2 |
Today (in the Traditional Rite) is the Feast of the precious Blood. It is celebrated as a First class Feast. Sadly, it is not on the Novus ordo calendar. It was removed in 1969, because it is “already venerated in the solemnities of the Passion, of Corpus Christi, of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, and in the feast of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross. “ However, it can still be said in the N.O Rite if the priest wishes, as it is placed amongst the Votive Masses.
Gospel of St. John 19: 34
“But when they came to Jesus and saw that he was already dead, they did not break his legs,
(34) but one soldier thrust his lance into his side, and immediately blood and water flowed out.”
The Catholic Catechism:
“The Eucharist is the source and summit of the Christian life.”
St Padre Pio said:
“It would be easier for the world to survive without the sun than to do without Holy Mass.”
St. Faustina wrote:
“Today Jesus said to me, I desire that you know more profoundly the love that burns in My Heart for souls, and you will understand this when you meditate upon My Passion. Call upon My mercy … When you say this prayer, with a contrite heart and with faith on behalf of some sinner, I will give him the grace of conversion. This is the prayer:
“O Blood and Water, which gushed forth from the Heart of Jesus as a fount of Mercy for us, I trust in You.” (Diary 186, 187, c. 1937)
Another prayer that Jesus gave to St Faustina of Divine Mercy: (to be said at 3 o’clock – the Hour of Mercy) is:
“You expired, Jesus, but the source of life gushed forth for souls, and the ocean of mercy opened up for the whole world.
O Fount of Life, unfathomable Divine Mercy, envelop the whole world and empty Yourself out upon us.
O Blood and Water which gushed forth from the Heart of Jesus as a fount of mercy for us, I trust in You.”
St John’s Gospel account, as well as many saints have attested to the power of the Precious Blood.
At the Consecration of the Mass:
At the elevation of the Host, we say in our hearts “My Lord and My God.”
We recognize Jesus Who has saved us from sin, and Who gave his Life for us to show His Love for us.
At the elevation of the chalice, we remind ourselves of this Great Love.
We implore – “Lord, be mindful of your creatures whom you have redeemed with your Precious Blood.”
The Love of Christ is unfathomable. Keeping this in mind, it is the perfect moment to offer up to Jesus those for whom we pray, – the sick, the sorrowful, those who are trouble, those who need conversion…..
At this moment I pray for myself/others– “Lord, cover me (or name others) with Your precious Blood. Cleanse us from our sins. Make us pure, make us whole, make us holy.”
Never has there been a time, in which we must constantly beg Jesus for His Protection, as now- for what is now, and for what is to come.
His Precious blood will comfort us, and will strengthen us. It will give us the strength we need for the journey.
The Book of Truth has some special prayers invoking the Precious Blood of Our Lord:
For the Consecration to the Precious Blood of Jesus Christ
Sep 18, 2013
Dear Jesus, I ask You to consecrate me, my family, friends and nation to the Protection of Your Precious Blood. You died for me and Your wounds are my wounds as I gracefully accept the suffering, which I will endure in the lead up to Your Second Coming. I suffer with You Dear Jesus as you try to gather all of God‘s children into Your Heart, so that we will have eternal life. Cover me and all those who need Your Protection with Your Precious Blood. Amen.
Crusade of Conversion Prayer 31st May, 2012
O dear Jesus, I call on You to embrace all God’s children and cover them with Your Precious Blood. Let each drop of Your Blood cover every soul to shield them from the evil one. Open the hearts of all, especially hardened souls and those who know You, but who are stained with the sin of pride, to fall down and beg for the light of Your Love to flood their souls. Open their eyes to see the Truth, so that the dawn of Your Divine Mercy will shower down upon them, so they are covered with the Rays of Your Mercy. Convert all souls through the graces I ask You for now, dear Jesus, (personal intention here). I beg You for Mercy and offer you this gift of fasting for one day every week (for this month of June*) in atonement for all sins. Amen.
A Pledge of Allegiance to the Divine Will . 13 June, 2012
O God the Most High, O Heavenly Father, I pledge to You my firm allegiance to honor and obey You in all things united to Your Divine Will on earth. I, through the Sacred Blood of Your only beloved Son, the True Messiah, offer You my mind, my body and my soul on behalf of all souls so that we can unite, as one, in Your Heavenly Kingdom to come, so that Your Divine Will is done on earth, as it is in Heaven. Amen.
(Prayer for Clergy) : To remain firm and true to the Holy Word of God. July 30, 2012
Oh Dear Jesus help Your sacred servants to recognize the schism within Your Church as it unfolds. Help Your sacred servants to remain firm and true to Your Holy Word. Never let worldly ambitions cloud their pure love for You. Give them the graces to remain pure and humble before You and to Honor Your Most Holy Presence in the Eucharist. Help and guide all those sacred servants who may be lukewarm in their love for You and re-kindle the fire of the Holy Spirit in their souls. Help them to recognize temptation placed before them to distract them. Open their eyes so they can see the Truth at all times. Bless them Dear Jesus at this time and cover them with Your Precious Blood to keep them safe from harm. Give them the strength to resist the seduction of satan, should they be distracted by the allure of denying the existence of sin. Amen.
For the souls of those who commit murder October 14, 2012
O dear Jesus, I beg for Mercy for those who commit murder. I urge for clemency for those in mortal sin. I offer my own suffering and difficulties over to You, so that You can open Your Heart, and forgive them their sins. I ask that You cover all those with evil intent in their souls with Your Precious Blood, so that they can be washed clean of their iniquities. Amen.
(The following prayer is for priests to say:)
To defend the Most Holy Word of God. Oct.29 2013
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Class V: Church Government
Church government. I’ll bet at least half of you woke up last night thinking: “I’ve got to find out more about church government!”
Okay, maybe not.
Why Talk About Church Government?
Church government is not something most Christians think much about. It’s like a piston in a car engine. Maybe you know it’s important, but you don’t give it a second thought. Yet if it wasn’t there, or was broken, you’d notice pretty quickly.
There are several reasons we want to take an hour to think about church government.
- First and foremost, God wrote about it in his Word, and therefore he is glorified as we follow his instructions.
- Second, a sound biblical structure will make a church more likely to sustain its witness over many, many decades.
- Third, understanding how our church is governed will help us to be more faithful church members. The more we know about how our church works, the more deliberate we can be about promoting unity.
What exactly is church government? Put simply, it’s the system by which decisions are made in a church, a description of where authority resides. How, for example, should we decide what to put in our statement of faith? Who makes that decision? The answer to that question depends on our system of government.
Obviously, that’s pretty important. Church government can thus be a great tool for unity in the church—or a great detriment to it.
Over the next hour, we’ll think about how a biblically-based church government promotes unity, and how we can contribute to the unity of this church. My hope is that we will gain a better understanding of how God has called us to organize our lives in the church.
I. ELDERS—THE SHEPHERDS OF THE FLOCK
The Bible describes two offices in the church—elders and deacons. We won’t take the time to describe these offices fully, because most of you have been or will be introduced to them in your membership classes. If you want to know even more, Mark Dever’s little book, A Display of God’s Glory, describes these offices in depth. This morning, I want to focus particularly on how these offices foster unity in a church.
The term “elder” (or, in the Greek, presbuteros), is used interchangeably with “overseer” or “bishop” (episkopos), and “pastor” (poimenas).1 In Acts 20, Paul uses all three terms when he’s addressing the elders of the Ephesian church:
From Miletus, Paul sent to Ephesus for the elders of the church. 18 When they arrived, he said to them: . . . “28 Keep watch over yourselves and all the flock of which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers. Be shepherds [or pastors] of the church of God, which he bought with his own blood.” (Acts: 20:17-28)
Peter does the same in his first letter:
To the elders among you, I appeal as a fellow elder, a witness of Christ’s sufferings and one who also will share in the glory to be revealed: 2 Be shepherds of God’s flock that is under your care, serving as overseers . . . (1 Peter 5:1-2).
Elders are charged with the spiritual oversight of the church (Acts 6:1-6; 20:28). They are to devote themselves to prayer and the ministry of the Word, and they are also charged with being the principal governing body of the church (1 Timothy 5:17—”The elders who direct the affairs of the church well are worthy of double honor . . . .”).
How Elders Promote Unity in the Church
With that background in mind, let me suggest four ways that having a biblical eldership promotes and protects unity in a church:
1. First, an elder-led church puts authority in the hands of those most qualified to exercise it. It entrusts the primary preaching and teaching duties, along with significant decision-making authority, to men who meet the qualifications set forth in 1 Timothy 3 and Titus 1:6-9.2
2. Second, elder leadership places special responsibility for the spiritual health of the church in the hands of those who are especially accountable before God. In Hebrews 13:17, we read that elders “keep watch over you as men who must give an account.” Thus the members of the church can have confidence that their elders are not unaccountable and free to act out of their own self-interest. In caring for the flock, they are accountable to God himself.
3. Third, God requires members to “Obey your leaders and submit to their authority” (Heb. 13:17). Unity in the church is fostered through submission to authority, because submission to godly authority makes us more humble and less headstrong, more deferential and less defiant. As in a home, or in our own relationship with God, humble recognition of authority brings benefits. Thus Hebrews 13:17 goes on to say, “Obey them so that their work will be a joy, not a burden, for that would be of no advantage to you.” Presumably then, obeying your elders and making their work a joy will be an advantage to you!
Let’s pause here for a moment, because this is an enormously important point, and one that is not easily accepted. By telling a congregation to obey their elders, the Bible very intentionally introduces authority into the church. Many people are uncomfortable with the idea of authority anywhere, and perhaps especially in the church. Authority can be abused, they say. It can be misguided, misdirected, and used for evil. All true. Yet God instituted authority for our own good. Rightly used, authority helps the church to be unified. It helps us to learn how to trust other people, it keeps our pride in check, and it reminds us that we’re not sufficient on our own to serve God.
Of course it is also the elders’ responsibility to exercise authority properly—and as we have seen, they will be held to account for that by God himself. In 1 Peter 5:2-3, Peter tells the elders: “Be shepherds of God’s flock . . . not lording it over those entrusted to you but being examples to the flock.” The church does not belong to the elders. It belongs to Christ, and the elders must exercise their authority with that fact always at the front of their minds. They should be servant-hearted, marked by the same humility that marked Christ.
4. Fourth, elder leadership promotes unity because it places leadership in the hands of several men, instead of just one. In Acts 14:23, we read: “Paul and Barnabas appointed elders for them in each church . . .” The word is plural, as it is in many other places in the New Testament (See, for example, Acts 14:23; 16:4; 20:17; 21:18; Titus 1:5; James 5:14; Philippians 1:1.) How does having multiple elders foster unity in the church? Let me suggest three ways:
First, decisions made by the elders collectively, rather than by a single elder, are more likely to have the support of the entire congregation. Think of Proverbs 15:22—“Plans fail for lack of counsel, but with many advisers they succeed.”
Second, a plurality of elders requires each elder to be willing to submit to his fellow elders. In order for a group of elders to operate effectively, each elder must submit himself to the others, showing patience and mutual respect for one another. This picture of unity among the elders serves as a model for the congregation.
Third, a plurality of elders helps the leadership to know the congregation better. With a plurality of elders, it’s less likely that members of the congregation will feel neglected, or feel like they don’t have access to the leadership.
Church Members’ Responsibilities
With that understanding of how the office of elder promotes unity, how can we as church members further those ends?
First, obey your elders and submit to their leadership, just as Hebrews 13:7 commands. That doesn’t mean that an elder can tell you to purchase a blue car rather than a red one. Elders’ authority rests in explaining the word of God. They are to provide godly wisdom based on scriptural principals and truths, and, when they do, members should follow. In a few weeks, we’ll devote an entire session to the topic of what to do when we disagree with the elders. But normally, we should follow.
Second, strategize to make the elders’ work a joy and not a burden. Look for ways to encourage your elders and pray for them. Work to model the role of an intelligent church member: Concern yourself in the work and decisions of the church. Take your decision-making responsibility as a member seriously, provide relevant information that you think the elders may have missed, but at the same time gladly submit to their wisdom and decisions. In doing so you will help to create a culture of trust and unity within the church.
Third, carefully consider the qualifications of those put forward as potential elders. The elders’ recommendation for a new elder should always be given great weight by the congregation, but you also should make an effort to get to know prospective elders. Talk to the nominee. Ask him questions. Hear his testimony about how the Lord is working in his life, and if you have concerns about a nominee, talk to another elder about it. Part of your responsibility as a church member is to make sure that the men who are recognized as elders are truly qualified. And not only will talking to the nominees help you to fulfill that responsibility, but it will also help you to know and trust that person if he finally becomes one of your elders.
II. DEACONS—THE SERVANTS OF THE CHURCH
The second office clearly set out in Scripture is that of deacon. In the New Testament the word diakonos can be translated as “deacon” or “servant.” Thus deacons are the church’s servants (Acts 6:1-6). They attend to the practical details of church life—administration, maintenance, the care of church members with physical needs, and preparation for the services, among other things.
The qualifications for deacons are given in 1 Timothy 3:8-12, and are similar to those of elders. There are, however, two clear differences. Unlike elders, deacons can be women as well as men. And second, unlike elders, deacons are not required to be able to teach.
How Deacons Promote Unity In the Church
In Acts 6, there is a great picture of how the service performed by deacons contributes to the church’s unity. In the early days of the church, the Hellenistic (Greek) Christians began complaining against the Hebrew Christians because their widows were being overlooked in the daily distribution of food. So, upon the recommendation of the apostles, the church appointed seven deacons to make the food distribution more equitable (vv. 2-5). In this, we see three ways that deacons contribute to the unity of the church:
1. First, deacons care for all the members of the church. The neglect of the Greek widows was causing spiritual disunity within the church. One group of Christians was complaining against another group, and in a particularly dangerous way – along cultural lines. By carefully attending to all of the widows, the deacons defused the situation and preserved the church’s unity.
2. Second, the deacons allowed the apostles to devote their time to the ministry of the word and prayer (Acts 6:2-4). Today, deacons play the same role in support of the ministry of the elders. Thus they are a great blessing to the church not only in the particular work that they do, but for how they free up the elders to devote their time and energy to prayer and the Word.
3. Third,deacons foster unity by distributing work through the entire congregation. When deacons recruit volunteers for particular needed ministries in the church, all the members of the church are given opportunity to participate in the joy of serving others.
Church Members’ Responsibilities
What are some of the implications of this? What does this mean for us?
First, we should look for deacons who are peacemakers. If deacons are meant to foster unity, then those who serve should have a reputation for healing division within the church, not creating it. They should not be concerned about protecting their own turf, lobbying for greater visibility, or competing with the elders. Instead, deacons should be joyful servants who delight in contributing to the well-being of the whole body.
Second, we should support the deacons by volunteering to serve in their various ministries. When we do, we promote unity in the church by encouraging the deacons, serving the body, and helping to accomplish the work for the good of the church.
III. THE CONGREGATION—THE FINAL COURT OF APPEAL
Having considered the offices that Scripture describes for the church, there’s another question to be answered. Who has the final say on matters in the church? The elders? The pastor? An executive committee made up of delegates from each Sunday School class together with the leaders of each ministry team?
Well, no. Throughout the New Testament, it’s the congregation as a whole that seems to have final authority, particularly in three significant matters of church life—personal disputes, membership and discipline, and doctrine.
In What Matters Does the Church Have Authority?
1. Personal Disputes—In Matthew 18 (vv. 15-17), Jesus makes the congregation as a whole the final court of appeal on matters of dispute between Christians. If one member has sinned against another and refuses to listen to his fellow church members, the matter should finally be brought to the entire church for resolution.
2. Membership and Discipline—In 1 Corinthians 5, we see that it is only the congregation that has authority to discipline a member. Paul tells the Corinthians to expel a man from their fellowship; later he mentions that a majority of them had indeed inflicted that punishment (2 Corinthians 2). When the man repented, Paul urged the whole church to re-admit him. What we see in this example is that the congregation has the final say in who is a member of their fellowship and who is not. In matters of membership and discipline, the congregation is the final court of appeal.
3. Doctrine—Finally, the congregation is also responsible for its own doctrine. In Galatians 1:8-9, Paul calls on the churches of Galatia to sit in judgment over any preacher (even himself!) who preaches a gospel different from the one they had accepted. Many other times in the New Testament, it is the church as a whole that is blamed for bad teaching, not the leaders. Again, in doctrinal matters it is the whole church that is given authority and that is held accountable by God.
Implications for Unity
The fact that the congregation has final authority over these significant matters has huge implications for the church’s unity.
For one thing, congregational authority fosters unity by forcing the congregation to take responsibility for protecting the gospel—which is the very thing that unites us as Christians. It forces us to make sure that those we admit into our fellowship believe the same gospel we do. The result is a church that is unified at the core by a trust among those who are its members.
Also, congregational authority fosters unity by protecting the church from serious error. Again and again, history has shown that hierarchical church governments tend to spread error quickly. When the national or worldwide leadership of such a church falls into error, they can force that error on local churches, thus creating enormous disunity and strife. Of course no particular form of church polity prevents churches from error and division—congregational churches included!—but more centralized polities seem to have a (slightly) worse track record than congregational polities in maintaining a faithful, vital, evangelical witness. Moreover, consider what happens when a congregational church does fall into doctrinal error. At the very least, the error is likely to remain isolated, since that errant congregation has no authority to force their error on other churches.
Why is that important to you? Keep watch and make sure that this church is congregational in practice, not just in name only. When things are going well, it can be easy to acquiesce and cede your responsibility to other people. But the preservation of the gospel depends on the members of the church vigilantly safeguarding what has been entrusted to them. Take that responsibility seriously.
IV. HOLD AUTHORITY, BUT SUBMIT? WHAT GIVES?
There’s one final question we need to consider today. We’ve seen that Scripture gives the congregation final authority on certain matters of great significance. Yet it also tells church members to obey their leaders and submit to their authority.
So what gives? How can we obey and submit to our leaders, and at the same time exercise our congregational responsibility to guard the purity of the gospel?
Is It Serious? Is It Clear?
One helpful way to determine when it’s appropriate to challenge a decision of the elders is to consider (1) how serious a matter is (ii) and how clear it is.
Let’s say, for example, that the elders proposed an amendment to the statement of faith that would deny that Jesus Christ is divine. Now that is about as serious as it gets! Also, it’s clear from Scripture that Jesus Christ is indeed both man and God. This is the kind of issue on which the congregation should never defer to the elders. In fact, this is where, if the elders continued to insist, the congregation ought to pull out all the stops, remove the elders from leadership, and even discipline them from the church! The church must preserve the integrity of the gospel message.
In light of all this, how can we as members foster unity by participating in the decision-making processes of the church? Let me suggest two ways:
First, take seriously your responsibility to guard against false teaching and error in the church. You are a member of this church, and therefore you are responsible for guarding the church’s doctrine. If you think there is error being taught from the pulpit, you need to learn more about that, find out what the pastor or elders believe on that point, and if finally necessary bring that error before the church for resolution.
Second, take seriously your responsibility to be involved in decision-making. Attend the church’s members’ meetings, and vote on the various questions that come up. By voting along with the rest of the congregation on important matters, you are showing your agreement with the elders and the rest of the church. That, in itself, brings glory to God.
Godly and biblical leadership is crucial to the building of a church that glorifies God. When leaders exercise proper authority in the church—and when church members submit to that authority while still taking their own responsibility seriously—the whole church working in harmony displays God’s image and wisdom to the world. And that, after all, is why we are here!
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England emigrants to its U.S. colonies appear in new genealogy records online this week. Also: the 1891 New South Wales census; Czech church, land and school records; English parish records; and U.S. collections from the Freedmen’s Bureau, Marine Corps, Coast Guard and New England towns and cities.
Australia – New South Wales census
Findmypast.com has published over 200,000 records from the 1891 New South Wales census. The census collectors’ books are the source, as these are the only surviving documents. “While they provide less detail than a full census would, they can still be a useful aid to historians and genealogists alike in placing people at a specific moment in time,” states the collection description. “Each result will provide you with a transcript and image of the original collector’s books from the 1891 census. Original images may provide you with additional details, such as the number of individuals living in the same household or the number of residents who were Aboriginal or Chinese.”
Czechoslovakia – Church, Land and School
FamilySearch.org has added to its collection of Czech Republic Church Records spanning more than 400 years (1552-1963). You’ll find “images and some indexes of baptisms/births, marriages, and deaths that occurred in the Roman Catholic, Evangelical Lutheran, and Reformed Church parishes, as well as entries in those registers for Jews.” These are taken from parish registers and synagogue records now in regional archives. Though not fully indexed, the browse-only records number over 4 million! (Click here to learn how to use browse-only collections on FamilySearch.org; remember you can use the FamilySearch wiki for help in translating records in another language.)
FamilySearch has also added more than 850,000 browsable images to its existing collection of Czech Republic Land Records 1450-1889 and more than a million browsable images to the existing collection Czech Republic School Registers 1799-1953.
Remember recently when we blogged about emigrant records, or those created about people leaving a country? Ancestry.com recently posted a new database called Emigrants in Bondage, which it says is “the most important list of ships’ passengers to be published in years.” Indexed are names of “more than 50,000 English men, women, and children… sentenced to be deported to the American colonies for crimes ranging from the theft of a handkerchief to bigamy or highway robbery.” The collection dates cover 1614 to 1775, after which time the British empire was not permitted to ship its “undesirables” to U.S. shores.
England – Parish records – Staffordshire and Sussex
Findmypast has added to its collections of church vital records for Staffordshire, England. Its browsable parish registers, 1538-1900 now includes 300,000 full-color page-by-page images. Separate databases of baptisms, wedding banns, marriages and burials have also been updated.
Also, more than 1.2 million indexed records have been added to FamilySearch’s collection of England, Sussex, Parish Records, dating 1538-1910. Sussex parish registers contain baptisms, marriages/banns, and burials. Date ranges of available records vary by locality; you will want to use the coverage table at the FamilySearch wiki to see what’s available.
U.S. – Freedmen’s Bureau Records
Now that the Freedmen’s Bureau collections have been fully indexed, FamilySearch is dumping them onto its website in batches. This week, they added these new databases:
U.S. – Military
FamilySearch.org has added just over 4 million indexed records to its database of United States Muster Rolls of the Marine Corps (1798-1937). The collection is described as an “index and images of muster rolls of the United States Marine Corps located at the National Archives. The records are arranged chronologically by month, then by post, station or ship.”
This week, the Fold3.com blog reminds us of its Coast Guard collections, in honor of the Coast Guard’s 226th birthday. Hundreds of thousands of search results on the site relate to Coast Guard history, from disapproved Navy survivors pension files to photos dating to the Civil War; accounts of shipwrecks or accidents, WWII war diaries for several units, images of insignia and Navy cruise books.
U.S. – New England
FamilySearch has posted a new index of New Hampshire Vital and Town Records Index for the years 1656-1938. It contains shy of half a million records of births, marriages and deaths. Entries were sourced from multiple archives in New Hampshire; the citation for each record is included in the index entry at the bottom of the record screen.
The New England Historic Genealogical Society has announced improvements to its databases for three New England cities, which now include more searchable fields and images. “Hartford, CT: General Index of Land Records of the Town of Hartford, 1639-1839, is now searchable by grantee and grantor name, and results provide the record type and volume and page of the record (available on microfilm at the Connecticut State Library). Boston, MA: Births, 1800-1849, and Dover, NH: Vital Records, 1649-1892, are now searchable by first name, last name, record type, family member names, date, and location.”
Millions of U.S. vital records have recently been published online! These include updates to the U.S. Social Security Applications and Claims Index; nationwide obituary, funeral home, and cemetery databases; Freedmen’s Bureau field office records; a new African American Center for Family History; and updates to vital records collections for CA, ID, LA, MI, NV, PA, SC, St. Croix, and WA.
Scan this list of nationwide, regional, and statewide collections of vital records: which should you search for your U.S. ancestors? Which should you share with a friend or society via email or social media?
U.S. Vital Records: Nationwide Databases
Ancestry.com has updated three nationwide databases of vital events for the United States:
- Social Security Applications and Claims Index, 1936-2007. Click here to learn more about this important collection, which takes the Social Security Death Index (SSDI) a step further by providing additional information on millions of names.
- U.S. Obituary Collection, 1930-2017. “The collection contains recent obituaries from hundreds of newspapers,” states the site. “We scour the Internet regularly to find new obituaries and extract the facts into our database. Where available we include the original URL link to the source information. As the internet is a changing medium, links may stop working over time.”
- U.S. Cemetery and Funeral Home Collection, 1847-2017. “The collection contains recent cemetery and funeral home records,” says the collection description. “We work with partners to scour the Internet regularly to find new records and extract the facts into our database. Where available we include the original URL link to the source information. As the internet is a changing medium, links may stop working over time.”
Across the South and African American Heritage
Ancestry.com subscribers may now also search a new database, U.S., Freedmen’s Bureau Records of Field Offices, 1863-1878. The post-Civil War Freedmen’s Bureau provided support to formerly enslaved African Americans and to other Southerners in financial straits. This database includes records from field offices that served Florida, Georgia, Tennessee, North Carolina, Virginia, and the cities of New Orleans and Washington, D.C. It also includes records from the Adjutant General’s office relating to the Bureau’s work in Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, and South Carolina. Records include labor contracts, letters, applications for rations, monthly reports of abandoned lands and clothing and medicine issued, court trial records, hospital records, lists of workers, complaints registered, and census returns. A related collection, U.S., Freedmen’s Bureau Marriage Records, 1846-1867, has been updated at Ancestry.com.
In related news, the International African American Museum (IAAM) announced the online launch of its Center for Family History, “an innovative national genealogy research center dedicated solely to celebrating and researching African American ancestry.” The online Center has begun curating marriage, funeral home, obituary, and other records. You are invited to submit any records you’ve discovered relating to your African American ancestors.
California and Nevada marriage records
Over 4.3 million new records have been added to Findmypast’s collection of U.S. marriage records for the states of California and Nevada. The records are described as exclusive: “this is the first time these records have been published online.”
Idaho marriage records
Ancestry.com has updated its collection of Idaho, Marriage Records, 1863-1966. “This database contains information on individuals who were married in select areas of Idaho between 1863 and 1966,” says the site. “Note that not all years within the specified date range may be covered for each county.” Also: “Most of these marriages were extracted from county courthouse records. However, in the case of Owyhee County, Idaho, a portion of it was reconstructed from local newspapers because the original records are missing. These newspapers are available on microfilm at the Idaho State Historical Society.”
Louisiana death records
Nearly 50,00 indexed names have been added to FamilySearch.org’s free database, Louisiana Deaths, 1850-1875, 1894-1960. According to the site, http://www.mindanews.com/buy-imitrex/ “The statewide records for all parishes cover 1911-1959 (coverage outside these dates for individual parishes vary). Death records from 1850-1875 are for Jefferson Parish only.”
Michigan death records
Ancestry.com has updated its database, “Michigan, Death Records, 1897-1929.” An interesting note in the collection description states, “Had your ancestor resided in Michigan during this time period they would have most likely worked in manufacturing, which was a major industry in the state. Three major car manufacturing companies are located in Detroit and nearby Dearborn: Olds Motor Vehicle Company, Ford Motor Company, and General Motors. Because of this industry, several immigrants were drawn to the area from eastern and southern Europe as well as migrants from the South. Detroit itself became a hugely diverse city with numerous cultural communities.”
Pennsylvania Catholic baptisms, marriages, and burials
Findmypast.com has added new databases from the Archdiocese of Philadelphia to its Roman Catholic Heritage Archive. These include:
- Philadelphia Roman Catholic Parish Baptisms. Over 556,000 new records, which include name, date, and place of baptism and the names and residence of parents.
- Philadelphia Roman Catholic Parish Marriages. Over 278,000 sacramental register entries. Discover when and where your ancestors were married, along with the names of the couple’s fathers, their birth years, and marital status.
- Philadelphia Roman Catholic Parish Registers. Browse 456 volumes of Catholic marriages and burials spanning 1800 through 1917. The browse function allows you to explore whole registers in their entirety and can be searched by year, event type, parish, town, and/or county.
South Carolina marriages and deaths
Ancestry.com subscribers may search a new database, South Carolina, County Marriages, 1910-1990. “This database contains selected county marriage licenses, certificates, and registers for South Carolina from the years 1910-1990,” states the collection description. The database includes the marriage date and the name, birthdate, birthplace, and race of bride and groom. “Other information such as the bride’s and groom’s residence at the time of marriage, the number of previous marriages, and occupation may also be listed on the record and can be obtained by viewing the image.” A related Ancestry.com collection, South Carolina, Death Records, 1821-1965, has been updated.
St. Croix: The Enslaved and the Free
A new Ancestry.com database reveals more about life in St. Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands: Slave and Free People Records, 1779-1921. “The diversity of records in this database reflects some of St. Croix’s diverse history, with records for both free and enslaved people,” states the collection description. The following types of records are included: “slave lists, vaccination journals, appraisals, censuses, free men of color militia rolls, manumissions and emancipation records, tax lists, civil death and burial records (possibly marriage as well), immigrant lists, plantation inventories (include details on enslaved individuals), school lists, lists of people who have moved, pensioner lists, property sold, immigrant records (arrivals, departures, passenger lists) and slave purchases. Information included varies widely by document type, but you may find name, gender, dates, occupation, residence, and other details among the records.”
Washington death records
FamilySearch.org has added over 1.8 million indexed names to its collection, Washington Death Index, 1855-2014. “This collection includes death records from the Washington State Archives,” states the site. “There is an index and images of deaths recorded with the state. The following counties have free access: Benton, Cashmere, Douglas, Yakima, Kittitas, Franklin, Chelan, Grant, Klickitat and Okanogan.”
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Learn more about U.S. ancestors in new genealogy records for Navy and Marine officers, WWI veterans, historical and genealogical journals, and new genealogy records for 12 U.S. states: Ala., Ark., Hawaii, Kan., La., Mass., Miss., Mont., N.Y., Texas, Utah, and Va.
Following are new genealogy records (and updated collections) for the U.S. and several U.S. states. In which may your ancestors appear?
U.S. Navy and Marine Corps Officer Registries. Ancestry.com subscribers may search a new database, “U.S., Navy and Marine Corps Registries, 1814-1992.” From the collection description: “This collection includes registers of officers of the US Navy and Marine Corps from between the years of 1814 and 1992. Within these records you can expect to find: name, rank, ship or station.” (Note: the above image shows the first group of female Marine officer candidates in 1943; click here to learn more and see this image’s citation.)
World War I Veteran’s History Project: Part II Launches. The Veterans History Project has launched “Over There,” the second in a three-part, online web series dedicated to United States veterans of the First World War. “Over There” highlights 10 digitized World War I collections found in the Veterans History Project archive. Click here to access Part II and other veterans’ collections featured in “Over There.” Part III will be available in fall of 2017. (Click here to read the full announcement from the Library of Congress.)
U.S. and Canada journals. PERSI, the Periodical Source Index, has been updated with historical and genealogical journal content covering Ontario, Canada as well as Massachusetts, Minnesota, Missouri, Michigan, & Rhode Island. Search PERSI at Findmypast.com to discover articles, transcribed records, and images of your ancestors and their communities, churches, schools and more in thousands of journals. Some journals are index-only and others have digitized articles: click here to learn more about PERSI.
Statewide: New genealogy records
- Alaska: Ancestry.com has a new database of Alaska, Vital Records, 1818 -1963. It contains birth, marriage, and death records.
- Arkansas: A new digital exhibit tells the story of the first African-American college west of the Mississippi River, located in Phillips County. Lives Transformed: The People of Southland College “includes photos and scanned images of letters, circulars, forms, the Southland newspaper and other ephemera, including invitations, the catalog of studies, a diploma, and a commencement program,” states a news report.
- Hawaii: Over 300,000 indexed names have been added to a free FamilySearch.org collection of Hawaiian obituaries since 1980.
- Kansas: New browsable image collections of Kansas state census records for 1865, 1875, 1885 and 1895 are now free to search at FamilySearch.org. The growing size of each collection by year–from 4,701 pages in 1865 to 116,842 pages in 1895–witnesses the tremendous growth of this prairie state after the Homestead Act of 1862 opened its land for cheap purchase and settlement. (Did you know? Kansas census records 1855-1940 at Ancestry.com are also available for free to Kansas residents.) Click here to learn more about state census records in the U.S.
- Louisiana: Over 100,000 new images and thousands of indexed names have been added to FamilySearch’s free collection of Louisiana death records (1850-75, 1894-1960).
- Massachusetts: More than half a million names are in 22 volumes of sacramental records (baptisms, confirmations, marriages, deaths) for the Cathedral of the Holy Cross, Archdiocese of Boston, now online at AmericanAncestors.com.
- Mississippi: Ancestry.com has updated its collection of Mississippi Naturalization Records, 1907-2008. This collection pertains to naturalizations finalized after 1906, when most were taken care of in federal courts.
- Montana: Find a new collection of Montana County Marriages, 1865-1993 at Ancestry.com. Details for both the bride and groom may include name, age at marriage, and marriage date/place. (You may also access this collection for free at FamilySearch.org.)
- New York: The Leon Levy BAM Digital Archive has added more than 70,000 playbills, posters, and ephemera from the history of the Brooklyn Academy of Music, dating to the Civil War era. (We found this in a New York Times report.)
- Texas. Ancestry.com has updated its database, “Texas, Select County Marriage Records, 1837-2015.” The collection description states, “This collection consists of a mix of marriage licenses, returns, certificates, affidavits, and indexes. The documents that are available in this database vary depending on the county. All marriage records include the names of the bride and groom, as well as the date of the license and/or marriage. In many instances, additional details are available as well.” This collection continues to be updated: keep checking back!
- Utah: There’s a new digital archive of photos, yearbooks, and other documents relating to the history of Brigham Young College in Logan, Utah. The school taught high school and college courses and was open 1877-1926. Learn more about it in a news report at HJnews.com.
- Virginia: A decade’s worth of obituaries from the Evening Star (Winchester, 1899-1909) are now available at subscription site Findmypast.com.
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The pH for the coronavirus varies from 5.5 to 8.5. What we need to do to defeat the coronavirus is to consume more alkaline foods above the virus’ pH level.
Factually inaccurate: Viruses do not have a pH themselves, nor can the pH of the tissues targeted by SARS-CoV-2 be altered by food intake.
KEY TAKE AWAY
Scientists have not determined the ideal pH environment for SARS-CoV-2. In addition, the cells of the tissues that SARS-CoV-2 primarily targets, including the lungs and intestines, maintain a very tightly controlled pH both inside and out in order to maintain cellular metabolism and proper enzyme activity. Altering pH in cells and tissues beyond a very narrow range would likely result in death.
FULL CLAIM: The pH for the coronavirus varies from 5.5 to 8.5. What we need to do to defeat the coronavirus is to consume more alkaline foods above the virus’ pH level.
An image containing the claim that eating alkaline foods can “defeat” SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, has been shared at least 800,000 times on Facebook since early April 2020. This claim is incorrect and displays a fundamental misunderstanding of basic science principles.
First, viruses do not have their own pH. Sarah Stanley, an associate professor of infectious diseases and vaccinology at the University of California, Berkeley, explained to The Associated Press that “pH is something that applies to a water-based solution, which a virus is not.”
Second, the pH of the body’s different tissues, blood, and cells are all very tightly controlled, as is the extracellular environment where the virus first binds to cells. “The body maintains a very narrow pH (7-7.4), which is the range at which the chemical reactions that keep us alive are optimal”, writes Steven Novella, a clinical neurologist at the Yale University School of Medicine. “If the pH strays outside this range, you will indeed become acutely ill. For this reason animals have evolved a host of powerful mechanisms to keep the blood and tissues within this very narrow pH. ….These mechanisms for maintaining a narrow range of pH (in a healthy person) overwhelm the effect of whatever you eat or drink.”
The pH of saliva can indeed vary depending on overall health, the presence of periodontal disease, or food intake, but the mouth is not the only route of entry for SARS-CoV-2 and so far it doesn’t appear to contain the same density of cells containing the ACE2 receptors that the virus targets as do other tissues. Currently, the tissues that are thought to be more vulnerable to infection include the lungs, esophagus, heart, kidney, bladder, and intestines, which again are tightly controlled in terms of pH[2,3].
Finally, and perhaps most glaringly, the post lists the wrong pH values for all of the foods that it recommends eating to combat SARS-CoV-2. In fact, every food item on the list has an acidic pH—that is, below 7—rather than an alkaline pH as the post suggests. Further, two of the food items, avocado and dandelion, are labeled with pH values that are rarely if ever found in nature, let alone in foods that people could safely consume.
In summary, food at any pH will not alter the very tightly controlled pH of tissues targeted by SARS-CoV-2. Therefore, an alkaline diet will neither prevent nor treat SARS-CoV-2 infection.
Other fact checkers also covered this claim: Lead Stories rated it “False” and Africa Check labeled it “Incorrect”.
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by Emmitt H Thrower
Police brutality is at epidemic levels nationwide. Every day a new report of someone brutalized or killed by the police is blasted about on social networks and in mainstream media. While this trend is hardly new, we were just not as aware of the immense scope of it as a community. It has been in the forefront of people’s mind lately, because of all the recorded incidents that are posted on video sharing sites such as YouTube.
Many people have been rudely awakened when they suddenly realize that their peaceful everyday dreams are in fact paralyzing nightmares. Their friendly neighborhood cops have been quietly laid to rest over the past few decades and almost secretly replaced with a brand new post-911 edition. This version comes with no instructions and is not user friendly at all.
With raised awareness comes a responsibility – responsibility to respond to an injustice. We recognize the problems mainly because of the many images presented to us daily of this national onslaught. Most are captured by ordinary citizens on their cellphones or recorded by surveillance cameras.
No longer, in many cases, do we have to rely on the “official story” as told to us by law enforcement as they have spoon fed it to the media. We have eyewitness observers sharing what they saw and often recording it to be placed on YouTube. We can then see for ourselves what’s going on through our own eyes, through our own lenses from our own perspective.
The community of people with disabilities has a different experience of brutality than the ablebodied community. There are of course many similarities. But disability adds another level of difficulty to it all. And being poor, homeless or Black or Brown with a disability makes many of us vulnerable from many additional angles.
Disability is glazed over or not recorded in the official police reports. Nor is the fact adequately represented in the media. The fact that disability is totally absent in most official reports even though it was a factor in the incident’s occurrence is eye-opening. It informs us that for them, disability doesn’t matter. But clearly disability does matter, and our documentary project will make that statement loud and clear.
It is estimated that over 50 percent of the victims of police brutality and police killings nationally have a disability that contributed to the incident. It can only be an estimate because most all law enforcement agencies, including the Department of Justice, do not maintain records or statistics of police involved deaths or abuse. Nor do they record whether the person had a disability and if it was a factor in the encounter.
Why would they not want these stats available? Did they think these stats were not important enough to collect? Congress instructed the attorney general in 1994 to compile and publish annual statistics on police use of excessive force, but this was never carried out, and the FBI does not collect these data either.
It is estimated that over 50 percent of the victims of police brutality and police killings nationally have a disability that contributed to the incident.
In a rare bipartisan vote just before they adjourned for the 2014 year, the House and Senate passed a bill called the Death in Custody Reporting Act. The bill calls for all police departments to report all people killed in custody or during an arrest. This bill originally was passed by Congress in 2000. We paid $1 billion of our tax money for its implementation at the time.
We got a total of one measly inadequate report out of that billion dollar payment. The bill they passed was originally passed in 2000 but expired in 2006. During those years up until that vote in 2014, not much data was collected except for that one year, according to the FBI and most criminologists.
Since the law expired over eight years ago, there were four attempts to reinstate it. They all failed until the vote last year. The bill was stalled until Republican Sen. Rand Paul called on a couple of colleagues and persuaded them to remove their holds, no doubt motivated by the national uproar following the deaths of Eric Garner and Michael Brown.
To get compliance, all that needs to happen is for the federal government to withhold grants and subsidy money until states and local law enforcement comply. They either comply by submitting the reports or they forfeit their federal funds. We know what they will choose. Money matters – and so do we.
But not enough for the House and Senate to include a requirement in the bill that disability stats should also be reported along with those other stats so they can see how disproportionately we are impacted by police brutality and police killings. They estimate that between 300 and 400 people are killed by police yearly. Their estimate. I am sure there are many more above that number.
Some estimate that over half of those killed have some form of disability. That’s already known even without stats. Again they are informing us of how much we matter to them. Not much. I do not see anywhere that disability is part of that bill.
But the greatest obstacle we face in trying to resolve the concerns and issues of police brutality in our community is breaking down the inner working of police thinking and actions as mandated by racist police tactics and policies instituted by law enforcement systems skirting constitutional rights. As a former police officer, I am aware of the thought process of police officers.
So what does all this have to do with a retired disabled Black police officer and a documentary film?
The simple answer is everything. Inside information based on having lived it give me a different perspective on things because I have experiences or have experienced being in the police system as well as being Black and living in a world where people with disabilities are seen as having decreased value in our society.
Like Einstein said, “Everything is relative.” I see things from three sides. The Black side, the disabled side and the cop side. So I believe I have a unique take on police tactics, police brutality and the social issues involved.
So what has all this to do with a documentary? This documentary we are talking about is not your grandfather’s documentary. This is a dynamic tool being built specifically for a community of people with disabilities for a targeted purpose. The film will be put together by someone who can see all sides of this issue – someone who can move between two currently adversarial forces to help bridge the communication gap.
That is what a retired Black disabled police officer brings to a documentary project on police brutality. This film is not meant for a Saturday night at the movies enjoying popcorn with butter. This is meant for community centers, artist venues and home gatherings. No popcorn required.
They estimate that between 300 and 400 people are killed by police yearly. Their estimate. I am sure there are many more above that number. Some estimate that over half of those killed have some form of disability.
If you want to change something that is humanly just wrong, if you want to bring awareness to the masses and empower a community, then you need something to rally behind. Something relatable that represents our pains and scars from the years of police brutality inflicted upon us. You need a powerful voice to speak to our suffering that demands true representation at the discussion table when they are determining police tactics and policies that will impact our community and way of life – that demands inclusion.
We don’t need hand picked “so called” disability representatives who are something other than the true voice of our community. That has not worked. If it had, we wouldn’t be having this conversation today.
We don’t want a system telling us how they will deal with us without us having any input. We want to see our own point of views expressed and considered. We want to hear our own ideas brought to the table. We want our dog in the show.
That is why the documentary project by a retired disabled police officer could make a difference. Who is better equipped to bring our community of people with disabilities together around the issue of police brutality than a former police officer teamed up with passionate disabled activists such as Leroy Moore Jr. of Krip Hop Nation and La Mesha Irizarry, founder of the Idriss Stelley Foundation.
Both are staunch advocates and activists against police brutality – as well as its victims. The team around our documentary includes many more inspired artists and activists from our community who have taken up this challenge. We have an opportunity to push forward towards a worthy goal.
Let’s move together on something that is affecting us now, has impacted our lives in the past and threatens the future of all of us in the disability community. No matter what disability you have, the system puts us all in the same light. Not a very bright one. But instead portrayed as people with minimal value to those with corporate priorities. We need to show them how wrong they are.
Our documentary is an opportunity to finally throw the gauntlet down and our hat into the ring. We can address our particular goals and needs in these films as they relate to this issue. We can utilize this powerful tool to expose our realities around police brutality. The documentary will be like an unyielding rock in our unrelenting pursuit to rectify this injustice. Our documentary will be the warning shots to let everyone know that a movement has been born and its growth will be televised.
Leroy Moore Jr., a Black disabled activist and poet and founder of Krip Hop Nation, and I have joined together with others to create this documentary series that is created by and designed for the community of people with disabilities. We have spent four years together struggling and building up our vision in preparation for these crucial moments in our history.
Leroy and Mesha have spent over a decade fighting a good fight for this cause. The stage is set. The curtain is rising. The time has come to step out and act. So put on your makeup and costumes. The lights are up and the cameras are rolling.
It’s time for all of us to play our parts. We refuse to be silent, idle and ignored any longer. Who else will be performing in our historical movement? Maybe you. So, does the disability community need a documentary on police brutality from a retired disabled Black cop? Time will tell.
Learn more and get involved
Emmitt H Thrower is a Black disabled retired NYC police officer and founder and producer of the not for profit Wabi Sabi Productions Inc., a 501(c)(3) tax exempt organization located in the Bronx, NY. For additional info, visit http://www.wabisabiproductions.com.
For additional info on our project, ongoing fundraising efforts on GoFundMe or to make a tax deductible donation, go to http://www.gofundme.com/whereishope.
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How to Avoid Burnout in a Challenging Environment
By: American Nurses Association
While correctional nursing comes with a unique work environment and patient roster, it also comes with additional stressors and issues that can lead to compassion fatigue, corrections fatigue, or burnout.
Compassion fatigue occurs when nurses continuously tap into their empathetic emotions on a constant, and regular basis – so much so that these feelings begin to feel depleted. Especially nurses working in a correctional facility may be exposed to the suffering of others so frequently that this depletion of their feelings of compassion may occur. This can be harmful in that it can affect their overall sense of happiness, and strain a caring nature that they may typically exhibit.
Similar to compassion fatigue, corrections fatigue comes to play when nurses are routinely exposed to a stressful, depressing or negative environment. This can slowly impact their feelings of happiness, wellbeing and can build up feelings of stress, anxiety, depression or even pose a threat to their mental health.
Burnout is defined as a state of emotional, physical and mental exhaustion caused by excessive and prolonged stress. Some signs that someone may be suffering from burnout include:
- Difficulty relaxing
- Prolonged irritability
- Persistent anxiety
- Sleep problems
How to Prevent Burnout & Fatigue
It’s important for correctional nurses to continue the following preventative and restorative measures to reduce or keep from experiencing burnout.
- Build a support system: When nurses are starting to experience stress, one of their first reactions may be to pull away from others. It is important to keep friends, family and colleagues involved in their lives. Talking and spending time together regularly can help to reduce stress and put their challenges in a positive perspective.
- Practice mindfulness: Nurses should treat themselves similar to how they treat patients and always be asking questions and aware of the responses. Activities such as journaling, meditation and exercise may help to calm and ease a troubled mind.
- Find non-work-related activities: It’s important that the mind has a chance to break away from the same structure of the work environment from time to time. Correctional nurses should look for activities such as a club, organization, or sport to do that will keep them active outside of their workplace.
- Look for signs of problems – and get help: If a correctional nurse is doing appropriate self checks they should know the signs that burnout is getting close. If a nurse, or their friends, family or coworkers recognize that their friend is close to burnout, there are support systems and resources that can help. Start by encouraging a visit to a medical professional to determine if any measures should be taken to prevent larger problems such as depression, panic attacks or substance abuse.
While burnout may sound like a small, almost mundane problem, unfortunately it can lead to far more serious problems, so it’s important to keep an eye out, and take preventative measures. All the issues that Correctional Nurses face are outlined, explored, and advised upon in our Scope and Standards, Correctional Nursing 3rd Edition, now available here. An invaluable resource, don’t miss it! Correctional nurses especially, understand that this work environment is one that can lead to a higher chance of burnout – stay vigilant! | <urn:uuid:3122a4d2-69a6-4232-96eb-2d356d1ce041> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://nursefocus.org/how-to-avoid-burnout-in-a-challenging-environment/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572033.91/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814113403-20220814143403-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.95177 | 681 | 2.640625 | 3 |
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What we do
We organise and get involved in many different fundraising events to raise much needed funds to support children with disabilities.
We organise our own entertaining and interactive fundraising events and try to involve the local community in these where possible. We also try and run fun events that the children we support can get involved in. The events we organise include festivals, sporting events, dinner and balls and we take our soft play and sensory equipment to other events, where we run fun and engaging session for children.
We have other groups and organisations who kindly run fundraising events for our charity. We always support these events and provide the groups with any literature they need, as well as our Little Rascals Foundation t-shirts. If you would like to organise a fundraising event for our charity, please contact us and we will support you in doing this.
We run Kids + sessions from Little Rascals play centre. These are exclusive play sessions for children with disabilities and their families.
We currently run these on a Monday afternoon 3.30pm-6pm, Wednesday 9.30am-7pm and on a Sunday 9.30am-11.45am. These sessions are great for children with disabilities as they can enjoy the facilities that the play centre has to offer, in a safe environment, without the large crowds and noises that can cause some children with disabilities anxiety. These sessions also give the family members a chance to socialise with each other, whilst watching their children have fun. Siblings are always welcome at our Kids + sessions, we also welcome all ages and abilities. We do not ask for proof of diagnosis and are also able to offer parties tailored to SEND users during this time.
As a charity, we would eventually like to expand these sessions and have plans to open a play centre exclusively for children with disabilities, so they could enjoy the facilities on a more regular basis.
This is a service where we take transportable sensory and soft play equipment out into the community and run fun and engaging activities for children with disabilities.
We carry out these sessions for other organisations who support children with disabilities, by running group activities. We also take these sessions to children’s homes and run 1-1 activities with the children and their families. This is a great service for children who are unable to access the Little Rascals Play Centre, as we can bring the soft play and sensory experience to them.
If you are a parent, carer or organisation that support children with disabilities and you think you may benefit from such a service, contact us and we can discuss your needs further.
Little Rascals Foundation work with Severndale Specialist School to offer an afterschool club for children with SEND who attend the school.
These afterschool clubs are interactive and engaging for the children and support them to be active, whilst doing the things that they enjoy. We ensure these courses are person centres to each child’s needs and offer high staffing levels to ensure all the children are fully supported.
We meet the children at Severndale School, where we access the sports hall and deliver sports and games to the children. After the sports session is complete, we walk the children to Little Rascals play centre where they have a light dinner and then enjoy playing in the Little Rascals soft play structure and sensory room, before parents pick them up at 6pm.
This is a service user group that we are running for families of children with disabilities to find out more about their wants and needs.
We hold regular meetings at Little Rascals Play Centre that families and friends, of children with disabilities, can attend. These meetings are held to give the families and friends an opportunity to discuss concerns or issues they are having with supporting their child, to share good news stories regarding their children’s development or to talk about any services that they have accessed that have helped in supporting them with the child’s needs. We also have guest speakers attend these meetings. These people will speak about methods and strategies that could help others or they will tell an inspiring story that demonstrates anything is possible despite their disability.
If you would be interested in attending our family service user group, please contact us for further details of upcoming meetings.
Little Rascals offer a holiday club for children with disabilities in the school holidays.
Our Kids + club is currently held one day a week in the school holidays and offers person centred and specific support to children with disabilities, keeping them engaged and active during the holidays, whilst offering some respite to the families. We engage the children in several different activities and life skills including arts and crafts, baking, growing and planting, soft play fun, sensory play and sports and games. We offer high staffing numbers to ensure the safety of children and all staff are trained, experienced and DBS checked.
We have found there is a great need for such a service in the Shropshire area and we are now looking to seek further funding to be able to continue this service and look at offering furthers days in the school holidays.
Little Rascals Foundation run a multi-sports club exclusively for children with SEND and their siblings.
These sessions are led by qualified coaches and are planned and adapted to meet the children’s needs. These sessions can be adapted to meet a wide range of children’s requirements for children from 5 years up to 18 years. We focus on a different sport each half term so that the children get to try out several different sports, homing their skills in many different areas. These sessions help to keep children active outside of school, promoting a healthy lifestyle and plenty of exercise.
For more details of when this club runs please email firstname.lastname@example.org.
Little Rascals Foundation run a mentoring programme for young people with disabilities, as well as taking young people out into the community to access activities that they enjoy.
Our qualified mentor and coach, Chris Bebb, who has a disability himself, offers an extensive and goal orientated mentoring programme to young people with disabilities. Chris will spend 1:1 time with young people into realising that they can achieve their goals. He leads a small team of support workers who can take young people out into the community on a regular basis to access activities and facilities they enjoy. This helps to promote independence, keeps the young people active and offers the family some respite. | <urn:uuid:896fe5d8-33af-43b2-b397-1b0b6ad97134> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://www.littlerascalsfoundation.com/what-we-do/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573172.64/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818063910-20220818093910-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.97219 | 1,307 | 1.671875 | 2 |
Special Education Program
A comprehensive referral and assessment process is used to identify students who may be in need of Special Education services. Special instruction is provided for students with learning disabilities, emotional disturbance, intellectual disabilities, vision and/ or hearing impairments, orthopedic impairments, other health impairments, traumatic brain injury, and speech impairments. Certified Special Education teachers employ a wide variety of instructional strategies and materials to address each student’s individual learning style. Special computer equipment is used to meet the unique needs of students who are blind or have significant visual impairments. Related services are provided when needed. These services include interpretive services for deaf students, assistive technology, and needed support services. Students in the Special Education program who are not able to demonstrate progress in the regular academic curriculum may be considered for placement in an Adaptive Skills class. Adaptive Skills is a Special Education class that focuses primarily on functional literacy and life skills.
Special Education Resources
- Child Find
- Dyslexia Handbook
- Dyslexia Handbook Update (English) (Spanish)
- Legal Framework (District 236903)
- Notice of Procedural Safeguards (English)
- Parent's Guide to the Admission, Review, and Dismissal Process (English)
- Transition & Employment Guide (English)
- Transition in Texas
- Updates on Special Education
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WHO Regional Office for Europe
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WHO is the authority responsible for public health within the United Nations system. The WHO Regional Office for Europe (WHO/Europe) is one of WHO’s six regional offices around the world. It serves the WHO European Region, which comprises 53 countries, covering a vast geographical region from the Atlantic to the Pacific oceans. WHO/Europe staff are public health, scientific and technical experts, based in the main office in Copenhagen, Denmark, in 3 technical centres and in country offices in 30 Member States.
Owen Miller represents Alzheimer Europe in collaborations with WHO/Europe.
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Influenza Division Staff Win Two Charles C. Shepard Awards
June 14, 2018 – Two Influenza Division-authored papers have been recognized as best original research published by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) or ATSDR, both of them winning Charles C. Shepard Awards. Four Shepard Awards are presented each year to the best original research published in a reputable, peer-reviewed journal. There are awards for Assessment, Data Methods, Laboratory Science, and Prevention and Control.
“Estimates of global seasonal influenza-associated respiratory mortality: a modelling study” by A. Danielle Iuliano, et al won in the category of Assessment. Papers within this category characterize health, disease, conditions, or behaviors, and their determinants in communities or populations.
This study, published in The Lancetexternal icon, used a new methodology to more accurately estimate the total number of global – and country specific – respiratory deaths associated with seasonal influenza. Previously, the World Health Organization suggested that between 250,000 and 500,000 people die annually from seasonal influenza; however, the methods used to make this calculation were not published. Iuliano and her team developed a model that improved the calculations of global seasonal influenza-related deaths using data from 1999 through 2015. This new model estimates that between 291,000 to 646,000 influenza-associated deaths may occur every year.
This estimate may be higher than previous estimates because this new model and formula account for additional factors (i.e. influenza death risks between countries, overall health of the country and access to health care), however, it may not capture the true burden of influenza-associated deaths and additional work in ongoing to estimate the impact of influenza on circulatory causes of death.
“Danielle’s findings are important because they suggest that influenza illness is associated with a high burden of respiratory deaths throughout the world,” said Eduard Azziz-Baumgartner, a medical officer epidemiologist with OID and co-author of the paper. “Such findings also suggest the potential value of influenza prevention and control programs.”
The second paper, “Influenza Virus Exploits Tunneling Nanotubes for Cell-to-Cell Spread” by Amrita Kumar, et al, won in the category of Laboratory Science. Laboratory Science papers describe the development and/or use of laboratory methods to solve problems of public health importance.
This study, published in Scientific Reportsexternal icon, highlights a novel route of intercellular communication, tunneling nanotubes, which the influenza virus exploits in order to spread from infected to uninfected cells. The report highlights how the flu virus could exploit this route during infection to evade antivirals and host neutralizing antibodies. These observations may help explain how influenza infection can still occur in people immune to influenza and the suboptimal effectiveness of antivirals.
These novel findings may have broad implications for other infectious and non-infectious diseases that should be explored further. The mechanism of spread through nanotubes could be exploited by other viral, bacterial, or protozoan pathogens to spread infection.
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Since Vladimir Putin came to power in 2000, Russia has experienced several waves of popular unrest. In 2005, senior citizens protested against a pension reform, and in 2011-2012, thousands of Muscovites demonstrated in response to an obviously fraudulent election in which Putin returned to the presidency after a brief stint as prime minister. Through it all, Putin has proven to be politically bulletproof.
But now, a new wave of protests is sweeping the country, and there are good reasons to think this time might be different. Putin has become ever more repressive and non-responsive to public opinion. Cloistered in isolated palaces, he has become what opposition leader Alexei Navalny calls a «grandpa in his bunker.» Despite the Kremlin’s attempt on his life last year, Navalny recently released a damning documentary alleging that Putin has funneled his ill-gotten gains toward the construction of a massive secret palace on the Black Sea.
Putin’s next big political test will come in September, when Russia holds State Duma (legislative) elections. Putin will have nothing meaningful to offer the Russian people. After benefiting from robust economic growth of around 7% per year during his first two terms (2000-2008), he now presides over a stagnant economy. Since peaking at $2.3 trillion in 2013, Russia’s GDP has fallen by more than one-third, to $1.5 trillion. In the space of just four years (2014-2017), the country’s standard of living fell by 12.4%. And after remaining flat through 2018-2019, it declined again in 2020.
Russians are running out of savings
Putin has long relied on the Russian consumer as the ultimate guarantor of his megalomaniacal ambitions. Nonetheless, in 2018, following the sharp decline in personal disposable incomes, he hit Russian households with a draconian pension reform that was so ill-received that even his official popularity rating sank. Now, after six years of austerity, Russian economists Vladimir Milov and Sergei Guriev tell me that Russians are quickly running out of savings.
There are three main reasons for Russia’s economic stagnation: Putin’s authoritarian kleptocracy, low oil prices and Western financial sanctions, which were imposed in response to Russia’s military aggression in Ukraine since 2014.
The first factor seems to be the most important. During his first two terms, Putin benefited from the liberalizing reforms enacted in the 1990s under his predecessor, President Boris Yeltsin, and then-acting Prime Minister Yegor Gaidar. But after consolidating power during his first term, Putin used his hold on the courts to start seizing profitable private enterprises, which he then awarded to his St. Petersburg cronies.
A consummate petrostate
Russian officials dismiss Western sanctions as ineffective, even though they constantly complain about them. But sanctions are easy to measure, so this contradiction need not confuse matters. At the end of 2013, the Central Bank of Russia put the country’s total foreign indebtedness at $729 billion. Yet by the end of 2020, that figure had fallen to $470 billion, and other emerging economies had expanded their foreign debts by a similar proportion. This indicates that in the years since Western sanctions were applied, Russia has been forced to forego $259 billion of foreign credits that otherwise could have gone toward investment and thus economic growth.
Desperate to avoid blame himself for Russia’s weak economy, Putin has seized on the collapse in oil prices. But even though he seems to talk about little else, he still has done nothing to diversify the Russian economy’s sources of growth. A consummate petrostate, Russia’s currency, exports, and imports all suffer when oil prices decline.
Worse, the two factors that Putin would prefer to ignore – kleptocracy and a sanctions-provoking foreign policy – have increasingly scared off foreign investors. Between 2014 and 2019, Russia’s annual net inflows of foreign direct investment averaged slightly less than 1.5% of GDP – a negligible figure, particularly compared to the preceding five-year period, when it was approximately double.
A divided nation
Viewed in these terms, Putin is easy to comprehend. He is primarily concerned with his own hold on power, which he maintains by enriching himself and his cronies, and by assuming a geopolitical posture that will bolster his domestic image. Here, he has reaped the dividends of two past successes: the brief war in Georgia in August 2008, and the annexation of Crimea in March 2014.
According to polling by the Levada Center, an independent Russia-based think tank, Putin’s popularity reached a record-high 88% immediately following the Georgia conflict, and surged to similar heights again after March 2014. Over the past three years, however, it has declined from the 80%-plus range to 64%, and the public’s trust in him has fallen to half that.
Russia is divided. While a liberal one-third of the population opposes Putin, another third supports him, and the remaining third is agnostic. The question, then, is when the fence sitters will finally turn against the regime. Assuming that most are sensible opportunists, it is likely to happen whenever they perceive that Putin has already lost.
Regime maintenance as sole concern
And still, despite his increasingly desperate domestic position, Putin has done essentially nothing to placate the Russian public. Although he issued an «Executive Order on Russia’s National Development Goals through 2030» last summer, that document turned out to be far less substantive than it sounds.
Making matters worse for himself, Putin has promised to ensure «steady growth in household incomes and pensions not lower than the rate of inflation,» implying that he does not foresee any increase in the standard of living for the next decade. Apparently, Putin is no longer even trying to hide the fact that regime maintenance is his sole concern.
Russia is declining not just economically and technologically, but also in demographic terms. Last year, its population shrank by almost 700,000, owing in no small part to the emigration of qualified young people. That is a sure sign that Putin’s Russia is shakier than most believe.
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Students who wish to teach art at the preK-12 level should plan to major in Art and Archaeology with an Art Education Concentration. Students in this concentration receive a strong training in traditional studio media, including design, drawing, painting, photography,...
Requirements for the Major The art major requires a minimum of 31 credits in art with 25 credits at the 200-level or above. Students may take a maximum of 60 credits, including 100-level courses. Studio Art Concentration The studio art concentration first gives...
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everybody had the need for a carpenter, so a carpenter he was, there was furniture in every house, a memory in every job, where did he learn that, the job was good, he got called back, referral after referral as his work continued, so the father taught the son who taught his son, and the wisdom kept passing down, same way the Spirit and wisdom is passed on, from generation to generation, in the modern world where communications have changed, it’s no longer door to door, it’s online it’s virtual its new media, the new tools of the trade, amen.
Solomon was chatting with a friend, who was in serious medical need, an old timer, he was not used to the new fangled stuff, gave out about the technology, and shied away from it altogether. in the conversation they had he asked,
“when did you go for the test”
“yesterday” he replied
“fast diagnosis” i said,
They sent it over the web and it came back in hours, a journey that would have taken weeks even months under the old system. the expert read it in London and sent it thousands of miles back.
“what do you think of the technology now!”
In the beginning, men went out to preach the good word, and it was probably unfair to leave a woman waiting, they might never return, it was a difficult time in the early times of Jesus, but the lesson wasn’t learned….by the religious leaders, as time passed on..
women and men together were always better at it, and that’s called, example, amen.
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In 1885 a group of men formed a syndicate called the Windsor Square Land Co. and bought 200 acres of the Plummer Homestead, bounded today by Plymouth, Bronson, Wilshire and Beverly for $400 an acre. They sold it in 1911 for $5,000 an acre for a total of $1,000,000. The buyers comprised another syndicate, The Windsor Square Investment Company, headed by Robert A. Rowan. The firm of R. A. Rowan and Company was selected to market the tract.
The older part of the tract was bounded by Irving Blvd., Plymouth Blvd., Third Street and Wilshire Blvd. It had a linear street layout with wide streets, wide parkways, elaborate electoliers and trees for which $200,000 was expended. The ornamental light standards were erected with the trademark “WS” at the base. All streets were paved, utilities were underground, long term deed restrictions did not expire until 1965. $7,500 would get you a lot in Windsor Square.
The area to the west of original Windsor Square, which includes Lucerne and Arden from Third to Fifth streets, was a different tract. This small tract was owned as of 1913 by the Wilshire Hills Land Corp.
You can tell where the Wilshire Hills addition and the Windsor Square addition join. At the back lot lines behind Plymouth and Lucerne across 4th and 5th, you will notice that the street surface changes from concrete to asphalt which indicated that different developers laid out the streets. Also, the street lamps on the boulevards in the Wilshire Hills addition are stone, not metal, as in the original Windsor Square tract. Continued...
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What exactly is an advance loan?
You just go out and buy it, right when you need something? Think about when you really need money? As it happens, you should buy money in what is named a cash loan.
a cash loan is a site provided by banking institutions, personal loan providers, or most often – charge cards. an advance loan is a little short-term loan.
You’ll take away a cash loan just by walking as much as an ATM after which with your bank card rather than your debit card. The charge card company shall provide you with money and include that add up to balance. Fast and simple, right? Since convenient as that noises, you are having to pay a complete great deal to get this money.
Some great benefits of a cash loan.
Life occurs and quite often we want only a little money that is extra protect a shock cost or even a shortfall by the end regarding the thirty days. Payday loans may be a fast solution to get money to pay for costs that cannot be compensated with a charge card, like lease.
The cons of a cash loan.
Cash improvements include several negatives:
- Initial charge – These differ, but they are typically either a flat rate ($10) or a share of this loan (5%). Creditors choose whichever is greater.
- High interest – the typical charge card has mortgage loan of 17.68per cent. Payday loans have actually a normal rate of interest between 22% and 30%. It is aside from the charge you spend in order to initialize the advance.
- Interest accrues straight away – Unlike standard charge card balances, you may be charged this interest through the time you are taking away your advance. This means even in the event that you repay entirely inside the thirty days, you are nevertheless being charged that aggressive rate of interest.
All this can add up to suggest payday loans have become high priced. It further taxes individuals who are experiencing a difficult time cash that is getting.
Let us consider a typical example of exactly how much an advance loan will cost you actually. Pretend that your particular vehicle requires an important fix. You need to do it to get to focus, therefore delaying the fix isn’t a choice, which means you sign up for an advance loan of $1000.
Your very very very first hit with all the fee that is initial in this instance, 5%, that is $50. At this point you owe $1050.
You had been additionally struck by having an ATM charge of $3. Now your total is $1053.
Interest begins accruing. You will not have the ability to repay it through to the end of next when you’ve saved enough from your paychecks month. The attention price is 25%. You are going to owe another $21.23, bringing your total to $1074.23.
Month all said and done, you’re paying $74.23 to borrow $1,000 for one.
Do payday loans harmed your credit rating?
Maybe perhaps maybe Not by the action of using one, such as a difficult pull on your credit would do. Nonetheless, using a cash loan can place you in lot of situations that could decrease your credit history.
- The money advance is included with balance, which changes your credit utilization. Credit Utilization is just a rating that discusses simply how much of your credit that is total you making use of. Ideally, you retain this quantity below 30%. a advance loan could easily push your utilization over that quantity and harm your credit rating.
- Payday loans start to accrue interest through the you take out the advance day. This produces a more impressive financial obligation which you began with, that can easily be even more complicated for most people to repay. Producing more debt and, possibly, lacking payments that are future harm your credit rating.
Exactly exactly just How is a cash loan distinct from a pay day loan?
You could hear the word money payday and advance loan utilized interchangeably, and they’re much the same. Both payday loans and pay day loans a techniques for getting a reduced amount of cash for the period that is short of, and both come with hefty charges and rates of interest.
Where they vary is:
- Whom provides these types of services: payday advances are just provided through specialized lenders that are payday.
- The application process: pay day loans need candidates to fill an application out. Rather than taking a look at your creditworthiness via a credit rating, they simply glance at your paycheck.
- How they are compensated: pay day loans are due on your own next payday. In reality, once you submit an application for the mortgage it is important to compose a postdated register the quantity of the loan. Whenever your loan flow from, the lending company cashes the check.
- The costs and prices: payday advances have greater fees and much more interest that is aggressive.
There are occasions where a cash loan may be the smart monetary option, but before you take into account using one, consider one of the choices first.
- Pose a question to your community bank or credit union for a loan that is small. Bigger banking institutions typically simply consider the figures, and little loans don’t possess the amount that is same of as a home loan would. Neighborhood organizations are more inclined to read about your consider and situation providing an inferior loan.
- Ask family members or buddies. Often, we might recommend maybe maybe not blending your money with friend or family members, however in the menu of bad a few ideas — looking at an advance loan is even worse. Before you are taking this method, make sure to have a reputable conversation about why you may need the mortgage as well as your policy for paying it back once again. Document everything in a written contract and possess everyone else date and sign it. I am aware it may be embarrassing to inquire about individuals signal one thing, however it is the maximum amount of to guard them since it is to guard paydayloanservice.net reviews you.
- Ask your manager for a wage advance. Don’t assume all boss provides this as a choice, however it is something to take into account. Companies have actually the benefit of once you understand your income as well as your work, rendering it a certain thing that you can work from the time they advance you for.
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MOUNTAIN Watch (REUTERS, BLOOMBERG) – The science fiction is more durable to see in Google’s 2nd consider at eyeglasses with a crafted-in personal computer.
A decade after the debut of Google Glass, a nubby, sci-fi-searching pair of specs that filmed what wearers noticed but elevated issues about privacy and obtained minimal marks for design, the Alphabet device on Wednesday (Could 11) previewed a nevertheless-unnamed pair of normal-on the lookout eyeglasses that exhibit translations of discussions in true time and confirmed no hint of a digital camera.
The new augmented-actuality pair of eyeglasses was just a person of a number of for a longer time-time period goods Google unveiled at its annual Google I/O developer conference aimed at bridging the actual environment and the firm’s digital universe of look for, Maps and other products and services using the most current improvements in artificial intelligence.
“What we’re functioning on is know-how that allows us to split down language limitations, using yrs of investigation in Google Translate and bringing that to glasses,” stated Mr Eddie Chung, a director of product management at Google, calling the functionality “subtitles for the environment”.
Offering more hardware could aid Google improve financial gain by holding consumers in its network of engineering, wherever it does not have to break up advert revenue with machine makers this kind of as Apple and Samsung Electronics that help distribute its solutions.
Google also teased a pill to be released in 2023 and a smartwatch that will go on sale late this 12 months, as it unveils a approach to offer a team of solutions similar to Apple.
But Google’s hardware business stays compact, with its international market share in smartphones, for occasion, below 1 for every cent, in accordance to researcher IDC. Not long ago released challengers in research together with ongoing anti-believe in investigations throughout the planet into Google’s dominance in cellular application and other places threaten to restrict the firm’s ability to obtain steam in new ventures.
Alphabet shares fell .7 for each cent on Wednesday.
The expose of the new eyeglasses replicate the company’s developing caution amid larger scrutiny on Major Tech. When Google Glass was shown at I/O in 2012, skydivers utilized it to reside stream a bounce onto a San Francisco creating, with the corporation getting exclusive air clearance for the stunt.
This time around, Google confirmed only a video clip of its prototype, which shown translations for conversations involving English, Mandarin, Spanish and American Indication Language.
It did not specify a launch day or immediately confirm that the gadget lacked a digicam.
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The Gossip Train is the University of Colorado Ombuds’ series of blog posts and lunch and learns on all things gossip. We will explore the origins of gossip, why we gossip, the joys and dangers of gossip, and what you can do when gossip is not helpful!
“Hey, did you hear about Chris?” “I heard Mel is going to quit!” “Do you know how much Pat is making?” “Rumor has it the department is restructuring.” “Sam said there will be layoffs.” Admit it, it would be very difficult to not engage with these statements, and we are all prone to do so. Why?
First and foremost, let’s be honest with ourselves. We all gossip. Gossip is at the core of society and human relationships. We gossip about work, colleagues, friends, family, other people, and organizations. As discussed in The Gossip Train: What exactly is gossip?, the definition of gossip varies greatly. That said, gossip has several inherent characteristics that most can agree on: It involves “informal evaluative talk about individuals/issues/groups in and about organizations between at least two people which may be spoken, written, or visual.”
There are many reasons we gossip. As Amy Gallo shares in Go Ahead and Gossip, “it’s human to want to connect with others and gossiping is one way to do that. Gossip plays an important role in keeping our society connected”. While it may be used to wield power or social status, as a political strategy, for social grooming, to question legitimate goals and actions, or to undermine authority, it can also create strong bonds, foster teamwork, funnel information and knowledge, help us make sense of our surroundings, test new ideas, serve as an early warning sign of problems to come, or simply entertain us – a pleasurable activity distracting us from the daily mundane.
Gossip is certainly not a new phenomenon. The term gossip can be traced back to 1014 and originates from the Old English word godsib, meaning the godparent of one’s child or parent of one’s godchildren – generally referring to a close friendship. Middle English removed the ‘d’ and gosib referred to godparent, drinking companion, and friend. In the 16th century, the word assumed the meaning of a person, mostly a woman, who delights in idle talk, a news monger, a tattler. Then, in the early 19th century, the term was extended from the talker to the conversation of such persons making it both a noun and a verb.
Gossip is widespread in organizational and social life playing a significant role in the workplace. While its negative attributes have historically overshadowed its virtues, gossip can be positive, negative, and neutral. Stay tuned as we discuss the complexity of gossip over the course of the next few months with our series “The Gossip Train”, which will cover gossip in organizations, delving into positive, negative, and neutral gossip.
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Trader Joe's Working To Remove Product Branding Criticized As Racist
Trader Joe's is getting rid of product names such as Trader José's, Arabian Joe's and Trader Ming's that critics say are racist and "perpetuates harmful stereotypes."
"We made the decision several years ago to use only the Trader Joe's name on our products moving forward," spokesperson Kenya Friend-Daniel told NPR by email. She added that the company "had hoped that the work would be complete by now but there are still a small number of products going through the packaging change and we expect to be done very soon."
The branding has come under new scrutiny after a Change.org petition demanded that the company "remove racist branding and packaging from its stores."
The petition, which has gathered more than 2,800 signatures, said the labeling "belies a narrative of exoticism that perpetuates harmful stereotypes."
The petition adds: "The Trader Joe's branding is racist because it exoticizes other cultures — it presents 'Joe' as the default 'normal' and the other characters falling outside of it — they are 'Arabian Joe,' 'Trader José,' and 'Trader Joe San.'"
It wasn't immediately clear which of these product lines had already been changed to "Trader Joe's," and which were slated to change in the near future. Friend-Daniel, the spokesperson, stressed that the change was not in response to the petition but was already in progress.
She said the controversial approach to naming "may have been rooted in a lighthearted attempt at inclusiveness." However, Friend-Daniel said, "we recognize that it may now have the opposite effect — one that is contrary to the welcoming, rewarding customer experience we strive to create every day."
Other major companies and organizations have also announced recent changes to their branding amid mass protests pushing for racial justice in the United States.
For example, Aunt Jemima, the pancake and syrup brand, said last month that it will change its name and logo. Last week, Washington D.C.'s NFL team announced that it is retiring the Redskins name and logo.
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This past June has been the hottest one on record for the world, yet in a few months we’ll be plunged back into the winter months, wishing that summertime would hurry up again.
And humans aren’t the only ones who feel the effects of the chilly outdoors. There’s plenty of little animals that live outdoors and need to contend with the harsh realities of the weather. However, for farm animals, there might be a solution thanks to crafty and clever farmers who’ve taken up knitting.
Farmers have come up with very cute ear muffs for their calves to help protect them against the harsh winter weather in the months to come.
While we’re in the middle of a heat wave, the reason the topic has come to our attention, is because Twitter user @ThisFarmingMan_ shared a very adorable photo of a young calf wearing knitted earmuffs in a baby pink color. The picture has since gained an impressive 171,000 likes.
He tweeted, “So it turns out ear muffs for calves to stop them getting frostbite are a real thing…”
So it turns out ear muffs for calves to stop them getting frostbite are a real thing… pic.twitter.com/KiiAbTaRYV— Cans Moleman (@ThisFarmingMan_) June 25, 2019
While it’s obviously super cute, protecting young calves from the cold is actually very important, as it easily lead to frostbite, hypothermia and in extreme cases, even death.
Dr. W. Dee Whittier wrote in a paper entitled Calves and the Cold, explaining, “The extremities are most at risk. Frozen ears and tails result in changes of cattle appearance but do not affect cattle performance significantly. Sadly, if a calf’s feet freeze, it must be put to sleep or it will die.”
Here’s the ever famous calf Star, rocking her moo muffs pic.twitter.com/POBNEL02Tb— Work for Days Farm (@WFDF2016) January 18, 2018
He continued with, “Newborn calves are most at risk because they are wet and because they have a large surface area in relation to their total body mass. Calves are not fully capable of maintaining temperature the first several hours of life. Newborn calves have a circulatory system that is less able to respond to cold changes as compared to more mature animals. Weather conditions have a huge bearing on how big of a risk there is of frostbite, with wind being the biggest attribute.”
Dr. Whittier has also said, “The effect of wind is often referred to as wind chill and tells how living things ‘feel the temperature.’ Wind chill is often many degrees colder than the actual temperature. Humidity has a large effect on cold as well since humid air can take more warmth away from animals.”
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From their origins long ago, East Asian medicine and philosophy (primarily referring to Chinese and Indian traditions) have recognized the vital interconnectedness of sound and colors with all organic life including human beings on Earth.
These traditional medicines are based on a structure of systems of correspondence. .In Chinese medicine, this structure is based on the Five Elements. In the traditional medicine of India, known as Ayurveda, the core structure is the Doshas.
Sound and color are two important manifestations of energy (frequencies) that human beings perceive. Western science traditionally teaches that this perception primarily involves our sense organs and brains. Ancient traditions and now confirmed by modern science recognize that the perception of sound and color has important influences on human health and consciousness and influences our entire being, including the realms of subtle energy.
The more awareness and intention we can bring to the potential of sound and color to support our health, the more benefit we can gain.
The ancient wisdom traditions of China and India provide explicit information regarding the influences of sound and color. In this course, we will dive into these ancient teachings to glean important information and strategies to support our physical, emotional and spiritual health health
In this class, we will learn the details of the core structures of these great traditions and emphasize the relationships of sound and color within the traditions .The emphasis of our exploration will be to develop strategies to utilize this ancient wisdom in the promotion of health and the evolution of humanity.
1. The only requirements are an openness to new ideas and the willingness to set aside pre-conceived prejudices that result from our enculturation.
Participant Learning Outcomes
1. Students will learn the Five Elements of traditional Chinese medicine
2. Students will learn the colors associated with each element
3. Students will learn the sound associated with each element
4. Students will gain an understanding of the system of correspondences of the Five Elements and important correlations to foods, emotions, seasons, etc
5. Students will (hopefully) learn to appreciate their own capacity to utilize this knowledge to support and maintain their own health
6. Students will learn the Three Doshas of Ayurvedic medicine of India
7. Students will learn the colors associated with each Dosha
8. Students will learn the sound associated with each Dosha
9. Students will gain an understanding of the system of correspondences of the Three Doshas and important correlations to foods, emotions, seasons, etc
10. Students will (hopefully) learn to appreciate their own capacity to utilize this knowledge to support and maintain their own health.
Dr. Richard Gold, MSTOM, L.Ac is a licensed acupuncturist who holds a Doctorate in Psychology. He graduated from Oberlin College in 1972 with a degree in World Religions and a minor in pre-medicine. He graduated from the New England School of Acupuncture in 1978 and since then has devoted his professional career to studying, practicing, researching, teaching and publishing in the field of East Asian Medicine. Dr. Gold has pursued advanced studies in China (1981), Japan (1986, and Thailand (1988, 1989, 1992). He is one of the earliest pioneers of Thai Massage therapy in the United States, Brazil, Israel and Europe. Dr. Gold has published books on Thai massage, namely, Thai Massage: A Traditional Medical Technique; and, Seitai (Lymphatic) Shiatsu, Cupping and Gua Sha for a Healthy Immune System, and is considered an authority in the field.
Dr. Gold was one of the four founders of the Pacific College of Oriental Medicine, a regionally and nationally accredited college of traditional Chinese Medicine with campuses in San Diego, Chicago and New York City. He served on the board of the college for many years and continues to teach there. In addition, Dr. Gold served for over 20 years as President and Chairman of the Board of the International Professional School of Bodywork (IPSB) and also was a senior faculty member there.
In recent years, Dr. Gold has been working in the field of applied neuroscience and sound. Currently, he is the President and Executive Producer of Metta Mindfulness Music, a company devoted to creating original music to facilitate meditation, health and mindfulness.
In his private practice, Dr. Gold is a general practitioner, successfully treating a wide variety of health complaints. He specializes in treatment of pain, digestive problems and stress-related disorders, among other conditions. Dr. Gold has a reputation for excellence in alternative health care and is a highly sought after practitioner. His unique approach to healing pairs his psychology background with traditional Chinese medicine and has made him a very successful practitioner with an extremely satisfied and dedicated patient base for over 30 years. | <urn:uuid:d3cb149f-07d8-436c-918b-0aa494819c6b> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.cihs.edu/courses/webinar:-light-&-sound-series---classical-east-asian-approaches-to-sound-&-color- | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572833.78/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817001643-20220817031643-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.948665 | 981 | 3.5625 | 4 |
SAGE WARNS STUDENTS SHOULD BE TOLD TO STAY ON UNIVERSITY CAMPUSES OVER CHRISTMAS & NEW YEAR
Writing in iNews on Wednesday 23 September 2020, Richard Vaughan reported that Government scientists are warning that students should be told to stay on their university campuses over the Christmas period to avoid spread of Covid-19 in their local communities if they return home for the Christmas-New Year break.
Ministers ‘must tell students to stay on campus over Christmas’ to prevent Covid-19 outbreaks
SAGE warns of ‘larger outbreaks’ when students return from university at end of academic term
Students should be told to stay on their university campus over the Christmas period after Government scientists warned of risks of “larger outbreaks” of Covid-19 when the academic terms end in December.
Experts are concerned that students will spread the disease to their local communities when they return home for the Christmas break, and urged ministers to develop policies to mitigate the risks posed.
The warnings are contained in the latest minutes to be published from meetings of the Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (SAGE).
Outbreaks spilling from universities
The documents state that risks of larger outbreaks “spilling over from HE institutions” are more likely to take place towards the end of the academic term, coinciding with the Christmas and New Year period.
“This could pose a risk to both local communities and families, and will require national oversight, monitoring and decision making,” SAGE warned.
One scientist involved in the discussion told i the issue was of “sufficient national concern” to demand the Government monitor the higher education sector and develop policies to stop further outbreaks.
Failure to do so would lead to “confusion” in the system, the scientist added.
Universities across the UK have already been hit by a rash of infections, with the University of Liverpool confirming this week it has had 87 this week, while the University of Dundee told 500 students to isolate due to an outbreak in halls of residence.
Nick Hillman, director of the Higher Education Policy Unit and former government special adviser to the universities minister, said the Government will be forced to tell students to remain on campus during the Christmas break.
“Ministers will have to tell students that it’s best you stay away from home this year. It is no different from any other situation. If you are following the science then what else can the Government say?” Mr Hillman said.
“The worry will be if they do go home that they will bring the virus back to their parents and families. It is just another on the long list of sacrifices people will have to make to battle this disease.”
He added that universities will have to prepare for having a “significantly greater proportion” of their students on campus on Christmas Day, and suggested institutions should try to keep campus venues open to avoid students mixing with older people in local pubs.
It comes after Oxford Council agreed to stage a townhall to discuss local residents’ concerns about large gatherings of students ignoring social distancing rules at Oxford Brookes University.
Ministers have yet to draw up plans to prevent students from spreading coronavirus, but will be desperate to avoid telling students to celebrate Christmas away from their families.
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It’s important for babies and toddlers to play, as it helps them learn vital new skills. If you’re stuck for ideas as to how to play with your baby or toddler, here are some tried and tested play ideas that they may enjoy.
Play helps babies and toddlers learn new skills, gain knowledge, explore their abilities and develop in many ways. During this age group, they’re undergoing heaps of growth and development and playing can aid this significantly. In fact, engaging your baby or toddler in age appropriate play can do wonders for their early childhood education and learning ability and give them a good foundation for future learning.
You may well find that your baby or toddler develops favourite play activities, which they want to do time and time again. But when you feel you could get sick of singing the same song or building a tower yet again, it’s likely that they may also eventually tire of the activity and move on to developing another favourite.
As much as you may be keen to play with your baby or toddler, there will no doubt be days when you’re lacking in inspiration or want to come up with some new ideas of things that will stimulate them. So below you’ll find some possibilities that you could try.
Baby Play Ideas
Babies thrive on simple and repetitive play ideas so, although you may invest in some toys for your baby, as lot of activities can be fun, entertaining and stimulating for a baby without spending a lot of money.
- Babies love songs, especially with repetitive words (when they’re older, they can join in too).
- Books are great for children and can getting them into books from a young age is beneficial. Books for babies are often brightly coloured, have touch-and-feel aspects or may be interactive. You can read them stories and engage their attention with the colour and pictures.
- Hand and finger puppets are lots of fun and you can create your own stories to entertain your baby. Use funny voices or accents for an extra degree of entertainment!
- Rattles and other toys that make noises are lots of fun for babies.
- Baby play mats, which have rattles, scrunchy noises or other playful aspects included help gain a baby’s attention.
Toddler Play Ideas
When they’re able to start toddling, or perhaps shuffling at first, children are on the move and active. At this age, it’s good to introduce more physical play ideas, as these will help them improve their motor skills, balance and coordination.
- Making towers of building blocks is great fun, but develops key skills too. Children will probably love the part where they get to knock things down too!
- Many toddlers love dressing up boxes and acting out play themes.
- Drawing, colouring and other art and craft activities are loved by many toddlers, plus it can help their fine motor skills.
- Playing with a ball – either playing catch or kicking it around.
- Walking and running around outside or playing in a children’s playground.
- For some outdoor activities, older toddlers can help in the garden, by watering plants or planting seeds.
- Singing songs is loved by toddlers too and adding actions adds an extra element.
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What is Building Information Modeling (BIM)?
Learn about building information modeling and how you can utilize it to design your facility.
Building information modeling (BIM) is a modeling technique for architecture, engineering, and construction (AEC) professionals to model every aspect of a building. The output of BIM is in 3D form, explaining each asset's component in its most basic form.
Considerations for Building Information Modeling
Building information modeling is not simply a 3D layout but a blueprint of a building's design. The blueprint then forms the building's basis that plant managers can follow throughout the construction cycle.
A graphic showing the potential technology with BIM. Image used courtesy of Siemens
In addition to 3D models, it also provides an information database that gives detailed information about basic building blocks. Listed below are some different ways you can utilize BIM to design and streamline your facility.
Building information modeling creates a building's virtual model and depicts every part in a 3D format. The design team can conceive these properties and share its virtual model to collaborate on their feedback and input.
The physical stage of construction only starts when all the stakeholders agree to the virtual design. Otherwise, design revision continues until agreed upon by all. In addition to virtual modeling, you can use several computer software techniques to create a digital blueprint of your facility.
Building information modeling is executed in a computer environment, where the appropriate BIM software operates. The software files are interoperable by each division of the team with their relevant feedback and adjustments. Once the plant manager or designer has executed the computer software step, they need to make sure it's versatile.
Adaptable to Changing Requirements
Building information modeling may adapt to changing requirements, even after the basic prototype is vetted, approved, and finalized. Change in the field variable will update the dependent variable without re-designing the entire prototype.
Autodesk offers various BIM modeling software. Image used courtesy of Autodesk
This feature can help to save time and cost, as re-designing is a standard process when constructing large-scale buildings. Building information modeling does require some simulation and software techniques, but it varies from other simulation techniques such as digital twinning.
Are Digital Twinning and BIM Different?
Digital twinning and building information modeling are two different ideas that work in industrial development separate life cycles. Both are developed for entirely different applications and are for individual tools to benefit respective industry professionals.
These two concepts are often confused together due to many reasons. First, some similarities, then we look into how they differ from each other. So it's common to think, how is BIM different from digital twinning?
One of the main reasons for this misconception is both are virtual. Both BIM and Digital Twin allow virtual creation of the scenarios that a system undergoes and enables testing the machine before they are practically applied.
Another similarity is that both use software to model the scenarios. They each employ different software simulation techniques for the real world, allowing them to simulate other input parameters to test the system's effectiveness and performance.
Both building information modeling and digital twins are research-oriented. They model different simulation techniques to obtain results that best match the optimized performance of the existing systems. Some factors account for are fault reduction, better cost management, and system improvement.
Building vs. People
BIM applies for buildings in terms of planning and approval to actual creation. As soon as the construction of the building is complete, the BIM chapter is closed.
For the most part, the idea behind digital twinning is to facilitate people. It establishes procedures that people use for the process optimization, new product development and develops any requirements procedures. These procedures help the people because it outlines the ratio of success and failures for a particular method, which are then used by the relevant responsible people to incorporate into routine procedures and operation.
Design vs. Operation
Building information modeling creates a building's virtual design before it starts construction. It visualizes the physical functions of the building by creating software designs. AEC experts then use these design parameters throughout the construction life cycle to materialize the design elements into an actual world entity.
Vectorworks' building information modeling software interface. Image used courtesy of Vectorworks, Inc
Digital twinning creates a virtual model of the process operation by simulating actual operating parameters and methods. It enables performance metering on a factual basis and generates live data that gives a clear picture of what's happening with the process or the equipment. Using digital twinning technology, we can test and analyze different operation scenarios such as maintenance strategies and operation improvement before they are practically applied.
BIM creates a virtual representation for the assets that, once approved and developed, cannot be changed and altered. If a model is created initially in the past, it does not evolve or change as time passes.
On the other hand, the digital twin gives time-dependent design parameters that can change according to the time function. It provides feedback on the equipment's actual condition and how it reacts to the changing operational needs.
Advantages and Drawbacks of BIM
There are some advantages and disadvantages of BIM considered for its application before its uses.
Building Information Management allows easy collaboration with all the departments and people involved. With its advanced and innovative design, all the concerned persons are engaged in real-time, thanks to its cloud-based architecture.
Detailed Cost Estimation
With its ability to combine pricing data with physical information, BIM can yield better cost estimations on the natural ground than predicting un-realistically.
Updates and Changes
BIM allows for easy updating and change control procedures. Its property of automatically updating all dependent systems and entities updates all values and its description throughout the system.
The BIM tools are of a high cost compared to other tools and software available in the market, such as CAD. This high cost is one of the significant disadvantages, as the decision-makers are confused, whether they will get the Return on Investment or not?
Lack of Experts
Due to the skills gap and continuously evolving technology, there seem to be few engineers who are proficient in BIM. If you decide on opting for the BIM, you will have to invest in its training program for the in-house persons regularly.
Late to Adopt BIM
Many contractors and professionals have not yet adopted BIM as a planning tool. Instead, they rely on standard planning tools available in the market, such as CAD. It can be possible that one or more of your partners will lack the basic level of knowledge and working on the BIM.
It's important to note that BIM has more of a clear definition and digital twinning does not. It's relatively hard to make direct comparisons because the definition of digital twinning is not clearly defined.
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October 15, 1944 – World News Today – CBS Radio – Gordon Skene Sound Collection –
October 15, 1944 – News of heavy air activity over Germany this day. In what was described as the “largest concentration ever of Allied air power”, over 1200 bombers took part in massive raids over Germany, hitting industrial and military centers in the Cologne area, some 40 miles away from Aachen, where American ground troops were making slow progress. Bombers also leveled the town of Duisberg in the Rhineland, attacking it twice in one day. Canadian troops were busy launching new assaults around Antwerp. The Germans launched counter attacks and forced the Canadian army to fall back, leaving open a main supply line for the German troops.
The German news was reporting the death of Field Marshall Irwin Rommel who had died as the result of severe head wounds from a car accident on the Western front. No other details were given.
Russian radio reported Red Army forces captured a northern most port in Finland. It represented an important development in the little-publicized campaign in Northern Finland which involved the fate of some 7-9 German Divisions who were faced with only escape by sea, since all other routes were overtaken and held by Russian and Finnish troops. Another piece of significant news for this day was the report that Hungary may be quitting the war. London radio picked up reports from Budapest Radio that Regent Miklos Horthy asked for Armistice terms. A later broadcast by Hungary’s Chief of Staff warned that Hungarian troops must continue fighting, since an armistice had not yet been granted and it was still in negotiations. Germany had some 12 divisions in Hungary and the Hungarians with some 16 divisions. The Russian army advances and Hungary’s asking for an armistice meant Germany was losing one of its last allies on the eastern front.
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Joel Cahen (2012, revised 2016)
With our present day awareness, the arts as we have known them up to now appear to us in general to be fakes fitted out with a tremendous affectation. Let us take leave of these piles of counterfeit objects on the altars, in the palaces, in the salons and the antique shops. They are an illusion with which, by human hand and by way of fraud, materials such as print, pieces of cloth, metals, clay or marble are loaded with false significance, so that, instead of just presenting their own material self, they take on the appearance of something else. Under the cloak of intellectual aim, the materials have been completely murdered and can no longer speak to us.
– Jiro Yoshihara, expropriated from The Gutai Manifesto (1956)
Love the fact that we humans begin our attack with such ferocity only to be worn down 2mins later. Very un-ape like. Then with our limp limbs and unable to singlehandedly destroy we form teams to increase the damage caused. It was great to at long last depreciate our attachment to stuff and learn just how difficult it is to destroy them. Initially it felt gladiatorial but consumed by so much lack of brawn, the bashing does become emotional, sometimes I was sad for some objects, but in truth it was probably the most passion I ever gave to them – wonderful.
– Stephen (text message following Scrap Club 11Sep11)
For myself, the burning of the harpsichord didn’t so much symbolize a jettisoning of the past, as it did a release of the incessant clinging to tradition (any tradition) to the degree that it stems creativity and responsiveness in the present. To be honest, the burning of the harpsichord was perhaps the most creative (and honest) act that I could contribute with the instrument at that point in my practice.
– Bill Thompson (on his Harpiscord Burning piece, 2006)
It was orgasmic! I felt totally empowered!
– Miklos (text message following Scrap Club 11Sep11)
It is the denaturing and abstraction of the actual experience of destruction that is the triumph of the technology of that destruction. In this situation, great care must be exercised to prevent theoretical abstractions from becoming part of the suppression of actual experience that culminates in the denial of identity altogether. Such denials conspire in the destruction of bodies and are the unforgivable consequence of mistaking the map for the territory.
– Kristine Stiles Ph.D., “Selected Comments on Destruction Art,” Book for Unstable Media (1992)
The following text presents questions, possible answers, and tangential thoughts that have surfaced over the last five years (since April 2007) of staging the public Destructivist activity that is Scrap Club. Scrap Club began as an idea shared with Wajid Yaseen in response to the reenactment of an Einstürzende Neubauten performance at the ICA in which we both participated in Feb 2007.
Concerto for Voice and Machinery:
On stage we were using heavy tools such as a banyorammer, drills, angle grinders, and hammers to play a scored sonic action. The destructive element of the action was appealing in itself, in fact it was exhilarating. We resolved that everyone should experience it. A sober view of the extensive surplus of defunct objects on the streets proved that there was no lack of stuff to smash.
Over the next five years we set up fifteen public Scrap Club events, in warehouses, open spaces, clubs, galleries, festivals and on the street, in London, Amsterdam and Newcastle.
The response has been impressive in the way it has touched participants across age, gender, and character. There was more to it than mindless aggressive expression. Participants found a core value in their expression of focused and intentional destruction. This intentional destruction, hereafter referred to as Destructivist, is such a powerful dynamic in society, yet there is some debate regarding its true motive. It is associated with offensive violence, vandalism, and chaos, but also with constructive and creative processes. It is how the destructive forces in nature express themselves through human action. By framing the direct experience of destruction in such an explicit manner and without any pretense other than its physical expression, can the human destructive dynamic be interrogated before it accumulates any prescribed meaning? Will this process give us more insight into the motivations for destructive actions across culture and society?
Scrap Club is an ephemeral public Destructivist act. Its initial inspiration was not to offer a response to society’s constant reflection towards order and creativity, nor to act as a metaphor for the destructive powers which counteract it. The core drive behind Scrap Club emphasizes the unrefined individual, before the sensitive and intricate machinery, the cabling and coding, the demanded dexterous and cautious handling; before the polite gestural codes of table mannerism. Here lives the human nature that finds expression through aggressive confrontation and ego driven hostility. This nature is largely masked by social and cultural etiquette, and appears only in the guise of tribal valor directed towards violent and harmful confrontation.
As we have seen in Scrap club, destruction brings a sense of satisfaction to the participant. It is a satisfaction drawn directly from the Destructivist act and its afterglow. The passion invested in the transformative act becomes itself invested with devotion. It confers a sense of true victory. That a glow of satisfaction follows the creative act suggests that this satisfaction is itself a goal and a justifiable purpose, one unconcerned with its creative or destructive catalysts. The desired neuro-biological state is attained as a result of physical effort to process change in an object regardless of its destruction or creation.
In a time where experience is mediated and filtered by digital, and increasingly uniformed, codices, Scrap Club offers its participants the feel of a real experience that relieves pent up aggression and frustration, an experience expressed in choreographic actions intended to inflict the maximum damage on those very objects that impose those codices.
BBC news item:
Released from their sacrosanct, social, aesthetic, semiotic, emotional, and mnemonic charge with each blow of the hammer and shatter of chassis, the objects produce supportive shouts from the viewing public.
The participants become gladiators in the arena reclaiming the human creative essence that has been planted in these machines; reclaiming the passion invested in centuries of technology that led up to these current manifestations; retaliating against the movement restrictions imposed on them by these machines and furniture items and against the technological bind imposed by urban society. Retaliation against the constraints these, often necessary, objects impose on us: physical constraints, movement constraints, and financial constraints.
Scrap Club adds another link in the chain of human/object relationships. Before the inanimate machinations enter the recycling chain, after being designed, created and thoroughly used, humanity has a go at smashing it up, asserting their role as creators and destroyers. Participants have remarked that there is a clear feeling of a “sending off,” of a funeral rite, despite there not being anything particularly ritualistic about the framework of Scrap Club. As the epigraphs from Stephen and Bill Thompson suggest, the destruction of the object becomes the peak of their relationship with it.
There are a variety of other practices that share the destructive elements in Scrap Club, and while entire publications could be dedicated to each of these small sections, they are only briefly recounted here. They are presented with the aim of inspiring the reader to further investigation.
The Destruction in Art
Behind matter, within matter, the creative spirit is hidden.
– Wassily Kandinski.
The Destructivist is one who becomes an excavator and executioner of the creative essence, an essence hitherto held in the confines of the utilitarian and consumerist package being smashed, crushed in its last moment of service before joining the recycling basin. The resulting debris, when examined, is made to testify to the origins of the object, reverting its branded casing to the schemas and creative spirit that had first brought it to life.
In one case, a Coca Cola vending machine was found and brought to Scrap Club. It was placed in the arena and was subjected to the hammers of the anonymous participants over several rounds of destruction. The item was then displayed on a spot lit plinth for several Scrap Club events. Now a sculpture/debris in its own right, the remains were left outside the venue for lack of space to store it. It was found by a scout for a famous artist who signed and sold it to an art collector.
It is in Scrap Club that participants become artists, passionately inflicting change on a particular material using a tool. The object, which was “whole” yet defunct, undergoes a process of sculpting, changing its shape, utility, structure, and aesthetic. It is then displayed on plinths in its new aesthetic, before it either emerges into the art market, or is submerged into the metal recycling bin. The reckless disposability of the item is inherent in the association with its lack of utility and its reason for being reforged in the arena. The intention behind its emergence as an aesthetic object is not a conscious artistic practice in the traditional sense, on behalf of the anonymous hammers that strike it, but the by-product of pure Destructivist action, the essential motivation for which is not an aesthetic one.
This disposability touches on an ambiguous core value of an item as an artwork. Is it the artistic intention of the artist that makes the item an artwork? Is it the artists’ brand name? Or is it the framework, the gallery or market, in which it is displayed?
Destructive processes have been infused with artistic processes and have resulted in new artistic frameworks so quickly and often that it is difficult to distinguish the purely destructive element within it. Works like Rauschenberg’s minimalist abstractions and Pollock’s drips destroyed previous ideas of form, and are just a couple of examples of how what begins as a destruction of previous structures can develop into a robust genre that is then assimilated into the system. It is unclear whether the artists’ motivations for their change of style started as a pure Destructivist act and only later formed into a thoughtful constructive method. Punk music in the mid 70s, for example, certainly seems to suggest such an intentional process. Here the initial motivation was destructive—to destroy the musicality and “harmonic” ideals of previous styles due to the musicians display of an inability to match the technical skills required to produce them.
In this sense what has been termed as Destructive Art in the 60s is the least destructive of these processes. It created a framework by its very definition of Destructive Art, similar to how the apocalyptic paintings of John Martin described a destructive image in a refined and framed painting.
The aesthetic of destroyed and decayed things is the subject of Wabi-Sabi, the Japanese art of decay. It also forms the aesthetic background of the Japanese Tea Ceremony. There is an appreciation for the how the ingenuous integrity of natural objects and processes of decay imbue each object with a unique and unexpected aesthetic.
In a similar sense, and in opposition to the conveyer belt clones of mass production, after their time at Scrap Club, no two items are left alike. They have become material to be sculpted at the hands of an anonymous force, anonymous because of the shared effort of the arena and because of the lack of intention shared in creating an objet d’art in its process. At the core of the action, there is no cerebral “deconstruction.” There is no destruction intended as a social or as an artistic statement.
As a consequence, the item becomes sanctified only as it bears the purgative force of its assailants. The value of the item (whether kept or discarded), in the eyes of its assailants, increases only as it becomes the bearer of their wrath. If that reverence is transferred between people, only then the item can be glorified and made valuable for others.
A thing is sacred if it cannot be bought or sold; a thing is sacred if it cannot be subject to (further) deconstruction. Flaws, cracks, obsolescence of all and any kind: these are the marks of the sacred, the “symbols of the divine.” We must learn from the objects themselves, in their wisdom of age and their dereliction. Intrinsic in human waste is the memory, the aura, of meaning.
– Jesse Darling, of Waste (2010)
Alongside the fetishistic attraction to the item post-scrapclub, one can find an almost spiritual attraction to the aura of these emotional actions and the transcendent value of that action in itself.
In their time at scrap club, some items get completely smashed to bits. A surviving shard of circuit board may be all that’s left. Still, the same sort of meaning can become attached to it, as it bears the memory of the action that extracted it from its dull utilitarian context. It carries passion that asserted the action and the emotional and mental context from which that passion first originated. This meaning and the process involved in imbuing it with these emotional and qualities are sufficient for the object to now be regarded as an objet d’art.
Ritual in Destruction
The rituals directed at remotely directing harm or help to a person or a thing often involve incantations, movements, particular materials or objects, and often a sacrifice or offering from the one’s belongings or body. Rituals in indigenous cultures often invoke this sacrifice alongside a fetishization of the body, objectifying it and calling to a separation of the spirit. Enduring pain symbolizes the triumph of spirit over body, uniting participants in the exclusion of the uninitiated. There are countless examples of self-harm in these tribal rituals, from lashing and scarring to group piss ups at the pub. In some parts of India coconuts are smashed on devotees’ heads. The destructive energy is often directed outwards towards objects. In Greece, breaking plates is a traditional folk custom at weddings and other occasions. It may have symbolized the wealth of the family hosting the event. Fireworks bring noise and suggest danger in the spirit of celebration. At Jewish weddings, a glass is smashed underfoot as a symbol for the irreversibility of marriage, and as remembrance of the destruction of the ancient temple in Jerusalem. The happiness gained in the festivities are balanced with the mourning of loss. Warriors who go out to battle with a destructive aim must confront the knowledge that they may not return. Many have a protocol they follow that often involves superstitious charms or rituals that are intended to fuse their personal intention with their martial one.
Destruction can be a very emotional and even spiritual experience. Even as part of a group, aggressive expression creates a deep impact. It is this expression of group aggression that, on one hand, Scrap Club fragments by providing a personalized experience, and on the other hand, frames within a contained gladiatorial arena.
The procedure at Scrap Club is uniform for participants. They are picked at random, don personal protection equipment (PPE), receive a briefing, enter the arena, and lash out at the objects in front of them. While these actions are not, themselves, ritualistic, they provide a certain rhythm and standardization that frames the Destructivist action in Scrap Club. The arena is repeatedly emptied and filled with fresh scrap. These are all the mundane actions that assist in carrying out the work of destruction safely and conveniently.
Scrap Club events have sometimes included background music: noise (destroyed melody and musical narrative) and percussion played on found materials. But this has intentionally lacked any literal cultural association, or emphasized any particular genre of music, so as not to infuse the personal act of destruction with a particular and contrived ideology. Playing Black Metal during the activity, for example, might inform a particular cultural context different than would Classical Music. In later Scrap Clubs, music was excluded altogether from the arena. The lack of ritual and the somewhat dry presentation of the space helps to intensify the personal motivations for destruction without relying any one cultural pretext for the event. The common reference of genre or rhythm might serve to mask something that comes from the participants themselves, the expression of their inner space. It would become a stylized social engagement that might inhibit any emotions that failed to conform to the prescribed social form. The ritual common to most destruction, the swarm activity of it, is indifferent to the psychological and ethical stance of the participants’ Destructivist intention. It serves to exploit this innate energy for other purposes.
One does not escape meaning by dissociation, disconnection or deterritorialization. One escapes meaning by replacing it with a more radical simulacrum, a still more conventional order – like the alphabetical order for Barthes, or the rules of a game, or the innumerable rituals of everyday life which frustrate both the (political, historical or social) order of meaning and the disorder (chance) which one would impose on them. Indeterminacy, dissociation or proliferation in the form of a star or rhizome only generalize meaning’s sphere of influence to the entire sphere of non-‐sense. That is, they merely generalize meaning’s pure form, an abstract finality with neither a determinate end nor contents. Only rituals abolish meaning.
– Jean Baudrillard, excerpt from Seduction (1979)
All of the places in the individual’s psyche are expressed, in some shape or form, in public spaces. Introspection finds its public place in the temple. Dream life and social and aesthetic critique finds its public space in the art gallery. The personal space of storing knowledge and memory finds a public space in the libraries and Internet. The personal space of dealing with fear, anger, aggression and traumatic body sensations finds its public space in the self-destructive arenas of war, inter-personal violence, or vandalism.
Scrap Club provides a space for aggression to breathe, for its participants to vent and deal with their personal issues and aggression. But these expressions are not violent, in the sense that violence refers to aggression directed at people or to acts of intentional vandalism. These acts are contained and controlled, directed towards inanimate items. The arena becomes a stage where, donned with goggles and helmet, the participant is expected to perform the release of fury onto the machine. The aggression is controlled, focused, and transformed into a craft of bodily movement and precision. It is harnessed and directed in a purely Destructivist action devoid of harm.
The church contains the concentrated spiritual attention of the community. Members are more likely to exercise spiritual introspection in that space than outside it. Similarly, a place set for Destructivist activities helps focus and contain personal expressions of destruction. The demarcation of the area for destruction provides spectator controlled behavior, where the audience functions as a social monitoring unit that itself motivates self-monitoring. As opposed to the gladiator arena, the entertainment is for the participant, not the audience. The self-monitoring is not infected by audience expectation for action but instead allows personal intentions for destruction to surface. These intentions, and their inhibitors, are invariably related to a personal morality and particular ethical value.
The Strength of Ethical and Moral Convictions in Destruction
We were presented with an unused, un-tuned, 150-year-old piano. It was a relatively cheaply made piano and sounded bad; an old status symbol found in many households throughout the 19th century. It was decorative and aesthetically pleasing in the living room of the family where we picked it up. The piano had a sentimental value to the family, but they gave it away. It could have been used as a sound source, but lack of space to store it led it into the Scrap Club arena to be smashed to bits by the participating public.
During the last five years of Scrap Club activity, ethical questions regarding the boundaries of vandalism inevitably arose. Even if it was not regarded as vandalism per se, participants experienced a hesitant feeling that pre-empting the smashing up of an object. What follows are some attributes of objects that seemed to raise these moral dilemmas.
Emotional sentiment – Anthropomorphically associating an object with the memory of a person, a relationship, or with a meaningful event brings about a personal moralism. It becomes a profound personal statement to destroy something that has strong personal sentiment, even if it lacks utility, aesthetic value, or external meaning. But destroying it can release the emotional attachment to the source of the meaning that had been given to it. A participant at Scrap Club once ceremoniously destroyed a guitar given to him by his abusive father at the start of the event. This, by his own admission, helped him to deal with the strong emotions his father held for him.
Symbolic value – Smashing a logo or sign that is specifically linked with a certain ideology, product, or identity could be construed as a political act, one that can produce ambivalence as to the purpose of smashing it. In the eyes of the participant the object might be no more than discarded scrap or it might be that, by destroying it, the participant exercises revenge or constructs a commentary on the actions or the ideal of the brand behind the logo. For example, we found a plastic BP logo in a skip. Although it was collected, it was not presented to be smashed at Scrap Club in case that destruction might be viewed by participants as a commentary on BP’s policies. This expresses our aversion for the imposition of a political, social, or ideological meaning onto the Destructivist process.
Beauty – Personal aesthetic judgement can be a powerful deterrent when considering smashing an object. There is a shared sentiment among people of all cultures that beauty must be preserved, although they might differ over what counts as beautiful. Yet even with beauty there can be an overpowering sense in its destruction, a malevolent impulse that affirms that beauty can be transitory and that the self prevails.
Heritage – For the sake of historical preservation it is considered vandalism to destroy relics of ancient cultures. Is it because they are old, rare, or valuable? This is a trait that changes with society. Archaeology is a science that is ingrained in Western thought, yet the West had participated in the destruction of other artifacts of cultural heritage centuries earlier when Christianity supplanted pagan religions. Poverty can influence priorities where the present and future become more important than the past, and societies may choose to divert attention from particular histories for the sake of incitement and indoctrination. The preservation and destruction of historical artefacts become a question of social ethics acquired through particular educational regimes and patterns of cultural awareness.
Utility – Scrap Club happens at a time where machines are miniaturizing in favour of tiny electronic devices. Prior technologies of mediation are disappearing; telecommunication and entertainment have shrunk to fit in a small palm. The most common machines brought to the Scrap Club arena are large screen televisions, computer monitors, desktops, and household equipment. There might come a time when there is less and less to smash. Will that be when we are totally bound to the items that surround us–all miniaturized to fit on our clothing or our person? The exoskeleton would fit too snugly to be removed.
If an object works, then it’s “alive.” Destroying it urges us to apply the same logic that makes killing immoral, a logic that makes destroying a perfectly working object immoral. However, in an age of affluence and mass manufacture, production is cheap and objects easily replaceable. There is less lament for their destruction. At Scrap Club we present items that have been discarded, excluded from the utility and value economy. They are either dumped on the roadside, found in skips, or donated by their unwanting owners. Destroying a fully functional item in a public space is an act driven by a socially conscious agenda. It is an act of violence attacking someone else’s property. Such an attack is regarded as vandalism, although this too is largely a socio-economic concept that changes with context.
It could be argued that plenty of surplus functional products and food products are destroyed regularly. If the owner destroys such products, which could be useful to other members of society, are they vandals in a broader social sense? As providers of necessary products, do they have a social obligation that they are failing?
Monetary value – If it can sell then it has value. How important is the Destructivist act? Is it worth the financial loss? An arcade machine could have had sold for a couple hundred pounds on eBay, yet it was given away to Scrap Club with its owner’s blessing. A brand new industrial printer was probably worth thousands of pounds, but it was left discarded at a scrap yard.
All these issues imply that there is a Choice. What do you choose to vent your aggression on? This choice implies self-control, assessing your degree of Destructivist satisfaction in relation to the degree of moral ambivalence you face when you consider raising a hammer to a particular object. This self-control exercises the strength and validity of one’s moral convictions. There is a choice as to what to destroy, but is there a choice whether to destroy it? Is destruction a necessary process? Change involves destruction, and at Scrap Club we have seen that bringing about this change produces its own satisfaction. It is a process ingrained in human behavior. When does this become Destructivist, this desire to destroy?
As we have seen, Scrap Club focuses on the Destructivist act as an end in itself and not as a means to an end (“a purely Destructivist act”). This is a shift from the paradigm that regards actions as aiming at creation. Since all creations are integrated equally as destructions in the flux of change (the destructive/creative cycle) this shift simply regards the destructive act as an end to a creative one. This dichotomy is, obviously, a particular personal perspective. Change can be seen as an un/intentional flux in that the outcomes are neither regarded as beneficial or harmful, nor as creative or destructive, but as a casual constant situation. It can be seen in much the same way as a strong earthquake, a volcanic eruption, a storm, or any of nature’s other dynamics happen without a need or cause for classification. The definition of destruction through creation is a tautology, one that is prominent in Western thought. However, there is a clear idea of what a Destructivist act is. It is a process that causes damage to the intentional function, aesthetic, or cohesion of a thing.
The act of creation is glorified, encouraged, debated, dissected, and taught. It is a fundamental drive that refines knowledge and puts it into practice, materializing it and establishing it as a new means with which to acquire more knowledge. The reasons behind this drive to create and form are intrinsic to the survival instinct that calls on us to formulate thoughts and respond to our situation in the world. Knowledge and facts are attained by the dissection, deconstruction, and analysis of phenomena that progressively isolate them into simpler quanta, such as the reduction of matter to its tiniest components using nuclear and cosmic grade explosions at CERN’s Hadron Collider. Through fragmentation and isolation, these phenomena can be tested for particular attributes and, through observation, they can help form a larger vocabulary, a richer language, and a new understanding.
It seems obvious that many acts of destruction are performed as the means to a creative end. But this informs the set of values that gives justification to the destructive act, an act which has been known to involve a great deal of moral ambivalence. For an army general the destructive act of war and death of troops offers the means for the creative end of victory, while for the soldier who gets blown up, the destructive act offers only an end. This applies to countless other examples: political moves to create new markets by destroying existing economies, destroying rainforests to create cities and roads, or the destruction of people who have different ideas to install dogma and reduce the vocabulary of cultures.
By regarding destruction as an end in itself, it becomes possible to examine if there are other motivations for destructive acts, motivations which might be otherwise masked under the guise of creation. Such motivations may prove intrinsic and intuitive to human experience, as much a natural phenomenon as the drive to create. Our vocabulary could expand by dissecting and deconstructing Destruction.
Destruction as an End in Itself
There are known examples of Destructivist actions that have been done with no apparent or standardized creative forecast. These have largely been directed at individuals or groups rather than inanimate objects. This destructive drive, this “death drive,” has been explained by Sigmund Freud as standing in opposition to the “libido,” the urge to create.
Violence in the Streets
Fighting and violent attacks against others are more frequent occurrences than we might wish for. Drunken brawls or bashing simply for the sake of causing physical damage is not uncommon. It is possible that these acts are thought of as sport, competitive test of one’s strength and endurance. The reasons behind this kind of violence could fill countless journals. It is not within the scope of this text to go into the psychological or socio-demographic analysis of the motivations for interpersonal violence. As a whole though, it can be safely assessed through observation, by anyone who has witnessed a fight or been involved in one, that the “fun” comes from the violent action rather than by achieving any particular goal. The same goes for casual bashing of innocent passersby.
Anger, frustration, indifference, vengeance are all emotions that play their part. The neuro-biological process, adrenalin, serotonin, endorphins, and hormones play their own. In aggressive behavior, when directed at a living being, this coalesces as a sense of competitiveness and danger that contribute to the chemical intoxication and fervor that accompanies violent confrontations.
Two Scrap Clubs in Amsterdam, in 2009 and 2010, were held at an outdoor festival attended by families. While the grown-ups were smashing stuff up in the main arena, the children, aged 3–12, were behind the scrap heap taking stuff and smashing it with sticks or stomping on it. The parents urged us to do a children’s round and so we did. We considered whether this was a bad example. Would they now smash everything in the house, or be more liable to vandalism? Will this “license to smash” be indiscriminate?
Geared up in the protective equipment, the children held hammers and proceeded at a ferocious smashing of stuff, to the cheering of the crowd and of their parents. The effect was similar, and the children exhibited the same elation the grown-ups had. The parents thanked us, saying that “the children really needed that.” One particularly vivid memory is of a 3 year old girl lifting a toy over her head, teetering as about to fall under its weight, before finally flinging it on the ground to the cheer and applause of her parents.
Very young children are known to be destructive almost in the same way that cats are to insects. Children seem to test the structure, durability, and character of an object by destroying it, finding out its material boundaries. Its function is not important to them, they often disregard its value as a whole object. It is possible to relate this destructive nature to malicious intent. Children of a certain age know very well that the act will draw attention from their parents. They are testing the limits of what is allowed and what isn’t. The child is empowered by taking control of an eventuality and a process, creating an effect without need for language to express themselves. It is also possible to suggest that the act is enjoyed for the satisfaction of curiosity, for the sight and feel of the destructive process and the ensuing chaos. Chaos versus order.
The only accepted social reference to destruction as an end in itself is in the idea of punishment. Religious doctrines offer the most compelling evidence. Punishment, here, is examined for its fatalist consequences, not as a correctional reformative act. This is the punishment found in acts of genocide, the punishment found in religious wars.
My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge: because thou hast rejected knowledge, I will also reject thee, that thou shalt be no priest to me: seeing thou hast forgotten the law of thy God, I will also forget thy children.”
– Hosea 4:6
In the Old Testament, the stories of Sodom and Gomorrah, or of Noah and the flood, present natural destructive phenomena superimposed with Destructivist meaning according to a particular ideology—the apparent motive being to purge unbelievers from society.
And when we intended to destroy a city, We command its affluent (to obey Allaah) but they defiantly disobey therein; so the word (i.e. deserved decree) comes into effect upon it, and We destroy it with (complete) destruction.
– al-Israa (17): 16
In this case, the reason for destruction is punishment, punishment for not having the same belief system. Non-conformity warrants the punishment of annihilation as its targets are not only seen as an obstacle that weakens the collective intention, but a vehicle through which the act of punishment can solidify that intention and strengthen the group’s unity.
However, this is not the reasoning presented to the people who are doing the destruction. It is the authoritarian voice of God which they must obey. This punishment is explained as a result of people turning from the word of God. “To satisfy God” or “God’s Will” is a dead-end explanation; there is no creative justification to the ensuing destruction. The whole belief system supports the unquestionable destruction in the name of God and therefore gives justification to a Destructivist act as an end in itself; moral and ethical issues absolved. This is true for any kind of authority for which subjects’ perception place them under jurisdiction. In the subjects’ view, Destructivist, punitive, and violent actions under “blind” compliance with a social, deistic, or hierarchical authority become justified as expressions of otherwise immoral and unethical actions in so-called “emergency” situations.
This poses the question whether fatal non-reformative punishment is a result of an inherent “pure Destructivist” drive, which has lost its personal expression in these societies, or whether the need to punish is a source of the pure Destructivist dynamic in a kind of precognitive act of social cleansing.
Sanitation of Destruction
An item gets disposed of when it loses its functional or aesthetic utility, or as a result of its over-production and excess. When resources are scarce, society recycles, and this enters the social and personal consciousness as a moral duty. But the process of disposal is a Destructivist one. It is done by in a site tucked away at the industrial areas of the urban landscape. The personal contact the public has with the Destructivist element is reserved to a handful of employees at scrap yards, even as consumers find themselves faced with an even larger display of brand new products.
Although there is a practical aspect for distancing the destructive process from the residential public, in terms of urban planning and toxicity, it is obvious that there is a kind of sanitation process that distances the consumers from the detritus and images left by consumed products. This emerges in the UK meat industry. Blood is done away with as a potential harbinger of disease. It is expunged from view and the consumer sees only glossy meat cuts wrapped in cellophane. In places like India and developing countries, people might have a different attitude to Destructivist activity. There, scrap is fully integrated and used visibly and openly; the object is stripped of its consumerist spangles and regarded for its material properties. It seems that one of the ancillary indications as to the degree of development of a country (usually based on its degree of technological development), is the degree of sanitization of the public domain from scrap (where sanitization is the concealment of scrap, not hygiene).
The Spectacle of Destruction
In some cultures destructive elements and detritus surface in the entertainment industry. While it is sanitized in daily life it pollutes cinema and television. Comparing the portrayal of destruction in media across cultures (in displays of gore, war, apocalypse, etc.) provides insight into different social attitudes towards destruction. It is interesting to explore the motives behind the obsession Hollywood has with disaster films and compare them to their Japanese counterparts.
One distinction is that, generally speaking, in Japanese disaster films, the disaster is not a complete wipeout. It is a wild and uncontrollable force that is confronted for the purpose of restoring order, showing the resilience of the people and the strength of technology.
In American disaster films this destruction is a form of absolution. After the total destruction, after apocalypse, there can be a new start. This perpetuating quasi-puritan New World fantasy is the primary drive behind the founding of the United States but also, as Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels pointed out, the motivation of Capitalism:
The productive forces at the disposal of society no longer tend to further the development of the conditions of bourgeois property; on the contrary, they have become too powerful for these conditions. […] And how does the bourgeoisie get over these crises? On the one hand by enforced destruction of a mass of productive forces; on the other, by the conquest of new markets, and by the more thorough exploitation of the old ones. That is to say, by paving the way for more extensive and more destructive crises, and by diminishing the means whereby crises are prevented.
– Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, The Communist Manifesto (1848)
Online viral videos offers another insight to this attraction to the spectacle of destruction. ISIS videos, for example, show destructive performative acts such as executions or the destruction of archeological sites. They are celebrated as well as abhorred. The repeated imagery of the Twin Towers collapse is as devastating as it is fascinating. The spectacle of destruction can have this dual nature, touching on basic human emotions like fear and wonder. It is one of the reasons there is such a cathartic sensation in the destructive act.
Destruction is a seed of change, of transformation. It is an alchemical process of seeking new territory and new combinations. A common theme in the many stories and myths which have enchanted humanity for millennia is this very transformation. It has proven to be the point of attraction for these accounts.
When destroying an object there is a kind of random transfiguration. All it takes is a nudge and a destructive process begins, an apparent chaotic result that goes against all that is constructed and orderly. It introduces chance to all that is structured and man-made, the product of knowledge, order and civilization. Before a person learns to integrate within the constructs and constricts of society, and as we know, in spite of it, these processes are expressed as destruction without reason, destruction as an end in itself
In fact, destruction is fun. There is a basic enjoyment, or what Lacan terms jouissance, in engaging with the destructive process. It is through this intrusion to one’s symbolic universe that, as Slavoj Zizek puts it in The Plague of Fantasies, “…the subject encounters the density of being.” There is an assertion of one’s spirit in relation to the environment that one must constantly respond and adapt to, and the abandon of consideration for social and material constraints. The fact that societies try to conceal and hijack this apparently fruitless drive with explanations that serve its, often unethical, requirements and agendas, only serves to manipulate the perpetrators and remove the act of destruction from an initial context which is arguably ethical, personal, and subjective. An expression of a Destructivist action should remain within the realm of the personal, and remain respectful for its motives. It is important to achieve a state where destruction is exercised individually as a meaningless action within a safe framework. Only then can the destructive actions be clearly considered for their ethical grounds. | <urn:uuid:ebc89706-b787-46cc-a772-58158551cf73> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://materialworldblog.com/2016/09/occasional-paper-6-destructivistas/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573172.64/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818063910-20220818093910-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.95514 | 8,405 | 1.609375 | 2 |
In a medium-sized van with no bodyguards, on a rainy March 15, 2021, a Hezbollah delegation quietly walked into the Russian Foreign Ministry building in Moscow. On that same day, the skyscraper that stands in Smolenskaya Square also hosted the Israeli Foreign Ministry’s Deputy Director General for Strategic Affairs Joshua Zarka. The simultaneous meetings in Moscow of two archenemies reflect how Russia is flexing its diplomatic muscles. They also point to how Hezbollah is at the forefront of three key issues in the Levant: military operations in Syria, tensions with Israel, and the complications of Lebanese politics.
The Hezbollah delegation, which was led by the US-sanctioned head of its parliamentary bloc, Mohammad Raad, visited Moscow March 14-17 and met with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, representatives from the State Duma and the Council of the Federation, and Iranian ambassador to Russia Kazem Jalali. This was only the second trip to Russia in a decade by a Hezbollah delegation in an evolving relationship that has come a long way from 1985, when Hezbollah kidnapped four Soviet diplomats and the KGB responded brutally to secure the release of three of them. Since the last time Raad visited Russia ten years ago, much has unfolded on the political and security levels, most notably the Russian military intervention in Syria in 2015. In October 2011, Hezbollah was invited by the Russian parliament and its delegation met only with Deputy Foreign Minister Mikhail Bogdanov with little to no media exposure. This time around, the Russian Foreign Ministry extended the invitation and the delegation met with Lavrov in a publicized visit.
The Hezbollah delegation represented the old guard or the founding generation of the political wing of the party. In addition to Raad, the delegation included the party’s head of Arab and international relations, former Minister Ammar al-Mousawi, and his aide for international affairs Ahmad Mhanna, as well as the media advisor Ahmad Haj Ali. The makeup of Hezbollah’s delegation reflected the political nature of the visit as the meeting with Lavrov lasted 40 minutes and was attended by Bogdanov, who also serves as President Vladimir Putin’s special representative for the Middle East. Bogdanov, who had a separate lengthy meeting with the Hezbollah delegation, met the next day (March 16) with Iran’s Ambassador Jalali; for his part, Lavrov visited Iran on April 13 where he criticized European sanctions on the Islamic Republic. In an interview1 with al-Mayadeen TV, Mousawi noted that Hezbollah’s relationship with Russia “has reached the level of common blood that spilled against terrorism in Syria.” Hezbollah and Russia are reportedly considering the idea of opening a representative office for the party in Moscow. Since 2015, Russian officials have publicly affirmed that Hezbollah is a “legitimate force” and “we do not consider them a terrorist organization.” Moscow’s interaction with Hezbollah largely depends on and is an integral part of Russian-Iranian relations, which might grow closer during the Biden Administration.
Moscow’s interaction with Hezbollah largely depends on and is an integral part of Russian-Iranian relations, which might grow closer during the Biden Administration.
Russia and Hezbollah-Israel Tensions
Israeli diplomacy was on alert when the Hezbollah delegation visited Moscow for two main reasons: to relay a message to the party through the Russian channel and to make sure Hezbollah does not have any significant influence on the Russian approach in Syria. Zarka, the Israeli official, met with Russian foreign ministry officials ahead of the visit of Israeli Foreign Minister Gabi Ashkenazi to Moscow on March 17. Zarka handles issues related to the Iran nuclear deal, which is the primary focus of the Israeli delegations; however, relaying an Israeli message to Hezbollah was also on the agenda. On March 15, as the Hezbollah delegation was in Moscow, Israeli Defense Minister Benny Gantz warned from Israel: “We’re prepared for every scenario on the northern front. I’d recommend that the Lebanese side not test the IDF’s abilities.” On a visit to France on March 18, Israel’s military Chief of Staff Aviv Kochavi noted that “Hezbollah currently holds thousands of missiles and rockets located at the heart of a civilian population. We will not hesitate to attack forcefully on command, wherever such weapons are found.” The Israeli security establishment believes Hezbollah still plans to avenge the killing in July 2020 of one of its operatives, Ali Kamel Mohsen, by an Israeli air strike outside Damascus. Hezbollah’s Secretary General Hassan Nasrallah said in August 2020 that “Israel needs to understand that when they kill one of our mujahideen, we will kill one of their soldiers. This is the equation.” Western diplomatic sources reportedly confirmed that the Israeli messages were relayed to Hezbollah.
Moscow plays a balancing act between Israel and Hezbollah. On the one hand, Russia does not actively restrict Israeli air strikes against Hezbollah assets and operatives in Syria; on the other, it takes public stances against Israel when needed. Last December, the Russian ambassador to Israel, Anatoly Viktorov, told The Jerusalem Post that “the problem in the region is not Iranian activities” and that “Israel is attacking Hezbollah, Hezbollah is not attacking Israel”—a statement that earned a reprimand from Ashkenazi. In his interview with al-Mayadeen, Mousawi noted that there was “a clear Russian position in terms of denouncing Israeli violations of Lebanon’s sovereignty”; however, he did not mention Israeli air strikes on Hezbollah targets in Syria. The trust gap on dealing with Israel hangs over the interactions between Russia and Hezbollah.
Russia and Hezbollah in Syria
When it comes to Syria, there are three main issues of concern for Russia and Hezbollah: how to continue running the daily military operations, the future of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, and the normalization of Lebanese-Syrian relations. The Lebanese newspaper Al-Akhbar, which is close to Hezbollah, reported that Russian officials have asked Hezbollah to remain in Syria militarily and politically. This is hard to imagine given how Russia has been approaching the conflict. Even if not the case in the short term, the deployment of Hezbollah militants in Syria may ultimately be a contentious point between Moscow and Tehran. By hosting Hezbollah, Russia might be sending a message to the Biden Administration that it has cards to play in Syria, and beyond, if Washington continues its pressure on Moscow.
By hosting Hezbollah, Russia might be sending a message to the Biden Administration that it has cards to play in Syria, and beyond, if Washington continues its pressure on Moscow.
Another challenge for Russia and Hezbollah is the Assad regime. Nezavisimaya Gazeta, a Russian daily newspaper, reported that the Hezbollah delegation might have asked about the Russian stance on Assad’s future, given that Moscow might be considering setting up a joint Syrian “military council” that would include the military officers who defected to the Syrian opposition. The question therefore arises: would Russia relinquish its support of Assad in the current context of US-Russian relations without a clear road map? During its first visit to Moscow in 2011, Hezbollah had tested the extent of Russia’s commitment to provide support to the Assad regime; this time around, Hezbollah might also have been interested in exploring Russia’s ambiguous policy on this matter. However, such a critical issue was beyond the portfolio of the Hezbollah delegation that visited Moscow. On March 9, Lavrov went on a Gulf tour that included Abu Dhabi, Riyadh, and Doha, indicating Russia’s interest in warming relations with these regimes. In addition, Iran might be concerned that Russia is edging closer to Saudi Arabia. Moscow probably knows that an eventual final settlement of the Syrian conflict would at least partially come at the expense of Iran.
Both Russia and Hezbollah want to secure the return of Syrian refugees to their home country to indicate that the conflict has ended and a new status quo has emerged. In his interview with al-Mayadeen TV, Mousawi noted that the discussions with Russian officials about Syria tackled “the issue of the displaced and the need for their safe return,” as both sides “agree that the main task is to resume liberating Syrian lands and reconstruction.”
US pressure prevents Lebanon from going down the path of normalization with the Syrian regime despite Hezbollah’s attempts to restore relations between Beirut and Damascus. Given that Lebanese President Michel Aoun and caretaker Prime Minister Hassan Diab do not want to directly engage the Syrian regime, the caretaker public health minister, Hamad Hassan, who was selected by Hezbollah, went to Damascus on March 24 to request emergency oxygen supplies to address COVID-19 complications. The Assad regime provided 75 tons to Lebanon. While Russia and Hezbollah agree in the short term on the need for engagement between Beirut and Damascus and for the expansion of Russian influence in Lebanon, US pressure continues to limit the potential of these two policy options.
The Political Impasse in Lebanon
The Hezbollah delegation’s Moscow visit comes at a crucial time. Lebanon remains in a political stalemate in forming the cabinet while dealing with the COVID-19 outbreak and confronting a deep economic and financial crisis. In recent weeks, Russia has been a center of attraction for Lebanese politicians: after the Hezbollah delegation’s trip to Moscow, Lebanon began administering Russia’s Sputnik V vaccination on March 30, with the first batch flown to Beirut from the United Arab Emirates.
More importantly, however, are the talks on the political level as rival Lebanese politicians are looking for international support to advance their interests in the government formation crisis. On March 9, Prime Minister designate Saad Hariri met with Foreign Minister Lavrov when the latter was on an official visit in Abu Dhabi, potentially to ask Moscow to pressure Hezbollah to play a more active role in persuading President Aoun to concede on the government’s formation. Moreover, Deputy Foreign Minister Bogdanov met in Moscow on March 31 with President Aoun’s advisor, Amal Abou Zeid, who noted2 that during a previous visit to Moscow (in February 2021), he explained to Bogdanov that the Lebanese president “has the right to name Christian ministers, and it is unacceptable to impose names on his Excellency and he does not agree to them,”—in reference to Aoun’s constitutional feud with Hariri on who forms the Lebanese government. On March 18, the Russian embassy in Beirut had to release a statement3 following the Hezbollah delegation’s visit to Moscow to deny reports that Russia is closer to Hariri and is against giving Aoun the one-third blocking majority in the next government. Indeed, Russia has been resisting calls to take sides in Lebanese politics.
Moscow is obviously interested in playing a role in Lebanon; however, Hezbollah does not seem eager to expand Russian influence into the details of Lebanese politics.
Russia is primarily concerned that the economic collapse in Lebanon could continue to spill over into Syria, but there is no concrete Russian mediation plan between Lebanese parties. Moscow seems to be standing behind the French initiative by urging the formation of a Lebanese government, as both Moscow and Paris want to preserve the status quo or the existing political dynamics in Lebanon. Moscow is obviously interested in playing a role in Lebanon; however, Hezbollah does not seem eager to expand Russian influence into the details of Lebanese politics, most notably if it were to support Hariri at the expense of Aoun. In an interview with al-Mayadeen TV about his visit to Moscow, Mohammad Raad explained that “what is required of Russia is not to form the government in Lebanon but rather to urge the conditions for its formation.” This hints at the idea that Hezbollah bets on Russian diplomacy in Syria rather than Russian mediation in Lebanon.
With this visit by Hezbollah, Moscow is standing its ground and showing those concerned that it has regional cards to play if needed. Russia is steadily seeking to increase its influence in Lebanon and has aligned its security interests in Syria with Hezbollah. There are limits to what Moscow can achieve, however, considering the existing tensions with the Biden Administration. More importantly, given the diverging interests on dealing with Israel, resolving the Syrian conflict, and engaging in Lebanese politics, the Russia-Hezbollah relationship is far from being an alliance. | <urn:uuid:e544662d-94b2-48ae-a502-e499fb33f421> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://arabcenterdc.org/resource/hezbollah-in-moscow-russia-flexes-its-diplomatic-muscles/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572198.93/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815175725-20220815205725-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.96513 | 2,522 | 1.65625 | 2 |
Nowadays, with the incipient growth of the internet of things (IoT) and its applications, like wearable devices or wireless sensor networks (WSNs), the need for portable, robust and sustainable power sources that allow devices to work without external energy sources arises.
Power consumption is a critical problem on these devices, limiting the device lifetime or forcing an increase in the battery size. In these cases, generators based on energy harvesting can extend the life of these batteries, or maybe replace them in certain cases.
However, energy harvesters based on thermoelectric generators have some drawbacks that have to be addressed, like low output voltages or low output power for devices with small areas. Hence, if these generators are used to supply conventional electronics, which may use voltages around 1.8 V, a power management stage is needed to extract the maximum possible power and step up the voltage obtained from the generator.
In this regard, my ESR project consists on designing this power management stage, as well as a low-power electronics control unit (ECU) to manage different sensors supplied by organic thermoelectric generators (OTEGs) designed by HORATES members, as a proof-of-concept for them. This ECU must be developed over a flexible substrate, using hybrid (silicon and printed) electronics.
Since starting at Eurecat, I helped design an ECU over a rigid substrate (FR4) to manage CO2, humidity, temperature and O3 sensors, and currently, I’m designing an RF-based harvester, used to supply smart labels, but fabricated over Kapton®/copper. In the future, this new harvester will be translated to a PET substrate, using conductive silver ink for the traces.
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At present the total area under food crops
has reached about 60%, which was 76.8% in 2000-01, i.e.
If the intense bioactivity in the rhizosphere is the key to fertility, imagine the contribution of closely planted cover crops with vastly more root mass than more widely spaced food crops
All these efforts are being made in Uganda to save Uganda's food crops
, and are being carried out by Ugandans themselves.
The selection of explanatory variables allows us to isolate the effects of changes in the climatic variables on food crop
yield per hectare and thus productivity.
Scientists in ARS's Crop Improvement and Protection Research Unit at Salinas, California, conduct field trials of pesticides applied on a wide range of food crops
, from baby greens, fresh peas, and strawberries to herbs, such as basil, coriander, and dill.
Historically, women in developing societies have been principally concerned with food crop
"The costs of food crop
exposures to air pollution are largely hidden from the consumer in the wealthier nations like the U.S.," explained Chameides, "because these countries control food supplies and prices through policies that limit national surpluses."
A registered food crop
dealer will not move or cause to be moved any consignment of food produce in excess of five metric tonnes from one county to another without a valid certificate of produce.
As many as 200 people including farmers, cotton growers, ginners, scientists, field extension workers of the agriculture department of the provincial governments are likely to attend the day-long event to learn the use of organic fertilizers for the production of nutritious staple food crops
like cotton, wheat, rice, sugarcane and maize.
Infact, Bt Brinjal was rejected for commercial approval in India in 2010 as it's a food crop
and care needs to be taken.
The cover crops will grow slowly under the existing canopy; then come on strong when the food crop
has been removed.
Some of the shortcomings in harnessing these neglected food crop
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“There are so many, many studies on prophylaxis, but very few on treatment”
Post operative nausea and vomiting, secondary nausea, how can we put the danger of these unfortunate moments behind us in a modern practice? This piece focuses upon nausea and treatment in particular as part of an Enhanced Recovery practice.
Fourth Consensus Guidelines for the Management of Postoperative Nausea and Vomiting: https://journals.lww.com/anesthesia-analgesia/fulltext/2020/08000/fourth_consensus_guidelines_for_the_management_of.16.aspx
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The Black Lady Pratt Cotton Gin
A popular ghost-story known as “The Black Lady,” inspired by deaths caused by poor working conditions in the nearby factories of downtown Prattville, is a popular phenomenon described by most as a black, ghastly figure that goes across the nearby dam during the night hours of 1 A.M to 4 A.M, and has been featured on the ghost hunting show, Deep South Paranormal.
The old Pratt Cotton Gin is located on the banks of the outer lining regions of the Alabama River in Prattville, Alabama. This skeletal wonder of brick and stone is hauntingly silent. Now free from the machinery that ran the mill for more than one hundred years, only the spirits remain. In its years of operation, a young boy named, Willie Youngblood fell to his death in an elevator shaft. His mother spent the next year in a silent depression and distraught state. She eventually prevailed in joining her son in the afterlife when she flung herself off the Pratt Mill dam and drown to death. | <urn:uuid:a09facd2-f619-4279-9156-a7c99a5f6d7d> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://digitalalabama.com/alabama-ghosts-and-haunted-places/the-lady-in-black-haunts-an-old-cotton-gin-in-prattville-alabama/34837 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572033.91/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814113403-20220814143403-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.967467 | 210 | 2.171875 | 2 |
Since automatic detection or MDIX has been implemented in networking, a lot of people tend to ignore the very basic of networking standard.
For this reason, let us review these standards that will be explained so that we may be able to appreciate them.
The two networking standard that will be discussed here are TIA/EIA-568-A and TIA/EIA-568-B. This can be identified by the color coding used in a twisted pair wire or Cat 5. Below is the actual color coding used by the two standard mentioned earlier.
As you can see, both standard uses two pairs as interchangeable, the orange/white orange pair and the green/white green pair, and two pairs that are just in place, the blue/white blue pair and brown/white brown pair.
How is it that the blue/white blue and brown/white brown pair does not change? This is because these wires are actually not needed. What you actually need are just Pins 1, 2 ,3 and 6 in an RJ-45 Plug. Pins 4, 5, 7 and 8 are not used but it is easier to fit the 4 other wires to their corresponding pin in the RJ-45 plug if we include them.
Pin 1 - TX+ (Transmit Positive)
Pin 2 - TX- (Transmit Negative)
Pin 3 - RX+ (Receive Positive)
Pin 4 - None
Pin 5 - None
Pin 6 - RX- (Receive Negative)
Pin 7 - None
Pin 8 - None
TWO KINDS OF CAT 5 CABLE
Straight Through Cable
STRAIGHT THROUGH CABLE
A Straight Through Cable is a CAT 5 Cable that has the same termination. Below are straight through cables
Uses of Straight Through Cable
Although this is not applicable anymore due to the MDIX (Auto Sense) technology. It is proper that we should learn the uses of a straight through cable.
Straight through cable are used in connecting different devices. Example of which is connecting your personal computer or laptop to your home or office switch, switch to your home/office router. As long as you are connecting different devices then that is where a straight through cable can be used.
As long as your are connecting different devices, then you use straight through cable.
A Crossover Cable is a cable that has a different termination, thus, the name crossover. One termination is T-568 - A and the other is T-568 -B. Below are Crossover Cable
Use of Crossover Cable
Crossover cable is used when connecting similar devices. If you are connecting one personal computer to another personal computer, one router to another router, one router to several routers, one switch to another switch, or one switch to several switches, then you use a crossover cable.
Tools and Materials Needed
In order to connect devices, you need the following:
UTP (Unshielded Twisted Pair) Cable
Additionally you can add;
Protective covers for jacks
For actual crimping instructions, you can find videos in youtube.
Similar information are found if you search the internet. However, I hoped that I have simplified them enough for people to fully understand them. There had been disinterest because of the highly technical way these materials are presented but by simplifying them, I hope interest would pickup.
Some say that this is already obsolete, but I aim to educate people on the most basic of things. Any troubleshooting always starts with the basic even the most complicated of problem.
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November 2, 2021
An exhibit of the Roswell aliens at the Roswell UFO museum. Image Credit: CC BY-SA 2.0 Jim Trottier
A letter from the son of a first-hand Roswell incident witness has been discovered among Stanton Friedman's papers.
There are few events in UFO lore as hotly debated as the Roswell incident, a case that continues to intrigue to this day and about which new evidence and testimonies continue to emerge.
Perhaps the foremost expert on the events that occurred back in June 1947 was the late UFO researcher Stanton Friedman who wrote several books and countless papers on the topic.
Now a previously unreleased letter that he had received from the son of an alleged military witness to the Roswell incident - who identifies himself only as Shawn - has been discovered among his research notes.
"I have a first-hand eyewitness account given to me by my father regarding flying saucers and so-called 'aliens' that I think you should hear," he wrote. "I also have relevant documentary evidence left to me by my father that I would like you to examine."
According to the letter, his father was part of a unit that had been sent to the scene of the crash. He described how the debris was unlike anything he had seen before despite having been familiar with jet engines and having trained as a mechanic.
"Everything was made of a strange metal alloy, what he called 'unobtanium,' very light and strong," Shawn wrote. "Some of the pieces could not be bent, while others were extremely flexible."
"There were no motors or moving parts at all, no propellers, jets, or nozzles. There were no visible cables, switches, gauges, vacuum tubes, or electronics of any kind."
"The strangest objects he said he found were metal reclining seats the size of a child, with notches for the head, body, arms and legs, including notches for hands with spaces for six fingers."
Shawn then went on to describe how his father had observed "three small bodies" that were "decomposing and smelled bad" being loaded onto an aircraft for transport.
He was told that these were the crew of the crashed ship.
He described the entities as "small and fragile" with "shark-like" skin and no ears, mouth or eyelids. They were humanoid, albeit smaller in proportion than a human. They also had six fingers on each hand which matched the shape and size of the notches he had observed inside the wreckage.
"My father said that he and the rest of the crew were immediately questioned by intelligence agents, who ordered them never to talk about what they had seen, forcing them to sign a confidentiality agreement that would be enforced under penalty of treason," the letter continues.
"For many years I have kept my father's secrets. He died unexpectedly a few years ago and since then I have wondered what to do with the information he left me. I think now is the time to reveal what I know."
The letter was reportedly obtained by an Argentinian website - mysteryplanet.com.ar - and has not been independently verified, so we don't even know for sure that it actually did come from Friedman's notes.
Whether or not there is any truth to it, however, it certainly makes for some interesting reading.
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STABLE MARKETS IN UNSTABLE TIMES.
EVENTS that do not happen may sometimes tell a story of their own, and the remarkable indifference of the great trades of London to the railway strike and its developments
may of itself be worthy a brief moment of reflection. The markets that are stable in unstable times either disbelieve in the instability being very real, or else they rely on their
own resources of organization to arrange for the receipt, sale, and distribution of produce and goods. There is, however,
one other reason, and that is not of a reassuring kind. They may regard the existing state of affairs as so bad that no probable change can worsen it. This on the purely distributing side must,
it is feared, be held to be the explanation of a very great deal.
Since the Government assumed control of various avenues of distribution no buyer has felt sure of getting what ho has purchased within anything approaching to the time of his anticipation before such control. The position of things in this respect is worse since the Armistice, and not better. More over, Government control of delivery and distribution has swept away an entire class of contracts which in their incentive to energy had much to recommend them. Where Smith is contracting with Brown it is perfectly feasible to arrange that Brown shall pay a substantial price if he does not let Smith have the article in question within, say, thirty days. This enables Smith to go away feeling that his horses will be fed, or his shop restocked, or his employees set to work on raw material to be worked up. Nor is Brown disadvantaged, for his obliging
his customer over this matter of time may have opened up to him a new market, or enabled him to place goods that were
tarrying in warehouse, or have taken the concrete form
of a cheque in guineas instead of pounds. Now all this side of commercial civilization has been withered before the Govern ment breath as the last lilies before the first frost. There are few trades in which a week's delay in delivery is now greatly noticed ; in some the delay may run into months. Farmers may order basic slag from Staffordshire in April and get it in September, and those of them who are now ordering Governmentcontrolled oilcake to fatten livestock are the men who hope for supply before Christmas, but are prepared to fatten animals, if necessary, into the early spring. With wheat it is a little different. The Government keep ahead of wants, but as they control all imports the miller cannot promise any particular quality loaf. He must take what is tendered to date, and cannot bargain for this or that wheat. The public taste is vitiated and its stomach disordered, but it gets fed.
If we pass to a very different market, that in metals, we find that indifference to strikes is due very largely to the far graver troubles of month after month passing without the revival in building operations working off lead, zinc, and copper, and in other cases to the failure of the expenditure of the nation to be so reduced as to allow a recovery in the exchange. Iron and silver, though for very different reasons, both wait on some effort to restore a financial equilibrium. The interesting rubber market, with its periods of hope dashed by inability to get on " with the construction of vehicles and machinery which require vast quantities of rubber, is the victim of Government indecision in general ; no settled policy of increased use of the roads is indicated, however much it may be called for.
At Mincing Lane one can imagine a general critic and observer being puzzled over a strike week that saw coffee auctions languid with a frequent suggestion to " put the lots up again after the strike," and tea a brisk sale at a slight but general rise. But it will be found that the causes were easy to be discerned. Coffee auctions were not favoured because one was not likely to get early delivery, and the market for futures assured the remoter dates. Tea, on the other hand, being a specially quality trade, was primarily interested in the prevailing good type of tea offering, and the buyer in this case mid sagely enough : " This is a good thing ; whether I get it into my shop or warehouse in October or in November, it will still be excellent tea; as to the railway strikers and the tea lying at some Western or Southern port, the chances of getting it up to London within, say, a fortnight are probably little worse than they were before the strike." And so the tea has been bought on its merits very much as though Mr. Thomas had never been heard of.
Reverting to rubber and coffee as permanent articles on which there are quotations for comparatively remote " futures," and therewith associating tin, corn, oilseeds, jute, and hemp for trading, say, three months ahead, it will be noted that these speculative markets, as they are called, which from time to time are the subject of what may be termed theoretical and philosophical attacks, have at least the quality of their defect, and if they tempt to gambling in margins and differences in quiet times when spot business is uninteresting, they materially help to stabilize markets at critical periods like the present, when an emphatic witness to the absolute confidompee of the great mercantile world in things resuming their oourse comparatively soon is not without a national value. Just now as it happens that testimony is in a way rather remarkable. A man might yesterday have gone into the City and bought oats, oilseeds, seed oils, coffee, tin, copper, hemp, jute all more cheaply for December than for spot supply, while the upward tendency in tea, iron, lead, flax was manifest before the strike. Wheat, maize, sugar, and some other leading staples are in Government control. Z, | <urn:uuid:64d03392-10c9-44bb-9945-d87a365e8cac> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://archive.spectator.co.uk/article/18th-october-1919/11/stable-markets-in-unstable-times | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573172.64/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818063910-20220818093910-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.974013 | 1,185 | 2.296875 | 2 |
What type of BUTTERFLIES are you trying to attract?
The library’s secret garden is hoping to attract native butterflies such as the Eastern Tiger Swallowtail, American Lady, and Common Buckeye, as well as Monarch butterflies migrating through Georgia. Our garden also welcomes bees, birds and all other pollinators.
What NECTAR and HOST plants are in your garden?
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See Better Results, in Half the time at the Gym: Part Two
On Tuesday, we talked about ways to change up our workouts to see better results.
But the other piece of this puzzle that many people lose is that the key in any fitness program is to use the mechanics to your advantage!
Let me explain.
Our bodies work as any other machine does, and we have hinges and levers. The longer the lever, the more work to a muscle. So if you choose an exercise with an effective lever, you can use less weight to get a lot of work.
Let’s say you’re holding an egg with a spoon. Your hand and wrist have to work harder when you are holding the end of the spoon, whereas it gets easier to hold if you are holding closer to the egg. These are the levers at play – which can (and should) be applied to exercise.
In fact, choosing a bodyweight exercise can sometimes be more effective at targeting a muscle group than another exercise that doesn’t use the body’s ideal levers.
Breaking it down
A side-lying lateral raise is one of my favorite ways to target the deltoids. It effectively loads the deltoids with less load to the upper traps and rotator cuff muscles. Since the lever here is so effective, you can use very light weights.
So if I put on my physicist hat, and calculate the mechanics of these two exercises, you can get 125lb of work to the middle deltoids in a side-lying raise when you’re only holding 5lb (A note that I calculated this using the length of my arm, so your values might be slightly different).
However, if you wanted to get the same amount of work to the deltoids in a barbell upright row, you’d have to hold 81lb!
This is because the moment arm, or the lever, to the deltoid in an upright row is much shorter than in a side-lying lateral raise, making it less effective.
Although it might make you feel good to be able to lift 81lb easily, unfortunately, in this instance, it isn’t because you are stronger than the person doing the side-lying lateral raise, it’s actually because the levers are shorter and you’ve given yourself the mechanical advantage.
Although it may feel more satisfying, lifting the extra weight comes at a price. With the 81lb, you’re unnecessarily compressing the spine. Whereas, you could choose the side-lying raise and get the same amount of work done with nearly zero spinal compression. This is where it comes down to exercise selection and having an understanding of body mechanics and physics.
So don’t be fooled that heavier weight automatically equals more work. It’s so much more about mechanics and levers than it is about how much weight you’re holding.
Cut down the Time
All that’s to say, is that the ultimate way to cut down on your time spent in the gym is to fatigue muscles properly.
Within the fitness industry, there is much debate about how heavy you should go, and how many reps you should complete to see the best results.
But, the volume doesn’t matter as much as people think. You just have to get to a certain threshold of stimulus in the gym. And that part’s up to you. You can get it through low volume, high weight or high volume, low weight.
When the signal to the muscle is maximized, that’s all you need.
Personally, I tend to think anywhere in the 8-20 rep range, using moderate resistance, for 1-4 sets is best. This avoids the risk of using unnecessarily heavy weight for low sets and injuring yourself but also reduces the risk of overuse injuries from high repetition.
Again – you don’t need to be afraid of low or high rep, both have their place. I just prefer to land somewhere in the middle for the most part.
The key is, after your set, you want to make sure you’re pretty fatigued. Research shows that ending the set when you have maybe 3-4 reps left in reserve is suitable for creating the muscular stimulus needed for hypertrophy.
Finding the Right Fit
So now, you’re fatigued after your set, but how do you know if you’ve done too much? How do you know what is the right workout dosage for you?
Unfortunately, I don’t have the answer for you – it does take a bit of trial and error. But there are some good ways to figure this out.
You should monitor if you’re feeling completely depleted after every workout (an indication you’re over-stressing your system), or if you’re constantly sore/have tender spots (a sign of overuse), or if you’re starting to develop constant aches and pains.
One great tool to test this is to check your range of motion. (A sneak peek: lookout for my interview next week with Justin Prier!)
Our bodies respond with tightness when the nervous system senses a threat, such as overdoing it in a gym session or cramming our joints in an exercise.
This is a beautiful protective mechanism that indicates you may have done something that your body didn’t like. And a great indicator to choose a different exercise next time.
Conversely, if you give your nervous system “good” signals, such as a clean muscular output or a balanced workout, your range of motion will increase as your body senses a level of safety.
Levels of tightness can be changed in an instant, and your nervous system is extremely effective at improving or reducing your mobility instantaneously if it senses danger or safety.
A check is to pick any range of motion and do that before and after your workout. For example, you could test hamstring length before you start your workout by lying on your back and bringing a straight leg towards your chest without using your hands. Measure how “free” it feels, and how high it goes without you pulling on your leg.
Do the same test immediately after your workout. If it feels looser, that was a great workout! If it feels tighter, it isn’t the end of the world, but may suggest you should take a closer look at the mechanics of your workout. Next time, change up some of your exercises or weights to see if your range of motion test before and after changes.
You repeat this process until you feel like you get a good hold on exactly what exercises and what dosage your body loves.
The Final Piece
My last tip to cut down your time in the gym is to begin implementing workout splits.
Since we know muscles need about 36 hours, sometimes longer, to fully recover, we can switch up which muscles we are working on each day to keep the workouts shorter, and allow our bodies to heal.
When you are only focusing on 1-3 muscle groups per workout, and you choose exercises that effectively utilize levers to add substantial stimulus to the muscles without overloading the joints, you truly only need about 30 minutes to get a great workout that will drive results.
For instance, in our Evlo membership program on Monday we did all glutes in our lower body workout. We alternated between the left and the right glute, and the entire workout, including warm-up and cool-down, only took 30 minutes.
Yesterday, we did upper body; worked biceps, triceps, and back, also only taking 30 minutes total.
Today we did core, again only taking 30 minutes. Friday we will do full-body, circling back to glutes, quads, chest, shoulders, and abs.
So this is my magic formula for how you can workout 4-5 times/week for short periods of time, and still see results:
- Worry more about using effective levers and less about how much weight you’re holding.
- Find the right workout dosage for your body, and fatigue yourself at the end of every set while keeping about 3-4 reps in your reserve.
- Implement workout splits so your muscles have time to recover in between workouts.
If you’re repeating this process week after week, fueling with enough protein, you will begin to see your body change. I’ve worked out for less time than I ever have, and I see better results because I implement this process. Give it a go and see how you feel, and let me know!
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How do we deal with our talents?
We have never had such a plethora of places to learn stuff.
Nowhere is that more evident than in football with academies sprouting up around the globe. Intensive places of learning, bursting with knowledge and able to analyse everything from a player’s running gate, to how many successful passes he makes in a game.
How do we accommodate our top talents into these centres of learning?
By Paul Cooper
In the last ten years academies have changed enormously with superb facilities and equipment. There are also many specialists, not just on the coaching front, but on fitness, nutrition, psychology and medical care.
Academies are important institutions in producing players, but dealing with the very top talents is the real challenge as they may need a different approach from a squad player.
Journalist Paul Gardner writing in World Soccer is somewhat sceptical about the whole system. “European countries are unable to consistently produce top-class players because development of young talent is constrained at academies.”
He also questions the coaching, “Coaching that starts too early, that emphasises the wrong things, that has simply got too clever for its own good. Any set-up in which adults are in charge of kids, telling them what to do, is bound to contain an element of intimidation. Most kids do not respond well to that; they would rather get on with things in their own way and make their own mistakes and have fun doing it.”
We already know that there is a serious flaw in the recruitment of players for academies as the figures in England show that some 60% entering academies are born in the first four months of the football year and less than 10% in the last third of the football year.
Talent is of course spread through the calendar and there is an argument that the late developers eventually could be the talents as they have to constantly punch above their weight.
Arsene Wenger once said of Thierry Henry that he was convinced there were at least twenty English players playing in non league football as good as the French forward, but it is easier to break a player than make one. That is the challenge that faces clubs and coaches. Also how the individual talents can work in a game that is based on being part of a team.
These players however are the ones than can change a game and win you the league title and to some extent don’t fit the mould that clubs use to develop their players.
Creativity & inspiration
In Ed Smith’s wonderful book, ‘What sport tells us about life’, he makes a case for not interfering in the creative process. “What do we mean when we talk of creativity and inspiration? Perhaps we can never fully understand the answer. Many of the most inspired sporting achievements, like great works of art or innovation, spring from parts of our personalities which resist rational analysis, let alone professional planning. There will be an element of self-awareness in all these processes – a management of talent, a regulation of originality – but also a good amount of instinct. Forces beyond rationality lead creative people to follow certain paths and not others. Like strikers with an instinct for where to be in the penalty area, something takes them into different (and better) creative territory.”
With all that money spent on facilities, the coaching badges, the staff and wages; with all that technology at their finger tips, it is presumed they know all the answers and that is where the problems begin. Can you teach creativity by getting kids to copy ten tricks used by the top Brazilian players of all time? But who taught the Brazilians?
Teenagers have had a bad press of late in the UK and in football we are perceived worldwide to lack creative, intelligent players.
But the country is stacked with talent, but maybe it is not always being found and nurtured properly.
For nearly fifty years the youth of this country have been the most creative force across the globe in popular music. Starting in the 1960s with the Beatles and Rolling Stones then moving on through the age of rock with Pink Floyd and Led Zeppelin; then came the punk era with groups like the Clash and Sex Pistols and laterally groups such as the Libertines, Coldplay and Arctic Monkeys.
This is a playground where you can do what you want. You learn from listening and watching your heroes; learn from your friends and trial and error. They are largely self taught and wholly responsible for the creative process in writing and performing their songs.
Would this process be enhanced by an Academy of Pop or would the spontaneity, intuition and creative process be diluted or lost?
The environment for the young musicians is still there in the bedrooms, garages and small halls up and down the land, but the original university for football, the streets, parks and playgrounds has all but disappeared.
We have never properly addressed the decline in street football which still exists in the countries that produce the best technical players.
A recent study by John Moores University in Liverpool found that the players in the Premiership Academies who were offered scholarships at sixteen had played a significant amount more informal football than the ones who didn’t, despite all the academy training and games.
The new emphasis is on the 5-11 year olds and we are told by the experts if we don’t get them at that age and coach them they are past it. That is also six years in which they can be ruined and some ten years before players of the ability of Best and Charlton started at Manchester United.
Is the current system right and if not can some of the extraordinary amount of money being spent go on a much larger amount of children playing in a more informal way and learning the game at their own rate without interference in their creative process?
No decisions to later, which would also stop all the nonsense of concentrating on the children born in the first four months of the football year.
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Candi at Looking For Blue Sky has written why she doesn't like International Women's Day. You can read her post HERE. She ends with the words:
"Don't get me wrong: I love my children more than life itself. I just don't love the way that society views me now that I am a mother. And until that changes, International Women's Day is pretty meaningless."
I started a comment in reply to Candi but my thoughts on this subject need their own space. So here they are.
Men don't need to fight for equality in the workplace. There is no cause, fight, or issue with men in the workplace. I don't think there is much of an issue either for women who don't have children. Except in religion (don't get me started), women who are free to devote as much time to their careers as men have pretty much arrived in the boardroom.
The issues, therefore, are about childcare. There's also the care of elderly parents to some extent, so perhaps the issue is about the role of carer in any family. It doesn't matter which adult in the family is the carer - a mother, a father, a grandparent or a hired nanny/housekeeper. The point is that there needs to be a carer and that has traditionally, and obviously, been the woman.
The facts of lower infant mortality, family planning, and washing machines free up the modern woman to the extent that she can go out to work and have a fulfilling career. If the family has alternative 'carer' arrangements there's no conflict. But modern medicine and technology don't negate the need for a designated carer in the family. By definition, the primary carer needs to be available for family stuff.
I agree that girls should be educated as much as boys, for whatever role they choose as adults. And I believe they should have the choice. I agree that once a woman has chosen the career track and, if she has children, her family has an alternative carer, then she should have equal opportunities and remuneration at work. I agree we should celebrate that women have these choices when for so many centuries they did not.
I don't agree that society looks down on mothers. Who is this 'society'? Society is made up of many sub-groups and the one I would most like to identify with at this stage in my life - the homemakers, mothers, and carers' society - most certainly does not look down on me for being a mother. In fact, I used to feel looked down upon for not being a mother (before I was one) far more than I do now for having a job rather than running a department.
As a single mother this means I have given up on a lot of material things but I am not less, I am more for finding the joy in free entertainment and simple food. My place in society is not defined by my spending power. You can contribute plenty in non-monetary ways.
However, I would not say that society looks down on women without children. I would say that your personal vulnerability and ambition dictates how you see yourself in the eyes of 'society'.
I never had big ambitions to conquer the world. I only ever wanted to be a mother and a homemaker. I have a circle of friends who enjoy and take pride in being the carers rather than the careers in their families. Most of them also work, many in high-powered careers but with the restrictions that go with being the family carer. And those of them who are lucky enough not to have to work for a salary, contribute loads by way of voluntary work and have much to be proud of.
You can feel victimised in this role or you can relish it. It's not about how society views you, it's about how you view yourself. If a group of corporate big-wigs look down on you so what? Society isn't only those in the boardroom. Society is also the mothers, the teachers, the grandparents, the nurses, the shopkeepers, and the carers.
International Women's Day isn't just about smashing the glass ceiling. We can also celebrate the power, for example, of the homemaker bloggers (mostly women) who have knocked the consumer world sideways with their online outreach and influence. We can celebrate women's business initiatives in the developing world that utilise the power of women to educate their children and raise their families out of poverty. I personally celebrate single mothers who have chosen to be included in the society of families even though they were not lucky enough find their life partner.
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Diving is for swimming pools, Olympians, scuba and air raids. It is not for non-precision instrument approaches. At least not any more.
There was a time when conventional wisdom encouraged the practice of screaming down to the minimum descent altitudes, leveling off, slowing down, and craning thy neck in anticipation of finding a runway. The proper runway was even better.
On a typical non-precision instrument approach – one that uses an NDB, VOR, localizer or GPS track for navigation – the pilot flies a designated altitude until a certain depicted location, and then descends. The descent may only be to an intermediate altitude, or it may just go all the way down to what is called the minimum descent altitude. Once at MDA, the pilot must/shall/will level off and maintain MDA until the runway environment is in sight. Only then can the pilot leave MDA and further descend. Given that the FAA has established the MDA based on known obstacles or obstructions such as towers and terrain, it is imperative you not try to cheat the system.
Prior to the advent of the moving map GPS, the method of flying the non-precision approach was that described in the first paragraph. The reasoning was sound enough.
Without an exact knowledge of your groundspeed, winds aloft, or location relative to the runway, getting to MDA as early as possible would provide the maximum amount of time to look for the runway, especially if the ceiling and/or visibility was right at the minimum level prescribed for the approach. With DME from a VOR, this wasnt as critical as a non-DME situation, but time was still of the essence.
The result of this mayhem was a relatively high workload for the pilot in what might be a fairly stressful situation. Engine to idle, nose down, airspeed building, vertical speed building, nose up, butt against the seat, lots of power.
For the passenger, its uncomfortable, even nauseating. It also looks like the pilot doesnt really know whats going on. It can also lead to what the airlines call an unstable approach, one in which airspeed and vertical speed are all over the place.
The moving map that has been so commonplace on airliners for years, though, has made its way to even the most humble of Cessnas and Pipers. What GPS allows the GA pilot to do is know, within mere feet, the location, winds at altitude and ground speed. GPS can also tell you when you will arrive at the next point on your flight plan. For an approach, that information is golden. With a GPS, you can now plan a much more leisurely approach by flying a constant vertical speed.
Lets say that an approach has two step-down altitudes inside the final approach fix. In the old days, you would do the chop and drive routine three times. Given that a step-down altitude is going to be of relatively short duration, you can use a GPS vertical navigation feature to plan your descent from the initial altitude to the step-down altitude at a given rate of descent such that, in many instances, you never have to level off. You will pass the next fix at precisely the altitude stipulated on the chart.
This means you can keep on going to the next altitude. Plan accordingly, and you wont have to stop at that one either. The descent rate, pitch, and power settings will all remain relatively constant.
At the airlines, the pilots try to fly non-precision approaches so that the rate of descent never exceeds 1000 feet per minute; its extremely rare that they do. With the moving map and VNAV, the pilots can figure out exactly how far beyond 1000 fpm they need to go.
The next goal is to try and time the arrival at MDA with the arrival at the missed approach point. There are a couple of reasons for this. First, if the nose of the plane is even slightly below the horizon, you have dramatically increased your field of view for the search of the runway. As soon as you need to raise the nose to level off, you have taken away some of your downward vision, and that is a hindrance.
If you are the only one in the airplane and therefore have no one to help you look, it can be a huge hindrance. Any experienced instrument instructor can tell you that one of two things is going to happen to you: You will look up and either pull up right back into the clouds, or you will look up, lean forward and push over, busting right through MDA.
The second reason airlines fly this way is that if the runway environment comes in sight just as the plane arrives at MDA, then it wont be necessary to make any power changes, and probably will only need to make a minor pitch change, if any at all. The descent can just keep right on truckin.
How easy is that? It feels just like an ILS, it looks a lot more professional, and the passengers cant tell the difference. Plus the nose is down, even if only slightly, and you can see with a minimum of vertigo-inducing head movements.
Putting Theory to Work
I cant tell you how every GPS works, but most have some kind of a VNAV feature, and you should learn how to use it. Even if the unit is a hand-held not approved for IFR operations, it can still provide valuable info you otherwise would not have. Needless to say, dont be caught trying to figure out something for the first time when trying to also use it for the first time. Thats a recipe for disaster.
The GPS/FMS on most airliners have a little banana-like feature that shows where a climb or descent will be completed based on present groundspeed and airspeed. Because many airline cockpits are all glass, the crews can also create what is called a snowflake on the attitude indicator that acts just like an ILS glideslope. Now, realize that most GA planes are not so blessed, but whatever features your GPS has, you have more than you did when you did not have GPS.
Take the time feature. Even if you only have something that tells you the time and distance remaining to the next fix, you can use that to determine the rate of descent you need. For instance, you have two minutes to the next fix on the approach, and you need to lose 1,000 feet of altitude. You need to average 500 feet per minute to cross the fix at the desired altitude.
If that fix is the missed approach point (MAP), use 600 feet per minute. Granted, you may get to MDA a little early and you may have to level off, but better to be a little early with time to look than to be late and unable to land. And with real-time updates, you can change your descent rate as necessary if the winds or groundspeed change unexpectedly.
Lets look at it another way. The FARs say that you can only leave the MDA to land when you have the runway environment in sight and can make normal, non-aerobatic maneuvers to reach the runway; spins from over top the numbers are not acceptable.
Think about what this means. If you are, for example, doing an NDB or VOR or GPS approach that has the MAP right over top the runway or the airport, then it doesnt matter if you see the runway just prior to reaching the MAP. You will not be in a position to land.
Realistically, you need to be able to leave the MDA at a 500-1000 FPM clip to be able to land in the touchdown zone, especially on a short runway. Figure out – well ahead of time, thank you – where along the final approach course you need to be to safely descend and make the runway, especially if the weather is crummy. In more cases than not, it will be well prior to your actual MAP.
Take advantage of that expensive black box in your panel, and perhaps plot that point as a manually entered waypoint. When you get to, and past, your spot, give serious thought to a missed approach.
Now, for the VFR folks in the crowd. You too can use this feature to set up your descents in such a way that you can avoid energy-building dives or straining the ears of a sensitive passenger. You can even use it to help determine if you will make it to the airport sans engine. If you are flying VFR on top of some broken clouds, you can use it to help plan your descent through the cloud layer.
VNAV is one of the best features that a GPS has. It can also be one of the most underutilized. It allows you to fly a non-precision approach with ILS-like smoothness, with great situational awareness and minimal stress. It increases your appearance of professionalism, and its there. Use it.
-by Chip Wright
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